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THE MOUSING OKEGOXlAsr, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9 1900. it eSrgonxon Entered at the Patfllee ot Portland. Oregon, a seoed-cisj3 mutter. TELEPHONES. Editorial noom i6 v3inej;-Oraco.J..C67 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Malt -tptsetagf prepare:). In Advance Zattr, with fetnOsy. per raosih ..X0 Dollr, Sunday 'ocepted'pi-r year 7 M Dally, with -,ay. jc year 9 00 bHaday. icr ysr 3 uO Tie Week:,, jcr yar 1 M The Weekly, 3 widths 30 To City Subscribers Datly, per nt a--hrcred, Busdoys excepted.l&o Daily. pr wk. d:tvred. Sundays lnoluded.20c POBTaQC P-ATfcS. Halted Stctea. Catada ar-d Mexico: I to J &- papr lc 1 to 3-)as pf4r . 3c News r4'4r,"e"lDtftaed far publication ltv T"a OreroBtan snraW be addressed invaria bly "Editor Tins OrfSMMn." not to thw ha ma of ay Individ jal Letters rrtatns to advertis ing, aabMrijKhjn? or to .any btMlncs matter should ha Mn sU-sob- "The Oregonlan." The OretroMtm doe sot buy voc ro or stories from ln4fvMulfs and cannot undertake to re tWB any me.Mtcrfpto sent to It wltltout soliol t&ttoB. No ttantps sfceeld be Inclosed for this, purpose, "Paget Sound BareaH Captain A. Thompson. oSee a, nil Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Uox U05. Taooa Poatofnct. Hurt n Bustneaa Oflice The TrlbHne build Ins. New Torlt City; 'The Rookery," Chicago; th g. C HecJrx-lt special agency. New York. For eel in San Fraocitoo by J. K. Cooper. T0 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Usld emttk Bros.. SM Sutter street. F. W. Pitta. lWS MarkflC street; Feeter & Orear, Ferry 2ewastaad. For sate in Los Angeles -by B. F. Gardner. 2S So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 106 BO Spring Btraat. . For eal in Thwalm by H. C. Shears. 103 N. Sixteenth street, a&d Barkalov Bros., 1012 Canuua street For ealo In Solt Lake by the Salt "Lake News Co . 77 W. Second South stret- For Ml in New Orlea&s by Ernest & Co., 216 Royal street. Ob Me 1r Waobtoeton. D. a. with A. W. Dunn. fiW 14U X W. Tor sale in Denver Colo, by Hamilton & Tfeodrtck. 0.i2 seventh street. 1 . TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair, "with northerly triads. PORTLAVU, FIUDAY, XOVRMBBR 9. 1 m' MISSOURI'S AUDACITY. The. effrontery of the people t)f Mis souri is enough to make an honest man's blood boll with Indignation. They have passed, practically without opposition, constitutional amendments In the nature- of enabling acts for the proposed Louisiana Purchase Exposi tion -In ltKB, yet they choose Bryan electors by 46,090 majority, they send twelve Democrats to Congress, and they will elect a Democratic Senator to succeed Vest. They should not get a cent of money from Congress for their fair; they should be obliged to accept plugged -Q0l9 for admission, and at the tiro of their 'shw St. Louis should be delivered over to a riot like the one it 2iad in June, so that nobody will at tend it We hope our free-silver and anti everythlng friends will show due indig nation at this utterance, not only be cause the display will afford them harmless pleasure, but also because we should regret to see them manifest any Intellectual operation Inconsistent with the stupidity and ignorance that have hitherto, with the most engaging con sistency, characterized them. With this hope In prospect, we assure the 350,000 or so Bryan men of Missouri that if the fate Just Indicated should overtake thpim they would get just what they deserye. ' " These Missourians want good times. They expect Congress to maintain the otd standard, safe conditions for 'man ufactures, confidence for the operations ot credit, steady employment for labor. $et they send men to Congress, and to the Electoral College, pledged to do everypng; in their power to destroy those conditions, bring us to a silver basis, and begjrar rich and poor alike. They will appear before a Republican Congress, hat In hand, for their expo Bition, yet they send twelve men there who will hope for re-election through denunciation of that same Republican Congreis for extravagance. They will cippoot PresWeptMcKinley to sign their bill with a gold pen which they will furnish and carry oft as a memento, und yet their man Stone and all their party hae been denouncing him as a eubverter of our liberties and their seventeen electoral votes went against Mm la 18S6 and in 1900. They propose to celebrate the act of expansion whloh took them into the United States, whereas they support a declaration of political principles which would require us to deliver back the very ground on 'which they stand to France, or to the aborigines from whom possession was long ago wrested by the French, with out "oousent of the governed," and by them sold to a Democratic President. If Missouri wants an exposition, let her pay for It. Let Congress give no appropriation, and if it consents to coin souvenir dollars, let them be made with &. hflje-in them i2 per .cent of their di ameters. Let the President not start its 'Machinery by wire from Washing tn. -but 4et Bryan send them an ad dress reproaching them for occupying land taken without "consent," and let the City of St. Louis be delivered over to-hjrabWle for whom Bryan promises fx6e'xiat under the phrase "no gov ernment by injunction." T&se'.we H&U be "told, are not "tol erant" words, such as bents due re gard for the opinions of others. So be iC Tfc Oregonlan wishes here and now to dtsefcUm and disavow front this time forth any tolerance or semblance of fair dfattag for those, who have worked and pr1ftfed'"To ruin the industries ot this country by descent to the. silver baslB; liereajMl now to abandon any tolerance or TJrtreatient it may have hereto fore accorded those who have worked aodprayed for the suocess of the mer cenary and blood-sucking bandits even 3iow-iWng upon the" American flag and treacherously assassinating1 our American boys in blue along the wet salads and in the Mingled morasses of Luigtn .aifcd CarInduque. The Bryanite doetotoeffJtMitee is so utterly discred ited by ail history and pressnt experi ence, the Bryanite contention as to cap ital Is so destructive of all property, the Bryanite attitude toward National lienor is so unworthy a virile manhood, the'Bryanke desire toward our gallant BokMcra" in arms is so hostile to the natural instincts et patriotism, that tol erance ot them has "long oeased ot be a virtue. Their advocates can no longer claim the respect accorded to honost difference ot intelligent opinion, the pa tience bestowed uptfn errors of politi cal Judgment. The man who deliber atste opposes the gold standard now, whiCH the basis of our Industry and trat, is ao crictay to -rery citizen's smtortal welfare,. The man who con eetouely extends, aid and oomfort to those la arms a&hKi our flag aad our uniform is an enemy to the state. Such men are the 3S0.000 Bryan voters in Mis souri. Congress should find out with pains and care exactly what they want, and then not give it to them. ANOTHER MACIIXXE BROICETf. Little bosses set up toVun the Repub lican party in the State of Washing ton, and named a candidate for Gover nor lie the. person of J. M. Erink. Now they have got him beaten and them selves overwhelmingly rebuked. There can be no interpretation of the result In Washington other than that the peo ple will not permit Mr. Wilson or Mr. McGraw. both or either of them, to take chargp of their affairs. By the success of the McKlnley electors, the Republican party there has announced to the Nation that it has redeemed the state from Populism. ,At the same time, by the defeat ofMr. Frink. it has put the "ring" out of business. Mr. Frink was nominated after a tre mendous factional fight in King County. He is one of that well-known type of respectable citizens who lend their names and high personal' reputa tions to the ends of the "machine." It wanted him because It could use him, whether he knew he was being used or not. The dignity and honors of office were enough for him; Its usufruct was enough for the bosses. As his success In the King County primaries and con vention was contrived through the dill gent and unceasing efforts of Mr. Wil son and Mr. McGraw, so was his nomi nation regarded as public notice that they were again in the saddle. As ho was the candidate of a faction, the choice of Mr. Frink as Gubernatorial candidate was a tactical mistake. Being the associate and agent of two politicians whom the party had once unmistakably repudiated, he could not expect the cordial support of great numbers of Republicans who had al ready successfully united to crush the machine. Doubtless it would have been error for the party to nominate Judge Humes, the chief antagonist of Frink. because he is himself the leader of a distinctive faction, and many Re publicans are Irreconcilably opposed to him. The duty of the Tacoma conven tion was to select a candidate who could poll all the votes of the party; and this, under the skillful manipula tion of the bosses, it failed to do. Ver ily, they all have their reward. If the dog-in-the-manger policy of rival leaders, or would-be' leaders, is not entirely changed, and broader and better methods adopted, and broader if not better men installed in authority, the party is in great danger ot defeat two yenrs from now. We see that the opposition to Wilson, candidate for United States Senator, managed to de feat two Republican hold-over Senators in Spokane; and the opposition to Ank eny, candidate for Senator, beat one Republican candidate in Walla Walla. These same cut-throat tactics were general throughout the state. If they are continued as now seems altogether likely two years from now we shall have a Democratic Legislature in Washlngtdn, and Turner will be re turneji "to the Senate, a consummation devoutly not to be wished. The pen alty of Wilsonism or McGrawlsm, and Humeslsm or Ankenylsm, is defeat for them and misfortune and disaster for the Republican party. The election of Rogers on Ita own merits cannot be regarded as an un mixed calamity. He was a Populist, and Is a Democrat, and, to judge by his own utterances, he is pretty much everything a public man ought not to be. But it may. with an approach to the truth, be said of him that he never said a wise thing and never did a fool ish one. He has, on the whole, made a creditable ' Governor. A great variety o campaign ihargcs "has bfeen brought against him, but fhe faults of lils ad ministration for the most part are venial and non-essential. Some of his olflcers are an unsavory and malodor ous crew; but, considering the material in his own party he had to 'select from, It is but justice to Bay that he has not done as poorly as he might have done. The state's affairs have indeed been prudently and economically handled. Washington can look forward to an other four years of Rogers with confi dence that the state administration is at least under the direction of an honest man. It would seem that here in the Northwest the determination to kick out the bosses Is contagious. We have had a little experience of that kind in Multnomah County, Involving a partial Republican defeat that we are surviv ing with a deal of equanimity. There are some people in Washington who now also know how it is themselves. TAKING TO THE "WOODS. Professor Wheeler, of Tale College, defined his political views before elec tion as follows: As tho choice lies between a man tho, with his clique, is, as I firmly believe, already cn tajefd In -Rrecklnr the Constitution and the country In one 'nay, and another man who. with his clique, will. It he gets a ohance, try to wreck them in another way, I decline to vote for cither. Professor Wheeler Is a good repre sentative of a class of persons in this world who are never satisfied with the laws unless they can enact their own sermons' into statutes, who are uncom promising Idealists, chronic reaction aries, who flock Ly themselves, who are always found, as Thad Stevens said, "behind the barn with a bunch of matches trying to create a little private hll of their own." One of these respectable, cultivated chronic "kickers" was summoned as-a witness in a trial In New England years aco, and the lawyer who cross examined him said in his final review of the testimony: "And now We come to the testimony of Abel Fletcher, a very respectable person, who cannot perhaps fee fairly defined as ubsolutely non compos mentis, but is so near that condition that it is safe to infer that he is a Prohibitionist." Referring to the breed of men, like Professor Wheeler, who refuse to vote at Presi dential . eleotions, the Philadelphia Ledger says: Suppose all the voters follow tho example announced by ex-Seeretary Carlisle, "not to veto for oither of the Presidential candidates," by which it Is to be presumed Mr. Carlisle means no one of them. We all have the same richt to rcfrsiR from votimr that he has, and suppose w all do what will be tho roault? Anarchy. This criticism reduces the action of thaee 'reactionary ohildren of culture to an absurdity. When 76,000,000 of people arc sharply divided into two great political parties in a free country, the fellow who cannot find It in. his con science or his reason to see any choice between them is an eccentric, a crank that is utterly out of place and useless in any sane system of civilized govern mant;.. A inan o . sense .never falls to co-operate rltb his fclloiv-raen in te matter of public government, even when the highest statesmanship he can secure Is very far short of his politi cal ideals. Every forward step in po litical reform stands .for a compromise between many warrlnjr opinions, and if nobody voted or accepted office or com promised to secure action until every bbdy's private pet opinions were satis fled, there would ba nothing but a sul len political stupor ending in anarchy. A man ought to leave a country when he finds himself so completely out ot joint with the times that he cannot choose between two great parties that divide 15,000,000 of voters. These politi cal cracks. Would do well to remember that "everybody knows more than anybody," and. that ,a man whose po litical taste is so delicate that ho can not vote with cither party is probably too feather-headed for service in the rough currents of this world. He ought to' hie him to a convent, where there are neither politics nor politicians. THE LIBERAL VICTORY IN CANADA. The Liberal party in Canada has won a substantial victory. The Liber als have made some losses in British Columbia, and in Ontario, but have done so well in Quebec and the mari time provinces that the government will have a majority of not less than fifty, against their present majority of fifty-eight, and may have greater strength when all the elections are held. The race and religion cry raised against Laurier cost him some seats In Ontario, but, as might be expected, helped him greatly to sweep the Prov ince of Quebec General prosperity helped the Liber als to victory in Canada, Just as it did the Republican party In this country, and the criticism ot the Conservative opposition in minor matters was of no avail against the popular satisfaction with "the good times." The Conserva tives in vain declared that the pros perity the Dominion is enjoying is at tributable wholly to the blessings of Providence, and due nothing to the op eration of the Fielding tariff. The Conservative opposition scored Laurier for not demanding a prefer ence for Canada's food products in the British markets in return for Canada's discrimination in favor of the British importers of 33 1-3 per cent. Laurier answered that the Domlnloncould not get a preference for its products In the British markets if it tried, and would not want it if coupled with the condi tion of reciprocity, for Mr. Chamber lain had bluntly said that he would not for a moment consider the proposal of a preference for colonial foodstuffs unless reciprocally British foods were admitted free to all the colonies. Such a reciprocal concession would deprive the Dominion of $8,000,000 of revenue, and be disastrous to Cana dian manufacturers. Great Britain could not possibly give- Canada's food products a preference over those of other countries, for that would mean increasing the price of the working man's bread. This answer of Laurier Is well taken, and on his record he de served to win his victory. The tremendous power which drives an Atlantic liner across the water when running at full speed was Illustrated In the wreck in the englne-ro'om of the steamer St Paulji few days ago by a few revolutions of her propeller freed from the resistance ot the water by a mighty wave which threw the Bhlp's stef n out of the water. The frightfully rapid revolutions of the propeller thus turned loose in the air caused in a few moments' damage to the ship's machin ery that it will require five months and cost from $150,000 to $300,000 to re pair. That such an accident could hap pen in mid-ocean at the stormiest sea son of the year and the gallant ship come bravely into port without loss of life, and with only 24 hours' delay, Illustrates well the supremacy of nau tical and engineering skill and the won derful perfection of strength to which the shipbuilder's art has attained. The sudden liberation of a 10,000-horsepower engine placed for a moment the mighty ship and its living freight in jeopardy of the sea, but watchful in telligence as suddenly "stopped the en gine" and turned aside the menace, and ship and passengers were safe. This month the War Department be gins the withdrawal of the "volunteer" organizations from the Philippines, re placing them as far as possible with regular troops. Tho law .requires these volunteers to be mustered out before the first day of July of next ye"ar, and at that date, too, the regular Army Is to be reduced to 27,000 men from Its present strength of about 65,000 men. The volunteer regiments to be with drawn include the Eleventh Cavalry and twenty-four Infantry regiments, numbered from Twenty-sixth to Forty ninth, Inclusive. Of these, the Forty eighth and Forty-ninth are composed of negroes, with negro company officers and white field officers. One of the field officers, however, is a negro, for promotion in these volunteer regiments is wholly regimental, so when the Forty-ninth lost one of its Majors, the senior Captain was promoted to that 'rank. It Is expected that 4000 men will be withdrawn every month, and at that rate every regiment will be back In this country some weeks before the legal time of dlsbandment Of the disastrous wreck on the South ern Pacific, near Roseburg, where two heavy freight trains came together, head on, yesterday morning, it can only be said "some one blundered," with, as usual in such cases, shocking results to life and property. Like the frequently recurring mine disaster, an accident of this kind" furnishes nothing new except the names and number of its hapless victims, and a varying de gree of property loss. A lapse of hu man memory, a careless reading of or ders, tell whatever there Is to tell of the cause of the accident, and this but vaguely, since the lips that could give the information sought are dumb be fore every accuser. Young men voted Tuesday who were born eleven years after the last time an Administration was given a popular vote of confidence. That was In 1863, when Grant was re-elected. The only thing that saved McKlnley from shar ing the usual fate of renominated Pres idents was the folly of the opposition in choosing positions Incapable of de fense. The navigation season between ports ot the Middle Pacific and those of the far North is noarlng Its close. During the past four months navigation of these waters has been pushed vigor ously, with every sort of craft, carry InE iR aggregate thousands of passen gers and many thousand tons or freight. Taking all things Into consid eration, the season has been remarka bly free from accident afloat. Of dis aster in its more appalling sense, there has been none. The summing up, all things considered, is a remarkable one, and though the season ends without recompense to thousands for their time and endeavor, It cannot be said to have been a calamitous one. William Lorlmer, the Republican Representative in the Second Illinois District, owes his defeat to "the fact that the Chicago Times-Herald (Rep.) advocated the election of the Demo cratic nominee because "Lorlmer has grown wealthy by the use and abuse of political influence." Lorlmer has served three terms In Congress, and at his last election waB returned by a plu rality "of 3737 votes over hiB Demo cratlc opponent, and had a clear ma jority over all of 2165. Lorlmer was born of Sc6tch parents in Manchester, England, in 1S1, but has lived in Chi cago since 1870: The trlumpK of Clark in Montana and Addlcks in Delaware makes a po litical "stand-oft" between the parties, and the question remains how we are to get rid of this type of pestiferous corruptlonlsts. Perhaps the suggestion offered by President Hadley, of Yale, for discipline ot dishonest trust mag nates is as good as any. That was, so cial ostracism. Let decent people band together and treat these creatures as the enemies of society. This might In time prove a powerful deterrent to chi canery, in politics as well as business. A Republican Legislature is not the only plausible reason for Bryan's re jection of a seat in the Senate. Mr. G. M. Hitchcock editor of the Omaha World-Herald, claims to have Bryan's signature to an agreement not to stand for the Senate, an agreement which formed part of a recent settlement of fusion difficulties there. Mr. Bryan ha3 made more nioney selling books and delivering lectures than he could make in the Senate and pay Washington ex pense's. He is loth to leave the lucra tive profession of perpetual" candidate. Bryan's tremendous efforts to make headway against the surges of prosper ity that everywhere met his endeavor naturally left him in a condition that makes rest grateful to an overtaxed body. Fortunately, there is nothing to draw him from the retirement of his home for an Indefinite period of time. No Cabinet positions to decide upon, no Philippine policy to formulate, no currency problems to consider. The other man will kindly attend to all of these things and give the o'erwearied pretender opportunity for needed rest. A blizzard, the first of the season, struck Minnesota the day after the election. The people were ready for it. An early harvest and a plenteous year had filled their barns and storehouses with plenty; Insurrection in the far away districts of King Coal'B realm had not affected their local supply of fuel, and with the passing of November 6 the farmers of that wide domain were ready to stay at home and enjoy the fruits of their endeavor,, Berene in the assured prospect of four years more of all-along-the-llne prosperity. A number of farmers of Clackamas County are sowing their wheat stubble to clover for the double purpose of benefiting their land by change of crop and contributing to the dairy Interest. Land that has been sown, to wheat for many successive years will be grateful, as land can be, for the change, and will show its gratitude, as land does, by producing two bountiful crops of clover hay next season, reserving for its own enrichment a sod that can, if desired, be turned under by the plow In the Fall. The registration of women in Chicago at the recent state election, in which they were permitted to vote for School Trustees, was much smaller than four years ago, and showed a still larger falling off from 1894. In 1894 a little more than 24,000 women were regis tered, but in 1896 the number fell to 6264, which was three limes larger than the woman's registry for 1898. The reg istry this year is only 2482, out of a possible 250,000 female voters In the city. Of the four Rocky Mountain States In which women vote, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming gave majorities for McKln ley. Colorado, the remaining one of the quartet, like Montana, where only men vote and boodle rules, each gave Bryan a large majority. The showing agrees with the estimate that the votes of women will not work radical changes in larger results, however they may affect the minor details of legislation. Of course those sundry journals which flopped to the Democratic Mes siah, and those prescient statesmen who could not see ahead of their noses, have little else than to foment their humiliation with a poultice of what might have been, had everything been different Bryan carried Montana in 1896 by over 33,000 votes. His majority in that state last Tuesday was about 8000. This difference indicates something of the hard work done by Montana Republi cans in the late campaign in the hope to redeem the good name of the state. Wisconsin gave McKlnley 102,000 plu rality in 1896, and gives him 110.000 plurality in 1900. ThlB is the way the German vote was stampeded by the cry of "militarism." Bryan will not discuss the election now. He will hawk his views about among the magazines, and perhaps put them in another book. A SA3IPLE CRITICISM. Hovr Little Journals HotvI When The Oregonlan Prints Facta. Talk about fake journalism! That ante election estimate in The Oregonlan of Monday was the rankest piece of work a journal which lays claim to veracity and respectability was ever guilty of. As an Instance it placed Lane County in the McKlnley column with 260 majority. Four years ago Lone County gave Bryan 347 over McKlnley. That is the only base to figure from. Any estimate that does not take that vote into consideration is mere guesswork. Farther, the best-posted men in Lone County, on both sides, hard ly venture a prediction as to how the county goes today. The Oregonlan started out to figure McKlnley 10.000 majority in the state, and Lane County had- to bo made give her proportion. That was how The Oregonlan figured. Eugene Guard. This is the kind of criticism a certain class of small papers direct towards The .Oregonlan whent It mikes an exact statement political conditions, or draws candid conclusions from obvious facts, as it always does. The Oregonlan said McKlnley's probable,' plurality in Oregon would be beiween 11.TO0 and 12, 000. It is much more. It said thit he would have lq Lane County 250 mora votes than Bryan. He has something like 500. The Oregonlan has no mission but to tell the truth, and that Is why it never pleases, or tries to pleate, the petty pack of jaundiced politico) organs that He about It, and everything else, if it hap pens to suit their Immediate purpose. - PAYING THE PENALTY. North Carolina Steins Came to Itc cret Negro Exodus. Chicago Tribune. The passage of tho disfranchising amendment in North Carolina and tho bitterness with which the campaign there is waged against the Interests ot tha ne gro are already beating fruits which were not expected by the white Demo crats of that state. As the, negroes are no longer fixtures there, but are free to go or stay, many of them have decided to go. This has proved a serious embar rassment to the Democratic wbite farm ers, who are just now engaged in gathering their cotton crop: They cin not get white help and black help has begun an exodus which Is Increasing dally. Royal Daniel, secretary of the conven tion of Commissioners of Agriculture of the Southern States, writes, to the At lanta Journal that 600 negroes "have left Raleigh alone and ados: "They will continue to go in spite of the antago nisms In New York, Pennsylvania, Wash ington, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and else where. The whites would do well to face the situation coolly, the negroes are on the move," Tho Charlotte (N. C.) Observer testifies to tho same effect and says: "The negro is a failure as a voter, but he has his uses as a. rarm laborer, a&d there is no doubt that the farmers in some sections of the state are sorely put to it for help to pick their cotton crops. It Is right to exclude these peo ple from the ballot, but it is suicidal to drive them by bad treatment out of tha state." The Raleigh Post warns the North Carolina farmers not to raise the race Issue and says: "If this exodus keeps on these land owners and farmers will be in a worse con dition than they have been since the war and will have no one to thank for It save the arrant demagogues whose reck less lmbeqillty is only equaled by their unblushing and selfish aspirations." It looks as if this were but tho begin ning of the end and that the negro at last is bound to resent the injustice which has been done to him, not alone in frequent outrages committed outside tho forms of law which aro reserved for white persons, but in Invasions and de nials of his Constitutional rights. No longer anchored to the soil, but having liberty of movement he is electing to go elsewhere and take hiB chances, and is all the more inclined to do so by way of resentment because he knows that there is no other class of people which stands ready to take his place on the farms of North Carolina, Tho only hope for that and other Btates Is to cultivate better re lations with him. If the South Is not ready to sacrifice its race prejudices and establish some modus vlvendl with the colored people it must expect that they Will leave whenever they can. If the farmers lose their help, which is equiva lent to losing their crops, they will hav only themselves to blame. Race friction does not pay in harvest time. America's Savings. New York Bun. The United States is today the rich est, both actually and potentially, of all the countries in the world. Not alone Is our supply of actual money per capita greater - than that of any other nation, but our undeveloped resources are un doubtedly the largest ana moat valuable on the globe. The commercial history of the last decade has proved that we ra virtually Independent of the rest of the world as regards the supply of raw materials, while In the same period We hava shown ourwlveu so expert In manu facturing that we can supply other coun tries with the products of mills and fac tories at an enormous advantage as com pared with any one of them. In the years to come there is no reason to doubt that our country will be the largest ex porter both of raw materials and of man ufactures that the sdn shines on. To this happy end not alone our nat ural resources have contributed, but the Inventive character ot our people, and, above all, their thrift We are as great to save as we are to trade. The history of our savings banks, an Institution pe culiar to this country, is one of constant ly increasing deposits. These deposits have increased nearly $5,000,000 in the last four years alone. The savings banks' deposits in the one state 'of New York are over $1,000,000,000, accredited to over 2,000,000 depositors. And, finally, Dr. L. G. Powers, the chief statistician of the Census Bureau, In an address Just deliv ered In Washington, declares that the present census will show that our people have saved in the larl 10 years the as tounding sum of $26,000.000,000 twenty-five billion dollars. The actual visible wealth of the country now amounts to $90,000,000, 000. The savings of these last 10 years, so Statistician Powers estimates, represent more houses and buildings, mora good clothes, good books and all sorts of nec essities and luxuries thin the entire hu man race had saved from the time of Adam to our Declaration of Independ ence. "The Light of Other Bays." John J. McCook, one of the most promi nent lawyers in America, who was grad uated at Princeton, occupies the position of trustee of the college, and In one of bis talks with the young men was asked to advise them what trusts were. He an swered: "I will explain by saying that when I was a boy my duties kept mo busy all day and I had only my evenings to study in preparation for college. My good mother, to secure my light, pre pared the wicklng and boiled the tallow and dipped the wicklng until we had a most ordinary candlo of little Illumination with which my study was made night after night, during my entire preparation for college. Then came, the kerosene oil. Its light was every way moro desirable; but the cost was 75 to SO cents a gallon, and we could not afford it Then came the Standard Oil Company, concentrating business and reducing costs, till today any school boy can have this most bril liant light at a cost of less than 10 cents a gallon. No mother today labors as of old over dip candles. Besides this, they have extended their Industry all over the world, giving employment and savings to thousands of employes, feeding many more, thousands of people. Their enor mous business abroad Is bringing the re turns and great wealth to our own coun try. Such are trusts building up corpo rations, issuing securities to be made val uable, in which every person can partici pate in the smaller or largest amount ot investment, these benefiting most every person directly or Indirectly Interested." England'a "Welcome to Soldiers. New York Press. The Boer war has possibly done more to break down in tho eyes of the world tho British tradition of personal quiet EObriety and reserve than anything within a century. Ircaginn New York turned over to a drunken revel and howling orgle on the return of a few troops from the Philippines! And yet we presume British ecrttors will go on remarking upon the Yankee effusive ness. Intemperance and tendency to go oft the handle whenever a local lynch ing in Alabama, or a riot In Shamokin, Pa... gives them fc-ch&RCO to Jjplit ft new goose quill, THE CHARM OF GOLF, New York Evening Post When approaching Winter drives the sportsman indoors, golt almost alone re sists tho progress of tha seasons. For It, in fact Winter is only a kind of glacial ordeal that brings out the true go ler warmed by an Inner fire of enthuaara for the game. Tho mero layman will b? Inclined to ask why this martyr spirit why this stern devotion to a sport which is hardly good walking even, and which consists, by the definition of a scoffer, in hitting a ridiculously minute ball with im. plementa wholly Ill-adapted to the pur PosoT That this unreasoning devotion to the game exists, and ta on the incrsRSS, seems beyond dispute. No outsider who has once fallen among golfers, and heard ordinarily sane people talk for hours in a dull and unintelligible Doric, win doubt the abiding fascination of the game. Here Is a mystery of Infatuation which the student of social conditions for in play rather than In work men betray them selves must endeavor to fathom. Now It would bo easy to dwell upon tho utility of the game, its value as exerclst, its availability for players of all ages, sexes and previous condition of docreptl tude, its social and spectacular featuiei; but the real cause of Its popularity woud escape any such analysis. It were absurd to suppose that tho members of 1500 c'uba in our country and the great army of un attached players are in it for their health merely, for tho social advantages of the club-home. for the privilego of arraying themselves beyond Solomon In all his glory. All these things count, but the nub lies deeper. To get at it we must ba allowed a moment's digression on the philosophy of games in general. Games are competltlvo or non-compotl-tlve, and on the principle of natural ssl:c tlon the competitive ones very soon drive out all but the adept It is very well to strive to be a good loser; but to be a loser all the time there's the rub. Yet such fato stares at htm who enters upjn competltlvo sport Business and years soon impose a non possumus on followers of the more vigorous sports, cr, unklndor lot, a rising generation of sportsmen abridges unfeelingly tne. work of nature. You may not well abide that your granl son beat you In the "preliminaries," nor that you remain a kind of athletic Helot for the warning of a rising brood of Spar tans. Sooner or later, the transition muat be made, even in the milder sports, from the competitive to the non-competltlve. One may be driven out of racing, but p2 destrlanlsm remains; out of regattas, but ho may stlU pull a lone oar. Such con solation the gods allow. All this goes to show that the gaudla certamlnls ars fleeting, and that, in competitive ..por., there Is no abiding habitation. Now tho appeal of golf lies in the fact that it is a non-competitive game. What some one will say, with the sporting pages of every newspaper filled with strange numerical scores, and comment In an outlandish tongue 7 Yes, golf Is never competltiver, even when it appears most to bo. By an infraction ot Its very spirit some hunt mugs and fame, but the true golfer is led astray by no such ul terior motive. In a Goethean spirit of isolation he works out his golfing salva tion without reference to his fellow golfer, comparing himself of today only with his recollection of himself of yes terday and his hopes of himself of the morrow. His own victor, victory breeds no envy; for how can a man regard his victor self with other than the most gen erous felicitation? Vanquished, defeat has no bitterness, for how treat one's vanquished self with other than the most Indulgent consideration? You lose, It is the glorious you of the past that wins; you win, and you have merely risen on stepping stones of your dead self to lower scores which Is excellent golf, even if the metaphor rings Hibernian. True, one usually plays round with an other man, nominally his opponent, but this is occidental, or at most a mere concession to the gregarious Instinct. What one is really doing Is playing against himself. For the other man's gamo he cares not a whit, and, if his soul Is undented by the passion of mug hunting, it is nothing to him that his opponent has him at the end of the round so many holes "down" nothing, for that matter to his opponent Should a pink-coated champion, calloused by tournaments and elated by false suc cesses over other men, boast of victory over another, the true golfer has but to rebuke him in Emerson's words If the red slayer think he slays. Or If tho slain think he Is slain. Thoy know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. For on the fair green, every man is Brahma. It Is this fine egotism that Is the very soul of the game and prevents its go ing the way of all competitive sports. The rest healthfulness, agreeable nat ural surroundings, comparative lnex ponsiveness, are merely accessory to the real cause that promises to assure Us lasting popularity. Compressed Air Cars In New York. Railroad Gazette. The following letter Is from a gentle man who was for a good many years chief engineer of two elevated railroad companies and who Is consequently prct. ty well qualified to speak for the city traction matters: "Last Saturday afternoon I happened to be on Twenty-third Btreet and noticed one of the cars passing, run by com pressed air power. I watched Its opera tion with others moet of the afternoon. They move along splendidly and with much less noise than those run by elec tricity, especially as they pass the rail joints. When rounding a curve you can scarcely hear them; no Jerk when power was shut off. They stop In a much short er length of track than the electric car3. When the trolley cars are going under full headway they are noisy. The air cars under full headway make little noise. They leave no electric current In the ground to motheat the water pipes. The mechanical Improvements which have been made since they ran on 125th street are great I was Impressed very much with the ease they move along, and the apparently perfect control they were un der by the motorman. "More progress, no doubt, will be made In mechanical improvements in order to perfect their operation. It Is clear to most any good mechanic that the sys tem will in course of a short time be used quite generally on surface street roads." The Army Canteen. The" Adjutant-General of the Army, In his recently published report, records the gratifying and successful operation of the post exchanges during the past year. Gen eral Corbln saya: Every complaint of specific violations of tho regulations, or ot excesses- and abus, has been promptly and impartially Investigated and in every instance found to have been un warranted. Reports from the Philippine Islands Indicate tha the post exchange has become an absolute necessity, our troops being scattered at something over 400 stations, at small towca and villages, where it is quite impossible to purchase anything beyond thenecessltles ot life; and the sale of baer in these exchanges has pre vented the soldiers from, drinking the vile na tive concoction known as anlsado and bino, or vino, which In the early days of our occupa tion presented a very serious problem to the military authorities, la proven by abundant testimony. Similar reports have been Tecelved from Cuba, whtra the conditions are very much like those in the Philippine Islands; several officers, including General Lee, havins report ed that drunkenness has almost entirely dis appeared since the sale-of bfter bfcs- ba per- l oilUed In their commenCa. ' NOTE AiDGOl42ENr. Et tu Nebraska7 Bryan. Let us talk, ot other things. Bryan's political death provedMatal thla- time. . . Colorado will be cOassed with Kentucky If she don't watch out The Nebraska boss has learned that it Is not safe to run a party without t'ho consent of the governed. Colonel Roosevelt will have to bid & long farewell to all his strenuousneea after the 4th of next March. Soapmakers are abeut to form a lye trust Yet It is generally supposed that that kind of material won't wash. It is reported from New York that Marcus Daly is very HL He has probably been reading the returns from .Montxna, Dry your tears, oh weeplnr "Willie, For thy weeping hi in vain. Aad eensole yourself by thinking , That your less is but our gain. Alvord, the New York bank toller, who got away with $000,OOA might have won that amount honestly by betting on the election. The New Haven (Cnn.) Register, andt the Hartford (Conn.) Times, supported! McKlnley for President, while advocating: their Democratic paf:y candidate for Governor. General . Sir George White Is said to have remarked to his staff at Ladysmith, "Gentleman, we have two things t'o do; to kill time and to sill Boers both equally difficult" The South Is growing rapidly.. Tho last census shows that since 1SS0 it has gained In population about 3,900,000. The gain in the period between 1&0 and iSX was about 2,S36,030, showing a larger In crease during the last decade by over 1,000,000. Herbert Spencer has dnlshed his auto biography, says Mr. Ford, writing to tho New York Tribune. He will not hear ot its publication during his lifetime, andt has taken the precaution of having tha type set at a number of different places, so that he alone shall have a. complete set of proofs. Joseph H. Choate once said" in court ot x. certain woman in the case: "She is a sinner"; thon quiokly corrsctuYg himself, he added: "No, not a sinner, lor she is ,our client She Is a very disagreeable saint" Whether Crol er has canonized. Bryan or Bryan has canonized Croker, either one probably feels that he- has cre ated a very disagreeable saint. The men who ran For President Of course are not All quite content, ' Hut new the rush And strain is o'er. They'll take things easy As before. And leave tho work and Worry for The men who run For Senator. "A few days ago,' says a Boston paper, "a lady In pursuit of a cook was Inter viewing and being Interviewed at a cer tain employment bureau. 'I shall want you to to Into the country,' she remarked!. to the mighty personage who was eying: her from head to foot 'Yes, ma'am; and. do yez have low neck dinners, ma'amT Mrs. Cook inquired. 'Low neok dinners! What do you mean by that?" said tho lady. 'Welt, ma'am, do yez eat yer dla ner tjn.- Ibw neck dresses? I hev a "Stlnd who says she'll not take no place unless the family eats In low necks, an' I thought I wouldn't, either.' " PLEASANTRIES OP IARAGRAFHER The Exception. "Whtn a thing la ended, it' ended." said I, "and that's all there is to ltl"" My friend Trailed. "Yeu forget," said ha, 'the revolution In the Philippines!" Harper Baaar. A Proper Precaution. Parke Wht did you take out an aclU&at potloy tort ou never travel. Lane Bet my nixt-daor nelaHbor haa Just bought an automeuile. Dcuuic Fieo Prees. Stranger Boy, ean you direct me to tha bank 7 Boy I kin for uLxpoixio. titraaj.'er Sixpence! Isn't that high pay? Boy Tea, sir; but it's bank directors what gits hUb. p&y, you see, sirl Tit-Bits. It Pays to Advertise "What ever mado you get that book? Why 'didn t you buy the on I recommended?" But the auvsrtlement of this one esters a wheH rage, and the book: you spoke of is only Bwmuon.d in a little bit of a square down In mi oerner." Chloago Times-Herald. r fen Cents Saved. Oaxley Now that we're engaged, no' girl is boiaalag to make jna economize. You know 1 ustd to take her a pound of 80-cent bohboms every Saturday. Hazley Te, and now ah lMists on a cheaper sort, ch? Gazley Oh, no. You can get twe pounds of the 8u-eent kind for $1 50, so she Insists on a two-pounu bo& Philadelphia. Press. The Point ot View. The Squire (sympathet ically) I'm very sorry to hoar fuat your hus band is at the point of death, lira. Hodge, but you must try and be cheerful,, as you knew It will be all for the ber. iim! Hedge Ah. yes, indeed, sir; It'll bo a bleating when he's gone. I'll be able to live In oomfort then, as I 'ave 'lm In four dniertnt ciucw. Judy. Itnnli for Higher Education. Saturday "Evening Pest During and after all periods of prosper, lty, the private sohoold a.id oollegej se cure an increased membership, far tha evident reason that people are better prepared to pay for the Instruction oil their children. That the figures hava this year gone far beyond anything tiver known before is, of course, largely ac counted for by the incroaae in popula tion; but, while allowing fully for alt that, it is still true that the number hai greatly exceeded any former proportion in the population statistics of the coun try. The great thing Is that the rush for higher educatlonwas never bo strong or bo general as it is in the present day. Land, Ho! From "Potms by T. E. Brown.': I know 'tis but a loom of land. Yet is it land, and so I will rejolcs I know I cannot hear His volco Upon tho shore, nor sea Him stand; . Yot is it land, ho! land! The land! the landl the lovely landl "Tar oft" dost say? Far off ah. blessed horns! Farewell! farewell! thou salt sea-foam! Ah, kneel upon the silver sand Lasd, hot land. you eaanot see the land, my land, . You aannot ee. arid yet the land is there My land, my land, through murky air I dM not say 'twaa close at hand But land, ho! land. i Dost hear th &elU ot m7 sweet land, Dost hear tho klne, dost hear the merry biros? No voice, 'tie true, no spoken words; No tongue that thou may'st understand yet is it land, he! land. It's olad in purpla xnlst my land. In rag-al robe It is apoarelled. A crown is eet upon its head. And on Its breast a golden band Land, bo! land. Dost wonder that I long for land? My laad is cot a land as others are Upon its great there beams a star. And lilies grow upon tha strand Land, hot land. Give me the helm! there Is the landt Hal lusty mariners, she Jakea tho breeaal And what mr spirit te it Leap, bark, aa leaps tfc tnundtrtraad Load, hot l&ad. ' h