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PORTLAND, "WEDNESDAY, JTLY 18, 1805.
M. 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
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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
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the railroads make concessions to the I
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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
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has been operating with a number of
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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
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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.