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One curious fact Is that In all the points be tween Romanism -and Protestantism the Greek: church is much nearer the Roman; and yet there Is no -more a prospect of union between them than of -union between Rome and Geneva, or Moscow and Oxford. The books that explain the causes of the separation would make a library Some of the leading causes may be touched briefly. The first cause was the politico -eccle siastical rivalry of the patriarch of Con stantinople, backed by the Byzantine empire, and the bishop of Rome In con nection with the new Franco-German empire. The second cause, which Is in cluded partly In the first, was the grow ing centralization of the Latin .church. through the claims of the bishops of Rome. The third cause, profound In its effect, was the progressive character of the Latin church and the stationary character of the Greek church, during the Middle Ages. This means no more. of course, than the difference between the character of the peoples of the West and of the East. In all the movements and In all the variations of history and of life the human spirit, in its different types, is the controlling force. Progress of democratic movement In all countries where Latin Christianity was ascendant has separated, or all but separated, church and state. In all these countries, certainly, the church. In state affairs, ha? but an indirect influ ence, such as may be exerted through moral power. But in Holy Russia the church, as represented through Greek Christianity, maintains to this day the position It held a thousand years ago. It remains inseparable from the state and guides It.- The priest is the agent of both church and state. It 16 the com blnatlpn which Voltaire characterized as "Linfame." In Western Europe In his time, and which his Immense lit erary power did so much to destroy. The secret of despotism in Russia, its stronghold, is the obedience of the peo ple to an outdated religious and eccle siastical authority. And this fact shows how difficult it will be to effect the reform through which alone the country can be delivered from a cruel and relentless despotism. PORTLAND. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1905 bogies which telash Intereets ajwaya stasd . . . . .w f rraoy cojre up ..." ...... rcvlr too. ThertJere. the time seesns awrpieious fer the work to be dae. But it Is from the candidates for Con gress that answers snouia oe rao. Such men must of necessity be in touch with the thought and desires of the peo ple whose support they wish to receive. and their opinions, if based upon good reason, must be most nearly represent ative of the views of the people of the district. It -Is yet early, but" none too early, for the voters of the First Con gressional District to listen to a state ment of the tariff views of those men who desire to go to Congress and help frame tariff legislation. Quite natur ally, the people wish to know whether a candidate for Congress Is with Presi dent Roosevelt or against him in his de mand for tariff revision where trust manufacturers are protected in levying unjust tribute upon American consum ers. Within the coming week the Statesman should have replies from W. L Vawter. Percy Kelly. W. C. Hawley. T. B. Kay and others who have been talked of as good limber for the mak ing of Congressmen. .Perhaps, more over. Walter L. Tooze may be able to snatch time from his busy round of speechmaklng at farmers' institutes and G. A. R. picnics to formulate a statement of his views. Turn on the light, and let us see what Western Ore gon thinks of tariff revision. "HOLY RUSSIA." In Russia there is not yet sufficient political and social enlightenment to ef fect separation of church and state. In the United States the separation is total, in England and France the con nection during long time past has been but nominal. In Italy the separation is nearly complete. In Russia, on the other hand, church and state,, 6tate and church, are practically one. This is "Holy Russia." The political afispotism has its foundations in the re llglous system. It is no new phenom non. The like has appeared In similar stages of human history, in all coun tries. Separation" of the churches of the East and of the West Is one of the leading facts in the history of the me dieval and modern world. The Immedl- ; ate cause;Tweier ecclesiastical In their nature, but political events as is uni versal in religious movements had everything to do with preparation of the way. The partition of the Roman world in 395 A. D.. between Honorius and Arca dlus aroused diverse and cpnflictlng in terests, which had slumbered while the empire was united. Transfer of the capital from Rome to Ravenna, the conquest of the West by the barbarians, and its final severance from the East, resulted in the rise of the bishops of Rome to temporal as well as to spir itual power. Thus, finally, the Holy Roman Empire came, and the union through the Roman pontiffs and the emperors of the. West of spiritual and political jurisdiction that is. the union of church and state, over one-half the world and the claim of Jurisdiction over the whole. The history of the West for five cen- turies has been the history of effort for dissolution of this union. It Is not fully effected yet. but nearly, Concbrdats have marked steps In thisseparatlon. In France and Italy, and acts of disestab lishment have been steps of the separa tion In England and Ireland. But the separation or disestablishment in the West is all but complete. Germany and Holland fought it out long ago. But Russia has not been in the cur rent of this movement, and In Russia though there are multitudes of dissent ersincluding more than five millions of Jews church and state are practi cally one The head of the government and the head of the church are united in the same person: and the despotism of the government, is founded upon and rests In the despotism of the estab lished religion. The despotic political system of Russia can fall only through religious reformation. It was chiefly through the course of political events that the Christian church in the early ages divided and the Eastern church arose. The founda tion of Constantinople, the dismember ment of the empire, and the complete separation, in a political sense, of the East from the West, exalted the pride of the patriarch of Constantinople, and raised his see to an equality with that of the bishop of Rome. He as indig nantly resented the pope's claims to supremacy as they were vehemently asserted. During thess centuries of in cessant struggle great changes super vened in the character and constitution of the two churches. The controversy includes an immense amount of doctrinal and verbal dispute. of interest to the "student of history, but in the light of the modern time consist Ing. chiefly of wordy abstractions. No two churches in the world are at this day so much alike and yet so averse to each other as the Oriental or Greek, and the Occidental or Roman They hold as an inheritance from the patristic age essentially the same body of doctrine, the same canons of else! pllne. the same forms of worship; and yet their antagonism seems irreconcll able. Their very affinity breeds jeal ousy and friction. They are equally exclusive: the Oriental church claims cxclufJve orthodoxy, and looks upon Western Christendom as heretical; the Roman church claims exclusive catho Hefty, and considers all other churches MOKE LATER, Managers of a plutocratic syndicate that assumes to own and to rule Port land, whose influence or pretensions center in the Ladd & Tiiton and First National Banks first families, and toadies to first families are and for three years have been "putting up" for a newspaper whose chief object In life has been vituperative attack on The Oregonlan. Well; The Oregonlan here, and under provocation Immense provocation It can Btrlke, too. Latest effort of the organ of the plutocrats Is the Insinuation that The Oregonlan doesn't pay its proper proportion of taxes. It will go into comparison any day, on this topic, with those who as sail It. Whoever may care to know may learn from examination of the county records that the property of The Oregonlan Publishing Company for the year 1904 was assessed at $185,014, upon which the tax levied was 17400.60. Also. that this tax was paid March 13. 19SS. We think It will be acknowledged that this assessment, on the basis of the val uatlons in this city and county, is The Oregonlan's fair share. This newspaper does not pretend to raise its head among the "kings of finance." AH can do Is to be a newspaper a news paper doing Its work. It Is ready moreover, to pay year by year all taxes on all proper valuations of Its property. It asks no favors. Of course the prop ert- of the Individual owners of The Oregonlan Is not included in the abov But It will be an Interesting. Inquiry presently how much tax the great banks of Ladd & Tlltoii and the First National (whose managers hav.e gone into the newspaper business also) pay on capital, surplus, general business and good will. It will Interest the pub lic mightily. and flour from India and from the Argentine. The Pacific Coast millers, who have had perfect control of this business for more than twenty years, nave not maintained, that control for the alleged reason that the Chinese could not se cure supplies elsewhere. They have enjoyed a monopoly" of the business almply because of the friendly trade re lations established with the Chinese; and It is the existence of these rela tions that has been a powerful factor In deferring the storm that now threatens to break. These American merchants have for a long time viewed with seri ous misgivings the harsh treatment ex tended the Chinese, and. If the trouble Is patched up now. the credit for the performance will be due to their ef- EDITORS AND OUR FAIR. The National Editorial Association comes today to see Portland and the Lewis and Clark Exposition, we Know the editors end their work, and we es teem them among the most important visitors we shall have during the com ing Summer. The editors know -us and our city and state, and they kjiow, too. from past pleasant experience that we understand how to receive and enter tain journalists, whether they come for business or for pleasure. But they do not yet know about the great Expos! tlon. except by hearsay, and so they haw come to learn, and to record what thej learn. The editors have seen ex positions. They know all about them and why they are created, how they are conducted, and their .value" to state and nation. They have seen the Cen tennial at Philadelphia, the World's Fair at Chicago, the Louisiana Pur chase Exposition at St. Louis, to say nothing of other events at New Or leans. Atlanta, Charleston, Nashville, Omaha and Buffalo. So they come to Portland anticipating no revelations and prepared for no .surprises. They are here because they like Portland and because they have a duty to per form to their readers, and that duty is to be Informed at first hand about any thing likely to Interest, entertain or In struct them. We shall not tell the editors that w have the finest Exposition In history. They know better. We shall not ask them to overlook the, defects. If there are any. and observe and commend only the meritorious features. If there are any. We know better. They would not do it and they should not. We shall not ask them to accept any body's word for what we have here, not even the industrious and eloquent press agent's. They have, as has al ready been Intimated, come all the way across the continent at large expense to put their own pons In motion. Their prejudices, if they have any. are all In favor of Portland, for the sake of aukl lang syne. Oregon journalism has ever been prominently Identified with the Na tlonal EdltoriiH Association. It has furnished It with one of the best presl dents it ever had: it has had the ex treme honor of having had the editors .assemble "In our midst"; It sends al ways representative delegations to the annual conventions; and It takes a con- plcuous part In all proceedings. So we say to them that our interest in them has ever been manifest in our work for them; and when we say we are glad to ee them, they know that we mean every word. 0REG0N0Z0NE Signer NlcoH Fina, of Portland haa adopted a novel method of making his relatives pay attention to him. Not hav ing heard from his brother la St. Paul, after writing sundry letters, he had a friend write to the brother that he was dead aad had left a fortune to the St. Paul man. The brother was so eager that he replied by telegraph, and enlisted the aid of the police to keep the fortune from slipping away. This recalls to mind the young man who had been living off an indulgent uncle. The nephew finally ran the limit of Indulgence and the uncle re futed to send any more money. Then the youth conceived a scheme for getting funds. He wrote: "Dear Uncle: when you receive this I shall be dead, by my ttT-tm Tia nrfti.nn In r mrvr than a month ago pointed out the necessity for own hand; I can stand this no longer. Immediate action, and within the past few days Puget Sound newspapers have discovered that the situation was crit ical. The President has Issued orders which will tend to quiet the clamor. providing they are enforced. If. how ever, the enforcement Is left In the hands of the men who have caused the trouble, small relief will follow. The O. R. & N. Co. has established a rate of IS cents per hundred pounds on wheat from Condon to Portland. As this Is no higher than the rate charged from many of the company's main-line points where a heavy traffic has already been developed. It offers tangible evi dence of a desire on the part of the corporation to assist the settlers who have waited so long for the coming of the railroad. Considering the excessive cost of marketing wheat from that re gion before the railroad was built. there would have been little or no com plaint had a material increase over the regular tariff been exacted. The build- ins of a few more feeders like the Con don branch, and a corresponding lib eral policy after completion, would soon restore the O. R. & N. Co. to popular favor In the territory which It serves. Please send money for funeral expensts to John Smith, who will take care of my remains." In reply the young man re ceived a package of asbestos paper, with this curt note: "Go where you will need this to write oa whon you ask for more money." The Argonaut tells a story of an erudite gentleman who recently examined the contents of a new encyclopedia, finding more than a thousand errors In the first volume. Thus we have proof that the en cyclopedia Is not Infallible. The fallibil ity of the dictionary was established some years ago iy a proofreader on a St. Louis newspaper, This proofreader was noted for his cocksureness. He was as absolutely sure of himself as If he had been a Britisher. In that particular of fice Webster's dictionary was the stan dard on spelling. One night a composi tor found that the proofreader had marked a certain word contrary to the accepted spelling. Carrying the proof. sheet to the autocrat, he remonstrated. "The word Is spelt as I marked It," said the proofreader. "I'll bet you J10 Web ster spells It the way I did," the printer replied. "I'll go you." assented the auto crat. They looked up the word and found It In the dictionary according to the com- Indla. despite Its great proportions I tosltr'fl sDelllcr. "Well. I'll be dash and enormous population, does not seem to be sufficiently large to hold two such. great men as Lord Curzon and Lord Kitchener. It is not apparent that the husband of Joe Letter's sister is to have his salary reduced, or any of his state rienhants detached from duty, but Kitchener Is to be elevated to the po sltlon of commander-in-chief of all the forces In India, and the Curzon glory may be slightly dimmed thereby. If Kitchener was not a bachelor. It would Wowed!" cried the proofreader, that the first time I ever found an error in Webster dictionary. Til write to the publishers at once." Uncle Robert's Essays. NO. POETS. Poets are the luxuries of life, to other people, but they require some of the nec essaries for themselves. That is why they rAniiAntK varlr nvrrtlmp In the Olden be easier to account for this objection o nnanctm nquor ad riot, poets did not have to write to live they lived to write. For their living. and. their expenses were not heavy, even from the Curzon family circle, but as the young lady from Chicago will still romam me nrsi jaoy l mi uie f-..n-r5liv- -neakin. thev cave land, she oucht to be willing to let her L . ,., husband share some of the rest of the glory with the greatest fighter England has produced for many a year. There is one thing that the Russian navy can do If It gets a chance. It can send fishing smacks and unarmed mer chantmen to the bottom without receiv ing a scratch or losing a man. Further nroof of this Is not needed, but the val iant 'commanders of the warships of the Czar continue to furnish It when ever opportunity offers. The latest tes timony In this line was furnished by the sinking of the British steamer Ik- honaon June 5. 150 miles north of Hong kong, by the Russian cruiser Terek. She was carrying malls and rice from Ran goon to Tokobama. and was legitimate prey as far as that went. The Russian if they had to pay interest on their debts, for they let their hair grow long and thus eaved barbers' fees; they wore one suit of clothes until the separate garments amalgamated; they used halos Instead of hats, and their food was the nectar of the gods, with a few cheese sandwiches thrown In for feto days. Their biggest Item of expense was the drink bHL If the oldtlme poet could have lived whoily on nectar he would have left fewer debts. and his memory would have smelt sweeter and blossomed more beautifully In the dust. Nowadays the poet Is a very practical Individual. He requires three square meals a day. and he insists- that his dish of divine afflatus be flavored now and then with a porterhouse steak. Instead of nec tar he drinks oxtail soup or eats it, which nmmnn- n-1 a nnt In the lnj(t afraid to open fire upon her. though..for obvl- ever Is proper. He gets his hair trimmed , aia nnt nttomnt to eon- once In every little while, and has so WHAT HAVE THE CANDIDATES TO SAY? For a long time the trusts have had in the Salem Statesman an ardent de fender of their Interests, for that paper has opposed any form of tariff revision. So anxious is the Salem paper to pro tect the American manufacturer In his privilege of charging more for his goods in America than he does in foreign countries that It has entirely overlooked the right of the American consumer to have some measure of protection also. In the hope of leading the Statesman to light. The Oregonlan some time ago suggested that all the men who are talked of as probable candidates for Congress in that dlstriqt be Interviewed upon the subject of tariff revision, the theory being that any man who Is fitted for a seat In Congress must have stud led this Important National question and formed a definite opinion. Acting upon that suggestion, the Statesman sent out inquiries to a number of prom inent men. not all of whom have been In any way mentioned as candidates for Congress. Out of six replies that the Statesman selected for publication Sun day, one declares for the "standpat" policy, two straddle the fence, and three come out positively for revision. Only one of the gentlemen quoted Is a can dldate for Congress. Henry E. Ankeny Is opposed to tariff revision at present- Walter L. Tooze, Congressional chair man, and an avowed aspirant for Her mann's seat, says he has positive opin ions on the subject, but is too busy to tell what those opinions are. Dr. W. Kuykendall is opposed to un necessary tariff changes, as are all other Republicans, but Is willing to concede that changing conditions might make changes In certain tariff sched ules desirable or necessary. He says he Is not well enough posted to say that the time for change has not arrived. but he Is not convinced that it has. Dr. James Withycombe says our Gov ernment Is progressive, hence the need of changes In our tariff schedules Is an Inevitable sequence. We quote: I am in lavor of a ratieaa! revision of the tariff aa the exigency of the case may de mand. In an attempt to revise the tariff schedule, telflch interests roust be kept in abeyance. To accomplish thin, I think the better plan wooM be to empower the Presl dent to appoint a commission for this work. who, after a thorough deliberation, shall re port to Congress. President Roosevelt can be depended upon to appoint a commission thoroughly competent for this undertaking. L H. Bingham, of Eugene, not only has positive opinions, but he expresses them in straightforward and unmistak able terms. He thinks the tariff agtta tlon timely. B. L. Eddy likewise takes time to an swer the questions propounded, - and thus makes his views understood: The country la 9 thoroughly committed to the poller of pretectlen. asd at this time confidence in the- Republican party Is complete, that it would seem Impossible tr the people to beeose frightened at any CRISIS IX CHINA TRADE. It has at last dawned on the Govern-. ment that our trade with China Is seri ously threatened, and that immediate action is necessary to prevent a blow- that will cripple and perhaps destroy a business -which we have been many years In building. That the serious as pect of the matter was not at first fully realized at Washington Is quite appar ent, for more than six weeks have elapsed since the President was notified that a boycott effective in August bad been declared against this country, un less there was a change In the treat ment we were extending to Chinese en titled to admission. Our commercial rivals In China quite naturally made the most of the opportunity, and. If the truth were known, perhaps had some thing to do with Inciting this threat ened reprisal, but we waited until the eleventh hour, and the result may not be ver satisfactory. This Is only another illustration of this "cocky habit" we have acquired of by word and deed proclaiming our inde pendence of all other nations on earth Every business man In close touch with this delicate matter knows that through our insulting methods of handling the Chinese who are entitled to land on our shores w have fanned up a spark of hatred until it is about to buret into a flame that will wither and destroy American trade In China. The repeated protests oC China against such treat ment have been unheeded, although their demands for fair treatment of Chinese subjects made no insistence on relaxation of. the rigid law against ad mission of Chinese laborers. They merely assumed that, having excluded eevry Chinaman who under existing treaties was prohibited from entering or remaining In the United States, we should throw no obstacles In the way of admission of the elas-ses who were entl tied to come. Our treaties were quite plain on that point and they were not difficult to In terpret, but the pernicious activity of the immigration officials ha? resulted In making It practically impossible for any Chinaman, no matter what his standing may be. to enter without being sub jected to humiliating delay and not in frequently to gross insults. This Is the wind we have sowed, and the cyclone which we are about to reap Is casting Its shadow before Secretary Shaw and Secretary Metcalfe may continue to hug the fond delusion that foreigners do not buy anything from us that they can get elsewhere, but an awakening Is about due that will convince them of the error into which they have fallen. A Portland flour merchant who has been unable to do any business with Hongkong for the past two months yes terday received a cable stating that the Chinese were buying quite liberally In Australia. They can also secure wheat The Willamette Valley threshermen have formed a trust and prepared a schedule of prices to be charged for threshing, and wages to be paid for help. The latter, according to advices from Albany, will receive 51.50 for working from 5:45 A. M. until 7:45 P. M. With 'longshoremen and stevedores In Portland drawing down 50 cents per hour for work that Is no harder than that of the threshing machine laborer. oy her with her valuable cargo to port- many changes of clothing that sometimes he leaves his checkbook In his other vest and finds It necessary to send his valet after It. Latter-day poets are wealthy; they are so rich that they can afford to wear ordl nary clothes Instead of striving after eccentric effects In order to draw atten tlon to themselves. You cannot dlstln gulsh a poet of the present day from any other millionaire. The poet walks about the streets, sidestepping to escape the automobile or the trolley, and declines to stand with his head above the stars THE PROFESSION OP GETTING HURT TJascrupaloscs Fakirs Who Mske Million. Yearly Oat of Corpora tic, by FrrteTidiax to Have Etrt lajared is. Car Accieat3, Site. Pearson's Magazine. Annually, railroads, corporations, cities. and towns throughout the United States are fieeced out of a fortune estimated conservatively at no less than IB, 0J, COO In settlement of fraudulent claims and suits against which the defendants are utterly powerless- Every railroad com pany, every trolley company, nearly all of our bis manufacturers, as weR as many of the lesser ones, and without exception, all of our big cities are made the victims of this class of sharper. In Chicago alone the annual crop of faXa damage suits brought against the city amounts to a vast fortune. A project Is now on foot whereby the various presi dents and the ether officers ef accident Insurance companies, as well as the heads of the claim departments of the big cor porations, will be Invited to organize a protective association similar to the Bank ers Protective Association. The object will be. not only to run down mercilessly the swindlers making cemfertabie living out of this class of fraud, but also to take a strong stand In putt lag a stop to the epidemic of one-sided laws watch are constantly being introduced and slip ped through the state Legislatures to the gerti o rtpono(e interests and. for the benefit of The Profession of Gettlag Hurt. One Jenny . Freeman, then IS years of age and describing herself as a tailor ess. January 9. 1S33. made a claim upon the Chicago City Railway Company upon the ground that she had been badly injured In a collision between two of Its caMe- cars. She said she was paralyzed from the thighs downward. Her physician was a colored man practicing in Chicago. The company sent Its examining surgeon to call upon her. . He believed the girl was shamming, although the symptoms were so cleverly simulated that It was appar ently a case of real paralysis. Believing that It would be cheaper to settle than to go to law the company paid the girl October 15. 1S32. Jennie Freeman, again describing herself as a taileress. made a claim upon the Manhattan Elevated Rail road In New York to the effect that she had been Injured by falling against a car door of a Second-avenue train as It swung around the curve at Tweaty-thlrd street- She said she had been accompan ied by her sister. Fannie Freemaa, at the time of the accident, and she accepted ?1M In settlement of the case. June S. ISM. Jennie Freeman asserted she had been Injured while boarding a train of the Illinois Central Railroad Com pany by stepping upon a banana peel. which threw her backward against a seat. She alleged total insensibility of the lower part of her body, practically amounting to paralysis. Dr. S. E. Owens for the company made every possible test, even sticking plno Into her legs. but she appeared, totally lnsensiblo to pain. So the company settled with her for JCW. June 6. ISM. one Elsie Beldon. of TS Dover street, Boston, made claim that she had been injured on a train of the Aew York. New Haven Sc Hartford Railroad, by stepping upon a banana peel just after the train arrived in Boston. Now It so happened that Dr. R. P. Hubbard, who had reported upon a Fannie Free man, of "3 Dover street, for the West End Street Railway Company, was also examining physician for the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad- What wa.i his surprise, therefore, when he called upon Elsie Beldon at 75 Dover street to find Fannie Freeman lying In the same bed and proclaiming the same symptoms as upon his former visit- "Why do you change your name so often?" asked the physician of the professtdnal invalid, and the visit was aa embarras sing one. for the Freeman family, who soon left for Chicago. A claim for S2X damages was made ths succeediag Christmas by Fannie Freemaa for alleged, damages sustained by riding en one of the trains of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. The girl com plained that a sudden start of the train caused her to fall against the seat, where by her back was so severely Injured that "she was paralyzed and ruined for Hfa The claim agent became suspicious or the. story. The train crew denied that at the time of the "accident" a sudden start had been made. Mrs. Freemaa stated that she and her uninjured daughter had saved themselves from falHng by catch ing hold of the straps "hanging la the car. whereas the Rock Island ears were not equipped with straps. And tor this apparent ruination of a young girl's life, for this prospect of a long future of in validism, they asked only 32COX Fannlo Freeman's simulation of paralysis was so perfect that no amount of pin-pricking made her wince. A detective was Instructed to investigate the case from a criminal standpoint, and under the name of "Mr. Seymour" he managed to hire lodging In the same house with the Freeman family. M he soon became an intimate friend of the "paralyzed" girL -The detective bored a hole In the celling over the room where. Fannie Freeman reclined In bed. and. saw her arise and sit in a recking chair. She. began to rock and perform all kinds of capers by throwing her limbs in the ah, etc. In a few minutes the two younger children were trying the skirt dance. Faanie furnishing the music by humming and singing. They soon tired of this, however, and Fannie thought she would give a sample of what she could do. She not .only danced, but ran from oae end of the room to the other, jumping, climb ing over chairs, kicking over the top of the high-backed dining-room chair with, first one foot, then the other, without making any stop. The visiting physician had always been puszled at the low tem perature of the girl's feet when he made his professional visits. The detective saw the mother plunge the girl's feet In cold ice water before the physician was ex pectedand heard the girl "swear volubly at the extreme coldness ef the water. Paralysis as a fine art is faked different ly nowadays from what It was ten years ago. In the first place prices bave gone up. No self-respecting paralysis opera tive would now think of asking less than a small fortune for a seance. Instead of COCO. Inga Hanson asked for .OO0. and later, when the case had matured some what, she raised the amount to S30.oe fr alleged Injuries sustained by being throw- irorn a car. In the Interim, between trials, that Is. she took a trip to Norway Whlle In .this country she lived part of the time at good hotels, so that the de tectives who watched her. Instead cf being able to gaze comfortably at hr through holes la ceilings, were compelled to lie around on floors peering under doors. Furthermore, she carried her case to court no settlement for her and in order that there might be no mistake she had herself laid upon a cat and brought before the jury, where, blted and Inert, her condition could make Its! own mute appeal. Oran Hoskins. the "paralyzed youth of Fort Worth, Texas, had been award ed SS.0CO. True, the Hoskins verdict was afterward revoked because aa attorney came forward and testified that, long before bis accident, the boy and his mother had come to him and asked what chance there would be for good damages if an accident like the one that after ward occurred should take place, and be cause when a doctor who had previously beHeved In Hoskins pretended to. operate upon his brain, the boy. who had seem ed blind, deaf and altogether inert, sprang from the operating table and confessed. It Is hardly probable that there will be a large exodus of laboring men to the I staring Into cerulean vistas for Inspiration Vallev. This Is the "open shop" plan -while dangerous traffic Is going on In the with a vengeance. In fact, the time It Is open so far exceeds when It Is closed that the success of the experiment Is In ddubt. The Twentieth Century Limited train will resume Its elghteen-hour schedule between Chicago and New York, the management being satisfied that the re cent terrible disaster was in no way traceable to the high speed of the train. It Is not at all probable that there will be uny perceptible falling off In pat ronage by reason of the accident- Timid streets. Also he abstains more or less from the wine when It is red. when it glveth Its color In the cup, and he knows that strong drink such as whisky straight, rye highballs and gin cocktails Is raging and whosoever- Is deceived thereby Is not wise enough to lay up treasures In the First National Bank, where moth and rust cannot corrupt nijr burglars break In and blow up the vault. The reason why the present-day poet grows wealthy after a few years at the business Is that he does not write poetry as a means of livelihood; he makes his living at sawing wood. He mixes up a travelers avoid the fast trains, and those who furnish the demand for such pulp of wooden thoughts, runs It through flyers will continue to travel on them nrMdnr m,Phlne. saws It un Into cakes regardless of the increased speed or the increased charge exacted. If there was no remunerative demand for them, the elghteen-hour trains would be set back to the slower schedule In short order. Londoners are complaining of an in vasion of American confldence men, but explain that the victims in nearly all cases are Americans. This latter state ment Is open to question. It may be that the only victims who have "squealed" are Americans, but the British victims were undoubtedly so I badly chagrined at being victimized by an American confldence man that they neclected to tell their troubles to the police. The confldence man who could get away with the average American traveler would find the average Eng lishman easy picking. Demand that the Government take charge of irrigation In Yakima Valley i ..nit. n.tiiml Vnwlipr In th wnrW 1. ,-ir.w iw-v of land, einable ofa bust. If be Is a real poet as well of rmu-lnt- nmfitablv every agricultural as a magazine po. about 40 years after of equal size, like laundry soap, and finds a ready market for It In the maga zines at so much per cake: The general public mistakes It for poetry, calls It poetry and lets it'go at that. Luckily it does not go very far. The poefs real poetry he keeps to him self, because he can't sell It; and he can't sell It because magazine editors, know ingly or unknowingly, are subsidized by the System (vide Lawson, of Boston), and are afraid that a real, old rhythmic strain pulsating with the divine fire and fragrant with the unsullied bloom of truth will offend some of their readers, who cannot accept truth except In sugar coated pills for puerile 'people. The poet who attends to the practical side as well as the Ideal side gets a lot of fun out of life, though ha.wears a Panama hat Instead of a laurel wreath and he never had the satisfaction of vis iting the Hall of Fame and rapturously reading his own name on the basement product known to the temperate zone. Increase of the water supply means large annual addition to the wealth of Washington State. "Are the enormously rich ever really happyr asks a magazine writer. Why ask such a question publicly when It is so easy to Interview a Pullman porter? his death somebody digs up his still glow lng embers of the Immortal fire, fans them to flame in an edition de luxe and dls covers him. Then the fellow who lived next door to the poet and never paid any attention to him except when he (the fel low! wanted to borrow 5S, rushes Into orint and eays. "He was my most Inti mate friend." and subscribes 60 cents to a fund for placing a memorial tablet on the side of the house where the poet used to live. There are practical printers, practical plumbers and practical poets. It Is the practical poet who draws the highest scale of wages nowadays, but he must cut his work to fit, he must work by rule he must fill orders. This may not be art for art's sake; most probably, to the poet It la art for heart's ache; but It T?la aonarentlv wants It under- pays the rent ana ouys an occasion cfn-ifl that Rhe Is still stronc enough to J bat. And "after alL in a chilly climate. take one more sound beating in Man- a hat beats a halo nine times out of ten. churia. - i ROBERTUS LOVE. A pretty shop girl in Chicago says she refused C60 offers of marriage in one year, but neglects to state what the fel low did the other five days. While the new opposition to Spreckels may cut down the sugar kinga profits, we do not look forward with hope for decrease in the price of sugar. FACULTY VIEWS0N ATHLETICS New York Evening Post. The recent assertion of President James, of the University of Illinois, that modern college athletics do more harm than good to the students has been sub mitted for comment by the Chicago Tribune to a dozen or more college pres idents and professors throughout the country. The answers, printed in that newspaper, show a genejql agreement on certain points that are appropriately em phasized by college authorities before the season of Summer baseball and Summer training for next Fall's football cam paign begins. "Training is now being carried to ex cess." says President Plantz. of Lawrence University, "practically making profes sionals of college athletes and Impairing the Intellectual work of many students to their detriment." President Faunce. of Brown, declares It to be "a fact that the average football man has no time nor strength for study during the football season, and sacrifices himself intellectual ly to the success of the team." Rowing, he says, frequently leads to overstrain. "Too much should not be expected of them." says Professor Gray, of North western University, In apologizing for the low class standing of the typical college athletes. Professor Scott, of the same university, agrees with President James that too few students engage la athletics. and advocates the building of a large number of tennis courts and the introduc tion of association football. President Stone, of Purdue, believes that modern college- athletics are "antagonistic to good scholarship," and the president of Ohio State University, Dr. W. O. Thompson, recommends a rigid physical examination of those students who undertake to train for college teams. No doubt there will be set down by tne college champions themselves, the real rulers of the world of scholarship, as voices crying In the wilderness, but to the outsider the plea for moderation they utter seems uncommonly pertinent- Idleness a Cause of Divorce. Leslie's Weekly. In the shocking cases of perfidy and of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow among our wealthier classes, the root of the mat ter lies, as In" so many other sorts ef sin. In Idleness. The absence of strenuous, compulsory occupation is In Itself a temptation to crime. The Idle man or woman whose sole Interest la life Is the pursuit of pleasure Inevitably becomes sated with Its different forms. All of the ingenuity which can be expanded upon Inventions of new sorts of food, new ways of serving, new entertainments, really a vails little. After all Is said, and done, a banquet 13 only a banquet, a cotillon Is only a cotillon, and even operas aand theaters after a few years begin to seem strangely and dully alike. A new emo tion, a new sensation something which money cannot buy this becomes the only fresh and desirable thing on earth. An Exalted Office. London News. Is any M. P. desirous of putting a ques tion of a humorous character and yet ap- nmnHate to the penitential season. through which we are or are supposed n oassln? The Question might be framed thus: "Whether there is still In existence an official known as the 'King's rotkerower: whether he discharges his duties faithfully, and what are the emolu ments appertaining to the office?" A mntrihntor to the current Notes and Queries seeks for information concerning this personage, whose alleged function it was to crow every nignt aunng- jenu MONEY IN COLLEGE SPORT. - McClure's. The average college professor does not take the trouble to Inform himself on athletic matters. One professor, when first put at the bead of the committee regulating sports, rushed to the graduate manager and exclaimed: "I will not stand for this. It Is not proper for the association to purchase, clothing for the street wear of athletes. "What do you mean?" asked the man ager. "I have discovered an Item la your, report of 53CO for rubbers-" The graduate manager hod to explain that "rubbers" are helpers who rub tha athletes down after their exercise. But for delightful Ignorance, few could equal a certain Dartmouth, professor. Talking to a friend, a faculty member of a rival college, this man out of the world said: "Dartmouth. I tell you. Is the moat democratic Institution In this country. It Is wonderful. Why. not long ago. a colored man came to Dartmouth- When he got there he had not a cent, and h had. not a friend. The boys took him in. They furnished his room. They paid his tuition: paid his board paid his way through college. It was one of the finest examples of pure democratic spirit! I have ever seen." "Humph!" grunted his friend who was "wise" about athletics. "What Is th fellow's name?" "His name Is Bullock." the professor Innocently replied. Bullock was the "star" end-rush, and a fine track athlete- In addition to ignorance, many a col lege professor is lacking In backbone when It comes to dealing with athletic matters. That Is why athletes rejoice la so many special privileges which aro denied the ordinary student. That is why, no doubt.. Pennsylvania's eleven was given two weeks vacation at tha time of the Harvard game In 1S01: one week to prepare. In secret, for the con test, and another week to rest and re cuperate after the exhausting struggle Lawyer's Fees Arthur Goodrich in Leslie's Monthly. The vast majority of lawyers do no bet ter than make a fair living, and. if an average could be made. It would be found that a large number must earn ridiculous ly small sums. An estimate recently made showing that there are not five lawyers In New York who make jaoo.CCO a year, not ten who make $73,020. not 15 who make "30.CC0 and not 25 who make 5,000. Is probably not far wrong. "Above all things." a successful lawyer remarked not long ago. "never take a lawyer's word about his salary. He doesn't mean to prevaricate, but the appearance of pros perity is so large a part of his capital that 'bluffing about his income is a nat ural habit- I can tell you what I make in a year, but I shouldn't expect you to believe it. and I shouldn't wish you to belleye It. because it would probably be unconsciously exaggerated." The Spider a Hearty Eater. Chicago Chronicle. The spider, still and Intent, watched the fly that struggled vainly 4n Its web. "Spi ders aro voracious eaters. said the nat uralist. "IX you had. according to your size, an appetite equal to a spider's, do you know what you would eat daily?" "No. What?" "For breakfast you would eat an ox. For lunch you would eat four barrels of fresh fish- For dinner two Tul locks. eight, eheep and -four hogs would no 1 more than fill you. For, supper. In order to sleep well, you would need an ox and I seven calves."