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THE MORNING OKEGONIAN,- -THIPESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1901.- g wv&g&x&xm Entered at the Postofllc at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month ....$ 85 Dally. Sunday excepted, per year......... 50 Dally, with Sunday, per year 0 00 Sunday, per jcar ....,...... 2 00 The Weekly per jcar 1 0 The Weekly. 3 months & To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted. 15o Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncluded.20o POSTAGE RATES. United States Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper Ac U to 2S-page paper 2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription or to any business matter should be afidres-ed elmply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or .stories from individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscript sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should Be Inclosed for this purpose. , Eastern Business Office, 43. 44. 43. 47. 4S. 49 Tribune building. New York City: 4C3 "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C. Beckwith special agency. Eastern representative. .For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Dee. Pal ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros.. 23(1 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market street; J. K. Cooper Co.. 74G Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news ctand. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 209 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 100 So. Sprint street. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. For tale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam Mret. For rale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 W Smnd South street. Tor sale In Ogden by W. C Kind. 204 Twen ty fifth street, and by C H. Myers. On file In the Oregon exhibit at the exposi tion. Charleston. S. C For sale In "Washington. D. C, by the Ebbett Huc news stand. For pale in Denver. Colo. by Hamilton & Kondriek. 90S-D12 Sevent-enth street. TODAY'S "WEATHER Fair and continued cc I; northerly winds. YE5TEUDAYS WEATHER Maximum tem I"rUur 42; minimum temperature, 34; pre t'nitalion, none. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, DEC. 12. A HOME FOX TWO-OR MORE. The question of the expense involved in maintaining in comfort and respect ability "a home for two" is one that admits of a divergence in conclusions as wide as are. the tastes, habits and desires of the persons for whom provis ion is to be made. "Comfort" is, ac cording to its interpretation, one of the most expansive and at the same time the most narrow of all words. A home appraised by a thrifty, sensible woman, who does her own work, Including the washing, ironing and care of her chil dren, as "comfortable," even though the floors are bare, the tablecloth is of red cotton, the crockery coarse and cracked, and the only rocking chair creaking and "wabbly," would be barren of every comfort to another woman equally thrifty but more exacting in her tastes and desires. The mistress of this little home makes judicious investment of the dollar and a half a day earned by her Industrious husband, feeds her family on exceedingly plain, but wholesome, nourishing food, is content with plenty. does not sigh for abundance and lives in "comfort." The other would find life unbearable under such conditions, and scouts the very Idea of comfort in con nection therewith. Living is undoubtedly high In this city at present much higher than for many years past. Yet there are, no doubt, very many homes within it, the Inmates of which from two to half a dozen live comfortably, according to their modest interpretation of the term, oa a wage of $50 a month earned by the sober, industrious husband and father. This does not prove, however, that a young couple with very different habits of thought and life could live comfortably at their own appraisement of that term on a like sum. Correspondents who have been deal ing with the question of the minimum cost of living in this city for two people at the present time show unconsciously the comparative quality of the word "comfort," as applied to ordinary liv ing expenses. To one $4 a month for eggs is an extravagant outlay; to an other $6 DO per month spent for milk and cream seems out of all -proportion to the requirements of good living. The estimate for wood Is extravagant in one case; that -for lights In another; the outlay for the laundry puzzles one; that for tea and coffee another, and so on, according to the tastes and habits of those who are trying to solve by a sin gle rule the question involved in the cost of "home comforts." Speaking in a general way, a young man and woman of sound bodies, mod est tastes and good common sense, who have learned by earning the value of money, and who have a sound, whole some love for each other, need not be afraid to marry and set up a home on $75, $60, or even $50, a month, providing, of couise, that they are able to distin guish between comforts and luxuries. Very many of the happiest homes in the land have been established on a finan cial basis as slender as this, and in due time sons and daughters have gone out from them into the great world of work to add in their turn to the honor and prosperity of the state, the basis of which I3 the home, and which cannot by any stretch of imagination be trans ferred to the boarding-house. The community Is the gainer by every well-ordered home -established within it. If this Is true, it must be the loser by every self-pampered bachelor who site smoking in his den, bewailing possibly his financial Inability to marry and set up a home; and by every self-sufficient spinster who prefers the meager salary of a typewriter, a "hello girl" or a clerk in a store which barely suffices to give her food, shelter and raiment all perhaps of Indifferent quality to a modest home of her own, wherein the practice of the small economies of life for the sake of others rounds out her womanly character and makes her queen of a beautiful If narrow realm. The whole secret of home comforts lies In the faculty of being comfortable and contented on what by industry, econ omy and thrift we may be able to com pass. The distinguishing feature in the re cent Massachusetts elections in fourteen cities was the Joss in the Prohibition vote. ""Eleven of them, or one more than last year, voted for license, and of the total vote on this question the license advocates had 2188 less than In 1900, and the Prohibition advocates 3970 less, a net loss of 1782 for the latter. The steady drift in these fourteen cities is In favor of regulating but not prohibit ing the liquor traffic. Nevertheless, crime is decreasing in Massachusetts, for prison statistics show that the num ber of arrests for offenses against the person was 324 in 100.000 for 1690 and but 270 in 100,000 In 1900. The number of arrests for offenses agaIrist"pfoperty was 333 In 100,000 in 1830, and 326 in 100, 000 in 1900. If Intemperance had in creased under license in Massachusetts, which has not had prohibition since 1874, the number of arrests for offenses against the person would naturally show an increase. VIGILANCE THE PRICE OP ORDER. If any one In London throws a news paper, wrapper or envelope on the street, the watchful scavenger of the municipality picks it up and puts it in his receptacle. In Paris In such a case a gendarme touches the offender on the shoulder and says: "Monsieur, you have let a piece of paper fall. "Will you please pick it up?" Nobody expects to keep American cities as well ordered as are the cities of England, France or Germany. Our civilization in many re spects is still in the lawless "kid" stage of its development, and yet even in America, where none of our cities are very clean, some have a national noto riety for being dirtier and more ill-kept than others. Portland i3 one of the notably dirty and Ill-kept cities of the country. There would seem to be no excuse for this fact save the lack of civic pride and the lack of efficient gov ernment. There is an ample supply of excellent water; the sewage of the city Is easily discharged Into the river; the materials for keeping streets and side walks In decent repair are cheap and accessible, but It is notorious that our streets are generally in wretched condi tion of repair and not seldom inexcusa bly filthy. "When a critical tourist comments un favorably upon the condition of our streets, he is told that the city treasury is too poor to keep the streets up to the mark; or to employ policemen nu merous enough to enforce the ordi nances against befouling our business thoroughfares. Then the tourist replies that a people with civic pride enough to raise $300,000 for the celebration of the Lewis and Clark Centennial should naturally be willing to tax themselves enough to maintain decent streets and keep them clean. The trouble Is not entirely nor chiefly with the people. Our people are, as a rule, too easy and good-natured to insist on efficient ad ministration by enforcement of law, but they always welcome good civic govern ment when they get It. Our city gov ernment has no cause to fear that ef forts to keep the streets in repair and keep them free from filth will subject them to any loss of public esteem. The city ordinances are ample when en forced to keep our business thorough fares free from filth 'and mossbacked rubbish, but the method of governing Portland seems to be by proclamation rather than performance. Periodical notice is given that the police from a specified date mean to arrest all persons who empty slops into the street, who clean cuspidors on the sidewalk, who throw banana skins, orange peel and kindred refuse upon the sidewalk or the street. For a few days the notorious offenders practice some self-restraint, but they soon see that proclamation does not mean per formance, and they resume their habit of street and sidewalk decoration. So it is with the bicycle abuse. The police know perfectly well that there are a number of persons who ride at a rapid rate through the streets upon bicycles without a bell. To assume that the police do not knew It is to assume that the police are blind or never1 "on duty." If the police krow it, the Police Board knows it, but these few bicycle fiends, who are some of them men old enough to know better, are never "called down," so they of course continue to be an unabated public nuisance. The law is not at fault; the ordinances are not at fault; the people are not at fault; they are simply victims of the misfortune of having a police government whose executives do not seem to care a button what happens to anybody, so long as It doesn't happen to them. If the filthy folk who continue to disfigure our streets and sidewalks after due warn ing were arrested and fined. It would be worth more than the periodical proc lamation of Intention to enforce the law. If the bicycle fiends, who ride bell-less machines at high speed, were fined for non-compliance with the law, the vast majority who make lawful use of the bicycle would be the first to applaud the vigilance of the officers of the law. There does not seem to be any reason why Portland should not be a clean, orderly city, if the executives of the police authority understood that eternal vigilance Is the price of public order rather than proclamations of lawful Intentions that are never executed. Public cleanliness will need to become a habit in order to win public credit, and public cleanliness can be -made a habit If the ordinances concerning pub lic sanitation are Inflexibly and impar tially enforced. If the official inspec tion is merely spasmodic, or if some offenders are punished while others are never disciplined, no reform will be pos sible, and we shall have. If possible, dirtier and more dilapidated streets in 1903 than we have today. NOT A GREAT INVENTOR. Preferring to the monument to Rob ert Fulton, which was unveiled in New York City on the 5th inst, William L. Stone, who Is excellent historical au thority, writes the New York Sun that according to the testimony of Chancel lor Livingston, who was Fulton's father-in-law, Fulton was a man of no practical Ingenuity, no power of con ceiving, much less of executing, a me chanical Idea, Fulton was an excellent draughtsman, but in no sense a me chanical engineer. Chancellor Living ston told the late Bishop Potter, of Pennsylvania, that Fitch was the real inventor of the steamboat; that he (Liv ingston) came Into possession by pur chase of the plans, models and draw ings of what was afterward the suc cessful steamboat. Fitch had sold them to the American Consul at Havre when, a stranger in France and utterly desti tute, he had given up In despair. Fulton was an artist, in prison for debt in Paris. Livingston paid his debt and sent him to America with one of James "Watt's steam boilers with which to realize Fitch's invention. Fulton proved incompetent, and net until Liv ingston's return a year afterward was Livingston's Idea brought to a success ful Issue. "William A. Duer, in his "New Yorker" confirms these facts. The workmen employed by Livingston and Fulton testified in 1837 that Fulton was a capital draughtsman, and that was all. Livingston possessed a good me chanical brain, and it took him a long time to convince Fulton that the "starting-bar" of an engine should be made larger at the fulcrum end than at the handle. Livingston's application of Fitch's plans was successful, but Livingston admitted that to Fitch, not Fulton, be longs the honor of the Invention of the steamboat. Fitch, before he went to Europe, had run a little steamer on the Delaware, and exhibited his Invention to Napoleon at Paris, and Thomas Car lyle claimed the honor of the invention of the steamboat for a countryman of his whose vessel anticipated in the date of its appearance that of Fulton's in 1S07. Livingston evidently considered Fulton a worthless son-in-law whom he felt obliged to carry as superintendent and draughtsman. SENATOR. HOAR OPPOSED TO EX CLUSION. United States Senator Hoar was op posed to the original Chinese exclusion act, and his views on that subjedt are unchanged today. He opposes the present law (which was originally en acted by his own party and Is sure to be extended for a term of years) upon the ground that it is a violation of "the principles upon which our govern ment is founded" and Is an Inadequate and clumsy means to the end In view. Mr. Hoar would leave the whole matter of immigration, under the limitations of law, to United States inspectors, who should subject the immigrants of all races and nationalities to a uniform test as to their fitness for American citizenship. To the plea of the Pacific Coast that the Chinese in any consid erable numbers are a great potential danger to skilled labor "because of their Imitative capacity Mr. Hoar replies that he would not exclude a foreigner be cause of his industrial capacity, and furthermore he does not believe that American labor has any need to dread the competition of any class of forelgn- ers who may enter this country. He does not concede the superiority of the Chinese in economic competition; he does not believe that any foreigner of whatever skin who is an efficient eco nomic unit ever injured any country. Mr. Hoar's criticism of the present law as a .violation "of the principles upon which our Government was founded" was to be expected of a man who holds our occupation of the Philip pines as an act in contempt of the- Dec laration of Independence. Mr. Hoar is not content with the Federal Constitu tion and the Judicial interpretation of Its powers. He would limit the devel opment of our country by what he calls "the spirit of the great Declaration." This great Declaration was correctly defined by Rufus Choate as a string of "glittering generalities." No people on earth could ever govern according to the terms of a broad proclamation of general principles. When we seriously set to work to erect $ scheme of gov ernment, we reduced the vague spirit of the great Declaration down to an exact statement in the Federal Consti tution, and under that instrument we govern. The Supreme Court has by its decision established our constitutional power to admit or deport any alien. Congress being the sole Judge of the cause. We deported the other day an immigrant solely on the ground that he j was a consumptive. Whether we shall always maintain our present policy of Chinese exclusion may be a fair subject for discussion, but there is no doubt as to our right under the Federal Consti tution to admit or deport any alien. Congress being the sole Judge of cause. Mr. Hoar's substitute policy would be for United States Inspectors to examine Ghlnese proposing to come to this coun try and pass upon the question of their fitness for American citizenship. This is a chimerical scheme. It would either prove a farce by the so-called agents arbitrarily excluding all Chinese, or It would open the door for thousands, for no ordinary rules of fitness that we could prescribe for white -immigrants would exclude the bulk of the Chinese. The Chinese are not wanted here as laborers; they are not wanted as citi zens; they are undesirable as voters. In dress, religion and moral atmosphere the Chinese, wherever they go, remain isolated from "the white race. In the Philippines, according to Major-General MacArthur's report, Chinese exclusion has become necessary. General ,Crow der, the Military Secretary, says that the Chinaman never Identifies himself with the foreign country In which he goes to seek fortune, further than to hasten the time when he has saved money enough to lead a life of ease In his native land. This Is true of a cer tain low class of immigrants from Southern Europe that work In the min ing towns of Pennsylvania, but this type of Immigrant, whether a Hun or a Mongol, Is not wanted In America. General MacArthur writes that while "Individually a Chinaman represents a unit of excellence that must alwayB command respect and win admiration, nevertheless in their organized ca pacity in the Philippines the Chinese represent an economical arms, without allegiance or attachment to the coun try, and to a great extent beyond the reach of insular authority." He .fur ther shows that "they are bent on commercial conquest, and even re stricted Immigration would represent a serious menace." General MacArthui not only advocates Chinese exclusion, but favors a policy looking to gradual decrease of the Chinese now in the islands. To our Government the Chi nese question as presented by the Pa cific Coast is a practical question, but to Senator Hoar it is purely an aca demic question, to be looked at through the lens of the Declaration of Inde pendence. Senator Hoar would have had us turn over the Philippines to an oligarchy of Malay pirates to govern after we had assumed the responsibility for their fate by purchase from Spain. A man whose philanthropy is of this purblind sort would, of course, deny our right to exclude a Chinaman from the United States purely and simply because he was a Chinaman, with all that his racial traits and taints Imply. Senator Hoar Is not a statesman; he Is a political sentimentalist. THE END OF THE ROAD. Mr. Murphy's portrait of Wade, printed yesterday, discovers not a bad face, nor yet a weak one. For all that Is disclosed In the young man's looks, speech and bearing, he might just as readily have been a useful factor In business and an ornament to society as to be on trial for his life. Nor can we altogether blame his parents. To a great extent. Wade has raised himself. He chose his companions, his employ ment, his way of life, and he chose badly. He took the road that led down ward, and there Is no room for surprise to him that he now finds himself so soon at the bottom of it. He spent his time, when not robbing railroads of trans portation and innocent pedestrians of their purses, in saloons. He and his pals drank hard. They were always drinking. The abuse of alcohol is the natural concomitant and promoter of such evil ways as this man took. So- cietj-'s records are full of such In stances. There are many hereabouts. James Green, the man who was hanged at Stevenson last Friday, was not, in some ways, a bad fellow. He was a hard-working man. He loved a woman, and was Jealous of her. That is nothing against him. It was because of his drinking that the woman had grown hopeless and discouraged his at tentions. When he shot Benjamin he was not himself. He was drunk. The other day a man died at the La Fayette lodging-house. A bevy of dirty loafers had carried him around, -used him to extort money from the land lord, and left him to die. Friendless and alone, he died a wretched death In a squalid, apartment. He was but 35 years old. He might have been a credit to himself, an honor to his family, a Joy to his friends. But he passed away unconscious even of his miserable end. Nobody knows who he was or where he came from. Somebody, somewhere, waits for tidings of the absent, but will wait In vain. The doctors said his death was due to alcoholism. He was drunk. Daniel K. Howe, a bookbinder, died about two months ago In the room of a woman in the Laporte lodging-house, 170 Third street. He died of alcohol ism. He was drunk. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death. It may be in the 60-cent bed of a cheerless lodging-house, it may be on the gallows, it may be in the agonlz lng close of a misspent life, when early memories come trooping back, every gentle admonition a lash, every fond recollection a scourge. Why Is the world so full of these heartrending fates? What is the use of such dismal stories? Well, they are of no use unless they point a warning to some who yet have time, though tempted, to stand; though in the way of weakness, to summon up fortitude and be strong. The young man who Is Importuned to start In the path these shipwrecked lives have gone should put such tempt ers far from him. Their feet go down to death. Their steps take hold on hell. Edward John Eyre, famous as the Governor of Jamaica from 1S62 to 1866, died recently, aged 83. He put down a negro Insurrection In Jamaica In 1865 with so much severity that he lost his Governorship. He tried by court-martial and executed George William Gor don, a wealthy negro, under circum stances so unjustifiable that he was superseded, and was all his subsequent life held in great public disfavor, being known as "Butcher Eyre." His case divided all England. Carlyle, Charles Klngsley, Tennyson and a number of eminent Englishmen of letters cham pioned Eyre, perhaps because he was the son of a clergyman of the Church of England. The real explanation of Eyre's extravagant severity probably was that he lost his head through fright. The so-called Insurrection was a small affair, and there was no decent evidence that Gordon had any guilty knowledge of or connection with It. The Inflammatory speech made by William Redmond, M. P., at a Wexford County meeting of thev United Irish League will not probably be resented by the English Government. It Is a cheap political trick to invite arrest and then pose as a political martyr, and the English Government Is not likely to gratify Redmond's passion for notori ety. Since PameU'a fall the Irish Home Rule party has been without any lead ership that stood for the brains of dis cretion. Tim Healy hag plenty of wit and talent, but no leadership, and Red mond is nothing but an Irish terrier barking at the tail of the British Hon. Pensions asked for Indian War vet erans and their surviving widows who have not remarried represent as just a pension demand as any that is made upon the Government. The survivors of these wars, from 1832 to 1856, inclu sive, are all old men, and many of them are poverty-stricken and infirm. Pen sion relief, when given to men of this class, who in their young manhood bore the brunt of civilization on the border as Indian fighters, duly enlisted for that purpose, cannot go far astray from Jus tice nor tax the generosity ofr the Gov ernment for any great length of time. A more than ordinarily valuable Gov ernment publication Is the Treasury Bureau of Statistics monthly summary for October, which contains Chief O. P. Austin's study on colonial adminis tration. The paper is the result of more than a year's careful work, and is exceedingly useful and convenient There are a summarization of the stud ies and conclusions, a table of contents and a cross-index, all of which render It a convenient work for reference. It Is a far cry from these most Illuminat ive discussions to the barren waste of "Pub. Docs." of the old days. The War Department has decided that General Crozler's term as Chief of Ordnance with the rank of Brigadier-General will not last until his re tirement In 1919, but will hold only for four years, when he may be reap pointed or another officer given the po sition, in, which caee Captain Crozler will revert to his former status on the relative rank-list of his corps. This rul ing has done much to reconcile the corps to General Crozler's appointment. Major Van Tets, of the court of the Queen of Holland, Was recently reported to have been kicked in the stomach by the Queen's consort. There Is a titled family In England that takes pride In the fact that Its founder was so Intimate with George IV that he was kicked downstairs on one occasion, pro pelled from behind by the royal boot. An old-fashioned Winter is prevailing In New England. Snow fell in South ern Vermont so early in November that a correspondent under date of Novem ber 30 writes: "We have had three weeks of good sleighing this month." Snow to the depth of more than two feet fell about Brattleboro. Daniel. Webster once said that a case for our Interference under the Monroe Doctrine In the affairs of another Amer ican State "must be danger to our se curity, or danger, manifest and immi nent danger, to our essential rights and our essential interests." Louisiana Democrats are for the tariff alienation of the Philippines, because of their sugar plantations. Yet the tariff, we are to understand, and glee- I fully, Is not a local Issue. Great Is the rush for franchises and opportunely. They will not come as easily If the new charter la adopted. PHILIPPINE WOMAN'S LEAGUE.. t MANILA, Dec. 11. The Woman's Peace League, organized under the leadership of Senorita Poblete, a Filipino, has trans mitted letters, with the permission of General Chaffee, urging peace upon the insurgent General Malavar and other Filipino chiefs. These letters remind the Filipino leaders in the field that the war ha3 destroyed Innumerable homes and dev astated large territories, all of which, while it abundantly proves the tenacity of the insurgents and their faith In their cause, does not remove the fact that the operations of American soldiers through out the Islands dally demonstrate the resolution of the people of the United States to make their sovereignty supreme throughout the archipelago. The league urges the leaders to make peace to avoid greater evils. The Woman's League has received a. cablegram to the effect that General Lukban. who Is In Samar, la pleading for a discontinuance of hostil ities. General Funston will sail for the United States December 16 on the transport Warren on sick leave. Governor Taft will sail for home on the Grant, Decem ber 20. He says that the rumors to tho effect that he will not return here are Incorrect. No Interference in Head Case. . WASHINGTON, Dec 11. Secretary Root has refused to Interfere In the case of Capt. J. C. Bead, formerly a volunteer subsistence officer, who was convicted by court-martial of complicity in alleged commissary frauds in the Philippines and sentenced to dismissal and imprisonment for three years. Several important legal points are Involved In thi3 case, the chief of which are whether a state of war existed in the Philippines at the time of the trial and whether an officer of the volunteers can be tried by a court com posed of officers of the regular service, counsel for Read contending that war did not exist in the Philippines and that the trial was illegal. Secretary Root decided that a state of war existed in the Philip- pines, but has not finally passed on the ' y- other question Involving the legality of the trial of a volunteer by a court com posed In part of regular officers, as that i question is now pending before a Western court In the case of another volunteer officer named Deming. What Gnerrilla Mnat Expect. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1L In his annual report made public a few days ago. Gen- eral Chaffee, Military Governor of the Philippines, assigned as one of the prlncl- I pal factors in the prolongation of the . warfare in the Philippines the terrible , vengeance visited on any native who is even suspected of friendliness to the American cause. In passing upon the case of a Filipino recently tried by court martial for such a crime. General Chaffee said: "As guerrilla and all other, bandit chiefs have no shadow of lawful authority to take the lives of the Inhabitants of these Islands and as it is the duty of the United States to protect all in the enjoyment of their lives and property, the warning often given will be repeated until all shall heed It that both the chief who orders and the followers who obey their orders to do murder, must upon convic tion thereof expect to suffer the extreme penalties of the law." Cannibalism In the Philippines. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Cannibalism has appeared in the varied list of crimes charged against Filipinos by American military courts. According to the record of a court-martial convened in the De partment of the Vlsayas, P. I., which has been received at the War Department, Raymond Fonte, a native, found his working companion. Liberate Benllro, sleeping In his (Fonte's) boat. Fonte be came enraged, killed the slumbering man with a blow of an oar, cut off his nose and ears according to his own confession, cooked and ate part of the body. He was sentenced to be hanged at Capiz, Panay, on the 13th inst. "WORK OF THE BREVET HOARD. Its List Contains Nearly One Thon snnd Naxnesu WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The Army Board, which has been for several months preparing a list of officers who shall be recommended for brevet rank in consid eration of gallant services In Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines and China, has com pleted it? work, and the report will be submitted to the Secretary of War In a day or two. This list Is to take the place of that laid before the Senate last session and withdrawn before action. Notwith standing that this board began with the purpose of very much restricting the be Etowal of brevets, they have been unable to keep the sum total of names much be low 1000 in number. It is said that President Roosevelt's name will be on the brevet list with tho rank of Brigadier General of "Volunteers. Hntin's Letter to Roosevelt. PARIS, Dec. 11. M. Maurice Hutln. president of the Panama Canal Com pany, who has Just returned here from the United States, publishes a letter which he sent to President Roosevelt No vember 30, reviewing the negotiations with the United States for the purchase of the canal. M. Hutln says that thus far he has maintained silence, but as Congress Is now about to discuss the matter, he con siders It his duty to publish the letter, which constitutes the basis of the discus sion about to open. The letter concludes an follows: "The company, confirming all anterior promises and declarations, requests to be allowed to establish the real value of Its properties before one or several per sons Invested with official quality and power to discuss the various valuations of the company, and submit to arbitra tion all points wl-Jch may not be deter mined by an cmlcable understanding. The "prices thus fixed will bind the company, but do not pledge the President nor Con gress. This mode of procedure Is to fur nish a certain, equitable and true basis upon which the relative value of the two routes for the United States could be es timated." Torpedo Directed Withont Wire. NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Commander Clover, United State3 Navy, attache of the United States Embassy at London, who, with his family, arrived here on iho steamer Kaiser Wilhelra jder Grosse last night, to spend the holidays, will report to tho Government on an exhibition of a working model of a torpedo operated by tho Marconi system of wireless electrical transmission before he returns to his post on December 28. The inventor is a man named Gardiner. By means of the appli cation ot his Idea, Commander Clover said the Inventor believed that he could start, stop, start again, steer and fire a torpedo from a keyboard on a ship or on land, using the Marconia wireless system In conjunction with his device, which Is the apparatus on the torpedo. Commander Young Relieved. WASHINGTON. Dec 1L As a result of statements made in recently published interviews regarding the ability of the Cubans to govern themselves, which have been deemed Indiscreet. Lieutenant-Commander Lucicn Young has been relieved by Secretary Long of his present post as Cap tain of the Port of Havana. He has not yet been assigned to other duty, nor has his successor been selected. Red. Cross Election. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1L The Red Cross Society held Its annual meeting today and unanimously re-elected Miss Clara Barton president of the society: John M. Wilson was elected vice-president; Mrs. John A. Logan, second vice-president; Lyman J. Gage, treasurer; Richard Ol ney, counsellor, and S. W. Brlggs. secre tary. The treasurer's report shows re ceipts for the year of 53210 and expendi tures $999. Plans were partly formed for the extension of the society by mAins of slate auxiliaries. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. ' . y Kroger has taken possession of his new home at Utrecht. A plaguo death occurred at Sydney, 2. S. W., yesterday-. Charle3 M. Schwab will leave for Europe shortly after Christmas. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company may ab sorb the Victor Fuel Company. A block of 17 business houses was burned at Sweetwater, Tex:; lots, $150,000. South Manchester, Conn., silk weavers struck to have their machinery changed. HcGovern will meet Sullivan January 30, be fore the club offering the best terms 'Mormons have made 3000 converts In the mountain, counties of "st Virginia. Goldsmith & Co.'s housefurnlshlng establish ment In Milwaukee was damaged ?G0,C00 by Are. Burglars robbed a bank at Shreve. O., but were unsuccessful at Felicity, In the came Etatc. Major-General MacArthur has been ordered to assume command of the Department of the Colorado. Ex-Judge Georgi A. Mr.dill, president of the Union Trust Company, died at St. Louis of heart failure. About 175.000 of the $225,000 needed for the new Prlncton gymnasium building has been subscribed. The Kipper Consolidated Copper Company, of New York City, was Incorporated with a cap ital of $3,750,000. The, lower house of the Mexican Congress has approved a bill providing for the free exercise Of all professions. Francis Iveagh. an editorial writer on a New York paper, was shot by Alex Horr, a bookbinder and printer. The eighty-third anniversary of the admis sion of Illinois Into the Union as a state was celebrated at Springfield. Philip Gerst. City Treasurer of Buffalo, ac knowledged his books were short $57,000. and was removed from oillce. Right Itev. Thoma3 F. Gambon. chancellor of the diocese or Louisville, died suddenly at Louisville of heart dUease. The failure of the publishing house of Butler r. i- -. ...... . . .. u,;!',.';" . .T-7 an30unceQ: 1,a The directors of the principal tram-Atlantic steamship lines held a meeting at Cologne. In order to reach a traffic agreement. At a conference of the Iron masters of Ber lin and Stettin It was decided to reduce the price of bar Iron by 50 pfennigs. John E. Redmond, Thomas O'Donnell and Patrick A. McHugh. IrUh Nationalists, sailed lor Europe from "sew York yesterday. The final arguments of counsel were begun in the trial of Mrs. rum ohnrtri with rv killing of Census Clerk Ayres. at Washington, Miss Margaret Johnson died of tmeuroonla at Denver. She was the fourth member of tho family to die within six days of the same dis ease. Scnor Mendoza. a prominent Liberal, who drew up the capitulation papers after the bat tle of Panama, died of typhoid fever at Chor- rea. Tho British Board of Trade officially Issued its award In favor of the Yerkes system of electrification for the London Underground Railway. Nicholas Kcsaler died at Helena of Brlghfs disease. He was a pioneer of Colorado and Montana. He left a, fortune estimated at $1,000,000. F. C. Stelnmann, head of tho New York Jewelry firm of F. C. Stelnmann & Co., com mitted suicide at Chicago by cutting his throat with a knife. Harry M. Clark, ex-cashier of tho First Na tional Bank of Bridgeport, O., Indicted on tho chargo of making false entries, was acquitted after a eecond trial. The suit against John Alexander Dowlo by Samuel Stevenson, Bowie's brother-in-law. to force a receivership for the Zlon Lace Indus tries, began at Chicago. In replying to the speech from, tho throne, the lower bouse of the Japanese Diet declared there were indications of a disturbance In the Orient In the near future. The note received by Chile from Argentina will bo answered Friday by the Chilean Minis ter of Foreign Affairs. They will settle the trouble on a friendly basis. Governor Jenks. of Alabama, granted a parole to Mrs. Nancy Cheek, recently convicted in Henry County for killing a roan named Dan zcy, her divorced husband. Dick Tittle was shot and Instantly killed at Shawnee, O. T., by Berry Grlfiln. The trouble originated from the attempt of the landlady to eject Tittle from a hotel. The printers strike at Marietta. O.. affected three papers. Tho Register and the Times were issued under difficulties, and the Leader with the assistance of operators. E. L. Powell, manager of the brokerage busi ness of Murphy & Co., of New York, has dis appeared from Wllwn. N. C, and Is reported $40,000 shcrt In his accounts. The strike of Pensacola, Fla., fishermen has spread until 800 men are out. All the smacks have been dismantled. The fishermen of Mo bile have gone out In sympathy. The State Department has been Informed that the prohibition against the exportation of rice from Corea was withdrawn, with the consent of the King, to take effect November 15. Buchanan Keith, who owned and managed the Western League baseball team In Omaha for two years, declined the offer of President Hlckey of a franchise for Omaha in the Amer ican Association. The Alabama Board of Registrars appointed Registrars In 15 counties to register voters under the provision of tho new constitution, which Is the beginning of the disfranchisement of the negroes. Tho criminal proceedings against Attorney Robert A Ammon. growing out of his rela tions with William F. Miller, of the "520 per cent Franklin Syndicate," were dismissed by a New York Magistrate. The departmental trial of Police Captain Dia mond, for neglect of duty, was concluded be fore Police Commissioner Murphy, at New York, but no decision was announced. Murphy will dismiss Diamond from the force. The City of St. Louis and the Board of Edu cation will bring a mandamus suit Jointly against the State Board of Equalisation to compel that body to raise the franchise tax of the United Railways Company and other St. Loul3 corporations. Snliraarlne Boat Rained. NEW YORK, Dec. 11. The submarine torpedo-boat Fulton, which sank at net dock at New Suffolk, L. I., on Monday, was raised today. The only damage done the boat was by the water that poured into her through the open forward hatch. Her bottom was not damaged. After her machinery has been overhauled and cleaned the vessel will be as good Q3 over. The accident happened while her commander. Captain Cable, was in New York, on account of the illness of his wife. In order to repair an exhaust valve tho crew raised the stern of the Fulton under a derrick In the air. One of the forward hatches had been left open, and as the stern was raised and tho bow was submerged tho craft filled with water. By the time the stern was low ered the boat sank In about 15 feet of water. Debut of President's Daughter. NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Miss Cordelia Roosevelt Scovel, daughter of Chevalier Scovel, and her mother, Mrs. Roosevelt Scovel, were voyagers on the recently ar rived North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosse. They trav eled 4000 miles from Florence, Italy, to be present at he social debut of Miss Roose velt Scovel's cousin. Miss Alice Roose velt, the President's eldest daughter. Senator Blackburn "Weds. WASHINGTON, Dec. U. United States Senator J. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Mr3. Mary E. Blackburn were married here today at the rectory of St. Paul's Church by Rev. Father Mackln. Only a few rela tives were present. The bride's first hus band was Judge Blackburn, a distant rel ative of the Senator. Cnptaln Lcary Wnnt" to Retire. BOSTON, Dec H. On account of 111 health, Captain Richard P. Leary, first Governor of Guam, who Is now on sick leave at the Marine Hospital in Chelsea, has asked to be retired. Having served more than 40 years, he can be retired with the rank and pay of Rear-Admlral X0TEAXD COMMENT. Good morning off last night? Did you shut the water A touch of Winter Lend me $5 to get my overcoat out. A verdict that could be found In 10 min utes didn't require much hunting. This Is the timo of year when the Sun day school census will be worth the tak ing. , This 13 a great country to live In. Not a mosquito or a lly his been seen for months. It Is understood that King Edward will not refuse the crown, reluctantly or otherwise. Why doesn't Carnegie buy those Danish West Indies anil give them to Uncle Sam for a Christmas present? Croker is going back to England for a rest. Perhaps he Is even, more in need of arrest than he is willing to admit. It Is suspected that the President Is at work on an extra strenuous magazine article on the Army-Navy football game. Why make so much about a man who steals diamonds when youths who pur loin hearts are not even thought worth arresting? Hall Calne has joined tho church. He evidently wanted to make some atone ment for becoming a member ot the Manx Congress. The attention of gentlemen who con. template embarking in the business cl highway robbery Is invited to a little event which took placo at the Court house yesterday. It was not a messenger boy you sai Bleeping by the roadside when you came down town this morning. It was a plumb er's apprentice on his way back to the shop after the tools. Portland is on the map, but, unfostun ately for the Oregon metropolis, the map Is very large and that town Is 'way oft In the corner. Kansas City Star. You'll be able to see It more plaint in 1306. Sparklln frost along the walk. Wind a whlstlln' by. Stars a snappln' clear an' bright. In a jet black sky, Cat3 a plckln" up their feet S If they walked on tacks: . Birds all tucked up In their wings, Shakln" In their tracks; Chickens roostln high till late, Lookln sick an' glum. Ain't no xnow as ylt, but still AVe know that Winter's come Ever since the Forth bridge was opened 11 years ago painting has gone on con tinuously., Beginning at the south end the workmen take three years to cover the entire length of the bridge, and, as three years represent approximately the life of the paint, no sooner are they fin ished than the men have to begin again. In this way every square Inch of steel comes under observation at least once In three years. The staff of men employed varies In number from the maximum of 35. One of President Roosevelt's Century Club friends went with him one night tc a vaudeville entertainment, says the Nev York Times. On the programme was an Imitator who gave impersonations of noted . men, Mr. Roosevelt was vastly amused by the representation of himself. Then he turned to his friend and asked It the imitation was at all like the real thing. The friend answered that It was an excellent impersonation. Mr. Roosevelt threw back his head and laughed. "Well," he said, "If I'm like that when I talk, I must be one of the funniest things on earth to see." Ex-Congressman Cable, of Illinois, has a charming young daughter, who is re ceiving her education in France. When she was several years younger her father took her on his knee one day and said to her: "Today a man asked me If I would not sell little brother. He said he would give me a whole room full of gold. Shall I let him have little brother?" The child shook her head. "But," persisted her father, "think how much money this room full of gold would be. Think how many things you could buy with It. Don't you think I'd better let the man have little brother?" "No," said the "daughter, "let's keep him till he's older. He'll be worth more then." It will be pleasing news to the people of the state to know that Gilbert Parker, tha celebrated author, has achieved a high opinion of the intellectual qualities of the residents of Oregon. Mr. Parker recently arrlved in New York from England. An interviewer asked him his opinion of tho Boer War, and at the same time told him that the British had almost captured De wet. He said: "This man Dewet seems to be almost too clever for them. He must have come from Oregon." Envious minded persons may possibly contend that tho novelist was simply trying to crack a feeble Joke at the expense of the moist climate of this region, but all others who have read the "Right of Way" and other great Parker stories knbw that he is too good a writer to perpetrate so bad a pun. Any suggestion that Parker Is an English man, and therefore probably guilty, may bo safely rejected in this Instance. Superior Nctvs by Freight. Springfield Republican. There was one great advantage In Pres ident Roosevelt's method of permitting his message to be mailed to the news papers In advance. The boiler-plate syndicates were enabled to get it up and sell their product by the yard to news papers that are billing to use that sort of thing. Very few dally papers availed themselves of the privilege, however. PLEASAXTRIES OF PARAGRAPHER3 Uncle Yes. Charles; I laid the foundation of myl fortune by saving cab fares. Spendthrift Nephew I didn't know you ever drove one, uncle! Punch. Often Been Executed. "What's that the band just played? The Dead March.' " "Oh, I see. Was it any livelier before they murdered It?"PhiJadelphla Evening Bulletin. From the Automobilist's View. First Chauf feurHave any bad luck during jour trip yes terday? Second Chauffeur Oh, I ran over a man, but I don't think I hurt the machins any. Ohio State Journal. A Practical View. Struggling Pastor The collections have fallen off terribly. Practical Wife It's that new vestryman who passes tha plate. He never watches what people put In. New York Weekly. A Delicate Choice of Terms. "I am told," ..aid the friend, "that the manager you hava left was paying you a fabulous salary?" "Not" answered Mr. Stormlngton Barnes, "net faBu lous; Imaginary." A ashlngton Star. i Heading nun uu. uikjjs a want 10 k o1" a piece of good aavicc. Dlggs aii rigni; dui first let me give you a plec. Blgga Well, what Is It? DIgg3 Follow the good advice you arc going to give mc. Chicago News. A Few Years Hence. "Anything going on this evening?" "Yes; there's to be a perform ance at the Athletic Gardens. A fellow will undertake to subdue an automobile that ba3 a tecord of having killed six men. He's to do It In one hour or forfeit $1000." Chicago Tribune.