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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1903. its v2$$vdcax Satercd at tfce PMteOec at Portland. Oregon, aa eoea4 -class matter. XKTCSSD SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br aaH store prepaid In advance) Tfcuij. Say. Pr matn -? Xsa. t. gwwtaf xcee4. par year . ai "Wi Sea4y. ir year ... JJ.W fBoar, r" ar rS Tk KMr. per year JX Ttoe WtR. X menths' . 1""' ;? larty,p m-wk, AeMrered. Sunday excepted..l5c X5a5,per wek. 4elivere4, Sunday included..20e POSTACK RATES. fnlte States. Canada and Mexico 1 to 24-ease parer c 16 tc fr-pr paper .. -c 32 It 44-pase paper & rjrec rates 4otM. New Jr pews4a Intended for publication tn TSe Orygontaa rtwuld be addressed lnvari .v j EdKec Tfce OregBlan.M not to the name of asy t4lvtual. Letters relating to adver tlrlnr mtonipttes. or t any business matter, c:k.2 be a44reed rtJnpJy. Tbo OTegonlan' The urecoMtaa dees not buy poems or stories ?rccn tetttvMuals. and cannot undertake to return any awmserHKs sent to it without so tidtaUes. 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So catirly oominilled is Senator Mor GRZi to KkarauA, and by consequence so averse fe; he to Pamuna, that he farces rtwusons, or assertions, to sustain his alkBatoa that President Roosevelt -.as in oomptlcity -Kith the Panama revolutionists, promiyed them aid, and creased to prevent Colombia from jrus3une measures to reduce them to submission. Senator Morgan is and ever has been a leading- champion of x.n isthmian canal, but is not reconcil able to Panama. Among those who re prettcd that the commission appointed uiier act of Congress to investigate the vrhoie matter reported in favor of Panama "were many as earnest as Sen ator Morgan; but since we are looking r.o to Panama, the general consensus is that we ought to go on with the un rrtaklag there. But the papers submitted by Presi dent RooeeveJt to the House of Rep resentatives, in response to a call from that body, have oompletels cleared the President aad his Administration from complicity in the uprising and revolu tion These papers Include all the dis patches seat and received. No part -whatever "was taken by the United States, tin the revolution was accom I ished. Finding then a new govern r:cr.t in power, the change in the situa tion was recognized, by order from "ttahlngtoa. We are at Panama to kwp the peace aad to protect Isthmian transit; not to deny to the people of ranama, on the one hand, the right of revolution, nor on the other to assist Colombia in winning baok-the revolted state. Yet this last we were distinctly in vited to do. Among the dispatches sent to the House by the President was one couched ta those extraordinary terms, t -wit. kaMas tbat Ue revolution has already cc?unHt ta Panama. says that 1 tbe iroverMBeat C ib United States will Zaa2 irnan to preserve Colombian sover- K'y d tree traaMt, It requested by tho C mba estarR d'affairos, this govcrn Ctni win deeare martial law, and by vir tue t vestrd. eoRstttaUoaal authority, -when j-Ji c order dtstttrbed. will approve by Cre tb rattArAtkHi ft the canal treaty i (4Red. r If tbe Government of the I - 'ed States prefers. Ht call extra ses C of Omkwm, with new and friendly -rubers, swxt Xay mi epprove tho treaty. I: is plain that the blank in this dis p&V h should be fllled with the name of X&rroqtttn. It was erased for reasons of - Ability and diplomacy. No other riarue woald fit ta tha.t place. The gov crrrnent at Bogota invited the United States to land troops to preserve Colom bian sovereignty and free transit over the isthmus. But it was not our busi ness to put down rebellion against the Colombian government. Note the remainder of this remark able dispatch. They who rejected the E&r-Herraa treaty. In. their attempt to rhoid tip- the United States for rnvre,M eaid later, if the United States -s-cuid subjugate Panama for them they wouid ratify the treaty they had. before rejected! As aa apologist for these freebooters Senator Morgan does not appear to ad vantage. The real reason why he takes this course is found in his utter un Trtillngness to see an isthmian canal undertaken by the United States at any jaoe -except Nicaragua. rOBTAGE BOAI) OK CAXAL. It seems unavoidable that one or more proposals looking to action on the state portage road at the dalles of the Co lumbia will come before the extra ses sion of the Legislature for considera tion and perhaps action. That a de mand for abandonment of the' .whole project has sprung up in "Western Ore gon is perfectly certain; and it seems almost equally probable that some of the sponsors for the original measure have lost faith in its efficacy. ' Highly commendable is the actloa of those members of the Multnomah dele gation who announce their unwilling ness to repeal the portage law until as rured of the speedy completion of the canal and locks by the United States engineers. This should be the stand of the Legislature and of the Governor. "vTbatever relief the portage will afford, though It may not be much, must not be thrown away unless the canal is sure at an early day. It would be inexcusa ble folly and almost criminal negli &nce to abandon the portage and then find that for two or three sessions of I Congress all action toward the canal and locks was frustrated. "We should say that the best possible solution of the question would be for the Legislature to amend the portage law, giving to, the state board the dis cretion to apply such portion of the $165,000 appropriated as was necessary to provide the United States Govern ment with right of way for the canal and locks. There ought to be enough J commence in the Governor and his ad visers to trust them to build the port age r buy the right of way according to their best judgment as circumstances should develop. Our understanding is that the Federal, appropriation cannot be used for the right of way. It would be a monumental mistake to let slip a chance to open the Columbia between The Dalles and Celllo, from motives of mistaken economy. Until that great work is achieved, the Columbia Basin will never enjoy the low freight rates to which its water-level route to the sea entitles it. TIIE OMNISCIENT AND SANCTIFIED. Some disquiet seems to pervade the House because the Senate requires three weeks to consider a bill that the House has passed in three days. It is the bill for relief of Cuba. "We went to war for Cuba five and a half years ago, and the intervening tlmehas been too short for the most potent, grave and reverend seigneurs to make up their al leged minds as to whether we should do anything for her in the way of tariff concessions. The specific provisions of this treaty have been before the coun try for months; yet the Senate hesi tates. Why is it? The answer is that the members of the United States Senate, Intelligent and competent on most other subjects, are possessed of the notion that no measure is apprehended to amount to anything until it has been debated in the Senate. There is no knowledge of any subject until the Senate has con sidered it. There is no evidence or rea son in existence until it has been devel oped in the course of a Senatorial de bate. So these insufferable egotists go on under the impression that the Justice of the Cuban cause is an undiscovered quantity until they have aired their supposed views and agitated their putative think-tanks for three weeks or as much longer as one of them can think of something to say. It would be foolish to suppose that any considerations of mere justice and duty could stir the Senate when the record is that profoundly moving self interest Itself has been powerless to af fect it In the Summer of 1893, when trade and manufactures were perish ing, banks failing, fortunes crumbling and the savings of countless thousands being wiped out by enforced liquidation, the Senate calmly bayed the moon and pawed the air for three months. The extra session, called by President Cleve land to repeal the sflver-purchase law, met August 7, yet it was not till Octo ber 30 that the Senate could be brought to vote on the repeal bill. Nero fiddling while Rome was burn ing was not a circumstance to our high and mighty Senators, emitting periods upon the ambient air for which nobody cares, to which nobody pays any atten tion, and which will change not the hundredth fraction of a vote In House i or Senate. It used to be said in sorrow that the House of Representatives had ceased to be a deliberative body; but it is better so. Two bodies with the calm deliberation and overweening self sufficiency of the Senate would make anarchists of us all. BSE MUST BE BENEFICLVL. In two decisions rendered Monday the Supreme Court pointed out in plain est terms the great difficulty in the use of water for irrigation. Each appropri ator tries to take more water than he needs, and defends -what he claims to be his rights, even to the court of last resort Under a resolution of the last Legislature Governor Chamberlain has appointed a commission of five men to frame a complete set of 'laws governing water rights in this state. The great problem before that commission is to devise a plan by which every user of water shall be protected In the use of all the water that Is necessary and shall be prevented from taking more than can be put to a beneficial use. It Is the testimony of experts in the irrigation region that the excessive use of water is the almost universal rule. In a Grant County case. Judge Eakln awarded an irrigator fifty miner's Inches of water for use on twenty acres of land. The general rule Is that one miner's inch per acre is an abundance, but the testimony produced supported the claim, for the excessive amount and Judge Eakin's opinion was based upon the evidence. In an opinion written by Chief Justice Moore, the Supreme Court clearly demonstrated that -2 miner's Inches per acre was too much, and ex pressed reluctance at being compelled to affirm the decision. The amount awarded was sufficient to cover the land to a depth of ten feet. Other irri gators are to be deprived of what they need in order that one may be wasteful. The Supreme Court very properly tried to even up the situation by ordering that the claimant take his water under a four-inch pressure instead of a six inch pressure, and that he pay his own costs in the Supreme Court The time must come, in the irriga tion district, when the taking of water shall be limited, In practice as well as in theory, to the amount that can be used beneficially. Mere use Is not suffi cient It must be a beneficial use. A NUISANCE TUIiXED TO VALUE. A new Industry for restoring to com merce the waste of a greater Industry Is that which returns tlncans into a variety of useful articles. Until recent ly tin cans accumulated literally by the ton in the garbage heaps and scrap piles of all large cities. Everybody con cerned, from the perplexed housewife who was at her wit's end to dispose of these unsightly receptacles of fruit, fish and vegetables after their contents had gone to the table, to the superintend ent of garbage crematories and barges for disposing of the refuse of cities, has found tin cans a veritable nuisance, in destructible, bulky and vexatious. An industry that returns this refuse to commerce in good merchantable shape was inaugurated a few years ago In New York that not only abates this nuisance but pays handsome profits to Its enterprising proprietors. A similar Industry has more recently been started in San Francisco, with, like satisfactory results. As It becomes more fully de veloped, says the Overland Monthly, all of the scrap tin and old tin cans In California and perhaps on the Coast win find a market in that city. By the various processes used the solder Is melted and returned to the canneries to be used again. Window sash weights, ballast for boats and bal- ance weights for elevators; discs used in making cloth-covered buttons and strips to protect the corners of trunks against baggage-smashers, are some of the products of this new industry. There is an increasing demand for these prod ucts, and the question, "What becomes of the tin cans?" seems In a fair way to be settled without prying into back yards or going to alleys and vacant lots for Its solution. Once It is known that these cans have a commercial value they will cease to be a nuisance to householders, a pest to those 'who handle the garbage of great cities and the despair of civic Improvement societies. The can-gatherer will become an ally of the street cleaning department, with the prospect of remuneration for his Industry that Is bounded, only by the energy with which he pursues it Fortunes have had their foundation In rag-plcklng; why may not other fortunes be founded upon tin-can gathering? Speed the day whenthi3 new indus try will have gatherers of tin cans in every Qity of the land, and may no man be grudged the fortune he makes In conducting reduction works by means of which tin cans, having served their first purpose, are made to do duty In useful ways. SOFT COAL AND THE TABDET. Coal should be on the free list perma nently, bituminous as well as anthra cite. The duty benefits no one but the great coal trusts. It neither im proves the supply by developing home mines, according to the ancient protec tion philosophy, nor increases the day's pay of a single miner. Laboring men have long ago learned that "protec tion to American labor" is a glittering He. All the protection they get they have to fight for. The faet as to bituminous coal is that the country supplies Itself with domestic coal as far as it goes and ekes out Aith a small complement of Impor tations. "We consume about 200,000,000 tons a year and import about 2,000,000 tons. Indeed, when our mines are run ning at ordinary volume we export twice as much as we import. In the first nine months of 1901, 1,456,074 tons entered the United States, paying a duty of 67 cents a ton; In the corre sponding months of 1902 there were Im ported 1,532,042 tons, paying the same duty; In the first nine months of 1903, with all duties rebated, 2,687,061 tons were Imported. The reason for the great increase was not so much the re mission of the duty as the fact that In the early months of thl3 year there was a coal scarcity In the country as the result of the anthracite strike. For In September, 1902,, with the duty, 182,540 tons were imported, while In Septem ber, 1903, without the duty and with the coal famine over, but 192,532 tons were Imported. If foreign coal entered seriously Into the question of supply, as Is the case with wool, for example, we should have seen a tremendous importation in these closing months of 1903, jnade to escape the duty, which will become operative in January. But importations have fallen off Instead of Increasing. It is ridiculous to speak of a duty of 67 cens a ton as needed to develop Nehalem and Heppner mines. Why were they not developed under the tariff before 1903? The answer is not in the laws of the land, but the wolves of the railroad world. There Is no danger of free coal flooding the American market, so long as our domestic mines are worked. "When they are Idle the for eign coal Is needed, and the cheaper it can be had the better. The duty should be kept off, if for no other reason than to supply an argument for George F. Baer and men of his ilk the argument of brute force, which alone appeals to them to""keep their prices within rea son. Unfortunately, there is no likeli hood that Congress will do the manly thing and keep coal on the free list It has more Important matters on hand appointments, re-eleption, and slch. ONE OF TIDE IAWS DELAYS. If Pleas Armstrong should succeed in gaining his freedom by reason of a technical defect in the law governing executions, it may be that he will no sooner find himself out of jail than he will wish himself back In again. There was a time within Armstrong's dis tinct recollection when the Inside of prison bars "looked good" to him. They protected him from a band of men de termined to lynch him for his dastardly crime. The law guarantees to every man a fair trial by a Jury of his coun trymentwelve good men and true before punishment can be Inflicted upon him. There was no doubt of Arm strong's guilt, and a considerable num ber of people in Baker County wished to see him pay the penalty of his foul murder without awaiting the uncertain ties of trials in which technical defenses often win. But 'better Judgment and the prompt action of the Sheriff pre vailed. Armstrong had a fair trial, was heard on appeal to the Supreme Court, has been convicted, and should hang. If the law is defective, it should be corrected if possible before he can gain his freedom. To turn him loose now, entirely unpunished, would be to deal a terrific blow to law and order In Oregon. When a mob sought tho blood of Pleas Armstrong, soon after he took the life of Minnie Ensmlnger, the officers of the law protected him. Cool judgment said .that the law should talce its course. Armstrong was In the custody of peace officers, and Tightly received their spe cial protectlonv If he should be given his liberty, he will have no Sheriff se cretly to spirit him away to Portland and no bodyguard to stand between him and an outraged community. In organized society lynching Is never jus tifiable, but It requires no stretch of the Imagination to conceive that Arm strong's life will never be safe in Baker County. Men who wanted to take his life before he was tried may readily be expected to have a similar feeling toward him after he has been tried and convicted but turned loose upon a tech nicality. Men who wanted the law to take its course may not be satisfied to see It fall at this stage of the proceed ings. No one can blame Armstrong for tak ing advantage of every circumstance in fact or law that holds out a hope of es cape from -death. Neither can the peo ple of Oregon be blamed for demanding that he shall suffer the penalty which the law prescribes for his crime. The feeling against Armstrong In Baker County has subsided during the long period that has elapsed since he com mitted the crime for which the law pre scribes the death penalty. It is to be hoped that nothing will occur to revive that Reeling, and that if the murderer should be turned loose he will be per mitted to walk out of Baker County and out of Oregon unharmed. If he chooses to return to his old home on North Powder, tho friends of Minnie Ensmlnger should remember that the law has relieved him from the necessity of paying the penalty of his crime, and should let him alone. Whether they will do that or not is a matter for Arm strong to decide before he asks the Sheriff and other peace officers to re move the special protection which they now afford him. Meanwhile "the law's delay" Is working the sanie restless dis content wfth the regular order of justice which disgraced California In the case of Durrant and Oregon in the case of McDanlel. The old order of things Is rapidly passing away In China. The telegraph crosses the empire from end to end and penetrates the most interior districts. A wealthy Chinese merchant and navi gation company, with headquarters in Shanghai, sends its well-equipped steamers from one end of China to the other, and the steamers on the Yangtse Kiang compare favorably with the trans-Pacific liners. They carry thou sands of tons of freight totjic seacoast cities. Steam tugs and launches pene 4rte In eery direction the canals and small waterways. Hankow, 600 miles from Shanghai, Is the head of naviga tion for large steamers, and the center of navigation for all the smaller craft of the Interior of China. A railroad Is being pushed from Hankow to Pekin and Tien Tsln in the north, and an American syndicate holds a contract for pushing this railroad across the in terior southward to Canton and the re gion around Hong Kong. Electric car lines are being established In Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the use of the bicycle Is common In the seaport cities and even in the far Interior. The Chi nese are a people of solid business qual ity. If they were not a peaceful people, they would be a powerful nation. If they ever add the military efficiency of Japan to their present equipment of in dustry, economy and talent for trade, no man will dare molest them or seek to make them afraid. In business ca pacity the Chinese are the ablest people in all Asia. The gypsy colony that took up its abode in thevoutskirts of this city some weeks ago under patronage of the city government has claimed and received rebate of license money paid to secure Immunity from 'arrest , of two of the filthiest, most Impudent and In a way degraded specimens of the female sex ever allowed the freedom of this or any other city, and moved on. Whether ply ing their vocation as thieves or fortune tellers, these degraded wanderers are about the worse specimens wearing the human form that have ever strayed Into this city and out again. Baffling ex perts who seek a reason for the de velopment of crime from generation to generation; the despair of officers of the law who seek In vain for charges upon which they can be arrested, prosecuted, convicted and punished; the terror of little children, the disgust and aversion of tho community, a veritable 'stench In the nostrils of decency and a serious menace to the public health through their unspeakable manner of living, the only thing that can be done with such creatures (since it is unlawful to, kill them) Is to keep them moving. This band of vagrants is headed now for California. Let people along the route take notice and keep the colony moving, since this seems to be the only way to deal with gypsies. Oregon is getting fame after a kind. Recently the "Holy Rollers" were offer ing up hapless cats and dogs, together with furniture and clothing. In wild holocaust In the name .of religion, near Corvallls, and now comes a son of Ore gon, long a resident of a suburb of this city, cutting strange antics, In a state of nature, upon a mountain top near Los Angeles through the week, and on Sundays telling a curious multitude the secret of everlasting life on earth as expounded in the doctrine of going without clothing, eating only the fruits of evergreen .trees and coming back generally to the first principles of na ture. Oregon has some things .to be thankful for, one of which Is a climate so generous of moisture as to have driven this apostle of nakedness to seek a drier and warmer clime in which to establish his theory of everlasting life. The saving grace of an absurdity of this kind; is that it soon lands Its prophet in an Insane asylum, while milder and less offensive forms, of religious mania vex the passive ear of patience until they wear themselves out The band of adventurers known as the Hubbard party, that pushed out into the Interior of Labrador on an ex ploring expedition the 1st of August, has no doubt perished in the inhospita ble wilds the dangers of which they dared. Trappers have wintered In the interior of Labrador without meeting more than the ordinary hardship at tendant upon their lot But they were inured to hardship and knew how to protect and defend themselves from the rigors of a cruel climate, while Leon Hubbard and his associates were versed only in the theory of woodcraft and were fresh from civilized life. The ex pected happens when explorers under these conditions do not return and dill gent search falls to discover their fate. The Thanksgiving season brings the usual shortage of eggs and an unusual shortage of turkeys. This latter fact Is due to the Increased demand with which the supply, though also Increased, has not kept up. The fact that our home market Is growing, not slowly, as In former years, but by leaps and bounds, needs to be Impressed upon our rural population more strongly than it has yet been. Eggs from Iowa, lard from Chicago and Kansas City, canned fruit from various points of the East, Middle West and California, and finally a shortage of turkeys for the Thanksgiv ing and holiday season, tell of slighted opportunities slighted by the farmers of our state in terms that cannot be mistaken. Portland has had fewer flour steam ers this season than have been dis patched from some rival ports, but the cargoes that have been cleared from this city have been record-breakers for size, and the result Is shown In figures printed in another column. With the fifth month not yet completed, the ex porters of this city have already this ,MAnaJhW HlcnfltrtVlArf COO-COO lnMivlM A season dispatched 528:632 barrels of flour. This city now leads all other Pacific Coast ports In wheat, lumber and flour shipments, and is surpassed in barley shipments by San Francisco only. Japan is in danger of being nagged Into a war with Russia, as was France Into the disastrous war with Germany thirty years or more ago. The Island Empire needs to take counsel of her wise men now as never before. If war with Russia must come, it would be most unwise for the weaker Dower to precipitate it VIEWS OF THE MOODY CASE.- But Were They? Ashland Tldlng3. Statements that political motives wero the foundation of the Indictments against Mr. Moody were dispelled during tho trial of the case. Fidelity That Never Wavered. Hood River Glacier. Malcolm A. Moody has been completely exonerated from the charges preferred against him in the United States Court at Portland, and the ex-Congressman comes forth with flying colors. Mr. Moody's friends never doubted tho out come of the malicious attack. They warmly congratulate him. No, They're Not Saying Much. La Grande Chronicle. Mr. Moody's enemies may say that it Is well that the jury did not get a chanco at his case; that under the evidence be fore them they might have found a dif ferent verdict from that ordered by the court The question will also be asked which faction of the Republican party in Oregon docs Judge Bellinger most favor? Persecution as a Boomerang. Portland New Age. This vindication is entirely approved by the people of Oregon generally, and of Portland and his home county in partic ular, only a few factional enemies feeling any chagrin or disappointment Mr. Moody is and will be honored and trusted by the people of his state. This persecu tion will act as a boomerang if he should consent hereafter to seek or accept can didacy for high office. Its Political Tendency. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. i An Oregon Congressman said the other day that when his political enemies be came so numerous as to secure an Indict ment against him hewould '"throw up the sponge, retire from public life and go back to tho ranch." He may retire anyway. The unwarranted prosecution of Mr. Moody, who yesterday wm ac quitted by a jury In tho Federal Court at Portland, Is likely to change some votes in Oregon. Some Lawyer Opened It. La Grande Chronicle. It is stated that after five hours on the witness stand, Mrs. Conroy's evidence In the Moody case was broken down. She ought to begin to think lawyers are hard customers. One broke her letter open, and now a combination of them have bully ragged her on the witness stand until, worn out and disgusted, she possibly technically lost her head. It Is not a thing to brag about, however, to say that after a half day's cross-examination the shrewdest lawyers In the country succeed ed in muddling the brain of an Ignorant Ill-used old widow. All at Government Expense. A Hlllsboro Argus. Ex-Congressman Moody has been ac quitted and exonerated and during all this time of tempest and trial, incited by po litical and business enemies, the Govern ment has been putting up thousands of dollars to satisfy the spirit f malignity, iir. Moody's bank, which the Controller closed at The Dalles some years ago. under the protest of Moody, has paM all its claims in full, from the assets of the bank. Mr. Moody has bested his enemies who use the wheels of government in an attempt to blacken his name. He has just concluded a successful term In Congress and surely that Is glory enough for any Oregonlan. Illuminative Between the Lines. Astoria Astorian. Moody has had more boosting since his retirement from Congress than he ever had whiie a member of the House, and more than any other Congressman since Oregon was a Btate. His record In Con gress Is small compared with the won derful things his friends claim r of him since his return to private life, and no rea son exists for the continual tooting of the Moody horn. No amount of political boost ing will help him, as ho is very much out of the public eye. There is, of course, rea son to regret the fact that he has been indicted, as it is nonularly believed that he Is Innocent of the charge preferred ) against him. However, the people want facts, not billingsgate. Where He Is Known. Dalles Times-Mountaineer. Tho evidence produced on the trial has shown to all fair-minded readers that the charges against him were trumped up by his business rivals and political enemies. Those who were shown to have been active in securing his Indictment are the people who have opposed him politi cally and In business; they were ,ibe ones who have for years tried to down him in business ventures and political aspirations. The attempt to down him has resulted In a disir.al failure, and what the final result will be remains to be seen. But In all events lt will not redound to the credit of those who have called upon the Fed eral courts to aid them In working out petty spite or Jealousy. McClellan's Silver Record. New York Sun. Mayor-elect McClellan, of New York City, is suggested as a Democratic candi date for President McClellan was a Bryanlte. Here i3 his record: In the second session .of the 53th Con gress the House sent to tho Senate a con current resolution designed to secure the just payment of National obligations, and received it back converted, by the help of the sllverltes of the Senate,. Into a measure to accomplish almost the re verse thing a resolution authorizing tho Treasury to pay bonds in gold or silver, at the option of the Treasury. It was meant to be an order. McClellan, who had been regarded as a sound money man, made a speech on the motion to agree with the amendment of the Senate, In which ho argued that as the law said that the obligations of the Government were to be paid In "standard money," and silver was standard money, It was not only lawful and right, but obligatory, to permit It to do what the Senate had" proposed to direst It to do and he voted for the amended resolution. When Rep resentative Overstreet, of Indiana, brought up in the House a bill "to define the standard of valuation," the gold bill of 1900, McClellan voted "no" on the measure which was to place out of doubt the dispute whether this was a single or double standard country. The Religions of the World. London Tablet Father Grose. S. J., has published two Interesting articles In the Stlmmen aus Maria Laach on "the most important sys tems of religions at the end of the nine teenth century." He gives us therein new and minute statistics of the different re ligions of the world. According to these statistics we find: The total number of Christians In Asia Is 2S.636.913, in Africa S.329,849, In Aus- trali a'nd Qceanlca lCT' in America ..... -...a M.A . -. 133,907,845. In Europe 373,975,951, and in the wnoie worm 543,017,341. Jews, U.037,000; Mohammedans, 202.04S. 240; Brahmins or Hindoos, 210,100,00; Old Indian religions, 12,113,756; Buddhists, 120,250,000; adherents of Confucius and ancestor worshipers, 253,000,000; Taolsts, 32,000.000; Shlntolsts, 17.000,000; Fetish wor shipers and other pagans, 144,700,000; of other religions, 2.844.4S2. Out of the total population of the world, which amounts to 1,539.000,000 (according to Yuraschke), 35.7 per cent are Christians. 13.1 per cent Mohammedans, .7 per cent Jews, that Is to say, 762,102.000 are monotheists, against 776,000,000 who are polytheists i. e., "near ly half the population of the world be lieves ln"one God.'" A PUBLIC EXPIATION. Minneapolis Tribune.,. The saying that often "The demons of our sires become the saints whom we adore," has found a recent illustration In the case of Michael SerVetus, who was burned at the stake for heresy near Geneva, Switzerland, in 1553, and who, a few days ago, was made the subject of a public penance by the very sect that com passed his death. On tho 27th day of October, just passed, a strange scene was enacted at Champel, in the neighborhood of Geneva, the city where in tho sixteenth century John Cal vin established a theocracy of which he was the earthly head, " and where all revolts aRaltiMt his religious code met with condign punlxhment. This city in our day Is known n.i a gathering place of politi cal rcformcrx, as the favorite seat of International arbitration and other trib unal. Led by Professor Dormaigue, the historian at Calvin, the chosen repre scntatlvo of the Reformed Churches of Switzerland and France at this significant ceremony, a long procession marched to Champel and there unveiled a monument of granite with these two inscriptions: On Octobor th 27th. 1553. Died at tho St&ke at Champel. Michael Hervrtus. of Vllleneuve D'Arugon. Bom HeptomlMsr 20th. 1311. llevurent and Grateful Sons Of Calvin, Our Great Reformer, Ilut Condemning An Error Which Wan That of Ills Ago, And Steadfastly Adhering To Liberty of Conscience According to the True Principles of The Reformation and of the Gospel, "We Have Erected This Expiatory Monument, On the 27th October. 1903. This monument has arisen in response to an appeal sent forth to the Reformed Churches of Christendom, the churches which acknowledge Calvin as their founder. The appeal was signed by tho most eminent pastors and clergymen of Geneva, and met with a liberal response, many contributions coming from tho United States. That this expiation has been generally regarded as an act of jus tice Is evidenced by tho few adverse comments It -has received either from press or people. Even tho strictest followers of Calvin admit that the martyrdom of Servetu3 was an Inhuman and merciless procedure without any shadow of justification save the Intolerant spirit of an age In which religious liberty was unknown. Though Calvin might have saved this victim of narrow sectarian prejudice, he 13 not now held wholly responsible for his death. These "sons of Calvin" who have reared this monument recognize his error, but regard it as an error of his age and time, and not as a'sln. since by aiding in tho removal from thhe earth of a supposed blasphemer, ho verily thought he was doing God service. In his life, cut short at the age of 42, Servltus accomplished a vast amount of work. His writings are numerous, in many languages and on a great variety of topics. He has been made the subject of many biographical and other works and his story has been dramatized for the stage. His great crime was the denial in his books and public lectures of the doctrine of the Trinity. Ho had a passionate devotion to the character and divinity of Christ but would not admit that he was one with the Father, and "very God of very God." REFORMING THE LAND LAWS. Minneapolis Tribune. The bill of Senator Hansbrough to re peal the stone and timber act falls far short of the complete reform of the land laws desired by the National irrigation people. They consider the desert land a'ct and the commutation clause of the home stead act to be no less subject to abuse than the stone and timber act. They want them all repealed together, and tffey do not seem to want anything put in the place of them. This sweeping repeal is opposed, not only by persons and corporations who have been stripping the public lands of timber for a song, and monopolizing lands capable of Irrigation In great tracts, but by the scientific forestry people, who de sire proper provision for selling the tim ber on public land at Its full value. There was disinterested opposition from this source to tho sweeping repeal of, all these laws at tho forestry convention and the irrigation convention. The point the forestry people make Is that the timber on the public lands must be marketed. They oppose repeal of the laws that aro now abused only until they can get a good forestry law In place of them. The stone and timber part of Senator Hansbrough's bill seems to have been drawn to meet the views of the scientific forestry people. They want all timber land reserved for reforestation after tho merchantable timber has been cut off. By this bill the title remains in the Govern ment. The value of the timber or stone is estimated and the right to remove it Is sold to the highest bidder. Thi3 is some thing like a plan under which timber on Indian reservations is now disposed of, much to the discontent of local lumber men. Other provisions of the bill undertake to cure tho eylls of the lieu land law, the desert land act and homestead commuta tion, "without entire repeal. We Imagine that these will be scrutinized very closely by the Irrigation people. There have been enormous abuses under all these acts, and It will be necessary to convince many in fluential people that the abuses will not continue under the amendments to pro cure their general acceptance. Railroads Behind the Country. Chicago Chronicle. Altogether apart from the merits of tho isthmian canal enterprise, It Is Interesting to note that the great transcontinental railway lines, which have been credited with furnishing most of the opposition to the project are overloaded with traffic. They have neither the cars nor the mo tive power promptly to handle the freight that Is offered them, and with the open ing of tho citrus fruit season, now less than two months distant, the situation will be aggravated. It Is estimated that California alone will produce 35,000 cars of fruit this "Winter. No one professes to know where the cars and locomotives aro coming from with which" to move thl3 large increase in the volume of business. If this be the case now, it is not difficult to predict what it will be within a few years. Either freight rates to the Pacific Coast will be advanced to a prohibitive figure or else more lines will have to be built across the continent The latter al ternative would only alleviate the situa tion without effecting a remedy for the conditions complained of. It is now quite evident that the develop ment of the Southwest and of the Pacific Coast Is far more rapid than the develop ment of railroad systems In those sec tions. Columbus. Milwaukee Sentinel. ' Who was it sailed across the sea? Columbus. "Who found this country of the free? Columbus. ' "Who left the coast of smiling Spain And sped across the bounding main To prove that he was not Insane? Columbus. "Who fed his sailors with hot air? Columbus. "Who made them work to pay their fare? Columbus. "Who was It said the earth -was round And showed his logic to be sound "When thlr great home of trusts he found? Columbus. As. yes. Indeed, you had the goods, Columbus. You chased the red men to tho woods, Columbus. But were you here, to look about Sometimes you'd wish, I do not doubt. That you bad cut that voyage out. Wouldn't you, Chris? NOTE AND COMMENT. What They Read. Literary tastes are curious things. Joe Chamberlain reads nothing but. the most sentimental novels, and rarely quotes any thing but Longfellow's worst poems. Grover Cleveland, who might be supposed to spend his time in studying tho diction ary, is said to know the Billy Baxter let ters almost by heart Kipling is the fa vorite author of "William Dean Howells, and Dr. Parkhurst knows Artemus Ward as well as he does the Bible. Bliss Car man finds relaxation from his poetic work in reading dime novels, a taste shared by Senaior Lodge. Mark Hanna is said to enjoy such light reading as Buckle's His tory of Civilization, and Rockefeller reads nothing but the Bible. On the Qui Vive. County Clerk H. Mason Is having the vault watched at night. Tillamook Headlight. Harshman will have time enough to re cover. Free soup kitchens, even in Butte, seem out of place In 1904. Coal has gone up In New York, but there's little coming up In the "West. For a number of peoplo tomorrow would bo more appropriately named Klckmaking day. With his new committees. Senator Ful ton will be as busy as a cat on hot bricks. The man that could swallow sand for indigestion appears to have already all he requires. The "gray wolves of the Senate" and the "skunks of the lobby," and the jays thdft chatter at them! Santo Domingo should pauso and con sider. Manifest destiny did not exhaust itself over Panama. The lunatic who cut loose at the secre tary of the Bank of Englandraused quite a run from the bank. It would be tough on Hanna to have to h"elp elect a man he didn't like to a posi tion be wanted himself. Tho best solution of the isthmian ques tion would be a canal wide enough to stretch from Mexico to Brazil. Lots of people would like to know whether FItzsimmons or Gardner will bo In harmony with the Thanksgiving spirit tomorrow. Albina has been forsaken by the gypsies, who have started for San Francisco to warn Gardner to beware of a man. with freckles. There is little enough amusement in a police station cell now without preventing a prisoner from kicking any of his feebler prison mates. A Kansas woman was found dead with a cake of soap in one hand and a dish-cloth In the other. Died with her hand on the throttle, so to speak. The Post-Intelligencer alludes sarcastic ally to the "enterprise" of -papers that get "wireless photographs from Panama." The wire-y photograph is a new brand. A number of peoplo In Georgia havo been indicted for keeping negroes in peon age. Ihis shows that the consciences of some Georgians are too tender, or that those of others are too callous. Conan Doyle ha3 been chosen as a can didate for Parliament so that he will probably be able to give a legislative set ting to one ofhts Sherlock Holmes stories before the series is completed. In discussing Premier Balfour's idea that ripeness was necessary before further ac tion was taken. Sir "William. Vernon Har court said that the Government was like a medlar fruit, rotten before It was ripe. The most sought after magazine articles aro those written by successful explorers or criminals, and the people wanted on the stage aro those that are able to de liver a stiff punch, or something of that kind. The street-sweepers, which aro to bo sent more frequently to the East Side, should find plenty of fun over there. Clad In pneumatic armor, the horses would re gard dropping through a decayed street as a joke. The following item from the "Washington Post Is run by the Providence Journal as follows: Wnllnwallatvash. Senator Levi Ankeny. of Walla. Walla, Wash., is at the Arlington. "WEX. J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. She Pride goes before a fall, I believe? Ho N'ot all of It. Some seems to have remained, and is going about with the Autumn bonnets. Yonkers Statesman. "Oh for the jwlngs of a dove!" etched tho poet with the unbarbered hair. "Order what you like," rejoined the prosaic person, "but as for me, give me the breast of a chicken." Chicago News. "But why did you not send for the doctor next door when you became suddenly ill?" asked .his friend. "You forget," answered tho sufferer, "that I have been learning to play tho cornet recently." Puck. Mr. Klumsay (Waltzing) My! how slippery thi3 floor is. It's hard to keep on your feet. Miss Sharpe Oh! you're really trying to keep on my feet then are you? 1 thought it "was merely accidental. Philadelphia Press. "It was Pope, I believe.," she ventured,, "who said: 'Worth makes the man. " "Was it?" he replied. "Then Ppe must be one of those chaps who don't read the newspapers. If he did he'd know Worth was a ladles' tailor." Chicago Record-Herald. At tho China Shop. Superintendent We are likely to have a brisk sale of chinaware this year, Mr. Tiler. Floorwalker What makes you think that? Superintendent I see it stated that long, flowing sleeves are coming into fashion. Boston Transcript. "You're a nice friend to have! Why didn't you lend Burroughs the ?5 he wanted?" "Why should I?" "Because you must have known If he didn't get It from you he would from me. You've practically robbed me of that fiver.' " Philadelphia Ledger. "How3 your mother?" asked the neighbor. "Worried to death." answered the boy. who was swinging on the front gate. "Father'3 hunting in the Adirondacks, brother Bill's gone to a political convention, brother Jake's joined a football team, and the dressmaker just told mother tha she'd look a fright In mourning." Washington Star. 4'Mr. Carnegie has been given the freedom of Cork." "What will he do with It?" "Havo It framed, I suppose." "What good will that do him?" "Why. he can hang it In his pic ture gallery at Sklbo Castle, and when visitors drop in he can say: I've got a little work of art here I'd like to show you. It's a Corker.' " Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Gee whizz!" exclaimed the reporter, look Ins over his reDort of the wedding In the piper. "I'll bet that bridegroom -will be sore." What's the matter?" asked the Snake Editor. 'He owns an old family homestead out in ,the suburbs somewhere. I believe, and he told me to say 'the young couple will reside at the Old Manse.' The paper's got it 'Old Mans. "Philadelphia Record.