THE OREGON DAILY AN C. S. JACKSON Published every -.evening (except Sunday) at The Journal Building, Fifth OFFICIAL, PAPER OF THE CITY OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS - SALOONS. MANY of the saloon-keepers of Portland want the privilege of keeping open all night, A very large proportion of them, whether through official con nivance or otherwise, now keep open after tne prescriDea hour. The police say they cannot help themselves, there are so many saloons and so many ways of avoiding dis covery and the disposition to keep open is so general and profitable thai they have given up the strict enforcement of the law as a hopeless task. .This is a poor confession to make, but let us accept it. There are now, altogether too many saloons In this town ahd entirely too many which are disreputable in char acters It would be a good thing for the whole community if 4 large percentage of them could be wiped out. At the present moment no general plan has been outlined to ac complish this, but it roust come sooner or later and the saloon men themselves will ultimately aid In the work. But the council is now face to face with 'the proposition to license all-night saloons and the majority of them are said to favor, the; plan, J- There is talk of adding $200 ft year to the-existing license of 40VAt the -very outset this is ridiculous. If the plan is to be tried let the saloon men who want the all-night privilege pay for it. It would be much better in a moral sense it the license were raised all wound to J 1,000 a year.. That is not feasible now, for it is already fixed at $400. But if the all-night plan is to go into effect, place the license for such as claim the privilege at 11,000 a year,, that is; add $600 a year to the license as it stands for those-who wish to maintain all night saloons, vOn the other hand, hold all the 'others rlgidiy to the usual closing time or make them stand the consequences.;,. ''.Vv,V--y'Vi - v'jul In this way the line can be rigidly drawn. Those who pay for the privilege can enjoy it; those who don't can he Just as carefully excluded from Us. benefits. There nhnnlfl Vi nn mtnnlnor of this matter and there should be no talk of a beggarly addition Of $200 a year to the ex isting license fee for the privilege of keeping saloons open all night. Let them pay $1,000, no less, otherwise enforce the usual closing hour, for despite what is being: said to the contrary, ways can be found to enforce it if everyone is willing to do his whole duty and the right kind of a hint comes from headquarters. NOW LOWER THE INSURANCE RATES. T HE INSURANCE RATES In rageously high. It looks as though "all the busi ness would bear" had been saddled upon it and the property owners, being practically ho.n fnwul tn atanri If ThflrL Waft, .ftf to say on the side of the insurance companies, for the fa cilities for fighting fire were not up to the standard. Nevertheless the insurance companies have always de manded something more than their pound of flesh and this sentiment finds vigorous echo throughout the whole community. ' ' ' As an outcome of this sentiment the building of a fire boat was begun. It was understood that immediately this work was undertaken there would be cut in the Insurance rate. But there nouncemeni ana it is Deginning to pe reauzea mat ine cut, whatever it may be, will not be of the size the people of Portland were originally led to believe it would be. Notwithstanding this the people have the project in favor of better fire protection. A sentiment has been created in favor of a full paid fire department, brought up to a standard of high efficiency. While this would cost much money, the public, cheerfully faced the cost in the belief -that the return would come In the shape of lower insurance 'rates coupled with better pro tection to life and property. Everything now possible has been done and the people of Portland having shown their good faith it is no more than right that the insur ance companies, through their representative, should JOKH W. rOSTXB. Be Is How in Charge of Hew Diplomatlo negotiations. : The selection of Hon. John W, Foster as president of the American organisa tion for the purpose of promoting an ar bitration treaty with Great. Britain, Js only a deserved recognition of the work he-has done along that line already. . He was an advocate of . arbitration, even when this preventive of war was not so popular as it Is now, and it la only fair to him that he should be given promi nence in the present movement. . Mr. Foster is an American of the Americans, and he is perhaps the ablest diplomat the country has produced in a generation. Ha has been in diplomacy longer than any man on this continent, and there are few living men who have achieved so much in that field. His diplomatic career began in- 1873 when he was appointed minister to Mexico hyi President Grant In 1880 he was sent to Russia, and in 1883 to Madrid. On his return home President Cleveland sent him 'oti a special mission to Madrid, snd in 1891 he was commissioned to negoti ate treaties with Spain. Germany. San Domingo and other countries. In all these negotiations he was remarkably successful. "Keep your back to the light and speak the truth," was his motto. A straightforward man like Foster migni uc expected to De outwittea at every turn in oriental diplomacy, but such has not been the case. The Chi ' nese government thought so liighly of Ihis ability that It employed his as ad viser during the peace negotiations fol lowing the Chlno-Japanese war. He it was .who urged the conclusion of peace, and it was he who piloted the treaty through the Tsung-Ll-Yamen. The Chi nese government paid him $100,00(1 fr his services. A further offer of 860,000 ' a year was made to him to remain as adviser to the government, but he re fused It, saying that he wanted to go home and nsh with his grandsons. , It was his Influence with the Chinese government that secured for an Ameri can syndicate the franchise for a rail. J way from Hankow to Canton, a distance of 1,000 miles. His last foreign mission . was to negotiate with the Russians for the protection of, the wals. ; President MoKlnley offered htm the mlsslorl to TurkCy, with the promise that It would be raised to an embassy if he would ac cept, but he refused. Mr. Foster looks the benevolent coun. try ' gentleman rather than the dlplo i mat. , His white 'mustache; his aquiline nose and his Irreproachable black rpat give him an air of dignity that ' con trasts strangely with the gleam of hu mor In his eyes. He is affable with everybody, and can tell a good story, lth of which accomplishments have helped him along in his diplomatic ca reer. ;" ''" ' ' " ' - Private Touag to private Chaffee. The flrFt . howIder. straps with, the three stars of the lieutenant-general that General Chaffee will wear after the awnat confirms him la his new grade INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER , EUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. LICENSE FOR show their bands and' give some indication .that they are ready to meet these efforts at least half way. This is a perfectly reasonable request and it should meet with. an immediate and frank response. , ""' I T IS to be hoped will lose money if it It is . safe to say want to see anyone of their fireworks, public and the loss alternative. The life or limb of loss. .,." It is no proof of volvers- or toy pistols mite. It only proves Still survives in. the ing in fire and noise building a huge bonfire and expresses his delight in howls, while he dances around It. The Fourth of July, terror for the sick the center of noise, There are many show our patriotism risking the lives, of blood was shed to make us free is no reason why we should annually shed more to celebrate it. be far behind us in celebrating the fourth town for a flotilla with all -of the musician in town pressed into service, every child was allowed to exercise his lungs by patriotic songs to his or her heart's content. Such a program if desired and made to serve the purpose of giving the citizens of Portland an opportunity to look back upon one really enjoyable Fourth of July. , GEORGE G1 this city are out He has vegetated in his own erratic way in one of the hotels built in New York by D. O. Mills, the former San Francisco banker and philanthropist. - Train was an extraordinary character.- For many years he fl'leit the amazed and wondering eye of the 'great American public. His rise was rapid and from the bottom. In his earlier years he was a daring operator whose business extended from the United States to Eng land and from England to Australia and thence to this coast. He was gifted with farsight, a shrewd, natural and indomitable promoter, who outran the wildest flights ; defenseless, have AMraA.-nznethlnflr of most men cf his day and generation and was among the, weightiest pioneers In the building of railroads and announced a decided has rbeeh rio ah street railways., Bit with all his breadtn he lacked balance. Back of the big brain which teemed with bold conceptions, there was a screw loose somewhere, and as he grew in years it got continued to push looser and looser. - left an indelible impress cn the industrial and commercial history, of the country, Lacking- that much of what he did in his earlier tion of the eccentricities cf his later years and he is there fore best remembered now by those things of spectacular inconsequence which himself Citizen Train nnd furnished more food for the entertainment of the thoughtless and irreverent than mat ter' for thought for eager to undertake will be a pair presented to him by Lieu tenant-General Young, . who retired on Saturday. -1 , i With the straps General Young -ent this note: "Private Young, Company K, Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteer In fantry, presents his compliments to Pri vate Chaffee, Troop K. Sixth United States Cavalry, .and asks .him to accept this pair of lieutenant-general's shoul- derstraps." '....-; T&XBUTB TO XX B. 1ATIMI. From the New' "York .Tribune. The late Elizabeth Wormley Latimer was an indefatigable worker, and her death must te regretted by a wide cir cle of readers to whom her informal historical studies brought both instruc tion and entertainment In a series of interesting volumes, she treated of France, England, Russia and Turkey, Europe in Africa.- Italy -ami Bpain in the nineteenth century, and these books, while making no pretense to profound scholarship, were filled with the fruits of Intelligent investigation among the au thorities. Mrs. Iatlmer's last book, pub lished only a few months before her death, was a translation of the best parts or Gourgaud a Journal, which Lord Roe bery has described as "the one capital and superior record of life at St Helena." In this volume. "Talks of Napoleon at Bt. Helena with General Baron Gour gaud" (Chicago. A. C. McClurg & Co.7, tho translator not only gave a good ver slon of her original, but put together the extracts she had chosen with just the right editorial aptitude. It is a use ful book, and It is resdable from cover to cover.. Readableness, ' indeed, was ever one of Mrs. Latimer's merits, Bhe leaves a vacancy :ln the ranks of popular historians which will not .easily be filled. QTTAHXST OP THX SQUASH. From the New York World. "Yes." said a southwestern representa tive, "I know a good many square men, buttheYe ain't no squarer man than Jim Chambers. He's the best ef the lot. He's up and up, all right, on the level. Why, I sat in a poker game with htm once, and what do you think he did? "I needed a ten-spot to fill my hand. What did Jim Chambers do? What did he do? Why, he slipped me the ten spot, of .course. Talk about your square men:" " ' ;.' His Treat.' ' From -the Newark News. . As the mad mullah is reported to have acquired "a disposition to treat," we cheerfully retract a good msny of the severe things that we have been saying about him. Paniba and Bog Tails. ' From the New, York Commercial. Henry Clews says there wlH be good times in 1904,- especially in Wall street He says two panlo years in succession J are as Impossible as to cut a dog's tail twice la the sama place. JOURNAL JNO. P. carroCl and Yamhill streets, Portland, Oregon. PORTLAND ABOLISH FOURTH OF JULY TERRORS. that the ordinance prohibiting the sale of fireworks will jiot' be turned down because of the opposition on the part of a few merchants who carries. . , : , that none of the merchants interested maimed or killed through the agency but between the risk "to the general to themselves they, prefer the first " 1 s one child should outweigh the money . - patriotism to shoot oft firecrackers, re or explode a few pounds of dyna that a certain amount of savagery supposedly civilized bosom, delight just as the Indian takes pleasure In as it Is1 now celebrated, Is a day of who are so unfortunate as to be near and of nervous anxiety for parents. more civilized ways in which we can besides, making a hideous noise and ourselves and our children. Because One little town down South, where they are supposed to civilization, set an example of quietly by utilizing, the little river near the of boats appropriately decorated and might be utilized here, enlarged upon FRANCIS TRAIN DEAD. EORGE FRANCIS TRAIN at 75 is dead in New York. For a full dozen years or more he has not been a factor, In the world's great enterprises. . , Given the balance and he would have days ;s swallowed up in the recpllec he ild in those days when he signed those who drear: big dreams or were great enterprises. THH AlOBK COX.OJTT. From the Detroit Journal. '-" A tract of Colorado land has been bought by the Amlsh colonists covering 21,000 acres, and the price is said to have been 120 an acre. .When . the -Amlsh ect-flrst-settled In Illinois they bought, their lands for nominal amount, but since they have been tilling the soil the, value of their property has so increased that farming on u aoea not yieia a commensurate re turn ror tne value or the land. This is the reason they have decided to sell. The Amlsh sect do not believe in the American flag; they will not vote; they do not believe in laws beyond the few tney have made; and they will not per mit their children to go to public schools. They think education a bad thing ror children. The elders, how ever, instruct tne little ones how to count and drill them In letters until tney can read the Bible. No newspaper is permitted in the midst of them, and the Bible is the only book a true Amish can read. No mem ber may cry or laugh, for that is show ing. emotion, a thing forbidden. They do not wear buttons on their clothing and the men wear long whiskers with tne up shaven. "Bam" Moser, a prominent member of the Illinois colony, was seen to kiss his 9 -year-old" hoy. Such an act expresses emotion, and Moser was accused of sin ning by the elders. He was asked to get up and ask God to forgive him. Moser declared that he had not sinned. The order was then given by his father that no one should speak to him, eat with him or trade with him. This left Moser witnout menus, not even bis wife being permitted to speak to him. ' This finally resuuea in Moser losing his mind, and one day he went into the. house and killed the entire family. Later he was tried for murder, but owing to the clr cumstances surrounding the case he Was given io years In the penitentiary. M'CLBLtAHS T ATHIB AHO gOH. (Victor Smith in New York Press. "Isn't he the living Image of his father?" said an old soldier, looking ad mlringly upon the mayor.' "He is, for a fact," replied "a'political leader of the last generation; "not only io iook at, out mentany ana tempera mentally." ;y . John Covode, that sturdy pennsylva nian, Lincoln's right hand in congress in the conduct of the war (lie was on the Joint committee), used to say of "Little Mac," in his homely phraseology: "McClellan has been rained to so high a pinnacle that he Is afraid to move in any direction, for fear that he will fall and break his neck." ', Where the Shoe Pinches. From the New York Press. The meanest thing about paying a tail ors Dili is you always Know you are helping to pay somebody- else's who doesn'jt and is better dressed than you The Chinese Are Still Sore Eliza R. Scidmore's better in Chicago ' Tribune. - The looting of art - treasures of the forbidden city after the relief of the legations in 1900 has been exploited un tu all the world Is familiar with the story. Art .treasures from the imperial palace have found their' way .all over the world, but it remained for Russia to secure the greatest treasure of all. For Russia's share of the loot was 'the vast collection of the secret archives of China When Prince Tuan. burst in early on that summer morning 'and hustled the emperor and empress' dowager Into com mon carts with one dough cake apiece for their day's picnic towards Nankow. they had no time to save an article, All 'this luxurious place was occupied a few hours later by the Russian troops. The fans lay where the imperial pair had dropped' them; the pipes and cups of tea were barely cold,, and the last books and papers were untouched. ,'Vv-ir Visitors of those .first days turned the sheets of written characters idly, one of them, a sinologue, remarking that there lay the daily reports of the cits governor and the officers conducting the attacks on the legations. ,' "In a few. days the mine under the British legation will be finished, and then I will blow up all the foreign ers," reported one officer. . v "We have fired the mine under the Peltang'.and killed half the foreigners there today. The rest will te killed tomorrow," wrote another and so on for pages, sufficient proof that the siege was under imperial control, -by im perial, fweesr imperial -commands, ,When the sinologue had told several people of these incriminating documents, and went to take another look at them and make copious notes, they were gone,, and 4he courteous Russian officers could not be made to understand what he was looking for. They talked of and showed him everything else. . - "Pray, monsieur,- accept a souvenir of your-visit," and a Jade trifle was thrust upon him. "Perhaps ' you will choose some of these," and a drawer full of marvelous snuff bottles hypnotized him completely. Historic documents, papers of damning evidence, were but rags and waste scraps to him then, so human are the most learned ones. Besides these papers and the treas ures of the winter palace, the Russians secured , the archives of the tsung-li-vamen. or foreign office, and the ar chives and personal papers, effects, and treasures' in the summer palace. Small wonder that the Russians were ready to withdraw from Pekin when they had all these. There was nothing else worth staying for, and they could keep straight faces and pose -' as the disinterested friend, the benevolent well wisher of China, since the possession of all the state papers and private records, the whole inside history of the reign, gave them such weapons as no other power held. .' . : . Had the English troops taken the winter palace and found all this, his tory of the boxer business and the siege day by day, all of Chinese duplictty and statecraft wouldiave been printed in full in a parliamentary blue book. Had the Americans seized any or tne archives they . would have been given to the world as a congressional docu ment or printed as the , supplement of Bunda v newspapers, T Had the Japanese captured mat pal ace, instead of hastening to relieve the Eeltang, these intimate papers woum at least have been laid- before the ne gotiators of the peace protocol, as it is. these papers are a deadly, hidden weapon-wlth-which-RuBsia-cafc-jfeduce- Chlna to humility wnenever tne poor empire tries to hold its head up and speak bravely. The Russians yielded the winter pal aco as headauarters for the field mar shal. Von Waldersee, after tney nao packed up the incalculable treasures and sent them to the international museum at Dalny, which was not tnen, is not now. and Drobably never will be, in ex istence. The Uerman advance guara set to housecleanlng with Teutdnic vigor. They swept, dusted, scoured, nnlinhpil andvwashed down with forma line fluid and louder disinfectants, and from faf pavilions and overlooked courts assembled furniture and ornamenta for the empty rooms. -General Frey sent unerb thlna-s from the palaces of the other end of the lotus lake, and the field marshal's drawing-room, the empress dowager's once audience hall, was a mu seum of Chinese art The most beautl f ui wood carving in all the world screened, arched and partitioned the filar. The chairs and their yellow cushions should have been kept in glass C6 sesr and -the-porcelain,- bronze,- Jadu and cloisonne enamel pieces, the screens .wi emhroldered hangings were chef ri'tuMivres all. Then one night a careless kellner with his overheated plate twarming macnine reAnorA all to ashes. The field marshal removed to another court of the palace nearer to the island palace, where the emperor lived and amused himself after being relieved of his duties as ruler. These quarters were much simpler, and, warned by the one fire and their ap proaching departure, his officers packed ail iha solendid carvings and furni- i ture and ornaments to enu mm . Tho ennma or tne emperor a uiiauu prison palate were bare of everything when they were shown to me camp .ni nnd the commonest pine table replacing the former splendors. Only the rooms or tn,j)ai ""' ? of the field marshal's staff, re tained their carved arches and beams, screens and furniture, their cushions, cases, scroll pictures and clocks and the magnificent caoinei inmiu wnu u scapes and figures in kingfisher feathers, n..vSi ivorv and Jade, ' The Chinese of the court circle still harp on the stripping of their palaces "Three thousand pieces of Jade they took from one palace alone," said a lady-ln waiting. "The Japanese general was the only one who did not steal. Oh, her majesty knows it all! She knows what these Europeans ao wneu uitf . chance. Thief s!" Th aea oalace, at one end' of the mar ble bridge, ; La Rotonde, as the French PBiied it was occupied by Colonel Mar chand for nearly a year, during which tim the famous man of Fashoda enter tained largely and made its beauties known. t is a 'circular, terracfl or walled platform, high above, the bridge and lake, and. one aseenas oy a curving tunnel-like inclined plane to come sud denly UDon the wonderful view of the great lotus lake, bordered with palaces and temples. , The great Jade bowl, or rather the chlorproelanite bowl of Khanghsl, stand toward the front of the round terrace and back Of it Is a shrine where an eiab orate Buddha from Burmah sits wltl. crossed feet and a meaningless smile It carries one bark to Mandalay to meet this alabaster image in Its niche of mir ror mosaic, colored glass, tinsel and gild ing. -1'::; 1 ''" i'v V The Other buildings are small pavil ions and kiosks of fantastic deslgnlnr and eccentric roof tiling, each little fan ciful construction commanding a more picturesque panorama,1 One of them, al most overhanging the lotus lake, was as signed to Lieutenant Viand (Pierre Loti) Over the European Lootings fur a study during the week he spent with Colonel Marchand in Peking, and Its outlook Is often described In "I.es Derniere Jours de Peking." "If that did not inspire him, nothing could," said Colonel Marchand one' afternoon as hi tea-drlnklng guests lingered to watch the sunset over the great lake and the marble bridge, the tricolor floating splendidly from the old Peltang's tower the French headquarters. v,- The"eeapalaee is and has Jong been a favorite place with the empress "dowager, although regularly used as- a place of lying in state for the remains of the emperors of this dynasty before bejng removed to the distant sepulchers. War with Japan was really declared there in July, ..'1894.- when Mr., now Baron, Komura had a last audience with the emperor and delivered . the ulti matum. - It was not ..the place where an audi ence should have been -given, and it would have been declined by the Japan ese representative under other circum stances. It was imperative that he should see the emperor, for his legation was packed up, the archives destroyed or in American keeping, his effects and servants all waiting in. houseboats at Tungchow. The audience "Was granted, the die was cast, and Mr. Komura went from the sea palace direct to Tung chow. War had begun when ho reached Tien Tsln. There are beautiful temples around the north end of the lake, in one a colossal gilded' image of, Buddha Over 80 feet W height . In another compound a temple whose walls are all engraved green and yellow, tiles. . In another there had been a library " of sacred books, a fitter- of leaves and " yellow strips of prayer papers, all the looters had left, and an army carpenter was nailing up boxes packed with the carved blocks from which they had . been printed when I saw the place. A square temple,, the temple of One Thousand Buddhas, had, sheltered a miniature mountain some 20 feet high, a mass of fantastic rock work, terraces, caves, galleries and starcases, . the paradise of the western-! heavens, where the .600 lohans and many, other gilded images exquisitely modeled and decorated had once been posed in unique tableaux. It was a Klenlung construction, e, thing to have been let alone, too admirable to be marred by touching, or else trans ported entire and kept under glass in a European museum. But the - Italian marines who first fell upon it wrecked it in no time. Every gilded image was torn off, many broken, the .rack was smashed, the little bridges, balustrades and temples crushed, and the floor left covered with such debris and the shreds of the brocade banners , and hangings that once hid the walla "I will show you now the most beau tiful thing in Pekin," said my French mentor, as we were leaving the Peltang one afternoon. .. "Ah! l'ecran porcelain! (the porcelain screen)," said Mgr. Favier. "It is true. It is all that Go see." Through a gateway and over a rub bish heap we tolled, and when at the top of the debris and brick pile there was a dramatic "Stop! Look!" and my French friend was right. The porcelain screen, - which . is really pottery, or majolica, protects the entrance to a pa goda which was burned, by Chi new in cendiaries It was thought, during the winter of occupation, The screen is about 12 feet in height and extends for 80 feet, entirely covered witn glazed tncs. on eachfaceurhlci nlne'dragons in different colors writhe up from waves, all on a brilliant im perial yellow ground. It was intact, complete, unharmed, the most unique and splendid thing of its kind in Pekin, or al( China, surely, the brown, purple, green, blue and yellow glazes flashing In the sunlight as if a thing of yester day. The enthusiastic French engineer of ficers had determined to send this superb thing as a throphy to the Louvre; they had made drawings, had numbered each tile, and were about to begin taking it down when President Loubet's refusal to accept the cases of loot General Frey had sent him, his, packing them all back from Marseilles to Pekin with orders to replace them, discouraged the enterprise. The porcelain screen still guards the rubbish heap and the debris of the burned pagoda, and no one is the better for it , "Where are the bronze astronomical instruments you and the Germans took from the city wall?" asked a French officer. "Ours lie in straw packings on our legation -law a, - - he an wered-d ismal I y. for be had helped dismount and move them to that place of storage. "What will you do with them? ' What will become of them now that President Loubet refuses all loot?" "They must stay there, I suppose, mr til we shall have a less moral govern ment in France." That was nearly three years ago; and the bronze trophies are still in durance in the legation compound, their straw packing worn loose and blown by 'the winds a sad commentary on misplaced zeal; a tribute, however, to the govern ment or France. The Chinese royal family owes much to -the United States and Japan for their preservation of .the imperial treasures intact during the long months in which the foreign troops held the gates of the forbidden city. For the soldiers of the United States and Japan held the fourth gate the great storehouses of imperial property or every Kind, including bullion When the dowaaer and the . court re. turned from hiding the treasure was 'handed over Intact. When General Chaffee and the Amer ican forces were about to withdraw there was much ill feeling on the part of the Germans that the south gate of the pal ace was not turned over-to them instead of being retained by our legation guard. There was panic among the palace eu- nichs and attendants at the prospect "First the Japanese, then Americans and English we like, we trust," said one sad old euntch through the ihterpreteV. "The .other kinds of foreigners no good. German! verr bad: very bad those feather hat men (Italian Bersaglierl) ojjt at wau Bhou Blian." . No one who has not visited Alaska can conceive of the immensity of that great territory of the United States, which extends far Into the Arctio ocean, stretches its arm nearly to Siberia on the north and whose islands on the south extend for hundreds of miles intc the Pacific beyond ; the longitude of Hawaii, which Js a : week's voyage by steam from San Francisco. Alaska is six times as large as New England, or as large as all of the United States east of the Mississippi river; its coast line measures 28,000 miles; it has the second largest river in the world in the mighty Yukon, which is navigable for 2,600 miles, is 20 miles wide, 700 miles from Its mouth and discharges ' one-third more Water than the Mississippi. ; Provide for. the Pntnrs. , From' .the Milwaukee -Wisconsin. . Paris shduld - not remove the Klffcl tower. The projection may be needed as, a hitching post for airships. ; 'A Calm Survey of the Results of the Kishenev Trials From the Outlook. , The trial of 37 Russians accused of murder, or felonious assaults, in the antl-Jewish riots at Kishenev, in. April laHt. ended Monday, December 22, in the conviction of 25 of the prisoners and the acquittal of 12. Cyril Glrchlu and Ivati Morozuik, who had .been found guilty of murder, were sentenced, respectively, to seven and five years of penal servi tude, while the rest were condemned to Imprisonment at hard labor for terms ranging from six months to two years. Forty-eight civil suits brought by Jews to recover damages for injuries or losses, were dismissed. It appears from the "act of accusation" drawn up by Pro cureuh Goremykln, the prosecuting officer of the cvown, that on the lth of last April a thousand or more of the Russian inhabitants of Kishinev, roused to a feel ing of Indignation against the Jews by false information and Inflammatory edi torials in the local newspaper, Bessara bets, made a violent, and murderous at tack upon the whole Hebrew population of the city. This act the prooureur says, was unprovoked, j and was, due mainly to a feeling of class and religious hatred on the part of the orthodox Rus sians. In the - course of - the disorder, which lasted three days, the rioters killed 60 Jews and wounded more than 400; looted about 800 Jewish shops and factories; wrecked,, more or! less com pletely 1,608 ' Jewish houses, and de stroyed property that had an estimated value of from 1,600,000 to 2.000,000; ru bles. These are the latest official figures as. set forth in the indictment. How far has the Russian government made good tts-promiBO that" theauthorrof these outrages should be brought to Justice and severely punished? 'It appears also from the indictment - that ''the number of rioters arrested by the- police during and after the disorder was 818. Most of these persons, of course, were active par ticipants in the unprovoked attack. Only 87 of them were finally brought to trial; only 26 were convicted; and only two of those found guilty were punished with more than two years of penal servitude. The murderers Girchlu and Moroziuk,, who, the procureur says, chased a number of unarmed Jews across a yard into an outhouse and there beat them to death with Clubs, got off with five and seven years of imprisonment, notwithstanding the fact that section, 1,455 of the Rus sian penal code provides that "murder committed without previous deliberation and intention shall be punished with from 12 "o IS years of penal servitude, or, if there be . aggravating circum stances, -with s 15 to 20 years. The Kishenev icourt seems to, hold that the killing of a Jew by a Russian' is a much less heinous offense than' the killing of one Russian by another. If Glrchlu and Moroziuk had merely "circulated a writ ten or printed work Intended to bring the government of his Imperial majesty into disrespect'" or tiad "dared in a public place or assembly to speak disrespect fully of the holy orthodox church," they would have been punished much more severely than they are now to be pun ished for beating inoffensive human be beings to death with clubs.. Owing- to the fact that " "the" Kishenev trial took place behind closed doors, the public has. no means of -knowing the na ture of the evidence laid before the court for the procureur in support of his Mrs. Jack Gardner Pays $200,000 to Bar Public From Boston Dispatch in New York World. A new Mrs, "Jack" Gardner sensation, and one not of that lady's making, was launched today. It was discovered that the United States government had in formed Mrs. Gardner that she must cease her, pretentions that her Venetian palace In the Fens was a public museum, and allow the public reasonable entrance there, or pay ) 200,000 in duties upon the art treasures she had Imported duty free upon the plea that they were meant for public exhibition. , After thinking, the matter over, Mrs. Gardner gave a check for the 8200,000, and now the Isabel Stuart Gardner museum in the Fens, as the palace Is known according to the articles of in corporation, is a thing of the past The vivacious Mrs. "Jack" was com pelled to part with her money because she was too exclusive as to who should enter her famous show house at 82 and $3 a head. There are any number of nice people in Boston, Interested In art, who have never been able to even get within the outer walls of the grim mar ble house, the stones of which came from Florence, and were set up again Just as-they were in the four-centuries-old palace the Boston woman bought from an Impoverished Italian nobleman. Secretary Shaw ordered an investiga tion. He asked Mrs. Gardner, who had put up a bond to guarantee the payment of the duties if the law was not com plied with, for an explanation. . He re ferred to her the complaints which said that the "museum" was open for only two hours on only two days of each month; that no one could gain ad mission without a paid ticket, and that there was such favoritism in the dis position of the tickets that the "public museum" feature was a farce. . .1- i Mrs. Gardner contended that the dis play under the conditions which she had arranged, with the charge of a nominal fee to keep out the undesirable Characters,-came within the "public ex hibition" clause of the law. She said her bouse was not large enough to ad mit more than 160 people to the mu seum, and that i it would discommode ' WASTED A BSOHHT SHOXSIOH. From the Washington Post'''-' Representative "Sam" Powers, . of Massachusetts, tells of a Judge in that state Who always was eager to have the very latest decision of the higher courts. "An attorney wkonr t knew," said Mr Powers, "was Interested in an important case. A case Involving identical ques tions was pending in the United States supreme court, and as luck would have it a decision sustaining my friend's con tentions was handed down two days be fore his case came to trial. "The case came to trial and my friend made his argument. ' He cited auth orities and then he played his trump card: 'If the court please,' he said, 'I have here Something I am sure will in terest the court It Is a decision on this same question rendered the day be. fore yesterday by the supreme court of the United States,- which I , would re spectfully submit to your honor's, atten tion.' ' "The Judge looked at my friend se-1 verely -over his spectacles ana ciearea his throat. This is all very Interesting. Mr. Blank; all very Interesting,' he said 'but are you not able to cite some more recent decision for the guidance of the court V" WHEAT X.XSS - HATHH , ZH STOOPS, Commercial Agent Griffin in Limoges, France, reports a good wheat brop in that country, one of the largest Indeed, ever raised. . He also notes a tendency which Is very Interesting to American farmers! because it coincides with other observations on tHe continent. Pooole are' eating less bread than A they used to do. An Inquiry niade as to Indictment;1 but if the statements made , by him were sustained by the witnesses whom he named and summoned, the out come of the proceedings must be re-, garded as an extraordinary miscarriage of Justice. There is also a good deal of evidence to show that the attack on the Jews was not only preconcerted, but ac tually directed, by men whose social po sition was much above that of the Ignor ant muzhiks who were brought Ho jtrial. -The procureur expressly states, in bis i in dictment, that "the hostility of the lo cal Christian population to the Jews was largely due to the influence of the news paper .Bessarabets, which has a large circulation; which was regarded as an authority by the clerks,. penny;a-llners, and half-cultored people of Bessarabia: and which has. been publishing, day after day, a series of bitter anti-Jewish ar ticles. The latest fo these articles charged the Jews with the murder of a Christian boy. for ritual purposed, at Do bossar. There is no doubt that uch edi torials ' had, immense importance, and greatly intensified the hostility of the lo cal Christians toward the Jews." - It was clearly shown, moreover, in the course of the preliminary investigation, that the merchant Pranin, the notary Pisarsh evsky (who afterward committed sui cide), a government clerk named Scher ban, and several other intimate friends of Krushevan, the editor of the Bessara bets, planneti and preconcerted the at tack on 'the Jews, and had a number of meetings In. the Kronstadt and'. Moscow restaurants for. the purpose of discuss ing and arranging the -details. Some of them even participated, "as leaders.. in the Tlotlngr and their' names are sald'to" have been given to the procureur by wit nesses who knew them and who saw them leading bands of peasants to the attack.-Neither Krushevan nor any other Instigator of the riot was,lndlcted, and the closing of the doors of the court, by order of the minister of Justice, seems to give some color to the charge or tne free Russian press that the outbreak was permitted, if not encouraged, . by .'the higher authorities: that the Inactivity of the local governor Von Raaben was due to knowledge of that fact; and that Baron Levendal, an officer of the secret police, who came to' Kishinev Just before the riot, was an accessory before the fact, if not actually an agent provoca teur, f But, be that as it may. there seems to be no doubt whatever, that an end might have been put to the rioting on the very first day, if such had been the wish of the higher authorities, Pro cureur Goremykln states in his indictment- (paragraph 7) that the governor had at his disposal. In the Kishinev gar rison. 12 companies of infantry and eight squadrons of cavalry; and it would be absurd to suppose that this force (added to the police of the city, could not have dispersed the rioters in half an hour if it had -been brought into' action. .And yet the disorder was allowed to - con tinue for three days. - If the Russian government wishes to free Itself from all . suspicion of compllctty.1n . such .- out breaks as those of Kishenev and Gomel, it must indict and bring to trial the in stlaators of the riots as well as the tot- ers; throw open the doors of its courts ; and punish governors whowith 13 com-' panles of infantry and eight squadrons of cavalry at command, allow the riff raff of a city . to wreck houses and butcher Jews for three consecutive days. her to throw it ooen more than two Says a month. Secretary Shaw asked Attorney-Gen eral Knox whether Mrs. Gardner's dis play constituted a public exhibition. Mr. Knox Investigated the ease and re ported that the exhibition was not a. public one in the sense that the law contemplates. Mr. Shaw then gave Mrs. Gardner her choice between throwing her art works open to public inspection without any unreasonable restrictions, and paying the duty, She ehdse the lat ter course. . , : -J 1 Mrs. Gardner was Miss Isabel, Stuart, daughter of wealthy New York mer chant, a self-made man. - She married John Lowell Gardner, a member of one of Boston's oldest and most conserva tive families, and a man of large wealth. Mr, Gardner died in 1888, leav ing all his riches, without restriction, to his widow. Before the death of her husband and afterwards, Mrs, Gardner could 'be counted upon to give Boston a number of thrills each yean f- Her ideas were novel. She hired a box to, see Corbett spar. She stsrted the woman fad of inspecting Sandow's mus cles She. wears whit -stockings ber ceuse other fashionable women . wear black. She mopped up the steps of 'the high Episcopal church of which she Ik a communicant on bended knees as a penance during Lent She was painted by Zorn in a startling pose. She was painted by Sargent in a clinging cos tume, but 'the picture is only for her intimates. Hhe goes to the "pop" con certs and drinks beer in public' She once borrowed a lion from the Zoo and paraded him in public Opposed t? the idea that Mrs. Gardner may at once close her house to the pub Its is the fact that the museum corpora tion has announced that on eight days in the immediate future the museum is to be opened to the public These days are January 27, 28, 29 and 30, and Feb ruary , 2, 3 and 4., On these days the museum will be open from 12 o'clocic noon unt il 8 o'clock, and - 200 ticket holders will be admitted each day. The tickets for these days have already been sold. the consumption of bread in France has shown that It is diminishing annually in the cities and rural districts. - The amount of butcher's meat, poulr try and vegetables eaten is replacing in a measure the quantity of bread con sumeU. ! Instead of giving children when they return from school dry bread to eat. they have fruits (drleA or fresh), chocolate, : cheese, etc., ; auued to the piece of bread, which is consequently re duced in size. Then, adults often take a glass of wine or other beverage at 8 or 6 o'clock in place of , the ordinary bread. ""'', : i' '. ' BI7UCTI0V8 OX A BACK2X.0B. ' From the New York Press. . - Optimism is a way to have fun in your Imagination. T : j 'Where a woman weighs is in the fun niest .kind of places, A man-has his sons to be proud of; his daughters to love. " There are no entirely good men; no entirely bad women. : Girls don't suffer with cold feet' like men because there Isn't so much of them to freeze. A curl is an awful nice thing ' to tickle a man Just when he is trying to kiss a girl. - . . . , .When a man takes his wife out to dinner and insists on her having cham pagne it is a sign he is going to be out the next night and would like to dodge a scene about it - , - Greatest Problem or the Age. From the , Louisville Courier-Journal. The American Medical Magazine ad vises us not to work between ' meals. Plessant advice, but if we take it how are we to get the fneais? ,