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THE MdtolXG. OBEGONIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1903. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, a second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. 3y Mall (pcitase prepaid In advance) ally, with Sunday, per month 2-?i Dally. Sunday excepted, per year. - Dally, with Sunday, per year -J0 Sunday, per year Vx The -Weekly, per year - The "Weekly. 3 months -M To City Subscribers , Dally, per week, delivered, Sunday excepted.ISc Daily, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.c POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper le 1G to SO-pase paper.. -c 52 t- 44-pse paper ...............3c Foreign rates double. Jf!Tt-s or discussion Intended for publication Jn The Oregonlan should be addressed invari ably "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name ot imy Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription, or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Burlness Office, -43, 44. 45, 47, 4S, 41 Tribune building. 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Myers. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 "Wert Second South street. Fur sale In "Washington, D. C. by the Ebbett Hocse news stand. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick. 806-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. 1 I YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 71 deg.; minimum temperature, 52 deg. ; precipitation, 0. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and warmer; northerly winds. PORTLAVb, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1. DIVIDED RESPONSIBILITY. In the presence of this fearful acci dert on the Morrison-street bridge, the proper feeling Is one of pity for the hapless ones who went down to death and Injury, and sympathy for their rel atives and associates. The mind In stantly files, however, to thoughts of responsibility and punishment. These it is dangerous to pronounce upon In the excitement of first Impulses. We have no desire to excuse criminal negligence "where it exists, and no dis position to arouse indignation against those not deserving of blame. But it does seem to us that the popular out cry against the city and county author ities should be tempered by reflections necessary and Just. It is not strictly true that the bridge was notoriously unsafe. Assertions of its doubtful character, partly in the In terests of those who ardently desire a new structure, had been made, and a prominent engineer went so far as to say that it would be dangerous for the crowds of 1905; but it Is very doubtful if any one of those who now rail at the city and county authorities would have closed the bridge yesterday If In con trol of it, .Thero Is no record of any suggestion on mat score irum uiuac who profess to have known of the dan ger If prescience were given to us, then we could act differently: then the County Court would have closed the bridge. But in so doing it would not have es caped censure. Traffic would have been suspended for two or three hours, no accident would have befallen, and the air would have rung with charges that the scare was used to hurry up con struction of the new bridge. There is no way to close a bridge to those-jyho ouroose standing on it, and leave it open to through travel. Passengers do not placard their intentions on their clothes. Even with ropes stretched across the entrance and three -or four policemen on guard. It Is almost im possible to keep people oil the bridge except by clubbing- them. The responsibility for this accident. therefore, must be divided by the city and county authorities, who would as suredly have done differently could they have known what they do now; by the exhibitors, who lured hundreds to the bridges, as to the proper points from -which to view the "armless wonder," and by the crowds themselves, who were as well informed concerning the bridge as any one else. Nothing can now restore the dead or remedy the awful mistake. But in the ' public view it is some consolation to know that whatever doubt has existed concerning the construction of a new bridge has now been removed. The accident has made it imperative. It is fortunate the necessary enabling act and referendum are already matters of history- The new bridge should be built as soon as possible. It is seldom that the railing of a bridge will be strong enough to support a crowd, all pressing eagerly to the rail to see an exhibition on the river. In every such case there must be very grave danger, and prudent people ought to know It. Bridges are made to cross on, not to be packed with dense crowds to see the sights. And suppose a panic should arise from any cause; people would be trampled to death. And again a runaway team or uncon trollable automobile would bring death to many. The use of the bridges for such purposes ought to be strictly for bidden. THE PECULIAR CASE OF 3IUXSEY. Mr. Frank Munsey was a most es tlmable gentleman, who had succeeded In his own line of business, and he knew no reason why he should not run a newspaper. He had made a success of a magazine: possibly also he had conducted profitably a bank, law office. spice factory, water works, farm and flour mill. Possibly also he Inherited great wealth and thought to measure it In the newspaper business against those whose properties represented the Hfework of their proprietors. At any rate, from another line of effort Mr. Munsey broke Into the newspaper field and the rest Is perhaps best told In the brief words of the press dispatch; New York. July 30. Announcement Is made that the New York Dally News plant and good will will be sold at auction In this city on August 21. The Dally News nas ren pub lished by the New York Publishing Company, of which Frank A. Munsey Is the principal rtockhoMer. Mr. Munsey had exalted Ideas of newspaper work. His paper should ! nore, so far as possible, crimes, prize fights and scandals. It would minister to the select few and the highest clr cles. As tor yellow journalism, and all that the name Implies, he would hav none- of it. Possibly he did not suffi ciently reflect upon the proportion of idle, trifling-, -worthless persons whose names fill up every subscription list, and without whose support no paper can live exTcept in the very largest cities. Doubtless he did not know how many readers buy their newspapers principal ly for the crime, scandal and sporting news it contains, or at least for that class of information which chronicles some one's failures, misdeeds, losses and misfortunes. In New Tork. our largest city, this experiment "should have succeeded, if anywhere, -and how well It succeeded we shall see by again having recourse to the Associated Press report: Xew York. July 30. Announcement Is made that the New York Daily News plant and good will wilt be sold at auction In this city on August 21. The Dally News has been pub lished by the New York Publishing Company, of which Frank A. Munsey is the principal stockholder. Mr. Munsey would have got along all right if it hadn't been forvcompetition. But the more competition he had, the swifter must be his descensus AvernL In Mattawamkeag. for example, we un derstand that many excellent people who used to delight in the clean, whole some and conservative tradition of their newspaper were much moved when red Ink and yellow reading matter had forced into Its purview the seamy side of life, with its "stories" of "human In terest." PROPER CLEMENCY. According to the testimony of physi cians and the careful estimate of Gov ernor Chamberlain thereon, the man "William P. Peacock, lately convicted of murder In Polk County, Is a degener ate, both physically and morally. It Is a stretch of charity to call this creature a human being, but since he is thus classified the Governor hesitated to send him to the scaffold, heavily handi capped as he is by Nature, and decided to commute his sentence, to Imprison ment for life. Governor Chamberlain is not a man who takes a sentimental view of crime or criminals. Hence when he says, after viewing the mis shapen body in which this creature. who Is possessed of an Idiosyncrasy for murder, lives, that he feels that in re fusing to commute the sentence Im posed by the court upon Peacock he would be a party to judicial murder, he gives a reason for his action in the premises that all must respect. The time will come when a creature of such doubtful status as a human being will not be permitted to survive his birth and become an object of shuddering re pulsion and scourged compassion to mankind. A burden first of all to himself, he not unnaturally becomes the victim of morbid whims and fan cies. Through these he is a menace to the community in which he lives, and later becomes a charge upon the state. Parental affection, the most tender and unreasoning of the human emotions, does not sanction the humanity, so called, that permits a hideously de formed babe or a congenital idiot to survive its birth. In an economic sense the state does not sanction it. And who shall say that true humanity sanctions the preservation of life that In the very nature of things must be a curse to its possessor throughout all his days? It Is always a difficult question in such cases to determine the moral re sponsibility of a creature whom the doc tors pronounce to be a physical and mental degenerate, but it is better to commute the sentence of such a creat ure than to hang him, for the history of England and this country has been disgraced In the past by the hanging of murderers who In later times were re garded as mentally Irresponsible. Bel- llngham, an English merchant, who murdered Prime Minister Percival In the lobby of the House of Commons In 1S12, was tried, convicted and hanged within a week after the commission of his crime. He was of Insane lineage and he had been ruined in business by the breaking out of war between France and Russia, for which he held the British government responsible, and therefore shot Prime Minister Percival, whom he treated as the executive head of its administration. Bellingham had never seen Mr. Percival until he killed him. He was a lunatic of the same or der as the Englishman who snapped a pistol twice at President Jackson be cause he believed he had been ruined by Jackson's action respecting the United States Bank. The assailant of Jackson was pronounced Insane and sent to an asylum, where he soon died of brain disease. Gulteau was a degenerate. His let ters written In 1S66 and published after his execution were filled with the same rant. "I'm God's man; I'm God's man," that he shouted during his trial. On the scaffold, Guiteau. with face full of color and eye bright and exultant, sang "I'm going to the Lordy." Dr. McBrlde, then Superintendent of the "Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane at Madl son, examined Gulteau and pronounced him clearly Insane, and predicted that the autopsy would show that he had organic disease of the brain. The au topsy did reveal that Gulteau's brain was badly diseased. The objection to hanging the criminal Insane Is that . under our present laws you cannot destroy them as you do mad dogs or noxious animals, who are destroyed as dangerous to public safety, but are not treated as morally respon sible for their destructive acts. The man who cuts a throat to steal a purse Is clearly a proper subject for capital punishment; but a man who, because of the delusions and hallucinations of a broken mind, commits a murder, ought not to suffer capital punishment unless he can be shown beyond a doubt to be morally responsible for his crime by- being legally and medically sane. To hang a man of doubtful sanity and therefore of doubtful moral responsibil ity Is to place an unjust moral stigma upon the insane man and inflict wan ton disgrace upon his family and friends. Such a gross degenerate In mind and body as Peacock ought never to have been suffered to go at large. His criminal Instincts must have been known, and he should have been placed under restraint like a vicious dog who shows signs of madness. The negroes even In enlightened Bos ton have not yet all learned to recog nize thctrue friends of their race. "When Booker T. "Washington, the edu cator, on broad lines ot utllltyof self respect and of humanity of his race. Is hissed by colored men, and a meeting planned in his honor is disturbed by- rioters of the same class, the magnl tude of the great work for which he stands the emancipator of the negro through education looms up as mountain of difficulty that it will take generations ot the most persistent ef fort to surmount- A very suggestive text for a plain sermon, after order was restored upon this occasion, might hav been found in the words: "Marvel not that I say unto you. you mxtst be born again." Only through.4 serrations of education Is the story of the civiliza tion of a race unfolded. And after these generations shall have come and gone and come again, the declaration. "Ye must be born again," will hold against the laggards who have fallen behind In the march of evolution.. This Is true in all races of men, and It is perhaps only more noticeable hi the African race because of Its late start and the sharp comparisons that are Instituted by color and racial charac teristics. The patience of Booker T. "Washington is said to be unlimited, and his faith in the ultimate enlightenment of the American negro unwavering. He certainly needs an exhaustless mine of both upon which to draw as he slowly mounts the "hill difficulty" which con fronts his race, bearing- his "Christian's pack." THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. A valued subscriber writes us from the forks of the San t lam as follows: Dear Mr. Editor: I have wondered why you do not run a puzsle department in yonr Sun day or weekly paper. There are several of us here who would enjoy guessing at the answers to the puzzles, especially if prizes were offered, and I for one could submit a few for solution. Trutlng you will excuse the liberty of this Intrusion. I remain, etc. etc. "We have always regarded a puzzle de partment as a thing to be avoided as long as possible, along with comic sup plements, red ink and signed editorials. But on reflection there seems to be something In the correspondent's Idea, and a few puzzles are herewith sub mitted: No. 1. ENIGMA: It Is understood that John Barrett was appointed Minis ter to Argentina at the urgent solicita tion of President Roosevelt, who pre vailed upon Senators Mitchell and Ful ton to recommend him. It is also under stood that this story Is merely a clever ruse ot Senator Mitchell, whose devoted adherent Mr. Barrett has been for many years, and possibly was invented to save the feelings of Judge C. H. Carey, the nominal choice of the delegation. Puzzle: "Which is the truth? No. 2. ILLUSTRATED REBUS: It is understood that Senator Fulton looks upon Judge Carey as the real author ot his (Fulton's) election.and would have insisted upon Carey's appointment If the President hadn't desired otherwise. "With $10,000 a year for four years, and perhaps eight, and with his well-known ability in making legal and business turns in a thriving country' like Argen Una, where foreign capital is pouring In and needs expert advice, Judge Carey would have had a good thing, which his friends regret to see slip away from him. It Is also understood that Judge Carey, for both business and family reasons, could not think of going to Ar gentina, and that he has certain polit ical matters In view which are more to his mind than $10,000 a year. Puzzle "What does Carey want? No. 3. DOUBLE BACK-ACTION ACROSTIC: It is understood that Sen ators Mitchell and Fulton are much per turbed at the damage pending over their political machine under the con' tinued domination of Carey and Matthews in the Republican circles of Multnomah City and County, and that their elevation of Frank Baker to the state chairmanship only presages what they would do with the county commit tee of they could get control of the committee. It is also understood that In the Mitchell camp all Is proceeding methodically and smoothly, according to the plans of the senior Senator, whose adherents, one and all, from Carey to Baker, and from Baker back again to Matthews, eagerly run to do his bidding. Puzzle: What have we here ruction or harmony? No. i. DIAMOND SQUARE: It is understood that the present police re gime in Portland is the product of the Mitchell machine, operating through the county committee and the Civil Service Commission, and that any mal feasance by the department will be punished by turning over the city and county government-to the Simon peo ple. It is also understood that the po lice and fire departments are still manned by their original Simon person nel, and that Mayor "Williams has stub bornly resisted every attempt of the Mitchell forces to control his policy or to supplant Simon men with Mitchell men. Puzzle: in order to get Snow, Kerrigan and Day oft the force and put Mitchell men on, will It be necessary for the "Simon men to get control of the city government? No answers to these puzzles will be published in next Saturday's or in any subsequent Issue of The Oregonlan. Subscribers who solve all four of the puzzles correctly will please find the prizes Inclosed herewith. Portland is the only port on the Pa cific Coast that dispatched any wheat ships to foreign ports within the month Just closed. The fleet was not as large as some that have departed from this city on the first month of some past seasons, but it was large enough to show where the headquarters of the wheat business of the Pacific Coast was located. Not only did Portland dis patch two grain cargoes for South Af rica, but two coasting steamers were dispatched with full cargoes for Cali fornia, our Southern neighbors appar ently having insufficient stocks for their own needs. Tacoma millers have made frequent drafts on Portland stocks within the past season, and as the wheat exports of Tacoma and Seattle were only about one-tenth as large as those of Portland for the month just closed, the Puget Sound ports are little, if any, better provided than San Francisco. Meanwhile spot stocks at Portland are by no means depleted; and next week will be replenished by the arrival of the first new wheat. August shipments from Portland may be smaller than those for the month Just closed, but they will be larger than those which go from any other port In the Pacific Northwest. Few movements are more marked than that of the well-to-do people toward the country. The growth ot es tates, not merely such domains as that at BUtmore, but those of moderate size spread around a country house. Is phe nomenal. The old Idea of living all the year round cheek by jowl' with a long row of others in a crowded city has gone to the grave, where it should have gone long ago. Even In the "West the movement is noticeable, although here there are not the same reasons for it as in the older states, where cities are larger and where city life Is much farther removed from country life than is the case in our newer country. The advantages ot the movement are very- many. It for no other reason than the sense of fellowship that a "country place" Inspires, It Is a desirable posses sion for the wealthy. To see with one's own eyes how the poorer farmers live. to see their difficulties and the perse verance that overcomes them, will prove the true touch of Nature tnai makes us all kin. The movement is a good thing for the East, and will be ot Increasing- benefit with the passage of years. The Canadian Northern Railway Company now proposes to construct a line from Edmondton, In Alberta, to AtUabasca-Landing, ninety miles north ward. At that point, saving a carry or two around the rapids, an open water course leads to the mouth of the Mac kenzie River, via the Great Slave Lake. Steamers now run on the Peace River and the Mackenzie and Slave Rivers. Two flouring mills have been built this year on the Peace River. At Fort ver milion, TOO miles north of the Amer ican boundary, a fifty-barrel roller mill Is grinding wheat, for which It pays the farmers 5L50 a bushel. This mill was established In J.SS6. There is an other mill at Fort Providence, on the Mackenzie River, 150 miles still farther north, less than 400 miles from the Arc tic Circle. At no very distant day a railway will be run direct from "Win nipeg Into the Peace River "Valley, and beyond it to the Great Slave Lake, where connection can be made with steamers running to the mouth of the Mackenzie. One of the most unique of royal pro cessions was that of the King and Queen of Great Britain and their suites to the famous marble quarries of Con- nemara a few days ago. The hill was steep and muddy, the royal carriage was dilapidated landau drawn by two jaded horses, the road was lined on either side with peasants and bare footed women in red petticoats, and the lumbering vehicle was helped up the hill by the sturdy push of genial Irish men, and eased down on Its return by ropes attached to the axles, upon which men acted as a brake.- "Without doubt Their Majesties will be popular In that part of Ireland hereafter. There Is only one way to reach the lowly of earth to them. They cannot be touched from exalted heights without the mortal of fense that comes with condescension. Charles M. Schwab, energetic, cap able, ambitious and successful as a' me chanic in the great steel mills at Home stead during the earlier processes of their marvelous development, cannot fill the position to which he was ele vated when the great steel trust was iormed. He must resign sooner or later, and according to report Henry M. Frick will succeed him very soon. Schwab was master of his trade, but he is not a master of finance. In attempt ing a role for whiph he was not fitted by Nature or occupation he has gone down. He must soon go out, and In going he will be fortunate if he is per mitted to take with him Into obscurity his mental faculties unimpaired by the severe tension to which they have been subjected by undue exaltation and con sequent overstrain. Oregon would be at a distinct disad vantage, compared with the Eastern States, ' In celebrating an '"old-home week" such as Is now attracting New Englanders from all parts of the coun try- Our people cannot find a better place to live than their own state, and a reunion of those that had never been separated would be Impossible. "America Is becoming too big a place for a restricted social colony," says Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. The statement Is correct, with te exception of the tense. "Becoming" should be "has be come." The Fourth of July Sacrifice. Philadelphia Press. It Is 15 days since the Fourth of July, but reports are still coming in of deaths resulting from wounds received on that day. Tho Chicago Tribune, which has kept account of this matter, stated on Sa-urday that 52 persons were known to have been killed on the Fourth and that 162 deaths have occurred since from lock jaw following Injuries received on the na tional holiday, making a total of 214 vie tlms of the Fourth of July. This Ib a large total, but large as it is it cannot Include all the fatalities re sulting from the celebration of the Fourth of July. From some of the largest cities no reports have been made, and It Is un reasonable to suppose that they caped with no fatalities. Then, also, the two deaths that occurred In this city Sat urday from -tetanus could not have been known to the Tribune when It made 'up its list. Taking all things Into consider anon. It is reasonable to suppose that at least 250 people have died as the result of Fourth of July Injuries. This Is a fearful sacrifice to make to the celebration of a national holiday. And It becomes all the more horrible when Its uselessness Is considered. The parents and guardians whose thoughtlessness and heedlessness are responsible for most of this slaughter should ask themselves whether It Is worth the while. But parental remorse alone will not remedy the evil. The- laws now. on the statute books against the sale and use of fire arms must be strengthened. This year's list of Fourth of July casualties, which is larger than ever known before, should arouse public opinion to . the need of en ergetic action. A Fsbiobs nangarlna Exile. New York Herald. Elek Ludvlgh, one of the leaders ot the Hungarian revolution, a compatriot of Kossuth, and later a member of the staff ot Major General Julius Stahl, U. S. A, in the Civil War, died Tuesday night. Mr. Ludvlgh was a son of John Lud vigh. a Judge in Hungary. In l&tS, a price having been set upon his head for his part in the Hungarian reolution, he became an exile. He lived In London and Brussels until 1S56, when he came to New Tork with a letter of introduction from Kossuth to "William IL Seward, and at the beginning of the Civil War he Joined the Union forces, serving on the staff of Major-General Stahl and Russell A. Alger. After the war he engaged In the Importa tion of laces In this city. He retired from business several years ago. In 1S71 Mr. Ludvlgh married Rose Dus seldorf. ot this city, who, with three chil dren, survives him. A younger brother. Count Jules de Lud vlgh. Is president of the government rail ways of Hungary, and a member of the Hungarian Senate. ' "What He Shot. Milwaukee Sentinel. Mistaking a woman picking cherries in his cherry orchard, for birds. John Ryff. a well-known farmer in the town of Osh kosh. shot a heavy charge ot blrdshot lato the tree and was horrified to see Mrs. Margaret Gksst, wife of Charles Giesst, who has charge of a cheese fac tory near by, drop to the ground. Sev eral hundred shot took effect, but Mrs. Giesst was not seriously injured, the fall from the tree to the ground causing the greatest Injury. Connecticut Deer Increasing:. Hartford Times. The results of the law for the protection of deer are becoming manifest in the marked increase in the number of those pretty animals in all parts ot the state; in fact, so common have they become in some sections that they attract little more attention than the smaller and more famll iar of our wild animals. DEMOCRATIC VIEWS OF BRYAN. Hopeless! Macon Telegraph. Mr. Bryan's case is hopeless. This would be a matter of little moment, but the trouble is. alas! that as long as he re tains any considerable number of follow ers the Democracy's case Is hopeless also. Scad Him and Cleveland Array. New Orleans States. It would prove a godsend for the Democracy were It possible to have Mr. Bryan chosen as a high Joint commis sioner to settle something m uanomey. and Mr. Cleveland to perform a similar service in far-away Thibet. Democracy's "Walking Delegate. Chattanooga Times. The best thing Mr. Bryan can do Is to 'go way back and sit down." The con servative elements of the two factions of the party have agreed to the arbitra tion plan and that eliminates the walk ing delegate Mr. Bryan from the equa tion. Maine for Cleveland. Mobile Register. Some Idea of how widespread Is the belief in Grover Cleveland may be found In these sentences In a letter from a gentleman living In Bucksport, Me.: What do you think of Cleveland for a third term? I like It. He would receive the hearty support ot all Maine Demo crats." "Why He Fljrhts Ccveland. Cincinnati Enquirer. Colonel Bryan says Grover Cleveland wrecked the affairs of the Democratic party. Grover hasn't yet given his Judgment as to what would have become ot tno anairs oi me party nau uiuuei Bryan "landed for one term only in the Presidency." Mr. Cleveland is manlfestly resarded by Colonel Bryan as a formid able candidate for the Democratic nom ination next year, notwithstanding his re straint. Interloper Compared With Cleveland Atlanta Journal. Let Bryan eliminate Bryan, and then Inharmony will be eliminated. As long as he keens brlnglna forward Bryan. Just so long will Inharmony be brought forward. To speak In a nomeiy xasmon, Clevclandlsm got here first, and It certain ly looks like It Intends to stay awhile. If we are to Judge by the popular re ception It got only recently when it came out for a bit of airing, as it were. - "Wonld Defeat HIa Party. Providence Telegram. At present the Democracy Is In no con dition for the conflict on account of the attitude of Mr. Bryan, who seems de termined to accomplish the defeat of the party. If he cannot have his own way In the selection of a candidate and the framing of a platform. The waning in fluence of Mr. Bryan, however, gives en couragement to the Democracy that be fore the Presidential campaign opens his power to do Injury will have been practically eliminated. An Important Kicker. Brooklyn Eagle. The Nashville American, like the Eagle. a Democratic paper, was lately the re cipient ot a scratch by Mr. Bryan. It replies by saying that "he Is a dead poli tician and the conductor ot a Darning newspaper which cannot bite; he is de generating Into an Impotent kicker and a cheap common scold to wnom noDoay who Is anybody pays any attention." It Is satisfactory to the Eagle to know that It has no opinions about Mr. Bryan to retract or to reverse. "Worse Than Childish. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Bryan Is growing more and more tiresome. His pretense that the Demo cratic party was beaten in 1KK and isoo on account of President Cleveland's un popularity Is a little more foolish than most of the things he Is saying. After a man has been defeated twice for the Presidency good taste demands that he should retire from politics and keep still; his explanations of his failure are likely to be absurd, and In the case of Mr. Bryan they are worse than childish. Should Stay in Nursery. Selma (Ala.) Times. The constant attacks that "Mr. Bryan makes on Mr. Cleveland causes a weary feellne to pass over us. e are not Cleveland man by any means, but for Bryan to be constantly nagging the ex President makes us tired. It looks like the Nebraskan is in a hard row of stumps when he can find nothing else to harp on but Cleveland, who Is now at Buzzard's Bav nursing that little ten-pound ooy. who nut in an appearance a few weeks ago. Mr. Bryan had better confine him helf to the nursery for awhile, rather than be running about the country abus ing Grover Cleveland. A Person of No Importance. Montgomery Advertiser. Mr. Bryan should not be considered. one way or the other. In the sense of truckling to him or trying to grainy ms particular financial views. To use common expression. Mr. Bryan will not be "in it." as a potent factor. Neither should the possibility of a bolt on Mr. Bryan's part cut any figure In the mat ter. That he may head a bolt If the ticket Is not satisfactory Is true, but if the Democratic party Is so afraid of a bolt on his part that It will suffer him to name a candidate ana piatiorm, it Is defeated In advance. No reincarnation of 1S9S and 1900 stands even a reasonable chance of success, and all intelligent Democrats know It. Nominee From Cleveland Win-?. Helena Record. "William V. Allen, of Nebraska, who was Senator from that state In the days of the Populists and who Is one of the few men left In that political party, predict ed In an Interview In Spokane last week that the Democrats will nominate a man agreeable to the Cleveland wing of the party for President next year. Mr. Allen Is a close friend of Mr. Bryan. "While not nrofesslne to be anything out a Populist, he has had a good dead of traffic with the Democrats and knows them through and through. He Is a close personal friend of Bryan. He would like to see Bryan elected. It will not be charged that the wish Is father to the thought In Bill Allen's case, when he says he thinks the Brvan forces will be lncontlnentally turn ed down next Summer in the National convention. A Rolter's Confession. Chlcaco Chronicle. Mr. Brvan Is the only man twice noml nated for the Presidency by the Demo cratic party who has found It necessary to publish a long statement tenamg to prove that he Is a Democrat. In this nnoloirv for his more than ten years of bolting and Populism the Nebraska demagogue admits that In 1S32 he voted for James B. "Weaver for President, but he excuses himself by saying tnat in so doing he followed the advice of Democratic committees of the state and the Nation, which had no hope of carrying Nebraska for Mr. Cleveland, though they am tmnK it possible to deprive Mr. Harrison ot its electoral votes. "When we remem ber the attitude of this Populist toward Grover Cleveland at that time and dur ing all the years that have since elapsed we may be pretty sure that no committee recommendation was necessary to secure his vote for weaver. He tooK to tn husks naturally -and Inevitably. The probability is that he had been voting the Populist UClteL at aeverai precetuns elections and was quite as favorable to A. J. Streeter in IKS and to Benjamin F. Butler In ISSi as he was t James B. Weaver in 1SS2. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS There Arc Others. Tacoma News. The operations of safeblowers, masked highwaymen, pickpockets and thugs In Seattle, the narration ot which fills a large space In the dally record of events in that city, indicate that the large Jail population of that city Is not nearly large enough. Seattle ought to start a 950 club, with suitable a'ccommodatlons at Mr. Cudahys hotel. Heaven at Slns:le Bonnd. Paisley Post. Frank C. Baker, of Portland, was elec ted Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee July 15. Mr. Baker Is a stanch Republican and a friend to both factions of the party in Portland. No doubt the election of Mf. Baker will bring these people together and In the future they will work with a common purpose the advancement of the Repub lican party. Hovr to Stop Lynch In ft. Medford Oregonlan. The Oregonlan struck the keynote when It said the negroes have the remedy In their own hands to stop the burning of their race at the stake, and that Is to stop committing the unutterable crimes of which they are guilty. It they are- possessed of human Instincts they will desist of their own accord; but If not. they will and should go to the burning stake, even to extermination. . "Who Is itr "Ward Observer. "What's to be done and why," asks The Oregonlan. discussing the-Civil Serv ice CommIsslon,s Portland police. After all the admissions, damaging as they ap pear, and true as they are. The Orego nlan turns pitifully to one not "In it anyway, to reclaim the whole scandalous proceeding. Instead of applying the too ot Its boot to the grafter of the mutton headed Civil Service Commission, for whose act the Republican party must stand responsible, until he.ls kicked out. Friendly Overtures Reciprocated. "Whatcom Reveille. Rivalry and competition In Itself Is a good thing, but can be carried too far. When people from the different sections meet In a fraternal way and mingle to gether, this intercourse Is bound to result In a spirit of Increased friendliness and greater desire for the unbuilding, not of certain sections alone, but of the whole state, and the value of this can not be measured. The remarks made on this ne by the gentleman from Portland Mr. Mills were very timely and appropriate. The Orits and Their Dream ot Power. Bend Bulletin. Next year's state campaign has begun early and It looks very much as If ex Senator Simon had planned some fun for himself and trouble for the Mitchell Fulton combination. The police depart ment ot Portland is the most sensitive political barometer in the state. "When ou find it being ripped up the back by The Oregonlan you may know a hot tlmo Is projected and that the "other fellows war, the nolice department as a founda tion upon which to build or a cairn from which to Inspect the very soul of the enemy. "When the police department is on our side it is a model of efficiency and propriety. When It Isn't well, It Isn't. It 13 evident that the old Simon- Mitchell fight Is booked for another ap pearance In Oregon. And Mitchell has had his day and is an old man. No Railroad Influence, of Course. John Day News. The attempts of the Baker City Demo crat to belittle the Portland press and business organizations now striving for consideration In the plans for opening new trade territory through railroad ex tension, are doubtless supposed to be in the Interests of Baker City, but in real ity they serve no good purpose and are very unbecoming. The press of this sec tion correctly represents the Interests and reflects the sentiments of the busi ness men. and It is a unit for demand ing modern traffic facilities with Port land. And if Portland business men see fit to help secure the needed railroad, they have a much better right to do so than the Baker City people have to try to pre vent It. Portland is working in the In terests of the entire state, and should aid In securing the proposed road; Baker City is holding back In her own selfish inter ests, and should stop trying to down the enterprise. Survival of the Fittest. Pendleton Guide. Unreliable mechanics and laborers are more dangerous to organized labor than anybody or anything. It Is the worthless vagabond and tramp who Is admitted Into unions that often bring them Into seri ous and almost unavoidable trouble. They only care to work enough to get booze, cigarettes and free lunch. There Is scarcely a day passes that some tramp printer does not come into the Guide office to look for work he hopes he won't get. and to find an excuse to ask for the price of a meal or a night's lodging. "We know them by their Impudence and rum my mugs. The printing trade Is an edu cational trade and any man who Is com petent to work at It should be capable of being a gentleman, yet the average tourist Is the most wretched spec! man of depraved manhood on the faco of the earth. Printers of respectability. whose duty it Is to maintain the dignity of their unions, should turn down such cattle. The Guide office Is union straight out and will at all times comply with the laws of the union, but It would suspend business If It had to depend on such creatures. The Country Editor's Snnp. Nowata Advertiser. To run a newspaper all a fellow has to do Is to be able to write poems, discuss the tariff and money question, umpire baseball game, report a wedding, saw wood, describe a fire so that the readers will shed their wraps, make a dollar do the work of ten, shine at a dance, meas ure calico, abuse the liquor habit, test whisky, subscribe to charity, go without meals, attack free silver, defend blmet allsm. sneer at snobbery, wear diamonds, invent advertisements, overlook scandal. appraise babies, delight pumpkin-raisers. minister to the afflicted, heal the dls jrruntled. fight to a finish, set type, mold opinions, sweep the office, speak at prayer meet'.rg. stand In with eevrybody and ev erything. One Gritty Terra to Another. Seattle Times. Somewhere In the stories of mythology Is told how the Phoenix rose from its ashes but Heppner, Or., Is a city that has risen from the mud. Her recovery from the disasters of the cloudburst last month has been decidedly Proenlx-Uke and Is In a fair way to recover all that was lost of a pecuniary character. Sit uated in the midst of a good farming and stock-growing section she promises to become one of the best cities In Cen tral Oregon. Her misfortune has served as a good advertisement of her resources Jnly. Black and White. , O, did you hear light feet pas by Xow June has overtaken July, And passing kissed her on the mouth That breathes of Summer and the South? June was so quick to come and go. But like some langourous Indan queen. Beneath her gold veil scarcely seen. July goes by with footsteps slow. She carries In pne lazy hand A strange fruit from a foreign land; Forbidden fruit from Eden brought. And from Eve's dying fingers caught By Father Time, who dallying here Once with the daughters of the year. Chose out July to be his own. And laid hU scythe down by her throne Leavlnz the tons of men unmown. . NOTE AND COMMENT. - Portland Is to have seven mounted po licemen. This Is exclusive ot those that ride the hlcn horse. Abyssinia Is to have a mint of her own. Soon the country will be dominated by a Julep Instead of a negus. If our clams would only enter the pearl business. Oregon would soon humble boast ful isconsln on all three points. The Sacramento Bee is already buzzing about the need of reform in state prisons. Of course, some o the horses are still in tho stable. A New Yorker with a glass eye adver tised for a wife similarly" adorned. In Portland It is not necessary to advertise to get the glassy eye. Arrested highwaymen that complain ot being made an "exhibition" should remem ber that they are getting just the same sauco as they gave their victims. A secret stairway has been discovered in the City Hall at New York. Modem Im provements have rendered unnecessary the use oi such antiquated contrivances. "Thousands of armed guards alone en able the King to carry out his visit to Ire land." says John T. Keating. Mr. Keat ing must have a keen eye to penetrate the disguises of the brutal soldiers. Canada Is thlnklug of introducing com pulsory voting. That's an old Central American trick, only there it is carried further, the compulsion being extended to the way the ballot Is marked. It was with somo Incredulity that we read of two New York women swimming 100 yards with their clothes on. Further reports show that the feat was nothing to bo wondered at, since tho women wero wearing ball dresses. Baker City, Or. C. M. Schwab, says the Jocular Milwaukee Sentinel, has accepted a situation as reporter, on the "Watcher ot this city. He says what ha needs is ex citement. Schwab is too much of a piker for Ba ker. , It Is now authoritatively stated that Schwab Is to resign tho presidency of the Steel Corporation. Most people will be surprised to learn that Schwab still held the job, and combined with it European tours, gambling, and Philadelphia rest cures. Placervllle, CaL, July 31. (By Oregon grapevine.) The escaped convicts having been discovered today drawn up in circular formation. Sheriff Reese instantly sur rounded them, placing his men at the cen ter of the circle, so that the desperadoes could only move In a direction that would lead them from the posse. Sacramento,- Cal., July 31. The despera does have been enticed from a strong po sition by three companes of militia. The Colonel ordered a strategic movement to the rear, and when this was executed with remarkble speed and precision, the con victs at once abandoned their stronghold. San Francisco, July 3L Despite the fact that several desperate men are within a few hundred miles of the city today, street cars are running as usual. Sacramento, July 31. A special session of tho Legislature will be called for the purpose of passing laws that will make It a penal offense for escaped convicts to be found with arms In their- possession. Placervllle, July 31. A special to the Buzzer from Dead Cow Gulch says that the convicts are thought to be surrounded In Placer County, and that It Is almost Impossible for them to escape from the United States. Roosevelt's Trae Greatness. It is with pleasure that we observe tho country to have been mora deeply stirred by the President's feat of rowing a lunch- basket-laden skiff to the picnic grounds than by his wild 30-mlle ride through a thunder-and-lightning night. This Is as it should be. Merely spectacular displays already count for too much with the pub lic After all, a ride In the darkness Is not such a terrible thing; It Is from tho other stunt that most men would" shrink. You know how it Is rowing In a plcnlo party. Your feet are jammed against the teakettle until you get a permanent cramp in both legs. The corner ot a basket hits you agonizing jolts in the spinal column If you lean back an Inch. The kittenish spinster (you remember a New York Judge has said that It is libel to call a woman an old maid) In the bows and the portly chapeione In the sternsheets and the kids between the thwarts bring the gunwale within half an Inch of the water, so that you catch a crab at every stroke and splash the pretesting woman at each end of the boat. The sun scorches you, your arms ache, and the kittenish spinster cries "Oh, Mr. Snooks, do row faster," as you see Popkins airily paddle by with your best girl In his canoe. And this Is what the President undertook when he might easily have fixed things so that ona of his boys was left for the grub boat. And he didn't upset a thing, and presumably didn't utter a word stronger than "By George," whjch, we are informed, is his favorite expletive. Tnat's tho man for all our vote- If he couldn't guide a measly old ship of state after such an exploit then we may as well haul down the colors. Nonchalant 31 r. ICeenct "I am not embarrassed, only annoyed," said Keene after losing a million and a half. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Gushing -young -woman (to famous actor) Oh. do you know, Mr. Starlelgh, I'm simply mad to ro on the stage! Famous actor Yes. I should think you would be. my dear young lady! Punch. She Ah t you know Miss Gabblo by sight, then? He Oh, yes, I may say I know her to speak to. She Indeed, you're In luck. Most people know her to be spoken to. Philadelphia Press. Manager-I think. Mr. Grooves, that there la a future for you If you will only live up to your own good Judgment. Mr. Grooves I hops to dt better than that. I am going to try to live up to my press notices. Boston Tran script. Blgby rra saving up money to go to Eu rope Hlgby Indeed! How are you getting ' Blgby Fine! I've already got together eno'ugh for the tips, and as soon as I can scare up traveling expenses I'm off.-Chlcago Dally News. "Hookllne Is positively the most credulous man I ever knew." "Have you been proving It recently?" "Yes; I told him one of his own fish stores a few weeks after he'd told It to me. and he believed It!" Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune. "Do you know that you could own a hous for the money you spend on smoking?" "Tes," answered the obstinate man. "but maybe tho trouble with taxes and astessmcnts ana re pairs -would drive me to drink.- and that would be worse." Washington Star. "And what." asked the "x!ngton-sfc-eet father, "would you advise me to teach my boy that he may be rich and prosperous In his wiser days?" "Well." said the sage of Frank lin square. "If you want him to get unreason ably rich. I'd suggest a. course either In run ning an ice pUnt or genteel bank robbing." Baltimore News.