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THE MOimXG OREGONIA2S, FRIDAY, afAKCII 15, 1901. i&hz regomcm 'Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon. as secona-claaa matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms ICO Business Office. ..007 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance ai!r' !?lil Sunlay. per month $ S3 Dally. Sunday excepted, per year 7 50 pally, with Sunday, per year-. 0 00 Sunday per j'ear 2 00 The Weekly, per year 1 50 The Weakly, 3 months 50 To City Subscriber Ially, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted.lSc Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncluded.20o POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 10-paee paper c 10 to 32-page paper 2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply 'The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 955, Tacoma Postofflce. Eastern Business Office 47. 48, 40 and 59 Tribune building, New Tork City; 4C9 "The Rookery," Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth special agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 74C Market street near the Palace Hotel; Gold smith Broa.. 230 Sutter street; F. "W. Pitts, JOOS Market street; Foster & Orear, Ferry Sews stand. For sale in Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. "250 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 100 o Spring street. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. For sale In Omaha by H. C. Shears, 105 N. Sixteenth street, and Barkalow Bros., 1012 Famam street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 W. Second South street. Tor sale In New Orleans by Ernest & Co., 115 Royal streot On file In Washington. D. C., with A. W. Iunn, 500 14 th N. W. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & ICendrlck. 000-012 Seventh street. TODAT'S WEATHER. Showers; cooler; pputherly winds. " " i PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 15. Failure to convict In the Frank Hel len case Indicates rather a gloomy out look for the Law Enforcement League's crusade, and encourages the natural observation that this movement, like so many others, will be a spasm rather than a reform. Yet this may not be so. JThe case Is surrounded by peculiar cir cumstances that might not be present In other prosecutions. The absence of both City Attorney Long and District Attorney Chamberlain, each of whom has professed willingness to co-operate in any genuine prosecution, lends support to the contention of Hellen that the pastime interrupted by the police was different from the ordinary gam bling games ordered closed by the au thorities. Perhaps the sudden vanish ing of the redoubtable Mr. Cox may also be taken to Indicate that the prose cutors had lost faith in this particular case. For all these reasons, The Ore gonlan inclines to the view that this Hellen acquittal Is not a precedent Jus tifying despair among the suppression Ists, or expectation of reopening of the games. Veto of the charter has left the gambling situation In statu quo, and the Mayor, "District Attorney and Chief of Police are- not men to say one thing one day and do something else the next. Few if any of the principal gambling proprietors are fools enough to under take to run in defiance of positive or ders to close. Meanwhile, the inevitable concomitants of closure are apparent in Increased play at clubs, in hotels, sa loons and cigar stores. The Ineradica ble propensity to gambling Is availed of by poker sharps and sure-thing men. "Vice pays to decency the tribute of subterfuge, while to the mass of men, to whom 100 gambling-houses or none at all mean precisely the same 'thing because they let them alone, the world Is Just as It was before. Reductions in war taxes, summarized yesterday from Collector Dunne's offi cial Instructions, show that the avowed purpose of removing annoying burdens on small transactions has been consist ently adhered to. and It is also note worthy that President McKInley esti mates the loss of revenue through the act at $41,000,000, or a full $1,000,000 more than was predicted for the bill at the time of Its going to conference. Among the absolute repeals taking effect July 1 are the taxes on commercial brokers, bank checks, certificates of deposit, promissory notes, money orders, export bills of lading, express receipts, tele graph and telephone messages, bonds (except Indemnifying), insurance under takings of ai kinds, leases, manifests, mortgages, steamship tickets below $50, power of attorney, protest, warehouse receipts, proprietary medicines, per fumery and cosmetics, chewing gum and legacies of charitable, religious, literary or educational character. Beer will pay $1 CO a barrel instead of $1 under the Dlngley law, and $2 under the war tax. It is noteworthy that the reduction contemplated Is $11,000,000 greater than Secretary Gage advised, and in case of business depression the revenues might fall to the danger point, notwithstanding the present cash bal ance of $150,000,000. A provision of the war revenue act, not repealed, empow ers the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow money on short-time certificates drawing interest. This will justify run ning closer to the wind than we former ly could do, and the resource may have to be employed in case of failing reve nues. A minor effect of the repeal will be Increased use of bank checks and a corresponding abatement of the present extraordinary demand for small cur rency. It is the theory of Senor Slxto Lopez, whose Philadelphia address we print elsewhere this morning, and the theory of certain persons In this country who are patriotically praying for the dis comfiture of American arms in Luzon, that when a territory changes owner ship It is for Its inhabitants to deter mine whether they will consent to the transfer, and that whenever a portion of a country concludes to secede for "Independence" it Is nobody's business but its own whether It goes or stays. Otherwise, the "weak and struggling" would always be at the mercy of the "powerful and despotic" In the anti imperialist's Utopia, evidently, the pow erful and despotic will always be at the mercy of the weak and struggling. Facts both general and specific are against this chimera qfotlmentalism Suppose that Or6tflHKh.ton fnrnla fl not. The weak and struggling would be at the mercy of the powerful and despotic, and we should stay In, Just as the South had to do after Its glorious but Ineffectual struggle for Independ ence. Nobody asked the consent of Louisiana to be bought, or of Oregon to be ceded, or of Arizona to be con quered. What decided the Revolution ary struggle begun In 1776? Not the preference of the colonists, but their physical force, aided by France. The colonists did submit facts "to a candid world," but those facts were not mere affirmation of the right of every seg ment of humanity to a separate gov ernment of its own device, but they were very definite specifications of abuses practiced by King George and the British Parliament. If the Fili pinos are by us misgoverned, theirs Is the incontestable privilege to rise In rebellion and win their independence if they 'can. Our title to the archipelago cannot be vitiated, nor can the title to any portion of the American domain be vitiated by the mere resolve of a. seceding territory to get out. Neither can Senor Lopez hope to gain anything by Ignoring the fact that the Filipinos fought Spain for correction of abuses, and setting up in its stead the fiction that they were fighting for "self-government." WISE USE OF WEALTH. Andrew Carnegie's gift of $5,000,000 for superannuated and disabled em ployes of his company Is an act of phil anthropy that Is Instinct with wisdom and Justice. Too much of the world's wealth is wasted on the worthless, on persons who ought to be permitted to go on with their dying. Men who have given their best days to productive labor faithfully performed are proper objects of consideration, and Justly en titled to support when superannuated or prematurely disabled for toll. Mr. Carnegie clearly thinks that honest, hard-working men "who have always shown a disposition to be self-supporting to the best of their ability have the first claim upon the respect and the bounty of those who have large wealth at their command for philanthropic ex penditure. He is wise in his decision to be his own almoner. He does not allow his gifts to dribble through a thousand fingers of all sorts of middlemen be fore they reach the object of his thoughtful care. In this characteristic he is like Stephen Glrard, of Philadel phia; Peter Cooper, of New York City, and Amos Lawrence, of Boston. These philanthropists were all able men of business, who made every dol lar of their money, and they were jail men who distributed their money with their own hands during life. They did not oblige the world to wait until their wills were read to discover that they had given something to public charity, but they distributed their surplus dur ing their lives without advertisement or confession. Whenever Glrard saw a promising poor young fellow who showed a desire to lead a decent life and get on in the world by honest In dustry, he would call him Into his office .nd ask him to choose a trade. Sup pose the young fellow said he would like to be a cooper; then Glrard would say, "When you can make a barrel, bring it to mp and I will hire a hop for you and set you up In business and stand by you so long as you are an honest, sober and industrious working man." In this way Glrard placed hun dreds of poor, worthy boys on their feet. So with Peter Cooper. He built the Cooper Institute, with its free school of design for industrious boys and girls who wished to become masters of artistic trades. So with Amos Law rence. He distributed his beneficence with both hands while he was living to worthy young men and women, and, like Glrard, Cooper and Carnegie, he was wise enough to be his own almoner He carefully watched the lives of the young men and women of his vicinage and selected his own beneficiaries by his own observation. An overworked young woman teaching school for a liv ing would get a check from Amos Law rence, telling her that she needed rest and recreation for a month, and to go to the White Mountains and find it. A hard-worked young clerk would re ceive a similar check with a message bidding him to seek health at the sea shore. A poor but promising young theological student would receive two or three barrels of excellent books In the line of his studies, and a liberal check for vacation expenses. So many things of this sort did Amos Lawrence that when he died Theodore Parker said of him, "He prayed with gold." These able men of business never signed subscription papers for public advertisement, or never sought to buy popularity; but they were the liberal almoners of their own large gifts. For honest poverty, for genuine misfortune, they had an open hand and a heart full of sympathy; but they had no use for indolent, worthless, vicious folk who thought the world was their oyster: that It owed them a living without effort. They had no use for moral re form associations that expected to save souls by "smoking out" gambling houses, liquor saloons and bagnios. They were not willing to help persons who were so incapable of self-help that they could not be trusted to walk abroad until all temptations were cribbed, cabined and confined; until virtue became the only atmosphere be cause evil had been forcibly extermi nated from the land. The Immortal part of such men as Girard, Cooper, Amos Lawrence and Carnegie is In this world and the next the good that they wrought rather than the wealth they won. They won It fairly and they used It, not only with generosity, but with wisdom. They are gratefully remembered by the plain working people because they never lost a chance to soften the weight of ad versity's touch on the cheek of a fallen man, but fallen through no fault of his own. Such men are not remembered or honored after death because they were -rich, but according as they won their riches fairly and used nobly or Ignobly what had been ably and hon estly won. The man who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one did be fore; who makes two happy, decent souls where there was but one before; the men, rich or poor, who alleviate by their brains and their benevolence the bitterness of the popular struggle for existence, are worth all the pure Imaginative artists that ever enter tained mankind. The wise gifts of Glr ard, of Cooper, of Amos Lawrence and Carnegie, to the honest, working folk Sprld are far better than much J tv fiVirmt tho Homitlfnl Co much awful suf- arrid selfl so -much gross extravagance within easy sight of corrosive poverty, that true philanthropists from Franklin down to Carnegie .would rather see money diverted to the development of the industrial arts than devoted to arts that do little or nothing to strengthen the weakness and relieve the woes of the worthy working masses of this world. OREGON'S WOOL INDUSTRY. The meeting of the Oregon Woolgrow ers' Association, held at The Dalles this week, was to a considerable extent an indorsement of the policy outlined and discussed in detail at the Pacific North west Woolgrowers' meeting held In Pendleton the week previous. Local matters, such as the wage schedule for shearers and the formation of smaller associations throughout the state, were handled irr detail, but in the main the meeting was devoted to furthering the plans proposed at the big meeting. The benefits of a good, strong organization, with the members working together for a common cause, is well illustrated In the case of the woolgrowers. Their united effort has resulted in giving them privileges enjoyed by few other industries. A protective tariff enables their wool to command higher prices than would be possible without It The frozen carcasses of Australian mutton are kept out of competition with the American sheep by the same methods. The right to graze the flocks on the public domain Is pretty generally con ceded by every one but the cattlemen; the state pays a liberal bounty for the destruction of wild animals which would reduce the size of their flocks. and the General Government maintains a force of veterinarians to attend to the diseases which might fasten on the flocks. This leaves the woolgrowers pretty well taken care of, and the success achieved is a tribute to the power of organization. The wool and sheep In- austry is one of the great wealth-producers of the state. The flocks which find sustenance on' the unoccupied por tions of the public domain are, in a sense, creating wealth out of nothing, for If this unproductive land were not affording grazing for sheep. It would be lying Idle and valueless. As the country becomes more thickly settled, the sheepmen will be crowded off the public domain to make room for the farmer, who as yet Is enabled to secure lands so much richer and more thor oughly watered that he will not waste his efforts on the poorer portions of the public domain. The sheepmen, in spite or the dull ness of the wool market, are now near the high tide of their prosperity. Wool, even at present figures, affords a good profit for the growers, and with free grazing land and protection against wild animals and disease, the industry is certainly on a satisfactory basis for the men engaged in it. The public do main will not always be at their dis posal, and the time may come when the consumers of wool will so far outnum ber the growers that a protective tariff will become too obnoxlos to be toler ated. More small farmt. will take the place of the vast ranges of today, and a greater population will create greater wealth. As intelligent observers of the trend of events, the woolgrowers are aware of the coming change, and It Is In making the most of their present oppor tunities that their organization is prov ing so successful. THE VITALITY OF STATUTES. Law Enforcement Leagues are not necessary to secure prosecution for murder, theft, etc. Why? They are not necessary because the force of hu man self-interest Is behind them. Laws In defense of life, liberty and property are pretty sure to be respected, be cause the enlightened selfishness of man kind teaches the whole community that every man Is Interested In their en forcement; since every man has life and liberty to lose, and many men have life, liberty and property. But when we pass from laws which are sure to be reasonably well enforced through the mere Instinct of self-interest and self preservation to what are called sump tuary' laws relating to the regulation of food, drink and dress, or to vices like gambling, which are contrary to the highest public policy, we find them to have always been feebly enforced. This Is due to the fact that their enforce ment does not strongly appeal to the personal sense of self-interest or self preservation of anybody in particular or 'to the general mass of society. Un less the vices of mankind come per sonally to plague us In our own dally walk, we do not worry about the sa loon, or the gambling-house, or the bagnio In the abstract. If the clientage of these places Invade the general peace and order of our streets; If sober folk have their rights generally outraged by the Incursions of the perishing classes of society, why, then, there Is a public murmur loud enough to obtain public quiet and decency. Other than this, the average man doesn't worry about the saloon, the gambling-house or the bagnio because he "doesn't have to." He doesn't worry about anything that doesn't happen to him or his. If a number of persons have "wheels in their heads" in the morning because they were busy bees In a hive of alcoholic Industry the night before, why, the man who didn't visit the saloon doesn't worry about the other fellow's headache or the mental depression of the man who bet on the wrong card the night before and Is "broke" In the morning. He doesn't worry about anything that happens to him or Is likely to happen to him. If the bubonic plague were In town, he would worry'i because It might happen to him; but he does not worry about houses of ill tepute, because he Is not obliged to enter them. It Is very easy to answer that a large-minded philan thropist will worry over a good deal that does not happen to him, but when you make laws It Is necessary to re member that they will be capable of enforcement just In proportion as they appeal to greatest human interest of the greatest number. The most arbitrary and cruel despots among English Kings, such as Edward IV and Henry VIII, failed when they tried to regulate the food, dress, drink and personal expenses of the people. The gambling vice and the social evil have been subjected to the sternest re pressive measures In times past. In the Middle Ages the government of Paris once drowned several hundred women of the town In the River Seine to no purpose. What hits everybody Is easy of "enforcement; what hits no body in particular is always difficult of enforcement. The mere passage of a law Is no test lot public opinion. The vitality of a law, as shown through its comparative ly easy enforcement, general public ap proval, obedience and support, is the test of its working worth. So far as the saloon, the gambling-house, and the social evil art concerned, they can be regulated and kept In decent order by law, but they can only be suppressed or greatly reduced In numbers through the educating Influence of moral sua sion exercised by parents, teachers, clergymen, physicians and other evan gelists of the gospel of personal moral ity and the wisdom of clean living. What this gospel falls to do for the en larging and enriching of the heads and hearts of mankind can never be made up for by law. If your sermon has fallen on dull ears, you may be sure it will make a dead statute. A local correspondent makes these inquiries: Will you kindly explain through the columns of your valued paper the meaning of "disabil ity pennons" and who are legally entitled to them? Can a person drawing a regular monthly salary from the Government also draw a dis ability pension? Our correspondent doubtless refers to the so-called disability pension act of 1S90, under which any honorably dis charged Union soldier, suffering from disability, from any cause save vicious habits, which rendered him incapable of support by manual labor, was enti tled to a pension. Up to the passage of this act the soldier could not obtain a pension for disability that was not due to wounds or injuries incurred or dis ease contracted In actual service. Un der the ruling of Judge Lochren, who was Commissioner of Pensions In Pres ident Cleveland's second term, a mem ber of the state Judiciary of Michigan was dropped from the pension roll on the ground that a man capable of earn ing a large professional salary- was not entitled to a pension for disability. When General John C. Black was appointed Commissioner of Pensions un der Cleveland's first term he received $1200 a year pension, as "a total wreck." His salary as Pension Commissioner was $5000, and the question was often asked but never answered whether "the total wreck" continued to draw his pen sion and his official salary. If the rul ing of Judge Lochren In the case of the Michigan Judge has never been re versed, we assume that "a person drawing a regular monthly salary from the Government" ought not also to draw a disability pension, since if the pensioner were able to earn the salary he was not entitled to a pension for disability. Nevertheless, there are a good many men who are amply able to earn a comfortable support, and do earn It, who have obtained a pension for disability on the ground that they are "incapable of self-support by man ual labor." Under this construction a millionaire banker, who was a cripple, could draw a pension for disability If he had been 3 soldier. There was In all of General Harri son's later utterances the suggestion of judgment tempered by age and by a sympathetic contact with men and things. HIb opinions upon public mat ters were no longer authoritative, and, Indeed, no longer strong. By what might well be considered an unsuitable marriage he had cut himself off from the companionship of his children of mature years and solaced his leisure by entering Into the sports of his lrf fant daughter the child of his old age. The soldier and statesman had In him disappeared with the years; the non aggressive humanitarian had succeeded to the vacant place. There Is no un kjndness In this estimate. It is a sim ple statement of a natural fact, or a fact based upon natural law. Walking still with some show of mental and physical vigor in the twilight of a long and busy life, he passed naturally Into Its shadows, honored for what he had been and regarUed with indulgent kindness for what he was. Nearlng the limit of three-score and ten years, lie might easily have exceeded It, had disease passed him by, but, being at tacked, his end came, not untimely. His obsequies will be conducted with honors befitting the memory of a man who had In his prime fought for his country and In his mature years, as Its Chief Magistrate, given It a clean, wholesome, patriotic administration for a period of four years. The Rev. A. J. Brown, in his recent address on "The Chinese Problem," re ferring to the demand of Li Hung Chang that missionary work should stop, asked: Why should Americans be permitted to send beer and firearms to China and yet be forbid den to send missionaries, whore errand Is to heal the sick, care for the lowly and lift up the fallen? Shall we stop in the work of Christianizing these 400.000.000 of people, while traders from all nations are permitted to do business with them? It seems to us this is a matter to be settled by Ch'na. If China wishes to buy American beer and firearms, but has no use for American missionaries at the present price of Internal dissen sions and disorder, why, China's wishes should be respected. We have no more business to force our missionaries upon China than Great Britain had to permit British merchants to smuggle opium Into China against the edicts of the Pekln Government. By degrees the Port of Portland Com mission is settling down to business. Close scrutiny of expense and attention to the vast detail of an essential public Improvement betokens that we shall have a competent working body. If up-stream dredging will make better and cheaper channels than the down stream work, as President Hughes con tends, let us have the new method. If a civil engineer having a thorough knowledge of hydraulics would get bet ter results from the dredge than a river captain, let the Port employ an engi neer and pay him the salary his train ing and efficiency merit. Above all, let the deepening .of the channels to the sea be continued without interruption. The deeper the water, the greater the draft of vessels that will come to the Columbia and the greater the com merce of Portland. In another column Dr. Ackerman writes Interestingly, though, as we think, mistakenly, concerning the dis cretion of Marcus Whitman. Opinions differ and naturally so In regard to the methods of Dr. Whitman In dealing with the Indians, while his motives will ever remain unquestioned. A gen tle, tender, humane man, "he went fear lessly among the savages, trying to im bue them with his high Ideals. Disre garding all warnings of their treach ery, practically unmindful of the very apparent evidences of their' discontent, he trusted and hoped and waited risked his life fqc what he conceived" to be his duty, and lost It. These are the simple facts. The rest is largely a matter of opinion, the discussion of which, whether from an ecclesiastical or .a practical standpoint, Is unprofita ble. Honest differences of opinion, as long as there is adherence to these sim ple facts, cannot detract from the fame of Dr. Whitman. A Christian mission ary with the zeal of his calling; a mar tyr to what he believed to be his duty, but what others, from a different view point, may as honestly conceive to have shown a reckless disregard for his own safety and that of his family, the name of Dr. Marcus Whitman will be honored long after the perversions of history and the: embellishments of fancy have dropped away from It. The bugs being plowed up by farmers In various sections of the Willamette Valley are not grain aphis. So says Professor Cordley, entomologist of the State Agricultural College. Farmers are now anxious to know what they are, and. If of a menacing character, how to kill them while yet dormant. The consolation to be gained from the assurance that the bug unearthed Is not a well-known pest Is quickly turned Into consternation In the presence of an unknown enemy. Perhaps, how ever, there Is nothing to do but wait and see. There are places where sci ence must follow development, and this may be one of them. It is an unusual year in which the entomologist does not have to make the acquaintance of at least one new bug that insists upon sharing with the farmer or orchardist the results of his labor. Rhode Island is the great divorce mill of the North Atlantic States. Non-support Is the favorite charge in its courts against husbands, for many a man will submit to a non-support charge and make no defense, who would fight graver accusations. The statistics show the rapid growth of the industry: 1897, 372 divorces; 189S, 400 divorces; 1899, 412 divorces; 1900, 466 divorces. Bids were opened at Omaha the other day for 400 horses for the newly organ ized Fourteenth Cavalry at Fort Leav enworth. The bids ranged from $100 to $150 a horse, a pretty stiff price. At this rate of prices, the day Is far dis tant when the horse Is likely to be driven out of use by the automobile and sent to the slaughter-house. St. Louis has extended an Invitation to Senator Tillman to come to her fair, but she looks down her nose when any thing Is said about asking Chicago to be present. Of course Dc Castellane Is perfectly willing to thrash editors who say un kind things of him. George Gould pys the fines. A million pounds of tobacco were burned In a Kentucky town yesterday. This approaches General Grant's rec ord. The Sultan of Morocco Is to be In eluded In the Invitation to call and set tle sent to His Majesty of Turkey. All of the Insurgents appear to have surrendered but Hon. Mark Twain. AGE OF JOKES. All "New" One Are Simply Copies of Ancient Humor. Youth's Companion. "Is there any new Joke under the sun?" asked George Augustus Sala, an English journalist and special correspondent, who died a few years ago. "I doubt there being one," very gravely he answered, and told two anecdotes to support this skepticism. An Intelligent Greek, who acted as Mr. Sala's guide while visiting Athens, re lated to him, as a modern Greek Joe Mll lerlsm, the story of a lawsuit. A deaf plaintiff sued a deafer defendant before the deafest Judge in all Greece. The plaintiff claimed so many hundred drach mas for rent that was due. The defend ant pleaded that he never ground his corn at night. The Judge, In giving Judgment, observed: "Well, she's your mother, after all; you must keep her be tween you." "When I cot home I found," wrote Mr. Sala. "this apparently up to date triad of ludicrous non sequlturs in a collection of ancient Greek epigrams." There used to be told a story of Sheri dan Knowles. the dramatist, who was a first-rate hand at Irish bulls, meeting one of twin brothers, and asking him: "Which of ye is the other?" Mr. Sala compares this with the story of that very ancient jester, Hlerocles: "Of twins, one died. Skotlkos, meet ing the survivor, asked Kim: "Was It you who died, or your brother?" A Jonrnnllftt's Achievement. Boston Herald. It Is justice to say that the St. Louis World's Fair, which has now become certaln to be a splendid success, at leasyf as far as preparation for It Is concerned! owes Its origin chiefly to a journalist of that city. Mr. Charles M. Harvey, cne of the editors of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, started this project about 10 years ago, and steadily held to it thereafter. Mr. James G. Blaine had previously told the people of St. Louis that they ought to erect a monument to Jefferson, under whose Presidency tho Missouri Purchase was made. There were several plans of fered for celebrating Its centennial. Mr. Harvey for a long time stood alone in ad vocating the world's fair commemoration. Not until 1SSS did he find any substantial aid for his scheme. At that time Con gressman Bnrtholdt was the first man to second his efforts, which he did by In troducing the bill In Congress that. was adopted at the late session. The mea sure then dragged along for some time, but the citizens of St. Louis took it up at last, and showed great earnestness In their action to promote the fair. Mr. Harvey, who Is a veteran and a highly accomplished newspaper man, constantly kept the subject before the people. He is to be congratulated upon his signal achievement In seeing the fair provided for In magnificent proportions. Rouffh, but Denerved. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Last week. In an address before the students of Tale, Whltelaw Reld quoted from another address of his own, deliv ered at Rochester 22 years ago, as fol lows: There Is not an editor in Mew York who does not know that a fortune awaits the man there who Is willing to make a dally paper as disreputable and vile as a hundred and fifty thousand readers would be willing to buy. The experiment which New York Jour nalists, trained In the school of Greeley, Raymond and Dana, refused to make even when satisfied that It would "pay" In a pecuniary sense has since been suc cessfully tried by less scrupulous men, who, selecting New York as the best center of operations, have fairly plas tered the country with "yellow" slime stuff which several hundred thousands of readers feed upon as if It were manna from beaven; the few grains of real Im proving matter mixed therewith remind ing one of the undigested grain of corn which hogs pick up after they have passed through the intestines of the cow. , THE VICE OF ICON0CLASM. Kansas City Star. The Audubon Society in Chicago is mak ing it sultry for certain persons who are charged with holding in captivity an American eagle. This mission of eman cipation will appeal to every citizen of the United States who is animated by a be coming spirit of patriotism. It plainly outrages the sentiment of the Republic to cage up a bird which symbolizes free dom, and which Is held in this land as the very embodiment of lofty Indepen dence. It may be said that the eagle is not all that it Is cracked up to be, but who Is-' Some peevish naturalist, for example, with more realism than poetry, seeks to explode the theory that the eagle disdains prey that his not been captured and-slain by Itself. This superserviceable witness says that he has seen, with his own eyes, an eagle feasting on a dead lamb which It had no share In killing. But what is more serious still Is the claim by the now active Audubon Society of Chicago that there Is not an authentic case on record of an eagle carrying a baby off to Its lofty eyrie on the rocks. Now, If this is true, what is to become of the thrilling story about Hannah Lamond's bairn In the old McGuffey readers? Everybody who has lived long enough to wear spectacles re members it and how the teacher never had any trouble with the reading class when that recital of peril and dauntless maternal love was the lesson. Now, a bunch of querulous ornithologists crowd In and say such a thing never happened. But who i3 going to believe them with all their assumption of wis dom? What good can It do anybody to be convinced If that were possible that the American eagle which is elevated to the very pinnacle of glory every Fourth of July Is content to satiate its hunger on carrion, and that It Is such a poltroon that it would never dare to steal an Infant and bear It away Into the empyrean? Where In heaven's name does the profit come in throwing down the idols of the fancy, and In shattering the standards which have become hallowed by years of reverence? Why not accept the American eagle for what it has been and continue to hold it aloft to popular adoration? What is the use to go into a discussion of its habits, of draw its frailties If it has frailties from their high and solitary abode? If there Is a nest and a nuisance on the face of the globe. It Is the human gadfly that buzzes around. Insisting that this thing and that thing is not true, and that every belief which the human mind enter tains, to Its special Joy and satisfaction, is a superstition. The creature who goes up and down" the earth knocking all of the poetry out of life ought to be condemned to perform "examples" In addition and substraction, all of his days, with no rec reation but to recite the multiplication table. What good has it ever done anybody to be told that Sir John Moore was not "buried darkly at the dead of night"; that the whole William Tell business Is a fake, and that the Round Table of the good King Arthur never existed, and was never surrounded by gallant knights? Every belief of this kind which humanity lets go, makes it that much poorer. There is enough stern and dismal reality In the world, God knows. Let It have the light and the glamour of all the myths that have cheered Its sons and daughters, were they a thousand times more false than the idol wreckers have painted them. Let us. at the beginning of the Twen tieth century, renew our faith in the American eagle. Let us repudiate the base aspersion that he Is a thief and a camp follower. Let us rebuke and denounce his traducers and all of the rest of the,1?arp ing crowd who have anointed themselves unto the mission of robbing life of mucn that has added to Its pleasure, without in troducing Into the world a single element of harm or mischievous error. Up with tho myths and fables that have brought joy to the children and have soft ened the stern realities of those who are called to bear the heat and burden of the day! Down with the Iconoclasts! m In the Blue Grass Itejsion. Somebody Is guilty of satirizing the no ble State of Kentucky. The following card is said to be circulating widely: NEW GAME LAW FOR KENTUCKY: Plain citizens may be shot from January 1 to December 31. Senators, Governors ana memucr . Congress may be shot during any politi cal campaign or within CO days there after. , ,T . Niggers may be shot at any time. Hunt ers In search of this game are also al lowed to use a stuffed club or a butcher knife. If any man is caught drinking water It Is a sgn he Is no gentleman, sah; and may be executed with whatever weapon Is nearest at hand. Colonels may be shot with Impunity at any time, while a squir rel gun Is recommended for Majors and Captains. No man shall be allowed to kill In ex cess of six persons a day. In case of hon or this number may be Increased to 103. Every citizen who does not tote the re mains of his victims from public sight within 48 hours from the time the first volley was ilred will bo fined one (D) gal lon of moonshine. Any citizen who steps on another's toes may be shot with the privilege of apologizing thereafter. If a citizen leaves home half-shot and is found on the street a short time there after full of buckshot, that Is his fault, and hft relatives are not allowed to shoot down more than 17 suspects In their efforts to find the guilty person. MfH. Clarence Mnckaj-'s Accident. Chicago American. New Tork. Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, wife of the young Commercial Cable Com pany millionaire, was driving In her prl- vate nansom ist evening when a Metro I politan traction air car smashed Into it at Twenty-eighth street and Fifth avenue and upset and demolished it. Mrs. Mackay was thrown against the roof of the cab and was a terrified pris oner until police and bystanders extri cated her from the wreckage. She was shaken up and her dress was torn, but she declared that she was not badly hurt. The horse that drew the hansom, a su perb animal named Bluebird. Imported two months ago by Mr. Mackay from England at a cost of $3000, was thrown over on his head and Instantly killed. Mrs. Mackay. who is young and beautiful, cried when she saw the animal lying In a pcol of blood. She sent for doctors and experts, but tho horse had died at once from concussion of the brain. The splendid new hansom, which cost $2500, was a sorry wreck. John Mackle, the driver of the hansom, was thrown in the air, but was not badly hurt. The motorman was arrested for reck lessness. Policeman Carmody tore open the doors of the capsized vehicle and found Mrs. Mackay helplessly Imprisoned. She was agitated, but kept protesting that she was unhurt. The policeman helped her out. She sat on the curbstone for a few moments. Then she recovered her com posure and stood up. Why? Lawton Standard. The Legislature has passed an act pro hibiting barbers from opening their shops and shaving on Sunday. This Is one of the fool measures that make people dis gusted with the Legislative bodies. The Barbers' Commission is another Idiotic measure that is a disgrace to the intelli gence of the commonwealth. Why should the barbers have a commission? Why should they be restricted from working on Sunday, or all the time, If they want to? If the barbers are entitled to special leg islation and special commissions, let every other craft, from sewer-cleaners to bank presidents, be accorded like consideration. Let us have a boot-black commission, a plumbers' commission, and one for car penters, blacksmiths, dry goods clerks and all other occupations. Give all a blg'sal ary and let the people foot the bill. The people are becoming much like the boy's frogs they are getting accustomed to be ing skinned and rather enjoy it. NOTE AND COMMENT. - t Carnegie gives away his money just as If Pierpont Morgan were making it toe him. Has it occurred to any of the ring mag nates to apply for permission to pull tho Jeffries-Ruhlln match off In the House of Commons? Mark Twain's advice, "Use a club and avoid the joints1." has been adopted by the Kansas Prohibitionists with certain Important amendments. An Ohio farmer committed suicide rath er than appear in court to testify. We are not sure, but we infer that the court was in Kentucky somewhere. Fair Queen Wllhelmina Spends a fortune on a gown, " And 5100.000 ,. Just to buy a week-day crown. 1 Now figure, if you're able. What the Dutch will have to pay " For the crown that Wllhelmina Buys to wear on Easter day. A Government report just Issued shows) that during tho year 1S90 In India the num ber of deaths among human beings attrib uted to carnivorous animals was 2966. Tigers caused the death of S99. wolves of 33S, and leopards, hyenas. Jackals and crocodiles were accountable for a largo proportion of the remainder. The I033 of human life from snakes reached the high total of 24,621 a greater mortality than in any of the four preceding years. Near ly half the deaths occurred In Bengal. "A close Phave," the learned barber said the other day, "removes not only tho hair, but a portion of the skin as well It removes. In fact, a thin layer of skin all over the line of the beard. No blood is visible to the naked eye, but under the microscope a close shaven face reveals 1000 widely opened pores, each exuding a tiny drop of blood.' You know how tho sudden removal of heavy clothing tends to bring on cold. How much more, tnen. does a close shave, which Is nothing less than a removal of part of the skin cloth ing, tend, with the exposure that it cre ates of pores and nerve tips, to Induce colds, sore throat and even pneumonia T' A big auction sale of postage stamps lasting four days took place recently in London, the collection bringing in $21,000. Among high prices paid were: British Guiana, IScO, 12 cents blue, $220; British Guiana. 1S56. 4 cents blue with corners cut. $290: Hnwaii, 1S51. 5 cents blue, slightly torn, $360; 13 cents' blue, damaged, $230; Guiana, 1S50, 4 cents blue. $120: Saxony. 1S51, 1-3 neugroschen black on pale blue, error, $373; Tuscany. 1SC0, 3 lire yellow, $210; Wurtemberg, 1851-52, 9 kreuzer rose, $1C5; Reunion, 1S52. 30 cents black on blu ish, $112; Canada, 1851, 12 pence black, 3S5; Nova Scotia, 1S51-57. 1 shilling pur ple, $112; Brattleboro, 1S46, 5 cents black on buff with a small hole In center, $200; United States, 1869, 24 cents green and purple with Inverted flags, $120; SO cents with inverted flags, $270. The Hon. John Daly, the Mayor of Lim erick, Ireland, who is now In Boston, has no sympathy for the Irish members or Parliament who made the scene In tho House the other night. "I do not quite understand," he says, "what these men are trying to accomplish. But from what I know of some of the men Involved I would say that their main object Is to gain popularity among the Irish people at the cost of opposing the chairman. Such things tickle the fancy of some of the people they represent, but beyond that amount to nothing. They have probably been expelled from the House, which means for 24 hours only, and If there was any fear of further punishment they would be careful to do nothing to merit It. The Speaker could, with the consent of Parliament, confine them, but there la no danger of that In these cases. Another thing that convinces me that this trou ble Is caused only by those who seek to curry favor with the people is the fact that none of the great leaders of the Irish; Nationalists In Parliament have taken any part in It. If it were of Importance all the Irish representatives would be Into it in a body. You may rest assured that the whole thing amounts to nothing, and Is only done for effect." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEIIS Her Source of Joy. Hostess You seem to be happy tonight, dear? Mlsa Swagger Oh! I am. My rival's gown doesn't tit and people are making remarks about It. Ohio Stato Journal. Too Much of a Good ThlnK. Jlmson What became of that man who had twenty-seven medals for .saving people from drowning? Dock Worker He fell in one day whenhe had thorn all on. and tho weight of 'em suk him. New York Weekly. ; Wonder, As for the woman, she found tho chief wonders of creation not in the culmi nating etebrate. but In the lower orders of life. "The Jellyfish, for instance!" exclaimed the woman. "How was it ever got to Jeir so beautifully?" Detroit Journal. Strategy Elder Sister Mr. Billmore said you were In the parlor a long time last night, but I don't suppoe you used much gas. Younger Slsner The reason you didn't see any burning. Emily, was because Harold careless ly hung his hat on the doorknob. Chicago Tribune. A Blow. "Darling." he paid, "there is a dark spot in my part life which I am afraid you will not oerlook." "Do not despair," she replied. "I will marry you. no matter how dissipated you hae been." The man at her side shuddered. "Alas!" he cried, "it Is not that. But I was once a member of the Y. M. C. A." Life. Quite Proper. Miss De Style Oh! I've Just planned the sweetest Easter bonnet. It's to be Mrs. De Style (reprovingly) Fie. I should think during Lent, at least, you would refrain from dwelling upon earthly things. Miss De Style Earthly! My gracious, mam ma, this bonnet will be perfectly heavenly. Philadelphia Press. She They say that women never tell of any defects they may possess. He But there are exceptions. Miss Eggletop very frankly told me today that her hair comes out dreadfully, and that It is a great nuisance to her. She And you neer guessed that Mlsa Eggletop a head Is as bald as a billiard ball! Oh. you goosle! You'll believe me after this. Boston Transcript. Korffotten. , Chicago Times-Herald. A little year or so ago J . She sparkled everywhere. With shoulders bare and face aglow The fairest of the fair; We read about her every day As having been at this or that At club or tea or ball or play. Attraction centered where she sat. A little year or so ago She swajed a certain set Without her functions failed, but. oh. How quickly we forget! The men who flocked around her thea Now flatter other girls, and they That read her name with envy when She swajed ne'er think of her today. A preacher said some words, and lo, A maiden ceased to be! The fair one people used to know. Oh where, oh where Is she? There's one who bends with loving gaxa O'er something small and frail and sweet I wonder if she mourns the days "When all the world was at her feet?