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ifv THE MORKISG OREGOXIAS. MONDAY, MAY 30, 1904. W& fepmm Entered at the Postoffles at Portland. Or as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION. RATES. By mall (postage prepaid In ad-rance Dally, with Sunday, per month $0.63 Daily, -with Sunday excepted, per year 7. SO Dally, -with Sunday, per year 9.00 Sunday, per year 2.00 The Weekly, per year 1.50 The Woekly, 3 months SO Bally, per -week, delivered, Sunday: ex cepted 18c Bally, per -creek, delivered, Sunday in cluded 200 POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14 -page paper --1 16 to SO-page paper 2o 22 to 44-page paper .............So Foreign rates double. The Oregonlan does not buy poem or stories bom Individuals, and cannot under take to return any manuscript sent to It without solicitation. No stamps should be in closed for this purpose. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICES. (Th S. C. Beckwith Special Agency) New Tork: Rooms 43-49, Tribune Building. Chicago: Rooms C10-512 Tribune Building. KEPT ON SALE. 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Ed Brinkman, Fourth and Pacific Ave.. N. W.: Ebbltt House News Stand. TESTBRDAT'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, C7 deg.; minimum, 50. Precipitation, none. TODAT8 WEATHER Partly cloudy, with possibly showers; southwesterly winds. PORTLAND, MONDAY, MAi 30, 1004. REASONS FOR ACTION NOW. It Is only because of that which, the Bepublican party stands for, that The Oregonlan urges the support of the Re publican party. "What it stands for Is written In the History of the country, these fifty years. Its policy has been a series of beneficent achievements. Not without faults of its own, nevertheless it has carried the country through great crises successfully; and it has vindi cated its right to appear before the country now again. If anything of con structive policy and actual good has come out of the Democratic party these fifty years one would like to be told what it is. Yet this party of opposition has not been useless. Its use has been to force the Republican party at inter vals to Justify Its aims and claims, to the country. The debate at one time and another has made eras in the de velopment of the political thought and progress of the United States. But, dur ing fifty years, the Democratic party has stood for nothing that the country has desired, or could deem useful to it; nor'does it now. Yet The Oregonlan has at times found fault with the course and action of the Republican party, and now and again has criticised its slowness in taking right positions, or its perverseness in yielding to local and temporary error. There was the money question. On this subject the Democratic party was gone wrong, hopelessly. Timid Republicans were afraid, and yielded In some degree to the worship of the silver Idol. Then The Oregonlan refused to be "regular." It was a subject on which there could be no compromise. Now we find The Dalles Chronicle re marking that though The Oregonlan, Is at present urging Republicans to stand by their party, yet it remembers the time when The Oregonlan "did not stand by the party loyally, and only a few years ago it supported a candidate lor Congress against the regular Re publican nominee." Certainly; and In like circumstances it would do so again. For It was neces sary to compel the Republican party to take the right course on this greatest of all issues. A section of the party in Oregon was juggling with this most vital subject It was the protest of The Oregonlan and of those who stood with it that halted these misguided peo ple and put them on the right track. The cause justified the effort, and the result justified both. The money stand ard, of importance not less than main tenance of nation or nationality, was maintained. That was settled, eight years ago. At this time the Republican party is free from general dissension. Its general policy stands for the highest welfare of the country. The party stands for the achievements of the past and for the purposes of the future. It stands for a distinct policy, in which is included the maintenance of what has been won, and the use of it, as a basis of further ac tion. It is a policy of prosperity, of honor and of growth; of wider rela tions with the world, and of new obli gations and opportunities arising out of new situations. "We shall not be turned backward from Hawaii, from the Phil ippines and Porto Rico, or from Pan ama, "Wo shall not be pushed forward into any of the crazy socialistic notions of Bryanlsm. Since therefore the Republican party stands for every important thing that has been achieved in our recent history, and since the policy it has fought for is the policy that has cleared away diffi culties and dangers and made the coun try fit to live in, why shouldn't the party now be supported further, and why shouldn't every one who professes its name stand by it? And especially, since the man now at its head is one of themost masterful and commanding fig ures of modern times? Though of course not the greatest man in our history, yet his imposing personality, his sound judgment, his tenacity of purpose, the vigor and energy of his character, and his devotion to the highest type of our American ideals, constitute him the rarest man of this present day. Oregon should speak for him, and will speak for him. In June. In November the voice of Oregon may not be needed; or. If uttered with the rest, will be lost in the general acclaim. The Oregonlan is sorry it could not prevent the Sabbath desecration of yes terday. Not everybody went to church, though many did; yet some of these sought amusement or recreation after wards. But there were greater num bers more reprobate still. They went in every direction, by steamboat and trolley, walked in the parks and woods, played baseball, and were wicked gen erally. Some even went a-flshing. Mul titudes, moreover, held ungodly con versation, and in some places there were brass bands. These are among the things that make Portland so infamous ly wicked a city. In several places, also, people drank beer. One can eas ily understand why men like Brother Hill and Brother Tufts and their Sun day newspaper see no way to avert from such a city the doom of Sodom. For, he that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. .A REVELATION IN WARFARE. The Russians at Klnchou found them selves in much the same position as their forces occupied at the battle of the Alma In the Crimean "War. In both instances the Russians were on the de fensive. They held, in each fight', strong positions on naturairy difficult heights, and they were well provided with ar tillery. In both Instances the Russians were defeated, but there Is a wide dif ference between the conduct of opera tions by the British and French at the Alma and by the Japanese at Klnchou. The heights above the Alma River were occupied by 33,000 Russian infantry, with 3400 cavalry and 120 guns. Op posed to them were 23,000 British in fantry and 25,000 available French and Turkish. The Allies had 128 guns and but 1000 cavalry. The Russians blun dered In leaving open several roads to the top of the cliffs, and during the fight withdrew their artillery at the moment it was most capable of inflict ing damage upon the enemy. These were tactical blunders by the commanders, the men fought wlth great bravery, and their stubborn resis tance is proved by the 2002 casualties to the British forces alone. On the other side, the Allies had no union In their attack. The Turks did not even see the enemy, and a division of the French was in the same position. The British, upon whom fell the brunt of the at tacking, were badly handled, Lord Raglan being out of range of his own troops during the greater part of the battle. The charges were delivered piecemeal. Instead of a steady advance pushed home by the use of adequate support, small bodies of troops were sent forward to be repelled several times in succession. All the British could say was that their men had dis played dash and valor worthy of Pen insular traditions. "The battle as fought," declared General Sir Edward Hamley, "showed a singular absence of skill on both sides." The Russians showed no lack of cour age at the Alma, but undirected, or worse misdirected, courage will not win battles. They shotted courage at Klnchou, but they were opposed to an enemy that did not blunder. The Jap anese have sufficient artillery, and they use It with precise effect. "When the time comes to attack, they do not hesi tate to do so. Tho men go forward, but not in intermittent waves, as the Brit ish at the Alma or the Russians at Plevna, bujt in a stream, a torrent. They lost 3500 men at Klnchou, a loss that dispels any doubt regarding the dogged nature of the Russian resis tance. But valor cannot prevail against valor backed by brains and skill. It is not necessary to go beyond the last half of the nineteenth century for proofs of Russian bravery. Inkerman, the soldiers' battle, In the Crimea, and Plevna, In the Turkish "War, are shin ing instances of their readiness in at tack. The fighting around the "Sand bag Battery" at Inkerman was terrific. The Russians attacked with "Incredible fury" and spiked the British guns. During the whole battle no less than 12,000 Russians were, killed or wounded. At Plevna the most desperate bravery was shown by the Russians in attack, and in many cases it was bravery wast ed, owing to the lack of support. The attackers suffered a loss of 5000 In one day, and were yet ready to dash against the Turkish lines again. The trouble was that they were not well com manded. Said Archibald Forbes. "The strategy of both (Russians and Turks), perhaps, is equally bad." The strategy of the Russians In the present war does not show any ma terial divergence from the traditions of the Crimea and the Turkish War. The fleet at Port Arthur has been "bottled" by the enemy, which is a slight ad vance, to be sure, on "bottling" Itself, as the Sebastopol fleet did, and that, too, when the disorganized French and Turkish squadrons Invited attack. On land, however, the blunders have been as grave as of yore. The conduct of the Russians In leaving a considerable body of men at the Yalu has been aptly compared by a writer in the London Times to the conduct of the Dervish Emir, who advanced down the Nile with 20,000 men, out of reach of his 50,000 friends at Omdurman. The 20,000 were met at Atbara by Kitchener and annihilated. Kurokl had as much suc cess at the Yalu. Now come reports that Alexleff and Kuropatkin cannot agree on a plan of campaign. "With Kuroki at Feng "Wang Cheng, 110 miles from Liao Yang, and another army at Sluyen, eighty-five miles from llao Yang, it is late in the day to quarrel over vital questions. The Japanese leaders do not quarrel. One army goes about its business on the Kwantung Isthmus. Another awaits the Investment of Port Arthur before proceeding north to act in conjunction with Kurokl's army, which watches and bides its time. There is no wasted ef fort. Each General knows what he should do, and when the moment comes he will do it or be wiped out. So far none has been wiped out. THE S1IRIEKERS AGAIN. Portland's worst enemies are persons within her own borders, who for their own political purposes, defame the name of the city. Their object Is to elect as many persons as possible In opposition to the party now in control. Bo they proclaim Portland the worst city on earth for vice and crime, tax Its officials with laxity and corruption, and even go to the extent of warning mor al, decent and honest people to stay away from such sink of Iniquity and Infamy. And yet in fact there Is no city more decent, orderly, free from vice S and crime, better cared for through the many departments of municipal govern ment than Portland. We have a clean, active, earnest, well-regulated city, growing larger and more beautiful every year, and now more than ever feeling the Impulse of the pride of a newly-awakened citizenship. No per son ever saw Portland so keen, active and progressive, ethically and commer cially, physically and morally, as now. Since these are facts, before every one's eyes, the defamatory assertions made for the purposes of political fac tion, disprove themselves at once, to the minds of all who see and know. But such statements do hurt abroad just in proportion as they are circu lated abroad. Fortunately, however, Portland has a history and-a character. Tourists, travelers and immigrants ex press pleasure upon seeing the city and noting for themselves how fully it Jus tifies its reputation. Not a day passes -without expressions of this kind through our newspapers, or arrival of newspapers .from the homes of these travelers, containing letters complimen tary in every way to Portland. The defamation, then, has not yet ex tended very far, and it may not; for the unscrupulous motive of It will expire with the election, a week hence. Nev ertheless, It shows a malignity that an noys good citizens, cannot but be de plored, and is even resented as a man ifestation of a disloyalty that Is merely reckless of other consequences, if only political faction can be served by it It is a safe prediction that these de famers will find it convenient to "shut up" at no distant time. First because the exigency that prompts them will be over in another week. Second, because how much soever pleasure they might take in a business so congenial to them selves, they will not find profit in it from the patience and encouragement of the people of Portland. ITT REWARD OF SETiF-SACRIFICE. It is a pleasure to turn from the Sen atorial deadlock in Illinois and the dis rupted Republican State Convention In "Wisconsin, and the recent Democratic ruptures In Indiana and California, to the serene and self-sacrificing atmos phere .with which the Democratic party in the State of "Washington has sur rounded Itself. In an hour when fac tional controversy dominates the land our Jeffersonian neighbors on the north have set an example in abnegation and harmony for which political annals are believed to offer no parallel. If there Is a Democrat In "Washing ton who aspires to any office, he holds his application humbly subject to the desires and amenable to the higher claim of George Turner. Some such there have been, but all have stepped aside In his favor with an alacrity that put to blush the hobo Invited to pie. One after another have such ambitions been laid reverently on the Turnerlan altar, and there is no telling where It will stop. Up to date, as we understand it, the arrangement is that the State Convention has been postponed until after the National Convention at St. Louis, so that in case Turner is not nominated for Vice-President he can be nominated for Governor, and In case he runs and Is defeated for Governor and a Democratic Legislature is elected, he can be elected Senator. It is also provided that a Lieutenant-Governor of Gubernatorial stature must be nomi nated, so that if Turner Is elected Gov ernor and then Senator, the executive office of the state can be suitably filled. The completion of this admirable ar rangement has not been accomplished without considerable self-effacement on the part of other aspirants; but with one accord they get out of the way, grateful apparently at being thought worthy of the sacrifice. The spectacle Is one calculated to stamp forever as falsehood the tradition that In the Dem ocratic party every man has a mind of his own which he will declare and ad here to upon every occasion, opportune or otherwise. "We may accordingly liken the Democratic situation in "Wash ington to a banquet at which each In vited guest Is afraid to sit down for fear Turner might want his chair; and if one should be so Inconsiderate or absent-minded as to appropriate one for the moment, he could only blush and retire In confusion, murmuring, "Beg pardon, George, I believe this Is yours!" "We can only wonder, therefore; that none of the amiable Washington Dem ocrats has as yet bethought himself to get out a programme reading some thing like this: For President, GEORGE TURNER, OF WASHINGTON. For Vice-President, GEORGE TURNER. OF WASHINGTON. For United States Senator. GEORGE TURNER, OFTUNG. For Governor, . GEORGE TURNER, OF KING. For Lieutenant-Governor. GEORGE TURNER, OF KING. For Secretary of State, GEORGE TURNER, OF KING. For Attorney-General, GEORGE TURNER, OF KING. For Supreme Justices, GEORGE TURNER, OFTCING. GEORGE TURNER, OF SPOKANE. GEORGE TURNER. OF SEATTLE. In one way Mr. Turner deserves this abject surrender of The Entire Works in favor of The Whole Thing. Theirs, his followers, Is the present performance, but his was the example, the precedent; for while Mr. Turner has never so far as we know taken the lowest place at the feast on a chance of being called up higher, he has always been ready to sacrifice what to every true man is, or should be, dearer than his own prefer menthis principle. If George Turner has any convictions on public ques tions which he is not ready Instantly to put magnanimously by with bow and smile and without a pang of regret, nothing in his career has given ground to suspect what they are. His complai sance In this regard deserves exactly the supine deference which he Is now receiving from the sturdy. Independent minds that delight to do him honor. MR. HARRIMAN'S LIMITATIONS. The resourceful Mr. Harriman 13 now credited with making assurance of his control of the Northern Pacific doubly sure by arranging for the purchase of the road. This under the circumstances could hardly be effected without an am icable understanding with Mr. Hill, whom he has been fighting In the courts. It is perhaps needless to state that the consummation of a deal of this nature would reduce competition on transcontinental railroad business to the minimum. Even this would not prove a calamity for the Pacific Coast ports which would be the terminals of the numerous Harriman lines, for a kindly Providence has -made these ports immune from all railroad combinations by providing them with water trans portation. The grip of the Pacific Coast jobbers on this club which they have long held over the railroads has been materially strengthened by the acquisi tion by the United States Government of the Panama Canal Company's prop erty on the Isthmus. This property In cludes the Panama Railroad, which Is the connecting link between the two oceans, and over which a much larger stream of traffic may flow, now that It has become Government property. News dispatches announce that San Francisco jobbers have already taken steps toward breaking the monopoly so long maintained on the Isthmus by the Pacific Mall. As the canal property was secured by the Government for the purpose of Increasing our trade facili ties, no difficulty will be experienced in placing this road at the disposal of any company desiring to use it as a connecting line between the two oceans. Just how important this line may be come as a commercial highway Is un certain, for It has been so long In the control of a corporation which has been dominated by transcontinental railroad interests that its possibilities under fa vorable circumstances are an unknown quantity. That It will be the great equalizer of east and westbound freights "until the completion of the canal Is practically a certainty, for steamers are already carrying freight by the long journey round the Horn from Atlantic ports to Portland, San Francisco and Puget Sound, and are shading railroad rates In the operation. Interior points would also feel the effect of this cheap er route by way of the isthmus, for the tidewater rate has always been the base on which the tariffs to Inland points are bullded. It does not necessarily follow a"s a certainty that the opening to competi tion of the Panama route will greatly Increase the volume of Pacific Coast business by that route, but if it does not It will be due to the fact that the railroads meet the rate made possible by a short water route between the two coasts. There are few cases in com mercial history where the opening of a water route for the purpose of compet ing for transportation with a rail route has diminished the business of the lat ter. The almost Invariable result has been an Improved service, lower rates and an Increased volume of business, each of these conditions being in de gree responsible for the presence of the others. The rapidly growing, tendency toward universal railroad consolidation may enable Mr. Harriman or some other railroad wizard to secure control of all our transcontinental lines, but "his control stops at the watery deep." The ocean Is as free today for the in dependent carrier as it was when Chris topher Columbus became an expansion ist It served us well before the rail road came, and It Is still regulating rates more than twenty years later. HOME RULE, TRUE AND FALSE. It is the complaint of Mr. Tufts that llqtfor Is sold In towns where the sur rounding country would vote for prohi bition. Local option is desired, there fore, so as to enable the rural precincts which do not want saloons to rule the town precincts that do want saloons. This Is the purpose of the law, whose ostensible principle Is home rule. There Is no difference between foisting prohi bition on cities by a state vote and foisting prohibition on towns by a coun ty vote. Rural precincts do not want saloons then let them be without them. Nobody can object to that The Injus tice and the dishonest pretense come In when the rural precincts undertake to take away from the towns the same right which the rural precincts claim for themselves. The rural precincts shall have what they want, but the town precincts shall have what the rural precincts determine for them. And this is home rulel This is not prohibition at all, but merely "local option." It Is local option for the rural precinct, true enough, but for the country town Its only option is to be ruled by the surrounding county. Why this reiterated insistence that the pro posed law will not close a single saloon in Portland? Obviously this protesta tion Is designed to cover up some real offensive effect and purpose of the law In another quarter. 'What that quarter Is may be Inferred from the complaint concerning certain towns In Oregon that have saloons In opposition to the sentiment of the county. There is no escape from the conclu sion that It is hoped to force prohibition upon these unwilling towns through a pretense of local option or home rule or the rights of residence districts to control the liquor trade within their own limits. This Is- a very dishonest undertaking, contrary to both natural and revealed religion, and It deserves, as It will doubtless receive, the disap proval of all who acknowledge the suz erainty of the moral law. Its purpose Is not, as professed, to allow districts to choose for themselves, but to compel some districts to be ruled by others. In setting forth the excuse that the Portland bids for transportation of lum ber to the Philippines were turned down because the steamers offered did not fly the American flag, the Quartermaster's Department makes a very awkward ex planation of a transaction which in com mercial circles would be regarded as decidedly questionable. The law com pelling the shipment of Government freight on American vessels only does not take effect until June 28. Admitting it to be right and proper for advantage to be taken of this technicality, and for $2500 additional to be paid Mr. Wat erhouse, the department Is still guilty of a serious breach of commercial honor. When the bids were first called for, no mention was made of the flag the ship was to fly, and when the first set of bids was rejected, this reason for their rejection was not given. Instead, the brokers were again asked to Incur heavy expense in cabling and in hold ing up steamers then available, and when the second set of bids were re ceived the treatment was exactly the same as with the first, and more than a week after the presentation of the bids the contract was awarded to Mr. Waterhouse. who was not even a bid der. No man is to be moved by the vile at tacks on Mr. Hermann to vote against him. In the First District the matter is very well understood. Mr. Hermann wished those who were entitled under the laws to enter the lands to enter them. Secretary Hitchcock thought and thinks every attempt to enter land under the laws is a fraud to be frowned upon. That was the difference between Commissioner and Secretary, and the attacks on Hermann will swell his majority. Under the Secretary's direction applications and filings by hundreds of the best-known citizens of Oregon have beeifheld up or suspended. Persons so dealt with well know how to vote and will tell their neighbors. Hermann's majority will be swelled by the attacks upon him. In business, pol itics, morals and religion this holier-than-thou pretension has now been car ried to a point where rebuke is due. And It will get the rebuke. For that sort of virtue is always suspected. Never, when It has had time to repent, does the 'world fall to take the measure of spurious virtue, or the gauge of those who are loaded up with the leaven of the Pharisees. The Grangers are right; the "morals of the Nation are a reflection of the morals of the home." IT HAS NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE J Leslie's Weekly. On. June 6 Oregon will elect minor state officers ami two members of the Congress whose official life will begin on March 4. 1S05. These will be the first members of that body to be chosen this year. As the division on Congressmen will be on Na tional issues, the result will show the di rection and the strength of the partisan I currents on the Pacific Coast and, in a general way, throughout the country, just in advance of the Presidential can vass. For that reason the Oregon election will attract National attention. For many years Oregon's June elec tions in Presidential years have come to have a little of the same sort of interest that Pennsylvania's, Ohio's and Indiana's had when those Btates voted in October. To a considerable extent the Oregon con test will sbow the relative strength of the two great parties all over the country at this critical moment Of course, a June state In a Presidential year is not quite as trustworthy an index of condi tions that will prevail In November as an October state was, but its verdict, nevertheless, Is of great value. The re turns from that commonwealth, a few days hence, wlll.be very eagerly scanned by managers of both the great parties all over the country. By a split In the Republican ranks on Governor In Oregon two years ago the Democratic candidate squeezed in by a small lead, but all the other officers chosen on the same day, Including the two members of Congress, were Republi cans. In the beginning of Its statehood Oregon was strongly Democratic It was through a division between he Breckin ridge and the Douglas democrats that Lincoln carried the state In 1S60. Sey mour carried it In 1SSS. For many years Oregon was one of the most uncertain of states. In 1S92, Weaver, the Populist, received one of its four electoral votes, the others" going to Harrison. Since then the Republicans have carried it in Presidential canvasses by 2117 in 1836, and by 13,141 in 1900. In 1902 the majority for each of the state's two Congressmen was large, although the Republican" feud on Governor gave that official to the Demo crats. In everj- Instance the general re sult In the state was & fair Index of the conditions throughout the country in that particular year. The Oregon, contest a few days hence will be the first gun in the battle of 1901. The extent of tho Republican majority on Congressmen will go a long way to ward showing whether the Republican margin in the electoral college in No vember will be broad or narrow. Support of Straight Tickets. Ex-Governor Black, of New York. This may seem a plea for partisanship. I so Intend it. Every great chapter In the world has been written by a partisan. Every great deed which courage and de votion could perform, the partisan' has done. Every crisis that has raised a front so terrible and threatening that only the best and bravest could hope to win, the partisan has met Every great cause which called for hopeless years of suffering, and demanded men whose struggles ended only with the grave, has enlisted only partisans. Out across the vast and never-ending plain of human sacrifice the marks that will be visible as long as men shall come this way are the footprints of the partisan; and the Imperishable monuments to lib erty and truth are built upon his bones. A non-partisan Is an unbeliever. He goes wbere the wind goes. He is ready to agree with those who oppose, and the first word upon his tongue Is compromise. There are no mountains In his country. Everything" must be brought to a dead level. All landscapes are made smo'oth by reducing the elevations. Ho removes opposition only by surrender. No non partisan was ever found upon a summit unless partisans had raised him there. Destitute of strong beliefs, he Is desti tute of great courage. His character "has never aroused my admiration; his profes sions have never gained my confidence. A Sound Judgment. Santlam News. Among the promises candidates for Representative are making Is that of not voting for any money to be appropri ated to the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and they say they would not have votod for the appropriation at the last Legis lature. We have no use In the Legisla ture for men who have no more pride than that to them, they aro too zealous altogether. The Lewis and Clark Expo sition Is to commemorate a historical event dear to the people of Oregon and to the hearts of all American citizens, and when the Exposition is held next year It will prove to be one of the great est aids ever devised for the permanent future and recognition of our state, for through this Exposition thousands of people will make their homes in Oregon. Candidates will please bear in mind that the taxpayers of the state are In favor Of appropriations for the Lewis and Clark Exposition. In Union County. ' Union County Republican. The Republican ticket to be voted upon In Union County June 6, Is of such a character that it has come nearer con solidating the Republican forces of this county than for many years. It has awakened new ideas and enthusiasm In Republican ranks, which speaks well for the prospects of the ticket on election day. Words and Acts. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Bryan has, by his intemperate ut terances, already made his support of Judge Parker impossible without grave loss of personal prestige. Mr. Hearst has used all his papers to attack Judge Parker and all associated with him. If these men do not intend to bolt all their acts belle them. Boodllng Marauders. .Philadelphia Record. The action of the Democracy of Indiana above all things conveys the gratifying assurance that the Middle West has not only broken definitely with Bryanlsm, but has put the stamp of reprobation upon the boodler campaign of Hearst's agents and marauders. A Happy Combination. Washington Post. It is proposed to have 80,000 school chil dren In Baltimore pour kerosene oil in the city's stagnant ponds to kill the mosquitoes. This may be a little rough on the mosquitoes, but talnk how it will gladden the heart of Mr. Rockefeller to see the children learning lessons of In dustry. Plutocratic Dog. New York World. In bis tax schedule Mr. Bryan admits his ownership of two dogs valued at 510. If a dollar dinner Is good enqugh for a friend of the plain pee-pul, a dollar dog ought to be provided the dollar Is worth 100 cents. McClelian. Hartford Courant There are persona who think that George B. McClelian Is In considerably greater danger of being nominated at St Louis for the distinction of being beaten by Theodore Roosevelt than Alton B. Par ker Is. POEMS FOR MEMORIAL DAY. J The Blue and the Gray. By the Cow of the inland river. Whence the fleets of iron have fled. Where the blades of the grace-grass Quiver. Asleep are the ranks or the dead. Under the sod and the -dew. Waiting the Judgment day Under the one. the Blue, Under the other, the Gray. Those In the roblngs of glory. These In the gloom of defeat All -with the battle-blood gory. In the dusk of etemjty meet. Under the sod and the dew, . Waiting the judgment day ' Under the laurel, the Blue, Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with -flowers Alike for the friend and the foe. Under the sod and the dew. Waiting the judgment day Under the roses, the Blue, Under the lilies, the Grajr.,, So with an equal splendor Tho morning rays fall With a touch impartially tender. On tho blossoms blooming for alL Under the sod. and the dew. Waiting the judgment day Brotdered with gold, the Blue, Mellowed with gold, the Gray. So when the Summer calleth On forest and field of grain. With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain. Under the sod and the dew. Waiting the judgment day Wet with the rain, the Blue. Wet with the rain, the Gray. Sadly, but not upbraiding. The generous deed was done; In the storm of the years that are fading No braver battle was won. Under the sod and the dew. Waiting the Judgment day Under the blossom, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray. No more shall the war cry sever. Nor the winding river be red; They banish our anger forever. When they laurel the graves of oar" dead. Under the" sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day Love and- teara for the Blue. Tears and love for the Gray. Francis Miles Finch. The Bivouac of the Dead. The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread. And Glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon tho wind; No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved one left behind; No vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dream alarms. No braying horn nor screaming flfe At dawn shall call to arms. Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Te must not slumber there. Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air. Tour own proud land's heroic soil Shall be your fitter grave; She claims from war bis richest spoil. The ashes of her brave. Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest. Far from the gory field, Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield; The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them here. And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes sepulcher. , Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glOry be forgot While Fame her record keeps. Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. Ton marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell. When many a vanquished age hath flown, Tho story how ye fell; Nor wreck cor change, nor Winter's blight Nor Time's remorseless doom. Shall dim one ray of Glory's light That gilds your deathless tomb. Theodore O'Hara. Dirge for a Soldier. Close hlo eyes; his work Is done I What to him Is friend or foeman, Rise of moon, or set of sun. Hand of man, or kiss of woman? Lay him low, lay him low. In the clover or the snow! What care he? he cannot know; Lay him low! An man may, he fought his flght. Proved his truth by his endeavor; Let him sleep In solemn night, Sleep forever and forever. Lay him low, lay him low. In the clover or the snow! What care he? he cannot know; Lay him low! Fold him In his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars. What but death bemocklng folly? Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow! What care he? he cannot know; Lay him low! Leave him to God's watching eye. Trust him to the hand that mad 6 him. Mortal love weeps Idly by; God alone has power to aid him. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow! What care he? he cannot know; Lay him low! George Henry Bokcr. Tenting on the Old Camp Ground. We're tenting tonight on the old campground. Give us a song of cheer. Our weary hearts a. song of home And friends we love so dear. CHORUS. Many are the hearts that are weary tonight. Wishing for the war to cease Many are the hearts looking for the right. To see the dawn of peace. Tenting tonight, tenting tonight. Tenting on the old campground. We've been tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Thinking of days gone by. Of the loved ones at home that gave us the hand And the tear that said "good-bye." We are tired of war on the old campground. Many are dead and gone Of the brave and true who left their homes; Others have been wounded long. We've been fighting today on the old camp ground. Many are lying near; Some are dead and some are dying; Many are In tears. Walter Klttredge. At Magnolia 'Cemetery. Sleep sweetly In your humble graves. Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause; Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause. In seeds of laurel In the earth The blossom of your fame Is blown. And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stone! Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years Which keep In trust your storied tombs. Behold! your sisters bring their tears. And these memorial blooms. Small tributes! but your shades will smile More proudly on these wreaths today, Than when some cannon-molded pile Shall overlook this bay, Stoop, angels, hither from the skies! There Is no holler spot of ground Than where defeated valor Ilea. By mourning beauty crowned. Henry Tliarod. NOTE ANDC0MMENT. In the Melee. In days of old. when knights were bold. It gavo them Joy to feel The armored foe that they laid low Was worthy of their steel. The same old way have knights today. As In trade's lists they reel;' All they would know Is that their foe Is worthy of their steal. . WEX. J. ."No news Is good news,", doesn't apply to Thibet. Apparently there's only one way to stop a Jap and that's to kill him. Is it possible that Pat Crowe has gona to Morocco and changed his name to Rassuli? To be a famous general, choose a namo that begins with "K." Look at Kuroki, Kuropatkin, and Kitchener. Tho part of the Russian army that is In Port Arthur cannot carry out Kuro patkln's plan of luring on the Japanese. Further luring on would land the Rus sians In the deep sea. The Baltic fleet has moved Its sailing date back another notch and will now de part for the Far East and Glory in Oc tober. The best thing the Baltic fleet can do Is to wait until it is safely frozen In under the guns of Cronstadx. With memories of General Funston, the Astorian says: It was after the battle of Waterloo. "I only ask one thing," said Napoleon, "and that is that you will not let the Topeka school di rectors tamper with my fame." Being assured that his wishes would be obeyed he went to St Helena with a happy heart. Mrs. Atherton's article on the bourgeois quality of American literature has pro duced some sharp replies from other writ ers. Most of them, however, disregard ar gument and confine themselves to quot ing -from Mrs. Atherton In the attempt to show that her own work is decidedly bourgeois, as if that made the rest any better. There seems to be plenty of politics In church conferences. One bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church was not re tired, although he was older than some of those that were, and another bishop says that the exception was due either to his good health or to the fact that he had a rich wife who gave largely to the churchl Another man Is elected bishop, presumably because of an attack made upon him In the Los Angeles Ex aminer, and he resigns, it is said, becauso he fears that the manner of his election might be made the basis for taunts. The London Spectator devotes a column or two to the "scrapbook mind," as It calls the mind that delights In the mod ern book of extracts and paragraphs from writers great and small. The many maga zines In this country used to be held up as Illustrations of the extent to which the scrapbook mind required feeding with its peculiar diet, but it 13 noticeable nowa days that many of the magazines are de veloping into something beyond a glorified Tlt-Blts. Serious articles that provoke thought are becoming more and moro common, and' the ten-cent magazine is steadily growing better in this respect. Perhaps, as the following anecdote would seem to indicate, not all authors belong to the mutual admiration society said by a recent writer to exist among the members of the craft says the New Tork Tribune. At a dinner given some time ago in honor of Hall Calne, Thomas Nelson Page was invited to Introduce the Eng lish novelist One of the guests next to Mr. Page, Just before the toasts be gan, passed his menu card around the table with the request that Mr. Calne put his signature on it "That's a good idea," said Page: "1 must do that, too. I've got to introduco Calne In a few minutes, and I want to be able to say that I have read some thing he has written." WEX J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "Most of the action In my story," explained Fennlbs, "takes place In a cemetery." "Well," rejoined Criticus, "that's a good place for a plot." Chicago News. "Which are you betting on, the Caucasion. or the Mongolian?" "Neither. I think Pitts burg's goln' to win In spite of the bad start the team's got." Chicago Record-Herald. "What's that line of people In front of your house7" "Oh, they're neighbors who have heard our cook was going to leave, and they're waiting for a chance to engage her." Chicago Post. Mrs. Hatterson I wonder If It has paid to give our daughter such a good education? Hat terson Paid! Why, of course. Don't you see from her manner how superior Bhe Is to us? Life. Housekeeper Half the things you wash are. torn to pieces. Washerwoman Tes, mum; but when a thing is torn in two or more pieces, mum, I count them as only one piece, mum. New Tork Weekly. "Here's a note from Mr. Jason saying not to come to dinner tonight, as his wife Is danger ously ill. Isn't It sad?" "It is, indeed, by Jove! Still, I suppose we can go to a restau rant." Brooklyn Life. Samley But don't you think you could learn to love me? Miss Keene No; I'm already studying Spanish and French, and only last week I started to learn to swim. I haven't room to learn anything else. Chicago News. Employment Agent What was the matter with your last place? Domestic The missus waa too pertlculer. "In what way?" "Sho wouldn't let me lock th' baby In th foldln' bed w'en I had company." New York Weekly. "Miss Bright," said Mr. Sloman. "I don't think May Jenkins is a very good friend of yours." "No?" replied Miss Bright, yawning, ostentatiously. "No. Bhe told me If I called pn you I'd only be wasting my time." "I see. She doesn't consider my time worth anything." Catholic Standard and Times. Mrs. Nomdeplume (poetess) Oh. Mrs. Calla han! It's a terrible thing to be married to a man who isn't in sympathy with your work. Mrs. Callahan (washerwoman) Ah. rolght ye are, mum! Shure. they're slch a dlfTrince in men. Now. Pat's got to much sympathy fer me wurk he don't do anny himself. Judge. The decorator had just made his estimate. "I'll tell you what I'll do," said the house holder. "You go ahead and decorate the house, and then I'll give It to you In payment of your bill." "No." replied the decorator. "I couldn't afford to take the house for more than half payment." Chicago Evening Tftt. "Do you -find your new boarding-house a 4ulet placer "Well, at times. There are two canaries In the hall, a girl with a type writer overhead, a mechanical piano-player Just below, and two lines of street-cars going by. Yes, It's very quiet from 12 o'clock at night till about 5 A. M." Detroit Free Presa. The older members of the family, having de parted In gala attire to attend a wedding, the 2-year-old Elbrldge Inquired of Sister Helen, aged 5, "What Is a wedding?" "I'm afraid you're too young to understand," was the worldly wise reply, "but It's someting between a funeral and dancing school." Harper's Magazine. The poor millionaire chaffeur was again be fore the rural Judge. "And so once mora they arrested you for scaring horses," said the sympathetic Iriend. "Why don't you give up the automobile and buy an airship?" The wealthy man shook his head. "It Is no use," he said, sadly. "If I had an airship they would arrest me for scaring birds." Chicago News.