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- 'f 1 '' ,- 10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. 'APRIL 7, 1900. r .y. ... THE AUTHOR OF "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" , (Copyright. 1000, by Eeymour Eaton.) THE OREOONIAN'S HOMESTUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED BY PROF. SEYMOUR EATON BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES FOR GIRLS VIII. JAE ACSTE. BT CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN. (1775-1817.) The life of Jane Austen was Just the life which she depicts wtlh such finish In her books tranqu1 and singularly void of lnddenL She was wonderfully beloved by little children became of her delightful 1 y b.corne a literary Mecca, her desk facility of Improvising Indefinitely the long, 'a 8hrJne to whIch nny a dsvotw WOuld enchanting stories so trannl.aUy demand- . journcy. Th,. workll of thg artst jn Ben. ed by Interested childhood. Alone with Uencf.fl been likened, because of their these simple-hearted hearers, the gentle fl(Jemy. to tho minutiae of life, to the eaurwt inou.gea meir tame iur uic .- never appear in her realistic, tranquil books. The unruffled calm of the Stevenson rec tory, where Jane Austen was born In 1773, lent Itself easily to the life depicted In "Pride and Prejudice" and Sense and Sensibility." The threads of her childish experiences and diversions were Inter woven, she sold, into her uneventful tales "as the bird uses the odd bits of wool or moss In the hedgerows near to weave Into the tiny fabric of Its nest." Her first literary Impulses were started by the amateur barnstorming In which all the family Indulged. Jane wrote the plays and hatched the plots for this home-act-.lng under the supervision of the kindly vicar, who afterward encouraged his ,daughter to take the short step from ama teur effort to more mature work. Next to homespun play-acting the great event of the year was something quite far re moved from barn theatricals namely, the visit of the bishop, a portly ,creaturo In .hobnailed shoes and shovel bat. Reallstlo little Jane, thinking that the saintly per sonage descended straight from paradise, enco asked him politely how all the folks .were In heaven, and was amazed to find that she had brewed a tempest In a tea pot She was so devoted to her sister Cas Bandra that when this beloved elder sister was sent to school, little Jane, three years her Junior, and too young to study, trudged along by her side, enduring tho long, wearlfomcneaj of an ISth century school, merely that they might not be separated. Mrs. Austen Justified this preceding by 'declaring that such was their devotion ithat if Cassandra were to be beheaded Jane would plead to be behaded too. It '.was not long, however, before Jane was abreast of her older sister and her broth ers, too, both physically and mentally, de claring when her brothers were preparing for college that she knew all the things that they knew, besides all the things she knew herself. A cousin whose husband hnd been guil lotined during the French revolution taught them conversational French, and tho good rector supplied all their college studies. Ko mention is made In the fam ily annals of any especial Interest attach ing to this cousin because of her troub lous life In France, and Jane Austen's novels give no hint of the revolutionary throes that were agitating England. Amer ica and France. She never traveled 200 miles from home, and wisely refrained from mirroring any life but that with which she was well acquainted. Jane Austen and her sister were espe cially fond of the mild gayeties of the neighborhood. And she records with glee taking part in every dance at a country ball long after she and her sister. In order to avoid the tyranny of fashionable head dressing, had adopted the prevailing style of wearing old lady's caps, and she fur thermore states that, like Catherine nor land in "Northanger Abbey," "her spirits danced within her as she danced in her chair all the way home." Tall, graceful, gay, absolutely amiable, she was greatly beloved in the family circle, where she was an expert housekeeper, an accom plished needlewoman and "especially great in satln-stltch," whatever that may be. She wrote her books so naturally In the family sitting-room at the family desk that she led her relatives to believe that novel-writing was Just about the easiest thing In the world. It certainly argues much for the fine equilibrium of her nerves, that she could write, amid the hubbub of the family circle, novels whose finish "George Eliot, the most painstaking of authors, has pronounced "flawless," and which Macaulay said were "worth all Dickens and Pliny put together." It Is almost pathetic to read of the struggles undergone by the Rev. George Austen In his efforts to pass impartial Judgment upon his daughter's sketches of the simple folk around. He realized with delight her fine sense of discrimination, he chuckled over her sub-satirical humor, and he rejoiced when her delicate Irony rtopped short on the threshold of cynicism, but then, he was her father, and he was judg ing her paternally and not comparatively, and that would never do. So he con scientiously set himself a six months' course of novel reading, emerging there from more deeply rooted than ever In his original conviction. He accordingly wrote to a skeptical publisher assuring him that he posseesed the manuscript of a volume superior to anything from the quills of Miss Burney anil Miss Edgeworth, and, therefore, not to be parted with lightly. The worthy publisher replied In a manner which seems to have founded a precedent among modern editors, that he declined the responsibility of taking so precious a document frcm the hands of Its owner. So Jane and Cassandra laughed at their father's discomfiture and stowed "Pride and Prejudice" In a corner of the garret, where It stayed cozlly for 11 years. Before Its publication (1S13) the loving father had passed away, never suspecting that pos terity would verify his verdict and call him a seer. Jane, who was but 20 years when she wrote "Pride and Prejudice" for the fam ily diversion, met all literary reverses with her habitual serenity, culminating in positive glee over the unique fate of "Northanger Abbey." This novel 1 real ly a well-sustained parody upon the hlgh fiown romances of the day. Jan: Austen could no more portray a swaggering, mys terious villain than could the gentle An gelica Kauffman. so she held up his cari cature wriggling upon the point of her quill for the amusement of posterity. Such heroic treatment was hardly comprehen sible to the sentimental tas e of the day. The venturous publisher who had paid 10 for this playful satire thought It so un promising that he consigned It to pigeon hole oblivion for many years. "Sense and Sensibility." "Pride and Prijud'cs" and "Emma" had meanwhl'e been working , 'their way into the nffect'ons of the cul- tured few, so that Jane's brother wrote to tho dlsplrl ed publisher offering to repur chase "Northanger Abby." So the edi tor gladly so'd his bargain back to the original owner at the or'glnal price, and ntvtr knew until the book wis publshcd a few years nfter the author's death what a ntlze he had let slip through his fin gers. Although never lionized, bcause her works were published anonymously, owing to the fact that in thess days a woman b;ok-wilter was supposed to hae over stcppol the I mltatlons of hr sex. Jane Austen's nearest approach to distinction lay ln.the curlaus courtisy shown her by the Prince Regent. He had one virtue, which even Thacke-ay rrlgvt hae admit ted: namely, he kept a s;t of Miss Aus tcnts woiks in each of h s residence. It doubt'ess afforded him relief to happen on an atmosph ro untainted by social sycophancy. When It came to his knowl edge, theiefo-e, that h"s favorite author nas In London nurs'ng her brother, he s?nt his chaplain to wait upon her. to ln i:ehcr to Carlton Horsr, and to give hsr permission to dedicate her nsxt novel to him. She nccordlij ly dedicated "Emma" to her cons!dea-e pation, nt the same time l iidcu"ng pjllfly the chap'aln's hint that "an historical romance Illustrative of the august house of Copc-urg would Just now be very Interesting." "I could not sit (Sown to write a. se lous romance," replied Jane Austen, "undtr any other motive j The position of the Papal Hierarchy, m than to save my I-r. and if it were In- our own day respecting some of the lead dispensable for me to ke:p It up and never lng secret societies. In so far as It la ludl relax Into laughter at raypelf "or at other j crous. Ik similar to their position In the people. I am sure I shou'd b; hanged be- 17th century respecting the theory Of the fore I had finished the first chapter. No, T .. 41 I . ..J i. . ). .(i TkT r I must ke?p to my own style, and go on In my own way." At the ate of 42 her tranaull life, unself. !i.h to th lnt. rams lo an end. She misted ,V9V rntlrelr content wl h the, docbtful i reception which had been accorded to her i rffnrf nov.'r lmaclnlne- that her home detaIlf d work of ,he Dutch genre paint era; but tho comparison is not entirely satisfactory. For. while Miss Austen's pic tures of her humdrum, unelcctric. untele graphlc neighborhood were qulto as faith ful as those of the Dutch artists, they lacked comp'etely the coarseness which frequently disfigured their canvases. Af ter all, her own comparison is the best. In which she alludes to her work as the "little bit of Ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as to produce little effect after much labor." These dignified minia tures of the common-place were restful because of the striking absence of any I striving for effect. "While her early death was. In many wajs, greatly to be de plored, still, from the very narrowness of her range. It was probably better for her reputation that she did not too frequently ring the changes upon her limited theme. Among Jane Austen's favorite authors was Sir Walter Scott; she would, there fore, have found difficulty In comprehend ing the high praise of George Henry Lewes, who declared that he would rather have written "Pride and Prejud.ce" than all of the Wavcrley novels. Perhaps even more precious to her would have been the encomiums of the author of Waverley hlmpelf. who exclaimed after reading "Pride and Prejudice" for the third time: "That young lady had a talent for de scribing the Involvements, feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me, themest wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can da myself like any one going, but the exquisite touch which renders common things and charac ters interesting fiom the truth of the de scription and the sentiment is denied roe. What a pity so gifted a creature died so young!" DOGMA UNCHANGEABLE. Church's Opposition to the Earth's Movement and Secret Societies. PORTLAND. April 5. (To the Editor.) I notice that In the reply of Mr. Joseph Schell, in your Issue of the 3d Inst., the writer carefully refrains from directly contradicting the statements of my let ter, but contents himself with attempting to escape their effect by suggesting that there are those "who recognize as dogma and moral everything except dogma and moral Itself." I am fairly familiar with most of tho positions of the apologists. In their attempt to excuse the church for condemning "the error and the heresy of the movement of the earth," but the Implied position of your correspondent that tho church was not dealing with "dogmn and moral" Is new. Indeed, in the light of the original documents copied carefully from the Vatican Manuscripts, and published by eminent Catholic schol ars, his position Is, If possible, more In teresting than ever. When. In 1C16, the Holy Congregation held In the presence of Pope Paul V, sol emnly rendered Its decree that "the doc trine of the double motion of tho earth about Its axis and about the- sun Is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture," and condemning "all writings which af firm the movement of the earth"; when the Papacy prefixed to the Index, upon which the condemnations were Inscribed. Its usual papal bull, giving Its monitions the most solemn papal sanction: and when, in 1C64, Pope Alexander- VII pre fixed to the index of that year contain ing the condemnation of "all books which nfflrra thft mntlnn of fhi rflrth " n TviTHll bull, signed by himself, binding the con- ients of the Index upon the conscience of the faithful, and confirming and approving In express terms, finally, decisively and Infallibly, the condemnation of "all books teaching the movement of the earth and the stability of the sun," may It not be said that the church was dealing with "dogma and moral"? A further examination of the decree of the Holy Congregation, declared In 1C16 In the presence of Paul V, shows that the proposition that "the sun Is tho center about which the earth revolves" was con demned as "absurd, false In theology, and heretical, becaus! abrolutely contrary to Holy Scripture." If this was not "dogma" what In the name of common-sense, was It? If such a theory was "heretical." will Mr. Schell say that it had nothing to do with morals? For an honest statement of the true po sition of the church as to questions of astronomy in the ICth and 17th centuries, see The Pontifical Decrees Against the Doctrine of the Earth's 'Movement" a book by a Roman Catholic clergyman In England, Rev. T"ather TV. W. Roberts. (London. 1SS5.) Father Roberts shows that Pope Alexander VII in 1C61. by his bul' "Sp:culatores Domn-s Israel" attached to the Index, condemning "all books which affirm the motion of the earth." ("Llbrl omncs qui affirmant tellurls motutn") had absolutely pledged the papal Infallibility against the earth's movement The full text of the bull Is at pages 132-123, See al so an essay by the late eminent Catholic scientist St George Mlvnrt published In the "Nineteenth Century' fpr July, 1SSS, JAAE ACSTEJf. In which ht acknowledges father Iloberta' I position to be Impregnable. And declaring Virtually that the Almighty al!6wed Pope and Church to fall Into complete error regarding the movement of the earth. In order to teach them that science lies out side their province! It might be remarked that Dr. Mlrart recently stated that 8crlpture criticism" Is a question for science alone. mnlMi movement of the earth. On April JO, 1SS4, Leo XIII. the present Pope. Issued an encyclical letter In which he divides the human race "Into two diverse and adverse classes" ("In parties duas dlversa ad- versasaUe") "the Kingdom Of God on earth namely, the true Church of Jesus Christ." and "the realm of Satan." All who are not members of the former be long to the latter, so, that there Is no al ternative between being a good Catholic or a worshiper of the -Devil. His Holiness then proceeds to show that the headquar ters of Satanism are the lodges of Free- masons, a .fact, he adds, fully recog nized by his "predecessors. wh6 have never ceased to expose and denounce the dia bolical character and grorsly wicked alms of these arch-enemies of the Christian faith. As Is said' by Professor E. P. Ev ans in the March number of "Popular Science Monthly": "The detailed descrip tion of the organization of this order. Its devilish purposes, and the horrible crimes committed In order to accomplish them are very queer reading In an official doc ument emanating from an Infallible eccle siastical authority nt the close of the 19th century." But It Is not only Freemasons who are thus exposed. On August 20, ISM, Leo XIII published a decree of the Inquisition, putting under the ban "Odd Fellows. Sons of Temperance, and Knights of Pythias," as "synagogues of Satan," and excluding them from the sacraments of the church Now, the amusing part of this contro versy is that Mr. Schell claims that the dogma of the Catholic church does not and cannot change, and that "the Pope as such is Infallible, independent of any and all outside Influences." No one will dispute his right to hold such an opinion If ho sees fit. but such credulity In this day of grace Is apt to cause a smile. H. K. SARGENT. i a CHINESE COTTON SPINNING. Their Competition Does Jfot Threat en American Industries. WASHINGTON. April L Senator Nel son, of Minnesota, recently received from Hon. John Goodnow, United States Consul-General at Shanghai, China, a clear and ercnclse letter sotting forth the facts with regard to the manufacture of cotton goods at Hankow. China. Mr. Goodnow's letter was Instigated by a letter of Senator Pettlgrew to the Southern cotton spinners. In which he said: "You may not realize the. magnitude of Oriental competition. A large, modern cotton mill, making yarn as good as you make at Charlotte (not as good, perhaps, as the best you make), operated by Chi nese laborers alone, is located at Hankow. China. This mill has 34.000 spindles and i 700 looms In operation. The average wages paid all the men engineers, weavers, spin ners and carders Is tl 75 a month In our money, and they board themselves. Not a single person other than native Chinese Is employed In the mill. There are eight or 10 such mills In Shanghai, and more are being built" Consul Goodnow. on his own behalf, says that tho facts about cotton manufactures In China are these: "The mill in Hankow mentioned has dis continued weaving cloth, as It could not meet the competition of foreign piece goods. The looms are being taken out and are being replaced by spindles. In Shang hai there arc now running 750 looms. It Is claimed that these are now (but ' ily very recently) making a coame sheeting nt a profit "But the cost of making this sheeting Is fully as much as tho manufacture of the samo grade of cloth costs in America. In stead of wages averaging 1 75 per month, the cheapest coolie laborer receives IS Mexican (t3 gold) per month: carders and spinners receive 123 to 130 Mexican (112 to 115 gold) per month: engineers and weav ers receive 20 to W) Mexican (J10 to $30 gold) per month. Wages have risen ver7 fast In the treaty ports, with the building of mills and the establishment of the (or I ! business, and are maintained nt the higher level. "The labor, however. Is less effective than the American labor. The American weavers accomplish two to three times and American spinners nt least four time the results attained by corresponding Chlneso workmen In the same time. "Two of the mill In Shanghai are now run entirely by Chinese: two have a for eign supervising engineer, and five have foreigners for the managers and heads of dppartments and supervisory places. "The yarn manufactured at this point find at Hankow goes to the province of Szechuen. nrd 1 made there Into cloth on hand looms In the villages and houses of the consumers. Only the coarse grades of cotton varn nr mnde, nnd the higher price of raw Chinese cotton as the de mnnd hns increased and the competition of Indian and Japanese ynrn have caused i1sm mills to run at a loss to the pres ent t.m. x "The entrnn "p doi!nntpr tho mar ket In Northern China nnd now chnllonv lie for trade In Central China are from America. "We ran control this market so loi" in we have m eoual ntrnr Into nil Phirm. esrcl",V ns frlecht lln from Aeriiv o Chlri nr Tn'tl-id: nrd -h the NIrominin "nnl ! built no oth er than Aiuprteah cotton goods need ap ply In China." 'VAFWTNRTOV. Anrll B. The amount nf brds dpr1ted In th Treasury to dn fo- -rhangc for the new t per cents is $z,!e2,rao. IN SOUTHERN LUZON BRISK WORK OF AMERICANS IX TUB CASIAIUSES. Major Case's Lncld Account Hnnd-to- Iland Conflict With Uolo-Men Deliverance of Prisoners. NUEVA CACERES, Province of Ca marlnes Sur. Feb. 26. The expedition of the American troops against the Provinces of North and South Camarlnes. under Brigadier-General J. M. Bell, sailed from Manila Bay on the 15th Inst. It was composed of the Forty-fifth Infantry, Col onel Dorst; two battalions of the For tieth Infantry. Colonel Godwin: two light battery guns, a mounted detachment from the Thirty-seventh and 50 engineers. The transports, seven In number, con voyej by the gunboat Marietta, proceeded rabidly down the west coast of Luzon, and. passing through the Straits of San Bemadlno. turned northward, arriving at the Bay of Albay at dusk of the 17th. After assembling a number of email boats for landing purposes, the fleet once more turned northward on the 19th, and at dusk of that date hove to off the en trance to San M'rucl Bay. The plan of attack comprised three col umnsthe first to land 'at the southwest comer of the bay, the Second at the south east, while the third, held In reserve until the others had secured their posi tions, would then force the passage oMhe Vlcol River. Nueva Carceres, the point of attack, lies 11 miles up this river from the boy. Is the capital or the province and a city of 15.000 inhabitants. Just at daybreak of the 20th. the fleet entered the bay and steamed to the al lotted stations, where the small boat were quickly filled and towed by launches as near shore as possible. Mnjor' Mc Namce, with his battalion of the Fortieth, effected the landing at Barcelonetta with out opposition, and. hastily forming, moved forward tow -j Llbmanan under command or Colonel uodwm. A native was Impressed to take a pacific message to the town, but he soon returned with a defiant answer, and the news that a large force of Insurgents was waiting. Lino of battle was formed, and the troops, deploying from a strip of woods Into an open rice field, were met by a storm of- bullets from tho outskirts or the town, a half mile distant, while a swarm of bolo-men, hidden In the growing rice, sprang up almost under the feet of the advancing line to fight with fatal istic fury untH'kllled by bullet or bayonet Field Stubbornly Contested. Each foot of this field was stubbornly contested, but as the line reached their outlying lntrenchments, the Insurgents broke and fled In the greatest confusion, leaving O dead, 11 wounded and some 20 prisoners In our possession. Our own losses were eight enlisted men and ono officer. Lieutenant Gallcher. wounded. Lieutenant Gallcher has since died of his wound. The second column, consisting of one battalion of the Forty-fifth, under Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, and Major Case's battalion of the Fortieth, were forcing a landing at Calabanga. The Insurgents had constructed an elnborate system of trench es confronting the bay. and as the beats came within range, they were met by considerable resistance. The most for midable part of the Insurgent defense was. however, a bed of mud, left by tho re ceding tide, through which the troops struggled, waist deep, for 200 yards. Once ashore, the line was reformed, and pushed forward toward Calabanga. the Forty fifth forming the advance nnd the Fortieth the reserve. The Insurgent position was well chosen, and they possessed one piece of artillery, but their resistance was comparaUvely slight and they soon fled, with a reported. Iosr of six killed and 11 wounded. Both battalions blvouaced at this town for the night the troops being exhausted by their struggle through the mud and rice fields. Cnptnred Ihnrsrent Casta. In a brief reconnoissance. Company M. of the Fortieth, captured the Insurgent strong box, containing 32100. On the morning of the 21st leaving two companies of the Fortieth at Calabanga. the column pushed on to Carolina without opposition, capturing the Insurgent arsenal and powder factory, together with ono gun and carriage, a large quantity of sulphur, saltpeter and charcoal, and a large por tion of the Insurgent records. Including muster rolls, ordnance returns and general and special orders. After a short rest the Forty-fifth moved on to Palestina, reaching that point at nightfall. The movement had been en tirely successful, and these two battal ions held every available Toad to Mount Isarog, the natural Insurgent stronghold. The plan of attack was now for a com bined concentration of the different col umns, but the Insurgents, after their se vere lesson at Llbmanan and Calabanga, evacuated the city and fled southward to the mountains, and the advance became a race for first possession of the city. The gunboat Paragua arrived first, followed almost Immediately by the battalions of Lieutenant-Colonel Parker and Major Case and Inter In the day by the remainder of the troops. Strong reconnolterlng parties have been sent In all directions, but fighting seems' to be over In this province. Escaped Spanish Prisoner. Escaped Spanish prisoners are strag gling Into our lines, singly and In small groups. Their condition Is pitiable. Starved, beaten, sick, many of them abso lutely nnked, dirty and unkempt, their Joy ni deliverance is uncontrollable. They beg for & rifle and ask permission to go with our troops to wipe out ther scores of abuse and Insult The natives are also returning to their homes and occupa tions, and, under direction of the Provost Marshal, the city Is being cleaned and po liced. The Vlcols. natives of this southern peninsula, differ from the Tngals In form, language and habits, and their in surrection was organized and controlled by Tngal forces, who came from the Ma nila provinces. Nominally, they had somo 8000 enlisted men, but only Tagals had rifles, th Vlcols carrying boles, spears and bows. Their ordnance returns show 770 rifles, Mauser and Remington, and this probably represents their actual lighting strength. Xntlve ORlclnlK Captared. 'March 1 Colonel Dorst's command, mov ing to the southward, has Just sent In the Civil Governor of the province, with his aides, and also some 50 Spanish prisoners and 21 friars, recovered during a running fight near Baao and Yrlga. The military chief, a brigadier-general, serds a bombastic letter to the chief or the American forces, stating his willing ness to tle before surrendering the troops In his command. The chiefs and principal civil officers of this city and province voluntarily sur rendered themselves., and. xlving their pa role, are allowed their liberty, with per mission to go to Manila on government transportation. J. F. C. Flrtt Haelnll of the Season. The employes of the Noon Bag Com pany will play their first game of baseball this season with the Ramblers tomorrow on the old Portland field, at 10 A. M. sharp. A good game Is promised. The line-up will be as follows: ' Noon Bair Co. Ramblers. Clark Norman ...... J D.. ....2b... ..3b... . ..p s. s... "i"i Marten ... Williams . Hume .. . Knabner . McClusky Wilson .... Johnson .. Betraln ... Vandelevaur ...... Burton Harkln J. Smith ... Johnston . Thompon ....C. Smith ..... Zanella Qrere' Olctment. for all skin trouble, is the need of every horo. It recommtnds Itrelf. Prktr Hlf Palsom I lift 9 the hair, nomenlo I These Utters Prore that Lydia nam's Vegetable Compound Makes Women Strong. Two Lottmr from Mrs Oomtm " Dsab Mbs. 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Xr Tavi .m w. a T n. aa8a AA.AMA. ai. x A, Mc ui Every woman knows some woman helped by I LYDIA . PINKHAM'S B. !. .-..W.l..l.W,vvvvy . . jvv PORTLAND ASSAY OFFICE STRONG STATEMENT OF COXGnCSS 3IAX TOXGUE IX PAYOR OF IT. Slany Objections Will 5ot Stand Small Prospect or Getting BUI " Through This Seaiilon. WASHINGTON'. April 1. Although it Is clearly apparent that the committee of coinage, weights and measures does not intend to report any hills for new assay offices, especially at this session. persistent efforts are being made by oev eral sections to have euch bills favorably considered. Members who have Introduced these bills admit that their chances of success are slight, but their cfTorts are nono the less persistent. Representative Tongue, at a recent meeting of the com mittee, appeared and'made a. statement In support of his bill for an assay office at Portland. He based his argument large ly upon articles that have appeared In The Orcgonlan from time to time, and statements furnished by the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Tongue pointed out to the com mittee that Portland was the city where ,. mnv mlnani nqtllrlllv rnPntr!lt ed. Ho said that they purchased their j supplies there, deposited their gold there, If they were making local deposits, or shipped from that point. He said that If an assay office were established at that nnit ihnt thi. miners of tho state would almost to a man take their gold direct to the assay office. He said that Portland was near the mines, because of the rail road lines reaching Portland from the southwestern and southeastern sectlona of the state, and that almost every mine was within 20 miles at least of one of theso 'reads. He cited the figures showing the grow ing eold production of Oregon, and point ed out that the estimates made by the Director of tho Mint and by the Portland nimir of Commerce varied widely. Director Roberts explained this by saying j Hiurar(i Bros., 10no feet lumber; Johnson that the estimate of the Chamber of & Co 1000 fect. gtmut & Co.. 1X feet: Commerce was probably made ""up on j e stone, 1500 feet: Proctor & Beers, 10CO statements of the output furnished by the j feet It Is proposed to build a 25-foot an ceveral mlneowners. while the estimate of npx In the rear of tho haiIt Whlch will tho department was based on figures con- nbout ,iOUblo the capacity of the building. ndentlally supplied by smelters and as- - , . savers, to whom the gold had been turned over after being mined. He said that the department estimates were generally be- low those of state or private insuiuuons. Mr. Tongue showed that the great In- crease in the number of stampu had been out of nil proportion to the small In- crease In the gold product as snown Dy So treasury statement. One member of the committee called attention to the fact that there was a bill pending for" the establishment of an assay office at Baker City, and asked Mr. Tongue what he had to say or tnau a replied that that was noi mo oui. oui u measure introduced by his colleague. He said that he regarded an assay office at Baker City as absolutely worthless; that such an office would not bo accessible t( tho Southern Oregon mines, especially those In the southwestern portion of tho state, and would be of no assistance to miners In other portions of the state. He was asked why he did not leave the Port land offico to Representative Moody, as Portland was In Moody's district. Ho re plied that as he had Introduced the Port land bill In the last Congress, he thought It but right that he should do so again In tho present Congress. He said that when ho had introduced tho Portland jtll Mr. Moody felt compelled to put In the Baker City bin. in tne mieresis oi a pan. oi mj constituents. But he ridiculed th,e Idea or an assay office at such a small, out-of- the-way place as uaKer uiy. He then turned to the gold that would reach Portland from Alaska, nnd said that Portland was as near, or about ns near the Cape Nome gold fields as Puset Sound, and would come In for a large sbare of that gold during the coming sea son. He said that thre were steamship . lines running from Portland to Alaska nowf. and that their number would be in creased this Summer. When pressed, he was forced to admit that on tho grounds of his argument. It would be a wise pol icy to establish an assay office at some point In Alaska, but said he was not representing Alarka. Attention was called to the fact that a company has been organized and capi tal raised for erecting a smelter nt Port land. This, he said, was another ar gument In favor of erecting a Government assay office at Portland. Before drop ping the question. Mr. Tongue said that Oregon sent $20 to the East for every dol lar of the East that goes to Oregon, and attempted to show that the West needed building up. Several members, of the 1 committee said that this argument would probably prove detrimental to the PorJ- "V.. letter. I used Lydia and it did me more V V irci'QC like your J -iUHS. JUlXitrE N. J., May sick when The doctors wm SSv":: &s ! also followed i! my work." U-S Ave., Hoboken, weak, blood im-, feet swellino-. do not feel tired when I get home Tt7.0..- C l f m jj. HUliauu, BOU .iUlfcUUlU, .LC-KOS. VEGETABLE COMPOUND land bill as well as the Baker City and Tacoma mint bill, as It showed that tne trade waa In the wrong. aifeciion am that the conditions In Oregon would have to be Improved greatly to cut down this percentage before an assay office in" the Interest of Oregon miners could be estab lished. Director of the Mint Roberts, who was present during the hearing, said that he had had no reason for changing his po sition against the further erection of as siy offices in the United States. He said that possibly 110.000 or $12,000 would estab lish an office at Portland, but the ex pense of running the Institution, the coct of maintenance and the shipment of bul lion, was what he objected to. He said he would not discriminate between Port land and Baker City as locations for an office In Oregon. He was asked what policy had been pursued In establishing the other small assay offices, and cited as an Instance the assay office at Dead wood. 'That, you see, was established on account of the mines In tho Black Hills. It was established to accommo date the gold from that one locality, and was never expected to be a central point for the shipment of gold from a vast en circling country." Assistant Secretary Vanderlip had very Httlo to say on this question, but when discussing the question of gold from Alas ka several times Intimated that It would go to the Sound. Mr. Tongue asked If he meant to dlstlnsulsh between the Sound and Portland, and he said not: that he meant the entire Pacific Northwest. Both he and Mr. Roberts favor Tacoma as tho locaiion ior u .. ......... " """ ""; stltutlon Is to bo established, as hboe all other points suggested, but they are not hearty In support of even that propo- I siiKm. Flennant Home Xote. J. B. Lent has been very low with pneu monia, but is now improving, and will soon be able to be out. Mr. Radferd. who was 111 with the grip, has entirely recovered. The G. A. R. 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