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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. , APRIL. 4. 11)09. MADAME MODJESKA IS NEAR CLOSING SCENE OF HER LIFE PARIS HOSPITAL for mimm BAKER'S $100,000, COURTHOUSE .f,!J0E FM.10US zt 000000000000000000' JH j Institution That Has JSTo Su Description of AVIiat'Is 'Left perior in Its Up-tO'l)ato Completeness. , X ITarshalsea. 10' SI C UNCONSCIOUS AND U WON LONG Her Son. Ralph -MiKije.ski of Portland and Family at Bedside. RMnl Sw by jnrrt I-ei1 Wire Los Angola. April 3 Drs. .Kd-J wards. Bullow. Burlow and Boyd held a conference today at Hay Isl and cottage uud examined Madame , ModJeska. At 3 o'clock they an nounced as their report that she can not lire longer than two days at the ' most and may die at any moment. ,'Sne has been unconscious all day. ' Dr. Boyd has remained with her both day and night and her husband ! Count Charles Bozenta, and her son, Ralph Modjeskl of Portland, Or., . and his family are constantly at her bedside. " Madame Modjeska wrote the followinr I interesting biography of herself for the ' souvsnir program for the mm leal ana : dramatic benefit performance to herself under too direction of Dan 11 rrohman, widen waa firm at the Metropolitan i theatre, Vow York, Tuesday, Kay a, - 1905, to which loni of tho most famous 4 artists of the day participated i : By Madame Modjeska. "It waa In tha small but historic town of Bochnla, In Poland, that my stage career beaan. 1 had gone there ' from my native city of Cracow, aul, i though atlU In my 'teens, had been mar i rled to M. Modraejewska and had a UB7 son. I "In Bochnla occurred a, catastrophe r in wmcn several men were Kuieu. niey left widows and children without sup 5 port and we pitied these bereaved 'ones i greatly, out out pity tnreatenea to re . ; main fruitless, for we were poor, .. wretchedly poor. Then a happy" Idea : came to me. ".Let us, I suggested, organise a char- uy perrormance ror tneir Denerit I First Staff Experience. i "The Idea was received with (reneral ( acclamation. There was in Bochnla at that time a provincial actor, M. Lobojko, i and my aWter and I had some knowledge I of the stage, as two of our brothers were actors, and we ourselves, as chll f dren, had given little improvised plays i at home. "We three, and a young student who J was spending ms vacation in Bochnla, made up our company. There was no hall to rent for the benefit, which was . .J very fortunate, -for we could not have : eiroraea to pay tne rent. There waa no i newspaper nor printing office In town, so we decided not to advertise at all ' For the hall we obtained a large room in f the Casino, a kind of local ekib, where .t the social festivities or the town took ' place, and which possessed a small f stage, The footlights consisted of a f lew tamps ana a numuer or tanow can i dies. ; l'i In the selection of the play there Was much difficulty in finding one which I did not require more than four person 's aires, wrucn was me numoer ox our lime company. At last we decided to- play j tnrea smau pieces, eacn in one act. The r chief one was a French comedietta railed the "white Camelia." I waa to plav as. countess of French society. A great difficulty was to find a wardrobe suitaoie Tor a iasmonabie lady of France, i Happily my mother had a gray i biik gown a remnant or oetter times, f It as not easy to transform this into t modern. French looking garment, of to mane it nt me, as my mother was ;,, stout ana I was very slender. 4 Audience Pleased. "The audience was much larger than we had expected and our performance was received with surprising favor. ' But for me. the chief evpnt nf thA Avn. lng was the visit of a stranger. He was J: very pleasant and seemed struck with , my impersonation of. the impudent , valet. This visit had a vital Influence . on my career, because the stranger was M. Cbeycheniaki, a famous actor and dramatic author, whose influence after ward started me on my theatrical work ; in a larger rieid 1 : K . . 1 5. jllffc,,,, 3 4 side of the charmed circle to find new talent. The dramatic authority who happened to see me act In Bochnla mentioned me o the count, with the result that I was engaged for a series or 1Z performances In leading parts. "This Innovation waa not approved by the majority of the members of the company -and tney rormea a conspiracy to make me faiL On the day of my arrival at Warsaw the leading paper or the city, the chief editor or which was the husband of the leading tragedienne of the theater, published a seaming article upon the arrogance of incipient provincial actresses who dared to enter Into open rivalry with the recognlJled favorites of the metro- fiolltan stage. Other newspapers joined n the work. This attitude of the War saw public naturally frightened me, the more so because I regarded my first ppearance In the capital as the de cisive turning point lnmy career. Chooses a Play. "The play chosen for my first aDDear- ance was a French piece by A. Dumas, .L.es xaes de Madam Aubray, In which was to plav the Dart of Junine. a simple character not exacting any great display of dramatic power. When we beean to rehearse.. I was excited bv the importance of the occasion and acted Madame Modjeska and Her Southern my part as if it were before the puu- . TI raris, April S. Thanks to the large hearted and energe'tlo support of prom Inont Americana residing here, most of them for the Durnonua of busineMs r innir proiessionai autins, a want mat has long been . keenly felt by all con ditions of the American colony In Tart is on the eve of being: supplied. 1 re fer to the American hospital. In the suburb of Neullly, already in such an advanced state of preparation, that It will be possible to open it at the be ginning of thla summer. i It will, at first slicht. aDDear stranae tbat a British hospital should have been In existence here for nearly 40! years and yet that Americans would have been so long without the bone fits of a similar Institution for their im portant colony. The British hospital, nowever, owea its origin to a chain of fortunate circumstances. During the siege, that great philanthropist. Sir Hicliard Wallace, opened two wards for the reception or the sick British suf ferers and it waa this Initiative which finally developed .In his mind the proj ect or a permanent Hospital. Dullt and endowed at his own expense; whereas it Is Diticticnllv' only of late years that American interests in fans nave de veloped sufficiently to create a press ing need or sucn an institution. Once the project was definitely de elded upon, it was quickly carried through with the active support of men line Messrs. j. fierpont Morgan, John 11. rlarjes, H. ll. Maries, W. a. Dalllba, . ' v .. - J ..:.v : 4 : . . : , ! lllUli jaf-.w."' "',N-,'''v, ' EC Citizens claim it la the finest structure of its kind In Oregon, outside of Portland.: n,. -1 elded to change our impromptu am a , teur company; and we became a band . of strolling comedians, going from , town to town through all Galicitza. Thus was begun my stage career. "My first husband having died, I was married in 1868 to Charles ChlapowBki. . a man of aristocratic birth and a Jour T nalist of high reputation. On the day after the wedding we left Cracow for Warsaw, where I was offered an en : gagement at the Imperial theatre. This was a great honor, but a dangerous one. The theatre organization was enormous and unwieldy,' the salary list Including 00 people. The artistic force was ; chieflv recruited from Its own dramatic schools. Infuses Wew Life. ; "A new president of the organization. Count Moukhenoff. had been appointed j , c r t i . ; .1 . . iii i,,o. i inn iniurman, in very nipM intellectual attainments ami posit ion, began at once to Infuse new life into the veins of the company. Instead of following the other plan he looked out- lie. After the' rehearsal some of the other players congratulated me and said that if I played as well In tho evening I would be a great success. Other mem- Den or tne company, however, held a conference, at the end of which the stage manager Informed me that it would be Impossible to produce the play for my first flight, because of the actor who had a leading part bein? Ill and would be unable to appear. una stage manager men suggested that I plav 'Adrlenne LeCouvrler.' Now this part was then considered one of tne most airncuit in the range of an actress It had been plaved in Warsaw bv Rachel and the public well remembered her magnificent performance. Several traglo actresses of the Warsaw theater had attempted to play It afterwards, but had failed to win approval. I hesitated wnen tne proposal was made so abruptly to me. I saw the snare, but determined to brave the matter out; so I answered, les, l win piay tne pari.- The Great Wight. At last the great night came. All the house had been sold out. the War saw public being curious to see how this young actress, yet unknown to fame, would accomplish a task in which no other actress had succeeded since the impersonation of the char acter by the the divine Kacbel At the moment. when i was about to enter on the stage. I had one of the IUUNI V1UI17I1I. UllttUAB Ul BLtL$B IrllCni I have ever experienced, and I, think that I should never have taken the steps that carried me rrom tne wings out un der the scrutiny of that multitude of critical eyes had not a friendly hand pushed me from behind. A deep sl- ence prevaaeo tne audience, an omi nous silence, and yet after my first line I forgot all fear, and after a few others I was absolutely absorbed in my . rr i. . i ; j .n t jmi i. jliic jiuBii cuii milieu until x came to the fable of the pigeons. At its close there burst in the theater such a storm of applause as I had never heard before and have heard seldom since. My battle was won. My husband was a journalist, so ac Ive and trenchant with his pen that is articles gave orrense to the gov ernment, and in 187G we migrated to the United States, ruled with enthu siasm for a Utopian "plan to establish near Los Angeles, a Polish colony in which we and Our fellow countrymen might enjoy the blessings of liberty. California Home. "5 f 'f ""'' "'""" :n onr Arcadian Idyl was not a success. lXZZ i. aoiiuiiie sKiieme we ae-iit brought an exhaustion of our ma terial resources and compelled us to exchange our dreams of peace for a new struggle for existence. Goes to California. '1' formed the bold decision to go to San Francisco and study English for the American stage. The year 1877 found me there. By a singular stroke of good fortune, I. happened to meet a young woman of Polish extraction who spoke excellent English and who con sented to give me dally lessons of one hour. But through her rrlenilllness this hour lasted through the whole day. Af ter a short time I felt sure that I should be able to master the tongue sufficiently to act in English. "But another perplexity agitated me. I was very doubtful shout my success. How, I wondered, would my acting be received by these audiences, so strange to me. Would not my foreign accent, my native Intonation, render me ridicu lous? How often did I brood over this question, looking out at the waves of tin- beautiful bay of San Francisco and thinking that, if I should fall, they would tender me the "welcome denied by the people of this foreign land. Meets McCulibugh. "On my foreign Journey to California I had casually met John McCullough, who was then managing the California theatre. In my eagerness to secure an opening I wrote Mr. McCullough a let ter, which secured for me an audience wiiu mm mia ioa to me rirst of my many years' engagements in the coun try of my adoption. That was at the beginning of July, 1877, five months after I had bearun mv 1h Hill, Mr. McCullough's partner, had now altered my name Into the more simple one I have since used. Thomas Keene. then the leading man of the eomnanv. was an excellent Maurice D. Saxe in the play of "Adrlenne,"' on which we had decided for my . first appearance. The first performance was a smooth one and the applause I received seemed to me to be a warm welcome to the stage of America. A new career was, opening to me. At the end of my San Francisco eneasrement. Mr. will secured for me my first appearance in rtew iors cuy inrougn Augustln Daly. Mr. Hill also used hist Ul rw) nr. flees to procure me an cmrammrai n. tier me management or Mrs. John Drew in r'niiaoeipnia. "In March. 1880, I went to Englartd and secured an engagement to appear at the Court theatre, which was under the management of Wilson Barrett. When I made my first appearance there, the house was crowded by an audience of fashion and distinction. The Prince and Princess of Wales, now the King and Queen of England, were present, and after the plav Heart's !.'. h Prince came to me behind tho aosn. and congratulated me most heartily. The play ran to the end of the summer season and In the fall I heirnn m a repertoire of characters and remained '1 Em?,an3 uPtU the en(1 of the summer of 1882. I then returned to the United States, where I have since lived and where all my affections have been cen tered." (SpecUV tJUpitch to The Journal.) Baker City. Aorll S. Baker county's vsvuvriy i M-. , j t- i -tt una r.,,-Ku.ol In lh. -f, ,.,., v!Vu illuUBV, lin.wu Wr V-ljr, skirting the boulevard du Chateau, at hearing completion and will be oe- Nciil v twn v au uhlh alr.u.li. . luuini uv ints euuilLV UlLlulBia H I ) 1 1 1 1 1 lsted, being joined 'together by a solid H.un. 1- Outside of Portland it Is the Mil tirlfilr Btrnriir. lha whn , rrtrmln tw 1 "reo III Lllff Biaiv. 11 rru resell LB nil an imposing building which will rival ex.nd!.tu1'9 9f .Vr 100-?1- In the un-to-date Ingenuity and com-1 The fact that the material used was pleteness of its equipments any similar I ntive stone, quarried about 10 miles institution here or eisewnere. The hos pital is designed to meet the needs of all classes in the American colony, BiuueiiiM, uriisis, uuBineaa mini proies sional men. By selecting a site In the oulet sub urb of Neullly, the promoters have minimized the dangers and annoyance of dust, smoke and noise. As a further precaution against noise the floors are laid with a ceinent-HKe preparation. called prlsmalithe, which also keeps out cold. Extreme care has been taken to prevent the accumulation of dust ano microDes Dy me avoiaance 01 snarp I -n a j corners and angles and by using smootfi Antl-FOSX FaCtlOn DemaildS nat suriaces ror me waiis. even me door panels have had their corners smoothed and rounded. Charles Knight, the Franco-American architect, has devoted much attention to the Question of ventilation. In ad dition to the hot water system with Its radiators, there is a grate In each room. Outside each of the wards Is a soiled linen chute in direct connec- London. April S. Among the fe places still strongly reminiscent of on of Pickens' most famous worka "Little Dorrlt" Is Marshalsea prison, a por tlon of which may ba seen Just across London bridge on the south side of the Thames. This place la aften sought by American visitors, out it is oy no means easy to find. There ara several narrow courts and turnings to negotiate; arid, as the Inhabitants of the district are of the very roughest element. Inquiries us . to the whereabouts of the relics meet with Jlttle response. Mont of the den izens of the district think vou mean a saloon when you Inquire for the "Mar ahalsea," and kindly offer to show the way. their good nature being only ex ceeded by their anticipation of. favor , to come In the form of liquid refresh ment. ' Tucked away behind a lot of build ings, after passing through a place called Angel court, there still remains a portion of the Marshalsea prison wall. The paving stones of the little garden which faces this wall are the actual stones' which at one' time formed a por tion of the prison. In the introduction to "Little Dorrlt,'" Dickens thus de scribes this spot: wnoever goes into Marshalsea place, turning out of Angel court, leading to Bermondsey, will find his feet on the very paving atones of the extinct Mar shalsea Jail; will 'see Ita narrow yard to the right, and to the left, very little altered, if at all. except that the walla were lowered when the place got fresj win iook. unon tne rooms in wnicn aeotors lived; and will stand amonj free a. h ,Th, g the PORTO RICADS tm AS HORNETS fi NEW BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY the Governor's Removal- Legislature Deadlocked. (United Press Leased Wire.) Washington, April 8. The American tion with the basement and fitted with emerlment in the governing of colonies Vte, being subjected to a very severe test is hidden from sight within the walla. Just now. The news does not come from I noticed an ingenious contrivance for the far-off Philippines nor from Hawaii, closing and opening the shutters from hllt nr thA iHiHtlrt of Porto Rico. where within, dispensing with the tedious and Dut rronr tne ,8,ana or ". wnere disagreeable operation of opening the UP tnls t,me the American aaminis- wlndows in order to get at the shut- tration has been reported to be pro teAnother interesting feature is the sressing smoothly. care taken to keep dust from enter- There is In this city at present a lng the., operating room. Here, for in- highly indignant committee of Porto stance, there Is no radiator, the heat oi,., ,i,i- tt. nnoistAnVn nf the bein- communicated by a brass tank Rlcans BeekInS t6e assistance or tne fitted into one of the walls, the tank federal government and. Incidentally, Itself being, of course, In connection the scaln of Reels H. Post, the governor with the heating apparatus below, the n ihat ii-h plant of which, by the way, is double. or lnat J81ancL . Moreover, the lower half of the wall. The trouble arises over Internal af- ln the operating room are of polished I fairs. At the recent meeting of the white marble. I Porto Rico legislature the house of del- The hospital is lighted throughout bv egatea failed to pass the regular appro- eiectncity. iiere again roretnougnt is pnauon oui. An emru. nesmuu wo umicu in evidence. in order to guard against s-na arter several aays 01 argument m from the city, enabled ' the - county to erect such a fine building at ao small a cost. Notwithstanding the heavy amount of expenditures during the last year. Baker county Is out of debt. . The location of the Jail is on the fourth floor. A room 40 bv (SO feet will- be set aside bv the countv court as a I crowding ghosts of many miserable special exhibit room ror snowing the years. Kreat mineral, agricultural and other I If you stand In the little recreation diversified resources of the county. I ground, facing the wall, you can read a laoiet, inscribed as follows: "On this RltA WD, nrifflnallv 1. Uvakn1UA. V I prison, muds lanious bv the late Churlcs uicxens in nia wen Known worK 'Lilttle Dorrlt.' " Just above this is the name of a firm of machinists. The nrlHnn ' wars in me wmuows suit remain, as in tne days when The place held Its mot ley crowd of debtors. Among these. It win De remempered. was Ulckena' own The following hooka miv he examined I lamer, wnom the novelist has deacribsit at the public library during this week under the name of Mr. Mlcawber. It la and will be ready for circulation Mon- a rather curious fact concerning Dick day, April 12: ena himself that he was always haunted UIWHAfnI. I "J ureaa 01 some uay lanaing in III Bompas An Apostle of the North. PB"i"" " w" L r,Ml,,?n i- . i. - t 1 1 i. . t wi in i iiiat iib wwrneo ao. inceBBRTiuv. even in meiimilB VI un nisut ncr. juiaiu v.s.r- th. H- , i,',' t ru.u P??!!r PP . ?in2?.,?' A"!" ens was filled with his nV on h.' M ' kon) by H A Cody IMS lu" not stint In his expenses, as he lived Hih-yLetters of George Birkbeck Hill. J .JE? $?? .dit.d h. hi. rimrhLr i.n. rn,m,J emwraie uinners 10 nia numeu- ioac ' " ' r ' " oua mends. - The neighborhood Of Marshalsea nrl. Hprtense l and. Her Friend., byl. A. "Ld" Pl.?.?"?'. Taylor; Z v. 1S07. . hni rf ih. r,iV-. .Tf BOOKS IN. FOREIGN LANGUAGES. of the prison may be seen, is Lant Adeler Den Norske Robinson. street. oro . where uicKens lodged as a Blanche En Prestmans Antechnlngar. hoy when hlsr father bad "lodgings at Brun AT cuds Ord. Deledda La Olusttzia. Egge Oammelholm. Lie Justus HJelm. Ruppius Der Pedlar. Blenkiewlcz Briefs aus Amerika. Vlar Die Russische Revolution. Waldegg Die Kalk-und Cementhren nerei. Washington Op fra Slavestand. Wllbrandt Die Schwestern. DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. the expense of the mvernment" ml thin the debtors' prison. Lant street looks today pretty much as It did In Dickens' time. His readers will recall that It was in this street that the ImmnW.l Bob Sawver lived: and the author RnMlr. of the neighborhood with much affection in ncKwioK fapers. , It is gettins: so difficult now tn finJ Dickens resorts In London that it has been auggeated that the Dickens Fellow ship should employ guides to "steer" Herbert Bypaths in the Balkans. trt tm .nM ,t.ir . " iU6. . . . I come innovation to the Am orison Klrkland Some African Highways; A tlngent of Dickens lovers who ara M- for hor. jtiraiano oome Airican nignways; a tlngent of Dickens lovers who are Journey of Two American Women to way8 "browsing" around, looking Uganda and the Transvaal. 1908. mementoes of their favorite autho Vincent Highways and Byways In HATE FARMS NEW MEXICAN AMBASSADOR r4 "!'- I A They Abandon Agricultural Jobs and Herd and Starve in Cities. From the Baltimore Sun. United States Immlirrtitlnn ,,ti . ties in Baltimore commented day on the suggestion made in the Sun that the flood of lmmiB-mntu that nri. ly pours into this and other of the At lantic seaports be distributed among the farms of the country. whr ih.r. u work for them to do and homes for them to occupy, instead of centralising in the city: "The facts are." said Tmmi Commissioner Louis T. Wets, "that the immigrants wno come here, or, for that matter, who come to the other Atlan tic pons, win not. woric on rarms. Thev do rot come here for that purpose, and no matter what efforts or Inducements are offered ,to them you cannot keep them on the farms. "Some time ago we sent 80 able bodied men who arrived at this port out into Harford countv. A nine nn a farm and a home for each man was secured. Within two weeks nil 30 were beck in the city, doing nothing. "Day before yesterday, a big husky fellow, who Tiad some over about six months ago from Austria, came into this office. He had joined his brother when he first arrived and gone out west somewhere. For a couple of weeks he worked on the Baltimore & Ohio ranroaa ana tnen was dropped. He came in and asked whether we would not compel his brother to pay his pas sage back to Austria because he could not find work to do here. He wanted to be deported and insisted that If he stayed in this country he would starve. I said to him, 'Why don't you get work on a farm? There sre. plenty of farm ers who would take you. give you a home and pay you (rood wages.' " 'I can't do that kind of work." was his reply.' That made me a little warm i any Interruption In the supply, such as might be caused by a sudden strike of the electricians an eventuality which haa occurred here twice bf late or any other unforeseen accident, spe cial storage oatteries nave Deen set up, ready lor action the moment a but ton is pressed. The American hospital Is proudest nf its sun terraces on the roof of the building. These are reallv fine, onen sunlit spaces such as might arouse the envy of many an institution of far greater pretensions. Elevators will take the patients straight to the roof and as tney have been made roomy enough to admit a chair or even a cot the change from ward to roof is made as comfortable as possible. The sun ter races will prove a priceless boon to convalescents. In addition to these ad vantages there are the grounds com manded by the windows of the wards. The new hospital will, at first, ac commodate 25 patients, of whom 11 can have private rooms. As time goes on, nowever, me directors propose to add two other pavilions. The hospital has a free consultation room at the extreme end of the building open to all nationalities. THE BRITISH MUSEUM v -oc fu Franetaco Lo o la Barra, aew Mrilcaa ambassador i v jM-i-c-a, hi lie ditcrMo of bu lit last Iprelja diplomat to , i ;;,'r in rrla't KcoeTJt. . in the collar and I told him what I Thought of a great bic. huskv fellow like him who would not work when ho could find It. It made absolutely no difference. He would not try farming work, although there are anr number of places open for him In that line. "And that Is the way with all of them. Wben they first arrive here, 'f you offer them a place on a farm they will accept a It Is an easy way of getting through at the house of de tention and satisfying the authorities. but within a week or so they leave the farm 1 eetne rmrk to the city. We have tried here alt we on to encour age those who come over to go to the Bgrteultnral districts. bnt in vain. They do not -ome over for that pur pose and most nf them would rather go hack a rain than go on a farm." The SO men whom Mr. Wets spcaka of who. were sent to Harford county were all Immigrants and places on fnrtne were secured for them bv 8. A Williams f that county. Within twe weeks every one h4 throws, up ilia job and returned to the city. Whjr-Jet Aimmg KarlrKfsaliet From the New Tork World. Aa b Veanrtas last broke toex paople still wonder why mn rhooe te a veil tn ewrh atoo f dancer. Rut betwwen the great dinestcre that saaike ao portetitmia a printed list ara "rg rwrtoda when the eiopa ara goldea with Itiwni ripening and the r b soli ewiiles with dovMa brreta, A vokua la net wh a bad nets) bof t awava rv warning. ard In Ita worst fits eart'kes lha eiii The ea.rthti Started by a Lottery, Is Home of Richest Collection in the World , From the Cincinnati Inquirer. No city in the world offers more cur iosities for sightseers than London though the places of greatest Interest are miles apart, such as SL Paul's cathedral and Westminster abbey, the u una naii ana tne parliament build ings. The British museum Is In that part of me capital Known as uioomtnurr. which at one time was the abode of the elite, but now Is the boarding house dis trict. This Institution is reallv the center of artistic interests, for it con tains one of the richest and most cost ly collections in the world. On Jan uary 15, last, It celebrated the 115th anniversary of its existence. It is not generally known that the Institution owes its existence to a lot tery. The famous Sloane collection, worth $1,000,000, waa offered to the British government for $100,000 In 1753 and parliament voted that the sum should be raised by a lottery under the auspices of the archbishop of Canter bury, the jord chancellor and the speak-' er of commons. This was done and the required amount raised. Three other costly collections were obtained and transferred to the Montague palace in Bloomsbury. which at that time was situated on the outskirts of London. Public interest had been aroused and from thst time on patriotic Britons have emptied their priceleea relics Into the institution. The British museum has the largest nprary in ine wona. it requires 4 miles of shelving to bouse Ita hooka, and there is an annual Increase of 100, 000 volumes. The library has a Chinese encyclo pedia consisting nf 6000 volumes and an endless amount of valuable manu scripts In 107. whn for the first time in 51 yeara there waa general house cleaning In the palace, it just took six tnontba to ao it at a coat or house and the council reached an agree ment on the budget practically as It was originally submitted bv tho council. The house conferees refused to sign the conference renort although admit ting that the agreetnent was satisfac tory. They stated that they were wait ing to see whether certain other meas ures pending before the legislature were passed according to tkeir wlshea. The council refused to pass the bill Increasing the number of rederai judges, whereupon the house amended the ap propriation bill in such radical fashion that the council refused to pass the budget and the legislature again ad Journed. so Forto Kico is now lacing me com ing fiscal year without any appropria tions for government expenses. Governor Post Is blamed by the un ionist party for this situation. They say his relations with the dominant party are those ol intrigue ana un worthy , concession. Not a statesman in any sense of the word, they say. his rise to power has been pushed byi a policy so devoid of fixed principles, so prejudicial to the real progress of the island, and so Ig nobly planned to the demands of local politicians that nothing but his power over the members of the executive coun cil through an Influence and personal friendship with former President Roose velt has postponed until now the polit ical crisis. FEED CARPENTER is Berkshire. 1906. FICTION. Bindloss Long Odds. Castle & Castle Wroth. . Conrad The Point of Honor; a mil itary tale. Cotes Cousin Cinderella. Davis A Fortunate Union; affsmance translated rrom tne tnmese. zv. Godfrey The Man Who Ended War. Goodrich Gleam o Dawn. Hamilton1 Butt Chanter, Freshman. Harkcr Miss Esperance and Mr. wycnerly. Jeoson The Four Phllsnf hi-nnlt Johnson The Eternal Boy; being the story or tne prodigious MlCKey. Long Felice. Plnkham Fate's a Fiddler. Porter Freckles. Richards The Wooing of" Calvin 1-arns. Roberts Captain Spink and Other eea uomeuies. Robins The Mills of the Gods. Scott The Princess: Dehra. Tarklngton The Guest of Quesnay. xiiBiuw rrgy at spinster farm. FINE ARTS. Hemsley The Book of Fern Cul ture. Notes From the Labor World Brooklyn. N. T.. has a Hebrew Lanir. shoremen's union, aa A union of Stonemasons haa been started at Mankato, Minn. A worklngmen's clubhouse was re cently erected In Newcastle, England. United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers will convene In New York City on May 1. San Francisco will endeavor to have the Cooks and Walters' International hold Its 1910 convention there. A bill to extend the liability of em ployers ror injuries to their employes is now pending in tno assembly at Ai bany, is. x. The California State Federation Hofmann Piano Playlng;a little book T tna aiornla Blal8 "aeration nf oiri. ...,ii. ,'. " mo Labor has begun a campaign to orga: cuader The Field Day and.. Play r, "hn,,t .h.t .t..V " :-' A r $i&1. Maab" ltng. fury e4 Hon la Its stitwl p.e eadtic.sj Tbe Last Medicine From the Indian's Friend. Hot-eho-no-pah. laat of tha medicine men. died last month In the Pnaka hill of the Ctwli nation. Ha Waa l years old. t or nair a century ne nan tn one of the moat turbulent apliita la Oklahoma. Hut-rbo-sv-ixb I-d tne laat rebellion of the Creeks In li- ' His faction waa subdued by the Cmeke thsilTM b- nre the 1"nltd Ptatea trnfe a-ot thrw n a bat Tie Uut-chO ti fR"S band Waa annihilated and be waa endeaancd la death. but so great waa I We awe tn whirs tba old tnedicina rasa waa held that no dm rmild be fnnnd to Pa hia rotor. With bis adherents dead and himself Im nrianned. Ma Inf1ren-a waa eo potent tsat ba enned tba eiw-tton Of a frhnd sa chief ajtd waa pardon. Tea n-1 K-1 nm (nan fonfbt f T tba rctht-w fort durVg the Ovll wr. Ha elwefa ert-4 taat ba waa if I k apeaj prvtwtko f Urn ear"! 1 4s Tfcla la a pictaca of tba jptu wbo If to take the plar of rWrptiry(Loes la the- Wilt Hrrnae. H U Frexlec Uk Carptr and baa bewajaPrawK det Taft a aecrelary lor a rf tla, Picnic for Country Children. 1flng Shaylor The Book of Alphabets; for UBO 111 BCIIOUIS. IVVO. HISTORY. Anderson The Storv of a Bordorfitv During the Civil War. 1908. Dutt The Academic History of India In the Victorian Age. Ed. 2. ian Ramsay The Dawn of the Constltu- sicians of Seattle, Wash., to have tha tion; or, ine rteigns or Henry III and convention or tne American reoeration throughout that state. Tha San Francisco Bakers' and Con fectioners' union recently decided to organize all the helpers In local bak eries Into an auxiliary. An effort is being made by the mu- Edward I. 1908. Reich General History of Western Nations. 3 v 1908. LITERATURE. Blake Discoveries (poems). 1104. Blake Poems. 1887. Ohio State Commissioners . of Com mon Schools: Arbor lUv: flnratlAna and Material for Observance of the Day. Oregon Public Instruct! on. fliin?f7i- tendent of; Oregon Arbor Day Annual. RELIGION. Campbell Christianity m. d i.i . . . w initial Order. 1907.- . Oman. The Brahman TTi.i.t. an Muslims of India: atudlea nf owtH.... worship In Bengal. 1907. Stephens HIMebrand nd m Tln.. by W. R. W. Stephrns. 190$. SCIENCE. Curtis Nature 'and nnwlnnmaat of Plants. 1907. SOCIOLOGT. Bur. The Catholic School Dnl.ni In the United States. 1908. Ixrla ThawKconomlo Foundations of Dociety. isu. Mahan Naval Adminlatratlnn mr,A Warfare. 1908. Snow The Collera Oirrlrnlnm In tha. united Htates. ist7. Sparro HocbxHsm : A flummtrv and interpreiauon or socialist Principles. USEFUL ARTS. weeae Tho principles of Practi cal PublleHy: Relng a Treatise on tha Art of Advertising. Fd. S. 1908. - Jlaugbter"Tb On Tmm .nif tha Others; A Study of Canine Character. 7. Stajidage The Decoration, of MetaL Wood. Olaea, etc: A Bonk for Manu- r.lt,IMH Uvha.U ttalntaM T .n . tore and Workmea ta tha Fatter Trades. Whit ford Training tha Bird Dog. f8. BOOKS ADDED TO RFFERENCK DE- I'ARTMt.M. Qnebnd Prtdra Inquiry. Royal Com- sniiurlnn. He port. 2. l0a. Rellriooa r. tucallon Aaonclatloa. Pro- ctedioga of tha ano sal convention. 1st- th. li-ll7. Wlsrooatn. I nlveraltr cf. Extension division. Onem'ijt losurmnra of Bank. Deposit. t8. . FAMPTTT-FTft. fnMod Ftat-a Pnbllc Roads. OfTlca nf lJt Vreventive. BL ti. I nt4 t I -a F',mat "r-vtca. IVrof -a Fir. Ore, !. ADDKT T Jt'VEXILR TE- PA RT M r.XT. li"-p 7 a ! ond Fra F heexne. I'lit' la the tat of tfcc of Musicians In 1910 held in that city. Moving picture operators at San Francisco have recently been organ ized Into a union, as an auxiliary to the local union of theatrical stage employes. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers have Just let the contract for furnishing the steel for its new 13 aiory building at Cleveland, the cost of which la to be about $1,000,000. Members of trades unions In Wash ington. D. C, affiliated with the Cen tral Labor union, do not take kindly to the so-called "mixed union," which la composed of bosses and worklngraen, and ara agitating etrongly against it, Since the adjournment of the Stat Federation convention held In San Francisco In October of last year. .JS new unions have been organized In that state and 11 of the rdd union have re- afflliated with the federation. - Officers of the International Photo graphera' union unanimously commend the proposed Internstlonal union com pact with the allied printing trades, as heretofore reported, and recommend that the union proceed along tha linea of the earns. ,. Tha twenty-aoeond annual report of Oscar S, Straus, secretary of commerce and labor of the United States, haa been Issued, containing trie Uws re Sating to labor Jn every trtate In the union.' together with ' court decisions. A bl dealcned ta prevent union la bor organizers from the United rUat-s from entering Canada was killed In tho m.i. ait Ottawa. Tha motion tor second "reading was lost by a vote of 18 to Zl. Tha oiH cannot r Drought ta Ufa again this seaaion. a a T..1 vaiAntti tha first tin inn nf vnn-- - lng picture operators In Brooklyn, N7V f Y was temporarily formed. At theVV meeting to ba held shortly a perm- t nent or santxat wn- win ta efTeoted and I officers will be elected. On of tiie objects of the onion, beld Insisting upon uniform wage acale, will no t S demand for tba use of eafetr ai pl lance. American Roller Kkatcr XfTtaa. (Vatted Prsaa I w w 'April 8. In a whirlwind fi. lab Allto Woora of Ametira won rnlh-r skating rbasnninnshto frora David. n or f naiarvl at rairlsoourt tnniat-t, 1 la pa'r skat-d the niUn it-o ra-tl-.lr nri,4e fr alrlde. Wr f;. is nrg a nranty yard (a the Wad.