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THE MOIOTHTO OTOEGOJSXSJff, THTTKSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1900. ' ite vze&mcm Entered at tho PestoSee at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. "Saltorlai Boom.... 10 Business Office... .eT REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Spader, per month '2 H Dally, Sanday excepted, per year ... 7 0O DaUy. with Sunday, per ear 00 Sunday, per year .. f 2x The Weekly, per year 52 The "Weekly. Z month w To City Subscribers Daily, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted.l5c Dally, pex" week, delivered. Sundays lncluded,20o POSTAGE KATES. Vnlted States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 16-page paper lc 18 to 32-page paper 2a Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended tor publication Jn The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addresned simply "The Oregonlan." 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Dunn, COS 14th X. W. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 906-812 Seventh street. i TODAVB "WEATHER. Occasional rain; winds mostly southerly. transportation interest, -without -which, fully equipped, there can be no market In the sense which the agricultural and commercial possibilities of the state demand. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. 8. for the sake of regaining their party regularity. Ninety per cent of Oregon's Gold Democrats voted for McKlnley and Roosevelt. The other ten per cent con sists of self-seeking politicians. MORE VIGOROUS MEASURES. It is announced that there Is to be a more aggressive and "thorough" pol icy In the Philippines. Such policy should have been adopted long ago. It Is duo to the disinclination of the Pres ident to the use of strong measures that it "was not. Indeed, the "amiable weakness" of his character has been apparent from the first, in his treatment of the Philippine insurrection. Oppor tunity "was lost at the beginning for crushing the insurgents. "War is harsh business and cannot be carried on suc cessfully In a spirit of human kindness. The Filipino Insurgents are rebels in arms, and from the first should have been dealt "with as such. They ought, Indeed, to have been prevented from arming; their forces should have been attacked and dispersed, or destroyed, when their preparations began. They were even allowed to import Into Ma rila vast quantities of arms from Hong Kong and from Chinese ports though' It was well known they were prepar ing to make hostile use of them. They were permitted also to fortify their lines against us, right under our obser ation; to offer every menace to our authority, and every Indignity to our 6 "Idlers. Since the actual outbreak of var. leniency to them has been carried t: an absurd degree. Thousands have been permitted to alternate between the character of guerrillas, bandits or murderers, and that of "amlgos" or pre tended friends. The severity necessary tj put an end to this business should Lae been employed long ago. The result of the election of Tues day last means that we are going to keep the flag in the Philippines and to stamp out this insurrection. Of course, we snail not shrink from the measures necessary to the end. There Is but one way to treat rebellion against the TTnited States. TWO VIEWS OF THE MATTER. If one may judge from the sharp ar raignment of farmers of that seotion by the Gold Hill News, diversified farming has not taken hold as yet to any great extent in Southern Oregon. Quoting from a Willamette Valley pa per the statement that three carloads of potatoes were shipped to Southern Oregon by an Aurora firm one day last week, that journal says: At the preeent time and for the past four years since the News -was first established In this eltv, there has been not less than 50 car loads of potatoes pfcipped Into our town, to eay nothing of what Has been shipped Into other towns of the Valley. The logical conclusion from this Is that if potatoes can be shipped Into that region and sold al a profit, after hailng paid the railroad for freight ing them, the farmers of the Rogue River Valley might with a fair mar gin of profit raise potatoes enough to supply the local market. Proceeding, the News says: Our farmers &- there Is no mosey In raising wheat at preeent prices Potatoes bring, on. an average, 1 cent per pecmd, and the writer knows a farmer personalty who bought 30 acres of land sar Satem aad paid for it the first 3 ear by raisin; potatoes oa it. Now, if the Willamette farmers oaa make hmmk-j raising "spuds" for 60 cents per hsmdred. what's the matter wKh the Rogue River farmer who oan r.ot make money on wheat but won't raise po tatoes? The matter evidently Is that he has not yet become an expansionist along lines of diversified agriculture. It Is not so much probably that he refuses as that he neglects to plant potatoes as an auxiliary crop, still making wheat and fruit the staples. Perhaps it pays him better to raise melons and peaches and buy his potatoes, though it would seem the seed time and harvest of the products varying so considerably that he might expand his efforts so as to cover the several products successfully, to his own profit. Be this as it may, there is abundant room for the exercise of head work in agricultural activities in every section of the state. The one-crop Idea Is not a profitable one to Indulge. Wheat will remain the staple without doubt, but it is being pressed closely by fruit and wool, dairy products and stock, accord ing to locality, while these are Intelli gently supplemented by poultry prod vets, hops, flax, potatoes- anything, m fact, for which there is a demand in a growing market. As long, however, as farmers in the different sections of the state supple ment each other's endeavor by an ex change, at good market rates, of such products as are more especially adapted to their soil and climatic conditions, they can scarcely be reokoned as blind to their own Interests or disloyal to the prosperity of the state. Prosperity is a wheel withki & wheel, and such ex change may not only prove profitable 9 producers, but is contributory to the THE PLAIN PEOPLE. The plain people, the children of the common school, the forge, the farm, the factory and store, gave Bryan his terrible defeat of Tuesday. The plain people burst the bonds of partisanship, took the bit In their teeth and won the race. ' The victory is a. severe rebuke to those reformers who distrust the plain people and put their chief faith in the highly educated class, who are victims of the old fallacy that mere learning Is virtue; that "the uneducated," that is, the mass of the people, are an unstable and dangerous element. These doctrin aires forget that the illiterate are not Identical with the so-called "unedu cated." The great mass of the Ameri can people have always been "unedu cated" in the sense of severely schol astic training, but so long as they are not illiterate they do not constitute our danger, but our safety. The safety of American institutions will always rest, not on the highly educated, who are comparatively few, but on the "unedu cated," as separated from the Illiter ates. In New York City it is the "edu cated class" who stay away from the polls; who meekly pay tribute to Tam many, as do the Belmonts. So-called education does not produce a good gov ernment, nor are the "educated classes" more honest or conscientious than the uneducated. It is not, meant by this statement that a man Is a better man or a better citizen for being ignorant; it is only meant that men and women are not made virtuous by merely pumping into them a large and varied amount of scholastic Instruction, but by developing those elements of char acter which they must have to dis charge creditably their social and civic duties. Honesty, courage and broad human sympathy are nourished chiefly, not by the routine of the school, but by experience of the tolls and disci pline of life. In other words, character stands for conflict and conquest, not for mere scholastic training. The plain people of America, the so called "uneducated" masses, were the salt, the stamina, the salvation of the state, when our Civil War broke out, for the so-called Northern sympathiz ers with slavery, secession and insur rection against the flag were composed almost entirely of the two extremes of society the absolute illiterate and the so-called men of high scholastic culture. The highest culture in Amer ica hesitated or sided with the South before the shot was flred at Sumter. The sound of that fateful shot had hardly echoed round the world before the "uneducated," not the Illiterate, masses, the plain people of the North, leaped to their feet with the war cry of the Revolution on their lips, and from that time forward it was the fight of the farm, the forge, the factory and the store for the perpetuity of the Union and the vitality of free institu tions. The so-called "uneducated" plain people and the mass of our peo ple will always be uneducated are In all great times that try men's souls the salvation of the state. If they cannot be trusted to preserve It, then our free experiment Is lost, for the so-called "culture" that distrusts the plain peo ple and confuses mere scholastic knowledge and training with virtue never saved a free state, much less founded it Who gave us 150,000 plurality on Tuesday in New York State, that gave Harrison but 14,000 in 18SS and Roose velt but 18,000 In 18987 The plain, un educated masses gave us this great vic tory, for thousands of Democrats burst party lines to bury Bryan, standing for free silver and free riot. When New York casts from 100,000 to 150,000 plural ity for a Republican President and Re publican Governor, it means a political revolution, when patriotism Is put above partisanship. Among the men who failed the cause of good government on Tuesday In New York City were not a few men like Carl Schurz and Bourke Cockran, men conspicuous for high culture, wealth and scholastic training, men of polished wit, superior eloquence, versatile culture. And yet these men. vigorously supported the candidacy of Bryan for the Presidency. If the plain people, the upright and downright "uneducated" rank and file of the Democracy of New York State, had followed the lead of scholastic and social culture and polished intellect. In shape of Schurs and Bourke Cockran, Bryan would have been elected Presi dent of the United States. The election of McKlnley Is an object lesson not in partisanship, but in pa triotism; and it is a rebuke to those persons who are always distrustful of the people, who are always reiterating that until high culture holds sway there is no hope of reform in municipal or state government. The reverse Is true; it Is the plain people, "the un educated," as distinguished from the il literate, that have always saved the Nation when culture was either a cow ard or a traitor. Lincoln was right In his Inflexible faith, not in the popu lace, but in the people. He had no more respect lor a villainous raDDie than had Corlolanus for the populace of Rome when he stigmatized them as "dissentlous rogues that, rubbing the poor Itch of your opinion, make your selves scabs." Lincoln firmly trusted, and not in vain, to the sober second thought of the plain people of America; not because the people are always right, but because the people are sel dom wrong In times of great emer gency and profound trial. got the cue to its- so-called paramount issue from that quarter. Mistake was made about its strength, even in Massachusetts. THE SMALL CREDIT SYSTEM. The company store an ever-present source of grievance In mining regions has been, temporarily at least, elimi nated from the problem represented by encroaching capital and protesting la bor in the Pennsylvania district lately subjected to a miners' strike. The HI effects of these stores come from their Intimate relation to the company In a sense that absorbs the miner's earnings without .giving him a chance to handle them. The company store takes money from the workman before it has reached his pocketbook an essentially discouraging proposition, even if value received is rendered in the commodi ties of trade. The testimony of uni versal experience Is that when men buy on credit they are not as careful in their purchases as when spot cash must be produced for every article obtained, Indeed, this small credit system is, wherever indulged, the worklngman's bane the clog upon his accumulative powers. Pursued among the colored people of the South, it has kept them in a condition of slavery that, to all Intents and purposes, is as hopeless and as exacting as that under which their fathers labored and sweat for genera tions. There Is no slavery more abject than that Induced by being hopelessly and constantly in debt. It Is a condi tion that binds a man hand and foot and places a perpetual mortgage upon his endeavor. It is thus that when, through the me dium of the company store, the miners get Immersed in the credit system, they rarely get far enough ahead to have a month's leeway between their cup boards and the storekeeper. It is hard to convince men that they are getting adequate pay for their la&or when they never handle their earnings and are al ways behind at the store. With the illogical reasoning of discontent and discouragement, they fall to discern their own part in :hls galling compact, but charge the results up against the system selfish enough, and Iniquitous enough, no doubt which meets the de mand of their convenience or necessi ties by supply. A weekly pay system is the first step toward loosening the fetters of this credit-system bondage, but In thousands of Instances the habit of "running a bill" has become so fixed that It Is continued even with money in the pocket. The company store has fostered this habit, no doubt, and fed upon it to its own profit and to its patrons' detriment. Herein lies Its real Iniquity, and upon this, perhaps un consciously. Is based the bitter hostil ity of the miner to the bloodsucking institution that his own careless eco nomic system has fed to arrogant fullness. For several reasons the vote of Ore gon on Tuesday was small. First,, the registration was that of last Spring, since no provision was made by law for reopening for thl3 election. Sec ond, there was no contest between the parties In the state, since it was known in advance that the Bryan party could do nothing. Third, large numbers of Republicans cared nothing for McKln ley, and supported him only in a per functory way, while not a few allowed their repugnance or Indifference to keep them away from the polls. But for these causes -the vote of the state, whloh was over 98,000 four years 'ago, would have been at least 115,000 last Tuesday. The falling off was over 3000 in Multnomah i County alone, and we think no county has polled anything like its full vote. Now seriously, do you think the Dem ocratic party in Oregon could have been so utterly demoralized and made so poor a showing, if C. E. S. Wood and Fred V. Holman had not taken the stump for It? These orators, they say, wanted to put themselves in position to take the lead of the Democratic party of the future. They seem now to have a party about the right size. Still, If they persevere, they may be able to cut It down further; and then the leadership will be easier still. Un der the hot blast and white heat of their eloquence everything except pure, unmixed, dephlogistlcated evil will be burnt and blown out of it, and there Will be a small, select party, for a few friends. It is nearly in that state now. who taught slang instead of history. For him there is no excuse whatever, and we doubt much if scolding wilF do him any good. All things considered, the proper place for him Just now is in New York, where the construction of our under ground railway has provided much work, for men of his intellectual status. Out of place in the classroom, he would find himself at home in the big trench, and there his favorite jargon would create no offense. The great common-sense vote of the country, the great silent vote that "did the business" last Tuesday, as so many times before, was cast by the vast body of our people who are neither rich nor poor, who are engaged In self-support, lng business or labor, and want peace and order and sound, rational condi tions In public and private affairs. Never yet In our history has this great body of our people been appealed to In vain. They are as far from being wor shipers of wealth as they are from heeding the demagogic cry to the Im provident against wealth. It is this great body of 'people that prevents us from having "classes" In this country only rich people on one side and a vast proletariat on the other. The announcement of the total popu lation of the country naturally pro vokes discussion as to what basis of population may be chosen In making the next apportionment of the House of Representatives. The basis has been changed after every census, the popu lation requirement for a Representa tive In Congress having been regularly Increased, and the number of Repre sentatives Increased also, with one ex ception only. In 1843, after the sixth census, the number of Representatives was reduced from 240 to 213. But at the next census the number was In creased again until the census of 1890, when the population basis was made 173,901, and the total number of Rep resentatives was raised to 356. The ad mission of Utah added one more, mak ing 357 Representatives. With our present population of nearly 75,000,000 in the forty-five states, a ratio of one Representative to each 200,000 would give a House of Representatives of 375 members, an increase of 18 mem bers over the present House. If a smaller basis of population Is chosen, the number of members will be still larger, and If a larger basis Is fixed upon, a smaller number of Representa tives will be the result. The new cen sus will make some changes In the dis tribution of Representatives not only among the states, but In the, states themselves. Massachusetts alone of New England will gain a Representa tive. New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri and Texas will gain In representation. The larger increase of the urban over the rural population will give to cities a greater representation In Congress than now. There Is likely to be a change" In the representation of the Southern States, which cannot fairly expect to continue to be given representation for their full population when in direct violation of the Federal Constitution Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina have disfranchised their colored voters by constitutional requirement. These four states were given, under the census of 1890, four teen Representatives, and the same number of votes' In the Electoral Col lege, for this colored population. " ir glnla and Alabama are both about to hold a constitutional convention to dis franchise their colored voters. The calm that follows a great storm may now be expected to settle down over the country. And It will be wel come. "That tired feeling" of which the purveyors of nostrums are wont to speak had become universal.' All there was to say had been said weeks ago. The rest was bu stale repetition ham mered on the ear. xet It was impos sible to drop the subject until It could be dropped through the ballot-box. This accomplished, and the result being satisfactory in a business, social and governmental sense, 15,000,000 -voters, more or less, will now draw a breath of relief and go about their business, glad that it is all over for another four years. Colonel Bryan and Chairman Jones went early to bed Tuesday evening. In this they showed discretion, though for the matter of that there was nothing else left them to do. They had been working hard there is no doubt about that. Their activities, having been of the pernicious order, did not make them less exhausting, but rather the more so, and all considerate people will be glad to know that they slept sound ly while the returns showing their overwhelming defeat went rattling over the wires. Hon. John McCraken is elected to the Legislature from Multnomah County by a majority of 3500. This Is a close representation of the strength in this county of Mr. Corbett's candidacy for the Senate, It may serve to show the Republicans of the state, which Is the truth. th.ot the defeat of the Republican Legislative ticket In Oregon In June was due to antagonism, not to Mr. Cor bett, but to others. Major-General O. O. Howard, of the retired list of the Army, a distinguished corps commander of the ClvU War, who once commanded the Department of the Columbia, completes his 70th year today, and at a banquet given In' his honor In New York City this evening Thomas B. Reed, General Sickles, Gen eral Wheeler and General G. M. Dodge will speak. Chauncey Depew will preside. HEIRESSES AND TITLES. Paris Opinion of the Castellane Difficulties. (Copyright. 1900, by the New York Tribune.) PARIS, Nov. L The decision of the First Chamber of the Civil Tribunal or the Department of the Seine, which, upon petition of George J. Gould, places his sister, the Countess Boni de Castellano, under the tutelage of a judicial council, causes no surprise whatever In social cir cles, for the financial extravagance Of the Castellanes since their marriage has all along been a thing of common no toriety. The Judgment of the court, which prevents JIme. de Castellane from spend ing more than the actual income from her dowry, which income is estimated by the tribunal at 8295 francs 17 centimes a day, is regarded as a wise and sensible measure, and in the true Interests of the Countess herself and of her children. The judgment has provoked renewed discus sion of the private affairs of the Cas tellanes. It should be once for all un derstood that Boni de Castallane has never for a moment been taken seriously here by any one except his creditors. Ho is regarded as a harmless and decorative little personification of good-natured, gen erous vanity. His bitter antagonism to President Loubet, his pose as a sort of Gallic Boxer; his plunge In Chauvinist Nationalist Jewbaltlng politics, adroitly exploited by older and more experienced political hands, who hoped through this means eventually to tap the Gould estate for the benefit of the Chauvinist political cliques, was all along regarded as mere youthful exuberance. As for Mme. de Castellane, the verdict of Parisian society is that, like other American heiresses who ohoose to marry French titles, it is only fair that she should "pay the piper," especially as the expenditures in this instance were all made in Paris, and added another rivulet to the merrily flowing stream of Parisian luxury and pleasure. The Castellanes' munificent endowment fund for the construction of a building to replace the old Charity Bazaar, burned In the terrible catastrophe of 1297, was looked upon here as a clever bid to win over the Faubourg Saint Germain set, which at first was not particularly friend ly to the young transatlantic Countess, and the attempt was, in a certain meas ure, successful. Another effect of the Judgment of the Seine tribunal is a revival of the subject of marriages of American heiresses to French titles. The question Is keenly discussed at all 5-o'clock teas and recep tions. The Paris journals reproduce from New York and Chicago newspapers arti cles showing the native born American antipathy to such unions, and telling of the recent boycotting in New York of an alleged French Duke who went gunning for American heiresses. Henry Harduln, a clever writer of the Paris Matin, says that the French Min ister of Commerce should remember that there exists in France a vast category of broken-down gentlemen endowed with titles, -who nourish a firm hope of finally living in wealth and luxury with the money of young American girls, The glrld have the dollars; the would-be husbands are Marquises, Counts or Dukes, Owing to these titles the embryo husbands are qualified to introduce into France free of duty great amounts of capital for the benefit of, French com merce. If the United States boy cotts French titles, . then the French Minister of Commerce should insist upon reprisals. If the United States places an embargo on the exportation of American heiresses, the French Government should at once put a prohibitive' duty on Ameri can pork. The article closes with the words: Chicago will- protest, Chicago will rage; so much the better We will not glvo In. The American hog will 'not be admitted Into France until our would-ba husbands have free admis sion Into America. Let us stand firm, and v,o shall win. Hurrah for freo trade I The spirit of this editorial in the Matin shows the true psychology of this little tempest In the Castellane teapot. Henry Cachard, counsel for the Coun tess de Castellane, whom I saw this even ing, says that a mutual agreement was arrived at last July in Paris by the Gould, and Castellane families In a purely amic able way to obtain a judicial council for Mme. de Castellane, and this Is the first Instance on record of a foreigner being appointed in such a capacity by a French court. Count and Countess de Castellane con tinue on the most affectionate terms with each other, and It was the Countess her. self who took the Initiative in seeking "conseil judiclaire." All debts will be paid immediately by the Gould estate, with the exception of a few claims from antiquity and bric-a-brac dealers, which are deemed absolutely exorbitant. C. I. B. toa Tanu of Samoa. He ekes out an ex istence on the paltry sum of $150 a month, or less than $3000 a year. The salary paid to his predecessor for upholding the dignity of the Samoan throne was f50 a month, and with this sum he was well satisfied. When tho new King, a year ago, came to draw his first month's sal ary he struck for T150, and" got it after going to law about it- The cashier of the treasury, which is now controlled by the Consuls of the United States, Great Brit ain and Germany, at first refused to pay the amount demanded. The fact that the King Is drawing such a large salary Is a source of gratifica tion to his adherents, who expect him to wear a clean calico shirt ever day, at least, on account of his new accumu lation of wealth. JiOrE AND CCLMHEKT. There seem to bo Indications that Bryan, carried Texas. "We shall have a good deal to be thank- ful for this year. More votes were thrown at Teddy than brickbats and eggs. i IHDXAXS HAVE CONSUMPTION. Great Mortality Am one the Civilised Tribes in South Dakota. A recent report made by Nathan P. Johnson, United States Indian Agent for the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians, which gives the vital statistics of those bands, shows an alarming state of health among them, says the Chicago Record. "There are 1900 Individuals In the com bined bands. Last year there were 56 deaths and but 45 births among them. The significance of these figures will bo bet ter apprehended when It is known that the death rata for the State of South Dakota, at large is but S.22 per 1000. The most alarming feature, however, rests in tho fact that 90 per cent of the Sisseton and Wahpeton deaths result from con sumption. In consequence of this unusal mortality these peoplo are greatly de pressed and discouraged In tho prosecu tion of their material affairs. The course of consumption among them is fearfully rapid, usually resulting fatally within a few weeks. Mr. Edmund Cook, of Wil mot, who has for many years traded with these people, gives many Instances in point. A robust and apparently healthy man came to him in Juno last and ordered a suit of clothes. " 'I have the sickness,' he said, 'and I want the clothes as soon as convenient, for I am to be burled In them. "Tho clothes were ordered from a Chi cago tailor and they arrived on the day they were wanted for the funeral. Mr. Cook showed a note, written in a fem inine hand, which requested that he send the writer 'a blue shawl suitable to be burled In.' The writor had but a few days previous been at the village In good health, but her death from tuberculosis followed within a few aays. While I was at Wilmot a buxom-looking young woman came to Mr. Cook's store. T have the sickness,' she said, 'and I want to make my will.' She lived but three weeks." The attention of the South Dakota dele gation in Congress has been called to the above facts and the Congressmen will endeavor to have the Indian Department send a commission of competent phy sicians and trained bacteriologists to this reservation. It is believed that the spread of the consumption Is due almost wholly to contagion, and that, therefore, it is very important that they receive training In such habits as wilj limit the proballlity of innoculatlon. It will un doubtedly be necessary to provido a re treat for the afflicted, where they will be removed from contact with the healthy. while It Is not Impossible that cures may bo effected under proper scientific regi men. The SIssetons and Wahpetons are civi lized and Christian Indians, living upon allotted lands in severalty upon their former reservations on Lake Traverse, in Northeastern South Dakota. They were the first of the Sioux to come under the influence of the missionaries, having been resident in tho neighborhood of Lac Qui Parle, Minnesota, when the Biggs-Williamson missionary families settled there In 1835. During the great massacre of 1862 these Sioux were friendly to the whites, and it was due to their efforts that the lives of the captives were preserved until General Sibley'B army arrived with relief. ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEADS. OREGOVS GOLD DEMOCRATS. The few Gold Democrats who re turned to the Bryan fold here in Ore gon made a great noise, but they didn't cast any votes to speak of. The result shows that the rank and file of the gal lant band who stood out for principle In 1896 stood out for principle again in 1900. They didn't see any more merit In dishonest money and free riot now than they did then. They knew Bryan for a demagogue then, and they know him for a little worse demagogue now. The same instinct that set them against dishonest finance then set them against assaults on the flag now. They saw their duty and they did It well. The result Is hardly less their tri umph now than the result In 1896 was their triumph then. The handsome majority given the Republican electoral ticket in Oregon Is in great degree due to the active labors and effective influ ence of men like S. B. Huston, W. D. Fenton, M. L. Pipes, W. M. Colvig. G. W. Stapleton and F. A. Seufert. Their course stands out in strong contrast with that of the few who have swalr lowed Bryan and the Chicago platform The expected happened in Montana. Bryan electors, a "Democratic Gover nor and a Clark majority In the Legis lature, counting the purchasable vote reckoned upon in that body, were chosen. This last means the election of W. A. Clark to the United States Sen ate, a'nd the possible re-enactment of a contest In Washington next Spring that will emphasize anew the infamy of Montana's political methods. The Re publican party leaders made a tremen dous effort to turn the political tide In that state, but without success. Clark's unsatisfied ambition, backed by his millions and reinforced with the en couragement given to the anarchistic element by Bryan orators and news papers, formed a combination before which the effort to retrieve the good name of the state went down- Massachusetts has always been the head and front of the opposition to Na tional expansion. It has been so from the first. A body of people in Massa chusetts has objected at every stage to the expansion that has made our country great. It continues Its objec tion now, in the case of the Philippine Islands. This is the reason why Bos ton has now given Bryan a majority. As a state, Massachusetts has always been magnanimous and patriotic; but it has always held a more considerable body .of little souls than any other state. From them the rubbish about "imperialism," of which there has been so" much during the past year, has mainly emanated. The Bryan party Last Saturday Colonel Bryan advised the Chicago American: Tho Republican campaign has been a failure. The full-dinncr-pall argument has been repu diated by the worklngmen. Well, that Is Just about as much as he knew about the things he talked of In 1896. We suppose that Constitutional gov ernment In the United States will now cease to exist. Such, at least, we have been told by Brjah orators and news papers would be the result, if McKln ley were re-elected. Mr. Bryan has pressed down upon the brow of the Democratic party this crown of thorns. He has crucified the Democracy upon the cross of 16 to L "Wholesome Family Discipline. New York Times. President Harper, of the University of Chicago; has at last been moved to have a heart-to-heart talk with his professors. It was certainly time for such a proceed ing, and tho more plainly the president talked the better It will be both for the University of Chicago and the professors themselves. For beyond question several members of his faculty have recently at tracted attention in ways which, while they may have added to the gayety of na tions, especially of foreign nations, most assuredly did not elevate the reputation of American educators. According to report, President Harper expressed particular dis pleasure with three professors the one who ranked Mr. Rockefeller with Shake speare, the one who disgusted his history -classes by lecturing to them in the lan guage of the slums, and the one who ex plained tho riots of today by saying that they were a natural result of the lawless deeds of our Revolutionary ancestors. The good president, while he was about it, might well have criticised tho Chicago University man who started the silly dis cussion on the possibility of living well on 15 cents a day, but perhaps that will come in a second lesson. What he said did very well for a beginning, and his re proofs, however severe, were In each case thoroughly deserved. Sensational Journal ism is" bad, sensational preaching Is worse, but more real harm can be done by' the sensational teacher than by any other notoriety hunter whom we can. on the instant Recall. The most reprehensible of tho Chicago group is the professor SOSIE ROYAL INCOMES. They Ren From Million to Hun dreds n Year. Washington Star. Seventywfour men and two women di vide among themselves the governments of the world. In other words, there are 76 rulers. Of these 22 govern as Presidents, 15 as Kings, 11 as Dukes and Grand Dukes, six as Emperors, 5 as Princes and 5 as .Sultans. There are two Khans, of Baluchistan and of Khiva; two Ameers of Afghanistan and of Bokhara: two queens, Queen Victoria and Queen Wllhelmina; one Khedive, of Egypt; ,ono Shah, of Persia; one Bey, of Tunis; one Mikado, of Japan; one Ma haraja, of Nepaul, and one Raja, of Sara, wok. Of these august potentates Queen Vic toria and her grandson, William II of Germany, are the only ones who sport two titles the one Queen and Empress, the other Emperor and King. The most venerable of these rulers is Sidl AH Pasha, of Tunis, born in 1817. The youngest head of a nation Is Wllhel mina, of Holland, born in 1SS0, the young King of Spain not yet being seated on his ancestral throne. In the Spring and Sum mer seasons one-third of the birthdays of these potentates oocur, April, May and August being the particularly favored months. When it comes to civil lists, tho Em peror of Russia, who is said to bo the richest man In tho world, can show the largest bank account, $12,000,000 being" his yearly income. This is no more, however, than some good citizens of our Republic have as their income! Seven other spvercigna have Income reaching the million figure the Sultan of Turkey, who has JIO.000,000; the Emperor of Austria, who has $3,875,000; Emperor William of Germany, 53,852,770; King of Italy, $2,858,000; the Queen of England. $1,925,000; King of Bavaria, 5M12.000, and the King of Spain. $1,400,000. The King of Spain, however, has an additional $600, 000 for his family, and the King of Italy must deduct from his millions $180,000 for his family. The one who obtains the bulk of his Income in the most original manner is the Sultan of Sulu. who raises it by fines. He has men whose business it is to watch his subjects who are making money, and as soon as a man gets something ahead he is charged with some crime, and the result is a fine. If a man has amassed $5000, for example, ha is accused of some crime, and to save himself from prison or death must pay a fine of $1000. The Crown Prince is often sent out to collect the fines. From the rent of lands he receives $5000 a year, and the United States adds $3000 in silver to the royal treasury yearly. Durine the Present Century It Has Distanced All Competitors. A hundred years ago French was the most widely-spoken of European tongues. But Its lead was a precarious one, for Russia ran it hard with her difficult epeech, and German had but some half million users less than Russia, says a London newspaper. -More than 30,000,000 employed the tongue of the Teuton, the patrons of Russia fell just short of 31, 000,000, and the supporters of French only passed that number by a bare half-million. Spanish, at the beginning of the 19th century, waa in 26,000,000 mouths, of which mora than half were outside of Spain itself. Spanish was then, indeed, tho paramount colonial language. Six teen, millions of non-Europeans spoke it; only a beggarly 1,250,000 made use of French. EngllBh our crisp, eloquent, famU'ar mother tongue was the dark horse of the philological stable. Fourteen mil Ions spoke it In Europe, 6,000,000 and odd In the States, and 750.OC0 elsewhere. Amaz ing fact! 100 years since but 20,000,000 em ployed the tongue of Shakespeare! ui those who spoke seven Important Euro pean languages 160.000.000 In all one-sixteenth alone used English. And today? English has leaped from twenty to six times twenty, from the filth place among European tongues to the first. No one has yet heard Bryan move t, make it unanimous. r ", It seems to be seftled beyond all doubtf that Woolley did not carry Kentuckyt Bryan got through with the campaign, in time for the Fall plowing, anyway. ? Now let us stand around and see thej losers of freak bets make idiots of them. selves. An examination of- the Declaration oft Independence win not disclose any mutt-' lallon. . There are still a few states which can' gel Into tha Republican column before It, is too late. Bryan is probably reflecting: "Oh, how wretched is that poor man who bangsron bosses' favors!" If there had been a few more Pettlgrewsj In the Senate the country would havet been unanimous for McKlnley. A Tennessee woman killed her son for smoking cigarettes the other day. Here is a punishment to fit the crime. It is likely that Senator Clark will wish he had made that $100,000 contribution' to his own campaign fund Instead of Bryan's. Every great man, it seems, is fated to, be misquoted. Lincoln has his Bryan.v Jefferson his Stevenson, and Cleveland' his Philadelphia Times reporter. Dennlson Wheelock, a full-blooded Oneida Indian, has joined the staff of a Green Bay, Wis., paper as a reporter. He is a graduate of Carlisle Indian School. The late General Palmer, as a member of the Springfield, 111., school board, some years ago, brought about the abolition of separate public schools for white and colored children. LI Hung Chang, Sheng and other Chi nese capitalists have established a cotton factory with a capital of 2,000.000 taels. The buildings are said to cover 60 acre?, its employes to number 6000, and its prod ucts to be 1000 pieces of cloth and 80,000 pounds of cotton yarn every 24 hours. The factory is run day and night, each shift of workmen working 114 hours, Tho mill has 50 looms and 90,000 spindles, and is as "up to date as any Massachusetts factory." The cotton used in this mill Is grown In China, At present, there are in operation In China 378,000 spindles, with tho prospect that many more will be set runnnlng In the immediate future. The factory girls earn the equivalent In our money of about 14 cents per day; In speaking of clerical titles the other evening a well-known Methodist preacher Who was not Just then preaching found fault with the frequency with which some newspaper men and other persons, even of his own sect, succumbed to the impres sion that Methodist Episcopal bishops that, in fact, all bishops were entitled t"p be called "right reverend" and expected so to be known. The Methodist bishops have, he says, no right to that prefix, and do not want It, Their church neither applies nor recognizes the title, since its bishoDS do not belong to an order of tha ministry above or even separate from the other clergy of the church. A Metho dist bishop is simply Invested with special functions as a general superintendent of the church's affairs, and is otherwise on the some level with his brethren. Loss of Its Rich Men. New York Evening Post. The truth is that the Democratic party has threatened the rich men who have been attached to it by birth, by tradl tion and by belief, with the loss of their property, in part by the use of bad money, and In part by an impairment of the safeguards which the judicial sys tem throws around rich and poor alike. It is needless to recur to the planks in their platform, or to the speeches of their candidate, In which these menacing poli cies are embodied. It Is sufficient to show that the party Is Itself at fault for the loss of its rich men. Whatever loss it has suffered in this regard is due to its own insensate folly. This Is the reason why so many Democrats of position and character are saying. "We Intend to de feat tho party so badly that It will aban don its attacks upon the gold standard, upon the Judicial system, and upon social order. When it does so, when It returns to the ancient moorings, and becomes once more the party of Jefferson, Jack son, Tilden and Cleveland, we will return to It, and give it victory if we can." Australia the Poor Man's Paradise. Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle. Tho cheapness of living in Australia is proverbial; It is a veritable poor man's paradise. In the butchers' shops you see two-penny and four-penny tickets on the meat, and provisions of local production are equally Inexpensive. In the eating houses or coffee shops a great feature of town life there you can get a square meal, consisting of a steak or chop, bread and butter and tea, for sixpence. There are no tips for the waiters in the Antipodes. The colonials ore enormous tea drinkers, and on an average partake of the cheering herb seven times a day. Boarding-hoUses another prominent fea tureare rendered almost essential in a land where the domestic servants com mand a wage of 1 a week, wjth, every evening out and leave to practice the piano and keep a bicycle. . Spirit of the Ace I Fact-Ftndlnff. World's Work. Although it has been the century of the widest conquest, it has been the cen tury also of the greatest toleration, of the keenest human sympathy, the most active helpfulness. In an era of action and of freedom, man has become a brother to man as he never became in eras of me diation and authority. It has been the centuryof heroic fact-finding, the century of the emancipation of thought from -mys- The monarch who stands last on the 4 tery and dogma, and of the yielding of J list as regards h3 income Is King Malie-j precedent to experience. A Honolulu correspondent writes: "John Chinaman is an entirely different person in Hawaii from what he Is in. California. Those who know him only on the Pacific Slope do not know him at all. There hs is a despised menial, outside the pale of society, abused and tolerated because ho can't be wholly gotten rid of. In these fa vored isles he is a man among- men, the faithful and trusted servant, and often occupies Important places in public af fairs; he Is welcomed to any society for which he has fitted himself. And so well has he Improved the exceptional op portunities that have come to him In Ha waii that he is sometimes able to graco the most select social functions. Last week I attended a reception at Oahu College, given to tho new president and his wife. There, among the elite of the city, I saw Chinese and Japanese men and women, some in their national cos tumes. j,nv J- tp - Pigeon Service in the French Army. Special attention has recently been paid. In France to the use of carrier pigeons' by the cavalry. The pigeons are carried in a basket attached to the rider's shoulders in tho same way as a knap sack, says a foreign correspondent. Each bird is placed in a tube made of wicker and lined with hair, the elasticity of which deadona the effect of the Jolting, One, two or three such tubes can be- car ried in the basket. The birds are in a numbed condition when first taken out of the tubes, but they speedily recover unless they aro left several days in the tubes, when the numbness ends In death. To prevent this a light form of folding cage is carried, in which the birds can rest and recover themselves during a halt and partake of nourishment. Twelve men belonging to the cavalry are sent every year to attend a course of instruction in the handling and treatment of pigeons at the military pigeon station, at Vaugl-rard. Too Many "Dainty Diane." Baltimore American. We don't cet anything to eat at our house, any more There's never any common dUh comes through, the kitchen door. For ma and all the girl la workla like they wag machines A-fnakm' "dainty dUhes" from tho fashion magazines. They give us dabs o this an' that, with names we can't pronounoe, With sprigs o' stuff around them all. Just lilt a little flounce. A stalk or two o' splnago takes the placo o; "mess o greens" We're eatln' "dainty dishes" from tho fashion. magazines! Tho grocry bill's a-hummln now I tell you' It's a sin. ' Wa got to buy the dainty stuff an things to cook It in I'm blamed if I'll call bean soup any "con summay de beans!" 4 But If s la "Dainty Dishes" In tho fashion magazines. I want a steak I want it quick Tra hungry as a boss I want it with thlok gravy no new-fangled kind o "lauoe," ' An' listen ker'fut an' you'll know Jest' what the or" man meaas " I want no "dainty dishes" fra the fashion magazines I