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THE MOBNEXG OKEGOXIAS. THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1903. Entered at the Postofllce at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Br Mall (postage prepaid. In advance) Dallr. -with Sunday, per month ftXSj Dally, Sunday excepted, per year.-...-.. J-W Dally, with Sunday, per year S.w Sunday, per year 2.00 The weekly, per year l.K The Weekly, 3 months M To City Subscribers , Sally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.l&c Dally, per week, delivered, Sunday Included. 30c POSTAGE BATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper.. ........ 10 16 to 30-page paper .......... 2c 32 to 44-pago paper ...-..-...-3c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name ol any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription, or to any business matter should be addressed simply "Tbo Oregonlan." 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For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1012 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co., 130S Faraam street. For sale in Ogdcn by W. G. Kind, 114 25th street; Jas. H. Crockwell, 242 25th street. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South etreot. For sale in Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett House new stand. For tale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 003-912 Seventeenth street; Lou than & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth end Lawrence streets; A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODA3rS WEATHER Partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. CI deg.; minimum temperature, 45 deg.; precipitation, trace. rORTLAA'D, THURSDAY, JTUXB 4, 1003 TOWARD GOVBItXMEXT OW35ER. SHIP. Affairs In the United States are tend Ing unmistakably toward Government ownership of great business enter prises. This Is an end to be shunned; but It will not be avoided except by .positive and deliberate undertakings in an opposite direction. To drift Is sooner or later to embrace socialism. One thing that Is profoundly moving our society toward Government owner ship Is the strife between labor and capital. We have found no solution for these troubles except Government in terference as It was practiced by Presi dent Roosevelt in the anthracite affair a desperate resource, effective by sheer force of its boldness, but of doubtful value as a precedent On the other hand, in both Holland and Vic toria strikes have been brought to speedy ends by the mere assertion of authority exercised by the state oyer state-owned railroads. This result must operate powerfully to encourage the socialistic propaganda among cap! tallsts as well as among the masses. The Australian episode is especially pertinent, because of the close parallel afforded by Its form of government to our own. The Holland affair, like older experiences in Italy, illustrates the fu tillty of railroad strikes under govern xnent ownership in monarchies. But the doings In Australia prove that govern' ment ownership is equally fatal to sue cessful strikes in a democracy. Both the democrat Idea and the trades-union idea have gone very far in Australia. Conditions there are much like our own. The business world is not greatly con cerned about theories and principles. It would prefer Government ownership to industrial anarchy. It would prefer a dictator with peace and order to a republic rent Into discordant factions, incapable of enforcing the right of con tract. Another condition that tends power fully to harden our tendency toward Government ownership Isfound in our currency system. "We are unwisely committed to the idea that a circulat ing medium Is the proper contrivance and maintenance of government. Out of this comes our National banking sys tem, with the public debt as security for the notes. The natural way out of this error is through extinction of the Na tional debt and substitution of commer cial for Government paper to a scien tific banking currency. But as we ap proach thl3 natural turning-point in our monetary development, strenuous efforts are put forth to switch us off in an opposite direction and solidify our predilection for Government bank ing. These efforts take the form of a revised version of the Aldrlch bill, said to have been agreed upon by Senators Allison, Aldrlch and Spooner, retaining the provision for substituting other se curities for United States bonds as basis for bank notes. If the Govern ment should go on to acquire the rail road bonds of the country as collateral for the Nation's currency, the step to Government ownership would be al ways imminent and potentially sudden In the breaking-down of the old aver Blon to socialistic experiment and tend ency may be witnessed one-of the most impressive signs of the times. Govern ment ownership, with Its concomitants of uniformity and bureaucracy. Is to be deplored as a powerful deterrent of individual initiative. Yet, like other large human movements, It Is not an unmitigated evil. For one thing, we should have a return of the ablest minds to public life. Men like J. P. Morgan would not be trying to balk the legitimate purposes of the Government, but would be a part of the govern mental machinery. One reason why we find so many men of brilliant parts ar rayed In apparent antagonism to gov eminent is because false economics and popular support of brainless dema gogues have made public life unwel come to them, andjften actually hos tile to their legitimate ambitions. In the last "analysis, the difference be tween private ownership and public ownership Is rapidly becoming one of mere terms. Immense aggregations of credits, whether Government, railroad Insurance or industrial, are the Na tlon's savings. They are the accumu latlons of the people, in custody of trustees, directors or secretaries, passed on from generation to generation United States Steel, or Pennsylvania, or Northern Securities, or Equitable Life, are In a sense as truly the peo pie's as If their titles were nominally In the President's name. In what man ner the control and direction of the properties are delegated by investors to management is np the most impor tant thing in the world. .Government is. answerable chiefly and in -the long run almost for nothing else than for results. Private ownership Is only a means to the end of efficacious govern ment. Its course will be run the mo ment it is demonstrably Inferior in ef ficiency to something else. The mat ter Is superior to the form. PREVENTION OP FOREST FIRES. How to prevent forest fires will be the -subject of an entirely new investi gation by the National Forestry Bu reau during the coming Summer. Sci entific experts have already been sent out to inquire into and report on the demon whose unsparing tongue laps up annually from $25,000,000 to J50.000.000 worth of property that can 111 be spared from the country's domain. Corps are already at work in Michigan, "Wiscon sin and Minnesota, and others will be dispatched to the various regions where forest fires are practically sure to occur. Oregon aid Washington will not be omitted. Present scientific notions about .for est Area are vague and general, accord ing to Chief William L. HalL of the Division of Forest Extension. Hith erto forestry experts have waited until the fires were over before taking the field. This year the fires will be stud ied in full action. These Government agents will follow them as war cor respondents follow battles. Their re ports, it is believed, will form the basis of the first official scientific knowledge of these colossal pyrotechnics. Methods of protection will be careful ly considered. Fire lanes cleared space wide enough to halt fires are common enough in Europe, where they divide the great forests Into sections to any one of which a fire may be re stricted. In this country such protec tion has not been adopted on account of the expense. The lanes must be kept open and free from brush, and they offer firefighters excellent base line for operation. In some of our states rail way companies are required to keep wide clearings on either side of their tracks, such fire lanes generally extend ing the entire width of the right of way. but even this precaution Is limited to a few. localities. When the corps assigned to duty on the North Pacific Coast reach the scene of operations they will be met by no fine-spun theories. In our mountain forests of tall fir, spruce, "hemlock and cedar, with thick underbrush, the cause of rapid spread of fires such as de stroyed many lives and large property last year, is easily ascertainable. To check them after they have obtained headway Is Impossible with the few men who could be gathered in any one locality. There Is only one remedy ample pa trol. Good results have followed the patrol system in Government forest re serves where It has been In. operation the past five years. During this period there has been an absence of serious fires. One patrolman is assigned to a territory twelve miles square. States can aid the Federal Government by more stringent laws, and such action will be recommended by the Forestry Bureau. While the experts from Washington City are investigating and writing re ports. Oregon and Washington may aid themselves by applying the same moral code to careless campers, hunters, an glers and burners of slashings as cattle communities apply to stock thieves. Rude sentiment often works reform. There is too much uncleared land In the two North Pacific states. They would be far better off with more farms and less forest, but we do not wish again to go through the disastrous experience of last year. WHERE SnALL WE PUT THEM! Attention has frequently been called to the fact that the hotel accommoda tions of Portland are not more than sufficient for Its dally needs. This statement Is emphasized by the re marks of Mr. C. O. Sprenger, who Is here In the interest of the National Livestock Association, the annual con vention of which will be lield In this city next January. An event like that of the President's visit, the celebration of the Fourth of July, a political convention any event. Indeed, that temporarily increases the number to be lodged and fed to several hundred taxes the present hotel and restaurant facilities of the city tp the utmost. In fact, the limit Is closely pressed on any busy day, which under prevailing conditions of business and travel is every day, in the life of the city. This helng true, the question what we are going to do in the way of providing hotel accommodations for the hundreds that we hope to Induce to come here in 1905 claims attention, and, indeed, demanas solution. It may be said that this is but "repetition hammered on the ear"; that It Is not necessary, for the information of our citizens, to be told that Portland has entirely outgrown Its hotels. While this is true, It still seems to be necessary to take some measures to bring the "people who do things" to a realizing sense of the fact as stated. Possibly the voice of a stranger who is here Peeking In this line will be useful in arousing this interest It Is clearly necessary to act upon the knowledge in hand before the throngs of visitors that will be invited to come here in 1905 are at our doors politely asking or earnest ly clamoring to be shown to places where they can be comfortably lodged and fed. The National Livestock Association has accepted a cordial invitation to hold its annual meeting In Portland next January. There Is time enough, but none too much. In which to make room, literally speaking, for the delegates -of this association and their friends who desire to come here upon that occasion. The number who come will, we are told, depend largely upon the report of the number that can be comfortably housed during the sessions of the con vention. Assurances, backed by the be ginning of hotel construction upon an adequate scale, should be given at an early day that all who come can be.ac commodated. But it is not for this passing event that our hotel accommodations should be Increased. Nor yet is it solely In order that those who come on account of the Lewis and Clark Fair may be suitably entertained that hotel-bulldlng should be begun at once In this city. We are upon the threshold of a growth that has In It every promise of continu ance. The interest that is being awak ened in Oregon, and its development. Is not of the spasmodic type. There is no reason to suppose that it will be tran sient, but many reasons to believe that it represents a permanent and yearly increasing force. The hotels that should be built within -the next two years In Portland that must "be built If we are to make the most of the opportunities that we. have labored so Industriously to create, win represent a -permanent and paying Investment. To doubt this statement is to disclose a strange lack Of comprehension of the signs of the times as shown in the business and in dustrial activity everywhere manifest. Moreover, .such a doubt minimizes and discredits in advance the results of the Intelligent and strenuous forces that are at work for the material development of the state's abounding resources. DRONES IN COLLEGES. In these latter days, when the fierce searchlight of Inquiry Is turned on the value of college work by graduates who openly regret that their residence in col lege was so much wasted time, it Is In teresting to note an article by President David Starr Jordan, of Iceland Stan ford, Jr., University, published in the June number 6t the Popular Science Monthly. He says: The football tramp vanishes before "the work test. The wealthy boy takes his proper place when honest, democratic brain effort Is re quired of him. If he Is not a student, he will no longer pretend to be one and ought not to be In college. The rowdy, the mucker, the halr cuttlng. gate-lifting, cane-rushing Imbecile la never a. real student. He Is a earoln mas querading in cap and gown. The requirement of scholarship brings him to terms. If we In sist that our colleges shall not pretend to educate those who cannot or will not be edu cated, we shall have no trouble with the moral training of the students. Above all. In the West, where education is free, we should insist that free tuition means serious work, that education means opportunity, that the studen should do his part, and that the degree of the university should not be the seal of academic approbation of four years of idleness, rowdyism, profligacy or dissipation. These remarks necessarily and large ly apply to Eastern colleges, not to those In the West. Here our students are not drawn from the plutocratic class whose fathers are multi-millionaires, Up to quite recently, at least, there were students at Harvard, Tale and Pennsylvania whose rooms were filled with elaborate and expensive furniture, and whose bodily comforts were cared for by trained valets. They came to col lege, not for scholarship, but to obtain polish and social distinction. Never having been forced to work hard all their lives, they were generally men of splendid physique and great personal strength. They became football kings. and shone on the track, the gymnasium and- the river. They were Idlers, but they managed to graduate by the skin of their teeth. Not very long ago. In an Eastern col lege town, thirty of the students formed a theatrical society and gave a Greek play In one of the theaters. They worked for months at patient rehears als, and when the eventful evening came, rowdies in the gallery, masquer ading as students, Interrupted the per formance with catcalls and amused themselves by throwing moist paper pellets on women seated on the orches tra floor. Several of the young wom en's handsome costumes were ruined, but the affair was passed over It was only Innocent students having their customary fun. In the West college rowdies are out numbered by students who work hard and play hard. In the end. It does not mean that students must stop playing football or engaging In athletics. But they did not come to college for. these things alone. There Is a sane medium In everything. ROOSEVELT AND ARTHUR. The Brooklyn Eagle's Washington correspondent quotes ."a prominent Re publican politician, who has been on terms of intimacy with four Presidents and a power In his party for more than twenty years," as severely criticising President Roosevelt's action In request ing the Ohio state convention to Indorse him as Its candidate for the Presidency in 1904. This Republican politician quotes the fact that President Arthur's public Indorsement of his friend and Cabinet officer. Secretary Folger, for the nomination of Governor of the Em pire State resulted In the overwhelm Ing defeat of Folger on the plea pre ferred by Arthur's enemies that the President has violated the precedents of his party by daring tp Interfere In a matter pf state politics. The conclu sion reached by this Republican poli tician Is that "while the Presidents action will secure him the Republican nomination for President next year, he will be beaten at the polls." This Republican politician forgets that circumstances alter cases. Presi dent Arthur, when he succeeded Gar field, found himself heir to a nest of Republican hornets. He was a man of political tact and ability, and he did his best to handle the hornet's nest with out getting stung to death. The Re publican stalwarts, led by Roscoe Conk ling, and the Republican "halfbreeds led by Blaine, were irreconcllables, Possibly if Arthur had retained Blaine In his Cabinet, the quarrel might have been composed, but Conkllng's influence in New York State was too strong to be defied, so Arthur, who had been leader In the "stalwart" faction, re placed Blaine with Folger. From that time forward the Blaine Republicans under the leadership of Whltelaw Held of the Tribune, declared war on Ar thurs Administration. It made no practical difference what Arthur did or omitted to do, the Blaine' Republicans were determined to wreck the Conkllng Arthur faction at the first opportunity as necessary to secure the New Tork delegation for Blaine in 1884. When we consider how powerful a political In fluence was exercised by Blaine, how ferocious had been the Garfleld-Conk ling feud before Arthur became Presl dent. It Is easy to see that President Arthur's indorsement of Folger for Governor was nothing but a pretext for a party revolt. President Cleveland more than once publicly Indorsed the Tammany ticket in New Tork City without any -Injury to himself or his friends, and It is absurd to suppose the great Republican revolt of 1882 was due to President Arthur's indorsement of Secretary Folger for Governor. The revolt was in the air; everybody knew that the passionate denunciation by the New Tork Tribune of Conkllng and Arthur as responsible for the as sasslnatlon of Garfield, the defeat of Conkllng for re-election as Senator, meant a state of factional hatred that only needed a spark to force an explo sion. At the New Tork state conven tlon the stalwarts, led by Conkllng, and the "halfbreeds," led by Collector Rob ertson, stood glaring ferociously at each other, waiting for a pretext for conflict. Arthur's indorsement of Folger fur nished the pretext, but In any. event the stalwart nominee, whether person ally Indorsed by Arthur or not, was sure to be beaten by the "halfbreed' revolt, which was a part of the Blaine campaign tactics to beat Arthur for nomination in 18S4. President Roosevelt confronts no such situation as Arthur did In 1S8L If he did, his nomination -would be most im probable. President Roosevelt, when he oecame President by the murder or McKlnley, was not heir to a nest of Re publican political hornets. He was not , nominated as Vice-President as the representative of a discordant Republi can National Convention. The conven tion which renominated McKlnley by acclamation was cordially agreed In the support of Roosevelt for Vice-President, who had always been a warm supporter of President McKlnley. Garfield was a compromise candidate of, a National convention rent by long and bitter strife, and Arthur, as a prominent leader of the Grant-Conkllng stalwarts, was given the Vice-Presidency to help Garfield carry New York, but he and his faction were so personally odious to Blaine and to Garfield that there was no personal good feeling between them following the famous quarrel between Conkllng and Garfield, in which Arthur espoused the cause of Conkllng. The murder of Garfield made Conkllng and Arthur the target for most brutal and unjust abuse by the Blaine .faction; Ar thur tried In vain to placate his foes for the sake of political peace and tran quillity, but the quarrel had raged too long, the hate was too deep, the prize was too great and Mr. Blaine was too selfish to throw away a mean advan tage to earn a reputation for public magnanimity. Arthur was doomed to defeat for nomination in iS84 because. as we have said, he was heir to a nest of hornets. But Mr. Roosevelt was not an heir to a nest of hornets at all. He found his old-time personal friends, Elihu Root and John Hay, leaders in the Cabinet of the dead President; he found there his old-time superior in the Navy Department, Governor Long; he found himself in the house of friends. There had never been any feud between McKlnley and Roosevelt, for Roosevelt was among the first publicly to an nounce himself in. favor of McKInley's renomlnatlon, and McKlnley urged the nomination of Roosevelt as Vice-President. Under these circumstances, there Is not the slightest force In the compari son of Arthur's indorsement of Folger and the frank statement of President Roosevelt to Hanna that he wanted the nomination and would like Ohio to indorse him In her convention this year as New Tork did last year. Arthur was not beaten because of his frankness in saying that he would be glad to see his friend ,and Cabinet officer Governor ot New Tork. and Roosevelt will not suf fer for saying, man-fashion, to the Re publicans of Ohio that he would like to be elected President of the United States and would like Indorsement by the state convention on the merits of his Administration. Presidents are not made or unmade on questions of mere political etiquette. If you don't like a man, any cheap pretext will do upon which to damn him; but if you like the man, you will not reject him by his rev erence for or his indifference to political mannerisms and traditions. President Eliot, of Harvard Univer sity, in his analysis of Emerson's pro phetic teachings, says that Jn his lec ture on "Man, the Reformer," read be fore the Mechanics' Apprentices' Asso ciation in Boston in Jaunary, 1841, Em erson described In the clearest manner the approaching strife between laborers and employers, between rich and poor, and pointed out the cause of this strife In the selfishness, unkindness and mu tual distrust which ran through the community. He described also the ul timate remedy namely, the sentiment of love: "Love would put a new face on this weary old world. In which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long. . . The virtue of this principle in human society, in application to great Interests, Is obsolete and "forgotten. But one day all men will be lovers, and every calamity will be dissolved, lh the universal sunshine." President Eliot, on this passage from Emerson, makes this comment: It is more than CO years since those words were uttered, and in those years society has had large experience of Industrial and social strife, of Its causes and consequences and oC many attempts to remedy or soften It: but all this experience only goes to show that there Is but one remedy for these. Ills. It Is to be found In kindness, good fellowship and the affections. In Emerson's words. "We must be lovers, and at once the Impossible becomes possible." The world will wait long for this remedy, but there Is no other. It is a matter of congratulation that the distinguished Germans who are studying agriculture In the United States have come to us when Nature is at her best. Possibly they have elsewhere found richer soil than the deep alluvial of the Willamette Valley, and there Is one chance In a thousand that they may see finer wheatfields In Dakota or Minnesota than they will see in the valley of the Columbia, but it is dollars to doughnuts that they have not seen and will not see the beat of the Hood River strawberry. Our Teutonic vis itors may not be specially Interested In floriculture, but they will have stories to tell Kaiser Wllhelm when they get home about the Incomparable roses of Portland. The new automobile law In New Tork State requires a state license, at a cost of 51, to be carried on each machine. The rate of speed varies, and must not exceed eight miles an hour In a well settled part of a city, four jnlles in front of a schoolhouse, fifteen to twenty miles under specified circumstances in the country, and so on. The delegate sent to KIshlnef from Berlin by the German Jewish Aid So ciety reports the demolition of 700 houses, the sacking of 600 shops and the rendering hdmeless of 10,000. .persons. The killed numbered nearly 50, and the Injured were nearly 600. Whoever may have been responsible for the tangle In Oregon lleu-land -business, it Is to be hoped that the efforts to straighten the matter out will re sult as satisfactorily as possible to the state. The best outcome will be bad enough. Copies of an address in favor of the Hay-Herran treaty have been Issued by the thousands, it Is said, to be distrib uted to "all respectable and honorable men on the Isthmus." Isn't there dan ger that the first edition may remain on hand uncalled-for? Increase of Postmasters' salaries In twenty interior cities and towns of Ore gon, based on Increased postal receipts, is further evidence of steadily increas ing population. Senator Foster, of Gloucester, Is found not guilty, but censured, like Represen tative Montague Lessler. That Impor tant precedent, evidently, was not lost For an off year, the First Congres sional District of Oregon made a very excellent showing. MISAPPREHENSION AS TO JEWS St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If the murderous Jew-haters of Eastern and Southeastern Europe are capable of judging the effects of treating the race as men and brethren. Instead of harrying them with bloody persecution, they would be left without a reason except their own evil passions. Jews have long been enfranchised In the United States and England, without any dangerous or undesirable results. A man of Jewish birth has been Premier of England and ranks high as such historically. London has had Jewish Lord Mayors and their administrations were as good as any. Tap Jewish vote In the United States is well distributed according to the issues of the day. It is not a clannish vote. It could be made clannish by persecution, for self-defense is a law of nature. Jews are free In religious matters In the United States, as are all clawes of citizens, and nothing direful had happened on that ac count. A book was once published In Paris contending that the Jews would soon" ex ercise a despotic power In France through their acquisitive ability and various subletles In commerce, art, litera ture and the press. The prediction Is no nearer fulfillment than it was a quar ter of a century ago. Jews seek no converts, a act that limits their num bers to the birth rate. Their keenness In business la a part of race training. Other races are not less ambitious to succeed in business. The ratio of crime and des titution among the Jews is small. They are, of course, one of the world's most strongly individualized types. Treating them well has worked to the entire sat isfaction of enlightened countries. Equal rights have not spoiled them. On the contrary, political equality is as well sus tained by them as by any other race. The Jew 'baiting In Europe Is a form of nendlshnwc arising from Ignorance and a false, cruel leadership. Bryan's Big Mistake. Harper's Weekly. - Did Colonel W. J. Bryan make a mistake when he undertook to edit the Commoner? It is evident that the assumption of the editorial function brought with It a strAng temptation to dUcues not only public questions, but also conspicuous poll ticlans, especially those who might be put forward as candidates for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. For the moat self-controlled and sober-minded iman It would have been difficult to resist that temptation. For a man of Mr. Bry an's ardent temperament It has proved Impossible. Instead of confining himself strictly to the advocacy of the political" ana politico-economical Ideas, the triumph of which he deems essential to the wel fare of the country, he has devoted much of his space, and most of his energy, to a more or lets acrid criticism of "individ uals. The result of this course has been thnt his influence, which, even after the failure of his second attempt to gain the Presidency, was still considerable in some sections of the republic, has undergone an astonishing shrinkage, and Is threat ened with entire eclipse. In many quar ters where he was regarded three years ago as a kind of prophet, he is now be ginning to bo denounced .as a dog in the manger and a common scold. An Atlantic Ocean Graveyard. McCIure's. The most Important headland In the world Is Cape Race, the southeastern ex tremity of Newfoundland. It has also most unenviable notoriety. Some of the most terrible tragedies In marine annals have occurred on this rugged, dangerous foreshore. An official chart shows the dis asters there during the last forty years. Together with some not inscribed thereon they represent a total of ninety-four com plete wrecks of ocean-going vessels steamers and sailors involving a loss of about 2000 lives and J30.000.000 in hulls and cargoes. Ships which stranded and afterward escaped are not included. Last year alone eight steam and two sailing vessels came to grief there, 35 persons per ished and a property loss of 12,000,000 was Involved. Unpaid Money Orders. New York Press. Every "year thousands of drawn money orders are not paid. In England last year the postofllce department realized from this source nearly 5500,000. Under the British iaw money not claimed reverts to tho government after one year has elapsed. Under our laws or postofllce regulations (the same thing) a money or der is regarded as an obligation of the Government, to be honored whenever pre sented. Notwithstanding, unclaimed money orders and postal notes on hand October 16, 190O, amounted to $2,250,000. Invalid advices amount to about $5,000 a month, or $GO,000 a year. CLEVELAND AND HIS B003I. Don't bother News. Grover. He's' fishing. Buffalo Grover has said what he didn't want, but what he does want be keeps burled in his bosom. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Colonel Wattersoa and Bryan notice with alarm that Mr. Cleveland Is not denying the soft Impeachment. Pittsburg Dispatch. Nor would it be surprising If this talk about a Cleveland nomination made Mr. Bryan's H50 heifer give curdled milk. Hartford Post. It is trufe that General Grant was unable to obtain a third verm, but Grant weighed only about half as much as Cleveland. Kansas City Journal. v Mr. Cleveland says he's not desirous of a nomination, but alas I our personal desires do not always appertain these days. New York Evening Telegram. If Jt Is true that Plerpont Morgan la back of the Cleveland boom Bryan ought to be sat isfied that It will be a cheap money campa'n. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Cleveland has no desire to run again for the Presidency. He has been out mixing ""scith the people merely to gratify a long- expressed desire to be sociable. Salt Lake Tribune. Whatever It may be, doing to the effete Democracy of the East, the Cleveland boom Is dsplaying no pernicious or any other kind of activity among the Democrats of the West. Anaconda Standard. Now It Is practically certain that ex-Presl-dent Cleveland will be a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1004. He has been telling the newspaper men how much he thinks of them. Salt Lake Herald. It Is hinted that some very prominent Re publicans are secretly encouraging the Grover Cleveland Presidential boom. They see plenty of room in bis great expanse of neck exposure for another hideous gash. Denver Post. It Is about time forsorae one to refer to the "page of ancient history which records the fact that when Mr. Cleveland was first nom inated he declared himself emphatically op posed to a second term. However, that did not Interfere with his accepting two subse quent nominations. Washington Post. Dictionary Citation of Socialism. The ethics of Socialism are identical with the ethics of Christianity. Encyclopedia Brl tannlca. The abolition of that Individual action on which modern societies depend, and the sub stitution of a regulated system of co-operative action. Imperial DlcUonary. A theory of society that advocates & more precise, orderly and harmonious arrangement ot the Eoclal-rel&tlons of mankind than that which has hitherto prevailed. Webster. A science of reconstructing society on en tirely fcew basts, by substituting the prin ciple of association for that of competition In every branch of Industry. Worcester's Dic tionary. Any theory or systenv of local organization which would abolish entirely or in "greater part, the Individual effort and competition on which modern society rests, and substitute co-operation; would Introduce a more perfect and equal dlstributon 'of the products of labor, and would mako land and capital, as the In struments ot production, the Joint possession of the community. Century Dictionary, The citizens of a large union. Industrially organized, have reached their happiness when the producing, distributing and other activities are ruch that each citizen finds in them a place for all his energies and apUtudes, whlle-hS obtains the means of satisfying" all of bis de tire. Herbert Spencer. SHE MAKES IT. PAY. INDLVNAPOLIS. Ind. An entirely new phase of the story ot the refusal of Lula Spence, the chambermaid, to make tne, bed that bad been occupied by Booker T. Washington has been presented by Heary W. Lawrence, proprietor of tho English and Iew Claypool Hotels. He declared that the public, the South especially. Is being humbugged by the woman, and that ne can prove what he says. "I have hesitated about making a reply In the newspapers to the story the Spence woman Is telling about being discharged because she refused to make washing- ton's bed." said he. "But I have con cluded the time has come to, call a halt on It. The papers of the South especially have taken up her side and have criti cised the management of the English for taking Washington as a guest. I was not in Indianapolis when he registered, but I know that many of the best hotels have entertained him. ' "So far as the Spence woman being dis charged because she refused to. make his bed, there Is not a word of truth Jn that. She knew she was to be discharged, any how, for an infringement of the rules, as the housekeeper told her so during my absence. She left on that account. More over, she did make Washington's bed aft er the first night he was there, and after she found he had been In the room talking to a reporter while she was at work, she told another chambermaid that Washing ton was there, and that he knew a lot more than most white people. I can get an affidavit to prove that she made this statement, so she is just playing on" the sympathy of the Southern people In a shrewd manner." Mr. Lawrence is preparing to give the woman's story a thorough airing. He says the Southern papers have been re ferring to her as a young girl, whereas she Is a woman of about 40, who has been married three times, and who has three children living. Some of" the Southern papers. In criticising- the management of the hotel for entertaining Washington, have given it a poltlcal coloring, but Mr. Lawrence says so far as that feature is concerned, he Is a Democrat, regardless of the fact that Washington was his guest. Miss Spence received a handsome gold watch and chain from unknown Indianap olis admirers today. She was also notified today that a purse of $500 is being made up for her at Houston, Tex. Her husband, with whom she has not lived for some time, brought suit for di vorce, and today the Board of Children's Guardians asked Judge Stubbs, of the Juvenile Court, for possession of their adopted child. Our Cosmopolitan Metropolis, Brooklyn Eagle. New York Is more cosmopolitan today than any other city in tho world. It is not American, in the sense that Boston and Denver are American; It Is German, Swedish. Irish. Russian. Hebrew, French, Italian, Greek, Syrian, negro, yet the speech of the Englishman, the food and clothes and ways of the Englishman pertain as they do In London. And If it lacks a trifle of the population to bring it to the rank of London, it is hard to be lleve that as a city of business It" holds other than the first place In the world. Its exchanges buy and sell $200,000,000 In materials and securities a day. Its real estate Is appraised at a billion and a half. It has the finest hotels and dining-rooms in the world. There are no better thea ters, except in Paris, and only one there. Its parks and boulevards are beautiful and spacious. Nowhere are bigger and finer shops and better appointed offices, Its railroads reach Into territory that the Dutchman never heard of. It sends its troods to the Pategonians and Philistines. It wipes its feet on the products of the looms of Persia, flounts on Its head the feathers of the bird of paradise. The fruits of the tropics are oh its table, and It washes down Its meals with the finest vintages of France. Arbitrate. From President Roosevelt's Speech at Aberdeen. S. D., April 7. Much of our effort in reference to labor matters should be by every device and ex pedient to try to secure a constantly bet ter understanding between employer and employe. Everything possible should.be done to Increase the sympathy and fel low feeling between them, and every chance taken to allow each to look at all questions, especially at questions In dis pute, through the other's .eyes. If met with a sincere desire to act fairly by one another, and if there Is, furthermore, power by each to appreciate the other's standpoint, the chance for trouble Is min imized. T suppose every thinking man re joices when, by mediation or arbitration. it proves possible to settle troubles in time to avert suffering and bitterness caused by strikes. Moreover, a conciliation committee can do best work when the trouble is in its beginning, or at least has not come to a head. When the break actually has oc curred damage has been done, and each side feels sore and angry, and It Is diffi cult to get them together difficult to make either forget Its own wrongs and re member the rights of the other. Salisbury's Ausent-MIndednesa. Baltimore Sun. Lord Salisbury, formerly Prime Minis ter of Great Britain, is no respecter of persons In his moments of absent-mindedness. A London dispatch states that King Edward had an unusual experience recently with the distinguished statesman and diplomatist. It appears that to Lord Salisbury an audience had been given by His Majesty. During a lull In the conver sation he lapsed into one of his spells of absent-mlndednessL On a table close to His Lordship was a portrait of the King. Ho took it up, gazed at it long and crit ically, and then remarked: "Poor old duf fer; I wo'nder if he is as stupid as he looks." Edward Is not a "duffer," and he doesn't look "stupid." So, of course, there was no sting In Lord Salisbury's observation. Still, His Lordship would not be a very congenial companion for a monarch who was sensitive and suspi cious. Such a monarch would surely think there was method in his noble sub ject's absence of mind. Imagine Lord Salisbury in one of his dreamy spells and "thinking aloud" In the language of lese majeste In the presence of Kaiser Wll helm or Governor Pennypacker, of Penn sylvanla. A Quinine Dream. St. Louts Post-Dispatch. Eighty elephants In a line Watch a turkey made of pine Hang a bag ot roasted peanuts to a string cf cotton twine. Then came a boy whose name was -Billy. Fed a monkey with a lily. While the monkey's younger brother looked unusually silly. When Tumi Tumi Turn! Went the girl with pepsin gum. A man who uses metaphor Insisted he should pet her for The wayward absent lover who would never, never, come. Then the public square curled up ' And an epileptic pup Went blinking and to drinking something yel low from a cup. Then a deaconcaught a tartar. Tied him firmly with a garter To a patent Ice cream freezer where ha per ished like a martyr. When B:ngl Bang! Bang! Like an old revolver rang A man whose name was Galloway Obstructing a dark alleyway Was scared so bad he ran and talked a quaa tlty of slang. Then a huckleberry pie Bade his relatives good-bye As a spotted Norman dray horse wiped the moisture from his eye. Soon a gloomy roan named Purdy Started up a hurdy-gurdy While a chap o nineteen Winters called freckled female "Birdie." When Boom! Boom! Boom! Came a gloaming through the gloom. A voice that enr.ed auxiliary To shotgun and distillery. And seemingly constructed- of concussion and perfume. NOTE AND COMMENT. "Miss Ware will now tell how It hap pened. Br'er Cleveland is not a dark horse. Ha is a dark elephant. The annual crop of green apples and foolish boys Is about ripe. The reports regarding the fire at Hull must have got the second letter of the name changed. The report that- our Blnger waa pros trated when he received the news of his election Is probably without foundation. The happy wife Is now selecting her Summer outing place, and the hapless hubby Is wondering how he's ever going to foot the bills. About the only place where a. scandal has not broken out lately Is- among the prisoners at the State Penitentiary; and one may be expected there any minute. A writer In the Chicago News summar izes the seven ambitions of man's life time as follows: 1. To be a street railway conductor. 2. To be- a professional ball player. 3. To be able to lick the school principal. 4. To marry the smartest girl In tfrc class. 5. To be President of the United States. 6. To make a decent living. T. To keep out of the poorhouse. It Is strange to think that tho actors In the Inferno scenes In "Dante," which Sir Henry Irving has produced In London, suffer principally from cold. The fire la a wonderful illusion, and the method by which it Is produced makes tho stageof Drury Lane Theater very drafty. Many of the actors caught cold during the re hearsals, and the sufferers on the stags have been heird to sneeze In their fiery graves. How much time does a woman spend before her looking-glass? A German with true Teutonic patience has set himself to answer this trivial question with scien tific accuracy. He estimates that a girl of 6 to 10 spends an average of seven min utes a day before the mirror; from 10 to 15. a quarter of an hour Is consumed 'dally, and from 15 to 0, 22 minutes. Ladies from 20 to 25 occupy 25 tnlnutes; from that age to 30 they are at least half an hour at their toilet. Thence, he al leges, there Is a decline. David Belasco, the dramatist, rarely goes to see one of his plays after it has been accepted by the public This Is be cause he Is never satisfied with his work. Not long ago he violated his rule and sat through two acts of one of his plays In Boston. That same night he began tear ing it to pieces, rewriting scenes and so changing it that but for the vigorous pro test of the star and company In general, he would have turned It into a new play almost entirely. Auber, the composer, was a victim of the same weakness. Mrs. Grant W. Chamberlain, of Arizona. Is a wonderful horsewoman and very skillful In a round-up. She can handle a lariat as good as a man. Using a 50-yard rope, Mrs. Chamberlain can capture a racing broncho with astounding certainty and ease. In a stampede she is as cool a3 the-best, and few are quicker and surer with the rope than she. She dresses for her work in a blouse and bloomers, and rides astride. Born In Michigan, Mrs. Chamberlain has spent the' last eight years In the West. Her husband has been coaching her in the work for years, but some of the most remarkable swings she. invented herself. According to a tale circulated In New York, the Green Room Club was the scene of a big poker game, beginning last Sat urday night and ending Monday morning. A well-known theatrical manager Is said to have dropped his season's winnings of $21,000 to a popular comedian now appear ing on Broadway. Both men are noted poker-players, and have at various times figured In sensational games. An author and a playwright were In the game, but dropped out In time for church Sunday morning. Then the comedian suggested freeze-out for $1000 a side. The manage: assented, and when the game concluded, he handed the comedian a check for $21, 000. . Here Is a story that General Miles once told on himself: "It was during our pur suit of Chief Joseph," said the General. "One exceedingly stormy night we en countered on our march in the Bearpaw mountains a few woodchoppers' cabins. The woodsmen were not inclined to be very hospitable, but we finally Induced them to share with us the protection their huts afforded. They consented, however, only upon condition that they should not under any circumstances be compelled to give up their beds. It fell to my lot to share the bunk of the boss. a very stern frlshman. who was not de lighted with his guest. Hoping to estab lish an entente cordlale, I said, banter lngly. a3 we were preparing to retire! 'Como now, Patrick; you know you'd b a long time In Ireland before you'd get a chance to sleep with a general. 'And It's Ol that am thinking,' he Instantly re torted, 'that you'd be a long time in Ire land before yu'd-lver be made a glneral. " PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGRAPHGRI Fosdlck Russia believes in the open door In Manchuria. Keedlck Tes. she is holding the door open for England to go out.Llfe. "Did ho marry for money?" "Tes." "And did he get it?" "He did. I understand she makes him a cash allowance of $2.50 a week." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I say, Jones," said Smith, "what did you give for that horse?" "My note," replied Jones. "Well," rejoined Smith, "yoa certainly got a bargain." Chicago Daily News. "Margaret. I think you cheapen yourself by going so much to the theater with Mr. Jones." "No, mother; on the contrary, I'm making myself very dear." Harvard Lampoon. "I see there is a strong, prospect of a Shakes peare revival." "Tes, I noticed there ara three brands of whhjky named after him. and four kinds of cheap cigars." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Look here! This bill for that automobile I sold you has been rtkinlng for over a year now." "Let her run I want fo have some thing connected with my automobile that will run for over a half-hour without stopping." Judge. "My new play is sure to make a hit." ald the eminent actress. "It gives roe an oppor tunity to show 20 superb gowns." "Graclousl how many scenes do you appear InT" "Onlj five, but one of them's a scene at the dress maker's. Philadelphia, Press. Harry I wish somebody would give m $100,000! Uncle George Don't you think It rather stupid to be waiting your time In vale wishes? Harry Guess you are right. Uncle George. I might just as well have wished foi a million. Boston Transcript. "What Is there that's free here?" asked the friend of tee summer resort hotel keeper. "S shl" returned the latter. "Don't speak So loud. There's nothing here that's free. The guests think- the view l3 but, as a matter of fact, 1 charge that in the board." Chicago Evening Post. Farmer Hornlhajid (reading the markets) Pity th' President didn't hev no more luck when he was a'huntln' down there in Mls slsslpy Mrs. Horolhand-f-Wtiy. Silas? Farmer Homlhand Hain't you been a-readln' how th' bears Is playn yiroaeh with th cottoa crop. .Baltimore American. t