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The revisionists have apparently suffered a tactical defeat at the hands of the standpatters; but so far as the Allison plar.k is concerned, it will stand analysis as every whit as reformative in tenor as the utterance of a year ago. For convenience we here append the two deliverances: 1002. "We favor such changes in the tariff from time to time as become advisable, through the progress of our Industries and their changing relations too the commerce of the world. We favor any modification of the tariff sched ules that may be required to prevent their . affording a shelter to monopoly. 1003.- Tariff rates enacted to carry this policy into effect should be Just, fair and impartial, equally- opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and in dividual' favoritism and must from time to time be changed to meet the varying condi tions incident to the progress of our Indus tries and their changing relations in our for eign and domestic commerce. Duties that arc too low should be Increased and duties that are too high should be reduced. The sting has been taken out of the 1902 platform to appease the standpat-- ters. This Is done by modifying the implication that the present schedules may a'fford "a shelter to monopoly." Tet the implication is not in terms withdrawn. It is only coupled with the additional implication that their repeal tnlght bring about "foreign control." The platform really says that favorit ism and discrimination and monopoly must not occur In tariff laws, and must be struck down whenever and wherever found. This Is said simultaneously with co-ordinate expressions calculated to please the blind worshipers at the I protection shrine. It is pitiful, perhaps, or tit least would be, if platforms are to be Judged by what they say. As it is, they are not. The most we can say for political platforms is that they afford one piece of testimony, among others, as to the purposes of the men who subscribe to it. It took a fearful battle at St. Louis In 1896 to get the words "gold standard" into the platform. Some other expression could .have been used to mean the same thing, but when the gold men won out on that issue it meant a great deal, because the country saw that the gold men were in the ascendant in the party. The Republicans showed they had the will and the strength to down their silver maniacs, while the Democrats surrendered to theirs at Ghicago, and Mckinley was elected. The wording of the Iowa deliverance, therefore, is only of speculative inter est. Of greater importance, as we have said, is the fact that the standpatters have won out over the revisionists.. There need be little doubt that Allison, Yot example, from the vantage-ground of his position on the Senate finance committee, will resist tariff changes as steadily as ever. The question recurs as to the other evidences from which Republican tariff purposes must be Judged, and" as to these the Iowa plank must be judged In the light of its inter pretation. How and when will the pres ent tariff schedules be made "just, fair and inrpartla.1," abolished when they "shelter monopoly," and when "too high" be "reduced"? There is, alasl little encouragement for hope that the steel monopoly im presses Allison with a conviction that the steel schedule should be revised. The salt trust, copper trust, paper trust. incidentally Standard Oil, are all shel tered by the tariff, and their schedules carry "discrimination," "favoritism' and "duties that are too high." But there is no hope from the Des Moines deliverance that the Republican party, in Iowa as elsewhere, is ready to pro ceed against, mem. uney win be re duced when the trusts can best be served .by their reduction. The inter preter of Republican tariff platforms, when applied, is the beneficiary of the duties. - This is a bad year for the wheat plungers. Eppinger of San Francisco plunged so hard In an effort to break the market that he is now a financial wreck, with the gates of "the peniten tlary yawning ior him: iesterday a large St. Louis firm was forced to the wall as a result of plunging on a bulge that failed. Eppinger was ruined be cause wheat advanced in price, and the St. Louis firm met a similar fate be cause It declined. It was the late Frank Norrls who alluded to wheat "as Mthat glganticworld force, blood brother to the earthquake, coeval with the vol cano and the whirlwind." To all of which the San Francisco and St Louis plungers will undoubtedly agree. The production of wheat is so immense and the conditions which affect the market, world-wide in their scope, are so many and varied that no man or combina tion of men can successfully grapple with them. He must move as the wheat moves, and not as he might wish it to move. MINISTER BARRETT. President Hoosevelt has made no mis take In selecting Mr. Barrett as United States Minister to the Argentine Re public. He will do the work well, as he has -done other things; he has a talent and a liking for diplomacy, and he will grow into larger and larger places as time goes on. He is now in the line of pro- "motlon, and keeping In view President Roosevelt's policy of retaining and ad vancing our diplomatic representatives as occasion affords, no one need be sur prised to see Minister Barrett, become in a few years Ambassador Barrett, ac credited to some one of the leading powers of "Europe. John Barrett Is ambitious; but not more ambitious than many another man who keeps on the dead level of usefulness and reward. Hundreds of young men share Mr. Barrett's desire for political preferment;, but they are not willing to pay the price. No man, however ardently he covets power, can acquire power without work. Persist ent labor is the absolutely essential price of achievement in politics as in everything else. Some men win in poli tics by devotion to the petty details of party machinery. Joseph Simon has won victories here in Oregon because he was working while his opponents were enjoying themselves. "Jack" Matthews got his way last Spring be cause when other men got tired and went to bed he stayed through till morning and saw his names nailed in separably on the ticket. Mr. Barrett worked not in this way, but quite as effectually in another way. He devoted himself assiduously to serv ing those who were in a position to ad vance him. "Whenever there was any thing needed by McKinley or Hanna or Cortelyou or Roosevelt that he could do he did it with loyal zeal and unflagging industry. He got opportunities by per sistence and Influence, but he- keRt them by hard work. Undoubtedly he laid his wires and brought pressure to bear for the St. Xrouis appointment; but once ap pointed, he did the work well. Hardly a day passes but brings to light some fresh evidence that he made the de sired impression on the Asiatic powers an impression that will bear fruit of co-optration and exhibits. In the Argentine he will strive In every possible way to make his work count, for himself, for the Administra tion, for the two countries concerned. Just as he operated from his post In Slam to spread before the reading pub lic of both hemispheres the whole' prob. lem of Asiatic development, the benefits of an Isthmian canal' and the possibili ties of -Pacific trade, so he will at Buenos Ayres study South America with a view to Its relations with the rest of the world, especially-the United States, the Influence of the isthmian canal upon the trade of North and South America, the bearing of South America upon the commercial situation of wool, wheat, hides, coffeeVand -other staples In which the South American supply affects the markets of the world. This work has real value and will get its reward. OUR TJNLUCRATIVE LUCAS. The second verse of the Pacific Na tional League "Swan Song" was sung Tuesday afternoon, when the magnates met and cast the Portland Greengages adrift. The first verse was sung long ago sung when W. K. Lucas was made president of the league which was to fight the Pacific Coast League, and if not able to crush it completely was to wage such a war that the league would beg for admission into that strange or ganization known as the American As sociatlon of Professional Baseball Leagues. The action taken at the Ta- coma meeting is in keeping with what has been done by the league in the past, and is a sample of what can be ex pected irom. now on until the season closes. If the old Pacific Northwest League had listened to thevdemands of the peo pie they would have dropped Lucas. If they had, there would have been no baseball war In the Northwest, nor a Pacific National League. But Lucas seemed to have the majority of the old league magnates hypnotized, and they refused to dump him. Lucas has treat ed Portland In a shameless manner. He had Ignored Its claims for justice, had broken his word and called the city "cheap." He played favorites in the Pacific Northwest League just as he did In the 'Pacific National League. Just to prove this assertion true, Garrett, man ager of the Spokane team, one of Lucas' pets, Is to have controlling interest in the new Salt Lake franchise. Reynolds or iiuue, me otner stocKnomer, is a "close" friend of the Pacific National League president. Another sample of President Lucas favoritism is shown by the new sched ule. It will be noticed that Dugdale's Seattle team will not have to journey to California at any time this season Under the old schedule It was Portland, Helena, Butte and Tacoma whose hard earned money was spent In Lucas' foolish dream of crushing the Pacific Coast League by invasion. This time it will be Tacoma and Spokane. Their chances of going south, however, are very slim, for the schedule, which Harry Hart says "was the best that could be gotten up this late In the sea son," Is nothing more than a barn storming tour made especially for the benefit of the two California teams. This man Hart from San Francisco, President Lucas baby-tongued, gold lined amateur baseball magnate. In an Interview says that baseball enthusiasm is at such a low ebb In Portland that even one team cannot pay. Lucas has told Hart this, 'and he, human-parrot like, repeats it with owlish wisdom. Hart knows as much about baseball as a bacillus does about running the af fairs of the United States Government. He is what a certain Pacific Northwest League manager called him to Joe Tinker when he was trying to get Joe to Join the Pacific Northwest League, "a stiff with a bundle of money and willing to spend It In order to .get base- ball-wlse." The admission of Salt Lake was the only- logical outcome of the so-called baseball- war, so far as It pertained to Portland. The Greengages, 'with per haps the exception of half a dozen games, played to empty seats. There were, two reasons for this. In the first place, Portland fans disliked Lucas, and they would have nothing1 of anything with which he was connected. In the j second place, no baseball team playing THE MORNING on the East Side can get the crowd. A third and not a minor reason was that the sympathies of Portland were with the Pacific Coast league magnates- first because of their high personal and business, standing, and because they would not stand for Lucas. Hart says the condition in Portland was carefully studied. It was studied all right, but It was from the cooling porches of the Portland Hotel and from the empty seats over in the grandstand at Na tional Park. Schmltt is the student of the baseball situation in Portland Schmltt, who confesses unblushingly that he knows nothing about baseball. Schmltt is Hart's lawyer, and. Schmltt Is trying to find out where Hart's $75,000 which, he spent for baseball "wisdom" has .gone. The' framing of the new schedule means that the fight of the Pacific Na tional League against the Pacific Coast League is to be centered in Seattle. The Pacific National League people have grown wise to the fact that there is nothing but the Pacific Coast in Cali fornia. That Is why the San Francisco and Los Angeles teams are to be held In the north until September. It also means that Seattle will have a steady diet of baseball from now on until the season of both leagues closes. Parke Wilson and his backers are In for a great battle. However, Seattle, like Portland, is in the Pacific Coast to stay. To the business men who were duped Into giving up their coin on a sure losing proposition there Is some sympathy, for they were led to believe that they would at least be given a run for their money, but they did not. WHEAT IS STILL KING. Wheat is still King in the Pacific Northwest. Despite the enormous de velopment in the- lumber business, the encroachments of diversified, farming on the wheat lanus Which lormeriy turned off the largest yields and the steadily Increasing acreage in barley and oats, the premier cereal again shows up with an output which has surpassed all other industries in bring ing money into the state. For the twelve months ending Tuesday. Port land exported over $10,000,000 worth of wheat and flour. This enormous total was reached without the exportation of a single cargo of wheat from the "Wil lamette Valley, a region which made Oregon famous as a wheat state, and which a few years ago produced more wheafl than any other section In the Northwest "Wheatgrowing in the "Wil lamette Valley made many farmers wealthy and was for years a remuner ative industry. Its abandonment does not mean that it can no longer be grown at a profit, but it does indicate that fruit, hops. hogs, sheep, dairying and other branches of diversified farming are proving so much more profitable that the state has been a gainer, by the abandonment of wheat in the Valley. The figures on the crop of the' three states for 1902 show an out-turn of nearly 42,000,000 bushels, an amount which has been exceeded but once, but which under favorable circumstances, with the increased acreage, will in a few years be regarded as a crop of moderate proportions. Thirty years ago practically the entjre wheat crop pf the Pacific Northwest was grown In the "Willamette Valley, and twenty years ago when the "Walla "Walla coun try began to be appreciated there were plenty of land experts who were certain tr- the limit of wheat production in the Pacific Northwest had been reached, Since Hhen the Big Bend, the Clear water. Sherman Countv. the Wash- tucna and Horse Heaven country and a number of other localities of lesser prominence have been added to the wheat belt and the area is still grow lng. The "Wallowa country" Is as well adapted to wheatgrowing as any sec tion In the Pacific Northwest, and It cannot remain In seclusion much longer. The same is true of a vast area of land lnuentraiuregonwnicn looay is no more unpromising than was the Big Bend, "Walla Walla or Sherman County land at a corresponding period of develop ment, or rather lack of development. The good, tight hold which Portland has on the wheat trade of the Pacific Northwest Is not all reflected In the big figures for the exports actually passing through the port This city is still the headquarters, not only for the Oregon grain business, but for that of Washington and Idaho as well. The failure of the Harrlman roads to go into any of the new wheat districts in Washington and Idaho has hampered the direct operations of the Portland exporters, but they still purchase large quantities of Washington and Idaho wheat and export It from Puget Sound, while the Portland banks finance the operations just as they do in Portland's direct territory. Portland's commerce and Industries have developed so rapidly that the wheat trade Is no longer, an absolute necessity to enable the retention of Jier position as the metropolis of the North west, but any Industry that distributes 510,000,000 per year is worth looking after, and so long as wheat Is King this city will remain the 'power behind tho throne. COLLEGE MEN IN POLITICS. 'Andrew D. white, who has been a college professor, a college president, a member- of the New York Legislature, Minister to St Petersburg and Ambas sador to Germany, In a recent address before the class of 1S53 of Yale Unlver- sity urged the importance or a larger proportion of unlverslty-bred men In our County Boards, our City Councils, our Legislatures, our Congress and our seats of executive power. Mr. White said that In the New York Legislature he had to work long and hard to make up for his elementary deficiencies. He found himself, In spite of his severe university training, inferior in his ca pacity for legislative usefulness to the average country lawyer, village super visor or public school trustee. He greatly added to his knowledge of hu- man nature when he was made foreman of a petit Jury in a horse case, and he recommended'young graduates of Yale not to slight opportunities to do service on grand juries or petit Juries. Mr. White would be glad to see established at our leading universities twenty-five professorships and scholarships bearing directly upon public affairs. He would. have professorships In comparative leg islation, in comparative administration, in International law; he would have prof essorships and fellowships for the history of civilization, associated with obligatory instructions in political eth ics, and finally he would have profes sorships and fellowships for the history of the United States. Theoretically tnese suggestions are plausible enough, but?' there is no lack of college graduates In politics, and there never has been; If some of these college graduates have shown more OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, aptitudi far the mercenary side of poli tics rather than for austere political ethics, Mr. White's professorships would hardly cure that evil. Franklin, Marshall. Washineton and Lincoln were great figures In politics because their political ethics were sound nd clean, both In theory and practice far better than the. Dolltlcal theory and practice of college-bred men like Jef ferson, Webster, Franklin Pierce, Sew ard, Thad Stevens, "Boss" Piatt Chauncey Depew and Senator Dubois. The natural criticism; of Mr. White's views Is that in spite of all his ability. experience and observation he makes too much of a college education in his Inclination to hold that learning is everything. In the equipment of a pub lic servant, great force of character has always counted for more than mere learning or training In administration. A man of affairs, who Is ftot college- bred, if he is honest and fearless and of good natural ability, will surely give you efficient government The real need of public life Is not the lack of educated men, for there are plenty of them today in politics; the real need Is strong men of ugly honesty and unflinching veracity. The New York Evening Post, a friend and lifetime political coworker with Andrew D. White, In Its criticism of his views, says: There axe plenty of college men In politics today, and In many cases public life would be far purer if they were out of It. . The college men who turn to bases ends the advantages which they have attained are not mentioned in any of tho orations, but we have living examples of them all about us. The Post grants that the college training breaks down when It comes In contact with public affairs, because It Is not adjusted to details; It knows very little of the practical working of either the legislative or administrative branches of our Government; that It would be a gain if the college youth could be equipped with knowledge .of this kind, but while granting this, the Po3t -fairly aYgues that t Is compara tively a minor matter; that the Im portant thing Is the possession by the college youth of that moral force of character which Is .necessary to meet the shocks of political battle, of moral temptations in the political field. The logical conclusion Is that no system of expert training will alone suffice to en dow a student with a fundamentally sound and strong character, which .Is the Indispensable essential to high po litical usefulness and eminence. Train ing to efficient public service Is desir able, but not Indispensable, while the dreary want of the time, as It has been the dreary want of all times, Is what the Pout defines as "trained devoted citizenship." What. makes Lincoln one of the immortals in American history? 'Not his technical training in the busi ness of political administration. As a man of versatile culture, as a master of political technique, as a master of those social arts which greatly help to advance men rapidly In public life, col lege-bred Seward In 1860 completely outclassed Lincoln. He was in the first rank of the legal profession; he was the leader of the Republican party on the floor of the Senate; while up to the great debate with Douglas In 1858 Lin- coin was unknown outside his own state. Seward: as Governor, as United States Senator, as Secretary of State, won high distinction, and yet Lincoln Is among the Immortals of our history, while Seward Is not there. Why? Be cause Lincoln, like Franklin and "Wash ington, had In addition to great powers of intellect the essential, the Indispens able thing he had great moral force of chafrncter, impregnable to temptation, impeccable in performance, a gift of Nature, an endowment that cannot be conferred by the arts of schools. The Springfield Republican, which like the Post is a friend and admirer of An drew D. White, takes the same view that colleges do not furnish character. We quote: Tneir graduates are able enough, smart enough. Millions already are spent on their .literary and scientific finishing. They take to public affairs with all the inherited aptitude of the race, which has a thousand years of evolution in self-government behind it. But they are none too good. It is possible that they need fewer millions spent on them and more simple Uachlng of the primary virtues in the old-fashioned style. Late advices from Somallland state that the Mad Mullah has just been de feated and 10,000 of his men have been killed by the British. If all of the Mad Mullah's men that have been reported killed since the British began chasing the angry gentleman are actually dead, Somallland must be one vast sepulcher. The trouble with these forces of Mul lah seems to be that they do not know when they are killed. Repeatedly the cables have brought the news that his following had been wiped out of exist ence, and a few weeks later we would be told o another batch of a few thou sand meeting the same fate. The sys tem of census-taking In Somallland as applied to the 'quick and the dead must be very Imperfect No wonder the Mul lah Is mad. For a man who has his fol lowers exterminated periodically, he seems to be putting up a pretty good running fight, and exhibits recuper atlve powers that are simply marvel ous. Professor Arthur Johnstone, of New York, has won the gold medal offered by the Society of Cincinnati for the most acceptable music for "America, which we have heretofore sung to the air of Britain's national anthem. This award, after all, must be sanctioned by the plain people of the United States. If the melody touches the American heart, the public schools can popularize It before Christmas, and by the next Fourth of July Arthur Johnstone will be a National figure. The proclamation of the Governor concerning forest fires Is worthy of earnest attention by all who propose camping out The penalties for damag ing timber by carelessly leaving fires burning err on the side of leniency, for the resultant danger threatens, not the property alone, but human life. Unfor tunately, the careless camper, like the man that rocks the boat,- Is always with us, and warning in his case seems but waste of paper. All contests of speed, whether by sail muscle, steam or other power, when di rected by human intelligence. Invite universal Interest The element danger Is seldom considered, but in the automobile race for the James Gor don Bennett cup, announced for today. fear of fatal accident rises above the natural excitement No sport is whole some where the contestants court death. This country's petition to Russia over the Klshlnef massacre, must evoke one of three things a snub, a diplomatic reply that means nothing, or flat re fusal to permit interference of an out sider with domestic disturbances. And In either case, what are we going to do about it? JULY .2, 1903: HE NEVER MADE GOOD. Louisville Courier-Journal. Some 13 years ago a; likely-looking geld ing, hitched to a high-wheeled, old-fashioned sulky, took the eye of such trot ting horsemen as George Llndenberger. J. J. Douglas, Scott Newman and others offljouisville, as he went around the New Albany track like the wind, and hanging up a record of 2:06. He was looked upon as a wonder, and Inquiry was made about the animal. It was learned that the own er's name was Martin Murphy, and that his home 'was near HenryvMe, Ind. The horse was Grover C. and an offer of $7000 spot cash was made for him by a Louis ville fyndIcato headed by Jim Douglas, but the money was refused. On Monday Grover C ;was killed by his owner, Charles S. Hay, of Jeffersonvllle. to end bjs misery. Tho once high-priced anlma 'was turned out on pasture in Utlca township during the latter part of the Fall, and when Mr. Hay went out to look after him he found that he had been" kicked by another horse and his thigh had been broken. A bullet soon ended his sufferings. Although 17 years old, Grover C campaigned last season at the Indiana county fairs, and was to try It again this year. "He trotted Just as fast last year as he ever did," said Mr. Hay. Grover C. was a wonder, and was known from Maino o California, not so much for what he did, but for what he did not do. "When the Jiandsome price of J70CQ was offered for him and refused. Grover C. galn'ed. a wide reputation, ana eyes were turned on him by all of the trotting horsemen of the country. A few intimate friends of Martin Murphy, living over In Jeffersonvllle. had Influence enough with him to gain his ear. and a proposition was made to give him 52500 for a half Interest In Grover C. and half the winnings after the horse had been placed In the hands of a competent handler. In this way M. Z. Stannard. P. C. Donovan and C. S. Hay. of JefrersonvJlle. became the owner of what was considered a gold mine, if there ever was one In horseflesh. Costly equipment was bought a high- priced driver was engaged, and a box- staii Dig enougn to noia a aozen nuraea was prepared and a sign bearing the wordlns. "Grover C 2:06," was tacked up over the entrance. A, consultation was held by the Jeffersonrilie nair. owners, and they concluded to make a killing at Minneapolis, but the great trotter was to be campaigned through Indiana to sea son him. Murphy by this time had pur chased a farm with his J2a00. and was willing to do anything his partners said. Columbus was to be the first start for Grover C but he was not to be allowed to win, for that would be spoiling things In tho beginning. He-was to go a fast mile, however, for one heat Just to show what was Jn him. The day that he was to start arrived, and his owners went to Columbus. The horse had been In good form, but when put on the track for a warming up he went lame, and that was his finish. His New Albany record was his best but he was taken all over the country and started In stake trots, occasionally winning small amounts, but putting In most of his time eating up feed bought by his owners. Murphy. Stannard and Dono van dropped out of the game. :and Hay at last became sole owner of Grover C. Every now and then the old horse would turri up at some track, and faith was never lost In him that some day he might make a winning, and from this cause he was frequently oacKed neavuy, Dut ne never made good. It Is believed by many that Grover C lost more money for those who backed him than any horse that ever wore harness. Hay never lost faith In him. and. after tho old beast had been ehot, no said ne Deueveu tnis wouia nave been his year to make money, had not Grover C's leg been broken. For Lack of Transportation. World's Work At the mouth of a mine In Arizona 200.- 000 tons of precious ore are stacked await ing me ouuaing oi a rauroau iu nuui is. iu smelter, precious ae it is. its value would be consumed In transportation charges If an attempt was made to" move that ore by wagdn or pack animals at a cost of 25 cents per ton mile, while tho profit on It will be Immense when It can bo taken out by rail at a cost of cent per mile. In British Columbia many fine ore bodies have been staked out and then abandoned because they were so far re moved from any railroad that with the utter lack of transportation It was a waste of time and money to take out the ore. in -Mississippi witnin tne last ten years thousands of acres of the beat tim ber that ever grew have been sold for a mere pittance of 5 cents per acre because owing to the lack of transportation there was no way to get the timber out, and If cut it merely rotted where It lay. SwediMb. Tax on Heavyweight. Baltimore Sun. The Swedish government Is about to im pose a tax at a nxea rate per pouna on all persons weighing over 125 pounds. The fat man, It is held, gets more than his equitable share of the good things of life. and should pay for the extra space, air and edibles he consumes. This leads a railway contemporary to argue that It Is Inequitable to charge the same price for carrying a 100-pound passenger, occupying single-seat space, as for a 300-pound In dividual requiring twlceas much room. Passenger rates. It is held, should be fixed by the pound. Excess weight ot baggage Is charged for; why not excess weight of passenger? The trunk Is less Impor tant and requires less care than its own er. But the propooal has not been received with universal favor. The Jollity of tho corpulent man Is entitled to recognition in rate-making, serving as It does to lessen the grumbling caused by late trains or other defective service. Evolution of a Popular Saylasr. Washington Post At the last meeting of the Anthropo logical Society, Alnsworth B. Spofford read an Interesting paper on "The Folk lore of Popular Sayings." Among other things. Mr. Spofford showed how a large number of wise saws and sayings attrib uted to great men of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries were uttered In somewhat different form by the great men of Greece and Home, and also how a great many other popular sayings had been twisted, garbled And misquoted, lie took as an example the expression, "In time of peace prepare for war." This, he said, was at tributed to George Washington, but what the Father, of His Country really said was: "To be prepared for war ls the most effectual means of preserving peace. Afraid to Take Chances. Washington Star. "What have you ever done to deserve the confidence of your fellow-citizens?" asked the man of severe ideals. "Not much, I'm afraid," said Senator Sorghum, remorsefully. "Aren't you afraid of being displaced?" "No. They sent a man to this position some time ago who failed to give satis faction. Then they sent another who was1 worse. Then they sent me, and they say I'm still worse, but they are afraid to take any more chances." Illiteracy Among Immigrants. Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' The educational test of immigrants shows illlteracjramong the- 8cotch, Swedes and Norwegians to be 1 per cent; among the English, Finns and Moravians, 2 per cent; uerman, awiss ana rencn, 4 per cent; Japanese. 5 per cent; Dutch, 6 per cent. u.ne range or illiteracy among those coming from Southern Europe Is from 12 per cent among the Magyars to -10 per cent among the Italians. The widespread Impression that German schools are the most efficient seems to be groundless. Only a Slight Difference. London Punch. There Is not much difference between an epigram and an epitaph.. An epigram says unkind and true things about the living; the epitaph says kind and untrue things about the dead: THE POET OF THE BOGS, New York Sun. The Nashville American Is booming the Hon. William Roderick Moore, of Mem phis, as the legitimate successor of J. Gordon. Coogler, the lamented laureate of South Carolina. "When greedy death with Jealous hand plucked from the reluctant and protesting earth J. Gordon Coogler and stilled forever his tuneful lyre." sobs our poet-loving contemporary, melted by Just regret "many of us felt that the South had lost her sweetest singer." All of us felt so, but while there is one fiber ' of emotion and woodpulp left there will : be. as Mr. Dobson sings, "more poets yet." From the heights of Hagerstown and the. bowers of Pilduzer, Dithyramb Dick, the supreme son of song, pours Illimitable music: With echoes as ot eagles Aeschylean and Sappho singing- In the nightingale. Mr. Dick may be classified by pedants as a border poet, but the South should claim him as jealously as It claim? Poe. Great was Coogler; Moore. " the Poet of the Bogs" is gifted; but Dick Is a world-poet and beyond competition. Emma Eames visited the bower In Pil duzer the other day. Music met music. Before putting any. money on the Mem phis Moore, the Nashville American should commit to memory Mr. Dicks chant and carol to the Yankee singer: I. who am a poet Of a maimed lute. And who sing here, tied to bitter dust and frustate lays. Still my querulous pipe may I lift To you, the consummate artist with the Song, aiiu oeauiiiui among women. Tcu. the legatee of Israfll. The sweetest In voice of all God s creatures. Sovereign of raptures articulate. Of the lulling of reeds by soothing streams, Of all lullabies and ancient even-songs. Of all the capricious notes ot wood and field. And martial stirrings of shields and swords. of plumes and trumpets. And empress of all the triumphing swerves and soartags of larks. Of all the songs of all delights, blown per- lumeaiy About the world; The breeze of salt-crested seas on free strands, Tho woe-worn legends of banished kings. Lava ditties and the swan-songs of sundered hearts. And the sensuous high-clashing vocables ot Joy and rage Laugh rapidly in your voice. To what compare you? Did not the Day, Abashed, demur. Tentiveljr putting forth a rose and men violet? While the Sun. clouding Itself, was waro Of a rreater radiance. An all th birds were mute for envy and despair; Comparison, rivals! what are they? "When beauty, art and .music blends But the N'lght, cubtle as old Egypt. And shrunk back into the bowl of dark. Unveiled m partial contrition, In silence and shy confidence. Venus, the beautiful Evening star. A sister, songless sister, of you. rvioelem and Moores. Saylers and El mores, all BKaias ana sonswnieia, uavc tn tnkft a. back seat in the choir. Com- nnrrf with Dick, they are as a squasn- plpe to Bach, as a mouse's squeak to the Tmisio nf the srjheres. Yet the Poet of thp. "Rocs Is meritorious enough in his way. His most famous stanza murmurs mse the dove, and a gentle languor drips irom Its two feminine rhymes, while maniy ae- clslon sparkles In their masculine loiiow era: In their daya of adolescence He would often In her presence Press his tempted manly arm around Her Venus, willing waist. In her oresence." mind you. Even In the heat and fury of his Imagination the Poet of the Boies la exact The tempting waist Is there, physically present and the temoted arm does its duty. Vvbat memory" or "strange, lorgonen, mr-ui thlncs" is revived in these wonderful lines? In their days of adolescence He would often in her presence. From some subliminal chamber flashes that other divine distich: On January second. It was easily reckoned. Mr. Moore's oerfect stanza sings Itself. The last two lines are really one linked sweetness, one long candy-pull, one deep Jar of- honey. But Mr. Moore will nave to build more than a rour-nner to prove his fitness to stand among tne baras sud llme. Abel Sinkenzooper, now of Mexico, Mo., and beloved In the soutnwest as tne Silver Singer of tne uzarKS. nas painiea this same familiar scene or adolescence in words which may be put by the side of or above those of Moore, of Mempnis: My Ella, O my Ella, with your feet of Clndei- ella. With your wood-dove's gentle eys, My Ella. O my Ella. O may l oe your xeiiai Snow-soft, she cooed: Tnou maysf, My arm flew round her waist. Noble lines. The substitution of 'fella'1 or "feller" may be Justified under the terms of Mr. Slnkenxoopers license. Can Moore, of Memphis, tie these lines? The Dime River District. Eugene Register. Blue River mining district will be heard from In a substantial manner aur Ing tho next few years. It Is now getting In shape to awaken Interest throughout the mining worm in tne splen did development of gold-producing prop erties of the genuine kind. One thing can be truthfully said of Blue River district. It has been free from wildcat schemes and false inflations that have worked Ir reparable Injury to some other mining eec- tlons of the West, it nas goia ana to spare; It has mines that are bonanzas for tha owners: It has a jrooa reputation as a mining center, ana is uecamiug ueu known every year because the district is all and even more than the most san guine claim for It Some day a railroad will tap that section and then. Instead ot 125 stamps In operation there will be a stamp mill on about every property, ror they are all rich and aDouna in me pre cious metal. Congratalatlous for Peter. Philadelphia Press. The Emperor Francis Joseph was the only one to mention "the heinous and universally reprobated crime" by which the new King attains his throne, but the prospects are that nothing will be done In regard to that crime. King Peter, whatever may be his private opinion on the subject can do nothing. He owes his Kingship to the assassins, and they are all powerful at this time In Servla. Tljfi people of that country do not. ac cording to tne most trustworthy accounts, show much Interest In the change of gov ernment Whatever display there Is In Belgrade Is the result of orders Issued by the military officers concerned in the as sassination. "My Old Kentucky Home." (As sung by a feudist.) Chicago Tribune. The sun shines brignt in my oia Kentucky home; 'Tls Summer and the feudist is gay; The six-shooter's ripe and the rifle Is in bloom. And I hear sweet music all the day. From hill and dale cornea a merry, merry crack, -And the bullets" alp I sip! in their flight: And by'm ,by one will plunk me In the back- Then my old Kentucky home, good night I Weep no more, my lady. Weep no more today. i "We'll sing one song for the old Kentucky horn. Then It'o me to the glad gun play. The eye roust aim and the trlgger-Ons1- bend k Wherever the feudist may go. A few more days . and my troubles all will end. And I'll die with my back to the foe. A few more days to worx the magarine. And along the brown barrel to sight; A few more dars. and It's me oeneatn tne green I Then my old Kentucky home, good night! Weep no more, my lady; You've wept enough today. We'll sing one song for the old Kentucky home. Then I'm off to the glad gun play. NOTE ;ASD COGENT? It's only two days now. Hon. John B 1 seems tobe there with the goods. Wyoming appears to be Mlowlng the bad example set by Heppner. - Life, liberty hnd the pursuit of fashion Is all the Spokane telephone gKs demand. A water famine Is menacing Chicago. Portland does not seem to be in the same It Is not a breakfast food ad to tay that the .Hungarian. Diet disagrees -Rth the Premier. Anxious mammas are wondering how many limes tneir little Doys wiiu-nave left on July 5. "Russia ignores Corean protest." "ays a dispatch. "Said the flea to the elephant. Where are you shoving? " The shipbuilding trust resembled a Jerry-built vessel launched with flying colors no founder in the first sale. Seattle has had a $25,000 fire. We have always been led to believe that there wasn't that much property In that city. As Chief Hunt has forbidden the boys to explode firecrackers before the Fourth. that elusive agency, spontaneous combus tion, must be at work again. The Chief has banished all toy pistols from the hands of small boys, and now If he will do the -same with real pistols In the hands of hold-up artists, satisfaction will be comdete. A Salem street-car man was found yes- - terday wandering around In a dazed con dition. Any one who ha3 ever ridden on the cars in the Capital City will not wonder at. the statement. The Jury disagreed In the case of ex- Sheriff Huntington, of Baker County, on trial for embezzlement There Is little sat isfaction In this for Mr. Huntington, how ever, as the only point on which the Jurors were uncfeclded was the amount he had secured. We rise, according to Tennyson, upon stepping stones of our dead selves. Apropos of the Mad Mullah, a less poetic observer would conclude that we rise upon stepping stones of dead other people, and that civilization In the Soudan had Just climbed a flight of 10,000 esparate steps The list of occupations which Harvard seniors will take -up after leaving col lege: us:ness 137'JournaUsm S Law 112t Ministry 6 Teaching "TiArt ft Undecided 67lnsurance .......... 5 Medicine -tft.Diplomacy a Engineering -HjRallroadlng 2 Graduate study ... 27;Travel 1 Banking 16tWest Point 1 Architecture 15Llterature 1 Science WiPhllosopny 1 Brokerage 12) - Chemistry 10 Total 613 Gorman lor President. New York Evening Post. Senator Blackburn pronounces for Sen ator Gorman as Democratic candidate for the Presidency, on the ground that capi talists would not "shrink" from him. But the value of that recommendation de pends upon who the capitalists are, and upon the reason why Gorman has no ter rors for them. Some of the Maryland Senator's activities have been of a sort to endear him to a certain order of capi talists. When he put himself at the head of the Senatorial clique In 15W. and did all he could to ruin the Wilson tariff bill by loading It down with favors to pro tectionists, tne semsn interests wnicn used him did not maeea, snrinic irom him. They fell upon his "neck In their gratitude and Joy.' But there were tnose who then shrank from their party's be trayeramong them Grover Cleveland, who would not sign the law which Sena tor Gorman did so much to deform. Simi larly, when he endeavored to wreck the repeal of the silver purcnase aci, mere was a good deal of "shrinking" by hon est men from his presence. Gorman may flatter himself that all these things are forgotten or forgiven; but If he seriously plots for the nomination he will find that there will be plenty to snnnx. irom mui even it "capitalists" do not. Should he, by any malign chance, be made the can didate, the party vote would show an uu- paralleled shrinkage. Jack Tar's Strange Petii. St. James Gazette. At the review before the King at Malta the pet donkey of the Bacchante, we are told, marched In front of the men. A .lonknv la a rather bulky sort of pet. but probably no more troublesome than the pet deer of the TerriDie. xne privilege i keeping pets Is very much appreciated by bluejackets, who lavish their spare time and some of their spare cash on stranga animals. The Centurion, says the Court Circular, once had a monkey that used to eat with a spoon from a plate and drink from a glass, with a dinner napkin tucked under his chin the while. The Caesar had a pet goose some time back. Cats and dogs, of course, are common on board ship. The French warship Mar- ceau had a bantam cock named jou langer as pet which crowed whenever the guns fired. The German Prlnz Wllhelm had a gray Btork, and the United States Chicago had a pig. Doves, pigeons, blackbirds and peacocks are popular with Italian seamen, and the unfortunate Al mlrante Oquendo of Spain had a pair of cassowaries as pets. The Seven Ages ot Woman. Chicago Record-Herald. At first the maiden Skipping the rope and nursing dolls. Or climbing trees and sitting straddle On top of fences. Sticking, out her tongue ji And making ugly faces at the boys.. Who stop to tease her. Then the graduate. Arrayed in fluffy stuff and looking sweet And innocent, despite the big. long words She thinks show forth her knowledge. Kext the bridesmaid With flowers In her hand and full of hope As with the handsome usher proudly she Moves down the aisle behind the one who leant With clinging confidence upon the groom. Fourth stage, herself a bride. With eyes down cast, r She leana upon her sturdy father's arm And wonders why be Isn't slim and tall Like John. She sees her mother drenched in tears, And cries a little bit herself, mayhap. But proudly notes that all the town Is thers And knows the presents will be beautiful So. radiant, she jasjes from the scene. Then the young mother, leaning down To count each several eyelash resting on The tiny cheek: her heart so full Of love and Joy that all the happy day She babbles Incoherently and dreams. At night, of troops of angels and can hear The whirring of their wings around-her bed. Next, the mother-in-law, weeping copiously While John, so slim and knightly once, grown stout And awkward, trudges down the lengthy aisle, Grim-vlsaged. with their daughter. There she sits And. with slnklrg heart, gives up -her child? Knows that the man can't be halt good enough To merit the sweet treasure he receives. And blubbering so she cannot hear the words That once, as falling on her willing ears. Were so delicious. Last scene of all. The grandma, fondly dandling up and down The crowing little one. Half daft with Joy. Stewing the catnip tea and giving forth A thousand lessons from her own experience; Jealous of every touch and each caress That careless, bold Intruders would bestow. Talks baby talk and thinks It understands; I In second childishness she coos and croooos.