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THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, SATUEDAT, FEBRUARY 10, 1900. PLEASED WITH PORTLAND ZiTDGATH RKTORXIXG TO THIS CVCY FOR A THIRD CARGO. eme Row-Crop Chartering Steam ship Aen la. Port Schooner and Tag: Ashore at Slualair. The owners of the British bark Iydgate, apparently view Portland with ccmslder abte favor as a cheap and satisfactory place to goad a ship. The Lydgate came over from the Orleat in ballast about two years ago, seeking a cargo, and soon after arrival, was picked p by the Pacific Ex port Lumber Company and loaded a big cargo of lumber for the Orient. Her port expenses were light on this trip, so as nothing else had turned up after she left here, she was again headed for Portland, and on arrival lay at Astoria for several weeks, securing a wheat charter at 35 shillings. She left here something over a year ago, and after discharging a cargo of wheat In Europe, crossed the Atlantic and loaded oil for Shanghai. She is now due at the latter port, and as soon as she Is discharged, will come to Portland to load another cargo of wheat. The Lydgate was chartered Thursday, and Is reported to have received SSs 9d, which is a highly profitable rate for a carrier the size of the Lydgate. Sho is due in Portland in AprlL Captain Ken nison, who wag with the vessel on her previous trips, is not In command at pres ent, and she comes to Portland in com mand of Captain Jones, who was here In the Galgate three years ago, and after wards with the Trade Winds on the last trip she made previous to her becoming the German bark Magdalene. Another charter reported yesterday was the British German ship Nesala, taken for June loading at Portland. Several new crop charters have been made within the past fen days, some of them for vessels ae far away as December. TUG AND SCHOONER ASHORE. Both RcstiBB Easy, and Both "Will Get Off. BUaBNK, Or., Feb. 9. The Morning RegUter has a report from Florence say ing that the tug Maggie and schooner Berwick went ashore In Sluslaw bay Feb ruary 6 and were still fast on the 7th, though both worked nearer deep water in the river during the night high tide. They lie about U feet apart. Ins de the bar on North beach, the Maggie not over 50 feet from deep water, and the schooner about 150 feet from deep water. They are In safe positions so far as breakers are con cerned. The Berwick has on board about 25 tons of freight, mostly general merchandise for the different stores at Florence and Acme. Both schooner .and tug will get Into the rh er within a couple of days. The freight viae taken off the schooner and hauled about half a mile to the outer end of the government jetty, then loaded on hand cars and run back to the docks, loaded onto the steamer Lillian and taken to Florence. The schooner Is high and dry at low tide. About 50 men were engaged in unloading the schooner. Neither of the vessels Is strained or leaking jet The mate of the Maggie says the tug has moved very little since beaching, and that the boiler sprang a leak In the night, so they have neither sail nor steam to help them off, but that they expect to float oft In two or three tides more. As soon as the tug gets one length more In toward the rivet' she will float at h gh tide. The schooner draws less water than the tug, and would have floated off the first night only that she would have drifted onto the tug. OJi BSVEJV TERMS. Xonolaln Ships Ask Same Bate From Portland and 'Frisco. San Francisco and Portland are on even terms at present in chartering sailing ships, vessels at Honolulu offering to go to either port at the same rate. This is a condition which would always prevail if Portland had proportionately as large a number of cargo ships each year as go to the Bay city. The fact that a largo surplus of cargo tonnage is nearly always headed for San Francisco, while compar atively little comes to Portland, nearly always keeps rates lower in San Francisco than in Portland, and the fact that they are lower 16 cited by ignorant newspaper writers at the mouth of the river, who bflieve, or profess to believe, that the differential is due to other causes. Two ships now at Honolulu, were offer ing in the Portland market yesterday at 40s and were also demanding 46s from San Francisco. Neither the exporters in this city or in San Francisco can buy w heat at p profit for 4-shilllng ships, and last even ing it was reported that one of the ships had accepted a charter to load nitrate at a West coast port for Europe. Freights are high, and if present 'crop prospects continue they will be much higher. AX ORPHAN SHIP. Donna Franolsoa in Port Without Agent, Consignee or Charterer. The British hark Donna Fran ol sea left up from Astoria yesterday afternoon. It !: reported that she mtesed her canceling date, and Is now on the free list, but this has not boon confirmed. The master wl'ed to Portland yesterday morning ask ing for his consignees, but no one answer ing that description could be found In Portland and the Arm to whom the tele gram was addressed were unable to cn-1-ghten him. As the ship left up a couple of hours later. It Is probable that he re cehed advices from abroad, or else de cided that Portland was a better place for an Idle ship than Astoria. It Is a rare occurrence for a ship to come into port Rl'hout either agent, consignee or char terer to look after her. but the Donna seems to be an abandoned craft of this kind, or else the truth is being handled In a very reckless manner by a number of men in the shipping business. THE JfBSS ARRIVES. Steamer for Siberia in Port, Bnt the Deyn Mara Not Vet Sighted. The British steamship Ness, after a long passage of 22 days from the Orient, ar r'ed in at Astoria yesterday morning and Vt up in the afternoon. She will re cede most of her cargo at the Portland figuring mills in Alblna. but will also take some miscellaneous- freight from farther up town. The Doyu Maru, which was anxiously expected yesterday, had not put In an appearance at dark last even ing, and as the steamer arriving at San Francisco yesterday, did not report her sailing from Honolulu, she may not be hire for a day or two. The Alameda, which arrived at San Francisco yester day left Honolulu on the 1st. and. 1 is hardly probable that the Doyu Mam would make as good a passage as she did, even though she got away the next day. Ceast Liner Ashore. NEW YORK. Feb S The Ocean Steam ship Company's steamer Gate City, from Savannah for Boston, went ashore last night near Moriches, L. L, during a heavy fog. The steamer carried a crew of 48 persons and several passengers. Including three women. Her cargo is 3000 bales of cotton. The passengers were taken ashore by the Moriches life-saving crew. The steamer Is hard and fast la the sand, and. as the sea ie steadily rising, she is in danger of destruction. Reinforcements Xor Eaaulmalt. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. B, A telegram reoerred from the south says the British cruiser Arsthusaw, 43W tons. Is due at San Dieg. on her way to Biqulmc.lt, where she ie sokednted to arrive February X. Tfcn rater to direct from Plymouth, England, and has never touched at a United States port. She will take the place of the Amphltrlte, which recently sailed for the south. The British gunboat Pheas ant is also on her way north. New Steamer Launched. The new steamer, Santa Ana, was suc cessfully launched at the Pleasant point shipyard on Thursday afternoon, saj s the Coos Bay News, and was towed to Marsh field by the tug Columbia. Miss Jennie Ross christened the new vessel. The steamer is 196 feet over all, 36 feet 10 inches beam and 12 feet depth of hold. She will carry nearly 1,000,000 feet of lum ber on her first trip, and will carry 750,000 feet when her machinery is in. on a draft of 17 feet.t The Santa Ana Is a remark ably fine vessel, well built in every par ticular, and bears evidence that Captain Hans Reed, her builder, is a thorough me chanic, and holds a front place among the shipbuilders of the coast. Steamer Harrison in a Storm. ASTORIA, Feb. 9. The steamer Har rison, which arrived in late Wednesday evening from Umpqua, had an eventful trip up the coast. She encountered the full force of the northwest gale Which raged a few days ago, and was buffeted around by the seas, and compelled to remain well off-shore. Her trip lasted 48 hours longer than usual, and she had but little coal left when she reached port. The Harrison brought 2700 cases of sal mon from Umpqua. GoldBborough at Astoria. ASTORIA, Feb. 9 The torpedo-boat de stroyer Goldsborough Is still lying in the harbor, the heavy weather now prevailing making it inadvisable for her to depart for Puget sound. Marine otcs. A half Interest in the steamer Pilgrim, built In this city In 1893, was sold at Eort Townsend Monday for ?1400. The coasting schooners Sequoia and Ivy have been sold by San Francisco parties to Port Townsend and Seattle men. Both of the vessels -will probably be sent north as soon as the mining season opens. The Jules Verne made a good run down ,tho river, going through to Astoria in about 24 hours, after anchoring over night near Brookfleld. The British ship Durbrldge, from this port, with wheat, has arrived at Barrow to discharge. She reported out at Queens town about a fortnight ago. The Columbia came in promptly on schedule time yesterday morning and reached her dock In this city about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The State arrived at San Francisco late Thursday night. The British ship St Enoch will finish loading today. The Clarence S. Bement or the Chile will be the next on the list to finish. Domestic and Foreijrn Ports. ASTORIA, Feb. 9. Arrived 7:30 and left up at 9 A. M., steamer Columbia, from San Francisco. Arrived at 10:15 and left up at 2:45 P. M., Biitl h steamer Ness, from Kutchlnotzu. Arrived down at 10.40 A. M., French bark Jules Verne Left up at 2 P. M., British bark Donna Franclsca. Condition of the bar at 4:30 P. M., rough; wind, south; weather, cloudy. Honolulu Sailed Jan 31 British bark Beechdale, for Portland. San Francisco, Feb. 9. Arrived Barken tlne Webfoot, from Coos bay. Arrived Feb. S Schooner Guide, from Coos bay. Sailed Schooner Vine, for Gray's harbor; schooner Daisy Rowe, for Coos bay. Seattle Sailed Feb. 8 Steamer Rosalie, for Alaska. San Diego, Feb. 9. Arrived Steamer Robert Adamson, from Nanalmo. Coos Bay, Feb. 9. Bar-bound Steamer Areata, Port Los Angeles Arrived Feb. 8 Steamer San Mateo, from Comox. Bremen, Feb. 9. Arrived Aller, from New York. Genoa, Feb 9. Arrived Augusts Vic toria, from New York. ' Naples, Feb. 9. Arrived Kaiser Wll helm II, from New York for Genoa. New York, Feb. 9 Arrived H. H. Meier, from Bremen; Trave, from Bremen; Island, from Copenhagen. Manila, Feb. 9. Sailed Duke of Fife, for San Francisco. Kobe Arrived Feb. 8 Queen Adelaide, from Tacoma for Hong" Kong. Hamburg, Feb. 9 Arrived Pretoria, from New York. Brisbane. Feb. 9 Sailed Aorangl, for Vancouver. Copenhagen, Feb. 9. Arrived Norge, from New York for Stettin. Boulogne, Feb. 9 Arrived Rotterdam, from New York for Rotterdam, and pro ceeded. Funchal Sailed Feb. 8-r-New England, from Boston for the Mediterranean, on Oriental cruise. San Francisco, Feb. 9 Ship Occidental, Seattle: steamer Tellus, Nanalmo; steamer Humboldt, Seattle; steamer Senator, Se attle. New York, Feb. 9. Sailed Cuflo, for Liverpool. London, Feb. 9. Sailed Mesaba, for New York. DAILY CITY STATISTICS. Real Estate Transfers. J. A. Wilson to W. W. Seeley and Mary Seeley, tract 7, DeLashmutt & Oatman's Little Homes, February 5 $ 500 R M. RIner and wife to Portland Lumbering & Manufacturing Com pany, 50x100 feet east of lot 3, block A. Caruthers addition, December 9, 1890 18 L B. Cox and wife to Delia F. Durk helmer, lot C, block 14, Goldsmith's addition, February 7 4250 W. Cohen to Magdalena Roslna Martzloff, E. 331-3 feet, lots 5 and 6 block 70, Caruthers' addition to Caruthers addition. February 6 450 F. Wheeler to A. M Anderson, lots 5 and 6, block 11, In subdivision In Proebstel's addition. Alblna, also 9x100 feet, lot 4. November 10, 1S99.. 1 Sam R. Stott to A. Ferrera, 12 feet of lot 7, block 106, Couch addition. Feb ruary 1, 1897 250 A. Ferrera and wife to German Sav ings & Loan Society, same, Feb ruary 5 1 Jennie Porter and David Porter to Percy H. Blyth, 125x100, Montgomery and Sixteenth, February 8 250 H. Sinshelmer to William K. Whld den, tract 70. Abernethy Heights, February 6 1001 Deaths. February 7, Dora George, age 22 years, count' hospital; phthisis pulmonalls. February 6, Alfred P. Nelson, age 2 years, 63 Seventh street: acute enteritis. February 4, Lee Dock, age 59 years, 273 Pine street: cancer. February 5, Richard Forrestal, age 32 j ears, San Luis Obispo, Cal; phthisis pul monalls. t February 8, Wilbur Laughlin, age 18 years, St. Vincent hospital; tuberculosis. February 6, Vera Alfedle A. Olsen, age 9 mpnths, 390 Everett street; Inanition. Births. January 11, boy to the wife of Joseph Jenny, 577 Powell street. February 6, girl, to the wlfo of Charles L. Dick. 2S9 Eleventh street. February 8, girl, to the wife of Reg inald L. Hidden, 432 Jefferson street. Marrlagrc Licenses. Charles TImmons, aged 24, Clara Powell, aged 19; Fred Dorn, 40, Rosina B. Krause, SO. Contagions Disease. Sadie Drake, 4SS East Thirteenth street, typhoid fever. Gov. Taylor's Airkrrnrd Position. Weston Leader. The moat ambitious politician would scarcely enjoy standing in Governor Tay lors shoes just now. Ho'H be damned if he does and be damned Is ho don't by tha gun-swinging hot bloods of Kentucky. Goebcl, dead, may bo better off. a Zaxlna elearottes will comfort you when X&1C&4 cannot lOo for 10. DISEASE OF APPLE TREES CAUSE AND NATURE OF AKTHRAC NOSE AKDXTS. REMEDIES- Preliminary Notes on Treatment of the Disease by Prof. A. B.t Cordley, of Oregon Experiment Station. The following bulletin, prepared by Pro fessor A. B. Cordley, of the Oregon agri cultural college experiment station, Is de signed to call attention of horticulturists to a serious disease of apple trees, to In dicate Its nature, and to suggest methods for its control. For several years past the apple or chards of the Pacific Northwest, Including Western Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, have suffered more or less se riously from the attacks of a disease known locally as "canker," "dead spot" or "black spot" In fact, the ravages of the disease have been so serious the past sea son that persons prominent In horticul tural affairs have expressed the conviction that the apple-growing Industry of the above-mentioned regions Js threatened With destruction. While not in any sense agreeing with this pessimistic- view, we realize that the disease Is a serious one, and several months ago undertook the Plate II. (A). Vertical section through an acervulus (seml-dlagrammlc.) (E). Camera luclda sketch of germinating conldlum, showing position and ger mination of secondary conldla. problem of discovering Its cause, and, if possible; a satisfactory remedy for it. An Undescrlbed Disease. Although the disease is of oqnslderable Importance, nothing of Importance con cerning Its nature has been published. Some months ago Mr. Paddock, of the New York experiment station at Geneva, discovered that a fungus which causes the well-known "black rot" of apples and quinces, Is also the cause of a disease of apple bark which he named "canker." At the time we were In hopes that Mr. Pad dock's discoveries would explain the cause of our somewhat similar Western disease, but on!y a cursory examination was need ed to show that this is not the case; and recently I have had, with Mr. Paddock, the privilege of comparing the two dis eases, with the result that we were both convinced that they are entirely distinct Further study also convinced me that the disease Is a new one, and that it Is caused by an undescrlbed species of fungus, for which I have proposed the name gloespo rium mallcortlcls. Common Name of the Disease. Ordinarily, it is best to accept a common name when once established In any local ity, but In this particular instance we be lieve that confusion In the designation of the disease in future can best be prevented by adopting for It an entirely new name. The term "canker" Is most commonly used in European worics on plant diseases to designate injuries to the bark which Is J Plate HI. (B). Group of conldla highly magnified. (CJ. Group of germinating conldla show ing germ tubes. (D). Later stage of growth, showing de velopment of secondary conldla. caused by various species of nectria. In the Eastern United States it has been ap plied, by Mr. Paddock, to a disease of ap ple bark which Is caused by aspbaeropsls. To apply the same name to a disease which is caused by a fungus entirely dif ferent rromteither of these would--only lead to confusion. "Dead spot" and "black pot" the two other names which are sometimes used, are applied not only to the disease under consideration but also to diseased areas which are due to various other agencies, such as sun-scald, the pear blight bacillus-, etc In view of these facts and In order to avoid confusion, we shall propose for the disease the somewhat un wieldy name of apple-tree anthracnose. Nature of the Injury. Apple-tree anthracnose attacks princi pally the smaller branches those under two or three Inches in diameter although It also occurs upon the larger ones and on the trunks of young trees. It appears first In fall, soon after the autumn rains begin, as small, Irregular, sometimes slightly depressed, brown areas of the bark. During the fall and winter months it spreads but slowly: but with the advent of warmer weather In spring, growth takes place rapidly until, under favorable conditions, the disease may invade an area several Inches in diameter. Such areas under observation at Cbrvallls the past season ceased to enlarge late In May, and early In Juno the first evidence of spore formation was noted. At that time the y o diseased areas were dark brown" in color, markedly depressed, and in most instances limited by ragged. Irregular fissures which separated the dead from the surrounding living tissues. These dead spots vary In size from those not more than one-half Inch In diameter to extensive areas two or three inches wide by six or eight Inches long. Occasionally a single, area girdles a branch, thus killing at once Its distal portion; but more commonly only a dead spot occurs from which in the -course of a few months the bark sloughs off, leav ing an ugly wound which requires several years to heal. When these wounds are at all numerous the branches are exceed ingly rough and disfigured and are more over greatly weakened. Cause of the Disease. Apple-tree anthracnose is caused by a fungus which belongs to the genus gloes porium. It, Is therefore one of the Imper fect fungi. If a recently anthracnosed spat be examined carefully, It will be seen to be covered by minute projections. These are known as the acervuli and they con tain the spores of the fungus. At Corval 11s the past season they began to appear early In June. At first they were noted as small conical elevations of the epidermis which were scattered irregularly over the diseased area. By the end of June these elevations had increased considerably in size, and in a few instances the overlying epidermis had been ruptured so as to ex pose to view the cream-colored mass of spores, whloh, however, soon became dark cottored. During July, August and Sep tember these acervuli became more and more abundant, and by the beginning of October a very large proportion of them had burst open for the purpose of dis charging their spores. Spores which were collected late in June were immature, and could not be Induced to germinate. Oth ers which were gathered in July were also mostly immature, but in October I ob tained an abundant supply of mature spores, -which germinated very readily. The mass of spores In each acervulus can be easily seen with the unaided eye,, but the individual spores are so small that they can only be seen by the aid of a good microscope. They average about 6x24 microns, and are single celled, hyaline or with a greenish tinge, elliptical, curved or geniculate and coarsely granular. Sections through a mature- acervulus show, under the nilcroscope, a subepidermal stroma from which arise comparatively long, closely compacted basldla, on the ends of whloh the spores are born. It Is tho growth of this underlying mass that final ly ruptures the epidermis over it and thus sets free the spores. Hott the Funerus WorUs. As stated above, the spores mature, and tho acervuli burst open to set them free in late summer and early fall. Thus ex posed, the spores are doubtless distributed by the rains and winds, and possibly to some extent by birds, Insects and other agencies. A vast majority of the spores thus distributed undoubtedly fall In un congenial places and fall to develop; but occasionally one lodges In a suitable place on the bark of some limb. We found In our work that such spores germinated readily at a temperature of 22 degrees Centigrade (72 degrees' Fahrenheit), but that at a temperature of 29 degrees Centi grade (S4 degrees Fahrenheit germination was Indefinitely delayed. It therefore! seems certain that the spores do not ger minate during the summer when the deli cate germ tube would ber killed by the extreme- heat and by lack of moisture; but as we have seen that mature spores are present In Immense quantities early in Oc tober, and probably considerably earlier, .it is fair to assume that they start to germinate soon after the cool fall Tains begin. Whether the mycelium of the ger minating spore penetrates the cuticle of the apple bark or whether It gains access to the Inner tissues through some slight crevice has not been determined as yet However, after gaining access to the liv ing tissues the mycelium ramifies through them, absorbing the nourishment upon which it grows, and killing the surround ing cells. During the winter, as previous ly stated, the growth of tho fungus and the consequent spread of ihe disease Is slow, but in spring the mycelium takes on a renewed activity which is shown by the rapid spread of the disease. In May or early In June, the fungus reaches the fruiting stage, and from that time all its energies are devoted to the production of spores and the diseased areas, cease to spread. Whether the mycelium, having accomplished the object of its existence, the accumulation of nourishment for the production of spores, then dies, or wheth er It merely enters a resting stage to be again stimulated to renewed activity by the fall rains, has as yet not- been deter mined, although It has an important bear ing upon the means to be employed In con trolling the disease, as will be shown later. The Fungus the Cause of the Disease The disease Is caused by the fungus gloesporium mallcortlcls, and it may be of interest to the orchardist to "know upon what evidence we base. the assertion It is not necessary to give at this time all details of tho work which have led us to the .conclusion. In brief, how.eyer, spores were Induced to grow in artificial cultures. As they germinated they were examined under the microscope,, their ilosltions care fully marked, and when they had devel oped to such an extent tbatihey could be seen by the unaided eye, they were sepa rated from all other growths and trans ferred to tube cultured. This- process was repeated many times and In different ways to eliminate all sources of error. When convinced that no other Hvjng organism was present in thetube cultures a number of sections of apple V&oh "Were Inoculated with this "pure culture" o'f the fungus. In about a week after these inoculations were made, slightly discolored" areas were observed about several of the points of Infection, and in three weeks these aresss had developed all the characteristics of the disease as seen in nature; being brown, distinctly depressed and separated from the surrounding living portions by the irregular ragged fissures. Having thus succeeded in producing tho disease by in oculating with the fungus we are Justified In asserting that the fungus Is tho cause of the disease. Remedies. My absence from the state, while study ing the fungus Itself, necessarily prevented me from conducting any experiments In controlling it, but from what I now know of the disease I believe that I may safely assert that It can be controlled. We have seen that the spores are developed and probably distributed during the late- sum mer and fall months, and that they un doubtedly germinate after tho fall rains begin. It is also known that bordeaux mixture and other copper compounds pre vent the germination of the spores of mo3t fungi. We therefore infer that if the trees be thoroughly sprayed with bor deaux mixture or with the ammonlacal solution of copper carbonate, once soon after tho fall rains begin, and again as soon after the leaves fall as possible, the germination of the spores will be largely prevented and the spread of tho disease be thereby checked, ft Is not expected that such a process will exterminate the disease, but It Is believed that it will so reduce Its ravages that It can no longer bo considered a menace to the apple-grow-lfflgr Industry. For the latter of the two applications mentioned above, bordeaux mixture, winter strength, should be used. For the former bordeaux, summer strength, may also be used, but if fruit is on tho trees it would be better to use the ammonlacal solution of copper carbonate. Whichever spray is used should be thor oughly applied and applied as soon as pos sible after the fall rains begin. The fun gus cannot be destroyed by sprays after it has onco entered the tissues of Its host In addition to tho sprayings recom mended, we should advise owners of young orchards or orchards but little dis eased, to carefully cut out and paint over with strong bordeaux all anthracnosed Spots that may bo observed. As stated in a preceding paragraph, 4t is possible that the mycelium of the fungus In the dead area of bark, after resting through the summer, may be stimulated to renewed activity by the fall rains, and thus itself be an additional means of propagating the disease. Should this be the case, which we are at present inclined to doubt, spray ing will not be entirely efficient in pre venting the spread of the disease. For the present at least, or until the above supposition can be proved or disproved, it will be advisable to supplement the spray ings by using tho knife wherever prac ticable. Old, badly diseased orchards can best be renovated by pruning severely and spraying, thoroughly. A. B. CORDLEY. OUR EMBEZZLERS ABROAD. The Life Led by Fncltlvea Front American Justice. "For a number of years past I've had it in mind. In an Idle sort of way, to write on 'Fugitives That I Have Met,' " said an offi cer of the navy, quoted m the New York Sun. "During the past 20 years. In sev eral cruises, I have crossed the trail of or met up with perhaps two score or more Americans living out of the reach of American law in various parts of the world. A few of them have been in coun tries with which the United States has ex tradition treaties, but most of them looked to the safety end of It to the exclusion of everything; else and settled In lands where the arm of the United States law did not extend at their time of flight. None of them, than I can recall, has looked to me like a man In the enjoyment of peace of mind or happiness. "I have happened upon the majority of these absconders, forgers, embezzlers, de faulters, what you will I, myself, possess a strong partiality for the good old Eng lish word 'thief as most applicable to them In Central and South American ports. In Egypt and In Japan. "Had I been, before the day of practic ally universal extradition treaties, a top notch, high-grade embezzler, capable of getting away with a large, satisfying pile, J would not have lit out for any of the Americas. I'd have gone either to Japan or Egypt There's comfort for hiders In Egypt, for there the fugitives from all countries fraternize on perfectly even terms and get all the pleasure out of life that may come to men whose consciences bother them, provided they have such in convenient affairs as consciences. "Egypt's a better place to live In than any country I know In Central or South America, too. While In Central and South America the man who Is known to be a fugitive from the United States Is not looked down upon to any large extent, but goes his way on even terms with the best of the natives some of them even float around in the best society all that an American thief who settled in Japan or Egypt had to do In order to establish him self perfectly with the best class of na tives was to give it out that he was an exile 'for political offenses,' and he not only walked in the ways of the best, but he was looked upon as something of a figure, even as a sort of mysterious Hon. I have met three 'political exiles' from the United States the aggregate amount of whose stealings was considerably above the $2,000,000 mark. "Most of the United States fugitives I have met brought large portions of their peculations along with them to their new homes, and, going into uome sort of busi ness or other, did well from the go-off. I recall a few exceptions to this rule, how ever. For example, I once stood and watched for an hour or two a man who was running a merry-go-round In Truxlllo, Peru, a town that I wouldn't live in for five years for less than $1,000,000. This mu, who was prematurely white-haired, though under middle age, was surely a hard worker, and the energy he devoted to whacking the mule that furnished the motive power for the merry-go-round and In collecting the coppers of the half-Indian women and children who patronized the outfit was worth watching. He had been the cashier of a Chicago savings bank, and, while his peculations had amounted to over $300,000, he had only got away with about $50,000 in cash. I addressed him by his right name, and I felt sort of sorry to Bee the fellow's face become so ashen In hue as it did. I asked him how much he had got away with from the United States in the course of the talk we had after he had become somewhat reassured, and he told me what I already knew that when he Jumped Chicago he had close on to $50,000 in gold in two leather trunks, and that he had been robbed of every dollar of It by brigands while crossing Mexico. When he had struck the west coast of South America he was broke, with the ex ception of his Jewelry, and he had pawned that to get his merry-go-round outfit, with which he had made a living, hauling It around small Peruvian and Chilean towns. "Another man whose stealings were very large, but who only got away with an In different portion of them, was running a shooting gallery in Rio de Janeiro when r saw him, about 10 years ago. He, too, was an ex-cashier of a bank an Iowa national bank. He had thieved on a heavy scale for a number of years, and he had wound himself up by getting in with a clique of bond forgers and accepting a lot of forged bonds as collateral, knowing that they were forged. When he landed In South America he had only a few thou sands in hand, and he quickly got rid of this In drink and general dissipation. Then he started his shooting sTUlery. His wife, who was still a handsome, if somewhat worn, woman when I visited the shooting gallery, and had been one of the leading figures In the social fashion of the state of Iowa before her husband's dishonesty was discovered and he took to flight was at tending to the loading of the target guns. While her husband did the marking. They struck me as the heaviest-hearted balr of human beings I bad evor seen. I'd never This striking photograph represents the three-year-old son of Mrs. Jagg. Potter of 394 South First Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., who says, under date of Sept. 23, 1899, regarding his cure of a disfiguring face humor: My baby's face was covered with ringworms. We could not lay a pin between the sores on his face and neck, and he was a sight to look at. Two doctors attended him for three weeks, without success, when I heard of Catkmra. I got a box of Cutlcura Soap, and a box of Catteura Ointment. I only applied them three days, when I could see his face was better, and In four weeks he was cured. His face is as clear as a bell, and not a mark on It. In all the world there Is no treatment so pure, so sweet, so economical, so speedily effec five for distressing skin and scalp humors of Infanta and ehOdren as COTICSRA. A war bath with Corccmu. Soap, and a single anointing wHh Csticbka. Oifttmeat, pnraet of emollient akin cures, followed when necessary by a mild dose of eoncoBA RasoxvwT, will afford Instant relief, permit rest and sleep to both pares and ohHd. and pout to a speedy, permanent and economical cure whea all else falls. SeM VH-enghoBttne world. Price, THE SET, 81.25 ; or. Cuticuba. Soap, 25c., Cuttcwka OBmcesT, SGc. Curwum, UsaoiXEsn BOo PonEa Dihjq xxj Chzx. Cos?., Sole Pxeps., Seetea. " Hew Cars Baby Humors," free. been called upon beforo to feel so sorry as I did for that good, loyal woman whe stood there behind the counter Jamming cartridges Into target guns and handing the guns to silly, ogling, Spanish-spitting bucks. "Coming to the chaps who got away with big hauls, there's a famous club down In Buenos Ayres which used to be the meeting place of naval officers from all countries. The officers made their declinations with thanks to all of the club's offers of hospitality when the or ganization admitted as one of its mem bers an ex-state treasurer of the United States who landed in South America with $o00,000 of his state's funds. This man went into business ventures on a large scale immediately he struck Buenos Ayres, and It didn't take him many years to quadruple his stolen half a million. He was running a big stock brokerage office In Buenos Ayres. He gave enormous sums to charity, Joined the Catholic church and became about as prominent a. foreign figure as there was In Buenos Ayres. "I believe the man succeeded in some way or other In inducing the people of Buenos Ayres, native and foreign, to be lieve that he was more sinned against than sinning, and that he had to flee the United States because, as treasurer of his state, he had been good-natured and fool ish enough to indorse the notes of a lot of his political friends who had not made good when the pinch came. In what fashion ho contrived to explain, however. Just how he managed to strike Buenos Ayres with his huge bundle of money was a matter which his defenders kept still. I needn't say that, as a rull, naval fa cers arc not prigs or canters or moralists. but there are certain details of conduct which they obserye the world over. Which is why a good many of us were put to the embarrassing necessity of plac ing our hands behind our backs and walking away when we met this public thief on the streets of Buenos Ayres and Were about to be Introduced to him by mutual acquaintances. "Down in Pernambuco there was an ex- asslstant state treasurer who got away with a very large amount. He was one of the most successful coffee shippers in Brazil, and he stood ace-high In the esti mation of all the prominent people of Pernambuco. His history, too, was thor oughly well known, but, like the Buenos Ayres embezzler, he had cooked up a plausible-sounding fairy tale. He claimed that he was not the real embezzler at all, but that his chief, the treasurer, was the man who got away with all the money. The treasurer and real culprit he said, was married to a member of his (the fugi tive's) family, and as this lady was dying with consumption at the time the shortage was discovered, he, in order to save her the shock that would have been caused by her husband's disgrace, had nobly de termined to play the part of the scape goat and assume all the responsibility for the treasurers peculations. 'About a dozen years ago this man. who was introduced to the officers of the ship Larcaster, and whose actual history his Introducers kept dark, was a guest of honor on board the Lancaster at din ner. He drank too much and, when he became maudlin, began to relate the his tory of his life in several hiecoughed lan guages. Taking it for granted that the Lancaster's officers knew all about his reason for passing his life in an unattrac tive Brazilian seaport, he began to con done his offense by relating the ghost story which he had successfully worked off on the people of Pernambuco. Tho officers then remembered his case perfect ly, and they felt pretty cheap over their guest of honor. He found himself in the ship's steam launch, bound for the beach, before he had half finished his yarn, and, after that, whenever an American man-o'-war happened to drop Into the harbor of Pernambuco he kept pretty dark until she went to sea again. "I have looked over on two or three oc casions the colonies of American fugitives in Alexandria and Cairo. They were a care-free-looking lot, but I was told by men that knew that they eagerly listened to every scrap of news from the United States, and that In cultivating' forgetful ness they consumed a great deal more liquor than was good for them. Egypt used DOCTOR SPECIALIST 88 Third Street, Opposite Chamber of Commerct Hours & A. X to S F. M.j eveaiasv T to j SH0r 29 to 3. to bo the haven of most of the financial fugitives from Europe, and. as you may imagine, Bgypt isn't a. half bad place to while away a lotus-eating sort of an ex istence, If you're predisposed to that sort of thing. "Three American fugitives were pointed out to boo in Cairo a number of years ago. Two of them were young men and the other was a btt.'beyond middle age. All three were said to have plenty of money, and they all seemed to be more than mid dling drunk at tho time they were shown to me. They were not received into tha homes of tho Knglieh people living In Cairo, nor were tho absconders from Eu ropean countries recognized socially there; but they appeared to lead pretty com fortable Uvea In the hotels among them selves, with their women folks around them. Everybody know Just who tho newcomer was and how ho stood, and he soon found out that they know. I was told that the easts and precedent idea pre vailed among the women folks who used to accompany their husbands Into Egyp tian exile, but tho men themselves wero content to take each other as they were and keep mum. "Aftr all," concluded the naval officer, "the truest maxim of the lot is, 'Be good and you'll be happy.' " a A sweet cigarette Zarina made by white people. 19c for M. WINTER caBs for efcaage of diet aad abaBge of otethfajg mere warming diet to impart more best to the system, aad waxxaer cietategtokeep that beat to. 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