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THE MOKJUJia VHEdOHIAS, WEDNESDAY, 'APEIi; 13, 1004. m mrwitmx&a. VBfTV TfJ""jr'r9TrTTTW Sintered at the Postofficc at Portland, Or., as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mall (postage prepaid In advance) Dally, with Sunday, por month JO. 85 Dally, with Sunday excepted, per year.. 7.50 Dally, with Sunday, per year 0.00 Sunday, per year 2.00 The Weekly, per year 1.30 The "Weekly. 3 months 50 Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday exceoted.ISc Daily, per week, delivered, Sunday lncluded.20c POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper lc 10 to 30-pago paper 2c 112 to 44-pago paper 8o Foreign rates double. The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to return any manuscript sent to It without solicitation. No ttamps should be Inclosed Xor this purpose. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICES. (The S. C. Bccknlth Special Agency) Jfew York: Rooms 43-40, Tribune Building. Chicago: Rooms 010-512 Tribune Building. KEPT ON SALE. 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W.; Ebbltt House-News Stand. TESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 87 deg.; minimum, 59. Precipitation, none. TODAY'S WEATHER Showers and much cooler; southerly winds. i PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, ATRIL 13,1004 WAR THE TEST OF GREATNESS. Some charming stories are getting into print about the quality of Rus sian soldiers and sailors. Their brav ery has long been conceded; their or der of Intellect is readily inferable from their striking nobility of countenance as portraits put them Into contrast with the slight frames and oblique features of the Japanese. They also have, It appears, an abundance of that gruff humor and engaging sportiveness which seem so naturally to go along with bravery and good-fellowship, from Prince Hal to the heroes of Thackeray and Ouida. These revelations need not blind us to the equally engaging traits of the Japanese. Perhaps to the Western mind the Japs are the more interesting of the two, enveloped as they are with an Oriental charm, a Joyous naturalness not matched since the ancient Greeks, and an artistic temperament suggesting that of sunny France. "When we con sider how ardently the Japanese long for Western sympathy and fellowship, how trustingly they copy Western in stitutions and manners, how welcome they have sought to make our authors, traders, missionaries and teachers, the sympathy of Europe and America in stinctively files out to them in this hour of struggle for National existence. What a pity, one might naturally say, that two such foes should now be glar ing at each other's throats, eager for the duel to the death! How much bet ter for peace and progress if they could forget their quarrel, and If Russia, with all her bravery, piety and power, and Japan with all her ambitions and hos pitality, gallant struggles and proud achievements, might work in friendship together for their mutual upbuilding and for the advance of humankind in all the ways of prosperity and peace! Then, instead of this awful waste of war, we should have the extension of trade, the development of backward re gions. Manchuria might resound to the hum of factories instead of the clash of arms, and rivers bear the argosies of beneficent commerce instead of the death-dealing enginery of war. But this is the superficial view; for there comes a time to every people and almost every life when the delights of peace must be forgotten for the stress and pain of war. Not to fight when honor calls would be to deny the very qualities which we now think we see In the broad brow of the Russian and In the kindly smile of the Japanese; for there can be neither nobility nor true chivalry without courage. Were Russia to submit tamely when Japan opened war by firing on her ships, the re spect we now feel for her gallant com manders would be changed to loathing, and if the Japanese sat down to smile and drink tea while the Russian ad vance menaced the very existence of their island home, we should despise them as cravens unworthy our sympa thy or respect One of the fascinations that make life worth living and the universe itself worth while is the elastic element In human nature that somehow summons frbm some secret recesses the fortitude to meet unforeseen demands upon its quality. In every relation of life the continuance of that relation is depend ent upon unexpected tests that contin ually arise from unseen combinations of circumstances. Every day the employe meets some fresh trial of fidelity to his employer, by which he must stand or fall. Every hour, almost, are put to proof the virtues of filial duty, of par ental love, of conjugal loyalty, of per fect love between- friend and friend. A nation can lose by one act of cow ardice or folly the respect it has built up hy years of honorable conduct, just as a man can lose In one moment of perfidy the confidence he has enjoyed through a lifetime of faithful service. It would be wrong to say that these fiery trials of friendship ought not to come; for it is only through them that the true soul can reveal itself. And it would be equally wrong to imagine that the cankers of a calm world and a long peace can ever bring out the heroic ele ments In a great people which shine resplendent in a bitter and cruel war. The poet who sang to his inamorata "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more," put in a deathless rhyma a great truth which is exempli fied even time a nation girds on the sword and goes out to win victory or death. War is not the worst thing in the world. It Is the price of the noble soul. TMs what gives value to peace and sets concrete examples of heroism before the minds of youth. The only rest that is worth the name is that which comes after te battle and the storm. Peace at the price of unresented affront is the suicide of valor In man and virtue In woman. The best we can wish Russia or Japan is not victory, but the un tralled banner and. the unsullied plume in victory or defeat. Whether to win like the Sullotes at Platea or to lose like the Greeks at Thermopylae does not greatly matter, so that glory rests upon undaunted arms. Poor Poland was dismembered and undone, and the flag of Ireland has vanished from among the nations and the Boer Republics have been blotted from the map; but their story has given martial prowess a new meaning and peopled the sky of patriotism with new stars. Kosciusko's name will be re membered when his conqueror is for gotten. The Jap who ran his Merrlmac full against the Russian fire, and the commander of the Varlag, who led his vessel forth to certain destruction, have set brave men's blood a-tlngle in every land. Such exploits will ring In his tory when the landing of an army corps has faded into confusion. They are the real things that mark the prog ress of the war and show us that man, with all his frailties, was not made In vain. DEMOCRATIC HATE OF DICTATION. The Democratic leaders In Congress, if we may Judge from Senator Teller's speech, are greatly concerned over the undesirable qualities of the Inevitable Republican candidate for President. They do not like a man who Is so auto cratic as President Roosevelt, so dic tatorial, so stubborn, so bent on having his own way. Although In one breath they charge him with yielding weakly to everybody that puts up a determined front on any subject, in another they accuse him of the moat unblushing tyranny. Mr. Cockran, in particular, finds upon disinterested and conscien tious analysis that the President has been riding roughshod over Congress, with no one to say him nay. To find out just what sort of a gen tle and shrinking creature these high minded Democrats regard as the ideal, It is necessary to go back to a time about four years ago this coming first of July, when one David Bennett Hill, representing a conservative element of Eastern Democrats, spent a day or more at Lincoln, Neb., in consultation with a certain reasonable and concili atory and self-abasing Boy Orator. It can hardly fail to be recalled how on that occasion every concession tenta tively put forth by the New York man, who subsequently proved the idol of the Kansas City convention, was stoutly spurned by Bryan, who Insisted on ramming down the throat of his party not only his own nomination, but his ideas on every plank in the National platform. To this day Mr. Bryan's gentle and Insinuating way is still continuously in evidence. He undertakes to read peo ple out of the party and to pronounce them unavailable for the Democratic nomination, for no higher reason than that they refuse to bow the knee to Bryan. He demands again to name the nominee and. to prescribe the platform; and does It in such a way as to leave little room to doubt that he means to convey the threat of a bolt unless he is obeyed. If there Is a more bull headed, domineering politician in the country then W. J. Bryan, we do not know who it can be, unless It is Grover Cleveland. If you look at the Demo cratic nominee for President since 1SS0, this excessive fear of a man that wants his own way Is about the silliest on record, and might have seemed so even to senility from Colorado or merchant able eloquence from New York. TIDE SOUTH AND THE NOMINEE. The probable selection of Judge Par ker, of New York, as the Democratic candidate for President is due to the pressure exerted in his behalf by the South. That section has dictated the Democratic nomination for President since 1S44, when Van Buren was thrown overboard and Polk nominated; the" South forced the Democratic nomina tion of Cass in 1848, by whose help Van Buren had been beaten in 1844. The South forced the nominatlpn of Frank lin Pierce in 1S52, rejecting Douglas, Buchanan and Cass; the South forced the nomination of Buchanan in 1856, again rejecting Douglas, and the South again refused to accept Douglas in 1860 and by the nomination of Breckinridge divided the Democratic vote and made easy a Republican victory. It is easy to explain the dominant political force of the South before the Civil War by the fact that the slavery question made the Southern Democracy a unit in the councils of the party, but after the Civil War the moment that reconstruc tion was complete and the troops re moved from the South, which did not take place until the accession of Presi dent Hayes, In 1877, the South again took its old place at the head of the Democratic table. The South forced the nomination of Hancock in 18S0, a shrewd move, for it proved so strong a nomination that it took the united efforts of Grant and Conkllng in Ohio, Indiana and New York to elect Garfield. The South forced the nomlnatfon of Cleveland against the protest of Tammany Hall in 1884; It forced the nomination of Cleveland against a still more bitter protest on the part of Tammany in 1892, and the South, made the nomination of Bryan possible in 189G. The South has always been a very energetic and not seldom a very able politician in the councils of the Democratic party. It has never had any "favorite son" nonsense in its noddle. Before the Civil War it nevr tried to nominate a Southern Democrat for President, but preferred to nomi nate a Northern man who was an un flinching champion of the rights of slavery to protection within the Con stitution, both the rlgnts that were im plied as well as those that were un equivocally expressed. After the last of the Virginia Presidents, whose career dated back to the Revolution, retired from office in 1824, but two Southern Democrats became President Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk. Jackson really was never a distinctively South ern candidate. One-of the warmest champions of Jackson as early as 1823-24 was De Witt Clinton, of New York. James Watson Webb, in the New York Courier and Enquirer, supported Jackson strongly, and four years later Martin Van Buren, Tammany Hall and the New York Evening Post supported General Jack son for President. As early as 1824 Jackson had the support of Pennsyl vania, New Jersey and Indiana. In 1824 Jackson was not merely a sectional Southern man, but a popular military hero, as shown by the fact that with two eminent Southern men against, him to divide the Southern vote, Crawford, of Georgia, and Clay, of Kentucky Jackson in the electoral college had 99 votes, Adams 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37. It is clear that Jackson was not pushed in 1824 as a distinctively South ern Democrat. In 1S2S Jackson won easily, for the election or 1824 had des ignated him as the coming man. So far from Jackson being a distinctively Southern Democratic candidate, Martin Van Buren, who supported Crawford in 1824, was the engineer of the movement that made a majority of the electoral college of New York for General Jack son. General Jackson's bitterest ene mies were found among the Southern Democrats, such as- Calhoun; among the Southern Whigs, such as Clay. So It hardly can be claimed that Jackson was a sectional Southern Dem ocrat, made President by a factional Southern push. Polk, the last Southern Democrat to run for President on the regular party ticket, was taken up as "a dark horse" at the Baltimore con vention of 1844. From the Presidency of Andrew Jackson the tendency of the South, notwithstanding Its political su premacy, has been not to. nominate Southern Democrats for President. The explanation is found In the faot that the race question makes the South still solid. It Is fairly argued that the so called unavailability of Southerners is due today far more to the fact that these states are in no sense doubtful or pivotal in a Presidential contest The South does not press Senator Bailey, of Texas, for President, because it knows that Bailey could not carry the great doubtful states of the Middle West and the .Atlantic seaboard so certainly as. some conservative Northern Democrat. The South has swelled the rising tide for Parker, and let no one treat the judgment of the South with contempt The Southern leaders have a talent for politics, and they are not wrong when they see that Judge Parker is a strong candidate. He occupies the highest place in the judicial system of his state, a place of great dignity and honor. He is personally a man of superior profes sional erudition and of upright life. He is a Democrat without any taint of the demagogue. Such a candidate cannot be whistled down the wind. The "in dependent vote" of New York State would naturally be attracted by such a man as Judge Parker. There are many conservative Republicans who would be glad to see President Roose velt, if he should be beaten, succeeded by a Democrat of high character for public virtue and professional learning. Judge Parker cannot possibly be ac counted a weak or forceless political figure. His professional eminence and personal character forbid the folly of treating his candidacy with contempt BOND SHINING IS BUSINESS. The bankers at Eugene have entered into a mutual agreement that they will not become sureties upon the official bonds of public officers. This action was taken with a view to placing the management of the banks upon a bet ter business basis. In adopting this pol icy the banks have followed the recom mendation of the American Bankers' Association and have voiced the opin ions of business men generally. Meth ods of transacting business have under gone a revolution In the last quarter of a century, and the matter of suretyship has kept pace with the ceaseless change. "Going on a man's bond" is not what it used to be. While it is the same In legal effect business relations have become so complex that becoming surety on an official bond is considered less a matter of friendship and more a matter of business. Signing a bond is often lightly referred to as "only a matter of form." but many men have learned to their sorrow that when they affixed their signatures to the "form" they assumed serious financial obliga tions. To accommodate the changing condi tions, surety companies have been or ganized for the purpose of becoming sureties on official bonds and other un dertakings. For . this service they charge a premium sufficient to reim burse them for all losses and to leave them a profit on the business trans acted and capital Invested. When man aged In this way, suretyship ceases to be in any degree a matter of friendship and becomes "a cold-blooded business transaction." And this is what it should be. The acceptance of an office is a business transaction, entered upon by the person elected or appointed with a view to making money out of it GIvingan official undertaking, common ly called a bond, is one element in the transaction. The surety on the bond aids la fulfillment of the law's require ments and he Is entitled to compensa tion therefor. The man who holds the office must have the ability to perform the duties required, but the man who serves as surety must have property enough to make good any defalcation or dereliction. The man who signs as a surety assumes an obligation which may embarrass him when least expect ed and perhaps Involve him in financial ruin. This is particularly true of banks which are called upon to act as sureties where large bonds are re quired. The public welfare is best subserved if suretyship on official bonds is under taken as a business transaction rather than as a friendly favor. The surety companies make it their business to watcli their patrons and see that they are faithful to their trusts. One who acts merely from a feeling of -friendship cannot do this. One who professes con fidence In the Integrity of his friend cannot ask the privilege of examining his booKs and accounts and counting his cash. A surety company can make this privilege a part of its contract Then, too, when a defalcation occurs and suit is brought upon the bond, a jury fiequently has more sympathy for the bondsmen than for the county, and if there is room for doubt they Incline to favor the sureties, especially If they are well known and popular. A surety company gets no sympathy from the most tendpr-hearted Jury, and If the county has any case at all it can re cover. NO PARTIALITY INTENDED. W have received a letter from a Re publican county chairman In Eastern Oregon, complaining that the news re port from his county convention Incor rectly described a Williamson victory, whereas the fact was, he says, that the candidates for delegates who were de feated were Williamson men and the men elected are Moody men. He also says, which is highly probable, that the Issues fought out at the primaries in his county were local matters and not the Congressional nomination at all. We are disposed to think that the complaint of the chairman is well founded, though it is offset by a com plaint from another county that the news report of a Moody victory was In correct, inasmuch as the delegates chosen will be for Williamson. These reports are doubtless sent in by Ore gonlan correspondents whose sympa thies with one side or the other are active, as it has been found Impossi ble to secure correspondents in every town In Oregon who combine the Judi cial faculty of a Marshall, the energy of a Napoleon and the literary skill of a Macaulay. Regretfully we confess that our correspondents seem endowed with about the average suppy of hu man imperfections and frailties- In this particular case the difficulty of impartiality was enhanced by two considerations. One was that the fight between Moody and Williamson was so close and so dependent upon events elsewhere that a news report In favor of one of the men was eagerly sought for its possible aid to his cause In other counties. Whichever way the corre spondent leaned, that way he was tempted to color his report The man who makes a hustling correspondent is not apt ta be. lukewarm in local poli tics. The other reason why these re sports sometimes turned out to be in-, accurate was that Moody and William son did not constitute the issue where legislative and judicial, county or dis trict offices were the chief source of contention. Yet the-correspondent knew that tha world was waiting eagerly to hear whether Moody or Williamson had carried the county, and he felt it incum bent upon him to announce it one way or the other, and he did so when possi bly the delegates themselves did not yet know how they would vote in the Congressional Convention. There is nothing more to add except that The Oregonlan sent no Instructions of partiality to any of its correspond ents and desired from them the exact facts of the situation as far as they could be known. The good brother at The Dalles who avers that The Orego nlan "stood in" with Williamson be cause it was afraid of the Multnomah organization, and the Southern Oregon editor who finds that The Oregonlan supported Moody because Williamson voted for Fulton we leave to fight It out between themselves. Wallace H. Ham was recently sent enced by Judge Harris, of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, to fifteen to twenty years at hard labor. Ham, who was manager of the American Surety Company, treasurer of St Paul's Church Corporation and the St. Luke's Home for Convalescents, embezzled $230,000. The funds given by the chari table for the benefit of the poor and sick were stolen by this man and de voted to his own uses. This man was a peculiar thief. He never told what had become of hl3 plunder, which amounted to nearly a quarter of a mil lion dollars. He spared nobody; he was a shrewd and successful operator with his trust funds, and yet nobody knows what became of the great sum of money he stole. He pretended he did not know how he lost it, but the Judge evidently suspected that he knew what had become of the money, and this be lief probably prompted him to give the man the full penalty of the law. There is something frightful in the greed of a man who loves money so extrava gantly that he does not hesitate to rob the sick, the helpless, the infirm and aged poor. Paderewskl, It Is said, was lately ex? lied from Russia for life by police or der. At the close of one of his wonder ful performances before the Russian court the Czar complimented the great pianist, saying he was especially pleased to find such talent in a Rus sian, whereupon Paderewskl, with more patriotism than tact replied, begging His Majesty's pardon, that he was "a Pole." This was his offense, and he was ordered to leave St Petersburg within twenty-four hours and the em pire with all expedition, and admon ished not to return. The story is per haps without foundation in fact, but it serves to show the temper of imperial Russia, since without doubt it would be true were Paderewskl enough of a fool to answer a compliment from such a source with a vainglorious boast that could not, under any circumstances, be of the slightest advantage to him or his native country. One of the sequels of the Boer War Is the evolution of a new church, in consequence of a resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church offensive to the 4000 or 5000 "National Scouts," or Boers who before the war ended sur rendered and organized to help the British end the war. This action Is naturally regarded by the majority of the Boers as unpatriotic, and decided steps have been taken at church con ferences to make it hot for the "trait ors." The latter have appealed to the British Governor, who is disposed to stand by the "scouts" and divide with them the money allowed by the govern ment for religious purposes. Sir Ar thur Lawley demands. In fact, that "the objectionable resolution branding certain memhers In the church minutes" be rescinded. The net outcome prom ises to be a permanent split and a new church hostile to the national aspira tion. The old spirit of exclusion In Japan seems to have taken a new lease of life under the emergency of war. Not a Japanese in all Japan who knows anything that is of interest to the out side world, and every one of them is silently but strenuously bent upon keeping others from finding out any thing. Wily, silent, vigilant, the little brown men guard the happenings and the possible happenings of the empire Jealously and effectively. Naturally, newsgatherers and photographers find this a most annoying state of affairs and voice their annoyance In unmeas ured terms. But there Is reason to be lieve that Japan will have something to tell "one of these days which -she will give out eagerly. Until that time comes the world must bide Its time with what patience it can summon. General Wood is going to put the sol diers in the Department of Mindanao through their paces, war or no war. He is convinced that a hardened phys ical condition, that can only be attained by severe drill with full field equip ment for at least 30 minutes a day for four days In the week, and a march of six miles with the same equipment on one of the three remaining days, is necessary to keep the men In readiness for an emergency. He Is probably right, but there are those who see in this order proof of the charges made pending his confirmation as Major-Gen-eral of the Army, that he Is a martinet Striking evidence of utter failure to cultivate the grace of patience Is wit nessed In the attempt of an old man of 85 years to commit suicide. Nature has been a laggard in his case, but if he will bide her time In patience yet a lit tle longer she will come to his relief. This is not speculation, but certainty, founded upon precedent of long standing. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS Favorable View of Halley. Boise News. The Democrats of Eastern Oregon will probably nominate Tom Halley, of Pendle ton, for Congress. He is an Idaho boy and a great sprinter on the political race track. Inhumanity Doesn't Pay. Canyon City Eagle. Tho Winter weather that ha3 prevailed during the past week will cost Grant County thousands of dollars and will fall principally on those who are the least able to bear it It has without a question emphasized one fact, and that is that It is very unwise to try to run stock in this county without ample feed. But a Drop in the Bucket. Salem Journal. Tho Oregon delegation and JLewis and Clark Commissioners have doubtless se cured all that can be secured In the way of aid from Congress for the Portland Fair. When Oregon goes up against the National Government, we realize that we are but a drop in the bucket, politically speaking. So the Oregon men are to be congratulated In pulling oft what they did. It cannot be said our Senators and Congressmen are not working harmoni ously and effectively for our state. Against great odds they have won a grand recog nition for the Lewis and Clark Fair. The Fate of the Bolter. Port Townsend Leader. Tacoma Une3 up thl3 year with a Dem ocratic Mayor and with the balance of the Republican ticket elected by Immense majorities. This is "bad politics from any man's standpoint and must work a det riment to the party organization in Pierce County. If you can't beat a man for the nomination it's a good plan to take the defeat gracefully and bob up again; next time you may be successful. Soreheads, even If they succeed In defeating the man they have bolted, generally relegate them selves to private life and close the political gate behind them with a distinct click. Ask Hunt if the Press Is Silent. The Dalles Chronicle. Rev. J. -,. Brougher, of the Baptist Church in Portland,- ha3 been turning on a searchlisht on the wickedness of that city, and this has called forth a severe criticism of the preacher in Tho Sunday O'egonlan. It is the duty of every minis ter of the gospel to be fearless in the dis charge of his duties, and to bring to light the hidden sins that sap the moral strength of every community Is the fore most of these. It Is a well-known fact, all over the state, that the metropolis is permeated with vice in many forms, and It is useless for the Journals of that city to cover up the facts. The sooner these moral ulcers are given heroic treatment the better it will bi for the reputation of the city on the Willamette. Remedy for Dirty Vounds. Granite Gem. Every little while we read In the paper that somo one has run a rusty nail In his hand or foot or other portion of his body and lockjaw resulted therefrom and that the patient died. If every person was awaro of a perfect remedy of such wounds and apply it then such reports would cease. The remedy Is simple, always on hand, can be applied by anyone what is better, is Infallible. It is simply to smoke the wound or any wound that is bruised or Inflamed, with a woolen cloth. Twenty minutes In the smoke will take the pain out of the worst case of Inflammation aris ing from such a wound. People may sneer at this remedy as much as they please, but when they are afflicted with such wounds Just let them try it In Other Respects Available. Newport News. There was no little surprise among the Republicans, as they noted the number of ''Socialists" and Democrats in attendance as delegates at tho County Convention Tuesday. It is among this class of people who have no political principles attached to their makeup that the "fourth-term candidate" holds sway. A striking Inci dent of this nature may be pointed out In the delegation from Beaver Creek pre cinct where Captain H. Nice, one of tho heaviest taxpayers in the county, and a life-long Republican was cast aside and a man selected in his place who up to a couple of years ago was a Democrat from the day he was born, but after twice be ing an unsuccessful aspirant for nomina tion In Democratic conventions deserted that party for tho Socialists at whose con vention two years ago he met with no bet ter success. This man is a slave to the cup, an admirer of the fourth-termer, a nontaxpnyer and a traitor; these are chief qualifications for a seat in the fourth term band wagon. Idaho at Portland. Grangevllle News. In the very elaborateness of detail so strongly characterizing the organization Into one grand ensemble of the innumera ble factors obtaining in the arrangement of Portland's great Exposition for 1005, speak volumes in demonstrating that tho big show of the Pacific slope will far and away out-rival anything of the kind in the history of these United States, except ing the Chicago wonder and this year's enormous Exposition at St Louis. Oregon and Oregonlans have actually raised 52, 500.000 to spend in a lavish display of the multifarious resources of the Union's em pirical possessions in her mighty We3t And every cent will be spent to make it an Exposition the character; conduct and efTect of which will go down the avenue of timo as one of the greatest feats of physi cal and Intellectual accomplishment tho country and the world have ever known. It Is certainly well and Idahoans should felicitate themselves over tho fact that the boundless wealth of Nature endow ment to this young commonwealth will be displayed at the Lewl3 and Clark Ex position, at Portland, In 1D05, on a scale equal to their merit and their worth to tho Idahoan so proud of his state and to his countrymen outside of It, now so thoroughly awakened to its future great ness. Why We Ask Participation. Spokane Spokesman-Review. The bill appropriating $470,000 for tho Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland In 1S05 passed the House yesterday, and, with tho assurance of Government aid! the directors of tho enterprise may now proceed, all the more confident that it will be a notable success. The Government has made generous appropriations -for most of the minor expositions held In tho last 20 years, and bo long as the precedent had been established there was no reason why the Fair at Portland should not re ceive equally substantial recognition. While the Louisiana purchase in 1S03 was a signal achievement from the fact that It added millions of territory to tho re public's domain and gave an outlook by the way of the Mississippi, the Lewis and Clark expedition across a trackless con tinent supplemented tho Louisiana pur chase by solving a mighty geographical, political and commercial problem which gave to this country an outlet to the Pa cific Ocean and the trade of the world. Now, more than at any past time, Is It possible to appreciate what the Lewl3 and Clark journey meant to the United States. The expositions of the past, at New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Omaha and Buffalo, in all of which the Govern ment took part celebrated no historical events that are to be compared with the memorable achievement of the two explor ers 100 years ago. It Is eminently fitting that advantage should be taken of the op portunity to pay tribute to their memo ries in tho form of an exposition that will show what a century's growth has been, and the Government quite properly will take part in It ALEXIEFF AND THE SAILOR. London Dally News. Public Opinion gives a story -vhlch shows that Admiral Alexieff is not defi cient In the art of repartee. In 18S0 the Admiral was Captain, in command of the cruiser Africa, and the raconteur ttlis how he was permitted by the Russian gov ernment to accompany the vessel to Eng land. The rest of the story may be told In the narrator's own words: "On getting into British waters we were overtaken by a dense fog, necessitating our remaining al most stationary. When the fog lifted we discovered a small fishing smack, manned by two typical North Sea fishermen, who signaled their wish to be taken aboard. Tho order was at once given, and one of the men was speedily taken on deck. As I was the only one on the Africa who could speak English, I was called upon to act as Interpreter, and learned that in the fog they had become separated from the rest of the fleet, and wanted to study the chart to ascertain their bearings. "The desired information having been given him. the man glanced round with evident admiration at the spotless decks and perfect appointments of the ship; then suddenly turning, to me In a confi dential whisper (pointing to the crew), said: 'They're Rooshians, ain't they?' I answered Yes, and Inquired how he guessed the fact 'By the smell of 'em I' he replied, stolidly. Seeing me smile, Cap tain Alexieff begged me to explain what had transpired, and, on my interpreting, laughed heartily (as did also the other officers grouped around), and remarked that, 'as the British lion had such a nice sense of smell, it should surely be allied to an equally critical sense of taste and sent tho young giant on his way rejoicing with a jar of vodka to drink the health of the Russian Bear." Classes in American Cities. Hartford (Conn.) Times. Under the theory of our Government there are no classes. It is still true that the road to distinction is open to any capable young man to a degee unknown In the older civilized countries. On tho other hand, we fail to see how it is pos slblo to deny that pretty well-marked classes actually exist in the cities, at least Very rich people began to make the dis tinction years ago. The whole develop ment of a city like New York tends to ward it Extremes of riches and poverty lead directly to it. The development of what io known as "society" involves al most of necessity a demarcation of classes. Large groups characteristically different In purpose, standard of living and conception of life, one making of chief consequence what another neglects, naturally and Inevitably tend to social di visions that are properly called classes and cannot well be described by any other name. One of the "Bad Trusts." Omaha World-Herald. Before the House committee on judi ciary it was shown that tho news print paper business In the United States is controlled by a combination and that this combination has raised the price of news paper during the last four years $14 per ton and during the last year as much as $5 per ton. It was further shown that this same combination Is selling paper in Lon don, after paying the freight and insur ance, at 30 per cent less than It does in New York. Now we may expect Repub lican newspapers to Insist that the shelter which the paper finds In the tariff be de stroyed. Already many of these news papers have printed solemn editorials on that line, and yet when It Is proposed that the shelter which other trusts find In the tariff be destroyed these same Republican papers Insist that public Interests require that we "stand pat." Four Hundred in London. Labouchere's Truth. In the United States there ha3 grown up an institution which was called the "400." Rapidly this curious system, is being adopted in London, and unless the unfor seen occurs the "society" here will soon be composed almost entirely of rich and reckless persons, who," through the press, have attained social prominence. Many of the finest houses in the town and country have come into their possession and these they have furnished with the utmost lux ury. They have acquired some of tho most valuable art treasures, they have the most precious jewels, thoy wear the most extravagant costumes, they occupy the best boxes at the opera and at the thea ters, they drive In the most striking car riages and they give the most exclusive entertainments. Growing Government Expenses. Boston Herald. Lost anyone should be deceived Into be lieving that the Government Is being run at small expense, It need only be stated that the expenditures for the three-quarters of a year now are far In excess of those for tho entire 12 months of the fiscal year lt!r. More was spent In nine months of the current fiscal year for the War De partment than was spent In the whole year 1S97 for both the War and the Navy Departmonts combined. In nine months of tho current year the expenditures for the Navy have been almost $6,000,000 more than double the total naval expenditures for tho whole fiscal year that closed June 30, 1897. Such facts tell their own story of economy or extravagance. Edward and Theodore. Cincinnati Enquirer. King Edward VII, at his recent recep tion at Copenhagen, was especially cor dial and friendly toward the United States Minister. He expressed tho warmest ad miration for President Roosevelt Edward ought to feel kindly toward our Adminis tration. It has never missed an opportu nity to play Into the British hand. Let not King Edward, though, allow himself to be lugged In as a spellbinder for the Republican ticket. Mr. Roosevelt is not the United States. At least, he has not a present patent on the Executive and Leg islative Departments of tho Government lasting longer than the 4th of March next. Thibet Being Civilized. New York Press. Those Englishmen who "stand aghast" at the turning of the road to Lhassa into a shambles belong to the same England that heard with grim satisfaction of the mowing down by Kitchener at Orndurman of whole battalions of the khalifa's fanat ic followers. They belong to the same suns'Stless empire which sought the gold fields of the Rand, when held by white men, as purposefully and bloodily as it demands a tea market under "the roof of the world" when the yellow barbarian slams his door In tho Indian trader's face. Good "Ad" for Kansas. Buffalo Express. What short-sighted Kansas mothers those are who do not approve the plan to have an exhibit of Sunflower State beauties at the World's Fair! Such a show would make sure an adequate supply of farm hands during tho harvest time, for it is hardly to be denied that marriageable men who have visited the Exposition would flock to Kansas. . Shakespeare and Bacon. Walter W. Skeat, In the Spectator. Said Hood: "I know, if. I'd a mind, I could like Shakespeare write. And soon could prove to all mankind How -well I can indite; And yet." remarked thla genial man, "A little hitch I And That somewhat mars my simple plan I haven't got the mind!" So Bacon might have borne hla part And said: "For sake of praise, I well could find It In my heart To write all Shakespeare's plays; But ah! I feel a touch of fear That somewhat makes me start; I nave the mind, serene and clear. But haven't sot the heart!" v NOTE AND COMMENT. Smooth Sailing. John Sailing w&3 seen In Beaver. Sunday, calling on his best girl. Tillamook Headlight. No Further Need for Prayer. A preacher, who went to a. Kentucky parish where the parishioners bred horses, ws asked to Invite the prayers of the congregation for Lucy Grey. He did so. They prayei three Sundays for Lucy Grey. On the fourth he was told he need not do It any more. W hy, said the preacher. "Id sho dead?" "'So," an swered the man; "she won the Derby. Hon is City Independent. Hobos on the wing. Hobson has been bottled. Caen was canned variation 103. The Seals should be at home on tha rocks. Even Skamokawa laughs at Admiral Rojonstrensky's name. , Tho garter purse is said to be growing in favor. Sure; it's out of sight Even the W. C. T. U. couldn't object to the way Seattle rushed the Cann. i We had expected to hear before this that the Yalu River ran red with blood. A North Yakima paper claims a "gen eral circulation among 3,000,000 people." Note and Comment's weather forecast (Copyright, 1904) Wednesday. Hot as Pan ama. Especially in the case of twins, the stork would make a hit by giving trading stamps. BURGLAR All will bo forgiven If you will tell us why the Dickens you steal sealskins In this weather. General Sherman Bell will be arrested only over tho dead bodies of his soldiery. Sort of a Colorado Kouropatkia. Literary Note. Frequently a book Is like a doughnut good around the edges of a subject, but lacking a core. Tho Indians think a squaw that has twins must be in league with the devil. And yet somo fool white men think they have all the wisdom corralled. The answer to tho question. Is life- a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy? de pends upon whether you are chasing your own hat or watching another fellow chase his. A recent fire in Douglas City, Alaska, was extinguished with beer, all the water being frozen. We thought the true-blue Alaskan would have let the town burn. Great Britain, which has nothing to do with Morocco, has handed it over to France. If the Moors light up to their reputation, the transaction will illustrate anew the adage that It Is better to give than to receive. The Philadelphia Inquirer thus describes tho plaintiff in an action for damages for alienation of affections: She Is a blonde, with hair almost white; pink cheeks, big blue eyes and a willowy figure. Her voice might even be described as blonJe Which do you like better a blond voice or a brunette? Tacoma had a very successful launching party some days ago. The fast and com modious steamer Jefferson, slid into tho Puyallup waterway with great eclat, and speeches were made by prominent citizens extolling the shipbuilding Industry that was to make the Puyallup another Clyde. Unfortunately, when the question of mov ing the Jefferson into the stream came up, there was a slight hitch In the proceed ings. The Jefferson was stuck hard and fast in the Puyallup mud, and there sho remains. This teaches us that there's many a trip 'twlxt tho slip and the ship. When a number of Italians threaten American automoblllsts because a couple of children have been ground under tho wheels of the auto, they display a spirit that has kept Italy In the backgrouni of tho modern world. How are millionaires to have their innocent pleasures If they must slow down every time a child gets In tho way? And will millionaires enduro a land where they are deprived of their pleasures? Never. The Italians had bet ter be careful or thoy will drive out the wealthy, both native and foreign-born, and the country will be left to stagger alone In the rear of tho trust-driven, merger-geared nations that toot the horn of material progress on the road of in dustry. Just how far one may go in reproving a neighbor who gossips over one's 'phona has never been satisfactorily settled. In a case recently heard here it developed that the owner of a 'phone became an noyed at the conduct of a neighbor in using it, and proceeded to eject her from the house with considerable violence, even, according to the woman's story, hitting her In tho face and kicking hor somewhere else. Tho Justice declared that thero wero "mitigating circumstances," but Imposed the maximum fine of $50. Tho owner of the 'phone will appeal to a higher court, so that thero Is some chanco of obtaining a definite idea of the reprisals that a man may make and still be within the law. Mitigating circumstances aro pleasant things, but of no practical valua unless they reduce tho amount of the fine to be imposed. WEX. J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "la he a. litterateur?" "Oh, dear, no. Why, he's able to sell the stuff he wrltee." Chicago Evening Post. One redeeming feature of the situation 13 that a Mormon elder cannot refer to hla wives as his "better half." Washington Post. "When may a woman be said to be happily married?" "Not until she ha3 bad the pleas ure ot refusing several men." Detroit Free Pre63. Stranger Seems to me this crowded street la a queer place for a hcepltal. Native Well, I don't know. Two trolley llneo meet here. New York, Weekly. "Arthur, dear, don't you think It's rather ex travagant of you to cat butter with that de licious Jam?" "No, love; economical. Sama piece ofbread does for both." Tit-Bits. Swlpeey Here dig paper gives six columns to do Russian-Jap war an' only one Inch to tie fight last night between Bulldog Smith an Kid Bone. Jimmy Tor don't say. I tell ycr de press has reached a bum stage when It lets a little thing like dat Interfere wld a real scrap. Chicago News. Barnes Howes and I have been arguing about the meaning of the word "Isthmus." He says It means a neck of land separating two bodies of water, and I held that It Is a strip of land connecting two continents. Now, what do you say? Shedd I say that neither of you Is right. An Isthmus to a thing that connects conspiracies and revolutions and separates gov ernments. Boston Transcript. "Wh-why didn't you let de fight go on?" sobbed the defeated pugilist after they ha -I brushed the stars out of his eyes and carried him to his corner. "Why didn't you lemme gi ahead? I had Mm goln't" "Yes," said YM second, who was also Ma chief backer, "yoi had him going but he waa going the -irons way and going too fast for you, son'" San Francisco Bulletin.