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8 THE MORNIJiG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 10. 1906. Entered at the Poatofflee at Portland. On. ae Becond-Claee Matter. SCBSCHIPTlOJf RATES. CT IXTXRIABLT IN ADVANCB. tj (By Mail or Expreae.) DAILY. 6CNDAT INCLUDED. Twelve months ...fsOO tslx montba . 4.38 Ihree montba t- One month .1 Uellvered by carrier, per year 00 Dellrered by carrier, per month..... . -TO Lei time, per week Sunday, one year..... ....X-50 Weekly, one year (leaued Thuradaor... 1M Sunday and Weekly, one year 60 HOW TO aUUUT Send poaloffles money order, czpreaa order or paraonal check on your local bank. Stampa, com or currency at the sender's liak. EA8TKRX BUSINESS OFFICK. Tbs S. C. Beckwlth special Agrary New Tor, room. 43-30. Trlhune building. CM go, rooma olO-oll Tribune building fcLEJPT ON BALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Poataffloa Sewa Co., 178 Dearborn street. t. Paul. . St. ataxia Commercial Station. Uenver Hamilton Kendrlck. 808-911 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 131 fifteenth street; X. 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WaJilnrton. D. C. Ebbttt House, Fenn aylvania avenue. rORILAM), THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1806. THE IttSSlAN REVOI.UTIOS. Iiike all revolutions and most wars, the present struggle In Russia origin ates in questions of economics. Who shall own the land of the Nation, the Czar and his clique of nobles or the people'.' Who shall levy taxes, the au tocracy or the representatives of the people? Shall the ruler continue to waste 1 he best years of the youth of his realm in military training? Shall he continue to drag them from their home." by the conscription and compel them to spend their time In Idleness rather thun in productive Industry; shall wars which the people must fight and for which they must pay depend forever upon the sole fiat of this weak and vacillating monarch and his suc cessors; shall the development of in- dtistry be directed by his foolish man date?; shall free thought be suppressed and free speech be forbidden; shall the most progressive and useful members of society be slain and exiled to prevent their infringement upon his preroga tivesthese are some of the economic questions which the promoters of the revolution wish to settle and which must be settled before there wilt ever again be stable Internal peace in Rus sia. Economic questions may be post poned, but they cannot be permanently suppressed because they lie at the root of the struggle for existence. They re late to food, clothing, shelter and the other fundamental necessities of man kind. When an economic question has been finally and satisfactorily answered the solution becomes a moral law, lust ns the final results of scientific Inves tigation become theorems of mathemat ics. The laws of gravitation and heat, which have been established beyond all tioubt, are expressed In algebraic equa tions. In the same way such economic Jaws as have been thoroughly tested ond proved are summed up In our codes of ethics. The Ten Commandments contain most of them. Adam Smith Is commonly reputeVl to be the founder of the science of political economy, but in reality its most valuable conclusions were set down by Moses thousands of years ago, and heaven alone knows how long before his time they were first dis covered. What purports to be new in the sci ence of economics is for the most part immoral and what Is moral Is not new. The real triumphs In ethics or eco nomics they are the same thing have consisted not In discovering new truths, but In extending the application of old ones to classes of men hitherto exempt. Our ethical victories have uniformly resulted in bringing one privileged class after another under the sway of the world-old moral law. The progress of the human race ha consisted mainly in eliminatingxccptions and making the application of the ethical code uniform. in all ages there have been classes of men who have claimed that the pre cepts of the. moral law did not apply to them. It has nlways been agreed, . for example, that it was wrong to kill, hut everywhere, up to a within a few Venturis. "d I" Russia until the last f-v years, an exception was made of Kings and nobles and everybody con ceded that it was right for them to kill to their hearts' content. The revolution now at work in Russia alms to apply to the Czar and his relations the same moral principles regarding murder which other men obey. One may say the same of theft. Ever since the institution of private property it has been wrong for the com mon man to steal, but certain privileged classes were permitted to take as much as they liked of other men's possessions without incurring the least moral guilt. Formerly the Kings of England, when they set out upon a Junketing tour, would send their officers ahead to seize surplice without paying for them. This was theft, of course, but it was not o recognized Tor a long time. It is only very lately that we have awakened in this country to the real moral nature of the predatory acts of our great corpora tions. The present agitation which Mr. Roosevelt irads is simply an effort to bring the trusts and the trust magnates under the same rules of honesty which other individuals obey; and the Russian revolution has the same purpose with regard to the Czar and his nobles. Nobody denies, either in Russia or America, that the moral law ought to apply rigorously to humble persons like farmers, dry goods clerks and bricklayers, but In both countries it is strenuously contended that there are divinely appointed privi leged classes who must remain ex empt from Its principles. It Is held, for example, that a United States Sena tor who violates his official oath in the interest of Standard Oil or the sugar trust acts conscientiously and should never be reproached for his conduct. In Russia It is held that It is right and highly proper for the Czar to exploit the lives and fortunes of all his subjects for his own personal advantage and that of his relations. The cases of our Senators and magnates are not quite so flagrant as those of the Russian auto crats, perhaps, but the principles in volved are precisely the same. Both classes claim to be exempt from the moral rules to which ordinary men must submit. Our struggle against privilege is car ried on more or less peacefully with ballots and oratory; the Russian revo lution seems unable as yet to dispense with bloodshed, but we need not go far back in our history and that of England to find the Anglo-Saxon race in pre cisely the same condition where the Slavs are now. The English Parlia ment, arid therefore the American Con gress, had a beginning quite as feeble and uncertain as that of the Russian Douma. Elizabeth palavered with her Parliament, scolded its members and sent them to prison, just as Nicholas does. She told them that it was not their business to meddle with the im portant affairs of the kingdom and they were vastly more submissive to her, and even to her successor James, than the members of the Douma seem to be to the Czar. But changes came very rapidly in England. Within a genera tion after the death of James the Par liament became the paramount power in the kingdom. It had fought a suc cessful revolution, executed one King and banished another and had insisted upon the provisions of Magna Charta and other rights and privileges which have grown more and more compre hensive ever since. How long will it take the Douma, weak as it now ap pears, to achieve a similar triumph? A DEMOCRATIC PARADOX. The astonishing paradox is advanced by hungry aspirants to office that the only way to carry out the Republican policies advocated by President Roose velt Is to elect Democrats to office. It is claimed by them that the only genu ine, true-blue representatives of Repub lican doctrines at the present time are those pre-eminently patriotic citizens whose names adorn the Democratic ticket. If this is true, what right have these gentlemen to call themselves Democrats? A Republican Is a man who believes in the principles of the Republican party. There is no other way to distinguish him. Neither age, height, cast of countenance nor color makes a man a Republican. The deci sive point Is the political creed which he adopts. Hence the Democrats who ask the suffrages of the voters on the ground that they hold Republican prin ciples are sailing under false colors. Why do they not plead for votes on the ground that they advocate Demo cratic principles? Has the Democratic party no principles of Its own, or are the candidates ashamed of them? One would have scarcely dared to assert that the party was reduced to such an extreme of moral and intellectual poverty as this, but when its own can didates admit the fact and even boast of It, what can we do but accept it? And Indeed the principles of the ac knowledged leaders of that party are something which any good American citizen may well be ashamed of. It is no wonder that the candidates who ask the votes of the people feel bound to repudiate them. What are those princi ples? There is an infallible way to dis cover them. It we wish to determine the principles of the Republican party we ask what Mr. Roosevelt, its great leader, advocates. In the same way, to learn the principles of the Demo cratic party we must inquire what its leaders stand for. Those leaders are Gorman, Ryan, Belmont and their plu tocratic confreres. Mr. Belmont stands for the street railway combine which is swindling the people of New York out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr. Ryan stands for malodorous life Insur ance and the system of high finance which is based upon it.' Gorman stands for plug-ugly politics in Maryland and the United States Senate. Such are the principles of the Demo cratic leaders. How much help would Mr. Roosevelt receive from these men if they had control of the Government? A National Democratic victory would give them that control, and every Dem ocratic candidate elected In Oregon con tributes in his degree to place them in power. SETTLING THE NEGRO PROBLEM. While a great many people in the North appreciate the necessity for dis franchisement of the negro in the South. In order to make that section of the country habitable for .the whites, they cannot but be amused at the contor tions of argumentation through which Southern leaders go in their efforts to devise a plan which shall accomplish the desired end without violating the provisions of the United States Consti tution. Down in Georgia, for example, the disfranchisement question ie Just now a live issue. There is no division of opinion upon the proposition that the negro should be disfranchised, but there is a dispute as to the methods by which it should) be accomplished. The present Georgia scheme of disfranchise ment is in the nature of a requirement that all taxes shall have been paid since the adoption of the constitution In 1877. It Is proposed to substitute an educational test. Mr. Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution and aspirant for Democratic nomination for Governor, defended the old system and a report of one of his addresses in his own paper says: Mr. Howell showed that under the pres ent system In force In Georgia not a alngle negro enjoys the privilege of the ballot. The constitutional provision- requiring the pay ment of all taxes since the adoption of the constitution of 1877. coupled with the white primary syetom. has more effectually dis franchised the negro in Georgia than could poeslbly be done by any disfranchisement law that could be paused. Georgia haa already disfranchised the negro by the only legal method and the grave danger lies In substi tuting for this method a new. a doubtful and an ilk-gal system. Mr. Howell went on to show that sub stitution of an educational test as a means of disfranchising the negro would result in depriving 36,000 good white citizens of the right to vote and give the elective franchise to 75.000 edu cated negroes, not one of whom can vote under the system In force today. Mr. Howell demanded to know, amid storms of applause, whether the people of Georgia propose to take the ballot from those Confederate veterans who dropped the" grammar and spelling book inlS61 and shouldered the mus ket and went out to fight the battles of their country. He then presented facts to prove that there are more negro children than whites in the schools of ti staxa of Georgia, and that agita tion of an educational test as one qualification upon the right to vote has had the effect of increasing attendance in the negro schools. From all of which it appears that the educational test, 'which might find favor among the people of any part of the country, must be abandoned by the peo ple of the South if they are to shut out the negro and preserve the ballot for the white. That the negro must be disfranchised is agreed. How it shall be accomplished is a secondary matter, the only problem being to devise a scheme which shall be effective In Its operation as to the black, but leave the rights of the white man unhampered. LINK OF LEAST RESISTANCE. A Boise special in yesterday's Orego nian announced that the Oregon Short Line -would immediately begin construc tion of a railroad from Huntington to Riparla. This project is not a new one, and the announcement from Boise is not the first we have had regarding it. The water-level grade from Hunting ton to Portland has been one of the railroad possibilities that has been un der consideration fully as long as the RIparla-Lewlston branch, which is now nearlng completion. It may be that the Boise story is premature, and that the building of the line Is to be deferred for a while, but sooner or later there will be a line over which heavy traffic can follow the course of least resistance from Huntington to the sea. There Is a tremendous waste of power in pulling heavy trains over the grades between Umatilla and Huntington. The climb is steep and practically unbroken for nearly 100 miles between Umatilla and Kamela, at the summit of the Blue Mountains, and there are even heavier although Shorter grades east of La Grande. Coming west, the grades are shorter but fully as steep, and practical rail road men state that one engine can haul more cars between Huntington and Umatilla by a water-level route down Snake River than three engines can haul over the mountains. With such a saving in operating expenses it may seem strange that the construction of a line down Snake River has been so long deferred, but the explanation is found in the much shorter route by way of La Grande and Pendleton. The Harriman lines which now cross the state have not yet worked up to any where near the maximum of their fa cilities, and it is only where there is an enormous amount of tonnage to be moved that economy is found in mak ing a longer haul to escape the grades. Exact figures on the projected line down Snake River are not available, but the distance from Huntington to Umatilla by the new route will be ap proximately 100 miles greater than by the route now In use. Not only can one engine haul as many cars over the river route as three engines can haul over the mountains, but, owing to the fear ful grades on the line now In use, there will be a saving in time by the longer route. As before stated, it is simply a. ques tion of enough Increase in the traffic to work this additional 100 miles of road up to a point where it can earn some thing on the increased' Investment. One or two freight trains per day will not show enough saving In economy of op eration to warrant the abandonment of the old line for a longer one, but the number of trains between Huntington and Portland is increasing so rapidly that the time Is near at hand if it Is not already here, when the river line can secure enough traffic more than to pay interest on the increased invest ment. Lumber is the big factor in the earnings of Western railroads, and, enormous as the volume of that traffic now seems, it is small In comparison with what it will be in a year or so. Unless the Snake River line is con structed in the near future, it will not be completed any too soon for a traffic that is growing so fast that it will some day outgrow the facilities of the moun tain route between Portland and Hunt ington. The new line means much more to Portland than the extension of the down-hill haul, for it will open up some new country from which we are now barred by lack of railroad facilities. The through passenger traffic between Portland and the East would, of course, be handled over the old route, which is so much Shorter, but additional passen ger train service would be needed for the new country to be tapped by the river road. The present report of im mediate action on the part of Mr. Har riman may be premature, but that a road will eventually follow the winding Snake and its easy grades Is a cer tainty. Reduction of grades, elimina tion of curves and increasing economy of operation are everywhere noticeable on the best railroads of the country, and that magnificent stretch of track between Portland and - Umatilla haa demonstrated to a high degree the ad vantages of the water-level grade. The cost per ton per mile for moving freight over it is so small in comparison with that on the mountain grades that there is no occasion for surprise over Mr. Harriman's desire to own more water level mileage. THE WORLD MOVES. Yielding to the pressure of public opinion, the compilers of the new Pres byterian prayer book have eliminated from the marriage ceremony of that church the word "obey" as included in the wife's promise in the Epscopal marriage ceremony, from which it is modeled, and also the promise so empty In fact and in law which includes the bestowal of "all the worldly goods" of the husband upon the wife. It is about time that meaningless vows, always taken with secret reser vation, were eliminated from the mar riage service. Asked the day before her recent marriage if she was to promise to "obey" her husband, a young woman intelligent, cultured and with a more than ordinary sense of duty replied: "Oh, yes; it's no use to raise a question about the matter," adding af ter a moment's reflection, "I don't in tend to obey Tom unless I want to, or against my own sense of what is best and right. If it should ever come to that." It is clearly about time that a promise so farcical as this one is in most cases should no longer be required of wives, while as for the "endowment of all worldly goods" promised by the husband, that, as every one knows. Is and has ever been null and void, except as it is occasionally ratified by the last will and testament of a generous hus band. The two belong to the system of - "iip-servrce" which has made the forms of religious worship and cov enant empty and meaningless to think ing people for generations. Fewer promises would make an hon est observance of obligations to which the conscience is silently pledged easier. If not more general. Even Preebyterl- anism, which has long plumed itself upon its changeless attitude toward things creedai, has in late years been compelled to acknowledge this and has set at some points new standards of belief and general usage. AH of which is merely to say that the world moves and even the most stubborn of insti tutions are awakened sooner or later to the necessity of keeping pace with it, under penalty of being left behind. A GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT. The great steel dam across the Mis souri River eighteen miles northeast of Helena is nearing completion. This dam discloses engineering skill of a high order and will develop an energy of almost 25,000 horsepower, which will be transmitted largely to Butte, Ana conda and Helena for use in connection with mines, smelters and manufactur ing plants. The dam has a height of 60 feet and will create a vast body of "back water" from the Missouri and Prickly Pea? Creek, covering a large area of land and forming a constant pressure upon the stream flowing into the channel. All this, by means that are wonderful but ancient in conception and in use, will be transmitted dn the form of power where needed. A Vast volume of waste waters will thus be harnessed to the enterprises of man. The earth Quake which destroys the handiwork of man and mocks, temporarily, at his energy, As not more wonderful in its destructive power than., is human genius in its constructive force and magnitude. The mission of the one is to destroy, of the other to overcome. Obeying the strenuous, behest of a" hid den but not unknowri power, the first destroys in an hour the work of man's mightiest energies for years. But after all, it paves the way for the exercise of his constructive genius. The solid walls of rock through which the Mis souri River flows at this point, where its waters are caught and held back by this great structure of steel and con crete, were cleft by the same subter ranean forces that have but now de stroyed San Francisco, and that in the shadowy years of history buried Pompeii and Herculaneum. The throes of Nature thus bring forth good, or possibilities for good, as well as evil, and its dire train. The Commercial Club's resolution of thanks for Representative Jones was a graceful recognition of some very ef fective river and harbor work for Portland and .the Pacific Northwest. The important position held by Mr. Jones on the rivers and harbors com mittee has enabled him to be of great service to Oregon at a time when we were Inadequately represented at the Capitol. It was not this fact alone that enlisted the services of Mr. Jones, for since his arrival at Washington on his first term he has always been a good friend of the Columbia River. The suc cess that attended his efforts in the emergency bill augurs well for future appropriations of sufficient size to ac complsh something permanent at the mouth of the river. With the showing that should! be made by the present season's extension of the Jetty, and with the assistance of Mr. Jones, there should be- but little difficulty in secur ing adequate appropriations to finish the work now well on toward comple tion. The Senate public lands committee yesterday favorably reported the House bill authorizing settlers to retain pos session of their lands on the Northern Pacific grant between Portland and Wallula. As the railroad company is permitted to make indemnity selections and but little opposition is expected, the bill will probably become a law. This will prove a very satisfactory solution of a problem which has caused many sleepless nights for a number of hard working settlers who, after many years of work in clearing up a little home, were kept for a long tme n suspense over the fear of losing it The North west has not been entirely free of that class of "squatters" who have selected claims on unsurveyed land for purely speculative purposes; but there are few ir any of this class in the Northern Pa cific strip, and most people will be pleased to learn that the present hold ers of the land will be permitted to re tain possession. A partial explanation of the reason why freight is carried cheaper on the steamers of the Great Lakes than on any other water route on earth is found in the official statistics- for internal trade of March. It is shown by these figures that the movement from the Lake ports during March included 1241 vessels of 1,204,471 tons net register, of which all but fifty vessels of 40,660 tons cleared with cargo. This interchange of traffic between the great Lake ports in sured cargoes both ways to practically all vessels engaged, whereas in the deep-water traffic steamships are fre quently compelled to travel many thou sands of miles in ballast in order to se cure a cargo. "Under such circumstances it becomes a necessity that the rate be made high enough to cover not only expense of the trip in cargo, but also the one which was made in ballast to reach the cargo. The Viceroy of Canton has just paid over to the American Consul at Canton the sum of $60,000 as indemnity for the destruction of property during the riots last October. Sixty thousand dollars is a large sum of money in a country where the coin of the realm is repre sented by values of less than one-tenth of a cent, and, now that the taxpayers have had to pass over this sum, they are perhaps wondering whether or not it might have been better to treat the white man's religion with a little more indifference. ' In this case the white man has triumphed without bloodshed, but in most savage countries it is safer to back up the prayer book and the Bible with Mausers and cannon. Union Pacific net earnings for the month of March were $2,196,985, and for the nine months ending March, 1906, were $23,595,903. an increase of $2,600, 229 over the corresponding period for the previous season. This is a. road over which Mr. Harriman's special traveled 138 miles in 115 minutes a few days ago. The physical condition of the road, as demonstrated by the speed attained and the remarkably fine finan cial exhibit, indicate quite clearly that Mr. Harriman made no mistake when he made A. L. Mohler vice-president and general manager of the line. At this distance, the personality of Abraham Ruef, who heads the San Francisco committee on organization, does not carry the idea of civic righteousness. IX THE OREGON COUNTRY. Where the Wind Bloweth. Wasco Xews. The first three days of this week were notable for the lively raise and trans fer of Sherman County real estate. We believe Gilliam County men are the pos sessors at present, but perhaps it is Morrow County. Be Careful, Girls. Baker City Herald. No one who takes note of the free and easy manners of the girls of the period, misses still in short dresses, or in their long frocks, hail-fellow-well-met with all the boys of their acquaintance, can wonder that the lads so treat them in turn the same way. Yet They Are the Goods. Coos Bay Harbor. One by one our cherished illusions fall. The other week we discovered that our "Oregon pine" is not a fir but a Douglas spruce. Now it is learned that our cel ebrated Port Orford cedar is not a cedar at all. The scientific name for it is the Lawson cypress. - Tbe Hop Gamble. Eugene Guard. It is easy to grow hops, but the veriest gamble to sell right. The selling or fail ure to sell has broke not only growers but men and syndicates counting their capital by the hundreds of thousands. Tbat'a How They Know Him. La Grande Observer. , It gives one an advanced Idea of hu manity to see some of the defeated can didates around working for the other fellow since the primaries. One of the best traits of the average American is his ability to meet defeat with a smil ing face and then pitch In and win out the nxt time. Bright Outlook. Astorian. From all authentic sources throughout Oregon, California and Washington, comes the cheerful intelligence of pro pitious conditions for the varied crops of the three states. This is always good news, and lends an impetus to other commercial affairs. ' Winilc'i Hem and a Half. The Dalles Chronicle. Percy Driver, of Wamic, has a hen that he puts special value on. The hen is of the Plymouth Rock breed. She lays an egg every day. The egg is well shaped and in size more than equals that of an ordinary duck egg and con tains two yolks; thus when the hen leaves the nest cackling Percy knows there are two eggs for his breakfast in the morning, or one egg: equivalent to two. Hetty Green Breaks Loan. Rates. Exchange. Hetty Green, the world's richest wom an and the dictator of one of the most substantial banks of the metropolis, has created consternation among the Wall street financiers by suddenly assuming the role of protector of the city from ra pacious money-lenders. Within the past month she has twice come to the rescue of the local . ex chequer at critical times. She put out $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 and broke the in terest rate one-half or three-quarters of 1 per cent below what the Wall-street ring was demanding. She has further as sured the City Chamberlain that more money is available whenever such emer gencies arise. It is a fact not generally known that New York City has to borrow money to meet nearly all of its current expenses. At the opening of every year the city is broke and has to borrow from day to day until taxes are collected in the fall, when the loans are paid. Ever since last De cember the banks have been charging the city from 6 to 6 per cent for these tem porary loans. Last month Chamberlain Keenan. in despair, sent over to the Chemical National and appealed to Hetty Green. He needed $3,900,000 that day. In a short time Mrs. Green came over to the office, bringing in her little black bag the equivalent of $2,000,000, and offered it for -4 per cent. Word of the transaction immediately reached Wall street and the rate quoted to the city took a tumble. The- next week there was another at tempt to squeeze the city, and the fe male financier produced $2,500,000 more at 4 per cent, though call money was quoted at 14 per cent in the financial dis trict. The Country's May-Day Strikes. New York Tribune. Nearly twel4a. thousand on May-day strike. Great Lake Strike About fivsi hun dred men out; recognition of pilots and mates. Philadelphia Three hundred cabinet makers: eight-hour day; fixed schedule Milwaukee Five hundred planlngmill; several hundred pipe-fitters and electri cians; higher wages. Youngstown, Ohio Six hundred paint ers, carpenters, lathers and structural iron-workers; eight-hour day; recogni tion of union. Indianapolis Four hundred carpenters; increase of wages. Lawrence, Mass. One thousand car penters; eight-hour day; wage increase. Lynn. Mass. Two hundred machin ists; nine-hour day. Chicago Three thousand iron-molders : more wages; recognition of union and closed-shop agreement. Pittsburg Seven hundred structural iron workers; wage increase. Portland, Or. Everybody at work. The Jefferson Art Sale. New York Sun. The sale of Joseph Jefferson's paintings in Mendelssohn Hall last night drew a large crowd and netted good prices. The 74 pictures brought a sum total of $229,135. Some of the pictures were bought only after close competition, and for high prices. Anton Mauve's "Return of the Flock." for instance, was started rather low, but was bid up and up until it was knocked down for $42,250. The well-known Rembrandt. "Portrait of Petronella Buys. Wife of the Burgomaster of Cardon," was bought by a Dutchman, A. Preyer, who landed in America day before yesterday. He came over to buy that portrait, and he bought it, although It cost him $29,600. "The Madonna of the Cottage," by Is raels, went for $19,500. and Corot's "The Horseman" for $10,5(0. while Mauve's "The Loggers," said to be one of Jefferson's favorites, was sold for $28,100. Only three pictures went for less than $100. Good News for Sleeping; Beaut r. Washington (D. C.) Cor. New York World. Representative "Jim" Sherman, of New York, wanted unanimous consent to take the Indian appropriation bill from the Speaker's table and agree to a conference with the Senate. "I object." Representative John Sharp Williams said. "I have just been reading in the newspapers of a young woman in Arizona who, after sleeping for seven weeks, awoke and inquired what had be come of the statehood bill. 'It is still pending in Congress.' she was told. The young woman went back to sleep, and I shall have to refuse all unanimous-consent requests until some action is taken on the statehood bill, so that that young woman can with safety be awakened." To Pacific Coast on Horseback. Cincinnati Enquirer. Henry Taylor and 8imon Benneral have left Bryan, O.. on horseback for the Pa cific Coast. They are making the trip on a wager and expect to reach the Coast in 120 days. The boys will have to make all expenses by the sale of photographs. They will not camp out. but will stop at hotels en route. JOGRAPHY, LEFT-RIGHT. Odd-3inmbered Day a, and Textbooks Stuns; to Port. New York Sun. There isn't going to be any more curva ture of the spine. William H. Maxwell. City Superintendent of Schools, has looked after that, and has straightened 372 miles of tender, pliable spines with a stroke of his pen. The glad news has just leaked out. Here it is, just as it comes from Superintendent Maxwell's office as an of ficial bulletin to all the schools: "The Carrying of Books. Pupils should be required to carry their books on the right side on the even days of the month and on the left side on the odd, days. This applies to the changing of class rooms and the carrying home of books. This Is done to avoid one cause of spinal curvature. The number of books carried should be reduced to a minimum. By or der of the Board of Superintendents. "WILLIAM H. MAXWELL. . "City Superintendent of Schools." The odd-and-even order was about the first thing that came out of Mr, Max well's office after he threw out that hint about being on the verge. Developments of the plan are expected. Chewing gum must be munched on oppo site Bides on alternate days, but to get the most symmetrically formed product of the public school system, the gum should be chewed on the right side on odd days, to offset the weight of Mr. Maxwell's own best text-books oat the other side. Hair must be parted in the middle all the time or the side must be changed dally. Little girls must wear round garters or else have the up-and-down-the-side kind mended every night, or have both sides broken on the same day, or change the broken one from left to right or vice versa every school day. Considerable latitude will be allowed in this matter, for Draco could not insist that a little girl have both sides whole every day. No little girl ever did, and the constant grabbing at the same knee every scnool day to pull up something is bad for the spine. If boys are allowed to go barerooted on Saturdays, it ia recreated that they get splinters and stone bruises on their left feet one week and on their right feet the next, as every little helps in this crowded and rushing age that makes for the even and symmetrical development of the child. Mr. Maxwell does not pretend to regu late the activities of the pupils away from school, but the sports indulged in at the recreation centers and on the school grounds must be modified in oehalf of the spines. At baseball the boy chosen for pitcher must deliver the ball first with the right and then with the left hand, ex pectorating on the same, before tcssing, from first the left and then from the right side of .the mouth, or not at all. This is imperative. To prevent dizziness and a lopsided formation, each player must run around the bases from left to right as often as from right to left, and the girls must observe the same rule of alternating at bean bag. The most serious phase of the problem yet to be tackled Is that of tbe pocket loads of boys in the primary and gram mar grades. Every careful parent with the spine of her child really at heart should sew two Plimsoli marks to the seat of his trousers, one on the right side and one on the left, to Indicate any difference there may be in sag. so that that differ ence may be corrected and the pocket load distributed with reference to the out side weight carried in text-books. HE HAS TWO WIVES. Ohio Veteran Refused Divorce Under Supreme Court Decision, Cincinnati Enquirer. The first decision of a divorce suit under the recent ruling of the United States Supreme Court was made in the District Court of Kansas City, Kan., yesterday morning, when a decree for Elijah W. Ebert. a Civil War veteran, was refused. Ebert fought through the war In an Ohio regiment. When he returned to Co lumbus he heard his wife was dead. He drifted West and married again. Recent ly he found his first wife was living, and he sued her for divorce, which was re fused on the ground that the defendant was not a resident of Kansas. Albert has two children by his first-wife and six by his second, who lives at Kansas City, Mo. One Execution Bill $1000. New York Sun. The Equitable Life Assurance Society paid a claim of $1000 yesterday on the life of Lieutenant Peter Petrovitsch Schmidt, who led the mutiny on the Russian bat tleship Kniaz Potemkin in the Black Sea last Summer. Schmidt was executed with other mutineers. Home for Unappreciated Poets. Exchange. J. Whitcomb Riley is going to build a home for unappreciated poets. It is a large contract, and if he has the price he must have received as much for his own poems as they are worth, and that is say ing a good deal. Bobble Burns' letter Sells High. London Cable Dispatch. At Christie's yesterday an autograph let ter, partly in prose and partly in verse, from Robert Burns to his well-known cor respondent, Mrs. Dunlop, was sold for $1950. Burns' poem, "Ay Waukin" brought $270. . ' "The Clansman" for Quakers. Philadelphia Record. Mayor Weaver has decided that "The Clansman" can continue its run in the Walnut-Street Theater in this city. For several days the fate of the play -trembled In the balance because of the bitter protests. - EARTHQUAKE WINNER OF MARATHOX RACE. Sherrluc, the Canadian. Is a (.earn, Krail-Looklna: Boy. From an Athens Cable Dispatch. The great Marathon race, the crown ing struggle upon which the ancient Greeks attested the prowess of man. is over. William J. Sherrlng, a lean, frail looking Canadian, tottered into Athens, his arms hanging limp and his head swaying from side to side. He had left 48 competitors from every great nation struggling along the 25 miles behind him, biting the dust from his flying heels. Before the race Sherring was only one of the citizens of Hamilton. Ont. And now a million people have heralded him as the greatest endurance runner of the world. The towering sides of the Stadium seemed to rock as the cry went up that a runner was nearing the finish there. Far in the distance a cloud of dust arose and as it came closer the outlines of two figures could be seen struggling for the gates. One was the Canadian and the other was Swanberg. the Swede, y With his eyes almost closed and covered from head to foot with lime and dirt, the plucky Canadian kept his lead of a foot. The Greek Princes rose frrjm their seats as he passed in the gate and ran beside him. Swar.bcra; faltered. It was a few strides to the finish and Sherrlng with a desperate dash reached it. King George" was the first to reach him and grasped the lad's hand, while the Queen handed him a bcuquet of flower. Sherring Is 27 years old. S feet in height and weighs 122 pounds. He has been running in Canada and the United States seven years. His skill as a runner has been developed mainly in Hamilton's yearly road races, held on Thanksgiving day. Even in Canada it was not expect ed he would win. Sherring amidst great applause, received a marble statue of Athena. Finally the King briefly de clared the games closed. Marathon Town Council has conferred honorary citizen ship on Sherring. who has received 173 bouquets, and it is said two offers of marriage. His time was four minutes ahead of the Greek record in 1896. In an interview Sherring said the reception he was given en route would never fade from his memory. There was a living wall on both sides of the road for the wnole 2f miles. The Greek spectators, seeinr their champion's hopeless plight, cheered him every step of the way. They seemed glad, a Greek victory being im possible, to see an Anglo-Saxon win. Nothing passed his lips throughout the run except occasional sips of water and a couple of oranges. Mr. Chadrrlck May Tell Thlnga. Columbus, Ohio. Dispatch. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick is aggrieved at what she terms an unmerciful public, and she is preparing a statement of her trans action. She intends to drag into the lime light attorneys, bankers, business men and others who stood willing to share the profits but take none of the blame or burden which she has been forced to car ry. She says: "There have been so many false state ments and unfounded reports circulated about me that I have concluded that the time has come for me to make a full statement to the press for publication. "It will clear up the mystery of my case and give my side of the affair. Every pereon connected with my transactions, including bankers, attorneys and business men, will be made known." Carnegie Knows the College Yell. Gambler (O.) Dispatch New York Times. Andrew Carnegie attended the Edwin M. Stanton day ceremonies here on Thurs day. He was the principal speaker. At the Kenyon College luncheon, after the ceremonies, the students had a little celebration of their own. Carnegie, having been conferred the degree of doctor of laws by the college, they taught him the college yell: "Hi-ki. ii-ka, K-e-n-y-o-n. Ken-yon. Ken-yon." Carnegie repeated It. They insisted upon his yelling it. He did so with apparent en joyment. ' A New Hainpahlre Poo-Bah. Exchange. J. E. Henry, a millionaire lumberman and manufacturer, practically owns the flourishing little town of Henryville. N. H. He has been Judge, jury. Chief of Police, etc., in the place for years. One of his sons Is Selectman, another is Postmaster, and a third Is now Police Court Judge. Mr. Henry pays 80 per cent of the village taxes. Spring. Grace Q. Boatwlck in Lippincott'a. Spring! sassy, frollcln' tormentln' thing! Ain't she th' durndest ever ye see. Makin' a fool out an old one like me? I vow! ef 1 ain't a-tryln t sine! Ever see anything like her Spring? Spring! foolish, frivolous, danctn' thing! Ain't she th' daisy of all creation? A-stlrrin- our blood till we act like tar. nation, Ith her birds an' her music an' blossoming; Never seen nothin' to beat her Spring. Spring! jolly, tant'lizin, tom-fool thing! She makes me feel like I'm young agen. 'Ith my rheumatla' gone a prince 'mong men Prancln along, a-havln' my fling! Ain't she th' very old beatenest Spring? The Universal Tongue. Sara 1,. Ward in the Bohemian. In this universe wide, men differ in face. In language, custom and name; But a laugh of joy. or a cry of woe, In every tongue la the same. SUFFERERS Frcm the Et. Ptul Pioneer-Pre. ' 4