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PORTLARD, SATURDAY", JUNE 30 It is doubtful whether the census of 'the present year will show much In crease of the rural population "of the ,'tjnlted States. In many of the older 'states some reduction of the rural pop ulation may, indeed, be expected. But ;the urban population in each will show increase; and It is probable that four t fifths of the entire gain of the past ten years will be found in the towns and cities. 4This Is a consequence of the vast di "verslflcation of manufacturing lndus 'try, and at the same time a cause of jit Means are found of gaining llvell 'hood through employment in industries naturally concentrating in towns and (cities; and the immense extent and di versity of this employment, In circles ever widening, is the secret of that growth of our urban population which no one in former times could have fore seen. "We have now three cities of over a million people, and three or four more that approach three-quarters of a mil lion each. No other nation presents such a record. England has but tme city of over one million. Russia possi bly has two. France, Germany and Austria have but one each. China, in deed, may have three or four, but in China the multitude counts for little, and such a population is scarcely worth enumeration. Toklo, Japan, may have one million. Most of our smaller cities will show growth proportional with the larger ones; some of them even greater. Of secondary cities, Boston and Plttc'aurg will not appear In the census asj'arge as they are in fact, for their great sub urbs and environs are really PvJt-of lemselvcr, Boston, were its bound aries extended, as those of many other cities have been, would approach 4the .million mark. Besides Pittsburg, ,1-ur greAt towns, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo and San Francisco, will show yearly 400,000 each, and Detroit, "Wash ington and Milwaukee will stand near the 200,000 line. New Orleans. Jersey City, Kansas City, Louisville, Newark and Minneapolis may each exceed 200, 000; and of cities of 100,000, the list will be long. In 1S90 there were In the United States 124 cities having a popu lation exceeding 25,000 each, and 840 cities and towns having a population exceeding 4000 each. The number of these last will now exceed 1000. "We had twenty-eight cities contain ing 100,000 inhabitants or more each in 1890, and we shall find this year at least ten more. In 1S90, 29 per cent of our population lived in cities of 8000 or snore, against 4 per cent at the begin ning of the century, and 12 per cent at the middle of it. "We shall now find 35 per cent, perhaps more. "Urban popu lation is now growing rapidly in sev eral of our Southern States. Hereto fore, four-fifths of it has been found in the North and so rapid is the growth of Northern cities that this proportion may still be found to continue. Except in the newer states, no great Increase of our rural population Is henceforth to be expected. Indeed, the tendency in such states as Ohio, Indi ana and Illinois is rather toward Its reduction. In many places the farms are becoming larger. Small holders are Belling out their lands, and the towns and cities, with their diversified indus tries, swallow up the population. This will go on, till manufacturing indus try shall be pushed to its limit, which no one now can foretell. It might easily fall out that the Dem ocrats will gain the next House of Rep resentatives, even "if they lose the Pres idency. The Republican majority is now thirteen. In the previous Con gress It was fifty-five. KIghteen of the thirty-four New Tork Represent atives are Democrats, although the total Republican majority In the state for Congressmen was in 1S9S something like 13,000. If that state goes Demo cratic this Fall, or if McKlnley car ries It by only a small majority either of which Is likely the chances of losing several more Republicans are excellent. Thei e are various other close districts throughout the "United States that the Republicans now hold, and may at any time be deprived of. If the country goes Republican on the general issue, the tendency will be to help win the House, and this is the one favorable feature of the situation. A divided Congress would not disturb the gold standard, under a Republican Ad ministration; but It would make trou ble over the legislation proposed for our dependencies, and in all the many questions growing out of expansion. On the other hand, there would be no more Porto Rican tariff bills, nor ship sub sidy bills. Argentine wheat shipments for the current week have again exceeded J00,000 bushels. In the face of these ng- fresLand despite the persistent efforts of 4owoperators In Chicago, the price n. gain of nearly 2 cents yes- Divested of all speculative and tnr- -th bottom, with prices below the normal figure. Meanwhile all other commodi ties have moved upward, and it Is in a measure an unnatural condition of trade for this great cereal to loiter be hind the other staples which have scored such heavy advances. The ad vance of a week ago was too rapid, and the reaction early this week was the natural relapse following acute and un healthy excitement; but It Is not at all improbable that the inherent strength of the position of the cereal will again be asserted and a steady market at good prices result. PERVERSION OP THE TRUTH. The indictment of the Army canteen, and the denunciation of the Adminis tration for Its continuance, by the Pro hibition National platform, is not only instinct with gross Ignorance, but de liberate 'perversion of the truth and suppression of the full facts. The fram ers of the platform either know noth ing of the purpose or character of the canteen, or choose to misrepresent Its functions and its results. The letters submitted to Congress by Secretary Root in defense of the can teen comprised the testimony of such officers as General Miles, General Mer rltt. General Brooke, the three senior officers of the Army, and more than 1000 other officers, mostly company com manders of the Army and non-commissioned officers. The Adjutant-General of the Army pointed out clearly the Immediate effect of closing the canteen, which was originally established and has since been maintained as a tem perance institution. Before Its estab lishment every garrison post had in its proximity the lowest groggerles, dance halls and houses of 111 repute. Practi cal experience has shown the renewal of their existence would be the certain result of closing the canteen. The ene mies of the canteen in their fanaticism are really acting In partnership with the aggressive saloon interests. Against the theories of a small clump of pro hibition cranks is opposed the opinions of the vast majority of the commis sioned and non-commissioned officers of the Army, and the opinions of their wives. In the letters submitted to Congress by the "War Department, 908 officers and non-commissioned officers out of 1000 say that the canteen has improved the discipline of the Army; 739 that it has decreased desertions; 825 that It has lessened the number of trials by courts martial for petty offenses; 906 that it has lessened drunkenness; and 908 that the selling of beer at the posts pre vents men from going outside to pro cure whisky and other strong intoxi cants. Captain E. L. Munson, Assist ant Surgeon of the Army, reports that the percentage of cases of hospital treatment tor alcoholism and Its direct results, "which for the ten years pre ceding the introduction of the canteen system averaged C4.2S per thousand, de creased during the ten years following the Introduction of the canteen to 44, 46. 44. 44, 41, 37, 34, 32, 31, 30; that cases of delirium tremens have been reduced 31.3 per cent; that the cases of Insan ity due to intoxicants have been re duced to 31.7 per cent." The canteen Is separate u:om the other features of the post exchange, and is not open on Sun days. Soldiers are not allowed to take beer to their quarters, or any other part of the post The practice of "treat ing" is forbidden. Soldiers are not em ployed as "bartenders." Gambling Is forbidden. The exchange is conducted by tVe t diers own money, and is a co-operative institution, conducive to good order and the morale of the men. It is a well-regulated club for the sol diers, which does not cost the Govern ment a single cent which protects men from drunkenness and licentiousness, increases the efficiency of the Army and adds to the contentment of a sol dier's life. To abolish the canteen would be a blow to sobriety and de cency in the Army. The New York Evening Post a very able and implacable opponent of Presi dent McKlnley, defends him from criti cism in the matter of the Army can teen, saying that he properly asked his Attorney-General to construe the law, and that he had no other alternative but to accept his construction or get a new Attorney-General. IAFIUX OF JAPANESE. It is said that the Japanese Govern ment regards with high disfavor the enormous emigration from that country to the United States, and is taking rigorous measures to restrict Its vol ume. "Whatever may be the attitude and action of Japan, it is certain that many people In this country regard so great an Influx of non-assimilative population as undesirable, and think it is time to place the little brown men on the same footing as the Chinese. No bar exists here today against the Jap anese except the alien contract law and the usual quarantine regulations, and their rigid enforcement has done little to stem the tide. Japan Itself some years ago enacted a law designed to discourage emigration by requiring that each subject secure a passport, which would be granted only on con dition that he provide two sureties "that the applicant will not become a public charge or fall Into distress for three years." The result was the or ganization of twelve companies to pro vide sureties and transportation. The companies had their agents all through Japan. No Individual could secure a passport except after months of effort But the companies were able to do It in a few days. The bars were thus let down, emigration enormously stimu lated, and the Japanese population In the United States and Canada Increased by thousands each month. In April last more than 6000 Asiatics, a lanre part being from Japan, landed at Vic toria alone. It is officially estimated that 90 per cent of the Japanese who go to Canada eventually reach the United States. A considerable part of the Chi nese also evade the exclusion law and come in. British Columbia has no pro hibition again any alien but the bur den of Chinese Immigration has been so heavy that the authorities have im posed an onerous poll tax, and other wise sought to reduce the coolie popu lation. They have in some measure succeeded, at the expense of the United States. One transcontinental railway com pany, it is said, has been a most active promoter of Japanese immigration. It has replaced Its white section hands -with brown laborers and so Indeed have other rallrci Jhe Japanese are industrious, ifnl, tractable and efficient targe railroads seerrrv. oaj) les valuable foi ln.ple. the Grei Northc arrange! sha, thm traffic in Japanese laborers might be made profitable to b6th the railroad and steamship companies. It is not clear how any effective rem edy can be provided to prevent the ln pouring of Japanese without the aid of Japan or without violation of the treaty of 1894. which gives the people of that country free Ingress Into America. It is probable that Japan might consent to modification of the treaty, in view of its well-known desire to keep Japan for the Japanese, and the Japanese in Japan. Or It may, as reported, take In dependent action that would be effica cious. PROSPERITY NOT A MYTH. The Democratic National platform will be promulgated at Kansas City next week, with the Old threadbare screech for 16 to 1 and an expression condemnatory of what Bryan terms sacrificing the blood of the country to train commercial supremacy. This much for the leading issues, money and expansion. If Colonel Bryan's speeches in the Northwest last Spring are reflected In the platform, there will most likely be a declaration that the prosperity of the country Is not genu ine, and that the people cannot be truly prosperous unless their pockets are filled with silver dollars. Bryan's panacea for our economic Ills In 1896 was silver. Accept 16 to 1 and the United States will have all the money it needs. Accept the gold standard and there will be further com mercial contraction, for there is not gold enough In the world to warrant making it the unit of value. The coun try went for gold, and let us see what has been the result In these Pacific States: On December 17, 1896, six weeks after Bryan had been defeated, individual deposits In the National banks of Ore gon, "Washington and Idaho were $17, 294,269 CO, a decrease of over $8,000,000 since December, 1892. This was the period when money was still in hiding. having been driven to cover by the fear of Bryantte success. With the return of confidence, our deposits rapidly ac cumulated, and on April 26, 1900, the date of the last report to the Controller of the Currency, they amounted In Oregon, "Washington and Idaho to $34, 897,104 56. This total has been exceeded but once since National banking waB begun in the Northwest December 2, 1899 when the deposits were $33,243, 374 19. Six weeks after Bryan's de feat In 1896, our loans and discounts were $14,410,762 51; April 26, 1900, they were $20,438,943 84. Since the overthrow of Bryanlsm nearly four years ago, the Individual deposits of the National banks of Ore gon, Washington and Idaho have in creased over $17,500,000, and the loans and discounts over $6,000,000. Between December 17, 1896. and April 26, 1900, the Individual deposits of the National banks of all the Pacific Coast States and territories Oregon, "Washington, California, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Ari zona and Alaska have Increased from $37,888,660 87 to $75.269,6S3 76. and loans and discounts from $34,958,478 11 to $55,184,733 44. Here we have abundance of money and enlarged use of it In business. Is this prosperity or Is it a myth? Are we dreaming when the money we require is passed to us by the banker, Instead of being told, as we were in 1896, that Bryanlsm had ren dered the financial world panicky and made loans hazardous? We of the Pacific States were the first to be affected by the financial crisis of the early '90s, and the last to feel the new prosperity. Between the "crime of 1873," the silver coinage clause of 1890 and the visitation of Bryanlsm, we have had enough disaster to last us until well Into the twentieth century. The gold standard, promised In 1896, and enacted into law, has lifted us out of the depression Into which the silver heresy had cast us, and established us upon a firm basis. Our financial posi tion, so sensitive to flurries ten years ago, Is now so strong that, though the Boer war caused stringency In England, Canada and parts of America, we were not affected one Jot or tittle. Not dollar was withdrawn from the banks nor a loan called in to meet demands from the East or from abroad. All over the Pacific Coast the stock of money Is large, and It Is finding Its way as rapidly as conditions permit Into new enterprises, or Is being used to enlarge old ones. In Oregon we see It going Into mines, creameries, public and pri vate improvements, manufactures and business. In Eastern Oregon money will be available, If there Is no dis turbance of conditions, for railroad ex tension and irrigation works that will develop a semi-arid region capable of sustaining a population of 1,000,000 and make it tributary to Portland. Every where the people are prosperous and contented, and enjoying the best times they have ever known. They don't want 16 to 1. They don't want Bryan, nor his crown of thorns, nor his cross of gold. They do not want the Nation bound so that It cannot participate in the trade to be opened up In the Orient They don't want the Chicago platform, nor any edition of It And they don't want the present Democratic party. The Prohibition party also "views with alarm" the demoralising personal habits of the President It has mads the shocking discovery that he Is a wlne-blbber and a wine-server. There is pretty good Scriptural authority for wine-drinking, aii it Is quite likely that the President deems himself Jus tified in taking 'it for his stomach's sake, Just as his amiable critics re fuse to take it for their consciences' sake. There ae people in this world who are happiest when they are most unhappy, and the Prohibitionists are among themcBut they will never be wholly satisfied until they make every body else unhappy. If this Inquisition into the manners and customs of a Pres ident Is carried to Its logical result we may sown find the Prohibition party dragging Into the campaign the un christian f fact that he smokes, or chews tobacco, or falls to say his prayers, or goes to the theater, or plays a frienoly game of eucher, or drives fast hoies. T2iecrease of more than 30 per cent in tl?e number of convicts in the Ore gon Penitentiary speaks volumes to the credit of the state. In the boom daw about 1890 the State Prison and t$jf County Jails were crowded with ofJinders against society. Hard times 2I not increase crime, but haa a con- ary effect and the new prosperity jat has come to the country does not facourage adventurers and the criminal classey. Oregon has advanced through ontier and boom stages of devl- Int and has become a settled rly community. IndtiStry hs il speculation, and the thrive upon unstable social conditions has been greatly restricted. However the theories of sociologists as to the relation of crime to hard times may be disturbed, the fact remains that crime in Oregon was at high tide when every thing was "on the boom," and that the readjustment of the panic and the suc ceeding years of self-reliant Industry and frugality have worked a whole some transformation In the social at mosphere, as well as business condi tlonsin the state. The speedy voyage of "the Geo. "W. Elder to Cape Nome and return shows that Portland's facilities for handling Alaska traffic are not inferior to the advantages of any other point The Elder sailed May 26; she arrives back June 29, an interval of 34 days. The difficulties of navigation in Behrlng Sea were met with Judgment and prudence; her cargo was discharged with excep tional dispatch; no accident of any kind marred the voyage; everything went well, and all were satisfied. It is cred itable alike to the steamship company and to this business community that the first stage of this new and important transportation enterprise has been suc cessfully passed. Portland can guaran tee safety, dispatch, convenience and comfort to passengers for Nome; but it cannot assure them fortunes when they get there. Conditions are not roseate. A vast throng of people is there. They will for the present find employment i they want it, at good wages; but "as the expense of living Is very high, not many can save a great deal. After the first activity in building, and the artificial boom In mining and real estate values, prices will fall. The majority will have in some way to do for themselves, or come back. Many will return; many will stay; a few will get rich. The Vice-Presidential boom of Jim Ham Lewis has been blazing Its crim son trail through Montana, and the delegation from that state will Join the happy throng of persons from the far "West, whose duty and pleasure H will be to support the modest ambitions of the "Washington statesman at Kansas City. The Anaconda Standard says liewls Is a "good man for the place," and the Standard has quite a reputa tion for Its ability to pick out good men In a state where good men get to the front rapidly. Colonel iewls him self was last heard from at Butte, where he is quoted as giving a some what discouraging interview as to his chances, paying he "did not think there was likelihood of the nomination com ing West" The statesman's well known diffidence and conspicuous habit of self-depreciation are doubtless re sponsible for this premature surren der. Let him cheer up. His chances are Just as good as they ever were. The picture of John G. Woolley, Pro hibition candidate for President, rep resents a rather consumptive-looking young man In a deeply meditative attitude. There Is nothing suggestive of the leader or the statesman in hl3 face or pose certainly nothing of the ruler. He Is doubtless, however, an Ideal man to lead an ideal movement to defeat, and since the Prohibition contingent Is well satisfied with his nomination, other people should be. He Is a. man of exemplary character and upright life, and his tilt at politics in leading a forlorn hope in a Presi dential campaign will leave him neither the worse nor the better. The percentage of desertions, which for many years prior to the introduc tion of the Army canteen averaged from 10 to 11 per cent has since Its establishment decreased to 7.7, 5.7, 6.3, 3.6, 5.3, 3.4, 2.9; while the average num ber of trials and convictions for drunkenness and conditions originating therefrom for the six yeare preceding the canteen, which was 372.5, decreased during the following six years to 160.6. Delegate Nlckell says many Demo crats favor Mr. Towne for the Vice Presidency because he is the choice of the Populists and Silver Republicans. There are Democrats and Democrats. Over In Washington some Democrats favor Rogers for Governor because he Is not the choice of the Populists and Sliver Republicans. The proceedings of the Prohibition convention weie marked by great en thusiasm; so at Philadelphia; and so, no doubt at Kansas City. No political party In this country is disposed to deny the right of free and unlimited shouting before election. Bishop Cranston denies that he advo cated making Christians of Chinese at the point of the sword. The Methodist Boxer certainly would be a startling novelty In the great work of civilizing and Christianizing China. Vlc-PresIdentlal Candidate Towne has been lecturing on a "Tour Through Europe." In a month or so he may be able to furnish some valuable rem iniscences on a Vice-Presidential nomi nation he didn't get If we are to have bicycle paths, let the bicyclists pay for them. Those per sons who resist the tax expect not only to ride and pay nothing, but to let those who walk pay everything. After Plngree, Bliss. No wonder the Saginaw man with the happy name got away with the Michigan nomination. Mr. Bryan stays at Lincoln and presses the button; Kansas City wll do the rest RnnnlBB Away With the Gold. Pall Mall Gazette. Lourenzo Marques All arrivals here from Pretoria describe the fear which prevailed In Government circles preceding the debacle, when the President fled from the Transvaal capital. Before the Brit ish secured Johannesburg the Boers had removed all foodstuffs and almost every thing of value. Among the passengers in the Bundes rath for Europe was Mrs. Reltz and the family of the Transvaal Stato Secretary. In obedience to a telegram from Pretoria the Bundesrath was detained here for fully 10 hours to await the arrival of a special train. Attached to the train was a saloon car in which Mrs. Reltz and family traveled. Mrs. Reltz was quickly identified, despite the fact that she cer tainly did not court observation and kept the blinds of her saloon Jclosely drawn. In the guard's van of this train were two huge safes, screwed to the floor and guarded by armed Hollanders. The train was taken to the extreme end of tho Portuguese pier and 36 boxes of bar gc4d were lowered into a Portuguese Gevera ment launch, which then, steam a A direct for the Bundesrath. Tie Roitx family. tth their domestic servants, wont on d the mall steamer later. It has ascertained that the.e wns oar gold boxes to the vUue oc 159.010, providing against possible eventualities. The. passengers by the Henog con sisted chleSy of Jews from the Trans vaal. The Herzog also took seventeen parcels of bar gold. m "WHO'S AFRAID OF CROKER? Wr Does the Decraey Cower Under His Laiat New York Times. Where did Richard Croker get his right and title to apply the rod of discipline to any Tammany back for ice trust Indis cretions? He is not only In the mess himself, but It was really he that got the others In. Who was It that taught them by precept and example to look out for their own pockets all the time? In stead of cowering in guilty terror before the returned chief, awaiting the dreaded blow, they might better fall upon him and take vengeance upon the author of their undoing. Take the case of the Van Wyck broth ers. Before Croker took them in hand to make their political and personal for tunes they were respectable citizens of whom no one spoke ill. They had both served creditably upon the bench before Croker made Robert Mayor of New York and Augustus the Democratic can didate for Governor. Up to that time they enjoyed the legitimate expectation of leading quiet unnoticed, respectable lives, and of leaving to their children or other kin the heritage of a stainless name. The Mayoralty was the ruin of Robert. His conduct in the office has been such that nobody outside the circle of his po litical cronies speaks well ot nim or thinks well of him. In fact, the public entertains a highly unfavorable opinion of him. He can never regain what he has lost He was done for even before the ice trust scandal revealed the ugly facts of his relation to that corrupt and predatory enterprise. Augustus got through his unsuccessful Governorship canvass comfortably enough, though ho suffered by the gen eral conviction that a stronger man and one mora remote from Croker would have won the fight But now, as the author of a celebrated anti-trust speech and a del-egate-at-large on an anti-trust platform to an anti-truBt National convention, yet a large stockholder of record In the Ico trust owning so many shares that no body understands how he got them or how he was able to pay for them, Au gustus Van Wyck 13 about the most ridiculous and pitiful figure In American politics. Truly, Croker has done an ill service for the Van Wycks. Then there Is CarrolL Nobody ever paid any attention to Carroll so long as he was an underling, living on an under ling's pay In the small offices he could pick up. But now he has Indeed come to a bad eminence. Men think of Carroll very much as they would think of a pi rate or any other public enemy. They look upon him as a good man to get rid of, the quicker the better. He has come to this entirely through Croker, who put him ahead and made him his deputy. And now they say that Croker Is going to punish the Mayor and Carroll for bo lng mixed up In the Ice trust scandal! The Athenians made Socrates drink a cup of hemlock because, among other things, he was charged with being a corrupter of youth. Hemlock Is no longer administered, but birch has not gone out of fashion. If ever a back seemed really to clamor for the switch it is the back of Richard Croker as it presents itself to the victims of his evil and debasing example. We mean morally, pf course. The ac tual switching of Croker by Carroll and the two Van Wycks would edify the town, but the Times counsels, no breach of the peace. They ought to give him a tongue-lashing at the club, denounce him before the reporters, and get Tammany to throw him out of the chieftaincy. Bryan and. Expansion. Oakland (Cal.) Enquirer. It Is difficult to understand where Mr. Bryan expects to come in on the anti expansion issue this year. There are doubtless millions of voters who regret expansion, but most of them regard it as an accomplished fact which cannot be disturbed; they also perceive that Mr. Bryan was almost as much a factor in expansion as was Mr. McKlnley, since he advised the Democrats In the Senate to vote for the treaty with Spain by which the Philippines became American territory, and therefore they fall to see how Mr. Bryan represents any principle different from President McKlnley in this matter. In the hour when the great ques tion was to be decided Bryan was an expansionist and that fact cannot be rubbed out by all the efforts he may now put forth to make himself appsar the champion of anti-expansionist principles. The truth is that in this matter Bryin has represented no clearly defined princi ple and has pursued no consistent course. He has been evasive and disingenuous fearful of Incurring unpopularity If he proposed expansion and yet anxious to gather to his support all the aatl-oxpan- slonlst voters. He does not occuuy strong ground and cannot win. MacArtlmr 1 Sensible. Chicago News. Considering the fact that It coats the British $100 a head to send mules to South Africa, General Arthur MacArthur is sen sible In offering to buy the Filipinos' guns at 30 Spanish dollars each. A Mauser even in the hands of a Filipino is worth several mules. Nothing? to Hovrl Aboat. Los Angeles Times. The calamity-howler never had fo hard a Job on his hands during a campaign as he will have this year of grace. He w'll simply have to howl for someth'ng lo howl about Startling: Chancre. Oakland (Cal. ) Enquirer. The platform Issue at Kansas City will bo not whether silver shall be the prin cipal feature, but whether It shall be men tioned at all a startling chango sjnee 1896. J1ES AKD "WOJIEJf. The centenary of the birth of Lieutenant Wachorn. the pioneer of tho overland route- to India, will be celebrated by a dinner In Lon don. Lord Leven. Governor of the Bank ot Ens land, has been appointed Lord High Commis sioner to th General Assembly of tho Church of Scotland tor the fourth time. Professor Vambrey, the celebrated authority on Oriental subjects, has received an invita tion from the Sultan Abdul Hamid to pay a visit to Constantinople. General Benjamin F. Tracy and Thomas C Piatt icere boys together. Tracy was a fanner lad and Piatt started la business in Oswcso, K. Y., as a drur clerk. They have been inti mately associated ever since. Consressmaa Ketcham, of New Tork, who has Just been renominated for tho sixteenth time. Is a little deaf. The other day rome one suggested that this must bo a drawback. "Youas man," replied General Ketcham, "I hear a great deal more than I want to." Count Leo Tolstoi is greatly helped la his literary work by his two daughters. Tatjana and Mareha- "However great I may be as a novelist." he said, recently, "I am much greater as a letter-writer and proofreader, be cause in these things my children are so great an aMlstanc to me." Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector of Hawarden, was asked by & deputation of the villagers to permit the church bells to bo rung when the news of the relief of Mafeklng arrived. His answer was that he could not consent to that being done until peace- was proclaimed. There was much Indignation among the residents, at his refusal. The rector, however, offered special thanksgiving services on the following Sunday. Dr. Posxt who fought a. duel with Dr. Devil lers recently, l not only one of the most brll llaat surguone Of the French capital, but prom inent la its bet society, and also la politics as . Senator. He was bora at Brgerac. Dor doffne, on October 3, 1B4G. At an early age he woa recognlUon ta the jnedlealx " as a coHtrlbutor to varioa leamv -vjl0?i Ue ?t a member of the AcaaJliMotne QUIGG VS. GROSVENOR. How "Were Tieic Plemlcs Left Oat of the PlatformT New York Post Ind. Dera. What Is in the Republican platform we all know, or can know, by reading it. What was kept out of it we are Just bo ginning to learn- First is a plank on expansion in these words: "We reassert the principle, which was the watchword of the Republican party In its first great battle, of which Abraham Lincoln was the illustrious champion, and on which he was elected President that Congress has full legislative power over territory belonging to the United States, subject only to the fundamental safe guards of liberty, justice and personal rights." General Grosvenor says that this plank was agreed upon first by President Mc Klnley, and afterwards by the sub-committee on the platform, but that it "was drivelled out by a driveller from New York, who had charge of that branch of the work." Mr. Lemuel E. Qulgg ad mits that he was the secrotary of the sub-committee on platform, but he denies flatly that he did anything else than carry out the orders of tho committee. He denies that anything was put Into or taken out of the platform surreptitiously, or without due consideration by the com mittee. He gives a detailed account of what transpired In the committee in ref erence to this particular plank. Here he has the great advantage over Grosvenor that he knows what took place in the committee-room, while Grosvenor can only conjecture. Quigg"s statement Is Intrinsically and manifestly correct since no Individual member could alter the platform, of hl3 own motion, without instant detection and exposure, and perpetual Infamy after ward. Qulgg says that the platform, com mittee considered it unwise to adopt the Grosvenor-McKinley plank, because the question Involved In It was pending in the Supreme Court, and it might be em barrassing to tho party If a decision should be rendered contrary to the plat form. This shows how much more power ful In ipaklng a party platform is the man who has the last hack at It than the President of the United States or a member of Congress, who is not on tho committee. The man who has this power and uses It for wise ends can smile when called a drlller by rival statesmen and platform-makers. It should be explained, however, that no such plank as that which General Grosvenor quotes was In the platform on which Abraham Lincoln was elected President, and that the Re publican party had no such watchword In its first great battle, or In any battle. The platform of 1SG0 said: "The new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery Into any or all of the territories of the .United States is a dangerous political heresy," eta, which is quite a different thing from the Grosvenor-McKinley paragraph. Grosvenor complains of the loss of an other paragraph one relating to steam ship subsidies or rather, he complains that a paragraph which "had passed tho scrutiny of the leaders of the party" was emasculated after It left their hands. The following "ringing sentiment" he says, was almost entirely left out: "Our National defence and Naval effi ciency require merchant auxiliaries as a nursery for skilled officers and trained seamen. For the restoration of merchant marine, which was our early glory on tho seas, we advocate such legislation as will enable American ships to again carry our foreign commerce." The loss of this paragraph is not charged upon Quigg. The loser of It Is not yet Identified, but we can Imagine that he might be looked for in the States of Indiana, Iowa or Minnesota. It 13 pos sible that he detected the ring of a bad coin In the ringing sentiment and laid it aside for that reason. There are many ways to account for its disappearance, but the most natural one Is that the real leaders of the party ad hoc were not the men whom Grosvenor had In mind when he said that his resolution bad passed their scrutiny. Such mistakes have teen made before. The Omitted Plank. Springfield Republican. General Grosvenor, of Ohio, has many sympathizers in his indignation over the omission from the Philadelphia platform ot a plank reaffirming the position taken by Congress and the President concern ing the power of the National Legislature to govern territories outside of the Con stitution. The New York Sun affirms that: "Republicans here and there are noting with amazement that borders on disgust the total, uncompromising, abso lute silence of the Philadelphia platform on one of the principal articles ot Re publican faith." It seems, however, that a plank of the desired character wa3 prepared by a number of prominent Re publicans In Washington and submitted to the committee on resolutions In the convention. General Grosvenor hotly charges that this plank was omitted from the platform "unfairly and surreptitiously." and he fixes unon Lemuel Ely Qulgg. of New York, the secretary of the suo-committee . on resolutions, as having been the wicked prestidigltateur. The General's burning words were: This plank, straightforward, intelligent and written in good English, agreed upon first by the President himself, and afterward by the sub-committee, was driveled out by a driveler from New York who had charge of that branch of the work. No one, of course, will believe such an accusation, but the making of it by the Impassioned Grosvenor reveals the Inten sity of his disappointment over the fail ure of the platform to indorse the Porto Rican legislation and the Constitutional theory under which he and his party as sociates acted. Qulgg gives a straightforward, reason able explanation of the matter. Qulgg's Grent Condescension. New York Tribune. Lemuel B. Quigg's denial which does not deny the Important feature of Gen eral Charles H. Grosvenor's accusation about the suppression from the platform of a plank declaring the Republican doc trine of the power of Congress over ter ritory Is bo grotesquely egotistical and self-sufficient that the first Impulse Is to pass It by as an ordinary specimen of Qulggery. But the colossal Impudence of this young man's explanation of the great reasons ot state which led him in the reg ular performance of his duties as plat form reviser to blue pencil the work of in significant and inexperienced men like Sen ator Foraker. General Grosvenor. the mem bers of the President's Cabinet, and even thePresidenthimself, excites wonder when time Is allowed for It to sink Into the consciousness. He says he did not "un fairly and surreptitiously," a3 General Grosvenor charges, cut out this plank from the platform. But he considered that the plank "was much too long and too much resembled a political essay." He thought It "neither advisable nor necessary" to make a declaration on the question. A3 an act of condescension In writing the platform he employed the language of Senator Foraker, so far as It was consistent with true statesman ship, and he is sure that in whatever he did he had tho support, of the sub-com mittee and everytnmg was regular. , A Rare Piece of Folly. New York Sun. Of the truth of General Grosvenor's charge that there was trickery In regard to the platform we know nothing. That there was folly Is manifest to everybody who reads the document even carelessly. That any man or men, however, entrust ed with the handling of the platform In its last stages of revision, should have assumed the responsibility of overruling the President the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, the presiding officers of the convention and the party at large throughout the "Union, edit ing out a plait and necessary btttement of a fund3Jpc.V,al and vital article of Re publican thw" an& P1Icr ls m?3t t0 Improbable Kb? believed withoufurther NOTE AND COMMENT. -I, How 'dovyou like the weather There is no doubt that Agulnaldo also ran, whenever the enemy came bis way. - ' When country gentlemen come to New York now the con men sell them Ice bricks. Fortunately the Chinese vote 13 not large enough to affect the Administra tion's policy. Now do the Prohibitionists Put up a great rood man To lead them through a dry'campalgn , And. be an also ran. If they were not Prohibitionists. ,we might suspect that their excltemeritjwaa duo to sometning stronger than senu ment. If Kansas City's climate keeps up its general average of the Fourth there will be a general rush among the candidates for the cold outside. If Secretary Hay wants to make peace with China he must not come 'to fight but come to Wu. That Is pretty bad. but we can do worse. The famous "white wings" of New York City, the streetsweepers introduced by Colonel Waring, are doomed. A big machine Is to take their places, and the streets are to be cleaned by hand no more. These machines, called "parparts." are run by compressed air, and not only nweep the street but they sprinkle it and In bad Winter weftther they gather up all the snow and slush. The machine sweeps the streets under all conditions and does the work of an army ot men. Sir Herbert Maxwell seems to occupy a unique place in Parliament. Probably he Is tho only member of the House of Commons who can claim to be descended from an ancestor of precisely the same name as himself, who sat In Parliament over 600 years ago. His forbear. Sir Her bert Maxwell of Carlaverock, sat In tho Parliament of Scone, 12S3-S4, and agreed to accept Margaret of Norway as his sovereign In the event of the death of Alexander HI, and he was also a mem ber of the Parliament ot 12S3-S0. The old Church of St Mary, Soho, is emerging from a strange series of vicis situdes. It was built In 1677 by a Greek archbishop. From the Greeks" It came successively Into possession of the Huge nots and Paedo-Baptists. and ultimately became a chapel-of-ease to St Ann's, Soho. Latterly It has been In a state of semi-ruin, but no wbrighter days are opening. The foundation-stone will be laid of a new house to replace a portion of the building condemned as dangerous by the London County Council two years ago. Francis Doucp, & famous antiquary, who died in 1834, bequeathed a box to the British Museum trustees, stipulating that it should not be opened until 1900. At a recent meeting of the trustees the box was solemnly unsealed and unlocked by the curator of the Museum, when it was found to contain nothing -but old fragments of paper, torn book covers and other rubbish, together with a note from Douce. The missive said that in tho writer's opinion, it would be wasting any more valuable or Interesting objects to leave them to persons of the average intelligence and taste of the British Museum trustees. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Early Ambition. "Oh! mah goodness!" ex claimed little Abo Lincoln Snow, "I wtsht I. wu2 lalk da little boy in dls hyar storybook." "WhufferT' asked his mother. "Kase hit sea he went to bed wlf de chickens." Philadelphia Press. No Money In It. "I am In favor of tho elec tion of United States Senators by popular vote," he announced emphatically. The Mon- tana legislator looked at htm. suspiciously. "What grudge have you against usr he asked. Chicago Evening Post. A Deep Interest. He That little brother ot yours Is mlghtv inquisitive. Last night hehad the nerve to ask me if X hadn't proposed to you yet. She Oh, you mustn't mind "Willie. He has my Interest so much at heart. Judge. And Fool the Flies. "I wish," said the In fant Prodigy, "that I was a self-made man, like "Uncle Henry." "Why?" asked the Person Tho ls always playing second fiddle In the con versational orchestra. "Because I would have 15ft my head bald, too. It ls too much troubla to comb It." Baltimore American. Pert but Pertinent. Doxed-looklng Gentle man (enterlnsr a bookstore) Young woman, what kind of a store ls this? Young Woman (tartly) It's a feed store. Dazed - looking Gentleman (getting aroused) A feed store! What do you feed? Young "Woman We feed bookworms. Chicago Record. Little Willie Say, pa, what does cleave mean? Pa It means to units or stick together. Little Willie Then if the butcher cleaves a bono, docs he stick it together, pa? Pa Why er X guess It does mean to eepar&tol aO son. Little Willie And when a man separates from Ma wife, does he cleave to her, pa? Pa Younp man, it's time yoa were la bed. Chi cago News. Looking: Backward. Indianapolis Press. Oh, those happy days of Summer, when the harvest sun shone hot, A flow of mem'ry takes me back, a captive to the spot "Where I spent the years ot childhood; and thoso dreamy Summers long Were written on my boyish mind a glad, un measured song. How I viewed the old brick schcolhouse with a 'frown of hate and scorn. As rd strap ray books together on a sunny April morn; And how I moped and languished as a caged bird repines. When the soft, warm air came teasing through the honeysuckle vines. How we used to hail vacation, when the prison doors were closed. And geography and rlthmetlc" upon the shclt reposed; When time was but a fancy, and the data a banished name. And all the days but Sunday were to boyish minds the same. I can seo the grassy path that led me up and down the creek. When the noonday sun would find me where the shadows lingered thick. With no'er a care but comfort and ne r a pain but ease. With strands of uncombed hair that swept my forehead in the breese. Xcan hear the little rapids where they Joined the swimming pool: I see my face reflected in the water dark and cool: And my fancy hears the splashing of my boy hood's kindred folk As wo plunged into the water 'neath the over- hanging oak. We fcrew each little eddy of the water for aai near, i i Evrv little glancing ripple wferft the sun beams, falllnc sheer Out of heaven's fleecy cloudland'Wjith a laugh ing, dancing look. Seemed to bathe their heate'arheads In the bosom of the brook. Oh. the many days I squriiered with & clumsy hook and line ' Ho and down the little strfs-ilet where the sllversides would shine And I'd watch my hook llilecce. till the Summer sun was low And my footsteps led mrBmeward through the paths I used t Oh, for one brief day I! but to be a boy again. Just to feel the free I of a Summer's' day as then. With a heart in tunef Ire, a mind that knew n care. And an aimless de th world at1 e fche M "ReltziBi with a view of evidence, Aaywhc Tokobas operation ofrf parasite V VI -2 ship hnt.1