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Colo., by Hamilton & cuuncx, sue-viz seventn street. TODAY'S WEATHKR. Rain; cooler; fresh nerly winds, probably increasing to brisk. RTTiAND, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. It "was erroneously asserted in The regonlan the othc day that the Presi entlal Electors chosen November G will ssemble at Salem on the first "Wednes day of December. The -prescribed time the second Monday In January. An let of the Legislature of 1864 provided jr the casting: of the vote at 12 o'clock oon of the first Wednesday of Decem er; but this act was rendered lnopera- .ve by the act of Confess dated ebruary 3, 18S7. which designates the jcond Monday in January, leaving: the llace to be determined by the states. It Ippears that no state law has been assed in accordance with the Federal Uute, and our Electoral College pro- lure is therefore in similar case with ir constitutional restrictions upon the gTO nominally in force, but abro- ited by Federal enactments that take :edence. The facts in this matter Ire set forth in the pamphlet contain- lg our election laws, printed by Sec tary Klncaid In 1897. The little book self, so painstakingly complied, in- ictlvely edited, and helpfully ln- lexed, is a forcible reminder of the ex- ellent service Mr. Klncaid rendered ie state in this and other historical lestions. The special publications of lis administration, all authorized in ie statutes, by the way, are lndis- isable adjuncts of the annals of Ore- 3n. They should be included in every arary in the state. We take pleasure in commending to Bi Btudents of religious and theologi- xl questions a series of sermons now sing delivered by Dr. N. D. Hlllls. of llymouth Church, Brooklyn, on the pplc, "What Is Left of Christianity. fow That the Critical Enoch Has hissed; a Study of the Return -of the fide of Faith." Dr. Hlllls has mas- sred the hypothesis of evolution and ie historical criticism of the Bible. He nlllng the pulpit of sxand old hymouth Church In a manner fully up the high traditions of Its heroin last. Perhaps no man in America Is letter equipped with Information and ie oratorical gift to interpret true re- Igion In the light of scientific and his- prical study. His sermons are always istrucuve ana uplifting, devoid of ora of Ignorance and the cant or anctimonlousness. It is through such xen, in all denominations, that the ie line or. apostolic succession de- :ends, to keep for the modern world le old message of faith and conduct. lothed in the new Raiments of somn ific discovery and philosophic Inaulrv. his present series of sermons is pub- snea every Monday in the Brooklyn agie, ana doubtless upon their conclu- 30a will be printed in book form. That railway traveler is probably ire wno nas not, in his Pullman seat, bought wistfully of home and longed r the expected day when lonir-dls- tnce telephone connection will be aade with movlnir trains. Th flrsf Itep in such an arrangement, of DUrse, will be connections at stopplng l&ces. At least one experiment now iccessful gives promise of extension that direction. The New York Sun ports that trolley cars of a suhurhnn lectrlc railway near St. Louis have a apiete telephone outfit, whereby their ews are able to converse -with th Iftadquarters office on occasion. Each carries a telephone set and a iolnt. fishing rod, the sections of which are so. On the tip of the rod is a stout i hook and atithe butt of th mit i piece of flexible conductlne cord. lading in a plug which may be inserted & socket on one of the vestibules nf hie car. Alongside the tracks Is a telo- Ihone wire. When a car desires to ommunicate with the office, it is sppeo, the hook on the fishinir rod Is Might over the wire, the plug is in- tea in its socket and the ear Is In tmnectlon at once. The road is elcht lilea long, and is to be extended. Its aoers say that the telephone system very satisfactory in oneration. A modification of this arrangement mav ama time be applied to railway trains. id orders will then be taken by the allxnan conductor en route for use of ae long-distance 'phone at the an- iroachlng stopping-place. From this b connection witH the moving train is lot nearly so miraculous a conception the original introduction of the tele- aoce itself. Of the Oregon counties. Baker makes ae best showing in the census report. gain in the past ten years having l more than 12 per cent. Generally. stern Oregon counties have made a reater gain than those west of the cades. In the First Congressional (strict the increase has been from. 155.462 in 1890 to 192.S69 this year a. gain of 37,307, or nearly 24 per cent. In the Second District the enumeration In 1890 was 158,205, but this year it is 220, 703, a gain of 62,498, or a little less than 40 per cent Klamath and Lake are the only counties of the First District not in Western Oregon, and Multnomah, Columbia and Clatsop are the only Sec ond District counties not in Eastern Oregon. The counties of the Willam ette "Valley have Increased nearly 20 per cent in population, while the agri cultural counties of Eastern Oregon have Increased more than 30 per cent. Baker is classed as a mining county. Clackamas and Lane Counties keep abreast of each other, having stood at 9260 and 9411, respectively, in 1880, 15,233 and 15,198 in 1890, and 19,653 and 19,604 this year. Linn's progress has been slower. Umatilla's gain in the past ten years has been materially faster. There is ground for expecting a much more rapid growth in the timber counties in the coming decade. A VAST RELIEF FUJfD. Lord Curzon, "Viceroy of India, has reviewed thoroughly the course of the recent famine that fastened its blight for many months upon that land and Its people. While In a general way the world has had knowledge of the devas tating effects of this famine, It has in reality not been able to grasp its terri ble significance. Lord Curzon's figures, Indeed, deal with a calamity of such tremendous proportions that it seems almost impossible to grasp their full Import. He shows that fully one-quarter of the vast population of the Indian continent came, In a greater or less degree, within the range of the relief operations set on foot and conducted by the government A rough estimate places the value of the annual agri cultural production of India and Bur mah at 3,000,000,000 rupees, a little less than $1,500,000,000. On a very cautious estimate the production of the past year he places at one-fourth possibly one-third below this average, indicat ing a loss of at least $250,000,000. To this must be added the value of mil lions of cattle lost, before anything like a definite Idea of the actual loss suffered can be formed. Lord Curzon further points out the mortality caused by cholera, dysentery and fever the sure camp followers of famine and which ran riot in the enfeebled, ex hausted conditions that resulted from It. Ignorance, as the mouthpiece pf hu manity, has asked repeatedly why the British Government did not Institute measures for the relief of the people, the assumption being that it was blind and deaf to their distress. Lord Curzon affirms that there is no parallel in the history of any country the world over of the generosity of the British Govern ment In this Instance. For many weeks a total of 6,000,000 persons were depend ent upon the bounty of the government, and the direct expenditures for their relief amounted to over $40,000,000. In addition to this, large sums wero ad vanced to landholders and cultivators besides the loans made to native states. In all of this the government Bet its face firmly against indiscriminate, pau perizing charity, that misdirected phase of philanthropy which makes the last estate of Its recipients worse than the first, and Insisted on relief being ad ministered with the care that Is due the taxpayer, while holding its fund open at. all times to proper requisition for the saving of life or the mitigation of genuine distress. Quoting from the records of previous famines, and especially that of Bengal In 1870, where, as nearly as could be estimated, one-third of the 30,000,000 Inhabitants perished, the "Viceroy sub mits that In this latest famine the gov ernment did Its duty nobly. Certainly by this official showing it dispensed the official revenues of pity with a liberal and careful hand. CORDIN'S CURIOUS SUGGESTION. Congress Is not at all likely to ap prove Adjutant-General Corbln's rec ommendation for the repeal or modifi cation of the Army regulations permit ting the promotion from the ranks of meritorious non-commissioned officers, and of any enlisted men physically and morally qualified, under 30 years of age, who shall successfully compete at certain prescribed examinations for commissions. General Corbin pleads that these provisions unjustly curtail the privileges of the West Point grad uate, especially since the enlisted man may pass the examinations and receive a commission after two years' service, while the West Pointer has to study four years for his commission. The number of non-commissioned offi cers and enlisted men who succeed in obtaining commissions by passing the prescribed examinations after two years' service is comparatively small, as is shown by the Army Register of recent years. The examinations should be a severe test of the military knowl edge and capacity of the candidate. The reputation of the candidate as a man equal to the requirements of an officer and a gentleman should be such as to endure thorough examination. If these qualifications are insisted upon and are successfully met by the en listed man, there is no just reason for the enactment of General Corbln's pro posed reform. There is such a thing as natural apti tude for military life. General Miles and General Brooke, when volunteer lieutenants In the Union Army, were conspicuous above their fellows, not simply for courage, but for mllltar aptitude. Colonel Liscum, who was killed at the head of his regiment be fore Tien Tsln, served more than a year as an enlisted man; General Chaf fee served two years In the ranks, and Captain H. J. Reilly, of the Fifth United: States Artillery, who was killed at Pekln, served two years in the ranks, and Lieutenant-Colonel Coolldge, who took Colonel Llscum's place when he fell, served two years In the ranks. Napoleon said that the reason why his army was the best army In Europe was because every gallant young sol dier believed there was a Marshal's baton in his knapsack. An American army must be a democratic army to command the affection and confidence of the people. To shut the door of pro motion upon enlisted men of natural military aptitude would be a fatal mis- take The marine columns this morning contain some interesting figures show ing the advantages of Portland's fresh water harbor for the deep-water fleet that comes to this port for grain car goes. The average passages of the en tire grain fleet from Portland for the cereal year 1899-1900 were over two weeks 'faster than the passages of the grain fleet from Puget Sound. San Francisco, nearly 600 mlle3 nearer the European ports, was also unable to make as good a showing as Portland, the average of passages of her grain ships for the year being fractionally slower than those of the Portland fleet. Time is a big element in the profits of a ship in these days of "high freights, and, while Portland has always made a better showing than Puget Sound, the difference is so great for last sea son that It Is certain to attract the at tention of shipowners all over the world. .THE PASSING OPPORTUNITY. Now and then the announcement of the death of an aged man or woman recalls forcibly the pioneer era, so fast receding Into the mists of the past Such is the case in the announcement of the death at Salem a few days ago of Norman O. Paxrish, son of the late Rev. J. L. Parrlsh and the last but one of the passengers who reached the Ore gon country via Cape Horn on the ship Lausanne, in 1840. But yesterday we were in frequent and familiar touch with the events of that year through the medlumshlp of gray-haired men and women who sat at our firesides and recounted the In cidents of the time. Today we are for the most part connected with It by shadowy memory and by the slabs that rise, white or gray, in country grave yards, bearing the legend a legend only below a familiar name, "A pio neer of 1840." Each death among the ranks of the pioneers of these far-away years recalls the fact that much of the most charm ing history of those times still remains in the form of folk-lore in the mlntls of those who laid the foundations of a state in the isolated, beautiful wllder nessness, "where flows the Oregon." It is true that intelligent, systematic ef fort has been made in the past few years to gather up these strands of incident or adventure and weave them into an enduring fabric of history. We are yet perhaps too close to the time wherein these events transpired to have them recorded as history and left there upon a settled basis. Interpolations will still be made, and erasions will be found necessary. Memory doe3 not serve all alike, nor are events viewed by all from the sume standpoint. Facts must be sifted and personal bias elim inated "from them, and then we "shall have history. In the meantime, mate rial Is teing gathered and must con tinue to be gathered, carefully, pains takingly and patiently, and filed away for the historian, a generation hence, perhaps, to sift and compare and decide upon. A door of opportunity closes for gathering of this material every time an intelligent, observant pioneer man or woman passes beneath "the low green tent, whose curtain never out ward swings" unless Indeed he or she has left a record of the events of the days wherein the "yet young state was younger yet," as viewed from his or her standpoint, and which may be woven Into charming folk-lore tales after the solid facts of general signifi cance or interest in the collection are set In history. VICE IN MANILA. The Rev. Oliver C. Mllier, a Chap lain attached to the Fourth regular cavalry, and who served under Gener als Lawton, Young and Bates, has re turned to the United States and ex pressed his indignation to the War Department at the reports spread abroad as to the addiction of our sol diers to vicious habits. Chaplain Mil ler says that during General Lawton's campaign intoxicating liquors were poured out wherever found; that the only persons accused of rape were two boys of 14, camp followers, who were tried by military court and sentenced to five years' confinement in prison, and he denies the statement that 800 abandoned women had come to Manila during the first year of American occupancy, but, on the other hand, says: After making, in company with tho secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, an exploration by night of the City of Manila, to find out If the drunkenness and impurity that existed were due to the presence of sol diers, the facts compelled us to state that we did not Bee more than a half-dozen drunken soldiers. In a secluded part of the city, we found about forty-five houses of prostitution, with from three to four female Inmates in each, patronized by our soldiers, but we failed to see, as stated by Mr. William E. Johnson In the Bally Voice, of Chicago, the American flag; dishonored in the decoration of these resorts. To my personal knowledge these houses have not been licensed by the Government, nor are they in many cases connected 'with saloons. Chaplain Miller says that a drunken soldier Is a very rare sight on the streets of Manila; that there Is no city in the United States where there Is so little crime or where crime is followed so quickly by punishment; that there Is no city In the United States where for the Bame number of soldiers as sembled In a given place there Is so little drunkenness and Immorality as In the cities of the Philippines. The vino joints at many points were ban lsned by the establishment of the post exchange under strict military control, and Chaplain Miller says that the num ber of saloons as given in the Voice is far above that which really exists. There were many places where strong drink was sold before American occu pation, and great complaint was raised against the American administration because it refused to license as large a number of saloons as had been li censed by the Spaniards. If Chairman Jones had made no prophecies before, his recent statement that Bryan will not run again would rank higher stock in the market Jones says sliver will solve itself. Then it does not nerd Bryan to solve it, and Jones is right for once. But this demise of an imperishable principle is rather sudden. Perhaps imperialism also will find solution without the ballot-box What in the world is ailing Demo cratic paramounts, anyway? Jones says he does not know what will be the issues in 1904. Well! If he does not know, something must be radically wrong in Denmark, because hitherto he always has ventured prophecies. Per haps the late tournament kept him guessing so athletically that he has grown diffident General Charles P. Eagan is a, per son of remarkable gall to appeal to the President for pardon and restoration to duty. The vile language and obscene abuse that Eagan used concerning General Miles ought to have been pun ished by dismissal from the service, for an Army officer of age and experience who could deliberately put in writing such ribaldry concerning the General of the Army, and present It to a mili tary court, was certainly too stupid for an officer and too vulgar for the com pany of gentlemen. General Eagaxi, who ought to have lost his. commission, escaped with suspension, and lus sen tence was further mitigated by the President The President is willing, it is said, to remit the sentence If Eagan will consent to retirement, but of course Eagan will not consent to be retired and lose the full pay of his grade. To grant Eagan pardon and restoration to duty would be not only unjust, but ut terly absurd. It Is a subject for public regret that Eagan's sentence of sus pension was not accompanied with loss of pay. An officer whose conduct Yds justified his suspension from duty for six years certainly does not deser- the full pay of his rank. Eagan's suspen sion was really no punishment i all, and yet he wants a pardon and res toration to duty. It is the testimony of more than one American witness of the horrors of the fighting before Tien Tsln that the Americans were the only soldiers who did not behave like savages. A letter printed in the New York Sun says that from July 14. the day of the fall of Tien Tsln, the wrangling among the allies began, and it was awful. The re sult was anarchy, and looting was the order of the day. The American sol diers were the only ones who were de cent They had a hand liv the looting, but they stopped at that The French and the Russian soldiers did nothing but kill Chinese women and girls, or what amounted to the same thing. They outraged them, and there is nothing left for an outraged Chinese woman but suicide. It Is evidently an awfui harvest the Chinese are reaping for their murders of missionaries. After all, one remedy for the Ills of the growling policemen Is very effect ive. The privilege Is all theirs to quit and do something else if sufferance has ceased to be a virtue. If the effi ciency of a man's services commands so little value that he cannot get sev eral options on work these times, he has no right to complain that the world owes him a living. JuBtlce to the policemen and honor of the city re quire that they shall be paid, but hardly Indemnify their plaint If their wages are Immoderately discounted, the whole world is open for achievement, and if their services are as valuable as their own estimates, no trouble should arise in getting employment If our worthy lawmakers have ro ideas about the public concerns that will be debated at the next Legisla ture, perhaps it would be well for them to take a day off and to think up a few. It is presumed they are able to think, and they profess that fett or they would not have been elected. Next In order is that they give an exhibi tion of their thinking powers. The Leg islative session may be a picnic, a high jinks and all that, but somehow or other lawmakers are obtrusively ex pected to have ideas. No time f.its the present for Ideas. Our Legislators ought to steal or manufacture a lew. At least, they ought to have an outline in mind by this time. For the edification of a raller against The Oregonlan, it may be in course to remind him that llberty-lovlng French men did. not make the United States, although greedy Frenchmen were the means of Its Independence. France aided the colonies for her own selfish designs. To check those designs Eng land conceded independence. We owe quite as much to England for our Na tlonal independence as to Francs. Prob ably we owe more, because our civili zation is based upon Teutonic ideals Instead of Latin. As Is well known, liberty and justice never have been parts of French politics. It may be hoped that the prognosis of the Czar's disease as given out by his medical attendants is correct, and that the Emperor of all the Russians is now on the road to speedy recovery. Hints of pectoral complications, how ever, continue to leak out through the strictly censored news reports from Ll vadla, but It Is possible that they have no more serious foundation than that of public apprehension based upon the fact that consumption has carried off so many members of the imperial house, and in qommon parlance is "in the family." Kruger says the bravery of a defunct French General who died for the Boers reminds him of the knights of the Mid dle Ages. Kruger is living 500 years be hind the world. If he were up to date he would have up-to-date models, and would rely more on Individual effort than on dispensations of Providence. Kruger's grandson is taking in gay Paris along with the old gentleman. It Is refreshing to be relieved of the Im pression that the Chip of the old block was fighting to the death. Hanna has done only his duty to the country and "my people." Forsooth, his highness may be monarch yet Our battle-ship Kentucky at Smyrna Is not an argument for settlement of a bill only testimony. False alarm, that of Tammany rid ding New York of vice, for where would be Tammany? If Kruger is' coming to the United States, It Is th'e turn of Web DavlB to be uncomfortable. Lord Rosebery and the Derby From "Lord Rosebery; His Life and Speeches." I will give you my experience on the turf, and you shall judge whether I -have not some foundation for the advice that I give. A great many years ago too many years ao from one point of view and at an early age, much too early an age from every point of view, I conceived the am bition to win the Derby. For a quarter of a century I struggled. Sometimes 1 ran second; sometimes I ran third, very often I ran last; but at last the time ar rived when, as Lord Wenlock reminded you, I was about to realize the fruition of my hopes. I was wath tho second Ladas about to win the Derby, and I ought to have been the happiest of men. Well, after a quarter of a century of fruitless expectation, I won the Derby. But what was the result, I at that time held high office, as Lord- Wenlock has also reminded you, undelr the Crown. I was immedi ately attacked from quarters of an al most inspired character for owning race horse's at all. With very little knowledge of the facts and with much less of that charity that "thlnketh no evil," I was attacked with the greatest violence for owning a racehorse at all. I then made the discovery which came to me too late In life, that what was venial and innocent in the other officers of the government In a Secretary of State or a President of the Council, for example was criminal in the First Lord of the Treasury. I do not even know if I ought'not! to have learned another lesson,, that, although without guilt and offense, I might perpetually run seconds and thirds, or even run last It became a matter" of torture to many con sciences If I won. CHANCE FOR A LEADER. Will the South. Give One to Trium phant Democracy Kansas City Btar. Henry Loomis Nelson, formerly editor of Harper's Weekly, in an article In tho New York Evening Post, quotes ex-Secretary Carlisle as saying that the reorgani zation of the Democratic party depends almost entirely on the action of Southern leaders. "Of the 155 electoral votes se cured at the recent election of the candi date nominated by the three allied politi cal parties," aald Mr. Carlisle, "only 13 were chosen outside of Southern States, and these 13 were chosen in only four states iiy majorities aggregating less than 50,000. The Southern people have thus separated themselves from the great body of their friends in tho North and West, and attached themselves to the mining states of Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Nevada. On all the Populistlc policies promulgated at Chicago in 1S96, the true Interests of the South are Identical with the interests of the great Industrial and commercial states whose votes have been cast on the other side." Mr. Carlisle added that it made little difference whether the movement should start in the North or South, so long as It should receive the support of the South ern leaders. He believed the party would oppose "Imperialism." but had no advice to offer on that subject. Undoubtedly Mr. Carllslo Is correct in assuming that the South In which he wrongly classes Mis sourican bring back the Democratic party to Its old principles. That section of the country Is as vitally interested as ever In overthrowing the system of pro tection with Its Governmental aid to fa vored, institutions. It Is affected by the great accumulations of wealth In the hands of a few men and Its Interests de mand that combinations In restraint of trade shall be regulated by law. The principles on which Mr. Tllden and Mr. Cleveland won their victories are living, interests for the South today. But Mr. Carlisle Is wrong in supposing that Southern leaders would reorganize the party on an anti-expansion basis. The South has been a center of the ex. panslon spirit The antl-expanslon plank would not have gone in'the platform had tho feeling of the South been dominant at the convention last July. The South has an opportunity now such as It has not had for 40 years to products a leader who will carry the country with him. It remains to be seen whether the man will come at the call of the hour. CAN'T CLUB OUT VICE. Dr. Cropsey Sayw All You Can Do Ie to Convert It.- The practical side of religion was taken up at the New York State Conference of Religion one day last week, and the Rev. Dr. Algerton S. Cropsey, an Episcopal minister of Rochester, made an address pertaining to the present vice crusade that caused much comment. He said: "I have been walking through your city at night and I have seen one phase of its life. I have seen it In the Haymarket, the Dore, Bohemia and Cairo. It is the great primal principle of humanity, the great passion, that Is there. I saw a letter In the Sun the other day from a policeman In which he declared this form of vice had been In existence as long as the Book of Deuteronomy. He was wrong. It had been In existence before the language of that book was born. These great primal passions are the source of all life. Now, what are we going to make of It? You send policemen to destroy It, but you can't destroy It. The oiJy thing you can do Is to convert it Without that primal soil you never would have had a religion in the world, for it has all been generated there. That which we seek to destroy is God's creation, never to be touched by hand of man. Without that we never would be here. We are born of it ourselves. It need3 the seed of the higher life. That which mani fests Itself In the form that you call vice Is tho richest of the spiritual life. Out of It come the great forces that control hu man life. It cannot be suppressed; It can be converted. "The great trouble with the Protestant religion Is that it isn't In the soil. If the church cannot go down. Into the Boll and lay hold of the particles there, then it Itself is doomed. You have set the police after all this with a club, but you can't suppress It "It Is possible for you to make your city pure, but you don't dare because you won't go down and sit with the Har lot and the thief. These women tonight on your streets you are going to sweep them off with your rubbish and cart them away, and so fall again as you have failed before to reach the roots of righte ousness In the world. If we are to have a perfect organization It Is by having our roots deep and then the leaves will get tho air. Then wo will have a process. With It you can produce organism to burn. Take It away and all organism is impossible." AMERICAN ENGINES BEST. British Builder Tells Why They Are Preferred in England. London Express. An Express representative had an Inter view with the chairman of one of the best-known British locomotive manufac turers with a view to gleaning how It was so many British railway companies had to send their orders for new engines to America. "American engines," said the authority interrogated, "do not come up to the home-made article so far as quality Is concerned, but they are delivered with far greater dispatch. That is the secret of the matter. American locomotives burn more fuel, their valve motions are more hurriedly put together. But they are far cheaper even when cost of trans port Is taken into account" "How do the prices "compare, then?" "Passenger express engines made In this country .cost from 2300 to 3500, though more powerful machines, made tfy special builders, may cost another thou sand or no. Now American contractors not only turn out their engines In less time, but at a price less ny 600." The types of standard engines In Eng land and America are, It was explained, approaching more and more to a common affinity, the most noteworthy distinction now being in the framework of the boiler. It Is, therefore, not a difficult matter for American engineers to match British Standard patterns, especially when, as was the case with one of the biggest homo lines, the standard was waived because the emergency was great. ' "I can say with experience," was the concluding remark of the expert "that at present recourse to America Is Inevit able. Orders rush in upon us both from home and abroad; the war has robbed us of many of our best hands; and coal is vry dear. We are unable to meet the demand. America can, and does." ' The South, to Be Let Alone. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The reported determination of the Ad ministration and the dominant party in Congress not to interfere with the pro portion representation In those Southern States which have legislated for the prac tical restriction or elimination of the negro vote has been confirmed by state ments of the leaders of the party In Con gress. That will be unpleasant news for those Southern politicians whose entire capital for political operations is the ne gro vote. Without that Vote at their backs they cannot expect to receive much consideration at the hands of the Na tional Administration. Consolidation Prevents Waste. Cassler's Magazine. Centralized manufacture permits the highest development of special machinery and processes. The factory Tunning full time on large volume, reduces the per centage of overhead charges. Direst sales on a large scale minimize the cost of distribution. Centralisations of manu facture and distribution reduce aggre gate stocks, and therefore save shop wear, storage, insurance and interest Consolidated management results in fix ing the standards of quality, the best standards being adopted; in avoiding waste and financial embarrassment through overproduction; in less loss by bad debts through comparison of credit, and In securing the advantages of com parative accounting and comparative administration. "HOW YOU HAVE GROWSP Great Britain Amased at tke Census of Her Lost American Colony. London Dally Telegraph. Statistics are frequently merely dull and repellent hoBts of figures; occasionally they strike home upon the Imagination, and leave a vivid impression unon the mind. No thoughtful person can fall to realize something at least of all that is signified by the census returns of the United States. That mighty nation has been numbered and it is found that her population now stands at 76,250.000. In the short space of 10 years there has been an Increase of nearly 13,125,000, which is equivalent to almost 21 per cent for the decade, or rather more than 2 per cent per annum. When we remember that 200 years ago the population of the States was under 300,000 or rather more than the present population of Bradford and that 100 years ago It was but little ever 5,000,000, it will be seen with what amaz ing rapidity the young giant among the nations has built up his strength. The Important fact is that there are 13,000,000 more people owing allegiance to the American Constitution than there were 10 years ago. And the growth of population is the infallible test of na tional prosperity and advancement No nation has ever yet risen to greatness with a dwindling population, and probably none ever will. Declining numbers have been the invariable concomitant of national stagnation and decadence. The growth of the power of Great Britain, Germany and Russia bears witness to the truth of this sweeping generalization, and there is nothing which gives French publicists more serious grounds for alsquletude as to the future of their country than the evidence of stagnation shown in their census returns. Americans, therefore, may bo well content with the progress they have made in tho last decade. These n& ures afford ''them ample reason for pride and jubilation. The only great power of the present day which can vie with them in numbers is Russia, and In wealth, In energy. In adaptability, In education and In that cunning Industrial skill which Is the foundation of material prosperity, they far outstrip the subjects of the Czar. What the future has in store for the United States only tho future can dis close, but that it is something great, something vast and magnificent far be yond anything hitherto witnessed in his tory, no one can doubt, and there are few Englishmen who do not welcome the prospect with hearty gratification, owing to the community of rare Ideas and lan guage which llpks both the heart and brain of the United States with the heart and brain of the British Empire. As In England, tha urban and manufacturing centers grow much more rapidly than the rural. No one will be surprised to find that the Indians are steadily dying out of the land. There are now but 134,000 de scendants of the red man, who once roamed In undisturbed possession of the soil. There is no room for the nomad In the modern scheme of life. He has refused to adapt himself to altered conditions, and though the result may be deplored, the law Is Inexorable. Probably, however: the question which will most interest the American Is the relative numbers of the white and colored population. The theory used to be very widely held that the colored races in America increased faster than the white. Statistics, how ever, prove- that the Inference was not warranted by the actual figures. In 1SS0 there were 5,500,000 free colored people In tha States; in 1890 there were nearly 7,500,000. The proportion in the former year was about 2 to 13; In the latter it was S to 15. What it Is at the present time the published returns do not dis close, but hitherto, except between 1310 and 1860, the white American has In creased .rather more rapidly than the colored. The racial problem In the States Is one of such far-reaching importance that all will hope the advantage will continue to rest with the whites. Queer Customs of Turkish. Women. London Telegraph. It Is not generally known that there exists among Turkish ladles of high class a kind of caste feeling similar to that prevailing among Hindoos. It takes the form of a fear of contamination from the outer world, and is only observed by those who cannot afford to keep servants In sufficient numbers. Before meals la dles always wash their hands at a tap from which the water runs Into a marble basin. They will turn on the tap when they are just going to wash, but when they have finished they let the water run till somebody shuts it off, as to do It themselves would make them unclean. They cannot open or shut -a door, as the handle would be unclean, so a slave Is generally kept handy for the purpose. A Foollsb. and Unjust Prophecy. Philadelphia Times. If the people of the United Stales meant to express approval, In the recent elctlon. of the enormous expansion of all Federal expenses under the present party rule, they should expect to pay accordingly. Experienced legislators know, however, that Booner or later people get tired of paying when they see no results, and if they are to be kept persuaded that the country Is no longer at war It will be only prudent policy to put up at least a pretense of reducing the war taxes. It probably will not be much more than a pretense. i More Thnn Money Is Needed. Columbus (O.) Press. Half-million dormitories and million dollar professional endowments do not make a great university. If they did, then a Rockefeller or a Carnegie woula be more desirable as a teacher than a Socrates or Plato. Brains, scholarship and good moral Influences are more es sential to higher education than money. The Children. Richard Realf. Do you love me, little children? Oh. sweet blossoms that are curled (Life's tender morning glories) Round the casement of the -world t Do your hearts climb up toward me. As my own heart bends to you. In tha beauty of your dawnlns; And In the brightness of your dew? When the fragrance of your faces And the rhythm of your feet. And the Incense of your voices Transform the sullen street Do you see. my soul move softly Forever where you move, "With an eye of benediction And a guardian hand of love? Oh, my darling! I am with you In your trouble, in your play. In your sobbing and your singing. In your dark and in your day, In the chambers where you nestle. In the hovels where you lie, In the sunlight where you bfossom, And tho blackness where you die. Not a blessing broods above you, But It lifts me from the ground; Not & thistle barb doth sting yon. But I sutler from the wound; And a chord within me trembles To your lightest touch or tone. And I famish when you hunger. And X shiver when you moan. I have trodden all the spaces Of my solemn years alone, And have never felt the cooing Of a bnbe's breath near mr own. But with more than father passion And with mora than mother pain, I have loved you. little children; . Do you love mo back again? K0EB AND COMMENT. - ; The Governor of Guam probably thinks that Unole Sam Is after him again. Grover Cleveland can now angle with out fear that the questions or reporters will scare the fish. But yesterday we gathered 'round The board with mirth and laughter; Today we feel tho bitter pangs ' That come with the day after. Ah English paper speaks of Croker as the great American. The succeeding- word, "grafter.' was probably omlttediby accident A daring bank robbery Is reported .In an. Illinois town. These robbers are getting almost as much of a menace to banks as confidential employes. Kruger seems to be entering so enthus iastically into Parisian life that we need not be surprised if he presently has his picture taken smoking a cigarette. Perhaps tho Czar got well because & natural death would have been such an Insulting reflection on the ability and vigi lance of the nihilists. Rev. Dr. Sheldon says he would not take part In a modern game of football. He has learned something about the good things to leave alone since he essayed to go Into the newspaper business. A party of distinguished Japanese are in this country studying the best methods of municipal government Another party, holding office in Toklo, is becoming pro ficient In the worst methods. The revers of this might have been expected. Fine fat mallards and other ducks shot on the various lakes along tho Columbia added variety to many a Thanksgiving dinner In this city yesterday, but prob ably few of the sportsmen thought of re ciprocating by providing the ducks with, anything In the way of a luxurious dinner for their Thanksgiving. Captain W. J. Riley, however, who Is a sentimental man. and shoots at the Dead Willows, on the lower end of Sauvle's Island, had the duoks In mind, and sent down to his pre serves a sack of No. 1 wheat and a sack: of yellow corn. In order that his ducks might have a feast All the sportsmen send wheat to their preserves by the ton, but it Is not first-class wheat, and he thought it would be a treat to the ducks to have something choice In the cereal line for Thanksgiving. Probably the ducks will line up for him to shoot them next Sunday when he goes down to Dead Wil lows. A prominent Philadelphia, vegetarian declares that he will try to Induce some football team next year to give a week's trial to vegetable diet "I am sure it will please them," he says. "There's no doubt about It, that for endurance, for hard work, vegetarianism Is the only thing. Do ybu know why? It Is because In vege tables you eat no tiredness. In meat or' fish or poultry you eat a great deal of tiredness, and that is why the meat-eater after a hearty meal feels lazy and heavy and disinclined to work. He has absorbed with his meat a great quantity of uric acid, and the definition of uric acid has been given by an eminent scientist as the' 'essence of tiredness.'. He who eats only vegetables Is never tired after a meal never. How much work he can get . through on a vegetable diet whether ha could, say, play football on It I don't know, because the experiment has not been tried." If all tho turkeys that wero ,atenjpln s the United States yesterday formed In a single-file procession and started to march out of the country, as they probably would have done if they had known that they were to be butchered to make a National holiday, the procession would have been nearly 3000 miles long, and -would have taken so long to pass a given point that few people would have had the patience to wait for It There are some 75,000,000 people In the country, and allotting five to a family, 15,000,000 fami lies. If one family In three sat around a turkey, 5,000,000 turkeys must have paid the death penalty for living; and as each turkey on the march occupies about three feet, with his fore and aft over hang, the grand parade would require 15, 000,000 feet from right to left Divide 15,000,000 feet by 52S0, the number of feet In a mile, and you have 2S40 miles, and something over. People who desire to learn how far across the continent these turkeys would reach can either figure It out with the aid of a map, or wait un tlll such a procession Is formed, and see for themselves. Scores of people, mostly .women, dally visit the ballast dock below town, where three or four ships are discharging bal last brought from Santa Rosalia. In which there are many shell, some of them very pretty. The women gather as closely around the ballast heaps as If they were bargain counters, and scramble for the shells as if they were made of gold. ,Qne of the women was quite seriously hurt by being struck by one of the tubs In which the ballafet Is hoisted out of the ship, and another had a narrow escape from being run over by one of the wagons hauling away the sand. It finally became neces sary to send for a policeman to keep the crowd In order and to prevent them from getting In the way of danger. The men on the dock advise that the women stay away till the ships have finished dis charging ballast, as there will be plenty of shells to be got then. This sugges tion is not likely, however, to meet with favor, and the women are likely to sug gest that the men and wagons get out of their way and let them scramble for the shells as they please. For the benefit of those who do not know where Santa Rosalia is, it may be said that it is a town on the coast of Lower California, where ships go with cargoes of coke, coal, etc., to be used In the mines and smelters in that region, and that they take In bal last there to come to Portland for wheat PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Oulde (referring to Egyptian pyramids) It toek hundreds of years to build them. O'Brien (the wealthy contractor) Thin, it wor a gov er'mlnt Job eh? Tlt-BlU. A Tragedy. She If you had no ldea when we could get married, why did you propose to me? "To tell the truth, darling, I had' no' Idea you would accept me." Llf6. No Help. "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" "Out on my auto, sir," she said. "May I go with you. my pretty maid!" "I have gas enough and to spare," she said. , Puck. Trusting Souls. "I hope It's a nice, clean play." "Oh! I'm sure It is! I heard my .brother say yesterday they use a tank in it that holds more than a hundred barrels of water." Chicago Tribune. That Takes Time. Wife Breakfast won't be ready for twenty minutes yet John. Husband Why, I thought tho cook had everythinr ready. Wife So she has; everything except that new "Instantaneous breakfast food." Philadelphia Press. Baolng Up to .Date. Trainer Now this horse Is as fit as chemicals can maka him. YoO'to gat a galvanic saddle, an electrip whip, bypc dermfc (purs, and If you can only shla a bl2 farther up .Jus. neck, you ought just to lick anything with hair on it! Punch.