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THE MORNING OBEGONIAN. THURSDAY. AUGUST 9, 1900. 'te rggomcut Enterefl mX the FostcSloe at Portland. Oreron. as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Eiltorlal Koosis 1G6 J Business Offlc C67 KEVISBD SUBSCRIP310X KATES. By Mail postage prepaid). In Advance Ti.Iy with Sunday, per month. .......... .$0 S5 Inuy, Sunday excepted, per year.......... " & Oaily, with bonday, per year 0" E&nday, per year 2 00 The Weekly, per year 1 5 TChe WeekU, Z msntbs - Ta City feubncrSbers Dc.iy, per week, delivered. Sundays exoepted.l5o Xai.y, per -week, delivered, Sundays lncluJetL20c POSTAGE RATES. Tntted State?. Canada and Mexico: 10 to lG-paye paper .........................lc 40 to 22-pa?s paper 2 Foreign rates double. SCevm or discussion Intended for publication In The Orcgonlan should he addressed Invariably "Edi'nr The Oretronian," not to the name of cry Individual. Letters relating to advertising. ubscr!ptlons or to any business matter should 1e addressed simply "The Oregonlan. Tbe Oregonlan does not buy poema or .stories Trojn lrdlvlduaK and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts pent to It -without aslidta t!on Ko stamps should be Inclosed for this Twrpote. Pucet Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 953, ITacoma postofllce. Eastwn Business Ofn The Tribune build ing. Xew Tork City; The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth rpclal agency. New Tork, Far sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. 76 Markt strf-rt. near he Palace hotel, and nt JllErnlih Bros , 230 Sutter rtrett. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. JCews Co., S1" Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER Continued cloudy and threatening- weather, with showers; warmer; Jsouthwest. shlftlnc to northwest, winds. POUTLAXD, TIICJISDAY, AUGUST 9. 3IODEHY ailllACLE-WORSniPERS. The doctrine of special creation Is still ardently cherished In New York, Bos ton and Springfield by men whose 5n nds have largely been formed by Matthew Arnold, Goldwin Smith and Halph Waldo Emerson. They have read Hume and Gibbon, yet they be Jkve in a miracle. They know Spencer end Sluxley, yet their political creed is founded upon denial of the reign of 4aw. They have read the history of constitutional government from its iLlrth-throes in England of the twelfth century down through all British and .American history, and yet they await, 4n the rapt ecstasy of an old mystic, Tfor the magic hand that Is to snatch full-grown from the womb of time a "republic in the heterogenous savage and barbaric tribes of the Philippine archl pelago. What Is a republic? Is It a mechani cal form, sketched out on paper like a. model of the designer's art? Is It an artificial contrivance, corresponding to Gladstone's fiction of the American Constitution, "struck off at a given time ly the mind of man"? Is it mere ly a sheme of government, a method of i rocedure. a system of weights and balances? No, none of these things is a republic, any more than an archi tect's drawings make a home, or an auditorium a convention or Tailroad tracks commerce. A republic Is a sen tient thing at work, a living and brtathingorganism operating by nature of its inherited and accumulated forces, disc p.ine, traditions. Ideals and char acter. Government is not a thing turned out of a mold by labor-saving machinery. It is a growth, with roots back in a laborious and painful past, and leaves spread In the rain and sunshine of en lightened modern Influences. Life and experience, achievement and failures valuable for their lessons, kingly arro gance rebuked and patriot martyrdom endured, foreign invasions suppressed end battle-fields drenched with civil strife, hazardous experiments in exten sion of popular power and slow acqui sition of self-restraint this is the the rnv and precipitous ascent up which liumanlty hai? tolled to its present half way height of government. When you can make a mature man out of the puling Infant, or transform In a day the tiny acorn into the mon arch of the forest, .then you can set up n. republic in the Philippine archipelago. There is no royal road to self-govern-'snent. There is no miracle with which the ethnic child can be made a full grrown man, no special creation in gov ernment any more than In cosmology. There are those who believe so, to be cure, but we are excluded from the hy T'ihesls that their views are the re sult of sincere study and unprejudiced a-eason. They have grudges to satisfy. ""vengeance to wreak, superior morality to attest, the critical habit to justify and sustain. Their service consists In showing how scai&ily learning will fcrlng forth when its seeds are scattered on the stony ground or among thorns. ITALY'S VXCERTAIX PUTUIU3. The assassination of King Humbert lnsp'ivs grav and general doubt in Eu rope as to the perpetuation of peace, order and unity in Italy under the rule of Ills smi and successor, who is de BTibed as & wll-educated young man, whso life "before his marriage with tle Princess of Montenegro was as -,d as that of his grandfather, the 3v ugh s- 'Idler, Victor Emanuel. It must t A 1 o forgotten that the present klng d -m of united Italy is of comparatively recent growth. The house of Savoy I-1! tVan flfty years ago ruled only over th- It.Han Province of Sardinia. Ti-i f.uher of Victor Emanuel, King Ch rl. s Albert of Sardinia, was badly fc-'i'pn in 1S4$ at the battle of Xovara V- the Austriute. but his son, Victor rarme!, Jcceded In securing the EJrrort of France under Napoleon III, n! through his victorious campaign rf Solferino, in 1SP59, was able to reward trs riees of his ally with the dellv-c-sru-o of Lotnbardv. Th aiiirafu i t -r-i Prussia and Victor Emanuel in t' e Atistrian war of iS6G enabled the! 1" 1 of the house of Savoy to add Ve-j k ui i - nis oomtntons. The threat of r- b tweea Prussia snd France in 3-"' Treed Napoleon III to withdraw V French troops from Rome, and It wr.s thr ugh ths opportunity that VIc t r E. -.anael was able to occupy the Papal States and make Home the cap ital of united Italy. King Victor died ir. ls, and- ws succeeded by his son, Princo HumiMsrt. who .has ruled twenty tw ears a kingdom that is not yet thirty ears old. Italy's partnership in the triple alli ance with Germany and Austria has 51 -t bet-n without Us drawbacks, for it has 1 Teed its government to keep a verj large standing army on foot, and to lcy for Its support what to the peoplt of Italy hns been oppressive tax a.i n. King Humbert, like his father. King Victor, kept a tlrm seat on his throne largely through his personality as a man of courage, resolution and f i..rcc of character. The Italian Parlia ment came to include Republicans hos tile to the monarchical systam, and a Cwv. ....-..,- vnnII 'WIVUJ V UWIW j J Ish the existing structure of society. it included, also a number or aanerenis of the Papacy, who -wished to restore the independence of the states of the church. Under these circumstances nothing but King Humbert's personal vigilance and activity saved him from the loss of his throne and the -wreck of Italian unity. Last year King Hum bert strained the strict letter of his constitutional rights by authorizing his Ministry to suspend those provisions of the constitution -which guarantee the liberty of public meeting and the free dom of the press, assuming that this temporary suspension -would be sanc tioned by the Chamber of Deputies -when they reassembled, but that body disappointed his expectations. He dis solved the Parliament, but its dissolu tion -was followed by the election of a still more hostile Chamber. This is the difficult situation that confronts the young King of Italy, a Prince without political experience, and, -what Is -worse, -without the vigorous physique and rep utation for courage on the battle-field which -were possessed by his grand father and his father. To keep his throne, the young King will need re markable acuteness of Intellect and po litical dexterity, as well as personal courage and strength of will. For the present he is strong in the sympathy felt for his bereavement, and in the af fectionate memory cherished of his mur dered father. BRYAX AT IXDIAKAPOIjIS. Mr. Bryan's little Jeu d'esprit of 10, 000 words more or less discovers him at his best as the skillful debater that he is. Its point of view is the sama with which anti-Imperialism has long familiarized us, and its arguments are threadbare. The discussion of two years has raged about these same con tentions. Deft turns of speech and moving phrases constitute the only new resource Mr. Bryan can- call to his aid. It is to be expected, of course, that numbers of people are convinced more by rhetoric than by reason, and that to their minds ihe4 rilllant pictures and fervid appeals of the orator are un answerable. To such there Is little use in addressing dispassionate argument. Tet a few of the candidate's points may be briefly touched. He is characteristically employed in appeal to ignorant passion and in crooked statements. In the very front of his line of battle he puts the perni cious socialistic apptal that money is the master ard man the slave, so de signing to play upon prejudice against wealth. His perversive method Is every where manifest, as for example where he says: "If It is right to imitate Eu ropean empires In the government of colonies," and In the clause "If we are to give them no voice as to the, taxes they must pay." He here accuses, by indlrectlon, the United States of a pur pose to imitate oppressive measures of monarchies and to deny the Filipinos voice In the collection and disbursement of local taxes. It would not be polite to call these crooked statements lies. Let us simply say that they are purely fictitious. Such methods of colonial ad ministration as European experience has demonstrated just and salutary let us hope we shall have the courage to imitate, undisturbed by Mr. Bryan's sneers. And his implication that local representation Is to be denied the Fili pinos is sufficiently set aside by our efforts already in that line, which have met, unfortunately, rather unsatisfac tory results. Nearly all the native Filipinos that have been installed in places of trust and authority have re spected the consent of the governed in a way entitling them: to be drawn and quartered. Mr. Bryan describes the Democratic theory of government as one of equal rights to all and special privileges to none. Ho seems to ignore the proposals of the Kansas City platform, which are: To set the Federal machinery In operation to spy upon, publish and reg ulate the affairs of business corpora tions; to control the transportation business of the country, so that no in dividual or community shall get the worst of a bargain; to restore and main tain "a bimetallic price level"; to take care of silver: to abolish free banking In favor of Government banking; to prevent employers from reporting un desirable employes to one another; to Increase the Federal obligation by cre ation of p. department of labor; to im prove the arid lands of the West. Mr. Bryan abhors that any should discriminate between good and bad" trusts, or in general to judge them by their actions. A trut is presumed guilty till It Is proven innocent. He hoots at the Republican platform for its "boasting and self-congratulation," but neglects to find any attitude of con sistent and universal censure and rep robation in the Democratic platform. He says we are too hard on the ma rauding Filipino, when the fact Is we are too lenient He says sympathy for the Boers does not arise from any un friendliness to England, and he must have tried very hard not to think of the Irish vote. He says a republic can have no subjects, when the fact is that all the citizens of every republic are its subjects. He says we can buy land, but can't buy people, and a little far ther on he argues that we can't even buy land. If this is so, most of the earth's surface Is held by very insecure titles. Imperialism, he says, appeals to the pride, the pocket-bcok, the religious sentiment of the country and the party loyalty of the Republicans. This Is rather a comprehensive category, and is in danger,, it must be admitted, of proving too formidable for the Bryan party. Three of the most conspicuous points In Mr. Bryan's speech are not there. One is an arraignment of the iniquitous Ice trust of Tammany magnates, the other Is a demand for independence for Porto Rico and Guam, and the third is a rebuke of the recent overthrow of consent of the governed In Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Ala bama. The Chinese appear to have been quickly dislodged from Peit Sang by the Japanese alone, and to have fled to Yang Tsun, where their main position is said to be. The road along the west bank of the Pel Ho has been reported to be. held in force to protect the right flank of the position at Yang Tsun In event of the force holding Pelt Sang on the cast bank being dispersed or outflanked. The force at Peit Sang has fallen back on Yang Tsun, where a de cisive engagement will be fought. The capture of Yang Tsun will furnish the allies with an advanced base of opera tions for further advance on Pekin. If the Chinese are beaten at Yang Tsun, it is not Impossible that the allied army will have overcome the worst resist ance, for In the campaign of 1S60 two battles disposed of the Chinese' military resistance. Genera J. H, Wilson re- ports that when the tide of battle once turns against the Chinese soldiers they are prone to become a disorganized rabble before disciplined troops; that they are incapable of organized re treats, eo long as the allies are capable of pursuit. The obstacles to a rapid advance on Pekin are not the Chinese troops so much as the complete absence of food and fueL These difficulties the allies will avol'd probably by using both the river and the repaired railway for transportation. The defenses of Pekin can easily be turned. The quick suc cess of the Japs in turning the Chinese out of their trenches at Pelt Sang il lustrates the truth of the conclusion that in the open field the Chinese Army will not make any formidable resist ance. There will, however, be neces sary some delay after" the capture of Tang Tsun, to remove th obstructions to transportation in the river and to repair the railway. During this delay the fate of the Legations will depend on their ability to resist further attack and on the willingness of the Pekin Government to protect them. The prob abilities are that they will not be cap tured, or even if captured, that they will not be massacred, for they are worth more to the Pekin Government living than dead, as negotiators and in tercessors for comparatively lenient terms of settlement. JUSTICE FOR THE SOUTH. In his address before the G. A. R., the Rev. Dr. Blackburn said: When the war besan we had no standing army worth speaklns about, not enough to make a decent skirmish lme. More of the officers were In sympathy with the South than with the North. The Junior Major of the old Second Cavalry (now Fifth Cavalry), was George H. Thomas, who, with Lieutenant K. W. Johnson, were the only officers true to tho Union. This statement needs, in justice to the South, some further explanation, for it implies that at the outbreak of the Civil War as a rule about all the Southern-born men In the regular Army were recreant to the flag. Not only was General Robert Anderson, Kentucky born and bred, true to the flag, but among the officers of his family who were officers of the regular Army and volunteer forces were Colonel Charles Anderson, Sixty-third Ohio; Colonel N. L. Anderson, Sixth Ohio; Colonel A. L. Anderson, First California; Captain William P. Anderson, Sixth Ohio; Cap tain F. R. Anderson, Captain E. L. An derson, Captain H. R. Anderson, Gen eral Thomas M. Anderson, United States Army, and Surgeon Richard Lo gan, Kentucky Volunteers. Following is a list of the more promi nent officers of our Army who, though Southerners by birth, remained faith ful to the National Government: Gen erals Ammen, Lockwood, Canby, Nel son, Terrill, Sykes, Davidson, Reno, Judah, Wlnfleld Scott, Thomas, Ord, Curren Pope, Meigs, Harney, Frank Blair, Buchanan, John Buford, N. 3. Buford, Bayard, R. H. Williams, Mc Keever, Newton, Laldley, Royall, E. B. Alexander, Emory, T. J. Wood, A. J. Alexander, Dent, Getty, T. L. Critten den, Harrow, Elwell Otis, Lugenbeil, Dodge, Carroll Cooke, Paul, Mcintosh, R. W. Johnson, Long, Seawell, Hunter, French, L. Pike Graham, Martin Burke. In the Navy the Southern-born men included Farragut, John Rodgers, Pat terson, Dupont, Fairfax. Hopkins, Car ter, Young, Jouett, Russell, Stribling, Powell, Craven, Radford, Turner, Lee, Jenkins, Sands, Upshur, Steedman, Taylor, Scott, Stembel. Middleton, Bache, Horner, Ward, Palmer, Drayton and Harlan. The nephew of John Slidell, General R. S. Mackenzie, fought against his uncle's flag. Pemberton. Blanchard, Bushrod Johnson, were Northern Con federates whose places were more than made good by the gallant men of South ern birth who stuck to the flag. The South gave us a deal better fighting blood than they took from us, for, while no Northern-born Confederate rose to distinction, the Southern-born Federals included some of the most distinguished soldiers of the Civil War. Further more, there were a number of Northern men with Southern sympathies who, after graduating at West Point, did not offer. to fight for either flag. They would not fight for the Union and they were not manly enough to flght for the South, whose cause they prayed for under the protection of the flag they had ceased to love. In justice to the South, It should be said that the Confederate Generals, Lee, Joe Johnston, Sidney Johnston, Bragg, Earbr, Wickham and Longstreet, not only never advocated or justified seces sion, but were outspoken in favor of the Union until their states rushed out of It. Lee, Joe Johnston and Long street always said frankly that they had no sympathy with secession, no de fense for slavery, but that if their na tive states seceded they would go with their own blood and neighbors, as they could not fire against their own homes and corn fields. They were not con spirators against the Union, but they "went with their states" in sorrow and without hope of success, as Lee and Longstreet bpth confessed. Environment had far more to do with the choice of flags in our Civil War than sympathy with secession. Albert Pike, Massachusetts born and bred, settled in Arkansas in manhood and became a champion of secession and a soldier of the Confederacy, while Ste phen A. Hurlbut, born and bred in South Carolina, settled in Illinois and became a Union General, fighting gal lantly at Donelson, Shlloh and Corinth. The figures given out as to the pop ulation of Cincinnati show that the in crease since 1S90 is only 28,994, or about one-fourth of the increase claimed. The total population is but 325,902, while it was estimated at 400,000. In the decade between 1SS0 and 1890 Cincinnati .gained 41,170. - The City of Washington, which between 18S0 and 1890 gained 56 per cent, shows a gain in the last decade of only 20.98 per cent, while be tween 1880 and 1890 the gain was 56 per cent. The figures for Omaha are also disappointing to Its citizens. The explanation of these figures in the case of Cincinnati largely lies in the fact that she has not annexed any of the surrounding suburbs which have grown at the expense of the city. The expla nation in the case of Omaha is said to be the fact that its census is 'honest today, while it was extravagantly pad ded in 1890. There is a decrease in the rate of Increase in nearly all the im portant cities of the East and Middle West, due to the fact that the introduc tion of the trolley has opened up a large suburban district around every city. Population has been carried beyond the municipal limits, because where it was! convenient to reach only a two-mile limit by horse-cars ten years ago, it is as easy to reach a four or five-mile limit now. This fact is shown In cen- sus returns of the District of Colum bia, The City of Washington has. gained only 15 per cent in population; Georgetown remains stationary, while the suburban part of the District has gained 67 per cent. The rapid growth of the suburban districts in population through the trolley explains the disap pointing returns thus far from the lead ing cities of the land. Eastern papers are printing a great deal of nonsense about the Oregon and Washington wheat crop. Perhaps the moat foolish of anything that has yet appeared Is the following from the New York Journal of Commerce: "Kershaw, of Tacoma, wires Oscar Lyle that tho wheat crop of Oregon will not exceed 9,000,000 bushels, and that of Washing ton will not exceed 21,000,000 bushels." It would be interesting to know by what system of mathematics "Ker shaw, of Tacoma," whoever he may be, reduces the Oregon wheat crop to less than half of that of Washington. While "Kershaw, of Tacoma," has by the tick of the telegraph wiped out of existence from 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 bushels of Ore gon wheat, a little more consistency, in his figures would 'have aided him in securing credence for them. If Oregon has but 9,000,000 bushels of wheat, Washington has less than 15,000,000 bushels. Truth and consistency in a Tacoma man dealing with an Oregon question, however, are like the fifth wheel on a wagon, of no" use whatever. The Journal of Commerce is not doing its fine reputation any good by giving circulation to alleged reports from -such untrustworthy sources. The steamship Argyll, now in this port discharging a cargo of Oriental merchandise, was chartered yesterday by the Government to load forage and Army supplies at Portland. Now that the Government has discontinued its former practice of sending steamships away from Portland In ballast to load at other ports, there is ground for hop ing that it will go a step farther and send us our share of the transports now headed for the Pacific Coast from the Orient, Portland can supply cargoes for these transports at lower rates than they can be secured at any other port on the Coast. All that has been lack ing heretofore was the opportunity to do so. Milt Miller, the Democratic National Committeeman for Oregon, seems des tined to live henceforth In that fierce light which beats upon the great. It may be that hereafter his goings and comings are to be recorded. Now times are so good in Lebanon that a- local paper reports him to be repapering and repainting his house. His neighbors may repudiate him as a sage, but he has demonstrated the possession of greater wisdom than his most generous admirers suspected. He knows enough not to defer improvements till Bryan ism has a chance to bring business disaster to the country. Colonel Bryan stumped twenty-eight states In 1836, and lost all but six of them. "The past is a guide for the future," he has said. If It is to guide him, he should this year make a stren uous effort to hold his tongue. But his performance 5'esterday is not auspi cious. Nothing but love of his own voice can explain columns of words, words, words, about an alleged "para mount issue' which everybody, not ex cepting himself, knows is wholly imag inary. For a man who prides himself on his independence of thought and ability to settle vexed questions offhand, it took Candidate Bryan a long time to make up Mr. Towne's mind, and his long explanation proves him to be not cocksure that he has done a good job in pulling the Minnesota man down. Under the threat of free silver, Pres ident Cleveland was compelled tp issue $262,030,000 In bonds to get gold to pro tect the Nation's credit. Now, under the stable standard of commerce, the Treasury holds more gOid than at any time in the Nation's history. In the '''Inland Empire" of the Pa cific Northwest the word imperialism doesn't frighten even the timid. They have learned that we may use the word empire to mean expansion of territory without enslavement of population. THEORY AND PRACTICE. Actions of Southern Antis Spcalr Louder Thnn Words. Chicago- Inter Ocean. The ".white supremacy" . uffrago amend ment to the North Carolina constitution appears to have been carried at the elec tion on Thursday. The negroes gener ally abstained from voting, understand ing that It would not be safe for them to attempt to express an oo'n'oi. Many white Republicans and Populists were Un doubtedly intimidated by the Democratic "Red Shirts." The effect of the change In the state's organic law, the Demo cratic chairman ssys, 1? "to disfranchise 75,000 illiterate negroes." It has some oth er effects not contemplated by Its advo cates. It has exposed Mr. Brj-an's hy pocrisy, r. The new North Carolina suffrage law proiMdes that all voters, with the excep tions presently to be noted, must be able to read and write In the English language any section of the constitution, must have paid poll tax. must have the usual resi dential qualifications, and must be regis tered in their several precinct'. With these provisions no great fault can be found. An educational qualification, if the law be fairly administered, is gener ally considered desirable. The North Car olina educational qualification, however, Is not intended to excluda all i.l terat-s, but only negroes. This unfair discrimination in favor of Illiterate whites Is effected by the "grand father clause." This provides that all men who could vote on January 1, 18C7, under thp laws of the state of their res idence, and all lineal descendants of such men, shall be exempt from the educa tional test. As negroes could vote prac tically nowhere in the United States on January 1, 1S67. this exception lets In all the white Illiterates and shuts out all the colored Illiterates. Illiterate white voters by Inheritance are given until January. 1, 1908, to put their names on the spsclal registers provided for them. The white illiterates are thus segregated and branded with their ignorance. In Louisiana, where a similar law exists, white men are beginning to feel that to have their names on "the grandfather roll" is a disgrace to be avoided. The North Carolina negroes can, of course, obtain the suffrage by learning to read and write. As literate negroes" names will go upon the regular roll, the Illiterate whites will feel still more their disgrace. If the new law shall thus serve to stimu late the Interest of both whites and ne groes in education, it may In tho end prove a blessing in disguise. The North Carolina election proves the utter hypocrisy of Bryanltic anxiety about "consent of the governed." Other effects of the new law are more or less remote, but the exposure of Bryanltic pretences is Instant. While clamoring for "consent of the governed" In Luzon, the Bryanltes have abolished, that principle for the time in North Carolina. No one can now ba Heve In the sincerity of Mr. Bryan's sym pathy for "the oppresssd Tagals," for his party has -disfranchised T5.0j0 North Caro lina negroes, and he has uttered no word of protest. The American people will judge of Mr. Bryan's sincerity by the acts of his followers in North Carolina. Acts speak louder than words. NEW CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. Reported Discovery Serves for Vari ations of an Old Theme. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Detailed accounts are now published concerning the working of the new serum reported to the French Academy, in De cember last, as having been discovered to be an antidote to alcoholism. They have been deemed of sufficient Import ance to form the subject of a report from Mr. W. P. Atwell, United States Consul at Roubalx. to our State Department The serum is obtained from a horse fed for a certain time on doses of alcohol and food mixed with alcohol. It is called an tlethyllne Injected into the "victims of tho alcohol habit" (which is the polite name for drunkards), it is declared to give them an absolute distaste for liquor. Out of 57 cases cited, in a second com munication to the academy, by Dr. Sape- ller, as having been treated with antle- thyllne, 25 per cent resulted in failure, 15 per cent in an improved condition, and GO per cent in absolute success. Dr. Sape, Her and his two associates, Drs. Thebaut and Broca. set up the Ingenious theory that, as naturally as man has an in stinctive repugnance for alcohol, tho taste for it is abnormal, and that the action of the scrum consists in restoring a nor mal condition in the system. Thus it is seen to work with, not against, nature. The claim that their apparent successes are due, in part at least, to the imagina tion of the patients, is met by the decla ration that among- the patients cured were a number who were quiet ignorant of the nature and the reason of the treatment. So urgent Is the necessity for curtailing the ravages of the drink habit that every lover of humanity will indulge a hope that this French discovery may stand the test of further experiment. It would appear to have an advantage over tho Keeley cure In the fact that so long a course of treat ment Is not necessary. If l few injec tions, given during the time when the pa tient drunkard Is in tho course of recdv ery from the effects of one "jag," will prevent him from wanting another, a most Important victory will have been gained. Then St. Paul, for Instance, may equip each of its police stations with a reservoir of antiethyllne and a syringe. Whenever a man is found drunk in a sa loon or on the streets, he may be marched to a station, pumped full of the medicine, and perhaps sent to his home in the morn, lng a renovated and respectable citizen, to live out the remainder of his days as an exemplar of temperance. Iiove That Kills. Chicago Journal. In spite of the Presidential campaign, anarchistic riots, and three wars, the papers still find space for detailing hap less love affairs. A cursory glance at the press will show that an epidemic is rife and that no part of the country Is free from Its ravages an epidemic where love is the disease and death or recipro cated love the remedy. Very often It is the love that kills, the love that re moves the object through jealousy, de spair, or madness. Hilda Graves, a girl of 17, who lived at 6C13 State street, was to have been married in a few days. She was given to writing verses morbid musings that re flected her temperament. She shot her self and left behind a poem on "Death." James Mander, another Chicagoan, dis turbed by his daughter's marriage to a man against whom she was to testify In a burglary case, turned a revolver upon his own head. Rev. Mr. Query an nounced from the pulpit of the Baptist Church at Honey Bend, near Pana, 111., that for IS years no love had existed be tween him and his wife, and they had finally agreed to separate. A young hus band of 17, -of Terre Haute, Ind., feared to reveal his marriage to his father, and shot himself fatally. Near Poplar Bluff, Mo., a young couple eloped and lost their lives In a swollen stream they had to cross. Another pair braved the agry waters of Muddy Fork Creek, near Bridgeport, Ind., gained the opposite bank after a desperate struggle, were married, donned dry apparel, and qui etly ate the wedding breakfast. These are only a few of the episodes In which love has figured these past few days. Lovesick and loveless j'ouths and maidens, staid old men and women whom years ought to have reconciled to each other, angry parents, and busy squires these are the chief actors In the tragedies and comedies reviewed in the domestic news. And after considering everything, one Is sorry in thinking that Cupid fires the heart to such deeds of danger. McKinley Praised for Independence. Boston Herald. It would be a cause of great regret If President McKlnley lost votes In con sequence of the action taken by him in the canteen matter, action which con stitutes one of the most praiseworthy Instances of good judgment and Inde pendence that can be credited to him. The canteen system in our Army per mits the regiment or battalion which Is at a military post to establish a place at which supplies are sold, consisting of most of those necessary smallwares and luxuries which soldiers need, to gether with tobacco and the lighter al coholic drinks. The sale of these latter Is permitted under close official supervis ion, making intoxication difficult, if not practically impossible. If alcohol did not intoxicate, its use by human beings could hardly be made a subject of moral protest. It might still be physically deleterious: but so is the eating of sal eratus biscuit and pies of heavy pastry an offence against health which has not yet been made the subject of a great moral crusade. The canteen system takes the sting, as it were, out of alco hol, although Its use Is tolerated. If the canteen did not exist the soldiers would still have their alcohol, but would obtain It under conditions that would certainly lead to Intoxication. The canteen system is defended as highly advantageous by practically every one who has made a disinterested study of It. Its opponents are those who have mis taken the shadow for the substance, and who are more intent on preventing fhe use of alcoholic liquors than on les sening the terrible curse of drunkenness. The President, in resisting this blind fanaticism, Is to be heartily commended. Tbe "Chrlntlnn Science" Humbug. Philadelphia Press. When Judge Pennypacker refused to grant a charter for a church to the Chris tian Scientists in Philadelphia, he did so on the ground that the avowed purposes of such an organization were directly contrary to the spirit and In contravention of the statutes of Pennsylvania that work to the protection of the public from Illicit medical and surgical practitioners. No sounder distinction has ever been made than was made by Judge Pennypacker on this Issue, and If under certain condi tions of affairs the Christian Science doc tor still goes unmolested in his or her practice, that does not mean they will forever be allowed to go scot free or that their teachings are not inimical to the safety of the community. Too many pulpits have repudiated the Christianity of Christian Science for any man In his senses to accept the dictum that "if anything is settled It Is that Christian Scientists are Christians." More over, that the world of science not only repudiates but stands aghast at the dan gerous doctrines and practices of the cult it would not be necessary to establish, were not the amazing claim made that Christian Science is "science." It is the negation of experience, the deadliest fool ing with fact the world has ever seen. Claims as to its cures are meaningless. Their truth has ever been open to ques tion since when investigations have been made by men like Dr. Puryington; the frank attitude of the humble and innocent follower of Mrs. Eddy disappears and one meets with evasion, deceit, chicanery and humbug; humbug everywhere. The whole cult reeks with it, and classifying it with "faith cure" really does the "faith curlst" an injustice. The Christian Science doctor who practices surgery and healing with out a license does so against tho plain Intent of the law, which alms to save the community from ignorant and arrogant quackery. There is no alternative, and no newspaper that is doing its duty by the public by Christianity and by science can afford to countenance Eddyism. A FAMOUS REGIMENT. Brief History o tbe Ninth, Novr on Duty lit China. Boston Transcript. Though the Army is older than the Con stitution, the United States while a con federation having kept a few hundred men in Its service, it has been reorgan ized so many times that the Identity of regiments has greatly suffered. Thus there is no existing regiment of infantry that officially dates further bask than May 17, 1815, when the Army was reor ganized at the close of the War of 1S12. Many regiments were then disbanded or consolidated. The Fifth Infantry was thus made up of selections from six regi ments, among them the Ninth, which dis appeared from the Army list. A Ninth Infantry was raised for the Mexican War, Its first Colonel being Franklin Pierce. It does not appear that Pierco saw any servlce with the regiment, as he was Im mediately appointed Brigadier-General, and as such made a much better record, than his enemies admitted. Subsequently tho regiment was commanded by Colonel T. B. Ransom, a Verraonter, who was killed at its head at the storming of Cha pultepec, and afterwards by Colonel T. II. Seymour, who later was Governor of Connecticut. At the close of the Mexican War tho regiment was disbanded, and the Army list dd not know Its number again until 1S53. In that year the existing Ninth In fantry was organized under act of March 3. It was reorganized June 14. 1S69, under the act of March 3 of that year, by consolidation with the Twenty-Seventh Regiment. Of course, the regiment has undergone many military structural changes m 45 years, but has not lost its Identity. It has now three battalions and Its strength Is at the highest watermark In Its history. It took into action at Tien Tsin nearly If not quite 130tf officers and men. In 12 companies. In the piping times of peace before the Spanlah War the Ninth probably seldom bad over 500 of all ranks on Its muster rolls. Theiregi ment then had eight companies, the other tvo having been "skeletonized" by rho War Department, which claimed that jt could do no better with the limited funds and limited number of men Congress al lowed. An English regiment has for its motto, "First In India." The Ninth can add to Its "honors," "First in China." Thackeray and Dickens. Boston Herald. A private letter from Thackeray recent ly printed in London, gives the Informa tion that his Impressions of our Western country, when he visited it, were widely dlfferent from those of Dickens. Dickens, It will be remembered, could only com plain and caricature. He took his own measure in the act much more accurate ly than he did that of the people whom he professed to depict. Thackeray, on tho contrary wrote to his corre spondent: "Oh, sir, the West Is a great place! I have only just seen the portal of It, but it's wonderful. The boys must come here. Wealth grows here; its first crop pays the fee simple of a farm. Send your boys out and accustom them to the shovel and the hoe, and when big enough start them for this West." This Is the spirit of Horace Greeley, whose "Young man, go We3t!" got Into the place of almost a proverb in the language at one time. Thackeray was much less an enthusiast than Dickens, but the greatness of our newer country inspired him on this occasion, and as the judg ments of the great authors have gone on record, we think there will be more than Americans to say that the one that came from Thackeray was the more creditable to his manliness and his breadth of mind. Never Cloie Competitors. Washington Star. If Mr. Reod has any personal feeling against the President, Mr. McKlnley's friends cannot account for it. The two men, when in Congress together, were on the best of terms. Mr. McKlnley, in the Fifty-first Congress, was Mr. Reed's lieutenant as leader on the floor, and no man ever served his chief with greater loyalty or more effectively. Their contest for the St. Louis nomination was friendly, and Mr. McKlnley won with too much easo to have made him justly liable to any complaint. Maryland Democrats for McXCInley. New York Tribune. Ex-Mayor Latrobe, of Baltimore, an aristocratic old Maryland Democrat who wouldn't vote for Bryan in 1S96 and won't now, gives out the opinion that the Re publcans will carry Maryland by 40.CO majority. Bryanlsm and Democracy evi dently mean different things In Maryland, an.d of the latter a good many are of Mr. Latrobe's way of political thinking. To such the Republican party holds open a wide door of welcome, but the ex Mayor declines to say whether he will enter it or not. Africa Is Rich In Volcanoes. Indianapolis Press. Eastern Africa is said to have six act ive volcanoes, and Western Africa four; those in the Cameroons are said to have been in eruption as late as 1S3S. The Islands westward are all of volcanic origin. The Canary Islands are famous for tho great peak of Teneriffe, which became quiet long prior to discovery: other- vents in the islands have been in eruption at Intervals during the ISth century, and hot vapors and smoko riso from them at the present time. MEN AND WOMEN. The Japaneso Government has granted per mission for foreigners to become owners of shares in Japanese railways. A 0-year-old child has been arrested In Phil adelphia for shoplifting'. She is the youngest prisoner ever held in the city Jail. Emperor William of Germany has ordered Ihmael Gentz, the wall-known painter of Ori ental scenes. to prepare a sr!es of paintings of the Kaiser's recent pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Henry Bllllncs Brown. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is a splendid marksman and keen hunter. He Is spending his vacation in California on a hunt ing expedition. The name of Emerson II. L.iscum. who was killed at the head of his regiment In China, appears twice on tha Army Register In con nection with the vounteer service. In 3Iay, 18C1. ho was a Corporal in Company H, First Vermont Infantry, and in July. 1S0S, he be came a BrlRadler-General of volunteers. Lord Tennyson, successor to tho name and title of the late poet laur-ate of Great Britain, has advertised his beautllul Surrey home, at Blackdown, to rent for a period of three years. Lord Tennyson will be aosent for that length of time In South Australia, of ihich ho haa recently beon appointed Governor. Tho Khedive intends as ho passes through Paris on his return to Ezypt to make certain arrangements for his opera-houses at Cairo and Alexandria. Abbas' tastes Ha in the direc tion of llcht opera, and. accordingly, he in tends to abandon his Italian operatic repre sentations and to replace them by French opera. Prince Shenr. the Director of Telegraphs of the Chinese Empire, has flayed a somewhat conspicuous part In the communications by cable between Pekin and tho powers. He is said to be one of the most capable. Intelligent and broadminded of men in China. He has had charre not only of the telegraphs, but of tho railways also. He is at the head of the Imperial bank, a position akin to the Secre taryehip of the Treasury. NOTE AND COMMENT. Eugene V. Debs- says ho will stand by tha flag meaning, undoubtedly tha red flag. If they disfranchise the negroea In tha South, their vote will ba lighter than ever. The Sultan got out of paying that littlo bill very easily. He simply let tho war cloud settle. It is understood that Mr. William Jen nings Bryan made a few brief remarks in. Indianapolis yesterday! Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, contin ues to thank his lucky stars that there is no place Hko home. AguinaMo's hope, the great Democratla party, is treating the dark-skinned peo ples with Its customary magnanimity. Tho Democrats are criticising Roose velt's war record but it would look fair ly well run in parallel columns with Bryan's. Bryan's hatred of the money power la so fierce that, of course. If he heard of W. A Clark, he would read him out of tho party. The Census Bureau will find out just how many people there are-in every town when they begin to write letters kicking about the figures. Lord Roberts- is not in good health; ho is reported to suffer from strangulated hernia. He is 6S years old. and will very Jlkely dio in the harness. XJeronlmo is reported to have gone mad at Fort Sill. O. T.. where ho has beon a prisoner of war for 10 years. This scalp snatching savage could not survive the loss of his liberty, and it is said that fcr years he has been more like a -ferocious beast than a man. For 50 years he and his Apache braves had been on the war path, his career ending when General Miles and tho late Geonral Lawton cor nered him in the (Four Peaks- Basin near Prescott, Ariz.. in.lSS5. Tho census gives to tho boroughs of Manhattan and tho Bronx, constituting the old City of New Yosk. a population of approximately 2.100,000. which Is to bo compared with 1,515,301 in 1S06. This indi cates a gain of about 3S per cent In 10 years, agalnst-nn Increase of only 1S.8 per cent between. 18S0 and 1S00. and 23 per cent between aS70 and 1SS0. It is doubtful if the census give3 Chicago a population of 2.000.000. so that tho okl City of Newt York, without the Brooklyn addition vould still be the largest city in tho coun tsy. A population of 3.500.000 is expected of Iho census for Greater New York. The editor of the Fossil Journal, who hails from tha land of cakes, mountains and mist. In endeavoring to apologize for Police Judge Cameron, of Portland, on account of tho mild rebuke he recently administered to a person accused in his court of a rather serious offense, says: "Tho people of Portland, in passing judg ment on their new PoHce Judge in this, his first importasnt case, should extenu atingly consider three things first, he is new In the Judge business, and may be a henpecked husband himself; second, he Is a Scotchman, and it is a wall and wide ly known fact that 'Scotch coortin' Is fechtln' an' scartln", third; he may be from Glosgo'. where half the women would leave their men If they failed to trounco them uregularly at least once a week." PLEASANTRIES OF PASUAGRlAPHEns An Exsert. "Sho is quite a. llnjraist." "Oh. yes; she speaks Fronch, Italian. German and eolf," Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Worse Still. She Haw dreadful it would bo if one wero suddenly to nnd ona's selt in tha clutches of a shark. He It wouSda't worry me; I once borrowed money from, a philan thropist. Brooklyn Life. Hla Ability Proved. Too? say hot is an able, speaker?" "Oh, yea. Ho talked for threo hours and was, able tor waUk out of the. hall unassisted. In spite of thej thlng3 that wera thrown at him." Chicago 'Times-Herald. "I suppose people very peldom cross that desert?" lnterrosated tho tokirlst. "Only absconding- bank cashiers, stranger," responded Amber Pete. "But how can they stand tho broiling sun?" "Well, you see, there Is gen erally a cloud over them." Philadelphia Rec ord. A Fellow Feeling. Bunco-steerer That ero gold brick, Podner, represents two years of hard toll in the Klondike!" FJarmer Greene Shake, old hoss! I've cot-on o that represents six months' hard toll in Mooso Medder! You aln'ts the only guy thatfs got stuck on emt" Puck. Properly So Called. McJlirger Dabster seems to have a worried look Uttely. Thing umbob Yes; he's put every cenfc-ho has into a now manufacturinc concern. It's eomo thing entirely novel. McJigger Scheme's in its Infancy, eh? Thingumbob Yes.; you might say that, for it keeps htm awaketo' nights. Philadelphia Press. Ballad of tbe Kodalc Fiend. Baltimore American. YOUNG Willie Snapp was a nice youny chap, whoso tastes to pictures leaned. Ho had photographed till ho was daft, for ha was a "kodak fiend." , , ' ' ,- fn.i to ' WHERE'ER ho strayed, ha twould be .arrayed as a. snap-shot man should, be, and ho looked qulto odd with, his big-' tripod, and his other trickery. HE'D take a view that was good of you, before you'd time to think; and friends of his had to mind their ''biz" If they'd safely take a drink. FOR. Willie's way was to spend all day In snapping1 here and there; and his pic tures, too, when they camo to view, oft made his best friends swear. HE had snapped parades, and bowltchlng' maids, and dog-fights in the street; also, country fairs, and wild-beast lairs, and lovers coolns sweet. BUT the worst of all was old Deacon Bail or, rather, might have been. For Willie failed, and he was assailed, as a. wicked man of sin. 'TWAS thus, they say: When the deacon lay on what seemed was his death bed. ha raised his eyee. with some, happy erlos, and this is what he said: "THIS Is my last. I am soinff fast, for afar I plainly see. the faces fair of the an 6 la there, and they're beckoning- to me!" NOW Willie stood, as a nephew should, right by his uncle's side. For Deaeon Ball was wont to call youn Snapp his Joy and sride. AT Willie's back was his dear kodak, and. while his tears still fell. "Say, that's a gemi Unc, focusi them!" the others heard him yell. THE mourners stared, and the deacon glared, and zrowled as up he got: "If I can't die in my own way, why, I refuse to die that's what. BUT Willie Snapp. the raap-shootlBS chap, from the deacon holds aloof. "It might be true," be will say. "but you wouldn't furnish any proof. a ' Alrlnjr Tlielr Preferences. Three malr.dens talked as maidens will. Of what gives life its zest. Said one. a busom country girl. "The mountain air is best." The second, clad la yaehtlns suit All white beyond comcare. Did thereupon exultteg- cry: "Give me the ocean air!" Then one in swinging hammock' posea ' Half oped her eyes divine And laneuorouHly raid. "I'll take The millionaire for mine." Bostcn Courier.