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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1901. fctr f&vs&oxtwRU 'Entered at the Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, &s kecond-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms.... 100 J Business Offlce. -OCT REVISED SUBSCRIPTION HATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Daily with Sunday, per month..- $ 5 Daily. Sunaay excepted, per year........ 7 00 Daily, with Sunday, per year............ 0 00 Sunday, per year - 00 The Weekly, per year 1 50 The "Weekly, 3 months SO To City Subscribers. Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays eicepted.13 Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays included.20i :0c POSTAGE BATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to ltf-page paper......... .......... ......1c 1H to 32-page paper... ................. ......lie Foreign rates double. News or fiiscussxoa Intended lor publication to The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly ' Editor The Oregonlan," not to the naina of any individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solici tation. No stamps should be inclosed lor this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 055. Tacoma Postofllce. Eastern Business Office. 43. 44. 45, 47, 48, 40. Tribune building. Now Tork City: 400 "The Rookery." Chicago: the S. C Beckwlth special agency. Eastern representative. For sale Jn Pan Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 746 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Gold smith Bros. 230 Sutter street: F. W. 1'ltts, 100S Market street. Foster & Orear. Ferry News tand. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 259 So. Spring street, and OH-er & Haines. 10B So. Spring street.' For sale in Chicago by the P. O. JJews Co.. 217 Dearborn street. For ale in Omaha by Barkalcw Bros., 3012 Farnam street. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. , TV. Second South street. Tor sale in Ocden by W. C. Kind. 204 Twea-y-nfth street, and by C. H. Myers. For sale In Kansas City. Mo., by Fred Hutchinson, 004 Wyandotte street. On file at Buffalo. N. T., in the Oregon ex hibit at tho exposition. For sale In "Washington. D. C. by tho Eb oett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & XendrJck. D0G-912 Seventh street. TODAY'S WEATHEB-Fair;' warmer; north westerly winds. TESTERDAY'S WEATHEP. Maximum tem pers ture, OS; minimum -temperature, 52; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, SEPT. 5. OUR XEW POSSESSIONS. "Will the Democratic party, acting through its state and National conven tions, declare or assert that the United States shall or should abandon, surren der or withdraw from Its newly ac quired insular possessions? It would accord with its long-continued policy of negation and opposition to do so; yet it may not The Chicago Chronicle, the most important Democratic journal of the Middle "West, in an article on this subject says: It should be clearly recognized. In the first place, that the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico are American territories, and that the question Is no longer as to the wisdom of their annexation, but as to the character of their government. Are they to be held In trust for the advantage of their native populations and tho American people as a whole, or are they to be exploited under arbitrary rule by favored Interests? No other question is now involved in this matter. No other view will be credit able to a great American party. We shall hope the Democratic party will not be so fatuous as to declare that we are to scurry out of the Islands; for such declaration would pitch the polit ical contests of 1902 and 1904 on this point, to the exclusion of matters of do mestic .polity that ought to Jmve at tention. This, Indeed, would not be an lionest Issue, but an issue caught up in the dragnet of universal opposition and negation. There are vast numbers of Democrats who no more would favor It than other vast numbers favored the Issue on which their party leaders so fatuously pitched the platforms of 1S9G and 1900. No proposal to haul down the country's flag would be popular in any party's platform; yet if such proposal were made it would create a din that would drown all other questions, and in the public judgment it would set the party making It once more In array against the honor, the dignity and the progressive spirit of the country. As the Chicago Chronicle truly says, the acaulsltion of the islands is an ac complished fact. Peace and content reign in Hawaii and Porto Rico. Little opposition remains In the Philippines. Self-government, or rapid , movement towards it. Is the policy Introduced In all. There remains only the question whether they are to be "held in trust for their native populations and for the American people as a whole, or ex ploited under arbitrary rule for favored interests." This is the point on which the party now in power must guard against error. The first proposals in regard to Porto Rico did not look well. But under discussion they were amend ed, and Porto Rico Is satisfied with the results. Regard for its own safety will make the Republican party very cau tious and circumspect, in its legislation for the Philippine Islands. Members of Congress will not want any Philippine handicap in the elections of next year. THE KOTOW AT BERLIN. The report that the Emperor of Ger many has been dissuaded from insist ing upon the ceremony of prostration by Prince Chun ought to be true; for the kotow is the supreme act of obeis ance which is required of Chinese sub jects when they enter the presence of the Emperor of China, who, considering himself as the representative of divine power, exacts ' the same prostration which is paid the gods. The Chinese Government as late as thirty years ago refused to admit even an Ambassador of a foreign state to the presence of the Chinese Emperor unless he would agree to perform the kotow, the su preme act of worship to a god, the god being the Emperor, who assumes the title of -'the Son of Heaven." Our Min ister. Mr. Ward, refused to kotow, or even bend the knee, before the Em peror in 1S59, and was therefore refused an audience. The extreme form of the kotow de mands kneeling thrice and nine times knocking the head on the ground. In IS73 the Emperor of China for the first tive consented to receive the Ministers of Japan. France, Russia, the United States. Great Britain and Holland with out the extreme obeisance that had been up to that time required of all foreigners, but had always been refused because kotowing meant an acknowl edgment by one state of inferiority to another, which, of course, would be in tolerable under the rule of civilization that sovereign states are equal. In view of these circumstances, it would be a violation of sound policy and inconsistent with the equality of sovereign nations for Germany to insist that Prince Chun should kotow before the Kaiser, for in doing this he would perform an act which would be under Stood ln his country as a, sign of the inferiority of China as a sovereign itate, compared with Germany. This logradation of China is not demanded by the terms of' the protocol under which Prince Chun only goes from Pekin. to Berlin to "express regrets." Kotowing is regardedby the Chinese as a religious ceremony, the Emperor being legally a Chinese god. For the Kaiser to exact the kotow would be a demand that Prince Chun, shall recog nize -him as a god. To do this would be deliberate, deadly insult to China and without warrant in the protocol. GERMANY'S TRUE DEFENSE. The Yellow Peril was to overcome the world through its cheap labor. Now the Yankee Peril is to overthrow Eu rope with the highest-priced labor in the world. Each of these antagonistic alarms ought to' destroy the other for all practical purposes: by destroying the chimera that low wages afford the means of industrial conquest. Germany just now is alarmed; and Germany's points of vantage have been low wages and the schoolmaster. Her manufacturers and our economists have held up her cheap labor as a powerful industrial resource; yet it Is noteworthy that whenever German competition has made itself seriously felt its efficacy has been positively traced to the achieve ments of its chemists and other scien tific students in the realm of manufac turing processes. The perfection of col ors and the utilization of waste prod ucts are two departments of great profit in which German research and experi ment have won great victories. Is it not a singular thing, therefore, that Germany now turns to cheap wages or to high tariffs as a remedy for competition when s"he has the clear est of evidence at home and abroad as to the paths that lead to industrial emi nence? Nobody ever came to the United States. Investigated Its manufactures and went away with the report that our eminence Is due either to high tar iffs or low wages. Nobody ever ascribed Germany's manufacturing eminence to her tariffs. When practical men inves tigate practical problems, they are pretty certain to cast political theories to the winds. It is extremely doubtful, therefore, supposing the Reichstag takes counsel of expert rather than agrarian information, whether the pro posed high tariffs offered for resistance to American competition will be adopted. How, then, should Germany proceed In her defense? She can learn one thing from her own history, and that Is persistence In the van of applied science. She can learn another thing from American eminence, and that is enterprise. The one thing that the American manufacturer has dene bet- ter than the German manufacturer Is to throw away old machinery and put in new. His improved machinery has re quired greater skill to operate it, and that means higher pay to workmen. But this higher pay has been borne and even welcomed because It, has brought the results. -High tariffs and cheap wages will be found a very in effectual weapon to cope with the high wages and improved machinery of American factories. CLIMATE AND CONSUMPTION. Dr. John A. Wyeth. president of the American Medical Association, who does not agree with Professor Koch's ideas concerning the communicability of tuberculosis, expresses the opinion that "another century will not pass without seeing consumption relegated to the category of diseases which have ceased to destroy the human race." Dr. "V. Gordon. 1h a recent number of the London Lancet, discusses the question of the effect of climate on persons suffering from phthisis or pul monary consumption. The conditions favorable to sufferers are a dry soil, pure air. abundant sunshine, the ab sence of wet winds, the absence of dust, the absence of fog and the avoid ance of the immediate sea front. In this country Dr. Gordon pronounces Colorado probably as valuable as Da vos, in me .Aips, me Dest resort ior consumptives in Europe. The Andes near the equator shows better results than even Davos. At Jauja, in P$ru, 79 per cent of all cases were cured, and equally extraordinary reports are made concerning Santa Fe de Bogota, in Co lombia; Quito, in Ecuador, and La Paz, In Bolivia. There are carefully organ ized sanatoria in Germany in which many patients now recover whose cases formerly would have been regarded as incurable. In these sanatoria continual open air. abundant pure food and reg ulated exercise are assured. At Gor bersdorf. of 1390 cases in the first stage, with one lung affected, 27.S per cent were cured; of 2225 in the second stage, with both lungs affected. 6.83 per cent were cured. Whatever may be the reason, it Is certain that consumption is not so ter ribly destructive of life in New England as it was fifty years ago. It was not uncommon in the early years of the last century to find one parent, sometimes both, and half the children dead with consumption. Nor were its ravages ex- hibited chiefly among those whcT led lives of hardship or confined to the weaker sex. The educated classes, es pecially the clergy, furnished as large a number of victims, if not larger, than did the hard-working farmer folk. In a New England village lies burled a distinguished clergyman, president of a college for many years, who lost his wife by consumption and finally died of the same disease. In the same bur ial plot He -the remains of his large family of children. They all reached maturity only to break down finally and die of consumption before reaching 45. There must be many such family records in the New England of fifty years ago. but we find them no longer, and this fact gives color to the view of Dr. Wyeth that consumption as a fatal disease Is gradually losing its terrors. Improved methods of living and in creased sanitary vigilance partially ac count for this, but probably the ex planation coes beyond this solution. The consumptive soil is doubtless not so common or so fertile as it wasv early in the last century. Probably with Improved methods of quick transporta tion there was less disposition to make local marriages among consumptive folk, and the introduction of new blood Invigorated old families so that the dis ease found less good soil in which to plant its dread seeds. At all events, consumption has ceased to be the dis tinctively fatal scourge of New England that it was in the first half of the last century. What climate may do for a consumptive Is shown by the fact that John Addington Symonds. the famous English essayist, prolonged his life twenty years by spending his Winters at Davos. In the Swiss Alps, and his death was due to pneumonia which he contracted in Italy on his return from his annual Winter exile at Davos. August, which promised .to be a very pleasant month In the drouth-stricken states of the Middle West, proved to be abold deceiver, recording what the local press calls "a hot finish." The maximum temperature during the very last days of the month in Topeka, Kan sas City. Omaha. Chicago and other typical "hot places," reached 94 de grees and upward, while excessive hu midity added to the discomfort of the populace. Phoenix, Ariz., touched hands with Oklahoma City with a tempera ture of 102 degrees at noon, and, mak ing a spurt, went the latter place two degrees better at 2 o'clock on the very last day of the month. Weather offi cials have rallied, however, from their prostration, and confidently predict rain in September, killing frosts in October, snow In November, biting cold In De cember and blizzards off and on ,up to April 1. This programme faithfully carried out will, it Is hoped, cause the discomforts of the hottest Summer on record to be in a measure forgotten be fore the Summer of 1902 appears, flushed and heated, upon the scene to duplicate the record of her Immediate predecessor. THE OFFENSE OP THE BILLBOARD. What shall we say of the billboard that triumph of modern art and re doubtable ingenuity? It shows us a paradox of public opinion, for while everybody except the malefactors con cerned denounces it, yet everybody suf fers it. He who assails the ear with offensive sounds, if not In the name of religion, can be suppressed, and the law will protect the nostril against objec tionable odors. But the eye is helpless against the grotesque and disturbing sights spread before it to the disfigure ment of natural scenery, the destruc tion of landscapes and the annoyance of the residence sections-of our cities. Is there no relief? Beginnings In this much-needed re form have been made both In Europe and In the United States. That the billboard can be suppressed, and that It can be controlled and made a source of revenue, has been proved in almost every city in Europe. Belgium, France, Holland and Germany regulate the size, position and character of every poster, and a graduated tax Is not uncommon. In Belgium, for instance, the minimum tax Is 5 centime, or 1 cent, for posters not exceeding 13x20, inches, and an ad ditional centime is Imposed for every two inches above the minimum area. In this way the tax for large posters amounts to from $5 to $10. Regulation Is also achieved; for In Belgian cities signboards can be erected only at places designated by the authorities, except signs at theaters and concert halls. But even these must not project more than an inch beyond the wall. No small bill-posting of any kind Is al lowed, and even for sale or to let signs can be no more than eight inches wide. In the City of Chicago a city ordi nance -obtained by the Municipal 'Art League has just been thrown out by the courts, but in a way to encourage rather than dismay the reformers. The ordinance was set aside, It appears, be cause of Its conflict with prior ordi- nances. particularly one of 1898 which limits the superficial area of billboards to 100 square feet, limits their height to ten feet, and provides that they shall not be located nearer than twenty-five feet to the lot line. These regulations are declared to be reasonable and In the Interests of public safety. Chicago, therefore, has authority to reduce its billboards to ten feet in height and ten in width, and to remove all billboards from the roofs of buildings a compre hensive programme which Is said to call practically for the reconstruction of nearly all the billboards In the city. A reform it is hoped to add to these is to require the consent of three-fourths of the properey-owners on both sides of the street in a block where a billboard Is to be erected. This would exert a profoundly beneficent influence without working any constitutional hardship on the board Itself or the ass'iduous bill poster. The truth doubtless is that In this matter as in so many others we have allowed the great American spirit of liberty and fair play to run to seed. "Post No Bills" is an ancient and hon orable maxim of Anglo-Saxon civiliza tion, but it cannot enforce itself, and In Its despite our palisades and lofty trees and verdant hillsides have become the spoil of the plll-mlxer, the brewer, the cigar factory, the traffic manager and the advance agent. The Inoff ending citizen is assailed with fearful and won derful representations of the Durham bull, the Jersey cow, the villainous men with menacing fingers drawn, crying int fants in arms, together with admoni tions, demands and entreaties from sources with which he has no acquaint ance and to which he has never asked an introduction. When we reflect upon the contradictory assertions made in these various injunctions, no two of which can possibly be true, we must concede that the cause of morals as well as of good manners cries loudly for reform. If we must have billboards, let there be no reading or pictures on them. Let them be displayed only In the dark of the moon and eighteen Inches beneath the surface of the ground. Mrs. Thomas Condon, whose death occurred at Newport a few days ago, will recall to the many who have come within the sphere of her influence the tender, gracious life of a womanly woman. Her first home In Oregon was at Forest Grove, her husband being pastor of the Congregational Church in that place in the early '50s. Services were then held in an old log cabin that afterward gave place to the building that was recently destroyed by fire. Few perhaps remain of those who gath ered in the log cabin in those days to listen to the gospel as preached by Dr. Condon, but all who survive will re member the gentle graces that found expression in -the life of the minister's wife. Changeful years have followed the period of that far-away pastorate, but she changed not, except as time touched with maturity and softened by experience the womanly elements of her character. The essence of such a life does not depend upon the breath for exhalation, but remains a heritage to the community over which it was dif fused through many years of visible presence. The story of the discovery In South America of Burdette Wolf recalls a painful tragedy that shocked this com munity some years ago. It was that of the murder of a young girl on her way home from church with her sister, by a hot-headed young man who had been her accented lover, but whom she had dismissed, as was alleged at the In quest, for Insulting conduct toward her. A surprising feature of the case was that the youth had been an exemplary and studious boy, whose parents were without reproach in the community. But one ray of light was thrown upon his conduct. It was developed that he had always been permitted, and by be- ing permitted, encouraged, to demand and have his own 'way In the small concerns of home 'and family HfeT The girl's refusal to associate with him farther was the first instance in which his will had been crossed, and he deter mined, as unruly spirits frequently do when thwarted in their purpose, at this point, that if he could not marry the girl no one else should. Hence the act that blighted the happiness of two homes, destroyed an Innocent life and sent a young man out Into the world with the brand of the murderer upon him. The lesson as pointed out at the time by press and pulpit was the neces sity of training in self-control and in learning to respect the wishes and rights of others, first In the ''family and afterward in the community. The young man, who is now said to be plying the vocation of railroad engi neer In Chile, under the name of Kelly, may or may not be Burdette Wolf of the Mount Tabor tragedy of ten years ago. but the lesson of his crime and Its root In an ungoverned will is still before the community that was shocked by his outrageous deed. There has been some dispute as to the place where the present flag of the United States, the Stars and .Stripes, was first unfurled in battle. It has been claimed for Fort Schuyler, New York, which stood on the site of the present City of Rome. This place was besieged by the British and Indians, in the Burgoyne campaign, and it is as serted that the flag, which had been adopted by Congress June 14, 1777, was raised there by Captain Abraham Swarthout August 3 of the same year. The enemy appeared and attacked the fort that day. and the garrison, having no flag, hastily improvised one from the scarlet lining and blue'oth of the commander's cloak. The enemy was beaten off and the fort was relieved some days later. Now comes Cooch's Bridge. Delaware, claiming the honor of being the place where the Stars and Stripes first flew In battle; and on Tues day last a celebration was held at that place, In support and honor of the claim. The fight took place there Sep tember 3. 1777, one month later than the attack on Fort Schuyler. Disputes of this sort seldom can be settled. Lo cal pride is sure to uphold the claims of the respective places. Delaware seems to think that a flag made out of the red and blue of an officer's old cloak has scarcely a right to compete for the honor: but New York stands up stoutly for the flag of Fort Schuy ler. If, as the news reports have It, the Boer commanders have given notice that they will shoot all British soldiers they may take in the Orange Free State after September 15, the war in South. Africa will degenerate speedily into a massacre. This threat will by no means Intimidate the British, but will strengthen their determination and res olution. Should the Boers actually be dn this DOlicv of massacre, it will stim- f ujate the whole people of the British Empire to new energy, and additional troops will be sent In large numbers. The whole Boer country will be harried, all non-combatants will be removed from it, everything that can support life will be destroyed, and the remain ing parties of Boers will be hunted down as outlaws. But this policy of horrible cruelty on either side will sim ply be a policy of horrible madness. The! result will be the exchange of man for man. through this cartel of blood, till the Boers in arms shall have been exterminated. The engagement is announced of Miss Helen Morton, daughter of the former Vice-President of the United States, to Count Boson de Perigord, second son of the Due de Talleyrand. Unless the present family have spent all the mil lions "accumulated by the corrupt prac tice of Napoleon's famous Minister, the Count de Perigord must have a con siderable fortune, or at least great ex pectations. The Oregonlan, recently, in reply to a question of a correspondent, stated that only in Delaware was the whipping post still included among legal modes of punishment for crime. The whipping post is legally established also in Maryland, for on the 29th ult. Abram Taylor was sentenced at Hagerstown, Md., to the whipping post to receive thirty lashes on his bare back for wife beating. There are still 5257 Indians in the State of New York mostly the rem nants of the Iroquois tribes. They are slowly decreasing in numbers, and in course of time will probably become extinct. A good deal is made of them at the Buffalo Fair, where they have a permanent encampment. In bulk, stature and general appearance, they are much superior to our Western In dians. In 1890 Oregon had 217,000 men and 131.000 women. Now it has 238,000 men and 190,000 women. The men have In creased 21,000. or 10 per cent, while the women have increased 59,000, or 47 per cent. We must have been getting some of the female element that has left Maryland and Kentucky. This is the most welcome announcement of the new census. It may be hoped that the ardor of those engaged in raising the free bath fund will not be abated by Fall fogs and Winter rains. There will be yet other Summers in which the small boy will be tempted to go Into the river, whether he can swim or not. Let the good work go on. William K. Vanderbilt says that In herited wealth does not bring happi ness. It is refreshing In these days of random assertion- to find a man who knows what he is talking about. Britishers have put up $400,000 on the Shamrock. Money talks, but loud talk doesn't always prove anything except big mouth. i Shaffer, though zealous, perhaps did not show the best of wisdom. Now let's see how many" people are "knock ers." Another cruiser of the Kaiser's has sunk. These lese majeste affairs are getting to be alarmingly frequent The chief "regret" of Kitchener prob ably Is that the end of the Boer War Is so near and yet so far off. 'Tvrns All for the Best. Philadelphia Times. When King Edward goes up and down in those now American elevators in Buck ingham Palace he may be glad, consider ing how much America is adding to life's conveniences, that his great-grandfather fell out with us a century or so ago. J THIS IS NOT PICKWICKIAN. And It Seems Somewhat Personal, If N6t Severe. The Oregonlan will confess that it en tertains no bigh opinion of the John L. Wilson paper at Seattle, known as "The Pee Eye." But The Oregonian ha3 not liked to characterize that paper as it has felt that paper deserved. It isn't pleasant to dig in the reek of stercora ceous matter, and The Oregonlan therefore has preferred to pass by, on the other side. Of course. The Oregonlan can deal with a dirty subject, If .it is forced to do so. and sometimes It has been forced; but the urgency in this case has not been great, so' The Oregonlan has held Its nose and passed by. But the Tacoma Ledger feels compelled to deal with the Elliott Bay offense, and It executes the job in a-manner at once vigorous and wonderfuP to behold. It seems that the Seattle paper had accused the Tacoma paper of mutilating an Interview with Chairman Burton, of the Committee of Rivers and Harbors, to the discredit of Seattle, and to the uplift of Tacoma. This charge the Tacoma paper denies and dis proves, and In the course of its somewhat extended remarks it gives its neighbor "a character" as follows: It may be well that a glance bo taken at the carping degenerate of Journalism. Once it commanded a certain respect, and possessed some Influence. For a long time It has been on the down grade. It has reached a station where It is despised and spurned. There is none to say for It a good word. Its efforts excite pity or ridicule. Its evening contem porary has at 'east twice the circulation, ino courage to voice opinion, the manliness to strike a direct blow. Falsehood and pretense are tho weapons of the Pqst-Intelligencer, and, although often It may be passed over In silent contempt, or dismissed with a sneer, there Is a degree of meanness to which it can at tain, and, having attained this, It must in the namo of decency and honor be pointed out as a malign and graceless offender. Seattle has been deeply Injured by the Post Intelllgencer. So steeped In the spirit of fraud Is this unclean hypocrite that any word It may print Is on the instant discredited. It has again and again stolen the statistics of Ta coma to swell the totals of Seattle. It has published as having sailed from Seattle vessels that loaded at another port and never so much as touched at Seattle. It has prtntea bogus figures concerning the gold received from Alaska, funtll any report it may make on the subject Is regarded as farcical. It has belittled the establishment of transport docks here, while frantic with rage because part of the business had been removed. It has scouted the potentiality of Tacoma as a shipping point to the Orient, well knowing that one great line whose ships have no reason for visiting Seattle has headquarters and gets its cargoes here; that another line, with ostensible head quarters at Seattle, has to send its vessels to Tacoma for loads. It prints no word of truth about Tacoma. Its fabrications are not only baseless, but silly. In a sense, a paper Is the Index of the town In which it is published, and In this circumstance Is, the damace to Seattle. As a matter of fact, the Post-Intelligencer la repudiated. It is not an index, but an Insult, to Seattle. At Intervals It is seized of the Impulse to pose as a reformer. It inveighs against crime, while hobnobbing with criminals. One of Its efforts at purification has blotched Its editorial hands with blood. The flowers are scarce with ered on the grave of its victim, and the as sassins go about the streets, constituting the few partisans the rag can rally around the standard of moral and mental degradation. Perhaps some measure of the deplorable situa tion arises from the circumstance of having a Spokane paper published In Seattle, a paper with no care for the welfare of Its environ ment; an alien in the place annoyed by Us presence, an outcast wherever honor is es teemed. It has Its masters, men In the back ground who hold the reins. Had It a soul it would not dare to call this soul Its own. Add ed to Its other fallings Is that of cowardice. Tho coward and tho liar, combined In one, must not be expected to go unscathed. The time has come to be frank, to denounce the pervert, and to say that this bully shall be exposed in Is true colors. There is much more that we cannot quote, for the article is very long. The Ledger, apologizing for its length, winds up in this way: A long editorial In tho Ledger Is a rarity. When the demand for It Is apparent, as in this instance, the violation of the rule may be ex cused. Too much has with patience been borne from the Post-Intelligencer. That parody hus reached the end of Its Immunity. When It lies hereafter. It will be held up to view. When It vilifies, It will be punished. When It tries with Its gory editorial fingers to throt tle the liberty of Its contemporaries, and to bedaub, their reputations with the mire of lt3 own den. It must not expect to escape. It has arrived at the limit. Filthy, shameless, brazen; liar, fraud and hypocrite; fellow of the murderer of man and of reputation, tho Post-Intelligencer must un derstand that the public understands It. The sham has been penetrated, the veil rent. It has lost prestige because It deserved to lose It. It has become abhorred because dead to all Impulses not Ignoble and base. Submerged in foulness and conducted by chicanery. It falls to realize that far above It are those who court the sunlight, who adhere to the princi ples of Integrity, who are governed by the hope of keeping a respect that has been won. And when this venomous serpent of letters trails Its way across forbidden ground. It may look for the heel of honesty upon Its neck. Somewhere In the course of Its remarks the Post-Intelligencer said the Ledger would not notice the charge; the Post-Intelligencer was mistaken. Eloqnence Discnssed. Why is there a lack of eloquence in modern addresses and writings? The an swer is partly furnished by a writer In the London Daily News, who, after com paring tho native eloquence of Scott with the absence of any eloquence In most recent books, analyzes In this fashion: As the object of all eloquence Is to find tho least common denominator of men's souls, to fall Just within the1 natural comprehension. It cannot obviously have any chance with a lit erary ambition which alms at falling Just out side It. It Is quite right to Invent subtle analyses and detached criticisms, but It Is un reasonable to expect them to be punctuated with roars of popular applause. It is possible to conceive of a mob shoutjng any central and simple sentiment, good or bad, but It is lm poslble to think of a mob shouting a distinc tion In terms. In the matter of eloquence, the whole question Is one of the Immediate effect of greatness, such as is produced even by fine bombast. I Is absurd to call It merely super ficial; here there is no question of superficiality; we might as well call a stone that strikes us between the eyes merely superficial. The very word "superficial" Is founded on a funda mental mistake about life, the Idea that second thoughts are best. The superficial Impression of the world Is by far the deepest. What wo really feel, naturally and casually, about the look of skies and trees and the face of friends, that and that alone will almost certainly re main our vital philosophy to our dying day. Ztlnnlcnl Latin. The following is Robert Yelverton Tyr rell's Latin version of "The Bridge of Sighs," to which ho gives the title "Irre meabllis Unda" (c. f. Shelley's "Its waves are unreturning.") The opening stanza shows how well the Latin repro duces Hood's original and moving meter: One more unfortunate Weary of breath. Rashly Importunate Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashlon'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! a mlsera sortla pondere feasa! a! temere mortis vlam Ingressa! tolllte facile. onus tarn bellum, onus tarn gracile, tamque tenellum. Appreciated. Washington Star. "How are you getting on with your new stenographer?" asked the business friend. "First rate," answered Mr. Cumrox. "Is she accurate?" "I should say not. If she was accurate I'd 'discharge her tomorrow. She simply gets the sense of what I want to say, and then expresses It grammatical." RECEIPTS 'AND EXPENDITURES. Wall Street Journal. At this date in 1900 the expenditures of the United States Government since July 1 had exceeded receipts by $3,193600, and yet at the end of the fiscal year the surplus revenues were about 570,000,000. The receipts from internal revenue since July 1 are J2.301.400 less than they were last year, but receipts from customs are 51,701,900 greater, while expenditures have been 511,922,063 less. The net result was a surplus on August 24 of 53,066.000, as compared with a deficiency at the same time last year of 5S.193.600. The reduction of internal revenue taxa tion has been mostly offset by the in crease in collections of customs, while the decrease in expenditures has upset all calculations concerning the effect of the partial repeal of the war revenue taxes. This Is no new experience. The country gains so fast in population and wealth that its revenue soon outgrows expendit ures after each reduction in taxation. It is announced from Washington that should the surplus continue to grow, as no doubt it will. Congress will be asked to make a further reduction In Internal revenue taxes of 523,000.000 to 530,000,000. The Secretary of the Treasury is said to believe that this can be 'done with per fect safety. In the meantime the Secretary will pur sue his present policy of buying the short term bonds at the equivalent of the price of the consols of 19S0. He was quoted last Saturday to the effect that he knew of no exigency that required a departure from his policy. Yet on Monday he made a slight departure from it by authorizing the assistant Treasurer at New York to buy bonds during this week at the" prices fixed by the Secretary, without referring the matter to Washington, as has hereto fore been the practice. This is really a very Important depart ure, for It makes the bonds lmmedlately available as bank reserve, and when the market needs money It needs It at once and not two or three days, or even one day, later. There are good reasons for believing that this policy will be con tinued until after the crop-moving season Is over. POSSIBLY PREJUDICED. Or a Victim of the Habit of Tlionght less Exaggeration. Yakima Republic. The editorial tripod of the Seattle Post IntelHgencer lsoccupied by a scholar and philosopher, who is also one of the mildest-mannered men that ever hammered a typewriter or swore at a typographical error. At the same time there arc signs that his mind harbors strange and fan tastic prejudices. In witness of which read these assertions which he made last Sunday: The Oregonlan is run on strictly personal lines. Not merely Us editorial opinions, but Its news dispatches are cut to fit the prejudices, tho likes and dislikes, the malice and tho moods of Its editor. It Is a stranger to fair ness, and regards the truth as a purely rcla- T tlvo affair. It knows no loyalty to city or state, to any Interest or to any cause, apart from the whimsies and grievances of a man who has outlived his professional usefulness. He must have said these hard words because he Is prejudiced because he is strangely and fantastically prejudiced. He couldn't have said them after calmly and judicially deciding, in his right mind, that they are true and ought to be said. We all occasionally differ from The Oregonian, and once In a while duty seems to require that some of us pause in the great work of running affairs of the Nation, and point out to the public how The Oregonlan ought to be run; but if The Oregonlan was as bad as this gentle P.-I. scribe represents It to be, it wouldn't have been with us all of these 40 or 50 years: Instead of being the only paper on earth for many thousands of the Intelligent citizens of Oregon and Washington, it wouldn't have a sub scriber anywhere, and in all human proba bility the man who Is its life and soul would have been confined In the Incura ble ward these many years as a matter of public policy. Continued existence of The Oregonian and other well-attested facts incidental to that make a strong chain of circumstantial evidence to prove that our able and scholarly friend of the P.-I. is prejudiced. If he Is not, it Is morally certain that he has acquired the habit of thoughtless exaggeration. This Is a bad habit. Accusation Proved False. New York Evening Post. Not so long since, in Harper's, Mr. How ells courteously mocked the wealthy so ciety of this city, on the ground that It lacked not only Intellectual resources, but also natural gayety. The reports which come from Newport seem to show that, however Its society may stand In the mat ter of Intellectual resources, it is gay enough. Yesterday wo are to believe that an Admirable Crichton, who was giving a "dog party," put on several dog-collars and barked merrily for his guests. In view of this fact, which is typical enough, It Is hard to believe that mirth la dan gerously restrained in Newport. To be sure, the host in question might defend himself, between barks, with Dr. John son's "Let us be wise, friends; here comes a fool"; but apparently he neglected the most important inferences from the John sonian ancedote. To bark over your own mahogany for the better delectation of your guests is one thing; to bark so loud ly that you are heard from Newport to New York is another. In any case, Mr. Howells was clearly wrong in saying that our good society Is dull. Practical Hijrlier Education. New York World. Analysis of our university and college statistics compels the belief that in point of higher education, no less than of ele mentary or common school education, the United States is surpassingly well pro vided. We have one college or school of tech nology to every 126,000 of our population. The property of these institutions amounts to nearly $343,000,000. Their endowment funds aggregate over 5154,000,000. Their annual Income Is nearly 528.C0O.0OO. The gifts and bequests to them add up on an average to 520,000,000 a year. The number of their students Is now over 147,000. And the rate at which college and technical school advantages are being extended to the youths and maidens of America is the most remarkable feature of it all. In 1S72 there were only 573 college students to every 1,000,000 people; today there are 1196 nearly twice as many. Coming of the Fall. Baltimore News. By the day that shorter grows. By the night with lengthen'd close; By the sky that seems less blue. By tho clouds of somber hue; By these signs, yes. by them all. We note the coming of the Fall. By the sighing of the trees. By the dropping of the leaves; By the garners full of grain. By the stubble on the plain; By the harvest gather'd all. We note the coming of the Fall. By the aspect growing drear. By the grasses turning sere; By tho flowers that droop and fade. By old Sol less bright array'd; By tho air In hut and hall. We note the coming of the Fall. By the blrd3 that southward fly. By the brook that hurrlc3 by; By the threatening whip-poor-will, Sounding note that bodeth 111, By the quail's familiar call. We note the coming of the Fall. By the goldenrod alight. By the sumac red and bright; By the cardinals ablow. By the 11HC3 lying low; By the reeds now rank and tall, Ve note tho coming of the Fall. By fair Summer's requiem sung. By Dame Nature's plaintive tongue; By the sobbing of the rain. By our hearts that Join the strain, Bv the Joys we would recall. TJ&s note the coming of thf Fall. NOTE AND COMMENT. Ring out the crawfish, ring In the oys ter. Potatoes, crushed to earth, will xlst again. The Shamrock may be termed tn green peril. Chicago, too, has been having aRit Im moral wave. The Indians who sold New York for $.& were Indians Indeed. Professor Trlggs has certainly earned himself a place in the Hall of Notoriety. Mr. Lawson Is fortunate that the break Ing up of the Independence doesn't extend to him. jk As a writer of history Herodotus -was a paragon of accuracy compared with Ed gar Stanton Maclay. New York's police force will cost an other 51.000,000 next year. It comes high, but Croker must have it. Bryan, in still standing on the Chicago platform, makes the boy who stood on the burning deck look like a caitiff. It is noticed that the mors prominent a man is the less Is seen of his name when he is caught smuggling or looting a bank. We should start a fund to present Sir Thomas Lipton with a loving eup. He ought to have a cup of some sort to tka back with him. The correspondent who announces that the 5400.000 bet on the Shamrock and Con stitution is the largest wager on record has probably never played poker In Mon tana. Let July dry up the meadows, let hot August's sultry blaze Scorch the traveler to cinder3 with H super heated days. Let the January blizzard fill the atr with driv ing snow. Let March tempests shake the timbers of our houses as they blow. Nature sweetly smiles around ue with a. al-ear unclouded brow. And the world Is fair and lovely, for It's Indian Summer now. A story Is told of an attempt by a wealthy contractor to bribe th kite Gen eral Ludlow, who, at the time, was In charge of some public Improvement. The contractor, who asked for some favor, slipped a thousand-dollar note across the table to the General. The latter opened the drawer of his desk, and taking out a box of cigars offered one to the con tractor. The cigar was accepted. General Ludlow's action being taken by the con tractor as an intimation that the bribe would be received In proper spirit. Then General Ludlow calmly picked up the thousand-dollar note, lighted it at the grate, and after allowing It to burn near ly to his fingers, remarked: "Have a light, sir?" The contractor dropped hia cigar and bolted from the office. I come from off the stagnant pool. Upon my Journey winging I travel In the evening cool And cheer my way by singing. I carry smallpox In my bill; With yellow fever deadly My victims i most love to fill. Together with a medley. I chuckle, chuckle, as I go. And also as I'm coming. To see poor cringing man toy Uivr Whene'er he hears mo hummlftg. The ponds thoy spread with kerosene,'. But little do I fear it; I scent it with my nostrils keen And never venture near it. Of children, every one of ma Has Just about a million. And In a single season we Have twenty million billion. When man attempts at night to sleery So little do I fear him.. Beneath the coverlid I ereep And savagely I spear him. I chuckle, chuckle as I go. And also when I'm coming To see poor, cringing man lay lew Whene'er he hears me humming. Complication in Socinl Issues., Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Social Issues, such as the prejudice of the poor against the rich, probably count for something in a great municipal con test in New York. Notwithstanding Croker's aping the English country gen tleman and acting as an absentee land lord of the town, Tammany has thus far succeeded to a considerable degree In pos ing as the special friend and champion of the poor. On the other hand, many of the anti-Tammany newspapers In New York do much to strengthen the alliance between Tammany and the workingmen, not to mention the "submerged" classes, by their strong corporation and pluto cratic sympathies. It Is very possible, therefore, that the violent opposition be ing manifested In so many of the New York papers to the Amalgamated Associa tion of Steel Workers in their struggle with the steel trust will have an Injurious effect upon the anti-Tammany canvass. The great mass of workingmen in New York undoubtedly sympathize with the steel strikers. Does It help the campaign against Tammany when these- voters ob serve the fact that nearly all of the anti Tammany papers are pnrtisans of the trust In a struggle whose outcome, from the trust standpoint. Is to be the destruc tion of organized labor? PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS A Free Citizen. "Do you get a rest every Summer. Mr. Shadds?" "Oh. yes; thaBk goed ness. I'm only In business I'm not In society." Detroit Free Press. "But he doesn't seem to know much about the topics of tho day." "Well, no wonder. Ho got all his education In a nlghuaehool." Phil adelphia Evening Bulletin. Again the Cat. "What was the proofreader fired for?" "The yachting sharp wrote about a 'cat-rigged yawl, and it appeared In the paper 'cat-rigged yowl.' "Puck. Forge He says In his native city the streets are always well watered, ami yet they never used sprinkling carts. Fenten For geodneee sHke. where Is he from? Forge Venlee. Philadelphia Record. Getting Aid from the Government. Sllmson Willie, you promised me faithfully you wouldn't do that. Willie But. papa. I heard you read something from the Tribune about Cuba the other day that said a bad promise waa better broken than kept. Life. Scarring the Turf. "t made one hole In fivo strokes." announced the new golfer, gleefully. "The Idea!" exclaimed the other golfer, who was even newer. "I Invariably make a hle with every stroke. I never can hit the ground In the same place twice." Philadelphia Press. A Distressing Case. "Vat's de madder. Izzy?" "I am In great troubles. Ve seUIt a man a set of teeth mlt a gold plate at four tollnr down und two a veek. Und he hasn't made de second payment." "Vy ton't you take de teeth away from him?" "Ve can't. He's got lockjaw." Life. He Wanted No Burning of H la. Mrs. Burn helm Vat you t'Ink, papa, leedle Able hfi been teasing me to buy him some asbestos. Mr. Burnhelm (In horror) V-v-at? Mrs. Burn helm Don't faint! he vants hta pockets Hrwd mlt der asbestos, so money von't burn heteo through them. Kiss your leedlo son, papa; kiss der ledle angchel. qvlck! Judge. It Is the Customary Way. "The fact Is.' explained thb public official. "I have made a mistake, and the reporters are asking all serta of embarrassing questions. What ought I to do?" The old-timer looked at him In aston ishment. "How long have you been in poll tics?" ho asked. "Don't you know anything at all about the game? Why. the enly thlny for you to do Is to get on your dignity and haughtily decline to talk for publication." Chicago Post. V