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News or discussion .Intended for publication in The Oregonian should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonian," not to the name or any individual. letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonian." The Oregonian does not buy poems arr 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 llll PaclHc & enue. Tacoma. Box 953, Taroma PostofSce. Eastern Business Office t7. 48. 0 and 50 Tribune building. New Tork City: 409 "The Rookery." Chicago: the S. C. Beckwlth special agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Gold emlth Bros., 236 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts. 3008 Market street;. Foster & Orear, Ferry news stand. For sale In Dos Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 59 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 100 So. Spring etreet. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnham street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 W. Second South street. For sale In Ogden by TV. C. Kind, 204 Twen-ty-flrth street On file in Washington, D. C, with A. W. Dunn, 500 14th N. W. On file at Buffalo, N. T., in the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale In Denr. Colo, by Hamilton & Xendrlck, 800-012 Seventh street. TODAY'S "WEATHER. Occasional showers; southerly winds. PORTLAJTD, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1001 THE TRUST I3T OPERATION. Acceptance of directorships In the shipyard trust by many leading build ers leaves little room for doubt that this ambitious enterprise trill be put Into operation, just as similar ones have been in other departments of Industry. The modus operandi of these under takings is most interesting, and in the North American Review's May sympo sium oq trusts it is graphically de scribed. The shipyard trust will elevate two or three of its most efficient managers to places of authority, and will dismiss a score or more of high-priced officials that are comparatively worthless. The inefficiency of these latter will not be advertised, but their fate will simply be to be ignored and relegated to a back seat or thrust out altogether. The Met ropolitan Street Railway Company, of New Tork City, for example, acquired eighteen distinct lines, each with a full complement of officers. The lines were consolidated and the offices were wiped out. Mr. H. H. Vreeland, as president of the combined system, performs the duties formerly discharged by the eighteen separate presidents, and per forms them much better, as he is a high-grade specialist, and cheaper, for a single salary- Eighteen vice-presidents, eighteen secretaries and eighteen treasurers have given place to one offi cial of the same rank under the com bination. "When the shipyard trust's directors get together they will pick out some such shipbuilder for president as the J steel men found In Schwab, or the en velope men In Logan. Every plant In the combination will have the advan tage of the best p.ossible supervision. It will have better management than It had before, and at greatly reduced cost. The really efficient man earns more and gets more than he did be fore, and the worthless man, as he de serves, is turned out to grass. The mass of employes are unaffected, but their labor is more intelligently di rected. Dangers of overproduction and costly competition are avoided, and the employe shares in the stability and prosperity of his employer. The chances of disastrous closing down are minim ized, because a single disadvantageous ly circumstanced shipyard will not be driven to the "wall by desperate rivals. Each will be working in harmony with the others. We are far from asserting that the trust is the solution of Industrial prob lems, but its application to some forms of business has certainly uncovered great "wastes and dangers in the com petition it has measurably superseded. When the envelope trust, for example, was formed, the correspondence of the various firms In the combination was turned over to the consolidated office for inspection. It showed a most ruinous chaos in every part of the business. Salesmen quoted prices that seemed to them necessary to hold trade, and their houses filled the orders In blind sub mission at an actual loss, of which they appeared to be ignorant Buyers made statements of the volume of their busi ness that comparison showed to be vis ionary. Most manufacturers. It ap pears, were actually In the dark as to the cost of their product. They made such prices as they were forced to make, and trusted to luck for profit or loss. Another great reform was In the elimination of men who had long sur vived any usefulness, but were pension ers and een brakes on the wheels of progress. When the trust came in, they went out. Take the cover off the trust, and this is how the wheels go round. It has advantages, who can deny? And it is rolling us along on a wave of specula tion unprecedentedly high. The trust claims credit for the boom, but doubt less it will disown responsibility for the crash that is sure to come. As to its efficiency in organization and selection of the fittest, we must bear In mind that it is merely reaping the ripened harvest of the competitive system. The trusts did not make Carnegie, or Mor- igan, or Hill, or Schwab, or Ixgan. lat did make them and turn them out as matchless Instruments for the trust's use has been the fierce fight of indus trial and commercial rivalry. The ques tion is not whether the trust does well to pick out the flower of our Industrial army for million-dollar salaries and Wall-street deals with J4.000.000 profit on a single transaction. The question, rather, is. Will this dream of ease and beautj- bring xtp men like these for the next generation? Our Industrial sys tem has flowered In these splendid com-'i binatlons. Is it going to seed? OTi THE DOWS GRADE. The most casual observer of American manners and morals cannot have failed to note the decadence compared with the good old days which fate cruelly prevented our enjoying. If on his own account he had been impervious to ac cumulating testimony, his attention must have been drawn to it by the om nipresent and assiduous reformer of various cast The evidence is not only overwhelming, but .all-sided. What is the trouble with our Ameri can civilization today? What is ruin ing this country, gentlemen? Well, for one thing, it Is the churches. They are content to run on in the same old groove, without adapting themselves to the changing moods of the time. On the other hand, they are too ready to fly after every popular craze, and forget to give us the good, old gospel of our fath ers. If the church is to get on, it must be modern, progressive and up to date. The pulpit must give us art and evolu tion, science and higher criticism. At the same time It fails because it de parts from the ancient and honorable custom of preaching "Christ and him crucified." Our educational methods are alto gether wrong. Are the boys and young men of today trained in the classics, grounded In mathematics and formed in stern discipline as were those of an earlier day? On the other hand, con template the conservatives and moss backs of pedagogy, who must get abreast of the times or else the rising generation is doomed. Take our girls. How far removed from the Innocent girlhood of a bygone day is the pert precocity of our Ameri can misses! The girl of 15 knows more about the mysteries of physical life to day than did the grandmother of fifty years ago. Things once talked of with bated breath are now bawled from the housetops, and the worldly wisdom of our girls is at painful contrast with the staid decorum of those good old days. On the other hand, the rising generation Is growing up in Ignorance of the things most necessary to know. How many mothers today, as our grandmothers were used to do, take their girls apart and Instruct them In the sacred mysteries of wifehood and motherhood? Alas, none! Our young women are growing up In Ignorance, and there Is none to help. They arrive at woman's estate, without any knowl edge of their coming responsibilities, and the prey to the first despoller that comes along. These things might be borne, were it not for the sordid and at the same time the idle atmosphere of the home and our business life. Gayety and dissipa tion will be our undoing. Father spends his days at golf and his nights at the club. Mother is paying calls all day and playing whist all night Where is the seriousness of our ancestors? Where is the application and the zeal that made New England great and the American home a model for all civili zation? Side by side with this frivol ity, we are too intense. The husband and father, instead of being the jovial, free-hearted fellow we used to know, has become a mere slave. The Ameri can, we all know, works too hard. His ambition, his persistence, his ceaseless grind without rest or recreation, will be his undoing. He works all day to keep up with his family's increasing de mands, he tosses all night on a bed of sleepless anxiety. Mothers, who ought to be making heme happy with jest and game, are consumed with ambition for their progeny. Night and day they are consumed with a passion for getting ahead. They sacrifice themselves for their family. They grow old before their time. They work too hard, they have forgotten how to play. What is the country coming to, when our men and women make slaves of themselves to get along in the world? Over these diametrically opposite roads society Is rushing to perdition. If any further proof Is needed, take up a volume of 400 years ago, depicting with true reformer's zeal the evils of the age, and find it all set down there, as true to life as it Is today: Yet some homes make shift to be happy in spite of all, love woos and wins in the same old way, and children run to lisp their sire's return with sweetness as winsome as when Abraham fared forth from Mesopotamia or Egypt's mothers nursed their babes by the banks of the rising Nile. PORTLAND'S MARITIME TRADE. An average of over $50,000 worth of wheat flour and lumber was shipped from Portland every business day In April, the figures breaking all previous records for so late In the season. This enormous amount of Oregon products was carried away by a fleet of twenty two steamships and sailing vessels, the port disbursements of which were over $150,000. These figures for a single month's business in what is usually regarded as the dull season give an ex cellent Idea of what Portland has at stake In keeping an open river to the sea. The largest portion of this $50,000 per day was handled by Portland bank ers and tradesmen, and the port dis bursements of the fleet amounting to over $5000 per day, were scattered around among a hundred different lines of Industry. This Is the kind of traffic that has made Portland great and Is keeping her In the front rank among North Pacific seaports. There are men in this city to'day who can recall with out difficulty seasons not so many years ago when the entire shipments of wheat and flour for the year were smaller than those for the single month of April just passed. The wheat trade of this port is a cor rect index of the general business which has built up the city. The grow ers of Oregon, Washington and Idaho market the largest portion of their grain in this city, and Portland banks supply the money for moving the crop. It Is accordingly but natural that these wheatgrowers should purchase their goods where they-sell their wheat, and Portland thus becomes a large distrib uting point for merchandise which Is sent all over the Northwest Much the same conditions prevail in the wool, hop and livestock business, and the value of the exports of any of these commodities Is Immediately distributed In other lines of trade as soon as the product Is marketed. Wheat however, Is king in this country, and it' will be many a day before Its hold on the scep ter will relax. Whether It goes 'round the Horn to Europe In its natural state or Is shipped across the Pacific as flour. It Is still the great factor in the com merce of this port, and of the Pacific Northwest No other Industry, in fact, not all of the other industries Jn thp Northwest combined, could have given Portland the maritime commerce di rectly traceable to the wheat traffic. It is for this reason that the channel from Portland to the sea has steadily been deepened as the wheat traffic Increased. In deepening this channel Portland has gradually reduced the freight differen tial made by shipowners in favor of San Francisco until the two ports are practically on an even basis. The wheat exports sent foreign bysea from Portland for the season of 1900-01 will average In value over $1,000,000 per month, and a stream which carries traffic of this magnitude will never be neglected. The Columbia River has made Portland great as a wheat-shipping port, and. Portland in turn has made it possible for 25-foot ships to go up and down the river, where 18-foot vessels grounded a few years ago. SAILING WITH THE WIND. Mark Hanna resents with Indigna tion the inquiry whether President Mc Kinley has not "the third-term" bee in his Presidential bonnet; nevertheless, a very solid, sober and Influential "inde pendent" newspaper, the Boston Her ald, argues for the development of a strong opposition party, and thinks that in the absence of it Mr. McKinley might be nominated and elected again with Mr.. Bryan as his opponent once more, despite the popular prejudice against a third term. The Herald says that McKinley "has no such competitor as Grant had in Blaine for the next nomination to the Presidency; he has no competitor in sight, for no experi enced observer of politics is seriously considering Theodore Roosevelt in this connection." All of this is plausible enough, but nevertheless the President's trip and some of his unexpected utter ances do not need ambition for a third term to explain them. President Mc Kinley is not seeking for a "third term," nor seeking to name his own successor, as Jackson did, nor is he pre paring the public mind for his future continuance In political life after he ceases to be President. He Is simply doing today what he has always done In the past; lie Is sailing with the wind, not against it. He has never been a man of hard-and-fast policy, but has always shrewdly accommodated his policy to the circumstances and condi tions with which he has had to deal. The President sees clearly that the Republican party Is confronted with conditions that cannot be met and solved by hidebound protectionist prac tice, and some of his utterances on this trip are regarded as intended as "feel ers" to test public sentiment concern ing the adjustment of our commercial relations to accord with the retention of the Philippines and the opening of the markets of the Orient. The President seeks Inspiration and assistance through closer touch with public sentiment than he obtains in Washington through per sonal Intercourse with Seriators and Representatives. In his inaugural ad dress last March the President Inti mated that there must be an adjust- ment of our internal economy to ac commodate new conditions when he said: "Our diversified productions are increasing in such unprecedented vol ume as to admonish us of the necessity of still further enlarging our foreign markets by broader commercial rela tions," and he proceeded to refer to ''re ciprocal trade arrangements," a whole series of which the Senate had just: re fused to ratify. These "reciprocal trade arrangements" were opposed by the leading Republican Senators on inflexi bly protectionist grounds. On the heels of this rejection the President reiterated his views. The reciprocity treaties have been extended and will come again before the Senate. In his speeches the President does not talk about the "home market," but he says: It is your business as well as mine to see to It that an industrial policy shall be pursued in the United States that shall open up the widest markets in every part of the world for the products of American soil and American manufacture. We can now supplj our own markets. The world market, "the great mar kets of the Orient," are the burden of the President's story, and he is evi dently engaged in a campaign of edu cation, educating the people to the level of believing that a tariff is a mere ques tion of expediency, for that is implied by his declaration at Memphis, "Not maxims, but markets." In other words, McKinley said that a tariff creed that prevented us from selling the largest amount'of goods at a profit to the great est number is a creed more honored In the breach than the observance. The President read with approval resolu tions adopted by the Legislature of Tennessee in 1847, which dwelt upon the importance oi enlarged commercial Intercourse with the rest of the world. Not only were the President's views ap plauded vigorously by his Memphis au dience, but the New York Tribune com mended his utterances, saying that we are to look for expansion of American trade abroad, not merely in the Orient, where our cottons are in demand, but in Europe, where our growing general manufactures may find a market. President McKinley has clearly ceased to be a protectionist according to the creed of the Boston Home Market Club, which denounced with indignation the treaty of reciprocity with France In a letter to the President. The President's plan favors the adoption of reciprocity under the name of extending the pro tective system. He sees that the build ing up of our foreign trade In manu factured goods is the duty of the hour. Of course, it Is easy to sneer at the President as having repudiated his old time high-tariff dogmatism, but Web ster was equally Inconsistent, and de fended himself upon the ground that it was a mere question of business expedi ency, not of hard-and-fast theory. Sir Robert Peel, like Webster, lived to speak and work In 1846 for the policy he had denounced three years before. The President, always an opportunist, is only sailing with the wind- It is reported that the Cuban Consti tutional Convention will accept the Piatt amendment The visiting dele gates returned to Cuba with the knowl edge that the word "substantially" In the Piatt amendment does not mean that the President may exercise a wide discretion in the application thereof, but that on the contrary he is forbidden to make any change of substance as dis tinguished from mere change of form. The visiting delegates have learned that the President Is as much bound to obey the Piatt amendment as he is to obey any act of Congress or the Con stitution; that our War Department has authoritatively expressed the Pres ident's views and intentions. If the Cuban Constitutional Convention should reject the Piatt amendment, President McKinley would be obliged, in pursu ance" of the law. to retain the island under military occupation until the next Congress modify its instructions. There Is no ground for believing that the next Congress will modify the Piatt amendment. If the Cuban convention is sincerely anxious to organize an in dependent government In the island at once, it will at once incorporate in Cuba's organic law the conditions set -forth in the so-called Piatt amendment Until a Cuban Government shall have been established, the United States cannot enter upon negotiations for such a reciprocity treaty as will facilitate the access of Cuban sugar and tobacco to our markets. For these reasons it is entirely probable that the Cuban Con stitutional Convention will accept the Piatt amendment Ex-Representative William R. Morri son, of Illinois, who has just been granted a pension of $8 per month, to date from September 14, 1887, when he became 62 years old, served in the Mex ican and Civil Wars, resigning & Colo nelcy in 1862 to enter Congressv Colo nel Morrison was a very gallant "war" Democrat, who was severely wpunded at the head of his regiment at the battle of Fort Donelson. He Is entitled to a service pension of $12 a month as a vet eran of the Mexican War, but as he has never seen fit to claim it, -'he perhaps did not approve of its original en actment, since the Mexican War pen sion act grants a pension for service without any limitation as to disability through disease or wounds. The prece dent of a service pension to Mexican Wat veterans will be sure to be quoted sooner or later to justify a service pen sion to every Union veteran, and for this reason, perhaps, Colonel Morrison has never sought a pension as a Mexi can War veteran. The Rev. Dr. Wayland Spauldlng, president of the Congregational Cler ical Union, recently called Mark Twain low-born and low-bred, and Twain in a speech a few days after before the Brooklyn Clerical Union referred to tfie matter as follows: At Just this time I am remarkably comforted by an invitation to meet a body of clergymen like this It's only in Brookljn that I'm ap preciated. "Why don't you people, so far as jour calling will allow, try to tell the truth? To be sure, jou sometimes get out of practice; but, one saying one thing and one another, you produce confusion in the minds of the people about religious matters The Rev. Dr. oh, I won't mention his name has Just called me low born and ill bred, I don't mind that so much. Shakespeare was low born, too; and there was Adam I believe he was born out In the woods. But I'm glad the doctor didn't say It about Adam. When such a thing i3 said about the head of the family it hurts Any how, r think I would prefer to be low born in a republic like the rest. British Columbia promises to follow Manitoba In asserting the right of state regulation of railways. According to the Ministerial project, the Provincial Government, in return for subsidies, is 'to receive a percentage of gross earn ings, control rates and retain an option of purchase on all lines. The govern ment is to 'borrow $5,000,000 - for next year's subsidies. State socialism exists In Australia and New -Zealand In the form of the ownership of railways by the government, and now we are to have the theory of state control of pub lic service put to a working test In Canada. -- The--latest- Is- that Hill and Morgan, having been caught out In their desire to capture the Union Pacific, have now ,run up against a bold scheme of Harrl- man and his friends to capture, the Northern Pacific. Such a boomerang as this would not only be a dramatic coup d'etat In the financial world, but would mean great things for Portland. A clear field for the Columbia River and heavy wheat shipments from Portland would be the result of such an achieve ment William Vaughn Moody, In his hu morous skit, "The Menagerie," puts the following funny lines In the mouth of a reveler of evolutionary bent who has just been put out of a menagerie: If you're a sweet thing fn a flower-bed hat, Or her best fellow with jour tie tucked in. Don't squander loie's bright Springtime gird ing at An old chimpanzee with an Irish chin! There may be hidden meaning In his grin. ' A woman in New York who mur dered her soldier husband has asked for a pension as a widow's mite. In this Intricately organized age industries are becoming differentiated indeed. Portland is cleaning up for the Presi dent. If he knows Portland well, he will feel highly complimented. But he should move on without delay before we get tired of keeping clean. Since Bryan, Atkinson et al. have been making such a fuss about consent of the governed, they should be, but are not, highly gratified by Agulnaldo's giving his "consent." One of Hnima's Optimisms. Chicago News. The American people can hardly be too grateful to Senator Hanna for making public his dlscoveiy that "the Dlngley bill Is as perfect an example of scientific tariff legislation as was ever enacted, by the Congress of the United States or any other legislative body." The Dlngley law, it will be remembered, was thrown together during a somewhat acrimonious and heated session of Congress. When Congress got through with It the human mind that could comprehend It had yet to be discovered. Mr. Dlngley himself could not recognize It It was but natur al, therefore, that the generally con tinued activity of business under its ope ration should have Seen explained on the easy and fallacious theory that business conditions had adjusted themselves to the new schedules. Mr. Hanna's present discovery disposes of that notion effectual ly. Quite unconsciously, it seems, Con gress had turned out a piece of scientific legislation. Porto Rtcan Conditions. World's Work. Of the 953,243 population of Porto Rico only 75,000 live in cities. On this Island, but 100 miles long and 36 wide, are 40,000 district farms, and one-fifth of the is land Is under cultivation. The average size of a farm In Porto Rico Is 45 acres, of which 12 are cultivated. Seventy-one per cent of these Porto Rico farms are owned by whites, and the rest by ne groes. Ninety-three per cent of all the farms are cultivated by their owners, a higher rate of owner cultivation than the United States can show, whpre the pro portion Is but 72 per cent. Thirty-eight per cent of the Porto Ricans are colored. In Porto Rico 83 per cent of the colored Deopla'are of mixed blood. The percent--tre of Illiteracy in Porto Rico is verv high about 84. This Is higher than in any other country from which statistics are obtainable, except Guatemala GILBERT'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED CHICAGO, May 8. What Is regarded as a compromise verdict was reached by the directors of the Chicago Theological Sem inary today in the case of Dr. George H. Gilbert, professor of New Testament literature and Interpretation, at the sem inary. The directors voted to accept Dr. Gilbert's resignation, but that this action was based on the charges that the teach ings advanced in his two books, "Reve lations of Jesus" and "The Teachings of the Apostles," contained heretical para graphs Is not clear. It was said that the directors did not consider his teachings in these books as bearing on the charge of heresy, but concluded In a general way that it was best for the professor's con nectlon with the seminary to cease. To day's decision does not affect Dr. Gil bert's standing In the local Congregational church ot which he Is a member. The charges were first brought against the author two years ago by the Rev. E. S. Carr. of Stiliraan Valley, who de clared that the "Revelations of Jesus" contained passages contrary to the creed of the seminary. The trouble hinged on the phrase: "The Ideal pre-exlstence of Christ." and Mr. Carr declared that the phrase was tantamount to a denial of the actual pre-exlstence of Christ. This Dr. Gilbert emphatically denied, and asked leave to prepare a second volume further elucidating his meaning. He' was granted a year's leave of absence and recontly tne advance sheets of his book were placed In the hands of the directors. After con sidering the two books as a whole yes terday, no one was found still to advance a charge that the professor's teachings were heterodox. There still remained a feeling, however, that the seminary would be better without the author of the troublesome books, and action was ac cordingly taken along that line. Neither Dr. Carr, who brought the original accu sation, nor Dr. Gilbert were present at the session of the directors. The board meetings yesterday and to day were conducted with great secrecy. It Is said that a hot discussion began yesterday and lasted far Into the night, and that It was again taken up this fore noon, the Rev. W. E. Barton leading a spirited defense of the accused teacner. Dr. Gilbert was popular wltn his pupns and a number of them have threatened to leave the seminary and go to berlln a3 a result of the verdict. The report gives the reason for the professor's dis missal thus: "For the good of the sem inary and of Dr. Gilbert." It concludes with the highest commendation of the minister as a man and a Christian, and remarks: "His conscientious loyalty to the truth as it has been given him to see the truth " In a letter from Dr. Gilbert to the directors he pleads that today's view of the Bible's teachings Is not neces sarily wrong because It Is contrary to the view of 50 years, ago. IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE. Carnecle'w Advice to the Engineers of Great Hrltnln. LONDON, May 8 The annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute com menced today, it Is attended by all the prominent engineers In Great Britain, while almost all the American engineering centers are represented, Andrew Carnegie bels among those present The new president, William Whltehill. devoted all his remarks to American methods, declar ing Great Britain would be compelled to adopt them. William Garrett, of Cleveland, who read a paper, prefaced his remarks by declar ing that Great Britain's supremacy In the iron and steel trade, so long held, waB now lost. He then went Into a de tailed comparison of the methods of Brit ish and American rolling mills, with no flattering deductions for Great Britain, and declared If the British steelmakers did not follow the example of the Ameri cans In combining and also only by manufacturing at points most advan tageous' for shipment, and using the most economical methods, the manufacture of Iron and steel would become a lost art in Great Britain, Mr. Carnegie, In proposing a vote ot thanks for the president's address, said that, In "his opinion, the president had put his finger on the right spot. The whole lesson of his address was: "You must lpok at home and develop the ma terial you have," The Bible taught: "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things would be added unto you." He (Mr. Carnegie) said: "Seek ye first the United Kingdom and the markets of the world will be added unto you. Get right at home'," said Mr. Carnegie, "and do not worry about things abroad." The way to get hold of foreign markets, Mr. Car negie continued, was to get hold of and conquer the markets at home. PRESIDENT CANNON'S WILI. The Four Wives of the Mormon Apostle Are Remembered. SALT LAKE. May 8. The will of the late President George Q. Canon, who died In Monterey, Cal., last month, will be filed for probate tomorrow. The will dis poses of an estate approximating In value $1,000,000. According to the terms of the will, the estate Is divided Into two parts, the first part consisting of gilt-edged se curities worth $200,000. This Is to remain in trust until George Q. Cannon's young est child, now 9 years of age, attains his majority. All of the 33 chi'dren of Presl ident Cannon are given an acre of land from the Cannon farm and $2003 In cash on attaining majority or at marriage, the balance of the $200,000 to be djvlded among the children when the youngest child be comes of age. While polygamy was recognized by the Mormon church, Mr. Cannon had four wives. To these he willed their homes, provision also being made for their main tenance during life. The remainder of President Cannon's estate valued at SSC0, 000, and consisting of 33 000 acres of farm land, Interests In flour mills, Irrigation companies and stock in banks, etc., passes Into possession of the George Q. Cannon Association, of which President Cannon's children and his nephew, John M. Cannon, are stockholders. This prop erty is to be held In trust until the youngest child is 40 years old. This will not be for 31 years. The estate is much larger than was generally believed. EDUCATION OF INDIANS. Archbishop Ireland Says HltchcpcU Revolted Bronrnins Ruling. . BALTIMORE, May 8. Archbishop Ire land, of Minneapolis, who came to Balti more to participate In the ceremony of the reception by Cardinal Martinelli of the barretta, was Interviewed tonight con cerning the Government's attitude to ward Indjan denominational schools, re ferred to in the sermon of Archbishop Ryan today. Archbishop Ireland said that a complete revocation was made by Secre tary Hitchcock before his departure from Washington with the Presidential party of the so-called Browning ruling concerning the education of Indian children. "Mr. Browning," said the archbishop, "was Commissioner of Indian Affairs un der President Cleveland, and he made the rule that Indian children registered at any time In a Government Indian school would not be allowed, during the whole term of their education, to leave that school for a private or denomination al school. This rule would have worked great hardship to children of Indian Cath olic parents "who would have been de sirous to have their children In Catholic schools." The archbishop said the ruling had never received universal application, but that occasionally an Indian agent was able to enforce It. Jndpre Question a State Law. .DENVER, May 8. Judge Moses Hal lett of the United States District Court, today applied to the State District Court for an Injunction to prevent the county collecting taxes on $100,000 worth of per sonal property with which he Is charged by the" Assessor. Judge Hallett holds that the state law making real estate mortgages taxable Is unconstitutional. The county wljl make this a test case. AMUSEMENTS. Miss Florence Roberts scored the great est success of her present engagement last night at Cordray's Theater In Be lasco & Thall's presentation of "Ca mllle." As an evidence of the apprecia tion of the large audience. Miss Roberts was most enthusiastically accorded four curtain-calls after the trying fete scene of the fourth act Artistic and conscien tious efforts breathed in every line of her depiction of the varying emotions necessary in this particular scene, and It was here she particularly excelled. Following closely came the realistic emo tional acting of the third act. wherein Camllle, yielding to the reqdests made by the father of her lover, forfeits even his respect and returns to her former life. It would be difficult to say wherein Miss Roberts excelled, but the critical audience gave the palm, to the fete scene In upstlitcd recalls. "Camllle" proved the strongest attrac tion of the series of plays put on by the Alcazar Company, and. while It Is os tensibly a two-people play, .opportuni ties were numerous for the display of some very sumptuous gowns. Not only was the play strong from a point of ar tistic display, but It gave Miss Roberts' friends an Idea of her strength in emo tional roles not before realized. Lucius Henderson In the part of the lover, Ar mand Duval, did a strong bit of heroic acting that proved an excellent foil to the tenderer role, assumed by Miss Rob erts. Mr. Henderson grounded himself more firmly than ever In favor with Portland theater-goers. Marie Howe, as Mme. Prudence, infused considerable unc tuous humor Into the character in the earlier scenes. Paul Gerson as the vil lain. Count de Varvllle. repeated his for mer successes In similar roles. Stella Razetto as MIchette, and Frank Reddlck as Gustave, made the most of the minor lovemaklng. The remaining characters were In the usual capable hands. "Camllle" will be played again tonight when It will no doubt be complimented by another bumper house, and will be played for the last time Jn th present engagement at the matinee Saturday afternoon. COMING ATTRACTIONS. GymnnKtic Carnival Again. Owing to the extraordinary success of the Y. M. C. A. gymnastic carnival at the Marquam last week, and In response to numerous requests made by persons who were unable to attend on that oc casion. It has been decided to repeat the performance Friday evening. May 17. Al the features of the programme which Were so popular before will be retained, while several new ones will be added, so that an entertainment of surpassing ex cellence Is promised. "Roanoke" at Cordray's. People who have read with pleasure stories of the South will not fail to see Hal Reld's beautiful play, "Roanoke," that comes to Cordray's for three nights, commencing Sunday, May 12. No section of the country Is more interesting to the old and young than life In the Sunny South. "Roanoke" presents a beautiful life picture, with every character true to nature of Southland. With the excep tion of "Alabama." that has had an Im mense run for several years, no other has yet met with the success among South ern plays that has been accorded to "Roanoke." NAVAL WAR COLLEGE. Outline of the Conrxe for the Pres ent Year. WASHINGTON, May 8, Assistant Sec retary Hackett has made public the fol lowing outline of the course for 1S01 at the Naval' War College; It is proposed to have officers attend ing the course report June 1. The course will begin Monday, June 3, with an open ing address by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The course will end Sep tember 2S. The first week will be devoted to an explanation of the course and the war games and the lectures of Captain Mahan on strategy will be read by the college staff. The subjects connected with the ma'tn problem ot the year will fol low. The course In International law will be In charge of Professor John Bassett Moore, of Columbia University, who will lay down a series of cases from time to time, the solutions of which will be handed In by the four committees, Into which the officers and attendants will be divided. Professor Moore will be In at tendance from time to time to discuss these solutions. It Is proposed to make these latter (the study and discussion of the situations formulated by Professor Moore) important features of the course. Besides the series by Captain Mahan, there will be lectures by General Abbott, United States Engineers; John R. Proc tor, Francis B. Loomls, United States Minister to Venezuela: Professor Sloane, of Columbia University; Professor Mc Laughlin, of the University of Michigan; Professor Wilson, of Brown University; Sheridan Reld. lately United States Con sul at Tien Tsln; Captain WIsser, United States Artillery: Rear-Admiral Taylor, Captain Goodrich. Professor Alger, U. S. N.; Naval Constructors Woodward and Capps; Surgeon Beyler and probably Cap tain McCalla, and also by the staff col lege. The work of the college will be closely lined up during the Summer with that of. the North Atlantic squadron, tne scneme of which already has been approved by the department. MUNICIPAL LEAGUE. Paper Rend Before -the Annual Con tention at Rochester. ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 8. The an nual convention of the National Munici pal League was called to order by First Vice-President Charles P. Richardson, of Philadelphia, this afternoon In the Cham ber of Commerce rooms. The convention will be m session three days. The for mal business of the convention was opened by Secretary Rogers Woodruff, of Philadelphia, who presented the work of the municipal-reformers during the last jear In a paper entitled "A Year's Mu nicipal Activity." Mr. Woodruff was fol lowed by City Engineer H. P. Lewis, of Brooklyn, with a paper outlining the "Organization, Work and Aims of the American Society of Municipal Improve ment." Dr. Max Horstman, of Heidel berg, Germany, followed Mr. Lewis. His subject was "The Relation of the Baden Cities to the State." He explained In de tail the system of municipal government in operation in the Baden citjes. The convention then adjourned until tomor row. TALK OF MORMON CONTROL. Senator Kenrns, of Utah, Says There Is Nothing; In It. NEW YORK. May 8. Senator Thomas Kearns, of Utah, who has been abroad since March 19, returned this evening on the steamship Majestic. His family will remain abroad three months longer. Speaking of his plans, the Senator said that he would remain here for a few days and then go to Chicago. Later he would go to Salt Lake City, where he will meet President McKinley on the 29th. When asked as to the report that the Mormons were going to secure control -of the state, he said: "That kind of talk has been going on ever since I went there. I was elected by the Legislature and I am a Gentile. Another Gentile was also elected and an other Is a Congressman. The Mormons are liberal, especially the young genera tion. The time has come when there should be no lines. Mormon or Gentile, but all should work for the development of the state." i 4 ' Harvard Degree for McKinley. BOSTON May 8. The Board of Over seers of Harvard University, at the regu lar meeting here today, voted to grant the degree of Doctor ot Laws to President McKinley. The degree will be conferred at commencement in June. NOTE AND COMMENT. How about a Fourth of July celebration this year? The watch trust will probablyclalm'tha whole works. Kansas flush-of prosperity seems to have given place to an epidemic of three of a kind. The fishing eeason has opened In Maine; but what's the use of a fishing season In a prohibition state? It will not be very long before the sweet girl graduate will make the shlrt- pwalst man look like a '94 model bicycle. Now doth the luscious oyster His honored place resign Unto his Summer aubstitute. The crawfish cooked In wine. It is rumored that the Sultan has killed his physician. He will probably be able to put up a plea of self-defense, how ever. The King of Slam has $o,000.000, and doesn't owe a cent This news ought to superinduce an Influx of green goods men into his country. A New York man fell In a fit on hear ing a vaudeville Joke. He probably thought It was long alnce dead and bad come back to haunt him. The Turkish Minister of Finance nasi resigned. In view of the number ofj creditors waiting around outside the of fice, it is not likely that there will ba an overwhelming number of applicants for his position. Conductor Felix Wright, who operates a. train on the Illinois Central Railroad, col. ' lected a ticket from Clinton to Fulton, la., sold December 21, 1S92, a few days ago, on his train. The old man who present ed It for passage said he bought It about, eight years ago. but heard there was a, wreck on the road, and was afraid to get on the train. He never summoned up courage enough to ride on a railroad be fore. It was the passion of the late Queen Victoria to shut up the rooms of dead, relatives and friends. The apartments occupied by John Brown, the Queen's fa mous Scotch gillie, at Windsor, has been kept rigorously closed for 18 years. A brass plate recording the date of hid death, lamenting his loss and commemo rating his virtues was placed upon the wall. Now the room has been reopened, cleared out and redecorated, and probably will be converted Into a second billiard room. A strapger in down-town New York, thought that he had discovered a lunatlo asylum In one of the big buildings which he entered a few days ago. Some one yelled to him to get out of the hall. There was a bustle on the floor above. him, and a set of signals by handker chiefs were passed along by waiting men. The last man on this line dashed for a telephone as though hla life depended on it. Men were standing In the open doors of offices watching the proceedings, and not until they were over could the stran ger get any explanation. It was merely a part of the Wall street machinery to get quick returns from an important meeting of a board of directors of a big corporation. The question to be settled was the rate of dividend, and on the board's decision hung the price, oi" an ac- ' '' tlve stock. It had been figured in ad vance that the rate might be either 2, 3 or 3 per cent, and a code of signals was arranged accordingly. As soon as the man at the end of the line saw the signal which settled the rate of dividend he tel ephoned It to a financial news agency, and within a few seconds all Wall street knew of the decision. News of this sort Is of the greatest Importance to brokers, and a delay of a few mlnute3 In receiving It, If some other fellow had It, might mean a very heavy loss. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "Lucy Climax Jackson, you come right in da house! Ain't you 'shamed, actln' up flirta tious, an you only baptized yisterday7" Judge. Progress. "How are your children getting on at school?" "First-rate. Almost as well as if they had stayed at home and played." Life. Tact Cobble There goes Glover, one of my best friends. Never knew him to say one word against me. Stone Yes. He's a fellow of rare restraint. Detroit Free Press. His Solo. Mrs. FItz FUJlt Who was that snored m tho choir this morning- during a pau3e in the singing? Mr. FlJJlt Snore! Great heavens, woman, that was my bass solo. Ohio State Journal. Hattie I hope you don't believe all Fred Thompson saya about your good looks and your brilliant conversation, and all that sort of thing. Bessie Can't say as I do; hut what of that? If he did not think a good deal or me he wouldn't take the trouble to flatter me. Boston Transcript. nl ir A Social Heretic "Don't you kinder hanker after respectability now an' den?" asked Plodding Pete. "Oh. I don't know." answered Meandering Mike. "Sometimes I t'Ink dat re spectability aln' niuch more "dan permission to work hard for what us people gits for nothin'." Washington Star. Haste Is Waste Dollard "Bis dat quit cito dat." That's Eye-tallan. I guess. What's it mean? Do you know? Scollard Literally, "He gives twice who gives quickly.' A freer translation would be. "He who glvea quickly gives twice as much as he would if he stopped to think it over." Philadelphia Presa. Twentieth Century Religion. Deacon Da Goode "Why don't you go to church, neighbor? Neighbor No time. Churches are too alow for this age. They don't flt Into our twentieth century, mlle-a-minute civilization, no-siree. "Um well, what would you suggest Instead V "Can't say exactly, but it ought to be some sort ot a put-a-nlckel-ln-the-slot-and-save-your-soul machine." New Tork Weekly. His Object Explained. The tenderfoot watched the miner for some time In silence. "Are you sinking that shaft In the hope of striking ore?" he asked finally. 'Hardly, replied the miner, as he rested for a moment "There isn't enough ore here to make a de cent charge for a single-barreled shotgun. I am merely sinking the shaft in the hope of striking a sucker from the East when the tourist season begina." Chicago Evening Post. For the Sailor Dead. Baltimore American. fOn Memorial day the memory of the sailors and marines of the United States Navy who are buried In the ocean will be honored by the casting of flowers Into the sea.) No narrow grave shuts in their sleep; No clay pens up their dream; But through the endless miles of night Above them God's stars gleam. And through the day no feeble arch Of stone marks "where they lie. They have the grandest arch of all The sweep ot God's blue sky. Aye. give them, then, our flowers rare To deck their long repooa! Fling to the bosom, of the deep Th lily nd the rose. Heap high the wave with blossomed foam. With bud and leaf and bloom And give them to the ones who sleep Within this wondrous tomb, A country's love a country's grief Will swell across the deep; , The gentle wind will bear It on With most majestic sweep. A Nation's heart beats for her sons Throbs with a love sublime And lays her dearest flowers on The noblest tomb of time.