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DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
PORTLAND, Feb. 11. S P. M. Maximum
Temperature. 3S: minimum temperature. 34;
height of river at 11 A. M.. 2.3; change In the
pait M hour?, 0.7; precipitation today, T.; pre
elpltatlon from. September 1. 1K4 (wet reason),
xo date, 18.04: average. CO.iil: deficiency. 10.K.';
number hours of sunshine Sunda, S:41; ros
JUe number. 10:15.
WEATHER SYNOPSIS.
It Is evident, from a rise of the barometer in
California and a decided fall oer Washington,
that the storm on the coast is moving north
ward. Heavy rain fell in California during the
past 24 hours. Heavy rain alro fell in South
western Oregon, which likely indicates that
heavy rnow fell and is falling in the Slsklyous.
Snow or join will likely fall generalU In Ore
jon and Washington during the succeeding CO
WEATHER rORECASTS.
Forecasts made at Portland for the 24 hours
ending at midnight February 12:
For Eastern Oregon, Washington and North
ern Idaho Snow and warmer, with brisk to
high southerly winds; gales on the coast.
For Western Oregon Snow or rain and warm
er, with brisk to high southerly winds; gales on
the coast.
For Southern Idaho Fair weather and warm
er, with light to fresh variable winds.
For Portland Snow or rain and warmer, with
irjsh to brisk southerly ivinds.
B. S. PAGUE. Local Forecast Official.
J'ORTLAXD, TUESDAY, FEB. 12;.
COIX AXD GOLD.
It has been proven by the event that
It is not necessary that congress should
authorize an issue of "gold bonds," in
order to get gold from Europe. The
leason is that gold is the actual money,
the recognized standard; that gold
passes in the transaction, and it is not
doubted ithat gold will be repaid. Bonds
Issued under the resumption act are
necessarily gold bond's, because the
money standard at the time of the
passage of that act was gold, and gold
was, the only coin authorized to be is
sued by the mints except, of course,
theJsiibsldlary coins that could be used
only in small transactions.
It Is understood that this is the rea
Bon why Reed insisted so strenuously
that it was quite sufficient that the
bonds should be "payable in coin."
Gold would be understood, gold would
be received and gold would be paid
back. It would be a gold transaction
throughout, and could be no other;
hence it was needless to get into a
wrangle over the effort to express in
terms -what already existed ' in fact.
Tor such effort, would only provoke a
controversy and struggle with the sil
ver men, and if it should carry, it
would make the status of the bonds
no more secure, because the gold stand
ard actually exists, and will be main
tained, in any event.
This is sound reasoning, no doubt;
and yet the question remains whether
we dp not owe it to ourselves, in view
of the constant effort to force the coun
try to the silver basis, to declare in
unequivocal terms of law that these
great transactions are on the gold ba
sis, that maintenance of the gold stand
ard is the policy of the country, and
thereby add the force of such a decla
ration to the remedies necessary for the
cure of the illusion and delusion about
that mythical impossibility called
"double standard."
XOX-IXTERFEREXCE. XOT ARBITRA
TIOX. International arbitration is a pretty
speculative theory, but its general ap
plication is attended with serious diffi
culties. So far in the history of the
world, no nations have seen their way
clear to enter into a permanent agree
ment to submit all differences that
might arise between them to arbitra
tion. Application of the principle has
been limited to specified cases, upon a
clear understanding of the questions to
be decided and the rules to be followed
in each. The principle is not likely to
receive farther extension in practice.
Certain members of the English par
liament have devised a plan of general
arbitration by which all the great na
tions are to agree to submit to this judi
cature all differences which may arise
among them, and a special effort is
malting to induce the American con
gress to take up the notion. This has
succeeded so far that Senator Sherman,
with less than his usual foresight, has
Introduced a resolution authorizing the
president to negotiate a general arbi
tration agreement with Great Britain.
Mr. Gresham, it is said, without wait
ing for this authorization, has begun
to negotiate such a treaty with the
British minister.
Of all the follies of Gresham's admin
istration of foreign affairs, this is the
silliest and most mischievous. It aban
dons our traditional policy of non-interference
in European affairs, and of
jealous resentment of European med
dling in American affairs; not to as
sume a strong and independent position
in the family of nations, with power to
consult our own interest in alliances
and in conflicts, diplomatic or other,
but to cripple ourselves by agreement
to submit to a court in which we are
sure to be outvoted on all questions
concerning us which may arise in
either. It is certain that Mr. Gresham's
folly will not be imitated by the sen
ate, and the sooner he drops it the
better for his own credit.
We have nothing to gain, but every
thing to lose, by joining an European
combination for diplomatic settlement
of international disputes. We do not
want to participate in the settlement
of European disputes, either in that
continent or in Asia. Gresham's med
dling in Armenia and Japan was con
trary to American tradition and Amer
ican interest. Even if we had any in
terest in these concerns, we should
have no power in their settlement, hav
ing only one vote in a congress of Eu
ropean powers all having more in com
mon with each other than any one
with us. These powers are desirous to
draw us into a barren concert with
them as to European affairs, to have
a pretext for interference in American
affairs, where they would outvote us
six to one.
It ought to be understood clearly and
once for all that, as European affairs
are settled by the European powers,
without aid or interference from us, so
American affairs always will be settled
by concert among American nations,
without asking aid or permitting inter
ference from Europe. In these affairs,
the United States will exercise its nat
ural weight oi influence, and never will
submit that this should be reduced or
overshadowed by introducing the dom
inance of an European concert, under
whatever specious mask of general
arbitration.
mounting, slates of the regulation size,
etc, etc., the aggregate forming in
many instances a staggering load for
a stout boy of 10 or 12 years. While no
one wishes to return to the old days
in the little red schoolhouse, when two
children of the same family shared the
same books, and these in turn descend
ed to the next installment sent out
from the family hearth, many over
burdened parents sigh with reason for
an educational system that shows some
regard for economy in the matter of
ordering, discarding and changing the
school text-books.
for twenty-fouf-hours, while two were
taken alive from their frigid perch
after maintaining the light against the
elements for forty hours. The story
presents almost a. miracle of human en
durance, while the constant efforts of
the crew of the Lone Hill life-saving
station to rescue the seamen presented
an admirable combination of courage
and humanity. The instinct that makes
a human being cling to life receives its
strongest exemplification under such
conditions, and is in itself a marvelous
feature of the recital.
' THOMAS PAIXE.
The Oregonian has received a long
letter in reply to Dr. Locke's sermon
on Thomas Paine. The letter has abil
ity and vigor, but it is written hastily,
with blunt pencil, on sheets furnished
for brief messages by the Western
Union Telegraph Company; and The
Oregonian is compelled to say that it
cannot handle matter written in such
form, and In so hasty and slovenly a
manner. Before the editor could send
suoh matter to the compositors he
would be compelled to rewrite It, for
their time could not be consumed in
deciphering, arranging and punctuat
ing it; nor does the editor want to
Hpend time in editing the matter, and
money in employing a typewriter to
put.lt In legible form. When one writes
for the press he should use fair paper,
and put his matter in just the form in
which he would have it appear in print.
It is not too much to require this of
those persons who write on historical
and literary topics. Those who do not
attempt to write on such topics, but
ancrely offer statements as to facts or
vvents under their own observation,
cannot be held to this rule. But surely
the writer who attempts to deal with
problems of literature, history and phi
losophy should be expected to put his
work in caieful form before he offers
it to the press.
To The Oregonian it seems of little
Importance whether Thomas Paine had
improper relations with another man's
wife or not, though doubtless he had;
of little importance whether he was an
excessive drinker or not, though doubt
less he was. Any inquiry as to Paine
is. to The Oregonian. a question of a
very different kind. Paine was an agi
tator, an innovator, useful, in a way,
for his time, yet little deserving the
regard of posterity. His work as a
jHtmphleteering partisan of the Ameri
can revolution is the basis of the exces
sive admiration for his so-called theo
logical works in America. Yet these
works are shallow, and if now printed
for the first time would get no atten
tion whatever. The Oregonian, as its
readers well know, dissents in many
ways from Christian dogma, but it has
small patience with the coarseness and
flippancy of Paine. Religion is an abid
ing and necessary force in the world,
and Christianity, though subject to evo
lutionary changes, and not the same
-'thing; therefore, from age to age, has
been the highest form or expression of
religion these many centuries, and
probably will be during many centuries
more. The world could not do without
lt and yet the world will pass on,
through Christianity, to other expres
sions of religious feeling and thought
and fervor, which, however, Christian
ity will profoundly affect and largely
control. This Is what Paine and men
THE MAX BEIIIXD THE GCX.
Modern improvements In means of of
fense and defense in war, high-power
guns and high explosives, armor for
ships and forts, and all the devices that
make war a complicated science, leave
untouched the fundamental fact that it
is the man behind the gun that decides
battles. This Is just as true on the
modern warship as it was on the Greek
galley. Human vigor and skill and
daring win battles, not costly ships,
great guns and thick armor. This
basic truth may be forgotten in the fine
spun theorizing of peace, but it is
brought back sharply by the practical
experience of war.
Only fragmentary accounts have been
received of the siege and capture of
Wei-Hal-Wel by the Japanese, but even
these upset a lot of peaceful theories.
It has been taught in books that a
harbor can be defended against a hos
tile fleet by torpedoes and that land
forts are impregnable to naval attack.
The Japanese respected this theory at
Port Arthur. Their fleet kept at a re
spectful distance until the land forces
had occupied the town. But the situa
tion of Wel-Hai-Wei made its complete
reduction from the land side tedious
and difficult. The most Important forts
were on an island in the bay, and the
Chinese fleet could be reached only by
running under the guns of these island
forts and by breaking through a line
of torpedoes drawn across the mouth
of the harbor. After two or three main
land forts had been taken, the fleet
had to do the rest.
The fleet did the work, in spite of
theories. It crossed the line of torpe
does somehow, probably in the spirit of
Farragut's "Damn the torpedoes! Go
ahead!" at Mobile bay, though the Jap
anese language is said to be destitute
of expletives. Torpedo-boats crept into
the harbor, sinking one Chinese war
ship after another. Then cruisers fol
lowed, engaging the land forts day af
ter day, until, in some way not yet
made clear, they prevailed. There can
be no plainer contradiction than this of
the theory that ships cannot reduce
forts, since these were not even battle
ships, but unarmored cruisers, working
in the dead of winter, in an icy and
stormy sea.
There is only one explanation of this
victors, and that is the explanation of
the victor," of Salamis, of Lepanto, of
Howard over the Armada, of Trafalgar,
of Mobile bay, of Lissa. and of the
Yalu estuary. However unevenly the
scales of war balance in theory, that
falls in practice into which force and
courage are thrown. The Japanese had
everything against them but the weight
of fighting men. As Farragut steamed
past the Mobile forts, as Tegethoff
hurled his wooden hulks against Italian
ironclads, their commander staked vic
tory or defeat on pure vigor and daring
and won. Wci-Hal-Wei and the Chi
nese fleet yielded, not to weaker ships,
fewer guns and a feebler torpedo fleet
than their own, but to the men behind
the guns.
GREAT OCEAX DISASTERS.
Ocean disasters, though relatively in
frequent during the past twenty-five
years, have yet caused a heavy loss of
life and property. Marine architecture
and nautical skill have grown with the
growth of the century. In keep
ing pace with the needs of the
age the first has so amplified its
plans of construction as to provide for
carrying large numbers of people bn a
single vessel, while reducing the prob
ability of shipwreck to the minimum.
Great steamships have been built and
fitted up at enormous cost, and. though
they are navigated with a skill that
makes the possibility of disaster rela
tively slight, the loss both in life and
values in the event of wreck is enor
mous. The latest example of this is fur
nished by the total loss of the steamer
Elbe, with nearly SCO people. Other
great ocean disasters in the last
twenty-five years include the wreck of
the Ville de Havre in midocean in 1S73,
with 225 persons; that of the German
packet Schiller in 1S73, with 331; of the
ship Princess Alice on the Thames in
1S7S, with 650; of the Utopia in 1S91, with
574; of the British training-ship Euryd
ice in 1S7S, with 300; of the German
warship Grosser Kurfurst in 1878, with
COO; of the liner Atlantic in 1S73, with 560;
and of the British warship Victoria in
1S90, which, after a collision in maneu
vering with another vessel of the Medi
terranean fleet, capsized, carrying 400
men down with her.
The aggregate loss of life in these dis
asters is nearly 4000, while minor dis
asters like that of the loss of the Bok
hara in 1892, with 125 men; the Rou
mania in the same year, with 113, and
the Naronic last year, with all on
board, the exact number not being
known, swells the count to half as
many more. While it is evident from
these records that man's dominion over
the sea is not complete, the fact that
hundreds of thousands have made the
transit of the oceans in safety proves
his power. Collision, which is classed
as one of the avoidable causes of ship
wreck, has been responsible for the
greater number of these disasters.
Skillful navigators, with staunch and
well-equipped vessels, find in the com
bined forces of the elements cause for
added vigilance, but not. for alarm.
Hence, although the Atlantic ocean
has been beset with gales and swept
by tempests for many days, but little
apprehension is felt for the safety of
overdue vessels. Baffling winds may
delay a modern steamship, but there is
small probability that they will wreck
it; disabled machinery may cause its
detention, but with the engineering and
mechanical skill that is a part of it3
equipment, ready to make the most of
the power left and see that it does not
become further impaired, there is every
reason for the hope that detention will
be the most serious result of such an
accident As to collision, the ocean
path Is so well charted and ocean tran
sit has become so thoroughly system
atized that this crowning catastrophe
In navigation is scarcely considered as
among the probabilities of mid-ocean
experience.
President Cleveland will, it is said,
make it a point of official honor to pro
vide Representative Wilson, who will
soon be ex-Representative Wilson, with
a life situation. It is expected that, in
aid of this purpose, congress will pass
a bill retiring Justice Jackson, Presi
dent Harrison's democratic appointee to
the supreme bench, because of physical
disability, in which case Mr. Wilson
will get a chance to display his ability
as a jurist. If this prediction is ful
filled, it may be, hoped. In the interest
of justice to .litigants, that he will show
to better advantage in that capacity
than he has a& a statesman.
to recognize them, and at Mr. Heard's re
quest the Breckinrldges were assigned to
seats at another table
Alexander Dumas is no greenhorn in busi
ness matters. When his publisher offered
him $100 for "L'Affalre Clemenceau," he
didn't make a scene. He simply salted
the novel down and waited for better
times. They came at last and he got $3000
for his work.
Judge Charles L. Benedict, of the United
States district court for the eastern dis
trict of Xeff York, has decided to resign,
as he had always contemplated doing
when he reached the age of 70. He will be
71 in March. He was appointed by Presi
dent Lincoln in iStw.
Mr. Harry Walters, wno now controls
the art collection left by his father, the
late William T. Walters, will follow the
latters custom of opening the galleries to
the public and giving the proceeds from
a small admission fee to the Poor associa
tion of Baltimore. Mr. Walters is now
engaged in carrying out a task which yvas
begun by his father, the publication of an
authoritative work on Oriental porcelains.
It will probably be Issued in October of
this year.
history nowhere tells when or where a
democrat ever stood out of it. or bolted
a caucus of his party. It Is poor conduct
In warfare to take advice from the enemy
Yet a few are counseling with and
listening to this very element. When the
chairman of the democratic state central
committee and democratic county com
mitteemen, and certain leading populist
advocates, take charge of republican rep
resentatives we think It time for repub
licans in general to wake up. We do not
condemn democrats and populists for hold
ing up false lights to allure republicans.
But we deplore that folly on the part of
republicans that permits of their being
misled by such means.
One of the best-informed American
correspondents la London is assured
that the Japanese have no thought of
making peace short of Peking ajid that
the next battlefield will be at Shan-hai-Kwan,
which" the German Von Hanne
ken has been fortifying for months.
This may easily be true, Shan-hai-Kwan
being a convenient landing place
for troops from over sea and on the di
rect line of mar:h from "New Chwang
to Peking. Moreover, it is connected
with Tien-Tsin oy the only railroad in
China.
Mr. Thurstdnjprobably is right in the
conclusion tmat the royalist rebels in
Hawaii desejre death. But the ques
tion Is not of ttMv deserts, but of the
wisest policy for the government. It
is certain that the sympathy and ap
proval of the civilized world will be in
vited by a policy as mild as consists
with safety. But the murderer of Car
ter ought to be hanged.
THE TRILBY FOOT.
SCHOOLS.
The story" of an American protecto
rate in Hawaii comes from an untrust
worthy source, and probably is pure
nonsense. The time for a protectorate
is past and the time for annexation is
not come. The republic can take care
of itself. Some time it will unite with
the United States, not for protection,
but for the cornnon good of both.
With but tlxee exceptions, the sur
vivors of the aibe disaster are officers
and sailors of the ship. All of the com
ment that ha been indulged in regard
to this fact ailght well be reduced to
the simple statement that the impulse
of self-preserration operates as strong
ly upon searen in the hour of peril as
upon the res; of mankind.
Mr. Boothy of Morrow county ex
plains to h4 constituents that "Mr.
Bourno wanted to meet him at Port
land on the-yvay to Salem to settle a
disputed point on the silver question."
And sa a question that agitated the
world ha,3, ier.may suppose, been set
tled by Mr. Bftothby and Mr. Bourne.
The course of prices in the last two
years has been curious. Of course
prices have fallen in all parts of the
world in the last year. They fell also
during the year previous in the United
States, but at the same time rose nearly
4 per cent in England. This was just
after our last presidential election.
Figures published in the London Econ
omist for Great Britain and in the
Tribune of New York for that city show
the changes in the average prices of
commodities during the two and a
quarter years that have elapsed since
our last presidential election. Taking
100 as the basis for October, 1S92, the
average of prices In England rose to
103.9 a year later. In January, 1894, the
index price fell to 101.4, and from that
point it gradually declined to 93.3 for
last December, rising slightly to 93.6
for January of this year. The average
of prices in New York sank from 100 in
October, 1S92, to 9S.S a year later, and
96.1 in January, 1894. So far the move
ment was in direct opposition to that
in Great Britain, the rise there and the
fall here being due, in all probability,
to expectation of the effect of new tariff
legislation. In 1894, prices fell together.
In the United States the average fell
to 92.1 for last April and reacted to 92.8
for July. There was a reaction to 93.7
for October, but the slight improvement
of tone did not last long. The price
average again turned downward, and
for the last month it was only 90.9 for
New York, the decline since the elec
tion of November, 1S92, having been
9 per cent, or one-eleventh part of the
figure for the month preceding that
election. The total fall in this country
from October, 1S92, was nearly 3 pei
cent greater than that in Great Britain
for the same time. This is not far from
the percentage of increase produced In
English prices by the same legislation
that depressed ours. That is, about
one-fourth of the loss of our producers
Is England's gain and is due to demo
cratic tariff legislation.
Nearlja OJ-oung women appeared
at a designated hall in New York re
cently in answer to an advertisement
for living pictures and chorus girls.
And still the dearth of good housemaids
continues.
The semi-annual scramble for school
books took place in the city book stores
yesterday in accordance with the regu
lar edict of the system and the plans
of the book trust. As a result, some
hundreds of children are each equipped
with the regulation number of blanks
i in due form and of acceptable tint and
The expense of maintaining the mili
tia in. Brooklyn during the street-car
strike" is estimated at about $10,000 a
day. This item, large as it is, is only
one in the expense account resulting
from permitting a mob to run riot in a
city. It is estimated that the actual
expense occasioned by the strike is not
less than a million and a quarter dol
lars, while not a single principle has
been established by the men nor a
single right vindicated. The taxpayers
of Brooklyn and Kings county will have
to liquidate the bills of putting down
the riot, while the strikers' share will
foot up in loss of wages which in the
aggregate is enormous, and loss of po
sition which It will take months to
regain.
The most pitiful tale of the many told
of the storm-swept Atlantic during the
present season is that of the heroic
struggle made for their lives by the
crew of the schooner Luis V. Place,
stranded several days ago on Fire
island beach. Lashed to the icy rig
ging, swept constantly by heavy seas
and beaten by fierce east winds, nine
men retained their hold upon the ropes
THE REPUBLICAN PLEDGE.
From the State Republican Platform
of Oregron, Adopted April 11, 1894.
In our state affairs we demand closest
scrutiny and economy in expenditures.
We condemn the prodigality and excess
of past legislatures, and call upon the
next legislative assembly to keep all
appropriations within limits of the
most economical administration con
sistent with efficiency. The offices of
the administrative departments of the
state have become too expensive, and
their expenses must be reduced. When
the constitution fixes the salary, only
the constitutional salary should be
raid, without additional emoluments.
The practice of employing unnecessary
clerks and of paying fees in excess of
just payment for services needed or
rendered, has become an abuse that
must be cut off, and we pledge the re
publican party to prosecution and ac
complishment of this reform. District
attorneys and other officials should be
paid fixed salaries, since payment of
fees encourages litigation and entails
upon the taxpayers heavy and needless
expense.
SEXSE ABOUT 3IOXEY.
Stnpid Uttera-ices Do a. Great Deal of
II arm.
Eugene Register.
The Oregon City Enterprise says nine
out of every ten republicans in Clackamas
county favor the retention of silver in our
monetary system. We are prepared to be
lieve that, but are amazed at the stupidlty
of an editor who has no more conception
of a great question which is agitating the
world. We believe at least ten out of
every ten men in the entire country "favor
the retention of sliver in our monetary
system." Nearly all also favor the reten
tion of gold. The only question at Issue
is which shall be base from which to
measure. Every gold-standard man fav
ors the use of gold and the coinage of as
much silver as gold, and therefore cannot
be called monometallsts. It is maintained
by some that we should not depart from
our present standard, and they are called
gold bugs, enemies of the people, etc.
Such stupid utterances as the one referred
to are of no service whatever in behalf of
our monetary system or of sliver, yet
serve to Inflame the minds of a few people
by creating false impressions.
m
PERSOXS WORTH 1CXOWIXG ABOUT.
Daniel Webster was extremely fond of
oxen, and all those on his farm knew him
by sight, and would follow him like dogs.
Lord SalisQurj turns the scales at 252
pounds in his1 boots. Mr. Gladstone, on
the other hand, weighs less than 217
pounds.
George Eliot wrote for eight years with
the same pen, and when she lost It she
bewailed her misfortune as almost too
hard to bear.
The oldest living clergyman in Ohio is
Rev. John McCloud, of Remsen's Corners,
who, at the age of 93, is still preaching
ever.' Sunday. During anti-slavery days
he took part in the "underground rail
road" movement. In politics he Is a pro
hibitionist. Breckinridge and Heard's disgraceful
row was not entirely due to words spoken
on the floor of the house. They lived at
the &ame hotel and when the Breckln
rldges first entered the dining-room they
were conducted to the same table with
Mr. and Mrs. Heard. Mrs, Heard refused
r
Thonsanils Who Think They Rexeiu
lle Da Mnnrier's Heroine.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Trilby matinees are the society rage,
and It is said that Du Maurier has re
ceived thousands of photographs from
young ladies who want to know If they
do not resemble the heroine of his charm
ing story. While these young ladles are
posing as Trilby and having their photo
graphs taken in Trilby gowns and Trilby
poses. they do not remember that Trilby's
throne was a footstool, and that the one
feature which brought Du Maurier and
Little Blllee, the Laird and Taffy to her
feet as worshipers was In fact her feet?
She was not beautiful of face, for the
artist criticised her mouth as too large
and her nose as too prominent. In face
and figure she was only an ordinary
model. Her accomplishments were very
limited, for she knew nothing of litera
ture or art; her music (until she was hyp
notized and used simply as the Instru
ment of a great musician) was limited to
the old song of "Ben Bolt," and the way
she sang It might have charmed a Sioux
Indian, but it was distracting to culti
vated musical ears. Of social accom
plishments she had none, for she was
an outcast from society, and destined to
remain so, because she had posed for
"the altogether." Trilby's morals were
no more suited to the society of America
than were her accomplishments.
Her one distinct feature of perfect
beauty was her foot. She recognized
that, and Little Blllee fell in love with it
at once. He sketcueu t on the wall
from memory, and the Laird and Taffy
looked over his shoulder as much charmed
as was the younger artist. It is not
unusual for men to go into raptures over
a woman's foot when they get a glimpse
of it. But in this modern nineteenth cen
tury my lady's boot is said to be even
more artistic than the foot which it cov
ers. Du Maurier takes that view, and
his description of Trilby's foot would in
dicate that Little Blllee, Taffy and the
Laird fell in love with the foot because
it was not like other women's feet.
It was not a Cinderella foot. It was
proportionate to her figure, and when
the three English artists saw It it had
never tried a lady's slipper or boot of any
kind. Its mistress had no ambition or
vanity of that kind. She knew that her
foot was beautiful, and she kept it so by
wearing loose carpet slippers such as
only old gentlemen who have retired from
society wear In this country. She was
proud of the breadth and length as well
as the arch of her foot, and from Du
Maurler's description it Is plain that
Trilby'3 foot could never have been
crowded into the pointed shoe which is
now so fashionable.
The young ladles who are posing fori
Trilby should not forget that her throne
was a footstool, and that her foot was
an old-fashioned Greek foot, with breadth
and length of sole such as the Creator
designed for walking. The girls of today
are not as proud of such feet as they
should be, and why shouldn't the Trilby
parties make such a girl the Trilby model?
It might spell the market for the pointed
toe boots, but it would increase tho pleas
ure of using the feet for the purpose
for which they were designed If the
real feature of Trilby's beauty should be
come a model for the women of today.
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FORCE OF COXSERVATTSM.
Cnrlounly Developed in. the English
.Mind.
Chicago Times.
Guy Fawkes seems destined to immor
tality through the profound conservatism
of the English people. Dispatches from
London say that the fourth session of the
13th parliament of Queen Victoria opened
at 2 o'clock. Previous to the opening of
the session the lord chamberlain, Lord
Carrington, accompanied by 10 yeomen
and a number of policemen, made the
customary Guy Fawkes' search of the
vaults of tho houses of parliament, in
order to see that no preparations had
been made to blow up the buildings.
James I has slept with his incestors
these many seasons. It was early in his
reign the Guy Fawkes plot was engaged
in. For more than 200 years upon the as
sembling of any parliament the first busi
ness has been that which is gone through
today as carefully as It was when Guy
Fawkes' performance was fresh In the
public mind.
Conservatism is a great potency in the
English mind, leading at times to absurd
ities' It remained for a curious Yankee
to abolish a custom for which nobody
could give an account. Visiting London,
he saw some of the horse guards at a
particular place every day regularly re
lieved, and observing no particular rea
son for their presence, he pushed his In
quiries for explanation to the headquar
ters of the army. The horse guards were
unable to cay why this guard was kept,
but concluded to ascertain wherein the
origin was, and found that some treasure
was ordered to be guarded at this particu
lar point In the reign of Charles II, and
the horse guards had been sending soldiers
to the same spot ever since.
Even when the New Zealander will have
taken his plade upon a broken arch of
London bridge to sketch the ruins of St.
Paul's he will observe a few dingy offi
cials looking through the ruins of West
minster for a repetition of Guy Fawkes'
plot.
PLU3IBIXG IX THE
Some Specimens of Plumbing: Work
in Portland.
PORTLAND, Feb. S. To the Editor.)
Judging from The Oregonian's report, the
sanitary condition of our public schools
would scarcely do credit to the aboriginal
savage. There has certainly been a great
deal of criminally faulty plumbing and
many very dangerous sanitary devices put
Into some of Portland's buildings, both
public and private.
The writer happened to visit the office
of the plumbing Inspector the other day
while several master plumbers were tak
ing an examination, and saw there dis
played for their Instruction examples of
bad plumbing taken by the inspector from
some of our buildings. To a person learned
In the craft, the sight was enough to make
each particular hair of his head stand on
end. A master workman, who through
Ignorance or desire for personal gain,
would put any of these examples into the
homes or public buildings of his fellow
citizens should be stamped as a murderer
of the innocent and unsuspecting and
treated accordingly. Among these exam
ples was a lead trap with a ventllatlon
pipe soldered to It In the right place, but
without a hole cut through under it into
the trap. This piece of criminal careless
ness was taken from a large new house
where the people had tried for months to
locate the causa of gas, and the inspector,
in sheer desperation, cut out the trap and
found that what appeared to be a ventlla-tlon-plpe
did not connect with the trap.
Another was a trap in a drain pipe from
the bottom of a bath tub. This trap was
properly ventilated, but the overflow-pipe
from the top of the tub entered the drain
below the trap, thus giving the deadly
sewer gas an unobstructed passage Into
the building. A third was a tin ventlla-tlng-plpe
extending from the end of the
drain or sewer within the building to the
roof above. This tin pipe was used where
an iron pipe should always be put In, was
run up In a partition and was found so
eaten and oxidized by the action of sewer
gas that It was full of holes, thus practi
cally making of the house a ventilator for
the sewer.
The danger to life, should such condi
tions as these, or similar, exist In any of
our schools, would be very great, and the
alarm of danger cannot be too loudly
sounded. The planning and constructing
of public buildings, especially schools,
should be entrusted only to competent
and well-trained men. Portland has ar
rived at the dignity of a. prosperous city,
and can no longer afford to entrust her
building operations to bandit craftsmen.
To protect the lives of our loved ones
from diseases Incident to bad sanitation, It
is no longer necessary to locate the lava
tories 100 feet from the school buildings.
The drain leading from the sewer to the
school building should be trapped outside
of the building; every fixture leading to It
should have Us individual trap, and all
of these traps, drain included, should have"
a ventilation-pipe running to the top of
the building to prevent the water from
syphoning out of the traps and thus al
lowing the gas free access to the building.
Each lavatory should have a large ven
tilating flue leading to the open air at the
top of the building. This flue, when heat
ed at the -base, with a small steam coil,
stove or gas Jets, will have a draft that
will draw all objectionable odors at once
from the building. Without heat this flue
Is worse than useless, for when the out
door temperature Is lower than that with
in a current of air will be found coming
down the flue and forcing the objectionable
odors, should any exist, out Into the
building.
With flrst-clas.3 modern plumbing fix
tures properly trapped, well put in, and
the whole system made absolutely tight
under the peppermint test, and the rooms
ventilated, there is absolutely no danger
In locating lavatories within our build
ings wherever found most convenient.
It is the duty of the board of education
to provide all school buildings with first
class modern sanitary applicances without
delay. We spend many thousands of dol
lars yearly to protect the lives of citizens
from outlaws and murderers. Times are
hard and money scarce, yet can we afford
to delay? Is there any department of the
city's affairs where a little money will go
so far toward protecting human lives?
Cut down some other department of pro
tection, or curtail the length of the school
year, If necessary, but let us have good
sanitarv annllances In our schools. I am
informed that the plumbing Inspector has
already condemned the sanitary equip
ment of one school building.
The city took a long stride in the right
direction when it compelled all master
plumbers to pass an examination upon
the scientific principles underlying their
trade before granting them licenses. Let
the good work go on. In the meantime
the plumbing inspector should make a
critical examination of the sanitary equip
ment of each school building to make sure
that faulty plumbing, such as above de
scribed, does not exist.
ROLPH H. MILLER,
Superintendent Construction, New City
Hall.
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Oreffon.
The February term of the circuit court
for Baker county met at Baker City yes
terday. The taxpayers of Dallas will pay a levy
of 20 mills this year for state, county.
school and city taxes.
Night skating parties on Silver lake
have been a pleasure to the young and
old of Enterprise lately.
A suit for 13 between the city of Enter
prise and a law firm of that place is piling
up costs at a rapid rate.
M. Clodfelter has been appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of D. H. Clod
felter, In Polk county, with bond fixed at
$6000.
Claims against Polk county this term of
court will probably aggregate $1500, Set
tlement with road supervisors will be the
largest Item of expense.
The enterprising citizens of Independ
ence are taking step3 to extend their
motor line to Salem. The move Is meet
ing with encouragement from the Salem
people.
Two very old deeds were presented to
the county clrk at Eugene yesterday for
record. One Is from Albert Rush to W.
H. Sheppard, and the other from the same
gentleman to John Hutchlns. They were
executed 36 years ago, and have lately
been dug up from the bottom of an old
trunk.
The GOth anniversary of the wedding of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Palmer was cele
brated at the residence of their daughter,
Mrs. W. B. Grandy. Tuesday afternoon,
at La Grande. A large number of old
friends of the aged couple attended, and
many were the reminiscences recalled of
the time when the Grand Ronde was
known only to the sturdy pioneer.
Mr. A. B. Enns. who lives one mile east
of Dallas, has a 10-acre gooseberry farm,
and this season's crop amounted to 3600
pounds of dried gooseberries. Mr. Enns
makes the berries into jelly, and he now
has an order for his entire crop. To make
the 3600 pounds of berries into jelly will
take a carload of sugar, which ha3 been
ordered. The Industry is a new one here,
but Mr. Enns thinks he will make it a
paying success.
The Albany Iron Works Company,
which has the contract for putting the
new steel cells into the county jail at Al
bany, la having the steel rolled at the
Champion Iron works at Kenton, O. It
will be shipped some time this month.
The contract was to have been completed
by March 1, but work will not be com
menced until after the March term of cir
cuit court, when the prisoners In jail will
be disposed of. Otherwise they would have
to be kept by some other county while the
work is going on.
STAXDIXG TO THEIR BACKS.
Polk County Observer.
Does it not amuse republicans to ob
serve the interest that democrats and
populists are manifesting in the sena
torial contest at Salem? There are not
enough fragments of their own party ly
ing about to merit notice, and we do not
condemn them for wanting to put their
fingers Into the republican pie. However,
It is hard to understand why any repre
sentative borne into office through a hard
fought battle against the follies of this
opposition should give ear to the voice or
petition of this element- The howl against
Senator Dolph was heard throughout the
spring campaign. Republican strength
was everywhere exerted to defend repub
licanism, such as Mr. Dolph represents.
The result was an overwhelming defeat
for antl-Dolphlsm. For months the oppo
sition was speechless, but observing the
wavering disposition of certain of our
representatives at Salem, they have re
newed the fight against the principle and
purpose through which the republicans
had triumphed. Populists dislike Dolph
because of his ultra republican views.
They ask the election of a senator who
wants to authorize the government to use
the water-falls of the United States in
running printing-presses for the issue of
51000 bills for the poor man. They believe
that God made every cataract from the
Lucklamute Falls to Niagara, and every
paper mill of the land for the sole purpose
of "making money." The democrats de
nounced the caucus and pat the bolters
1 on the back and call them heroes. Yet
Sillier and Gold.
New York World.
The unimpassloned figures of the treas
ury reports afford little basis for the cry
that there has been "discrimination against
silver" by the government.
The debt statement for January shows
that the gold coin and bars held by the
government amounted to but $97,353,000,
while the silver coin and bullion amounted
to $507,057,000. The gold certificates out
standing represent about $53,000,000, while
the silver certificates and treasury notes
of 1890 (issued for silver bullion) represent
$484,500,000.
This would seem to give silver and Its
paper representatives a very fair showing
in the money use of the metals by the
government.
In the last report of the director of the
mint the estimated stock of gold and silver
coin in the United States is as follows:
Gold, $564,758,000; silver, $496,309,000. An ex
cess of $68,000,000 for the more valuable
metal, the basis of International ex
changes, does not seem unreasonable.
With the bullion reckoned the excess of
gold is only $36,000,000.
There really does not seem to be any
lack of silver money for those uho want
It and have an equivalent of any sort to
give for it.
If Composed of Snne Men.
Prineville Review.
Some of our exchanges give it as their
opinion that no senator will be elected at
the present session of our state legisla
ture. We think differently. The opposi
tion should, and no doubt will see ulti
mately, that It can unite on no one. Un
til this fact becomes so plain tnat even
an average legislator can understand It,
thlnes are apt to remain as they are.
But when it finally dawns upon the op
position that its efforts are utterly futile,
how can it, as composed of sane men, do
otherwise than yield?
Engianil'H Methods.
St. Louis Globe-Damocrat.
During the last 10 years England has
imported $150,000,000 more- gold than It has
snorted, and In the same period has cx-
j ported $63,000,000 more of silver than it has
received. If tms country warns w go miu
the free coinage of silver It will find the
whole world ready to unload upon us.
As the matter stands England is unloadlm
silver on somebody.
AVnahinBtou.
W. W. Robertson has sold the Chehall,
Nugget to C. M. Steadman.
The second week of the Farmers' school
at Pullman opened with more than 200
names on the roll.
Mr. Barnett, of Dayton, who was sup
posed to have been drowned In the Pend
d'Oreille, has turned up alive.
The establishment of a creamery and
sugar-beet factory are the questions now
interesting the citizens of Palouse.
A small band of thieves were captured
near Medical lake Friday last, with nu
merous stolen articles in their possession.
Two thousand cattle are helng fed for
market In the vicinity of North Yakima,
and ex-Governor Mcody Is having 3000
sheep fed in Cowychee valley.
Charles A. Voorhles was recently found
guilty at Colfax of stealing a spotted
cow. valued at $40. The trial lasted nearly
a week, and the jury recommended Voor
hles to the mercy of the court.
W. W. Saunders, who was pardoned
from the Salem penitentiary by Governor
Pennoyer, has been admitted to the bar
at Spokane upon the recommendation of
George W. Belt and J. E. Fenton.
J. J. Hobman. proprietor of the Havana
Cigar factory of Seattle, waa standing at
the window of his store Saturday morning
when he heard the glass break, and a
bullet whistled clo&e by his ear. He
jumped to the door and opened it, but saw
no one.
Fred Jones was arrested Saturday at
Spokane, and taken to Spraguc. charged
with complicity In stealing cattle from
Farmer Mahan. Jones admits that he
helped Kill the cattle, but thought they
belonged to vooci, oy wnom na wu cm
ployed. A South Bend paper says: "The penin
sula's new railroad scheme has fallen
through. The Oregon Railway & Naviga
tion wanted a $10,000 subsidy, terminal
grounds, right of way, etc. The peninsula
people will glvj no such subsidy as long
as the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation serv
ice Is as excellent and accommodating as
at present."
Albert Fleetwood was In Xelso recently,
and accused his neighbor, J. F. Duggan.
of using the lash upon Mrs. Fleetwood
and her 14-year-old daughter. The trouble
originated over the ownership of a piece
of ground. Duggan forbid the Fleetwoods
traveling over the ground, and when Mrs.
Fleetwood and her daughter had occasion
to cross the land to avoid going through,
the mud he severely whipped them both
with a small stick, and used very abusive
language. This is the story of the affair
as told by Mr. Fleetwood.
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PARAGRAPHERSJPLEASAXTRIES.
"I wonder what keeps her dress from
slipping off her shoulders." "Er the at
tractlon.'I suppose." New York Recorder.
Harry r always wear a hat to suit my
head; hang the style. Dick Yes; I notice
h,t o onft hat is vour favorite. Boston
Globe.
Banker (to applicant for clerkship)
Have you had any experience in a bank?
Applicant Yes, sir; I was depositing lit
one, until the cashier ran away with all
the funds! Harper's Bazar.
Hogan Are ye not makin more wages
now than yez iver did befoor? Grogan
Ol am. -'Thin phwat are yez thlnkin'
about strikln for?" "Because Ol hov
nough laid oop now to afford it. 'Cin
cinnati Tribune.
Judge Rastus, I see you are here again
I believe you have been tried and con
victed seven times for stealing. Rastus
Yes, jedge; it seems to be nut-in but
temptations and trials wid me In dis life.
Atlanta Journal.
Paterfamilias Don't you think you
were rather unwise to propose to my
daughter when you are not able to sup
nort a. family? Suitor Great Scott! I
didn't know she had any; didn't know
she had been married before! Brooklyn
Life.
"I am the absconding cashier of the
Bustup bank," said the sad-eyed man who
walked into the police station, "and I
want to give myself up." "Very well,"
raid the police sergeant; "have you any
one in this city who can identify you?"
Indianapolis Journal.
Little Dot Mamma read In a paper thatt
a deaf man out West was stung by a
swarm of bees, and now he can hear as
well as ever. Little Dick I don't see how
bee-stings could make a deaf man hear
but I should think they'd make a dumb
man speak. Street & Smith's Good News.
The eldest of three little chaps was
sternly reproved by his mother for his bad.
behavior. "You are the oldest, Cyrus."
she said, "and you ought to be an example
to Homer and Jack." "Well, I'll be an
example to Homer," said Cyrus, "but I
won't be an example for botn oi em.
Homer's got to be It for Jack." Boston
Transcript.
Democratic Incapacity Confessed.
New York World.
All this Is due solely to the folly and
imbecility of the 53d congress, and for that
folly and imbecility the democratic ma
jority controlling both houses Is respon
sible. Its colossal Incapacity has brought
the treasury into a perilous strait, sub
jected the business of the country to
sorely depressing conditions and impaired
the national credit In a degree which
nothing short of a serious war should
4 have done.
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