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6 THE MORNING .OBEGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1903. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as second-class, matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid In advance)- Dally, with Sunday, per month -2 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year...-..- Dally, with Sunday, per year -Oj Sunday, per year .oo The Weekly, per year J-o The Weekly. 3 months Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted..l&c Dally, per week, delivered, Sunday lncluded..-oc POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper 10 to 30-page paper - 32 to 44-page paper IC Foreign rates double. News for discussion Intended lor publica tion In The Oregonlan should he addressed Invariably "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to advertising, subscription, or to any busi ness matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." 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Today Pacific University, at Forest Grove, Inaugurates a new president with appropriate public ceremonies and public addresses. Pacific University Is one of the comparatively smallcolleges of the country; but to these small col leges the country owes a great debt Out of these small colleges have come the majority of distinguished Ameri cans who have received what is termed a higher education than that of the. common schools. It was Daniel Web ster who in 1818, speaking of his own alma mater, Dartmouth, said to Chief Justice Marshall: "Sir, it Is but a small college, but there are those of it that love it" Dartmouth was a very small college with a very brief and simple curriculum, when Webster was gradu ated. William and Mary includes among her graduates Jefferson, Monroe and Tyler; Princeton was a very small college when James Madison was grad uated. Harvard was avvery small col-? lege when John Adams and his son, John Quincy, obtained their diplomas. Presidents William Henry Harrison, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Hayes, Gar field, Arthur and Benjamin Harrison were all graduates of small colleges. Yale College was a small college when it graduated John C. Calhoun. President Roosevelt Is the only Amer ican of high distinction save Henry C. Lodge who is a child of one of our great modern American universities. Sena tor Hoar, who was graduated In 1846, describes Harvard In his day as a col lege whose curriculum was not more extensive and. whose requirements were not more severe than were those of a cheap '"fresh-water" college in New England forty years ago. Harvard was comparatively a small college when such men as Edward Everett, Emerson, Holmes, Winthrop, Benjamin R. Curtis, Wendell Phillips, Edward E. Hale, were graduated. Salmon P. Chase was a son of Dartmouth when it was but a small college. Seward was a son of Union College; Blaine, Stanton, Andrew, Haw thorne, Fessenden, Root, were sons' of small "fresh-water" colleges. If we examine the list of college graduates who have been men of high public dis tinction from the days of President John Adams to those of President Roosevelt, we shall see that the great majority of them were graduates of small colleges; that is, of colleges that did not offer as extensive and excellent a curriculum as Pacific University does today. If we pass from the consideration of men of political distinction to those of professional eminence, we shall find that the notable men were for the most part graduates of small colleges. Our late Minister to England under PresI dent Cleveland, Edward J. Phelps, Was graduated from a small New England college at Middlebury, Vt, in 1840; Ja cob Collamer, United States Senaator, distinguished jurist and Postmaster General; Rev. Dr. William G. T. Shedd, the famous theologian; Henry J. Ray mond, the founder of the New Tork Times; John A. Kasson Frederick Billings and Rev. Dr. Sidney Harper Marsh are some of the notable children of the small college of the University of Vermont at Burlington. This lnsti tution, founded in 1791, was a small college when President Marsh, of Pa cific University, was graduated In 1846. His class garduated but twenty- one members; that of the late Judge E. D Shattuck in 1848 was but twenty two. Small ''classes were the rule In those days in this small college, but it has contributed, besides those we have named, such scholars as President Fer rin and Professor J. W. Marsh to the Pacific University. This Is what a once small, poor college has done in the dissemination of sound learning in this state. If we turn to California we shall find, of course, a large list of the children of this little college that sought the Pacific Slope between 1849 and 1856. This little col lege is no longer small and poor; its curriculum has been greatly enlarge! if not improved; It obtains a large an nual attendance, both in its academic and medical departments; it has be come comparatively rich through the generosity of wealthy alumni, like John H, Converse, of Philadelphia, but we venture to say that it has never sur passed In general scholarly excellence the quality of Its alumni when it was not only a small but a poor college. And the reason we need not go far to .seek. The reason why these small, poor colleges turned out good stuff in-shape of' sound scholars and teachers was that the great majority of the students were poor men with a distinct purpose In Jlfe who had to hoe their own way through college and could nbt afford to be idle. The Instructors were men of ability who were devoted to the college in the same high spirit with which a ragged, hungry but patriotic soldier lights for his native land. The students in these small colleges were poor, but they put in a full day's work at their books; they did not go to college primarily to "have a good time" or to become accomplished ath letes, or to obtain what Is indefinitely described as a taste of superior "social culture." They played when they could spare the. time, but they were too poor and too full of distinct purpose to play all of the time. Today the majority of boys who go -to large colleges are the children of well-to-do parents. Any fairly well-fitted man can keep up in college without much real hard work. College faculties let men idle in the great colleges, and atnWics and what is termed "social contact" obtains what belongs to atudy. The large colleges need to make the college course a place of real work. In the small colleges the majority of the boys are not securely enough planted in "Easy street" to play much of the time; the small college Is still what it was sixty years ago a place where a man must do a solid day's work or go. No boy should go to college who does not wish to go; and if he really wishes to go for a serious purpose, he will not waste in play the time that is needed for good work. The chances are better for a boy In a small college than In a great university, because the atmos phere of a small college Is more bracing and healthy than the atmosphere of a great college, which Includes a good many well-to-do young fellows who Imagine that they can afford to be so cial rebels, can afford to be lazy, and can afford to become the slaves of un worthy habits and ofa luxurious life. On the whole, for mere academic train ing the small college hasalways had the best record In results, and it is likely to in the future unless the great colleges raise their standard and make their" pupils work or go. PRIMARIES IX MASSACHUSETTS. Although primary reform is on the advance the country over, it appears that in practically every place that pri mary laws give great aissausLauuuu in some points. This Js perfectly nat ural and to be expected. No general movement of this sort can progress without the perpetration and discovery of mistakes. Details have to be tried, and then either approved or rejected. What will do in some places will not do In others. In Massachusetts, for example, a great hue and cry has gone up be cause of the provision requiring voters at the primaries to state which party they propose to affiliate with. It Is not strange that this rule meets objection in Massachusetts, for It displeases many In Oregon and In Minnesota. It Is not strange if the New England in heritance of Puritanism and the New England penchant for mugwumpery should resist the rule, Indeed, with even more spirit than has been shown in Western States where party ties are strong and the pride pf personal dignity Is -as yet imperfectly developed. ft is certainly, contrary to - the spirit pi primary reform that voters? should be compelled to state In public what party ticket they wish to select. The Insistence of Legislatures upon this proviso can only be attributed to the desire of party managers to discipline the voters and their further desire to render primary reform obnoxious. If there Is any persistence and wisdom in the advocates of primary nominations, they will press on for the repeal of this rule and. the retention of the law Itself. The purpose of primaries under state auspices is to secure to the voter the same untrammeled, effective and secret exercise of his convictions that he now enjoys at election day with the Australian ballot It Is clearly Incum bent upon our Legislatures to give the voter at the primary the same sort of blanket ballot which he receives at the subsequent election. To require him to declare the way he proposes to vote is to go backward toward the old days pf machine domination. It Is wholly the expected thing that every Imperfection In new primary laws should be urged against the re form In general as an Insurmountable Impediment But to the discerning mind this alacrity of political machines In seeking to discredit primary reform only goes to show that Its. promise of weakening the power of bosses Is faith ful and true. If the machine would be as omnipotent In state-conducted pri maries and over primary nominations as It is under the old rule of private primaries and convention nominations, then we should have no such strenuous efforts to bring the new methods into disrepute. No one supposes that primary elec tions which elect instead of merely ratify will destroy the function of po litical leadership. No law can make the weak strong or the strong weak. But what is apparently possible under an honest primary system Is to decree what motives in citizenship the astute party leader shall be obliged to appeal to. There is no danger that the polit ical genius will abandon his vocation If his nominees are certified up to him by the County Clerk from the duly recorded votes of his party; but if he is forced to select men for nominees who have already run the gauntlet of the party's rank and file, their quality will be higher than If their sole require ment at his hands is obedience to his wIlL IS THE CITY'S MILK SUPPLY DRUGGED I It has been asserted, whether with truths or not The Oregonlan is not at this time prepared to say, that the mlllr supply of this city Is and for some time has been treated with formaldehyde. This is done in order that the milk may be kept sweet beyond the time when it would otherwise turn sour and be un marketable. How much of the- city's milk supply is thus treated, or what proportion of the chemical combination known as formaldehyde is added to a gallon or five gallons of milk, consum ers can only surmise. Dairymen them selves perhaps do not know, as the order to add the preservallne; is no doubt given to subordinates, who may or may not add it recklessly In the hurry incident to the business. It is certain that some dealers furnish milk that has been tthus "doped," or "doc tored." It is important to know who they are and to what extent the adul teration of milk by means of formalde hyde Is carried on here. It Is scarcely necessary to say. that the Introduction of , this preservallne into milk is unnecessary, pernicious and contrary to law. That "the practice Is carried on to a considerable extent by dairymen Is beyond question true. Stomach and intestinal troubles have been dvoloped In some cases, as it Is believed, by the use of this adulterated milk. Over-In Seattle one death7 is known to have resulted from it that of a milk-fed child of ten months, whose tissues had been so effectively 'preserved" by formaldehyde that fur ther embalming process was not neces sary to prevent decomposition of the body. How many other victims have found death In the nursing-bottle from this cause In that city or our own it is Impossible to say, but It Is Idle to sup pose that this Is an Isolated case. It may be hoped that the State Dairy and Food. Commisslbner will take this matter up at once and pursue the In quiry with the vigor that has distin guished his work In other" lines. - The milk supply of this city Is either treated with formaldehyde or It is not Com mon report, and the tacit admission, of some dealers, say It Is. No one,' so far, says It is not It is for the duly con stituted authorities to make inquiry into the matter and let the public know without reservation the result of their investigations. Let ub hope that steps will be taken In the matter at once, to the end that the process of embalming before death may be stopped, if it has found vogue In this city as it has In Seattle and elsewhere, or the milk supply of the city be purged of " the suspicion of being drugged. AGRICULTURE IX THE SCHOOLS. If Superintendent Ackerman can map out the details of a course of instruction in the elements of agriculture for the common schools, as suggested by him in an interview published yesterday, he will do a good work for the public schools of Oregon. Agriculture will al ways be the chief Industry of Oregon. All other enterprises will depend for their. success upon this. The railroads have appreciated value to them of Im provement In methods of farming, and in both Eastern and Western Oregon they have been giving material aid to every movement which promises to bring about a more profitable system of farming. The Southern Pacific had but few friends in Western Oregon until it took up the task of developing the dairy industry as a means of Improving the condition of worn-out farms. The farmers appreciate the value of this one lesson which they have learned largely through the aid of the railroad company. The Agricultural College taught the theory of dairying as an ad junct of the grain farm, but the farm ers generally did not put It into prac tice until the railroads took up the sub ject and pressed it upon public atten tion. In Eastern Oregon the O. R. & N. Is doing a good work by experiment ing with different crops not generally grown on the soil of that portion of the state. There Is need of educational work among the farmers. Methods that would succeed when land was new and cheap and would produce large crops that sold for high prices will not suf fice when the price of land has ad vanced and its productiveness has") de creased by reason of continuous use for a single purpose. Education in agricul ture should begin in the common school and be continued In the Agricultural College. Such an education should never be completed, tor tne farmer should be a student of agriculture until lie has gathered his last sheaf of grain. It Is not to be expected that the aver age schoolteacher will be able to Im part technical knowledge of agriculture or to teach the farmers of the district how to run their farms. Such Is not the purpose of the plan proposed by Superintendent Ackerman. The n,ew study which Is proposed for the com mon school course Is merely the ele ments of agriculture, and the plan is that " children shall be taught such things concerning seeds, soils, plants, Insects, weeds, etc., as can be learned principally by experiment in the school room or the school garden. Having learned these elementary facts In his childhood, the pupil will be able to put them to practical use as he grows older. Whether he becomes a farmer or a. law yer or a merchant, the facts he has learned will be of use to him. It is worth more for a child to know the ap pearance of San Jose scale than it is for him to be able to name the three ships that composed the fleet of Colum bus. He can learn one fact about as quickly as he can learn the other. There Is no reason why, he should not learn both. Professor Davenport, of the Agricul tural College of Illinois, has summed up the reasons why agriculture should be taught in the common schools as fol lows: 1. To instill a. love and respect for land and the occupation of agriculture. 2. To Instill respect for Industry in seneral. 3. To cultivate the active and creative Jn Btinct. 4. To. give practice and experience In sue cess and failure. 5. To connect the school with real life. G. To stimulate and train the powers of observation. 7. To make an avenue of communication between tho teacher and the pupil. 8. As a means to expose tho teacher's ignorance. 0. To train In independent methods of ac quiring Information. Our annual production of cotton has increased some 3,000,000 bales in the last ten years, but It -has fallen behind the demand, with the result of a rise of price which embarrasses the cotton spinners of this country and Europe. In 1S94 prices ranged between 5 and 8 cents, whereas on Monday last there were sales of September cotton at 12 cents. For October delivery it was lower, but still much above the aver age of the last ten years. As an ad vance of 1' cent a pound means $17,500, 000 to British spinners, the latter are much concerned to secure the produc tion of larger cotton crops. Convinced that demand now exceeds supply. Brit ish spinners are renewing their activity In cotton planting in Africa. They have opened an office In Manchester to push planting in Lagos, Sierra Leone and Southern Nigeria. If In- five years they can produce 500,000 bales, they will be content, but will hope'' to multiply that figure by ten before the end of a decade. Germany and France are similarly try ing to secure independence of American planters. A . noteworthy fact which should appeal to persons who engineer corners In cotton. Is the circumstance that cotton goods do not advance in price pari passu with the raw material. This means that cotton mills must ,be Idle, since they will not manufacture at a loss. The planters have the mistaken Idea, It Is said, that spinners will take, the whole crop at whatever price the growers hold out for. The shutdown of many mills since cotton has advanced to impossible figures seems to show that consumption may be seriously checked. If the public continues to refuse to pay for finished goods prices commensurate with the cost of raw cotton, the manu facturing industry cannot but be paralyzed. Professor Lombroso, a European sci entist, has written a deal of twaddle in support of his theory that all criminals are more or less degenerates in mind and body. Dr. Spitzska, a famous brain anatomist, who performed the autopsy upon the three bodies of the Van Wormsers, found that there was abso lutely nothing In the physical aspects discoverable to differentiate these young men as criminals. The brains and otherv bodily organs were entirely normal, .well developed anatomically. and showed no suggestion of degener acy, deficiency or defect The young men were well developed, well nour ished, muscular fellows. In a statp of health. Their features were regular and normally symmetrical, . and there was no asymmetry of head or skull in any case. The Lombroso theory of criminology, which associates physical defects, bodily deformities and lack of symmetry, has been pushed to an ab surd extreme. Given an Indolent, sensual youth, without money enough to pay for the necessities and luxuries of life, and it Is entirely logical that this idle animal will soon or late steal, and, It Is also entirely probable that this Idle animal will ultimately add murder to theft It Is no more to be expected that idle boys who steal and finally murder should be abnormal in mind and body than that a brigand chief who robs and murders in, preference to farm labor should be abnormal or degenerate" in brain and body. The failure to honor the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell by suitable honors In Glasnevin cemetery on the 12th inst will surprise no. one who re members that Parnell was bitterly op posed In life not only by the "Redmond ites" but by the "Healyltes," who today rule the Irish party. Parnell was a constitutional agitator who had no sympathy with the violent language and impracticable tactics of Redmond. Healy hated Parnell because he was jealous of the Influence obtained by Parnell through leadership, an influence -that Healy, with all his brilliant elo quence and blasting invective, could never exert The chief reason for the neglect of Parnell's memory, despite his great services to Ireland, Is the fact that his moral downfall lost him the re spect and confidence of not only the Irish Catholic priesthood, but the non conformist clergy. Much is sometimes forgiven to an erring man if he Is a lov- able.fellow, but Parnell was cold, reti cent, haughty, self-contained an,d re pellant Nobody loved him, and he loved nobody except his neighbor's wife, and when such a man slips he Is soon worried to death by the yelling pack of his vulgar foes. W. Bourke Cockran delivered himself of an address In Carnegie Hall a few evenings ago In which he took occasion to stigmatize divorce as "the blot upon our civilization." Other and more ob servant men have frequently seen di vorce wipe out a blot upon civilization by releasing from the hard terms im posed by neglect abuse and drunken ness a suffering wife from a contract the fulflllirient of which was ever-In creasing misery and destitution for herself and family. They have also seen worthy husbands of unfaithful wives released from uncivilized bond age through divorce. They have seen children, born in bitterness, escape the added curse of being nurtured In con vulsion by the same means. The di vorce question resembles every other question in that there are two sides to it To denounce divorce as an un mitigated evil the one blot upon our civilization Is more Illogical and ex treme than is the opposite view which extols it without measure. A diatribe delivered from either point of view may relieve the feelings of the declalmer. but it finds no response in the well- tempered judgment of thought and ob servant men and women. In the movement of an electric car at a speed of 125 4-5 miles an hour near Berlin the other day the project of fly ing without wings was more nearly re allzed by man than ever before. There were twelve persons, all technical men, who engaged in this flight, by sticking to the flying car. and the cable In formed us that "all were heavily in sured," showing at once a prudent doubt In the safety of the experiment and a proper regard for the welfare of their heirs. While the engineers do not believe that a speed of 125 miles is prac ticable on the state railroads generally, they will recommend a speed of 93 miles an hour between Berlin and Hamburg. It would seem that only the folly stricken or those fleeing from flood and fire would care to take the risks Inci dent to such speed. Certain clergymen In New York have expressed great sorrow that Governor Odell declined to commute the sentence of the three Van Wormer brothers, and their sentimental opposition prompts a correspondent of the New York Sun to reply as follows: "A suggestive old story Is told of an ancient ruler who, when informed that a third-degree con vict had just finished his fourth vie tlm, remarked: 'It Is high time the ax had a chance.' His guard then rather truthfully expostulated: 'My lord, he Is guilty but once the last three were of your own making.'" This covers the whole ground; a murderer Is a very dancerous subject for mercy. There is no good murderer but a dead murderer. Whatever may be the ultimate result of Russia's action In the East the pres ent Is one of deplorable fecundity on the part of "the correspondents that dwell, for their own or their country's good, In Oriental ports. The name of Shanghai has been linked Inseparably with villainy by the sailors that used to frequent It in the "good old times, and It Is rapidly' becoming Infamous as the abode of the Father Of Lies. Now come the college girls of Wash burn College and engage In .a color fight as fast and furious as any in which their brothers have distinguished themselves at Princeton or Yale. Truly the world moves, and the decorous mothers of a past generation teaching their daughters to spin, weave, cook and work samplers no longer have place upon It except lnvague memory or misty tradition. A stormy marital experience of i month is more sensational than a slm liar experience covering a long term of years and Involving a dozen children more or less but It is not nearly so tragical. In this view Leo M. Cutts and his bride, Lucy K., may be con gratulated for having so soon made an end of the cat-and-dog wrangle, 'in which they engaged under the name of matrimony. A GREAT tRITIC ON IBSEN. William Winter in N. Y. Tribune. All persons are. in one sense, diseased and hastening toward the grave. In some cases the disease la known and named, and the time of the inevitable obsequies can be predicted with approximate pre cision. In other cases the disease is In cipient, and hope fluctuates as to the Drobable arrival of the final catastrophe. But there Is no doubt as to either the present condition -or the ultimate result. All flesh is grass; all grass will be cut down, dried up, and, necessarily, withered; and, sooner or later, the universal nay crop will be gathered in. Tou are bones, and what of that? Every face, however full. Padded round with flesh and fat. Is but modeled on a skuTL These remarkably sapient views are, in general, the views of Mr. Ibsen, of Nor way, and these views with others, about hereditary disease, original sin, miscel laneous humbug, and taxes he has been at some pains to divulge, in a series of plays, some of which are nasty and all of which aro ponderous and dull. Mrs. Fiske, at the Manhattan Theater, last night, produced one of these dreary com positions (a tolerably clean one), called 'Hedda Gabler." and acted the principal part in It Hedda Is a djscontented young married woman who abhors convention, but who Is not sufficiently resolute to en counter the consequence of defying it; a perturbed damsel. In brief, for whom the sagacious family doctor would, probably, prescribe assafoetlda, in moderate doses that being anti-spasmodic and a frequent use of tho sitz-bath. Mrs. Fiske presented this ailing and ec centric female In a manner to awaken solicitude, and with an elocution irresisti bly suggestive of an additional b in the middle of her surname. Early In the serv ices it became obvious that Hedda had made a mistake In marrying Professor Jug gins and that the society of that respect able scientific ass had become almost in tolerable to her. Later It was observed that she became experimental and analy tic, and that, she wanted. In particular, to diversify existence by making mischief. To this end she insulted her husband's aunt; flirted with the tax-man; badgered a fugacious female, who had sought her help and protection; tempted a former sweet heart of her own to get drunk and go to ruin; -stole that lover's precious manu script and put it in tho fire; goaded him to desperation by her Ironical taunts, and armed him with a pistol with which to commit suicide; and, finally, when no more deviltry seemed to be feasible, played a piano and shot herself. All of this from mere wanton, jealousy that anybody else should be happy. The play Is a long-winded colloquial ex position of disease, and its heroine Is an insane cat No other phrase can as well describe such a monstrous union of vanity and depravity. Some excellent acting was done in the presentment of this vicious and depressing picture of dullness and morbid, madhouse wickedness, and at least the representation disclosed one act ress not only of uncommon promise, but of flue piesent faculty the power to ex press afflicting emotion with natural ef fect This was dono by Miss Carlo tta Nill son, playing the forlorn, washed-out, putty-colored Mrs. Elvsted. Mr. Henry J. Carroll somewhat enlivened the solem nities by his sharp and strong delivery and animated and always appropriate action. Mrs. Fiske reverted Jto her Icy, piercing, stridulus, staccato speech,, but she has tho talent or sarcasm, and can say heart less words in a way to bite the sense of hearing and almost to sting the heart; and this was all the felicity of the personation. Mr. Bosworth lacks grace, but "he was natural and effective In his delirium. Miss Tesman, a good old woman, was perfectly played by Mary Maddern, who gave per haps the most finished performance of the jilght. It Is a waste of time to discuss Mr. Ib sen. Mrs. Fiske herself, in writing-about him, not long since, in one of the local magazines, dismissed the subject by saying that this author, "by his example as well as by his work, has . almost banlr.hed beauty, nobility, picturesqueness, and poetry from the stage, and that some of us must believe that his Influence on the whole- bf the contemporary drama has been baneful." In that case it seems a little singular "that Mrs. Fiske should con tribute, to a possible extension of this "baneful influence" by producing Ibsen's plays. But it is woman's right to be in consistent, and, after all, no harm is done by ventilating the Ibsen twaddle which is very far from having "banished anything. or Influenced anybody. The only people who have succumbed to the "baneful in fluence" are a few moon-eyed disciples of Mr. William Archer and Miss Elizabeth Robins, In London persons who stick dinner-plates on the wall and call them selves "souls" together with a small con tingent of Boston cranks, led on by the erudite Erving Winslow. Mr. Archer long ago apprised his flock that Ibsen is a much greater and better writer than Shakespeare, and with the Ibsenite mis sionary labors of Mrs. Kate Reynolds Winslow and Mr. John Blair the public Is dimly familiar. These things do not count It Is a pity that Mrs. Fisne should1 lend her name to this crazy fad; but It Is" only for a moment, and "this too will pass. CAST OP "HEDDA G ABLER." Jorgen Tesman William B. Mack Assessor Brack Henry J. Carvill Ellert Lovberg t Hobar.t Bosworth Hedda Tesman ; Sirs. FIskft Mrs. Elvsted. Carlotta Nlllson Miss Juliana Tesman Mary Maddern Berta Belle Bohn Wanted 'Omhch. ' Boston Transcript. Probably the Honorable Artillery now here are better informed In regard to us than were their countrymen who arrived by one of the early Cunard steamers Sun day morning and quartered at the Tre mont House. The sleighing was very fine. Somo of them wishing to enjoy It Inquired at the office where they could get a team and were informed that by going to Streeter's stable In Bromfield streot, a short distance away, they would undoubt edly be furnished with a satisfactory out fit They proceeded as directed and told the stable-keeper they wished to take a urlve. In his stentorian voice Strceter called "out: "Get out the new red sleigh and put in two large buffaloes." In con sternation the new arrivals said: "No, we don't want buffaloes, we want 'osses." Old XcwMpapcM. Tip In New York Press. What becomes of the old newspapers? It Is said that in New York our daily pa pers circulate to the extent of a third more than "the total population; that Is, the circulation of all the papers Is about 4,750,000 copies a day. I buy eight morn ing papers and three evening papers every day of publication. To read them is a labor. Sometimes I think it Is the labor df Sisyphus. The average week-day weight of the literature is ,two pounds, while on Sunday It is not less than six pounds. Thus I am reading over 900 pounds of newspapers annually. It costs me ?S0 a year. The Salvation Army sends a wagon (a disreputable looking affair) to me once a month for old papers, but" I have never learned what is done with them. England' Export Trade. Montreal Gazette. According to the Board of Trade esti mates the ad valorem equivalent of the duties levied on the principal articles of British export are: In Russia, 130 per cent; In United States, 72 per cent; In Austro-Hungary, 32 per cent; In France, 30 per cent; In Italy, 27 per cent; In Germany, 23 per cent; In Canada, 16 per cent; In Belgium, 13 per cent; in New Zealand, 9 per cent; in Australia, 7 per cent, and In the South African Customs Union, 6 per cent In view of some of these figures there wlll.be wonder, first that British producers can maintain an export trade at all, and, second, that a move for a change that would give the government a weapon to fight for better conditions was not long ago effective. ' HIS SERVICE TO HUMANITY. New York Times. The reasons which prompt posterity to commemorate in enduring bronze the names and, lineaments of the Illustrious dead are as numerous as they are va rious. Success In war, great services to the state, excellence In art or literature, creative genius In music, temporary po litical prominence, practical philanthropy, and so on up and down the list of serv ices to hu'manity, from the fortuitous ac cident of Kingship to the crime tof con quest are all counted reasons for monu ment building. As' a rule, when-the work of those to whom monuments have been reared is analyzed, the wonder grows that they should have been deemed de serving of such honorable and lasting commemoration, and that It should have seemed worth while to single them out for posthumous honors of so costly a kind.. No such question is likely to be raised by future generations concerning the fountain lately bdllt at Altenburg to perpetuate the memory of Hemple, the obscure attorney who In 1817 made his town famous and won for himself a place In Pantheon of all the ages by inventing skat In his way, and It was a much better way than 'many mofe famous men have chosen, Hemple was no doubt a bene factor of Germany, If not of the human race. To have Invented a wholesome pastime Is no mean service to' humanity. Just what skat Is the average American may have some doubts about - When the name Is pronounced phonetically it sug gests the juvenile . method of scaring cats, but when pronounced as It is by those who use it, as if spejled scot. It means a very complex game of. cards. which Is .said to have many points of ad vantage over pinochle, and to make the American game of poker subside, to the relative position which, In the scale of ball games, "one old cat" bears to cricket To build a commemorative foun tain to its Inventor Is probably of no service to him, and may not be so. In a conspicuous degree to his surviving de scendants, but it may serve to stimulate ambition along new lines by showing that enduring fame may be gained by doing something for which posterity "will be grateful. It is does this it will have exceptional value. Things Thnt Went Wronsr. Chicago Tribune. The Innocent Poker Player. Tho facts have Just come' to light con cerning a little game of poker In which two card sharps and a fair-haired, inno cent young man from Piper City of the name of Reginald Hunkey were the prin cipal characters. The two professional gamblers, being men of plausible and captivating manners, easily Inveigled Reginald into a game. He said he "hardly knew one card from another," and "couldn't tell the difference between a straight and a flush." When It was proposed that they play for small stakes a "10-cent ante and a EO-cent limit" he said It was too steep. But he went into the game. And when they quit, after Ave hours' play, Reggie, the Innocent, falr-halred young man from Piper City had lost $1250. The Inventor and His Employers. Peter Williams, a man employed by a firm of dealers in poultry at a salary of $10 a week, having grown tired .of the monotonous labor of plucking chickens and turkeys by hand, Invented a machine that would do the work. He showed a model of it to tho head of the firm. "It's a good idea," said the latter, "and if you caro to sell it- we'll give you 600 for it That's all it would be worth to us." Peter did not wait to consult an expert as to the value of his Invention, but closed with the offer at once. 'Til take It," he said. Whereupon the firm engaged largely in the manufacture of poultry-picking ma chines, and went broke Inside of a.year. While Peter invested his ?600 in mining stock and is now a millionaire. You can't always ..tell how such things will turn out Extracts From the Rome Republican. Milwaukee Sentinel. , The Republican takes pleasure . In an nouncing that M. Calus Flannigan, the eminent Journalist of Carthagena, is now managing editor of this paper. J. Brutus Pensllnger, the former managing editor, Is no longer In our midst, he having written a disparaging editorial concerning Em peror Nero. Requiescat In pace. Tullus Gambrinus won the third annual skat contest, the finals having been de cided last evening. Good boy, Gam. Wanted Twenty-five courageous, re signed Christians for the gladiatorial games next "Wednesday. Apply at the arena entrance. Mrs. J. Caesar gave a pink tea last even ing, in honor of Miss Flaminga Feather ina, of Clusium. Claudius Mack, of the sketch team, Murray and Mack, rendered a very clever ballad entitled, "Only a Roman Nose the Way It's Done." General Sclpio entertained a few friends at a stag dinner Tuesday evening, and a most enjoyable time Is reported. Horatius gave an imitation of his celebrated bridge guarding stunt, and Harry Lehribus hung by his toes from the chandelier and made some exceedingly clever monkey faces. Adelina Pattia, the celebrated prima donna, sang last week before Emperor Nero, before departing for America, where she contemplates making another farewell tour. Hermlnius Clancy, proprietor of the Clancy buffet left last night for the Hot Springs. In his absence the buffet will be operated by Marcus Manlius, the cour teous and obliging barkeeper who was for some time at the Hotel Alba. S. Semper Tyrannis, of Hale Crossing, Sundayed in Rome, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cicero. They're Broke, Too. Dallas (Tex.) News. There are some sports striving to break records who would better be breaking rocks. The Butt-Em-Over People. Baltimore American. Ain't It painful, though, to meet 'em Guess you'll savvy who I mean; Sort of folks that's always finding Spots on folks you thought were .clean. Hero's tho sort of Jolts they hand you Sort that gives you lasting hurts: "She's-a winning little creaiure Ain't It awful that she flirts?" You may know some Jolly fellow "With a countenance you like Just about as clean a looker. As you'd ever chance to strike. Comes this hammer arm'd despoiler. Always watching out for kinks. Saying: "Bully Uttle fellow . Simply shameful that he drlnksl" Or some hard-worked fcllow-belng That you've learned to know'of late, ' Fighting bravely and unaided 'Gainst a stubborn, frowning fate; Just a mention inadvertent To this butt-'em-over.pest: "Acts hard up t' keep It quiet HoTf he's fdatherln his nest." Then that other chap, whose handclasp Oft had saved you from despair Surely there's no blot or blemish On his 'scutcheon whlto 'and fajr, But this human turkey buzzard " Seeking stains an every life, Sneers: "He's never half so Jolly "When you see him with his wife." Oh. these butt-'em-over people, "With their poison-pointed darts Aimed always at fellow beings. Tearing Idols from our hearts! "When our eyes are blind to fallings, God, In mercy, keep them blind If to see would start us probing For the frailties we might. And. In After Years. New York Sun. "We sigh for things that mother cooked, . And yet, there Is no doubt. They must have been the very ones That father kicked about. NOTE AND COMMENT. Heart Failure. WANTED BY SOME OF THE GIRLS IN Lewlsburg, a good, reliable nerve tonic to ad minister to tho young men who took them, half way home from a party and then let them go the rest of the way by themselves. Lewlsburg . correspondence in -Sllverton Appeal. A Damascus Steal. An Oregon City report says that James Coyn. robbed H. J. Feathers, of Damascus. Feather's man Coyn resolved to feather his nest with Feathers' coin. Coin, we know, takes unto itself wings, and Feath ers' coin, with the aid of Feathers' Coyn, flew from Feathers' coign. In other words, although Feathers' Coyn was a bird, he plucked Feathers feathers, and now Feathers is all fuss and feathers; Mr. Perry on "Authors Have Known." I was accompanied by my King Charles spaniel when I went to call on Mr. Thbmpson-Seton-Thompson : "Oh, take that brute away," he cried on catching sight of Thomasina. "Take her away at once." His face was quite pale. Somewhat annoyed at hearing Thom asina called a brute, I nevertheless led her Into the hall and shut the door. "Thanks, dear fellow," said Jlr. T.- hyphen-S.-hyphen-T. "But I thought " r began. "Not at all. I detest animals of all kinds. They make me oulte nervous." When I called on Miss Josephine Dodgo Daskam I took along my niece. Althea. Miss Daskam wasin tho mlddlo of a story "Chubbie Chollie, the Choir-Boy In fernal" when Althea and I entered. ' "Who Is that creature?" asked Miss Daskam. "This Is dear, little Althea," said I, proudly. "Put her In the kitchen Instantly," ex claimed Miss Daskam. "The idea of bring ing such brats into my drawing-room." "Then you " "I Just hato them do you hear, hate .them." Her name really should have been. Jose phine Dodge-and-Drat 'em. Mandarin Hunt. The cop3 don't think the military, cape is the proper caper. Now that Niagara Falls have been dramatized, why not Mount Hood? When a vaudeville turn can live down the adjective "refined" it must be pretty good. 1 Some women are so soft-hearted that they would accept an ungrammatical pro posal. According to the youthful bandit Hoehn, he saved his life at tho expense of hi3 liberty. "Anything for money," says the Galves ton man who claims $150 reward for send ing his son to the gallows. The one quality on which every man prides himself Is his Judgment, thereby, in most cases, showing his lack of it. Experts were examining Baker City's books, but the city hall Are Is thought to have been started by bunglers. Of all the foreign armies I'm not the least afraid, For Tuesday I was watching tho Pythlans on parade. The Parneir anniversary this year was but- little .observed. "When the tree falls, we soon forget that one ever stood. in Its place. Pitcher Rube Waddell, who Is appear ing as a detective in "The Stain of. Guilt" appears to have struck out an audience of theatrical fans on the bleachers of a Chi cago theater. Some cold-footed prospector Is knocking the Thunder Mountain district by circulat ing the report that there will be a whisky famine there this Winter. It Is a shameful act to blight so young and promising a country. The only thing that palliates the suffer ing of being compelled to spend an hour in a stalled street-car Is seeing how tho other people bear It In a Vancouver car. which reposed a couple of hours in East Portland on Monday, one man asked every five minutes what the matter was, varying .his question occasionally by asking where the power was and how It was to be re coverd. To this a sprightly wit replied that the motorman had gone after It with a bucket. A soldier on his way to tho barracks smoked stolidly all tho time "his not to question why." A grizzled G. A. R. man beside him was less rest ful, and got off to pace Indignantly up and down the sidewalk. A fair-haired woman, who somehow suggested the Gretna Green associations that cling to "Vancouver, sighed at frequent Intervals, as if .think ing of her Amoroso and his Impatience at her delay on an occasion so momentous. Two other men, after requesting the con ductor to pick them up at the next corner, disappeared between the swinging doors of an establishment existing to allay tho thirst of East Slders. Another bought an apple from a neighboring frultstand, to discover, on peeling it the presence of an affection resembling the measles. Whilo engaged In contemplating this phenome non, the last mentioned character was aroused by a glad shout from those re maining in the car, for the motorman had returned with the bucket or had, at least, arranged for the necessary Juice. WEX J. PLEASANTRIES OF PAR AG RAPHE R S Teacher Johnny, you may define the first person. Johnny Adam. Town and Country. Mother 1 hope that young man never kisses you by surprise? Daughter No, mamma; ho only thinks he does. Judge. Mrs. Flatlelgh I see- you sill have the same cook, Mre. Urbanite Yes, Indeed. "We havo been' with her nearly six months now. Chicago Dally News. "Didn't you have a pleasant voyage?" ho asked. "Oh, yes," replied Miss Greatblood. "except tor the vulgar trade winds we en countered." Philadelphia Ledger. "You can't exactly git ter heaven In a auto mobile," said Brother Dickey, "but, Jedgin' by de way dey pltchln folks over de hilltops, dey kin give you a good start on de upward road." Atlanta Constitution. "Jack proposed to me this morning." "Did you accept him?" "Yes." Then your prophecy has come true?" "What prophecy?" "Why, last nlsht you said Jack was foolish enough to do anything." Brooklyn Life. Naggsby I understand that Sir Thomas used to call Captain Vringe "Slndbad the Sailor" Just for a Joke. "Waggsby Yes. and. since his recent experience he has probably changed It to "Sallbad the Sinner." Baltimore American. "Why do you call this a farewell concert? You know tho chances are that this alnger will return as usual." "Yes, but It gives the pur chaser of a-seat such an admirable opportu nity to say farewell to his money." "Washing ton Star. - 'You haven't held public office very long, have you?" asked the stranger. "What makes you think so?" returned the new incumbent, "I see you're working Just as though you ex nected vour salarv to be cut off if vou didn't f.earn it." Chicago Record-Herald?