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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.