The jHeppner Gazette THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1900. TBI HBAVRNS IN DECEMBER. Something of Interest Concerning the v 1 Constellation, - - Tbe close of the nineteenth century is marked by no celestial pageant. In deed, the . heavens are more than usually bare, for all. the outer planets, except Neptune are hidden behind the sun, and tbe inner cones are all three morning stars. . So on the' last evening of the century we shall see those silent and eternal stars alone which present the same aspect to as that they did to tbe sages of the East more than thirty centuries ago Orion and the Pleiades, familiar to star-gazers when the Book of Job was yet unwritten, even as in present times, ana seeming , even more inconceivably far beyond onr reach to us than to them, v , To the fixed: stars, therefore, must our attention be chiefly directed, when, as oar custom is, we survey the even ing skies. At 9 p. m. on December IS, the Milky Way extends i in a broad span across the sky . from east to west. passing a little north of the zenith. It is much brighter . in the west than in the east, and also much more irregu lar in form and brilliancy.: Following its line fromjwest to east, and noting the principal constellations, we come at ;first to Cygnus, a great . cross of stars standing erect right along the center of the Galaxy, and close above the western - horison. Some dis tance higher op, and nearly overhead. is Cassiopeia, marked; by a xigzag line of bright stars; and, the next group to tbe east is Perseus. Midway between the last-named constellations is bright spot in the Milky Way, which, witn. even - the smallest telescope, is seen to - be a magnificent cluster of telescopic stars. Still following the Milky Way down toward the east, we next reach Auriga, whose brightest star... Uapella, : con aiderably surpasses any that we have so far passed.c. Below is Gemini, con taining the conspicuous pair Castor and Pollux, both of which are almost of tbe first . magnitude. Their line con tinued downward points out a little hazy spot of light which is the cluster Praesepe,, in Cancer, the most charac teristic feature of the . constellation. The : separate t stars of this cluster can not be. separated by thejnaked eye, but . are clearly seen with a fieldglass. To the right of Cancer is Canis Minor, whose only conspicuous star : is the brilliant Procyon. : Further on in the same direction is Siriua, which) even at its present low attitude, is be yond comparison the brightest star in sight. '. The lower part of Canis Major to which constellation it belongs nas not yet risen. Above Sirius is Orion, which is too familiar to need description here, and high above him again is 'Taurus Aldearan, . Sirius and ' the two brightest .. in i Orion, Rigel i and Betelgeuse, form a remarkably per- feet paraleiogram. : Below and to the right of Orion the little constellation Lepus, the Hare, which between the hunter Orion and bis Great and Little Dogs must be pretty hard pressed. : Just above Kigei is a moderately bright star, which Beta Ericlani; and tbe classic river is represented by a long stream of faint stars extending thence to the westward and then southward and eastward to the horizon and filling up most of the southeastern sky. Tbe almost equally irregular and ex tensive , Bhape of Cetus and Pisces similarly. ... occupy ; the southwest Above is Aries, a little south of the zenith, below which to the west Andromeda, with the great square , of Pegasus further down and standing on one corner. In the northern heavens we may note that the .Little Dipper hangs directly down from the Pole Star and that Draco lies below it. The Great Dipper is on the right, the last star of its handle out of sight near j the horizon and the bead and paws of the Or eat Bear extend from it toward Gemini and Cancer. This month has more than the usual number of planetary conjuntions.with the sun; but r these are unfortunately not observable phenomena. Mercury is . morning star in Libra and Scorpio, all the month. His greatest elongation occurs on the 7tb and throughout the first half of Decem ber he is well placed for observation, rising about two hoars before tbe sun. On the morning of tbe 22d be passes close to Uranus, and on that of the 30th close to Jupiter, but in both cases the planets are too much involved in the dawn to be easily .seen. . - r Venn is morning star ' in Virgo, Libra and Scorpio, rising nearly three hours before the sun , on the 1st, and more: than two hours on the 81st. She is receding : from the earth and grow ing fainter, but remains as always the brightest of the planets. Mars is rapidly approaching , opposi tion and becoming more . conspicuous. He is in Leo, moving slowly eastward and growing brighter By the end of the month be will be a brilliant ob ject, brighter, than a first magnitude star, and rising about 10 p. m. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are all in conjuntion with the sun during this month ;f Uranus on tbe 4th, Jupiter on the 13tb, and Saturn on the 28th, and all are invisible during the month, unless perhaps Saturn might be seen in very clear air just after sunset in its very first days. . Neptune is almost, opposite to the three planeta last named, and comes to opposition on tbe 19th. He is situated on .' the .boundary of - Taurus and - Gemini, and is invisible to the naked eye, and, indeed, hardly worth looking at in any bat large telescopes. Full moon occurs on tbe morning of tbe 6th ; last quarter on the afternoon of the 13tb ; new moon on that of ; the 21st; and first - quarter on the evening of the 28th. The moon is nearest the eartb on the 3d, most remote on the 15th and nearest again on the 30th. She passes Neptune on the morning of the 7th, Mars on the evening of the 12th, Venus on the ;nlght of the 18th, Mercury on the morning ' of the 20tb, Uranusa noon the same day .Jupiter on the morning of the 21st, and Saturn on that of tbe 22d. At 1 a. m. on the morning of the 22d the bub enters tbe sign of Capricorn, and. according to tbe almanacs. "winter begins." And with tbe stroke of midnight on the 31st tbe nineteenth century closes Henry Norris Russell in the Scientific American. ' THE tTMSESft: VN1VEISI i IS RIAL, It il astonishing how recent advances in astronomy are plunging as deep into the invisible universe.- It has become evident that the heavens are more filled " With anseen than with seen things. This lends additional and piauant Interest to tbe t fact that our solar system is traveling at mad speed through space, the Southern- stare closing in behind it and tbe Northern atari perspectively opening oat before it H it rashea nearer to them. One can not help wondering what may lie un detected because onseen, in our path' By anseen things is here meant, not phenomena too , distant to be viaible, but objects which are unseen because they give off .no form of radiation that affects our eyes. Such objects may be comparatively near by without re vealing their presence , to our sense of sight. . , .., It is clear that something equivalent to, it not identical with, the mysteri ous Roentgen , rays comes to us from celestial space, emanating from the stars. Shadow photographs made with the sunbeams are sufficient to prove this. If the sun pours forth "invisible lght" his brother suns, the stars, do so too, and some of them evidently. shine brighter.' if I may use so self-contradictory, a phrase, by their invisible. than by their visible rays.. tor proof ol that statement we need only look at the photographs recently taken of tbe celebrated Ring Nebula in Lyra. , In the center of that strange gauze-like ring is an exceedingly' faint star. In a few telescopes of enormous power that star can just be glimpsed. But in a photograph, with scarcely any magnification, the star, appears as a most conspicuous phenomenon. ' Why does it imprint its picture , so boldly when its light is so faint? Perhaps be cause it bears a resemblance to a gigantic Crookes tube, and -. is essen tially an .''electric star," whose major radiation 'differs from that of our sun. It only require another step in the same direction to convince , ps that there i are in the heavens objects which radiate no light . at all, but which nevertheless may ' be continu ally pouring upon us invisible waves tbe existence of which can be detected by modern photographic methods. The recent detections by powerful photo. graphic telescopes of thousands of in. visible nebulae scattered over the heavens shows what an infinite world of discovery lies this way. ine unseen universe, t formerly the subject of metaphysical discussion, thus becomes real for us, and the means of handling its phenomena with some of the certaintv with which we have dealt with visible things are to come into our hands. In this way we may learn the nature of the influence exercised by sun spots, which, when they burst out with ex traordinary paroxysms as they will soon begin to do once more set the at mosphere around tbe earth's magnetic poles aflame with auroral beams. The centers of sun spots look absolutely black, but, since they lie deep beneath the surface, they pertain to a part of the solar ' globe where 1 the atoms- are more intensely excited than at a higher level, and which, like the mysterious star in the Ring Nebula emits not so much light as radiant energy of a more subtle form. ' '' 1 ..'.. : Thus tbe invisible universe' appears at our doors at the hearth of the plane tary system, as well as . in distant space, and everywhere its potentiality presents mysteries for solution. Gar rett P. Serviss.. " ' THOMAS RETALIATES. . . , Governor of Colorado Refutes to Honor Requisition Governor of Indiana. ; ! Governor Mount of Indiana on Satur day last received word that Governor Thomas, of Colorado, has refused to honor a requisition from Indiana fo; the return : of Clifton Oxman. of Princeton, Ind., accused of defrauding, in a real estate deal, J. Mayer Greene, Chicago. A special from Denver says the Indiana sheriff had Attorney-General Campbell, of Colorado, inspect the papers,. and they were declared legal. Afterward, it . is Btated, ; Gov ernor Thomas bad a consultation with Mr. Campbell, and then announced that the papers were not made, out in technical form, and this, taken in con nection with the attitude of Governor Mount,, of Indiana, in. refusing to honor Governor Beckham's requisition for the return to Kentucky of W. S. Taylor, who is now living in Indiana, be said would cause him to refuse the requisition- Governor Thomas, . it is stated, at the same time said that sev eral other governors had, he believed, decided to take similar steps regarding Governor Mount,' The matter has created considerable comment.' ' IT WAS A GREAT SOCCESS. Peril Exposition Has Been Profitable Beyond Expectations. The Paris exhibtion. though ' some times described as a failure, has truly failed magnificently, says a correspon dent Of the Chicago Chronicle. It has broken all records for world's snows in regard to attendance.' In seven months 60.000.000 visitors passed through its turnstiles, more than double the num ber who visited the world's fair at Chicago. It is interesting to note how these great shows have grown in popu laritv. In 1851 o.OOO.OOU people at tended the great exhibition in Hyde Park. Four years later the first great show in Pans was visited by 6,000,000. In 1867 Paris drew 10,000,000; in, 1878 she attracted 16.000,000 -an average: of 82,000 a dav and in 1889 the records show, up to this year- was visited by 28,000,000. - Since tbe crystal palace was first erected In Hyde Park in 1851 there have ibeen 21 great international shows, and the aggieeate attendance has been . about -160,000,000. In 1873 Vienna. lost 2,000,000. . v ... Hessian Fly fn Willamette Valley. Tbe work of the Hessian fly on the growing wheat is being watched by' the farmers in the Willamette valley with a great deal of concern. Up' to the present time, the ravages ot the insect have not been of great consequence and only now and then a field is found where any injury nas been done, rne fields that show signs of damage are invariably those that were seeded early in the fall, while later grain has is looking as fine as wheat ever looks in the winter. But even tbe farmers who have tbe best-looking fields have grown apprehensive, feeling that tbe prospects of a satisfactory crop are 1 ex tremely doubtful. Tbe experience of last season destroys their faith. 1 Last year many a field showed as fine a prospect as was ever seen until the grain was of considerable, size, when something seemed to take the life out of it and the wheat was gone. It is feared that when the second brood of insects comes in the spring they will attack the joints of the straw, and the experience of last -year will oe re. pea ted. .-. . ' . . Selling Offlclel Inforiaatloa. : . A story to the effet that the govern. ment cotton crop report, which will be made public soon, had been offered to various cotton brokers in New ' York city in advance, received corroboration Sunday, frank a. uuest, head 01 cotton commission house, said that advance information was offered ' him on Saturday. ' He immediately notified President Hubbard of the cotton ex change. Tbe latter asked for a detailed statement, which was given1, and this is to be used as a basis for federal in estigation. . . At Ashland tbe republicans in con vent ion assembled nominated R. C. Sell, a " democrat, for mayor by acclamation, and this after pawing resolution excluding all but "regular repabl leans" from participating in tbe proceedings. , ANIMAL: CONTHOLS YOU? Of all animals upon earth man came last. " ' 1 .; r!i,' All of earth's animal creations are bound up in man. Wk ' - 1 ' As to the first statement there is no difference of opinion. v-' i ' , The Bible .and Darwin agree that man was created last ' of all the ani mals. Very superficial observation will convince vou that man contains in his mental make-up allot tbe "inferior'; animals, or at least a great many of them . .. You,. Mr. Jones, or Smith, who read this are in your single self a sort of synthesis of the entire animal crea tion. If vou could be divided into your component animal parts, theie would be a menagerie in your bouse and you, Smith or Jones, wouia De missing. That thing we call ; a soul would be floating around, impalpable, looking for its bouse to live in. - ' Of course you ;can see ; the animal make-up in your neighbor more readily than in yourself. Hov do men describe each other? D6 they i not speak as ' follows, and mean exactly what they say: ' "He is as sly as a fox." 1 ' "He eats like a pig." 1 , "He has dog-like faithfulness." " "He is as brave as a lion." ' "He is as treacherous" as a snake.'' "He was as hungry as a wolf," etc. Our good and our bad qualities alike are mapped out in our nuroDie. rela tions. . . The horse stands for ambition, which strives .and suffers in silence,. The dog represents friendship, which suffers and sacrifices much, but . whines loudy when lniured., , We have no doubt , that of the twelve passions which enter into Fourier's complex analysis ol man each has its prototype in some animal, ; , . To rebel at the animal combination which makes up a man would be folly 'The Maker of us all, " from ants to anti-imperialists, naturally gathered tosrether tbe various parts in lower ani mal form before finishing the work in man. A harmoniously balanced mixture of all the animals is calculated uh- doubtedly to produce the perfect man Therefore, study vour animal make up.. Analyse honestly and intelligently thei so-called "lower - creatures from which you derive your mental charac teristics, if you have not yet done so, study at once some good work on . em bryology, and ; Jeam . with amazement and awe of vour marvelous pre-natal transformations.,. ' ... . Then do your . best to control the menagerie, that : is ; at -, work in your mind ; . - Stuperfy Mr. Pig, if he is too prom inent., Circumvent Mr. Fox, if be tries to rule you and make of you mere cunning . machine, Do . not let your Old Dog Tray qualities of , friend ship lead to your being , made a looi Of. In short, study carefully the animal qualities that . make up your .tempera ment and prove in your own person the falseness of Napoleon's irritating state ment that a man's temperament can never be changed by himself. It . may interest you to note' that when man becomes insane the fact . is at once made" apparent that bis mind dethroned, had acted as , the savage ruler of a menagerie. . Many men im agine themselves animals of .one sort or another. Nearly all of them display the grossest animal qualities, once their mind is deranged; Women of the greatest refinement sink into dreadful animalism when insane. - . . . Heine tells of 'a constable who, in his boyhood, ruled his native citv. One fine day "This constable suddenly went crazy . , and thereupon he be can to roar like a lion or squall like cat. " Heine remarks with calculated naivette) 'We little boys were greatly delighted at the old fellow, and trooped yelling after, him,, until he was carriea on 10 a niau noune. " j a i , There Is,; by the . wav, much off the natural-, animal in "little: boys. "-It takes years to make a fairly .-reason able creature of a young human. For that reason many ignorant parents are foolishly distressed at juvenile ,dis plays of animalism, which are per fectljrjnatpxai c',U'iU WW The same Heine, whose writings you ought not to neglect, describes beauti fully a human menagerie. We'll quote that, and then let you otf tor tne, day Heine was 'living-in Paris . in the forties - and . used . to visit a curious revolutionary freak named Ludwig Borne. Of this man'i !; fiouse Heine wrote: .'! -.; .-v .-. ., . "I found in t. hia saloon : such i menagerie of people as can hardly be found in the Jarain des- Plantea (the Paris Zoological Garden). In the back ground several polar bean were crouch ing, who Smoked and hardly ever spoke, except to growl ' out now and then a real Fatherland 'donner wetter in. a deep bass voice. Near them was squatting a Polish 'wolf (in a red cap who occasionally yelped out a silly wild ' remark in a hoarse tone. There too, 1 found a French monkey, one of tne most niaeous creatures i ever saw. HekeDt on a series of eri maces. each of which seemed more lovely than the last," etc.1 " ' '. If Heine's polar bears and monkey had studied - themselves, as we advise yoil to study youraelf, they might have escaped the sarcasm of the sharpest tongue born in or out of -'Uermany, Hearst's unicago American." ' ' , ; THE , CRIMINAL' CLASS. ' Much interest just now in criminals 1 Much horror' aroused by depravity ' Many plans more or less appropriate for making the air pure. J Many good people, politicians, wo men and clergymen, who spent the summer at the seaside, willing now to spend a few days wiping "crime" off the earth. vWhat is crime? who are tho crim Inali? Who makes the criminals? DO criminals viciously and volun tarllv arise among us eager to lead hunted lives, eager to be jailed at in tervals. eager to crawl in the dark dodge policemen, work in stripes and die in shame? Hardly. Will you kindly and patiently follow the lives, quickly sketched, of a boy ana a giri r - Born ! poor, born in hard luck her father or mother, or both, victims of long hours, poor fare, bad air and little leisure. . At a babv she strawrlee litre Inst fate and manages to live while three or four little ' brothers and sisters die and go back to kind earth. ' 1 i " Sbe crawls around the halls of a tenement, a good deal in the way. She is bunted here and chased there. She is cold fn winter, .ill-fed in sum - mer, never well cared for. - She gets a little eo-cellod education. Ill-dressed and asflamed beside the 'other children, she is glad to escape ' the education No- one at home can ' WHAt help ,. her on. No one away from home cares about her. She grows up white, sickly, like a potato sprouting in a cellar. At the ' corner of a fine street she sees the carriages passing with other girls in warm . furs, or in tine, cool summer dresses. : With a poor shawl around her and with heels run down she peers in at the restaurant window, to see other women leading lives very different from hers. ; Steadily she has .impressed upon her the fact, absolutely undeniable, that as the world is organized there is no especial place for her certainly no comtort for her. ' She finds- work, perhaps. Hours as long as the daylight. Ten minutes late hair a day's tine. At tbe end of the day aching .feet. aching back, system ill fed, not enough earned to live upon honestly and that prospect stretches ahead farther than her poor eyes can see. "What's the charge, officer?" "Disorderly conduct, Your Honor." There's the criminal, good men, poli ticians, women and clergymen, that you are hunting so ardently. Same story, practically. He plays on the tenement staircase cuffed off the staircase. He plays bill in the street cuffed, f caught by the policeman. He swings on the area railing, trying to exercise his stunted muscles cuffed again. . In. burning.1 July, ., with 'shirt and trousers on, he goes swimming in the park fountain caught and cuffed and handed over to a Children's Society. A few months in a sort of semi- decent imprisonment; treated in a fashion about equivalent to that en dured by the sea turtle turned over on its back in the market. . He escapes to begin the , same life once more. He tries for work. "What do you know?" - "I don't know anything; nobodv ever taught nie." He cannot even endure the discipline of ten hours' daily shoveling it takes education to instill discipline, if onlv the education, of the early pick and shovel.. , !. He has not been taught, anything. He has been turned loose in a city full of temptation;. He had no real start to begin with. and no ettort whatever made to repair his evil beginning. "What's the charge, officer?" "Attempted burglary, pleads guilty "Three years in prison, since it is his first offense." In prison, he gets an education They teach him howto.be a good burglar and not get caught. Patiently the state boards him, and educates him to be a first-rate criminal. There's your first-rate 1 criminal, Messrs. clergymen, good men, politi cians and benevolent women. Dear clergymen, noble women, good men and scheming politicians, listen to this story s . --'' 1 In the South Sea islands they have for contagious diseases horror as great as your horror of crime. A man or woman stricken -with loathsome - disease, such as smallpox, is seized, isolated, and the individual sores ot the smallpox patient are earnestly scraped with sea shells until the patient dies. It hurts the patient a Kood deal without ever curing, ot course but it rel ieves the feelings of the outraged good ones, - who wield the sea shells. You kind-hearted creatures, hunting "crime" in great cities, are like the South Sea islanders in their treatment of smallpox. , You ardently wield your reforming sea shells and you scrape very earnest ly at the sorea so well developed. No desire to decry, , your earnest efforts. , . , But if you ever get tired of scraping with sea shells, try vaccination, or, better still, try to take such care of youth, to give such chances and educa tion to the young, as will save them from the least profitable of all careers crime. i Rich good men, nice clergymen. comfortable, benevolent ladies every man . and woman in the workhouse, every wretched creature living near a "red light' would gladly change places with any of you. Scrape away with your sea shells, but try also to give a few more and few better chances in youth to those whom yon how hunt as criminals in their mature years, ..- God creates 'boys and girlf, anxious to live decently. . . Your social system makes criminals and fills ' jails. Hearst's Chicago American.: ONLY FOUR PERSONS IM THE COUNTY Some Facts Regarding Texas Disclosed by the Cemui Bureau. ' Fewer, residents to the ' county have been found in some counties in the state of Texas than in any other state In the Union. According to a statement issued by the census office the most densely settled county in the state is Dallas, with 82,726 residents, and the most sparsely settled is liailey county, with but four persons living there. In Lynn . county the enumerator, after driving about ' the county in a buckboard for several days, managed to find seventeen . persons. At the census ollice rate of wages two cents for each name tbe enumerator made 34 cents, ' Some of the most striking instances of the opportunity in Texas for fipdipg homes is shown by the population of the following counties; Cockran, 25; Andrews, 37; Crane, 61; Dawson, 3fl, and more than twenty-five counties which have less than 600. -, In any county in the state all of the Greater New-York could be. placed without crowding. Tom Green county, the . : largest ,. in the state, . has 46,000 square miles and but 6804 people. Home of the counties in which the population is so smull are hundreds of miles from a railroad, some have no water and others are inhabited almost wholly by the prairie dog, rattlesnake and jack rabbit, Disease of Sheep. The bacteriological department at the state agricultural college experi ment station is working on a disease of sheep. Half a dozen sheep have died on a neighboring farm. The owner suspected leech, but a liver brought to the station proved contrary. Jnsfeaa a germ was found identical with germs found in the remaini . of goats, amor; which there was a wide fatality in Alsea about a year ago. The local de partment was unable to classify tbe , germs at the time. t. id samples were i ent to tbe bureau at Washington, but op to the present no report of classlfl- 'cation has been received. The local department is now provided with lower j animals for eijieriroenUl pnrpoxes.and attempt is afoot for idtntjfying and idaisifying the germ. I , Two Corvallis hove nt drnnk la . week on gin left on the grave ' a Chinaman. GENERAL NEWS. Tho republican plurality for presi den tial electors, official count, in Massachusetts, was 182,194.', , ' Thirty dental surgeons will probably be added to the American army to care for the teeth of the soldiers. (Jharles Watson Grant, one of the best known insurance men on the coast died suddenly in San Francisco last Saturday. Albert T. Patrick, charged with forging Millionaire Rice's will, in New York, has confessed. He was a lawyer in good standing prior to his arrest. . Henry Uussell, the composer of over 800 songs, including "A Life on the Ocean Wave," and "Cheer, Boys, Cheer," died in London, Thursday, aged 87 years. Max May berg & Co., one oi the oldest firms in Los Angeles, made, an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities are $78,000; assets, nominally $100,000. Li Hung Chang has informed Gen eral Chaffee that he and all the people of the Province of Chi Li are extreme ly pleased and gratified at thd behavior of the American troops toward the Chinese. The Nansen fund, which was started after the return of Dr. Nansen . from the Arctic, to promote ; scientific ex plorations, now amounts to 1,000,000 kroner, and no further contributions will be made. , :.. President Kruger has abandoned his proposed journeys to other capitals and ail further diplomatic efforts to secure arbitration, and will await' at The Hague the development of events at the seat of war. " . . , . . Representative Burleiah introduced a bill in congress authorizing tbe ap pointment of Representative Boutelle of Maine, . now a confirmed invalid. to the rank of captain on the retired list of the navy. At Newark. Ohio. Cincinnati Typographical Union withdrew from tne unio federation oi Labor inteBSion because of the failure of the conven tion to adopt resolutions censuring the administration. , , ,,, The vote cast for the leading demo cratic elector and the leading republi can elector, accoring to ! the official count in Kentucky, gives the former 234,899 and . the latter 220,801, plurality for Bryan of 8098. Commodore Alexander Henderson, U. 8. N., retired, is seriously ill 1 at his home in Yonkers, near New York city. The commodore had a stroke of paralysis a year ago, from ' whit:: he never recovered. He is nearly 70 years ot age The pension roll for the coming year will call for about $142,000,000, as against about $138,000,000 for the year just closing. There are a little less than 1,000,000 names on the roll now and these are being added to by recent legislation. Miss. Georgia Cayvan, the actress, who has been ill lor several weeks in tbe Sanford hall sanitarium of Flush ing, Li. 1., is sintering from nervous prostration. , It is said that she is on the verge of mental and physical wreck, having become almost totally blind The commission having charge of the erection of the equestrian statue of General W. T. Sherman in Washington city, has decided to permit Mrs. Carl Rohl-Smith, the widow .of the sculptor and contractor who recently died in Copenhagen, to carry out her husband' contract. i. A strike of servant girls on Man hattan island is imminent,' according to Mrs. St. Justin Beale, who is plan ning a servant girls' union. Three hundred domestics, she says, stand ready to stop work as soon aa the union is formed and demand better conditions. In the sales ring of the live stock ex position in Chicago Dolly Fifth a Hereford cow, sold for $3150 to C. A. Jamieson of Peoria, Ills. This breaks the world's ' record for the ' sale of a Hereford cow. This same cow was sold last April in the celebrated' Hereford sale in the same amphitheatre for $1000. : ' At Williamson, West Virginia, Wed nesday, David Stokes, a young lawyer, ihot and killed Rev. Dr. Wohf, a Presbyterian minister, on the streets. The minister first shot and wounded the lawyer. Stokes refuses to sav anything about the tragedy but there was known to be much ill-feeling , bo tween the men. Dr,. Angle . Belllniiaghi, a young specialist whose success in' the treat ment of sufferers from yellow lever recenlty attracted ' much attention in Mexico", refused the $100,000 prize offered by the Mexican' government. He. will establish a yellow fever hospital In San Antonio, Texas. The conviction among yachtsmen on this side of the Atlantic that Sir Thomas Upton's challenger for the America's cup carries with it real menace to the continued residence of the famous trophy In this country, has grown with the cabled reports from abroad concerning the elaborate preparations being made for the build ing of the new challenger, Shamrock II, The annual report of Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treasury, begins with a statement of the total receipts and expenditures of the government for the i fiscal year ended June 30, 1000, as follows: .Receipts, $ti'U,5U5, 431.18; expenditures, $50O,Oii,37 ; surplus, $79,527,060.18. i There was' a decrease of $117,38,388.14 in expendi tures as compared, with the preceding year, The richest tqrf pr!e ever offered in thil country will probubly a be the Futurity of 1903, to lie run at the autumn meeting at Sheepsbead Bay, The Coney Island Jockey club has an nounced that the estimated value of the race will be $75,000. .. Ever since the first run ing of the Futurity in 1888 it has been the . most valuable raco in a pecuniary sense on the American turf, and it has always attracted wide spread interest not only on account of its money valuation, but owing to bringing together some of the best fleet-footed thoroughbreds of the coun try. It is for 2-year-olds, and the dis tance, of the race has always been 170 feet less than six furlongs. The case of Morris Aaronberg, at Boh ton, the youth who has confessed that be stole $8837 from Mrs. Margaret Beck, which has puzzled the police from the flr, still itqggers the omcisis, although the boy has declared Lie guilt. It is the first case in police records there where a man or boy has confessed to having stolen money and has stood ready to take all the punish ment which could be given lot the offense without making restitution and trying to escape tbe full penalty, The police have figured it out that il Aaronberg goes to prison for the maxi mum term of five years without re turning the stolen money he will come out financially ai if - be had been at work all the time on a salary of about $1800 a year. All evidence U takn ai Indicating that Aaronberg has , fundi of the state aggregating in value th! money safely concealed and intends about $3,500,000. The annual losses u no to prison without revealing iU,from failure to pay 'interest and hiding place, bad loans are fatly $40,000. The national league . baseball magnates are holding a session at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York., .The-. Roumanian government hag broken off the -negotiations with the Standard Oil company for a lease of the petroleum fields in that country. At The Hague the feeling is one of alarm at the prospect of an Ando-Ger-man-Portuguese combination which might snatch the k Dutch . seaboard or seiee Java. i , Recruits are arriving at the Presidio, San Francisco, from various enlistment points throughout the country at the raie oi aooui zou a week, mere are at present over 400 at the barracks. Adnah Adams Treat died at Denver. Sunday, at the age of 103 years and eight months.. He had long been the oldest living Mason in point of aire. and the second oldest in point-of time connected with the order., isrooKiyn, JN. i .. will soon . reioice , n the possession of the lareest familv hotel in the world. It will! be 23 stories ' high, and have over 1000 rooms, in suites, so that 250 ; families win be boused under one roof. - Representative Jones, of Washing ton, is seeking to amend the pension laws by lilting from the soldiers the necessity cf providing that the disa bility for which they seek pensions did not exist prior to theif enlistment.: . The grand iury at Minneapolis has ndicted Frank ; H. Hamilton, the newspaper man, for ; the murder. . of Leonard H.. Day, in the West hotel billiard room on , November 29. The charge is murder in the first degree. The presidents of the railroads in cluded in the trunk line associations and the central, western and south western traffic associations have de cided to postpone further consideration of the proposition to do away with free transportation until next year. The population of New York accord ing to the new census is 7,268,012, an increase of 1,270,159 since, 1890., This is the only state that gained more than a million in the decade. Illinois, with a population of 4,821,550, gained 995,199, but this is 26 per cent, against zi.i JNew York. Rev.. P. Daly, of Hot Sprinaa. South Dakota, while reading a biography of Marcus Daly,, the other .day, dis covered, that they , were brothers. Marcus had left, home early in life, ragged and penniless. . They had never corresponded and the preacher had sup posed nis brother dead long ago A new1 baseball league has : been organized at a meeting held at Detroit. lien Johnson, president of the Ameri can Association, . is president of the new league. The following cities com prise the circuit. Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Louisville, Minnea polis, St. Paul, Kansas City and either Indianapolis or Buffalo. It is learned on good authority that Georpe Westinghouse, of Pittsburg, has bought the entire Buena Vista grant, comprising 7009 acres of land, near ; Nogales, Am., and intends to erect at some point on the Santa Cruc river colossal reduction works and smelters and build a railway connect ing the mines, the reduction works and Nogales. Following are the amounts carried in the proposed appropriation bill of the present congress: Agriculture, $4,669, 050: army, $113,019,044; diplomatic and consular, - fl,897,6:W; District of Col umhia, $9,080,7K3; fortifications, 112,461, 19a: Indians, $9,250,754 : leg isla.tive, etc.. $25,399,509; military academy, fi.u-iDjou: navy,. S7,172, 430: pensions, $145,245,230; post-office, i2i,2ti,34; river and harbor, $25, 130,000; sundry civil, $63,378,113; permanent annual appropriations. $124,358,220. Oberlin M. Carter, formerly captain in the United States army,, will have to serve his five years' sentence in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. lie misappropriated nearly $1,000,000 of government funds while in charge., of the . harbor . work at Savannah, Ga He was also fined $500, which he paid., The judge of : the federal district court of Kansas has remanded Carter to the custody of the warden . ot the penitentiary. He en tered prison last April. ' With one year off for good behavior he still has more than three years to serve. ' : FIFTY CBNT DOLLARS IN PHILIPPINES. Sliver to Be Used In the Islands ai a Ciroulatlng Medium , ; .The McKinley cabinet recenty dis cussed the queMtlon of coinage in the Philippines and as a result of the cab inet's consideration of it the secretary of war will request a hearim of the auhject before one of the committees of congress. Weary all of the business from the islands is transacted in Mexican dollars, and army commis saries and others who buy supplies with United States money are at tunes greatly embarrassed in making pur chases from tbe Filipinos by the fact that, knowing nothing ot our money or its value, the latter often refuse to accept It. The proposition which seems to have met with favor by the administration is to purchase silver bullioir at the ' present market price and coin it into distinctive dollars having a gold value of about 60 cents each. These dollars will probably con tain a little less silver than the present standard dollars. The scheme has notet 'been worked out in all of its details, but aa there is at present a government ' coinage mint at Manila, it, is hoped that by the early actlonjof congress the new coins may be out intocirculatlon helore a great while, possibly before the winter U over. The price of silver is steadily ad vancing. Great demands on the silver supply are made by China and India. From London, in the past nine months, has beeu shipped $11,000,000 to China and from San Francisco nearly $13, 000,000. Japan has taken half a million this year ai against nothing last year. Rig Salary for an Indian. An American Indian riding for the prime minister of Austria at a prince ly salary. How's that for a jump in life? Hounds like a page from the "Arabian Nights;" hut it's true. True as gospel. Jimmy Morgan, one time stable boy and , later on jockey for Marcug Daly, the "Copper King," is the cleyer little redskin who has made a name and a place for himself in the midst of royalty thousands of miles across the silvery seas. Morgan was the first and oly American jockey to ride iu Austria, He attracted much at tention there by reason of his oiive-hued sfcin and the lact that he is a half breed, his father having been an Eng lishman and his mother Comanche Ibdiaq. While ; in AusWia this season he rode for the. prime minister, receiv ing salary of $10,000. A Mr.. Bo. boucny has aecond call on hit lervicei at a salary of $5000. He landed thirty, seven wins, was seoond eighty-eigbt timet and rode three dead heats. The board of school land commission ers of the state ; of Oregon hui in its care and control the eninmnn u. ),a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS. : Newt Jones, aged. 21, committed suicide at Forest Grove Thursday. He had been drinking to excess. Jerome Palmateer, a prominent citi zen, fell on the sidewalk at HillsLoroj Wednesday,, and severely fractured a leg. Nearly $1100 was raised in Heppner by subscription for improvement of the public road from that place to Monu ment. . . . - It now looks'i as if Moran Bros., of Seattle, are to be awarded a contract for building one 'of the unsheathed battleships. The secretary of the interior has sent to the house an agreement With the Klamath Indians relinquishing their reservation in Oregon. , The hotel at Hot Lake, Union county, is to be heated throughout during the winter months by the hot water ot the great spring. The Masonic Temple at La Grande will be dedicated Decemher 9(1. Tl R Thielsen, of Salem, grand master of the state of Oregon, will officiate. . -Palouse is making strenuous efforts to secure the strawboard factory which officials of the Northern Pacific rail road will locate in one of the towns along its line. Frank Hath was arrested at Eugene on charge of ; forgery. His offense is that of indorsing the name of a man named Dais to a check given by the Acme Commercial company. John Henry Williams, who has been held at. North Yakima for some time on charge of having murdered W. W. ocou, at rrosser, has . been , released under habeas corpus proceeding, '. . v The new town of Foster, on the smith tork of the Santiam,, in Linn county, is preparing to come to the front as a sawmill headquarters and terminus of a branch railroad from Lebanon. , , The first train will be run thronoh the new Great NortheVn tunnel in the Cascade mountains next Sunday. The tunnel is 13,200 feet long and the thicks ness of tho roof at the thickest placei is 5300 feet.- , , : ,, ,.( : (. . The eighth annual declamation"con test of the Washington Aericultnral college came off at Pullman Saturday. lospeh W. Tungate, junior, won first prize, and Olea Todd, also lunior. second prize. ' - Julia A. .Livingstone died At Albany Thursday, at the home ot her son, Silas Livingstone, aged 81 years. She had been a resident of this state for 15 or 20 years. Her husband was a ' veteran of the civil war. Wildcats entered : the rabbitry of Professor F. B., Babcock. at Ohennv. last week,, and killed all but eight, of over 40 young and old hares, anions which were two does worth 50 eah all fancy pedigreed stock. ' ; ' - John Nichols died at his home at Lebanon, Linn county, after an Illness of several months, , aged 70 years. Death was due to quick consumption., Mr. Nichols was born in Kentucky,. He crossed the plains in 1852. Rev. Mr. Carlson, of Port Tywn send, has been arrested charged with embezzlement. The complaint alleges that he retained $250 intrusted to him. by Mrs. Donaldson to forward to ber grandchildren in Switzerland. '-.' William Jones Philpott died ot paralysis December 9, 1900, at the real-, dence of C. W. Yates, near Oakvillek Or. Mr. Philpott was born in Virginia, in 1822. He came to Oregon . in 18&li. and settled in Linn county, near Craw--fordville, where he lived until two years ago. '- .. Mrs. William H. Effinger, wife of the well known lawyer died Sunday1 at the family residence, after a brief illness, at tbe age of 67. She leaves one daughter, Miss Mallie H. Effinger, who is identified with Portland free kindergarten work, and her husband. George MoCredy has sold his sheep in Klickitat county for $60,000. The' purchasers are his brothers, John and Leland, and the property consists of 10,000 or 11,000 head of sheep, hay ranch of 800 acres and several thousand acres of range land along the Col umbia. .. M .A representative of one of the '.don tana Chinese sheep companbja ha arrived at North Yakima with a hand of sheep to be fed this winter. He has 1500 head, and it is understood that he will bring 12,000 more in the spring. This has excited the local sheepmen very much, and they hardly know what action can be taken to pre vent the occupying of the range by herds of Chinese owners. Tbe temperance meetings held in Corvallis for several days pas' bv Colonel Holt of Chicago f oonolwledl Tuesday night. Citizens desired a continuation, but on account tf an en1 gagement made at Salem before the phenomenal interest at Corvallis unex pectedly developed,: the speaker was obliged to leave for the Capital City where a series of westings is to begin tonight. During the progress of the Corvallis meetings 883 persons signed the pledyo and local temperance organ lotions are . much Increased in mtjwber&hip. , H.'M. Gilbert, a farmer of the Yakima Indian reservation, is thipplng his largo bean crop. The prices received range about cents per pound. He has harvested and ' threshed 1000 sacks pf 100 pounds each. His beans are the brown Mexican, white Calitoriiia and red navy varieties. They yield under ordinary fair conditions from 40 to 60 bushefm per acre thus giving an income of $5i to $125 an acre. Gilbert has 100 acreet of the Li I lie property leased att Toppenish and includes tbe Reservw hotel in his holdings. The land is leased from the Indians at abont $1 an acre per annum. Isadore Schoppi,who ha been in the Medical Lake BBlyum at Spokane , for, the past two . years, was Tuesday ad judged, free by Assistant . Attorney Geneial Vance of Washington t state. Schopps murdered a man named Una Hager, in Seattle, December 25, 18UK, but the jury found him not guilty by reason ot insanity. He has now re gained his reason. The crime was most brutal and ooM-blooded. Schopps and. tho man be killed were roommates to gether. , They had a drunken quv.re.1, and the next day Schopps prucured a revolver and blew the top of his com panion's head off. The superior court judge who committed him ordered him io be kept pending further orders from, the court, but the opinion of the at-, torney-general seems to put this at. naught. It is likely that some appeal., against the decision will be mjide. ' Recruiting Statistics. Out of more than 40,000 applicant at federal naval recruiting stations during the latest governmental year only 8123 were accepted, and of these a noteworthy percentage were re-enlistments. Man-o'-wars men now adays must Tfissess peculiar qualifica tions and knowledge, and in order- to acquire these qualifications .there must be schooling in actual service. Hence the value of the training vessel sys tem, by means of which a green lands man may be turned out In six months a finished sailor for duty in ships 0 war. ' . -; 1 1 , ...