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THE MORNING OBEGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULY ia 1902. tie $$&aiaxx Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Oregon, as eecond-claes matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION HATES. By Mall (postage prepaid. In Advance) - Dally, -with Sunday, per month.... 5 S3 Daily, Sunday excepted, per year &o 3-aily. with fauhday, per year r g J Sunday, per year r J?0, The Weekly, per year x The Weekly. 3 months M To City Subscribers Dally, per -week, delivered, Sunttay exctptt&.Ke pally, per week, delivered. Sundays included.20c POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page .paper ...........ic 14 to 2S-page paper.... ............ Foreign rates double. News or discussion intended for publication In The Oreconlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oreconlan." not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oreconlan." Eastern Business Offlce. 43, 44. 45. ". i8 43 Trlbuno building. New York City: 010-11-12 Tribune building;. Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Dee. Pal ace Hotel newa stand; Goldsmith Bros-. 230 Sutter street: F. W. Pitts. 100S Market street: J. K. Cooser Co.. 748 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster &. Orear. Ferry news rtand; Frank Scott. SO Ellis street, and 3. Wheatley. S13 Mission street. For tale In Dos Angeles by B. F. Gardner. C50 So. Spring street, and Oliver A Haines. 303 Eo. Epring street. For sale In Sacramento by Sacramento News Co.. 429 K street. Sacramento. Cal. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 17 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald. C3 "Washington street. For tale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1012 Farnam street: Megcath Stationery Co.. 1303 Farnam street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Dake News Co.. 77 W. Second South street. For sale In Ogden by C H. Myers. For sale In Minneapolis by R. G. Hearsey & Co.. 24 Third street South, For sale in "Washington, D- C, by the Ebbett House newa stand. For sale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 006-D12 Seventeenth street; Douthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., 15th and Lawrence street; A. Series, Sixteenth and Cur tis streets; and H. P. Hansen. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair; slightly warm er; northwesterly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, G7; minimum temperature, 81; pre cipitation, trace. PORTDAAD, TUESDAY, JUDY 1, 1002. INDEPENDENCE, AXD ITS PROMISE. The Democratic contention touching the Philippines resolves Itself into two parts the grant of independence as an act, and the guarantee of independence as a promise. Is independence best, and, again, is the promise of independ ence -wise? The testimony and the evidence are uniform that whatever may happen In the future, independence now is not to be thought of. The Philippine Archi pelago consists of 1500 islands scattered along as many miles of latitude, popu lated by men of dissimilar races, lan guage and religion. They are no more susceptible of amalgamation into a re public than were the Indian tribes of North America from Alaska to Mexico 200 years ago. The establishment of an Independent government there at once was advocated three and four years ago, but Is not now by any con siderable body of opinion. Including even the ranks of anti-imperialists. A stable government must first be estab lished, and this Is recognized not only by the Kansas City platform, but by the Democratic state platforms of the current year and by the Democratic minority in both houses of Congress. "Scuttle" Is the proposal, but not just yet Now, as to the future. Men choose to fancy that the promise of independence will' be for us more honorable than Its withholding, and for the Filipinos a promotion of confidence. But It Is ob vious that there Is no merit In pledges of thomselves, and until the hour for performance has arrived, the proper na ture of the desired action appears clear er and more certain as time goes on. It will be time enough for us to claim credit for concessions to the Filipinos when we have granted them. Inde pendence is unwise now; may It not be unwise for a long time? How, then, should our situation be improved by projecting into It a pledge whose re demption might be long delayed, to our embarrassment and perhaps our shame? Nor would such a pledge be at all more promising in its effect upon the Filipinos themselves. There are the Tagal warriors; second, the civilization of such centers as Manila; and, third, the non-Tagal tribes. Upon the Tagals themselves nothing would more exert a militant effect than this same pledge of independence; for they would recog nize that their domination would de pend largely upon their continued mili tary activity. They have been driven into quietude by our vigorous asser tion of sovereignty, and the prospect of relaxation, would qnly revive their bel ligerence. Upon the archipelago's cen ters of civilization the effect of the pledge would be most unfortunate; for it would restore their fear of Tagal domination, with its unpleasant and harassing concomitants, and chill the ardor of development that now informs their long-paralyzed Industries. "Worse than, all else, perhaps, would be the ef fect upon the tribes in opposition to the Tagals. Government in Tagai hands would mean a fiercer struggle ana a greater abomination of desolation than the archipelago has ever known. It would be a sad day for the Philippines and for the adjacent coasts of Asia when the prospect of Tagal dominion and Its resultant duel to the. death with its enemies north and south should take the place of the present acquiescence In the firm administration of American sovereignty. The demand for Philippine independ ence or for a guarantee of Its future delivery is- not based upon study of conditions in the islands, not deduced from any array of premises established by evidence or inquiry. It Is simply the product of impulsive determination to see a parallel between the Philippines now'andHhe American, colonies in 1776. It is artlessly assumed that in with holding Independence -from the Philip pines we are repudiating the immortal Declaration, when the most cursory ex amination of the two cases will show Tadical dissimilarity. The Declaration said that separation required justifica tion before the bar of mankind, and proceeded to specify grounds of com plaint in mis-government. It nowhere maintained that separation was the right of every portion of a nation upon Its simple announcement of such pur pose. "Whatever impression, in that di rection may have been rightly or wrongly drawn from the "consent of the governed" phrase was thoroughly set at naught by the arbitrament of the Civil War. In facts and in theory, therefore, Philippine independence how Is Impossible,- and Its promise is unsound in policy and hurtful in its certain effects. It Is a mere partisan and captious cry, tUci iy tith the sole and des perate resolve to find some other course than, the one the Administration at "Washington for four years has .pursued. MAX, IMPROVIDENT MAN. The editor Is in Tecelpt of the append ed inquiry, which the correspondent evi dently regards as a poser: I am credibly Informed that the Mult nomah County Poor Farm contains something Hko 150 men and only 30 women. Will you be kind enough to explain this Interesting state of affairs? Nothing easier. The only embarrass ment of explanations Is from very rlchea In the first place, It must be remembered that the County Court, owing to the proscription of woman, is composed entirely of men. Mere man examines the applicants for support and apportions the relief. When the in equality of the sexes is remedied, this grievous discrimination will be at an end. The men themselves must be ac counted to blame for some portion of. their relative impecunloslty. A woman Is more useful about the house, and consequently more In demand In fami lies for her board and clothea An old man needs a woman. to sew on his but tons and look after him generally, whereas an old woman can look after herself. Indeed, it is open to question whether a man Is not, after all, more helpless than a woman at any stage of existence. Such open assailants as wild beasts or doubled fists a man will meet with more hardihood than a woman can summon, but the specters of disease and pain, sorrow and poverty often encounter a pluckier foe in the female breast than In the male. Children, too, cannot escape their share of responsi bility In this matter; for numbers will turn father out to starve while they keep for mother a warm place In the chimney corner. The untoward lot of aged and penni less man Is chiefly to be explained, however, as but another count in the long conspiracy of society against him. Civilization accounts him. from the cradle to the grave, an easy mark. Lazy lodging-house keepers would rath er house a man than a woman" any day, because she wants what Is coming to her. Any clerk will tell you that ten men are easier to wait on than one woman, because the man will take home anything you give him. Take a 50-cent pair of half-ho9e, put two feet more leg on them, and a woman gets them for 19 cents on bargain daj Plaid trouserings are worth $8 a yard, but the same goods go to the ladles for tailor mades at ?2. A man will pay $3 for a colored shirt that, with twice as much work and trimmings on it, sells as a waist for' 59 cents today only. A man's shoe sells for $5, and a woman's made of the same material for $3 50. When the women take up Derby hats they will think $1 50 apiece about the cor rect thing. And they will get them, too. They, won't pay more. To add Insult to injury, the poor, vic timized man is then utilized for op probrium and jest. He works hard all Summer while his wife and daughters are spending the domestic Income at the Summer resorts; yet, whenever kind friends describe his forlorn appear ance to his family they do It with a wink and meaning smile which means that he is having a high old time. The father in song and story is cruel 0? negligible and the mother is the whole thing. "Rock me to sleep, mother," not father. The flower is "from my angel mother's grave." The ruined spend thrift begs you to "save my mother's picture from the sale." What becomes of his father's he careB nothing. "A boy's best friend is," of course, "his mother." Nobody ever wrote a song about his angel father, or his father's grave, or hope of meeting father over there, or of any kind or helpful or ten der thing his father did. If we encoun ter the male aspect of parentage at all It Is In some such form as "The old man's drunk again," or "Father, dear father, come home with me ow." Nothing could be expected of a social order thus animated than to bundle alj its old men off to the poorhonse. Man's greater usefulness, therefore, ap pears to be largely limited to the1 ques tionable function of a warning. Learn, my son, from Mr. Flatbroke's story, the necessity of early habits of Industry and economy. 1 Above all, be. If possible, a woman. Then you will not only escape the squalor of the almshouse, but will be enshrined In song and story. Of all the depressing things In the world, what can surpass the utter undeslrabllity of winding up life as a success only in af fording a most salutary and horrible example to the rising generation? A GOOD-ROADS SCHEME. Practical roadbuildlngthat Is to say, the building of roads that will with stand travel and be passable "through out the year has been undertaken in Marlon County. A section of road -near Salem known as the Liberty road Is being Improved with crushed rock by the county and farmers along the route jointly, the former furnishing the rock crusher and grading the roadbed, and the latter the labor In hauling and spreading the rock. The burden will not be great, as it Is proverbial that "many hands make light work." More over, the farmers contributing labor will sot value received In a few months in the saving upon teams, harness and vehicles, not to mention the pleasure of driving over good roads. The farmers, as was seemly, took the initiative in the matter, the County Commissioners accepting the proposi tion to furnish the rock, properly crushed, and to prepare the roadbed for itn rr.pntlnn In onnRldrnHnn nf -fVin j work furnished. The plan has already become popular as producing the best results in roadbuildlng -with the least outlay In money, and similar work wljl be done in other sections of the county during such portion of the Summer as can be spared by farmers from their harvest fields. The people of Salem, not less than those of the rural sections of Marlon County, Included In this good-roads scheme are to be congratulated upon the equitable measures that promise so well for the construction of some miles of "good, broad highway" leading ul timately IntoJ'Salem town," over which driving will "be a pleasure, relatively speaking, even during the "rainy sea son." Multnomah County has in aggregate many miles of highway that disprove emphatically the old. thriftless Idea that good roads are not possible In the Wil lamette Valley In the Winter season. Intelligent methods of construction, in cluding proper drainage and the use of suitable materials. Insure good roads anywhere.. And if in a climate of alter nate freezing and thawing, snow and sleet as in Pennsylvania, for examples why not in Oregon, where -the "'open Winter" Is the rule by which all out- 1 door work, including roadbuildlng, may I p be gauged? The truth is, all "things in-V dustrial are possible to energy, intelli gence, timely endeavor and sufficient outlay of money and good roads form no exception to-this very general rule. THE MODERN DUMBER-CARRIER. Metal ships have driven the old-style wooden square-riggers out of business in most trades, and It has been nearly ten years since the last of those stately craft which were once the pride of the American- merchant marine left the ways. Storms, fire and old age are rapidly thinning the ranks of these old timers, but on the Pacific as well as on the Atlantic they are being succeeded by a class of large wooden schooners which carry much greater cargoes per registered ton, sail nearly as. fast, and are much more economically operated. Oregon has more than a local reputation for shipbuilding, and when the square rigger was In the height of its glory a Coos Bay yard sent out the American ship Western Shore, whose record for rouhd-trlp voyages between the Pacific Coast and Europe has never been beaten. While the phenomenal performances of the Western Shore called special at tention to that craft, Oregon shipbuild ers have built scores of other fine mer chant vessels, and in their construction they have not only distributed large sums of money for labor and material, but they have provided lumber manu facturers and other shippers of Ore gon products with effective transporta tion equipment at a much smaller cost than would have been necessary had they been dependent on foreign builders for vessels. A. M. Simpson, who built the Western Shore, has been in the busi ness for a third of a century. He built a fleet named and numbered from the Alpha to the Omega, then finished off with the Gleaner, Encore, Echo and Addenda. Now his latest addition, bear ing the up-to-date name, Marconi, is ready for sea at Coos Bay. She will carry more lumber than any square rigger of a third greater tonnage, and can be worked with a crew 50 per cent smaller than that required on a square rigger. Vessels with a carrying capacity of over 7,000,000 feet of lumber are now loading at Portland or at points on the river below this city. This fleet will carry Oregon lumber to South America, Australia, South Africa and the Orient, and even' vessel of the fleet, like the cargo it carries, Is a Pacific Coast pro duction. Herein lies a feature of the lumberbuslness which offers advantages hot to be found In the lumber regions lying farther Inland. Oregon, through Its ports along the coast, has access to the world for a .market, and to reach this market of world-wide scope .Oregon shipbuilders are providing cheap sail ing vessels of, great carrying capacity and economical to operate. With an abundance of raw material for building this modern merchant marine cheaper than It can be built anywhere else- in the world, and plenty of cargoes for the ships when they are built, the Pacific Coast can view with complacency the struggle for supremacy among the less favored nations. The native-built wooden schooner Is driving the foreign-built craft out of the Pacific lumber trade, and has demon strated its worth wherever it has been sent It may not be as beautiful In ap--pearance as the symmetrical square rigged clipper of an earlier day, nor as lasting under stress of weather as the metal vessels, but "utility's the gem for wear," and in this respect the Oregon built schooner Is an adjunct of Increas ing value to the lumber trade of the Pacific Coast. The announcement of the death of Dr. J. C. Shelton, of Salem, records the passing of the last but one of a quar tet of ambitious, earnest young men who studied, worked and lived together in humble, frugal failure at Forest Grove In the early '50s while they were preparing for college. Lee Loughlin, Marion F. Mulkey, A. J. Leach and J C. Shelton were inseparable companions in those days, but they soon drifted apart In the strenuous work of life, and of the four the one first named alone survives. The promise of youth, as given in the eager pursuit of knowl edge In those promltlve times, was well fulfilled In the active endeavor of each. Dr. James C. Shelton, studious, modest, unassuming, stands out clearly in the memory of those who knew him In those days, not as a suffering Invalid, as he was In his later years, nor yet as a grave professional man, grappling earnestly with his chosen life work, but as a studious young man, genial but re tiring, who addressed himself conscien tiously to his task. Further along In life the memories of his endeavor are doubtless bright to a wide circle of his friends and beneficiaries of his. skill, but to the small and constantly nar rowing circle of the friends of his early student years his memory Is alight with the glow of perennial youth. The story of the double tragedy at Pearl, Idaho, wherein a man killed the sister of his former wife because she had married another man, regardless of his so-called "love" for her, and then made a suitable finish of the Job by taking his own life, is as old as the history of ungoverned passion fed by woman's weakness and man's domina tion of will. The death of a woman who broke up her sister's home by en couraging the lawless affection of that sister's husband can scarcely be said to be untimely, even though compassed Jjy violence, while the last act of the faithless husband's life, resulting In his own death, Is not In any sense to be deplored. But to his wife, whose sufferings through his perfidy no one can compute, and to the husband of his victim, vho In good-faith' mar ried her", genuine sympathy ll due. Death being the only way out of a labyrinth of domestic sin and shame and woe of this type, is shocking, but not afflictive. The Boston Herald thinks that while what Miss Taylor did In writing let ters bitterly denouncing the President and his policy for publication In a Washington newspaper would have challenged rebuke and probably Invited removal In a man. It was hardly worth while for Secretary Root to Inflict even a punishment that had been provoked upon a woman. In other words, the Boston Herald evidently thinks that dif ference of sex should be recognized by Secretary Root In the matter of punish ing Government employes for gross vio lations of official propriety. If this ar gument Is sound, then no women should be appointed to positions of clerical char acter In the War Department or any other department of the public service. If a woman seeks a clerical position in the Government service, she accepts it with all Its possible rewards and all Its promised punishments; otherwise she has no business to seek the position, but shoultt leave it to be occupied by a man, who will not be permitted to plead the weakness or ignorance of his sex "as full excuse for his folly. Women- cannot ex pect to have their cake and 'eat it, too. They cannot expect to compete with men for the occupation of Government clerkships, and then plead their sex as a grcund for -forbearance when they violate the ordinary official proprieties of the public service. There Is no sex In legal responsibility for crime, and there should be no sex in the responsi bility of a Government clerk for gross violation of the decencies and propri eties of official conduct Secretary Root was right in his decision to serve warn ing on all his clerks that no woman in his employ should publish bitter denun ciation of the President In the news papers and expect immunity from pun ishment for impropriety on the score, of sex. Read .the following from the Phila delphia Inquirer, and you will be tempt ed to believe that a slip has been made in writing the name of the place for which slip amendment can best be made by substitution of Portland: The curse, of Philadelphia has always been the objection to anything new by the dont fcnow class. When you hear a man declaring that the boulevard would destroy property and would not benefit any considerable number, you may Invariably put him down as a know nothlnir, o- man whose information upon af fairs Is bounded by the narrow limits of his back yard, a man untraveled and thoroughly ignorant of wiat has been dene elsewhere. In Portland we have those who object in this spirit to every Improvement. It won't do to let suburban railroads Into the city, nor electric power and light companies. Cars will wake up people "on th sleepy streets, and electric wires and poles are unsightly. What's the use, anyway? We didn't have these things forty years ago. Besides, if there were more stir somebody might make money, which never would do. Therefore let us block enterprise. Rot ten old wooden sidewalks and unpaved streets were good enough for our an cestors. Are we better than they? As phalt on the streets Is a device to kill off horses. Mud Is safer. Sewers also are useless. Didn't our ancestors do without them? And plumbing is a costly modern fad. devised for robbery of honest people. Listen to the old fogy. He Is the safe citizen. Queen Wllhelmlna Is progressing fa vorably toward recovery at Castle Schaumberg, In the Valley of the Lahn. The Queen Mother Is In constant at tendance upon her daughter, and the color and something of 'the vivacity of her girlhood Is returning to the face of the young Queen. If the sorrows result ing from her most uncongenial marriage were ended. Instead of being just In their beginning, the world might well congratulate Wllhelmlna upon her re covery. As It Is, Holland Is simply to be congratulated In escaping from the perils of a contested succession by her renewed lease of life. Wllhelmlna will no doubt be more able to grapple wisely and patiently with the miseries of an unfortunate marriage as the years go by. It is kind, at least, to hope that her awakening has been so complete that she will not trouble herself great ly about dreams of domestic happiness hereafter. This way lies the only road to cheerful endurance in cases of this kind. If King Edward maintains progress toward recovery thus far reported unin terruptedly, his case will be regarded as phenomenal. He was not regarded as a good subject for surgery, but quite the contrary, and we may well believe that the operation was deferred as long as medical prudence would permit. Al ready there Is talk of coronation cere monies and festivities late In Septem ber, but manifestly this can have no basis in probability, still les3 In fact, as long as physicians are in constant at tendance at the King's bedside and the dressing of the abdominal wound great ly distresses him. His family, his king dom and all nations Interested In the event should be more than satisfied if Edward Is crowned next June a well man, with reasonable promise of some added years of life and usefulness. Im patience In his case will not be permit ted to override prudence. Even decrepit old Spain comes to the front with a popular loan that has been Immensely oversubscribed. The gov ernment wanted 33S.000.000 pesetas, and In Madrid alone 2,322,000,000 were sub scribed, and other parts of the kingdom brought the total up to about twelve times the sum desired. To raise $67, 600.0CO was deemed no mean achieve ment for Spain; to have the sum offered a dozen times is regarded as glorious. In the City of Barcelona a syndicate capitalized at $8,000,OCO has been organ ized to reconstruct the Spanish Navy. Italy, also, Is evincing an unexpected and almost unaccountable recurrence of vigor and prosperity. The perversity of these "dying nations" In continuing to survive Is something extraordinary. If nothing happens to set them back, the Democrats will be able to tell us on the Fourth Just how much the war In the Philippines stands the Government. It costs something to keep the flag up, that's a fact. It cost a good deal In 1776. It cost lots more from '61 to '65. But we did It. Your Uncle Samuel roves money, but he has never yet run away from a scrap In which the Na tional sovereignty was Involved be cause the operation cost more than It brought In. If Estes G. Rathbone has any friends, they should advise him to let well enough alone. By the amnesty act of the grateful Cubans he was released from a long term of penal servitude for taking advantage of his official position 'to plunder the Cuban postal revenues. Now he asks for a Congressional inves tigation that shall restore his reputa tion. ,He would better accept his pres ent good fortune with what grace he can. His good luck may not continue indefinitely. Eugene, It la announced, will be quiet as a grave on Independence day. All the Inhabitants are going elsewhere to neighboring celebrations, and the busi ness houses will be closed. Happy, happy place! Thither let us all repair away from danger, noise and care, to spend a peaceful day. All railroads should run excursions to the blissful spot. Major Gardener 'seems to be a better man than his record would lead one to expect. He admits he was hasty and would have done differently If he had known more. Courage of this sort well befits the soldier. If Bryan would go off and get elected to something, Cleveland might be will ing to consider him more In bis class. ST. LOWS AND PER FAIR. The great exposition enterprise at St. Louis has Its foundation in tho revived commercial ambition of the- river city Before the Civil War St. Louis was the business center of the whole Middle West ern country and had been for two genera tions. But the development of the North erly as distinct from the Southerly tier of states built up Chicago and corresponding ly depressed St. Louis. Not. indeed, that St. Louis fell back either in population or In volume of business it never did that but Chicago grew fast while St. Louis jogged along with but a slightly accelera ted speed. It was not as the Chicago newspapers have always sought to make It appear. the fault of St. Louis, but be cause there was little development In Its Immediate trade field while the trade field of Chicago grew enormously through the building up of the Northwestern district. The States of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin. Minnesota the Northwest generally went forward with amazing strides while the Southwest remained stagnant. Since com mercial cities elsewhere than on Puget Sound cannot outrun the country which they serve, St. Louis for a generation "went slow." But the past 10 or 15 years have done wonders for St. Louis. First, through the operation of forces which It would be tedious to describe in detail the city came to be the center of the fihoe trade in the Mississippi Valley. Dealers who go to Chicago for their supplies of dry goods pass on to St. Louis when they come to stock up with boots and shoes. The best intelligence, the largest capital and the most effective energies of this particular branch of trade make the river city the field of their operations; and, curiously enough, this circumstance alone soon served to put St. Louts newly on the com mercial map, so to speak. This served for a new start a sort of fresh Introduction but far more important than this in its relation to the business revival of St. Louis was the development of Texas and the Southwest in general. It Is not many years ago since the whole Southwest was a cattle range. But the pos sibilities of the country were very great, and far-seeing men like the Huntingtons and the Goulds soon girdled the country over with railroads. "What always hap pens In such cases has happened. The Southwest has waked up. What was a few years ago a wilderness of dust and sagebrush Is now one of the very produc tive and exceptionally prosperous parts of the country: and by thlt extraordinary development St. Louis hat profited directly and Immensely. Sho hardly recognized it herself at first, but when the figures of her annual trade began to go forward with leaps and bounds and when the fig ures of her population began to climb at the rate of 5 per cent per annum she dis covered that something was moving and that at last things were coming her way. Today St. Louis is among the very pros perous cities of the country In which in the points of population and commercial business she ranks fourth, being preceded only by New York, Chicago and Philadel phia. In 1S90 her population as exhibited by the national census was 452,000; in 1900 the figures were 575,000. Since that time the forward movement has been rapid and today the population of the city cannot be leas than G50.000; and If to this total the figures of Immediate suburbs like East St. Louis be added the total would easily reach 800,000. St. Louis is fast approach ing the million mark, and unless there shall come upon the country some great and general backset she will long have passed It before the next national census shall be taken. To a city thus prosperous and expanding the popular repute of backwardness has been gall and worm Wood; and for five years the active men of the city have been on the lookout for some means of im pressing the country with the fact that St. Louis has a move on. Out of this search the exposition project was born, and there Is behind It a quality of en thusiaevm reflective of the general ardor and hopefulness of a city which feels itself to be rising to a new greatness. The visitor to St. Louis finds himself first surprised and finally amazed at the va6tness of the plans for the coming fair. The whole provision of money "In sight" Is approximately 515,000.000, or about 40 per cent more than the provision made In advance for the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The affair Is being planned and organized on a scale which will cost not less than $30,000,000; and of this sum the exposition is expected to earn approxi mately one-half. It is. of course, to be an International fair, but there are rea sons for doubting If its International or world features will equal the great Chi cago fair of 1593. There was a historical motive and a National purpose In the for mer calculated to Interest foreign coun tries, which fs wholly lacking at St. Louis. On the other hand, there are reasons why In Its purely American features the St. Louis fair Is likely to far exceed any former fair. In all respects It Is bound-to be a great exposition; nothing can pre vent It from being all that, but 'unless 6igno fall the tone and quality of It will be American rather than International and In the view of most persons It will be none the worse for It. Indeed, it it did nothing else besides exhibit the de velopments of civilization in the Missis sippi Valley In the past hundred years It would easily be fhe greatest exposition the world ever saw. The physical arrangements are to be on the grandest scale. The site, which Is something mora than a mile In area and approximately square, is five miles west from the heart of the city, and Is In It self all that could be desired. Every square foot of It will be beautifully adorned. WIdo avenues are being made through It and trees anywhere from 30 to 60 feet high are being transplanted to give these thoroughfares the finish of age and the comfort of shade. The buildings, of which two are already under way, are surprisingly vast. One covering 13 acres Is to cost about $1,600,000 and the other covering 16 acres something more. The agricultural building is planned to occupy a space of 32 acres and to cost about $1,600, 000. This Is enough to illustrate the liber ality of the general scheme. It Is pro fessedly the purpose of the managers to make It surpass any and all former ex positions. They have the money to do this and they think they know how. The St. Louis fair will be an aid rather than an embarrassment to the Lewis and Clark enterprise at Portland. It can hard ly 'fall to be the means of giving us a large body of fine exhibits which would not have been prepared for a little fair alone. It will, too, create a large number of amuecment or "Midway" attractions which will come on to us ready-made. In a thousand ways It may be turned to account for the profit and advantage of the Portland enterprise. Its postpone ment from 1903 to 1904 Is so far as the Lewis and Clark fair Is concerned a piece of rare good luck THE FOX LOST HIS TAIL. San Francisco Bulletin. Certain peevish tourists from the Elys Ian fields' of Podunk, Sleetvllle and Cy-clone-on-the-Wabash, having graciously .condescended to honor our bleak and In hospitable shores with their presence, have been overheard of late bombarding the gates of high heaven with their wordy protests against the semi-occasional fogs of San Francisco. These gentle pilgrims, nurtured on the ambrosia and nectar which we are led to believe constantly drop from the cloudless skies of the Edenfc East, would have It understood. If you please, that they Jour neyed Westward merelv t ap fr,Ti the cloying perfume and litter of rose leaves and orchids, and to get away li'ui the Insomnia-breeding noise of nightin gales. We sorrowfully confess that we cannot give our visitors all they have been used to In Missouri. Michigan and Maine. It Is admitted that these much-aggrieved crlt- Llcs of our fog have had the happiness to be residents of states where the creeping, miasma-laden swamp fog and the forest leveling cyclone are unknown; where the frolicking GO-mlle-an-hour blizzard does not pile Its snow and sleet eave high; where fathomless mud and chilblains are only read about and neyer experienced; and where 40-degrees-below-zero weather does not alternate with maddening per sistency, with scorching August siroccos and 40-day Spring deluges', with hlll-shak-lng thunder and lightning and tornadoes on off days. Happy travelers! to live la such a land, where there are no scudding sea-fog pageants, and where life is one long, glad hallelujah! We are delighted to have them step forth from their trans-Sierra paradise, and, with chattering teeth and lapels pinched about their chins, lnvergh In good round terms against our fog-cursed Cali fornia climate. It helps us to cultivate the virtue of humility. MlBgulded Callfornlans who have grown up stalwart as the lordly sompervlrens. enjoying shockingly good health, will be pained to learn that we are asked to have done with our occasional though deadly fog frolics. No longer a-e we to rest se rene under the conviction that heaven Is bounded on the east by the Sierra Ne vadas. We are asked to suppress the fog or Incur the displeasure of our thin-blooded visitors. This Is too much. Did they ask us to level our California-street hills, suppress tfcc'street-cleanlng efforts of our misguid ed trade winds, or remove the bark from the Cliff House seals, we would cheerfully accommodato them; but do without our silvery cloud broom that sweeps the pol lution from the citj streets, never! Rath er would we advise our critics to Invest In chest-protectors. If we may venture to express an opin ion, we would suggest that these occa sional visits of the light-foot, fairy fogs, sucked up from the salt sea, are health giving. No fen-and-swamp-bred fogs arc they. They dance through the streets, clear the atmosphere, absorb the floating germs and Impurities and bring the tang of salt and of ocean-bred ozone to the lungs. Let the timid tourist avaunt. Our friendly fog looks yellow and unwhole some only to the jaundiced eye. It works havoc only to the mind befogged by prej udice. There Is no harm In the sea fog, excepting what the unschooled mind puts Into It. Prejudice sees what It pleases, but It Is seldom pleased by what It sees. These fogs are not to be mentioned In the same week with the dismal "bkick fogs" of London. Ours may bo stocked with shivers for the thtn-clad tenderfoot, but they are harmless and wholesome. Colds arc caused not by breathing pure ozone, even though It be dampened by fog particles, but by pampering and over dressing the body, and by breathing and rebreathlng the foul, dead air of unven tllated rooms. We are proud of our occasional fogs. The California sun "God's'lldless eye" Is stained with mist but" a few days of caeh month, and then-only mornings and evenings. For variety's sake, we Insist on the necessity of being dressed in drab now and then, for variety gives endless novelty. Even that dress Is beautiful. Our climate, despite the peevish protests of an occasional denizen of the paradise around Oshkosh and Mud Flat, is perfect. But uniformity of excellence becomes tiresome; so nature kindly varies 'the sunny monotony of California by some times sending trade winds and frlendly fogs. Only the apostlo of unreason sees evil In nature's street-cleaning . department. The rest of us welcome the rare fog days as nature's wash days. Breaking: It to the President. New York World. There was a consternation at the White House. The ultimatum did not ultimate. Contrary to the logic of all events, sacred and profane, the beet-sugarSena-tors were not frightened. "Do they dare?" asked the President. "Do they dare defeat me?" There was no answer. Presidential secretaries have their emtlons under good control. "I said 'MUST,' distinctly said 'MUST!' did I not?" Still there was no answer. Then a mes sage went hurling to tho Capitol for the Senator who seemed sad on the night of the ultimatum. . He came. "The truth!" demanded the President. "We are defeated." the sad Senator re plied. "We cannot move a wheel. The beet-sugar men are In control." "But my message and my ultimatum?" The sad Senator gazed pensively out of the window. "And my leaders what of Aldrich and Hanna and Spooner and Allison? Can they not force this through? They have never failed before." "Son," said the sad Senator, rising and putting his hand on the President's tou sled hair, "you are young In . politics. You have much to learn. Has It never occurred to you that perhaps they didn't want to win this fight perhaps they had no desire to force It through?" A great light seemed to Illumine the room. The Pnn-Am's Debts. . Buffalo Commercial. As has been forewarned In the Wash ington dispatches to the Commercial ex clusively a bill has been brought in to appropriate about $600,000 for payment of the 'ctual debts of the Pan-American, for services and material performed and sup plied. The bill will be vehemently op posed In the House. It Is to be hoped that the bill will pass as a matter of justice and right. The men who will be reimbursed by It are those who furnished material and labor for the exposition men who honestly ful filled their share of contracts by which they have lost heavily, and will lose heav ily whatever they may receive under the proposed appropriation. The amount set aside for distribution will be strictly and exclusively under the charge of the Gov ernment auditors, and only those bills will be paid that ought to be paid under the provisions of the bill. There Is no Inten tion of reimbursing the holders of the bonds or the stock. It is a movement to enable the exposition to pay lta debts for service rendered and material actually furnished. A Farewell. Alfred Tennyson. Flow down, cold rivulet, to the eex. Thy tribute wave deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be. For ever and for ever. Flow, aoftly Cow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet, then a river; Nowhere by thee my steps ehall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree. And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee. For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my stepa ialLb? Fpx ckx. ana jCcx sxsz NOTE AND COMMENT. People who have children to burn. ar now buying them large stocks of fire works. All the William boys on Nob Hill will now pegin to suffer from attacks of peri typhlitis. The coronation has been set bo far ahead that all the gowns on hand will be out of fashion. Fortunately It is the battle-ship, not the steamer Oregon, that the state claims as its favorite daughter. Tracy and Merrill ought to be able to add a chapter to Ernest Thompson Seton'a "Lives of the Hunted." The glove men cannot object to the kid trust, for the. reason that Infant Industries should be encouraged. The Senate Is still tinkering with the Sampson-Schley controversy, which showa that It Is getting out of work. Santos-Dumont Is the only French mem ber of the Aeronaut Club who can fly without the aid of a typewriter. Parents arc respectfully advised to lay In a stock of sweet oil and lint while buy ing supplies for the celebration. Just at present the management of tho free swimming baths is not put to the expense o' Ice to cool the pcol. Still, the Democracy Is likely to pay fully as much heed to the utterances ot an ex-President as to those of an ex-can-dldate. What shall we do with our ex-enemies? is a question which will confront tho country Immediately upon the liberation of Aguinaldo et al. With the Filipino prisoners and tho Rus sian students all liberated at the same time, the effect will be as serious as that of the peace conference. Now that President Roosevelt has a yacht, no newspaper will be complete without a set of halftones of the Roose velt children In their new yachting cos tumes. Admiral Dewey thinks that Agulnaldo's "style" perhaps made a mo.re favorable Impression on his followers than on those from whom he stole the money to main tain It. The Admiral is not a good sub ject for Senatorial sarcasm. Stress of business and the dearth ot time wljl lead to a change In President Roosavelfs signature. He has always been accustomed to write out his first name in full, but he finds that It will save him about 50 per cent of time and trouble to make It simply T. Roosevelt, Whero a man has to sign his name about 1000 times a day it makes a big difference. There is a man In the offlce of the Audi tor for the Poatofilce Department who. it Is said, owes his appointment largely to the fact that his signature contains- but five letters. He is Second Deputy Auditor N. Chew. He does little but sign his name, and he docs that for about eight hours a day steadily. Washington has a home for friendless dogs, and Its patronesses include such well-known society women as Mrs." Nel son A. Miles. Mrs. John Hay. Mrs. Mac-kay-Smlth, Mrs. Joseph Hawley and Mrs. William E. Chandler. The dog farm 13 on the side of a fine hill near the reser voir and there is plenty of ground for the homeless animals to run around in, as. well as comfortable buildings to shelter them when the weather is bad. Every month or so the ladies who are Interested In this charity give a dog party. The grounds are Illuminated with Chinese lan terns and the visitors are told to be there at feedlng-tlme. The society people think It great fun to watch the charity cur3 fight for bones. At the last patty over 500 persons were present. About 10 years ago I called upon Sena tor Chauncey M. Depew at his home, 27 West Fifty-fourth street, writes Tip In the New York Press. He was at dinner, and in that friendly way of his sent word that he would be up In two minutes; I must make myself at home, etc. As it was a professional call, and I was seeking an interview, I bided my time. On the mantel-piece in the reception-room was a di minutive locomotive, which I Investigated. It appeared to be a model of one of thq New York Central flyers, but I had no Idea that the thing had motion. We got down on the floor together, and suddenly It started off at a mile a minute (more or less), tearing along the hall, with me after It. Tho blamed little thing ran straight Into the dining-room and was caught un der the table by the Senator himself. "Woman's Sphere Is Widening. Atlanta Journal. For the first time since her creation woman has recently won something Ilka n fair chance In tho fields of knowledge and practical endeavor. She is proving so well her right to these opportunities and her capacity to use them nobly that they will never be taken from her. On the contrary, there Is sure to be a still larger employment of the genius "of women la more and more lines of the world's work. PLEASASTRIES OF PAnAGRAPHERS She But a chaperone Is an awful boro. He Ye, she Is apt to "ma" the occasion. Harvard Lampoon. "It sez 'ere, deceased died of locomoter at- tackyscr. What the s that?" "That? Why, 'e got run over by one o them thera moter cars. Any odds on It." Judy. Her Way. "Don't you think she's a model mother?" "Why, her children are little ter rors!" "Yes; but she writes such good papers for our mothers' meetings." Detroit Freo Press. Not Deterred. Lottie I'm sorry to refuse you. Jack, but there It Is. And they say It does a man good to be Jilted. Jack I don't believe It. He's pretty sure to get over It and marry some one after all. PIck-Me-Up. Visitor Why do you have "Keep-off-the-grass" notices all over this park? You don't seem to enforce the restriction. - Policeman We do It so that people will the more thor oughly enjoy being on the grass. Glasgow Evenlnc Times. " 'Good wine needs no bush,' " quoted the teacher. "Now. can any one tell what that means?" "I guess," replied the saloon-keeper's son. "It means you can make It with al cohol and logwood good enough to fool most people." Philadelphia Record. "When Poverty Raps. Friend Hard up and been married only two months? Well, take cheer and remember love makes the world so round. Benedict (sadly) Yes, but It doesn't make the milkman and the butcher boy go round. Chicago Dally News. Nice Prospect for Him. "Are you ready to live on my Income?" he asked, softly. Sho looked up Into his face, trustingly. "Certain ly, dearest." she answered. "If If " "If what?" "If you can get another one for your self." "Another?" "Yc3; another Income." Chicago Post. An admirable life of our King has been Issued by Religious Bits. It shows how by sheer perseverance our Illustrious monarch worked his way up from being mere Prince ot Wales to his presnt exalted position. A more encouraging present for a child It would bo dlfllcult to Imagine. Punch. Apology Needed. "That," said Scribble, as he finished reading his manuscript, "Is the story as far as I've got. I was thinking of winding It up with the heroine's letter ac cepting the hero." "Good Idea!" exclaimed tho critic, "that'll give you a chance to con clude the whole thing with 'please excuse bad j srltlas-' " PaUadslaola. Press. - h
