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- PERMANENT EXHIBITS FUND )ver$ 10,000 Raised-! 15,000 In Sight -$25,000 Necessary-List of Donors. The committee out for subscriptions to he permanent exhibit fund is meeting ith unprecedented success. No refusal ,ave been received by it and none are el ected. fl'hiH committee, which consists f W. M. Klllingsworth, F. V. Drake. J. horburn JRoea, A. H. Devers and J. 1 leler. Is untiring In its efforts and has heady raised over $10,000. The sum ecessary is $16,000 for the exhibit and 10,000 for advertising. The $16,000 is al eady to sight..' . . f That th permanent exhibit at the 7nion Depot will fill a long-felt want here Is absolutely - no reason to doubt, s letters are; being- received dally from eople who.v.vrlsh to come to Oregon. .Vhen, they .cone here they must have ne place 'Where they may ascertain for hemselves (the resources of every county n the state. The majority of the people -ven In Portland, do not know what are he resources ,of the various counties, or this reason the exhibit will be in valuable, hoth t Oregon people and out- iders. . . : Z t- The resolutions Which head the various ubscxlption Ikrts state that a large num ber of people' are toeing brought into the i ate by v the railroads centering here, a lthout adequate provision for Informa lon on their arrival concerning the re sources of the state, or any organized method of bringing such settlers In touch with suitable locations In accordance with their desires., v The resolutions further state that many mch settler, for lack of Information, be come discouraged and leave the state, and that the Btate of Oregon possesses natural resources and offers Inducements to settlers such as -are nowhere surpassed and that such resources would, if properly brought to the Attention ot settlers, un doubtedly secure their remaining and as sisting In developing the state. The soliciting eommlttee requests that each merchant decide on a certain sum and Inform any member of the commit tee or the chairman, Mr. Klllingsworth, at his office. 80S Chamber of Commerce Building. ..,., .? THE BOUNTIFUL, ONES. Those who subscribed so far are as fol lows: ' i . TdU Tllton $900 H. W. Corbett fioo Henry Failing Estate ., 600 Henry Welnhard ... I. 600 Portland General Electric Co.... 400 Security Savings Bank 300 Merchants' National Bank 300 U. 8. National Bank 300 Allen Lewis 300 Mason, Ehrman "& Co SOO Meier & Frank Co 300 Flelschner, Mayer & Co ......... 100 . City Suburban Railway Co.... 300 Haneyman, Hardware Co .. .. 300 Waitay "Burreii "'. ... . . ; . . . soo C. H. Pnescott 300 ' Portland "Gas Co ...... .-. . . soo Title Guarantee & Trust Co 200 Lang 200 Eastern & Western Lumber Co .. 200 J. C Alnsworth 200 Isaiah Buckman .'. 200 Olds King , 200 The Oregon Real Estate Co 240 Portland Railway Co 260 Cloeaet ft Devers 160 Studebaker Bros 160 Woodard ft Clark 120 Neustadter Bros 120 Wadhams ft Co 120 . Loewenberg, Going & Co 120 " W, M. klllingsworth 120 R. L. Glisan 120 Jonathan Bourne? Jr 120 John McCraken Co 120 Heywood Bros 100 Rothehlld Bros 100 W, W. Cotton 0 L. Samuels CO Mollne-Baln Co , CO H. N. Scott 60 Fred T. Merrill CO Lambert ft Sargent AO ; Everding ft Farrell 60 Htnkle & Baker CO , Total $10,210 FOR EXHIBITION POKPOSE. This exhibit Idea seems to have taken It hold of the state at large. This morn ins; a letter was received from Mrs. R. E. goods for display purposes. These, goods have., received the blue ribbon at the state fair and medals at Omaha and Charleston. NEWSPAPER . BUYS HO JOKES maU Boy Is Seized With an Am bition to Become a Humorist. Yesterday afternoon a small boy in vaded The Journal local room. After sur veying the assembled reporters lie tackled the nearest one. 'who wore a kindly and benignant expression. s "Do you buy Jokes he,e?" he asked. iThfc. reporter hurriedly swallowed a smile and asked, for further information concerning the joke in order that the purchase price might be urrairged. .'. sou see it's like this," continued the youthful Joke merchant: "A man was going along the street and he said: "oh: I wish I was dead:' Jut then a brick fell down in front of hirn and said: 'Caii't you take a Joke?' " 'The reporter resurrected his smile and the small boy looked hopeful. "Did you make the Joke yourself?" asked the re porter. r ro, out j. neara Jt." said the Juvenile humorist, as he leaned hard on the denk , for support. "And I thought you might want it. "We take The Journal." he added as an additional inducement why refused to support her unless she sub t he Joke- should be purchased forthwith, mitted to his will. She alleged that at The reporter cast around fr language In l.-mt. no longer able to endure the ordeal, which to announce the sad fact that no ; she was compelled to leave her lord and eash Could be forthcoming on the Joke. , master and flee to her parents for and the small boy continued: "My name 1 sheter. . is Joe Feldman and we take The Jour- Leila's testimony Was given between naL so It will be all right. We live at 68 , SObs, and tears flowed freely down the cjia-srreec. -. A un later tne embryo Journalist de- parted, saddened Bomewhat that the newspaper never purchased Jokes when it could Help It, but his gloom was mitt- rated by the assurance that perhaps his k'islt would be noted In the personal milium." TO CURE A COLO IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.' All druggists refund the money If it falls to cure. JS. W. Grove s signature is on tacu box, 25c, IS GROWING 0 m HER PAST And Beautiful Carlo Also Ran Story From Reno, Nevada, Throws Light on Sensational San Francisco Suicide. (Journal Special Service.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3-The sui cide of "Carlo the Beautiful," noted ac tress, and wife of P. F. Campigllo, of Covington, Ky., who was her passing as the bride of Robert Hemlngray, is till a local sensation. The theory that .the death of the woman was due to sugges tion from Hemlngray has not been aban doned. There is every Indication that this may have been the case. Dispatches from Reno, Nev., tend to lend strength to this theory. The pistol with which Mrs. Campigllo shot herself was formerly the property of a woman who was mis tress to Hemlngray, and It might 'have been left handily about for the widely Jealous woman to find. The woman who was known here as Mrs. Robert Hemlngray had a career back of her final escapade that was lit tle short of the sensational sky-rocketing of her alleged husband. The daughter of a New York grocer, she married F.F. Campigllo of Coving ton, Ky.,' and resided there some time. Finally she went on the stage and be came famous as a leading beauty. In Cincinnati, as well as Covington, she became widely known and was termed "Carlo the Beautiful," because of her first name being Car lot ta. Just when she became Infatuated with Hemlngray is not known. ; KNEW HEM I NORA Y TO HER SORROW RENO, Deo. 3 Miss ChrlsUne Towle, who travels and performs under the stags name of "Tony Powers," arrived here two weeks ago, tU has since that time been singing in the New Orpheum Thea ter. . She has added another chapter to the Ban Francisco tragedy that resulted In the death of Mrs. Campigllo, who had been posing as the wife of Robert Hem lngray. 'I know Robert Hemlngray to my sor row," she said. "The pistol that Car lotta Campigllo used in taking her own life was at one time my property, and I believe it to have been stolen by Hem lngray as a souvenir of his acquaintance with me." Hemlngray formerly lived with the Towle woman, and she passed as his wife, but because he was cruel to her she left him some time ago. After being deserted by his victim, Hemlngray went to Portland. Ore., where he Joined the Princess Chic Theatrical Company, which later played an engage ment here. At that time Miss Towle met Hemlngray and openly charged him with his perfidy. It is supposed that Mrs. Campigllo came into possession of these facts, and that they led to her suicide after a scene with her lover. MARRIED TOO OLD A HUSBAND Pretty Mrs. Young Wants Divorce and Tells Woeful Tale. Leila Young, pretty, modest and IS years of age, appeared before Judge George this morning and asked for a divorce from her husband, W. V. Young, whom Bhe married only last June. Mr. Young was there to defend his case, but sat silent while his young wife recounted as spicy a bit of testimony as Judge George or anybody else In the courtroom ever remembered having heard. Leila was ery modest, as has been told, and It was with difficulty that she was made to tell her story. YW. V. Young, the accused husband, is IS years of age. and Ts employed as a machinist In the Southern Pacific shops. His side of the story will be heard yata this afternoon. When called to the stand the young wife said she had been married since June 17, 1902, and that she wished she had never seen the man she had taken for better and for worse. She alleged that from the wedding night she had i been submitted indignities that she never knew went with connubial bliss. She said that her husband was brutish, and when she remonstrated he acted in a cruel and inhuman manner That K- childish face. During a lull in the testimony a voice was heard, audible through the court room. It said: "Leila married too old man. 8AY9 HE DID NOT STEAL. Harry Thomas wa "arraigned "before Judge Sears this morning and pleaded not guilty to the charge of ."larceny from the person" in stealing a diamond valued at 176 from S. P. Hanawalt, Novum br 22, UtitZ. . THE NEWS OF STAGELAND. ; fv A tkjCi (i asrtSeTtasw VHffl$Yr W ntCHOMr F KATFIRLANtjUjgl VA ' 11? I NEW YORK, Dec. S. Many fasofnatlng productions that must be classed among the big popular successes of the season are to be Been here this week. Although the reception they are meeting with In this metropolis would warrant an extended run In nearly every instance, the managers of many of them will stick to their date schedules and embark on big road tours. In the near future. Thus, theater-goers, the country over, will be afforded an oppor tunity to meet the winsome comediennes and clever impersonators whose faces are to be seen In the above picture. w i) inn inn now routiD Courts. Asked to Decide the Question. Insurance Companies Refuse to Pay Policies, Claiming They Had Expired. New York Sun. Whether the word "noon," which marks the beginning and expiration of all nre Insurunce policies, means noon by stand- ard time, or noon Dy solar time, is a question which Is soon to be fought out ! In the courts of Kentucky, In 13 suits , which have attracted the attention of Hr insurance neonle all over" the world. I The suits are being brought by the Peas- lee-Gaulbert Company and the Louisville Lead & Color Company of Louisville, and 119,940.70 of insurunce money depends on tile result. The two companies mentioned occupied three buildings at Fourteenth street and Portland avenue. Louisville. These build ings were destroyed by fire on April 1, 1902. The damage was about 1200,00(1. uf this $1N.0U was covered by insurance. All of the Insurance with the exception of the amount mentioned was paid promptly. This residue was held by 13 tire Insurance companies, the polWios In which expired at noon on the day of the fire. Now. although the policies In these companies all state that they were In force from noon of April 1. 1901, to noon of April 1, 190-. not one of them says what kind of time that period of the day Is to be reckoned In. In Louisville, the solar noon Is 17H minutes earlier than the standard noon, so that a fire occurring in the neighborhood of noon on the day of a policy's expiration may fisily be open to attack. STANDARD TIME. The records of the Louisville fire de partment show that the nre that de stroyed the buildings of the two com panies was discovered at 11:45 o'clock, Louisville standard time, in tne forenoon of ADril 1 last. The Are began a in the engine room of the main factory and upread to the two other buildings, which were used mainly as warehouses. When the fire department recorded the time of the tire's discovery it figured, of course, by standard time. Solar ' time" " would make it Just two and a half minutes after noon. If noun in .the (Killcles means noon by solar time, of course the 13 com panies are absolved from any responsi bility for the loss. If it means noon by standard tirnje, of course they must pay. When the insurance people got the claims of the companies they declined to pay. and when asked for an explanation declared that noon In the policies meant ioon by solar time. The burned-out com panies immediately began suit, and In their affidavits they say that not only Is standard time the official time of the State of Kentucky and the city of Louis ville, but It Is also the time upon which all business engagements and all domes tic and social engagements are reckoned. They state further that they are pre- , Dared to show tnat in isau me cuy oi Louisville passed an ordinance making ! standard time the official time of the city, .it lobulation is dated according to ; standard lime and That the Oovernor of 1 the State is Inaugurated at noon accord ing to the same measurement of time. Solar time, state the companies, can be found in use in Louisville by only a few banking institutions which got char ters many years ago that compel them to ise olar time to "this nar- Most banks, they say. operate on standard time, although 'they keep clocks going at solar time so as to do busines on that basis If requested. Judging by standard time, the plaintiffs allege their fir bftk place IS minutes before their policies ex pired. The suits will soon come to trial and, of course, will be watched with great interest by Insured people. BUNCO MEN ARRESTED Notorious Safe Cracker Landed in ... - San Francisco . .. Trix'e Johnson From Spokane Is Fighting for Liberty. , Fred Rhynchnrt. better known to the police as "Stuttering" Petersojl, one of the most ;ieit safe crackers in tho business, and one of the most desperato men In the ranks el the criminals, lias been captured in San Francisco. He was caught In a building, where he had Just blown ypen a sale i he case against nim (g eomplete. He is well known to the local lnjlice and has served two terms In the Halem penitentiary. The first was from IMS to lSs."., loi burglary. In March, 1. h wua captuied by Policeman Sand- : strum, while blowing up Ihe safe in the office of the Willamette Iron Works. A revolver duel took place, in which the policeman narrowly escaped death. For this ottetiso Hhynchart was sent up for , live years, and was released a year ago last August. Whin a youth he served a number of terms in the California prisons. T1"K.NK1 A lU'NCO TRICK. Hugh Trainer, alias, John Harris, who ' but recently escaped from the clutches of the ituffalo authorities, and "Four- e. ye,a .oni-cnan, uvo ui ,hv top-notch Dun ' co men of theVounliy, were arrested this morning tor tuniJug. a, D ick. , An .EBgiish inan, who Is a hi ranger In the city, was lured into the Stockholm Saloon, on Sixth and Flanders streets, and fleeced of i0 in a dice fame Shei han is well known on the coast, havii.g ln raised at Port Townsend. He lias made his home at Se attle for a number ot' yt ara, and has been In ihe tolls of i he police there many times. The two men w re only recently in trouble in Spokane. I TUYINM TO HIII'AK WAY. j Detective McIMiee ot Spokane is In the city, after a colored g;r called Trixie I Johnson. She was arrested upon tefe ! graphic Instructions for larceny. Yester , day morning she was released cn a writ of habeas corpus, but was Immediately rearrested as a fugiU. from, Justice on a warrant 'issued by just lee Reld. She , will have a hearing ibis afternoon, and Is making a hard light to gain her lib erty. - Her ball has been t.x.d at i00. De tective Mcl'hee. who is waiting for the f. 'OuiSIUVin papers, says the case against the woman is complete. That she went Into a restaurant at Spokane with a miner, flnd snatched tw 1 $100 bills from , his pocket and ran nwnv There were a , number of witnesses "i the act. i Slloc iTIX'J TRIAL. The case of Joint Johnson for shooting i J. II. l!)o'j!n In the i,-ir n a row over a gambling game, in whirl: a J10 gold piece came into dispute, will i,,- heard .in the Municipal Court this ' afternoon. Both of , the parties are colored men. The Bhoot- ing took place In a North End dive. j POLICE COlItT TRANSCRIPT. Cases In the police court today are: ! Drunks. Peter N ls.ni, . Kdward O'Brien. William Cunningham. II. T. Wilson, Wil liam Wilson. James Hughes. Torn Tlm mons and John McUndev. Mike Murphy. Ior. using proiane language. Arthur ix-naman. jonn wraucn and Walter HI- . for peeling tne Dark from some fruit trees. Regulator Line. Regulator line steamers from Oak-street dock at 7 a. m. Pest and fastest line of steamers for The Dalles, Lyle, Hood River, Whtte 8nlmon, Sf. Maftmv "Hot Springs, Cascade Locks, Moffet's Hot Springs, and all Middle Columbia River and Klickitat Valley points. Take this line and get to your destination from on to four hours ahead of other linos. TWO LITTLE BLACK PRINCESSES. Two ilttlo black princesses from Liberia are guests at the house of Rev. J. E Rawlins, 1717 Page street, this city. When seen this morning. Princess Marvee, aged 6, of the Bundl tribe, was attired in a blue gingham Mother Hubbard and busily engaged in crocheting thread lace. Princess DJaaga Wuttah. ayed 11, of the Golah tribe, was wrapped in a brown shawl and lustily trying her upper reg ister. The tiny royalties were brought to this country by Mrs. J. E. Sharp, a returned missionary, who hopes to leave Marvee at the Flske Institute to obtain an education. The baby will return with her. Marvee said she was "plenty sick on big ship," and "Onerlca was ver cold." Her father. 'the "king of one vt the- bush tribes, was killed In one of the battles of an insurrection and the child was found by government soldiers and so came Into Mrs. Sharp's hands. The baby's mother, who was a woman of far-famed beauty, Mrs. Sharp says, was beaten to death by her Jealous hus band, dying only a short tlmo after the child was born. The father is the King of the Golahs and has many wives, but is fondest of the mother of Dyanga. They tried to l-.cep the child alive by giving It rice water, as they think It brings evil to give the children cow's or soat milk, and no woman would take It because of the hellef that a child whose mother had come to such an untimely end would bung ill luck. They brought it to Mrs. Sharp to die, !.:. none of them wished it to die in their house. It was so starved and stunted that all the children exclnlmed that it was a monkey. Mrs. Sharp fed it con densed milk and It began to revive, to the great amazement of all the tribe. They called the condensed milk "Amerl an bewitched milk." Mrs. Sharp stiys there Is a great open ing in Liberia for colored mth and wo men of Intelligence and education. There is a demand for dentists and physicians, skilled laborers and those who would tke on cotton-growing and ether plan- lHtjin industries. She is in nopes wnne here to arouse suincien interest, in "-- 'work among the bush tribes of Liberia to raise-sufficient funds , to place her school on a permanent basis. Philadel phia Press. WHAT THE SQUAW SAID. (From the New York Times.) Mat. Pratt, the I'nited States army offi cer who is in charge of the Carlisle In dian school, admits that many of his graduates who return to tribal life fall in Indian ways again. Therefore he is doing all he can to prevent the educated Indians from going bacfc to the reserva tions. He tells of an incident he saw at a Western Indian agency. A squaw en tered a trader's store, wrapped In a blanket, pointed at a straw hat and asked: "How muchee?" "Fifty cents," said the merchant. "How muchee?" she asked again, point ing at another article. The price was quoted, nnd was followed by another query of "How mucheeT" Tben she suddenly 'gazed blandly at the merchant andTasked; mildly : .' "Do you not regard 8uch prices as ex tortionate for articles of such palpably and unmistakably inferior quality? D.o you not really believe that a reduction In your charges would materially enhance your pecuniary profits, as well as be ethically proper? I beg you to consider my suggestion." She was a graduate of the Carlisle In dian school, . IN BEARLAND. Mother Bruin. In conclusion And so you see. my dears, the wise bear will eat but little and keep himself thin, while the greedy bear becomes fat and Is killed by the hunter. Benjamin Bruin, who reads the papers But, mother, the thin bear was tied to a tree and killed, just the same, so what's the use? USED DISCRIMINATION. (Town Topics.) "It is appalling to think of the tempta tions to which young men are exposed. We women should do what we can to lessen them." "I do my share. For the last five years I have made it an Inflexible rule never to 111ft except" : with' TnaTrted men." FISHERMEN ORGANIZE. Seven thousand fishermen on Puget Sound have organised a trades union, chartered by the American Labor Union. CUBA MUST r JOIN "US Our High Tariff Means Her Finan cial Rain. RECIPROCITY IS ROT ENOUGH The Cuban Government Is Looked Upon by Cubans ss Only Provisional It I Too Weak to Inipire Confidence at Home or Respect Abroad Only Those Who Took Active Part In the War Against AnnexationAnd They Hold the Offices, This plea for the annexation of Cuba to the I'nited States is made by Fran Cisco Reyes Guzman, a Cuban. He says: "As a Cuban I wish to thank William Allen White for .his article, published in McCiure's Magaglne, on reciprocity with Cuba. She Is in great distress and ruin because of the failure of the bill in Con gress. She cannot get along without the American market. The present tariff is prohibitive. Bugar pays 1.8S cents per pouno; cigars manufactured In Havana pay tt.00 per pound and 25 per cent, ad valorem additional, and tobacco leaf pays 1.85 per pound on wrappers and 35 cents per pound on fillers. The result is that Cuba has no market for her sugar ujid tobacco. "But my belief Is that Cuba needs from this country something more than reci procity, and that is what I am golnir to explain very carefully. I will state that I have been doing business there for the last 35 years, and that I have Invested there today more than $500,000. Conse quently I have had enough experience to Know all the evils and the remedies to be applied to them. "I consider that the political problem of every country ought to be solved at the same time with the commercial one, harmonizing them in all possible ways, the political being the more important. Tho Spanish government was always consiaerea ty the Cubans a provisional one. And why? Because Spain was di vorced commercially from her colony. She did not buy Its products. The to bacco was monopolized by the eovern- ment, and theduty on sugar was so Mgh' tnat It was prohibited from entrance there. "And today the Cuban Republican gov ernment is considered a provisional one. Why? Because it Is so weak In every wav that It does not Inspire confidence at home or abroad, and because It is not In accord with the wishes of three fourths of the Inhabitants. The result will be that money will leave. Instead of going there. No emigrants will go there, except a few Spaniards. THE GOVERNMENT ADRIFT. "Cuba ts today like a ship at the mercy of a cyclone on the high sea and without a pilot on board. The moneyed persons turn their eyes toward Washington as they behold with great sorrow their properties losing value every day. The republic was born on the 20th of May, and since that time all values on the island have gone down 20 per cent. "There are 25,000 persons who' took part In the revolution. They have monopo lized everything there all the govern ment offices, posjtlons..on. thp poilce forca and the rural guard, and have declared that the Cubans who did not go to the revolution do not deserve to be consid ered by them. They are crying out in every possible way against annexation. Any person who favors It there will be severely dealt with by them, and treated as a traitor. That Is the reason why It appears that the country does not want to be annexed. But these persons have nothing to lose and are pursuing a policy for their own personal benefit. The ma jority of the other Cubans are disgusted with their lack of true patriotism. "The natural consequence la that there is a material peace, but no moral one. "The population of the lsfend Is com posed as follows: 250.000 foreigners, 500, 000 negroes and 750,000 Cubans. All the foreigners are anxious to be annexed to this country and three fourths of the Cu bans have the same desire. READY FOR REBELLION. "The negroes are waiting the first op portunity to fight for a republic of their own. If it was not for the Piatt amend ment they would revolt very Boon, and the whites could not prevent them from taking the eastern part 6f the island for themselves. Then the country would be divided Into two republics like Haytl and Santo Domingo. Today the negroes are claiming the right to hold one third of the government offices, because they form one third of the Inhabitants, and declare that they did most of the fighting in tho last rftvolaUoo, at. the end af which three fourths of .the fighting men wera negroes. "For all these reasons I am obliged to call the serious attention of the Presi dent, the United States government and the American people to my statement that the best gift they can give to the Cubans will be to annex the. Island as soon as Congress assembles, on condi tion that all the products of tho Island are permitted to come to this country without paying any duty. That is the only thing that will solve forever all the Cuban problems. "This country needs Cuba for political reasons, and Cuba needs this country for commercial safety. By the Piatt amend ment Cuba is morally annexed to ' the I'nited States. One must be blind If he does not see It. "If the United States acts toward Cuba In a weak manner there will alWays be trouble between the two countries; but if, on the contrary. It acts strongly and annexes the Island, three fourths of the Inhabitants .there will he deeply indebted ta. this cpuntry -for havhur saved '.them from sure ruin, and I am sure that there will be no rebellion or revolution, be cause nobody dares to oppose this coun try. "In conclusion, I state that although I did not go to fight, I did help the revolu tion with some cash and by taking sev eral thousand dollars of the Cuban Re public bonds." BRET HARTE'S MODESTY. In an article of reminiscences Mary Stuart Boyd says that the late F.ret Harte never obtruded his personality. He also had a dread of people regarding him for his work only, not for himself. "Why didn't you tell me it was Bret Harte who sat next me at dinner last night?" walled one of society's smartest young matrons In a note to her hostess the morning after & large dinner party. "I have al ways longed to meet him, nnd I would have been so different had I only known who tny netghboi was." "Now, -why can't a woman realise this sort ot thing Is Insulting?" queried the author, to whom the hostess had forwarded her friend's letter. "If Mrs. talked with me and found me uninteresting as a man, how could she, expect to find me Interesting because T was -an "-author. ?" Chicago News. RAT EXTERMINATED. Rats are being exterminated at Sebas topol to prevent the spread of plague. WHY GIVE ,;, : BANQUETS? An American Custom That Has Become a Nuisance. NOBODY WANTS THE SPEECHES Those Who Can't Get Away Are Bored Both Before and After Going, Whlls Thou Put Down for Speeches Would Much Prefer Being at Home and Tak ing Their Meals at Regular Hours. The banquet Is one of the fixed insti tutions of public life in America, England and other countries of Christendom. Doubtless, too. It flourishes among the benighted heathen In various lands. The . Chinese and the Turks have banquets at which distinguished persons are feasted. Some banquets are affairs of national im portance. The Lord Mayor's banquet In London each year brings a notable gath ering of celebrities before whom some Cabinet leader says political nothings, tediously or brilliantly, according to his gifts of speech. Tammany's banquets are worth half a column even In a San Francisco newspaper. The regular or oc casional banquets uf commercial or scien tific bodies are generally of some per functory local Interest. Consequently the banquet as an Institution is worth five minuies siuuy. A banquet differs from a dinner in that it is a public or quasi-public affair. Whenever a great worthy comes to town there Is nothing to do but give a banquet in his honor. Those busybodles who de light in taking subscriptions for one thing and another, jump at every ex cuse for getting up a banquet. They go about talking up the project and bully ing or shaming a sufficient number of persons into agreeing to shore the ex pense. They manage the business, con tract with the caterer, send out the invi tations and collect the per capita tax levied on all the guests. Now the average man of affairs dreads and loaths a banquet. it pleases neither his stomach nor his mfhd. Ha would prefer his accustomed and substan tial dinner at home to the multitudinous courses of indigestible that are laid helore him at the. banquet, table. If ho has a speech to make later the thought of It haunts him and kills whatever ap petite he might bring to the festal board. It Is safe to say that not more than one man out of ten enjoys the food at a ban quet. Most times tho gay banqueter finds himself between two men whom ho knows only slightly, and with them ho must "make conversation" all evening. "Making conversation" is a very exhaust ing form of mental dissipation. Conse quently the intellectual pleasures of the banquet uro about as insipid as the de gustatory pleasures. But If the indiges tible food and the tiresome conversation were the only drawbacks of the banquet it would not be so bad. There are, how ever, more painful tortures provided for the banquet guests. These tortures are the post-prandial speeches. The speeches commence Just about tho time when the middle-aged, domesticated man of family at the board Is ready to go home, and they continue long after everybody wishes that all the speakers and. toastmaster and the. committee were ksccked on. t he head . and In one red burial blent. Toward the close of a well ordered public banquet a few of the dis tinguished guests are more than likely to show unmistakable signs of liquor and some of them enliven the feast with horseplay. When it Is all over the sober guest - wends homeward to bed, three or four hours later than his wont. He wakes la a the morning sour and surly and goes through the day with dyspepsia In his alimentary canal and anger In his brain. Is modern Ingenuity so weak that It cannot Invent some agreeable substitute for that Intolerable plague and nuisance. he public banquet? Is civilization so backward that It must keep this stupid survival of the barbarous orgies of tha ancient pagans? San Francisco Bulletins A FIREBRAND FROM ILLINOIS. A hitherto unnoticed Incident of the) Chicago convention deserves .publicity. During tho hours preceding the making' of set speeches the strife for recognition from the chairman was particularly keen. One long, lean fellow, dressed like a, Methodist preacher, was even more per sistent than the others. After many valnt efforts to catch the chairman's eye, ha began climbing over the benches, still soliciting notice. He was, perforce, rec ognized. "The gentleman from Illinois has the! floor," announced the chairman, and with, .a- jtap of Ms. , gavfcl, sUeoceA th crowd. I'p marches Ichabod to the front of the platform where stood a table with a glass and a pitcher of water. 'Gentlemen of the convention." he be gan, 1 and he halted and reached for the water. A few hasty gulps and ha began again. Gentlemen of the convention, I Again he lost his thought and dived mad- y for the pitcher. The crowd was be coming restless, and when for the third time he cleared his throat and began 'Gentlemen of the convention," nerves were on edge. The unfortunate was struggling for utterance, but his tongue would not obey him. He reached for the water, but was Interrupted sadly by a voice from Ihe gallery a slow, distress fully sympathetic voice: "Take him to the lake." Immediately from every bench and gal- ery rained unsuspected cups and buckefa f water. The delegate from Illinois was literally flooded out, and for the rest ot the convention the flame of eloquence wtls . effectively quenched, Saturday Evening Post. CLOSE TO THE YEARS OF PETER. . (The Tablet.) The Pope, on Tuesday. Nov. 4, had oc cupied the chair of St. Peter longer than ny of his predecessors except nui u. Is a singular fact, cited Dy some aa testimony to file Increased healthiness of Rome, that th,e two longest reigns re corded In he annals of the Papacy should have been the two last, that of Pius DC.. whose pontificate lasted for 31 years and 7 months, and that of Leo .lli,, who nas worn the triple crown for 24 years t months, and more than a fortnight. Un til November 4 he had not attained tha years of Plus VI., who died at exile at Valence In 1799. The tradition that St. Peter had been bishop of Rome for 25 years was the origin of the saying ad dressed to succeeding Popes on their ac cession, "'Thou slialt not see the years of--Peter." a. prediction falsified for tha first time by the late reign, and likely to be so In the present case. The reigning Pontiff, despite his great age, has been surpassed In longevity by two of his pre decessors. St. Agathon. who died in 683 at the age of 107, and Gregory IX.. who, at .the .date of his death in 1241, had at tained toe age of 99. VALUE OF OSTRICH. A fine ostrich Is calculated to yield $2,500 worth of feather,