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i ' THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1900. tt vzQQxtittxu lEstered at the Postofflee at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. SJdltorial Rooms.... ICO Business Office 661 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. n- Malt rnnitairr nrpnald. In Advance Xeily, with Sunday, per month $0 85 Kallr. Sunday excepted, per year ?9 Za31y. with Sunday, per jear J -eunday. per year - Toe Weekly, per year. i The Weekly, 3 months 0 To City Subscribers Daily, per week, delivered, Sundays excepted.l5a Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncluded.20c Xews or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed invariably "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of mny Individual. Letters relating to advertising, subscriptions or to any business matter should le addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannoi undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solicita tion. No stamps should be inclosed for this pur pose. Pugt Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. fllce at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 055, Tacoma Postofflee. Eastern Business Office The Tribune building, Kew Tork city; The Rookery," Chicago; the f, C Beckwlth special agency, New York. For sale In San Francisco by J. X. Cooper, 743 Uarkft street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros.. 23C Sutter street. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. Haves Co., T61T Xtearborn strret. TODAY'S WEATHER Generally fair; w&nn--r; northwest winds. - PORTLAND, MONDAY, MAY 8, lftf The citizen in the Second congres sional District that votes gainst Mr. Moody injures hlmsJf . Mr. Moody lias "been one of thp-'Ot untiring com mitteemen In t.. House, and his at tention is a'aTS devoted to the meas ures " '! affect the Interests of his (.Tict and state. The measures which -ne has originated, or of which he has Tieen clearly the champion, are: The minimum land bill, especially Important 1,to settlers along the Columbia RlverMn the forfeited North Pacific railroad land grant. Bill for $75,000 appropriation for Baker City fessay office. Tabling of bills of Senator Fos'ter, of Wash ington, and Representative Mondell, of Wyom ing, -which contemplated the leasing of Govern ment grazing lands. This action was taken with, a view to rendering it impossible for leg islation to be enacted which would turn over public domain to corporations or large stock men, to the detriment of bettlers and small stockow ners. The establishment of the free rural delivery Tor residents of the Hood River Valley. This serves a population of about 2000, and is highly satisfactory to them. The Introduction into star-route contracts, ow being let In Oregon, of the free rural de livery of mall, where desired, along the stage lines. The designation of Astoria as a port of entry. The securing of the. first pension granted to an Oregon volunteer In the Spanish war, (Ja cob C. Binn). He has co-operated with all members of the delegation in their efforts for legislation necessary to the state, such as appropriations for the Columbia Riv er, Portland public buildings, etc. A man of this fidelity and energy should he returned by an overwhelming vote, proIded he is sound on main questions. Mr. Moody's loyalty to Republican principles has never been questioned. He deserves the gracious compliment of an increased majority. There is no point for equal suffrage tn the fact that the Methodist church lias just admitted women to their con ferences, and given them equal repre sentation in their councils. Woman JhRsxdone. and will do. three-fourths of ie church work. Suffrage Is a matter of state, and not church, government. The demand for the ballot is a demand for diversion of the responsibilities of government, involving the election of women to public office from the Presi dency down. The voter Is not ready to concede so much. It is probably true that men would continue to hold the offices, Just as they will in the Meth odist church, because there will be a natural and Inevitable assertion of their superior fitness to bear heavy burdens. But there is. nevertheless, no reed to open up the matter at Its foun dationthe ballot-box. John Wanamaker has a son who is smbltious to emulate young Mr. Hearst; so he recently bought a news paper and started lo give the compla cent village of Philadelphia a lively yellow shaking up. To that laudable end a lot of graduate yellowlsts were imported from Mr. Hearst's justly cel ebrated New Tork school of jaundiced journalism, and the war began. The Director of Public Safety was the es pecial target of the venomed Wana maker shafts, and he retaliated by threatenlng certain exposures of the personal character of the senior Wan amaker. That good man's conscience seemed to afford him abundant fortifi cation, and he did not turn pale or yellow. His enterprising son kept up the bombardment, with the result that public indignation was finally aroused .nd a public meeting has Just demand ed the resignation of the Mayor and Director. As fighters, the Wanamak rs are made of belligerent stuff, ami, so far as we have light on the subject, they appear to be proceeding in a right eous cause. But the public will prob ably not be able to restrain its curios ity so far as not to wonder just what the wicked Mr. English Intended to say about the world's most famous Sun day school superintendent. The good-government movement has degenerated into a farce. Its recom mendations are not worthy the serious consideration of any voter. It has fallen Into the hands of a few persons who seek to make it an agency to pro mote the purposes of the "forces op posed to the Republican party." First, the association was Intended to pro mote reform in certain municipal mat . ters. Then self-seekers thought they 3E8.W personal advantage In making a deal with the Democrats and McBride Mltchell soreheads on a Legislative 'ticket. The result was repudiation by ntearly all the sincere people who had given the organization respectability and character. Now its field is to be broadened by indorsing candidates for city and county offices. But the price of this action Is a split In the surviving xemnant of the organization. The bur lesque is becoming wearisome. It Is time to end It. The St. Louis street-car employes strike seems to be gradually wearing itself ouL Its resemblance to a strike of. the same class of worklngmen in Cleveland last year has been marked, "with the difference that the police In Louis have been more faithful in le performance of their duty than they riere In Cleveland. Still dynamite has an used to wreck cars, non-union lea have been viciously assaulted, and averal persons not in any way con- :ted with the controversy have been llled. The end Is not yet, though irougb. the long vista of hopeless con- tentlon It may be said to be In sight. The great volume of workingmen who have been borne along with this tide of revolt against their better Judgment are legitimate objects of sympathy of all fair-minded persons. For the ag itators and so-called labor leaders who blew this coal Into a fierce flame and fanned it with their boisterous breath there is only reprobation. The saddest feature of the situation outside of the loss of life incident to the riots is that presented by the dejected host, needing work for the support of their families. who have seen the Spring season wear away in enforced idleness and who are without prospect of employment for the Summer. All such, whether misled by unwise counsel or borne along with the resistless human tide to the doom of Idleness, are entitled to the sympathy of their fellow-citizens in all classes of life. THE REGISTRATION RETURSS. There Is no doubt that the total reg istration of about 99,000 in the state is several thousand short of the total of eligible electors. The full voting pop ulation seldom comes out to an election, and een a less number are likely to takeTthe trouble to register. Two gen eral elapses are by experience known ,to be negligent about registration, not necessarily because of lack of interest, bit for the reason that it Is not con venient. Farmers living at a distance from the county-seat and men em ployed in the woods and mountains constitute the chief shortage In coun ties outside of Multnomah. This af fects the purely agricultural and the Coast counties especially. The special conditions of the fishing Industry also place Clatsop in a class by Itself. Where the matter has been looked after by party managers, who have sent nota ries out to find and register such elect ors, the shortage is not so great. Many voters in rural precincts do not worry about their failure to register, since there will be little difficulty experi enced by them in making the proper proof at the polls, where they can eas ily find all the witnesses they require and where there is not such a conges tion of voters as is usual at a polling place In the city. The other class of citizens who neglect registering are the business men and mechanics of the larger cities, of which there is but one in Oregon. Too many are apt to let the cares and exactions of business af fairs keep them away from the polls upon all except extraordinary occa sions, such as the Presidential election of 1S9C, when the heaviest vote ever golled was cast. Men employed In hard dally toll are also apt to remain unreg istered, owing to the inconvenience sur rounding registration. It Is probable that Multnomah has a larger per cent of unregistered voters than any other county, unless it be one or two of the small ones where travel is difficult .and the population widely scattered. A few counties show large Increase over the heavy vote of 1S96, but In each case it is possible to see the special reason for it In the development of In dustries that have drawn new popula tion more rapidly than In other coun ties. The most conspicuous of these is Baker County, the mining boom hav ing added materially to the population, the additions being chiefly males and voters. Unless these special conditions are taken into consideration, any com parison of the registration with the previous vote will lead to wrong con clusions. It has been asserted that the registration figures show that the greatly Increased vote in Multnomah County in November, 1S96, over the vote of the previous June was fraudulent and that McKlnley carried the state by fraud, and this charge Is especially made by Baker City politicians. Ev erybody knows the great outpouring of voters to settle the money question was a sufficient explanation of the Increase In Baker County, which gave Bryan twenty-five per cent more votes than the combined Democratic and Populist candidates for Congress received In June. Nobody charges that this won derful Increase for Bryan In Baker County was fraudulent. Why, then, should the Increase of only seventeen per cent for McKlnley In Multnomah be charged to fraud? It will be a long time before such interest will again be created in an election as In November, 1S96, and such a large per cent of the voting population go to the polls. If, however, there was fraud In McKIn ley's seventeen per cent Increase In Multnomah or Bryan's twenty-five per cent increase in Baker, or in both, and the registry law has been effective In checking it for th future. The Orego nlan rejoices that the registration of voters, for which it has labored so long and so continuously, has been of value in purifying Oregon elections. ACROSS THE VAAU Lord Roberts has crossed the Vaal River, so that we may look for Import ant results early this week. From the Vaal River it is about fifty miles to Johannesburg, which it is probable that Lord Roberts will occupy without se rious opposition. From Johannesburg to Pretoria is about twenty-five miles. At Elandsfonteln Junction the railway from Lalngs Nek Intersects the rail way from the "Vaal River to Johannes burg and Pretoria, along which Lord Roberts' main army is advancing. The advance of Lord Roberts' army will force the Boers to evacuate Lalng's Nek and permit the advance of Gen eral Buller's army from Natal. Gen eral Methuen Is moving up from Hoop stad on Klerksdorp; General Bundle Is closing up to Lord Roberts' Tight wing, while Roberts cavalry by this time are in position to seize the Boer railway communications between Johannesburg and Potchchefstroom and between Hei delberg and Lalng's Nek. Conceding that Lord Roberts' army will occupy Johannesburg, It is report ed that the Boers will throw several thousand men into Pretoria and sus tain a slee as long-as possible, while the remainder of the Boer forces will fall back northeasterly Into the moun tains about Lyndenberg, to which Kru ger will transfer his government, and engage in guerrilla warfare. This is the plan on paper, but It Is by no means certain to be enacted, and if enacted could not long prove an effective means of resistance. At Pretoria Lord Rob erts would not only be able to concen trate his whole army, but he would be In possession of both lines of railway communication through the Orange Free State and Natal to the sea. From Durban to Pretoria via Glencoe Is 611 miles; from Durban to Pretoria via Harrismlth and Bethlehem Is a somewhat longer and slower route, as there is no railway communication be tween Bethlehem and Kroonstad, but It would be an available and valuable route if t,ie tunnel at Lalng's Nek should be injured beyond prompt re- pair, but by either route Lord Roberts would have a shorter line than his present one, for it Is 714 miles by rail from Port Elizabeth to Pretoria, and 1040 from Cape Town to Pretoria. But Lord Roberts would soon be able to break the Boer railway communica tions from Lyndenberg with Delagoa Bay, and, with these broken, the Boers would find their guerrilla warfare rath er a precarious way of getting a living. Further resistance on the part of the Boers is folly. If they surrender, Ihelr lives and property would be secure In a British crown colony, and they have friends enough among the English Lib erals who would secure the extension of local self-government to them as soon as possible. NOT A ITATURAL RIGHT. The Oregonlan has pleaded and will continue to plead that, under our form of government, suffrage has been treat ed not as an abstract natural right but as a matter of social and political ex pediency; that tho ballot Is the child of an artificial social order to be granted or withheld for such reasons as taay be sanctioned -by the will of the political powers that be. This is the present situation. Whether it will be always the situation we do not know and do not presume to predict. The Oregonlan has no concern with any question con cerning woman suffrage except as to whether.it would be expedient for the highest political and social welfare of both men and women to endow woman with the suffrage. It does not seem to The Oregonlan that it would do any good, and it does seem that it would probably do women a good deal of harm; but until the women in any ap preciable numbers or force ask for it, the suffrage seems to the average man of intelligence a purely speculative rather than a practical question. So long as the majority of women vigor ously oppose the enlargement of the suffrage, It would be absurd to endow them with It unless the majority of men believed, which they evidently do not, that this radical enlargement of the suffrage is necessary to the protec tion of the equal rights of women or would be beneficial to society. The United States Supreme Court has always held that tho Federal Con stitution makes neither man nor wom an a voter; that whether all men and all women or all men and no women or some men and some women should vote is purely a matter for each state to decide for Itself, under such limitations as it sees fit to prescribe which do not conflict with the Constitution of the United States. So some states have de cided to admit women to limited suf frage, and a few states to full suffrage. To admit women to limited suffrage or full suffrage Is merely a question of expediency. It will not be pretended that there Is no higher question of ex pediency in school or municipal or other limited suffrage than In full suffrage, but neither grant rests on concession of the natural abstract right of all men or all women to the vote. The ballot is not based on manhood as a natural right of manhood. It Is an artificial right which society has thought expedient to give generally to men and not generally to women. But this is purely an artificial standard, which society, through Its governing forces, can change tomorrow by mak ing It the artificial right of womanhood, if it deems that expedient. The whole question Is purely one of expediency; there is no natural right about it. Give women full political suffrage, and with It comes the duties and responsibilities of the ballot. If the woman merely meekly duplicates her man's ballot, the gift to her Is worthless. If she Bwells with her ballot the volume of the feminine-minded masculine vote, then she helps to make life a burden to us all by the enactment of sentimental legisla tion. But if she becomes a voter with determination really to govern as well as cast a perfunctory ballot, then to become a governing, forceful woman she must become a masculitie woman, which ultimately means a desheltered, desexed woman, a political fishwife abroad and a social kill-joy at home. This Is the drift, the logical drift, ol woman suffrage, if the vote means any thing more to white women than It has meant to the ignorant, silly black sheep upon whom we arbitrarily forced the suffrage for a presumed selfish partisan political advantage that has never been realized and has wrought nothing but Injury to the negro. Attrition with Ideas Is one thing, but attrition with practical politics, the dust and the lurk Ing devil of Its arena, are quite another thing. The fact that a few women feel as If they would like to vote, because in their judgment they could make our laws more Instinct with correct prin ciples, Is no more a reason for the en actment of full woman suffrage with Its implied political and social conse quences than the conviction of the emancipated negro that he would like the Government to present him with forty acres and a mule would be a sound reason for that extravagant en dowment. A CONDITION THAT CALLS FOR A REMEDY. There is no excuse even in greed, if an excuse were urged In its name, for the shocking Inhumanity displayed In shipping horses and other animals to Cape Nome, as detailed in the report of the Nome rush from Seattle. The prop erty interests represented by these creatures should, if humanity were deaf and blind, insure them quarters and treatment on shipboard that would give them more than a mere wretched chance for their Uvea and of being land ed In a condition of exhaustion on the Nome beach. It has been said that this feature of the Cape Nome traffic should be regulated by strict Inspection of Government officials, yet when the Government protects Its own animals, bought and shipped at heavy expense on transports, no better than It has done In many cases, it is certainly idle to expect help for these miserable brutes from that quarter. Agents of a humane society having constabulary and judicial powers might be able to effect something in the premises, but there is, for obvious reasons, no likeli hood of help from such a source. The remedy seems to be in the hands of shippers. The traffic is a profitable one, of course, or it would not be car ried on. The demand for quarters on shipboard for animals that would sub ject them to no more than the neces sary risk and discomfort that a sea voyage under the best conditions im poses upon them would be met by a proper supply If not in the madness of the first rush, at least a little later In the season, when freight volumes slacken. The man most eager to get his herd of milch cows or draught horses on the ground cannct fall to see. If he will stop long enough to consider, that it will be far better. In a financial sense, to land animals In good condi tion a few weeks later, than to land them in a state of exhaustion (if they survive the terrible hardships of the trip) by the first vessels that cast an chor In the Nome offing. The utter helplessness and terrible sufferings of these creatures, as our correspondent has it, "boxed like her ring" in stalls, unprotected from the storms and bruised by every lurch of the vessel, are pitiful and Indeed ap palling to contemplate. To say that there Is no remedy for this commercial and inhuman outrage is to declare that civilization has gone lame at an im portant point in its progress, while to admit that the evil is a preventable one and still allow it to continue is an ar raignment at the bar of humanity from which any well-ordered Individual and. Indeed, the community itself, should shrink. The report of the Maryland Geolog ical Survey for 1899 announces that the people of that state have expended over $0,000,000 in the last ten years- on their common roads; that most of the money has been wasted In continual repairing. The Survey estimates that it costs the people of Maryland $3,000,000 a year more to do their hauling over poor highways than It Would cost to convert them Into first-rate roads. The De partment of Agriculture In 1895, when It received data from over 1200 counties all over the country, found that the average cost of hauling a ton load one mile was twenty-five cents, while tho average cost in six European countries that possess Improved highways was almost exactly one-third as much. The main reason why our farmers pay three times as much per mile as European farmers pay is that they can haul on on average only one ton over poor dirt roads, while the European farmer hauls from three to four tons at a load over fine highways. The condition of most of the common roads In America 13 about that of the English roads early In this century. England had no railroads then, and her roads were so bad and toll rates so high that it was easy to enact road reform, and had it not been for the wonderful development of our railroads, the United States today would have as good highways as Eng land. The State of New York has 123,000 miles of common roads, and the important highways of Massachusetts have a mileage of 20,500 miles, and the people of both of these states are be ginning to understand that road im provement is necessary to reduce the cost of hauling, to make roads fit for pleasure-driving and to save the enor mous amount of money now wasted on bad roads. This, from the Columbia qpunty News, illustrates the style of campaign the Mitchell-McBrlde machine Is wag ing: Republican friends of 8enator McBride: A vote for Cornelius wilt be a vote against Mc Bride, who would do your cause more harm than could a Democrat, because Cornelius, if elected, would have a voice In the Republican nominating caucus. Remember that In Oregon the man receiving the nomination In his cau cus, receives his full party vote la the Legis lature. Vote for Sweek. The News professes to be a Demo cratic Journal; and it falls in readily with the bushwhacking tactics of Co lumbia County's favorite son. But how about the alternative it offers? Eas Judge Sweek promised to vote for Mc Bride? While considered a foreign nation, Cuba has a government provided by another power, and no extradition treaty between It and that power ex ists. On this ground Neely's lawyers are fighting his extradition, and for this reason the Administration is trying to secure an extradition law from Congress than can be made to apply to his case. It Is reported that, even If this law Is enacted, it will be opposed by Neely's lawyers as ex nost facto legislation; that they will con tend that Congress cannot extend our extradition laws to a foreign country with which the United States has no extradition treaty. The campaign of malignant vilifica tion that the opponents of Sheriff Fra sler have descended to stamps their cause as one hopelessly lacking In merit of its own. The objections to this effi cient officer and generous-hearted man consist of street rumors, almost too numerous to be run down, but in every case demonstrable as manufactured of whole cloth without any foundation in fact. Is a man to be traduced in this manner and his traducers rewarded with victoYy? While Mr. Smith is canvassing the Second District and explaining the beauties of 16 lo L Mr. .Moody Is quietly at work in Washington attending to his public duties, which have been so well performed' that he helped to make 16 to 1 impossible for some time to come. He should be returned to help keep it impossible. Mr. J. J. Corbett thinks it wouldn't take him long in Congress to learn the rules of the game. Besides, he is equipped with .large natural gifts of oratory. It is to be fought all over again in Kentucky this Fall. Life in the hair trigger state is one nerve-tingling round of excitement and gayety. Being assured by the Eastern press that all eyes are on Oregon for the coming campaign, it behooves the state to hustle for healthy results. A Vice-Presidential trust' Is due. A ery attractive issue of capital stock might be made out of reports of the President's bad health. Summer refuses to appear, in spite of the persistent urging of the weather forecaster. The Inheritance Tat. Boston Herald. The New Tork Sun directs attention to the fact that the decision announced vy the United States Supreme Court last week, sustaining the validity of the Fed eral Inheritance tax law, was- not so em phatically In favor of the Government as the dispatches have stated. It appears that. In assessing legacies taxable under this law, tho collectors had insisted that the rate of taxation nas to be determined not by the amount of the legacy, but by the amount of the entire estate out of which It came, there being a progressive Increase in the rate, the larger the estate. This method of assessment is adjudged to be erroneous. The effect of this ruling Is thus Illustrated by the counsel who represented the appellants In the prin clpal case: "For example, if a stranger gets less than a legacy of $30,000 out oi an estate exceeding $1,000,000. Instead of being compelled to pay 13 per cent, aa I measured by the amount cf the estate, he is compelled to pay but 74 per cent The decree also holds that all legacies of $10,000 or less are exempt from the tax. whereas, the construction of the Govern ment officers was that no legacy was ex empt when the estate exceeded 510,000." This relieves large numbers of legatees whose legacies have been charged with the tax. THE VOICE OF OREGON. Will It Be for Running- Avrar From Larger Trade Wits Asia? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. On June 4, one week trom next Monday, Oregon wfll elect a Legislature, two Con gressmen, a Supreme Judge and a Food Commissioner. Registration closed last week, and Indicates the largest vote In the history of the state. The contest is substantially along the old free-silver lines. There is a fusion of the Demo crats, Populists and Silver Republicans. Oregon was closely divided in the election of 1S9G, the Republicans winning by a plurality of about 2000, McKlnley receiv ing 48,779, and Bryan, 46,662. But In tlfb stato election of 1S9S the Republican gains over the fUElonlsts were' heavy. A Re publican Governor was elected by a plu rality of 10,551, and two Republican Con gressmen by pluralities of 2037 and 6657. Returns from Oregon this year will be closely scanned by the political world. The Rhode Island election early in April snowed little change from the figures of last year, and tho state is so strongly Republican that It is not much of an in dex to Important changes in the drift of opinion. Oregon is larger and more de batable, and its verdict, on account of new issues involved, will be of moro than ordinary Interest. Expansion is one of tho subjects to be passed upon in Oregon. The Portland Ore gonlan wonders If the state Is ready to announce to the world that it "wants no more markets for flour in China, lumber m Japan or blankets in Russia; that Ore gon wants no more ships to enter th Columbia River, no more warships built at Portland, no more carges of silk, tea and rice unloaded at her docks, and shipped East by her railroads; that Ore gon wants no more population here, no more manufactures, no more pay-rolls, no more trade." Oregon will hardly decide In favor of running away from a larger commerce with the awakening Orient, Tho election takes place more than a month ahead of tho meeting of the National Dem ocratic Convention, and as the fuslonlsts in tho state have again raised the banner of free silver and Bryan, the result will assist the Democratic managers to maka a reckoning for a party In distress. President Stcyn. Tho Cornhlll. President Steyn himself Is a singularly frank, unassuming, straightforward man, a member of one of the English Inns ot Court, and married to a wife of half Scotch descent. He had an exceedingly cordial feeling toward Individual English men, although he made no concealment of his entire distrust ot Great Britain as a government The same distrust. Indeed, existed among tha Dutch all over South Africa. The war, in fact, has been brewing for years, and Is due to faults on both sides to Boer suspicion, unfriendliness and dis trust, and to our own want of political sympathy and of comprehension of the Boer character. When two strong, proud races clash, war must sooner or later be the result, unless the greatest tact and forbearance bo exercised; only it would have been better for our future relations with the Dutch, as well as more consistent with truth, if we could have based our quarrel avowedly upon race antagonism instead of being misled into accusing the Boers of all sorts of barbarities and in iquities of which they have assuredly not been guilty. Anthony Trollope's opinion of them in 1S78 is worth quoting, for it is Just as true now as it was then. "It has been imagined by some people I must acknowledce to have received such an impression myself that the Boer was a European, who had retrograded from civilization and had be come savage, barbarous, and unkindly. There can be no greater mistake. The courtesies of llfo are as dear to him as to any European. The circumstances of his secluded life have made him unprogress ive. It may, however, be that the samo circumstances have maintained with him that hospitality for strangers, and easy, unobtrusive familiarity of manners, which the contrasts and rapidity of modernMIfe have banished from us in Europe. The Dutch Boer, with all his roughness, Is a gentleman from his head to his heels." ("South Africa," volume II, page 329.) The Greenback Cat Conies Back. Milwaukee Wisconsin. In an article on the operations of tho new financial law, the current issue of the Bankers Magazine sets forth a salient feature of the practical working of the law as follows: Somewhat emphatic statements have been made as to tho effect of the bill In putting a stop to the "endless chain." But during the first 30 days the redemption of greenbacks and National Treasury notes In gold amounted to $1,229,096. and the exchanges of these redeemed for gold from tho current funds of the Treas ury reached precisely the same amount, so that notwithstanding the notes have been paid, they have gone Into general circulation again under the law; and it is not thought that the Secretary has power to prevent this, except to the extent of $50,000,000. which he is author ized to hold unexchanged in the redemption fund. The language of the bill, permitting the Secretary in his discretion to use the green backs when once redeemed, does not include the payment of current expenses of the Gov ernment at all times, except when the revenues are deficient; so that In this measure, as well as In both the House and the Senate bill which preceded It, .the advocate of sound money does not find that which he has been striving for the stoppage of the "endless chain," and It Is not probable that this object can be accom plished, except by a retirement of tho green backs, or their practical transfer Into a gold certificate. In accordance with the method sug gested by President McKlnley and others. There Is so much left discretionary with the Secretary of the Treasury under this law that good Judgment would seem to suggest that It would be folly to place In this office any one not Imbued with a sincere desire to uphold the gold standard, which the bill provides for. There are two reflections which this will suggest to every practical mind. One Is that laws m practical operation rarely accompllsh exactly what was predicted of them when they were in the form of bills. The other Is that the time has not come when William Jennings Bryan or any other man unsound on the cur rency question can be safely elevated to the Presidency by the people of tha United States. Cleveland In History. Brooklyn Eagle. Grover Cleveland continues to bo en titled to congratulation on the enemies he has made and kept. The recent re currence to his name by politicians and the press has been a tribute to his abid ing strength, not only in tho appreciation of him as a man of resolution and of foresight, who put the state before party, and right before expediency, but also in the resentment aroused by that recurrence among those who find vocation and a sort of consplculty, not to say a unique happi ness, in hating him. The ex-President confers a kind of distinction on such as are rebuked and stung by his incarnation of courage, and of conscience In politics. That distinction will last as loag as they live, but it is not an enviable one. It Is in the nature of a deformity, just as their hatred of Mr. Cleveland Is in the nature of an Infirmity. He is not to be blamed for It, They are to be pitied. But their deaths will release them from bondage to their hate. They cannot be queath It, Neither Washington's nor Lincoln's detractors were able to devise their lowering estimates of them 'to on coming time. Malignity perishes In the graves of Its victims. And they are It3 victims who entertain it. not they at whom it is aimed, with not enough power behind it to reach the mark. BRIGHT THINGS FROM EXCHANGES The Sqbbt of the CnlcaeTra Heroes. S. E. Klser in Chicago Times-Herald. Let me sing a, sons for the hero Who fell unnamed, unknown The common soldier, lying Beneath no costly stone "Who fought where the foe was strongest And. after the day was done. Was merely among 'the missing Nine hundred and sixty-one." Let me sing a song for the hero "Who knelt at the rail to pray While the boats with the weeping women And children were rowed away Who, being a man and gifted With the strength God gives to men. Was one of the "hundred sailors" Who will ne'er tread decks again. Let me sing a song, for the hero Who 'weary, wasted, wan With disease and the world against him Tolled hopefully, bravely on Who, robbed of earth's choicest pleasures Could smile as he wrought away. And lies with unnamed millions Awaiting the Judgment day. Let me sing the song of the heroes Who died unknown, unnamed. And my song shall be ot the bravest That Death and the grave e'er claimed! And my song shall live the longest Of all the songs e'er sung. And still be the song of heroes When the last sad knell Is rung! William More Likely Than William J. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Editor Wisconsin: When christening your boy, give him but a single Christian name If you want blra to be elected Pres ident of the United States. Look at the list ot Presidents: George Washington. John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. James Madison. James Monroe. Andrew Jackson. Martin Van Burcn. John Tyler. Zachary Taylor. Millard Fillmore. Franklin Pierce. James Buchanan. Abraham Lincoln. Andrew Johnson. Grover Cleveland. Benjamin Harrison. William McKlnley. John Qulncy Adams. Wm. Henry Harrison. James Knox Polk. Ulysses S. Grant. Rutherford B. Hayes. James A. Garfield. Chester A. Arthur. Chances of single names over plural are as 17 to 7, if we can Judge by the past. INVESTIGATOR. Grover Cleveland's full name was Ste phen Grover Cleveland; but perhaps the correspondent Is Justified in classing him in the first column, as he dropped the .Ste phen before he became President. Depew'sj Poetry. "Josh Wink," In Baltimore American. Our Chauncey took bis pen In hand and scrib bled off some verse. And every poet in the land said: "I could do no worse." For Chauncey wrote by railway rules, and when a rhyme he'd lack. He'd take a lot of section tools and lay another track. He spiked four lines In manner neat no trou bles could oppose Our Chauncey, for, when shy on feet, he made It up on toes. His language always touched the spot; the rhythm might be loose But to his flying train of tbougbt he coupled a caboose. Ho wrote the verso, he said, for fun not for the sake of rhyme. And when he pulled In on his run he was on schedule time. Hero's hoping that no one will throw tho lever of the switch. Else Chauncey's train of thought may go a-smashlng In tho ditch. He'll stop at the Pierian spring and quaff Us nectar mild. Then "go ahead," his bell will ring; his orders bo "run wild." And when he writes a thrilling ode, or at a sonnet cracks. The signals up and down the road will all read: "Clear the tracks." But It Didn't Thl Time. New York Evening Sun. The most sensational episode of the Gen eral Conference of the Methodist Church now in session in Chicago took place on Saturday, when Dr. Neely made a ratnllng speech that seemed to carry the delegates off their feet in the course of the de bates as to whether the title "missionary bishop" should be retained. He objected to those who showed a tendency to place tho bishops "on a higher pedestal," and remarked further: "I believe every bishop here Is subject to the command of the conference when in session. I may never have another opportunity to express my self on this subject, and I do so now. It is not a third order. A bishop who does not treat his brethren as brethren Is an autocrat. It sometimes Is necessary to remove a man, and the General Confer ence has absolute power to do so for mal feasance, unfeasance or no feas ance at all." The speech of the Phlladelphlan resulted tn some of those manifestations which mean stam pede at a political convention. Some even went so far as to say that the ad dress had made the speaker a foremost candidate for the place with regard to which he had expressed such strong and uncompromising opinions. In Browning's "Asolando" the story Is told of a certain cardinal who had a great reputation for humility. His father had been a humble fisherman. The great ecclesiastic, when he reached the purple, did not become proud, but Straightway In his palace-hall, where coin- raonly Is set Some coat-of-arms, some portraiture ancestral, lo, we met His mean estate's reminder in his fisher fa ther's net." When the conclave met for the election of a new pope," It was suggested that this was the very man for the place. Said one: "The humble, holy heart that holds of new born pride no spice. He's Just the saint to choose for pope!" Each adds, " 'Tls my advice." So he was elected, and when the members of the conclave flocked to offer their con gratulations they were surprised to find that the net had disappeared. The old chronicler who tells the story continues: Bach ejed his fellow, one and all kept silence. I cried "Pish! I'll make me spokesman for the rest, express the common wish. Why, father, is the net removed?" "Son, It hath caught the fish." Ecclesiastical history, like secular his tory, has a way of repeating Itself. Anstln'H Latest and Worst. Chicago Journal (Mr. F. P. ("Dooley") Dunne's paper). We have seen only three of the seven stanzas of Alfred Austin's metrical effort to commemorate the relief of Mafeklng. The other four, may be worse. Still, It hardly seems possible. It is the fashion to ridicule the present English laureate. To the weary par agrapher a fresh bunch of verse by Austin Is an Inspiration to industry. Unfortu nately It accomplishes nothln?. Austin keeps on writing. His very latest is an imitation of Ten nyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade." Why did he select this model? Because his first name, like Tennyson's, Is Alfred. Sad to sav however, no such close resem blance exists between the two poems. Some of the lines of the Mafeklng stuff are so bad as to defy criticism. "The7 with resistless yell stormed the Intrcnch ment," There's a heroic phrase for you "resistless yell." One can almost hear the Impact of the yell upon the intrench ment. And that breathless moment that preceded the storm! "Battalion fix yells! Fire!" Besides, "yell" rhymes with "shell," and "fell," and well, several other words. It Is very evident that the poem was written in a hurry. It reads as If it had been dashed off while Austin was waiting for his change In a tram car. If he had spent five minutes In revision he would have tinkered the line, "Shall voice and verse engage" Into "voice and pen," or almost anything other than "voice and verse." NOTE AND COMMENT. ' I Here It is almost Summer and not even Spring. Mr. Storey, of Council 17, is not. can-v dldate for Vice-President Bryan counts that day lost when ha doesn't get a fresh nomination. The Vice-Presidential situation Is not such that McKlnley Is likely to have to call for volunteers. Chicago thinks she has 2,000,000 people. She will probably think differently whea she comes to her census. Ten thousand people, and more, are la the first rush to Nome. Ten thousand will Nome more next Fall. Don't worry, Corbett, you'll get' to the House of Representatives as soon as Bryan gets to the Whlto House. James J. Corbett has come definitely and finally to the conclusion that the. J tongue is mightier than the fist. With Alfred Austin and W. J. Bryan both silent, the Anglo-American alliance can bo celebrated with great felicity. When tho New York Ice trust wants to increase Its output, all It has to do Is to put some of Its stock In cold stor age. Never mind about the Kansas City hotel-keepers. They'll all go to the Paris exposition and .get It taken away from them. A map who has $$5,000 worth of dla- monda has married a New York chorus girl. When she has them stolen for an "ad," he'll wish he hadn't. "I am thinking sadly of the passed," re marked the saloon keeper, as he regarded the "queer" dollar which the transient customer had worked on him. The latest thing "In" men's hats Is a reservoir placed in the top of the crown , containing a cure for dandruff. The beauty of this Invention is that it may be utilized for other purposes, and a man who has no hair, and consequently no dandruff, may have .the reservoir loaded with some Infallible hair restorer, or, if he has weakness of intellect, he can store the reservoir with some sort of fertilizer which will nourish and irrigate his brain. In fact, there Is no end to the uses to which this reservoir can be put. It Is said that the air inside one's hat becomes very foul after he has worn It for somo time, and In such cases it would be a good plan to have the reservoir charged with some disinfectant, say chloride of lime, or something of that sort. In prohibition states, by making the hat tall enough, a reservoir might be put In large enough to contain oeveral drinks, and by making the reservoir In the form of a speaking trumpet It would prove useful to the large class of people who talk through their hats. There Is a great future for the reservoir hat, and a fortune ahead for the man who Invented It. Baltimore has Imported a progresslvi $4000-a-year educator from Denver, and the grave and reverend seniors of that city are wildly agitated about It. What they are afraid of Is that the new man wilL allow boys and girls to be educated In the same building, a contingency so terrible that they cannot contemplate it without a shudder. They point out In frantic communications to the newspapers that such a course would utterly destroy the morals of the town and "pave tha way for scandalously loose ideas of mar riage and divorce." Just what adolescent school children have to do with Ideas of marriage and divorce Is not clear to any one outside of Baltimore, as In ordinary cities of the temperate zone marriages are not contracted nor divorces applied for while the parties of the first part are at the tender age of 15 or 16. It Is even Intimated that the high-priced Intruder may sprinkle a few colored children among the white pupils, but th!s la a subject too awful for the correspondents to discuss. Just what will be the outcome of the "In famy" cannot be foreseen, but as yet the school board Is hanging on to the new man and braving as best It can the wither ing fire of abuse which Is directed at It. When woman gets the right to vote, along with other rights. This world v ill be one blissful dream of Joyous days and nights. She'll get the right to grab a strap inside this trolley car. While man may calmly keep his seat, and smoke a good cigar. She'll get the right to stumble home at 3:15 A. M.. And gain an entrance to the house by soma smooth stratagem. She'll get the right to go to shows, and "rub ber" at the tights; She'll learn a thing or two or three when once she get3 her rights. When woman's granted equal rights, she'll never dare demur, When men she meets along the street don't lift their hats to her. She'll have to learn to keep In check her stem reproving glare. If, sitting near them In a car, she overhears them swear. She'll have to squander less on hats, and hoard her hard-earned pelf. For when she wants to eat ice cream, she'll pay for It herself. . She'll have to sacrifice a lot of feminine de lights. But that, of course, she'll gladly do. If she can get her rights. When woman gets the rights she wants she'll find that "ladles first," An adage which was good as law, will be at onco reversed; And In a theater or store, some loafing, burly lout. Will coolly step in front of her, and roughly crowd her out. Where'er she goes she'll have to fight, and make, and pay her way. As fair exchange for giving up, "love, honor and obey." We'll see some doings in this town, some mighty funny sights. And some pathetic ones, perhaps, when woman gets her rights. CURIOUS PARAGRAPHS. The average distance traveled by British ett-gine-drlvers Is 30,000 to 50,000 miles every year. There are about 20,000 drivers in the United Kingdom. Nelson was 39 when he won the victory ot the Nile. Wellington was only 40 when he opened the Peninsular War. Cromwell was 48 when he won at Naseby. , Tho timber supply of Georgia has been esti mated by lumbermen of that state as sufficient to last jonly nine years at the present rate of sawing. 2,600.000 feet daily. There are eight Inches more rainfall annually on the south shore of Lake Superior than on the north shore, and three Inches more In tha cases of Erie and Ontario. Horses, giraffes and ostriches have the largest eyes of all terrestrial animals, but among ma rine animals, there are cephalopods or ink fishes, which have eyes as large as a plate. There Is really no home life In Corea. because women are not recognized in the home. If a man meets his wife on the street he does not notice her. while she, if she sees him In time, slips out of sight If she can. The Samoan Islands are full of. snakes, but they are said to be harmless. In certain dis tricts natives handle them as carelessly as they would puppy dogs. The native women use rep tiles as ornaments at dancing festivals. A cornstalk recently grown on a farm near Owensboro. Ky., Is 17 feet 4 Inches long, and has 27 Joints. Tro feet and six Inches or the stalk have, oeen cut off, the stalk twlsg originally 10 f t 10 Inches In length. J ,ilL