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8 THjS MOKXES'G OKEGONIAX, TUESDAY, JTJEY 18. ISOS. Entered at the Pcstofflce at Portland. Or., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. IXVARIABLT IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Tally and Sunday, er year Daily and. Sunday, six month... .$8.00 . S.00 2.55 5.1? ?i1B5r?.?r 0?.;" '::: Jam DaiiV -without Ktmdar. lix months 5.o T-k 1 v.,,, Rnnilir tirrr TSonthS... I Dally without Sunaay. per monia Sunday, per year -J Sunday, elx months. " Sn&dar. three months BT CARRIER. . 2ally without Sunday, per week... Ially. per week. Sunday Included. .1: .20 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year..... - 1.50 Weekly, six months.. ; Weekly, three months v HOW TO REMIT Send postofnc money order, express order or personal check on your local bask. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. XASTERX BU6n"ESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beckwlth. Special Airescy New York, rooms 43-50 Tribune bulldinr. Chi cago, rooms 610-512 Tribune building-. KEPT OX SALE. 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Omaha Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Farnam; Mageath Stationery Co.. 1308 Farnam: Mc Laushlln Bros.. 240 South 14th; McLaughlin & Holti: 1515 Farnam. Sacramento. Cal. Sacramento News Co.. '429 K. street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second street South: Frank Hutchison. Yellowstone Park. Wyo. Canyon Hotel, Lake Hotel, Yellowstone Park Assn. Lone Beach B. E. Amos. San Francisco J. K. Cooper & Co.. 740 Market street: Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter: L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand: F. W. Pitts, 1008 Market: Frank Scott. SO Ellis: N. .Wheat ley Movable News Stand, corner Mar- ket sad Kearney streets; Hotel St. Francis News Eland; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. St. Tmb. Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company, S00 CUve street. raehlagton. D. C.-P. D. Morrison, 2132 Pennsylvania avenue. PORTLAND. TUESDAY, JULY 18, 19i5. THE QUESTION AT PANAMA. Perhaps the strongest statement of objections to a sea-level canal at Pan ama yet put forth has been supplied by Brigadier-General P. C. Halns, U. S. A., through the North American Re view. There has been a good deal of movement In the public mind towards a conclusion that a sea-level canal ought to be constructed, but the ques tlon is one wholly for engineering scl ence: and popular opinion or judgment on such a subject can have little value. General Halns does not question the assumption that a sea-level canal Is possible, but he holds it unnecessary. on the ground that It would not jus tify the delay and the vastly augmented expense. Not less than an additional sum of one hundred million dollars, In his Judgment. Would be necessary for a sea-level canal, and ten additional years, certainly, would be required for Its completion. Is it worth it, he asks, when a canal with lift locks would certainly answer every purpose? He estimates that the Chagres River will supply "water enough for a traffic through a canal with locks of 40,000,000 tons annually, or more than three times the tonnage that now passes through the Suez Canal. Also he says that the difficulties of passing ships through locks are much exaggerated by the advocates of a sea-level canal. Besides, there must be one lock, or more, In any event: for the ocean level at Panama is ten feet higher at 'high tide and ten feet lower at low tide than at Colon. It will be some time yet, probably. till a decision shall be made, for the matter will not become urgent till the work of excavation has proceeded far. The chief matters to be considered are whether It Is worth while to postpone completion for at least ten years and to spend not less than one hundred mil lions additional on the undertaking. AN EDUCATIONAL DILEMMA. "Fifty years ago," said Professor William James, of Harvard, at the Uni versity of Chicago recently, "schools were supposed to free us from crimes and unhapplness. "We do not indulge in those sanguine hopes now. The Intel lect is a servant of the passions, and sometimes education only servos to make more adroit in carrying out evil intentions. This is shown to be true on every hand." It always was true. Education of the mind, acquisition of knowledge, does little to restrain the passions or to purify the morals. This fact is the ground of the argument maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, that edu cation should not be merely secular and scientific, but religious also. But the state cannot engage In Tellg lous teaching: and we are committed to contrpl and direction of education of the masses by the state. Here is a di lemma, out of which there Is at present no way of escape. A PROFITLESS DISCDSSION. The discussion of the proposed change of site for' the new High School building on the East Side at -an open session of the School Board yesterday developed nothing new. Much feeling and some rancor was shown. A number of citi zens of the East Slde stoutly adhered to the opinion that the site already owned by the district, near the Haw thorne School, was all that could be de sired. Director Wittenberg shouted back at them, deriding their views, and the board finally voted for a special meeting Thursday afternoon. In the view of the one side the play ground Is the panacea for juvenile mis demeanors which lead up to youthful criminality. In the view of the other. -children did taot care for school play grounds; m -fact, scaooi went is ee ar ranged that there are. no intermissions or play, and boys and girl who have passed the grades and entered the High School do not care to linger round the school grounds. The whole contention ms to be based upon a false conception In regard to the need of space In this city in which children may run and shout, play ball and tag, spin tops, "knuckle down" at marbles and otherwise disport themselves in the pure air. In point of fact, we have not come to that. Condi- tlons In the slum districts of Chicago New York can hardly be compared ... m n . t . . I playgrounds, gymnasiums, tennis courts, .free baths, free lunches, etc. In connection with our public schools. are fine spun and unsubstantial. Reduced to practice. It Is found that pupils of the public schools do not use the grounds that surround most of the buildings. The intermissions during study hours are too short to permit them to do so. and when school is out, prudent parents reaulre their children to return home. Under accumulation of Ideals the main question at this time Is lost Simply stated, it is this: The district owns the site upon which it voted at the annual meeting to place a building for High School purposes at a cost of $100,000. It owns no other site that can be substituted for this one. and has not been authorized to purchase another. Plans for the new building are ready; specifications have been submitted to contractors; the sea son Is advancing, and the work is being delayed. So the matter Tests. MORE SKELETONS. The door of the Equitable" closet swung open a little too far and the pub lic had a peep of what was inside. Su perlntendent Hendricks hastened to shut It. but Mr. Jerome stuck his toe In the way. Now It cannot be closed The public, regardless of the feelings of Mr. Harrlman, insists on seeing all the skeletons within. Mr. Hendricks chose a few of the least horrifying ones and put them on exhibit; but the public is willing to stand being horrified; It wants the facts. Direful facts they are. judging from the hints we get a shameful record of dishonesty and hypocrisy which alirtost proves, as some have been so vigorously shouting, that the "high finance" of this Nation is foul with rottenness. It seems that, the famous Frick Inves tigators became suddenly blind at a certain point, and discreetly saw noth ing of these reeking abominations. Mr. Harrlman. putting In play the enor mous political and financial influence of Standard Oil and bis other backing. dazzled their eyes, or knocked them silly, or bedeviled them In some way; at any rate, they could not or would not see what was before them. Then it was Hendricks turn to dis play his zeal for the public good. He would show the Frick committee how to Investigate! No fact should miss his terrible eye; no loose handler of trust funds should escape! Poor Mr. Hen dricks! The fool stepped in where Frick's angels, some of them rather fat, feared to tread, and a nice puddle he soused into. Of course, he never dreamed the pud dle was there. He thought It was all safe. He could skip gaily over the green while the gazing policy-holders of the Equitable admired his agility in their behalf; but before be had gam boled a rod he fell headlong Into i sewer. Then all his zeal was turned to cover the hole and keep In the smell. But he had Jerome to reckon with. "What was the zealous, the incorrupt ible Mr. Hendricks. Superintendent of Insurance, doing all the time while the Equitable went its sad way? No mat ter what: he was not investigating a great deal, that is certain. He was playing the "good fellow," let us say. while Hyde. Depew, Harrlman and the rest made ducks and drakes of the widow's dower and the orphan's por tlon. Mr. Hendricks could not have Imag lned that it was possible permanently to keep the evidence he had from Mr. Jerome's sight, however bard he might try. In view of the Inevitable, his squirmlngs were ludicrous, unless what he desired was delay. And why should he wish delay, since in the end he must give Mr. Jerome a copy? To let guilty parties escape? Not unlikely; but the plain, the unax'oldable. Inference; the inference which forces Itself upon the most ordinary common sense. Is. that Mr. Hendricks intended to use the In terval of a day or two, gained by hig gling with Mr. Jerome, to make sup Pressions and alterations in the evl dence. The public drew this Inference. Mr. Hendricks now affirms that he has not altered the testimony. His word must be accepted with many res ervations. He has laid himself open to suspicion. He had every motive to sup press; his conduct was exactly that of a man who Intended to suppress: and, until he proves the contrary, the pub lic will believe he has suppressed. Thus the incredible vileness of the Equitable scandal grows dally viler. AN IMPORTANT CONVENTION. The National Conference of Charities and Correction, now in session In this city. Is one of the most Important con ventions; Indeed, taking into consldcra tlon the wide field of humanity In which it labors, it Is the most important held here this year. Its purpose, as outlined by the programme from day to day. runs along .lines of helpful, uplifting charity. The assistance that pauperizes is dis countenanced by these practical, en lightened workers in the domain of charity: that which advances the stand ard of living In poor homes and encour- ages Individual effort and fosters self- dependence Is exalted as a public duty and stuaiea as & necessary u run en or. social economics. Charity that teaches the individual and the family to work out the problem of self-help, points to the open door of humble opportunity, shows that what is beyond It la worth striving for. and, if it would be enjoyed, must be striven for. leaves the Impress of Its wisdom and power upon the conditions of life which it enters, and develops responsi bllity. self-respect and the capacity for self-support. Temporary relief, that merely suf fices .from day to day "to keep ba6e life afoot," Is, in the main, but a waste of time and sympathy, a dissipation of the substance of thrift and an expres sion of mistaken pity. As succinctly stated by Dr. Samuel G. Smith, president of the conference. "Ordinary misery roust be met, not by such cheap and easy means as doles from relief funds, but by larger and more economic production, by distri bution wider and more Just, and by in stating that o ktftrMitals nor families can possibly be raised ts the level of tne HUiwra w i w eaunw.- nlty unlets tbey)wrtlclpte In the effort to the Sml an essu re of their ability and opportunity Other considerations enter Into this great social and economic problem, but this is at once -its basic principle and controlling factor. The possibilities that it presents are developed as the work proceeds: Its results follow slow ly, penhapev but with mathematical pre cision. The delegates to this conference have had large experience and wide ob- servation in this work. "What they a...... ...... Vn. -n-mlt trnrth hurlnv Much of It our people. Just rising to meet the conditions that lead to the es tablishment of a Juvenile Court, may ponder with profit. SOOT OCT THE ROBBERS. Graft doubtless would be found In other life insurance companies, too. If they were shaken up like the Equitable. Unfortunately, the grafters will ward off the shaklng-up from other compa nies arid policy-holders may never know. Life Insurance Is one or the proper economic Institutions of the present day, but Its thefts are prodigious. High salaried bandits are on its payroll, and blg-mawed sharks in its coffers, steal ing, squandering and speculating with money which husbands store up by painful saving for their wives and fath ers for their children. This rascality and Infamy the devil's hottest corner cannot adequately pun ish. It is a reproach to the whole American people. The robbers should be rounded up and cast Into outer dark ness without mercy. PORTLAND'S CHANNEL TO THE SEA. The British steamer Sandhurst, draw ing twenty-five feet of water and carry ing a cargo of more than 3,000.000 feet of lumber, arrived at Astoria at mid night Sunday, after a passage of a little over twelve hours from Portland. The water has receded to a point where In former years extreme difficulty would be experienced In navigating twenty- foot ships, but no trouble of any nature was encountered by the Sandhurst. This performance demonstrates more effectually than all of the maps and charts that can be printed that the Co lumbia River channel is in better con dition than ever before. It is the result of a studied effort on the part of the United States Engineers, aided by the Port of Portland, to make river lm provement work more of a permanent nature than was the case with the earlier attempts at channel-building In this great water highway. In the earlier days of river improve raent. a scarcity of funds and a desire to make the easiest way the best way not Infreauently resulted In only a temporary Improvement, which van lshed entirely with the succeeding sea son of low water. S.t. Helens bar. which at one time threatened the pres tige of Portland so seriously that some of our citizens abandoned this port and endeavored to found a metropolis at the present county seat of Columbia Coun ty. was the first aid In demonstrating that only temporary relief was obtain able by dredging a short cut through the bar. Tear after year delays were encountered at that point, and ship ping was hindered until a passable channel could be dredged out. Event ually the Government tired of wasting money In these temporary Improve ments and the Jetty was built, confining the river to a space so narrow that It was forced to cut its way through by scouring off the bottom. It has been several years since what was known as St. Helens bar disap peared, and today there Is a sufficient depth of water at that point to float the largest ships ever built. Similar ex perience was met with at walkers Island, which, next to St. Helens, for many years had the reputation of de laying more ships than were held up at any other point on the river. Dredg lng out a channel after each high water had no permanent effect on the "Walk er's Island bar. and not until the Jetty was built was a depth scoured out that admitted of the unobstructed passage of shipping at all stages -of the tide. regardless of the vessel's draft of water. "What has been accomplished at the points mentioned can be repeated at other places where difficulty Is now en countered at low water. "With results so plainly in evidence. It Is apparent that the twenty-five-foot channel to the sea is much nearer an accomplished project than Is generally supposed. With the sentiment that has been aroused throughout the Pacific North west in regard to improvement of our waterways. It will" be much easier In the future to secure aid from our neigh boring states than has. been the case heretofore. In the past Portland has been obliged to, make the fight for these Improvements with only mild assist aqce from her neighbors, but the open ing of the Columbia River to navigation has placed the matter In a different light. An open river above Portland will enable the products or the Inland Empire to reach the deep-water ships at the nearest point, and the farther up the river the ship can jso the greater will be the saving In transportation. The Sandhurst had aboard more than 200 carloads of lumber, and the cargo was carried over the 100-mile stretch of water between Portland and Astoria at a cost so small that no railroad In existence could have handled it at the game rate, except at a heavy loss. This twenty-uve-root cnannel is not yet per manent at all points, but the worst places have been straightened out, and it will very shortly be time to begin working for a thirty-foot channel. Judging the future by the past. It Is quite certain that the latter depth can be secured with much less effort than has been made to secure the money - nece35ary to accomplish what has al ready been done. PROFESSOR FOX. Of course. Professor Fox; of course von are tainted. If not. how came you ever to send the message you did to Mr. Rockefeller? "No questions asked"!? People say that when trying to make terms with a pickpocket. If you had not Xelt that you were doing something of the same sort, what led you to write those word? Why should Professor Fox or any body else suppose it would be agree able to Mr. Rockefeller to find a man who would accept his money for a con spicuous religious use and azk no ques tions? Is Mr. Rockefeller afraid of questions? Evidently Professor Fox -thinks he is. There is one thing, and only one. that makes a man afraid of questions; that thing is a guilty con science. Professor Fox knew Rocke feller was afrali of questions, therefore he knew the RtlHteBalre had a guUty coneclence: he thought he kaew these thiiHH. at ar rate, an that wa yut u M tr Prsfessar 9wc as-if he i-Mity had known them. New. a raan with a guilty conscience- is a guilty man. And If Mr. Rockefeller is guilty at all, he Is guilty of obtaining his mosey In wicked ways. Knowing, then, that Mr. Rockefeller had obtained his mosey wickedly, or thinking he knew it, which te the same thing. nwally. Professor Fox asked to share in the plunder, and promised to do what he could In return to make Mr. Rockefeller's wickedness look like righteousness And Professor Fox held the chair of biblical languages in the Chicago Theological Seminary! "Was he turned out because he asked for the money, or because he failed to get It? No matter now; it Is more interest ing to think of two other questions. One is. why did Professor Fox seize Just this time to send his extremely flattering telegram to Mr. Rockefeller? The answer Is easy. He saw Rockefel ler scattering easy millions with the plain purpose of proving to Dr. "Wash ington Gladden that his money was ac ceptable to other holy men. If not to him. Professor Fox thought It precisely the time to announce that he was one of the other kind of holy men. The second interesting question Is, how many professors la our theological and other colleges are eager, like Professor Fox. to do an act which they them selves feel is compounding a felony in Its moral aspect, for the sake of endow ments? This is not so easy to answer, but there is a belief at large that there are a great many of them. The belief Is prevalent, also, that Professor Fox makes no mistake in his train of logic which traces the taint from the wicked donor to the college that receives; from the college to the professor; thence to .the student, and so on out, in a peren nlal stream of corruption, upon the whole Nation. The conclusion is too terrible to be true, so thinks Professor Fox. The experience of our times in the Equitable scandal. In Philadelphia, In St. Louis. In nearly every city in the country, seems to urge, on the contrary. that the conclusion Is terrible because It Is true. The Chicago Theological Seminary does marvelous wisely to revise Its de partment of biblical languages. Such men as Professor Fox provoke language which Is biblical but not edifying. Railroad statistics prepared by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the first quarter of 1S05 show that 23 passengers and 204 employes were killed and 1S51 passengers and 2063 employes were Injured In train accidents. Other accidents to passengers and employes not the result of collisions or derail ments bring the grand total up to 903 killed and 14,397 Injured. In the face of such statistics as these, there is some thing more than pride In the remark of the able seaman to his mate, "Thank God that you and I are sailors." Old Neptune in his wildest revels has never left such a record of killed and Injured. Laxity of law enforcement 1st undoubt edly responsible for many of these cas ualties. but the railroad business has assumed mighty proportions In this country, and among the vast army of employes and millions of passengers carried there are undoubtedly many cases of unavoidable accident. Mr. C Bieker. wlfebeater. is the latest candidate for the whipping-post. To be sure, he beat his wife and blackened her eyes in the privacy of their home Instead of following the example of Ep stein, the tailor, and beating her on the public streets. The gentleman un doubtedly knew the penalty that has been provided for wlfebeater. but the leniency shown Epstein probably en couraged him to do as he did. In the belief that he would be let off with mild punishment. The whipping-post may be all that Its opponents claim for lt--a relic of barbarism but the punishment it Inflicts Is so much better than is de served by the hulking brutes who beat frail women that Its use should meet with general approval. It will be noted that the first man punished under the new law quickly left the state. We can spare every one of his kind. New Tork detectives have arrested half a dozen wealthy beggars, and In searching them found tfSS in the pos session of one. while another had a bank book showing him. to be the owner of $1400. deposited in a bank. The me tropolis is said to contain a large num ber of this class of mendicants, who have formed a beggars' trust. The list. however, does not Include those other New York beggars who go down to Washington every time Congress meets and beg alms for their steamships and shipyards. The size of the donation asked probably renders the latter class immune from arrest. The Supreme Court has decided that the ownership of a meteor rests with the owner of the land on which the "shooting star" descends, and not with the discoverer. If this decision is to stand as a precedent, the occupation of searching for the legendary pot of gold. sunDOsed to be burled at the end of the rainbow, might as well be discontin ued, for the possession would be dis puted if it was found. About the only th intra out of the sky that mortal man can lay claim to are sunshine and rain. and of these his ownership is limited to what he can use. The legitimate consequences of the "gentleman thief" style of literature. now so popular, may be seen, perhaps. in the case of the "highly esteeemea and Implicitly trusted" tutor, who stole SlfxOOO worth of Jewels from his. em ployer the day before he started on bis vacation trln to Norway. Fate Is less kind than the novelists In these mat ters. This gentleman thief has been arrested: but there Is still hope he may not be convicted. The nlenipotentlarles of Russia, says the Novoe Vreraya, are to defend the Interest of the white against the yellow races. This sounds well: but neither Europe nor America will forget that what the Russian plenipotentiaries will defend la the interest, not of the white race, nor of the Russian, people, but of half a score of men In SL Petersburg who care for themselves aad nobody else. The crew of the Takasage went down singing. The Spartans at Thermofiyiae were combing their krag hair whea tne Persians came up; and they teok time to finish. Cranmec heW his right hand in th ame to hura first, because It had signed his recants tie. The heroes of every nation nave laetr o j iw die. The Japanese way Is not the worst There i a feielt this year the Na tional Treasury ef W.tW.ttt. Wefl. we. gt hK aymllNB fsr r Lewis ami Clark Fair. wWek Is ofJC - 0REG0jH)Z0l!lE. A Pittsburg negress proclaim "her self to be "God In the flesh. and her flock consists of 18 white people. Pitts burg Is north of the Mason and DIxen line. Is Jt not? Too great big- goose." the raalaea cried: "You dear old duck!" quoth he; And now that goose and duck allied In wedlock point with rising pride To ducky goslings three; If we always knew Just where the lightning is going to strike, we'd know enough to stand from under. A lady poet In the Overland Monthly has sung a long song In celebration of the fog of San Francisco, the poem being entitled "Fog o 'Frisco." She loves the fog, because it keeps the sun from beating down and blistering the town. Nqw let Alfred Austin give us his views a la "Fog o Lunnun." "What is Its excuse for being? There ll one request that we have to make of the Thespian handler of John L. Sullivan. It. Is not too much to ask. and yet it means so much. Won't Mr. Sullivan's theatrical bottle-holder kindly procure a new chrysanthemum for his star's coat-lapel? That old Jap anese blossom has done duty, lol these many years. Some time ago we ap pealed to the public in behalf of Jack London. Mr. London sadly needed a coat to take the placo of the sweater In which he had been photographed for years and years. Only yesterday we were rewarded by observing a picture of the Oakland wrlter'in a coat. Our prayer was answered some dispenser of charity had presented Mr. London with a coat. Now for the rechrysan thematlon of John L. Luther Burbank lived In California for a score of years, doing something marvelous every year, before he be came known as anything more than a harmless lunatic And then his genius was discovered by rank outsiders. When people from distant parts of the world began to visit Bp r bank's home as a shrine. California waked up ana looked at him herself. If Mr. Burbank had been of the sort that gets up on its hind-heels and howls, he would; have become notorious long ago. But he. happened to be the real thing In stead of an egotistic upstart, and now he is noted. So now we howl hurrah for Burbank! The Atlanta Constitution is trying to defeat Hoke Smith for Governor of Georgia. Let It but spell his name Hoax Myth, and surely that will weak en his candidacy. Los Angeles wants to cut down the time between Chicago and the City of Angels to 45 hours. Why should a city with that name care to get closer to Chicago? The problem of the Nehaletn beeswax has reached and passed that other. familiar and exasperating problem. "Who struck Billy Patterson? And It Is running a mighty close race with "Where Is Pat Crowe?" ' Cheating Fate. Smith What would you do if you knew positively that you were going to die 24- hours from npw? Jones Drop dead at once. Mountain Courtesies. ML Tacoma Why are you looking so high and mighty these days? ML Hood Oh. I'm up In the air. ML Tacoma What's wrong? ML Hood rm trying to look over that "Watch Tacoma Grow signboard and see the Exposition. Constant Header Corrected. Dar Ozone: Don't you think that Oregon ought to be prftud? She has prodceed the two moit famous living American poets Joaauln Milter and Edwin Markham. Hurrah for us! CONSTANT READER. Yes. dear Constant. Oregon should be nroud: but Oregon also should know enpugb not to continue making the mis take of publishing the statement that Joaquin Miller was born In this state. Mr. Miller Is a native of Indiana, though he never has practiced the drop-stltch style of poetry that originated In Indian apolls. or rather In Boone County. Miller is not a native son, but he Is a shining sun. and .long may he shine! The Taint. I'm terribly scared these days, I am! I'm shaking and shivering In my shoes; My nerves are a-flutter; I can't be ca'm. For fear of a taint In the cash I use I'm shaking with shivering, shuddering fits. For you never can till who the hoodoo hits. Whenever I Jingle a coin or two. The keys of the jailer I seem to hear Clinking and clanking In glee, and, ugh! I shake and I shudder with horrible fear. And I go and get rid of my bad two-bits. bits. For you never can tell who the hoodoo hits! ROBERTTJS LOVE. Might Have Been Worse. Bait Lake Herald. "Oh. I don't know," murmured Caesar as tne conspirators ciosea m on aim. "this isn t so bad! I might have been first vtce-nresident of a life insurance com nanyr D-rawlnr his mantle a&out aim. ne passed away with a smile .on his lips. Out on Strike. Life. Pat 01 thought McCarty was en th water wagon! Mike He was, but he went on strike yesterday out av sympathy wtd himself. CuhBcl Fairfax on the Japanese. New Tork Sun. The Japs they are- rottenly toUten, As ererr old soldier adsBltt. And they're thrown the po atspld ReasUas lain meuxhtr disorderly at. There's onfr cae thlnr that's -axalBa. 'em rrboufb It coesa't muea cewt ra a asatj: AJTve tried ta ro rti But Ah harea't as yet That thoee line little caes ais't white. Wbea Ah note ttsat their peasaatest pastiest. Ik to storm a wall eigatr it w Aad reduce aa Imprejaabie fo'trtaa Ah can scarcely restrain a Mimu But UU In the tales of their srowew Ah so aot take perfect setttBL , Fo Ah caanot as yet (tho Ah'TS tried to) ferret That thoee great little feOewt ala't white. Whea Teo caa and JtoJestTesalfr Aad taa Una aa Iww ess mak wise, look like two hits aad a atskei We BWt keec Ms with Xrteae aX Drake.. New. Ah Jure a tfeecry aswrt K. Aad Ah aes yH seres K Js rtrlK: Ther yeen -yet AVai wMMs' Vet mat th--" lest Ja traer sss -sts. norm i it "GRAFT' WIDESPREAD IN THE NATION Scandal la May States aad tie Bad Is Net Yet Receat Ceavictleaa WIU Help Ckeefc tke Evil. New "York Tribune. The Machen-Beavers prosecutions did a good deal to discourage "grafting In tne Federal service: but the evil of which tne posted ce scandals were an ominous symptom, was widespread, and we are not unlikely to encounter from time to time fresh evidences of the persistence In Government circles of the "grafting spirit. Last week a United States Senator was convicted In Portland. Or., of taking attorney's fee3 for work done in viola tion of law before the Federal depart ments. Less than a month ago a trusted employe of the Smithsonian Institution was arrested on the charge of embezzling the institution s funds, this embezzlement having continued for a long period unde tected. Now an Important official In the Department of Agriculture is dismissed for "doctoring" the department's cotton re ports and giving advance Information to Cotton Exchange brokers and speculators. A Senator who secretly accepted illicit fees for practicing before the depart ments might plead that he committed no serious moral wrong In taking compen sation which any lawyer not a member of the House or Senate might honorably have accepted. He might contend that he only did work which another lawyer would have done, and that neither the Government nor the public suffered loss or Injury through his action. A vulgar bribe-taker like Machen might say that his pilferlngs were petty and did not do serious damage to private or public In terests. But the dismissed associate sta tistician of the Agricultural Department, If the charges against him are fully sus tained, can make no plea in mitigation of the moral enormity of his conduct; for he deliberately betrayed a public trust whose Importance he fully understood. and sought to profit through market man ipulations which involved the property Interests directly and Indirectly of mil lions of American citizens: The spirit which prompts such breaches of trust either In public or in private life cannot be compromised with. It Is the most destructive force against which our present political and social order has to war; and we should make an example ot each and every offender who turns : trust to private gain. The Federal Gov eminent Is gradually discovering and rooting out Its "grafters." The process Is a slow one, perhaps, yet the results SCIENCE HAS MUCH TO LEARN Providence Journal. It Is a matter of common knowledge that the progress of scientific discov ery during the 19th century surpassed, both In bulk and In Importance, the combined achievements of all preced ing centuries. Constant repetition of this fact seems to have produced an Impression in the minds of many people that we are nearlng the limit of human knowledge; that, setting aside one or two- apparent!-- insoluble problems. there really is not much more to be discovered; and that all that Is left for the 20th century to do is to catalogue and classify the vast array of data al ready obtained, to establish the rela tions among phenomena and to unify Isolated facta into the harmony of ob served occurrences which we desig nate as law. No very deep Inquiry Into the present condition of science is needed in order to show the fallacy of such an idea. Scientific theories are in a state of constant flux. As a matter of fact. even those that appear most solid are held- only as working hypotheses, of fering today the most reasonable re conciliation of various phenomena, but liable to enforced readjustments by the new discoveries of tomorrow. It Is by this process alone that the whole body of scientific knowledge has been built up piece by piece, fact after fact, eacn generation building upon the work of Its predecessors. No Investigator would for a moment countenance the Idea that a point has been reached where this process is no longer necessary. For the amount of our knowledge Is, after all. only relatively, great; It Is vast In comparison with that posessed by mankind a few centuries ago; but. face to face with the thousand and one problems of the cosmos to which we vainly seek an answer. It becomes con vincingly apparent that we have as yet garnered but a few pebbles thrown up on the shore from the Illimitable ocean of eternity. Space, Time, Matter. En ergy what do we know about them? Little Indeed. They are convenient names, a part of the complicated sys tem bv means of which we conceive and communicate ideas. In astronomy. In chemistry. In bi ology, or In whatever direction wa seek, we soon discover that the amount of our actual knowledge Is pitifully small. The cave-dweller knew as well as we that a stone released from the hand would fall to the earth. He did not call It gravitation, to be sure; but how much more do we know about It now. that we have given the phenom enon a name? what is electricity? What Is heat? What Is matter? We can describe certain observed proper ties of these and other things, but we neither know their source nor their es sence, and are by no means certain of their relations. And some of our knowledge Is but half-knowledge, after all. Astronomers tell us that the solar system Is traveling toward- the star Vega at a rate of about 400.OOJ.000 of miles a year, but they do not know whether this motion 1s a drirt or part of an orbit. The number of questions to which such Incomplete replies only are possible Is lndeedi almost without end. There Is plenty of work, then,t for the scientists ot the 20tn century in the problems that are yet unsolved. It may well be that some oi these can never be compassed by the human un derstanding. Is the universe limited or limitless? What is life? What is thve relation between mind and body? A century may prove far too snort a tlrae to answer suci: queries. ir any answer is ever possible. Nlneteentn century science has accumulated a vast amount of data: It has constructed many plausible theories' and some that have a strong appearance or prooa bilitv. It remains for future Investiga tors to demonstrate the truth. Within the last hundred years encouraging progress has been made In explaining "how": the task of 20th century sci ence Is to tell "why.'' The Proper Booze. Philadelphia Press. Vermont comes .forward with the prop osition that the warship to be named for that state shall be christened with a bot tie of maple syrup. This thing Is going around pretty well. It was suggested re cently by Kansas to use a Dottle or coal ell: Milwaukee wanted It to be a bottle of beer In her case, and after a while Georgia will he coaung along with claim far alat juleps. These propositions serve to direct attention to the special ties la which the strtes take a natural wide, but after x sufficient amount of ad. vertislBE has beea dene they all come dawn ta ehaapagne, aad the superstition is sseh that if caampagne were not uses It Is prebahle no saa eeeld be induced to sail en the ship. Looks Suspicions. Boatoa Trasscript. "Are you going to Xurepe this Sua "I deh't know," asswered Mr. Bessy le. -Gster-is wn tea t wftat. K, ttsea V e I yew awevw, Whft ', trawsls v a it L stasis, turf tyy assss ag itwi sr whstfcftr a sr4sry is Jsr htm" achieved so far have been eminently wholesome. The war must go- on and will go on till the public service is puri fied: and the moral energy this warfare generates may be sufficient to drive the "grafter" eventually not only from public but from private and business life. The New York World finds graft inves tigations In many states, as follows: Arkansas is Investigating boodling In its State Senate. California has looting cases against city officials In San Francisco. Illinois has the beef and strike graft in vestigations. Indiana Is looking into lax banking laws and some scandalous failures of banks involving public men. Kansas has graft Inquiry In progress In volving the Legislature and State Treas urer. Louisiana has a police graft scandal In New Orleans. Maryland has scandals In county affairs all over the state. Officials are charged with exacting illegal fees. Minnesota Is uncovering a state lands scandal. Missouri has its racing, gambling and several other affairs involving political leaders. Nebraska postofflce trafficking cases still hang fire. New Jersey has several graft investiga tions under way. all of a minor nature. New York has the insurance graft scan dal. Ohio has police scandals In Toledo and Columbus. Oregon has its land frauds. Pennsylvania has Its Philadelphia cases. South Carolina Is looking into liquor law administration. Texas Is after car-line grafters in its Legislature. Utah's land frauds are still In an unset tled state. Tennessee finds undertakers In cities profiting unduly on pauper burials. Vermont hunted for graft In state Insti tutions, but didn't find any. Virginia is digging into primary election scandals. Washington Is after land-grabbers. -West Virginia Is Investigating legislative bribery rumors. . Wisconsin has its Milwaukee mess. RELICS OF BONAPARTE FAMILY Brooklyn Easle. Mr. Bonaparte is Justly proud of his" royal ancestry. In his Baltimore resi dence he has a "Napoleon room." which contains some of the most famous Bonaparte relics and mementos to . be found anywhere in this country. One of the most striking things in the room Is a marble bust of the Emperor., al though he was not Emperor at the time the first cast was made. This bust is by Henri-Frederick Iselin, cut in marble from the plaster cast mod eled In Cairo. Egypt, by Louis Corbet, and. as Napoleon was only a few years In Egypt in tfie latter part ot the year 7 of the French republic (correspond ing to the year 1799). it is supposed not to have been fully completed until some time In the following year, 1800. The marble bust was cut in 1859, and came at that time Into the posses sion of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of Jerome Bonaparte, at one time King of Westphalia the grand father of the present Mr. Bonaparte and the man who married Miss Eliza beth Patterson, of Baltimore. The bust of Napoleon represents him in the uniform of a General in the French republic, and is a striking ax ample of the sculptor's art. The pose is natural and graceful, the features exhlbltlngvearnestness and thoughtful ness In the highest degree. To one, side Is another and a smaller bust, in which' Napoleon appears In the cope, the garb of tire first Consul, In another part of the room, side by side, are the marble busts of Charles Bonaparte and Letlzia Bonaparte, the father and mother of the Emperor. These busts are by Can ova and were presented to Mr. Bonaparte's mother by Jerome Bonaparte during his residence at Bor dentown, N. J. A portrait of Miss Patterson, the grandmother of Mr. Bonaparte, painted in 1825, by Massot, at Geneva, Switzer land, also attracts attention and study. In this portrait Miss Patterson appears much younger than she was at the time, she being about 40, fully matured, and showing that she had carried out the promise of her younger days as to beauty. There is also a painting of prior to the Massot portrait, and, in another part or tne room, a crayon of her by Stewart Is a triplicate portrait on one canvas, showing the head alone from three different points of view. To one side is a fine portrait of Em press Eugenie, and close, by a number of beautifully executed miniatures cf various members of the Bonaparte family. Including those of the first Emperor, Louis Bonaparte, at one time King of Holland; Elsie Bonaparte, Princess Baccbiochi, Mme. Litizia, mother of Xapoleon I; three mania tures of Jerome Bonaparte, the Prin cess Cameratta, daughter of Luclen Bonaparte, and ner son, paintea wnen a boy. A portrait by May, an American art ist, painted about 18S3, shows Jerome Bonaparte, father of Mr. Bonaparte, as Captain of carlbinierl, and another painting in the West Point cadet uni form. There are also other objects of interest, one a breech-loading, double- barreled fowling-piece, given by Mr. Bonaparte's grandfather to his son, Mr, Bonaparte's father. In 183. being breech-loading arm. There are also a pair of horse or hostler pistols which belonged to the Duke of Brunswick, killed .at Quatre Bras, two days prior to the battle of Wat;erIoo The pistols were given to Mr. Bonaparte's grandfather, who was in command of a division of the French array during the Waterloo, campaign. 2S"o Pork for the South. Nashville American. Is It the intention of the President to make it a sectional Government? .It cer tainly looks that way. for no first-class appointive position under the Government except that of Governor-General of the Philippines Is held by a Southern man.' A Suburban. 3Iartyr. .Wasategtoa "Post. . - Touny Judklns bought a cottase- Beat;-;, It bafl a big front yard. To keep It tidy aad cowelets He labored lone aad hard. t The sraes and weed all rankly grre-xv And every day t 4ws " And every night wfar.a work was thrcvig? . Aad when he'd worked, across the lot j With anna and askles sore. The side where he besaa had ret . As shagsy a before. The neighbors watched the atrusrsie trrim. Ttrlxt grass aad. kasaaa brawn. '. They aewe'tlsaes' sosght te earafsrt alss, ' But Judkhw mowed Uw Jawa. Whea to his otOes he X ' That grass was oa Ms sited- . , Ia dreasa ha oft eeeld see- it stow, HIa teselr wtf8 repined Aad thettsfet oT saetafclea aad teas i- She yearaed fer stiapie ieys tfe tteea; , 3t Jtt swwed tke laws. The other tsea whesa a had kaewa, mcresced ow Ule's aCair: Tasss sssm of tfceea seaat seat hadvssujia , la mmaM MMtte ea . Hta iee4y wtle etoseC oee ssr 9k seowsts a IMMsls.tstt. V Jasllin r- f V ( )