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l'OKTLAM), FRIDAY. NOV. SO, 1900.
SHIP-SUBSIDY LOOT.
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.
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