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Pitts, 100S Market: Frank Scott, SO Ellis; N. Wheatley, S3 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand, Washington. D. C. Ebbltt House News .. Stand. PORTLAND, MONDAY, NOV 21, 10OI, ECONOMIC AND OTHER CHANGES. ? It is not probable that the present V. Congress will take up the subject of X tariff revision, but the next one will and it may be called by the President 5L. to assemble in SDecIal session for the It purpose, soon after the expiration of the- life of the present Congress in March. President Hoosevelt Is a protection 1st, but not an extreme one. No one knows better than he that tariff sched ules cannot be permanent, but, with the changes of times and conditions. need revision. No one understands bet ter than he that since revision is neces- earj't the coming Congress should act. To pass the subject on, for debate two years hence, when the members of an other 'House of Representatives are to be elected, would probably afford the opposition the opportunity It awaits and desires. v It Is known to all close observers that great economic changes are going on in the United States. These changes not only affect manufacturing but "agricul ture and livestock production. The con suming capacity of the people of the United States presses upon "wheat and meat. Many think our -country is ap proaching the limit of its capacity to grow wheat for export, and that our centers of population on the Atlantic seaboard will soon require foreign wheat. It is hardly possible to exag gerate the significance of such a fact Our own wheat lands may Indeed be made to produce more wheat than they have yet produced; but consumption In creases , at a rapid rate, and the time cannot be distant when our own peo ple will consume all the wheat the country can produce, and will require more. The experience of the present year is an admonition that the time is coming and may not be distant when - -we must Import wheat. Likewise, In all probability we shall soon have no meat for export, nor dairy products What change in economic conditions r .these facts mean must be .apparent even upon tne sngntest statement or them. It will mean readjustment of the re lations of agricultural and manfuac jrr -.turlng industries towards each other therefore modifications of present tar ;lffs, so that food and raw materials may cost less. The problem will force Jf itself to solution, on economic lines a -for, as we approach the limit of home production of wheat and meat, the con flict between the prices of agricultural products and of manufactured goods jr will be Intensified, and tariff readjust r ments will be forced by the very nature of things. Not now, nor for a long time, will the people of the United States give up the policy of protection. But readjust ment of tariff schedules, to meet new conditions, will be compelled soon. The . great plains of the country will carry no more cattle and sheep than now. In J this direction Nature's limit has been i reached. Irrigation will do something towards providing more grass and other crops, but the results will be slow, and increase of the demand for a consumption will outrun increase of production. The supply of meats de pends very largely on maize or. corn and if this, crop also has not reached its limit, the demand henceforth is likely' to exceed the increase of supply Capitalists of the United States, en aged Jn the meat trade, perceiving the inadequacy of the home supply to fu ture demands, are making, it ""is said heavy investments, as much already as $50,000,000, 3n other-countries, chiefly in- Africa and South America, to secure V an unfailing supply of meat. Beef, mutton and pork are likely to be highe: in our markets; so are poultry and eggs and dairy products; and we shall fall more and more, In our supply of home wool, behind the demand. In hides and leather necessarily the same. These changes are beginning, Indeed they are fairly under way. There will v be no sudden revolution, but the changes are inevitable. .On the political side, unless dealt with in a spirit of prevision and understanding, they may make a political revolution. is O-CK PACIFIC COAST WINTER CLIMATE. - There have been high winds, for this region, during the paet three or four i days; but as the temperature has not -f -been low there has been only a mod erale rainfall. A fall of five to ten de grees in the temperature would have - produced a downpour of rain, which ! TOay come later, when the temperature i shall fall. These gaies, meanwmie. H have carried the rain-laden clouds far i timr north. - have caused nrecioitailoa in the form of enow 4n the mountain ranges around us. Yet possibly there may he yet warmer winds within, a short time, which will carry out of the mountains with, addi tional rain the snow that has already fallen, and cause high water all over Western Oregon and Western Wash ington. This has happened repeatedly heretofore. Our climate has the same general features from year to year, but it is Impossible to foresee Just what may happen In any year. The highest water ever known In Western Oregon and Western Washington resulted from two days rain, November 29-80, In 1S6L It was so warm that It melted the snow that had already fallen In the moun tains and threw the whole flood sud denly upon the valleys. It may occur gain, or may not. The forecast Is an exceedingly intri cate and complicate problem, and we may never get data enough for a com plete induction. At this time of year we can only guess that it is going to rain. AN UNCOMPROMISING POSITION. There is .debate on the negro between Northern and Southern Democratic minds that offers matter of exceeding interest. On the one hand we find the New York World, at the head of the Northern Democratic press, saying: The American people will never accept the dictum that a negro scholar Is the Inferior of a white Ignoramus, that a negro gentleman Is the Inferior of a white blackguard, that a man's title to consideration rests on the color, of his skin and not on his character and his achievements. The World hopes that this little lesson has finally been thoroughly learned. To. this the New Orleans Times-Dem ocrat, perhaps the most able, certainly the most aggressive Democratic news paper of the South the one of all oth ers that treats the negro question most vigorously from the Southern stand point makes the subjoined reply: The world can be assured that the les son It desires to teach the Southern people will never bo learned, even though their re fusal to learn the lesson shall result In the triumph of the Republican party for all time to come. The people of the South were- told at St. Louis that the New Tork politicians could carry the party, to victory If the rest of the country would accept the candidate they offered the party. Though the New Tork Democratic politician Is known throughout the country as the densest and stupidest of all politicians, their promise was accepted, and the result Is before the people. The Southern delegates were simple enough to trust their cause to men they knew were stupid, and have been punished therefor. But the Southern people will never give up their principles as white men for the benefit of either the Democrats or the Republicans of the gold-brick state. If the New Tork Democrats wish to organize a negro Demo cratic party let them do so, but the South will Join no party even if success be prom ised by men of Intelligence, who are not to be found among the New Tork Democracy that wishes to treat negroes as gentlemen. and to compare "negro scholars" with "white Ignoramuses," or "negro gentlemen" with "white blackguards." ... The Times-Democrat Is pleased to Inform them that this section does not propose under any circumstances whatever "to change Its post tlon on the negro question, and certainly not for a section of the country that always de serts when Its services are needed. The World Is entirely welcome to all the "negro scholars" and the "negro gentlemen" It can find and to keep them. The South Is pre pared to send them all to Manhattan, and their advent might remove some of the pro vlnclallsm that affects that overgrown coun try town. Of this statement the only value lies in its exhibit of the spirit of the. South. It is the genuine revelation or expres 6lon of the cause of the South's political solidarity, which possibly is irremov able. Testimony to the same end hatf been borne since the election of Gover nor Vardaman, of Mississippi. He has announced himself as not opposed to cutting down the representation in Congress of the Southern States, pro vided the fifteenth, amendment to the Constitution be repealed, and the negro eliminated absolutely from politics, in the South at least. In his statement Governor Vardaman says: I would rather that Mississippi's represents tlon la Congress be reduced to four members of the lower House and two Senators, with the race problem settled, than to have four Senators and 16 Congressmen with the pres ent state of affairs. The threat has no ter rors for me, howevtr. I do not believe Con gress will consider the proposition seriously. I believe the common sense Qf most men will hold even the White House spasm In awe and our land will still be governed by Anglo Saxon law. Of course. I do not know what the next Congress may do, but I do know that the white people of Mississippi will continue to govern Mississippi, whether Con gresslonal representation shall be cut down or not. . Government by the white man fs necessary lo the life and 'the preservation of the white man's civilization. It Is also neces sary to the preservation of the civilization of the negro. Crumpacker of Indiana has a resolution In the House to reduce the representa tion and will press it It will have much support, and possibly may pass. But; we think it hardly will. The value of the extracts quoted consists in their Arm and uncompromising statement of the spirit of the South. The whole country ought to understand it, so It may know how to act. NOT TANNER CREEK ALONE. The Tanner-Creek sewer Is a bad. job bad for the contractor, bad for the City Engineer, and worse for the city: but it is not to-be supposed that it Is different, except in the measure of its Infamy, from other Jobs that have been imposed on the city by careless and criminal contractors during a series of years. The whole fault lies in a system that rewards the special political activ ity and Influence of some favorite of a "machine" by bestowing on him a re sponsible and lucrative position. The City Engineer holds an office that re quires for the proper discharge of its duties not only a high degree of tech nical knowledge and skill, but honesty firmness and devotion to the general Interest, and, besides, a special insight into the ways of contractors and the trlcks: of the trade. These are'qualltles not commonly combined in one person. but they must be possessed by an ideal City Engineer who is to direct the -con struction and repair of our streets, the building of our bridges, the laying of our sidewalks, and such other impor tant work. By so much as he is sus ceptible to the blandishments of 'deal ers In municipal supplies, the corrup tlons of contractors, or the Influence of the "political pull," by that much does the taxpayer suffer and the public serv ice lose. These are commonplaces, whose truth has long been obvious to the veriest tyro who may have given a moment'; thought to public affairs. We hav always known that the City Engineer's Department has been the dumping ground of every broken-down hack and roustabout who could get no other job anywhere. We have known that there is a street and sewer contractors' gang ready to job and rob the city whenever it could. We have known, -or at least we have suspected, that certain ma ierlal and supply men .have found easy to secure business from Ihe city. directly or Indirectly. We have known that the public work was seldom done with the care, diligence and thorough ness that would be required by a pri vate concern. We have, in brief, long been aware of the existence of the mu nicipal graft; but we have amiably looked on and done nothing except to grumble a little when we had to foot the bills. . But now we discover that a steal of unparalleled boldness has been perpe trated, and we have started in to over haul the whole business. If the special Council committee shall smoke the ras cals out. It will be entitled to our profound gratitude. If the Executive Board shall probe deep into the matter of specifications for streets, sewers and bridges, it will be entitled to and will receive public applause. If the con tractors that is to say, the "Jobbing" contractors who are in the ring, will 'peach" on one another, and expose the whole dirty business, we may possibly try to forgive and forget; but we shall know better next time. If the City En gineer will tell the whole truth during the investigation (we shall be pleased if he thus shows that his hands' are clean), we shall doubtless find the way made clear for more thorough work in the future. And If hereafter the Civil Service Board will give, competent and Intelligent men to the Engineer's De partment, the voters may for their part take it into their beads at the next election to pick out a City Engineer who will know his business and do it. NOVEMBER'S DEADLY GALES. Heavy Indeed Is the toll which the North Pacific Ocean levies on life and property when the November storms sweep over that death-haunted, region known and dreaded by seafaring men as that "terrible North Coast." Cold, cruel and bleak are the western shores of Vancouver Island, and around the fate of most of the ships which leave their bones In that wild region there Is today the same air of mystery that surrounded the disappearance of their predecessors more than fifty years ago. Now it is a splendid steel ship with all modern equipment and appliances; again an overloaded lumber drogher or' collier, and even men-of-war and staunch passenger 6hlps have with the, others found a common grave along those shores, where the sea seldom gives up its dead.- The latest victim gathered in by the sea in its annual harvest of death Is an unknown lumber vessel, and there Is also a possibility that the coal-laden schooner Makewell has met a like fate.' The month of November, from the earliest records of marine disasters in the North Pacific, seems to be replete with these tragedies of the sea, and the record is one which may well cause. anxiety for those who have relatives and friends on the ocean when the No vember gales set in. It may be that shipmasters, after many months of pleasant weather through Summer and Autumn, become careless of the dangers that await them, and are caught un awares when the first of these deadly gales sweep down on them; for, while the succeeding Winter months are fre quently marked by gales as severe as those which come in bleak November, the loss of life and property is never as great as it is in November. The same conditions which -govern on the "terri ble North Coast" are also in evidence off the mouth of the Columbia River and along the Oregon coast. - It was In November more than fifty years ago that the schooner Machlgone sailed out qf the Columbia River into a hurricane, and about the same time the British ship Lord Raglan sailed out of Puget Sound, and no word ever came back from either of these vessels." The ship Joseph Warren foundered in No vember, 1S53, and the American ship John Marshall, with all on board, went down off Flattery November 10, I860, On November 24, 1864, the well-known Columbia River trader Iwanowna was wrecked on the west coast of Vancou ver Island, and all but three of her crew perished. The same fate over whelmed the bark Mauna Kea, Novem ber 25, 1866, and the Marie J. Smith foundered off Flattery in November, 1869. It was twenty-three years ago yesterday that the American ship Hat tie Besse was swept to destruction a short distance south of Cape Flattery, and on November 19, 1875, the American ship Emily Farnum became a total wreck" on Destruction Island. It was In November, 1875, that the steamship Pacific went down in the Straits of Fuca and 300 lives were lost. While this disaster was not directly traceable to bad weather, the American ship Or pheus, with which she collided, was wrecked near Cape Beale a few days later. The schooner Sunshine foundered off the Oregon coast In November, 1875, and all on board perished. That same monththe bark Florence foundered off the Umpqua River, and but one man was saved. Many lives were lost when the bark Edwin was wrecked off the west coast of Vancouver Island in No vember. 1874. Coming down to more recent years, there was the foundering of the American ship Marmlon off Flat tery in November, 1879, and a number of smaller disasters the same year. November -29, 1SS6, the American ship Belvldere was driven ashore at Bonllla Point, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and the British bark Webfoot perished a few days earlier near the same spot, it was in .oiovemDer, xoo, that the tug FearlesB, with all on board, went down off Umpqua. and two years later the British bark Strath blane was driven on North Beach and half of her crew were drowned. The famous old steamer Idaho, the collier San Pedro, the bark Ivanhoe, on which Washington's famous politician, Fred Grant, was a passenger, were all wrecked in November. Pilot Cordiner, of Astoria, boarded the British bark Andrada. off the Co lumbia River, in November, 1500, and no message has ever come back from that missing ship, or from the German bark Bertha, which undoubtedly en countered the same storm. It Is this fearful record of the November gales which makes their appearance dreaded by all who have friends and property at their mercy, and, if there is ever time when the Pacific belles its name, it is during the month now fortunately nearing an end. GAMBLING NINETY-NINE TEAKS AGO. Judee George's decision against gam wine would have been greeted with grunts of disapproval In the society that dwelt on Oregon sou S3 years ago; Indeed, the copper-colored gentry of thAt time would have resisted the In fringement on their liberty and pursuit of happiness more siouuy man the counterpart of that gentry does today. EvldentlvOreson is nearer to righteous ness than 9-9 years ago, even though yet Th Indian sassioo. for sramblinr needs no commentary h.ere, but it may be Interesting to note Xifiwls and Clark's description of a- game which took place December 8, 180, In & Clatsop village near the site of the present town of Seaside. Chief Coboway.-. the august potentate of the Clatsop tribe, whose blood, mixed with white, courses through the veins of a numerous pro geny In the Pacific Northwest, was not present, but the game was enjoyable, anyhow. It may be asked what busi ness had drawn virtuous Captain Clark to such a den of iniquity;. If so It may be answered that the quest for salt had taken the Captain to the sea beach, and he sought the Indian lodge for shelter from a rainy night. Says the journal of the explorers: The men of the village now collected and began to gamble. The most 'common game was one- in which one of- the company was banker and played against all the rest. He bad a piece of bone about the slie of -a large bean, and. having agreed with any Individual as to the value of the stake, would pass the bone from one hand to the other with great dexterity, singing at the same time to dl- ert the attention of bis adversary; then holding It in his hands, his antagonist was challenged - to guess In which -of them the bone was and lost or won as he pointed, to the right or wrong hand. To this Kama of hazard they abandoned, themselves with great ardor. Sometimes, everything they pos sess is sacrificed to it, and this evening sev eral of the Indians lost all the beads which they had with them. This lasted for three hours, when Captain Clark, appearing dis posed to sleep, the man who had been most attentive and whose name was Cuskalah, spreaa two new mats near the fire, ordered his wife to retire to her own bed and the rest of the company dispersed at the samo time. Captain Clark then lay down, but the violence with which the fleas attacked him did not leave his rest unbroken. The biennial report of the Washing ton State Treasurer shows a reduction In the state debt of $235,000 in the past four years. During that period the col lections on Inheritance tax have amounted to over 534,000. and the gen eral business of the state has doubled. The showing Is a very satisfactory one and reflects credit on the admlnistra tlon. The Washington politicians spend large sums of money In conducting their political campaigns, probably more than Is expended by those, of any other state in the West, but the flnan clal showing of the state has for many years displayed an economical man agement that Is at strange contrast with the lavish expenditui-e made In or der to elect men to offlc In the state. Ugly rumors have occasionally been heard regarding certain departments of the state government, but the finan cial showing Is a very good refutation of any charges of serious grafting which might be made. The trouble in Colorado, we are told. has arisen from defiance of the Con stltutional amendment approved by the voters,- that eight hours shall constitute a day's work. An enactment In law utterly foolish and Impracticable, and impossible of enforcement. By private agreement eight hours, or four hours, or any hours more or less, may consti tute a day's work; but by statute or by constitutional amendment never. It Is as Impossible as to fix by law 'the prices of bread and beef, of plows and shoes. Hours and wages of labor must depend, in the main, on economic principles, which can be controlled neither by stat utes nor constitutions. It is a field for adjustment by private agreement If a constitutional provision can ordain that eight hours shall be a , day'-s - work it .-can ordain that four hours oi; two hours shall be a day's work; And the thing be comes absurd. But-it is a field' for the play of political agitators and dema gogues. The King County delegation tothe Washington Legislature has adopted a resolution against the employment of women as clerks during the legislative session. This experiment was tried at Olympla at the session of 1903, and proved' so successful in every way that the delegations from other counties will probably again join with King and employ none but' men for clerks. The discrimination against the women at Olympla not only resulted in a saving In expenses, but It also materially im proved the moral atmosphere around the capital city. Woman's sphere In life is said to be widening, and it will be a good thing for society In general if it broadens out so that the fair sex will feel as much out of place at a State Legislature as they would feel at a ward caucus. Somebody again asks why the law in Oregon Is not changed so as to allow an elector to vote a straight party ticket by marking the ballot once. Gov ernor Chamberlain can tell the reason, for he has vetoed a bill for such an amendment. If the Governor be not accessible, the inquirer can learn by studying the returns of the Presidential election, printed In yesterday's Oregon Ian. In that election the Republican poll was 60,000 votes; the Democratic 17,000. Governor Chamberlain Is Democrat. If Republicans should vote their straight party ticket, the Gover nor would have no chance of re-elec tlon. The logic of vetoes is very clear sometimes. The liberty of the town cow in Mil waukie, Or., will in the future be re stricted. An unfeeling jury, at Oregon City has decided that the railroad, com pany which killed a high-grade bovine of Jersey extraction is -not liable for damages. It was proven -at the trial that the disaster occurred within the corporate limits of the town. Unfortu nately for the traveling men who are not charmed with the tinkle of the cow bell at an early hour of the morning, there are a great many incorporated towns in the state which have no rail roads to establish such a precedent as will now keep the Milwaukle cow from getting beyond her tether. This season's output of Columbia River salmon hatcheries will be one fourth that of last. We may blame "cloudbursts" for the shortage, -but why not flshing'gear? This year's sal mon pack Is up to last, year's. The .plain truth is the fish did not reach the hatcheries. Even a stupid person can see that salmon caught by gillnets. traps, &elnes and wheels won't pro pa gate. We should have a quiet town, here, and a good town, if we could expel all gamblers and speculators, all poolsell- ers and sabbathbreakers and liquor sellers, all theatergoers and persons who seek various sinful amusements; if we could shut up the clubs and -make people think of serious things. Per haps we may. The Oregon University football boys hitherto have bad to fight not only the Multnomah team but Multnomah, luck to feeot. -Maybe luck will switch Mm day. THE EARTH'S SAFEST PLACES. One of Them Is the Railroad Train The Ocean Steamer Safer Still. Chicago Inter-Ocean-The Scientific American recently called attention to the odd fact that the man who rides a few score feet Jn a New York City elevator runs a greater risk of Injury and death than the man who travels from Now York to Chicago and back on the fastest trains. No fewer than 30 persons were killed, and many more hurt, in New York elevator accidents In the first nine months of this year. No such pro portion of those who traveled on the fast passenger trains between the two cities were even hurt. Yet the average man buys an accl dent Insurance ticket whenever he starts on a railway Journey of any length, and never thinks of such pre cautions before entering the car that lifts him to his office. Whenever a nntablo railway accident occurs he. talks for days about the great loss of life. But he never thinks of the pro portlonately greater loss of life every day from accidents that befall men at home in their own houses. The returned missionary who pub licly complained the other day that. after living entirely unhurt for four years among the wildest savages of Africa, he bad no sooner returned to civilization than he met with a railway accident that kept him in hospital for six months, curiously illustrated the habit of the human mind to dwell upon remote dangers and ignore those near. Yet the fact is indisputable the ac cldent Insurance companies have proved it to their finaclal loss and gain that one of the most dangerous places a man can be Is in his own home, whereas one of the safest is In a first-class railway train at full speed. while the very safest place on earth is aboard a first-class steamship in the middle or the ocean. GENERAL KEIFER THROWN UP By the Mighty Tidal Wave for Roose velt. iVoin Washington letter to Philadelphia Whlle one unique . character. Senator Cockrell, will leave Congress, another will enter. -J. Warren Keifer. Speaker of the House of Representatives some 20-odd years ago, and who has been in political retirement ever since, will come back to tho House from the Seventh Ohio District. He is bound to attract attention when he appears before the Speaker's desk to take the oath of office. Unless ho abandons the custom of a lifetime, he will appear there in a swallow-tail coat, as that is the style of garment he has always worn in public. General Keifer, for he was a General in two wars, and a most gallant and efficient commanaer, was aeieatea ror congress oy newspaper men. wnne speaker oi tna House, he took the control of the press gallery away from the standing committee of correspondents, and on important and Interesting occasions would fill it with his particular friends, excluding the newspa per men completely from watching the proceedings of the House. The press com mittee, of which General Henry V. Boyn ton was chairman, took the matter in its own hands, locked the press gallery doors. and excluded those holding cards from the Speaker. This brought on a clash, of course, and in the next Congress Keifer was rash enough to charge on the floor of the House that General Boynton was en gaged In lobbying for a certain claim, and had attempted to bribe him. General Boynton did not rest a moment under such an accusation, but secured a resolution of Inquiry, which was adopted over the protest of Keifer. A committee was appointed and Keifer invited to sus tain his charges, which he was unable to do. General Boynton was completely ex onerated. and" for having made unfounded and unsupported charge's the newspapers jurnea on General Keifer and kept him out or pumic lire for 20 years. Civilized Man and Savage. There is no essential difference in qualities between the civilized man and the savage, writes Dr. Curean in Revue Generate des Sciences (Paris). There is nothing in the civilized peoples that does not exist potentially In the negro, The difference Is a quantitative one. Among the whites there Is greater in dividual difference. One negro is very much like another; whites are more diverse. The whites possess greater extremes; there are among them indl viduals more vicious and more debased than the indigenous African. The sav age simply lacks morality, while the white may be? steeped in crime and debauchery. But, on the other hand the white reaches heights of intellec tuality and morality of which the negro has no conception. Then comes the question of the possibility of develop lng the negro. Can he reach the heights of the white? Anatomically, there is no reason why he should not theoretically, evolution is possible, but this course of evolution should not be forced too rapidly. It has appeared, in some cases, that too rapid develop ment has killed out savage races that in the attempt to keep up w4th the civilized peoples, they have perished by the wayside. This, In the case of the negro, would not only be a misfor tune from the standpoint of the hu manltarian, but also from that of the economist, for negroes are necessary for the development of parts of Africa to which whites have not, and appar ently cannot, become acclimated. ' The conclusion Is that the evolution of the race should be gradual. They should be trained to greater skill In agricul ture and the mechanic arts, and the highest results should be expected only after a long period of time. Retrospect and Prospect. New York World (Dem.)" The party yielded to the radicals In 1S38 and was overthrown. It yleldedjto them again inlSOO and was again defeated, It lacked the, courage in the Convention ot ISM to reassert its old principles of Demo cratic faith, and has again been punished by the people- The lesson is plain. If the Democratic party is to win, it must be. thoroughly and completely Democratic as It was, in Jefferson's day, In Jackson' day, in Tilden's day. In Cleveland's day. The results of Tuesday show that it can not, win If it is half Democratic and half Populist- It cannot survive at all If In Its. leadership. It Is to be half Populist and half Socialist. Murphy's Great Cartoon. Seattle. ArtTUS. ? Harry Murphy's cartoon "of 'Bryan in rAMnt Rmn nf The Oresroalan has attracted National attention. Murphy is a Seattle boy, and he isn't far-behind the leaders, even if he Is very much of a kid. In a few years Murphy will have a better reputation as a cartoonist v.o. TTntnpr 'Davantaort. The cartoon referred to above Js labeled "The News at' Lincoln I'm so sorry-" It shows Bryan with his hand over his mouth most of it. Enougn oi tne moutn shows so that it is easy to see that ha is making a valiant attempt to cover i hmA irrln. while the left eye is in dulging in the luxury of a knowing wink- What Won the Mountaineer's Vote Washington Star. "Do you mean to tell me that you voted for this Administration?" it An ona-arBTvA fVilnml ImerS. "It was under 'this Admlnlstratloa, air, that the experiments were conauccea awwwg the extent io waica iMpusreu. nain a : adulterated, thereby proving the superior Ity. sir. of our native bbsbhim aruc-- THE SOUTH AS A TARGET. Washington Correspondence Chicago Trib une, November lo. President Roosevelt's record-breaking majority and alignment of a solid North against a solid South, is being made the excuse for exploiting a number of Gov ernmental theories which were really not at Issue in the recent campaign. The President, members of his Cabinet, and party leaders generally are being im portuned by people who believe President Roosevelt in hi3 final term of office In tends to cut loose from his leading strings and will lend fits influence to any scheme In harmony with his own personal feeling without much regard to public sentiment or the possible effect upon the future for tunes of the Republican party. unaer tho influence of these notions there has been a sudden revival of senti ment in the direction ot the scheme to reduce Southern representation on account of the alleged disfranchisement of the negro. It is impossible to believe the plan latnered by 3ir. Crumpacker. of Indiana- can possibly be put through Congress, and yet there i3 evidence at hand that the scheme is by no means dead but on the contrary is to be made the basis of a vigorous agitation at the first session ot the next Congress, and possibly before tnen. It is a well-known fact that the real leaders of the Republican strength In Con gress are and have' been opposed to any gitatlon of -the race question. In spite of thlst fact, there was a time when Mr. Crumpacker had an undoubted majority of the rank and file favorable to hU plan to enforce by legislation the provision of the second section of tho 14th amendment to the Constitution. From personal knowledge I con say .that the race question was intentionally sub ordinated by the Republican managers during the campaign. They did not be lieve the great mass of the people in the North were entirely at variance with the Southern methods of dealing with the negro. On the contrary, the spellbinders and party organs generally were Instruct ed to refrain from any advanced position on the negro question. Speeches were made denouncing the Southern people for such frequent lynch ings, and Candidate Parker was regularly admonished to test his devotion to the Constitution by applying its principles to the Southern States, but on the whole the party managers, acting, it is to De pre sumed, on instructions from Chairman Cortelyou, did everything In their power to keep the race question as such out of the campaign. In snlte of this fact advocates ot tne Crumpacker scheme already have begun to make their presence felt here, and they have declared they propose to keep up tne asitatlon. What they desire as an open lng wedge Is the appointment of a com mittee by the House or a joint comnus slon to be designated by Congress and the President for the purpose of taking tes tlmony. This was the final-shape in wnich Mr. Crumpacker put his original resoiu tlon. His followers assert the least Congress can do Is to ascertain the extent to which uisfranchlsement has progressed In tho different states, making the Investigation entirely nonpartisan, and even limiting the committee in Its report to a bare statement of facts showing how and why people aro prevented from voting, either through property, educational, racial or other limitations on the ngnt oi sunrage. This uronosition. limited merely to the collection of data for future discussion, would not be opposed by party leaders If that were all there was to the Issue. For tunately It Is pretty well established that the appointment of such a commission would surely be interpreted by the South ern neonle as a threat on the part of the Federal Government to punish them, and the result almost certainly would be dis astrous to the continuance of good will De tweon the two sections of the country, Tf Mr. Crumracker and his associates press this question to an Issue, as I have been told, they intena to do, mere wiu pe a fight between the om-timo conservauv leaders and the younger and less expert enced men In Congress. The passage oi a law restricting the representation in the South is practically impossible under the present conditions. The Number of Postage Stamps. Wosfmlnster Gazette. a .nwiitiir in the "TTnlversal Standard i.aina nf Vi Tnsitn?0 Rtamns of the WnrW " the total number of all known varieties of postage. stamps issuea try an tim. la -to 9i! Of this number 305 have been Issued in Great Britain, and 6711 in the various British colonies anu protec torates, leaving i3,3ze tor tne rest oi wio Ttmriri TMvJdine tne totals amonjr me con tinents. Europe Issued 4089, Asia, 3628; Af rt, AhTK' America. Including the West In dies.' 60S5, and Oceania, 1425. Salvador has 4nto mnro varieties of nostasre stamps than any other country, tne numoer Deing 450. Poland and waunwan nave eacn found a solitary specimen sufficient for their postaj neeas. A Country Home In Virginia. uTAomvriTnM "Kciv. President Roose- -..aif hn heen contemnlatinfr for some time the purchase of a country nouse- m vir gina, about three miles south of Wash innn Tt Is on the line of a trolley road how under construction near 018 estate ot Surgeon-General tixey, oz xna -NTo in? a tho Whits House it was said that while efforts had been made by the fresi- rjetit in hiiv the estate, aar. itooseveit naa Tint T-eAjhAfl anv conclusion. The owner of the land wants more than ?100,000 lor his property. ainA hA wnnrf eot abroad in the neish that the. President would our chose a home there, property has doubled in price. t Quite a Natural Inference. Thnun,orhln" Press. nh John." said Mrs. Barjren. looking up from her paper, "wno ao you nuns is dead? "Good mrocious! Poor Dumleyl" ex s.lotmen' her husband. "Oh, no. What made you think it was he?" "I met him yesterday and gave him one of those cigars you gave me on my Dircn day." Country Will Be "Free" Yet Awhile nt TiiiIn r-lnhe-T)emncrati President Roosevelt will not establish AnttMon YnnTiarrhV- TTa -to 111 he sat. Isfled'to let the republic stand for at least lour more years. A Voice From the Vanquished "Washington Star. 'Missouri's gone Republican. There -aln,' wnM tn nv rm. -waltln now to ace the world turn 'round tne otner way. Considering what has happened, "twon't sor rtWA -ma tn thi lprtt To see the -sun rise In the Westinstead of in the. East. I half expect to see the sky come down and There Teally ain't no tellln where the .thlnr Is sola' to eno.- 1 I can't find proper language for expressln' Mlseonrl's rone Republican. There ain't much more to sar- It Isn't any wonder that my courage kind o falls : T-nrnj. hard when "West Virginia went o-xt-T-(n' in the scales. Twaa even worse to realize the music of the hand Took on & special meanln' when it played "Mr ataiyiana." Bat when you start a-tumlln, why, there aln t no way to seu Just when Vou finally have reached the hot nf VI well . ' 34ve 'em Tennessee "an Texas to Increase tk traae array. ihmwI'i sobs XeMBlIca. Tfae-r. sJa' ta say NOTE AND COMMENT. A correspondent whose depth of" feeling exceeds his power- of poetic expression, has sent us the following lines. From the" bitter tone of his verses it seems likely that some girl has been flirting with him, and that bis cry of warning come3 from bruised heart: The Flirt, The lightest thing In human form, A silly, flirting girl; The very worst thing to reform Is always In a whirl. . She flops about from place to place. In no place Is at rest. Cares not a straw for the disgrace- That flirting Is best. Supposes none have eyes to see, ' Or mark her ways or mien; Deceived she Is, as she can be. -1 By many she is seen. ' They see her where she does .not see. So often she' is blind. Her reason, weak as it can be. Sign of a weakened mind. She thinks frivolity Is fun. And fun fs right and fair. The foolish life she has begun - Will end she knows not. where, i Nor does she care where it will end;-- If she can flirt today, '. "Will make a "date" and to you prata. About her life -so gay. v "SVhen this low state of life Is reached. So 'very near a fall, Her boat may any day be beached, . ' Or swallowed In a squall. Be thou no longer- self-deceived. Floating around lite foam Upon the billows ot the deep , Flirting away from home. WILLIAM CALVERT. The thieves that- got away with 430.000 from Forcpaugh & Sells, should be able to have a regular circus for a while. "Dr. Coffey, of Maynooth says that there are more than 25,000 licensed drinking places in Ireland, or one for every 170 of the population. And yet emigration con-tinues- A Chicago physician has discovered a new ailment, which he calls, "football brain." Football men should be flattered at the Implication that they have brains, even soft ones. Another split is reported to be immi nent in the Irish party. One thing about the Irish party though it can't be subdi vided as often as the Conservative', for the reason that it contains fewer mem bers. According to the London Globe, . during the British army maneuvers, which were held under "actual war conditions," a scout of the attacking force asked at the Windsor Postoflice for the loan of a map of the district for his commanding officer. Apparently a customs officer at New Tork is to be censor of the Nation's morals. If a novel doesn't come up to his idea of what a novel should be, it must be destroyed. It would be a mean trick to put a yellow cover on a Bible and submit it to this official's inspection- As a result of experiments made in some of the hospitals In Paris It is stated that vaccination performed under a red Ught leaves no scar and causes less pain. New Tork Evening Sun. In this country money is frequently ex tracted without pain "under a red. light. London has a radium -clock that must be wound up every 2000 years. That's a fool kind of clock. After a man has thought about winding -it up every day for 9S9 years and 364 days ho will be sure to forget all, about it pn ..the 365th .day, and the measly thing will run down. There's nothing to these new-fangled in ventions. 'Saki," the author of "Reginald." has been hailed by some critics as the new humorist. A few of his scintillations that have been quoted are: To have reached 30 Is to have failed In life. To be clever In. the afternoon argues that one Is dining nowhere In the evening. There are certain fixed rules that one ob serves for one's own comfort. For Instance, never be flippantly rude to any Inoffensive, gray-bearded stranger that you may meet In pine forests or hotel smoking-rooma on- the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden. Now and then one hears of lamentation that Americans are not the sturdy race they used to be. The homespun ways of the pioneers are contrasted with the silken ways of their descendants, and the conclusion is reached that the American of today Is a creature of predlgested foods and skim milk. Even out here in Oregon such a voice is sometimes heard. Let all such Jeremiahs glance at the bill of fare for Senator Piatt's recent breakfast and be forever silenced. Here 13 what a lot of politicians tackled for their morning meal; Buckwheat cakes and maple syrup, venison, sweet and hard cider, and pump kin, apple and mince pie. Think of that, ye pepsin-swallowers hard cider and mince pie for breakfast. The Westminster Gazetts tells of an English officer who was stationed at Cairo for two years and never took the trouble to go out and -look at the pyramids. "What with polo and parties and bridge and cricket," said the of ficer, in explanation, "I never had a minute to myself." It Is not often that one comes-across so refreshing a type. Why should a man join a gang ot open-mouthed globe-trotters hiking across the sands to see a more or less dilapidated monument and, murmur, "How nice," or "Awful fine, Isn't. It?" There is far more physical good In a game of polo and far more financial good, If one is skillful, in a game of bridge. The name of this officer should be made known to the world, which does not often hear of sanity and hon esty such as his- WEK. J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. Mrs. Bacon Which do you think Is the beet talker he or hla wife? Mr. Bacon-Well, do you mean for quality or quantity 7 Yonkera X Is MIsa De Cleverly really going to retire from the stage? De Q-On. no; she' only giving a farewell performance. Detroit Free Fsesa, She I appreciate the compliment, but I'm afraid I could never make you nappy. "Oh. yea, you couldl Ton don't know how easily pleased I ami" Life. Teacher Suppose your father gave' your mother $20 and then took back again, what would that make? Tommy-JAII kinds of trouble- Philadelphia Dedger. The Leading Man What's to be done? We've got the wrong trunks- The Pessimistic Stage Manager Aw, what of it? What difference will It-make to the hotekeeper? Puck. H6- (at the reception) Neurlch doesn't be have aa If he belonged to the best society, does he? Sne No, Indeed; be behaves as If ha "Imagined the best society belonged to him Chicago News. "They are saying that you bought and paid for your election." "That's right," answered Senator' 8orghnm- "I can look the world la the face and say, I owe -no man a penny-' " Washington Star. Seedy Stranger Eaecss me, sir, bat aw yoy change a dollar for me? Hum&altaiiaB Why, yea. Seedy ranger-Thaaka. A w wJU you kindly tell me wfeeee I ea. w J -