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Colo., by Hamilton A Kendrick. 00C-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan tr Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. 15th and Lawrence street; A. Series, Sixteenth and Cur tis streets. ' TODAY'S WEATHER Fair; not so warm; westerly wirHls. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem IKraturo. no deg.; -minimum temperature, 04 dep.; no precipitation. PORTLAND, Fit II) AY, AUGUST 8, 1O02 TUB 1VASHIXGTOX ANTI-RAILROAD MOVEMENT. ( Voluntary reduction, of grain rates by the three principal railroads operat ing in the 'State of Washington will tend undoubtedly; to divert for a while the public .jfriind rCrqrh thei. reforms recently prqposeqjby GbvernorlfMcBrlde. The movement has lost one of its imme diate motives perhaps with many its chief motive; and the concessions made have served In large, measure to allay the passions by which it has-been most ardently supported. There will be gen eral good will toward the' railroads in "Washington for a time, and there will be little- popular or legislative back ing for any project which avows itself to be unfriendly to them. At the same time it Is to be remem bered that in the general presentment made against the, roads by Governor McBride fhetgraln rate was but one, and by no means the most grievous, among several counts. The reduction of the grain rate cuts the ground from under the charge of extortion in grain car riage, but it leaves unanswered the other and equally serious items in the Governor's indictment. There still stands the charge of habitual discrimination through the secret rebate in favor of special friends of the railroads, of whole sale bribery by means cf the. railroad pass, of the employment of gross in fluences to affect legislation, of the maintenance of an active and corrupt lobby to thwart the public will both, in matters of business and politics, of an impertinent and demoralizing inter ference with the general machinery of state politics. These charges come frcjn a high source; they are made in positive terms by the Governor of the state; if they are true they are not to be condoned "by a cut in the grain rate and' a popular "Jplly'; Viqrwill the good feeling in dUcedi. by.- the jJavenport and Colfax meetings serve for very long to obscure them in the public mind. For the Im mediate moment the railroad situation is in. "good shape" for the railroads, but if one-half of Governor McBride's allegation be trueUl!e fight .must soon, lie renewed, for the public" will not for a. little" cut in grain rates suffer the debauch of its political life, not to mention eerious. busUieVe grievances. The. time Is past when a birthright is to be had for a mess of pottage. The .situation, we think, is a very for tunate one for the general purposes of Governor McBride and those who stand with him. The agitation has already brought about the correction, In a meas ure at least, . of one large grievance. and in doing this it has given to a movement conceived too -hastily in it's positive proposals a breathing spell in Which Its faults may be remedied. And now. if the Governor is wise, he will employ the time which the present status -gives him to reconstruct his nlan. He will ed, if he will' look into the hlstpr- of railroad commissions in'states where conditions are relatively similar to those in Washington, that thero are points of practical weakness In his plan which make it even more dangerous than the present condition, when the roads are not regulated at all. The hlg tory and status of the California com mission will afford him an Interesting and instructive study. He will find that thls commission, by the largeness and arbitrariness of the powers in its hands, literally forces the Tailroads into poll ticg upon the principle of self-protection. He will find that, though the roads have many times tried with hon est purpose to relieve themselves of the burden of political activity, they have nor oeen ame to-go it; tnatr one of the very first conditions of their existence js to estaousn saieguaras against a "hold-up" at the hands of a railroad commission endowed by the state con stitution with powers at once too large and too arbitrary. He will find, if his investigations shall go deep enough, that whatever there Is of political can dal in California bears a close relation to this unwise creation of the Denis Kearney era; and he will hear thought ful and moderate men everywhere con demn It as a source of unnumbered and unmitigated political evlla "Wherever extraordinary and arbitrary powers are put into the hands of a com mission, it becomes Instantly a prime; motive of the interests possible to be affected to control the composition of that commission. If Its members are appointed by the Governor, then the menaced interests seek naturally, to control the machinery by which Govern ors are created; if by election, tfyen It is sought to control party nominations. Whatever the' project, there stands a premium upon Its subversion. The' prin ciple works absolutely; we have yet to learn of an Instance where it has not operated more or less to the demoral ization of politics, to increase of the practical political powers rather than to the regulation of railroads. That 1 would be the j?ame in Washington there is no reason to doubt. The railroads would undertake to dominate any -commission that might be named, and who that has observed the political life of the state since the time of admission doubts that, first or last, they would succeed, and that, upon the.basis of this success, their hold upon state politics would be riveted for an indefinite time? We take it that Governor McBride is a sincere and well-intentioned man, seeking earnestly to serve his state and to discharge his duty by correcting evils in its general life. We believe he has conceived correctly the source of many of these evils; and we should be gratl; fled to see him address his undoubted ability, courage and resolution to prac tical purposes and along effective lines. His movement, through the adroit pol icy of the railroad managers, has for the moment lost popular force. But the elements of Its moral strength are un touched by the device of a reduced grain rate declared with spectacular effects; his ra6re serious charges yet remain unanswered. The present pop ular attitude Is a -mere lull In. the storm of moral protest. If the Governor's general charges are true, and unless moral sentiment Is dead in Washington, demand for reform Is bound to rise again and with renewed power. And when the revival comes, the man who leads it ought to be armed with a bet ter weapon than the. commission device. which experience long ago discredited. THE BLUNDER OF THE CENTURY. Senator Mitchell pronounces "the at tempt to build the canal at Panama the blunder of the century." Senator Mitch ell's view is sustained by Lewis M. Haupt,, a civil engineer, of .great dis tinction, in an article contributed to the July number of the Jorth American Review, entitled, "Why Is an Isthmian Canal Not Built?" Professor Haupt is a graduate of West Point, and for. twenty years was professor of civil en gineering in the University of Pennsyl vania. When the Nicaragua and Isth mian Canal Commission was appointed he was nominated a member of that body. Professor Haupt holds that, even If the 'Panama route, works and conces? slons, could be secured gratis, It would be wiser to decline them and adhere to the more northern transit The esti mates cost of creating harbors on the Panama route is $10,257,707, as com pared with $3,707,930 for Nicaragua. The cube of excavation at Nicaragua can be completed In two years' less time than at Panama. "The Nicaragua Canal under ordinarily good management should be built for $153,746,323. In the matter of constructing a safe dam the Nicaragua route presents no exception ally difficult problems, while the build ing of a dam at Bohio, on the Panama route. Involves new and untried feat ures and enormous difficulties. Professor Haupt finds that the Nica ragua route has the advantage Jn those factors which should have the greatest weight because most Intimately con nected with the economics of transpor tation such as the volume and desti nation of the traffic; the strategic posi tion of the waterway; the physical and engineering advantages of all classes of vessels; the possibilities of local de velopment; regulation, control, sanita tion and police, and the relative free dom from seismic influences. The Nica ragua canal has the advantage, lor tne Northern Hemisphere contains about 83 per cent of the population of the globe and the shortest rotite between the pop ulous centers of the north temperate zone lies along the circles of latitude. The nearer the trade routes approach these lines the greater the economy. The Panama route lies in the region of equatorial calms, which debar sailing vessels from access to Panama without great expense lor towage, while the Nicaragua route lies in the region of- the trade winds, which also contribute to the salubrity and comfort of this route. More than one-half of our registered tonnage is sail, and the tendency is toward larger schooner-rigged craft as the cheapest known Instrument of transportation. Because of the difficul ties of navigating the Bay of Panama, no sailing vessels entered or cleared there during the past" year. The land ing pier at La Boca, recently completed by the Panama Railroad Company, is accessible only at high tide through a channel dredged for three miles Into the bay, eo that vessels would be obliged to wait for high tide to enter and leave the proposed canal. At Colon, on the Atlantic terminus, a suitable Entrance and harbor would cost $8,057,707. These facts and figures are set forth by Mr. Haupt in support of his view that the Nicaragua route is far prefer able, even If we had a free gift of the Panama Canal and all its works today. This is the opinion of a distinguished civil engineer, formerly member of the Nicaragua and Isthmian Canal Commis sions. The contention of Senator Mitch ell that "the attempt to build the canal at Panama Is the greatest blunder of the century" has the strongest kind- of scientific support. AN EPIDEMIC OP UNREST. The labor situation in Chicago on the first day of August was strenuous in the extreme. Boiler-makers and their helpers numbering about 2300 men walked out early in tke day. The& toil ers might readily have found an excuse In the tqrrld atmosphere of the shops, but this was not the basis of their ac tion. Higher wages and a uniform agreement with employers constituted the demand. Later the solar printers struck, tying up for the time the work of 1800 artists who enlarge photographs, and just at the time, too, when the sun gives long hours and most effective rays. The printers objected to having their work sent to nonunion, artists to be completed, and some of them were discharged. The men engaged to take their places were paid less than $18 a week, hence the strike. Errand boys stormed the doors of the Chicago Feder atlon of Labor, clamoring for organiza tion and recognition; laundry girls ialked strike in' tones distinctly audible above the dull thud of the sad-Jron, and telephone girls 'voloed the same senti mentboth for better wages and shorter hours. Breaking out in the dog days, the strike fever may easily become epi demic and double the woes of panting, perspiring humanity. There is either reason for or unreason In this concert- Ld outbreak against prevailing condi tions In the labor world. Is it the work ing of the leaven of unrest that vague element of ferment that it Is Impossible to analyze? Or is it the- principle of justice represented in. the declaration VThe laborer Is worthy of his hire," that is making Jtself heard as with one vo votee aula. all along the line? Whatever the caul the effect is full ofmecace and disas ter, and. to the solution of the prob lem Involved the best! minds, of ,the age may well bend their energies. OUR DEBT TO THE BOERS. Earl Roberts, in a recent public ad dress, said: '"The- result of battles in the future, so far as we can -now -see, will depend on skillful sharpshootlng." This great change In- modern. ;tactlcs Is' consequent upon the experience of the Boer War. At Magersfonteln 6000 Boers with thirteen guns repulsed the attack of 12,000 British -with thlrty-eme guns. At Coleneo 3000 Boers fjvlth six guns drove, back 15,000 British with forty four guns, and on Splonkop 20,000 Brit ish with sixty puns -were repulsed by 4000 Boers with six guns. The British attacks in each of these cases were shattered by the unerring fire of long, thin lines of skirmishers. At Splonkflp the line was over eleven miles long, so that there 'was but one skirmisher for every five yards of front The Boers testify that no braver men ever marched to battle than the English troops thai were repulsed in these assaults. They were repulsed because of the enor mously increased power of the defen sive, due to recent improvement in flrer arms, the absence of powder smoke, the increased rapidity of fire and greater ranges. Lord Roberts frankly confesses that battles henceforth wjll be won as the Boers won them, by skillful sharpshoot lng. which means that battles will be fodght by clouds of skirmishers, rfhd not by columns of assault or attacks In line. This revolution in Infantry tac tics was predicted by General Sheri dan as certain to take place, but the Boer War was the first contest which prQved that improved modern arms had enormously increased the power of the defensive. This revolution In infantry tactics Is sure to have a far-reaching effect upon the peace of the civilized world for the future. General Sherjr dan predicted that wars would be less frequent because thej would become enormously expensive, but they are likely to become less frequent because the Increased power of the defensive enables a weak nation to make up for its inferiority of military population. For example, Switzerland has but about 3,350,000 people Inhabiting an area of about 16,000 square miles.. This small rugged country would, be almost Im pregnable to invasdon by an army ten times the strength of the Swiss forces, armed with Improved rifles, supple mented by modern artillery. Northern Italy, the old battle-field of Europe, could not be successfully Invaded by a military power of the flret magnitude if Italy's army was furnished with mod ern rifles and artillery and the moun tain approaches from Switzerland and France strongly held. Such feats 3f arms as were performed by Napoleon in the mountain region of Italy and Austria would be Impossible against modern rifles and artillery- The Inva sion of Great Britain could not be ac complished even If her line of naval de fense were forced,, for the modem rifle in the hands of a sharpshooter would destroy any army that obtained lodg ment in a country where lanes, houses, farm buildings, afford ample shelter for marksmen. The same Is true of the United States. No army of Invasion could possibly make any Impression upon our country. The Invader would be obliged to attack, and the Increased power of the defensive would be with our people. Clouds of mounted sharp shooters would destroy an army of In vasion, cut off their supplies, break their communications, and force them to retire to their ships. This Increased power of the defensive makes every man who is a sharpshooter and a fair horseman a valuable soldier. In thirty days such men could be as sembled and taught the simple tactics required of them. The mounted rifle men would need, of course, to be sup ported by a thoroughly trained body of regular field artillery, and with these two arms of service the Boer tactics modified to the change of military situ ation and resources would be ample to defend this country against all the powers of Continental Eur'ppe. It Is easy to see that since Great Britain and the United States both feel no dread of successful Invasion by Continental Eu rope, they are likely to assert them selves with boldness In all matters of In ternational controversy. Neither na tion courts war, arid neither nation fears war, because -the increased power of the defensive makes their -soil easily protected against Invasion, Our debt to the Boer, therefore, is that he has made peace more certain for the future by making the waging of war more difficult and expensive by a strong nation upon a weak. If the Boer tactics are adopted by all the civ ilized countries in Europe, 'no war could possibly be undertaken by a strong power against a weak that might not prove most costly and doubtful to the attacking -party. A great navy might. by the efficiency of its blockade, create" a degree of distress that might force a surrender, but no country has such a navy, gave Great Britain. The interior countries of Europe could not be reached by navapattack, and assaults made upon a country standing on the defen sive would be sure to be repulsed. No assault wade by Germany upon France or France upon Germany could hope for' success against intrenched lines manned by sharpshooters, This increased power of the defensive Is likely to make great wdrs between nations infrequent. There will be a long peace because war has become more expensive and the result more un certain through the increased power of the deensive which levels .the differ ence between a strong power and a weak one. COTTON FOR UNCLAD MULTITUDES. After long, thorough and careful in vestigation of the subject, the Depart ment of Agriculture finds that the sub stitution of cotton for wool fqr clothing within the past quarter of a century has become world-wide, and, by making them cheaper, haa greatly increased the amount of elbths manufactured and used for clothing. In. a recent report upon the subject the Department esti mates that, of the world's population of about 1,500,000,000, about 500,000,000 regularly wear olothes; about 750,000,000 are partly clad, and 250,000,000 go naked. That to clothe the entire population of the world would require the produc tion annually of 42,000,000 bales of cot ton of 500 pounds each. It Is regarded as probable that, - as civilization ad vances, the peoples of the world will all come tp wear olothes, and that the cot ton Industry will expand to meet the demand, since cotton Is the cheapest material for clothing known, and its. products are more suitable for clothlnjj the unclad multitudes than any other fabric. . ; Pursulgg'tbe subject, it Is found that flax was formerly the. chleC material used for clothing.- Then for time 'wool took first place, but now.-cojtton is king In this realm, and flax, which held first Place, has dropped to third., The amount of flax now 'consumed Is only double that of 100 years ago, while wool eon sumption has increased nearly five times , and cotton nearly .tJilrtyTfilne times. There is now mone than three times as much cotton used as wool In the manufacture of clothing stuffs, and more than seven times as much cotton as flax.' As a result of Improved ma chinery and methods" ojt mlxlng potton and wool, cotton enters largely in the manufacture of goods where once "all wool" was the rule. Every foreign country has increased its consumption of American cotton in recent years. A ruined industry when the Civil War ended, cotton culture re covered itself wjth astonishing rapidity and hqs increased Its output .enormous ly. The most .astonishing development of cotton manufacture has been wit nessed In the South; the most aston ishing, development of our cotton trade has occurred In the far East. In 1870 .we did not ship a pound of cbtton tp this part of the world, but cotton manufacture has made such progress In Japan that In lSKMMier spin ners took 323,202 bales of American cot ton. East India and China are also be ginning to appreciate the merits of our cotton. It Is In these countries that the unclad multitudes exist, and when they come to appreciate he luxury and de cency of clothing, cotton fabrics will appeal to them as the best of all ma terial for that purpose. At least this Is the hypothesis upon which the experts of the Agricultural Department build their expectations of a steady and enor mous Increase of our cotton trade, and it must be admitted that the premises, supported by facts and. figures as they are, are most reasonable. It is not unnatural that the men who make a business of posting up adver tisements about town and those who seek this method of exploiting their wares should protest against the' sug gestlon that the billboard be done'away with. But this personal and private In- terest is not a matter with which the public has anything to do. This city lies under no obligation to Johnny Will-lams,-old-timer and' exemplary citizen though he may be, which gives hlra any right to makeour streets unsightly; and certainly it Qwes nothing In the way oi pnvuege or even oi counesy to tu?v dealers In whisky, cigarettes, corsets and what not, whose delight it. Is to spread their announcements before the public in flaring and brazen ways. The thng is an annoyance, a nuisance, an Irritation and an injury. It mars the aspect of the city to ythe vexation of those who live in it and to the disgust of visitors. It serves Tio public advan tage or convenience; there is no reason why it should .be tolerated; there are many reapons why It should not be tol erated. The Oregonian commends most heartily the proposal to suppress the billboard as a public nuisance. The new City Council has done one good thing in forbidding the relaying of wooden sidewalks; now let It do an other, by abpllshlng the, unsightly, Im pertinent and offensive billboard. The energy and liberality of Seattle in the matter of street Improvements puts Portland to the blush. Six years ago every1 street in the business dis trict was substantially paved with vitri fied brick, which Is now, in spite of some marks, of sear and tear. In good condition. Recently a large area In the residence district, including the series of streets on the first hilltop between Tenth and Fifteenth, and extending north and south for nearly a mile, has been laid with asphalt with hard brick gutters and bordered with cement walks in uniform style. The work was done under a bonding plan by which the area Improved Is organized into an Improvement district Nobody not fa miiiar with Seattle before this work was done and who has not seen It recently can imagine the Improved appearance and the convenience which have result ed from It. It makes the residence dis trict, long criticised as shabby, a place of real beauty and. distinction. In the matter of streets Portland now has noth ing to compare with It. The relic-hunter Is closely allied to the criminal. The savage In him lies close to the surface, and breaks out boldly upon occasion. . Whether defacing a historic monument In order to carry away a chip, struggling to secure -a bit of rope with which a murderer was hanged, or stripping the ho longer re sisting body of an outlaw to nakedness and parceling out his filthy, tattered garments, the close kinship between the savage and the civilized man Is re vealed. The only explapatlon of the conduct of the good citizens of Ljncoln gounty In denuding the body of the ead outlaw, and all but scalping him in order to obtain "relics," is that they were drunkeii with exultation over his capture an explanation that Is not an excuse. This hot weather may be a bit dis comforting, but it is niflnitely better than cloudbursts that upset farm build ings and sweep railroad trains from the track, such as they have been "enjoy ing- in uoioraao. we ougnt to be abiei of novelty, for It Is seldom that Port land gets superheated over anything. Farmers of the wheat belt will wel come the substitution of crude petro leum for coal In firing railway engines, as this will mean that the menace of sparks from the engine will thereby be removed. But little smoke . and no sparks pr clpders are produced by this fuel. Electricity Itself could not offer a more enticing promise'than thla Pity Is a' tender and gentle, emotion. Rightly directed, It becomes' sublime. There Is abundant room for Its exercise In the Tracy-Merrill case. If directed toward the widows and families of the victims of these murderous outlaws Ferrcll, Jones and Tiffany, .Breece and Raymond and Rawley, no mistake win be made. Without making much noise about it, the street railways of Portland are' get ting ready with substantial Improve ments for the Lewis and CIark Fair. Old and light rails are being replaced by more substantial construction, and the -systems in all ways put In. the best possible physical condition. At Bar Harbor the other day Mr. William E. Whitney remarked, when discussing the political situation, that "The trouble with the Democratic party Is that it has ho issues and no me." This sires up the situation pretty well. ' J -"-- - " . HAWTBfQRSE AIK. x East Side (Portland) HeraU. The committee upon Which .devolves the duty of selecting a site for tho Lejrls and Clark Exposition has taken the wise pre caution to consult with rata who have had experience In other expositions of similar character, and has been, advised to select a central lqcajfon. and ope where no difficult transportation problems will com plicate Ihe dispatch of the work of prepa ration or the prompt dellyery of the large amount of freight In building material, in machinery and in exhibits. The commit tee has been told that the gate receipts must largely bo depended upon for finan cial support and success, and this Is the chief reason assigned for a centrally lo cated place. No" point In the city named or unnamed as a possible fair site so near ly meets the requirements of centrallza tfon as does Hawthorne Park. If one was required to drive a stake at a- point as near to the center of the City of Portland a3 be could conceive of, and should set that stake In the middle of Hawthorne Park, he would be criticised by no one for lack of discernment In and of topography. To Hawthorne Park three-fifth's of the people of the city could walk without great Inconvenience pr fatigue. The brulge question has been discussed pro and' con,, and the advocates of the West Fide localities: have held the bridges to 6e a barrier to an East Side location. When this question Is fairly considered, there is found in It less of moment than those who agitate It .would attribute to IJ. That our brldgo facilities are entirely inadequate for the greatly increased travel and traffic which the fair will bring, there Is no question. The same may be said of our hotels. Our bridges are now taxed to their utmost capacity, and especially is this true of the Morrison-street "bridge. But It by no meais follows that because the bridges are inadequate, now, they will be three years hence. And If we were to have ro better bridge facliitles. what evi dence have we that they would be more taxed by locating the fair on the East Side than by having It on the West Side? "The hotels are on the West Side," says one. Yes. the hotels are all full now, and to meet the requirements of the great crowds which will eather In Portland in 1903. other hotels will be built, and If the Hair comes to us over here, those hotels win be built on the East Side, where prop erty suitable for such purpose Is cheaper and where the greater part of the future growth of our city must, from the nature of things, occur. And If the fair goes to the West Side, many of these hotels will bo built on the East Side. People cannot expect, do not expect, to find quar ters in the near vicinity of the Exposition grounds. Cheaper and more desirable ac commodations are to be found at places more remote. From most of these more remote localities visitors would be com pelled to cross the river to reach the West rside. So that there Is little In the bridged "bugbear" qfter all, Portland Is on both sides of the river. Visitors will go everywhere over and about the -city; they will take trips to Oregon City arid Vancouver, no matter where they stay. The fair can be on but one Side, and the other side must go to It The drfference In the bridge traffic in favor of one side or the other will be imperceptible. But long before the fair opens conditions in this matter of bridge traffic will surely be changed. The pres ent conditions on the Morrison-street bridge are so dangerous and exasperating that some change must be wrought, for It will bear no more traffic, and when the increase comes, something will have, to be doneto dispose of It In other words, the bridge question will solve Itself, as It always has done In other cities. .Let us dismiss this phase of the question, then, with the reasonable conclusion that the fair on either side of the river will neces sitate radical changes, and that one loca tion will require those chapges Just as much as another. , Hawthorns Park has these advantages: It Is central.' It Is already accessible by two car lines. Other car lines can be laid tp the park with little expense. It Is easily accessible by spurs from the main lines of the rallrqgds, and from the river docks. It has a beautiful grove of native forest trees. It hap ample supply of pure water. It affords plenty of space. Its location and Its natural advantages make it an ideal spot for a great expo sition. It combines all the essential. Indis pensable features to the success of such an enterprise. And while we know the committee of gentlemen selected by the Fair Associa tion will act with conscientious -fidelity and the utmost good fatth, the attention of Its members is respectfully 'invited to the advantages herein named, in the hope that we of the East Side may have the. satisfaction of having made all honest and worthy effort for the selection of the site believed to be the most suitable and avail able, and one which, if selected, .will al ways remain a monument to the good judgment, business foresight and wise dis cernment of the members of the commit tee. . Science Knocked Ont by Fact. Saturday Evening Post Senator William P. Frye Is an ardent lover of the eport of fishing. Once, after his return from his Summer's outing." he met the celebrated naturalist, Agassis. Glowingly Senator Frye described his ex periences. "Among my triumphs," said he, "was the capture of a speckled trout that weighed fully eight pounds." Dr. Agaasiz smiled and said: "Reserve that for the credulous and convivial cir cles of rod and reel celebrants, but spare the feelings of a sober scientist." "This Is not a campaign whopper I'm telling you: I weighed that trout carefully and it was an elght-pounder." "My dear Mr. Frye," remonstrated. Dr. Agassis, "permit m? to Inform you that the salvellnus fontlnalls never attains that extraordinary weight. The creature you caught could not have been a speckled trout. All the authorities 0n lcntnyoiogy would disprove your claim." "Al I can say to that," said Senator Frye, "Is that there are, then, bigger fish In Maine than are dreamed of In your science." The next season he caught a speckled trout that weighed nine pounds. He packed It In Ice and sent it to Dr. Agassis. A few days later he received a telegram which read: "The 6clenco of a lifetime kicked to death by a fact. Agasflls:" A. Plea for Conrtcsy, Girl's Realm. Wo have lost the old flowery forms of politeness, and now we never waste "thank you" on a fellow creature who Is not of qur own Immediate circle. A trades man does, bpt ho knows It will be charged In the bill. I wonder what will bring up back to the old sweetness of manner? Why should not the customer In the tea shop or the customer in the postolflce say "please" when he gives his order, and the other spare a "thank you" when he has paid his bill? It makes life run so' much more easily. LtBht-Hcarfcd London. Today. A London crowd Is the most goodrbu mored crowd In the British Island?. It Is Impossible for a man born and bred In London, wjth an average eye for the quaint side of life, to grpw misanthrop ic. A provincial crowd merely stqres. mumbles, grins vacantly and passes on. A Dublin crowd will strike the note of genialty if it happens to be In the mood, but as often as not its passion for argu ment gets tho better of. it A London crowd, with Its admirable sense of cama raderie, recognizes' that it Is there to enr Joy Itself." " ' ' ID MARRY- San Francisco Bulletin. When .a. 'Bachelor sees a young married man In a qtreet car on Sunday afternoon with the wife at His, vide and a bawling baby la his arms he- Is moved, sometimes, to make a (solemn vow of perpetual celi bacy. The baby-packing aspect of mat rimony appalls the bachelor. He feels that he mfffht De led to the altar, prha.ps. If watering th0 garden, chopping the kindlings and starting the fire In the mornings were the only deterrents, buf .he resolves to live without a wife and die single rather than carry n cross baby in a street-car. If he observes closely, however, he will nqtlce that the young husband and father Is not greatly per turbed oy the baby, but rather delights In, the burden, fo the bachelor' one baby is very like another, but to the father his own baby Is quite different from ail others of Its kind, and Instead fit being ashamed to be seen with it. he Is quite pleaEcd afld proud to .exhibit It to the world. This is a state of mind which eeems to be according to nature, but which bachelors can never understand and with which they have no sympathy. This main drawback q- married life may be' overcome, vhowever. by employ ing a strong-armpd nurse, or by giving the infant Its airing in a bassinet. It Is respectfully submitted that even those fathers who like to take the baby on ex cursions ought to suppress their mad desire In deference to the opinion of bachelors, and for the dignity and credit of the married state. Perhaps it was In contemplation of this passion for porting the baby about town, that Kipling wrote his Infamous line: "A young man mar ried Is u young man marredl" The question whether or not a young man ought to marry cannot be answered Jn the affirmative for all young mea, but It may be alleged that It is here alleged that marriage Is good for a young man If he Is the sort of young man that Is fit to marry. Marriage should be the ambi tion of every young man. and if he is prudent In the selection of a wife, and looks well Into the future, he will not regret putting the garlanded yoke upon his neck. A. young man should not think of mar rying until-he-has saved enough and has Income enough to start well, and to sup port a family decently, according to his state in life. But as soon as his means permit. It becomes tne duty of every young man to seek a wife, When a man's single he drifts. His money goes, as a rule, in foolish or harmful ways. Having only himself to provide for, he thinks only of himself. He has no homo -In which be may take pride and comfort. But to the man who k happily married life has a new Interest. He has some cares and expenses of which the bachelor L? free, but he has a. substantial happi ness and comfort which the bachelor has pot. and which make the cares and expenses seem nothing In comparison. Even the baby-portage, if that be un avoidable, will not throw the balance to the aide of bachelorhood. The married man becomes a settled figure in the com munity. His Increased needs require on his part Increased exertions and bring out the best that Is In him. Nature, as well as the young women, expects every man to marry, and the man who delays this duty, until middle age may find his bach elor habits so Inveterate that he cannot accommodate himself to the new 'state of affairs. He Would Smoke. New' York Tribune. At the big works of the General Electric Company at Schenectady there Is a rule against smoking on the grounds or In any of the buildings, and the thousands of employes obey the rule religiously. When Charles P. Stelnmetz. president of the American Society of Electrical Engineers, came there as electrical expert, he walked (nto the yard with a cigar between his teeth. A big watchman noticed the little stranger, and. tapping him on the shoul der, shouted, "Nd smoking allowed here." Mr. Stelnmetz threw his cigar away and waiked on. A few moments later another watchman found him puffing at a fresh cigar under the very nose of a "No smok ing" sign. He pointed to the board and ordered "Throw that cigar away." The third time he .was stopped he left the works and went back to hla quarters' In the town. The following day be did not cprae to the office which had been as signed to him. The third day he was again absent. "Mr. Stelnmetz must be sick," said the general superintendent, and he sent his secretary to inquire. Important work was being delayed by his absence, and they do not like delays at the big Schenectady works. "Have you been 111?" asked the secre tary. "Never felt better In my life," replied the electrician. "But you have not been at the works since the first day." ' "You are right" said Mr. Stelnmetz. "and I'm not going there again." The secretary could not understand and begged an explanation. "Smoke." said the expert Thai was as bad as no explanation at all. "Can't smoke, can't work, and there you are." was the detail that was- forth coming. The secretary carried back the sad news, and that smoking rule was changed to the .extent of permitting the expert to smoke when and where he pleased. Million of Buffalo. Outing. In the 40s, when the American Fur Com pany was in the heydey of Its power, there wero sent from St. Louis alone In a single, year 100,000 robes; and the. com pany bought only the perfect ones. The hunter usually kept an ample supply for his own needs, so that for every robo bought by tho company three times as many were token from the plains. St Louis was only one port of shipment Equal quantities of robes were being sent from Mackinaw, Detroit Montreal and Hudson Bay. A million would not cover the numoer of robes sent East each year In the 40s. In 1S68 Inman. Sheridan and Custer rode continuously for three days through one herd hi the Arkansas region, and In 18S3 trains on the Kansas Pacific were held from 9 in the morning until 6 at night to permit the passage of one herd across the tracks. Army officers re late that In 1E62 a herd that covered an area of 70 by 30 miles moved north from the Arkansas to tho Yellowstone. Catlin and Inman and Army men and employes of the fur companies considered a drove of 100.000 buffaloes a common sight along thi Unrf of the Santa Fc trail, inman computes that from St. Louis alone the bones of 31.000.000 buffaloes were shipped between 186S and lSSt Tho.Ilosnjry.. Pobert Cameron Rogers. The hours 1 .spent with thee, dear heart. Are as a string of pearls to me; I count them over, every one apart, My rosary. Each hour'a pearl, each pearl a prayer. To stlir a heart In absence wnlnfc: I tell ea.cn bead unto the end and there A. cross Is nunc. Oh memories that blcs and burnt Oh barren xairi and bitter loss!" I kiss each bead, and strive at last o learn To kiss the cross, Sweetheart. To kiss the cross. Give Me More Love or More Disdain. Thomas Carew. Give me more love or more disdain; Tho torrid or the frosen zone k Brtnss equal ease unto, my pain; The temperate affords me none; "Either extreme, of love or hate, Is sweeter than a calm estate. Qlve. me- a storm; if "It be love, Llko Danae In a golden shower, I swim in pleasure: If It prove Disdain, that torrent will devour M$; .vulture hopes; and he's possessed Of heaven that's but from hell released; Then crown my Joys, or euro my pain; Glye mo more lore or mote disdain. T0UKG MEX ' KQTE 4ND COMMENT. TJnwept, unhonored and unhung Trie TVe should like to know who prayed fi rain In Colorado. X Hobspn Is . going to- restore himself heroism by getting married. - Some Eastern speculators are feelir their oats and some are not. The salt war Is said to have been caused! by somebody's beiqg too fresh. Bryan's; medicine for Democracy "nono genuine without our label." la Are the oil tanks less of a burning question than they were after the last fire? If you wait long enough perhaps the Lewis and Clark board may approve your site also. It Is feared that cholera in Manchuria wlh reach Irkutsk and Vladivostok In spite of the consonants. It's rather strange that President Cas tro, In dodging one revolution, doesn't run Into one of the others. Is not Bryan's Imperialism over the fic tions of the party the worst kind of gov ernment without consent? The closed Incident of May Yohe and "Putty" Strong stays open juat as If the diamonds had not been found. Why not send the reward for Merrill to Tracy's mother, the nearest heir In line? Six policemen will take vacations at a time. We hope their absence will not show us we can dispense with their serv ices. . It is to be expected that the brave men who kept out of Tracy's way were tha first to swarm about him when he was dead. Republicans of at w York after all aro not under great obligation to Brother Piatt, who told them they would vote for Roosevelt in ISO!. They knew It already. Unless Hanna. himself tells us what he has done for worklngmen. nobody is like ly to tell. The day for blowing the trum pet unto Hanna Is when he himself blows It FItzhugh Lee used to know more about tho Cubans than did any other man. This was before General Bragg put himself forward In his parable about the plg'a tall. But his wisdom has not done the General any good, so Fltzhugh'a evidently was better, although It didn't go so far. Now we have an armor that will resist 'any projectile and then a projectile that win pierce any armor, and now and then and now and then again, just according to which report gets out first How would it do for the engineers to hold back the next report until the following gets outt A Klnghman County, Kansas, farmer la growing a row of corn a ilttle more than 25 miles long, for no other reason than to be singular and extraordinary. He commenced In a 50-acre field and went round and round in a circle with a lister until he had planted the whole In a sin gle row, which commences at one of the edges and terminates In the middle. When he cultivated it, of course he had to plow the same way. If the Indians- of this region did. not have Panama hats, they had something just as good. Lewis and Clark testify that the Clatspps were adept weavers of hats. The following is from their jour nal: We gave a fishhook In exchange for one ot their hats. These hats are made of cedar bark and bear-grass. Interwoven together la the form' of a European hat with a small brim of about two Inches, and a high -crown, widening upward. They ar light ornamented with various colors and figures, and. being nearly waterproof, are mu$h more durable than either chip or straw hats. These hats form a small article of traffic with the whites, and their manufacture Is one of the beat ex ertions of Indian Industry. Louisiana has a new Idea In regard to "Jim Crow" cars. A recently-passed law provides that there shall be separate but equal accommoditlons for whites and blacks, and the street-car companies have Introduced a car with a wire screen sep arating it in the middle, tho forward com partment being set apart for white per sons and the rear compartment for col ored persons. The negroes protest against this arrangement and talk of raising monoy to buy cars fof the use of their own race. They also threaten to boycott the screened cars. It Is suggested that the division between the two parts of the car should be a solid partition, not a wire screen, so that all view would be cut off from one-compartment to the other, and the negro passengers would not feel as If they were In a cage. PLEASANTRIES OF PAItAGRAPHKUS Real humor Is a blessing, but what soma people think Is humor Is an affliction.-; Puck. The Modern Query. Fudge-Poor fellow, he owes his death to deadly gasoline. Judge Gasoline, auto or stove? Baltimore Herald. Tongue. "Ho seemed quite fluent In hla mother tongue." -Fluent? Bay. he talks fast enough to make you think It's his mother-ln-laWs tongue."-Phlladelphla Bulletin. His Rule. "Now. boys: what is the best and most appropriate time to thank the Lord?" No answer. "What does your father do when you sit down to meals?"" Small Voice Cuss the cook. Town and Country. "Kape alive. Mike: we're resculn yel" Voice from the Debris Is big Clancy up thert , wld.ye? "Sure he Is." "Ast him wud he be so kind as t step aft the roolns. I've enough on.lop av me wldoul him." Tit-Bits. Hard Lines. Plunkett How are you getting along, neighbor? Throckmorton Poorly. The necessities of life are so high, by George, that we can't afford to live on anything but lux uries these days. Chicago Tribune. Ignorance a Movable Feast. Summer Board er Lack of education Is a great drawback. Farmer Jones; Farmer Jones Ain't It? Why, there's men comes out here who are 50 years old. ana never saw corn planted. Detroit Free. Press. . No Mosquitoes. Jinks Ho! ho! ho! Nice time you must have had in the country. Car rying home about a carload of mosquito net ting, I see. "Winks Oh. we have no mosqui toes In Jerseyvllle. hardly a one. This Is to s-er keep out butterflies and humming-birds. New Tork Weekly. D-eath. John Donne. Death, be not proud,' though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so: For those whom thou thlnk'st thou dost over throw Die not poor Dath; nor yet canst thou kill me. From Rest and Sleep, which but thy picture be. Much pleasure, then from theo .much more must flow; And soonest our best mn with thee do go Rest of their bones and souls' delivery! Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings and des perate men. And dost with poison, war and. sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well " $ And better than thy stroke. Why sweU'at thou, then? One short sleep - past, we wake eternally. And Death shall be no more: Death, thou ' ahalt die! "