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Colo., by Hamilton Keadrlck. 00C-IIJ2 Seventeenth street: Louthan -ackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth tod Lawrence street: A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAT'S WEATHER Partly cloudy, with probably showers; westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tern perature. 47; minimum temperature, 41; pre cipitation. 1.03 Inches. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, DEC. 2, 1002. In striking contrast with the strenu ous politics north of the Columbia just now Id the peaceful surface of affairs In Oregon, notwithstanding the near approach of a Legislative session and a Senatorial election. Seldom within recent years has the first of December of an even-numbered year seen such I good feeling among various factions Land fmch absence of the bitterness that h? fceen wont to mark out Senatorial -campaigns. There is more than one reason for this peaceful situation. The acute issues of the free-silver era are superseded by public questions on which there is more general agreement. Old enmities have burned themselves out and new ones are not yet fully ma tured. It is probable, that the Improved feeling Is something due, also, to the conicious choice of more humane dis cussion on the part of press and candi dates. So far as The Oregonian has ob served, malice and personal animosities have as yet had no part in the prelim inary campaign for Presidency of the State Senate and Speakership of the House. Members oeem to be exercis ing independent judgment and are not being driven against their preferences by bosses whose own ambitions over ride every consideration, of public,, and party welfare. The change augurs'well for the work of the session, especially, for matters of great state and local concern. The Legislature will be its own master, and should be able, there fore, to do full justice to the many pressing governmental problems before It, such as assessment and taxation, the Lewio and Clark Centennial, public land3and water rights, the Portland charter, arbitration of labor disputes and clerkohio abuses. The proposed tariff commission Is op posed, naturally enough, by protection ists and free-traders alike. The high tariff devotees oppose anything that impugns the sanctity of the Dlngley schedules and the old-school Democrats resent any half-way measure short of drastic and peremptory abolition of duties by Congress. One view is as er roneous as the other. What the coun try doesn't want is a general revision of the tariff. It is probably true that the perfection of a complete tariff bill, with its concomitants of suspense and delay, would do more harm than good. But it is equally true that the country is determined not to be put off. with absolute Inaction on the comparatively few tariff abuses that need correction. It is a most palpably dishonest thing to oppose the withdrawal of the tariff on salt or on paper, with the asser tion that the country doesn't want gen eral tariff revision. Correction of a few specific tariff abuses is not compre hensive tariff revision, much less is it free trade. The political argument for these needed revisions is that it will relieve the pressure of tariff reform like a safety valve and prevent the whole protection boiler from blowing up by a Democratic victory in 19W. The next most important thing to tariff reform itself is recognition of its propriety. Nothing could minister more potently to this end than the cre ation of a tariff commission, whose au thorized duty should be the Investiga tion of schedules. This would recog nize the entirely terrestrial origin of tariff bills and put out of business at once the Hale and Hanna creed, which accredits the Dingley law to tablets of stone received on the top of Sinai. The restoration of the Army canteen, with its authorized sale to the soldiers at the discretion of the commanding officer, of the post of beer and light wines, is urged strcngly by the Secre tary of War In his annual report. The Secretary says that he is "convinced that the general effect of prohibiting the use of beer and light wines within the limited area of the Army post is to lead the enlisted men to go out of the post, to frequent vile resorts which cluster in the neighborhood, to drink bad whisky to excess, and to associ ate intimately, with abandoned men and more abandoned women; and that the operation of .the law is to increase drunkenness, disease of the most loath some kind, Insubordination and deser tion, and moral and physical degenera tion." The judgment of the Secretary Is supported by that of General Chaffee, Inspectors-General Sanger, by the Sur-geon-Generat and by Adjutant-General Corbin. The oaloons .near Army posts have Increased to the number of 250 to 300, while the entire number of dram shops erected near the posts for use of the Army is 1400. Drunkenness among the men has increased, and not a single post commander has reported any Im provement as the result of the, abol ishment of the canteen. General Sanger says that in the Philippine nearly all the men use liquor, and "that resort to the native liquors produces a deplor able result. General Sanger concludes with the, remark that "It is -hardly probable, in view of this Information, that -Congress will continue the prohi bition against the canteen when it is evident that the sale of beer would be a. precaution .against the pernicious habits above stated and their fatal and disastrous results." It is a pitiful demonstration in po litical paltriness when Senator Elkins, not long ago a powerful ally and pro tector of the free-silver iniquity, brings out currency reform as an expedient for beating off tariff revision. Elkins says that the session Is all too short to change the tariff but plenty long enough to change the. currency laws. He knows perfectly well, aB every in formed perscn knows, that one can be done as quickly as the other,, given only the desire to do it. The tariff can't be changed, perhaps, but that Is merely because men like Elkins won't change it He wllL be for tariff, reform when it is the universal cry, just as he Is for currency reform now that oth ers have beaten him and other .silver sympathizers inio hopeless Impotence. When the cause of honest money need ed, help, Elkins was maundering about "bimetalism," . and his attitude toward the tariff today is just as reprehensi ble. Apprehension of hio culpability need not, however, dull the edge of sat isfaction that at length some gleam of currency sanity darts across the Elk insonian understanding. It may be taken to Indicate that a beginning may be made, even at the short session, In the way of a, more satisfactory banking currency. If is evident that the first step must be in, the direction of an "emergency" circulation, -perhaps un der a different name, as the term is said to be objectionable to financial circlea The -New York Chamber of Commerce committee, headed by Mr. Jacob Schiff, is expected to recommend something of the sort, and Controller Ridgely's report, printed yesterday, points in the same direction. No sys tem of assets currency will ever be provided in the United States without a preliminary experiment of this sort. THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Secretary of War-Root is the- ablest chief of his department In the history of our country, with the exception of Edwin M. Stanton. He Is not an abler man than John C. Calhoun, who was Secretary of War to President Monroe, but he Is a man of greater executive and administrative ability. Perhaps it is not quite fair to contrast Calhoun and Root, for Calhoun was confronted with no warlike emergency to test his official merits. A fairer comparison would lie between Root's administra tion and, that of Secretary Marcy, who was at the head of the War Depart ment in the Cabinet of President Polk. Marcy had to deal with the Mexican War. Like Root, he was an able law yer and he made a vigorous Secretary, but "he was a "mossback" compared with Secretary Root in his promptness to accept new ideas in military affairs. Our troops were allowed to go into the Mexican War armed with the old flint lock muskets, although the British army had had the percussion locks as early as 1843. After Marcy, the best Secretary of War until we reach Stanton was Jef ferson Davis. Mr. Davis had received a military education and had served5 a number of years inthe Army, so that he was prompt to execute practical re forms of what he knew by experience to be abuses of administration. The administration of Stanton in ability, surpassed ail that preceded it or fol lowed it, because it successfully en dured the tremendous test of more than four years of gigantic warfare. When Stanton assumed charge of the War Department the Union Armies. Included a total of 575,000 men, and Secretary Cameron, although a, trained man of business, was not equal to its adminis tration. Stanton took it and carried its burden ' successfully untl May, 18G5, when the Union Armies showed a total of over a million of irien. And this burden was sustained during nearly four years of terrible fighting between great armies East and West. The main armies of- the Union at the East suffered defeat up to Gettysburg, and these defeato cost us from 10,000 to 15, 000 men in battle, to- say" nothing of the loss of war .material. The fighting at the West, too, was Incessant and hardly less costly: Stanton more than once organized 80,000 men and put them in the field armed, and equipped in less than a month- he obtained once 90,000 men from five states In 20 days and 60,000 men in. four weeks. To measure such a man with any Secretary of War before his time or after him would be unfair; for no such test ever came to any Secretary of War save Stanton, and .is not likely to come in our country to any of his suc cessors. Nevertheless, it is true that Secretary of War Root has exhibited more ability at the head of the War Department than any Secretary save Stanton. The Army over which he presides today is not quite 60,000 strong, but he seeks to make it as efficient In arms, equipment and organization as any arnly on the planet. In his annual report Secretary Root shows that while our coast defenses are not yet complet ed, they are progressing at a rate which will finish them in fifteen years. To the original scheme of defense made in 1886 It has been necessary to add Porto Rico, Culebra, the Philippines, Hawaii and Guam. In the matter of field artillery the Board of Ordnance has selected a new gun, which will have a caliber of three Inches, fire a projectile weighing fif teen pounds, with an initial velocity of 1700 feet per second. This gun lo capa ble of firing about six times as rapidly a3 the j field guns which we now use; so that one of the guns will be able to throw as many shells at the enemy as a whole six-gun battery of the present type. This is a change of vast import ance, for, while we can raise volunteer infantry with great rapidity, we can not increase our field artillery propor tionately. An Increase in the effective ness of our field artillery tends to do away with the resulting disproportion. The Ordnance Department has also produced a rifle that it. considers is. an Improvement on the present service rifle, and Secretary Root is so well im pressed with it that he has ordered 5000 for issue and practical trial in the ser vice. The new rifle has .30 caliber, continues the 220-graln bullet, but in creases the charge of powder so as to give an initial velocity of 2300 feet per second against 2000 of the present rifle. The new arm weighs a pound less than the old. The Springfield Armory and the Rock Island' Arsenal -will soon be able to produce In ari emergency 1500 rifles" per day. Of the 2900 line officers ki. the Army, 1818 have been appointed since the war with Spain. Of these,' but 276 were supplied by- West Point, the remaining; 154,2 have come, 414 from the ranks, 512' from civil life and from the volunteers of the war with Spain and the Philip pines. . These officers, outside their ex perience, have had no systematic mili tary education, and the War College Board during the past year has been engaged in the development of a gen eral scheme of systematic instruction. A War College bullding ls In course of construction at Washington, D. C; a general service and staff college 'has been organized at Fort Leavenworth. The Secretary of War believes that the Commanding General of the Army should be called Chief of Staff, and. should have immediate direction of the supply department, which now reports to the Secretary of War-' Secretary Root would have thk Chief of Staff really the Commanding General, even as Von Moltke exercised .the authority of King William of Prussia as his Chief of Staff. STATE LA$D TOO CHEAP. It appears from our Salem dispatches that the receipts of the State Land Of fice for November averaged $1400, for each official day, or over $33,000 for the month. Of the total receipts, over 518, 000 was on account of payments on the sales of school land. Directly following the report of the business of the State Land Office was a, report of the real estate transfers in Marlon County for the past week, aggregating $52,000, which is the greatest amount of trans fers In any week for a number of years. These two dispatches, showing the ac tivity in the realty market, prompt the question whether the state would not do well to withdraw from sale, tem porarily, all -of its school land. This land is now b'elng sold ut $1 25 an acne and the money is going into a fund which is now full to overflowing. The surplus in the common school fund ranges from $500,000 to $700,000, accord ing to the semiannual statement of the State Treasurer, and there Is room for question whether it is good policy for the state to go on selling land at the low price now charged while there is so much money in the school fund that cannot be loaned. We are adding to a fund of idle money when there Is every reason to believe that the assets of the Irre ducible school fund would increase more rapidly by the advance In the value of the. land than..by the accrued Interest On deferred payments for land sold. As every one knows, land values are increasing, and there is every reason to believe that they will continue to in crease. Immigration is tending this way, and as the settled portion of the state extends the vacant lands lying on the frontier will Increase in value. Men who purchased land in distant portions of the state when it was cheap are profiting by this" Increass, and the state may realize gains in the same manner if It will. If the state needed the money In order to meet applications for loansx there might be some reason in continuing the sales at present prices, but otherwise it would seem that the Interests of the state He in a retention of the lands until values ad vance. We would not advocate an express and complete withdrawal of the lands from sale, but rather a raise of the price, which would amount t.0 a with drawal except in the few casea where the development of the country will make the land desirable for settlement. To raise the price so as practically to withdraw it from sale would not re tard development, as the state owns only two sections out of every thirty- six, and under the homestead laws ac-1 tual settlero can find all the land they want surrounding the school sections. As has been many timfcs stated, a large portion of the cheap lands are bought pby speculators, who have been quick to see that values will Increase. , The state should also profit by the Increase, es pecially, since the proceeds of the sales of land go into the irreducible school fund. If the price were advanced to $5 or $7 50 per acre, there would be few sales of land in the next two or three years. In the meantime, the surplus In the common school fund would be .lent out and the state would not be carrying a half million of Idle money. It has been shown several times through our news columns that the present State Land Board is very careful. In making loans, to see that the security Is. ample, and we need have little fear of losses of funds now outstanding. The public schools are getting the interest on the funds, but at the present rate of in crease in loans It will be two years or more before all the funds will be lent out. This subject Is commended to the attention of the members of the Leg islature, .with the suggestion that each member knows whether, in his own county, values are increasing or are likely to increase, and .whether the state is not likely to profit by such an advance In the price of land as will, cor respond with the probable Increase in values In the next few years' A NOVEL EXPERI3IEXT, Civic Improvement Associations here and elsewhere have found .that the dis tribution of plants and flower seeds among school children has produced excellent results in the way of interest ing the recipients in floriculture. The exhibits of plants by children in this city as a result of the plan is said by President McCusker, of the Civic Im provement Association, to have been quite noteworthy as showing the inter est that has been aroused in floricul ture by this method. 1 A similar plan was pursued by the Improvement Society of, Helena, Mont , last Spring; the difference being that flower seeds Instead of plants were given to the children, with suitable In structions as to their care. The prin cipals of the public schools of the city are now asked to confer with the chil dren and learn what was done with the seeds, and. If planted, what results were obtained. So far as the Inquiry has proceeded, the results have been satisfactory. This plan for Interesting children In floriculture and at the same time cul tivating In them a love for beautiful surroundings and a personal responsi bility In producing and protectlug growing things has been tried with gratifying success in a number of East ern cities In the past few yeara Aft.er the first year In a number of cases the seed distribution was Increased and a flower exhibit was held some time in the Summer or early Fall which de lighted the youthful gardeners exceed ingly and Increased their enthusiasm In their work t'he following year. In no place under the sun do flowers and plants respond more gratefully and bountifully to care and -cultivation than they do in Oregon. Just nowwe are followers imitators In a very1 lim ited way of this Idea. v may well believe that if it Is systematically and earnestly pursued we should soon be come leaders in it, for'reasons .that are obvious to every one who has been in formed through experience jjI the gen erous characteristics of our jelimate and of pur soil' as 'developed by. cultiva tion. We hope to see the effort in thla direction continue and expand until hundreds of school children, now prone to linger by the way, intent upon play, perhaps upon mischief, m&y trqop home at the close ors1thfe schddl period, eager to get to. work' in their flower beds. This is a dream of Utopia, perhaps, but a glimpse of its possible realization is seen in the reports of progress from other cities where, the experiment has been tried. Indeed, we have had such a glimpse in Portland since the experi ment theflrst year brought fifty com petitors for prizes, plants' In hand, be fore judges appointed for thai; purpose to pass upon their work by its resulte. The plan is "big with possibilities, but It will requir.e systematized effort, ' large hopefulness and abounding-" pa tience to work them out. The bill for admission of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma to state hood ought not .to pass the Senate. It passed the House at the last session, and has besn made the special order at the beginning of Congress. Nevada was thus recklessly given statehbod In 1864, when that- territory had but a few thousand people. In 1870 Nevada had but 42,491, and in 1900 but 42,335. Nevada Is a mere "pocket" mine that In thirty years has gained nothing in population or wealth. Nevertheless, Nevada has two Senators today, and is equal in strength in this respect to New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois 'and Ohio, besides having a member In the' House of Representatives. In justice to the rest of the country, no more sta'tea of the Nevada sort ought to be admitted to statehood, and New Mex ico and Arizona are clearly of the same quality. Neither of them is fit for statehood. They grow very slowly. The population of Arizona is altogether inadequate, while New Mexico has only sufficient population, including foreigners and those who can neither read nor write the English language, to entitle it to a single member of the House. Oklahoma has sufficient popu lation, but if it is to be admitted if ought to come in on its own merits and not associated with Arizona and New Mexico. Mississippi has an electorate of 243, 413, and yet at the election In Novem ber only 18,076 votes were cast In the whole state. In 1838 the total vote of Mississippi was 115,785. In 1892 the vote way not much more than half what It was In 1888. The S(ate-of Mississippi at the last election elected eight mem bers of Congress, so that the average vote to each one was 2260. The State of Indiana cast in the recent election 590, 356, or one vote In about each 4 of population. There waB not one of the thirteen Congressional districts in that state which did not poll twice as many votes as the whole State of Mississippi polled. All. the white citizens who reg istered and pay poll tax can vote in Mississippi; and all the black males who can read and write and are of IaWT ful age are allowed to vote If they are registered and their poll taxes' are" paid. The reason why only 18,076 votes were cast out of an electorate, white and black, of 243,413, to found in the poll tax and the disfranchisement of the colored vote. The poor white will not pay his poll tax because there is no longer any contest at the elections, and the poor black will not pay his poll tax because he is in a hopeless minor ity. Non-voting is bad public educa tion for the people of Mississippi. Chief of Police Sullivan, of Seattle, has set himself lo the' task of making that lty "the quietest and most or derly town on the Pacific Coast." Whether he succeeds or not, it may be said, that the effort is long overdue. If Seattle has not been greatly mis represented, it has long been the noisiest, most- 'disorderly town on the Coast. The unfoldment of the miracle of its moral cleansing will be watched with interest. Authorities of other cit ies (naming no names) have put up the claim that "business men want an open town,'' and pointed for substan tiation of the claim to good men dis charged from the office of Chief of Po lice for enforcing the gambling law, closing crlba and supervising houses of Ul-fame. We shall soon see whether public sentiment has been brought up to the sticking point in Seattle. Mat ters of this kind move rapidly along well-beaten paths. If the good people of Seattle really want the moralities, or al least the decencies, of life to be observed In their city, they can have their desire; now is their chance. The order Issued by Secretary Wil son, of the Department of Agriculture, stopping the movement of cattle from the States of . Connecticut, Rhbde Island, Massachusetts and Vermont In land or by the ocean Is the most sweeping Interdiction that has ema nated from that department for some years. What Is known as the foot and mouth disease is justly dreaded by stockmen as at once the most con lagious and virulent of cattle diseases, and all the resources of the depart ment will be employed In stamping1 It out. In the view of Secretary Wilson the spread of the disease west of the Hudson River would be nothing short of a National calamity. His quaran tine orders were issued on Thanksgiv ing day. If the menace is as great as he deems it, the country has addi tional cause for thankfulness in the fact that the stringent measures used have confined the disease thus far to the states above named. Herr Krupp, the Cannon King, did not leave, a son to perpetuate his name and inherit his vast business and wealth. "Fortunately for the daughter who has fallen heir to his possessions, his title was not one of royal signifi cance. No pragmatic law interposes be tween her and her Inheritance, though it may "be said that the father's title lapsed with his death. This title was one of nobility the nobility of industry,, energy and Inventive genius. A title thus based does not descend- from father to son unless the son perpetuates it through his own endeavor. Possibly Fraulein Bertha may become known to the world as the "Cannon Princess," but the title wfll be one, of courtesy merely, unless, indeed, she develops as part of her inheritance from the sturdy old gunmaker, a capacity, not -only for carrying on the great gun works at Essen, but for improving them to meet the conditions of coming years. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS Important 'Mcrh.V of Grace. Lewiston Tribune. A great opportunity Is being overlooked by the missionaries in, not carrying foot ball to- the benighted heathen. Doubtless Had Its Effect. Baker City Democrat. Senator Dubois asserts that the marked change in Idaho In favor of .the Repub licans was due to the irrigation act and the popular belief that the passage ,of it was due chiefly to the President. His Senatorial Sun Has Set. Joseph Herald., If Governor Geer ever had any chances of becoming the next United States Sena tor, from Oregon, they have melted away like snow before a chlnook wind sjnee his refusal to call- that extra session of the Leg.'sliturei In fact, it would seem that the Governor's political sun has set. Where Politics anil Religion Dld't. , Mix. Eugene Register. Utah is in the throes of a very warm political fight to keep Reed Smoot, one of the twelve apostles of the Marmon church, from being-elected United States Senator. In the time of 3hrlst it is not recorded that Peter, James or John, or any osie of the twelve, ever aspireTr-to be a mem ber or the Roman Senate. But in those days politics and religion rarely, ever mixed. Had Tender Regard for Humanity. Pendleton Tribune. Umatilla County may boast of having had ,pne philanthropist and one who did not endow a college. After providing" suf ficiently for the comforts of his widow and recognizing other heirs, Mr. Stubble field left a remaining $100,000 to support a Home for widows and orphans. No more tender regard for humanity could be expressed- The silent suffering of a woman bereft of husband and left without home or means of support, struggling every waklng hour to feed her children, is one of the saddest sights In the battle of life. Alaska Fnrs in Demand. Tacoma Ledger. If the Alaska Indians and trappers do not secure Increasing quantities of pelts during the coming Winter It will not be the fault of the fur dealers from Tacoma to' San Francisco, who are urging them to work early and late, with the object of obtaining every hide possible. Both prices and the demand are now at a maximum, and the Indians have been told their re ward will be large next Spring if they are able to secure game, in abundance. The catch of Alaska furs during the past year has been about equal to that of the pre vious season. The demand is stlffer, but with the increased population in Alaska there Is a constant tendency for fur-bearing animals to move further inland. Upbuilding "Without Grafts. Albany Democrat. So far as this Valley is concerned, no Irrigation law is needed. We have all the water in our soil desired in fact, we often have too much; but we are a very unselfish people in the Valley, and put ourselves out to favor Eastern Oregon. We have just seen the effects of this spirit in a scalp-bounty bill that was of no earthly use to any part of the state but Eastern Oregon, but we helped pass the. bill, and did more than our share toward paying the taxes. Wc even came within an ace of sweetening the mess with a sugar-bounty bill exclusively in the interest of Eastern Oregon. Well, the irrigation part is all right, but the others are very doubtful. As citizens of a state we must assist in building up all parts of It, but. must draw the line against anything of a graft nature. Unfavorable View of Public Opinion. Dalles Times-Mountaineer. Aside from the matter of the advertise ment the state at large and Portland In particular will receive Is the direct bene fit in the way of money spent immedi ately In the city by the visitors from the state. These benefits will be large. Every business 'in Portland will get its share hotels, stores, places of resort and amusement, etc, will all do a thriving business during the Fair. T.he profits they derive will be drawn largely from the people of the state who attend the Fair. Thus, after paying their portion of the tax to create the appropriation, what ever it may be, they will make another contribution in what they spend while in the city for necessaries and luxuries. All these things considered, it will be a difficult matter to convince the people ge'nerally throughout the state that they should be taxed with a $500,000 appropria tion for the Fair, and' it is almost a cer tainty that they are opposed to such an appropriation, believing It would be un just, and if it Is made by the Legislature they will demand that It be referred to them for rejection or approval. Enterprise In Xctt Blood. Newberg Graphic In a conversation held a few days ago when the Lewis and Clark Fair was being discussed the statement was made that Oregon needs more manufactories; that In order to create the demand for them we must have a greater population, and tnat the Fair would be the means of ad vertising the country' and bringing in more people. A Newberg man who 13 generally pretty level-headed answered by saying: "What .good is it to Oregon to have a lot of people come into the state and buy out a lot of other people who are already Ideated here?" The Graphic thinks it means much to Ore gon, for this has been the history of the building of the whole country from the Alleghanles westward. The pioneers lead out, and others follow later,, buy them out and make more extensive improve ments. As a rule, the men who are com ing to Oregon today bring twice the amount of money brought by those who came 15 and 20 years ago, and this money they are bringing will be spent In bet ter buildings, better fences and in clear ing land, while those whom they buy out will take their little pile, shift around and begin to make Improvements in some other nook or corner of Oregon, and on the whole the state will be a great deal better off for the changes made. Postal ClieeJc Currency. Spokane Spokesman-Review. A matter which Congress may take up at the short session which opens next month Is the postal currency check bill. It is something over which there has been more or less discussion during the past year, and as far as can be learned the general public has approved the measure. By the postal oheck currency a means would be provided for making small re mittances by mail, and at the same time affording all the security of the postal note, money order or bank draft. The plan is a simple one. Ordinary legal ten der notes are to be printed with blank spaces for filling out, exactly as one would fill out a bank check. When a person desires to make a remittance by mall he takes one of these bills from his purse or safe, writes in the blank spaces "Pay to John Jones," or whoever is to receive the money, and Incloses It in a letter the same as any other remit tance. The peraon who receives the re mittance secures payment oh it at any postoffice under proper identification, -the same as upon a money order. The flllcd out note Is destroyed by the Government and a new blarik one Issued in its stead. This method of sending small amounts of. money through the mails appears to be simple, convenient and safe. It would be free from the bother and delay now incident to the different methods of money transmission, and that is just what the people wish to avoid. About the only opposition to it has come from the head of the Treasury Department, who complains that the system would in volve too much labor, butthis reasoning will hardly appeal to the thousands of people who would find the postal cur rency a great convenience. THE SENATORIAL DEADLOCKS. San Francisco. Call. "From all appearances we are to have this Winter another series of Senatorial deadlocks to emphasize the need of a change In the method of electing United States Senators. The evil seems to have become chronic The forces which pro duce the deadlocks are evidently In op eration over the whole country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific-, and shoe: no signs of diminution. It is true the dead locks of this year are not likely to pro duce such grave scandals as some of those that "startled the country in the past, but that Is a matter of accident merely. At any time under our present method of election there may arise a scandal that will pass from a State Legis- ! lature to the United States Senate itself ! and result in a National disgrace. j Of the deadlocks now impending that in Delaware is the most notorious. Fac- tional lights in that state have been so far prolonged tbat the state Is now with out any representation at all in the Sen ate. As there are now two Senators to be chosen there is a tempting opportunity for trading, and rumors of trade arrange ments are rife. If the Addicks men can get the vote of the Democrats In the Legislature they ean elect their man, and it is said they are willing to give a. Demo cratic Senator In exchange. Another re port is that the two Republican factions will .compromise by electing Addicks and some member of the opposition. Such trading is . Incompatible with the dignity of the office, but there appears no other way of breaking a deadlock that has been steadfast for years. It seems to be a clear case of bargain and sale or no Sen ator. Other deadlocks 'are expected to oc cur in Colorado, Oregon and Idaho. In the first state the Fus'.onists have the Senate and the Republicans the House. On the face of the returns the Republi can majority In the House is not suffi-" dent to give a majority on a joint bal lot, and It is reported that some of the Democrats returned as elected will be unseated on the ground of fraud. On their side the Democrats are said to have de termined that If their men are unseated in the House they will prevent the Sen ate from meeting in joint ballot. In Ore gon the Republicans have an overwhelm ing majority, but there are two factions In the state, and a tie-up on the Senator ship is expected, so that the situation there Is not much better than that in Delaware. The evils that will result from the dead locks are numerous. The bargains and corruptions sure to develop out of them are by no means the only bad features of the situation. The struggle will oc cupy the time and the attention of the legislators. The Interests of the state and the people will be neglected because of the Intense partisan excitement caused by the personal antagonisms engendered among the followers of the rival candi dates. How far the bad effects will re'ach ltls Impossible to say, but It is a fore gone conclusion that the four states hav ing these Senatorial fights on their hands are going to get more evil than good from their Legislatures this Winter. One of the important phases of the sub ject is that the evil now affecting Dela ware, Colorado, Idaho and Oregon may affect almost any other state In some future year. As the struggles for Senator-' ships become fiercer the danger of dead locks becomes greater. We have had them already In a great, solidly Repub lican state like Pennsylvania, and we have had them in California. The danger is imminent everywhere, and as the New York Press recently said: "Candidates who could not carry their own counties for the exalted office of garbage inspec tor will be sent to the National council by Legislatures purchased outright or 'In fluenced' in some Indirect but commercial manner. With rare exceptions every state which does not have its Billy Clark will have Its Tom Piatt, Qr if it has no Wellington or Pettigrew saddled upon it it will send either a Mason or a Chauncey to give us charlatanism instead of con structive legislation and knavish buffoon ery in place of patriotic statesmanship." While the election of Senators by Legis latures may have been an excellent plan In times past, it has outlived Its useful ness. At the present time the system Is fruitful of fraud and scandals and leads to the sacrifice of state Interests to per sonal fights. It Is time to change the method. Advertisinsr Fairs Costs Moncv. National Advertiser. The advisory committee of the depart ment of publicity of the exposition is composed of the ppbllshers of the five great newspapers of St. Louis, and this committee has held long night and day sessions endeavoring to evolve some plan whereby a reasonable sum of money can be distributed among American news papers for display advertising. If It could only be ascertained what these five publishers of great St. Louis newspapers meant by a reasonable sum of money there might be some way of getting at what chances there were of advertising the world'3 fair as It should be. If the aim Is to make an exposition having all the characteristics of a National or an international show, there must be a lib eral expenditure In display advertising, and a very generous outlay at that. After considering the subject carefully the committee called In the head of an ad vertising concern , for advice, and this expert at least so the report goes de clared .that for $300,000 he could advertise the world's fair thoroughly! Three, hun dred thousand dollars, ye gods! How John Wanamaker, Marshall Field, Siegel & Cooper, Force, Presto, any of the large advertisers In any of the great cities throughout the country, would smile at such a proposition. Another expert In the advertising field suggested the idea to pay a few of the leading newspapers and fool the others into copying the world's fair matter which will be printed by these few subsidized papers, and let It go at that. The American newspapers are more than liberal In the matter of giving away space in the advancement of any great under taking in which the public is Interested, but they cannot be fooled, and the sooner such an Idea Is cast aside as worthless the better It will be for those most Inter ested. A Russinn Friend of Mine. Anonymous. Of e ttie Bturdy.Russlans of high or low de gree Whose names have tripped us up whene'er , their names we've chanced to. see. There's one who keeps his mother, his slater and the maid. From morn to nightfall busy at least, Uiit's what is said. Oh, no. It Is not Romanoff, Nor Kutusoff. nor Gortschakoff, Nor Suvaroff, nor Lemontoff His name Is Buttonoff. His shoes about his ankles pouch out In dread ful gaps. And that may be quite Russian I think it Is perhaps; And all his clothes he fastens- with pins that scratch and prick. Until that poor young Russian Is sometimes Almost sick. It mayn't be thus with Romanoff, Nor Kutsuoff. nor Gortschakoff, Nor Suvaroff, nor Lemontoff, But 'tis with Buttonoff. In vain this Russian's mother, his sister and the maid Have sewn his buttons on bo- fast they surely would have stayed; In vain they sleep with needles and eat with spools of thread; They have most awful nightmares, and dream of buttons fled! They never dream of Romanoff, Noi . Kutusoff, nor Gortschakoff, Nor Suvaroff. nor Lemontoff, They dream of Buttonoff. And yet this blue-eyed Russian is very fair of face. He oft displays a manner of quite bewitching grace. And I myself' have seen him act well a merry part. i And know full well that he's ensconced in many an older heart. Dearer than any Romanoff, Or Kutusoff, or Gortschakoff, Or Suvaroff. or Lemontoff Shabby little Buttonoff! ' . NOTE AND .COMMENT. A woman's will Is too frequently a man's"shall. If all women followed their noses heaven would be jammed. Concealment is the price- of reputation and the death of virtue. There are two sides to every question the inside and the outside. The smartest man is he who can man age to be honest and keep honest. If there be one thing more than another that challenges contradiction it is man'.s description of Her. There may not be sermons In stopes but there surely i.3 a college or so in some men's pile of rocks. Any man who Is habitually cross at dinner deserves to be sent to a desert Island to feed his aching stomach on freah air and clamshells. In real life his wife cooks extra dishes for him. There is really very little help to be given the man who is at the mercy of every wind that blows. You have to put a weight upon hlm.to hold him down, and then, ten to one, he'll squirm from under" and flit away without thanks. We have comedians- that take off and caricature every nation under the shining sun except the American. Now why can't some genius develop & good bit of fun out of the typical American and his Ideas of honor and Justice and manliness? And now they want to organize a foot ball league and make money out of the game. It seems to a rank outsider as if it were pretty difficult to keep games between amateurs up to a humane level. Think of the mortality when it is given into the hands of professionals. If there is one barbarism more unpardon able than another It is the gross imperti nence of people who presume on their own Importance to get up in their seats during the last five mlnutea of a per formance at a theater .and walk out. These are of the same order as those who talk at concerts and as everybody knpw3 well, what's the use of getting mad about .It? These double tragedies where a man kills a -girl because she won't love him and then kills himself are charming ex amples of the usual selfishness f the male. But to read of them every blessed, day wearies one with thit kind of human nature. Why don't the women take a hand? Who ever heard of a woman kill ing a man because he wouldn't love her? If only this would happen, it would af ford what in newspaper offices is called "news." Iff Is so often remarked that the dying words Of men have an unmistakable ring tb them that means truth and the whole truth. Many a great man has been es teemed to have left his most precious legacy in a few broken sentenceo uttered in the moment of dissolution. Yet there Is a fallacy underlying so crude a belief. Death is' the end, not the beginning of earthly achievement. The dying"man looks backward, not forward. We should accept his final words lovingly, respect fully. There la no need for us to bow strong purpose and high belief. Let the dead bury their dead. In his reminiscences, Charles Brookfield, the retired -.English actor, says:, j 'JVIy father was dining in London one night at the Oxford and Cambridge Club with Tennyson and two or three others. After dinner the poet insisted on putting his feet on the table, tilting back his chair "more Americano." There 'were strang ers in the room, and he. was expostulated with for his uncouthnciis. but In vain. "Do put down your feet!" pleaded his host. "Why should I?" retorted Tennyson; "I'm very comfortable as I am." "Every one's staring at you," said another. "Let 'em stare," replied the poet, placidly. ".Al fred," said my father, "people will think you're Longfellow." Down went the feet. Here Is an. extremely subtle story from the Chicago Tribune: The druggist, while ft compounding a prescription in the back part of his store, had left the front part in charge of his 10-year-old son. There entered a portly dame. "Little boy.'' she said, with an oleagin ous smile, "do you suppose you can sell me the kind of preparation for the com plexion I am accustomed to getting here?" j "I guess so, ma'am," he replied, study ing her face a moment and producing from one of the showcases a box of toilet soap. And immediately afterward there emerged from the drug store a portly dame in a high state of Indignation. There Is a deep significance in the de velopment of the English word "dignity." In the time of Samuel Johnson It meant an office or position of worth. A man of dignity was a man of position. Democ racy abandoned the literal and adopted the excellent depiction of outer goodllness. One hundred and fifty years ago your man of dignity was bishop or Prince. Today he la the man with a hoe or the upstart head of a wealthy house. A man's dig nity in these days may be hurtr formerly It was inviolable, a gift of God or the King. In those days the man unfrocked was undignified; today nothing makes a personage so dignified aa rejection for office. Thus do times and manners change.. Some day "happy" will be an adjective applied to the ceremony of divorce, and "infelicitous" will characterize the decree of marriage. Selah. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS A rope often sets tlsht because that is the way it Is taut. Philadelphia Evening Bulle tin. Hostess yes, he's a poet, Mr. Gruffee. Mr. Gruffee Ah! what brand of health food does ho ad-ertise? Chicago Dally News. Rlchley I Am the architect of my own for tune. Hichley Aren't you afraid of a visit from the bulldlns Inspector 7 Town and Coun try. Mrs. Dick Did you and Joe have good sport? Dick Well, we didn't get any game; but we didn't shoot each other. Detroit Free Press. "Why did you laugh at his joke? It was not funny." "I know It. But if I did not laugh he would think I did not see the point and. would tell it again." Brooklyn Eagle. Tenant I came- to Inform you. sir. that my cellar Is full of water. Landlord Well, what of it? You surely did not expect a cellar full of champagne for $1 a month, did you? Baltimore American. "Do you enjoy historical novels?" "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox. "I like to read them and then reflect on how lucky I am to live In a time when people refrain from making such consummate fools of themselves.'' Washington Star. "How did you come hero?" asked the kind old lady with the tract. "Following horses, mum," responded Prisoner 009. "Ah, then you played the races?" "No; dey was hitched to de 'Black Maria "Philadelphia Record. " 1 Hamley You seem interested In the horse show. Have you any entries there? Phamley Well er yes. Hamley Prize winners? Pham Iey I hope so. They're, my three eldest daughters, and all marriageable. Philadelphia. Press,