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About The new age. (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1900)
T"-t- "3? y SjJwT-y . wfprrim'r- M r ) r: I 1 '1 n. ?1 The New Age. A. D. GRIFFIN, Manager. orrioic 9B4 MonmnoH sticrrt. Orxgon Telephone Oak SOl. Entered nt the Pmilorncc at t'ortUnd, Oregon, a second cli matter. HUllHOKII'TION. One Tear, Payable In Advance S3.00 National Republican Ticket. For President, WILLIAM MoKINLEY, of Ohio For Vice-Presldont, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ofN. Y. For Presidential Electors TILMON FORD, of Marlon, J. C. FULLERTON( of Douglas, W. J. FURNISH, or Umatilla, 0. F. PAXTON, of Multnomah. TUB FALSI') PKOPIIKT OF 1800. If tlio uropliocIiiH ami predictions tnndo liy Mr. Bryan hud proven to bo truo, tho gold Htmiiliinl, which litis boon iu operation ovur sinco lto uttorod thoiiii would Imvo produced tlio follow ing dirufttl results, to-wlt: It would Imvo increased tlio purchas ing towur of tlio gold ilnlliir. (Mad hon Square Ciurdoii Hpoooh.) It would Imvo been uh cortnin to make prluoH full uh h stono in to full when it is thrown Inlo the uir. (Now ton, Iowa, speech.) It would have increased tlio delitti of tho people iiikI lessoned their ability to pay them. (Hiiltimnro hpeoeh.) It would Imvo m udo times harder mid harder. (Sumo ppoooh.) It would have Htarved everybody ox vopt tlio money changers and tho money ownorH. (Now Haven, Conn., Hpeoeh.) It would ha vii transferred tho bread which one man oartiH to itnothor man who had not enrned it. (Hartford, Conn.. speech.) It would Imvo made tho riuh richer and tlio poor poorer. (Newark, Ohio, npeech.) It would have docroiiHod tho nuiuler who are happy and increased tho mini bur who iito In distress. (Somo HpODCll.) It would have destroyed tho hopo of the toiling iiuiHHi'H. (MitiueapoliH, Minn,, speech.) It would havo.dostroyod tho oppor tunity to work. (Sumo speech.) It would Imvo iucreaned tlio niiiuber of idlu men. (Saiuu speech.) It would Imvo docreiiHed tho volume ol etaiitlard iiniuoy. (Samu speech.) It would hao enrotiiagod tho hoard ing of money. (Hornesvillo, N. Y., hpeoeh.) It would Imvo made it moio and more dlilh'iilt fur the farmer to live. (MiiiUhoii Square Garden Hpeoeh.) It would have injuied tlio wane earn er (Same speech.) It would have made employment hws certain. (Sumo. Hpeecli. ) It would Imvo dlHrouriigoilontorprUo. (Same speech.) it would Imvo paralyzed industry. (Same speech.) It would have lessened the ability of pavings ImiilCH to collect their assets. (Same Hpeoeh.) It would have increiiHed tho danger of depohitorH losing their deposits in savings bankfl. (MiiiUhoii Square Gar dun speech.) I would have lessoned tho salaries of thoHO engaged in luminous occupations and would have leHHoned tho permit noney of such salaries. (Sumo speech. ) It would Imvo injured theso who Imvo peniianent investments In rail umd Mocks and other llko ontorprlnos. (Same NKooh.) It would Imvo injured or destroyed the tnantifaetorors of auriouttural im plements, wagons and buggies. (Springfield, Ohio, and Flint, Mluh., VlHlOl'llOH, ) It would have lessened the ability of the imtHt.es to buy goods and thereby would have loHSoiioit the number of commercial travolini! men. (Indiana polls npeech to traveling men.) It would Imvo liiado it impossible (or liUhbamlH and wives to pay olV the mortgages on their homos. (Mliuto npollH, Minn., spoooh to ladies.) It would have made it noees-mry to advocate tho closing op of our publlo soIiooIh. (Monmouth, 111., speech. it would lmo niado It moro protlta ble to loan moiioy or to hoard it than to invent it in enterprise or property. (Syracuse, N. Y., speech.) It would have inadu dearer money, cheaper property, hinder t lines, more people out of work, more people destl tute, more iteoplo desperate, moio crime,, (Minneapolis Hpeeeh to ladles. ) It would )me lowered the standard of civilization iu this country. (Mad iMin Square garden speech.) It would Imvo been writing the fu tine iu blood, crushed out by gold. (Krlo, I'oiiii., apeoch.) All these prophecies and predictions about the evils that would befall uh if tho gold standard were adopted have utterly failed, Mr. Bryan said in a speech delivered at Lincoln, Nebraska, July 7, 1000: "Tho tight this yo.ir will bo to carry out the sentiment of that souk we have no often reperted,"My Couutry 'tis of Thco.' If wo lose, our children and our children's children will not suc ceed to tho Hpirit of that song, and cel ebrations of tho Fourth of July will puss away, for the spirit of empiro will bo upon ua." Pass tho falt, plcaRO. Tho blanket ordnanco, taxing every form of business (noarly), recently passed by tlio city council, has pro voked much complaint. Many of tho local dealers predict that, as a result of this wholesale tax, thoro will pres ently bo good pasturago on our Rtrcots. Others urgo tho adoption of n law that will double tho per capita tax. Oth ers, again, insist that, having so long voted our municipal government Into tho hands of grafters, wo ought to Buf fer this penalty as a just reward for our fidelity to foolishness, 1'orhapi tho philosophers iu tho latter class aro right. Portland would never Imvo been so deoply iuvolvud in debt had its business been honestly conducted. Such a condition has not existed for a quarter of a century and possibly it novor will. That doponds wholly upon tho question as to whother or not the masses will voto llko sheep and bore after select public servants named by the ring of grafters from tho municipal treasuro box, or choose men for tho dischargo of ollieial responsibilities who will bo honest and 'aithful in doallug with publlo business, It rests wholly with the voters of tho city, They have tholr choice. If thoy ohooso poorly, they will only invito further Involution in cumbersoiuo debt. There is nothing immbypamhy in VicoI'rcsideutial Caudidato Rooso volt's discussion of publlo issues. Tho anti-imperialist is a coward and that Is what Roosevelt calls him. A' na tion that grows must expand, A na tion that develops resources must llnd a market for tho products of those re sources. A nation that produces more than it consumes must make a profit on its surplus production or quit produc ing. A nation that abandons tho search for profit on its labor must aban don tho idea of progress. A nation that abandons the idea of progress must deteriorate. A nation that deterior ates must dio. Legitimate, commer cial development, theroforo, is an es sential part of our national life. As a nation wo have other responsibilities. Whon a neighboring power challenges us to war Iu a proper causo, wo must fight. Iu preservation of our national valor, wu must triumph. As wo pro ceed wo must jilant our colors. And when our national iiitdguia is once planted wo must protect it. Would lloosovolt's critics do otherwise? If ho, they aro cowardsl The charge that much latitude is given to tho prosecuting attorney and tho chief of police iu tho regulation of tho gambling evil, as at present con ducted, is true; but iu whoso hands could wo better place such a responsi bility? Thoy havo already shown that they aro capable of turning a greater volume of revenue into tho city treas ury on this scheme than was formerly accounted for officially; ami it is also noted that tho "vice" 1ms not increased iu volume or been intensified in form. Let common souse cope with tho gam bling industry awhile. It will bo seen, eventually, that, under tho pres ent system, wo will havo fowor dens and dives defiant of authority ami mom money iu tho treasury as a conso quonco. The forces that will participate in the contest In next wiutei'a session of our legislature are already being mar shalled. The senatorial fight will bo paramount. There aro nine candidates for Senator Mollrido's place includ ing MoUrldo himsolf. It is a big place, but is largo euougli for only one of theso aspirants, Ho should bo a big man who is chosen to fill it no make shift trotted out of tlio dark-horso barn as a compioiuldo on something better. There are not many men in this state who ought to go to tho United States senate. Tho question as to which of these shall be chosen will precipitate one of the hottest senatorial caiupaigus the state has over known an. I that is saying a good deal. We permittod our missionaries to go a step too far in China, The Chinese rebels have gone n stop too far in repel ling them. War, bloody, butohorous and devilish, is the result. Iu re sponse to a grain of toleration our 111 bio pathmakers took moro than an ounce of courage; aud now they aro iu , . THE KEV ?AGE. PORTLAND. OREGON. a pock of trouble and they have dragged tho nation In. with them. All this dirty linen, which has remain ed in he bag for so msay years, is now being washed in -tho precious blood of tho bravest son's of civilhca tlon. .& Tlio Boors nro gradually and surely taking to tho ambush. J-"58-1" Into Is sealed. Tho force of tho powder of civ ilization a force with which thoy Imvo so long resisted tho attack of aris tocracy in cominerco has proved too destructive of tho Bturdyr little repub lic. Its promoters yiolrtV Thoso of them who llvo will bow to tho mon archy that has overwhelmed them. Hut thoy will riso again, and again tho good peoplo of South Africa will estab lish n ropublic. Current history is replete wjth para doxts of civilization. Republics aro giving way to tho' progress of monarch ical government and monarchies aro yielding to tho prowess oj iropubllcrl. Different forms of worship mark tho dif ferent forms of progress or. retrogres sion. In all this Hooting show of worldly patriotism, commercial ad vautago Is the koynoto. Religion is no longor a sacred Bcutimouti It is an article of barter for gold and1 territory. Woro tho element of religious fanat icism eliminated from tho Chluoso oiii brogllo, thoro would be no war, no up rising of Hoxers, no barbarous butch ery, no savago assassiimtipn of foreign ers. When men and women seek to mako profltablo commerco'of their re ligion, it is high tinio to behead thorn or, at least, to oxClude "thorn from the territory in which thoy attempt their worthless flimflam. Tho Chlncso aro not all heathons. Kx-Oovernor Altgold, pf Illinois, continues to involvo publlo notoriety by attacking Theodore Roosevelt. Ho reminds Tho Now Ago of ,tho kottlo that persists in calling tho pot black. Ho is a noisome old blathorsklte whom no intelligent votor respocts. - Ho talks only for tho delegation of; anarchists, of Whom he is tho chlof in tho Sucker state. ' Mrs. Young, of Los Angoles, accom panied by her daughter, Miss, Logau, is stopping at Mrs. II. MUIun. Thir teenth and Davis streots. . For first-class grocorios call at 404 Gllsan street. Tho vory host of coffees iiijd teas always on hand at tlio vory lowest prices. II. A. Howard, prop. Mrs. II. C. Wilbur, popular phre nologist, palmist and psychlo card roader, First and Morrison, has suc ceeded remarkably in acquiring a rep utation for extraordinary power in her work. Sho will treat you most couit eouslv. charge you most reasonably and you will find that her proinlsos will bo fulfilled. To every colorod person iu tho stato of Oreuon who will give ins or lier an dress to Mr. C. A. Hitter, our city agont, who will Iniinoliately mako a canvass on that mission, The Now Ago will bo sent, free of charge, for tho uoxt six mouths following this data. A. 1). GRIFFIN, Malinger. The only reputable clotblor In the city who guarantees satisfaction on every purchase made iu his houso is "Sol," tho ono prlco clother, huttor and furnlihor, at U!i and 116 Third streot. Seo his ud in this issue. F.verythlng ho sells is ilrst-olaHs in stylo, manufacture and quality. Moiioy refunded to any dissatisfied purchaser. A BIG CONCERN ENLARGED. Irlriii I'oinlllloii of Newly .Organ lifit Wllliuiicitti Iron Jt Sleet Work. Tho Willainotto Irou & Steol Works, since its reorganization some mouths ago, is ouo of tho most aotivo and pros poious concerns of its kind on the coast. Its already extensive plant has boon much enlargod, olaborato maohiuory added aud a now structure erooted on tho location of tho old one, on tho corner of Third and Glisau, This improved condition Is duo to tho personnel of tho now eonipauy. Hon. Henry W. Corbett Is presideut, William II. Corbett vice-president, Jumes Lotan, manager, and W. T. Stephens, secretary. These are not now names to tho busluess public of the coast. Mr. William 11. Corbett, tho eutor prising vlco-piosident, is one of tho most active participants in the promo tion of the aflairs of the company. Ho is a young man of acknowledged execn tivn ability in large busiuess affairs, aud possesses a keen senso ol respousl bility and an acuto perception of tho needs of such an extensive niumifact til ing enterpilse. Tho potency of his personal etTort in promoting the inter ests of tho Willamette lrou & Steol Works is manifest in that great con cent's prosperous condition today. A number of largo contracts are now test ing tho full capacity of the worku and many now contracts have icceutly been made. No institution of its claw in the Northwest is now more admirably and powerfully equippeil for boiler making, machine and .general foundry work than is tho newly organized Wil lametto Iron & titoel Works. MINING NEWS OF BIO PLANT FOR HECLA. fwant? Drill Compressor and Z.arga Holit Uolns In. Burke, Idaho, August 9. Tho Heola mino, near here, on Canyon creek, in tho Coeur d'Alenes, which reently paid its first dividend of $20,000, has under way extensive improvements. The company is putting in a plant for its oventnal operation at 2, COO feet depth. This plant would includo two 400-horso power boilers a compressor plant with a capacity of 20 drills and a hoist that could oporate the mino to the 2500-foot level Tho installation' of those im provements has been under way for some time. Tho largo buildings for the rocoption of tho plant aro practical ly completed tho boilorB aud compressor are on tho ground and tho work of put ting them in placo is going on rapidly. It Is expected ihut the outire new plant will bo in oporatiou by Septcm bet 1. In tho moantlmo the work of developing tho mino is going forward rnpldly and about 1,000 tons of concen trates a month arc being shipped. Tho main Bhaft iu which tho big hoist will bo operated is to bo sunk to tho full 2, GOO foot, though operations will not bo coufinod to this work. Tho ore bod ies will bo opened and mined at the successive levels as depth is attained. JO OPERATE THE HEADLIGHT. Coeur it'Alnnn Troperty of Iteumrkable Printline to lie Worked. Wallace Idaho, August 0. Tho Head light Mining Company will coon lot a contract for the running of a 600-foot crosscut ttinnol to tap its vein 400 foot bolow tho surface. Tho property Hob immediately west of tho Mammoth and covers tho same vein. It will bo oponod by a crosscut ttinnol half way up tlio mountain sido from Canyon crook to tho cropping of tho ledgo, out ting about 1,500 feet west of tho Mam moth where there is a blow-out, indi cating oro below. No work of conso quonco has over bcou dotio on it, al though ore has beeii found near tho sur face iu two or three different placos. It has been held foryoaraby somo pros pectors who wero not willing to part with it at any prlco which mining men wero willing to pay. Iowa Capital In Ifooilon. Palouso, .Wash:, August 0. W. J. Springer, of Now Hampton, la., writes from there that he 1ms sooured capital to work tho Rluo Bird and eight claims In the Hoodoo district. Ho has em ployed M. W. Truax as mauagorof the mino and authorized him to boglji work at once and push development. Mr. Truax put a doublo shift to work and tho property will bo thoroughly dovolopod. The Illue lllrd is a cdpper property showing high values, and now that capital has been, soenred to dovelop it is expected to be come a valuable producer. James Malone reports a rich strike in tho Elk creek disrlot in Idaho on Breakfast creek. Tho rock carrios good values iu gold and copper. STRIKE ON SILVER MOUNTAIN. Another "Here Chance" Fortune Stum bled Onto In Canada. Spokane, August 0. The Thompson boys have mada a good strike on the Silver Mountain claims, in tho Slocau district. Aftor long prospoctlng, Rusa Thompson stumbled upou a vory II no looking lodgo. This was exploited farther with tho result that ono of tho fluost surface showings of galouu oro over shown in the camp was uncovered. It In frnni six to 18 inches across aud chunks- of oro weighing httudreds of pounds can be taken out with a p ick. Threo claims aro ombracod in tho group, tho Slufl,.Atwood and World. PRESTON PEAK COPPER MINE. Uevolepment Work I llelnc I'mhed on That l'ropertjr. Ashland, Or. August 0. Tho Ash laud Tidings says that Schoonover & Young, New York capitalists, repre sented by Henry Phillips, havo spent $160,000 in tho development of tho Preston Teak copper mines. Work is being pushed on a 200-foot drift. Tho rook is very hard. Some of tho ore as says 22 per ceut in copper, $4 in gold and a truco in sulphur. OREGON WONDER TO START. Contract to Run a Tunnel Will He Let at Ouoe. Prairie City, Or., August 0. P. J. Morey aud Klmer Cleaver have gono to tho Oregon Wonder mine and will at once let a contract tor running SOO feet of tunnol on the mine, to be completed with all possible haste. New Company at Wallace. Wallace, Idaho, August 9. The Cathella Miniug aud Milling Company has filed articles of incorporation at Wallace. G. A. Cunningham, Patrick Sullivan, Adam O'Dinuell. J. W. Weyor and Joseph F. Whelan aro tho incorporators and directors, Wallace Is the principal place of business and the capital stock of $50,000 is divided into 1,000,000 shares. Klondlkeloid Shipment. Seattle, August 0. Gold shipments through Skagway from the great Klon dike camp to the outside world this season have reached iu round numbers more than 7,000,000. BRIGHT CARBONATE MINE. t'roperly In the (Ireeuhoru UUtrlot That Look flood. Pendleton, Or., August 0. Parties from tho Bright Carbonate, located iu the Greeuhoru mountains, near Law ton, and owned by George Darveaux, Hemy Kopittke, Frank Duprut, Jobu Siebert and others, of Pendleton, re port a rich strike in that mine iu the face of tlio 160-foot tunnel. The vein lias been penetrated 2la feet aud shows high values. NEARBY STATES 8LOCAN IS ON THE JUMP. Nearly All the Mlnee Are Again Ship ping; Ore. Sandon, B. 0., Auguit 9. Nerly all the mines around Sandon are shipping again. Tho Idaho sent out C00 tons in July of high grade ore, and will do bet ter in AugUBt. The Payno shipped about 1,200 tons in July, and has paid its quarterly dividend of 3 per cent. The Truth, Queon Boss, Whitowator, Slocan Star and Rambler-Cariboo aro regular ship pers. Tho Ruth mill in Sandon is running doublo shift aud the company is put ting in two moro Whifloy tables, thoso doing bottoi work than tho round tablos. It is shipping about 200 tons of good grado concentrates per mouth; Sandon is building up rapidly. About 000 nieu are on pay rolls iu aud aiound Sandou. PLANS FOR GOLDEN ZONE. Capacity Will Boon Itn 100 Tout of Ore Dally. Loomis, Wash., August 9. At tho Goldon Zono plans havo been com pleted for increasing the capacity of tho mill to 100 tous daily. 'J lie neces sary machinery has been ordorod and tho work of addiug to tho preveut mill structure for its accomodation hegiufl at once. The Goldon Zona is so thoroughly opened up that it will bo able to supply the daily mill run with a minimum force. Continuous dovol onmetit of tho oro bodies will go stead- Jly forward though thoro is moro than 100,000 tons of oro in sight. Tho management proposes toinrreitso tho capacity of tho mill from its profits until it can treat 500 tous daily. Thnt a mino of this uharactor could in three yours bo brought to such a high stago of development, show quantities of oro aud bo scarcely known outside oi tlio district tolls tho story of the quallt, of work being dono at a dozen properties in the I'almor Mountain district. Mill runs up to dato have averaged nbout .$10 per ton, and this is probably a good averago of the mine. Hllver KIiie AruIii doing. Soattlo, August 9. Captain Gilford, who has been appointed mine juauitgor of tho reorganized Hall Mining and Smelting Company, proposes to justify tho faith which ho has had in tho Sil ver King as ono of tho great mines of British Columbia. He has an exten sive program mo of dovolopmont mapped out and within a short tlmo ho oxpouts to havo 600 men at work iu tho com pany's property. A small force will go-to the mine aud got things iu shape. Electric power instead of steam power may operate the mine inachinory aud possibly tbo smelter. Kellwm'a Camp I Next. Helena, Mont., August 9. W. Rel iant and J. D. Bone, two Montana pros pectors, own a group of six claims on tho oastern slopo of Eureka mountain, two and ono half miles from Grand Forks, B. 0., that aro attracting con siderable attention, and aro regarded us of considerable promise. Thero is a well-dofiuod quartz ledgo on tho La couiu. It averages about 20 inches wide. A shaft has been suuk to a depth of 25 feet. The foot wall is in granito. Assay returns gavo small values in gold and copper aud it is ox poctod tbat they will improve with dopth. FAMOUS MONUMENTAL MINE. Likely to Start Up With a flood Force or Men. Bakor City, Or. August 9. It is currently reiortod that tho once famous Monumental mino, oight miles north of Granito, now idle for fivo years, is to bo started up shortly with a farco of 100 mou. C. S. Miller, the principal owner of this property, will neither confirm nor douy tho report. Nnrthweit Notes. Johu P. Yollmoi is erecting a largo grain warohouso at Geuossoo, Idaho. A hail storm is reported to have shat tered 5,000 bushols of grain near Ox ford, Idaho. The people of Genosseo, Idaho, havo askod for a special election to vote on tho subjoat of a waterworks system, Forost fires aro still raging in the White Pino district, Idaho, although a largo force of men is at work tryiug to chock the flames. B. Gieda, a sheepman of Coudou, Or., died recently in Texas, from con sumption. He leaves considerable property. The O. R. & N. Co.'s gaug of track layers has completed its job of puttiug down heavjr rails on tho branoh from La Grande to F.lgiu, Or. The Albany, Or., ico faotory, "al though running night and day, is un able to supply the demand, and a car load of ico was brought up from Oregon City ou the 5th. The Toledo, Or., Leader reports a sample of "pieplant" or rhubarb, grown iu that town, whoso leaf is 21 feet iu circumference, and whose stalk is soven iuchos iu diameter. Forest tiros ure raging noar Medical Lako, Wash. Colfax, Wash,, is threatened with a water famine. Kx-Senator Warner Miller, of Now York, was recently iu Spokane. He Id c.lifl tfl lit. f41llntflA1tftfi 1.'atlla Pulta I with a view to transmitting eleotiic power to Kopumic. There are 200,000 sheep in Wallowa couuty, Oregon. An unknown man committed suicide in a variety theater at Spokane the night of August 4. Thero was nothing in his clothing to identify him, and ' his body lay all day in an undertaker's without being recoguized HOSTS AWE PLAINLY VISIBLE. Bease People ConattUUd that Tkar 8a Baperaataral Belasra. There la no doubt that a person may apparently see objects and bear words which another person close by cannot seo and hear. Such impressions are to be referred not to actually existing ob jects, but to tho action of tho subject's nlnd. Dr. Abercromby tells us of ono patient who could, by directing his at tention to nn idea, call un to sight the appropriate Imago or scene, though tho thing called up wero an object ne nau never seen but had merely Imagined. When meeting a friend In tho street ho eould not bo sure whether the appear ance was his friend or a spectral Illu sion till ho had tried to touch It and had heard tlio voice. Goethe saw an exact counterpart of himself advancing to ward bini, an cxporlenco repeated by Wilklo Collins. Sir Walter Scott re lates that soon after the death of Lord Byron ho read nn account of tho de ceased poet. On stepping Into the hall immediately after ho saw right beforo him, In a standing posture, tho exact representation of his departed friend, whose recollection had been so strongly brought to his Imagination. After stop ping a moment to noto the extraordin ary resetnblanco ho ndvanced toward It aud the figure gradually disappeared. Somo of tho caBes narrated by Sir David Brewster aro particularly In structlrc. The subject was a lady (Mrs. A.) nnd her hallucinations wore carefully studied by her husband and Sir David. On ono occasion she saw her husband, as she thought, who had gone out half an hour before, standing within two feet of her in tho drawing room. Sho was astonished to recelvo no response when she spoke to him. Sho remembered that Sir David had told her to press one eyeball with tho finger wheu the Impression of any real object would be doubled. Sho tried to apply the test, but tho flguro walked. away and disappeared. Tho slmplo scientific exnerlment diverted tier at tention from tho creation of her mind. and this, no longer being In sole posses sion, could not maintain Itself nnd was dissolved. Another hallucination took tho form of her dead slstcr-tu-law. Tho Qguro appeared In n dress which Mrs. A. had never seen, but which had been described to her by n common friend. Westminster Rovlcw. HIS FIRST FIRE ASSIGNMENT. Excuae of a New Reporter for Netjlect ing Duty. "Say, hustle down to tho stock yards right nway," said tho city editor to tho new reporter. "There's a tiro down there. It limy turn Into something big, hut even If It doesn't wo want a good little story on It anyhow." Tho new reporter shot out of tho door, with perspiration starting at every pore. Tho tiro did not turn ont to bo n great conflagration, so no moro reporters were sent down to the yards to tako care of It. Tho city editor de pended upon his new man for tho story. But for somo uuaccountablo reason tho reporter failed to return to tho office ind tho paper hud to go to press with jut tho nccount of tbo fire. Tho next day about noon tho now man strolled leisurely Into the ofllco jutlrely unprepared for tho tbunder itorni that broko over his head ns noon is tho city editor caught sight of him. "Say, what tho dickens Is tho matter with you nuybow?" said tho editor. "Why didn't you write up that flro that I told you to?" "Why," gasped tho youth, "thero wasn't any uso to wrjto It up; every body was thero and saw It." Chicago Ohroulcle. Born Among tlio UulrushcH. There Is n variety of grebo (colymbus minor) which hatches its young on a regular raft. Its nest is a mass of ttroiiL- stems of auuutlc plants closely fastened together. These plants con tain a considerable quantity or air iu, their cells aud set free gases In tbo process of decaying. The air auu tno gases imprisoned In the plant make tbo nest lighter than water. The bird usu ally sits quietly on Its eggs, but If any lutruder approaches or any dauger Is feared tho mother plunges ono foot Iu tho water and, using It as a paddle, transports her floating nest to a dis tance, often dragging along with It a iheet of water plants. A naturalist who frequently watched this remark able removal says: "Tho wholo struc- Lturo looks like a little floating Island carried along by the labor of tne greue, which moves in tho center of a mas of verdure." Cincinnati Enquirer. Prlmitlvo Methods tn Core. Individual missionaries and mechan ics have trained Corean carpenters iu tho uso of American tools, but as a rulo they prefer their old-stylo planes, which they draw toward them in plan ing, and llko best to use tneir own saws, which necessitate the employ ment of two meu sitting opposite each other on tbo ground and operating the saw on tho stick or timber, wntcn is held lu placo by the feet of the opera tors. In suite of theso apparently clumsy methods the Corean carpentera do very fair work. Tho Chinese Vosurt System. The postal system of the Chinese em pire is still In a prlmitlvo condltiou. It Is carried on under the direction of tho minister of war by means of post carts and runners. Thero are 8,000 offices for post carts In tho eighteen provinces, and there aro 2.040 offlcea for runners scattered over tho empire. There aro also many private postal couriers, and during tho winter the foreign customs office maintains a ser vice between Fekin and the outposts. Every time a thoughtful man looks around his house be sees purchases that convince blm be has been a tooj with his money. s - -. 4.W.J flfe t S-s4fVj"j