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THE MORNING- OREGON! AN, WEDNESDAY, r BEPTJBMBEIt 16, 1903, to vz$&xxicm Entered at the Postoffice at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Mall (postage prepaid In advance) "Dally, with Sunday, per month..... .$0.S3 Dally. 'Sunday excepted, per year........ 7.50 Sally, with Bunday. per year 8-00 Sunday, per year- 2.00 The "Weekly, per year -w The Weekly. 3 month 60 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sunday excepted.loc Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.20o POSTAGE RATES. ' United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper ......... lc 18 to 30-page paper 2c 82 to 44-page paper . -So Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly" "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription, or to any business matter should be addressed simply. "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does sot buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solid' taUon. No stamps should be lnclossd for this purpose. Eastern Business Office, 43. 44. 45, 47, 48. 48 Tribune Building, New York City; C10-11-12 Tribune Building. Chicago: tfae.S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency, Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Lee, Pal ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros., 236 Sutter street: F. W. Pitts 1008 .Market street: 3. K. Cooper Co.. 748 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear, Ferry news land; Frank Scott, SO Ellis street, and N. Wheatley, 813 Mission street. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 259 South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 205 South Spring street. For sale In Kansas City, Mo., .by Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street; Charles MacDonald, 53 "Washington street, and the Auditorium Annex news stand. For sale in Minneapolis by M. J. Kavanagh, 60 South Third street. For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co., 1308 Farnam street; McLaughlin Bros., 210 S. 14th street. For sale In Ogden by W. G. Kind, 114 2Jtrj street; James H. Crockwell, 242 25th street; P. R. Godard and C. H. Myers. 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, 806-812 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. TODAY'S WEATHER: Fair; northerly winds. YESTERDAY S WEATHER: Maximum temperature, 76; minimum temperature. 48. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16. THE ADHESIVE MISS TODD. We positively decline to get excited over the case of Miss Todd, although k nearly every newspaper In the United States fairly bristles with assaults an her enemies and enthusiastic undertak ings in her behalf. Republican and Democratic papers alike seem to have given themselves over to a furious hos tility to Payne, Addlcks, Allee and all others concerned In this young woman's removal from some paltry Delaware postoffice. Again we are called upon to denounce the spoils system, Andrew Jackson, Ret Clarkson and every one who can be thought of, and to demand of President Roosevelt the reinstate ment of the aforesaid Miss Todd. All of which, as already intimated, we shall- decline to do. We are tired of this and other greatest evils in the world. Take away the spoils system and the danger of foreign immigration, and tight lacing and race suicide, and all the other evils which singly and in concert have been sweeping us as a people off the lace of the earth every few days for 411 years, come next Oc tober! The reform we' sigh for now is theend of reformscurrency reform, tariff" reform, cIviL service reform, postal reform, consular reform, taxa tion reform, municipal reform They are all stale, flat and unprofitable. Put them away in the linen closet with mothballs, and bring us the jug of verses underneath the bough, the book of Havana and the man who can tell a funny story and tell it well. It is only a little while since some other young woman, whose name and official position we are grateful to have righteously and enjoyably forgotten, made life a burden to everybody con cerned "because she was let out by Sec retary Root (we hope it was Root, be cause he is a good fellow). She adduced evidence that she v'as entitled to hold her place as long as she wanted it, and proved conclusively that a base con spiracy of inhuman men had forced her out of office. All of which was admit ted, but she wasn't reinstated, whereat she continued to make a champion all round nuisance of herself and demon strate the execrable judgment of the man who got her appointed in the first place. Miss Todd, we take it, is another of the same type. She has been postmas ter somewhere from time Immemorial until she has come to regard the office as a vested right. Doubtless she thought political pull was a fine thing when she got in; but it is everything unholy when somebody else's turn has come around and it is time for her to get out. She goes to Washington and remonstrates. She gets all the reform ers in the country enlisted in her cause and makes life a burden to everybody within reaching distance of her voice and oen. If Miss Todd succeeds, it will be a National calamity, for It will en courage the idea that when a woman gets into politics she is absolved from the rules of the game. She is to be ap pointed when her crowd gets in, but not turned out when her crowd loses. It is a fair assumption that others can be found to sell stamps and read postal cards almost as well if not quite as Miss Todd. It is possible that Presi dent Roosevelt will 'reverse' the Post office Department in this, matter, but if he does it can only make the judicious grieve. Many spiteful things have been said, and appropriately, about Addicks, but if he weakly yields in this case and lets his man be beaten, it will be the meanest thing in hls long and pusillani mous record. IT DOESN'T SIGNIFY. At the recent session of the American Forestry Association a resolution was presented indorsing President Roose velt's recommendation for the repeal of the timber and stone act and other acts under which land frauds have been perpetrated on a large scale. In an as semblage of men whose avowed pur pose is the preservation of the forests, one would expect that such a resolution would be adopted by unanimous vote. But such action utterly failed, for the convention carried a motion which laid .the resolution upon the table. "To the uninformed this would seem to be a refusal of the support of the class of people from whom the Presi dent might expect hearty co-operation, and by many people it will be thus un derstood. But those who have seen something of the ways of the land grabber will not be deceived. Though the hands are the hands of Esau, the voice is that of Jacob. By standing in he place of the members- of the Amer ican Forestry Association, the timber land syndicates hoped to gain their selfish ends, but neither the President nor the people will fall to detect the voice that controlled the convention. The attempted deception was too coarse. It was as though the liquor dealers should pack a prohibition con vention and vote to lay upon the table a resolution indorsing the National Pro hibition platform. While this was a clever piece of work in theory, it does not work effectively In practice. It will only serve to put the people upon their guard Jn the future.- It would be quite in keeping now tor the interests that are to be sub served by the creation of needless for est reserves to have public assemblages adopt resolutions approving the exist ing forest reserve policy. It would not be a difficult matter to get up a petition favoring ' the creation of a forest re serve in any section of the state and se cure an abundance of signatures to it. All over the state men have been tak ing public land in pursuance of ar rangements to dispose of it as" soon as the title is secured.1 ' Undoubtedly all of these stoolpigeons would gladly help along the movement by which their principals are to make their profits. They would readily lend their voices to give volume to a protest against the re peal of laws under which great abuses have grown up. The timber syndicates are acquiring vast tracts of land through violations of the public land laws, and the profits they are making by the advance in the value of timber land will warrant them in golng'to con siderable trouble to make a showing of public sentiment in favor of existing laws. ANTIS IN EXTREMITY. The utter hopelessness of anything and everything in the: Philippines has long been known of every antl in the land. The glee at every American death or malfeasance has only been equaled by the gloom that ensued upon every cheering sign which could not be denied or explained away. Judge, then, of the panic precipitated by this Infor mation, sent to the New York Evening Post by its correspondent in Manila: The American newspapers of the Islands are filled with matter tending to throw dis credit on the Taft administration. Their accounts of the activity of the ladrones are much exaggerated with this end In view. This means that the American ele ment In the islands, especially that ele ment which hopes to do business there in railroads, timber development, etc, is disgruntled with Governor Taft's firm stand in favor- of holding the islands as a trust for the Filipinos themselves. The exaggerations of Taft's embarrassments, which the Post and other antis have been enthusiastically exploiting, are shown, therefore, to have been playing into the hands of those ambitious and thrifty Yankees whom the antis hold in especial ab horrence. The antis, in facthave been assiduously manufacturing ammunition for their enemies. Their impulse now is, of course, to defend Taft and have at his detractors, the exaggerators; but In this they only help, or would help, If they had any power to affect the situa tion, the Administration in its laudable purposes of doing the -best for the islands that can be done and sustaining the best traditions of the American name. The matter is not so serious as might be supposed, however, and the antis can at best suffer no,more than a temporary and .technical disadvantage. If they had any real desire to help the Filipinos they might be really, embarrassed; but as their whole activity is merely direct ed at making themselves as annoying as possible in every conceivable quarter, they can afford to smile at any mischief they have wrought to Taft or the Fili pinos and take a fresh start in mis representation and defamation along other line's. No one should suppose that the occupation of .slandering the" Ameri can name and belittling American achievement can be perceptibly embar rassed or Impeded by such things as facts or reason. We congratulate the antis, in advance, upon the cheerful resolutIonthey are sure to display after this momentary uncovering of their in tellectual and patriotic nakedness. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE JETTY. Inquiry into the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia will not bring back time that has been lost, neither will it hasten construction. However, it will yield in formation to persons who have forgot ten or did not perceive the real delays. The Chamber of Commerce has been alive to the conditions, and perhaps when it gets to investigating its mem ory will be freshened. This may be the hour for complaint, but the hour for re monstrance was last Winter, when the special board of Government engineers was considering plans for the Jetty. The time lost then, we will not say wasted, was precious, every minute of it. Days, weeks and months were sacrificed, per haps necessarily, but none the less sac rificed. And now we find that the bar. will notbe deepened this year, nor pos sibly the next. After a long wait the board made tip Its mind. The theories of Judge George and Professor Haupt at last were rejected. Then the board reported to the Secretary of War. This was along somewhere In the early Spring, not last Fall or Winter, as had been hoped. It remained to let the contracts for stone.1 Bids were advertised for in April. The proposals were opened April 30. They were sent to Washington. The War Department negotiated sev eral weeks longer, and at last on May 27 awarded the stone contracts to the Northwest Construction' Company, of Astoria. This company has been slow in its deliveries of stone. But it has done as rapid work as it could. It had to equip Itself with large quantities of machinery. If anybody thinks that ma chinery can be secured easily in two or three months, he has never bought much -machinery. Complaint about the tardiness of the bar dredge is likewise futile. It comes oo late. Resolutions of all the com mercial bodies on earth will not quiet the .bar so that the dredge can do Sum mer work this Winter. But such reso lutions last Winter would have helped the dredge to do Summer work last Summer. We mention the. foregoing facts to show that the Columbia bar lost this year's Improvement months and months ago. Don't blame the stone contract ors ; remember that they should have been awarded their contracts not last Summer, but last Spring or before. Rather blame nobody but yourself for being so slow' to wake up to the delays. And if you have reached the conclusion that Puget Sound and San Francisco are responsible for some of the delays, rather pass resolutions that you will keep your eyes and ears open hereafter. And don't get after the local engi neers. More likely than not they know good stone when they see" it and have a good understanding of the whole affair. Anybody acquainted with Major Lang fitt and Superintendent Hegardt Is con vinced that they know .their business and that no person wants the . jetty finished sooner than they. It- has passed out of the hands of function aries at Washington into the hands of the local engineers. They will rush trie work. Give them a chance. ' Now that construction has fairly be gun, it is not necessary to "get after" the engineers, the contractors or the Government, Major Langfltt and Su perintendent Hegardt are as eager for a deeper bar as anybody. UJomplalnt would only embarrass them and retard their efforts. If the stone is said to be inferior, bear In mind that the persons' who say so are likely to be disgruntled contractors. Also bear in mind that the stone meets the requirements of the engi neers. If it1 didn't it wouldn't go into the Jetty. Major Langfltt and Mr. He gardt have too much at stake to. allow defective materials to go Into the jetty. A QUESTION OF PACT. More than twenty years ago Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, N. Y., de nounced our American common schools as "godless schools." So they are In a certain sense, for they are obliged to be, for as a Nation the United States is neither Christian nor non-Christian, but without distinctive religious character. The treaty between the United States and Tripoli, signed by George Wash ington, distinctly states that we are not In a political sense a Christian nation, and that Mohammedans are as secure of all rights of toleration in America as Christians. There is no, theology In our American Constitution. There can He no denominational or doctrinal influence or interference In our public schools. We stand on the basis of the- absolute equality f all religions and all kinds of Christians before the law. We must do this In order to defend our free Institu tions from ecclesiastical encroachments of any description. We make our pub lic schools purely secular in order to make citizens, and leave religious and doctrinal training to the church and the home. For many years repeated efforts have been made by a clump of theolog ical martinets and doctrinaires to insert a recognition of God into the preamble of the Federal Constitution, but these efforts have always been defeated. The fathers of the Constitution refrained from doing this very thing because it was their deliberate purpose to secure our lnstltutidns from all theological en tanglements. The. fathers and framers of our Constitution were by a very large majority men who recognized the church and were avowers of their faith in God. The most radical man in re ligious opinions among the framers of the Constitution was the deist Frank lin, who rose In the first Congress and urged that it was a fitting occasion to make proper invocation to "the great Father of Lights." It is perfectly clear that under our Federal Constitution theology Jb utterly absent. It is a question of fact, not of theory, and as a question of fact Bishop Mc Quaid is right when he calls our Amer ican public schools "godless." They are "godless" because there Is absolute sep aration of church and state under our Federal Constitution. And nobody has any more Just reason for congratula tion; that ouriree schools are "godless" than the adherents of the Catholic Church. ' We are aware that, a consider able' number of persons belonging to both the Catholic and the Protestant churches vapor violently about moving to change the character of our public school system by the introduction of pe culiarly religious Instruction. The de sire for this change has been expressed even at meetings of the National Edu cational Association, a"ssTcular organi zation purely, on the ground that a .re ligious education Is an essential part of a complete education. But the trouble with the whole matter Is that this relig ious education cannot be provided with out doing violence to our Constitutional separation of church and state and to the various and conflicting religious convictions of a public made up of Catholics and Protestants, Jews and agnostics. Any attempt to amend the Federal Constitution to make our schools religious rather than secular Is,, of course, impracticable, for not even the malcontents would wish to see other than separation of church and state prevail under .our flag. The most progressive of the Catholic hierarchy believe in the American free school. Not that they are opposed to the parochial school or discourage it, but they also give the glad hand to the American public school as invalua ble in its education for patriotic Amer ican citizenship. There was one town in Minnesota where the Catholic priest with the approval of Archbishop Ire land turned over his parochial schools to the public authorities. Cardinal Gib bons and Bishops Keane and Spalding commend our American public schools for the same reasons that Archbishop Ireland commends them, as the best place for a Catholic boy to be educated to patriotism and good citizenship. Of course, these prelates do not pretend that the American free school is to the Catholic an Ideal school; but they sup ply its deficiencies by the home, the church, the Sunday school and ,the parochial school when possible. The Catholic, like every other free man,, makes more out of our total separation of church and state than he loses. Since .our Federal Constitution was formed the Catholic Church has grown rapidly because under it Catholics have every right here that Protestants have. All sects and all religions are equal before our laws; and a Protestant has no more right to oppose or limit the polity ical rights or privileges of Catholics than Catholics have a right to limit the political rights or privileges of Protes tants. Under our Federal Constitution both Protestantism and Catholicism are excluded from any official domination or authority in public affairs. The re sult of this utter separation of church and state is the growth of tolerance among the leading denominations. Bishop Keane, of the Catholic Church, has preached by invitation before both Harvard and. Yale. The splendid growth of the Catholic Church Is due to the fact that under our absolute separation of church and state it has had a chance to grow; and surely the able ecclesiastics of the church can not fall to see that the church cannot eat its cake and have it, too. It cannot enjoy that perfect separation of church and state to which it owes its. happy growth and prosperity and then expect to turn down this fundamental doctrine of separation of church and state in the organization of the common schools. The parochial school can, supplement the common school for those who desire religious instruction In schools; but the state cannot Bupply itwlthout nullify ing its fundamental principle of separa tion of church arid state. The discus sion Js academic and utterly barren of, practical reform. The churches must take our common schools for what they are, viz., purely secular schools. If they insist on religious schools, the church, not the state, must- support them. ; The advance of the price of silver to 58 cents aft ounce .makes a great im provement in the position of the white metal, which averaged in 1W2 but 52.7 cents an ounce. For nearly six months the price has been rising. The rise Is said to be due to a heavy demand from India, helped by a large short interest in theemetal. The previous fall was caused to some extent, It Is said, by short selling. Speculation in silver Is very active in London, and a quantity of the white metal is wanted for de livery". Purchases by France for her Asiatic possessions and by the United States for the Philippines started a rise which alarms the shorts. Even at 58 cents an ounce silver lacks much of being the'' precious metal it was in 1835, when it sold at $1,328 an ounce, or in 1873, when for the last time it averaged as much as $1.29 an ounce.' Excessive production after that year steadily forced down the price of silver, to the alarm of prudent governments which demonetized it. By 1883 it had fallen to $1,108, and by 1893 to 78 cents. In 1902 the ratio of silver to gold was 39.15 to 1, as against 15.93 In 1873 and 15.19 in 1859. Now that attention is given chiefly to gold mines, tending to lessen the in creased production of'sllver, and India, China and other Eastern countries are likely to want more of it yearly, the outlook for silver may tie regarded as distinctly favorable. At present much silver Is produced Incidentally as a by product in the refining of copper and other metals. This. addition to the an nual supply helps to depress the price, but the world's annual increase of pop ulation and derriand for a metal suita ble for coins of small value more than makes up for it and promises to arrest the too-long-continued slump. An opening made in an elevated road way on the East Side so that dirt could be dumped into the slough helow was insufficiently covered and proved a trap into which a valuable horse belonging to the City Delivery Company fell in the darkness Monday evening. A wagon loaded with, lumber broke through the frail planking that covered the opening in the morning, but It was released without special delay and the driver went his way without thinking it worth while to notify any one in au thority of the dangerous break in the roadway. The pecuniary liability In this matter should not be hard to place, and It should not fall upon that aggre gation of overtaxed individuals known as "the city," either. The graders who opened the pface in the roadway for their own benefit left it without a sig nal lantern by night and insufficiently covered by day, are the responsible par ties In the matter. Delinquency in moral responsibility may also be charged against the teamster who found the weak place early in the day and failed to report It. The Incident, trifling except to the poor dumb creat ure that was its victim, is proof, strik ing in its way, of the lack of personal responsibility that permeates the com munity, the ready disposition of the thoughtless to throw all blame and costs of accident upon the public. It sterns probable that the high-water mark has been reached, for - pensions, under existing pension laws. Nearly 41,000 names were dropped from the pension roll last year, chiefly because of the death .of pensioners. The addi tion v to .the lists from v the combined ranks of the Civil War Veterans and the soldiers of the Spanish War failed tq offset thls'decrease by a round 10,000. The expenditures show a corresponding decline, being less by about $5,000,000 than those of the previous year. The conclusion is plain. Time is doing his work. From now onward the ranks of the Civil War veterans will be thinned .more rapidly than Were the ranks of the soldiers even in the most destruct ive period of the war. Colonel Henry E. Dosch was on hand early and secured a favorable -site for the Oregon exhibit In the Arid States' Fair, which opened In Qgden Monday of this week. The advantage of sending a man to do such work who, by obser vation and experience, understands It, is apparent in the success that has at tended the efforts of Colonel Dosch in managing Oregon exhibits in various cities. Whether at Buffalo, Charleston or far Osaka, the Oregon exhibit brought honor and drew attention to the state and its resources. Colonel Dosch does not work with the hand of an apprentice, but with that of a mas ter, when it- comes to- securing space and arranging our state exhibit at an exposition. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is in a most unenviable position. He might even change seats with King Peter of Servia and find comparative security in the transfer.. In doubt as to whether he should fight or fly, and morally certain that whichever horn of the dilemma he takes he will wish he had seized the other, he represents, In his fright and indecision, the sham power of royalty in the minor European States. An asylum in England Is promised him, but it is not always possible for a prisoner in a beleaguered palace to accept the hospi tality of a kindly disposed sovereign who lives at a safe distance and who has a fleet big enough to protect him Belf, his subjects and his guests. A curious fact Is brought to the no tice of American exporters by Consul Warner, who reports that a German company has Just closed a contract with the steel works at Monterey, Mex ico, to supply. 50,000 tons of coke. Still more surprising is the statement that 40,000 to 50,000 tons of coke are Im ported Into California from England and Germany, although there is good coking coal in the Northwest. Chauncey Depew maintained his repu tation for Inaccuracy in his oration at the unveiling of the Lake George hattle monument by describing Baron Dies kau, the French commander, as killed In the action.. DIeskau was seriously wounded, but did not die until 1767, twelve years after the battle. Depew also Included La Salle In the list of French Jesuit fathers who were famous discoverers. The rules of West Toint against the use of tobacco 'have been relaxed so that pipes and tobacco are now permit ted. With every aid which military discipline could give, it has proved practically impossible to prevent the use of tobacco at West Point. Conceal ment, "bred by prohibition, turned the boys toward cigarettes. OUTRAGE UPON LABOR RESETTED Minneapolis Trifcene. Great injustice has "been dona to union , labor by spreading over the country the' impression that the labor unions of New York chose the convicted blackmailer, Sam Parks,' to lead -their .Labor day pro-' cession, on even consented to It. The re--versa Is true. Parks was hustled out of Sing Sing on a belated appeal, obtained "from some facile Judge by his friend and bondsman, the notorious Bill Devery, and some labor politicians of hl3 own kidney. He was forced upon, the Labor day proces sion by Devery and the political agitators who assume to control the labor unions, against the protest of nearl? all the mem bers, and In the face of furious public criticism by 'many of them. It is true that a contrary impression was made by the Associated Press dis patches sent over the country. These told the bare fact that Parks was got out of jail Just In time to lead the Labor day procession. It is not the business of the Associated Press to send anything but bare facts. But here is a case where the facts, without their explanatory color of public feeling, did an enormous injus tice to thousands of worthy and honorable worklngmen In New York, and put a baseless stigma on a cause which all dis interested persons respect highly, when mischievous men do not succeed In per verting It to selfish ends. The New York papers bring the truth of the matter. Nearly all of them, though some tell the story with, more heat than others. Parks did ride at the head of the. Labor, day procession on a pure white horse, his cropped head and shaven face rising smugly above the insignia of the order he has disgraced. Two indicted walking delegates strode by. his side, and Devery followed him in a carriage, escort ing Mrs. Parks, "who was decorated with diamonds. But of 43,000 members of unions scheduled to parade, only about 10,000 marched. The president of Parks' own union refused to appear In the parade, and more than half of the housesmlths and bridgemen were absent, though a fine of $10 had been Imposed upon every one who refused to parade. Ten other unions, voted notto take part In the procession, and the coal drivers emphasized their refusal by work ing on Labor day. The Central Federated Union, which represents all the New York unions, succeded in tabling a resolution condemning the parade and discouraging participation In it, only by a close vote, after a hot debate that narrowly escaped Violent pers'onal encounters. As may be supposed, the scenes along the line of march were exciting. In drder that everybody might recognize Parks, his sash bore conspicuously the initials "S. P." This was quickly discovered by the nonmarchlng worklngmen who lined the sidewalks, and cries of-"stolen property," state's prison" followed him from one end of the line of "march to the other": Devery was cheered, but not Parks. The only hearty cheer in the procession was when It passed the building Parks .had hung up by his blackmailing strike, and observed that it had been nearly finished by the rival union that took up the work. Hisses, on. the other hand, followed him all along the line. A significant thing was the active part taken in the protest by women, poorly dressed and haggard looking, evidently the wives of worklngmen out of employ ment. The indignation of these were particularly excited by the sight of Mrs. Parks' diamonds. Hisses and shrill cries of "Sing Sing bird" followed him, with the occasional gloss of reference to "taking the bread out of children's mouths." The parade was heralded in advance as a "vindication of labor." It was precisely that. The labor of New York vindicated itself from the slur of approval of corrup tion and sympathy with a convicted blackmailer. The body of union labor in New York, largely under the leadership of Its own officers, repudiated In the plain est public way the professional agitator who had come out of Chicago to teach them the art f blackmail, and the whole body of corrupt intrigurers who assumed to represent and control organized labor. It is Of the- first importance . that the truth about this Labor day parade should be made known all over the country. It will Testore the faith and confidence of the honest worklngmen of all the unions in the Integrity of their brethren In the me tropolis, and in the uprightness and en durance of their cause. The Fnssinjr of tlie "Panama." London Outlook. Strangely enough, Panama hats are not much affected by Englishmen resident In the lands where they are produced. Their vogue in England and the United States for the .past two summers was merely a craze. They were worn by many persons who should have known better. Panama hats go naturally with white duck cloth ing and soft shirts,. Cricketing or boat ing flannels will' do well enough, but a stiff linen collar or patent-leather boots bring discredit upon themselves or upon the Panama hat. Neither does the Pana ma go well with a fair complexion and light-colored hair. Your swarthy skin and dark hair carry the Panama best. Girls who would wear them should have well formed heads and a saucy air. Strict decorum and the Panama hat go not well together. Fat men who. perspire steadily and readily should eschew them, or rather should have eschewed them, for fat or slim will not wear them much longer. The Panama hat Is dying. Any specimens which cost three guineas or over may be kept as a curiosity. Under that price they may be burned or converted into baskets. A Governor's Athletic Wife. Chicago American. Mrs. La Follette, wife of the Governor of Wisconsin, has set a hard pace for the campers at Lake Kengonsa, where the family has been spending the Summer In a cottage for the last two years. Mrs. La Follette Is an enthusiastic dress re former and an advocate of physical cul ture. Her programme is to get up be tween 5 and 6 In the morning, then to take a two-mile run not walk, but actual run after which follows a plunge in the lake, all before breakfast. Sometimes she adds to this programme a long walk, and the other morning she led a party of pedestrians to Stoughton and back, a dis tance of seven miles, In which she com pletely outwalked the other members of the party. Small Funds, Bad Forecasts. Providence Journal. It Is very unfortunate and confusing that every time the Agricultural Depart ment gives but -a report on the condition and prospects of staple crop-cotton or wheat, for exam pfe private experts may be heard denying the correctness of the "Government estimates. But the experi ences of the past certainly do give a con siderable degree of plausibility to the de nials. The trouble apparently is. In the main, that there is not a sufficient fund available for making the Government's Investigation .complete and accurate.. The subject of crop statistics Is surely of enough practical Importance to call for the remedying of this defect. - Something Somewhere. Los Angeles Times. The frequency with which locomotives are blowing up in different parts of the country would appear to indicate that the steel trust is turning out some mighty poor truck these days, or else that the Yankee mechanics are losing their cun ning. Just which it Is we' are not pre pared to say, but there's something wrong some place. Just What It Means. Deseret News. Oregon announces that competition for the various prizes offered at the Irriga tion congress in Ogden next week will come from that state. That means that Utahns must don their best exhibition' clothes, in other words, send in 'their very best exhibition fr.ult. ONXt WOMAN FREEMASON. Chicago Chronicle. Much nonsense has been printed from timq to time relative to women who were reported to have been received 'into the Masonic order a few with a knowledge of their sex; but moBt by means of subter fugel There are, however, authentic re ports of the initiation of but one member of tho sex. She was Mrs. Aldworth, the youngest child' and only daughter of Ar thur St. Leger, created first Viscount Doneraile, Ireland, June 23, 1703, and Elizabeth, Daughter and heiress of John Hayes, of Winchelsea. She was born about 1713, and was mar ried to Richard Aldworth, of Newmarket, County Cork, who was the son of Sir Richard Aldworth, Provost ' Marshal of Munster. 'The lodge in which -she was initiated waS No. 44, of Ireland. The warrant of lodge No. 44 was issued in 1735. It was a highly respectable lodge, including all the elite of the county around Doneraile, and its meetings were held often under the presidency of Lord Doneraile at his residence. It happened that on such an occasion the lodge was held in a room separated from another by stud and brickwork. The subject of this sketch, being probably giddy and thoughtless, determined to grat ify her curiosity. With a pair of scissors she removed a portion of a brick from the wall and placed herself so as to command a full view of everything which occurred in the next room. In this position' she witnessed the first two degrees of Masonry, which was" the extent of the proceedings of the lodge that night. From what she heard when the members of the lodge were about to separate for the first time she felt trem blingly alive to the awkwardness and danger of her situation and began to con sider how she could retire without ob servation. She became nervous and agitated, and stumbled against and overthrew a chair. The crash was loud and the tyler of the lodge, who was In the lobby, gave the alarm, burst open the' door, and, with a light in one hand and" a drawn sword in the other, appeared to the now terrified young woman. He was Immediately Joined by the members of the lodge present. They for the most part were furious at the transaction. She was placed under guard of the tyler and a member in the room In which she had been found. The members reassembled and deliberated for two hours as to what was to be done. At length It was resolved to give the young woman the option of submitting to the Masonic ordeal to the extent she had witnessed it, and If she refused, the members were again to consult. Miss St. Leger, exhausted and terrified, yielded, and was accordingly initiated. The other Inmates of the house were in perfect ig norance 'of the transaction. Love of Truth. When he was received Into the French Academy Gaston Paris set forth Im pressively the ideal which he had always held: The first thins I would lmpres upon tho young. If I had any hope of being under stood by them, is to love the truth, to wish to know it, to believe In It, to work. If pos sible, to discover it; to dare to JLook It in the face, to swear never to falsify, diminish or add to It, even In view of an apparently higher interest, for no really higher Interest can possibly exist; and from the moment that one betrays It, even In the secrets of his heart, an Inward contraction takes place, which, however slight, soon makes Itself felt In a diminution of moral activity. It Is granted to few to extend Its empire, but to all to submit to its laws. Best assured that the discipline to which it subjects your minds will take effect on your hearts and consciences also. The man who has a hor ror of deception and dissimulation, even in the smallest matters. Is incapable of the ma jority of vices, and so much the more open to all the virtues. .A Carnegie Pensioner Caught. New York World. Andrew Carnegie's sole Nebraska pen sioner, Samuel Nuckdls,- of Kenesaw,--was caught in the collapse of Daniel. & Co.", the alleged get-quick concern, which was raided by the New York police some days ago. Nuckols was Induced to Invest by advertising matter which he received. Carnegie and Nuckols came to America on the same boat when boys, and have continued their friendship ever since. Aft er living near each other in Pittsburg for a number of years, Nuckols came to Ne braska and took up a homestead. When In 1S92 the crop failed In Nebraska, and there was much suffering, Carnegie re membered his old-time friend and settled a life pension of $500 a year on him. All He Toole. Bo3worth (Mo.) Star-SentineL There, is an old negro living in Carrollton who was taken ill several days ago and called in a physician of his race to pre scribe for him. But the old man did not seem to be getting any better, and finally a white physician was called. Soon after1 arriving Dr. S felt the darky's pulse for a moment and then examined his tongue. "Did your doctor take your tem perature?" he asked. "I don't know, sah," he answered feebly: "I hain't missed any thing hut my watch as yit, boss." Square Deal In Connecticut. Philadelphia Inquirer. Down In Connecticut a demand has arisen for wooden nutmegs, for decora tive purposes, and unscrupulous dealers are accused of filling It with genuine nut megs. Now, is that counterfeiting or is it not? . Johnny on the Spot. Dallas (Texas) News. A cotton expert says the crop in Texas is good in spots. It Is the spot cotton that makes the dollars jingle at this time. Sometime. By May Riley Smfth. Sometime, when all life's: lessons have been learned. And sun and stars for evermore have set. The things which our weak Judgment here has spurned. The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet, m Will flash before us, out of life's dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue; And we shall see how all God's plans were right. And how what seemed reproof was lova most true. And we shall see how, while we frown and sigh. Oods' plans go on as best for you and me; How. when we called, ha heeded not our cry. Because his wisdom to the end could see. And e'en as prudent parents disallow Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, So God. perhaps. Is keeping from us now Life's sweetest things, because it seemeth good. And if. sometimes, commingled with life's wine. We find the wormwood, and rebel and shrink. Be sure a wiser hand than yours, dr.mlne Pours out this potion for our Hps to drink. And if some friend we love Is lying low. Where human kisses cannot reach his face, O, do not blame the loving Father so. But wear your sorrow with obedient grace! And you will shortly know that lengthened breath Is not the' sweetest gift God sends his friends, And that, sometimes, the sable pall of death Conceals the fairest b6on his love can send. 'if we could push ajar the gates of life. And stand within, and. all Gods workings see. We could Interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find & keyl But not today. Then be content, jwor hearti God's plan's, like lilies, pure and white un fold; We must not tear the close-shut leaves, apart, Time will reveal the chalices of gold. And If. through patient toll, we reach the land Where tired feet, with sandals-loosed, may rest. When we shall clearly know and understand, I think that we will say, "God knew the best I" ROtE AND COMMENT. :' 1 - MaJer Delssar, aKK3 rm -af teryou. My lovely Lou, rm hammcrla' away?. I'll be smllln', toe; "With a mile In twe; You cannot say mfe neigh. . And the Preacher Not a MoRte, Hon. S. B. Huston, attorney. for Rev. R. H. Kennedy of Hlllsboro. who has investigated his case, says ho-ls no more guilty of the Warren burglary than he Is. He declares the two women to have been rattled. Albany Democrat. The Curtailed Ghost. Roland de Lignleres, otherwise William Marion, has sued Raoul and Elsie de Lignleres, otherwise Edwin Mordaunt and Ola Humphrey, for $2. Roland says he was to have been paid $15. a week for taking his part In "The Legion of Honor" at Cordray's. "When he drew his pay he says $13 was all that he received. The scurrll jest passed lightly round and tar nished Elsie's name; It reached the gallant Roland's ear; his an ger flashed to flame. "Mong Jew," he cried, "by all I love and by the sacred blue, You measly Count de Maubry, I'll not'ao a thing to you; Til fight to death for mother, as every Frenchman ought " That she'd hold back two dollars poor Ro land little thought. Now Maubry was the father of this most Im petuous lad, 'And to spill their common gore in wrath would look exceeding bad. So Raoul very kindly comes and coolly mur murs "Shucks," And saves the youth whosa wages he has cut to thirteen bucks. At last upon the villain and the mother and the dad. The chorus and the supers and the mother loving lad. The curtain falls, and Roland comes ta draw his hard-earned wages. No longer as a gallant filled with various kinds of rages. His title dropped, his name Is changed to nothing more than Bill, The mother whom he'd sworn to save hands out a bitter pill: "No longer on the. stage," says she, "shall you be son of mine" "That's so," says Edwin Mordaunt, "I'll thank you to resign." It is hard to be a noble on a modest fifteen per. At thirteen it's impossible, the reader must Infer; But Roland's not & quitter, he's a thorough kind of sport, And still he feels a nobleman for now he's In the court. It's a cold day in Seattle that a saloon isn't held up. A few more carnivals and Alice should be growing bald. The Servian army Is a regular incubator In its ability to hatch plots. It Is only "at an agricultural fair that fatness is Teally appreciated. From the criminals' point of view, alt courts are Kangaroo courts. A chaperon Is like the law. tolerated only because she can be evaded. Bulgaria seems to find standing firm as easy as the Powers do waiting develop ments. As political slogans - the "full dinner pail" and the "cheap loaf" cannot be beaten. New York may have an explosive sub way, but Portland has her collapsible superwaySi ''Going to tho devil on horseback" is a saying exemplifledby the Salvation Army cavalry headed for Kentucky. New York should be full of visitors this Fall, as the gown worn by Queen Draga when she was assassinated will be on ex hibition. Prince Ferdinand needn't be so chesty over the possession of a subterranean re treat. Even in a republic we have plenty of underground politics. Few great men have escaped being hoot ed on some occasion. Joe Chamberlain may not be a great man, but he is hooted Just as heartily as if ha were. The gentle and Joyous art of blackmail as practised by Italians In New York can not flourish In the cold air favorable to matter-of-fact policemen and Philistine judges. The National Association of Laundry workers is In session, and the secretary has been.obliged to, announce that the or ganization is not affiiated with the room workers. "When a Seattle man carries the habit of knocking himself so far as to put ham mers In his pockets and jump Into the Sound, it Is time for the rest of the Elli ott Bay people to reconsider their mode of life. The Outlook has come to the conclus ion that Impatience Is tho Great American Vice. If the belief Is based on the fact that some of Its articles are not read through, the ""Outlook is reasoning from very exigent premises. . The love of sport burns with an Inex tinguishable flame In the American breast. Even the youths loafing around the entrance to the theaters beguile time by spitting at a mark on the pavement. The country Is full of yachtless Llptons. The museum has gained a stuffed casso wary. This recalls the old quatrain that was perpetrated to embalm a rhyme to Timbuctool I wish I were a cassowary On the plains of Tlmbuctoo, I'd gobble up a missionary, Bible and hymn-book, too. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHER3 Ernie Are tunnels really dangerous? Tho Bachelor Should say so. I knew a man who kissed a girl In a tunnel one time and he had to marry her. Chicago News They had made a night of It together, and the following afternoon they met again. "Hello, old chap'." exclaimed Naggs. "Got home all right, eh?" "Yes." replied Jaggs, gloomily, "but my wife wouldn't speak to me." "Lucky fellow," said Naggs. "Mine did."-ChIcago NTowne Mr. and Mrs. Grabster celebrate their silver wedding tomorrow, I believe. Browne They do. Indeed. Evidently you didn't get a card? Towne No. Did you? Browne Yes; requesting the honor of my presence, at their "sterling silver wedding." Philadelphia Press. "I don't reckon dat anybody am gwlne-to lib to be much better or much wuss. Most of us will keep on payln' our pew rent on Sundays an' mlxln cotton wld de wool door ln' de odder six days. It's too much of a strain on human nature to be either all good or all bad." Detroit Free Press. Solicitor You really should contribute to this most worthy charity. Merchant Well er maybe I will some day. Solicitor Why not now? "He gives twice who gives quick ly," you know. Merchant That's Just it. If I don't think 'lfcfover calmly I'll give twice as much as I should. Philadelphia Press. "The Dubleys are not boarding here any more," said the first boarder. "No," replied the other, "they have become strict vege tarians, and so they've had to go to house keeping." "But, surely they could be vege tarians here." "Not strictly so. Here they are mostly canned vegetarians." Philadel phia Ledger-