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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1900. THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON (Copyright. 1900, by Seymour Eaton.) THE OREGONIAN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED BY PROF. SEYMOUR EATON FAMOUS ART GALLERIES OF THE WORLD J I BT ROGER RIORDAN. I. j , , arf. We may now turn to the acknowledged frmtTLten. and we shall And that wHh them, too the special purpose deter- mines the character of the work. They had none of the pride of our day in beta able to do what, for all we know or care, may not be worth doing. Art was to , them, as to their precursors, a way to communicate something felt or perceived by them, and which they considered to , be worth the trouble. As skill in rcpre- sentatlon advanced a more rational sym- bolism replaced the arbitrary one derived ... t, .1 t, , fji- nnT-Ktnrtin of nntiim and of life, "dto- i fane" matters were more often treated, The old subjects were taken up again and handled with greater power, and, owing to the possession of that same power oi vivid representation, subjects before indif ferent or trivial were found worthy ot artistic interpretation. The National gallery has no example of Tponnrdo'K masterv over line, modeling ' and expression. The original painting of paper such as this to speak of the little the "Virgin of the Rocks" Is undoubtedly masters of Holland. France ana .England, that In the Louvre. But in Lulnl's j Ciouefs "Portrait of a Boy." LeNaln's "Christ with Disciples and Doctors of the , "Portalt Group," the Gerard Dous, Pleter Chu-ch." formerly attributed . Leo- j de Hooghes. Gabriel Metsus. Galnsbor nado, we have a very good example of ough's "Parish Clerk," Reynolds' "Mrs. the Lombard school founded by him. Bot- Slddons" would have to be considered if ticclli's "Mars and Venus" may give a we were not obliged to choose betweea A FAMILIAIt PICTURE BY LAXDSEEIL (In the National Gallery.) notion of the value of line and contour in the Florentine school, and his mysti cal "Nativity." in which angels dance a merry-go-round in the sky above the stable, and angels and youths are em bracing In the foreground, is a distinct echo of the middle ages. The unfinished "Entombment," by Michael Angelo, a group supreme In composition, movement and mass. In a generalized landscape vague but Impressive, Is one of the few great pictures In the collection. "The Am bassadors," by Holbein, portraits of two unknown noblemen, with a table covered with charts and documents between them, may be mentioned here as a more than adequate example of the contemporary German school. There is nothing to show Raphael's great merits as a composer, though his "Madonna and Child with St. John and St. Nicholas of Bari" is one of his best preserved altar pieces. But. If there Is little of the Florentine and Central Ital ian schools at their best, the more at tractive Venetian school, with Its glow ot color and varied textures. Is generally represented. The "Knight In Armor." attributed to Glorglone. may not be his, nor the other pictures assigned to him. GalnnltorouKli's Mrs. Slddons. (In the National Gallery.) "The Garden of Love." with Its youthful couples strolling or resting in the grass on either side of a small rivulet, and the "Venus and Adonis." but these have cer- talnly something of his spirit, "a high strung sort of poetry," as Pater says, per meating the ordinary or hackneyed sub ject. By his master, Giovanni Bellini, we have the portrait of Doge Loredano; by his fellow-pupil. Titian, the "Bacchus and Ariadne." The exuberance of life In this great painting Is very poorly represented in the well-known engravings of it, which, nev ertheless, give more than can be put In to words. Enjoyment of life, but of the quieter sort, is the main thing expressed In Lotto's celebrated picture of himself and family. The motion, pressure and glory of life attract us In Tintoretto's "Milky Way" and Veronese's "Family of Philip IV, of Spain, by A'elasqncz. (In the National Gallery.) Darius Before Alexander." with Its dis play of splendid costumes and magnificent architecture. 'fmr after the decline of the great Italian crVirvnlK Vmt tia Tirnnf f iPrA In the "Chapeau de Faille" of Reubens, In the self portrait and "Portrait of an Old Lady In a White Ruff," by Rembrandt, In the Vandykes, In the "Holy Family" and the "Infant St. John, of Murillo, and In the two portraits of Philip IV and the "Boar Hunt," by Velasquez. Es- pecialyn the latter, there Is a new sense of relation of the background to tg fl6urcs- In Michael Angeloa Entomtu nenf space Is completely filled by the fibres. The picture is an abstraction which oppresses almost as much as It im. Presses us In the "Bacchus and Ariadne ' the landscape exists but It bears no true relation to the figures, the values are nowhere exact. Even in Rem. brandt the mysterious depth of the back- ground depends largely on the objects half-seen through Its gloom. But for Velasquez space, air and light exist, with or without definite forms. He might, as has been said of Whistler, paint "a dark night with nothing in it," but he preferred to paint definite objects in their definite relations of tone. Hence a fuller repre sentation of reality, which yet is not realistic but the result of a more in formed idealism. It were to small purpose In a short them and more important works. It is of interest to trace the development of the feeling for landscape In these schools, but that has often been done. The great things in landscape painting light, air and distance were discovered Vandyke portrait of Cornelias Van der Geest. (In the National Gallery.) by the figure painters; the landscaplsts. even Constable and Barblzon men, have only applied these discoveries. "The Boar Hunt" Is one of the most modern of landscapes. It Is more modern by far than those of Claude. Poussln and the Dutchmen: more modern even than Gainsborough's "Market Cart"; Its true place is with contemporary paintings like Whistler's and Manet's. One great name remains, that of Tur ner. It is easier to get people to pretend an admiration which they do not feel for Turner's worst work than to make them appreciate his best. An Idealist with an extraordinary knowledge of Na turo and an extraordinary contempt for sound methods in art, his work is often marred by willfulness and cockney bad taste. But In pure ideal landscape no one has as yet produced anything to bear comparison with the "Old Temeraire" or with the "Burial at Sea" of the painter "V ilkie by mingled torchlight and moon. Rembrandt's portrait old "Wo inn n. (In the National Gallery.) light, with a phantom rock of Gibraltar In the distance. It Is to be said, too. that Turner's capricious playing with light and color has been a stimulus to Claude Monet In his more scientific and more hopeful researches. With Turner and Velasquez we are at the threshold of the modern Impression istic school. In the too brief review which we have made we have found our selves obliged to pass over accomplished Imitators to give our attention to men perhaps at many points their Inferiors, but who were Innovators and progressive. This should teach us not to be hostile to the new thing In art, even If at first we do not understand or like it. The newest school of painting has In It great possi bilities. Itis at any rate not safe to say that It may not yet produce masterpieces worthy to rank with the greatest of those that we have been discussing. New York. What the Boxers Are. Leslie's Weekly. "Boxers" Is a rough-and-ready transla tion of the three Chinese characters, Ro manized as E Ho Chuan, meaning. In bald llteralnesK, "righteousness, harmony, fists." They are the men who smite righteously, on behalf of the true har mony which exists between heaven and earth. They would exterminate all who do not take the Confucian theory of the universe. Foreigners, with their strange doctrines ind religions, their outlandish ways and fearsome magic, have disturbed this harmony. The men that smite with of an "the righteous flst" propose to set the universe in order by driving out the hairy-faced, blue-eyed aliens. One knowing the conditions of things in China wonders neither at the fre quency of riots nor at the rapidity with which vast crowds can assemble under fanatical and bigoted leaders. Peaceable and law-abiding citizens are suddenly transformed Into yelling and infuriated monsters of destruction. The average Chinaman lacks the power of thinking as an Individual. He acts in mobs and hordes. Ignorant of the commonest facts of science, such as our children are fa miliar with, he Is crednlous to an extent which It is hard for us to conceive. Seeing the foreigner's wonder-working engines, machines, lenses, medicine,, and surgery, he imagines him gifted with magical and malevolent powers. Being as credulous as they are Ignorant, the populaoe need only a few shrewd fellows to play upon their fears and to arouse their supersti tion and fanaticism. Hence the rapid rise of the Boxers, who have spread over the northern provinces and threaten the very stability of the government. Whether, as usual, this mighty mass of bigotry and fanaticism will melt away before the onset of the determined men of the West, or whether, like a prairie fire. It will sweep over the empire and probably overthrow the effete dynasty In Pekm, are questions which no man at the present moment can answer. Unfortunately, the disturbed district is pretty thickly dotted with American mis sion stations. The Imperial troops sent to face the Boxers have flown like chaff before the wind, or have openly Joined their enemies. It may be that, as unex pectedly as Uncle Sam walked Into Cuba and the Philippines, he may now be called on to take a hand In rebuilding China. AT THE HOTELS. THE PORTLAND. Geo M Franks, Son FrH Muecko. Aurora, Or E E Hulebard C R Muecke. do Mrs B F Woodman, Spokane F E Abbott. Chiesra Geo M Gibson. San Fx I A C Anderson, Chgo IW J Ball. San Fran p W Beatty.Warren.Pa Miss Y DeBois. Ban Fr i a f lant. N Y Morris Kohn. Phlla A M Phelps, X Y Mra Phelps, N Y Harry Lare waiter w Beatty, do P A Gilbert. do Mrs Humphrey, Aus tralia Dr W J May. Baker Cy J Allen. San Francisco Chas Dawson. 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Call at Union Pacific City Ticket Ofllce. No. 133 Third street, corner Alder, for greatly reduced rates to all points East. How It Happened. "Here, waiter!" cried tho camel, who had been vainly endeavoring to ab sorb his mint-Julep, "this straw has a flaw In It." "Sorry." replied the monkey, who was acting as bartender, "but you'll hare to get along without It. It's the lat one In the house." Then the camel, in his frenzied ef forts to draw through It, broke his back. Philadelphia. Press. THE ORIENTAL CRISIS LACK OF TJTOTED ACTIOX BT POW ERS COSTS LIFE AKD TRADE. OeadlUess Which Contribute te Dis turbances In the Chinese Empire The Empress and the Boxers. China for the past 40 years, and more especially since her war with Japan in 1S5, has been made the theme of such untold thousands of magazine and news "paper articles, as well as of hundreds of more or less elaborate books, that it would seem well-nigh Impossible that there should remain anything to write about this great problem, aptly described by Emperor William as the "Yellow Peril." and which has now reached an exceptionally acute stage, writes "Ex Attache" In the Pittsburg Dispatch. And yet there are some points which apparently still call for explanation, while there are certain facts, forgotten or Ig nored, to which it Is timely to draw at tention at the present Juncture, for the purpose of promoting a proper compre hension of the situation in the far East by which the great powers of Christen dom are now confronted. Numerous inquiries have been addressed to me during the last few days by readers of these letters, asking for information as to the immediate cause of the present trouble, the reason for the delay on the part of the United States and other great powers to take common and at the same time effective action, with & view to the protection of the white people, mission aries and traders, who are being massa cred, and of their property which is be ing destroyed; how It comes that the very Chinese societies which until a year or so ago were endeavoring to overthrow the reigning dynasty at Pekln are now co operating with the latter, and lastly, as to what Is likely to be the outcome of the Imbroglio. China's Secre't Societies. China Is honeycombed as no other coun try In the world with secret societies, embracing all classes, having an exist ence dating from the second century of the Christian era an existence not of tra dition, but vouched for by record. They are diverse in the elements of which they are composed In their rules and practices, although most of them, especially the Triad, which Is the most Important of them all. have such extraordinary anal ogy with Western Free Masonry as to Imply a community of origin. The sym bols and tenets are the same, the cere monies of Initiation are similar, the test questions bear a close resemblance there to, and In fact the only foreigner who ever obtained admission to the Triad, namely, an Englishman of the name of Mason, achieved this feat on the strength of his belonging to the higher grades of Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. Originally a form of Oriental mysticism, founded on moral and cosmologlcal theo ries, these societies became political fac tors toward the 17th century of our era, and until a year or so ago had In view as their principal object the overthrow of the Manchu or Tartar dynasty, and as watchword, "China for the Chinese." The Tal Ping rebellion of 40 and B0 years ago was fostered and promoted by the Triad, and came near overthrowing the Pekln Government, which it could doubt less have accomplished had It enjoyed the co-operation of the other seferet societies. A Change of Front. Today the meaning of the watchword of the various secret societies, namely, "China for the Chinese," is changed. For the aim Is no longer antl-dynastic, nor do they seek the expulsion of those 10, 000.000 or 12,000,000 Manchus who for the past 200 years have Imposed themselves as the ruling class over 400,000,000 Chinese, compelling them to adopt the Manchu style of hatrdress, namely, a pigtail. In token of subjection. Today the secret societies have for their object the expul sion of the foreigner from the land. It Is a mistake to believe that John Chinaman Is a stranger to patriotism. Indeed, so passionately devoted. Is he to his native country that he makes ar rangements for the return of his bones to the Flowery Kingdom In the event of his dying in a foreign land. This fiber of patriotism has been utilized by that ex traordinarily clever woman, the Dowager Empress, to rally the entire Nation Into the presentation of a virtually united front to the foreigner, to convert the se cret societies from antl-dynastlc Into anti-foreign movements, and to achieve that which the Triad sought in vain to bring about at the time of the Tal Ping rebellion, namely, co-operation of all se cret societies, one with another, against the common foe, which this time is not the Manchu, but the white foreigner. The Canse of the Trouble. It cannot be denied that for more than half a century past China has been sub jected to a degree of indignity. Insult, ex tortion and bullying on the part of for eign powers which no Christian power would have tolerated. Treaties have been Imposed upon her by force, her finest har bors seized, and vast stretches of her littoral successively placed under foreign rule. She has been compelled to con sent to agreements providing for the transfer of her Immense river trade to foreign flags, and for the grldlronlng of the entle land by means of foreign-built and foreign-controlled railroads, while for every concession made by her a dozen new ones have been presented by the for eign powers. At length, exasperated be yond endurance and driven to the wall, the Empress Issued In December last an edict addressed to the Viceroys of the various provinces. "The foreign powers cast upon ns look3 of tiger-like voracity, hustling each other in their endeavors to be the first to seize upon our innermost territories," she de clared. "They fall to understand that there are certain things which this Em pire can never consent to do, and that if hard pressed we have no alternative but to rely upon the Justice of our cause." Four weeks later another edict was dis patched to the same officials by the Dow ager Empress, who, according to wide spread belief In the Orient, has English or American blood in her veins, her mother having been a Eurasian, or child of a white father, and Manchu mother. The Empress nnd the Boxers. In this second edict the Viceroys were warned to exercise a prudent discrimina tion towards the disturbers of public peace. "The reckless fellows" who band together and create riot on the pretext of securing the Inauguration of reforms were to be punished, while those loyal subjects who learn gymnastic drill "for the protection of their families and their country" that is to say, the members of the "Righteous Harmony Fists Associa tion" were to be favored. This was the first heard of the so-called "Boxers." openly a society for the cultivation of gymnastics, secretly an antl-foreigh po litical movement, something like thoso "Turn Vereln" or gymnastic societies, which played so Important a political role In Germany at the beginning of the present century, becoming one of the most Important factors In the liberation of the Fatherland from the presence of the French Invader. From that time forth the so-called "Boxers" were more or 'less openly en couraged by the Empress. They became a means of union among all the various secret societies, and if today these so cieties in all parts of the- immense Chinese Empire are simultaneously taking to arms to expel the foreigner It Is due to the cleverness of the old Empress, who Is thus, at the close of the nineteenth century, emulating the role played nearly 100 years ago by Queen Louise In Prussia, when she roused her countrymen, to rid Germany of the thraldom of Napoleon. There Is every reason to believe that on this occasion the Dowager Empress has at her back, not merely her Manchu retainers, but all China, and China, as stated above, contains & teeming and seething population ot more than 400, 000,00s; who are almost insensible to pain, have no fear of death, and are Imbued with fierce hatred of the foreigner. To cope with this Yellow Peril naval and especially military forces ot a colos sal character will be required. It is true, that both Canton and Pekln were occu pied some ) years ago by an allied Franco-English army of some 15,000 or 20.000 men. But I well remember the late Sir Harry Parks, who accompanied the commanding General as chief interpreter, explaining to me long afterward at Tokio that Canton as well as Pekln were such Immense cities that the Anglo French force only occupied a very small quarter thereof, and that the remainder of the two cities was so little under their control that each morning the heads of those European soldiers who had strayed beyond the cordon of sentinels during the night would be hurled from neighboring houses into the Anglo-French lines. Indeed, the so-called seizure of these Im mense capitals was so Ineffective that not one In a thousand Chinamen will ad mit that it really took place, and I have even some Chinese friends who were liv ing at Pekln at the time of Its occupa tion who have pledged me by all that they held sacred that the story must be untru. seeing that they never set eyes on a French or English soldier at the time alleged. Moreover. Chinese history ascribes the destruction ot the celebrated Summer Palace, not to the French and English troops, as was really the case, but to divine agency, as punishment of sacri lege on tho part of one of the members of the imperial family. Who Conld Flffht China There are only two powers that are really In a position to Invade Chinese ter ritory at the present moment, and to place large armies in tho field; namely, Japan and Russia. The latter has probably tCt the present moment about 100,000 soldiers stationed at Vladlvostock, Port Arthur, and along the southeastern frontier of Siberia. Japan, on the other hand, has an army of at least twice that number of men assem bled at various points on the eastern coast of the Mikado's empire all ready for Immediate transport across the small stretch of sea that separates Japan from China. The Toklo government threatens to throw an army of several hundred thousand men into China and Corea if the Russians march on Pekln. and In the same way tho Czar's representatives de clare that If Japan moves they will Im mediately occupy the northern provinces of China. The other powers concerned, namely, England, France, Germany and the United States, have no military fore's adequate or near enough to deal with tho matter promptly, especially In so far as any effective steps toward the protection of the life and the property of their 'el-low-countrymen are concerned. Yet they are reluctant to entrust either of the two I-uwtrfc In question with the task, or to accept their offers of service. For Japan is not only a non-Christian and thoroughly Asiatic nation. Imbued with the hatred for the white man com mon to all yellow races, but Is also pos sessed by the most aggressive ambitions only to be satisfied at the expense of the Western powers. The Idea of Japan Is to obtain a pre ponderant influence in China, to secure differential duties in her favor in such a way as to close the Chinese market to all other foreign nations, and to drill the Chinese army so as to become a weapon for the furtherance of her dreams of grandeur- In one word, there Is no positive as surance of the fact that if Japan were to obtain.' control of China at the present moment she would not use that control against all Western and Christian powers, thus Intensifying the so-called Yellow Peril. Equally reluctant are tho powers to trust Russia', who has to her record a terribly long list of broken treaties and violated engagements. It is but the other day that she obtained from Corea the harbor of Masampho. the finest on the ehtire coast ot China. In spite of her most solemn pledges to England, as well as to Japan, not to take any such step. It Is In keeping with her conduct In con nection with Batoum, In the Black Sea. She bound herself by the treaty of Ber lin that Batoum should be a free port and unfortified, yet deliberately closed It eight years later and converted It Into a naval stronghold, on which occasion Lord Rose bery, as English Foreign Secretary, com plained bitterly In a memorable dispatch of Russia's "failure to recognize the bind ing force and sanctity of international engagements," adding that It "tends to make future conventions and treaties dif ficult if not impossible, and to cast doubt at least upon the worth of the treaties already In existence." Russia, a Dishonest Nation. This Is only one of scores of Instances where treaties and conventions signed by Russia have been -violated In the most Impudent manner by that power, either on the strength of some quibble, or else without any pretext at all. The powers concerned have no guarantee or assur ance that If Russia marches her troops into China, and seizes the capital, she will consent to march out again, and if she remains there, and obtains control of the Chinese Government, it will be equiv alent to the closure of the vast Mongol Empire to the trade and Industry of all other nations. Even France appears to doubt the good faith of Russia, In spite of the much vaunted alliance. For the French envoy at Pekln, M. Gerard, Is giving no eup port to M. de Glers. the Russian Minister, and French financiers have repeatedly de clined of late to loan the Russian Govern ment any more money. England, the United States, Germany. France and to a certain degree Italy have Interests that are identical In China, namely, the open door policy, and the retention of the Chinese market to the trade and Industry of all the world. These Interests are cer tain to be In danger and In all likelihood to be destroyed If the five powers In ques tion side either with Russia or with Japan In allowing the one or the other to Intervene alone. Alcohol aft Food. B. S. Martin, In Harper's Weekly. Considering the long-standing afllnlty between alcohol and the Inside of man, It seems surprising that their relations to one another are not more fully under stood. So far as concerns the pactlcal use of alcohol as a drink, the astute layman who has observed and reflected and ex perimented a little on his account seems Just as likely to form sound conclusions as the doctors are. He does not expect alcohol to do him any good, except In certain rare emergencies. The most he asks of It Is that It shall not do him harm, and he thinks It won't If he Is care ful enqugh In his use of It. It affords him some enjoyment. That Is, of course, the secret of alcohol's prodigious popu larity, that It affords enjoyment. The problem Is to get out of It a reasonable, moderate amount of enjoyment without paying too high a price for It. It can be done, and Is done all the time by hundreds of thousands of persons, but It Is a mat ter for experts, and so many experi menters who attempt It make a mes3 of It that It Is not surprising that an Influential part of the community not only Itself abandons the attempt, but insists that all the rest of us should do the same. Under Fire. Wm. Dinwiddle, In Harper's Weekly. Whee-e-1 Bang! and a 12-pound shrap nel bursts 200 yards high In the air, and far short of our massed men, but evi dently coming toward us. Then another and still another Is breaking Into a ball of white smoke, which slowly drifts away In the breeze. "That's French's artillery overshooting the kopje," some one ec. clalms. "Yes, that's French," everybody agrees. "He's behind them, and we've got them surrounded." "What the deuce!" and a thousand men bend low In the sad dle as a shell roars past, close overhead. and explodes with a terrific report In the ground -beyoni, throwing- the hrown earth high in. the air. Again the air howls, and e second contact shell covers the pom poms with clods of earth and dust. The ahrapasl, are bursting In one, two, three order, all rery short now, but 3000 yards this side of the kop. "Ow is it theah doia such bloody bad shootin'T" a Tommy exclaims, as he wistfully gazes into the air. "Tin beastly sure it's them bloody Boers what's doln' the game." Whee-e-el Roar! .Bang! and another solid Bhell bursts into fragments 10 feet from the near edge of the great square of horsemen. Aain they retire, now satis fied that the Boers have opened a masked battery. It is impossible to locate it. It is solid shell bursting on impact, com ing one after another slowly, tearing up the ground, now In front, now behind the column, but always In a line with It. The Boers have & habit. It is said, of using their artillery at longer ranges than are Intended, by giving the muzzle extra ele vation; hence they cannot use shrapnel, as the fuses are cut too short for exploding in the air. The cavalry- retire a few hundred yard3 at a time, until thoy are finally beneath the next roll in the veldt, and out of sight. DAILY CITY STATISTICS. Real Estate Transfers. Thomas HIslop and wife to Tillle Phillips, fractional lot 4. and lot 5, block 2. Doschefs Second addition; June 15 31250 Martha Patton. guardian, to Lena C. Patton. .29 of an acre, section S. T. 1 S.. R. 1 E.; June 13 Martha J. Patton to Lena C Patton. ico same; June 26 200 George B. Cornelius and wife to Jos eph Kronenberg. parcel land. Alonzo Gates' D. L. C; June 26 180Q John Lay to Estella M. Hlllyard. 10 acres, section 19, T. 1 S.. R. 4 E.; June 25 KO Caroline Exley and husband to Aug ust Wabblea, 20 acres, section 22, T. IS., H.3 E.; June 25 245 MnnrlBgre Licenses. Jacob L Wood, aged 24, Cowlitz County, Washington, Jessie O. Ford, aged 20; John H. Housmon, 39, Shoshone County, Idaho, Pauline Rath, 21; Ludwlg Olsen. 25, Emma Pioch, 23; Joseph Noonan, 30, Julia F. Bloomer. 22; James Dean. 23, Beatrice McKorrom, 18; Seth Parmele, 44. Sarah E. Slater, 32; N. R. Donlon, 22, Ethel Preston, 25; Frank W. Tobias, 32, Kathryn J. Smith, 21. Deaths. June 22, Lillian L. Wise, age 4 years, 313 Tillamook street; diphtheria.' June 25, Samuel K. Stanley, age 67 years, Portland Sanitarium; congestion of lungs. June 24, Frank H. Keith, age 38 years. Good Samaritan Hospital; appendicitis. Contagious Diseases. Mabel Adams, age 7 years, Sellwood; varicella. Opal Davidson, age 5 years, 988 First street; measles. Municipal Progress. International Monthly. The large proportion of our population which live In urban communities makes it necessary that If onr political devel opment Is to be satisfactory, urban con ditions must be very much Improved. What has been said must not be under stood as belittling the progress which has already been made in the Improvement of urban conditions. No greater mis take can be made than to exaggerate the evil conditions which exist In American cities. The progress that 'has already been made Is very great. Fifty years ago efHcient police protec tion was almost unknown. Few, If any. of our cities had ample supplies of pot able water. No effective provision waa made for cleaning the streets, or for taking away the debris occasioned by the exigencies of urban life. The pavements of our cities were generally wretched In character; and the means of transporta tion offered to the urban population was altogether Inadequate. Much of the Improvement that has been made In these respect within the last half-century has been due, of course, to the development of scientific methods; but the Improvement which has actually taken place would not have been possible had our city governments been as bad as they have sometimes been represented. IN TABLET FORM-PLEASANT TO TAKE. Health Is the best Investment in life s securities. If ypa wish large dividends purchaso a Six Months' Treatment of Dr. Bnrkhari's Vegetable Compound and you will soon and yourself much enrich ed.There are millions whobare been mado happier by taking this wonderrni medicine, wayaoyounea ltate when such a golden opportunity is offered yon? Yon are only afflicting- injury upon yonrseu dt unnecessary aoiay. Vfltnesjlnfr remarkable cores ot Stomach, Liver, Scrofula and Catarrh Troubles by friATam&tohlA fVTvwrrifH T tsvV fraulmnn O. UcXaujcht, Ooodfleld. In. ir sal hT all drnarirlsts. 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The court physician, following Profe?3r Unna's discovery, has treated Her Majesty's scalp with a germ-destroying preparation, which he has always kept secret. It is now known, however, that the remedy for dandruff, the germ-destroying element, 13 embodied In Newbro'e Herp'clde. the on ly hair preparation on the market that does destroy the dandruff germ. Without dandruff, hair will grow profusely, and falling hair will be stopped. "Destroy the cause, you remove the effect." I IODIDE OF IRON forANEMIA .POORNESS of the BLOOD, 1 CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS SCROFULA. Etc None genuine unless signed "Blawcard1 ALL DRUGGISTS. E. FOUQERA&CO..N. Y. Agts. for U.S. . THIS BADGE Is an "emblem of consideration" and signifies the wear er's intention to help the Retail Clerks and mer chants to shorter hours by making all purchases before S P..M. vSixHosmTr;EAiPL BL ANCAR tfj r 4 THE PALATIAL HI net a darlc ofDee In the hriUdlnet absolutely fireproof t electric Utchta I and artesian vrateri perfect aantta uob and thoraaeh -ventilation. Ele vatora res day -and nleht. Rooms. ATNSMH. DR. GEOnQD. Physlclan....608-00-J ALDRICH. 8. W.. General Contractor 613 ANDHRSOK. GUSTAVO Attoraey-at-Law... 613 ASSOCIATED PRESS: E- I Powtll. Mg-r..S09 AUSTEN. P. C. Manager for Oregon and Washington Bankers Ufa Aserclallcn. of Dea Moines, la 302-503 BANKERS LIFE ASSOCIATION. OP DES MOINES. IA.;F. C. Austen. Managr..502-503 BAYXTUN.sGEO. R.. Met. for Chaa. Bcrlb- ners Sons 315 BEAXS. EDWARD A.. Forecast Official U. B. Weather Bureau ,..010 BENJAMIN. R T7.. Dentist 314 BINSWANQER. DR. O. B.. Phys. & Sur.410-411 BROOKE, DR. J. M.. Phys. & Surg- 70S-T00 BROWN. MTRA. M. 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