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THE MbRNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8,' 1900. hs xmotnciXfu Artered a the Pc ststnce at Ferttaac, Oregon, Acs 0OftttA"dsSnVsBl BMbfeeWCe TXUEPHOXSS. Kdttertal Roosts let I Beeteees OOee....6S7 RxnssD scmckxptiok xaths. By Mall (portage preset). Advaaee Dally, with Senear, per meets... $ 85 J?Hr. Sunday taste cd. per year.. 7 Se Ixuiy, with nuMay. per yeer - 9 99 Sunday, Pr rear , 2 The Weekly, per year 1 se The Weekly. S Months ......... M To City flkMrifcr Dally, per weak, delivered, aenoars eaceeeted.lee DU. par weak, eettVered, mmdars Iew4e.3e News or dteweekm tut ended Xer pufetteatien in The Ormiaa ahouM he aeeceased MvarieMy "Edltor The Oregon!, net te the name of any Individual. Letters relating ta adverttatag. eubecrlpucne or to any buateees matter should be adureeaed s'mpty 'The Oregantaa." Tit OrecrcoitiR doee not hr poems or stories from Individuate, and aanaat ueeertake ta re turn any manuscripts seat to K without saHelta tkR No stamp should he Inclosed for this purpose. I Baraaa-Caatata A- Thempse. at llli PaaMe avenue. Taeema. Sax 053, Income pestofltee. Eastern Business OMee-Tha Tribune bulld ng Xew Tork citr; 'The Keekery. Ohteage; 8. C Beckwlth special agency. New York. , 'f PraaaiMM hy J. X. Cooper. 7 Market street, near the Pateee hotel, and u Goldsmith Bros.. MS Setter street. For sale m Calcage hy the P. O. News Co.. gl7 Dearborn street. TODAT "rjCATinw.-OooaatoBal rata, with southerly winds. S'OKTLAJfD, THURSDAY. FEB. 8. BRYAXISMS 2VBW ALLIES. Perhaps It Je wholly consonant with the order of the universe that the Bryanites In their opposition to expan sion should encounter aid from an in fluential but unexpected source. A fool for luck. The Bryanites are against expansion, of course. They must be against every thing that te being done. What is the money standard? jLet us see gold? Then we must have silver, or anything 80 it is something else. Are we at peace Then we must go to war with Spain. Are we at war? Then the war 1b unholy and must stop. Are we stag nating or expanding? Expanding? Aha, then we must stop it. If the Bryanites ware in power they would have fought the war with Spain, taken the Philippines, suppressed the Tagal insurrection, and pointed with pride. Somebody else has done it, and they are violent in opposition. This rationale of Bryanism is con sistent enough, but could not prevail Alone. It is now likely to receive sup port from its ancient enemy protec tion. The case of Puerto Rioo has not only offended the protectionists; It has alarmed thorn for the possible conse quence in Cuba and the Philippines. If e are to' have free trade with Puerto Rico, or the next thing to free trade, what shall save us from free trade with the Philippines, and event ually with Cuba? On this ground can be assembled influential forces. Pro tected interests threatened by expan sion notably the sugar trust, have hitherto howled without much success against accession of the islands, but imw they will have the basis of an au cience. If the protectionists who are now osfenmed at President McKtnley's efforts Sr free trade with Puerto Rico i State Jbrcee with the Brvanites in congrnac, they can make life a bur den for Puerto Rioo, and probably throw away the Philippines and keep ut Cuba. And if they are to have their way about the tariff, they may as well suc- ff-d We have little business in the Philippines any longer now, unless It Is to be a paying investment. The ques tion as to whether we should retreat under Are has been settled in the nega te The question what we shall do now Is not one of national honor, but vt expediency. Whether we should stay ir the islands depends on what we are going to do with them. If we are go ing to encourage trade between them and our home ports, open our markets to them and their markets to us, well and good. Then there is a great future for us on the Pacific ocean. But If the profits of trade are to be cut off by prohibitive tariffs, we do not want the is.ands. Is this Spain or the United States? Ib this the seventeenth century or the nineteenth? Are we going to treat Puerto Rico and the Philippines and promise to treat Cuba as a crown ool c r y to be despoiled, or a province to be aided and built up? If we are going to oeai worse with these new islands than f pain dealt wltk them, it will be money In cur pockets and luster on our name to get rid of them. "PUBLIC BDDCATIOK OF COLORED CHILDIUBN. The recent death of Mis "kriruMis n Venning, a successful teacher la the ! public schools for oolored children, in Trmantown, has drawn the attention 1 1 one phase of successful public edu cational work among this class of pu jiS In cities where these are found in large numbers. The education a ti ered children In a place like George town js g, perplexing problem. Beset r y race prejudice on one side, and a re taliatory spirit upon the other, but lit. 1 headway has, until in relatively re- fpnt years, been made in solving it. IThf colored people, as a rule, resent tnr setting aside of schools for their l? iidren as an act Indicating their un- v .rimness to mingle in classrooms vsth the offspring of white parents. i"n,3 felt they had good around for this iSTtiment because In the majority of ids r v here separate schools had been I established the buildings were of the iiri't wretched character, and white t-achers were generally placed in &rge On the other hand, oolored ! idren attending mixed schools were Ir PFtantly subjected to indignities from v-joh neither the board of education n - their teachers could kvmb thun Another phase of the situation was f f fact that comparatively few oal- ' t d children advanced very far in the ut ;c school course, even when nlaJnlv r apabie The reason given tor this was ttat the authorities held out littl in ducement for them to seek a hieher ed- b' at ton, and -for the parents to deny in selves m order that the children cht have It. Kven if a oolored sin K-u to take a fuU course at the nor- m&. school and receive a certinoate. it i as claimed she stood no chance of get ting an appointment as a teacher. At most perplexing point In thi oon- n Miss Venning graduated from fermantown normal, the first col- jirl who had the courage and de- ation to do so, and In her gradu- ie local school authorities saw the solution tha4 ncwaslam. .school for oolored strildeen in a squalid part of the city was promptly abandoned, a neat building In a re spectable quarter was rented for school purposes, and Miss Venning placed in charge as principal. Her suc cess and that of the venture was from the first assured. Only colored teach ers were employed, and a second school in another part of the city soon became a necessity. The two schools are still growing, and both have large, modern buildings a seven colored teachers are employed and over 300 children are enrolled. The best evidence of the success of a solu tion made possible by the couragaand determination of Miss Venning tocom plete the normal course and become a teacher of children of her race Is seen in the fact that as a rule the colored people prefer to send their children to one of the two schools, even though there are other schools with white teachers considerably nearer. The matter has long since passed the ex perimental stage, and Is attracting the attention of educators In other cities where a large colored population is to be dealt with. There is so much of human nature in the solution that the result should cause no surprise. LBSSOX OF THE AVHBAT LETTERS. The cost of producing a bushel of wheat in Oregon, according to the tes timony of the growers, varies greatly, ranging from a profit at 30 cents per bushel to a loss at 40 to 45 cents per bushel. The figures presented by men actually engaged in the business are Interesting, and, in the case of the higher limits nqtned, undoubtedly ex plain the tenacity with which some growers have how on to their crops in the face of a falling market, and stead ily accumulating stocks In the world's wheat centers. The grower who can produce wheat Ha cost of 30 cents or less will do Veil to stay with the business. There will be seasons like 1864, when, even tit this small cost of production, he wil be obliged to mar ket his Wheat at fa loss or else carry it over, but they I will prove rare ex ceptions, and all the attendant loss of a season like tha mentioned will be recouped in the years of comparatively high prices, which greatly outnumber those of low prices.' The low price of wheat In Oregon to day is due entirely to causes with which the Oregon grower will always be obliged to contend. The Argentine re public, one of the most formidable competitors America has in the wheat business, is harvesting and marketing a record-breaking crop, both as to qual ity and quantity. This crop was pro duced by a shiftless, Indolent people who put the produats of- their farms on the market, or at least out of, their own hands, as soon as they are harvested, regardless of the price. As the, crop of the Argentine now coming on the mar ket is conservatively estimated at 75, 008,000 bushels, it will be seen; that Eu rope, the world's wheat market, can secure supplies from this" source suffi cient to meet her demands 'until the Southern ports of the United States oommence shipping wheat of the 1900 crop. As this competition cannot be re moved, it must be met, and as there is no surety of meeting It with wheat that oosts 45 cents to produce, the prob lem must be solved by the man who oan produce It at a profit, at less than 30 cents per bushel. Experiments made by a number of practical farmers have demonstrated that from 40 cents to 50 cents per bushel can be realized on wheat converted into pork, and this fact may offer a solution of the (Ufficulty which encounters the farmer Who de sires to raise wheat and yet is' unable to do so at a profit at less than 45 cents per bushel. Pork is higher, and wheat is lower, today, than for the past four years, and Oregon ig still Im porting from four to five carloads per week from the East, Indicating that the man who has wheat to sell in the form of pork will have less difficulty in find ing buyers than the man who has the cereal Itself. The world is becoming accustomed to cheap wheat, and Insists on having it. Portland has worked up a fine market for flour In the Orient, and the business is steadily growing so long as prices are kept below a certain level. When the Letter boom forced prices up to abnormal heights, the demand from this new field came to a dead stop, and failed to get under way again until the 'price of wheat receded to a point where flour could be laid down at ports In China and Japan at prices which met the approval of the Orientals, who had tided over the era of high-priced wheat in America by returning to their rice diet. Some idea of the remarkable demand for cheap wheat flour in the Orient can be gleaned from the figures showing the cereal movements from Northwest ports since the opening of the. present season. Out of, a total of 11,858,763 bushels of wheat shipped to all ports between July 1,1899, and February 1, 19W, 4,509,544 bufhels were shipped as flour, nearly all of It going to the Ori ent. Wheat ha, always been, and will without doubt; continue to be, the greatest wealth-producer in Oregon, but to the men.who cannot produce it at a less cost than 45 cents per bushel It will be a very-'uncertain and unsat isfactory crop. Such growers must be continually dependent on a crop failure In other big wheat countries, or on unnatural and in the end pernicious speculation, similar to that of Letter's, in order to enable them to make money or even pay expenses. SMALLPOX arULTIPLIED BY FOOLS. In Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Utah, and In Oklahoma territory, small pox has been epidemic for weeks past. In Kentucky smallpox prevails In thirty-five counties, and In Caldwell county about half the population Is said to be sick with the disease, while the percentage of deaths Is large. In Indiana it is spreading rapidly, and in eight counties it has been found neces sary to fumigate the malls. The dis ease prevails to such an extent among the Cherokee Indians and in Oklahoma that the Kansas authorities haye es- tabllshea" a quarantine along part of Uie border line. There are 4000 ceses in Mississippi, and in Utah the disease is so. widespread that all the schools are being closed. It is noteworthy that smallpox makes its worst ravages In those states where there Is the largest population o'f Ig norant resistance to vaccination. ' In Pine Bluff, Ark., where the srriallpox has been prevalent, the mayor Issued a proclamation ordering every one to get vaccinated. A public meeting was held, at which resolutions were adopt ed declaring compulsory vaccination "a restraint upon the liberties of the peo ple granted bythe. constitution of the TJnltea,, States." and the city is" to tt enjoined from preventing unvacclnated ohlldren from attending school. Indi ana has been the scene of similar stu pid orusades against vaccination, and In Utah there has been much opposi tion to vaccination, and these are the states that now suffer most from small pox. The authorities of Pennsylvania took vigorous measures in favor of vaccination last autumn, when there were fears that the disease might gain a foothold In the state, and as a con sequence Pennsylvania has been almost free from the disease. Wherever there Is eternal vigilance and vaccination Is despotically en forced, as It is in New Tork city, you find little or no smallpox, but wher ever Ignorant opposition to vaccination nullifies or evades all efforts at exclu sion, there you find smallpox raging. Smallpox lives on the Ignorant neglect of or stupid opposition to vaccination. Where boards of health have absolute sway, as they do In the great cities of the land, smallpox has no chance, but it finds its place of multiplication In the states of the South and Southwest, where the ignorant, illiterate opposition to vaccination is the strongest. Of course, "Christian Scientists," and all other quacks and cranks, are conspic uous for their opposition to vaccina tion, as was recently in evidence in Georgia. When a man or woman once leaves the firm earth of fact and rea son for the fogland of assumption and speculation, he is always ready to make a full meal of any new kind of "flap doodle," the diet upon which fools feed and thrive. FINATfCLVL DEATH IX ITS CLOTHES. Controller Coler, of New Tork city, disapproves of the Bill Introduced into the Albany legislature for pensioning of city employes who have been in of fice thirty years. His reason is weighty: "If you open the door to re lieve men who may be worthy of a pension, you will have to let In a crowd of unworthy men later." Amendments to Include those of twenty, fifteen, ten years' work would not be difficult to pass in a politician's state, like New Tork. The truth of Mr. Coler's conclu sion is illustrated by the history of our pension legislation to military veterans. Up to the passage of the arrears of pension act, our pension roll was not burdensome. As late as 1S78, twelve years after the war, the annual pension disbursements were but $26,844,415, and the number of pensioners was 223,998, of whom 92,349 were widows and minor children. Between this date and 1890 the annual pension disbursements rose to $106,493,890, and the number of pen sioners for the last-named year was 537,944. This Increase was due some thing to the Mexican war pension act, which added some 20,000 to the roll, but much was due to the effect of the ar rears of pension act, because many men who had not cared to apply for a pen sion were tempted to secure the very considerable lump sum that became theirs under this act. Under the act of June 27, 1890, the annual pension dis bursements roBe in three years to over 5158,000,000 and the number of pensioners to over 966,000. This law of 1890 provides pension, not for Injury or infirmity in curred, in the military service alone, but for Injury or infirmity wherever in curred, provided the recipient was in the military service in the civil war for ninety days. To illustrate: A veteran has rheum atism today in 1900, but since his serv ice in the Union army, at some time between April, 1861, and April, 1865, he has enjoyed thirty-five years of aver age health and prosperity. Neverthe less, under this law of 1890 this man can read his title clear to a pension. Pension for injury or Infirmity incurred in the military service commends itself to every right-minded man as just, but beyond this we never should have gone to the extent of passing such a law as that of 1890, especially as under its loose and absurd construction a .mil lionaire incapable of support by man ual labor is permitted to become a pen sioner. But for this law of 1890, our pension roll would not be more than 500,000 strong, and Its annual cost would not be more than $100,000,000. The num ber of pensioners on the rolls July 1 last was more than four times as great as it was twenty years before, Tet 1879 was but fourteen years after the close of the civil war, and the number of survivors was far greater then than it was twenty years later. Not only has the number of pension ers multiplied more than four-fold in twenty years, but the average of each pension has increased more than one fourth. In 1879 the average pension was $105; in 1887 it had risen to $122 25, and in 1S99 it had reached $132 74. But this average value is reduced by the pensions paid under the law of 1890 to persons whose disability was not in curred in the military service. The av erage annual value of each pension un der the general law is $165 70. This i3 the proper figure to compare with the average values of pensions prior to 1890. The average pension paid on account of Injuries due to military service, then, has risen from $105 in 1879 to $131 18 in 1889 and $165 74 In 1899. The average pension under the law of 1890, which pensions persons unable to earn their living by manual labor for reasons not connected with their mili tary service, is now $108 99, and this reduces the average annual value of all pensions to the $132 74 already given. The average original payment in all general law cases, cases growing out of disabilities due to military service, is $263 10. The applications rose from 89,000 in 1889 to 363,999 in 1891, and the pensions granted from 51,000 in 1889 to 224,000 in 1892. The new pensions granted in the fiscal year 1899 num bered 37,077, which is but little more than 75 per cent of the applications; but In each of the four years preceding the pensions granted considerably ex ceeded the number of applications. It took the pension office a long time to catch up with the enormous number of applications made under the law of 1890 as soon as it was passed. The Army and Navy Journal's de scription of the field dressing outfit for emergency cases, where men are wounded beyond prompt reach of a surgeon, is nothing new In modern war. The men of a Union brigade In the First corps, which helped repulse Pickett's charge at Gettysburg upon the Federal left center, were each furnished with a pocket tourniquet and Instructed how to apply it. The life of General Hancock, who fell severely wounded on thefiring line at the close of the fight, was saved by the prompt application of one of these pocket tourniquets, ap plied by an officer of the staff of Gen eral Stannard. Hancock was wounded In the thigh, and lost blood so rapidly before the. arrival of a surgeon upon the firing line that ho would have per ished had not thl3 officer, with the as sistance of his men, promptly applied their pocket tourniquets and stopped the great flow of blood before the ar rival of a surgeon. When the surgeon did finally arrive, he was received by Hancock with a shower qf the profane pyrotechnics which that great soldier always emitted when he was excited. The range horses of the great table lands are having their innings this year In plenty to eat. Despised as worth- less, pursued for the purpose of exter mination, rounded up and loaded upon crowded cars and sent to the slaughter-pen and cannery, grudged the scanty mouthful of grass dug with bleeding feet from under the deep, ice crusted snow, these animals have for a number of years past been objects of pity to humane people. No one should grudge them the respite on the road to extinction furnished by a moderate temperature with plenty to eat. With February and March still to hear from, It Is perhaps too early to congratulate the range horse. upon his good luck in securing this stay of proceedings, but he has at least escaped the biting blasts and cruel hunger that have often been his lot In December and January. The currency operations reported from India are very simple and inconsequential.- Some 5,000,000 rupees, of a nominal aggregate value of $2,300,000, are to be recoined, and' twice that amount coined out of new bullion. The 10,000,000 rupees of new coinage cost the Indian government probably $2,000,000, and will be maintained at a currency valuation of $3,600,000. Under free coin age they would be worth 23 cents each; under the gold standard th'ey will keep their uniform valuation of 32 cents. Abolition of free coinage, it may be colncldentally observed, does not mili tate against the uae of whatever silver is necessary for use as coins. The dif ference Is the coins are kept uniform in value and business can be done on a definite basis. The vigilance of the health authori ties of Portland- is witnessed In the fact that the city Is entirely free from smallpox, though that disease Is very prevalent in the cities and towns of the great mining belt to the north and east of us, with which we are In close rail way communication. There has not at any time within months past been more than two or three cases of small pox In the city. Each case has, upon discovery, been promptly sequestered and treated, and no deaths have re sulted. The latest case, a very mild one, will be discharged from the pest house in a few days, leaving the city absolutely free from the disease a con dition which, under the circumstances, would be considered wonderful, were there any longer wonders in sanitary science. The withdrawal of British steamships from various ocean routes to serve the purposes of the government in the South African war has been of nq little profit to steamers flying other flags. The American liner New Tork carried on a recent trip across the Atlantic 1200 sacks of mall, the largest load of that class of freight ever carried by a trans-Atlantic steamer. Other freight carried was In the same proportion. The German and French steamers are also doing an enormous business a the time of year when dullness in traffic usually Is expected. This feature of trans-Atlantic traffic will continue while the war lasts, and to a greater or less extent beyond that time, as it is always easier to retain than to secure trade. Dispatches from Washington, ema nating from different sources, naturally show some variance. One editor's tele gram says that "Binger Hermann counts on securing the Oregon legisla ture for senator." Another declares that "Senator McBrlde is cocksure of re-election." Truly, it Is a benumbing alternative here offered the people of Oregon; but maybe the voters of the state will reach a happy solution of the problem by dropping both the shop worn statesmen. The reasonable Interpretation of tha government's rule concerning bodies ot dead soldiers is that delivery will be gladly made to all parents or legal rep resentatives proving their claims. Ob viously the government cannot deliver the bodies to other claimants without authority from parents. What would the war department be able to say on the future day when' some parent asked for the body that had been bestowed elsewhere without parental "or legal au thority? Senator Caffery proposes to conquer the Tagals, set up good government and give it to the first applicant. Is it too much to as., him for the clause and section in the constitution whence, he derives sanction for such proceedings? The salaries of the employes of the city of New Tork for- the year 1899 amounted to $41,955,350, against $34, 737,961 for 1898. The increase in one year was $7,217,389. The taxpayers say "Tammany comes high." The fact remains that Taylor was elected -and Goebel was defeated, in Kentucky NOTE AND COBIjtfENT. The directors of the wool trust are probably feeling sheepish over its failure. If Buller could get a few Kentuckians to settle a feud along the Boer front, the country would soon bo clear of enemies. Both Buller and Agulnaldo are trying to keep quiet, but there Isn't an array of correspondents on Agulnaldo's trail now. If some enterprising settler would es tablish a ferry on the Tugela he oucht to make big money for tho next few months. A colored man was lately made night watchman of a poultry show In Kansas City. That was giving the poultry a poor show, indeed. As an Indication of how low the Fili pino insurgents have sunk, It is reported that some of them have even been dis persed by Spaniards, New Tork is going to have the largest office bulldlnr In the world, but she will probably find when It Is completed that Chicago had built end finished a blsser one. Shoot np more, dear colonels, Shoot no more today. Or there'll bo none left In our old Kentucky to cart tho dead and dying- men away. To tho Inquiry of a subscriber as to the military rank of General N. A. Miles, U. S. A., in 1578, The Oregonlan replies that General Miles was colonel of the Fifth United States Infantry in 1878, and became brigadier-general, United States army, De cember 15, 1880, and major-general, United States army, April 5, 1S90. The plague which Is- now agitating cities and putting to test the knowledge and skill of men learned In medical and sani tary science, is propagated by a microbe so small that, we are told, 250.000,000 of them would be required to cover a square inch of surface. It is to the inflnltesmal 'character of this microbe, Its excessive fertility and the fact that animals as well as human beings are Its carriers, that the Black Death has become so formld ble a foe to human life, even though em battled hosts of sanitary and medical sci ence stand firmly In the path of Its prog ress. The situation In Honolulu, while by no means desperate, is serious, and everything possible is being done to resist the scourgo In its beginning, prevention being the first principle of sanitary law. The Immunity of Pacific coast ports in relatively close touch with those of the Orient and mld-Paclflc, rests upon the vigilance of quarantine officers, and this, we are assured, is unceasing. The American museum of natural his tory has received from Kansas the skele ton of a monster lizard, that dwelt in tho ancient sea that covered that state. The bony structure is compete, and as re stored presents a specimen of a once mighty but now pigmy race. Proof exists In its structure that the creature was a very powerful swimmer, about 29 feet long. The degeneracy of the species In size and strength, as represented by this fossil lizard, of a prehistoric age, is marked: but it is withal a matter of congratulation rather than of regret, since he must, Indeed, be an enthusiast In ani mal history who would be pleased to en counter a prototype of this "ram-nosed tylosur" Instinct with life and energy. The test of speed required of torpedo boats by the United States naval author ities Is an extremely severe one unneces sarily so, It Is claimed. It Imposes a strain upon men that 13 simply terrific, and subjects them to dangers that, at tho best, It is impossible tu minimize, while the emergency that calls for such speed, Is strictly speaking, a remote contingency. This speed requirement is an expression of the delirium, so to speak, caused by the high fever Induced by the possibilities that have opened up before naval power under Its modern interpretation! and equipment, and it will probably be modi fled when this fever has had time to abate. In tho meantime, since the bu reau of naval construction has decreed a 30-knot gait for torpedo-boats, it Is a matter of pride that our local builders have come up to the requirements of con struction In turning out these hissing, sizzling flyers as adjuncts to the power of the new navy. ii the german view of it. Criticism on the Engrliah Manage ment of the South African "War. Since the Franco-Prussian war, Germany speaks with a certain authority on mili tary matters, and will continue to do so till she shall be pulverized in her turn. Her opinion on the South African war is now somewhat Interesting. A dispatch from Berlin, the other day, quoted the opinion of a German general, eminent as a military writer, that the campaign in South Africa had already greatly damaged England's standing. The opinion conceded that England was still a first-class power, and would be while she had her naval supremacy, but that her army reputation was gone. He admits the bravery of the British eoldler, but condemns the Inca pacity of the leaders, whose lack, of to pographical knowledge he mentions as spe cially amazing. This criticism appears to be just To a layman, it would also ap pear to he Just to pronounce amazing tho paucity of scouts and the lack of mobility. The German press has been even freer than the military critic In writing Ichabod on England's doorposts. Many of them agree in thinking that Splonkop was the turning point not only of the war, but of the destiny of England as a world power. One hints that England has gone mad. Another declares that nothing Is left to support her Idea of a world power. The third thinks that only a few more battalions can be raised to keep up the truggle, and that England must give up her domination in South Africa and her primacy in Europe. But German Judg ment Is probably not unprejudiced. The European continent Is traditionally hostile to England, whllo Germany's colonial ln- terests and trade expansion have been clashing with those of England, so that the traditional hostility has been empha sized Germany herself has large South African interests, and if England fail, aha may hope that she would be able to step Into England's place both as the great South African power and as the arbiter of Europe. It will be worth while, however, to wait awhile before beginning to divide the as sets of the British empire. a ! FACTS IN THE KENTUCKY CASE. The Methods Adopted and Pursued to Set Aside the Results of the Election. Brooklyn Eagle, dem. The state of Kentucky, by the last fed eral census, contained a population of 1,858,635. It has been ordinarily a demo cratic state, but In late elections It has gone republican. Its vote for governor and president In 1895 and 1S96, respectively, were: GOVERNOR. 1805. Bradley, rep 172,430 Hardin, dem 103.521 Petit, pop 1G.U11 Demaree, pro ......'. 4,180 Total voto 357,007 Plurality for Bradley 8,912 PRESIDENT, 1806. MoKlnley, rep 218,171 Bryan, dem 217.S80 Palmer, lnd.-dem 5,010 Lovexing, pro 4.7S1 Total yoto 445,801 -Plurality tor McKInley 281 In 1S99 the votes, as cast and counted for governor the election now In contest were: GOVERNOR. 1809. Taylor, rep 103.7U Goebel, dem 191,33 Brown, lnd.-dem..... 12.4K. Blair, pop 3,038 "Wallace, pro .., 2,34(1 Total voto 402,509 Plurality for Taylor 2.3S3 It will thus be seen that, in spite of the general impression that "Kentucky is na turally and surely democratic." the state has voted the republicans into power by a plurality at the last three elections. The latest election, that of 1899, has been three times declared to he republican, once by the count at the local polling places, once again by tho boards of county can vassers, and once again by the state return ing board. A large majority of the county boards are democratic. All of the mem bers of the state returning board, three, are democratic. Two of them decided that Taylor was elected by the foregoing fig ures. Under the laws of Kentucky a further appeal was possible to the state legislature, but that body was not authorized to de clare a different result merely by a bare majority. A fractionally larger majority was required. As elected by the people, the legislature did not contain a majority sufficiently large to reverse the result. To be secured, such a majority had to be "made." It was "made" by wholesale unseating of elected members, who were superseded by contestants defeated at the polls. That was done. The legislature, as thus made to order tor a purpose, was about to carry out that purpose, when some unknown person shot Goebel. The governor's effort to prevent the leg islature from declaring Goebel eleoted gov ernor, and his running colleague lieutenant-governor, was not successful. A ma jority of the members ef this "made" leg islature signed a writing to the effect that these men were elected, and the chief justice of the state administered the oath to William Goebel as governor, and to J. C. W. Beckham as lieutenant-governor. Goebel Is now dead, and Beckham has taken the oath of office Us governor. EIGHTY-FOUR KINDS OF THEM. Restatement by Professor Worcester of Hl Observations on Filipinos. Professor Worcester, jot the Philippine commission, makes the complaint that his remarks about tho -Filipinos have been misunderstood. So he has taken occa sion to go over the ground again. The Filipinos, he says, are dlvlved. Into three races, and these races Into not less than 84 tribes. Among the Interesting peculiari ties of some of the wild tribes are human sacrifices, child marriage, polygamy, In fanticide and slavery. But, on the other hand, there are the civilized tribes. These are the partially enlightened Tagalogs, for Instance, who, while In Professor Worces ter's opinion, are unfit to maintain an In dependent government, have good quali ties that ought not to be overlooked. Taking Professor Worcester's statement In its entirety. It eeems to simplify the situation. It will be impossible to flaake a selection among the S4 tribes on which to confer Senator Hoar'3 Ideal Independent republic. The sovereignty will, conse quently, remain with the United States, which is accustomed to rule all sorts of people, from sages to savages, front peo ple with high, bulging foreheadiiand round spectacles to those who wear npth ing but a scalping knife; from Atklnions to Apaches; from philanthropists and pa triots, for whom nothing is good enoigh, to crowds of people who get togper every few days and burn a fellow craire at the stake. The United States has all these In Its jurisdiction, and gets along with hem. and will do as much with the 84 different kinds of Filipinos. Q i A Distressed Aernlnoldnn. Hartford Courant. William Lloyd Garrison is grieved that Julia Ward Howe doesn't shate hts devo tion to Agulnaldo. We knew he -vould be. He considers it a most depressing sign of the times. His surprise and sor row have driven him to poetry. He has composed a rhymed rebuke to Julia Ward Howe. He sends it to the Springfield Re publican, possibly for the reason the hilari ous gentleman gave his wife for coming Lhome at that hour of the night "because all the other places are shut up." Here's the "beglnlng of It: Sing no more battle hymns, but In their place Some savage ode or funeral dirge prepare, Consistent with the slaughter of a race. A rising nation crushed In deep despair. Here's a little more of It: That thou who voiced the victim and the slave. Should champion now the tyrant's bloody sway, Disheartens all who seek to rlse and save The faithful allies whom our hands betray. Sing no more battle hymns, nofciueo of thlno With its traditions of a nobter day. Can wring from poesy a single line To deck this war of conquest and decay. t a I A South Cnrollni senator. ix c Among democrats of theySouth who are not scared by the phantoms of "antl-lm-perlallsm" Is Senator McLaurln, of South Carolina. He said in a recent speech at a dinner given by the American Asiatic Association: I will vote for the retention of those Islands (tho Philippines) in some constitutional way, eo as to control new markets and new commercial advantages. Nor am I to bo deterred by the specter of imperialism, Invoked by sentlmeatal- lata or designing politlolans to frighten tho weak and timid. If this be lmprialisra, let them make the most of It. Hailing from the South as I do, I say let all etloss Join .fcaada In seizing this grand opportunity of extending our commerce, influence and civilization. With the opening of the NIeaxagpa. canal and he construction of deep-water harbors along the Gulf. I believe the South will be able to under bid tho world In supplying Aetjl with raw and manufactured cotton, and that one of the mar vels of the new-born century will be the great tide of Southern products sweeping across the broad Pacific to millions of consumers in the Orient. e Breaklnjr It iGentlr. Life. ' 1 Judge Lynch's court having attended to me case of one Bilious Pete in the usual characteristic and conclusive manner, AI kalal Ike was selected to break the news as gently as possible to the bereaved widow. "Howdy-do, momj" he saluted, when the lady had come to the door in response to hla knock. "I've just dropped around to sorter tell ypu that er er your husband ain't a-goln' to live very long." ""What makes you think he ain't?" returned tho lady In considerable surprise. "B'cuz he's dead now," was the ingen uous reply. o Chicago's Population. Judge. "Chicago's population," began the en thusiastic resident of the Windy city, "has Increased at the rate of 100 per cent for each several decades, while the population of the United States has in creased at the rate of only 25 per cent. But one conclusion can be drawn from such gratifying conditions." "And what is that?" inquired a no less enthusiastic though less logical Chicagoan. "Why, that before many years the population of Chicago will exceed that of the United States." o Slie Got It. Philadelphia Press. "My dear," began the minister's wife, "there's a bonnet down at the mlllfji " "There you go again," he interrapted; "always thinking of worldly things." "But, my dear, you wrong me," sh said, "This bonnet Is perfectly heavenly." Not to Be Forgotten. Boston Transcript. Tho deep underlying question Is the right of the people of Kentucky to have for their governor the man they elected to that offlco at the polls In November last. i 9 Mncrnm's Mission. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Mr. Gaswell What sort of a 'letter do you suppose ex-Consul Macrum brings with him. Mr. Dukane I think it Is one of those letters that never came. Tried to Be n. Hero. S. E. Klsar in Chicago Times-Herald. He longed to be a hero; he read, somewhere, that "they Are not the only heroes who go to sbeot and clay"; He knelt within his closet and prayed the Lord on high To let him battle nobly, and with the heroes die. He rose up from his praying, and went and tolled along; He tried to make men better, to keep from doing wrong; He cheered his burdened brothers, he walked in lowly ways 1 With never-falling courage and hopes for bet ter days. Ho scorned to gain iy eohemlng, but kept a righteous way; ( He frowned upon temptations and tolled oa day by day; Ho craved no more than justice from bumble men or proud, I And missed a bundled chances to rise above the crowd. He died among the tellers, by hardships hedged about; Perhaps he was a hero, out bo one found It out! His children fret with hunger ah, let them weep away; Ho never bravely flouted the dangers oX the fray! GOSSIP OP TH NATIONAL CAPITAL WASHINGTON,. Fab. T. Bvary eJfect la being BMss to Involve the Tfelted States government in some dMctilty with Sngbmd over the South Afri can war. So far. the present admin istration has refrained from enter ing Into the matter at all. ami its critics are taking advantage of the determina tion to declare that the United States has a secret alliance with Xngland, and for that reason refuses to rush to the aid of the struggling Boers. It m now aeaerted that under the terms of The Hague treaty the president has a right to offer media tion, and by the terms of that treaty such mediation could not he considered an unfriendly act. While this may be true, there la no reason why Sngland should expect such mediation, and t&e refusal of It would tend to strain the re lations between the two countries. Fur thermore, the Beer republic had ne part In making The Hague treaty. ad was In no position to become a signer of that document, and is. consequently, not with in the terms of Its provisions. A prominent member of the senate com mittee on foreign relations, dtocuestng this matter today, said that .while the lightweights are howling for intervention by the- United States and shaking the name "republic" over the head of the ad ministration, they seem to forget entirely that there has been no sues, thing as a republic In South Africa, and that when this is fully understood, no political cap ital can he made out of criticisms haeauoo the United States does not take the side of the Boers. New Treaty Is Satisfactory. One of the uppermost topics of discus sion about Washington today has been the effect of the new treaty In relation to the Nicaragua canal. Some of the Saetern senators have become hysterical and de clare that we have given away every thing to Sngi&nd. and will simply build the canal for the use of Sngland. They Insist that, outside of the canal hems' neutral. It shall not only be built, but absolutely controlled and operated hy the United States. Men who have looked Into the matter carefully say that fortifications at either end of the canal would cost as much as the canal Itself, and that the foreign neets of the world could at any time make It inaccessible to the United States. They Insist that absolute neutrality must gov ern the canal if it is to be of commercial Importance. There has been a great deal of talk about the value of the canal to English war fleets and English commerce, and the argument on this line to that the neutral canal will be more beneficial to England than to the United States. The calmer judgment of those who have looked into the question seems that the treaty is satisfactory in some points, al though it may be necessary to amend It before It is finally ratified. Influence en OregeB Scraeorats. Chairman Jones refuses to dfeeues the effect of the national democratic conven tion upon the Oregon convention, al though he realises that It would he al most Impossible to hold the national con vention before the democrats of Oregon assemble. The belief of the democratic leaders here is that the Oregon demo crat will do what they are told, and in dorse Bryan, free silver and anti-expansion before the assembling of the national convention. Excladed Frew Forest Reserve. The proclamation of the president ex cluding approximately 50,800 acres from the Olympia forest reserve is still under the immediate consideration of the sec retary of the interior, and Senator Foster has been advised that aclon will follow shortly. Actual settlers will be given the first right to tile on all lands excluded. Carter's Alaska Bill. The subcommittee of the senate com mittee on territories has agreed to report favorably Carter's Alaska hill, giving that district all it asked in the way of legJeia , tlon, . except a delegate to congress and municipal governments. The Wit provides for three judicial districts, with three United States marshals. Civil Ce'ae for Alaska. One of the Important features discussed by the convention which met at Juneau, Alaska, last fall, and sent J. G. Price to Washington .as Its representative. In the hopes of having htm accorded a seat In the house as delegate from that territory, was a revision of the civil code, as pro posed for the government of Alaska. This particular feature was referred to a special committee, who took up the code as In troduced in the last congress and reintro duced again this winter, and picked out those sections which would be obnoxious to the Alaskan people, or which, m their judgment, could be Improved upon. They set forth in their report that they deem it of the first Importance to secure for Alaska, If possible, now that congress Is about to legislate on that subject, the most satisfactory procedure that earn bo given them. Mr. Price expects to have the code, as passed, agree in most particulars with the views of the Juneau convention. The committee at that convention, which had the civil code in charge, were guided large ly by the familiarity of some of the mem bers who are practicing lawyers m Alaska, with the Oregon system, which now pre vails In Alaska. They claim that to in corporate their suggestions Into the code will greatly facilitate the transaction and dispatch, and diminish the expense and delay of judicial business in their terri tory. In concluding then- statement, the com mittee say: "All acts extending the laws of Oregon to Alaska and making the some applicable, and all acts and parts of acts Inconsistent with this code, should be repealed; but such repeal should lfot affect any action, appeal or writ of error or other proceeding pending the date of the passage of the act. "These matters, among others of Im portance omitted by the eommlsslonere, are contained in chapters of the Oregon code on the subject of evidence, which somehow escaped their notice. The chap ter on the removal ot causes from tho district court by appeal or writ of error te exceedingly vague, and not a compila tion of the law upon this subject; and although the right of appeal in probate cases In the district court is given, no time Is prescribed within which It must be taken. Indeed, so glaring are the de fects and Insufficiencies of this proposed code, that It would be immeasurably bet ter for us not to have any fresh legisla tion whatever upon any of the subjects embraced in it. but rather to continue In definitely our present poor and wholly in adequate system of Jurisprudence, if It ean be so called, than to allow congress to crystallise such a code Into law. Jther bear those lite we have than fly to ethers that we know not of.' " e n '. If. S. B. Ktawr Cteleaee Ttarts-KecaM. If alt the stones were gaMan And every sbell " Few men wewM take tke treuels To steep te gather them; If' all tke days were suswy And all the skies were fntr, ' We'd bear a let of kicfttng Ahoot the "Mtndms; stare." If all the weeds bore vcees jve man would prise the usee; We'd ceeee to crave wine If It FtMed every stream itaet Hewat If all oer sins were virtues How quickly men would nnd New ways te sto new vices And leave the old behind. e Gocbel's Crime Net Condoned. St. Paur Pioneer Press. The blackness of Goebel's attempted, crime against free Institutions tot Ken tucky Is not lessened by the fact (hat he hae himself been mode the victim of another crime. We may abhor the' das tardly act of an assassin and pray lor the recovery of his victim, without plac ing ourselves in the attitude of condontng the more subtly -4angereus acts of the political conspirator.