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POItTL,AXTit WEDNESDAY, MAY 1G,
POLITICAL 3IORALITT.
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.
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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. '
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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.
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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