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PAGE FOUR Tins morning astorian, Tuesday, june u, mm. Oe morning Hstorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY . ' ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. J. II. CARTER, -GENERAL' MANAGER RATES. By mail, per year Dy mail, per month .......... By carriers, per mouth ...... ...... ....... 0 00 i 50 CO THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 that of the secretary of the treasury, if indeed either is of a sort to attract anybody's envy. Whatever of achievement is to be credited to the exposition com pany so far must attach in largo measure to the per sonality of its president. If atany time within the next month or so the great enterprise shall fail to at tract sufficient obligations to the government and th secretary of the treasury, as provided in the act, shall feel called upon to talio charge of the show. President Francis would doubtless release his control and responsibility only too readily and the govern ment of the United States would bo in the show busi ness "for fair" during the next six months. That would be a delectable job for the Honorablo Leslie M. Shaw ! No wonder he is worried at "the absence of any stirring stories in the newspapers about the wonderful things to be seen at the fair." No wonder his telegram to President Francis ex pressed a wish that "something be done to arouse interest in the fair." It said, practically s "Come, get a move on you and boom this thing along, so as to save the treasury department from the necessity of taking the big show off your hands I Do some ad vertising! Let your press agents get busy I I must prefer to have you run this exposition yourself." And the thought will naturally suggest itself to CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE. The probability increases that, as we have al iva,li7 intmitv1 tiort Vfsr rill RPfl finft'nf the XftOSt important political controversies in France that the fven lait? showme hat 75. 8Pt nnH it, fnnntion. savs the ,n Judicious advertising two months ago would have kW VaA Tr!W Thw will eoneern nothing less "n 0 Business juugmem wan put than the complete separation of church and state and tta g e Mme "T1 f mney toto 8Ccident the abolition of the elaborate system of subventions prc ions relirious denominations. It is well known that That a vast Antarctic C0Btincnt ista P)P at the present time the French government con- twice as krge as that of Europe, is in the opinion of tributes to the support not only of the Roman Catho- a writer in the National Geographic Magazine lie church, but also of Protestant churches. Jewish proven by the reports now appearing of the recent ex r- , il . I synagogues ana lanomeian mosques, nnaer xne ai- pi0rations in that region. This writer says: "The rection of a minister of public worship. Under -this AlBCTicall Commander Wilkes, returning from the system tne government enjoys some advantages, irom . ' the supervision and control which it is thus enabled far S0Uth m l"1;." the existence of a vast - ... . 1 l 3 j. v? . to exercise over the churches and their work-for wulu wauuBUh uu uracnuea ms voyage n every clergyman is now practically a government 1,500 miles in sight of the coast Ross, however, re official and subject to the state. Nevertheless, there turning soon after, discredited Wilkes' conclusions, are many grave objections to the scheme, in practical saying that the land seen by Wilkes was merely a detail as well as on general principle. great wall of ice. The world has been in doubt which We printed in our Paris dispatches the other day to believe. That Ross was wrong and Wilkes right the text of the law which has been formulated for is very evident from the report of Captain Scott, of presentation to parliament in January .next It is the British Antarctic expedition of 1900-04. Cap- not to be understood that the government is commit-tain Scott shows that the mass of ice seen by Ross ted to the policy of bringing up the whole subject in is in reality an extensive glacier resting on land and January and of sonsidering the complete' separation covering the land like the ice cap of Greenland. The of church and state, the abolition of the ecclestical glacier is about 700 miles wide, and reaches the sea subsides and the abrogation of the concordat. There through a plain lying between Victoria Land and are the things provided to be done in the formulated J Edward VII. Land. The German expedition tinder i bill, to which is added the abolition of the ministry Von Drygalski, working 80 degrees of longitude of public works and of the embassy at the Vatican, farther west, also found a somewhat similar expanse From what has already occurred, it does not seem of ice capped land, whose limits they were unable to rash to expect that Dr. Combes and his colleagues trace, but which is apparently a part of the same will accept for adoption the proposed measure, or one Antarctic continent. much like it, and that they will be supported in sol ; , - doing by the chamber. In three cases the Dreyfus The German geographical paper known as Ex case, the contest with the religious orders and this port says that there are 7,642,650 Chinese living out latest clash with the Vatican the government has of China or,.in other words, "as many as the total unmistakably shown its spirit of independence of population of Sweden and Norway." According to clericalism and its desire to make as steadily and as Export's figures, America has comparatively few .fapidly as possible toward the ideal of a free church Chinese, only 272,829, a few less than the British in a free state. Beyond doubt, too, the chamber has island of, Hongkong alone boasts. Formosa has 2, shown a strong and increasingly strong disposition to 600,000, but that used to be Chinese, and they simply support that policy. ' haven't moved. Siam is the greatest goal of actual f "VVhat the French nation will say to such a pro- emigration, having 2,500,000 Chinese, who have ab- pbsal may also be forecast with some degree of as- sorbed pretty .much all the active trade of the coun- surance. It is a question whether it is, as a whole, try. In the Malay peninsula, also, 895,000 Chinese growing more or less religious. That it is growing have nearly monopolized trade under British rule, less ecclesiastical if the expression may Ue used-!is rhe Sunda isles , have 600,000. The Philippines, not to be doubted. The whole trend of thought has where the Chinese; are already a" problem, have only for years been toward independence of clerical in- 80,000 of them. fraence in political affairs and toward complete secu- - larkation of schools, army and the whole govern- It seems that at the battle of Nanshan hill the mental and social system. The alliance With Russia Japanese scouts learned that there were mines some and the approaehment with Great Britain, both popu- where along the base of the bill, although they could lar thinp, have promoted rather than impeded the not tell their exact location. Volunteers were called movement. For, while each of those powers main- for to discover the danger spots by marching over tains a state church, it is a purely domestic and na- the vicinity until they should be blown up by the tional church that it maintains, and it is thus quite exploding mines, and hundreds at once vounteered. free from external clerical influence. The French Greater heroism it is impossible to imagine even people want to enjoy the same freedom, so as to stand though a rainstorm uncovered the mines and made with their neighbors on equal -ground. It is within the grim sacrifice unnecessary their power to do so, and it seems probable that they I will do so, to their own advantage and to the real There are 190,227 professional beggers in Spain, benefit of all the churches. ' In some of the cities bectrflrs nr 1! tn I oc, . .-v --vvu.,vu vr MAftj, on their trade. Seeking alms is recognized as THE TROUBLES OF MR. SHAW. legitimate business, and the municipality demands a When St. Louis induced the United States gov- percentage upon the collections. Seville is the only ernment to loan it a large sum of money to assist the city in the kingdom which forbids beting in the fair most people congratulated the Missouri metrop- streets. ohs on having pull enough to get the money. But the - situation is not so pleasant, after all, as will be readi- Perhaps Mr. Bryan prefers the esteemed editor y discovered by the following editorial utterance of of the Commoner for president. the New York Commercial: - Secretary Shaw appears to be somewhat con- The Japs are capturing enough whiskers to start cerned about the ability of the St. Louis world s fair a mattress factory. management to pay back to the government in the j manner stipulated the $4,600,000 that it borrowed from the treasury through the authorization of con mi ' i tt 11 .i 1 l ft gress. The secretary nas oegun to "wane tne noor' a little early, it would seem, inasmuch as more than a week must elapse before the first instalment fromlcide idea, the gate receipts is due. No doubt, he is worrying much more than President Francis is and with reason. : . : The-latter 's position is far more enviable than JUST FOR INSTANCE. , Thi Tsls of ths Athlets. Onoe upon ft Time there was ft Youth who thought he was en Athlete, 11 luul grent Musotea nml ft Form like a Knby Klfhnnt. He Iho hud ft great Voice and was able to Suecetwfully Root for the Home Tenm. llwnuae h" Risked hla Coin In Rnh lieu the Home Team inmle him ft IMteher and when he ApiHwred In the Hox he looked like a Tounif Hippo ready to take ft Hh When he Whirled the Sphere In the Vicinity of the l'lttte he hud the Ac tion of a C1ftlle nit! After atruit irllng through an Inning he would Walk to the Mourner's llem h with the swag ger of a Victorious Caesar Crossing the Rubicon and looking for ft Dagger In the Muck. Then he went to the Coaching Lines and Proceeded to act about as Funny as ft Tombstone. His Reputation went afar and he was In vited by ft League Team to try out. He Tried and was put Out In short order. ' For.' said the Captain. "You are so Swift that the Rent of th Team are put In the Qloomy Shade and Threaten to Resign If you r Re tained!" e Portland Is called the Rose city probably because she rose to promi nence through the settlement of As toria! But with all her roses, she can't get over the bitterness of having to return that stolen historical tomb stone! e For Dugdale's Browns "In some dark hjdlng-plnce thou'lt crouch among the outcast and vile, and die accursed!" Attager tnht tuoba won? e For the small boy with the hidden bunch of crackers Only a few more days to wait! 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