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6 THE MORNING OEEGONIAK, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1903. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Oregon, as second-das matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Hall (postage prepaid. In advance)c Dally, with Sunday, per month.. ...... ..0.85 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year . . 7.50 Dally, with Sunday, per year . 9 00 Sunday, per year 2.00 The weekly, per year 1.50 The Weekly. S months SO To City Subscribers Dally, per "week, delivered. Sunday excepted.l3c Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.20c ' POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 20 to 14-page paper ... lc 16 to SO-page paper ... -.2c 52 to 4-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 of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription, or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business Office, 43. 44, 45. 47. 48. 49 Tribune building. New York City: 510-11-12 Tribune building. Chicago: the S. C. Beckwltb Special Agency, Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Lee, Pal ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros.. 235 Butter street; F. TV. Pitts. 1008 Market street: J. K. Cooper Co., 746 Market street, near the Palace Hotel: Foster & Orear. Ferry news stand; Frank Scott, SO Ellis street, and N. Wheatley. S13 Mission street. For sale in Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 260 South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 805 South Spring street. For sale In Kansas City. Mo., by Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald. 63 Washington street. For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co., 1303 Farnam street. For sale In Ogden by W. G. Kind. 114 25th street: J as. H. Crockwell. 242 25th street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South etreeu For sale In Washington. D. C.. by the Ebbett House new stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 800-812 "Seventeenth street: Louthan : Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth smd Lawrence streets; A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TESTERD AY S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 07; minimum temperature, 35; pre cipitation, .09 of an Inch. TODAY'S WEATHER Generally fair; warmer; westerly winds. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, .TUXE 23, 1003 WHEAT'S STRONG POSITION. wheat went up with a rush in the Eastern markets yesterday, both .the July and September options touching the highest point of the season, and the net gain for the day on July was 1 cents per bushel. Some of this rapid advance was perhaps due to the high speculative fever, which at present is not being cooled In stock speculations, but the most of it is due to perfectly natural conditions. Everything in the statistical line yesterday was of a bull Ish character. The world's shipments were over 1,500,000 bushels smaller than on the week previous. Quantities on passage increased 2,000,000 bushels, and the American visible showed a decrease of nearly 2,000.000 bushels, and Is now down to about 18,50d,000 bushels, com pared with 17,225,)00 bushels In 1898, when the Letter boom was on. These are conditions outside of the present crop prospects, and the latter are anything but satisfactory, not only to the United States, but in most of the wheat countries of the Old World, The Argentine is still shipping large quantities of the surplus of one of the largest crops on record, and, aside from the United States, has been the great est factor In keeping world's shipments up to unusually heavy figures for this season of the year. There was a heavy decline yesterday in Russian, Danub- lan and Indian shipments, and those of the United States and Canada were also much smaller than for the week previous. Stocks are small in nearly all of the world's markets, a fact in dicated not only by the figures them selves, but by the premium that Is paid for spot wheat over the distant dellv eries. This strong situation for spot wheat seems to warrant the belief that a revision Is due on some of the the oretical estimates as to the stocks, ex pected distribution and consumption of wheat. 1 Perhaps consumption has made more rapid gains on production than ,we have been crediting. A theoretical estimate of the amount of wheat that would be consumed by 80,000,000 Americans in ayear when dis tress stalked through the land and hun dreds of thousands of idle men were fed at the souphouses would not ac curately fit the case in these days of high wages and plenty of work. It Is also probable that wheatgrowers In other parts of the United States besides Oregon have discovered that there is more money in feeding wheat to stock than in selling it at the average prices that have prevailed for the past three years. When the Government estimate of wheat reserves in farmers' hands ap peared in March It was pointed out that the figures were so moderate that a general scraping of bins might be necessary before $he new crop was available. They have not yet begun scraping the bins, but the new crop is farther away proportionately to the eeason than it was In March, and July wheat has advanced from 69 cents In March to 784 cents yesterday. There may be some slight recessions from the high point, as the advance has been very rapid, but anything like a bad-weather scare throughout the Middle West would send wheat nearer to the dollar mark than it has been since Xielter took a turn at the mar ket. The present advance and the ex cellent prospect for its continuance Will be very gratifying to the wheat growers of "the Pacific Northwest, for their crops In many localities have been cut down by unfavorable weather to such an extent that materially high er prices tiro needed to equalize the d&m&ge. RETROSPECTIVE. Th9 fatal asterisk of death has been set against another name familiar in the working political annals of the ter ritorial era. Captain Joseph Sloan died In Salem, Sunday, at the age of 79 years His name recalls the time when the Oregon Penitentiary was located in this city, he being at that time Its su perintendent. Governor Curry, who was the personal and political friend of Captain Sloan, and C A. Pickett, his brother-in-law, who was keeper of the prison, have both long since passed eway. The penitentiary was a sort of go-as-you-please Institution in those days. The few inmates, with ball-and-chaln attachments, worked now and then in small gangs about the streets, with Pickett as guard. Charity Lamb, the first woman convicted of a crime in Oregon, came out weekly to wash and scrub for the superintendent's wife in their little three-room house on Front street a few blocks north of the old penitentiary building. That was forty six years ago. There were no street improvements in Portland to speak of it thzt Ime. -F,ront street 'being full of great blackened stumps, and Third street quite out In the country. The remaining .few who remember Joseph Sloan in those days will recall at the mention of his name a quiet, gentle manly man, who went about his bus! ness faithfully and unostentatiously, al belt with the serene temper of the man who' Is conscious of a sustaining hand at political headquarters. Oregon was distinctively Democratic in those old territorial days. From Governor Curry, courtly, urbane and dignified, whose political title was duly attested by Franklin Pierce, President of the United States, to General Joseph Lane, who had long represented the territory In Congress, and Asahel Bush, who dictated the party's policy through the Oregon Statesman, down through the minor territorial officers and the majority of the Legislature all were Democrats of the aggressive antebellum type. But few of the men who were the political dictators of that period or of the men who served them and were in turn rewarded after the manner In which political service Is required are now living. The death of Captain Jo seph Sloan cancels the earthly engage ment of one of the "remaining few.' An active man in. his day and genera tion, his later years were spent In the quiet and seclusion that beseems age, ministered unto kindly by those who ,knew him best and loved him most. THE SERVIAN COMEDY. They who forever sigh for . the good old days of yore should find solace in contemplation of the existing situation In Servia. The King is required by foreign powers to punish the army for the assassination of his Immediate sue cessors; but if he attempts to do this the army will take him off the throne, possibly leaving his head behind him, and elevate thither another ruler of its own selection. Here is the praetorian guard of ancient Rome in full sway. It will make and unmake Emperors at its will. It is all very well for Peter to attempt the ordering of his sovereignty so as to please Russia and Austria and the rest; but unless he first pleases his palace guard and the official assassins generally he will have no sovereignty to order, possibly not even over -his own person. Here is a situation worthy the proudest moments of Gilbert and Sulli van. Here is an episode whose re hearsal, mutato nomine, can be found in the most stately language In the lm mortal pages of Gibbon. The cheerful alacrity with which .Peter formulates promotions for the gallant guardsmen as -his reply to the European protests is very suggestive of hidden duplicity and connivance at Vienna and St. Petersburg, where a. natural inclination might exist to let Servia assassinate and revolute to her heart's content; but this is forbidden by the second thought that at every Continental capital no duty is more im perauve tnan the discouragement of revolution. It has been hard enough for Russia and Austria to recognize a monarch who comes In as the bene ficiary of assassination, without going to the point of condoning the reward of those who have flouted the "divine right of Kings" in fashion truly an archlstlc. The only real pleasure felt by royalty seems to be in Montenegro. whose fine old Prince, Nicholas, Is King meters rather-ln-law. Some such backdown on Peter's part as tnis morning's dispatches foreshadow if the praetorian guard can be whee dled or bullied Into acceptance of It- would seem to be the easiest way out of the dilemma; for It is far from clear what steps the offended powers could take beyond the more or less technical withdrawal of friendly intercourse. If they are prepared to act jointly In oust ing Peter bodily and running the king dom themselves at the peril of quar rels among themselves, well and good. utnerwlse one would be tempted to re cur to Dogberry's policy let him go ana tnank God they are rid of a knave. As for us, the course of Minister Jack son Is simplicity Itself. Being primarily Minister to Greece, with accompanying .credentials to Roumanla and Servia, he win De spared the trouble of withdraw ing by virtue of the simple process of not going to Belgrade. The pains of dismissing the Servian representative at Washington are rendered superflu ous by the entirely adequate reason that there is none. PORTLAND'S OPPORTUNITY. The construction of the proposed Alaska Central Railroad from Resur rection Bay to the Tanana River, In the heart of Alaska's new mining district, is a project of more than ordinary In terest to Portland. This road will not only make directly tributary to the Alaskan seaboard one of the best min ing districts In Alaska,, but It will tra verse a portion of the big territory which is said to be quite valuable for a.gricultural purposes. By going north as far as the Tanana River the road will offer an easy outlet for much traf fic which is now compelled to make the long journey down the Tukon to St. Michael or up the river to White Horse and thence over the Chilkoot Pass to Skagway. This field for development is enormous in extent and great In natural resources. It will soon supply an Immense volume of business, and Portland should share in It This city failed to make the most of Its opportunities in the Klondike rush, and the prestige lost -by failure to act at that time has since prevented our merchants handling very much of the direct business with Alaska. There was some excuse for Portland's apparent In difference when ' the crowd of gold seekers began rushing over Chilkoot trail; for the Puget Sound cities, with an easy Inside passage for their steam ers, had a superior location for handling the trade. They not only had a safer route to Skagway and Dyea, but It was shorter, and when the gold fever was raging time was an .element of value to any port that could save It for the traveler. Portland's demands for com munication with Alaska were also si lenced to a considerable extent by the absorption of the rail rate from this city to Seattle and Tacoma by the transportation companies running north from Puget Sound. This In effect ad mitted our merchants to the Alaska trade, but not In a manner which was entirely satisfactory. The slight advantage of distance and an Inside passage which gave the Puget Sound cities a lead over Portland In the trade going into Alaska via Chilkoot Pass will be missing from. the route to Tanana by way of Resurrection Bay. So far as distance Is considered, Port land is on practically even terms with the Puget Sound cities as a competitor for the trade of the new district. A line drawn from Seattle to Portland will form the base of a perfect isoseceles triangle having its apex at Cook Inlet, the distance from Seattle to Tanana and Portland to Tanana being the same. The trade of that portion of Alaska which will be tapped by the new road is as available for Portland, as is the Oriental trade. Neither can be secured, retained or Increased without stpaflv and consistent rustling and the equip ment or proper transportation facill ties. The man on the trround with the goods will reap the commercial rewards which will follow the development of that enormously rich field. It Will be useless for Portland tn nit idly by and awaft the completion of the railroad Into Tanana before making a move toward establishing some kind of steamship connection with the ocean terminus of the line. By that time more enterprising communities will have secured a foothold which will not easily be loosened, and In the case of Portland everything has come so easllv that we have seldom been obliged to make a struggle, and might not know how. This city certainly made no fight for the Alaska trade when It flowed In and out through Lynii Canal. The odds that were then against us have been eliminated from the contest for the Tan ana trade, which Incidentally means the trade of all of Central Alaska. The prize is at least worth an effort, and the value of that effort "frill depend on the alacrity with which it is made. THE PRESIDENT IS CONSISTENT. President Roosevelt, in his reply to the statement of Chairman Levy, of the Bnal B'rith National executive com mlttee, among other things, took occa sion to express his contempt for racial hate and religious prejudice and to testify to the patriotic spirit of the Jews In America ever since the foun dation of the Republic. He referred to Longfellow's poem on the Jewish ceme tery at Newport, R. L, where we find the names of Americans of Jewish race who in peace or war did their full share In founding this Nation. The Presi dent referred also to the patriotic serv ices of the Jews of Charleston, Phila delphia and New York to the cause of the American Revolution. He referred to the fact that General Howard told him that two of the best brigadiers In his corps In Sherman's army were Jews, and said that the regular Army Colonel who fought by his side before Santiago was a Jew. President Roosevelt has not exagger ated the patriotic quality of the Amer ican Jew. The roll of graduates of West Point Includes General Mordecai, a most accomplished military scholar as well as gallant soldier; the roll of our Navy Includes Commodore Levy; the. roll of our Generals of the Civil War includes the names of General Frederick Solomon, General Edward S, Solomon and General Charles E. Solo mon. General Henry M. Judah, a graduate of West Point, commanded a division of Sherman's army, and was severely wounded at Resaca. The Jews were small In number at the outbreak of the Civil War, but in proportion to their numbers they were conspicuous In the ranks of the Union Army, and the great Jew bankers, like Sellgman, were intensely patriotic men. Presi dent Roosevelt has an evident purpose in taking this opportunity to denounce all persecution because of religious hos tility or racial prejudice as utterly at variance with the fundamental prin ciples of American institutions. He plants himself on the platform de scribed by James Russell Lowell when he sangMn one of his dialect poems: The South says black folks down. But all men up say we White, yellow, black or brown. President Roosevelt feels that he has been misrepresented, if not misunder stood, because he invited Booker Wash ington to dine with him. He disclaimed any intention by this act of raising the question of social equality. Queen Vic toria entertained Booker Washington and wife at luncheon, and yet nobody presumed to say that by that act of hospitality to the great negro educator she meant that Englishmen and negroes should all be on terms of social equal ity In South Africa. Professor James Bryce, author of "The American Com monwealth," entertained Booker Wash ington and his wife at dinner, and yet nobody pretends that this great Eng lish scholar and statesman Implied by this act that it would be a good thing for whites and blacks to mlscegenate at the South. The Duchess of Suther land entertained Booker Washington and his wife at her house,, and yet no body of sense will pretend that this rec ognition of the great work wrought for the industrial education of the negro by Mr. Washington was equivalent to de claring In favor of social equality be tween the races in South Africa and in our Southern States. Booker Washing ton was socially honored as an excep tional man of his race just as slavehold lng President Jefferson Invited Judge Marshall to dinner to meet a European negro tourist of exceptional culture and ability. President Roosevelt does not worry about social equality. That has always taken care of itself,- and always will; but civil rights, life, liberty and prop erty do not take care of themselves without equal laws Impartially en forced. It Is not President Roosevelt's business to create an atmosphere of "social equality" for Jews and Gen tiles, for whites and blacks; but it Is his business to see to It that no man is denied the enjoyment of any civil rights that belong to him through our Federal Constitution and laws. If a roan of color Is constitutionally eli gible for appointment to public office, and the only objection to his appoint ment is his color. President Roosevelt may have no more right to make the color of the negro a bar to appointment than he has to make the creed of the Jew or the racial hate and prejudice felt for the Jew by a certain class of Intolerant Americans a bar to office. Nor does this Impair the other truth that it he wishes to appoint negroes to Important office he would better appoint them In Boston and Philadelphia than In Charleston and New Orleans. What would Boston say to a negro Postmas ter, or Philadelphia to a negro Collec tor of the port? The time has been in this country when there was a most brutal religious prejudice against Roman Catholics a prejudice so bitter that a Catholic con vent was burned In Charlestown, Mass., and Catholic churches were burned and pillaged In Philadelphia, and terrible anti-Catholic riots took place In Balti more. So strong was this anti-Catholic party that it elected a Governor In Massachusetts. Henry Wilson, after ward Vice-President, belonged to this party for a time, and so did N. P. Banks. The candidate of this party in 1856 for President polled nearly 875,000 votes, and carried the State of Mary land. But the people of the United States, while largely Protestant, never gave this party any serious support, be cause they knew that under the Amer ican Constitution no man's creed could be lawfully pleaded against his right to life, liberty, property and eligibility to public office. Today, under our Consti tution, a man's color can no. more be constitutionally urged against him than can his creed, and this is what President Roosevelt Is absolutely con sistent in maintaining. He is neither a negrophile nor a negrophobist, neither a Jew-lover nor a Jew-halter; he sun ply says that It is his business to see that neither white nor black, neither Jew nor Gentile, is denied his-constl-tutlonalright to hold public office be cause of race, creed, color or previous condition of servitude. Major-General Young, United States Army, will be Chief of Staff until his retirement in January next, and will have under him Major-General Corbin and Brigadier-General. W. H. Carter. General Young, It Is reported, will be made Lieutenant-General in August, and General Corbin will become fchlef of Staff in January, with his present rank of Major-General. The Lleuten-ant-Generalcy will go to General Chaf fee In succession to General Young, and he will hold that rank until his re tirement on April 14, 1S0G. General Corbln's retirement date Is September 15, 1906. General T. H. Bliss will be come president of the Army College War Board when General Young Is made Lieutenant-General In August. Either General P. C. Halns or General Funston will go to .the Philippines In General Carter's place, as all the other Generals are either detailed on Philip pine duty or have Just returned from there. The condition of helplessness and misery to which human beings are re duced when stripped of the accessories of civilization are appalling when con templated by the aid of object lessons. Twice within a year once by fire and again by flood this fact has been brought to the attention of this com munity. Time was when clothing, and shelter were not necessary to the life of man, and when he could forage for his food In the wilds and satisfy his hunger. With these object lessons In view, portraying the utter helplessness and abject misery of man as he stands forth before the world stripped of everything, we can well believe the ps tlmate of the most daring evolutionist in regard to the aeons that havo nasU since the human animal shifted for himself single-handed and unaided. The Improvement in the quarters for iemaie convicts In the Orenon Penitpn- tary now in progress is In accordance witn public decency and the spirit of civilization. There have been but fPu women convicted of crime in Oregon ana sent to the state's prison less than a aozen, perhaps, in the entire hlstorv of that institution. But the few that are sent there have claims upon de cency that cannot be Ignored without distinct discredit to the governing forces of the commonwealth. It Is well said that the Improvements now in progress looking to the proper seques tration of this class of convicts have long been needed. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, be cause of rumors of plots to assassinate him,- fled several weeks ago to Paris, where he lives, afraid to return to Sofia. The Bulgarians are similar In temper to the Serglans, and they cor dially hate Prince Ferdinand and his consort a luxury-loving, dainty uair. "who are out of all sympathy with the simple inhabitants of their land. Fer dinand is a grandson of Louis Philippe and youngest son of Prince August of Saxe-Coburg-Gotba. He Is in no mood to risk his precious neck by returning to his capital at present, and, truth to say, the country gets on very well with out him. Writing of woman's work for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, a corre spondent protests against "that horrible monstrosity of language, iady manag ers.' He Is right Woman is a very good word. There will not be a better. Said a man on a street-car. who had already given up his seat, as he nudged a familiar friend who still kept his. "Why don't you get up and give the woman a seat?" She, who was stand ing, glared at him. "Sir!" she said, "I will have you know I am a lady!" "Ah! Beg your pardon, madam." he politely replied; "I took you for' a woman!" - , Within a few years we shall have some large results from irrigation In Eastern Oregon. Plans of Irrigation already outlined include more than two millions of acres nearly ninety townships, or 2000 square miles. This is an area more than half that of the Willamette Valley. Reclamation of this land will be only a beginning, for there are Immensely larger areas in the state to which Irrigation may be applied. Action by the Interior Department against cattlemen who have unlawfully occupied Government land in Eastern Oregon is baked on common justice and common sense. The soundness of the Government's present attitude is appar ent The only wonder 'is that action, in the face of continued unwarranted en croachment, should have been so long delayed. Now for the first time or yesterday In the Evening Telegram an approxi mate statement of the losses of property at Heppner Is published. Three days ago such a list or a fuller one was pre pared at Heppner by The Oregonlan's representatives' and filed for transmis sion, but owing to the pressure of mat ter upon the single wire It could not be got through. Among .the celebrities, whom the late Major J. B. Pond brought to Portland were Henry Ward Beecher, Clara Louise Kellogg, F. Marion Crawford and Ian Maclaren (Rev. John Watson). Some months ago he made arrange ments with Homer Davenport to put the Oregon cartoonist Into the lecture field this Fall. The Corvallls & Eastern Railroad has Issued a verr pretty Summer circular on Yaqulna Bay. Another very pretty circular on Clatsop has been Issued , by the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad. Attractions of various places on our coast, set" forth as In circulars like these, must become better known from year to year. Rare and Unaccountable. San Francisco CalL Those who love the odd and fantastic facte of history, which serve to Illuminate and color the monotone of life, have a chance to suggest a memorial tablet for some niche la the treasury of California. The Legislative committee chosen to greet President Roosevelt did not spend all of the money aljowed, and actually turned back some of it into the treasury vaults - THE TORE AND THE BIBLE. Brooklyn Eagle. Carrying the Bible into lands that need it is not so easy a task as It may seem to the unpracticed. It created a war in China which had to be. put down by troops from several Bible-reading na tionstroops that sometimes forgot to practice the Injunctions laid down in the good book. The attempt to read It to reluctant listeners in Macedonia caused a committee of citizens to elope to the woods with the woman who insisted on reading It aloud, and If cost us $61,000 to liberate her. And now comes the Turk, saying that he will not admit the Bible into his territory at all, because it men tions Macedonia! Woe therefore Sits upon the brow of the missionary, and a sneaking comfort possesses the unwilling giver to foreign missions. The word Macedonia, as you all re member, occurs In the first chapter of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians-r-doesn't it? The Turk does not recognize Macedonia, and he demands the substi tution of this: "The vlllayets of Salonica and Monastir," which does not mean the same thing. For four months the Sub lime Porte has been shut against the Christian book, and will stay so unless it is sent back' to Manhattan to be print ed over,- according to the doctrine of Ab dul Aswuz. Observe the narrowing ef fect of any other religion than tha Christian! We do not require that in the Korans which filter Into this coun try there shall be any different spelling of the Philippines. We do not so much as insist that the followers of Mahomet shall agree among themselves whether he Is to, be Mahomet, or Mahomed, or Mo hammed. Because, if wo go to Interfer ing with one another's Bibles, where Is the thing to stop? But It Is the way with too many peo ple to observe forms and neglect the spirit of which they are a supposed ex pression. It Is of more consequence that the Ten Commandments are observed by Hebrew students than that the name of New York Is spelled right in the Tal mud. It Is of more consequence that people refrain from killing, robbing and being walking delegates than that they should subscribe to any creed respecting foreordination, election or the atone ment What Turkey needs is mission aries who have two large, leathery fists apiece, and who by means of those In struments will persuade the populace to pay Its bills, and avoid strikes, and keep on its own side of the fence, and de sist from nagging the Armenians, and tempting the Russians, and marry no more wives than It can support, and promise to clean their streets, and do it, and. in short, to join the procession, instead of standing at a crossing where the procession wants-to pass and hag gling over an item of obsolete geography in the procession's credentials. Ay, Madum, It In Common. Chicago Tribune. . Quickly following the cyclones in Mis souri and Iowa, the floods at Kansas City, Topeka and other points, tho cyclone at Gainesville and the flood at Spartanburg, involving an aggregate loss of 416 lives, comes the news of a cloud burst and consequent flood at the little town of Heppner, Or., by which it is thought between 400 and 500 lives have been lost The fact that 105 bodies had been recovered at an early hour yesterday morning indicates the loss of life has been large. Fatalities of this kind have been so common during the last four weeks that they almost have ceased to attract more than passing attention. The world Is becoming familiar with horrors, so fast do they tread upon each other's heels. It Is only when the suffering becomes so great as to call for outside help that the sympathy of the public is aroused. It Is then extended In such a generous and material manner as to show that charity Is still a living virtue, and that "fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind." AlMka and Ita'Possibilitles. Philadelphia Press. In the last 12 months Alaska's com merce, excluding gold, aggregated $20,000. 000. Canned salmon was shipped from Alaska In ten months to the value of $S, 401,124. The surface of Alaska has been "scratched" for gold In only a very small part There Is every reason- to believe that valuable minerals will yet be found In many parts of that country not yet touched by the foot of man. Agricultural possibilities for such a country would a few years ago have been the subject of ridicule. But that was the result of Ig norance, and not the fault of the country. Extensive experiments made by the Agri cultural Department and by settlers have demonstrated that vegetables and some kinds of fruit and cereals can be grown there with success. What was once .ridi culed as territory of no value will sustain a population of millions, and may yet prove a. very important addition in every way to the United States. In fact that has already been demonstrated. Australia TIrlnjr, of Protection. New York Evening Post While Mr. Chamberlain and certain oth er British statesmen are exhibiting an in clination to forswear their fealty to free trade, some Australian politicians are be ginning to waver In their loyalty to pro tection. Senator Simon Fraser, who headed the poll with nearly 100,000 votes In Victoria, hitherto the stronghold of protection in the commonwealth, has de clared that recent events have compelled him to reconsider his position and become an advocate of free trade. These events are the results of the protracted drouth, which has necessitated the Importation of foodstuffs Into Australia. So long as Aus tralia was raising abundant food supplies ror ner own consumption and for exporta tion, protective duties seemed to hurt no body, but when they began to operate as heavy taxes on the Imported supplies urgently needed for her own people, the situation was altogether different Aerial Navigation Possible. Aeronautical World. The subject of aerial navigation Is one of never-falling Interest, particularly at this time, when many engineers agree that the problem Is one whose solution may be expected In the near future. Al most all engineers, however, further agree that the solution will never come along the lines of the dirigible balloon, and that the many interesting experiments with so-called airships, which, rely upon the gas bag to overcome the "attraction of gravitation, while drawing popular inter est to the subject of air navigation, do nothing toward advancing the time when real airships will become a possibility. My Wife Is a Business Man. Leavenworth (Ivan.) Times. My wife she Is a business man; She deals In real estate; She "wakes and talks Of cinder walks. And keeps it up till late; She also talks of taxes, Ull She frets and fumes and grieves: She Interviews the City Hall And tells them they are thieves. My wife fhe Is a business man; She hath a business head; She sits and thinks. And frowns and blinks. And doesn't go to bed; She says a plumber's devious ways Would bring a seraph low; And names her tenants variously Because they grieve her so. My wife she Is a business man; . She cottages erects; ' She sleeps and dreams Of boards and beams And. bricks and architects; She takes her houses by the roots, And hoists them up on high. And roams on risky scaffoldings. Between the earth and sky. I think rcy wife Is wonderful; No woman is so wise; And yet I tremble, when sne stands Between the earth and skies; And bricks are hard and heartless thing When dropped upon one's pate. I often wish some billionaire . Would buy her real estate THE KINGSHIP OF COTTON. Atlanta Constitution English cotton mlllowners are beginning to calculate how far ahead of them is their finish. At a meeting in Liverpool recently the chairman announced to his colleagues that "America is growing in population at an enormous rate, taking an average of half a million cotton goods users from Europe every year, and the time is coming when the United States will .probably require all the cotton she. can produce for herself." It Is not strange that our English cous ins are beginning to sit up and take no tice of the Increased American consump tion of cotton. The growth of our South em cotton mills Is of Itself a fact suffi cient to warn them that the words of tho mlllowner above quoted are fully war ranted. In 1S92-S3 we raised 7.140.S67 bales of cot ton and exported to Europe 4.356,790 bales, or something more than three-fifths of the crop. In 1SSS we began to decrease our exports of cotton, and in 1S90-1S0O we retained for home consumption nearly four-and-one-half-tenths of the crop of 10, 000.000 bales. As bur average crop for eight years has been 7.2S6.S25 bales. It can be seen that If our mills do not decrease their demands materially we are now us ing nearly two-thirds of our productlon. Our Immigration for the last decade was 3.S44.420 equal to one-tenth of the popula tion of the United Kingdom and this means an annual diminution of European cotton goods markets equal to two-thirds of 1.000.000 purchasers annually. No wonder our British competitors are beginning to feel the pinch of our home progress in cotton milling and Invasion of the mar kets where cotton goods are staples of merchandise. What wo need to do In the South is to keep right on pooling our capital In the building of cotton mills. Fluctuations In prices of the staple will continue so long as our raw surplus Is marketed In Eu rope and priced for us by tho Liverpool exchange. But when our population catches" up, as It soon will, to the meas ures of our cotton crops and the capacity of our mills to take It here at home, there will be no surplus for Liverpool to juggle with and the price-fixing boots for cot ton and cotton goods will be on the legs of Uncle Sam. His legs are In the South so far as his cotton Interests are con cerned, and it Is our duty to ourselves to pull 'em for all they are worth! UXOPPOSED XOMIXATIOXS. Roosevelt's Promises to Be One of the Few. Chicago Record-Herald. It Is pretty generally assumed that President Roosevelt will be nominated by acclamation or without an opposing vote on first ballot at the meeting of the next National Republican Convention, and it la Interesting to recall how rarely that distinction has been conferred upon the candidates of any of our political parties. The convention system, which began to take shape in the early 'SOs, left the field open for spirited preliminary struggles. but one of the exceptions to the rule that has since become common occurred In 1831, when Henry Clay was chosen as the standard-bearer of the National Re publicans Tjy a unanimous vote. A little later, In 1833, Jackson was nominated by resolution at a National Democratic con vention, after he had secured a number of state nominations under an older sys tem. Van Buren received every, vote at the Democratic convention of 1835, and a nomination by resolution In 1840. and Clay was nominated by acclamation by the Whig convention of 1844. The power and popularity of Jackson, which sustained Van Buren as well as himself, and the popularity of Clay explain these excep tions, and there are no others to record. at least among the great parties, until after the Civil War. Even Lincoln did not get such an abso lute approval In 1S64, when the Missouri delegates to the Republican convention were forced by instructions to give a formal vote for Grant. And although General Fremont was nominated hy ac clamation that same year by a mass con vention of dissatisfied Republicans he sub sequently withdrew from the contest General Grant broke the record In his two unopposed nominations in 1SS8 and 1872, and Cleveland was unopposed In 18S3 and McKlnley and Bryan in 1S00. But most of the conventions of this period have been distinguished by lively struggles between numerous "favorite sons." Of Vice-Presidents who have succeeded on the death of Presidents none has been fortunate enough to secure a nomination at the following convention of his party. Tyler was hated by the Whigs and dis carded as a traitor. Fillmore was beaten by Scott Johnson was persona non grata. and, although Arthur had a pretty long list of delegates he had to succumb to Blaine, Mr. Roosevelt has a much greater popularity than any of the men in this class, and it will be generally agreed that he has little to fear from the precedents established in their cases. Importance of Home Training-. Charleston News and Courier. There Is a good deal of preaching now adays about the irreverence of young peo ple and their Impatience with religious life. The people who have children are more to blame for this than anybody else. If they would look after the training and education of their own people, instead of adopting machine methods of kindergar ten and Sunday school Instruction in piety probably there would be a very marked change In public sentiment toward the things which .used to be regarded as sa cred. Homesickness In the Orient. Kansas City World. Nostalgia that Is what the doctors call It In ordinary phrase It Is known as homesickness. It is a real disease. Strong men die of it in the Philippine Islands. To all ordinary diagnosis they are well. No organic trouble Is apparent The pa tient Is literally sick for home, and unless he Is sent home, he grows worse and often dies. Officers of the Army, private sol diers, civilians, old, middle-aged and young all these are subject to the illness. It Is no boy's malady. The Camp at NlRlit. Homer's "Iliad." Book VI H. The winds transferred Into the friendly sky Their supper's savor; to tho which they sat delightfully. And spend all night in open, field; fires round about them shlncd. As when about the silver moon, when air is free from wind. And stars shine clear, to whose sweet beams high prospects and the brows Of all steep bills and pinnacles thrust up themselves for shows, And even the lowly valleys Joy to glitter In their sight When the unmeasured firmament hursts to disclose her light, -And all the signs in heaven are seen, that glad the shepherd's heart; ' So many fires disclosed their beams, made by the Trojan part. Before the face of Illon, and her bright tur rets showed. A thousand courts of guard kept fires, and every guard allowed Fifty stout men.. by whom their horse eat" oats and hard white com, And all wishfully expect the silver-throned morn. Come to Me In Cherry Time. George P. Morris. Come, to roe in cherry ' time. And. as the twilight closes. We will-have a,merry time. Here among the roses t . When the breezes crisp the tide. And the lindens quiver. In our bark we'll safely glide Down the rocky river!,, "When the' stars, with quiet ray. All the hilltops brlizbten. Cherry-ripa we'll sing, anl play "Where the cherries ripen! Then come to; me in cherry time. And. as the twilight doses, "We will have a merry time. Here among the rosea I NOTE AND COMMENT. The stories of the Texan cyclone make very breezy reading, Dan McAllen says we should'nt have any celebration on the Fourth: That set tles it It's so unkind of the hold-up artists to keep the poor police ofnecra working these hot days. Portland streets will have .000,000 ex pended on them during the next year. They need it The pope has handed out even red iats. How nice It would have been It hty had only been real Panamas. Mayor Van Wyck can eat seven pounds of beefsteak. So could some of the rest of us If we had the price. It's very natural for people to hand out money to robbers on the street-cars. They're so used to paying the conductor, you know. John Kendrlck Bangs, who Is writing the libretto for a musical comedy based on Sheridan's "School for Scandal." met a friend the other day whom he had not seen for some time. "What sort of thing is that 'Lady Teazle you're writing?"- in quired his friend. "Well," replied the author, "It's a good deal like the battle of Winchester." His friend stared. "Why like the battle of Winchester?" he asked. "Because," explained Mr. Bangs, "Sheri dan 13 about 20 miles away." Mrs. Sarah Snook, of St Joseph, is Missouri's oldest Inhabitant She Is 103 years old. She ats pie, ice cream and other things: walks a mile every day for exercise; can see as far as and reads as well without glasses as many young peo ple and remembers well many great char acters of this country almost a century ago. She celebrated the 103d anniversary of her birth at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Agnes Jacquay. Mrs. Snook Is a native of Louisville, Ky., and spent many years of her life in Kansas. Few members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are as energetic and faithful to the cause as Mrs. Florence C. Bethune, a society wom an and wife of tho well-known New York lawyer. Mrs. Bethune has within a few months caused the arrest of eight men for cruelty to horses, and In each cos appeared in court to testify against the accused. After securing the conviction of a driver recently Mrs. Bethune an nounced that she will now direct her energies against mall delivery contractors for Inhuman treatment of horses. In the last year Mrs. Bethune has turned over thirty-six sick and homeless dogs to the society. Of the 'fourteen graduates of the law class of the Illinois Wesleyan University In -Bloomington the other evening none attracted so much attention as Takahashl Klthaya, a young Japanese nobleman, who has spent four yeirs In this coun try perfecting himself for the diplomatic service of the Japanese government One year was spent at Harvard College, an other at the Chicago University and the past two at the Illinois Wesleyan law school. Mr. Takahashl Is the son of a millionaire Japanese nobleman and has unlimited credit He has attracted renown not as a brilliant student alone, but as a fashion plate, being the most fastidious as to his personal appearance of any one in Bloomington. He has always been one of the foremost students of his class and graduated with high honors. During the recent visit of Major Gen eral Baden-Powell to Liverpool the la dles of the city In particular paid him special honor and so impressed hfm that he reciprocated by revealing the well-kept secret of why he Is not a benedict "The ladles are critical," he pleaded, "and see no great points In me. I have had that pretty straight from one of them myself." And he told the story of how when In South Africa his duty was to tell an old Dutch lady that she must leave her house, which was wanted as a police sta tion. He told the lady to go, and pre sumed she would obey. Finding in a few days she was still in possession, he sent his men to turn her out She refused to go and she said no one had told. her. "Oh, yes," replied a sergeant, "the Gen eral told you himself." Then came mad am's silencing retort: "You don't mean to say that little red-faced man was the General!" Salem. Or., June 17, 1203. Editor Column "Note and Comment": You haven't done anything to me that I know of, and I forgive you what you have done that I don't know of, but after much effort I composed the following poem. It Is Intended to exalt the weather man above the monied men. We are being ruined by the sentiment on gold. We must now seek to change the current towards our plodding Investigators, our scientific men. This poem awakens thoughts of the millennium for the unrecognized man of science. It will swell as a tide, on which he may ride. I have organized a poem trust and only me and Tlllle Johnson can belong- None others need apply. Of course we will let you In providing you will print all our poems and not try and take tha credit yourself. Yourn truely, J. PECK. In Tills Country. 1002. All hall the poor philosopher! And shame the thoughtlessness of man Who drives in his automobile wild, "While the professor walks by hand. 1003. But anon, the scene is changed! ' The professor now's tha man. He pulls a cloud from the cloudless sky. And sweeps the people off the land. J. Peck. PLEASANTRIES OP PAR A G RAPHE R S Employer A raise? "What have yod heard thai warrants the belief that we could pay you more wages? Clerk I tt heard Edith say "yes" last night, sir: Philadelphia Press. Kitty Fred thinks the world of me; he says I'm the only girl he ever loved. Bertha That probably accounts for it dear; but we mustn't blame his Inexperience, you know. Boston Transcript. "Why, papa, I know he can support me he told me that he had just made a fortune in "Wall street." "But, "my dear girl, don't you know that he has made a date to play brtdge with your mother?" Brooklyn Idle. Tommy Talking of riddles, uncl do you know the difference between an apple and an elephant? Uncle (benignly) No. my lad, I don't. Tommy You'd be a smart chap to send out to buy apples, wouldn't you? Punch. "Any objections to my smoking here?" asked the offensively cheerful man, as the vessel gave another disquieting1 lurch. "None," replied the pale chap in the steamer chair, "here or hereafter I" Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. "You say that drink was the cause of your downfall." said the kind-hearted visitor at the JaiL" "Yes." answered Meandering Mike. "I met a gentleman dat wan too intoxicated to take care of his money. An de temptation was too great." Washington Star. Mother Tommy, what's the matter with your lltHe brother? Tommy He's crying because I'm eating my cake and won't give, hlni any. Mother Is hjs own cake finished? Tommy Yes'm. and he cried while I was eaUa that too. Philadelphia Publie Ledg