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PORTLA.-SD, FRIDAY, MAT 17, ltKJl.
"JnoxEr aiAD."
Press and pulpit agree in the state
ment that New "York has gone "money
mad," and both sound warning of a
collapse that is certain to come sooner
or later, when the bubble of inflation
blown up so recklessly bursts or is
pricked by sharp .dealing. The battle
is one between fancy valuations and
real values and the longer the forces of
the former hold out the louder will be
the Teport and the more ruinous the
result when the financial bubble
bursts.
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis
patch, writing from New York, says:
'A Pennsylvania oil town in the
height of the boom could not be
more money mad than this city, with
its speculative hordes, its wonderful
stories of fortunes made in a minute
and its gold-lined Wall street, over
which the ominous shadow of a 'Black
Friday is lowering, slowly but stead
ily." Proceeding, this correspondent
declares that every branch of business
has been infused by this wonderful
elixir this chance-taking the fever of
which is every day sending men into de
Jirium and women into hysterics and
making a few of the more cool-headed
wonder what the crash will be like.
In truth, the money-mad spirit has
swept with the fury and indiscriminate
character of an epidemic out beyond
the colony of "bulls and bears," and
enriched people who never consulted a
stock ticker in their lives. It has
ranged from the Maiden Lane jeweler
who sells a $1000 diamond bracelet to
the happy broker who has made a
"quick turn" in Amalgamated Copper ;
or Northern Pacific, and to the old
newswoman who is eagerly handed a
dollar for a copy of the "stock edition."
Bartenders tell of champagne having
been substituted for beer and whisky;
restaurants rejoice in ready money as
forthcoming for extravagant dinners;
florists are selling more cut flowers
than ever beforehand waiters in first
class hotels tell stories of generous tips.
It is manifest that these things are
the outcropplngs of a fictitious pros
peritynot the legitimate results of the
real. The greater -part of the appar
ent gain in values that is behind this
free expenditure of money is speculat
ive and therefore dangerous. In this
stress, as usual, preachers of modera
tion and prudence are abroad. They in
clude the President of the United
States, who counsels "prudence In pros
perity"; the Vice-President, who in a
recent address before the Boston Home
Market Club made reference to the
present speculative mania, saying:
"The prosperity which this country
now enjoys can only be jeopardized by
overeagerness to discount the future or
recklessness In the enjoyment of the
present," adding: "No laws can insure
good fortune, either to the Individual or
to the community, when one or the
other embarks on a. career .of specula
tion." Dr. Dwight Hlllis, of Plymouth
Church, declares that "the Incessant
gambling on all sports has wrought
intellectual demoralization to the coun
try," and adds: "The insane desire to
get rich quickly is at the bottom of It
all."
But when was warning ever heeded in
a time of mad speculation; or when
was the mentor even thanked for his
pains? Such counsellors, however hon
ored their names or exalted their sta
tions, are "old fogies" In the estima
tion of the money-mad multitude until
what they predict comes to pass. There
is something of a lull In the speculative
fever at present, but its microbe has
not been destroyed. The gambling spirit
has been checked, but there is, unfortu
nately, no evidence that its vigor is
impaired. The eagerness to get rich
quickly is yoke-fellow with the desire
to get something for nothing, and the
two, harnessed to the car of prosper
ity, are being driven by speculation a
most reckless Jehu. There Is still time
for a turn in the course. A turn is
strongly advised by cool-headed men.
Will it be taken? Jjet us hope so. Oth
erwise the lesson of hard times so re
lentlessly drilled Into the American
people but now by that grim old mas
ter, "Experience," will be given them
to review page by page until all is
again learned.
A prominent minister of this city Is
reported to have TJeclared before the
Sunday School Convention now in ses
sion at Salem that he would be "will
ing to give up all the liberties of the
American people and haul down the
Stars and Stripes if by so doing the
Jlquor traffic could be wiped out." This
may be noted as a remarkable example
In which intemperate zeal was allowed
to outrun the judgment. Of course no
one believes that, upon sober second
thought, a man who poses as a teacher
and anon as a patriot would wipe out
the liberties of the vast multitude of
abstemious, self-respecting .men in or
der that -the lesser number of those
who drink to excess might be deprived
of the opportunity for this form of self
indulgence. Charitable people, on the
contrary, prefer to believe that this
minister indulged In intemperate
speech.
THE RETURXISG VOLUNTEERS.
Every transport brings a volunteer
regiment or part of a regiment return
ing from the Philippines to be mustered
out, and our volunteer service in those
Islands will soon be extinct. When the
war with Spain ended, in August, 1898,
our Army in the Philippines consisted
wholly of volunteer state regiments
mustered Into the United States' serv
ice during the war and sent In May,
1898. to the Philippines to fight the
Spaniards there. The Filipino war kept
these regiments In the Islands until
June 14. 1899, at which time, regular
troops having arrived, the state volun
teers were gradually returned to the
United States, the last organization to
leave departing September 29, 1899.
The act of March 2, 1899, authorized
the President to raise twenty-five regi
ments of volunteers for service In the
islands, to be mustered out not later
than June 30, 1301. The return of the
state troops from the Philippines ren
dered It necessary to call Into service
these volunteers. On July 5, 1899, ten
regiments of volunteers were ordered to
be raised; on July 18, two more, which
were to be recruited In the Philippines,
and on August 10 the Eleventh Cav
alry was -authorized to be raised In
these Islands. On August 17 ten more
regiments, and on September 2 two ad
ditional regiments were ordered to be
raised, these last to be composed of
colored men. The field officers of all
the regiments were taken from the com
missioned officers of the regular Army,
with the exception of a few officers of
the state volunteers who had distin
guished themselves as commanding of
ficers during thf Spanish War. Most
of these volunteer officers selected were
sterling veterans of the Civil War. The
line officers of all the regiments were
chosen from volunteers of the Spanish
War. except for a few Army subal
terns. The line officers of the negro
regiments were negroes, a number of
them enlisted men In the regular serv
ice. These volunteer regiments reached
the Philippines between the 11th of
October, 1899, and the 25th day of Jan
uary, 1900, and during their term of
service have done excellent work. Here
after the Government, when It needs
troops additional to those of the perma
nent regular Army, ought to raise them
all as United States volunteers, which
enables the Government to place the
new regiments under charge of trained
field officers sele'cted from the regular
Army. If the field officers are trained
soldiers, they will be sure, from 'mili
tary pride and regard for the future
reputation of their command, to enforce
discipline and Instruct their men, and
above all they will be sure to weed out
all worthless officers that encumber and
embarrass the line.
State volunteers are sure to be offi
cered more or less through some politi
cal -"pulL" If good field officers happen
to be selected, the Colonel, In his ef
forts to weed out worthless officers, is
hampered by the possibility, If not
probability, that the Governor will re
fuse to approve his recommendations
for promotion, because of political rea
sons. One of the finest state volun
teer cavalry regiments from New Eng
land in the Army of the Potomac was
greatly demoralized during a year-of
Its service because a worthless Colonel
had so strong a political "pull" with the
Governor of his state and the leading
Congressmen that the regiment could
not get rid of him and replace him
with a man of the necessary courage
and ability to lead his men decently into
battle.
The return of the volunteers began
at the end of last January, and since
that date the withdrawal has steadily
proceeded. There is no" doubt that the
last volunteer organization will have
been mustered out before the date fixed
by law. The history of these volun
teer regiments shows how quickly un
der our regular Army methods raw
volunteers can be changed from clumsy
"cornstalk militia" Into disciplined sol
diers. The brilliant success of this ex
periment of raising United States vol
unteers ought to make it unnecessary
hereafter to accept the service of any
volunteer state regiments, which are
always regiments with a political string
attached that leads back to the Gover
nor of the state.
A RIOTOUS STRIKE.
A more deplorable condition of affairs
In time of peace than that which called
several companies of the New York
State Militia to Albany yesterday can
scarcely be imagined. A lawless com
pany of strikers, forgetful of their duty
as self-respecting, law-abiding citizens,
and totally oblivious of the rights of
the public, surged through the streets
of New York's capital city, Intent upon
mischief If they could not have their
way, and with such desperate purpose
that a number of persons were Injured
and hundreds menaced with bodily
harm by their violence.
Whatever the basis of the contention
between the owners and employes of
street-car lines In Albany, it is clear
that the strikers are, through their vio
lence, champions of a lost cause, so far
as they Individually are concerned. No
just claims for wages, hours or other
points of difference between organized
labor and its employers were ever al
lowed through measures of this .kind.
Striking laborers, out on a reasonably
just demand, command almost univer
sally the sympathy of the public as
long as they are orderly In their con
duct. But when they make the mistake
of refusing to allow other men to take
the places that they have voluntarily
and for cause abandoned, and attempt
to back this refusal by a compelling
force, they not only transcend their
own rights as free American citizens
but trench boldly upon the rights of
others. One man has the same right
to work for specified wages that another
has to refuse to do so.
Nowadays employers can scarcely
be censured for getting their work
done as cheaply as Is consistent
with acceptable service. On the other
hand, no one blames a man whose labor
is his capital for making it as remuner
ative as possible. Between these dis
senting forces the law of supply and
demand comes, and, however determin
edly its arbitrament is opposed by the
one side or the other, Its adjudication
must in the end be accepted. True
friends of labor throughout the coun
try will regret sincerely the excesses
into which the strikers at Albany have
been betrayed by excitement and med
dlesome advisers. It Is always sad to
Eee a worthy cause wounded and dis
credited In the ranks of its own champions.
SUNDAY AT THE BUFFALO EXPOSI
TION. The question whether the Pan-American
Exposition shall be open on the
first day of the week seems to have been
settled by a fan- compromise between
those who would deny all recreation
on Sunday and those who would permit
offensive noise and disorder. The Ex
position managers propose to open the
gate's after noon on Sunday, but to have
the machinery shut down and the
Midway shows closed. The ease
with which a judicious settlement
was reached compared with the bitter
ness of the controversy over the Sun
day opening of the great Chicago Ex
position of 1893, Indicates that the Puri
tan Sabbath is becoming obsolete and
will soon be universally replaced by
the American Sunday, which means
nothing more liberal than the practice
of early Protestantism. Luther and
Calvin both treated Sunday as a day
of religious observance and decent so
cial recreation. They were content to
persuade the people to attend religious
service during the first half of the day,
leaving them to use the remaining
hours for rest, social intercourse or
recreation according to their individual
preference.
Saturday was originally the Sabbath
until the day of rest was" transferred
by the Catholic Church to Sunday, the
first day of the week. The Catholic
Sunday was as different from the He-,
brew Sabbath as Christianity is from
Judaism. The Hebrew Sabbath ended
with the Christian dispensation, "and
was abandoned by the cHurch.
The New Testament does not enjoin
the observance of the Hebrew Sabbath,
and the founder of Christianity repudi
ated It. Sunday, which was established
by the Catholic Church, was not treated
by Luther or Calvin as a day for which
there was any Scriptural obligation,
consequently the German-Lutheran and
Roman Catholic Churches, the Prot
estant Episcopal Church and the Uni
tarian denomination keep Sunday as a
day of worship, a day of recreation, or
both, according to the will of the Indi
vidual, and to use Sunday for decent
recreation is not a violation of any
mandate of the New Testament. The
vast majority of the American people,
whether church members or not, agree
with this view of Sunday. All the re
ligious denominations taken together
embrace about 28,000,000, and, assuming
for the sake of the argument that a
majority of the membership of the vari
ous churches were opposed to the Sun
day opening of the Buffalo Fair, that
fact would not be a sound reason why
some 45,000,000 of people, who are not
church members, and not opposed to
Sunday opening, should not see the fair
on Sunday. Under our Federal Consti
tution there Is no union of church and
state; no state religion. The church-'
goers and non-church-goers who wish
to see the fair on Sunday represent
numerically a larger portion of the
American people than church-goers
who are opposed to Sunday opening.
Nobody is obliged to. go to the fair on
Sunday, and why should those who do
not want to go assume to interfere with
those who do want to go? The truth is
that the so-called "American Sabbath"
Is the obsolete Puritan Sunday, which
was originally Intended to be a repro
duction of the Hebrew Sabbath, just as
Mormon pblygamy was intended to be
a reproduction of Hebrew polygamy.
The Catholic Church does not believe
either in the Hebrew or the Puritan
Sabbath, and of course those who be
lieve in the Puritan Sabbath cannot ex
pect to Impose It upon at least 10,000,
000 people who not only do not accept
it, but are taught by their churches
to reject It. In a state without a state
church or state religion, not only all
religions are free to execute their own'
Idea of Sunday within the law, but all
men, whether church-goers or non-church-goers,
are equally free, pro
vided in their use of Sunday they do
not violate the law which forbids them
to Interfere with the rights of others
who use Sunday according to their own
conscience and habit. The distinctive
Puritan Sabbath is really gone in New
England, the land of Its birth. Sun
day Is everywhere In America a day
given not only to religious worship, but
to rest, recreation and decent social en
joyment Nobody disputes the value of
a weekly day of rest or questions the
wisdom and justice of protecting
churches and church-goers from dis
turbance, and on the other hand there
Is increasing recognition of the equally
sound principle that people who do not
want to go to church at all, or who
attend religious services in the fore
noon, are entitled to spend their time
as they like, so 'long as they do not
violate the peace and order of the day
to the extent of Interference with oth
ers in their use of the day. Twenty
five years ago the opening of libraries
or art galleries on Sunday was bitterly
opposed, but today the Boston Congre
gationalism once the Vigorous advocate
of stiff Sabbatarianism, urges Congress
to throw open to the public on Sunday
the National Library at Washington.
The Sunday excursion has been followed
by good results. There is less drunken
ness and disorder in the great cities
than there was thirty years ago, when
the working classes could not get easily
and cheaply from the tenements Into
the country.
The great evangelist, Dwight L.
Moody, indorsed by his own practice
the wisdom of running Sunday trains.
He was stricken with mortal Illness
in the West, and reached Buffalo late
on Saturday night, but instead of sus
pending his journey until Monday morn
ing, as he would have done in his youth,
he kept on the train through most of
Sunday and then drove from Greenfield
to his home In Northfield. Mr. Moody
had relaxed his opinions to the latitude
of the liberal spirit of his time. He
saw the practical necessity of Sunday
trains and steamboats to give the peo
ple an opportunity for the fullest and
finest outdoor rest and recreation, and
he gave the widest interpretation to the
words of Jesus: "The Sabbath was
made for man; not man for the Sah
bath." Friends of Davis, the defaulting and
absconding Clerk of the School Land
Board, express the belief that he was
"not at heart a dishonest man, and did j
not take the state's money with the in
tention of keeping it" He merely "bor
rowed" It, of course without the state's
knowledge or consent, and at the end
of' his term "was not able to pay it
back." This is the flimsiest of all ex
cuses for palpable wrong-doing. It
neither palliates theft nor makes resti
tution to those -who suffer from it
Whether the culprit who "borrows"
money without the knowledge of the
owner, uses it for speculative purposes
or squanders It in fast living, "Intend
ing to pay It back before his misappro
priation of it is discovered, is a bank
president or cashier, a financial agent
of the public or of. a private corpora
tion, or in any other capacity is the
trusted custodian of money not his own,
the presumption that his "Intentions
were honest". Is far-fetched and Inad
visedly urged. Against it stands the
.simple, incontrovertible fact that he
was fingering, for his, own expected
profit, money that did not belong to
him; money the owners of which would
not have Intrusted It to him without
substantial security; money in many
cases hard-earned by its owner and
saved by slow degrees, and, finally,
money which came Info his hands on
the belief that he was a strictly honest
man. Out upon the paltry excuse of
"good Intentions" in. such cases! The
money Is gone misappropriated, stolen
and the assumption tnat the man who
systematically made way with it falsi
fied his records to cover the transac.
tlon and then took to his heels or his
pistol to escape the punishment due
his inlsdeeds, is "at heart an honeBt
man" is without basis In fact or rea
son. The statement that he "simply
borrowed" -the Btate's money or the
bank's money or the depositors' money
or his employer's money "expecting to
pay it back" is not at all the record of
a. simple transaction in which a man
"honest at heart" would engage, and
to seek to extenuate the act upon this
plea Is neither good public policy nor
good common sense.
The report of the Health Board 6f
New York City shows that pneumonia
has not only displaced pulmonary con
sumption as the principal cause of
death in that city, but also that the
excess of deaths from pneumonia over
those from consumption was never so"
great as it has been for the past year,
there being 1469 more deaths from the
one than from the other. Up to 1891
consumption had always contributed
the largest portion to the city death
rate; b,ut from that year, with a single
Lexceptlon, the preponderance has been
the other way. Frqm 1851 to 1890, In
clusive, there nverq 157,665 deaths in
New York from pulmonary consump
tion, as against 89,314 from pneumonia.
From 1891 to 1900, Inclusive (only the
Boroughs of Manhattan an'd the Bf onx
being counted since the consolidation),
there were 56,092 deaths froni pneu
monia, as against 50,490 from consump
tion. Influenza, or grip, is held by doc
tors responsible for the change in the
rates of mortality. Although very sel
dom fatal In itself, considering the
enormous number of cases, it introduces
fatal complications Into attacks of
other lung diseases from which the pa
tient would naturally have recovered.
When' Influenza kills, It usually kills
through pneumonia. The report of the
New York Estate Board of Health shows,
thatgrip has caused about"l500 deaths
In the month of March, measuring the
mortality from It chiefly by that of the
acute respiratory diseases which It so
often brings to- a fatal ending. Seventy
six per cent of the deaths from "acute
respiratory diseases were from pneu
monia. It is a matter of sincere regret when
vast public interests are forced to yield
to those of a private and personal na
ture. Of course the President, as he Is
now sltuated( can do nothing more nor
less than he is now doing wait beside
the sickbed of his wife while the peo
ple of a vast "section curb their disap
pointment at his enforced change of
plans and generously substitute sym
pathy for expectation. A prudent man
In his place would have foreseen this
contingency and forestalled it by leav
ing his seml-lnvalld wife at home when
starting off on a fatiguing tour of offi
cial visitation.
The Atlantic liner Deutschland cov
ered 675 miles in a twenty-four-hour
run on her last passage across the At
lantic. This Is the fastest day's run
ever recorded by a steamer, and an
other painful reminder to Great Brit
ain that a dangerous rival for suprem
acy on the high, seas Is bearing down
upon her. It is also a wonderful tribute
to the skill of the builders who planned
the -craft That a 20,000-ton steamer
can be rushed across the ocean with the
speed of an average express train Is a
great achievement, and' one of which
any nation" might be proud.
Citizens of Wallowa County who
have been annoyed and made to suffer
losses through the depredations of In
dians, who have been allowed to wan
der from the Umatilla, Colville and
Lapwai reservations, are assured by
the Indian Bureau that the Indians will
hereafter be confined to their reserva
tions In' accordance with treaty stipu
lations. Agents on the reservations
have been Instructed to this effect, and
the happy presumption is that settlers
will hereafter be secure from the un
ceremonious visits of vagrant redmen:
Sir Thomas Lipton may not succeed
in lifting the America's cup with his
latest racing machine, Shamrook II,
but he can rest assured that his efforts
will not be wholly In Vain. The Sham
rocks, first and second, have made the
name of Lipton known wherever the
Anglo-Saxon race has wandered, and
the great publicity has not hurt the
sale of the wares which gave the rare
old sport the wherewithal for building
yachts.
The transports that have been used
by the Government between New York
and the West Indies will be sold at auc
tion in July. The net proceeds realized
from this sale will enable Uncle Sam to
determine the exact amount ot pure
metal there was In some of the marine
gold bricks which were palmed oft on
him when he was in the market for
transport steamers.
Rev. Dr. Ezra Hoyt Byington, a
leading Congregational clergyman, died
at Newton, Mass., yesterday. Dr. By
ington delivered a. course of lectures on
"Shakespeare" in Portland about two
years ago. He was graduated from the
University of Vermont in 1852, and from
Andover Theological Seminary in 1857.
FLOWERS OF SPRINGTIME. ,
Springfield Republican.
The watchword of the day 13 Hepatlca!
or It is Arbutus or it Is Saxifrage, or pos
sibly in some camps of Nature it may be
Dlrca. Awhile ago It was Pussy-WlUow;
pretty soon it wil be Quaker Lady or
Blue Violet. These are peaceful tokens
of speech, and even the cruel lovers of
beauty have them at their tongues' ends.
In the sweet new winds of the west they"
are rare, this Spring, but we have felt
them one should have only gracious
thoughts to match such words. But Na
ture bars none her gates are always
open, and It rests with the one who en
ters to be worthy or unworthy of her
Intimacy. On the conscience and the
heart of the visitor It depends whether
blessing or barrenness comes. -
On may rightly weigh for no little
time the respective charms of the may
flower and the hepatlca. What can be
more delicious than the pink sweetness
of the trailing arbutus that exquisite
bloom of mossy wlldwood knolls, nestled
beneath the shields of green leaves some
what rusty from the Winter weather,
springing from furry stems that are so
hardy in appearance, and so full of the
character ot the heath family to which
this lovely Uower belongs. This creeping
vine may be aspiring to become a shrub,
like Its .cousins, the whlte-bellled cassan
dras and pink-bellied andromedas of the
swamps (which are even now vinelike),
like the blueberries and the azaleas like
the kalmias, those glorious bushes we
tall mountain laurel. All of these share
the hardiness and tHe delicacy 'ltt one
of the arbutus, and the kindred Is not
difficult. to dlBcern. If the arbutus -has
this longing, then as its sehsitlve flowers
aspire to a more perfect state, and its
stem would fain lift into the air, it
must more readily yield, as it does, to
the onslaughts of spoilers, and so give up
the struggle with Intrusion. The -very
neighborhood ot our coarse civilization af
fronts it, and even' were it not torn
asunder by robbers wherever it is found,
it would , retreat and resign its place
when houses get too near.
'Tis the fragrance of the trailing arbu
tus which gives It precedence in the pop
ular esteem; and added to that. It will
kindly blossom after plucking, -because
of the sustaining, force of Its woody stem.
But the hepatlca scarcely survives the
nluckincr: It wilts and dies as It departs
'from the earth. It is said that It has no
fragrance, but this saying about flowers
means onlv that our sense Is not line
enough to apprehend the subtlety of their
evanescent breath. Doubtless ine nepat
Ica has fragrance; doubtless the common
blue violet, and the branching white vio
let, and surely the branching yellow vio
let, as well as the dainty marsh white
violet, have their fragrances. Only the
last mentioned, the tiny blanda, with
its violet 'streaks In White, Is credited
with the faintest of perfume. But' there
are those who, long loving flowers, find
in them the properties that others miss,
and will not allow that the deficiency In
such as these is more than relative.
Be that as It may, the hepatlca needs
no charms but those that are obvious to
gain our love And yet not all obvious.
There Is something more than meets the
first glance in this modest, simple flower,
espied in the- midst of the dry brown
leaves of the forest, as the Fall ripening
shook them from the boughs upon the
warm slopes open to the South. Gener
ally the old leaves of the year that Went
encompass the crown of the new bloom,
but sometimes the blossoms, come In a
pathetic loneliness. Always they wear
the look of celestial visitants, entering
the new world of the Spring with a cer
tain surprise. The hepatlca IS so beau
tiful that It tr&nscends the sky and thd
earth, and brings heaven close. Look
into the heart ot the flower, and view Its
wondrouB life; most bf all. that pulsating
color which lifts and dilates, and drops
and lessens, from blue. of the sapphire
to soft purple ot the amethyst, as if the
sky Itself Were living In this tiny blos
som. And If the bloom be white, then
note how at the foot of the petals a
slight golden glow appears, as If the sun
had given It a special ray:
Oh, the earth's unconscious bosom
Such rare color never "mewl
but the heavens have known It, and here
are their translated undulations of light,
fascinating our eyes and hearts in the
life of a little flower wljerein the spirit
moves with the same infinite power that
Is exercised as easily in the movement of
the universes. The scene of the advent
of this delightful blossom is beautifully
presented by Dora Read Goodale:
All the woodlawn path Is broken
By warm tints along the waj;;
And the low and sunny slope
Is alive with sudden hope,
"When there comes the silent token
Ot an April day
Blue hepatlca!
While thus the Summer forerunners ap
pear proclaiming the message of blossom
and growth in the still open woodland and
on sunny knolls, see also the willows In
flower, the catkins grown dusty with
pollen see the poplars shaking their tas
sels, and the alders and birches and haz
els. The sheaths Of the elm buds arc
loosening and the elms grow gold-brown
overhead; and what! can It be that the
ruddy sweet florets of red maple are open
ing? Even so, and beneath at the wood's
edge the bloodroot's white calyx spreads
purely like a dream of a virtue unflawed.
All the sweet life of Nature is waking,
and the promise of Summer is here. Pray,
we, that man may awake, too, and emu
late such lives as these.
''Faith" In Insurance Problems.
New York Times.
In denying insurance to the dangerous
fanatics of whom the "Christian Scien
tists" are the best-known variety, the
Tew Jersey Grand Council of the Royal
Arcanum has taken a stand that Is open to
criticism only because It was not taken
long ago. Every other organization of the
same character ought instantly to imi
tate the example thus set, and delay in
doing so simply subjects to unjustifiable
risk the property rights" of the sane mem
bers of the societies. "All persons," to
use the words of the resolution adopted
by the grand council in explanation of
Its course, "who reject, refuse, or neglect
'the aid of medical science are a very
dangerous risk from an insurance stand
point?' That is an unquestionable truth,
clearly stated. Since the "Christian. Sci
entists" deny the existence of disease and
of death itself, the commonest sort of
consistency demandsthat they voluntarily
get out of the mutual Insurance organiza
tions, allow their policies in the regular
Insurance companies to lapse, and care
fully refrain from stultifying themselves
by taking out any new policies. If they
will not do this and of course they won't,
as consistency Is something they know
nothing about compulsion should be ap
plied exactly as the Royal Arcanum has
applied It. A little discipline of the same
sort, used In this and other directions
where It Is needed, would tend to bring
back to their senses all the believers
In "faith cure" except those whose in
sanity Is Irremediable, and there are not
many so far gone as that, ine rouower or
any one of these delusions Is not a safe
person with whom to have either business
or social relations. The means of apply
ing pressure are numerous, and as soon
as sensible people begin to utilize them
"Christian Science" and all the allied or
identical humbugs will be dissipated as
rapidly as are other filth-laden miasms
by the attack of good fresh breezes.
Does He Want Ragtime?
Chicago Tribune.
No4r comes the Rev. J. Ward Gamble,
a Methodist preacher of Manasquan. N.
J., who wants an up-to-date Methodist
hymnal." He says It is ridiculous that
300 of the hymns In the old book were
written by the Wesleye. He calls them'
"trashy ditties" and "sacred slops," In
timates that they are "canned goods,"
and demands something fresher. Has
the octopus laid Its impious hand on New
Jersey Methodism? j
dRURAL DELIVERY HERE TO STAY
St Paul Pioneer Press.
Rural free delivery Is safely past the
experimental stage. It has come to stay
and to spread Its blessings In every dis
trict of a population sufficient to justify
the service and with roads good enougn
to permit regularity of service in all
weathers. The rural carrier and his "rig"
win soon be as familiar a sight at the
roadside postbox as the gray-clad "post
man" Is in the cities. For Congress In
creased Its appropriation from ?l,75O,OC0
for 1901 to 3,E0O,000 tor 1902. Of this,
2,500,000 will go to support the 3000
rural routes already established, and part
ot the remaining million will be used to
organize a permanent special bureau. But
since the rest will not suffice for half
the new routes already demanded, it is
a safe prediction that the appropriation
for the fiscal year 1902-1903 will be J7.000,
000, or about half the appropriation for
free delivery In the cities. Only six years
ago the Postofflce Department reported
that rural free .delivery was not feasi
ble. Only last year the total appropria
tion was but 5450.000. "When these .facts
are contrasted with the present appro
priation the popularity of the rural serv
ice Is evident And popularity means
permanence.
That rural free delivery will greatly
modify the postal business is not Improb
able. It has already "stimulated postal
receipts to a sufficient extent to Justify
Itself and will probably ultimately pay
for itself. Just now the routes are so
scattered that the service cannot be- or
ganized In the mo3t economical manner,
but when the counties are thoroughly
covered It will be possible to reduce the
cost of administration considerably. Fur
thermore, the cost of establishing a route
Is much heavier than the cost of opera
tion and the larger part of the appro
priations th'us far have "gone to establish
new routes. Nor does the appropriation
reflect the actual cost Savings have
been effected by doing uway with some
small . and comparatively costly post
offices,, and others are to be abolished.
These and other economies and the in
crease in receipts do not yet equal the
appropriation, but they show that the ap
propriation exaggerates the real outlay.
But even If the actual cost were much
greater, rural free delivery would more
than justify Itself. It puts the farmer
In closer touch with the world, saves
him trouble and expense, and Is the ve
hicle for various social benefits that are
worth to the nation much more than they
cost. The postofflce Is not a moneymak
lng enterprise. Its annual deficits are
tolerated because of the Incalculable
commercial and social benefits of the
postofflce system. It is only Just that
the rural districts should have their full
share of these benefits, and the United
States could afford to face postofflce de
ficits twice as large rather than sacrifice
free delivery in those districts.
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Tricks ot Trnnta.
San Francisco Bulletin.
A Berlin correspondent of the Spring
field Republican says that Gerihan syn
dicates are adopting the practice of Amer
ican trusts of charging home buyers
higher rates than the same kind of goods
are sold for abroad. For example, the
price of wire nails was to the German
buyer 326 marks a ton, while the same
quality of nails were sold abroad at 21S
marks a ton. The discrimination In this
case was one-third In favor of the for
eign buyer. As wire nails are the raw
material of a more advanced stage of
manufacture. It clearly follows that Ger
man -manufacturers, who have to pay
one-third more for raw material tnan
foreign competitors, will find themselves
handicapped in common markets.
There are two remedies for trust exac
tions of this character. One is to abolish
the duties on wire nails and thus open
the German market to foreign competi
tion: the other, for manufacturers to
combine to make the foreign market
subordinate to the home market. There
Is nothing gained In the long run by
crippling the higher branches of manu
facture by charging higher prices for raw
material than are charged the foreign
competitor. On the contrary. It Is the
higher branches that should be fostered,
as It Is in these branches that the pro
portion of labor cost is the greatest.
OUr American steel trusts made a great
ado about selling steel Irt foreign mar
kets, admitting that sales were effected
by offerlns steel below American rates.
But at the same time It Was contended
that articles of commerce of which stet.1
was the raw material could-not be manu
factured in this country so cheaply as in
foreign countries. In fact, the anomaly
In legislation was presented in the last
Congress of a bill giving bounties to steel
Ships, while the steel of which all mod
ern ships are composed was produced at
less cost at home than In countries which
could build steel ships at lees than the
cost of the American ships. In other
words, our steel manufacturers put an ex
tra price on steel to American builders
of ships and asked Congress to compen
sate the shipbuilder for this extra price
by giving bounties on steel ships from
the public treasury.
Lines on a Skeleton.
Author unknown.
Behold this rulnt 'Twas a skull
Once ot ethereal spirits full!
This narrow cell was Hfe'a retreat;
This apace was thought's mysterious seat;
What beauteous pictures filled this spot
What dreams of pleasures long forgot!
Nor love, nor Joy, nor hope, nor fear,
Haa left One trace of record here.
Beneath this molderlns canopy
Once shone the bright and busy eye;
But start not at the dismal void;
if social love that eye employed.
If with no lawless fire It gleamed.
But through the dew of kindness beamed.
That eye shall be forever bright
When stars and suns hae lost their light.
Here, In this silent cavern, hung
The ready, swift and tuneful tongue;
If falsehood's honey it disdained.
And, where It could not praise, was chained
If bold In virtue's cause it epoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke.
That tuneful tongue shall plead for thee
"When death unveils eternity.
Say, did these fingers delve the mine.
Or with Its envied rubles shine?
To -hew the rock or wear the gem
Can nothing now avail to them;
But If the page ot truth they sought,
Or comfdrt to the mourner brought.
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Than all that waits on wealth or fame.
Avails It whether bare or shod
These feet the path of duty trod?
If from the bowers of Joy they fled
To soothe affliction's humble bed - .
If grandeur's guilty bribs they spurned.
And home to virtue's lap returned.
These feet with angels' wings Bhall vie.
And tread the -palace of the sky.
The Shattered Dream.
Baltimore American.
He had ten thousand shares
Of Northern Pacific
And brokers surged about
With tumult terrific.
They offered any price
For what he was holding.
And when he sold he saw
His future unfolding.
His fortune was so great
'Twas trouble to Spend It;
He felt that he would have
To lose or to lend It.
He purchased property
And clothing and Jewels,
As- well as stocks In trusts,
In Ices and fuels.
When he was at his best
In this money battle.
The forty-cent alarm
"Went off with a rattle.
Twas sad the soulless clocfc
Should ruthlessly end It,
Ten minutes more of sleep.
Bad helped him to spend It
NOTE .AND COMMENT . ;
Do not the strikers know that: Colonel
Roosevelt Is likely to be in Albany al
most any time?
" . -,
The man who owns the Northern pa
cific road is about as scarce Ss he who
castigated W. Patterson.
The English people are foolish to raise
King Edward's salary. He couldn't quit
to take a better Job it he wanted, to.
It's hard to guess the weather
In a mlxed-up season, when
"We look for June's approach, but flad
That April's hero again.
Minister Wu is writing a book. Al
though the title has not yet bcen an
nounced It is probably "How to Govern,
America."
James J. Hill referred to the phenom
enal rise In Northern Pacific stocky as.
ghost dancing. It certainly did give xisa
to some very spirited scenes.
The report that Grover Cleveland made
a poor catch of fish the other day means
that the old gentleman would like ' to
hear from a new press agent
A poet's manuscript recently sold for
330. As It was John Milton's, aspirants
for present day laurels need not tblnlc
that they are going to get rich.
The music trust says it Is going to sup
press Inferior music. Nonsense; trusts
are after money, and there- Is more money
In popular songs than In all the goodv
music ever written.
Prlscllla's brow Is sad.. ,
And Prlscllla's speech Is low.
And she pords upon a well-thumbed boolc
By the midnight oil's dim glow.
For the term la near Its end, .
And a girl of seventeen
Must study hard to graduate '
At the fashion magaains. '
The grassy nooks along the brooks are shaded
by the willow trees. V
And lots and lota ot picnic spots are scattered
in retreats like these;
The tmn. ablaze, brings warmer days, excur
sions start for bank and pool.
And crowds of boys find natver Joys In mlns
llng with the Sunday school.
When "The Breadwinners" was pub
lished anonymously In a New York mag
azine In 18S3 the authorship was at
tributed to John Hay, now Secretary ot
State. Hay neither denied nor admitted
It. The Chicago Tribune claims to have
discovered among the papers left by Miss
Ida Harris, of Champaign, 111., who died
about three weeks ago. Indisputable proof
that she was the writer of the story, and
was only 22 years old at the time ot Its
publication.
An East Side resident came home the
other night to find the house reeking-with
the pungent odor of carbolic acid.
"What smells so like sixty?" he in
quired, taking a firm grip on his noae
to seal his nostrils hermetically.
"The neighbor's children have diph
theria," replied his wife. Who had been
busy applying the disinfectant In her own
home all day.
"Great Caesarl" exclaimed the head of
the family, "if It smells up our house
like this when the neighbors' youngsters
have got It, what will it smell like when
our own kids are taken down?"
Four friends sat side by side, and con
tinued to sit side by side even when the
car became crowded and women of all
ages were standing, gossips a , Gotfcpn
writer. Men In New York have p&
quit yielding seat3 to women whom trr?""5"
db not know. "I see," sald Howsllf,
"that a seat has been sold on'the Stock
Exchange for $70,000." "What'll you take
for your seat?" asked Jamleson. "Mine?
I haven't got any." "The one you are
sitting in?" "Oh, well, I'll sell It for
a round of drinks." "Bought. Here's
50 cents. Get up." When he got up It
was handed over to a shopgirl. Jamieson
bought the seats of his other two friends
and gave them to women. Then the three
bought his seat and gave It to an old
man, and that particular end of the car
was In great good humor all the way
uptown. It Is no uncommon act to buy
a seat for one's wife. Messenger boy3
are always willing to sell for 10 or IS
cents. It is unnecessary for any woman
to stand If she has an escort with a
little common sense.
Albert C. Case, of the Carnegie Com
pany, who is to become president of the
American Cotton Company on June 'Is
a native of New Jersey, and at IT he had
perfected himself In the Morse register
telegraph system, becoming a telegrapher
on the New York division of the Penn
sylvania railroad. He was dispatcher
when he retired to become, on Mayl.
1886, auditor and cashier of the Baltimore
& Ohio Telegraph Company in this city.
York passenger agent for the Lebiga
Valley Railroad. He then went to At
lanta to revise the Atlanta bnfftfclP bf
Bradstreet's MercantllegSncy," later be
coming Pittsburg superintendent. On
January 1, 1S9C, he was made credit man
ager of the Carnegie Company. He was
admitted to the Carnegie partnership In
1S99, and now holds a considerable Interest
In the United States Steel Corporation.
In Ave years, although transacting hun
dreds of millions ot dollars of business,,
the loss to the Carnegie Company from
bad debts was only nine one-thousandths
of 1 per cent a record unparalleled In
commercial history.
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PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEIIS
Patience Tou say the first car which came
along stopped at the crossing? Patrice Yes;
the motorman didn't happen to see me.
Yonkers Statesman.
Portraiture. Critic You haven't caught Mrs
Bawke3 du Byrnes' expression at all! Portrait
Painter No: but I flatter myself I've caught
her notion of her expression. Detroit Journal.
Right Up in Line. "Same old presentation
of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin. I suppose r "Not
much; we've worked in an automobile collision
and plantation rummage sale." Detroit Fre
Prcns.
Has Some Effect. Traveler Do you think
the lynch law you have here decreases tho
number of murders? Native Wail, I dunno;
but It decreases the number of murderers.
New York Weekly.
Symptoms Facing Both Ways. "Harry la so
absent-minded; he went up to dress for a
party once, and went to bed Instead." "'H'mr
that looks to me like a fine case of presence
ot mind." Chicago Record-Herald.
Easily Understood. First Chinaman Let's
see! The Christians have a text about turning
the other when struck on one cheek. Second
Chinaman I don't doubt It. Anything to In
crease the Indemnity! Puck.
Mrs. Newbrlde (who has been baking) I
wonder who first invented angel cake Mr.
Newbrlde (who had to sample the baklng) t
don't know, but I fancy it was one of the
fallen angelB. Philadelphia Record.
A certain bishop, as he was going about his
diocese, asked the porter of a lunatic asylum
how a chaplain whom be (the bishop) had
lately appointed was getting on. "Oh, my
lord." wild the man; "his preaching is most
successful. The hidlots henjoys It partickler.'
Tit-Bits.
Tho Final Argument. "Yes, he's a fine dog;
Uncle 'Bastus, and I'd like to own him, but
your price Is a little too high." "Bettah sit
Mm while yo' kin, Cunnel Hawkins. Mistah
Peahpont Mawgan mlrbt want to buy him
some o dese days, an den ivhah'd you be?"
Chicago Tribune.