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THE MORNING OREG ONI AN, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1903. Entered a the Postofllce at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mail (postage prepaid. In advance) DaUy. with Sunday, per month .-.$0.65 Sally. Scnday excepted, per year ".DO Dally, wjtli Sunday, per year 8.00 Sunday, per year ........... ....... ....... 2.00 The Weekly, per year 1.50 The Weekly, 3 months . -50 To City Subscribers Daily, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.ISc Sally, per week, delivered. Sunday In eluded. 20o POSTAGE RATES. United States, naa and Mexico: 30 to 14-page paper .......lc 34 to 28-page paper.. ..............2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonian should be addressed invarla-. bly "Editor The Oregonian." not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonian." 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The success of our Philippine experi ment is by no means-a foregone conclu sion. We are rightfully th,ere, but we shall not maintain ourselves rightfully there unless our administration is righteoua If the resources of the Phil ippines are to be developed and their people trained to habits of Industry, eo that they shall become an Important factor in the commerce and new civ ilization of the East, they will have to be treated to something besides neglect. Capital must be encouraged to Invest in their lands and their forests and mines, labor must be made available and every facility must be given to trade. Everything must be done with refer ence to the character and needs of the country and the condition of its people without regard to any supposed effect upon domestic and local interests here. If these latter are to control legislation affecting a dependency so radically dif ferent In Its requirements, if our Sen ators and Representatives refuse to look or are unable to see beyond their own horizon, and carry their politics and their prejudices into the treatment of a dependent and undeveloped colony of Orientals, we shall not make a suc cess of this experiment. There are many things that should have been done for the Philippines at the session just expired, and but one has been done. That is the currency bill. The urgent recommendation of the Secretary of War and the Philip pine Commission In regard to the tariff, the purpose of which was to promote the production of the great staples of sugar and tobacco, is neglected because local Interests object to the "ruinous competition" of these poor Islanders 10,000 miles away. In order to Induce capital to Invest in plantations and ma chinery for developing industry, the opportunity must be given for purchas ing or leasing upon, long terms sufficient areas of land to make It worth while. Governor Taft has pleaded for a re laxation of the restrictions which pre vent this, but in vain. Again our states men would .have transportation among the islands made an exclusive coasting trade from which foreigners are ex cluded, putting another restraint upon the forces! that tend to stimulate trade and give an outlet to production and exchange. It is restriction where the ut most freedom is needed, and the pursu ance of traditional policies and methods which have no adaptation to the prob lem to be solved and are calculated to Increase its difficulty. The Philippines have often been lik ened to the American colonies In the period immediately preceding the war for independence. The parallel Is not accurate, but it can be made so. There la no right of secession, dependent merely upon the whim of the seceders. There Is no inherent right of secession merely on the ground that transfer of sovereignty Is disliked by inhabitants of a ceded territory. The right of se cession begins with misgovernment There it began with the American colo nies. The Immortal Declaration pur ported to be and was on exhibit to the world in British maladministration. It rehearsed the wrongs of the. colonies, the overt and neglectful acts of George and Parliament. The question was not of theory, but of fact, and by the evi dence mankind judged, us. Just so it will be by the evidence that mankind will judge between us and our Philippine dependency. If Senators and Representatives Imagine that we can oppress and despoil a distant and helpless colony with Impunity, they make a great mistake. The record of 1776 Is before them as a warning, . and It is utter folly to disregard it Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, a distin guished champion of full suffrage for women, argues in the January North American Review that It Is a "crime to bring children into abject poverty." and that the consciences of husbands and wives, poor and "In moderate circum stances," should compel them to ask If they ore "able to provide the birthright of proper food, clothes, shelter, sur roundings and-education." Mrs. Harper contends that a declining birth rate would not be a National calamity, but would be desirable for our civilization. She estimates that the population of the United States in 1910 will be 100,000,000, or "all that the area of our country and the condition of our industries require," and that consequently If it remained stationary thereafter only good would result. "All the harassing questions of the present could be solved the labor problem, the school problem, the social problem and the rest," She would stop immigration, and therein agrees with the labor agitators. MODIFIED OPEXEV'G BEST. It is gratifying to see the sensible way in which the Sunday opening of the World's Fair is viewed by Influen tial persons, including leading minis ters. There will almost certainly be no proposal to operate certain portions of the Fair on Sunday. Machinery needs about one day's rest in seven. But there should also be no proposals look ing toward closing the gates on Sun day. There are many to whom Sunday will afford their only opportunity to -see the Fair, and there are also many to whom the Fair will be a means of grace compared with other places where they would be apt to spend the day. Those Portland ministers who have spoken for a moderate course in this matter are to be commended, as well as those who have shown the knowledge of what a Midway really la The Midway Is a unique and pleasing feature, and Im moral exhibits form no necessary or even proper part of it They should be, as they certainly will be, rigorously excluded. On the other hand, the effort to close i the Exposition gates on Sunday must be severely reprobated. It Is merely a revival of Puritanical philosopher which has no place In the free atmosphere of today. The only authority for the observance of any day of the week as a Sabbath or as the Sabbath Is the authority of reason, of nature, which is expressed in the words of Jesus, him self a chronic Sabbath-breaker, that the Sabbath was made for man, for man's refreshment, for man's innocent pleas ure. The perversion of Jesus' pure and simple Idea of the Sabbath as a day of necessary rest and decent recreation, a day of relaxation and freedom from care. Into the day of seclusion and gloom which was the Puritan Sunday, has no authority In the spirit or letter of Christianity, in reason or in nature, but Is wholly destitute of any founda tion in reason or Scripture, and 19 di rectly opposed to the teachings and ex ample of Jesus. Whatever Interferes with man's belief, man's rest, man's refreshing enjoyment even If It be a so-called religious service, is a violation of the sanctity of the Sabbath from the point of view of Jesus that "the Sabbath is made for man, not man for the Sabbath"; that is, the sacred thing is not the Sabbath, not the mere day, but man is sacred in his right to rest and recreation on that day. Of course, a day of rest does not mean a day of excess, which rests no man, hut brings exhaustion and ruins the body and mind. "Vice, of course, has no more right to shelter on Sunday than on Monday, but whatever exhilar ates, whatever enlivens the sense of life and power and Inspires the social affec tions; whatever raises the spirit and recreates men, belongs to the day and hallows It While no man must dic tate to others, we are all bound to ab stain from refreshing ourselves In any way that Is a clear invasion of the rights of our neighbor. In no matter of religious faith or observance has any man a right to make his conscience a law to another. Nobody Is obliged to go to the Fair on Sunday, and why should those who do not want to go seek to shorten the length of the Sun day exhibition for those who do want to go? Considerable noise will doubtless be made in the ostensible behoof of the em ployes of the Exposition, the contention being that they "need rest" The pro fession is, of course, Insincere, for the concern is not at all over the employes, but merely over the maintenance of a cherished doctrine. The employes, to begin with, will not stand in great need of rest, for their labors will not be ex cessively arduous, as already appears from the demand for the position. Seven days' work of the sort that will be required of the Exposition attend ants will not deter hundreds from ap plying for It If any one has consti tutional or other objections to working seven days a week when the desired po sition needs seven days' work in every week, he need not apply, for it There are others who will do the job and be glad of It We should say that no one should be permitted to prevent any one else who so desires from going to the Exposition on Sunday. It is equally Just that no one should be permitted to prevent any one so disposed from staying away from It Whoever should undertake to compel any one to go to the Exposition on Sunday against his will should be visited with stripes and imprisonment, and The Oregonian will cheerfully go ball for the prosecuting witness. Let us not have any interfer ence here with freedom of individual action. ROOSEVELT'S PROSrECTS. President Roosevelt. Is reported to be satisfied that his Southern policy con cerning the nomination of worthy, in telligent competent men of color to public office will stand him in good stead In the election a year from this Fall If he is nominated. His political menas say tnat ne cannot, rail or a nomination; that the Republicans of the Middle, Northwestern and far Western States are solid for Roosevelt The negro vote in New York, Ohio and Indi ana is so heavy as to be able to sway the ultimate vote of these three states In a Presidential election. As for the Southern Republican machine, there Is a difference of opinion as to whether Senator Hanna controls It or Postmaster-General Henry c. Payne. There Is no reasonable doubt that President Roosevelt will be renominated and re elected. The Democratic party Is al most a total wreck. The Republicans last Fall carried Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Massa chusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey. New York, Ohio, Pennsyl vania, Washington and Wisconsin by pluralities so large as to forbid any probability that the Democrats could change them next year by a nomination of Judge Parker, Olney, Gorman or Cleveland. In New York the Republi cans are absolutely united for Roose velt This forecast is likely to be confirmed. President Roosevelt is not popular with a good many of the prominent Repub lican leaders In the National Congress, but he is exceedingly popular with the mass of his party throughout the coun try. His eccentricities of manner; his brusque speech; his disposition to make the Republican opposition in Congress feel the weight of the aggressive in- fluence of his personal remonstrance and interference in matter of legisla tion, naturally arouse resentment in Congress; but the party at large knows little and cares less about personal fric tion between Congress and the Presi dent. The party in the mass likes the President, and If some of the Republi can leaders in Congress do not like him they are powerless to prevent his re nomination and re-election. The Demo cratic ship is a wreck, and William J. Bryan is ready and anxious to scuttle this derelict if the Democratic National Convention in 1904 refuses to fly his battleflag of 1S96 and 1900. ?20,OO0,0OO FOR GOOD B.O ADS. The call of the National Good Roads Association for an appropriation of $20, 000,000 from Congress for better turn pikes in the several states is calculated to draw attention to the progress of the movement for improvement of the coun try highways. Twenty million dollars Is a goodly sum, even for a blllldh-dol-lar country, to put Into common wagon roads at one time. It may be said also that It is more than Congress is likely to appropriate In a lump for that pur pose. But It shows that the good-roads promoters have a large conception of the importance of their movement, and in justifying their application they will spread useful Information and teach the country people how to enjoy comforts and profits they have never known. It Is a shrewd move to yoke the good- roads agitation to the rural delivery service. That is a perfectly logical re lation, too, so far as the government as pect of the matter is concerned. Rural delivery is now greatly limited by the character of the country roads, and the service that is given is needlessly ex pensive. Good roads all the year would result in vastly extending this service, which is growing in the face of discour agements presented by the present poor thoroughfares throughout the West and most of the East When it is shown that the annual loss from bad roads In the United States is 5600,000,000, the petition of the associa tion for 520.000,000 seems quite modest Most of this loss, of course, falls upon the farmers. But they won't believe It, and the chances are that If Congress were to appropriate the money asked for building turnpikes the farmers would grumble most about It charging It up to kid-gloved statesmanship, col lege theorists and unworthy politics. Here, it may be remarked, Is one of the great leaks of the farm. The agricul turists cling to methods and conditions that would sink any other Industry and then complain at the small return for their tolL They will flounder through quagmires, wearing out their teams and wagons to draw a mere fraction of a proper load to market; they will en dure the Isolation and privation Imposed by impassable roads, and yet make no effective effort to redeem themselves. The money annually wasted by- the farmers in this and other ways equally avoidable would put a pianoforte and a covered carriage at every farm home. No industry will prosper when Its profits are wasted. The farmers of the land owe most of their hardships to the fact that they permit or commit so much waste of their effort and sub stance. It is too much to expect immediate response to this appeal of the National Good Roads Association. Probably it is better that time be allowed for greater agitation of the subject hi or der that there may be proper appreci ation of its importance. Benefits thrust upon people, even upon those so appre ciative of favors as the farmes, are .held cheap. When there 19 popular de mand there will doubtless be ready re sponse from Congress. But this Is a free country, and as long as the people prefer to sink their comfort and pros perity in bottomless roads they will be permitted to do it However, the combi nation of lean and short-lived teams. narrow tires, deep mud and small loads Is one that would absorb the profits of half a dozen of our biggest trusts, and the farmers ought to wake up and stop this enormous leak. Oregon Is not the only state that breeds mountain climbers for Winter tramps. One hundred and twenty-five people recently returned to Boston after a fortnight spent in the White Moun tains of New Hampshire. The head quarters of these excursionists was at Jackson, N. H., from which they sallied forth on snowshoes, tramping over val leys that lay under five to eight feet of snow and scaling the mountain heights in a region where the thermometer sometimes reached 22 degrees below zero without meeting with a single ac cident This was the fourth snowshoe- ing expedition of this club to the White Hills. This Appalachian club visited Crawford Notch, Carter's Notch, Wild cat Mountain, Mount Willard, Mount Webster, Mount Jackson. On Mount Carter, 4800 feet above the sea level. the excursionists found seven to eight feet of snow on a level, while the aver age down below was 3 feet. Eighty- four of the parts had on snowshoes when Crawford Notch was explored, When we remember that the highest peak of the White Hills is but 62S6 feet in height, as compared with Mount Hood, which Is 11,225 feet in altitude. this Winter mountain climbing in New England does not seem a very arduous undertaking; but it should not be for gotten that the Winter climate of New England is far more severe on the level than It is In Oregon. In the matter of suffering from the weather, probably the man who climbs one of these little New England peaks endures severer cold than the Oregon mountaineer who in Winter climbs to the snow line on Mount Hood. The New Yprk Sun recently published an article from a contributor lately re turned from Venezuela, in which he un dertook some analysis of the German claims. According to his statement of the case, the railroad from Caracas to Valencia, 110 miles, was built by Ger man contractors, or. wnom several "re tired with comfortable fortunes," and financed by the North German Bank and the Disconto Gesellschaft The total cost was given at 516,000,000, though the Venezuelan government In sisted that It was not liable for more tnan $10,000,000. une road is narrow gauge (3 feet 6 inches) and single track. but nevertheless the cost of It was fig ured at 5145,000 a mile. The Sun's In formant plausibly said that any Amer ican contractor would be glad to dupli cate it for half the money. As the road did not more than pay its running ex penses, the Venezuelan government of that time went to the Berlin bankers again for a loan of 510,000,000 at 5 per cent, wherewith to make good their guarantee of interest on the cost of the road at 7. It Is alleged that the bank through which the negotiations were made, besides exacting & commission of 20 per cent for its own services, retained 55,200,000 of the $10,000,000 of the loan in part payment of the debt to Itself, and paid the balance, which was to have been distributed among other foreign companies. In bonds which the Disconto refused to redeem or to make a market for. Investigation has disclosed to the sat isfaction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the fact that the Indians of the Klamath reservation have become self supporting; that they earn their living by stockraising, laboring, etc., and that they are very comfortably off In the matter of lands, farming implements and stock. A strong plea is made for the sale -of the residue of their lands (members of the tribe having already taken lands In severalty) for their ben efit in accordance with the stipulations of the treaty of 1864, the large sum thus realized to be placed In- the United States Treasury at 5 per cent interest. to be hereafter paid to them in accord ance with certain stipulations. The re sponsibility of the Government In this matter cannot well be shirked; cer tainly It should not be repudiated. It may be doubted, however, whether the distribution of a large sum of money among these Indians will conduce to their prosperity. All precedent supports the view that it will not but that on the contrary it will be a detriment to them, while the degraded "squaw man and the conscienceless vender of firewater will be the beneficlarlea The Commissioner, however, believes from the reports of the present self-rustaln- Ing character of the Klamath Indians that they will make good use of the money; If paid to them. Whether they do or not, if it Is theirs, they are en titled to and should receive It Oregon is no longer new, but old enough to have a history that Is worthy to be written. This Is made apparent every time a. pioneer who has lived fifty or sixty years in a community passes on and out The faded faces of women, the furrowed brows of men printed in connection with brief notices of death, and an outline of long lives spent in Oregon, tell the story silently and pathetically of our old-new state In Its early grapple with civilization. Mary I. Hess, who died at her nome In Che halem Valley afew days ago, spent sixty of the elghty-dx years of her life In that place. Her name recalls many incidents of times which, as a civilized community, that section of the state as well as others has outgrown. These' incidents belong to the folk-lore rather than the history of the state, and like the lives with which theyi dealt will soon pass into. kindly oblivion. The last scene Is chronicled in the simple words: An aged woman has left all of life's vicissitudes behind and passed to her rest-a rest well earned by all who walk the world for four-score years with energy and determination. Congress has passed a bill which pro vides that those who have lost one. hand or foot, or been totally disabled in the same, shall receive a pension at the rate of 540 a month. Of these there were 3363 in April, 1902. Those who have lost an arm at or above the elbow or a leg at or above the knee shall receive a pension of 546 a month. Of these on the same date there were 2357 on the pension- rolls. Those who have lost an arm at the shoulder or a leg at the hip, or where the same is In such condition as to prevent the use of an artificial limb, 555 a month. Of these there were in April, 1902, 1724 pension ers. Those who have lost one arm and one foot. 560 a month. There are but seventeen of these. The pension of those who have lost both feet shall be 5100 a month. There are but seven or eight of such pensioners on the rolls. One William Page has been sentenced to three years in state prison at New Haven, Conn., having pleaded guilty to drawing a pension In his father's name. Page's father, John Pago, was a musi cian in the Tenth Connecticut band. If ho were living today he would have been nearly 100 years old. His son. William, is now 65. He secured a pen sion In his father's name twelve years ago. Ten years ago he went to the State Soldiers' Home, at Noroton, where he has since resided. The annual report of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad shows a shrinkage in net Income of over 20 per cent, all because of the coal strike. Refusal to arbitrate cost this one com pany over 53,000,000 and after all it finally submitted to arbitration. The coal combination would appear to have paid a costly price for its unsuccessful ef fort to disorganize striking labor by the sullen resistance of organized capital. The Rev. Henry T. Johnson, a col ored minister of Camden, N. J., got judgment recently for 5500 In the United States Circuit Court at Trenton against the Pullman Car Company because of the refusal of the superintendent of a dining-car to serve him with breakfast on account of his color. Johnson is editor of the Christian, Recorder, the official organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Carrie Nation has pushed the temper ance methods that brought her into no toriety In Kansas on into California. She is not now dealing with prohibition and its evasions, but with license and its privileges, and will, no doubt, soon learo that her methods will not be toler ated in San Francisco. In France a woman wishing to wear full masculine attire must pay 510 for the right and the government has granted this license to only a few women as a privilege and personal honor. The list Includes George Sand, Rosa Bonheur and Madame Foucalt the bearded lady. We understand that the deficiency judgment act, passed by the recent Legislature, applies only to deficiency judgments In case of part payments on the price of specific purchases. A para graph in these columns yesterday seemed to treat the law as of wider scope. If the Germans want to denounce the Monroe Doctrine to our face and twit us on our Navy, they might at least have the decency to do It before Con gress has adjourned or the naval bill Is passed. The Hard-WorUIngr Society Woman. New York World. The lady of fashion keeps longer hours than any workingman, has absolutely no regular periods of rest and gets In the social "rush" season no day oft In seven. Her meals are not well timed, her food Is too rich, her wardrobe is 1 burden ana her feverish hunt for fresh entertain ment to arouse senses dulled by monot ony Involves a constant mental strain, not to mention moral risk. BALFOUR OS MONROE. DOCTRINE Premier Balfour's Speech at Liverpool. Now let us who think that we have un necessarily .or recklessly done anything to touch the susceptibilities of that great English-speaking republic remember that the Government of the United States of America have from the beginning been taken Into our confidence with regard to every stage of this dispute. (Cheers.) We have had no secrets from them, we desire to" have no secrets from them. (Hear. hear.) There really has been no stage of the whole proceedings In which we should not gladly have welcomed, the assistance of the President of the United States as arbitrator upon the questions m dispute. (Hear, hear.) Is it not rather absurd when these things are stated to suppose that we have ehown ourselves reckless or Indifferent to the public opinion of the United States? We know that that public opinion Is naturally sensitive upon what Is known as the Monroe Doctrine. But the Monroe Doctrine has no enemies In this country that I know of. (Cheers.) We welcome any Increase of the Influence of the United States of America upon, the great Western Hemisphere. (Hear, hear.) We 'desire no colonization, we desire no alteration in the balance of power, we de sire no acquisition of terltory. (Hear, hear.) We have not the slightest inten tion of interfering with the mode of gov ernment of any portion of that continent (Cheers.)" The Monroe Doctrine, there fore, is really not- in the question at -alL (Hear, hear.) I go further, and I say that so far as I am concerned. I believe It would be a great gain to civilization If the United States of America were more actively to interest themselves in making arrangements by which these constantly recurring difficulties between European powers and certain states In South Amer ica could be avoided. They are difficulties which ar6 constantly recurring, but they cannot be avoided. I am afraid Lord Rosebery himself got Into one of them, and one of his predecessors. As long as the canons of 'international relations which prevail between the great European pow ers and the United States of America are not followed In South America these things will occur; and the United States of Amer ica can perform no greater task in tha cause of civilization than by doing their best to see that International law is ob served, and by upholding all that the Eu ropean powers and the United States have recognized as the admitted principles of international comity. The Idea that we have ever by our action shown ourselves insensible to their susceptibilities or that we have not been anxious If possible to work with them or to show them our whole hand let that Idea be absolutely dismissed. (Hear, hear.) The Kaiser's, Orthodox? Philadelphia Ledger. The unhappy suspicions cast upon the German Emperor's religious orthodoxy by some of bis otherwise loyal subjects are in a fair way to be removed now that he has written the very long and -specific let ter to Admiral Hillman explaining his relations with Prof. Delltzsch. It was feared, of course, that In giving moral and financial support to the distinguished Assyriologlst's expeditions to Babylonia for the purpose of making discoveries re specting the origin of the Scriptures he had somehow forfeited, the place which Is his, or which he arrogates to himself, as the. head of the xhurch as well as of the state In Germany. As for the Kaiser's personal faith. which he unfolded at length, it is not for us to judge whether' it be orthodox or not although it has that superficial appear ance. His statement is meant to allay criticism and satisfy ' conscientious qualms In circles which were set Into a flurry by his recent hobnobblngs with scientific theology. Respecting his defini tion of revelation, that It Is nothing more or less than a revealing of God through Hammurabi, Mose3, Abraham, Homer. Charlemagne, Luther, Shakespeare, Kant and "my grandfather," Emperor William the Great, It Is probably sound. Many,. perhaps, would havo hesitated to place Charlemagne, Emmanuel Kant or Wil liam L in this class, but we do not know that there Is anything essentially unor thodox in the association of these names. The Emperor seems to have cleared him self, and we will let him go this time. If he will take a little more care about matters of this kind In .the future. Southern Field Labor. Washington Post If the negro should ever abandon the Southern corn, cotton, rice ana -sugar fields and this Is conceivable to some extent should the number and the pes tiferous activity of his false prophets In creasethe Southern, white man would succeed him. It Is a mistake to suppose that white men cannot do field work un der the suns of South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Southern Texas. Millions of white men, either natives of the South or acclimated immigrants from the- North, are sowing, plowing and har vesting there today, and, what 13 more. they enjoy excellent health and make good livings out of their Industry. More than three-fifths of tho cotton crop is planted, cultivated and gathered by white labor. The Acadians of Louisiana can make corn and rice quite as well as their colored brethren. But they neither wish nor need the Chinaman "at the South. They will keep the negro as long as they can, and when his fool friends at last lure him away in search of city life and political office, they will turn to the white laborers and Americans at that as the best alternative. As" we have asserted on numerous occa sions, there Is no "negro problem" at the South certainly none which the South cannot solve without the aid of North ern lecturers, doctrinalrea and dema gogues. Its Erroneous Assumption. New York Evening Post The Oregon Senate defeated by a large vote last week a bill declaring the Assoc! a ted Press and other news associations to be common carriers. The agitation for this bill was raised in part on the er. roncous assumption that the Associated Press enjoyed a monopoly of telegraphic news, and when this contention was dls proved the bill's backing collapsed. , Dapes Galore at Home. Detroit Free Press. The exposure of the turf Investment frauds comes before the American news papers have finished expressing their amazement at the gullibility of tho French as revealed by the Humbert swindle. No nation has a monopoly of the "easy mark." Afton Water Revisited. London Punch. (We hear that Mr. F. E. Jones has been com missioned to buna a sanatorium in Aiion uien. A-rrshlre.) Flow gently, sweet Alton, among thy green braes, 111 sing thee a medical song In thy praise; Mv Mary's Inhaling thy breezes so pure. Flow gently, sweet Alton, disturb not her cure- Thau stock-dove whose echo resounds thro the elen. Te wild whistling blackbirds In yon thorny den. Thou green-crested lapwing, a truce- to thy squeals. My Mary must rest for an hour after meals. How lofty, sweet Afton. thy neighboring hills! To climb them Is better for aiary than puis. There dally I wander as noon rises high. To see her take exercise under my eye. . How pleasant thy banta where my Mary may bask. Or wander at will with her Dettweller flask. There three times a day. for exactitude's sake. Th temperature of my Mary I take. Thy crystal stream. Afton, how lovely It glides By the snug sanatorium wcere sne resides; Nor think that thy dampness can reach to her bents Thro' the walls that are bullded by Architect Joses. Flow gently, sweet Afton. among thy green braes. Flow gently, sweet river, and' lengthen her days; My Mary's Inhaling thy breezes so pure. Flow gently, sweet AX ton, disturb not her core. ROOSEVELT AS METHODIST. Kansas City Star. By an accident of birth Mr. Roosevelt la a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. His natural bent would have led him to be a Methodist His vigor and epontane.Ity would have made him thor oughly at home la the Wesleyan church. If he had been a preacher of that faith, ha would -have laid down the terrors of the law and pounded the Bible in a way that would have brought sinners up to a sharp turn. He would have made a wonderful bishop. One can readily fancy how he would have sooiled and upset all of the logrolling of the presiding elders, and how- he would have blocked the schemes of the preachers making a habit of falling Into soft snaps; And what a marvel ho would have been at raising money at church ded ications. Wouldn't he have brought the contributions out of the pockets of the tight-fisted brethren and the devout and zealous sisters? And -what a great class leader he would have made! There would bavo been no long-winded experiences in any of his meetings; no irksome affectation of self abasement; no hypocritical proclamation of moral Infirmities; none of the "poor, perishing worms of the dust" business; no servile acknowledgement of the hopeless Inferiority of the creature to the Creator. "Now, the next sister; the next brother, and short and to the point" one can Im agine Brother Roosevelt exclaiming In his crisp, positive tone. The charge that Methodism develops the emotions In excess of the conscience would never have been verified In the case of Theodore Roosevelt His professions would never have outrun hie practices. He might have "got happy" on occasions favorable to the development of spiritual exultation, but he would never have been recreant to duty. He would have been an inspiration to Christians sincerely anxious to fulfill their obligations, and a perpetual reproach to the class that mistakes cant for pure and undeflled religion. it is absolutely certain that the talk of the President at the Wesleyan celebration In New York will be full of the spirit and of the understanding, and that it will show as comprehensive a knowledge of the progress or .Methodism as If Mr. Roosevelt naa Seen a member of the church In good sianaing ail of his active .life. Profit-Sharing: and Savings Banks. Kansas City Journal. In course of time the value of the stocks of Industrial concerns may be come so certain and Invariable, the ease or securing reliable information in regard to tnero will so increase and the intelli gence and prosperity of wage-earners will be so great that the direct proprietorship or lnaustrial concerns will become more widely diffused than at present. Tho adoption of profit-sharing schemes also will tend to widen the ba3ls of ownership 01 Business institutions of every kind. But for the present the safest and most certainly profitable way for wage-earners to Invest their savings is to deposit them In savings banks. They can thus secure an Indirect proprietary Interest in the bus Iness enterprises of the country and may start themselves on the road to comfort. it not to affluence. Savings banks serve an exceedingly use ful purpose besides enabling poor men to put out their money In such a way as-to get returns from It They provide an effective cure for the socialistic tenden cies of wage-earners. The man who ac cumulates a small sum to protect his family from coming to want in case he falls sick, and to guard himself from penury In old age. Is not going to favor a system which would put laziness and shlftlessness on a par with thrift and In dustry and deprive him of the little pile which he has got by abstinence and hard work. What the Sonth Wants. New Orleans Times-Democrat All that the South asks Is that it be treated fairly. All that white men In this section desire is that their white countrymen at the north come south. put themselves In the Southern white man's place and do unto the white tace here as Northerners would be done by. The South now asks only that some re gard be paid to the sentiments of white persons in Southern "communities that no citizen be appointed to Federal office who Is persona non grata to the community In which he Is to serve. This considera tion is shown by the Federal Government to every foreign nation on earth. Is It unreasonable to Insist that It be shown to Americans of the Southern states? Theoretically, It Is all very well to say that the appointing of a few reputable negroes to office will serve to Incite less worthy members of the race to become good citizens. To this argument there are many answers, and one- certainly that Is conclusive, namely, that the Govern ment of the United States is not required either to encourage or to discourage the aspirations of any class of American citizens. The Government is required only to conduct satisfactorily official business, It Is as unreasonable to appoint a man to office because of his color as it is to refuse to appoint him for the same cause. The Union and the Trnst. Baltimore Sun. The workman Invited to join a union and the individual business man invited to join a trust havo much the same ques tion to decide, though generally not quite. The workman s question is usually this "bnall I join tms commnation of men and aid In their efforts for better pay and shorter hours, even to the point of joining In a strike which I do not ap prove, or shall I stay out fight my own battle for better wages, be called 'scab,' and possibly be In danger of personal Injury, In case of strike?" The business man's query runs somewhat thus: "Shall I give up my satisfactory personal bus! ness into the hands of richer men, take what they see fit to give me,- take or ders from them, shut down if I am so ordered, be a mere employe of those whom perhaps I dislike or do not trust or shall I retain my Independence and have my business ruined and myself flnan cially crushed?" Status of trie Beef Trust, Cleveland Plain Dealer. The action of United States Circuit Judge Grosscup in the "beef trust" case at Chicago 13 not to be taken as more than a suesestlon of tho possibilities In further proceedings. The utmost point reached by it Is a concession to the pe tltioners in the case that they have standing In court v nether they can make good the averments in their peti tion is yet to be snown. me granting of a preliminary Injunction Is the first step gained in the attacK on tne Deer trust It gives a foothold for more serious operations. The Black Man's Burden. London Speaker. Take up the black man's burden! child of an alien blood. Drawer of Albu's water and hewer of Albu', wood, From the shores of the blue Zambesi to the foam of the further end They need the sweat of black man's brow for the white man s dividend. By the dread of the Yellow Peril, by the slang of the Seventh bea, By the godly cant and the royal rant of the race that set yon rree. Wherever the red gold glitters, wherever the diamond shines, Go forth, upon compulsion, and labor in the mines. The winds of the West have heard it, the stars of the South replied. When the Lords oi the Outer Marches went forth on a fruitless ride. That the son of the swarthy Kaffir must wake from an Idle sleep When the lone gray Mother calls for toll, and the Lord has made It cheap. Foster-sons of the Empire, wards of the baked Karoo, This Is the law the "Mother makes, and her sword shall prove It true: "Wherever the red gold glitters, wherever the diamond shines. Take up the black man's burden and labor la the mines." NOTE AND C0MMEXT. When March breezes toy 'with July dust Portland citizens visit the eye doc tor. If the powers do not wish to see dis agreeable sights, they will not watch tho movements of the Turks too closely. Isn't It about dry enough for the Gov ernor to Issue the annual proclamation, against setting out fires in the forests of Oregon? There are signs that the President's j recent utterance on the subject of phllo progenltlveness will have the effect of raising the price of broken hearts In breach -of-promlse suits. Considering the solemn avowal of $he railroads that they have not been Issuing passes to shippers, the haste to recall passes of that description, in order to, avoid the penalties of the new Elklns: law, Is somewhat Illuminating. The impression that British Norths America Is covered with valuable timbcr.5 Is fallacious. Black walnut, red cedar and white oak are not found north o: Toronto. A line drawn from the City of Quebec to Sault Ste. Marie will designate the northern limit o'f beech, elm and birch. The north shore of Lake Superior will mark the northern boundary of sugar hard maple. Some of the students of the University of Wisconsin have taken very much to heart the recent experience of the Cornell boys, and have quit imbibing water. As justification for the new practice, one of the Badgers has adapted a 16th century student's toast as follows: If I am right, as I do think. There are Ave reasons we should drink; A friend, good wine, or being dry. Or lest we should be by and by. Or any other reason why. Here Is the latest philosophic rhyme to come from the pen of Pension Commis sioner Ware: It the wages of sin are death I do not want to begin; If I can't get living wages I will not work for sin. Then, again. If I went to- work And the work I didn't like After I'd passed a pay day I would find I couldn't strike! That doesn't claw the empyrean over much, but It is more practical and whole some than the average sermon. For some time it has been the habit at weddings in New York City to pay brides maids. At a recent wedding there wer1 no fewer than 15 bridesmaids, who were all punctually paid. Besides the beauti ful dresses given by the bride's father. they each received $25 apiece for appearing in the wedding train. There are young ladles who accept so much as $100 for their office of honor. One girl who Is much sought after for her beauty has ap peared as bridesmaid at more than 200 wedSIngs, and has. in a short time amassed quite a goodly sum. The $200,000 for Mrs. Lydta Dominte, formerly Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, for the so-called crown lands which were taken possession of by the authorities of the new republic when the throne was overturned, was designed more for relief than justice, because It was well under stood In the Senate that Mrs. Domlnls had no more title to the property in ques tion than has the President of tho United States to the unoccupied public domain. The lands were used by the royal family just like the palace In Honolulu, and for the same reason, and passed from one sovereign to another with the crown and the scepter and other property of the state. This seems to have been the view taken by the conference committee. Governor "Mickey, of Nebraska, is telling stories of early daye In that .state and one of them Is about Hon. P. M. Mullen, of Omaha, who was appointed to tha Juneau Land OfHce a year ago. At tha legislative session of '81 the present Gov ernor was Mickey of Polk, and among the members from Douglas was Mr. Mul len, then a very young man, who was put on the Republican ticket for "geo graphical" reasons and elected the same way. At the opening session the first roll call had Just been completed when Mr. Mullen arose and said: "Mr. Speaker, I desire to correct a mis take of the clerk In calling the roll. My name Is not Mickey Mullen; it is Patrick Mullen." The lightning rod must enjoy greater favor In Europe than here If what tha London Chronicle says be true, namely, that the "new Campanile of St Mark's will have a lightning rod." No rod waj erected on its predecessor until 1766, after the tower had been repeatedly struck by lightning, and upon one occasion badly damaged In 37 places. This must have considerably weakened the stability of tha old Campanile, though the circumstance does not appear to have been mentioned In the official report on the disaster which was mourned by the world. Before tha adoption of Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod it was thought sufficient by the ortho dox to consecrate bells against the mal ignity of the demons who were suppose! to hurl the electric fluid at holy places. Although this pious device failed ?Ignally, the llehtnlng rod was long rejected as no better than a compromise with Satan him ' self. ( PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAFIIER3 Bllbson I understand that South Americas ' General has resolved to sell his life dear!rH Gllbson Yes; ho wants $10 for the library ed jl tion. Judge. February 14. Mistress So you want me ts reau uus iove-ie.uet wo juu. .ua.u j mam. And I've brought ye -some cotton-wool ye can stuff In yer ears while ye read ltl Pusch. Maude Oh, Gertie, what a lovely engagement ring! How I envy you! Gertie Tou needn't, dear. When it comes Jo the point, I've elthet got to marry him or give it back. Glasgow Evening Times. Judge Tes, the Colonel, who Is running foi office, has a fine war record. You know hi fought through the war without a scratch. Fudge Well, he'll be scratched enough when he runs for office. Baltimore Herald. "My brother Jakey"s got a good job." "Where's he working?" "Down to the electric light plant." "Picking currents off the wires?" "Yes. How did you guess7 He says he like! the Job; It's such light work. Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. "The ladles asked Mrs. Huckeigh to Jola their athletic class. She laughed at them at she showed the muscles In her arm. They gasped and went away." "Where did she gel so much muscle?" "Hanging on a etreet-cal strap." Cleveland Plain Dealer. This author doesn't seem to have made hli mark as yet." "What makes you think that?" "The picture doesn't show him with an elbo on his desk and resting his brow upon hli hand, with a far-away, thoughtful look In hli eyes." Chicago Record-Herald. "My goodness I" exclaimed the humorist'! wife. "I wish you'd clean out your desk occa sionally. What Is it that makes It smell st musty?" "I guess." replied the humorist, "it'i that leap year Joke I thought of in 1897. anl won't be able to use until 1004." PhlladephU Press. Visitor So you were shipwrecked and cann near starving? Mariner Yes. mum. and I had to eat a whisk broom and the sawdust out of. s cushion. Visitor It must .nave bb wmon dose. Marlner-Not so bad. fflm. Yer see I had been used to eatln' health foods. Chicaa Dally News.