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For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second South street. For sale in Washington, D. C. by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, 006-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. 1 YESTERDAY" S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 81; minimum temperature, 60; pre cipitation. O. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and continued' warm; northerly winds. j PORTLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 10. TWO rOIXTS AGAINST LOCH REX. Eastern press comment on Judge Lochren's decision In the Northern Se curities case is singularly disappointing in its aridity- and lac of spirit and point. Of some significance, per haps, is the fact that the Minnesota papers, with Hill sympathies, do not venture to Indorse the decision, but confine themselves to perfunctory ex position of its purport and of its ob vious clash with the Court of Appeals decision of April. Of possibly greater significance are the utterances of two recognized ex ponents of the capitalistic class, the Evening Post and Journal of Commerce of NewYork City, each of which makes no effort to conceal the unfavorable Im pression made upon it by Judge Loch ren's reasoning. Respectful as their language is, the view they take of the decision Is apparently just about that expressed iranKiy in tnese columns a week ago. Their specific contributions to the issue are, however, pertinent and suggestive. The storm center of the Lochren de cislon is clearly where he openly takes issue with the conclusion of the higher court, that Is, the Court of Appeals, concerning the illegality of a move by Northern Securities which puts it in a position to disobey the law, and pro vides it the incentive to do so. This, Judge Lochreri says, is no offense; but the Evening Post calls attention to the fact that no less a tribunal than the Supreme Court of the United States, be fore which all these decisions must come for final adjudication, has already passed upon this point In unequivocal terms. The Post's citation is from a de cislon rendered under the Sherman act by the Supreme Court itself in 1897, and Is as follows: The suit of the Government can be main tained without proof of the allegation that tho agreement was entered Into for the purpose of restraining trade and commerce, or for maintaining rates above what was reasonable. The necessary effect of the agreement Is to restrain trade or commerce no matter what the Intent Vas on the part of those who signed it. The service rendered by the Journal of Commerce is to point out that the objection raised by Judge Lochren to the Court of Appeals' decision was by that court itself anticipated and virtu ally set aside. Judge Lochren, it will be remembered, charged the Court of Appeals with holding the unjust posi tion that a "person" can be punished for what he Is in a position to do. In this he adopts the view of Northern Securities counsel, that there is no dif ference in law between the rights and obligations of a "person" and a cor poration as a shareholder, or In their relation to combinations in restraint of trade. But the Journal of Commerce reminds us that the fallacy of this posl tlon was exposed in the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals, which may. indeed, nave to pass upon Judge Loch rens conclusions before the question comes before the Supreme Court. No "person" in the ordinary sense of the term is created for the mere purpose of representing a number of other persons as a holder of their stock In several corporations. No person can be a com bination in the sense that a corporation may be, and there is a distinction here so broad that one Hviuld suppose that any court would have to recognise It It is not, of course, incredible, that the Supreme Court will reverse at once itself and the court of the Eighth Cir cuit, but it Is rather more probable that it will no nothing of the sort; and It is perfectly certain that the two points here treated form an Inextricable part of the case and the issue, with a hold on the discerning mind which no re versal or argument can dislodge. In no field apparently Is wireless tele graphy to have more effect than In that of naval warfare. The service rendered the defending force In the maneuvers Just concluded on the Eastern coast was of such great value that it prac tically decided the contest unfavorably for the invaders. A test such as this, made in conditions practically Identical with those of real war, is sufficient demonstration of the importance to which the wireless telegraph has al ready attained In the 6ea service. The conditions of search are greatly changed. Formerly a scouting vessel, on discovering the enemy, had to steam within signalling distance of her sup port, and the information was thus tediously conveyed to the main squad ron or to the base. And even then the scout was unable closely to observe the enemy's number or disposition, besides being in danger of capture by a swift cruiser, or possibly a destroyer. Now a patrolling vessel could afford to run the., risk of destruction while gaining information, being able to communicate with her support during the' work. Blockading work, too, will be rendered easier, and it will be practically impos sible for any beleaguered fleet to leave its harbor without being observed. THE JOTS OP ME3IORY. All the world knows, by this time, how hard was the struggle of the young priest, Joseph Sarto, In his Venetian parish. His work was hard and his pay small Early and late he toiled, suf fered, sacrificed. The world also knows how glorious has been his advance to the supreme head of the greatest re ligious organization of human history. As supreme prelate over 300,000,000 be lievers, his ambition, as Pius X. should be content, his cup of joy full to the brim. Yet this is what he said to some of his fellow-townsmen on Saturday: Throughout my career and even now I re member with Joy and emotion my youthful days among you, which were also my happiest. And there you have the old and un solved problem of the happiest age. Many a man feels, as Pius does, that his youthful days were happiest, and for some that Is probably true. There are happy childhoods which are fol lowed by unhappy maturity, and, on the other hand, there are early years of hardship and privation, succeeded by days of rich Joy and satisfaction, such as must come to this noble man in the Vatican, as he reflects upon his way of life, from lowly beginnings to supreme place. For whether we view him as the statesman, already dealing firmly and sagaciously between ardent factions, or as the democratic ruler, stopping be nlgnantly, as our own President Roose velt would have done, to give a hand to the humble workmen on the palace Walls. Or 99 the rroa rllraltftnr T-a v. o w j w- celvlng in kindness and love the visitors from distant America as well as from "that star-beloved Elysium of the sea. thine own Venice" It is perfectly cer tain that If happiness has the right to dwell in any heart. It Is the heart of Plus X. Yet as he looks back to his early years, he fancies them the best "my youthful days among you, which were also the happiest." The truth Is that as the years recede we treasure the pleasures and forget the pains. Memory even casts a halo of sweet radiance over our miseries gone by, until she cheats us Into believing they were not so bad after all. Mr. and Mrs. Nob Hill will tell you gleefully to day how they used to count the sticks of wood and do without breakfast occa sionally when the wolf stood clamorous at the door in the early years of their married life. It is sweet to tell, but It was not pleasure then; it was misery. It is a strange thing, nnd might be made Exhibit A In the evidence of the goodness of Nature, that Time softens the memory of grief and accentuates the record of joys. As Mr. Stoddard, the good old American man and poet, who has just died, expressed It: Only the sunny hours Are numbered here. Not Winter time that lowers No twilight drear; But from a golden sky. Where sunbeams fall. Though the bright momenta fly. They're counted all. The heart Its transient woe Remembers not; The ills of long ago Are half forgot. But childhood's round of bliss. Youth'a tender thrill. " Hope's whisper. Love's first kiss They haunt me still. There is nothing more universally compelling than this propensity to d'well on the Joys of memory with ex aggerated fondness. Among many Il lustrations, perhaps the most striking, and certainly a most Impressive one, as it is a long way from Italy to Ireland, and a far cry from the Vatican to the operatic stage, is supplied by Balfe's Immortal composition, "Bohe mian Girl." Here is a work whose musi cal imperfections are the theme of bit ter expert denunciation and whose plot is confessedly childish; yet it has as firm hold upon the affections of the race as any opera ever written, and the whole secret of Its power lies in its resistless appeal to the Joys of memory, a theme so effectively used by great versifiers like Byron and Moore. It Is this fanciful adornment and Idealiza tion of memory that gives a perpetual charm to the patriotic exploits and pa thetic love-making of Thaddeus, the dreams of Arllne, the "bliss forever past" of the gypsy queen, and the sor rows of the noble count himself, whose solace Is: For Memory Is the only friend That Grief can. call its own. Youth lives in the future, maturity In the present, age in the past; and it is a comforting and reassuring thing that as the man in his declining years re turns In thought to "ponder o'er the past," Nature has so ordered it that Joys stand out sharply in memory and sorrows either pass from mind or are touched with a glamor, that softens them Into sweet and tender recollection. As memory scans the past, It finds only the bright spots "my youthful days, which were also my happiest." . No past the glad heart cowers. No memories dark. Only the sunny hours Tho dial mark. FROM BEACH TO COUNTRY. The exodus of fashionable life from Newport and other watering places to country seats Is partly, of course, as generally accounted, a mere exhibit In snobbish desire to escape from close contact with " 'ol pollol," but there Is another aspect of It which must not be neglected, and that is the natural re bound from the artificial life that sea side abode Is fast becoming to the more simple dejights of country life and closer contact with Nature. Gird as we may at the butterflies of Bar Harbor and Narragansett Pier, the movement complained of Is none the less notice able here In the more primitive civiliza tion of Oregon and Washington. However fondly city people may Im agine that they are getting rest out of the strenuous whirl of the modern sea shore Summer resort, tired Nature Is pretty sure to assert Itself sooner or later: and the genuine relief and res toration afforded by occasional dips into real country life will be certain of effect. The simple fact, as regards the Oregon and "Washington beaches, Very noticeable this year. Is that they are less and less occupied by Portlanders ' and more and more by those from the rural dis tricts of Oregon. Washington and Idaho. The beach Is ceasing to be a place of rest for the overworked city man, and Is becoming a place o rush and crushing gayety and excited minis tering to feverish desires. The old, easy-going, restful Teglme is passing, and the day of fast time, close connec tions and evening dress Is here. This is pleasant to the prosperous farmers of the interior and their society-craving families, but it Is death to, the nerves of business men and society queens. It is also possible to understand, it not altogether to approve, the desire of city people to escape the curious and jostling crowds that swarm over once retired bummer retreats. East and West- You may not have anything In particular against Mr. Buttinski and Miss Rubberneck; you simply want to be alone. You don't dislike them es pecially, but you don't want anybody but yourself and possibly a few friends of your own choosing. If a man is en titled to pick his company at any-time. It must be when he Is going to play or to rest. In business and society we are largely creatures of an enforced en vironment; but when we take a day off, we reserve the right to choose our com panions. If this cannot be done in watering-places, it can be measurably approached at -the country seat, and thither, evidently, many are disposed to repair. . It is an interesting if somewhat baffling fact that about one-tenth of mankind is busy trying to get away from the nine-tenths that ruthlessly pursue It, no whit deterred by the fact that the nine are not wanted by the one. Many a maiden Is carried to the altar perforce by the most masterful of several suitors, none of whom she can abide; and the less you like some people the tighter they hang about you. We suspect that there Is something hu man after all in the dizzy denizens of he Four Hundred, and that constant attendance of the unwelcome at length produces a healthy state of disgust. There Is no better place to conquer such ennui and Indignation than In the coun try. Incidentally, there should be some amelioration of rural roads, and under Providence a growing death list of tramps, under the beneficent wheels of automobiles. INCOMPLETE INFORMATION. Statistics, in order to be useful, should be definite in the information they con vey. "Unless they contain Information upon a matter In which people are In terested and are carefully particular ized, their value Is practically nothing. And in department of public affairs Is there more need for definite statistical information than In that relating to the public schools. At an expense of a mil lion and a half dollars a year, the com mon schools of Oregon are educating about 100,000 children. Not only each individual, but the state as a whole has an interest In knowing what has been and Is being accomplished with this ex penditure" of money. In many, and In most particulars, the statistical reports of the affairs of the public schools are complete and satis factory, and yet there is an apparent opportunity for improvement In giving Information as to the results that have been accomplished. We learn that there are In the state 143,737 persons between the age of 4 and 20 years. These per sons are said to be of school age. Of this total number, 100,064 were enrolled in the public schools during the past year. A small number were enrolled In private schools, or outside of their districts, and 32,145 persons of school age did not attend any school. All these facts are Interesting, but they would be more instructive If. they were more complete. If the number of children not attend ing any school means anything at all. It means that the number given are not In school, and should be. But it prob ably does not mean anything at all, for there are doubtless a large number of those 32,145 who have already completed the common school course, and, having engaged In useful occupations, should not be in school. Here Is where the sta tistics are at fault. The common-school course covers a period of eight years, but In country schools, where the terms are short, a child requires from eight to twelve or more years to pursue the studies of the course. A child who starts to school at the age of 6 may complete the course at the age of 14. Most of those who complete It at all graduate before they have reached their 20th year. Recollecting these facts, it" Is clear that when we say that there are 143,757 persons of school age In the state, that 100,064 of these are enrolled In the public schools and 32,145 are not attending any school, we have not con veyed Information which gives a very definite Idea of the exact educational condition of the children of this state. It would be not only Interesting, but useful to know why these 32,000 chil dren are not In school; how many of them have already completed the full common-school course; how many of them have completed half, or six years, of the course. As a general rule, every child should receive a common-school education. The state provides the fa- duties, and the welfare of the state re quires that the advantages offered be utilized. In a general way, we know that Oregon ranks high In educational matters, for the percentage of Illiteracy is low. But there is a wide range be tween illiteracy and having a common school education. Providing the add! tional Information will not in itself improve the condition of the schools, but since the fact is stated that a cer. tain number of persons of school age are not attending any school, It would be well to go one step farther and show what relation this fact has to the edu cational system of the state. It would also be Interesting to know what pro portion of the 100,000 pupils in the pub lic schools have reached the different grades, for thus the extent to which children pursue the course of study in the public schools could be determined. INACTIVITY VERSUS PROGRESS, The purchase by the Portland Flour ing Mills Company of another large mill on Puget Sound is a matter of more than passing Interest to Portland. It does not necessarily mean that the big concern, which In Importance now out ranks all others on the Pacific Coast, will do any less business at Portland than it is now doing. That it will do more than It is now doing on Puget Sound Is a certainty. The loyalty of Mr. Wilcox and his associates toward Portland is unquestioned, and In push ing the product of their mills they have carried the name and fame of Port land all over the world. Loyalty and chic patriotism, however, will not grind flour nor secure the wheat from which It Is ground. It would, perhaps, sound a little harsh to say that the inactivity of Portland and the negligence of the O. R. & N. Company have forced this big firm steadily to enlarge Its Puget Sound holding, while no increase what ever has been made at Portland; but in substance this is what has happened. The completion of the Northern Pa clfic Railroad opened up a large wheat territory that was tributary to Puget Sound, and Into which the O. R. & N Company refused to build. Mr. Wilcox had begun the development of the Orl ental flour trade, and It was Increasing so rapidly that he felt the need of an Increased territory on which he could draw for wheat supplies, and also of better shipping facilities than were then obtainable from Portland. He built the big mill at Tdeoma, and In due season It was working up to its capac ity for the greater part of the time. The Northern Pacific, anxious to bring all of the business possible to Tacoma, then extended Its line into the Clear water country, and another Inducement was offered millers to establish plants on Puget Sound. The conmletion of the Great Northern opened up that portion, oi me uig joena country that was not reached by the Northern Pacific, and more wheat was available for milling. Meanwhile, the big mill at Portland, even when drawing- on restricted terri tory, wa turning out more flour for the Orient than could be handled by the Portland steamers sailing direct, and every month large quantities were sent to Puget Sound for reshlpment. This may have been an unnatural trade con dition, but It was a condition and not a theory. More wheat was available for grinding on Puget Sound, and more steamers were on hand to carry It away after It was ground. What, then, could be more natural than that the enter prise of Mr. Wilcox should take advan tage of the situation? Some action he was forced to take In order to maintain his supremacy In the flour trade with the Orient. Portland, perhaps, xannot be blamed for the failure of the O. R. & N. to get into the new territory that has been such a factor in the upbuild ing of the milling business on Puget Sound. Neither can all of the blame for the failure of the O. R. & N. Com pany to protect the business of Its rail lines by providing adequate steamship service be laid at Portland's door, but we must share It. We have not the channel for steamers that should have been provided, and which past experi ence has demonstrated can be secured. The wheat shippers, flour shippers and lumber shippers have all been leg islated out of the Port of Portland Commission, and while their successors are all good men, none of them can un derstand by personal experience what It means to have ships held up. for two or three weeks until a channel can be dredged for them. This handicap Is one that can be removed, and when It Is removed and the bar at the mouth of the river Is dredged out, the last ex cuse for not placing enough steamers on the Portland line to take care of the business will be removed. When there are enough steamers to take care of it, business will Increase here as it has Increased on Puget Sound. The In creasing trade of the Orient will soon call for more milling capacity on this Coast The location of these new mills will denmd on the rail and steamer fa cilities available. It Is now up to the O. R. & N. Company and the City of Portland to deteremlne whether we go ahead or stand still the latter alterna tive being equivalent to a retreat. It Is unfortunate that the State Board of Health has seen flt to allow Itself to be drawn Into the medical war of which we treated yesterday. Possibly the per son at Salem, who died under the treat ment of an osteopath, might have lived longer If treated by a practitioner of the regular school. But even If It be as sumed that this was within the proper province of the Board, it is nevertheless bad policy for the Board to' take ag gressive action In cases of this kind. The people are demanding and expect ing of the State Board of Health the prosecution of such Investigations, and the establishment of such regulations as will decrease the ravages of typhoid and-other Infectious and contagious dis eases. Agitation at two legislative as semblies has shown that public opinion will not support the attempt of regular physicians .to declare by law that osteopaths shall not practice their pro fessions. There Is a demand that some liberty be left to the Individual In the choice of the person who shall or shall not treat the diseases of himself and members of his family. All attempts to curtail this liberty by invoking the aid of law serve merely to prejudice the public mind against the regular physi clans. When the State Board of Health was created there was no thought of Its assuming -the position of a prosecutor of healers not regularly licensed. This Is a matter more properly within the powers and duties of a prosecuting at torney, and the State Board of Health will impair Its usefulness by spending Its time on questions involving the right to practice medicine. The right to pure water and pure food Is a much more timely subject for Investigation. Twenty miles an hour on a country road and ten in a city seem very rea sonable limits to set upon the speed of automobiles, and yet many British own ers are strenuously fighting a bill with these provisions. Ten miles within the boundaries of a city must be as high a speed as 13 commensurate with safety the safety, that Is, of pedestrians, and except on very lonely country roads more than twenty miles an hour would be dangerous. Indorsement of Director - General tGoode, by the State Commission, Is not oniy a nanasome compliment to a de serving official, but Indicates a harmony of purpose between the two boards which is in Itself- an earnest of sue cess. Among the favorable auspices of the Centennial the unity of sentiment and co-operation of effort are as signifi cant as any. With this programme continued to the end, failure Is impos sible. Much feeling has been aroused In Shanghai over the case of the Chinese journalists, whose surrender is de manded by the Imperial government! The foreign settlements In Shaigha! are extra-territorial as regards China, and the British authorities, in whose section the reformers lived, are being adjured by all the communities to refuse the cession of the men. Brazil Is Implored by one of her legis lators to Increase her navy, in view of -possible European aggression. The ora tor forgets that his coast is patrolled by a battleship that can do all the fighting required, and that Is the United States Steamship Monroe, As it has been decided In the wisdom of some high official that Imported mummies are not liable to duty, the only way to discourage them, appar ently, is on the ground of their being pauper immigrants. The Astoria boys that shot two horses "just to see them jump" should be shown that there are other ways of being made to jump. It does seem that a man should have the right to choose for himself the form of medical practice he will die under. LIFE IS NOT CREATED. . New York Tribune. When so absurd an announcement is made as that which emanated a few days, ago from Anderson, Ind., perhaps It ought not to be dignified by any notice. The pretence of Mr- Uttlefleld that he had de veloped living germs out of a mixture of common salt, water, alcohol and am monia shows him to be either an igno ramus or an aspirant to fame- in the realm of fiction, or both. The close resemblance b'etween his literary style and that of the quack 'doctor Is suggestive, to say the least. "Volatile magnetism," the evolution of life out of crystals, the tri lobltes and other features of the narra tive may well impose on the Ignorant and credulous, but they are unintelligible to the initiated. Such talk is what is com monly known as "rot." Since there is a chance that a few people" maybe misled by the story, however, a little comment may not be out of place. Even if Mr. Littlefield's alleged experi ments were imbued with honest purpose. they would be comparablo today only to child s mud-pie making. For half a century or more it has been known that the essential material of all plants and animals, the "physical basis of life," is highly complex chemical compound, to which the name protoplasm has been giv en, when life cannot exist without it, so far as naturalists have been able to dis cover, the manufacture of protoplasm would not necessarily mean Imbuing the product with life. It does not appear, though, that Mr. Llttlefleld has succeeded in making protoplasm, to begin with; nor was it to be imagined that he could do so. Chemists realize with sorrow that, while they can take a substance apart and find what it Is made of. they cannot often make those same Ingredients unite again. Analysis and synthesis are not equally feasible. The union of the elements that compose protoplasm has never been artl ficfally effected. It is brought about only , by already living bodies. A second difficulty which any one would encounter In an attempt to produce a living creature Is that, in the opinion of all reputable modern biologists, life re sides In cells. The cell Is built up out of protoplasm, but the microscope shows that it is an elaborately organized ma chine. An honest experimenter, therefore, must not only do what no chemist has yet done, but ho must also perform a task in architecture and engineering. He must first produce his raw material, and then construct a cell therewith. Vlrchow laid down the doctrine in 1S5S that no cell could be developed, except from another one, and, with trifling modifications, all naturalists entertain that view today. When a man talks as Mr. Llttlefleld Is re ported to have done, he simultaneously offends Theology and defies Science. The Impossibility of creating life from dead matter was conclusively demonstrat ed long before Vlrchows day. The great German pathologist confirmed the idea, and carried It one stage further than his predecessors. His doctrine applies to the cell, with which vitality Is Inextricably associated. Redl, a Florentine philoso pher, fully 2fe centuries ago asserted the broad principle that there could be no life without previous life. A belief In "spon taneous generation" had resulted from noticing that living organisms would ap pear in the fle6h of dead animals under some circumstances. The Italian showed that if the meat was protected from flies by gauze the observed phenomena would hot occur. It was only when the latter Insects had a chance to lay eggs on or In the flesh that the particular forms of life referred to would develop. Other battles were fought over the matter dur ing the next 100 years, and even Buffon was arrayed on the wrong side of the question. The final victory was won by Spallanzani. By the microscope very much smaller creatures had been detected than were known in Rcdl's day. Several observers had found that. If dead grass were steeped in water that had been boiled to kill all germs, thousands of in fusoria would develop In the fluid. Spal lanzani proved that the parental and In fecting organisms were borne to the water by the outside air. If these were excluded, by hermetically sealing the ves sel containing grass" and water after 'the first boiling, there would be no offspring. Any one who fancied that life can be created from inanimate matter by human skill should read history. A Race ChnracterlHtic. New Orleans Times-Democrat. -The riotous negroes went there to ask Booker Washington why he was "selling out the colored race." This explains the situation; It accounts for the milk in nearly every negro cocoanut, and explains In a large dagre why It is that so few negroes will furnish Information that will lead to the detection or arrest of those of their race who are charged with crime. They are afraid to tell, because they fear that when they do so they will be charged with selling out to the white men. They have no proper conception of the object and purposes of law; they do not understand, that one of the most Im portant of Its purposes is to secure the weak against the encroachments of the strong, but regard it as an engine of op pression and one peculiarly directed against some of the practices and eccen tricities of their race. So If one negro criminal, the Informant loses caste among his fellows he is ostracised, and may be really In danger of violent treat ment. A negro may commit any crime from petit larceny to criminal assault or murtter and arson without losing caste among his fellow blacks; but when he as sists the law officers to apprehend one of his color for any crime, he commits the sin which among them Is considered un pardonable. And any good advice from one of their own color that may be given them concerning the erorr of their ways with reference to their duty in the ob servance of the laws, or which point out some things m their relation to the whites which need amending, leaves the giver of good advice open to the charge of "selling out his race," and he loses caste and Influence among them. "Politics" at the Vatican. Minneapolis Thibune. Stripping the word politics of all the de grading meanings hung about It by worldly selfishness and ambition, and fixing the mind on Its lofty ideal of or ganizing and directing human society for the highest good of all, we may discuss the political motives and the political ef fect of the election of Pope Plus X. We may suppose that the news dis patches borrow phrases from the vocabu lary of worldly politics only' for meta phorlcal convenience. It Is said, for ex ample, that Cardinal Gibbons played the chief part In frustrating the election of Cardinal Rampolla, This can mean noth ing more than that the American cardinal was enabled by the detachment of his position to perceive earlier than some others the Importance of choslng a pope free to rule broadly over the whole Chris tian world, without first making the effort to divest himself of possible inclinations and repulsions gained in the diplomatic and administrative service of the Roman curia. It Is said also that Archbishop Farley of New York, and Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, will be made cardinals before the end of the year, In accordance with pledge given In the conclave to Increase the representation of foreign countries In the secred college. This can mean noth ing more than that the same breadth of view which guided the college away from the choice of a pope narrowly Roman has Inspired It to consider reorganization of the college on a broader world basis- Referred to as a. Uncle Namber. Syracuse Post-Standard. If Mr. Bryan will turn to a recent Issue of the Nashville American he will find himself described as a political tramp who has seen better days, and as for the Commoner, the American declares that Hostetters Almanac has a larger circula tion and more Influence. MARRIAGES WITH FILIPINO WOMEN Manila correspondence New York Evening Post. This pregnant fact Is the parent of many evils in the social life of the Philippine Islands which are so glaring that they cannot escape the notice of the most cas, ual observer. Marriages between white American men and Filipino women are re garded with as much horror as marriages between blacks and whites In Tennessee. A white chief of bureau who married a Filipino woman was shunned by his asso ciates and hounded by his superiors so that he was glad to find seclusion in a common clerkship in another department: but. being a competent man, he gradually recovered his official position, but not his social position. Just befcre I left Manila, in May last, the local press was full of the story of a Filipino woman who was de serted by 'her American husband. The story was as follows: A Filipino woman in one of the provinces married an Amer ican. They lived together for some time. One day the American told his wife he was compelled to go to India on business. After his departure his wife became sus picious and followed him to Manila. She discovered that he had taken passage on an Army transport, then lying In the har bor, bound for the States. She appealed to the civil authorities to prevent her husband from deserting her. as the Ma nila newspapers phrased it, but she was told that they had no. authority. She then appealed to the military authorities, ac cording to the local newspapers, and got a like answer. The poor woman, deserted and heartbroken, was standing on the shore as the transport swept out of the glorious bay. But this sort of agony Is avoided In the main by not marrying and giving In marriage. I was seated In the third-story room of a house In the Tondo district of Manila one afternoon in April last. The weather was warm and sticky. All the windows and doors in sight were wide open. Across the way there was a row of two-story tenement houses, 11 in number. My friend suddenly said: "There Is a condition for you. Those 11 houses are occupied by 11 American men and 11 Filipino women. The house on the extreme left Is occupied by a colored American, who Is married to the FillDlno woman. The other ten houses are occu pied by ten white Americans, who are not married to the Filipino women. You will find that all of these men occupy subor dlnate positions in the civil government. xhey are never seen outside the house with these women, and they leave them when they tire of them. The condition Is common one here and in the provinces, and It is much to be regretted." And as rambled about Manila, as I did all the time that I was not in the provinces. I found that the statement made by my friend was substantially correct. Sach Thing Will Happen. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Hardy R. Whitlock, the Danville Sher iff, who, singlehanded. subdued a murder- our mob, is an organization Republican He has always worked with and In the regular Republican organization of Ver milion County. He was nominated by the Republican organization and yas op posed by tho Republican "reformers." John Beard, the Danville Mayor who went away and sat down while a mur derous mob tortured and slew a prisoner In his custody. Is hot an organization man In politics. Nominally he is a Democrat, but he is careful to have It understood that he Is an "independent" or "reform" Democrat. He was elected In an attempt to "smash the machine" in Danville. According to the "Independent" theory of politics the "independent" Mayor ought to have done better when the test of his official fidelity came than the organiza tion Sheriff. According to thl3 theory the Sheriff ought to have stopped to think whether or not his party organization would lose votes by his quelling the mob, while the mayor ought to have thought of nothing but his duty under the laws. However, the facts were just, the other way. The Mayor saw "prominent and respectable citizens" In the mob, and went and sat down. The Sheriff saw noth ing but rioters and stood up and put them down. Queer, Isn't it, how these cocksure political theories go off at the wrong end In real life? Great-Grandfather of the Sylph. .New York Sun. A correspondent on Sunday referred In cidentally to the famous landaulet of Attorney-General Williams In the days of President Grant. If this historic vehicle Is yet to be found In the lumber room of the stables of Jus tice it ought to be rescued, renovated and set up in a conspicuous place In the National Museum. It should be preserved there for the admiration of future generations; not at all as a specimen of a long-past fashion of carriage making, but as the earliest monument of the official deadhead system, an origlnul and typical example of the gradual diversion of public property of various sorts from public to private use. the grandfather of the Dolphin and the Arbutus and the great-grandfather of the Mayflower and the Sylph. The moulding, moth-eaten cushions of Williams' landaulet should be reuphols- tered; Its rickety wheels should be stif fened and Its creaky springs oiled; and It should be hauled forth In triumph from its present obscure corner and established us an object lesson, an Illustration and record in the splendid collection which contains so much that tells of American progress. Undone! New Orleans Times-Democrat. Wall street is passing through the aeony which Inhered in the fitness of 'things from the very moment when Mr. Morgan and his fellow Aiadalns began to rub the wonderful lamps and rings which the splendid prosperity of the American people had endowed them withal. The genii appeared at the be hest of the magicians, and proceeded to erect cloud-capped towers on founda tions of sand. Hundreds of millions of fictitious wealth are vanishing Into the void whence they came, and the land 13 filled with the wail of the dreamers who, blinded by the spell of a great name, mistook the shadow for the substance of things. There Is Justice, both prosaic and poetic. In the fact that no small part of the huge loss falls upon the supersubtle promoters who. In the very act of biting Incautious wayfarers, have themselves been bitten to tho bohe. "Sot Ready for Independence. Boston Journal. Now the native Hawallans want Inde pendence. Judging by the way the Ha wallans behave with what little Inde pendence they have, there Is- conclusive nroof that, whatever they may be fit for. they are not flt for Independence. Anarchy Is the sort of independence Into which (rtiiln rapps fall If the mliwl rarxm in South America cafnnot get along without constant revolution, what can be ex pected of the yet more crude races of the Philippines and of Hawaii? The Lost reader. (Rosamund Marriott Watson in The Athen aeum.) In memo r lam W. E. "Henley. Hall and farewell! Through gold cf sunset glowing. Brave as of old your ship puts forth to sea; We stand upon the shore to watch your going. Dreaming of years long gone, of years to be. The ship sails foclh, but not from our remem brance. We who were once of your ship's company: Master of many a strong and splendid sem blance. Where shall wo And another like to thee? Your ship sets sail. Whate'er the end restore you. Or golden Isles; or Night without a star. Never. Great-Heart, has braver bark before you Or sailed, or fought, or crossed the soundless bar. NOTE AND COMMENT. vj? Who said "safer When doctors differ wise men smile." "Come over Into Macedonia, and helra us" raise Cain. Chicago's Chief of Pollea rnH ti-uh ' melodies, also criminals. A New Jersey man has erected a mrM tombstone, six feet by three, over his father's grave. This seems filial, until we read that he has carved some "orig inal poetry" on the slab. Then the con clusion Is forced upon us that the sur vivor wishes to keep the old man from escaping through the metre. From the terms of Carnegie's deed of gift. It will be Impossible for an Inhabi tant of the once royal town of Dunferm line to live, move or have his being with out touching United States steel estates. theaters, gardens, school and "moral and material Interest" promoters. The cottager la to be encouraged to grow flowers, the school boy to learn the use of tools, the hamfat to struggle for a yob In an en dowed theater, and the busybody to Jump In and help along the "moral and material interests" of his neighbor. Melancholy Is the tone adopted by the New York Times and the Boston Trans cript In telling of restaurant breakfasts. The early comer In the restaurant is looked upon as an Intruder, and is mads to feel the wrath of the waiters. The floor Is being swept, and dust Is settling thick upon the tables. Cruets are being replenished, windows cleaned, and com fort destroyed. There Is a deadly -monotony about tho bill of fare, so monot onous. Indeed, Is the whole matter that the Transcript describes it in language with more than a smack of the previous article In the Times. It is all very sad, and shows us again how the early bird Is hampered In his efforts to get the worm. By the way, it does not speak well for the Times man's habits that he should know anything of breakfast hours and ways. He should be fast asleep at that time of day. Armorplated. Madame Humbert, the most distin guished swindler of her time, is said to have appeared at her trial In a "becoming steel gown." In Kannaii. When a man wakes In Kansas he thanks God that a flood didn't sweep him away In the night, and on going to bed thanks God that he wasn't caught In a cyclone during the day. ' Johnson Jumps on Keats. ASTORIA, Aug. 9. (To the Editor.) I noticed some days ago a reference In the Note and Comment column to Keats. It was In the usual way of taking his writ ings as something wonderful. I have never been able to see the reason for this, and I suppose tho writer does not either, but follows what others say. I have a right to speak some In this mat ter, having taught school In Idaho for four years, and have also written ome for the Boise papers. Keats, I think, was poor as a writer. I never could read f much of his stuff, but I had a friend who told me the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" was the masterpiece, so I have read that with close care. Now I ask any Intelli gent man what there Is In it? It Is prac tically all a description of pictures on a pitcher, although there Is not a word in the "poem" to tell what it is about. If the title was lost you could not tell if Keats was describing a wedding or a stock show. And at thafj half of the "poem" Is taken up with questions. What men or gods are these? "What maidens. loath? is one line. Now, what sense Is there In It? Suppose a reporter on a Boise paper was writing a story, and said: Who was the policeman? "What man was murdered?" The people read to find that out, and not tell the writer them selves. He would be fired pretty quick.. How can the readers gain any ideas or Information from such stuff? Then another line goes like this: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweater. Now, again, it makes a sensible man ask what does It mean? How could un heard melodies be sweeter? If you can't hear them how could you tell they were sweet at all? But the whole "poem" Is on the same level. Take the last verse. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought. With forest branches and the trodden weed: Thou, silent form! dost tease us out or thought As doth eternity. Look at the starter, fae of the worst puns ever made. Attic, shape and atti tude. It wouldn't door the Tillamook Headlight. "Brede" thought, was a typo, error, but in the other copy In' town it is the same. I give this up. Maybe Keats read his own proof, and. his hidebound admirers (?) have been afraid to make It "breed" ever since. Then the "trodden weed." It seems from the way the "poem" Is fixed up that It Is about a time before tobacco was Invented. But any old thing goes with Keats. Then he says It "dost tease us out of thought." I should smile. Now, If these are not fair conclusions I should like to hear how they can be met. Keats evidently advertised his "poems" until people thought they were good, and be cause he's dead they're afraid to say he was a poor writer. As the song sayst back to the woods for Keats. A. V. JOHNSON. Mr. Johnson's letter Is published to show one view of poetry. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS. "Hello, sir; kept In after school again. What for?" Johnnie Because Johnnie Wilklns had a light. "Don't talk nonsense. With whom ' did ho have a fight?" Johnnie With me. Town and Country. Lady Why did you leave your last place? Cook I couldn't stand the dreadful noise be tween the master and mlseus, mum. Lady What was the noise about? Cook The way tho dinner was cooked, mum, San Francisco "Wasp. Mrs. Browne Don't you think the new neigh bor is cute? She has such a coaxing little way about her. Mrs. Greene Well, she'll get herself Into trouble if she tries her coaxing little way on either of my hired girls. Cleve land Plain Dealer. "What I want." said the coy maid of more or leas uncertain years. "Is a hat that will suit my complexion." "Oh." exclaimed the mil liner, with sudden inspiration; "I have a hand painted hat in the window that I'm sure will be Just what you want." Chattanooga News. "Hello, Noah!" cried a man as he swam to the side of the ark; "let me get on board. By the way, this Is a bad day for the race." "What raceT" said Noah. Incautiously. "Hu man race! Ha. ha!" "That settles It. Any man who'd spring a Joke as old ks that de serves to drown!" and he pulled In the Ufa line. And It was still raining. Yonkers States man. "Sure," said Patrick, rubbing his head with delight at the prospect of a present. "I al ways mane to do me duty." "I believe you," replied his employer; "and therefore I shall make you a present of all you hare stoln from me during the year." "Thank your honor," replied Pat: "and may all your friends and acquaintances trate you as liberally." Tlt-Blts.