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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 21, 190T.
CASHIER NOT TO BE FOUND
SEATTLE MAX SAID TO BE SHORT
?3000 TO 5000.
Althorigh Watched by Detectives, He
JIade His Ecape Manager of
Telephone Company.
SEATTLE, July 20. W. Howard Kerna
ghan, for three years cashier of the local
offices of the Pacific States Telephone &
Telegraph Company, is missing-, and the
local police are looking for him. Kerna
ghan is charged by the officials of the
company with having embezzled between
$3000 and 55000 of the company's funds.
The exact amount has not yet been ascer
tained, although the books are being ex
perted. Kernaghan is the son of George P.
Kernaghan, said to be a wealthy banker
of Pasadena, Cal. Late in June, he mar
ried a young girl here of respectable
parents. He disappeared a few days later,
but was arrested at Ashcroft, B. C, on
his way East. He returned here under
surveillance, but was not Jailed. An
effort was made to settle the shortage,
and to this end his father arrived here
on Thursday. The day following, al
though watched by detectives, Kernaghan
made his escape leaving his -bride of a
month behind. The police of the Coast
cities have been asked to apprehend him.
.Money Envelope Disappears.
SEATTLE, July 20. An envelope
shipped by express by the Great Northern
Railway Company's office at Everett to
the Puget Sound National Bank of Se
attle, and containing $730, has mysteri
ously disappeared. F. "W. Maughan, gen
eral Western agent of the Great Northern
Express Company, is here to trace the
missing package. One of the employes of
the local office of the company has been
dismissed. No criminal proceedings have
as yet been taken.
Japanese Found Dead.
LA GRANDE, July 20. A Japanese in
the employ of the Oregon Sugar Com
pany was found dead in bed In the bunk
house on the farm near Allcel this morn
ing. He worked in the beet fields until
6 o'clock last evening, and was in ap
parent good health. Death was probably
due -to heart failure.
BoylCillcd by Freight Train.
LA GRANDE, July 20. A deaf boy
named Allen, about S years old, was killed
yesterday by a freight train near the
summit of the Blue Mountains. He was
walking near a sharp curve, which pre
vented -the engineer from seeing him.
The lad was thrown against a wall of rock
and instantly killed.
Bnrglars at Oregon City.
OREGON. CITY, July 20 Burglars pried
open tie front door of TV. A. Holmes'
general merchandise store at Park Place
last night and secured about $40 worth of
goods, principally cutlery. A revolver was
also taken.
Oregon City Barn Burned.
OREGON -CITY. July 20. The barn on
Conrad Howaldt's farm, on the West
Side, was burned last night with all its
contents. The loss was about 52000; In
surance, 51000. The origin of 'the Are is
unknown.-
Xew Oregon Postmasters.
WASHINGTON, July 18. Oregon Post
masters were appointed today as follows:
G. A. Smyth, at Diamond, vice Chauncey
Cummings, resigned, and Annie Sizemore,
at Juntura, vice, J. T. Sizemore, dead.
Atf EASYJGOING HERO.
.Dives From Bridge to SaveBrownlng
Girl and Never a "Word of Thanks.
A young and pretty woman, dark of
complexion and neatly dressed in a dark
eklrt, a light ehlrt waist, a dark jacket
and a hat with a lot of flowers on it, was
a passenger in an open Cambridge-bound
car which started across Harvard bridge
at 11:30 a few nights ago. says the Bostdn
Globe. She was so pretty that she at
tracted more than ordinary attention from
the men passengers, and even the women
felt impelled to look at her more than
once.
There was some speculation in the minds
of the passengers as to how it happened
that so pretty a girl should be out alone
at that hour of the night. She was per
fectly self-contained, however, and
eeemed to know her own business, so no
one ventured to speak to her.
The car had proceeded about three times
its own length on the bridge, and was run
ning rather slowly, when the young wom
an Jumped up from her eeat, stepped down
on the running board, and landing on the.
driveway of the bridge, ran without a mo
ment's hesitation to the railing on the
westerly side of the "bridge, and with no
word or a look behind jumped over Into
the river.
All hands, including passengers, motor
man and conductor, leaped from the car
and ran to the Tailing over which the
young woman had Jumped.
All of them eaw the pretty girl afloat,
but ehe wasn't struggling, and, Indeed,
she seemed to be trying to sink herself
under the water, for ehe threw her arms
straight up and didn't fry to help herself
a bit.
Just as she disappeared from the view
of the watchers on the westerly side of the
bridge a Boston-bound car with a number
of passengers aboard came up to the
crowd and stopped.
Among the passengers on the Boston car
was a clean-cut young man, wearing a
straw hat with a crimson band, which
proclaimed him as being of Harvard, and
carrying a bag of golf clubs.
He got on! the car as one who has all
the time there is at his disposal, saun
tered over to the easterly side of the
bridge, and watched with the rest of the
crowd for the body of the young woman
to emerge from the tide, which was ebb
ing eeaward.
He didn't seem much excited or deeply
interested, but when the young woman
floated Into view the young man laid his
hat with the crimson band down on the
railing of the bridge, took off his coat,
and, with the precision of a man who
was used to that sort of thing, and had
done It every day for weeks, he placed
his hands on the railing of the bridge,
raised himself with the grace of a trained
athlete and diver, and went headforemost
Into the river.
The young athlete came up near the
young woman, who was then floating in a
nearly upright position, where she was
held by her skirts, and reached out to
help her.
She clawed and scratched at his face
and screamed to him to go away, tso he
dived again and came up behind her,
whpre he not gallantly, but In a business
like way, got a handful of her back hair,
turned her over on her back, and then
swam leisurely to the Boston shore with
her.
When the young man got her to the
shore there were scores of willing hands
there to help him land his burden, and
no sooner had the assistant rescuers got
the young woman onto her feet ashore
than she began to fight with feet, hands
and teeth to get away from them, crying
out meanwhile that she wanted to die.
The assistant rescuers laid the young
woman down on some grass, and a police
man of division 16, who had been attracted
by the crowd, called an ambulance and
sent her to the station-house. The young
woman refused to tell the lieutenant in
charge her name, where she lived, how
old she was or anything about herself.
The young man with the crimson-banded
straw hat, the golf clubs and the non
chalant air left the young woman as soon
as he had landed her. collected his golf
clubs, his coat and hat, and took the first
.car Into Boston. One of the other paseen-
gers asked him who he was, and he said
he really "didn't care to say, don't you
know, old man," and nobody found out.
STOCK DEALING BY CABLE.
Hott the Speculator Gains Time by
Being 3000 Miles Areay.
London Tit-Bits.
It is one of the most amazing of modern
miracles, said a stock-broker, that a man
can more quickly purchase and sell stocks
at a distance of 3000 miles than a man
In Fleet street can operate on the Lon--don
Stock Exchange, a quarter of an
hour's walk away.
It is this, I had almost said fatal, fa
cility that has enabled so many English
speculators to take a hand In the recent
American boom, when the loss of a min
ute might mean the winning or losing of
a small fortune.
You would think that when stocks and
shares are fluctuating wildly many times
within an hour It would be sheer madness
for any one in another continent to have
anything to do with them, but with such
marvelous rapidity are messages transmit
ted nowadays by cable that a transaction
can be completed in Wall street. New
York, almost as quickly as In the London
Stock Exchange by a broker on the spot.
Suppose I have an order to buy 150,000
worth of Illinois Central. The purchase is
completed -within a couple of minutes of
handing in the message in Snorter's Court
and I can receive a reply within five min
utes, a marvelous feat when you con
sider that the double message has traveled
3000 miles.
As you may imagine, these messages
are reduced to the smallest possible di
mensions. In fact, a cablegram purchas
ing, say, 5300,000 of stock, will probably
consist of three or four words only, with
the time of dispatch and a single letter to
serve as name and address of the receiver.
These messages are dispatched with lit
erally lightning speed by a highly-skilled
band of cablists, the picked men of the
army of operators, who must not only be
exceedingly expert cablists, but unfailing
ly accurate in transmission, for an error
might mean loss of thousands of dollars.
It says much for their skill and care that
mistakes are very rare Indeed.
There are three rival cable companies
In London all almost equally expert and
reliable one British, one French and the
third American. From 3 P. M., which
means 10 A. M. In New York, messages
pour Into these offices at the rate of
many hundreds an hour and are flashed
with inconceivable rapidity over the wires
from London, via Ireland and Canada, to
New York the actual transmission over
3000 miles of wire only taking a single
minute. And quickly as these messages
flash and fly westward under the Atlantic,
other messages are flashing from New
York to London over the same wires with
out any possibility of getting in each oth
er! way.
As many as 500 messages are often dis
patched in an hour, and between 2000 and
3000 In a day, and almost as many are re
ceived In return, recording their contents
on the almost endless "serpent of paper,"
which streams from the receiving ma
chine. Even at a shilling a word, it Is possible
to spend Immense sums on cabling, a sin
gle firm often paying the cable companies
as much as 5300O or $1000 In a week, and
perhaps It Is no exaggeration to say that
during the recent boom In American rails
the receipts of the three cable companies
were not less than $50,000 a week.
The Open River Coming.
Lewlston Tribune.
The unification of the people In demand
ing the opening of their water ways to the
ocean has now reached an irresistible
stage that will have its first concerted ex
pression at Lewlston on the 23d and 24th
of this month. Let no one be deceived in
Imagining that any one interest or any
special locality has been predominant in
iiffluenclng the -splendid movement to cul
mirjate in the assembling of senators and
congressmen and men of might In private
Industry here nex.t week. It is the result
of thought, agitation, work and purpose
fulrtess all along the line from Portland
to Lewlston and from Spokane to Baker
City. Combined, the power within this
compass cannot be withstood In any wor
thy or useful enterprise. Divided, discor
dant, jealous its forces simply neutralize
each other and retard the common prog
ress. Chief among the accruing causes
must lead to open rivers In the friendly
attitude of the railways and why not?
Is there a man on earth with the native
ability to fill a responsible position in a
great traffic system who does not know
that with the opening of the Inland water
routes the country would so advance in
material activity and expand in commer
cial enterprise that their trains and rolling
stock would have to be doubled, perhaps
several times, to meet the demands of
transportation? If an inland water way
should make possible cheap rates whereby
mountains of ore could be got to market
and valuable crops grown upon fields that
now have no productive value, would not
the railways profit vastly more from the
new energies loosened and the varied in
dustrial development given opportunity
than under any possible conditions of a
suppressed and restricted commercial
field? The railways evidently have come
to see that they have stood in their
own light In falling to lend their im
portant influence for an Industrial econo
mic that promises so much amelioration
to the country and to themselves. But
with their friendliness assured or at
any rate with their unfriendliness with
held and with the common country
standing together in their reasonable and
just demand for open water routes where
nature has laid them down, no body of
men under representative government can
deny the necessary Improvement. The
open river will come as the result of next
week's demonstration.
NeTT Wile of the Lottery Man.
New York Times.
"A new scheme has been devised by
the lottery men to induce the colored
contingent to buy their checks to vision
ary wealth," said a "Wall-street broker,
last week, "and for ingenuity It beats
anything I have heard of in the street.
"This is what occurred at my house:
A well-dressed man rang the bell, and
asked to see my cook, whom I imported
many years ago from Virginia. His re
quest was granted, but as his visit
lasted some time, when he left my wife
asked Martha Custls the Teason for it.
" 'Dat sholy is er talented white genT
man, Miss Marg'ret; he Jus done tor ma
fortune. Lemme tell you 'bout it. He
come in ma kitchen an says: "You is
'spectin yore brother fum down Souf."
Now, how dat white man know Jim
come in on de boat fum No'fuk terday?
Answer me dat. Den, when I 'lowed Jim
would git here if de good Lord spared
him, en dld'n no thin' happ'n, he says:
"You's guesslnj .how you's gwine to git
money to pay yore rent when I come in.
warn't you?" I says I was fur a fac,'
cause I done sent de H'l I had down to
Sally, who bin po'ly wid de roomytiz.
Den he 'lows you don' know how yer
gwine ter pay me fer tellln' yore for
tune, cuz yer ain't got but a quarter.
An' dat was gospel truf, too.
" '"Well, he studies hard a jnlnit, and
den presen'ly he says: "I won't charge
yer nothln', but I'll tell yer a lucky num
ber ter play in de policy, en when yer
gits de money yer can pay me." 'Cose
I 'greed ter dat, foh. dat man know
ev'ything. So Miss Marg'ret, I'se goin'
to git yer ter lemme slip out fer a mlnit,
cuz Jim is a ter'ble 'spensive nigger ter
have hangin round.
"Well," said the broker, "my wife kept
the deal from going through after a long
argument. But doesn't the scheme com
pel admiration?" he concluded as he rose
and ran the tape through his fingers.
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Criminals are very expensive members of tho
community. They coat the people of this
country about $1,000,000,000 a year. If their
Increase couia oe prevemea it wouia be a
payine investment to give each of the 250.000
accepted criminals a monthly pension of $300.
on the condition that they take a life vaca
tion from the strenuous demands of their profession.
GREAT STATE FAIR SURE
OREGON ,WILIi BREAK ALL
ORDS THIS FALL.
REC-
Fnrniers Will Have Good Crops, and
a First-Class Exhibit Is Assured
Good Prizes Offered.
SALEM, July 20. Plentiful crops of ev
ery sort grain, hops, hay, fruit and veg
etablespromise to make the State Fair
this Fall the best that has ever been
held In Oregon. Every farmer will have
an abundance of produce to sell, and all
will feel able to spend a few days at the
fair. Every farmer .will have some prod
ucts that will make a splendid appear
ance when placed on display, and more ex
hibits than ever before will be brought
to the fair. The season has been favor
able for livestock as well as for crops,
and some of the best cattle, horses, sheep,
hogs, goats and poultry ever shown on
the Coast will be on exhibition here dur
ing Oregon's annual exposition.
The members of the State Fair Board
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OREGON'S CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE AT BUFFALOj
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HENRY
have foreseen the increase in the number
and size of the displays of the products of
farm, orchard, garden and range, and
have prepared for it. Two large wings
have been added to the already spacious
pavilion, in order that there might be
room for the exhibits of grains, grasses,
fruits and vegetables, articles of home
manufacture, minerals, woods, needle
work, art productions, and the scores of
other things for which suitable cash
prizes are offered. Many of the prizes
have been increased, and this added at
traction will Increase the number of ex
hibits. With the enlarged capacity, how
ever, there will be room for all who en
ter their products for prizes and every
exhibitor will be awarded the necessary
space.
The addition of two wings to the pavil
ion makes room for an auditorium, with
a stage In one end and seats arranged
on an Incline, so that visitors to the
fair may enjoy to the utmost the entertain
ment of the evening concerts. If it shall
be found advisable, lectures may be given
In the auditorium In the forenoons, upon
subjects of general Interest to farmers,
and It Is possible that a session of the
farmers' congress may be held in connec
tion with the State Fair.
New Buildings.
Besides the Improvements to the pavil
ion, there has been erected a new cream
ery building, and a new machinery hall.
The creamery building is a large, airy
and well-lighted structure, standing a
short distance from the main walk, near
the pavilion. Its four large entrances,
high, wide windows, and its tasty archi
tecture make it a very attractive addition
to the group of State Fair buildings. In
it will be placed all kinds of machinery
used in the making of butter and cheese,
and working plants will be In operation
during the fair. Those interested in this
rapidly growing industry will have an
opportunity to learn by actual observation
and practical instruction the most ap
proved methods of dairying. Special prizes
have been offered for dairy products, and
makers of butter and cheese will be given
every kind of encouragement to bring to
the fair exhibits of their manufactures.
The capacity of the livestock department
was almost doubled last year. In order
to accommodate the unusually large num
ber of prize cattle, horses, sheep and
goats that were brought to the fair. Sec
retary "Wisdom already has assurance that
the livestock exhibits will be large this
year, and if It be found necessary, more
room will be provided In that department.
The State Fair Board has recently com
pleted the building of wide granite walks
from the passenger depot to the pavilion
and from the pavilion to the various de
partments. This Is an Improvement that
will add greatly to the pleasure of a
visit to the fair, for even on a rainy day
the granite walks remain dry and clean.
The increasing popularity of thB State
Fair under its present broad and business-like
management has made necessary
these many improvements. Those who
have made it their practice year after
year to visit the fair and thus keep in
touch with the progress of our industrial
development will scarcely know the old
place when they see it this Fall. Several
of the buildings have been newly painted,
new porches have been built around the
pavilion, everything will be In splendid
order, and Oregon will have a fair of
which a much wealthier state might well
be proud.
Newcomers Will See and Learn.
The fair this Fall will be of particular
interest to all those who have recently
come from the East to make their homes
in Oregon. Here they will see on display
the products of every part of the state.
Here they will meet farmers, mechanics
and business men from every sectlo'n of
the state. Here they may converse with
men who have been leaders in their sev
eral occupations whether grain-raising,
fruit-raising, dairying or stock-raising
and who have proven the soundness of
their methods by financial success.
One of the strongest features of the fair,
in attractiveness to both newcomers and
old settlers, will be the county exhibits.
It is expected that no less than eight
counties will make special exhibits of I
products. The only limitations placed up
on these displays are that all the prod
ucts in each display must be from one
county and of the crop of 190L The per
sons preparing the exhibit for their
county may gather the best products that
can be found upon their own farms or
those of their neighbors. The requirement
that all the articles displayed must be of
the crop of 1901 places all upon an equal
footing. Those whov prepared exhibits
for the fair last year will riot be permit
ted to bring the same things again this
year. There are five prizes offered in this
competition, any one of which Is large
I enough to warrant the effort necessary
to arrange a county exhibit. The prizes
are as follows: First, $300; second, $250;
third. 5200; fourth, $150; fifth, $100.
The fair opens September 23 and closes
on the evening of September 28. "" Any In
formation desired can be obtained by
writing to the secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, M. D. Wisdom, of
Portland. '
ABOUT GENIUSES.
Their Usually Long Life and Their
Failure of Posterity.
New York Evening Post.
Geniuses are proverbially long-lived,
and, it is generally believed, little: likely
to reproduce their kind. It Is as 'though
by some law of sacrifice, the vital force
and the intellectual qualities' of a whole
line were treasured up for a single per
son, to be by him freely and completely
expended. Into these matters the well
known anthropologist Havelock Ellis In
quires In the Popular Science Monthly.
The principle of the sterility of genius
seems to be fully established. Of the 819
British men of genius studied, more than
28 per cent never married, while the
normal ratio of bachelors to the entire
male population Is but 10 per cent. The
smaller number of British women of
genius rendered difficult the drawing of
E. DOSCH.
general conclusions. Marriages, of women
of this class fell for the most part cither
earlier or later than the period most
favorable to child bearing. If earlier, the
relationship was very of ten,, for one cause
or another, quickly dissolved. The ten
dency to late marriages among women
of genius was strongly pronounced. Fanny
Burney, for example, married at 41, Mrs.
Browning at 40, Charlotte Bronte at 38.
George Eliot at 36. The marriages of
British men of genius were unfruitful in
about 20 per cent of the total cases a
ratio which compares not unfavorably
with the 13 per cent o&fifertlle marriages
la. the upper and middle classes of Eng
land and the United Slates.
It is. however, with the theory of the
superior longevity of geniuses that Mr.
Ellis deals most cavalierly. Of course,
they show a high average of age, he says,
because genius barely has a chance to
pronounce itself before the average term
of life is passed. If there are short cuts
for poets and players and musicians, the
genius of scientific research, of states
manship, or of professional eminence re
quires years for Us full development. In
other words, many who are accounted
among the geniuses are so accounted
chiefly by virture of the experience that
comes only with age, and to say that ge
nius has a chance for long life is only a
looser way of saying that without long
life there would be little chance for ge
nius. Kyle ns a Prohibitionist.
New York Times.
Senator Kyle's death on Monday recalls
the fact that whether he happened to be
a Populist or a Republican, the South
Dakota Senator was always a Prohibition
ist. That fact led to an incident that was a
source of considerable amusement at Mr.
Kyle's expense to the grave and rever
end Senator when It happened, back In
August, 1897. "Washington was then about
as hot as New York has been during
the nasi week. It was a temnerature that
led Senators to think a man was entitled
to all the cooling drinks he could pay for,
So when Mr. Kyle offered a resolution
to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors
in the Senate wing of the Capitol during
the recess of Congress, Mr. Piatt, of Con
necticut, asked:
"Why only during the recess of Con
gress?" "I would be most willing to have the
rule enforced 365 days in the year," was
Mr. Kyle's answer. "That has been tried,
however, and has been an absolute, flat
failure. Liquors are sold openly at the
bar, or, rather, at the counter, of the
Senate restaurant, not to members of this
body alone, but to visitors at the Capitol
and to young men employed as clerks to
Senators. You have all seen It."
"I beg pardon," spoke Mr. Cockrell, of
Missouri, angrily. "I have never seen it."
Then Mr. Gorman, of Maryland, In
dulged in sarcastic reference to those who
"pose In public and make a displays of
their own personal virtues," or who offer
resolutions "to prevent gentlemen from
enjoying life as they see proper," while
one of those Senators, who did not like
the taste of whisky, he had never yet
in public or private tried to impose his
lack of taste on others or tried to pose
before the country as a reformer, "and
then, as reformers so often do, slip behind
the door to take two or three private
drinks."
When the laughter at this sally sub
sided, Mr. Kyle denied that posing before
the public was at all In his line, but he
added, "I do think that If the people
want to drink they should at least go to
the nearest saloon, but a few hundred
feet away!"
A shout of laughter greeted this remark,
for the members were quick to realize the
extent of the Senator's knowledge of the
subject, and he was asked, sotto voce, by
his next neighbor: "How do you know?"
''The Senator from Delaware" (Mr.
Gray), said Mr. Kyle, "wants to know
how I know. If that Senator will walk
down Pennsylvania avenue, as I do very
frequently, he will find that he cannot
pass three or four blocks without stdg
gering against a drunken man, at 6 or
7 o'clock at night."
"You mean," corrected Mr. Gray, while
Mr. Kyle .glared at the laughing faces of
his fellow Senators, "that drunken men
staggeP against you, not that you stagger
against the drunken men, perhaps."
There the incident closed, for the resolu
tion was referred to the committee on
rules, whence it never emerged. -
Tha Psalmody hymns committee of the
Church of Scotland, having reported that the
majority of the Highland Presbyterians are, in
favor of the publication of a Gaelic hymnal,
the general assembly has empowered them to
adjust and issue a collection of hymns In
' Gaelic,
COLLEGIANS' PROSPECTS
ARMIES OF YOUXG MEX WHO HAVE
EARNED SCHOLASTIC DEGREES.
Economic Question Presented by the
Filling Dp of the Learned
Professions.
A small army of graduates receiving
baccalaureate and advanced degrees has
recently begun Its march through the
fields and arenas of public life, says the
New York Observer. The start has been
made very auspiciously, the congratula
tions and good wishes of Instructors and
friends following the graduates in sincere
benediction. The army of the learned ad
vances In several very large divisions.
Thus, Columbia University, in this city,
recently conferred degrees of one sort or
another on more than "00 young men and
women, and Cornell University gave
degrees to over 400 candidates. The ra
pidity with which American colleges are
turning out graduates of various courses
almost takes one's breath away. Every
successive class is the "biggest" one yet.
Of course, this is a large country, where
bigness is the boast in almost every line,
and numerically large classes are to be
expected and desired in all well-equipped
colleges. Still the proportion of college
bred men and women to the rest of the
population Is evidently Increasing steadi
ly, and the question of the future of those
academically trained hosts becomes a se
rious one, presenting for consideration
grave economic as well as other compli
cations. It is the usual custom to peak of these
college graduates as educated people. Of
course, the term as so employed Is rela
tive in its significance. These graduates
are simply educated more than others.
They have .made a beginning of education;
they are candidates for education. Such
graduates have by no means grasped the
whole circle or sphere of knowledge, yet
at least have learned to measure their
own Ignorance a little more accurately.
The academic training of the mental pow
ers has been preparatory to that more
rigorous process of education, which will
continue so long as life lasts. Time is an
important element in education; up to
snm truths the scholar must grow, for
they cannot be rushed, as a redoubt might
ue uacuuucu uuu ioic w ...q. --- s
The Process of Education.
The college graduate who has the spirit
of the true scholar will bear in mind this
prolongation of the process of education,
remembering that education Is a thing
that is always doing and never done, that
It Involves moral as well as mental activ
ities, and that it should never stop with
mere theory, but must ultimate in the
best of private and public practice. A
selfish education is a contradiction in
terms, for in the domain of truth-seeking
the man who never gives can never get.
in the highest sense. The graduates who
have lately emerged from academic halls
will have no future worth speaking of
unless they definitely devote themselves
to the Ideals of an altruistic culture.
Economically considered, the future of
the large annual army of graduates pre
sents a serious subject for thought. Al
ready, for some years the "professions"
have been greatly crowded. The ambi
tion of so many is to earn a living in
a genteel way, to support themselves by
polite occupations, that the average wage,
In the case of professional workers. Is by
ceaseless competition reduced considera
bly, or, If it is maintained at a high rate
In the case of comparatively few, this
result is accomplished at the cost of ex
cluding large numbers from any such em
ployment at all. There is a real danger
lest in America we find that we have on
hand a large educated class with nothing
to do. Under present conditions there is
In professional Hfo no room, or at any
rate no sufficient supply of decent posi
tions for all the educated. And certainly
the country cannot afford to maintain any
large class, of unemployed, educated idlers.
Surplusage of Graduates.
There seems nothing for It, then at
Jeast until the appreciation shown by the
commercial community for genuine
scholarship and pure culture becomes
more broadly and practically exhibited
but to discourage from entrance into pro
fessional life all but those who manifest
unusual aptitude for its pursuits. At the
same time it should be possible to culti
vate in the community a more reasonable
sentiment with respect to the uses of edu
cation, so that the college-bred man, or
even the post-graduate, would not neces
sarily assume that he must get his liv
ing a3 a teacher, preacher, writer, or lec
turer, but would feel that his education
was not lost If he retired from academic
halls to a farm, a machine shop, or a
store. If there is to be a surplusage of
graduates it will be better for all con
cerned if they are scattered around
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through a large variety of callings, where while land was out of sight. His spirits
their culture will contribute to the gen- I have been so high that once or twice the
eral well-being of society, while their sup- Duchess of Cornwall has mildly remon
port is secured by manual or clerical I strated. being told In reply that she mar
labors. The professions would In such a I Hed a sailor, and must put up with a
case fall as special prizes to the selected
few, perhaps after rigorous preliminary
competitions, and would finally be
manned on the principle of the survival
of the fittest.
The vast benefactions of a Carnegie and
the growing generosity of a Rockefeller
may well be hailed as auspicious omens
for the future of education in America
and Great Britain, and will greatly stimu
late the educational ambitions of the
youth of these two countries. This result
may properly be looked upon with deep
satisfaction, if only broad and sane views
be" also taken as to the future of the great
throngs about to emerge in the next de
cade from the colleges and universities.
"When the educated -man puts personal
culture before fame, practical duty be
fore selfish culture, and Is more careful
for the moralities than for the material
ities, there will surely be disclosed for him
a future that Is honorable If not famous,
abounding in rewards if not rich in em
oluments, and his career will mean a dis
tinct contribution to the intellectual
growth and moral well-being of the race.
UNCLE SAM, BOSS GARDENER
Truck Patch Brought $739,000,000
From Foreigners Last Year.
New York Journal.
"Washington. Frank H. Hitchcock,
chief of the foreign market section of the
Agricultural Department, has complied
statistics showing the distribution of the
agricultural exports of the United States
for the years 1S96-1000.
He shows that there were a dozen coun
tries In 1900 to each of which the United
States exported over $10,000,000 worth tit
domestic farm products.
The United Kingdom purchased JiOS.OOO,
000, and Germany $134,000,000 worth.
Our agricultural exports to the United
Kingdom were the largest on record, ex
cepting those of the extraordinary year
189S, when a value of $439,000,000 was at
tained. In our trade with Germany the
exports for 1900 were decidedly In excess
of any previously reported, and show an
Increase of nearly 100 per cent In the five
year period.
Next in order to the above-named coun
tries In 1900 were the following:
The- Netherlands, $52,000,000; these figures
being exceeded only In 1S99 by less than
$1,000,000.
France $45,000,000 and Belgium $33,000,000,
as against $31,000,000 in 1S95 to France and
$18,000,000 to Belgium the same year.
Italy, $24,000,000.
Canada, $21,000,000.
Japan, over $15,000,000.
Denmark, nearly $15,000,000.
Cuba, $14,000,000, as against $4,000,000 In
1896..
Spain. $10,500,000, a? against a trifle less
than $10,000,000 in 1S96.
British Africa, $10,300,000.
Exports ranging In value from $3,515,000
down went to more than a dozen different
countries.
Our total exports of domestic farm pro
duce to Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippine Islands in 1S0O had an aggre
gate value of over $20,000,000, a compared
with only $6,2CO,000 in 1S96.
South America was the only contingent
to which our agricultural exports for the
past five years show a decline from $11.
236.000 in 1S96 to $9,452,000 in 1900. The most
striking gain was In our exports to Asia,
rising from $5,735,000 in 1S96 to nearly $23,
000.000 In 1900.
The principal part of our agricultural
exports In 1900 found a market In Europe,
sales to European countries having an
aggregate value of $739,000,000.
With the exception of the phenomenal
year 1898, when they reached $762,000,000,
these figures are the largest on record.
In 1SS6 they were $503,000,000. To the vari
ous North American countries the exports
in 1900 wore $55,000,000, in 1S99 $58,000,000,
and In 189C $44.OCO.O00.
The Sailor Dake.
On land the Duke of Cornwall and York
has the reputation of being a somewhat
stiff and unapproachable Individual. This
is believed to be the result of nervousness,
for there Is nothing the Duke dreads more
than the ceremonies and speechmaking
which occupy a large portion of his time.
For this reason the Duke was delighPed
when it was arranged that he should
make a tour of the British colonies. Of
course, when he is on land, in the course
of his journey, he has to make, if any
thing, more speeches than usual, but
these occasions alternate with long periods
on the water, and t'hen, as his royal high
ness puts It, he can be "Jack afloat," in
stead of "Duke ashore."
On the Ophlr the Duke has become a
general favorite with officers, crew, corre
spondents and every one else. About
the first thing he did after the royal yacht
got under way was Vo inform those on
board that all "frills" were to bo dropped
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sailor's pranks. The Duke insisted on
being ducked in "Neptune's tub" when
crossing the line, and has made friends
with the whole ship's company from A
Bs up to the captain.
One of the sailors on the Ophlr became
ill soon after the voyage began, and the
Duke, learning of this, made Inquiries
about the old tar's condition every day.
The patient' did not Improve, and the Duke
then said he would go to "cheer the old
chap up." He returned again and again
to the sailor's bunk. One of the corre
spondents on the royal yacht peeped In
one day. and overheard a bit of the con
versation between the heir to the fhrone
and the ancient salt.
"Ah, your royal highness," the seaman
was saying gratefully, "to think that you
should spend your time talking to an old
sailor like me."
"None of that, my man." replied the
Duke, laughingly. "Sailors are always
good pals, aren't they? I'm a sailor, you
know, so you must look upon me as a
young salt coming to have a look at an
old salt. The doctor tells me you can
smoke. Here's something to puff away at."
"With that the Duke pulled out of his
pocket a big cake of tobacco, and joined
the Invalid in a pipe. "When the observer
went away, the "young salt" was talking
I away at a tremendous rate, and the "old
I salt" was roaring with laughter.
j.ne Ophlr has met with some very
rough weather since her voyage began.
and, like others on board, the Duke has
been seasick. One day he was reading the
published account of a storm which struck
the Ophlr, in which It was stated that
Mr. So-and-So had suffered from mal
demer; that! Captain Somebody Else had
been seasick, and that his royal high
ness, the Duke of Cornwall and York, had
been "slightly Indisposed."
" Humbug! " exclaimed the Duke.
" 'Slightly indisposed,' indeed! "Why didn't
they say that his royal highness had been
horribly seasick, and had spent the best
part of a day In a most undlcnlfled po
sition on his royal knees? .That would
have been vhe truth."
OWL AND A MINK.
And
Other Strange Visitors
for the Summer.
Come
New Orleans Picayune.
"There was an owl sat In a tree." That
Is what the little rhyme says. That was
what caused a great gathering of boys
and some older people at the corner of
Canal and Robertson streets yesterday
evening. The owl had gotten tired of the
swamp and of the kind of mice that are
to be caught there and decided to try a
few of the Civilized mice which abound
in the .city streets and back yard3. So
he flew Into the city by slow stages. How
long, he was coming, he had not said,
and he didn't even, say that he decided
to come, or why. but it Is evident that he
came, and it goes without saying that he
must have decided and come for soma
reason, and mice are about the only rea
son that can be ascribed to an owl, ex
cept those on the Grand Opera-House,
which were charged to Colonel Larendon.
When the owl got to Robertson and
Canal he stopped In a tree to rest, and
as there were not enough leaves to con
ceal him, some boy saw him. as boys are
always seeing things, and then the fun
began. The owl sat there blinking and
chattering and the boys were trying hard
to get him down, but he kept changing his
position and wouldn't come down, not
even at the sight of a river rat.
One boy climbed up to get the bird,
but by that time it was getting late
enough in th& evening, so that tho owl
could see to fly; and he chose another
tree, and the boys followed. But if they
ever got him it was later on.
The other night a minister walking on
Camp street, near Gravler, saw something
that looked like a rat, but wasn't. He
approached It. and It ran nimbly along
near the houses on the sidewalk and
got as far as. the Hlbernla Insurance Com
pany's office, when, the .preacher was
joined by some young men, who finally
caught the animal, which seemed quite
harmless and jovial, except that It tried)
to use its teeth and had to be taken by
the back of the neck. It was a mink.
Where It came from was as much a mys
tery as where the owl was going, for Its
story was not told to the police and
couldn't be gotten.
. .
Th total number of vessels passing through
the Suez Canal in 1900 was 3441, of whteh
1035 were British. 402 German. 233 French.
232 Dutch. 12B Austrian. 100 Kusslan. 82 Ital
ian. 03 Japanese. 34 Spanish. 23 Turkish. 30
Norwegian, 27 Danish. 22 American. 7 Bel
gian. 3 Portuguese. 2 Swedish. 2 Greek and 1
Argentine. The passengers numbered 232,000.
this being the highest number on record, ex
cept that of 180G.
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