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All our advocator of ship subsidy are in the position of those who make complaint that our ocean carrying trade is done at too cheap a rate, and that Government therefore ought to step in and pay subsidies out of the Treasury, in addition to the freight money now charged against the goods. This Is precisely what all the argu ments for phip subsidy come to. It i3 complained that American ships can make no money in carrying the products of our country to foreign mar kets, because foreign ships carry them at so low a rate. Hence our subsidy advocates are actually contending that freight rates on our products to for eign countries ought to be raised, by taking money in large sums directly out of the Treasury, and turning it over to American shipowners. We are in a continual fight with our railroad managers to get lower rail rates, and are reducing the rail rates by law, all along the line; yet we are told that ship rates are too low, and muet be increased by direct payments out of the public Treasury. The mis erable foreigner is doing our ocean service, or much of it, for us. too cheap, and we are oppressed thereby. It is the shallowest argument ever made for loot of the public Treasury. The object i enrichment of new syn dicate?, formed for plunder. Kvery thing on land having been appropri ated, attention turns towards the sea; but ince the sea Is the free highway of nations, monopoly in the carriage of our products over it can be had only through the subsidy method. It is "protection" gone mad. A prop osition of this nature ie, however, no tice, acknowledgment or proof that the essence of the so-called principle 13 en richment of a few among us at the ex pense of the many. Since foreign ships can and do carry our products at rates admittedly low too low for our own competition why not permit them to continue it? Why pay subsidies and buiid up a new set of millionaire mo nopolists and plutocratic syndicates at home, at the expense of the people on either side of the game; who are to be charged on the one hand higher rates for transportation of their products, and then are to be robbed on the other hand by taking money they have paid in the form of taxes into the Treasury and putting It as freight money into the pockets of ship-subsidy exploita tion? Secretary Root, in his speech at Kan sas City, seemed to think that the ar gument for subsidy was complete, when he remarked that England was paying to steamship lines several million dol lars a year, which makes competition by us costly and difficult. But Great Britain is an island empire; her chief thought always must be of the sea; her political situation and her vast colonial interests require her to pursue a policy not necessary for us; and, after till, the few millions she pays for as sistance of steamship lines is but a bagatelle in proportion to her vast com mercial, shipping and naval interests. With her colonies and dependencies she must maintain connections; and inci dentally she is in position to do much of our ocean transportation at lower rates than we can ever do It for our selves. Strange to say, we have people who are dissatisfied because England and some other countries are in position to work for us so cheap. Yet the whole agitation for the ship subsidy bill now before Congress has its origin in the designs of a body of franchise-grabbers and subsidy-mongers on the Treasury of the United States. Ex haustion "of other schemes has concen trated their efforts upon this one. The Chicago Record-Herald tells about the difficulties of a young couple in that city of magnificent distances, and how they overcame them. This couple had, the Record-Herald thinks, a more intimate knowledge of the evils of the traction system of Chicago than any other two persons in the city. The account tells why: Hr homo was at 3714 Sheridan road, clot-e to the Evanston frontier, and his at :IK20 Ijtngley avenue. They met at a dance in toe W'aupensah Club, Fortieth street ajtd Drexel boulevard, two years ago. fell in love at first sight, like Komco and Juliet, and have been going to dances together ever since. Louis has been known to travel from Thirty-ninth street and Langley ave nue to Sheridan road and Kenilworth ave nue to get his companion, take her to a dance In Oak Park, bring her back Jiome and then rnit the long trail for the South Side fourteen miles away once more. He managed to hold down his job at the sams time a noteworthy achievement even if he did work for his father. But there was objection, In both fam ilies to their marriage; ea they ended all troubles of traction lines and of family opposition at once; and then the parents, on both eidee, surrendered and the car line's loft a pair of their best customers. But we suppose all these things, except the magnificent dis taneee, might be paralleled in Portland. IS IT WINTER? There is no Winter in Portland, nor in Oregon, nor in the Pacific North weft. A little chill weather comes on, but grass is still green; and you will see roses all Winter, even In the open air, where people take care of them and know how to do it. But Winter in fact, as they know it elsewhere, is not known here. It is so, it Is the 6ame, throughout the whole region of the Pacific Coast. Here is a distinct variety of climate. Here it is that life means .more than it means in other parts of the United States. At least it means something different, and widely different. You will not get the same, touch of nature anywhero else. Something else, however, may be as good, or better. So some will say. Let us not diepute it. But if you wait here a year you will wish to go nowhere else. Yet perhaps for one trip one only to the old places you knew. No one who has lived in the Pacific States of America ever wishes to live any where else. It is not a narrow provincialism. It is a fact. It is comfort to live on the Pacific Coast of America, as nowhere else in America. The fact is not uni versally known yet, but it is becoming known. You may take it from Aea pulco to Nome. The latitude makes a difference of temperature, but the air we get from the Pacific Ocean great est of oceans is all the same. It is controlled by wind and ocean currents, directed or modified by mountain ranges; and there is nothing like it elsewhere in all the world. Climate alone would make the Pacific States of America the most populous parts of the United States. But there are products of every sort, with in finite possibility of increase, native or suited to the climate. If this is rapture the newcomer inspires it. He sees it, he tells It. And his enthusiasm warms, up "the old settler," till even he begins to see visions. And what is more to the purpose, his descendants begin to dream dreams. On one side of it, af ter all, it is the dreams that tell the future. And if it is Winter the Pacific States of America do not know it. OUR TRAVE WITH AMERICAN NKItill LJOIfS. The New York Sun has taken the pains to compile the statistics of the trade of the United States with other countries of the Western Hemisphere. It finds that our sales to neighbors north and south of us, in 1896, repre sented 15.4 per cent of our total exports1. In 1900 they represented 16,2 per cent, and in 1905 21.3 per cent. For the first nine months of the present year the figure is 24 per cent. These are in all cases figures for calendar years. Con sidering only our sales to the south ward, the percentages for the same periods are, approximately: For 1896, 8 per cent; 1900, 10 per cent; 1905, 12.5 per cent; 1906 (nine months), 14 per cent The character of this trade is very different from that of our trade with Europe. While our sales to Europe consist in large part of our surplus ag ricultural products, provisions and raw materials, our exports to our neighbors are made up mainly of the products of our mills and factories. Argentina's purchaser of our agricultural inple ments during the last fiscal' year equal those of Germany, France and the United Kingdom combined. While we gut only a smal fraction of their total orders for such goods, we sold more cotton cloth in Cuba, in Chile, in Brazil and in Columbia than we sold to Eu rope and the United Kingdom. With the exception of Japan. Central Amer ica was our best customer for locomo tives, and 72 per cent of our exports of steel rails went to Latin America; which also took 47 per cent of the boots and shoes we exported. Cuba bought $2,500,000 worth of lumber, and our neighbors to the southward took 30 per cent of our entire export of builders' hardware and tools. The Sun's summary shows that the imports, of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere, excepting the United States and Canada, approxi mate $750,000,000 a year. Our share of that is about $225,000,000, In which our sales to Mexico and Cuba represent about one-half the total. C'HKCKS TO TUBERCULOSIS. The Slate Commission appointed by Governor Hanly, of Indiana, two years ago, to investigate the need of a state institution for the treatment of tuber culosis, will recommend that an appro priation of $200,000 be made by the Leg islature soon to convene at Indianap olis, for the construction of a hospital for consumptives. It will be further suggested that the matter be taken up at once. The commission, after careful and thorough investigation of the fnat ter in many sections of the country, reached the conclusion that fully 75 per cent of those afflicted with consump tion, in its early stages, can be restored to health. Investigation having proved to the satisfaction of the committee that tuberculosis is a curable disease and in a large measure preventable, it is urged that no time be lost in es tablishing a sanitarium. The plan is not. indeed, to restore a limited number of persons to health, but to make au educational Institution for the medical profession and the peo ple of the state. It is urged that the chief value of such an institution is its educational influence in the direction of prevention. There are now something like 25,000 persons in Indiana suffering from tuberculosis in one of its three distinct stages. These will soon pass away unless relief comes promptly; at best, many of them, within a few months, more or less, will fall victims to the great scourge. The object is to keep the ranks from filling, up as fast a they are depleted by death. This, it is" believed, can be done by measures within the reach of medical and sani tary science, assisted by state aid. The commission summed up its findings in the following paragraph with which it closed its exhaustive report: We have found ourselves almost uncon sciously changing from the old-time view of the disease, for no one can seo tne things we have seen iwid retain the old chilling, fatuous, hupeless view that the continued prevalence and spread of tuber culosis Is an inevitable plague to which our race must continue to pay Its awful tribute of flesh and blood. An increasing sense of mutual responsibility, an enlightened view of public economy, the light of science and the spirit of philanthropy will stay the progress of the great white plague. The State of Oregon, through its Legislature, will be asked, in due time, to take action in this matter. It has already been demonstrated, through the work of the Open-Air Sanitarium near this city, that consumption, when taken in time and dealt with in accord ance with the simplest laws of sanita tion, nutrition and rest, is a curable malady. The work Is hampered through lack of means. The local sanitarium is one of the latest of our many be nevolent institutions, and one of the most important. Its scope should be enlarged to the end tnat its usefulness may be increased. It must come to this sooner or later, and the verdict of hu manity is, "the sooner the better." WISDOM IN AFFAIRS. Are we indebted to antiquity? Yes, immensely. It is the labor, the experi ence, even the failures, of ancestors, that have placed us where we are. We still repeat many of their mistaken ex periments, which they thought wise. It was tentative effort with them, though mistaken, and they did the best they knew. But, on the whole, the world is doing well. Its chief debt to antiquity is in the lessons it has learned, through which it avoids, or may avoid, repeti tion of old errors and absurdities. It is fine to look back to old times. And wise to do so. Our ancestors, from the beginning till now, had a lot of ex perience that they passed on to us. Most of our own difficulties spring from our forgetfulness of it. Through our ignorance, or our neglect, of their experience, we try to do the whole thing over again under the impression or notion that It will be different now. Doubtless this is necessary to new edu cation of one generation after another. But it's mighty troublesome at times. It often compgjls society to fight for its life. Foolish wealth makes common cause with other foolish ignorance. The slave power in our country was backed by immense money. Bryan had much wealthy support. The first families of Portland back a Hearst organ. Their skins will make good drumheads when the people are beat to arms. To antiquity we owe an immense debt. The experience ought to teach us to avoid errors. But it doepn't. Or only in part. Old times, we know, were not very good times. But there are lessons in them. The difficulty is to observe and maintain the balance; to give the past its credit, yet to look to wise progression. For all we have we are indebted to antiquity; and yet, as Hobbcs said, if we are to look to an tiquity the present age is the oldest. GOO-GOO EYES. When a woman of the demi monde attempts to ply her trade upon the streets she is haled to a dungeon. With men of the same moral status the case is different. They gather upon fhe street corners, and particularly about the open tobacco shops, and stand there hour after hour unmolest ed, making it unpleasant if not perilous for a decent woman to pass by. Who has not seen the color come to a wom an's face as she ran the gauntlet be tween two rows of these leering degen erates? They range through all ages from the callow youth sucking at his first cigarette or reeling from his first debauch to the hardened reprobate who has lost all traces of manly character and differs from the beast only in out ward semblance, and scarcely in that. In Portland, it seems, these creatures are beyond the reach of the law as it stands. Judge Stone has succeeded in so arranging matters in Houston that the streets are open to decent women; but our lawmakers have not yet solved the problem. Nor is it the only one which seems to baffle their legislative skill. Perhaps the principal defect in American government from the top to the bottom is its complexity. The wheels within wheels dissipate respon sibility and thwart executive effort. Honesty is discouraged by the sinuous intricacies of our governmental ma chinery, and graft thrives upon it. City government is no worse a mud dle than that of counties under our labyrinthine division of authority. In our dread of "one-man power" n-e have succeeded in paralyzing executive ac tion almost entirely. Under the Texan system of govern ing cities by commission, without poli tics, how long would the slot machines run openly on the streets of Portland? These devices, of Satan are like piles of offal in the highway - which collect worms and bugs and noxious creatures of all sorts, to say nothing of fools. Who has not watched some imbecile stand and feed into one of these ma chines the money which his family needed for bread? In a steady stream he drops through the slot his children's sohoolbooks, his wife's clothing and the family's Sunday dinner. Who can as sign a single good reason for permit ting these machines to continue? Who does not know the misery which they cause, the evil habits which they orig inate and encourage? Who is unaware that they form a nucleus for the gath ering of the goo-goo eye fiend and the masher? And yet, ' for all that, who expects to see them abolished? THE GOLDEN WEDDING. An occasion always of great signifi cance to organized society is that which marks the completion of full half a century of marriage between one man and one woman. An undertaking begun in youth, pursued in unfaltering love and abiding faith through middle life and continuing to old age, is one that commands the respect of the com munity simply ae an abstract propo sition. When added to this is the rec ord of a harmonious family life, the rearing of a family of "from eight to half a score," the golden wedding be comes more than an occasion of inter est to .those immediately touched by it. Then it becomes a chronological event in the life of the state. The Oregonian. is ever pleased to chronicle events of this character, and to give to the public that they have, by following the simple, nat ural path through half a century, the pictured faces of the pair who have climbed life's hill together. Occasions of this kind are not so frequent as they should be. Too often one or the other party to a youthful compact "for bet ter or for worse,' for richer or for poorer, in sickness and In health, so long as life shall last," drops by life's wayside long before the half century is reached. More sad even than this, the one or the other repents the early marriage vows and asks them can celed by the courts. Completion of the fifty years to gether with courage and thankful ness is the exception, not the rule. Hence the golden wedding anniversary is of interest first of all for its rarity. Next in point of interest is the family that has sprung from the youthful compact, and pleasant indeed is it to see the children come trooping, with their children. Mayhap come also their children's children to the old home In which these newer homes had root, to honor the parents who are still there as they began life fifty years ago alone. Children came into this home until it was full and went out of it until it was empty. Gathered' in and around it are memories that never die, and associations that never grow old. A pair who were married in Clacka mas County fifty years .ago have spent all of the half century's years within a few miles of the pioneer home in which they were married. They have lived Jorty years in the little home overlooking the falls of the Wil lamette where they are resting from the burden and heat of the long day. Seven children were born to them, and from these eight homes have sprung. They have led, strictly speaking, the "simple life" the family life. Their record is that of loyalty and affection for each other; of love and responsibil ity as parents; of helpfulness as neigh bors; of uprightness as citizens. Who, looking backward over the years, could wish for a better record than this? It is the record of lives ordered in ac cordance with law and love; of faith fulness and commonplace endeavor; of labor and responsibility. Hence the golden wedding that marks an epoch in these lines covers also an era of com munity history. Was it cruel Injustice to discharge the whole battalion of negro soldiers? It is the point of view. President Roosevelt looks at it from one point, which he has stated with his Ufmal force. We are disposed to look at it from another. The President insisted that the soldiers should tell on their comrades. But they had absorbed a great deal of the modern college and military spirit, and wouldn't tell. Yet the President is a military man and a college man, and has given the negro the squarest deal that any man has given him since Lincoln's day. But his point of view led him to the conclusion hi' announced. In the human spirit there is no end of factors that go into the decision of all such things. The President felt that he had to regard it as more serious than a college esca pade, or common rowdyism of the mil itary camps. Libel suits for damages, or criminal prosecutions for libel, seldom or never amount to anything. The reason is, as the Chicago Chronicle states It, that "in any libel suit it is admissible for the defendant to show up all the weakness and meanness of the plaintiff's whole life in mitigation of damages' Come to think of it. that does make a differ ence, now doesn't it? And that's what makes labors like those of Colonel Wood vain labors. The locker In which the cigars are kept moist, and also where other moist ure or humidity Is sometimes kept un der lock and key, they call the humi dor now. Such terms are among the triumphs-of modern culture. This one is brought into prominence just now through Nick Longworth's telling the butler to open the humidor, and the butler's answer that Mrs. Longworth now carries the key. Wrellman's proposed "dash" to the pole in two days does not seem possi ble to Peary, after the latter's many months of toil to reach that goal. But occasionally some fellow does with ease a job which others labor long and vainly to accomplish. There are a num ber of get-rich-quick men in Portland of the one sort and thousands of poor plodders of the other sort. It is interesting to note, though not so very wonderful, that politicians in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, who are notoriously irregular in their own social relations, and themselves keep a lot of concubines, are worrynig about the distressing polygamous conditions that prevail among the Mormons. But they want a political issue. "Perhaps," says the Catholic Senti nel (Portland), "a heresy trial in the Protestant Episcopal Church ie essen tially Illogical." There is no "per haps." It is illogical, indeed. Protes tantism, in any of its forms, and in all Its forms, is heresy. That is, from the standpoint of historical Christianity. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, who is to go into retirement, thinks the Presi dent ought to have ordered matters so as to help him to re-election. But does Dubois think the President wanted him re-elected? A political adventurer, shifting from one folly to another, like Dubois? After preliminary etudiesxin football, lasting some two months, the colleges will now take up books. Thanksgiving has true meaning for the colleges; also for the fathers and the mothers who pave the dollars to pay for the college learning of their sons and daughters. Mayor Schmltz makes denial, with appearance of earnestness, feeling and truth. Every one hopes he may make good. There have been denials afore time, and very solemn ones. But every one wishes Mayor Schmltz may make good. Progress is making in election of Sen ators of the United States by mandate of the people. No less than twelve Senators, designated under the primary system, will have seats on 4th March next. Boni may go on the stage. If he shall drive a hard bargain, he may make as much out of dramatic art as Jim Jeffries, and thus preserve his reputa tion for being a gentleman. "Yes," said Mr. Puter, "I have things to be thankful for, but they are not for publication." A lot of gentlemen would be thankful if they should never be published. Thanksgiving started as- thanksgiv ing. But it isn't thanksgiving now. It is a mere holiday, with feasting, social amusements and games and theaters. Thanksgiving marked the finish of many gobblers; also the finish of the would-be gobblers of Portland's water front below Burnside bridge. Any part of Oregon that produced apples this year "just as good" as Hood River-' had an additional cause for thankfulness yesterday. The sunny days will bo forgotten af ter they are gone and the rainy ones come again. INDUSTRIAL FUTURES OF SOUTH. Immense Progress of Metallurgical De TelopmeatAstoaishlnx Foreraiit, In the current issue of the Manu facturers' Record, of Baltimore, a trade paper devoted chiefly to the industrial progress of the Southern States, a sum? mary Is presented of the progress and potentialities of the South which is truly amazing. The summary is pre ceded by this statement: "Twenty-five years ago, or, to be exact, in 1S80, the United States made 3,800,000 tons of pig iron. Its produc tion this year will be 25,003,000 tons, or over. Within the same time the production of coal has advanced from 71.000.00J to 409.u00.000 tons. The de velopment of the coal and iron in dustry, and in this, of course, is in cluded steel, has been one of the mar vels of the world's history. The crea tion pf wealth brought about by this vast expansion in metallurgical inter ests has been so stupendous that its magnitude can scarcely be grasped. It has been said that there are over 40 fortunes of over $50,u00,000 each in Pittsburg alone." From the enormous development of metallurgical industry, of which Pitts burg is the center, the argument is presented that the South will yet eclipse It. For in that section, "which has largely more than twice as much coal as Pennsylvania, Great Britain and Germany combined, the three greatest coal-producing areas of earth, and has one-half as much iron ore as the entire country, can be duplicated all the iron and steel and coal busi ness not only of Pennsylvania, but of the whole North and West. "The South Is xtoday producing very nearly as much pig iron as the United States made In 18.40. Its production of coal largely exceeds the total coal out put of the entire country at that time. The iron output of Alabama today ri vals that of Pennsylvania in 1S80." From these statements we have the following forecast: "Considering the great Increase in population and the vast expansion in the iron industry which is now in progress, it ought to be entirely within the range of possibilities for tile coal and iron interests of the South to make as much progress within the next 15 years as the "coal and iron interests of the Unitd States have made within the last 25 years. Almost visionary as this may seem today, it is not beyond possibility. The world is moving with giant strides; the industrial forces mightier than man has ever known be fore are concentrating in the South. The people in this section themselves do not quite comprehend what is be fore thorn. Distance, to give the right perspective, is always needed in order to gain a better conception of any great undertaking, or of the capabili ties for advancement of any section. Rarely does tile local man grasp the things at homo. Bound by the environ ment of his lite, he is not often able to take that " broader view of the world's affairs in the movement of which his section or his country is to play a part, and so it happens that the iron and steel people of other sections have a far more accurate conception of the future of the South in iron and coal and steel than the Southern man him self. So it is in cotton, the strategical value of which in the world's financial and industrial affairs the South has not yet comprehended. This, next to iron and steel, the dominant industry of the world, is pre-eminently for the present and for the future a Southern asset. It has no rival worth .considering. As the South practically monopolizes the world's cototn production, it can as population increases, duplicate the world's cotton manufacturing. And then in cement, an industry growing with greater rapidity than was ever made by any other great interest in the country, the South has almost un limited capabilities. Experts say that good locations for cement production to the best advantage are almost as rare as good locations for an iron fur nace, but of these good locations the South ha3 many, and in this industry, which may yet aimost. if not quite, rival iron itself in extent and in wealth created out of it, the South has the opportunty for almost unlimited growth. Everywhere concrete con struction is advancing, and cement production must of necessity go hand In hand." Appreciative Uont., Anyway. Life during the Winter months at St. John's, Newfoundland, is, in the na ture of tilings, dull, but occasionally an American theatrical or variety com pany risks the passage across and docs something to enliven the inhabitants. Some years ago a well-known English entertainer arrived at St. John's, and Ms agent had the whole place exten sively bilied with his attractive post ers and expensive litho portraits. Tho next morning not a scrap of bill-posting w'aa to be seen. Furious, the en tertainer went to the billposter and demanded what iiad become of his printing. "It's them blank goats," re plied the billposter. "The goats?" "Yes: they likes my paste better than anything. But I'm going to put up an other lot, aiid my boy'll go round with a bill and "ceep 'em off till they gets dry" I'p went a fresh lot, but the goats did not give them an opportu nity of getting dry, an'd the entertainer during his walks saw his portrait be ing licked oft tun walls and fences by tho hungriest and most audacious goats he had ever met in his travels. Indian Senator for Oklahoma. Hartford (Ct.) Courant. There is a good deal of talk in Okla homa of electing an Indian as first United States Senator from that state. Three men are specially mentioned in connection with the place Charles D. Carter, a young man of Ardmore, who owns 12,000 acres of fine land and a lot of town property: Chief McCurtain and Chief Pleasant Porter. McCurtain Is a giant fullblooded Choctaw. Porter Is a big Creek. Chief Porter is regarded as an orator of ability. He Warn n Illth Flyer. Proceedings in the Castcllane case have developed the fact that the Count spent over $8,000,000 during the first five years after his marriage. His debts at present amount to $4,200.0.)0, and as the Gould treasure-box has been shut and clamped down against him, the Count is in a sorry plight. Any American heiress ready to give a for tune for a title would confer a great favor on his creditors by making a deal with Boni. Y. M. C. A. In Greater New York. Greater New York is the greatest Y. M. C. A. center in the world. It has more than 40 organizations and 20,000 members; it has 400 secretaries and employes, and 2800 of its members are office-holders and committeemen. Its largest building, the Twenty-third-street branch, cost $1,000,000 and lias 3S00 members. Brother Wood In Understood. The Dalles Optimist. C. E. S. Wood, of Portland, says he is an anarchist. Aforetime he was a Socialist. If any new "ists" or "isms" spring up you will find him embracing 'em. The great trouble with Wood is that his brain is willing but his feet are weak, and he goes forward backwards. BRING GKAITEKS TO JUSTICE Stolypin Starts Vigorous Inquiry Into Famine Fund Scandal. ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 2!!. Prompt steps have been taken by Premier Stoly pin to deal with the famine relief contract scandal in which T.IHvai at ri.,i.. Assistant Minister of the Interior, are in volved, ine premier lias called a special meeting of the Council of Ministers for tomorrow to discuss the affair. M. Gurko has resigned. When ho pre sented his resignation, the Premier told him he should not quit office, but that, for his own sake at least, he must face the court. The Premier" is expe.cetd to appoint an inter-Ministerial CnmniiGMinn nnmnAt-,.,i Assistant Ministers to investigate tlie case. ne win men Dring it Derore the first de- nartmenl of the Senato in m,V,nn Orders have been given to collect evidence ana cross-examine an persons connected with the affair, and General Fredericks. Governor of Nizhni Novgorod, has been summoned to St. Petersburg to answer to the charge of standing sponsor for Lidval. A certain Sotskich, an assistant of Lidval in buying grain in the provinces, also has been summoned by the Minister of the Interior, but has failed to answer and is thought to be In hiding. The Novoe Vremya has published an article pointing out the inevitable peril to the good name of the Cabinet and the im possibility of M. Gurko'a remaining in office. The unhesitaiing fashion in which the Premier is handling this affair will, it Is believed, strengthen the Cabinet in stead of injuring it at the approaching elections. EXPIJCTS WO UK ITiO.M DOLMA Stolypin Hopeful or Ilt'torm Demo crats Adopt Policy. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2fl. The Strana today quoted Premier Stolypin as commenting optimistically in a re cent conversation on the decrease of disorder in the empire and as hailing as a hanpy augury the fact that the new Parliament will be of such a character that the problems before the Russian Government may be regarded as approaching a settlement. The Premier was further quoted as declar ing that the government would not hesitate to dissolve Parliament oven the day after its convocation if it man ifested an intention of adopting ob structive tactics and neglecting con structive work. Contrasting the political situation with the condition of affairs at the cud of l!to.". tho PremiVr attributed the. wave of disorder and the armed revolt of that year to the indecision and lack of confidence in the administration then in power. The Constitutional Democrats who anticipate a retention of their pre ponderance In Parliament have already outlined their tactics and have deter mined to devote the first part of the session exclusively to parliamentary work and endeavor to carry tnrough a reform of the system of local adminis tration, the enactment of universal suffrage and oilier indispensable legis lation before locking horns with the government in the great struggle for a responsible Ministry anil a full par liamentary government. They wish to avoid provoking a rupture with the government until the reforms on which they appeal to the country are enacted and are opposed to a flood of fruitless interpellations, to which much of the time and energy of the first Parlia ment were devoted. GKEAT FIND OF EXPLOUEIIS. Fragments of Gospel mid Many Other Ancient Writings. ' CHICAGO. Nov. 29. A cable-dispatch to the Tribune from London says: It now Is possible to give further details of the remarkable find of papyri as a result of the efforts of Drs. Grenfell and Hunt, of the Greco-Roman branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund at Oxyrhynchus. The find consists of no fewer than i:!0 boxes of papyri, ranging in date from the pec ond century, B. C to the sixtli century, A. IJ. They comprise all classes of lit erature, many fragments of lost or even unknown classical works, and some most important fragments unknown to Chris tian literature. The most important find is a vellum I leaf containing -15 lines of gospel whieh has a variation from the aul horized ver sion. The subject is tho visit of Jesus and his disciples to the temple of Jeru salem and their meeting there with the Pharisee, who rebukes them for their failure to perform the necessary cere monial of purification. In the dialogue which follows, which resembles in some respects Matthew xxiil:25, the. Pharisee describes with considerable fullness and detail the formalities he has observed, whereupon Jesus delivers an eloquent, crushing reply, contrasting outward with inward purity. As regards the literary value of the fragment, the discoverer makes some in teresting remarks. He says: "Among the most remarkable features of the fragment is its cultivated style, picturesqueness, vigor of phraseology, which Includes several words not found in the New Testament, and its display of curious familiarity with the topography of the temple and the Jewish ceremonies of purification. There can he little doubt when the fragment is published, as it shortly will be, that there will be as much controversy among theologians as was provoked by the publication of the "Sayings of Jesus" on the Mount. "Other Christian fragments of con siderable value were found, including a vellum leaf of the fourth or fifth century of the lost Greek original of the acts of t. Peter, whieh are known only In Latin, and a leaf of papyrus of an unknown version of the acts of St. John. "The finds in the section of classical literature are most important. The first is a papyrus containing no fewer than 13 columns of over U0 lines of Peans of Pindar in good preserva tion and portions of several more col umns. "Next in importance is a roll con taining about 100 lines of the tragedy of "J lippolytus' of Euripides, and many fragment.-: of Plato, the speech of De mosthenes against Boetius and some of the manuscript fragments of the poems of Sappho. "Mention should also be made of an unknown history of Greece, which differs in many respects from than of Xeno phon." It will take a long time to unroll, join and examine this important find, all of which has been removed to England, but the explorers are to be congratulated on their brilliant harvest of literature. Records Found in Central Asia. BOMBAY. Nov. 29. Doctor von Le coq, who has been traveling in the most remote parts of Central Asia on a scientific mission with which he was charged by the Prussian Government, has arrived at Zeringar, Capital of Kashmir, with an important collection of archeological discoveries. These in clude several highly interesting paint ings upon stucco, with gold leaf back grounds like Italian work, and a num ber of manuscripts in 10 different lan guages, one in a wholly unknown tongue. This is probably the greatest archeological find since the days of Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir Austin La yard. Rig lire at Gallitzin, Pa. ALTOOXA, Pa., Nov. 29. The opera house, three large stores, nine, dwelling-houses and three barns in Gallit zin. Pa., near here, were burned today. Loss, $200,000. WILSOV Ileport Telb- of Progress Made in Prcscrvliifr and Using Forests. WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. In discussing the work of the Bureau of Plant Industry, the annual report of the Secretary of Ag riculture says: "Among the valuable plants introduced are a vigorous alfalfa from Arabia anil the Tangier pea. which has yielded as high as nine tons of green feed per acre. Willi a view to increasing the matting industry, the department's explorers have secured living plants of the best foreign varieties of rushes. Experiments in the propaga tion of many seeds and plants introduced from foreign countries are being carried on Jit the plant introduction garden at Chieo. Cal. "Great progress has been made in the practical application of a National for est reserve policy. In area the reserves were increased during the year from 85.iK8.422 to 106.!:9,i:fS aeres. In revenue the reserves brought in J7B7.219.9fi. as against St',-). 142.62 for the preceding year. One fiscal year of full control under the forest serv ice has established two facts, viz.. that the reserves advance the present Interest of the people of the West and they will speedily pay the cost of administering them. Through Government control the reserves of the future are safeguarded without sacrificing those of the present. The reserves powerfully promote devel opment, they work counter 10 the prosecu tion of no industry and retard the bene ficial use of no resource. The reserves do not withhold land from agricultural use. but greatly increase the amount of available farm land. The promotion of agrieulture is one of the main ends of the forest reserve policy. By guaranteeing future supplies of tihiber they are In dispensable to the future development of mining. The sentiment of stockmen throughout the AVcst is now united In favor of the forest reserve system because of the gain to them now that the reserve ranges are safe trom overcrowding and deterioration." 1 The Secretary recommends the good will with which the associations of Western stockmen have co-operated with him, and continues: "Finally, the reserves hnve proved bene ficial alike to the lumber industry and to the timber-consuming public. The avail able merchantable timber is not locked up from present use. hut it will not be dis posed of under a short-sichted pollev of utilization, which would leave a pap' be tween the end of the present fmmlv and the oncoming of a second erop. Protection of the reserves from tire has been a most important task laid upon the forestrv serv ice. It is cause for congratulation that the loss by tire during the year was slight, even by comparison witii that of V''i,. This favorable report is due to in creased efficiency of the patrol system, combined with favorable climatic condi tions. "The important fact has been demon strated that the forest service is able to substitute conservative for destructive use. while greatly increasing the use itseir. The largest totals of sales were, in board feet. 7::.0l.o.)0 in South Dakota. 71.0nd.OiV In Wyoming and .",:!.iiii.ooo in Montana. In South Dakota, a special reason exists for pressing the sale of timber with energy. The ravages of bark beelle threaten the annihilation of the entire forest, and only by extensive cm ting of infested trees cm the spread of this pest be checked and the damaged timber utilized. "A systematic effort has heen begun to determine the feasibility of livestock rais ing in Alaska. A small herd of Galloway caltle has been introduced. These cattle have subsisted during the Summer upon the native grasses, and a considerable supply of grain hay has heen grown to maintain them through the Winter. "During the past year the department has carried out extensive drainage inves tigations in some of the disiricts in Utah. Washington. Nebraska and California! this work being paid for in part bv state appropriation. The drainage of swamp land in humid parts of the United States would result in extending or improving agriculture over an area equal to the States of Illinois. Indiana and Ohio. "During the jiast year the office of ex periment stations has aided state Vffi cials and others in making surveys and inspections to determine the feasibility of large drainage pjojocts anil the proper plans for the work. These survey In vesUeations have been carried on in CI of the 4rt states." Nrw Dodire or .Tewrl Thieves. NKW YORK, Nov. 29-Ten thousand dollar's worth of jewelry was stolen last night from two hoarders in thn fashionable boarding-house at "3 East Twenty-second street, by thieves who worked an entirely new Ramo on the man at the door. It was dinner time and Miss Mari Tludgins. who lives In the place with her mother, and Miss Ehrniau had gono to the dining-room when tho hall boy. Julius Henry, colored, answered a call at the door. As be was about to ask the caller for his card, the telephone, which is in another room, rang. The boy excused himself to the caller and rushed to the telephone. When he re turned, having an inquiry for someone who was not known in the house, the caller wa.s gone. Later Miss Hudcins and Miss Ehrmnn discovered that their rooms had been entered and jewelry valued at $10,000 stolen. Feast of Chicago Newsboys. CHICAGO, Nov. 29. An army of SoOO Chicago newsboys attacked f00 turkeys, chickens and other pood things last night at the 25th annual Thanksgiving dinner given by a downtown clothing company. The bill of fare in bulk was as follows: Two hundred and fifty turkeys. 2.','! chickens, IMO loaves of bread, 1W0 dozen cakes, l.'iO bunches of bananas, two bar rels of cranberries, 25 ten-gailon cans of mashed putatoes, I."u0 pies. 25 boxes of oranges. 25 barrels of apples. 25 boxc3 of celery, figs, dates, raisins and nuts un scheduled, besides 10 harms of lemonade. It took 50 men to serve the dinner and 25 women to wash the dishes. Ulali Minors Wases Raised. SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 29. Announce ment was made today that the operators of 13 mines in the Bingham district, em ploying about 20w men, would advance the wages of their employes 011 December 1. The amount of the increase is to be de termined by a committee of operators. The Newhouse Mines & Smelter Com pany has granted its 250 employes at Newhouse an increuse of 25 cents per day, to remain in effect so long as copper sells at IS cents or more. Will Never Deal With Union. TOPEICA, Kiin., Nov. 29. "The reports which are being circulated." said Gen eral Manager J. J. Hurley, of the Atchi son, Topeka & Santa Fe, today, "that tho union machinists and our road are about to come to an agreement are entirely without foundation. We are no nearer an agreement than we were 2. years ago. We are not negotiating with them for a settlement and never will be." Foreclosure 011 Large Hotels. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Justice Gay Cox, of the Supreme Court, in Brooklyn, yes terday ordered a foreclosure sale of tho Manhattan Beach and Oriental Hotels and the adjacent property. The action was instituted by the Title Guarantee & Trust Company, as trustees for the mortgagees. A referee reported that $1,"23.372 was due the plaintiffs. Czar Fixes Twelve-Hour Day. ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 29. -The Em peror has approved the resolution intro duced by the Council of Ministers fixing 12 hours as it working day, including two hours for meals, in all industrial and other circles. This law will become oper ative six weeks after its promulgation. WORK OF "l-'VRMEI 1