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1 Edpuoirnal Pago -7 . 3. fT'"-T t as PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, . 1CC3. THE O REG -w '.'w-'.' - AN '" " M' a . MXM (Published very cvenlnf (except Sunday) and every 8unday morning at ;r ;,,,.,.. v : AN ERRONEOUS STATEMENT. H V: The Republican party of Oregon' t in a difficult ' - "position, It U its own fault. It hat been devoted ; ihese forty-yeara ttiMitchelH tnd to Mitchell poli- "! tic.--Bankruptcy ensues. Oregonian.; , .. , ; IT HE firtft of these statements; thonch not exceedingly important ' The heav t . ens. will not Jauit ttie Kepuoncan party 01 ufc imn should sustain an occasional and ' : But that if the Republican tarty of itrr ditaster th 'result would be wholly due to its "de 'votion to Mitchell and Mitchell politics these 40 years'! ! is at least a misleading statement , In fact, the Repub Iicaii party of Oregon has not been so "devoted these 40 Ver." nor halt that time. V Mr. Mitchell has been elected 'a United gtates senator four times in "these-40 years," j uince without any open opposition in his party, twice by ! .the aid of peraocratic;voteS' in the legtslattir,"fld'tlie ; fourth time by. a bare, majority after 12 o'clock, mid ;.!night, at which" time the legislature had resolved to ad- , : journ-ras, indeed., be was elected., same way by Democratic' a well as '- f So it does not appear . that "the Oregon , has been devoted these 40 jSince there are a good many newcomers and young men in Oregon who are not entirely familiar with the circunv .stances, it 1 well to correct this misstatement - : i The Oregoniao' has been a Republican organ, always, tat least during campaigns when thei was & good fat, 'campaign fund coming, its way, and claims to be a large . ;factor in and of thejarty, yet it gherallyhas been bit terly and at times " maliciously opposed to "Mitchell. '.-Finally, after his last election, , it became effusively friendly to him. presumably on the theory that he could 'name Jiis colleague in the senate in ' , 'to uie: his influence,, if he had any, in behalf of the ed itor of the OrcgonianNhe became' again the object of its .. .... janimosity and vituperation..?..-;. M-Xu-i .i-Ccc i-i;:: . t Senator Mitchell has had his faults, tones, and he has also had his merits. . - ..been, and are today far worse men in the senate than -Mitchell, But passing that by. what we are driving at -herein is that the Republican party of Oregon has not -(,bce"ri tied np to Mr. Mitchell these 40 years. 'It twice . .elected Mr. Dolph, who was factiooally, at times at least, , 'opposed to Mitchell, to- the senate; it elected Mr. Simon, -' who was Mr. Mitchell's leading, antagonist in the Repub lican party; it elected Malcolm A." Moody to congress (twice from this district, and certainly Mr. Moody was not a thick-and-thin Mitchell man; arid it elected JX T VlGeer governor, and he was never credited " or charged ";with being owned, or dominated by. Mitchell. ,, 1 ; I The Republican party of Oregon "is in a difficult po--'sit-ion" partly,' perhaps, because it has been dictated to' md domineered over and bossed and handicapped by Mr. -(Scott and his organ,' quite as much as because of its alleged ''devotion to Mitchell." ' , -y. ' -..-: . j It is noted with some interest that the Oregonian one way or another is seeking to eliminate from the race' "every availabte senatorial candidate -.as well as every 'man wh ia-aimply suspected of having ambitions in that .'direction.. But this is the of the years Mn ma rtof eliminate and the candidates may con tinue, in- the words f the old comic" opera," to bob tip , scenely just the same. ? s MOREIPEAS IN HE "IOWA IDEA" has, broken out , again, in concrete and somewhat detailed form. It will Jbe jremeroberedlhat GoverndrXumminsof Iowa had the temerity a few years ago fo suggest and. argue -for something in, the nature, of tariff reform ; that he 'was much criticised at well as commended therefor; that Senator Allison was supposed to have gently hinted to the lemerious governor that he should take a quiet walk .rearward and preserve discreet silenceV and that the governor thereupon .quieted down though he has since shown signs of breaking out again. , ' " ,f ' ' But Iowa Republicans have gone, farther now than thinking and speaking about tariff reform. They are evi dently not .entirely in accord with their distinguished rep rejjentative in congress, Hon. William R. Hepburn, who is the chairman of the committee on Interstate.'and for eign commerce in the national house of 'representatives, and who is reported to be opposed to the president's : railroad regulation policy, So a concourse of Iowa Re publicans have organized a league, and have put forth the following declaration as" its objects: . - "1. To destroy the political power of the machine Dy which corporations and their representatives perpetuate themselves in the control of the public offices of the ouniy, aisirici, state ana 'nation, k. i , .. -,- ,! j "2. To prevent by law the use of free railroad trans-' ,i portation to influence public officers and political dele- gates. . . V J: ' v.' -! I "i To banish - by la w from our state and national rxapitots "the - corrupt lobby maintained there by selfish I corporate interests., . v.:;.v; , v-;j' V- "4. To destroy the corporation -caucus and restore to the whole people the power of selecting their can didates for United States senatorl, congressmen and all v .state, district, county and township officers by means of j a state priihary based on the Australian ballot system, j f "5. ,T6 secure the honest and thorough revision of the . interstate commerce law as recommended by President ; tRoosevelt, soras to prevent unfair discrimination W rail t road rates and to provide a speedy hearing and adequate V remedy irt case" of abuses. : u'i't a - . .; v.;,.'. L'L1"$- T oPP and "endeavor to-reak down by law monopolies and harmful corporate combinations of every sort,- which serve to prevent the fair andequitabTe dis tribution of wealth , among those who are creating it by s A Patriarch Loose. ,'.ii .;' From the Forest OroveTCows. " y " Report comes that the good pooplo or , the ' p1(rtiborbool north of Banks have boen.th victims of ah Impontor who, , 4tclaro4 lilmMlf to bo a land buyer. Hie echome was to obtain front one to two er throoidays' board "and lodging from several ofvtho farmers of that lo cality by making; preunae to buy their ranch. . A man of about years of ; ago, wealing a patriarchal board and of ' roady, melHfluent apaoch, tho noweomot ,' had but llltlo. trouble. It seems, "to work" tho unsunplc'loe ranchers. The i individual would look tho farms ovei thoroughly, "stating that he would re turn anon'' to eloao the doaU . The aup i pooed'' land buyer has delayed his -oji-1 nmineod return, but tb farmers "are . nest te lm," 'r-.. -.,,- 1 Thav, Real Trouble. . From the Dallas New. . If the csar had not t routed, hla sub jects Ilk they wr a lot of policy, bolder all tbi trouble might not have rom about.. ,'. xvt - 1 1 w ti:-,.. : Got . .There. I jt. "' From the Philadelphia Ledger. . DdeU . refused to hold . hla haad. still en thA block, bat Hyde ax reached vital spot, neverUielesa, ..... ON DA I L Y INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ' " - ' ' PUBLISHED ;BYv JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. ' -. . cutou ' ' 1 1 streets, roniana, vrefoa. - honest industry, of all laws which at the expense welfare.' j Next thing we the Grand Old is apparently true, deserved defeat, Oregon should suf- T HE- BANK 532.3S for This is an increase once oeiore fm uie Republican votes. ;- Republican part of years to MitchfclL" 1903. ; Not choosing some most glaring There always have in the matter of makes a difference - It was-recently when its climina Still it would IOWA i--f : . "HARD according there are The" land Is fat would a passenger, of wheat welcome Very likely ... there morning even in thereby- . . Net result of a -y:yA Forecast That Failed. , ' , .' -From tlr Kansas City Times. . Of course, It la-of no particular Im portance, ut last ' Saturday Chairman Dick of,th Ohio Republican eommlttee Issued this forecast:.. 'Baad upon 'th final poll reportod by -the county -chair-men from counties of the state, (.very doubtful Vote having been counted gainst 'Us and every prediction mad upon the most conservative linos, a net Republican, plurality of I3.SI1' la ahown tot' Governor Herrlck. In my experi ence, covering many -otat campaigns, actual Republican pluralities have ex ceeded rather than fallen below results indicated by the poll, and I have every confidence that thia will be tne case et the election next Tuesday." How those IS county chairman vmust have, been joshing poor Mr. Dick!",. . " ; ' No Use. - From the Washington Post. "Amenlrans do not want cheap In surancp says Mr. Paul Morton. Even If they o, they don't get it ' -, i 1 1 ..mm I,. i. ; ; .. Advice in a Nutshell - - T FtoiLltiStaBOrork SCorl Advice to a secretary of the treasury besought to ."help Wall street M Don't :r : a ' ' J O'URNAL . r- The Journal puUding, Fifth and Yamhill v. - . . ... and to support the repeal or reformation foster the interest of such monopolies of independent industry and the public ;". ' v-;. f i.-i kndw, towa will be breaking loose from Party, and by the time tve is 100 years old will elect somebody else than the celebrated egg' walker, Senator Allison, to the senatel. - ' , PORTLAND, SEATTLE AND LOS ANGELES. CLEARANCES of Portland last week summed up $4,580,122.16, as . against $3,657,- the corresponding T week last year. of oyer 25 per cent, and is a fair in-i dication ot .Portland s growth during that time, ihe fair is over; tourists and visitors are comparatively few at this time of year; there was nothing last week to cause any unusual increase-of bank clearances-; yet -we perceive rt -increase over the corresponding week last year -of $922,589.81, or mdre than 25 per cent , , c U ; Seattle lastiweek made a larger showing, and the Post Intelligencer, of that city boasts about it and says that the only city excelling it is Los Angeles, Commenting on the Los Angeles and Seattle' figures the Post: In telligencer says: ' ';y - v, ;' ''' .. "That Los Angeles should have larger bank clearmgs and a greater percentage of increase is due to the fact that Los Angeles is the one and only city on the con tinent which, is growing faster than is Seattle. All other statistical information shows the same result The building statistics, of Los Angeles show that .Seattle has to take second place to it Postal figures make a sim ilar showing. Remarkable as is the grqwth of Seattle, Los Angeles, from the superior advertising whic it has received, continues to show great aggregate as well as greater proportionate - gains than does Seattle. ' Save for the sentimental question of relative size,1 there is not the slightest rivalry between Los : Angeles and Seattle.! .The commercial, activities of the one city . do not touch in the slightest degree on the activities of the other." What' gain either has is not in the slightest dgree at the expense of the other." . ''-,',' .. is- .''. Jhis is a very ludicrous view to take. As an. example the business world long has known Seattle's peculianties clearances. In the Portland clearing nouse balances are all paid each day in actual cash. In Seattle they are settled by checks which are. the next day sent in to the clearing house and added to the amount Of the alleged clearances. This is done day after day and between the apparent and actual clear ancca.m amounts varying from $100,000 to, $300,000. It is suspected, that the manipulation goes even further but enough is here stated to, make clear why Seattle's clear ances are to this degree fake and false pretenses. shdwn that by actual count Portland had 5,000 more residences tharr SeattlerharitliarTnffre and larger business houses every one has always known. There is no city em the coast which is now growing with the rabidity of Portland and there is no city oa the coast which will 'equal it 'in population, and wealth 10. years hence except -possibly San Francisco. Meantime all other rivals will be' among the "also rans." . t seem that if none but aaints were ad mitted to, the -churches, as the United Brethren pastor Seemrto hold", the Christian" church might fail in irt mission. .-m...., . .- m--f , . j' ''; - WINTER" PREDICTIONS. r REDICTIONS of a hard winter are numerous, as, to . current "up-country information. "signs. .Bears and deer are down out of the high mountains earlier and more numerously than usual; the hair and fur of various animals are thicker than common and then, when we corrie to think of it, a hard winter, or what we call so here, is about due in Oregon. fj -: -:' ' Most people are well prepared for it, if it should come. They will not have to live on .wheat straight, and .per haps little' of that, as 'they did 'm thaUnoted, terrible winter of , 61-2, since which the like has not been seen. now, with grain and roots and fruit and animals of which men make food. The railroads have snowplows, and probably never again, even though the snow should fall and drift deep along the tracks. train be imbedded in snowbanks for. Zl days, as happened along the Columbia river 22 years agoi nor for that many hours. .The people are well pre pared for a hard Winter if it should come. ' ' It will do good, and be good, too. The more snow In all the npper Country the better. The millions of acres a thick, white blanket; the frosted wetness maker summer moisture for myriads of fructile roots. ." . v.-;-' , , The miners, too, welcome abundance . of rains and snows.: these do not prevent them from delving and digging cheerily in tunnels, following' threads of gold through granite wallsr where all is warm and dry, and they can manage to keep a path open to the nearby cabin door; and then next summer, with 50 feet or so of snow in the mountains, thefe will, be i water with "which to .carry the paydirt of placers through-the flumes, and yield its glittering and glorious particles to the hands of the man Of thought and toil i . ; , will be no hard winter" after all. Somebody is always making weather predictions, most of them wrong; but if, a hard winter comes, Oreiron cair stand it will indeed rather welcome it It snowed this For4landr But nobody ' .was hurt .:' s- r--., silly agitation: The city will pay $6,000 more for its water pipes than iwwould have done had the original contract been allowed to remain. A Southern Oregon Pioneer. ; '.'."' From the Grants Pass Courlnr. '-'' ' Andrew Rehkopf Is. a striking "ex ample of th youthful' vigor that many or th Oregon pioneer possess. , He .Is It years old yet aa active aa the average man Of 40 or SO. Mr. Rehkopf resides on his fins farm en .th Applegat be tween Provolt and' Applegate postofnee, and Thursday desiring ' to come to Grante Pss to attend to some business matters. aad his horses all being -needed In the' farm work, he started to walk to town. He had made 14 of the 17 miles from, his .place' to Grants Pass be fore 18 o'clock, when a neighbor with a team caught up with htm and gave htm a ride on. to town. He arrived here aa fresh and vlgoroua as thoiaxh out only for short mornlng .Jaunt. Friday morning - Mr. ..Rehkopf started afoot on his trip bom, expecting to make the 17 miles 'In live hours. ' Mr. Rehkopf came to Memphis, Ten. nessee, when be waa a young man, from Germany and In 'list he went to Cali fornia, coming to Applegate valley In 18. where he has since lived. - tfj. A. Device of the Boss. From the Minneapolis Journal. Ballot .reform In Near. Irk demands the abntltion . of the sstralght- ticket The atratght ticket. 1 the Xloat refuge et the boss, ' r SMALL CHANGE Newbcrc Orophlc: Itmrat la right In hla runt for municipal ownership. Tarn many has owned tha mayor' offle long enough. It la tlm the .people should have a say about it.. - Nevr too early or too late to bo thankful to be alive tn Oregon. IjOo like Johns, Will all the Johns respond T Probably some more rain. 'JL This mysterious comment appears tn our esteemed and versatile Republican contemporary, the Moro Observer. No key: "We are reminded by the action of R. "Alexander of what liberal support a man will expect, to get himself Into office, but when In doubt ' and It be comes necessary to help the party a bit, watch the slump. , Republicana for revenue ar ready to let her go, then. Two days till tl-cent turkey,; j "TV .- ' e - ' : .)'' ' - : November Isn't "a bad old girt- ' It'a rather bard for Uncle Chaunce to . be funny these days. Shouldn't we send him a turkey with dressing? , How big. and how heavy, la the new King Charles' crownf ' Now If President Roosevelt " would pay more attention to revising the tariff,, than to reforming football, he might be . more interesting and more useful. . ; " The human mind ataggera In trying to suppose Elkina and Foraker getting up a fair railroad bill. , Good time to do your. Christmas shop- V .. , '. - '!- Nice time . to .buy a summer suit , Springfield, .the most wide awake. rapid growing and beat business town in the ' valley, waa missed entirely by the Portland business men. Albany Democrat .Well, say, they couldn't ge everywhere on earth in three dayal OREGON SIDELIGHTS, Toledo stocks. ' merchants putting In big Lincoln county Is. wide awake-about good roads. ' - i y, :r -- L w:-.1-' Oood timee" at dime sociala at Falls City. , - ' -. , . .......a. ... , ... -, - . . r: Hurrah for good roada! Over .-IIS.OO ' worth of. propeety. changed hands In Ontario, In a week. '" ,.?-, .. e. . : , . :',-, , -,- Many railroad surveyors In various parts of eastern Oregon. A '"Balance of Power" league nas been organised In Condon object, good gov- The flax Industry must b, mad t win. 1 " , ' " ' ,. V " ,- :.: ':, ' ... Forest Grove Times:, Ben David and Hirum If"'s f"-r r Ttimttihsr i left Saturday for a trip to California. The boys go to see the country and will come back when, they gat homesick, or want to see tnerr oest gins. ' . .. .... .. . ':;-: A 8everat . good-oised walnut orchards sre going to be put out soon In Wash ington county. , ... , . ,. .- i ' Roaeburg feela aura of a railroad to Cooa Bay. : . , : Local commercial clubs are doing good. work In many Oregon towns. Hillaboro : Argus: Th recent heavy. rains had ho perceptible effect, on-the, roada. where the split-log or drag prin ciple had been In use. This shows for Itself. Get a spilt - log; drag the -road in front of your farm, get yaur neighbor to do likewise, and we will soon have better roada, aummer and winter. - Mutton scarce In Waahlngton county. - ! e The aasessment of Forest Grave pre cinct has been increased TO per cent, .- Douglas county prunegrowers did well this year. . . . s ... . . ; . . i ... ' Insurance swindler reported In Baker county. Bend him to New York City. i , -v. The new cold storage plant being e recced at Altoona, will have a capacity of It carloads of sharp frosen fish and 1.10S casks of pickled salmon. - ,''. .'. a , e ' ... ,- Newberg will be In It when the elec- trio lines are built t; ' Fourteen women with paint brush and bucket In band recently lined up In front of the parsonage fence at Gresham and In four hours tney put on a new coat of white paint, doing the work In a very satisfactory manner. , The ladles were members of the aid society and there waa, no money In the treasury to 'hire the work done with., We expect to hear of the men of Gresham getting pretty mad soon and also going to work. . Local, correspondence of Rogue River Courier:--The -doctor was called last Wednesday for Mr. Boren. who had been suffering from an operation on hla hearing. . The lorge air compressor for the mine arrived- last Friday. 'It weighed over 15,09 pounds and was several days on the road -between Grants, Pass and here. Lincoln county people are awake os the good roads proposition. . - - Lincoln county fruit 1 alao fine. NW school- started at Powell Buttes, Crook county, with it pupila. . . - - ' - ' East '' Oregonian: . Douglas Belts la having the time of hla life nursing a, quartet of boils' which have temporarily located on the back ' of hla neck. - lie bows meekly , In submission to the In evitable. . ...j..,: . : . e - : Tillamook Headlight: Amos Vaughn lost a valuable horse on Sunday, having In some manner fallen on a pitchfork, which ran Into lt- ....... - ...w,;r-. ; .... e - r -,- Klamath Falls ateadily growing! . Bandon Recorder: . Some of theae fine days capital will ' discover' the oppor tunity Bandon . offers for a tannery and pulp jnlU. j - ', STRANGEST OF ALL V FUNERALS; jf - -. I X i'.'-i ljl' i'u"-n- -i V. i,ii. , From the Philadelphia Press. .' One of the strangeat and moat remark able funerals ever witnessed took place at the Midvele Steel works, In Nice town, yesterday... .. With two prlesta of ,the , Catholio church intoning the solemn rites of the dead, surrounded by mourners and hun dreds of reiiow workmen and friends, the 4o-ton Ingot of steel, enclosing the bodies of John Forkhr and Joseph Gasda, who were deluged with the metal while It as In a molten state a week ago last Friday, was burled. , - , ' , For features that . are weird 'and un canny it has no parallel. . ' , , Regarded with the tenderness one be stows upon the forms of dead loved ones, the two aistereof Gaada. Aanea and Katie, bent over the mass of steel. stretched out their hands to Cares It end bathed It In their tears. The sis ters, who cannot apeak the English lan guage, and who were entirely dependent upon their brother, had to be led- away before the ceremony .waa over. . . . The funeral services were performed by Rev. William A.. McLoughlin Of St Stephen s Catholio church, Broad and Butler streets. He waa aaslated by Rev. John J. Toomey'of the Church ot the Holy .Cross, Mount Airy.'-, -, "V ? Standing near the priests were Charles Harrah. president of the Midvale Steel company; Ales Petre, general superin tendent of the works, and other officials of the company. More .than a hundred workmen, many of them Austrlans and friends of the dead men, crowded near while Father MoLourhlln read the serv ices of the dead. While the ceremony waa tiV progress ' all the flags o the great plant hung - at half-mast i Early In the morning peraone began to arrive at the gatea, but all were turned away. .. There were two exceptions, the sllter. of Gasda. No one but employe of the company were allowed to enter the yard and attend the funeral, which waa held at U:X o'clock. - On. Friday at noon the great mass ot steel waa lifted from the pit In which the -two unfortunate fnen had been en gulfed and. placed on a traveling crane waa carried, to tha spot in the rear ot the yard beside the-machine shop, where it was .o be consigned to the earth. A grave was dug to -a depth of IS feet In which the , mass "of metal was i then placed. Over It waa ' built a platform upon which the , priests! conducted . tne services, .'(.:. The great Ingot coffin weighs SO.OOI pounds, and waa worth C.000. . It is oval in shape, being IS feet in length. feet In breadth and 8 feet thick. . , Lona- before the priests arrived at the worka yesterday many men had gath ered at the spot where the mass of steel rested In the earth. Dressed in grimy laboring elothee they lounged about. ut few of them bad anything to aay. .Th terrible death of the two men was rresn In their minds, and the strange casket In which they, were consigned waa there before them. -When the two sisters ar. rived the men respectfully made way for them. Both were in tears. ; Kneellns- bv an ooenlng In the plat form over the grave the girls flung their arms into the pit smoothing me coie steel with their handa while they wept and d raved. ; , Father Mctougblin and Father Toomey arrived with the official of the company, -who bad been waiting for the prlesta , near the ' gate of the yard. The men , drew close, craning their necks to get a last glance at the TngotTneynstelfta' 'DreauilessTy wnns Father McLoughlin took the ritual book and began the services. They sank on their knees in a body and prayed with the priest, for the repoee of th souls or tn aeaa men. When the services were -over the me filled the crave with earth. "It Is the most singular funeral I have ever heard of."-- said rather Toomey. "I do not believe anything like It ever occurred In the world." - , ' The case of the two men Is the first on record In this city where an inquest has been Mid without a corpse or offi cial Identification of the dead. All the evidence that could -be. produced before Coroner Ducan at the inquest was th mas of eteel. Witnesses-were called to testify that-the men were In the. pit when the molten -frtfrl fell upon them; so. declaring he had a "full view of the body." Coroner Duganr conducted , the naual inouest. ' - At the time of their death. Forkln, who lived at W10 Stella street and Gas da. who lived at KM? Newcomb street. were In a pit under the cupola cleaning sway the slag which com rrom monen metal when.lt I ready to ee run inte Ingots., Preparationa were being mad to run but some of the metal wnen plug in the bottom of the cupola gave way and With a hiss the seething flood nf molten metal pourea upon me men Before : the other workmen could plug the hole 80.000 pounds had flowed ovei them. They probably never knew what happened, for they had not time to giv a -atngle cry ot alarm. ; Madame Melba's Kisses. In a raoy account of a tour of Mme. Melba In the Pall Mall Gasette. Landon Ronald, the pianist,, relates an amusing atory of' the, diva and Von Vecsey, ,the boy violinist "wttie rani von vecsey Is among . the audience, and In the In terval rushes round to kiss ' his Hebe Tante Melba.' . More Jokes, more, fun, heaps of chaff. Trans cannot play the violin: all he can do" la to eat choco lates!' . V-.. '."- -i ' ' "Melba hands a violin to young Frans, and auggests that he ahould at once dis prove such a statement. The challenge is accepted, and -without a moment's hesitation he leans against the pianoforte and facing hie small audience He plays an unaccompanied prelude of Bach. Im mediately there fan over ue all a feel ing of awe and wonderment arid we listen, spellbound, to the 'remarkable phrasing, the beautiful tone, and the astounding execution. . It Is some time before we regain our usual spirits. Melba being affected, perhaps, more than any of us. Frans gets ktased by everybody." General Porter, at tha Lotus Club. - , - ..... B, . ' From the New Tork Sun. . To the' tune of three oheers.. General Porter rose and ' shot off a aeries, of epigrams and stories. Herd ar some ot them, omitting the padding between: "Speaking of Paul Pones: The other day I waa walking down Sixth- avenue looking for a place. to- register. A po liceman recognised me and showed me into an undertaking establishment "Tour president baa - upbraided me with my youth. ..He seems dissatisfied with my -nut brown locks. He doesn't take into account my mustache, which has done its full duty In staying white. That's th . Inverse order because my mustache. la 20 years younger than my hair. Can It be that I'vs exercised my mouth more than my- bralnr The praise of your president reminds me of the Britisher who- visited In sn American ous and went about in. the mdrnlng searching for, a bath, At last the hostess heasd him splashing' around tn the water tank In the attic. She called ub: ' ' " -Good ' craclous, thafe the tank wherp we keep our drinking watery - "He answered: " . .' " " Oh, don't mmd ,me. , J m not us- ina- man.' ' . "When J went te Paria I told th members of this club that any of them who got within a mile of the embassy must come to see me. Tne jaicnsiring, I told them, waa out: there was el wava a snare seat In my pew at church, The latchatrlng was often pulled; th aeat In church remained vacant. On of my friend who visited me- stopped hla aubacrlDtion to tne cnnsiian U" server. He said he didn't want any.ob- servers while he was in rans.. "There waa a British matron alttin Ih the theatre you know the type bat of vintage of 1S3S half plastered In front like one of Dickens' character The play waa ."Cleopatra." There cam the nlana where the messenger comes to announce the destruction ef Antony's army and Cleopatra amass nun The curtain fell, to area appiause. n British , matron aald: " "Ow, different from the "ome life of our own deal queen!'", , -;'J.. . - ''.-'..- EMPIRE QVEN AWAY ? From the New Tork Herald., ?More than , ene thirds, of European Ruaaia proper Is ebsolutely the property et the emperor and the imperial family. It covers, an area or J.n square miles, or 14. per cent of the total area Of the country. In addition, the royal family owns .t per eent of the area, of Poland, or 3.S25 aquare miles. The peasants, according to the latest statistical information, own but a trifle more land -than the emperor and tola kindred. 18.1 per eent of the total area of the country, or T,0f aquare miles. By towns and private owner zi.z per cent la owned, while S.7 , is .urrru ror culture." - . A ' "v On the land which is credited to them the peasants owe the elate more than a billion dollara Il.m.8l4.m having paid a trifle more than one quarter of the purchase price sfVe the property was sold to them. ; ',-".- Previous to the emanclpatl an tct of February U. 1st!. : all peasants, were serfs of the state, of the crown 6r of the nobility.- In Ittl the state bought of the serf owners) the lends upon which the serfs were . settled, later liberating the serfs and selling to them the land In consideration of 41 annual payments. each amounting to about 110.090.000.- In nearly alt instances tne serfs, aoqulred th land Independently of any deatre on their nart to do so, the prices having been determined either by special com missions, in which they took no part or elae by the government Itself. , Of the grand dukea only a few bave taken part tn the administration of th government Grand Duke Alexis waa chief of the navy, and Grand Duke Alex ander the son of the, emperor's grand, uncle, general director., with the prerog atives of a minister .of commercial navl gatlon aad Dorts. --. ; i ; n The administration of the empire has been Intrusted to four great boards. known aa councils, possessing separate functions. ' The council of state conalsta of a president named annually by the emperor, and of an unlimited number of members appointed by him. It Is divided Into four departments legislation, civil. and Church administration, state e econ omy and Industry and acience and com mere. The chief function of the coun cil of state la that of examining Into the projects et laws which ar brought be fore it by the ministers, and of discuss. Inf ""g- " --p to be made during the year, but It haa no power even to propose change in the lawe of the realm. , t - . - . The second great council haa been the ruling senate. ; It Is the high court of justice for -the empire. The senators are chiefly persons ef high raAk. , Jt ex aminee into the state ef the general ad ministration of . the empire, and ; has power to make remonstrances to the em peror. ,V v.".-,., . The third . department Is the 'holy synod, whkh ha jurisdiction ovsr th religious" affair of the empire, and th fourth department la the committee of ministers, of whom there are 14. . Roosevelt Lilted Marl Who beat Him. Guthrie, , Oklahoma, Dispatch la ' New ( Tork World. . .::' Soon' after President Roosevelt entered the White House captain Frank Frants, tprmerly ot the Rough Riders, land a few days .ado appointed to be gOverner of Oklahoma after January 1. called upon him. During their conversation Frants remarked that he bad boxed some,, at Harvard. Then nothing would do- but he must put .on the. gloves with the president - . "Bully!; exclaimed Mr. , Roosevelt, as fie got up rubbing his JaW" after the, first punch had put him off his feet ."But you can't do it again." .. -.'.. v t They sparred for a few seconds, then biff I 'And the president of the United States lay on his back on the gymnasium floor. A right hook to the jaw had done the work. , . s .. '--.'. ' ' Mr. Roosevelt waa ' not out but h waa, not so eager to get, up.and.;'mlx It again. , - -) ... : ' Tha boxing , bout , was ended " and Frants'politlcal career begun. He wa first made postmaster at Knld. , Then he declined. the Oeage Indian agency be cause the salary of 11,800 waa not enough. He met Secretary Hitchcock In St Louis by request . - - .' "I didn't Indorse you for the position, admitted Secretary Hitchcock, "but the president wants you. , He says there has been considerable, . graft ' at the Osage agency, and be wants you to clean It up. ; - " - j : - ' "All 'right" answered Captain Frants. "If "the president asked ma to go t) South 'Africa and there wasn't a cent It It rd take the trip. I ll take the place.", , -. ' - rrants was installed as agent ror the Osage .Indian and teVe .has been no mm oi gran since, now mis same Harvard rough rider - boxer haa , been named governor of Oklahoma. There are four Frants brothers. Or- HI. who is also a White House caller, la a wrestler. He has never thrown the president and baa no - office.- He ' was known aa "Home-Run".' Frants at Har vard and he will pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals next year.- John and Walter are amateur athletes of note. . , Josel Hofmann Marries. . " -v From the New Tor Sun. ' -A private letter received In this city yesterday told of the marriage of Joawf Hofmann, the pianist 'to. Mrs. 'Marii Eustls two weeks "ago at' Alx-lea-Ba'Ins. Their engagement wea announced - last summer, but they were not to be mar ried until next spring, according to their orl final plan.- ... Mra. Eustle waa the wife ot her eousln,' Jeorge Eustls. from whom she .wits divorced three years ago. She le a sister of Miss Lydia Eustls-and et tHerer-of the late Senator Eustls. - Josef Hofmann made her acquaintance laet sflmmsr while visiting, at Hempstead. Their en gagement wag announced soon after ward. rm ...--!( ,j.r... ; " ' ." ' r- i .. ! - WHO, WOULD NOT . LOOK AT JUPITER? ' ' By Garrett P. Servlsa. ' t , In these crisp evenings when tha dark comes early, and when the heaven seen to sparkle with the forerunning frosts of winter, which now draw awlftkv earthward from cold outer space, the ' greateat yt all the goda, Jupiter, adorn tie eaatern sky. While, Hatura glows In the southf alone In ' hla planetary grandeur, aa. if avoiding the presence of the livelier stars. Jupiter rises with the Pleiades,, fast chased by Often tblaso with wonderful brilllante. - , It would be Impossible1 to plaoe In shsrper contrast the peculiarltlea tht distinguish the planeta from the fix I atara than they are now placed by Sh presence of Jupiter in one of the richcx ; regions of the starry heavens, people,, who know little of astronomy, but wish ' that they knew more, often complain , ot the difficulty that they, experience In trying to find the planeta in the crowd pf the stars. sV . . Here, then. Is an almost unparalleled opportunity, not only to- find Juplto.-. but to learn to recognise the essential difference between the appearance ef - planet and that of the stars. . - -If you go out of doors between and I o'clock in the evening, you will see. over in the east, above the hills. ' , a yery brilliant point of light, gleaming use a distant signal lamp.. That is Jupiter. Tou cannot mistake him, for, he ie too plainly th king) He haa no ' equals and no rivals about him; - But now. note hla most interesting situation with reference to two very beautiful and celebrated groups of flxe. stare. Close above Jupiter, toward th west, you will ee a glittering asaem blage of small stars, grouped like a -V cluster of grapes sparkling' with hoar- , frost. They are the Pleiades, most fa mous tf stars, most ancient In the au perntttlona . reverence 'that ' they have - excited from the very "beginning of hu man history, and moat mysterious In ' the light of modern scientific revelation of their half nebuloua constitution. On the other side, toward the east - from , Jupiter, you will ae the V-ahaped fig- . ure of the Hyadeg. with the aplendl.1 red-tinted Aldebaran biasing on the tip . of one of the arms of the mimic letter. Jupiter Is - like a golden fulcrum, on ' which, suspended at the ends of an In- , visible -balance, hang these a wo heaps jof starry gems.- Then note the difference between the look of the great ptenet and the looM of those stars. V Take Aldebaran, for ' example. Its light Is all aglitter with - restless shooting of bright colored ray. The light ot Jupiter Is steady, almost -motionless, but slightly disturbed now , and then by the passing ot an atmos pheric billow, like the - reflection of -n elite's lamp on the water. If you watch Jupiter- throughout the coming . winten you will aee him quit hie place, leave. the Pletadea and the Hyades and even- , tuauy, wltn ms jest to step, advanee east ward ever the head of Orion, althouait at first he will move' westward in con eequenc of the apparent' retrogression -Iwhis movements caused by the swifter motion ot the earth la the aame. dlrec- , tion.'. ?.-,-' : ... - ' In Sny .'event whether. yon took r..t Jupiter now and forget him next week (which le not likely), or whether you continue to Tollow him round and round the aky aa long aa you live (which Is - far more probable), do not fail at the beginning ot your acquaintance, to - fir. In yqur mind the chief .facte known about him... Jupiter Is a. glob about - i.svu times aa targe aa. tne earth, but tne materials of which he la made are of auch a nature, or In such a -state, th.it tlmea. - Hla surface Is 120 times as - extensive aa that of the earth.' He has four moons aa large as. or larger then, our moon, and three that aa far as alie goes, are mere-toy moons, the largest of them being perhaps leas than. 100 milee In diameter.' He Is the giant uf the planetary system, and has captured more comets, and, In general, exerclacd , more disturbing force in the solar em plre than any other member of It . " Ie Jnplterlnhablted? ' Astronomy can not answer the question. But. aa In tho caae of Saturn, we must say: If Jupiter has Inhabitants they cannot be much like us; they are either greater, or they are less, than we In the ranks ef organl-3 existence. -, - -. r , - v ' ' : v.'.v :! LEWI, S AND CLARK Point William. November tt be ran more ." violently. attended trlth - high wtnde from - the southwest. It jwss now Impossible to proceed on eo rough' a sea. - Wa there fore sent several men to hnnt and the rest of us remained during the day tn a situation the most cheerless and un comfortable. On thia little neck of -land we are exposed with a miserable cov ering which doee not deserve the name of sltelter, to the violence of the winds; alt our bedding and stores as well as . our, bodies, ar completely - wet; oar clothes are rotting with constant expos ure, and we have, no food except the dried fish brought from the falls, to which we are again reduced. The hunt- , - era all returned hungry and drenched . With rain, having seen neither deer nor - elk and the Swan and braht were too shy to be approached. At noon the . wind shifted JLe the northwest and blew' ' with such tremendous fury that many.. rees were blown down near us. . This " gale' 'lasted 1 with short Intervals th ' , whole night . "' '.. ?." y '":;''::" At Anderaonvillev' -V-'.";-" John E. Barrett in New Tork Surt. On December t, 1905, Pennsylvania will dedlcste a memorial to her brave sons who died at Andereonvtlle during tbe -civil war.J ,t 'v iv.ri- ,.L.:.":; : Above the dust of the beloved dead " .-".:' Who passed to Immortality this waar ' We bare our heads, and reverently tread. And tenderly our heartfelt homage ' - pay. '...-' ' : .-."' : The deye were datlr when Duty calted them hence,. - .- - And darker passions elpuded all th , land: - - ' But w who My behold their recom- pense v -'' -. A nation "greater than, Its founder planned...'.,' i--.- , ''--;. ; ' s - j .- '.-.".'. a . Thank God! ' the fratricidal strife 4ls f 'past;- .... : ,., , . The Moloch Hate that fed on human . . Uvee .' ; , ; ': Is slain by Love; and blessed Peece at , : last, - - f . So long affrighted from eur shores, J survives. 5 And o'er our. broad domain, 'from crag. to jcrag, . From sea to sea,' and loyal to the v , eore, - .,,,.-., .. ' ": The nation atsnds united for the nag'r" They jovoa.ana oiea ior, now and-- Svermorel $ - -...;' ' How It Looks to Him. : ' w: Dlbii In CMcak'o Tribune-. '. I'nkel Bill sea thar ain't no ladder af fuit, but It Is a greased ools, - - . - -ir-:. ' ' -.
