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THE MOBXIKG OKEGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1902. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Oregon. as second-class matter. ( REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid. In advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month Dally. Sunday excepted, per year Dally, with Sunday, per year Sunday, per year r "x The Weekly, per year v 1 j The Weeky. 3 months 50 To City Subscribers Daily, per week, delivered. Sunday Mcepted.isc Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.2ue POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper..... 'c I to 28-page paper 2e Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should bo addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan docs not buy poems or stories from lndH'lduals. and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business Office. 43. 44. 45. 47. 48. 49 Tribune building. New York City: 10-11-12 Tiibune building. Chicago: the S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Francis " - L. E. Lee, Pal kte Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros.. 238 Sutter street: F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market Btreet: J. K. Cooper Co.. 74C Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news stand; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis street, and N. Wheatley. 813 Mission street For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 259 South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 805 South Spring street. For sale in Kansas City.' Mo., by r.!csecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald. 63 Washington street. For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co.. 1303 Faraam street. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second South street. For sale In Minneapolis by R. G. Hearsey & Co.. 24 Third street Bouth. For sale In Washington. D. C., by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., hv Hamilton & Kendrick. 008-912 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series. Sixteenth' and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain, with brisk to high southwest winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 54; minimum temperature, 40; pre cipitation. 0.39 inch. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, XOVE3IBER 7. Governor McBrlde will find It ex tremely difficult to enforce discipline upon the Republicans in the "Washing ton Legislature In connection with the railroad commission, based on the Ta coma platform. Every man should live up to his convention and caucus obli gations; but in practice the enforce ment of these rules seems to grow more and more difficult as time goes on. There is a natural repugnance In every manly man against sinking his convic tions on public questions In obedience to party dictation, and this repugnance Is undoubtedly growing with the rise of Independent spirit in our politics. The money question has shown us many sturdy men of both parties who refused to obey the party programme where free silver was officially espoused. Senator ial caucuses 1 have become notably In efficient to hold a discontented minor ity to distasteful candidates. Governor McBride's railway commission is a de vice that, if adopted, must be tested by experience. If It fails, the Repub lican who opposed it can point with pride to his prescience and resolution; but the Republican who favored it will have a very inadequate excuse In the formal action of his party. There is manifest questlonableness In attempting to make a purely party affair out of a BUbject so important as railroad con trol and taxation, and the undertaking Is not greatly advanced by the eager ness of the Democrats In making it a part of their own demands. Anti-railroads is traditionally so populistic a doctrine that it must of necessity count upon much uncompromising opposition In Republican circles: The election carries a forcible re minder of the persistently sectional character of the Democratic party. Take out the South from the House of Rep resentatives elected Tuesday and it stands 204 Republicans to 58 Democrats. Take the South out of the Senate, and it stands 56 Republicans to 6 Democrats. Take the South out of the last electoral 1 college and it stands 292 Republicans to 10 Democrats. Take the South out of the list of Governors, and they stand 28 Republicans to 3 Democrats and 1 Populist, and of these the three Demo cratic, states, Idaho, Colorado and Mon tana, have now gone Republican. Ne vada is the only Northern state that elected other than a Republican Gover nor Tuesday. This is not, of course, a perfectly fair comparison, for the Dem ocrats are as much entitled to victories In the South as the Republicans are in the North. The humiliating thing about it is that the Issues that divide men In the North are inoperative at the South. Platforms, principles, and can didates cut no figure In the South. They are simply Democrats there, and that settles it. No Southern vote Is any guide to American public opinion. Only In the North may voters be addressed as reasoning beings, only in the South is the verdict already ascertained and promulgated before the jury leaves the box or the plea9 are submitted. Rape r fiends and gilded youths bred to despise honest toil are not the only legacies of African slavery. .One is that no where south of Mason and Dixon's line maya man like Theodore Roosevelt hopefgr an electoral vote. Such sup port as, he gets with the people must be recruited from one-half the Nation. The defeat of an able man and ag gressive tariff reformer, Foss, in Mas sachusetts, is ,a significant Incident In the tariff situation. Foss made a hard fight for free raw materials, and while the details of his defeat are not at hand, it is probably not a- violent assumption that Republican voters refusad to in dorse his tariff proposals. The conclu sion is inevitable that the New England theory of tariff reform need hope for no general acceptance. Certainly the vote in the Foss district has greatly discred ited it. The simple truth Is that free raw materials do not appeal to Repub lican voters anywhere with much force, for the doctrine is essentially Demo cratic and free trade. It looks, not to relief of the consumer, but to aid of the protected manufacturer, whose demand for free wool, free hides and free iron Is never coupled with assent to free woolens, free shoes and free machinery. Republican tariff reform Is the antithe sis of this, and proposes to relieve the masses by reducing the duties on highly protected manufactures made by great corporations that are abundantly able to stand alone. This school of tariff revision come9 out of the West, and It will not sacrifice the duties on raw ma rrlals derived from the field, forest and mine by American labor. There la lit tle choice between a free raw material Republican and an avowed Democrat. UNWELCOME IMMIGRANTS. The total Immigration into the United States for the fiscal year 1902 was 730,798, which Is nearly up to the high-water mark of 1882, when the ar rivals numbered 788,992.' In 1895 immi gration had fallen off to 258,000. and in 1898 to 229,000, but since then It has been rapidly growing to its present fig ures. The largest number of Immi grants came from Italy, Hungary and Russia. Four-fifths of this year's immi gration comes from Southern Europe. The Italians contribute the most to this flood; then the Huns, and then the Rus sians. The remainder is made up of Greeks, Portuguese, Roumanians. Ar menians and Bulgarians. From 1820 to 1900 the total immigration to the United States was about 20,000,000. More than two-thirds of these Immigrants came from Ireland" and Germany. In those years the Immigration from Southern Europe was very small. Today the im migration from Italy alone exceeds by considerably over 100,000' the ihimlgra tlon from the United Kingdom and Ger many. From Russia we are getting about as many as from those coun tries. These figures are startling, for they show that our Immigration, from once having been of Irish and Teutonic stock, is become Italian and Slavonic, with a large Jewish element Included. Thesa newcomers are crowding Into our East ern cities more largely than did the earlier immigrants. If we are to con tinue to receive half a million a year of this kind of immigrants, we may pre pare to suffer the social consequences of so radical a transformation in the racial stock. The great stream of this Immigration turns to the four cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago. The influx of these undesira ble immigrants cannot be prevented by the reading and writing test proposed in the pending Immigration bill in Con gress, for the educational test In the form In which it is now awaiting the action of the Senate would not have excluded more than 15 per cent of the illegitimate Immigration of the past year. Of the Italian immigration it 19 de sirable when it comes from the north ern and middle provinces of Italy. The Italian peasant or mountaineer Is a hardy, sober, industrious man, but there is a mongrel population In Sicily and Calabria that, while nominally Italian, Is a race of mixed bloods. Sic ily has been ruled by Greeks, Romans, Moors, Spaniards, French and Italians, and out of this mixture of bloods comes the creature who at home or In Amer ica is always exceedingly . handy with gun or knife In a quarrel. Whether you pilfer an apple from his pushcart or abduct his wife, this mongrel Italian would be as prompt to "knife" you In one case as the other. This Sicilian is the kind of Italian that-caused the riot and murder by lynch law In New Or leans. He is not a true Italian, however, and the Immigrants from the northern and middle provinces of Italy are not of his quality, but are a valuable addi tion to our laboring classes. The Im migration from Austro-Hungary Is some of it very good, while some of It. like that, which comes from Croatia and Transylvania, is .not desirable. If these undesirable immigrants could be distributed to points where they can supply the demand for labor, they would not become congested at the centers of large population, but as a rule the most worthless of this foreign Immigration always seeks to live in or about some large city. Those who are miners go to the mining districts of Pennsylvania and Ohio, but the vast majority settle In some great city. The old-time Im migration, when It was not English speaking, was Scandinavian or German, races that easily learn English and are in full sympathy with English law and civilization. The old-time immigration was most welcome, but. this Immigration of Latin blood Is of far different mental and moral quality. Many of the Huns are men without families, who mean to save money and return to their native country In three to five years. Few of them are skilled agriculturists or me chanica A Swede or a Norwegian is generally a bold sailor or a hardy woodsman, and they are always at home where there are sailors or fisher men or loggers wanted; the Belgians even have made good settlers in some parts of Wisconsin, but these Imml grants from Southern Europe would do better to go to a country' like Califor nia where there Is a vast variety of fruit cultivated, where wine Is made on a large scale. In such a country, where Chinese la bor Is unpopular and excluded, these natives of Southern Europe ought to find congenial employment. California is on the wrong side of the continent for them, but in time of real scarcity of labor in Calif ornia they would not find it difficult to make the trip to that country. Of these undesirable immi grants of course there are thousands that have no Knowledge of agriculture, of fruitralslng, or of any skilled em ployment. This class will, of course, swell the fringe of filthy folk that form fhe outskirts of great cities. These are the sort that It would be desirable to exclude from our shores as absolutely as we do the Chinese. ' THE BRIDGE FRORLEM. The most practicable and in the long run the cheapest solution of the bridge problem in Portland Is to make bridges in the greater number of Instances un necessary. There ought not to be a bridge anywher in the city limits, ex ceptlng across the river, for every gulch or space over which a road passes ought to be filled In. In the end this must be done, and it would better be done now than to be postponed with the waste of a large sum In the re-creation of tem porary and always more or less dan gerous wooden roadways. A few weeks' work by a modern sluicing dredge operating from the har bor bottom would build up a complete system of solid roadways good for all time In the low-lying parts of the city on both 9'.des of the river. The first cost would, of course, be greater than that of wooden roadways; but in the long run It would be more economical and It would be a thousand times bet ter, contributing to the convenience of traffic and adding Immediately to the value of property in the low-lying dis tricts. All the marsh district near the river, both east and west, must in the end be filled up, and .no better time to. do it will ever come than just now, when times are prosperous and when property-owners are as able as they ever will be to meet the cost of the im provement. The cheap sluicing process could not be employed in the higher ground, where there are many jrulches to be spanned, but, there is scarcely an instance where abundant earth cannot be had for the taking. To fill the gulches would unquestionably cost more than to bridge them, but, once done, the work would be always done, with no tax for repairs and no hazard through possibility of accident. ' Expediency and economy alike de mand substantial and permanent road ways. Already Portland has expended double the cost of such roadways In temporary wooden structures, and she has nothing to show for It; and the folly of renewing these temporary structures ought not now to be repeated. The time has come In the development of Port land when cheap and temporary expedi ents like wooden road structures should be rejected. "WHEN SUITABLE WAGES ARE PAID." Professor Robinson, Superintendent of Schools of Multnomah County, is glv- . Ing earnest, careful attention, based upon an experience of some years as a teacher In the public schools of the state, to the condition of the schools under his supervision. His suggestions for the improvement of the schools are practical, while his purpose to keep in touch with the schools of outlying as well as the more accessible districts in the county commends him as an offi cial who is striving diligently to do what he Is hired to do. Under this re gime we can well believe that the "edu cational outlook in Multnomah County is encouraging." A necessary factor In this advance ment is an increase of teachers' wages. It is out of reason to expect to get good teachers in this era of prosperity and Its attendant high prices for living upon a hard-times salary basis. Fur thermore, If It were possible to secure teachers at these prices, it would be the poorest kind of economy to employ those who are willing to teach under this ratings A great scarcity of teach ers has been reported in several of the most populous counties of the state, in cluding Multnomah, Baker,. Polk and Marlon. This does not indicate, as might be supposed, a scarcity of young women who are well qualified by care ful training and some experience to teach In the public schools. It is sim ply an expression of the fact that Ihe wages offered are not satisfactory. School Boards demanding the services of competent teachers have found, says Professor Robinson, "that such teachers may be secured for suitable wages." Said Mr. William McAndrew in an exhaustive article on the subject in the World's Work several months ago: "The task of bringing the wages of teachers to a good, living basis Is bound to fall chiefly on those teachers who mean to stay In the ranks and teach." That Is to say that young women who engage In schoolteachlng merely for the purpose of tiding themselves over the period between graduation from the Normal or High School and marriage, and men who use the teacher's voca tion merely as a stepping-stone to an other profession which they prefer, but are not prepared to enter, have not only no special or permanent interest in the advancement of teachers' rating, but they stand in the way of such advance ment. Herein lies the greatest stumbling-block In the road to a proper rat ing of the teacher's profession and wages. Teachers' services are now reckoned upon the simple commercial basis of supply and demand. Just now, with us, the supply, as gauged by the capabili ties required, Js somewhat short of the demand. One of two things must fol low. The standard for teaching must be lovered or higher wages must be paid. Teaching, we are wont to say, like any other commodity, brings what the con dition of the market determines. Pur suing this line of reasoning, we find, If any teacher gives up his or her place, a dozen others quickly apply for It. Therefore, the salary Is enough, as oth erwise there would not be such an eager demand for the places. This reasoning is sound as far as it goes. Teachers are got for the salaries now paid; teach ers could be got for half these salaries. Cut any salary In two and teachers could still be got. But not the teachers that enlightened School Boards are look ing for. and that progressive School Su perlntendents would- indorse. This purely commercial statement, says the periodical above quoted, does not touch the most Important question. Many public schoolteachers now receive all they are worth; many no doubt re celve more than they are worth. The question Is not what a teacher can be got for, but what the best teachers can be got for. This is a question that few com munities are ready to face. The truth perhaps Is that many are not yet really in earnest about public education. They have provided schools and teachers, and there they are resting. The next great movement forward must be to build up the teacher's profession to the de gree of dignity that corresponds wltfi the most enlightened view of it. And who shall say that this movement is not already in progress? Is this not indeed indicated by the statement of Professor Robinson that competent teachers can be secured for our county schools "when suitable wages are paid"? A TIMELY MOVEMENT. . The movement in aid of Immigration is important. It comes at a time when the railroads are putting practical en orgy Into immigration work at the other end of the line, and when we are in a position to co-operate with them and so gain through their efforts. As we un derstand It, the railroads are undertak ing by various operations In the Middle West to "create Interest In the Pacific States; and their agents, if we will supply them properly, will act for us In the distribution of literature and in other ways calculated to put the attrac tions of the state before possible set tiers. This can only be done through an agency at Portland working for the whole state and in constant touch with the agents of the railroad in the field. Such an agency ought to be main talned here in connection with an ex hlbit of the products of the state; and cne of Its main functions should be to befriend and direct those who, upon their arrival here, shall be in need of information. Nearly every immigrant knows something of what he wants, but he has no means of determining where he is most likely to find It; an( In most cases there Is much waste of time, money and energy In gaining a little primary Information about the country. It is this that an Immigration agency ought to supply. In many case.' under the present policy of leavln? newcomers to look out for' themselve the Intending settler grows discouraged and passes on for the want of lntelli gent and kindly advice. In California they have an agency o I this sort In what is called the State Board of Trade. It maintains an office in the great ferry station at San Fran cisco, into which all arriving passengers pour, and Its business Is to receive Im migrants and put them in the way of finding such conditions as they are look ing for. The several counties contrib ute to a magnificent exhibit of Califor nia products, and several of them main tain during the active "immigrant sea ion" a special representative to look after their Interests. Each of the coun ties 'contributes through its official board a specific sum, ranging from $10 to $50 per month, toward the support of the establishment. That this plan works satisfactorily Is attested by the fact that the office has been maintained during a long course of years and. that In recent years its support has very materially increased. The expense of setting up and maln- taining a municipal government In a village that Includes within Its limits a considerable acreage of unimproved and nonproducing land Is viewed with rea sonable apprehension by some of the freeholders of our neighboring and one time rival City of Mllwaukle. A remon- strance setting forth the objections to the proposed incorporation of the town Is signed ' by twenty-four taxpayers, who see In the effort of would-be Incor porators a conspiracy the object of which Is to throw upon a municipal corporation- the expense of litigation which should be Instituted for the re moval of certain powder-houses within the boundaries of the place. How boast ed dignity and local pride shrivels and shrinks Into commonplace selfishness when the sidelights are turned on! The troubled life of a populistic poli tician was ended when Charles A. Fitch, editor of the Lakeview Herald, died recently from an overdose of mor phine taken with suicidal Intent. Mr. Fitch was a man of generous nature and of considerable ability, both as a writer and stump orator. He was not. however, able to achieve success in life, owing to misdirected effort, and volun- arily gave up the attempt before he passed beyond the prime of his years. The fate of such a man merits the com passion of his fellow-men more fortu nately endowed with the quality of udgment that enables an Individual to succeed in his undertakings. The sophomores of the University of Oregcn will be represented in the local oratorical contest to be held In Eugene in February by a young woman, the clas3 having chosen Mls3 Mabel C. Smith for this service. Young women have stood well In these contests in this state during recent yearn, and no doubt this 3roung woman will add oratorical luster to the name of Smith and be a credit to the class she represents in the coming contest. There have been heavy frosts in por tions of Eastern Oregon, extending west as far as The Dalles, within the past week. The western portion of the state has as yet suffered nothing worse thanthe Infliction of "chill November's surly blasts," accompanied by just enough rain to make farmers happy and turn the' surface of newly macadam ized (?) city streets into liquid mud. The people of the United States do not desire a change at the present time Roosevelt and his party are good enough for themy Perhapjj. they remem- disastrous results of a "change" ber the which they decreed when they defeated President Harrison In 1892, and have learned that It is wise to let well enough alone, Mrs. Carrie Nation suffered injury to one of her arms In a railroad accident near Newark, N. J., a few days ago Her powers of speech were not Impaired by the shock, hence she cannot be said to be out of commission, even though her hatchet arm may be disabled. The very large Socialist vote in Mas sachusetts is due to the fact that the Democratic workingmen were very hos tile to Gaston and announced their de termination to vote for the Socialist candidate. There is a man in Maryland by the name of Mudd who always runs for Congress, and his hostility to funny paragraphers Is evidenced by the fact that he never loses. Maybe he knows better. Lane and Coler are strictly en regie In crying fraud. Nothing Is dearer to the Democratic heart than a free vote and an honest count. Especially at the South. Rich Not All Bad. St. Paul Pioneer Press. A debauch or a scandal in which any man or woman known to be rich is in volved Is immediately made public. Tin known persons may do things much more disgusting and never be mentioned, while the hundreds of wealthy men and women who make up" New York's millionaire class, and who are even thrown In socl ety with Mr. Ralph's Saratoga spec! mens, but who lead quiet and sober lives arc never mentioned. There are scores of women, young and old, whose names are familiar throughout the country as members of this very rich class whose lives are as pure and sweet, as full of charity and though tfulness, as those of the women of the moderately well-to-do or the less well-to-do classes throughout the country. There are score" of earnest men whose lives would be patterns of cleanliness and honesty for most of their critics. Miss Gould, though the most conspicuous, is only one of a common type among the women as John Jacob Astor. Andrew Carnegie and Joseph Choate are among the men. The fast set In every city, even when It does not include 10 per cent of those who compose that city's "society," is always, by an unfortunate twist in human nature, sup posed to represent Its society. The other peoplo who, not being vulgar, refuse to make themselves conspicuous, and not being loose In their morals refuse to make themselves the. subject of Interest ing paragraphs, arc forgotten by the gen eral public. A Mediaeval Megaphone. St. James Gazette. A curiosity of great antiquity is still to be scm within St. Andrew's Church, at Wllloughton, near Gainsborough, says a Sunday magazine. This is a quaint speak ing trumpet, with an obscure early history dating back to the times of the Knights Templar. In shape It resembles a French horn.and Is more than flye feet long, hav ing a bell at the end of the graduated tube. It wao formerly six feet In length, but 13 now telescoped at the joints, where the metal hs.i apparently decayed. Tra dition declares it was formerly sounded from the tower to summon aid In case of need, as when blown at a height the weird, deep notes the trumpet produced .could be heard a great distance away in bygone days. It is believed that this cu rious Instrument has often been used, to call together the villagers, thus dispensing with the usual bell, and to give additional power and strength to the choir, being prob3blytused by the chief singer, as the trumpet intensifies vocal sound to a marked degree. SPIR1T OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS Tile Idaho Philosopher. Lewlston Tribune. (Most of us would rather have a little cheap and hollow flattery than a whole lot of round and valuable criticism. The Envious Sonnd. Whatcom Reveille. It is said Mr.'Harriman will build a line of monster steamships to operate between Portland and the Orient. The ships will be as large as the Hill steamships. Per haps the ships are to be hauled overland to the Oregon metropolis. As Well Without ns With. ij. -""'"V" u ,n It would seem from all the nice things , lat are being said In. favor of a railroad Adams Advance. that are belncr commission over in Washington that all the states without one are destined to go to the dogs, and yet Oregon 13 doing pretty well, thank you. Alarm In Hnrney. Burns Items. Portland -Wants 1500,000 for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and perhaps another $100,000 after while for a state building. The people, we believe, would not object to a reasonable am'ount, but let them know where it is going to end IIl.i Scythe Ik Still In Trim. Salem Statesman. Georco U. Piper, who was running for State Sector from one of the Seattle districts, was defeated. George used to live In Salem, where he has many friends. Had he been elected he would have cut a wider swath than heretofore in Washing ton Republican polities and the swath was already of considerable width. No Trouble for the Conscientious. Albany Democrat. It has been suggested that it will not be a very pleasant thing to be a member of the next State Legislature on account of the many big bills that will come up. but as a matter of fact it will not be a difficult thing for any member If he sim ply docs hl3 duty, remembering that he represents the, people" and should act in their interest and not In the Interest of lobbyists and grafters. Only a Political Dodge. Astoria Astorlan. The Oregonian evidently has become so -accustomed to dictating sentiment here in Oregon that any dissenting voice calls forth from it willful misrepresentation and abuse. The Portland paper's latest strictures, apropos of Its failure to have an extra Legislative session called, arc characteristic in the extreme. As will be observed, there was practically no senti ment for an extra session, only about 1500 persons having signed the petition to Gov ernor Geer. The extra session talk was imply a political dodge, and those who saw through the schemo and denounced it arc held up by The Oregonlan as public enemies. Special Session Unnecessary. Corvallls Gazette. It appears there are but two reasons of Importance why the Legislature . should be convened In special session. These are that the state appropriation to the Lewis and Clark Exposition might be made as soon as possible, and that Portland's city charter may be enacted. This last reason concerns Portland rather than the state. If there Is not enough moral sen timent and official Integrity in Portland to enforce the laws now on the statute books against vice, so much worse for that city. The state can endure the sit uation in the metropolis two or three months longer, and should do so rather than Incur the expense of a special ses sion.. Jio Cause for Alarm. Paisley Post. There need be no cause 'for alarm; there is yet plenty of opportunity. There are other fields in Eastern Oregon just as practicable as those applied for under the Carey grant. Lake County has a vast area of arid land, and Lake Is as justly entitled to development under the provisions of the new irrigation law as any county In the state. The soil In the arid portion of Lake County Is richer by far than that contiguous to the Des chutes River. There Is no place In Oregon where a larger body of good soil can be irrigated as cheaply as right here in Lake County. Mr. Williamson was cer tainly not thoroughly posted when he stated In an Interview with an Oregonlan reporter that no effort had been made to secure an Investigation of feasible Irrlga tion projects here in Oregon under the fcewlands Irrigation law. A Word to the Vanquished. Spokane Spokesman-Review. Do you think ofllce-seeklng 13 the only thing worth doing in this grand, prosper ous Northwest? Dp you think it is your duty now to plant your feet on the coun ter of some saloon or cigar store and keep them there for most of the next two years while you swap sorrows and predictions with some other arnica-stained states man till election comes again? Did It ever occur to you that if you would be as pleasant and agreeable and thoughtful of other people during 12 months in the year as you have been since you started after the nomination, you might have several big bunches of friends before the dust Is brushed off the Declaration of Indepenu ence next Fourth of July? Or have you thought what would be the effect of put ting as much brains and energy and con centration into some legitimate enterprise as you have been giving to ofllce-seeklng In the last few weeks? Many a good man has been ruined by being elected to office. Many a promising youngster has been .started on the rodd to a whisky-tainted grave by being appointed as a deputy. Many a successful buslnesa man, who has a home of his own, a place In the bank s ledger, an Influence for good and the re spect of his fellow citizens, can look back to some November night, when his pout cnl hones landed butter aide down In a snowdrift can look back rfhd not shed even a little stingy, sun-anect Arizona tear. Treasures From Pompeii. Philadelphia Ledger. For the first time millionaire art collec tors are to have an opportunity of buy ing treasures which were burled by the same eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii. In the little village of Bosco renle. at the foot of Vesuvius, and be tween Naples and Pompeii, a wonderful find on private property has been made, It consists of cplcndld frescoes and unique art treasures. The frescoes are said to far exceed In value anything yet found, and in their de sign to show breadth of treatment hlth erto unknown In the frescoes of this pe rlod. In one tomb was found a tortoise ehell diss which some suppose to have been a mirror, but as tortoise shell Is a very Inferior reflector It Is more probable that It Is the back of a mirror or sliver plate of bronze, of which ancient mirror. were so often made But the great In terest of this disc is -not what It wao used for. but that It is the llrst And of tortoise shell In any form in these exca vations, and the question now arises where did it come from, for the present day supply comes from Zanzibar and the West Indies. They have also made the interesting discovery that clectrum (gold alloyed with ellver) was known In pro-Hellenic times. A second .specimen of the sphynx or Pandean pipe has been found. This Is the original form of the modern organ. The example Just- found is large enough to be blown by bellows or a windbag, like bag pipes, which are still to be seen In their original form In the streets of Naples at Chrlstman time, when peasants from the surrounding country come Into' the town with them. A small statue of Perseus has also been found. Up to this time it is the unique specimen of. that subject in ancient sculpture. ' THE PULPIT AND THE STAGE. New York Evening ,Post. Assuredly. It Is time something were done to put a stop to the constant and progressive demoralization of the public mind by vulgar, morbid and Impure plays: but the reputed scheme of the Church Club and the Actors' Church Alliance to reform by means of boycott, with clergy men acting as moral walking delegates, does not inspire much confidence. All de cent people, and all true friends of the stage, will sympathize with these enthu siastic gentlemen and wish them every success, but there is grave reason to doubt whether much good can be done by la- borious personal advertisement of the fact t Qr shocking that . utnrr ..? frnm modest persons ought to stay away from It. In some cases, no doubt, the warning would be effective; but, unfortunately, the more energetic the crusade, the more no torious would become the cause of of fense, and to make a vicious ,plece noto rious is to play right Into the hands of the .manager. Is it so certain, moreover. ! thnt rlrrtrvmrii. ns a rule, are the best judgcs of tne moral quality and effect of a play? Is It not. as a matter of fact, almost proverbial that they are easily be guiled by a little mock religious sentiment. and that they have frequently extended vnlimhlft countenance and sunDOrt to very flagrant theatrical impostures? Plays like "The Sign of the Cross" and "The Chris tian," not to mention a host of others. In which, the attempt has been made to give a religious flavor to cheap and meretri cious melodrama, have never experienced any difficulty In securing clerical com mendation, sometimes In very unexpected quarters. There are, we believe, a consid erable number of clergymen of different .denominations who even today are In favor of public representations of the Pas sion Play, and arc convinced that the re sult would be widespread spiritual regen eration. A Biff Year for Morp-an. San Francisco Bulletin. A New York correspondent of the Louis ville Courier-Journal gives the details of J. P. Morgan's financial operations in the year now approaching Its close, and ac counts his profits so far at $42,190,000. There are other projects as yet In a nebulous state, and If they should be added to the list in the remaining two months of the year the net profit of the great financier may round out the sum of $50,000,000 for the year. In magnitude the United States Steel Corporation comes first. The cap italization of this corporation I3 $1,304,000,- 000, and Mr. Morgan's commission was $20,340,000. The duties of the financier of a combination consist largely of the pur chase of separate companies at prices which will enable the combination to issue and float stock enough to pay the pur chase money and the costs of combina tion. Including the commission of the financier, who Invests some millions in a fund to be drawn upon, If need be, in the arly stages of the operations of the com bination. The United States Steel Corporation Is so firmly on Its feet that the liability of the financier has ceased. The corporation has paid dividends on all Its stock, both preferred and common, and Its relations with the Morgan syndicate are closed Whether the syndicate took part pay In stock is a matter of conjecture. It Is pretty clear, however, that the trans action has placed upon the market nun dreds of millions of stock that does not represent actual values. Attorney-Gen eral Knox named overcapitalization as one of the evils of these organizations that mav be reached by law. There seems no reason why they may not be reached by taxation. If such combinations were taxed up to the face value of their stock there would be less temptation to issue stock in excess of the actual value of the property Included in the combination. But the very existence of such a volume or securities denendlrisr largely for value upon the maintenance of prosperity af fords a reasonable assurance that tne giants of finance will become pillars of the stock market. Baudelaire, the French Poe. Chicago Chronicle. This month a monument is to be erected at the grave of Charles Baudelaire, whoso literary merit, unstable character and morbid excesses have linked his name in separably with that of Edgar Allen Poe. Baudelaire died m 1867, almost mend- less, though by no means unknown. Par adoxical, he was an englma to others, 11 not to himself. Passionately fond of art. he Inclined none the less to the eccentric ahd startling and extolled the artificial. His verse Is not mere music. It Is har mony where other verse Is melody. It has a tremendous sweep of power, and this power seems, as in Foe's verse, to be duo to some, supernatural force not known to ordinary mortals. Victor Hugo once said to Baudelaire: "You have created a new shudder." He might also have said: "You have created a new sweetness. But the sweetness was poisonous because of Its exquisite pessimism. Its rapturous intensity, Inclining to madness. Hating wickedness with an almost Dantian hor ror. Baudelalro despised It not so much on moral grounds as because It was an offense to beauty, and an infringement qn the mathematical law of justice. The revival of Poe's memory In America 13 naturally followed by some appreciation of Baudelaire, who first made Poe's name and works familiar to the French people and who gladly accepted him as his master in literary art. American Aristocracy. Alnslee's Magazine. The few enormously wealthy American families of which the head enjoys an as sured annual Income of more than $1,000,000 may be regarded as representing in the American Republic what the "royalties" represent in England. Popular phraseol ogy, Indeed, gives them, with unconscious fltness, quasi-royal titles instyllng them "oil kings," "money kings" and "mining kings." Most of them live as- few real kings can afford to live, and they receive from their immediate entourage something of the obsequious deference which in mo narchal lands is given to those who are of the royal blood. Coming down a grade, we have the somewhat larger group of those wbose Incomes range from $1,000,000 down to $100,000. These Individuals, as a class, are equivalent to the Bntlsh peerage the $900,000 magnate having, let us say. the relative rank of a Duke, while the oth ers represent a descending scale of dignity and are respectively the equals of Mar quises. Earls, Viscounts and Barons. Then come what we may style in British term inology, the "upper middle classes" per sons with Incomes ranging from $100,000 to $20,000. Social classification ends with the final group of families whom we may col lectively describe as the "lower middle classes," having Incomes of not more than $20,000 and not less than $5000. The Renlm of Non-Success. New York Age. One day the eage met, limping from tha games. A distanced runner, very much cast down. To v.-hom he told this tale, which salved his smart Healed his chagrin and warmed hl3 chilly heart: "A King gave to hlsgreater son to rule The best part of his "kingdom; and with him AVcnt men who great distinction had obtained. And all the treasure ho himself had gained. "His brother had his fellows In defeat. And but such rule as did attach thereto His mother's dower. 'The Realm of Non-Success,' So It was called. lis ruler dubbed 'the less.' "He told.-hls following: 'Ours is bitter bread; We are a kingdom of unlaureled men. Who fought and failed and yet did not retreat: We have no hurt, but hardness from defeat. " 'We know our weakness. Let us leam our strength. My brother's brow Is laureled, mine Is bare. My non-success means gristle, nerve and bone," In one campaign he won his brother's throne!" NOTE AND COMMENT; Waiting for a charter Portland. Mislaid Fourth-street pavement. A worthless vegetable a dead beat. An undertakers' union seems to- be a pretty stiff proposition. A breach-of-promise' suit Is a divorce suit turned Inside out. The Weather Bureau man has evidently got hold of the wrong box. And now "ladies' are not to' be allowed in saloons. This- Is outrageous. The man who rescued his pup from the Poundmastcr was protecting the , under dog. Now Is the season when the prowling cat raises her voice, and the householder dare not throw his shoe at her. "Servants must hold diplomat" is the news from Chicago. Most of them have trouble enough holding their positions. It Is reported that the factions In Colo rado are getting ready to air election frauds. Is there any fresh air in Colo rado? Rylands, who had purchased a new horse warranted to be. quiet to ride and in harness, and a gooiji trotter to boot, had Invited a friend to accompany him for a trial drive, say3 the New York Times, They had not gone very far when the horse bolted, ran against a heap of stones lying In the road and pitched both occupants violently into tho lane. When they recovered the horse had disappeared, leaving the buggy shaftless and a heap of wreckage. Rylands began to roar. "What on earth are you laughing at?" dejectedly Inquired the friend. "Why tha fellow that sold me that horse lent me the buggy." It had taken considerable persuasion to Induce the old lady to trust herself In an automobile; But finally she consented because, says the Automobile Magazine, she was anxious to reach the bedside of her sick grandchild In a village some 2C miles away. The owner of the big auto mobile, who was touring through Long Island, had been very kind about It. He chanced to be near the station when the old lady found she had mtesedher train, and when he overheard her lamentations he Insisted that she should accompany him. His route lay through that particu lar one of the half-dozen Long Island villages named Hampton where the sick grandchild lay. They started at last, and everything went well until. In attempting to pas3 a wagon which occupied most of the road, the flying automobile went un expectedly Into the ditch, and rather vio lently deposited Its occupants in an ad joining field. Recovering from the shock, although somewhat confueed from the rather unusual method of alighting, the old lady asked of the chagrined chauffeur: "Is this a-a-a Hampton?" "No, ma'am." ho managed to gasp, "this Is an acci dent." "O dear!" said the old lady. "Then I hadn't oughter have got out here, had I?" As many know, the cars on Fifth street are of various kinds and It takes a sharp eye always to tell in what direction they are going. Day before yesterday a man and a woman hailed one of the cars that was apparently running backward. The place was Harrison street arid the rain was fallng fast. The car came to a stop and after helping- on his companion the man also embarked on. the motorman s end. The conductor peered around, sat isfied himself that It was all aboard and rang to go .ahead. Just as the car started up the woman discovered that her dog was missing. There arose shrill cries of "Doggie! Doggie!" and then a dcepalring shriek. The poodle waddled out from under the wheels, stared about, saw no mistress and paddled away. The man now jumped Into the breach and left tho car to chase the pup. Within a hundred feet he overtook the canine, bundled him into his arms and turned to catch his car afresh. Behold, that vehicle was trundling off down the street. Grasping the pup firmly he started at a run, yell ing at the top of his lungs. No response. The car gathered epeed. By this time the woman was concerned for both her dog and her escort and the welkin rang with her screams. Still there was no slackening In the velocity of tho wrong headed car. Before the other passengers could understand what the commotion was all about there rang out shot after shot. The man with the dog was firing a big revolver at the escaping car. It did not take the inmates of that vehicle long to ring the bell and compel the motorman to stop. A panting and enraged individual swarmed up thestep3. poked a smoking gun in the face of tho paralyzed con ductor and stated In unmistakable terms his opinion of everything In heaven above, the earth beneath and tho waters under the earth. When he was weary the woman took a hnnd and It was only with ex treme difficulty that tho man In uniform could get a chance to start up again. And then after all the Irate couple and the dog found they were going In the wrong di rection. The conductor did not dare laugh. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "Is there much tone to her new dress?" "Well. It has accordion plaits and fluted ruf fles." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Deacon Johnson Does yo believe In infant damnation. Brudder Jackson? Brother Jackson Deedy, no! Dey'll pick up cuss words enough wldout being swored at by deyr parents. Puck. "You make my blood boll!" cried the beau tiful heroine, retracing her steps. "Just the thing to kill any germs." hissed the dark vil lain. Chicago Dally News. The Whltsett Courier announces a forthcom ing trade edition, "one of the features of which will be a hog-kllllng poem by our leading poot." Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Pompon Marie. I warn you again you must keep within your allowance. Miss Pom ponOh, papa. If a girl isn't in debt nowadays, she simply Isn't In it! Brooklyn Life. Withers I hear a great deal of talk about Irrigation; I suppose It would be a good thing. But where should Irrigation begin? Bobsey If you have a quarter handy, why not begin It down at Hostetter's saloon? Boston Tran script. Grizzly Pete (reading) It says here a chap Just shot the rapids of Niagara in a barrel. Bronco Bill Huh! Proberbly crouched down low an' shot out o' the bunghole; but them Rapplds of Nlagard must be a powerful slow family to let a chap plug 'em like that. Judge. "Did you evir do anything you were ashamed of In. your political life?" asked the solemn man. "Yes." answered Senator Sorghum: "I once took 550,000 and found out later I might Just as easily have had $100.000." Washington Star. "Are you going to the grand political rally tonight?" "You bet, I understand the man who was to make the principal speech Is so hoarse he can't talk, and they've got a serio comic artist and a slack-wire performer to take his place." Chicago Record-Herald. Bobby has just finished a long story, full of terrible adventures with wild animals which he had met and vanquished while out on the common with nurse the preylous afternoon. Surprised Father (after waiting In consterna tion for the finish) Now. you know, Bobby, there Is not one word of truth In that whole story- Don't you know It Is very wrong to tell untruths? Bobby Yes, daddy. Surprised Father Then why have you Just told so many? Bobby I I only "wanted to to kep up the conversation! Punch.