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The remedy proposed money inflation through sllver-r-slnce it had been the chief cause of bringing about the gen eral depression and stagnation, only made it worse. The mass of the peo ple, who had been accustomed to use their credit within reasonable limits. found their credit wholly cut off; and most of them wer in debT besides For many capitalists there were hard times, too, but not despair, as there was among so many of the workers. But all this, after a while, or as soon as the money standard had been fully established, blew over. Now the country is full of money, all the prod ucts of industry bear high prices, and everybody is rejoicing in the general prosperity except the big moguls of the trusts and railroads, who are as gloomy and pessimistic as the body of the people were. In that doleful period from 1892 to 1C97. But what's the use? These un happy people are the victims of their own disorderly doings. Had they been giving the country a square deal they wouldn't now be in distress. What they complain is not any decline of regular and legitimate business; not at all. Their complaint is that they are being called to account for abuses by which they have oppressed the country and piled up unconscionable fortunes for themselves. They have been manufacturing bonds at will, and unloading them on the public; they have been crushing competitors by op pressive methods; they have been en riching themselves at the expense of good public service and Investors' in terests. Some of them have been brought to bar and heavy penalties pronounced. Others are under prose cution, and all are told that from this time and through all time there must be a square deal. These un happy persons find they' can no longer make millions for themselves through the old ways; they set up their cries of alarm and distress; they cry it through the streets that prosperity has been sent to perdition; that no more money can be had for large under takings, and that the outlook is black and hopeless altogether. So it seems to them, because it is possible no longer to scoop forty millions at a clip out of such operations as the Alton deal, or to gather In other mil lions to Individuals by rebates engi neered between the trusts and the railroads. Meantime, however, while this trist ful complaint is coming from one quarter, from another quarter comes the announcement day by day that throughout tho country labor never before was so generally employed and at full wages; '.hat productive indus try in all lines is at the very height of activity and prosperity; that all farm products aro In demand a excellent prices; that the market for all metals is booming, and that the railroads, in behalf of which loud cry is made and sympathy demanded, are earning more money than ever before, and isn't possibly carry the traffic that presses upon them! And the divi dends of the great trusts are never passed but regularly paid. There has been some decline. Indeed, in Inflated stocks, because investors who have been over-credulous have been taking warning, and it is not so easy to force inflated securities as it has been. Con sequently they say money is not so "easy" as it was. For these ' lords or finance" it never ought to be so "easy" again. But money is easy for the producers of the country, for the farmers, the miners, the lumbermen and the wage workers. Never fear that with such enormous crops as we are having and top prices all round crops ot wheat, corn, cotton, wool, tobacco; output of lumber and metals; products t textile mills and factories in all lines, of dairies and fisheries and of the thou sand branches of industry, all in steady demand and ready money for all never fear under these conditions the disaster predicted for the country by those who supposed they were lords of its destinies, and are merely in the grouch that follows disillusion. The country is all right, and it intends to force! righteous dealing on the part of those who are charged by its laws with duties to the public even though hitherto they have been permitted to follow their own wanton ways. And this it is, not less than the favorable Industrial conditions of the time, that constitutes and establishes the condi tions of a true era of prosperity. The country is resolved to control Its bar ons of plunder and spoliation, uncon trolled too long. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. The Oregonian doesn't know wheth er the Republicans of Oregon will be disposed to unite and stand together for the purpose of electing anybody in the coming election, or not. They have not thought it important here tofore; may not again. Dearer . to many of them are their own little schemes of selfish ambition; of grati fication of private pique and of per sonal and political revenge. It is said, however, that among the elec tors of Orecon there is a Republican majority. That, however, might de pend on analysis and definition. Men are at liberty to call themselves Re publicans,' if they will though they continually vote for and elect Demo crats even to the most important of fices. Why such call themselves Re publicans, others may be puzzled to determine. There are Republicans in Oregon perhaps though they are not much in evidence. Several recent1 elections have left it in doubt whether there is a Republican party. Nevertheless, if it shall appear that there probably is a Republican party, and if a disposition shall be shown by men who call themselves, or used to call themselves. Republicans, to drop their personal contentions, and petty notions of politics, and act together on the principles for which the party has stood during its long and honorable history, The Oregonian will act with them willingly, though independently, for party organization and success. But it doesn't propose any more to be a leader "in the lost battle, .borne down by the flying." . If those who call themselves Republicans do not want Republican success in Oregon any more. The Oregonian, that never wanted anything, anyway, except to be a newspaper and fulfill its functions as such, can stand it very well at least will try to stand it. The only reason why it has acted with the Re publican party all these years was simply its belief that what was neces sary, or at least best, for the country, could be secured through that party and not through its opponent or ad versary. It is simply "up to" the Re publicans of Oregon to say and show whether they Intend to stand for any thing, or not. This journal, if it can know all it will try to know, will not throw itself into contests which oth ers, on one pretense or another, habit ually desert. If there is to be no more a Republican party in this state, The Oregonian is as well prepared as oth ers to accept the fact, and let it go at that. THE TENANT ON THE FARM. . .t harvests are over on the farm, and now the city lawyers are reaping their annual harvest of fees from landlords who are desirous of getting rid of unsatisfactory tenants. This is the season of the year when the landlord and the tenant settle ac counts, have a misunderstanding, call each other harsh names and go to court. It is the same story over and over, regardless of names and commu nities. In the very nature of things the landlord is usually the aggrieved, and it falls to his lot to bring a suit, prove his case and secure a judg ment for possession of his ranch. The tenant is in possession, and posses sion is said to be nine points of the la"w. With only one point to cling to, the problem of the landlord is to get his tenant out in time to sow next year's crop. The tenant is well satisfied. He is Judgment proof. He is comfortably situated in a warm house, has the wpodshed full of fuel, has plenty of his landlord's hay in the barn for the cows, can keep his flock if poultry six or eight months on the grain that he was careful not to haul to the warehouse, and his pigs, now running In the landlord's clover field, are put ting dollars on their ribs every day. Why shouldn't he be satisfied? There is good water in the well, nearly as good as Bull Run water, and without the name. This isn't a good time of year to move, anyway, and, since the landlord has "got his back up," it is just as well to show him that he doesn't own the whole earth, even if he does own and pay taxes on the par ticular tract which the tenant now oc cupies. In the absence of anything better to do, the tenant makes' up his mind to stay, and stay he does. That was a rather uncertain and elastic contract the landlord and ten ant made. They talked over a lot of things and agreed so readily and com pletoly that it wasn't necessary to re duce everything to writing. The lease specified that the tenant should re ceive one-third, with pasture and fuel The tenant had only two cows, but he bought another and took two more to keep for his brother-in-law, who has moved to town. He had only a dozen hens when he moved to the ranch, but he had an Incubator and soon his chickens were eating up even-thing in sight. His cows and calves and chick ens and pigs ruined half of a twenty acre field of wheat and took all the second crop of clover. The proceeds from the sales of butter, eggs," veal and pork didn't come in on the division of crops. There were only ten acres of hops, but these were not picked be cause the market didn t look good. The orchard was poorly cultivated and not sprayed at all, so the apples are small and wormy. The hogs got them. The tenant used the landlord's horses to take produce to town when he ought to have been working in the field. The hay got over-ripe before cutting because the tenant's family had the team on a trip to the moun tains. The grain was all there was to divide, and the tenant let the landlord have two-thirds of this in accordance with the lease. The landlord "fur nished everything." It is a story that has been told in court and out of court thousands of times. It will be told again this year in nearly every county in the state. It will be repeated next year, and the year after, and as long as landlords rent agricultural lands to tenants. Perhaps the experience will not be without its value. "Retired farmers" will find that when they get too old to work a farm they are old enough to sell. Those who become so rich they do not have to live in the country will discover that tenants will not let them have peace of mind in the city. Those who bought their farm lands for speculative purposes will learn that tenants are of speculative turn of mind also. What Oregon needs is farms with the owners living on them landowners who till the soil with their own hands. Quite likely the an nual repetition of the story of trouble between landlord and tenant will has ten the day when ownership and oc cupancy of agricultural land will be identical. HARRXMAN HAS NOT SEEN ALL OREGON. Mr. Harriman scooted through Cen tral Oregon in an auto so fast that he saw only the sides of the road. This at least is the view of his flight taken by railroadless parts of Oregon far dis tant from his streak of dust. From Paisley comes this complaint, printed in the Silver Lake Leader, Lake County: We are strongly of the opinion that If Mr. Harriman had not so sedulously avoid ed all the best part of Oregon on his recent tour of Investigation, especially this chain of fertile valleys, he would be pretty uneasy in his mind till lie had ordered a road built through them. One dish of Sum mer Lake peaches if proffered at the right moment when he was bowling along over some of the dusty desert, might have been the means of changing the railroad map of Oregon. , If any . man should travel from Klamath Lake northward to Shaniko and then claim to have seen all of Eastern Oregon, he would be roundly laughed at- Mr.. Harriman's auto dust was just midway between the eastern and the western limits of Oresron. Half of Oregon, therefore, he has never traversed, except for the rail road from Pendleton to Huntington. Mr. Harriman will have to take sev eral more trips north and south in Eastern Oregon, and then several east and west, before he will know all about that biggest railroadless area in the United States, fenced in by him. A few peaches from Paisley might have persuaded him that there was more to see, that's a fact. RIGHT MAN TO CONTROL UNRULY BOYS. Recent discussion of the pending appointment of a superintendent of the State Reform School recalls a story that has been told concerning a former head of a reform school some where west of the Rocky Mountains. If the incident did not occur in Ore gon, those who read of it may be left to their own judgment as to whether it might not have taken place at the Institution located a few miles south of Salem. The story goes that an eminent minister of the gospel, who had given much thought and investi gation to reformatory work, visited a State Reform School and spent half day in company with the superin tendent observing the boys at their books, at work in the shops and fields. and on the playground. He was deep ly impressed by what he saw, and as he stood at the door ready to take his leave, earnestness was written in every line of his features. When he shook the hand of the superintendent in say ing farewell, he fervently remarked: "You have a grand opportunity here a grand opportunity." To which the superintendent replied: "Yes, quite an opportunity; very goon; mere s J 2100 a year in it." When it is remembered that the number of boys at the Reform School varies from 80 to 120, all of them boys who were sent there because parents could not control them, there is little need to comment upon the character of man who should be at the head of the institution. To a very great degree the future of those eighty boys will depend upon the native ami ity, tactfulness, education, experience and earnestness of the man who occu pies the position of superintendent and who not only determines the gen eral policy and methods of the school. but also shapes the ideals and molds the spirit of the whole staff of assist ants. Almost certainly a superintend ent who measures his opportunity by the size of his pay check will inspire his subordinates with the same notion of responsibility and duty. The su perintendent is necessarily a leader in work and in thought, in intellect and in morals, and " while the most effi cient of superintendents cannot make out of incorrigible boys the useful men he would like to make. Vet the meas ure of his success will be determined chiefly by his own peculiar fitness for the position. The fact that a man has teen an ac tive participant in political contests should not of Itself bar him from as piring to the position of superintend ent of the Reform School, for it is the duty of all good citizens to take an in terest in politics. Quite likely, if a number of men who are qualified for reformatory work had engaged in poli tics in this state in years gone by, we should have now a much smaller num ber of our politicians behind prison bars or facing . the Penitentiary. Neither should the fact that a man has kept out of politics be a special reason for his appointment. Very fre quently the experience of a political contest develops that tactfulness which is essential in the successful manage ment of boys as well as men. Nor can education alone be the standard of fitness. Many a man deeply learned in the knowledge gleaned from books is entirely unfit for the control of a crowd of unruly boys. Much less is place of residence a qualification worthy of considera tion. No doubt there are men in Ore gon fitted for the position of superin tendent of the Reform School. Pos sibly there are men elsewhere better fitted. It is a misfortune if the board of trustees has determined in advance to select a superintendent from among those who are active candidates and to choose one who is a resident of some particular part of the state. The task that lies before the trustees is not that of giving some one a "Job." This is not properly the shaking of a plum tree. It is the employment of a suita- ble person to assume one of the most Important and responsible positions in public service, and neither county nor state lines should prevent the board from securing the best person availa ble for the place. When Illinois want ed a first-class superintendent for its State Blind School it sent to Oregon and employed George W. Jones, who was serving at the head of our school for the blind. If Illinois has a mart better fitted for the superintendency of the Oregon Reform School than any of our .citizens, place of residence furnishes no good reason why he should not be employed. Neither newspapers nor individuals unacquainted with all the facts and circumstances can undertake to name the man who should be employed. The board cannot undertake to pla3e all those who have expressed opinions or who will express them after an ap pointment has been made. This much, however, the people have a right to expect and demand that the board take pains to find for the position the man who seems most likely to exer cise the best influence over the boys In his charge and who will do the most effective work in making useful men out of Incorrigible and vicious youths. At the National Corn Exposition at Chicago fourteen of the chief corn- producing states were represented. This most valuable of crops was thus glorified: Our crop Is worth, roughly, one billion of dollars each' year. It is equal in value to two-thirds of all our exports. Its value Is twice that of the world's yearly output of gold and silver. The corn crop for ten years would nearly buy the world's produc tion of gold for the last 400 years, and 80 per cent of the world's corn crop Is pro duced within an area of about one day's ride from this city. The value of this crop consists large ly in its suDDort of domestic animals. which are the basis of farm industry, and in the production of meats, whose value also is enormous. Corn (maize) is perhaps America's most valuable gift to the world, though the potato follows hard after. The cotton crop of the United States has an annual value of $500,000,000, all spot cash. Approximately near the value of the cotton crop is the wheat crop of the country. The greatest of the corn states are Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. The wreck report of the Great Lakes is a long one, and it tells of many tragedies, but the storm's victims in most cases are Old vessels that have become weak and tender through long battering of the elements. The case of the new steel freighter Cypress, which foundered Friday on her second trip, is something out of the ordinary, and from accounts at hand was appar ently due to inexcusable carelessness in not keeping her hatches battened down during the storm. Navigation of the Lakes Is not usually regarded as so hazardous as of the ocean, but the death roll s large each year, and reckless navigation pays fully as heavy penalties there as on the blue ocean. Gross carelessness was responsible for loss of a steel freighter off the Wash ington coast a few weeks ago, but all hands reached shore in safety. This, however, does not prove that the per formance could be repeated with sim ilar success, or that the ocean is less dangerous than the Lakes. It does prove that some reckless navigators are more fortunate than others. The reason why The Oregonian crit icises the protective policy, so-called Is that the greater part of the benefits goes to the few. These few are the manufacturers, employers, trusts, com binations of capitalists, into whose hands all the money comes first, and as little of which as possible leaves their hands. Prices are all made higher by the protective tariff. That is the object of the protective tariff. In the handling of the commodities of the country and the imaklng of prices the combinations fix the profits and take all of them, except the part they are compelled by the labor organiza tions to relinquish, which the man agers of the system again speedily recoup from consumers. It is strange that the wage-workers and the con sumers of the country can't see in the enormous fortunes accumulated by the lords of protection the' consequences of this system and divine the methods of It. A learned Egyptologist has Just discovered that Pharaoh suffered with the toothache to such an extent that it "hardened his heart," as mentioned In the Bible, and caused him to retain the children of Israel in captivity for an undue length of time. It is now up to some other learned delver in past mysteries to put forth the theory that Job was a Christian Scientist and was accordingly not aware of the presence of boils. Beating a board bill is an expensive amusement in Chicago. A man named Henry Thornton tried it Saturday, and Boarding-House Mistress May Mullin fired a couple of bullets into him to arrest his flight. In order to insure collection before the Coroner or the police could take charge of the delinquent boarder, she stood off the crowd with her . revolver. Chicago always was famous for originality. The South'em Pacific says it is run ning train No. 12 on time, and asks the Railroad Commission to cancel its order for a. stub train when the reg ular train is two hours late at Rose- burg. If the Southern Pacific had made as much effort to keep its trains on time before the investigation as it has since, the order would not have been necessary. Judged by results, the order is a pretty good thing. Conviction of Anderson, the Sell- wood postofnce robber, and a sentence of ten years illustrates once more that Uncle Sam has a more effective way of dealing with criminals than have the state courts. The purchase of extensive terminal grounds by Mr. Harriman's railroads must indicate an Intention to buy some more cars to run on them. We hope so. No need for a cessation of murders. The season for the country dance is at hand and a bottle or two will furnish the nerve for a few shooting scrapes.' It is evident that the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club needs to create a football team.- "Victories cannot bo won with eleven individual players. Taking into consideration the fact that he isn't a candidate, Roosevelt ought to be flattered over the vote he received in Portland. Good morning! Have you decided how much you will subscribe to the Rose Festival? DOINGS IN THE. COUNTRY. Her Hons Were on Straight. Webfoot Cor. Dayton Optimist. A. Bauer bought a dandy cow from J. Grimes a few days ago. Wheref At Hornet Woodburn Independent. But if the devil were an editor he would edit only a Democratic news paper. Making the Plsrs Happy, Wallowa Chieftain. James Kooch has purchased a gaso line engine and feed mill, to be used at his ranch. Already grunts of delight are emanating from the numerous pig pens upon his place. Harry Can Stand It. Jefferson Review. , If Harry Lane needs all the Portland papers, the Prosecuting Attorney and his deputies and half the police force to stand off one little woman, what will he need to be a candidate for Governor when a woman suffrage cam paign is on? Woman Hunter Kills Deer, Lebanon Criterion. Mrs. Llllie Skefton. of Lacomb. killed e. large five-point buck deer a few days ago. sue and a small son of a neighbor suspected a deer was in the timber near her home and went to look for him, when he came out of the woods near the timid hunter and she laid him low at the first crack from her rifle. Electric Light Not Injurious. London Dispatch. Reports to the effect that electric lights are detrimental to the eyesight are pronounced unfounded by an elec trical expert in London. He says that the trouble arises from too direct ex posure of the eye to the liht, and that effect would be the same or worse with any other light. "Old Man" Bennett Getting; There. Irrlgon Irrigator. A seedless, coreless pear! And from H'ood River! Next thing will be, we imagine, a rindless apple and peaches with caramels Inside in place of stones. But Irrlgon will head that town off, for we arc breeding watermelons which nave nam ciaerfor juice, and muBk- mellons and canteloups filled with claret wine. Irrigon is bound to be in the lead. In the Shadow of Monmouth, Dallas Observer. Although it was doiibtful a short time ago whether several of the Polk County school districts could be sup plied with teachers this year, Super intendent Seymour says be has suc ceeded in filling all but five of the vacant positions. The schools at Con cord, Pedee, Gooseneck, Parker and Grand Ronde still lack teachers, but he hopes to be able to have' these all sup plied within a short time. How to Be Independent. Colfax Gazette. A Palouse farmer one day this week walked into a Main-street store in Colfax, paid the little account of $1200 standing against him . and remarked that he had sold his wheat and was free of the world, financially speaking. That is being able to say a great deal. A man to be free of the world, finan cially speaking-, has got to have some thing back of him, and the backing of a few hundred acres of rich Palouse soil comes as near making a man in dependent as can possibly be imag ined. Young man, stick to the soil and be independent. NEW STEEL PLATE 1XDVSTRT, Its Relations In Wales and In the United States. It will be recalled that the McKInley tariff was expected to ruin the tinplate industry of Wales by withdrawing from It its then chief market. This was ex pected (both here and In England, and was made much of by the "fair-trade" pro tectionists of the day, who were the fore runners of the Chamberlain "preference" protectionists of later years. The pro tectionists did not get their way and the unfortunate tinplate manufacturers were obliged to make the best of the situation. They did. They improved their methods, cut down on their expenses, hustled for new markets and found them, and they now supply about two-thirds of the world's demand for tlnplates. Mean while the protected steel and Iron masters of this country and Germany have been employing the profits wrung by the tariff from home consumers to ship steel in large quantities to Wales, the process usually known as "dumping." It does hot appear that the Welsh manufacturers objected to getting their steel cheap in this way, though the "dumping" was made much of by the protectionists in the recent campaign. What the manu facturers objected to was the fact that the steel was not cheap enough, and they have now engaged in a combined effort to make it themselves at lower cost. The first experiments are reported to have been successful, and the enterprise will be developed on a large scale. Here, it will be seen, are two related Industries, asking no aid from the Government, de pending solely on their own skill and energy, fighting protected rivals, and winning. In the face of such facts, what decent claim have the corresponding In dustries in the United. States to Impose a heavy tax on home consumers to en able them to meet competition? Canada's "Grand Old Man.' Washington (D. C.) Post. Lord Strathcona, Commissioner for Canada, Is described as the greatest hustler of his age. He is 87 and has all the vitality and energy of youth. When, a few weeks ago, he left Otta wa for London he took a special train for Montreal, and saved an hour on the way. In order not to miss the boat from New York he took another spe cial train to that city and arrived at Plymouth seven days after he had left Montreal. This, however, is not good enough for him, and the veteran states man will not die happy unless he is able to go from London to Vancouver In eight days. Unlike other hard workers. Lord Strathcona requires lit tle or no rest. He Didn't Chnrne the Jury. A Chicago lawyer tells about a case that was tried in a backwoods court. One of the lawyers retained was an Eastern man, new to the country. "Does your honor wish to charge the jury?" asked the legal light, when all evidence was in. , "No, I guess not," replied the Judge. "I never charge 'em anything. These fel lows don't know much, any way, an' I let 'em have all they can make." "All Roads Down-Grade to Portland." GOLD END ALE, Wash., Oct 12. (To' tho Editor.) Regarding the slogan for Portland suggested in yesterday's Oregonian by J. J. Flynn. it is not as well adapted as that of "Tom" Rich ardson. The slogan of Mr. Flynn is suggestive that Portland is a "hole in the ground," or situated on, a prairie. Far from such. Portland is on a hill and cannot be hid. Let the slogan be: "All roads down-grade to Portland." W. F. BYARS. Schoolma'am Famine in Kansas. Advertisement in the Kiowa Signal. Wanted A young lady to keep com pany with a fine looking young man. She can find out who he is by teaching Bethel school. INTERESTS ON THE PACIFIC. Those of the United States Are Among: the Greatest. New York Tribune. The circumstance is not always real ized that most of the great nations of the world have important frontages on the Pacific Ocean. The United States, both in Itself and in its outlying posses sions, has a far more extended frontage on the Pacific than on the Atlantic and the Gulf, and its interests are far more widely distributed on the Pacific. The same may be said of the British Empire, which fronts upon the Pacific with its two great dominions of Canada and New Zealand, its commonwealth of Australia and innumerable other possessions. France has an important Pacific frontage in Indo-Chlna and a number of Islands. Germany . has an Insular empire of con siderable extent and possibilities, while that of Holland is enormous in extent and wealth and forms, by the way. one of the strongest grounds for Germany's desire for the incorporation of The Neth erlands into the Teutonic empire. Rus sia's Pacific frontage, despite its recent reduction, is still extensive and impor tant, especially because of its connection with Europe by railroad. Japan and China are purely Pacific powers. Nor must we forget the other American states which look out upon that ocean Mexico, the Central American states. Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chill. It would be Idle and perhaps mischiev ous to speculate upon the possibilities of any one nation's securing actual domi nance upon that ocean. Spain once tried to make it a Spanish lake, but England defeated her pretensions. Russia tried to establish a monopoly of the northern part of It. but was forced by the United States to recede from her extravagant claims. There is no more ground for the primacy of any one power there than there is on the Atlantic But it is quite obvious that the United States has certain natural and acquired advantages which bespeak for it an Interest and an Influence in the Pa cific second to no other nation. It has a more extended coast line on the Pacific than any other country, and it is or will be the owner and custodian of the gate way connecting the Pacific with the At lantic. In view of these facts and their significance, there can be no rational thought of any step which would impair our standing or handicap our activities on that ocean. The "Unorthodox." Los Angeles Express. ; Because the - Portland Oregonian, a staunch Republican paper, advocates tariff revision, the Los Angeles organ of the standpatters accuses it of being un orthodox. "When wo feel compelled to attack the very cornerstone of Republi canism," it says, "we Will feel compelled, also, to cease all pretension of being Re publican at al?' It further insinuates that The Oreg-onian is "pandering in sincerely to dominant sentiment in its state and city." Our highly-esteemed Portland contem porary Is capable of replying to these aspersions itself. It may be remarked, however, that The Oregonian, like the Evening News, was a consistent and con stant champion of revision long before it became the "dominant sentiment." In stead of pandering to public opinion, newspapers courageous, like The Ore gonian, armed with the right, have created this same "dominant sentiment," against that strenuous opposition of the standpat press. But, speaking of insincerity, how does it happen that a hide-bound, rabid. Irre concilable standpatter can enthusiastical ly support for the Republican Presidential nomination a candidate whose platform Is tariff revision? How Is that for pandering to a "dominant sentiment?" Denver's Playground Snobs. Denver Times. The smooth walks about the capitol building which have been used by the children of the neighborhood for a roller skating rink were invaded by an outsider the other afternoon. He was a boy in overalls, a sunburned hat and there was fringe on his shirt sleeves. He had only one skate, an ancient affair, and this was attached to his bare right foot by some mysterious means. For a time he skated alone with one foot in the air. His eyes were bright with delight and he was evidently having the time of his life. Suddenly a cloud appeared. It consisted of a dozen little girls in delicious fresh ly ironed frocks and an equal number of boys In attractive garb. They viewed the new comer with frowns and there were whisperings and finally one of the boys asked Tommy Overalls to leave the place. He received a swat on the side of the head that sent him into the street. When he arose, covered with dust, his compan ions ran to him and then all adjourned to the sidewalk far from where the little fellow from the bottoms was enjoying himself. It was an exhibition of child ishness, snobbery and selfishness that is seldom seen in Denver. Dickens Inns. London Daily Mall. To the lover of Dickens the news of the sale, which has Just taken place, of the famous Bull Hotel at Rochester, at which the famous Pickwick party "put up" on their drive from London to the country. recalls a host of associations, for it was here that Mr. Jingle "applied himself with great interest to the port wine and dessert , where Jingle, too. Insulted Dr. Slammer; where Tracy Tupman and the widow, Mrs. Budger, tripped the light fantastic toe; and where Charles Dickens himself slept In bedroom 17 on several occasions. The announcement for sale of Barnard's inn in Holborn recalls still further asso ciations with Dickens. Barnard's Inn Is the Red Tavern at which Rip of "Great Expectations" lodged; It is mentioned both In "Barnaby Rudge" and "Pick wick; and Dickens had his lodging In the inn for some time. The hall at the back, the smallest of all the halls of the Lon don inns, will be saved. Island Fertilized From Bedding-. London Telegraph. ' King Island, between the Coasts of Tasmania and the Australian mainland, has always been an arid waste of sand and other nonarable soil. Some years ago, however, a vessel was wrecked off the island and a number of the sailors' mattresses, stuffed with the yellow flowered clover, a kind of grass, were washed ashore. A certain quantity of seed was contained among the stuffing and in due course these took root and in the space of a few years covered the sandy streaches with rich verdure. Clover and other leguminous plants have the peculiar capacity of fertiliz ing a waste soil, owing principally to the action of bacteria, thereby en abling the plants to draw nitrogen directly from the atmosphere. King Island, previously a waste stretch of sand,, is now one of the richest graz ing districts In the Australian con tinent. At the Minstrel. Chicago Evening Post. "Mr. Bones," said Mr. Tambo, I have an inquiry to propound to you this eve ning." "Mr. Bones," echoed the interlocutor. "Mr. Tambo says he has an inquiry to propound to you this evening. "He has an inquiry to propound to me?" repeated Mr. Bones. "Then he may elu cidate his animadversions at his leisure." "What." asked Mr. Tambo, "is the dif ference between a man who stands in front of you In a streetcar and Jabs his wet umbrella into your ribs, and steps on your toes, and will not stand aside so that you may go f-rward what is the difference between him and a mule?" "There isn't any," replied Mr. Bones. Whereupon the interlocutor arose and an nounced that the entire company would now sing "Let Me Die Beneath the Same Old Flag and Give Us Your Kind Ap plause." OUR NEW ARMY AT WORK. Organization and Its Far-Rescklag Results at Leavenworth, Kan. Frederick Palmer in Collier's. While we are intent on the massing of our fleet in the Pacific wo must not forget that we have a new Army new in method, in spirit and In organiza tion. To see it in practice, you must go to Eastern Kansas, where the of ficers attend school and conduct con tinuous war. The post reservation at Leavenworth has been metaphorically mapped until it is a blot of ink and plowed with shells and harrowed with bullets until it Is a dust heap. Although our land forces were never so well prepared for any emergency aa they are today, there has never been a time when recruiting was so diffi cult, the material so poor, and the standard necessarily so high. Either by a raise of pay or other legislation Congress must this Winter deal with this question. We have 16,000,000 men of military age in the United States. Out of that 16,000,000 we are scarcely able to fill the ranks of a standing army of a little over 60,000. This Is no indica tion of a lack of patriotism. Perhaps It is not even an Inconsistency. Our youth are ready to die for their coun try, only they want to bo sure they; wili have the chance before they enlist. Agreeing to serve three years as a 'dough boy" in times of peace and1 prosperity, when It Is easy to get a Job for $2 a day from week to week. is another thing. Such an explanation, though sooth ing to our susceptibilities, is no help) to the general staff. Of course It ia easy to get 60.00 men of sorts. A few soup signs hung over the recruiting depots will bring them. This type, however, is not wanted by Major- General J. Franklin Bell. His idea la that the way to make an army effi cient is by work. Our Army of today is les Ilka tha Army of '98 than the Army of '98 was like the Army of Andrew Jackson's day. A man who felt at home In its" ranks five years ago feels somewhat) a stranger today. No other army liv the world has undergone such s change. The German's heritage lies across the same old frontiers; the Brit" lsher looks towards India and colonial garrisons even as he did in Welling ton's time. But the American Indian, the cause of existence of our United States regulars from their Inception, no longer needs a policeman. Leavenwcrth was originally one of these isolated posts. From its slopes you look across a thickly-settled coun try toward the point where the old Santa Fe and the Oregon trails broke away from the old Overland trails, andt on this site a few hundred yards away from the old stone defenses, a new building to house the new regime is completed. That old regime knew its game well, which lay In the Kickapoo villages in the buffalo country, where the grain fields are now worth a hun dred dollars an acre. In the present game it would be a tenderfoot going to slaughter in the Wall - street "Kriegspiel" (war game). The new building shelters technically the Army School of the Line and Staff College and the Signal School. This is the brains of the Army in the making; and the general staff is the directing mind of the Army. The idea expressed is not new. Von Moltke went to Paris a discoverer and an organizer rather than a hero, and modern war has traveled far in organization since then. A suggestion of this came to the civilian world when it read that the Japanese ran their war by -telephone and telegraph. Therefore has tha Signal Corps risen to transcendent im portance. From the regiments 50 officers aro called each year to the Army School of the Line. Of these 50 the 20 highest go into the second class or the Staff Col lege. The others return to their regi ments. "We thought we worked at West Point," these officers say, "but we did not." At West Point, if a stu dent passes his Immediate object is attained. But five or ten years later the grip of the profession he has chosen is on him. He has pride and application that go with maturity. Competition put both to their mettle. In the commandant's anteroom is si big board, brutal in Its red Ink, and op posite each pupil's name is his standing? in every branch of the art of war which makes a complete officer. At Leavenworth are made thai records of the present which are writ ten Indelibly in archives at Washing ton for future use by the directing; mind of the Army. This accounts for the complaint off Army wives that their husbands are ruining their health sitting up of nights; for the fact that the club has" to raise Its dues because no one ever goes there for the pleasant afternoon hour; for a rule about a certain amount of exercise which had to be made, con-1 siderlng that, after all, brains musd have physique to support them. Op posite many names there are bars! squares beginning at a certain point j That means that these men were need- ed In Cuba because of their special talents. For each record Indicates! the student officer's strong and weak) points. There is A. poor In tactics, but at genius in languages, who can put up al Spanish patois In a week. If some-' thing happens in Mexico all that thai commanding general need do Is to rurs down the list till he comes to A to find his intelligence officer when wai crossed the Rio Grande. There Is B, a wonder In handling? guns, but who forgets that lnfantryi exists except when it is a target and? you have a chief of artillery. There is C, who labors all night with hist phonograph and. still cannot speak: Spanish must faster than a telegraph key; but In all the "Kriegspiel" and the maneuvers the resource and dashj of his cavalry work was never caught at fault and you have a commander whoso flying column would cut communica tions if we ever had to go to Winni peg. There Is D, whose inventions are used by Westinghouse, from which ha draws a royalty, and would not leave the service If he were twenty times a millionaire, who Is always thinking about the wires when he plays "Krieg spiel" and you have a staff expert who would keep up the web of com munications which are the nerves answering questions of the mind of an army and carrying Its commands into action. There Is E, who Is a born organizer of supplies and you have a quarter master. There is F, with his positive gift for strategy and combination and you have a strategical officer. There is G. who always keeps his head, who holds the respect of all, who is all round In his talents, with a gift for handling volunteers, with the courage of convictions well formed and you may have a general of corps,, when In case of need, on the Nation's word, the regulars expand to a hundred thou sand and with them a hundred thou sand volunteers are brought into th field. Considering the little progress which; The Hague Conference has made, much , may depend on them some day. Telephone and Telesrraph Poles. Woodcraft. Recent estimates give 800,000 miles of) telephone and telegraph pole line in thai United States. At an average of 40 poles to the mile there are 32,000.000 in use, and: assuming that tha life of a pole Is 13 years, there are needed each year mors than 2.650,000 poles.