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THE MORNING OREGONIAS, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1903. STICKS TO CHARGE the cherished fiscal policy of the kingdom must undergo a radical revision. If this LEVEE GIVES AWAY be Conservative the orgihal meaning oi the term is somewhat out of date. Fifteen Men Lose Their Lives Near St Louis, OTHERS ARE IN GREAT PERIL Black Walnut Islanders Are Rescued Prom Perilous Position on Partly Submerged Tract, and Taken to Place of Safety. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. June 8. Word has been received here at 1 o'clock that a levee near Madison. -on which gangs of men were "working gave way, and 15 men. em ployes of the American Car & Foundry Works, lost their lives. About 150 men, it is reported, -are Imprisoned on a section of the levee, that is slowly crumbling, and all means of escape has been cut off. Word has been sent to the St Louis side to rush the private yacht Annie Rus sell to the rescue. The Annie Russell started to Black Walnut last evening, but could not force her way against the current. It is feared she cannot make her way to Madison. A steamer from St. Charles succeeded in reaching Black Walnut tonight, and the 200 Imperilled people, terrified and in great distress for food and shelter, were taken from the Island in safety. All were res cued. RELIEF YACHT Tl'RXED BACK. Fierce Current of Mississippi- Cannot Be Stemmed. ST. LOUIS, June 7.-Llkc-a mlllrace the swollen Mississippi is surging past St. Louis with a' stage of 3G.9 feet at 9 o'clock tonight, making a rise of f eet since the same hour last night. No word was received today from the 200 people imprisoned on a low island nt Elack Walnut, northwest from St Louis about 25 miles, and in peril of their lives Irom the rising waters of the Mississippi Rhvr. Word was received last night at that time that the rescue must be effected immediately or they probably be swept away by morning. The river has spread out around the Island until it is a veri table sea with a swift current, and al though every effort has been made to reach them nothing was accomplished to day, and there has been no- means of com munication with them. Between Black Walnut and St Louis the Bellefontaine bridge stretches across the Missouri, and the high stage of the river precludes any large steamer passing underneath. No steamer is available at St Charles to go down the river to them. The Spread Eagle, moored at Alton, 111.. abovo St Louis, was hurriedly manned and started for the Imperiled colony late last night, but was forced to turn back at the Bellefontaine bridge. A private yacht here was manned by company of policemen today and started for Black Walnut All steam was turned on, but the yacht made no headway against the current and after vainly stemming the llooa for several hours without making 100 yards, the ya'cht was returned to shore and the venture was r.benaoned. Black Walnut Is located in a broad and fertile valley opposite the Missouri, and the land surrounding it is said to be the richest wheat land in the state. Aside from the loss of life, if such a catastrophe shall occur, the property loss will be very heavy, as the entire valley Is under water and homos have been washod away, farms destroyed and the stock drowned. REFUSE PAY TO WORK OX LEVEES. Prominent Men Do AVork That Idle Men Scorn. ST. LOUIS, June 27. All Venice, Madi son, portions of Granite City and 15,000 acres of rich bottom farming land are In the grip of the flood north of East St Louis. Houses have been swept from their foundations and sent adrift The damage already done is enormous, and hourly th& flood reaches farther inland, more and more crippling railroad traffic and engulfing additional homes, farms and factories. The approach to the Mer chants' bridge Is reported severely dam aged. Reports of loss of life have been re ceived. Men who were viewing the' flood from the bridge approach report to have seen a ,man on the roof -on a floating house. The house was overturned by the current during this afternoon and the man disappeared. Tonight a small steamboat with a pow-- eriui propeller, was secured and hastily prepared for trip to Black Walnut to rescue the people Imperiled there. As the steamer swung out Into the current and at once began to make headway a cheer of encouragement arose from the spec tators. East St Louis was unable to secure enough men to work on the levee today. Men apparently needy refused offers of 20 cents an hour to pile sandbags on the levee. Levee officials and even prominent men sprang Into the breach and worked with a will to keep the water out of the city, while crpwds of men apparently needing employment stood about and re fused all offers" of work. Policemen invaded saloons to secure workmen, but although the saloons were crowded, a very small percentage of the patrons were willing to help protect the city. KANSAS LOSSES ESTIMATED. Over Tito Hundred Towns Have Suf fered Damage. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Juno 7. Kansas lias suffered as a result of the recent floods more than any other state. No ex act figures of the loss sustained can, of course, be given, but the damage done in the principal cities and towns is esti mated as follows: North Topeka. 5500,000; Lawrence, $250, 000; Salina. $200,600; Manhattan. $150,000: Junction City, $100,000: Solomon, $50,000; Abilene. $250,000; Llndsborg. $100,000; Hutch inson, $100,000; Minneapolis, $100,000; Em poria, $85,000; Florence, $50,000; Lincoln Center. $50,000: Atchison, $100,000: Argen tine, $2,000,000; Kansas City, Kan., and suburbs, $S,000.000. Nearly 200 smaller towns were affected by the floods. The lowest estimate that can be made of the loss done to crops Is $3,000,000. BUSINESS WILL RESUME. Kansns City Houses Will Open Today Railroads Suffer Large Losses. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 7. There will be a general resumption in all lines of business Monday morning. The extent of damage to the railroads operating In and out of Kansas City caused by the flood can scarcely be estimated. The loss In freight flooded and burned up and down tne river may amount to $2,ouo,000 or $3,000.0000. The Burlington estimates its loss in its freighthouse alone at $500,000. The American Apple. New York Times. The farmers of the United States are In a fair way to learn how the principle of "protection." for which so many of them have faithfully voted these many years. works against them in other lands. Germany has already announced its in tention largely to increase the taxes on American wheat, flour and meats so soon as her commercial treaties can be adjust ed to the tariff adopted at the last ses sion of the Reichstag. It now appears that under the authority of the same law, the importation of apples is to b Hlk. W iiK'T' 'V' r' 'r ' " Ks4sjssBE6BssssisBssB A. entlrrfv forbidden, except in bulk. This would shut out American apples unlesB a radical and most inconvenient change is mado in the modo of handling and ship ment The exaction is irt direct accord ance with the theory that the farmers of a country are entitled to the home mar kets. Neither in the case or tne ueman farmers nor in that of the American farmers does the policy work to the gen eral advantage, but the German farmers have this to say for themselves, that they actually do profit by the tax laid on the consumer. They cannot raise enough ap ples, or grain, either, for the home cop- sumption, and If import! aro hindered or forbidden, they stand a chance for nigner prices. The American farmers produce far more than the home mamete can take, and the protective taxes Increase the cost of their living and their produc tion without advancing the prices of their products. If the Germans are greedy, the Americans who vote for protection may be greedy In desire, but they are in reality hurt not helped. "THE KANSAS GALS." "With, a "Fairy Story" as a Text, a Bluegrruss Editor Sermonizes. Louisville Courier-Journal. It has been with considerable impa tience and no little anxiety that we have awaited further Information in regard to the report which came from Kansas the other day that at a political election, the women were "intimidating" the men to such an extent that the latter appealed for a special detail of police for "protec tion." The dispatches have been singu larly silent on the subject since the first report, which briefly mentioned In addi tion that "no arrests were made." The inference is that not only the plain male citizens were Intimidated, but those In authority also, and possibly the tele graph operators. The Kansas people see now what they have done for themselves. They have put the woman on horseback, bestride like a man. They have Invoked whirlwind of petticoats. They have strikers in skirts and bulldozers in bon nets, veritable bullies in blue stockings, If indeed, they do not wear socks and hob nailed boots. Be there not also breeches and bras knuckles and other masculine appendages? Let us know "where we are at" In Am- buscambla or America, All along the women have had a monopoly of our ock I darning" and button" sewing, of piety and pins, of laundry lists and of love. But now they aro beating us at the ballot Petticoats seem to have a "pull" on even the popllce. Bosoms have become brow beaters: band boxes are ballot busters. When will corsets become corsairs, since ribbons have become rioters? But, seriously, does not this experiment of woman suffrage In Kansas, with re sults so earlyfcnd so ominous, afford an admonition and a warning to both sexes? If women devolop such brutal instincts, adopting the methods of bulldozers and bullies, in the green leaf, what will they not do in the dry? Does it not all show that instead of elevating politics and establishing a higher standard In political morals they only degrade themselves and fall to the level of the roustabout and the rounder? It seems to us that by keep ing to their firesides and attending to their babies, appealing always to the bet ter elements in the natures of their hus bands and sons and brothers they may render a far better service to the purity of politics, to the state and to them selves. This tiresome cry for "rights" Is delusion and a fraud; and, if it were never so meritorious, they go the wrong way and adopt the worst methods to se cure them, both from a moral and prac tical standpoint Let mo make the songs of a country and I care not who makes their laws" Is an old 6aw. But "let me make the homes of a country pure, clean and holy and I care not who make their politics" Is a wiser one. This is the housewife's task. It is a noble and most exalted mission, and if she succeed in it she will have accomplished more than all the female politicians combined. The City Boy on a. Farm. Kansas City Star. A farmer named Smith, living near Mar- vinville, hired a city boy to help him around the farm during the Summer. One morning he told the boy to go and salt the calt The boy took a quart of salt and rubbed It all over the calf, working It into the hair. A lot Of colts scented the salt and hunted the calf up. They licked all the hair oft the poor calf's back. The farmer tried to catch the calf to wash It but the calf, thinking he wanted to lick. too, ran -through a hole on the fence and disappeared down the road. The boy flow stands up when he eats his pie. Moral: Never be afraid to ask questions. 1 British Protest to Venezuela. WILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao, June ;. The British Minister at Caracas. H. G. O. Baxironslde, has presented a protest lo the Venezuelan Foreign Office against the recent suppression of customs-houses at the ports on the Orinoco and Gulf of Paria. Death, of Wcll-Knovrn Tarfman. ST. LOUIS. June 7. Joseph D. Lucas, president .of the Kinloch Jockey Club, and cne of the oest-Known tunmen in tne West died today. &sd 49 years. HELL GATE, KLAMATH LAKE RAILROAD. ESTIMATING THE LOSSES SOUTH CAROLIXA STREAMS ARE FAST SUBSIDING. Many People Are Unaccounted For the Loss of Property Will Be in Millions. COLUMBIA, S. C, June 7. Though the great flood of water la passing on to the ocean laden with debris of every descrip tion and the swollen streams are subsid ing in the Piedmont region, the losses of life and nronerty are increasing ana a conservative estimate tonight places the nronerty loss at no less than $3,500,000. The most conservative estimate of the dead is 80. At Clifton alone, 100 mill op eratives are missing from the village and all are believed to have been lost At Converse 13 dead are reported and 41 at Clifton No. 2 mill. At Clifton No. 2, 26 homes are destroyed; 13 at Clifton "No. 1 and 20 at Clifton No. 3. The loss at Clifton's three mills will ap proximate $2,000,000. At Pacelot the loss is near $1,000,000. The greatest want among the survivors is at Clifton where 500 are. destitute. FIFTY LIVES LOST. SHU People Cannot All" Be Heard From. CHARLOTTE, N. C, June 7. Today's development in the devastated mill settle ments at Pacolet and Clifton, on the Paco let River, in South Carolina, do not lessen the horrors of the situation there, al though It is believed that the loss of life will not exceed 50 people. The destruction jof property by the flood was far-reaching and yet a number of mill points, where it is feared damage,has been done, cannot be heard from on ac count of the prostration of telephone and telegraph wires. The town of Union, S. C Is today Isolated. The Lockhart mills, located below Pacolet for whoso safety fears have been expressed, are but slight ly damaged. A" 200-foot section of the Southern Rail way bridge over Broad River between Spartansburg and Columbia, gave way to day, stopping traffic between those points. Three other Southern bridges are gone. RAISING MONEY FOR SUFFERERS. Spartannburpr, S. C, People Go Down in Their Own Pockets. SPARTANSBURG S. C, June 7. The latest reports tonight are that approxi mately 53 persons were drowned In yes terday's flood at Pacolet and Clifton. No list of the dead is yet available here, but it Is supposed that most of them were mill operatives. The bodies of four unidentified white persons were taken from the river below Clifton today. A conservative estimate of the loss to the cotton mills in this county is $3,000,000. A mass meeting of citizens was held here today and $3500 was. subscribed for the relief of the flood sufferers. Many generous offers of assistance have also been telegraphed from other cities. GUARD CHAUNCEY DEWEY Battle Expected With Settlers Where Covrboys Are Moved. DENVER, Colo.. June 7. A special to the News from Colby, Kan., says: Chauncey Dewey and his cowboy asso ciates. McBrlde and Wilson, charged with the murder of Daniel Berry and his two sons on the latter's ranch,, are tonight under arrest and guarded at a hotel by the Sheriffs posse and Company K. Sec ond Regiment of the Kansas National Guard. Tomorrow morning the march across the range to St Francis will begin, with the militia and Sheriffs posse as guards. At Berry's ranch, six miles west of the O. K. ranch, owned by the Deweys, 150 armed settlers are encamped. This Is on the line of march the soldiers will take with the prisoners, and another battle In the hills is likely. The march will con sume two days, and as there is no means of communication by the way, the party may not be heard from until St Francis is reached Tuesday night aonight much excitement prevails. Dewey and the others were taken from the O. K. ranch unknown to the settlers, and were brought here. They were kept in the hills near the town, guarded by the Sheriffs posse until the militia arrived. Immediately on the arrival at St Fran cis the prisoners will be given a prelim inary hearing. The troops here are from Osborn. and are commanded by Captain Cunningham and Lieutenants Hildebrand and Thompson. DETERMINED TO HOLD DEWEY. ivaaaH Citizens Will Not Let Ac- cased Murderers Escape. TOPEKA, Kan.. June 7. A message from St Francis says: Chauncey Dewey and hla cowboys, under arrest for the al leged murder of the Berry family last week, are yet safe. Too settlers have formed a sort of military organization, it is understood, and arc outspoken in their determination that Dewey and his men shall not escape. A military company from Osborne Is now on Its way to St Francis. It will be Tuesday before they can reach there. NEW STAMPS. Portraits of Napoleon, Jefferson, Mc Klnley and Loubet. Brooklyn Eagle. Shall Napoleon Bonaparte be accorded the unparalleled distinction of representa tion upon one of the postage stamps of the United States That the portrait of the once mighty Frenchman shall adorn the postal gallery of the United States Is more than a pos sibility It Is, in fact, quite probable. The occasion for this possible departure from established custom lies In the pros pective Issue of stamps by the Postoffice Department to commemorate the purchase of the Louislanp. territory from France in 1S03. The decision to Issue a special series of stamps has not been finally reached, but from the highest authority it is learned that there la practically no doubt of an- affirmative decision. It is understood that the commemorative series of stamps will comprise but four denominations 1, 2, 5 and 10 cents. The details of size, shape and design, have not been considered officially, ,but suggestions as to designs have been -made and filed for future use. Among the ideas advanced Is that of placing upon the four stamps portraits of the leading factors In the ne gotiations in 1803 and In 1S03. In the first class Jefferson and Napo leon, of course, stand alone and undis puted In- title. It is suggested, and the department officials consider the Ideas a valuable one, that Thomas Jefferson's bust appear upon the 2-cent value, which Is distinctly a domestic stamp, and that Napoleon's portrait adorn the 5-cent val ue, which carries letters to all countries within the postal union. In view of the fact that it is contrary to the regulations of the Postoffice Depart ment that the portrait of any living Amer ican shall be placed upon a postage stamp. President Roosevelt is barred. However, President McKInley was the Chief Exec utive at the time Congress authorized the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and made liberal appropriation therefor, and It is hold that his official act In approving and signing the act Is ample warrant for plac ing his portrait upon one of the proposed stamps. This view of the matter Is fur ther borne out by the action ofCongress in authorizing the minting of 250,000 gold dollars, to be sold as souvenirs in con nection with the exposition, each bear ing the bust of either McKInley or Jeffer son 125,000 of each having been coined. Carrying the scheme to Its logical con clusion. President Loubet of France, would be entitled to the fourth place. At this point however, the regulations of the Postoffice Department loom up, This rule, as stated, is to the effect that no living American shall be represented upon "United States postage stamps. Presi dent Loubet is, of course, not an Ameri can, but he Is alive, and the question Is, would the Postoffice Department consider the French President eligible? In this connection It may be remarked that up to this date there is no record that any nation save the United States has ever issued a postage stamp bearing the effigy of a sovereign of another nation. At the time the department determined to place the portrait of Martha Washington upon the S-cent stamp of the series re cently issued the claim was made that Martha was the first woman to be thus honored by this Government, and this statement was accepted as true until a "stamp collector directed attention to the fact that the ? stamp of the Columbian series, issued in 1S93, to commemorate the World's Fair at Chicago, bore the portrait of Queen Isabella of Spain. This was the furst and in fact the only time such an honor has been bestowed by any nation uron, the earth. Fur Garments to Be Higher. San Francisco Argonaut The fur auctions held in London every Spring determine the price of fur gar ments for the following Winter season. A report of the sales published in a trade Journal Indicates that sealskin furs will be more expensive than last Winter, but ermine and sliver fox will be 50 per cent higher, and mink, otter, beaver and bear will also increase in price Alaska sable has gone up. It wil be news to most people to learn that the "harmless, neces sary cat" also lends his skin to keep the cold out At all events "domestic cat" is quoted as being 25 per cent higher in price than at the last Spring auction. One Hundred Decrees at Woodhnrn WOODBURN, Or., June 7. (Special.) This has been the hottest day ever known in Woodburn at this -season of the year, the thermometer registering 100 degrees in the shade. The action of Carter's Little Liver Pills Is pleasant mild and natural. They gently stimulate the ilver and regulate tho bow els, but do not purge. The merit of Hood's Sarsapartlla Is Brorea by the wonderful cures It affects, Photo by the Baldwin Studio, Klamath Falls. POLONIUM IS AN ELEMENT CHEMICAL COKGRESS AT BERLIN SEES EXPERIMENTS. Marvelous Povrer of Small Bit of Metal Over Electricity Other Met als Give Greenish Glow. BERLIN, June 7. At today's session of the chemical congress Professor W. Mark- wald, of Berlin, showed to the electro chemical and physical section a smudge of dark powder on a piece of paper, which was the first time .that any of those eminent scientists had seen the metal polonium discovered by Professor and Madame Curie, of Paris. The latter doubted whether polonium was a primary element, or related to bismuth, but Pro feasor Markwald demonstrated that it was Indeed a primary element He exhibited a bit of metal weighing 015 of a grain, which was produced from two tons of uranium, at a cost of $75. It IS:moro sparsely distributed in uranium than xenon, the most rarined gas, is in the atmosphere. Professor Markwald proceeded to give a marvelous exhibition of the powers of his- speck of polonium. It Intercepted a strong " current of electricity- passing through the air from the generator to the receiver, the air ceasing to be a con ductor for the flashes. The room was then darkened and pieces of barium. platinum and zlncblende, placed near the polonium, glowed with a bright greenish light The assemblage of chemists were thrilled with astonishment It appeared to be a miracle. POPE GIVES DAILY AUDIENCES. Except as the Heat Affects Him, His Health Is Good. ROME, June 7. The pope continues to give nrlvato audiences almost dally, and except for the slight indisposition, mostly due to the heat, his holiness is In excel lent health. It may be taken as an indi cation of the pope's general health that his physician, Dr. Lapponl did not find It Tiecessarv to see him either Friday or yesterday. He went to the Vatican today because, as he told the Associated Press corre spondent It is his custom to visit the Pontiff on Sunday. Receiving the patrl arch of Jerusalem 'yesterday morning, Pope Leo said, smiling: "You are now in a position to report how well I am." Find Pope Looking Well. LONDON, June 8. The Dally Chron Icle's correspondent at Rome telegraphs that Cardinal Capeclato, from Capua, has had a 30-mlnute interview with the pope, and was gratified at finding him brighter than a year ago. PLAGUE EXPERIMENTS STOPPED Austrian Government Alarmed at Dr. Sachs' Death. BERLIN. June 7. In consequence of the death from plague at the'Berlln Hos pltal of the young Vienna physician. Dr, Milan Sachs, the government naa aecio. ed to issue a decree forbidding further ex periments with plague germs, the risk o spreading infection being considered more dangerous to the public health than the knowledge' gained in atuaying a aeaaiy microbe justifies. 'Callao Free of the Plague. LIMA. Peru. June 7. The Supreme Board of Health has declared the Port of Callao free from bubonic plague. Three More Aoadads. New York Evening Journal. Mrs. Camelu, who lives in the apart ment in the Central Park Zoo between those of the four Mrs. Zebus and the twe Aoudads. has cause for much worriment. Additions to the families of her neigh bors have appeared, and, while the babies are quiet and make but little disturbance Mrs. Camel is naturally a bit nervous with nine Infants In such close proximity, Three little aoudads appeared Thursday last and Friday another of the aoudads gave birth to another set of trip lets. One of the first batch died, so there arc but five left but all are In good health and the Zoo people hope to raise the entire quintet Four baby Zebus arrived Friday. The four mothers occupy the same lnclosure, and each is as proud as a peacock of her offspring, parading It in front of the other motners as if asking tnem to com pare their children with her lncompar able. Costly Fire at Buffalo. BUFFALO, June 7. Fire- early today destroyed the Buffalo Carting & Storage Company's plant and contents, causing loss of $400,000. The building was Tised by the Lake Shore Railroad. It was niiea with machinery and other goods stored for manufacturing- concerns of other cltle- Ex-Postoffice Cashier An-, swers Merrill's Letter. ULL0CH DEFENDS HIMSELF After a General Statement of Things He Has Heard, He Winds tip by SayinR He Would Sot Have Any Postoffice Job. WASHINGTON, June 7. Seymour W. Tulloch. ex-cashler of the Washington City Postoffice, under date of June i nas written a letter to .rostmasier-enerii Payne, In response to replies received from Postmaster Merrltt. of the Wash ington Postofllce. and others to tne eharres of maladministration made by Mr. Tulloch against the management of the Washington Postoffice. A urge part of Mr. Tulloch's letter Is In defense of counter-charges made by Mr. Merrltt against Mr. Tulloch; Mr. Tulloch says that the ctsarge mat under his regime as cashier of the Wash ington Postoffice quarterly payrolls were required to be signed In blank, even If true, would only "produce a smile In Washington, where probably the greater portion of Governmental employes sign payrolls In blank. The charge that "a false voucner" naa been nut In while Mr. Tulloch was cash ier, he cays, was only an attempt to dis credit him. and "even Mr. aierritt aamits that the transaction was directed by the Postmaster, recognized by the Assistant Postmaster, and the money retained was aid to persons duly designated. The facts, he says, are that suostitutes amed by the Civil service commission seryed the Postoffice without pay, ex cept that when they filled temporarily the places of clerks and receive their pay. As some clerks failed to pay their substi tutes, the Postmaster directed that pre lously to payment of clerks wno nau teen absent the signed receipts In full oi the substitutes should be put in the clerks' pay envelope and the amount called for be retained and paid to his substitute by his division suDerlntendent The particular in stance cited by Postmaster Mer rltt he says, was where an employe after drunken spree was flned rather than dismissed and the money divided by his superintendent among substitutes for services rendered, the Postmaster bywnt- ten order directing the cashier to do this. Mr. Tulloch declares that while in office he did report irregularities to his imme diate superiors and the inspectors. He denies the charge that he was mercenary with the late Postmaster Wlllett, and saysMr. Wlllett himself suggested pay. ment to the writer for settling his ac counts, and that Tulloch offered to do it for Mr. Wlllett personally for nothing. tut later It was arranged that some of the clerks snould do the work, which re lated chiefly to Porto Rico. Mr. Tulloch's letter then continued: "In closing I may state that it has not been shown to the contrary in any of the replies you have published that Irregular payments were made from local funds in stead of by the proper disbursing officer of the department; that an attempt was made to cause all employes to bond under single blanket a bond with some of the favored companies; that the regulations of the department were' violated in forcing letter-box in which prominent officials were said to be interested upon the pub lic, even to the unauthorized use of the Postmaster's authority and against his protest; that payments were directed for articles not delivered; that persons were paid two or three- salaries and performed little or no service; that a physician was illegally appointed, whose position was a sinecure. "I have been told that a $300 operating table was purchased for private use and charged to the department as postal fur niture; that promotions were suggested upon the proviso of division with high officials in the department; that persons were appointed from whom no service was required upon a complimentary roll; that arrears In Porto Rico were not fully olscovered; that useless junkets were fre quent to Porto Rico and Cuba; that per sons paid from the military postal serv ice had their salaries continued for months after ceasing all service, and that salaries were also continued after service had ceased to take up irregular expenses." As to the reply of ex-First Assistant Postmaster-General Heath, Mr. Tulloch says: "All that Is necessary is to compare my specific charges withxhis general de nial." He then reaffirms that his representa tions remained In all essential particulars true and not disapproved, and closes with a denial that there is any office within the gift of the Postoffice Department that he would accept, or that he ever author ized his friends to seek his reinstate ment. Conservatives That Are Radical. Brooklyn Eagle. The name "Tory" has disappeared from the language of polite politics In England and "Conservative" has taken Its place. As a concession to the modern demand for brevity and conciseness we are accus tomed to speak of the present English government as "conservative," although It Is really a coalition body composed of members of the Conservative party, and recruits from the Liberal ranks who have never formally announced their conver tlon to Conservatism. The name Con servative implies a desire to move with deliberation, to respect tradition and to abstain from the pursuit of novelty until novelty is proved worthy of attainment In short it suggests anything but enter prise in legislation or in policy. Now the whole course of the Conservative party in England within the last decade has been Just the reverse of this. The party. which is nominally the party of ortho doxy and repose, has been, even in do mestic affairs, the party of heterodoxy and unrest It outraged the free trade ideas of the people by putting- a war tax on corn. It divided opinion throughout the kingdom by effecting a reform in the school system. It has thrown down the gauntlet to the anti-Irish prejudices of its Liberal Unionist allies by formulating the most liberal agrarian scheme ever devised for the benefit of Ireland, and through its leaders it now declares that Ayer's Hah Vigor . Makes the hair grow because it is a hair-fbod. It feeds the hair and the hair grows, that's all there is to it. It stops falling of tthe hair, too, and re stores color to gray hair. fi.H. AJjfcfBi. A-CaTEX Cf Lwrfjfc , . HEDGEHOG LEGISLATION. Charming Comedy of Errors la lbtr State of Maine. Chicago Tribune. A comedy in four acts with & fifth id come, in which the hedgehog is the lead ing motive, recently has been enacted in, Maine. It signally illustrates Yankee alertness and resource In an emergency. At the last session of the Legislature a, bill was passed giving a bounty of 25 cents a head upon all hedgehogs killed within the several towns. As soon as the Governor signed the bill It stimu lated the industry of hedgehog destruc tion to such an extent that In ono town orders were honored for the slaying of 210 of the animals. This was on April 21. Then some 'one discovered that tho - Jaw was not operative until May 1, so that the bounty on the 210 was so much money thrown away, and the second act began. The Town Clerk asked the parties to refund the money, but they refused, and this led up to the third act The astute Town Clerk hunted up a musty law which imposes a fine of $5 for killing hedgehogs between October 1 and June 1. and. as this law Is operative until tho new law goes into effect, he com plained of the men who had killed tho, 210 hedgehogs and a local Justice fined them $5 and costs for every offense. Tho hunters did not relish this transaction. For each 23 cents bounty they had re ceived they had to pay a fine of $5 and $i costs, so that for each hedgehog whose forepaws and nose had been brought la they were $s.75 out of pocket This Is not the local Idea of a bargain. even. In hedgehogs. Furious over the loss of their money, the hunters began looking: the laws over and found one which pro-, vides that any man who had any part of dead hedgehog in his posaesslod be tween October 1 and June 1 was llablo to fine of $5 and costs. There cou'.d be no doubt the Town Clerk was liable under this law, as the noses and forepaws were In his possession, so tho Clerk was haled before the same Justice and found guilty. The court fined him $1060. and added $62 as costs. The fifth act of the hedgehog com edy will come off In the higher courts, to which the Clerk has made appeal. As a business venture the situation now stands as follows: The town paid $52.50 for the hedgehogs, and the hunters paid the town In fines and costs J1SS0, so that it Is $1S4S.50 ahead. The Clerk Is out of pocket thus far $1112, and perhaps mora before he gets through. The 210 hedge hogs which have caused all the fuss have lost everything. So Clerk, town, people and hedgehogs all have got Into trouble for lack of a little legal carefulness. In deed, In that particular town where the 210 bowed before the majesty of the law, troubles just now are as thick and sharp; as "quills upon the fretful porcupine." Official. Canvass of Jackson County. 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