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THE MORNING ORE G ONI AN, S&TUEDAY; JULY 18. 1903. JtaUre at tke Postofflce at PortUat. Oregoa. as eecond-claa, matter. . JlSVJL&Eb SUBSCRIPTION ItATJES. r MalJ pGtxce prepaid, la- advance PUr. m Sunday, per month. .-.....JO- Pllr. Sunday excepted, per yr.. 7.S0 ?r. Kith Bun day. per year . 8.00 fun day, per year 2.00 The Weekly, per year- . 1-W The Weekly, S month. .... 60 To city Subscribers P'iy, per -week, delivered. Sunday excepted.loc Dally, per -week, delivered. Bunday lnoluded.20o POSTAGE KATES. United Statu, Canada -nd Jiexlco SO to 14-pae paper........ to 16 to 20-page paper . .. . . ....... o M to 4i-par- paper ......Xc Forelcn .Tatar double. Ntw or .ditcuatloa Intended for publication 1b Th Oretoslan should iw addressed Invarlk Wy "Editor Th Oregonlan." oof to the name mC any InSlvldual. letters relaUng to adver tising; subscription, or to any business matter kould be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan docs sot buy poems or stories rom Individuals, asd cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to 'it without solici tation. JMo stamps should be Inclosed for this purpcse. Eastern Beslness Office, 43. . 45. 47. 48. 40 Tribune bmiding. New Tork City; 510-11-12 Tribune bulldlns;. Chicago; the 8. C. Beckwith Special Agency. Eastern representative. Tfx sate la Ban Francisco br 1' E. Lee, Pal ace Hotel aews stand;. .Goldsmith Bros.. S30 Butter ctreet; T- W. Pitts. 1008 Market street; 2. K. Cooper Co.. 748 .Market street, near th Palace Hotel; Foster & 0ear. Perry sews stand; Frank Ecott. 60 Ellis street, and N. Whcatley. 813 Mission street. For sale Is Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. M0 South Spring street, asd Oliver fc Haines. MS South Sprlnr street. For sale In Kansas City. Mo., by Ricks ecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale la Chicago by the P. O. News Co., SQT Dearborn ctreet. and Charles MacDonald, W Washington street For ale in- Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1613 X&r&am street; Megeath Stationery Co.. 1S0S Farnam street. For sale la Ogden by W. O. Kind. 114 25th street; J as. H. Crockwell. 242 23th street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second South street. For sale in Washington. D. C.. by the Ebbett House sew stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kesdrlck. 606-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan sc Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth asd Lawrence streets; A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. YESTERDAY S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 70; minimum temperature, 66; pre cipitation, 0. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy; cooler; eoutbwit to northwest -winds. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JULY IS. "WHAT'S TO BE DONE, AXD WHY. Nothing- could be clearer than the -fact that the so-called detective force, ot Portland Is utterly inefficient and worthless. This Is primarily the fault of the officers themselves, who are be- having like a pack of undisciplined, JealouB schoolboys. They manifest no' regard for the public welfare, no defer ende to their chief, no confidence and' co-operation among- each other, except as they are .gathered into little groups or mutual admiration societies, for mu tual eclat If not mutual gain. Their handling- of criminals Is directed at' their own advantage of prestige or, profit. .The ends of Justice they hardly consider. Behind the detectives Is Chief Hunt No one could possibly frame a more pitiable demonstration of administrat ive failure than he himself has framed by, his own complaints that his force will not obey him. He cannot, he says, manage them. They pursue their; du ties in serene indifference to his desires and in entire obliviousness to his pres ence or authority. 'Their talk is inde cent and their manner insolent. These detectives are experienced officers, the equal in skill of any on the Pacific "Coast. But they are not held in hand. The department Is without discipline. The reign of terror is the logical result. But behind Chief Hunt -stands a po litical machine, where must be sought, if sought beneath the surface, the real cause of his offending and of the inade quacy of the police. Whatever force and .ability he possessed for the office, .and Jhese were once -demonstrated to be considerable, have been destroyed by his superiors in acts which would have broken down the best executive in the world. The police committee of the Executive Board and the Civil Service Commission have collaborated to re duce the Chief -of Police to a hopeless automaton, flouted by his subordinates and humiliated by his superiors. .Mr. Hunt deserved better ' treatment than this, but the political machine that has made him its victim has Injured him no "snore than it has injured Itself and the administration whose welfare It Is sup1 posed to conserve. The situation is,, plainly, that neither Chief Hunt nor any other man who could be selected to supersede him can set effective, service out of "this disor ganized ,!orce, unless the Police De partment Is to be made something more than a football for the use and abuse of the Republican City and County 'Committee, whose hands, unless popu lar understanding is grievously at fault, are already laid upon the office of State Printer, various offices of Multno inah County and the City Council Itself through one of its most influential members. Most of these arrangements we are accustomed to regard with good-natured indifference, but it is asking a little too much that innocent men should be murdered by highway men in order to swell the prestige or emoluments of ambitious politicians. "What Portland needs, then, lsa Chief of Police who would have the support of his superiors, in executing the laws and maintaining necessary, discipline in his force. No man, who is worth his salt would take the place on any other consideration. tSuch an administration as John Mlnto, for example, save the city, and would give it again, can be bad only upon condition that the Chief isthe -real as well as the nominal head of his department And nothing less than this will satisfy the people of Portland and restore order. . Good government requires it and, what is more, good politics require it The dominant fac tion of the Republican party has done Well in the selection of Frank C. Baker as chairman of the State Central Com mittee. The next and logical step in the same direction is a similar redemp tion of the Police Department of Port land. The continuance of a $3 flour rate be tween North Pacific ports and the Ori ent will add greatly to wheat values In the territory affected. Theoretically, the price of wheat "Used in "grinding flour tor the Orient is regulated by the Liverpool price of wheat, but for the past two seasons millers have paid prices far out of proportion with the Liverpool figures, and are continuinir .to do so since the cut In rates. There Is not enough old wheat still unsold In the country to make'the reduction of great Importance now. If, however, the low rates are continued' until the new crop commences to move, it will in the ag gregate add many thousand dollars to the profits of the wheatgrowers. As to the shipowners, their business has now been on a losing basis so long that they are becoming accustomed to It Three dollar freights to the Orient are as un profitable to the shipowner as 30-cent wheat Is to the farmer, but as world wide conditions govern values In both cases, there is no relief until demand overtakes supply and the tide turns. ITS PURPOSE AXD ITS PLACES. Determination of the two exposition boards to co-operate in erection of a Lewis and Clarlc memorial building takes that popular project from the realm of dreams and puts It among- the certainties. The next thing to think about is a suitable site for the edifice and the question of ways and means. Decision on these heads must be re ferred largely to the purpose that the building Is designed to fulfill. This Is to serve as a memorial both ot the Liewls and Clark Expedition and the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, and also to afford permanent repository of such relics and records of early Ore gon history as would naturally find their way to such a place of safety and usefulness. The building Itself 1$ already assured of $50,000 from the corporation and $50, 000 from the state commission. To this will be added, If it can be obtained, a further sum from the General Govern ment, say $100,000. If the consent of Congress can be obtained. It Is planned to ornament the interior of the building with heroic or life-size statues of char acters memorable In Oregon history such as Lewis and Clark, Jefferson and Benton, , Linn and Lane, Nesmlth, Mc Loughlin, Baker, Williams, "Corbett, Whitman and others that might deserve equal recognition. The equipment of the building1 would naturally include a ..music hall suited for a lecture-room; the offices xt't the Ore gon Historical Society; rooms and cabi nets for books, manuscripts and relics,, and probably a museum. Such a place would very naturally In time, become the repository of private donations and bequests of, great historical value. Rich men and women could endow It with costly statues, paintings and curios, while the poorest pioneer might leave it mementoes of precious memory and priceless worth. This is a public enterprise;., and It is worth while to consider whether the dedication of a suitable site by the City of Portland would not be proper some such site, for example; as the plaza square opposite the block between the City Hall and the Courthouse. Such a devotion of the square might very read ily be regarded by the courts as within the terms of the gift which forbids the alienation of the ground to other than park purposes. The building itself would occupy smal space less than Is now covered by the Postofllce building and the, surrounding portion of the square could be made Into much more of a park can it Is now by multiplica tion of trees and plants, seats and shaded avenues of approach fronrrevery direction. It is a suggestion that Is perhaps worth consideration of the public gen erally, of the two exposition boards and of the city authorities. The building would rightly and necessarily pass into the possession and control of the city its Mayor, Its Council or Its Park Com missionand wpuld be so administered as to serve the public welfare while protecting the city's Interests. Jn gen eral the use of the building would be free for all approved art and educa tional gatherings, but such as were given for. profit would pay a fee to the city which would so far toward its maintenance. There is the possibility here of an important addition to the higher life qf Portland. THE WATCHFUL THREE. In considering the situation In the far East, there are certain underlying facts to be remembered concerning the three nations most prominently involved. First Natural causes are forcing Japan to expand. Second State policy, with natural causes as a minor factor, impels Russia to expand. Third Great Britain's interest in what she terms the open door Is spon taneous and not factitious. Japan, owing to the growth of her population and to the enterprise of her people, Is compelled to expand,' and In the direction of Corea is found the line of least resistance. Not only Is that country close to her doors, but, of more Importance, the Corean people would pass easily under her dominion. This is the reason that Japan eyes so appre hensively the Russian advance in Man churia. The entry to the Pacific, for a century the chief aim of Russian statesmen. has at last been achieved. The Slav has spread over Asia, and the Interior peoples of the Continent bid fair to amalgamate if not to combine with him. The Russian Raj is the rule of Asia, and it may be taken as an axiom that it will so remain. Russian lnflu ence never ebbs; a wave of it may re treat, but only that the next may flow further on. Great Britain is anxious to retain an open market In China. On an equal footing, she does not dread defeat but with a power that is essentially hostile, dominating the rich markets of the Ori ent, her outlook would be black. Thus It will be seen that Japan and Great Britain have a common interest in thwarting Russian designs in Man churia. Their ability to do so is not equal to their wllL Russia Is so yast so self-contained, that it is doubtful if she could be defeated lastingly defeat edby any combination of European or Asiatic powers. In the Crimean War 'she was attacked by Great Britain and France, who fastened upon an extrem ity as many fighting dogs are trained to seize their opponent by the foot Russia was thus forced to drop the bone and the victory lay nominally with the allies. The bone, however, ,still lies by the Bosphorus, and the end is not yet The Berlin treaty of 1S78 debarred Russian ships-of-war from passing In or out of the Black Sea, Today they pass and repass as freely as the ships of Great Britain do in the English Chan nel. One wave may recede, but look out for the next In view of these facts, It would seem that Japan, if she is bent upon gaining part of Pacific Asia, would better seize Corea, for it is possible that Russia might acquiesce in the fccQemplkaed fact rather than tackle Japan and Great Britain together. As to the latter power, -her obvious course is to leave Russia safely alone and to strengthen her . own "sphere of Influence" in the Yang-tse Valley. If Great Britain and Japan really wish to arrest Russian advance in Pa cific Asia, they must do something more than talk. They must use the force they continually threaten. In diplo macy the Russian beats them at every move. Japan's military position is not strengthened by the evident reluctance of Great Britain to help her to. the point of war. EXPENSIVE DISCRIMIXATIOX. Evidence of the desire on the part of the Government to do the fair thing by Portland in the way of transport busi ness and supplies is accumulating. When Laldlaw & Co., of this city, put In a bid offering a steamship service to Manila at the same rate that was made by the steamship men at Puget Sound and San Francisco, it was re jected. The Quartermaster's Depart ment was then asked by the unsuccess ful bidder that an opportunity be grant ed them to bid on future shipments from Portland. The reply direct from headquarters at Washington was that "no-such shipments from Portland are contemplated." But realizing the fact that Portland is entitled to a share in the business, the mlllmen of this city are now asked to bid on a lot of 300,000 feet of lumber for shipment to Manila. Of course the Government may not send any of its transports here to pick up such an Insignificant shipment of lumber, and no vessel small enough to carry this- amount could make the trip to Manila except at an enormous ex pense in proportion to the size of the cargo. This will prevent the business being handled from Portland, but it solidifies the argument of the distribu tors of transport and forage traffic that everything Is fair. Of course, they could hardly be expected to 'send a ship here for 300,000 feet of lumber;. It would be equally ridiculous to buy oats, hay, etc, In Portland, because the ships for carrying it are In San Francisco and Puget Sound. It Is a very pretty shell game, and no matter which one of the shells Portland, lifts, the little ball is under the other- Contracts for 2000 tons of oats have just been awarded In San Francisco, a port which has been a heavybuyer of Oregon .oats 'for the past six months. The Oregon oats which are sent down to San Francisco to be resold to the Government do. not go down on deadhead freight bills. Nei ther are they sent in franked envelopes. They pay a freight tariff of- $2.25 per 1 ton. This coastwise freight, which could have been saved had the Government purchased the oats In Portland, amounted to $4500 on the lot just con tracted for, but it does not represent all of the saving, as the San Francisco middlemen who bought the oats from the same parties who would have pre ferred selling them direct to the Gov ernment at Portland made a. profit The exact dimensions of this profit are unknown, but it was In excess qf 75 cents per ton, as Portland dealers would have been pleased at the opportunity to fill the order at $3 per ton less than was paid In San Francisco by the Govern ment No. 1 white oats in Portland are quoted at $21 and $21.50 per ton. The Government paid $27.50 per ton in San Francisco. Through rigid Inspection, packing for shipment, etc.,-a differen tial ot from $2 to $3 per ton over the ruling commercial rate at Portland has generally been exacted from the Gov ernment On this basis the oats would have cost $23 to $24.50 per ton at Port land, the saving had the Government paid the maximum figure being $6000. This transaction proves beyond cavil the claim of The Oregonlan and of the business community of Portland that this city, through Its superior location as a distributing center for the com modities most needed by the Govern ment, was entitled to recognition In the distribution of the transport busi ness. Private Arms engaged In business on strictly business principles handle these commodities of which the Govern ment Is most In need from Portland, and have no difficulty in buying the goods or securing the steamships for handling them. The manager or super intendent of a firm who would pay $6000 more for a small lot of oats than he could secure them for at a neighboring port having equally good shipping fa cilities would soon lose his position, but some of the Government employes have been making just such expensive deals for the past four years. FAITHFUL TO THE SPIRIT OP HIS OFFICE. The Oregonlan has already set forth something of the service wrought to the world by the Church of Rome In its re spect for and conservation of ancient art and literature, in its contribution to modern culture, especially music; but the greatest service wrought by the church through the utterances of its popes was when constitutional govern ments were unknown in Europe and the pope Interfered between! a brutal tyrant and his persecuted people, or strove to right the wrongs suffered by Individ uals at the hands of cruel Kings. Rlenzl, "last of Romans, hope of Italy." owed something of his transient suc cess to the open sympathy of the pope; when one ot the powerful Kings of France put away his wife, a Princess of Denmark, without cause, to marry again, the pope stood by the wronged Queen so firmly that the King was obliged to take back the repudiated wife. The pope stood firmly by Queen Cath erine of Aragon, although he knew that his action would lose England to the Catholic Church. Pope Innocent in sternly called King John of England to account for his crimes, and but for this moral support Archbishop Stephen Langton would have failed in his fight for civil liberty. Other illustrations may be given of the successful Inter ference of the pope between the brutal despots of Europe and their suffering subjects. In later times one of the great popes issued a bull against human slavery which was Included among the weapons of the arsenal of the abolitionists fifty years ago. Wen dell Phillips, writing to Garrison from Naples, In 1841, said that he found at Rome no color line in church or priest hood, and' added: Here, at least Rome preserves the spirit of the early ages. Twas well said I love the open door mat -welcomes to the house ot God; X love the wide-spread marble floor. By every foot in freedom trod. While human slavery Is extinct. In Christendom, while the temporal power of the pope has lapsed and the despot Isms havebecome constitutional mon archies, nevertheless Pope Leo xm, in his utterances as spiritual sovereign of his great church, has -always preserved the spirit of the early ages of the church when the oppressed humanity of Europe took its appeal against civic cruelty and crime to the vicar of Christ holding the keys of St Peter. The "awful circle of Rome" meant something as a city of refuge in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, for a despot who by contumacy brought down upon him the anathema of the pope was little bet ter than a crowned effigy. Of course, In our modern day, such contests as that between Pope Innocent and King John are neither necessary nor possible, but Pope Leo has always spoken In his encyclicals In thespirltof the great popes who were the champions of humanity. Innocent III, the great pope who van quished King John of England, protect ed the. Jews, who, when persecuted in Germany and Russia, were given a ref uge in the states of the church. Pope Innocent said: The Jews are living -witnesses to our faith, and Christianity cannot exterminate them. Be in? authorized to practice what Is allowed them by law,- they should be unmolested In that respect. No "Christian must force a Jew to re ceive baptism, for faith does not come by con straint No Christian shall presume to do any Injury to a Jew In person, nor seize their goods, nor infringe on their ancient usages in those countries where they reside. Let no one annoy them by striking them, or by throw ing stones at them whan engaged in their cer emonies. Let so one desecrate their cemete ries. Pope Leo XHIhas always acted toward the Jews in the spirit of these noble words of his great predecessor. Leo, In his encyclicals, has touched upon all the relations of life the family, the liberties of -the state, labor, property, charitable effort, secret societies, edu cation, socialism, the unrest of the modern world and the unity of Chris tendom. These great encyclicals con cerning the necessary duties and prin ciples of society have greatly Im pressed U pwn church and have not been without Important Influence out side the communion of Rome. This wise friend of human progress, the pope, showed himself In the French Re public, where his pastoral letters rec onciled those Catholic royalists who were reactionary to the new order of things, and this wisdom was equally conspicuous In the United States. The pope recognized and declared that the United States Government was the one Government in the world which offered the Church of Rome free and untram meled opportunity to carry forward Its work, and he urged the general of the Dominican order to transfer his great plant, disestablished by recent laws in Paris, to Washington. The pope saw that In. our absolute separation of church and state the Church of Rome had a fair field and .equal favor; and because It had the Church of Rome couM not afford In America to be nonpatrlo'tlc and undem ocratic In Its spirit This has always been Archbishop Ireland's argument for the American public schools that they make the boys patriotic American citi zens beyond any other schools in tne land. The pope accepted this view of Archbishop Ireland. The pope holds that under our Government the Church of Rome has every assurance of pro tection, every opportunity of expan sion, and for this reason this church should be one of the strongest .pillars of the Republic The sudden death of P. M. Arthur, chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, at a midnight banquet at Winnipeg Thursday night was one of those events which in for mer times was reckoned as a mysterious dispensation 0f Providence. Science in these latter days finds a far different reason for the. sudden stopping of the machinery which In action we call "life," when a man of full habit and ceaseless activities answers a speedy summons to rest Mr. Arthur was a man of great power and usefulness in the order of which he was chief. Tol erant, just and generous, he command ed the confidence and respect of this large body of skilled worklngmen. His judgment in matters that came under his jurisdiction was excellent, and the men relied upon it to protect their in terests and keep them out of difficulty. This confidence he justified by years 'of faithful and competent administration of the work- with which he was In trusted. It cannot be said that the death of any man Is an Irreparable loss. The grave of Chief Arthur will be closed and the world will go on just the same. But his" loss will be keenly felt and hl3 death has caused deep and wide regret "You attend to your business and I will attend to mine." The answer of Russia to the United States Is more dip lomatic than that of Governor Pennoyer to President Cleveland; but the mean ing seems to be about the same. Rus Bla feels that she Is a pretty big coun try herself. Remonstrance from other nations seems to her an accusation of indifference to if not of actual sym pathy on her part with the cruelty and horror of the JKLlshlnef massacre. The effect of our 'intromission may, how ever, be good; and we can afford the rebuff if Russia shall be made to feel that the eyes of the world are on such atrocities as those committed against the Jews within her borders. An advance of 10 cents per 100 was made In sugar yesterday. No particu lar reason Is given for the advance, but as Claus Spreckels' daughter Is suing her Illustrious sire for about $500,000, it may be that the sugar king Is getting ready to pay the judgment For sup plying the sinews at war In litigation, sugar is nearly as good as coal oil, and for putting the screws on the dear pub lic Spreckels Is well up In the proces sion headed by Rockefeller. No American ralload In the period of Its construction enjoyed the happy financial circumstances that surround Senator Clark's line now building from Salt Lake to Los Angeles. Its Issue of $50,000,000 bonds Is taken from time to time by Its president (Senator Clark), and so long as his Arizona copper mines hold out he can put up the money with out feeling the poorer. Major William B. Hooper, lessee and manager of the Occident Hotel, San Francisco, whose death was announced yesterday, was well known to thousands In Oregon and Washington who, when they visited the Bay City, sought a scandalless hotel. Increase of $18,000,000 In the earnings of the three "Hill" railroads shows a condition of affairs the past year in the productive country between Illinois and the Pacific Ocean that panics In Wall street are not likely o affect adversely. Astoria's school census of 3010 Indi cates a big Increase In population since the Federal census three years age Astoria Is' beginning to fly with her own wings. A STEEL-FRAMED GIOTTO'S TOWER . Minneapolis Tribune. The great problem of present day archi tecture Is to treat the new steel construc tion architecturally; that Is, to give to modern sky-scrapers a beauty as genuine as that of ancient palaces and public buildings, religious and secular. The beauty of the old buildings rested for a foundation on perfect adaptation of form, to use, expressed with due regard to the material employed. The problem could bo worked out In no other way In modern buudings. Therefore, new material and new ulltltarlan forms prescribe new meth ods of expressing beauty. The grossest fault of modern architecture Is Imitating the forms of the old with different material and without the struc tural requirements that dictated those forms. Part of the .ugliness of the first sky-scrapers wa3 their Imitation of the heaviness at the base of the old masonry structures. Perhaps a large part was due to tho inability of architects to work steel beams covered with a screen of brick Into forms of beauty. They are slowly overcoming all these difficulties. The later structures have an airiness of appearance that reflects the slender strength of their framing, and ar chitects are learning, by the use of color In brick and terra cotta, the treatment of openings in masses, and tho outlining of Internal structure in external lines, to find a beauty as distinctive as that of the renaissance palace or medieval cathedraL The most ambitious recent example of modern architecture Is the new building the New York Times Is about to erect on an irregular tract of ground embraced by four streets that cross each other at what Is called Long Acre Square. The building is saved from being a flat-Iron by a front on Forty-third street that gives room for only one window. The opposite frontage will be nearly 60 feet and tho two long sides will be 140 feet The build ing will thus stand wholly detached and the architect had an extraordinary oppor tunity for a monumental effect He has improved this in the most daring manner, by giving to this distinctly utili tarian building some of the forms of the most airy and graceful poem in stone to bo found in the Western world. Half of the building has tho audacity to copy in steel and terra cotta the forms of the love ly Florentine bell tower, by which Giotto's name la better known than by the frescoes of the Paduan Arena. This tower rises S75 feet and Is moulded In tower form for about half Its length. It is 22 stories high. The rest of the building, projecting from one of its sides' like a truncated wedge, rise3 only 16 stories, the lower 12 being treated like any other building and the upper four moulded In the forms of the tower. The effect may bo rather peculiar, if there should be room In this crowded part of the city to get far enough away to see tho building as a whole. Perhaps the ar chitect does not take that into account; but has worked for tho perspective of this beautiful tower, rising above all surround ing buildings as well as the rest of Its own and visible to all the adjacent coun try for miles. Cass Gilbert, before he got the custom house contract, designed one of the most beautiful office buildings in Lower New York in harmonious color and expressive forms. Some of it could, be seen from Citv Hall Park; but, when It was done, It was discovered that the best view of all was from the ferry boats on the Hudson. Probably tjbis will be truo of the Times building also. They Imitate American Crooks. New York Sun. French swindlers, about whose methods a good deal has been written of late, are for the most part copiers of American crooks. The trick of following a woman Into a store, and just aa she goes to make a purchase In assuming the role of an indignant husband, taking her money away from her and getting away be fore she has a chance to recover from her surprise, was worked for somo time In the West It wasn't successful long here because American women are hard er headed than their French sisters and unlike the latter, do not assist the crooks by promptly going Into hysterics or faint ing when robbed. A simple little swindle that was successful in this city for years was worked by a man and a boy. The boy would walk up the street swinging a pitcher around his head. The man stand ing on an opposite corner, would call at tention to tho boy's recklessness and offer to bet $5 or some larger amount that the boy would break the pjtcher before he reached the corner. The crook rarely failed to hook a victim. Of course, just as the boy reached the corner he would break the pitcher and tho crook , would win the bet Whca WomeHj Skow Nerve. New York Times. Of every 1000 suits for breach of promise to marry, at least 999 are brought by wom en. Now it is probable that men are tho victims of such breaches at least as often as women, and therefore the question arises whether the vast predominance of feminine plaltlffs has any significance as to the relative delicacy of mind possessed by the two sexes. For a breach ot prom ise suit Is essentialy indelicate. To bring it requires a more or leas brutal Indiffer ence to public ridicule and an amazing willingness to place one's self and one's private emotions under derisive Inspection and vulgar commentary. And men rarely do all this, while women do it frequently. It's very puzzling. Of course, there Is a matter of money, more' commonly In the possession of men than of women, but that explanation is not kind to the wom en, for it involves the assumption that they are mercenary and that for the sake of money they aro willing to go through an ordeal that would be simply frightful for men in most respects callous. Costly Ignorance. Nashville American. The last census shows that in Breath itt County, Kentucky, 32.4 of the adult white male population is Illiterate. This means that one-third of tho voters are unable to read and write. In the year the census was taken, 1200, Breathitt County received $18,545 more from the State Treas ury than it paid Into It The county Is known as a pauper county; that Is, there Is always a deficit in its account with the state. This is a fair illustration of the expenslveness of Ignorance. Ignorance, Illiteracy, Is always costly costly in many ways. There can be no civilization with out education. An Ignorant people cannot compete with educated people In the mat ter of wealth production any more than they can compete In intelligent govern ment or tho advancement of society. In Breathitt a county which is a reproach to civilization of 51 felony coses on the -docket at a single term of court there was not a single conviction. Fraakneu About Lynching-. Macon Telegraph. Wo should be honest with ourselves on this subject o lynchlngs. The hypocrisy with which it is treated is useless. In deed, It Is worse than useless. It Is bane ful. Instead of bringing the practice to a shamed close, it seems rather to en courage it For all the fake altruist may say, we know that at the bottom of lynch ing lies race antagonism. We know that race antagonism Is the moving motive of those crimes which the black perpe trates against the white, and we know that race antagonism is the cause of the back man's consequent swift finish at the end of a rope or amid the faggots. McCarthy, Father and Son. Successful American. Justin Huntly McCarthy Is frequently confused with his father, Justin Mc Carthy. This Is not surprising, since, besides being ot the same name, they are both historians, both novelists and both have been members of Parliament Justin Huntly McCarthy, the son, left Partllament after -ParneH's defeat, . and thenceforth devoted himself to literary work. PRESIDENT'S GOOD EXAMPLE. Boise Statesman. When First Assistant Postmaster-General Wynne entered upon the discharge of his duties, Mochen and Beavers sneered at him, declaring they would "fix." him. He showed .upon going Into office that he was a resolute man bent upon faithful discharge of his duties, loose two subordinates did not propose to have work done honestly in the di visions of which they were In control. One of them, Machen. had assldloualy devoted himself to building up influence in Congress and he believed himself more powerful tnan his superior. It was a serious condition, but Wynne faced it and laid down the law to the men In revolt against his authority. They laughed at him, and. In effect defied him to interfere with them. A desperate con test was at once In progress. Little by little Wynne got beneath the surface and discovered evidences of crookedness on the part of the two mon who had so bra zenly boasted they would drive him from the department He knew but one rule of action in such cases to root out wrong and punish the wrongdoers and in the course of time he had evidence against them sufficient to serve as the basis ot a more comprehensive investiga tion. The rest is known to all. Machen and Beavers fell before this determined man, and others are following them Jnto disgrace. The story Is of the highest interest, be cause it serves as an illustration of the far-reaching influence of character in high places. When Wynne brought forth his . probe .and proceeded, to look into the affairs of his office he knew there was a man at the head of tho Government who would give him every support and en couragement possible. Had It been other wise, if the President had been a man disposed to be easy with influential men, Wynne would soon have met with cold ness somewhere, and conditions might have been created very soon that would have compelled him to resign. The pow erful subordinates would have been able to balk him in every direction, and he might have had nowhere to turn. His immediate superior would have hesitated about encouraging him in a -course which "might reflect upon the Admlnlstraton," and tho natural result would have been the retirement of the official before he had secured sufficient evidence to war rant him in making formal charges against the boodlers. But It was not so. Every man in the Government knows he will find support in doing anything that may be needed to bring guilty men to Justice. The feel ing Is shared by every official from the members of the Cabinet down. A mem ber of tho Cabinet who should go to tho President with a statement ot suspicious transactions which a subordinate was In vestigating would be. told to make. the in vestigation thorough. There would be no intimation that It might be better to cover the matter up and try to correct the practices complained of in some man ner that would prevent their becoming public; nor would there be any sugges tion that It might be dangerous to offend the frlend3 of the accused men. To be sure, a Cabinet officer might bo such a man that he would not hold office after such a suggestion, but such things are Insidious, and in a great majority, of cases men pllantly yield to such sug gestions from their superiors. But the point The Statesman makes Is that when the head Is a man like Roose velt every official 13 encouraged to do that which he believes right, and when a' man like Wynne finds something Irreg ular he can go to the bottom of the mat ter without fear of being stopped through the Influence of friends of those about whom he may bo weaving a net of dam aging evidence. . Moreover, such example extends far and wide. It inspires others in tho employ of tho Government to stick to their con vlctions, and, reaching beyond, has i similar effect on officials of states and municipalities, 'and thus It brings forth good fruit in all parts of the country; -Wliat Aitroaomy Teaches.' -- Ethel -Fountain Huasey in Sunset Magazine . for Jane. It Is impossible to distinguish separ- ately with the most powerful telescope now In use, objects less than 800 feet apart on the moon, less than 20 miles apart on Mars, or less than 2s0 miles apart on Jupiter. Moreover, the study of the sur face features of any of the planets con corns no such contrasts as those of bril liant lights against a dark ground, but only slight differences of shading or color on an Illuminated disk. These facts should be borne In mind when reading the articles that come out periodically concerning the "trees that frlngo the Martian canals" and the evl dences of great doings on that little globe scarce twice our moon's diameter. lacking many things essential to life as we know It Another favorite- thesis of the popular Is the possibility of a collision that shall puff our round earth to powder. Apart from the fact that the laws of the universe, so far as we know them, do not seem to operate In favor of collisions, there Is a consoling amount of room in the heavens. Could we travel through spaco at the rate of a mile i minute it would require well to ward two centuries to reach the sun; be yond . that It would require more than 53 centuries to pass the circle of Neptune, the last known planet. There Is dim twi light and cold unthinkable, our great sun dwindled to a disk like Venus, the near' est "fixed star" would be still 50,000,000 of years away! Versatile Missouri Editors. Kansas Clfy Journal. Newspaper men deserve to bo noted for their versatility. Sam Cook showed us a few years ago how a country editor can simultaneously edit his paper, manage a Btate campaign and conduct a successful canvass for himself for the office jof Sec retary of State. Editor Stump, of the Tina Herald. Is branching out and Is run ning a poultry shipping business along with his print shop. Finally, Editor Graves, of the Bogard Dispatch, varies the monotony by preaching, a license for which purpose he obtained recently. There Is nothing from mule culture to saving souls that a Missouri country editor can't turn his hand to with a day's prepara tion. My Cookr. Chicago Evening Post. My cook Is a treasure she's Irish by birth An autocrat grand bom to rule o'er the earth. When she came, I began -with assurance to say, "Now, Mary, I wish you to do this my way" But she vanquished me quite with, "My bust . ness I know. If my cooking- don't suit, mum, I might as well go. To bake a potato seems not a great task. And yet, when, one morning, I ventured to ask Why ouvs were half done, Mary answered quite sad. "I'd a pain on my chist ail tho night very Dear- Have you e'er heard before, or read in a book That potatoes were baked on the chest of the cook 7 When the gas hill came in so extreme was its size That I went out to Mary for "wherefores' and "whys;" She loftily glanced at the papers I held. Then said, as her bosom suspiciously swelled. "Don't bother me, mum, at these things to iook; I know nothing of bills, I was hired to cook!" This maid had a habit too common, alasl Of "dumping" the freezer upon the green grass, And when the new gardener reproved her and aald, "Tm after you. Mary," she tossed up her head. And routed poor James with her quick repartee, "You're not the first man, Jim, who's said that to me I" No matter what happens she's never at loss. For word In reply, while her glance and the toss Ot her head quite o'ercome me I think with a groan Of the days I was mistress ''within my own home. In -planning and doing what pleasure I took! But it's all over .sow, since we're ruled by the cookl y C. S. NOTE AtfD COMMENT. Toole aa Owl Car. Home they brought her warrior dead, She nor sobbed nor uttered cry; "Well r knew," was all she said, . , "If he took a car he'd die." Robbers are requested td leave a sepa rate clew for 'each detective. Schwab Is said to be taking the rest cure, appropriately enough 'In- Phila delphia. A Baltimore man shot his . wife, as he says. In a dream. She's dead, and that however. Is no dream. A street at Scranton has' fallen Into a coal mine.. This is about the only thing on record that the operators have foiled to hold up. A man has been arrested ht Coney Mand for parading the beach, clad only In a barrel. He probably looked suspicious, wearing so much-clothing. Judging by the result of all these treas ure hunts. Captain KIdd must have been kidding. Patti's "farewells'! will bo ended by death alone. A plaster cast of a 73-foot whalo has been placed In a New York museum. It's dollars to doughnuts that the first absent minded angler that visits that show will say to his friend: "A cast of one I. landed, sir. Two hours fighting, but I- landed him." A family moved from New York to Chi cago to escape burglaries. Hardly had they been In the new home a week; when burglars got away with everything of value that they had. To run about trying to avoid robberies in the East must be like trying to dodge between raindrops in a heavy shower. Surprise was manifested that tho jury should have found Knapp, the slaughterer ot five women, guilty of murder In the first degree, without a recommendation to mercy. Poor Kfnapp! The peoplo of Hamilton must resemble tbe French women, who, when they saw the whips fall upon the horses that were to drag a human victim asunder, shuddered and cried: "Oh, the poor horses." The importance of near-by matters is shown by the way reporters on the Brook lyn Eaglo write of a strike in a small plo shop next door to their office. They are very anxious to havo the matter settled, for how is a reporter to write a serious article without plenty of pie? The secret ot the Eagle's standing In the newspaper world Is laid bare the noble bird is fed on pie fresh from the oven. Last week a woman in New York, at tempting to cross a "light well" on an Ironing board laid from window to. win dow, fell and was instantly killed. An other woman was found dead In a bath tub. These accidents teach the lesson that one should never put things to other than their proper uses. Ironing boards are for Ironing, and bathtubs are for storing old shoes and other miscellaneous articles. Pupils from fashionable girls' boarding schools are In session at East Northfleld, Massachusetts. Tho following papers may be read: "The Impossibility of Eating too Many Chocolates." "The . Advantages of Corresponding in Cipher."- ' AHow ' .Best' to'Eldde the Chaperon." "The Folly bf Study." "The Importance of Being Fashionable." Brooklyn has instituted the fashion of giving parties for young babies. These parties are an awful bore; All the same girls I've seen beforo? Gurgling In just the same old- way Without a single thing to say. All they can make Is goo-goo eyes,. Repulsive to a chap my size. And when I murmur for a drink, I'm wanting milk, they're sure to think, And bring It on so weak and blue What is a helpless man to do? I think I'll chuck the weary show And not to any parties go. All lists of wedding presents and obit uaries, poetry and cards of thanks will bo charged for as advertisements. Grant County News. I felt the blood of Shakespeare move Within, my swelling veins, I seized a pen and vowed to prove Art loved the sagebrush plains. A burning play In twenty acts I wrote with brimming soul, Blank verse, and songs, and mining facts. In one harmonious whole. I took It to the weekly NWs, Nor made them any claim, Content posterity my dues Should pay in chunks of fame. The foreman muttered, "Holy Mike,' And yelled, as I were deaf, "How many times?" "Just as you like. He marked It up "T. F." Next week a supplement came. out My drama well displayed; The editor without a doubt With fame fslt well repaid. " I heard he'd purchased lots of type; And bought a corner lot; . ' They said he must be at the "pipe. Or raking in a pot For just a month my play appeared, And then I got a slip That showed the drama sure was queered, The poet had to skip. "All presents, deaths, and cards, and rhymes, "Are charged as simple ads: "Ten thousand lines so many times i "Is just four thousand scads." And that is why I fled away To pick Instead of "pen," And that is why I curse John Day, And all Its grasping men. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERJ ( A Georgia editor has discovered an authoi wno nas "a trunk run ot stones anu two bar rels of poems." The only difficulty is to as certain what poetry brings by the barrel now. Atlanta Constitution. "What," asked the young man from th tall grass reservation, "is the difference be tween a sacred concert and any other con cert?" "A sacred concert," replied the humac information bureau. ' "is given only on Sun day." Chicago Dally News. "Jenkins must be a pretty straight fellow. Dobbins tells me he never drinks a drop. "Sol You probably misunderstood Dobbins. What he said must have been that Jenkins never drops a drink." BalUmore News. Kitty Harry DIx says you' are pretty; as a picture. Clara Nonsense! He didn't mean lt Kltty Oh, yes, he did. But, of course,' you know Harry's taste In pictures isn't anything to brag about. Boston Transcript. Mrs. Closeflst Oh, do give me a new bon net, my dear! It will set all my friends talk ing. Closeflst If you're after notoriety, why don't you get the old one . made over? That will make your friends talk twice as much. Judge. Towne I saw Smartley's little boy going to the hospital today. Browne I'm surprised at Smartiey. He told me he wasn't going to let the youngster shoot oft any crackers orr can nons; that he was going to do It for him. Towne That's right The boy was following the ambulance that took Smartiey there. Philadelphia Press,,