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THE MORNING OREGONTAN, ' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10,' 1900. ffOTPRESSINGAR ADVANCE feUIXB.'S MOVBMEXT TTAS TOWARD LADYS3IITH. XOT BalfOHr's Anneim cement In the House ef Oeme Address Adopted by rh Overwhelming" Vote. LONDON, Feb. 9. Mr. Balfour, tie gov ernment leader, replying to a question In the house of commons tMs evening as to whether any Information had been re ceived from the scene of -war, said: "Our information points to the fact that General Buller ie not pressing an advance from the position tie has occupied. ."We do not consider It right to press him for de tails of the operations -which are in progress, nor, if he gives such informa tion, do we deem it proper to make this public uptil such operations are com pleted. The government has had no In formation ae to whether General MacDon ald had retired." During the debate on the amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne made by John Joseph Clancey, Irish nat.onallet member for the north diilon of Dublin county, calling atten tion to the overtaxation of Ireland, Tim othy Healey, Irish nationalist member for North Leith, protested against the Inter pretation of the act of union being de cided ex parte. He contrasted the English attitude therein to the Venezuela case, -when the United States forced arbitra tion and In which, Mr. Healey asserted, England was- wocsted. The amendment wrs lost by a vote of 9W to S7. George Wyndham, parliamentary secre tary of the war o$lce, said that in addi tion to the 1M,$0 troops in South Africa, recently mentioned In his speech, the gov ernment had decided to send 17 more bat talions of militia and 3986 yeomanry, mak ing a total for the militia of over 20,000 and for the yeomanry 8009. The total In -South Africa, he added, would then bs 194 000 effectives, exclusive of sick and w ounded. The address was adopted by a vote of 229 again M A parliamentary paper, issued this after noon estimates that 996,009,000 additional will be required for war expenses for the period ending March SL Transvaal Recognized Hay. "WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. Secretary Hay today received a cablegram from Adel bert S. Hay, United Stats consul at Pretoria, stating that he had received his exequatur Wednesday, and that masters were very satisfactory. This effectually disposes of the apprehension that existed in some quarters that tfce Boer govern ment might decline to receive Mr. Hay because of the failure of Colonel O'Beirne to receive recognition from our govern ment as diplomatic representative of the Transvaal. Stratheenn's RooKh Riders. VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 9. The 15 Van couver troopers acepted for Strathcona's rough riders, with the addition of a bugler selected today, were all sworn In this znornintr, and will depart Sunday for Cal garj to Join the contingents selected from the other cities of British Columbia and the Northwest territory. KAMLOOPS, B. C, Feb. 9. Out of 50 applicants for the Strathcone, contingent, 20 wre -accepted at Kamloops. The men w ) 1 start Sunday for Calgary- Canada's Offer. OTTAWA, Out., Feb. 8. Mr. Borden ariounced In the house of commons to right that the Canadian government would offer the imperial government to gart son Halifax so as to permit the Lei c ster regiment to go to South Africa. Mr. Borden fl jMaqynjaL, fed. junder runeiderat oiUb Hfusnil itTMlWlfea with the North-west and British Columbia forces. Irish Parliamentary Party. LONDON, Feb. J. At a meeting of the Irish parliamentary party thy afternoon, at whlah minor officials and whips were elected a number of contributions were received. The members also received a eable message from the president of the Massachusetts Hibernian Society promis ing -the support of M,900 members. Kkarteam Matiny Growing. LONDON, Feb. 8. A special dispatch from Cairo says: The mutiny of the Soudanese troops at Khartoum has assumed serious propor tions, and is causing great anxiety. CASE GOES TO THE JURY. Concluding: ArgamcBta in the Mo lincax Trial. NEW YORK. JobTi. Assistant District Attorney Osborne tonight completed his argument in the trial of Roland B. Mol ih ux. Recorder Qoff will charge the Jury tomorrow morning, and the 12 men are .Mected to take up at once the question cl the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. I i account of the Illness of Juror Brown, u 4ile the immense cost of this cete- 1 ra,. d case, representing as it does hun- ,1s of thousands of dollars, It is not c l i Ipated that the recorder will Insist Tj xn seere measures of requiring that i ic mry be locked up for any considerable 2 ' gth of time, even though they should fu t to reach an agreement. I ndoubtedly the most dramatic event cl Jie da was the attack which Asslst . District Attorney Osborne made upon M Mollneux, the wife of the prisoner. Tl s attack was somewhat unexpected, e c Barlow S. Weeks, the attorney for prisoner, had already characterized 1 nn re introduction of the evidence con i i g the fact that Molineux lived with 1 s wife before marriage, under the as- 6 i fd name of "Mr. Chesebrough," as v. and moan and vile." But '- Osborne sleeted to pick up i1 - gage of battle thrown down 1 r re him by the counsel for the defend &i t The "war was on In an instant to ua when Mr. Battle, who is associated w Mr Weeks m the defense of Mou nt ux objected to Mr. Osborne's saying that Mw Mollneux was the sole motive the case, that Mollneux had been trj 1 g to man-) her, and that she had only so ted to marry hHn suddenly after I rru t who had been a devoted admirer, w is cold In his grave. Mr. Osborne had iat nrlshad reading the note signed B anche " sent by Mtes Chesebrough to lUrnet during his last illness, and when M" Battle Interposed his objections. Mr. Osborne turned quick as a flash to war a Mrs Molteeux. There is the woman who is the ao t.e exclaimed he. In tones dramatic b duse of their fierce Intensity. Mr Battle stUl continuing to object upon the grounds that the statements had not been supported by the evidence. Mr. Os borne s voice rang out- -Let the galled Jaae wince. I do not blame counsel for otject'ng but that woman is the living. concrete form for the motive In the Bar n t case, and it is undisputed that the man who sent the poison to Barnet sent th- poison to Cornish. I hate to have to spak in this manner of this woman. It is Fmefui that Mr Weeks brought these -i" es to this court, when he knew the pubject of which I must apeak. It is a continuation of the cowardly crime, and iows the nature of the man who would consent that his womankind should hear bis words." General Mollneux left Ms seat at the conclusion of this attack, leaned over the luck of his wife's chah- and patted his i& aghter-ln-kvw reassuringly on the shoul L.er MoUneux himself never moved. in closing. Mr. Osborne said "Remem 'vf r Frankenstein. Remember that he was bu'ic up with backbone and muscle, hut .s Creator could not give him a soul. 7 i defendant has no soul, or he could ra laugh as he has laughed in this court- room under circumstances that must break the hearts of his father and mother." THE TABLES TURXED. Robber Shot and Killed Jjy His In tended Victims. CHICAGO, Feb. 9. A lone robber, well dressed, with money In his pockets and a ribbed-silk mask to cover his features, was shot and killed at "Woerner's Park pavilion, on "West Madison street, late last night by Frank Barum, an Oak Park law yer, and Edward Sommerfeldt, the bar tender. Besides Sommerfeldt and Barum, there was only one other person In the saloon when the robber entered. The rob ber commanded them to throw up their hands. Resistance was offered. The roD ber fired twice at his victims, one of the bullets taking effect In Sommerfeldt's arm. Barum then managed to wrench the re volver from the robber. Sommerfeldt. in the meantime, had secured his revolver, and both he and Barum fired several shots at the robber, who fell dead at their feet The police were notified, and the body was Temoved to the morgue. In the pock ets of the dead man was found $123. Barum and Sommerfeldt were not ar rested. UNITED STATES AND CHINA Magnitude of Interests "Which "Wc Have at Stake In Celestial Empire. It is extremely probable that but for the preoccupation of Great Britain In South Africa the dynastic change which has Just been announced In China would not have taken place. If the significance of that change should be found In the fact that the Influence of Russia and France Is paramount at Peking, the United States would be Interested quite as obviously as the United Kingdom. For, making all al lowances for the value of the assurances which have been received from France and Russia In regard to the respect which they propose to accord to our treaty rights in China, says the New York Journal of Commerce, the fact Is not to be concealed that the policy of these two powers runs directly contrary to the interests of our trade. Their ultimate purpose can only be the dismemberment of China, because they have nothing to gain by maintaining the Integrity of the empire, and the line of "expansion which Russia has marked out for herself In the north and France In the south Involves a very decided nar rowing of the territory which now ac knowledges the sovereignty of the empe ror. The process of further advancement, either In the shape of a sphere of Influ ence or direct political control, cannot go very far without compelling Germany to assert herself a good deal more strongly than she has yet done within the sphere which she regards as her own, and the value of the assurance given by the Chi nese government to Great Britain that no part of the Yang-tse valley would ever be alienated to a foreign power would be somewhat rudely tested. From all this the United States could only be a loser, since even a technical regard for the as surances which our government has re ceived would not exclude the exertion of the kind of pressure for the benefit of their own trade on the part of the en croaching powers which France applied to our detriment In Madagascar. Some two months ago the American As sociation of China entertained Minister Conger at dinner In Shanghai, and the president of the association gave expres sion to the feeling of dismay with which they had learned some time before of what looked like the abandonment of the open-door policy by the British govern ment, and, as it seemed, by our own as well. He went on to say that their as sociation had made representations on the subject to the state department through Minister Conger representations which were powerfully seconded by the Ameri can Asiatic Association here. It was the Impression of Amerlcaim in Shanghai that these did not seem to Te"recelved as be ing of much Importance, and they hailed with natural satisfaction the recent an nouncement of the vigorous action taken by the state department In obtaining guar antees from European powers in regard to the future character of their policy In China. At the dinner of the American Asiatic Association Friday night, Mr. Denby, than whom no one is qualified to speak with greater authority on the sub ject, made the very explicit assurance that, as a result of the efforts of the state department, under the dlreotlon of the president, the great powers have all given their assurance that no discrimina tion will be made in China against the commerce and trade of the United States. He added that It was clear that we should not stand idly by and see hostile camps established in China under the plea of leaseholds, If the lessees Intended to make us pay greater duties than were provided for In our treaties. Russia might lease the whole of Man churla, England might lease the Yang-tse valley, Germany Central China and Franco the south, and entirely deprive us of the most promising market of the globe. Mr. Denby made the significant remark that we are a great nation, and that it Is not for us to stand aside like a poor boy at a frolic when international questions .are on the tapis. It was our duty to Inter vene In any question In whose subject matter we are Interested. We have as much right to preserve and save our treaty, rights In China as England has, or Rus sia, or any other European power has to protect its own. Why, asked Mr. Denby, should England and Russia and France and Germany arrogate to themselves the control of Asia? We are the closest to China of all the great commercial na tions except Japan. We have done more to open It to civilization than any coun try except England. Our trade la next to England's; the numer of our people in China is next to England's. By what right, then, shall other nations step in and control the destiny of China, and we be compelled to stand tongue-tied, hands tied, powerless? These are Ideas with which the readers of this journal are sufficiently fami'.iar. They have been persistently ventilated In these columns during the last two years, and to the stage of public education which has been reached on this subject this journal may fairly claim to have largely contributed. How advanced that stage is was very fairly Illustrated in the tone of the speeches delivered last night, of which a report will be found In our columns to day. It is not too much to say that, even a year ago, no such confident assertion of our right and duty to intervene In Chi nese affairs, as was made by Mr. Denby, "by Senator McLaurln, and by Mr. Barrett, would have been possible. These declara tions will fall, too, on much more recep tive minds than they would have done at any previous period of the history of the country. The people of the United States are pretty thoroughly awake to the mag nitude of the interests which they have at stake in the Celestial empire, and our government has recognized the vital Im portance of keeping that market open not a moment too soon. It is obv.ous that the status quo in China Is very Lkely to be disturbed, in the near future, and it Is certain that no step can be taken to Im pair the Integrity of the empire or ths balance of power on which the present situation rests, without provoking some action en the part of the United States As Senator McLaurln remarked last night: "The hour has come when the young giant of the West must come forth among the nation? and assume greater re sponsibilities, but with them increasea opportunity. We are confronted with conditions that cannot change. . . . Con ditions are widely different from 100 years ago. New and unforseen forces have arisen In social, governmental and Indus trial Ufa, but these new conditions and problems constitute parts of the worlds eternal law of progress From 13 feeble colonies we have expanded into the great est nation on earth. Some divine hand has tenderly and surely lifted us from a lofty to a loftier epoch. Why should we falter and tremble before the sp'endld pos sibilities offered to us by the Ruler of . nations?" HOW DOBLEY WAS DUPED FREXCH DIXXER AS A TRELTJDE TO MILLIXER tf AX D THINGS. '" Mrs.Dobley Lured Him to the French Shops, and "He Bought Everything She Desired He LUkcd It. Too. Mrs. Dobley appeared unexpectedly at the office, says the New lork Sun, just as her husband was preparing to go out for luncheon. "I knew I'd just catch you," she ex claimed, delightedly. "I just thought I'd enjoy surpilsing-you! Besides, I'm so tired haing luncheon homel Now I want jou to take me to one of those funny places where you get all the queer things to eat!" "I suppose you mean a French res taurant," said Mr. Dobley. "Yes. Where jou can get snails and mussels and things they don't have at American places, and cook coffee at the table and make salad dressing. I thinrc it's lots of fun!" "All right," assented Mr. Dobley, never suspecting his wife's deep-laid plans. She knew that a luncheon such as she had briefly sketched was calculated to put Mr. Dobiey in first-class humor, when she might suggest anything wild, from a music-hall matinee to a slumming trip in Chinatown. Dobley always walked Into the trap blindly, although he had been worked In this way many times before. But French luncheons, prepared as they were at BIgnon's, put him in a reck.ess mood. There was something about their Bourgulgnonne sauce that Intoxicated hm, he alwajs said. So they secured a pleasant table by a window, from which they could see the afternoon throng on the avenue and Mrs. Dobley ordered luncheon. "It's such a lovely day," said Mrs. Dob ley, nibbling at a caviar sandwich, "that It seems a shame for you to go back to the old office. Suppose you telephone them you won't be back today?" "And what do you propose? ' said Mr. Dobley, as he extracted a snail delicately from Its shell His accents suggested an amiability that would consider the pur chase of a steam yacht or a trip to Eu rope. "Oh, we'll think of something," said Mrs. Dobley passing him a dish of stuffed olives, of which she knew he was par ticularly fond. "Aren't you going to smoke, dear?" It was an understood thing that when the Dobleys punched at BIgnon's Dob ley was to smoke cigarettes all through the repast. Mrs. Dobley said It made her feel as If she weren't married. "How is It," asked Mr. Dobley, "that we can't have cooks who know how to give this delicate flavor to a soup?" "We never can until we live In Paris," said Mrs. Dobley. "We shall some iJ We will go to Paris and take an apart ment and live just as they did in 'Trilby.' "But until then," said Dobley, "must we continue this humdrum existence here In New York?" "Do you know what I think would be great fun?" suggested Mrs. Dobley, In sisting on the smaller half of the cold lobster, as she knew Mr. Dobley par ticularly favored it with Tartare sauce, "the next thing to Paris, in New York is " "What, my dear?" asked Mr. Dobley with some alarm. "The French shops on Fifth avenue!" said Mrs. Dobley, slpp'ng an absinthe frappe with the air of an habitue. "Oh," said Mr. Dobley, "I've never heard of them. "No!" said Mrs. Dobley, regretfully, "because vou only see the bills from the big department stores where I have to trade, and where, any one can go and buy the same thing." "Who, has the price?" put In Mr. Dobley v, ""But I never feel that Ifcan quite afford to buy at the French shops, for, of course, everything Is imported and hand made and high-priced! But, oh, they have the loveliest" here Mrs. Dobley leaned across the table and whispered confidentially to her husband. "You sim ply can't get them anywhere else! And you go around in those little shops and see the things, and you can quite imag ine that you are in Paris. Mrs. Van Rip per got a lot of things, and she showed them to me yesterday when I called. Some beautiful " Mrs. Dobley whispered once more. "Really?" said Mr. Dobley. "Yes polka-dotted all silk. You can't get them except In one shop. I tell you what we might do. We could go around and look at some" of the things. We need not buy any unless we wanted to. There are a few little things I must get have you any money with you?" "Some," said Mr. Dobley, "but I have my checkbook anyway." "Oh, that will be perfectly lovely!" ex claimed Mrs. Dobley. radiantly. "First, we will go to Mme. Fittem's. I -want you to help me select a pair of those new French corsets. I can't make up my mind which pattern to take." "Will it be quite right for me to go along?" suggested Mr. Dobley. "Couldn't I wait outside and have them sent out samples, you know?" "Oh. plenty of men go In there," said Mrs. Dobley. "Besides it's the Frenchlest of all the French shops! I wouldn't have you miss It for the world!" Mr. Dobley paid the bill, and compli mented the waiter on the excellence of everything. Then he and Mrs. Dobley went out to a hansom cab looking so gay that a bald-headed man by the window said: "These pretty typewriters have the most luxurious luncheons of any people in New York!" The corset shop was a bewildering place to visit It was dim and perfumy, and filled with fascinating wax ladies in startling negligee with small waists and a noticeable lack of limb. But Mr. Dob ley, fortified by his French luncheon, en tered almost blithely. The saleswoman looked after him admiringly. They were accustomed to men who sneaked In sheep ishly to make purchases without looking around. Mme. Fittem greeted Mrs". Dob ley like an old friend. "I want to see some of those new Paris girdles," said the latter; "I want to order some, but I can't quite decide on the pat tern." "Do you mean the $18 ones?" asked Mme. Fittem. "The black brocade wim violets and pan sies and rosebuds. Which do you think I ought to have, Mr. Dobley?" "Violets or pansies, let mesee?" said Mr. Dobley. "This Is rather nice, don't you think so?" He was gazing admiringly at a beautiful wax brunette clasped In a gorgeous lacy creation and ending In a ruffle, on a mar ble pedestal like a mermald-from a marble yard. "Those have the real lace edge and solid gold clasps," said Mme. Fittem; "they are really one of the finest pairs ever made!" "Oh, I am sure they are too expensive," said Mrs. Dobley; "these simple J1S ones are all I can afford!" Mr. Dobley gazed at the pansy brocades with a scorn bred of French cookery. "Those look positively mean besides theee," he said, decisively. "But these are really too fine for ordi nary use," said Mrs. Dobley. "Why not have both?" said Mr. Dobley, as though the idea had suddenly occurred to him, as indeed it had. "How much are these?" He indicated the brunette mer maid. "A pair to order like those would be $60," said Mme. Fittem. "They are beautiful," said Mrs. Dobley. "Both pair," said Mr. Dobley taklngout his pocket-book. "And a box of assorted silk lacings?" 'said Mrs. Dobley with a cheerful -smile. "Good morning, Mme. Fittem good morn ing" As the Dobleys made their exit, the ex pression cf the saleswomen had changed from mere admiration to hero worship. Mrs. Dobley rustled her skirts ostentat ous. ly, something as a hen clucks its pride in her chickens. She felt prouder of Mr. Dob ley at that moment that If she had seen him presented with a medal. "And now," she said; "to the hosiery shop." "Certainly," said Mr. Dobley, with his mout debonair manner. "Do you Jcnow I can never lmag"iie why some men ob ject to go shopping with their wives? I would rather select hosiery than play poker any time. Do jou have to try 'em on? Don't mind me, j-ou know. After that corset place I can go through anj thing." "Oh, certainly not!" said Mrs. Dobley; "thej' only have samples on those wood en " "Limbs?" suggested Mr. Dobley. "Blocks J was going to say," said Mrs. Doblej-, "and j'ou order a dozen of this kind or a dozen of that." "Oh, I see," said Mr. Doblej; "you don't get 'em by the crate or the keg?" "Here it is," said Mrs. Doblej. "You see thosa dark blue with small white dots those are like Mrs. Van Ripper's only 53 a pair I am going to have some of these." "And those black ventilated kind?" said Mr. Dobley; "they look rather giddy." "Those are open work," explained Mrs. Dobley; "those are ?p a pair." "That's nothing," said Mr. Dobley, "we must keep above the Van Ripper stand ards!" "And they have gloves here, too," said Mrs. Dobley, "the real French gloves, just the sort J ou get at the the Moulin Rouge I think It Is called " "You mean the Jardln Mabllle," correct ed Mr. Dobley. "No the Palais Royale that's it! Ex actly the same gloves. We must get some of those." Mr. Dobley insisted on adding to these purchases a box of embroidered handker chiefs and a dressing-coat with lace but terflies Inserted over its surface. A blonde saleswoman with blue eyes Insisted that it was just off the French steamer, and Mr. Dobley wanted two, but there was only one in the shop. "These French shops are positively the most charming places I have ever been'ln," he said enthusiastically. "They seem so appreciative when people buy a few little things. Haven't you a few more on the list? The next time I go out to get you a present you won't catch me going to store3 where they have grinning dudes for sales people." "Oh, you couldn't 'exactly go alone," said Mrs. Dobley In some alarm. She re alized that Mr. Dobley would be the most popular man In New York with the pro prietors and saleswomen of the shops they had just visited. "Why not?" said Mr. Dobley. "Oh, it wouldn't look just right," said Mrs, Dobley. "You couldn't very well se lect things yourself, could you?" "Oh,. I don't know," said Mr. Dobley. "After-; today's tour I feel that I could se lect outfits for female seminaries. I know all about the plain-ribbed and the silk and lisle mixed. I am an authority on the sudden-hipped model and the long-waisted medium. You couldn't palm off any plain plated hooks on me, and I know that baby ftKjIrlbbon is not exclusively for Infants' wear, irt-TT-don't see why you should bother about shopping any more, Mrs. Dobley. I will relieve you of that annoying detail. Why, those saleswomen arc too obliging for any thing. Take that Titian-haired peach " "What?" said Mrs. Dobley. "That demure-looking blonde girl In the glove store," said Mr. Dobley. "She seemed to me to have a beautiful disposi tion so kindly and where Is the next place you wished to stop, my dear?" "I don't think we will stop at any more places today," said Mrs. Dobley, careless ly, "except, perhaps, the florist's. I want a large bunch of selected double violets, such as you used to send me when we were engaged, and you might let him fix you up a button-hole bouquet of some sort." "And then," said Mr. Dobley, "where do we go? I am just beginning to .get in the spirit of this thing. Suppose we go" "Home," said Mrs. Dobley, with some de cision. "Dinner will be about ready by that tine, and Xhe Van Rippers arecomV "Ing. But we have had a lovely time, haven't we?" "Lovely," said Mr. Dobley, emphatically. "I'm going to take Van Ripper tomorrow." PEACE IN SAMOA. Partition of the Islands. Cnpscd But Little Real Trouble. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 9. Samoan. ad vices received by the steamer Alameda to day say the effect of the agreement be tween the powers as to the division of the Samoan group had caused but little real trouble, though the Malietoa and Mataafa factions were somewhat discontented, the Mataafans blaming the Malletoans for causing the trouble which brought about this result and vice versa. Reports were received In Apia that at Aana and Savall, the followers of Mataafa, chagrined at the news of a division of the Islands, resolv ed that the Malietoan adherents who had returned to their homes must be driven out of those districts, and a large force of Mataafa men attacked the homes of the Malletoans, routing the residents out and setting fire to the buildings, later driv ing them to Saliemoa. December 6, Captain Tllley, of the United States navy, notified High Chief Falvae, of the island of Tutulla, that un der the terms of the agreement between the United States, Great Britain and Ger many the Samoan group would be divided between the United States and Germany and that the islands of Tutulla, Manula and the other islands east of Upolu, would come under the protection of the United States. Captain Tllley assured the chiefs through Falvae that the United States would protect the natives and give them a good government, and that it would hold the chiefs hesponslbl for anj trouble that might occur. Captain Tilley's proc lamation was received with quiet and or der and ro apprehension Is felt that trouble will follow the lnaugratlon of the new regime. c The Mortality of War. Chicago Tribune. In studying the figures which show the total casualties during the war with Spain, allowances should be made for the num ber of deaths which would occur from natural causes among such a lnnre num ber of men. Out of a total of 1S2.6S7 vol unteer soldiers enlisted it Is reported that 4015 died of disease. If there had been no war, it is estimated that the total numbst of deaths in six months among the same number of men would have been at leest 1500. This Is figuring on the basis -of 16 deaths per 1000 per year. Thus, the war should not be charged with the responsi bility for more than 2500 out of the total number of deaths ascribed to disease, If so many. it i . Russian Colonists Rot Wanted. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.-Acting Im migration Commissldner Schell, at this port, has forwarded to National Immigra tion Commissioner Powderly, at Washing ton, a protest against the. intended colo nization of a large tract of land in Cali fornia with 1500 Russian emigrants now in the Northwest territorj. Dally Trcnsnry Statement. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. Today's state ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance.. 5291,117.547 Gold reserve 218,368,912 o Who Gets Ase Gets "Wisdom. Indianapolis Press. Watts I notice as I grow older I don't see so much fun in jokes. Potts Same here. But I have learned to laugh more. c The Mystery of Dnst at Sea. It Is a puzzling fact that the decks of sailing vessels show dust at night, even If thej are washed in the morning and no work is done durlrg the day. This Is like indigestion, which creeps on one unawares. However it comes, the only way to cure It is by the use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a remedj which never fails to cure dyspepsia In all i s forms as well as I prevents malaria, fever and asue. BiifffSRSlSsSSc's' ,''H8nSsSS--lmmHnnmwSiBflHBmH) M"?S a5SK?flC,cs V '. - "' - Tflfiiffrrr lYnrlnnrmrnfflSrml PAINPS CELERY COMPOUND A Great Reconstructant REV. -JQHN RICE, SEVENTY- FIVE YEARS OLD, Scotch Grove, Iowa, writes: "My wife and I have used two bottles of Paine's Celery Compound with great advantage to our general health. It cured her rheumatism and proved a good regulator of the system in general and a tonic for the nerves, ia my own case I have found it a cure for kidney trouble arising from old age, as I am now in my 75th year. In this trouble it has given me almost instant relief." stbrer-o nervous ne's Celery Compound COLONY THAT VANISHED JABIES-TOWN, VA., AFTER XCAItCT THREE CENTURIES. Town Had 15,000 Inhabitants "When Forty Years Old Old Town and Burnt Walls Remain. Elbrldge S. Brooks takes Uncle Tom and his inquisitive young nephews on a historical visit to Jamestown, Va., In the January St. Nicholas. James river lay I before them, broad and glittering, its left shore bluff-bordered and forest-crowned, Its right shone sloping to the water's edge I In fertile meadows and verdant lowlands. I At last Uncle Tom pointed over to the northern shore, where, stretching out j from It, a long, low-lying, green and tree- dotted Island seemed almost to float on the bosom of the river, in marked con trast to the high, facing bluffs of Scot land on the other side. From.a little cove at the northern end shot out a long, new, commodious steamboat wharf, flanked to the left by a slight rise of ground tree crested and fenced about, while to the right stretched broad tilled fields, out of which rose the blackened -walls of a burned and ruined mansion. The steamer made fast to the dock, the gangplank was run out, and even as Undo Tom, in choicest Spanish, invited his young friends to disembark at the port of San Miguel, the first officer an nounced: "Jamestown! All out for James town!" Then the tourists filed off to pay their i "wharfage" fee-, and to make their way ( up the path toward the rustlo entrance to the tree-shaded lnclosure, within which they spied a broken, solitary and "ivy- I mantled" church tower, half hidden by Its j grove of sheltering trees. "Behold the vanished colony!" said J Uncle Tom, as they entered the lnclosure ' and halted before the high wire fence that essays to keep from the hand of the spoiler the ancient church, and yet more i ancient burying-ground of the vanished Jamestown. "And is this really the place where John ' Smith .went to church and where Poca hontas was married?" asked Marian, as . they surveyed the ruin with interest. j "The place assuredlj. but not the same i place," Uncle Tom replied. "This tower, part belfry and part loopholed guard house, as you may see, marks the fourth church erected here by the Virginia colo nists. It must have been built long after John Smith and Pocahontas had passed from the scene probably after the burn ing of Jamestown in the time of Bacon's j rebellion, in 1676." I "That was Nathaniel Bacon, who stood j out against Berkeley, the royal governor, . was It not?" said Bert. j "You know him, I see. Bert the earliest , of American patriots," Uncle Tom replied. , "Time was when this was a peninsula. ' and not an Island, you see, and over the neck1 at the northern end cpme up and see for yourself," said Uncle Torn, sud denly, turning from the old tower and the tree-filled old cemetery. ! Through a vine-covered gatewaj- they passed within the grass-grown ramparts ! of the old Confederate fort, and, standing on the shore beside the almost obliterated remains of the colonial powder magazine. they looked about them. A hundred yards from shore, a lone cypress tree, bent, but yet green with foliage, clung tena ciously to a little tuft of earth; and all that submerged land, so Uncle Tom in formed them, had once been above water and a part of the Jamfestown settlement. "A double meaning, you see, boys and glr's," he said, "attaches to my calling j this a vanished colonj. On land nothing age rich, energy keeps the remains of It today save that Ivj'-covered tower and the crumbling gravestones. The grass-grown reminder of the might iest of modern wars is heaped up over what were the streets and highways of the old village. The unstayed river, re lentless as time itself, has foot by foot eaten away the actual site of much of the old Jamestown where Smith and Dela warr labored, where Pocahontas Jived and flourished, where Berkeley ruled with des potic sway, and where Bacon, backing his words with his deeds, made the first successful armed protest against kingly tyranny, in the name of the people." "It was quite a place at one time, wasn't It?" said Roger. "The most lmnortant tntrn In fh colo nies," Uncle Tom replied. "In spite of Jealousy, neglect and prlvationv the col ony planted on this island in 16OT flour ished and grew, until its W colonists in creased to K.00O In W4? and ti paHsaded village of 50 houses, as it was in Poca hontas' time, grew In to the colonial 'me tropolis of Berkeley's day. "with its capi tol and Its courthouse, and Its governor s mansion, its taverns and shora ami trad ers. Its streetspind highways and. 'ocean , piers, now all vanished utterly, save the , old tower yonder, and the walls of the thrice-burnt house In the fields, known as the Cary place. There once lfved Wasn ington's earliest love, and there, too, It ia also claimed, stood Governor Berkeley's" mansion in the days of his stormy su premacy." "Interesting old spot, isn't it?" said Bert, surveying the scene, where tree and river, dismantled modern fort and broken ancient tower, combined Ih a landscape at once attractive and suggestive: "And full of stirring story,'" added Uncle Tom. "See1 Touder, where now flows the ever-widening creek, stretched once the neek of land over whieh Smith and his soldiers marched Into the "Wil derness, over which came Posahontas bearing relief or warning to the eotoaists. and by whieh Bacon and his patriot army entered the captured capital. Explorer and colonist, trader and priest, governor and councillor landed proprietor and ne- i fiS rnl8? et'a? ' red-skinned foeman. stately ladies on horseback, or In lumbering coaches bond- mald and goodwlfe, all the life and all the display, were seen here as the seat of colonial government for over 90 years, or uuiu vitivernor .menu-sun, in Awe, removed the capital to "Williamsburg, whither we shall ride presently, and took from. James town all its prestige and power. Then the oM capital quickly languished. In 1716 It had dwindled to half a dozen houses, and now to this an old tower Inclosed by a wire fence to keep off relfe-buntlng visit ors, and preserved as a landmark by the enterprise and patriotism df some Vir ginia, women the Association for the Preservation of "Virginian Antiquities. "Was I not right when I called It the vanished colony?" And as they took carriage for Williams burg, to which, nine miles away, they rode through the woods and fields of the beautiful York peninsula, they listened again to Uncle Tom's details of Virginia's colonial story, and m the midst of the scenes made historic by many famous people, from Smith and Newport am Delawarr to "Washington and Henry and Jefferson, they agreed with him that Vir ginia's story -was indeed deeply interest ing, and did not wonder that modern story tellers draw upon It for material when seeking to put into action the kV- Ing, the striving, the romance, and the ad- ventures of the days of the vanished col ony of Jamestown. "Habitual oonatlnnHoTi miwd anil fha bowels strengthened by the regular use f or carter's Little Liver Pius in sraaH doses. Don't forget this. 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