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Second South street. For sale In New Orleans by A. C Phelps, COO Commercial Alley. For sale Jn Ogden by C. H. Myers. On nie at Charleston, S. C. In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale In Washington. D. C. by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrtck. 000-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., 15th and Lawrence streets; A. Series, 1C53 Champa rtreet. TODAY'S WEATHER Probably fair; west erly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 50; minimum temperature, 40; pre cipitation. 0.10 Inch. Lyid the discontented. They can't con vert me worm, tney cani even agree among themselves. Numerous as bar barians have always been, and game fighters, too. they have never been able to combine successfully against civilization. GEA'ERAL MILES, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 5. RIVAL CLAIMS OX RECIPROCITY. The saying that protection and reci procity are twin principles of the Re publican party Is almost old enough to be accepted as a legend. But now comes Representative McClellan, of New York, In support of concessions to Cuba, with the assertion that the ways and means committee's bill "is an enunciation of the Democratic doctrine of reciprocity." Reciprocity really has sins enough to answer for without being accused of such ambiguity as to serve equally well as a slogan for either of the two great parties, particularly as It touches a sub ject so prominent in our politics as the tariff question. Where, then, can we place this great principle? The fact is that reciprocity has two aspects, one of which Is Democratic and the other Republican. Wherein It is positive, as a threat, it is Republican. Where it is negative, as a concession, it Is Democratic. Now, reciprocity it self Is a concession only In the capacity of a temporary abdication of its offlce as a threat. It is not an enticement to trade, but a club with which to beat those who will not trade as we choose they shall. It Is based upon the princi- pie that Import trade is hurtful and export trade beneficent This Is wholly a-Republican conception. Mr. McClel lan Is wrong. TheN-eason why reciprocity can be claimed by two opposing parties is found In the change that has come over our tariff situation. Once half of us were for protection and the other half for free trade. This has passed away. Everybody knows that free trade is an impossibility. Nobody can maintain that the need of protection by anj- given industry is to be taken for granted on general principles, because the needs of every Industry are seen to stand entirely on their own basis. The rise of manu facturing In the West and South has destroyed the old academic faith In free trade. Tillman wants protection for tea and Louisiana Democrats want it for sugar. The tariff question Is less sharply de fined between the parties. Tariffs we all see, must be laid on Imports, be cause we must have the revenue. A tariff for revenue with incidental pro tection is substantially the creed of every practical statesman In the coun try. No one can advocate free trade. No one can deny protection to any Industry that can show its need of it and also show that Its bestowal will not wrong consumers. No man who has at heart the welfare of American Industries -and at the same time is sensible of the abuses of the present tariff can object to the declara tion of the Oregon Republican plat form: We reaffirm our allegiance to the principles of protection In necessary cases of Industries 6U11 In their Infancy or unable to compete with foreign productions. XIXE TO OXE. This Louisville contention which has just completed r Its organization and platfvrm Is a very ominous affair, if one 11 to judge by the aggregation of par ticipant parties, viz.: THE PliOPLE'S PARTY. THE FU.YlON POPULISTS. THE SOCIALISTS. THE .REFERENDUM LEAGUE. THE UNION LABOR PARTY. THE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP PARTY. THE PROHVBITIONISTS. THE UNITED CHRISTIANS. Truly, this is a formidable array of organizations, each of which must have represented in its formation and must still represent to the minds of Its pro moters the only true and efficacious theory of popular government. One Is fain to wonder how" it comes that with so many newer recipes for civic ills the old Democratic and Republican organi zations make shift to survive. But so they -do. and they must be expected to continue in business. In due course they will have tickets in the field and platforms for consideration. The Republican party, in fact, when the Democrats get busy, will have no fewer than nine parties, against it, inas much as the attitude of the Louisville aggregation is more hostile to It than to the Democrats. The Louisville outfit Is more popullstlc than anything else, de manding public ownership of "all pub lic utilities," and reviving the ancient popullstlc desire to see money based on everything but redeemable in nothing. Already the seeds of disintegration are apparent in the allied shows. The Populists are Jealous of their independ ent existence, and promise to emit mu sic on the air of united reform. Lauda ble and stupendous as are the plans of the Louisville parties, they are fore doomed to disappointment as the. om nium gatherum of all the crack-brained' Whether there be little or much truth in the renewed gossip that General Miles is to be peremptorily placed on the retired list, it is manifestly the fact that the day of his usefulness In the Army Is past He- is hopelessly at outs with the -President, the Commander-in- Chief of the Army under tho Constltu-J tion; he is In the same attitude with respect to the general staff; and the time of his retirement under the age limit being near at hand, his general position is one of no influence. Under these conditions there Is no possible mil itary future for him; if he remains on the active list until he reaches the age limit, it will be simply aa one who "holds on' to a position after all au thority connected with It and all dignity are gone. General Miles ouht not to permit himself, after his long and dis tinguished service, thus to lag superflu ous in the War Office. It would be far better if, seeing that no possible ad-M vantage can come either to the military service or to himself from continuing In his present position, he should ask to be relieved. There would be good spirit and an essential manliness in declining to be a mere fifth wheel to the military coach; there is something pitiful in holdijig fast to a mere symbol of au thority and dignity after it has ceased to represent realities. In spite of his really fine record as a soldier and of the many real distinc tions which have marked his career, General Miles' military life has been a failure; and the reason is plain. It lies in the fact that he has been at all times a persistent self-seeker. At every point in his public career he has always and manifestly sought, as , the first of his objects and alms, tp promote hl3 own nterest General Miles could not say, as General John Gibbon once said on a public occasion In this city. "I have long J served In the Army of my country; and during the years of this service in which I grow old, I have never once asked for any particular service; I have never once declined or asked to be ex-f cused from any service: I have never asked for a promotion." On the other hand. General Miles, from the time he first came into public notice, has been a persistent beggar for preferment and advantage. Every circumstance of his service which could be turned to per sonal account has. been exploited to the utmost; and not always in this conspic uously selfish course have the rights of others been duly or fairly respected. Circumstances combined to gain for General Miles the promotion which he nought with so much industry- Through the fortune of marriage he was brought into close relations with the Sherman family. John Sherman in the Senate and in the Executive Cabinet, General Sherman at the head of the Army, Don Cameron (a brother-in-law) in the Sen ate, all "pulled" for him. Wherever there was opportunity for distinction, Miles was sent; whenever he rendered good service and he did It often the niost was made of it These advaty tages with his unquestioned merit as a soldier gained for Miles promotion after promotion, and made him at last the professional head of the Army. But in this great ipost; as elsewhere, ' his service has been marred by his persist ent self-seeking. He has been content to do nothing for its own sake, simply because he was the man to do, it, in the quiet and decent spirit which marks all really worthy service. He has sought In every detail of his activity as the General commanding the Army to exploit and to enlarge himself. He lob bled for the Lieutenant-Generalship until he got It from a much-bored and half-willing Congress. Then he wanted, to be President; and In urgency of this unseemly ambition he has again and again exposed himself to theridicule if not Indeed, to the contempt of the country. General Miles has suffered some slights in the course of his service as the head of the Army. He ought to have been sent to Cuba in command of our forces In the place of Shafter; and, again, he ought long ago to have been sent to the, Philippines. Political fear and Jealousy have had "much to do with withholding from him his legitimate op portunities for large and Important ser vice. It is not to the credit of the War ! Offlce that in respect to Miles if has stooped to a policy of restraint; but it was the manifest political ambition of Miles Which caused this policy. If he had been what he ought to have been, a straightforward soldier, eager to do his work for Its own sake and regard less of what might' follow, nobody wottld ever have thought of putting LshacMes upon him. SUch slights as-he has suffered, have not we may easily believe, been easy to bear, but he has himself to blame for them, for they were the direct product of his own foolish and unseemly self-seeking. And of all men General Miles has had least reason to complain of the spirit of per sonal preferment and favor which too often rules in the Army. It was personal favor supported by the Sherman family that gave him his opjjorxunuy lor aisunction in tnei eight tickets for 25 cents between the hours designated, under the above pro viso, thus giving, the working men a benefit In our own city the demand, or rather the plea, for It has not gone beyond that for- special street-car fares made in the Interest of school chil dren, .the Civic Improvement Society being In charge of the movement This is indirectly in the Tnterest of the labor ing class, since a large majority of the children in the public schools come from wage-earners homes. The matter is simply a business proposition, and will doubtless be dealt with as such. Senti ment Is not likely to enter into It CIVIC IMPROVEMENT. Northwest Indian wars nearly twenty five years ago; it was personal favor that gained him his Brigadiershlp; at every stage of his professional fortunes up to the time qf the Spanish War, per-1 sonai favor gave him aid and advan tage. General Miles is in many ways a-large man, but his character is marred by many Imperfections. He has never1 been able to sink himself in his work; -to put his duty before (hls personal inter est; to subordinate the man and the politician to the soldier. Nor has he escaped the vice of gross vanity, which is almost characteristic of the military profession. . He has seemed to 'think that the main object of maintaining an Army in this country has been to make a place at its head suitable to his pre tensions and. dignity; that distinction and opportunity for more 'distinction were somehow part of his personal right And it excuses him in no sense that there are In the Army others in whom self-appreciation has outgrown both Judgment and modesty. It is no mitigation of General Miles' fault that General Eagan is a vulgar ruffian and General Corbin an intriguing politician. A Forest Grove correspondent of The Oregonlan recently referred to the grow ing disposition In the various towns of the state to support measures that make for civic Improvement in the commu nity, like clean and well-kept streets, pure water supply In short, all things that are Implied when we say of a. fine horse that he Is well grdpmed. This Impulse in behalf of local civic im provement begins to be strongly sup ported all over the country, because ob serving Americans have become satis- fled by experiment that it pays to take good care of the civic dress and en vironment of a town if It has intelli gent inhabitants and any appreciable business and industrial future. The City of Holyoke, Mass., has about 46, 000 people, Who were recently addressed by G. A. Parker, of Hartford, Conn., a recognized, authority on park manage ment He, referred to the Mount Royal Oak Park of Montreal, and pointed out that Holyoke might easily utilize the Connecticut River front and Mount Tom for the public good, even as Bos ton has created a beautiful system of suburban improvements upon the front of Charles River, in the Fenways, In Franklin Park, while the Middlesex Fells Is the finest woodland park In America. The Boston & Albany Railroad corpo ration has come to believe it pays to have fine and well-kept grounds about all their suburban stations. Beautiful trees and flowering shrubs have beetf planted; the turf Is well kept the station-houses are covered with ivy and woodbine, and these Improvements are carefully guarded and nourished from year to year. Fifty years ago the little mountain town of Stockbridge, In West ern Massachusetts, was an ordinary shabby-looking, sleepy country' vil lage. A few far-seeing men and women saw that it was possible to make Stock-1 bridge attractive to the eye of the Sum mer visitor simply by washing its "face and hands, putting on a clean frock and keeping It clean. The average hard-headed farmer of- that day sneered at this appeal to civic pride, and asked: "What Is all this village Improvement worth, this annual cleaning of the house and keeping It clean?" The answer has come. The visionary men and women succeeded In clothing Stockbridge with a beauty that spread its fame far and wide as a place well worth living In. The wealthy Summer tourists began to flock to Stockbridge for their Summer outing, and the result Is that her once barren acres and profitless rocky hill sides have become valuable real estate. The example of Stockbridge was promptly followed by Lenox, and today the whole region of the Berkshire Hills has become a Summer pleasure resort. These pioneer reformers that convert ed the Berkshire Hills from a mere breeding-place of dull peasantry intp the residence of an energetic and money-making population began at the bottom by insisting that streets and sidewalks must be improved and neatly maintained. Then the town was in duced to establish water works and to light the streets. Then this Improve ment society paid half the cost of a tasteful railway station and of enlarg ing the station grounds to a spacious and beautiful garden. The example of Stockbridge has borne excellent fruit all over the country. The result is that the little States of New Hampshire and Ver mont are full of beautiful towns and villages, whose natural and artificial charm is a valuable public asset, for It peoples these towns and villages in .the Summer with hundreds of rich people, whoynot only spend money in ordinary ways, but buy large tracts of land whose conversion into pleasure grounds employs local labor for a long time at remunerative prices. The most beauti ful sites on the lake front of Vermont are now owned and occupied by rich New Yorkers, who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars In the construc tion of Summer homes and pleasure grounds. Now, all this Is admirable, but let It be remembered that these schemes of village improvement whose ultimate results have been to make the dull old "hill" towns of Massachusetts blossom like the rose and the stagnant Cham plain Valley towns of Vermont get rich in their old age, began in public clean liness. Clean streets and public places, cleanliness and good order, are the be ginning of all civic wisdom. The Intel ligence of a city Is not assured by a free public library, or by the existence of dramatic or literary associations, or by the presence of a few fine public build ings. A city may have all these things and not be wdrth living In if it have not pure water and streets well lighted and well groomed. Water of"the best qual ity Portland has; but Its streets are In a vile condition, and there Is a deal of public uncleanltness. Southern Democracy away from free silver and Bryan Is , found In the fact that Senator Bailey, of Texas, is favor able to the nomination of Mr. Gorman for President, and a majority of the Southern Democratic Senators are ready to drop Bryan and his flnanclal phantoma The defeat, of Jones of Ar kansas would leave Tillman of South Carolina the only "Bryan man" in the Senate. Lewis Nixon, the leader of the Tammany Democracy of New York City, reported on his return from a re cent visit to Washington that he found "the Southern Democrats In the main favorable to the nomination of Mr. Gor man for the Presidency." This means the turning dowiuof Bryan, for Gorman Is recognized by Bryan as always one of his most conspicuous and most artful enemies. Mr. Bryan hates Mr. Cleve land most cordially, but he fears Gor man far more than he does Cleveland, for Cleveland Is not and will not be In active-politics, while, Gorman, as the leader of his party in the -Senate.will be sure to map out Its policy and man age Its campaign for 1904. The-defeat of Jones' In Arkansas and the'defectlon of Bailey in Texas, the action of Missis sippi indicate clearly that the drift is against Bryan. The influence of Sena tor Tillman in South Carolina Is plainly declining, and there are not Populists enough left In Alabama and Georgia to keep Bryahism long alive in those states. In Missouri the rural counties are stfll in subjection to the personal influence of Bryan. Brydn evidently has had notice served on ilm that the National Democracy before 1904 meah. If possfble, to unload him and his jackass burden of "free" silver. But Bryan shows no disposition to retire from politics. He evidently means that Bryanlsm shall be distinct ly recognized by the National Democ racy; that befo're he will suffer It to be repudiated by the party he will ruin It, since Bryanlsm Is not to rule It He does not now control the Democratic National Committee, and on his recent visit to New York City he was told by some members of the committee that in two campaigns he had been defeated and that It was time for the National committee to hunt up another candi date. Bryan, on his part did not con ceal his vindlctlveness toward the Gold Democrats, who defeated him in 1896 and 1900, and threatens that In 1904 he and his friends will not tolerate any support of David B. Hill, Senator Gor man or any Democrat of their .color or quality. How sharp a thorn Bryan could prove In the side of the Natiorfal Democracy In 1904 cannot now be accu rately determined, but the personal strength of Mr. Bryan among the rank and file In various parts of the South is still sufficient to make Southern Demo cratic leaders cautious about antago nizing him until the tight is over for the control of the next House of Repre sentatives in the doubtful districts of the Northern States, trusting to hold the solid South. Aggressive Ignoring of Bryan and free silver would be re sented by Bryan, who would not hesi tate to work indirectly for the defeat of the Democracy In New York State if David B. Hill should be the party standard-bearer, for Hill's election would make him a formidable candi date for President In 1904. Bryan does not expect to be the Presidential can didate, but he expects to be able to prevent the repudiation of Bryanlsm or at least the nomination of a Gold Dem ocrat Mr. Bryan Is a very energetic man and a most artful' demagogue. It Is quite possible he may prove as sharp a thorn in the flesh of the National De mocracy in 1904 as James G. Blrney was to the Whig party In 1844 and as Mar tin Van Buren was to the Democratic party in 1S4S. WHITES IN THE TROPICS. Chicago Chronicle Thinking people have never felt much sympathy with objection to our owner ship of the Philippines based on the al leged impossibility of tropical colonisation by the European races. These objections sound too much like the old dogmatic assertion that negro slavery was necessary In our Southern States oeeause It was Impossible for white men to labor In that climate. There were those at that time who maintained that while there might be such Inability In certain small areas In the South. Just as' In other parts of the world, the reasons were narrowly local far more than cli matic. Their view has been very largely j borne out by later events. utners scorrcu at the notion Decause they said they were not willing to admit the Inferiority of the white race ob such to any. That life In the tropics might cost the race heavily, but it would prevail In the end. Both these classes wera moved by the spirit that should move men the application of common sense first, and un flinching resolution next A German scientist. Dr. Myleus, some time ago advanced views opposed to the feasibility of tropical colonization by temperate-zone races, sustaining his con tention with a great show of hypothetical wisdom. In theory the scientist needs facts on which to base a theory, but he can sometimes get along without them. It is hardly possible, however, for him to run counter to facts, though he does not always think he needs any of any kind. So long as there are no facts either way he can "have free course to run and be glorified." Dr. Myleus appears to have "arawn the fire" of an adversary who fires facts as soldiers do bullets. This is Captain Fedor Schulze, of Java, who has lived for 40 years in India, and on one or an other of the Malayan islands. In the Bulle tin of Ethnology he flatly denies all of the conclusions of Dr. Myleus, and fortifies his denial with facts, of which he Is him self one. He maintains that fairly prudent Etf ropeans are attacked by fewer diseases In the tropica than at home. largelyxbecause they live more In the open air. That 'it is easy to be acclimated by keeping first to the higher grounds keeping out of the swamps precisely as they do at home. The early settlers were idle, without the preoccupation of work, and fell sick main ly because they ate and drank too much of too heavy food and too much alcohol in one shape or another. In this regard Captain Schulze Is sustained by other keen observers in the tropics. Any one who would- go into Northern Canada, for example, and dress and eat and drink as the residents of Florida do would be set down a foolish. Why Is not the reverse of the proposition true? The Captain points out that now Euro pean settlers In the tropics have learned to drink little of alcoholic drinks, to eat moderately, to order their homes with reasonable regard to well-understood hygienic laws and to look after their chil dren with like Intelligence, not trusting them to ignorant native servants. There fore, he "asserts, they are thriving and have demonstrated that they can work and remain vigorous, working eight hours daily even In open field labor, providing they divide their working hours about equally between early morning and late, afternoon, with the same long midday rest that the native inhabitants always take. Remarkable inscription. London Daily News. An Inscription which Is believed to be a most Important piece of evidence of how prepared the popular mind In Egypt was for the reception f Christianity In the land of the Nile Immediately before the advent of the "new religion," and one which "accounts In a large degree for the rapid hold It gained on the people of the land," is now In the collection of Lady Meux, of Theobalds Park. Herts. The monument is the funeral shell, or tablet of an Egyptlon lady who lived late In the Ptolemlc age. The Inscription was found at Ekhmln. the ancient Epu, or Panopolls, a -city that was one of the earliest and most Important seats of Christian teaching In Egypt. The tab lot gives little Information about the lady Ta-hcbt (Festlna) and the lady Khrat Amsu (Daughter of Amsu), but the upper portion of the shell Is decorated with sculptured scenes of the solar boat and the deceased worshiping Osiris. This Is" followed, by the usual funeral formula, and then comes "one of the most beautiful prayers yet found on Egyptian monu ments, and one which shows how deeply imbedded In the hearts of the people was the belief in Immortal life that life finding Its most full expression in the never-dying sun": "Ta-hebt prayeth to her lord of Eter nity, saying: Hall to the Horns on the Horizon the Self-Created one. Thou art indeed doubly beautiful when thou shinest on the horizon, thou makest bright the earth with thy beams, and the gods shout with joy when they behold thy beams. Let me cone forth to meet thee; let me behold hy beams and gaze upon thy beautiful beams. I have come to thee, for I would be with thee, and I would gaze on thy disk every day. I am one of those who worshiped hee. on earth. O let me pass to the land of eternity and to region of everlastlngnecs. Guide thou me, O Ra. and do thou give me the sweet breath of life." A series of passages is then given as expressing the lady's mind: "All of my life since childhood I have walked on the path of God. I have praised and adored him, and ministered to the priests, his servants. My heart was true. I have not thrust myself forward. I gave bread to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, clothes to the naked. My hand was open to all men. I honored my father and loved my mother; and my heart was at one with my townsmen. I kept the hun gry alive when the Nile was low." Thus Mating the doctrine on which this lady based her hopo of eternity. Lesson of the Merger Hearings. Minneapolis Tribune. Hero Is a very public and widespread declaration of the Intrinsic value of new stock which Is practically to take the place In the market of all these three. It Is .quite certain that the organizers of the Northern Securities Company expect ed the public to absorb eagerly a large amount of the new securities at a price that would fairly represent what they had paid for the stock of the two acquired roads 4n the contest for their possession. That Is to say, the public were to pay the cost of the fight. This was a reasonable expectation enough for the attitude of the public toward stock buying about the time this deal was projected. That attitude has undergone notable change since, to which these suits, the stat$ of public feel ing revealed by them and. the evidence brought out in them has contributed largely. No harm has been done to sub 'Some Interesting figures appear In the marine column of The Oregonlan this morning regarding the lumber business by sea from, this port. For the first three months -of, 1902 over 23,000,000 feet of lumber was cleared from the river, this city alone dispatching nearly 20, 000,000 feet. A fleet of ten vessels with a carrying capacity of nearly 10,000,000 feet Is now in port loading. The foreign shipments during the period mentioned went to China, Japan. Siberia, Samoa, "Chile, Peru, South Africa and the Ha waiian Islands, and will spread the fame of Oregon's timber resources through all of those countrlea It Is un necessary to go farther back than half a dozen years to find the lumber busi ness by sea from Portland for an entire twelve months amounting to less than the figures for the three months of 1902, and there Is every prospect that the fig ures for 1903 will far surpass those of this period. For many years wheat, flour and salmon were about the only commodities the shipowner figured on getting from the Columbia River, but at the present ratio of Increase It will be but a few years until the lumber fleet will be larger than the grain fleet observers in the tropics, in India, In the West Indies, In the French, English and Dutch colonies In South America, In the Dutch East India settlements and else where. These observations all have es pecial Importance for us In view of our recent tropical and semltroplcal acqui sitions, since the general conclusion seems to be that tho white Caucasian Is adapt able to any climate if only he observes the simple conditions of life in it with the same intelligence he applies to those of his own native habitat 1I1WJ uiwity uiimi. tf .-;, , ,. n . W.tlirmto These assertions are supported by other p V "1 " ,.i"?'r T 7. r - ':i V,". The "street railway company that In augurates In any city a reduction of fares between the hours of 6 and 7 o'clock A. M. and 6 and 7 P. M. will earn -distinction for itself, and the grat itude of the army composed of the dinner pail brigade. This distinction the Des Moines Clty3allway Company proposes to""earn, providing the City Council will not grant a franchise to any other street railway company. It is prooosed to cell DE-BRYAXIZIXG OF THE SOUTH. The defeat of Senator Jones, of Ar kan'sasis of great political significance. The South furnishes the strength of the Democratic party, and the probable de feat of Senator Jones, who was Bryan's ablest lieutenant In 1896 and 1900, means the de-Bryanizing of the Southern De mocracy. Since 1896 the Southern De mocracy has accepted free sliver, but if the South decides to throw free silver and Its trumpet-major overboard it will go, for the South is Jn a position to dic tate the policy of the party for 1904. The drift of the Southern Democracy Is clearly away from Bryan. The Ore gonlan recently called attention editor ially to the passage by the Mississippi Legislature of the so-called McAllister resolution, which asserted that the time had come for the Southern Democracy to break up its alliance with the Popu lists of the West and the silver-mlnlpg states and return to its old combina tion with the conservative Democracy which once controlled -New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Connecticut Ex Presldent Cleveland, in a recent letter to a Mississippi Democrat, warmly ap proves of the spirit of .the McAllister resolution, and clearly appreciates the significance of the Mississippi, move ment In this letter Mr. Cleyeland speaks of the "dreadful dreams" of the Bryan period, and Bryan has shown that he feels the criticism by the bit terness of -his recent article on Cleve land. Another Illustration of the drift of the The physicians' remuneration for at tendance upon President McKlnley will, It is said, not exceed $25,000. This is certainly sufficient compensation for the seven days' attendance. Considering the ' grave responsibilities of the case, it is not, perhaps, exorbitant In any event, the Government cannot afford to be parsimonious in a matter of this kind, and, as the physicians make no specific charge, but leave the amount and rating of compensation to Congress, a less sum than $25,000 could scarcely be decided upon, though it represents something more than $3500 a day. In all walks of life persons are disposed to be liberal In charges pertaining to final Illness, death and burial. Congress will not, therefore, violate public sentiment In allowing this ample compensation for surgical attendance upon a President wounded unto death a sacrifice to his great office as Chief Magistrate of the Nation. v How to Keep Cities Clean. St Paul Pioneer Press. The police can do but little unless there Is a strong public sentiment which demands the highest standard of neatness and cleanliness In all private premises In front and back yards and alleys, and especially In their street front ages. In Philadelphia every householder In a residence district is expected ti see that his house front and the steps, sidewalk and areas In front of his prem ises are kept scrupulously clean. The dally sweeping and washing and scrub bing which they receive Is one of the rooted customs of the city which has been handed down for generations. A clean house and street frontage Is a test of respectability, and even of decency, in Philadelphia. Untidiness In this re spect Is disreputable a mark of Ill-breeding and low tastes. No official prompt ings are there necessary to keep woste paper or other rubbish off the streets. Public sentiment demands and enforces cleanliness on every man's premises as one of the first duties l of good neigh borhood. This Is what Is wanted in every store and office and household In St. Paul. The furnishing of receptacles for such rubbish at the street corners Is well enough, but It should not be permitted to get on the streets at all. EaclTstore and office building and house should be fur nished with Its' own receptacle, and unless the contents are taken away by scaven gers, they should be burned on the prem ises. Arrangements could be easily made with the City Engineer or the Health De partment 'for the disposition of suqh rub bish If the occupant of the premises de sired to do so; or there would be no trouble in disposing of It by combus tion. If that were tho more convenient. We believe the Civil League once took bold of this matter and had some tempo rary success In mitigating the nuisance. There is need of a revival of organized and strenuous effort to secure the co operation of all tenants of stores, offices and dwellings In the maintenance of- a high standard of cleanliness and tidiness on all their street frontages and In all their back yards and alleys, and. In a special crusade against the waste-paper nuisance. revelations, Probably the public will buy securities as freely as ever, for a price on which they promise to yield fair return. Should the public be slow to buy, probably the organizers of the Northern Securities Company can carry their stock. But It is quite certain that these securities will be bought with more knowledge and cau tion for the testimony given In these merger suits. In that respect. If In no other, they have done' great public service. Oregon City Is up against a smallpox scare. This seems to be necessary in order to awaken most American com munities to the preventive value of vac cination. The Board of Directors of the public schools of that city has ordered the immediate vaccination of all chil dren who attend these schools. Pru dence deprecates delay In this matter, and upon this delay smallpox epidemics and neighborhood smallpox scares feed. An edict of the Chinese throne dis courages, though It does not strictly forbid, the ancient custom -of binding the feet of Chinese female children. This will do more toward the abolish ment of this barbarous custom than all the prayers of Christian missionaries have been able to accomplish in half a century. Enormous Savin n; of'"inge Earners. Leslie's Weekly. A big, stubborn. Incontrovertible fact, standing over against all that "pessimists and other prophets of evil may say about the present status or the Immediate fu ture of the wage earners In this country Is found In the official report from, the superintendent of the state banking de partment at Albany, showing that the savings banks Nof New York City alone have resources on hand to the amount of $800,000,000. and that they handled In de posits and payments In 1901 the enormous aggregate of $300,243,083. The amount of savings thus accumulated In the banks of the metropolis would be sufficient to pay the ordinary expenditures of the Fed eral Government for nearly two years, and would wipe out two-thirds of our National debt. One Institution alone, the Bowery Savings Bank, almost In the heart of what is known as the tenement dis trict. Increased Its deposits In excess of its withdrawals last year by over $4,000,000, having on hand at the end of the year ?S7.150.7SG, representing over 154,000 depos itors, a number exceeding that of all the taxpayers in the city. It Is difficult to believe that poverty Is laying its hand very heavily upon a people among whom such .a showing as thl3 can be made. Work Without FnltU Are Death. Minneapolis Tribune. Dr. Pearson seems to believe sincerely that he Is serving the cause of religion by substituting material truth for spir itual truth. Suppose It were possible to prove that the prophet, Jesus was the son of Joseph and Mary; that he died as natu rally, completely and finally as his fellow-sufferers on the cross, and that all the events told In sacred history not ex plicable by known physical laws are the result of ecstatic self-delusion or uncon scious pious Invention. Would the cause of spiritual truth be served by forcing this material truth Into minds capable of the sublime miracle of faith In things un seen? He has read the history of world religions 111 who thinks that the power for good of Christianity would be In creased by stripping It of what Is called the supernatural element Dr. Pearson says It Inherited this from paganism. But paganism had lost it by growth of mate-. rlallsm. what religion ever uvea tnrough moral beauty alone? Modern agnosticism has no more spiritual .potency than Roman stoicism. So long as man remains a worshiping animal, the mass of mankind will demand something warmer In relig ion than physical law and ethical truth. What Beat Jones. Kansas City Star. Jones defeat was primarily due to the fact that he was a stockholder In the Round Cotton Bale trust Mr. Clarke f-made his campaign almost wholly on this Issue, and It la conceded by the friends of Senator Jones that but for this ques tion he would have been nominated. Jones persistently denied that he was a moving factor in this monopolistic organization, and even William J. Bryan, a conspicuous trust fighter, mnde public a defense of his campaign manager on this Issue, and did all he could to secure his return to the Senate. But the facts were against the Senator. The significant thing Is that in the State of Arkansas, where party loyalty and regularity are supposed to be least susceptible to outside Issues, a Democrat of Mr. Jones' experience and position .should be defeated Tecause he was Identified with a trust. If that sort of thing can be done In Arkansas, It can be done In other states. If the sentiment against trusts and monopolies has domi nated the political Issues of one common wealth, It may be regarded as very strong In other parts of the country, for the ef fects of the trusts are about the same In all sections. NOTE AND COMMENT. The weather is a trifle spotted. Keep on flrins; it is a long-time till June. Hot( air will fuse It the temperature Is great enough. Even bandits need showing, when they come from Missouri. Nothing like a Democratic convention for souI-stirrng oratory. There areyet a few seats left In tho band-wagon. Apply early. Those "who were not heard in the con vention are now looking for convenient stumps. Sqmetlmes the yellow flag will make a man run as fast as will" the Stars and Stripes. Perhaps Mr. Bryan wiU be known in the next "Campaign as the stall-fed philosopher. The delegates are now telling their con stituents, in' the grocery stores, how It all happened. An Illinois man Is dying from a dis located heart The Summer girl seems to be rushing the season. The British have repulsed the Boers without losing any Lleutenant-Generals. A celebration Is due in London. It Is evidently not the purpose of the Administration to allow General Miles to get the situation well in hand. The crying need of the country seems to be the manufacture of a little more ma terial for the next historical romance. Russian horses are being imported into this country. Something must be done to offset the emigration of Missouri mules. Massachusetts Is . going to protect the lobster from the gourmand. She would 'better protect the dyspeptic from the lob ster, while she is at It. A New Yorker who has lately returned from the South says the people of that section of the country aro reading his torical romances. Anything is acceptable In preference to the news of the doings of Southern representatives in Congress. For some unexplained reason there has been a decided "slump" in the price of seats on the New York Stock Exchange. A seat sold last week for $60,000. which Is $5000 below the last sale reported, and $15,000 below the high level price of two months ago. Brokers ascribe the break to the fact that the market now, and for some time past, has been wholly "profes sional," or. In other words, the speculative public Is standing aloof. Forty-two years ago Henry Watterson was a Washington correspondent, sitting In the press gallery of the Senate. Re cently Mr. Watterson again entered the Senate gallery. "Is there room here," he asked, laughingly, "for a tramp editor?' In the days when Mr. Watterson wrote "pieces" from Washington, he was the representative of the Philadelphia Press. There Is only one other man living who was on the staff of tho Prcs3 at that time. "In those days," said Mr. Watter son the other day, as be indulged In a few reminiscences, '"Horace Greeley used to do a great deal of work In this gallery- I do not remember that the elder Bennett actually worked here, although, of course, he used to come over to Wash ington. The pot was boiling very furious ly then. It was just before the war. There was never any lack of something to write about. We used to send most of our mat ter by mail, only using the telegraph to supplement the written letters." "The farm boy is not running to the city to seek his fortune during these present times of prosperity, 'it will be observed," remarked an Illinois observer In discussing this subject reoently. "He is remaining at the old homestead and is turning the arm into as complete an exhibit of Industrial progress as the rolling mi)l represents. The old days, when the farm boy was called before sunrise to drive the cows, milk them, do the chores, 'plow up a field or two and perform several other feats of skill and strength for his daily bread, have passed. In Its place Is the era of scientific farming. In which steam and electricity play an Important "part. The farm boy of today Is kept at home until he learns the rudiments of his profession, for profession It Is. without doubt Then he is sent to a scientific school, where everything needed for the proper conduct, of a farm .under present conditions Is taught him. When he returns he 13 thoroughly equipped to direct the ma chinery of his estate." It seems Impossible for any one who dies without direct heirs so to devise his or her property by will as to secure Its disbursement or division without liti gation. Witness the hold-up now" In progress' of the estate of Mrs. A. H. H. Stuart in thd courts of Thurston County, Washington. Meeting:. The gray eea, and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little wave, that leap In flery ringlets from their sleep. As I gain the cove with pushing prow. And quench Its speed In the slushy sand, , Then a mile of warm, sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross, till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match. And a. voice less loud, through Its Joys and fears. Then the two hearts, beating each to each. " Robert Browning. Afton Water. Robert Burns. . Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, F16w Eently. I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream. Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dreamt Thou stick-dove whose echo resounds through the glen, Te wild whistling blackbirds In yon thorny den. Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear, " I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair! How lofty, sweet Afton. thy neighboring hllk. Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills; There dally I wander as noon rises high. My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot In my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, "Where wild in the woodlands ttie primroses blow; There oft as mild Evening weeps over the lea. The sweet-scented blrk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely It glides. And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton, tny waters her snowy feet lave. As," gathering sweet flowerets, she stems thy clear wave!. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, " Flow gently, sweet' river, the theme of my lays; . " , My Mary's asleep by thy -murmuring stream. Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dreamt TLEASAXTRIES OF PAHAGHAPHERS "There Is one thing to be said in favor of music. It never comes oat at the little end of the horn." Philadelphia Record. She Dear, I sometimes wish that our creeds were the same. He Yes. It wouldn't be qulto so complicating If we both stajed away from the same church. Life. A Lot of Company. Patient Doctor, do you think I will recover? Doctor No; but don't worry about it. because there are a lot of other people dying from the same cause. Ohio State Journal. Our Luminous Language. "When a man say he win at ze hore race." observed the per plexed foreigner, "he call It easy money. Zen be put it In hees pocket and call It ze hard cash!" Chicago Tribune. , Horklns Bother birth and opportunity! A man has his future in his own Hands. What I am I made myself. Sjnnex Oh. well; I wouldn't feel bad about It, Horklns. Of course, you wouldn't do it again. Boston Transcript. A Serious Case. Cook (reading from dally pa per) Last night's official statement shows that there are 50.000 cases of Influenza in the me tropolis Nervous Parlormaid Oh. Mary! And how many are there In a case? Punch. Mr. Ncorich instructing architect) I don't want to spare no hcxpense. I want a palaco an" nothin" less. Have two staircases, one to go hup and the other to go down, and have tho coal-hole frescoed. I'm a goln to show people there's nothin cheap about me. Tit-Bits. Nothing Tod Good. Mose Johnson Dat lini ment you sold me did man wife lots ob good. Druggist Why. that was horse liniment' You said you wanted It for a horse! Mose Johnson Ah did. suh: but dar ain't nuflln" too good fo' man old woman, needer Jess yo undcrstan dat! Puck. Sweet Sympathy. Mrs. Youn?wed Yes. Mr. Youngwed didn't feel at all 'well this morning, so I just made him stay home from th offlce. Mrs. Naybor Indeed! I notice all your carpets aro up, and your back shed's painted, and Mrs. Youngwed Yes, I got Mr Youngwed to do all that while he was home today. Philadel phia Press. The Best She Could Do "There Is only one reason." he said, "why I have neveh asked jou to be my wife. "What is that?" she asked. "I have always been half afraid you might refuse." "Well,;' she whispered, after a long silence, "I should think jou'd have curiosity enough to want to And out whether your sus picion was well founded or not." Chicago Record-Herald. ! "Where are you going, my pretty malu?" "I'm going plng-ponglrg. sir," she said. "May I go with you. my pretty maid?" "Yes, If you like, kind sir." she said. She led him away to the ping-pong net: and then came an hour he'll never forget; for his shoulders ache from the many stoops to pick up the balls, artd his eyelid droops, where she smote him twice with her racket small, which left her hand as she struck the ball; and he'll nev ping where she pongs again, for she heard him swear when she pinged hiv then. Baltimore American.