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8 THE OKEGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, "AUGUST 2, ' 1905. Entered at the PoetofAce at Portland. Or., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) rlly and Sunday, per year ..Jit.00 Pa.iv and Sunday, six months 5.00 Xauy and Sunday, three months. ...... 2.55 lal.y and Sunday, per month -83 Daily without Sunday, per year. 7.60 tally without Sunday, six months 3.90 Daliy without Sunday, three months... 1.03 Daily without Sunday, per month f jnday. pr year 00 Sunday, tilx months 1-00 fcunday. three months " BY CARRIER. Daily without Sunday, per week .15 Daily, per week. Sunday Inchided - .20 THE WEEKLY OkBGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year 1-0 Vierkly. six months - - Tekly. throe months , ' -50 HOW TO REMIT Sond postoMce money cr2cr, express order or personal check on -iir local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Beokwlth Special Asency New Ycrk. rooms 4S-G0 Tribune building. 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This would include the United States, England and her colonies. Germany and th major part of Austria, as principal units: but the minor states. Norwnv. Stolen and Denmark. Holland and Switzerland, would also come in, if the , uricn were complete. It would not amount, by any means, to Tennyson's Vff deration of the world," not even to x federation of Europe and America; fo" our troublesome Latin republics wottid be left out to say nothing of France, Spain, Italy and Russia. Few .men have Influenced recent thought more than Bjornstjerne Bjorn son. He belongs in the class with Her bert Spencer. Ibsen. Nietsche and Tol stoi, to. whom custom and tradition are less than nothing:, and human welfare everything. How to attain the ideal state no two of them agree. Spencer's anarchism Is very different from Tol stoi's. Nietsche believes in the tyranny of any man strong enough to play the tyrant The Norwegian writers are more of Thomas Jefferson's way of thinking qn politics. But the fact that any proposed change would destroy the present structure of society would en dear it to all these men. if they were a!l alive, for every one of them has taught that the present structure is fundamentally unjust A union of the Teutonic nations, if it could be effected, would not shatter what -we call civilization, but it would involve great changes, mostly for the better. They wpuld be more violent and more numerous than those which the original thirteen American colonies exoerlenced when from the condition of Independent and not very friendly na tions they passed to that of a Federal republic; but the changes would be of the same kind. When the project comes to be seriously considered, if it ever docs. It will be found that America has already solved the more serious prob lems How to give each unit of the federation Independence In home affairs, while In foreign affairs only the union speaks: how to regulate commerce among the units; how to combine rep resentation of the people with repre sentation of the sovereign nations In a Federal Congress all these problems we have solved and the principles of our solutions are universally valid. Our difficulties . are trivial matters of detail and method. The nations, for they were Independ ent nations, which united in the Amer ican Republic, all spoke the same lan guage. In the proposed Teutonic union at least six languages are spoken. How much of a difficulty this would be is uncertain. Two languages are used habliually in the Swiss Parliament without much friction, but six are an othc r matter. It seems likely that some or.- must be adopted as the national, cfflcial language, to be used in the Fed eral Congress and courts .and In public documents. To select this one at pres ent would be so difficult that It alone would probably wreck any project of union; on the other hand, if left to time, the question will answer Itself. A pro cess of natural selection is going on among languages; the fittest will sur vive, the others will perish. Or, at least, some one language will come' into general use for business and other in ternational purposes, and while it may riot be English, it will- certainly not be German. English would advance more rat-idly than.-it does as a world lan guage if it had some sensible spelling system. Our insane orthography is the principal difficulty in learning English, while German is a c6mplex, . half evo'.ved tongue, with inflections and syntax as formidable as Greek. Language aside, there is.no Insuper able barrier between the Teutonic na tions The religious difference between Cathol'c and Protestant is in every case internal where it exists at all. It raises local questions, as in Germany and Switzerland, but It does not create hos tility between the different Teutonic peonies. That such hostilities exist it would be folly to deny, but their causes by no means He so deep as religious feeling. The most obvious and flagrant one is the flamboyant vanity of the Emperor William. That disquieting monarch misrepresents the peaceful and enlightening spirit of bis own peo ple as much as he doas the spirit of the age. The ally of the Sultan and the Czar, he has protected the former from retribution for his crimes and Is now" maneuvering to protect the latter from the consequences of his folly. He has guaranteed the submission of Russian Poland, while Nicholas sends his rjegi ments to destruction in the East He intrigues to close the Baltic to Eng land and Japan to forestall a possible naval attack upon St Petersburg. Will iam's pretense that a closed Baltic would permit him to dismantle the for tlflcations ofhls own ports is ridicu lous. His instinct makes him nose as the champion of. autocracy In Turkey and Russia: his vanity makes him as Dire to be dictator over Europe. England and Germany are not nat ural enemies. In great European wars they have often been allies. Their com mercial rivalry is no fiercer than that between England and America. And yet America and England are daily be coming closer friends, while every week or two England and Germany seem to be upon- the verge of war. Nor has William ever shown himself more than a formal friend' to America. He was quite willing to play the same game upon us at the close of our Spanish War as he played upon Japan at the close of her Chinese War. He failed only because he could not make a tool of England as he formerly did of France. While William reigns, no closer approach to each other of the Teutonic nations is likely: but there are many forces working for union, some slowly, some rapidly, and In another century BJornson's Ideal may have moved Into the sphere of attainable realities. Men of science, for example, form a small but very influential body, and the tend ency of their writings and discoveries Is Inevitably toward peace and Interna tional union. There is no thinker of re spectable rank who protends to justify the waste and misery of war; though they admit that it Is necessary, as things' now are. The steadily increas ing intelligence of common men, the food for cannon: and the growth of so cialism, which knows nothing of na tional boundaries, both make for a fu ture federation. And a factor which aids them is the growing ease of com munication among pooples. Steam and electricity play havoc with national vanity and prejudice. Suppose, with all these influences at wqrk. the Teutonic races should one day perceive the ad vantage of dealing fairly by one an other. Instead of fighting; h&w long then would the federal union be delayed? KAW DETECTIVE WOKK. Three alleged bunco men were ar raigned before Judge Cameron, . In the Police Court, yesterday. No one ap peared to give testimony against them, and they were discharged, only to be taken in custody again when4 Eteputy City Attorney Fitzgerald intervened. These three are men of notorious repu tation. They were arrested through the sudden vigilance of that woli-known sleuth. Detective Joe Day. whose dis interested solicitude for the public safety and zeal In the capture, deten tion and prosecution of crooks have justly earned him a conspicuous place In the general esteem. Day at the time of the arrests gave out to the newspa pers a detailed account of the criminal careers of these men. and virtuously said the police wanted to rid the town of all confidence men. The spectacle of De tective Day driving a bunco man from Portland would be an inspiration to other less experienced officers. He really should do It Perhaps he win. Then again, perhaps he will not. The truth Is. the arrest and discbarge, or attempted discharge, of these men is a "raw" piece of work. There was never an honest purpose on the part of the detective force to prosecute them. It was a scheme somehow to show that the police are unable to use their pow ers to get rid of such crooks and touts as Scotch Aleck and Palo Alto Kid. That It was not fully consummated is due to Deputy Fitzgerald and Judge Cameron. But it all throws- an In structive light on police methods. THE ASSESSOR'S CENSUS. , The Assessor's returns for the 190S census show Portland to have a popula tion of about 111.000. There Is much disappointment over the result for It Is the general belief that a Federal census would show a larger population, al though, of course, a gain of 22 per cent over the 1900 census Is not to be re garded lightly. The Oregonlan does not say that the Assessor's figures are correct: nor does it say they are incor rect But I.t deems It fair to the Asses sor to point out that the total of 111,000 accords pretty closely with estimates from the school census. The city by the school census just taken has a school population of 25,940. At the ratio of 1 to 4.23 which was the ratio of 1900 the population now would be Just about eaual to the Assessor's returns. There are 3L983 school children In the county. On the proportion of" the cen sus of 19001 to 4.23 this would give a population for the county of 125,288. In Its calculations hitherto The Orego nlan has supposed there might be 120, 000 in the city, and 15,000 in the county outside the city. But these proportions are probably Inaccurate. The popula tion of the country districts within the county may be more than 15,000. But we shall have the whole result soon. The directory method of compiling population would show Portland with 125.000 to 140,000 people; but directories can scarcely be considered an infallible Index of actual population. The Fed eral census in 1900 gave the population of Portland as 90.426. compared with 46.385 in 1890; but this was no Just com parison, since in 1890 East Portland and Alblua were taken and reported sep arately. It will be remembered that di rectory estimates and promiscuous guessing in 1890 gave us a population of 65.000 to 75,000 and In 1900 lot 110,009 to 125.000. Portland's experience with census fig ures does not differ materially from that of other cities. Seattle, claiming from 100.000 to 120.000 in 1900, was given but 80,671 by the Federal census. A census taken by the same methods as those employed in Portland at this time, would probably disclose the fact that the S0.671 Seattle population of 1900 had increased in about the same ratio as that of Portland has increased. Registration and voting strength used to be good figures on which to base population.-but several elections have passed since the full strength of Port land has been In evidence at the voting booths. The County Assessor's census will be disappointing to a great many people, but. in the absence of a better plan, it will not affect the position of Portjand. which stands forty-second In the list made when the last Federal census was taken. The Federal census five years hence will probably rectify the errors made at this time. THE FACTS IN THE CASK OF DIt LLOYD The public makes tearful note of each new development In the controversj over Dr. Lloyd. This gentleman was elected bishop coadjutor of the Episco pal diocese of Oregon by his brethren assembled In one of those synods, or conventions, which afford churchmen such dearly prized opportunities to ex hibit their meekness and self-denial. This convention was under the guid ance of the holy spirit as such assem blies always are: but In choosing Dr. Lloyd. It seems, the members momen tarily yielded to the counsels of the Adversary. AH men are liable to such transient lapses; but it surprises one that a body of Episcopalian ministers, or rather priests, should have permitted themselves to be thus misled wh'en the Lord's intentions were so clear and so advantageous to the church. It is no secret that he had selected Dr. Morri son for bishop coadjutor; and as soon as the brethren came to their right minds they set about undoing the work of the Evil One. Of course, had Dr. Morrison believed that Dr. Lloyd was the Lord's candi date, he would never have dreamed of sending in a protest against him; but Dr. Morrison knew that he was himsejf divinely selected for bishop coadjutor. That fact forced him. though with many groanings of the spirit, to con clude that Dr. Lloyd's election ought to be annulled. Not for revenge, not for ambition, but solely to thwart the de ceitful arts of theHempter. he and his friends prepared their protest. The foregoing statement of the nets In this lamentable controversy will doubtless be accepted as fair and can did by both parties. It is believed that some such explanation of the motives of those who protested against Dr. Lloyd is necessary to prevent a scandal in the church. Moreover, unless the matter were thoroughly understood, there would be -only too much occasion for the sneers of the worldly, who are ever on the watch for the least slip of a good man's foou Everybody will now know that Dr. Lloyd was railroaded through by a gang of Beelzebub's 'hustlers, and no one can possibly mis apprehend Dr. . Morrison's motives In seeking to oust him. If any one has supposed that Dr. Morrison wished the place for himself, he must now admit that ho was mistaken. Wishing for a place and being divinely chosen for it are two very, very different thingr. It ip amazing that Mr. Simpson, of St. Mark's, knowing these facts, should make such a fuss over what he calls the "missing evidence of Dr. Lloyd's moral delinquency." What evidoncjb could a sane man ask beyond the fact that he ran for bishop coadjutor on Satan's ticket? When a candidate "or office In New York rurs on the Tam many ticket that labels him morally, does it not? To run on a ticket backed by the devil may not be quite so "bed. but surely it Is sufficient. Mr. Simp son's intelligence in this matter must be blunted by partisan rancor. He. will be asking next for evidence that Dr. Lloyd really was the devil's candidate. But that would be too absurd. We should not condescend to reply to him. Was not Dr. Morrison the Lord's can didate? What then, could Dr. Lloyd have been If not the devil's? OREATEST OF WATER PROJECTS. Greatest of schemes of water supply yet broached Is that for supply of the i City of Los Angeles. It proposes to I bring In the water of Owens River, a j mountain stream of Inyo County. Cali i 'ornlft, which has supply enough not only for the City of Los Angeles, but for the territory around the city and for the territory along the line of the canal. This river flows into a sink In the desert. Its waters may be carried by gravity to Los Angeles; but the dis tance Is 240 miles, and the cost of the project is estimated at about $25,0&0,00. Thirty miles of tunnels will be required. ' The river has Us sources in a high mountain range, parts of which hold mow throughout the year. The vol ume, though greater In Spring, Is very steady throughout the year. The flow eouals'that ofour Clackamas River, or exceeds It. Investigation by competent engineers leaves no doubt that It may be carried to Los Angeles. That It will be done cannot be questioned, because the demand for it will overcome all ob stacles. Owens River is a mountain stream, of little or no use unless car ried to those who may make use of It for It discharges Into a desert Carried into the City of Los-Angeles. It will sup ply water for all time, and will freshen a large part of Southern California. It is perhaps the greatest of all schemes of water supply that the world has yet known. The Times, of Los Angeles, says: "A few years ago Los Angeles could not have thought of engaging In such an enterprise: but so rapid has been our growth in population and wealth that we can now embark upon it without the slightest hesitation, feel ing certain that we are not only rich enough to pay the bills, but that the business of the water works will be large enough to make the Investment profitable when considered from the narrowest financial standpoint without regard to the broad general advantage. Great Is water! The mountains may crumble, but water makes old things become new. water brings life where there was death. Los Angeles has found something better than a gold mine." The grand aerie of the Order of Eagles that Is to meet in Denver dur ing trie present month will decide upon a site for a National home of that or der, where Eagles unable to sustain their flight unaided, or who, through age or infirmity have become wean of wing, may gather and And repose. This is putting it fancifully. Plainly stated, the object is to furnish a home for aged members of the order, who have not been able to provide homes for them selves. As usual in such cases, compe tition for the site of the National home is active. California. Montana, Wis consin and perhaps some other states each have "ideal locations" for an In stitution of that character, the accept ance of which for a consideration they will urge. Some advantages are supposed to accrue to a community In which such an institution is planted. The interest of the general public does not center In the location, however, but In th-stablLshnent of a home maln- talned by funds to which the benefi ciaries have In their effective years contributed, where worthy men who have made a financial failure of life may spend their last days without "the offense of charity." A number of fra ternal orders make commendable effort in this line, which the taxpaylng public appreciates and which redounds to the credit of their benevolence and of our common humanity. Railroad accidents In the United States are distressingly frequent Un fortunately, the tendency toward fewer mishaps Is not rapid, despite mechanical contrivances. Improved roadbed, heav ier rails, discipline among trainmen and sobriety of all employes In operating departments. According to the Inter state Commerce Commission's report for the first three months of this year, 999 persons were killed, while the in jured brought the totnj casualties to the Immense total of 15,309. It Is Im possible to fix the blame for this kill ing and maiming. The cost of acci dents In destruction of property and payment for damages Is very heavy, and it may be assumed that no railroad management neglects proper precau tions from false motives of economy. Stilt the necessity of doing something to bring down the casualties as low as England's for example, is apparent Hope of .reform seems to He with the trackmen, train dispatchers and engi neers, for the greatest disasters are from derailment and collision. The proposal to honor F. X. Matthleu by a special reception at the Oregon building on the Lewis and Clark Fair grounds Is commendable. Mr. Matthleu is the sole survivor of the convention of settlers at Champoeg May 2, 1S43. to take steps for the formation of a pro visional government. He voted with the majority on that occasion and has survived the last of his comrades of that day by many years. He Is not In any sense a hero, but a plain, loyal citizen of Oregon. left over. literally speaking, from territorial days alive with memories of the past, able to en joy the present and with high hopes for the future of the state In the begin nings of which he took notable part. The round of receptions In this histor ical year would not be complete with out a reception to Hon, F. X. Matthleu. Unless the railroad companies in volved are prepared for the struggle, the telegraphers' strike on two of the big transcontinental roads may prove a serious matter. The roads Involved are handling an immense passenger traffic, and the grain Is already begin ning to move. An Insufficient force of good men or a full force of poor men can do great damage, even when there Is no congewion of traffic For that reason It is to be hoped that the trouble will speedily be settled before the disin terested public Is Inconvenienced. Active preparations are making for extension of the railway from Riparla to Lcwteton. It will follow the north bank of Snake River closely, the whole distance. Camps for the 'workmen are being established rapidly, at various place, and the equipment will be dis tributed so as to push the work from a many points as practicable. During past years a good deal of work has besn done. mo3t of wMch will be available now. By the end of the year the read should be well on toward completion. Missouri joins the artl-grnft proces sion by placing a State Senator on trial for accepting a bribe. In the baking powder war before the Legislature. Governor Folk makes war on tha race track gamblers at St Louis, and Boss Butler acknowledges that he is politi cally dead. The world do move, and Missouri with It If the Equitable, despite extrava gance, -waste and downright theft, was able to pile up a huge surplus, how much too much have the policy-holders been paying for their Insurance? And If the Equitable premiums are too large, how about the other companies', which are practically the same? Admiral Rojestvensky expresses sin cere satisfaction at the treatment ac corded him by the Japanese. This re fers to the surgeons, not the fighters, of Japan to the little brown men who bind up wounds no: to the other little brown men who Inflict them. New Orleans objects to the action of her neighbors who close their gates against her trade, saying that freight cannot carry the contagion of yellow fever. But freight cars, as other cars, may carry yellow fever mosquitoes, and scatter them widely. William Zelgler. the baking powder king, left an estate valued at more than $20,000,000. He gave It all to an adopted son. who has Just compromised a con- tMt with th wMntt- fnr "iflfl flAfl Whn said there was no Royal road to wealth? j - i Naturally, the story of the Portland census will be read with interest In our neighboring City of Seattle. But. after all. It Is better to have 111.000 In the offi cial returns than 150.000 In your mind. Before you rush into print, complain ing that the census enumerator did not enroll you. perhaps you would better call on the County Assessor and And out Admiral Rojestvensky has just lost a part of his skull in Japan, When he returns to Russia he is likely to lose, all of It MR. NEWBURY IS A CANDIDATE But The Oregonlan, Which Doesn't Know Everything, Confesses It Didn't Know It. SUMPTER. Or.. July 3t-(To the Edi tor.) Will you kindly inform me why you have thus far refused to Inform the public through The Oregonlan of the fact that I am an applicant for the appointment of United States District Judge for the Dis trict of Oregon? Is It because 1 am not at prosent a resident of the City of Port land? I presume you know that my peti tion and application was presented to the President I admit that you have a right to deem me incompetent, or too old to suit you. but neither of these objections should prevent the publication of the news In The Oregonlan of which I have been a reader since 1570. W. 5. NEWBURY. Perhaps They "Wouldn't Tell. PORTLAND. Aug. 1. tTo the Editor.) Knowing your fairness to all p&rtlet. even the gcclAlirtt. I Ibelnjr amontrt the latter) would rather read an article telllnc how those a called 23 successful men made their Ust J10.W3. FRED A. CHESTER. 0REG0N0Z0NE A "Lyric or Brotherhood. It Is nobler to help than to hinder, my brothers. . A? we pass on the path; For our days be as tow or as tinder, my brothers. In the furnace or -wrath; And If one shall go down and the winds beat him under. While the gods sit aioot on the throne or thunder. Shall we take what he hath? It is better to love than to hate. O'my brothers. As we go through the vale; We are creatures of fortune or fate, l O :ny brothers: We succeed, or we fall; Some rlsp to the summit, and some in the valley Sink down with their burdens and neer may rally: Let us give them a hail! And It Never Came Back. Will I sec the papers say that the blcyclo Is coming back. Phil I bet mine won't "Will Why. so? Phil Some geezer stole It four years ago. An exchange devotes space to telling us where pencils come from. Wiiat most of us want to know Is. Where do they go? It appears that the Chicago strike, whieh was called off. has refused to come off. That strike hangs onto Chi cago like a bulldog to the seat of a tramp's trousers. According to a local paper, a "Wom an's Improvement Club" has been or ganized at Alturas. Or., and the paper says It is a good thing. That Is ungal- lant. A man's improvement cHih Is Just J as needful. "I observe thnt the McGoogles are saying eyether and nyether since they got so much money." "Well, that's quite an Improvement: I used to know" them when they said aythur and nay.thur." Hamlin Garland, the novelist waa locked up in a penitentiary cell at Colorado Springs for three hours the other day. He had been in the prison to get "IochIj color." and requested a guard to lock him in a cell for a few minutes. The guard forgot all about GarlanJ. Some of our novelists, says the Unofficial Autocrat, ought to be locked in cells for three yars, without writ ing materials, which would have a ten dency to increase the sale of Dickens, Thackeray. George Eliot Hawthorne and other novelists worth reading. The president of Iowa College Is named Dan Bradley, but the news papers insist upon making him DRnlol 'Bradley. This reminds us of a man back In MHsourl, whose name Is Reverdy Johnson. His friends always call him Rev. Johnson, but when he goes away from home tha papers state that "Rev. Johnson, of Columbia. 13 In town Once when Mr. Johnson was visiting In ft strange town an eloping couple read that "Rev. Johnson 1 stopping at th Grand Central Hotel." and they called him down to the parlor and insisted upon his performing the marriage cer emony for them. "I can do It." he said, "bnt the knot will slip." In the same town with Mr. Johnson lives Squire Turner, a leading lawyej. who never wa? a Justice or the Peace and wouldn't stoop to such a humble posi tion. Yet when strangers read his sign. "Squire TMrher. Attorney-at-Law." they Immediately wonder why he doi'sn't add "J. P.." and lovers some times go in and insist that he wed them forthwith. Wnen he goes to a town where he Is unknown, the news papers Invar'nbly print his name with an apostrophe in front of the Siu!re. Also, the dignified lawyer frequently fines, hlmcelf aJdressed by a chance acquaintance In this fashion: "Well 'Squire, how are you today?" But even such names as tfiesc are more to be desired than that or a new "Missouri baby, who must go through this vale or tears and tribulations us Ebenezer Nicndemu Obadlah Swatt George. Vanderbllt.Is going- to give up farming because his hired hands, when he goes to Europe, graft so much that e can't afford the luxury. Has it come to this? Has the horny-handed son of toll down on the rarm taken to emu- J lating- the high and mighty? Hereto- I fore we had supposed that only fruit- 1 tree culturirts amongst the rural .rolk. were gratters. Mr. Vanderbllt, who has built a magnificent farmhouse at Bllt more. is disgusted, and rlgnteouslj-. Let us lament, thus: George Vanderbllt, of BUtmore, Built more than he desired; And now he quits the building; It's Not work that makes nlm tired. But worry almost runs him daft. Because toe horny hand of graft Has grafted cash Instead or (please Forgive me, reader) grafting trees! A Contemporary Pn rody. The glad rain fell, and now vrp see The leaves or corn stretch forth In jtlec; The tas5cl nod a If to ray. "ThUs gives klnc corn the right of way." Grand old Nebraska once In deb:. And parched and scourged, now green and wet. Her people fat In flh and pun-. , What oy to tn5 her pralte in verse! A. L. Blxby In Nebraska State Journal. The glad sun ahone. and now we see The crowds attend the- Fair liy glee; The Spielers nod as If to say, "This is the place walk in. you Jay!" Grand Oregon once, accounted wet. Now by the glorious sunshine "het," Her people fat In pride and purse What joy to. sing her praise In verse! ROBERTUS LOVE. Other Scandinavians Fired. New York Poet. King: Oscar Is by no means the first Scandinavian Xing' to be dethroned. A Danish historian recalls the fact that In 1809 Gustav TV of Sweden was com pelled to abdicate, and before him was King; Erik XIV and King SIglsmund; the same rate also overtook the reign ing Queens Christina and Clrike Leo no re. Danish history records the de thronement or only one King Kristlan IT, in 1522. As regards King Oscar, the opinion prevails In Sweden that ho anticipated the loss of Norway, and even desired it It is argued that, being an apostle of peace, and knowing that the union between Norway and Sweden was bound to be dissolved, he was anxious that the crisis should occur ! during his reign, as his successor! might regard it as a catse for war. THE BENNINGTON DISASTER. The Opinions and Conclusions of a Maritime Critic. American Syren anij Shipping. The deplorable disaster on the United States warship Bennington eonld not have occurred on any merchant steamer; it would not have occurred had the navy system, in regard to the care am opera tion of ships machinery twn haif as good as that which obtains in any merchant, service; it would not have been conceiv able had a similar system in regard to engineers in charge on naval shtp been in force as is maintained In every mer chant line. It may be further remarked that had the condition of the Benning ton's boilers, as reported, been 'known to exist on any merchant steajner no erew could have been got to stay on board of her. it is certainly extraordinary that a government whieh impoeeg alt sorts of stringent inspection requirement upon merchant veails does not in Its depart ment of the navy exact similar efficiency. One not Infrequently hears of a mer chant steamer putting back to port when a day or so out heeaue some Saw has been discovered in the engines or ma chinery and repairs have become neces sary to ineure safety, but one never hears In this generation of a boiler exptoalon. One often finds in ocean ft earners boll, ers that are sixteen, eighteen or twenty years old ami still In active service, but one never hears of boilers in active sea service with reduced pressure because they were unfit to stand the strata, as was the case in the Bennington. A mer chant etenmehip's boilers are required to be competent to do the work for whieh they were deigned; they must do It. or the hlp cannot perform her service, so wheq necessary new boiler are Installed. So inconceivable waa the occurrence on the Bennington to practical marine en gineers and official inspector! in this city that they at first refused to believe it. Imagining that a magazine of am munition had more likely exploded. An explanation that the safety valve might have stuck soenw almost incredible in these days, though port''. We a generation ago; consequently the competent critics have been puzzling their bruins to com prehend the cause. It seems potttbh that through care lessness a sudden force from other boll em wrp turned into this weak one. thu causing the disaster, but this should not have been the case with skilled men in charge. Furnaces usually become wasted In the line of the lire bars. or. to use a common phrase, between the line of the heat and the cooler line of the ash pit. That is generally the place where the first weakness eUs In. It Is also pos sible that the boilers may not have been as clean as they might be. and shortnem of water might likewise have occurred. Whatever may have been the cause, how ever, is practically Immaterial now. Secretary Bonaparte win ftnd that In merchant steamers engtres and boilers are continuously and repeatedly inspected by the surveyors to Lloyd'p And kindred Institutions in order to maintain tfcetr clastf. whereat the navy is a law unto Itself In regard to inspection. It will also be found that the merchant services which are most efficiently ma mixed are likewise most economically managed, both In regard to machinery and men: the regular limited staff of the engine room consequently know every smallest part of their machinery, and there is no danger of "too many cooks spoiling the broth" as there Is with a large crew In a- warrhip. Indeed, so excellent has the policy been found or carrying a minimum of an efficient crew in a steamer, that It may be well vrorthy of consideration, whether it might not be advisajble to adopt In the navy somewhat the system of a merchant line, having a permanent min imum force for each ship, the men of which shall be trusted astutely wfth the ere. maintenance xsd opera tist of the voswet and. not to be interfered with by the members of any auxiliary force carried for fighting purpose? Until some such thorough reforms are effected we cannot be said to possess a satisfactory and reliable navy. The World's Grcatoit Canal. Courier-Journal. Because you do not happen to Hv near It. do not underestimate the Importance of the Sauk Ste. Marie shl? canal to every citizen of the United States. We are reminded of it by the fact that Au gust 2 marks th fiftieth anniversary of its opening. A great celebration of the day Is planned by the state authorities of Michigan and by National officers nod very prcperly. for tbe enormous value of i lie waterway to American commerce justifies the booming cf cannon and the mnklns of congratulatory speeches. The "Soo" canal is the busiest oi all the world's artificial waterways. Its traffic Is far heavier than that of the Suez ca nal. The t rattle of the Suez in 110! was ?.C00.CflO net tens. This represented com merce from all quarters of tbe globe. That of the Soo in ?ft months of Wt. In which ke was absent and therefore na -igation was open, aggregated 22.C&MK0 n . tons, of which 'It.m.t)Sd passed through the American course of the canal. When She Means Business. New York Press. "I have noticed." said the serious, off hand philosopher, "that a woman will get a golf dress when she has no Inten tion of playing the game." "That's so." admitted the man with the low forehead. "And." continued the off-hand philoso pher, "she will get a ball gown when the cares nothing about dancing, .and a tennis dress when she wouldn't play ten nis for fear she would freckle, and a bath ing suit when she has no Idea of going into the water, and a riding habit when the very thought of mounting a, horse gives her chills, and " "Yes." Interrupted the man with the low forehead, "but when sne'gots.a wedding dress she means bushMes. Ever notice that?" Incendiary Friction. Boston Herald. An Insurance adjuster was sont to a Massachusetts town to adjust a los on a building that had been burned. "How did the Are start?" asked a frioud who met him on his homeward trip. "I couldn't say certainly, and nobody seemed ublo to 'tell." said the adjoater. "but It struck me that it was the result or Irictlon." "What do you mean by tlmt"-ashed his trland. "Well," said the Insurance, man, "friction sometimes .eomeg from rub bing a 510.00 policy on a $5M house.". Reflections of u Bachelor. New York Press. Either a mother worries because her daughter has beaus or hasn't It's funny how short girls wear just as long stockings us the tall ones. One way to find out' what you don't know about a woman Is to marry her. A man never gets through supporting his children, and generally he has to help out on his grandchildren. A woman's Idea of fortune-tetters Is to keep on going to. them till she strides one that she knows tells her tbe troth, be cause that Is what she wants to bear. ' Not Broke" Yet. Topeka (Kan.) Journal. "Scotty" Is said to have 540.ICO left so he Is not likely to have to walk back to Death Vallev after all. He will 'perhaps be able to tip a brakeman for a side door sleeper. That's. It. Washington Post Senator Mitchell gets six months in jail and a $1000 fine. "For tlia land 6 sake!" INTERESTING TRUST DECISION Courts Refuse to Enjoin Dealers From Cutting 1'rlces. Philadelphia Record. A little more than two yoars ago the New York Court of Appeals deck tot favor of the National Wholesale Dragc glsts Association In the suit ImttittHMal against it as an unlawful combination In restraint of trade by the J. D. Pnrlc & Sons Company. It Is not evidat way this ease was trlod in the suite cowrt. and the decision did not appear to in harmony with opinions of FeK3ral Courts, where the suit would saem to have belonged. The Park Company was a price-cutting drug house, ami -toe as sociation was formed to prevent eoa cerns of the character from getttea: goods. In spite of this decision, a New York, department store applied to th Nw York Supreme Court to' restrain Um American Publishers' Association awl the American Booksellers' Association from refusing to sell copyrighted book to it. whieh refusal they based on ta ground that the department store wns cutting- prices. The Judge intimated that the department store was la Uw right, but said he must be governed toy the decision of the court of last resect in the Park case. The matter went to the Appellate division where, by a de cision of three to one. the department ; store was sustained in spite of the tlrwg? decision. Of the two dissenting: Jtodg one believed that the drutr ttaetoton ought to govern, ami the other that any merchant had a right to sell or not 311 to any one as he pleased. The Court t Appeals also sustained tbe department store: the court divided five to two. and the opinion was read by Justice Parker. Thus the New York Court of Appeals in two decisions, tmlv wIm j months apart, decided that the 4rwtr trade mipht. and the book trad miRfst not. combine to prevent the sale at goods to price-cutters. The identical question involved la tbe book case was raised again In the appli cation of two publishing houses to nave the same department store restrained from selling copyrighted books at lower prices than thoso Axed by tbe mtblten ers' assoeiation. Judge Ray mat week dismissed the application and bold th trade association to be In violation of the Federal ant i-trust law. "If th Northern Securities and kindred rasee" he said, "are to be respected as law and followed where there is no hue and ery. as against ratlrosds. this comblnntlon is illegal and in rostraint of interstate commerce." THE MAX-IIORSI5 OF JAPAN. Tribute to the Capability and Pa tience or the RIkslmw-Mati. Rev. Francis E. Clark In Sverybedar's. What a wonderful Institution the huel Mgent man-horse of Japan has seeomo! He has all the virtues of his nqwta brother and none of his vices. Yon beck on to your horse to come across tao strtet. ami he at once obeys you. Mo never shies at a piece of white paper Had cares naught for a steam roller. Without bit or bridle or check-rein he goes Junt where you tell him. Moreover, he may be much wiser than you yourself In man- matters, ami will tell you the di rection, ami all the turnings that He be tween you and your destination, dqrcamt ing. if you desire him to do so. upon ta points of interest on your route, and tao viewpoints from which you can get tbe best glimpse of the surrounding country. If the robe that keeps you warn in Win ter gets untucked, the ma a -horse sons and adjusts it. and If you wish to buy & newspaper to white awny th tlsa or a. basket of oranges and persimmons wheve--ariih to refresh yoursorf. he lets down tha start and trots off to the noarent sta) to make the purchase. IX you wish for no refreshments ad for no information, he respects your tool ings and acknowledges your rigkt to taci turnity, and keeps on his steady Jog-trot making nve miles an hour for hours at a time, coming to the end of his Journey ft rady for another pull as if he had tour legs Instead of two. How to fc'jtve a Year on Strawberries. Garden Magnzine. If you set out ordinary strawberry plants this September you win not got good strawberries until 107, but if you set out potted plants in August yeu wWl nave plenty of berries to eat noxt Spring. J The reason for this is that the pottod I plans have a perfect root system, walk j the ordinary ones suffer from the shock; of transplanting. If you set out an ordi nary strawberry plant in the blazing hot I sun of August it will come to nothing, bat these potted plants will never know they were moved, or rather they will mugk at the chance to semi their roots anywhere. Of course, these potted plants cost more, but they are a perfect godsend, beeune every year thousands of people who move to the country forget to plant strawber ries in the Spring r have no time to do so. Congress and Towels. Philadelphia Bulletin. According to a recent report from Wash ington, one of the first and most parptec ing questions that will confront tbe Fifty ninth Congress will be that of provfcttue; its members with towels. In a At of ab sent mlndedness, or scmetbtng etee. the Fifty-eighth Congress In its last ss4on is said to have struck ut the aporoorbt tion that provides for the clean towels used by members in tr- performance of their dally ablutions. What the Congress men will do When they arrive at Wash ington ami find the committee rooms and bathrooms of the Capitol bare of towels. Is. of course, an unsolved problem. It will have to be solved some way. Smw Congressmen may survive a smirched rec ord, but they cannot do without tewete. ComTort for, the Rejected. From an Address by William Hughe?, Insurance Actuary. ' The old proverb which says that a creaking door hangs long on its hinges receives abundant illustration In the nt rasrous cases of confirmed Invalids who live to old age. and the number of per sons now living who have been rejeotad or heavily rated up many years ago hi assurance companies may no doubt bo reckoned by thousands. Money in Snake in Kentucky. Stanford Interior-Journal. Joe L'pthegrove. owner of the big rat tlesnake that attracted much attention last week, took it to the Cineinanc! Zoological Gardens and sold It to the management for $38. Mr. Upthgnove bought the snake from a man at Htg la.n.1 named Young for loss than it There's money in snakes. .Tanans Post Mortem Honors. Japan Weekly Mall. About 366 officers and men who have been killed since the buttle of tlaoyang up to the battle of Mukden will receive th Golden Kite. Tttb posthumous honor is already sanctioned, by th Emperor and will shortly bo published by the Official Gazette. This Is Rough and Tough. Denver Republican. At a recent trial In Oregon a Juror was asked If he had any prejudice agalost Congressmen. Has It, then. Indeed, come to this? Two Revelations of Human Nature. Harper's Weekly. What people will do to get their names In print is only less surprising than what they will do to keep their names out o print.