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6 THE OEEGTOIAN, THURSD'AY, APRIL' 13, 19Q5. Sntered at the Fostofflce at Portland, Or., as second-class matter. SDBSCKimOX RATES. 1KVARIABL.T IN ADVANCE. (By Mail or Express.) v "Daily and Sunday, per year '. ' Daily and Sunday. tx nwnthe .w Dally and Sunday, three months o Dafly and Sunday, per month So Dally -without Sunday, per year 7.W Daily without Sunday, six months 3..K) Daily -without Sunday, three months 1.05 Dailj -without Sunday, per month 05 Sunday per year : 2.00 Sunday, nix months 1.00 Sunday, three months . .00 BY CARRIER. Dally -without Sunday, per week .13 Dally per we. Sunday included.... 0 THE "WEEKLY OREGONIAX. (Issued Every Thursday.) TVeeklr. per year l.M "tVeeklj, clx thonthn , " "Svkly, three month -SO HOW TO REMIT--Sed postofflce money order, express order or pormal chuck en your local bank. Stamp., coin or currency are' at the sender's risk. EASTERN' BUSINESS OFFICE. The fi. C. Beckwitb, Special Agency New Yrk; Rooms Ol-bO Tribune building. 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The further the Russians are from such means of sup ply the greater their difficulties. The natural thing for the Japanese fleet to d op to try to do, is to draw the Rus sians further away. The primary force in these sea operations is coal, and the further the Russian fleet may be from a "base" the less its efficiency. In these long distances colliers, appointed to supply ships ofwar. are but an un certain resource, i5r they too must burn coal and the enemy's gunboats may pick them up. The naval maneuvers of the Japanese, then, may have for their objects avoid ance of general .engagement now, yet drawing the Russian fleet northward, teasing it at every step, weakening it as far as possible, striking vigorous "blows when opportunity may be pre sented, and making such opportunity by ceaseless vigilance and rapidity of movement, at all stages of the game. Fifteen hundred to two thousand miles further north the Japanese will be near home, near their bases of supply; while the Russians so much further away from home will be correspondingly weaker. Of course a collision may oc ur between the fleets at any time; but we look rather for a series of maneu vers, especially on the part of the Jap anese, and desultory engagements, with no general result, for some weeks to come. The Japanese fleet is so far from nome at this time chiefly for the pur pose of observing the enemy and an noying him of course meantime to in flict what damage they can. But a general engagement seems hardly prob able, in th,e South China Sea. It is more likely in the vicinity of Formosa, rorth of our Philippine Islands, where the Japanese have ports of supply; or even north of Formosa. toward the Yel low Sea, Yet the Russian fleet may perhaps be so teased and distressed by the light, agile and daring Japanese that it will never succeed in getting so far north. It is a drama of highest interest: PANAMA AND SUEZ. Though work on the Panama Canal is in progress about 5000 laborers now being employed no definite plan for the canal has yet been adopted; prob ably will not be for a year or more. The work now being performed is of a kind that must be done in any event. It is excavation, chiefly; and much of this work need not wait till adoption of the final plans. Completion cannot be ex pected in less than twelve years; and if the sea-level plan shall be adopted, not within that time. An indication that the canal is great ly needed by commerce, even now. is the congestion of traffic at the Suez Canal, which is unequal to the prompt -transit of rapidly increasing com merce. Delay of traffic there, with maintenance of rates deemed exorbi tant, has suggested to shipping firms throughout Europe the necessity of cut ting another canal at Suez. The rates, moreover, are increased by arbitrary tonnage measurements, and appear to "be studied on the plan of "all the traffic -will bear." The company, apparently, does not trouble itself with the com plaints laid before it; so in shipping circles there Is serious talk of enlist ing capital in another canal. Last year a dividend of 26 per cent was paid by the Suez Canal Company. When it is stated that the average dues paid by .vessels passing through are about $1.70 a ton, it would appear that the demand for reduction, in the presence of such dividends, was not un reasonable. But it will take long years to construct a second canal even If the work should be undertaken. To finance .such a project is an Immense under taking; and the difference between exe ution of such a work and bluffing about it in advance, is' sufficiently ap jjarent to the monopoly. Some of the shipowners are -quoted as saying that they may alter' the style of their craft, so as to make the long sea voyage round the Cape the more profitable one for all but a limited number of vessels; and a leading shipping company, in a statement on the general situation, says: "After the conclusion of the war between Russia and Japan there will be great opportunities for developing the trade with Far Eastern countries. If, however, the Suez Canal continues to be managed as at present, both Russia, with the Trans-Siberian Railway (the efficiency of which has been greatly in creased by the war), and America, with her direct sea route, will be far more favorably situated than the European countries whose way lies through the canal." These are reasons for hastening con struction of the Panama Canal. But a work so stupendous must, in spite of all Incentives to haste and vigor, proceed slowly.The energy of President Roose velt is. however, effecting a re6rganlza tion from which more decisive move ments may be expected. But the Pan ama Canal will probably" cost $100,000. 000 more than -the calculation made when we undertook it, and longer time to complete 3t RELEASING IDAHO FROM BONDAGE. The Idaho people - seem determined that their present efforts to. release from bondage one of the richest sec tions of the Pacific-Northwest shall not prove abortive They" are not only mak ing an effective canvass of the districts directly affected, but they will also call on Portland for aid to carry the project to completion. The trade of Lewiston, the Clearwater and Nez Perces country is naturally tributary to no other tide water port on the Pacific Coast than Portland. But the railroads some years ago decreed that all of the products of that rich country should be lifted over two high mountain ranges and by a long, unnatural route reach the ports of Puget Sound. The short route with a downhill grade has been ignored, and a deaf ear has been turned to all petitions and remonstrances from both Portland apd the Idaho people. With no hope of relief from the railroad company, the people most af fected are now grappling with the mat ter In a practical manner. The O. R. & N. Co., whenever it has been as sailed for the manner in which it has ignored, Idaho business, has always asserted that it had sufficient boats on the ri'er to handle all freight from Idaho points. This, was a partial truth, for the Northern Pacific had cut off such a large share of the traffic that rightfully should have an outlet by river, or a river rond, that there was but little left for the boats to handle. Now the Idaho people propose to take the O. R. & N. at its word, and, by building the road through to Grangc ville, will haul out a traffic which will compek the company to build the river road or witness the freight go down the river on boats and barges. The proposed road will tap 400,000 acres of the best wheat land in Idaho. This land at a low estimate is capable of producing 10,000,000 bushels of grain, and the greater part of it is not produc ing a bushel, simply because the indus try will not show a profit after deduct ing the cost of the long wagon haul to the distant railroad stations of the Northern Pacific. There may not be as much profit in hauling wheat from Lewiston to Port land by boat as there would be by. rail, but the present cost of transporting freight from Grangevllle to Portland offers plenty of leeway to admit of both the proposed roads and the "boats op erating in connection therewith making money. With the construction of this line from Lewiston, all of the Immense traffic of that rich and rapidly-growing section would be at once brought In close touch with Portland. THis city has much at stake in the matter, and our Idaho friends should receive the most substantial encouragement in their enterprise. RAILROADS IN OREGON. When the rapid development ofsEast ern Washington Is contrasted with the slower growth of Eastern Oregon, study of the map on which railroads are laid down tells the reason why. That the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern have made more effort and showed greater inducements toward getting in newcomers than the lines under Mr. Harriman's control is not the whole story. The cause is rather to be found in the number and the routes of the railroads. Turning, then, to the map of Oregon, a strange situation is disclosed. So far as trans continental traffic is concerned, the O. R. & N. road, entering the state at Huntington, about midway on the ex treme east line, running northwest across one" corner, and then following the northern boundary of the state to Portland, is our only Eastern outlet. Thus the whole State of Oregon south of the Columbia, 250 miles wide, or thereabouts, from north to south, has no railroad, either direct or connect ing, to the East. The Willamette Val ley enjoys the benefit of the Southern Pacific main line from north to south, and three of its branches, and is also cut in the center of its whole length by the Willamette River, navigable for sternwheel steamboats jfor nine months in the year. But Western Oregon is also entirely without railroad connec tion to the East, except by way of Portland, on its northern edge. Its neighbor. Eastern Oregon, might as well be 500 miles away. The two main divisions of the state. Western and Eastern Oregon, are without any easier way of travel than the very old-fash ioned wagon roads, and not many of them. The whole situation borders on ab surdity to all acquainted with the state, in resources, population, progress and opportunities. To Portland the condi tion is most serious. The term "Inland Empire" Is frequently used by writers. But the application so far made is to the comparatively narrow stretch along the Columbia River, and the rich re gions of Southeastern Washington and Northeastern Oregon. Three-fourths of Oregon is left out. For what reason? Just as in the matter of railroad freights and Tates conditions of twen ty-flve years back are unchanged still. so it is assumed that the infant Oregon is still in long clothes as regards its necessities for communication beyond the walls of the nursery. What does a railroad ask? An easy and, reasonably cheap route? It is here. The Malheur River af fords access to Central Eastern Oregon from the valley of the Snake. The great central depression of irrigable lands, and of farming lands teeming with the elements of fertility, stretches for 200 miles across Oregon to the eastern slope of the Cascades. Set tlement Is pushing in already, Irriga tion plana are , -in actual operation. farms are already being made 150 miles from a railroad terminus. Cheap, easy and rapid construction is demonstrably possible. There is more than one avail able pass over the Cascades, with prac ticable grades, and great traffic in tim ber every foot of the way. Billions of feet of lumber are necessarily tributary to such a road. On the Western side of the mountains is the prosperous Wil lamette Valley, witlk. its towns and farms. And so to Portland, where the ships are waiting and where capital stands ready to take up the 'business development of the veritable "Inland Empire." This is Nature's plan for the opening of Eastern Oregon. What the map sliows is two or three little stub railroads from thirty to seventy miles long, following tributaries of the Co lumbia southwards to the edge of the high lands bounding the Columbia River basin, and there stopping. And the great area south of them, with Its splendid opportunities. Is untouched and abandoned' to chance for its de velopment. It is just possible that some fine day Portland will wake to see a railroad staked out from California northeast into Southeastern Oregon, by easy routes which are well known, and have been thoroughly examined. It will be a poor satisfaction to have to say then, "I told you so." NEW-STYLE GOLD BRICK. New York, the home of high flnancej and the headquarters of most of the commercial brigands of modern times. highly Incensed over a bunco game that has just been worked on the Gotham Philanthropists, wherein they secured none of the swag. "The American Maritime League" was the brand on this latest cold brick that has beensold to the patriotic financiers, and the announced excuse for Its coming Into existence was a desire to assist in securing a subsidy for American ships. The league, to quote from a circular bearing a facsimile of ex-Senator John ihurston's signature, "owes its ex istence to the generous patriotism of men. whose motives are the unselfish dvancement of their country's best In terests," and it made the further con fession that It was deDendent for suc cess "upon the co-operation throughout the country of men selected to share In the glory of the achievement.'; A large number of men were "so anx ious to "share in the dory of the chlevement" that they nromntlv con tributed 525 each for a life membership. The Eastern millionaire Is a cold blooded individual. He has chanced but little since the days when he in vested his money in ships and rum, and exchanged cargoes of the latter for slaves. Consequently when there were no returns of either clorv or cash from the $25 investment, he began investigat ing, and before proceeding far with the inquiry discovered that the nromoters of the American Maritime League were aomg just what a great many men of high station have for years been en deavoring to do that is. they were Irv ing to coin patriotic sentiment regard ing the American flag on the ocean into unpatriotic dollars' for themselves. The scheme apparently caught all of the old crowd that has labored so hard to saddle a ship subsidy bill on the American people, and for months the promoters of the "league" circulat ed without protest letters on which were engraved, as members of the ad visory board, the names of some of the greatest financiers and statesmen In the country. But It eventually dawned on these avaricious victims that the leatrue was upbuilding much more rapidly than the merchant marine, and now thev are making loud and indignant protests against the game which has been worked on them. 'Twas ever thus. Little steals are always despicable, and this particular case of graft was so in finitesimal in proportion to the $180,000, 000 graft which the subsidy-seekers en deavored to work out of the Treasury that it would not be at all surprising if the promoters were arrested and pun ished, as of1 course they should be. Out of all evil some good is said to come, and perhaps the exposure of. the American Maritime League may result in still further discredit for the greater scheme of raiding the Treasury of mil Hons under the false pretenses of patri otic motives. A great many crimes are committed in the name of the American flag, and the "tuppenny" affair of the American Maritime League was one of the least. RELIGION AS A COMMODITY. We are taught in this country to be lieve that religion and politics will not mix. The wisdom of this teaching has been verified as often as an attempt has been made to disregard it by the vigorous protests that It has raised. In the Old World they have had some stir ring experiences in the same line, and effort to steer. clear of them without yielding a point on either side has often been ludicrous and in a sense painful to witness. Years ago, when Grand Duke ViadI mlr, of Russia, sought' a wife among German Princesses, his quest was vain until an agreement was reached where by his bride was permitted to retain the Protestant belief as taught In the German Lutheran Church. In the mem oirs of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, and mother of the present Czarina of Russia and of the Grand Duchess Sergius, we find a let ter congratulating the Princess, now Grand Duchess Vladimir, upon her firmness In maintaining her religious belief, together with an expression of the hope that all German Princesses would thereafter follow her example The struggle made by the two daugh ters of Princess Alice to carry the prin clple of religious freedom into Russia, as imperial wives; is a matter of more recent history. The power of the Greek orthodox church might be cajoled for a time, but it could not long be defied. Grand Duchess Sergius, after enduring great indignities and manifold persecu tions for several years, finally surren dered to the ecclesiastical powers of Holy Russia, and -renounced her relig. ion. The experience of the Czarina, her sister, was similar, except that she yielded earlier in the struggle, and for the sake of domestic and official peace renounced and denounced the religion in which she was carefully and consci entiously brought up. The latest attempt to effect a com promise in religions for the purpose of marriage is witnessed In the quest of Alphonso, King of Spain, for a bride We-learn- from a. recent dispatch that an arrangement has been made where by His Most Catholic Majesty may marry an English Princess, daughter of the Duke of Connaught, who Is brother of King Edward. This Princess is, of course, a member, more or less devout of the established church of England, The plan, which it is said has been ap prover? by, the Pope, is that she may as Queen of Spain retain the religious be lief in which she was brought up, and be allowed to bring her own daughters up in the Protestant faith. Her sons, however, must be reared as true Catholics. The arrangement is utterly absurd. Indeed It is preposterous. Harmony in a household thus divided against itself would be Impossible, while the segre- ation of a family as to religious belief according to sex, is ludicrous, to say the least. When men and women among the rulers of the earth speak of changing their religion, as they would speak of changing a garment; when they lose sight of truth as the basis" of religious instruction and coolly dedicate children yet unborn to this belief or that as a compromise upon parental prejudices or superstitions, wc should not perhaps wonder that men in less responsible" walks of life continue to hawk religion about and use the compelling power of fear to induce investment in it as a commodity. Even in these days of fast steamships. submarine cables and wireless teleg raphy the sea retains much of Its old "trackless waste" character, and the whereabouts of the Russian and Japan ese fleets remains the subject of guesses. ' With a more circumscribed field of action, Cervera managed to keep the American Navy in suspense for a long time, and In view bf the un certainty of ocean scouting It is proba ble that Togo will not rush after Ro- jestvensky, as Nelson did after the French before he found and defeated them atthe Nile. In the meantime the game being played by the opposing commanders is being eagerly watched by the public, for a naval battle is usually more dramatic and decisive than a land battle, and the results are as obvious to the layman as to the naval authority. "Sweating" a prisoner is more or less necessary in most criminal casos, but the methods used by the San Francisco police in endeavoring to force a con fession from Mrs. Tortorici were of so barbarous a nature that It is evident suspected persons should have some protection from the "third degree." To take away a young mother's infant and to play upon her fears for its safety and to lock the mother in a morgue with the mutilated corpse of the man her husband butchered are methods fitter for medieval torture chambers than for a modern police station. On the ground that the return of Rockefeller's gift would have "ex pressed disapprobation and condemna tion of a man when he was doing an act of benevolence," the committee which considered protests holds that the money should be accepted. This reasoning would cover any case. A burglar desirous of giving money to the missionary board-could not consistently be rebuffed. New York has unearthed the skeleton of Captain Hicks, a notorious pirate, who was hanged on Bedloe's Island about a century ago. The remains of John Paul Jones have not yet been un earthed. From this it might be in ferred that the Americans kept in a lit tle closer touch with the graves of their pirates than with those of their patriots. A Mississippi mob has killed a white man. The tiagedy, however, does not reflect on the celebrated "Mississippi style," for the victim was a Sheriff and was engaged in enforcing the law. The departure from precedent is accordingly In a measure atoned, for the enforce ment of law is apparently very repre hensible in the land of mob rule. Mr. "Jimmy" Hyde excuses his expen sive dinners on the grounds that they were of value in keeping the name of the Equitable Life Assurance Society before the public. "Viewing the matter from this standpoint, Mr. Hyde has certainly made a success of the mat ter. The value of such publicity is ap parently somewhat questionable. "Good-bye, suckers, good-bye!" was the notice pasted upon the door of a get-rich-quick office in Kansas City. The promoters may have been a -little lacking In honesty, but they evidently believed in politeness. Having conquered a coyote by seizing its jaws, the President may feel more comment about tackling the gray wolves of the Senate, whose strength lies in the same place. Germany continues to press her at tentlons upon Morocco, not so much be cause she loves the country as because she makes her rival suitor jealous. Castro s "Insolence" and "defiance" might easily be regarded as "spirit" and "courage" if he were only dealing with some other country. Merely an Exponent or Interpreter. Tillamook Headlight, April 6. The Oregon Ian does not pretend to control or to direct the mind, the sentiment and the purpose of Oregoe. It Is, however, their ex ponent and interpreter. It Is a humble post tlon, ami yet a sufficiently proud one. Ore- gonian. And sufficiently important that Har vey Scott would rather be the editor of The Oregonian than "United States Sen ator. Some people do, however, get into the foolish notion that if a news paper is fearless and outspoken It wants to run and dictate affairs. The country newspapers are often accused of wanting to run things, when, in faet. they are simply exponents of whaf they believe to be best for the community, and whenever a coun try newspaper has anything to say about politics the little local polltl clans also get the foolish idea into their heads that the editor is wanting to boss the party. The Future of Africa. Dr. Carl Peters in Cape Times. Africa in the end will be a black man's country. It Is merely a mining country now, and 'probably it will re main a mining country, and. if we go on attacking the black man, in the end he will be stronger than we are. I be Hevc the time is coming when the last white man will leave these shores, and that will be the end of the white man in this country: and then this will be again, as It was for centuries, a black man's country. Dan McAIIen's Proud Distinction. New York Evening Sun. Dan McAUen. father of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, Is the most popular Irishman in Portland. Long life to him! The Oregonlan, And more power to the Exposition The promoters of the affair will leave no bad debts behind them. They raised the necessary cash, and the show will be sol vent from the beginning. Ourweatern friends 'have set an example that other parts of the country nj'chtvIoJlow. NOTE AND COMMENT. -It Is the custom for Japanese Generals to celebrate a victory by writing a poem. Most American Generals would rather let themselves be licked. In Chicago well begun is half Dunne. . In common with other newspaper read ers, we have the deepest Interest In the President's hunting trip. Wc read with pleasure every line about the various in cidents of the crowded days in Oklahomn. "The President was invariably at the head of the riders. At one point, seeing some water In a buffalo wallow, he gal loped to the spot before the dogs reached It and sipped up the refreshing liquid in good, old-fashioned cowboy style." We don't know just how a cowboy sips up the refreshing liquid found In buffalo wal lows, but we are gratified to learn that flasks are not part of the Presidential equipment Then the picture of the Pres ident holding a coyote by the jaws, while his companions cheer. Is a pleasant di version from the dally round and trivial tasks of the city-dweller, to say nothing of the capture of a live rattlesnake by a deaf-and-dumb Indian, who couldn't hear the snake rattle, and couldn't call for whisky If he were bitten. "A Mexican employe refused to stay in the tent in which the rattler was deposited, and for his timidity his face was rubbed with grease from a polecat. This is an old form of punishment among the cowboys. and Is hat-mlops." Tho Mexican may havo been timid, but wc confess that a rattle snake would be about ithe last tent-mato we should select. However, It is reassur ing to learn that the poor fellow's timld- itv brought upon him a punishment that may be unpleasant, but Is harmless. Lit tle Incidents of this kind cheer the public greatly. Now that the ferocious and untamed cougar has actually chivvied a patrolman, oft his beat, it is time the city official! took up tho offer made by the boys of Camp Creek, where cougars are roped as easily as sheep. A couple of men from the range should be asked to come down and take captive this rebellious brute, which sneers at the majesty of the law. as exemplified by a cop in his coat of blueornamcnted with a shining badge and girt with a belt supporting a club and a gun. Glasgow lends Chicago a tramway expert; surely Crook will lend Multno mah a cougar expert. Chancellor Day, of Syracuse, declares that If any man offers him 100.000 he will not be so Pharisaic as to refuse it. Same here. The San Francisco Bulletin says that its sales Increased by 20.000 during the publication of all the 'orrlble details of the Vilardo murder. After an attempt to explain the cause of the unusual de mand, the Bulletin concludes: Reason seems to have as little to do in determining the popular discrimination of news as It does In most of the important affairs of life, such as marriage, the elec tion of public officers, the adherence to political parties and the choice of a reIiglont Reasonably the news of an Important dis covery in biology ought to sell more papers than the discovery of the mutilated corpse of an unimportant person, but It doesn't. Patrolmen of the day rqllef want to have the hours of their shift changed, as an officer says, that they might have a chance of seeing the ball games. It would be mighty hard to pick a more forcible reason. Because his dinner was not ready. . a New York -man shot his wife and himself. He must have been accustomed to mlghty good dinners to manifest such great cha grin. The Lord Provost of Glasgow was mis taken In thinking that Chicagoans ad dress Dunne as "Lord Mayor." Their usual form of address Is "Oh, Lord! Mayor." Kansas has a farmers trust. Most everybody is for trust methods if they can get Inside the combine. Very properly the Civil Service Commis sion ha? refused to sanction the marriage of a chief clerk In the Engineers' office at Seattle to a stenographer employed In the same department. The Commission holds that since the wife would have to serve under her husband In the same office, discipline could not be maintained. This Is a sensible view of the case, for a woman, accustomed to boss things at home, would not readily abdicate her position during office hours. "Over in Canada." says the Philadelphia Inquirer, "lacrosse is considered a brutal game. Tennis must be about the limit of strenuoslty for the Lady of the Snows." If football is the slugglngest game the Inquirer man has seen, he wotild faint at a fast lacropse game, and die of heart failure at a game of hockey. "Washington and Jefferson College" Is intelligibly abbreviated by the Pittsburg Dispatch to "Waeh-Jeff College." Naturally Parisian dressmakers have Indulged in some" bitter criticism of the recent declaration by a Chicago woman that Americans would have no more of Paris, but would affect purely American models hereafter. One Morien Blossier, who is heralded as the maker of Pattl's robos and Queen Alexandra's coronation gown, said with a smile a "sardonic smile," no doubt: Mrs. "Wade may know what they want to wear In Chicago, but Ideate differ. Your Amer- ican women wear combination underclothes. for instance, which Is practical, perhaps, but you couldn't get a Parisienne to put. one on. She'd rather die of consumption. To say a woman's attire is "practical" is surely the last word of condemna tion. Little Dora was told that she shouldn't say to callors: "Mother's out," but "Mother's not at home." Scon after she had mastered the new phrase, the family went down to Seaside. It was low water when Dora reached the beach, and, looking at the long stretch of sand, she exclaimed: "Oh, mother, the tide's not at home." WEX J. An Essay in Musical Criticism. This is how the editor of a paper the other day acknowledged the receipt of a new song entitled. "When First We Met." Tho review of this more or less melodious effort wis highly original and offective, viz: As the editor of this paper doesn't know a deml-semlquaver from a diapason or a bass clef from a. bone tumor, ho will not be ex pected to give an extended notice to this production. "Wc can say, however, that the type used In printing the song Is clear and plain, and the paper seems to be of the best quality of rag. The design on the front page is artistic, and the words are as tender as a veal steak and as poetic as the song of a meadow lark on a May morning. The mel ody is sound and all right, with no wind galls or collar-marks. . The harmony also seems to be In a healthy condition, with no Dattnt defects. nr natlccable' blemishes . CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS Symptom of Disease nnd Best Preventive Measures. Aftcet Cities No More Than Country Districts. New York Times. The meninges are the two membranes by which the brain is enveloped. Th In flammation of one or both of these mem branes Is called meningitis. It Is a mal ady which assume several forms, 11 of which are classed In popular terras as brain fever. The three kinds of menin gitis which are of. greatest public Inter est at present may be briefly described as follows: SIMPLE MENINGITIS. This is com monly. If not Invariably, the result of ooisonoUs secretions acting upon the pta. miitcr. The most common source of in.- fectlon Is from diseased conditions In the ' ears, although the poison may come from any Infective focus in tlte body. The symptons first noticed are intense head ache, pain in the back of the neck, fever and delirium, with intervals of uncon sciousness. As in all brain troubles, there may be paralysis of the whole or part of the muscular system, from pressure on or destruction of the nerves. The prognosis is always grave, and when the disease is fairly developed the treatment Is purely symptomatic. TUBERCULAR MENINGITIS. Thte is a tubercular disease of the cerebral mem brane, and results from the malevolent activities of the tubercle bacillus. In ita common form this is found chiefly in young children. It develops slowly. The prodromal symptons, which usually con tinue for some little time before a clear diagnosis Is possible, are seen in a changt In the disposition In the child. It lacks lntcrost In Its play, becomes peevish and irritable, suffers from headache, and loses appetite. Death is practically In evitable. CEBEBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS. This Is an acute Infectious disease, in volving the meninges and the spinal cord. Children arc more subject to it than adults. Before the symptons become alarming there are usually two or three days of general malaise, with headache. r ''stiff nock sensitiveness of the eyes to ' -i iri. "-t.i'-j ' !r ! - v m t.i .v. iiui. ciuu jjvm - nines ii riisn iruiu which the malady has gained the name of spotted fever. Ah the disease progresses restlessness is replaced by delirium, and this in turn. Is followed by somnolence, or even complete coma. Its average dur ation is from ten days to two weeks, and the resulting mortality, while vari able, is always high. Beyond the age of twenty-five or thirty years the susceptibility to cerebro-spinal meningitis Is relatively slight. But that persons advanced In life may have it and die from it is shown by the lamented death of W. F. Potter, President of the Long Island Railroad, at the age of fifty. There are many cases of recovery" from attacks of this dread and mysterious malady, but when those occur they are rarely complete. Nearly always there is an after effect In the form of deafness or partial paralysis of the muscles of the legs. Generally speaking, recovery from a typical attack leaves the system wrecked. Medical science has not been in the least Indifferent to its progress, and it has been studied as carefully as WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IX WAR, Major Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski. a retired officer of the "United States Array, contributes to the International Quar terly for April a valuable paper on tho siege operations at Port Arthur. Major Zallnskl is an experienced artillery offi cer, and also an inventor of various mil itary' devices, so that he is peculiarly competent to judge of what was done at Port Arthur. He wa3 professor of military science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for four years, way back In the '70s. "Wireless telegraphy," he says, "was the only novel feature In siege opera tions at Port Arthur." This system "enabled the besieged to maintain com munication with Chefoo until August 31" our impression was that it did so still longer. Major Zallnskl thinks it difficult to imagine a condition of blockade which could prevent such communication," so that he is of the opinion that hereafter all permanent works are likely to be provided with apparatus of this sort. This is the more probable because of the fact that Port Arthur is 100 miles distant from Chefoo that is, the main land. So soon as General NogI captured the Nanshan positions and occupied Dal ny, Port Arthur was In the position of an Island. This Island, too, it must oe re membered, was nearly a thousand miles distant from the Russian boundary. It stood between neutral and belligerent territories that Is, so far as the Chinese could make their mainland neutral. This might not happen again In 50 years. Since, therefore. Port Arthur was able, under these disadvantageous circum stances, to keep up communications with Russia by this means for months. It- is as good as certain that every fortified place standing on its own soil will be equipped, in the future, with similar means of communicating over any be sieging force with Its own hinterland. Probably, also, there will be several in land stations, so that by a slight change, regulated by prearranged signal, one or the other may be used. Admiral Togo also used the wireless telegraphy In conducting the blockade. By its means he was able to keep his heavier ships at a safe distance, and yet, in response to messages from his patrol boats, to bring them up in time whenever the Russian vessels came out. Wireless tefegraphy has thus proved Its efficiency both for attack and defense. As to the rest of the work at Port Arthur, Major Znllnskl finds it pretty much of the old sort. "The various arms exemplified advances in the art, but they were the same in principle as those used in earlier sieges." The spade, the pick and rock-drllllng tools merely proved thejr efficiency again, as they had done before. Major Zallnskl speaks of the remark able use made by the Japanese of the telephone. "The battle about Liao Yang," he says, "was fought along a frontage of from 40 to 50 miles, but with the same accord and co-operation of the various units as if the battle extended for only three or four miles." The Jap anese front In the battle of Mukden was still longer, but the Jai?anese telephone system was eoually effective. Fresh proof of Japanese "thoroughness of foresight and preparation," he says. In regard to the use of automobile tor pedoes, the Japanese have achieved more than any other nation. "But these re suits." Major Zalinski sententiousiy adds, "were largely obtained against an enemy not vigilant at tho time of attack." When the ship's crew is alert, the torpedo is an uncertain weapon of offense. American Capital Saved England. Graphic. Were there no United States would English society be solvent? That ques tion has never yet been asked or exam ined. Several millions have been brought Into our society during tho last 40 years by American heiresses, and an enormous sum has been received in exchange for land, paintings, engravings, old furniture, works of art, jewels, plate and books. Moreover," American capital has been in vested in this country mostly through the intervention of titled Englishmen, who, of course, have generally benefited by the transaction. Probably J100,v0.000 has come to the west end through these various transactions. Would the west end have been bankruot had that' sum not been procurable? any other disease, but the results of tills study have been fruitless as regards the finding of any method of treatment wfeieb inspires confidence, and wholly so far pro viding a specific. The beat judgment of the 1 edlcal pro fession at this time sterns to be that there are no precautions which can ho adopted to avert cerebro-spinal menln-' gitls which are infallible, or even give reasonable promise of -immunity. Good general health, par air. and cleanli ness are, of course, safeguards aaainst any kind of Infection, this one inctodsd. It has been observed that heavy drinkers show a higher percentage of mortality than others, but this Is true of every disease known. Moreover, its force as a spednc temperance arsnzment is weak ened by the fact that children, who never use alcohol . habitually, are much more subject to meningitis than- adults who do. and that in the nursery it is even more fatal than in the hospital ward. American Medicine. J. Lewi Smith says that the -Xw Ysrk epidemic of 1S7S was preceded, hi MO, by heavy mortality from a similar ishissso among horses, and he speaks as if the; n accounted deaths of horses impressed the professional as well as the popular ntiad. In the rural epidemic of IStl. in Vermont. Gallup says, that the foxes and poustey died In numbers front the disease. Lassv, reporting some cases in Ireland in 1156. says that the son of on of his patients had 11 rabbits, and of this number alno died with convulsive and paralytic syssp toms. Wbittaker cites the histories of epizootics among artillery horses at Ore noble in TMl. among livery horses aC Paris in 1S44, and among domestic fowl in Algiers in 1S4S, all in association wfcth epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitle in man. Fagge quotes the veterinarian Far- son's statement that several outbreaks coming under bis observation in Ireland: ran concurrently with a similar disease in swine and dogs. A careful study of the epidemic distri bution of cerebro-spinal meningitis migh also show that Its Incidence is relatively heavier on small villages and rural dis tricts. Some authors believe so. PfeUCer says it is "a disease of Winter, children, and soldiers." During the American Civil War the armies on both skies suffered, repeatedly and severely from cerebro spinal meningitis, ami the history of its appearance and spread in France between.. 1837 and 1842, and in Algiers in 1S40. is al most a chronicle of the movements of troops. The susceptibility of soldiers would seem to indicate that the conditions of city life are not especially favorablo to the spread of cerebro-spinal meningi tis. If it is, as seems likely, more preva lent under rural conditions, one jaore 1. added to the reasons already urgent upon municipal authorities to demand exact accounting for current mortality and thorough-going sanitary government in small communities and rural districts. Thnn was when great cities constantly menaced, the health of the suurounding country, but nowadays it is the other way about. "WANTED A FIRST-RATE MAX. Spectator. What of the men who should be great to deal with this crushing me HJ aide of world events? There is not one amenK them who belongs past all questions to that small number of mankind who In. history have really guided events, or wh may be expected by patient observers to found as well as to contend. Two among them, no doubt, are big men in their way, but both William II. of Ger many, and President Roosevelt are ham pered by a disparity between their ob jects and their means which as yet ap pears incurable. For the re J, can any ona -nqae. a. isn of the absolute first grade, a Mapoieoh. a Bismarck, a Cavour or even a Garibaldi, the single man of our age the stamp of whose foot produced armies from the ground? Even the new state m the Far East, though it has produced men ade quate to their great task Generals who can win battles with hundreds of thou sands engaged, and statesmen who can finance a first-class war has not pro duced a man of genius, or one who can like Moltke secure from victory Its full results. The huge empire of Russia, seethma: with political and military activity, does L not evolve one man who is competent ettner to shatter the existing system or to reconsolidate the ancient order. Russia, has no Napoleon, no Mirabeau, scarcely even a Sieyes; only a Witte for a Colbert, only a Count Lamsdorff for a Richelieu. In Germany no one is alive but tha Emperor; and in Austria the only great statesman. Count Tiza, has neither suc cess nor popularity, and though In tho Emperor adroitness rises to the mark of genius, he, like every other diplomatist except Cavour. fails to found. In those two great military empires one cannot even name the man who in a great war would be chosen Generalissimo. In Italy, a new generation of politiclanrt is rising to the top, and as yet has in cluded no one who can solve the social problem or settle the eternal quarrel with the church. In France so little are politicians great that it is admitted by ail who record events that the fall of the greatest among them makes no dif ference, and that the war with tho church will go orhjust as well and just as badly though the protagonist of the anti clerical side has disappeared. In our own country Conservatives frankly despise the leader for whom they vote, the Opposition are almost para lyzed by the absence of any man even approaching greatness, while more than half the community deny the capacity of the one man who stands outside and offers himself as a ruling mind. In America no politician except the President, and perhaps Mr. Hay, Is vis ible above the surface, and the latter Is forbidden by the constitution to be a distinctive figure. That consensus of Na tional admiration which is so rarely wrong attaches itself to no one, except in the case of America and Mr. Roosevelt, and the Nations are left to the guidance of men about whom even their flatterers can hardly say with grave faces that they are more than able. The Kind of President We Have. Boston Globe. He dashes away to his relaxation 'with the enthusiasm of a boy out of school for a short and joyous holiday. His vigor and enthusiasm are an inspi ration to his countrymen. He almost seems to radiate vitality and energy. He stands as a strong- ami happy man at the head of the Government of tne strongest and happiest nation on earth. He inspires to activity all the forces of our restless and resistless progress. He hates all shams. He puts on none of that sour-faced mock dignity which so often cloaks incapacity and feeble ness of purpose. Village Sherlock Holmes. New York Evening Sun-. In an English village four horses were found maimed with a knife in a field. The village constable guessed that one of the horses might have got home a kick on his assailant. He visited the 'doctor and found that he had treated a man for a kick. He proved to be the man wanted. Casey Holds the Big Stick Now. New York Sun. - The President steps down and. jytt There comes an Idol new. "Who occupies the public eye . . And takes up all our view. A ng for all diplomacy' ' TV dent care where he's afc,- v. , The wilder of th Big SU9& BW Is Casej, at t'ac baU . - '"'? 1