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Hot sale In Omaha by -Barlcalow Brot, 1612 Faraea street; Mege&th Statlosery Ca 1803 FaB&m street. For sale in Ogaen by W". G. Kind. 11 23th street; Jae. E. Crocfcwell, 242 25th street. JSor'sale in Salt Lake by the Salt-Lake News Co., 77 West Second South street. bt sale in Washington. D. C. by tho-Ebbeii But sews stand. For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Keadrick, 803-912 Seventeenth street; Louthaa it Jackson Book & Statlosery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAT'S WEATHER Partly cloudy, prob ably preceded by showers during the forenoon. Warmer during the afternoon. "Westerly winds, veering to northwest. TESTERDAi-B WEATHER Maximum.tem perature, 61 deg.; minimum temperature, -46-leg.; precipitation, 0.01 Inch. POItTXiAAD, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1003. JTHB TRUSTS AGAIXST1 ROCSEVELT. Mortal offense has been given by Theodore Ttoosevelt to the trust mag nates of the United States. It Is cer tain they intend to use. their power to beat;himr if possible, for the nomination next year; or. that failing, to defeat his re-election. The trusts are unwill ing to accept any check or limitation upon thejr right and power to do as they wilL Against the mere thought of control' toy law or government they are in open and scornful rebellion. "Last October President Roosevelt took it on himself to enforce the coal masters to agree to an Inquiry into the grounds of difference between them selves and their employes. In taking this course the President bad behind him a weight of public opinion which the coal masters, arrogant as they were, durst not defy. The result was an accommodation between the con tending parties, instead of the conquest which the coal masters had in view. Work was resumed, coal was again supplied, and riots were averted. But the Interposition was an act that rankles in the hearts of all devoteesof plutocratic power. Offense as deep was-given again -when the President attacked the merger of the great railroads combined under the Northern Securities Company, and, tak ing proceedings under the Sherman law, carried through the Circuit Court of the United States a suit which re sulted in the decision that the merger is alike in contravention of public pol icy and of law. Believing themselves above law and public opinion, and claiming the right to do as they chose, without control, the trusts feel that they have been outraged by this man; an din consequence there is instinctive combination of the trusts of the coun try against htm. On this subject they affect no con cealment. They are concerting an ef fort to "down" Theodore Roosevelt The gentry of the trusts are not par tisans or parts men. They have no politics. Like Croker, they are "for their pockets every time." But If they don't want Hoosevelt, neither do they want Bryan. They want a man who can be entirely depended, on for his de votion to plutocracy and "vested rights." In every part of the .country they are- giving it out that the "unrest of labor at the present time is due to Theodore Roosevelt. All the demands of labor and all the strikes are conse quences of the action be has taken dur ing the past year. He has converted a docile working people into-a tumultary mob, striking for "rights He has un dermined the muniments of capital, .and has spread throughout the country the dangerous notion that men of property and of monetary power haven't the right to do absolutely what they will with their own. It Is their idea that great wealth has the right to be above law and above public control; yet hero is a man, holding the-office-of President of the United States, who calls that ideaMn question! But can the trusts beat him? Can they prevent his renomlnatlon? It is on this point that they will concentrate their effort, believing it would be eas ier to defeat him in the convention than before the people. Upon the delega tions from the Southern States, among whom there is little representative re sponsibility In Republican conventions, they will make essay; and with these they will try to combine every element of political and plutocratic opposition in the North. The trusts will supply the money and hire the workers. This Is no mere supposition. It is absolutely certain that the trusts of the country will engage in political combl-. nation for defeat of Theodore Roose velt. But his only danger if any dan gerwill be in the convention. Before the people he cannot be beaten; and trust support of an opponent before the people would bear that opponent down and assure Roosevelt's election. The attention of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is called to the fact that the eight American ships which have been lying idle on Puget Sound for so many months were all chartered in a bunch last week to load lumber for Australia. Strange as It may seem, no subsidy has been granted to this fleet of ancient lumber droghers, and they are sailing on their merits. They are also going into the "foreign trade" In competition with the fleets of the world. Incidental ly It might be noted that there are still several British ships lying Idle on Puget Sound, because their owners are unwill ing to accept rates which the owners of American, ships-are satisfied with. The under charter conveyed "but ener infer ence, and that was that never again conld these vessels leave their moor ings until a shipping: subsidy bill -was passed or every foreign ship was ban ished from the ocean. The theory re mains as pretty as ever when not ex posed to the light, but the fact see ma rine news regarding lumber charters. THE REFERENDUM IS ALL RIGHT. Men. and brethren let us be calm. It Is not the referendum's fault. Let us not demonstrate our insanity In Its adoption by lunacy in Its denunciation. If we are, as we profess, reasoning beings, shall we not forbear to surge in ovine blindness and confusion for a thing one year and against it the next, without reflection and obedient solely to the fancy or fear of the moment? If a man sits down on a carpet tack to the distress of his person, shall we therefore forbid all proper use of that serviceable invention and sprawl forever on slippery floors after the' manner of our barbarian ancestors? Because some few gifted idiots poison themselves with alcohol, shall we there fore deny ourselves that versatile ar ticle of commerce, with which, mon sieur, your office furniture is made to glisten, and by whose aid, madame, your altogether admirable features are preserved to your posterity? There is a great outers' against the referendum, but the worst that can be truthfully said- about it is that it is being perverted, or that men are seek ing to pervert it, from its natural and Intended use This Is true; but because an Instrument is misused Is not In itself an adequate argument for Its abolition. "The blame is to be apportioned among those whp are concocting the mischief, and not laid at the Innocent door. No man in Oregon is more respon sible for the referendum amendment than W. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City. He Bays that the law putting the referen dum into operation does not take effect until May 21, and consequently the ref erendum itself does not go Into effect until that time. This is also the opin ion of "Lawyer," who, writing In The Sunday Oregonian of May 17, attempts to show that the acts against which the referendum Is sought to be Invoked go Into effect without regard to the refer endum. Mr. U'Ren also regrets ex ceedingly that the first invocation of the amendment should be from a palp able minority against a popular desire, rather than, as was Intended, a meas ure of self-protection by the majority against improper legislation by a mis guided Legislature. This attitude of the authors of the referendum should be borne in mind. It may serve to show some discontented ones that the amendment is all right in itself,, and not responsible for Its actual or contem plated abuse. The referendum is the same In 1903 that it was in 1902 and in 1900. If it was right then, it Is right now; and the present stampede away from it Is a bitter commentary on the thoughtless ness with which it was then embraced. The fact is, now as then, that It Is an admirable safeguard In the people's hands against unwise and improper legislation. It is written in the consti tution, and there t will doubtless re main. It may upon occasion be of in calculable benefit. It is incapable of harm unless wrongfully applied. It is like any other device or institution of free government facile for good In the hands of the wise, boundless for evil in the hands of fools. What is the matter with us, anyhow? Because the law says we can defeat im proper laws, does that Impel us to null ify good laws, following like a flock of sheep at the nod and beck of the first brainless scamp or reckless roustabout that starts a senseless yawp in pique or in the corrupt pay of some corpora tion? If we have become so feeble and spiritless and inane that; we can't re fuse to sign every fool petition that Is thrust under our noses, why, then we are fitted no longer for the elective franchise, but for the home for incur ables, the slavedriver and a Czar. (POSITION OP WHEAT IN UNITED STATES. Too much rain in Kansas, an- insuffi ciency In Dakota and the Hessian fly and the chinch bug preparing for an active campaign at various points in the Middle West have served to offset all of the bearlshness of the May Gov ernment report on the wheat crop, and In spite of a slight weakness at the close yesterday quotations are near the top for the season. The wheat market at the present time is more at the mercy of the weather than at any other period, but there is another factor of great importance in the situation at this time, and that 13 the certainty that the United States will have reserves down to a very low ebb by the time the new crop 13 ready for harvest. Al though exports for the season to date have fallen much below those for a cor responding date last year, they are still quite heavy, and with the European market in its present condition will continue so up to the end of the sea son. Statistics are usuallydry readlng, but those touching on the 1902 wheat crop and Its distribution are particularly in teresting at this time, when undue in fluence is apt to be credited to the com ing crop, which as yet is a very un certain factor. The crop of 1902 is gen erally placed at 670,000,000 bushels, al though some excellent trade authorities make it 20,000.000 bushels less. With the consumption at 44 bushels per cap ita, and making no allowance for feed ing to stock, S80,000-,000 bushels will be required by the American people. The shipments to foreign countries for the flrst nine months of the season were (flour included) 151,011,948 bushels, or about 20,000,000 bushels less than for th esame period last season. If the same ratio is maintained for the remainder of the season, and ship ments now Indicate that there will be no decline, exports for the twelve months ending June 30 will reach a total of 201,000,000 bushels. The amount required for seed for the 1902 crop was given out by the Government as 72, 000.000 bushels. This year there is an increase in Winter wheat acreage alone of 5,000,000 acres, so it is probable that at least 80,000,000 bushels were used for seeding and reseedlng. The amounts thus required for ex port, home consumption and seeding reach a total of 660,000,000 bushels, or within 10,000,000 bushels of the total crop. Naturally, this 10,000,000 bushels does not represent all of the wheat that will remain in the country. If it did, dollar wheat would be cheap before the new crop arrives, but it serves to show that a crop which was a very close third to the largest on record has "been reduced to- remarkably small propor tions, with the export -demand below amoan OOOOCUbushels. were exported, and after iJtuviuiujr xor xeeo, ana nome. consump tion -there remained- a arry-over of 17, 000,00 bushes. Considering the size of the crop, thera-was nothing depressing in the dimensions of this surplus from the 1901 crop, and last year at this time the July option in Chicago sold up t& 764 cents, or 3 cents higher than the highest point reached this year. There is always a considerable amount of wheat held over from sea son to season by well-to-do farmers, re gardless of prices. This was particu larly noticeable in the Spring of 1S98, when Lelter forced wheat up above 1 per bushel. It is impossible to ascertain just what proportion of the crop Is held over under such circumstances, but in Oregon alone It amounted to several hundred thousand bushels during the Lelter year. It Is accordingly l-eason-able to suppose that the class f farm ers who are not moved to sell when wheat touches a dollar will be still more averse to selling at present com paratively low prices, especially as they are more Independent financially than they have been at any period in the last ten years. These holdings will take care of a considerable portion of the "theoretical" surplus of the 1901 crop. The term "theoretical" is used ad visedly, for while a reduction for home consumption, seeding and exports from the 748,000,000-bushel crop of that year would still leave nominally 67,000,000 bushels, some of this has undoubtedly been used for feeding stock, destroyed by fires or in other ways eliminated from the situation. Admitting, how ever, that it was all on-hand, this coun try Would still be In a very strong po sition if anything should happen to cut the growing crop down so that the out turn should fall below that of the phe nomenal yields of the past two years. A record-breaking crop in 1901, followed by one nearly as large last year, has not served to pile up any heavy re serves of wheat in this country. A crop like that of 1899 or 1900 would this year cause a more general scraping of bins than has been noticeable since the Spring-of 1898. METHOD IN RUSSOPHOBTA. It is the belief of the acute and well informed -Minneapolis Tribune that all this hullaballoo about Russian aggres sion in Manchuria and a necessary al liance for us with Great Britain and Japan is the product of certain forces upon the lower end of Manhattan Island, which would like nothing better than an American entanglement with England, with the consequent embar rassment to the Administration and the political fortunes of Theodore Roosevelt. It Is curious, says the Tribune, that the proposed British alliance should be pre dicted with confidence by some New York papers, and that the Idea should have been seized upon -with such avid ity by representatives of certain inter ests. New York is the only place in the world where Roosevelt Is unpopu lar. It Is pretty certain that the coun try never will consent to an English al liance; but "just consider how It would console great financial interests for the disappointment If strenuous champion ship of such an alliance by Roosevelt were to cause him to be driven from public life." Russophobla, it must be remembered, is not new in the United States; but it may easily have been availed of by the wily politicians and financiers who are undoubtedly casting about in despera tion for weapons with which to defeat Mr. Roosevelt's renomlnatlon. And a curious corroborative incident is the sudden interest of the New York Sun in the alleged Presidential captivation with "the Iowa Idea" on the tariff. The Sun is nothing if not hidebound protection; but It is cheerfully exploit ing the Cummins-Allison tariff-reform legend; and as its main object in life just now is to serve the Wall-street plutocrats in their desire to encompass Mr. Roosevelt's humiliation, no one should be shocked to find in that an tipathy the explanation, not only of our recrudescent Russophobla, but also of the movement to persuade Pennsylva nia, Connecticut and New Jersey Re publicans that their protective tariffs are in jeopardy from the Administra tion's tariff vagaries. There is another aspect of this re nascent Russophobla, which we could wish had never arisen, but which can not honestly be blinked; and that is the color which is Innocently or design edly sought to be given to the Admin istration's course concerning the Kishl nef outrages. The excesses are not to be denied or explained away; but nei ther are the instructions and the meas ures, preventive and punitive, of the Russian government. Outrages occur under every race and nation, our own being no exception. We massacre blacksin the South, and Chinese at the North. Italians are murdered In Lou isiana, and Hungarians in Pennsylva nia, but we do not relish foreign impre cations upon the head of our President for all that. The Administration will endeavor to do its duty in the matter of the Jewish persecutions; and mean while fair-minded men should be care ful how they minister to the desire of New York politicians to drive the Ad ministration Into diplomatic acts which may be complained of for effect. We should be wary of those whose scarce concealed purpose it Is to attribute to President Roosevelt an anti-Semitic prejudice, and array against him the Influential Hebrews of New York and other states. UNIQUE POLITICS. Bryan's latest movement preparatory to next year's campaign is Interesting, but it is not half-way ingenious. Through his faithful friend and polit ical ally, Richard L. Metcalfe, editor of the Omaha World-Herald, he propounds a list of questions to Cleveland through Cleveland's faithful friend, Norman E. Mack, editor of the Buffalo Times, and New York's member of the Democratic National Committee. Bryan wishes to know whether it is possible to make a platform upon which the Gold and Sil ver Democrats can stand together in next year's campaign, and then asks Cleveland to suggest the planks. With, charming naivete Bryan's man asks whether It will satisfy Cleveland if all reference to the money question is omitted. He repeats a lot of familiar sophistry concerning bimetallsm, but does not hint at the free coinage of sil ver at a ratio pf 16 to 1 the vital issue of 1896 warmed over In 1900. Summing up the matters of -difference between the .two wings, Bryan's man asks: How many of their principles .must Demo crats surrender, permanently or temporarily, in order to avoid incurring tho hostility of men who during two Presidential campaigns deserted the party with which they claimed allegiance and gave -open and-boastful aid to the enemy? Assuming-that Editor -Metcalfe- asks accept any tutxrorm will be agreeable to Cleveland. He In sists on the advocacy of no.slngle prin ciple that was so dear tobim in two disastrous National, campaigns. Then he asks straightforwardly whether any man who In good faith supported the platforms of 18W and 1908 te now eligible for President, and Adds, signlficantiy: "While it may be well to win back the impenitent prodigal sons. It is some what important to remember that the convictions of the faithful boys who remained at home are not entirely un worthy of consideration." Adjustment of differences between rival party leaders through the agency of open letters written by their lieu tenants each to the other, and widely published, presents a unique exploit iii American politics. Cleveland's answer will be eagerly looked for, and it will occasion no surprise if he says, 'There is nothing to arbitrate." STORY OF RING RULE. In the current number of McClure's Magazine, Mr. Steffens, who so graph ically described the looting of St. Louis, tells the story of the robbing of the treasury of Pittsburg under the Flinn Magee ring of that city. This ring had an agreement with Quay whereby leg islation favoring the ring was assured In return for support by the members from Allegheny County for Quay's schemes In the state. The Flinn-Magee ring seems to have been Identical in scope with the old-time Tweed ring of New York City, save that the Pittsburg municipal robbers had a deal more na tive brains and acquired intelligence. They were neither so clumsy In their operations nor so reckless of discovery, arrest and punishment. They distrib uted valuable franchises which they obtained through Quay's legislative support; they kept water rents out rageously high because a private con cern which they owned could not charge a higher rate than the city. They placed public funds in pet banks and left them without interest while the city borrowed money from the same banks at high rates. They sold a slot-machine concession that was worth to them 5250,000 a year. Places where liquor was Illegally sold and disorderly houses were owned and leased by the ring. Rents were exor bitant. Furniture had to be purchased from the "official" dealer at three times Its value. All liquor supplies were bought only from the "official" bottler at double prices. This was the old Tammany trick; it was Garvey the plasterer, Philbln the plumber, over again, but while it was the old trick, it was far more skillfully executed; no legal line of discovery was left. No signatures were forgedj the tracks of the theft were not easily followed, as they were in the operations of taie Tweed ring. The Inmates of disorderly houses were forced to buy their cloth ing of the agents of the ring, always paying twice the cost. In this way Pittsburg was systematically robbed by the ring without the observation or knowledge of the taxpayers until Ma gee quarreled with Quay, just as Tweed quarreled with Sheriff O'Brien, Just as the grafters of Minneapolis and St. Louis quarreled among themselves. Then the truth of the old proverb that "When rogues fall out honest men get their dues" was proved anew. The fight between Quay and Magee gave the Municipal League Its opportunity. Ma gee set out to kill Quay politically, and Quay at once retaliated by legislating "to stop the use of money for the cor ruption of our'cltles." Magee counted out the "Reform" ticket In Pittsburg, but Quay held tho Legislature, pushed a reform charter for Pittsburg to Its second reading, se cured his re-election to the Senate, and then dropped the reform charter. Then the Fllnn-Magee ring remained in power until FHnn qliarreled with his director of public works and turned him out of office. The revolt and revenge of this expelled official defeated the ring, with the help of Quay,, who again want ed to be Senator, but with the help of Governor Stone the ring was restored to full control under a charter which in creased their power. Then the city re volted and the ring was beaten by the Citizens party in the election of Febru ary, 1902. Then Thomas Scott Bigelow organized a new ring and captured the city government, and today the real re formers say, "We-have smashed a ring, and now we have wound another around us; now we have got to smash that" an experience, by the way, on which Pittsburg has no patent. In the First District, the voters, who are to elect a Representative In Con gress the first Monday In June, are ap parently Indifferent and apathetic Re publicans take it that, of course, Her mann will be elected. So they are list less. Democrats know that the district is Republican, and think, consequently, that it's not worth while to bother about It, But there is a loud cry of Democratic politicians, who are telling their party followers that, as Repub licans are apparently careless or Indif ferent, if they the Democrats will come out, they may elect their candi date. This is a hopeful sign of the can vass. Democratic activity Is the sure way to bring the Republican voters out. It Is yet nearly two weeks till the election. The more active the Demo crats, the less likely will the Republi cans be to let the election go by de fault The Republicans of the First District want a Republican Representa tive. But the Democratic campaign managers hope that Republicans, think ing Hermann will be elected anyway, will not come out and vote. This is the sole hope of those who are supporting Reames. Republicans should make a note of it and get out and vote. If they want a Republican Representative in Congress, the rational thing to do Is to get out and vote for him. You are not to expect a result without use of the means necessary to produce It, The railroad strike in Victoria, a state of Australia, is an object of present in terest, because the railroads there are owned and operated by the state gov ernment. The Dutch government a few weeks ago met a strike of this sort with severe legislation, which Is not possible in Australia. If strikes cannot be ban ished from railroads owned by the gov ernment, the argument for state owner ship is perceptibly weakened. It Is estimated by the New York City Board of Health that the population of the metropolis has Increased by .250,000 In the three years since the last census the Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn each taking 90,000 of the in crease. If this estimate is correct, New York"l3 now a city of 3,6S7,00Q souls. North Powdar Clt-xesu ' - As to the Bddy corporation, imw. it it becoming- more evident that the law will not b, repealed, as, the better the -tax payers feecorae acquainted with It tbe bet ter they like it. Obatractlea Its Chief Service. Spray Courier. If the referendum amendment were be fore the people now for ratification it would fare quite differently from what it did last year. So far it has proven to be a very successful hindrance to needed legislation. And Still It Xlvea. Pendleton Tribune. The President hasn't heard much of the Iowa Idea on his Western trip. It was gobbled up by Bryan on tho west, knocked cold by Spooncr on the north, sent back homo by Cannon on the east and It was out of the question for it to cross Mis souri and be Republican stilL, This- Is Almost Personal, Mora Observer. We are greatly pleased that the Port land Board of Trade has concluded to co operate with the old reliable Observer to pour water into his hold and drown that miserable KODher Cowclll out. No leakv buckets are needed, eo apply to Max M. Shfilock for the right stuff. Chamber of Commerce building, Portland. Wait Till the 3Iossbacfc Die. Tillamook Independent. There Is nothing certain, even yet, about the Lewis and Clark Centennial. It seems. Well, the country wag here before Lewis and Clark were born, and the probabilities are that it will remain another hundred years, and then (the mossbacks. Initiative and referendum, and a whole lot of other pests will be dead) we can have a blow out. Employers More Scared Than Hart. Lowiston Tribune. If the.Jabor bodies are so unreasonable and tyrranlcal in their strikes for better pay and shorter hours. It seems a llttlo queer that after they have gained their concessions through much travail and controversy the employers no longer com plain that the terms are harsh and ruin ous, but everyone seems satisfied and happy- over the outcome. Oregon's Dlucovcry. Seattle Post-IntelUjrencer. Oregon has now discovered what the initiative and referendum means; namely. Lthat it Is always a dead letter unless somebody wants to use Jt for imnroper purposes. Ordinarily the people take not the slightest notice of it, and you cannot get them to come out when the refer endum is asked for. In other cases it is elmply used as a club by one set of in fluences to coerce others. The Only Great. Olympia Recorder. Seattle- and Tacoma are camly announc ing to the earth and the inhabitants thereof that they are the whole show and that when the President comes his visit to other cities won't count- This is a silly exhibition of self-complacency. Long before Roosevelt reaches either of these cities he will have been received as -the honored guest of tho city of Olympia, tho capital. City and Country United. , Athena Press. Tho Portland Board of Trade gives a sounding slap to Webfoot mossbacks and the wildcat mining manipulators of Baker Count. In the resolutions offered with loyalty to the portage road and to East ern Oregon Interests the true story of tho proposition to Invoke the referendum is laid bare. These resolutions are pub lished in today's Press, and their sting ing effect will be pushed, homo by all newspapers who have tho welfare of Ore gon at heart. Systems In Contrast. Seattle Post-Intelllgencer. Tho Harrlman syndicate, which controls the transportation lines in Oregon, has inherited the original Huntington tra dition, which looks to make the largest immediate profit out of present business; while the railroads which terminate on Puget Sound have the wiser and more modern Idea of building up the tributary country with an eye to futuro business and futuro profits, rather than the ex torting of the largest rates which tho traffic will bear out of existing business. Thinly It Sees Progress. Boise Statesman. An institution that aids in such a sub stantlal manner in elevating the colored people of the South Is certainly deserving of all tho assistance that can be ex tended, and the fact that, white people there are eo willing to testify to the usefulness of the school Indicates that we are making progress toward a tlmo when full freedom of opportunity will be ac corded to the colored race to be freely taken advantage of by any of Its mem bers who have the energy and ability necessary for their own uplifting. A Popular Form of Corrardlce. Aberdeen Bulletin. If there be one individual who yearns for a cause to start that has not yet been launched let him go forth with an antl-petltlon-slgning crusade and Induce men to foreswear petitions whose purpose they do not understand and approve. Our forefathers bled and died for the right of petition and we, their children, have so degraded the power of petition by sign ing almost everj- old paper that comes along that petitions now go to the waste baskets" without Inspection and exert no more influence In affairs than whistling down the wind. No man should eign a petition whose purpose he would not be willing to sanction by affidavit. Has Colonel Ilofer Moved? Eugene Register. Such glorious music greets many of U3 but seldom In a lifetime, and those who were fortunate enough to be present and drink from the fountain of musical Inspi ration shall ever after declare that they were amply repaid, in fact, money could not buy the joy, pleasure and genuine satisfaction garnered by the lovers of tho best the world of music has produced. What a much more glorious world this would be if there were less of frowns and more of song and laughter In It, How brighter tho eye, more elastic the step, greater joy of living if the knocking of sweet melodies and rippling, merry laugh found oftener welcome in the heart and -soul. On-Smoking; at Funerals. Astoria Astorian. During a recent funeral a gentleman unquestionably such In attendance was seen .smoking a cigar. The effect on ob servers was very much as If he were taking any other sort of refreshment eating peanuts, peeling an apple or mas ticating a piece of pie. The incident Is not noticed In relation to funeral pro prietors, but to raise the question as to whether general and Indiscriminate smok ing has not carelessly become something of a nuisance, which should be regulated bythe polite Instincts of the smoker if not otherwise. If a man needs such re freshment, medicine, stimulant or what ever It may be called, should not man ners dictate that he use It as he does his other refreshments in the privacy of his own home or in the places especially provided for the purpose? It cannot be charged that smokers in general are in tentionally indifferent to the rights of others to whom their cigarette or to bacco fumes are offensive or nauseating, but the fact seems to be that the habit becomes In time so much of a second nature that it is indulged in often un consciously of tho- comforts and tastes of others. ta erTfie sTtattrtirts o country is th New yorfcvSyn. lt devo tion to t tne tnists eo-W cause Jt to hold J up Braver Clrtelsnd the Son's "stuffed prophet" of- former days as an example ut am ning-. contrast to Theodore- ftsose velt. A specimen of this sort of work is preeeMed in the folio-wing article, from a recent issue of the. Sun: Aboufthe politics! weight of Kr. Cleveland's presest cuspaiga for President there Is. as Is natural, a conflict of views. Of the signifi cance or It without the- Held of Conflict there can. be no question, or disagreement. The call for Cleveland is a notification to the coun to ot the kind of President that is wanted, since certain Qualities now for good and substan tial reasons specifically desirable in the Exec utiTe are popularly- believed to be found In the only living- ex-President In fuller quantity and higher quality than in any contemporary public man. Cleveland Is wanted because he la looked upon as governed by an Impartial and imper turable devotion, to Justice, as the law defines It, between man and man, and as this Gov ernment, la suppos'ed to preserve and admin ister It. Most American people believe that Cleveland as President could not be run away with by any organized group of voters against whom any state in the Union had felt the ne cessity of passing a law to prUect lta own dignity and Its own mllltla. With ouch Chief Magistrates goes that general confidence in equal rights which is Inseparable from Na tional health and happiness. If the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt should con scientiously reflect upon the peculiar charac ter of the phase of Clevelandlsm that la now flourishing, the result might in tbchlgbeet and widest degree be beneficial. Each, One to His Opportunities. New Tork Evening Post. President Roosevelt Is certainly a fear less reformer. Yesterday he attacked one of our darllrrg sins when he asked to have the cards of visitors torn down from tho big trees of California. With a rude hand he has slammed In the faces of millions of our worthiest clti-, zens their only door of hope of fame. The few thousand Americans whose, names appear in "Who's Who" may sit, secure, like- the gods of Olympus, un shaken by tho concussion: but what of the submerged nine-tenths? For yeara they have been sticking their cards on the big trees, backing their initials on every accessible piece of wood within two miles of Niagara Falls, and tolling up Mount Washington with stone-chisels and mallets, thrilled by -visions of a glo rious immortality. These honest people cannot go traveling about the country In special trains, they are not enter tained by governors and aldermen; they are not asked to deliver addresses on the tariff, the strenuous life, and race sui cide; they cannot even write histories of the West. Cut off from these simple but exhilarating methods of Impressing their personality upon tho world, they turn in desperation to the big trees and to the bald rocky crown of Mount Washington. If President Koosevelt himself were in their place he would not meekly con tent himself with rearing a patriarchal family and then Joining tho choir invisi ble. Such a craven surrender to fate cannot be expected of men with iron in their blood. An Anglo-French. Alliance. Boston Herald. A close union, based upon common need3 and interests, between England and France Is by no means an Impossible, as It Is far from being an undesirable, dip lomatic agreerrrent. Apart from the un certain alliance which France has with Russia, both countries are to quite a 'de gree In isolation. They both find in Ger many a power whose interests In various parts of tho world appear to be antagonis tic to their own. While an alliance be tween Franco and England might not guarantee the peace of Europe, It would at least tend to safeguard to a great de gree the large colonial nossessinn.q hlrt by each of tho two parties to the agree ment, bo many reasons make for an agreement upon diplomatic policy between France and England that, it it for the French alliance with Russia, it couia do connaently predicted that such an agreement would como into existence within the next few years, and It Is not impossible that, In spite of the Russian compact, or perhaps In defiance of it, such an agreement will bo consummated! England Xot Yet Poverty-Stricken. Philadelphia Ledger. If any one has entertained the idea that Great "Britain had been impover ished by .the South African war he will need to revise his opinion. In view of the popular subscriptions to the Transvaal loan. Not only are the offers of the bankers sufficient to cover tho loan many times over, but It is said that the indi vidual subscriptions not exceeding 100 will more than make up the whole amount. This Is the most Interesting feature of the whole transaction, since It indicates more distinctly than the large offers of the bankers the wealth that Is widely diffused among the people. The interest on this new loan is higher than has been usual, which will account for tho eager "fft.0, sma11 lnves-ors, but the success of the loan Is not the less significant of tho financial strength of tho country. A Sing Sing: Singularity. Phllnrtoln-hlo -vri. . , " . ' American. When the inmates.of a state prlson-boy- w"ij"iuu oecause. as they allege. hla Conduct is nnr fnnclcff w.v. niiu iub pro- fesslons. outsiders may well rub their " uowiiuennent at the topsy-turvl-ness of conventional ideas involved In the situation. That Is the state of affairs In Sing Sing. The convicts refuse to dis cuss religious topics with the chaplain and are restrained with difficulty from hissing him in chapel. They ask that he be ordered to keep away from tho cells of condemned murderers, because It is al leged that he Is cruel to his young daugh ter. Tho tender-hearted murderers want nothing to do with any one capable of such reprehensible behavior. The Old and the Kerr. James Montague in New Tork Journal. .Thefeprlevo of a tainal hy telephone at Sing Sing the other day Just as he was about to be electrocuted has suggested the differ ence between that sort of thing todaV and as. it existed In the times made famous in the Waverly Novels. e 1403. Fltz-Wtlllam. benda his haughty neck above- the dripping block. Prepared to feel it cleft In twain in one enarp, sudden shock. When suddenly comes thundering across the echoing moat A cavalier with cries of "Stay!' exudta from his throat; With saber flashing through the air-he meets the gleaming ax When of Its pallid, prostrate prey but half an inch it lacks. "What hoi" observes the cavalier, triumph antly, "I bring Good news for him reposing there, a pardon from the King."' 1903. Bill Bally sits uneasily wiUuVtha. fatal chair A third-rail clamped against his feet, another j on his hair: The purring dynamo sings soft, an eizzllng sparks Illume , The dim and clammy atmosphere that fills the fearful room; But Just a half a second ere the button can be pressed, And William, willy-nilly, can proceed to do the rest. The telephone bell tinkles, and a voice ex claims: "Hello Bill Bally's been commuted, bo shut down that dynamo I" Ohl poetry, dust-trampled; ohl crashed and dead romance. In these progressive, modern, times you neve?. get a chance. For -what could Walter Scott have done, had he been forced to write. "The King tcok down the telephone and-sald Don't kill that knlghtr Electric light shines not through dreams, and on the telephone We can't call up the visions that our boy hood days have known. Te gleaming spear, the flashlog blade, the -waring plume, at last Go noddinc, down tha.ee rriors thaV-Jead" but to the-psst. It is understood that Mr. Morgan has plans under way for the. merging of Eu rope. The action of tie Washington Fish Commissioner seerns to have been a trifle scaly, , Mr. Harrlman is better. It's wonder ful how quickly he recovered after he got out of reach of the Utah law. At a big bullfight at Madrid yester day the bull broke loose and killed 12 people. Mayb'o the sport doesn't seem so funny now. , Notices in Portland street-cars instruct passengers to keep their seats until the car stops. Few of us can ever obey the lnjunc'tlon, for few of us ever havo any seats to keep. It requires the patience of Job 'J.. 1 To reside on this tiresome globe. , The Mayor of Boise would ride. By the President's side. But tho seat Is pre-empted" by Xoe. The slimmest "skyscraper" In the world Is to be bullded In New Tork. It will be 17 stories high and only 46x26 feet on the ground floor. Strangers in the city may mistake it for an obelisk. . A man .in Esopus. N. Y., the homo of Judge Alton Parker, was asked by a cor respondent why the people are so devoted to him. The neighbor replied with more force than elegance: "Because he never shoots off his mouth." Secretary Root set New Tork to buzzing with this "new Joke," which he used in addressing theLotus Club, but which is regarded as venerable on the Orpheum circuit: "Is your wife entertaining this Winter?" "Not very." The Minnesota Board of Pardon3 con tends that Cole Younger's book is "too sensational-," yet Mr. Younger took des perate chances with his reputation for truth and veracity In making tho blcg raphy as docile as it is. Oh Weather .Man up in your towner so high Please have the white flag ready. In tplte of the wind and the clouds in the sky Pray give us good weather for Teddy. Though the air Is damp, and the mud is deea And the lowering clouds look leady. On that little white flag your weather eya keep. And let it blow- In the breeze for Teddy. A good story comes from Ellensburg about two young ladles who became Im bued with a desire to go driving one aft ernoon lately. They went to a local livery stable and asked for a gentle horse, as they wanted to drive into the country a few miles. The man In charge gave them one, and told them that the horse would bo all right If they kept the rein from his .tall. When they returned he asked them If they had any trouble. "Oh, no." said one. "It did sprinkle some, but we had an umbrella, and we took turns at holding it oven the horse's tall so that not a drop of rain touched it, and we got along all right. liord Wemyss has tho unique distinc tion of being the - only man who ever struck the present King of England. It happened during a debate in the House of Lords, when the King, then Prince of Wales, occupied a seat In front of Lord Wemyss, who was speaking with a great deal of animation. While emphasizing a point he brought his fist down on top of the Prince's ellk hat with such force that the hat was smashed in and pushed down over the eyes of the royal listener. Apologies followed. The Prince remarked that he appreciated the force of Lord Wemyss's remarks and then moved out of range of the Lord's energetic arm. Prospective Xlne of aiarch for-iho Presidential Procession. The parade will form at the Union De pot, and after making a flying wedge across Gllsan-street to. avoid tho trucks and dray3 it will move up Seventh street, weaving in serpentine fashion In and out among the barrels and other obstruc tions. On reaching Washington-street tho line of march will lead to First street, whero the President will review the parade from a stand on the roof of the palatial Jacob Kamm building, which will be brilliantly Illuminated. The water front will then be visited, so that the President can see what a fine town this-would be. ifdt were not for the firebug. A rapid march will be made to -South-Portland, where tho procession, after donning diving suits and life preservers, will take a drive on the Macadam Road (mud canal), returning to the City Park by way of Goose Hollow. After inspect ing what Is left pf the reservoirs, the members will wander down- Washington street and across the Alder-street bridge in wire cables. The Intersection of Six teenth and Washington streets will bo crossed on a bridge of boats, kept ia position by the flreboat. The. President will then enter tho maze of lower Washington street, and: If he comes out alive, he will be taken across the river and suspended from the middle of an- elevated roadway near tho oil tanks, which will be exploded at the proper time. If.hestands all the attend ant shocks to this march, he will bo deemed sufficiently hardened to visit Se attle and Tacoma. pleAsaktries of PARAGRAPHERS He The fact Is that you women make fools of the men. She Sometimes perhaps; but sometimes wo don't have to. Bostaon Tran script. Mrs. Bargain Oh. Ethel! I have Just talked Edward into giving me the money for a new hat. Mr. Bargain Which I ehall enter in my accounts as "hush money." Town and Coun try. "I suppoee that if you marry my daughter you will expect me to pay your debts?" "Shouldn't think of putting you to eo much trouble," answered Earlle Byrd. "You can give me the money and I'll pey 'em myself." Washington Star. "I really think you ought to go to church with mo once In a while," she urged. "My dear," replied the wljy man, "my good fortune makes that entirely unnecessary. I have a wife who is good enough for two," Chicago Evening Post. "What does the expert mean when he says, there is no character la Clark's handwrit ing?" inquired the seeker after knowledge. "He means," replied the man who knew, "that every character is legibly formed." Philadelphia Press. Angry voice (from top of stairway) Ve rena. what did you let him in for? Tou know -we don't allow canvassers here! Strange voice (In hallway below) I am getting names for the bluebook, ma'am. Changed voice Verena, show the gentleman info the parlor. Til bo down In a moment. Chicago Tribune. "Grow old along with me." "The lady who has written you such a delightful letter against the deprecatory use of the word 'fem inine,' writes a correspondent, "would, I am sure, he glad to hear a story which I cama upon lately. A distinguished statesman had made rather a fool of himself, a fact which reflection made rlalnly evident to himself. T am, afraid. he said to an ancient Iuche3s of his acquaintance, 'on reading my speech, that I am breaking . down- and- becoming an old woman 'Oh! is that alir said tho Duchess, 'when f" read your speech 1 was afraid you -were becoming aa old. ,' " Iondor Daily -Newsv