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TUB MOBNTNG OKEGONIAE, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1902. 6 Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mail (postage prepaid. In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month j Daily. Sunday excepted, per jear f Xall. -with Sunday, per year JJ Sunday, per year - The Weekly, per year J ?X The Weekl. 3 months w To Clt Subscribers . . ,-, Dailj, pr -week. delUered, Sundays excepteo.ioc Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncludedOo POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper......... .........lc 14 to 28-page paper............ .Foreign rates double. The Oregonlan" does not buy poems or stories trom Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it -without solici tation. No stamps should be inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business Offlce. 42, 44 45, 47. -IS. 40 Tribune building. New York City: CD "The Kookery," Chicago; the S, C. Bcckwlth special sency. Eastern representative. 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Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 908-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co 15th and Lawrence streets. A. Series, 1653 Champa street. cently made their way to this city from I Lewis County. Washington, continues to excite the pity and wonder of physi cians and others who have seen them. They are still at the poor farm, but will soon be returned to their home. The girl, blind from birth, and hideous to behold, is a natural musician, sings sweetly and plays on the organ with some skill. Nature, in making this seeming compensation for her harsh ness, has added pathos to the fulfili ment of law in this case, as If to Invite pity that the subject repels. The an swer to the question, "Who has sinned, these children or their parents?" is not one that it is difficult to solve. No-such ghastly effect can be without a cause, near or remote, that' is nature's justi fication and explanation. TODAY'S WEATHER Probably fair; slowly rising temperature; westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, C2, minimum temperature, 51; pre cipitation. 0 40 Inch. I . portunlty thoughtlessly presented in unnecessarily confidential relations be tween physician and patient, breaking down the reserve of modesty; opportu nity that was .further loftily Ignored in what Is called "church work," and cul minating In a passion miscalled "love"; in dishonor and in death. The lesson Is an open one to all, but, as usual, only the wise, who strictly observe the In junction "Know thyself," and who order their lives, in accordance with the knowledge gained, will recognize the force of its suggestion. This will leave the usual number which, after all, Is but a very small percentage in any, or derly community to the penalties that follow in the train of social lawlessness. BAD LEADERSHIP. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, APRIL IP. ' IP YOU HAVEN'T REGISTERED, REGISTER TODAY. IT'S THE LAST OPPORTUNITY. GO EARLY- AD STAY" TILL Y'OUR NAME IS ON THE ROLL. QUESTIONS FOR THE HOUR. Shall President Koosevelt be discred ited, and Pacific expansion rebuked, in order to, help Joe Simon to assassinate some of his political enemies? Is a close little ring bigger than the whole state, or Is one man bigger than the whole party? Which Is more important, to sustain the policies to which the Republican party throughout the Nation Is commit ted, or to make George Chamberlain a present of the Governorship? There are a lot of men In Oregon whose business welfare depends upon the confidence and prosperity that are bound up with continued ascendance of the Republican party, and that are sure to be grievously threatened by the success of the Democratic party. A Si mon business man can hurt his business and satisfy his spleen by voting for Chamberlain. But Is It business? Will a wise man saw the limb off a tree while he is himself hanging to the limb? Will he cut his nose off to spite his face? A LESSON FROM OMAHA. . Mr. Holman's interesting letter from Omaha, printed yesterday, should have the attention of every one Interested In the Lewis and Clark Centennfal. He is on his way to Charleston, where he will further investigate the exposition prob lem. Through study of the successes and failures at other affairs of the kind it is hoped to gather lessons of value and service to the enterprise planned for Portland In 1905. Mr. Holman's let ters will cover the experience of Omaha, Charleston, Buffalo, Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, and perhaps other expo sition cities. The undertaking is one of considerable magnitude, but if his In vestigations aid the Portland World's Pair to follow the successes of those places and avojd their errors, The Ore .gonlan will be satisfied with the result. The most striking thing gathered by Mr. Holman at Omaha is the fact that the exposition there had to change its site in the middle of the preparatory work. The first choice was four miles out, and proved too far. So they moved it in, -ajmlle and a half from the city. It is a had thing to have to change the site of an exposition, once It is under way. It Is a much worse thing to need to make a change and not have the courage to make it In Omaha they summoned up the courage and their fair succeeded instead of failed. The site of an exposition, Mr. Rosewater says, must be central If it is to pay. The bulk of attendance (and this is to be especially true In Portland) Is local. The receipts come from the thousands who drop In day after day from near by and not from the hundreds that come from a distance for a day and then go home. Have it where the peo ple of the home city can go In any time, and it will pay. Have it so far out that it takes an effort to get there and it will .fall. It is unnecessary to make any local application of this immensely important point. It would be difficult It would also be' vain. There is no contemplated site, we understand, whose advocates do not Tegard it as central. Even the City Park Is out of the way to East SIders and Hawthorne Park Is out of the way to West SIders. The directors of the Exposition will settle this matter in good time, and there is every reason for confidence that they will settle it wisely. To be perfectly inoffensive to all concerned in this matter, we will urge upon the boarcf that the stye should not be north of the Columbia River or west of the Washington County line. The Omaha Fair was managed care fully by prudent business men, and it made money. It even paid back almost 100 per cent on its original subscrip tions. Portland's fair Is in the hands of prudent business men. It-will be man aged carefully, and there Is no reason to fear that It will not pay. It will pay as an Investment, an object-lesson and an advertlsenient, even If not a cent of the original subscriptions should be refunded. What was done for Omaha by its exposition will be done for us SIMULATED SORROWS. Objection Is heard to Williams and Furnish. Williams has no sawmill. Furnish wants grace and beauty. Therefore apprehension arises lest they may not be elected". Yet a little reflec tion should serve to reassure any In whom these forebodings may have In duced pain or alarm. Who is It that shakes his head luefully at the age of Williams or the oratorical Imperfections of Furnish? Show us the man who Is shedding crocodile tears at the pity of dragging Judge Williams out into a campaign at his time of life, and we will show you a man who not only Is against Williams, but would have been against any other man who had been nominated in his place. If the nominee hadn't been-old, I he would have been too young, or too homely. He would have been so long In office that he ought to be retired, or else too inexperienced to be trusted. Does the stress of the campaign worry Judge Williams any? He is as chipper as Mr. Corbett in a Senatorial fight. Is It worrying his friends? Not a par ticle. The only men who are grieving oyer the hardship Imposed upon Judge Williams are those who are scared to death for fear he will be elected. . Seost thou a man deploring In piteous accents the dangers that cluster around the head of the Republican state ticket? Then he Is a Chamberlain 'man, root and branch. Has anybody seen Mr. Furnish wltli a long face, sighing at his prospects? Has anybody seen his sup porters cursing their luck that they got him nominated Instead of Geer, Ankeny or Johns? Not by a large majority. Who, then, are these tlmorOuB mourn ers? Well, they are men who are against Furnish and doing their best to beat him. What they are trembling about is not the danger of his defeat, but the certainty of his election. They are hypocrites of the first magnitude. When you see a Fusionlst weeping over the sorrows of Williams and Fur nish, tell him to wait till June 3, when he 11 need his tears for his own use. A STUDY' IN HUMAN NATURE. The story that comes from Oro Flno, Idaho, of the suicide In that place last Sunday night of a well-known physi cian and the young daughter of a worthy minister, both of Moscow, pre sents a phase in cause and effect in the social realm with which it is exceed ingly difficult to deal, even In thought The first impulse is one of unqualified condemnation of both the one a mar ried man and a physician, the other a young woman who had been carefully feared in a minister's home, and both of whom had been, up to the time of their suicide, actively engaged In church work. It was in connection with church work and again as physi cian and patient that the acquaintance was formed between these two which grew into a guilty relationship and ended In the shameful death of both, deliberately planned and carried out on the simple plea that, "being unable to live together without sin, they chose to die together." Disgust and censure and pity strive with each other In the attempt to ren der a verdict in such a case. From out of the conflict comes the conviction that human nature is an abstruse prin ciple the study of which Is baffling, and the supposedly proven -points of which rise up in -most unexpected places to confute each other. A social sin of this character Is as Impossible to explain as to confute. In It are violated, first, the conventionalities that are the safe guards of decency, and then the ab stract principles of honor that underlie the social fabric A husband Is faith less to his wife, a physician to his sacred offlce, a young woman to the careful training of her mother, the happiness of her home and, the innate purity of womanhood, and both, while working under the guise of Christian ity, are false to Its most sacred pre cepts. And yet the minds of both were Seemingly haunted by the ghost of self respect, and following its luring they chose to die rather than to live in shame. Looking for the cause In such a case as this, the existence of which Is first made known by the effect, shall we say that It was in lack of parental vigi lance in the case of this young girl? Clearly not, since she had been carefully brought up and was surrounded by the accepted safeguards of a Christian home and church. There was, how ever, some lapse in the proprieties, easily checked at first, that paved the way, imperceptibly, perhaps, to herself to her downfall; small beginnings of evil, of which- all humaji beings are warned to beware, and which the high minded young woman from an Inborn. sense or maidenly purity promptly checks, or from which she turns aside in disgust and indignation. Here as elsewhere the mentor Is within. Out ward rules and regulations cannot al ways be depended upon to withstand the stress of emotions, artfully played upon by a master spirit. This fact 16 embodied In the familiar saying, "She who hesitates is lost," and in failing to apply this rule to her own conduct this young woman met social and physical death. But of the man, older, well versed in the ways of tie world; the powers o whose mind were devoted to-a- sacred calling; who 4n pursuit of this calling undermined the principles, poisoned the 1 weaker mind of his victim with sophis try cunningly distilled, controlled the conduct and finally took the life of this young woman, what shall be said of him? Let litter reprobation be his por tion, even in death, In that, gifted with by ours. It put life into the town, got the people together, made them, forget J a man's strength and a physician's un their troubles ana started tnem on the high road to greatness. Evidences of these good effects are manifested all over Portland already. Can't we have the full 5500.000 subscribed at once? The condition of the Rademaker chil dren, the brother and t sister afflicted with some baffling, horribly disfiguring disease of the face and head, who xe- derstanding, he used both to wreck the happiness of two homes and take two' lives. Utterly unlearned in the alpha bet of self-control, the basis of true manhood; weak and vicious, he drifted to his own downfall and that of another, utterly reckless of consequences. The .Inducing cause of this social Irruption WaC firet o al. lack Individual self- 1 control; contributory thereto was op- The Administration and Its friends .had a very strong case in the matter of easily defending the Government from the charge of violation of the laws of civilized warfare in our Army opera tions against the enemy In the Philip pines. This advantage was thrown away by the Injudicious action of cer tain Republican Senators who hastened to condemn General Smith on an irre sponsible, ex parte accusation without waiting to find out by military inquiry whether General Smith had done any thing in violation of the laws of war as communicated to him by his military superiors. The consequence of this very stupid leadership has been the ut terly unjust military trial of a worthy and gallant officer upon absolutely Irre sponsible, vague charges, whose authen ticity could have been easily ascertained through a preliminary couft of inquiry ordered by General Chaffee. As a mat ter of common sense It was incredible that Major-General Chaffee, U. S. A., a stern old soldier and strict disciplin arian, allowed any officer of the rank and responsibility of General Smith to conduct the campaign In Samar In vio lation of the laws of warfare as laid down for the instruction of the officers of his command. General Chaffee could not afford to handle an army of 60,000 men with a long rein; and neither -General Smith nor any of General Chaffee's subordinates would dare to exceed the fair construction of General Chaffee's orders for the conduct of the campaign in Samar. For his own protection the comniand Ing officer holds all his officers to strict responsibility; and for their own protec tion all subordinates always ask and obtain written orders for all Important movements of military action or policy. It Is morally certain that General Jacob H. Smith did not issue an order for the conduct of his campaign In Samar with out full consultation with and absolute approval by General Chaffee, and It Is morally certain that General Chaffee did not exceed the limits of civilized warfare authorized by general order No. 100, Issued in 1863 to the Union Armb and signed by Abraham Lincoln. A simple Inquiry by the Government of General Chaffee and his report was all the notice that the Government should have taken of these absurd charges against our methods of warfare in the Philippines. So with the absurd report of Major Gardener. Its prompt Inves tigation soon evacuated It of its over powering flatulency. In our judgment no order for the court-martial of Gen eral Smith shbuld have been issued by the Government without first finding out from General Chaffee whether In his judgment General Smith's conduct had been in such violation of the laws of war aB to Justify a court of inquiry or a court-martial. Instead of this, General Smith was ordered for trial on a mere ex parte accusation, and has probably been able to easily show that he Issued no orders that were not covered by the order No. 100, Issued In the Civil War to gov ern officera Let us assume that when he went to Samar on the heels of the massacre and mutilation of the un armed conipany of the Ninth Infantry he issued verbal orders to kill every body found In arms who was over 10 years of age, and to burn the country If it was necessary, to wipe out the in surrection. What of it? This verbal Instruction was not out of line with order No. 100; It was a Just threat and an efficient threat, for in less than ninety days the Insurrection was extin guished without any great loss on our side or on part of the enemy. General Smith simply made war as Grant, Sher man and Sheridan made war. General Smith made war 'as Sherman did when he went through Georgia and the Caro llnas like a prairie fire; he made war as Sheridan did when he made the'fertlle Shenandoah Valley Incapable of sup porting the enemy. When torpedoes exploded under a road and killed sev eral of our soldiers, General Sherman said to the Colonel of the First Ala bama Cavalry; "Burn the country within fifteen miles surrounding this spot." When General Sheridan's staff officer, Lieutenant Meigs, was shot by guerrillas, Sheridan ordered all the houses within an area of five miles to be burned. What Is the difference be tween General Grant's order to Gen eral Sheridan to make the Shenandoah Valley a barren waste and Smith's al leged order to make Samar a howling wilderness, or our burning of the Valley of the Tennessee in rear of Bragg's army from Bear River to Decatur? This order No. 100, Issued during our Civil War In 1863, Is used today by our Army and by nearly all civilized na tions. It gives an officer great latitude when he meets a savage enemy, or a military outlaw, and throws him upon his own Judgment as to how far he should go In inflicting punishment, but under its principles there Is not the slightest ground for believing that Gen eral Smith violated the spirit of our military code. The preslden.te, whom Major Glenn Is 'charged with having subjected to the water cure, had been appointed to office by our Government. had taken the oath of allegiance and a. the same 'time It was discovered that he was a Captain of an insurgent com pany giving active assistance o the enemy. He was a traitor and a spy, and under the laws of war he deserved to be shot or hanged, hut he was only given the water cure. A deserter from our Army would have been glad to have escaped capital punishment so easily. The laws and usages of war are not the laws and usages of peace, ,and yet the only truthful criticism that can be made upon our Army in the Philip pines Is that It has really made war upon the enemy and declined to con sider a Malay proa full of .plrates a political craft fit to be given the Dec laration of independence for a mariner's compass and the Constitution for the art of. navigation. terlal. and the amount of this class of merchandise now afloat andmnder en gagement for Portland Is more than double that of any previous season In the history of the trade. The demand for this class of material is easily ac-H counted for, when the remarkable growth of the city Is considered, for on 'every hand buildings of all description are under construction, or have been planned with a view to building as soon as material can be secured. This big cargo fleet is a two-fold advantage to the state, for It not only cheapens the cost of material for the home buildings, but It provides the farmer with cheap tonnage for moving the wheat to mar ket In the past Portland has .been obliged to depend largely on ballast ton nage for wheat, but the appearance of such a large cargo fleet will materially aid In keeping outward rates at a mod erate figure. TILLMAN'S UNCONSCIOUS SERVICE The Government wheat crop report Issued. Monday showed a condition of 76 4 May 1, compared with 94.1 on the same date last year.'' The acreage was given at 27,103,000. Last year an acre age of 27,800,000 acres of Winter wheat produced approximately 400,000,000 bush els of wheat, or at least the Govern ment statisticians said It did. The con ditions as given out by the above fig ures show a deterioration of about 20 per cent as compared with conditions at the same period last year. If this same ratio of decrease is applied to the expected out-turn, we should have a Winter wheat crop approximately 80, 000,000 bushels smaller than that of a year ago. The trade, however, has con cluded that a large proportion of that 20 per cent deterioration has been made good by favorable weather since the data were gathered for the Government report, and are accordingly slow to ad vance prices so long as the sun Is shin ing in the wet districts and rains are falling on the dry spots. The American "visible" declined over 3,000,000 bushels last week, and there was a decrease of about 3,000,000 bushels In the exports from, the principal countries. In the face of all thlB array of bullishness, the Chicago market yesterday slumped off nearly a cent because rain fell In Kan sas. Meanwhile, stocks of wheat are becoming depleted all over the coun try, and conditions have seldom been more favorable for a rise of some importance. A band of noble Filipinos, fit for self government. George Washlngtons and Thomas Jeffersons in very effective dis guise, seized three pfv the native police for no oth'er offense than that they had loyally accepted American sover eignty and were trying to keep the peace; tied them hand and foot; gouged out their eyes with sharp wood sticks, and then, placing them In the burning sand, with the sun beating lrito their eyeless sockets, commencing at their feet, cut them Into, small pieces with bolos, adding every possible feature of barbaric torture except burning. The other two members of the constabulary escaped to Sorsogon, when nearly dead from an awful race of ten miles. When a relief party reached the scene of the attack the only evidences left of the struggle were small pieces of human flesh and bone, bearing a mute record of the awful fate of their companions in arms. As soon as our anti-imperfal-ist exchanges begin to arrive we shall know whether these flends should be punished with Ice cream and soda water or a copy of Mrs. Hemans poems. Chicago Inter Ocean. Senator Tillman unconsciously has done the Republic good: service. His outburst on Wednesday has thoroughly exposed the hysterical hypocrisy of the Demo cratic slanderers of our soldiers. He has proved that the virtuous Democratic censors of the Administration's Philip pine policy belong to that breed of men who Defend the rogues they love as brothers By charging equal guUt to others. Under Mr. Bryan's inspiration, and under the leadership of Rawlins, Patter son, Dubois and. Carmack, the Democrats in "Congress have asserted that the Ad ministration deliberately resolved to en slave the Filipinos, and that the Army is the brutal instrument of Us tyranny. As specifications and evidence to this charge they have raked up the tales of dismissed soldlcr3 with personal griev ances, or of those seemng to puau "bad men" before the folks at home, and accepted as truth the lies of treach erous Malays and the imaginings of ner vohs degenerates In this' country. Now comes Tillman, and not only con fesses but glories In the fact that for every crime Imputed to our soldiers in the Philippines the Democratic party here at home has committed a hundred crimes as bad and worse. "You tortured FilIplno3 with the water cure.'" roars Rawlins, "to obtain Informa tion!" "We. ovAnf tho. -wAtor mire." defiant ly yells Tillman, "but when we think it ia necessary to put a nigger's head In the sand we put In hla whole body!" And so on through the whole category. When his colleagues assert that the Phil ippines are ruled In opposition to the will of the majority of their people, Till man boasts how the Democrats of his own county stuffed ballot uoxes anu established minority' rule. When his colleagues accuse our soldiers of murder ing prisoners, Tillman glories in Demo cratic murder of negroes. His colleagues In the Senate sought to repudiate Tillman by walking out when he bagan"his truthful tirade, but even they will not deny that for years, and even today, the Democratic party as a. whole has profited by the crimes in which Tillman glories. Without those crimes there Would be no "Solid South," and without a "Solid South" where would the national Democracy be today? That there have been sporadic instances of cruelty In the Philippines that some times thex extreme provocation given by treacherous savage's has moved our sol diers to apply too severely the law of an eyo for an eye and a tooth for a tooth Is probably true. But these deeds are excused or defended by none. They are no part of the Nation's policy. The Administration has punished, Is punish ing, and will punisn an sucn onenueis. But for men who personally or through their party have profited by crimes as bad or worse, and a hundred times as numerous, to seize upon these occasional lapses in the Philippines as typical of the Nation's policy, and to exploit tnem lor f partisan gain, is the most detesiaDio hypocrisy. God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform. That Benjamin Tillman should be ut terly unable to comprehend that his own deeds and his party's deprive him and It of any right to censure our soldlera that he should be utterly unconscious of the hypocrisy of denouncing the summary execution of Malay bandits, while ap plauding the murder of black Americana who sought merely to have their votes counted but emphasizes the service that he has done the Republic by stopping the slanderous mouths of those who seek to purchase partisan advantage with the blood of our soldlera in the Philippines. MIGRATING HOME-SEEKERS. - Representative Tongue's address at Charleston, printed In The Oregonlan yesterday, Is an admirable achievement, sound, statesmanlike, of excellent liter ary quality ami of inestimable value to the state he so ably serves In Con gress. There are few men In either house of Congress who could have pre pared and delivered a speech showing such acquaintance with history, grasp of political and social questions, and a catholicity of spirit without which these interchanges of Idea's between sections are vain. It seems to The Oregonlan that the very least Mr. Tongue's district can do In the way of appreciation of his creditable representation of them and his statesmanlike treatment of Oregon and the Oregon country Is to give him a majority at the June election which will In some degree recognize his long and faithful labors on behalf of his constituents. CONDITIONS IN MINDANAO. St Louis Globe-Democrat As General Chaffee has demanded the surrender of the murderers of an enlisted man on a peaceful mission In Mindanao, and haa begun a military movement to enforce reparation otherwise refused, the center of Interest In the Philippines may be shifted for a time. Mindanao Is the second largest Island of the group, and contains a population of nearly 700,000, divided as to religion as follows: Chris tians, 227,576; Moros (Mohammedans), 196.000: nacans. 260.300. The Moros are the organized military element, and able to muster an army of 20,000 men, chiefly armed with lances, but possessing 2000 rifles and a few field pieces. As fighters, the Moros have the fierce Mohammedan characteristics. They are taught that to be killed In battle Is a sure passport to Paradise. In war they are merciless, their rule being to offer no quarter under any circumstances. The pagans also are sdvage fighters. One of their customs Is to sacrifice human life to Idols. The Christians live chiefly along the coast, and, as a matter of fact, comparatively little Is known of the Interior of the Isl and. A recent book on thcr Philippines says the present condition of Mindanao Is lamentable, with robbery and murder rampant Piracy wa3 one of the main difficulties In Mindanao under Spanish rule, and a constant patrol of gunboats was neces sary to keep down this crime. Left to themselves, the Philippine Islands would become a creat nest of olrates. Tnerc are hundreds of places of refuge along the enormous coast line of the group, and the natives are more than ordinarily familiar with navigation. It Is useless to expect civilization to endure attempted self-government by the 24 tribes of Min danao, radically divided In language, re ligion and material Interests. A political coalition of Christianity, Mohammedan lsm.and heathenism In one Island, and In a population but slightly removed, in gen eral sense, from savagery, is too absurd to be seriously considered. . Should the United States ever accept the advice of the present leaders of the Democratic party and sail away from the Philippines "without looking back," it would not be long before our navy would! be called upon to deal with pirates lurking across our commercial road to Oriental coun tries. European nations would feel war ranted In seizing what we had aban doned in disregard of treaty obligations assumed at the end of a war. Ever since the Philippines were ac quired earnest endeavors have been made by the United States to preserve peace with the Mohammedan element, a spe cial treaty exists with the Sulu author ities, who have been treated liberally and considerately. But an American soldier connected with the signal service was killed not long ago, and General Chaffee has reported that the act was without provocation or justification. He caueu for the surrender of the assailants, but could get no answer. His resort to force under such circumstances Is a necessity according to the usage of enlightened na tions. Beyond doubt our soldiers In the Philippines are more anxious for peace than war. They are under no Illusions, for their experience, reaching back over four years, teaches them that campaign ing anywhere In the Islands Is extreme ly hard and exposed to savage tactics. But never once In all Its history has the Army of the United States performed less than Its duty, and, unless General Chaffee's demand In Mindanao Is com plied with, he has no alternative but to punish the tribe that has murdered a man In the uniform of the United States without an offer of reparation, or even a repsonse to a request for a conference on the subject San Francisco Call. A dispatch from St. Paul to the New York Sun says: "In the 60 days ending with April 12 the railroads brought 126,000 Homeseekers from the Eastern and South ern States to the Northwest Of these It Is estimated that 50 per cent have gone through the city. 25 per cent have gone by way of the Burlington road, via Bil lings, and 23 per cent have either settled In or Lave passed through South Dakota Into North Dakota." A detailed estimate of the points to which this migration la moving gives the figures in tabular form thus: North Dakota 50,000 Washington, Idaho, Oregon 4o,000 Northern Minnesota 13, South Dakota .OX) Manitoba 1592 Montana iQ00 A great publisher passes away with the death of Mr. Haldeman, of the Courier-Jjfournal. He did the work, com paratively unknown to the mass of men, while Colonel Watterson was pirouetting upon the stage of politics, the lecture platform and the field of rhetorical vaudeville In full view of the many. Watterson Is a brainy editor, but the Courier-Journal owes less to him than to Mr. Harrlman. Many an editor would lose his audience entirely If It were not for the plodding pub lisher's fidelity in keeping up the sup ply of pencils and paper. The New York Evening Post says the reason 'why our Generals come home from the Philippines to pass Into ob scurity Instead of, popular acclaim Is because the war is" an unrighteous war. This Is well enough until we come to reflect upon the obscurity into, which Shafter, DUffleld and other Cuban he roes melted upon the settlement with Spain. Hero worship Is pot what the soldier expecta He expe'ets only jus tice, and" that is hard enough to get for him these days of "antl-lmperlallst" persecution. Twenty-five ships are now en route or listed for Portland general cargo from European ports. The greater part of these cargoes consists of cement; glass, iron, fire, brick and other building xna- ' Reports from the Island of St. Vincent are only eclipsed In horror by the greater calamity ,at Martinique. It seemo to those who have the good for tune to live on solid ground that the abandonment of these Islands and oth ers of the group known as the Lesser Antilles should be voluntary, as it ap parently must soon become a matter of necessity. The death list, both on St Vincent and Martinique, constantly grows, and must continue to do so, at least until relief, vfessels soon to be dis patched can reach the desolated Islands. The statement of the United States National Bank printed yesterday morn ing shows a very Wealthy condition of business, which Is generally true in Portland at this time. Comparison with the statement Issued a year ago makes apparent the fact that this institution has made notable Increase In this period. ' Senator Mason has-been repudiated by the Republicans of Illinois. Air that ailed him was he thought It was smart to denounce the President arid the-Army for doing their plain duty in the Phil ippines. The Senator Is a large and able-bodied warning. Total "S.OOO As a result of the migration the rail roads of the Northwest are estimated to have carried 25.000 cars of freight belong ing to the homeseekers. It is added by the correspondent of the Sun that all prospects 'point to the conclusion that tne migration during Apriiand May will be nearly double that of the past two months. Much of It will go to Canada, and Mani toba expects to add 30,000 people to her population during the Summer. All of that Is interesting to California. We have ample lands for settlers and a far better market for the sale of produce. Furthermore, we have an unrivaled soil and climate for the production of about everything a farmer wishes to cultivate. We ought therefore to be receiving a con siderable part of the stream of migration that has now started from the East The task of attracting the attention of home seekers to Northern California could not have been undertaken at a rfbW oppor tune time. The rush to the Northwest Is due to the moderate price of land, and It price alone be considered we cannot compete, hut when the fertility of the soil and the value of Its products arc taken into consider ation the Northwest cannot compete with r-aHfnrnlft. It ought to be possible, there fore, to bring the better and wiser class of homeseekers to this state, if for no other purpose than that of taking a look at the land. There seems to be no end to the emigrants. Our Eastern exchanges say the movement Is the largest known In the history ot tne country. ie preceding movements of the kind, it will boon? run its course, and we should try to profit by it while It la at full tide. From a Fair and Informed Xan. William H. Taft Civil Governor of the Philippines: That there has ben cruelty In the Philip pines and that the "water cure" has in some cases been administered to natives Is, no doubt, true; that It typlneo th conduct ot the Army ia the Islands I do not believe. To consider bow such outrages could have occurred and yet not make the Army as a whole, or Its commanders, responsible, one mtut remember that It was a guerrilla warfare. It became necessary to establish COO different posts, with small detachments, sometimes In charge ot Second Lieutenants and even Ser geants. Th Army, of course, haa lta weak- and bru tal men, and In such guerrilla 'fighting, with detachments shot down trom ambush and bodies mutilated. It la not strange that young officer, desiring to prevent less of further men and the death of themselves amid such treach ery, shojlld resort to every legitimate means to endeavor to find where guns were hid by the treacherous foe. and If they found In vogue a system ot torturft among the Filipinos, which the Spaniards, too, had used, Js It strange that human, nature .weakened, and that they took steps which. have startled the American peo ple? L- There are In the United States 110,000 men who'have been through the Philippine War. It la manifestly Impossible to call that great army to testify In the negative, but you can call 60 or 100 men who testify to having seen the torture applied. The danger l that the American people will accept only the statements of ibese 0 or 100 mert. You. are bound In fairness to accept the .statement of officers who tell you. as did Gen- - ermhjMacArthur, that the war Is conducted hu manely and that they use ev.err means to j4 suppress abuse. Major Gardener's Flash In the Pan. Brooklyn Eagle, Dem. If Majoj- Gardener can do no better than this, anything he may say In. the future need not be taken seriously. Courts-martial are not usually convened upon hear say. Neither are convictions before them obtained upon evidence too Indefinite to survive the test of cross-examlnitldn. The burning of, villages, or of towns, or of cities. Is a matter entirely within the discretion of the man who orders the ap plication of the torch. That sort of thing Is universally recognized as a regrettable but frequently necessary accompaniment of warfare. The Impressment of one pony was, however, a shocking occur rence, which might have been obviated had" the War Department been generous enough to provide the Impresser with an automobile. The card Incident merely shows that no youth should be graduated from West Point unless he first gives evi dence of an ability to deal for himself; to depend upon a Filipino In the crisis of a game Indicates a lick of self-reliance which is In no way creditable to an offi cer of the American Army. It also means the surrender of a privilege which by some people Is considered well worth having. We trust that Major Gardener will not feel unduly discouraged If the War Department bases no proceedings upon his "discoveries." It was George III who gave historic value to the phrase, "Nothing comes of nothing." Officious Friends His Real Enemies. Brooklyn Eagle. J The whole controversy and it is a bit ter one the whole scandal for scandal it was may be said to be chargeable to a bureaucracy of favoritism In the Navy Department, which controlled those who shoutd have crushed It out and which towed all the seed that naturally grew tc a fruit of fraud, of folly and of shame. The "Captains" who have reaped the re wards of their course, who have dis honored the- function of testimony, and whd stained with partiality and preju dice the escutcheon of the Navy, set up Sampson as their leader, but really made him Iheir tragic victim. They Intended to make Schley that victim, but they have, by a natural recoil, overmade him, far overmade him, Into a hero or a mar tyr, or into an Immortal, or Into a miracle of Providential vindication, or Into any like things, which he is not. We do not believe the harm to the Navy will be re paired In a generation. We are very sorry that the victim of It, who was to be the beneficiary of It. so long suffered mortal illness and mental eclipse, and we cannot without sensibility recognize that his passage .from moribund conditions Into death was a merciful exit In circum stances of which the existence amounted to a calamity, to be deplored, and to a crime that could well have been relent lessly punished. NOTE AND COMMENT. Aren't you sorry you didn't register? Slabwood Is going up In other ways than in smoke. Hear Judge Williams speak. You will vote for him if you do. A little more of this threatening weath er and wc shall have rain. The voice of that Interesting animal the roorback Is heard in. the land. What Is enterprising energy on one side Is pernicious activity on the other. Jupiter Pluvius Is kicking up an awful fuss about a few premature straw hats. Even the coal Jbarons will have to bow low when J. P. makes a demand on them for fuel for his ships. Mr. Inman Is telling the worklngmen that It was his wicked partner who re fused to sign the union agreement Thus far Cuba has managed to navigato the ship of state, but signals for a pilot may float at her masthead almost any time. The certainty of Democratic success is shown by the frantic rush for the place on the ticket made by Mr. Inman's res ignation. Carnegie says trade Is no respecter of flags. True, for it has been following the Stars and Stripes at anything but a respectful distance. And to think that Noah was obllsed to spend such a long time on the ark with out even ping pong to relieve the monot ony of the voyage. With Weyler on one hand and the Span ish populace on the other, Alphonso will not be particularly jubilant over his ac cession to the throne. Funston hasn't talked half -so much about the Philippines as- some Congress men who don't know half so much about the situation over there. A man who was "wanted" In Russia had been photographed in six different posi tions, and the pictures were duly circu lated among the police departments. Tho chief of one of these wrote to headquar ters a few days after the Issue of the set of portraits, and stated: "Sir, I have duly received the portrait of the six mis creants whose capture Is desired. I havo arrested five of them, and the sixth is under observation, and Will be secured shortly." Judge A. M. Kelley used to narrate that while on the bench In the International Court at Cairo, after a witness whose nationality, was a puzzle had been ad dressed In French, Spanish, German, Portugueses, Italian and Arabic, and failed to makeany response except to In dicate by shaking his head that he did not understand. Judge Kelley turned to a brother Judge and remarked, sotto voce: "I wonder what language the Idiot speaks, anyhow." "The same as yerself, yer honor," came from the witness In the broadest Tlpperary brogue. To Mary Unvrin. William Cowper. Mary! I want a lyre with other strings. Such aid from Heaven as some have felgn'd they drew. An eloquence scarce given to mortals, new And undebased by praise of meaner things, That ere through as or woe 1 shed my wings I may record thy worth with honor due, In verse as musical as thou art true, 'And that immortalizes whom It sings: But thou hast little need. There Is a Book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light On which the eyes of God not rarely look, A chronicle ot actions Just and bright There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine; And1 since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine. . - To Helen. Edgar Allan Poe. Helen, thy beauty Is to me Like those NIcaean barks of yore. That gently, o'er a perfumed sea. The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam. Thy h jacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs, havo brought mo home To the glory that was Greece -And the grandeur that was Rome. L6I in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-Ilka I see thee stand. The agate lamp within thy hand I Ah, Psyche, from tho regions which Are Holy Lxcd! ' A woman was waiting in the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, tho other afterpoop to "get .tickets ,fqr a steKhaUt train. One of the railroad ushers tapped her lightly on the shoulder and said: "Madam, don't block the way here. Take your place In the regular line." Sho turned on the dutiful usher with a chill ing stare, and replied: "Oh, you needn't be so particular. This Isn't the only sta tion In the city, even if it is finely fixed up. There are other places to get a train besides here. I'll go straight to South- -street and patronize that station." And, catching up her skirts, she flounced out of the station. A great public reform Is suggested In the following letter which Eugene Ware received the other day: "My Dear Ware: I note that you havo positively refused to say a word for pub lication or make a speech since your ap pointment as Pension Commissioner. I believe jou are the man to pioneer a great reform by taking the lead In or ganizing a society which might be called the sphinxes. Its membership should em brace alL officers of the Army and Navy and all appointive officers in the service of the Government It should be required on" the condition of extreme penalties that no member shall make a speech or give out an interview. Once a year there should be a banquet at Washington after the fashion of other social organizations. At this banquet every guest should re main absolutely sllent-havlng no toasts, no speeches, no conversation on topics of a public nature disturbing the atmos phere with only such sounds as the clat ter of knives and forks and the gurglo ot highballs' FLEASATRIES OF PARAGKAPHEHS Prima Donna Appearances are very decep tive Comedlan-Especlally farewell appear ances. Detroit Free Press. Leading Him On. He Would your mother let you go to the theater without a chaperon? She Not unless I was engaged. Town and Country. Mrs. Smith So you think youi1 son Reginald will make a great pianist? Mrs. Brown Yes, Indeed. Why. the little darling won't even take a lesson unlpsa we pay him for It. Judge. No Hurry. "I suppose." said the ding hus band, "that you v. Ill marry again after I'm gone." t"l d-don't know. John." sobbed the faithful wife. "I, h-haven't given the m-mat-ter very much t-thought." Chicago Dally News. Agent I have a book jou should buy for your son, telling blm how to become a poli tician, statesman. President of tho Unite States, banker, broker Mrs. Hennessj G'wan, did yer mother buy wan for jou? Brooklyn Life. Told Even body. Henchman Tou tola mo that If I would vote for you. jou would give me a Job. I can prove It by many witnesses. Politician I don't doubt It. my dear sir; I told everybody the samo thing I told you. Ohio State Journal. Exorbitant Litigant What will you charge me for taking the case? Lawyer It ought to be worth a hundred, but I'll do It for ou for an een sixty. Litigant Sixty dollars? Great Croesus! I can buy a whole Jury for thatl Chicago Tribune. A Home Opinion. "Maria." he said. "I don't think I'd caro to be President of the United States it's a hard Job, and subject to so much criticism!" "You're right. John." was the re ply. "It's lots better that jou should run for the Legislature, where they won't pay any mote attention to you than we do at home!" Atlanta Constitution. Not Milk. The milk-wagon was upset. The lad who was In charge stood by tha roadside, weeping bitterly. "Tut, tut. little boy," sajd a sympathetic stranger, "there is no use In cry ing over spilt milk." "I'm not mister." an swered the honest youth, between sobs. "I gdesi you don't know much about this busi ness. If you think that." Baltimore American. Johnny and Harry bad been 15ft at home with their big sister, mother having gone out. At bedtime they wanted to "stay up for mother." but their sister relentlessly put them to bed. Harry maintained a stolid Indifference, but Johnny cried lustily. Their sister listened at the foot of the stairs hoping they would soon be good. At last Johnny stopped, and the lis tener heard him say; "You cry a bit Harry; 1 I'm tired." Tit-Bits.