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Under the city ordinance as it stood when Mayor Lane went into office, private boxes w,ere forbidden in sa loons, but were permitted In restau rants provided the floor area of the box exceeded 160 square feet The new council amended the ordinance by -extending: this provision to saloons. The Mayor vetoed the amendment, but the council passed It over his veto by a vote of 12 to 3. Whatever motive may have Induced the council to take this action, whether to punish the presump tion of the Mayor or not. It Is to be re gretted. There is no legitimate reason for maintaining: private boxes in -saloons and the reasons for excluding them are numerous and decisive. A floor area of 160 square feet will not prevent a box from serving the pur poses of the corruptor of youth. It might be much larger than that and still serve all those vicious ends for which it is too often used. The moral sentiment of the city condemns these boxes In saloons unanimously and vig orously. All right-thinking persons must side with the Mayor in his oppo sition. Having rebuked the Major, and hav ing done all that the saloonkeepers asked, the council now has under con sideration two box ordinances. The de sign, it Is said, is to do away with all previous legislation and deal even yet more severely with the saloon and res taurant boxes. The so-called Bennett ordinance. It Is said, is looked upon with favor by the council and will probably be passed. If it is enacted In its pres ent shape, we shall have an ordinance so obscure and Indefinite In meaning that there will be no saloon or restau rant box legislation at all. It looks to The Oregonlan as if the phraseology of the Bennett ordinance had been made purposely vague, confusing and con flic ting. The council made a mistake when It repealed the original ordinance, It will do worse if it enacts the Bennett ordinance without amendment or an honest attempt to clear upon Its am blgulties. woman, should take a wnue partner the circumstance might be regrettable, but It would not be very Important. There are only 8.840,000 negroes in the "United States. "Were they completely amalgamated with the whites it would take a southern negrophobe to detect the taint, as he would call It in the race. Infinitesimal In Itself it would disappear among the multitudinous strains that are mingling to produce the American breed and whether It would make us better or worse nobody knows. Certainly the hysterical south ern predictions about It are not to be trusted. But there will be no amalga mation except as white fathers bring it about. Neither race wishes it It Is a sheer bugbear only less foolish than "social equality." If a negro is fit to associate with white people, why under heaven should he not do so? And if he Is not fit, or even if he is fit "who fs going to com pel any white man to admit a negro to Tils society? That Is a matter of choice and custom. Law, merit ability have nothing to do with It There Is no "social equality" aroVmg whites even. Who but a. man gone mad with race pride and hatred could imagine that it would ever exist between high class whites and low class negroes? And who but a Christian minister of south ern antecedents could see any harm in social amenities between a negro like Mr. Washington and a white like Mr. Wanamaker? PORTLAND. SATURDAY. AUGUST IP, 1005. RUSSIA'S DREAM OF PACIFIC EMPIRE. Will Russia surrender her hope of a Far Eastern empire? That she shall do so is the sum of the conditions upon wmcn japan offers peace. It Is a ter rible humiliation to Russia even to sit at a council board where she must hear such terms. It is not likely, however. that she will give up her dream of empire on the Pacific and pay indem nlty into the bargain. If she feels that she must withdraw from the Pa cific she can do so without payment of money; for she can draw back Into the vastness of Siberia, and Japan can do nothing further. It is doubtful whether her armies In front of Oj'ama are in condition for battle. To supply and maintain such an army at so vast a distance Is one of the greatest of all problems that war has ever presented. Cut off wholly from the sea, and also practically cut off from sources of supply in Corea and China, which hitherto have been may be excluded. Undesirable persons should by all means be kept out That is the reason Chinese coolies are now excluded. THE ETERNAL NEGRO. The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., was born in 1SC4 In North Carolina, and there he lived and formed his opinions until 18S3 when he went to Johns Hop kins University in Baltimore. The In fluences of that ultra southern city could not have tended to sdftcn the asperity of his feeling toward the negro capitalist politician or gentle man of education; an asperity much in evidence in his novel with a purpose "The Leopard's Spots," and grown al most maniacal in his jeremiad against Mr. Booker Washington printed in the Saturday Evening Post for August 19. We have long since ceased to expect either moderation or sense upon the negro question from . any southern writer whose youth included the la mentable years of Reconstruction; but it might have been hoped that a Chris tian minister would try to conceal, even If he could not overcome, his envious hatred of the progress of the race which his forbears held in slavery. It might at least have been supposed that shame would have prevented his twitting that race with their childishness, incapacity ( and uncontrolled passions, for Mr. Dix on must know well that for 300 years, while his predecessors were building their aristocratic culture and noble civ ilization upon the unrequited toll of the negroes, thoEe unhappy people were permitted -no enjoyments but those of the child and the brute, their Intellects systematically stunted and their pow ers of volition eradicated so far as cruel laws and the sad conditions of slavery could eradicate them. But Mr. Dixon is restrained by no shame; he glories in his hatred. He even descends to misrepresentation of Mr. Washington and perversion of well-known facts of NON-PARTISAN TARIFF REFORM. The reciprocity convention at Chi cago marks an era in the commercial history of the United States. The con vention was non-partisan. It provided before adjourning for an "American Reciprocal Tariff League," a non-parti san body, to continue the work of the convention. Tariff reform Is thus re moved from partisan politics, where It had no fit place, being a matter depen dent on facts and figures and not on the spellbinder's eloquence. It Is re moved to the arena of calm, scientific investigation and study. Editor Rose- water's reactionary plea, after the good old style of political oratory, did not Impress his hearers greatly. The stand pat fetich, whose praises he sang, had few votaries in the convention. The watchword was reciprocity, not retali ation. Governor Cummins of Iowa, in noble speech, recalled the fact too nearly forgotten, that reciprocity was the tariff doctrine of such Republican leaders as Blaine, Garfield, Sherman and McKinlcy; and that standpatlsm Is a heresy and a very recent one. He showed the folly of losing a foreign market for $10,000 worth of trade to keep a home market for $1000 worth though, let us not forget, it is not folly for the trust which milks the home consumer for as great a profit on the $1000 sale as the foreigner pays on ten times as much. The folly Is on the part of the consumer. What the trust wants Is to mulct the home consumer to the last limit of his resources, while it undersells foreigners In their own market A beautiful proposition for the trust lovely- for the boys, but how about the poor frog? The reciprocity convention recalls In its resolutions that section 4 of the Dingley law provides for reciprocity agreements. It might have added that almost the dying words of President McKlnley were a plea for reciprocity; and It would have been true. If not po lite, to remark, also, that but for the wretched fidelity of mercenary Senators to their paymasters or their pockets we should now be enjoying reciprocity with the very nations whose hostile tar iffs threaten our prosperity. Thanks to Aldrlch, Piatt and their crowd, we ace now likely to lose our European trade on the one hand Just as our Oriental trade seems vanishing on the other. The Imperial family of Japan Is said to dwell together In harmony under circumstances that would cause do mestic discord, if not disruption. In an ordinary American family. Her Ma jesty the Empress Is several years older than the Mikado and though she Is the only wife he has ever had, she Is not the mother of the five children the crown prince and four princesses of whom the Emperor Is the father. In case she should become the mother of a son which, as she Is 56 years old, a Japanese writer In the Independent concedes to be quite Improbable, the illegitimate children of the Emperor would have to stand aside, but as mat ters are now they are accorded the full honors due to members of the Imperial family. The Empress Is a beautiful woman, according to the Oriental type of beauty, and she Is an amiable, affec tionate and loyal wife. From all of which It is clear that though Her Ma jesty has adopted the customs of Amer ican women in some minor details of life, her domestic and marital Ideals are by no means up to the standard required in American homes. The terrible fatality that recently at tended the appearance of diphtheria In a country home In a sparsely set tled section of Tillamook County is a roiriln '-r of the days before the germ theory of disease was elaborated and contagion was disposed of as a "mys terious dispensation of Providence." The mystery Is still In the appearance of diphtheria In a remote and Isolated neighborhood. How It got there Is the mystery not what manner of scourge It Is or why It was "sent" Five mem bers of this ranch family died within a few days of this disease and others are afflicted beyond hope of recovery. This was a familiar story In centers of civlllztt'.'on a quarter of a century ago. but now. thanks to bacteriological research and the discovery of antl toxin, it is as a tale that Is told, ex ceDt as In this Instance when Ignorance of the nature of the malady, bad san itarv conditions and distance from a phvslclan combined cause a repetition of the old story. The Ancient Order of Hibernians of America propose In lieu of establish ing a home for the unfortunate mem bers of their organization, to buy land in the West upon which to settle de serving members before they become superannuated and unable to take care of themselves. This is In the nature of a preventive charity, the object be ing to forestall indigence in the case of members who are willing to work but to whom the city offers no oppor tunity for accumulation. The order is wealthy and will pay $300,000 for west ern lands upon which to settle poor but deserving members who have a taste for farming. Purchases will be made In South Dakota. The land .will be bought piecemeal and no effort will be made at society farming. This is wise, since the Irish, who will be the chief beneficiaries of this scheme, de serve nothing so much as individual recognition and the opportunity to ap ply home rule to their everyday affairs. faces difficulties vastlv Greater than i history to Justify his insane Indictment she has yet encountered; and there is I of hls senile and docile race of men reason moreover to question the spirit ! ask onlr the privilege of training and constancy of her soldiery, In view j themselves for honest vocations and of their situation in the field and the living their humble lives in peace, state of affairs at home. Mr. Washington says somewhere English writers well acquainted with "ln lts thirty years of freedom the fhe course of events that led up to the ' ngro race has developed more rapidly war show in detail that It was a Rus- than the Latin race In a thousand years sian oligarchy and gang of speculators, headed by Alexleff, who were mainly responsible for the breaches of faith that accompanied the Russian enter prise ln Manchuria, and were back of the further ambition to absorb Corea. They expected Japan to protest, but didn't believe for one moment that Japan would dare to make war; nor, if Japan should make war, did they Imagine that Japan could prevail against Russia. Hence they blindly plunged their country Into the strug gle that has brought upon It so great disaster. Correspondents of English newspa pers show that the hypocrisy and du plicity of Russia, in connection with her promises repeatedly made to evac uate Manchuria, are exposed by docu ments published by the Russian gov ernment Itself, which narrate the hlB tory of events of the period preceding the outbreak of hostilities. These doc uments show that It was the Czar's first intention to evacuate Manchuria, but Alexleff vigorously opposed that view and declared to the Emperor "that It would be impossible for Russia to leave Manchuria without losing pres tige." As a solemn promise had been given to leave, it was necessary to break faith to maintain prestige. Alex leff prevailed with the Emperor, and It was determined not only to :hold Manchuria, but to refuse to recognize Japan's claims to a similar position ln Corea. It appears to have been part of the Russian plan to lure Japan Into seizing Corea and then appeal to the powers against the infringement of Co- rean Independence. That the Czar ex ipected war Is proven by the fact that an immense fleet had been gathered In the Far East and the armies of Eastern Asia were mobilized a full month before the outbreak of hostlll ties. The Czar telegraphed Alexleff a little before hostilities commenced that it was desirable that Japan, and not Russia, 6hould commence hostilities. If, Siowever. the Japanese fleet came into the waters of northern Corea, the Rus elan fleet was to attack without a declaration of hostilities. Here Is strong indication that war was not only expected, but actually desired by Rus sla, so confident were Alexleff and his friends that the subjugation of the Jap anese would be comparatively easy. It was simply because she under rated her adversary that Russia- got Into her present plight of disaster and humiliation. Japan evidently believes she can expel Russia from the. coast and roll her back to a distance that will remove the menace to her own .safety; and as clearly ehe-means .to do of freedom." And what he says Is true. They have developed more rapidly than the Latins. In fact during the last flvu hundred years two great divisions of the Latin peoples, the Italians and Spaniards, have heen retrogressing In many particulars; while from their im bruted state of slavery the negroes of this country have developed indepen dent industries, a literature, orators and teachers one supremely great teacher whose name will be known among men whom Mr. Dixon and his books are for gotten. Four million negroes are to day engaged ln gainful occupations in the United States. But Mr. Dixon speaks of the "pitiful puerility" of Mr. Washington's remark and plunges into such hysterical rhetoric as this: "Italy is the creator of architecture, science, philosophy, sculpture, literature" and many things more. Could anything be more wildly Inaccurate? Italy never had an original architecture; her an cient literature was a shameless imi tation of the Greeks; her one scientist of high original genius, Galllleo, she forced to recant his teachings, and her one great pnuosopner, uruno, sue burned at the stake. How can Mr. Dixon say Italy created sculpture and literature? Has this minister, who has adorned a Boston, pulpit, never heard of Phidias? Did they not read Homer at the little North Carolina college where he graduated? Such is the history that Mr. Dixon hurls at the astonished head of Mr. Washington, who never meant to deny that the Latin peoples had. achieved greatly. He spoke onry of their pro gress, which has too often been like a crab's. But Mr. Dixon Is crazy to find something in Booker Washington's writings which favors amalgamation of the negro and white races. This is only less a bugbear to the wild-eyed preach er-novelist than "bocUI equality." Mr. Washington has again and again pro tested against both of them. He has warned the negroes more solemnly than any other of their leaders against fool lsh aspirations of all sorts; he has ex horted and taught them Insistently tp -confine their ambition to honest In dustry. But facts like these are of no consequence to Mr. Dixon. He has con vlnced himself In some way that the great negro teacher believes In arnal gamating the black and white races, and soundly does he trounce the arch offender. What mixing of the two races there has been so far. Mr. Dixon ought to know, comes from the unlaw ful acts ot white men. There" Is little disposition of white women to take necro paramours or husbands. But If every nesro In the country, man and VERY BRIEFLY. In want of a newspaper to further and promote their various schemes, .political, social, monopolistic and pluto cratic, a group of persons in Portland, who Imagine they are worthy because they have Inherited wealth, started their organ, and for three years have been using It as far as possible to con trol state and municipal politics and leelslatlon. It was this group that operated" on the City Council for years, till they got the most Important franchises of the city ln their posses sion without paying a dollar for them. however; and one of these franchises they have recently sold for six millions. whereupon their organ boaied loudly of the achievement Last Winter the group elected one of their own number Speaker of the House of Representatives at Salem, that they might have a hand at all times on the legislation of the session. They are now doing their utmost to "run" the City of Portland, and their organ teems with blackguardly abuse of ev erybody that doesn't yield to their behest They are laying their plans for the state election next June, and ex nect to control the Legislature and send one of their number to the United States Senate. Of course, all these, operations are carried on under professions of lofty nubile sDlrit and superior virtue. In trigues for power and pelf always are. Likewise, as you might suppose, the newspaper organ of this bunch of monopolists, plutocrats and operators in franchises supported by the money of Its masters prates loudly of Its own "Independence." And a "holler than thou" air pervades the entire under taking; while schemes are forming for further profitable operations. labor on some good apples, badly boxed. marketable at 50 cents, and sold them within an hour for $1.25 a box. So much for planed boards, soft paper and symmetrical arrangement Man ufacturers don't put superior goods In Inferior packages. The buyer Judges contents by the appearance of the ex terlor. He doesn't look for good fruit thrown loosely In a rough Ill-made box. This Is a case where 10 cents worth of material and labor brings an imme diate return of 500 per cent Mr. Reid uttered a valuable truth when he said to orchardlsts: "It will pay In the end to keep your scabby, misshapen fruit for hog-feed.' on the money question. The Russians the other day. He put a few minutes' "em to be willing to give up everything this planet made during the .past four tney own. together with a whole lot of things they don't own; they don't enter any protest agin letting the Japs help themselves to as many undeveloped In fant nations as are laying around loose: but they are moughty close-fisted when it comes to putting their hands In their pants' pockets and pulling out a billion dollars. Now, they say that John De Rockyfeller Is worth a billion. Here Is a fine chance for John to set himself right before the oil-burning publlck. Jess let old John go to Mister WItte and say, "It's O. K., Serge, old boy; let the white dove of peace settle down on the world and I'll settle up with Japan. I Jess happen to have a billion In even change in my pocket. You pay my streetcar fare and Ifl be O. K." PEACE ON THE COOLIE QUESTION The Trans-Mississippi Congress dls posed of the Chinese Immigration ques tlon with singular moderation and Judgment The dominating lnfiuences-in the convention are commercial and In dus trial; and Inasmuch as these Inter ests, if any, are disposed to look upon the admission of Chinese cheap labor with favor, St might have been expec ted that an expression to that effect would be made. But It was not for the plain reason that the Congress felt that It could not be responsible for the Inauguration of pro-Chinese agitation, If It made that mistake, and thus Iden tlfled Itself with one side of a question that is, or would become, purely polltl cal, the usefulness of the Congress ln other Important lines would unques tionably be Impaired. The direct issue was wisely avoided. The President Is asked by the Con gress to ascertain the reasons for the present boycott He has already ar ranged to send Mr. Conger, former mln Ister to China, to the Orient for that purpose. He Is then requested to name a commission for the purpose of In vestlgatlng the whole question of lm migration to the end that "all unde slrable persons from every country; Fruit Inspector James H. Reid taught practical lesson to Oregon orchardlsts 0REG0N0Z0NR Miss Alberta Sturges, an American heiress. Is about to become the Countess of Sandwich, ilay she have so many sandwiches that she will never be In want Gaw York, a Kansas City Chinaman, died last week and his plate of chicken and rice was burled with him. In China it Is the custom to put the food Intended for the spirit's Journey on top of the grave. But the Chinese have learned that In America a plate of chicken will not remain long unless buried out of sight We Americans, who are highly civilized, have a habit of taking anything that is not nailed down or covered up. Numerous pups named Togo are re ported throughout the country. Some of them are the progeny of 7-year-old dogs named Dewey. Amongst the big spectacular events of the season that have been pulled off re cently at Los Angeles was an eclipse of the moon, which, according to the news papers of that progressive city, was got ten up particularly for the benefit of ex cursionists to the Lowe Observatory. The affair, it is said, was a thorough suc cess. "No mishaps occurred; everything went off as scheduled," says the Times. Having come through this dark ordeal. the moon Is doing as well as could be expected. It Is said that some of the nations are very slow pay on the war Indemnities due their conquerors. Turkey still owes Russia more than half of the Indemnity for the war of 1S77, and Greece owes Tur key several millions for the affair ot 1KB. We must have our fireworks, but we do hate to settle the bills. Somebody must have been frying to sell William J. Bryan's literary works to A. Lincoln Blxby, of the Nebraska State Journal. Just read what he says: "When you are oppressed with work that ought to be attended to. how 'do you like to be cornered by a book agent and fairly forced to watch the fellow turn the sample pages leaf at a time, and listen while he tells the whole tory? If ever we murder a man in cold blood it will be a book agent, and we will plead self-defense ln Justification of the act. One of the shortest and certainly one of the most pathetic poems of the season Is the following, from the Baker City Herald, entitled "With Humility:" Of all pood prayers of Oregon men The beat is this: Love the O. R. & N. Hiram Hayflcld's Views. Grass Valley, Or.. Aug. 18. 1905. To Hoom It May Konsern: The Grass Valley Gazoot this week Is plum full of noozc touching and apper taining onto the peace blow-out at Ports mouth, though I 'don't sight any pros pecks of peace sky-hooting around In the cerulean heavins of this grate and glor ious republlck. In the words of the late lamented I ferglt hoo It was, why should we say "Peace, peace," when there hain't been any peace around these diggings since when? I am moughty afraid those envious pen itentiaries at Portsmouth won't patch up any peace that will hang together, and these sad prospecks of war to the knife. the knife to the hilt and death to the Russian women and children that git In the road of the Cossacks Jess simply fill me plum full of sorrow. Akkordlng to the Gazoot's special cor respondent at the scene of Inaction, the only pertlkler and cantankerous hitch Is SOUTHERN MAN'S VIEW OF THE NEGRO Fierce Attack on Booker .Wnahlnjfton by Rev. Thomas DIckaon Intel lectual Development of the colored Man. Thomas J. Dixon. Jr.. ln Saturday Evening Post. For Booker T. Washington as a man and leader of his race I have always had the warmest admiration. His life is a romance which appeals to the heart of universal humanity. The spirit of the man, has always Impressed me wjth Its breadth, generosity and wisdom. The aim of his work Is noble and Inspiring. As i understand it from his own words, it is "to make Negroes producers, lovers of labor, honest. Independent, good." His plan tor coing mis is io ieau me .-csiw to the goal through the development of solid character. Intelligent Industry and material acquisition. Only a fool or a knave can find fault with such an Ideal. It rests squarely on the eternal verities. And yet It will not solve the Negro problem nor bring us within sight of Its solution. Upon the other hand, it will only intensify that problem's dangerous features, complicate and make more difficult Its ultimate set tlement. It Is this tragic fact to which I am trying to call the attention of the Nation. If allowed to remain here the Negro race in the "United states win numocr CO.O0O.C0O at the end of this century by their present rate of Increase. Think or wnat this means for a moment and you face the cravest problem which ever puz zled the brain of statesman or philoso pher. No such problem ever before con fronted the white man In his recorded history. It cannot be whistled down by opportunists, politicians, weak-minded op timists or female men. It must he square ly met and fought to a finish. Ssveral classes of people at present obstruct any serious consideration ot this question the pot-house politician, the ostrich man. the pooh-pooh man. and the benevolent old maid. The politician Is still &usy over the black man's vote in doubtful states. The pooh-pooh man needs no definition he was born a fool. No amount of education of any kind. Industrial. classical or religious, can make a Negro a white man or bridge the chasm ot the oenturles which separate him from the white man In the evolution of human civilization. Exoressed even In the most brutal terms of Anglo-Saxon superiority there is here an irreducible fact. It Isposslbly true, as the Negro, Professor Kelly Miller, claims, that the Anglo-Saxon Is "the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exclusive and Intolerant race in history. Even so, what answer can be given to his cold-blooded proposition: "Can you chance the color of the Negro s skin, the kink of his hair, the bulge of his lip or the beat of his heart with a spelling book or a machine?" Does any sane man believe that when the Negro ceases to work under the direction of the South ern white- man, this "arrogant." "rapa cious" and "Intolerant" race will allow the Negro to master his Industrial system. take the bread from his moutn. crowu him to the wall and place a mortgage on his house? Competition Is war the most fierce and brutal of all Its forms. Could fatuity reach a sublimer height than the Idea that the white man will stand Idly by and see this performance? What will he do when put to the test? He will do exactly what his white neigh bor In the North does when the Negro threatens his bread kill him! No man has expressed this Idea more clearly than Abraham Lincoln when he said: "There Is a physical difference between the white and black races which. I believe, will forever forbid them living together on terms of social and political equality." Whence this physical dltierence.' its secret lies In the gulf of thousands or years of Inherited progress which sep arates the child of the Aryan from the child of the African. What contribution to human progress have the millions of Africans who Inhabit thousand years? Absolutely nothing. And yet. Booker T. Washington. In a recent burst of eloquence over his educational work, boldly declares: "The negro race has developed more rapidly In the thirty years of its freedom than the Latin race has in one thousand years of freedom." Think for a moment of the pitiful puer ility of this statement falling from the lips of the greatest and wisest leader the negro race has yet produced! Italy Is the mother of genius, the Inspi ration of the ages, the creator of archi tecture, agriculture, manufactures, com merce, law. science, philosophy, finance, church organization, sculpture, music, painting and literature and yet the Amer lan negro ln thirty years has outstripped her thousands of years of priceless achievement! Education Is the development of that which Is. The negro has held the conti nent of Africa since the dawn of history, crunching acres of diamonds beneath his feet. Yet he never picked one up from the dust until a white man showed to him Its light. His land swarmed with powerful and docile animals, yet he never built a harness, cart or sled. A hunter by neces sity, he never made an ax, spear or ar rowhead worth preserving beyond the mo ment of Its use. In a land of stone and timber, he never carved a block, sawed a foot of lumber or built a house save of broken sticks and mud, and for four thou sand years he gazed upon the sea yet never dreamed a sail. Who Is the greatest negro that ever lived, according to Booker T. Washing ton? Through all his books he speaks this man's name with bated breath and uncovered head "Frederick Douglass of sainted memory!" And what did Saint Frederick do? Spent a life in bombastic vituperation ot the men whose genius cre ated the American Republic, wore himself out finally drawing his salary as a Fed eral office-nolder, and at last achieved th climax of negro sainthood by marrying a white woman! One thought I would burn Into the soul of every young American (and who thinks of a negro when he says "American"?) this: Our Republic is great not by reason of the amount of dirt we possess, or the size of our census roll, but because of the genius of the race of pioneer white free men who settled this continent, dared the might of Kings, and blazed the way through our wilderness for the trembling feet of liberty. The trouble with Booker T. Washing ton's work Is that he Is silently preparing us for the future heaven of Amalgama tion or he Is doing something equally dangerous, namely, he Is attempting to build a nation Inside a nation of two hos tile races. In this event he Is storing dynamite beneath the pathway of our children the end at last can only bo In bloodshed. We have spent about JSOO.000.000 on negro education since the war. One-half of this sum would have been sufficient to have made Liberia a rich and powerful negro state. Liberia Is capable of supporting every negro ln America. Why not face this question squarely? We are temporiz ing and playing with It. All our -educational schemes are compromises and tem porary makeshifts. Booker T. Washing ton's work is one of noble alms. A branch of It should be Immediately established in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. A gift of ten millions would do this, and establish a colony of half a million ne groes within two years. They could lay the foundations of a free black republic which, within 25 years, would solve our race problem on the only rational basis within our power. Colonization Is not a failure. It has never been tried. We owe this to the negro. We owe him a square deal, and we will nevor give It to him on this continent. "LAY," "LIE" "SIT," "SET." Really the Cause for Wonder Is That So Few Errors Occur. Professor T. B. Lounsbury in riarper s Magazine. When we take into consideration the millions of times In which lay and lie are confounded In popular speech, and the petty number of Instances of such confu sion that can be gleaned from the most exhaustive study of all our great autnors. we recognize what it Is that constitutes that concensus of which Qulntlllan speaks as the authority to which we all have to submit. No better proof Indeed Is there of the right to rule which Inheres ln the collec tive body of great authors than the fact that so few errors of this sort occur in The New York Times says that the f 1 un AAA 1 V J.iuult.. n t vnrv vtnc hankT nt Yores for Peace at an Rock- the heat of composition or pass unchal- the New York savings banks the past . t, . revIsIon. Tne WOnder must al ways be. not that they happen. Dut mat they happen so rarely. Least ot an snouia lineulstlc students make their appearance. If they do appear, a matter of reproach. when we find a similar conrusion Detween set and sit In the writings of a professed philologist. The late George Perkins Marsh was one of the foremost promoters of Enellsh scholarship. To the students of the former generation his works did more than furnish Instruction; they were an insolration. Yet In the second of his lectures on the English language he speaks of a person giving "a cluck with his mouth not unlike the note of a setting uen. One would naturally suppose that a linguistic scholar, who was in addition a stern critic of usage, ought to know sooner than anyone eise mat, inougii year is due to the diminution of strikes, Also, that the membership of the labor unions of the city has fallen off 17,400. The ratio of unionists to population Is one to eighteen In New York, against one to twenty-two in England and one to forty-four in Germany. Fewer strikes In New York have resulted in more earnings, on the one hand, and. smaller payments for support of striking bod ies on the other. These facts are given for explanation of the great Increase of deposits in the savings banks The Jamestown Bulletin adds Georgia to the list of states' that have made appropriations for the ter-centennlal at Jamestown; and Georgia's appropria tion carries the sum already appro priated by the states above the 5600.000 mark. This, of course. Is exclusive of the appropriation by Virginia, which was $1,000,000. That Fair In 190i Is go ing to be a splendid thing. The gov ernment of the United States will in vite the nations f the world to partici pate Jn a naval parade ln the Chesa- peaxe, at- j. staiea ums, uurms "ic progress of the Fair. Hiram Hayfield. A Parody of Parodies. Truly, I never yet could fathom quite The mystery of why so many write Pestiferous parodies on Omar's verse They seem to do it morning, noon and night. ! some to the meiancnoiy merge, and some Exceeding gay and garrulous become. And others mildly wise or otherwise; But all are pretty much upon the bum A book of verses sadly lnthe rough. A Jug of Joke3 that aren't up to snuff. Now truly, this were parodies enough! ROBBRTU3 LOVEL A singer stranded ln his wilderness anybody can set a hen, the hen herself sits. The confusion or tne two veros is. however, so common In conversation that It is liable at any time to appear in print The onlv thlnsr remarkable about the ex ample just given Is that It should oacur where it does. From timber line to the summit of Mount Hood in three hours and a half Is Charles Merrill's feat ln Alpine climb ing. This, it Is asserted, breaks the record. For this year, let us take It for granted, but hardy" men and boys with long memories have been making r that old neak since the 40's; therefore it may be well to wait uede gloves reposed ?d Ja - for other time-tables before putting Mr. Merrill's at the head of the list Pink Poem In Office. New York Sun. The Hon. J. Ham Lewis, corporation counsel of Chicago. Is "getting after the corporations." As a successful corpora tion lawyer he ought to he aoie to "get after" the soulless ones with neatness and dispatch. Corporation baiting Is common enough; one and only Is the wide, benefi cent glow, the ocean of color that flows from and around J. Ham. With delight we gaze once more upon that far seen, flashing main. For particulars see Chi cago Tribune: He wore a pink shirt, protected at the wristbands by home-made protectors of mauve tint writing paper. . . . The Colo nel's famous pink whiskers bristled with en thusiasm as he sat at his roll-top desk, on the top of which his walking stick and gray Advice to burglars, pickpockets. bunco men, sneak thieves and their kind: Go to Eastern Washington where they are petitioning for harvest hands at $2.50 to 53 a day. At the end of the season you will have more money, bet ter health and cleaner consciences than If you stay here. Besides, the change will have the charm of novelty. Is It the hot weather prevalent In Eu rope this Summer that causes corres pondents -to see Kaiser Wllhelm at work on a continental combination against England? Whatever may be the fluctuations in the hop market between now and Chrletmas, the retail price of the fin ished product will remain stable. In the sweet words of Inkenzooper: The pink light breaks along the lakes, And wreathes with Joy each skyey Rocky; With worldwide blush, mankind a-hush Hears the bright whiskers, curled and cocky. Japan placing an order with the Krupp works for more armor plate and guns is out of harmony with the latest new from PorLsmduth, Thirtccns on a Silver Quarter. New York Press. Supertsition seems to be a part of the mental composition of everyone, and It commonly centers to a rooted antipathy to the number thirteen. This first of the teens has had to Bland for many an ac tion that was ridiculous, and yet there Is hardly any perrons who would sidestep an Inch or mournfully rail at fate should he rov a silver quarter on the sidewalk. Have you ever taken the trouble to scan closely this small piece of silver? If you have not you may be surprised to find on the eagle side that there are 13 arrows In the bundle, which Is clutched In the left claw. 13 laurel leaves on the branch In the other claw, 13 stars at his head. 13 letteds ln the Latin inscription, "E Flurfbus TJnum." 13 letters in the word "ouarter dollar." 13 stripes on the shield. and on the front of the silver piece 13 stars surrounding the liberty head and 13 leaves In liberty's crown. This array of 13 is in commemoration of the original 13 States which comprised tne union. English Society. From Watterson's London Letter to the Louisville Courler-JournaL Too much money Is nearly as bad as too little. Kncllah society is very regaroiui of aDocarances. It Is exacting of the atraneer. It warms to nobody not even to Itself. The stony stare, tne marme neari. u it distinguishing characteristic Its conventions are absolute, in the mam it I sound to the core. Of course, this does not apply to that clement which affects the bizarre and calls Itself the smart set seen and heard In the Carleton and the Savov. The real swells go to Claridge s when they en to a hotel at all. as few of them do except In a furtive way. i.ne KIntr and Quen are setting the pace, and on very high ground Inded. They are fond of music and go to the opera oiten. Jinej sad about amon? the people, and are net ter known and liked by their subjects than any other ot the reigning sovereigns They do a deal of good. "Ed'ard's a gen tlemen." said the driver or a dus uj me tue other night, as the line ot venicies tooned and the King's brougham drove hvr he meant that the King Is a good man as well as a good monarch; and-that he surely ls Peril of the Polar Ice Floe. Brooklyn Eagle. The crushing force of the floes that cover the northern seas Is not to be guessed by those who have not seen them. They are not such films and cakes as we see ln our bays and rivers, but are acres and miles In extent, often solidly com pacted, piled one on the other, each floe from 15 to 60 feet thick and representing not the freeze of a single Winter but the consecutive formations of years. Advance through such a floe is as Impossible as It would be to sail a ship through a city street The navigator must wait patiently for "leads," and take advantage of even momentary openings when tides and cur rents break channals through the mass. A JOE MEEK DAY. Hlllsboro Argus. Washington County people should pre vail upon the Lewis and Clark Commis sion to have a Joe Meek day set before the Fair ends. It Is historic that Colonel Meek, for years a resident of Washing ton County, and one of the earliest of pathfinders, played an Important part In the saving of the Oregon country, which embraced not only Oregon, but Washington and Idaho, to the Union. The historical Important meeting at Champoeg was surely dominated by the personality of Joe Meek, and his action at the pathological moment, doubtless saved Oregon for us or. at least, averted a serious struggle between England and the United States. Had the meeting voted for a provisional government un der the British flag there Is no doubt but what English guns would have pre- tected the territory, and a vast domain would have been lost to our Nation for ever, unless brought hack by force of arms. By all means let us have a "Joe Meek" day and let Washington County see that Oregon furnishes a suitable remembrance, at the Fair, of the fron tiersman who played the star part in saving a domain larger than all New England to a country which seems to have forgotten his services. The remains of Colonel Meek lay In a quiet little churchyard north of this city. He laid down a life full of honors for a man who loved the wild and free and so. by some fitting demonstration, the Ar gus asks that his memory be honored, and that the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion shall not go down to history, leav ing the fame of Colonel Joseph L. Meek, the Virginian, unremembered and unsung. How Warships Deteriorate. New Orleans Picayune. The costlier the warship the quicker. apparently, she has to be consigned to the scrap heap. Formerly a good wooden ship would last ln active service for many years. Some of the earlier Iron ships have also remained long on the navy list. but the life of the average modern ship is not lengthy. Within ten or 12 years after being first commissioned she Is usually out of date and so deteriorated that It costs more to rehabilitate and modernize the vessel than she Is worth. Our present navy of steel ships had Its beginning not over 20 years ago. and al ready some of the earlier ships aro so de teriorated that they are either being rele gated to receiving-ship service or retired altogether. Hopeful for the Boarder. Washington Star. The star boarder may cheer up. The California prune crop Is reported to be 10.000.000 pounds short. The House on the Hill. Edward Arlington Robinson. From "The Children of the Night." reviewed ln the Outlook by President Roosevelt They are all gone away. The House, is shut and still. There is nothing more to say. Through broken walls and gray The winds blow bleak and shrill: They are all gone away. Nor is there one today To speak them good or 111: There is nothing more to say.. Why Is It then we stray Around that sunken sill? They are all gone away. And our poor fancy-play For them Is wasted skill: There is nothing more to say. There Is ruin and decay " In the House on the Hill They are all gone away, There la nothing more to aay.