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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, JULY 29, . 1902. Entered at the Poitofflce at Portland. Oregon, as ptcond-clajs matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION' RATES. Br MaU tpostage prepaid, la Advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month S3 Dally. Sunday excepted, per year 7 60 Dally, with Sunday, per year 0 00 Sunday, per year 2 O0 The Weekly. Tjer year 1 W) JTbe Weekly, i months M To City Subscribers al'. pr Meck. delivered, Sunday exeepted.lttc J?lly, per week, delivered. Sundays lncluded.20o POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: . : "-Pace paper lc If to 28-page paper 2o Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication la The Oregonian should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonian." not to the name f any individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter hould be addressed simply "The Oregonian." Eastern Business Office. 3, 44. 45. 47. 48. 40 Tribune building. New York City; 010-11-12 Tribune building. Chicago; the S. C. 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C.. by the Ebbett House newi stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 000-312 Seventeenth street: Louthan Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. 13th and Lawrence street; A. Series, Sixteenth and Cur tis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and slightly warmer; northwesterly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER-Maslmura tom perature, 71; minimum temperature, 55; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAXD, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1002 CHURCH AND STATE AT EUGESE. The Oregonian has just received a copy of the Eugene Divinity School cat alogue for 1902, from a perusal of which it appears that that Institution has fastened itself upon the State Univer sity and seeks to grow with state aid. This Is not right, and should not be tol erated. The Eugene Divinity School is controlled by members of the Christian Church, and has for its object the edu cation of young men for the ministry. The school does not, however, stand upon its own merits, but uses the State University as a means of attracting students to its halls. From the flrst page of its catalogue to the last, the university Is used as an advertisement for the Divinity School, while it is every where manifest that the state institu tion is doing more or less work for the benefit of divinity students. The first announcement made in the Divinity School catalogue is that "the university department of Greek under Professor John Straub is so complete and thorough. Including New Testa ment Greek, that it meets all our re quirements in the divinity course. The same may be said of all of the depart ments with which we have associated our course of study; such as the de partments of history, Latin, mental sci ence, literature, geology, philosophy, biology, sociology, etc." Out of seven special lecture courses, two are given by members of the faculty of the State University, Throughout the catalogue the fact is emphasized that the Divin ity School Is adjacent to the university campus, and It is stated that, "al though these schools have no organic connection, our students may avail themselves of all the advantages given by the University of Oregon." "The courses of study are so arranged that a part of the studies must be taken in the university," and "the university gives credit for certain work In the Divinity School." fn the effort to attract students to the Divinity School it is pointed out for special consideration that "In addition to the several courses of the university, we provide Instruction in sacred his tory. Scripture exegesis, hermeneutics, homiletics, pastoral theology, Hebrew, church history, etc; that by attending school here you will be associated In literary and religious work with several hundred of the brightest and best young people of the Pacific Coast, and that among the advantages of the university are a library of several thousand vol umes, a well-equipped gymnasium, a reading-room where are kept many of the leading newspapers and periodicals. Professor Condon's great geological collection,- and several literary societies for debate, parliamentary procedure and extempore speaking." We are also informed that while this Bible school is not an annex to the State University, yet It sustains such relations to the latter institution that its students are secure In all the advantages of the State University, and yet enjoy the full protection of a religious atmosphere which they succeed In maintaining in the Bible school proper. "Without tul .tion and within one block are all the advantages offered by the University of Oregon." Four whole pages of the cat alogue are used to set forth the attrac tions of the State University. The State University! is the "drawing card" in tended to build up a student body for the Divinity School. Let it be understood that The Orego nian has no ill will toward the Eugene Divinity School or any of its promoters or friends. So far as It has any feeling regarding the future of that school, it wishes the Institution all the success its doctrines may merit. But in an age and country In which church and state are supposed to be separate. The Ore gonian cannot wish sny denominational school any measure of success that de pends upon the assistance of any state institution. Whether the success of the Eugene Divinity School depends :n part upon the aid it receives from the Uni versity of Oregon, Is answered by the prominence the advantages of the uni versity have been given in the Divinity School catalogue. To the extent that it seeks state aid, it should meet with failure. It will doubtless be said that the cor dial relations which exist between these two schools and the mingling of courses of study entails no additional burden upon, the state. Even though that were true, it is immaterial. By the Divin ity School's very receiving of stu dents who pursue a few studies in the state school as a part of the curriculum of a religious institution, the state aids that Institution in a financial way Those students are pursuing a theolog ical course and take a part of their work fn the State University; Thus the burden of the theological school Is lightened. By permitting its name and advantages, the ability of its instructors and the excellence of Its equipment to be used as an advertisement for the Divinity School, the university authori ties give that institution a prestige such as no other religious school enjoys. One denominational school is being fostered others are neither asking nor receiv ing state assistance. It Is true that the university doors cannot be closed against a student be cause of his religious beliefs, and no one would advocate such a measure. The Divinity School should be willing to sever its connection with the State Uni versity and care for its students alone. If it will not do this, the university should refuse admission to any person who pursues at the same time a course In any' other Institution. The Univer sity of Oregon was intended as a state institution where our young men and women can secure liberal educations. It should not be made to serve local or private or sectarian Interests. The Ore gonian does not raise this protest be cause it believes the Divinity School Is now injuring the State University or is a grievous burden to the taxpayers. It is the violation of the spirit of one of the great principles of our free Institu tions that constitutes the occasion for this article. Small evils grow and are most easily cut off when in their In cipient stage. Let us once more sepa rate the, church and state. AX OLD MYTH REVIVED. The' glorious civilization of "prehis toric America," transplanted here from Egypt and degenerated to the status discovered by the Spaniards, was at one time an unconscious hoax, later an ex cusable rhapsody, but today is nothing but a sensation of yellow journal Ism, although encased between the pre tentious covers of Harper's Monthly Magazine. The author of this present recrudescence is one Charles Hallock, editor, broker, banker, sportsman, ornithologist, dog fancier, fisherman and member of countless historical and scientific mutual admiration societies. His article Is most mischievously enti tled "The Primeval North American," for it deals not with primeval man, North American or otherwise, but with that status of development all but abreast of civilization. It brings to gether a multitude of Interesting phe nomena and reflections, but their ser viceability Is sadly perverted by the use that is made of them. Mr. Hallock, in the full light of twentieth century knowledge, gives his readers for truth nothing better than the o?d Spaniards, innocently or at least naively, and Pres cott afterward with exuberant rhetoric, imposed upon mankind in their grossly overdrawn picture of America. Mr. Hallock's fundamental errors are three: The nature of American "civil ization"; Its antiquity, and its origin. He calls the life he describes a "civili zation of high degree,' and (he terms he employs are those given to institutions and establishments of advanced civili zation, such as "massive pyramids, tem ples, and palaces" which "vie with those of the Old World." This is sheer non sense, and should be apparent to the most unlearned from a moment's seri ous reflection. The error Is refuted even from Mr. Hallock's own pages, where he depicts the hieroglyphics, rude tools and weapons, sun worship, human sac rifices. A people cannot be regarded "as civilized whose written records are mere inscriptions on stone, who never knew the use of iron, who never do mesticated a single animal, except the dog; who stood upon rude eminences of earth or soft stone to worship the sun and offer up human sacrifices to ap pease the wrath of countless devils. The Mexicans and Central Americans had never reached the basis of feudalism even, for their tribes were mere family clans without political organization. As to government, they htid no concep tion of empire in the sense of a central government exercising orderly sway, over dependent communities near or far. As to authority, Montezuma was about equal In point of development to Agamemnon In Europe or Abraham In Asia. Equally erroneous is the high an tiquity Mr. Hallock attributes to the American culture. The "approximate date when this civilization was at the acme of its glory" he puts at 10,000 years ago. Nothing could be more for eign to the conclusions of scientific men than this theory of degeneration, which Mr. Hallock admits "is not popular with evolutionists." The tradition of departed glories is fascinating to the imagination, but incomparable with facts. The buildings he fancies centu ries old are not older than the twelfth or thirteenth century, and were still In use at the Spanish arrival. They are of soft stone and age rapidly. The trinkets that survive are of a low order of manufacture, and the highest Mayan flights of art are equaled, as he him self says, by the rude drawings of the Esquimaux. Mr. Halloqk applies "arch itecture" to the pueblos, and "writings" to the scrawls, just as the Spaniards referred to Montezuma's council-house as a palace and his chiefs as nobles; just as the English called Powhatan a King and Pocahontas a Princess. He likens the content of the hieroglyphics to the relics of nomadic Hebrew life patriarchal times, apparently unaware that this at once stamps his boasted "civilization" as a reign of tents or holes in the ground, bows and arrows, rude stone implements and entire absence of agriculture or alphabet. The stage of culture 13 one In which fire-worshiping, sun-worshiping and cannibalism are usually observed. At a comparatively late date inJHebrew historj' the prophets complain of Israel's Kings sacrificing their children by fire, and things as bad or worse than this were practiced in ancient America at the time of its high est culture. This great antiquity and this degen eration from S000 B. C. to 1500 A. D. are partly accounted for by the necessity Mr. Hallock feels for drawing his civ ilization from Old World sources. The New World was undoubtedly peopled from the Old, or, perhaps more cor dectly, both hemispheres were occupied In common" by early man when one could freely travel dry-shod from Puget Sound to Siberia and from Halifax to Paris. Subsequently; as everybody knows, the glaciers came down to the latitude of St. Louis. There was then no travel by the Northern route, or later when"the North Atlantic Ocean flowed over lands hitherto dry, and Mr. Hallock feels Impelled to draw his early American civilization across the Atlantic from Asia. He does this be cause he is determined, for some rea son, possibly a curious fondness for har monizing his science with Genesis, to reject the plain record of evolution. It does not suit him to admit that man has developed from low to high on the American continent, preciselj'.ns he has done elsewhere, so he.perverts the evi dences of parallel development Into ar guments for Asiatic origin. Similarity of customs in Old World and New has long been recognized as the most striking and beautiful corroboration of the scientific view of human progress. It annihilates degeneration as a prin ciple, reserving it as a corroboration of evolution, because the exception that proves the rule. The errors that this magazine article makee, or Its errors, rather, for Its falsity consists In its central apprehen sion of human annals, should receive the widest possible correction and re proof. The masses read little of au thoritative writing on ethnic problems, and what they do read Is likely to be confined to newspapers or popular peri odicals. The most casual and superfi cial of these productions should be un derlaid with accurate understanding of what science teaches as to the origin and development of the human race. Its Jowly beginnings, its viclssltudlnous struggles through thousands of cen turies up to its present high estate, with all its heroisms, self-discipline and aspirations, make up what is undoubt edly the most sublime stony creation has unfolded In this solar system, and possibly the grandest in all the sidereal universe within which our knowledge must forever be confined. The moral teaching of this stupendous drama is one of order and law, uniform, persist ent, uplifting. Trifling with its lessons, perverting Its Inspiring and ennobling truths, as Mr. Hallock is enabled by. Harper's Magazine to do In this article, is an offense not lightly to be condoned. The august spectacle of creation, pro ceeding "to some far-off divine event," In obedience to Purpose as beneficent as it is inscrutable, Is not to be marred by vain detractors or mislnterpreters, as It ia not directed by chance or baf fled by human contrivances of creeds or statutes. The folly of Impatience with the order of the universe Is fitting ly described In the saying of old: "Who soever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever this stone shall fall It will grind him to powder." DEPLORABLE CONDITION'S. The fistic encounter between two young men in this city Saturday even ing, in which one of them was killed. Is an occurrence that Is shocking to the moral sense the civilized sense, so to speak of the community. It Is not so much ' that a young man of sturdy frame and at least ordinary capacity for usefulness In his sphere of life was sent untimely to his death, though that Is sufficiently distressing to his family and friends, and regrettable In an eco nomic sense. It Is the condltlcns that the event has brought to light, which prevail among a large class of young men, and, sad to say, among a small class of young women In regard to their relations toward life and toward each other. Utterly untutored in the flrst principles of morality and personal ac countability, without which tutelage both are afloat upon the sea of human passions; with Jealousy now at the helm and now anger, while over all a feeling of undue individual Importance brood:;. It Is not strange that bumptious youths and silly maids combine to make ship wreck of each other's honor, integrity, and even upon occasion of their lives. The real regret Is not In the fatal re sult of a "knock-out blow," though that Is shocking, but In the conditions that led up to It. Here In thi3 case were lads with homes In this city, yet who lived away from home; Industrious as it appears, yet frittering away the pro ceeds of their labor In aimless routine of what fs miscalled "a good time": boast ful of their physical powers," yet not knowing how to conserve them; without purpose In life fcr which they were lay ing any solid foundation In the savings of their industry- Associated with them more or less 'Intimately were young women equally unanchored In responsi bility, who, like them, were dominated by an overweening sense of their own Importance and a passion miscalled "love." Such a combination may easily result and often does result In a climax that may justly be regarded as worse than death, since It Is a continuation of existence, shorn of all that makes life honorable or profitable. The staid condition wherein the parents' home was the home of the sons and daugh ters until the former, by well-directed endeavor, were able to set up homes of their own and install a modest. Indus trious wife therein, and the latter went fully equipped with womanly graces to homes of their own. Is now as ever the safeguard of the individual and of so ciety. The even-handed discipline and honorable restraints of the old-fashioned f home cannot be dispensed with without distinct loss to the community. In this home and under its gudiance the youth and maiden should abide,' giving re spectful allegiance to the father and mother until they go forth on their own account as homebullders, taking the old home as a model. The fathers and mothers of a past generation were wont to say of their grown-up sons and daughters still under the parental roof, "They are not too old to mind." This literally interpreted meant that the re straints of home were upon them, though the penalties for childish trans gressions were of the past. We often hear of a return to flrst principles as a thing greatly tov be desired. A return to the first principles upon which the civilized home is built Is certainly, in the light of social conditions, frequently disclosed, greatly to be desired. BRITISH HOLD OX SHIPPING. The official annual statement of Brit ish shipping, which has just been is sued, would hardly seem to Justify the alarm recently shown by Great Britain over the Increasing prestige of other powers on the high seas. This state ment shows that more ships were built and more were sold to foreigners In the year 1901 than in any previous year, and that the total tonnage of British mer chant shipping was 9,524,496 tons, or 130,000 tons more than the total of 1900. There" have been years in the past when the proportionate gain over the preced ing year has been greater than that of 1901, but the enormousness of the totals is so impressive that recent allusions to the decadence of Great Britain as a marine power are certainly unwar ranted. The American merchant marine is growing faster than that of any other nation on earth at the present time. The Lake-built carriers, which have heretofore been disregarded as factors In the general carrying trade of the world, have wandered out from the crowded ports of the Inland, seas and are carrying" the Amlercan flag around? the world. The steamship Eureka, now loading at this port for Central Amer ica, is a fair representative of the type of vessels which are successfully com peting with, craft of other nations for the foreign trade out of American ports. Built at a Lake port in Ohio, she was soon hustled out of the prescribed limits of Lake traffic, and, with the world for a field of operations, is proving that there is -plenty of room on the ocean for American ships. In spite of the unparalleled growth of ) American shipping, however, let no man believe for a moment that the flag of old England can be driven from the seas. A power that "has fed the seas for a thousand years" is not easily dis placed, especially when environment, education and inheritance have all tended to send such a large proportion of Its subjects to the high seas for a livelihood. For hundreds of years Great Britain has been overcrowded. Her young men could not take the emi grant trail and go west and grow up with the country, for the country had grown up several centuries ahead of themand the trail In any direction led down to the seagirt shore of the tight little isle. Internal development had long before deprived them of the op portunity of hewing fortunes out of the soil, the mines, the forests or of other Industries which abounded in America and other lands' beyond the seas. What, then, could be more natural than that they should build ships and sail them away to, the new vvorlds where virgin wealth awaited their coming? Their argosies of trade carried civiliza tion to India, Africa, the Orient and Australia, and In America as well as In the other countries mentioned appeared fields for development which gave em ployment to British capital and British subjects. America, rich in Iron, timber, wheat, stock and other commodities of which Great Britain and her dependencies stood most In need, was kept busy get ting out the goods which" England pur chased and distributed with her own ships, as far as it was possible. There was so much money to be made In this Internal development that Americans paid but little attention to the ocean carrying trade. There was practically an unlimited field for their operations on shore, and not until that field showed signs of narrowing was much of an effort made to enter the carrying trade. The vast fleets which now churn the waters of the Great Lakes were called Into existence by and became a part of the great system of internal develop ment which has enabled America to supply the world with timber. Iron and breadstuffs. They have now reached proportions where all of the tonnage is not required on the Lakes, and, as be fore stated. It Is going out into the world, where the field for operation Is les3 prescribed. Cheap Iron, steel, wood and coal will enable America to build and operate ships as economically as they can be built and operated abroad, and this country will share the honors of the ocean carrying trade of the world with Great Britain and Germany. The com mercial interests of Great Britain all over the globe, however, have given her a hold on a good-sized portion of the ocean carrying trade, which she will always retain, and all of the combina tions which can be effected will not force her to retire from a business which has mnde her great, and which Is still the llfeblood of the country. It will accordingly occasion no surprise to find that country keeping well in the front as a marine power for an in definite period. The man who goes gunning for his fellow-man and brings him down Is, to all Intents and purpose, a cold-blooded murderer, who should, In due process of law, be hanged. There Is no dis tinction of persons under such circum stances, either in justice or In law. Past provocation or possible future dis agreement do not enter Into this prop osition at all, since no provocation Jus tifies the act and no possibility defends It. If, therefore, the man James Gibson, now under sentence of death in Jose phine County, recently referred to in these columns, lay In wait for his neigh bor, Schonbachler, with whom he had had trouble over the boundary line be tween their respective holdings, and de liberately shot him to death, he is ut terly undeserving of public sympathy or executive clemency. The comment made by The Oregonian a- few days ago upon this ease, and to which Dis trict Attorney Reames took somewhat violent exception In a lengthy commu nication published yesterday, was based upon reports of the case received through the regular news channels, and which were presumed to be correct. The statements of Mr. Reames put the case In an entirely different light, though they will causo most people who follow them to wonder that the jury In the first trial failed to return a verdict of murder In the first degree without a dissenting voice on the flrst ballot. The Oregonian believes that deliberate mur der clearly proven should be punished according to law. The boundary line dispute has culminated In a number of killings In thl3 state, wherein the victim was simply not as quick on the trigger as was his antagonist. Juries in such cases have generally allowed the plea of self-defense to rule their findings and returned a verdict of manslaughter. -and in some Instances of acquittal. The Josephine County case seems to have been a departure from the usual line In troubles of this character, and cer tainly, if the evidence of deliberate, cold-blooded murder was as conclusive as has been stated by the state's prose cutor, James Gibson should be hanged, regardless of his present condition of abject penitence and threatened phys ical collapse. Tlme hurries lay so fast that It comes with something of a shock to be re minded that Peary, for whose relief the Windward has just sailed, entered the ice upon his present polar expedition full four years ago. If his health Is unimpaired and no accident has be fallen him, he should by this Spring be in a better strategic position than ever for hi? attack on the pole. Last year he reported 'rounding the Greeland Archipelago In Itself no mean achieve ment. He Is well supplied with dog food, and should have had on taking the field the largest and best pack of dogs with which he has hitherto been supplied. From Fort Conger to Cape Hecla and thence directly In an air line over the sea Ice for the pole this is his plan, and news from him at any time would not be surprising. It appears that there was no truth In the rumor that Andree landed In the northern part of this continent and was killed by the Indians. This report, which came from one of the trading posts of the Hud Eon's Bay Company, located Andree as landing at a point some 200 miles north of Fort Churchill early in 1900. The fact that not a single relic was ever re covered from the Indians, although a very large reward was offered. Is taken as proving that there wa3 absolutely no truth in the story. A similar story came from Russia some time ago, but that, too, proved to be absolutely false. Pos- oiM- Tja. i ,.i,i... " tt, .., slblj Peary. In striking to the north from the west coast of Greenland, may discover some trace of the Ill-fated ex- iurer, wno nopea to reacn mat long- ran is to cccome a potent iactor in xam coveted coal, the north nole. bv means many Hall, felicitates the Democratic of a balloon. I The success or failure of the Windward' v.w. HU rin,,r,rl ho Vt, ,, JtT, -w -.... wj llAJ JL'Cill. mi T 3. . m r . use inuian war veterans or. souinem Oregon held a reunion at Ashland Sat- urday. at which fiftv time-seared vet- erano. more or l. battle-scarred, were -'. m. 7 I , ' "J 7 present. The number of pensioners that 4 uc- uuucu iu me jjeuiiuii lulu u the nassaee of the Indian War veter ans act is likely to exceed the esti mates materially. However, If all who present -claims are fairly entitleld to them, the Government will have no com plaint to make. It is only the unworthy claimant, discovered and brought for ward by the claim agent in his own behalf, whose claim is disputed and all too infrequently disallowed. If some veterans who, heretofore unknown to themselves, were Indian fighters in ye olden time, are not brought out of placid retirement In this hunt for fees and per quisites, it will not be from lack of Industry on the part of pension agents here and elsewhere. Bacteriologists assert that books carry disease germs more readily than any other Inanimate agent that finds access to our homes. It was supposed that this 'declaration, made In New York recently, would cause a stagnation In circulating Hbrarlea It has not, how ever, affected them to any appreciable extent. On the contrary, these librar ies are doing a tremendous business, and If they spread disease the statis tics either do not show It or do not trace the germs to the books that go from hand to hand by the thousands dally. Page Morris, author of the celebrated "Morris amendment" to the Cuban re lief bill; Eddy and Heatwole, all of Minnesota, have failed of renominatlon to the House of Representatives. Com ing upon -the defeat of four prominent Insurgents In Michigan, this develop ment serves to reveal pretty plainly the President's strength with his party and the hold which Cuba has on popular sympathy. Tracy's escape looks very funny to the Omaha papers. Probably they have forgotten all about Pat Crowe. Regrulnr.i and Volunteer. Chicago Tribune. "I'm no hero," said General Lawton. "I'm only a regular." The statistical illustration to thlo joke (even Jokes have their statistics now) can be found in a certain table of "killed." "wounded." "missing," and "pension claims." The pension claims were filed before January 1 of this year. The regiments concerned took part In the Santiago campaigns. Here is the table: Volunteer Miss- Halms regiments. Kllled.Woufided. Ins. pension. -r nx iuirici ul vO- lumhla n 0th Massachusetts . 0 3.1d Michigan 0 JHth Michigan 0 8th Ohio O Totals 0 Regulars. 6th U. S. Infantry-17 7th U. S. Infantry..33 13th U. S. Infantry.18 16th U. S. Infantry.13 24th U. S. Intantry.12 Totals 93 2,007 103 01 0 107 75 471 17 0 O 17 0 40 It Is hard to see on Just what grounds the volunteer pension claims are made. Undoubtedly the volunteers had a good deal of sickness much more than the regulars. Neither they nor their officers knew the game so well as the regulars did. Consequently they were not so well able to take care of themselves. They were unseasoned men. Even this consid eration, however, will not account for the difference between the 2307 claims made by the unscathed regiments and the 764 made by the regiments which really sus tained losses. Does the pension claim agent find it harder to reach the regu lars? Or do the regulars take military service so much as a matter of course that they do not think of applying for Governmental reward unless they really stand In need of It? Whatever the srs? Tffirrc-2 can be no doubt, about the Impression which the bare figures leave on the mind of the reader. A DlHKrncefal Utterance. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The directors of the Temple Iron Com pany, as the hard-coal trust Is officially known, held their weekly meeting in New York on Tuesday. At Its close one of the railroad presidents made this statement: The operators are not planning any partial resumption of work In the anthracite mines. They believe that the strikers cannot hold out much longer. If they cannot live on $3,C00.0C0 a month they received In wages, as they as sert, how can they live on $300,000 a month strike fund? The operators arc ready to wel come the men-back and to kill the fatted calf when they are ready to come to terms. The situation Is unchanged. In other words, the hard-coal trust re gards its 146.000 former employes as so many prodigals who have been squander ing their substance in riotous living, and whom starvation will soon compel to ac cept the terms of their employers. Memory fails to recall an Instance where one American citizen has ventured to speak of 146,000 American citizens and their families with such contemptuous frivolity. Such an utterance Is a dis grace to the man who made It. He Is un fit for American citizenship. Winking: at Vice In Cities. Chicago Record-Herald. There seems to, be a tendency on the part of people of a certain class to wink at abuses in cities for fear that a town's business Interests will be injured if Its citizens raise an outcry concerning Its wlckednes or Its fllthlness. As the Bishop of Syracuse says, they are the worst ene mies of the cities whose Interests they pretend to have at heart. It may not be advisable to magnify a city's wickedness or Its unlovely features, but failure to make war upon wrongs where they exist Is a policy fraught with civic discredit and eventual dteafter. BallndH of City DIen. Judge. Dorothy sailed for the other side v. To watch a King and a court go by; ' Betty's gone with the turn of the tide (Here In the city are you and I); Ethel and Kate to thp mountains hie, Charlotte's gone to a lake and spring. Who would envy or decry? This Is the place of our summering. Wo need ne'er a guard or guide; In ways we wot of our pleasures He. Others may wander them far and wide (Hen In the city are you and I). A rooftop's near to a moonlit sky; A girl may laugh and a hammock swing, With never a gossip to poer and pry ThLi Is the place of our summering. It's well to dine where the awnings pled Flutter like sails when a sea wind's nigh: And wondrous fine Is a stage top's ride (Here In the city are you and I). The park Is a grove for swains to sigh When the sun goes down and the nlghtblrdi sing. Sillier folk than ourselves may fly This Is the place of our summering. Custom and fashion we both defy, Far "from a chaperon's shepherding (Here In the city pre you and I), This Is the place f our summering-. B0URKB C0CKRAN THE THRIFTY Harper's Weekly. An esteemed contemporary out west, JumpUjg tQ tQe conc,u8Jon DeCause he was aiiowed to make a windy oration on the Fourth of July, Mr. Bourke Cock- rt UDon "the retu ntcllect "d char?.ct" to the councils of the organlza- l,on' w? -?re not Participants in me secrets of Tammany's purposes, but we venture me prediction mat our comempw- t .,. ... ... . . . - .1 1 try s unucipmion win not do renuzcu. That Tammany needs an Injection or bo.th intellect and character does not pef- 2V! 0i..?"cUon'. ut """ even. the Hon' J-lia oujuvan, me real doss at present, cynically daring though he be. will so far aisregara nis reputed sagacity as to at tempt to supply those qualities In the per son of Mr. Bourke Cockran passes cots prehension. Our opinion of Mr. Croker as a political leader is well known. No Influence has been so baneful or so hurtful to the Dem ocratic party as hlr since the days of Tweed, but nobody who knows him has ever denied his nossesslon of certain tralto of personal loyalty that are not umy aumiraoie in themselves, but also formed the basis of his extraordinary po litical power. His notlons'of public moral ity are crude and false, but in a personal way he Is to Mr. Cockran as an angel of light. In point of intellect, morever. strange as it may seem to some of our readers, he Is Immeasurably superior. Mr. Cockran L3 not an able man; he slmp'.y has the gift of gab. as indicated in his Fourth of July harangue. And his character, or lack of It, has come under the electric light very distinctly of late In litigation, which developed the fact, on his own testimony, that he got for himself and associates more than $300,000 for causing a suit to be brought to pre vent a combination o'f business Interests, and then causing It to be withdrawn. The truth came out In a suit of one of Mr. Cockran's associates, who felt that he had not received his share of the swag. It is safe to say that, whatever may have been his shortcomings, in other directions, Mr. Croker never engaged In this kind of "business," so peculiar to Wall street that one of our very richest millionaires was cartooned in the dally papers the other day as "holding up" his partners in a similar combination, and excused solely because he Is an octogenarian. Character can come Into the local Demo cratic party only from those who have it to give, such, for example, as Alexander ... Orr, Ashbel P. Fitch, and. despite his One not IrrempfllnMrt Tnlctolo jrtfrty.t .t Shepard. As for the sleek and prosper ous Mr. Cockran. now s- well understood in tne community, there Is- no possibility that he v.ill be drawn even by Tammany from the society of fatuous people who Invite monkeys to dinner. The Chinaman of the Future. Atlanta Constitution. Popular opinion that has taken but lit tle account of the Chinaman beyond the laundry profession and knows little more about him than is contained In San Fran cisco sandlot oratory and exclusion bill buncombe In Congress cannot appreciate the va?t place the yellow fellow already holds in world calculations and the tre mendous power that is inherent In his na tionalism. Except In certain mere social and super stitious traditions the Chinamen are not a great length behind the Westerners. In the matter of production to meet the ne cessities and In the resultant faculty of trade he is able to hold his own with anjfc people of the globe who will give him equal rights and honest opportunity. In Ingenuity, bargaining, thrift and looking out for "the main chance" he is the Yan kee of the East. It has been necessary to shut him-out from the Philippines lest he should soon monopolize its current indus tries and commerce. He Is a coming rival of the producers and traffickers of civilization, and if he can maintain his empire intact and will adopt such reforms as he can read;iy Im plant from competitive nations such as are suggested by Minister "Wu It will soon become a question with Europe how to meet and overcome the rivalry of Chinese commerce with the trading countries of the Far East. The yellow fellow has out come In him of a sort that may well be dreaded. Doe CoiiKreaa Represent the People? Harper's "Weekly. The political paradox presented by the fact that the President Is most popular, and the demand for his renominatlon ap parently most urgent. In the states from which has come the fiercest opposition to the chief Item 4n his require ment of Congress, suggests the question whether Congresmen ever really know very much about what swra , svsvsf j: always mucn impressed by the receipt of a considerable number of letters on any subject. Yet every little while some rep resentative finds that he Jias bee.n terribly mistaken In his guera at the thing the majority of people In his district really wanted. A Noisy Vliltor. Denver Republican. Mr. Schwab's brother Joseph will prob ably be president of the $40,000,000 foundry trust. Evidently when opportunity knocked at the door of the Schwabs It roused the whole family. Repented Too Lntc. Boston Journal. Four 'of the Michigan beet-sugar Re publican "Insurgents" have already been turned down by the nominating conven tions. By all means let the good work go on. "Wlflconsln and Spooncr. Kansas City Journal. It may look differently at close quar ters, but at this distance It appears as It Wisconsin was unduly crowding her one really great statesman. PERSONS -WORTH KNOWING ABOUT. Baron Tanosuka Iwasakl, the richest mer chant of Japan, has started on a trip around the world. He Is now on his way to Europe, and will spend a few months there before coming to America. Lily Lanrtry will visit Nevada some time this year to look after the development of valuable mining property she owns there. She la said to own one of the richest gold ledges ever found in the West. A slab has been fixed to the front of the house where Cecil Rhodes was born at Bishop's Stortford. bearing the Inscription: "The Right Honorable Cecil John Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia, was born In the room within, July 5 1S33." Mme. Bernhardt, In referring to the poor salaries paid by the Theater Francalse. said the other day: "Other theaters keep abreast of the times, but not the Francalse. I lost 500 francs a day by staying there for my last year In the place." Not a few observers of things In British public life are of opinion that Lord Curzon will yet be Premier of the empire. He has devoted himself almost wholly to politics from his early jouth, and was writing books on big problems when most young men of his age are on pleasure bent. Tho celebrated M. Arton. who was one of tho central figures In the great Panama scan dal, and who. It will be remembered, was arrested In London and extradited at the re quest of the French Government, Is now a rich man. Last year he made between $200,000 and $230,000 by speculating on the bourse. The Mayor of Steubonvllle. O.. has adopted a unique method of settling what he calls petty clothesline" quarreft between women. He has established a "fighting-room," In which be locks the women who quarrel over back yard fences. After an hour's abuse of each other they run down. Then they Invariably become reconciled. Sir Ernest Cassell. whom Lord Salisbury Is said to have declined to make a peer, though urgently requested by King Edward to do so. has given largely to charity, and especially to aid In medical Investigations. He ia a self made man, having advanced from clerk to a high position In finance. He had a good deal to do with the late Baron de Htrsch, and found the connection quite profitable. i0TE AND COMMENT. At all events, the tariff laws will not-be any worse until Congress gets another whack at them. Fltzslmmons has everlastingly demon strated his unfitness for a seat In the United States Senate. Bryan. It Is noticed. Isn't saying any more than he did In 1SS0. although he la talking Just as much. Alfred Austin Is taking a long rest, which Is almost as badly needed and en joyable as that of his readers. SeaFlders who desire to come to Port land to cool off will find the rates very reasonable at this season of the year. They are running excursions to the Ha waiian volcano. They evidently are In the don"t-know-It-ls-loaded class down there Interest In the coronation flags. The press agents should begin anndunclng that everything will positively be given as ad vertised. Judging from the amount of matter which has been written about It lately, even the Sphinx has acquired the press agent habit. "What with tropical mosquitoes and revo lutions, the men who dig the Panama Canal will be Justified in demanding full union wages. Somehow or other, there is a very gen eral feeling that the country will struggle along, even after. Hon. W. T. Fang has returned to China.' The reason we hear no more of tho shirtuaist man Is because he is now navi gating an automobile, and consequently wears a suit of armor. The number of statesmen who dine reg ularly at Sagamore Hill Indicates that Mrs. Roosevelt must be a right smart hand at cooking a dinner. It Is sa.d that Chauncey Depew has the blues. Possibly 1:1s vlfe hasn't been Uuighlng at his anecdotes as loudly as she did during the halcyon honeymoon days. If the stogie trust has the effect of making people smoke cigarettes, the all powerful W. C. T. U. ought to be able to get a bill through Congress which will abate it. With "a wild west show and a circus coming to town, there is some hope that the youth of. the Northwest will In time be content to forget their de3lre to be come outlaws. General Smith. It appears, objects to his retirement. Perhaps he had on hand several hundred gallons of ammunition he was anxious to got rid of before leaving the Philippines. M. Verne, 'the fictlonist. says that the newspaper in time will supplant the novel. If the novel of the future Is to be the historical variety, the supplanting can not take place too soon. Some hint of the numerous applications for peerages and other honors which have been made In connection with King Ed ward's coronation may be gained from the correapondjence of Sir Robert Peel, when he was Prime Minister of Great Britain. Sir Robert's accession to power in the early '-50s brought him, he said, "claims from- half the gentry of England to be made either peers or barons." The birth of the present King of England was not marked' by the bestowal of titles. "I do not mean to advise the Queen to create any peers on account of the birth of the Prince of "Wales," wrote Sir Robert. Thus it was that to all applicants for honors the reply 'was a negative. "The distinction of being without an honor should not be come extinct," he wrote to one correspond ent; and to another, "There would not be a simple squire In the land If the fever for honom were not checked." To Monckton Mllncs Sir Robert wrote: "It Is from the unfeigned respect I have for the talents of your father that I advise him to retain the distinction of not being a baronet." One who knows the new Prime Minister cays: "He Is a silken aristocrat, with an indolent disposition and a delicate chest, a dilettante philosopher, to whom politics Is a slightly more diverting game than golf." There are many Balfours In Eng land. The Prime Minister, as all know. Is a bachelor, a bicyclist and an automo bilist. as well as the lending golfer of the United Kingdom. His brother, George William, is presidpnt of the Board of Trade. Frank Balfour, the pride of the family, another brother, was winning high distinction as a biologist, when he becamo a victim to his passion for mountaineer ing. He and his guide were killed in cross ing a dangerous piece of Ice while on an Alpine expedition. Miss Alice Balfour, a maiden sister of the Premier. Is a well known wr.ter. Her "Twelve Hundred Miles In a "Wagon," published In 1S06, had a large sale. The name of Mr. Balfour's home is enough to puzzle the wayfarer "Whlttlngehnmc. Prestonklrk, Hadding tonsh. Gerald's wife. Lady "Betty," and Charle3 Barrlngton Balfour's wife, Lady "NlnV are popular leaders of the "silken set." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIEHS What Ought to Be. Visitor And what was jour offense, my good man? Convict Madam. I'm doing time for reckless automobling. Brooklyn Life. Wise Precaution. Blxby I see young De Coin carries a footman perched on the rear of an automobile. Jflxly Huh! That Innocent-looking footman Is a Coroner in disguise Chicago Daily Nw. Just Cause. "Here, you naughty boys; stop your fighting!" "Aw, It's all dat Johnny Jinks" fault." "Has he been teasing you?" "Aw, I should say yes. Why. dat kid went an said dat me fader played ping pong." Bal timore Herald. On the Farm. Zeke One o' them pesky city boarders went out In our pasture shootln at a target, ylstlddy. Mandy Did he hit the bull's eye? Zeke No, he didn't b'gosh; but he hit the cow's ear, consarn him. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Cholly Had me favorite dish for luncheon today calves' brains. Miss Costlque By the way, that reminds me. I was reading quite an interesting article In last Sunday's paper, called "The Confessions of a Cannibal." Phila delphia Record. Harding Good news in that letter, I take It? Rlch'.lng Good news, indeed. It is from my son at college. He merely writes for money. He hadn't asked for a remittance for three or four days, and I had begun to think the boy was dead. Boston Transcript. The Obverse and Reverse. The Adorer It's wonderful, old man, what love will enable a fellow to see In a girl that he never saw be fore! The Onlooker No doubt! But It's equal ly wondejrful what It won'lt let him see what hoil see later. Town and Country. Professional Jealousy. Farmer Backporch Heered th' news, Sal? Burglars broke Inter Josh Medders' house last night an' eat every confounded thing In th pantry. Mrs. Back porch Burglars, eh? I'll bet It wuz some o them half-starved Summer boarders from Hank Brown's place. Judge. "If you keep on as you have begun. Mabel," complained the young husband, running his eye over the expense account, "we shall never be able to lay up anything for a rainy day." "How can you say so, Henry," exclaimed the young wife, righteously Indignant, "when you know I have two of the loveliest rainy-day skirts that were ever made?" TIt-BIta
