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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1903. Entered at the Fostofflce at Portland. Oregon, as Eccond-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid In advasce) Dally, with Sunday, per month 2' Dally, Sunday excepted, per year ' Dally, with Sunday, per year - "-"J Sunday, per year- . . The Weekly, per year l-gu The 'Weekly, 3 months D0 To City Subscribers . ,. Dally, ?er week, delivered, Sunday exceptea.ioo Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.zoc POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper.. ""Vs 16 to 30-page paper -e 2 to 41-pagre paper...... 30 Foreign rates double. Kews or discussion Intended for publication la The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription, or to any business matter hould be addressed simply. "The Oregoftlan." 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Another example of the folly, to use a mild term, of bringing: up girls, or per mitting them to come up, without par ental restraint, is seen in the case of airs. Admer T. Johnson, now awaiting in the city jail examination upon the charge of highway robbery. A way ward girl, she played at marriage at the tender age of 14 years. Thinking it no doubt a good joke to outwit her parents and the superintendent of the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society and set up for herself in life1, this untutored child became a wife at 14, a mother in due time, a widow, in some sort, a little later, again a wife in a few months, and shortly thereafter "took to the road" in con junction with her young husband to extort from persons more thrifty than themselves the living that they errone ously supposed the world owed them. Not all young girls abandoned to their own way, or insufficiently guarded and trained at home, would run the course of social Irregularities, matri monial adventure and highway robbery at a pace as rapid as that at which It was covered by this young woman. Few, Indeed, let us hope, would attempt the downhill pace which she set for herself. But in point of fact no parent knows what the outcome of neglect of parental duty will be, and all may well believe that it will be disastrous in the case of young girls abandoned to their own way in urban and perhaps still more in suburban life. Without evil intent in the beginning, without any purpose, indeed, except the desire to be "smart" and have a "good time," many a young girl has rushed heedlessly to her ruin, while her mother, strangely obtuse, has looked on uncom prehendingly and her careless father has allowed the downward course to proceed unchecked by paternal counsel or authority. Between the self-satisfied and overconfident parents who rest se cure in the belief that no child of theirs could by any possibility go wrong, and the careless, inattentive parents, who see as though they saw not their chil dren taking the broad road that leads to destruction, the penitentiaries, brothels, reform schools and refuge homes in every state are of necessity frequently enlarged to make room for the youthful recruits that, for the good of society or in the name of humanity, must be sequestered therein for longer or shorter periods. The mother who first awakens to a sense of alarm and essays to control her young daughter when the agent of the Boys' and Girls' ,Ald Society inter feres to restrain the child, and the father who is astonished when his name appears in print some morning in con nection with the arrest of his young son for theft, defacement of a building, wanton destruction of property or some other form of juvenile depredation or crime, may be decent, law-abiding peo ple, but it is clear that they are wofully remiss in parental duty in that they have failed to note the preliminary stages of misdemeanor through which their children have passed on the way to social outlawry and crime. "Whether from an economical or moral standpoint, parents who do not restrain their children and direct them in ways of industry, decency and Individual re sponsibility, are enemies of society. They are, moreover, foes' to their own peace and reputation in the community, and have no legitimate ground for com plaint when the one is seriously dis turbed and the other suffers seriously. A JOINT RESPONSIBILITY. A Kansas City paper of recent date comments severely but justly upon the element In a community that encour ages by its sympathy youthful and im mature persons in "running away," as the phrase goes, and getting married in defiance of parental authority, or in dis regard of parental advice. It is averred, however, that the more reputable por tion of the community does not share the idea that an elopement is necessar ily a good joke on somebody who ob jects to the marriage, and that every parent must regard such a break in any family as something entirely too serious to be regarded lightly. "Very recently a Kansas City boy of 19 and a glri of 14 went over to Kansas City, Kan., and were married. Both were simple school children, the girl wearing a short dress and her hair in a braid, and yet no at tempt was made to question the state ment upon which the license was pro cured that the boy was 21 and the girl 18 years of age. Here was official re missness of duty that the probable re missness of parental duty in the case of the child-bride did not excuse. Con tinuing, the journal quoted says: This sort of thing happens every, day some where. It denotes a lamentable lack of per sonal feelinc on the one hand and of official conscientiousness on the other. It always sug gests that the officials- in the case are willing to accept even absurd misrepresentations as the truth in order to secure the fee in the transaction. In this case there Is not even any evidence that the consent of the girl's parents was sought. It would probably have "been sought In vain, for the girl was too young to marry; but for that very reason It should not have been possible to secure, through the representatives of the law, what ought to have been denied by the parents. There is a: joint responsibility here, which -the lawrequiring the procure ment of a license to marry plainly at tests, i WILL KNOW BETTER NEXT TIME. A useful and much-needed lesson has just been beaten into" the bead of the editor of the Bend Bulletin.. It seems that two sportively inclined young men of that place formulated the enterprise of Inducing two . girls of respectable families to "accompany them by night into a house from which the occupants were temporarily absent and have "a good time." The Bulletin thereupon conceived its duty to He in the direction of narrating the affair as it occurred. This is what followed, as the paper it self bears witness: George Schlecht made an assault on the ed itor of the Bulletin last Monday evening. Third persons interfered and there was no damage done. - Three, times lie attempted as sault, and Anally went his way breathing vengeance and threatening personal harm to the editor. We see here the natural result of a newspaper's interesting itself in the moral welfare of the community about it The reward varies according to the size of the town. At Bend the person whose personal liberty is interfered with seeks out the editor and breaks his head. If he can. In Portland he would probably bring a damage suit People do not like to have their prerogatives of murder, embezzlement, adultery or other irregularity exploited In the pub lic prints. It is a free country. Their moral character is nobody's business. Know all blacklegs by these presents that if two trainmen brutally outrage a girl on their train they are not to be censured by the press. ' If a man steals the county or city blind, he is to be treated with every mark of considera tion, or else he will break somebody's head, stop his paper, or bring a libel suit. The myth that so-called law and order people will stand by the news paper that does its public duty is one of the most mirth-provoking ever trans mitted from a remote antiquity. "While you are yet writing the promised edi torial against crimping, their lawyer Is signing a treaty of alliance with Larry Sullivan. "While you are trying to save the Chinaman from the mob, they are hurrying out of town by the first train. While you are trying to keep Tammany out of power they are composing reso lutions of censure. At Bend the hero of the nocturnal episode was arrested for assault The upright citizen made haste to go his bail. The upright Judge made haste to set him free. The editor has his answer from the decent, law-abiding element which stands so loyally behind the fear less newspaper so far' behind as to be out of range. He will not make the mistake again. He will let the of fender against the moral law go his way and even comment approvingly upon his gait and costume. There are few offenses which do nDt touch the se lect circles at some point or other. It is fitting that those who own property leased for gambling and prostitution should contribute generously to the cause of reform. WHERE DO WE COME IN? When Great Britain adopted her so called free-trade policy, In 184G, she had complete Industrial ascendezicy. She was the workshop of the world; er manufactures had no competition; her merchant marine ruled all the seas. The abolition of the corn laws was en acted to furnish cheap food and main tain cheap labor. Cobden assumed that free trade would prevail, and if it did England would be able to hold all mar kets of the world. For thirty years England had the best of it so com pletely that free trade became the na tional faith. But during the last thirty years the United States has gradually come to the front through the develop ment of her resources as the greatest manufacturing nation of the world, and Germany has become in iron and steel the second Industrial power, while Eng land has fallen to the third placd. Her exports have become stationary, or, as Chamberlain puts it, have become stag nant British exports to foreign coun tries are -20 per cent less than they were thirty years ago, while American ex ports have increased more than 200 per cent, and German exports more than 100 per cent American and German manufactured products have largely in vaded the British market With this situation before him, Mr. Chamberlain proposes a preferential tariff which would ultimately make Great Britain independent in respect of her grain sup ply, the whole of which could in time be secured from the wheat belt of the Canadian Northwest Suppose the Canadian Northwest should become able to supply all the grain needed by England, what then? Why, then Chamberlain's fiscal policy, whose avowed purpose is to shut Amer ican grain out of the British market, would be victorious, but it would be the kind of victory that makes the victors miserable after they have won it, for It would cost England the present excel lent understanding which exists be tween the two countries. This friendly feeling began in 1895, when Lrord Salis bury withdrew his refusal to arbitrate the Venezuela boundary question, and was still more manifested when Lord Salisbury in-1898 told Europe that Great Britain would not sanction any attempt" to interpose between the United States and Spain. If England should be In volved in a war with the Continental powers of Europe, she could- ordinarily count upon the United .States to main tain the rights of neutrals, which would include the right to furnish Great Brit ain with her food supply. Assuming that the Canadian Northwest could in time of peace furnish England with all the grain needed, what would happen and of what use would the Canadian supply be to Great Britain In event of a war with a Continental coalition? This searching question is presented by the New Tork Sun and answered as fol lows: It Is obious that under such circum stances very little, if any, Canadian wheat could reach England In . British bottoms, because the British fleet would bo needed to defend England from invasion, and would not possess enough surplus strength to po lice the North Atlantic. Canadian wheat could then reach England only through American seaports and in vessels under tho American flag. ... But how could a friendliness, which- Lord -Salisbury and-' Mr. Balfour have helped to create, bo expected to survive a ,flscal policy the avowed pur pose of which would be to shut "American grain out of the British market 7 Would not our principal motive for insisting that food shall not be made contraband of war havo been extinguished by the suicidal legislation of Great Britain to that effect? AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW FIT. Our most persistent offender, "C. W. S.," ostensibly for information, but in reality from general cussedness, after two weeks of unwonted forbearance, breaks out on this wise: In the exchange of gold for bonds, and bonds for notes, have the banks lost the use of any working capital? Are the notos not as profitable to them In their use? ' If so. Is not bond Interest a gratuitous gift on tho Government's part to them? The actuary of the United States Treasury gives the following figures, based on 2 per cent bonds of 1930, pur chased at 10S&: Circulation, $100,000. , Interest on bonds $2000.00 Interest on circulation. 4 per cent 4000.00 Gross receipts $6000.00 Deductions Tax S 600.00 Expenses G2.50 Sinking fund 173.03 736.13 52C3.S7 Interest lost on cost of bonds. V4340.O0 Net profit $ 023.87 Per cent 0.851 So that the nominal Interest' on bonds is not "a gratuitous gift" by any means. Moreover, the new 2" per cents are the only bonds that yield any tsuch rate of profit If the bank should buy the 3 per cents of 1908-1S, Its net profit would be only four-tenths per cent per annum. The 4s of 1907 yield .566 per cent and the 4s of 1925 only .385 per cent The 5 per centof 1904 yield .79 per cent The persistent fears of "C. W. S." however, are obviously past allaying.' One moment he beholds a vast standing army subverting the rights of the peo ple, at another he sees the gold stand ard sitting on the necks of a prostrate nation, and but now he stood transfixed with t horror at the army of National banks subsisting off benefactions from the Government Treasury. It has been some years now since we began pumping hope and peace into the despondent and agonized brain of "C. W. S.," week after week, as one after another dread specter of imperialism and the money power has struck terror to his soul. It has been fondly hoped that he would -at. last compose himself In conte'ntment and quietude yet, evi dently, it is vain. He is either insatia bly terrorized or else afflicted with chronic popullstlc epilepsy. If the for mer, we are entitled to a vacation; If the latter, he is incurable. He should hereafter indulge his spasms in private. We accordingly pass him up. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. Rev. Dr. David H. Greer, who has been chosen coadjutor bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York, In a published letter has placed himself .upon the same ground . held by the Roman Catholic Church, that the only true and safe basis for education, either for the state or the individual, is religion. He fakes, too, the position of Roman Catholic Bishop McFaul, of New Jersey, that the school fund should be divided so as to provide support for re ligious schools conducted In accordance with the varying tenets and convictions of religious. believers. For agnostics, indifferentlsts and so-called infidels Dr. Greer would provide purely secular edu cation. This is the view which was re cently expressed by Bishop O'Reilly, of the Catholic Church, in his address at Baker City. Dike most sweeping re forms suggested by clergymen, this scheme will not lear examination, be cause it could not be Introduced except through constitutional amendment, and such a proposition would at once pre cipitate a most bitter political conflict It is doubtful whether even the Roman Catholic Church would be united In its support, much less the Protestant Epis copal Church, because so radical a change In our school system would cost .the churches desiring it more than It woufd be 'worth, since It would create sectarian jealousy and distrust where comparative peace and harmony exist today. Under our American school system the state claims the right tor self-protection to see to it that the children ajre given the elementary instruction neces sary tofit them for the responsibility of citizens. , The state deems it necessary that the children of foreigners should be taught our language and enough of our history to fit them for citizenship and the exercise of the right of suffrage. The state has no right to select for them their religion, but it has a right to give them elementary Instruction sufficient to prevent the perpetuation of an llllte&te body politic, but the state, so long as the children go to school, does not prescribe the character of the schools they shall attend. Thousands of children are pupils of Roman Cath olic parochial schools, of schools pro vided by Jews, or private schools. But Dr. Greer insists that education sup ported by public taxation should go fur ther than the elementary instruction necessary to prevent the growth of an Illiterate electorate; he, holds that our society, our whole political system, Is becoming "paganized"-because our chil dren are growing up without a religious education. If this" be true, then the churches will have to supply the omission without support from the state, for it is prohib ited by the constitution of New Tork and, all the states to use the public money, property or credit to "aid or maintain any school or institution of learning under the control or direction of any religious denomination, or In which any denominational tenet or doc trine is taught" This prohibition places Dr. Greer's discussion outside the domain of practical politics. Dr. Greer's conclusion that the absence of religious education is responsible for our social and. political evils and that "those evils would be prevented by such education is vigorously disputed by many thought ful students of our educational system and careful observers of our social life. The Springfield Republican, published In the heart of Massachusetts, where the public school system has reached Its highest development, says that homi cides have decreased steadily in the past thirty years; that the Rhode Island manufacturing City of Woonsocket, with 30,000 population, has not had a single case of manslaughter in fifteen years. The Republican fairly says that "If godless "schools are held responsible for crime and barbarism where they flourish rankly, then the same kind of schools must be given credit for such absence of serious crime as Woonsocket presents." The secretary of the Massachusetts Prison Association has analyzed the criminal records since 18S2 to discover the general criminal tendency, and prints in the Boston Transcript an. ar ticle showing on the basis of arrests made that crime as a whole is diminish ing. He shows also that clear proof of the decrease of serious crime is found in the falling off of commitments to the state prison, which last year were one third smaller than in 1896. In respect to crime, Massachusetts, where our American public school system Is highly developed in a small but very thickly populated area, stands better than Ger many, whose crime rose In bulk from 104 in every 10,000 of population in 1882 to 126 in every 10,000 in 1899. Massa chusetts has an exceptionally large per centage of factory population and a very large " population that is foreign born or born of foreign parents. Never theless, Massachusetts makes a better showing than Germany, which doe3 not ,pretend absolutely to separate church and state as we do. England, whose local schools are largely conducted by religious denominations and are now aided by the crown, does not show a superior record to Massachusetts in the marked tendency of crime to diminish. If teaching religion in the public schools, as Dr. Greer maintains, tends to strengthen public morals and curb criminal propensities, then England's record ought to surpass that of Massa chusetts. This Is the essence of the argument of the Springfield Republican against Dr. Greer's assault upon the American public school system. It Is not pretend ed that the Improvement In the general condition" of society, so far as the de crease of crime is concerned, Is due en tirely to the American school system, but it is asserted with just confidence that the American school system has not been destructive to public morality or social order. The question Is fairly asked whether tha graduates of relig ious schools are better morally than the graduates of public schools. Out of re ligious schools have come a great many "victims of agnosticism, Indlfferentlsm and infidelity," as Dr. Greer calls them. It was not for the, lack of religious schools that Renan became the great modern anti-Christ; it was not for the lack of religious schools that Matthew Arnold became a Pantheist or Francis Newman a famous agnostic. Religious schools have been the breeding-place of a great many modern heretics. The old town of 'Auburn, Baker County, celebrated In the early days of the settlement of Eastern Oregon as a prosperous mining town, has lost Its' last sign of prosperity In the discontin uance of its postoffice. Its fate is that of many mining towns In the Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions. Once the haunt of from 6000 to 10,000 men feverish from the quest of gold, Its site is now marked by a single farmhouse flanked by abandoned ditches and cavities that were excavated forty years and more ago by the miner's pick and shovel. The transitory existence of the mining town finds dumb expression In the deso lation of Auburn. The feeling that a residence in all of the wide, wild region known as "East of the Mountains" was not permanent was universal In the days when Auburn was populous and prosperous. Agriculture was not thought of at that time as applied to this vast area. . Stockraising and min ing were the only industries that seemed compatible with the conditions of soil, climate and resources then and there known. And as no man desired to make a permanent home and bring up a family in a mining or cattle coun try, the idea of the settler iras to make all. the money that he coukl in a short time, five years being the usual limit, and return to the "Valley." It ts thus that the earliest pioneers of Baker County are, with few exceptions, not among Its present residents. , The deso lation of Auburn carries out the idea that dominated its founding. But all around and far beyond it the new idea of permanent occupancy has 'been car ried out In homes and schoolhouses, churches and towns, wide areas of grain and a development in mining that was then beyond the wildest dreams of the goldhunter. Intelligent Englishmen who are resi dent officials In China say without qualification that the only sensible thing for England to do Is to follow the lead of Russia and Germany and make the Yangtse Valley as much Brit ish as Manchuria must become Russian and Shan Tung is now German. The territorial integrity of China is treated as a fiction and the open-door policy described as unworkable. The United States has sworn allegiance to the "open door," protested and still pro tests, but In the judgment of the Brit ish in China will do no more; neither will Great Britain or Japan. The Chinese -statesmen are systematic ally corrupted by Russian money. The platform of "China intact" is denomi nated by resident Englishmen as "a burst flush." Russia has Manchuria and Mongolia; Japan would be placated by the concession of Corea; Germany has Shan Tung; France has Tonquin; Japan covets the mainland opposite her Island of Formosa; Great Britain will probably occupy the Yangtse Valley. There Is no such thing as national pa triotism in China. The leading man darins can all be "touched" with Rus sian rubles. The territorial integrity of China is already a Action, and in an other century there will be no Emperor of China sitting on a peacock throne unless the powers of Europe decide that the fiction of a Chinese Emperor Is worth perpetuating, even as the Sultan Is still suffered to reign In Europe, even as provinces of India are nominally ruled by native Princes, but really by autocratic English Residents. The Northern Pacific Railway Com pany Is prodigal In money and energy In the endeavor to apprehend the mis creants who, for purposes of blackmail, are trying to "put it out of business in Montana" by the use of dynamite. The railway company would rather spend a million dollars In protecting Its prop erty from depredation than to pay any sum, however small, to the dynamiters for promise of Immunity from the use of explosions. In pursuit of this pur pose no effort or expense is being epared to apprehend and punish the outlaws who are using dynamite as an instrument of extortion. Speaking of labor conditions, Arch bishop Ireland recently said: "Through out the Northwest President Roosevelt has been indorsed for his attitude in the Miller case. He took a stand for a principle, and the stand was well taken." Where It Leaked. Atchison Globe. Story on an Atchison bride: She sent down to the hardware store, saying the new refrigerator, sold her for a good one, leaked badly. A man went up to her house, and found that she had neglected to .put a pan under the drip. But she had been married only two years and didn't know. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS EqucstrinnlKm Most Extraordinary. Salem Sentinel. Stranger things never happened In the Republican party In Oregon. While Mitchell, Fulton and Hermann are in the' saddle, Simon holds the reins. , Critics Are Plenty Now. Astoria Astorlan. It is now said that T. A. Wood's In dian war record consisted In keeping out of the way of the Indians and that his record as a Civil War veteran was too gauzy to enable him to secure a pension. Wood is down; now let's all give him a kick. Good Material Yet In Sight. Falrhaven Herald. A Portland saloon has been refused a liquor license because it employs bar maids. This Is a good beginning, but there is much for the Portland Council yet to do before this righteous ripple can be dignified by giving it the name of a reform wave. No Complaint at All, Thnnlc Yon. Dalles Times-Mountaineer.' Ono of these days Portland papers will be wondering why they have not more readers In The Dalles. When they stop to consider that neither of the daily pa pers of that city had a special corre spondent here during the fair this week they will know the -cause. Merely Worked for Others. Roseburg Plalndealer. Someone who has been looking up T. A. Wood's record as an Indian War Vet eran finds that his entire service in that line consisted in starting from Portland to The Dalles in a boat, but learning that hostilities had been, suspended he re turned tho day after ho started, not so much as seeing an Indian during his one day's arduous campaign. It Is said Wood has never applied for a pension for him self, his record doubtless being altogether too gauzy to pass muster. Home on the Horse Editor. Eugene Guard. For years past The Oregonlan has cried out against tho Divinity school and the University of this city. It is about tlmo that they raise their usual complaint re garding these worthy institutions. If the horse editor of The Oregonlan doe3 not take the cue and commence his annual tlrado against these schools he will be forced to retire from his poslton. Prob ably the slanderous articles printed In that paper regarding the health and water of Eugene will savo that worthy his posi tion. How About Piles and Preston? Walla Walla Statesman. While Addison G. Foster and his whilom supporter, Ed S. Hamilton, are disputing about which shall withdraw and allow the other to have the Senatorial bone the wily John I. Wilson is watching, his chance to grab it and run off to Wash ington for a six year's gnawing at his own pleasure. Wilson has the hold-over Senators from King County to 6tart with and tho railroads are likely to como to his aid In securing the prize, while Pierce County's alleged statesmen are snarling and showing their teeth at. each other. Underestimated Their Power. Eugene Register. Those who know Williams best however, must feel that his lack of knowledge of municipal government In his own city Is largely responsible for the Mayor's .pre dicament No man fully understands the prevalence and power of vice and crime In our large cities until he Is placed In position where he comes in direct contact with the vicious element It is then that the eyes of the most discerning are some times opened with surprise. It Is morally certain that Mayor Williams expected to suppress and control gambling in Port land. In this he reckoned without his host for the powers of darkness In Port land are evidently more formidable than the powers of light The Mills In the Cocoanut. Salem Journal. With Salem their largest field to se.ll newspapers, It would seem as if the Port land publishers might be a little more con siderato about publications announcing that our water supply Is polluted when they havo" no proof of that fact The statements already published 'can never be recalled. The injury to Salem real estate can never be made good. Yet the Salem people continue to shell out thou sands of dollars annually for the news papers that are so careless about the good name and fame of tho community where they get their bread and butter. Let it be said that the Salem reporters for those papers uniformly speak well of this city. The mudsllnglng Is done by people at tho other end who are not alive to their own best business Interests and the development of Oregon as a whole. Receives a Calf on Subscription. Heppner Times. The belief Is very general among East ern Oregon stockmen that the price of cattle will materially advance in the near future, In fact the market Is already growing stronger. The decline is due wholly to the reported hay shortage, and now that the buyers aro convinced they can get no more cheap cattle on that ac count will In all probability advance tho price of figures that will bo accepted by owners. While there will not be the usual large number of cattle fed In this section for the Spring market, the owners of herds have determined to hold on to their stock and rough them through the Winter in the most advantageous way. The. limit ing of the sources from which large num bers of cattle have been obtained the past few years by a big shortage in the number fed will In itself have a salutary effect on tho future price of beef. The, future for the cattlemen is very encouraging. Or Trousers? Washington (la-) Democrat Isn't this a new one? We saw a man take out a half a dollar to scratch a match on It But what would a fellow do If ho didn't have tho money? May Draper. Charles Lever. Don't talk to me ot London dames. Nor rave about your foreign flames That never lived except In dromes, Nor shone, except on paper; I'll Bine you 'bout a girl I knew. Who lived In Ballywhackmacrew, And. let me tell you. mighty few Could equal Mary Draper. Her cheeks were red, her eyes were blue. Her hair was brown, of deepest hue. Her foot was small and neat to view. Her waist was slight and taper; Her voice was music to your ear, A lovely brogue, so rich and clear. Oh, the like I ne'er again shall hear As from sweet Mary Draper. She'd ride a wall, she'd drive a team, Or with a fly she'd whip a stream Or maybe sing you "Rousseau's Dream," For nothing could escape her; I've seen her, too, upon my word. At 60 yards bring down her bird Oh! she charmed all the Forty-third! Did lovely Mary Draper. And, at tho Spring assizes ball, The Junior bar would, one and all. For all her favrlte dances call. And Harry Deano would caper; Lord Clare would then forget his lore; King's counsel, voting law a bore, Were proud to figure on the floor, For love of Mary Draper. The parson, priest, sub-sheriflV too, Were all her slaves, and so. would you If you had only but one vjew Of such a face or shape, or Her pretty ankles but, alone. It's only west of old Athlone Such glrl3 were found and now they're gone So here's to Mary Draper I F0SI0T FOOLISHNESS IN NEW YORK Minneapolis Tribune. Why Is it that non-partisan Independent reformers have so much more trouble In working together for the public good than the old-fashioned politicians had In work ing together for the good of the party? Tho big object lesson In New York does not encourage smaller cities to persist in the experiment of non-partisan municipal government. First Mayor Low and Mr. Jerome wasted. In fighting each other's energies that could' not be spared in the battle with the common foe. Now both tho Republicans and the Citizens' Union want to drop two reform Democrats from their fusion ticket becauge Tammany has had the happy thought of putting them on its ticket as well. Tammany Is moving heaven and earth or rather a locality more familiar to It to get back into power. It is raking New York with a fine toqth comb for respecta bilities. It has got "a fine figure head In McCIellan, jusC nominated for mayor in spite of the opposition of McLaughlin and the Brooklyn ring. It has had some trouble in finding other respectabilities without going into other parties; so It took two candidates from the ticket of the fusionists, naming them for the same offices. This 13 very impudent of Tammany, of course, but we do not see why the fusion ists should resent It to the point of drop ping Grout and' Fornes from their own ticket If these were good men before, they are good men now. The object of tho party that nominated them was to elect them. They are sure to be elected. If their names are on all tickets. The strongest movement for dropping these men. from tho fusion ticket comes from tho machine Republicans on one side ami tho extremo Independence of the Citizens' Union on the other. Tho only rational basis for objection seems to be that these names on the Tammany ticket will draw reform Demo cratic votes from the whole fusion ticket But that cannot be prevented by dropping them from the latter. If the fusionists are sincere In thsir profession of single- minded desire to elect good men to oillce, they should welcome support to any part of the ticket they have chosen from any quarter. Alcohol in School Literature. New York Times. A committee to examine school text books appointed by the Pennsylvania State Medical Society to decide whether the teachings of these publications on the subject of alcohol were sane and in telligent have reached a conclusion of practical agreement with all who have traversed the same ground, including the committee of 50. During the past four years they have examined critically 54 text-books relating to physiology and hygiene in use in tho Pennsylvania schools and report: "We are sorry to be compelled to say that tho books supervised by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union are the most reprehensible." It would eeem as if reprehensible was not tho word which would best convey the evident meaning of the committee. Least sane would perhaps be better. It is much to be regreted that a soci ety so earnest and with aims so high should be so' badly advised and should deem that It renders a aiseful service in circulating misinformation which is re sented and condemned by those who be lieve that the truth does not gain in value by deliberate exaggeration or dis tortion. When its work in the schools of Pennsylvania calls out from so conserva tive a Journal as The Philadelphia Ledger. and one so conspicuously representing the Dest phases of public opinion in that city. the editorial comment printed below, the heads of this propaganda would do well to consider whether they are not doing tne cause of practical temperance more narm than good: "What good can come from the teaching that alcohol 13 a rank poison, and that the man who tastes -It Is a sinner and- an out cast? No good, but much harm. The pupil learns from experience" and observation In his own home that It, Is untrue and tHat his teacher and his text book are both teaching a He. He, therefore. If he be hu man. Is likely to lose respect for his teacher, for his text book and for all instruction and authority. This Is how It strikes the conscientious and thoughtful citizen. Obviously the members of the W. C. T. U. regard it from a very different point of view. Jonathan Edwards to His Be trothed. Tho groat J6nathan Edwards wrote of his betrothed, when she was but 13 years old and he was in his 20th year, as fol lows: They say there Is a young lady In "New Ha ven who is beloved of that great Being who made and rules tho world, and that there aro certain seasons In which this great Be ing, in somo way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything vxcept to meditate upon him; that she expects after a while to be raised up out of the world and caught up Into heaven; being assured that ho loves her too well to lot her remain at a . distance from him always. Thcro she Is to dwell with him and to be ravished with his lovo and delight forevor. Therefore, If you present all the world before her, with tho richest of Its treasures, sho disregards and cores not for It, and Is unmindful of any pain or af fliction. She has a strange sweetness in her mind and singular purity In her affections, Is most just and conscientious in all her con duct, and you could" not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful. If you would give her all tho world, lest she should offend this great Being. She is of a wonderful calm ness and universal benevolence of mind, especially after the great God has manifested himself to her mind. She will continue to go about from place to place singing sweet ly; and seems to bo always full of, Joy and pleasure, and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the. fields and groves, and seems to have somo ono lnvtcl ble always conversing with her. Petrified Giant as "Left Lusrc-asre." Philadelphia North American. What Is possibly the queerestspeclmenof left luggage ever held by a railway com pany has just been deposited at the Worship-street goods depot of the London & Northwestern Railway Company. This Is a case containing a petrified Irish giant, a man who In the flesh was 12 feet 2 Inches In height, with a chest girth of feet. The weight of the petrified re mains Is nearly three tons. There is a curious history attached to this giant He was dug up in Ireland", and was exhibited in a show with good financial results. A man named Kershaw purchased an interest In the giant which for some reason was sent to London. An injunction forbidding the railway com pany to part with It until Kershaw and the original owner had settled certain difference was granted. No settlement has been arrived at and the company cannot part with the curiosity, which has rested at their Broad-street depot since 1S76. . His Poetry His Pillar. Robert Herrlck. Only a ltttlo more I have to write; Then I'll give o'er. And bid the world good-night 'Tie but a flying minute. That I must stay, Or linger In It; And then I must away. -rO Time, that cut'st dawn alll And scarce leav'st here Memorial Of any men that were. How many Ho forgot In vaults beneath. And piecemeal "rot "Without a'famo lh death? t Behold this living stono. I rear for me, , , Ne'er to be thrown ' Down, envious Time, by thee. Pillars let some set up, If so they please! Hera Is my hopo And my Pyrarnldes. X0TE AND COMMENT. Professor Langley Is still ud in-.the air. Jabour seems to form strong attach ments. Some airships are too flighty; others not flighty enough. Pendleton's having a carnival. - Well, sho can afford It Anyway, the Mayor's plan has the ad vantage of novelty. Much to Seattle's "discomfiture, she didn't equal Johnstown. All quiet along the Potomac, now that Langley's airship has bust So 'far the County Clerk is the only per son detected selling lottery tickets. ' Ry whipping a boy tov death, a Berlin teacher seems to have spoiled the child. The panic that ensues on the escape of a circus lion is usually strongest In the lion. Joe Chamberlain, like many other speakers, makes his best addresses when "unhampered by statistics." Oregon City people are the latest to dis cover that one can't raise a crop of melons near a crop of boys. With Mrs. Greenberg's case In mind. several women have resolyed not to carry around $2000 -worth of Jewelry. Telegraph messengers In Astoria are out on strike. It also appears that they havo persuaded the two new boys to quit There seems to be as much doubt con cerning Mrs. Roland B. Molineux's di vorce as there is about the sale of Iottery tickets. The Shark's having rammed tho Dahl gren reminds us that a submarine boat should ascend as carefully as a woman going up a ladder. Stage hands in a New. York theater told one Joseph Jennison a Joke, .whereupon ho 'laughed himself to death. We rely upon the discoverers not to whisper their joke to any of tho actors, for it would bo terrible to contemplate the effect of its explosion in a musical comedy. In a Royal Family. "Just think, Albert wo have been mar ried exactly a year." , "Not until tomorrow, Alice." "But yes. Dear Archbishop Popopou lous married us on the Ninth." "True. I was thinking of the Lutheran, Catholic and civil ceremonies, which oc curred on the Tenth." The Scientist's Snit ' Professor Manley, clad in an aeronau tical suit of cork jacket and white duck trousers. . . .News item. Tha airship throbbed with energy, the motor madly span. Dp in tha shaky pllot-houso was seen a daring man; He was tho shining cynosure of all assembled there, For was ho not about to win tha empire of tha air. And well did noble Manley know 'twould look exceeding bad . To snatch the crown of victory in vulgar gar ments clad; Ho knew tha tlma and placo required a rig above the ruck. And wore a jacket trimmed with cork and trousers made of duck. So well the tailors filled tha bill 'twas clear to a galoot That Manley had Invented "the" aeronautic suit. Ho gave tho word, the moorings flew.- and like wise tho machine. The people cheered, and Manley felt-he'd licked Darius Green. Darius was a common man, and his attire, to boot, . "Was not designed by science as an aeronautic suit The airship goes a-humming. Its engine wildly flaps, A crank slips out and brings it to a terriblo collapse; But the gallant Manley felt it without a slnglo shiver. Although the whole caboodle swiftly plunged for tho Potomac River. Ho felt as cheery as a kid upon hl3 first young toot, ' For had he not upon his frame tho aeronautic suit? Into tho river goes tho craft with such a whacking flop! But soon the bravo professor comes up floating to tho top. And then the full slgniflcanco that rested la his tlothe3 "Was plain to those upon the bank, as dripping ho arose. The trousers made of duck, 'twas seen, wera emblematic pants, Tha Jackets trimmed with cork a dodgo tho lightness to enhance. Tho one thing scientists must do that go tha airship route Is always choose with care as dress a water- nautlc suit . WEX. J. FLEASAXTIUES OP PAItAGItAPIIEnS Llttlo Elmer Papa, what is a trust! Pro fessor Broadhead A trust, my son. Is a largo body of wealth entirely surrounded by envy. Harper's Bazar. "This merger question must be pretty Im portant after all." "What makes you think so?" "Well, I sea the Federal courts are de ciding it both ways." Detroit Free Press. "Have you ever had palpitation ot tho heart?" asked the insurance examiner. "Well." replied the young man, blushing vividly, "I'm engaged to be married." Philadelphia Press. Husband (losing all patience) Oh! why are you forever bothering me fqr money In this way? "Wife (coolly) I suppeso it's because I can't think ot a better way. Philadelphia Press. Mrs.iBrackett I always enjoy Mrs. Turner's company so much. Her conversation 13 so In teresting, you know! Mrs. Burker Yes, my husband, says that Mr. Turner tells her every thing ho does. Boston Transcript. The Old Man Isn't it possible for you to go to college without having to play poker, spend money, and ralso the devil generally? Tho Son But, governor, I thought you wanted me to take the regular academic course. Life. "They 6ay, Sandy, that these evil-smellln Are wagons that they ca auttymoobles aro salr deengerous. They roosh by HRe wild decvlls while you still hear them whaupla" sae far aw&V "Hoot, man!" "Na', toot, mon!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Carrie I'm sure you misjudge Mr. Sweetser, papa. He la a man of great ambitions. Tou should hear him tell of the things he Is going to do. Carrie's Papa And I suppose I'm ono of 'em; but I reckon he'll find it harder to ac complish than he fancies it is. Boston Tran script ft "If I bad as much, time as you have, I'd do something useful," said the self-made man. "Mister," said Meandering Mike, "I'd really enjoy workln'; but I'm so clumsy dat do best way Is to let society subsidize me to keep me hands off when anyt'lng's doln'." Washing ton Star. "Confound the raiiroadst" exclaimed Sub bubs, as he entered the otHca an hour late and took off hie coat. "Train late again, I suppose?" asked Townley. "Not at till. For the first tlmo In six months the measly thing was on time, and, of course, I missed It." Town Tonics. "Why don't you go to work?" demanded Mrs. Goodart "Ter see," began the gray haired old loafer, "Igot a wife an four chil dren to support" "But It you don't go to work, how can you?" "Lady, as I wuz sayla, I got a wife an four children to support me." Philadelphia Press. Mother Tou can't stay In this hot city. Why don't you tell your husband you must go to a Summer resort? Bride I I don't dare. "Why -not?" "If ha says 'no,' I will be miserable be cause I can't go,, and If he says yes,' I will ba miserable because he can live without me." New York "Weekly. r