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TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and continued
warm; northerly winds.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem
perature. SI; minimum temperature, 50; pre
cipitation, none.
PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 3O02.
shrinkage: in profits.
The profits of the recent corn deal,
like those or some of its predecessors,
are apparently subject to revision. "With
the first flush of success In emerging
from a very small hole with a good
portion of his large fortune still Intact,
Mr. Gates apparently used a Falstafllan
method of computing his profits. Since
then these profits, like most of the nu
merous men in buckram, have vanished.
On Tuesday, the story came out of the
East that Mr. Gates had the shorts on
the run and that he would mercilessly
scalp them unless the Board of Trade
Interposed. "Wednesday the report told
of the descending of the tomahawk, tfnd
estimated the profits of the deal at
51.500,000. Yesterday a revision of the
returns brought out the fact that the
Gates crowd were "but little ahead on
the July deal,, and stood to lose heavily
on the 5,000,000 bushels of corn which
they were forced to take," and that
"the corner was not an unqualified suc
cess." By tomorrow we may expect to
find the steel magnate "in the hole" a
few hundred thousand.
The experience of Mr. Gates in an en
deavor to make something out of noth
ing by the "corner" system does not
differ from that of some of his prede
cessors with cornering proclivities.
Corn King Phillips emerged from the
deal that made him famous with al
leged profits of over $1,000,000, but the
million was apparently not in tangible
shape, for a few weeks later the king
was a bankrupt When Joseph Letter
brought the greatest wheat corner on
record to a close, the first estimates of
his profits ran up as high as $5,000,000.
From this figure thene wa9 a gradual
shrinkage until the final returns showed
that in order to save the financial in
tegrity of the family name it was neces
sary for Papa Letter to separate him
self from about $10,000,000 which he had
not made in wheat.
Of all of the numerous corners that
have been effected In wheat and corn,
few if any have left the controlling
spirits very much better off financially.
An exception to this general rule might
be noted in the case of "Partridge, the
Plunger," who engineered a wheat deal
about fifteen years ago with such a
marked degree of success that he,
emerged from the conflict with over
$2,000,000 profits. His magnificent luck
did not desert him with the close of the
corner, for he died before he had an
opportunity to lose it in another coup.
"Old Hutch" also made a great success
of a wheat corner, his profits running
Into the millions but "ere o'er his head(
six Summers had fled" he was eking
out an existence as, a retail dealer In
peanuts in a harmless corner given him
rent free by some of the victims of his
former corners.
Mr. Gates, like Mr. 'Lelter, will not
be obliged to sell peanuts as a. means of
livelihood, and can, in a measure, get
even with the man-'with theN hoe who
profited lay his deal by advancing rates
on th steel fpbm which trie hoe is made.
Some of his millions, like those of Lelter
pere, have fallen in plepsani places, and
if "corners" have bedome a favorite
diversion for our millionaires, let us
hope that they will alvTays have suffi
cient collateral to pay up in case the
bears become aweary of 'being hunted
and. turn hunters themselves.
pity for the: boy horror for,
the: man.-
The pictured face of David Merrill,
as it appears in print, taken in his early
youth, tallies in expression with the
statement-of his foster-father. Ira John
son, that "DaVe was a-good boy while
he was with us,' a period .between his
ninth and fourteenth y$kra It will ap
peal with pity to many" hearts not for
the creature represented in later years
by manifold crimes, whose body, thrown
like that of a wild animal over a log
in the woods, was discovered a. few
days ago, but for the wandering boy
whose environment was that of the
homeless knock-about, unrestrained,
uncared-for and unnoticed except when
it became necessary to punish him.
Recalling the years of "little Dave's"
sojourn with him on his farm near
Napavlne, "Wash., Ira Johnson said:
"He was intelligent, willing to work,
and I never knew him to be cruel
toward any animal, but I have known
him to do many kind acts to them.
His mother finally came and took him
away." This man seems to be justified
in the belief that, had the boy been
left with him, he would have made a
good man. Parental authority some
times overreaches itself, and in this case
it seems to have been urged on by a
Wind desire of the mother to have the
boy with her, regardless of the fact that
she wa3 not so situated as toglve him,
simple, wholesome Industrial training
or the protection of an orderly, well
governed home."
The step between the pictured face of
"little Dave" In his boyhood and that of
"poor Dave" dead In the woods Is a long
one. The Intervening years are dark
with crime replete with penalty. Hunt
ed, an outlaw with a price upon his
head, It would not be possible for his
mother, were she living, to regret his
death, or Bcarcely, under the circum
stances, to deplore the manner of It,
since he had reached a point in his
career wherein speedy death was the
boon that his best friend would have
craved for him. His boyhood years,
with their latent possibilities for good,
their unchecked opportunities for evil,
their drifting. Idle, vicious tendencies
and associations, form the period in his
short and. eventful life over which pity
broods tenderly, seeking to satisfy
Itself with the vague hope that some
where in the undiscovered country this
turbulent, restless, misguided spirit may
find the "chance" denied or slighted
here.
"WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANTr
It is one of the painful accompani
ments of reform movements that ef
forts at purification always create dis
gusting exhibits of the foulness, long
existing under cover, but at length
brought into full view. This is not an
arraignment of the work of renovation,
but truthful evidence how badly It was
needed. It Is not an agreeable thing to
open a festering wound, but only so
can It be healed. There is nothing but
death in letting It alone. To tear down
and cart away old accumulations of de
caying filth 13 to fill the neighborhood
with noisome odors; but that Is a bet
ter way than to let the mass continue
to send forth Its fatal exhalations.
Just this Is the situation in Portland
today, when the vicious classes are
stirred up in the hope of purging the
city to some extent of Its moral un
cleanness. Driven jfrom their accus
tomed haunts on Fourth street, women
of the town walk the streets in the very
shadow of the Portland Hotel, the Mar
quam Theater and the Oregonlan build
ing. Is it worth while?
The trouble and unpleasantness of
proceeding against vice and crime are
always set out strenuously, especially
by tEose whose profits that proceeding
menaces. You can always learn from
the gambler how closing hurts busi
ness, and from the parasites of the half
world how hopeless is reform. But over
against these specious pleas stands the
simple fact that the moral welfare of
a city Is superior to its every other
welfare. The one unspeakably dark
blot upon American municipal life is
the alliance that exists between wrong
doing and the officers of the law. Wher
ever you find Mgh-toned gamlng-places
running without molestation, there Is
an official somewhere who is paid for
"protection." Wherever you find fallen
women plying their vocation without
fear, there is an official somewhere suc
cessfully levying blackmail upon them
under penalty of arrest. Every gam
bler, prostitute and maquereau in Port
land is eligible to arrest and imprison
ment as a vagrant- Where they are
prosperous and secure, it is a moral
certainty that some man who has sworn
to enforce the law Is taking money from
lawbreakers for conniving at crime.
There is not a decent man or woman
in Portland but would be roused to
shame and anger If the extent and de
pravity of Portland's slums were ex
plained in their completeness. What
goes on in New York under Tammany,
what has just been exposed In Minne
apolis of vice leagued with official pro
tection, has been going on here-. The
question is whether It is not worth while
to clean house for once at least There
Is a way this can be done, and only one.
It Is for the decent citizens to resolve
that the system of police protection of
crime shall cease. It Is for the Mayor
to continue to appoint such men as
Mr. Ladd to the Police Commission; and
for the Police Commission to reform the
police force by replacing every man not
known to be square with one that is.
They are doing this In New York.
Blackmailing policemen are discharged
and men of approved character are em
ployed. And It is for- men asked to
serve to accept these places on the com
mission and on the force.
Every right-minded person takes a
pride In his city. He wants to see it
well paved and well lighted, with low
taxes, good schools and adequate fire
protection. But is it not more impor
tant than all these that those who ad
minister Its laws should serve honestly
for decency and not sell their trust for
the benefit of crime and vice? We
make sacrifices for sidewalks and sew
ersshall we make no sacrifices for the
city's good name and moral atmos
phere? If it is worth while to raise
monuments and hold expositions, is it
not more worth while to set the stamp
of unmistakable disapproval upon
wrong-doing? It Is a ruinous invest
ment to sacrifice the moral life of a
community now and. for the generation
that is growing up, for the sake of a
few paltry dollars earned in trade with
the vicious, Idle and depraved. The vig
orous undertakings of the Mayor and
the Police Department to purge the
city of some of its most abominable
disgraces should receive the support of
every good citizen. It will do no harm
to tell them so. Street-walking can and
will be reached, as well as the Fourth
street Iniquities. He Is not a brave sol
dier who sickens at the first smell of
gunpowder.
A report of the election of officers
of the Good Templars' drand Lodge of
Washington recalls the time, covering
a period of perhaps a score of years,
wherein this organization stood for act
ive, earnest temperance effort along
social lines'ln the Northwest It.proved
a weak weapon in the long run against
an ever-aggressive foe, its chief halPin
this city being finally turned Into a
saloon and many of Its more prominent
members, here and elsewhere, falling
back under the dominion of appetite
from which the allurements of lodge
meetings, It was hoped, would rescue
them. The ritual of the order rose In
.many places to the sublime; its Scrip
tural lessons were pertinent and elo
quent, and the pledge to abstain during
life from "spirituous or malt liquors,
wine or cider," was given impressively
and taken solemnly. Whether any good
of lasting quality resulted from the
work has been freely questioned. There
was a time, however, when the Good
Templars lodge was the center, and
almost the circumference of the social
life of villages and country places, and
it can hardly be conceived that It failed
utterly in its purpose. Concentrated
effort, methodically organized, and, as
In this case, energetically and conscien
tiously carried on for a term of years.
cannot entirely fall. It merely com-
pletes Its course and drops out of the
list of human activities. The pity of It
Is seen in the desperate attempt of the
lew to hold on to the fabric from which
the very essence of strength Its popu
larityhas departed.
- JOURNALISTIC EVOLUTION.
The passing of the religious news
paper is giving considerable pain to
those good souls who forget that "old
things have passed away and all things
have become new" In their determina
tion to "remove not the ancient land
mark." Here Is the dear old New York
Observer, eacred to the memory of Dr.
Irenaeua Prime, sold and to become a
secular paper. The Independent and
Dr. Lyman Abbott's still better Outlook
have -established precedents for this
departure of the Observer's, and alto
gether it is quite plain that we are
face to face with a tendency; and a
tendency; as every alumnus knows, will
bear watching.
The religious weekly is but very little
to blame for its Impending extinction.
At the very antipodes from yellow Jour
nalism, It has held Its unwavering
course for morality and decency; not
always for "sweetness and light," per
haps, qut Invariably for righteousness.
Its contributory part in the cataclysm
that seems about to overwhelm It is
slight, but very distinct It has been
dry. Aridity, we take it has been the
rock upon which its bark has all but
split Respectability Is always in peril
of prlggishness, and It is but a step
from sanctity to sanctimoniousness.
The religious weekly, and all whom It
may concern, should know by these
presents that in the twentieth century
the victorious journal must take to it
self not only the armor of truth arid the
sword of belligerence, but the shining
helmet of attractiveness. The one un
pardonable sin of newspaperdom Is
dullness. People will not read what
doesn't Interest them. They don't have
to, and the more Imperative duties of
golf and the contralto "central" and se
lection of Panama hats Intervene. The
guise In which the elusive reader must
be sought lf'sought successfully, ia the
light and airy habllament of gayety and
good humor and constant surprises of
quaint imagining or half-serious rail
lery. Dullness Is the one thing war
ranted to disperse the largest aggrega
tion of readers ever gathered together
on a single mailing list
But as we have said, the sufferer in
this case is guilty at the most of only
contributory negligence. What ails the
religious weekly Is Just what ails the
commercial weekly and the sporting
weekly and the literary weekly. They
are all too slow. The dally is the thing,
partly because an event becomes an
cient history in about three days, and
principally because all the news Is in
the daily and very little' of It is in the
weekly. The crying need of every class
Is Information. If the man can find out
at his breakfast table who was elected
moderator of the General Assembly
yesterday, and what wheat sold at, and
whether Jeffries or Fitzslmmons was
licked, and what the sale of auto
graphs brought in London, he can fill
In the arguments and fine writing to
suit himself.
There is very little left for the weekly
journal to pick up on the newspaper
harvest field after the dally has been
along with its combined harvester and
thresher and cleaned up the crop. What
the dally records In brief, the "Sunday"
expatiates upon in due length and Illus
tration. No field of human activity.
from the world-forming nursery down
to the relatively unimportant sphere of
the Government, is without its proper
corner or ten-acre lot in the modern
newspaper. The best that is going,
fact, fiction, opinion or description, Is
on sale fresh every morning at not to
exceed 20 cents a week. The religious
weekly is an Interesting relic of our
Imperfect earlier years, and without at
least one copy of it no historical mu
seum is complete.
FOUND GUILTY BY HIS FRIENDS."
The terms of the reprimand of Brigadier-General
Jacob H. Smith, U. S. A.,
administered by the President, and his
premature consignment to the retired
list, are entirely within the lines of
military justice.. The explicit review
and approval of Secretary of War Root
of the verdict of the court-martial that
considered the case of General Smith
makes it clear that neither in military
justice or equity any other conclusion
could have been reached. The court
that tried General Smith was composed
of veteran officers of the regular Army,
more than half of whom had for forty
years been his comrades In arms in the
Civil War, In the Indian Wars, in the
Santiago campaign and In the Philip
pines. Major-General Wheaton and
General BIsbee were, like General
Smith, volunteer soldiers In the Union
Army In the Civil War. and a major
ity of the officers of the court were
graduates of the Union Army. General
Wheaton has a notable record for stern
methods when dealing with the enemy.
Nevertheless this court, composed of
his friends, his comrades, his admirers,
convicted General Smith on his own ad
mission that he had made use of intem
perate language on occasion.
It was made .clear by the evidence
taken on trial that General Smith said
a good deal more in angry speech than
he meant; that his subordinates never
executed his orders In a literal sense.
General Smith was an able officer, and
because of his reputation was selected
for the work of stamping out the ban
ditti In Samar. It was natural that
with the news of the horrible massacre
of 8ur unarmed men and their mutila
tion after death, General Smith should
have lost control of his temper and
given oral instructions to Major Waller
that were Intemperately and violently
expressed. It Is not pretended that
these oral Instructions were accepted
literally, or that any women or children
or noncombatants or prisoners were put
to death in pursuance of General
Smith's violent language. Major Wal
ler, who was acquitted, did not pretend
that his execution of treacherous guides
was justified by the oral Instructions of
General Smith; he defended his action
not upon any orders received from
General Smith, but upon the ground
that he was justified by the laws of war.
The Secretary of War admits all this,
L but fairly says that General Smith was
clearly guilty of a lack of that self-control
and Judgment In his official speech
which should characterize an officer of
his rank, age and experience, and that
'he has been Justly convicted of con
duct to the prejudice of order and good
discipline.
The punishment of General Smith is
just, but it is severe. He served in
the Union Army from June, 1861, to
October, 1S65; he was distinguished for
gallantry at Shlloh, where he was se
verely wounded; he has been In the reg
ular Army since March. 18B7: h& trnn
distinguished for iraliantrv in th Snn.
J tiago campaign, and was promoted to
Brigadier-General, TJ. S. A., In 1901, for
gallant service In the Philippines. He
would not have reached the age of re
tirement until January 29, 1904, and then
would probably have been retired with
the rank of Major-General. His loss
in pay and rank Is considerable, but
his most severe punishment Is the re
flection that he marred at Its close by
his Infirmity of Intemperate speech a
long military career exceedingly hon
orable to himself in its unblemished
record of gallantry and executive abil
ity. And yet General Smith as a true
soldier" will not hesitate to admit that
his fault was one that no military court
could afford to Ignore or treat lightly.
General Smith acted like an honor
able man; he promptly confessed to the
use of the Intemperate language Im
puted to him; he was most ably and
eloquently defended by a gallant sol
dier. Colonel Woodruff; the court was
affected to tears by the plea made In
his behalf; but. sitting as soldiers in
military judgment upon the offense of
an old comrade and friend, they were
obliged to find him guilty and wprthy
of reprimand, knowing that the repri
mand of a soldier of his rank, age and
experience would be followed by his
retirement by order of the President
General Smith was tried by his
friends, convicted by his friends, and
reprimanded by the President, who Is
clearly his friend, althpugh he cannot In
Justice to the cause of military order
and discipline refuse to ' approve the
verdict of the court, that convicted him.
There Is no mark of dishonor on General
Smith's shield; he is simply a brave
stout, efficient soldier, who had never
learned In his long military career that
he "who ruleth his spirit is .greater than
he that taketh a city."
The old idea that any young woman,
especially any young woman belonging
to the middle class In life, can cook and
take care'of children and Is competent
to hire out and earn good wages as a
domestic or nursemaid, simply because
she is of the home-making, child-tending"
sex, has been disproved thousands
of times by ruined dinners and cruelly
neglected children. Yet "help" of this
class Is still on the market, and Indeed,
if we are to believe half that Is told
about Incompetent housemaids and
nurseglrls. It floods the market. Schools
for the training of domestics are not
unknown, but they are so few, so
grudgingly patronized, by the class
needing Instruction that their output is
scarcely appreciable In the great bulk
of Incompetence. In recent months day
nurseries In Buffalo and Boston have
been training young girls for nurse
maids. A course of instruction occupy
ing six months qualifies a girl to feed
and wash the baby, cook and sew for
him, amuse him In various ways, and
teach him. as he grows older, morals
and manners after the kindergarten
methods. It Is scarcely necessary to
add that the demand for these maids
exceeds the supply. Moreover such
girls are shown the consideration and
appreciation that skilled laborers in
every field receive In contrast with the
snubbing 'that Is the portion of the
clumsy, untutored laborer. Content
ment In one's sphere In life follows an
Intelligent ability to perform Its duties.
Knowledge is power, whatever the vo
cation in life, and nowhere Is this fact
more clearly marked than in domestic
service.
Washington dispatches call attention
to the not very inconspicuous fact that
at Its late session Congress repealed the
prohibition of packing pictures In pack
ages of tobacco.' The Dlngley tariff
law contained the prohibition that
"None of the packages of smoking to
bacco and fine-cut chewing tobacco and
cigarettes prescribed by law shall be
permitted to have packed In, or at
tached to, or connected with, them any
article or thing whatsoever, other than
the manufacturers' wrappers and la
bels, the internal revenue stamp and
the tobacco or cigarettes, respectively,
put up therein on which tax is re
quired to be paid under the internal
revenue laws; nor shall there be affixed
to or branded, stamped, marked, writ
ten or printed upon, said packages or
their contents any promise or offer of,
or any order, or certificate for, any gift,
prize, premium, payment, or reward."
It Is now announced from Washington
that pictures of actresses and similar
gratifications to the purchaser may be
packed with the tobacco. This is sup
posed to be in the Interest of the Intro
duction of new brands. The paragraph
In the Dlngley tariff Just quoted Is re
ported to have been devised by manu
facturers whose brands were .well es
tablished and who desired to hamper
the advertising efforts of their rivals.
The change Is expected to make a good
deal of business for the printers and
lithographers.
The Hon. Michael Henry Herbert,
who succeeds Lord Pauncefote as Brit
ish Ambassador to the United States,
Is the younger son of an heir to an
earldom, hence his title of "honorable."
Of the thirty-one English diplomats
who have come over In this capacity
since and Including George Hammond,
sent over by George in In 1791. but
f seven have had -higher titles than this,
ana only three have been lords, he
other four being merely baronets. Mr.
Herbert is not unknown In Washing
ton, he having at one time served as
secretary of the British Legation there.
He is an urbane gentleman, a skillful
diplomatist, and the husband of an
American wife. All of these things be
speak favor for him In the official and
social life of the capital. While regret
ting the loss of Lord Pauncefote, the
Administration congratulates Itself and
the country upon the acquisition of so
competent a man as his successor.
A New York Jury recently acquitted
a woman upon trial for the murder of
her husband with a potato-knife, though
she herself admitted her guilt The
Judge was very severe when-speaking
to her previous to ordering her dis
charge In accordance with the verdict,
reminding her that she had "made her
children orphans" and suggesting that
her punishment must come In reflecting
upon this fact and In "looking into
their faces." This assumption was
perhaps Justified by judicial Indigna
tion, but it Is the merest folly, never
theless. No doubt the woman had
cause, or thought she had, to think that
the children, though orphaned by the
skillful thrust of her potato-knife, were
-not thereby greatly bereft, and were to
be congratulated rather than commis
erated. Everything tending to the for
mation of opinions depends upon the
point f view.
They've Reen There Bcrore.
Kansas City Journal.
That St. Louis decision that a wife may
lawfully go through her husband's pockets
does not confer on wives generally any
I right that they were not already enjoying.
THE FATE OF ANDREE.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Tne revival of the rumor of the death of
Andree. the balloon explorer of the Arctic
regions, at the hands of Eskimo, is not
conclusive as to its truth, for the present
reporter, Rev. Dr. Farlles, simply repeats
what he has been told at second or third
hand from the natives. The story, how
ever. Is of Interest and may very likely
be the true one. It Is. as told In a dispatch
from Innlpeg to the New York Tribune,
to the eflect that two years ago. at a place
on the west side of Hudson's Bay, 200
miles north of Fort Churchill, the Andree
balloon alighted, and three men came
from it By an accident, one of the party
fired a gun, as a number of Eskimo ap
proached them; and the natives, regarding
the gun-flrlng as hostile, murdered the
three men.
This Information is said to have been
given by the chief of the Eskimo party,
known as "Old Huskle," to Ralph Alstlne,
or Alston, agent for the Hudson Bay Com
pany. Rev. Dr. Farlles "adds that there
are reports of the possession by some of
the natives of various extraordinary
things, a telescope being particularly de
scribed. Dr. Farlles says that Eskimo
have gone In search of relics of the outfit
of Andree, for the rewards offered by the
Hudson Bay Company, but have never re
turned, for fear that they will be pun
ished. The discharge of that gun was most un
fortunate for the party, if this be true;
and yet if their landing was at the point
specified. It is plain that Andree had com
pletely failed In the purpose of the ex
pedition; for, while h had expected a
gteat northward current In the air which
should carry his baloon from Spitsbergen
to Bering Straits in six days, this -rumored
ending of the expedition would
have landed him between 2000 and 2000
miles southeast of the strait. In the edge
of the Northwestern territory. But it is
already known that he found no such
breeze as he expected, that Instead of 15
miles an hour he had drifted for two
days at the rate of three miles an hour
this was the news he sent by carrier pig
eonthe last authentic Intelligence- re
ceived, way back in 1S97.
The search for Andree and n.'s associates,
Strlndberg and Fraukel. has been prose
cuted by several parties to the north of
Siberia, and even on the cast coast of
Greenland. There is less Interest felt in
the fate of this expedition than stirred
the world when the fate of Sir John
Franklin's party was in doubt nearly CO
years ago. It was over 12 years beore the
story of thf expedition for the northwest
f passage could be even partially written.
when the final records were found by llc
Clintock in 1S57, and this was not the
last expedition organized to find the full
story, though the last which succeeded.
Lady Franklin's great personal devotion
to her husband was the mainspring of
these repeated attempts to solve the mys
tery of his fate. The fate of Andree may
yet be made plain, but there is no such
motive for. an exhaustive search.
MORE THAN 100 PER CENT.
Boston Herald.
In speaking of Australia's attempt to
prevent trusts from obtaining controjy of
the domestic market under the shelter of
the tariff, we stated yesterday that In
some cases the customs tariff imposed
by the United States was In excess of
100 per cent ad valorem. A Republican
correspondent calls us to account for this
statement and challenges us to name any
artlcle on which the tariff is In excess of
100 per cent ad valorem. We are very
glad to point out two such cases to our
correspondent both of which concern our
trade with Cuba. In the first place, 96
degree centrifugal sugar, sold In New
York at practically 3V4 cents per pound,
has a free-on-board value at Cuba of
1.475 cents per pound. The duty on this
sugar is 1.6S5 cents per pound, or 111 per
cent ad valorem. That is one case. Now
for another. We were recently shown ci
gars which were purchased in Havana for
$50 a thousand, and that weighed about 12
pounds to the thousand. On these cigars
the duty charged by the United States
was no less than 133 per cent ad valorem.
This duty Is figured in the following
way: There Is a specific duty of H 50 per
pound, which for 12 pounds, or 1000 cigars,
amounts to $54. or $4 more than the origi
nal price in Havana. In addition to this
specific duty there is an ad valorem duty
of 25 per cent to be added. This makes
$12 50 more to be figured in the tariff, and
brings the customs duties on these cigars
up to $66 50 per 1000, or $16 50 more than
the actual cost of the goods from the
manufacturer. That Is, on these cigars,
costing 5 cents apiece. Uncle Sam collects
a duty of 6.65 cents apiece, or 133 per cent
ad valorem. These are two instances that
our Republican correspondent may con
sider. While discussing the cigar question, we
might also point out to him that Su
matra wrapper tobacco is worth in bond
in this country about $1 a pound, but
that the customs duty on it is $1 So per
pound. That is, on tobacco leaf suitable
for wrappers, imported from Sumatra, the
ad valorem tax Is In excess of 185 per cent.
In spite of these facts, any attempt to re
duce any one of these three duties Is
hailed by the protected industries inter
ested as being the adoption of a free-trade
policy.
A Bryan Opportunity.
' St Louis Globe-Democrat
It takes two Mexican silver dollars to
buy a bushel of corn. Mr. Bryan's paper
should enlarge on tHis text under the head
ing of "Mistaken Prophecies."
DEMOCRATIC HARMONY.
Mr. Bryan still Insists that free silver Is a
burning Issue. But the trouble Is It has burned
the party twice already. Atlanta Constitution.
It Mr. Bryan cares to mention it In his paper.
It Is said that Mr. Cleveland found the Ashing
good yesterday. Baltimore American.
Mr. Bryan's proposal to meet the harmony
altuatlon by thawing out dynamite Is apt to
prove dangerous. Memphis Commercial Appeal.
When Orover Cleveland rapped for the over
ture of grand, opera, entitled "Harmony," he
found the first fiddles badly out of tune. Mo
bile (Ala.) Register.
Davey Hill says we Democrats ought to read
more history, but what Is really needed Is for
Dayey to whirl In and help us Democrats make
more history I Atlanta Constitution.
It is lucky for the lone fisherman at Buz
zard's Bay that Colonel Watterson has only a
few minutes between Chautauqua trains these
days In which to dish out political chile-con-carne.
Atlanta Constitution.
"Shadow of predestined defeat" was a very
good figure of speech so good. Indeed, that It
might be regarded as almost real. And It may
be added that Mr. Cleveland ought to know a
shadow when he sees It. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Hon. Grover Cleveland has been so busy
ducking the sweep of the Hon. Henry Watter
son s pole-ax that he hasn't acquired sufficient
breath to once more declare it as his opinion
that the Democracy still lives. Philadelphia
Press.
Henry Watterson Is disposed to see that the
punctures he gave Orover Cleveland do not
mortify. He Is using salt In the wounds for
that pdrpose. Salt Is & good thing, but under
these circumstances it might hurt. Peoria
Journal.
In view of the condition of the United States
finances, isn't It about time for Mr. Cleveland
again to offer his sen-ices as a surplus-smash
er? That Is a field of labor in which he has
proven his ability to "make good." Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.
Now that Agulnaldo is free from the bondage
of a Philippine "ralace" with a, pension at
tached, and Bailey has pulled Beverldge's cra
vat off without knocking the ashes off the In
dlanan'3'c!gar, what Is to hinder Grover Cleve
land and Billy Bryan from oncc-and-for-all
settling the question, which is the paramounter.
free sliver or free trade? Loulsllle Commer
cial. Beloved contemporary, Mr. Bryan. Is all right.
Whyshould you rise In his defense If his "rec
ord speaks for him" more eloquently than any
thing you can eay? The people of Florida
know that record, and they have nothing but
the kindliest feeling for Mr. Bryan and all
other leaders of lost causes. But when the
cause has been lost, why not accept the fact?
Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union and Citizen.
THOSE ENDLESS ODES.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
In the matter of humor the Englishman
Is supposed to be first cousin to the
Scot on whom a surgical operation is
popularly believed to be necessary when
it comes actually to seeing a Joke. Yet
the Englishman has been having a lot of
real fun on the subject of coronation odes.
The Pall Mall Magazine, for Instance,
prlnta a number of supposititious odes at
tributed to various shining lights in the
poetical world. Only the first and last
letters of the names are used, but it is
easy to recognize the poet laureate, Hen
ley Kipling. Austin Dobcon and Yeats.
Evidently there is no lack of odes. As
the magazine puts it:
Then came the verses, epics, lyrics, odes.
Eclogues and Idyls, rondeaux. madrigals.
Sonnets and ballads, songs In donkey loads.
Elegies, cantos, quatrains, pastorals.
Roundelays, dithyrambs and canzonets.
Apposite, imbecile, a few erotic.
Distlchs, blank verse, stanzas, triolets,
Soul-Mlrring, temperate and tommyrotlc!
As is fitting, Alfred Austin, the poet
laureate, first receives attention. He Is
mentioned as the author of "Prudentla's
Pantry." "The Larder That I Loathe,"
"Laurelia's Lodgings" and other composi
tions of like ludicrous titles. Here are
three verses out of forty:
The early Bird attraps the early Worm;
"Let me be first, with wlee Precipitation.
To sing. In cadenced meter uniform.
The Coronation.
How beautiful to see the high-born throng.
Within the mighty Abbey walls so well met.
With coronets and gorgeous trainings long.
Of crimson velvet.
And beautiful to think that In some niche.
A stately one, of full six feet, I trust.
Some day may stand, making the place more
' , rich.
My Laureled Bust.
Henley comes next Here is a specimen
verse:
There's a great Summer storm on London sea.
Westminster Bay Is full of mariners. '
See how the ambulance piles llfboat-l!ke.
Rescuing weary ones that faint and fall.
Rough luck on those who must go under now.
On this our Pageant Day.
Hip, hip, hooray!"
There's air,
(I wish my lungs knew where).
. Kipling's effusion is called "The Mllend
ers," and his ode begins in pretty fair imi
tation of his best style:
Let the trumpets sound for the Day of Cora-nation
(Listen all ye people?. In the lands beyond the
sea).
Ended now and over the Year of the Probation.
And the time has come appointed for the sol
emn Pageantry.
Let England now be glad
For the Glory that she had.
And the Promise of the Future, and the Prow
ess yet to be.
Austin Dobson is let off with a mild
burlesque, but Yeats suffers thus in the
first verse:
I will arise and go now, and go to Westmln-
tree.
And a small campstool take there, that's very
strongly made;
My gold watch will I doff me, for fear of plck-
pocketry.
And meet with my fellows unafraid.
Besides being more or less amusing,
these suppositious odes point a moral. It
Is that the Englishman believes his poet
laureate is fair game, and that Rudyard
Kipling, fiercely as he has been abused,
Is the poet whose genius "he really re
spects. Not n Sole run Man.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Until now It has been a part of the busi
ness of the President to become solemn.
Mr. Roosevelt has happily overthrown
that. rule. He has shown that one can
get through Just as much work by show
ing hLs teeth to his friends and enemies,
and rolling on the grass wjth his sons, as
he could by perking himself in a glitter
ing pride and keeping back his favorite
jokes. It has been considered a necessity
of a President to refrain from blending
with common men. especially newspaper
reporters, who are sometimes as common
as they, are frequent; yet he has suffered
no injury to his morals, whatever may
have "occurred to his manners, from this
contact. The man who is elected notto
be President does not need these tests of
courage, for he Is freed from all trammels
cf tradition, and can hoe. potatoes, bare
foot, if he chooses.
Roosevelt Not Alone.
Washington Star.
It so happens that the president's atti
tude toward trusts is not individual, but
in keeping with that of many strong men
In his party. The Sherman anti-trust
law is 12 years old. That it was drawn in
good faith cannot be doubted. That it
has failed to meet expectation is true.
Trusts have continued to multiply, and
those which caused the Sherman law were
small affairs in comparison with those
now existing. If restraint on trusts can
be Imposed by statute, a new law Is neces
sary, and drafted in the light of the latest
developments In the trust line. The Presi
dent has said that where cunning is aimed
at and operates against the interests of
the people it needs to be "shackled." me
sentiment is excellent, and Is most fe
licitously expressed.
i
PERSONS 'WORTH KNOWING ABOUT.
District Attorney Howard, of Rensselaer. X.
T.. denies that he Is a candidate for the vacant
seat on fhe State Supreme Court bench.
President Roosevelt has appointed a man to
look after the remnant of buffaloes now remain
ing in this country and to prevent that animal
from becoming extinct.
It took 1211 ballots to nominate Robert N
Page for Congress In the Charlotte. N. C. dis
trict last week. His election Is conceded, as
the district Is strongly Democratic.
Rev. J. T. Olive, a negro preacher of Bir
mingham, Ala., while on a visit to Atlanta,
the other day, pawned his Bible for whisky,
got drunk and was locked up In the police sta
tion. Professor E. P. Sandsten, assistant professor
of horticulture at the Maryland Agricultural
College, has been chosen to the same position
In the College of Agriculture of the University
of Wisconsin.
Lord Rosebery has written a novel, but will
not publish it for some time for fear It may In
jure him politically. In this he differs from
Disraeli, whose novels assisted him to mount
the zoltlcal ladder.
Governor Odell, of New York, has refused to
Issue extradition papers In the case of a math-'
er who took her own child out of Connecticut,
having been awarded the custody of the little
one by order of the court.
Jules Verne, the French author of exagger
ated fiction, says 100 years hence very few
books will be written, a prediction that may be
taken as an Indication that M. Verne expects
to die before the year 2000.
Dr. Theodore Kohn. the Prince Bishop ef Ol
mutz, Austria, offers his golden chariot and
eight horses for sale, to use the money for the
benefit of the poor. The carriage has been In
the possession of the bishopric for several hun
dred years.
John H. Donovan. City Assessor of Boston,
has attended every gome of baseball played at
the Hub this year. His only fear, anent the
game Is that teams from both league may play
on the same day, and that he will be unable to
be present at both.
Born with the Nation on July 4. 1770. Perry
Chesney died at his home on Copper Ridge, In
the Tennessee mountains, on July 4. He was
the oldest man In the United States, and was
excessively proud that the Declaration of Inde
pendence was adopted, as he expressed it. "in
honor of his birth."
The first Chinaman to receive a diploma from
an American medical college Is Dr. Yung Wing,
who was thus honored by Yale In 1854. He.
too., Just returned to this country after several
years' absence In his native land, where he In
troduced many of the modern methods of med
ical practice, despite the strenuous opposition
of Celestial doctors.
Secretary Shaw was one of the pioneers In
the development of the rice-growing Industry
In Western Louisiana and Eastern Texas. The
Governor and his associates purchased large
tracts of land In the vicinity of Beaumont
(where he still owns a half Interest In a rice
plantation ot 3000 acres), and when the oil
boom came, a year ago, the land values In
creased by leap and bounds. It is said that
the boom has already brought Governor Shaw
a fortune of more than $500,000.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Kansas prayed for rain a little too fervently.
x Sufficient
thereof.
to the trust is the evil
Tracy was to be killed before night, but
he wasn't
It was a case of drop a vote' In the slot
and get a decent administration.
Merrill seems to have been just as wel
come in Salem as he would had he been
alive.
People who think of holding an exposi
tion should be admonished first sto catch
their site.
Spain believes that she should have an
understanding with the United States.
What, another?
Tracy still holds the record, in spite of
murderer Belding's earnest efforts to suc
ceed him In popular favor.
It developed he other day that In one
county In Kentucky a lynching had never
taken place. The omission was hastily
corrected.
The railroads of the Middle West will
have to equip themselves with submarine
locomotives if they expect to continue to
do business.
It was unkind of Tracy to blight his
partner's excellent chance of dying of
old age and claiming the reward for fu
neral expenses.
Judge Lynch has taken up bis Summer
residence In Kentucky. It was hoped that
he would come out West and put In a
day with Convict Tracy.
Aguinaldo ought to be able to buy plen
ty of cheap lithographs of George Wash
ington to advertise hta lecture tour
through the United States.
The Czar and the King of Italy have got
together, and are probably putting In the
time pleasantly by telling each other an
ecdotes of attempted assassinations.
The author of a play in London which
was scored by a. newspaper got ranll
comfort out of a suit for damages which
he, Instituted against the journal in ques
tion. On hearing some of the scenes and
dialogue read, the Judge expressed his
surprise that the piece ever got on the
stage, and the Jury refused to listen to
any mere. The plaintiff was awarded a
farthing's damages, with no ccsts.
A colored preacher dow
uth has been
talking about the "Jim
rn. l lid in
.. in .,
-. i.7. J?0
manne
which plen.. manwifeuthern pa-
pers. "I have decided?' sayslSroteach
er, "that the only wayltogoWrffpf the
'Jim Crow' car is to gat rid of tnM'Jlm
Crow' negro. If I could use 200.000 bass of
soap on the unwashed negroes that travel
on trains and hang around deiwts, 1 would
solve the negro problem about 20 per
cent"
"While General Sherman lived in New
York he occupied one night each week the
proscenium box on the south side of tho
stage of Daly's Theater. It was called
"Sherman's box." The gentle German who
played the bass viol whispered to his
fellow-musicians that the General's tobac
co juice was destroying his fiddle. The
old soldier spat in a sort of spray that
sprinkled things In the neighborhood of
the big fiddle. "Why don't you complain
to Mr. Daly?" asked the leader of the
orchestra. "Complain of General Sher
man? Never! He vas my commander in
the war und I vould not comblain if he
spld efery nide in my face!" was tho
reply.
The Arlzonian and Mexican miner whom
General Charles Patrick Eagan, of "em
balmed beef" fame, challenged to fight at
Guaymas, a month ago. Is visiting New
York City, and relates the story of the
duel that never came off. It seems that
Eagan and Colonel Harlow both want tho
same tract of coal land in the state of
Guaymas, and each of them has had his
turn in driving off the other's men from
the claim. Harlow was In possession
when he met Eagan at a Guaymas hotel,
and when he spoke politely, and the Gen
eral wanted to know who the devil he
was, he shook his first under Eagan'a
nose, with the remark: "I'm not the em
balmed beef hero." General Eagan liked
this no better than he liked General Miles'
opinion of the beef, and sent a challenge.
The thing went so far that each party
secured his second, Eagan's being a Mex
ican Judge and Colonel Harlow's United
States Consul Crocker, who resigned his
position by telegraph In order to serve.
Harlow choee shotguns at 20 feet, but that
did not suit General Eagan. nnd he re
fused to fight. After that Colonel Har
low, dining with his friends. In an Im
pulse of hilarity turned challenger, and
told General Eagan he might use a 13
inch gun, but as for himself Harlow
would be content with a can of em
balmed beef. To conclude, the Arlzonian
says that "to be perfectly honest, I am
ashamed of the whole transaction."
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
"What do you expect to be when you become
of age. my little man?" asked the visitor.
"Twenty-one. sir." wa3 the bright one's reply.
Yonkers Statesman. I
Sport. "Automoblllng Is not likely to endure
as a sport." "No; people aro already so shy
Lthat It's more a matter of luck than skill when
anybody Is run down. L.ire.
A Division of Labor. Mike How much far
ther docs the solgn say It Is to Noo Yor-rk,
Patsey? Pa,t Twlnty molles. Mike Well,
thot's only tin molles apiece. Judge.
"Well. Fritz, you got birched In school to
day?" "Yes. but It didn't hurt." "But you
certainly have been crying?" "Oh, I wanted
to let the teacher have a little pleasure out of
It." Tit-Bits.
Reassuring. She Oh! Jack! Are you per
fectly certain that you love me? He My dar
ling! You don't suppose that I have lived for
30 years without knowing love when I feel It.
Brook! j n Life.
Deacon Johnslng No, Bredder Smlf. wo caln't
all be powahful. You must be contalnted to be
a "hewer ob wood an' a drawah ob watah."
Mlsto Smlf Laws sabe you, honey, 'taln't so
bad as dat. De ole woman does all dem little
chores! Chicago Dally News.
A Sliding Scale. Lone Arrival (at Summer
resort) What are your terms here? Hotel
Clerk I'm-you will have to wait until the
through express gets In. If It Is loaded our
terms will be $10 a day. If It Is empty we
win pay you 25 cents an hour to sit on the
porch and look happy. New York Weekly.
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Under the Greenwood.
William Shakespeare.
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me.
And turn his merry noto
Unto the sweet bird's throat
Come hither, coma hither, come hither
Here shall he see
No enemy
But Winter and rough weather.
Who doth ambition shun
And loves to live 1 the sun.
Seeking tho food he eats
And pleased with what he gets
Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Here shall ho see
No enemy
But Winter and rough -weatheiv