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THE) MOjRftING l03E(HXNIA3Sy ..TUESDAY, .'JTJDY- 23; 1900; 15 ROOSEVELT ON EXPANSION FULL BEPOR.T OF HIS SPEECH AT ST. PAUL. Imperialism aa Imaginary lease 'Weaknesses off tne DeKioeratlo Party Assailed. BL PauL "Four years ago the success of .the Populist Democracy would have meant fearful misery, fearful disaster at home; It would have meant the shame that Is -worse even than misery and dis aster. Today it would mean all this, and in addition, the Immeasurable dis grace of abandoning the proud position we .have taken, of flinching from the great work we have begun. "We know definitely what we believe and we say It outright. Our opponents who represent all the forces of discon tent, malice and envy, formed and form less, vague and concrete, can hardly be said to know what they really do believe, because the principles they profess, if put forth nakedly, are so revolting, even to their own followers, that they like at least to try to wrap the mantle of hypoc risy around them. "They rant about trusts, but they have nothing practicable to advance In the way of remedy; nor is this to be wondered at, when one of the makers of their platform, the representative from New York, and the leader of their organization in New York, are both themselves among the most prominent stockholders in the worst trust to be foui.d today 1n the United States, the ice trust, which has justly ex posed Itself to the criticism our opponents often unjustly apply to every form of in dustrial effort. 'They have invented the imaginary dan ger of imperialism, and about that thoy also rave. Yet so conscious are they of the hollowness of their attack, so well aware that to follow out their professions would mean to trail the American flag in the dust, that they are obliged to pretend that really, after all, they are for expan sion. Fifty-Two Per Cent of Democratic Faith in a 43-Cent Dollar. "After Infinite labor they finally did de cide that they still believed In free silver. This decision was reached In their com mittee by a vote of 26 to 24; so that It ap pears that they only have 62 per cent of the faith in their 4S-cent dollar after alL Even this amount of faith they were able to reach purely by the aid of Hawaii; and yet four years ago they objected as much to our expansion over Hawaii as they sow object to our expansion over the Philippines! There is an element of grim comedy in these builders having now perforce to take the once-rejected stone to make out of it the foundation of their new platform. "Their only unequivocal position is that in favor of free silver at the ratio of 16 o 1; for they have sought at least to make the pretense of qualifying or at least of clouding what they mean when they ask or the relaxation of the bonds of justice and order and the abandon ment of our position as a great nation manfully doing Its part In the worla work that must be done by all great nations. True to tholr nature, they have sought to subordinate the one issue on which they take a decided stand, and they declare that they have subordinated the question of free silver to other questions. Now, at a matter of fact, they cannot decide which one of their various heresies the people shall regard as most Important. The de cision rests with the people themselves; and those who are primarily Interested in our financial honesty and Industrial well-being cannot and will not admit that any possible difference is caused by put ting the free silver plank in one rather than another portion of the platform. Neither does it make, any difference whether the Popullstlc" Democracy, to which we are now opposed, lays most stress upon Its determination to debase the currency or upon its determination to degrade the flag. We are opposed to both propositions, and no self-respecting citizen, in making up his decision, can afford to neglect either. "There is little need to argue against free silver now. What need we say against a doctrine which would work a sweeping and destructive revolution in our financial system, and yet which Is advanced by a party only after a violent contest In which nearly half of that party has opposed it? At Kansas City It took the Democrats two days to determine upon the free-silver plank in their plat form. The rest of the planks did not need an hour's work And yet they solemnly ask that the two days plank shall be relegated to a secondary position. Indeed, if their attitude on tnls question were not full Of such terrible possibilities of trag edy to the nation, it would amount to a farce. The Expansion Issue. "Now, as. to expansion. It hardly seem? worth while to waste any time upon what the Kansas City people call 'Imperialism' and 'militarism. The dominant note of the Kansas City convention was Insin cerity. The convention whlch nominated 2Ir. Bryan in 1S00 was in character in finitely below that which nominated him hi 1896. In 1S96. for all their wild and dangerous folly, his advocates had at least the merit of sincerity in their bitter fa naticism. However wrongheaded, they knew what they believed and they stated it wi thou Wear. In 1900 their actions were determined purely by policy, and their pandering to the worst and most degrad ed passions in our National life, bad enough in all conscience's sake In Itself, was rendered infinitely worse because robbed of every vestige of honesty and ' sincerity. It took them two days to find out what they believed aoout free sil ver, and this was the only plank con cerning which they took the trouble to find out their beliefs at all. They reas serted the doctrines of anarchy which they had preached in S6, not because they longer believed In them, but because they hoped by announcing them to attract to themselves all men of unsound and vio lent mind. "When It comes to dealing with our for eign policy they deliberately strive to fos ter resistance to the National flag where such resistance already exists, and to call Into being where It does not exist, with the hope of gaining some petty party ad vantage at no matter what cost of ruin to the Nation. They mouth about 'Im perialism' and 'militarism,' knowing 'that there is not one shred of truth in what they say; knowing. If they know anything, that their words are putting a premium upon every Island from which the Span iards have been driven, and caring noth ing because they wish to purchase party success even at the cort of disloyalty to the flag, of death and suffering to the men who flght under the flag. Bitter In deed is the cup they hold out to the Na tion to drink, and thrice bitter it will be for the,Na"Qon if it does not spurn It. "What they eay about Cuba and Porto Rico need not detain us for a momant. In Porto Rico we now have Governor Al len in charge. In Cuba we have put Gen eral Xonard Wood In charge, and all the preliminary steps have been taken to give to .the people of the Itland their own gov ernment. Our pledge to Cuba shall, of course, bo kept General Wood's admin istration is a synonym for honesty and cleanliness, and the minute that fraud was discovered in the postal department, the wrongdoers were hunted down In un sparing pursuit, and the best possible proof was thereby given that we meant what we said and that governmental clean liness would be obtained, in the only pos sible way, by the unsparing cutting out of corruption wherever it was found. "We now come to the Philippines and to the general question of expansion. Many of the positions taken by the Popullstic Democracy at the moment are so pal pably dishonest end maintained in so pal pable bad faith that to state them is sufficient. It is hardly necessary to dis cuss what they say about ""the Constitu tion following the flag.' The Democratic party never championed: the doctrine thus set4forth save In the dark days when it had become the handmaiden of slavery and rebellion, and danced to any tavA which the apostles of slavery chose to pipe. "At Kansas City the men engaged in preaching the gospel of dishonor and tc pudiatlon eolemnly asserted that 'imperial ism abroad will lead quickly and. Inevi tably to despotism at homo. You men of Minnesota and the Dakotas who are here this evening can. appreciate the fatuous ness of that .statement by, the simple process of thinking whether your liberties have been abridged by the return of the Minnesota and Dakota troops, who won such honor for themselves in the Philip pines. There are geometrical propositions 0 essentially absurd that mathematic ians hold their statement to be equiva lent to their refutation. If it were worth while I would point out Its dishonesty and insincerity. But flagrant though these are its absurdity is so much more flagrant that nothing need be said. Democratic Cant About Militarism. "So it is with their cant about 'militar ism and. 'intimidation' and 'oppression at home' as following what they are pleased to call 'conquest abroad.' We cannot ar gue with them on this proposition, be cause no serious man thinks for one mo ment that thoy believe what they assert. During the great Civil War there were many preachers of the gospel of dis loyalty among the so-caHed copperheads of the North, and these men, like their representatives among our opponents to day, prophesied the subversion of the country when the great armies of Grant and Sherman, should come back from the war; but the great armies of Grant and Sherman returned to civil life and were swallowed up among their fellow-citizens without a ripple. "No; our opponents mean nothing, and know they mean nothing, when they prate about 'militarism and attempt to say that they favor expansion, but are against 'imperialism. They nsed pre cisely the same arguments six years ago against our taking Hawaii that they now use against our taking the Philippines. They pulled down our flag in Hawaii, just as they now wish to pull it down in the Philippines. We had to undo their work in Hawaii just as In the, end. but at an Infinite cost of bloodshed and woe, we would have to do In the Philippines, should thoy be successful in this elec tion. Yet not one of them now would dream of saying that we were not right about Hawaii; In fact, they would not do so, when by a strange irony the Kansas City convention had to rely upon the vote of Hawaii before it could settle what its views were on the financial system of our country. "As regards the Philippines, even the Kansas City convontlon felt that they had to propose some policy, and what they propose is that we should first give them a stable form Of government; second, in dependence, and, thira, protection from outside Interference. By the order In which they put these propositions, they showed their estimate of their Import ance. Well, what we are doing now Is precisely and exactly to try and secure a stable form of government in the Phil ippines, and the chief obstacle in our way Is the support given to the bloody Agul naldlan oligarchy by Its sympathizers among the people who were represented In the Kansas City convent'on. More over, now, we actually are seeing that no outside nation Interferes In the Islands. After we have secured a stable govern ment we intend to give them nelf-govern-mont as rapidly as they are fitted for it. Our opponents say that they wish now to give Independence to the wildest tribe of Apaches in Arizona. It would mean the turning over of the most peaceful, law-abiding and prosperous part of the population to.be plundered by the banditti who are following Aguinaldo. China and the Philippines. "In China we see at this moment the awful tragedy that is following Just ex actly such a movement as that which the so-called" antl-Imperlallsts have cham pioned in the Philippines. The Boxers In China are the predEe analogues and representatives of the Agulnaldan rebels In the Philippines. Had we adopted the 'policy of scuttle' in the Philippines, the policy which our political oppononts now champion, the streets of Manila would havo witnessed such scenes as those of the streets of Pekln. To allow the Fili pino rebels to establish their own so called government and then to protect thorn against other civilized nations would bo exactly as If we .now sided with the Boxers in China, demanded for them the 'liberty to butcher their neighbors, al lowed them to establish their own 'inde pendent government and then agreed to protect them from the wrath of civilized mankind. A more wicked absurdity than the Kansas City proposition for dealing with the Philippines was never enunci ated by tho representatives of a political party. "I would ask those who by their words have encouraged the warfare of the Fili pinos against us to recall the letter; of General Lawton, written just before his death, in which he pointed out that the blood of his soldiers reddened the hands or the men at home who encouraged our foes abroad. The scheming politicians at Kansas City have not even the excuse of Ignorance when they Incite the Insur gents to fresh warfare against our sol diers with the base hope that thereby they may farther their own political ad vancement. "There are doubtless many worthy and amiable gentlemen of humanitarian ten dencies, especially In the Northeast, who oppose expansion now, as men like them have always opposed expansion. In 1S11, when Louisiana was on the point of be ing admitted to the Union, and the coun try beyond the Mississippi the country now carved into the groat states from which so many of my hearers come was being governed territorially, a pro totype of the modern anti-Imperialists, the Hon. Joslah Qulncy, addressed the House of Representatives in language that with very slight variation might be used by his successors today. In a speech that would be quite in place at the Kansas City convention, or in any anti-expansionist meeting of today, he stated this his anxiety and distress of mind were wholly unprecedented, for, wltlf the admission of the Transmlssls slppi territory into the Union, the liberties and the rights of the whole people of the United States were so completely up set as to Justify a revolution. He de clared that If Louisiana was admitted Into the Union, then the Union ought im mediately to be dissolved. He denounced In unmeasured terms the 'territorial avid ity of the Americans of the day. He .as serted that the Constitution, was never constructed 'to form a covering for the inhabitants of the Missouri and the Bed River country, and finally when his prophetic vision brought before him the awful picture of Senators and Represent atives from west of the Mississippi arro gantly assuming a right to take part in. the legislation of the country, he asked with a fervor worthy of the most pro nounced antl-expanslonlst of today: " 'Do you suppose that the people of the Northern Atlantic States will or ought to look with patience and see Rep resentatives and Senators from the Red River and Missouri country pouring into Congress, managing the concerns of the seaboard of 1500 miles at least from their residence, nnd having a preponderancy In councils In which Constitutionally they would never have been admitted? "And ho continued further to hartow the minds of his hearers by stating that the expansionists of that day might even Intend to establish states in California and at the mouth of the Columbia; and concluded by asserting that 'the extension of the principle (of expansion) to states contemplated beyond tho Mississippi can not, will not and ought not to be borne. "Well, I am addressing at this moment citizens from tho very states the possi bilities of whose existence appeared so terrible to the excellent Mr. Qulncy. You yourselves are the fruit of the expansion which he regarded aa fraught with such Immeasurable disaster to tho Nation. You yourselves represent the results of that policy; which followed from the dayayof Washington and Jefferson, through those of -Jackson down to the time when Se ward purchased Alaska the great Ameri can policy which has again been applied tmder President McKinley. Absurd though the fears of men like Qulncy seem to us now; they are no more absurd than the real or pretended fears of our opponents will seem not & score of years hence. Picture to yourselves the dreadful calam ity that It would have been had our Na tion in 1S11 listened to the counsels of the short-sighted and weak-hearted if Cali fornia, Texas and Florida had been left as Spanish-speaking communities, and lfr all the magnificent region from the Mis sissippi to the Pacific had been turned over to be quarreled for either by the local Indian -tribes or by the European nations. Hardly less would be the ca lamity if we 'now turn our backs upon our duty, and with craven and abject shrinking from responsibility abandon our part of the world's wprk and incur the deserved contempt of humanity by de liberately refusing to take our place among the great nations of mankind. , "Remember that expansion does not bring war; it ultimately brings peace. It is of advantage to all and especially to the people thereby lifted out of savagery. We should hail the advance of every civ ilised nation over barbarous peoples, so long as that advance Is not made in some form prejudicial to the rest of mankind. I wonder how many of this audience are aware that up to 1S30 the United States paid tribute to Algiers to secure immu nity for our. sailors and commerce from the Algerian corsairs. The reason we did not pay tribute after that date was because in that year France began to ex pand over Algiers. War followed, and lasted a number of years, and there were foolish people who then wrote in praise of Algerian independence just exactly as there are foolish people now who talk about Agulnaldlan independence. But lasting peace, the first for many cen turies, came to Algiers through the French conquest, as It will come to the Philippines through our refusal to aban don tbp Islands. So Russia has advanced over Turkestan and brought peace in her train. So it is a good thing for Germany to begin to play her part abroad, and the patriotic way in which the German people have upheld the Qerman policy of building a navy and seeing that Ger many's citizens are protected and Ger many's trade rights throughout the world guaranteed, offers an excellent lesson to us hero. "Tho best of all things is where a new nation can be brought into the circle of civilization as Japan h been brought, and whore such Is the case America will ever be foremost to greet the new clvll'zed power and to work with her as we work with Japan. But, to refrain from doing our duty In the world would be merely ultimately to Invite the fate of China. The Chinese policy has always consist ently been against expansion, and she of fers today the best example of the fruits of such a policy when logically carried out. Nominally, her policy has been one of peace; In reality. It has simply been one which Invites aggression from without and Incites her own people to fe rocious and hideous barbaritm-. The so called anti-expansionist, when logical, In sists upon abandoning the Americans, missionaries and laymen alike, wno are In China, to their dreadful fate without an effort to rescue them, and insists that America shall take no legitimate step to secure for our merchants, farmers ana wage-earners the benefit of the opan market. Expansion means In the end not war, but peace." THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS. An Almost Forgotten Group In the St. Lawrence Gnlf. Boston Transcript. Except for a few outlying rocks, and Byron Island, the Magdalon group is real ly all one island, being a series of higher areas, each -.several miles bsng. connected by a long strip of bcaoh sand. In some cases there are two parallel strips, with a shallow lagoon between, through which small boats can be rowed or sailed In per fect security In any sort of weather. Tne land Is in the form of a great curvo or loop, and Is belted by a line of telegraph that stretches S2 miles from the Grand Entry to Amherst Island. Grand Entry Is a cluster of houses at the end or a desolate sand spit at the entrance to a large bay, wtth a narrow outlet at this point. Here wo were met By a pleasant English fisherman, with whom we were to board until the rchoon er which had been chartered should tak us to Bird Rock. Four miles east, at the head of a lagoon, across a narrow strip of land, and facing the wild open sea, that throws Its strength against red cliffs and a magnificent beach of white sand, stood a cluster of houses, one of thenTour destination. One of the first things noticed was a heap of bones, and more of them scat tered all about. Our hoot picked up one of them to show us. It was a walrus tusk, and thereby hangs a tale. It itf said that about 150 years ago herds of the Great walrus used to come ashore on the ocean side, were headed off by settlers and driven across the sand to the bay shore, where they were slaughtered. The soil Is supposed to be underlain with thoie bones, and from time to time more of them blow out of the sand. Every visitor carries away specimens of these tusks, and we Boon secured a number, but the larger one are gone, and tho supply must soon be practically exhausted, unless one cares to excavate for them. The inhabitants of the lslandsare large ly French, but there are also a goodly number of the .English. Fishing and lob sterlng are practically the only industries. Farming Is largely out of the question, as the climate Is cold, and the warm sea son very short. No fruit trees will grow, and now, the middle" of June, a few de ciduous trees, largely birch and alder, are Just beginning to Iraf out, and the trailing arbutus, or mayflower. Is still In bloom. The season In Nova Scotia seems backward, but from tho Magdalen stand point Nova Scotia Is next door to the tropics. Heavy Winter underwear Is al ways In season here, and at the time of this writing the keen northeast wind has almost the chill of snow. But, after all. It seems good not to swelter in the great city, and the Magdalen Islands is a grand place to spend the Summer. Here must be one of the finest spots on the coast for the Summer and Fall bay bird and wild-fowl shooting, and some knowing sportsmen have already scented It out. The Eskimo curlew and golden plover, whjch havo long since given New England the go-by, keeping far out to sea In their migration, come hero In great flocks in August from the wilds of Lab rador as they follow down the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Wild geese arrive as early as August and remain until the ponds are Ice-bound. Ducks breed all over the great marshes and sloughs, and other hordes of them from the far north make it theirVesort. If one's means are limited, here Is the place to come, for board can be had anywhere for from $3 to 45 per week. The monotony of the Winter for the hardy fishermen Is broken In March by the arrival of the fur-bearing seals drift ing down the gulf on the ice floes. The wind drives the fields of ice on store or near shore, and out over the lee go the Inhabitants with guns or clubs, striking down the seals, young and old. The harp seal falls an easy prey, but the adult hooded seal, a large and powerful species. Is very savage, and will make a danger ous attack upon the man who molests it.. When angry or on its guard, there seems to be a rush of blood to the head that Inflates a sort of hood, making a cushion upon which bullet or club fall comparatively harmless. The wiso hunt er gives the old hooded seal a wider berth and tries for the young, whose pelts and fat are the more valuable. The young seals are gentle, beautiful creatures, that cry like a child and look up with soft, mournful eyes when attacked, and many a kind father has to struggle with his emotions as he kills them DECISIONS ON APPEALS FIVES CASES FOTXY CONSIDERED BY THE SUPREME COURT. jknrer Court Sastalsted la Three In- ' stances Oae Decision Modified, One Reversed and Remanded. SALEM, Or., July 23. The Supreme Court today handed down five decisions, as follows; Stale of Oregon, respondent, vs. Edwin Ia Mlms, appellant, appeal from Umatilla County; Stephen A. Lowell, Judge; opin ion by Wolverton, J.; afllrmed. The defendant appeals from a judgment rendered against nizn upon conviction of the crime of manslaughter upon an In dictment for murder, wherein it is al leged that he killed one J. Henry Miller. 'in the course of the trial, the state called Ed Rush as a witness, who, among otaer things, testified that in the latter part of May or the 1st of June preced ing, he was in Millers saloon; that de ceased objected to Mlms-' playing In his house, and that, as Mlms was going out with some friends, he heard him say: "I will kill that s b some time if he don't let me alone." John Beggy was called in rebuttal, and testified he heard Rush say be had heard Mlms nay that he would "kill the s . b , Miller, the first chance he would get." He further testified that he heard no further conversation in which language Imputed to Rush was used. There was a motion to withdraw the testimony from the jury, for the rea son, among others, that it did not refer to the same conversation alluded to by Impeaching witness, which was denied, and appellant complains of the ruling of numerous objections made to the Intro duction of testimony, argument of state's counsel before the jury, introducing un friendly witnesses, and that the verdict of the jury was. the result of a compro mise, which was influenced in a measure by the action of the trial court, and the refusal of the court to grant a new trial, hence this appeal. The opinion holds that the court below exercised a reasonable discretion In re fusing a new trial. Mary E. Swank et aL, appellants, vs. Philip Swank, respondent, appeal from Linn County; H. H. Hewitt, Judge; opin ion by Moore, J.; affirmed. This is a suit to remove an alleged cloud from the title to real property, to set aside a deed thereto, and to cancel a bill of sale of personal property. The facts are that November 21, 1S37, Jay R. Swank was accidentally wounded by a gunshot wound, and February 3, lfSS, having been Informed by his phy sician that he would probably not sur vive his injury, and advised him that if ho had any business that needed atten tion, he ought to give it attention, he on the next day signed a bill of sale, and with his wife, the plaintiff, Mary E. S-vahk, signed, sealed and acknowledged a deed purporting to transfer and con vey to his father, the defendant Tnlllp Swank, all his real and personal property. Jay R. Swank died Intestate February S, lfSS, his widow was appointed adminis tratrix of his estate, and having duly qualified, claims amounting to about $1412 V3 wero presented and allowed by her. The administratrix having no means of paying any part of these claims, ob tained an order from the County Court of Linn County, in pursuance of which she Individually, and as administratrix of Its estate, and as guardian ad litem, Instituted this suit, alleging In substance that J. R. Swank died possessed, of about 000; that at time of his death he was lndeoted iiu about tho sum of '$6300; that Act rmnnnt nrcval! nn .Tnv T RwnnV t-. sign a bill ofsale and Induced him arid plaintiff to sign the deed purporting to convey to him all his real property. De fendant denies material allegations In complaint, and avers In substance that the bill was executed In payment of the sum of $100 which his son owed him and the further consideration' that he would pay certain creditors the, various sums he was owing, which are' set out In the answer. The allegations of new" -matter In the answer having been denied In the reply, a trial was had, resulting in a decree dis missing the suit and plaintiff's appeal. Christ Breeding, appellant, vs. James Williams, respondent, appeal from Uma tllle County; S. A. Lowell, Judge; opin ion by Moore, J.; affirmed. This is a proceeding to contest an al leged election of defendant to the office of School Director of School District No. 69, Umatilla County, Or. It Is averred In effect that at the an nual meeting of said district, held March 1, 1S97. plaintiff and defendant were quali fied electors for said district and can didates for said office, receiving 6 and 9 vOta. therefor, respectively, whereupon the latter was declared duly elected; that eight other qualified electors, whose names were given In .the notice of con test, tendered to the judges of election their ballots In writing, expressing their choice of plaintiff for said ofJce, but tne judge refused to tako them, though the i electors were ready to take the neces sary oath respecting their qualifications and that If they had been-permitted to vote, plaintiff would have been elected. The answer denied material allegations In notice of contest, and avers that the electors named therein were disqualified from voting In that district. A reply was filed, a trial had without Intervention of a jury, resulting In a Judgment dismissing proceedings, where upon plaintiff appealed. J. P. MeManus, respondent, vs. D. G. Smith et al., appellants, appeal from Umatilla County; S. A. Lowell, Judge; opinion by Moore, J:; modified;. This Is a suit to dissolve a partnership, to set aside a chattel mortgage of the partnership property, and for an account ing. J. P. MeManus and D. G. Smith be came partners January 9,' 1S99, and con ducted a newspaper published In Pendle ton. Or., known as the - Pendleton Re publican, and It was stipulated that nei ther party should mortgage his Interest In the paper without the consent of the qther. That February 21, lf&3. Smith gave defendant Clarence Miller his prom issory note for $1700, payable one day thereafter, and gave him a chattel mort gage on all of said partnership property as security therefor. MeManus. having discovered that said mortgage had been given and filed. In stituted, this suit, alleging Smith con spired with Miller to so manage the part nership business as to depreciate the value of the property thereof, and to de fraud plaintiff and partnership creditors. Replies putting In issuo all new matter set out In answers, tho case went to trial, resulting in a decree declaring mortgage without consideration and exe cuted -for the purpose of defrauding cred itors" of the Republican Company, and a receiver was appointed, who, took pos session of all their property, -and Smith and Miller appeaL John Wheeler, respondent vs. F. B. Lock and P. A. Conde, appellants, and the Eastern Gold Mining Company, a cor poration; First National JBank of Baker City, a corporation; R.- O. Demlng. a E. Whitaker. W. F, Butcher and H. C. Easthamv partners as Butcher & East ham, defendants, appeal from Baker County: Robert Eakln, Judge; opinion by Bean, C. J.; reversed and remanded. This was a suit commenced 'April 18. 1809. against F. 8. Lock, P. A. Conde. tho Eastern Gold Mining Company, the First National Bank of Baker City. B. O. De mlng, Charles E. Whitaker and Butcher & Eastham. This was a suit to obtain commission money for producing parties to whom Lock and Conde and others effected sales. A itrial was had, dismissing suit- ast to the First National" Ban Butcher & Eastham" and the Eastern Gold Mining Company, and against defendants Lock and Conde. Other Matters Considered A motion to advance on docket for hear ing 'out of its'turn was denied today In the matter of the last will and testament of' Verena Wlschser Booth, deceased, Lydla M. Willis, appellant, Jeannette Booth, as administratrix of the estate of John C Booth, respondent. The case of W. C. Stltes et aL, armel lants, vs. V. O. McGee et aL, respond ents, was argued and submitted before the Supreme Court today. FI&E WAS INCENDIARY. Doscher Residence Burned by Coal Oil FInmcs, An incendiary Are completely gutted tho old Doscher residence at Nineteenth street and Sherlock avenue last evening, resulting in a damage of at least J45O0. The Are was discovered by the conductor and motonnan of a Sixteenth-street car passing the residence, which Is between the establishment of the Hand Manu facturing Company and the oil warehouse of the D. M. Dunne Company. A simultaneous alarm was turned In from two boxes, which confused tha flre department, but when the engines were started in the direction of the flre the sky was already red from the reflection of the flames bursting through the roof, and no difficulty Was experienced in locating the conflagration. No clew has yet been found as to the Incendiary, The department was called out at 11:15, and by 12 o'clock the flames wero placed under control by good hard fighting. The Incendiary nature of the flre, the second floor having been saturated with coal oil, and the flimsy nature of the frame structure-, made It lively work for the firemen. No sooner were the flames under control In one part of the building when a fresh burst of flre wpuld confront them in an other, and the roof and sides of the houso were continually caving In, mak ing tho work hot and dangerous. The house Is a complete wreck, and an entire loss. It was unoccupied at the time, the Doschers having moved sev eral weeks ago, when the house passed from their possession Into the hands of Caples & Cosgrove, a Forest Grovo Arm. Tne amount of insurance is unknown. J. W. Doscher, former owner of the dwelling, said Mast evening: "There was a carpenter sleeping In the house, and when I passed at 9 o'clock I saw him 'sitting In a room downstairs reading. Ho had been making repairs on the roof,' No trace of this man could be found by the police Investigating the causo of the fire. When It first started. Frank B. Gibson, a gentleman riding on the Sixteenth-street car at the time the flre was discovered, went Inside the resi dence and found It uninhabited, and un mistakable signs of incondlarism. He said: "When the conductor and motor man and tho3e on the car saw the fire, I got off while they went on to turn In tho alarm. I found the front door un locked, and went In. There was no one on the. ground floor, though I found a bed In ono of the rooms. I carried the bedding to a place of safety, and, re turning, went up the stairs. The fire was started In the second floor of the house. I found coil oil scattered all over, and when I knocked In a door of one of the rooms the flames came burst ing out. and I could detect the odor of coal oil strongly. The flames wore then alroady shooting through the roof, and the air drafts started added to Its fury. I found no 'trace cf the carpenter, sup posed tp be llvlnr In the house, around the premises, and Tie was not lnride the house when I went In." The police are looking for the mys terious carpenter to hear his .story. Law BooUa With Stranjre Titlea. New Orleans Times-Democrat - nu occasion lo consult a lawyer a 4 ncs this, Spring. a aS Charles trcet business man. "and on each visit to his office- had to wait a while In the ante-room. There was a small bookcise In the apartment with glass doors, through which I could see the lower half of several rows of calf-bound voiumes. 1 amused myself by running my eye Idly over tho titles, and thocc of two on the lower rhelf piqued my curiosity strongly, They -nero 'Benzine to Building Associa tions' and 'Chloroform to Corporations. When I first read the strange inscriptions I could hardly believe my eyes. What the dickens could they mean? I asked myself. but coujd think of no answer. What ben- zino had to do with minding associations I couldn't Imagine, and dismissed as fantastic the theory that it was a codifi cation of the law on arson. The other tit e nas'cquallv mysterious. I knew several corporations that certainly ought to bo chloroformed, but why anybody should taSe the trouble to write a treatise about It was beyond my comprehension. The bookca.se was always locked, and I was afraid to ask any questions for fear there was some Joke In the mntter, but It stuck In my memory and haunted me for weeks A few days o;o I happened to drop into the offlco again, and to my great Joy the glass doonwere unlocked. I lost no tlmj in pulling out the two books, and In an Instant tho mysterv wis solved. They be longed to a set of legal cyclopedia, and tho lettering on the backs Indicated the first and lost subjects treated hr each volume." Onr For.-rotten Money. Saturday Evening Post. More than $13.000000 worth of the old fashioned fractional raper currency Is still outstanding, and thouch some of It has doubtless been destroyed, the bulk of It Is held by collectors and private In dividuals. Every now and then some old person dies, and the heirs, finding a quan tity of the "shlnplasters" In a disused pocket book or some other hiding place, send them to Washington to be redeemed. Occasionally, too, banks forward quite a lot of the notes In unbroken sheets, just as they got them many years ago. At first these sheets had to be cut apart with scissors, but afterwards they were per forated like postage .stamps,, so as to be torn apart. Not long ago the treasury received a handkerchief full of this cur rency, of the first Issue, each note being signed by Treasurer Spinner with his own hand. About $3000 worth of this fractional pa per comes In for redemption each year, and some of the best of it Is saved out by the department to be given away In re sponse to applications from collectors. In many respects Scrofula and Consumption are alike ; they develop from the Ja & JESS. m&&!em i8 generations ha3 tVSy5?5itiraf Scrotula requires vigorous, persistent treatment, me &w9fira$ PMZ&rjyX'5.- wi condition before . i?ZAJ.'&mw oiner poisonous minerals usuauy given in sucu cases uo more -'"' and leave the system in a worse condition than before. S. S. S. is the only medicine that caa reach deep-seated blood troubles like Scrofula. It goes down to the very roots of the disease and forces every vestige of poison out of the blood. S. S.S. is the only purely vegetable blood purifier known. The roots and herbs from which it is made contain wonderful blood purifying properties, which no poison, however powerful, can ' -,,, -., .,,.. longresist. 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Duoors, Monticcllo, Ca. Our medical department is in charge of experienced physicians who have made Scrofula and other blood diseases a life study. Write them about your case, or any one von are interested in. Your letter will receive prompt and careful attention. We make no charge whatever for this. THE UNLUCKY EMBLETON CAMPANIA'S YICTX-M WAS WELL " KJfOWN IN PORTLAND. Career of a "Vessel Which Seemed to Be "Hoodooed Doclc Strike Ended and Ships Working:. The tragic end of the British bark Em bleton, which was sunk Sunday on the Atlantic byt the Cunard liner Campania, wat a fitting climax to a career that has been as full of thrilling and remarkable adventures as have been experienced by any vessel that ever floated. The Em bleton nas made a great many voyages to Portland, and other Pacific Coast ports. In fact was built for this trade. She was owned by Ircdale & Porter, a firm which usually has very lucky ships, but by some beans or other, the Em bleton was always getting Into somo kind of trouble. Her worst experience while sailing In the Portland trade was encountered about 15 years ago when she arrived off the mouth of the Colum bia In ballast, from Acapulco, with over half of the crew dead, and the remainder so 111 with the fever that they could not work the ship or even bury the dead. The trouble in this case was attributed to the water taken aboard at Acapulco; and when after weeks of drifting, with sails flapping Idly in the winds, she reached the mouth of the Columbia, the pilot who boarded her found her a verit able floating charnel-house. The voyage following this one was un attended by anything worse than a mu tiny, but two years later, the master and mate of the vessel were accused of cruelty, which resulted In the death of one of the men before the mast, while the others told such stories of cruelty on the high seas that the officers were sent to prison for a few years. About four years ago, the ill-starred vessel sailed from Europe for Puget Sound, and was over a year making the voyage, which Is usually accomplished In less than five months. She was twice dis masted on the trip, and whn she finally rcacned the Sound, only about half a dozen of the original crew which left Europe with har were still on board. The- Embleton was an Iron bark of 1196 tons net register. She was built at Sund erland, England, In 1SS1. Her dimensions were: Length, 226 feet; beam, 36 feet; depth of hold, 21 feet 6 Inches. NEW YORK, July" 23. The Herald's London correspondent, describing the Campanla-Embleton collision, says: Dt. J. Warren, a passenger from New York, said that he looked out of his stateroom porthole when he heard the crash. In a moment he aw the wrecked ship sliding past the Campania and he rushed on deck. All was confusion on the deck. The Campanl's passengers had rushed out of tholr staterooms without dressing. "Women were in hysterics," he says. "I saw two sailors of the wrecked bark clinging to an overturned lifeboat. Thev were two of those saved. Five others, I am told, were found together, clinging to a Bpar. When we struck the bark tho wooden topmast began to fall. The look out In the crow's nest thought the whwle mast was going. He jumped for his life Into the sea. He was picked up by a lifeboat. The apprentice boy from the bark told me that his captain, upon rushing on deck, cried: 'Every man for hlmsolf.' A Norwegian jumped from the bow of the bark. He was undoubted ly crushed In the collision. "This boy said It was a miracle the Campania had not been blown to pieces. The boy said: 'We were carrying a lot of dynamite and gunpowder to New Zea land. Our cargo of exploslv.es was dls-' trlbuted fore and aft. She was struck amidships. Had the collision occurred either fore or aft, the Campania would surely" fiad Seen destroyed." SHIPS LOADING AGAIX. j Strike on the Docks Practically at an End and Work Proceeding. The British ship Harlech Castle will commence loading at the elevator dock this morning, and will be the first vessel working since the strike, which was In augurated about a wee kago. The RIckmer Rlckmers. which was neariy loaded at tha time of the strike, was finished by Brown McCabe's stevedores and longshore men, who had nothing in sympathy with the dock strikers. Balfour. Guthrie & Co. also have plenty of men to load their ships, and the work will progress without further delay. The only bad effect appar ent from tho strike at the present time Is t'ie loss of the wages and a possible smaller amount of work from now on for some of the men, for, by advertising to the world, that wages were 20 cents per hour In Portland, quite a number of la borers from other points have been at tracted to this city, and are now in com petition with the strikers, GAMECOCK AXD STAGHOUIfD. Testimony In the Insurance Case Re-c-ardlngr Them Novr'Beinar Token. ' Representatives of tho San Francisco underwriters have been In the city for several days taking testimony In the case of the wrecked steamers Gamecock and Staghound. These two unlucky steamers are In a fair way to have their names embalmed In more maritime law records than any other craft that has ever been constructed In the Nortwest. The two steamers might not have made much than any other craft that have ever been successful In reaching the Yukon, the which they were Intended, but If they ha.d made the voyage In safety, or else been piled up total wrecks on North Beach, there would have been quite a shortage In the fees earned by Pacific Coast law yers, stenographers, etc. Windvrard's 3Iachinery Disabled. ST. JOHNS. N. F., July 23. The Peary rellef steamer Windward entered the har bor at Port Bausques at the southwest extremity of the Island, Saturday, with part of her machinery disabled. Pieces to replace the broken sections reached here by train at noon today. The de lay has seriously disarranged the ship's plans for reaching the far north. The repairs to the machinery of the Wind ward will be effected In time to enable eral causes, com are nereaitary ana acpenacnnpon an impure auu ua Dovishcd blood supolv. In consumption the disease fastens itself upon the lungs ; in Scrofula the glands of the neck and throat swell and suppurate, causing ugly running sores; the eyes are inflamed and weak ; there is nn almost continual discharge from the ears, the limbs swell, bones ache, and white swelling is frequently a result, causing the diseased bones to work out through the skin, producing indescribable patn and suffering. Cutting iway a sore or diseased gland does no cood : the blood is poisoned. The old scrofulous taint which has probably come down through several polluted every drop of blood. the terrible disease can be stopped in its Address, THE SWIFT her to sail Thursday morning; 'although, owing to 'her poor sailing qunHtiaa, the setback is serious. " Freight Rates Advance VICTORIA, B. C, July 23: Tho strong demand for ships to carry troops, coal and provisions to the Orient has sent rates up. The four-masted schooner Mer rimac was chartered today by Balfour, Guthrie & Co. to load wheat for tho United Kingdom at 45 shillings, or at their option to load American salmon at 4 "s 6d. Tills Is 10 shillings higher than any previous offer of the season. Free Trade in Trouble. SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. The schoon er Free Trade which sailed hence July 9 for Coos Bay, came back to port with her foresail gone and her forward rig ging -gone. They were carried away by a squall off Point Arena on July 17. The vessel Itself narrowly escaped founder ing. Domestic and Foreign Porta. ASTORIA, Or., July 23. Arrived down at 10-15 and sailed at 12, steamer Del Norte, for San Francisco (not as previ ously reported). Sailed, July 22, steamer Dispatch, for Sari Francisco. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M., smooth; wind northwest: weather hazy. San Francisco, July 23. Arrived Steam er Tltania, from Nanalmo; steamer War fleld, from Oyster Harbor. Sailed Bark entlne Tam O'Shanter, for Willapa. Har bor. Tacoma Sailed July 19, British ahlp Haddon Hall, for Queenstown. Arrived, July 23, bark Big Bonanza, from Port Townsend. Honolulu Sailed, July 11, bark Sussex and barkentlne Quickstep, for Puget Sound; July 12, barkentlne Katie Fllck lnger. for Puget Sound; barkentlne Ome ga, for Willapa, Seattle. July 23. Arrived Steamer Ex celsior, from Kadlak; U. S. B. PUhlladel phla, from Astoria: steamer Rosalia, from Alaska; steamer Karvan, from Liverpool. Sailed. July 20, steamer South Portland, for Nome. Victoria Arrived. July 21. British steamer Bristol, from St. Michael, and reports steamer Utopia, steamer Discov ery, steamer Morning Star in quarantine at Egg Island. Santa Rosalia sailed July 19: ship Lindfleld. for Victoria. Cherbourg Arrived, July 2L Barbaro3 sa. from. New York, for Bremen. Antwerp, July 23. Arrived Noordland, from New York. Liverpool. July 23. Arrived Saxonia, from Foston. Yokohama Sailed, July 19. Argyll, from Hong Kong, for Portland. Or. Hamburg. July 23 Sailed Graf Wal dorse. for New-York. New York. July 23. Arrived Rotter dam, from Rotterdam; Menominee, from London. Bergen. July 23. Arrived Auguste Vic toria, New York, from Hamburg, and a North Cape cruise. Yokohama Arrived July 22. Steamer Empress of China, from Vancouver for Hong Kong. SITTING ON POWDER BARRELS Captain. Evans Opinion of the Orien tal Situation. ST. LOUIS. July 23. Captain Robley D. Evans, United States Navy, who has been taking the baths at Hot Springs', Ark., for two months, passed through this city this forenoon en route to Washington. While at Union station he talked freely about the Chinese situ ation, and among other things said: "In my cs..mat!on, the great powers of tho earth are facing the most critical situation that has arisen In modern his tory. To put It vigorously, they are sit ting on powder barrels; and an explosion may come at any time. If it does It will annihilate present national boundaries and change the map of the world so that It will' not be recognizable. I do not believe-in the- talk that China may become a world power of Its own force. It stands In Immediate danger of dismemberment, and the partition of the Empire can only be prevented by the United States. I ap prove of the policy of the Administration as now outlined. This country cannot af ford to stand by and see China divided up among the European Governments without making a protest that will shako the world, and announce to all the earth that this Nation must nc supreme in the East, because it holds the Philippines." Ancient Pekln. " London Telegraph. Pekln lends Itself to nickname and allit eration. An English minister described it as the place of "dirt, dust and dis dain." Others have found it, like Lord Amherst, a city of despair. Mr. Henry Norman says that the two moments when one appreciates It are the first sight of Its frowning gates and the last. What ever It Is or Is not to the "men of long views," It must always be one of tho nerve centers of human Interest and Inter national relations. During the dynasty of those Mings whose name was the war cry of the Talplngs, and Is today in Jho mouths of majy of tne secret societies that form the great difficulty of Chinese rule and management, it was a city of but second-rate Importance. Their attention was given to the embel lishmont of the now half-wasted City of Nankin, often called "the national capi tal," but Pekln has been tho Imperial capital since the Ta-Tslngs seized tho throne, and those who are qualified to speak are of oplnion,rfhatany notion ot degrading it from Its, pride., of placo to. suit the con'cnIence of European diplo macy Is foredoomed to failure. It Is not only the capital of Manchus; It Is the capi tal of the Mandarins. The official world Is of tho Pekinese stimp. and the Pekin ese Is of the official language, the tongu cf the graduate and educated man. To the ear It has a pleasanter and softer sound than the rough dialects ot the prov inces, and it has been developed and mold ed to the elaborate and ornate phrases ot polite society. Tho "sh" Is often heard lns'ead of harder and more uncouth con junctions. Chicago Attorney Bankrupt. CHICAGO, July 23. Liabilities amount ing to $18,000, and no assets, were scheduled by Attorney William G. Tewks bury In a petition today, asking the United States Court to declare him a bankrupt. The principal cause of the tangle Is a land deal In New Mexico, In volving $GO.O00. same gen oiooa must oe orougnt Dacx to aneaimy work ot destruction. Mercury, potash and uana uiaa goou ; incy -ruin me. uigesaon SPECIFIC CQMPAHY. ATLANTA. &A.