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THE MORNING OREGQNIAN, THURSDAY, - OCTOBER- 31, 1901. 3: te vz&onxwiX Entered at the Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mail (postage prepaid). In Advance Daily, with Sunday, per month $ 83 Xaily. Sunday excepted, per jear 7 r0 Dally, with Sunday, per year.. 00 Sunday, per year ........................ 2 00 The Weekly, per year......... - p The "Weekly. 3 months 50 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays xcepted.l3c Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays lncluded.20c POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14 -page paper ............ .............Ic 14 to 28-page paper -c Foreign rates double. . News or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonian should be addressed Invaria bly "'Editor The Oregonian," not to the nam or any Individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter 6hould be addressed simply "The Oregonian." 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For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, 8(K5-912 Seventh street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Occasional showers; southerly wind. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, C7; minimum temperature. 48; pre cipitation, 0.02 Inch. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, OCTOBKR 31 TO MAKE THE JETTY EFFECTIVE. Today -The Oregonian presents a sub ject of supreme importance, not only to the people of Oregon, but to those of the whole Columbia Basin. It 5s dealt with at some length, yet the mat ter is compressed as closely as is at all consistent with the necessity of making the subject sufficiently under stood. The presentation in this form is -due to conferences between the editor and Judge M. C. George. The article on another page was written by Judge George, whose interest in the -subject began when he was Representative in Congress, many years ago, and has con tinued to this day. His acquaintance with the maps, charts, surveys, hydro graphy, official reports, general history and extensive literature of the subject is very complete. From this knowledge the paper signed with his name is writ ten. The Oregonian commends it as a strong statement, and believes It will be a convincing one. The object Is to awaken an attention that will secure re-examination by the proper authori ties of the conditions at the mouth of the Columbia RiveF, with a view to modification of the-fetty plans, so that the channel may be reduced to a width much Jess than that contemplated in the present plans for extension. In stead of a width of four miles or more, the .channel ought not to be more, or much more, than one mile wide. Any extension of the jetty that shall not reduce, and greatly reduce, the width, The Oregonian believes will be of little advantage. And, with deference to the opinions of those who propose extension of the jetty without reducing or con tracting the throat of the channel. The Oregonian submits that it does not call for -any special of technical knowledge of -river engineering to enable one to see or conclude that the way to get a channel is to make a straight course for the river to the sea, confined within limits that will give' the currents of river and ocean the necessary power, in direct lines, for scouring a channel and. ' t Or maintajnlng it. As Colonel Mendell puts it," "To concentrate the river within moderate limits, and to discharge -its waters as a unit to the sea, are the objects sought." These have ibeen effected only in partial de gree, because the channel has not been sufficiently contracted. Nor will it be, by extension on the plan -proposed though some further improvement may be possible on that plan. "What Is re quired now Is extension of the jetty on a plan that will reduce the breadth of the channel at the mouth of the river toHlmits that will assure the results desired. It is certain we shall get the result, if we narrow the throat of the river suluciently. Whether it be prac ticable to. reduce the width to one mile is a question for expert opinion. But it certainly can be reduced very far within the limits of the present work and the proposed extension. It must be so reduced, as The Oregonian con ceives, or the result will be wholly dis appointing. In the text of Judge George's article, and in the diagrams printed with It, the details necessary to a fair" compre hension of this situation are supplied. They are stated with so much clearness that repetition of them here would add nothing to their force, and condensation of them would be scarcely possible. The main facts are that the channel, though considerably contracted by the work al ready done, yet has not been narrowed enough for desired results; that if the present jetty shall be extended seaward, on the lines proposed, the extension will be of little present and no perma nent service, for the channel will not be made narrower by it; that further con traction of the channel is the one de sideratum, indeed the one Indispensa ble thing; and that this is attainable only through change of the direction of. the Jetty to a more northerly course and through extension of it to a point opposite the North Cape and sufficiently near it to "concentrate the river within moderate width" say one mile or not much more and to "discharge it as a unit to the sea." The North Cape is a fixed point The problem is to establish a line of jetty to a point opposite this cape and establish the head of the jetty there, sufficiently near the opposite cape to leave an opening similar to that at San Francisco Bay. Any plan that does not compress the channel within the width of one mile, or at most one and a half miles, will not answer the purposes intended. The work done thus far is not useless, for it Is serving the purpose of building up Clatsop Spit, and it has somewhat contracted the river and thereby has improved the channel, but. It leaves the river too wide; and what is a matter of still more concern is this, that the extension as proposed will not reduce the width, but .will merely carry the jetty out further into or towards the sea, leaving the mouth as wide as at the present time, or wider still. "What should be done, and what course should be pursued, to reach the J desired end? The suggestion, at the close of Judge George's article, is an excellent one. Since the extension of the jetty as proposed would be an error. "let the coming river and harbor bill contain an appropriation for the im provement of the mouth of the 'Colum bia, but to be expended on such plan as may be approved by the present Chief of Engineers. Colonel Gillespie has fortunately recently become Chief of Engineers. Let him be given a fair chance again at this great work, and after this lapse of twenty years, and empower him at his discretion to ap point a board of engineers to review, with all the light we now have, and let General Gillespie, who for years was local engineer In charge, now say what plan of jetty extension and from what point will secure the greatest benefit." The work has not followed the plan suggested by him when he was the en gineer in charge here, and we trust he will again become Interested In it, and cause the whole subject to be reviewed, in the light of present knowledge. Fi nally, let us say that this is the one subject of supreme importance to the State of Oregon and to the great val ley of the Columbia River the extent and position of which make it a' sub ject of highest National importance as well. The jetty is to be extended. Let the plan be reviewed, that assurance may be had that the extension will be effective. The whole solution lies in sufficient contraction, of the channel, and no greater length of jetty will be required to contract it to one mile than to leave it three or five miles wide. NAVY DEPARTaiENT'S FAILURE. It will require a tremendous "amount of resolution for the Schley court of inquiry to find against "the accused," as the Navy Department's counsel in fellcitously designated the hero of San tiago. The charges against him have been discredited and the general effect of the testimony has been to win favor for Admiral Schley in quarters where he has been regarded with distrust The principal counts against him are six: (1) Failure to find that the Span iards were not at Cienfuegos; (2) slow ness in going to Santiago and in the retrograde movement; (3) ineffective blockade at Santiago; (4) failure to en gage the Colon in face of the shore bat teries; (5) the "loop"; (6) nervousness and fear during the battle of July 3. It is true that on some of these counts, notably the one about the San tiago movement and the retreat toward Key "West, the first witnesses called by the Navy Department conveyed a dis tinct impression of irresolution and de lay on Admiral Schley's part. But this now seems to have arisen more from the witnesses' lack of knowledge of what was passing in the Admiral's mind than from any shortcoming on his own part He and those near him have given lucid and satisfactory explana tions of the movements, delays and changes. The country expects a verdict of acquittal. Schley was assured that the Span iards were in Cienfuegos. The con sensus of expert opinion, both at Wash ington and on the ground, also pointed to the conclusion that Cienfuegos was the natural place for them and San tiago next to impossible. A plan was concocted for communication with the insurgents ashore, who could have told him better. But the code of signals ar ranged and intrusted to McCalla was not communicated to Schley, who was of all men the one most required to know it The excuses given by McCalla for this failure on his part form one of the most discreditable and suspicious exhibits in the whole affair. As to the Santiago and the retro grade movements, the testimony Indi cates that the Admiral was anxious to coal, but regarded the weather unfavor able, that his determination to avoid being caught in battle short of coal was well-advised, and that as to his slow rate of speed in moving to Santi ago his progress was Impeded by slow and disabled ships, and that he could mbve no faster than his slowest vessel. As to the Santiago blockade, Admiral Sampson In an article in the Century stated that Commodore Schley main tained a blockade of Santiago harbor at a distance of twenty miles. None of the witnesses put his ships at a greater distance from the mouth of the harbor than eight or ten miles. Schley him self makes it five or six. It is also shown that avoidance of the Spanish shore batteries in the re connoissance with the Colon was ob served upon the express mandates of Admiral Sampson and the War De partment They wanted all the ships to fight the Spanish ships with. His ap parent attack on the Colon was in tended to develop the caliber of the Spanish land guns. It is noteworthy, regarding the fifth charge, that in his testimony of yesterday Admiral Schley exactly confirms Captain Wood's ac count of the celebrated "loop"; and it is worth recalling that Captain Eulate, of the "Vlzcaya, described this move ment as a remarkably brilliant ma neuver to avoid the ramming he had planned to give the Brooklyn. The charges of fear and nervousness are contradicted by every man who was near the Admiral during the engage ment It was the misfortune of Admiral Sampson that he was absent from the battle of Santiago until the victory was won and the last Spanish ship had sur rendered. But it was not Admiral Schley's fault, and Admiral Sampson's friends made a terrible blunder when they undertook to punish Schley for -"Sampson's misfortune. The trial has only served to bring out in clearer light the magnanimous and soldierly qualities of Schley, the ungenerous na- ture of Sampson, and the meanness of the naval clique's conspiracy. Upon the useful and honorable career of a great sea captain, Admiral Sampson, a cloud has fallen, through the ill-advised efforts of his fool friends. If the pres ent court fails to render justice to Schley, a Congressional inquiry will supply the lack. ASIATICS CANNOT BE EUROFHAN IZED. Sir William Mackworth, Lieutenant Governor, of the Punjaub, in a recent public speech admitted that the Eng lish training and education of the na tive chiefs of 'India had not thus far been crowned with success. Meredith Townsend, an Englishman who has lived ten years in India, reaches the conclusion that the English experiment in India is so much a failure that if the English should turn the country over to its native rulers today there would be nothing left In a few years to show that English civilization ever ruled the country, save a few splendid roads, many useless buildings and a memory that in a century of new events would become extinct. The Romans, after occupying Britain 400 years, utterly failed to Romanize it, and the English have utterly failed to Europe anize India. If Alexander the Great had lived he might have Hellenized Asia, but since his death there has been no advance to the prospective perma nent domination of European influence in Asia. Persia beat back the Roman when he tried to follow In the steps of Alexander. The Roman could Roman ize the Gauls and the Iberians, but of Asiatics he Romanized not a single tribe. Neither Russia nor Great Brit ain today has as yet exercised any abid ing influence upon the conquered mil lions of Asiatics. Great Britain has en forced a peace in India that has pro duced manifold blessings but she has neither won over or converted any large section of her subject population. The people of India today are incur ably hostile, awaiting only their oppor tunity. There are but G60.000 native Christians in the 300,000,000 of India's people, and many of these are mere nominal Christians for revenue only, and the Christian creed has no percept ible place in any one great province. On the other hand, one-fifth of the 300, 000,000 of India are Mohammedans. The Mohammedan missionary succeeds because he leaves his converts Asiatics still, while the Christian evangelists strive to make their converts not sim ply Christians, but middle-class Eng lishmen. The convert Is practically re quired to renounce one civilization and to accept another not ln"his eyes higher than his own; he is compelled to break his caste, which means to give up his fixed position In the world, his kinsfolk and his friends," his domestic law. If the British Army departed, the Moham medans would soon rule the peninsula, for the warlike, fighting races of India are largely of that faith. So strongly persuaded is Mr. Townsend of the real failure of English rule to persuade In dia to accept the civilization, he ideas "or the creed of the English people that to the question "Will England retain India?" he is disposed to answer in'the negative. He is convinced that Asia will ultimately regain her own, and the work of governing India will be trans ferred from European, and Christian to Asiatic and Mussulman or pagan hands. The -railways will be "torn up; the uni versities scouted by native military rulers; the whole work of the- British conquest will be undone, and India be reduced to the condition in which .Eng land found her. The greatest experi ment ever made by'Europe in Asia will prove as complete a failure as the Ro man occupation of Britain. Turning from the English experiment in India, which he insists will fail because the ineffaceable distinctions of race were all against it from the first, to China, Japan, Turkey and Trans-Caucasian Russia, Mr. Townsend argues that the inherent differences between Europe and Asia forbid one continent perma nently to conquer the other. He grants that temporary partition of Asia may take place, hut insists that no lasting conquest of Asia by Europe is practica ble. It would take ten armies of 10000 men each to merely penetrate Asia and garrison it in a military sense. It hag nearly 900,000,000 of people, and in these millions are included warrior races of formidable powers of attack and resist ance, who outnumber all who speak English. Three Asiatic soldiers, the Turk, the Sikh and the Japanese, have already adopted European arms and discipline, and they are probably equal on the battle-field to the Russian rank and file. The Turk is said to be the best individual soldier in the world. These Asiatics are not primitive sav ages, but civilized people, whose civili zation has been arrested so that it does not rise to the level of enlightened Europe. Asia is too vast in territory, too nu merous In population and too highly though imperfectly civilized to warrant the belief that its conquest would be practicable or Its partition perma nent The action of Japan is not re garded as an object-lesson of European influence; Japan has only adopted Eu ropean arms, discipline and tactics, and some of the European methods of taxa tion and revenue, just as the Turks have adopted European artillery. In all essentials the Japanese and the Turks both are today thoroughly Asiatic. This" is not a sanguine view of the future of Asia, but doubtless it is a correct one; It would be Impossible to pin with bay onets a new civilization upon a very old continent like Asia, composed of great and small nations. Mr. Townsend pre dicts that the American will not rule the Asiatic of the mainland, chiefly be cause he will not wish to rule him and that his ultimate attitude toward all Eastern races, like his present attitude toward China, "will be that of rather contemptuous guardianship." The open season of ten days for deer began in Vermont on the 22d Inst. Despite the fact that deer are become so plenty In Vermont as to be a great damage to the farmers, under the Ver mont law no person may kill during the open season more than one deef. In Maine from September 1 to October 1 one person may kill one deer for food purposes, to be consumed in the local ity where taken, and In the open sea son, from October 1 to December 15, one person In that, time may take two deer. The more stringent provisions of the Vermont law have resulted in that state" being fairly overrun with deer. The deer are so numerous and so tame that they run over cultivated farm lands and gardens, trample down and browse upon the growing grain and vegetables, and are most destructive to orchards. They can leap any ordinary fence or wall, and if the Legislature does not extend the open season and Increase the number of deer that may be killed, every farmer will be obliged to put a wire fence eight feet high or higher about all his cultivated and orchard lands. The State Game Com missioner says the animals are rapidly increasing, and that the Legislature oi 1902 will have to adopt some liberal game laws in order to protect the farm ers. Twenty-five years ago deer were ex&nct In Vermont, save a few in the wild parts of Essex County, in the northeastern corner of the state. About 1876 a few deer were brought from the Adirondack region of New York State and turned loose in the mountain for ests of the state. They were protected by law for twenty years, and there was no open season until 1896. The greatest strength of Edward M. Shepard, the opponent of Low for the office of Mayor of New York, lies In his excellent personal character and his high reputation "ag a lawyer of excel lent ability. He is also the author of the best biography of Martin Van Buren ever written. The nomination of Shepard .was a shrewd move on the part of Croker; it was a bone thrown to the angry dog. Of course, thinking men like ex-Mayor Hewitt and Carl Schurz cannot be induced to vote for the Tammany ticket, because it is headed by, an able man, whose per sonal character Is clean; but the great mass of Democratic vomers will be satis fled with the nomination of an able man of good repute, and without a very strong Democratic support Low cannot be elected. The registration falls a good deal below that of 1900, when it ought at least to have equaled it, had I the people been deeply aroused against Tammany. This failure to obtain a full registration means either comparative indifference or unwillingness on the part of a good many voters to take sides. If New York throws away this chance to unload Tammany, Croker and his political heirs and assigns are likely to be in the saddle for a long time Ho come. Montana is to be congratulated upon a matter reported by Governor Toole as the result of his observations dur ing a recent visit at the State School of Mines at Butte and the State Nor mal at Dillon. "The Montana boy," said the Governor, "has an ambition above teaching school, and he leaves that field open to the young women." In explanation of this statement he says: Out of about 70 students at the state normal, we found but five boys. The rest are happy, healthy and good-looking girls and young wom en, who are studying to become instructors and educators. At tho State School of Mines the con ditions are reversed. There are about 60 stu dents, and I understood there were but two j women among mem, ana tney were noi regu lar attendants, so that It shows that thB Montana boy's mind and ambition run to the knowledge and practical pursuit of mining, while the Montana girl is not infringed upon in the field of her chosen profession. It would seem from this that he young people of Montana are applying to their future needs the advice of Longfellow: Study thyself, and most of all note well Wherein kind Nature meant thee to excel. Boys do not go amiss when they choose the sturdier vocations of life, while girls make no mistake in choos ing those which are womanly. Therein "kind Nature meant thern to excel." The Czolgosz family prudently waived their right to claim or attempt to re move for burial the body of the assas sin. Crankism unfortunately did not die with this assassin, ,nor did he rep resent the only phase of it. The danger that his dead body would be mobbed and perhaps carried away piecemeal by a frenzied throng athirst for venge ance upon the President's murderer, If given to his relatlves-by the prison offi cials, proves this. So, on the other hand, the hundreds of letters addressed to the assassin during the brief period of his incarceration offering sympathy and attempting to offer consolation, is In evidence on the other extreme. These cranks have been ignored and outwit ted, impartially; the letters failed to reach the assassin, being stopped at the prison office, and his body was pro tected from indignity by simple burial In the prison yard. Thus closes without public sensation or peril to officials In discharge of their duty the black chap ter in our National history that was opened to the public view on the 6th of September. Missionary endeavor in Bulgaria has indeed not been an eminent success. Instead of' teaching the people there Christian morals, it has in effect done the opposite. "Thou shalt not steal" may be In the Christian moral code, but Miss Stone's missionary zeal has re sulted In the exaltation of stealing to a virtue. Nothing succeeds like success, and success is the greatest of all. re ligions. The success of the bandits if they get that $110,000 will be a more potent religion for them than all the precepts of Christianity combined. The Issue Is now before the Christian world and ItszeaIous workers. But the Chris tian world evidently prefers to rescue Miss Stone and to debauch the morals of the brigands. It is not clear that Miss Stone has achieved much success in preaching the gospel as her Teacher bade her. .. Decent people can now pass along Fourth street, from Ankeny to Flan ders, without being molested and hav ing their sense of propriety shocked by the inmates of disorderly houses ad dressing them from windows and doors. The police have given the order that all window blinds must come down, and that all doors must be kept closed In that portion of the town, and the order is being generally obeyed. It is a change In the right direction, and ought to be made permanent. Edward, S. Stokes, who killed "Jim" FIsk in January, 1872, is dying of Bright's disease In New York City. Stokes did not kill Fisk because of Josle Mansfield; he killed him because' Fisk used his opportunity through the Erie Railroad to ruin his business. Stokes escaped with four years' Imprisonment. There is said to be a shortage of wood at Salem. That Is probably the reason why certain county official's up that way are squabbling instead of "sawing wood." The Issue of annexation of suburbs to the city or separation therefrom seems to vibrate according to persbnal interests of property-owners. Dewet may be dead, but in view of the fact that the Boer War is not ended,the British may be excused from gloating over the rumor. Perhaps when it is all over, Sampson will want a court of inquiry, too. ADVANTAGE OF-GOING 'BAREFOOT Letter In Brooklyn Eagle. Were it not that there-is a large per centage of the human race still troubled as Naamari,- the Assyrian" leper, was, that Is to say, hankering after some great thing to happen to Improve their physical condition, there Is small doubt but that many who are today afflicted might be free from suffering, many of the Sick per fectly well, and that without money and without price. The immediate incentive to this commu nication, that pathetic tale of self-destruction on Columbia Heights reported in the Eagle Friday of last week, would never have been told nor the poor family plunged into the grief of the widow and fatherless had John C. Topping known and believed what every man on earth should be convinced of the vital truth told by the writer In the New York Medi cal Journal 'of Juiy 19, 1S92. That an nouncement of a perfectly new theory ol disease received marked "attention at the time from many of the leading physicians of New York. Including the late Dr. Loomls, Dr. Bolton Bangs, Dr.' LaldlaW and many others; and It may be men tioned, much to the credit of the profes sion, that to this day medical advice con tinues to reach the people of Greater New York in goodly numbers, directing them to practice, free of cost, what was then recommended and which, in so many cases, has redounded to the permanent benefit of sufferers. The gist of the article was, as stated at the time, "that civilized man Is seriously damaged in health by wearing on his feet a covering in the shape of prepared leath er or composition for soles, which, more or les9. insulates his body from tile earth." From numerous historical and anthropo logical data and -from common everyday facts the truth of this proposition was sought to be established; for example, the marked inferiority In general bodily health of the civilized, as compared with the savage or semi-savage, of whatsoever race, color or climate, who never placed anything between his foot soles and the earth. The lower animals are also health ier than man, who uses them, unless they are deprived of natural foot contact with mother-earth. If this is done, they very soon deteriorate and suffer as man does. The horse is shod with iron, which, being a conductor, does not injure him. But, if a piece of sole leather is placed under each of his feet, not fastened there by nails, but with thongs around his fetlocks, as our shoes are secured to our ankles, the horse in a short time becomes infirm and useless. This ls not'only theory: it Is fact, which the writer has more than once seen demonstrated most practically. Dogs which enjoy out of door liberty are healthy; but lap dogs which keep the house -and walk like their mistresses mostly on fine Insulated carpets, quite fre quently have to go with their mistresses to th dentist from toothache,. It was told. In the papers the other1 day that one of the monkeys at the Central Park Zoo had to have a tooth extracted, as one put it, "just like a human being"; in other words, actually, as it were, setting up for human privileges! Again, .a curious fact is found in "Brown's History of Man." To wit, that Professor Brown was quite unable to ac count for something he witnessed in West ern Africa. He visited and was kindly received by the King of Dahomey, a savage, whqm, to the professor's astonlsh menfhe found suffering from severe eye trouble and toothache. The professor was the more surprised at this, because, after diligent search, he could not find one other person In all the King's dominions whose eyes and teeth were not perfect He mentions, however, under the head, "Habits, Clothing, Etc., of the People," that the whimsical King wore gorgeous silk sandals on his feet and that, by a special edict, no other person In his king dom was allowed to wear any foot cover ing whatsoever. The King monopolized the first concession that the savage ever makes to civilization and he bore all the pain of it in his own royal body! , Suffice to say here that,, unimportant as this theory seems to some professional healers that opinion being generally held in an inverse ratio as to the real Impor tance of its holders it is fearlessly sub. mitted as a subject eminently worthy of scientific research that no human being ever died or suffered from pulmonary consumption, disease.of the kidneys, heart disease, cancer or any other of our most dread distempers, nor one. ever had diseased or aching teeth, defective eyes, baldness or Insomnia who ffom his birth never wore .any protection but such as nature gave him for the soles of his feet. The trouble in the demonstration of this great truth lies in the fact of its belng'ln the majority of cases a gradual and slow process, and that anything remedial to be believed in In these days must be some' thing great and costly, preferably some drug that acts like dynamite. But that Is not Dame Nature's way; and after all, and contrary opinions notwithstanding, to that woman's mandates t we must bow If we would have health. Some nervous complaints are not so tardy In responding to the restoration of natural conditions; and here Is where In somnia, which drove -poor Mr. Topping to his grave, comes in. The worst case of Insomnia Is easily overcome, and the sufferer will sleep like a "baby if he will walk on fresh-turned-Up mold or on the grass in his back yard. To avoid taking cold, however, the experimenter should kep his ankles and even the uppers of his feet clothed, say, with gaiters, and the moment his walk is finished he must plunge his feet Into cold water, afterward rubbing them hard with a coarse towel till they glow with a fine natural heat; then he at once resumes his shoes and stockings. To hang around, even In the heat of Summer, with bare feet, Is almost sure to lead to colds. Half an hour's exercise in this way morning and evening will enable any one of normal physique to enjoy natural, refreshing sleep, even where the strongest opiates have been used and at last- failed. Let any.man consider the wonderful na ture of the soles of his feet. Is It not suggestive that here, where In the nat ural state, they would meet the earth at every step, are marvelous clusters of nervesprovided by the Creator, "as all his provisions are, for seme beneficial pur pose? The question seems to be: Is it not ab solutely necessary for people to remember that, whatever strides-we make toward refinement and elegance of living, we can never with impunity shed our amenability to the unalterable laws of nature? What is necessary in deciding this mat ter is some honest reflection, but, above all, intelligent, practical tests for the satisfaction and great benefit 'of people who suffer and fail to find relief from medicine. GEORGE QUARRIE. Mr. Cockran'n Rennonn. New York Sun. Mr. Cockran will support Mr. Shep ard because: First, after accepting the Tammany nomination, Mr. Shepard declared his vir tue to be unimpaired, in Mr. Croker's presence. Secondly, Inasmuch as "no boss can be dislodged by reverses at the polls," Mr. Cockran maintains that It Is better to aid in the master boss' triumph, trusting to future attacks upon him from within the ranks of his own army. Carried to its logical conclusion, this latter principle would require that, if yo.u want to beat a party, join it! Don't shell the organization from without Get Inside of It and blow it up1! Subsidies ol No Avail. Atlanta' Journal. The folly of trying to build up foreign trade by subsidizing ships has been clear ly demonstrated by France, tho country that has carried the subsidy principle fur ther than any tfther. France, after spending hundreds of millions in ship sub sidies, finds her commerce smaller and weaker than it wag when she began that policy. She has Increased her subsidies time and time again, but her merchant marine has continued to 'decrease steadily. AMUSEMENTS. It took "The Sea of Ice," a five-act melodrama, to awaken the latent possi bilities of the Wiedemann company. The playgolng public has suspected that these possibilities were lurking beneath tho re spectively fair and manly countenances of the members of the company, but not until this chilly titled melodrama was en acted at the Metropolitan last night was assurance made doubly sure. "The Sea of Ice" is a drama for your money. Its turbulent story opens on the rocking billows on the good ship Urania, whose captain and crew are tossed over board by an indiscreet stage villain named Carlos. They land on an iceberg, and the next curtain goes up on an atmos phere that makes on strain his eyes to catch a glimpse of a scantily clad Eliza and hark for the deep baying bloodhounds. But neither the mulatto nor the canines are forthcoming. Instead the captain or the ship and family, consisting of a wife and child, appear, and are followed by a sailor styled Barabas. They make a few well-chosen remarks, the tenor of which Is that the ice Is going to break up presently, and that their prospects are bright for Interment in a watery grave. Incidentally they express very Indifferent regard for Carlos. Verifying prophecy, the ice breaks up, splintering and crash ing, and soon the rude, tempestuous surges dash high before the footlights, tossing on their foamy bosoms the child, who, having fortified herself with a prayer, clings calmly to a cake of ice and rides safely Into port The port she makes happens to be in Mexico, where she Is adopted and naturalized by the Aztecs or some other Intelligent race, and after la years meets with some of her fellow voyagers, who, of course, do not recdgnlze her. The natural thing for Carlos to do is to fall in love with her. The same portion is the lot of one Horace, who wears the tight-fitting clothes and noble brow of a hero. All hands go back to France, where Carlos, who is wide be tween the eyes, elevates himself to power, casts Horace Into the bastlle, and Is about to deport the girl's female friends among the fellow-voyagers back to Mex ico, when she springs a pleasant surprise on him by becoming his wife. She didn't marry him to reform him, either. She still feels that he Injured her wnen he murdered her respected parents, and after cowing him to the floor with a few searching looks,, she makes a covenant with Barabas, who has evidently swum back to France, to pull off a general un masking scene, and as a result Carlos' crimes become known to the world, and she is ready for the final curtain In the arms of Horace, whom she loved all the time. The play Is elegantly costumed, some of the garments worn by the men being giddy enough to turn the heads of tne most fastidious matinee girl. The stag ing is all that the play requires, the Ice scene being particularly pleasing. Frank G. Long, as Carlos, afterward a French nobleman, with a long name, does most of the work, mostly consisting of soliloquies, which he delivers with becom ing enthusiasm. Jack McDonald was nis usual animated self as the captain of the ship, and afterward as x noble who has gone against the game to the tune of 10,000 crowns. Tom Wiedemann Is Hor ace, of pale face and large heart, and Nellie Wiedemann Is the girl, putting on diminutive Zella Marie In the first act as an understudy, the years of the character being at that time something like two, rather a tender age even for a stock com pany leading lady to portray. "The Sea of Ice" will be the bill tonight and tomorrow night It will be found worth seeing. "The Casino Girl" at the Marqnam. The sale of seats for "The Casino Girl," which comes to the Marquam Friday and Saturday nights, and Saturday matinee, opened yesterday, and the demand was such as to assure big houses. Tho book is said to be one of the brightest that the prolific pen of Harry B. Smith has turned out. and the music, which Is by Ludwlg Englander, is fully equal to the best work of that well-known composer, whose music for "The Rounders" is so well known In Portland. Manager Samuel E. Rork, un der whose direction the comedy will be given, promises an adequate production. "Hunting: for Haivklns" at Cordray's The cast of the company which will pre sent "Hunting for Hawkins" at Cordray's Sunday night and next week, is composed of well-known actors, many of whom have been seen In Portland 'before. John L. Kearney, who plays Hawkins, was here with "A Stranger in New York." playing the stranger, and also with Belle Archer, in "A Contented Woman." Others In the cast are: Alf Grant, Frank C. Young and Bessie DeVole, Bertie Conway, last seen here In the soubrette role Genie, in "Ole Olson,"; George D. Melville. Frank Ely. Donald Harold, C. L. Kohsin, May Thompson, Effie Kamman and Maude Al lertoji. "Theodora." Mrand Mrs. Clarence M. Brune will be seen at the Marquam Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights of next week. In an elaborate scenic production of "Theo dora." Mrs. Brune will be remembered as Minnie Tittel, for many years a favor ite Portland actress, and afterward lead ing lady with Frederick WarXe. The company Includes a large number of peo ple, and the scenery is said to be un usually good. The sale of seats will begin Friday. Hi Kerry's Minstrel. lil Henry's minstrels, which have never failed to play to good business In Port land, will open an engagement at the Metropolitan Sunday night, and will re main through the week. Manager Baker made a special effort to secure them, and feels sure that his selection will be ap proved. A number of improvements have been made In the organization this year, and It Includes many well-known burnt cork comedians and vaudeville people. Its band Is said to be the best carried by a minstrel show. Seats are now one sale. South's Bar to Expansion. Chicago Chronicle, Dem. Americans must learn to treat men as they individually deserve, and not put a ban on the highest merit when It appears in an Individual of a particular race. They must learn this or they will fall lamentably In their new and world-wide ambitions. "The Melancholy Days." Josh Wink In Baltimore American. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year The time when parodies like this on every side appear: For now the gentle poet takes his facile foun tain pen And rhyming dictionary, and essays the task again; He grinds It out the yearly ghost about the "somber haze." And eke the grouchy coal man of "the melan choly days." The melancholy days, forsooth! Now pumpkin pies are here In all their mellow yellowness to make ex- istence dear; The arrogant mosquito to some other clime has hied. -And, oh, we have the oyster now, escallopcd, raw or fried; The. mothballs and the pawnballs from our overcoats we raise. And yet the parodies appear on "melancholy days." The melancholy days, indeed! The leaves are gay with gold. The air Is crisp and bracing with its tingling taste of cold. The stars come close and closer in the clear October night. And everything combines to help along the appetite; But still the gentle poets tune their yearly bunch of lays To groundless rhymes about the absent "rael- Ancholy days." NOTE AtD COMMENT. He that hath a gate, let him look to It A sign on a barber shop rends: "Com pressed air used on all customers." Is thui an improvement on eas? Boys will be boys, a fact that will make it necessary for policemen to ex ercise unusual vigilance tonight.- Czolgosz was not even granted the priv ilege of having a good press agent write advance matter for his entertainment. It Is time for paragrnphcrs to take their Jokes out of the pigeon-hole And amend thom by striking out Ico and sub stituting coal. It will take the President a good many years to live down all the anecdotes of his boyhood which have been published lately. English papers approve Roosevolt's ac tion re Booker T. Washington. Perhaps Br'er Washington will be invited to the coronation. Bryan Is going to try to wrest Nebraska from the Republicans. If he does "the talking, It la likely that the Republi cans will do the wrest. The Chinese object to Minister Wu be cause he la too popular. Perhaps they had better hire Admiral Sampson to rep resent them at Washington. If Hall CaJne is elected to the Manx Parliament, Marie Corelll will have to take unto herself a husband and try to get Into a mothers' congress. Ccrvera cannot get up any enthusiasm about the court of Inquiry. Whoever won the victory, his navy remains at tho bottom of the salt, salt sea. The rich man may not stand a very good chance of getting Into heaven, but he Is able to buy his daughters a few bunches of chrysanthemums now and then. Perhaps with the great improvements in telescopes which have been made lately a certain Admiral will be able to see tho next battle that is won by the fleet under his command. The talk about sympathetic strikes re minds Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, of one that he conducted when only a boy working on a farm. He relates: "The force of hands had dwindled to two, a fellow named Joe and me. The farmer decided to dischargo the other fellow, whereupon Joe suggested that I should stop work also, leaving the farmer In a fix. This I did. I went out on a sympathetic strike; but the result was that the farmer hired Joe back again, and I was left out in the cold." An Important cricket match was re cently scheduled in an English village and, to the disappointment of everybody the best player was unable to play, owing to a sprained wrist The new curate was hurriedly substituted, and by his bril liant play secured a victory for the local team. The next morning as the squire, himself an enthusiastic cricketer, was leaving the church, where the curate had just preached his first sermon, he was asked by the vicar what he thought of the new curate. "Oh," responded the squire, "his voice is weak, his doctrine shaky, he Isn't as learned as he should be, but his cricket Is a fair eye-opener. We must keep him. even If we have to pay him double tho salary." The Bank of England Is a healthy Insti tution, with a capital of over $72,000,000 and a surplus of about 51S.000.OCO. yet the governor receives a salary of only 510,000 a year. Small city banks pay as much as that to their presidents. The pay of its 24 directors Is 52500 each per annum. Tho bank is a vast building, one story high and perfectly Isolated. There Is not a window to be seen in its walls. The of fices are lighted from the roof, or frorr. the nine inner courts and garden. At night a detachment of the Foot Guards, commanded by a Captain, watches over the safety of the "Old Lady of Thread needle street." During the day the private watchmen of the company Itself suffice to maintain order. The bank Is Intrusted by the treasurer with the arrangements for the Interest on the national debt, consols, annuities, etc.. and receives from the gov ernment as payment for its services about 51,3CO,0CO. MIss Dena Ellison, who lives near Pro montory Butte, Ariz., Is famous through out the Southwest as a bear killer. She has killed so many of these brutes that her memory cannot keep track of their number. Miss Ellison's father moved to Arizona from Texas 16 years ago, as ho declared that the Lone Star State was becoming "too civilized." and his cattle lacked room to graze. Now he has room enough. His 20.CCO head of fine stock can roam over a territory 100 miles square and nothing to .step their movement. It was long Colonel Ellison's habit to spend his leisure hours with his hounds pursuing bears and mountain lions. When his daughter, Dena, grew old enough to ride a broncho she. would often accompany her father on his shorter hunting trips. Her first bear was killed with a revolver after It had attacked her In a rocky defile and killed her horse. The girl then lassoed one of her victim's cubs and killed the other with a shot. With the live cub tied fast to her saddle she proceeded home to tell of the incident PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAP1IERS That Ended It. Maud What makes you treat Jack so coldly? You used to And him so In teresting. Marie Didn't you know I was en gaged to him now? Town and Country. Few Can Do It Successfully. "Why do you say he Is a man of no Judgment?" "Because, when he finds a dialect story that amuse3 hlna he tries to read It aloud to his friends." Chicago Post. Her Economy. Mrs. Falttc She isn't a very good manager. Is she? Mrs. FInde No, In deed! Why, She had to buy four extra turkeys so a3 not to waste the dressing she had made for one. Harper's Bazar. How glorious these October days. When Nature wear3 her fairest looks. The splendor of the changing leaves. The misery of changing cooks. Suburban Paper. Going Easy. "He Is dying very calmly," ob served the physician, as he felt the pulse of the sufferer. "So like John." softly spoke 'ha prospective widow. "He always was an easy going man." Baltimore American. Beginning at Home. Jasper I understood that you had turned over a new leaf, and were even going to love your enemies; but It seem to me that you love no one but xourself. "Well, I am my own worst enemy." Life. The Count I weesh to marry your daughter, salre! I am worth one hundred tousand dol lalre. The Millionaire But I thought you were a bankrupt. The Count I mean zat I am vorth zat moch to you. Brooklyn. Life. Self-Approval. "Young man." said the se rious person, "don't you realize that the loa of money is the root of all evil?" "Well," answered the spendthrift, "You don't see ma hanging onto money as it I loved It, do you?" Washington Star. Faint" Pra'se. Towne I hear JacK Fllgher was arrestea for running his automobile at the rate of 10 miles an hour. Browne Yes. and he's fighting mad about It. Towne Why. does he deny the charge? Browne Yes. h considers It a gross libel upon the speed of hla i machine. Philadelphia Press. V