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News Co., 17 Dearborn street, and Charles MaoDonald, Washington street. IFor sale in Omaha by Sarkalow Bros., 1C12 imam street: Megeath Stationery Co.. 1303 im street. For sale in Ogden by W. G. Kind, 114 23th et; Jas. H. CrockwelL 242 25th street. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News 77 West Second South street. For sale in Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett louse new stand. IFor sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & idrick, 906-612 Seventeenth street; Louthan Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth id Lawrence streets; A? Series, Sixteenth and streets. I YESTERDAY S WEATHER Maximum tcm- iture, C3; minimum temperature, 01; prc- pitatlon, .10 of an inch. )DAY'S WEATHER Showers; south to st winds. , ' )RTLAXD, MONDAY, JUfcY 6, 1003. PUTTING IT PLAINLY. The New Tork Sun prints a letter ad- Iressed to President Marroquin, of the tepubllc of Colombia, by M. Philippe, the Panama Company, which pre- ;nts points worth attention in the Fnited States. If the Congress of Co- ibla shall decline to ratify the canal reaty, one of two things, he says, will allow, vis: (1) Either construction of le Nicaragua Canal by the United Itates and absolute loss to Colombia of le incalculable advantages resulting rom construction on her territory of le great artery of universal commerce; 2) construction of the Panama Canal secession and declaration of inde pendence of Panama under protection if the United States. Even after proper allowance Is made ir the bias of the . Frenchman, who ants his company to get the purchase loney ($40,000,000) from the United ftates, it must be allowed that this flew of the case is a very probable one. the two ways pointed out by him it not apparent how any third can be led. The first thought of the United ftates will be to turn again to Nlca- lagua. But suppose the state or prov- lce of Panama, provoked by rejection f the treaty which -is s6 much to her, Ihould declare her independence and all on the United States for protection, laranteelng at the same time the Eight to construct the canal. In that vent, should we go to the aid of a peo ple "struggling for liberty," as we went thf1" aid of the Cubans, taking lnol- tentally the concession as to the canal id assuming a protectorate over the jrovlnce, or full sovereignty, if the peo-' He desired it? If mow, since the United States has ibarked in this business at Panama, Fr at least has negotiated with Colom bia, with promise of exchange of ratl- lications if now Colombia should re use to proceed, it is not probable we hould consent that any -other nation ;hould take it up and negotiate with Colombia for construction of the canal. for, indeed, is it likely that any other latlon, or any group of foreign finan ciers, would like to step into a busl- less where their proceeding would be arotested by the United States, either the name of the nebulous Monroe jctrlne or otherwise. Matters have liow proceeded so far that there will be 10 Manama canal unless we build It Te may return to Nicaragua: but if re do the Panama project will wait an ndefinlte time, perhaps forever. But t Is most probable the Congress, of Co ombla will yet ratify the treaty, after le opposition members shall have sat. sfled themselves that the United States prill not be "held up" for more money. ! JIQNEY STRONG, WHEAT "WEAK. The financial situation in the East jntinues very uneasy, and the short ened business week which closed last riday found wall street still In the iuteips with what would ordinarily be :onsldered pretty good securities being irown overboard at very low. prices. Fhis effort tQ lighten the financial ship i&s been in progress for several weeks, id yet the situation is steadily grow ing worse, the weekly bank statement rhich appeared Jast Friday being the porst that has been in evidence for aany months. It showed a shrinkage ill round, cash holdings alone falling ff nearly $5,000,000, while the increase In loans was but $3,700,000. New York financiers are becoming alarmed over lis growing stringency In the money xrket arid its attendant bad effect on the prices of securities. Many of them ire clamoring, and not without reason, Cor a reduction in the excessive Federal cation, which is piling up an enor- ious surplus revenue in the Treasury. For the fiscal year ending July 1, 1902, le receipts of the Government in ex cess of disbursements were $91,000,000. Et was expected that the removal of the rar taxes would almost wipe out all surplus, but the report now about due jr the fiscal year ending July 1, 1903, rill still show a surplus revenue of over 150,000,000. The Treasury already holds accumulated balance of over $225.- D.000, and to he adding to it at the ite of $50,000,000 per year by cinching lerican purchasers of pig-iron tex- Hes and other commodities which have ired so largely in the imports which ive produced this Tevenue seems rl Iculous. With the domestic producers ill overrun with orders to such an nt that they-cannot meet the demand for their products, why should this con med excessive tariff still be levied ipon articles in which this country stands in greatest need. Not only Is the consumer forced to pay an exorbitant figure to "protect" the Infant Industries of the country, but even the bankers suffer by the contrac tion in cash caused by the withdrawal of over $1,000,000 per week from circu lation to be locked up in the Treasury vaults. Of course, patriots of the Mor gan, Grlscom and Hanna type would like to have this surplus reduced by paying It out to a shipping combine as a subsidy. As a matter of fact, this immense Treasury surplus is a standing invitation for "unworthy and extrava gant appropriations. If this $50,000,000 which has been tied up and withdrawn from circulation through "the operation of our foolish tariff laws were now in circulation, it would relieve matters in the nervous money centers of the East very materially. Aside from the strength of money and the weakness of stocks, the most not able feature of the trade situation last week was the remarkable slump In wheat prices, July declining S cents per bushel for the July options, while the distant futures were 5 cents to 6 cents per bushel lower. This weakness was to a certain extent a matter of sen timent, but the advance was too rapid and the market in its decline was also following the law of gravitation. The statistical position of the cereal con tinues strong, and now that the specu lative wave has temporarily subsided, this position is almost certain to reas sert itself. In the . local market the stocks are so short that there Is very little of interest, and there will be but little doing until the new crop com mences to arrive. CONSTITUTION'S INNER MEANING. If two or morel amendments shall be If two or more amendments shall be submitted at the same submitted at the same time they shall be sub mitted in such man ner that the electors shall vote for orj against each of such amendments separate ly, and while an amendment or amend ments which shall have beei agreed upon; by one Legislative As sembly shall be await ing the action of a time, they ehall be sub mitted In such manner that the electors shall vote for or against each . of such amend ments separately, and while an amendment or amendments which shall have been agreed upon by one Goneral As sembly snail be await ing the action of a General Assembly or of the electors, no addi tional amendment or amendments shall be proposed. Constitution of Indiana, art. XVI, sec. 2. Legislative Assembly or of the electors, no ad ditional amendment orj amendments shall be proposed. Constitution! of Oregon, art. XVII sec 2 There you have the Oregon and the Indiana constitutions side by side. The provision in regard to amendment is the same in each, word for word, except that Indiana calls It a General Assem bly and we call It a Legislative Assem bly. Now, in Indiana they understand that when one amendment is awaiting the action of a Legislature, no new amendment shall be proposed. That looks plain. The constitution says so. But .hold! There are those among us who doubt, dread or fear that the Cir cuit Court's invalidation of the refer endum will not stick. They say that the constitution does not mean what it says, but means that no new amend ment on thesame subject may be pro posed. It is not always easy to tell at first blush what the constitution means. We must not be'' deceived by the surface impressions of words. When the law says spade, we must look carefully, for the Legislature may have had It In mind to mean not a spade at all, but a broomstick or an automobile. A truly great lawyer will find things In a Leg islature's mind that will knock you off the Christmas tree. For example the constitution says that no county shall go In debt more than $5000. Ignorantly, some persons have supposed this means that no county shall go in debt more than $5000. But not so. We must find out what was in the minds of the framers; and the lawyers will tell ypu, the courts of half a dozen states will tell you, that the Intention of this constitutional amendment, which was adopted by many of the Western States In the last generation, was entirely otherwise. What the framers meant was that counties SHOULD run In debt as long as their credit holds out. Secondly, my brethren, the constitu tion says that state . officials shall receive $1500 a year, and no more. For a long time It was Imagined in igno ranee and credulity that by this the constitution meant that the state offl ciais snouia get $iouu a year and no more, A new generation arrived on the scene, and then we began to learn our error. Lawyers arose to tell us the intention of the framers. Not what the constitution says, but what the framers meant, is the desideratum. proper caper, etc. Authorities differ, indeed, as to what the framers meant about salaries, but all are agreed that they did NOT mean to limit salaries to $1500. What they had In mind may have been almost any old thing or other, but It is in any case certain the Intention was something far deeper, more abstruse and complicated than what they said. It is gathered, there fore, that the constitutlpn means for the state officials to have as large sal arles as they can get. It's an old bridge, this constitution, but It has carried us over many a rag ing flood and through many a stormy night. It is doubtless more serviceable. on the whole, than anything else that has offered. The trouble with us Is not with the constitution, but with the fact that we don't obey it. Take the old constitution and use no other. A new one is discredited, by the fact that the old one's critics would sit in the new one's convention. Cranks crazies and corporation lawyers would be there and our last state would be worse than the first. The star-route scandal of 1881 ended in the acquittal of General Thomas J. Brady, First Assistant Postmaster-Gen eral, and his associates In this conspir acy, who owed their escape to the re markable eloquence of Colonel "Robert G. Ingersoll, who conducted their de fense with great ability. But there was apostoffice scandal of minor Importance In 1884, when General Walter Q Gresham was President Arthur's Post' master-General. Colonel G. O. B. Burn side, superintendent and disbursing of ficer of the Postofflce Department, was reported short in his accounts to the amount of $80,000. The New Tork Sun recalls the fact that when brought to trial his guilt and conviction were so certain that he made a plea of insanity. which was known and openly admitted to be a subterfuge. Of the issue of the trial and Colonel Burnslde's present situation the. Sun says: But it was a choice of the penitentiary or the insane asylum, and Colonel Bumslde chose the latter. He was committed to St Eliza beth's, the Government institution across the eastern branch of the Potomac, within full sight of the Capitol and other public buildings of the city, and there he Is today. He is cane as anr pf the doctors Inside of the mad house walls, or any person outside of them. and this Is generally recognised. Colonel Bumslde Is such a tractable and com panlonable person that be Is allowed to leav the asylum and visit his family and friends about the city at Xresitent Intervals. He tea seen la the erealas rtdl&t o& tfe etreet- cars, visiting the theaters or strolling about ttfe streets In the -vicinity of his old home. Only a few nights ago he attended a reunion of the survivors of the military organization which .he once so proudly commanded. TO SHUT PORTLAND OUT. The traffic of Central Oregon is too insignificant and its prospects are too slim to justify an extension of the Co lumbia Southern a few miles to the southward. But that traffic and tnose prospects are sufficient to justify a new road in from Ontario or some such point on the Oregon Short Line. Such, t seems, is the Harriman philosophy. It is not reassuring, either for Port land's connection with Central Oregon or for the enlistment of Mr. Harrlman's interest in Portland's progress gener ally. As a railroad proposition, the Harri man people are probably right It is a fact that Central Oregon's lumber will have to go East to market It is a supposable hypothesis that Eastern jobbers will have the same swing In Central Oregon that they have hitherto had in Eastern Oregon and Washing ton; and if Mr. Harriman has any prejudice in favor of Portland which would induce him to build a railroad this way for $i,000,000, which he could build some other way for $999,999, he has most skillfully concealed it If he is disposed to take the field to divert any traffic to Portland, or to keep San Francisco or Puget Sound from divert ing to themselves any of Portland's traffic they can, he certainly masks his warlike spirit under a most clever imi tation of Alphonsogastonian politeness. Was it loyalty to Portland which in duced the O. R. & N. to build so promptly and spiritedly Into the Clear water when Mellen loudly cleared his throat, and down to the Nehalem when Hill shook his finger? Was It loyalty to Portland which set the Harriman officials sidestepping the Central Ore gon proposition until plans could be perfected and money raised to build In there from the East? No, it was not loyalty; It was simply . business, and so- business let it be. The Oregon road has important business fostering San Francisco and keeping Mr. Hill In good humor. Portland will have business. as well, taking care of herself and In cidentally, perhaps, building a road into Central Oregon. If Harrlman's Idea Is to connect Cen tral Oregon by rail from the South or East, then it Is incumbent upon Port land to build without delay, either from the dalles south or else across the Cas cades somewhere in the Santlam coun try connecting with the Southern Pa cific. It is time to find out what his purpose Is, and then it will be time to act Every capitalist should subscribe his thousands, every clerk his twenty. Protection of Portland's railroad con nections is as important to the city's future as the Lewis and Clark Fair. THREE JUDGES ENOUGH. One of the great problems before the legislative session of 1901 was to devise some plan lor relieving the Oregon Su preme Court of the mass of work that had accumulated upon its trial docket. It was proposed that a commission should be appointed to assist the Su preme Judges in preparing their opin ions, or that Circuit Judges should be required to perform duty as an Appel late Court or, which was the more popular plan among attorneys, that the membership of the Supreme Court be increased permanently to five Judges Instead of three. It was argued that Oregon had dutgrown the period in Its history when three Judges could hear and decide all the cases that would be appealed from the decisions of the Cir cuit Courts. Unable to devise a plan which mt the approval of a majority, the Legislature abandoned the project of Increasing the number of Appellate Judges, either temporarily or perma nently, and dropped the matter after providing for more clerical assistance for the Judges. Time has proven that the course of the Legislature, was a wise one, for the Supreme Court has now cleared Its docket and an appealed case can be determined any time the attorneys are ready. The old story about a case being held up for two years or more by an appeal to the Supreme Court. Is no longer heard. Litigants have what was guaranteed them by the Constitution a speedy trial of their cases. The court has no longer a need to hurry Its work. but can feel free to take all the time desired In which to Investigate the varl ous questions that are involved In each anneal. This change in the affairs of the high est tribunal of the state has been brought about by several causes. In the first" place, litigation in all courts has decreased, and the fewer the cases commenced the less will be the work brought before the Supreme Court The small number of suits brought has been due to a number of circumstances, among the most notable of which is the enactment of the Federal bankruptcy law, which has not only discouraged litigation, but deprived the state courts of a considerable portion of their juris diction. Suits brought by creditors with conflicting Interests were almost certain to find their way to the Supreme Court, but now all these cases are fried before a Federal Court Knowing that an embarrassed debtor Is likely to take refuge behltfd the bankrupted laws, creditors have been -slow to crowd them to the extent of bringing attachment suits. Another cause for decreased lit! gatlon Is that the laws governing real property, contracts and all business re latlons are becoming better understood and in proportion to the amount of business transacted fever disagreements result Upon the same subject it may be remarked that men of large business affairs have found that It pays to con suit an attorney before making an Im portant deal, and thus uncertainties and misunderstandings are avoided, Large corporations employ attorneys to keep them out of litigation rather than to represent them In court, and the lawyer is becoming more of a busi ness adviser than an advocate . before the bar of justice. Again, the man who is willing to "fight to the last ditch for the principle of the thing" Is fast passing away and compromises of small financial differences are much more common than they were. The old pic ture of the litigants who pulled at the 'horns and tall of the cow while an at torney milked her is no longer so ap pllcable as It once was. Rules of prac tlc.e have hecome better known, , and Circuit Courts make fewer mistakes, by reason of which there are not so many opportunities to secure reversals in the Supreme Court In the days when the Supreme Court was behind In Its work, appeals werex orten iaKen ior aeiay. The removal of this Incentive to ap peals may have served to prevent some case from going to the Appellate' Court though assurance of a speedy trial often encourages a defeated 'litigant to ap peal. While no one of thee causes will account for- all the decrease in work before the Supreme Court each has had an appreciable Influence in determining the number of cases that go to that tri bunal. It is probable also that the In creased clerical assistance provided for the Supreme Judges has enabled them to dispose of cases more rapidly, though the greater part of their work Is such that it must be done by the Judges themselves and cannot be delegated to a clerk, however competent he may"be. The State of Oregon saved not less than $7000 a. year by not Increasing the number of Judges to five. If the num ber of Judges had been Increased, It is not probable that It would ever be decreased again, for the tendency In public affairs Is toward the multiplica tion or omces rather than to a cutting down of the official payroll. If the plan of having a commission appointed had been adopted, there would have been a very serious question as to Its legality, and the-Supreme Court wpuld have been caned upon to deslde whether the law was constitutional. Even If a commis sion had been appointed, It would have been a source of trouble, for litigants wpuld not be satisfied if the merits of their cases were tried by any persons of less judicial standing than the Su preme Judges themselves. In every, view of the master experience has shown that It was fortunate for Oregon that the number of Judges was not in creased. The court as now constituted seems to be giving entire satisfaction, and any change would have been at best an experiment Massachusetts has a new primary election law, which Is compulsory in Boston and optional In other cities and towns. The new law Is a modified fqrm of the primary election which now. pre vails In Minnesota. The Springfield Republican considers It a serious de fect in the new Massachusetts law that the voter must state In the primary, election, on passing the guard-rail, what party ballot he wants, and his choice is to be announced so that ail may hear. He will then mark his bal lot as at the regular election, and he must continue thereafter with the same party until he goes before the Election Commissioners of the locality and In writing requests to be enrolled with some other party. Concerning this con dition, which makes it impossible for any one to participate in a primary election without making public procla mation of his party affiliations, the Re publican says: The constitutional right of the atato to oro- vide primary elections from which Independent voters are practically excluded might possibly be cuesUoned; but the politicians are deter mined to have their men branded, and we must evidently submit for the Ume belnr. Here Is where the hand of the party bosses Is to be ODservea in the new law. The Turkish Department of Public Education Is insisting that the Ameri can Bible Society make the transcript of the Scriptures for circulation In con nection with missionary work in Tur key conform upon some special points to the preconceived Ideas of the Turk in regard to Christianity. For example. the suggestion Is made that the sen tence in I Timothy i:9, "Christ Jesus came to save sinners," is unwarranted In including Mohammedan sinners with the rest of the derelict, and it Is asked that it be changed so as to read, "Christ Jesus came to save Christian sinners." unougn this Turkish suggestlpn does not lack pertinency, says the Outlook, "it is satisfactory tQ be able to record that this change was finally not Insisted upon." Perhaps, however, the Turkish pundits, in making it, .may perform missionary service in far-off lands. The power of suggestion Is far-reach ing. The expression, "Christian sin ners," In view of the denominational squabbles and slanders that are rife among certain of the brethren, is strik ing in its application hereabouts. Against the popular belief that the late King Alexander of Servla was "that vague something called a degen erate," Colonel Snowden, formerly United States Minister to that country, enters vigorous protest In a late Issue of the New York Independent Colonel Snowden declares that this allegation comports 111 with the character of one who at 17 planned and carried out a successful plot, and at 14 was regarded as one of the best mathematicians In Servla, adding: "When I saw him there was nothing whatever in his con versation or demeanor to Justify the hostile Impressions recently given to the world by his enemies and murder ers." If it Is true, as this writer says further, .that "Alexander Obrenovich deserves well of history." woe Is Peter I and the adherents of his throne, since sooner or later loyal Serylans will make history correspond with this statement Senator Hanna Is received with cour, tesy at the White House; but he doesn't quite "run" the Government as he did aforetime: Softly and without friction, the ascendency of Mr. Hanna In the Government, so marked when McKInley was President, has passed Into Innocu ous desuetude. Nothing but the issues for which the Republican party stood In 1896 and again In 1800 carried McKIn ley through; for McKInley, not strong In himself, was handicapped with Hanna. It is time to clear out the bosses and the trusts tram the posl tlons they usurped in McKlnley's day; and they are going. This accounts for the supersedure of Mr. Hanna and for the neglect, unrelieved by any general regret, into which he has fallen. It was Hanna, and his control of McKInley, that made it so hard to beat Bryan in 1896. Ohio Itself was almost lost. Circuit Attorney Folk, of Missouri who has been prosecuting legislative boodlers, has brought to light facts to show that $306,300 was demanded by members of the Legislature for passing certain bills mentioned, and that at least $220,800 was paid. How much more was nald may vet be discovered. In addition It hits been developed that Insurance companies have paid $200,000 In fifteen years to defeat legislation that they did not want Mr. U'Ren, of Clackamas, Is of the opinion that ignorance- of law excuses no one; yet he Is willing to make ex ceptlons of the Multnomah Judges who decided against the referendum. Them he excuses, In the hope that the Su premfe Court will reverse them. From Morse's simple electric circuit to MackayB Pacific cable Is a long step but there are thousands of men whose life's span covers the earliest and the latest telegraphlcal achievement Russia has begun tp examine hex Pa clflc defenses. . Evidently she thinks the joint-note of England and Japan over the evacuation of. Manchuria is no bluff. i STILL FOR CLEVELAND. Harper's Weekly. Under the circumstances, it seems in evitable that the next Presidential elec tion should turn on the tariff issue. It should be possible for the Democracy to repeat the triumphs achieved by Mr. Cleveland In 1592. Tha Mr. uieveiana could be trusted to use all the powers ot supervision and control that might ba ested in him by anU-trust legislation nobody doubts. It Is also certain that malfeasance In office, such as has been committed In the Postal Department, would never be hidden or condoned under a Cleveland Administration. If the nom ination comes, it will have to come unso licited. In response to an overwhelming and Irresistible popular demand.- Mean while the discussion ot Mr. Cleveland's candidacy has had an Invigorating effect on the Democratic party. Men who have twice marched to victory with him re cover courage at the mention of his name. Could Gorman carry the State of New York? We are not prepared to assert that Mr. Gorman could. He would bring out a smaller Democratic vote in that state than would Chief Judge Parker, and we are also certain that he wobld draw fewer votes from ' the Republican party than would Mr. Cleveland. 1 we must recognize that the Democratic candidate will have to sweep the State of New York like a tidal wave, and will need the support of a large and powerful sec tion of the business community of New York City In order to make sure of car rying Connecticut and New Jersey also. That Mr. Cleveland would carry New Jersey we may take for granted, because he is a native of that state. He would also be more acceptable to the business community In New York City than would Mr. Gorman, and, therefore, would oe more likely to carry Connecticut. The same thine mav be said of Judge Parker and Judge Gray. That Mr. Gorman would. run ttaII in Wpst Vlrsrinla Is Drobable. Indiana must be carried by the Demo cratic nominee It he would escape de feat, and It will prove a difficult Job, for In Indiana McKlnley's majority- wa3 near ly 50 cer cent greater in 1900 than It was in 1896, whereas in the three pivotal states that largely taice meir cub kvw in York City It was signally cut down. New York Times. In this moment of convalescence it Is natural that the sound and thinking men of the party should call to mind the high character and great services of Mr. Cleveland. He Is the only President tno party has been able to elect since 1S56. It Is natural, It Is well-nigh Inevitable, that In public discussions his name should come to the fore as a possible canaiaate for a third term. It was from him, from the century-old Democratic faith that ho represents, that the party strayed when It got Into the bog. What more natural, at this moment when it has discarded the false leaders and seeks again to re gain the confidence of the people, than it should turn to the distinguished states man whd has twice led It to victory, whose achlevments have made him one of the' eminent men of the country, ana whose character Is universally respected? The name of Mr. Cleveland Is a gooa one to keep before the people. The dis cussion about a third term arose spon taneously. It was a hopeful sign. No body crin object to a continuance of It save those Democrats who really delight In the slime and oote of the bogs, who love the darkness in which the party haH wandered in recent years, and who have neither love nor loyalty for the Demo cratic faith. The gibes and flings of such Democrats Mr. Cleveland can disregard. Nobody else will give them any atten tion. As for Republican criticism ot Mr. Cleveland's position, we are not likely to hear much of it Mr. Roosevelt's en tirely frank behavior in respect to his own nomination next year makes it im possible for any Republican to demand disclaimers of Mr. Cleveland. i Brooklyn Eagle. Every reason why the party should again nominate Mr. Cleveland remains. Every such reason is strengthened by the attitude which Mr. Cleveland takes to ward the proposition. The ease and free dom of the party to do what it ougnt to do are made greater by the dignified pos ture of Mr. Cleveland himself toward the proposition. He distinctly does not try to promote or to prevent, to Dias or to restrict the action ot the party. He dis tinctly shows not only by his wise silence hut bv his discreet speech that his strength, his reputation and his record are not only an historical asset of the party, but can be made an available as set of It by the party, should the party choose to do so. Xote on Lewis and Clark. Kansas City Star. Ninety-nine years ago those hardy ex plorers, Lewis and Clark reached the site of Kansas City, Kan. "We camped at the upper point of the mouth of the river Kansas," says the entry for June 28, 1804. On the south of the river the hills or highlands come within one mile and a half of the river; onjthe north of the xils- sourl they do not approach nearer than several miles, but on all sides the coun try Is fine." Lewis and Clark, of course, were by no means the first white men to reach the mouth of the Kaw. French traders had been going up the Missouri for furs for a century before the advent of the exploring expedition sent out by Jefferson, and In the March preceding the arrival of Lewis and Clark at the Kaw's mouth the place had been visited by an American trader. The first white man to see the site of the future city was a French adventurer who came up the Mis souri in 170599 years before the coming of Lewis and Clark. Fifteen years later a party ascended the river to this point and luenceforth the visits of traders, and trappers to the mouth of the Kansas River were 'not Infrequent t " Markx Honest Friend. . Boston Herald. , , One of the ablest of the newspapers of the Union In Its editorial department comes from the extreme West The Port land - Oregonian, published there, though accounted a Republican Journal, and re garding Itself as in agreement In Its gen eral positions with tho Republican party, has yet enough of that natural accom nanlment of ability. Independence, to pre sent claims to a better classification. It has discussed the tariff, question always with candor, and in Its latest considera tion of the subject we find it saying: "American tariff practice differs Irom Eu ropean In two Important respects our constant expectation ot violent changes and our aversion to necessary slight changes. . . . Our willingness to revise the tariff In specific spots, when Justice and expediency require, is partly due to lenorance of our professed statesmen, who study ward politics more than they do commercial needs, partly to supersti tious worship of figures and punctuation marks In tariff bills, and partly to more or less corrupt subservience to the great protected corporations. The Brave at Home. Thomas Buchanan Bead. The maid who binds her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dissembles. The while beneath her drooplns lash. One starry tear-drop fiangs and trembles. Though Heaven alone records the tear. And fame shall never know her story. Her heart has shed a drop as dear As e'er bedewed the field ot glory! s The wife who girds her husband's sword, Mid little ones who weep or wonder. J And bravely speaks the cheering word. What though her heart be rent asunder. Doomed nightly In her dreams to hear The bolts ot death around him rattle. Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er -Was poured upon the field of battle I The mother who conceals her grief "While to her breast her eon she presses; Then breathes a few brave words la brief. Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God, To know the pain that weighs upon her Sheds holy blood as o'er the stid Received on Freedom's field of honor! VARIANT VIEWS OF PORTLAND. Here, Grim aai LHcas Astoria Astorlan. If Portland's 1903 Fair attracts half the attendance that her baseball troubles are doing It will have all the publicity neces sary to crowd its famous hotels. Will Never Be Forgotten. Heppner' Gazette. The Portland relief workers, consisting of 109 mighty good men, left this morn ing. Dear old Portland and her good peo ple will never be fGrgotten, In Heppner. Speaka for Heppner. Arlington Appeal. Portland has abandoned her celebration and has turned the funds, about $2500, to the relief of the flood-stricken town of Heppner. This is an act that Heppner will never forget Go Home Early, Then. Astoria, Astorlan. The citizen who hails a late car in Port land must have some anxious moments before' it stops, for the motormen and con ductors have been furnished with revol vers and have been Instructed to shoot quick. He Has Been. Up Against It. alem Journal. The Portland man who murdered his father-in-law, kidnaped his divorced wife and wanted to kill his own babies was found guilty of manslaughter by a Port land jury. The law down that way seems about a piece with the politics. An Incidental Moral. Garfield, Wash., Enterprise. Portland's example of foregoing a Fourth of July celebration and sending the money "raised for the purpose to Heppner does credit to that city, and should be followed by others. Every year a good deal of money Is spent in the name of patriotism that could be put to better purposes. Don't Kick, but Emulate. Oregon City Courier. That the City of Portland Is a big-heart ed. generous city has been Illustrated dur lng the past week to all the world. They have given to the Heppner sufferers $25, 000. They have called oft their Fourth of July celebration and have turned the money to that desolated city. Don't kick any more at Portland and Portland mer chants, but go and do likewise. When Not to Lock the Door. . Dallas Chronicle. ' It seems to us that the Portland polfce force are locking the stable door after the horse has escaped. Instead of answering Marshal Wood's .telegram regarding tho men captured here, at once, they leave It 24 hours, or until after the men are re leased, and then telephone up to "be suro and hold them," and when they find they have escaped begin a systematic search for them. Telegrams have been sent to all towns along tho O. R. & N. to hold them If found. Mr. Cotton's Strenuous Day. Albany Democrat The Portland papers give an account of the arrest of G. B. Cotton, of Lebanon, for beinsr out after dark, whereas It was only about 7 o'clock. He was kept In Jail 24 hours, and during tho time a Portland lawyer received $10 for securing his release and left him to help himself. He was re fused the use of even the telephone. He was finally discharged without explana tion. Cotton Is a reliable and steady young man, and had done nothing. It was a rotten business. Took Charge Like a. Father. Glcndale News. Portland has a heart as big as Mount Hood. The city promptly took charge of stricken Heppner with the same tender ness and care that a parent would a crip pled child. And what noble work she has done! Half of the big relief fund was fur nished by the good people of that city. and they are still engaged in the good work, having even given up their celebra tion In order to turn Info the relief fund the amount contributed for'that purpose. -for which the city Is entitled to great credit Powerful Immigration Agency. Ashland Tribune. The carnival festivals In the various Ore gon towns facilitate our understanding as to the great number of remarkably pretty girls In the state through the agency of the Portland newspaper pictures of the carnival queens. It Is an advertisement of real value to Oregon. What Is a more at tractive feature of a country to young im migrants of the better class than pretty glrls? We are warranted In placing Ash land in the first rank in any classification of, Oregon towns fixed on, the basis of pretty girls. A 'New Star In Her Crown. Dayton, Wash., Chronicle. Too much praise cannot be uttered in faor of Portland, in view of the noble and tender charity which she has extended to the stricken town of Heppner. Al though the generosity of her citizens has been severely taxed by contributions to the Lewis and Clark Fair, yet the disaster at Heppner was but a day or two old when Portland came forward with a fund of $15,000, and this was later Increased to 518,000. Resting not with this munificent donation, she also sent a force of 100 men1, and assumed control of much of the relief work. Portend has long been noted for her scenic beauty and business activity, but from henceforth a higher, finer fame Is hers. Consnl Romanns. Chicago Evening Post. Shod with sold, x - And bitted with gold. "Went an Emperor's steed in daya of old. On gilded oats this horse was fed, 'Xeath a golden canopy had his bed, Home bent the knee when he came in sight; And be lived In a palace of marble white. With a hundred slaves to serve his need, For he was the Emperor's chosen steed, The best and fleetest In all the land. And stroked and patted by Caear"a hand; And his purple trappings, of price untold, Flashed with Jewels, And flamed with gold. And the crazy Emperor laughed and swore. "There Is not a King that I honor more; For where shall I find, in the Roman throng, A man who's as handsome, as fine, as strong. Or, among my parasite, fawning ring; A friend who's as true as that speechless thing?" ; And he sought about, till, ho found a war; Which gold and jewels could not express. His thought to the whole wide world to say. If you hadn't heard It you'd never guess, He made him a Consul, nothing les; And tho horse was a Consul that selfsame day. So, with glittering guards In grand array, Tou can see him afar on the Applan Way, Blazing with diamonds like a star. Consul Rom anus 1 S. P. Q. R. And. though patricians may turn and sneer. The people laugh, and the people cheer. They laugh at the title turned to scorn; They cheer.to see It so proudly borne: For he looks so splendid, he steps so high. As he tosses his Jeweled head to the sky; He spurns the earth with such proud disdain, As he rattles his priceless bridle chain; Ho Is co shapely In every line. Bo full of strength and yet so fine. So handsome and so debonnalre. So much a gentleman, everywhere, That you never saw, Though you've traveled far, Such a noble Consul S. P. Q. R. And when, to finish this equine lay. The Emperor died (In a sudden war). Reeking with murders, so they say. Mad as a hatter, fouled and stained "UTIth every vice which the world contained; Tet he got the tribute the world might pay To many a high-crowned head today. "There are many worse; He'd his faults, of course; But be valued sport, and ha loved a horse." NOTE AND COMMENT And soon the shortcake season will end.' Nobody around, here wants to be th"a Iceman. About th most useless member of this" community Is the street sprinkler. This hag been a trying month on the ls-lt-hot-enough-for-you conversationalist Congressman Cannon wasn't loaded when the majority asked him to fire, a, currency shot on the Fourth. What a pity Glarence Mackay couldn't get a message to Ben Franklin. How pleased the old man would have been. Now that commencements. June wed dings, the Fourth and other trials are over, where shall we go to escape the cold? "When Marconi gets his wireless con nection with Elysium, Franklin and Morse can link glasses over our new Philippine cable. Prince Henry's inmerial brother has dined with Mr. and Mrs. Conny Vander- bllt "Who now shall question their right to head New York's social procession? The Honorable A E. Reames. of Ore gon, said In his Fourth 'of July speech, at Gold Hill: "The Declaration of Inde pendence has become but a flower of rn"e-: torlc that has faded and lost Its per fume." Knocker! At a performance on the steamer Deutschland on her last voyage to Europe from New York there was a concert for the benefit of the Seamen's fund of Ger many and America. Among the per formers were Edouard De Reezke, Lulu Glaser, Anna Boyd, Max Rogers, Lee Har rison, Mrs. Schumann-Helnk and Koclan, the violin virtuoso. The dowager Czarina Is a great fav orite In Russia. Among other stories Il lustrating her character Is this: She saw on her husband's table a document re garding a political prisoner. On the. margin Alexander III had written: "Pardon impossible; to bo sent to Siberia." The Czarina took up the pen. and, striking out the semicolon after "Im possible." put It before the word. Then the indorsement read: "Pardon; impos sible to be sent to Siberia." Tho Czar let It stand. Rev. S. R. Frllllngham. the English clergyman who haa caused a sensation by getting Into a controversy with Bishop Potter, ot New York, regarding ritualism, Is a short, portly, pleasant-looking man. Whose appearance suggests the successful drummer. He Is a zealous foe of ritualism "idolatrous worship," he calls It and has been taking a trip around the world by way of a rest. The general sentiment In the East Is that he got rather the better of Bishop Potter In their con troversy, largely because the bishop wrote such an Intemperate letter. Jesco "Von Puttkamer, the 14-year-old grandnephew of Prince Bismarck, is a' press feeder In a job printing establish ment In "Wllkesbarre, Pa. His aunt Mrs. Mary Royer, with whom he lives, is a scrubwoman. The boy's father, Francis Von Puttkamer, was an officer In the German cavalry. About 25 years ago, the boy says, he quarreled with Prince Bis marck and lied from Germany, giving up home, position and money. In New York he was at one time a dishwasher. He married and two children were born Marguerite, aged 16, who Is now a mill worker In Philadelphia, and Jesco. Like most other true and irreat soldiers, General Joseph Hooker, to whose memory a splendid statue has Just been unveiled In Boston, had no liking for the character of a fighter who fights just for the sake of fighting. The words "Fighting Joa" are not used anywhere In the In scription on the Hooker monument, It be ing the general testimony of his comrades that he particularly objected to the ap pellation. Ho 1b said to have himself stated tho reasons as follows: " 'Fighting Joe Hooker' always sounds to me as if It meant 'Fighting Fool.' It has really dona much Injury In making the public believe I am a furious, headstrong fool, bent on making furious dashes at the enemy. I never fought without good purpose and with fair chances of success. "When I have decided to fight I have done so with all the vigor and strength I could command." Joseph L. Brtetow, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General the man who ha3 come to be called the sleuth of the de partmentIs 6 feet 2 Inches tall, but so thin that when standing erect he seems to bo fully 7 feet. "When seated he as sumes a crouching position, making it appear that he Is only a little, above, average stature, and when he begins ele vating himself to a perpendicular attitude he seems to get up a foot at a time. The result is Interesting. "When postofflce In spectors have nothing else to do they make bets of the time it will take Mr. Brlstow to get his head Into the rarefied atmosphere he breathes while erect There Is a legend around the department that a visitor who had Just been introduced to Mr. Brlstow watched him straighten out for a few moments and then gasped: "Good Lord, is he never going to stop get ting up?" PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEUS "I can't see what you find In me to admire," caid the lovelorn youth." "That's Just what everybody else says." Chicago Dally News. "Why do' you say he's a wonderful' actor?" "He "sat through an amateur dramatic en tertainment and actually made people thlnk he enjoyed it." Chicago Evening Post. Got a Life Customer. "Tou haven't charged me nearly as much for half-sollng these shoes as I expected." "No. ma'am. We charge ac cording to the size of shoe." Chicago Tribune. Bllson JImson seems to be devoted to his wife. Tlmson No wonder. She Is the most angelic creature I ever saw. Why, I believe she could even keep a girl. New York Weekly. "Wonderful man. that Brackett." "How BOt" "He can remember the names of at least a dozen of the works of fiction that were popu lar five or six years ago." Chicago Record Herald. Tired Tommy Didn't youso belong to de Woodworkers' Union when youse was a-work-lnT' Resting Rastus Nah! I belonged to de Wouldn'tworkers Union. Baltimore American. "lira. Stubbubs is always looking for some thing to complain about." "The idea! She never Impressed me that way." "You mis understand me. I mean she'a always looking for a servant girl." Philadelphia Press. "He has been a giant in the literary world," "Indeed?" "Tes; he haa seen the time he could keep five historical novels running serially, at the same time, blindfolded, and with one hand tied behind him." Puck. At the State Prison. Sympathetic visitor And what did you do, my good man, to get Into this place?" Inmate What did I do? Why. I paid a feller who had a pull to get me the Job. I'm one of the watchmen, you know. Boston Transcript. "I've found out why Snobbore Is so con ceited. He told me himself." "Hfr did? Well, that's refreshings "Yes; he said he spent half his life trying to make people, think well of. him without success. Then he decided that" the only way to get & thing done is to do it yourself." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.