- ;iHE USEGOn.DAILY JOURNAL ' -vs '' . ffOURN4Ji FUBLISmNCr COMFANT. s ' Proprietor. . Addressi THK OREOON DAIUY JOURNAL. , 8t Yamhill Street, fttwND Fourth ana - .-.f tftly .PprUancL Crtgon. 1NDEPENOENT DEMOCRATIO PAPER ;'..' Or OREGON. . EMtrtJ at the Postofflce of, Portland. Orerron, for transmission through the tuatls a seoond -class matter, 'oat for single ooplea -For an I. 10. W 12-page paper, 1 cent; 1 to 2S pagea. I cents; over it pa(a, cent. " Telephones! Business Office Oregon. Wain 600; Co lumbia, f 06. . Editorial Rooms Oregon Main 600. City Editor Oregon. Main 2N. largely contributed to the glorious suc cesses of the past. Courage, coolness, intelligent and abovt all patriotism these are the quality which make the American sailor tho beet In the world. It U tw much to expect the Filipino to display the tratta, until at least, he haa Imbibed more thoroughly the true American spirit. He may do excellent service d the vessel engaged ' In .patrolling tha water of the Philippines, but to per mit his enlistment as a full fledged ma n-o'va reman Will excite many mis gtvingsrand aroase much criticism of the Navy Department. WOMAN KILLS PETS SHE LOVES 4 r sJUMCRIPTION RATES. Ttrnis by Carrier i The jurnai, one year The Journal, rix months The Journal, three month" Toe Journal, by the week .15.00 . 1M . 1.S0 . .10 ) . Terms by Mailt The Jaurnal by insll. vne year M JJ The Journal, by mall, six month -00 The Journal, by ruall. three month. 100 ' .You better learn to accept all the small mltflis and the trivial annoyances of life as a matter of course. To allow them to re ceive attention " beyond their de serts Is to wear the web of your life to the warp. Be on the look out for the great joys nnd never let moequltoa worry you Into a passion. The Philistine. 'V , ' 'THE MOUNTAIN LABORED. ' An Indian mall carrier has been ar rested on a charge of having failed to turn in to the postofflce the sum of . 'two cents, collected more than a year ago on a postage due stamp. The ar Test, It is stated, Is the result of sn Investigation conducted by half a dosen government officials, extending Over the time since the afk-ged col lection was made. Tho public will be deeply gratified to know that Its interests have been so jealously guarded. The postofflce de- . 1 partment may well point with pride to this triumphant conclusion of a case 'on which its sleuths have been en gaged for more than a year. If the man they have at last placed behind the bars Is indeed the purlolner of that two cents, his crime will soon be fittingly punished and the stolen funds will be restored to the treasury. ' The arrest of this defaulter will do a world of good. It will serve ft a warning that not every employe of the Postofflce Department enn rob the ' public at pleasure. Mall carriers who think they can appropriate two cents Just because they see their superiors taking hundreds of thousands of dol , lars Will receive a lesson not soon to " be forgotten. ' ; 1 It Is most fortunate, too, that this case arose so as to afford Occupation j for the half dozen detectives who have been, engaged upon it Hut for the stealing of that two cents their atteu- , tiort might have been turned to some of the higher officials of the depart ment, with results painful to fancy, Think of the consequences if the same ruthless Investigation had been per mitted amon those privileged peculat ors whose transactions are now slowly . coming to light. With the arrest of this alleged two ' cent thief, the further investigation of ) the Postoffice Department mav, as well ; stop. WHY DO THEY SUPPORT HERMANN? Rveryone who' Interests himself In politics hi Oregon knows that the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of Eu gene, Or, the most extensive holders of timber lands In the state, are the principal hackers of Mr. Blnger Her mann in his candidacy for Congress man. If it were merely true that the gen tlemen composing this company favor Mr. Hermann In their individual ca pacity as American citizens and sov ereign voters. It would be impertinent to question their action, but it Is well known that In their corporate capacity, they not only back Mr. Hermann for the nomination, but really forced hlm on the convent ton against a majority of 16. That there Is an ulterior motive on their part will be inferred by every thinking person. CorjHjrations, us cor porations, do not IntereHt themselves In politics without good reason, so that the logic of the situation is thru the Booth-KeHy Lumber Company, nnd Its allied concerns must have a material object In view In the present fight. No one attempts to deny the fact that this corporation Is backing Mr. Hermann and it will be well for his political supporters to explain to the voters some good reason for their un usual interest in the matter. Of all the official boodlers and graft ers whose exploits have attracted re cent attention, Mayor Ames of Min neapolis appears to have been the most sordid and shameless. If he does not spend the few remaining years of Mb life in state's prison it will be a dis grace to Minnesota. ......... PHILADELPHIA. Pa, April IS. In a poem called "The Ballad of Reading Oaol." a poenj written by a convict. It Is sstd that mnn always slays the thing he loves. This statement Is undoubt edly true, but It seems to be borne out in Frankford. nevertheless for Mrs. Caroline Scott of ltZI Sellers street Is admitted to be one of Frank ford's great est lover of animals, and yet Mr. Scott kills from too to 1.000 animals a year. She kills these snlmsls, though, not so much because she loves them as beoense they sr suffering. Dogs that have been run over, rats with Incurable diseases, birds Irreparably hurt these and other sorts of little live things Mrs. Bcott puts to death. And she has bean putting them to death for 35 years. She employs a msn to bring them to her from their homes, and another man with a horse and wagon calls thrice a wetk at her house to remove for burial the corpses there. Mrs. Scott lives In a brick house with her daughter and her son-in-law. Her health 1 no longer rood, and to pursue her work Is more difficult for her now than It used to be. Nevertheless she does not propose to give it up. Yester day the man whom she employs colled at her house and said: "Have you any thing for me to do today?" "do to this number for a cat, to that number for a parrot, end to such and such a place for a dog." replied Mrs. Scott. : --RICHES IN CORN BY-PRODUCTS. A street railway rrancnise in Los Angeles covering only about two miles in the residence portion of the city has Just been sold by the City Council for 1 110,000. This suggests that fran chises in Portland may not be quite so valueless as the public is given to understand. A contemporary records the fact that three men in Mexii were eaten by sharks. Vet this same contempo rary has nothing to say about the sharks who havC beeh eutlng up tha taxpayers of Multnomah County. TEE QUICK OR THE DEAD. The case of an Alabama negro, Tom Barth, who was legally hanged and afterward came to life again, has j raised a knotty point of law. The Sheriff who had charge of the hanging ;,was ' a novice at the business, and though the physician in attendance pronounced life extinct, subsequent '.event proved that the negTO was not dead. Whin the body was delivered to the relatives they discovered signs of life, a physician was hastily sum moned and the negro was resuscitated. Barring a sore throat he was soon as well as ever. But now arlnes the difficulty. HaB - Tom Barth -paid the penalty 'of the law so that ho can to free, or must he be hanged again ? ' tt was the sen tence of the court that he should be "hanged by the neck until dead" and the Sheriff's certificate Is evidence that this was done. Skeptical people who prefer the testimony of their own eyes to that of the official records and who see Torn walking the streets In his' us ual health foolishly insist that he Is still alive. But they are met with the reply that the law has declared that Tom is dead, and therefore dead In must be, outward appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. The only one concerned who is not excited, over the matter Is the corpse. Tom Is eating his three meals a day, quite indifferent us to whether he is legally alive or dead. President Roosevelt haa had a strong hunch. He Is talking ' now-a-days about "Higher Cltlaenship," instead of I "higher tariff." The new topic Is safer and the peoplp cheer Just as loudly. The good roads, convention which has been meeting at St. Louis should have devoted a little attention to Im proving the road to the state peniten tlary. . ' hi i The erranrPriifcesa Louise of Sax.- ony has a daughter, but congratula tious from her royal relatives are com' lug in very slowly. He Bead the Message. Joseph Francoe'ur, stage manager for wiiuam aversiiam, recalls this lndident in connection with W. E. Sheridan, an actor of repute in his day, who was said to be somewhat lacking, however, in de On one occasion Sheridan was playing a biock engagement In the West and had as his leading man an actor named Charles Craig, who played the part of De Noumours In ' i.ouis IV.." and played it rather badly. Determining to be rid of the actor, Sheridan started for the tole- graph office one evening, following a par ticularly distressful performance on the part of Craig, and the latter insisted upon accompanying him, in order to en joy the -walk!. Sheridan smiled grimly, and the two proceeded. Arriving at the office, Sheridan, with Home degree or secrecy, wrote the tele gram, passed it to the operator, told him he need not repeat It aloud, but to please send it immediately.; Thoy were Just leaving the office when the telegraph in strument began to click. Suddenly Craig stopped. His facebor nret a puzzled expression, then one of deep concern. and linally his head sank upon his breast, and his manner was most disconsolate. 'What's the matter?" Inquired Sheri dan. 'I used tb be a telegraph operator," answered the actor, "and 1 read that message." 'Good lieavens!" exclaimed Sheridan. The message read: "Engage Joe Orls- mcn for Di Noumours; Craig rotten." And Sheridan, becoming sympathetic. Immediately sent another wire, recalling the order of the first. New .ork Times. ' tTT TDTXT "VC TTT TTTT 7 1 trV The experiment of enlisting Filipinos In our navy must be regarded with grave doubts. It i about to be tried, ; but many naval officers look .upon It as si very unwise" step. A number of Filipino boys are to be received as ap prentices at the Cavite naval station, .wltlv; the Intention of making them ultimately rernlnr snlin ' While It is true that the Filipinos are la general good watermen, and vVlck to learn, It remains to be seen 'whether they can learn to submit to the, rigid discipline, of the navy, and whether they will develop those traits which have been characteristic of American seamen and '.which have so Would Tackle an Slephant. "Jim" Johns, one qt the active Re publicans of Tipton, was in the city re cently, and one of his friends told a good utory on him that dates back two or three? weeks. Johns Is in Indianapolis frequently, and on one of his visits he was walking down Pennuylvania street with James R. Cole aud D. J. Menden hall of this city, when their attention was attracted to a magnificent pair of elephant tusks that were exhibited in a shop window. They admired the Ivory for several minutes. "Great, aren't they, Jim?" observed Cole. Johns conceded that they were fine, but started -to remark something to the effect that Tipton County could pro duce larger ones, when Cctte added: "Have you any Idea how much they're worth. Jim? Those tusks represent Just $1.6011." Without a word, Johns turned, walked over to the. curb and bvgan peering up and down' the street. Nt ' . "What on earth are you doing?" asked his frieuds. , V ' "I'm looking for an elephant,' rejoined "Jim." "If I'd' sea one with a pair of' tusks like that I'd tackle him single handed." Indianapolis Journal. The man oVpnrted. Several hours later he returned with the cot. the pnrrot and the dog in an express wnffon. The first had been burned in a fire; the second had developed an unsightly disease of the skin: the third had had both legs broken by a cart. ; ' Mrs. Bcott carried them all to a room behind her kitchen an airy room, with plenty of window. In the middle of the floor .stood a blg wooden box, alr-tlght. and very solidly constructed. A rubber tube panned through the-side or the bos aud its end was attached to a gas pipe. Into tho box she thrust the parrot It squawked, but as soon as the lid wms cloned upon It It became silent. In the blackness of the box it stood still. Mrs. Siott turned on the gns cock and floods mi flnnus of gas rolled in upon the par rot. Five minutes thereafter the woman opened the box and removed the dead bird. The stale gas In tha box rolled forth and out of the window. After it, was gone the dog was killed In the same way the parrot, and finally the cat was disposed of. Then the bodies of these little animals were laid in an out house, and thence, the next morning, a man removed them for burial. Every day there are a half dosen callers at Mrs. Scott's. A little girl will eome and say with a sorrowful voice: "My father says that I must get rid of my cahary. The cat get It yeeterdny snd tore a big hole in its breast. The hole will never heal, my father says. The poor little bird is in great pain. Will you kill It, Mrs. Scott, without hurting It at all?" "To be sure' I will, little girl. Leave me your address, and I'll send for the bird at once." A young man comes and says: "I have a Newfoundland dog. madam, that must be put to sleep. This dog naved his sister's life, aud for this dtted his own life must pay the penalty. He was walking with the little girl and a trolley car approached that ahe. didn't sec. She stood on the track, and she would have been run over. But the dog' ran to her, seized her dress, and thrust her out of the way. The car ran over his. hind legs, crushing them horribly. and the surgeon says that there Is no hope for this good dog." "I wMl relieve the animal, sir," says Mrs. Scott. "Its death will be painless. almost pleasant. :-: A great many persons "wonder why It is that Mrs. Scott ever came to involve herself in the grewsome work that she now conducts on a scale so extensive. She told the other day how she( tlrst came to take up the work. "All my life," she said, "I have- lived out here, and all .my life I have loved animals. We have a number of quarries in this section, snd at the quarries a good deal of cruelty Is practiced on horses. I began In my girlhood to take the part of these horses. Many an argument I had with brutal drivers, and muny a poor horse I helped. From horses my care for animals "extended to dpgs nnd cats and birds. ' And when I found a dog or a cat or a bird In such pain and trouble that It should be dead I killed it In as painless a manner as possible. "The method of killing that I now use is a development of my earlier method. In the past I used chloroform. I would put the animal to be killed in an air tight box and then I would throw ' In beside it some ragj saturated with chloroform. For tho chloroform to kill would require IS or 20 minutes, and even then the killing is not quite certain, and it is necessury to cover the animal with water for surety's sake. The gas method is better. The g&a Is turned into the box for Just a min ute, and In that minute the animal dies. It takes only a few seconds to make it unconscious. The gas Is no sooner turned on than you hear the animal drop to the floor. It rarely, if ever, makes any outcry. Dying is Just as pleasant to it as eating a good moal is to you. I suppose on an average I kill 300 ani mals a quarter. Most of them are catat Next oome birds. But I have killed ani mals of all sorts rats, guinea pigs, mice, bats, and monkeys. I have been a member of the Philadelphia S. P. C. A. ever since, it came into existence, and I Ijave a-'silver medal that was given to me for my kindness to animals." s .. . I Important as are the by-products od- talned from com, the ultimate proaucw of the corn kernel, starch ana glucose, gro by far the most Important. Oluoose, a hic, colorless sirup, la indeed very generally known, snd has- a very hi deserved popular reputation as an adult rant, v . As a matter of fact, tt Is not. broadly speaking, an adulterant at all, but a valuable commercial agent which ac complish certain ends In candy making and in the preparation of soda fountain sirups, without being In the least injur ious. Vast quantities or it are unea yearly In making confectionery, pre serves, and fruit sirups, partly because It is more economical than ordinary sugar, but quite as much because it la better adapted to the purpose. As a foundation material It takes any flavor successfully; but unlike sugar It doesn't erystallln- out afterward and the confectionery will therefore keep longer In, its original condition. The objection mont commonly brought against ,glupoie. that u mineral acid Is used in producing Is altogether Irra tional - Tha actual aim mat of acid Is not more than one poUml In a thousand, and even this small amount must be quite neu tralised, and so k 1 rid 'of, by the very process of refh'lng. before the glucose has reached tin- singe of perfection that makes It a murketable commodity. ' An ordinary k.-niel of rorn. as .H comes to the hihurntory,, contains., a germ, or embi plant, surrounded by a mass of cell contulnmg albuminous matter and n-imrnte grains of starch. These element, which practically nour ish the little pi .nit germ somewhat as a chicken is nourished In an egg, are really the elements of u perfected food, protein of which the nlilte of an egg Is a fa miliar oxamnli' containing sugar, march And fat. Their preaeme is what gives the kernel of corn o many commi'tvisl pos slbiltles. And without going Into the technicalities or production step tubs, rolls, shakers, filter presses, starch runs, or what not Hi" gradual evolution Of these' different products Is an interesting example of tlx- power of modern chem ical mechanism to .struct a long list of unexpected utilities out of a single natural substance Sun. wind, rain, and soil store up t (!.-- various utilities snd modern humanity l always making ,new, quicker, ami better wtys of ex tracting and applying them. When the kernel of corn begins go ing through its transforming processes one of the. first results Is a separation of the germ.,' The germs, separated snd ground, are reduced to a pasty moss, which Is Subjected to pressure and so divided Into clear, yellowish oil on the' one" hand, and dry, compact cakes on the Other. The oil Is used In the nfanufacture of soaps or Is vulcanised, 'mixed with bits of cork and ho trans- i K!) forded Into rubber mats or bicycle han - Th 4rf cakes are largely exported s cattle feed, the amount of protein whloh they contain making them both healthful and nutritious.- What Is left after tha germ of tha corn has been extracted, .continues on it way to tht final and vastly more important ' pro ducts,' starch and glucose. ; But before the coj-n becomes starch, two other by-products are produced, the first being corn bran, or "wet feed" as it Is called In factory" practice, and the second gluten meal. Both of these pro ducts . are .cattle foods, the gluten be ing particularly rich In albuminous auk stances and used, for example, for mix ing with the regular food of, a dairy farm in order to Improve the quality and quantity of the milk. - , Qluten. Indeed, which In dried form becomes gluten meal, and so goes to the cows, is derived from the corn dur ing the extraction of the starch that oe to the big textile mills and there plays an important part in the weaving and dyeing of cotton fabrics, or else to the confectioners, where thousands of tons are used yearly as molds in which to cast the candy animals that we see so commonly at Christmas. The grape sugar, so-called, which goes 4x the distilleries and becomes an Im- wXnt fa ci or in the brewing Industry, and eje concentrated, liquid glucnse that goes to the confectioners and be comes an Item In the manufacture of confectionery, sirups, aim Jellies, are both derived from starch by sn elab orate chemical and refining treatment. All these products are made by chem ical reactions flrst csrefutly studied on a small scale In theoretical laboratories, ami then applied on a large one In big manufacturing plants. Grape sugar, so-called from Its general resemblance to the sugar sometimes found on the exterior of dried grapes, la an Ideal fermenting sugar, and Is therefore much used In the manufacture of sparkling ales, the gases which it gives off dur- i log rermetttatinn producing the neces sary sparkle better than any other agency. And corn is also largely used In the production of malt tof snd liquors, which tJe their valuable properties to malteThr mult sugar, derived by cheTcal transformations from the starch in grains. An ordinary ear of corn contains many Industrial possibilities even Including corn-cob pipes and vulcanised rubber mats for libraries and public buildings mflny of which have been developed Ohly during the last two decades. The subject forms an Important field or study in theoretical laboratories, as, ior example, in me aiarcn and sugar laboratories or the Mausachusetts Insti tute or Technology, where it was first made a matter of student investigation I THE TOURISTS WHO ARE RUINING ITALY SCORES B1NGER HERMANN FOR TIMBER LAND DEALS SCMPTER, May 3 To the Editor of The Journal: No honest cttlsen. be he a Republican, a Democrat, a populist, or a Socialist, can conscientiously vote for Blnger Hermann for Congress. As I am not a politician, nor speak ing for any political party or against it, I must say as a cltisea and. advise oth ers not to vote for Blnger Hermann. Blnger Hermann has lost to Oregon millions of dollars' worth of timber snd lands throiigu willful neglect of bis duties. I know what I am speaking about, be cause I have brought the timber frauds of Oregon before the Department of the Interior, and have forced the present in vestigation in these frauds by reluctant officers. I went through the Department of the Interior in Washington, D. C, pre sented evidence of the frauds, made In quiries and made the most abominable discoveries. I wrote to Blnger Hermann and received letters from him and there fore I am not ..talking through my hat. AH the satisfaction I could get from Blnger Hermann was that he referred me to silent partners of the frauds; to them he wanted me to hand my com plaints. It was a case of sending one from Herod to Pilate. I did not listen to his advice but went to Washington to Secretary Hitchcock and lodged my complaint in due fornv th effect of which everybody knows, and no one felt the shock mora, than Hermann. ' Had I listened to Hermann, timber stealing I could, not have been stopped. ground. Secretary Hitchcock cannot handle the special timber frauds any bet ter and cannot know any more about them in their details than the post master of Portland can handle person ally every letter or know their contents. Secretary Hitchcock was not slow to act when Special eases were brought to him personally. Blnger Hermann knew ex offlelo the inside of the cases tainted with frauds, but he never acted. He re ferred me to the receiver of the local land office, and Secretary Hitchcock re ferred me to special agents from Wash ington. Such wss the difference of ac tion between the Secretary and Hermann; not difference In form only but In sub stance; one was willfully blind, the other used searchlights. Blnger Hermann was and is persona non grata in Washington In general, and especially with the present administra tion. I was there and made It a point to test the wires and I can say that to elect Bmger Hermann to Congress Is a disgrace to Oregon, a surprise to Wash ington and an Insult to the present Re publican administration, besides a pub lid calamity. Blnger Heraiaim, if elected, is not and can not bo of any benefit to Oregon, even if he wanted to, and those who will vote for him are willfully Wind to tneir own. interests. It Is not my purpose to tell the pub lie for whom to vote. As a Catholic priest i nave no Interests in nartv noil tics. I have no political friends, am not 1 do not want to make tho publio be- looking for political favors, as they are Indiana the Tallest People. In a comparative . table of stature. arranged according to nationalities, the United States Indian stands higher than ny other race of the world, though the 'atagonian runs him , very cIobo. The white citizen, comes next. The United States negro ranks fourteenth In the scale, and of all the countries of the world considered the Portuguese 'are found to be the Shortest. It hasalW4yS been proverbial among anatomists that blonde nations are greater than their darker neighbors. This is- du to the geological positions of the blood races. They are characteristic of the North, and on account of the lower degree of temperature are induced to take more exercise,- which throws them more. In the open air. At the top of the list of countries arranged in order of -stature the first seven, after the United States white men. are Norway, Scotland. British America, Sweden, Ireland, Denmark and Holland, all Northern nations. Detroit Tribune. . A Timely Semlttance. Before a West Australian police court recently the "scion of an old English family" was charged wjth having in sufficient means of support. He was re manded, and while he was in the lockup $500 was cabled him from tha -old coun try. When the case was next called ac cused explained wearily that the money was a first installment of several thous und dollars which had Just been: left. him by an uncle.- He wag discharged. Syd ney Bulletin lieve these general, statements without other proofs than my say-so. Any one can go to any land office In Oregon, look into the recorda which are exact copies of what Blnger Hermann received and his decisions and behavior favoring ap parent frauds amounting to millions of dollar's worth, anu that for many years, gave Secretary Hitchcock just and press ing reasons to give nermann a rree pass to Oregon. This Is Information to intelligent and honest citizens and voters, and at the same time a challenge to Blnger Her mann that he willfully and knowingly lost to the State of Oregon within his term as land. Commissioner more than 10 Senators and. 10 Congressmen for 10 years can procure- for Oregon under the most favorable, eircumstancea. I challenge Blnger Hermann if he dares to deny it. P am not bluffing, but look ing for an issue. I am standing on solid ox no value to me, but . since I have looked into, the timber frauds, having seen asKed to Ho so by poor people to help to save their homesteads against timber . apeculatoVa, I have found out that Blnger Hermann was the main cause' of this enormous and Irreparable loss to tne state of Oregon, of untold miseries of thousands of poor families on honest homesteads, and of fabulous wealth into the wrongful pockets of soulless corporations. If elected, he goes to Washington and knows all-about the Inside business of everything as some claim it Evidently so, like the old experienced fox knows the inside or the chicken cood, Voters, ba Intelligent and conscien tious, and do not vote for the man who has o much hurt you and your child rent put aside your feelings and follow your sense when you vote. ''" " JOSEPH SCHBLL. h3 PAY LARGER SALARIES. Fraud and crookedness lit office are becoming so alarming that the govern ment miist take, decisive measures to check them. The general Wave of rascality has be- kcome so widespread that public funds are not seemingly safe anywhere. , In army and navy: circles, in the Postofflce Department, and especially in the United States Land Offices, the official crooked ness is startling. What Is the cause or this tendency? nearly ail traceable to the frantic ef fort to live iast. . What is the government going' to do to improve the situation? Good men command high salaries, ev erywhere, today. The corporations pay their, officials and attorneys such high salaries that they kee, a great army of the most able men in the country con stantly engaged. ' The freight and traffic managers are paid double the salary of state officials, and: the tendency in all private enter prises la to pay good wages and keep good men. The government Is dragging along in theold salary rut established when the government was organized. Progress Is sweeping by tne government official and Why will a man 'steal publio funds who before he became- a public servant would j he sees merit highly rewarded on every scorn to rob nis neignoorr wny win men risk, where they tiave everything to lose ami nothing' to gain by crime? It Is not necessary to search for a cause. a This is a fast age Society makes de mands upon officials which government salaries cannot meet. Social functions are imposed upon the official and he must meet them elaborately or oe ostracised. Ills family must keep up its appearance and. maintain Its- social position, at whatever cost. To do this the insignificant govern ment salary is stretched as far a Jt will go, In the effort to keep up the mad dening pace. . v f" When the salary IS gone, the tempting funds are drawn upon, perhaps not with criminal intent at first, but in hopes of meeting an emergency and "paying back." . The postofflce and army scandals are hand Congress- must awaken to the need and urgency of the age. Every listed salary in the government service should be Increased. - The surrender of social position or dignity should not be forced upon men who accept government positions. TRe salaries paid in this . service should be equal to the salary men of like abili ties receive hj private enterprises. It does not' stand that a low salary is a temptation to every man to steal, for there are , genuine men In every walk in life; tO whom no temptation would be fatal, but the government should pay better salaries in order that good men may e, attracted to such places perma nently. Pendleton East Oregonlan. Bxteftslve plans have been formulated to develop tho great Mapimi and Cerritos sulphur deposits in the, State of Durana-o, Mexico; ' '--"'- JBv Lilian Whitlrsr.i FLORENCE. Italy. April 14.' 1 90S.- Tho tide of foreign. visitors In Florence perhaps never rose so . high aa this soring. . All tha world Is here, and this medieval old city Is gay with flashing equipages and groups of algbtseera strolling through the streets, , loitering on the brilliant Tornabuonl. and along the Quaint old ship of tha Lungo I'Arno and on the Pont veccnio. , It is three years since t was laat In Florence, and I find It very much cha"hged. It haa lost much of tho aim pllclty of the artistlo Italian town, without gaining much In the way of latter-day progress. Prices have ad vanced in all directions,, and the Amer ican who fancies he can thriftily pursue both economy and beauty by establish ing himself in Florence, had better re gale himself with some definite facts before he burns his boats behind him. The cost of living is fully one-third mi, a thnn i ra in lane; cah fares are as high as In Londonf Which, of course, Is cheaper than in 'America, but there used to bo quite a margin of difference between Florence and London, while now there Is little, if any. All the little souvenirs and trinkets and mementos that one used to be able to pick up here for comparatively small sums are now marked up to exaggerated prices. It is the American tourist season, and the American tourist Is ruining Italy, so far as expenses go. But, putting aside this stratum of practical facts, the loveliness and charm hold one en-' tranced as, ever. It is always a danger- ou:i experiment to put one's illusions to the test. An illusion is something to be cherished snd guarded. It Is like that ross in the hand of the effigy of the Duchess of Richmond in a glass cose in Westminister Aooey, wnicn uas oeen framed, for a long perron; it Is a real rose. II ut If the ulr for an Instant readied it the rose would crumble to dust. An illusion is liable t.us to dissolve and disappear, if it be brought to a real test, and for the most part when one has Hm-iI through enchanted qays In some spot he would be wise never to go to It again, but keep his memory-pictures Inrtead. It is not. perhaps, that the si cues change, but that we change. Alan, our memories may retrace hln h circumstance of time and placer Season and scene come back again. And outward things unchanged remain. Ourselves we cannot reinstate. Ourselves we cannot re-create; Nor set our souls to the same key Of the un remembered harmony. In no other lurge city In Italy, how-, ever, Is the historic past so much In evidence as in Florence. Rome is be oomlnc modern, or. rather, , there Is a modern Home. The visitor In Florence goes the fa mallar rounds to the L'ffitl and the Pitts galleries to Piazza Vecchio. the convent of San Marco, the wonderful old church of Santa Croce, the Valhalla of Flor ence; Into the vast spaces pf the Du omo. and finds all his familiar treasures untouched by the passing years. Cos lmo left on Florence an Impress that the ages have never effaced. He created a new aristocracy; he con quered Siena In 1&5S, and with all his vices he did much for the progress of science and letters. The church and convent of San Marco are one of the most Interesting points of pilgrimage. It Was here (In 14811) that Savonarola began to expound the Apocalypse, and here that the paintings of Fra Angelico seem to make the unseen world a living reality. It was Cosimo I. who,' at his own expense, had the convent of San Marco -rebuilt ana he gave to it a great collection of valuable manuscripts, which are shown today to the visitor. The great attractions of the monas tery, however, are in the association of Savonarola, and as the world's treasure house of the works of Fra Angelico. One of the most ImpresBlve of these Is the "Annunciation." In which the Ma donna Is represented sitting, leaning forward eagerly, to receive the mes sage of the archangel, who advances enveloped in a white robe, and with out spread wings; outside a garden is seen, and the quiet light of evening Is per vaded by a sense of holy calm, t a The Inscription on this fresco runs, In translation, "When thou Shalt have come before the image of the spotless virgin, beware lest by negligence the ave be silent." The frescoes representing the Adoration of the Magi, and the Agony In the Oarden are wonderful in their haunting power, and theyshow, too, how far more ethereal in his con ceptions was Fra Angelico than other artists who have painted these subjects. His. was the vision. His command Of color is a very dream of loveliness. Florence is almost equally divided .by the River A mo and the old stone bridges that span the river add much to the picturesque appearance of the city. The eastern half is on a plain; the Western rises on hills, of which Bellosguardo and San Mlniato are the principal heights. Santa Croce, "the recognised shrine of Italian genius," is a vast and Impressive church. "On the pavement beneath our feet," writes one critic, "lie effigies of grave Florentine citizens, friars of note, prelates, scholars, warriors, in their robes of state or of daily life; in the Franciscan garb or In armor, with arms folded across their . breasts, or still clasping the books they loved and wrote, with their swords by their side or their hands folded in prayer--here the fig ures lie. In their long Sleep have they dreamed aught of the movement which has led Florence to raise tablets to the names of Cavour and Mazsini upon these walls? The tombs on the floor of the nave are mostly of the fourteenth and fifteenth -centuries; the second, from the central door Is that of Galileo del Gal ilei, like the other scholars lying with his hands folded across the book on his breast, the ancestor of the immortal as tronomer: 'This Galileo of the Galilei was, in his time, the head of philosophy and medicine; who also in the highest magistracy loved the republic marvel ously.' About the middle of the nave Is the tomb of Florence on an embassy from Henry V.. of England to Pope Martin V in' 1419.'. . ' " 'But those on the floor at the end of the right side and In the short right transept are the earliest and most in teresting to the lover of early Florentine history; notice, for instance, the knight ly tomb of a warrior of the great Ghib elllne house of the Ubaldlni, dated 1368, at the foot of the steps to the chapel at the end of the right transept; and there is a similar one. only less fine, on the opposite side, Larger and more preten tious tombs and monuments of more re rent date, to the heroes of Italian life and. thought, pass in series along the side walls of the whole church, between the altar3 of the south and north (right, and left) aisles. Over the central door, below the win dow whose stained glass is said to have been designed by Gliibertl, is Donatello's bronze statue of King Robert's canon ized brother, the Franciscan Bishop, St. Louis of Toulouse. ' This St. Louis, the patron saint of the Parte, Guelfa, had been ordered by the captains of the party for their niche at San Mlchele in Orto, from which he was irreverently banished Shortly after the-restoration of Cosimo dei Medici, when the : Parte Quelfo waa , J6roe4 to surrender its niche." ' There, is the sculptured tomb of Mich ael Angelo; the aiab in the floor undef which rest the ashes of Galileo; th great' monument to Dante, whose body was entombed In Ravenna, and on it ia a sonnet by Michael Angelo, which Job! Addington flymonda thus translated: From Heaven his spirit came, and, robetf '- in clay, . The realms of Justice and of mercy trod; . Then rose a living man to gasa on God, lhat he might make the truth as cleat as day. or that pure star that brightened with , mu , Tha undeserving nest where I waa born. Tha whole wide World would be a prise to scorn; None but his. Msker can due guerdon pay. . , , ., . . I speak of Dante, whose high work re-' Unknown, unhonored by that thankless brood Whn ntilv a 4 .... . a . . W. . , . 'i wiiiiy I lien wnu ere I but he! Born for like lingering, Against his exile coupled with his JZt Uage ttng tne world's besriar. The chapels In Santa Croce contain wonderful old frescoes. One (of tht martyrdom of St. Lawrence) is describee as the work of Bernardo Dadrii tha painter of the famous fresco in tha Ssnta Campo at Piss, called "The Laat Judgment and the Triumph of Death.? All these Imply a certain Dantesau selection." says one writer; "these sub jects nre among the example quoted tot purposes of meditation or admonition la the Divlna Commedla." The colored ter -r-ootta relief Is by Giovanni della Rob- bin. "The frescoes of the choir, by Angel Gaddl, are smong the finest works ol Giotto's school. They set forth the his tory of the wood offithe true- crnsa, which, according to the legend, was a shoot of the tree of Eden planted by Beth on Adam's grave; the Queen of Sheba prophetically adored It, when she came to visit Solomon during the 'jaiUd' Ing of the temple; cast Into the pftmf Bethesda, the Jews dragged It out make the cross for Christ; then, after if had been burled on Mount Calvarv foi three centuries, St. Helen discovered II by its power of raising the dead to Ufa, These subjects are set forth on rh right wall; on the left, we have the tak ing of the relic of the cross by tha Persians under Chosroes. and its recov ery by the Emperor-Heracllus. "In the scene where the Emperor bare footed carries the eross Into Jerusalem, the painter has introduced his own por trait, near one -of tire gates of the city, with a small beard and a red hood. Vas- arl thinks poorly of these frescoes; but the legend of the true cross Is of soma Importance to (he student of Dante, hose profound allegory of the church and empire In the earthly paradise, at the close of the purgatorlo, is to soma extent based upon it. The two gothic chapels to the right of the choir contain Giotto's frescoes both chapels were originally entirely painted by him rescued from the white wash under which they were dlseOvered. and, in part at least, most terribly restored. "The frescoes In the first, the Bardl Chapel, illustrating the life of St. Fran cis, have suffered most; all the peculiar Glottoesque charm of face has disap peared, and. Instead, the restorer haa given us monotonous countenances, al most deadly In their uniformity and ut ter lack of expression. Like all me dieval frescoes dealing with St. Fran cis, they should be read with the Florettl or with Dante's 'Paradlso.1 or with one of the lives of the Seraphic Father in our hands. "Opposite, left, the body Is surround of the world In the presence of his father and the Bishop of Asslssl: on the right the confirmation of the order by Pope Honorlus; on the left, the apparition of St Francis to St Antony of Padua; on the right, St. Francis and his followers before the Soldan In the ordeal of fire; and, below It, St Francis on his death bed, with the apparition to the sleeping Bishop to assure him of the truth of the stigmata. 'Opposite, left, the body is surround ed by weeping friars, the incredulous Judge touching the wound in the side. while the simplest of the friars, at the saint's head, sees his soul carried up to heaven In a little cloud. This conception of saintly death was, perhaps, origin ally derived from Dante's dream of Beat rice In the Vita Nuova: 'I seemed to look 'toward heaven, and to behold a mul titude of angels who were returning upward, having before them an exceed ingly white cloud; and these angels were singing together gloriouply.' It became traditional In early Italian painting. "On th-- window wall are four great Franciscans. St. Louis the King (whom Dante does not seem to have held I honor), a splendid figure, calm and not in one nana tne scepter and in the oiM e the Franciscan cord, hl royal robeTe- sprinkled with the golden lily bf France." Slttlgnano, a little suburb In the hills Some three miles from the Uuomo, Is be coming n very fashionable resort. It is here that Michael Angelo passed his childhood, and among the latter-day owners of villas in this romantic spot are d'Annunzio and Mme. Duse, whose villas are near together in a beautiful locality overlooking Florence. . Here the well-known woman sculptor of Florence, Miss Zara Malcolm Free borne, has also recently purchased a vil la which she has made into the most charming of places In which to loaf fd invite one's soul. With the grettt dome of the Duomo, and the towers of Santa Croce, of Palazzo Veccln, the dome of San Lorenzo, and other towers and tur- Lrels shining out of the faint blue mist tnui onen lies uae a iranspaieni. veil over Florence; and with the cflLtle crowned peaks of hills all aroundlr villa, the location might indeed well eljk chant the eye of an artist. Miss Fre-T borne has the entire first floor of a pal ace in the city for her suite of studios and her home which she' makes a center of brilliant social life but it is to her Villa, in Slttlgnano that she chiefly loves to flee for solitude-and the inspirations that only come in solitude. Miss" Helen Zimmerman of London, who has found a niche In which to live on the highest floor of the old Acclabla palace on the Lun I'Arno, gives courses of lectures -on the old Italian painters, which are a very attractive feature of tha city life. The daughter , of William Wetinore Story, the Marchesa Feruszi. Is a resi dent of Florence, and in her widow's weeds came Into the afternoon service in Sancta Trinlta a day or two since, where many American visitors had also gone to hear a famous French priest who is giving a series of Lenten discourses, and whose impassioned eloquence re minded one 'of Phillips ferooke, Mme. . PerUzzl Is, practically, -an Italian" lady. Italy is her native country, and she would feel herself an alien and stranger In Boston and Cambridge, the home of her father and the'-hbme of her grand father, Judge Btory. whose' name Is still among the traditions of the university city. -. ' laV