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-THE MORNING. OBEGONIAN. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1903. Entered at the'PosioffJce at Portland. Oregon, 'as second-class matter. REVISED- SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage -.prepaid, in advance) Dally, with Sjinday, per month. ......... $0.85 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year...... 7.50 Dally, wjth Sunday, per year......... 8.00 Sunday, per year 2.00 The weekly, per year.. ........ 1.50 The "Weekly. 2 months W To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.I3c Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.20c POSTAGE KATES. United States. Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper...-., ...... lc 16 to SO-page paper ........ ....-j-.... ..2c 22 to 44-pago paper .......3c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any Individual, Lejtrs relating to adver tising, subscription, or to "any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregoalatt?. The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake, to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without, solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business OQce, 48. 44, 43, 47. 4S, 4E -Tribune building. New Tork City: 510-11-12 Tribune building. Chicago; the S. C Beckwltb Special Agency, Eastern representative. I"or sale in San .Francisco by L. E. Lee, "Pal ace Hotel sews stand; Goldsmith Bros., 30 Butter street; P. "VV. Pitts, IOCS Market street) 3. K. Cooper Co.. 746 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news stand; Frank Scott, SO Ellis street, and N. TtVheatley. SIS Mission street For sale in Los Angeles by B. F, Gardner. 250 South Spring street, and Oliver1 Haines, 05 South Spring street. For sale In Kansas City, Mo., by Rtcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale In Chicago by the P. O, News Co.. 17 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald. C3 "Washington street. For eale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Farnam street: Mcgeath Stationery Co.. 1303 Farnam street. For sale In Ogflen by TV. G. Kind, 114 25th Street; Jas. II. Crockwell. 242 25th street. For sale In Bait Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 "West Second South street. For sale In Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett House new stand. For sale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 006-012 Seventeenth street; Lou than & Jaclison Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TC : YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 70; minimum temperature, 61; pre ciplratiMi, .07 of an Inch. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy and slightly warmer; westerly winds. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JUNE 18. COLOMBIA "WILL NOT RATIFY. Announcement comes from Colombia that the canal treaty will not be rati fied. The whole people are against It. No party will undertake to carry it through, and the government, though not "unfavorable to the treaty, can do nothing but bend before the storm of opposition. The meaning of this Is that the people of Colombia think the independ ence of their country would be menaced by ratification of this treaty with the United States. .For the United States would be put in possession of a great interest within the country, which cer tainly would be protected by the whole power of the United States, and they would rather have no canal than permit the admission and presence of the "American Anglo-Saxon." They have read or heard how greedy the British and American "Anglo-Saxons" are for sovereignty and-of their'everlasting and all-devouring land-hunger. They were willing that France should construct the canal, but not the United States. As In all the republics of Spanish America, the people of Colombia are continually disagreeing and lighting among themselves. They have no con fidence, repose no trust In each other. An article in the Inde pendent (New York) by a , citizen of the United States who has lived a long" lime at Panama, sets out this want -of coherent national feeling among the people. The writer quotes & citizen of Colombia. He said: "Pa triotism! we are none of us patriots! Our revolutions prove this to us. "Were we patriots there would be no wars or petty strifes among us, and, moreover, we would not fear or distrust the United States in the least But it la Just this: In the territory designed for the working of the canal we have two Im portant cities. Colon and Panama. The moment America steps in all Colom bians that inhabit that region will be becoming Americanized. It Is known that the natives of Panama .have often said, that they are not Colombians, but that they are Panamanians, and they have desired to be separate and are Willing today to form what would be called the Kepublic of Panama, under American protection. We understand the Monroe Doctrine as practiced by the Americans America for the Ameri cans of the-North."- It seems, therefore, that the people of Colombia cannot trust themselves or each other. Their safety, they con ceive, consists in keeping the United States out of their country. Very well; we can go to Nicaragua. We ought not, indeed, to have thought" of Pan ama. The Oregonlan has always be lieved nd contended that it was a, great mistake. Not improbably ratifi cation of the treaty by Colombia were it carried would break up the loose federation of states that constitute that so-called nation. For It is believed that Panama would want to secede, and would do it, if protected by the United States. The leaders of Colombian pol itics, .of all parties, believe that the only way of safety is in keeping the United States out of the country. Prob ably they are right. But? we can go to Nicaragua. The "West Point training shows well in public life outside the Army.- .Among the graduates of "West Point have been a large number of men who have been distinguished in civil life. Grant be came President of the United States and Jefferson Davis -of the Southern Confederacy. McClellan was Governor of New Jersey; General Stoneman was Governor of California? General Mar maduke was Governor of Missouri; General Joseph E. Johnston was Rep resentative in Congress from "Virginia; General "Wheeler was Representative from Alabama; General John B. Gor don was Senator from Georgia, and so was General Colquitt; Isaac I. Stevens was Governor of Washington Territory; Montgomery Blair, a graduate of West Point, was Postmaster-General in Lin coln's Cabinet; Paul O. Hebert was Gov ernor of Louisiana; General Buckner was Governor of Kentucky; General Burnside was United States Senator from Rhode Island; General Horace Porter Is Ambassador to France; George W. Cass became president of the Northern Pacific Railroad; Fitz Hugh Lee was Governor of Virginia; General Rosecrans was Representative In Congress from California; General Scales was Representative Irom North Carolina; Alexander S. Webb was presi dent of the-.College of the City of New York; Deonldas Polk was & bishop of pkcop&I church; the son of Gen eral McClellan Is a West Point grad uate that has been very successful in .politics; he Is a Tammany member of Congress, and Is likely to be the Tam many candidate for Mayon General A. R. Lawton was United States Min ister to Austria under President Cleve land, and Colonel F. D. Grant held the same position under President Harri son. The nominees of the Democratic party for President in 1SG4 and 1SS0 were West Pointers; McClellan was nominated because he was clearly not a fighting man, and Hancock was nom inated because he was a fighting man, and nothing else besides. UNAVENGED COMMERCIAL CRIME. From the progress that is being made in the Epplnger failure case in San Francisco. Justice in the Bay City seems to be wearing her leaden boots. It is now more than two weeks since the first announcement of the failure was made.. Within that period state ments by responsible newspapers have repeatedjy charged, the "members with embezzlement, larceny and other crimeswhich individually or collective ly were enough" to send the ordinary criminal to thg. penitentiary for a life time. These;, charges have been sub stantiated by details sufficiently elabo rate to cause, them to tiarry -conviction to the readers, and their reliability finds further indorsement in-he.fact that not a man of .the accused, firm . or any of their friends has come forward to deny them. ' On the contrary every move made by the attorneys -of the ac cused has' been on purely technical grounds. Nothing is denied and no at tempt is made to explain the serious charges. . The .members of the bank rupt firm refuse to give out any partic ulars or offer any excuse for their silence regarding them. As near as can be gathered from the news reports, the firm has extracted from the bankers, brokers, farmers and others with whom they had deal ings about $1,500,000, and the only col lateral to represent this vast sum is about $400,000 worth of real estate and warehouse property. This loss of over $1,000,000 will mostly fall'on the banks, and as public sympathy is generally withheld from such institutions when they are buncoed, this fact' may ac count in a measure for the indiffer ence shown in bringing the guilty to Justice. This dilatory practice in the face of a great crime is serious, and it will breed trouble for the people who are declining to hasten the punishment which Is overdue. Epplnger & Co. were enabled to contract liabilities which made their failure' such a gigantic af fair, simply because their credit was good, and credit is the vehicle which carries the commerce of the world. The bankrupt firm -and its creditors will not be the only sufferers by this failure, but scores and perhaps hun dreds of other honest, careful business men to whom credit Is a necessity will find the people showing a needless sus picion toward them. "I would have shipped every bushel of wheat I had In my warehouse to Jake Epplnger with out a question, although I do not know him," said a Willamette Valley ware houseman, In discussing the failure yes terday. Hundreds of others were not only willing, but actually did trust the California plunger solely because his reputation with the business world was good. He has now forfeited that rep utation, and proved himself unworthy of the credit that was extended to him, but there seems to be no concerted move on the part of an outraged busi ness community to prosecute any of the Epplnger firm for his misdeeds. One of the firm was for years a prominent officer of the San Francisco Merchants' Exchange, and the firm has always been prominent in the membership of that organization. The unprejudiced outsider might sup pose that this great commercial asso ciation for the protection of its own good name and that of the remainder of its members would demand of Ep plnger & Co. an explanation or a res slgnation, but thus far neither has been asked for. Had one of Ep plngers clerks duplicated warehouse re ceipts and thus secured possession of a few hundred bushels of wheat by the same methods which the big firm used' in securing thousands of tons it is safe to say that he would have been railroaded to the penitentiary' in short order. The San Francisco firm Is guilty of a gross betrayal of public confidence, which in other words is "credit." They liave used this credit for grand lar ceny and embezzlement purposes, and as yet other men whose credit will in directly be affected by their unlawful deeds have made no earnest effort to bring them to justice. San Francisco has always been short on Justice and long on crime since W. T. Coleman dis banded his vigilance committee back in the "fifties." , EXCELLENT TRADE CONDITIONS. And still Portland bank clearings continue to break all existing records for corresponding periods in former years. The uncertainty regarding labor troubles Is hampering building opera tions somewhat, and holding up a num ber of Important industrial enterprises, the wheat crop conditions are not as favorable as they might be, and the salmon run is slack. In spite of these unfavorable factors, which In former years would have been certain to have a serious effect on general trade, Port land is forging ahead at a rate never before equaled. The growth of the present day is unlike that of former eras of prosperity. When the boom of the early 'SOs was on, the city was in vaded by a class of new-comers, many of whom had but little faith in the permanent greatness or stability of the city. They regarded Is as a good place for a temporary boom and worked It accordingly. They brought but little capital with them, and when they in vested anything in . the way of building enterprises it was in harmony with their views regarding Portland strictly temporary. The men who are now building up Portland are working on different lines. There Is an air of permanence about all of the new business enter prises and about the new buildings go ing up all over the city. Bank clear ings are beyond doubt the most accu rate reflection of the prosperity or ad versity of a city, and those of Portland for the past five years tell an interest ing story of steady, uninterrupted growth. For the week ending last Sat urday, they were $3,222,059, compared with $2,365,557 for the corresponding week last year, $2,279,374 in 1901, $2,051, S60 in 1890, and $1.747,6S9 in 1S99. Noth ing but the unfavorable factors men tioned prevented the clearings last week from showing a much greater percent age of increase, as there is more idle money awaiting a settlement of indus trial troubles In this city than has ever been held liere before. With less than a fortnight of theX current wheat season remaining, there Is very- little activity in the cereal markets, but prices are well main tained at nearly the best figures of the season. The clean-up will be the most thorough that has been made for several years, and the new season will open with bins well swept. Sheepah ear ing is pretty well over for the season, but there is still considerable activity among wool-buyers. The excellent con dition of the market Is "shown by the sale of a 75,000-pound lot at Salem at 15 and 17 cents per pound. When the size of the clip Is considered, it Is a cer tainty that the gross returns for Ore gon wool this season will be the larg est on record. Hops, as well as wool, continue strong, new crop contractors paying last week " as high as 15 cents per pound, with much firmness reported in the Eastern and foreign markets. The salmon run continues light, but, with the cold-storage houses offering a heavy premium for large fish, a small catch at this time produces more money than a large one in some former seasons. Livestock markets are slight ly easier, but prices are still high enough to prove very remunerative. The strawberry crop is now coming on the market, and, while the season Is backward, it has resulted in keeping prices up longer than usual, and the Industry at this time Is giving employ ment to several thousand people. The jobbing trade is enormous, and the general prosperity of the country as well as the city Is evidenced by the largest orders for Fourth of July lux uries that have ever been received here. Collections are good and money Is plentiful at low rates of Interest. The financial stringency, which Is caus ing some uneasiness in New York, can hardly affect Oregon at the present time. Tne sharp declines and poor mar kets for stocks Indicate that the people are not buying them. Oregon has no stock of the Wall street variety for sale, but we have wheat, wool, salmon, fruit, livestock and lumber In whole sale quantities, and, so long as there Is a demand for these great staples, pros perity will linger with us.- I THE AMERICAN RELIEF CORPS. Recoiling for. an instant with hor ror from the shock occasioned by the news of the calamity that had befallen the people of Heppner, the community in touch with the stricken town rallied quickly and pressed forward to Its as sistance. From the country for miles around came ranchers to the help of their smitten neighbors, and from the cities and towns doctors and nurses and supplies in medicines, money, bed ding and provisions pushed forward, carried at Its best speed by a railway train, the officials of which were glad to render this Important service. All that sympathy combined with material aid can do to mitigate the distress and relieve the suffering of the be reaved and homeless will be done, and done promptly. "The advance agents of relief were on the ground, in spite of broken railway communication, within a few hours after couriers had carried tidings of the calamity to the nearest telegraph stations. They found a grief-stricken people In full rally, searching through the wreck and ruin of the town and the slime and ooze of the receding waters for their dead or wrapping the recovered bodies tenderly in simple cerements and carrying them, uncoffined, to their graves, self-helpful even In this bitter strait. How the mighty reserve force of the American character Is brought out by disaster! A community that Is today plodding along, unmoved by the com mon events of life, Intent as it would seem upon selfish ends, is tomorrow, under stress of calamity, alive to every instinct of humanity and stirred to its very depths by the impulses of sym pathy and generosity. It Is this study of human nature, embellished by object lessons In pity benevolence, kindness and brotherly love, that exalts man above the narrow conception of creeds that teach human depravity and proves his kinship with divinity. Whether he spurs at headlong speed over a moun tain road in the darkness in the effort to ou trace the flood and carry a warn ing of its approach; clings with one half-paralyzed arm to a swaying branch in the rushing waters while he holds with the other a pleading child or woman; wraps the dead in a winding sheet and reverently lays the uncof fined body away; opens his house to the houseless or contributes of his money and Btores to the unclad and hungry victims of the storm; provides means of transportation for supplies or medical and surgical aid for the exhausted and maimed, the spirit that prompts his endeavor tells of the sleeping angel in the human heart that Is aroused by the first note of human disaster and human suffering. Emerson's estimate of the dignity and grandeur of human nature is verified whenever the cry for help sounds above the rush of devastating wateVs, the roar of devouring flames or the wail of famine and Its attendant wretchedness. The American people of anj community, however apparently selfish In their strivings, however eager In the pursuit of personal ends, rise, promptly at the call of an emergency, whether of war or of peace, and In so doing do only the thing that is ex pected of them. Having first learned to help themselves, they constitute a vast relief corps In reserve and are able, willing and anxious to help others when the necessity for so doing arises. THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. The general election of members of the German Reichstag, which took place on Tuesday last, resulted as antic ipated in increased representation for the Socialists. In 1S78-79 the Socialist vote was but 312,000; it rose in 189S to 2.107,000, and its total vote polled on Tuesday last is estimated to exceed 2,500,000. The Increased Socialist strength has been acquired at the ex pense of the Liberal factions. The in dustrial and manufacturing centers In the Rhenish and Westphallan provinces and nearly all the large cities, with their rapidly growing population of op eratives, have become strongly Social istic ? It is said that the Government party in the Reichstag intends to make an effort to curtail the general franchise, lest, even under the present unjust sys tem of representation, the Socialists should attain control. This design of curtailing the general franchise, either by attaching to the ballot the condition of a stipulated minimum of taxation or by some other discrimination which would disfranchise large numbers of the lower classes, has thus far met with determined resistance on the part of the Reichstag majority, composed of the entire Left and part of the Cen ter, or Catholic, party. There does not seem to be any chance of executing it in the near future, but the plan exists, and when the government deems Its execution indispensable, the Kaiser and his advisers will try to find means, through coercing or otherwise influenc ing the Reichstag; or through an in fringement of the constitution, to dis franchise a large section of the Social ists. It would be a dangerous experiment. The gift of universal suffrage was placed in the German Imperial consti tution by Bismarck, who, autocrat as he was, deemed it wiser for public tran quillity to grant it than to withhold it. To withdraw this gift of universal suf frage for the purpose of circumventing the Socialists would be a very danger ous experiment. Today, under a fair system of representation according to populatlon. 'the German Socialists would control the Imperial Parliament The government refuses to reapportion the electoral districts according to popula tion, and they remain today as they were constituted In 1871. If, to the great disadvantage under which the Socialists labor today uniier the pres ent system of representation, the Ger man government should add curtail ment of the suffrage, the chances are that the Kaiser might wear a crown of thorns before he dies. Thus far the Socialists have been con tent with constitutional agitation for political reform, but If, by any act of coercion applied to the Reichstag or any Infringement of the constitution, the popular suffrage should be cur tailed, the Socialist party would not quietly submit It would be as deep a thorn in the side of the German gov ernment as has been the Irish party in that of Great Britain for more than thirty years. The present Emperor of Germany, in his ideas of government his "I and God" political philosophy. Is really an anachronism, and so is his vast stand ing army of over 600,000 bayonets in time of peace. The Germans have sub mitted to this vast standing army since the Franco-German war of 1870-71, be cause they believed It was necessary to the safety of Germany against a war of reprisal on the part of France, or a war of encroachment on the part of Russia. But the time has passed for any further apprehension of war on the part of France or Russia. France has fortified her frontier impregnably against Invasion, and only desires to be let alone. Russia has her hands so full In other quarters of the globe that there is no desire on her part to provoke war with Germany. There is no sound reason today why the German people should be unduly taxed to support a vast standing army in time of peace, or why her young men should be forced to serve a term In the army. It may be granted that Germany needs a larger standing army than Great Britain, but Germany does not need a standing army in time of peace of 600,000 men. It Is the habit of The Oregonlan to do things without brag or bluster, let ting Its deeds speak for themselves. But it cannot refrain from offering a word of congratulation to Its readers who have had the advantage of Its ex ceptionally fine news service on the Heppner disaster. It has been an ad mirable test of the efficiency of The Oregon lan,'s news methods and of Its energy, skill and Intelligence In gather ing promptly and presenting in attract ive form all the details of the great tragedy. To its mind there has been no more striking example of perfect re porting In the history of Pacific Coast Journalism. The difficulties in the way of collecting the news have been great The remoteness of the desolated dis trict the serious Interruption of tele phone and telegraph communication, and the break in railroad connection, all conspired to Impair the usual chan nels of Information But what can be done under such severe handicaps has been shown in The Oregonlan during the past three days. ' The first conviction under the jiew gambling law In Washington Is" re ported from Spokane, a stud poker dealer receiving a sentence of one year in the penitentiary. Naturally enough the case has been appealed and a tele graphic report of the matter states that all of the boss gamblers in the state will contribute to the fund to be used In declaring the law unconstitu tional. Gambling is a great industry in the city of Spokane, hundreds of men, or beings which the Almighty had or iginally intended for men, engaging In it when the weather Is too bad for footpad or burglary work. For this' reason It is probable that the new law will .be declared unconstitutional. Washington has another new law mak ing it a penitentiary offense for a male creature to live off the earnings of a prostitute. As prostitution and gam bling go hand In hand a portion of the fighting fund which the gamblers will raise may be diverted to declare this other law unconstitutional. At the head of the Pioneers' pro cession yesterday the banner of 1839 was carried. It reaches back, a gener ation farther into history than It did when these empire builders first began to hold annual reunions on the soil of Oregon. As these white-haired men aird" women marched, two by two, up Morrison street to the meeting place, the spectators who lined the sidewalks could not help but observe that they must have sprung from no feeble an cestry. They, were a happy band; the light of good cheer shone from their eyes, and if their steps were no longer quick and elastic, their carriage, at least betrayed pride. It was gratifying to note the presence In large numbers of the second generation of pioneers, some of them already gray, who will cherish the story of the conquest and transmit Its glory undlmmed to future generations. Germany held an election last Tues day. In the city of Essen, a model municipality built by Krupp and In habited by the employes of his great steel works, the Socialist vote showed an Increase from 4400 to 22,705. En vironment exerts a powerful influence on political views. Resources of the three national banks in Portland on June 9 were $16,010, 617.17; one year ago they were $13,114, 294.43; gain In twelve months, $2,896, 322.74. Double these figures and you have approximately the condition of Portland's combined banks. While weather conditions have been anything but favorable the past ten days, it may be safely announced that no city in the world can make such' an exhibit of roses as will be seen at the show next Saturday; Mexico has already paid to the United States the award of nearly $t 500,000 In the Pius fund controversy. Thus has The Hague tribunal shown Its efficiency as well as the necessity for its creation. j JS THERE A YELLOW TERIL? Chicago Tribune. It is the custom in this country to ad mire the Japanes;, but 1b a patronising way; to pat them on the head as pre-1 coclous . childrer. The Japanese, la the family of mankind, are not precocious children. They are men. An excellent chance to compare the sol diers of the civilized world occurred when the armies of England, France, Germany, Russia, the United States and Japan marched to the relief of the Legations be sieged in Pekin. An American officer, a Captain In the Ninth Infantry, who was in that march, gave his opinion about the relative merits of the different soldiers thus: The Japs are the best soldiers here. They march better, they live oft the country bet ter, they keep up their Una of communication! and transport better than any of the others. Including: ourselves. They are mora uncom plaining". Aa to physical bravery, it Is bard to say they are better than ourselves or the British, because ir haven't been tested much beside them. They have dona most of the fighting, and in it their bravery has been loo per cant. We are. I believe, as brave. Wt couldn't be braver. This opinion of the American officer, who with his company had seen service In the Philippines and Cuba, waa-corroborated in full by -war correspondents who had seen service In the Philippines, South Africa, Greece and Cuba. It has since developed that the Japanese General. Tamaguchl, was the brains of the whole campaign. The above statements become doubly In teresting In view of the latest diplomatic line-up In the far East Japan and Slam. Slam adjoins French China, and for years there has been friction between the coun try of white elephants and the French colony. The latter has been bullying and encroaching upon its neighbor. With Japan in friendly relations. Slam will re sist and the bullying will cease. Of late years the talk of the "yellow peril" has died out Westerners have jcome to think the sleeping g!anot China was not sleeping, but dead. If the yellow peril ever does amount to anything It will be under the headship of Japan. In the far East "yellow peril" Is called "Asia for Asiatics." Japan has trained herself. She is now reaching out to buttress up Slam against the French. She Is unques tionably holding out the branch of peace to China, wrapped In the words, "Asia for Asiatics." If the millions of Chinese could ever be drilled by Japanese Sergeants, armed with Japanese rifles, and led' by Japanese Gen erals, the armed camps of Europe would, perforce, cease watching each other and turn their eyes eastward. For the Japanese are not precocious chil dren. They are men. RICHES AND HONORS. President's Career Shows National Ideal to Be Higher Than Wealth. From Eliot Gregory's "Unavailing Wealth," in the Century. Although, too. many of us run breath lessly after lucre, casting hardly a glance at the flowers by the roadside as wo hurry on, yet when It comes to choos ing a compatriot to hold the helm of state, or some other position of trust and honor, we turn instinctively to those men who have kept themselves free from the taint of gain, and logically, for when Intelligent people read of a vast and sudden fortune, they are apt to ask one another if It bo possible for a man to have become so very rich while quite honestly respecting all his neighbors' rights and liberties. So strong has this feeling become of late that even when the public Is told of some aged magnate expiating youthful greed by giving away the millions which have turned to ashes on his old lips, the news is received with a shrug of the shoulder and often with, a sneer. On the other hand, few people will de ny that the most admired man today In this country, the most respected and the most loved. Is our young President, whose mind and thoughts have ever been fixed as far above financial ambitions as that of a Cromwell or a Washington. It is for this, as well as for his brilliant states manship, that our chief magistrate's name today has the power to thrill the nation's blood and make its pulses beat faster. Another Care for Consumption. Baltimore Sun. Consul General Mason, of Berlin. In a recent report gives the composition and effects of sanosln, the new remedy for consumption, which has had a careful trial at Berlin with gratifying results. It was noticed by a traveler in Australia that natives used a decoction of the leaves and roots of the eucalyptus as a remedy for consumption with good effect and that consumptives coming from a ("ifltance ti reside among the eucalyptus groves were benefited. On this hint a chemUt compounded pulverized eucalyp tus leaves and ess2ntlal oil of eucalyptus with powdered charcoal and flour of sul phur and gave his, mixture the name of "sanosln." Owing to Its volatility sano sln is put up In sealed glass tubes that hold each thirty-one grains. The patient breathes In a closed room the fumes gen erated by heating toe contents of a tube on an earthenware plate by means of an alcohol lamp. An aromatic penetrating odor is perceived and the patient speedily Unas relief from his cough, his expectora tion Is decreased and his appetite im proves. The bacillus which causes the disease disappears, from the sputum and In 50 per cent of the cases a euro Is effected. One More Fool Navigator. Hartford, Conn., Courant It Is announced from Gloucester that a large crowd gave an enthusiastic send-off to a fool navigator who sailed from there for a voyage to Havre In an ordinary dory. Such an expedition accomplishes absolutely no good and is liable to do a great deal of serious harm. This cockle shell of a boat will be bobbing about on the ocean for months. Every lookout that sees her will report an open boat to his captain and the human captain will start In to rescue the unfortunates on board. Then they will find they have been humbugged and that It Is only an advertising scheme out making light of the real perils of the deep. The effect of such nonsense ls'to dull the attention of the navigators to possible cases of actual danger and to load them to pass unnoticed boats whose occupants are In bitter need of help. Landing one fool hardy sailor In a dime museum is small compensation for deserting a boat load of shipwrecked sufferers. He Bills HI Church Like a Circus. New Tork Press. The Rev. C. H. Jones has shocked the conservative element of Oswego, N. Y., by making a contract with Joe Wallace, the blll-poster, to bill the city, advertis ing his sermons in the thorough and ef fective manner of a circus manager. Mr. Jones Is pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, and through the Sum mer months he 13 to hold dally services, whleh are called "Twilight Meetings." These are the services he Is advertising and some of the specialties announced are 12-mlnute talks on such taking sub jects as "A Cure for the Blues," "Anti septic Christians," and "The Sixth Sense." The city billboards will be hung with three sheets. . and half sheets will be pasted in windows, street-cars and other public places. World-Wide Vegetarians. Pittsburg Dispatch. In considering the practical side of the vegetarian question It should be' remem bered that at least seven-tenths of the population of the globe never eat flesh meat In India, China, -Japan and adja cent countries there are about 4CO.OOO.00O people strong, active, healthy, long-lived who eat no flesh meat. In Europe are the peasants of Russfa, the Corslcan farmers, the Scotch Highlanders and other vegetarian peoples, well developed physically and capable of great endurance. IMPRESSIONISM IN EDUCATION. Minneapolis Tribune. Probably no layman has a plain notion of what is meant by impressionism In art literary or pictorial except that It is some obscure and roundabout way Of do ing any simple and straightforward thing. If you are an Impressionist painter, you grope after soHie "mystic sixth sense with a smudge of color. Instead of making an honest picture, of the thing before you, like Ruisdael or Claude. If you are an Impressionist writer, you reach around a corner to some esoteric comprehension with mysteriously Involved sentences, meaning anything one likes. Instead of telling a straight story like Thackeray or singing a sweet song like Tennyson; No one understands the impressionist His disciples only feel him or say they do and the others leave him alone or heave half bricks at him. From what we are told of the modern method of teaching in the public schools. It seems' to be a sort of Impressionism. The modern teacher may not make sim ple, direct appeal to such keen, though. limited Intelligence as every healthy child possesses. That Is left to the unilluml nated governess, and to the private schools to which the children of culti vated persons have been exiled. With the more fortunate child of the people, you must use a sort of voudoo magic of developing an objective Intelligence out of the depths of his little sensorlum; and then you must appeal to that with a series of operations like the passes of the hypnotist As a clever teacher puts It you must not shock the Infant Intelligence with a plain fact a real thing. You must break knowledge to the child gently, es you tell ill news to a sudden widow or" accus tom a famished man to food. You must Juggle with objects for a long time before you dare tell him about words, and he must live with words a long time before ho can bear the thought of letters. Ho is Introduced to nurabor-work there Isn't any more arithmetic In the came care ful fashion. Of course, all this takes time, because he must not neglect his paper doll cut ting, mud pies, bisketweavlng, ysloyd." music and drawing. The chanceB are that before the bewildered youngster- has learned to read, write, spell or add figures, he must drop all these childish things for the Latin. Eclence and philosophy of the High School, and pass on - to the peda gogy and experimental psychology of the university. This is all" very well if he is going to be a member of the faculty. But if he should want to enter the mil itary or naval academy or get a useful Job. naturally he comes to grief. Benboy and Governor. Chicago Inter Ocean. For the first time In a good many years A. T. Bliss, Governor of Michigan, heard himself called an uncomplimentary name last night without resenting It The per "son to give the affront was a bellboy at the Palmer House. The Governor stood aghast for a moment and those who wit nessed the affair expected him to chas tise the offender. Instead be shook hands with him and told him he was "all right" The chief executive of the Wolverine state had. tried to Joke with the boy in buttons. The latter thought he was j In earnest A discourteous retort leaped' to the latter'a lips, but he restrained him self and turned away. "Why don't you answer me, young man" persisted the Governor, still bent on having his little joke. "Don't you know that ltMs your duty to pay attention to what the guests of this hotel say to you?" "I don't need to have you tell me my duty," flared the boy. "It's a cinch, any way, that I'm not paid to stand here chewing the rag with Interfering, meddle some old women like you." The boy turned his back on the Gov ernor and marched off. When Mr.- Bliss had recovered his breath he started after him, and in three long strides was at his side. "Shake, young man, shake; you're all right"" said he, extending' his hand. "You called the turn on me better than it's been done elnco the day they elected me Governor of my state." Nerv Vegetables for Gardeners. Pittsburg Dispatch. Eight vegetables, new to this country, are being cultivated In the Government experiment stations with reference to re producing them to the truck gardeners. They are described as follows: A Euro pean okra of giant proportions Is a very valuable starch producer. From Mexico is a pepper largely used In that country, and a "husk tomato," which makes dell clous sweet pickles. A decorative and medicinal vine is a cucumber, also Mexi can, which distributes Its seeds broadly when ripe by violently exploding. Che vrll, a sedge-like plant from Europe, pro duces a tuber of hazelnut size which, eaten raw, tastes like cocoanut The In dian "basella," a vine, has blossoms like an arbutus and fruit like a blackberry bush. Driving: Out Blae Devils. Brooklyn Eagle. Cheerfulness Is a duty one owes to one's self as well as to one's neighbors, for nothing so unfits one for the ordinary duties of life or bo quickly brings on premature old age as a morose temper. There are ptenty of artificial aids to cheerfulness within the reach of every one who has real or Imaginary cause for 111 humor or a congenital tendency to sur liness. When things don't go right or your liver is guilty of neglect of duty, strive systematically to achieve good hu mor by repeating over and over the best funny stories or bits of humorous poetry you know. If conscientiously adminis tered' this prescription Is an infallible remedy for the most acute fit of blue devils. If you doubt Just try the experi ment Pensioning Employes. Buffalo Express. The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company is the lateet large corporation to provide a pension fund for employes. If an em ploye has become Incapacitated for work after 15 years' .service he is to receive 20 per cent of -the salary, he Is drawing at the time. In case an employe has been more than 15 years In the service, and is Incapacitated, he Is to receive an ad ditional -3 per cent for every additional year up to 25 years, making the maximum pension of 50 per cent of his salary. It is Just that a faithful service should be re warded when a corporation can afford It Strawberry Shortcake. St. Louis Star.' The strawberry shortcaka Is with ua once more. Oh. to linger awhile On this desolate shore . And pour out the cream In a long. Nsteaay stream ' And blissfully smile Like a man in a dream. The strawberry shortcake. Enchanting. Eupplaatlng The plebeian pi And the chocolate eclair. The strawberry shortcake, Persuasive, Invasive. Fit food for the gods And a full bill of fare. The strawberry short cakr . . Is buoyant and light. The present's alluring. The future- Is bright "Wheaiou pour ont the cream la" a long, steady stream And blissfully smile Like a man In a dream. The strawberry shortcake. Enthusing, Suffusing, This cold.hearted world la a radiance divine. The strawberry shortcake. Inviting. Delishtlns. Ehl "Walter! Another Large axiplcr w lauwt ' "Tv'OTE AND C0MMEXT. , We. fancy Heppner must look nearly as bad as Washington street " Now that the baseball teams have gone we have nothing left but vaudeville war, "We would-all like to be "officeholders if -we could be elected as easily -as Mr. Williams. The rulers of Europe will now begin the Alpbonse and Gaston act with King Peter of Servia Voltaire eayy everything- has motion. Very little has beeri observed about the fireboat of late. Personal: After a protracted absence. Mr. Sun will display his shining- coun tenance at us for a few days. . Spain is still howling about the war of 1S93. We Americans have nearly all for gotten about the little Incident The authorities are going to keep the heavy trucks oft Seventh street Keeping off the mud would also be greatly appre ciated. In. his second epistle to the Corinthians Paul says he will not touch unclean things. He would have had a hard tlma In Portland during the laundry strike. ' The name of the Postal Service will have to be changed to the Fire Depart ment very soon If the Postmaster-General keeps up the present rate of dis charging employes. The city of Seattle is getting good, and all the gamblers are being locked up. It must be painful to tha resident of the Sound city to see the most prominent citizens going to Jail. A letter was received at the Agricul tural Department the other day, relates William E. Curtis, asking for two loads of "furtelllzer." The writer having re ceived seeds from a paternal government was anxious to get whatever else was coming to him. John T. Gibbons is quoted as saying that In boyhood his brother, now cardinal and archbishop, delighted in athletic exercises, played a rattling game of baseball, was a splendid swimmer, and withal was very methodical. "He had a certain time for study, a time for play and a time for prayer. He was a boy of system, Just as he Is today a man of system." Not a. ieyr yachting experts who saw the Columbia In her trials against the new cup defender are of the opinion that she is minutes faster than the recent races show. Said one of these experts: "I should like to see a good professional skip per handle Columbia in another trial. Commodore Morgan may be cock of the walk among amateurs, but he would have precious little chance, things being equal, against such an old water dog as Charlie Barr, for Instance. Barr can pick out strong spots in a zephyr. Why not test Reliance with Morgan at the wheel and Barr doing the same for Columbia?" Sir Wilfrid Lawson, who recently wo"n a fiercely contested parliamentary election on his old platform of temnerance. Is known as England's "grand old man of temperance." He Is 73 years old and de voted 40 years of his life to the champion ship of temperance. Sir Wilfrid has been prominent In every Parliamentary crisis for a quarter of a century, and it Is ssid that there is little doubt that had he not identified himself with the cause of tem perance he would have been many times a minister. As it Is he has never been a member of the cabinet He has fought with and against Disraeli, Palmerston, Bright and Gladstone. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts says that the highest compliment be ever received was the remark made by a juryman many years ago. Mr. Hoar was attorney in a case tried before twelve good men and true in a Massachusetts court After the ver dict had been returned one of the Jurymen gave thi3 as his reason for voting as ho did: "Squire Hoar told us that it waa right and Just" The senior Senator from the Bay State is quoted as saying that he would rather have earned such a tribute of homely confidence as that than all tha panegyrics which biographers havo be stowed upon famous advocates. A servant girls' union, recently formed at Holyoke, Mass., has passed these reso lutlons: "No Bunday night suppers will be prepared. No work will be done in the kitchen between 7:30 P. M. and 5:30 A. M.; no babies will bo 'minded' between acts of ordinary housework; no children will bo allowed in tha kitchen; each girl shall have three nights out per week. The docu ment goes on to assert that $5 per week shall be the only rate of wages permitted and that the front door must be available for the "company" of the "help," as well as an apartment more suitable than tha kitchen to bo used as a reception-room. At a recent meeting of the London Authors Club Canon Teignmouth Shor spoke of having met James Russell Lowell shortly after that gentleman had gone as a Minister to England. "That distin guished man was cogitating over his first public utterance in this country and wondering-to what length he should speak. Ha had thought of speaking for about 40 mih- tutes. He had asked a countryman of his what his view was and had received this answer: "Well, Mr. Lowell, my advice to you is that If you find after you have been speaking two minutes you have, not struck oil you had better give up boring.' " PLEASANTRIES OF FAR A GRAF HERS "They say your brother Wilt has Joined & suicide club." Oh, no; that'o a mistake. I suppose the absurd rumor grew cut of the tact that he has just bought an automoblls." Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Stubb The weekly papers say down at Matilda Jenkins' dinner-party the table fairly groaned. Mrs. Stubb (who was not invited) r guess It did. Matilda Jenkins cooking Is enough to make anything groan. Chicago Dally News. "Did you hear of the lovely wedding pres ent Jane'a father is going to give herr" "No. What is ltr "It's a hired girl, warranted perfect la every particular, and guaranteed to hold her Job for a whole year!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. , Arthur (gloomily) I am afraid Mabel's lova lor mo Is cooling. Friend Have you heard from her today? Arthur Tes, and here's har letter. Sha uses the word "love" only 18 times, and underscores It ten. New York Veekiy. Tess Some men are awfully slow, aren't they? Jess Yes, and they're so aggravating. There waa one sat alongside, pf me coming down la tha car this morning. Tess Yea weren't trying to flirt with, him? Jess 3ra clonst no; but he was reading a novel and b was never ready to turn the pag& when I was. Philadelphia Press; Mrs. Tyrtle "Why, George, havea't ysa smoked up all those cigars yet? Mr. Tyrtle Got a few left, dear.l Mrs. Tyrtle And whea I bought them for you, you laughed at ma and said women didn't know anything about buying, cigars. I didn't pay nearly so much as you do when you buy cigars, and Just think botr ttejr Iwvi lasted: Bettes Traa-