,.47-WqjVl T&E jIORNmG OBEGONIAy TUESDAY, MAY 141901. V yyy "i-waf jWHWBjW- -" She: -rgijomcm Entered atj &e Posjogce at Portland, Oregon, pa eecocS-cJttBs mattes. .. TELEPHONES. Efiltorlal Booms. ....108 i Business Office., .657 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Mall iposts.se prepaid). In Advance Daily, with Sunday, per month.. .........$ S5 XaUy. Sunday excepted, per year......... M Dai.y. -with. Sunday, per year............. 9 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The 'Weekly, j)er year 1 50 The "Weekly, 3 months -. W To City Subscribers Dally, per -week, delivered. Sundays excepted-15 Dally, per -Reek, delivered. Sundays lncludeiL20c , POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 20 to 10-page paper................... lc 16 to 32-page paper.............. 2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed lnvarla fcly ""Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any Individual. 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Forsale In Salt Lake lay the Salt Lake News Co , 4 1 "IV. Second South street; For sale In Ogden by W. C Kind, 204 Twenty-firth street. On file la "Washington. D. C. with A. W. Durn, 500 14th N. IV. On file at Buffalo, N. T.. In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale In Denver, Colo.. y Hamilton & Xendiick. 900-912 Seventh street. TODAY'S "WEATHER. Probably fair; winds most'j northerly. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 14, l601. MR. HILL'S dOMPLAIXT. "Without doubt it would be a desira ble thing: for- the Great Northern to obtain complete control of so powerful a competitor as the Northern Pacific Uqually obvious is the desirability of a Great Northern and Northern Pacific combination's obtaining control of the Burlington system and thus equipping Itself with connections calculated to put the Union Pacific at a decided dis advantage. But is it reasonable for the promoters of such a scheme to ex pect the' Union Pacific to sit Idly by under the 'campaign directed at it, and not seek to protect Itself? Such, ap parently, -was Mr. J. J. Hill's expecta tion. If -we may judge from the Inter view with him contained in Sunday's dispatches, wherein he said: "The trouble -was not foisted upon the public by us. I did not speculate myself In a single share, and the shares of the Great Northern and of the Northern Pacific -which I hae today I shall keep, If I can, until doomdaj." Mr. Hill paused and turned half around. "When he turned back there were tears In his cjes. I have received lots of letters' he said, "from friends of mine men and -women who are not rich, who are comparatively poor. They knew that I -was Interested personally and largely In my properties, and they had faith In them and In me Now they are com yletely ruined, and simply because 'they hae been caught 4n tne- -vortex of a gamble. Tet they bought their shares In good faith. This ery morning I got a letter from the -wife o a friend of mine, telling me of the looses to her family. I repeat that this trouble has not been of my making, and no one regrets It more than T do " The only rational Interpretation to be put upon these lachrymose utterances is that Mr. Hill feels that "his attempts to acquire Burlington and put the Union Pacific In a hole should not have been resisted by Harriman and Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. but should have been al lowed to go -on smoothly to their com pletion. Then there would have been no corner In Northern Pacific, no panic, no losses by crazy speculators. The inadequacy of Mr. Hill's conten tion is increased by the nature of the operations in which he and his friends have been aotlve for months5 past. "We alluded the other day to his opera tions In Erie and Baltimore & Ohio, "which were accounted a railroad move, but afterwards pronounced, in quar ters friendly to himself, purely a stock speculation on which he cleared 54,000, 000. But this is innocence itself com pared with the Northern Pacific and Burlington deals. Mr. Hill's fight, and the fight of those he antagonized and aroused to retaliation, has been a fight to see who should use the credit of the Northern Pacific in a stupendous flota tion scheme. It is a move to get control of a business property through bor rowed money, and then to force an other business property to take up the first at high valuations, Issuing, for the purpose. Its own securities. The stockholders in the Northern Pacific, that is, the public, are to issue bonds at a valuation set by Mr. Hill and his friends, to buy from the stockholders of the Burlington, that is, the public, the Burlington road. The "corner" and the resistance that caused it are each natural results of Mr. Hill's bold game of manipulating to his own advantage the business cwned by other persons. It is no time row to cry over the losses of innocent purchasers Of stocks whose interests "were ignored by him In projection of its deals. They had faith In him, it is true, but he should have known, if they did not, the reprisals he "was tak ing chances of provoking. A ,TIUKE IMMINENT. The vexed question of ten hours' pay for nine hours "work threatens to cause 1 an extensive strike among machinists and roetal-worlcers in Eastern cities on the 20th of Ma). lr not amicably settled sooner. The post of such a strike at this time, not orily to labor but to cap ital, would be enormous. Indeed, It Is at this time Impossible to compute it, bo far-reaching in business, commercial and industrial movements is the line of labor represented, and the capital em ployed in the metal industries. At first thought the demand of the mechanics seems "without shadow of excuse in equity or reason. The demand that men should be paid for time aggregat ing six hours per -week to each man in excess of the actual time given to their employers service is, broadly con sidered, a demand of something for nothing, to which no business man Is disposed to yield. On the other hand, the men contend that4he profits of the metal industries are at present very large; that all should not be absorbed ty the operators, but that, in common Justice and equity, the labor that is Ha equally Important and wholly lndls- Tensable factor In production should share them, to the extent indicated by the demand of a shorter working day. The forces represented in this con tention on either side are formidable. Capital aggregating millions of dollars in value on one hand is confronted by the hosts of labor on the other, 500,000 strong. Each side Is fully conscious of Its own power, while not unmindful of that -of the other. Under such condi tions It would seem that every art of conciliation should be exhausted be fore open warfare is declared. Conces sions must be made in the end by both parties. The question, "Why not in the beginning?" is a pertinent one. It is incredible that experience should be allowed to go for nothing in a matter of such vast importance. There is yet hope that counsel will be taken of sweet reasonableness in time to avoid a strike so expensive and disastrous as this one would of necessity prove. A VEXED QUESTION. Mr. Walter Wyckoff, whose peculiar method of studying the labor problem has brought him some renown and thrown not a little light upon the labor question, reiterates, in his latest maga zine article the statement that there is a reasonably steady demand for labor In the farming regions, even at times when workingmen are standing idle In the cities. He has borne this testimony before, as all who have followed him in his volumes, "The Workers," can testify. It has, moreover, been widely corroborated by the experience and ob servation of other thoughtful men. In view, .however, of recent assertions which declare that the reason why young-men leave the farms is that their labor there is displaced by machinery, it is interesting to find in the May Scrlbner an amplification of this wri ter's experience. When Mr. Wyckoff was voluntarily tramping through the country in the character of a workingman out of a job, but willjng to turn his hand to any thing that offered, he found employ ment difficult to obtain in cities, but was often literally besieged with offers of work in the country. In the same year in which he sought employment' in vain for two weeks in Chicago'' he had offers of work while walking throngH the farming regions of Indiana and Ohio, and In Iowa farmers would stop him on the road and ask him to work for them. This opportunity to work on farms, of course, varies with the time of year, but, according to this generally accepted authority, it pre vails to a certain extent the year round. It is also a fact that this dearth of labor on farms is more acute now that indus trial enterprise has again become active, and the question of labor equal ization, so to speak, Is manifestly' a perplexing one. In the first place, city employment is for various reasons much more at tractive to the masses than is work In the country. It Is against this fact that farmers In search of labor must con tend, hopelessly, as it would seem, since there is no remedy for it Against it stands the further fact that the wages of farm hands, nominally less than those paid in cities and towns, are fully equal to" the average when cost of living is taken into account. As long as work ingmen prefer to live in cities, even though the weekly expense absorbs the weekly wage, to living in the country where the pay received, being in addi tion to board and lodging, may be counted upon as a surplus, they will congregate upon street corners with the plaint, "no man hath hired us" upon their lips, while farmers will seek In vain for steady men to assist in plow ing, sowing and harvesting. If some means can be devised whereby men de void of the love of Nature and her op erations in field and orchard, who pre fer the noise and excitement of crowds to the peace and quiet of relatively iso-, lated family life can be made to take a different view of life and place a new Interpretation upon pleasure, then the problem will be solved. That is to say it will solve Itself. Until then it wiir continue to be a vexed question. A REMARKABLE TRIAL. The trial of Charles R. Eastman, at Cambridge. Mass., for killing his brother-in-law, Richard Grogan, has terminated In the acquittal of the de fendant Eastman is an educated man, who has charge of the department of vertebrate paleontology in the Agassiz Museum, at Harvard University. The shooting of Grogan by Eastman took place while they were firing at a target with pistols. There were no witnesses, but Eastman testified under oath that he shot his brother-in-law accidentally by the premature discharge of his pis tol, and that -Grogan survived his wound long enough to say to the nurse: "Charles has shot me; there hells now, looking at me. Honest to God; he shot me." Eastman and his wife testified that the relations between the; men and their families had always been exceed ingly cordial in every respect but Gro gan's mother testified that there had been a quarrel on one occasion, when Eastman had said to Grogan, "Your days are short" There was a struggle between the men after Grogan was shot, concerning which Eastman testi fied as follows: I stepped forward to assist him, and he stag gered back, -with his hand waving. His re volver "was discharged, and I dropped my re volver and ran forward and grasped either his hand or his revoHer and we came together. He resisted me in such a way that we grap pled. There was a struggle for the possession of that gun on my part, brief and violent. I know there were exclamations and later cries. The first exclamation was a drawing of breath, deep and quick; he -said, as near as I can re member, "Damn It; you have shdt me: damn It. I am hit!" I can remember that, after wo had stumbled about for quite a little while, he turned and was brought down on his knees, and with a wrench I got away. The next thing I knew we were running and we came together again. There was. as I re member, nothing In ouf hands. There was some scuffling. There lay opposite us some weapon which I tried to knock out of the way with my feet to keep him from getting It. I don't know what that wat. There was some struggling and then he broke away from me and ran. I saw him climb the embankment. I saw him struggle across; I saw him stumble and fall Into Dallinger's arms. There was considerable testimony to the effect that high words had been heard between the men before the shooting took place, but while Grogan In his dying moments did not specific ally exonerate Eastman of any Inten tion to shoot him, neither did he spe cifically impute any such intention to him. Of course, he might have ab stained from doing this for family rea sons. If the men had had a sudden quarrel while target shooting and East man had shot Grogan In a fit of pas sion. It is possible that Grogan would have refrained from charging Eastman with hostile intent, and it Is quite pos sible that If he felt confident that his shooting was an accident he would not In his dying- words -specifically exoner ate his brother-in-law, since', in ab sence of any known motive for hostil ity, it would jiot be necessary, from the friendly Intimacy of the two men, to say specifically that his shooting was the result of an aceldent The struggle that followed the shooting was not unnatural. Eastman' was beside himself with fright and Grogan half crazed with the pain and horror of his situation. Grogan was shot when he had his revolver in his hand aiming at the target, and as he staggered under his wound his revolver -was discharged. It was natural for Eastman to go for ward to assist hfm and to wrench the revolver from him, lest In his bewilder ment of pain and fright the weapon should be discharged. Eastman owes his acquittal to the fact that the jury bejleved he told the truth, and they were persuaded to be lieve him because there was no motive for a deadly quarrel between Eastman and his brother-in-law, who had been entirely friendly, Indeed very intimate, up to the last hour of their companion ship. The good reputation of the de fendant; the failure of, the dying man to impute hostile Intent to his slayer; the frequency of such accidents among people who habitually amuse them selves with target practice, all con spired to persuade the jury that East man told the truth;' that.he was a very wretched man, who never would have been placed on trial for his life if there had been a respectable witness to the whole affair. Eastman's acquittal on the strength of his reputatlpn aria char acter recalls the fact that when Pro fessor Webster, of Harvard College, was hanged for the murder of Dr. Parkman, in 1850, It was" said that If Webster had 'frankly confessed that ho was guilty of manslaughter the jury would have believed him, but his at tempt to destroy the body of his victim and deny his guilt, tpsave himself the social disgrace of a long term of im prisonment ended in his conviction and execution for murder. . UNWRITTEN LAW; . When the National House of Repre sentatives asked President Grant where he had been, he replied in substance that it was none of' the House's busi ness, and would not -have' been had he as Commander-in-Chief of the Armv and Navy been out of the United States. As a matter of written law, President Grant was undoubtedly right, although It is the common impression that the Chief Executive cannot leave the ter ritory of the United States within his term of office. But there is nothing in the Constitution or the laws to prevent him. He can go to Canada or to Mex ico or make a -Visit abroad, and there is no legal or constitutional power to stop him. Nevertheless, the" Presidential practice of never going out of the coun try has obtained the force of an un written law, for no President of the United States has ever departed from its jurisdiction while in .office. Presi dent McKlnley, in his speech at El Paso, said to the Mexican represent atives that he could not "go over there but they can come over here." Mrs. McKinley crossed the bridge into Mex ico, but the President halted at the American end of the bridge. General' Harrison, when visiting El Paso diirin'g his Presidency, went out to the middle of the bridge, but stopped at the point where Mexican jurisdiction began. The Constitution provides that In case of "the removal, death, resignation' or inability" of the President to- per form the duties of his office, the same shall devolve upon the Vice-President The question whether the absence of the President, from the United States, even for a very brief space of time, would constitute a case of inability or disability, has never been settled be cause it has never been raised, but be cause of this question no President has felt free as a matter of political pru dence to leave the country. When Sec retary Long took a vacation in the Spring of 1898 and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt became acting Secretary of the Navy, he managed in a week to send a number of dispatches which made more far-reaching trouble than 'Secretary Long could cure In a year. It Is now suggested to every intelli gent mind that it is among the possi bilities in event of a very brief ab sence of President McKinley from the country that the restless "Teddy'' might assume the office of Chief Ex ecutive, make appointments or per form some other executive act while the President was on Mexican soil. In that event, on the President's return the question whether disability for the performance of executive duties can be affirmed of the President's presence on foreign soil would doubtless be referred to the courts for judicial review and de cision as a constitutional question. The constitutions of most of the states spe cifically provide for the assumption by the Lieutenant-Governor of the duties of the Governor when the latter is ab sent from the state. When Governor Smith, of Montana, was absent in Cali fornia, the Lieutenant-Governor ap pointed William A. Clark, whose seat had just been declared vacant by the United States Senate, to the vacancy. In the case of the President of the United States the assumption by the "Vice-President of the duties of the Pres ident when the latter Is absent from the country is but vaguely implied, but it is this doubt which prevents the President from taking any leave of ab sence for a longer or a shorter time from the territory of the United States. If it should be decided by the courts that the briefest possible absence of the President from the territory of the United States disables him for the per formance of his duties, why, then, the Vice-President could assume the chair and work a deal of political mischief in a few hours. A Vice-President of the type of Andrew Johnson, or, in moments of warlike excitement of "Teddy" Roosevelt, might do a deal of harm for which there would, be no legal or constitutional correction or remedy. In such an event, some tribunal would have to decide, if the President lost his power during hlsabsence, how he should regain It on his return from his visit to foreign soil, near or far. Prob ably this determination to avoid all possibility of furnishing any opportu nity for a factious Vice-President to "make a monkey" of the Presidency and force a judicial settlement of a new and embarrassing constitutional ques tion, lies at the bottom of this unwrit ten law under which all the Presidents have been extremely careful to keep on American soil. The sovereigns of Great Britain go abroad. Queen Victoria was an annual visitor to the Riviera. It may be said that the King or Queen is only a" figure head; that the Prime Minister "of Great Britain is "the real executive of Us gov ernment and that the presence or ab sence of the monarch is a thing of no consequence, since" the Prime Minister really governs Great Britain as an ex ecutive of the wilL of Parliament, as our President is of the will of Congress. This plea woulcl be of no consequence, for the Prime Minister goes as he pleases. Gladstone spent all his Win ters while Prime Minister in the Riviera, and Lordi Salisbury is now ab sent from the realm, and for several years past has spent his Winters at the health resorts of the Jura Mountain district of France. But our President does not dare, even for a moment, set foot on foreign territory. When we re member the. violent contrast between the Intellectual and moral nature of Lincoln and that of Andrew Johnson, It Is easy to. understand, had Lincoln lived, how he might "have hesitated to cross the line to Mexican or Canadian soil. The shortage in the school land funds represents a carelessness or Indiffer ence on the part of the State School Land Board of a past administration that is perfectly Indefensible, even by the most lenient rules that govern offi cialism in Oregon. As designated by the Salem Journal, the "old Metschan-McBrlde-Pennoyer board" exercised the most perfunctory supervision over the Ubooks of its clerk when ltwas its plain and sworn duty to see to it that, as its agent and employe, he accounted for and turned over all theT moneys col lected from the sale of school lands. When the Journal adds that these men "owe the state school fund whatever sum their clerk and agent failed to turn over, whether a Legislative whitewash intervened or not, and that they should be sued with the bondsmen if they do not upon demand make good the amount of'-the defalcation,." it makes a.-statement that taxpayers generally will indorse and that equity Justifies, whether it is or can be ratified by judi cial proceedings or not. -The wild columbine is strongly urged as "a National flower" by the many friends of Its whole family from Flor ida to Maine, from the Rockies to the Pacific -Slope. The partisans of the wild columbine Include Professor F. L. Sar gent, botanist in the University of Wis consin, president of t the National Co lumbine Association; and Dr. Rolfe, the Cambridge Shakespearean; "Bradford Torrey, the observer of nature; C. How ard Walker, lecturer on architecture of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Rev. Dr. Moxom, of Springfield, Mass.; Wal ter B. Adams, of Boston; Rev. Francis Tiffany, of Cambridge: It Is urged that the columbine grows In semi-tropical Florida, in Colorado' and ail the Rocky Mountain States, in all the states of the Pacific Slope" and in the Middle West and New England.- This is true, but the columbine has no proper fitness compared with other flowersfor it has no wearing quality in leaf or flower that fit it to be used as a badge on public days. The memorial .fountain of Eugene's patriotic dead who lost their lives in the Philippines will bre unveiled in that city May '17. We have before spoken ofthe appropriateness of-the memorial that, in enduring granite, will stand "in a public square in Oregon's university town, .attesting" at once 'the valor and sacrifice of Lane' County boysr'ln th'e far-away Islands .of the Pacific and the loving remembrance of their friends at home. To the-schoolboys of the pres ent and of coming generations we would say, visit this fountain inscribed with the names of the brave, drink from its pure waters, and may you never be possessed of a thirst that they will not quench, . Enterprise begets enterprise. Citi zens of Sellwood made laudable and successful effort to secure the Portland woolen mills. Now come the citizens of Willsburg, an adjoining suburb, of fering inducements to capital to build a fruit'eannery near the location chosen for the woolen mills. This efforfalso should, and probably will, succeed. A site well placed, and convenient to th& railroad and a bonus of land and money are inducements worthy of considera tion in-"" connection with an Industry that, if properly equipped and managed, cannot fail 'to prove profitable. A Connecticut jury 'declines to convict a woman of murder in the first' degree because the first degree means capital punishment. Tet a Connecticut jury not long ago sent a 16-year-old. boy to the gallows. Of r course, If woman Is the equal of man, she ought to be hanged for murder just as long as the death penalty Is inflicted upon man. Mrs. Druse, who was hanged in Warren County, New York, some years ago, killed her husband with-an .ax,-cut him up and burned him in the stove. Mrs. Druse ought to have taken up her residence in Connecticut. All 'that Dr. Hillis saysrabout gam bling is true, and the pulpit is as promising a place as any, from which to eradicate- it. If you can't reform the life, you can't control its outward ex pression, or if at all, but slightly. Tet how is the church going to reach the masses if the old fear of hell-fire is gone and nothing of, equal deterrent force is found to take its place? Is truth so Inadequate for moral restraint that we must go back to preaching lies or let civilization go by the board? Mrs. McKinley's illness is 'ominous. Those who have lived in Washington the past four years speaks of her as failing, and the trip, with its attendant wear and new physical affliction, has done anything so far but help her. If the untoward circumstance forbids the President's trip to Oregon, the disappointment here will be intense. Meanwhile we can only hope the best for her, for the President, and for our desires of hospitality. "A bone felon" Is about as uncomfort able and unwelcome a' traveling com panion as could well secure the ac commodations of a, special railway train. Persons who have walked the floor for many' days and nights in com pany with one of these exacting visitors in the quiet of their own homes can well believe that the President's wife needs absolute rest for a few days, after having suffered from a felon dur ing more than a week's travel. While the outlook for fruit in a few localities, both' in the Willamette Val ley and Southern Oregon, does not ful fill the promise of blossoming time, re ports of orchardlsts in the main indi cate a most abundant yield. STORIES 0F;THE STOCK PANIC Chlcasft -Tribune. NEW YORK, May 8. (Special.) The burden of the ..layman's tale of today's happenings In Wall street was: "It might have been." There were more persons, male and female. In the Wall-street dis trict today who would have made a mil lion or so if they had only known than one could shake a stick at. The whole trouble was that James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman and Jacob H. Schlff and the other magnates who were said to have been battling for the control of Northern Pacific did not take the dear public Into their confidence. Of course. It was a great mistake, and one which they will avoid in the future. One of the traders in a lower Broadway office, in speaking of his experiences dur ing the day, said: "I read the papers this morning, and I saw how Jim H1U had been walloped by the Harriman outfit, and I concluded that after the walloping had, been administered mo wutiopers wouia leave tne sxuck. atone. It took me some little time to be assured that Hill really had been walloped. I know Jim yeara ago, when he was run ning a ferry line out West He got the best of everybody around those diggings, and finally folks said he was worth $1,000, Ofa). It took some sense to get $1,000,000 in those days, and I did not believe that anybody by the name of Harriman coyld thump Jim Hill. But all the papers said this morning that Hill had been thumped, and I concluded It must be so. So I came down town with the idea In my head that I'd get foxy and sell 200 Tor 300 shares of Northern Pacific, which I didn't have and buy ft back on the tumble. But the darned "stuff didn't tumble. The first I knew it was quoted as having been sold at 180. "I made up my mind that it would go to 200 before I could wink. Therefore I bought a couple of hundred shares. I'd no sooner got my order In than the prices came over the ticker and showed that It had tumbled down more than a dozen points. Now, how can a fellow count on anything when quotations seesaw In that way? I made up my mind to go over and ask Jim what he was doing. I did so. but, Lord, I might as well have stayed where. I was. I did not get any further than an office boy, who was dressed bet ter than Jim ever dared dress In his life. He said Mr. Hill was In, but was busy. " 'That's all right, young man,' I said; 'I've heard that lingo before. I'm an old friend of Mr. Hill's, and I want to see him.' "You might just as well have argued with a ticker as to have argued with that fellow. He not only would nob take any message to Hill, but he would npt get away from In front of me as long as I stayed in the office. I saw It was no use, so I came back, and I find now that I'm $2250 worse off this afternoon than I was this morning." If a person was looking for hard luck stories he could have got a dozen of the same kind In any office in Wall street that he chose to drop into. The men were bad enough, but in the offices where the women speculate there was the real thing in the way of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. A reporter dropped Into three of these offices during the afternoon, and from what he overheard the conclusion was drawn that there was not a woman in any of the shops that was not either a first cousin to or a lifelong friend of some of the magnates who have held the center of the Wall-street stage for the last few days. It was quite evi dent that the ladies had been misled as to the probable course of prices. "I saw Mr. Hill taking dinner at the Netherland last night I used to know hlo wife well," said one of the women in an office in lower Broadway, in prefac ing her story of what might have been to some of her friends. "I had a good mind to ask him how Northern Pacific would go today, but he looked preoccupied, and I thought I wouldn't He'd have told In a minute, I know, because I know his wife. But I didn't say anything to him about It, and fche result of it is I've lost $50. I might just as well have made a couple of hun dred, had I only had my wits about me.". 'Well," said a woman with a wealth of hair that was golden this afternoon. "I've concluded there isn't any money In this game. I. can get better information about the horses than I can about stocks, and I'm going to quit Wall street, and go to the races, I can get a free ticket for the Morris Park meeting, and you'll not see me below Twenty-third street again this Summer." One pleasant story told down town was that of the experience of young John B. Manning. Young Mr. Manning succeeded In his father's seat In the stock exchange a few years ago, and every now and then he has let Wall street know that he was doing business. Today was ope of those occasions." Mr. Manning, the irioment he saw Northern Pacific quoted at 180, con cludedthat that was a good time to sell short Accordingly he sold 2000 slares at that figure. Almost before he had com pleted the memorandum of the sale on his pad the stock dropped to 150, and he quick ly covered his shorts.- The whole trans action took a little less than seven min utes, and In that time Mr. Manning cleared up $60,000, and took his profit. So far as is known, that was the quickest small fortune made in Wall street since the time of fortune-making began, about two weeks aeo. , Another person who had reason to feel satisfied with the way things were going was a young man named George Palmer Schmidt. Young Mr. Schmidt is just a little past 21. Until a few months ago he' was a clerk In the employ of the stock exchange house of Harris & Fuller. Tra dition says that he was, like many young men in Wall street, the son of poor but honest parents; but, be this as It may, he made up his mind that he could make more money outside of the office of Harris & Fuller than Inside. Accordingly he threw up his job, and began trading' on the curb. Mr. Schmidt won't tell how much he made, but the story today was that he had cleared up over $100,000 in about two months. However that may be, he was able today to pay $70,000 for a seat in the stock exchange, plus $1600 for initiation fee andv commission. It was only hist week that a young man named Brumley", seven years Mr. Schmidt's senior, paid $69,000 for a seat on the exchange. When Mr. Schmidt was asked what he was going to do, now that he was a member of the exchange, he said he had formed a partnership with Fred erick Gallatin, Jr., under the "firm name of Schmidt & Gallatin, and that the firm would transact a general stock brokerage business at 45 Broad street. In spite of the calamity-howlers, it seemed to be a particularly good day for young men in the street today. It was announced that the board of directors of the New York Realty Company had been chosen, and that young Cornelius Vander bllt would sit as a member among the graybeards on the board. Senator De pew was asked how Mr. Vanderbllt hap pened to be chosen as a director in this particular company, and the- reported an swer to the question was: "Director in a real estate company is too tame these days. I don't know anything about real estate. It keeps me busy trying to keep track of the stock pyrotechnics." Foolish Tallc of War. Pittsburg Post. Of all things possible In the future a war between the United States and Germany- Is the most Improbable. The two nations are cemented In the bonds of friendship by the, mystic ties of blood re lation, the outsrowth of millions of German-born and their descendants in the United States. Emperor William may do many foolish antispasmodic things, but a war with the United States is the last thing he will attempt and Americans feel the "same as to war with Germany TEXAS PREACHER ON TRUSTSv New York Times. Hogg is a millionaire, Bailey Is an oil king, and Mills Is floundering in sudden opulence, but there is one jrue voice m Texas that still sing3 the old song with out deviation from the pitch. It Is the voice of Ltftwlteh, the Rev. W. M. Left wich, of El Paso, who got his boyhood friend, the President, Into a pew last Sunday, and from the pulpit thundered at him a sermon about millionaires and the selfish trusts that must have made Mr. McKinley sit bolt upright from hymn to benediction. Mr, Leftwich said bluntly that the end of these things It anarchy, atheism, and hell; an observa tion which was calculated to move the President tQ earnest prayer that some evangelist may get hold of Mark Hanna before it is too late. When St Paul told Timothy that the love of money is the root of all evil he showed that he was a superficial reason ed Mr. Leftwich goes deeper and de clares that selfishness Is the root of the love of money, and selfishness Is what ails us now: Selfishness has not only brought upon us all the moral evils that have wrecked and ruined human life, but all the social, evils, the eco nomic, political, commercial and Industrial evils that so often trouble and distress us and retard our progress toward a Christian civil ization that stands for the kingdom of God. So lone as the selfish greed for sold is em bodied In our civil Institutions and protected and fostered by our civil laws we will have financial and economic troubles, Insurrection, lawlessness and crime, and vlth these the un rest, uncertainty. Insecurity and disasters that visit our country periodically. So lone as our vast fortunes are built out of the wrecking of private Industries and trusts and combines and corporations, with multl-mllllonalres of capital, make corners of the necessities of life, and this Is sustained by public aentlment, and protected by law, our land may continue to bring forth plentifully, our mines and mountains may continue to pour their rich oms into th lap of Industry, our manufactories may multiply In every etate and county, but the uncertainty, the Injus tice, the oppression and the corresponding poverty and crime will continue. The Rev. Mr. Leftwich Is content with no palliatives, he prescribes no half remedies to make the patient easier. A worldly mind, the mind of a statesman, for instance, or of a professor of politi cal economy, would confidently suggest legislation. When the trusts get unbear able, when the Hoggs and the Baileys and the Rockefellers get so rich that there s not money enougn ten. tor w rest of us we shall pass restraining laws and the public prosecutor will make them disgorge at least he will prevent further gorging. This Is pitting the self interest of the many against the selfish ness of the few; which we ought to have done long ago In the case of the tariff. Mr. Leftwich goes to the root of the matter, as Is evidently his habit. The remedy for these evils, he says, is the Cross, the universal acceptance and prac tice of the Chrtstian teaching. "The Cross means death to sin. death to self ishness, to injustice, to oppression, fraud and wrOng in all forms and in all places." . There is a terrible mistake somewhere. This is the age of trusts there can ba no mistake about that Scores upon scores of. combinations have been formed in the last five years, some of them big and most of them prosperous. Yet we see the coincident phenomena of very high wages, almost everybody at work, a general and unprecedented prosperity, large deposits in the savings banks, and in proportion to population fewer bank ruptcies and less helpless poverty than at any time within memory. This etate of affairs emboldens the organizers and managers of combinations to Insist stoutly that they are a good thing, that trusts promote prosperity and happi ness, and that the people like them so well that they would forbid at the polls any attempt to suppress them. And it is a fact that Mr. Bryan made the trusts his main campaign issue, and he was disastrously beaten. But the Rev. Mr. Leftwich will have it that they are sprung from selfishness, in which .lies the root of all evil. A If after some years of experience It should turn out that the combinations and trusts spring not so much from selfishness as from enlightened self-interest i that the principle of live and let live underlies all of them that are per mitted to survive; that, in short, they are a modern method of doing business In which os in other matters abuse will Invite Its penalty and justice bring .its reward, then the Rev. Mr. Leftwich will recall with some chagrin the sermon that he preached at President McKinley. Probably the cause of rillgion is not helped by denouncing the penalties of the bottomless pit upon persons who move In obedience to natural laws of which the beneficence may some day be demonstrated. As to the trusts, It Is safer for the pulpit, even In Texas, to await the secular verdict. Banks, railroads and labor-saving machinery were in earlier times objects of the. bitterest at tacks. It was charged against them that they were devised to enslave the people and -take bread from the mouths of the poor. Mr. Leftwich would have worked himself into a fine pious passion oyer them if he had been contemporaneous with their origin. They are an accept ed and Indispensable part of our modern commercial and Industrial machinery. Mr. Leftwich may live to see the wisely managed trusts Justify themselves. It is imprudent to give premature Judg ments In these matters. Great Ship Trrnit Bents Subsidies. Chicago Chronicle. Plerpont Morgan's ocean vessel, trust is a valuable -object lesson to the public on the subject or ' Government subsidies for shipping. To a great financier or ganizing a vast business combination with a capital of $70,000,000 a petty Con gressional lobby scheme to get a gift of $9,000,000 a year seems like a matter so insignificant as to be unworthy of con sideration. The great trust promoter asks for no Government subsidy. He plans and carries Into effect a comprehensive scheme of ocean navigation to transport products worth millions of dolllars a month. It Is to be managed by private enterprise and to be made profitable on its merits without robbing the tax payers for a subsidy. As educators on the subject of subsidies, the Morgan trusts are filling a sphere of public use fulness which had not been foreseen by the most sagacious students of politics and economics. Spiritualist Fad Fndlnp Away. Springfield (Mass.) Republican, The Spiritualists, in session in New York, under the auspices of the National Sniritualists' Association, find It disagree able to take account of stock. It has been the general observation for some years that fjplrltualism was in a decline, and now the president of the association con firms the popular belief. The extent of the decline Is very great, and it must have been rapid, for there are now less than 60 Spiritualist societies and lyceums. where several years ago there were front 500 to 700. Membership ,1s, steadily de creasing in 21 states. -i ..I Knees at a Fire. Stephen Phillips. Dazzled with watching Kow the swift Are fled Along the dribbling roof, I turned my head; When lo. upraised beneath the lighted cloud The Illumined unconscious faces of the crowd! An old gray face In lovely bloom upturned. The ancient rapture and the dream returned! A crafty face wondering simply up! That dying face near the communion cup! The experienced face, now venturous and rash. The scheming eyes hither and thither flash! That common trivial face made up of needs. Now pale and recent from triumphal deeds!, The hungry tramp with inddlent gloallng stare The beggar In glory and released from care. A mother slowly burning with bare breast, Tet her consuming child close to her pressed! That prosperous citizen In anguish dire. Beseeching heaven from purgatorial fire! "Wonderful souls by sudden flame betrayed. I saw: then throush the darkness went afraid. t " NOTE AND COMMESTy- The Hawaiian situation seems to be al together too Doleful. The words that make ua feel most glum Are these: "McKinley may not come.' We might have expected this kind of weather when the open cars came out- v The dread monster of militarism-13 now "" busily engaged in reducing the ArmyUo a peace footlnsr. Perhaps the President is afraid to coma to Oregon because he thinks Pennoyer is ' still Governor. King Edward Is now the King of Can ada also. If he can only fill, whafa world-beater he will be. t When the Brlttoh feel too happy .Jheso days, instead of repeating Kipling's. "Re cessional," they simply take a look at Kitchener's latest report. Too bad that Senton-Thompson,, doesn't go to Manila and add a chapter on Agul naldo to his "Wild Animals I Have Known." Grover Cleveland made 5100.000 byathe rise in Northern Pacific stock: For are tired statesman. Grover Is doing fairly well, thank you. r A New York chorus girl has made $750y 000 In Wall street, but she will have toy pay It all out to the press asent who In vented that story. California will probably sue Mrs. Mc Kinley for damaging the reputation of the state by falling 111 In a climate that is supposed to cure everything; from con-' sumption down. The Joke of the Pan-American Expo sition is on the capitalists who built the mammoth Slatler Hotel, with nine acres of sleeping-rooms three miles of halls., and a dining-room to feed 5C00 persons- On Friday 2S6 employes were on duty at the hotel. There was one guest, Mr. Wilson, of New York, who humorously complained to the officers of inattention on the part of the servants. Mr. Wilson went away on Saturday, and the management 2a looking for some one to take his place. A French entomologist, M. Dagin, rec ommends insects as an article of food. He speaks with authority, having not only read through the whole literature of Insect-eating, but having himself tasted sev eral hundreds of species raw, boiled, fried, broiled, roasted and hashed. He has even eaten spiders, prepared according to the following recipe: "Take a plump spider.' remove the legs and skin. Rub over with . butter and swallow." However, he does not recommend them, but this may be prejudice on his part. Jay Cooke is still living in Philadelphia, at the age of SO. and when the stock of the Northern Pacific Railroad crossed par the other day for the first time, to say nothing of the phenomenal jump Thurs day, It must have been accepted by him as a vindication, although belated, of his judgment, as shown when he took hold of ' the financing of the road 31 years ago. Mr. Cooke was the J. P. Morgan of .his day, and will long be remembered as the one who negotiated the vast loans of the Government during the Civil War period. Pearls as well as diamonds have been constantly Increasing in price during the N last 12 months. The higher price for pearls Is probably due to the enormous demand for them, which, the dealers say,, they have not been able to supply. Most"" of the pearls used In the "United States are purchased in Paris, London and other Continental cities. In Paris, and else where In Europe, there are men who make a business of bleaching these stones. The large demand for pearls has stimulated the efforts in this country to pass off the bleached articles for the genuine white , pearls, which are always most valuable. "All the folks In Kansas City are proud and happy over the success of Alice Niel sen In London, where she is breaking all records In The Fortune-Teller,' " re marked William Fold, of Kansas City, a writer in the New York Tribune. "You know, of course, that Miss Nielsen tvas born In our city, and is a type of MIs sourian from the point of her toe to the highest curl of her pretty brown hair. I recollect her as a little, toddling thing, when she was the loveliest little warbler ever heard. She was like that poet fel low, 'who lisped In numbers from his earliest years.' When only 8 years old she stole Into the Kansas City theater one night through the stage door and hid till the audience and players had depart ed. The house was dark, as well as empty, .only a single dull gas jet lit up the stage, and then, when all were gone, tne beautiful little stage-struck warbler walked to the front and eang hej&l-nrst stage song to an emptjO'DiGuse. A,She does not have to sing, to empty houses now. for her beauty and her songs have won her the favor of two continents and all Mlssourlans are proud of her." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS JimWot are yer larfln' at. Bill? Bill. Why, the ole woman started ter Jaw that cop per what kyme ter lock me up. an' I'm blowerl If e ain't run 'er In, an' left me! Glasgow Evening Times. Disqualified. Miss Swagger I don't think MIjs Warble ought to be permitted to sing, la our choir. Mr. Basso Why, she has a. lovely voice. Miss Swagger That may be, but she's wearing her last year's hat trimmed over. Ohio State Journal. Thirteen at Table. lira. B. Oh. Charles, we can never sit down with thirteen at table. Mr. B. Pshaw! I hope you're not so superstitious as that. Mrs. B. No, of course not; but we have only twelve dinner plates. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Evidence. "That child Is going to make d. great golf player,"" said the proud young father. "How can you tell?" "I was teaching him to walk this morning, and the first thing he did was to toe-In as If he were about to make a drive." Washington Star. Fortified. Mrs. Hatterson I am gclng to meet my husband at 1 o'clock to select some decorations for the drawing-room. Mrs. Cat terson What do you want him with you for? "Well, In case they don't turn out right. I can say It Is his fault." Life. A Drain on Him. "I've often wondahed." said Cholly. "how sor many fellahs I know manage to get well off, while 1,'m always poor." "Perhaps," replied Miss Pepprey. "It is because so many people amuse themselves "at your expense." Philadelphia Press. m Flood and Ebb. Clinton Scollard In New England Magazlpe. Where two stupendous arteries of trade Become a little space one thoroughfare, Day after day Is the distracted air With deafening and continuous clamor weighed: Cars clash, gongs clamor, ponderous drays are. swayed. ' And Jostling crowds, that seem like puppets, dare The swirling vortex, meet and mingle thre;,v. Thus Is the whole a human maelstrom made. But with the sweet Intrusion of the night The currents slowly slacken, till the last Back sweeping surge has died into a calrpir Silence descends on pinions vague and vast? On earth Is peace, and at their heavenly height The stars jwlng on In their eternal psalnv V