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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5.
THE OLD LAW GOOD ENOUGH.
It Is hardly In order for advocates of
the new law of assessment and taxa
tion to ask audience in Its behalf. If
their discernment Is unequal to draft
ing a bill for a new system "without
giving a thought to the interregnum,
"it is presumably unequal also to any
trustworthy estimate of the old law's
demerits or the new one's advantages.
It is perfectly obvious that they knew
practically nothing as to what they
were doing. Upon their say so it would
be rank folly to take their law as it
'etands with the simple amendment au
thorizing a levy in January on the as
sessment Already made.
One of the worst evils of legislation
Is the teadetocy to Irresponsible tinker
Jug with established customs that work
with approximate smoothness and un
deniable results. The old law was sat
isfactory. It was more than that, it
was brilliantly successful. It brought
in the money promptly, it reduced the
delinquent list to the smallest propor
tions ever known. Nobody was com
plaining about it There was no de
mand from the poor farmer for a
chance to pay taxes at some more con
venient season. The agitation for its
repeal seems to have been due as much
as anything to a desire at the State
house to simplify bookkeeping. This is
a paltry excuse for stirring up the as
sessment and taxation . mess nveare
now in.
If the Governor convenes the Legis
lature In special 'session It can do no
better than to re-enact the old law
with an emergency clause. It is unsafe
to take this imperfect act under which
procedure at present is impossible and
trj to run the finances df the state
under its ill-digested provisions. "Who
.knows but It contains other defects
"which would prove fatal as this one
has? Who knows how taxpayers will
relish paying taxes In the Spring under
the present assessment and again in
the Fall under the new assessment? Is
the Inconvenience of two. payments in
a year worth while for the sake of
chronological Joy In the Statehouse and
the bestowal of an entire Summer upon
the School Board for dividing $50,000,000
valuation by $200,000 taxes and seeing
how many mills must be taken?
It Is the Joy of officialdom always to
have money to meet every kind- of de
mand. It Is so much easier to get along
this way. It Is so much easier to pay
everybody's demand, including the office-holder's
salary, than to explain to
the claimant and stand him oft. If
there is plenty of money, officialdom
has no trouble. A full treasury is al
"ways the fair guerdon of officialdom
and its chief good.
COMMON SENSE IN THE SCHOOLS.
School Director Richard "Williams, of
'Portland, always a man of Judgment
and good sense, in answer to the "guff"
that has recently been published about
the alleged necessity of making provis
ion for extensive playgrounds for the
school children of the city (in the rain
and mud), makes this statement, which
we find in the Evening Telegram:
Pupils do not go to school to play' ho
raid. "They go to study and to learn, and 1
they have very little tlmo during school
"hours for outdoor recreation. At noon all
those living wlthla ten blocks must go home
to luncheon, and the 15-mlnute recess -would
ot admit of many games, were the grounds
v-about each building ever so large.
"A great many of tho school children have
mora sanitary quarters at tho schools than
i-Jn their own homes, and no one has ever
v heard of Portland being an unhealthful city
Yor -school children. On the contrary, tho
pity's death rate shows Portland to be one
of tho most healthful l the Union.
""Were the schools of the city to be run In
accordance "with the recommendations of the
Stat, Board, of Health, a physician "would
have to be stationed at every school build
ing I think there are many things Port
land seeds more than she does additional
grounds for school children to play on, tho
cost of which would be enormous at the
present value of real estate."
This is straight common sense, and.
the best, therefore, of gooav sense.
Most children of the city so home to
luncheon or dinner, and the few who
remain do not wish, could not be In
duced, to play in the rain and mud, In
chilly grounds about the school build
ings no matter how large the grounds.
The problem is to keep warm and dry.
Again, the sanitary conditions in and
ebout the schoolhouses of the city are
in every way better than those about
the average--and general run of the
A
I homes of th people of the city. It
Bo4in every modern city. To the sa
is
sani
tation of schoolhouses great attention
is paid, and rightly paid. But play
grounds, in the rain and mud, are not
desirable. Provide all the outside play
grounds you may, dtsfethe children will
have sense enough to stay In out of the
rain. As many fads may be generated
on the Board of Health as microbes in
the backyard of a wash-house.
Parents who provide their children
with long coats, rubber shoes and um
brellas, to keep them dry while going
to school, do not want them to run out
and play in the rain and mud, during
recess hours. Det us have some com
mon sense even a little.
HOW TO BEAT TAMMANY.
The election in New York City will
attract world-wide attention. Its re
sult is certain to produce a feeling of
depression among right-minded men
everywhere and to establish more
firmly the base cynicism of the unbe
liever and the vicious. Confidence in
human nature is something fainter to
day than on Monday, and every skep
tical critic of the efficacy of popular
government will point to McClellan's
election as an exhibit in the Incapacity
of the masses to achieve and their un
willingness to select the best when
within reach.
Unfortunately, the case for the scoff
ers is as strong as they could wish.
Everything that decent government
could be expected to do has been don&
JThe comprehensive and thorough-going
reforms introduced by the Low admin
istration in every aspect of municipal
life would have been simply Incredible
at the beginning of the Fusion regime.
Honesty has been Introduced into the
contracting departments, decency into
the police affairs and the awful tene
ment abominations have been trans
formed. All New York Itnows this,
and all New York knows that the rule
of Tammany means retrogression in
every part of the city's life. Yet the
good Is put by and the evil is en
throned. A salutary lesson from this demon
stration in lamentable miscarriage is to
warn us that the moral reformation of
the world is not to be achieved through
politics. The effort that is put into po
litical agitation is often wasted. The
effort that counts is that which is de
voted to the reclamation of the Indi
vidual, and especially to the construc
tion of the individual character during
the formative period of youth. There
is no excuse for the good citizen to
neglect his duty as a -voter; but the
mistake Is to place all or chiefly the
reliance upon that.
The man who brings up his boys to
be honorable men does more for soci
ety .than he who secures a law and
order plank In a platform. The woman
who rears her girls in maidenly hon
esty advances the cause of morality
far more than she who leads a womans
club pell mell against some notorious
political- offense or pffender. It is a
striking and suggestive fact that the
sensational wickedness of the day is
largely perpetrated by young men and
women from so-called respectable
homes. It is an undeniable symptom
of our time that the duty of home
training Is being neglected for the more
spectacular functions of social and
semi-public life. Newspaper appeals to
the adult whose inclinations are vicious
fall upon stonyground.
THE WHEAT SITUATION.
The tenacity with which the Ameri
can farmer holds his wheat while prices
are hovering around the top notch
reached since the famous Delter boom
Indicates an utter disbelief in the truth
of the saying that history repeats it
self. Or perhaps they are holding on in
the belief that the history of the Deiter
year -will be repeated, but that of its
successors will be skipped. December
wheat in Chicago, after touching 85
cents a few weeks ago, has been stead
ily sliding down the scale of prices,
making occasional spasmodic recover
ies and yesterday closing weak at 7S&
cents. May wheat, which followed
December up to about 84 cents, has also
suffered a relapse, and closed yesterday
at cent under the December option.
One year ago yesterday the closing
price on December wheat was 70
cents, while the May option sold at
72. In November, 1901, the minimum
price for December wheat in Chicago
was 70 cents and the maximum figure
73 cents. In 1900 quotations for the
month rarfged from 69 cents to 74&
cents? in 1889, from 65 cents to 70
cents; in 1S9S, from 64 cents to 68
cents. The Letter deal was on at full
swing in November, 1897, and during
that month the price ranged from 91
cents to $1 per bushel. The American
visible supply, as posted on Monday,
showed a decrease of 26S.O00 bushels,
and amounted to but 22,106,000 bushels,
the smallest at any corresponding
period since 1898, when it stood at 17,
000,000 bushels, with an increase of
1,524,000 bushels.
The bulls in wheat used the decrease
and small proportions of the American
visible on Monday as an argument in
their favor, but this argument must be
accepted with limitations, for in No
vember, 1897, -when the December op
tion was soaring around $1 per bushel,
the visible supply was nearly 27,000,000
bushels, with an Increase of 2,352,000
bushels. This increase was undoubt
edly created by the high prices which
brought the crop out with a rush, while
the small proportions of the visible a
year later was due to the cleaning of
the bins at the close of the previous
season and the refusal of the farmers
to dispose of their wheat at the low
scale of prices then prevailing.
The foreign markets are very slow
to respond to the strength of the Amer
ican markets, and shipments thus far
thls season are far below those of last
year at the same date. Stocks on hand
in Europe are not large, but they seem
to be sufficient to meet all demands so
long as other countries are shipping
so freely. Hussla, In spite of the war
talk and rumors of wheat being with
held pending a settlement of the far
Eastern troubles, continues to ship to
Europe, the United Kingdom 'and the
Continent about 4,000,000 bushels of
wheat per "week. India until last week
had been showing up regularly with
about 2,000,000 bushels weekly, and the
Argentine still has enough of her record-breaking
crop to figure In the totals
each week. Last week the Danubian
ports shipped 800,000 bushels, and the
week previous 1,360,000 bushels.
It is thus apparent that Europe is
being pretty comfortably fed by other
wheat producers besides thosfi living In
America. A war of good proportions
in the far East or a serious damage to
the Argentine crop would undoubtedly
maintain present prices and perhaps
cause a material advance. The stop
page of all American shipments would
have the same effect. Some of these
contingencies may arise, but until they
are In evidence wheat would seem to
be selling at pretty full figures com
pared with former years.
THE NEEDS OF THE NAYX.
Secretary Moody, in his Navy esti
mates, shows that he is in full sympa
thy with President Roosevelt In his en
larged Navy Ideas and his belief that
our country's present expansion as a
world-power cannot be maintained
without such, a Navy. Secretary Moody
for the year 1904-5 would have us ex
pend the sum of $103,000,000 for the sup
port and Increase of our war fleet.
This Is a large sum of money, but the
trqe policy of the United States for Na
tional defense is identical "with that of
Great Britain. We need for defense to
be a great naval power. ,"We do 7pt
need a great standing army. "We only
need a comparatively small, thoroughly
trained, well-armed and disciplined
standing Army, behind the curtain of
which our volunteer masses can assem
ble and through whose Instruction they
can be rapidly set up as soldiers. But
a modern Navy cannot be rapidly con
structed, and the American Navy needs
always to be In excess of the demands
of peace, because if we wait for war
before we enlarge our Navy to meet its
emergency, we shall 'fight at unneces
sary disadvantage.
Senator Hoar in a recent speech in
the Senate said: "Our independence in
the Revolution was won on the sea."
"We had between 40,000 and 50,000 men
afloat In our cruisers and privateers.
"We captured 16,000 British seamen and
800 British ships, worth more than $10,
000,000. Without the French fleet, which
beat off the British fleet, Cornwallls
would have been reinforced by Clinton,
and but for the French fleet the
French reinforcements could not have
reached "Washington's lines. A Nelson
In command of the British ships would
have saved Cornwallls at Yorktown.
In the "War of 1812 In eighteen naval
engagements between the ships of
Great Britain and the United States we
won fifteen victories. The Spanish
American War was practically won in
two naval battles in that of Manila
and that of Santiago. The Navy In our
Civil War rendered services that were
Invaluable. The official records of that
service are now In course, of publica
tion, and when completed will furnish
eloquent and unanswerable testimony
In support of the view that without our
superior naval resources the Southern
Confederacy could have held out long
enough to have made us, weary of war,
long enough to have made us feel the
pressure of financial exhaustion. Gen
eral Schofleld testifies that Secretary
Stanton told him In February, 18057
that the Government had reached about
the end of Its pecuniary resources; that
victory was indispensable In the Spring
campaign; that wlthout victory the
peace-at-any-price party "would prevail.
This claim made for the Navy Is not
extravagant, for It was the complete
blockade of all Confederate ports that
made final victory of the Union arms
certain. If the Confederacy had been
able to export its cotton and other
products and at the same time Import
supplies and munitions of war freely
and without hindrance, the end of tho
Civil War would probably have found
the South victorious so far as resist
ance to conquest is concerned. Suppose
Sherman had not known that, when he
reached the sea after his march through
Georgia he would find a war fleet and
suppliesf all sorts in easy reach of his
hand, he would not have ventured on
that expedition. He could not have
rapidly marched from Savannah to
Goldsboro If he had not found a base of
supplies and a fleet on the Georgia
coast, and known that he would find
another base of supplies and a fleet
awaiting him at Goldsboro. Ifthe
Navy under Porter had not "dismounted
its great guns and battered down its
palisades, Wilmington could not have
been taken nor Goldsboro reached by
Schofleld In time to give the hand to
Sherman. Without the aid of the gun
boats Grant could not have been suc
cessful In his Vicksburg campaign. The
naval capture of New Orleans was one
of the very greatest events of the war,
since It opened the Mississippi to our
arms Its whole length in April, 1862;
for it was onljby the stupidity of Hal
leck that Vicksburg and Port Hudson
were not easily taken in June, 1862.
The victory of Mobile Bay closed that
port to the enemy; the aid of the gun
boats on the Cumberland and Tennes
see Rivers made Fort Donelson an easy
mark for a military expedition. With
out its vast superiority In gunboat ser
vice, our Government could never have
cut the Confederacy in two in July,
1863, and kept it divided through its
complete water control of the Missis
sippi from Memphis to New Orleans.
Without its vast superiority in naval
resources our Government could not
have blockaded the Southern ports and
prevented the South from exporting
cotton and importing arms and muni
tions of war. With anything like equal
naval resources the South could have
destroyed our blockade. The havoc
made by the Merrimac, the ram Arkan
sas, the Ironclad Tennessee, shows
what the South could have done had
her naval resources of defense and at
tack been nearly equal to our own. An
agricultural people, the South could
easily have raised all its food and all
it needed for successful defense was an
unceasing supply of arms and muni
tions of "war from abroad, which could
have been purchased by the sale of cot
ton. But our naval blockade of her
ports prevented the South exporting its
cotton or buying military supplies until
the advance of our armies by land en
abled the Army to give the hand to the
Navy and occupy the seaports, as was
done at New Orleans, Savannah,
Charleston, "Wilmington and Mobile.
It is not extravagant today to say
that without our overpowering Navy to
establish and maintain the blockade,
the Southern Confederacy certainly
would not have been conquered as
early as April, 1865. If the South could
have supplied her manufacturing ne
cessities as easily as she could her ag
ricultural, she could certainly have
held out, for she had men enough for a
) defensive war, but she was not a man
ufacturing people; she had no navy,
her ports were shut up by our Navy,
she could not supply rapidly enough
her arms and munitions of war. The
weakest side of the Confederacy was
Its naval side; while, relatively speak
ing, our naval side was our strongest
side. It will always be so. We shall
never be a nation seeking conquest
We shall never seek to vindicate our
cause other than England does, viz., by
our naval strength at home and abroad.
We need, as England needs, the best
ships In the world, and enough of them.
We are deficient In the number of nec
essary ships, and what we have afloat
are of such varying types lhat we could
not assemble from all qf them today a
homogeneous fleet with a speed gauge
equal to that of a German fleet that
could easily be assembled by order of
the Kaiser.
The Commonwealth of Australia has
at length selected the site of Its capi
tal, accepting the recommendation of
the commission appointed last year to
report upon the merits of the varIous
localities. The commission recommend
ed Tumut, a village near the River
Murray, midway between Melbourne
and Sydney, and the Federal House of
Representatives, after a sharp contest
between rival cities, has ratified Its
choice. There is to be a Federal dis
trict, inclosing- the Federal capital, and
this if is proposed to give an area of
1000 square miles, or ten times the area
originally given to the District of Co
lumbia, the Hous of Representatives
so decides, making the River Murray
the southern and the1 River Murrum
bldgee its northern boundary. The
large area contemplated has the merit
of "bringing: the Federal territory in
touch with Victoria. This;' it appears,
is an objection to it, in the opinion of
the people of New South "Wales, who
object to the surrender to the common
wealth of so large a part of their own
area. Tumut, as the capital of a great
federation, which occupies a vast con
tinent, will need to' be built "from the
ground up," as no buildings for public
purposes now exist The only advan
tage It has over Washington City when
first constituted our Federal capital Is
that It is not a marsh, or the next
thing to it Tumut has, on the xcon
trary, a rather dry site, with a de
lightful, Invigorating and healthful cli
mate. -
The pestilential fly has an accom
plice, it appears, in the more silent but
fully as perniciously active domestic
cockroach. In a recent issue of Medi
cine Is presented a paper by Dr. Rosa
Engelmann, who discusses the agency
of cockroaches in spreading typhoid
epidemics. Insects, It is declared, play
a large part In the dissemination of
disease. Kitasato and other Japanese
scientists have found that fleas, bed
bugs and flies 'are active factors in
spreading the plague. As the cock
roach is omnipresent his role, as re
spects disease, If any, must be Import
ant Miss Engelmann in 1902 made an
Investigation of a house epidemic of
typhoid In Chicago. The disease was
raging In a high-class apartment In one
of the best neighborhoods, where many
cases had occurred. Near It was a like
apartment-hottse where no cases oc
curred. The cause of the presence of
the fever in the one house and not In
the other was simply, it Is urged, that
the one was infested with cockroaches
while the other was not. The vermin
had access to the water used in' culi
nary operations, and contaminated It
with germs obtained from some source.
It is not altogether creditable to the
great State of Texas that In the pres
ent development of sanitary science
yellow -fever has gained a foothold
there and maintains It Cuba's exam
ple ought to Inspire the Lone Star
State with resolution to adopt the sim
ple measures necessary to secure Im
munity from the yellow plague. At the
recent session of the American Public
Health Association in Washingibn
General Sternberg, the eminent surgeon
and bacteriologist, expressed surprise
that yellow fever should be permitted
to invade any part of the United States
successfully, when It Is, so easy to ex
clude it "Somebody is responsible,"
he said. Either the Federal or the
local hearth officers are Inefficient, or
negligent it would seem, "or the first
cases would have been Isolated and
rendered harmless to the rest of the
community. General Sternberg re
ferred to "our endemic filth disease,"
typhoid fever, as causing unnecessarily
thousands of deaths yearly, and esti
mated the victims of consumption at
150,000 a year.
Whoever finds time hanging heavy on
his hands takes a fall out of the school
teachers. The teachers of Portland are
a faithful, hardworking set of women,
and earn their money better than most
of those do who conspire to make their
lives a burden. The children are well
taught and the time of the teachers Is
not to be consumed In fuss and flub
dub. They have enough to do in train
ing your obstreperous children, gentle
reafler, without serving also as doctor,
nurse and all-round entertainers. There
are no better schools in the country
than the public schools of Portland,
and It Istlme to protect them from
the busybodles and quidnuncs.
Colonel Godfrey, of Walla Walla,
having called the attention of the Board
on XSeographlc Names tt the varying
ways of spelling the explorer Clark's
name, Chairman Gannett replied that
the Board has already corrected the
name, of the Lewis and Clark River,
but to alter the spelling of the names
of Lewis and Clarke County, Montana,
and Clarke County, Washington, legis
lation by the states would be neces
sary. The death of Postal Clerk Southwlck
from injuries received In the railroad
wreck on the Southern Pacific Sunday
again calls attention to the risks run
by these members of the postal service.
The mail cars are, as a rule, of flimsier
construction than the others, and when
a. collision occurs they rarely escape de
struction. Solution of the-tangle of the statutes,
as to taxation, may well be left to Govr
ernor Chamberlain. He is well quali
fied to decide what the emergency is.
When he says he "questions whether
an exhausted treasury Is as much to be
dreaded as a special session of the Leg
islature," he will find sympathizers, not
a few.
Best of all the results of the recent
elections Is the elimination, of that pest
iferous socialist politician and dema
gogue, Tom L. Johnson, of Ohio. The
tremendous vote by which he was
beaten indicates, however, that he was
more annoying as an agitator than
dangerous as a political leader.
Most people will remember that
There was a young lady of Niger.
Who -went for a rldo on a tiger;
Coming back from the ride
The girl "was Inside,
And a smile on tho face of the tiger.
Tammany Is also smiling.
Greatest of all triumphs of the recent
elections Is that of Senator Hanna, of
Ohio. No man has been more violently
'or malignantly assailed; but the people
of Ohio, who "know' him, are all at his
back.
If the people In Panama had spent
half as much energy In digging as they
have In fighting, they might now pos
sess half a dozen parallel canals.
' - CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA.
Catholic Messenger.
The 13 provinces Into which the Catholic
Church Is divided in the United States
contain each an archdiocese, subject to an
archbishop, and several dioceses ruled by
bishops, In all numbering ES. The 100 prel
ates, together with the 11 coadjutors, or
auxiliaries, appointed to assist some of
them, are designated by tho pope, to
whom they are nominated by a ballot of
the bishops of the province, and another
of the clergy of the vacant diocese. There
is no room for intermediation or interfer
ence by the state, or by any ,. outside
agency. As things are arranged at pres
ent the choice of bishops can be made
promptly; in fact In the more Important
archdioceses coadjutors are usually ap
pointed with the right of succession, so
that the administration may - continue
without" interruption. At the head of this
hierarchy as primate Is the cardinal, and,
to expedite business with the central gov
ernment an apostolic delegate.
There are 9743 clergymen subject in all
things to the immediate jurisdiction of the
bishops; and subject to them also. In all
that concerns parochial ministration, 3225
members of religious communities In holy
orders. These 12.SGS priests minister to
11,259,710 members, who worship in 7005
churches and 3S73 chapels. There Is no
lack of candidates for the ministry, 33S2
actually preparing to be secular priests
and 1931 religious In the seven universi
ties and 71 seminaries. There are 162 col
leges for males and 643 academies for fe
males. These schools are maintained in
great part by 5000 men, not in holy orders,
but dwelling in community, usually called
brothers; and 50,000 women, tho nuns or
sisters, who also"" aid the clergy In tho
schools and charitable institutions, con
ducting, with proper lay assistance, 3978
parish schools with 963,683 pupils, and 923
institutions with 1,113,031 inmates.
Not least in importance are tho laity"
who support pastors, churches, schools
and other Institutions, and who devote
time as well as money, working aS mem
bers of charitable, benevolent, social and
literary associations. Besides "the many
pious sodalities or confraternities, some of
which exist in every parish, there are at
least 20 great National organizations of
men and women, growing in numbers and
efficiency every year,, and in order to work
still more efficiently, all the societies of
men, numbering fully 2,000,000, are form
ing a federation which will bo perfected
In another year.
Intellectually, Catholics are beginning to
I show the results of the training given In
uieir parocmai scnoois ana mgner aca
demic Institutions, In which a religious
and moral as well as mental education Is
impartedj In number and efficiency these
schools are bound to grow every year.
In January. 1902, there were 3S35 parochial
schools. In January, 1903, there were 3978,
an Increase of 143. One salutary Influence
these schools have already exerted, and
will exert still more strongly. Is manifest
In the tendency of many denominations
to Imitate to some extent the Catholic
system.
It Is chiefly in social matters that tho
Catholic Church will show Its influence.
Under Its fostering care come nearly one
half of tho vast number of Immigrants
dally arriving In our ports; under the
same care are the great-jcajorlty of work
ingmen who worship in" any church, f$r,
no matter how prosperous some of 'its
members may be, this church never de
sists from serving the laborer and the
poor. These two facts speak volumes for
the solution of the problems raised by
socialism, anarchy and the Irritable rela
tions of capital and labor. Respect for
authority, regard for personal and pro
prietary rights, close union of pastor with
people, and habitual submission to law
Inculcated In the church, home and school,
among so many employers and employed,
must necessarily make for social tranquil
lity and Industrial peace. Catholic work
lngmcn are numerous enough to-influence
the'sentlment of all the labor unions of
the United States. The private schools
and charitable Institutions which Catho
lics support with results as favorable as
those of the state, and often superior, for
one-half and even one-third of the expense
incurred by the state, are an object-lesson
In civic economy which must ultimately
assert Itself In our sociology.
The Confederate Rosters.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
The Government at Washington In obe
dience to an act of the recent Congress,
is compiling the names of the men who
at any time were in the military service
of the Jeff Davis regimo,. Fifteen states
contributed to the armies of the Confed
eracy, which means that all the slave
states did this except Delaware. Dela
ware did not secede, nor did Maryland,
Kentucky, or Missouri. West Virginia,
which comprised the loyal portion of the
Old Dominion, broke away from the par
ent state early In the war and was erect
od .by Congress Into a separate, common
wealth In 1S63.
All the Governors, of course, of the
states represented In the Confederate
armies are giving assistance to the Fed
eral authoritigs In the work of making
lists of the soldiers of the lost cause. At
best the compilation will be incomplete.
Manyyof the muster sheets at Richmond
were destroyed when the grand collapse
came, in April and Hay, 1S63. Nor did
the rolls at that capital ever approach
completeness. Many of the names of the
Confederate regiments were akes. A
considerable number of regiments on that
sldo were crdlted to Missouri, a stats
which refused by an immense majority to
secede, and which rejected and de
nounced the Confederacy and all its
works.
But tho authorities in Jefferson City,
like those In Frankfort, Annapolis and
Charleston, W. Va.,jire giving attention
to the tracing out of the names of the
wearers of tho gray from their respective
states. To a largo degree tho Inquisition
will be vain. In thousands of cases men
passed across the lines into the Confed
eracy without leaving any trace behind
them. Their names do not figure on ajiy
record which the state has ever acquired.
The estimates of the number of Mlssourl
ans In the armies of the Confederacy vary
from 25,000 to 35,000. Only a small por
tion of these will ever yield to any search
which can be prosecuted on this sldo of
Jordan. Though In tens of thousands or
hundreds of thousands of Instances there
will be no "Present!" at this general and
final roll call of the warriors of the Con
federacy, the muster will undoubtedly re
veal that the armies of Jefferson Davis
were very much larger in the aggregate
than they were popularly supposed to be.
Lament for Astrophel.
Matthew Royden. "
You knew who know not Astrophel?
That I should live to say I kneW
And have not In possession still!
Things known permit me to renew.
Of him you know his merit such
I cannot say you hear too much.
"Within theso -woods of Areadj-
He chief delight and pleasure took; '
And on the mountain Partheny,
"Upon tho crystal, liquid brook,
Tho 'muses met him every day
Taught him to sing, and write, and say.
"When he descended down the mount
His personage seemed most divine;
A thousand graves one might count m
Upon his lovely, cheerful eyno.
To hear him speak, to see him smile,
Tou were In Paradise the while.
A sweet, attractive kind of grace; .
A full assurance given by looks;
Continual comfort In a face;
The lineaments of gospol books;
I trow that countenance cannot lie
"Whose thoughts aro legible in the eye.
Above all others this is he
"Who erst approved In his song
That love and honor might agree.
And that puro love will do no wrong. .
Sweet saints, lt"Ms no sin or blame
To love a man of virtuous name.
Did never love so sweetly breathe.
In any mortal breast before; -
Did never muse Inspire beneath
A poet's brain with, liner store.
Ho -wrote ofMove "with high conceit.
And beauty reared above her height.
PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO BE IN JAIL
Collier's Weekly.
Is making millions at the expense of
honor a profitable occupation, In the minds
of financiers who are now being tried at
the moral bar? To form a vast combina
tion, knowing It to be so watered as to be
unsafe and to bargain for your own gains
at the expense of those who trust you
what Is tho name for that?- No number
of technical schools founded, by the exe
cutor of such a deal can clear his record,
any more than mawkish moralizing and
fofmded colleges can cleanse the life of
a man who has conspired against the law,
with tho aid of bribery, to crush competi
tors. It la depressing to have a smirch
on financiers who have heretofore seemed
faithful to tftelr trusts. If they were In
such dire want of a few millions moie,
why did they not say so, and let us help
thera out. Instead of giving another blow
to our confldenco in them and In human
nature? "With millionaires willing to be
sharpers. In order to get more millions;
with politicians stealing from the people.
In city, state and Nation, and habitually
using men, women and children as mere
pawnsinaprlvategame to capture wealth;
with yellow papers plunging their readers
into dirt and danger for business and cir
culation the love of money may fairly bo
called a sickness In our country. Unhap
pily we cannot call these reeking instances
exceptions. Other departments in the Gov
ernment are only less eaten with corrup
tion than tho Postoffice. Little cities have
their rings, as well as big ones. The more
that Is learned about corporate methods,
the more universal seems the willingness
to trick the public Corruption, caused by
the opportunity which all have In this
country for worldly progress and by tho
desire for fast advancement. Is undeniable
and vast. Leaders In business enterprise
are among the least excusable when they
Juggle, for they are men who have had
opportunity to acquire understanding which
should forbid dishonest gain. "These
men," said Judge Grosscup, "bring noth
ing to Humanity but suffering, and leave
nothing to mankind but disgrace." To send
one of them to jail would do more good
than the punishment of a dozen walking
delegates or gambling kings.
Gentlemen of the Old School.
Baltimore American.
Every generation has its.illusionsL One
quite popular at present ii the "old-time
gentlemen," something greatly superior
to anything that Is seen nowadays, tho
nearest approach to whom, Iongo inter
vals, is the finest gentleman that can
now be produced. As a matter of fact,
a gentleman is confined to no age or
race. He combines certain qualities
which, appearing In any individual, make
him ts gentleman. The grouping together
of 'these qualities Is rare, and It, there
fore, occurs that gentlemen are not as
numerous as some persona Imagine.
There aro numbers of them, however, and
thoy are quite as fine asy the gentlemen
There were gentlemen in those old
days, and proportionately they were aa
numerous as the gentlemen of todaj-.
Were thip not so, there would be a dimin
ution In the supply of to'day. But those
who ofteaest use the term of "the fine,
old gentlemen before the war" have a
Bort of technical person In their minds.
They doubtless remember the genbine ar
ticle, as they must have often eome In
contact with them, but his unaltruistlc
virtues did not challenge special notice,
or they have faded from the memory- A
more swaggering and roysterlng fine gen
tleman Is In their mind's eye, and that
type has today degenerated into some
thing else.
These men were gentle in their man
ners, and often In their feelings; but the
world of today wisely refuses to recog
nize this variety as the typical fine gen
tleman. They used to drink and swear
and gamble with little intermission. They
were the embodiment of hospitality In Its
most captivating form, and glorious to
excess, and they rarely paid their debts.
Some managed to cajole their tradesmen,
while others resorted to devices little
short of fraudulent. The hospitality and
tho gentility usually continued till death,
and their families were left with nothing
to live upon. The same things happen
now, though not so often, as tradesmen
have acquired the unpleasant habit of
making their customers pay their debts.
Where Babies Are Welcome.
The World Today.
The Osage country Is a land where
baby may always be sure of a large wel
come. For one reason, he has an earn
ing capacity from the day he Is born
which Is often quite as great as his
father's. One of the next things after
naming the little pappoose is to go to
Pawhuska, the capital of their nation,
and have Us name put upon the payroll.
Once every threo months Uncle Sam pays
up the Interest on tho money which he
holds in trust for them, and the amount
paid to each Indian varies from time to
time according to how many have gone
to the Happy Hunting Ground and how
many wee ones have como to take their
places since last payday. The latest little
arrival at the newest-built wigwam re
ceives just as much as does the oldest
grandfather or the most athletic "war
rior." So that when Chief Look Out not
long ago had the happiness to be blessed
with twins, he was not only eligible to
the usual congratulations due a new
father, but at the samo time, unlike most
new fathers, he found his estate increased
by the snug little sum of $23,000. For, until
the children reach the age of 18, their In
comes are paid to their parents.
Dowie's Farewell.
Now York Sun.
Peace be -with you
Damn your papers,
They cut only t
Yellow capers. ly .,
Peace be -with you ,
Damn reporters, . -''
.They're a lot of - "
Smoking sportcrs.
Peace be with you
Damn your manners
When you Jeer at
Dowlo banners.
Peace be with you
Damn your preachers,
They are good-for-
Nothing creatures.
Peace be with you
Damn, your livers.
You're a bunch of ;
Stingy givers.
Peace bo -with you ,
Damn your morals.
They're as red as
Eastem corals.
Peace be with you
- Damn your churches
.' They're the devil's
J Roosting perches.
' f
Peace bo with yon , s
Damn your bodies, V
Soaking In a -
Tide of toddies.
Ppace be with you
(Damn your riches
In the pockets
Of your breeches.
Peace bo with you
Damn your fashion, , ;"
Giggling girls and
Dudes a-mashln.
Peace be with you
Damn your drinking
And your vicious
, "Ways of thinking. t
Peace be with you
Damn your virtue.
It Is never going A-
To hurt you.
Peace be with you
Damn your city, -,'
It's not worth
Elijah's pity.
Peace be with you .,"
Damn your guyln', 4 f
' A. I am going v
Sack to Zlon.
- NOTE AND C0MMEN7.
Songs for the Million.
"When the curtain falls at the end of tho play
Everything's straightened and every one's gay;
The hero has married the girl that he loves.
The chorus girls cooing like turtle doves;
The villain's confounded, and clapt Into Jail,
With never a partner to go on his ball;
The heir that was missing has turned up at
last. ,
And finds in hi millions redress for the past;
In short, there- is never a tear or a frown
To be een on the stage when the curtain goes
down.
But the curtain that falls for all some day
Comes down In a very different way;
It waits not the moment when things are right
To wrap us In never-ending night.
But drops at the time we most are fain
To play out our play and recalls are vain.
Just as the heroine lifts her eyes.
Just as w thrill with a glad surprise,
Just as -we feel the play's delight.
The curtain falls In long, long night.
Practical Training.
The collece ct Journalism should have a
shooting gallery for pupils from South Caro
lina. New York Mall and Express.
Panama Is talking through its hat
Dowle left New York at an opportune
moment
Diaz should remember a President Isn't
really great until he Is assassinated.
Reception committees In the other world
work overtime on Kentucky election days.
The Kentucky fuedists are losing their
grip. Captain Ewen was missed 12 times.
One good thing about Mount Hood it
never wants to tell us what dreams it
has when It smokes.
New York's Acorns have reached the
first stage necessary in becoming oaks:
they have been burled.
What Is an Isthmus?
A neck of land almost entirely sur
rounded by United States ships of war.
Central America resembles a quarrel
some chain gang. The component peo
ples can't get at outsiders, so they fight
among themselves.
It Is' an easy matter In New York to
work up sufficient enthusiasm -'to "turn
the rascals out," but quite another thing
to have them kept out
When the corpse comes to life at a
wake, as was recently the case In New
York, there Is fortunately an eapelleut
reason for continuing the rejoicings.
The Importance attached to the city
election by New York will be understood
when It Is announced that almost as many
people gathered'around the bulletin boards
as on the night of a big prizefight
Chinese officials plead a headache when
they desire to avoid meeting the dear
Dowager Empress, and this in spite of the
fact that she has one of the best cures
known for that ailment In the form of a
simple surgical operation on the neck.
I'm sure not to know
"What they do In the play;
And the name of the show
I'm sure not to know.
For you see when I go
I must sit beside May,
So I'm sure not to know
"What they do In the play.
From enthusiastically advocating the
"no breakfast" Idea most of those who
live by selling pseudo-medical advice, dono
up In cheap magazines, to cranks and dys
peptic imbeciles, have turnetf"XOtne n-meals-a-day
plan. The same pictures that
were formerly labeled "Eat no breakfast
and have muscle like this" are now la
beled: "Eat five solid meals a day and
be a modern Hercules."
Some days ago the Kansas City Star
published a very entertaining story of the
adventures of a somnambulist in one of
the hotels. With the introductory remark
that circumstantial evidence should always
be' taken with caution, the Star went on
to tell that room 109 In the hotel was
occupied by two men, and room 111, next
door, was occupied by a man and his wife.
During the night one of the men in room
100 got out of bed, and, still asleep, walked
out of the window, falling on a roof sev
eral feet below. Without waking, he
climbed Into room HI and into bed with
the sleeping couple there. Presently the
man In 100 missed his friend, and roused
the house. Eventually the somnambulist
was discovered with his two astounded
bedfellows. All this formed a very pretty
text for the Star's talk of circumstantial
evidence. But the occupants of room HI
now come, forward and deny tho whole
story, being, Indeed, very mad at having
such an unsought-for visitor forced into
such close companionship.
WEX J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
perCy i aw wondah why Miss "Wlnsom
la aw always out when I call. Jack Oh,
that girl was born under a lucky star.
Chicago News.
"This changes the complexion of things."
remarked the facetious drug clerk as ho
picked up a box of facopowder. Philadel
phia Record.
Mrs. Knlcker So she is a good house
keeper? Mrs.Bocker Yes; she says she
hates to think that her ancestors aro dust.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
"Don't you ever get to feeling nervous for
fear your husband may fall In love -with his
typewriter lady?" "Oh, no; not at all. She's
my mother." Chicago Record-Herald.
Being asked which he -would, be likely to
choose In caso of an emergency, the devil
or tho deep sea, Brother Dickey replied
briefly, "I can't swim!" Atlanta Consti
tution. Young "Wife How fortunate I am. in pos
sessing a husband -who alwayB stays at home
In tho evening! Boston Frfend Yes; your
husband never -was much addicted to pleas
ure. Chicago Journal.
Mr. Pepper I don't believe there -was a
dry eye in the house when tho curtain went
down on the third act. Mrs. Pepper" No;
but there seemed to be tho usua.l number of
dry throats. New Yorker.
"What is It that "worries her so much?"
"The approach of the social season has
made her suddenly awaro of her short
sightedness In letting her neck get tanned
last Summer." Chicago Post.
"You look like a regular beer guzzler.
Don't your thoughts ever rise above beer?"
"Yes, mum? I often t'lnk of do 15-cent
drinks. But wot's de' uso when a gent
ain't got de price?" Kansas City Journal.
"I didn't know Miss Passay was Interested
In municipal matters." "She Jsn't either."
"Well. I saw her pay 50 cents yesterday for
a book on the 'Best Methods of Filtration.' "
"Yes, poor old girl. She thought it was
Flirtation.' " Philadelphia Press.
"Dear, dear, dear!" said Dante as ho
viewed the scenes In the Infernal regions;
"It seems to mo you have enlarged your
establishment considerably since I was here
before I" "We have," said his satanlc ma
jesty. "We got along very comfortably
until they Invented the telephone and then
I found It necessary to build an annex."
San Francisco Bulletin.
"Why don't you try to make some amends
for your past life?" "I do try," answered
Meandering Mike, "but It's kind o hard.
When I tell people dat I'm tryln to bo
honest an' Industrious dey hunts up de
worst Job on de ranch an offers It to me.
But If I owns up -at de start to beln' a
tramp, dey hands out de victuals without a
murmur." Washington Star.