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) -TTIE MORNING - OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1908. RESIGNS BECAUSE HE IS FOUND OUT Secret of History of Ministry of M. Delcasse Is Revealed. ' GERMANY STOPS ALLIANCE Kaiser Learns French Minister Is Carrying on Negotiations Willi England and Threatens to March Troops Into Lorraine. PARIS, Jan. 27. The Action, a So cialist organ, today publishes a state ment that M. Delcasse, the former French Minister of Foreign Affairs, re signed office because the German Em peror discovered that he was secretly negotiating an offensive and defensive alliance with Great Britain. When Emperor William learned of the treaty, according to this newspaper, he told the Italian Ambassador at Berlin that' on the day it was signed he would march troops into Lorraine. This threat reached France, whereupon -M. Rouvler. who was then Premier, ac cused M. Delcasse of carrying on secret negotiations. M. Delcasse admitted that this was true, and at the request of his conferee, lie resigned. . Delcasse Called Criminal. The Patrie, supplementing the al leged revelation In the Action, says that only M. Delcasse and M. Loubet, who was then President of France, were aware of the Anglo-French nego tiations. When M. Rouvier took M. Delcasse to task at the famous Cabinet meeting of June 6, 1905, for keeping his colleagues In ignorance of these ne gotiations, and demanded his resigna tion within half an hour, he used, ac cording to the Patrie, the following words: "Tour attitude is criminal; you de serve to be stood up against a wall and shot." Throws Over Former Policy. The Kclaire contributes a chapter of this alleged secret history. It alleges that M. Delcasse threw over the entire policy of M. Hanotaux, ex-Mlnister of Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of playing England's game. After the Battle of Colenso, during the Boer War, Russia proposed a mutual understand ing that should make easier France's course in Morocco and Russia's pro jected p'ans in Egypt. This M. Delcasse refused", however, and notified Great Britain of Russia's action. The final result, the Eclalre concludes, was an entente by which Great Britain traded something she did not possess In Mo rocco for France's interests In Egypt. DELCASSE NOT DISCUSSED French Chamber of Deputies Con siders Foreign Policy. PARIS. Jan. 27. None of the sensa tional surprises anticipated hi connection with the Moroccan debate in' the Cham ber of Deputies today occurred. M. Plchon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking for the Government, shwed plainly that the cabinet, without ignor ing, prefers not to discuss the Delcasse Incident, which aroused such a storm of vituperation beyond the Rhine and' such high praise across the channel. He went no further than to register an energetic protest against the idea that the restora tion of France's prestige was due to the ex-Minister. "The foreign policy of France," he said, "Is not the work of one man, one party or one government. France, haa recovered her place, lost in the catas trophe of 1871. as the result of 37 years of republican effort. Our policy was not directed against any one or to isolate any one; it was conceived solely In the interest of peace of the world." M. Plchon' s strongest words In con nection with Morocco were received with cheers on all sides. "France, on account of Algeria, could never permit the Internationalization of Morocco." The reception of M. Fiction's speech makes it manifest that the Chamber of Deputies will support the Government against both extremes M. Jaures, who wants to abandon, and M. Delcasse, who wants to conquer. Morocco. FOUR MEN ARE BADLY HURT Explosion Occurs From CnkiioVn Caiie In Oil Plant. IjOS A N G KI - fc, Jan. 27. Fo u r men were Injured, two probably fatally, in an explosion that occurred early this evening at Reriomlo in the oil plant of the FacirU; I-ight & Power Company, a million dollar concern that began opera tions a few wm ks ape. Mad the main building not been constructed of steel and concerto, the entire plant would have been destroyed. n explosion of ga from some cause undetermined, set tire to two oil tanks immediately adjoining the boiler-room Four employes on the premises were burned in the effort to prevent the fire reaching the oil. The damage is esti mated at about $50W. Fire engines were sent from Ios Angfles on a special train, but were unable to extinguish the oil fire. GATHER IN PUBLIC SQUARE Vnemploycd in Cleveland Petition the Mayor for Work. I'l.BVELAND, O.. Jan. 27. Avowedly to petition the city for work for the unem ployed, and with strips of red ribbon in their buttonholes. men gathered in trie 1'ublie hquarn today, coming in pro cessions from all parts of the city. A suad of police was on hand to keep or der. The majority of the crowd were foreign ers and talks were made in other than the English language. Petitions to the Citv Council asking that it authorize the Mayor to proceed with public Improve ments irrespective of bond issues, were adopted. o arrests were made. FURNACES START WORK Collieries Also 0en, Giving Env plo.vment to 30,000 .Men. POTTS VI I,IK. Pa.. Jan. 27. Two more big open-hearth furnaces resumed work here today. The -lIMneh and 38-ineh roll ing mill departments at the Eastern Steel Company's mills also started up full handed. Tomorrow the 12-inch mill will resume. ?sume. i Thirty-eight collieries of the Heading j Coal & Iron Company, employing 30.000 men. which have been idle since January 2J. also went to work today, and 1000 men at the same company's repair shop re sumed on reduced hours. I.ITTLK 'STIIt ABOUT FAILURE Liquidation of National Bank of Xorth America Is Begun.. NEW YORK. Jan. 27. Liquidation of the National Bank of North America was begun today.' Charles A. Hanna, National Bank Kxaminer of this district, wlio was appointed receiver yesterday, was in con ference today with Controller Ridgely,' "William F. Havemeyer. president of the bank, and some of the bank's legal advis ers. No authoritative statement waa is sued by any of the officials, but the opinion was expressed that the bank's de positors will be paid in full within 60 days. The closing of the bank occasioned little surprise in financial-circles and seemed to have only a slightly adverse stock market influence. A small crowd was gathered at the doors of the Institution all morn ing but there was an absence of the-excitement which marked the disturbance In the financial district last October and November. - - Reduction in Machine Shops. MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Jan. 27. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company has announced a , general reduction of forces in the machine shops along its line. Many men were today dropped from the shops at Mobile. Pensacola, Montgomery, Birmingham and Decatur. Officials of the company say that the reduction is due to a marked falling off In business. MUST TAKE MEN OF UNION LABOR AFFILIATIONS MUST MAKE XO DIFFERENCE. , Decision of Supreme Court Affecting Interstate Commerce, Railroads and Members of Labor Unions. "WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The constitu tionality of the act of Congress of June 1, 1S9S. prohibiting railroad companies en gaged in interstate commerce from dis criminating against members of labor or ganizations in the matter of employment was called into question by the case of William Adair vs. the United States, which was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States today favorable to Adair. The opinion was by Justice Har lan, and held the law to be repugnant to the Constitution. The court held that Adair as master mechanic of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, had a right to dis charge an employe because he was a member of a labor 'organization just as it was the employe's right to quit such employment because of his mem bership in such organizations. Such a course, the decision added, might be unwise, but, regarded as ay mere mat ter of right there could TSe no doubt. Congress could not under the Constitu tion authorize a violation of contracts under the guise of protecting interstate commerce. Justice McKenna delivered a dissenting opinion favorable to the law, in which he said the court's decision is along very narrow lines. Justice Holmes also expressed the opin ion that the law should be -construed as constitutional. He thought that the right to make contracts had been stretched to the limit by the court's decision In this case. That congress nad a ngnt so to legislate as to encourage labor organiza tions was another suggestion of Justice Holmes. ALL FAULT OF MINEOWNERS W. D. Haywood Discusses Mining Troubles. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27. President Mitchell announced to the convention of the United Mineworkers of --merica today that he did not desire to hold any office in the organization after his re tirement as president on April 1. This will stop a movement to have him placed at the head of an advisory board. He asked that his friends give their loyal and undivided support to his successor. "While I have been president I have been president in fact as well as In name and my successor has the same oppor tunity to carry out his policies." W. D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, ad dressed the convention. He referred feel ingly to the appreciation and the feeling of Mover. Pettibone and himself, to the labor element of the country which had contributed $300,000 to their defense. . Haywood attributed all of the strikes and troubles in the Western lead, coal and gold mines to the oper ators, owing to their failure to keep contracts with the miners. He charged the operators with the destruction of property by the use of explosives, in order to prejudice public opinion and lay the biame on the miners. He painted graphic pictures of the "bull pens," established by state and mili tary authorities, which he said have been subservient to the operators. "Colorado." said he, "is as mean1 as all the other states boiled down. Cor porations control the courts there," de bauch the Legislature, and run the elections to suit themselves." Mr. Haywood pleaded for a closer relationship between the Western Federation of Miners and the Mine workers of America. He asked not only for the financial support -of the United Mineworkers, but for their mor al support as well. Mr. Mitchell addressed the conven tion when Mr. Haywood closed. Mr. Mitchell declared himself to be .opposed to sympathetic strikes. "I have watched labor troubles and conditions as closely as any man," he said, "and I have not seen any benefit accrue from sympathetic strikes. Should the Western Federation of Min ers ask us to go on strike to aid .their strike, wo would ask naturally, 'What will we get out of it? What good will accrue to us?' I do not see that it would do us any good to have the metallferous miners on a strike if we coal miners were out on a strike. Coal can be mined when gold miners are not working, but gold cannot be mined if there Is no coal." Mr. Mitchell admitted that in ex treme cases sympathetic strikes would very materially assist in' the accom plishment of labor purposes, and In such eases he would advocate it. He thought closer relationship should ex ist between the Mineworkers and the Western Federatiion of Miners, and suggested a commission to delne what these relations should be. MW Mitchell urged the miners to continue the-con-traet system. D. A. Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of the Ohio miners, and Alex Howatt, president of the Kansas miners, were elected delegates to the International Mining Congress, which meets at Paris. Savings Bank Closed by Run. LONG BEACH. Cal.,' Jan. 27. The Citi zens' Savings Bank, of this city, today announced its suspension. About three months ago the bank took advantage of the 90-dar requirement rule for deposit ors, and Mnce the expiration of that time, it is understood, the withdrawals have been greater than the bank has been able to meet. CURE FOR PANICS Fowler Argues for Currency Bill in House. LAUDS MORGAN AS PATRIOT Compares Him to Gibraltar Guard Ins Against Financial Cataclysm. Opposes Bond-Secured Notes and Central Bank. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The finan cial question was- discussed in the House today by Fowler, chairman of tlje committee on banking and cur rency, in an exhaustive speech in which he opposed bond-secured cur rency and the proposition looking to the establishment of a central bank. He used for hi text the bill Intro duced by him early In the present month .providing, among other things, for bank redemption districts, which, he argued, would meet National emer-" gencies. Fowler declared the United States had the worst financial and currency process in the world. Instead of, the best. "What Is the acute-question?" he In quired. "Is It a bond-secured cur rency? If that were a wise and proper form of currency," he asked, "why has not some nation adopted It by this time? Japan tried it over night, but quickly gave It up." Denounces Subtreasurles. . Fowler favored coining reserves out of gold. United States notes,- he said, were "mere promises to pay, a mere piece of fiat issued during ' the war. They had never been retired because neither the Republicans nor the Demo crats ever had the political courage to do their duty. The subtreasury system of the Gov ernment was attacked by Fowler as a curse to trade and commerce. "It is a source of suspicion," he declared, "a source of hatred, a source of sectional rivalry," He said he' knew nothing that so constantly aroused sectional feeling as this distribution of money in times of stress. United States money, he said, had been a disturbing factor In the commerce of the world, and he maintained that a remedy for this evil could be supplied by the Government by depositing its money In the ?ank every day by check and draft, and by drawing It out by check and draft, just like any other businessln stitutinn. Morgan a Hercules of Finance. Referring to the action of J. P. Morgan in coming to the rescue of the money market recently. Fowler assert ed that an Individual banking system cannot stand alone, because every, seri ous rumor causes runs and the banks know they cannot survive. These banks, he said, should be co-ordinated and brought into one harmonious whole. It was high time, he said, that depositors knew what was in the bowels of the banks when they placed their money in. He referred to Mr. Morgan as a "giant of giants, a HercubBs of finance, a banker-statesman, a banker-patriot, who had stood like a Gibraltar, pro tecting the nineteen billions of reserves of our banks, protecting the occupa tions of 25,000,000 of men and women, protecting the National welfare against the consequences of a more destructive, terrific, tragic and. appalling cataclysm than has ever swept over the commerce of any couitry." Time for Sound Currency. The time was ripe, he said, and the opportunity was at hand to eliminate every one of these weaknesses and build a scientific, sound and wise cur rency system. It could be done with in two or three months. Fowler expressed his opposition to the establishment of a central bank, giving as one of his reasons that the United States was too partisan and that its institutions were not suited for such a bank. Fowler was bombarded with ques tions regarding the details of his bill. He declared that, should It pass, it would raise the bank and trust com pany reserves by J600.000.000, and he said that amount of gold taken from the pockets of the people, the corn and wheat fields, would be replaced by the credit notes of the banks. SEVERAL PROVISIONS ADDED Aldrich Bill Waiting: for Data From Treasury Department. WASHINGTON, Jail. . 27. The com pleted text of the Aldrich financial bill, which will be submitted to the full committee after a meeting has been held to go over the" data from the Treasury Department, will contain the amendments that have been tentative!: agreed to at the various meetings of the committee on finance. There will also be a series of small provisions added to the bill, which have been de vised to make it work smoothly as an emergency measure. It will be made mandatory upon the Secretary of the Treasury to make and keep on hand a supply of notes which can quickly be .issued upon call. The Secretary of the Treasury will be re quired to proceed immediately upon the law's taking effect to gather data con cerning the class of securities provid ed in the measure. The bonds of every city in the country will be inspected and their worth stated in Treasury re-, ports, as will be done with any se curities that are at any time liable to come within the workings of any emer gency currency law. It has been set tled that the distribution of currency will be by states instead of districts, as formerly proposed. y The Democratic members of the finance committee will prepare their substitute for the Aldrich bill as soon as the data arrive from the Treasury Department. The proposition of Sen ator Baijey that the Government make emergency deposits in designated de positories will probably be the main features of the bill. NEW CURRENCY BILL FRAMED Bears Approval of American Bank ers' Association Committee. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. A currency bill was introduced in the Senate to day by Senator Hopkins and in the House by James McKinney, of Illinois, which bears the indorsement of the currency commission appointed by" the American Bankers' sfeociation. The bill is the result of the hearing and subsequent deliberations of the commission appointed .two years ago. The text of the bill was made public in Chicago January 19 last. The com- j mission is composed of 15 of the most prominent bankers of the United States Irom all sections of tne country. Mr. McKinney -said that It --gives greater elasticity in the Issue, and re- demption of National bank guaran teed credit notes over that granted to National banks at the present time.. It is claimed that If the bill had been a law at the present time it would have given to the country $336,300,000 to meet the recent crisis. Favors Guaranteed Credit Notes. CHICAGO. Jan. 27. Professor J. Lau rence Laughlin, head of the department of economics at the University of Chicago and one of the highest authorities on finance in the United States, believes that the guaranteed credit ' note measure brought out a week ago by the American Bankers' Association Commission should become a law. Professor Laughlin emphasizes three important points by which he could rec ommend the plan the most strongly. They are: First The bill provides for note issues that will be absolutely safe. Second The measure offers absolute protection against Inflation. Third It would provide an elastic cur rency for the actual needs of business. Thug Game to the End. SEATTLE Wash., Jan. 27. In a duel with pistols and after a desperate hand-to-hand struggle, Charles Negabon was shot and killed early this morning by Po liceman William Donbon. Negabon was caught entering a store In a suburb. He Immediately drew a pistol and began pulling the trigger, but the cartridges failed to explode. Policeman Donbon emptied his revolver at the .robber, two bullets taking effect, one in the abdo men and the other in the leg. Negabon fought like a demon even after he had been shot in the stomach and the police man had to beat him over the head with his revolver before he could subdue him. POLICE BILL IS PASSED NEVADA HOUSE ACTS WHEN MINEOWNERS YIELD. Abolition of Card System Exacted i as Condition of Protection of Law. CARSON. Nev., Jan. 27. The Nevada Legislature has passed the police bill, giving this state a measure that pro vides for a system of policing in time of riots which it is believed will quell all trouble in the Goldfield section at the present time and place the state In po sition to handle any future contingencies that may arise. Several members who were devout union men have made a fight in opposi tion to the bill, while the conservative members have (hade a forcible Issue and have won the law. Speaker Skaggs, who has been taking a most active part for the union men. left his chair and voted. Skaggs denounced the measure as per nicious and czar-like and predicated the men who voted for it were digging their political graves. All amendments were lost and the bill went through as It came from the Senate. Assemblyman Williams stated from the floor that he was a member of the West ern Federation of Miners, but that he favored the bill as a measure that does not injure any man. When Assemblyman Bray stated that he believed in' peace, a forced peace if necessary, and that the stars and stripes should wave over the flag of anarchy, at the sanre moment waving the Ameri can flag, the entire Assembly rose and clieered the speaker and the flag. -The .bill was then put to a vote, with SI in the affirmative and 7 in the nega tive. A resolution will be sent to the President asking him to keep the troops in Goldfieldauntil such time as the state can organize her forces under the bill. Another bill will be Introduced endea voring to unseat several officials of the Goldfield district, who are said to have violated their trust. It is believed with the present showing that this can be done. An arbitration bill is framed and will be presented, probably tomorrow. While several measures regarding state im provements are to go to the lawmakers, it is believed that the session will close Its work Saturday night. From Goldfield the necessary word has been, received by the Governor announc ing that the mineowners would withdraw their card system and the other objec tionable features, such as signing agree ments withdrawing from the Western Federation of Miners. The members of the Lower House who have forced this Issue have been given the assurance and the telegram to the Governor was read from the floor this afternoon. RESULT IN RESUMING WORK Miners Do Not Have to Forswear the Federation to Get Job. GOLDFIELD, Nev., Jan. 27 The ac tion of the Mineowners' Association in withdrawing the card system by which members of the W -tern Federation of Miners were required to renounce alle giance to that organization as a price of employment In this district, will re sult, it is believed, in the early resump tion of work throughout the district. The Western Federation is not likely to put any serious obstacle in the way of its members returning to work as long as they are not required to sign the obnoxious agreement. Unemployed Want Bonds Issued. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 27. The "Or- Colds Colds Ask yur doctor if Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is not just the right medicine for such cases. He knws all about it. Then follow his advice. Ayefs Cherry Pectoral REVISED FORMULA Cold after cold, cough after cough. One cold no sooner cured than another one comes. It's a bad habit, this taking-cold habit. What yon want is a medicine that wiil break up this habit, heal inflamed membranes, and strengthen weak tissues. We have no secrets I We publish the formulas of alt our medicines J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists,. Lowell, Mass. Ml ABE GIVEN RELIEF TREMENDOUS POPULARITY OF SIMPLE PRESCRIPTION. iSo Sufferer From Kidney Trouble or Rheumatism Should Leave It Untried. ' That the readers of this paper ap preciate advice when given in good faith is plainly demonstrated by the fact that one well-known localphar macy supplie'd the Ingredients for the "vegetable prescription" many times within the past two weeks. The. an nouncement of this simple, harmless mixture has certainly accomplished much in reducing the great many cases of kidney complaint and rheumatism here, relieving pain and misery, espe cially among the older population, who are always suffering more or less with bladder and urinary troubles, back ache and partioule.rly rheumatism. Another well-known druggist asks us to continue the announcement of the prescription. It is doing so much real good here, he continues, that It would be a crime not to do so. It can not be repealed too often, and further states many cases of remarkable cures wrought. . The following Is the prescription of simple ingredients, making a harmless, inexpensive compound, which any per son can prepare -by shaking well in a bottle: Fluid Extract -Dandelion, one half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Any first-class drugstore will sell this small amount of each in gredient, and the dose for adults is one teaspoonful to be taken after each meal and again at bedtime. There is enough here to last for one week. If taken according to directions. Good re sults will be apparent from the first few doses. ganlzed Labor Unemployed League" has been made a permanent organization, with E. D. Knight, of Local 22 Brother hood of Carpenters & Joiners, as presi dent. The. league has resolved to make a formal demand on the Board of Super visors . for the Issuance of J(2S,- 009.000 of unsold, bonds, which were voted four years ago, for the benefit of the unemployed working men in the city. It was unanimously de cided that the organization do all in its power to urge the acceptance of the bonds as payment for labor. . STANDARD OIL TRIAL ST Next Case Larger, Involving Possible Fine of $42,480,000. CHICAGO, Jan. 27. Judge Bethea, in the United States Circuit. Court, today set the trial of the Standard OH Com pany of Indiana, cm the charge of ac cepting concessions from the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad on ship ments of oil from Whiting, Ind., to Ejransville, Ind., for April 6. The case was originally set for trial before Judge Landls, who declined to hear it, and It was transferred to the calendar of Judge Bethea. It is a larger case than that Involv ing the Chicago & Alton . Railroad, which was tried before Judge Land is, and In which a fine of more than J29, 000,000 was imposed. The Eastern Illinois case includes 2214 counts and under them a minimum fine of S42, 480,000 Is possible. ELECTION CAUSES UPRISING Outbreak of Revolutionists Report ed From Honduras. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Rumors of an uprising or invasion in Honduras has reached the State Department. Details are lacking but it id believed the leaders of the movement are persons who were driven out' of Honduras into Guatemala during the last revolutionary outbreak. The revival Of the attempt to overthrow the government at this time is believed to have been inspired by the fact that the elections for president are to be held tomorrow. RUSSIA MAKES PROTEST Objects to Turkish Encroachment. ' Troops Leaving Tiflls. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 27. Re newed representations by the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople have been made necessary by the Turkish occupation of Suj Bulak In Persia, which is regarded here as a grave in fraction of the Porte's promises. - The correspondent of the Associated Press at Tiflis writes that large num bers of Russian troops are being moved from Tiflis to the frontier. FAMILY BURNS TO DEATH House Collapses Seven, With the Corpse of Another, Are Caught. RICHMOND, Va Jan. 27. By the col lapse today of the house of Anthony Franklin, a negro of Bedford City, the building was' fired and destroyed and his whole family, consisting of himself, wife and five children, were burned to death. The family were sitting up with the corpse of a child-that died Sunday, when the building fell In. of' ff'. - .'V w . X r ,v' CARRENO MARQUAM GRAND THEATER MONDAY EVENING; FEB. 3, 190S SEAT SALE OPENS FRIDAY MORNING A GREAT ARTIST Mme. Carreno ie still the undisputed queen of the pianoforte, but her sway Is exercised more tenderly "than of yore; She used to dazzle and astonish, but now she charms and delights. Not that she cannot play as brilliantly as ever, when she chooses, but time has given a mel lowness to her style which in old days it lacked. She has never. played better than at her recital on Saturday, and It was curious that her chief triumphs were won, not in music of the showy kind. In which she used to excel, but In the classics pure and undefiled. Her performance of Mozart's Fantasie iln C minor was most impressive in its rich sobriety of expression, and the subtlety and delicacy with which she played Beethoven's Sonata In E flat. Op. 31, was altogether beyond praise. Daily Graphic, London, February 18, 1907. A GREAT PIANO Modesty does not always mean silence; nor lack of It. presumption. Those who know the Everett Piano's rich tonal quality. Its plenti tude of artistic and poetic beauty need no telling they have formed their judgment. To those who do not know it is as yet merely a claimed attribute. This Everett tone quality and color is the result of years of trust worthy work in the line of tone Idealisms, wrought by men whose prido is their achievement in this field an Ideal piano tone production. Hear Carreno play the Everett at the Marquam nod then visit onr warerooni, Sixth and Moninon, to nee and hear the nprinht well as grand pianos. They are beautiful In tone and architecture, an vell an niont durable In construction. ' Sherman, Glay S Go. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE Western Agents Everett Pianos and Victor Talking Machines. KAISER'S BIRTHDAY QUIET Socialists Make No Demonstration and Precautions Are Needless. BERLIN, Jan." 27. The celebrations In honor of the Emperor's 49th birth day passed off without untoward Inci dents. The elaborate precautions tak en by the police against any possible demonstration proved to be unneces sary. The Socialists generally followed their leaders' advice to keep away from - Xheutnatism is caused by an cxces3 of uric acid In the blood, brought about by the accumulation in the system of refuse matter "which the natural avenues of bodily waste have failed to carry off. This -waste or refuse matter ferments and sours and generates uric acid which is absorbed into the blood and distributed to all parts of the body, and Rheumatism, with its torturing pains and aches, inflammation and other disagreeable symptoms, gets pos session of the system. The aches and pains may be relieved and the inflam mation temporarily reduced by the application of a good plaster, penetrating liniment or some other simple home remedy, but the disease can never bo cured while the blood remains saturated with the irritating, pain-producing uric acid poison. The cause should be driven from the blood before the trouble reaches the chronic or helpless stage. S. S. S., a purely vegeteble remedy, cures Rheumatism by thoroughly cleansing the blood of every particle of the uric acid poison, and making this vital fluid pure, fresh and health-sustaining. It filters out from, the circulation the remotest particle of the poison, and when S. S. S. has renovated the blood, Rheumatism is thoroughly and permanently cured. Book on Rheumatism and anv medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Oregon Electric Rnvco. "WILLAMETTE ROUTE" "THE ROAD OF COURTESY AND SERVICE" OPEN FOR BUSINESS WITH DAILY TRAINS BETWEEN . PORTLAND AND SALEM Stopping at all intermediate stations. Trains from both Portland and Salem leave at 8 o'clock A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M., and arrive at 11 o'clock A. M. and 5 o'clock P. M. from temporary stations, corner of Front and Jefferson sts. in Portland, and High and State sts. in Salem. Tickets for sale on trains or at the undersigned temporary offices, at the following , REDUCED RATES Between Portland and Salem, single trip $ 1.50 Between Portland and Salem, round trip $ 2.75 Between Portland and Salem, Saturday to Monday $ 2.00 Between Portland and Salem, 25-ride family ticket $25.00 Single, round-trip and 25-ride tickets on sale daily; return portion of round-trip tickets good for 30 days; 25-ride book ticket good for three months. Saturday-to-Monday tickets on sale for 2 o'clock train Saturday, or any train Sunday, good returning on any train of Sun day or the following Monday. F.J. SWAYNE, GEO. F. NEVINS, - Ticket Agent, Salem. . . Traffic Manager. .sM.liSta!:.&" - is. the festivities. Many thousands of per--sons assembled outside the opera to night to witness the imperial arrivals. A gala performance was giVen. Will Review Rebate Declsipns. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The Su preme Court of the United States today granted a petition of the Chicago, Bur lington & Qulncy and the Chicago & Alton railway companies for writs of certiorari In the Government cases against them, on charges of granting rebates. This action will bring the cases to this court for review. F RHEUMATISM