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THE MORNING -OEEGONIANj FRIDAY, JBNE 3, 1904. f Entered at the Postofflee at Portlaad, Or., ai second-class natter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail (postage prepaid 1& advance) Dally, rtth Sunday, per month - JO. 85 Dally, with Sunday excepted, per year 7.. 50 Dally, with Sunday, per year 9.00 Sunday, per year ... ................ 2.00 The Weekly, per year 1.50 The Weekly, 3 months 150 Dally, per week, delivered,' Sunday ex cepted 15c Dally, per week, delivered, Sunday In cluded . 20c POSTAGE RATES. United States, Catinda and ilerlco 10 to 14-ptge paper' .....lo 10 to 30-page paper ...............2c 82 to 44-page paper ......Be Foreign rates double. The Oregonlan does not boy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot under take to return any manuscript sent to It without solicitation. No stamps should be In closed for this purpose. EASTERN' BUSINESS OFFICES. (The S. C. Beckvrlth Special Agency) New Tork: Rooms 43-49, Tribune Building. Chicago: .Rooms S10-512 Tribune Building. 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Fourth and Pacific Ave., N. W.; Ebbltt House News Stand. YESTERDAY' S WEATHER Maximum tern perature, 61 deg.; minimum, C4. Precipitation, VS6 inch. TODAY'S WEATHER Showers, followed by Talr; fair and warmer Saturday; westerly -winds. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JUNE S, 1904. NOW; NOT NOVEMBER! )f course It is impossible that Oregon Fhould elect Democratic members of ingress, or any Democratic member. Jut if Oregon should elect a Demo- sratlc member, the Republican party of the United States would get a blow An the face; and so would President Roosevelt. Those persons therefore who are try- ! Ing to persuade the electors of Oregon that they might Just as well elect Democratic members of Congress as Republican, and who are pleading for the election of one Democratic mem ber if they can't get both, are enemies of the Republican party and of Presi dent Roosevelt. The Republican majority In the next House will certainly not be large. The Democrats start with 120 members from the solid South. Every Representative lost to the Republicans in the North weakens the hope or prospect of a Re publican majority. These things are not said under the impression that either member of the House from Oregon will be lost to the Republicans, but for answer to those who tell you that Republicans needn't care If Democrats are elected. It Is as Impossible to beat Hermann as "Williamson. Tet an effort Is being made against Hermann, as If it were thought possible to beat him. All Re publicans haven't supported Hermann and "Williamson at all times, and fault has been found with one and with the other. But they are Republicans, com mltted and devoted to Republican pol icy and purposes. Turn to Mr. Veatch A Democrat of the old pro-slavery, se cession regime; a man who has fought the Republican party and upheld the vagaries and monstrosities of the Democratic party' throughout a long life; who has followed greenback and silver heresies and Is a devoted disciple of Bryanlsm. It is presumptuous to expect any man who Is a Republican or ever was a Republican to vote for him. There is just one question. Is It better that Republican or Democratic policies should prevail? "Which, from experi ence, has been -better for the country? Then the question goes to Republicans, "Why vote for any Democrat? If you are not ashamed of your part', uphold it, and vote for Its principles and pur poses by voting for its candidates. If you want a Republican President elected in November, If you are for Theodore Roosevelt, stand by at this time those who will stand by him not by those who certainly will be against him! Do the electors of Oregon believe there is any reason why one party should be preferred to another? The time now is to say, for now it will tell In November the vote of Oregon will be lost in the voice of the multitude. But it can be made to count, now. Hence a big majority now, and the fullest and completest possible sweep, is the way to the strongest support and best result for President Roosevelt PRACTICAL DIVORCE REFORM. Mr. Peter West, of Pendleton, whose pension application has been the means of bringing to light the record of his ten wives and eight divorces is not, it must be supposed, an isolated case. He has merely been dragged into publicity where others keep the noiseless tenor of their frequently married way. Ear nestly as we must insist upbn the fight of abused women to release from a tie that is worse than bondage, and cred itable though It Is that In the United States this release has been easy, it Is Impossible to blink the fact that the Increasing levity with which the mar xiage tie Is regarded has become a Na tional evil. Divorce Is ceasing to be an agency of social Justice and Is passing Into a widespread habit of changing partners freely. Custom is authorizing the hus band at will to rind a fresher woman and the wife a richer or more ardent husband. The divorce record, reaching now 30.000 a year. Is no longer an ex hibit to which sympathizers with per secuted woman's lot may . point with pride; but the 500,000 marriage bonds that have been broken In the United States the past twenty years testify to a. growing disregard of the marriage vow.. It bodes no good to the rising generation. It Involves a potential menace to the decency of social life and the legitimacy of children. Reformers have been wont to content themselves with clamoring .for more law. and to Ignore the basic fact that the real arbiters of these things are custom and-manners. It Is significant and hopeful that the- united action re cently taken by leading evangelical churches does not make this mistake. They propose rather to Invoke the en ginery of moral suasion and to form public opinion by refusing religious sanction to Irregular marriages. "What can be done In this direction is abun dantly attested by the annals -of the Catholic Church, whose example seems not to have been wholly lost on, the Protestant world in this as in other things. There Is no denying the eocial power of amelioration that rests with church circles of the country, once they should determine upon withdrawal of" fellow ship from those whose marriages were Irregular and had been refused the sanction of religion. The man who mar ries a common woman learns In bitter ness what It costs him as well as her in social isolation; and In some such penalty as this will be found a far more potent agency for matrimonial sanctity and for the all-Important circumspec tion before marriage, than all the uni form divorce laws that could be passed. There is always hope for better things when reformers leave qff raging against the laws and the courts and seek rem edy where it is to be found in the for mative agencies of public opinion and social standards. TOO DICTATORIAL. The arrogant and dictatorial charac ter of Theodore Roosevelt causes the Democrats of Nebraska to sigh for some such man as Andrew Jackson to guide the republic back Into the peace ful paths of quiet and orderly govern ment. It Is a seductive proposal, espe cially where Mr. Bryan thoughtfully Invokes the Clevelandlan legend that public office Is a public trust." No body but a second Andrew Jackson could successfully carry out this pro gramme, for his guiding principle was to the victors belong the spoils." Tes, we need a Jackson to reform the Civil Service. But it is when we come to contem plate the dictatorial habit of Theodore Roosevelt that the need of a milder mannered and less bellicose man like Andrew Jackson appears most pressing. Time would fail to tell of the saint like youth and subdued maturity of Old Hickory." "When he went to Salis bury to study law, they called him "the must luiinnif, rouiciung, gamecocKing, hbrseraclng, cardplaylng, mischievous fellow ever seen in this town." It is supposed that Jackson's penchant for fighting led the Constitutional Conven tion at Knoxvllle to adopt Its quaint rule: "He that dlgresseth from the sub ject to fall on the person of any mem ber shall be suppressed by the speaker." Jackson began his National career by refusing, with eleven other members of Congress, to approve the address In .commendation of General "Washington. Webster relates that he had often seen Jackson rise to speak In the House, but choke with rage so that he could not articulate. This is the mild-mannered man who fought and killed Charles Dickinson In a duel, defied Calhoun. tried to horsewhip Benton, challenged General "Winfield Scott to a duel, over ran Florida without orders and exe cuted two eminent British gentlemen there, nearly bringing us Into war with Great Britain and Spain, and when President broke up his cabinet by his own headstrong'vlolence. It Is with a fine sense of the eternal fitness of things, therefore, that the Ne braska Democrats ,long for gentle Jackson as an antidote for the strenu ous Roosevelt "We can only wonder that the animating spirit of this Ne braska convention, who will be known to history as the head of the most am bitious effort ever made In this country to destroy its credit and beggar every man that had saved a dollar of his earnings we can only wonder that he did not take the trouble to reproduce this ringing utterance of Andrew Jack son, referring to the effects of debased currency on the poor: This portion of the community have. neither time nor opportunity to watch the ebbs and flows of the money market. Engaged from day to day in their useful tolls, they do not perceive that, although their wages are nom inally the same, or even somewhat higher, they are greatly reduced, in fact, by the rapid increase of a spurious currency, which, as it appears to makemeney abundant, they are at first inclined to consider a blessing. . . The next step is a stoppage of specie payment. a total degradation of paper, as currency, un usual depression of prices, the ruin of debtors, and an accumulation of property In the hands of creditors and cautious capitalists. .MORAL OBLIQUITY OF THE CORPULENT There Is something ludicrous In the declaration of the Russian anarchist arrested in Chicago that he had been sent to Chicago by a society In St. Louis with instructions to "kill fat and prosperous looking men," because while obesity may seem to Imply a more or less masterly Indolence and inactivity. It surely does not Indicate prosperity. A man may be very rich and prosper ous financially and yet suffer so se verely from incapacity to assimilate food that he is as attenuated as the late United States Senator Quay, who had "money to burn." On the other hand, Jack Falstaff, a shiftless rake, who never has any money In his pocket and lives by theft, forgery and cheat ing, lards the lean earth as 'he walks along. Fosco, the arch villain and ad veriturer of "Wllkle Collins' "Woman In White," Is a grossly fat man, who has no prosperity save that which he ob tains by a life of crime. The arch vil lain Iago, whose philosophy Is "to put money in thy purse," Is a lean and hungry dog In appearance, while hon est Casslus is a genial, generous, well conditioned, rosy-gilled fellow. Falstaff, in his Inimitably witty an swer to Prince Hal's gibes upon his fat ness, says: "A plague of sighing and of grief; it blows a man up like a blad der. . . . If to be fat Is to be hated, then were Pharaoh's lean klne to be loved." ... I have more flesh than another man; and therefore more frailty." Falstaff does not like the sober-blooded boy who drinks no wine, but he likes Prince Hal, who is valiant because the cold blood he did inherit of his father he hath "like lean, sterile and bare land" Irrigated with sherry so constant ly that he has become very hot and valiant Falstaff is a very In tellectual and very fat scoundrel and most delightful rascal, but he Is not dangerous. He has no ambition save to be amusing; he is too great a cow ard to make the state totter to feed his gross appetites, and so Falstaff re mains the Immortal type of a most cor pulent scoundrel, who, In spite of all his Intellectual genius, was nothing better than a cowardly parasite; a deadbeat of genius in-time of peace and a most portentous, thrasonical coward and cor rupt malingerer in time of war. The dreadful 'men of history, whose brutal greed has always bred and mul tlplled anarchists, have as a rule, not been -fat man. Despots have never been afraid of fat men, whether they were the corpulent illustrious or the obese obscure. Shakespeare's Shylock is of lean and hungry and vindictive visage; so is Richard HI; so is Iago. Shake speare makes the astute, genial, but sa gacious Julius Caesar say to Mark An tony: 'Let me have about me men that are fat; sleek-headed men, and such as sleep of nights. Ton Cas slus has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much! Such men are dan gerous. . . . "Would he were fatter. He Is a great observer and looks quite through the deeds of men, this spare Casslus. And Caesar further says that men who love no plays, hear no music are never at ease when they behold a man greater than themselves. The astute Caesar was right; he knew that as a rule the spare frame, the lean and hungry "visage implied a restless man, energetic in mind and body, while the man of corpulent habit as a rule im plied an optimist; a man who loved the pure carnalities and the unbroken ani mal content of life better than he did the speculative pursuit of what we call worldly glory. Even Shakespeare's Hamlet Implies that the eloquent, Intellectual dreamer is of corpulent habit The Queen says: "Our son Is fat and "short of breath." The eloquent thinker Hamlet, the hesi tating, Irresolute dreamer and actor, has the fat physique of a reflective man rather than the lean, attenuated, ener getic, muscular physique of an ener getic executive mind. Shakespeare evi dently did not think much of fat men as representative of the dangerous, for midable despots of his day. The great men who do dangerous things, like Richard, Othello, Edmund, Shylock, Macbeth, Casslus, Iago, Hotspur, are t never lat men. They are or tne lean, energetic type of body, but the intel lectual men, who say memorable things, but do nothing in particular, are" men of the corpulent type Falstaff, Sir Toby Belch and. Hamlet Napoleon, the man of action at LodI, Areola, Rlvoli, Marengo, Austerlltx, Jena, Freldland, was of comparatively lean habit, but the Napoleon after 1S09 was a fat man, who could think as well as ever, but could not execute. THEIR MASTERLY STRATEGY. It Is possible at about the close of the third act to unravel the plot and dissect the motives of the principal actors. There Is the leading gentleman, for ex ample, whose conduct has at times seemed -Inexplicable. Now at length we can see what he was driving -at; now we can reconstruct the mental process that went on in his mind while the or chestra was tuning up and the gentle manly ushers were flying up and down the aisles. If then we go, back to the first scene, where the broad-browed and generous spirited Prohibitionist Is discovered sitting on a cake of Ice reading St Paul's Immortal apostrophe to that charity which thlnketh no evil, we shall see his massive intellect engaged in framing up molecular combinations about on this wise: "Let me see. We must proceed with infinite diplomacy. Be wise as serpents, etc If we openly avow the prohibition purpose, we are lost as the experience of mankind is against us. Therefore let It be dis guised. We shall call It local option, and In the name and sign of prohibition by precincts we shall encompass prohi bition by counties." Again (Prohlb loquens): "Should the liquor interests, suspect -our purpose, they will unmask us. How, then, to lull them Into Insecurity? Aha, I have It! Let a statement be prepared showing upon our honor as amiable gentlemen and accomplished men of the world that the proposed law Is not really pro hibition; that it will not, in fact close a single saloon or diminish the output of a single brewery. Nay, even, show on our honor as aforesaid, that probably more liquor will be used under the new regime than now. Thus shall we actu ally Induce the apathy, mayhap the co operation of the brewers and distillers, Aha! My eagle brain Is working very well this morning. How helpless after all are the minions of the evil one, In an encounter with the personifica tion of Soul and Intellect represented In every Prohibitionist As for the enemy, they are blinded, their hearts are hardened, their brains are be fuddled with booze. Watch me fool them!" How admirably this coup d'etat worked out, and how completely the liquor Interests fell a prey to the In spired cunning of the Prohls, is a mat ter too fresh in mind for narration. For what saith the Scriptures? (Luke xvl:8) "For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." The East Oregonian (Pendleton), tak Ing note of things going on In Portland, says that the reply of The Oregonian to Dr. E. P. Hill "was partly justified by local pride;" for though of course there Is immorality In Portland, as In every important city, "yet there are millions of dollars Invested in Portland by per sons who are not responsible for this Immorality and corruption, and to con demn the city publicly, In such bitter terms, will Injure business and injure Innocent people, and cannot reduce the evils condemned." Further: "To adver tise Portland as the rottenest city In the country is to divert legitimate busi ness away from the city and away from Oregon; it Is to bring into un favorable prominence the entire city, when only a small' portion of the popu lation is responsible and culpable; It will throw a damaging cloud of sus plcion over the metrdpolls of the state, which will not Ipduce clean homeseek ers to come here." The conclusion Is that "Dr. Hill has not helped his cause, but "has hurt Portland." We trust and believe this last statement will prove to be a mistaken judgment People know that no picture so dark as Dr. Hill painted can be a true one. But he Is not wholly responsible. He allowed himself Jo be set on by the desperation of political schemers, supported by un scrupulous journalism. A pamphlet of forty-four pages re cently Issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry has aroused interest among medical men, sanitary engineers and municipal officials who are charged with the control of the water supplies throughout the country. The point of Interest centers In the new germicide with which exhaustive experiments have been made. The prime object in these investigations was to discover some means whereby, the minute vege table organisms called "algae," which impart an unpleasant smell and taste to drinking water, can be gotten rid of by treatment in city reservoirs. A circular of Inquiry, preliminary to this investi gation, was sent to 500 engineers and superintendents of water companies, and their replies show that the nuisance is widespread. Old methods such, as shutting out the sunlight by covering the reservoirs, removing at stated In tervals all organic matter from the bbt tom. filtration, etc, have proved insuf ficient, hence the necessity of .finding new methods for purifying reservoirs. The plan is to treat reservoirs that have become infested with the "algae" with a salt of copper In solutions of various strengths according to the vi tality of germs that are to be destroyed. It has been found, for example, that the bacillus of Asiatic cholera requires a little sterner treatment i. e., a stronger solution for Its extermination than does that of typhoid. To distribute the salt it Is placed In a bag of gunny cloth and towed around the reservoir, a care ful examination having previously been made to determine the character of the organisms that were responsible for the "pigpen odor" of the water. The point Is to make the solution strong enough to kill the "algae" without being In jurious to human health. It is upon this rock that experiments with the bacillus of consumption have beeh stranded, and It will be gratifying all along the line of sanitary effort to learn from a high official source that this obstacle to the purification of, drinking water In reservoirs has been practically overcome. Mrs. Sarah M. Kern, whose death oc curred at her - home at "Waverly, "Wednesday night, has been identified with temperance, religious and char itable work In this city and community for many years. A daughter of Father Clinton Kelly, the wife of the late J. W. Kern, she passed nearly the entire span of her 61 years In and near the home in which she died Mrs. Kern was in the truest, tenderest and most devoted sense a w'omanly woman. A devoted idauerhter. an affec tionate, care-taking wife and mother, an earnest church woman and a posi tive element In works of charity, moral ity and temperance, she went her quiet, unassuming way beloved by her family and friends In her home and respected by her associates In the wider field of labor. Her husband, J. .W. Kern, died suddenly in Philadelphia several years ago. She came from a family of the old-fashioned type and dying, she Is mourned by a large family of sons and daughters. For the rest it may simply be said that she will be greatly missed in the community of which for half a Century she has been a member. It can't make any difference to Re publicans or to any party If Democrats are elected to local offices like those of Sheriff and District Attorney." There Is much talk of this kind from Democratic sources. But It may make a great deal of difference. R. E. Sewall, a Repub lican, was District Attorney. He was a worthy man and an excellent officer. But through unworthy piques and other peculiar Influences George E. Chamberlain, a Democrat, was elected This made Chamberlain Governor. It threw into the hands of himself and his party a power they wielded to the ut most, over a mass of voters in Portland All know what mass and class. But for that fact Chamberlain never would have been Governor of Oregon. And It has happened that Republican states have got Democratic Senators in this way, and may even lose electoral votes. An epidemic of spotted fever or cerebro "spinal meningitis caused 150 deaths In New Tork City during two weeks in May. Just how the disease is communicated is not known, nor Is there any known remedy. The efforts of the physicians are directed almost entirely to alleviating the terrible suf fering of the patients. The last great epidemic of this disease in New Tork occurred in 1893, at which time It caused great mortality. Its hidden springs have not yet been discovered, though medical science has been zealous In the effort to find them. Bryan writes a platform in which he undertakes to tell "what Democracy would do." What the Democratic party actually did Is writ large, in universal remembrance of the black night from 1893 to 1897. That night and Its con tinuation would have been blacker still had Bryan been elected In 1896. There Is too keen a recollection of what the Democratic party did In that unhappy Interval to permit any Intense longing for repetition of the experience. Every Republican In Oregon owes it to his own self-interest as well as to his sense of justice to come out on elec tion day, at whatever sacrifice, and per form his public and private duty by honoring the man who has honored us and by rebuking the emanations of slanderers against honest and efficient servants. The pbligatlon is with the Republican voter in every nook and corner of the state. How will It be dis charged? "Men are only boys grown tall." A registering clock will soon be placed In the Courthouse to keep tally upon the outgoings and Incomings of the county officials. It is hoped by this means to place a check upon tardiness and break up the habit of "playing hookey" In that Institution. Another wife has left her home in this city, taking her little children with her, and another husband is wondering what could have caused the woman to dis appear thus suddenly. This is Indeed a world of mysteries. There Is not, nor has there been, any Republican opposition to Hermann in his district Election day will develop to his assailants and defamers a fact that all persons of unbiased mind know already. Mischief Caused by Statistics. Harper's Bazaar. The announcement that the director of the Yale "commons" has been obliged to put up the price of meals to $4.50 a week henceforth and that at the old price of dollar or so less the college has lost $30,000 a year, will doubtless fill the hearts of many patient housekeepers with un spoken gratitude. For years the Amerl can housewife has been suffering from the baleful activity of the man of statistics, who proves conclusively in the columns of endless periodicals that $3 a week will feed anybody royally, and that a delight ful dinner may be given for $2.o0, lnclud Ing Sowers. A periodical ostensibly de voted to . the interests of the American home once published statistics showing how a man and wife and two children had lived comfortably on $200 a year. The misery caused by those statistics, over the whole broad land, was beyond computa uon. Two Issues. Philadelphia Press. (Rep.) The coming Presidential campaign will be fought on two issues the tariff and Roosevelt The Republican party will gladly accept the fight on both. AMERICA'S OBLIGATIONS TO RUSSIA Chicago Chronicle. Melville E. Stone's address before tie Illinois Manufacturers' Association, In which he set forth the obligations of this country to remain neutral during the war between Russia and .Japan, was a timely, interesting and valuable contribution to the literature of the struggle. That Russia, beginning with the- diplo matic tangle which brought the Revolu tionary war to a close and down to the closing scenes of the Civil. War, was the friend of the United States, evincing her partiality on several notable occasions. ought never again to be denied, doubted or forgotten. The friendship seems to have been also not wholly one of policy. Two Russian declarations may be cited in illustration of this. At the time that Russia overturned the Milan and Berlin decrees and released the impounded American ships the Russian Foreign Minister said to our Minister, Mr. Adam3: Oyr friendship for America is dbstinate more obstinate than you know. Again, when this country was in the throes of Civil War and had not another friend In Europe. Prince Gortchakoff said to Bay ard Taylor: "Tou may say to the Pres ident that we have been approached to join In Intervention and we will be ap-r proached again, but our course will not change. We will stand by you to the end." Mr, Stone mentioned as the crowning act of Russian friendship the visit of the two Russian fleets, one to New Tork and the other to San Francisco, which were to be sold to the United States in case of foreign Intervention or recognition. As he referred to the doubts which have been expressed about the design of Rus 6la in regard to these fleets, it Is a pity he was not informed that Horatio L. Wait, now of Chicago, a retired officer of the United States Navy, visited the fleet in New Tork, and was told by the officer In command, without the slightest reserve, that the object was to turn over the vessels to the American Government Our obligations to Japan, Mr. Stone said, rested on a relation of the opposite phnrapttr. That Is. we were bound to Russia by favors' received and to Japan bv favors bestowed. He might have added that, owing to a singular twist in human nature, we are more inclined to befriend a person whom we have ai ready befriended than a person wno has befriended us. The friendship between Russia and America, owing to their remoteness, their radically different languages and espe cially their antipodal and even antago nlstlc Dolltlcal Institutions, is tne most singular and incomprehensible; friendship In universal history. It is, however, an Indisputable historical fact, and nothing but some recent manifestations of bar barism by certain of the Czar's agents could have prevented its fullest recogni tion on the part of the American people, For Russia aa Russia America has nothing but good will. For the reaction- aray bureaucrats of Russia we can leei only contempt and loathing. STORMING THE CHURCHES. Clerical Prohibitionists Backing the "Local Option" Campaign. Snlem Caoltal Journal. The Prohibition orators and the moral- wave reformers who are always ready to jump into the pulpits are storming the churches. a nnHtirai nrosTamme that will need a strong administration to enforce Its un dertakings Is making the churches to go into nolltlcs once more. While the founder of Christianity ate and drank -with publicans and sinners, and steadfastly refused to meddle with temnoml affairs and Dollcles of jrovern ment. religionists in these days Jump at the cnance to get into politics. Thpsft inimical rerormers w.io laite aa vantage of the pulpits to carry on their nMtntlntis have a trreat advantage In one way they plead the cause of moral I.. in ty,a. noma nt rmrltv nnr! rpl ffinn. But this is a short-nvea ana specious advantage, because in the long run the people will not accept governmental poli cies or moral reforms at the hands of any religious denomination or combina tion. -noniine -ceifh the llauor traffic Is one of the gravest problems of government and Twiiiticai solution has vet been found for the evils that are connected with the Trf1v tnklner possession of all the pul pits that will be surrendered to a tem poral orooasranda a few days before eiec tinn trill nnt solve tne DroDiem. it nas norm iripri in other states and failed Church and stato partnership in any unrfoT-tnVinir in the ena weasens too church and demoralizes the government iTirt has done so in every country wnere It has been attempted. Wheat Versus Rice. Deuartment of Commerce Report. The following table shows the great in crease of wheat Imports into the prin cipal rice-eating countries or- me worm Quantity. Value. Barrels.' China 1S93 1002 - $ 717.5S7 2,418.077 Ceylon 1SB3 ....... 1002 553.667 803,323 Japan 1893 1002 .... ' 4SG.706 194.99: 1.632,005 India 1834 '.iff 1903 13,5o7 43.278 50,261 Java 1803 1902 109,463 763.8C0 098.01 Philippine Islands 1804 1003 188,263 Straits Settlements , 1893 lil.156 1901 248,865 467.194 727,950 463.613 932,149 Total for 1893.. Total for 1902.. $3,204,131 7,002.31: IBB nnnridn Tier barrel. Imports for 1894 into India and the Philip pines included. Imoorts for 1903 Into India and the Philip pines and for 1901 Into the Straits Settlements included. General With a Major's Command Cleveland Plain Dealer. General Leonard Wood, at the head of 450 men, Is marching to avenge the mas sacre of a detachment, of United States trnnno hv the Moras of Mindanao. The snentaHe nf a "Maior-General With a Ma jors command Is something new In Amer ican military history and Indicates that the General Is desperately In earnest about gaining that military experience which an unkind fate has hitherto denied him. Ooeratlons against these same trlhesmen have been carried on heretofore with perfect success by captains and field nffifera t is not easv to see why Gen eral Wood should feel moved to take the field In person on such a petty expedition unless he realizes tnat ne neeas tno ex nerienre. a. sufficiently humiliating admis sion from a man who will not many years from now comniu.nu iuc uiincu Army. , Sleep. Sir Phllto SIdner. Come. Sleep: O Sleep! the certain knot of peace; The baltlng-place of wit, the balm of woe. The poor mah's -wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' Indifferent Judge between the high and low; With shield of proof shield rae from out the Tirease Of those fierce darts Despair at 'me doth throw; O make in me those civil -warsto ceaje; I will good tribute pay if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillowe, sweetest bed A chamber deaf of noise and blind of light. A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine in right, Move not thy heavy grace, .thou shalt in zne. Livelier than elsewhere, Stella s image see, ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF FISH. Now Tork Tribune. In the annual report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1903, which has just been issued in pam phlet form, a fact Is emphasized that has not been generally recognized before. Of the eggs, fry and "fingerllngs" which have Deen distributed by the national uovern ment SS per cent represent varieties which are caught by the commercial fishermen for the market Only 2 per cent can be regarded as benefiting the sportsman ex clusively. Much greater quantities of whltefish, cod, salmon and shad, for in stance, are supplied than of brook trout or black bass. This is a wise policy. A more generous treatment of those who angle for pleasure might be regarded with favor by the majority of right minded people, but the hypercritical would be enabled to grumble at the seem ing extravagance thus displayed. About- 40 species are now being propagated arti ficially, and the aggregate number of eggs and young fish sent out from Na tional hatcheries last year exceeded a billion and a quarter. Tet the prime ob jects kept in view were the prosperity of an Important industry, and a varied and palatable addition to tho public food supply. If any doubt yet remains about the practical advantages of this work, two Illustrations given by Commissioner Bow ers should effectually dispose of It Twen ty years ago, before much had been done toward restocking streams with shad, the total value of the catch along the At lantic Coast was scarcely $18,000,000. For the ten years ended with 1903 it averaged $50,000,000. On tho Pacific Coast 5000 "fln- gerling salmon were liberated in 1S96, each bearing a tiny tag for future iden tification: In the next four years 450 of them were caught, and altogether they weighed 10,000 pounds. Inasmuch as It costs the Government $1 a thousand to hatch and distribute these fish, and the market price of salmon Is often 5 cents pound, the pecuniary return may some times be a hundred times as great as the investment An additional reason for raising salmon In this manner has re cently been discovered. No fish of that species comes back a second time to spawn. Under natural conditions the In crease Is limited. Hence the wholesale netting which Is now practiced on the rorth Pacific Coast would soon exter minate this valuable food fish altogether if no provision were made for stocking the rivers therewith. A notable feature of the recent work conducted by the commission relates to the introduction of numerous species of fish where they are not Indigenous. An elaborate attempt is being made, for ex ample, to find an oyster whlcn will thrive on the North Pacific Coast, and there Is reason to think that a variety which has been brought from Japan will grow In that quarter of the world. The experi ments made with shad and striped bass in Callfornlan waters have already proved remarkably successful. So abundant have the shad become that the fishermen are conspiring to limit the supply. Wholesale rates often drop to one-third, of a cent a pound. Two small lots of bass were placed In-the Straits of Carquinez over 20 years ago, and now fully a thousand tons are marketed regularly, every year, and many epecemens weigh from 30 to 40 pounds each. Great as are the benefits derived from restocking streams and lakes that have been depleted, this lnva sion of new regions materially enlarges tho usefulness of the commission. Farming at Esopus and Lincoln. Chicago Chronicle. The effect of Editor Bryan's attacks upon Judge Parker is practically nullified by his attempt to imitate one of the cardinal virtues of the Cincinnatus at Esopus. In reply to recent queries, of a political nature the Nebraska demagogue said: have nothing to say. I am only a farmer now and am spending my time -just at present In getting my farm in proper shape for the season."" Thus tho people will have an oppor tunity to observe and compare the meth ods of agriculture that prevail at Eso pus and Lincoln. While Judge Parker is sowing and reaping his wheat Mr. Bryan will be equally busy sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind; while one digs po tatoes the other will delve for platitudes. Esopus will send its golden corn to crib. while the granaries at Lincoln are silvered with fresh conceit While the fertile fields of the jurist yield their bountiful crop of Democratic rye the farm of the populist will pour into the lap of the Na tion Its regular quota of riot And so they may be expected to go on producing respectively turnips and tur moil, lettuce and letters (of the sealed variety), asparagus and adjectives, until the harvest home when Judge Parker sur veys his yield of the bountiful products of Ceres and the Nebraska farmer gazes ruefully upon his gathered crop of tares. Why Not Folk? Chicago Tribune. Mayor Tom Johnson says: "I am not attempting to forecast the action of the coming National Convention, but fearless Joseph Folk should be kept in mind." Samuel J. Tllden was not nominated In 1S76 because he was a great lawyer, but because he had fought rings and corrup tion in his state. Mr. Folk has been In the same business in Missouri. If the Democrats want a candidate who has done things they have one ready to their hand. Mr. Folk may not be so able a lawyer as Judge Parker, but what has the Judge done except to keep his mouth shut? The gentleman from Missouri has another recommendation. A President must be 35 years old. Mr. Folk will at tain that age In October of this year. If nominated, he will be a young and a vig orous candidate. He will be able to do an amount of stumping quite beyond the capacity of the elder statesmen who have aspirations. The Democratic party might do much worse than to choose for its leader the ardent young Mlssourian whose honesty has been so effective. Auction. Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.) The most amusing political Item we have recently read Is the one In which the Hearst men In Florida charge that money was used to defeat him In that state. Even if it Is tr"ue, a man who goes to an auction shouldn't kick if somebody outbids him. The Opening. Atlanta Journal (Dem.) The Illinois Republican Convention was opened with prayer by a minister and profanity by Chairman Cannon. The con vention seems unanimously to follow the lead of the chairman rather than the lead of the minister. An Iowa Opinion. Des Moines Register and Leader (Rep.) If a vulgar expression may be allowed. the Republicans of Wisconsin are making monkeys of themselves. Vfa Amorls. Sir Philip Sidney. High-way, since you my chief Parnassus be; And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet, Tempers her words to trampling horses feet More oft than to a chamber-melody Xow. blessed you bear onward blessed me To her. where I xar heart, safe-left, shall meet; I My Muse and I must you of duty greet "With thanks and wishes, wishing thankfully; Be you atlll fair, honord by public heed: By no encroachment wrong" d. nor time for got; Nor blamed" for blood, nor shamed for sinful deed; And .that yon know I envy you no lot. Of highest wish, 1 wish you so much "bites Hundreds of years you Stella's feet may kiss! NOTE AND COMMENT. ."Changeable." x Is there ausht in -this-ltn Can so worry a feller, As to see the sun shine . When he's brought his .Umbrella I Tes, It's much worse than that. And' even raore paining. To wear a straw hat And. feel It start raining. The Professor and the Lady. There Is no thins: more pleasing 'than to see an author come back at the critics. Even if the author has little of the satirical power of Byron, the counter stroke, Is still likely to provoke applause- frbm those long accustomed to see tne author treated as a punchingbag, which can only retaliate upon Its slogger when his own stupidity keeps him in the way of the rebound. Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. whose recent article on the alleged bour geois quality of American literature pro voked not a few acrid replies, takes up the cudgels against Professor Harry Thurston Peck in the latest number of the Times' Saturday Review. Mrs. Ather ton places at the head of her letter this extract from Professor Peck's criticism on "Rulers of Kings": Mrs. Atherton simply made a mistake- in for getting her milieu. Should she live in Hun gary for a dosen years or so, until the plac became as familiar to her as Lake Placid or Piccadilly, she could write about it -without perpetrating the absurdities which we find in 'Rulers of Kings." She would not then, rep resent on Austrian Grand Duchess as stating an ordinary American on her left at an offi cial dinner, nor would her Hungarian and German names be spelled with quite so much. Inconsistency. ' Somewhat trifling absurdities these to worry over, and a. trilling criticism, ap parently, cause Mrs. Atherton's warmth of reply. But thero Is nothing soma peo ple resent so much as the Imputation that they are not familiar with the arcana, of the "huppcr suckles." The bourgeoisie loves to discuss the etiquette of the court So Mrs. Atherton's reply to Professor Peck deals with his and her knowledga of the great world. She says: An Austrian Grand Duchess." A daughter of the Emperor of Austria Is an Archduchess. Grand Duchess" is the title given to a daughter of the Czar of all the Kusslas. An American may scom such detail, bot then ha should.not set up as an authority on the usagea of the courts Of Europe, and question those who are In a position to know what they are writing about. To quote more fully: "She would .not then represent an Austrian Grand Duchess as seating an ordinary American on her left at an official dinner." The dinner referred to waa not official nor was there an official at it! and even royalty has ItA privileges. However, Professor Peck doubtless assumes that a dinner of 40 peoplo must necessarily be official. I had not thought of that, and the mietako seems to me quite natural in Prof. Harry Peclc. Tho la'st sentence Is a slap on the wrist for "Professor Harry Peck!" He doe3 not dine with S3 companions every night In the week, and his study of the Ladies' Home Journal will avail him little when It comes to Grand and Arch-Duchesses. Criticism and reply make it a standoff. "Know-nothing!" says tho Professor. "Ignoramus!" snorts the Lady. "You'ra off your trolley!" (a free translation of "out of your milieu") says the Professor. "Bourgeois!" cries the Lady. All the world loves a dog-fight and all the literary world a pen-fight How many bridge tickets have you left over? It's about time to start resting up be fore your vacation. Australia's new .Premier is a .printer. He left the case -for tho cabinet It's not surprising that some women walk ungracefully. When you see their heels you wonder they can walk at all. Pictures of bathing suits begin to ap pear on the woman's page. Needless to say, you'll never see anything Ilk them on the beach. The McCarty-Heryford case should be a warning to all men not to break their promises. It's cheaper to marry tha girl and get a divorce. A man went from St Louis to Chicago to kill five "fat and prosperous-looking' men. If, he came to Portland the first five he met would answer, the descrip tion. The Great Northern folder, announcing busttress openings along the line, has been Issued for 1904. It gives Beillugham a population of 23,500 and Seattle SO, 671. The man that compiled the folder's statistics might get a job in Bellingham. but It would be folly for him to expect one in Seattle. In days gone by, when death waa the penalty for many offenses, a prisoner about to be sentenced for sheepsteallng was asked by the Judge If he had any thing to say. "Only this," he replled,"that It seems hard I should lose my life just for stealing a sheep." "Prisoner at the bar," replied the precise Judge, "pray understand. Tou are not to be hanged for stealing a sheep. You are to be hanged In order that others may be deterred from stealing sheep." So some local option people say, "Tou are not to be prevented from having a drink be cause It's bad for you, but because It may be bad for someone else." WEX. J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. Dick Are you ever going to pay me that $5? Tom Sure a dime at a time; come right along and have a cigar on me. Cin cinnati Commercial Tribune. "Do her family approve of her ambition to go upon the operatic stage?" "Dm er yes. and no. That Is, they approve of her going away to sing." Detroit Free Press. "Waggles Thare is the great historical novelist and the man who made him. Jag gles His publisher? "Waggles No; the fel low who wrote the advertisements. Judge. "De'man dafs so 'fraid of makin" mis takes dat he won do nuffln," said Uncle Eben, "is sure, sooner or later, to cum under de spIcion of bein lazy." Washington Star. "Does your little girl know how to spell?" "Oh, dear no. That's so plebeian, and we ex pect her to marry a man who is rich enough to let her have an amanuensis." Chicago Post. He (during the quarrel) "Well, I don't seem to cut any ice in this world! She Well, It's a .afe bet that you'll not be in the kind of climate where you will be able to cut any In the next. Yonkers Stateman. Counsel Do you understand tho narure cf an oath? Witness Sir? Counsel Do you understand the nature of an oath, I say? Witness (Impressively) Sir, I have driven a keb In this city for nigh on forty year. London Pick Me Up. "That man." said Bleacher, indicating the home player who was coaching vociferously, "is the new lnfielder they've signed, but he'll never do for second base." "For goodness sake!" exclaimed Dubley, who was witness ing his first game, "is he supposed, to be singing?" Philadelphia Press: Poor man!" exclaimed, the Soulful Young Thing. "What are you locked in here for?" "Cussln' the Judge," answered, the man be Jiind the bars, who had been sent to Jail for contempt of court. Shrinking from him with repugnance, she carried her flowers to the murderer in the next celt Chicago Tribune. - ,