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ing to the favorable conditions of cli
mate, soil and labor, have made It
next to Impossible for the Central New
York grower to compete with them In
the general markets. The soil pt Ore
gon is new and rich. The climate' is
without the meteorological dangers that
threaten the Eastern vines The land
is- so cheap that ten acres of superior
hop soil may be had in the Pacific
slope region for the price of one acre
In the Mohawk belt Labor is cheaper
there. The hop farmer of New York
State is repeating the experience of the
old-time New York State wheat and
barley grower. The wheat of the Gen
esee "Valley and the barley of Ontario,
Seneca, Yates and Steuben Counties
once supplied a large proportion of the
demand for those grains, but when the
great grain farms of the Northwest be,
gan, with the completion of the trunk
lines of transportation from the Atlan
tic seaboard to the Great Lakes and the
Mississippi, to throw their crops upon
the market, the farmers of New York
State were unable to compete with the
stream of grain that poured in from the
far Northwest. Today the old-time
splendid" wheat and barley lands of
New York State are devoted to the cul
tivation of potatoes, beans, onions and
other crops.
YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem
perature, S4; minimum temperature, 54; fair.
TODAY'S WEATHER Increasing cloudiness
and cooler; south to -west -winds.
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PORTLAND,. FIlIDAr, AUGUST 30.
A MENACE OP PEACE.
It is a curious thing that inventive
genius, applied to war, steadily en
hances the efficacy of defense, by sea
and land. The perfection of explosives
continually lags behind the resistance
of armor. Repeating guns and smoke
Jess powder made for Germans and
British to conquer the world, get into
the hands of the intended victims and
hinder what they were designed to
achieve. The Turk defies discipline,
the Filipino band survives in mountain
fastnesses, the Boers spread out behind
tree and rock and keep at bay the
armies of Edward's empire. So It is
on the sea. In the Spanish "War we
made no damage upon the fortifications
of San Juan, and only played with the
ancient defenses of Santiago and flut
tered about Havana without the temer
ity to nter.
The increasing power of the defense
to resist attack is one of the most pow
erful operating forces in international
politics today. Coupled with Ihe finan
cial perils attendant on prolonged con
tests, it fortifies the peace of Europe
hehind almost insurmountable barriers.
There are those who value peace at any
price above all other considerations,
material and moral; and to them the
nevts is welcome. But he who reads
history with olnpfejudlced eye can tell
of many blessings and achievements
that would still be unborn in the womb
of time, so far as humaneyesight can
penetrate, except for the throes of
mighty war. When the world becomes,
through supine submission to in
trenched tyranny, what Wordsworth
calls "a stagnant pen"; what Shakes
peare hail "In mind when he spoke of
""the cankers of a calm world and a
long peace"; what Tennyson mourns
as base when in the closing lines of
"Maud" he welcomes the call to arms,
there Is no cost of blood and treasure
to be -counted against the 'moral and
intellectual awakening roused by the
clash of battle.
How 'bf ten in all the records of the
race has the sword been unsheathed to
right -the gravest -wrongs! "When
GYeek rose against the invader; when
Switzerland flew to arms in defense of
her liberties; when the Netherlands
broke the power of Spain in Northern
Europe and liberators drove her spoil
ing rulers, from the New "World; when
the -allies crushed the ambitions of Na
poleon at Waterloo; when Cromwell's
forces set up righteousness on the un
worthy throne of Charles the ideals
raised and the sacrifices undergone be
queathed a priceless heritage to all
succeeding time. What would Bunker
Hill and Lexington, Valley Forge and
Yorktown, mean to us of America to
day but for the Fathers' appeal to
arms, and who shall measure the bless
ings contributed to all mankind, by war
through such careers as Washington's,
. Lincoln's, Lee's and Dewey's? War
gave us our Independence, freed the
slave and raised the Stars and Stripes
in far-off islands of the sea.
Who shall give us wherewithal to
supply the place' of high tradition in
Army and Navy; of the chivalry of men
in battle" and in" prison and the heroism
of women through hours of parting or
suspense? 'What shall fill the place in
sacrifice and inspiration, of Thermopy
lae and Salamis, Hastings and Mars
ton Moor, Nathan Hale's martyrdom,
Grant's patience, the sacrifices of the
common soldier, the ministries of the
battle-field, the silver voices of heroic
"bugles, the wild, grand music of war?
Civilization gets forward on a powder
cart, but the battle-field's greatest
blessings are not so much those of
trade as the heroic memories it leaves
to lift up lives and discredit the cow
ardly and mean.
There. Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that -wraps their clay,
And freedom shall a while repair
To dwell a weeping hermit there.
IS IT NECESSARY?
May we not at last draw the veil of
charity over the horrid spectacle of
Reconstruction, graphically pictured by
Mr. Page in the September Atlantic?
They were awful blunders, it is true,
that came In with Abraham Lincoln's
death and went out with the kindly
and almost equally persecuted Ruther
ford B." Hayes. They were stupendous
crimes those perpetrated through the
eight years of reconstruction, against a
brave, cultivated and chivalrous people
by the bigotry and ignorance of North
ern partisans and unscrupulous sol
diers of political fortune. History must
record these dark annals and seek, in
humiliation and pain, to bind the blame
on the guilty. But for present use in
getting on in happiness and advance
ment, shall we not try to forget It all?
"Ring out the old. ring in the new."
We are all in straits at times to cry for
mercy, and extenuation Is sorely needed
for Ku Klux and lynching horrors as
well as for Stanton's hostility and carpet-baggers'
corruption. Shall we not
move with more hope and confidence,
North and South, to throw the mantle
of charity upon the sins of both sec
tions, and look steadfastly forward to
the triumphs of the twentieth century?
We take It that Mr. Page's counter
blast against the bloody shirt was long
ago made into a superfluity. Assuredly
they have burned to ashes these fires
of generation-old hatred and misun
derstanding! For every Southron that
has come fervently to thank God that
slavery is no more there is at least one
Northerner who prays to be forgiven
for his persecution of the South and
his pernicious errors on behalf of the
black. Just as much as we have a
New South, we have a New North. The
nightmare of the awful Yank is not
more effectually dispelled than is the
superstition of the Southern man "lazy,
self-indulgent, cruel; -who passed Ills
time in the indulgence of his appetite,
supported by the painful labors of
slaves to whose woes he was worse
than indifferent." The new generation
at the North, who knew not the ani
mosities as well as the sacrifices of the
War, are content today to let the
South work out its own problem, well
persuaded, as Mr. Page effectually puts
it that "intelligence, virtue and force .of
character will eventually rule in the
South as elsewhere, and everywhere as
certainly as the law of gravitation."
of fact, the Austrian brig referred to
was not wrecked in 1839, but in 1862.
In the., wreck of 1839 the entire crew
and the greater part of the cargo was
saved. But Dr. Newell confused the
incident of 1839 with that .of 1862 in
order to date his so-called invention as
far back as possible. Dr. Newell based
his claim to be "the originator and
"founder of the .United States life-saving-
service" on his Introduction of a resolu
tion in January, 1848, but as far back
as 1838 the Secretary of the Treasury
had forwarded to the Senate communi
cations relating to the establishment of
a life-saving service. In 1847 Congress
enacted a law appropriating ?5000 for
furnishing lighthouses on the Atlantic
Coast with means of rendering assist
ance to shipwrecked mariners. This
appropriation, with one added later,
was turned over to the Massachusetts
Humane Society and expended on the
Massachusetts coast In the construction
and equipment of station-houses. This
society Ince 1791 had maintained life
boats, rockets and lines at houses on
exposed beaches.
These facts show that the whole sub
ject was already old and familiar when
Dr. Newell took hold of it in 1848. He
successfully urged an appropriation for
surf-boats, rockets and other necessary
apparatus to he placed at selected
points on the New Jersey coast, but
the credit for the first thorough organ
ization of a responsible life-saving serv
ice seems chiefly to attach to United
States Senator Hamlin, of Maine. -Dr.
Newell appears on investigation of the
records to have been a vain old politi
cian who worked his "services" in Con
gress on sea and shore for a good deal
more than they were worth. He. only
raised an annual clamor foran appro
priation, for thd benefit of the New
Jersey coast, just as the Alabama Con
gressional delegation every year urges
an appropriation for "the improvement
of navigation on the Tombigbee River."
man blood makes that particular tiger
henceforth "a man-eater." This lurk
ing devil of cruelty is everywhere, but
is generally held , in leash by public
opinion, but it hroke loose in New York
City once, in July, 1863, set fire to a
negro orphan asylum and began to
burn the children. It murdered inno
cent negroes on Grove steret, in the old
est part of the city. Cruelty grows
fat upon what It feeds today, even as
it did in the fifteenth century.
The Oneonta, N. Y., correspondent of
the New York Sun writes " that paper
Tinder date of the 24th inst that the
hopgrowers of Otsego and other coun
ties of Central New York aje unable to
compete with the Pacific slope. For
two- or three seasons the hop farmers
of the Empire State have been plow
ing up their hopfields and planting
them to other crops, until the acreage
in hops of the once famous hopgrowing
district of the counties of Otsego, Mad
ison and Oneida Is estimated to have
decreased a quarter or a third In five
years. In the collateral hopgrowing
districts of Schoharie, Herkimer, Mont
gomery and Fulton Counties and parts
of the Upper Catskill country the reduc
tion Is injnuch larger proportion. The
vast hopfields of the Pacific slope, ow-
XEWELL AXD THE LIFE-SAVIXG
SERVICE.
Further information seems to cast
doubt upon the assertion that the late
Governor Newell was the originator of
the life-saving service. The Washington
correspondent of the New York Evening
Post has been at considerable pains to
Inquire critically into the foundation of
Mr. Newell's claim, and finds from ex
amination of the records that the most
that can be claimed for Dr. Newell is a
share in helping along what had been
begun before his time and remained to
be carried on to both a practical and a
general stage by others. In 189S, when
Dr. .Newell was 79 years of age, he
Issued a little pamphlet in which he
sought to make himself the hero of the
most of the experiments by the distor
tion and garbling of letters, official re
ports, etc. His method Is illustrated
by a passage In which he quotes Su
perintendent Kimball, of the life-saving
service, as saying in his.report for 1876:
Tho Government first gave its attention
to the method of aiding stranded vessels by
the establishment of stations., furnishing
means of effecting communication with such
vessels and the shore, In ISIS, and to the
Hon. William A. Newell of New Jersey, then
a member of the House of Bepresentatl es,
belongs the honor of first presenting and advo
cating the merits of his plan, In a speech
In which he described the. uses of the mortar,
line, rockets, etc, portraying -vividly the ter
rible scenes of shipwreck upon the calamitous
shores of his state.
Here Dr. Newell has changed the
word "this" in the report to "his" in
the quotation before the word "plan."
All Mr. Kimball did in his report was
to give Dr. Newell credit for the first
speech made in which the existing ap
paratus was described with some de
tail. There was clearly nojntention to
credit Newell with any consistent plan
or scheme of his own, or to hold him
up as the author of the life-saving serv
ice. Dr. Newell, in his pamphlet, pre
tends that his invention of the system
grew out of a visit to the wreck of an
Austrian brig on the New Jersey coast
in 1S39, when the sight of thirteen
drowned sailors on the beach prompted
him to invent the idea of throwing a
lifeline to a wreck by means of a mor
tar. Dr. Newell's "invention" of 1839
was fully described in an edition of the
Encyclopedia Britannica considerably
antedating 1S39 in its accounts of the
use of the mortar and line for connect
ing wrecked vessels with the shore by
Lieutenant Bell, of the British Artil
lery, as long ago as 179L Bell received
50 guineas from the Society of the Arts
for his Invention, and was promoted as
acknowledgment of merit, and in 1811
an address was moved in the House of
Commons by Mr- Wilberforce, praying
to have such an apparatus stationed at
the different parts of the British coast.
Captain Manby, of the British service,
made further application of the same
Idea, and published a volume on the
subject with a number of Illustrative
engravings in 1826, in which the mortar
and line are shown pictorially, as weil
as described in the text in "all the
stages of their use.
This book was published thirteen
years before the sight of the Austrian
brig prompted Dr. Newell to invent the
idea of throwing the lifeline by use of
a mortar and make experiments in
prpof of Its practicability. As a matter
A HOODLUM'S HOLIDAY.
A writer in the New York Evening
Post (Mr. J. P. M.) maintains that it is
not vengeance, but fun, that the negro
.burning mobs are after. The writer in
the Post is a keen satirist, and yet it Is
a fact that this chronic negro-burning
is an appalling phase of white degen
eracy. The writer in the Post holds
that negro-hunting and negro-burning
are executed chiefly "by a kind of ani
mals that never wasted as much time
defending the honor of their families as
would an ordinary alligator; they enjoy
it and they let the children see it. It
is just the kind of excitement that their
dull, imbruited natures thrill at." This
arrow of satire Is tipped heavily with
truth. History is full of testimony that
agony in others soon becomes a source
of enjoyment to those who inflict or
witness It. The average boy until he
reaches the age of puberty is generally
cruel. He robs birds' nests of eggs and
young, stones frogs to death and In
flicts horrible tortures on cats and-dogs.
He torments the shy, sensitive or feeble
.boy among his fellows. So notorious
Is childhood for wanton cruelty that
one of Hogarth's-famous pictures, "The
Age of. Cruelty," is devoted chiefly to
the delineation of the inhuman antics
of half-grown boys practiced upon the
helpless among mankind and animals.
Degenerate men always behave in
this respect like children. They think
little, they long for excitement, they
are full of idiot sound and fury in all
they do. The childhood even of great
races, like the Greeks and Romans,
was conspicuous for the practice of in
genious torture. There is no mode of
cruel torture practiced -by the American-
Indian that was not once in vogue
among the great races of the Old j
World. In the degeneracy of Rome
under Caligula, Nero and Domltian
cruelty was cultivated as a fine art.
The Carthaginian was distinguished
for cold-blooded, malignant cruelty in
an age of cruelty. Alexander inflicted
horrible tortures on his real or sus
pected enemies, and the Oriental despot
today is a demon of cruelty under small
provocation. Spain cultivated the habit
of cruelty through the public specta
cles of the burning of heretics by the
Inquisition, which furnished holidays to
Seville, and the Spanish maidens came
in from their vineyards gaudily attired
to enjoy the agony of heretics. The
Spaniard no longer has the Inquisition,
but he had it until Napoleon Bonaparte
stamped it out of existence with his
iron military heel, and he has the bull
fight today and will not give it up.
The Spaniard is the mdst cruel mem
ber of the Latin race, because of the
Inquisition, which never obtained any
foothold In France and had but a short
and feeble life in Italy. And yet France
was grossly disfigured by cruelty In
her legal code long after England had
become comparatively humane. Legal
torture ended in England In the
reign of James I, but legal
torture was inflicted in France more
than 150 years after it was extinct in
England. Burning of heretics was com
mon enough In England, but the terri
ble legal tortures that were a common
punishment in France from Louis XI
in the fifteenth century to Louis XV in
the last half of the eighteenth century
were never a common spectacle In Eng
land, even in its most barbarous times.
That Is to say, the English people never
seemed to be cruel for mere cruelty's
sake. All London, high and low, never
turned out to see a common malefactor
slowly done to death as all fashionable
Paris did for 300 years down to 1757.
The Spanish Inquisition burned 32,000
persons, and these religious spectacles
educated the people to cruelty. 'The
habit of cruelty grew on the French
people during the Reign of Terror so
rapidly that children of tender years
were sent to the guillotine, and fash
ionable ladies wore diminutive "guillo
tines for watch charms. Some of the
Terrorists revived the cruelties of Nero.
None of these habitually cruel Terror
ists were men of any intellectual power.
They were all degenerates In mind and
body; the strong men among them were
the first to cry halt to the massacre of
royalists after battle, to wholesale be
headings, but the Paris public had been
educated to a taste for cruelty and en
joyed the daily work of the guillotine,
even as the degenerate white mob at
the North or South enjoys hunting
down a negro ahd organizing a barbe
cue where the spectators can all see
the black bull meat roasted over a slow
'fire.
Cruelty is easily made a habit by de
generate men, whose mental and moral
development has never outgrown child
hood, which is emphatically the age of
cruelty. Cruel and unusual punish
ments have always served to multiply
the crimes for which the punishment
was Inflicted. The more witches burned
the more witches there were to burn;
the more heretics were committed to
the flames the more heresy flourished.
The practice of cruelty makes wild
beasts of men, even as the taste of hu-
The new arrangement rof railroad J
traffic ofncialsin Portland has the sur
face appearance of being tentative. It
carries with it a strong probability that
the O. R. & N. and the Oregon lines of
the Southern Pacific will be brought
into still closer relationship. But the
working out of these changes or rela
tionship is a matter of much difficulty
and time and diplomacy are required to
effect adjustments that shall be bene
ficial to the service and lasting. The
promotions just made are in every way
commendable. They recognize active
young men of special talents in their
field. Mr. Markham has started a nota
ble work In Oregon, a work requiring
not only knowledge of traffic matters
but also tact, persistence and executive
ability. That work is far from com-
jplete, and if it were to be arrested by
Mr. Markham's removal to San Fran
cisco It would be unfortunate for the
state. But Mr. 'Miller has been in close
contact; with the development policy
of the O. R. & N and he may be trust
ed to continue in Southern Pacific ter
ritory the course that his predecessor
has inaugurated with so much promise.
Mr. Coman has a record for efficiency
and popularity, and he is thoroughly
acquainted with the transportation field
over which he is now to exercise juris
dlctioni These promotions have the ad
vantage of carrying popular approval
as woii,as official strength.
The Mark Lane Express, of London,
estimates the wheat requirements of
the United Kingdom, France, Holland
and Belgium at 664,000,000 bushels for
the present crop year, of which those
countries will produce about 396,000,000
bushels, leaving a deficit of 268,000,000
bushels. It is reported that Russia will
be a small exporter, but, allowing for
the exports of Russia to the importing
countries of Central Europe, and for
the exports of Argentina, India and
Australia, it seems probable that the
United States will, be called upon for
the whole amount of 268,000,000 bush
els required in Western Europe for the
crop year ending next July. In 1891 we
sent abroad In a single year 225,665,812
bushels, and In the fiscal year of 1899
we exported 222,618,420 bushels. From
1869 to 1879 the United States exported
only about 20 per cent of Its wheat
production. It now exports from 30 to
40 per cent. The largest yearly ship
ment in that time was 92,000,000 bushels;
the smallest 25,284,800 bushels. During
the last ten years the exports have
averaged 173,000,000 bushels, and during
the last three, years the average has
been 208,700,000 bushels. Oiir wheat
yield this year is estimated at 650,000,
000 to 700,000,000 bushels, of which 300,
000.000 to 400,000.000 bushels can be exported.
GIRLS PREFER THEIR OWN SEX.
Chicago Tribune.
A writer in the National Review sets
forth some curious and amusing results
secured by asking several hundred school
girls the following questions: "Which
would you rather be, a man or a woman,
and why?" There Is a striking differ
ence between the answers of the children
In Germany, In England, and in the United
States; also between the answers of the
little girls of New England and of In
diana. Apparently the farther West one
comes the higher is the estimation in
which Womanhood is held.
In Indiana only 14 per cent wished they
were men, and In New England 15 per
cent. In England 34 per cent wished to
be men, urging that men had a better
time, more glory and more money. In
Germany most of the girls were not al
lowed to answer, but those who did so
took the sober view that "It is wicked to
wish to be a man." In Germany there
were none who expressed a belief In the
superiority of women. In England there
were 4 per cent; in New England 14 per
cent, and In Indiana 34 per cent. Evi
dently the women of Indiana are of su
perfine material.
The reasons of the 85 or S6 per cent who
were true to their sex are Interesting If
not alarming to the masculine mind. A
large percentage, especially in New Eng
land, said they would rather be women
because women were better than men.
Twenty per cent of the Indiana maidens
were glad they were not men because
men's lives are so dull and common
place. In general, tho American girl
seems to be convinced that "it Is more Im
portant to be a woman than a man."
and Is determined to get her "share of
the world" in spite of the men who own
It. One says she would rather he a
woman because she cannot be anything
else, and she means to be "as good a3 a
man, anyway." One Is, reminded fre
quently of Mrs. Poyser by the replies of
the Indiana girls, of which these are de
lightful examples:
Women aro more Industrious than men are.
Women havo good chances in life; they can
be in any profession; or, if they do not want
to be, they can marry and do nothing.
I would rather bo a woman, because thoy
suffer more than men, and it is blessed to
suffer.
I was born a girl, and I shall have to bo a
woman, so there Is no use In crying over
spilt milk.
A man can work harder, and a woman has
more sense. If I wanted to be a man it
would be no use, and men swear and spit
on the floor, so I-have not lost much.
I would rather be a woman, as they have
hotter chances in life as teachers In public
schools.
I would rather bo a woman any day; men
get drunk and steal, and they can't work or
make children's clothes or do anything use
ful. Evidently there Is a hard time coming
for American men when these frank
spoken Hoosier maidens grow to maturity.
Their almost unanimous verdict on the
comparative merits of men and women
ought to cause the lords of creation to
take a humbler estimate of themselves.
Easy Guchm at China's Population.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Our esteemed contemporary the Trlbuna
has been Imposed on by Its Frankfort
correspondent, who furnished it' with a
new statement of the total population of
China from German papers based on a
"Chinese journal." The table, which Is
quite interesting, is as follows:
Favors to certain classes of property
have grown to serious abuses in many
parts of the country. Nearly one
eighth of the taxable property in the
State of New York is exempt from tax
ation. The total amount thus exempt
ed by law is $723,344,841. Of this, the
Federal property amounts to ?55,647,055;
state property, $39,104,660; county prop
erty, $6,150,300; city property, $344,355,
687; schools, $85,352,590; churches, par
sonages and cemeteries, $129,099,055;
charitable and reformatory, $58,855,526;
property purchased with pension
money, $2,039,973; miscellaneous, $2,770,
975; total, $723,344,841. As the total as
sessed valuation of property in the
state is $5,461,302,752, It will be seen
that the value of exempt property to
the whole Is 13.24 per cent, nearly one-eighth.
Chill 17,037,000
Shantung ...30,247,000
ahansi i2,2ii,ouo
Honan 22.115.000
Kiangsu . . . .20.005,000
nhul 20,500,000
Klangst 24.534.0001
Shukiang ... 11.580. OOOIKwelchow
fuhklen 22.100,000irunan
Hupch 22,100,000
inan 21,000,000
iensl 8.132,000
iCaniuh 0.2S5 OOO
Szechuan ....C7. 712, 000
-Cwnntung ...22,700,000
Kwangsi 5,151,000
7,000,000
11.721.000
The steel trust appears to be gaining
on the strikers, and while any end of
the trouble is to be desired for busi
ness reasons, the present situation of
fers two disconcerting possibilities. One
of these is that the laborers are far
more likely than the employers to pro
long a losing struggle indefinitely, and
the other is that resort may be had
either to violence or to sympathetic
strikes of large proportions. Every mill
opened by the trust is an incentive to
reprisals on the part of the Amalga
mated Association.
The most cruel punishment which
could be administered to those striking
Walla Walla convicts would be to take
them at their word and give them .no
more work during their incarceration.
Idleness in a penitentiary is not so
pleasant as it is beside a running brook
or in a hammock under a tree.
It is disconcerting to the Sultan to see
the French Ambassador withdraw per
emptorily and await in Paris the settle
ment of the French claims. Yet even
this embarrassment may be unequal in
his view to the pain of paying. Ducats
come before diplomacy in the Byzantine
lexicon.
Indications point to racing as the
probable cause of the calamitous
steamboat explosion on the Delaware.
If this proves to be the case, Philadel
phia will have an excellent opportunity
for the application of Jersey justice.
The Selby Smelting Works refuses
to pay that $25,000 reward !for convic
tion of Winters. The company discov
ers that since it has the gold back it
did not want the treasure so badly,
after all.
6WIth rival revolutions In all the
South and Central American republics,
the yellow journals will have to estab
lish a draft to get war correspondents
enough to go 'round. '
Why not call the Astoria regatta
"The Artificial Propagation Carnival"?
The salmon hatcheries have contributed
much toward its success.
Italy Is going to make us pay for
lynching several of its citizens. After
we have had our fun, it sometimes
irks to pay the fiddler.
The big ag raft is afloat, ami naviga
tion between the mouth of the Colum
bia and San Francisco will soon be
risky business.
Germany's colonial policy might be
more feasible If it did not include op
erations in South America.
Unfortunately this table does not give
the present! population of China, but
merely In round numbers the Identical ap
proximation , made for the Statesman's
Year Book of 1897, and which has not been
revised since. A note upon this guess In
tho 1901 edition of that publication says:
"In the following table the areas as
signed to the provinces are mainiyfrom
estimates by Colonel G. F. Browne, mili
tary attache In China; to the provinces
With an asterisk are given the populations
from the Chinese official data for 1SS2;
those with a t (dagger) have the popula
tion of 1S79; Fuhklen Is estimated on the.
basis of the census of 1844."
As nine of tho provinces are marked
with an asterisk and seven have the sign
of the dagger to designate the date of
the guess it will be perceived that the
above table Is utterly worthless as a state
ment of China's present population, al
though one contemporary vouches for It
with the heading, "China's Population
Counted."
It is instructive, however, to know ex
actly where the German newspapers get
the figures with which they are wont to
correct reckless American statisticians.
As a matter of fact the population of.
China has never been counted accurately,
and no man knows whether it has a pop
ulation of 300,000,000" or 400,000,000. Includ
ing Manchuria, Mongolia, Thibet, Inu
garia and East Turkestan with the above
piovlnces the accepted guess puts the pop
ulation of China at! S99.6SO.O00. .But trav
elers discount these figures from 10 to
0 per cent.
Give Holcc Time to Develop.
Philadelphia Record.
A man from Georgia, one of the dele
gates to the Industrial convention, was
talking about Hoke Smith.
"Down in our state," said the delegate,
"the name of Hoke Smith Is held In ven
eration. Apropos of this they tell a story
about a couple of 'crackers' who were sit
ting on a fence talking politics. It was
when Hoke Smith was serving as Secre
tary of the Interior In Cleveland's Cabinet.
" "Hoke Smith's a great man, suh,' said
one cracker.
" 'Yaas, suh, he's a great man, but he
ain't es great a man es Grover Cleve
land,' said the other.
" 'Yaas. suh, Hoke Smith's a greatah
man than Grover Cleveland.'
" 'Wall, ah reckon he ain't es great a
man es Gen'l Robe't E. Lee.'
" 'Yaas, suh, Hoke Smith's a greatah
man than RoBe't E. Lee.'
" 'Ah reckon he ain't es great a man es
Jeff'son Davis.'
" 'Yes suh, Hoke Smith's a greatah
man than Jeff'son Davis.'
"A long pause followed, and each
chewed meditatively.
" 'Hoke Smith ain't es great es God,'
remarked tho doubting cracker.
"This argument seemed a clincher, but
the other cracker proved equal to It. He
spat copiously, and then drawled out:
" 'Mebbe not mebbe not. Hoke Smith's
a young man ylt.' "
a
Cruelty to TffordKtrom.
Philadelphia Times.
The law's delay has eldom had a more
striking example than In the hanging
Thursday of Charles Nordstrom, at Seat
tle, Wash., convicted of killing a man In
1S91. Nordstrom had as his counsel ex
Congressman James Hamilton Lewis, who
exhausted every effort to save his client's
life. The case was before all the courts
In Washington, where It was tried seven
times, and was twice before the Supreme
Court of the United States. Even to the
last Lewis kept up his efforts to save
Nordstrom's life, and spent the night be
fore the execution trying to get some
Judge to order a stay. The nine years'
legal struggle was all In vain, and was
really cruel to Nordstrom, who was led to
believe that he would'not be hanged. So
confident was he of this that at the last
moment he collapsed, had to be carried to
the scaffold and was hanged as he was,
propped up by a piece of timber.
- AMUSEMENTS.
Funnier, more tuneful, and altogether
more like a comic opera than "The Toy
Maker," "The Wedding Day," which
was the bill at Cordray's last night gave
the Tlvoll Company In general, and Mr.
Hartman In particular a far better chance
to show themselves to be capable enter
tainers than its predecessor. ' There is a
swing and dash to the opera that starts
with the first chorus and never ceases till
the last. There are no drags nor pauses
any place. The dialogue melts suddenly
Into music, runs through a few bars In
which all hands- round take a part, swells
Into a rollicking chorus, finishes on an
altltudinous note and Is bade to plain
dialogue again almost before the listener
has time to observe what Is going on.
The comedy starts a little heavy footed
In the first act, but as soon as Hartman
sheds his circus-ring togs and arrays him
self In the Hl-fltting habiliments of war
he begins to be funnier than he has ever
been before, and from that time forward
there Is plenty to laugh at and about.
There was plenty of laughing, too, for the
audience was just the seme size as the
theater, and It employed all the leisure
between encores In chuckling at Hartman
or his numerous well-qualified assistant
comedians.
Musically the opera is one which will
take rank with any of the new ones. It
is brimful! of melody: now a catchy topi
cal song, now a N swinging chorus and,
again, a solo of a kind one wants to
hear again. The choruses, In particular,
are full of life, and they were sung in a
fashion which shows what can be done
with good voices and hard drilling. The
work of the orchestra, which Is that of
the theater, was of a high order and did
much to aid in the effect of the musical
numbers.
The book of the opera would be only
moderately funny In tho hands of an in
ferior company, but Mr. Hartman, In the
part of the baker whoso wife Involves
him in the varying fortunes of war: Miss
Myers as the wife, and Mr. Cunningham
as a fire-eating, plotting General, are able
to make it exceedingly amusing.
Mr. Hartman has three rousing topical
songs, tho first ot which. "Lulilee." is put
on with the whole feminine contingent,
who know what to do with the chorus,
and do It the right way. Another con
cerning the dances of dlver3 and sundry
foreign parts provoked so many en
cores that it looked for a time
as if he would have to devote the
rest of the evening to Its completion.
The third was a dream song, with local
and other topical verses, which was funny
even though It was an obvious Imitation
of Harry B. Smith's great song In "The
Serenade."
Miss Myers has considerable singing to
do, and is as captivating as usual, while
Bernlce Holmes, as Madame de some
body or other, contributes a very effective
vocal number in the second act. Ed
ward Webb's turn came In the third with
a very tuneful metrical essay of friend
ship, which won a well-deserved encore.
The whole company seemed to be at
Its best, and not one opportunity to get
all the music possible out of. a number
was overlooked. The opera was prettily
costumed and well mounted.
"The Wedding Day" will be the bill
the rest of the week with the exception
of the matinee Saturday afternoon, when
a special souvenir toy matinee of "The
Toy Maker" will be given.
KIpllnjr Traced to "Oregon. Lay."
Springfield Republican.
Rudyard Kipling's latest rhyming we
can't honestly say rhythmic production
was designed to set forth the blunders of
the management of the South African
War, and as a tract It may have Its value,
but otherwise it Is certainly even more la
mentable doggerel than "The Absent
Minded Beggar" which Is a sufficiently
severe remark. He begins his satirical
screed with an expansion of tho formula
of confession, "Mea culpa, mea cupla, mea
maxima culpa!" The Boston Pilot makes
this use of the opportunity:
Some curiosity has been felt as to where
Mr. Kipling found the metrical model for
his latest poem, of which the following
are some specimen lines:
It wa3 our fault, and our very great fault,
and not the Judgment ot Heaven;
Wo made an army In our image on an Island
nlno by seven.
Which faithfully mirrored its maker's Ideals,
equipment and mental attitude,
And so wo got our lesson and wo ought to ac
cept it with gratitude.
Wo havo spent some hundred million pounds
to prove the fact once more
That horsey aro quicker than men afoot, since
two and two make four.
And horses have four legs and men have two
legs and two Into four goes twice,'
And nothing over except our lesson, and very
cheap at tho price.
The reference to horses gives us the
needed 'clew and points straight to Mr.
Kipling's fount of inspiration, namely,
John Phoenix's once famous "Oregon
Lay." Not Kipling's flat plagiarism of
these lines:
Ho bought him a switch-tail sorrel two-year-old,
which had a white face.
And he bantered all Portland, Oregon Terri
tory, for a flve-hundred-yard race.
Then, following a splendid account of
the contest, In which Mr. Stuart's switch
tail sorrel was victorious, the poet tells
of how the winner comported himself:
And there was that thero Stuart with hl3
hand upon his hip.
And two men a-following him with a tin pall
full of dollars and a champagne banket
full of scrip.
Then he packed It in a handcart and sweetly
smiling, pulled it off. as though he didn't
mind a heft:
And slnco then we halnt bought nothing, nor
sold nothing, nor paid no taxes, and I
do solemnly bel!eo that in all Portland,
Oregon Territory, there ain't a single
dog-gone red cent left.
Both poets, It will be seen, rise superior
to the fetters of rhythm and meter, but
there is a certain breezy swing to Mr.
Phoenix's lines which his Imitator has
wholly failed to catch. Mr. Kipling Is at
his worst In attempting a meter which lent
Itself with difficulty even to Mr. Phoenix
and to the author of "A Fine Old Ar
kansas Gentleman Closo to the Choctaw
Line."
.NOTE AND' COMMENT.
The hours are said to. be fleeting at
the Astoria regatta.
James Hamilton Lewis Is winning freah.
laurels as the man whose client has been
hanged.
General Uribe-Uribe Is evidently so in
love with his name that he has- to sound
It over again.
Messrs. Lo and Wandering WII1I look
unmoved on the proposed attempt to cor
ner the soap market.
Perhaps the Wall street brokers will find
that they have shorn all the lambs that
bore the golden fleece.
Swindling mlner9 with gold bricks is a
good deal like trying to get ahead of a
farmer in a horse trade.
Gently. France, gently, pray. In another
month or two or three wo shall want to
be slicing Turkey ourselves.
Hall Caine refers to himself as a liter
ary genius. We supposed that J. Gerdan
Coogler was tho only one at large.
If the New York yachtsmen continue to
indulge in panic, it will be necessary fer
Governor Odell to appoint a day of prayer.
The llne-o-type man has been restored
to the Chicago Tribune, but he has lost
his rag-time channel plate during his ab
sence. The departure of the French Minister
indicates that the Sultan dlscovared teo
late that he had been entertaining a- Tar
tar unawares.
The American elevator which has been
Installed in Buckingham Palace will havo
to submit to the humility of being called
a blooming lift, don't ye know.
The Kansas City Journal points with
pride to the fact that the drouth In tho
Middle West has not dried the springs of
prosperity. Unfortunately, it also had
no effect on the founts of Kansas ora
tory. A reader suggests that the transport
which Is to carry teachers to Manila
could be called a courtship more properly
than a schoolshlp. He evidently expects f
her to bring a cargo of partnerships into
port.
A stato exchange announces that tho
ministers of the town In which it ie
printed have determined to stop gam
bling there. This Is highly laudable. Whws
ministers gamble right In their own town
it is high time for them to stop.
O, once despised potato, thou hast soared sd
very high
That thou"lt be esteemed a luxury unequalled
bye and bye.
We will order baked potatoes with that I'm-the-whole-thing
air
Used exclusively by people who consume tho
choicest fare.
And they'll bring us our potatoes there re
posing In their pride
On a platter with the terrapin and blus
polnta on tho side.
Surrogate Fitzgerald, ot New York, pro
nounces "Steve" Brodie'a lost will and
tertament Invalid simply because the two
' Witnesses to It sljyned -before Brodle diet-
It Is well observed by the New York
World that "a law which compels or per
mlts such a scandalous mockery of om.
mon sense Is an Illustration of Mr. Bum
ble's Immortal declaration, The law Is
an ass.' "
A now fad promising amfcll 'Xtiai&Jsft5
been Introduced among the upper ten, a
New York gosslper says. It started sev
eral years ago, but failed to acquire suf
ficient headway to maintain itself. Re
cently a member of the obtrusive set at
Narragansett Pier was asked to give his
full name. Intimate friends knew him
only as Charles W. O. B. Quarrltch. and
he was required to tell what the W. O. B.
stood for. He willingly explained that the
letters stood for themselves only, not
being the Initials of any names, but just
tacked on by his parenm to fill out. Hl3
father wanted to call him William Oscar
Buckner, while his mother Insisted on
Walter Orlando Barnwell, and as neither
would yield they called him Charles and
W. O. B. as a compromise. Tho explana
tion led to a general talk on the subject
of names, and It was presently revealed
that many initials In the middle names
of both men and women stand for no
names at all, but are merely letter stuolc
In for the 3ake of euphony.
PLEASANTRIES OF 1'ARAGRAFHERS
The Mt.sslncr Link.
McClure's Magazine.
In the jungles of Southeastern Asia and
the Islands near-by, which have long been
known to science as the cradle of the hu
man race, and which are still inhabited
by the very lowest orders of human be
ings, the pithecanthropus lives with the
elephant, tapir, rhinoceros, lion, hippopot
amus, gigantic pangolin, hyena, and other
animals, remains of which were found
round about him. It has been computed
that this ancestor lived somewhere about
the beginning of our last glacial epoch,
some 270,000 years ago. In other words,
about 17,000 generations have been born
and have died between him and ourselves.
It will assist our understanding of what
this relationship really means to know
that nearly 250 generations carry us back
beyond the dawn of history, 50C0 years
ago.
Su-She has designs on him. Belle-SlMO
when? Su Oh, ever since he consented tc
wear a necktie that she embroidered. Phila
delphia Itecord.
Street Corner Civilities. "Well." said tho
blind man, grasping hla cane and starting
on. "I'll see yoa again." ".Let me hear
from you occasionally," said the deaf and
dumb man cordially. Chicago Tutsune.
After the Ball. She How nlea to be hama
again! What a crowd there was. I don't sup
pose Mr. Bankler knew one-half of his guests.
He Didn't ,he though! Why. he had four
detectives In evening clothes there. Life.
Unable to State. "What is the name of
the President of your country?" said tho
isltor. "I don't know," answered the citizen
of the South American republic. "We haven't
yet had o full report from the latest bat
tle." Washington Star.
Like an Employe. When the nlghtwatch-
man found a strange man stealing funds tram
the vault oi the bank, his Indignation knew
no bounds. "You've got your nerve!" ex
claimed the watchman. "Anybody'd think:
you was employed here, actually!" Puck.
The Schemer. Dick Everybody's remarklne
how soft you are on that wealthy Mtea Wllfel.
What are your chances with her? Jack
Very promising. She likes me pretty -nell,
and I'm doing my best now to get her parents
dead-set against me. Philadelphia Press.
Once upon a Time a Constitution followed
a Flag for a Considerable Distance, and a
Humble Citizen gave it a great deal ot at
tention. He would neither bo Convinced that
the Constitution followed the Flag nor that
the Flag took tho Pace from the Constitution.
Sometimes he thought one way. then Again
he Thought the Other, and still Again ha
did not know what he Thought. After a while
the Tax Assessor came Around and Explained
to the Humble Cltl2en that in Cases like This
It was Necessary to Pay for the Track where
on These Trials of Speed Took Place. Moral
The Humble Citizen can rest Assured that ho
is Marked for the Gate Money right Alonz.
Baltimore American.
A new record is a regular, part of the.
Deutschland's cargo now. l
Political Economy In Kentucky.
Old Negro Say, Cunnell, what am polit
ical economy?
Kentucky Colonel Political economy.
Sambo. Is the removal of the greatest
number .of your, political enemies with
the least possible waste of ammunition.
The Last of the 31all Stnse-Drlvers.
Dally Telegraph.
By the death of Mr. Stephen Philpott, of
Dover, In his S9th year, the last of the
mall, stagecoach-drivers between London
and the Kent Coast has passed away,
to the regret of many friends. He regu
larly drove the mall coach between the
capital and the Kentish seaport for many
years-, and when -the railway superseded
that method of conveyance for the malls
he drovo the mall coach between London
and Heme Bay. Naturally, he had many
interesting reminiscences of old times,
and was fond of telling how, when driv
ing from London to Dover, he met Prince
Albert proceeding to the metropolis for
his marriage with Queen Victoria. Mr.
Philpott drove the first coach in the fu
neral procession of the Duke of Welling
ton from Walmar Castle.
Glued to the Spot.
"You seem to have grown very fond of
that thing," observed the fly on the wall
to the one on, the fly paper.
"Yes; I'm dead stuck on It," returned
the other, as he resigned himself to his
fate. New York Times.
The Sorrows "Women Bear.
Chicago Record-Herald.
.1.
A woman old and bent
Went weeping all tho day:
"Good mother, why those bitter teara?"
Asked one who passed that way.
Her poor. old. knotted hands she" wrung.
Her poor, okl, weary head she hung.
And then he heard her say:
"My boy! My boy. that once I pressed,
So Innocent, against my breast, ,
Has fallen In disgrace;
Today, with chains upon hi feet.
He tolls, a convlet. In the streetl'
She sobbed and hid her face.
n.
A woman rich and fair
Emitted many a sigh
And one imbued with sympathy
Drew near and asked her why.
She slowly twirled the Jeweled bands
That gleamed upon her dainty hands.
And sadly mado reply:
"Ah. fate has been unkind to me,
I have no royal pedigree,
No noble crest is mine!
My son may win enduring fame.
But preud descent he ne'er may claim
Froni any Kingly line!"
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