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1807.
NEW ACHIEVEMENTS IN GEORGIA.
The difficulties encountered in our
c.niwm states, where there is
i,o norrm tmnulatlon. In dealing with
the suffrage, are well understood. The
r,-, has a constitutional right to the
suffrage, yet must not be permitted to
exercise it. The reasons are two. First,
white men not only will not toe ruled
by black, men, but will not, in any
circumstances, permit them in states
-h(.re they are very numerous to
have a share in the government. Sec
ond, the colored population, as a mass
Is without the qualifications necessary
for safe exercise of the suffrage. The
Southern whites, therefore, have pro
ceeded to nullify the constitutional
right of the negro population.
affords the latest example.
It is done by indirection. Yet In
theory the rights of the two races are
held the same. Ingenious aevices,
however, permit all whites to vote,
vet cut out practically all the blacks;
and that with pretension of treating
all alike, or on equal terms. Yet tne
whites have done only what seems to
them necessary for protection of the
state.
A property qualification is one thing.
No one. white or black, can register
or vote unless he has property worth
$500. But it Is not intended that this
shall be equally administered, nor can
It be; for exceptions are made which
are wholly in favor of the white man
The "grandfather clause" lets every
white man in. This provides that
every one may vote whose ancestor
had the right, and every one moreover
who may have served or whose an
cestor may have served as a soldier
in war. on the side of the United
States, or of the Confederate States.
No negro is in these categories. Again
no one may register who' is unable to
read and expound any section of the
Constitution that may be submitted to
him, or who "has not a proper concep
tlon of his duty to his state or his
Nation." The registration officer ie the
sole Judge on all these matters. It
is not to be supposed he will turn
down any white man, or let in any
negro, except possibly one here and
there merely for appearances.
It is not to be denied , that the evils
of indiscriminate negro suffrage In our
Southern states are too great to be
permitted. From their standpoint, the
white people believe they are fully
Justified in trying to circumvent the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States. They have
done so. We could wish that subter
fuges might have been avoided.
A good hit at Georgia is made, in
connection with the suffrage and pro
hibition amendments, which the state
has adopted together. The object of the
one is to eliminate the negro from
politics; of the other to keep liquor
away from him. It has been suggested
that prohibition should have included
a grandfather and an educational
clause "permitting the free use of
spirituous liquors By all persons whose
ancestors had fought in one of the
wars of the United States, or who can
decipher and interpret the meaning of
the label on the bottle."
But our prohibition friends, doubt
less, will say that the scheme to let
the white man get liquor while the
black man cannot, is the best legisla
tion the latter could possibly have; and
further, that if liquor be kept away
from the blacks for a few generations
and allowed to the whites, the races
ultimately will change places the one
coming up as the other goes down.
The family physician of John D.
Rockefeller publicly announce that he
has been born again and now at his
second birth Is only 14 years old. He
predicts that the oil king will live to
be 94. If the doctor is correct in his
surmises. It might be well for the peo
ple to begin negotiations with some
gypsy child stealer, and have this
healthy second-born youngster trans
ferred to a different environment. Just
think of what would happen to the rest
of us a few years hence, if John D.
should be born the third time. Just
when the rest of the world was trying
to save a little out of the wreck before
he got it all. ,
GAMBLERS MUST WORK.
The "move-on" order has been issued
for storia, and the gamblers' last
stand' in Oregon will be of brief dura
tion. Gambling is a vice which has a
pernicious and blighting effect wher
ever it is permitted, but the evil is
more apparent In some places than
in others. It is doubtful if there is an
other community in the western world
where the closing of gambling will be
attended with better results than at
Astoria. The plea has been made that
the fines collected from the gamblers
have paidi in a large measure, the
running expenses of the city. But be
fore the gamblers paid these fines, they
first secured the money, and mucn
more along with it from some hard
working wealth creator in Astoria. In
no other place In the state where these
parasites of the green cloth have es
sayed to ply their unlawful vocation,
have they taken as hard-earned money
as that passed over the tables by the
fishermen. The fishermen risk their
lives to secure the money which swells
the coffers of the gambling harpies.
The abolition of gambling will not
only remove temptation from hundreds
of hard-working men, who need the
money for other purposes, and from
young men Just growing up and easily
influenced, but it will undoubtedly De
the means of forcing reformation on a
large number of gamblers, who, when
they find their occupation gone, will be
willing to turn their attention to some
respectable method of securing a live
lihood. When Astoria is running
"wide open" in the fishing season,
there are more than 100 gamblers en
gaged in fleecing the victims. As
gamblers are a class . of liberal
spenders, five dollars per day would be
a modest estimate of their dally ex
penditures. Reduced to mathematics.
it thus appears that Astoria in con
sideration of a moderate monthly fine,
has permitted these parasites to rob
some of the citizens of $500 per day, or
approximately $15,000 per month,
When the lid drops next week these
llly-flngered drones in the industrial
hive, no longer will be permitted to
rob the men who earn the money, and
it will be placed in circulation where
it can be of more benefit.
While it is true that Oregon never
had less use for gamblers than It has
at the present time, it is equally true
that the state was never before so
badly in need of able-bodied men for
all kinds of work. The present crusade
will leave without a calling, several
hundred, gamblers. Among them ther
will be undoubtedly a large number,
who, in the absence of an opportunity
to rob their fellow men, may be In
duced to go to work, and in time be
come honorable citizens. The gambler
never creates one penny by his efforts.
He simply lives as do all parasites, off
the energy and vitality of others. De
prived of the opportunity thus to ab
sorb the earnings of others, it is
natural to presume that he will become
a producer. Those who are too lazy
or dishonest to go to work In due sea
son will find their way to our penal in
stitutions. Even there it may be bet
ter for society to support them behind
the bars, than to permit them to levy
their own toll on the workers, and
while so doing to corrupt the morals
of the young.
MOROCCO.
The city of Casa Blanca, where the
French troops have come in conflict
with the Moors, is situated some 200
miles southwest of Tanglers on the At
lantic Coast of Morocca. By the Al-
geclras conference in 1906 both Tan
glers and Casa Blanca .were turned
over to France and Spain to be policed
Jointly, while in the other principal
coast towns of Morocco, France alone
was to keep order. This decision of
the Conference, to which the United
States was a party, modified a pre
vious arrangement by which England
and Spain conceded to France a para'
mount influence throughout Morocco.
To this tripartite agreement Ger
many vigorously objected, oh the os
tenslble ground that it violated the
Madrid Convention of 1880, which had
been signed by the United States and
the principal European powers. The
real ground was the Kaiser's Jealousy
of the thriving commercial power of
France in Northern Africa. William
made a spectacular- trip to Tanglers
and delivered himself of a speech,
which threatened war unless Germany
should have a voice in disposing of the
fate of Morocco. The "Algeclras Con
ference followed, but William derived
little consolation from It. No nation
except decrepit Austria, supported hi
pretensions. The tripartite agreement
was slightly, but not essentially mod
ifled and, by the delegation of the civ
ilized world, France became the guard
ian of life and property in Morocco.
That Spain was made her fownal part
ner In the duty cuts little figure,
though it salved the vanity of William
somewhat.
This arrangement was obviously
Just. French territory envelops Mo
rocco on the east and south and the
wild tribes under the farcical rule of
Abdul Aziz continually make trouble
for her colonies. Spain holds an in
definite tract on the southwest border,
bift no other nation touches the do
main of the incapable Sultan. Nor has
any nation, except England, a con
siderable trade with Morocco. Indeed,
the state of the country does not admit
of trade, except irregularly. There ar
no navigable rivers, no railroads, not
even a wagon road in all its extent of
300,000 square miles. A vast area of land,
exceedingly fertile and lying pleas
antly, stretches between the Atlas
Mountains and the Northern Coast
ranges, but it is overrun with preda
tory tribes. Life is Insecure, property
unprotected. Producers are robbed on
the one hand by the Arabs, on the
other by the Sultan's tax gatherers;
and it is hard to say which are the
worse. Between them they keep the
country stripped, though it does man
age to export a few beans, almond-a
and the like. If there ever was a land
crying for "benevolent assimilation" it
Is Morocco, and France seems singu
larly selected to do the business.
The logical, scientific temperament of
the French makes them admirable ren
ovators of these ancient African re
gions, run to seed as they are with
their foolish customs and miserable
superstitions. When France took hold
of Algiers early in the last century its
condition was as bad as that of Mo
rocco today. She has given it a Just
and stable government, , subdued the
robber tribes, established schools, pro
moted agriculture and encouraged
commerce. The viticulture of Algiers
has so flourished that it has half ruined
the wine industry of southern France.
We Americans may felicitate ourselves
that the fostering care we have be
stowed upon sugar production in the
Philippines is not likely to react so dis
astrously upon our domestic pros
perity.
But France, to her sorrow, had no
Dingley. She proceeded upon the theory
that a conquering nation ought to
treat its colonies Justly; and her vine-
growers have to suffer for it. The log
ical conclusion seems to be that a na
tion should have no colonies;' or, if it
must have them, then it should rob
them; and in this respect we are more
logical than the French; though, since
we rob ourselves at the same time and
by the same means, the Filipinos ought
not to complain. It is really a blessed
privilege for us. all, wherever our dom
icile may be, to contribute our mites
to the Steel Trust and other tariff-
stuffed cormorants.
By the terms of the Algeclras Con
vention, France is not permitted to
acquire territory in Morocco. She can
only repress disorder. But experience
shows that the repression of disorder,
in these turbulent parts of the world,
always glides, by insensible degrees.
nto ownership. Thus It -was with Eng
land in Egypt, with Japan in Corea,
with Russia in Turkestan, and thus it
will be with the United States In Cuba
and with France in Morocco.
A cat, deliberately slaying a mouse,
sinks her teeth deeper every time the
poor creature squirms, and ends by
biting off its head. The present
umults in Casa Blanca will strengthen
the position of France. With strict
legality she can increase her garrisons
in Morocco and impose upon the placid
Sultan reforms obviously necessary to
protect foreigners. What she does, all
the world will approve, except possibly
Germany, who happens to be diplo
matically isolated and comparatively
innocuous. From fhe positions which
France may now acquire she is not
likely ever to recede, and she ought
not to recede; for It Is high time that
the robbers" den in northwestern Africa
were 'broken up and the land opened
to civilization. .
OFF FOB THE POLE.
The mystery of the North Pole which
for centuries has baffled the efforts of
man, would seem to be a little nearer
solution than ever before. There Is
more than a possibility that one or the
other of the expeditions which this
month will start in quest of that long
sought goal, will be successful. With
Peary making an attack from land fend
sea, and Wellman using an airship,
we may see, very early In this twen
tieth century, the dlieovery of one of
the great unexplored portions of the
earth's surface. Of the two expedi
tions, which are to go forth this month,
that of Peary will probably inspire the
most confidence. We know that the
airship of the present day, even though
It is still far from perfect, has many
features of improvement over the bal
loon, In which the unfortunate Andree
sailed from Spltzbergen into the un
known and never came back. We also
know that under favorable conditions,
it would seem quite possible for Mr.
Wellman to steer his airship over the
600-mile course to the North Pole and
back again without serious mishap.
But there is the element of uncer
tainty about conditions being "favor
able" for the navigation of an airship,
and misgivings are freely expressed
that Wellman, In spite of his superior
equipment, will meet with the same
fate as the unfortunate Andree. The
success that has already attended
Peary's efforts, and his long experience
in the work, offers much encourage
ment for his finally reaching the pole.
On his last previous trip he distanced
all of the explorers who had preceded
him, by reaching 87:06 north, leaving
but about 200 miles between him and
the long-sought pole. While Amerl
cans have been engaged in the work
for fifty-five years, and the explorers
of other countries for centuries, no
other explorer that ever lived has had
the experience which Peary has gained
in the numerous expeditions he has
commanded in the last twenty years.
It is on account of the experience
thus gained, that many, who would be
skeptical regarding the success of a
less thoroughly seasoned pole seeker.
will expect great results from Peary.
The - favorable conditions which these
explorers always hope for, may not
be with them on the voyages now be
ginning, but even though they return
unsuccessful, or fail to return at all.
it will not deter others from attempt
ing to solve the mystery. Arctic ex
ploration since it first began, has
claimed hundreds of victims. In re
turn or this loss of life we have some
knowledge of the intervening country,
beyond which lies the great mystery,
but nothing of great commercial value
has been accomplished. Nothing of
this nature in fact is expected. If it
were, the lure of gold would draw into
the game so many adventurous spirits
that some of them, like Melville's cask
and the Jeanette's wreckage, would
drift across the polar sea and tell the
story.
A good many centuries have elapsed
since Juan de Fuca and other navi
gators of his day and age began seek
ing the mythical straits for the north
west passage, but it remained for Ad
mundson, a twentieth-century navi
gator, to take a ship through that far
famed channel from east to west.
Peary and Wellman may fail in their
undertakings, but each failure brings
success a little nearer, and the time is
not far distant when either an airship
or an indestructible vessel of the
Roosevelt type, will reach the northern
end of the world.
"BACHELOR BUTTONS."
Among the seeds distributed through
the Department of Agriculture by
members of Congress under the' frank
ing privilege, are packets labeled
"Bachelor Buttons." This plant is
simply the French pink, the pest of
wheat-growers throughout the Wil
lamette Valley. Years ago the seed
of this plant was brought here first.
it is thought, to French Prairie by mis
sionaries. Planted along garden bor
ders and in dooryards it grew vig
orously, delighting homesick women
and elder children with its profuse
blossoms and gay colors. A prodigious
producer of bloom and of winged seed
It spread from gardens and dooryards
to meadows and fields. In years past
farmers, in infested localities, have
employed their best efforts In the un
successful attempt to get rid of it.
Acres of wheat have been plowed up
In the early blooming season of this
plant, in the hope of preventing the
seed from maturing; other acres have
been Summer fallowed In the equally
vain hope of killing' the plant by up
rooting it in the dry season. It re
mains still the farmer's pest in every
wheat-growing section - of the Wil
lamette Valley and is today maturing
millions of seeds from bright, feathery
and dainty flowers of every shade of
blue and pink. '
The marigold seed, the blossoms of
which are devoid of both beauty and
fragrance, might, with great pro
priety, be eliminated from the
annual order for seeds for free
distribution, sent - out by' the
Government through the Agricultural
Department. Secretary Wilson might
well have made a note of this when in
Oregon, as he beheld Bachelor Buttons
blooming In the wheat, and marigolds
and their troop of relatives in gaudy
yellow vestments, . flanking the door
yard walks of country homes. Neither
useful nor ornamental, they are prolific
producers of seed, and in our mild
climate are self-seeders, to an extent
that, once in the ground, they hold pos
session ever after, undaunted by the
most vigorous efforts to exterminate
them.
The Oregonian makes its own state
ment of its position on' the primary
election law and election of United
States Senators. It doesn't call on
Mr. Ladd's newspaper for Interpreta
tion of the law, nor for dogmatism
about "Statement No. 1;" nor does it
accept the dictum of this organ of "the
interests," on this subject or any other.
For Mr. Ladd's newspaper is a basely
hypocritical thing, striving for results
by indirections. An organ of monop
olists, it masquerades for "the people."
Owned, directed and used by Repub
lican plutocrats, who have enriched
themselves Immensely through pro
cured legislation, franchise grabs and
profits', it proclaims "independence"
and "non-partisanship," while always
supporting Democratic party measures,
candidates and purposes, and on the
lookout for ways in which it may serve
its coterie in future as in the past.
No, no; The Oregonian will always
speak for itself, without need of such
an interpreter; and moreover, it neither
expects nor desires to please Mr, Ladd's
newspaper, which is merely an organ
of private interests, or Mr. Ladd him
self, whose name stands for the ' gang'
behind the concern.
Preliminaries have been arranged
whereby a county fair is to be made a
permanent institution in Multnomah
County. The scope of this fair is to be
agricultural, horticultural and indus
trial. There are ten granges in the
county. A number of these have held
local or lodge fairs for some years, with
uniform success, but the scope of each
has been narrow and the beneficial re
sults have not been equal to the time
and labor required to make the display.
A consolidation of these efforts is now
proposed. Instead of three, four or
more local fairs pleasant and really
praiseworthy though they may be a
single fair in which the granges will
Join their forces Is now planned. The
first of what it is hoped will be a long
series of county fairs will be held at
Gresham the center of trade of East
ern Multnomah early in October. The
material for this fair is abundant and
of the very best. Enthusiasm and
energy, directed by intelligence, will do
the rest, with the result that an exhibit
will be made of which every citizen of
Multnomah County who contributes to
t in any way will be Justly proud.
A court martial b. Fort Monroe de
cided that Lieutenant Trumbo was not
guilty of conduct unbecoming an of
ficer and a gentleman, when he wrote
to an inquiring mother that her son
was the most "worthless scoundrel" he
ever saw, and that he hoped to see him
"behind the bars." It is brass-button
snobs of- the Trumbo type who pre
vent good men enlisting in the Army.
So long as their offences are condoned,
the Army never can inspire in its em
ployer, the people, the degree of con
fidence which should exist.
The Chicago wheat market declined
2 cents per bushel again yesterday,
making a total. decline of over 6 cents
since the American Society of Equity
Issued orders for a minimum price of
$1.25 per bushel. The September op
tion in Chicago, sold below 88 cent,
yesterday, and receipts of new wheat
are pouring into the primary markets
at a rate that is staggering the bulls,
who have been manipulating prices so
long. The membership roll of the So
ciety apparently needs a few more
signatures.
A Pullman horse-breeder has Just im
ported sixteen - head of high-class
equines from England. The animals
are from the best blood in Europe and
will prove of great value to the East
ern Washington country. It is in
transactions of this kind that the gen
eral and universal improvement in
farming methods Is reflected. It costs
no more to raise fine stock, which will
sell for big prices, than it does to raise
inferior animals.
It is reported that the waters of cer
tain hot springs will cure the liquor
habit. Unfortunately the springs are in
a county which went "wet" and where
the people don't wish to be cured of the
habit. Still, Linn and Lane and Lincoln
can send their reformed drinkers up to
the springs for a few weeks.
An acrimonious dispute over the iden
tity of the first American flag ever
floated on Alaskan soil lacks patriotic
interest when it is revealed ' that one
alleged owner wants to sell the emblem
to the Seattle Exposition for $2500.
In twentieth-century government by
the people, the prosecuting attorney is
a great deal bigger man than he used
to be, as witness Jerome, Folk, Lang
don, Manning and 'Hedges.
There is this difference between the
Chicago Board of Trade and the New
York Stock Exchange: In a slump the
wheat pit gamblers don't blame it on
the Government. - - i
It doesn't pay to - interfere when
blows are exchanged 'between husband
and wife, not when the combatants are
lawyers in a San Francisco courtroom.
If Roosevelt really wants a seat in
the United States Senate, let him
move to Oregon, where he can go be
fore the people.
It is up to Chancellor Day to eulogize
Rockefeller for contributing $29,240,000
to the support of the United States
Government.
And the best feature of Standard, Oil's
$29,240,000 fine is that the company is
not execution proof.
No man as rich as Philander C. Knox
was ever selected as a tenant for the
White House.
FOREST RESERVES AND USES. -
Comment on Late Publication of De
partment of Agriculture.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The United States Department of Ag
riculture has put forth an explanation
in behalf of Gifford Pinchot, the head
forester of the United States, regard
ing the National forest reserves and
the Yelatlons of the people to them.
A frequent objection to the present
forestry policy of the Government has
been that it shut out the homeseeker
from the land reserved. But Mr. Pin
chot explains:.
"The homeseeker can travel all
through a forest, pick out the agricul
tural land he wants for a home, apply
for It. have it listed, settle upon it
when listed, enter it, build his home,
cultivate his fields, patent It, and spend,
the rest of his days there. The only
thing he must be careful about is to
obey the law and take the land for a
home and not for other purposes.
A Bimilar popular error is that the
prospector and miner are shut out.
But this Mr. Pinchot denies, declaring
that "they go Just as if there were no
National forest there." In fact, they
are encouraged to stake out claims and
list and work them. In Mr. Plnchofs
words:
"Prospecting and mining are abso
lutely unchecked. The resources of
the National forests must be used and
the country opened up. Therefore the
more mining and prospecting the bet
ter." The widespread misconception arose
no doubt from the fact that the original
National forestratlon act, enacted in
1891, contained no provision for guard
ing the forests from fire or for throw
ing them open to the husbandmen and
miners. The art of 1897, however, re
versed this locking-up policy by creat
ing a positive means of conserving
studying and opening the forests to the
benefit of the people.
The bureau, whose chief is Mr. Pin
chot, has accomplished much in this di
rection, and the effort to disseminate
a knowledge of forestry as necessary to
our National needs now and in the fu
ture is moat commendable.
Even the "business interests" that,
with the mining prospector, have pro
tested against the new system as alto
gether wrong and as a hindrance to the
development of the' Western country,
may have some of their doubts re
solved, if not their convictions altered,
by considering the recital of facts mar
shaled by Mr. Pinchot. The system is
so eminently practical; It has abol
ished destruction by fire and Intro
duced rational methods of timber-cut
ting. In fact, it is likely to prolong
the life of the lumber business some
decades in this country.
Mr. PInchot's primer draws attention
to the fact that the forestry reserva
tion is responsible for a new occupa
tion. Any resident of a state or terri
tory in which there is a reservation, if
he can pass a civil service examination
is wanted by the Government as
guard or a ranger.
"The National forests need more
men," says Mr. Pinchot. The life
should appeal to men of hardihood who
like the open air and have an ability
to "pack, shoot, and fight fire."
Adventures aa Serraat Glrla.
Some time ago, Amy E. Tanner,
Ph. D., and a friend, "two teachers
with a commingled yearning for adven
ture and philanthropy," took positions
as waitresses in a fashionable apart
ment-house. Their experiences, -as re
lated In the American Journal of
Sociology for July, says the New York
Evening Post, raise no strong hopes
for a speedy solution of the servant
girl question:
"What was the effect of this bodily condl
tlon upon our mind? Our first waking
consciousness was an ache. Ey degrees this
localized itself, and we cautiously tried
raising our arms, closing our hands, and l-o
on. to see Just how mnch hurt we were.
Then it would occur to us that we ought to
ris-s, and we would crawl out resignedly
or profanely, according to our temperament.
If sufficiently desperate, we went to sleep
again, creating confusion in the dining
room as others tried to do our work.
All day long the background of living waa
an ache. This showed itself in an Indispo
sition to do anything more than was ab
solutely necessary, to sit down at every op
Dortunlty. to stand laxly in the dining
room, instead of being brisk and alert
In - short, to act like the typical shiftless
servant. "We soon were that. We were not
on the lookout for work. On the contrary
w came to have a vague feeling of resent
ment against our mistress, and enjoyed tak
lng advantage of her. The one who did
the chamber work filched black and white,
headed Bins, hairpins, and other small ar
ticles, and kept us extravagantly supplied
with towels. We ordered desBerts for
guests who were not there, and ate them
ourselves, we supplied ourselves witn pien
ty of Ice water for our rooms. We took
everv ODDortunlty of proving to our own sat
lsfactlon that though our mistress could
work us for 13 hours a day, we could even
the score in the end. Still, this puts the
matter too definitely, for only the teachers
so framed the case to themselves, and that
humorously. Rather, the truth was that
with this constant ache in tne background
our minds became dulled, the inhibition
which usually prevent such belittling trick
were removed, and the ethical tone was
lowered.
Wife Die aa She Had Predicted.
Egg Harbor, N. J., Dispatch in New York
i lmta.
Mrs. A. Nichols, wife of a farmer near
Germanla, had a premonition several
weeks ago of approachiag death, and
told her husband that she would not
live until August. Orte day recently, after
working in the field until late, she said
"My day's and life's work is done, but
before I die I will take my last bath.'
Her husband paid no attention to her
remarks, but- when he returned to the
house and received no reply to his re
peated calls he investigated and found
her dying in bed. She died in a few
minutes. He hastened for a physician
who said she died from natural causes.
The woman was 60 years old and had
always been in good health.
JLoua-eat Commuter In the World".
New York Tribune.
John H. Watkins, president of the Na
tional Bank of Commerce of Memphis
Tenn., is believed to be the greatest
lond-dlstance commuter In the world.
Mr. Watkins has a country home near
Mount Kisco, in Westchester County,
New York, and he travels between th
two points in a large automobile, which
is probably the best equipped machine
ever built. The machine is 60-horsepower.
and contains a writing desk, buffet and
library of more than 100 volumes. The
banker takes a stenographer and type
writing machine with him and attends
to his correspondence on the way. It
takes about alx days to make the run
from Memphis to Mount Kisco.
Too Much Publicity.
Chicago Tribune.
They sat on the vine cmbowere-i porch,
looking at the glorious planet in the
southern sky.
"I suppose you know. Miss Gladys,"
said the young professor, hitching his
chair nearer, "that Mars is nearer to
us now than it will tie again for a. per
iod of 15 years T'
"Mercy, no!" she exclaimed. "I didn't
know that. Take your arm away. Pro
fessor McGoozle, please. I feel as if
everybody on Mars was watching us."
The City In gammer.
Outlook.
Heat. heat, beat!
Not a cloud in the sky, not a breath from
th river.
Bring help to th gasping, biasing street
To dumb creature and man with pulses
a-qulver
To th pulse of the pitiless heat.
My child! mv child! my child!
Cry wrung from the heart of many a
mother
As she ' hearkens, powerless, desperate,
wild.
To th sad faint sound no streets' roar cni
smother .
To the wall of a sick llttl child. -
NEW YORK'S DESERTED ACRES
Depopulation of Rural Districts and
Decrease In Land Values.
New York World.
New York State reportea 170,621 farms
in 1850. Only two other states reported
over 100,000 farms, and they were Ohio,
143.807, and Pennsylvania, 127.677. In 1900
ew York, with 228,720 farms, stood
seventh in the list of fifteen states re
porting more than 4i0,0u0 farms.
Nine states reported in 1S99 farm pro
ducts valued at more than $200,000,000.
New York was lourth on tne list with
1245.270.000. leading Texas by nearly $6,-
000,000. The gross farm income of nine
states exceeded $150,000,000 that year, and
New York, with $181,841, .20, was fifth on
the list.
These figures represent the glowing
side of a picture. Details for the dark
ide are these: That even the high re
ports for 1900 for New lork show a dis
couraging fall from conditions of the
early 18S0's; that the number of males en
gaged In agriculture in this state fell
off 25,000 in 1890-1900; that the National
Department of Agrueulture has Just re
ported In New York 12,0t)0 abandoned
farms and a menacing decrease in land
values.
There is no trouble with trie acres In
the state. They are fertile as ever. The
orchards are as good as when In 1902
they put New York at the head in apple
production. Migration to the West has
done part of the mischief of rural de
population: the lure of the cities has
done more. Villages and school districts
have grown poorer, while certain pro
fessions and a congested urban society
have grown not certainly richer.
There Is to be a convention to consider
this subject of "the rural menace."
Better yet. a progressive campaign of
education is to be instituted. The les
sons should be well taught of the tele
phone, the trolley and the automobile,
which are daily making the farmer less
isolated and country life less monoton
ous. There is the advancing gospel of
good roads. In every possible way op
portunity should be pointed out to the
men who nave the "back to the land"
Impulse in its rational, whoiesome form.
Mr. Bryan Perturbed.
New York Evening Post.
Mr. Bryan is plainly nettled at the
reception which his retreat on the is
sue of Government ownership has met
with from the Democratic press. He has
angry things to say of these editors
in this week's Commone.-. Why cannot
they quietly accept his ratting, and have
harmonious campaign under his lead
ership? At any rate, he says he Is not
going to allow them any longer to
'dodge the Issue of regulai.on. There
upon he puts to them some ferocious
questions. Are they for a "physical val
uation" of the rallroaus? Are they, or
are they not, against over-capitalization?
Do they, or do they 'rot, favor the re
duction of rates? vv'e.l, if "these edi
tors' have a grain of logic they will tell
Mr. Bryan that none of his questions
goes to the main point. Whether they be
lieve In regulation or not, .ney can see
the absurdity of favoring a candidate
who says that he does not believe in it
Is certain that - it will prove an abject
failure, yet wishes to be elected on that
issue! This Is fhe terrible Inconsistency
of Mr. Bryan's position. He may not
see it, but everybody else sees it; and it
is this which, more tnan anything else
Just now Is causing such widespread
doubt concerning the expeuiency ot nom
inating him again. Ha himself plainly
perceives this. Consequently ne nas
allowed one of his Ohio followers to an
nounce that Mr. Bryan "will not decline
the nomination if tendered to him." But
the situation now has gone far beyond
that. The nomination will have to be
fought for there will be no silver plat
ter huslness. It is the knowledge ot
this which makes Mr. Bryan so anxious
and so waspish. Yet if his chances do
not look so brightly as they did, no one
is to blame but himself. He has talked
himself into his own dilemma.
If Napoleon Had Won.
If Wellington haa been defeated at
Waterloo, it would have been a blessing
to England, says Thomas E. Watson,
In August Munsey's. The principles of
the French revolution would have gone
on their way, bloodlessly conquering.
the beneficent work which Napoleon
had begun would not have been Inter
rupted. There would have a no White
Terror, no Holy Alliance, no gibbeting
of democrats because they were demo
crats, no chaining up again of hand and
tongue and pen and mind by despotic
monarchs. Had Napoleon won in 1815, tnere
would have been no Austrian tyranny
over Italy, no French army to pin down
Italian patriotism and upho the tem
poral power of the For . There would
have been no suppression o. the -erman
peoples by the Metternlch policy of
keeping things Just as they are. There
would have no horrible reaction In Spain
and no rechainlng of tne Spanish people
under a medieval autocracy.
Had Napoleon won in 1815. even Great
Britain would have been blessed. The
grand principles for which Charles James
Fox so long contended would have
gained the ascendant over the narrow
ing tendencies of Pitt, tJasilereagn, and
Burke. The reign of terror wherein so
many good men lost their lives for the
crime of helng democrats would
never have disgraced English history
After Napoleon's final overthrow, free
speech and liberal principles suffered a
long and dreary eclipse in threat .Britain
and it was not until another generation
had come Into the world that the lost
ground waa recovered.
A Summery Snoot.
Bohemian.
"I won't go to the seashor. ta,"
Said Mabel. In distress.
"The color of the water there
Don't match my Summer drees."
"I won't go to the mountains, pa,'"
Said Clara, "for up ther
The color of those horrid rocks
Don't match my auburn hair."
"So let us all to Europe go,"
Said pa. with no amount
Of calmness: "No. we won't! Such trips
Don't match my bank account."
BY A
St. Paul Pioneer Press
NEW ORLEANS, Ang. S. Complete return from Mississippi give William
the election with a plurality of 1269 Tot os. This count la unofficial, but U baaed
On the official returns made by Individual counties.
TARIFF AXD HIGH PRICES.
Senator Forakcr and Henry M. Whit
ney Opposing Factors In Game.
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
Falling to get specifications of the tariff
revision programme from those Republi
cans who say they are willing to revise
the tariff in 1909 or at some subsequent
period. Senator Foraker may obtain some
interesting figures from Henry M.
Whitney, who is making a vigorous
Gubematlonal campaign In Massachusetts
on the tariff Issue. Mr. Whitney is in no
uncertain frame of mind as to what he
would do to reduce the surplus and relieve
the people of unnecessary Federal taxa
tion. He would begin by taking the tariff
off food supplies, and then proceed to re
move them from the raw materials of
manufactures. "This," he says, "would in
a measure lessen the cost of living and
increase the demand for labor.'" To be
specific- he would take off all duties on
the following articles, and make a sub
stantial reduction in the duties on all the
remaining protected products, save wine,
spirits and tobacco:
Sugar and molasses $63,000,000
Fruits and nuts 4,5O0.0O
Vegetables l.Ooo.OtiO
Fish l.OOO.OOO
Provisions
Bflo.ooo
375.000
Breadetuffs .....
Salt
Hops . . .
Seeds
Coal and coke . .
. 300.000
275. nco
600.000
l.ioo.ooo
-$72,050,000
Fibers, vegetable and tex
tile, unmanufactured... 275.000
Iron and eteel and iron ore 7,000,000
Leather and manf...
4.100.000
Hides
Wood and nianf.,..M.
Clays and earths
2.250.000
2.2iX1.0O0
340.000
5OO.O00
130.000
30C.O00
400.000
425.000
S1T.M5.000
Cement
Plaster rock
Plants and shrubs ....
Books and engravings.
Works of art
$89.0U.OOO
Sugar, it will be perceived, is the cru
cial item in this formidable programme
of revision. That Is the article which
wrecked the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill,
and its protection is a prime feature of
the practical politics of both parties. Onee
put sugar on the free list, and all the
rest would be easy. But would the pro
tection wing of the Democratic party ever
consent to that, or would the stoutest
Republican revisionist even think of It?
With so sound a Democrat as Senator
Bacon declaring that a low tariff is an
Impossibility, and a high tariff a neces
sity, we fear that Mr. Whitney's revision
programme is much too radical, even from
a Democratic standoint. We observe, how
ever, that Mr. Whitney is Inclined to be
tender with the protective duties on cot
ton goods, in which matter New England
and the South may find common ground
against revising the tariff too seriously.
Sharks and Trowsers at Oyater Bay.
Oyster Bay Dispatch in New York World.
President Roosevelt received at Saga
more Hill George Curry, whom he recent
ly appointed Governor of New Mexico:
Judge B. S. Rodey, a native of New
Mexico, now at the head of the Federal
courts of Porto Rico, and Chief Justice
Kent, of Arizona.
The visitors lunched with the President
and family and discussed sharks, among
other things. Kermlt Roosevelt, who has
studied sharks, joined In the talk. The
President and Judge Rodey decided that
the shark can bite without flopping over.
Some nature fakers have held to the con
trary. Kermlt, Judge Rodey afterward
said, showed considerable knowledge of the
shark question.
Kermit told the visitors of his coming
trip through the West with the troops,
and said he expected to leave Sagamore
Hill in a few days.
"I'll have a bully time," he exclaimed.
The President, with much enthusiasm,
told his callers of a telegram that Theo
dore, Jr., sent shortly after the close of
the Spring term at Harvard to his room
mate and particular chum, Shamus Kelly.
It seems that Kelly's best trousers dis
appeared when young Roosevelt left for
home. In dismay he sent Theodore, Jr.,
this message:
Where are my dress trousers? I need
them at once.
In reply Theodore wired:
Don't know anything about your trous
ers. Can't even find my own.
The President's visitors laughed heart
ily and Theodore, Jr., looked Immensely
pleased.
Pat and the Judge.
Westmintter Gazette.
In an Irish court recently an old man
was called as a witness in an agrarian
outrage case. He was very Infirm and
almost blind, and instecd of going into
the witness box, he groped his way past
It, and was climbing up the steps that
led to the Bench. "Is It a Judge you
want to be, my good man?" said the
Judge good-humoredly. "Ah, sure, yer
honor, I'm a poor done man, anl mebbe
It's all I'm fit for." And the Judge had
no retort ready.
NEWSPAPER WAIFS.
"Why Is it called pin money?"
"Because it goes where pins go."
"Where is that?"
"Nobody knows." Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Pop?"
"Yes, my son."
"A man that manages a balloon la called
an aeronaut?"
"Yes, my boy."
"And a man who runs an automobile la
called a chauffeur?"
"Yes. my boy."
"Well, what would you call a man who
runs a phonograph, pop?"
"Oh! an undesirable citizen, my son."
Yonkers ftatesrpan. . .
"After ho had eloped with her and mar
nA her I nreauiriA he returned wearina
la look of triumph?"
"No; but she did." Houston Post.
"Whst do you consider the short-story
masterpiece?" '
"The on Jinx told me when he borrowed
ten of me yesterday." Washington Herald.
"You and your roommate never quarrel,
do you?" ,
"No: we agree on all subjects."
"That makes it nice. But which of you
is the liar?" Cleveland leader.
"I don't believe In that doctor?"
"Why?"
"He didn't tell me everything I wanted to
eat was bad for me." Chicago Record
Herald. NECK."
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