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THE Roseburg Plaindealer Published Mondays and Thursdays. PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. H. H. BROOKES, Editor. MARY K. BROOKES, Proprietor Entered at the Post Office in Roseburg. 'Ve.. 8 second class mail matter. Subscription J2.00 per Year. Advertising Rates on Application. The Editor of the ruiKDauza has no intcn tion of making a false statement reflcctlnit upon the life or character of any person, officially or otherwise and any statement published In these colums will be cheerfully corrected If erroneous and brought to our attention by the aggrieved party or parties. Our intention Is that every article published of a personal or political official natare shall be news matter of genera Interest and for the welfare of the State at large. OCTOBER 5, 1903. Anent the Special Inspection. The Plaindealer over two months ago published affidavits respecting the iniquitious questions asked by the special inspectors at the Roseburg Land Office. The wapers over the State tried to frown down the publi cation of such outrages but we notice that during the past two weeks they are all thrashing over the straw. The Plaikdealer is not afraid to publish its convictions of right and wrong nor does it have to submit to a censorship by the leading politicans of the state. We believe in republi can editors being the leaders of the party instead of being controlled by the demagogues in the party and in all candor, we state after twelve months observation in Oregon with the possible exception of three or four republican papers, the desire to please in order to secure land office business is a curse to the republican party in Oregon. The Negro Question. The recent agitation of Senator Morgan of Alabama and Senator Car- mack of Tennessee for the coloniza tion of the negros of the South is de veloping the fact that these two sena tors are not commanding by their scheme to solve the race question all of the sentiment of the question of the country they represent. Today William Richardson of Alabama, who Is considered one of the conservative Democratic members of the House of Representatives, arrived in Washing ton. Representative Richardson does not agree with some of his Southern colleagues in their argument against the fourteenth and fifteenth amend xnents to the constitution of the United States. ' I do not believe that it is either prudent or wise," he said, "to discuss the annulment of these amendments. Even the advocates of repeal admit that they have no hope of success, and why, then, should an issue be made of something which is dead even it is begun. The people of the North, while many of them are ready to admit that the enfranchisement of the negro was a mistake, they yet look upon the fifteenth amendment as one of the results of the war, and while they are willing to let those amendments remain practically dead letters, they would be seriously op posed to, wiping them from the con stitution, and thus seemingly stulify themselves before the world. We are doing very well under these amend ments under the state constitutions of Alabama and Mississippi, both of which constitutions have been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States practically on the suf- ferage question. ''Under these constitutions we have been able to eliminate nearly the en tire negro vote. We do not intend to exclude the worthy and good negro, owning property and of being of good character. Such a negro has the right today in Alabama. But we are in favor of and intend to exclude the vote of the idle, vicious and va grant negro. We do not exclude him because he is a negro, or be cause we have a personal dislike for him, but we do it, actuated by the de sire to promote the peace of the country and for the benefit of the negro himself." In putting his disapproval on the ' proposition to separate the race3, Mr. Richardson said he had been greatly puzzled to know what was to be done with the negro under this plan. "Separation, of course, means colo nization, and where is the state where the people would accept such a col ony? The white people of no state in this union will give up their homes to allow the negro to come in and occupy them. If we select the Phil ippines for this colony, the great question of mixing the races wil arise at once. Then another objec tion occurs that the negro himself will be unwilling to go, and there is no power or law that can compel him to go. And the last and chief ob jection to the whole impracticle plan is that the Southern people will be overwhelmingly opposed to allowing the negro to leave them. The South today has better prospects for the de velopment of wealth and prosperity within the very early future than any other section of the world. The up right, faithful negro has been an im portant factor in bringing this about, and to carry the suggestion of the separation of the races into practical effect would produce such a business convulsion in the South . as could not be recovered from in a generation of time, if ever. The little democratic squirt gun at Salem says: That the plaindealer opposed Roosevelt and Hitchcock and as a consequence has a case of bankruptcy to defend. Well such news shows that the l'LAINDEALEK is some pumpkins after all. Epidemic Among Cnttle. An epidemic among the cattle of northern Indian Territory is killing them off by the hundreds. The dis ease is what is known as spleen fever and the blackleg, and is fatal in near ly every case. In the evening the cattle may be apparently in the best of health, and the next morning be dead. In a distant of two miles along the Frisco, a Joplin man count ed sixty-five head of cattle, which had died from the disease. It is said that the cause of the disease lies in the second growth of grass. Stock Yards Strike. A dispatch from Chicago says Employes of all the stock yards in thA onnntrv have formulated a de mand, which will be presented Wed' nesday, and refusal of which will be followed by the strike of 53,000 men. The demand insists upon complete unionization of all plants and an in crease of 10 per cent in wages. The stock yards operators decline to dis cuss their probable action. They are not particularly hostile to increasing the wage scale, but stand firmly against unionizing the plants, which thpv think would be followed by a demand for more wages immediately The Florida orange yield is estimate ed to be over 1,600,000 boxes. Nearly four and a quarter million of people attended the Fifth Indus trial Exnosition of Japan which has , -f. just closed. The Canard Steamship Company is considering the advisability of using turbine engines in two of their pro posed new steamships. President Castro of Venezuela is reported to be making preparations to invade Colombia. Already within five vears he had invaded that country four times. An offer of over $60,000,000 by an American syndicate for the pottery clay mines of Dorsetshire and Devon shire has been refused, it is said, bv the owners. Owing to the "dock strike" at New Orleans three steamship companies decided not to call there until the strike is settled. Much traffic in con sequence is being diverted to Mobile and Galveston. The Pan-American Railway Com pany has completed eighty miles of track in South-eastern Mexico, begin ning at the Isthmus of Teucaltepec, and has iust obtained a concession from Gautemalean Government to ex tend its road through that country. Carroll D. Wright, in a document of six thousand words, has rendered bis decision as umpire on five ques tions submitted to him for considera tion by the Conciliation Board repre senting the anthracite miners and operators. In four of the awards the contentions of the operators are up held. The loan commission to visit the United States and Europe and inves tigate the placing of the Cuban loan of $35,000,000 has sailed for New York. It has no power to place a loan, but will try to attract attention to the fact that Cuba wishes to bor row money on very advantageous terms. Owing to the lateness of the sea son and scarcity of help some appre hension exists in the South that the cotton crop can not be properly handled should the harvest prove large. The better wages and more constant employment given by the building industries tend to draw away the field laborers. The Britannic of the White Star line is to be broken up. She was launched in 1874 and was the first to cross the Atlantic in less than eight days. She still has her original en gines and boilers, has made the pas sage more than five hundred times without missing a day from either accident or break down, has traveled over 1,800,000 milesenough to en circle the globe over seventy times, has carried without accident over two hundred thousand passengers, and has remained continuously at work except for two or three weeks for an nual repairs. LOST. One pocket noto book, rod leather back, containing notes and papers very valuable to tho owner. Tho finder will please leave at this office. The book has owner's name on it. 75 tf. An American railroad engineer lias constructed for a mining firm in Peru a railroad seventy-five miles in lentil, lead ing eastward from Lima. The railroad begins at an elevation of seventeen thousand feet. The mines that the road taps are said to yield as forty per cent of copper. It took twelve months to complete the line. HITCHCOCK'S INSPECTORS. GETTING SOLID WITH THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT HITCHCOCK STANDS IN WITH CHICANERY AND FRAUD IN LAND AFFAIRS. Tho word "corruption" should be changed to "hitchcock" becauso Hitchcock could give the word cor ruption" aces and spades and win out in the same; and in order to show how the game is worked and the bald hy- procricy practiced on the country by the Secretary of the Interior and his horde of special land office inqusitors we state: Outside of robbing citizens of the United States out of their pre rogative to purchase timber lands; that Hitchcock stands in with cor ruption and fraud, and a man in his emnlov who will prosecute timber entrymen and women, but will ox lose wanton corruption is promptly bounced from the government employ About eight months ago there was sent to Roseburg a special inspector by the Secretary of the Interior. The man came to Roseburg and presented his credentials and was immediately sought to be taken in hand by the re ceiver of the Roseburg land office. The inspector informed him that he was a government official, the same as himself and he had been sent to make a report on the land office, and that, while he appreciated the many favors sought to be extended to him, yet ho could not accept them for the reason that he wanted to be entirelv free and be under no obligations to any body. He proceeded to make enquiry I and formulate his report and that re-1 Fullerton - REGISTERED Our cCaboratory Products are JFull Strength and uniform in excellence. ONE OF OUR SPECIALTIES. Goodyear Rubber Company's Highest Grade Syringes and Hot Water Bottler. EVERY PIECE GUARANTEEE BY US. Fullerton - Richardson Phone 451. ROSEBURG, ORE. Near Depot i port was a most damning document, j Before the report reached Washing- j ' , , . , . " ton the wires were kept red-hot withi ' .... , . ! messages to Fulton, Mitchell and i everybody who was supposed to have political influence to save J. H. Booth, from being bounced by the President at Hitchcock's instigation. One day in Washington a man by the name of Green who is Hitchcock's head man in Oregon was sitting in Hitchcock's office in Washington. A telegraphic report was received by Secretary Hitchcock from Rose burg stating that J. H. Booth was a member and director of the Booth Kelley Lumber Company, and also stating, that Booth had made that ad mission. In a few minutes other dis patches calling upon Secretary Hitch cock to immediately remove the man who made the report. . Green talked over the matter with Hitchcock and it was resolved then and thero to sacrifice an honest upright citizen in the ' interest of the Booth-Kelley Lumber company business, and it is stated on good authority that Green wrote the telegraphic dispatch removing a reliable man because he was doing his duty to the govern ment. Green handed the telegraphic message to Hitchcock who for a few seconds drummed his fingers on tho desk and then signed the dispatch re moving the man from tho government employ. Such is the story told to the Plaindealek by a citizen of Ore gon who knows the full particulars of this most despicable deed. Now tho Plaindealer has boen aware that outside the victim slaught ered for common honesty that all the special inspectors coming to Rose burg are bosom companions of the re ceiver. In fact, if they wore joined together by the umbilical cord they could not bo more closely drawn to gether. Then again the report has been circulated that tne Booth-Kelley Lumber Company is in itself strong enough to see that their receiver is retained in the land office at Roseburg and the company says that depend- enco is not placed in the Oregon dele gation to retain their man in office, ut dependence is placed in special inspectors and inlluenco with tho Sec retary of tho Interior. If we may judge by what wo have seen and know tho special inspectors aro 0. K. so far as tho reports on the receiver ire concerned, for one special inspec tor found a man who was not in any manner connected with the land of fice at night and after he had walked him out failed to make a report on the case to Washington for fear the receiver would be removed. The cry "stop thief being made by Hitchcock at Washington and his side partners in Oregon is actually only an effort to divert attention from the "real thieves" who are rob bing the people of their rights, and a more damnable conspiracy never was concocted than has been planned and is now being carried out in the inter est of timber sharks. There are millions upon millions of dollars in such schemes which are being shield ed under the crv of forest reserves and preventing timber entry frauds The real fraud Ls in preventing citi zens from taking up the land and al lowing without question combines to gobble it up by taking it up with scrip. Then again the man Hitch cock will make a forest reserve out of worthless bald mountains and timberless lands and give script to se lect othor lands in exchange and just as stjii as a special inspector rejects r. timber entry the land is taken up by so l payment or exchange. The whole system is rotten and is as corrupt as hell it-elf could make it; and President Roosevelt should see to it that that department of the government is properly fumigated and a new man selected to warm the chair. While the Editor of the Plaindealer is a Republican he is of the stalwart breed and has no sym pathy whatever for wrong doing or corruption in the party; and the best wav to make the political bulwarks strong and inpregnable the rascals out." Ls to "turn Richardson DRUGGISTS Oakland Owl Hoots, , . , Twentv-wsven pounds of woolwas , " . . ... sheared from a fine Ramboulette ram ... . ., fair. S. B. Crouch has leased the resi dence property of E. H. Henderson and is busy building a new barn and making other improvements on the premises. J. P. Crouch is making improve ments on his homestead near Kellogg. J. H. Mann and Nick Nelson are his chief assistants. Owing to the prevalence of diph theria the public schools have be en closed at Cottage Grove. L. S. Dimmick has returned from Cooa Bay and is now visiting relatives ar- ' "lends near Kellogg, '. '". Bostul will soon i. sin, where he will return to remain a few weeks attending to business mat ters. For the present he is residing in Roseburg. R. L. Stephens has completed the wood work for the new residence of C. L. Chenoweth. The building will be complete in every way beforo next issue of this paper. C. P. Lewis, a former resident of Umpqua Perry, has leased tho James Chenoweth farm near Wilbur. The former tenant, Harry Reese has re moved to tho old D. V. Smith place near Fir Grove. Miss Mabel Boone has returned from Roseburg where she has been one of the Review's most faithful em ployes tho past few months. It is rumored she will not return to scenes of former labors. Pull parti culars in a futuro issuo of this paper. Mrs. Z. L. Dimmick has gone to Ashland, whero she will remain dur ing the winter months at least. Many Oakland friends regret tho lady's departure and hope she will visit Oakland often in the futuro if sl.o becomes a permanent resident ( f Ashland. Fred Weatherby was in town Wed resday with a wagon load of prune3 from C. II. Maupin's drier near Kel- ogg. Mr. Maupin has delivered about ten tons of prunes of a superi or quality and will keep his drier busy for several days to come. "Cap" Maupin is a hustler in everything he tries. Mr. and Mrs. Dave McCallum of tinkle creek were in the city a few days ago. To the surprise of many idmiring friends Mr. McCallum was riding in a buggy, driving a fine team of horses. A few years ago Dave was satisfied with an ox team, but ho is cecotning more progressive every day. Wo would not bo surprised to see him coming to town in an auto mobile at no distant date. Perhaps every local paper is read by at least three persons besides the subscriber, as there are generally two or three readers in most every house- lold. Then the local paper is often forwarded to relatives and friends abroad. Therefore, a paper with only 500 circulation is read by about 2,000 people every, week. Notwithstanding these assertions are undeniable, some say advertising does not pay, as few people ever read a country weekly. This statement does not annlv to Oakland alone; its application is universal. The entertainment given by the Baptist church Saturday evening was well attended and a very enjoyable affair. Net proceeds were $26.25. Hamiltion Smith very kindly furnished his new phonograph and devoted considerable time in preparing and carrying out a well arranged program. The machine Ls one of the best maim-1 factured, bnt some people ate peanuts and might have paid a little m .ire at tention to the program. There Lsn : aftinity between the crushir.tr of' peanut shells and the best phonograph in the world. LIST OF JURORS FOR TERM, 1903. OCTOBER Dr S Tope, Camas Valley, farmor J A Jaques, Glendale, " L E Milledge, Pillard, merchant Jacob Drown, Canyonville, farmer Henry llooney, Comstock, " George Scott, Melrose, " Wm Vinson, Cleveland, " T F Fisher, Olalla, J L Grimes, Looking Glass, " N M Chapman, Glide, " David McCullom, Oakland, millman John Banks, Oakland, blacksmith W "orhees, Looking Glass, farmer i T Chase, Glendale, merchant Geo Winniford, Wilbur, farmer W W Kent, Drain, merchant Wm Kamp, Urnnqua Ferry, fanner Owen Atterbury, Oak Creek. Jack Chapman, Wilbur, " W 15 Drake, Myrtle Creek, J M It-oper, Oakland, W H I'itchfonl, Roseburg, laborer llelvin Howard, Yoncalla. farmer Nek Kydell, Elkton, blacksmith K L Mclaughlin, Roseburg, farmer Chas Daugherty, Yoncalla, " U F Smick, Roseburg, David Hughes, Canyonville, " Asher Ireland. Olalla, J J Cawlfield, Roseburg, carpenter W H Jamieson, " merchant Bar Docket. (A) First National Bank, plaintiff. vs J L Dewev. defendant, action at law; J C Fullerton, attorney for pltf. (B) Richard DeBaw et id, p&in- tiifs, vs H Wollenberg. Adm, et al, defendants, suit in equity; C S Jack son ami E B Watson, attorneys for pltfs and F W Benson and J C Pul lerton, attorneys for deft. (C) Fannie Jones, plaintiff, re Rupert Jones, defendant, suit for di vorce; 0 P Coshow, attorney for pltf. (D) Alice George, plaintiff, vs Vernon George, defendant, suit divorce; J. C. Fullerton. attorney plaintiff. (B) August Hussock, plaintiff, for for vs Adam Doemer et al, defendants, ac tion at law; C J Schnabel and R F Bell, attorneys for plaintiff, anil J C Fullerton, attorney for defendants. (F) P J Bond," plaintiff, vs P II Marley, dofendant, suit in equity; J A Buchanan, attorney for pltf. (G) C 0 White, plaintiff, vs Chas Strong et al, defendants, suit for par tition; A M Crawford, attorney for plaintiff, and F W Benson, attorney for State, and J C Fullerton, attor ney for defendants. (H) J A Mclaughlin, plaintiff, vs Martha E McLaughlin et al, defend ants, suit for partition; F W Benson, attorney for pltf. (I) Wm Kroll et al, plaintiffs, vs Wm Coach, defendant, suit in equity; Cotton, Teal & Minor, attorneys for plaintiffs, and Watson, Beckman & Watson, attorneys for defendants. (J) L D Carle, plaintiff, vs Emma Cardwell et al, defendants, equity suit; A M Crawford, attorney for pltf, and W W Cardwell, attornoy for deft. (K) P Peterson, plaintiff, vs C J Crcason, defendant, suit in equity; W W Cardwell, attornoy for pltf, and P W Benson and A M Crawford, at torneys for deft. (L) Ella Wall, plaintiff, vs The Oregon Securities Co., defendant, suit in equity; A C Woodcock and L T Harris, attorneys for plaintiff, and A M Crawford and J S Medley, attor neys for deft. (M) Rosa Brunsteter, plaintiff, vs Peter Brunsteter, defendant, divorce I The Store that does the Largest Business of Any Concern in the City. , FISHER & BELLOWS COMPANY We wish to call your JACKETS FURS JACKETS HATS It's grand, Phone 721, suit; John T. Long, attorney for pltf. I (N) R L Jones, plaintiff, vs Sooth- j em Pacific Co, defenJant, action at law; A M Crawford and John T Long, attorneys for plaintiff, and W D Pen- ton, W R Willis and Dexter Rice, at torneys for defendant. (0) Jennie Porter, plaintiff, vs Jas 0 Kirkendall et a), defendants, mk in equity; J T Long and L Bar- Me, attorney for pltfs, and i C Ful lerton and ber.er Kice, attorneys for deft. (P) George W Burnett, plaintiff, vs tftoBcne Burnett, ueienaaui, ai- vorce soil; C S Jackson, attorney for phf. and P. G Smith, attorner for deft. (Q) JO Booth, plaintiff, vs H C Bryant et aL defendants, suit; J H Shape, attorney for pltf. (1) Wm Acensia. plain tin. s Walter Lenrill et al, defenAuvta, ac tion at law; Frank G Micelli, attor ney for pltf, and John T Long, attor ney for def is. (2) Joan Arrance, plaintiff, vs Frank E Covell et al, defendants, ac tion at law; John T Long, attorney for pHf. (3) A E Ziehwe Co, plaintiff, vs Mitchell & McGefeey. defendant, ac tion at law; 0 P Coshow, attorney for pltf, and C S Jackson, attorney for deft. ( I) N Seng, plaintiff, vs Harwy Smith, defendant, action at lav; O P Coehow. attorner for pftf, and F W Benson, attorney for deft. (" Churchill & WooUej, plaintiff, vs RoseburK Lumber Co, defendants, action at law; C. A. Sehlbvede, attor ney for pltf. (6) J F Hamilton, plaintiff, vs Mary Phipps, defendant, action at law; C L Hamilton, attorney for pltf. (7) A L David, plaintiff, vs Wm Moore et al, defendants, action at law: C S Jackson. John T Long and J A Buchanan, attorneys for phf, and Dextor Rice, attorney for deft. (S) A T Thompson, pltf, vs F F Rogers', deft, writ of review; Dexter Rice, attorney for pltf. (9) Sidney Meacham, pltf, vs Ma mie Moacham, suit for divorce; Louis Barzee, attorney for pltf. (10) J R Throne et al, ptt-fs, vs J C Jonos, deft, action at law; Albert Abraham, attorney for pltf. Concluded in next issue. Fairbanks for Vice-l'resUcHt. It is freely e tateil to-day on every side by politicians high in the ititwr circles of Iniliarm Republicanism that Prosi dent Koosoveli'a choice anio g Indian tnon for tho vice presidential nomina tion is Senator Fairbanks. While it is saul that tuny seem a trills strange ti thoso who have been taught thnt the two men have no special admiration fur each other, is declared to bo a fact never theless. Further-more, it is said that I he President belives it wouW bo good policy to select tho viee pi evidential candidate from Indiana. Tho President's alleged desire to have Senator Fairbainka on tho ticket with him first became known n year npo. William 11. Moody, secretary of the navy, aud congressman Cruutpttckor of Indiana have became tho clowt frior.ds through their long association in the House of Kdprosoutive.'). Mr. Moody nt the time undertook to find out, through Judge Grumpaekor, weather Senator Fairbanks would accept tecond place on tho national ticket. Mr. Crumpacker's report was thnt ho probably would not Recently there has boen n renewal of negotiations on .this subject through dif- foient channels, and Senator Fairbanks' intimate friends sav tl at ho mix have FISHER & BELLOWS COMPANY Attention at this Time We are complimented every day on on our magnificent line of Ladies' and Children's Jackets. We have been told over and over that we have the swellest Hue in the city, and judging from the number we have sold, we be lieve it. So will you come and see. Ours is the largest line ever brought to Roseburg. All the latest novelties rang ing in price from $1.00 to $40-00. Astrich&tt and Hear Seal JacKets. ur fipciriug takes j)lacc ivery day You ire A ay uclcomc: iookover our stock. and lit y arc rc::sona'.k in price. Roseburg, the nomination if he will take it That he will accept it is beinz freeiv slat I. The enator himself and hi; tecrrtary an- noncouuBiual. Senator Fairbanks, it i known ha rweuliy btxa in confer ence with prom i Dent Wail street cap itaiiate, ami this, ponibijr, mar have have aoow bearing on the matter. Football. feasan Open. The borsehiiie sphere hat now given wjr to the olloo- pi- skin. The Hiph School acxra.'aiion have already le$Ba their practice oajhe ebeckerboird ub der the MperrmuMi oi L$. Hopfield a smrar pUver of live rear experience. Their scheduled toh i already b&n ' trimming at the Deck- These coins also arranged by the manaeer and the dots fersaed bangles. It was a striking ef hare ae.nred the baseball around at ! bt 801 altogether in std taste. Rose Park oa which to battle tor so preirtacy with opposing kicker i of the ' Pig hide. Some important chaoses in the rata this year eliminate a great deal of the touch play and make the eame more interestin- to the spectator ' as well aa the player. John. Fersnen baa been elected Captain to the team and Coach Hopfiel i says that with the support of the school and the citiaew oi Kosebnr. that they should hare, projpocta are fair of bringing oat of a ann!ng team tlue samm. The first tame mill probably b with the CoUase Grove Whirlwinds at thU place 03 Oct ober 17th. nD)B U RG H E'S ESt Aft.' Fncf Atotit I'loorn Cnttc. Mt Gor let'. Putnrr llmr. Mis May Goetet. the naneee of the Duke of Roxborgfae. will be on historic around when she places her dainij foot npon the 00.500 acres of the date la the heart of Koxbargbstitre. ia Kag iand. sty the New York Press. Thoogh not hh birthplace, this coontj is tb htitd of Sir Walter Scott Pos sibly ber great lore for the Warertey novels romantically Inclined Mis Uoe N toward the young man whose an cestor were friends of the famous nov elist The original spelling was Rox burgh. The town which gave the county its name is still so spelled. Celebrated battles were fought near Floors castle, the peculiar name of the seat of the Dukes of Roxburghe. and none was more bloody than that of An crtun Moor. Here It was that IJIHard. a Scottish maiden, did prodigies of valor. Some of the Goeiet millions will make Kkors castle as fine as the Van derbilt millions hare made itlenbelm. The renowned okl cockroach-cobweb ball will readily absorb about $7,000. 000 before it gets Into condition for the heiress. Floors has long bean cele brated for Its gardens and conserva tories, the best kept np places of their kind in Scotland. The caetie is very oW. As far back as 1460. when It was held by the Eugllsh. King James IL of Scotland laid siege to it. ami was blown to pieces by the bursting of a cannon. The very spot on which the king died ia pointed out to visitors. PENNY BATHS FOR THE POOR A TlRti From Bonn on thp Rhine to rtcweHt ChlcnRn. Floating bath houses will dot the Chicago river next summer, and tbc ! poor vl have a chance to keep clean ' at the rate of 1 cent a bntli, says the j Chicago Chronicle. Henry B. Weaver I will fliHl the money to build the barges. I buy the towels and the first cargo of soap, ami the bath houses will be ex- i pected to pay for their keeping after that. Uut this is not all. Artistic foun tains will adorn the ghetto district, and It will bo Mr. Weaver's money that will build at least one of these. "In Europe fresh running water does much to make the cities attractive," said Mr. Weaver. "Why should not the same bo true in Chicago?" The bath scheme comes from Bonn on the Ithlne. "They have iloatlug bath houses there thnt measure 40 bv 100 feet," said Mr. Weaver. "Thousands bathe during the soason, and the Inhab itants, no matter how poor tliey may be, are always clean. Tho advisability of a floating bath house- may be romllly seen. Sometimes the poor will not trav el far to hntHc, but bring the moans to tneir noors, aud It Is a different mat tor. The barges are moored to the; bank and r.-mnlu until the Inhabitants of one section of the' city are clean. ' I to these three Lines Oregon Then Xbey float down the river to an other point. The charpe of 1 cent will par the cuet of keeping the bath. The water ia the Chicapo xirer ia plenty jhkmI eaoash to bathe In." Chlnr Col u Trlmmlnsm. Chinese and Japanese idea are be iac baeerporaied la woman's dress to a remarkable de?rt. says the New York Press. A pirl recently -wore a kimono shaped eoat la Fifth arence. The hat was of robin's eg? biee broad cloth. The collar and front of the rat were trimmed with Chinese exabroid ery la peacock Wee. It was a savage dragon design. Bnt most naorkable of all were the Chinese coins that were ! sewed oa the coat as an addltioaal The rT French. Coins. Samples of the new French nickel oofne were stamped recently and look very neat, says a Paris cable dispatch to the New York UeraM. They are of pare metal. The ttesfn coastets of the head of a fcore representins the re public. Tery peaceful ia outline, with- ont any eraaineiKation oa the rererse. The new coins have a great advantage xl jBraWo. i, test i thaa silver, and the lizares an not aalTAP than- rrmjk mJiu TVa vm easily effaced. The mint has begna coining them for general use. The Jferr Turf Quern. AH hil to Lo Dtdes. the qscn of the turf. That st the werU tnlilss when at ReodviUe park. With footsteps as llsht aa the sarar oa the srf She SsslMd tkroash the stretch to the two samite mark. tVK a star In her face and a iek.t of A white Itk sho with a stride aad bold. bbte4 aad a frry Kght that U tricttoaless. ahy ton DiUon paraded aad tretted la two. rh dra:a of. the hreedr. it looked hSe the fay Whtea sparkle aad flutter oa destlar shield. tJ over the ReadvBle bice ribbon of ctay I-oc EHHon vras vJcter. uith Ttee la the fieM. Twas the aha cf h- breeder to own ssch a mare; He saw hr developed and trot la two- Bet his hut debt to earth had to be set tled er The star of his farm shot away en her gait. In his place there appeared a beM can aMoos rsna. "Who oys a fast trotter for what It can do. And he shall N applauded with rece and with pen For pteanlng the trip that made Lo trot Mt two. Tta of BUttoRs I speak, the new Wee ct the road. accessor to Bonner, tho best we haT And in BUUngs Darae Nature has reaped what see sowed; His father owned Princess, and he hat tho queen. -W. H. Gocher In Chtcaso Inter Ocean. Ilia Forenoon. Di-rm Knrlj-. When rhiltp D. Armour encaged a avw secretary, he did not tell blm at what hour In the morning to report. The young mac appeared at l but found Mr. Armour at work. Sothlug una MUU UOOUt thO secretary beiig late. The next day ho presented himself at half past S, only to and Mr. Armour ahead of him. So on the day following he came at is o clock, with the eame result Determined to be on hand beforo bU boss, ho came at 750 the next day. only to be greeted by .Mr. Armour with the question: "Young man. will you tell me what you do with your forenoons?- "Udthtp to mn. "Yon soy" tittered the fiancee of tho vegetarian, "that yoa could fairly eat me. Now, isn't that contrary to tho tenets of your belief?" "Xot at all." asserted tho vegetarUo. "Rut If yon ate mo"- "I should simply le eating a peach," x-.u hmj laming, the meat diet the only thing that makes the active. Judge. fcm't wind AroldlOK It. . women-" sbe was saying ngatn. "suffer In silence." . "I can readily believe that vou do suffer in silence." tho man replied. iou take so much pleasure In talk." rhlladelphia Press.