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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, Jl'I-Y la, 1900.
TlIK BIRDS AND BEASTS OF PKEY.
Now you moderns who think there
Isn't much In the scriptures of old that
should attract your attention It Is
worth your while to look on the
wrangle and struggle of "the Interests"
at the capital of the United States In
the tariff bill, and then think on Matt.
xxlv:28 "For wheresoever the carcass
Is. there will the eagles bo gathered
together." Note here that the eagle
was spoken of, because he was the
principal scavenger then known. In
that situation. The author of the say.
lng was unacquainted . with the. buz
zard, the Jackal and the carrion crow.
But these now all are at Washington,
and the hyena another undesirable
citizen with them. The harpies, also,
filthy birds, swooping down on the
feast.
, The carcass Is protective tariff or
rather the opportunity It offers for
foul birds and beasts of prey.
They are snapping and shrieking
and snarling and growling at
each other, over the carcass. Among
men there have been many spectacles
of contention and fight, over plunder.
But if this Isn't the worst, It is closely
parallel to the worst, it Is a disgrace
to the American people. Every private
Interest Is trying to seize its own par
ticular from the general weal.
The President has taken a firm
stand, and he maintains it with dignity
and effect. He doesn't see his way
to Insistence on abandonment of the
whole plunderbund system at once.
That could not prevail now. It is a
distant ultimate. But he is Insisting
on modifications and reductions. In
the present state pf the question it is
doubtless the wisest way. Neverthe
less (let there be pardon for the ex
pression) that dog's tail should be cut
off close up to the ears. It will be
done, finally; for the time will come
when it no longer will be tolerated
that any Individual, any class, or any
Interest shall have special advantages
through legislation; and to insist on
it will be regarded as most abomin
able presumption. Privilege, through
law, is the most odious of all things.
All modern life Is a continuous pro
test against it, and all modern progress
Is a result of beating it.
In the present state of our indus
trial life the Judgment of specialists
and experts on tariff and otrrer fiscal
problems would be useful. If Congress
would pay heed to the recommenda
tions they might make. But it wcmld
hot for two reasons. First, so long as
there Is hope to one part of the coun
try or another of special advantage
from protection of special Interests,
the grab game will continue. Second,
Congress, though It might authorize
a commission of experts on the tariff,
as an expedient of temporary relief
from consideration of the subject,
never will abdicate its own function
-so far as to adopt the commission's re
port. For a long time yet the subject
iwill remain a basis of play between po
litical parties for advantage on one
side or the other, as local interests
may be combined by politicians for
their own advantage or success.
But President Taft is holding out
well, for reasonable purposes, on
reasonable or middle grounds. It is
the only possibility at present for con
tention against the greed of various
Interests, to whose demands the members-
of Congress from various parts
of the country feel it necessary to re
spond. One member will tall tho Pres
ident that he must have high protec
tive tariff for a specially in his dis
trict, or his constituents will desert
him and send a man of the opposite
party to represent them; another will
tell him that reduction of the tariff
on hides or wool or hops or hay or
lumber will be his own death warrant
as the representative of his district;
still another, that a duty on any arti
;le of common or general consumption,
as coffee, will crush in, his state the
man or the party held responsible for
It. Neverthel ess, the President holds
to the principle that the tariff ought
to come down: yet he is far from any
purpose to bring about at once a radi
cal change. Such effort would not
now be successful, but probably would
hinder moderate reform. The time
has not come fiir the policy which yet
will force its adoption the policy of
elimination of protection, except as an
Incidental consequence for revenue.
AX ECHO FROM TIIK TASX.
An echo from the past comes in
the announcement of the death,
at the ago of S5 years, of Mrs.
Elizabeth Taylor Dandri.lge, daugh
ter of President Zachary Tay
lor, at her home in Washington.
P. C. Mrs. Dandridge, whose first
husband was Major Bliss, was a viva
cious young woman of great beauty
and tact when her father, with laurels
won In Mexico fresh upon his brow,
became the twelfth President of the
United States. His wife, who had
cheerfully endured with him the hard
ships of the military camp in the Sem
inole War, shrunk from assuming the
duties of mistress of the White House,
and delegated those to her daughter,
"Betty." the gracious gentlewoman
who has Just now at four-score and
five years passed on. Her residence
In the White House was of short dura
tion, and at Its close she went Into
the quiet life which death has, after
many years, ended.
Few who knew "Betty" Taylor, or
later Mrs. Bliss or Mrs. Dandrnlge. in
the far-away years, survive to note the
fact of her passing. To the millions
born since her brief Incumbency of
the White House she was not even a
name, and to many who knew- of her in
a more or less vague way during those
years the announcement of her death
gave tidings for the first time in
.forty jara that she still lived, .-In
noting her passing the scroll of the
years rolls back and from pages dim
with time a faded leaf nutters out.
Upon It we read: 'Third daughter of
President Zachary Taylor; born in
1S2 4.: mistress of the White House for
one year. She had- a wide acquaint
ance with public men and was noted
for-her-beauty,- tier-ehrm -and the
splendor of her entertainments. She
did the honors of the presidential
mansion with the artlessness of a rus
tic belle and . the grace of a grand
duchess." To this may be added as a
last entry: She lived in modest retire
ment to a serene old age, reflecting
through all her years dignity upon
the exalted station to which she was
called. Than this nothing remains to
be said;- close the record- with this
latest entry' a completed volume.
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-ITS SO SUDDEN."
There are two opinions about the
contest in Deschutes Canyon, and
there is room for either one of them
or for both. One of them is that
the undertaking of the Porter Broth
ers, contesting for the canyon, la sup
ported by the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific combination the
Hill roads with Intent of using this
route for a line from their northern
territory to California and to San
Francisco. This would be a formid
able movement against the Harrlman
system.
The other opinion la that the oppo
sition to the Harrlman undertaking
is a hold-up, like the shotgun on the
road, to compel the Harrlman 'people
to pay a lot of money to other people
to get out of the way and let the, way
farers pass.
So far The Oregonian has no Infor
mation that would Justify It In deliv
ery of a positive opinion. It will
merely say It does beat everything
how Important the Deschutes Canyon,
that has lain open hitherto since the
morning Stars began to sing and shout
for Joy, now suddenly has become so
valuable.
Let that pass the poetry and the
wonder. It may be hoped we shall
now get a railroad two peradventure
into Middle Oregon. And yet e
have some fear of a result resembling
that of the Kilkenny cat fight. We
shall wait a little because we must.
MR. COLEMAN'S LOST OPPORTUNITY:.
Of course profanity Is shockingly
wicked. We have nothing to say in
favor of it, not a word. It is no more
than fair, however, to recognize the
great truth that there are two sides
even to the case of Mr. Coleman, the
Eugene man who swore so frightfully"
at an automobile that the City Marshal
felt constrained to arrest him. When
he got before the magistrate he was
fined o. His language must have
been something awful. It becomes
particularly horrible to think of when
we remember that .Mr. Coleman is a
pious man who has given a good deal
of property to the Eugene Bible Uni
versity. How would he like to hear
the students imitating him? Perhaps
he wourd not mind it if they had the
same provocation he had.
As we hinted, Mr. Coleman, while
there Is no excuse for him. Is not en
tirely bereft of mitigating circum
stances. The automobile was one of
those which come gliding along noise
lessly and Just barely miss taking a
chunk out of the calves of your legs.
The driver goes off with a derisive
chuckle over your fright. It delights
him to think how near he came to
killing you without actually doing it.
A New York man who was assailed
like Mr. Coleman by a Parthian auto--mobile
managed to smash the driver's
hat with his cane. The -crowd ac
claimed his act. The most enlight
ened newspapers In town hoped he
would do it again the next chance he
had. To be sure, a Justice of the
Peace fined him, but what is a fine
when one has achieved a great moral
victory? Had Mr. Coleman refrained
from swearing and used a club, he
might have stood in the temple of
fame beside this New York hero, but,
alas, he let his tongue get away with
him. No truly great man ever swears,
no matter how near an automobile
may come to killing him. He acts,
but he does It silently.
SPOKANE MISUNDERSTANDS.
The editorial department of the
Spokane Spokesman-Review has al
ways displayed surprising Ignorance
of the existence of water competition
between the Atlantic and the Pacific
ports. The business ena oi me
Spokesman-Review is fully informed
reeardinir the matter, and, - as tola
a few days ago, has recently shipped
a carload of printers' Ink from New
York to Spokane by way of Portland s
water route. Thus caught flagrante
delicto after years of vigorous denial
that there is such a thing as water
competition, the Spokesman-Review
takes a new tack. It offers no apology
or excuse for shipping its freight by
a route the existence of which it has
so often denied, but peevishly says:
If The Portland Oregonian feels that
In water transportation Portland has
a controlling, indestructible, natural
advantage, as It is continually protest
ing, why should that paper and the
Portland Jobbers show their great
concern and distress at the prospect of
Spokane and the Inland Empire gain-
lne lower transcontinental rates cy
rail? Why not use the ships and the
ea. and not fight the efforts of the in
terior to get lower rates Dy iana :
The Spokesman-Review, as usual. Is
mistaken In its assumption that either
The Oregonian or the Jobbers of Port
land are fighting the efforts of the in
terior to get lower rates.. The only
protest that, was ever made by Port
land was against the proposal to re
duce the rates to Spokane without
making a corresponding reduction to
Portland and other Coast ports., ltie
water rate with which these ports are
favored has always been the base on
which the rail rates were established.
for the reason that the ocean carriers
moved freight cheaper than it could
be moved by any other method. If
the railroads were prohibited by Spo
kane or other Interior cities from
meeting the rates of the water carri
ers at terminal ports, there would, of
course, be no necessity for maintain
ing a service west of Spokane. Any
reduction In the rate to Spokane must
be followed by a corresponding reduc
tion to Portland, which Is entitled to
railroad service as well as water serv
ice.
The Spokesman-Review, with Its Ink
shipment, having demonstrated that
the water route was the most advan
tageous for the Spokane shipper, sage
ly remarks that "the truth Is, water
transportation Is an advantage only so
long as the railroads can continue to
cinch the Interior." It is not at all
clear how the Interior can be
"cinched" if It follows the admirable
example of the Spokane paper and
ships by the water route. If the rail
roads could haul the ink and other
commodities across the continent at so
low n rate as Is made bv the water
carriers, the latter would not get the
business. Spokane, since lis oegin
ning, has profited by this water route,
and will continue to do so. When the
Panama Canal is completed there will
be a still greater savin on freights.
It is unfortunate for Spokane, as
well as for other interior cities which
have followed the blind lead of the
Spokesman-Review, that they have
unwittingly played Into the hands of
the Middle West Jobbers, who. de
prived of the advantages of water
....nnFoiinn will be enabled under
the proposed reduced rate to Spokane
to ship directly into oponano rm-tory-and
handle the business that Is
now handled from Spokane by Spo
kane and other Pacific Northwest Job
bers. This is the Injustice that Port
land Is fighting and will continue to
fight, until rates warranted by the
presence of water transportation are
granted. Eventually Spokane will see
,. urr,t and will loin with Portland
and the Coast cities In keeping her
trade out of the hands or tne .eastern
mall-order houses and long-range Job
bers. The Spokesman-Review, instead
of concealing its Ink-shipping act,
should publish It In detail and urge
other Spokane shippers to follow the
excellent example which It has set.
Av-T.-P. FINANCES.
The Seattle Times has an Inter
esting statement regarding the finances
of the Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc Expo
sition. The Times says:
It haa been learned that the average In
come from all sources from tho A.-T.-P.
Exposition haa reached $10,000 per diem,
while the average expenses have exceeded
$5000 per diem.
As the fair has been proceeding 56 days.
It follows thnt the gross receipts have been
$531.000 and the gross expenses one-half
that' sum. This would leave a net earning
of $290,000.
It Is also learned that the total debt of
the exposition when It opened aggregated
$880,000. and It therefore follows that there
remains $400,000 yet to be liquidated before
anything can be earned In the form of a
dividend for the stock.
There will be 138 daya In the entire ex
position and at the present rate the net earn
ings would be $680,000, or $10,000 more than
the aggregate debt. Independent of the
stock. s
The Seattle paper takes the cheer
ful view, however, that the attend
ance for the last half of the fair per
iod will be double the attendance of
the first half, and that, therefore, the
somewhat narrow (estimated) margin
of 110,000 as net earnings will be
greatly exceeded. In other words, the
Times estimates that the net earnings
for the entire fair period will be about
350,000, thus realizing a dividend of
35 per cent on the $1,000,000 of the
fair stock "a sum," remarks the
Times, "that would so tickle every
stockholder that he would not forget
to talk about it for ten years."
Certainly he would not forget it.
But if the fair attendance at Seattle
shall double during August, September
and October the record for previous
months, it will be a phenomenon
among expositions. The Oregonian
thinks that this has not been ,the ex
perience anywhere. It was not the
experience in Portland.
The dividend on stock realized here
was something more than 20 per cent.
It would seem to The Oregonian that,
in view of its present financial circum
stances, the Seattle Exposition can
scarcely hope to do better than Port
land did. If it does so well, the fair pro
moters will have reason for profound
congratulation. Indeed, the exposition
will have been a great success if it
shall pay no dividends, but shall come
out even, after discharging all finan
cial obligations. The Seattle Fair Is
altogether a most beautiful show,
worthy tff the enterprise and spirit of
that wonderful city, and It Is an Invest
ment that Is already bringing large
returns to the entire Northwest. There
need be no disappointment if it does
not return a direct profit.
THE CHILD-LABOR PROBLEM.
It is difficult to frame a child-labor
law that will be Just and helpful in
its operation, and it Is more than dif
ficult to enforce such a law in the face
of parental cupidity and irresponsibil
ity. The law to be Just must apply
to all children within the age Unfit
fixed. To prevent it from being -vi
cious It must be supplemented by a
compulsory education law. To make
it sweeping in its provisions is to turn
out upon the community, during the
school vacation, a horde of hulking
boys intent upon mischief, since they
must do something, and useful, gain
ful employment is prohibited.
The law known as the "child-labor
law" is probably less needed In Oregon
than in other states, especially In
states In which there are large manu
facturing interests, yet the commis
sion charged with the duty of enforc
ing it has found many cases In which
the exercise of vigilance was demand
ed for the welfare of the child and
the credit of the community.
The commission being within cer
tain limits a discretionary body, it is
believed that there have been but few
cases of arbitrary interference where
by hardship has been caused. In
many cases the heavy hand of oppres
sion has been lifted from the shoul
ders of the child toiler, to his better
ment. The Oregon law is approved
by practical, humanitarians and Leg
islatures In other states. It is, upon
the whole, a good law, and is thus
generally regarded by our citizens.
That the conditions attending cnud
labor In some other localities, notably
In the South, are abhorrent to civili
zation, we are constrained to believe.
Parental Irresponsibility, cupidity.
laziness and Ignorance combine to
create conditions among child toilers
in the cotton mills of many Southern
States that the public is assured by
competent observers are worse than
anvthing that has been allowed to
exist irr England since 1847. This is
certainly a reproach to the progressive
spirit of Western civilization, and if
allowed to continue, will be a National
not a purely sectional disgrace.
The humanitarian is told that the
uplift necessary to abolish these con
ditions must come from within the
sources of supply. Looking at the
dull faces of the parents who are liv
ing In idleness upon the labor of chil
dren, who should be in school or at
play, he despairs. Again, he Is told
that pressure must be brought to Dear
against this evil from without, and he
looks hopefully toward the legislative
body, only to find corporations, umier
the spur of competitive Industry and
commercial activity, ready with "in
fluence" that outweighs argument, to
prevent the legislation asked for.
Nothing daunted, however, 'the work
proceeds, making gains slowly and re
fusing to be disheartened by .repeated
failure. "Oregon." we are assured by
a woman who has given the labor of
years to the cause, "has done much
for the working child." Appreciating
this estimate, we are (till glad to be
lieve that this work has been ' of a
preventive rather than a remedial na
ture, and feel additional pride In the
fact, believing that here, as elsewhere,
an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure.
The Oregonian is advised from
Informed sources that the question
of insurance' had no bearing upon the
efforts to reopen the investigation in
the death of young J. N. Sutton at
Annapolis, Md. At the time Sutton
died he was insured to the amount of
$4000.. One policy was In a mutual
company exclusively patronized by
Army and Navy officers, and It was
promptly paid, no question having
been raised as to the manner of young
Sutton's death. A second policy for
1000, taken out by Sutton in the Or
der of Maccabees prior -to his enlist
ment, is disputed on the ground that
enlistment In the Army invalidates
such a policy and also that the insured
had committed suicide. It is said.
however, on behalf of young Sutton's
family, that the total expense of re
opening the case and pursuing the in
quiry has been very large, much
greater than any possible benefit out
of the $1000 insurance policy, and that
It has been pursued with sole regard
to clearing the young man's name
from the implication that he killed
himself. Young Sutton comes from
what might be called a military fam
ily, and his relatives are extremely
anxious to make it plain to the public
that others, and not himself, were re
sponsible for his death.
A Government expert named Hltt
estimates the 1909 wheat crop In
Oregon, Washington and Idaho at 35,
000,000 to 40,000,000 bushels. Mr.
Hltt has made a bad miss on his fig
ures and it will require more than
that mythical 9,000,000 bushels in
farmers' hands In the three states to
swell his 40,000,000-bushel estimate
to anything approaching the true di
mensions of the coming crop. If any
such figures as are now reported by
Mr. Hitt are seriously considered in
making up the Government estimate
for the three states, the total will be
as much too low as the figures on the
1908 crop were too high. Just why
the Government is unable to get with
in 2 5 to 30 per cent of -accuracy on
these crop figures is an unsolved mys
tery. '
How many more tale's do we need
of young husband and old wife? Oedi
pus and Jocasta, of whose story old
literature is full, though an extreme
case, should stand for them all. In
this case the son unknowingly mar
ried his own mother. The young peo
ple of Oregon, whom tne state Is edu-.
eating at its high schools and colleges
and universities, should be able to tell
you about the subsequent woes, how
one tragedy followed another, and all
found expression through the greatest
dramatic pieces that have come down
to us from the ancient world.
The Walla Walla penitentiary guard
who killed one convict and wounded
another because the two men would
not cease fighting, certainly accomp
lished the result he had in view. The
ultimate outcome of the battle would
hardly have been attended by more
serious results had the convicts been
permitted to continue without inter
ruption. Mr. Coleman, the Eugene philan
thropist, who had trouble about
a speeding automobile, was arrest
ed for profanity and fined $5. "It
was the first time," says the news ac
count of the sad event, "that Mr. Cole
man ever was arrested." We think it
also must have been the first time he
ever swore.
Union Pacific climbed up to 199
yesterday, and would probably have
crossed the dead line of "double par"
If the Porter brothers had not made
such an interesting news story by their
unexpected sortie Into the Harrlman
preserves in Central Oregon.
A Georgia legislator wants to pre
vent girls riding horses astride, be
cause the sight of a girl with divided
ctirtq nn a bav horse shocked him.
A sensitive people, those Georgians.
But what was It that the lawmaker
was shocked about?
Porter brothers have accomplished a
great coup, no doubt, by bottling Har
rlman nr. In the Deschutes. Now let
us see Mr. Harrlman, dig his way out
through the tunnels and over the
grades of .a. bright, shining new rail
road. . ' . . . -
A Seattle lawyer made a mistake In
his complaint, as he explained, by try
ing to divorce his fair client from the
wrong man. Now he wants to secure
for her separation from the right man.
They do some strange things in Seat
tle. .
Hops are soaring agairi and the price
is now around 20 cents. Reason,
curtailment in output, largely in Ore
gon. The prohibition counties, of
course, long ago went out of the hop
business. Of course.
Five torpedo-boats watched the
unsuccessful flight of Herbert Latham,
the Frenchman, across the English
Channel. Let Zeppelin try it, and he
can command the presence of the en
tire English navy.
"Too many men," says an Eastern
Oregon newspaper, "carry guns." But
why should any man "carry a gun" a
hidden or secret gun? In most cases
a criminal or half criminal Intent is
the motive of it.
There were many salmon, at the
mouth of the Columbia River last Sat
urday and Monday, but now they have
moved up stream to the seines and
the wheels. Now listen to the howl of
the gillnetters. m
Some alienists think Harry Thaw
sane enough to be released. Valua
ble testimony might be obtained from
Dr. Owens-Adair.
cninnei Hofer. rainmaker, aerain
says he doesn't want the Governorship.
That makes it unanimous.
You may have to hurry, Mr. Harrl
man. Yet two roads into Central Ore
gon are not too many.
Anywav, Pat Calhoun got more
money than Heney, If that's to be the
test of virtue.
The Taft Rier Stick is not stuffed:
Just padded. It does the work.
Rastern Oreeon now has mora rail
roads (building) than it wanta. .
HARD-SURFACE PAVEMENTS NOISY
Therefore One Citizen Wanta Them
Barred From Residential Districts.
PORTLAND, July 27. (To the Editor.)
So much is being said in favor of fhe
hard-surface pavements that a few lines
on the other side may not come amiss.
Let the paving be done In districts by
all means: but. let 'those districts be con
fined to the business sections and give
the people in fhe suburbs good. Quiet,
well-kept macadam or anything else that
is similarly noiseless and durable. Many
of us have bought our homes In the
suburbs with the inconvenience that those
suburbs In many respects bring in order
to get a cessation from the noise and
clatter of a more central lecation. but
now that the hard-paving craze is in
vading our locality, where is that rest
and quiet? .
As a city srrows. as we want ours to
it necessarily grows nolser. Why un
necessarily add to that noise by bringing
it Into our residential sections? II tne
city would stive half the attention and
expense to keeping the macadam streets
clean and in good condition, that is so
willingly bestowed on the hard-pavements
the contrasf between the appear
ance of the. former and the latter would
not be so marked. There is small Justice
in comparing our present macadam
streets, with their semi-annual cleaning,
to hard-surface ones that are cleaned
daily. As the former eats up much of
the surface dirt, the expense of keeping
it clean would be nominal in compari
son. To my personal knowledge, a good,
well-laid macadam street in a residen
tial section Is In a much better con
dition after being In use 15 years or more
than some hard-surface pavements that
have been laid much more recently.
If any one doubts the truth of this
statement iet him examine some or tne
recent pavements that have been laid in
the Holladay-Irvlngton district, and then
look at some of the macadam that was
laid years ago. (Right here It might be
well to explain that I have no crushed
rock to sell, and am in no way con
nected with any macadam interests.) I
believe in good, well-kept streets, by all
means, and to paraphrase Polonius,
"costly thy home as thy purse can buy
for the home (and surroundings') oft
proclaims the man," and half of the
charm of such a home lies In its quiet
restfulnesg. There are plenty of down
town hotels for those who prefer "life."
A quiet street Is asjoy to a tired person,
but there Is nothing much more unre-
poseful to tired nerves than to come
home at night, with every belated horse.
man clattering past the house, or to
have the milk wagons In the early dawn
sounding like an artillery charge.
I do not think it any evidence of
"moss-backlsm" to want a restful, quiet
home, any more than I think It an evi
dence of civic pride to clamor for noisy
pavements that form a glare to the
eyes, and are a menace when wet or
frosty, to faithful horses. Nor do I think
that we who have a different opinion.
should be forced to "take to the tall
timber" for the quiet we have paid for
here in the suburbs. Among the prop
erty-owners who live in the suburbs.
about eight out of ten, many times more
than that are opposed to the hard-pav
ing In front of their homes. Why force
or try to force on the many what only
the minority want? In closing, I will
say that those who are so strongly and
indiscriminately urging hard-pavements,
whether the streets are good, bad or In
different, are rearing a Frankenstein
that will - be satisfactory to but few.
aside from the paving companies, who, if
mey cannot exist with fewer paving con
tracts, might try some other business.
where they would then have to work no
harder than some of the rest of us, who
now keep them going.
- TAXPAYER AND HOME-LOVER.
Beereta of the "Sweat-Box."
UNION, July 2fi. (To the Editor.) To
settle a dispute, will you please tell ma
what the "third degree' is, and If it ever
takes the form of personal violence?
; T. R.
In police vernacular the third degree
consists of extreme measures resorted
to by detectives against prisoners in
order to extract confessions. Briefly, It is
mental torture and terrorizing; very
often bald, vicious lies concerning dis
coveries which would fix guilt upon the
prisoner who is confined in a dark cell
and allowed to see no one except his tor
mentors. Detectives do not publish secrets of the
"sweat-box," but it is understood by po
lice reporters that personal violence is not
often used. In the case of ex-convicts
and hardened criminals, detectives do not
hesitate occasionally to choke or "thump"
them in order to gain clews. This Is re
garded by the assaulter as merely an un
pleasant Incident. Physical torture, in
the sense of the rack and thumbscrew, is
not practiced in the United States.
Tariff Solons Long; for Vacation.
Washington (D. C.) Dispatch.
General Clarence Edwards was telling
Representative Tawney his vacation trou
bles; said he'd only had eight days off
last year, and now he was again threat
ened with no rest If Congress persisted In
staying here and hammering away at the
tariff.
"But, say," said the General, "If I can
ever get started, I've got a trip planned
that's a corker. It's a five-week Jaunt to
Barcelona, and it's cheaper than staying
at home. You'd better come with me."
"Yes, cheaper than staying at home,"
replied Tawney. "I've heard that before.
It may be cheaper so far as the fare's
concerned, but how about the other
things? I haven't forgotten that last trip
I took with you."
And, although Honorable "Jim" is
something of a dead game sport himself,
he clapped his- hand to his wounded
pocketbook and walked away, musing
sadly to himself about the ways of the
tribe of high-rollers, of whom General
Edwards Is not erroneously supposed
to be.
Joker Puts Beer in Ice Water Barrels.
Butler (Pa.) Dispatch.
Some joker poured out the Ice water
from barrels at the Evans City "old-home
day" cefebration and put in beer. There
were about 3000 persons near those bar
rels, testing them every few minutes, and
the result was something about which the
staid old farmers do not care to talk to
day. '
Whoever the Joker was, he must have
enjoyed it, as the barrels were kept filled,
and the cost must have reached into the
hundreds.
SoOn the menfolk began to enjoy the
events with such a whole heart that sev
eral were not content with plaudits, but
encored with shouts and "war hoops."
while 70-year-old graybeards cut capers
that astounded their neighbors. Finally
sleep overtook the majority, and the
women drove home.
Knowing- Rata at the Capitol.
' Washington (D. C.) Dispatch. -
n-i.. c hova Aafn m onH from the SLn
ate' office building. They have gone as
suddenly as they came. When the sub
.o. wa onanod between the office build
ing ,and the Capitol they poured through
the tunnel in noraes ami uvenun me new
structure, terrifying the stenographers
nt eatinv nn the earden seeds. Now the
garden seeds have been mailed out, and
the old lumber in ine court oi me oince
building has been hauled away or burned.
So the rats have betaken themselves back
. . t c.-inl' In ttia mtacnmlw ont lah-
to me ...
yrlnths underneath which they disport
themselves by the thousand.
"Elbow-Grease" for White Hands.
Kansas City (Mo.) Dispatch.
A Sallna (Kan.) girl sent 60 cents In an
swer to a Chicago advertisement for
keeping the hands soft and white, and
received this recipe: "Soak them three
times a day in dish water while your
mother rests, "
CLEVELAND ABSOLUTE HONESTY
Richard Watson Gilder, Hla Intimate Friend. Writes of His Exceptional
Srrnpnlousneas In Moner Matters His ftnlet Self-Confldence and Lark of
Pretense. -
Chicago Record-Herald.
Richard Watson Glider's reminis
cences of Grover Cleveland, whom he
knew intimately for many years, form
an - interesting' initial article In the
August number or tne wniuy ji.b
zlne. The writer, nationally known as
poet, prose writer and editor, states ,
that he puts forth tne recora oi mo
knowledge of Mr. Cleveland as "not
only an obligation of friendship, but of
patriotism." Mr. Gilder found himself
attracted, in common with other au
thors, by ' Mr. Cleveland's "lack of
sophistication, his rustic simplicity of
thought, that went along with great
directness and vigor of action." Mr.
Gilder records also his belief that the
literary men were attracted by the
President's "moral fury and his cour
age." and proceeds:
"That Mr. Cleveland should be In
stinctively Impressed by the ethical
bearings of public questions was, per
haps, natural in a descendant and
brother of clergymen, missionaries and
teachers: the cousin of Bishop Cleve
land Coxe, one of the same stock that
has produced the philanthropist- Wil
liam E. Dodge and his children. I heard
Professor Child, of Harvard, say that
he was always expecting to see some
second-rate politician put up a base
imitation of Cleveland's downrlghtness
and bravery, but even the Imitation had
not been forthcoming.
e
"It would not be easy to exaggerate
In describing Mr. Cleveland's singular
union of quiet self-confidence- with un
pretentlousness and even self-depreciation,"
continues Mr. Gilder. He cites,
as showing Cleveland's guiding motive
in political life, his pleasure in being
praised in James Russell Lowell's lines
containing the phrase, "One who did his
best," and comments:
"That was Mr. Cleveland's claim
about his own performance that he
did the best he could. When, with Inti
mate friends he would talk about his
successes and failures on the stage of
the world as unpretentiously as if dis
cussing some unrenowned neighborhood
affair. It was a strange experience,
wpen off alone with the ex-President
In a rowboat on some secluded sheet of
water, to hoar one's fishing companion,
while skillfully getting ready his
tackle, talk with inside knowledge, and
In phrases as graphic as they were
homely, of great International events In
which he was himself a leading actor,
and naming unostentatiously some of
the leading living characters of the
world. When he fell Into reminiscences
of this sort it was apparently without
any sense whatever of his own historic
Importance. I have never seen such
unconsciousness."
e
Mr. Gilder first met Mr. Cleveland at
the White House before the President's
marriage, but really came to know him
only later in his first administration.
His first talk with Cleveland was at
the White House early In December,
1887. The President went over the
question of tariff reform with the
author and read to him the now famous
message sent to Congress on the sub
ject. Mr. Gilder writes about this
meeting:
"What impressed .me was the note of
earnestness and conviction. His tone
was that of a person trying to effect a
great good for the state without the
slightest regard to his own personal
fortunes. He was so assured of the
righteousness and reasonableness of the
position assumed that he felt that If .the
public could only understand the actual
situation, there would be an influence
upon Congress which would effect the
necessary reform. He was inspired by
the idea of a 'simple and plain duty.'
'It Is a condition which confronts us
not a theory.' These now familiar
words were the expression of an in
tense conviction. However, he saw
clearly and stated clearly the difficul
ties in the way, even the difficulties of
thoroughly uniting his own party on
the issue. I said to him that the docu
ment would be more widely read than
any put forth Since the war, and that
ONE MORE SOLUTION OFFERED.
Tariff Problem Could Be Simplified by
Limited Reciprocity.
EUGENE, Or., July 26. (To the Editor.)
As a loyal Republican I was quite in
terested lately in reading an article in
your editorial columns on the tariff ques
tion as concerning the Republican party.
While agreeing In general with your
o tho tariff I believe the free-
trade era Is an ideal condition which may
be some time in coming. The struggle or
question rather, is how to fulfill the plat
form promises and gain as muoh as pos
sible in the direction of the public inter
ests without endangering the other ob
jects and purposes of the party, which
many believe the party only is able to
solve. ,,
The tariff question is generally consid
ered a local question, i. e., a question
mainly of bargain and trade, despicable
as such a method is. It is becoming evi
dent that Congress is unfit to deal with
such a subject fairly, whatever party
may be in control. Question How best
to' deal with it? Many Congressmen
doubtless would be glad to get rid of it,
but of course they have to look out for
their districts.
Believing in the ideal theory as far as
practicable under present circumstances,
I believe free trade or mutual benefit
among all nations is the proper mode of
commercial trading, but that no nation
should have the benefit of free entrance
to the others' ports unless It grants the
same privilege in return. Therefore, on
all articles which can be benefited or
subjected to tariff tax. why not charge
the same import tax on them as the na
tion sending them here charges on their
entrance at its ports? This would be in
fact "a square deal." and would furnish
an easy and ready method of fixing -up
the tariff schedule. Under it there would
be both revenue and protection, I. e., aver
aging up the various rates. It would be
practically a self- regulating or automatio
tariff, and would tend in many directions
- Hnal lAvArlnff fit the wotIiI'a tar
iffs. This is the only way, in the opinion
Of SOme parties laminar wim me mi'ii.
etion hoth nracticallv and theoretical
ly hv -a-hlch a compromise or "modus Vi
vendi" can be established.
The tariff is not tne rounaation stone oi
Republicanism, and it is Indeed pitiful to
. i wV,o havo wrnrlroo! under its old flaST
so long to see it rent in pieces over a
question wnicn couia oe Beuieu wimuui
much difficulty by a statesman of the
Jacksonlan or Hamiltonian type. But it
m c tfef, intarneta Sf thnstt in flnftnClfll
control have managed so far to carry out
the extreme Ideas, apparently not think
ing that their real Interests are bound up
with the general welfare of the public.
n T" I Tn
J. a. liAHAnnu
Hon sen reck era Attack Latin Quarter.
Paris Dispatch.
The Latin Quarter, that Mecca of Amer
ican visitors in the French capital, has
been doomed. Housewreckers have begun
work in carrying out tne municipal Im
provement plan which has been decided
upon.
The property, which belongs to the city,
will be so administered as to bring in rev.
enue, where It is now merely clearing ex
penses. For many years English, American and
German students and visitors loved to live
in the narrow streets, and liked to rough
it in blissful ignorance of baths or bar
ber's tools, but they no longer desire such
a life. They prefer hygienic apartments
that are llfiht and cheap-
It would have the tendency to make
annual messages matters of importance
Instead of merely perfunctory and unin
fluential performances. There was
nothing said or suggested by either of
us to the effect of this appeal to the
country upon his own continuance In
office. The message, as is generally
believed, lost him the approaching elec
tion; but It was tr3 groundwork of his
subsequent nomination and second elec
tion to the Presidency." v.
Many other Interesting incidents and
Impressions are related by Mr. Gilder.
He tells of the interest shown by the
President in International - copyright,
how he depiored the general extrava
gance of the times and the lack of men
in Congress who were "absolutely dis
interested," and his conviction that "the
class of men intended by the framers
of the Government to befits legislators
were not, as a rule, coming to Con
gress." Mr. Gilder says: "I never saw
Mr. Cleveland more elated than after he
had thrown the Presidency out of the
window by his anti-free-silver letter
in February, 1891." There are many
other things in the reminiscences Illus
trative of Cleveland as a man anec
dotes of him as a fisherman, of his
kindliness toward children and of his
exceptional scrupulousness in money
matters. On the last-named subject Mr.
Gilder writes:
"In speaking of Cleveland no one can
help reiterating the word 'honesty.' All
decent people are supposed to l.e honest,
and an indifferent reader might well
Inquire, Why such harping on so com
mon a virtue? But aside from the fact
that thoroughgoing honesty is not ab
solutely pervasive, certainly In Cleve
land's case the trait was almost
phenomenally developed. The honesty
of the man was In the mind of Mr. Taft
and of all the memorial speakers,
whether they knew him little or much,
and most of them knew him well. Two
men who, in different times and places
were long acquainted with him, said to
me lately that Mr. Cleveland was the
most honest man they had ever known.
"A few years ago a prominent editor,
when talking to me about Mr. Cleve
land, expressed a good deal of admira
tion and but one doubt. He said Mr.
Cleveland's relations to a certain rich
friend and the ex-Presidents money
making would have to be explained. I
answered that these would not have to
be explained to me, because, though I
did not know much about his financial
affairs, 1 could vouch for the fact that
he war one of the most scrupulous men
I had ever known, and, besides, I knew
he was not what we call nowadays a
rich man. A little -while after this Mr.
Cleveland happened to be talking pret
ty freely with me about ms resources,
and told me about just having lost sev
eral thousand dollars on a scruple un
necessarily, as It turned out. After re
lating the incident he said: 'But I
don't deserve any credit for that, be
cause money has never been a temp
tation to me.'
"I told this to my editorial friend,
and he replied: 'Oh. 1 have gotten over
all anxiety about that, as I've found
out how glad he was to get the cheek
we sent him for his article.'
"Soon after he left office and settled
In Princeton he told me that there was
talk about making a position for him
with a large salary attached. He said
such good friends were in the move
ment that he could not act hastily and
In a way that would seem ungrateful,
but that he would not accept a position
In which he would be unable to per
form adequate service. He, in fact, de
clined the position.
"I remember that at a time when lie
was adding to his not large income by
industriously contributing to periodi
cals he insisted upon certain publish
ers paying him considerably less than
the sum they offered for a certain arti
cle published by them on the ground
that it was more than he had received
for a similar contribution published
elsewhere."
BAD ROADS FALSE ECONOMY.
Impassable Highways Cost the Ameri
can Farmers Untold Millions.
Christian Science Daily Monitor, Boston.
There Is no difference among well in
formed people as to the cost of bad
roads; nor is there any -longer a question
as to where the burden of th3 cost Is
most severely felt. There are hauled
over the country roads of the United
States every year 265,000,000 tons of pro
duce, equal to 30 per cent of the railway
tonnage or tne country. mc .vcia5
haul from farm fo railway is 9.4 miles
and the average cost per ton per mile is
between 23 and 25 cents. In Germany
over better roads the cost is 10 cents per
ton per mile at the maximum and 7
cents per ton per mile at the minimum.
The loss suffered by the American farmer
and consumer, figured on the basis of
the German wagon road toll. Is immense.
If It were saved from year to year It
would soon constitute a fund sufficient
to improve all of . the common highways
of the country.
L. W. Page, who has collected a great
deal of valuable information on this sub
ject, and who talks about road improve
ment intelligently and reasonably, is not
among those who clamor for the federal
ization of the highways. On the con
trary, he deplores the all too prevalent
idea that nothing can be done in this
country until the Federal Government
puts its hand to the wheel, or its hand
Into Its pocket- The states, in his opin
ion, should take the initiative, or, at
least, prove their sincerity by setting an
example for the National Government.
Father's Search for Lost Daughter.
Joplin News-Herald.
Separated from her father since a baby
6 months old. Mrs. Isabel Kierscey Ladd.
wife of a Joplin mailcarrier. has just
learned the etrange story of her life.
When Joe M. Kierscey left Short Creek,
Kan., now Galena, years ago he left the
motherless baby with John T. Sargent
at Short Creek. Kierscey then went to
Texas, where he was injured in an Indian
battle. After a hard Btruggle for life he
finally left the hospital alive, but without
a vestige of memory. His past history
was a blank. Kierscey then went to Sil
ver City. Mexico, and married axsln.
After living there for years he went to
Cripple Creek, Colo. He became wealthy
as a miner, but lost most of his money In
a fire.
About that time an operation restored
his memory, and he began a search for
his baby. He died soon after, a son com
pleting the search.
Five Brothers, Five Sisters.
Columbus (Ky.) Cor. New York Sun.
A marriage ceremony in Kent Cdunty
today united five sisters to five brothers.
Mis9es Maud, Nellie, Kate, Anne and
Susie Martin were married to John, Dan,
Hugh, Jack and Dick Hill. Five sisters
acted as bridesmaids and five brothers of
the bridegrooms acted as best men.
It was proposed to follow the wedding
with a honeymoon for the five happy
couples to extend to St. Louis, but the
lateness of the crops prevented the men
members from leaving home at this time.
Special Kennel for II Ik Newfoundland.
Philadelphia Record.
The Marquis Dusmet arrived at New
York from England and brought over a
Newfoundland dog eo large that It could
neither be led nor backed into the largest
j .Mu o th .tanm or The shin's car
penter had to build a kennel, 12 feet long,
six feet wide and six feet high.