THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906. CHARGES AGAINST AN INDIAN AGENT Pendleton Business Men May Ask Removal of 0. C. Edwards. COLLUSION WITH BANKER Alleged ThHt V. Li. Thompson, Cash ier of Commercial National and Official Guardian or Umatilla Heirs, Abuses Powers. PKXDI.KTON'. Or., Oft. 23. (Special.) That there is a collusion between O. C. Edwards. Indian a sent on the Umatilla reservation, and V. L. Thompson, cashier of the Commercial National Bank, of this city, who is also the official guardian for sill Indian heirs on the reservation, is (.penly asserted by many prominent Pen dleton business men and nearly all lessees of Indian lands. So Incensed have the people of this vicinity become at the liiKh-handed manner in which the two men have been carrying on the reserva tion affairs that it now seems certain that meetings of the local commercial bodies, the Umatilla County Development League, the Umatilla County Wool Grow ers' Association and the Inland Empire "Wheat Growers Association, will be held immediately to prepare petitions to be forwarded to the Department of Indian affairs at Washington, demanding the re moval of Kd wards as agent for the Uma tilla tribe. Will Swear to Charges. it is alleged by the most reliable men in the city, men who are willing to go on the stand and swear to the truth of their statements, that it Is impossible for any man to lease Umatilla Indian lands unless lie Is a patron of the Commercial Hank, and that It is only possible for persons connected directly or indirectly with the hank to purchase the heirship lands, wricli are supposed to be sold at public auction to. the highest bidder. it is a well known fact that all pur chases of such lands made so far have heen negotiated through the bank, and that apparently there have been no trans . fers of money. It Is asserted that Thomp son lias gone bold'y to the lessees of Indian lands and told them that unless they patronized his bank he would see that they lost their lands. It Is also said that he iias gone to merchants and de clared that he had control of the trade, not only of the Indians, but of the white people living on the reservation, and that lie would not give it to them unless they transferred their accounts to his bank. One Proof; of Collusion. That the Indian agent is co-operating with Thompson is Haid to be shown by the fact that Thompson was appointed guardian for the Umatilla reservation heirs at his instance, and that though he lias been given unmistakable proof that Thompson is using his position to secure business lor his bank, the agent makes no effort to have him removed. Yet Edwards declared when the guard Ian was appointed: "If at any time it is Hiown that Thompson is using his in fluence as guardian to draw business away from other hanks, I will have him removed." KlfXIEVK.l) 11RST WIip DEAD Seattle Man's Second Spouse Re leases Him From His Vows. 6KATTLH. Oct. . 2.".. (Special.) Julius i'urker, a Russian, begun suit today to annul his marriage to Catherine Blanche I'urker. solemnized at. Victoria last April. Tarker thought hfs wife. Sophie, had been Killed in one of the Russian massa i res and took a second helpmate. When Sophie came through the bloodshed safely .in.l migrated to Seattle to tind Parker, lie a,-ked permission to return to her. The second Mrs. Tarker was willing, so he seeks an annulment of his marriage to his second wife. Kusene V. M. C. A. to Open Kooms. Kl'UKNli Or., Oct. 2:.. (Special.) The immediate opening of the Y. M. C. A. rooms pending the, erection of a $20.0uO building lias been decided upon by the directors of the Eugene Association. A location will be secured in the business section, and for a beginning the associa tion will provide reading-room, gymna sium and baths. The canvass for mem bers will begin the last of this week. The membership is to include both men and women, the rates for the latter being one-half those for the men. because the gymnasium and bath will be at the dis posal of the women but two days a woek. Logger Is Drowned at Astoria. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 25. (Special.) Gust. Hannilla and August Chris Alatalo, two loggers, attempted to go on board the steamer Shamrock, which was lying at her wharf, this evening. Both fell into Cue river. Hannilla was rescued, but Ala talo was drowned. His body has not been recovered. FOR THE OFFICE MAN. What He Must Do to Possess Health and Strength. (Health Culture) The main quesuon just now is: How shall the office man keep his health how. being in that line of work and de siring to remain therein, shall he gain greatest success in practical results and at the same time keep such health and strength as shall make life worth living? one of his greatest sins is that he eats Incorrectly. In ordinary cises I would suggest for the office man two meals a day one light and one heavier. The first ' meal may be taken cither in the morning or at noon. If in the early morning it may consist of cereaj with milk or cream", bread and butter, fruit and a glass of milk, in which one 0r two eggs are beakrn tip. If the meal be taken at noon, it might be made up of some simple salad, dressed with olive oil and lemon juice: bread and butter, fruit and a glass of milk. The heavy meal of the day should be taken in the evening, and might be made up of peas, beans or lentils; baked potato, boiled rice or other cereal: a sinple salad, a crust of brown bread, with or without butter; fruit. A cup of weak tea with this meal would do no harm. As to the use of meat, 1 may repeat what 1 have so often said, that meat is neither a neeessary or a wholesome food, and the office, man. like most other people, will find it to his advantage to use little or no meat in his dietary. For the office man. whose work is -indoors, sedentary and taxing upon the mentality, exercise is of peculiar import ance and value. As to exactly what exer cises are taken, no special directions are ecessary beyond saying that the exercise must not require much exertion of either mind or body. It must be effortless, or .8 nearly so as possible. The so-called "double contraction" exercises, gymna Bium work, handling heavy weights, long walks or runs, games in which there is keen competition, each man striving to outdo the, other all these are injurious to any man, but particularly to the office man. What system of exercise should be taken, then? Those that would uplift and expand the body, which, through bending over a desk, is necessarily more or less collapsed and depressed. This would increase the activity of the heart, lungs, stomach, liver, bowels and other vital organs, sending to the brain better supplies of good red blood, and there fore increasing the mental as well as the physical powers. They will relax nervously .tensed muscles and develop In the office man the ability to move easily, to economize his force and to prolong his life. I would suggest, as a rule, that six exercises be taken, two stretching, two breathing and two relaxing: that these are practiced for from five to ten minutes twice a day. The relaxing exercises have a peculiar value In relieving nervousness, excitabiiity or Irritation. If any nervous office man will practice relaxation exer cises carefully and perseveringly he will find, in a few weeks, a marked change In his condition. KISSES IN HISTORY. S Chaste Salutes That Raised Regi ments and Bought Votes. London Post. No more celebrated kiss was ever given than that bestowed November 22, 1581, in the gallery of Greenwich Palace, by Queen Klizabeth upon the Due d'Alencon, one of the suitors for her hand, whom, in the presence of Walsinjfham and Leicester, she kissed upon his coarse lips, and placing her CHARGES BAD FAITH Coldwell Socialist Assails Fed eration Lawyers. HAVE SLIGHTED HIS PARTY Editor Titus Asserts That Defense Fund Has Been Diverted to Help Out Democrats In the Present Campaign. BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 23. (Special.) H. F. Titus, publisher of the Socialist, a weekly paper at Caldwell, has a remarkable signed article in the issue just out. In this he charges that the attorneys for the defense in the case of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, charged with the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg, have devot ed a great deal of attention to an effort to defeat Judge Smith, Jn the Seventh District; that they used money from the "defense fund" in an attempt to prevent Smith's nomination; that they also used money to bring about the nomination of Bryan, the Democratic nominee, and that they now have emissaries in Canyon County, paid from the same fund, to in duce Socialists to vote for the Democratic candidate. Titus makes a long plea for -support of the Socialist party ticket throughout. He says that he discussed the Judgeship mat- i -5" - t 7 1 OREGON PIONEER AND INDIAN WAR VETERAN DEAD t .. - - HUDSON. Or.. Oct. 25. (Special.) The remains of Samuel K. Hud son, an Oregon pioneer and Indian War veteran, who died October 20, at his home in Beaver "Valley, of acute Indigestion, were laid to rest in the family lot In Woodbine Cem etery, at Hudson, Or., Tuesday, October 23, at 2 P. M. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Kemp, of the Methodist Epis- x copal Church of Rainier. Mr. Hudson was born Januafy 16, 1S20, in Alabama. He went from Alabama to Arkansas while a young man, where he married Miss Nancy Murdock In 1848. They crossed the plains by ox-team to Oregon In 1S52. He took up a dona tion claim in Cowlitz County, Washington, on Arkansaw Creek, which he named for his home state. In 1868 he moved to Columbia County, Oregon, where he had since resided, a respected and prominent citizen. He lived an up right Christian life and was known far and wide for his hospitality and generosity. ? ti,s wire died June, 1887. He was the father of ten children, seven of J whom survive him ,as follows; aimuel Hudson, of Milton, Or.; Francis I Hudson, of Maygers; James Hudson, of Hudson; Mrs. S. H. Tryon, of Sac- T ramento, Cal.; Mrs. J. H. Elwcll, of Rice, Wash.; Mrs. P. W. Washburn, !of Maygers; Mrs. T. J. Ejverman, of this city. Mr. Hudson was a member of the Indian War Veterans and Oregon Pio- , neers, in both of which he took an active interest. T 1 Kumuel K. Hudson, of Hudfton, Or. ring upon his finger, presented to her courtiers as their future master. With true sincerity did another Eng lish Queen grant a like favor, though the kiss given was but that of friend ship and esteem. It was at the con clusion of the . Crimean War, when France and Great Britain being, as at present, on the best of terms. Queen Victoria paid a visit to Paris. Her meeting' with her ally. Napoleon III, was of the most 'cordial description, and the Queen reached every heart, when, throwing ceremonial to the winds, siio touched witli her lips" the Emperors cheek, with that, kiss doing more to cement the good will between the two countiios than any amount of formal courtesy would have affected. Everyone has oeard of the famous kiss bestowed upon a butcher by Genrgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. In 1784 Fox was contesting Westminster In the Whig interest, among his keen est supporters being the beautiful Duchess, who entered heart and soul into the spirit of the election, gaining many a vote for her protege by her golden speech and sparkling eyes. One man, however, a butcher, remained im pervious to her wiles; neither beseech ing glance nor persuasive word could move him. But the Duchess was reso lute on gaining her end; she offered a kiss for the man's vote. Such a. bribe wus irresistible. The efficacy of a fair woman's kiss was incontestably proved when, in 1794, the , famous Gordon Highlanders were raised bv the lovely Duchess of Gordon, who was directly instrumental in gaining a thousand recruits by the donation of a guinea and a kiss apiece. In a sense, many of these kisses may be said to have been fatal, for In an encounter with the French shortly afterward more than 250 were either kilied or wounded. Alain Chartler, the French poet, is the hero of a romantic legend. One day he sat down in a public place, and being weary and exhausted by the heat of the day. tell into a slumber. As he slept. Margaret of Scotland, the wife of the Daujhin, afterward known in history as. Louis XI, chanced to pass with her attendants. She glanced at the unconscious man and recognized in iilm the poet whose verses she so loved. Then, motioning to her maids to be still, she gently stepped forward, and, stooping, imprinted a kiss on the sleep ing poet's lips. Pretty, too, is the story of Ingeborg Vinding ami the poor student, Paul Vendclbo. The latter, whose empty purse -was a sad trammel to his ardor after knowledge, was promised by two noblemen a foreign tour conditional on his being able to obtain a kiss from the fair Ingeborg. Nothing despairing, Vendclbo one morning approached the lady as she was seated at a window, and boldly made confession of his hard case. Ingeborg heard him in silence, then bent down her proud head and In loving charity gave him a kiss. At times, however, a kiss has been the prelude to a tragic sequel, as that bestowed in 171S by Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria upon Princess Thyra, the near relation of a ruler of a neighbor ing state, where he was on a visit. Th's affectionate greeting, a heedless whim of the moment, was given under the very ees of the Princess' be trothed, who. naturally taking um brage, soundly rated the thoughtless Prince. Words came to blows, which resulted in a duel being arranged, and diplomatic relations between the two states were broken off. In the war that followed, although hostilities last ed but six weeks, over a thousand lives were sacrificed. ' Could ot Sleep for Coughing. "A customer called me up one cold nicl-.t last winter, wanting a bottle of OlTamherlain's Tough Remedy for his mother, who had such a cough that she could not sleep." says E. Mixon. of Stallings. Ala. "The next day he told me ti'.at one dose of it relieved her and that she rested well for the remainder of the night." This remedy is for sale by all drugg" ter with Moyer and Haywood in the jail here, and that they urged support for the Democratic candidate. He criticizes them for abandoning the Socialist candidate, holding it. would do them and their cause more good to cast a large Socialist vote than to defeat Smith. Titus also publishes a letter, received from another Socialist, calling attention to the fact that Socialists in the vicinity of the home of the writer of the letter are supporting Stocksiager for Governor on the theory .that it will be advantageous to the men accused of the Steunenberg murder to have the Democratic candidate elected. It is stated by Titus that he finds the disposition very general among Socialists to take that course, and the receipt of the letter prompted him to write and publish his communication. ISLANDS THAT FLOAT. Examples of Land Freaks in Mexico and England. London plobe. . The Isle of Delos, now Mikra Dill, is a classical example of an island that floats. For when Leto, in her wan derings came to Deios, it was a floating- island drifting- about in the Aegean Sea. To render it a more secure dwelling place for the wanderer, Jup iter chained it to the bottom with an adamantine chain. And since the isl and really is a granite mass, with roots stretching far down into the realms of Pluto, the latter part of the story is not without an element of truth. Its adamantine anchor sticks deep in the earth. To pass on, however, from the floating islands of fiction to those of fact, we note tirft those of the Mexican Lakes. These were among the most wonderful things seen by the Spanish conquerors of that wonderful country. "There are two sorts of them," says Humboldt, "the one in movement and driven about by the winds, aud the other fixed and attached to the shore." They bear crops of peas, beans, potatoes, and other vegetables, and are gay with varied flowers they are, in fact, floating gardens, supplying the cities with vegetables and flower. One of the great sights in Humboldt's time was the boats coming down the canals laden with the produce of these strange gardens for the cities of Istacalco and Chalco. The finest promenade in the neighborhood of Mexico was around the lakes and among thee floating islands. They were known as Ohinampas, and they have been traced back to the fourteenth century. In their structure they are part ly natural and partly artificial. Masses cf tangled vegetation collect in the water, and when these natural rafts are strong enough soil is laid upon them. Then they are cultivated, and sonn bear abun dant crops. The moveable Chinampas are towed or pushed with strong poles from place to place. On one of a group may be seen the floating cottage of the guard. Such were the floating islands of the Mex ican Lakes in the time of Humboldt. They are further described by a more re cent traveler, Brocklehurat. He found that the lakes were partly covered with tangled masses of reeds, water plants and bushes. As soon as such a mass became strong enough several layers of turf were laid unon it. This was covered with soil and the garden was made. At the time of the Spanish conquest there were thousands of these islands on the lakes, and the Aztec kings derived a large part of their revenue -from them. From 100 to 200 feet long, and from 10 to 100 feet wide, they were fixed by long willow poles driven through them to the bottom of the !ake. where they took root. In Brockle hurst's time they were all thus anchored, none were free to float around witn 'hiph-born damsels under jasmine bow-, ers." as they were when Humboldt de scribed them. Dal Lake-, near Sringar. Kashmir, has also its floating gardens. Here the soil is placed on aheets of the broad leaves of the water lilies and great DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP $5 M 00 Fine Wh olesale -OF. Nathan S Wertheimer Co. 73 Front Street, One Door From Oak Wholesale District Sale A M Goes on Retail Tomorrow at 9 Sale, lasts 7 days only. The entire whole sale stock without reserve will be sold, con sisting: of over 10,000 men's and boys' Suits, Overcoats, Cravenettes and Pants. This splendid stock will be forced out at actual manufacturers' cost or less, saving-the cus tomer the wholesale and retail profits bringing- the goods down to One-Half Regular Retail Price or Less Clothing Stock i ; a tl I s e3 ' ' I ILvV: rj( n Li 2000 Men's Fine Suits Consisting of double and single-breasted sacks; black, blue, gray, brown, oxfords and fashionable plaids, checks and silk mixtures. These lots consist of all colors and, kinds at each price. Owing to im mense quantities, we cannot describe each lot separately. The prices quoted repre sent actual manufacturing cost (aver aged), and is about one-half regular retail prices or less. Lot No. 1. Sli QR- shoying, $10 retail Ti 03 values. Lot No. 2. SO QCExtensiA-e display of $15 OiU J retail values. Lot No. 3. SQ "7 EBusiness and dressy suits Oi I J to $18 retail values. Lot No. 4. SQ f C Elaborate line suits to $20 u 1 0 9 retail values. Lot No. 5. 011 Cfl Gigantic assortment to U I 1 1 J U $25 retail values. Lot No. 6. Over 1000 suits, val ues to some are even sold higher at retail. Odd Knee Pants About 2000 pairs ; yours at whole sale cost yes, a good deal less. 1 En Tw0 Pair for 25? Good I 3b quality. - Q C n Wool, worsted and corduroy, UwU worth Toe. Choice of all our Knee Pants. Worth to $2.00. S13.85 65o ' Fall and Winter Overcoats and Cravenettes This stock is in excess of 1500 garments. We only manufacture the best and finest grades. Careful dressers will really ap preciate the correctness of styles, work manship, and the richness of materials. Lot No. 7. Si Q C fedium heavy up to $10 lUJ Overcoats. Lot No. 8. ST C n Overcoats and Craven- i3llettes to $16.00 retail val ues. These garments are hand tailored. Lot No. 9. SQ '7CSilk Serge and Venetian U 1 1 3 lined Overcoats and all colors and kinds of Cravenettes to $20.00 values. Lot No. 10. S1 1 R fi Select garments, Pad I 1 1 3 Uock Overcoats, French back and extra fine Cravenettes to $25.00 value. . , Lot No. 11. Q QR "ne hignest class of ma U I0U3 terials and finest styles and workmanship to $30.00 values. 50C v For ,rests Vests choice of 500 Odd Children's Overcoats At going to press with the announce ment, it is impractical to quote intelligent ly all price details ; but the elegant stock will be sold at less than manufacturer's cost-. AO0 VII S1.35 Boys' and Children's Suits Double-Sewed Tape Seams Guaranteed Not to Rip. Sizes commencing at 3 years and up to about 12 sizes 3000 Suits. As this firm manufactured and wholesaled nothing but v high-class and novelty goods, the sizes naturally run accordingly. The finest Silk Velvets, Serges, Velours and real Scotch materials. Costly and elegantly trimmed, fashioned and tailored. This de partment will be closed out at an actual loss on manufacturer's cost. Represents Suits to $3.50 retail value. Q1 QC Represents elegant Suits 0 1 1 03 to fully $4.00 value. 0ft in Elaborate to $5.00 or even uZi4U better values. yc Elegant up to $6.00 retail uZi I 3 values. 0 K Tremendous display to UJi3 $7.50 values. O Q Q C Powerfully Splendid to UUi03 $8.50 values. Sh Q K ilk civets, etc., easilv TiU 3 $10.00 values. 4800 Pairs Pants Embracing, the leading fabrics and styles of this year's Pantsdom. Prices quoted are less than one-half retail value. Sizes from 27 to 36 inseam, 28 to 50 waist. . ORfi Substantial Working $1.5 UJb Pants. Q En Hundreds-Splendid to $2.50 uub Pants. Vast display of up to $3.50 Pants. Extra good to $4.50 values at retail. Best qualities average our .00 retail value. S1.5 S2.1 S2.85 WHOLESALE STOCK SOLD AT RETAIL. WHY? At this season of the year all regular retail stores have their entire Pall and Winter stocks in the house. This $50,000 to $60,000 all high-class stock is too large a proposition for any half-dozen stores. Having determined to dissolve the partnership of Nathan & Wertheimer Co., we have concluded to wind up all business affairs and sell the stock at sacrifice retail sale at once. MAIL ORDERS Accompanied by cash or equivalent will be filled at once, we ask that out-of- town people use care in sending sizes and describing character of goods desired. FAR CAIF 1TIYTI1RFQ Safe, desks, sample trunks, iUR jilLL, riAlUALj glass partition and all fix tures usually found in a wholesale business. PAWf I IlTHMr RFM ARK This Bale begins 9:00 A- M- sharp, Saturday, October 27, and ends in seven tUiltLUlilllU ULlUnfUiJ days, Saturday night, November 3, 1906. Beginning Monday, October 29, the sale will open daily at 8:00 A. M. and close at 6:00 JP. M. sharp, except both Saturdays the sale will be open until 10:15 P. M. - quantities of vegetables ar grown on thTbe gardens of the Chinese boatmen are floating islands towed behind the boats as they ply their business over the lakes and rivers. A raft of bamboo in terwoven with reeds, and long grass is first made, and then covered with soil. On this the boatman grows his onions and other vegetables, and his garden fol lows him as be journeys up and down the river. A marvelously convenient ar rangement for supplying green stuff! Other lakes have also f heir floating gar dens, though these mehr not be gardens. Humboldt, indeed, remarks that they are found all over the world. Darwin met with them In Chili during his famous voy age on the Beagle. Lake Tagua-Tagua In that country is celebrated for its floating islands. These are formed of the ptalks of dead plants intertwined, and on which living plants take root. They form circular masses four to six feet thick, of which the greater part is sub merged. Sir Charles L,yell has noted that floating islets of matted trunks, with liv ing trees standing erect upon them, are met with at sea 50 or 100 miles from the mouth of the Ganges. The Amazon, Ori noco and Congo float down similar bur dens. Young trees root themselves upon them, and flowers open their blossoms, making these rafts Into veritable floating gardens. They are also ships on which various voyagers have taken passage. Al ligators, serpents, monkeys, tiger cats, and other animals are thus carried down the rivers to the sea. On one occasion a party of four tigers landed at Monte video from one of them, to the no small surprise and alarm of the inhabitants. England's example is the curious float ing island of Derwentwater Lake. After being lost to sight for some seven years It appeared again In the Summer of last year. It remained visible for several weeks, and then disappeared. This er ratic appearance at intervals of from one to seven years is one of the moat striking peculiarities of this island. A hot Summer favors its appearance, and its favorite months are July, August and September. The island floats, but remains attached, to the bottom by the sides. It comes up near the southeast end of the lake opposite Lodores and some 150 yards from the shore. The most probable explanation is that it is a sort of large bubble of felted vegetation raised from the bottom of the lake by gases of decomposition. It is interesting to note that Miss Har riet Martineau, in her "Guide to the Lakes," mentions a floating Island on Priest's Pot, a small sheet of water near Esthwaite Lake. Trees were growing on this island, and it seems to have floated to the side some time In the early '60s. Havana Theater of White Stone. Cuban Review. The history of the Tacon Theater, of Havana, which was recently purchased hy the Spanish Dramatic Company for J5.5O.00O, is interesting. In the year 1835 Francisco Marty, who was then the leader of a band of pirates which infested the Island of Cuba, and who had a price of 110,000 on his head, was captured and ordered to be put to death. Seeing there was no hope for him, he asked leave to see General Tacon. who was then Governor-General of Havana, and told him if his life was spared he would denounce his entire band and assist him in ridng the island of the number of pirates which infested it at that period. Accordingly General Tacon gave him a two weeks' parole, and inside of a week Marty had denounced his fellow-pirates and turned them over to the government. For this service he was pardoned. In 1836 Marty asked for the concession to build a national theater on the site of Parque Central. It was granted to him. General Tacon went further, and allowed him the privilege of the use of 40 convicts who were then confined in Morro Castle to assist him In the work, each convict receiving the sum of 20 cents a day. In 1S38 the theater was finished, and Marty, as a proof of the gratitude he felt toward General Tacon for sparing his life, named it El Teatro Tacon. Dur ing the insurrection in Cuba many excit ing incidents took place here. In one instance a regiment of Cuban insurgents barricaded themselves In the theater and held it against the Spaniards for three days. Finally they were starved out, and as they were making their escape all were shot W hy Flavius Left School. New York World. The late Flavins Josephus Allen, long known to New Yorkers as the proprietor of the Astor House, was born and brought up. as they say, at East Peering, Maine. He attended the district school, and did not get on well. Finally, in despair, the teacher said that unless he could master his geog raphy he would have to leave school. Flavius gazed Badly at the map on the wall and growled out: "I'll never un derstand how a river can run up hill the way they do there." Then he re tired from the halls of learning. The City of Great Britain. London Spectator. . Unless we command the sea we cannot keep open the roads by which our people are fed. Britain has In effect ceased to be a country. She is now, considered from the political and military point of view, a city, though a city with very large parks and pleasaunces and kitchen gar dens In which to grow their flowers, fruits and vegetables. A city, from the point of view of war. may be described as a place which, if besieged long enough, must fall, since supplies once consumed cannot be replenished. Britain answers to this description. The moment the sea roads to her are closed by an enemy she is, ipso facto, in a state of siege. Face to face with a need so imminent. It would be madness for us to give any considera tion to what we hope or believe are the intentions of this or that foreign power. All that we can rightly do in considering how to secure our national safety and in dependence 1r to count ships and guns and to compute the units of naval efficiency. Conceit of the Esquimaux. " Century. The missionaries tell me that th Esquimaux are a most conceited race, anrl that their own opinion of their musi cal gifts Is very high. The first time the missionary's wife of whom I have spoken played on the piano for them they ex claimed, "She plays almost as well as we." This conceit of the Esquimaux makes the missionaries' tajk very dif ficult. What can a teacher accomplish when his pupils think they know more than he? The Esquimaux do not even at tempt to argue, but simply shrug their shoulders and say with a supercilious smile, "That may be so in your opinion. but ." And so, in spite of nearly ISO years of religious training, many of them are still only quasi-Christians, and the traveler may still pick up curious hits of heathen folklore among them. ( Makes Fare 2 1-2 Cents in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind Oct. 25. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company today announced that, beginning November 1, a straight fare of 214 cents would be charged in Indiana.