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
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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? ,