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WTTTE'S rOWERS. re is food for thought in M. witMss- remarks to the Associated Press correspondent, the other day. aoout his powers and policy. It has been supposed that he was appointed by the Cxar to make ii treaty of peace; 1 his own wordsvtre that "he has been wislgnaxed by the Emperor to as certain "whether it is possible to con clude a treaty of peace." To find out If thing is possible Is not the same as ping the thing, and M. Wltte. being a us&lan diplomatist, is aware of the fference. Nor was this somewhat lbtle statement of his conception of s mission a slip of the tongue, for the respondent notes that M. Wltte Weighed the value of each word." An avo ' I nc jhe J avoy sent merely to hold "pour par that is, preliminary conversations. not a minister plenipotentiary; and Japanese are too shrexvd to be mis ed by mere names that really stand for 'less, than their face. The Japanese have said plainly that they would treat for peace with plenl potentlarles only; they have expressed the fear that the Russian envoys would come to the meeting purposing to learn their terms, but with no power to act; uid have given fair warning that In bch case the negotiations could not jroceed. Russia, on the other hand, jolemnly assured Japan that her envoy ild have full powers. In view of all hlstl ""Parties one to read that M ltte's authority Is limited to "pour parlers." If his words mean anything. they mean that he has no commission to go beyond mere preliminaries and actually conclude a treaty of peace. "The Bourbons, It was said In Prance of that lamentable royal race. "learn nothing and forget nothing." Is Russia also Impervious to the sad les sons of experience? what has she gained from her sinuous diplomacy but military disasters unparalleled since the downfall of the French In JS70? She has also acquired, to be sure, the dls trust or hatred of almost the entire human face for her rulers, but It would be bold to call that a gain. But Eph- ralm is wedded to his idols. It seem: Impossible for Russia to deal straight forwardly. She keeps a. card up her sleeve; she has always some subterfuge. wrae mental reservation, which kills confidence and .makes faith in her pledges seem like folly. Her methods of diplomacy have been called Oriental and too often it has been the tragic fate of Asiatics to be driven to diplomatic indirection and cunning as their last refuge from destruction. The prey of Europe for a dozen decades, they have practiced the arts of the hunted almost from necessity; but Russia has been mo6t sinuous when her power was greatest. She is Jesuitical rather than Oriental. To assert positively that M. "Wltte betrays in this interview a new piece of the habitual Russian indirection would. of course, be rash. He spoke in French, and the sense of his remarks may have been altered in translating: but; how ever that may be. It Is quite clear that the Czar's envoy Is to be little more than & puppet His own Judgment is to count for nothing in the negotiations, Indeed, it seems doubtful whether any eal negotiations are intended. M. fltte is to learn the Japanese terms and report them to the Czar for accept nee or rejection. That is all. Remem bering what Japan has so clearly said about thla matter, it is extremely doubt ful whether, under the circumstances, M, Wltte will obtain a statement of her terms. The condition of Senator Clark, of Montana, may well "be considered grave. The operation on the middle car, which he u4cwent a few days ago, was at best bttt a. desperate chance taken to save his life. Fatalities follow this op cratlon. one of the wost delicate known lo surgery, in a large proportion oi cases, even when the patients are rela tively young and of unimpaired vital ity. Senator Clark Is no longer young. He has led a life during wme years that has been a tremendous strain upon his vital forces. If. therefore, he re covers from his present illness. It will be due to the almost miraculous power of modern surgery. A few days will tell the story, marvelous in detail. If he recovers, scarcely less wonderful if he dies. In that he survived the opera tion and for a time gave promise of recovers. A DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD. It is not the enemies of organized labor, but the friends, who are aghast at the news of what is now going on in Chicago. One of the labor leaders has been beaten nearly to death. Eight armed men stormed Bricklayers' Hall during a Federation election, held up the Judges and destroyed the ballots: and the victims of these strange at tacks are silent from fear of outrage or death at the hands of their own com rades. The dissensions within the la bor unions, which have culminated in these breaches of the peace, can be understood by outsiders only In part. The pity of it is, and the wrong as well. that there should be such dissensions at all. They weaken, and may destroy. forces without which the fight for po litical and social betterment In this country cannot be won. Sweeping aside petty circumstances which seem other. wise, organized labor, upon the whole and in the long run. has stood for schools. libraries, parks, clean streets and a high standard of living. It has stood for honest, representative gov ernment, and against graft. It was the uprising of the constituents of the labor unions which made it possible for Mayor Weaver to fight graft victori ously In Philadelphia. Had he depend ed upon the backing of the "better classes." his defeat would have been swift and disastrous. Contrary to the verdict of a sentimentality which is often maudlin and sometimes slander ous, we are driven to admit that the labor unions of the Pacific Coast have achieved a notable triumph of civiliza tion In holding this region for the white race. There are instances wnlcn might be multiplied. But the physician is not always Im mune from the diseases which he com bats. Father Damlen spent his life fighting leprosy; he died a leper. The labor unions of America have stood consistently against graft, our moral leprosy. We must not be surprised, nor too much shocked, if they catch the contagion now and then themselves. There have been cases In New York; there Is a bad one now in Chicago. Nobody will claim that the late strike in Chicago was good strategy. It was disastrous to the unions. All friends of organized labor admit this and bewail it. But. worse yet, it Is now hardly disputable-that the strike originated In graft: and that the present dissensions are between the grafters and the hon est element. The New York World enumerates twenty-four states where the decent part of the population have risen In open revolt against dishonest officials. Pessimists think such a state of things deplorable. They forget how murh more deplorable tame submission to the thieves would be. The fight itself is a sign of hope. Just so in the case of organized labor. Harmony, where one element is dishonest, means invariably the triumph of that element. So long, then, as there is graft in orgnnized la bor, all Its friends will .pray, not for harmony, but for discord; a.nd the hot ter the fight the better. THE UNCONTROLLABLE AIRSHir. An "airship" drifted leisurely over the City of Portland yesterday after noon and alighted in safety without damaging the man In charge. Precise ly the same feat has been performed on other occasions by the old-fashioned balloon. At Santa Clara yesterday, an aeroplane, which Is something of an Improvement over the parachute as a means of reducing the census of aero nauts, dropped 3000 feet and killed the operator. It Is now nearly 300 years since Montgolfler sent up the first bal loon, and In the Intervening centuries but small progress has been made In conquering the elements above us. The mysteries of the air. with shifting cur rents, varying temperature and other uncontrollable forces, have thus far baffled the efforts of all navigators who have sought to subjugate these invisi ble forces of Nature. "Flyin's all Tight, but 'taint such a thunderln sort of fun when ye come to light." said Darius Green, whose unfor tunate experience with a flying machine was embalmed in poetry more than a generation ago. Santos Dumont has made only a slight progress over Darius Green, and the "airships," aeroplanes and other flying machines have never yet demonstrated their usefulness or the ability 'of their operators or builders to control them, except in a-mlld degree under most favorable circumstances. The only craft navigating the air to day for any practical purpose is the old-fashioned captive balloon, which is sometimes quite valuable for reconnol tering purposes during a war. With these facts so clearly established. It is Impossible to work up any great degree of Interest in speculating on aerial nav igation of the future. With nearly 300 years of experimenting, and no ma terial improvement over Montgolfler's efforts, it seems fairly probable that the "airship" craze will never get much beyond the fad stage. EASY GIVERS Or CHARITY. An object-lesson against indiscrimi nate almsgiving was furnished a day or two ago by the arrest of half a dozen wealthy street beggars in New York. Beggars upon our own street corners, using such thin disguises of their voca tion as are furnished by wheezy accor deons and hand organs with which they bray harsh discordance on the air. have, most likely, savings funds that would seem large sums to many who contrib ute to their supposed needs day after day in pennies, nickels and dimes. The practice or desire to give money to street beggars of any type should be restrained It is not thus that worldly wise charity dispenses her favors or unsophisticated charity her blessings. The former investigates and reports her findings; the dole of the latter is not a blessing, except In extreme cases in a temporary sense, but a worker of seri ous mischief and an accomplice of fraud. The six husky beggars who were haled before the Harlem Court lately and found to be landlords, each with a bank account running from $500 to 51 400. illustrate a scheme as easy and as old as the simplest trick -of the con fidence man; yet samples of their kind flourish in every urtvn community, our own to some extentnncluded, banking upon sympathy and becoming prosper ous in their vocation. All of which fol lows a long chain of evidence that is offered in support of the familiar dec laration that "the public is a fool." TICKET SCALPING. If the railroad companies shall suc ceed in making the business of ticket scalping both odious and Impossible, they will have done both themselves and the public a real service. Ticket scalping is contrary' to law. It is a 1 dishonest and demoralizing occupation. It defeats the very purpose for which ,, . , . . i the railroads make concessions to the I . ., ... . . , traveling public and It invites the pur- I eling public, and It Invites the pur chaser to commit forgery, or to become an accomplice in a deliberate swindle, or both. The transcontinental railroads made very low rates to the Lewis and Clark Exposition with the express condition that the authorities should do all In their power to protect them and to guarantee the integrity of the tickets. To that end laws were enacted, but nevertheless the practice of scalping seems to have been common. If the men who have been arrested shall be proved guilty" of the charges, they should be duly punished. Good faith with the railroads must be kept, and the traveling public must get all it is entitled to. and no more. TO OPEN RICH TRADE FIELDS. The contract has been let for con struction of the Snake River branch of the O. R. & N. from RIparia to Lewiston. O. Ill &. N. officials are now In the Wallowa country, making final arrangements for extension of the Elgin branch into the neglected country' be yond the present terminus. The road from Lewiston to the Grangeville dis trict in Idaho will be rushed to comple tion, and It is practically a certainty that Central Oregon will be opened up, either by an extension of the Columbia Southern or by an east and west line. Whatever the shortcomings of the Har riman system may have been, in with holding this development by its Inactiv ity and in permitting the encroachment of rival lines, there will be a suspen sion of criticism if. even at this belated date, it pushes these various projects through to completion. What this release from bondage of such a large portion of our state means to Porltand can only be faintly under stood by people who have never actu ally visited the new regions to be opened ud for commercial and indus trial exploitation. Wheat has been the corner-stone from which all of our com mercial greatness has bu Ikied. It will in time be supplanted in prominence by other lines of agriculture which are the natural accompaniment of an Increas ing population. But it was wheat that made Oregon famous and paved the way for development on other lines, and it is the wheat crop of the new sections about to be opened up that will supply traffic to pay the running expenses, while other industries are de veloping. Exclusive of all irrigated lands, there Is sufficient acreage along the proposed extension of the Colum bia Southern, admirably adapted to wheatgrowing. which is susceptible of an output of approximately 5.000.000 bushels of wheat per year. The rich Wallowa country can turn off at least 4.000.000 bushels, and out of that por tion of the Clearwater country, as yet untouched, will come from to 18,000,000 bushels of wheat. In Central Oregon and the Wallowa country Portland will be impregnable, and. making allowance for a division of the Idaho business with the Puget Sound cities, this port will still have from 10.000.000 bushels to 12,009,000 bush els more wheat available for shipment than we have ever had. These figures will be materially increased before the new country reaches a stage of devel opment where the demands of diversi fied farming curtail the wheat acreage. and. as wheat has never been aban doned except where more money could be made with other crops, even greater financial results will be noticeable with the decline In the wheat traffic. For the immediate future, however, wheat and other cereals will be the great wealth-producers in the new country about to be opened up for trade and de velopment. All through these new dis tricts are vast untimbered tracts, and. In the aggregate, an enormous amount of lumber will be needed by the farm ers. employment thus being given an other army of workers in the timber belts that will be tapped by the pro posed roads. It is impossible for the best country on earth, which in this case Is Oregon, to develop without the aid of transpor tatkjn facilities. That providing such facilities will be followed by immedi ate returns for the railroad company has been proved in every case on record in this state, and further evidence to substantiate this fact will follow com pletion of the roads now projected and about to be built. In McClure's Magazine for July an article appeared by Miss Ida Tar bell. entitled "John D. Rockefeller; A Char acter Study." It was moderate in Its terms, yet asarchlng in its description and analysis. To this article a reply has been published by Mr. Kline, of Cleveland, one of Rockefeller's attor neys. Mr. Kline was associated In Rockefeller's defense In the Corrigan case, the rehearing of which formed an interesting portion of the magazine ar ticle. Mr. Kline declares that Miss Tar- bell's version is "partial and mislead ing." and points triumphantly to the fact that Corrigan's suit was legally decided in favor of Mr. Rockefeller. Miss Tarbell. when shown the Kline statement, made a brief reply, of which the following is the gist: l fear that after all Mr. KHne and I are duelllnc on Pblftlng ground. He Is concerned with the legal status of the caie and I with the ethlcat He naturally proclaim, with triumphant blast of trumpet, the fact that his client won! But Is there notblnr to all this but the lepal rights concerned? To me the Interesting and Important aide was no; touched upon by the gentlemen before whom the Question" of Corrlsan'a Indebtedness Rockefeller was proved. There waa a higher point at Issue. In the decision It deemed neeewary to eprate the moral law from the buslners law. and It Is for this dl vereement of the moral rale from the lxl right that I arralcsed this man. who has dealt unfairly with his old-time friend. "Black and White", is an English weekly magazine. It recently published this statement, viz: The after-dinner orator is bom. sot made the artificial product takes hint and copies In vain. All agree, however, that the an expected "roe best. Lord Chancellor Camp bell knew this when at a dinner of authors he nddenly rote, asked that glasses anight be charged, atd submitted "Napoleon." There were crlet of dissent, but Campbell went on undisturbed: "We as authoty mux teel that the same of .Napoleon should be held in honor. for let never forget, that he once hot a pubHther." That toast wts drank with ea thuttaejB. This ie a pretty good story. It be a parallel In an anecdote of Lord Byron. One day Byron sent a literary friend a copy of the New Testament. At the passage "Now Barrabas was a robber," the word robber was erased, and on the margin the passage was made to read. "Now Barrabas was a publisher." Au thors always have done what they could to "get even" with publishers and booksellers. The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company has let the contract in San Francisco for construction of two mon ster freighters of the same type as the atcaiusnip lexan, wo cn me company . .. , " ., ... . , has been operating with a number of .. . smaller steamers for the past five years These vessels have been used almost exclusively in the round-the-Horn traffic between Atlantic and Pacific Coast ports, and have driven the sail ing craft from that route. As regulat ors of transcontinental freight charges they have a powerful influence, and that the rates established by the water route are profitable is proven by these additions to an already large fleet of big carriers. Twenty-sixth state to enter the Union, North Dakota could be sliced from Ore gon and leave enough over to make New England; but let no one Jump to the conclusion that she is small In area or otherwise, for all that. A very large state, as states go In the East. North Dakota has no mountains and scarcely an acre of soil that is not tillable. The Mandan Indians. . hosts of Lewis and "Clark; djwok -orfthe !t of her capital. long stretch of the ' great historic Journey lay within the state. North Dakota participates most appropriate- in the Exposition: those who know the state and people need not be told that she participates with marked ex cellence. The Liverpool wheat market, which for more than a year has refused to follow the advances In the cereal on this side of the ocean. Is quick to respond to the declines, and has been trailing off quite rapidly since the slump in Chi cago began assuming goodly propor tions. Europe has managed to get along for more than a year without the necessity of paying American prices for wheat, and It is now quite apparent that, with a big crop on In this coun try', there must be an adjustment of prices that will enable us to work off some of the surolus on the forelcn countries which have been buying In other markets for so long. Senator Heyburn. of Idaho, offers a letter to The Oregoninn. written In furious terms In the big bow-wow style. The Oregon Ian prints It, because It gives every one a hearing. But The Oregon lan has been familiar with Sena tors of the Heyburn type these many, many j-ears. The Oregonlan knows per fectly the standing of Senator Heyburn at home and at Washington. On his land schemes for Idaho he has been turned down heavily at Washington, and he will not be able to maintain himself at home. Mr. Heyburn is one of the birds of passage, who flit through the United States Senate. They come and go." It is much to be regretted that so many person? think it no harm to steal from the Government from the gov ernment, municipal, county, state or na tional. A cowboy in Texas was pulled up for stealing, horses. They hnd a rope around his neck, when he broke forth: "Fellers, do you know what you're doing? You are hanging me for horsestealing when every one of you knows I never In my life stole a horse except from an 'Indian or from the Government." They released him at once. A well-known and wealthy citizen of Hoquiam. previously with high stand ing in the community, has been arrest ed for burglary, caught with the goods on him. An equally well-known and honored public official at Corvallls. Or., is short in his accounts more thnn $2000. while the wife of a Hills bo ro minister is suing her husband for divorce be cause he Is a confirmed drunkard. All of which tends to prove that Satan is no respecter of persons or of their pre vious conduct. If the great American buffalo can suf fer any of the pangs of humiliation, he must feel them, now that a band of soldiers has been rounding up the rem nants of his race and chasing them back through the same hole In the fence by which they escaped from Yellow stone Park. The Indignity Is nearly equal to that of making, or trying to make, an Indian work. The dredge Portland Is doing service not on this city's river channel but on that of the Portland Consolidated Rail way Company's ferry at Vancouver. The dredge was sent there by one of the managers of the railway, who is president of the Port of Portland Com mission. Doubtless there is good Teason for Mr. Swlgert's action; there always ,S J According to M. Wltte himself, he has been appointed Ambassador extraordi nary "pour parler." which, freely translated, means that he has been cm powered by the Czar to "chew the rag" with the Mikado's Ambassador, extra ordinary. o tar as Russia is con cerned, peace can be proclaimed only from the throne. While the thought lacks the element of novelty, no resident of Western Ore gon can read the distressing weather reports from the Mississippi Valley without .feeling a senre of felicity over meteorological conditions In this fa vored land. When the Indiana roan applied for a marriage "license and found that he knew not the name of the intended bride, that didn't make any difference. He wasn't "marrying her name; she was marrying his. Nothing in our local microcosm, our little world of Portland, so shocks the moral and religious sensibility as to see the street cars of Portland, run by the first families, all orthodox, for hire and gain on the Sabbath. It is a wicked world. After twenty years of profound peace with Oregon Indians, war is now de clared against a pestiferous band. And the scalpers propose to fight to the bit ter end. Nearly a week has gone by without fresh news from Jasaes Hamilton Lewis. Is It possible that Mayor Dunne has muzEied him? Seasonable advice .to the Middle West: Xcape klllig boat by coming m Ore- son. - it 0REG0N0Z0NE The Human Average. I do not ask so very much To make my life complete: About six millions in my clutch Would give me food to eat. A roof to shelter, clothes to wear. And then I'd have no further care. They Had Arrived. "Essrs may go to 30 cents. the paper says." remarked Mrs. Housckecp at the breakfast table. "Humph! these look like It already." replied Mr. H Should Be Tempting. Willy I notice they are raising a great deal of macaroni wheat in Kansas this year, but can't get hands enough to har vest it. Nllly What has become of all the Ital ians? Really No Danger. "Here, barber, why have you taken in your pole?" "Morning paper says Lieutenant Peary Is geing to make another dash for It." Uncle Robert's Essays. NO. fr THE NORTH POLE. The North Pole is not adapted either for kindjing-wood or flagstafT purposes, and even if It were so adapted it would not be worth cutting down and bringing- Into the zone of civilization. So far as I have been able to discover, the North Pole is qf no use whatever to humanity, and never will be. Even If we could find It. -what's the use? But we don't even know where It I?, and why should we want to know? It seems to me that these people who spend their own lives and other fel lows lucre In searching for the North Pole would do a great deal more good for the world if they should devote their en ergies to mauling rails "or breaking rock for new roads. These dashing gentlemen who make dahes for the North Pole every two or three years and have to be gone after by some other dasher ought to be committed to a keeley-cure sanatorium for Arctlcitis; its a dreadful disease to attack a man. for it Invariably becomes chronic and usually results fatally. In the humble opinion of your Uncle Robert. who has followed most of the Arctic ex plorations (at a safe distance), these en thusiastic explorers are chasing a phan torn more elusive than the bag of gold at the end of the rainbow, and certainly not worth so much to mankind. The gen erality of men in general hac no more use for the North Pole than the man in the moon has for his mythical green cheese, or than a corpse has for the cop pers that hold down his eyelids. The North Pole Is of no use to anybody, and never will be. whether we find It or not. Let the North Pole float around or stand stationary, sink or swim, survive or per ishit doesn't matter which: but keep the dash money in warmer climates and use it for building airships or castles in Spain. Why not? The Silent Part. Our nobler selves are silent. Evermore The braggart ocean boasts aloud his power To build an Island or bring down s tower In sweep of tide or sullen tempest-roar But underneath, on Ocean's shut-In floor. Silent is Nature's uncontested dower Of shell-lmpearled and beauteous coral bower. Unvoiced to Idle gazers from the shore. Our nobler selves are silent. Underneath The egotletlc lips of woe or mirth. Unframed to language, purer passions breathe. Unworded melodies of higher worth Than uttered songs for which the world may wreathe Our brows with laurel from the dusty- earth. To it Shell From the Sea. Come, sing me a song of the sea. My quaint and curious shell1 Of the silver Isles and the rippling smiles Where the amorous mermaids dwell Or make me a chaunt of the yellow deeps Where the cruel krakens be For fain would I. ere I sink and die. Hear me a song of the sea! Ob. sing me a song Qf the sea Of the maudlin maundering waves; Of the sirens that lure to a doom secure In the doors of drowned men's caves: Of the winds that moan on the desert lone. Of the landless plains afar. As the homeless orphan - soul of man Mourns for Its mother-star! Nay, sing me a song of the sea. My quaint "and kindly shell. That is rhymed with the rune of the winds atune. Where the waves their love-tales tell; Yea, make me a chaunt of the whispering V spray When the spirit is roving free For such Is the song that will live for long j As the song of the siren sea! ROBERTUS LOVE. Tlie World's Richest Men. Butte News. The 21 richest men In the world are listed by a leading New Tork financier as follows: John D. Rockefeller. New Tork City $600,000,000 Alfred Belt. London England.... 300.000.000 Andrew Carnegie. New York City 40O.O0O.OOO Joseph B. Robinson. London. England 330.000.000 General Lulz Terrasas. Chihua hua. Mexico 200.000.000 William Rockefeller. New Tork City 200.000.000 Prince Demldorff. St. Petersburg. 200,000.000 Sir Jerrolce Clarke. Adelaide. Australia 130.000.000 The Duke of Sutherland, Stoke-on-Trent. England........ 1S3.000.000 Lord Strathcona. Winnipeg. Man. 122.000.000 J. PItrpont Morgan. New Tork Oty 12S.000.000 Marshall Field. Chicago 110,000.000 Lord Robert .Jveagb. Dublin. Ire land 1 10.000.000 Mrs. Hetty Green. Bellows Falls. Vermont 100.000.000 Russell Sage. New Tork Oty 190.060.000 Henry M. Flagler. New Tork City 100.000.600 Senator W. A. Clark. Butte. Mont. 1O0.O9O.OOO Earl Grosvenor. London. England 80.000.080 Lord Mount-Stephen, Quebec Canada 73.000.090 George W. Rosa. Montreal. Can. 73.000.000 Isidore Couslno. Santiago de Chill 73.000.000 Archbishop Conn. VUnna. Austria 73.000.009 Alphonse Heine. Paris. France.. 75.000.090. Mossbacks in Churches. ' National Daily Review. Rev. W. J. Dawson, the English evan gelist, is quoted as saying: "There is no denying the fact that many of the churches are nearly empty. The old methods won't do. The preachers must go to work on new lines." Or, in other words, the churches must keep up with progress. Japaacse Scholarship. San Francisco Argewmt. We have the funny spectacle ef five saexabers of a fraternity at Berkeley failing- to pass th-sir examisattMM a4 the Japanese cook who wakea ape thsa graduating; with Immmtk. ROOSEVELT AND The Preside at Leave- Open Field for "Why Lawyer Decided to Walter Wellman In Chicago Record Herald. NEW YORK. President Roosevelt will not make the slightest effort to name his successor in the White House. He will leave the choice of the next Republican candidate for President wholly to the party. All talk that Mr. Roosevelt will try to make Taft or Root President In 150S is beside the mark. For this state ment I have the highest possible au thoritythat of President Roosevelt him self. With a friend who called on him at Sagamore Hill a few days ago President Roosevelt discussed what he termed the absurd rumors that he was planning to make Taft or Root his successor. One day- the newspaper gosslpers were sure Secretary Taft was the c-osen one. The next day. when they learned Ellhu Root was to be the new Secretary of State, they switched over to Root and declared he was to be the Roosevelt candidate for 1903. Some papers even went so far as to assert that one of the conditions of Mr. Root's acceptance of the secre taryship of state waa that he was to have Mr. Roosevelt's support for the presidency. The President laughed at these rumors. and remarked that he hoped everyone who knew him would know that he was incapable of trying to dictate to the Re publican party whom it should name for his successor. So far as the Republican nomination for President In IOCS Is con cerned It Is an open field. Mr. Roose velt will keep hands off. It Is an interesting fact, and one highly creditable to Mr. Root, that no urging was required to Induce him to return to the public service. He wanted to return. The suggestion that there was a bargain or an understanding be tween the President and Root Is too ab surd to merit a moment's consideration. When John Hay died Mr. Roosevelt's first thought was' that he would get Ellhu Root for the State Department it he could. But he did not believe he could. He believed Mr. Root was determined to continue the practice of law for some years to come. Great was the President's surprise to receive a prompt acceptance the moment he tendered the post to his former Sec retary of War. It was all over in a mo ment. "Ellhu. I want you to take John Hay's place." "Mr. President. I am at your service." When Mr. Hay died Mr. Root had evidently felt the President would want him. He had thought it over and had decided to accept If he should be "asked. When the President asked him he was ready. Mr. Root may be President. It Is quite poslble. But I happen to know there is one man of most excellent judgment who feels very sure he never will be. That man Is Ellhu Root him self. Mr. Root's friends. President Roose velt Included, think they know why the great lawyer returns to the public service. As Secretary of War, Mr. Root had the whole United States for his client. This client gave him big work to do. It was work of the very highest class reorganizing an army, creating new nations In Cuba and the Orient, suppressing a revolt in China. No lawyer could want a better client than the people of the United States. PROSPERITY AND THE G. 0. P. Washington Post. The luck of the Republican party is in exhaustible. With fields groaning with harvests and shops vocal with industry, with the warehouse crowded with mer chandise, and 'the mart swarming with trailers, prosperity continues to abide with us. and It is come to be pretty well understood that there Is but one political sin hard times. The public credit Is es tablished, the finished railroads of the country have a mileage greatly exceeding 200.000 miles, raw material Is plenteous, labor Is better paid than elsewhere, and more efficient; we produce our own food, and a surplus Is exported; we have abun dance of machinery in shop and in field, our population Is composed of the most prolific producers and the most prodigal consumers In the world with these all working to maintain prosperity it is go ing to be a long time between panics. The panic of 1S73 was of Republican manufacture, and came from the green back, which had set the whole country to speculating. By 1S73 the day of liqui dation had come, and with it the panic. A Democratic remedy was applied at least It had been a Democratic remedy In old Jackson's day specie payments. The Democrats kicked and snorted around auuiicu twuuuu and denounced the one medicine tnat would cure the disease: but specie pay ments came in 1S79 and prosperity came, too. In 1S33 was another panic, a frightful. a most disastrous panic. It. too. was of Republican manufacture, due to the Sher man silver law. which put the treasury on what proved to be a virtual silver basis. There was but one remedy for It sound money. A Democratic admlnls- tratlon came In about tnat time, ana me Republicans laid the panic on the Dem ocratic party. The Democratic admin istration ordered sound money as a cure for the panic, and the Democratic party again kicked and snorted and refused to ptay- any longer. It fled the realm and went to Kansas and to Texas. Then we saw an example of the luck of the G. O. P. It stepped in and an nounced that it had been for sound money all the time. The Democratic ad ministration destroyed the panic, and the f Republicans got the credit of It. The next panic will get here Just about time to see the pageant when the next Democratic President is inaugurated it there should ever be such another occa sion, which now looks to be extremely doubtful. A "Swell' In the Sun Office. New York Sun. The Sun office yesterday was redo lent with the flowers of May. Wild flowers came first. They were chiefly violets and trailing arbutus, and came In a pasteboard box with a note signed "A Country Subscriber." The writer said that she sent a brath of wild May violets right from the woods," and that sne wanted the city editor to have the largest bunch. The violets had hard ly been distributed in buttonholes when another and larger box of flowers arrived. These were addressed to the night editor. They were lilies of tne valley and purplish and white lilacs, whose fragrance filled the place. They came from th garden of Mile. Marie de Grevllle, in the Bronx. A little boy brought them down, with a note from the giver, a granddaughter of one of the Generals of Napoleon, asking ti e night editor to "kindly adorn his of fice with the flowers from her little garden," one day to be destroyed to make way for modern flats. Anxiety In Georgia. Atlanta Constitution. If Luther Burbank. California's pomo logies! wizard, can endanger the good old roasting ear by Inventing cobless corn, as he threatens, that man should be waited upeo. by a vigilance cemsalttee. The "Way We All Do. SoBBecvHle Journal. Sjerkyas Bad cold yon have, SJeakyas. UHr 4U yo contract K? Bjeakyae I dMa't contract it. It was aty a Mttk and I txp,ate4 It HIS SUCCESSOR 1908- -Root and Tstt for Tlrabei Re-Eater t&e Cabinet. The only trouble about it. was they didn't pay enough. When Mr. Root went back to New York he found plenty of clients willing to pay him enormous fees. But the work wasn't like the work he had done at Washington. By contrast It seemed petty, sordid and at times almost un dignified. To a man of Mr. Root's fineness of mind It must now and then have been somewhat Irritating. Nat urally his thoughts recurred to the wider and nobler field in which he had tolled the field untarnished by self ishness, by working for mere money, by being this or that man's hired man. It is one thing to be the hired man of a nation: quite another to be the well- paid servant of huckstering and not overscrupulous money-chasers. Mr. Root found It so. When President Roosevelt offered him the State De partment portfolio he was ready with his answer. Mr. Root has himself well expressed the whole thing in a latter to a friend in Cincinnati: "The things one has an opportunity to do are substance and the things one tries to get are shadow." As President Roosev"- is fond of saying, it is a splendid thing that the opportunities for usefulness which the government service offers with meag er money reward outweigh in attract iveness all the millions of the metrop olis In the eyes of men of the very highest grade. President Roosevelt Is to be con gratulated, as he congratulates him self and the country, that he now has close to him two very big men devoted, as he is. to the public service Root and Taft. And here is a pretty story of the second of this big and admirable pair. When John Hay died it was generally thought Mr. Taft would like to be pro moted to the State Department. In some quarters it was suspected he waa disappointed and piqued when Mr. Root's selection was announced. Far from It. Mr. Taft Is too fine and broad a character to be capable of a piece of narrowness or selfishness like that. I When fate overtook the greatest inter national statesman of his time. Secre- I tary Taft was en route West to em . bark for the Philippines. As soon as he heard the news and had wired his condolences to Mrs. Hay. he sent the following telegram to President Roose- . velt: "Sincerely- hope you can get Root to take the vacant place. TAFT." Some months ago the country learn ed, through these dispatches to the Record-Herald, that President Roose velt wanted a "hundred thousand dol lar man" to construct the Panama Canal the biggest man that could be had for love or money to be the mas ter spirit of that great and difficult enterprise. The first man he thought of In this connection was Ellhu Root. Mr. Root was asked to become the Na poleon of the canal. He declined. Now it is almost though not quite as good as settled that the direction of the canal enterprise Is to be turned over to the State Department. If Mr. Root consents to take the canal under his wing the President and the country will get their "hundred thousand dollar man" In this case a two-hundred thou sand dollar man for $8000 a year and a somewhat antiquated and decidedly unfashionable carriage and pair. A GREAT CONTINUED STORY. Chicago Tribune. The continued story of the Equitable, which has been running In the papers for several months, is easily- the most attrac tive serial of the season. Mr. Lawson'S "Frenzied Finance" does not compare with it In interest. It. Is many years since a work of pure fiction has so seized on and held the reader. No novelist haa shown greater skill in the development of his plot. In the frequent Introduction of itw and Important characters. In the elaboration of exciting situations, and in the unveiling of the motives which actuate men. than in .the story of the Equitable. The opening chapter gave no clew to what was to come. It Introduced simply Mr. Alexander and Mr. Hyde. It related to the extravagances of the latter In the Way of costly dinners, extravagances with which the public was tolerably familiar. There was enough, however, to catch popular attention. Every succeeding chap ter has had its dramatic episode. New characters have been Introduced bank ers, rallrosd men, statesmen, dummy di rectors, false trustees and their dialogues have been wildly- interesting. In the last chapter Senator Chauncey M. Depew waa the leading character. He did not ap pear smiling and story telling as at a ( .,- hut AS he nnneared in the ort- ; -r.u. ble. lending its funds on Insufficient se curity. There are to be -more chapters to the story, and they ought to be fullyas excit ing as any that have gone before. It may be that the scene of some of them will be laid in the criminal courts and that a few of the characters who have been In- troduced in earlier chapters will reappear i In those courts. The storv could not have a more dramatic and happy conclusion than the verdict of a Jury "guilty as charged." There are people who are complaining because all there Is to tell about the Equitable 13 not told at once. That Is unreasonable. If that were done the serial story would be spoiled. The tale would not Impress the public so much as It does when It appears artistically In parts., with a curiosity provoking "more anon" at the end of each. There would have been a dearth of stirring literature during the dull Summer months if the revelations about the Equitable had coma out In a gush Instead of flowing forth In a steady, regular stream. Miss Parker's Roll on tire Lawn. Bennett (la.) Public Opinion. Miss Minnie B. Parker escaped what might have been a serious accident While raking the front lawn she thought it would be nice to nave a . bon fire, and after lighting the fire she was raking leaves around the flame, and, girlish fashion, she had on one of her mother's long wrappers. In some mys terious way she had stepped too near the fire, and before she knew it her clothing was all in flames. She meas ured the distance to the house to smother the flames with a quilt, as she had often been told to do in a case of fire. She knew she could not reach the house ere she would be badly burned, but being a girl of level head and steady nerve, she threw herself to the ground and rolled over and over, and soon extinguished the flames, es caping with a badly blistered hand, after which she repaired to the house with the remnants of a badly-burned wrapper, saying: "Well, there's what's left of that." Admiral Krnger Heal Hero. Omaha Bee. Admiral Kruger is the real hero of the Ruasl&n navy. Now that he has taken the first warship to be captured by the forces of the Czar since the war began, Russia may again demand that the Black Sea fleet be released from its land-locked waters. It's an III Wisd, Etc Meatana Record. The Or-sg&R Supreme .Court has "de cided that lawyers la the Clreult Coarts way talk as leajr a they pleaset. That- means the eetabMsameat of sew circuits.