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8 THE MOT?.VTn OKEPiO.NI AS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 15, 1901. TSrtcreg at the Postofflcc ct Pcrtland, Oresos. as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Rooms. ..10O j Business Office. ..6CI REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. By Mail (postace prepaid), in Advance Dally, -with Sunday, per month... .. S3 Xally, .Sunday excepted, per jre&r......... 7 SO Xsilr, -with Sunday, per year............. 3 00 Sunday, per jear ........................ 2 00 The "Weekly, per year .-..--......-.--.-- 1 50 lie Weekly. 3 months 60 To City Subscribers- Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays cxcepted.l5 Sally, pereeouvd. Sundaysincluded-SOc POSTAGE BATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 30 to JO-page paper....... ............ ...-..!: 16 to 22-page paper........ ......... .........2c Foreign ratei double. 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There is a marked Improvement in the personal habits of our public men compared with those of the last genera tion, and yet it is doubtful whether in those morals which lie beneath the out ward surface of conduct and Include sensitiveness in regard to the use of public office for the benefit of family and friends there has been equal im provement. President Grant was bit terly denounced for the favor he showed his family in violation of Jeffer son's TUle that "the public will never be made to believe that an appointment of a relative is made on the ground of merit alone, uninfluenced by family views; nor can they ever see with ap probation offices the disposal of which they intrust to their Presidents for public purposes divided out as family property." It is nearly a quarter of a century since Grant's retirement from the Pres idency, and yet it is notorious today that Senators and Representatives often appoint their relatives, both male and female, to office. The first act of Sena tor Beverldge, of Indiana, after he en tered the Senate, was to secure a place for his father-in-law an aged,. Infirm end incompetent man. A venerable Democratic Senator has on the Senate roll of employes a son, a nephew and a bro her-In-law. The son of Democratic Sena rr McEnry, of Louisiana, has just been npolnted Assistant Postmaster of New Orleans,. There is a deal of this nepotism concealed oehlnd the patron Ege of the United States Senate. All the Republican Senators participate in the distribution of the spoils, while a certain portion is handed over to the most Influential and oldest of the opposition Senators. The same vice of political nepotism is observable In the administration of state governments. Governor Yates, of Illinois, recently appointed another brother to public office, and that brother has appointed a cousin, also of the name of Yates, as ihls assistant. "More Yateses placed" Is a standing headline in the Illinois papers. Governor Odell, of New York, accom panied his recent disapproval of the eo-called ''referees' bill" with a. severe denunciation of its "undue favoritism and discrimination." . The Governor discovered by scrutiny of the list of appointments that a son of Judge Pat terson .had been appointed five times; u son of Judge Leventrltt five times; a son of Judge Freedman eight times, one partner of that son twenty times, another partner of the son forty-one limes, and a clerk of the Judge fourteen times; a son of Judge Truax thlrty-slx times, and a brother-in-law twenty three times; a clerk of Judge Blschoft twenty times; a relative of Judge An drews forty-six times, and a stenogra pher for the Supreme Court, who dfaws a county salary, forty-nine times. It Is clear that nepotism is a wide spread political vice, which permeates 3iot only both "branches of the National Legislature, but the legislative admin istration of nearly all the leading state governments. A hundred years ago many people would have been shocked at the use of the appointing power In ways now deemed to be entirely proper. THE BODY IX EDUCATION. The American Association for the Advancement of Physical Culture dur ing its recent session In New York pre sented In a striking manner the Im portance of physical culture, and showed incidentally the advance which the Idea of a sound body as a neces sary accompaniment to a sound mind has gained in our educational system. Numerous educators of prominence were present at this meeting. Institu tions of every grade were represented, from the common schools to the great universities, representatives of these coming from every portion of the United States and from Canada. The topics discussed Included the whole range of modern scientific research as bearing upon the subject in hand. Great emphasis was placed upon the value of systematic exercise, both for male and female students, the consensus of opinion being that without it perfect health and proper physical and mental development were impossible. In point of fact, no single feature in the course of educational effort in recent years is more noticeable than that -which represents physical culture. The educated invalid has gone out of fashion, and his type bids fair soon to become obsolete. The old idea that education concerned itself exclusively -with mental development has been dis carded In all educational Institutions of the country worthy of the name, The man with a fad has, It is true. found in this transition a hobby-horse "which he has upon occasion bestrode and urged forward with whip and spur, bat he has in due time been unhorsed by common sense and utility, without detriment to the central idea of physi cal culture upon which his headlong advance was based. The question whether athletics were not usurping too much of the time and attention of many students at some of the leading colleges has been raised and seriously considered, but In spite of these jihases and the extremes that they Indicate, the general movement for the educa- Um Qf muscles and the 0Dservance of rational forms of hygiene In unl verslties and schools has been hlghly beneflclal. The consumptive student bending over his tasks in a cold room at unseemly hours Is no longer a hero in educational annals, nor Is the "mid night oil" any longer popular as an auxiliary to educational effort. Instead of these things, there Is recog nition of the fact that clear, straight thinking depends largely on sound physical conditions, and that If the brain Is to be well balanced the body must be well developed. Educators were a long time In discovering" this truth; but the discovery Is one that promises to be of Incalculable benefit to future generations. Much still re mains to be accomplished in this direc tion. The check-rein has been found to be necessary, where the spur was at first applied, but the general result of the application of the view that a sound body was necessary to the full development of the mind has been and is satisfactory. THE SEW SCHOOL OP .JOtJBJTAMSSI. The recent retirement of Colonel A. K. McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, the last survivor of the old school of journalists when the New York Trib une was Greeley, the New York Herald was Bennett, the New York Times was Raymond and the New Y6rk Sun was Dana, has been made the text for some Interesting comparisons of the old school of overpowering personalities as editors and the new, where an individual is not inseparably connected with a news paper In the public thought. Colonel McClure at the end of his fifty-five years of service was able to say In his recent speech delivered at Philadelphia at a banquet In his honor that "the complete trans formation of journalism from the su preme importance of the editor to the supreme Importance of the newspaper" was making the newspaper of today "greater and grander because of this decline in individuality." Colonel Mc Clure also finds the modern journal "tenfold more dignified, courteous and tolerant than It was In the days of Washington, Jefferson and Jackson." This Is true, because good breeding and power of self-restraint in the newspaper have improved with the gen eral improvement of public manners In political life. Colonel McClure con fessed that "there Is unpardonable sensationalism In -the newspaper call ing," but doubts whether journalism Is more open to reproach in this respect than the pulpit, the bar, the medical profession or the mercantile world. Colonel McClure's attempt to extenuate the fault of the practice of most vul gar and shameless sensationalism by the modem journalist Is very lame, and without solid foundation of truth. Colonel McClure failed sufficiently to notice the consoling fact of the very marked increase In the independence of the press during the last twenty five years. It Is a most hopeful sign that independent newspapers are strongly supported by the public. The Boston Herald, the Springfield Repub lican, the Hartford Times, the Water bury (Conn.) American, the New York Evening Post, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Indianapolis News and the Chicago Rec ord-Herald are some of the newspapers notable both for their independence and their prosperity. This increase of inde pendent, decent and successful newspa pers is the real Improvement of vital consequence In the world of modern journalism, which offsets the exceed ingly evil influence of modern "yel low kid" journalism, which ' is sen sational, vulgar and Indecent be yond any well-supported journal of the old school of journalism. To illustrate, the New York ' Tribune lately celebrated its sixtieth anniver sary. In its sixty years of life the Tribune has had only two editors. The editorship of Horace Greeley began with its founding, in 1841, and contin ued until his death In 1872, a period of thirty-one years. The editorship of Whltelaw Reld then began, and still continues, covering a period of nearly twenty-nine years. Under Greeley the Tribune stood for the highest type of the old school of journalism in the In tensity and ability of Its editorial in dividualism, which made it in its day sui generis. The Tribune, too, under Greeley, was the pioneer of Independ ence of party fetters or stocks, for while It was Whig in politics it was no party slave and denounced candidates when they seemed to Greeley defi cient In Integrity or capacity. Greeley always followed his flag, on which he had written the legend that the su preme object of his life was to better the "condition of his fellow-men. He advocated temperance; he stood by the rights of labor; he fought human slav ery as both a moral outrage and an economic blunder. He loved and wor shiped Henry Clay, as did Abraham Lincoln. Both of these great men were Henry Clay Whigs; both were anti slavery men; both were men of benevo lent and philanthropic natures; both were absolutely honest, unselfish and pure In both public and private life. Greeley, however, was chiefly a man of great critical genius, while Lincoln was not only this, but he was a great states man and executive. Of executive genius, Greeley probably possessed very little, and he lacked creature pugnacity. You could have made a great soldier and general out of Lincoln, but never out of Greeley, for he hated war and loved peace so dearly that In 1S61 he was ready to do anything to avert Impending war, for he abhorred bloodshed and the Indus trial waste of war even more than he abhorred the inhumanity and economic blunder of slavery. From 1841 to 1861 the trenchant pen of Greeley did more to clear the fog out of the popular head and the crust oft the popular conscience than any American of his time. The Tribune under Greeley, with all Its de fects, was the man, often unjust, unfair, exasperating and merciless, but never theless a man true and high, benevo lent and patriotic at bottom, below the superficial spleen and scolding and sharp "vituperation. No good cause had any need to fear him, for his very op position was enlightenment. He used his pen with the pugnacity of a gladi ator, but with the soul of" a philan thropist. He Instinctively hated scoun drels and hypocrites. His transient political judgments were sometimes er roneous, but his moral force in politics was immense; he was unbought, un terrlfled and upright -ln his general drift. He never melted under tlje per suasion of friends or quailed under the insolent glance of powerful foes. He left his great profession a nobler power than he found it, and it is the "best spirit and attributes of Horace Greeley that have borne fruit In the growth of the spirit of political independence and the increase of its press. The Tribune, with its rapid success under Greeley, could not help making money, but the primary ambition of Greeley was to "make men dwell above the dust of the street In creed and deed. President Grant was a good hater, but he went out of his way to stand up among the mourners at Greeley's fu neral, for Grant was thoughtful and generous-minded enough to rate at his true worth 'this stout Yankee thinker whose scolding was an education to his country, who left men of all parties and sections glad that he was born into the Nation, for whose enlightenment and elevation of mind and heart few men have succeeded in doing so much. Since Greeley's death the Tribune has probably made a great deal of money, but has it done anything else in par ticular to make the world remember that it "was founded by Horace Gree ley"? This illustrates the fact that it is the best spirit of the old-time individ ualism in editorship that survives to day in the notable Increase of newspa pers conspicuous as much for inde pendence as for prosperity. WILD CROP ESTIMATES. Statistician Snow is making a very satisfactory stand-off for the Hessian fly, whose ravages at this' time of year give the wheat market a bullish aspect. According to the eminent wheat expert, this country can be relied on for a Win ter wheat crop of approximately 450, 000,000 bushels. This amount, with an average Spring crop, would bring the yield of the United States for 1901 up to record-breaking proportions. It is, of course, within the range of possi bilities for this country to produce a record-breaking crop of wheat this year, but with serious damage In Cali fornia and at least some .trouble from the fly In the Southwest, conditions are not the best for the bumper yield. Perhaps the prediction of Professor Snow would obtain greater credence had he not made such a lamentable failure of his recent estimate of the Argentine crop. This eminent authority was sent to Argentina at the expense of a Chicago firm for the sole purpose of ascertaining definitely the amount of crop and the exportable surplus to be expected from that country. Professor Snow brought back figures showing a surplus of 60, 000,000 bushels; but now, -vifith the heav iest shipping season Irom that country past, it has been demonstrated beyond doubt that the surplus will not exceed 30,000,000 bushels. If the trade were to credit Snow with making. as bad a guess on the American crop as he did on that of Argentina, it would strike off 225,000,000 bushels from the com ing Winter wheat crop, and wheat would soar to fancy prices in short order. There seems to be a lamentable amount of inaccuracy among the crop experts, who should be" in a position Jo come vastly nearer the true situation than they have been "doing in recent years. The utter worthlessness of the Government's figures are shown in the March Crop Reporter. With eight months of the season past, and with accurate statistics available showing the amount of wheat still on hand at the warehouses, mills and In farmers' -hands, this publication gives the crop of the three states as follows: Oregon, 16,198,012 bushels; Washington, 25,096, 661 bushels; Idaho, 3,104,629 bushels. Here Is a total of 44,399,302 bushels of Wheat credited to the three states, while the figures of the railroad com panies that handle all of the grain and are 'in the best possible position to se cure accuracy show that the crop did not exceed 35,250,000 bushels. It Is plain from these figures that the Government placed Its estimates more than 25 per cent above the correct amount, and if this Is the greatest accuracy that can be secured after a crop is harvested, shipped and warehoused, the estimates on a growing crop are of no value what ever. The Government crop report issued last Friday placed the condition of the growing crop at 94, which Is a remark ably high average, but It is explained that deductions have been made in the acreage where the plant has been dam aged by hot winds and the Hessian fly. It is these deductions in the acreage that should count against the condi tion of the crop that was uninjured, in order to give the public an accurate "line" on the condition of the crop as a whole. By following out this system It would be possible to maintain a high percentage throughout the season, al though over half of the crop might be burned up or destroyed by Insects. The Agricultural Department is equipped for a more accurate service than it is giving the public, and with Statistician Snow guessing so wide of the mark, persons Interested In the coming crop may as well abandon the directions of these guides and sail on "dead reckon ing." OUR DUTY IN PORTO RICO. From all accounts the Porto Ricans are as ill qualified to take care of them selves In independent, industrial lines on the American basis of freedom and individual endeavor as were the hap less, helpless freedmen of the South at the close of the War of the Rebel lion. Children in industry, 'in econom ics, In responsibility these "people seem prone to fall Into a state of want bor dering upon starvation when left to their own resources. It Is not Improba ble that the government of the island by politicians Is a lamentable failure. We all know how this was at the South through long years, and how It still Is to a great extent politics first, indus try a secondary consideration; politi cians everywhere in evidence; the child ish freedmen, unwise because untaught, stumbling Into the pitfalls of industrial incompetence and utterly unable to work their way out. Hence it was that they who advocated the enslavement of the negro race pointed mockingly to the helpless condition of the black man, saying he wasbetter off In slavery than he Is In freedom. So also we hear from responsible authority that the con dition of the Porto Ricaps Is worse under the rule of Governor Allen than it ever was before, "even when Spain 'held sway over the island." Mr. Wen ceslau Borda, Jr., of the Planters & Merchants' Association of Porto Rico, chosen to present to the United States Government the views of that organi zation regarding conditions there pre vailing, may put the case too strongly when he says that Governor Allen is a representative politician, "having fallen Into the lowest class of all the Island's inhabitants," but the United States Government cannot afford to. pass wlth out inquiry charges so specific as those lodged against him. "Having put its hand to the plow, it can neither turn back nor allow the plowshares of civ ilization to skim the surface so lightly that the harvest returns are, only suffi cient to feed the politicians sent out as office-holders. PROTECTION AS IT WORKS OUT. In order to protect Its infant wire nail industry from foreign competition and protect German labor from the pauper labor of England and America, the German Government vouchsafes to the German wire nail trust a protective tariff of 71.4 cents per metric hundred weight In order to protect its infant sugar in dustry from foreign competition and protect Russian labor from the pauper labor of everywhere else, the Russian Government enacts an indirect form of protective tariff to Its sugar factories. In order to protect our Infant steel Industry from foreign competition and protect American labor from the pauper labor of Europe, the United States Gov ernment grants the steel trust a pro tective tariff of $7 84 a ton on steel rails. What Is the result? The German wire nail trust gets $2 70 per 100 pounds for Its wire nails in Germany, and sells them abroad for $1 51. The Russian sugar factories get 19s Ud per hundredweight for their sugar at home, and sell It abroad for 10s 4d. The United States steel trust gets ?3S a ton at the mills for its rails to Amer icans and delivers them in England for $24 a ton. Germans pay 80,, per cent more for German nails than foreigners do; Rus sians pay 100 per cent more for sugar than foreigners do, and Americans pay 50 per cent more for steel rails than foreigners do. In this way the masses of each coun try pay high prices for what they use, in order to enable foreigners to buy the same product at half price. It will scarcely be -contended" that the steel trust is through poverty or Inefficiency estopped from selling at home as cheaP-i ly as it does abroad. Mr. Carnegie's millions forbid It. It is a happy thought that the bless ings of American civilization are being extended to the ends of the earth; but It Is rather overdoing the thing to com pel American consumers to pay two prices for their goods in order to supply European consumers with bargains. The Government transport Oopack arrived In port last evening to load part of a cargo of forage and supplies for 'Manila. Like the last transport to sail from Portland, a portion of her cargo was taken aboard at Seattle or Tacoma, although all of lt'could have been taken aboard at this port to much better advantage and at less cost to the Government. This unnatural di version of trade has been costly busi ness for the Government, and the amount of money that has been wasted by unbuslness-llke methods since the war began runs. Into millions. The Oopack is under charter to the Govern ment at about 5500 per day, and it is nineteen days since she arrived on Pujret Sound from Manila. Port land has discharged and loaded larger steamers than the Oopack In less than a week, and coujd have given the Oopack the same dispatch If we had been given an opportunity. The Seattle pull, how ever, seems to triumph over all, and the Government paid $500 per day for over two weeks while the Oopack was loafing around Puget Sound taking in supplies and stores for the ship and 'freight for Manila. Had a private citi zen or merchant had the Oopack un der 'charter to carry a cargo, nearly all of which was shipped from Interior points to tidewater, she would have been sent direct from Manila to Port land, and would have been loaded and well on her way back to Manila by this time. Portland neither asks nor expects more than a fair share of the transport business, and this haB never been accorded her, and probably will not be until business methods supplant favoritism In the conduct of the service at this end of the line. j , The resumption of work on the fine stone church building for St. David's parish will, it is said, take place in a short time. This will furnish a strik ing evidence of the passing of the'heavy financial cloud that settled over the community in 1892, wrapping the foun dation walls of that structure in its shadows. An unsightly pile, seemingly without method in placing, with loose rocks strewn around as If the work men had fled from the scene In a panic, this dream of a church edifice has lain upon a beautiful, commanding site all these years. The community Is glad -to know that an awakening is at hand, and that patience, economy and zeal have risen in this instance superior tb discouragement and threatened bank ruptcy. Again U Is said that East Burnslde street will be. Improved this seasdn. This thoroughfare, one of the most import ant in the city, Is now for many blocks but an aggregation of spllntared, xotten planks, the surface of which Is foul with the litter of travel. An Improve ment, good of Its "kind, but not so ex pensive as to distress the owners of residence property, which abuts upon it Its entire length east of Sixth street, Is demanded for this street. If It Is to be Improved this season, the work can not be begun too soon. Major-General George G. Meade, U. S. A., was one of the two recipients of the .honorary djegree of doctor of laws from Harvard University In 1865. If there was no Impropriety In giving this honor to a man of purely military attainments, surely there is no very vicious precedent set In giving It to the President of the United States. Warning to Mara. Louisville Courier-Journal. Plerpont Morgan, having started alter the canals fat Europe, It. mlgb be well for Mars t5 veer into 'a more ""distant orbit if itftlshes to keep its own canals out of the trust- TRAFFIC BETWEEN THE OCEANS St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The big battle In the stock market for the control of. the Northern Pacific la another reminder of the. increasing im portance of trans-continental trade. All the Pacific railroads are doing well, and their stock generally is above par. Dur ing President McKlnley's first adminis tration the 'Pacific roads indebted to the Government settled the account in cash amounting to $123,000,000, covering the principal and Interest, with the excep tion of a few millions advanced on one line. The Canadian Pacific Is so busy that another line across the continent has been projected in the Dominion. As population increases in the Rocky Moun tain region and along the Pacific Coast, the demand for transportation rapidly enlarges. In addition, the commercial outlook on the Pacific is constantly broad ening, while our Interests in Hawaii. Alaska and the Philippines are expand ing by bounds. All these signs of a growing volume of business between the Atlantio and the Pacific emphasizes the necessity of the Nicaragua Canal. The Pacific railroads will not suffer seriously. They have their special functions In local and through traffic and are swifter than ships. A constant stream of vessels could come and go through the Nicaragua Canal, just as they pass through the lakes, without Impairing the value of railways running In the same direction. The business awaiting the Isthmian Canal is Indicated In the traffic piling up on the Pacific railways. Another corps of engineers is about to present a report stating .that the Nicaragua Canal is entirely feasible. This preliminary has been going on for more than 50 years, and it is certainly time to take the next step. ' -, Dr. Kalaftford's Free and Easy Way. New York Tribune. Rev, Dr. Rainsford Is well known as on able and energetic clergyman who has no patience with hams. His dislike of 'pro fessional cant of any kind has been to him a source of great power and undoubtedly .enabled him to do a vast amount of good. He Is a man of healthy and far from Puritan sentiments, and no doubt the con ventionalities which more tlmlcl souls in the ministry observe and perhaps some times in an irritating way expect him to observe grow tiresome. He may with some reason feel that in his free and swinging way he Is promoting godliness more effectively than If he went about with 'affected accents and mincing steps.' Not unnatural, therefore, was the com plaint made by him at the New York Credit Men's Association dinner that the clergyman was so highly specialized that he could not even allow himself a glass of wine or a ood cigar. Probably a great many good people will sympathize with any protest against set ting apart the clergyman from his fellows as a peculiar being. But most, even of those who have no use for clerical mil linery and long faces, and" like a minister to be a manly 'naan among men, would rather shudder to hear Dr. Rainsford give deliberate utterance In a public speech to such expressions as "damned rot." That may not be a violation of any of the Ten Commandments. It may be a remark that many a good man has made. It may be in no way a moral. lapse. But It Is not good taste. It does violate the universal- senti ment which logically or illogically sees something incongruous, between such lan guage and ministrations to bring the god less and profane to'a higher state of Chris tian refinement. It may be merely oantl ment inbred through generations, but as Dr, Rainsford so delicately said In that same address: "Life Is more than guts and gold It's sentiment." French Idioms. Academy. The recent revival of "The Three Mus keteers" a'rid similar plays lends an In terest to the phrase "N'avolr que la cape et 1'epee,"' which means a 'penniless man with a long pedigree,' and Is generally used of young officers who have nothing but their pay. ''II croqualt le marmot" means to dance attendance, and Is va riously explained. Llttre says it arose from the fact that artists while waiting for their patrons used to draw pictures of little monkeys in the vestibule, while others assert that visitors used to eat little cakes In the shape of monkeys while waiting in the ante-chamber. It is difficult to say which explanation is the less likely of the phrase "to eat the money." The familiar phrase "Reach-me-down" has an exact equivalent In "Decrochez-mol-ca," as we believe was first pointed out by the late G. A. Sala, who unearthed the phrase at New Or leans many years ago in a second-hand clothes shop. An expression which has a -curious origin is "Allerau dlable Vau vert" or "au vert." It appears that the Carthusians In the time of 'St. Louis coveted the King's abandoned mansion of Vauvert. They therefore, started the rumor that the house was haunted by evil spirits, and In consequence the su perstitious King handed ttbe house over to them. The monks speedily exorcised the demons they had created, and the phrase "Aller au dlable "Vauvert" came to mean "to disappear." It Is Interest ing, to note that the favorite tag of those who quote French in and out of season, "Revenons a nps mou'tons," comes' from an old fare'e of the fifteenth century, "Malstre Pierre Patnelln," a work some thing like our' '''Gammer Gurton's Needle." Dabbling in Stocks. Chicago News. It will be well for the young clerks, and others who are now tempted to flirt "with fortune on the board of trade or the stock exchange, lf?they keep In mind that any scheme' for, getting rich quickly neces sarily involves a large possibility of get ting poor with' even greater celerity. It is true that some men seem to be making large fortunes out of the present specu lative craze, but It Is also true that others are' losing them. While Investors who have abundant capital and a controlling influence may be in a position to afford the risks, the small. Investor, whose mod est little bank account can cover but a -few points' fluctuation, In the market, Is helpless to protect himself. He might as well try to drain the Atlantic through a lemonade straw as to make his little mar gin a factor In the movements of the mar ket. Before he dwells too long on his chances of winning, let him dwell on the much superior chances of losing his money. Good Wishes for McKinley. Chicago Journal, It is doubtless an ungracious thing, in this Bupreme hour of the President's tri umph, to say that he Is in the service of a notoriously fickle master, and that the populace has- no memory and no gratitude for the past. Few Presidents have gone to the end of a .second term either in accord with or having the confidence of the peo ple. Washington did not, and he was bit terly reviled. Jefferson did not, nor did Madison, nor Grant. It Is a fickle world, as Carlyle calls It, and in nothing so much as in politics. Nevertheless we all hope that McKlnley's good fortune may continue to the end, and that he may go down in history as the happiest and most fortunatB of American Presidents. Colonel WattersoR Soliloquises. Louisville Courler-'Journal. Senator Beverldge says that the sacred tarlft must be changed "along1 the lines of international reciprocity" to meet the new conditions of the world; Representa tive Babcock says that protected trust products must be placed on the free list; the New Tork Press says that the an nouncement that beet sugar manufacture is a commercial success In the United States "prohibits the annexation of Cuba" and "commits the Republican par tv to the exclusion of the Philippines as a tpart of the Union, even if a necessary consequence Is their renunciation as a possession." Evidently the Republican party has plenty of work before It in finding a tariff modus vlvendi for Itself. WHERE MIGHT IS RIGHT. Saturday Review. The educated class In Russia Is quite powerless lis against the grovernment, and the associated industrials are nearly so. Their numbers are lost in those of the peasants, and their employers wish for quiet. Thtj grand protection for them is the wish of the Ministers of Finance that Russia Bhduld become a little more taxa ble. Indeed, It may be doubted if the cit ies, taken in the aggregate, constitute a great fore In Russia. Those cities have no Paris among them, and are separated by many conditions as well as by tradi tionary feeling. The government, again, Is not In the. least like the old Bourbon monarchy. It has when opposed an al- ;'most lavage energy. It is unhampered by a castle of privileged faineants, and it can rely on the bureaucracy, wnlch, what ever Its sentiments, did not In France ex ert Itself frankly to defend the throne. The autocracy rests on two rocks, neither Of which as yet shows any symptom of crumbling. One, the power of the army Is clearly perceived here, and is practical ly irresistible. -The regiments, if appealed to can master the people, and we see no hope or fear that they will, as against a popular movement, jever rejuse to fire. They do not believe In popular move ments, and they do believe In the Czar and the need for unity In the barracks. The other is the fact that the peasantry do not look on the Czar as the force which causes their grievances, or even as the Parisians once put It, as the "master baker who must be compelled to give bread," but as the protector against local oppression, tho far-away power who, if he could only be approached, would pro tect them against all wrong. That Is the force always behind the Russian autoc racy, and till il disappears or Is materially weakened by events which It is impossi ble to forecast, 'that autocracy Will sur vive all attacks. t Carious Rellfiflons War in Hungary. Chicago Record-Herald. The conflict that has occurred between the Jesuits and other religious orders In Hungary Is the Inspiration for an Inter Rtine dlsDatch In the 'London Times on the amicable relations which exist be tween these orders and the people and government of the country. The prin cipal ones among them are the Benedic tines, Piarlsts and Cisterclals, and they are classified by the correspondent as teaching orders. Their schools, he says, are attractive to persons of other creeds because tfcey are given over to instruc tion rather than to proselyting, and it was the attempt to introduce the Jesuits Into one of these schools that precipi tated the religious war. A reactionary bishop Insisted that a Plarlst gymnasium at Klausenburg should admit Jesuft priests for the conduct of its spiritual exercises. The director re plied that their order had played such a mischievous part in the history of. Hun gary that he would not let them cross the threshold. "It spiritual exercises were necessary for the pupils the Plarlst fath ers themselves were quite able to conduct them." Sect, however, was only one phase of the controversy. The Jesuits are essen tially a foreign organization, while the members of the other orders are natives and intensely patriotic. It is said that they or their predecessors made common cause with the people In the revolution of 1S48, and that some of the priests actually Joined the Honved army. Today the heads of the orders are members of the qhamber of magnates. The situation la a very happy one, pre oliidlmr as It does the possibility of a struggle between church and state, and the harmony between religion and patriot Ism has hardly been disturbed In the re cent dispute. The Intervening bishop was obliged to yield and withdraw his In junction, and it may be supposed that the resisting brolherhobd has strengthened Itself In the affections of the people. Russia and Toleration. J. Novlcor In the International Review. Officially all Great Russians are ortho dox. Russlx Is still unhappily a Confes sional state In every sense of the word, and suffers the unfortunate consequences thereof. The laws are made to uphold orthodoxy. Above all. the sovereign and his family must be orthodox. The state protects this form of religion by a set of laws, which practically abolish liberty of conscience in the Empire of the Czars. Replying to a petition which had been addressed to him In favor of toleration by an English society, M. Pobedonostzef, the Procurator 6f the Holy Synod, replied that religious toleration was the funda mental rule of the Russian Empire. In making this reply, he was evidently play ing upon words. It Is true that Catholics, Mussulmans and Israelites are authorized to practice their forms of worship In Russia. But any person who tries to convert a member of the orthodox church from his faith, even in the interest of another Christian profession, is liable to exile In Siberia. If the conversion be In the Interest of a non-Christian religion, It Is forced labor for eight or 10 years. Toleration must be Interpreted In a very narrow sense to be understood In the merely passive way In which M. Pobe donostzef understands It. No religious liberty consists In recognizing the secred and inviolable right of the Individual to preach what seems to him to be the truth. 3 Accepting: the Challenge. "History of tho Four Georges and of William TV," Justin McCarthy. It may be legend, but It Is legend that might be and that should be truth. When Dymoke, the King's (Georse IH's) cham pion, rode in accordance with the antique usage, along Westminster Hall, and flung ,hls glove down In challenge to any one who dared contest his master's right to the throne of England, It is said that some one darted out from the crowd, picked up the glove, 'slipped back Into the press, and disappeared, without be ing stopped or discovered. According to one version it was a woman who did the deed; according to another It was Charles Edward himself,, the young Pretender now no longer very young who made this last protest on behalf of his lost fortunes and his fallen house. If It pleased the poor Pretender to visit, like a premature ghost, the city ahd the scenes associated with his house and its splendor and awful tragedies, he did so untroubled and unharmed. It was but a cast of the dice In fortune's fingers, and Charles Edward would have been in Westminster Hall and had a champion to assert his rteht. , Passing of the Bnllught. New York Tribune, While the Presidential party was in El Paso 6n Sunday, just over the Mexican border, a bullfight in which several ani mals were killed and several human lives were endangered excited the Intense en thusiasm of a multitude of spectators. Al though our sister republic has made a great deal of sound and wholesome prog ress under President Diaz, the old Span ish passion for the cruel slaughter of the bull ring has not been altogether ex tinguished. But American investments and American Influences are constantly growing stronger, and the onward march of humanity and civilization cannot be held back for many years more. Wide Field Open to Him. Louisville Courler-JournaL A New York preacher who has gone to fill a pastorate In Boston announces to his new flock: "I like neace. and always try to keep it. Next to peace, I like a good fight a good square fight, and there Is a certain peace which you cannot get without a fight." Such talk as that kt likely to bring him all the fighting he can attend to Tight there among the Boston aunties, if he is willing to choose .as weapons either the tongue or the typewriter NOTE AND COMMEST. ift Is Sir Thomas so cocksure that he Is trying to get American money up? Did It ever occur to China ta ask. J Pi Morgan to .finance her in. her present crisis? Mr, Cudahy is determined to have jusr tice without the aid or consent of any jury in Omaha. r Now it Is asserted that Mrs. Nationals Insane. There will not be much of a rush of people to contradict the statement. A Frenchman has come clear to America, to Sell the Panama Canal. Doesn't he know that Mr. Morgan 13 In France? The portion of the government left be hind at Washington is employing its leis ure time circulating rumors of cabinet resignations. H wished to make a. fortune But didn't like to work. And so he Trent and got a job As confidential clerk. General Alger says he would have cap tured Agulnaldo years ago. He would, probably have made a friend of him by awarding him a beef contract. Senator Clark ought to have no diffi culty In purchasing the Union Pacific. It Is nobody's business how he spends his money when he makes an investment' which Is not political. Wall street has retired temporarily In order to allow the passage of the regular procession, consisting of McKlnley. DivretN Agulnaldo, Mrs. Nation, Broker Phillips, King Edward, Sir Thomas Llpton. W. J. Bryan, Abdul Hamld, the Czar. Emperor William and Hon. John Barrett. "In the consternation, caused by the fire in Jacksonville last week, people did many strange things," remarked the other day a New York man who happened to be In the destroyed city and who lost all his apparel and valuables worth $20CO. "I observed one woman running as fast as she could go with an old handsaw under one arm and a basket of old tin cam under the other arm. 'What In the world are you doing with those things?' I asked her- 'I must have something, she an swered me, In a frenzy. A negro, who was second Head waiter at the Windsor Hotel, took to his heels with an old pic ture frame, crying out that his three", houses were burned and there was noth ing left him In the world." William McKinley, Backslider. At a Methodist Conference held Monday in Worcester, Mass.. the President was denounced; .for drinking champagne on a battleship. News Item, "We air goln tew perdition Jest as fast as we' can so. "We will all be dashed tew flinders on tho awful rocks below. Fur the brethren up to "Wooster have been wusa than Jest surprised By the news they've heard right lately they've been simply scandalized. It's ar. awful thing to tell of, but It's best to speak out plain f Revren' Jones says that McKlnley's been. a drlnkin' of champagne. Ain't no use to dodge the question, might as well come tight out flat, "What's the hope to save a. country with - President like that? He has been a good professln' Methodist fur all his life. With the extry added blessln' of a true an pious wife. An here's all of his religion, an' her teachln' has been vain. An' he's brought disgrace upon us by lmbibln" ' of champagne. Bev'ren' Jones tells as how It happened on av Navy- battle-ship That the President was tempted fur tew make, this here bad slip; , " ( Says the captain up an' asked him fur to stay -on board an' dine, H ' An' he plumb forgot the precept, saym"v "Hook not on the wine." It Is said he drunk one tumbler, then filled up an' drunk again, , An that he got pretty tipsy on that there ac cursed champagne. Well, I swan, but it is awful! I don't know what we can deouw; Gueaa we better hold a meetin an fur to res olute, don't yeouw? t , Fur we can't let pass unnoticed such a dread-, ful step aside. An" the rules o' Methodism hadn't ought vto be . defied. Think we better send him warnln' In a way that will be plain. , That he'll never be a deacon, "less'n he swears " off champagne. .I PliEASANTRIKS OF PARAGRAPHEHS' Fond of Variety. "It seems to me Brigglns has all the new diseases about as fast as they -come out." "Yes; he's always changing his germs." Chicago Be cord-Herald. A Becord-Breaker. Subbubs See here, you said that house we bought of you was a stone's throw from the station. Agent Well? Sub bub I simply want to know who threw that stone. Philadelphia Times. Sure Cure. Author I am troubled with "in somnia, I lie awake at night hour after hour, thinking about my literary work. Friend How very silly! Why don't you get up and read some of lt7 Glasgow Sally Times. An Alternative. Squire's Wife T hear you are getting up a ladles' band for the bazaar next month. Excellent Idea! By p-hV bye, what Is your lnstrumentTOTTOaiTs daughter Well, I thought of playing the violin; but It I And It Is too much for me, I shall try the triangle! Punch. At Last Reports. "Is your geography an up-to-date work?" we asked the agent, telling him that many recent changes had made old geographies valueless. "It was Issued Just after breakfast this morning, sir," he pro tested, "Immediately after receiving: the latest news from China." Pittsburg Chronicle. Not Successful. "Willie," said mamma, "didn't I tell you to wash your face?" "Yes, ma'am," Willie replied, "and I did wash It." "I don't believe you. It's Just as dirty as ever." "Mamma." piped little Elsie, who had Just been -vaccinated, "may be he did do It. but It didn't 'take' the first time." Philadel phia Press. Says Mr. Meddergrass. "Love's young dream." said. Mr. Meddercrass to the young people. "Is so called, facetiously, or sarcas tically, so to speak, whichever way you look at It. because, when the feller what's doln" the dreamln' wakes up. he often gits mad be cause It wasn't no- dream after all!" Balti more American. Candor. "You seem to think you know mora about what is needed in my business than I do," said the employer a little irritably. "To be frank with you," answered the new man. "1 don't think anything of the kind. But my duty to my family compels me to convey that Impression as far as possible In order to claim due consideration In the way of salary." Washington Star. i A May Impression. Washington Star. When the trees begin to blossom and the'grass begins to grow. And the leaves, like Jocund banners, are kept waylng to and fro; When your voice no more Is wheezy. When you lift It to complain. , Then it's time to take It easy Take' it easy once again. We know that life Is real, with Its bustle and Us din; We know the early riser is the likeliest to win; But when It's softly breezy. And you feel the gentle rain It's timeto take it easy Take it easy once again. ' We have heard those good old maxims made. for unindustrlous men. But a proverb ought to get a short vacation now and then. Such advice Is hard and freezy, It appeals to us in vain. When it's time to take- It easy Take It easy once agaliu