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7 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, 3IOXDA1, DECEMBER 24, 1906. STEAMER AT SEA IS WRAPPER E Engineers and Firemen of the Strathcona Stick to Posts at Peril of Lives. VESSEL RUN ON THE -BEACH Passengers Partially Clad Hush on Deck at First Alarm, but Panic Is Prevented by the Cool Discipline of the Crew. HALIFAX. N. S.. Dec. 23. Word was received here today from Port Dufferin, a small coast town some SO miles east of this city, of the destruction by fire of the passenger steamer Strathcona, owned by the Halifax & Canso Company and bound from this port for Canso and Guys borough. That no lives were lost Is due principally to the heroism of the engi neers and firemen, who stuck to their posts until the steamer was beached and every one of the 3S0 passengers landed. In less than an hour after the beaching of the steamer she was burned to the water's edge. The Strathcona left here last evening under command of Captain Held. Most of the passengers were returning to their homes along the east coast after a few days' Christmas shopping In Halifax. A few hours after leaving port fire was discovered In the after hold. Despite the efforts of the officers and crew the flames spread rapidly. When the cry of fire was raised the wildest confusion reigned. The passen gers, most of them clad only in their night clothes, rushed on deck and made a dash for the lifeboats, but the crew prevented a panic. The boats were not launched, but were made ready for use In case the flames completely enveloped the steamer before land could be reached. The terror-stricken passengers were huddled together In the bow of the ship, which was headed for Port Dufferin, the nearest place on the treacherous coast where the steamer could find a harbor. While the Strathcona was driven to ward land at top speed the sailors tried to fight back the flames with streams of water. The draft caused by the steam er's rapid progress, however, fanned the flames Into greater fury, and In a short time the entire Interior of the Vessel was on fire. The engineers and firemen stuck bravely to their posts, although the femes had begun to surround them. Not until the keel of the steamer grated on a reef a mile from the entrance of the harbor did they abandon their dan gerous positions and rush to the deck. Then the boats were lowered and all of the passengers found safety on shore. The Strathcona was only two years old. was of 200 tons and was valued "at 144.000. Not long ago the Strathcona ran Into and sank the sailing steamer Havana In Halifax harbor and was condemned to pay JSO.COO damages. BUGABOO iSTHE MONARCHY ' 'Continued From First Page. ) Is far from being France, as I shall later say; but It is active, persistent, unscrupulous and It forces Itself with vengeance to the front. It has grasped the helm cf power and It steers the ship of state Into the darkest depths of unbelief and lrrellglon. Yesterday it was Combes, the most brutal of all, today It is Clemenceau, somewhat more subdued in his hatred, but yet a leader In the fight. "With such men, and with others di viding with them particular power, even less violent adepts of lrrellglon, there reigns another Idea the omni potence of the state. This was ever the plague of France, even when her rulers were devout Catholics. The state must control all agencies of power; It must brook no rival. Even the church must be in the hands of the government. "So was it with Louis XIV and with Napoloon; and so it Is with the re public. The republic is a name in France; it has been well said of it that it sleeps on the bed of Louis XIV. Franco has never understood the meaning of a republic, which Is re spect for private and personal liberty, which is to leave as much as possi ble to the people, to take to the state only what Is needed for tha public welfaro. All Must Bow to the State. "The most republican of republicans seated In Parliament set out at once to regulate all things to their own liking. "We are the state,' they cry out, as Louis XIV once said, 'I am the state.' And the state Is the great power and all must think and act as the Btate wills and as we will. "This Is certainly the spirit of the infidels who now rule'the country; and I am not at all sure it is not, to some degree at least, the spirit of good Catholics, who, were they to be to morrow in the ascendancy, should be lieve It their duty to make everyone go to mass, as the present deputies assume It their duty to let no one go to mass. "I know her cities and her villages; I know her people her aristocracy, her bourgeoise, and her peasantry and I know them to be Catholic. How, then, explain the political situatmn? There are several causes to be noted. "The masses are not used to politi cal life. For ages they were governed; they do not comprehend the art of gov erning. Put a party in power; it names the hundreds of thousands of officials from the prefect of a department to the humblest school teacher, to the vil lage constable; they obey the order received from Paris; they speak from the crowds around them crowds who read little; who think little, and the irowds in their turn obey the man date. No Initiative In the Masses. "An Independent, self-argued suf frage has not entered into the popular life. Nor is there among the masses the ambition to gain political victory. Paris for a century and a half has ruled France Establish a new regime, monarchlal or republic, in Paris this evening; the provinces awaken tomor row morning monarchlal or republican. 7t will require long years to decen tralize power in France, to give to each citizen consciousness of personal Independence enough to obtain true universal suffrage, a true expression of national -will. "There is no other country where a well-organized and stirrlpg fraction of the population can sway so easily the masses and Impose upon them Its will. "The clergy who are now the chief sufferers are much to blame. They, too, have retained, even at the altar and In the pulpit, the spirit of passive obedience inherited from old regimes. Admirable In teaching the catechism, in administering the sacraments, they have, never learned the virtues of pub lic life; they have never quickened be neath the activity of the battlefield. Their example and their preaching have left their disciples in the same passivity, and these know nothing of the public defense of principles; saints before the altar, they are cowards be fore the electoral urn. l"n fortunate In Their Leaders. "TJien, French Catholics have been unfortunate in many of their leaders and spokesmen. These remain parti sans of burled political regimes. If th masses of the people have learned any one thing, it Is this that France Is a republic; that they are republicans. But the Monarchists - are numerous, chiefly the old nobility, the most gen erous patrons of religion, and too many of the clergy, who still read the'lr poli tics in Bossuet and Masslllon, who Judge the republican fornt of govern ment by the Jacobin republic of con temporary France. "Here is the weakness of the Catho lics of France the infidel, the Social ist, who solicits votes, cries out The republic is in peril; no Republican must cast his vote for a monarchist, even Jf that monarchist be otherwise the best and purest of men';- and the masses vote for the infidel or the Socialist, in order that the republic may survive. trusting to the republic to do in the long run what Is most serviceable for France, and even for religious princi ples themselves. "What happens? The moderate Re publican candidate Is defeated; the in fidel or Socialist Is elected. This is what is witnessed In numerous circum spections on every election day. No one understood France better than Leo XIII. He bade all Catholics seek the welfare of country and of church with in the ranks of loyal adherents to the republic. Had Leo been listened to, France in all probability would have escaped the religious persecution of the present day. Monarchical Ideas and plotting have done dreadful In jury to the church in France." VALUABLE PAPERS REMOVED Xnnclature at Paris Was Prepared for Government Search. ROME. Dec. S3. The Vatican says the French Government has not sent a tele graphic circular to its representatives abroad In answer to the protest of the holy see concerning the searching of the nunciature at Paris and the expulsion of Mgr. Montagnlnl, but has merely com municated with the diplomats accredited to Paris. The Vatican now does not conceal the facts that the Important documents In the nunciature were transferred, long before the search was made, to the embassy of a Catholic power. While it Is not known to what embassy they were taken. It Is known It was not that of Italy. It la supposed they were conveyed to the Aus trian Embassy. It is also stated that the cipher code confiscated was that used during the time Mgr. Clarl was the papal nuncio at Paris, and was obsolete. Twenty-five anti-clerical clubs and sev eral Socialist, Republican and Radical members of the Chamber of Deputies have decided to promote great anti-clerical demonstrations, with processions, to be held the same day throughout Italy, and also to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Giordano Bruno, the Italian philosopher, who, because of his disbelief In the doctrines of transubstantiatlon and of the Immaculate conception of Mary, was burned to the stake as a heretic in the Campo del Fiorl at Rome, February 17. 100. Prayers for Church In France. DETROIT, Dec. 23. Prayers ' for the churqh in France were ordered today to be offered Jn all the churches of the Ro man Cathollo diocese of Detroit from Christmas until Easter. HEAVY LOSS IN TEXAS TOWN Fire Starts on Building Facing the Xagadoches Public Square. NAOADOCHES. Tex.. Dec. 23. Fire to day started In the second story of the E. A. Blount building, fronting the publlo square, causing a loss of 309,0OO. Some of the heaviest losers are: Nagadoches Mercantile Company, Per kins Brothers, H. A. Blount, J. M. Weeks. Joe Relndel, R. C. Twlndler, Perkins, Kleas and Mast, Blount & Gar rison and Stripling & Hazelwood. Bay City Hotel Destroyed. BAY CITY. Mich., Dec. 23. The Fraser House, the oldest and largest hotel in this city, was completely destroyed by fire early today. It is believed that no lives were lost. John O'Nell, the hotel fireman, was overcome by smoke and probably fatally Injured. The loss Is 9O.O0O. G. B. Spalding's clothing store, adjoin ing the hotel, was damaged to the ex tent of $18,000. CHINA FEELS PROSPERITY Revenues of Tear Said to Be the Largest on Record. LONDON, Dec. 24. The Times corre spondent at Pekln comments this morn ing' upon China's hopeful financial out, look. The revenue for the year Is said to be the largest on record, but there Is no data available to check the statement. Kspeclally is the prospect brighter than during the boycott on American goods. The United States will carry out what has been long believed to be her Inten tion 1o return the "boxer" Indemnity, amounting to 22,0OO,O0O gold. The customs collection certainly Is the largest on record, while the appreciation of silver has enabled China to sustain with greater ease than in any previous year the burden of the payment of the boxer indemnity. Anotner ieature is the remarkable dei-elopment In postal com munications. The postal revenue Is un precedented, and there Is every prospect of the reorganization of the service, re ducing the existing Inland rates to rea sonable figures. A Quick and Safe Remedy for Bowel Com plaints. Twenty years ago Mr. George W. Brock discovered that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was a quick and safe cure for bowel complaints. "During all of these years." he says. "I have used It and recommended It many times, and the results have never yet disappointed me." Mr. Brock Is publish er of the Aberdeen. Md., Enterprise. 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More fun than anything you have ever played. Exciting and interesting. Indorsed by the leading baseball players of the country. Come take one home Monday; price. $3.00 STAR COASTERS, with detachable sides and ball bearings, fitted with brake and an extra strong gear; $4.50 flJQ ?tJ value pO.il DRESSED DOLLS, with white shoes and stockings, and velvet suits, dark hair and brown or blue eyes that sleep. CI 1 C DOLL TRUNKS, in gunmetal finish, worth $2.25, for . Worth $1.75; special at. $1.75 DOLL GO-CARTS worth $2 for... $1.50 METALACHORDS, a new musical instru ment that is very easy to play; worth $1.25 for JC TEN-PIECE DOLL FURNITURE SETS, 65c upholstered, for worth $1.10; go JOINTED DOLLS, large size, light or datk hair, sleeping eyes; regularly $1.75, about two dozen, for Monday 10 EASEL BLACKBOARDS and Desks combined, 35c grade for. AUTOMOBILES, fine ones, worth regularly $13, for... 25c $9.25 SLEDS, that sell regularly for 75c. . . .50 ?2.00 SLEDS for $1.35 IRON HOSE TRUCKS, that sell C regularly for $1.00 OUV, METALOPHONES, nickel plates, 24 keys, notes written on each key; worth OC 5Sc for '. OUC TIN TOPS, worth 5c to 35c; now J(e selling for 3c to tJC IRON HOOK AND LADDER TRUCKS, worth 65c each, A.e Monday tOC HOOK AND LADDER TRUCKS, with ex tension ladder, worth $2.95 95 Dreamland Dolls Beautiful Rag Dolls, with photo faces, nicely dressed and made of the best materials. Won't break and will stand lots of hard usage. Worth 75c now (30c, and those worth $4.50 it O each now tpO.iJ pri2Wfiii31M iff dav All Smoking Jackets Worth to $7.00 Today, $3.99 Here's the best chance of the holiday season to buy a gift that a man will like, and buy it at a saving that counts. N6where will you find such handsome House Coats as these we want to sell you at this ridiculously small price today. We include every House Coat that we have left, that sold at $5.50, $6.00 and $7.00. No matter how many of these we have left this mornings and there won't be less than an even hundred you have vour unrestricted f Q QQ choice for LOUNGING ROBES and bath robes, made of blanket cloth, in handsome Oriental designs; have sold at $4, $4.o0 and $o; choice. MEN'S NIGHT SHIRTS AND PAJAMAS, in mer cerized silk, in white, blue and tan; priced from $1.2o up to , MEN'S NECKWEAR, high-grade goods, that will please the particular fellows who are fastidious about the ties they wear. Large squares, in the latest patterns. Regular $1.50 values. Choice to- QE MEN'S MUFFLERS, REEFERS AND DRESS PROTECTORS all make good Christmas presents. We have a large assortment, tlT f)f) including lots of white, black and pearl; 75c to pJ .VfJ MEN'S IRISH LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, plain or tf 1 ff hand-embroidered initials; prices 20c to p M. .JJ MEN'S FANCY VESTS Are very appropriate gifts for your men friends. Select one from this large stock of ours and you're sure to be pleased yourself and to please the one who receives it. Regular prices are $1.50 to $6.50, and now every one Ia $2.99 !AS, in mer- $8.50 in stock is reduced. Special Prices on Fancy Goods STATIONERY, in fancy holiday boxes. OC Regular price 50c the box; today JjC WRITING PAPER, fn pretty holly boxes, Of 35c package for ""C HAIR BRUSHES, with extra stiff bristles and solid back; worth 85c each, special jQq- DR. SCOTT'S ELECTRIC HAIR BRUSHES, regu larly at $2.00 each; special today, ( J each . ; .... i .... 4 , . . P SO HARDWOOD BOXES, for collars and cuffs, hand kerchiefs, necktie boxes, and gloves, sell at 1 one-third off 3 PHOTO ALBUMS, with fancy decorated cov- yU ers, a good assortment; special today at 2 CELLULOID BOXES, for collars and cuffs, gloves, neckties, handkerchiefs; also shaving cases, fy toilet cases, manicure sets, etc., all at y price. STEREOSCOPES, complete with cabinet and 25 views a regular one-dollar set, today, QQq ART CALENDARS for 1907, fancy designs of all sorts; every one in the store sells today at just half price.. v BRUSH AND COMB SETS, of French stag, mount ed with sterling silver; handsome sets, that sell regularly for $2.50; special, today, 1 7 only '. pl. t O DAY- OF GOOD Mil How . Progressive Jews Can Recognize Christmas. M0 LONGER RELIGIOUS Tt. Magnes Declares the Celebration Has Become as Jfatlona.1 as Thanksgiving and Should Be Enjoyed by All, NEW YORK, Dec. 23. Christmas serv ices were general In Christian churches of the city today, and In several syna gogues the religious anniversary was touched upon, and especially In reference to its observance In the public schools. Preparations for Christmas exercises In the public schools Of the city have been under way for some time, and have re sulted In formal protests to the Board of Education by parents of Hebrew pupils. The board has failed to Interfere, and it was announced that there would be a strike of Hebrew students qn the East Side tomorrow, the boys and girls refusing- to enter the schools unless the yule tide proclamations were abandoned. The matter was then taken up by the Hebrew press, and the pupils of both reformed and orthodox synagogues. At Temple Emmanuel and Temple Bethel today conservative views of the situation were taken. Dr. J. L. Magnes told the congregation of the former tem ple that the real Jew resented -the activ ity of those Jews who would strip Christ mas of all its beauty. "The Jew who 19 a firm one will find In Christmas," he declared, "something of beauty. Not be cause of the pagan mirth which it brings, but because there is something of real grandeur and of real de-pth to be found In the observance. "We Jews can, under the conditions, understand and appre ciate, although we do not observe, the day. "In a very ' few . days there will ring throughout the land, 'Glory to God In the highest; peace on earth: good will to men,' and the Christmas carols will cheer many a home. It Is the birthday of a God who trod the earth In order to save It so millions of men would say. There Is. perhaps, in .. history no religious day that has more prominence with religious men than this Christmas day. "Yet we Jews, that is, those of us who are not over-subtle, over-rich or over cowardly, those who are plain Jews and Jewesses, hold ourselves aloof and do not sing this song, this 'Peace on earth," which has been said by Jewish teachers before the time of Christianity." "Shall we forgive; shall we forget? Let us If we may. Let us at this time forgive and let us forget. And yet we withhold ourselves? There are two kinds of Jews today. The one always protesting, the other shrinking the one, preachers and teachers who come before the board of education and communicate with the papers and constantly protest against Christian Influences; and on the other hand those who would not be known as Jews, wjio seek silently to bring In the trees and the lights and the mer riment and say the celebration is no longer religious, but national, as Thanksgiving day. If we were good Jews, firm, brave, constructive, pro gressive Jews, we would see no dan ger In all of the celebration around us. It might, on the contrary, give added Importance to our religious life." "Judaism and Christmas" was the topic of Dr. S. Schulman in his sermon in Temple Bethel. He said In part: "There is the spirit of holiday in the air. There is the appeal to the good In human nature. No one cares to shut himself In his creedal compartment so as to escape being Influenced by the contagion of the season. I can under stand and sympathize with those teachers who desire to bring Tulettde spirit into the public schools. They want to make the children and them selves happy in doing this. They wish to add personal and moral touch to the school routine, the function of Im parting knowledge. In order to do this they sympathize with the air that Dyspeplets! Your Hair Contrary? Is it inclined to run away? Don't punish it with a cruel brush and comb! Feed it, nourish it, save it with Ayer's Hair Vigor, new improved formula. Then your hair will remain at home, on your head, just where it belongs. An elegant dressing. O.ArerCs., wall, Maaa. Xoa sot .tain or ehasc th. oolor of tlx. tajur. . 4.0. QnleVly rellem 8onr Stomach. Heartburn, Kausea, and all other ril(.nmfnrta of indlrostinii and drtimcaia. 8na;ar coated tablau. 16c. or 2So. Iruegiu or by mail. a 1 i (itv instant relief in t fl LftrrlGtS Nsl Catarrh-allay VOXai 1 inn.mm,tlon. ta.al nnom membrane, nreeten breath. Beat gargle sore throat. 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