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THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 30, 1900. a MUNICIPAL REFORM Theories Discussed at Eco nomic Convention, FORECAST OF NEXT DECADE A Plan tor the Keeping ef Half on Accounts and Statistics In tne Interest of Good. Government -Historical Asodatlon. DETROIT, Mich., "Dee. a The Ameri can Economic Association concluded Its cessions today. The first paper of the day, that of Dr. Thorsteln Veblen, of Chicago, on "Industrial and Pecuniary Occupations," was read by title. Professor Frank A. Fetter, of Stanford University spoke about "The Next De cade In Economic Theory." He essayed to forecast from present tendencies and current theories the direction of further development of economics. The years since ISSS, he said, belonged to the util ity discussion and to the marginal the ories of value built thereupon. The mar ginal principle as a device of explanation and as a mode of thought has become In dispensable. The old cost of production theory Is discredited. As a result such fundamental concepts as those of capital and interest, land and rent need re-ex-amlnatlon. The speaker critically re viewed the development of these concepts In economic theory, tracing the Influence upon them of changes In industrial con dltons, and concluded: "The labor theory of value must be thrown aside and the additional division of factors of production must be aban doned as illogical. "The doctrine of rent and interest as currently taught is hopelessly entangled in these old and illogical distinctions. Rent and interest should be regarded as different modes of calculating the returns to material goods, not as returns to dif ferent agents In production or as different kinds of return. "The concept of capital must be given en importance In economic theory ade quate to the dominant place of capitalistic enterprise in present industrial affairs, and be redefined so as to correspond more closely with commercial usage and the needs of practical discussion." 4 The report of the committee on uni form municipal accounts and statistics was read by M. N. Baker, chairman of the committee. It follows: "Municipal economics is a field in which comparatively little thorough and compre hensive work has been done. The chief reason why few efforts have" been made and why the results have been disappoint ing, 1b the genral lack of comparable facts and figures. This, in turn, is due to the haphazard and multifarious ways in which municipal accounts are kept and the meagerness and diversity of the mu nicipal reports submitted to the public year after year. The first principles of ac counting are understood by only a few of the men In charge of municipal records, and even where those principles are known, lack of co-operation between ac counting, financial and technical depart ments results in misleading figures, or such as do not meet the needs. "During the past six months a number of societies, besides this association have turned their attention to this subject, and It fs notable that on the questions of uniformity they have all agreed, which shows a realization of the need for re form In that particular before the most effective work In the collection of sta tistics can be done. "Tho work in hand ,is really divided into two parts, the second dependent on the first: (1) Uniform accounting; (2) uni form methods of summarizing accounts and other Information for presentation in city reports In order to give taxpayers a comprehensive idex of the methods and results of the various city departments and In order to make possible compari sons between different cities. The details of what the accounts and reports under each head should Include Is proper work for tho societies specially represented In the several subjects. We may say. how ever, that tho accounts should show clear ly the cost of construction, depreciation and maintenance charges, should separ ate ordlnarv from extraordinary revenue am1 expenditures, and that the reports should summarize these facts and glvo in addition full statistical and descriptive Information relating to the nature, ex tent working and results of the various municipal works and activities. The full report of the separate departments should be supplemented by condensed annual summaries, largely statistical, for the entire municipality. "It has been suggested, and with much force, that this association might address Itself to municipal taxation, bearing In mind that the investigation relates to the recording and publication of facts on a uniform basis, and not to theory, except in so far as theoretical questions now at issue help to determine what facts ought to be recorded and published. "Your committee submits, the following resolutions: "L That the Interests of good municipal government, economics and public finance demand the collection and publication of state and National municipal statistics. "2. That such statistics, to be of serv ice, should be based on uniform municipal accounting. "3. That, as a rule, American munici pal accounting Is in a most deplorable condition, being unsystematic. Incomplete and misleading. wlh lltle correlation be tween different departments of the same city, and the utmost diversity In the ac counts of different cities, rendering com parison of the working of different de partments and cites always difficult and often Impossible "A. That certain mooted questions of pubHc policy, like municipal ownership and day labor, as compared with the con tract system of executing public work, can never be thoroughly and properly studied until greater uniformity in munici pal accounts and reports has been se cured. "5. Co-operation between the various economic, sanitary engineering and other technical societies Interested In or devot ed to municipal affairs, or some branch thereof, should be encouraged, to the end that uniform schemes for municipal accounts and reports covering the va rious municipal undertakings and Inter ests, whether In public or private" hands, may be formulated and adopted. "C That after the formation and adop tion of these schemes by such co-operative effort. It Is desirable that steps 6hould be taken to put them Into use by the various municipalities of the country, either under the direction of state boards of municipal control, or special state com missioners for different classes of under takings and Interests. "7. That a yearly comparative sum mary of the municipal statistics of the whole country, made and published by some branch of the National Government, would place much valuable Information within the reach of Investigators." The election of officers resulted In the re-election of Richard T. Ely. IX. D., as president; Thomas Marburg, of Baltimore, first vice-president; F. N. Taylor, of the University of Michigan, second vice-president: John C. Schwab, of Tale, third vlce-prerldent; Charles H. Hull, of Ithaca, N. Y., secretary and treasurer. It was decided to leave the matter of the selection of the next meeting-place to the executive committee and a prefer ence was mentioned in favor of "Wash ington, at Christmas time, one year hence. Tne Historical Association. Papers were read at today's session of the American Historical Association cov ering periods in the history of America from 17C5 to the negro question as It stands at the present time. The first pa per was on "The Opposition In Parlia ment, 1765-1775," by Professor "W. C Ab bott, of Dartmouth College. The second was "The Undoing, of the Reconstruc tion," otherwise known as "The Negro Question." This paper was read by "Will iam A. Dunning, of Columbia University. In brief. Professor Dunning said the men who had handled the negro question In the middle of the century were of strong emotions and narrow In Judgment, labor ing under the delusion that the abolish ment of slavery meant the abolishment of every other obstacle Immediately. In the discussion which followed Professor Al bert Bushnell Hart, of Harvard Uhlver sllty, said that the removal of the negro from the South by colonization elsewhere would kill the Southern States. He de plored the lynching of negroes, and as serted that if the people of a community demanded the burning at the stake of negroes as a penalty for committing hor rible crimes, the state would make burn ing the legal penalty. THE LATE OSCAR WILDE. Regretful Reflections of His Closing1 Ilonra. Paris correspondence London Chronicle. About three weeks ago I was scouring Paris to discover the address of a M. Sebasteln Melnoth, for the purpose of verifying a statement that he had been unjustly deprived of certain dramatic rights of authorship. At length a French literary friend Informed me that the ob ject of my search was lying ill at a littlo hotel in the far-off Rue des Beaux Arts. To save time he had called upon him In ray name. M. Melnoth was Oscar Wilde. On the same evening I received a let ter in answer to my "petit bleu." I In stantly answered this In person. The once brilliant and adulated poet-playwright, though in bed, looked well In the face. The first part of the conversation on his side was a mixture of defiance and bit terness. I did my best to console him, and he suddenly burst Into tears. I felt deeply moved as he told the sad tale of blight and misery through which he had passed. Men who had been the recipients of sterling generosity had betrayed him and trodden him under their feet. Per haps there was some justice in his wail ing. Then he turned to religious subjects, and muttered almost savagely: "Much of my moral obliquity Is due to the fact that my father would not allow me. to become a Catholic. The artistic side of the churcn and the fragrance of its teaching would have curbed my degeneracies. I Intend to be received before long." He spoke al most smilingly of his operation, saying that it would cost him 40, adding that he owed nearly 2000 francs to the hotel. The operation In question was Intestinal, and then symptoms of cerebral meningitis set in. Leeches were applied to the ears, but the patient sank away rapidly. Two kind friends, Mr. Robert Ross and Mr. Turner, nursed him, while Father Cuth bert Dunn, one of the British Catholic chaplains from the Avenue Hoche, admin, istered the customary rites of the church. Oscar Wilde tried to artlcuate the pray ers which accompany extreme unction, and his deathbed was one of repentance, Tomorrow morning the funeral service will take place at the Church St. Germain des Pres, after which the body will be Interred in the Bagneux cemetery. A small cross will surmount the grave, with the following inscription: "CI git Oscar Wilde, Poete et Auteur Dramatlaue. R. L P." TESLA TELEGRAPH. The Kavy Department "Will Give His System a Trial. NEW YORK. Dec 29. A special to the Herald from Washington says: Nikola Tesla has been. Invited by Rear Admlral R. B. Bradford. Chief of the Bureau of Equipment, to submit for trial a system of wireless telegraphy which he has developed. Mr. Tesla says that he will be able to provide the Navy with a system which will be equal, if not su perior, to that Invented by Signor Mar coni. Before finally adopting any special system for tho Naval service, Rear-Admiral Bradford proposes to make a thor ough Investigation of the various wireless telegraphic systems In operation. No offi cial proposition has been received recently from Signor Marconi, and the department Is not Inclined to accept his first proposal to furnish his apparatus to the American Navy for $20,000 cash and 510,000 per year. Army Bill in the Senate. WASHINGTON, Dec 29. Senator Haw ley, of Connecticut, chairman of the mil itary committee of the Senate, had a talk with the President today about the situ ation of the Army bill in the upper house. The Senator told the President that he did not anticipate a prolonged contest In the Senate. He will go ahead with the bill as soon as the Senate reconvenes, Thursday, and unless undue opposition de velops wjll not ask the friends of the sub sidy bill to give priority to his measure. He Is of the opinion now that the time before the expiration of the morning hour each day will suffice to dispose of the bill and send it to conference, but If the un expected should happen he may be forced to contest the right of way with the ship ping bill. The Senator expressed confi dence that there would be no filibustering against the Army bllL The Father of Lacrosse. MONTREAL. Dec 29. Dr. W. G. Beers, who Is dead here, was the father of the modern game of lacrosse, which origi nated In Montreal, and has spread all over the Anglo-Saxon .domain. When a young man he noted the possibilities In the game, which was then played in, a rude fashion by the Indians of the Caugh n&wagha and St. Regis reserves, and after reducing it to a system with recog nized rules and a limited number of players, he Interested the young men of Montreal In It, and It sprang Into public favor so rapidly that within a very few years it was regarded as the distinctive national game of Canada. He took a lacrosse team to Great Britain and Ire land In 1S76. and Introduced the game there, where it still flourishes. The team gave an exhibition before the 'Queen at Windsor Castle. Dr. Beers was a well-known contributor on sporting and athletic matters to vari ous magazines, and was at one time prominently identified with the Canadian militia. For the Cincinnati Fleht. NEW YORK, Dec 29.-It Is. stated that champion Jeffries will In a few days be gin active preparations for his cham pionship battle with Gus Ruhlln, which is scheduled to take place in Cincinnati on February 15. It Is the Callfornlan's in tention to do all his work down at his old quarters at Asbury Park, where he will stay for a couple of weeks. Then he will go to West Baden. Ind., for a short stay and finish his training near the bat tleground. Reorcrarixe Educational Bureau. DENVER. Dec 29. The Colorado State Teachers Association, which has been In session here for several days, adopted resolutions requesting the Colorado Rep resentatives in Congress to employ their best endeavors to urge Congress to reor ganize the Bureau of Education upon broader lines, erecting It into an Inde pendent department on a plane with the Bureau of Labor and provide for proper compensation for the Commissioner of Education. Bryan on a Hunting: Trip. GALVESTON. Tex., Dec 29. W. J. Bryan arrived here at noon, and left soon after with Colonel W. L. Moody for the private game preservs of the latter across the Bay la Chambers County. where he will hunt for several days. ALGER DEFENDS EAGAN A5D MAKES A JBlTTKJg. ATTACK OS GENERAL MILES. Array Beef Question Again Brought "Dp The Commander-ia- Chlex May Bely. NEW YORK, Dec 29. In his article in the North American Review, on. "The Food of the Army During the Spanish War," ex-Secretary of War Russell A Alger takes up Generall Miles' brief presented to the Dodge Commission on December 2L 1S9S, relative to the beef furnished to the Army, he says: "Although the commission had been sit ting nearly three months, the charges, es pecially relating to canned and refrige rated beef, were now made for the first time; and stranger and more inex cusable and more unsoldierly still, dur ing all these months with this pres ent knowledge of facts, which, if they existed, should have been made known to the Secretary of War for the protection, of the Army, General Miles never mentioned the subject. Nor did I ever hear a rumor of chemically treated beef being purchased for the Army until the General's testimony was given before the commission. The allegations that un suitable food, not a part of the legal ra tion, had been furnished to the Army, under pretense of an experiment, and that refrigerated beef, treated with poisonous chemicals, had been and was being sup plied to cur Army of 275,000 men, were indeed serious, implying, as they did, criminal incompetence on the part of the Commissary Department, if not willful negligence and dishonesty. "Upon Commissary-General Charles P. Eagan the charges fell with the sudden ness and sharpness of a blow from an assassin's knlfe out of the dark. Gen eral Eagan had been an officer of the regular Army for 36 years. He had risen from a Second Lieutenancy to the high est rank In the Commissary Department to which his ambition could aspire. Gal lant and fearless on the battle-fields of the Civil War and the hostile Indian plains of the West, he had a record for soldierly qualities of which any officer might well be proud. With energy, hon esty and zeal he had administered his department during the war with Spain, a fitting climax to a long and honorable career In the service of his country." General Alger pays a high tribute to the energy and fidelity of General Eagan, saying he was almost prostrated from ov erwork? He adds: "The charges of General Miles, made so publicly and so positively, and the manner in which they were for the first time made known, seemed to Gen eral Eagan,. in his nervous condition, the mor magnified and horrible Upon hear ing them he pitifully exclaimed: 'Gen eral Miles has crucified me upon a cross of falsehood and misrepresentation.' "General Eagan had already been ex amined by the War Investigation Com mission when General Miles' hearing oc curred, but when the testimony of the latter appeared In the newspapers, Gen ral Eagan immediately requested a re hearing. "General Eagan read his reply to the War Investigation Commission from a carefully prepared typewritten manu script. Lathed to the quick by the alle gations contained in General Miles' tes timony, and In his subsequent Interview which appeared on December 23 In a New York paper, his indignation exceeded the limits of his self-control, and In his effort to deny the charges made his lan guage became vituperative, extravagant and highly improper. "I believe that had General Eagon'a healtn not been seriously impaired by overwork and anxiety the two objection able paragraphs of 300 words, out of an aggregate of 2000 words contained in his reply, would never have been written or uttered. Even yet, divested of Its of fensive adjectives In the two paragraphs referred to, his reply to General Mlle& remains unanswerable in Its logic and In controvertible .in Its facts. The allega tion that I had Inspired or had knowledge of General Eagan's attack upon the state ment of General Miles Is absolutely un true. He did not make known to me the nature of his proposed answer to tho charges. Had General Eagan submitted his manuscript to me he would undoubt edly at this writing still be In full pos session of the rank and power of the Commissary-General of the United States Army" General Alger tells of upbraiding Gen eral Eagan for his ill-advised utterances, and says: "His court-martial was not the outcome of General Miles' charges, but the result of intemperate and unmllitary language conceived In an Indignation pardonable, perhaps, in its existence, but unpardon able In its mode of expression. "General Miles seemed to be pleased with the notoriety which his startling statements before the commission and his subsequent newspaper interview gave him, for again on the 31st of March. 1S99, in New York City, he published addition al charges. This interview, which ap peared on the morning of February L General Miles was called upon to deny under oath, and as he was unable to do so, part of his statements in it were used by the court of inquiry as a basis for in vestigation." General Alger then treats General Miles' allegations specifically and in detail, re viewing the evidence brought out by th investigation and declaring that the alle gations were entirely disproved. In con clusion, General Alger says: "The Army had won its battles In Cuba and the Philippines; Porto Rico had peacefully come Into our hands after a few skirmishes; the protocol had been in operation for over four months and even the treaty of peace had been signed at Paris. Then comes the Major-General commanding the Army of the United States with his charges. While the alle gations of General Miles were not based upon facts, and were conclusively dis proved by two separate tribunals, unim peachable In their composition and meth ods of Investigation, the irreparable dam age had been done. A brave, honest and faithful officer, suffering under tho lash of cruel, unwarranted and unjustified impu tations, while exonerated from the heavy odium of those charges, was, as a result of them, sacrificed on the altar of his own passion, righteous in its existence, but inexcusable in Its expression. Besides this, a false Impression has been created throughout the country as to the food furnished the Army, which may never be removed. "The charges of General Miles, twice proved false in spirit and substance, aro therefore the more iniquitous in their effect. Yet the present Congress promoted General Miles to be a Lieutenant-General, and has thus far failed to give General -Suafter the rank of Major-General to re tire upon In his old age, and this after his magnificent campaign at Santiago, as well as his former distinguished sen-ices." What Miles Says of It. GOL.DSBo.rtO, N. C, Dec 29. Lleuten-ant-General Miles, who Is In the city to night on his way to Washington, is re- ' turning from a hunting trip on the Trent River. Speaking of ex-Secretary Alger's attack, he said: "I have not read it in Its entirety. Al ger waited some two years to make the attack, and I guess I need be in no hurry to reply. The beef question has been pretty well condemned already by the press of the country. If need be I may yet have something to say of the rottenness of ithe whole affair." Another Washington Miniature. LONDON, Dec 29. There are few orig inal pictures of General Washington In t England, hence the discovery of another miniature is Interesting. It is by Samuel I Folwell, and is dated 1791. Another by the same artist Is now In the possession of the Historical Society, pf Philadelphia, dated 1795. The new find is supposed to be an excellent likeness. It represents Washington wearing a pigtail. In view of the prolongation of the war, tho London Dally Telegraph has again dispatched Bennett Burleigh. Its famous war correspondent, to South Africa, Sam Loales, the English jockey, who was Reiffs closest competitor last season, has started with his wife for New York. He is going to California for the Winter, and may be induced to ride. D00LEY ON VICE. Typical American Movement ESect lvely Satirised. Tho anti-vice movement in New York and Chicago has attracted the attention of "Mr. Dooley," and he takes occasion to make some sarcastic reparks upon the American propensity to crusade. He says: "As a people,- Hlnnlssy, we're th' great est crusaders that iver was rr a short distance. .On a quarther-mile thrack we can crusade at a rate that wud make Hogan's frlnd, Godfrey th' Bullion, look lolke a crab. But th tbrouble is th crusade don't last afther th' first sprint. Th' crusaders drops out lv th' proclsslon to take a dhrink or put a little money on th ace, an be th" time th' end lv the line lv march Is reached th' boss cru sader Is alone In th Job, an his former followers Is hurlln bricks at him frm th' windows iv policy shops. Th' boss cru saders always gets th' double cross." Tho police would not protect vice if It wero not for the fact that "they've got th money where it's comln' to thim, an 'tis on'y comln to thlm where th' law an' vile human nature has a sthrangle holt on each other. A pollshman goes afther vice as an officer of th' law, an' comes away as a philosopher. Th' theory lv mesllf, Hogan, Croker an' other lamed men Is that vice, whin it's broke, Is a crime, an' whin It's got a bank account is a necessity an a luxury." When the purity crusade gets Into full swing, how ever, all this Is changed. "Th polls be comes active, an' whin th' polls is active 'tis a good time f'r daclnt men to wear marredg certy-flcates outside lv their coats. Hanyous monsthcrs is nailed in th act lv hlstin' In a shell lv beer In a German Garden; husbands waits In th' polls station to be r-ready to ball out their wives ' whin they're arrested rr shoppln after 4 o'clock; an there's more Joy over wan sinner rayturned to th station thin fr ninety an nine thafve rayformed." To quote again: 'Th' boss crusader Is havin the time lr his life all th' while. His pitcher Is In th papers lvry mornln", an his ser mons Is a dlrecthry lv places lv amuse ment. He says to himsllf, 'I am lmprov ln' th' wurruld, an' me name will go down to th glneratlons as th greatest vice buster iv th' clnchry. Whin I get through, they won't bo enough crimo left in this city to amuse a sthranger frm Hannybal Missoury fr twlnty minylts," he says. That's where he's wrong. Afther a while people gets tired lv th' pastime. They want somewhere to go nights. Most people ain't vicious, Hlnnlssy, an' It takes vice to hunt vice. That accounts f'r pollsmen. Besides th horse show or th football games or something else ex cltln' divarts their attintion, an wan day th' boss crusader finds that he's alone in Sodom. " "Vice ain't so bad, afther all. I no tice business was betther whin 'twas ram pant,' says wan la-ad. 'Sure, ye're right, gays another. 'I haven't sold a single pink shirt sinco that man Parkers closed th' faro games,' says he. 'Th theayter business ain't what It was whin they was more vice,' says another. This ain't no Connecticut village,' he says. 'So 'tis no use thryln to inthrajoose soomchury legislation m this lmpeeryal American city he says, 'where people come pur sooed be th Sheriff fr'm lvry corner lv th' wurruld,' he says. 'Ye can't make laws f'r this community that wud suit a New England village,' he- says, 'where,' he says, 'th' people ar-re too civilized to be Immoral," ho says. "Vice he says, 'goes a long way tow'rd makln' life bear able,' he says. 'A little vice now an thin is relished be th' best lv men, he says. Who's this Parkers, annyhow, intherfer ln' with th' liberty lv th Indlvidooal, an',' he says, 'makin' It hard to rent houses on th side sthreets,' he says. '1 bet ye if ye Investigate ye'll find that he's no betther thin he shud be himsllf,' ho says. "An th' best Parkers gets out lv It is to be able to escape fr'm town In a wig an' false whiskers."' Society Influenced by Machinery. Engineering Magazine. The advent of the machine tool, with Its endless reproductive powers, with its yet unexhausted possibilities In the .way of division of labor, and its Infinitely greater accuracy and power, was bound to revolutionize and transform the oper ation on which It could be directed. But this, of Itself, is perhaps the least lm portant of the changes differentiating the old from the new order. Close on the heels of the machine tool came the ne cessity for an altogether higher type or Intelligence to control the Increasing com plexity of Industrial operations. The "me chanic" disappears; In his place we have the "captain of Industry," with his keen intelligence fully awake to the Interaction of complex forces whose field Is the whole world; he requires the capacity not mere ly to manipulate Iron and steel, but a much rarer gift to understand men ot many capacities and of a number of dif ferent social grades. Today, Indeed, th manufacturer might be said, without much exaggeration, to be the pivot on which society at large revolves. Oregon Accidents. George H. Leabo, a sheepherder. Is re ported to have been drowned at Sheridan last week. Tho little son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Marhews, of Roseburg, while at play Thursday, got a fish hook imbeddedTh lis cheek. A man was found at Baker City Wednesday night almost suffocated In the mud at the bridge crossing on Bridge street. Two members of The Dalles football team have been laid out this season. Rob Murray has suffered fracture of the collar-bone, and James Urquhart, dislocation of the shoulder. The Striking; Tohacco-Worlcers. LOUISVTLLB. Ky.. Dec 29. The 1700 employes of tba Continental Tobacco Company who struck yesterday are still out, and there are no changes from the situation as It was yesterday. The com pany Is still working, though not with a full force The strikers today decided to hold a mass meeting Monday night and draw up their demands, which will be presented to the company Wednesday. The Saloon-Smasher. WICHITA, Kan., Dec 29. Mrs. Carrie Nation, who smashed mirrors and pictures in a saloon, has agreed to accept ball which W. C. T. U. members are securing. She declares she only accepted her free dom that she may prosecute her work of smashing saloons. She received CO letters In today's malL Saovr Storm in Ifevr Mexico. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Dec 29. The heaviest snow storm that has raged In this section of New Mexico for years has been In progress the last 24 hours In the Sandla Mountains, east of this city. The thermometer has gone several degrees be low the freezing point, something unprece dented in Albuquerque Major Mite. NEW YORK. Dec 29. Major Mite, the dwarf, died at the New York Hospital last night of a complication of diseases. He had been ill for some time He was born in New Zealand, and had been ex hibited In circuses for 14 years. EARL LI IS PARALYZED AGED CHINESE STATESMAN MAY NOT RECOVER, Prince Chins Tells Sir Robert Hart That China Will Comply With the Terms In a Very Short Time. PEKIN, Dec 29.-SIT Robert Hart, di rector of Chinese imperial maritime cus tqms, frequently sees Prince Chlng. He says Prince Chlng expects a definite re ply from the court to the Joint note of the powers before January 8. He believes that the note will be accepted In Its en tirety within a short time. The Chinese will possibly make a few futile objections, though he thinks both Prince Chlng and LI Hung Chang will advise compliance with the note as it stands. It is doubtful now whether LI Hung Chang will be able to attend the meet ing of the diplomats. The signs of old age are becoming more pronounced, and the lower portion of his body Is com pletely paralyzed. Though it is officially announced each day that Earl Li's condi tion 'Is Improved, it is a fact that he has not appeared out of doors since he was first taken I1L His friends say they be lieve he will not completely recover, and think another commissioner must be ap pointed. The refusal of Dr. Mumm von Schwar zensteln, the German Minister to China, to return the buildings and grounds be longing to the Pekln Club, lent as bar racks for the German Marines, causes adverse criticism at the legations. An other building has been hired for the use of the marines. The Minister recognizes certain proprietary rights of the club, but as tho buildings adjoin the German legation, he thinks it may be necessary to keep them for a possible enlargement of the legation In the future, giving in exchange for the premises another piece of ground. The club has notified Dr. Mumm that it would demand 00 taels a month rental, beginning with November. Chinese Resnlars Captured. BERLIN, Dec 29. The War Office has received from Count von Waldorsee a dis patch dated Pekln, December 2S, report ing that a company of the Third East Asiatic captured BOO Imperial troop3, De cember 24, In the mountains northwest of Mant Cheng. The dispatch also an nounces that a detachment under Lieutenant-Colonel Pavel has been dlspatchea from Pekln to Chlng Ping Chu and Nan Nankau, respectively 37 and 43 kilometers northwest of Pekln. China Cable Opened. NEW YORK, Dec 29. The Commercial Cable Company has Issued the following. "The German Administration announced that, in concert" with the Great Northern Telegraph Company, and the Eastern Ex tension, Australasia & China Telegraph Company, a cable has been laid for the German Government between Tsln Tau and Shanghai. The opening for Interna tional service will take place January L May Accept the Conditions. SHANGHAI, Dec 29. Chinese papers here state that the court has decided to accept the conditions of the powers, and this report Is gaining credence, but noth ing has yet been officially announced. It Is asserted that the Emperor has or dered the Immediate decapitation of Yu Hsien, formerly Governor Shan SI, who was previously degraded and banished. LEAGUE TO STOP KIDNAPING St. Louis Man Has a Project to Deter Lawless Men. Special Dispatch to Chicago Chronicle. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec 23. Paul Brown, a St. Louis millionaire, proposes that the rich men and lawablding citizens gener ally of the country organize an antl-kld-naplng society for the purpose of shap ing laws so that the criminal will be se verely punished and for the further object of establishing a permanent fund for the apprehension and conviction of kidnapers. He believes that the offer of a standing reward would so stimulate detectives and others that it would be almost Impossible for kidnapers to escape. Ho says that capital punishment would not be too se vere a punishment. Whatever the penal ty, It should be so harsh that It would prevent schemers to concoct fake kid naping so that schemers might get the reward. "Had there been a standing reward when Charley Ross was kidnaped." said Mr. Brown, "his abductors would have been caught, and the same might be said of the Cudahy case. When parents are robbed of the children whom they love. It Is worse than murder, and no punishment In my estimation can be too severe for the guilty parties." Mr. Brown Is resident manager of the Continental Tobacco Company, and a prominent financier. He offers to con tribute liberally to such a fund. Acoldents to Wasblnsrton People. A son of William Edgbert, of Arcadia, 13 years of age, met with a painful acci dent on Christmas day. A shotgun shell exploded, and one of the fingers of his left hand was blown off. The palm of the lad's hand was also badly burned. Peter Seybolts, of the Moxee, met with a serious accident Christmas evening. He was on horseback on his way home, when his horse became frightened and ran him Into a barbed-wire fence. His right leg below the knee was very badly lacerated and was cut to the bone. John Allan, the 7-year-old son of Hugh Allan, of Marysville, was accidentally shot by Harry Root, a boy near the for mer's age, Wednesday, with a 23-callber rifle. The bullet penetrated the intestines In eight places. The physicians say there Is about one chance in five of his recov ery. Friday Martin L. Boyer, one of the A owners of the Fowler-Boyer Lumber Com- pany, of Centralia, met with a serious ac cident. While engaged In the mill he got his foot against the circular saw, and it was so badly lacerated that .amputation was necessary, and the foot was taken off at the ankle. On Christmas night a son of C, M. Mat thews, 10 years of age, was severely burned while playing Santa Claus at his home, at Olympla. The boy had donned a Santa Claus costume, and the cotton used for whiskers became Ignited from a candle on the tree. In an instant his face 'was in flames, but they were extin guished before he hod Inhaled any of the smoke or his eyes were Injured. His face, however, -was badly burned. George H. Norton, owner of the lower ferry at Kettle Falls, met with an un fortunate accident while crossing the river Tuesday. In midstream the guy rope became entangled In one of the wind lasses, and In endeavoring to free It he gave the wheel a Jerk, which loosened the rope, allowed the full force of the cur rent to act directly upon the wheel, and he was thrown over the seven-foot wheel, entangling his right leg In the spokes and breaking both bones below the knee. Mrs. O. C. Thornburgh, Dead. FOREST GROVE, Dec 29. Mrs. O. C. Thornburgh died at her home here today, aged SS years. She had been in falling health for soma time, and death was not unexpected. A husband and three chil dren survive her R. C. Thornburgh, ot Richmond, la.; Mrs. Rachel Mills, ot Blue Jacket. L T.; and Ambers Thorn burgh, of this place. John Mills, of Gold endale, Wash., is a brother of the de ceased. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburgh were undoubt edly the oldest married couple In Oregon. They were married in Tennessee in 1S29, or 71 years ago. YOU SHOULD NOT NEGLECT YOUR KIDNEYS Because at All Times' Tbey Have tie Most lm portant Work to Bo: !ii!iflTmniLfllMOliLU! 1 I ti$ki UDTTrirffR? vvviwiii c typ. -v "i w : i ii Weak Kidneys Caiued by Ovcrwtrk, by Lifting Strain. To Prove what Swamp-Root, tHe Great Kidney Remedy, Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of the "Oregonian" Way Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Wail. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for much sick ness and suffering; therefore, when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble is permitted to continue, fatal results are sure to follow. It used to be considered that only urinary and bladder troubles were to be traced to the kidney.; but now modern science .proves that nearly all diseases have their beginning in the disorder of these most important organs. Your other organs may need attention but your kidneys most, because they do most and need attention first If you are sick or "feel .badly," begin taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, be cause as soon as your kidneys are well they will help all tho other organs to-health. A trial will convince any one. The mild and Immediate effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Boot, the great kidney and bladder remedy, is soon realized. It stands the highest for It3 wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp Root will set your wholo system right, and the best proof of this Is a trial. ST. IX3UIS, Mo., Nov, 20. 1900. "X have used Swamp-Hoot for years when ever I was troubled with my kidneys, with constipation, or whenever I felt the need of something to tone and brace ma up. This has given me such relief that I do not find It necessary to take medicine renilarly now, as an occasional dose of Swamp-Root keeps mo In shape for my work that of head cutter In the Clothing- Co. of Rath & Jean. I am pleased to Elve & testimonial fot- your splendid medi cine, and I cannot say enough for what It has done for me. I gratefully recommend it to anyone needing a thoroughly reliable remedy." Yours truly. HARRY GIBBARD. 1S21 Papln St Tou may have a sample bottle of this famous kidney remedy, Swamp-Root, sent free by mall, postpaid, by which you may test Its virtues for euch disorders as kidney, bladder and uric acid diseases, poor digestion, when obliged to pass your water frequently night and day, smarting or irritation In passing, brick dust or sediment In the urine, headache, backache, lame back, dizziness, sleep lessness, nervousness, heart disturbance ALL ARE OFF AT BUFFALO DELEGATES TO EXPOSITION" JOIT- ED OYER THE COUNTRY. Rode on a Special Train "Which: Had tie Right of "Way oh. All Side-Trades. BUFFALO, N. T., Dec 23. (Special cor respondence.) Here we are at last, Just 4 uuuid ucuiuu liiuc, aiju x tiauk iu Bay, right here, that if any Oregonlan Is dis satisfied with our climatic conditions, just let him take a pleasure (?) trip across the continent to the Atlantic seaboard at this season of the year. "We had scarce ly got out of God3 own country when our troubles began enow, lea and blizzards galore all along the line, and they axe with us still. Snow drlft3 all along Bear Valley, and when we reached Granger, the San Fran cisco train, which was to take us in tow, had passed 12 hours before, as well as tho next train, sp tho Union Pacific peopla kindly sent us through to Chicago on ei "special," bumming along at a "go-as-you-please" sort of pace, dodging all kinds of freight, passenger and cattla trains, for we were a "special," and the j only placo we seemed to have any rights were on the side-tracks. Wo were out of joint with the system, as It were, and did not fit In ju3t right to make a harmonious whole. This somewhat disarranged our meal hours, for we had lost our "diner" in the shuffle, but as we had filled ftp (?) a la carte, we were not hungry, anyway, so when we were called at Laramie for breakfast at S o'clock A. M., and found the thermometer had gone down to 20 de grees below zero, with a gentle 60-mllo zephyr breathing across the prairie, and as the "Pinch" gas had given out, we were groping about In the gloaming for our unmentionables, our happiness was complete, and wo have been happy ever since. The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are frozen over solid; the horses, cattle and hogs are standing In the fence corners in fact, behind every available little shelter, shivering, while their human brothers go about wrapped In comfortable fur coats and Arctic overshoes. The thousands ot lightning rods on every dwelling, barn, chicken-coop and even telegraph poles, tell what kind of Summers they have, and the people tell you they enjoy it, but I presume that for people who like that J kind of thing, tney certainly nave tne kind of thing they like. Oregon, glorious Oregon 1 The beautiful timber belts so familiar to us are conspicuous by their absence, but Mr. Johnson, the forestry expert, pointed out a mill where we actually did see a lot of "saw-logs" 10 Inches in diam eter. Hortlculturally, there Is not much to speak of; no new plantations of any kind, only a few very old apple orchards, which have not seen pruning shears for many a year; If It were not for the absence ot the moss they would look very familiar. But we passed through miles of beautiful -ri i i i: duo to bad kidney trouble, skin erup tions from bad blood, neuralgia, rheu matism, diabetes, bloating, irritability, wornout feeling, lack of ambition, los3 of flesh, sallow complexion, or Bright's disease. If your water, when allowed to remain undisturbed in. a glass or bottle for twenty-four hours, forms a sediment or settling or has a cloudy appearance. It Is evidence that your kidneys and bladder need Immediate attention. It you have tho slightest symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble, or if there Is a traco of it in, your family history, send at once to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. T., who will gladly send you by mall, immediately, without cost to you, a sam ple bottle of Swamp-Root and. a book con taining many of the thousands upon thou sands of testimonial letters received from men and women cured. Be sure to say that you read this generous offer la the Portland Sunday Oregonlan. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is for sale tho world over at druggists, in bottles of two sizes and two prices fifty cents and one dollar. Remember tho name, Swamp-Root, and the address, Blnghamton, N. Y. vineyards, which aro marvels of perfec tion; there is not a spear of grass or weeds, nor a single vine out of alignment. Even on the Rhine, nor Burgundy, fa mous the world over, are the vineyards la better condition. These people want our apples, pears and prunes, which wo must supply. However, there is one thing which can not escape the notice of any observing traveler from the Pacific Coast, and that is the hundreds of smokestacks In every city, town or hamlet; they aro not cold either, even on this Christmas day, but are red-hot and smoking, which means a full dinner pall brigade, which speaks volumes for tho reviving prosperity one sees on every hand. In this particular wo are weak, very weak, and our best efforts at tho coming- Pan-American Exposition must be directed In the securing of manu facturing establishments for our state. There aro a good many which can ba conducted with financial success, for wa have the raw materials. These facts mus be presented and brought strongly, de cidedly strongly, to the notice of capital ists, and as thi3 is an ago of expansion, manufacturers are looking for new fields to operate in. Oregon must bo in tho front rank, along the firing line, as it were, to present Its claims, and no state has a better right nor a Juster claim than Oregon. HENRY E. DOSCH. THE PORTLAND. S R Davidson.Seattl Syd Welnshenk, S F Adam 9 Collins, S F N Toddman, Seattle C H Hanford, Seattl W F Moran, St PI J B Bourke, Chgo I W Frankel, NY S J Sternberg, S F O G Labareo & wf, Spokano W B Dennis J W Klley. Ban Fr W A Blair. Kaa Cy Mrs Stoneheker. city A B Lamberson, city W A Conley, Benlcla N McCaffrey. N Y Wm O'Donnell, Ba ker City E D Green & w, Chs W B Brown, city Alex Cohn, San Fr H J Ottenhelmer, SF G W Foreman T H Hayes. N Y V S Hardy, Salt Lk Irwin Ritchie, KamO H R wood & wife. T Herbert walte, Philadelphia iionaon, nag H.FBuller, SeatUo E S Benson & wife, - city Kot Apache Kid. PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec 29. Captain J. Nicholson, agent of San Carlos reserva tion, has been furnished an accurate de scription of the Indian recently killed near Juarez, Mexico. He and several old scouts assert positively that the dead In dian was the noted Nash Ta Ka, and not Apache Kid, as reported. Sali Rheam "You may call it eczema, tetter or mule crust. But no matter what you call It, tbi3 aWn disease which comes in patches that bum. Itch, discharge a watery matter, dry and scale, owes its existence to the presence ot humors In the system. It will continue to exist, annoy, and per haps agonize, as long ts these humors remain. It Is always radically and permanently cured by HootFm Smrmapmrilla which dispels all humors, and Is positively unequalled for all cutaneous eruptions.