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I Portland, 'oregom, . . . J ;z. JJ, (4 H K IP.H Q Jl Jt u Si CP li HE3 'J (Lra Ir-w all -, . " PORTLAND. OREGON, SATURDAY,- MAY "12, 18C3.- - THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL A IHBrlHDllT KIWIFifH CL a JACKSON ...... . Publ confiscate individual holdings beyerid that amount it is thought will check toe growia 01 coin socialism capitalism and prevent a deadly blight of primogeniture -I-1 rrV t evaim iVuhttKapUl- published erery evening (except Sunday-end very Sunday montfng. at The Journal Building. Fifth and Tamhlll. : rtrnti. Portland. Oregon. Entered at the poetofflce at Portland, Oregon, for trana portatlon through 'the mall a aa aecond-cjaaa matter. : ,.- . - y , - - ' TELEPHONES. --.- - - Editorial Rooms.. Main 10 ' Bualneaa Office... .Main 100 'FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE. ' Vreeland-BenJamln Special Advertising Agency, 150 N : street New Tork; Ttibuna Building. Chicago, Sy Carrier. ' Te Dally Joereel. wit o- Say, I year,... f.-...STe Tbe Pellr Joarnsl, 1 rear.... 6.00 Tk. D.llj Joernal. wit to- . Air, BMalha ........ S.TS The DellT Journal. rnoerhe.. X.00 Tbe pally Journal, vita Sua- oaf. S oioetha.. l-Wi The PaUy Journal. toootha.. 1.S0 Tbe Vmllf Journal, -wits Sua- &aj, 1 mootn ..,68 Jbe-;Bail,tt-.u,jMt - ered. Seed UKlaiied.... Dally, week. AtUTered, Sun- Twy-ewepieB, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ' . . Terms Vr Kail. Tbe Deny JouraeW-.wltB Bus day. 1 yw.i.. . M The Dally Journal, 1 yaar, ... S.00 The Dell Journal, wlta Sea. 4ay. a CMetbe ITS The Dally Journal. ( month.. S.TJ The Delly Journal, wjts. Sua- " - y, eoBlae 1.00 The Dally Journal. S won the.. 1.40 The Dally Journal,' wlta Boa- A illJournal. I hiohtlrr ization there can be no socialism. The one breeds the other. Honey-1sTowerr-lf -there be no restraint upon the acquisition of money there can be no legitimate re straint oftintimtted power. Irnlimitedr power means ar bitrary power legal impotency, tyranny, reyomuop, socialism, SMALL CHANGE I I Oreson. la -"doubtful." , , r J u . - . i ' .. , I -Dig us those nasty burdocks. 1 J. e ,, e Th. Bandar Journal. . 1 rear.. 100 The Beeeay Journal,- mouths XJM Remittance abould be made br draft. poeUl notea. expreea ordere and am all amount are acceptable la 1 and l-eaat poataga atampa. ." , , . TRUTH AND THE AUTFUL DODGER.? IN A LAMS ATTEMPT to, run away from' a pursuing .. fact the Oregonian has made the mistake of starting - , off on. the wrong foot Realixing' that Voteri are not likely to become enthusiastic over the candidacy of a man who waited 17 .years before becoming an American cititen1 thi oyer-aealoul defender of everything partisan dodges truth and hides behind falsehood by . declaring that James Witbycombe is being attacked because he is ) of foreign birth. . '' '- - 'Every civilixad -eonntry n- earth.L Jiasfurnished. ma terial ont of which has conic good American citigena. The flag under which a man ia born has nothing to do with hit worth. .He who forswears allegiance to prince - and potentate and proves true to 'the stars and atripes ,i by doing his duty to the national and local governments t .. of his adopted land is as good a cititen as h whose an 4- ,tnrili.ilitV it Tt.mlffr Hill rtr anffrrl tfirtra lAtiyantf6fg.yejxtodtJgc U the reetnu" wlifc Itli UiH leyubllr ii liuilt, and tfMlstWefHl"t nmrnfWTin'tiMi LCJM: is hte day eufficienUy senile to'chargg thtt th proPct it good for convicting them of criminal . Oregonian ia at this hte day sufficiently senile to charge rtitT politfcat-eatididata in. thf Atale.iaf Oregon is beng astailed because It happened that be waa born in another I ,-country,- ; : . , : ; . . . - ' : The trnth.-of conrse, ia - something entirely different That DrrWithTcombefaa good-chiien inor denied, 1- The qneationrig,-whr-jlid hr not become a good oitixen long before 1888? At that time he had been in Oregon (17 years. He reacheeV voting age in 1875, but expressed Ltc-intetion-t becming-itieWHe-Teted-i1876 4 again in 1880, again in 1884, and then a change came oyer It may. be that all this thundering in the index will, be his dreams. In 1888 heppllei IortdmTs60o of leffal proceedings, t0 be written "ship and the district -court gratified his desire. He ad- - mita-thathi wa tb-year to whiclt1ieTia4drgaoa seat in the legislature and wanted to make sure of his eligibility - before - announcing hie candidacy.- That his .ambition fo - political preTerment was - disappointed at that time ia of importance only because in. a way it pre pared him for the impending blowr In politic the tec--onct affliction H never ao bad as the first-; : -: - "...."'."" In his own behalf Dr. Withycombe contends that he voted in 1876, 1880 anL1884 -under the belief that he was justified in so doing. Histher had announced his in tention Of becoming a eitiien;but thef e lr no record that the intention of the elder Withycombe'ever went further than a declaration. As fof Vie ybunger Withycombe it - is plain that it was the desire for office that-elevated him to "unquestioned citizenship. He never went to the leg islature, but the very nexf yeirlhe accepted an appoint jnent-nnder.the..state government, Eighteen years have- passed since Dr. Withycombe removed the doubt that must have made Up in intensity what it lacked in duration, but the stubborn facts refuse to down. James Withycombe became of age in 1875. James Withycombe, for 17 years a resident of Oregon, was admitted to citizenship in 1888,--r- - THE PRESIDENT AND PRIVILEGE. W 'HEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT proposed tbe application of Howells theory of pro- - BTCssiye taxation . to, the gluttony,of wealth. there waa-coaatemation in UtUia. Saaator Clark and f -r other individual possessors of eitravagant fortunes have f""mrgOTtthe1rnrrphy to the'ldftrOToetlargorw'ir against this dangerous innovator. In the battle .which will ensue a preliminary skirmish is inevitable with Standard Oil-" , . : . Jn this engagement, the. sentiment of the. American 3 . "the-calumny of-liberal-rd ' j the denial of legal restraint ." . ..What was an act of iconoclasm in Gideon against the i priests of Baal would in Roosevelt today be considered ' ; Socialism ifcy the priests of Mammon. Those-who wax fat on the"i-weet of tolerant industry cry VthiefL and ' "rascal" on the champions of equal privileges. But hu- manity has advanced far enough now for such reformers at.the president to answer Standard Oil as Gideon did the Midianites and to imprets Ipon such senators', as Clark, AldricH, Gorman et aL the necessity of Baa) j J fighting its own battle. &ooseveltif association with tax reformers is thutat , much a rhatttf of antipathy as was the associationAf 4 . Jesua-wlth tax-gatherers, among the taxtdodgers ofihe t anhedrim.i Giving countenance to-the idea- of a just distribution of the burdens of government. was the first , ' caute of our Savior's unpopularity among his future murderers, .Vested privileges then, as vested interests now, exempt billionaires from criticira).or restraint, i. -- But timet are changing. - Nowadays the people' are considering the .fact that .fortune of $10,000,000 fs big "Enough for any man. A system of taxation that shall Acainst thia ooaaibilitv the tax reformers suggest a limitation of power. They oppose" evolution to revolu tion. They believe that no shock is necessary or even probable in the industrial system.;- Admitting the neces sity of large capital in many enterprises they would force a distribution of capital. It ia. the difference between ten shareholders and one hundred shareholders in any given enterprise. Individual accumulations . are -thus curtailed. vMbre people are compelled to share in the earnings of the enterprise. . If their dividends exceed a given amount taxation -gets it and this puts a check upon extortion,, The necessities of life will thus be cheap ened there will be less pomp, less eovetousness and more distributive comfort in the land. Interest rates will safe, will coopefatemore. freely with.inventiony augment the.product. of labor while decreasing its hours and give an impetus to industrial expansion and general economic repose. - , ;v''."' ': ' :' .The presidenta opponents and detractors may,call this Utopian. .They may!. characterize his views as idealistic Yet this sortaof criticism has exhausted its terrors. We have come to regard the ideal as essential to the progres sive enthusiasm which . brings practical results. - The practicability of the ideal was never before tor universally Conceded. So far as can be seen the ultimate. triumph of the president's plan will depend upon the fact that it represents the highest-form" of economic life at every period of production on a, large scaleN' It will encounter herculean opposition from socialism al well as capitalism. But the.jresident ia a believer m.the Greek proverb "Polemos pater pantOn" that struggle is the parent stenv from, which the fairest flower- of human, progress blooms. - ' " It - eeeme to be weather. " TH1C 0 n DXRD oil. " T IS ANNOUNCED fromWashingtonwith a con- idcrable blare of promising trumpets that the gov ernment has a "cinch" on the Standard Oil com- pany, not only on the big bloated corporation as euehi violations of the Sherman ' law and sending them to prison, It is TcTroTtCCTrjat in the case to be proseeute against the Standard Oil octopus and ita leading mem bera they will le unable to plead immunity successfully, as the beef packers 'of Chicago "did, --for. the evidence against them hasbeea gained without giving them an op portunity to plead that they gave or were required to' give testimony incriminating themselves, under- com- pulai that-jwe-shalr-rer-see--or-read f-John- D. Rockefeller, f Henry 'H. RogersTTHenry DArchbold ' and other-men high in the Standard Oil corporation wearing prison '-No doubt, if the government, has evidence sufficient probably to convict, it Will make an honest and deter mined effort to effect this result, but long and wearisome delays are to be expected,tlrthe-probabilitythat"tho results win oe oisappointing io inose wno wouiq iikc to see due. punishment meted out to these high-financiering offenders,. of whose guilt. nobody has-any doubt, any mora-than of the. patent fact that.for many years they have been colossaL plunderersotthe.. peopleof ,this country. I . ,- -.. . -We shaH -see,- oweer, a.s time passes Some of the postoffice thieves are in prison; Greene and Gaynor were j,ajaAj aV laaaiaVl ga It iae ri as Sail's 1 el ah an a "Bie a Aa- CvIITlvlCtl ml lmWvp II tl it 19 Vjr Hw sIIOIlV CCriKiXT Tflel Get rid ef the weeds and rubblah.' -- -j. e e . . . r- Stolen sweats are haTdtwlgeat j , , Moat woman deeplaa a 'ladles' 'man." :. fJ '-rr-- e - e -- ., ,- . SU11 It Is District Attorney BriatoL " - ,"... "e . e . ; . ' , '. lis . mignty . aloe weather to clean -e v . .V Don't buy It unleaa It m m. t. Oregon. Better go to church tomorrow avnrl bo, good. ; ;. ... ... ., Bet bavaa' regleter thla evening. If you Jfrajeajraato An old , fashioned. man to be old- ean afford -:.v t--- - ----- It seems to be' eaaler to lose than to win money.' . . , v . v.- '. '- - As a rulk a Woman ean Stand more trouble. than. a man. -v ., . sad, Vrerybody Ita eyas on If a "woman looks blames her huaband. ; , '... ' i,. a Tee, i the country has progretaive Oregon. " ' . " ! ... e e : - '..r Whan Ruaata has blown In that t0.. 000,000 there will bo trouble over there. - - - - - , -a, ; la Roosevelt a Republican? Is becom ing a generally -dlaouaaed conundrum. e-e ' .- .",..- Is Roosevelt a a-reat atateamajif in m. question for the future historian to de cide. ."....- e ; e . Getting .'tooth .'pulled . doesn't hurt ao much aa thinking about how It will hurt ; T fllall M"Il flair i nj H TmafdelT' mi not snXtr I -e--e- Tne railroads have Anally consented to let the sonata vote on the rate bill DM. Some of the political wlseaores are suggesting that Qoagln will oavrry Oregon- In June t; '"" ,";" " 1 Clark of Montana won't be In the senate muoh . longer, but there are Piatt, rjerajr, Aid rich, . Burro wa, et aX The wonder is) that soms enterprise ing Dauoui leaun naa noi aecurea Roosevelt tor a Jilayer. He safely-likes the game. ; A NEW STORY OF -GRANT- From the St. Paul Pioneer Preaa. Captain Beverly Tuoker-of -Tennessee aays that thle atory eoncernlng Oeneial Grant has never been published. About three weeks before the. battle began around Chattanooga, General Grant came mure on eruicneav-aaviag been severely Injured by a runaway horse while en Now Orleana. Patngho heed to "bis disability. Grant was on horseback every day, atudylng mi topograpny ox me field of the opera tlona .of the Immediate)- future. --One morplng, accompanied by a ataf f retinue. ine commanding officer traveraed the country about Mleelonary - ridge, and shortly after the noon hour everybody,' inoiuaing we noraes, became hungry. The whole place seemed deserted, but smoke waa at last discovered comlner from the chimney of an obaoura hut. An orderly was Bent there, who came back and reported that . a white lady was therfl. who ... would, prepare a. dlnna. If they would wait, but that It would be a very- oramary meal. The offer waa at once- -accepted, -with thanks. - - While preparing and serving the plain dinner, the little woman kept up a vigorous running fire of talk, showing tha she was a confederate, . and that ahe fairly hlsaed with hatred of the -Yankees?' The general and his sub ordinates .maintained alienee, except for a rew very oouneous rejoinders, and when the dinner was over the zaneral aaaresseu toe laay thus: - ."Madam, we are under obllgatione to you tor me - dinner, and - for ' vour courtesy in preparing it. lot ua. But, aa it ia very paipaDie uiat you are a eon federate, we must insist upon paying tt .hit . W ..A mimUI UaaA I a 160 blfl In confederate money, and here ia a 160 bin in United States money: you shall have either-one-that you choose." wow the confederate money w acarcely. worth the paper on which Jt was printed, and the lads, was very poor. General Grant and all of -the of fler riveted -their-eyes uprmrthe Jlttle woman. .Juii ahe jiever : - f Uncjiiidj nor paled; nor quailed.. Shaking her gray hair haughtily., and holding ud her hea aa proudly .asv any - queen could . have done, ahe aald: hater-tha- T ankeesrnrrT-lrate-rhBtr tauserndl'hate their money, too. I. caja-aeeept nothing but confederate """r t'f " I'lieaje uudumlaiigi iiieiaeaim1' was he reply, "that I - am. General Grant the commander of . all of these Tankee frees. ,rwaseducaed An FtnJ if the Standard Oil gang had the same ground on which to base an immunity plea that the beef packers had an other judge would construe and apply the law as Judge Humphrey did.. At any rate, the government is likely to worry-the Standard -Oil -octopus considerably, and the people generally will wish it success in its fight upon that industrial and commercial monstrosity. . , PARTY BECOMING PLAYED OUT. The diseased orchards must : be de- yed. ' . . people will follow the president Pains will be taken by the people themselves to notify the senate that in this Engagement treason shal 1 consist in grvin g -com fort-to the enemy. And: no amount of "courtesy" will prevent them from suspecting the probity that grows from fa miliarity with Aldrich, Depew, et at ' ' . When -a reform strikes the head of a United States senator and something sounds hollow is it always the re 'form? When Christ exhibited the Sanhedrim as the safety deposit vault of economic tyranny was he or Hanan the enemy of . progress? - History has answered one of these questions. It is up to American civilization to answer the other. . 1 .The Tslmud informs us that Christ was guilty of "corruption." To change the-sacred law of special priv ilege was deserving death. The bigotry and arrogance of wealth had turned the code of Mosea into a stiletto in the hands of the high 'priest who used it unsparingly gainst the prophets. .Reform and corruption Were the same thing among these pampered children of theocracy. A reformer was a "calumniator" of the. Sanhedrim in the i same sense that Roosevelt is "innovator'Lin the eyes of Standard Oil. The favored class is ithe same today as it was in the days of Gideon. The paternal, nurturing of infant industry, whether it be oetroleum 4rr the ficture of idol, tend ulumatcly to the arrogant sump. I HE NEW. SENATOR from Wisconsin. La Fol- iiuu Vft vcvicu iiiicicvLSa ti uycrtuncj. pnanseeiSnr, 1 ictic, fwiw wamuo; .mi-i m-c i-muvi fa JiVw 7w.aW " e e -v.'. Calves may be of mere Importance than politicians. ' ,e e 1 Lots of towns preparing to celebrate the f-ourth of July. . : m a ' N INCREASING NUMBER of people are asking themselves: What is party to me? Does strict . adherence to party, year after year, decade after decade.-really-do mer-individuallyrany appreciable good? What, afteF"aTiriinnrBuTfaTiirlf 1or7ariywy 1 uppnsf thr HrpuMiran jaxty-JKat right on thf great , ,-flu.. ..u,uaiu. j',. issues insi aiusc iidir uuiuij eK", anu riai. in iati lit- ated, energized and vitalized the Republican party of that time;doesJt necessarily .followthatthia4)artyiaright and best, in nation, atatecity, county and precinct, now, henceforth and forevermore f This is the-assumption-of the morning paper, which as aoon as the campaign is over will renew its exposition of the Republican ptity's badeatures. ;:r . . : A party must be judged solely by what it sloes for the average citizen, for the "common people." The Reputv lican party is taking goog care of the trusts, of Rocke feller, of special interests, of those who are getting some thing for nothing by the "protection" hocus-pocus; but what ia it doing for , , , John Smith, the blacksmith; 1 ' y James Jones, the dairyman; " T ' " Bill Brown, the clerk; Sam Simpkins, the smsll trsder; ,- - -I- Harry Hodgesr the mechanic? Not a thing 8n earth. ' All these and a multitude of other people are noticing this, observing it, studying it; and will vote -as they in telligently, please. They realize that it 'is not 1860 or 1864, and that Abraham Lincoln is not running for gov ernor of Oregon or sheriff of Multnomah county. In fact, and in brlef,"party" is largely played out ' HURRAH FOR iX FOLLETTE. : i . . v . i , nri1 tor PS a ix moc r t, m A minority is sometimes right. Senator "La ! Follette would rather be right than a straight Republican. He is no Piatt or Depew or Al lison; . neither Gorman or Clark of Montana. And there are others. . . .. ' La Follette is a Man. He dares to do what is right, because it is rights Hedares to serve the people -who pay him for service, and who have signally honored him. La Follette is a refreshing figure. There will be more men like him in the senate ere another decade whirls around. The Oregonian remarks editorially, anent the decision of the' courts against the paper trust: - "The paper trust has also concluded to own up and be good. This ought to be a first-class hint to other papertruti wfth a max' imum of capitalization and a minmum of assets." Just so, snd yet such trusts are not in any wise more des perate and stupid thin those 'newspapers that disbursed a portion of a relief fund for the exploiting of their Own newspaper glory and enterprise. Why should not they less up and resolve to be "good" hereafter, too? ThTer1r1f!al imt of Ban Francisco was Mleslon devloB Dolores de-Nuestro Padre San Francisco da AslBst. May be the earthquake remembered, that p- . " Even- our 'standpat solid, "shoulder to shoulder friend, the Salem States man, says of ;! Governor Chamberlain: He caused. the? legislature to pasa the eoruoratlon license law and the Inherit ance ta.S) law, 'which has brought Into th!TlatarasurySM.TI.50auTmg his term. This" Is the first time cor porations have iiad to pAy.for the spe-cial- prlvHes'-they -enjoy -from-the public - If- ree looted Chamberlain will Insist upon taxing the gross recelpta of all publlo sorvloe corporations as ' he recommends nls niesaages-ufrlSOl and H06. - What- other governor has sjers or the state T Jackson. Johnston, and all the rest snd I am, of course, a gentleman. There fore, you will .understand that it la with great courtesy and Undneaa that I place my hand upon 'your shoulder and com mend you, aa an-American-woman. for the courage . Of your convictions. Tou are aa firm In your belief as our. revo lutionary grandmothers were. Tou are elfhtrHUr e matter-of -principle In choos ing the confederate tnoney; and now, as a lady to whom we aw under obligations for kindness shown. I W , Vn tn cept the United Blares SSO. bill slsa. asTtfJ a token omur respecf and eateem.", Wlth tf confederatemoney in one and,, aha accepted the United Stales money with the other hand, and then aald: - ' - , -.,.. - OREGON SIDELIGHTS- Silver Lake expects a railroad. T . e . e Much activity around Bohemia, ' e e Estaoada is "continually developing, t e Fine new hotel soon In Prlneville. Umatilla county has a wideawake de velopment Jeague.z. . Oregon farmers are getting' better stock, particularly horeea. e e AH the farming looking fine, say all the country .correspondents. . ' e e Butte Falls In Jackson county Is be coming a flourishing place. ; ' "Made In Oregoft" Is becoming the "yell" now all over Oregon. - -, . , e e Tillamook dalfyman sent lots of cheese to the San Francisco- sufferers. . . . v e e Homeaeekers can find no better re gion than Union and Wallowa counties. e Fruit prospects not., very bright around Harrlsburg. reports, the Bulletin. . .... . .. ... . e-e ; Fishing and baseball are the leading sports nowadays, remarks the Med ford Southern Oregonian. . T: e e - Moeler has George Chamberlain who la a busy man, though he la not run- e . e . ; : Tillamook, Is rather proud of Its new courthouse. ' now nearlng completion, with an -Imitation dlle" on all aides, says the Herald. T The hopyards are looking clean and well and the prospect is a good crop of excellent quality, gays the MtoMtnnvtHe Reporter. - In some yards the vlnee are At the wire, while others have been cut back and are making at sturdy growth. The grain is also making a tine appear, ance. . e e . , M osier Correspondence of Hood River Glacier: We have heard of the book agent being around delivering books that were unwittingly - ordered aome time buck. . and now there is quite a fuss Over the price-charged -for -these) books. We heard of one being charged somewhere near HO How strange men get caught by the sharka yet bo care ful to save S ' cents on nouaahqld tx- censes that they send. Tito soma other town for cheap, flimsy goods, and" then they get beat WelL you know they are toot, aUvdead yet, i "In the same spirit general.' I muat Deueve nerearter that the Yankear are also sincere and brave, and I shalV never abuse them again under any . clrcum atanoes." ., , , leArn to forget' 1 By Beatrice Fairfax. TJe you -think he cares for meT" is the question that I am asked more often thanany other. As a rule it means that the man has grown cold and careless In his atten tions and that the girl cannot bear to give him up. . a - She clings to the last ray of hope In the .form of asking my advice, trusting that I may be able to consols her. . It goes to my heart to have to tell her to 'put him out of her mind, and yet I know It la the wisest courss for her to follow. ' It is absolutely ' Impossible to re kindle the aahea of a man's love. To him the love Is as "dead aa yes terday's seven thousand years." . With a woman It la different She may outgrow her love for a man, but he will always stand apart from . other men, eurrounded by a halo of memory To try and hold a man when he is will-go anyway, and ahe la a wise girl who acoepta the Inevitable and aends him away before he goes of hie own accord. : . 1 y 1 There le not a girl In a thousand who cannot tell when a man's Interest 4n tgjaasr Kaissrlslal law ass si si sa n '. in I' .mi - It Is natural . to make an effort to hold him, but don't lose eight of your prtfls" and" dignity In the-"effort ' When there is another girl In the caee the effort le simply love's labor loat I know that the advice, "try and for get him," seems cold and unsympathetic but It Is better to cut deep In the first place and avoid having to hurt a sec ond time. ; Trying to forget Is weary, heart breaking work, but It can be done, and at leaat you will have the comfort of having saved your pride. - . Some f you are throwing your hearts away on men who are not worth the sacrifice. They are, the men above all others to forget Tou think that It will break your hearts to give them up, but dear girlies, hearta don't break aa easily as we some times think they da We often mistake heartache for heart break. When your parents, your frlenda and your-own common eense tell you that a man la unworthy, give hlm-irs Work hard. All your mind with other interests, fight bravely and In time you will conquer. ' . pride will help you forget the man who haS' forgotten you.: - It will be harder for, you to give up e man who, all unw6"rfhytlSou"gfihe may be, still, pleads for your love. But you must let him- go, because sooner or later he will neglect and wound you. -, Some day the right tnan will come along and then you will be very thank ful that you have not thrown your heart J away on the wrong one. - -. Astonishing Rise Hi Zand Valuea. From the New.Tork Herald. ' To those who are skeptical of the wladom of investing money In real estate- there are numeroue inatancee of cities where every. Inch Of land la of great value which have been built upon sites formerly sold for little or even given sway. Ths . United States. and Canada are rich . In . such examples. Canada especially has been -the -soeae of great bargaine In land--. During the first years bf Its history James I made a free gift of the whole of Canada, together .with Newfoundland and Mbva ootla, to . 4he famous Lord Stirling. Some 100 teare later a member of the suite of the governor bf the colony was granted 100,000 seres of land by. William IV. Later this was Increased by the addition of 100,000 acres. Sixty years later a Canadian land oompanjr jrMiu-l.flo.tt.ona, awe. a.oaa.fiOO- Celng paid for at the rate of cents sn acre, and the raat a free girt. late aa . 1880 the, Canadian government actually made the Scotch-Canadian company a present of 11,100,000 In cash. e a Bonus, with a Tree grant or. se,vov, 000 acres. Aa there were many condi tions as to the development of, the terrl torTin theterme -of r the- grant the bargain was not po one-sided aa It at first appears. ' Every one knows that the whole of Manhattan Island was sold by the In diana for $14. Yet a plot 'of ground wmcn waa once a farm and waa srrant ed and still belongs to Trinity church yields a yearly Income of sie.OOO.ooo. Pennsylvania, the aecond moat popu lous state In America, containing acores of i -prosperous cltlea, has an area of about 48,000 aquare miles. This tract of land wae given over to William Penn In aettlement of a comparatively trifling debt which Charlea II owed to Penn a father, and which he found him self disinclined or unable to pay In canh. - v- - - - '- - ""--SBMemJTdVTa one who rented 1. 700,005 square miles or the land about Hudson bay-for-a yearly rental of two beavers and two elk per annum.' This has proved to be one of the best epeculatlone In land on record.' Some too yea re after the deal the -company of owners sold the major part or this vast territory to the Cana dian federation for U.500,000. and In the meantime it had been bringing in an average Income of isoO.waI a year. Not more than sT0 yeare ago the present site of Liverpool was sold for tz.MO -by-small London ayndloata. who had bought It from Charles 1 for svrn less. --'.. . . The Site of Johannesburg and moat of its gold mines, which are eeid. to contain over 114,000,000.000 worth ofH the precious meUl, were eold less than 10 rear e ago to an Engllahman named Pratt for the sum of ll.tOO. In spite ox us oneapness, it waa a bad. bargain for him, for because of his activity In tbe first Boer war his. nrnarim corn iscaiea and he was driven to En a isna in a pennllesa state. - - JLEWIS AND 'CLARIC 4 rtt-mstrWahn.- TJty li uur aiiritKBr?srwi.i mm w- mended early this morning by a crowd or incnans. to whom we gave eye water, Bhortly after thle the chlefe and war-It' selves to decide on their answer to our pwen, ana tne result was. aa we were l " - 4nformed. that thev confided i.h.t -rronr'T-af later B.amaixe pad toid them, and resolved to follow pur advice, .As lo golngjrlth na toithe piaina pr Missouri, they would be very willing to do ao, for though the Black foot Indiana and the Pahkees had shed much SJL thelr.bloodthey.stiUWlshel. tq live In- peace with them. But we had not yet aeen either of these natione, and it would therefore be unsafe for them- to being-attacked bythera.- However, some or their young men would, accompany us across the mountains; -and if they could effect a peace with .their enemies, the whole nation would go oyer to the Mle-soury-in the course of tne nexfBummer. On ourpropoaal that one of the chief a should"g with us to the -coutry of- the whites, they had not yet decided, but would let ua know before we left them. But at allevents, the whites might cal culate on their attachment and their beat services; for thou; were good. The enow waa, however. still so deep on the mountalne that wa should parlch Jn attempting the passage; but If we waited till after the .next full moon, the enows would have" suf ficiently melted to enable our horses to subsist on grass. On expressing wish to cross the river and form a camp, In order to hunt and fish till the anows had meltedTTBey recomthendea a posl tlon a few miles distant and promised to furnish us tomorrow with - a canoe to cross. Ws Invited Twisted Hair to settle near our camp, for he had eeveral young aonaone of yWhom we hope to engage aa a guide, and he promised to do aa Having now settled all their af fairs, . the Indians divided themselves Into two parties, and began to play the game of hiding, a bone, already described aa common to all the natives of this country, which they continued playing for beada and other ornaments. Those Italian Cigars. - From tbe New Tork Times. . The dark man took carefully from his pocket a clsar of the length and tnicx nees of a lead pendlL . He felt this cigar all over carefully andsentiy, woioyea wiin mo mourn end a moment Then he pulled "but of the mouth end a straw T incnea long. Ha ilghted a match and held the cigar to It till the match went out Then he lighted ' the straw, snd ss long ss It burnt a matter of aome minutes he held the cigar ln the naras, cooking quite an Inch of the tobacco. When sn Inch of the cigar was cooked to a bright red color, the dark man put the long slender thing In his mouth and began to puff. But no smoke name. He frowned. He toyed with " the mouth end again. With a sudden move ment he drew forth another T-lnch straw. ..... - This second straw he lighted, and. using It ae a match, he again held tbe cigar '. ' But at . tms point Bheriock Holmes. laying his long white hand on tbe man's shoulder, said: Tou are aa Italian, ana tnat ia an Italian cigar one of those cigars which the Italian government makes. . "SI, signer." the dsrk man answered. Holmes turned to me with a smile. '1 knew It my dear Watson," he said. And If the fellow were at home. In Rome or Florence, he would have an alcohol lamp to cook his cigar over. They have special lamps, over there In Italy, with a rack for the cigar, to hold It In the flame; for It le only after five or alx minutes' thorough cooking (hat an Italian cigar will smoke. Am I not right, fellow r Si, eignor, said ths dsrk man. , . -IW-Wagea In German y- FRENCH CHAMBER ' UF DEPUTIES' ' From the Philadelphia Telegraph,: """After a discussion .which extendeoT"" ever half a century, France has adopted plans for thi building of a, new chamber J of deputies, . The history ef the sglta tlon which led to this result Is almost ss interesting as ths history of the Palais. Bourbon itself,' The assembly1-" room built In 1811 provided for too dep- utles, and has never been large enough ' ' and aa the number ef deputies increases automatically with the population the inconvenience gradually becomes greater. Bealdes the death rate among deputiee Is much higher than among ' senators a powerful argument In favor of a new chamber. It was not until 17, however, that the deputiee really bestirred themselves. A committee waa appointed, but It did not meet until " J the same committee which. ; . has Just presented lis Diana ' to thm ehember. When It first met the com-" mlttee was told that the whole matter . would have to be settled and the new chamber built Within 10 years. Twenty-four years have naased since than and the demolition of the Palais Bour- ' wa naa not yet begun. -The Palais Bourbon., now condemn has seen, many una and dawns. - ' see were built there toward the ni ' of the seventeenth' century, Just after the land had been reclaimed from the river, one or them belona-ed ta the. Duke de Laseay:-the other was - built by Mme. de Montespsn; who died there in Afts., er grandson, the Duke- of Bourbon, who at -the revolution emi grated to Coblenta, bought the .' two palacea and employed Pajou and .Cou- . atou to unite and beautify them.- His estate then stretched, aa far as the.Es planads dee Invalldea, where the French foreign omce now standa. Thia en larged palace waa ona of-the flrat places to be seised -by the convention, who called it "the house of the revolution." . Tbe ministry -of publie works waa es tablished there, and then the polyteohnle school, ' where young artillery ofllcere 1, and englneere were trained. The Coun- -. ell 6f the Five Hundred; met there for- - some time before moving to St Cloud. and in H08 the flrat national-exhibition- nasxhalil In It Tbe J'ront-.whlei). look jtift Ttladelelne todryrwaa- bnllt- in 1S04, and theslatuel Of WIIUUII1 and Justice wlhch, Glrardln orree remarked. , -the deputies had left outside- the doors It waa In the chamber of deputies. that th dueheee -ef Orleana cama wUh her two children to sit on the steps of the "throne JUBt beforwths chamber was- Invaded by the crowd in tats. uonerat Batancelln. who then saved the duchess. from almost certain death,' died only ths Otherday: He was e- worthy repre- sentatle of the old French nobility. He was -more- than Sl-but niamemory- never failed him. He remembered the eoarture btChsrlei X IB JB3U, ana 1(41, when the duchess of Orleans wished to have' the count of. Paria pro- ; claimed king he wae a deputy, reprei aentlna one 'of the- divisions of Nor mandy; Tlie Ducheas' man failed a erably, and It seemed sa If aba would be either arrested or at leaei ih usea vr : the crowd. General Estaneelln -went -out to fetoh the Palace Guard, and kept-back-the orowd for-nn lnatant-f-Wnn b went back to look for the docbees.ehe - by saving the Dueheee Montpensler and . getUng her away to ,ngiaoa. ... London Tailor Bills. ; - From the New Tork Times. "These togs."-- said the young million aire, - "name from Poole's.". He wore a gray rroca eoat, aara aray tops "If youdon't- believe me," he went on, "here Is Poole'e bin." - The bill, a blue one, boaatea no less then . sleven eoets of arms. In the center were the arms of England, for Poole le tailor to the king. To right- end left were the arms of RusBla, Italy, Spain,' France, Persia, Germany. Kgypt Greece, eta - Then oame, in- av long list the announcement "Court tailors to H. M. the king ef the - Bel- gltna. H. M. ths king of Denmark, H. M. the king of the Hellenes, H. R. H. Frederick, grand duke of Baden; II. H. H.v crown prince of Denmark; H. R. H., duke of Assta; H. R. H., duke of Genoa: H. R. HV Prince Christian of Schles- nt H. R, H, Prince Albrecni of Prussia." bin was-itemlsed in, tnlajjujaflai i A sray elastic frock coat lined with silk and silk breast facings ii mm i 7 - IT - S - A gray elastic waistcoat with. Bilk back 1-4 i A pair striped elastle trousers. I li t 11 I "Poole's London phowrooma are huire- and ths" Stock of cloth Is enormoue." " said the millionaire. "In glased caaea are many examples i of brilliant uni forms and rich court suits for royal levees such court euits as Ambassa dor Raid wears. All around stand huge boxee of superb Egyptian cigarettes. , Thay are free. Tou can take all you want . "Poole dictates the world's fashions. The leading tailors of America, Rua ala, France, Italy, Germany and Spain visit Poole'e once or twice a year and have a half dosen suits made, which : they take home to eut up for pattema" From the Dally Consular Reports. ' Questions relating to the Improve ment Of 'the condltlona connected -"with home Industries in Germany are being eagerly, discussed. A t commission . of Inquiry, appointed by the, king of Saxony, hae recently published Its re port The Industries In which the eon-! uiuuiiv rw ui wvi rv iaawniwn Leria, lace, artificial flowers snd toys. Among the passementerie workers ths highest possible earnings seem to be I cents an hour and tbe average only 4 cente In, American monsy. The lace work ers who earn 10 pfennlge (100 pfennigs are equal to 2 centa) consider that good, but t and t pfennigs are riot un usual.' In the town of Plrna women ere maklnr artificial flowers for 4U cfeav ntgean- houir nMn the-Toy-lndustry thandr T-the rebela," but by a ruse ef sn hour's work Is paid with I H pfen nigs. In a vast number of caaee the workroom serves ae kitchen and bed room as well, snd the low rate of pay obligee parents to insist-on their chil dren's assists nee. Ninety hours a week are not unuaual for adults, and for children 10 to (I hours. Fighting fat Africa.;-' - From the tiondon Malt A stirring account is to hand of the valuable assistance which an- English elephant hunter, Mr. Boutherland, gave the German troops In their flghta In'-:. east Africa, ........... , - " A eertaln station was in great danger,' when ths defenders determined to at tack the oncoming Wangonia. The lit- ?. :' " tie experldtton only conalated of two German Officers, Mr. Boutherland, snd St native warriors. The next morning the enemy, 700 to 00 strong, were en- countered. - - The enemy, badly - armed, but . with fanatical eoueage.- attacked undaunted. Captain Rlohter felled their leader with A a well-aimed bullet and the natlvsa -on - g) the German side with their fire created ' great havoe. but still the eavagee ewept . "'" forward.. The situation was most critical, when ' the Englishman,' a splendid shnt began ' ' " to use ble heavy No, 11 elephant gun, , with expansion bullets. Every - ehot aimed at the head, told with fearful effect The enemy retired, but only tt attack again and again. The English- . . . -man. however, stayed at his post unttl . the ground wae covered with hie vlo -time. The rest- of the savages then fled, panlo-atrlcken. A number of nnes had fallen Into. thi Mr. Boutherland a they were deetroyed. . . . Forty highly-explosive cartridges. to. ( heavily loaded for the rifles, were placed so that they fell Into the rebels' hands. ' Wtien need thay exploded, end several 'jC rifles Were found later bearing evt dances ef the violent ead ef thoee who ' had fired them, i