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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1903)
TJIE MORNING OREGONIAK. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 190?. Entered at th Postoffice at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Hall jxta?e prepaid, in advance) Daily, -with Sunday, per month...... . .50-? Dally. Sunday excepted, per year.......... Dally, trith Sunday, per year.. ....... 8-00 Sec day. per year 3.00 The "Weekly, per year The Weekly. 3 months.. -60 To City Subscribers , Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted .15c Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday laeluded.ZOc "POSTAGE BATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: JO to 3-page rjaper.... ........... U to 28-page paper..... a Foreign rates double. News or"Mscassion intended, for publication in The Oregronlan should be addressed invaria bly "Editor Tho Oregonlan." not to the name or any Individual. Letter relating to adver tising. EubscripUcn or to any business matter ibould be addressed simply "The Dregonian." 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The fact is there is not room lor a rational doubt that "had the people been Senatorial electors" Addicks would have been In the Sen Ate long ago. and his outlay of cash would not have been equal to half the sum he' Is sup posed to have lavished on the "voters. Were the Senators elected by the people it would he indispensable that a plurality should elect. To require a majority vote for election would he to keep many Senate seats vacant for long periods. And the popular election by plurality would be by ballot Under existing laws a majority of -the people's legislative agents must unite on one man in order to fill a seat In the Senate, and they do the electing by calling out the name of their candidate. We do not believe there is In the United States any intelligent man who. after a careful study of the Dela ware situation, entertains a doubt that "had the people been the Senatorial electors" Ad dicks would long Plnce have made his calling and election sure at a great saving of cash and the avoidance of many troubles. Such Is the argument of the Wahlng--toa Post, and such, we believe, Is as forcible a presentation as can be made of the negative case. If things would continue as they are, then there is no use in changing. But would they? The case of Delaware is obviously ex ceptional, for the normal situation to be remedied is one In which the legis lature elects a man who could not pos sibly be elected by the people. But even In the Delaware case there are some things to be said for the affirmative. The principle of Indirect responsibility works about the same -in Delaware, presumably, as it does , elsewhere; and it is conceivable that men will vote for such Legislators as may sell out to Ad dicks, who would not themselves vote for Addicks even by ballot. People have been known to take money and vote the other way. There is opportun ity to escape responsibility by turning the job over to the Legislature. If the responsibility of election rested di rectly on the people, it might sober them to a measure of civic duty even in Delaware. It is not safe to assume that Dela ware would have elected Addicks by popular vote, because that is practically to assume that the members of the Leg islature were elected on the Senatorial issue. The fact is probably otherwise. "When a Senatorial candidate buyo hie man and arranges for his nomination, the incident is not made public It is not generally known till the candidate is elected and the Legislature meets. It is not impossible that even fn Delaware a candidate for the Legislature known to be bought by Addicks would be de feated at the polls. Care must be exer cised in the indictment of a whole state. The Addicks annals have brought to light not only the venality that suc cumbs to his blandishments, but the manhood that repelled them, to the point of vacancies in her seats, and to this latest compromise by whose terms he is excluded. But the main point is not as to the probability of the election of a venal man.to the Senate "by popular vote. The main point is that direct election of Senators would have the Legislature free to do the work for which it was elected. The direct result of this would be better laws and fewer scandals. The indirect effect would be the disappear ance of the boodling Legislator in favor of the mac who sought the office for its honor and opportunity of usefulness. It is frequently objected that direct election of Senators would only operate to throw these contests into state con ventions. "Well, why shouldn't it? Are our party conventions so sacred that they must be protected from brawls and bribery at the expense of the Legisla tures? If the party machines are de termined to sell the Senatorship to the highest bidder in any event, why not let them do it at their state conventions and leave the Legislatures free to at tend to their rightful and necessary business? COMMERCIAL VALUE OP VICE. Over the impending loss of consider able "business" because of the new law against gambling, the Spokane Specta tor sends up this pathetic appeal: Spokane may not realize the fact and mar net care, t-o far as that Is concerned that the gamblers and attaches of gambling establish ments In this city are far more numerous than the cumber of people employed In the factories. There are not more than 2000 of the latter. The men who run gambling shops and those who patronise them will exceed this number by perhaps 10.000. There are many people who patronize these Institutions, as the Specta tor has shown heretofore, who come here for no other purpose whatever than to satisfy their deilre to gamble. Ten thousand Is a conserva tive estimate of the number of sporting men la the city, and to say that they will spaod oa an average $200 durins the Winter Is placing It atan economical figure. Spokane may or It may sot feel this little dropping off of & couple of millions of dollars each Winter, hut that is the amount that "will he cut out. It may be only a drop in the bucket, but It Is quits large enough to make itself felt when gone. sod their journeymen. largely outnum ber the honest artisans of Spokane, which is very doubtful, the industrial coodliioo. .of that city is deplorable and m extreme need of reformation. There is one grain of consolation for the East ern Washington metropolis the law is not locaL No other city in the state will be able to profit by Spokane's loss. True, some neighboring town in Idaho, say Moscow, might try to draw "this special business into its limits, but the experiment would hardly be worth while. Towns of 5000 or thereabouts do not offer other vicious attractions, which serve also to draw "many peo ple who patronize" the gaming-tables. Average -shlra towns in agricultural districts do not furnish facilities for men with "money to bum" to have "a good time." While Spokane may experience a temporary dullness in certain lines of "Industry,' no fear need be felt of per manent loss of business by reason of shutting down the gambling games. These do not create wealth. When gamblers thrive, it shows that their environment Is prosperous. Gambling houses are only the thermometer, pot the weather, "Show me a town, where there is no gambling, and I'll show you a dead town," is a familiar bit of so phistry. A green table, a pack of cards, a stack of chips and a bank-roll have never yet made a blade of grass grow, nor extracted yellow metal from quartz, or converted raw product into the man ufactured article. Gambling is not a source of wealth to any community. It is a charge levied upon the earnings of honest Industry. The money spent by Its devotees has first been wrung from nothing by honest toll, and if it were not spent by the" gamblers It would be spent In other ways by its earners. CHAMBERLAIN AND THE PENITEN TIARY. Governor Chamberlain's determina tion to keep hands oft the detailed af fairs of the state penitentiary at Sa lem, leaving the business of organiza tion and administration to the Super intendent, is in every way to be com mended. It Is a change in line with the plain intent of the law end with com mon sense, and it will go far toward putting responsibility and authority at the prison in the same hands, a con dition absolutely essential, to discipline and to general administrative effective ness. The law which gives the Governor authority to appoint the prison Super intendent and which makes him the general inspecting officer has served in times past to make him the real head of prison affairs. Some Gover nors more than others have taken it upon themselves to "run" the peni tentiary through an executive clerk bearing the nominal rank of prison Su perintendent, but all have had more or less to do directly with prison manage ment. Almost continuously the prison service has been filled up with personal or political adherents of the man In the executive chair. It has largely been an asylum for party servants and per sonal dependents; and there has been almost no attempt certainly none worthy of respect to organize or main tain the service upon a professional or business basis. Indeed, the public has not expected it By common consent the penitentiary has come to be re garded as the Governor's particular piece of political pie. Unnumbered mischiefs have grown out of this bad practice. There is rea son to believe that large sums of money have been wasted through the inefficien cy of untrained men. and from the same cause the internal discipline of the prison has steadily suffered, in volving partial failure in some if not all the purposes for which the prison is maintained. The Tracy Incident, with Its many aspects of demoralization, was a direct outcome of laxity of discipline, and in the past forty years there have been many other scandals bearing wit ness to the radical1 fault of the system under which the prison has been car ried on. Every man who has ever glveu even a little attention to criminal affairs knows that prison administration is no easy trade which may be picked up in a day. Successful prison administra tors everywhere are men who have made a study of the criminal and his ways, and who have been free from po litical influences in the selection and retention of their subordinates. No where is there a prison under political management In which scandals do not arise periodically and which does not fail radically, in the best purposes of modern penology. Not only our own state, but every other which has made its penitentiary a pawn in the partisan game attests by its records the folly of putting a professional business, car rylng with It the most serious moral responsibilities, in untrained and pollti cal hands. The step which Governor Chamber lain has taken Is the first toward a wholesome reform of our prison man agement. It can hardly fail to work good results, first upon, prison discip line, and second upon public sentiment; and it will, let it be hoped, lead up to the final reform which shall make the administration of the penitentiary a strictly professional concern, involving no revolution because one man suc ceeds another in the executive chair. and absolutely no relation to politics or politicians. FUR SEAL PLENTIFUL. Six Victoria sealing schooners opera ting off Cape Horn this season have al ready secured 10,000 skins, and at last advices had nearly six weeks of the season ahead of them. Three of these schooners in & cruise of less than sixty days secured 5279 seal, and the herds encountered were larger than any that have been met with for many years. These catches are full 3- as good as the average during the palmiest days of the industry In Northern waters, and are abundant proof that the seal are not disappearing. There have been good years and bad years In the sealing bus iness, and the unfair attitude of the American Government toward our own subjects has driven the American seal cr oft the ocean, leaving the field to the Canadians and the Japanese. Through all these years, however, the owners of the fleet of echooners seal lng out of Victoria have continued to expose the fallacy of Professor Jordan's theories regarding the disappearance of the seal herds. The testimony of Professor Jordan and a few other California neighbors of the Alaska Commercial Company was largely instrumental In perpetu atlcg the sealing monopoly on the Pryblloff Islands. They not only con vinced themselves, but also convinced Congress, that the fur seal was doomed to extinction If the hunters were per mitted to follow them in. the open sea. the furbearer-was under the clubs of the big fur monopoly's employes at the rookeries. This policy was carried out so effectually that every American seal er was driven out of the business or forced to sail under the protection of the British flag. The American " Government has handled Canadian sealers very gingerly ever since the latter secured judgment for over $400,000 for illegal seizures, and a few years ago resorted to the inhu man practice of branding the helpless animals for the sake of destroying the commercial value of the skins. One stroke of the branding-iron was suf ficient to drive the unfortunate seal in terror from its former haunts, and the instinct which enables one dumb ani mal to communicate with another caused the Prybiloffs and the waters in that vicinity to be abandoned by the furbearer. Then did Dr. Jordan and other experts point to the decreas ing herds and place the blame for their extinction, at the door of the Canadian' sealers. The sealers retorted that the seal herds were not becoming extinct, but were frightened away to some other part of the ocean by the energetic use of the- branding-Iron and club on the rookeries. Proof of this was supplied, a year la ter when the catches off the Japan coast were the largest on record. The following year the seal were hunted so Industriously that the herds -became smaller, but the third year after their marked scarcity oft the Alaskan coast they were heard from in vast numbers oft Cape Horn. The success of the hunters iji that new field this season has been so great that next year a larger fleet will go Into that part of the ocean, and the seal will scatter out to other localities. The American policy re- gaxuiag me sealing Dusiness nas ariven every American schopner out of the traffic, but the experience of the Vic toria schooners shows quite plainly that the seal are as plentiful as ever. and, with higher prices for skins, the Industry is more profitable than in any previous period in its history. ENGLISH PULPIT ELOQUENCE. In the death of Dean Farrar the Eng lish church loses Its most eloquent preacher and its most popular writer of religious literature. The annals of the English pulpit Include in the 19th cen tury the great Scotch divine, Dr. Chal mers, Robert Hall and John Henry Newman. These celebrated men were In the pulpit as conspicuous figures as Chatham and Burke were In the field of political eloquence. In the last half-century Frederick W. Robertson was the finest preacher in the English church. He was of the spirit and qual ity of Phillips Brooks, and his pub lished sermons are fine and inspiring literature today. Of the famous Non conformist preachers it cannot be said that either Spurgeon or Joseph Parker was the peer of the famous men of the American pulpit, like E. H. Chapin, Henry Ward Beecher, Bishop Simpson or Phillips Brooka The late Dean Farrar was not a great preacher of the first order of pulpit elo quence, but he was a very popular preacher. He was a fine scholar, and so eloquent a writer that his "Life of Christ" has passed through many edi tions and has been translated Into all the leading languages of Europe. He was not a great thinker nor a strong reasoner, but he was a man of deep religious sensibility, and made his ap peal to the hearts rather than to the heads of his audience. He was always entertaining, often attractive, some times inspiring in his spoken and writ ten words. His sermons on public oc casions, like that delivered in memory of General Grant, were, generally ad mired. He did not compare with Dean Stanley in capacity to think straight and in lifefary force and power; but he was always sure of his audience; he was the popular preacher, who knows how to entertain, how to be pathetic, when to appeal to sentiment, what strings of the human heart to sweep, as a minstrel does his harp. This was about the size of Dean Farrar; a man of fine scholarship and of un doubted talent, but his talent was nt the superficial sort that never makes a long and deep mark In the book of its own time. As a controversialist he was not distinguished; that was not hia prov ince; he was a man of persuasive elo quence rather than of the powerful sort; a pleasing man, a popular preach er, an elegant writer and speaker, but in no sense a great man in his profes sion. RENAISSANCE OF THE SAILER. The largest sailing ship in the world is now nearlng completion in Germany, a country which until a short time ago had the credit for the largest steam ship afloat, and Is still honored by the fastest steamship in the world. Not only is Germany building. the largest sailing ship that ever existed, but she is turning out an increasing number of smaller sailers. Every fraction of a mile that has been added to the speed of steamships since the twenty-knot boats appeared has been at an enor mously increased cost of fuel. Not only has the consumption been much great er, but the increased demand has ad vanced prices on coal. These changing conditions and the reappearance on the commercial horizon of an increasing fleet of sailers leads to the belief that the carrying trade of the world may again be going back to first principles. Passengers, mall and perishable and other high-grade freight will always need to be taken care of by steamships, but the supremacy of the tramp steam er, which has already practically forced the high-speed Atlantic boats out of the freight traffic. Is now threat ened by a renaissance of the sailer. The latter may be unable to do much on slort routes of 3000 to 5000 miles, but on voyages extending more than half way round the world the sailer, on low freight rates, has the steamer at a positive dlsadx-antage. Contributing to the rising prestige of the modern sail ing vessel is the fact that owners are paying more attention to speed. The square-bowed, "heavy" appearing tank which followed the clippers of forty years ago Is now. In turn, giving way to a more delicate model, which can not only sail like a yacht, but Is so constructed that she has enormous car rylng capacity. A good illustration of the modern sailer is shown in the German ship Po tosi, owned by Laelz & Co., who are also the owners of the record-breaker now In course of construction. The Potosi, with a crew of thirty-two men and carrying over 7000 tons of cargo. has for thousands of miles sailed at a rate never excelled even in the old clipper days before the age of steam. The old clippers, which made both Eng land and America famous on the high seas, very seldom carried' 2000 tons of ered good-sized skips with & cap&clty of from 1W9 to 1508 tons. Tet It re quired double crews of forty to fifty men to get the same speed out of them that is now shown by the Potosi, with a smaller crew and carrying four times as much cargo. The French bounty on sailing &hlps has disarranged the freight market to such an extent that it Is impossible at this time to ascer tain accurately how cheaply a sailing vessel can carry freight at a profit. The bounty-earners have Increased in number so rapidly within the past two years that they have materially aided In demoralizing the freight market. German and British owners, operating without a substidy, have been forced to meet the rates made by the French or else' keep their ships in idleness. This is an unnatural condition of trade, and as such will in due season right It self. It Is doubtful, however, with the in creasing cost of fuel, and also- of the material of which steamships are con structed, whether the tramp Bteamer can ever again give the sailer as hard a race for supremacy in the round-the-Hom traffic Xrom Pacific Coast ports as it has given In the past. Sailing freights are now too low for a profit, but they can stand an advance, and still be so low that the steamers will be forced out of business. The cheapest transportation on earth Is that over the watercourses laid out by the Al mighty, and when the same source sup plies the motive power in, the breezes which blow over the ocean, expensive artificial methods have left in their fa vor only the element of time, and even this, with decreasing rates of interest, isvlosdng its Importance. It Is understood that the representa tives of the woman's clubs that recent ly made a tour of the city schools found much to criticise in a sanitary way in the appointments of some of the buildings. This was notably the case In regard to the High School build ing, some of the appointments of which would be a disgrace to a country dis trict (if there is such a one) where san itary considerations are wholly un known. However this may be, It is a fact that many of the students, especi ally among the girls, who attend the High School are constantly beset with headache, langour, loss of appetite and more or less serious digestive troubles. Whether these conditions arise from the foul odors that emanate from certln por tions of the basement, Imperfect sewer age, lack of proper ventilation, or of all combined, can only be conjectured. It may be said, however, that if re ports of the findings of these commit tees are correct the visit of a health officer to this building has been long overdue. The idea of Improving the grounds at tached to the various school buildings in the city is becoming quite popular. It may be well to reflect, however, be fore incurring any considerable exp'ense in this line that the first cost of setting out shrubbery, grading 'and seeding grounds, etc., will be but a beginning in "the expense of beautifying them. The proposition means the employment by the district of gardeners in sufficient number to keep the grass and shrub bery In order after the improvement is once made, the cost of water and hose for irrigation, the purchase and appli cation of fertilizers, etc., etc. It would be a fine thing, of course, to have the school grounds converted Into lawns dotted with flower-beds and shrubs, but the essentials for public school service He rather In sufficient buildings to accommodate the children of the dis trict with desk room than In well-kept grounds. The story of the Burcllck murder mystery so-called Is oozing out It reeks with a woman's shame and a man's Insane passion, a wife's dishonor, which together form a disgusting real ity that removes all mystery from the dark deed that followed. Word by word the story of the wife's shame has been wrung from her unwilling lips, to the disgust or pity of all who heard It. Human frailty that other name for ungoverned passion puts on a sham garment miscalled "love" and nnasquer ades in It throughout this Btory. Why a married woman who was so dishon orable as to receive such letters as were produced In court in this case was foolish enough to keep them is a "mystery. Beyond this the case, as un raveled from day to day, is but a plain tale of social sin, which in due course of events led to divorce and murder and public scandal. It Is a satisfaction to reflect that the execution of Beldlng next Friday will probably- be the last legal execution that will take place In Multnomah County. The penitentiary Is the proper place for the infliction of this penalty. County jail-yard executions were a vast im provement over the open, public ex ecutions that for many years took place in the various counties of the state, but it is well known that they have been a disturbing and demoralizing ele ment in the community. Hence all thoughtful persons will no doubt 'be glad that capital punishment will here after (or as soon, as the law for that purpose goes Into effect) be inflicted In due form with the state's prison en closure. Perhaps the mind of De Falco, the wife-murderer, Is, or was,- unbalanced. It is -a pity, .. however, if this is true, that it was necessary for him to com mit a most shocking and brutal mur der in order -to make manifest a fact of which some persons seemed to have had definite knowledge for a consider able length of time. Lunacy of this type generally disappears when-its sub ject is placed where his tipple Is re strained to water and prison coffee, and De Falco's case will probably prove no exception to the rule. North Yakima Is going to prepare a display of apples wherewith to delight the eyes of -the President in May. It Is safe to predict that this spectacle will afford .him much more pleasure than would the sound of a "brass band drown ing the roar of the train with "Hall to the Chief." Anything for variety on a trip of this duration, especially any thing that shows the appreciation of a resourceful people and state. Here's to the big red apples of Taklma. Valley and the good common sense of its peo pie. The Soufriere is again belching stones. nnoke and ashes, and the inhabitants of St. Vincent are affrighted at the noises and tremors that accompany these eructations. The t pity -of it Is that this island cannot.be abandoned to Nature, so that she can give vent to her - tremors without terrifying or CHICAGO'S LOFTY MORAL TONE. Chicago Record-Herald. The next time you attend a performance pf musical comedy at some theater where the highest standards are supposed to pre vail, and your ears and your sense of decorum are Insulted by profanity and loose conversation generally, you may like to know how different it is In vaudeville. What is -known as "damning all over the place" Is part of tho stock In trade of musical comedy librettists and actors, so much eo that there Is a tradition that when a laugh cannot be raised In any le gitimate way the performer shall swear. That this should be so Is no doubt as severe a reflection, upon the public's taste as it is upon the actor's practices. In the three great vaudeville theaters of Chicago better standards "of propriety not to say morals are enforced than in any fashionable theater In America. For example, this placard is posted in the stage entrance waiting-room of the Chicago Opera .House: The following words must not he used on the stage of this theater; GOD. LIAR. DAMN. No reference will be permitted to the. hoochee-coochee dance or any movement suggestive- of It. No form cf profanity, and nothing obscene or suggestive in dia logue or situation will be allowed. Any Infraction of this rule will' submit the offender to a One of $10. CHARLES Ei KOHL, Every Monday afternoon Mr. Castle watches tho new show of the week from the stage of the Olympic, and Mr. Kohl from the statre of the . Chlcaeo Ooera House. Anything considered objectionable that may occur at the Monday matinee Is eliminated by their order at, subsequent performances of the week. Occasionally performers will attempt to repeat at later performances whatever objectionable" lino has been eliminated, thinking, possibly that the" management will not know of it. But they are generally caught, and If the offense Is sufficiently grave are fined. While vaudeville may have Its dull spots, that cannot be helped by the managers when the ma jority of performers are med iocre, but It is to the credit of this form of amusement that rowdyism and wicked ness are happily absent. In other words. some acts may be very uninteresting, but they are never vulgar in the true sense of the word, and seldom even suggestive. To quote a line in a vaudeville sketch that was immediately cut out by Mr. Kohl, here is this: Ono comedian says to another: "I won der where In I've seen you before!" The second comedian answers: "That de pends on what part of you came from." This, if we may judge by all too frequent precedents, would have been received with shouts of laughter by an audience viewing one of New York's latest offerings to Chi cago in the way of musical comedy. So, too. It might by a vaudeville audience, the only difference being that a manager with primitive sense of propriety and a healthy respect for the well-bred members of his clientele took extremely good care they should not hear It. Roosevelt In the West. Kansas City Journal. The West will take pride and delight in receiving a visit from President Roose velt. But it might as well be stated now that the President's contemplated tour through this country Is entirely unneces sary, if It is planned for the purpose of strengthening his fences and securing his nomination as the Republican standard bearer In 1904. The West ha3 no man in view except Roosevelt. In fact, a remark able unanimity of feeling about thl3 mat ter prevails throughout the Nation. No enthusiasm arises upon the mention of the names of tho other men suggested, as probable contestants for the nomination. Dut Roosevelt's name Is likejy to De word to conjure by before delegates are selected for the next National convention His popularity Is not due solely to tho fact that he now holds office. People are beginning to realize that although he Is comparatively young, yet he is an able and successful statesman. Counting his services as a member of the New York Legislature, as Civil Service Commission er, as Police- Commissioner, and as Gov ernor of New York, his nubile career has been longer than that of a majority of the members of the Fifty-eighth Con gress. He Is also a practical politician, young and vigorous, and perhaps the only available military "hero" that the Repub licans have in their party. The glamour of a war record always potently influences the American people, and while Mr. Roosevelt hasn't much of a military rec ord, it is good and brilliant, what there is of It, and adds strength to a record of successful statesmanship which alone as sures him another term in the White House. Canada, and Monroeism. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Recent events "have given Canada an interest in the Monroe principle which she did not think of until that time. Her participation with England in the Boer War, and the attempt to make her take a part hereafter in all of England's con flicts, would bring Canada into the whirl pool of European politics, and subject her to the embarrassments and perils in which England should find herself. In case England should como in collision with a coalition of European powers, Canada would bo open to assault. Eng land's enemies would naturally want to strike her at vital spots, and Canada would thus be open to attack. In such a contingency there is no doubt that the Monroe Doctrine would Interpose itself as a shield to protect her from seizure by any other nation. This may be cal culated to increase Canada's sense of safety, but It Is hardly likely to make tho maintenance of the British connection more popular. Boots and Feet. Dublin News. As a Sergeant was bawling out his orders In a barracks in Dublin and watch ing the line of feet as the new recruits endeavored to obey the word of command, he found to his astonishment that one pair of feet, more noticeable on account of their extra large, size, never turned. Without taklnc his eyes oft those feet, the Sergeant bawled out a second order: "About face!" Ho could see that, all tho feet except those he watched turned In obedience. Rushing up to the owner, a little fellow, be seized him by the shoulder, shouting: "Why don't you turn with the rest?" "I did," replied the trembling recrult. "You did, eh? Well I watched your, feet and they never moved." "It's the boots they gave me, sir," said the poor fellow. "They're eo large that when I turn my feet turns inside of them." Those Odious Cabs. Karsas City Star. A poetic penalty to visit on the young college hoodlums who mutilated, last night, one of the big bronze Hons that guard the--entrance to Nassau Hall at Princeton would be to compel them to venture a similar Indignity on a living Hon. Such a requirement would readily reveal the cowardice which is always coupled with the instinct for degenerate vandalism, though no right-spirited beast of the forest would ever think of select ing as a diet the sort of odious young cubs who destroy and deface the property of their alma mater. A Naval Disappearance. Hartford Courant. Rear-Admlral Arent S. Crownlnshield has jumped out of the Navy without even a dull thud. There have been" no bouquets and no laurels to mark his going. There have not been even-a "few remarks." He simply has slid out, gone ashore, and dis appeared. Practically, he was, and he is not and this is all that can truthfully bo MURDER'S MODERN IMPROVEMENT New York Evening Post. It was midnight All was still within the great square house except for tho sound of half a dozen men attending to the furnace, tho fitful slamming of doors by hurrying servants, who cursed softly under their breaths when they ran into each other; and the buzz of the electric lights as they were turned on and oft and on and oft again by lone women and mys terious men who came in under cover of the night. Without, a long "line of cabs waited patiently at the curbstone, rein forced every little whllo by a late arrival .hurrying from the "darkness beyond. On each corner a wakeful policeman paced to and fro, twirling his nightstick, as po licemen always do when a. crime is being committed near by. Streams of chance pedestrians pushed their way with diffi culty through the accumulated crowds In the vicinity of the house. Who would have guessed that a murder was to be committed? A roceatlon or dsnce. per haps: possibly a strange midnight tea: or a meeting of a society of numerous mem bershipbut, alas. It was only a murderl The shedder of human blood appeared at the doorway and surveyed the gathered multitude. "What are all these people here for?" he demanded ioarsely of hl3 accomplice. "Hist!" whispered the latter, between his teeth. "Don't be frightened. They're here to get points to give to the naws papers, which publish 10 regular and 14 extra editions a day, and have to have a new clew for every edition." N "Then we are discovered we are lost! moaned the murderer. The accomplice gave him a look of con tempt. "Aw, brace up!" he said. "Nobody pays any attention to their clews, and they for get 'era themselves when the next extra comes out" The Senate's False Pretense. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Senate has finally -ratified the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but with amendments. The string by which the Senate has most notably held back the Nation from plain duty is the amendment which suspends the treaty until It Is approved by the House. Since the President and the Sen ate are the treaty-making power, this can have but one object. That object Is delay. The excuee Is offered, of course, that be cause the treaty changes a revenue law the House has a right to be consulted. If the Senate were in the habit of carefully respecting every tech nical Constitutional right of the Houee that excuse might be accept ed. But In the-llght of the Senate's record It Is evidently a false pretense. Unless the President call Congress la extra session tho treaty cannot go Into effect until De cember or later too late to do Cuba any good with respect to this year's crop-. In fact, tho juggling with the treaty has been such that Cuba might well bo ex cused for dropping it altogether, on the ground that good faith has not been shown. And while the present injury of such a policy would be to Cuba, the ulti mate injury would bo to the1 United States. Boiling the Water Not Enough. Cleveland Leader. Boiling, it is agreed, will kill the germs that are found In the -sewage-contaminated water, but if the water is boiled thorough ly for a period of five minutes, as sug gested by the health officer, it will be dis covered that there is something besides germs In It which should not be taken into the human stomach. Water that has been boiled tho required time will be found, after It has cooled off, to be covered with a filthy and offensive-looking scum. This is the organic matter that is carried In solution In the water, and it Is what gives the boiled water Its sickening taste If the boiled water is put through a good filter, many of which can be purchased at small cost, comparatively, it will come out clear, sparkling and palatable, almost as gooa as spring water, in ract. German Trade With Venezuela. New York Tribune. Among tho interesting statistical facts contained in a late volume of the consular reports is a tabular statement of the value of Germany's trade with Venezuela. The Imports into Germany from Venezuela from 1S37 to 1901, Inclusive, amounted to Jll,6S5,S0O, about 2 per cent of Germany's total importations. These Imports seem to have fallen off since 1S97. when the highest figure was reached. On the other hand, the exports from Germany-to Vene zuela have Increased, the highest figures having- been reached In 1901, when they amounted to $1,666,000. While the figures Indicate that Germany is Increasing Its business with "Venezuela, they show also that the trade Is small and an inconspic uous figure In the commercial records of Germany. Oar Treatment of Cuba. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It must be confessed that, whatever may bo thought of the course of the United States in effecting the liberation of Cuba from the Spanish yoke and In teaching it the art of good government. during the military occupation,, there has not been much to be proud of since the military evacuation and substitution of Congressional for military relations with the new republic. The treaty fulfils but in a scrimping and grudging manner the moral obligations Incurred when the Platt amendment demands were imposed upon Cuba. To haggle now over the de tails of the treaty and make new condi tions even less generous. Is not the way to bind the new nation to us with ties of lasting gratitude. Better an Onnce of Prevention. New York Tribune. The retaining of a corps of three-score surgeons by a great railroad corporation in order that they may give first aid to the injured in accident will be generally commended, but is it not the wisest policy for railroads to take such precautions that surgeons need not be called on for the relief of disasters. An Object Lesson. . Sioux City Journal. The irrigation advocates are prompt to point out that the, money spent in strengthening those levees could be saved if most of the water was stored in reser voirs up in the mountain regions. "Them Gibson Gals." Las' Summer we kep" boarders. Some folks from Boston town; They seemed like they wuz wuth a tot; An said their name wuz Brown. They mu3' 'a' liked it here, becauee When Christmas time come 'round. They sent my gal a gift book. Full o' pitchers, leather hound. A kind o' fam'Iy album. With poetry In spells. An oa the cover printed Wuz "Some o Gibson's Gals." Now. we ain't got no klnfolk Named Gibson, thet I'm sure; Besides, them Gibson gals is rich. While we folk all air poor. An' I been flg,ria' how come They sent thet album here; Of course. It's mighty purty. But, still. It's mighty queer. Them Gibson gals la daisies. An' thet ain't no mistake; Per all 'round crackln good looks Them gals Ml take the cake. SOld Gibson must hev money. To keep them gals In clothes. I wonder what their mother's like. An ef old Gibson knows Thet Brown's sentus thet album. He must be mighty proud O' all them handsome darters. My sakesl hut there's a crowd. I wonder Jes' how many SIch gals thet man has got; I'll bet It wuz a thunderln' Job To bring up slch a lot. Although he ain't my klnfolk. I kind o' pity him; If I bed slch a mess o gals "Tu'd make my old head swim. Between silk, gowns and bonnets With ostrich-feather "tips on. To feed and dress the whole dent loV I'm glad I ain't old Gibson. S G. E. in Collier's Weekly. .... K0TS-AND COMMENT. In union there is strength; in division there are more churches. "Get rich quickly" is the term used by the Boston Transcript to describe tho newest swindle. " 1 - It is evident that Nemesis has been un usually efficient In the- Burdick-Pennell case, but the job does, not seem to be en tirely cleaned up yet. The resolution proposing an Interstate conference-on the race question, was finally killed in the Wisconsin Legislature, but the talk about it is flawing on in undimin ished volume. Ex-Speaker Henderson follows in the footstf-ps "of his predecessor, going to New York to practice law. When the news papers first made this -Announcement Mr. Henderson indignantly denied It. He seems to" be thoroughly at outs with the "Iowa idea." For flnv ,Aim raMr i f 1.1... j .nr form! the country will. I believe, have to look w me iemocrauc party. Eawara il. saepara. am, yes. But we have a llrurerinsr remembrance of' the sort of relief the Democrats brought when they reformed the tariff before, and will spare them fur ther effort in the matter. They've got a man In Philadelphia whqsa name would delight Uncle Charley Dana it he were alive Shunk Brown. He'd put this latest discovery, who is a "wide-open" lawyer, with that rare col lection, including the Hon. Dink Botts, Colonel Abe Slupesky, Pod Desmuke and Hoax Myth. Kansas Is having some trouble to sottla upon the men whose statues shall repre sent that state in the hall of fame at the National Capitol. A professor In ihe State University the other day announced his belief that Kansas wa3 the site of the .Garden of Eden, and the Kansas City Journal now argues that the statues of Adam and Eve constitute the Kansas contribution to the National collection. It Is not supposed that local jealousies would Interfere with this plan. Stockholm claims the largest school house In the world, which has accommo dation for 27S0 children. In the basement are 1C0 bathrooms, where the children aro required to bathe If their teachers think they are not taught habits of cleanliness at home. " Soap and towels are furnished free by the city. A wholesome dinner Is furnished to poor children at noon In all the public schools If they need It, as In Norway, which insures every child at least one warnr meal each day. With the object of discovering a .cure for typhoid fever a remarkable experiment Is being conducted at Ann Arbor Uni versity, Michigan. Six big tanks have been constructed, with a layer of gelatin, and on these 144 square feet of the fever germs are grown at a time. These living germs are scraped off, killed and bottled up. - Two ounces of them would kill 70,000 guinea pigs. The object Is, if possible, to extract the poison from the germ bodies, feed animals jwith It and try to discover an antidote. Mr. James Gordon Bennett Is at Ha vana, with a party of friends, on his great new yacht, the Lysistrata, a splendid ocean steamship, over 300 feet in length. the like of which is possessed by hardly any other private citizen in the world. Mr. Bennett is expected Irr New York soon. and while there he will probably call at the Herald oflice, which he has not seen for several years, and which lie has less J and less inclination to visit as the years go on. He Is now 62 years of age, and his desire to spend his life in Paris seems to have become fixed. King Edward has been restricted by his physician to five cigars a day. He has been an inveterate smoker almost since his boyhood. Some 30 years ago he was dining with the late Lord Derby,, who regarded the use of tobacco as a vulgar I and unpleasant habit. After dinner thai Prince suggested a dgar, whereupon hlsj lordship dryly expressed regret that hlsj house did not contain a smoking-room, adding that he could only suggest thej stables as a suitable place for burning to-l bacco. Much to his surprise, the Prince! adjourned to the region Indicated and en joyed his postprandial cigar. Hawaii's invitation to President Roose velt to .become Its guest probably marl tho beginning of the end for that un written law" which forbids our Chief ExJ pcutive to pass the boundaries of the United States. Those boundaries are now! somewhat hard to define, since we have territory that Is within them for certalr nunioses. and outside of them for certalr others, and the chances are that in thej npnr future Presidents will determine the length of their journeys by their lnollnaj tlon and their own interpretation of pubj c. interest, rather than by any ancieni tradition of mysterious origin and quesj tlonable authority. President Roosevelj has not accepted Hawaii's invitation, bui he declined It for the reason that It woulc rnnrr.mjre his plans, not because therJ would be anything Improper in acceptance! That shows with sufficient plainness no much weight he gives to the "unwritte law.". PLEASANTRIES OF PAIIAGEAPHEK Jones It's a mistake to Judge a man by hij clothes. Mrs. Jones That's so; ne ougat u u Judged by bis wife's clothes. Detroit Fre Terence Them dagos do be terrible stead! wurrukers. Larry They do be that Faith, 1 ut wuzn't fur Casey, the foreman, the Job'I not last a week. Brooklyn i.ue. tTnvimnn Wot makes yer so sure de 'le .i emijirp. ole man? Ex-Candidate -nr.n litre, riiat I didn't even Kit as mar votes as I uald fer. Dafs all. See? Chlcag Dally News. anvthine laid ud for a rair day?" "Indeed 1 have," answered the nej Congressman. "I have a trunk full of undeir ered speeches to fall back on in case I ev want to filibuster." Washington Star. r-1 Tl..hli1 TVM1 iih T a'nnw wine fim like watAh. at the kun.'1's wedding suh? Ml Jor Pepper Like watah, suh? By gad. suh, I flowed like oil in a Texas oil company's advel tisement. suh. Judge. "Jane is so sentimental. When her dog dij she wrote a couplet about It." "Doggerel. .nr.i T sttirmnsa so. Anvway. she wr It on a piece of bark and had It framed doewood." Cleveland Plain Dealer. TTiAf!i!r Workman. I'm eolnc to propose t sho "Rcaiiv Mr. Phoxv. I'm sorry, bui He That we have some ice cream She OI I shall be delighted to He Some evenis when the weather gets warmer. PhlladelpfcJ Press. I Beryl Jack, always seemed to love Ethel- v vtiow he always called her his "peari diuji Then, why did he break the engagemer "Mnthpr-tn-law. He said Iw' liked 'pearl' right, but he couldn't stand for roother- pearL "Baltimore Herald. "Wonf vou 20 skatlnir with us?" asked girl's little sister. "It's very kind of you o.v- m rnl!ed the enamored youth, "t I'm not much of a skater, you know." "Tha Just it," returned the little one, enthusiast ally. "Sister says you're as good as a circ when you get skate3 on, " r 1Ute. the c If it be true th&t the boas ffinblera ; and that the only reel protection for ccrgo. and moet of them were cooald- destroying hum mi beings. said about him at present. cos." Chicago Post