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THE MORNING OREGQNIAN, FRIDAY" 'APRIL' -7, 1905. Entered at the Ppatofflce at Portland, Or as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mai! or Express.) Dally ana Sunday, per year $8.00 Dally and Sunday, els months 5.00 Dally and Sunday, three months 2.55 Dally and Sunday, per month. 85 Daily without Sunday, per year 7.50" Dally without Sunday, six months 2.90 Dally without Sunday, three months .... 1.95 Dally without Sunday, per month 65 Sunday, per year 2.00 Sunday, elx months 1.00 Sunday, three months 60 BY CARRIER. Daily without Sunday, per week, ...... .15 Dally per week. Sunday. Included....... .20 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year 1.50 TVeekly, elx months .T5 Weekly, three months 00 HOW TO REMIT Send postoffiee money rder, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Beckvrlth Special Agency New Tcrk: Rooms -4S-50 Tribune building:. 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McLaughlin Bros.. 240 S. 14th. Phoenix, Ariz. The Berryhill News Co. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 20 K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake-News Co., TT West Sety-nd street South. Santa Barbara. Cal. S. Smith. San Diego. CaL J. Dlllard. San Francisco J. K. Cooper & Co.. 746 Market street; Foster Sc. Crear. Ferry News Etand; Goldsmith Bros., 238 Sutter: L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. 100S Market; Frank Scott. SO Ellis; N. Wheatlcy. 83 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. St. Louis, Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company. S08 Olive street. Washington, D. C. Ebblt House News Stand. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1005. t- A PITtFUL PLEA. The statement of the Standard Oil Company, through its chief solicitor, published today, is not an answer to the charges against it, but merely a r.'ea in avoidance. It got rebates as long as it could; for in the early time rebates were not forbidden by law. Through this system it crushed every competitor, and made for its members the colossal fortunes they hold. The practice was deficient in every element of morality. Are men. to be free, mor ally, to do whatever the law does not forbid? Not while they keep the booty. ' Can one be pardoned and retain the offence?" There has been attempt to justify and to sanctify every great wrong on this same ground. It was pleaded for slav ery; it Is pleaded everywhere for op pressive prescription. To come down at once to an illustration right here at home, we find men who hnve seized the streets of this city for operation of car 3'nes, for the use of which they pay nothing, have paid nothing, yet claim a vested right, of indefinite extent. Some person now claims the sole right to sell salt in Cuba, under a "franchise" ob tained two hundred years ago. Such transactions, in themselves and their results, are all immoral. They are on a level with the transactions of the slave trade; and the fortunes have the same basis. The logic Is this: "A while ago steal ing was very general and -we stole. We iire entitled to credit for being the greater and more successful thieves." The other excuse that the Standard Oil Company is not engaged, as a com pany. In the railroad business and does net control the principal railroads of the country, or any of them, is as disin genuous as the preceding plea that it had a right to be a robber, through rebates, because the law did not forbid it Standard OH magnates operate in Tai1oad affairs on their individual ac runt. and the vast power that the faith . they have acquired through andard Oil gives them enables them t- control policy of great railroads. The whole of this plea is a pitiful one. 'j-h plea can ha,e no standing in mor als in honesty or in honor. It is a s'udifd effort to make bjack white, f ul fair. Nobody can be deceived by it. THE RAILWAY lilTE TROBLEM.. Whether or not . Congress should take upon itself the regulation of interstate railway rates is a point gravely under dispute among disinterested observers. That it ought to make and enforce stringent rules against 'rebates nobody questions. But if it shall undertake to fstabllsh and enforce unifprm rates per mile for the whole cpuntry. what would be the consequences? No one can say. fully; for difference in traffic conditions is ireal; and cannot be overcome by law. Water transpor tation will not cease to exert Influence. Fuel, grades, widely different cost of construction and of operation in vari ous localities, volume of traffic and many other factors,, cannot he Ignored. Reason there. Js, therefore, to believe that if flat and Invariable rules and rates were estahllshed and enforced greater evils would arise than prevail urder the present railway policy of fix "rg charges on actual traffic conditions. In ronsiderlng this subject the Inter state Commerce Commission, in a re port made a short time ago, said: "Uni form rates per mile on all traffic for any distance would arbitrarily limit rommerce to sections and greatly re strict production." President Hadley, of Yale University, whose work on "Railway Transporta tion" and contributions to magazines on railway problems take foremost rank in the literature of this question, has an article a page in length in the Bos ton Transcript, in which he attempts to show that uniform rates cannot safely be prescribed by act of Congress, nor by a commission acting under its authority. So many are "the factors, so various are the conditions, 60 numerous -are the technical issues Involved, that no law could cover the whole, and no commission acting under specific law, binding It to the principle of uniform rates, could do justice to the .parties concerned. What President Hadley rec ommends is the creation of special railway courts with power to hear and to decide questions arising in different localities, upon their actual merits, to be ascertained from examination the special conditions pertaining to each locality. What would be reasonable for each would thus be evolved; for It Is certain that rates that would be reason able In one section would not be rea sonable in another. Therefore Presi dent Hadley holds that Congress should not undertake to prescribe rates nor authorize the Interstate Commission to do so. hut should create a court or system of courts to try causes, on the principle of ascertaining what would he reasonable under the actual condi tions of traffic in separate localities. But all discrimination should, of course, be prohibited. CONTRACTORS AND THE PUBLIC. The public has recently been getting a vast amount of instructive informa tion about the devious ways of con tractors. Two partners fall out and fill the court records with damaging dis- closures as to the Port ofPortland dry- j j dock contract. An unscrupulous Arm j violates the terms of a sewer contract- ors' pool, and the shocking condition of the Tanner-Creek sewer is as a re sult disclosed to the amazed taxpayers. Somebody gets mad because the old game of holding up the city by false measurements in cement work is blocked by an honest City Engineer, and we are threatened with interesting revelations as to Sow th,e First-street bridge contract was procured. The Morrison-street bridge is' built with scrupulous reference to the interests and convenience of a street railway company, at what appeared to be a very reasonable figure. But when the hill for extras comes to be examined, it is found that a most outrageous mar gin of profit has been added. These are the things that we know about some city contracts. How many things have been done that we do not know about and may never know? How long have these methods been In vogue? How extensive Is the conspiracy to pluck the city at the expense of the complaisant taxpayer? What deals have always been made in street, in paving, sewer, sidewalk, bridge and all sorts and descriptions of work that the city must pay for? What schemes have been winked at by grafting officials to procure a fat portion of the taxpayers' money for the favorites of a political machine? How many ordinances have been tinkered with so that one firm of contractors shall have the exclusive right to bid for the paving of a street bj- a proprietory article to which it holds exclusive patent? How and why was this done? For whose benefit? It has always been so in Portland. The streets have been given away without remuneration of any kind to a street railway company that tears them up when It pleases and puts them down when and howvit pleases. Penalties have almost never been enforced for lapses in finishing any public contract, or for a failure to perform It In rigid accord with the specifications. Any body does whatever he pleases with his sidewalk, until, indeed, a public-spirited volunteer body takes hold of the abuse and requires a partial observance of the law. Billboards of the most offensive description offend the vision In every direction, and when a cry for reform goes up the City Council replies that a property-owner may do what he pleases with his own. So he may. but the City Council may nevertheless fix a license fee for the ubiquitous .billboard that will at least partially recompense the indignant taxpayer for the defacement of the landscape and the disfigurement of buildings. Building contractors fill the streets with their litter and the passer-by can get along as best he may. The public be damned. It has no rights and its only office is to pay without complaint, if possible, or In any event to pay in full the -outrageous tribute that contractors of all kinds demand and receive. What Is going to be the end of it? It may be suspected that there will be an end, because the late disclosures are in themselves a sign of the times and the city government is In hands that really desire reform, and will, If it can. bring It about. The truth is unques tionably that these things have been going on always in Portland. The dif ference is now that everybody knows It where formerly few knew it. GOVERNSnS NT-MADE WATERWAYS. The Tacoma Ledger makes extended editorial comment on the docking of a large British bark at the foot of Fif teenth street This is well up in the heart of the business district in that city, and the depth of water necessary to float so large a carrier is nearly twenty feet at low tide. The Ledger ex plains that "this has been made possi ble only by the expenditure of a large sum of money by the Federal Govern ment in the Improvement of the city waterway." Tacoma is to be congratu lated on her success in securing from the Federal. Government a sum of money large enough to make a twenty foot ship channel where formerly no channel of any depth existed. River and harbor appropriations are made for the purpose of facilitating commerce on the waterways affected, and any legiti mate improvement of this nature is en titled to support of the Government This is a policy that has always been advocated by The Oregonlan, regard less of the geographical location .of the waterway In need of improvement. Un fortunately for Portland, the Federal Government steadily refuses to appro priate "large sums, or even small sums, for increasing the harbor area, of Portland, although the merits of the Portland Improvement scheme are much superior to those of Tacoma. The Port of Portland Commission and the citizens of this port have been compelled to dredge out channels at their own expense, not only in the Im mediate harbor, but for the entire dis tance between Portland and the sea, the Government refusing to assist. The shallowest channels where work was needed in Portland harbor had from twelve to twenty feet of water, and the cost of increasing, this depth was ac cordingly of moderate proportions. In Tacoma the greater spart of the channel to Fifteenth street was dredged through tide flats which were bare at low tide, nothing bearing semblance of a channej being In existence when the -work of dredging began. Portland Is perfectly willing that the Federal Gov ernment shall spend large sums for im proving the waterways of Tacoma har bor, but we should be pleased to have some Government aid for our Portland waterways. The Ledger, - which is so well pleased over the results attendant on the "expenditure of a large sum of money by the Federal Government In the improvement of the city water way," should in future refrain from un kind comment whenever a modest ap propriation is made by the Government for the Columbia River. The Federal appropriations for enlarging Tacoma harbor benefit no one but the property .owners of the City of Destiny. Appro priations of the Port of Portland and the occasional aid received from the Government for the Columbia River not only help Portland, but are equally beneficial to every producer in the Co lumbia basin. Whenever Government aid is sought for these projects, the Ledger should In the future refrain from "knocking." FADS IN EDUCATION. It is only by comparison that we come to know and appreciate our blessings. Take the public school system in Port land, for example, as administered by our educational authorities from year to year, and compare it with that of Greater New York, as shown in a re port recently published. Our people have at times, and Indeed not infre quently, seen, or thought .they saw, many things connected with the run ning gear of this system to criticise. They have, for example, urged that music, as engrafted upon the 3chools and taught by teachers whose instruc tion In this science has been limited to a few compulsory lessons, Is worse than a simple graft, since it is more than likely to substitute nasal tones for the natural voices of children, without Imparting any knowledge whatever of the principles of music. It has been further said that drawing as taught in the grades represents in a large ma jority of cases time wasted. In support of this contention it has been pointed out that many a boy counts among the assets of his school life a dingy drawing-book, over which many hours have been spent, as a doubtful substitute for knowledge of the fundamental rules of arithmetic. Even now, so critical have our people become In regard to school management, we hear almost dally of school grounds kept "green and Inviting to the eye by compelling the children to spend Intermissions in school work, in I th.e basements, "in line" and strictly supervised as to whispering and play- fulness of any kind by harried teach ers. Again, we have been told, In tones hushed to a whisper lest commotion should be raised and trouble ensue, that certain teachers In the High School are in the habit of giving private les sons at $1 per hour, during time In which they are under pay by the dis trict, to pupils who are being coached for college examinations, and within the past week savage but subdued growls have been uttered because of the surreptitious introduction of eccle siasticism by professional evangelists into the High School during time clas sified as a "study period." But let us not be unmindful of our blessings. Look at the reports that come from New York City In regard to the fads that have been foisted upon the public schools by that prince of educational faddists, William J. Max well, City Superintendent of Schools I We have had many vexations, but cer tainly we have been spared some things for which as champions, patrons and supporters of the public schools we should be duly thankful. Studies In hygienic cookery have been Introduced. Into the New York schools, and cprtain hours of specified days have been given to them; washing has been taught," the cleanest aproned little girl in certain grades being deputed to wash the dirty apron of the dirtiest Natural history Is studied at first hand, pupils being required to bring their pet animals to school for this purpose. So successful has Instruction In this course proved, it is said, that many children are now able to tell a bulldog from an Angora cat Incredible as it may seem, parents are not grateful for the learning ac quired In these and' similar ways by their children at the public expense, but actually complain of these things as "fads" of the meddlesome type and declare (in subdued tones, as become subjects of an educational Czar), that they prefer to have their children spend the hours of the school day in acquir ing the ability to read Intelligently, spell correctly, write legibly, and add, subtract, multiply arid divide simple numbers accurately. Such parents arc the despair of the educational faddist, or they would be, were he not absolute master of the situation. It Is their province to furnish children for the schools his to experiment upon them. This is the relative position of par ents and educational faddists every where; but for the absence of somo "features" that have become a part of the public school course elsewhere, we may well be grateful. Neat, Well-kept children do not with us at least, have to run the risk of contracting infectious diseases by clay modeling or by wash ing the clothes of the most untidy chil dren in their class, as an object-lesson in cleanliness. Nor do thes have to "do stunts" in alleged hygienic cookery and brave dyspepsia or nausea by sam pling the messes concocted by them selves and others. If, therefore, we cannot be really and truly thankful for everything that we .have under-the name of education, let us at least be thankful for some things that we have not: Yo.uthfulness seems to be the princi pal charge made against Joseph B. Llndsley. candidate for United States Attorney in the new district in Wash ington. It Is also charged that he lacks experience. While Lindsley has four or five years ahead of him before he reaches the Osier limit, there-is nothing in his public career that would indicate that his age had in any manner handi capped him. As one of the floor leaders of the lower house in the last Wash ington Legislature, and a verj promi nent member of preceding sessions, he displayed considerable talent both In committee work and on the floor. There Is a possibility that the desire of some one else for the position may be the real reason for the protest against Mr. Llndsley's appointment. Richard Barry, in Collier's Weekly, gives an account of the 11-inch guns used by the Japanese, and the effect of their fire. The shell weighs 500 pounds, and each discharge costs $400. In ac tual use a shell is discharged on the average every eight minutes. Eighteen of these rportars were in service at Port Arthur A bombardment usually con tinues from four to six hours; so that a six hours' bombardment by these eighteen mortars- alone costs nearly 5325.000. The Japanese soldiers call these mortars the "Osaka Babies," af ter the name of the Japanese arsenal at Osaka, -where they were made. It was these 11-inch shells of which Gen eral Stoessel so repeatedly complained during the closing days of the siege of Port Arthur. The same kind of mor tars were also brought up and used against the Russian works onPutlloff and Novgorod Hills, fifteen miles south of Mukden, and forming the center of General Kuropatkin's line before Mar shal Oyama forced him to retreat to Tie Pass. Each gun requires an emplace ment of concrete eight feet deep, to hold it in position for firing and to prevent wreck from the recoil. The information board that it is pro posed to establish in connection with the Chamber of Commerce will no doubt prove ofv practical value In the development of the state. It will fur nish ready reference, so to speak, to persons who come thither with the pur pose of making: Oregon their home. That Is to say, it will provide a placet where necessary information as "fen business opportunities, professIonlS" openings, desirable farming and" fruit lands, etc., may be obtained without experimental Journeylngs about the state, which necessarily Involve ex pense and loss of time. It will, more over, show an interest in newcomers that is especially commendable, and that persons coming into a new com munity greatly appreciate. The policy or disposition of Oregoniahs has been to rest content in -their own knowledge of the special advantages that the state offers to Industry, trade and develop ment. There has been no studied neg lect of strangers, but an indifference" that amounts to neglect has been often noted. A step to overcome this is a step In the right direction. The profits of the iobacco trust last year were $22,228:182, and the institu tion Is credited with a surplus of near ly ;30,000,000. Now that "trust-baiting" has become a favorite pastime, it might be a good plan to put the to bacco trust on the rack. Tobacco is not one of the necessities of life, but It Is so universally used that the con sumers perhaps should not be held up and robbed by the exorbitant demands of the trust. This Is' another of the tariff-fed Infant industries which al ready does something more than sit up and take notice. By hammering down the price of the raw material anad in creasing that of the .manufactured 'ar ticle, the tobacco trust has an unbeat able system, for working "both ends against the middle." The Yaqul Indians are terrorizing the Mexicans and Texans again. A dis patch from El Paso, states that a band of fifty of these renegades are mur dering, pillaging and burning in the Sonora country, and that peope are leaving their farms and plantations and going to the city for protection. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, when Indians were more ' plentiful and sol diers fewer In number, a band of only fifty of the red devils would be squelched In short order. The particu lar band of Yaquls that Is now making so much trouble has been engaged in the same pursuit for many years, and it would seem that the date for their extermination was slightly overdue. May wheat In Chicago for a brief period yesterday sold at a premium of 30 cents per bushel over the July option. The extraordinary condition of the market, as reflected in this remark able "spread," is due to speculative manipulation In the May option, and a decidedly optimistic view regarding the coming crop, which has a weaken ing" effect on the July option. The Chi cago market is undoubtedly in very strong hands. . and; until some of the wealthy manipulators become tired of playing football with it, the nonprofes sional public will dp well .to refrain from investing. A Portland boatbuilder has Just re ceived another contract - for a Yukon River steamboat, the third to go from the same yard In this city in the past three years. This Is a high tribute to the workmanship of the Porland build ers, who have supplied both hulls and machinery for many of the best boats on the Alaskan rivers. Good men are required to handle good steamboats, and for that reason the highest-salaried men between St. Michaels and Dawson are the steamboatmen who go North from Portland to spend the Sum mer on the Yukon. Texans are persuaded that the Presi dent thinks more of their state than of any other. Kansans.. believe he thinks their state the best. Kentucklans are convinced he regrets not being born in the riluegrass country. The people of Indian Territory are sure the Presi dent wants to. come right out and live with them. And yet some p'eople do not think the President-a great poli tician. Some idea of the commerce that will be carried on through the parcels post arrangement with the United Kingdom may be gained from the knowledge that France last year exported by par cels post goods valued at 561,123,100. Of course, a large part of this trade was probably transacted with England In .nondurable articles, but the figures are nevertheless surprising. Dr Chadwick "Cassle ' Chadwick's husband" will play in concerts In New York at a salary of 5100 a week. He has little reputation as a musician, but he will play the 59000 organ saved from the wreck of his wife's Cleveland home, and the associations of this in strument are expected to attract thou sands of New York's real lovers of music. San Francisco's latest murder mys tery is as gruesome as any crime im agined by Poe, Gaborlan or Doyle. That a murderer should carry the mutilated and bleeding corpse of his victim through the streets and place it In a doorway Is as strange as anything in fiction. - With President Roosevelt whizzing around the South, Emperor William setting the Mediterranean afire and King Edward scooting across France, travel news begins to assume a live as pect. Henry James, after revisiting his na tive land, says that the American girl "lacks eluslveness." Hh opinion will be divided by several' impoverished no blemen. Germany wants the open door in Mo rocco. So does France. But the Kai ser and Loubet are shoving from 'dif ferent sides of the door. NOTE AXD COMMENT.-. A New Yorker is charged with the larceny of a million dollars. We thought that was financiering. Suppose you read of a man walking quietly along a street -and- finding' In a doorway a bundle which .proved to be the headless and legless trunk -of a still warm human body. "Wouirnot you feel that you had opened an Arabian Nights story and that the street must be one in mysterious Bagdad?. Yet It Is In San Francisco that this- happened, and it Is In the dally papers that you read of It Balloons are racing across the Eng lish Channel, but the steamship com--panles" continue building. -Traction is distraction In Chicago. If we were the Czar we'd be mighty chary about examining any-Easter egg that came in tho mall." - ghe mouse has little, preference for any "particular cat, and Morocco prob ably feels much the sametoward the European powers. , - Premier Balfour's "state of philo sophic doubt" is receiving some Jolts that are anything but doubtful. Portland's excellence In the baseball waj this season Is evident when one remembers that we haven't yet started explaining away defeats. . Picturesque, that overworked word. Is often a good description of West ern eloquence, especially forensic elo quence. Down at Hillsboro an attor ney, referring to a woman and her hus band, said to the jury: If the management of the Lewi and Clark Fair would cage thte pair and place them on exhibition on the Trail, and the devil should 1 visit the place, he would say: "Name your price: I want them. They beat anything I have on exhibition In hell." The effect of this upon a sensible jury must have been tremendous. How ever, we will not consider this aspect of the matter. What is most pleasing about this burst of eloquence Is the doubt expressed concerning" the pres ence of the devil on the Trail. "If the devil shotlld vjlt the place," not "when the devil visited the place." "Will the PresiJcnt grow bald?" is a question that Is being discussed by some persons. What if he does; he al ready goes at everything bald-headed. In yesterday's paper A man finds a bleeding human body in a San Francisco doorway. A Portland man finds a. baby on his doorstep. A Portland physician wishes to pay for his death-notice, preparatory to commit ting "suicide. In tho Superior Court at Ilwaco three women claim the same man as husband. - Why laugh because school children In New York are taught to make oyster stew. Without training few girls could succeed In producing a fairly good oyater stew without using oysters. President Roosevelt tells an enthusias tic audience that he Is half Southern and half Northern: that he was born In the East and has In him a great deal of the Western spirit For such an aggrega tion, he seems to get on mighty well to gether. Members of the New York Motor Club have arranged an "orphans' day," when they will take the Inmates of the orphan asylums out riding in 1000 autos. In view of this kindness. It would be invidious to say that those who make orphans ought to help them. Four thousand pairs of check trousers belonging to Victor Hugo are said to have been sold by an adriot Frenchman before the pollco interfered. It seems to us that those, who bought the trousers should rejoice rather than consider themselves swindled; instead of second-hand clothing they have purchased new. Much comment has been caused by the fact that Major Warner spent 529.S0 to get into the United States Senate. That doesn't seem such an excessive price to pay. The biggest diamond in the world cost ?3 cents' carriage from South Africa to the London jewelers. It was mailed as a reg istered packet In tho ordinary way and delivered at the London office with tho I morning's mall. However, when King Edward wanted to Inspect the stone, $623 wa paid as premium on a special Insur ance policy of 52.500,000 granted for its hour's absence from the bank. What a fine prize the mall bag would have been for a modern pirate, and what an appro priate baptism of blood for the stone would have been the sinking of the Cape liner that was taking it to England. Big diamondstseem doomed to histories of sor row and crime, but perhaps these com monplace days will except the "Culll nan." The New York Commercial says dole fully: The Idea ot March has came and went, her forceful winds are blown and spent, and April showers awake the. flowers and bring: the landlord for the rent. We haven't noticed any girls with .the new S shape on Washington street Per haps it's too early In the season. Frogs' legs are no longer poultry. The Board of General Appraisers now classi fies them as "non-enumerated unmanu factured articles." That's a long name for a frog's leg WEX. J. Canadian Credit. New York Sun. Canada Is elated over her latest financial transaction. She has recently floated In London the first Issue of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway bonds, guaranteed by the Dominion Government, for tho construction of tho new transcontinental line. The issue was 3,000.000 3 per cents, and the price obtained was 95. This is regarded as an indication of the high standing of Canadian credit in the Lon don market. Not long ago Canadian Northern 3 per cents, similarly guaranteed, found only an indifferent market, and it Is reported that the underwriters have been forced to carry about one-half of the issue of 1,923,2S7. Some of this has recently been taken at the same figure as the Grand Trunk bonds. Grand Trunk Pacific 4 per' cents, guaranteed by the company, were placed In February at 99. The construction of this line will call for something like 5175.000,000. What the Patient Needed. Philadelphia Ledger. "Mrs. Nagget," said the doctor, "your 'husband needs a rest. He must go to Europe for three months." "Oh, splendid!" she exclaimed. "I'll .be delighted to go there." "Very good. You can go for three months after he comes back. That will give hlra six months rest" , STUDY OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME Character of 3Ia aad Some of Fight lie Han Waged From an Article la TVorld'a Work. "William Travers Jerome, when, a number of his fcjends were advising- hlra against opposing' the renomlnation of ex-Mayor Low, declaring that the consequences of that course would be hl political elim ination, replied: "It's the right thing, and I'm going to do it. D the conse quences!" Imagine a square-chinned, graying man, built like a halfback (he never wag one, for he broke down in college from over application to his studies), give him the mind and spirit Implied" by the quotation above, and you have the District Attor ney of New York County in. a sentence. If you sincerely desire to understand him, hold fast to the quotation. Those dozen words are very near a complete explana tion of Mr. Jerome and how he has coma to be the most striking figure in Nelv York public life. , "When Mr. Jerome became District At torney, January 1. 1902. after a spectacu lar campaign spectacular in that he told the unalloyed 'truth he took charge of the' Heaviest criminal law practice In thfa world. His office handles about 13,000 cases a 'year. To do this work there are, besides himself, 30 lawyers and an executive staff of a hundred men. His fight against the gamblers, which he has waged since ho was a judge In Special Sessions, wa3 an enterprise that Mr. Jerome need not have entered upon, for the suppression of gambling falls more properly within the province of the' Po lice Department. But that It wasn't his Job made no difference to Mr. Jerome. It wasn't being done, and It needed-being done. That was enough for him;' so he went at It He thought that by strlctly enforclng the law he could wipe out, or greatly diminish gambling in New York. But a couple of years of experience taught him that the law was useless. He raided scores of places, arrested hundreds of players and keepers, but could get few convictions. The difficulty was that the players could not be made to testify .against the keepers, for by. fo doing they would be testifying against themselves, and a witness cannot be forced to incriminate himself. Mr. Jerome does not know how to give up. Having dis covered tle law was useless, 'he prompt ly set about getting a law that was of some good. The measure he had Intro duced Into the state Legislature made It Impossible for a witness to refuse to testify on the old plea, by providing that In a gambling case a witnesses testi mony could not be turned against him self. By the beginning of 1905 Mr. Jerome had had the law affirmed and was "preparing to resume his campaign against the gam blers after a year of non-aggression. Just before he was ready to open fire, the head of the Police Department. . a most excel lent man but not a very excellent Chief of Police, had an Unfortunate complacent mood, during which he announced that gambling houses In New York existed only In history. While this announcement was still fresh, Mr. Jerome's guns began to go off. He subpoonaed a few of the most Important gamblers, and In a heart-to-heart talk made clear to them that with the help of the new law he was certain to beat them. Did they want to fight, or did they want to surrender? If they would surrender, he would take no action against them. They decided to give up without a fight, -to close their .houses, and turn over their gambling paraphernalia. After this. It was not necessary to Issue subpoenas. Mr. Jer ome let it bo known that he wanted to see the gamblers, and for the next two weeks they were constantly dropping In to offer their surrender not a very gratifying subject for the meditations of the Chief of Police, who had been unable to find a gambling house In New York. Mr. Jerome's activity against corrupt labor leaders gained widespread fame by his prosecution and conviction of Sam Parks and other walking delegates. An incident that occurred at the beginning of this campaign shows both his audaclty and his power. The Central Federated Union, representing more than a quarter of a million of union members In and EXPERIMENT IN PUBLIC LIGHTING We rarely get complete facts and fig ures in the case of experiments in muni cipal ownership. An interesting exception is the case of the municipal lighting plant of Elgin, 111. This has been In existence for 17 years. What Is left of its plant has just been turned over to the local traction company on a contract to operate It for about two-thirds what It cost the city. In order to protect the Council making this contract from criticism, the chairman of the finance committee prepared a state ment for the cost of operation for the whole 17 years, which he furnished to the Electrical World and Engineer for publication. The plant cost about 525,000 and started with about 75 arc lamps. The figures for running expenses Include maintenance and betterment, trjough we see no charge for Interest on bonds or depreciation of plant. The latter probably comes in on tho valuation put on the plant at the time of the transfer. In 17 years the number of lamps Increased to 247 and running ex penses from $10,000 to about 52S.CO0. The total expenses for the 17 years were about 5308,000. The commercial revenue was a little over 516,000 from Incandescent light ing and Incandescent lighting furnished the city Is estimated at 512.000. Subtracting the revenue and the esti mated present worth of the plant from the total expenditures, we get the net cost of service, which varies from $71 to $03 per arc lamp per year, according to the estimated value of the plant. In place of this the city gets a contract with the traction company to oporato the present lamps for $5S. with a lower slid ing scale for an Increased number and to furnish current for incandoscents at a maximum of 20 and 15 cents for busi ness houses and residents, sliding down to two-flfths of those rates. The bargain looks like a pretty good one and it Is said to be approved by every one but the city electrician, his em ployes and his friends. Cautious Uncle SL Chicago News. Tou'll never ketch old Uncle Si; He's mlddlln wide awake. I've Been a lot o'fellers try An find out their mistake. , "With his opinion he ain't free. If such a thins he's got: He only winks an' says: "Mebbe It Is an" mebbe not." He don't allow that he'll commit Himself to no extent On things most people would admit Wtrs plain an evident. He winks when you start In to quls Twould aggravate a saint An then he says: "Mebbe It Is; An then mebbe It ain't." Ast him If one an' one makes two. Or whether black Is white-, " -If daylight comes When night Is through. If dogs an cats' will fight; . Ast him If water runs downhill. If Are will make things hot. And heil chirp up; "Mebbe It will; Mebbe an mebbe not." around New York City, challenged certain of his public remarks about corrupt laber leaders, and asked him if he would come before their meeting and repeat hfcs statements. "Sure, I'll go anywhere," he said. Accordingly, he appeared one Sun day afternoon In their hall. It was a distinctly hostile crowd that h faeed nine men In ten against him. He did nt trv to assuage their anger. It is a habit with him to say worse things to a maa's face than he says behind his bnck. a4 he did not depart from his habit on this occasion. There were fierce tilts. Mr. Jerome, smoking one cigarette after an other, kept his temper and met all com ers. In the end, he won the crowd, and when he left the hall there was an ova tion. One of the strongest of Mr. Jerome's many efforts has been to secure an amend ment to the present liquor tax law. Th present law, by prohibiting the opening of saloons on Sunday except such as have a sufficient number of guest rooms to put them Into the class of hotels, has transformed some 100 saloons Into the far worse "Raines law hotels." breeders of vice and crime. But even three-quarters of the regular saloons do not ol serve the law. They may lock the frent door, but the side door is always open. Police "graft" on a large scale is a di rect result of this unenforced and unen forceable law. Mr. Jerome hold that the infamous "Raines law hotels" wnlri be wiped out. and the evils of illegal open ing would be greatly reduced, by amend ing the law so that Sunday opening from 1 to 11 P. M. should be legal. During the campaign of 1901, Mr. Jerome an nounced In his speeches that he was go ing to do all In his power to secure the passage of such an amendment: and every Jr since he has brought a bill bafere the Legislature. The first year he wct to Albany practically alone, but since then the sentiment for some form of Sun day opening has grown so rapidly that It Is now an unorganised movement un officially headed by a great proportion C the most prominent divines, profession! men ---' business men of the city. Mr. Jerome has set at naught all the tried rules for securing political advancer ment. He is independent -to the limit at Independence. Before the campaign of last Fall, he was approached many times relative to being the Democratic candi date for Governor. His uniform roply wna that If the candidacy were offered him he might give It consideration, but he would not pull a single wire to get It Judge Parker wanted him as the candi date, and ex-Senator David B. Hill, Demo cratic boss of the state, called on Mr. Jerome supposedly to offer th nomina tion provided he could bind Mr. Jerome to bo a strict party man. Senator Hill approached the matter with his charac teristic devious diplomacy, and finally reached the subject of Mr. Jerome's am bition. He Impressed upon Mr. Jesoma that If he accepted the nomination as a strict party man. great would be his pol itical and finnneial profit. "Senator." Mr. Jerome returned. "I have no ambi tion to make money. My ambition in IKo Is mainly confined to being a good man. "When any one tries to take me up on a high mountain and show me the treasures of the earth, there Is just one answer I can give them, and that Is " and he ended with a graphic equivalent for "Retro me, Sathanas." This was hardly the speech of a "safe" party man, and Mr. Hill carried his offer elsewhere. "When my work's done, I trv to get as much fun out of life as I can." He gets a great deal, and It holps keep hlni young on edge. He reads much, especial ly history. Also he is fond of poetry which seems a little Incongruous in a man so practical, and so keen ror facts, un deniable facts. He golfs, drives an auto mobile, and has a workshop in his home at Lakeville. Conn., where he amuses hlmsolf by making sun-dlals, compasses, clocks and other glmcracks as gifts fpr his '.friends. Mr. Jorome Is 43, and is older and youngor than hi3 years. The moat remarkablo fact about him Is. he is still growing like a boy. When a man, already among the foremost of the country. Is growing at such a rate one can but won der where he will rank, and what will be his position, when he has attained his full development. COST OP COLLEGE SPORTS. Ralph D. Palnc, in Outing. In order to place 11 young men of Tale In the field against Princeton and Har vard last Autumn 526,596.06 was npent. or more than $2000 a head. To fit e4ght youths to row against Harvard, a test of 50 minutes, cost Tale 516.626.SS. or 5SO0O a head, not counting the coxswain. This boat racing at a cost of tho best part of a thousand dollars a minute. The football men were equipped with the greatest possible care. Their stoea alone cost $1189, a bill for footgear whlcii would Indicate to the rank outsider that a team of centipedes were in training. Uniforms and the armor of the football warrler cost 1736.52, or nearly a hundred dollars for each of tho squad. Hotel bllt and meals away from the training table cost the Yale treasury $5880.42. Carriage hire involved an outlay of $794. The base ball squad required ?7S.13 worth of mer chandise and sporting goods, or about 5100 worth of uniforms and shoes per years ago Yale football atfst $2792.8?, and there were great toven even in those days. Today this would not pay for uniforms and other wearing gear. Monster Tramp of the Sea. Metropolitan. The shark known as the elephant, bone and Risking sharp roams nsarly all tem perate seas. Its mouth Is comparatively small and bears -six or seven rows of very small teeth, perhaps 200 in a. row. The gill openings are enormous; the gill rakers long, close together and slender, recalling whalebone, hence the name, whale ."hark. The skin Is rough, covered with short spines. Where these monsters live in Wintor is not known, but doubtless they roam -'the temperate and semi-tropic soas. In Sum mer they are gregarious, and are seen In schools lying on the surface seemingly asleep. They reach the New Englaud const in June and July, the Hebrides and the Frith of Clyde In June and leave In July. On the Pacific coast they are found off Monterey Bay In July, large schools being seen on the surface, when they can readily be approached. Discipline in the Japanese Army. Tho correspondent of the London Mall at Port Arthur describes an Incident of the siege of the Fortress, when aftBr a disastrous attempt to capture a Russian position, a Japanese reserve regiment was ordered, to renew the attempt. Not a man stirred. The Major In command ad vanced alone, vainly calling to his men to follow. He was soon killed, and after a time the regiment, apparently struck with remorse, advanced to the assault, which completely failed. The regiment was sent back to the rear, punished with forced drills and compelled to listen to services in memory of its dead Miijor before it was allowed to go to the front again. For the Swell Banquet. Chicago Tribune. Cook The best tenderloin you have furnished us for this evening "is the toughest we've ever had In the house, ChefAll right We'll put it in the menu as rhinoceros steak, and made it the piece de resistance.