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10 THE MORNING OREGOKIAX, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1903. NO ACTION ON BIDS Fireboat Question Referred to Executive Board. WOODEN HULL KAY BE CHOSEN Offer Range From $45,250 for t 'Wooden Boat to $62,000 for Steel No Bid Received From Seattle. which cost $11,600, making; the whole bid $56,750. August 3. when the bids were originally opened, the offer by the "Willam ette Iron & Steel Company for the same proposition was $53,500. On that date the offer of the Phoenix Iron "Works was $37,000. Although two new bids In reply to the advertisement for a steel fireboat were submitted yesterday to a meeting of the Sreboat committee of the Executive Board, those present were careful to dodge. the whole Issue by referring the question to the Executive Board without making any recommendation whatever. It looks now as If a wooden fireboat would be built after all probably in this city. Supervis ing Architect F. A. Ballln has received in structions to prepare specifications for a wooden boat, and to submit these at the next meeting of the Executive Board. In reply to the advertisement for revised proposals, two new bids were received yes terdayfrom the "Willamette Iron & Steel "Works, of this city, and "W. A. Boole & Son, Inc., of San Francisco. This offer Is made by the "Willamette Iron & Steel Company: First We will build a twin-screw steel fire boat in accordance with your plans and specl Bcatlons for the sum of $53,000, or" the same boat equipped with locomotive firebox boilers for the sum of f51.250, delivery from eight to ten months from signing of contract Second We will build a wooden twin-screw fireboat In accordance with your plans and specifications except for the wooden hull and wooden deckhouse, for the sum of $45,259. Or with the locomotive firebox boilers for 143,610. delivery six months from date of contract. In ce of your acceptance of any of our bids, your present supervising engineer would Dot be satisfactory to us. The San Francisco Hid. This Is a copy of the letter sent by "W. A. Boole & Son, Inc., San Francisco: If built of steel throughout. IC2.000, deliv ery to be made in nine months. If constructed with wooden deck and house in steel hull. $59,400. delivery to be made in nine months. If constructed of all wood, $55,000. dellrery to be made In eight months. Bach of the above figures Is Inclusive of ihe pumps specified In your advertisement. I'ou will kindly consider the certificates of deposit for $3000 which you now liave in your possession to be our guarantee of good faith. In. order to make their offer more em phatic, Messrs. Boole also sent this tele gram: Submit our figure steel, throughout, $G2. )M, delivery nine months; wooden deck and souse n steel hull, $59,400, same delivery; il wood, J-M.oOO, delivery eight months. Above Sfiures inclusive city pumps. The bid opened August 3 from the Phoe nix Iron Works, of this city, for a wooden hull, according to specifications. 557,000, was the only one of the August 3 bids re ported to be still In the race. Or, as City Auditor Devlin puts it, "The Phoenix Iron Works Company's bid still stands." After the three bids had been reported the Mayor asked Sir. Devlin, "Have we anything from Seattle?" "No, sir," said Mr. Devlin. Then the committee settled down to business. There were present: Mayor Williams, City Auditor Devlin, R. L Gil nan, E. D. Curtis. B. W. Goddard and Su pervising Architect Ballln; "W. H. Corbett. of the Willamette Iron & Steel Company; Fritz Wolff, of the Phoenix Iron Works, and Fire Chief Campbell. Mr. Corbett briefly spoke In favor of his company's offer, suggesting a cover ing of asbestos and galvanized Iron for the wooden deckhouse, as a protection against tire Steel Boat Out of Question. "It looks as If it were out of the ques tion now to get a steel boat," remarked Mr. Glisan. "Well." said Mr. Corbett, reflectively, "a thin shell in a steel boat would not stand very long in these waters, without con stant repairs. In the case of the torpedo boat at Puget Sound (the Goldsborough) It was reported that her repairs were quite extensive." "I havo built boats here for the last 25 years," began Mr. Ballln. "I fancy that Mr. Corbett is not accustomed to boat building. The torpedo-boat did not have one dent in her plating. There Is no com parison between torpedo-boats that run at full speed nearly all the time and a city fireboat." v "Reports show that the Goldsborough never went out without sustaining serious injury," Insisted Mr. Corbett. "I am opposed to sending any work to Ban Francisco," broke In a member at this Juncture, brushing away the Goldsbor ough episode. "Wooden Hull Favored. "It Is up to us to get a wooden hull, and I don't jrropose to go beyond the ap propriation," remarked Mr. Glisan. "If the contract for the boat gets away from Portland, I have no choice as be tween San Francisco and Seattle." stated Mr Curtis, who has been In favor of a steel hull all along. "I do not care a picayune which city gets it, as between San Francisco and Seattle. I am not fighting the Board. Anything the Board proposes I will agree to. I wish to go on record as favoring a steel hull." concluded Mr. Curtis. in reply te a question as to what his tecs would amount to were he to be sent to San Francisco to supervise the con struction of the fireboat. Mr. Ballln stated , that the understanding was that he was to bo paid 4 per cent on the amount ex pended. "If we accept the $52,000 offer from San Francitco. and pay the expenses of the supervising architect, we won't get within the appropriation of ?62,0CO." was re marked. "Oh. we don't have to equip the boat. All we have to do is to get It built," rea soned Mr. Curtis. "We "have about 55S.O0O In the treasury now. and the balance will have to be made Up from the taxes as they come in," de clared the Mayor. "I move that this bid be accepted." said Mr Curtis, motioning toward the latest after from San Francisco. Bids Referred to Executive Board. "I move as an amendment that the mat ter be referred to the Executive Board tor action." spoke up Mr! Goddard. "Well, I think It Is Just as well to refer the question to the Executive Board," igreed Mr. Curtis. "Without making any recommendation," tuggested Mr. Goddard. "All right," said Mr. Curtis, and Mr. 3oddards motion carried. Mr Corbett then remarked: "We have made a epeclally low bid. merely to keep Ihe work 1n Portland. It takes some time uid It means expense to prepare new plans. It seems to me that the matter ihould bo settled now. It Is an injustice lo our company when we give out our lowest possible figures, to have these flg Bres made public." "Injustice," Snja Mr. "Wolff. "An Injustice has been done the firm I represent by shaving down the figures in sne bid." remarked Mr. Wolff, of the Phoenix Iron Works, looking significantly it Mr. Corbett, "Wooden boats were not idvertlsed for." The motion to refer the matter to the Executive Board then passed. It will be noticed that yesterday's bid of the Willamette Iron & Steel Company for the wooden twin-screw fireboat, except !or the wooden hull and wooden deck house, Is $t5,S50. This is without pumps. PASSAGE IN MACAULAY. The Three Slaters, Where Bacon and Salisbury Families Join. Interest in the history of Francis Ba con, always "existent, has been revived by lord Salisbury's death, as the history of the Cecil family touches upon that of the 'Bacon's. William Cecil, lord Bur leigh, on the death of Mary Cheke. his first wife, married Mildred, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, while Sir Nicholas Bacon married her sister, Anne. Concern ing, the gifted daughters of Sir Anthony Macaulay in his .essay on Francis Bacon says: The second wife of Sir Nicholas and mother of Francis Bacon was Anne, one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, a man of distinguished learning, who had been tutor to Edward VL Sir Anthony had paid considerable attention to the education of his daughters, and lived to see them all splendidly and happily married. Their classical acquirements made them conspicuous even among the women of fashion of that age. Katherlne, who became Lady Killlgrew, wrote Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, which would appear with credit in the Musae Etonenses. Mildred, the wife of Lord Burleigh, was described by Roger Ascham as the best Greek scholar among the young women of England, Lady Jane Grey always excepted. Anne, the mother of Francis Bacon, was distinguished both linguist and as a theologian. She corresponded In Greek with Bishop Jewel, and translated his Apologia from the Latin so correctly, that neither he nor Archbishop Parker could suggest a single alteration. She also translated a series of sermons on fate and free-wllf "from the Tuscan of Bernardo Ochlno. This fact is the more curious, because Ochlno was one of that small and audacious band of Italian reformers, anathematised alike by Wittenberg, of Geneva, by Zurich, and by Rome, from which the Soclnlan sect deduces its origin. Lady Bacon was doubtless a lady of highly cultivated mind after the fashion of her age. But we must not suffer our selves to be- deluded Into the belief that she and her sisters were more accom plished women that many who are now living. On this subject there Is. we think, much misapprehension. We have often heard men who wish, as almost all men of sense wish, that women should be highly educated, speak with rapture of the English ladles of the sixteenth cen tury. and lament that they can find no modern damsels resembling those fair pupils of Ashcam and Aylmer who com pared, over their embroidery, the styles of Isocrates and Lysias, and who, while the horns were sounding and the dogs In full cry. sat In the lonely oriel, with eyes riveted to that immortal page which tolls how meekly and bravely the first great martyr of Intellectual liberty took the -cup from his weeping goaler. But surely these complaints have very little foundation. We would by no means dis parage the ladles of the sixteenth century or their pursuits. But we conceive that those who extol them at the expense of the women of our time forget one very obvious and very Important circumstance. In the time of Henry the Eighth and Ed ward the Sixth, a person who did not read Greek and Latin could read nothing, or next to nothing. The Italian was the only modern language whicn possessed any thing that could be called a literature. All the valuable books then extant in all the vernacular dialects of Europe would hard ly have filled a single shelf. England did not yet possess Shakespeare's plays and the Fairy Queen, nor France Montaigne's Essays nor Spain Don Quixote. In looking round a well-furnished library, how many English or French books can we find which were extant when Lady Jane Grey and Queen Elizabeth received their edu cation? .Chaucer, Gower. Frolssart, Cmolnes, Rabelais, nearly complete the list. It was therefore absolutely neces sary that a woman should be uneducated or classically educated. Indeed, without a knowledge of one of the ancient languages no person could then have any clear no tion of what was passing in the political. the literary, or the religious world. The Latin was in the sixteonht century all, and more than all, that the French was in the eighteenth. It was the language of courts as well as of the schools. It was the language of diplomacy; it was the language of theological and political con troversy. Being a fixed language, while the living languages were In a state of fluctuation, and being universally known to the learned and the polite. It was em ployed by almost every writer who as pired to a wide and durable reputation. A person who was ignorant of it was shut out from all acquaintance, not merely with Cicero and Virgil, not merely with heavy treatises an canon-law and school- divinity, but with the most Interesting memoirs, state papers, and pamphlets of his own time, nay. even with the most admired poetry and the most popular squibs which appeared on the fleeting top ics of the day, with Buchanan s compli mentary versos, with Erasmus' dialogues, with Huttens epistles. This Is no longer the case. All political ana religious controversy Is now conduct ed In the modern languages. The ancient tongues are used only in comments on the ancient writers. The great produc tions of Athenian and Roman genius are Indeed still what they were. But thouch their positive value Is unchanged, their relative value, when compared with the whole mass of mental wealth possessed by mankind, has been constantly falling. They were the intellectual all of our ancestors. They are but a part of our treasures. Over what tragedy could Lady Jane Grey have wept, over what comedy could she have smiled. If the ancient dra matists had not been In her library? A modern reader can mako shift without Oedipus and Medea, while he possesses Othello and Hamlet. If he knows nothing of Pyrgopolynlces and Thraso. he Is fa miliar woth Bobadll and Bessus, and Pis tol and Parolles. If he cannot enjoy the delicious Irony of Plato, he may find some compensation In that of Pascal. If he Is shut out from Nephelococcygla. he may' take refuge In Lilliput- We are guilty, we hope, of no Irrevorance towards those great nations to which the human race owes art. science, taste, civil arid in tellectual freedom, when we say that the stock bequeathed by them to us has been so carefully improved that the accumulated Interest now exceeds the principal. "We believe that the books which have been written In the languages of Western Eu rope during the last 250 years transla tions from the ancient languages of course Included are of greater value than all the books which at the beginning of that period were extant in the world. With the modern languages of Europe English women are at least as well acquainted 'as English men. When, therefore, we com pare the acquirements of Lady Jane Grey with those of an accomplished young woman of our own time, we have no hes itation in awarding the superiority to the latter. We hope that our readers will pardon this digression. It is long; but It can hardly be called unseasonable. If it tends to convince them that they are mis taken in thinking that the great-great-grandmothers of their great-great-grand mothers were superior women to their sisters and their wives. . V Bnnqnei President-Elect of Peru LIMA. Peru, Aug. 25. The members of the National Club tonight gave a ban' quet to Senor Candaroo, the President elect of the Republic The latter, in a speech, said the Peruvian flag meant In dependence under the rule of law and national prosperity as a consequence of peace, to maintain which was today the unshakablo resolution of the Peruvian people. WINS JAPAN'S AID Colonel H. E. Dosch Success ful on His Mission. ST. LOUIS EXHIBIT WILL COME Oregren's Commissioner to Osaka. Ex. position Returns, From Orient "With sKnrances of Favor To ward Lewis ead Clarlc Fair. Colonel Henry E. Dosch. who has had charge of the Oregon exhibit at Osaka, returned to Portland last night, bearing the promise of officials of the Japanese government that the Bt. Louis exhibit to be made by Japan will be transferred to the Lewis and Clark Fair. In addition be has assurances from some of the leading manufacturers of Japan that they will home money." he exclaimed in speaking of the results of his financial manage ment. "I am glad that I was able to do so, though it required careful manage ment. Out of the $330 expended all the expenses of the exhibition were defrayed. What entertaining was dona I did at my own expense. Oregon was the only American state rep resented at the Osaka Exposition. Not even the Federal Government made s. dis playa fact that Colonel Dosch regrets. Bat of the effect of Oregon's participa tion he is enthusiastic The Osaka Exposition was originally planned as a domestic affair, he ex plained last night, "but the interest taken by the merchants of Japan and the Im portunities of outside firms resulted In the erection of a foreign samples building and a general invitation to the world to as sist in making the fair a success. Ore gon's showing In that foreign samples building was so extensive that the build in? was referred to most frequently as .the 'Oregon building. a practice thai I -encouraged as much as possible. "The people of Japan took a great In terest In our display, and the effect can not help being beneficial to Portland and Oregon. Particular Interest is felt lnall kinds of manufactured goods, and I am sure the way has been opened to Oriental markets for Oregon products. The lieavy Increase In orders from Portland firms in dicates this, and by a Judicious handling of the trade it may easily be developed extensively. "Japan Is Intensely Interested In all things American, and I regret that the MAY BUILD AT ST. LOUIS HISTORIC FORT CLATSOP REPRODUCED. MAY BE Sentiment in Favor of- a State Struc ture That "Would Advertise 3.905 Fair Grows. ' Unless old Fort' Clatsop Is reproduced at St, Louts as the Oregon State building, there Is not much likelihood the State Commission will undertake the erection of a building. The plan ot reproducing Fort Clatsop Is the only one under con sideration by the State Commission, and the only plan that would not call for more money than the commission feels able to set aside for the purpose. The committee which" Is to pass upon the building project met yesterday after noon, but it did not arrive at any con clusion. The Fort Clatsop project was ti nnlv one under consideration, and members of the committee felt that was the only project they would have to con sider. The State Commission has not yet learned whether the authorities of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition- will sanc tion the plan to reproduce Fort Clatsop. While It is felt the Exposition managers COMRADES IN THE CIVIL WAR, WHO MET IN PORTLAND AFTER FORTY YEARS' SEPARATION. EZEKIEL. EMERSOX. Jl'LILS D. JACKSON. gelo- In bis great sculpture of Moses has given that patriarch a pair of horns. "Among collected examples of human grown horns In a medical museum In Lon don there is one 11 Inches long and 2j inches In circumference. One modern in vestigator reports 71 cases of horns, 37 in females and 31 in males and three in Infants. Of this number 15 were on the head, eight on the face, IS on the lower extremities and 11 on the trunk. "Another collector reports ot SO cases. Forty-four women and 39 men. the re mainder Infants. Ot these 43 were on the head. A third collector reported 109 cases of cutaneous horns. The greater fre quency of the growths Is with women. Old age la often a predisposing cause. rrpe most remarkable case of a horn i was that ot Paul Rodriguez, a Mexican ! porter, who rrom the sioa ot his head had j a horn 11 Inches In circumference at the j base, divided into three shafts. A case is mentioned of a horn that grew upon a woman's forehead six Inches In diameter i and six Inches long. "In le&J there was an old woman In France who constantly shed long horns j from her head, one o wnlch was present- i ed to the Kln, Yldal. the eminent French l Dhvslclan. in JSSS nrowntoR tfn I Academy of Medicine a twisted hom ten ; lncnes long taken from the head .of a woman. "Small horns growing from the tym panic membrane of the ear are not rare. Dr. Saxton, of New York, reported of having excised several ot them. The late Dr. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, reported the case of a sea captain, 7S years old. who had been exposed to the winds all his life. His nose, cheeks, forehead and lips were covered with horny growths, which were constantly being shed and again reproduced. "A number of authorities speak of horns growing upon the legs. Among these was one over U Inches long. This was taken from the middle of the leg ot a woman SO yeara old,- six Inches below the knee. "Three old women ot the time of James I, King of England, who chanced to have these excrescences could haroly hope to escape burning as witches. "Stories of cutaneous horns when seen and reported by the laity seldom lack ex aggeration In description. One of these Is a story published In papere in New South Wales, which describes a child five weeks old. born with a tail IS Inches long, horns upon Its forehead and a full set of teeth. "The account adds, that 'the country people arounu Bomballa considered this child a punishment for a rebuff that the mother gave to a peddler selling pictures of the crucifixion. Vexed by his persist ence she said she would sooner have a devil in her house than his picture. " - NOTED EDUCATOR DIES. Martin Kelloggr, Ex-Prenident of the University of Cnllfornin. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26. Martin Kellogg, ex-president ot the University of California, died at the Waldeck Sanitar ium in this city shortly before noon to day, as the result of an operation per formed several weeks ago to relieve a combination of stomach and liver trou bles. Mr. Kellogg was born In "Vernon, Conn., In 1S28. He was highly educated, gradu ating from Yale with the degree of A. B. In 1S50, and had the honor ot being vale dictorian of his class. Later he came to this state, and for 40 years was associated with the University of California. He served as president of the institution for six years, old age and sickness finally compelling him to resign the presidency, which he did in 1SS9. He was succeeded Individuality & distinguishing quality af Gorham 4 -Silver It cannot therefore be mistaken for the mediocre productions of nameless makers. To give a present of Gorham silverware im plies good taste on the part both of the donor and the recipient. An responsive Jewelers keepil lNjj jewelers f..l?rfy J by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who resigned from the faculty ot Cornell University to take up the duties of the University ot California. Wife of New York Newspaper Man. PASADENA. Cal.. Aug. 26. Mrs. Ed ward W. HItchlngs, wife of the owner of the New York Commercial, died here to day at the family home. Her newly-born baby also -died. Mrs. HItchlngs was 31 years of age. She was the daughter ot George Nicholson, of New York. MUNSEY NOW OWNS PAPER Interest supplement this exhibit by a more exten sive showing of their own products; Gov ernors of districts that they will lend their aid. and prominent men of the em pire that they will help the Lewis and Clark Fair. The details of the Japanese exhibit at Portland are yet to be worked out. A for mal request for participation will have to be made through the proper channels and the way paved for the showing of Japanese products. But Colonel Dosch already has the promise that Japan will participate, and the rest is a formality. Though he strongly urged that efforts be made to secure the participation of Corea, It was decided that representations could not be made to that country at present, and Colonel Dosch was Instructed not to make a Corean trip. He still believes that great results would have followed a cam paign In Corea, and that it would aid the Lewis and Clark Fair to have that coun try represented in Portland. The formation of a commercial company to handle Oregpn exhibits was accom plished by Colonel Dosch. The Hiroshl Shokwai was organized at Osaka by some of the leading capitalists of Japan with a capital of 1.000,000 yen. The exhibit of Ore gon was transferred to this company to form the nucleus of a permanent commer cial exhibit ot Oregon goods in Japan, sales being made by sample. Already sev eral large orders have been placed In this country by the new corporation, and Colo nel Dosch brought home with him a large number of orders for Oregon goods. These orders will be distributed by Colonel Dosch among Portland business houses. The total amount set aside to make the Osaka exhibit was $1000. Colonel Dosch has spent nearly a year in Japan, making one six months' visit to this country since ho first went to the islands on an investi gation tour. He returned last evening with approximately $700 of the amount ap propriated for his work still unexpended. The fact that he was able to accom plish so much on an expenditure of ap proximately $3300 Is a source of gratifica tion to Colonel Dosch. "I always bring Federal Government did not make a dis play In the foreign samples building. Still, the fact that our Government was not represented worked to the advantage of Oregon, and so we profit by It. "Japan will reciprocate by participating in our Lewis and Clark Exposition. I have talked lth ministers of that country, commissioners to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and prominent business men. They are all in favor of participating In the Fair, and I have the assurance of those- In charge of the mattor that they will be represented. "I had no literature with which to push my work on behalf of the Lewis and Clark Fair, but I kept the Exposition advertised through the Japanese papers and by large placards, printed In Japanese characters and suspended about the space occupied by our Oregon exhibit. Moreover. 1 talked Lewis and Clark Fair to whom soever I could, and found the Japanese willing to listen and eager to assist us. "The fact that no effort has been made to secure the co-operation of Corea lo, I believe, a mistake. Of course, it may be that matters had not progressed to a stage where representations could be made, but I am -sure Corea should be asked to participate, and I believe work ; shquld be done In that direction. The pro motion of our trade relations with that ' country is a matter of importance." will unquestionably approve of the pro ject, the possibility that they might re ject it is open, and little will be done until a definite reply to an Inquiry is re ceived. The question of cost and the details for the erection of the building are to be worked out by a special committee. The commission decided three months ago that It could not spend more than 45G0 for the purpose ot erecting a state build ing. It is very likely that the cost of a building to represent the old Clatsop fort will not exceed ?5000, and if It is found this estimate is correct, the com mission is in a position to supply the funds. It Is out of the 'question to erect aa ex pensive building -at St. Louis, or to un dertake to duplicate some of the other buildings planned by states which have appropriated a liberal sum for the pur- I pose. In these states, too, aid has been ! furnished by the different commercial or ! ganlzations and county governments. Even though an expensive building were possible, members of the State Commis sion believe that a reproduction of Fort Clatsop would serve a better purpose than the. raising of a stately edifice that would be in many ways similar to other state buildings. Fort Clatsop has a historical significance no other state building could have. Since It was the building erected "The story of the success of the Osaka ! Dy the exDlorers Lewis and Clark for the Exposition has been told by Colonel Dosch i winter of 1S05-6, It is believed Its repro ln his reports to the Lewis and Clark Fair j auction at St. Louis would have the effect directors. It was open for six months and or drawing attention to the approaching the attendance was unusually large, une Lewis and Clark Centennial and opening lair is me nun oi its Kina aitempiea oy , xhe way for effective work on behalf ot Japan, and was the most successful ever i tnis Exposition by the representatives at held. Colonel Dosch had a pleasant trip across the Pacific, and arrived in Portland last night eager to be at work again to close up his affairs In the Orient. He went im mediately to his home after leaving the train which brought him from San Francisco. There are in New York Cltr today 1020 mil lionaires, as ealnst 204 20' yeah? ago. and 25 in 1S33. There were no millionaires In the city 100 years ago. JUDGE DICKINSON, SENIOR COUNSEL FOR ALASKAN BOUNDARY ARBITRATION COMMISSION St. Louis. In any event its unique char ! acter would serve to attract attention to Oregon, and the prominent location would make It observed by all who visit the sec tion of the fair grounds set aside for state buildings. i The strongest inducement to the State ! Commission to erect a building at St. ! Louis has been the offers of co-operation in advertising tho state. Numerous of- ' fers have been received from business ' men and transportation companies who i are willing to spend thousands of dollars ' in advertising literature, provided the State of Oregon has a building from which this literature could be distributed ; This point was brought out at a confer : ence between the State Commission and ! representatives of the railroads who were asked to advertise the state at St. Louis. The sentiment grew at this meeting that the - State Commission could probably ef i feet a saving in its expenditures for ad vertising purposes if a building were pro- i vlded ! Originally the sentiment of the State Commission was strongly opposed to the ! erection of any state building. The com : mlssloners, while they set aside a small ! sum that might be used for the purpose. t were Inclined to believe that better re sults could be obtained If the money were .spent for general advertising. The pro . posal to reproduce Fort Clatsop and the later offers relative to co-operation in ad 1 vertising have worked a change in senti ment, but It Is still an open question j whether a majority would vote for an ap i propriation. In any event, the report of ; the committee having tho matter in ! charge will have to be favorable. : The committee yesterday afternoon de ' elded to gather the figures on the build ing immediately and meet again before I the State Commission Is called together i next month. At that time the building question will probably be settled. Colonel Brown Sells His in New Yorli News. NEW YORK. Aug. 2S. On application of counsel for Frank A. Munsey, Justice Davis In the Supreme Court today signed an order vacating the temporary injunc tion obtained by W. L. Brown restraining Munsey from selling the New York Dally News at auction. At the same time Jus tice Davis signed an order discontinuing Colonel Brown's suit. When asked what these orders meant. Attorney Charles E. Russmore, who represented Mr. Munsey, said: "Mn- Munsey has acquired Colonel Brown's entire interest in the Dally News." Mr. Russmore declined to make public the terms upon which Mr. Munsey ac quired the Interest. He said, however, that Mr. Munsey would continue to publish the paper. By purchasing the 140 shares of stock of Mr. Brown, Mr. Munsey became the sole owner of the plant. Astoria Hose Team AV111 Enter. ASTORIA, Aug. 26. (Special.) Fred Brown, captain of the Astoria hose team, which won all the first prizes In the hose ttom events during the regatta, received official notification today from the Mult nomah Club that a two days' tournament would be held during the Portland expo sition next month. Mr. Brown immediate ly wired that the local team will enter the races, and the boys will begin training at once. Avoid harsh purgative pills. They make you sick and then leave you constipated. Cartt-r's Little Liver Pills regulate the bowels and cure you. A POOR. CRUTCH. Experience is a dear teacherpas those who pin their faith to Mercury find, out sooner or later. This power ful poison combined with Potash, is the treatment gen erally prescribed for Contagious Blood Poison, but failure and disappointment is tne- invariable result. I nese min erals drive in the sores and eruptions, and apparently the disease is gone and the patient believes the cure perma- , nent, but soon learns better when the old symptoms return almost as soon as the treatment is left off. You must either keep the system saturated with mercury or endure the tortures of sore mouth, ulcerated throat and the mortification that one naturally feels when the body is covered with disgusting sores, rashes, copper-colored .splotches and other aggravating symptoms of this vile disease. Mercury and Potash are poor crutches, and their use eventually breaks down the constitution, ruins the digestion and cause the bones to decay. S. S. S., a guaranteed purely vegetable remedy, is the only antidote for Contagious Blood Poison. It de stroys every atom of the deadly virus, overcomes the bad effects of the mercury and cleanses the blood and system so thoroughly that never after are any signs of the disease seen. Nor is the taint ever transmitted to others. 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Dickinson, senior counsel for the United States Government be fore the Alaskan boundary arbitration commission, is a railroad lawyer ot Na tional reputation, and for the last two years has been general counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad. Judye Dickinson Is a Southerner by birth, a graduate ot the University oi Tennessee, of Lelpslc University, in Germany, and of Har vard University. He was Assistant Attcroey-Oeneral under Cleveland's second administration. He sailed for England August 21. The commission will convene September 1. BY NO MEANS RARE. Odd Skall Fonnd in Oregon Known to Anntomlsts. O REG ONI AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July 26. "The recent finding in Oregon of a human skeleton with horns attached to the skull has caused much In terest among anatomists generally," said a scientist ot the Smithsonian Institution the other day. "However, it Is a fact well known to anatomists that horny excres cences upon the face and body of human subjects are by no means rare, and were also known to the ancients. "That woodland uelty, the Satyr, de picted witfi goat-like ears, budding horns and a short tall, did not grow altogether from the imagination of the ancients either as to horns or tail. "In the olden times horns were sym bolic of power and wisdom. Michael An- TWENTY YEARS OF SUCCESS In the treatment of chronic diseasea, such as liver, kid ney and stomach disorders, constipation, diarrhoea, dropsical swellings. Bright a disease, etc KIDNEY AND URINARY Complaints, painful, difficult, too frequent, milky or bloody urine, unnatural discharges speedily cured. DISEASES OF THE RECTUM Such as plies, fistula, fissure, ulceration, mucous and bloody discharges, cured without tho knife, pala or con finement. DISEASES OP MEN Blood poison, gleet, stricture, unnatural losses, to potency, thoroughly cured. No failure. 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