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C., by the Ebbett House nw stand. For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton A JCendrlck. 000-912 Seventeenth street: Louthan Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. 15th and I-awrence street; A. Series, Sixteenth and Cur tis ctrects. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair; warmer; north erly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 7C; minimum temperature, 55; pre cipitation, none. 5 PORTLAND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2. WASHINGTON AND ITS RAILROADS. It is the plainest of certainties that unless public opinion can be lifted bod ily Into a" higher plane than it now occupies, the young State of Washing ton ia about to pass through the fiery furnace of a railroad war, In which unreasoning populism will stand ar rayed against unscrupulous corporate rapacity. The middle ground .of popu lar rights and justice to property seems j to have a curious and most lamentable non-existence in the political life of the state. Yet it is the only safe ground, and. so time will show, at whatever in cidental cost of corruption or disasters of populistic blight The explanation of the bitter contro- i versy that is now agitating the public mind of Washington is simple. To such extent have the activities of pro rallroad and antl-rallroad lobbyists come to dominate the state's politics that for a man to oppose the Incompe tent Railroad Commission of Governor McBride, for example, is for him to be interpreted by the leaders, of public opinion as a paid servant of the rail .roads, and a political ally of John L. Wilson, Between these two extremes of unwisdom and corruption the right minded man should be found; and it is perhaps the most depressing factor In the situation that this wise policy has scarcely an advocate ln all the journal ism of the state. A sufficient warning against these errors Is afforded by the political an nals of California. It has long been known that C. P. Huntington had so corrupted the politics of the state that it required considerable hardihood for the honest man to stand with him, even when he was right. To resist the ap peals of the most frenzied anti-railroad element was to be stamped in the pub lic mind with railroad influence and railroad corruption. Upon this baleful way the railroad Interests of the State of Washington have been inclined to enter. Governor McBrlde's fulmlna tiona against the lobbies that have dis graced the capital at every legislative sesslQn find abundant justification in the nefarious methods there pursued. It is no wonder that popular indigna tion rises high against the corruptive influences. The chief offender and the original source of such a situation is the preda tory politician. It 1s the history of blackmail everywhere that the original nffender Is the political bird of prey and that the corporation resorts to" corrup tion in self-defense before it appropri ates It as a settled policy of both of fense and defense. The business man naturally prefers to do business in. a business way, without submitting to the drain upon his resources made neces sary by the blackmailing politician. Railroad attorneys are naturally loth to encumber expenditures of their de partments with large disbursements to lobbyists and to besmirch their call ing with the attainder of bribery. Ex tensive as their ultimate operations of aggression may become, the beginning is always made in protection against rapacious thrift or wild-eyed anarchy. Such weight and Influence as The Oregonlan can bring to bear upon the counsels of Republicans and of all other forces of public opinion In the State of Washington, it would cast In the direction of stirring up- business men and serious-minded citizens gen erally to demand of the state conven tions and the Legislature a course of justice and wisdom that shall at once steer clear of the railroad , corruption and the populist persecution. It will not do for the railroad lobbyist to hold the destinies of this growing young commonwealth in his unscrupulous grasp.. Nor will it do for the state to enter upon a campaign of unreasoning hostility to the railroad corporations. It is a critical moment in the hlstory of the Pacific Coast. The State of Washington can ill afford to advertise itself as the Implacable foe of capital or the -helpless prey of corrupting lob bies. The whole situation has no more dis couraging feature than the inexplicable absorption of Governor McBride In a punitive scheme that is at once danger ous and Inoperative. With the history of railroad commissions in Oregon and California so plain before him, and in view of the Impossibility that guberna torial appointees should exercise the judicial functions reserved to the courts by our form of government or the leg islative functions reserved for the Leg islature, it is difficult to see what he can hope ;to gain either in ultimate ef fects upon the state's welfare or In tem porary standing for himself in the minds of the ludicrous and discerning. He has arrayed himself and his lmme dlate adherents at the head of the antl- j-ailroad element Jn. Washington poll tics; and the end of such indiscriminate warfare, disclaim it as he may, is writ large In the history of populist depres sion la Kansas,. Colorado and Oregon. Does every Western State have to pass through this desperate ordeal? If eo, Washington has chosen a most Inauspi cious time for its passing. The Gover nor has correctly apprehended the giant of railroad corruption. But he goes out to meet it with a discredited and broken weapon. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Mr. R. H. Edmonds, in a recent ad dress before the Georgia School of Technology, recited a large number of interesting statistics In proof of the re markable Industrial progress made by the South since I860. The South's pres ent output of pig iron, of bituminous coal, of manufactured lumber products, greatly exceeds the total output of the whole country in 1860. The South .has 25,000 miles more of railroad than the whole country had in 1S60. In 1860 the value of manufactured goods In the United States wa3 $115,000,000. Today the South, manufactures $110,000,000 worth. The mineral and manufactured products of the South In 1900 were $1,620,000,000, against $1,900,000,000 for the whole country In 1860. In 1860 the whole country produced 500.000 barrel? of petroleum. Today the South is mar keting 20,000,000 barrels, while in bank ing capital the South has about half of what the whole country had thirty years ago. These are striking proofs of splendid Industrial progress, but industrial growth alone will not make a great people; for if rapid winning of commer cial wealth through capacity for trade constituted a great people, why, then, Tyre and Corinth were greater than Athens or Rome, and Venice a state of more glorious record than Great Brit ain or Holland. The best and the. most recent evidence that the South is grow ing fast not only In body but in soul is the legal hanging of two white men for murder in Mississippi. One of these murderers was the black sheep of a good family, and extraordinary efforts were made by his family arid powerful friends to save him from the gallows. Governor Longlno refused to grant any respite, and the sentence was carried out in a public execution, which was at tended largely by negroes. The Missis sippi Governor had become aware that there was a general popular belief that the condemned murderers would not be hanged because they were white men, and the negro population believed that the public would be Imposed upon by a secret hanging while the murderers would really escape. Because public opinion had come to believe that "only negroes are hanged," the government of the State of Mississippi wisely de cided upon a public execution and In vited the people to witness it. The exe cution took place, and the negro spec tators were assured by the public hanging of a white man of aristocratic Southern birth and breeding that, so far as Governor Longlno was con cerned, capital punishment would as surely be inflicted upon a white mur derer as upon a black. This action of Governor Longlno in deciding that these' murderers not only must be hanged, but be executed so publicly that there should be no possible doubt among the most illiterate negroes that justice had been wrought, in our judg ment is notable assurance that the progress of the South consists' not mere ly In getting richer, but in growth in civic wisdom and justice. The State of Mississippi before the Civil War was conspicuous for the abil ity and virtue of her public men, and after the Civil War she was represented in the United States Senate and upon the Supreme Bench by a statesman of rare quality in the person of Lamar. Governor Longlno seems to be a man of resolute civic courage and public in tegrity. He sees that the horrible prac tice of lynching negroes for great crimes, petty crimes and often for no crime at all can never be corrected If any mercy is shown by the courts or the Governor to white murderers. Gov ernor Longlno has spared no effort to bring the executives of lynch law to justice, and it is not his fault that he has not always succeeded, but he is op portunely wise in making the poor, ig norant negro population of Mississippi understand that if any white murderer falls into the hands of the legal au thorities he will get the same punish ment he would obtain if he were black. SPECIAL TRAINING REQUIRED. In the political stress in Great Brit ain Incident to a change of the Cabi net at a critical period, much is said of the value of commercial train ing as a prime requisite for men who are given charge of matters of state. There is a feeling that Lord Salisbury relied too much upon his own gifts and past experience In filling Cabinet va cancies, gathering about him .thereby a class of politicians of little better equipment than that of government clerks, and in many cases lacking even such qualifications as these. According to the Pali Mall Gazette, "Salisbury's last Cabinet was fast dying of Its own dignity." The Times raises the cry for the "commercially trained," and the Echo significantly observes that "Mr. Roosevelt has advisers who earned their own living before trying to con duct the mighty affairs of state." There is much more In all of this than appears upon the surface. Commercial efficiency is not picked up while in of fice, except after much blundering and at great cost to the Nation. The thor ough training that a "man of business requires in his manager and confiden tial clerk Is needed in a much wider de gree .in a Cabinet office. Dignity is a good thing, no doubt Indeed, it is an essential thing In a man who speaks for a great nation. But an excess of dig nity cannot cover shortcomings In dip lomatic and commercial training among men at or near the head of the Government. Dry rot will creep in where dignity is In excess, and ability as acquired by training is at discount "Advisers who haVe earned their own living before trying to conduct the mighty affairs of state" may be regarded as safe advisers, if, as is the case with the members of ,the Roosevelt Cabinet they have gained In so doing wide commercial and sound economic views, and acquired from touch with men and affairs in this and other lands the graces of diplomacy. Lord Salisbury was the puissant head of the British Empire. It seems from the running fire of comment that has followed his sudden retirement that he ' was also the body of the empire, speak ing from the standpoint of directive force. This, in view of the 6lender ten ure of human life, is a condition of pub lic affairs that may justly excite alarm. In this Instance it seems to justify the call of the- Times and other Journals of jnore or less Influence in British politics for .special training for public service, as preliminary to public peace and responsibility. - ' STRIKES AND THE PUBLIC WEL FARE. ' The riot atShamokin, Pa., which compelled the .Governor to order thither the militia, Is sure 'to 'renew the' dis cussion of the question which1 strikes bear to the- public welfare. The history of battles between capital and labor show clearly that the public peace , and general business has been most de structively disturbed; that whether the hostilities were begun by employer or employe, public, welfare has been tram pled recklessly under foot by private interest The public welfare is always doomed to suffer, and because of this fact the most thoughtful friends of so cial progress Insist that "it has now become the public duty to declare em phatically and definitely that labor dis putants shall have no more right to dis turb public tranquillity by a rec6urse to a test of strength and endurance than a pair of bruisers have to settle their differences in the street" This Is the position taken by a leading Phil adelphia journalist. John Handlboe, In the July issue of the North American Review. A strike always affects many persons In no sense responsible for' the dispute. The financial loss becomes enormous and widespread. The price of coal Is advanced, railroad employes of all sorts are discharged, industrial plants are shut down an.d work people forced into Idleness. The distress of families In creases, Idleness leads to drink, drink breeds riotous temper; men on both sides are killed and wounded, the mili tary is called out The public In the last analysis has to pay a heavy bill of costs for all this destruction of prop erty and military measures against riot There Is nothing to hope from employ ers who say "We have nothing to arbi trate," who refuse to admit the para mountcy of public welfare .under cir cumstances which forebode the disrup tion of the peace of a community, a county or a state;, and there Is not much to hope fpr from labor leaders who dogmatically declare, "We are op posed to compulsory arbitration." The flrst step toward the prevention of costly or sanguinary strikes, Mr. Handlboe argues, is the incorporation of all labor unions, whether local, state or National. At present labor unions can abrogate a contract, without the least fear of consequences, and there Is nothing Jo prevent employers from do ing likewise. Mr. Handlboe would have a binding contract entered into by em ployer and employe, but such a con tract cannot be 'made tmless employ ers recognize the labor union, which many of them refuse to do, and unless labor unions are Incorporated a step for which these unions have no inclina tion. The next step would be toward compulsory arbitration, where this should become necessary. Labor and capital are both opposed to this, but the public, which Is the greatest suf ferer when a great strike occurs, has a clear right to enact a compulsory ar bitration law which would provide for the hearing and determination of a wage dispute when the parties to that t dispute are not disposed to end the matter peacefully for themselves. A compulsory industrial arbitration law has been, In successful operation In New Zealand for a number of years, and the very latest news from that country Is that this system1 of settling labor disputes continues to work well. A commission appointed by the Vic torian Parliament recently returned "from New Zealand to Melbourne, after spending a long time in taking testi mony of all sorts of people in all the centers of Industry. Among those con sulted were, the president of the chief Chamber of Commerce, officers of rate payers' associations and representatives of various industrial unions. All agreed that the arbitration court works well, but the commission found that the con ciliation boards are not equally satis factory. These boards take evidence and can then send on points to the arbitration court for final decision. Many desire that the boards should have the power to give their recom mendatlons the force of law until re versed by the court, and It is proposed that the act shall be amended so that Its machinery shall not be put In opera tion unless half the employes petition for It Unions having been Incorporated, a system of contracts provided and a compulsory arbitration law enacted, Mr. Handlboe thinks formidable strikes could be prevented. Under such a sit uation as exists at present In Pennsyl vania, the compulsory arbitration act could be invoked and enforced and re bellious and contumacious parties to the dispute punished for violation of the orders of the arbitration court It is easy to call such a plan as this for compulsory arbitration revolutionary and impracticable, but the protection of the public welfare will sooner or later compel us to adopt It HIS SPEECHES HELP HIM. It is a favorite cry of the "anti-imperialistic", critics of the President that his frequent public speech is bad policy for a man of his impulsive tempera ment; that "no man can make numer ous public addresses without running the risk of saying indiscreet or ill-considered things." As a general maxim this is probably true, but some men are sul generis; they are never misunder stood because of their utter frankness and lack of conventionality. Andrew Jackson was a man of this sort and Theodore Roosevelt Is another. . An-, drew Jackson was firmly trusted and enthusiastically supported, not because of his impetuous, precipitate public speech, but in spite of It The people knew that Jackson's superficial .explo slveness of political speech was not al ways In good taste, but they knew, too, that he was a man entirely earnest and honest In action. The people knew that Jackson, if he lacked the grace and tact of a diplomat was never open to any suspicion of dissimulation; they knew that if he sometimes fired in haste without stopping to see whether the game was worth the powder, Jackson was sure to open deadly fire on the enemies of the. American flag, whether foreign or domestic. Because the peo ple firmly believed and trusted In An drew Jackson as never a demagogue In peace or war, he was permitted to deal in expletives and imprecations early and late. If he sometimes fired wl)d the people laughed, because they felt abso lute respect for the man behind the gun. It is something so with Theodore Roosevelt Like Andrew Jackson, he Is sul generis; like Jackson, he is a trans parent man, an aggressive man, a man of spontaneity of temperament and, like Jackson", he Is a" brave, frank. truthful man, who is never suspected of trying to carry water on both should ders. Such men, when they are credited with public disinterestedness, generally obtain and retain the confidence of the people. President Roosevelt's speeches cannot be measured by the same stand ard as the public speeches of President McKlnley, who by natural temperament and long practice In the art of public sejf-restralnt never said more than he meant, never Impulsively answered In terruption with retort Nevertheless, It is probable that President Roosevelt gains rather than loses popularity by that very impulsiveness and ardency of utterance, which a practiced forensic artist like President McKlnley would be sure' to avoid. Pew of our Presidents have been good public speakers, but we notice that all of them who possessed this accom plishment were disposed on public occa sion to exercise It Washington was trained as a soldier and could not talk at all on public occasion. Jefferson had fine conversational powers, but was a poor speaker Not until we reach John Qulncy Adams do we reach a President gifted with superior powers of public speech. Franklin Pierce had for many years been the finest jury lawyer In. New Hampshire; he was a handsome man and a most eloquent and graceful speaker. Abraham Lincoln made a great many speeches during his term of office, and was an excellent speaker, not because he had any of the superfi cial personal gifts and graces ot an orator, but because his utterances were always flawless in logical force, apt in illustratfon and irradiated with fine hu mor. When Andrew Johnson was en tirely himself, he was a very Impressive, strong and attractive speaker. Garfield was a robust speaker of the fervid quality that shines "on the stump," but he could not make a finished political speech on a high public occasion that was equal In matter or style to the public efforts of either Benjamin Har rison or McKlnley. President Roosevelt likes to talk, and his. public speeches have served to in crease his strength with the people largely because he takes his audience entirely Into his confidence, even at the risk of parting sometimes with his offi cial dignity. But the people like him all the better because they see there Is no guile or art In him. His heart is In his hand, and in his mouth, too, and the people know that you can always de pend on that kind of a man, provided he has already proved that he can be brave and resolute and patriotic and is possessed of executive ability, both as a soldier and a statesman. The most popular Presidents we have ever had In this country have been men of the unconventional. type; the type of Jack son and Lincoln, and in our judgment the frank, unconventional public speech and manner of President Roosevelt have served " to Increase the confidence of the people In. his sincerity and strength. The case of the two Vancouver lads having in charge an Infant twenty-four hours old, the child of their young sis ter's dishonor, taken while endeavor ing to convey the babe surreptitiously to the Baby Home In this city. Is a strange one, and one in a sense most pitiful. Hard-working, honest folk, this family seems to have been appalled by the misfortune that befel it through the weakness of the daughter and sister herself but a chljd and the perfidy of her betrayer. In the hope of keep ing the occurrence secret, and to insure care for the child, the blundering at tempt to foist It as a foundling upon the Baby Home was made and failed. It Is up to the good people of Vancou ver to encourage this betrayed young girl to take care of her babe, and her family to provide a home for both, that her ruin may not be complete. The child, in such a case is the young moth er's salvation. Being relieved of Its care, her transgression" Is shorn of Its penalty; deprived of its' presence, the springs of maternal love soon run dry and the mother's surest and tenderest safeguard Is removed. The moral sense of a community, properly touched, will give a child-mother the one chance left for her social redemption by making It possible through timely and Judicious encouragement to take care of her in fant This is a question of moral rather than material support, and addresses Itself to enlightened, conscientious women for solution. General Jacob H. Smith, whose "kill and burn" order subjected him to court-martial, Congressional criticism and much public censure, has reached San Francisco from a long term of service In the Philippines. He Is an old soldier and a good one, as his mili tary record covering a period of many years showa His chief offense in the case that went so hardly against him was the use, under great provocation, of Ill-considered. Intemperate language. He has had his lesson, and will not In his humiliation and retirement repeat the offense; declining to talk upon his arrival yesterday, lest he might there by subject himself to further criticism. Sympathy for his misfortune will be increased by his dignified bearing and by his voluntary seclusion In his hotel after having learned of his retirement frdm active service by the President Tracy has, it seems, gone beyond hope of capture by Sheriff Cudihee and the valiant posse that Btarted out some weeks ago to show Oregon officers how it was done. The way he covers ground and picks up plunder by the way, al ways, so far as the public is advised, with his finger on the trigger, is a marvel of desperate cunning and phys ical endurance. He is now In Eastern Washington, headed for "Hole In the Wall," Utah, and there is no rea son to suppose that he will not reach his destination and be welcomed, a thief among thieves, by the bandits who have long made that place a robbers' roost , Earthquakes are coming uncomfort ably close. To be sure, Santa Barbara County,. California, is some distance down the coast, .but selsmatlc waves take little account of distance and even slight ' vibrations" are. sufficient to un settle the nerves and cause startling Visions of toppling chimneys, tumbling brick walls and gaping fissures In the earth's crust However, earthquake Is the one thing from which even terror cannot flee, not knowing which way to run. Oliver C. Davis, an embezzler of school funds In Decatur County, Kan sas, some years ago. but latterly of the Salvation Army of this city, has been arrested and will be returned to Kansas for trial. And now It Is hoped that at least one other member, of the Davis family will join the Salvation Army, become conscience-smitten, and give himself up to punishment Otherwise one George W., erstwhile of Salem, Is likely to go unwhlpt of Justice. HO PROTECTION UNDER BaLFQUR Chicago Evening Post The new British- Premier-has now mado It plain that the ministerial changes foreshadowed no great change In fiscal policy, no reversion to protection. Per sonally Mr. Balfour may sympathize with the zoilverelners and neo-protectlon-ists, but he knows that the old-fashioned Tories have been on the side of Hicks Beach, the retiring chancellor of the exchequer, nojt on that of Mr. Chamber lain, who denounced free trade as "economic pedantry", and was anxious to commit the Cabinet and the party to the customs-union project A day or two ago, replying to a direct question from Mr. Labouchere as to the effect of Sir Michael's withdrawal, the now Premier (who remains the Govern ment leader In the House of Commons) stated that "there was no ground for be lieving that any policy settled upon by the Cabinet while the chancellor was a member of It would be changed by his retirement" This,- It Is true, may seem rather am biguous and evasive to those who are familiar with Mr. Balfour's dialectical and controversial methods. No one knows what policies are deemed to have been "settled" by the Cabinet of which Sir Michael was an Influential member, and it would hardly bo unrpasonable to .hold that the question of restoring the corn laws and establishing an imperial customs union was open and unsettled Such an Interpretation of Mr. Balfour's answer would be the reverse of reassur ing to the opponents of protection. However, this was not the Premier's meaning. He was not quibbling or evad ing the question. This we Infer from the first public Bpeech on the political situa tion which he recently made in the Com mons since his appointment After pay ing a warm tribute to Mr. Chamberlain, to whose personality and policy England was declared to be indebted for the pres ent relations between the mother country and the colonies, Mr. Balfour went on to say: "We must look forward hopefully to the present conferences of the colonial Premiers in London. If they resulted In Increased prosperity or help In times of difficulty, it would be well. Even If no formal arrangement were made it would be well also. Britain had seen what the colonies could do and were willing to do. and hereafter It would be Impossible to regard the great collection of self governing communities of the empire as merely paper glory." It 1b understood that the colonial Pre miers have abandoned the subject of preferential tariffs. They are now dis cussing ship subsidies as a means of fighting the American steamship combi nation, but even on this point a "formal arrangement" Is extremely unlikely. At any rate, the zollvereln project is shelved. Mr. Balfour .will not go out of his way to encourage the neo-protectlonlsts. He Is a good politician and understands the art of compromise. Tnwney Needs His Lesson. St Paul Pioneer Press. Mr. Tawney Is one of the ablest and most efficient of our members of Con gress. His 10 years' experience in Con gress has greatly Increased his ability to be of service to his constituents and the country. He has attained a position of conspicuous influence among the Repub lican leaders of the House. In his suc cessful fight for the protection of the dairy interests of the country against the oleomargarine fraud he has won' the grateful regard of the farmers of his dis trict, who are extensively engaged in the dairy business. Whatever opposition to him exists among the Republicans of his district is due to the extreme length to which he carries his devotion to the pro tection policy. An active and Influential member of the committee on ways and means, he is one of those whose faces are set like flint agalnstany revision or re adjustment of the tariff to existing con ditions. While lauding what he calls in his letter "the great Republican policy of reciprocity," he so defines It as to reduce It to a chimera, an empty form of words, .for his Idea of reciprocity Is that It can only be Republican and wise when we get something for. nothing when the conces sions are all on the side of the foreigner and none on ours. Eleven reciprocity treaties approved by that great master of the philosophy of protection, William McKlnley, have been hung up or killed in the Senate for reasons which illustrate Mr. Tawncy's Idea of reciprocity. The re duction of the duty on some foreign ar ticle was objected to by the home manu facturer in each case, and was therefore rejected as not a wise or Republican reci procity. Of course, no reciprocity would be ever possible on this principle. The atmosphere of the committee of ways and means is not conducive to a clear appreciation of public sentiment In an agricultural district like the First on these matters, so that Mr. Tawney has ceased to be In line with the more Intelli gent and progressive of his Republican constituents on the tariff and reciprocity questions. Mr. Knitvold, in entering the field against him, has blazoned his colors with declarations that emphasize these Issues. He will have undoubtedly a large support In his district. He may not be nominated, but the discipline of such a campaign was needed by air. Tawney, and It will doubtless have an improving effect on him. A Tariff Injnstlce. New York Journal of Commerce. Mr. Griggs, chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee, has ascertained that typewriters which are sold to Ameri cans for $100 are offered for export at $55. The price of typewriters is maintained by the tariff, by the monopoly conferred by patents and by a combination of the lead ing manufacturers. If there Is $25 profit on the machine sold abroad there Is $70 profit on the machine sold at home. The export price sheets that Mr. Griggs has obtained from some of the export houses show sewing machines offered to foreign ers for $1? which are sold at home for $10. Tin plate, on which there Is a high rate of protection, based upon the pretext that It costs more to make it here than abroad, Is offered for export at $3 19 per box, and to Americans for $4 19. Lead is offered for export at half the domestic price, wire rope at less than half, wire nails at a lit tle more than a half, barbed wire, out of which Mr. John W. Gates has derived such very satisfactory profits, at three-fourths of the domestic price. But the duty Is maintained on barbed wire on the ground that American wages would have to be reduced if the duty were lowered. Shov els are offered to foreigners at a little more than two-thirds the domestic price and axle grease at exactly half the do mestic price. Mr. Griggs does not believe that he has obtained the very lowest prices offered to foreigners, the special discounts for the export trade. - Knlttinjr as n Medicine. Family Doctor. Knitting Is declared by specialists in the treatment of rheumatism to be a most helpful exercise for hands liable to be come stiff from the complaint, and It Is being prescribed by physicians because of lis efficacy In limbering up the hands of such sufferers. For persons liable to cramp, paralysis or any other affection of the fingers of that character, knitting Is regarded as a mo&t beneficial exercise. Besides the simple work Is said to be an excellent diversion for the nerves, and Is rccorr mended to women suffering from Insomnia and depression. In certain san itariums patients arc encouraged to make use of the bright steels, and the work Is so pleasant that It Is much enjoyed by thim. Should Let Well Enough Alone. Peoria Journal. Rathbonc has evidently never heard the old adage that It Is best to, let sleeping dogs alone. He has demanded a vindica tion, and he may not understand all the possibilities connected with the attempt to get one. It might be much better for him to let matters stand as they arc. There is a very general Impression that Rathbonc-got off exceedingly easy. SCAVENGERS OF THE" CAMP. Minneapolis Tribune. The President will not feel called "on to answer the "open letter" of the sniveling old women of the anti-Imperialist league. This is fortunate. There Is no language fit to answer this letter that is- fit for the President of the United States to use. There Is no need for him to answer It He has said his word .in vindication of the American Army. Its honor needs no defense from him against the baseless at tack of this sort of cattle. The open letter contains no. new evidence of any kind. The statements of fact on which Its sweeping slanders rest have been proven false In court and before- commit tees of Congress. The matter calls for no ofllcial notice. The unofficial attention Its authors require they will get from the American people. These venerable blackguards were the Instigators of the Senatorial Investigation last Winter. They led the Philippine com mittee Into the dissemination of lies that overwhelmed the Democratic party with popular wrath. They worked up the "evi dence" that was riddled in that Inquiry. They dug "witnesses" out of the scum of the Volunteer Army, and coached them to tell their lies straight before the com mittee. They are suborners of 'perjury. They are scavengers of the cimp. They nosed among the refuse of the guard houses like pigs In the dump hoap ofa distiller. They smelled out every malin gerer that had come back from the Phil ippines, hating his officers for trying to make him do his duty; every drunken loafer and coward that had divided most oi his service between skulking and pun ishment, to show them how to take a sife and mean revenge by slandering the Army they had dishonored and compro mising the officers whose scorn they had felt. They have conspired with rogues to stab the Army in the back as historic traitors conspired with hired assassins to murder statesmen and rulers. They failed, and this open letter Is the impotent mouthing of baffled rage and malice. The witnesses they coached broke down cn the stand; the evidence they cooked up was riddled by credible testi mony; the whole fabric of perjury was blown away- by the first breath of honest Inquiry. The Senatorial investigation ended in ridicule and failure, and nearly destroyed the party responsible for It The military courts stood by the Army. Wal ler was acquitted; Glenn's "punishment" is a joke: tho President's rebuke of Smith's intemperate language which had no effect on the conduct of the Army Is the net result of the campaign of slan der. Ordinary malice would have sought ref uge In obscurity; but these creatures have fronts of brass. Probably they call It appealing o public opinion to scatter broadcast monstrous allegations of a gen eral policy of cruelty and brutality In the Army, based on a few specific statements, most of which have been proven false. They can safely be left for public opin ion to deal with. The Sand Paths. New York. Tribune. At a little village near Huy, Belgium. In the night of April 3&, there exists the custom known as the "Chemlns de Sables," or sand paths. On the morning of May 1 the village lanos are found cov ered with narrow tracks ot white sand running side by side, and by following them one will be led at one end to the house of some winsome country lass, and at the other end to the home of her vil lage lover. v Sometimes these sand paths are miles In length, and will take those who follow them to all the most frequented haunts of the lovers. However, to know these se crets and Intrigues the curious must rise with the early bird, for the maidens spy out from their windows and when they see a .streak of white sand leading up to their doors hasten down to sweep away the telltale Hrack. Sometimes several sand-streaks lead to the door of the same las, a sign that she Is a decided favorite. Snake for a Garter. Newark News." Playing1 golf wltha snake colled around her ankle that was the experience of Mrs. Harry Bartow on the Hackensack Club links. A party of young married women were having a putting match and Incidentally a picnic In the woods. At one point In the play Mrs. Bartow said her foot was caught in the oaddy bag strap, and she gave two or three kicks to free herself. The last effort threw a enakc about three feet long before her on the grass. Some of the women promptly left the vicinity, but Mrs. Bartow com pleted her drive. The Incident broke up the picnic. Merely Follow! npr Onr Example. St Louis Post-Dispatch. Why should not the European powers exclude American goods? Is It not taught In the United States that a country ex cluding the goods of other countries be comes prosperous? The Europeans arc as anxious as ourselves to prosper, and they know that we have been getting very rlch. PERSONS WORTH KNOWIXG ABOUT. Tho Crown Prince of Germany has developed Into an automobile expert. He knows every piece of the machine, and the other day when his automobile broke down the Prince himself alighted and repaired the damage. The condition of women of all classes In Russia has been made a special study this Summer by Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, president of the National Woman's Republican Associa tion. Mrs. Foster has been traveling exten sively through Russia. The wife of Wu Ting Fang will be greatly missed In Washington. Many Oriental women have resided there who are pleasantly remem bered, but none of her sisters from the East succeeded In making an Impression on sb clety such as Mrs. Wu has made; Thlrty-flve secretaries are constantly engaged In coping with ths enormous volume of let ters which dally pour Into the Vatican. Pope Leo receives more letters and newspapers than any other ruler In the world, the average num ber being somethln? like 20,000 to 22.090 dally. An Iowa Judge and his daughter were among the callers on Mayor Low, of New York, the other day. In the course of, a chat with Mr. Low, the young woman said, artlessly: "We aro here to see the sights, and so we called on you." The Mayor's habitual poise was some what shaken for a moment, but he saw thut the remark was Intended as a compliment, and bowed his thanks. Dean Smith, of the Tale Medical School, once cited n hypothetical case to a class ami asked one student how much of a certain medlolne should be administered to the sufferer. "A teaspoontul." said the young man. but. after reflecting a minute, he said he would like to chango his answer. "My young friend." said tho Dean, dryly, "your patient has been dead for 40 seconds." Tho physician of Governor George P. Mc Lean, of Connecticut, has advised him that It would be exceedingly Impolitic for him to re main In public life after the close of his pres ent term, and he has accordingly given out word that ho will not be a candidate for a rtnomlnatlon. "I would run If I could." he lately wrote to a friend, "but the good Lord has ordered otherwise, and I am content." The eminent German anatomist. Albert von Kolllker. has resigned his professorship at the University of Wurzburg. which he has occupied 25 years. He Is now In his S3th year, and his bodily and mental powers are still well pre served for one of his age. a fact which he at tributes to his lifelong devotion to gymnastic exercises, riding, swimming and hunting. Ills father had Intended him for a bank official. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has been credited with being able to sleep as easily In a standing position as he can lying down. Said the Duke of Devonshire to him on one occa slon: "You are like a policeman. Bannerman, you can always sleep standing up." An equal ly curious habit Is that of Lord Rothschild. who confesses that he can sleep better In a theater during the performance than he can at any other time or place. Senator William A. Harris, of Kansas, ac companied by Mrs. Harri, has sailed for Europe, with the view of neeurl-i: for the St. Louis World's Fair the grfatest TShlblt of livestock that has ever been sefn. The Senator goes as a special commissioner of the expos! tlon, and will also bear important credentials to United States diplomatic and Consular offl clals. He will make a special effort to secure the entry of some splendid herds owned by King Edward, one of them being the finest herd of ' shorthorns in Europe. NOTE AND COMMENT. Let us hope thatrEastern Washington is thoroughly posselzed., As If the climate of California wasn't hot enough "without any imitation Mount Pelces! General Brooke retired trlthmit ? mtirl. marid. He apparently ' did not open his man regularly. It begins to look as if Tracy is soing down to Walla Walla to get a parting shot at the bloodhounds Somo mem are born great, others achieve greatness, and others are relatives of the authcrs of historical novels. It Is noticed that now and then a skillful reporter manages to extort a few words' from the taciturn Mr. Bryan. A Texas Sheriff has just captured two train robbers. A man l.ke that has a" rich future before him in Washington. The Philippines may prove almost as troubltfome as Tracy If reports of the bloodthirstiness of the Moros are true. A California young woman distinguished herself yesterday by shooting two men. She apparently had mislaid her hatpin. A Boston lawyer has admitted that he Is a thief. Is not such unprofessional conduct ground for disbarment proceed ings? Alfred ' Austin would never dare aim a coronation cde at his sovereign if the latter were In.sutllclent health to defend himself. Automobile owners smile when they hear that oats are rising:, but they should not forget that automobiles are also very likely to go up. , The Victoria Colonist says thut that city is very much alive. If this -Is the case, there is no immediate need of performing an autopsy on Tacoma. Emperor William has never been crowned, but he seems to have created a very genera! Impression that he Is run ning affairs in his country. A man 39 years old in Salem. Mass., died of drinking too much water. Drink ing to excess will land the best of them It they keep it up long enough. Hon. AV. E. Cody must sign a few mem bers of the Senate for his aggregation, if he wants tto make the public believe that it Is truly illustrative of wildest North America. One day when Senator-elect McCreary, of Kentucky, was out looking after his political fenqes, he stopped before a house where there Was a well In the yard and asked for a drink. "Sorry, mister," responded the man of the house, "but there ain't a drop on this here place, and I'm getting purty dry myself." ' "Isn't there any water In the well?" ex claimed McCreary. "Of course there is," . blurted out the man. "I didn't know you wanted water. I thought you wanted a drink." Lighthouse keepers on Percy Island, off the coast of Queensland. In 1900 were for gotten for months by the government au thorities. The food supply of Percy .Isl and Is supposed to be delivered once a quarter, but no food arrived at the island after the flrst week In June until a Brit ish sloop chanced to pass In October. Tho islanders. 20 in 'number, were delirious from lack of food, but managed to hall the vessel, which left behind an ample supply of provisions, and reminded the Queensland Government of the lighthouse men whose existence it had forgotten. Lord Hopetoun. who has just had an enthusiastic sendoff from the citizens of the commonwealth, promised, according to an English paper, to procure for an English friend an egg of the emu, the Australian ostrich. Tho emu's egg Is of considerable size, and this particular one happened to arrive when the consignee was away from home. His gamekeeper never saw such a colossal egg before, but he concluded that It had been 'sent for purposes of incuba tion. His report to his master ran thus: "In the absence of your lordship. I put it under the biggest goose I could find." The addresses in Persian upon letters which go through the postofllce at Cal cutta arc often quaint and puzzling. An Indian paper recently translated one as follows: "If the Almighty pleases Let this envelope, having arrived at the City ot Calcutta, in the neighborhood of Ca lootolah, at the counting-house of Sira Joodeen and Ilahdad. merchants, be of fered to and read by the happy light of my eyes, of virtuous manners, and be loved of the heart Meean Shaikh Inayua Ally, may his life be long. Written on the 10th of the blessed Rumzan, Saturday, In the year 1266 of the Heglra of our Proph et, and dispatched at Bearing. Having without loss of time paid the postage and received the letter; you will read it, and having abstained from foo'd or drink, con sidering It forbidden to you. you will con vey yourself to Jaunpoor. and you will know this to be a strict Injunction." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Church Is It easy to fall Into the New York ways? Gotham Oh. yes. tho subways. Ton-' kers Statesman. Jolly! "Oh. papa, we have a new game! Wo are playing baby Is a bank, and we've put In 75 'cents already." Life. Xo Cause for Jealousy. He Your dog seems to be Jealous of me. She Oh. he won't be as soon as' he knows you better. Judge. A Slight Misunderstanding. Relle Don't you think Sousa Is a great conductor? Xell I don't ever, remember riding on hl3 car. Detroit Free Press. Quite True. Hewitt It Is worry, not work, that kills. Jewett That's so; especially -when a fellow worries himself to death because ha cannot get work. Brooklyn Life. Equivocal. Mrs. Blobbs I quite thought you had forgotten us. Miss Gusher. Mlsa Gusher Well. T have a bad memory for faces as a rule, but I should not be likely to forget yours. Punch. A Delicate Distinction. "That friend of yours seems to have a clear conscience." "No." answered Senator Sorghum, "not a clear con science; merely a bad memory which with eomo people answers the purpose much bet ter." Washington Star. An Unbiased View. Younghub There's noth ing like matrimony for teaching a young man the value of money. Oldwed That's right. A dollar a man gives to his wife looks twice as big as the dollar he blew In on her during courtship. Chicago Dally News. Love's Dlsfrnlacs. Matthew Prior. The merchant, to secure his treasure. Conveys It lri a borrow'd name: Euphella serves to grace my measure. But Cloe Is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon.Euphella'a toilet lay When Cloe noted her desire That I should olng. that. I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise. But with my numbers mix my tlghs; And whilst" I sing Euphella' s praise, I flx my bouI on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blush'd: Euphella frown'd: 1 sung, and gazed; I play'd. and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around . Knmark'd how 111 we all dissembled.