The Heppner Gazette THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1901. ST. VALENTINE. These are the days in which the comic valentine shines in all its Klory. Its blatant features rise from every stationer's window, a daring flaunt of the fact that children, despite the culture of the early days of the twentieth century, are still barbarians in -something in ore than slight degree. The only . change noticeable in the comics of today and those of years ago . is that the caricatures are more sharp nd colors more flaring and ensemble jnueh more impressive. ' The new things have been, noted by the man who makes the comics, and the fads and foibles of humanity, . passing away almost with their birth and nearly forgotten in a month, are ' revived and thrown upon the world by the comic valentine man. The new woman, kissing bug, pure good crank, bicycle fiend, shirtwaist man and a dozen others have been made marks for the roan with brush and pencil at the ' disposal of the public in the comic valentine.. , With the growth of the comic valen tine system public sentiment toward those gross misfits in the world of art . has chanced. Most of them InsDire ( nothing more serious than a smile and nnA hurt, hv I hull rar'Anr.inn nfltiiillv in benefited more ' or less Irom the fact that his weaknesses have been dis- the first toast at a banquet of comic valentine celebrities would doubtless be "The Teacher," and that worthy, as in years gone by, has not been neg lected. She appears on the latest Miyokuio mill n vuuuieiiejb . idnu Fox curl, warty nose and missing teeth. Her gown in a marvel in red, !1L LI. 1 li . , .... wibij uinu&puma uuts uhu hub mils hi her desk holding a copy of "What I Don't Know" in one hand and a heavy ruler in the . other. The room is typical, of the conntrv school. On the 'II 1- . a .7 m t wan naugs ine motto: we love our , .teacher nit." , The accompanying verse reads; ,., , Oh, what a shameful farce to put A numbskull BUch as you To teach poor kicla I I'm sorry for The luckUis little crew I. , Were the vonnBreHt one nut In vnnr nlnon. And you, big dunce, turned out, The claaa would learn more in a single day Than now in a week, no doubt. The bibulous roomer who stumbles up four flights of stairs in the wee mail hours, knocking the hall furni ture endwise at every landing. uiav ex pect to receive in his mail on valen tine morning an alleged photograph of Mm.if !.i i: a u.. ii.. - AjiujQoii, lucaiigou uy inv vnimitiuu artist. He stands in the lower hall way, feeling vaguely around for a button by which to ring the elevator man, who has been off duty for hours. He carries a load which stretches his , v.vwu.ug. vvr buo uuiabiug kfUUlb, ailU tUO valentine man suvs: - You rednosed rounder, your boozey bats , Make you the terror of our flats. The place has cot an awful name, And if you had a sense of shame You'd stop your dissipating wayB, auu get umou 01 yuur liquor ura.e. ' . ' The gripman caricature is a late importation from Brooklyn, where the 'fiend of the trolley has things his own way among the baby buggies. It has enjoyed a run among residents of f'Mib ui hu uji; nuoio ujubiruieu ong, easy down grade, such as that on Pacific avenue or North Mon roe street, and fail not to take advan tage of it. The picture represents a jrrinning gorgon of the grip coming clown grade with everything thrown Wide open. The verse says: That's right, go like mad, Kill a child and you'll feel glad. .. Slaughter people all you can, You ffrinnfnfr mnnnter nf a man what you're bound for is a cell; ; I hope the Judge will soak you well. iiie usHBuaii cranK is given a by a caricature in sporty clothes the caption "Baseball on rap and the Brain." The crank is suDDosed to be sprinting through Natatorium park, , balancing a huge baseball on his head, typifying the caption. A large red base ball t.lplrnr. m in rtna YtattA atA a nn . in the other. The vilifying verse runs: : lou've got it bad, poor addie pate! The thing you call your mind, With baseball is so taken up That to nil else you're blind. " Upon the bleachinsr boards you sit . The whole long afternoon, And yell at every play that's made, Just like a senseless loon; . If you could only realize now crazy you appear, You'd not be seen upon the grounds Again for half a year. To the bicycle crank the comic artist addresses himself with a picture of a small leg ending in a monstrosity of a toot, leg clad in a loud stocking and foot, in a shoe of brightest yellow. To the rider the following versa is dedi cated : Your spindle shank Is quite a joke, -Yon skinny, awkward pumper, Youe riiht to chain your hoof up so ,, You will not come a thumper. ' Can you not see the show you are? Get off the wheel, I beg. Give that poor loot of yours a rest. Or get another leg -, The ice man is not forgotten, and the payer of exorbitant bills is given a chance to "get back" with a picture of a bull-necked individual with an indescribable face and costume. He carries the implements of the busi ness. : and a certain line at the bottom of the picture tells the recipient that he is an . ice man, but not a nice man. Then follows: ' The coldest cheat alive you are I give it to you straight There's no one can como near you, sir, t 1 At swindling by short weight. ; Reform, and give us a sqnarer deal, Old Man, that's my advice , Or. some day, to a place you'll go ' Where you will find no ice. Darktown belles are given a chance to warn their newest rival, who is displayed io the most vociferous garh possible, in the following manner: Oh, have you come to town, honey? Well, you're a slick she coon ; But doan you get too sassy, . , . Or you'll be fired out soon. And this is the way the comics go for the hired girl who wears her mis tress clothes. The picture is that of a petite colored girl with all the clothes in the ward and winning smile. Her monstrous hat bears the ticket: "I Am a Lady Nit." The verse: ; Youlubly gal with shining skin. The dress that you go walking in Looks nice I know, although! me With others' clothing you make free. . I'll tell your mistress, I declare, , The way job steal her things to wear. THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE. U Is to Be Foand among the Negresses , of tho South. , .Hospital attendants and physicians whose duties Dring them into contact with negroes 'who come . here to have' injuries treated, marvel ' at the recuperative power of these people, : writes a narieston (s. u. ) corres pondent of the New York Sun. The negroes often recover almost with ease from what appear to be mortal wounds and injuries which would mean certain death to white patients. This quality flaWij ilfiiiiliVi physician attribute largely to the mode of life of the negroes. More especially amoni the women the physi cians see the effects of what may be described as a course' of elementary Dolsarteism, as . thorough for all practical purposes as it is unconscious. Much study of late has been given to this Delsarteism among the net roes of the south. The absence of all spinal diseases is attributed to the out door life of the negroes but this is only one of the ailments which they escape. "It may not be commonly known," said a physician to the Sun correspon dent, "but the perfection of the human form divine is seen best in the negresses living in this part of the country. These women conform more nearly to the Greeks than any other existing race. A careful examination of their forms will' prove this to be the case. Their bodies are not warped by any of the modern inventions of society. JOKES OF STATESMEN. There Is a fishing club with many congressional members, that has a club house on the Potomac. Recently a new house committee took hold. After its first meeting these rules were posted : , . "1. If any member of this club drinks more than five cocktails before breakfast be shall be warned. "2. If, after being warned, any member of this club drinks more than five cocktails before breakfast he shall be warned again. "3. If, after being warned for the second -time, any member of this club drinks more than five cocktails before breakfast he shall be warned for the third and last time. . "4. It, after being warned for the third and last time, any member of this club drinks more than five cock tails before breakfast he shall be con sidered hopeless and left to his own devices," "If an empty barrel weighs ten pounds, what, can you fill it with to make it weigh seven pounds?" asked Senator Depew of Senator Sponner. "Have to give it up," replied Mr. Spooner. "Fill it full of holes," answered Mr. Depew, and they both laughed. "Crowding in elevators like this would never occur in' my city," said "Private" John Allen, as he was jostled in one of . the house lifts recently during the rush hour. "No, I rpekon not," replied Champ Clark, of Missouri. "As I understand it, there ain't an elevator in Tupelo." Crackers and milk are becoming the sole luncheon of many members of con gress. The New York democrats appear particularly fond of the 'combination. Chairman Cannon, of the appropria tions committee likes it and seldom eals anything else. Senator Fair banks, candidate for ttie republican presidential nomination in 1904, eats it five davs out of six. "Ah, Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, 1 believe," said Gen. Greene, of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt com pany, to a man who was standing in the lobby of the Arlington. "I be lieve I have had the pleasure before," continued the general, "and I" "But, btit"-said the man. "Oh, of coarse, you do. not remem ber me. Mv name is Greene, 'chief marshal of the inaugural parade. You see, there are matters th" "Oh. sir," exclaimed the individ ual addressed, "you have made a mis take. I am not Mr. Hopkins, of whom you speak, hut Thomas, the porter of the house. Good day, sir." "I would have sworn that that was Hopkins," said Gen. Greene as he rubbed his eves. "I would have sworn that it was Hopkins." In fact, the man at the Arlington is Mr. Hopkins' double. I hey are as like as two peas Thomas the porter and Hopkins ttie statesman. , Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, was giving a fairly good imitation of a Chinese idol in the Marble Room of the tenate on Saturday He installed himself on a table in the center of the room and then folded his feet under him as a Chinese deity in good repute is supposed to no. it was auite an arcobatic feat, and Mr. Beveridge is about the only man in the senate capable of performing it. The senator continued In earnest conversation with a caller, and attorned the posi tion unconsciously. He says it is a comfortable pose and one that he learned in a country school in Indiana. Gas Through lea. A. J. Erwm, an oil expert from Inr diana, at Palouse City, Eastern Wash ington, to inspect the discoveries of gas and oil, has found crude petroleum running from a crevice in the rocks on the river bank a mile ast of that place. The oil burns freely. The dis covery is to be investigated. Earl Robards, a 14 year old boy, was severely burned by natural gas there a few days ago. A number of boys were skating on the river above the mill dam, when they noticed hu boles under the ice and made a hole. Earl Robards knelt down and lighted a rnntch, which he applied to the hole in the ice. A flame shot up several feet high, enveloping the boy and igniting his cl'ithing, burning him severely but not dangerously. There is great excitement here in consequence. , A Sharp Eyed Boy. A dispatch from Uvalde, Texas.sayi: Joel C. Fenlcy, father of Guy Fenlev, the 14-year-old boy with X-ray eyes, who sees water, oil or minerals at any depth in the ground, is receiving letters from all parts of the United States from persons who have read the newspaper accounts of the remarakble gift of this boy. Many of these letters aie from oculists and members of scientitic societies of the north, where thorough tests may be made of his X ray sight. Mr. Feniey is also offered large sums of money from oil and min ing prospectors to have his son locate oil and minerals beneath the earth's surface. The boy has located several wells of water at depths ranging from 200 to 400 feet on ranches in West Texas during. the past week. The Transport Craft. Senator Hale on Wednesday sub mitted to the senate a number of com munications irom the secretary of the navy concerning naval affair's. One of these is a lit-t showing ttie names of vessels purchased for the navy during the Spanish war, together with the prices paid, end also a list of such ves sels which have been sold, together with the prices received for them. The latter inclades the following: "Ni agara, t'JOO.OOO sold for $75,000; Badger, f.W.OOO, sold for 135,000; Resolute, 1475,000, sold for $200,000; Vulcan, 35O,000, sold for $175,0.50; Cassias, $160,094. sold for purchase price! Seipio, 85,76!, sold for 8Q,125; Hector, $200,000. sold for $5,150. General Passenger Agent Craig, of the O. R. fc N., is expected to arrive from St. Paul and assume the duties of his office about the 18th int. atti A MOVEMENT TOWARDS JUSTICE. The single tax party has nominated Thomas Khodus for mayor in Chicago and gives publicity to the following platform, first, by declaring: The single tax party stands for the single tax. Here is its platform. In order to raise wages, to encourage industry and provide employment for all, to abolish poverty, to extirpate the vice, misery and crime that ac-' company poverty, and to insure to all men an equal chance in life, we pro pose to restore to mankind equal rights to the use of the earth,, which is the source of all wealth and the natural, inalienable and perpetual heritage and field of employment of each generation of the human race. To secure to each his equal portion of the inexhaustible wealth of nature, it will not be necsesary to revoke ex isting land grants, nor to shift their present boundaries, nor to dispossess anybody, nor to re-partition the sur face of the earth. " To accomplish all this it is only nec essary to collect by taxation for the benefit of the whole community the annual rental value of the land, irres pective of improvements, and to abolish other methods of taxation, all of which discourage building and im proving, hamper trade and stifle in dustry, i The single tax party stands for the rights of men, and is opposed to the political organization and governmen tal supervision of commerce and indus try as taught by socialism. Among the most important rights of men are property rights, and all valid property rights have their origin in labor and derive all their moral force from the right of each laborer to the product of his own toil and the power to dispose of it as he sees fit, either by sale Or exchange or by contract ; that is, by the wage system. These the single tax party would uphold But here is another and spurious kind of property right, which has its origin in the fiat of predatory leaisla tion,' which Thomas Jefferson de nounced as special Drivilege; this is the kind of property manufactured at Springfield and Washington and in the city council. Special privilege has pow er to . confiscate and extinguish right ful property by extortionate charges for some trivial service for which an ex elusive iranchise has been granted or by a denial of access to the sources of all supply the earth itself, thus, by reducing the supply and demand to impartially determine price. But in addition to all this, not satisfied by submerging the property rights of the common people in special privilege, the dominant party in the nation and in the states, down to the smallest taxing body, guided by the lobbyists of privilege, has sought to devise methods of taxation to relieve privilege of its obligations to the state, implied as a condition of the grant, and impose the whole burden of gov ernment upon consumers, thus destroy ing their purchasing power, contract ing demand, producing enforced idle ness of both capital and labor and generating disorder, vice, misery poverty and crime. The single tax party has no quarrel with capital, but would make war on privilege, even to its extermination. t The program of the single tax cartv differs from all other third parties, in asmuch as it aims to secure control of the. local machinery of government. it wonid reiuse to grant any extensios of franchises; it would abolish the license system imposed upon local businesses, and it would use all the sovereign and discretionary power vested in the assessor's off.ee to relieve industry and commerce of taxation, and impose the burden on land value. If this pqlicy were adopted in Chicago, none of its commercial rivals could compete with Chicago, unless they adopt the single tax: for if one in dustrial center should adopt the single tax it would compel its rivals to follow suit, even against their will. Thus the economic rights of men may be estab lished and industrial slavery abolished throughout the civilized world by es tablishing justice in Chicago. As the single tax party steps into the political arena, the benetfis of the great principle for which we stand will at once begin to appear. The single tax party will be peculiar in that it will be largely successful in its object long before it can elect any one. All that is needed is an increasing vote for the single tax at each election, Whenever it is known that the single tax party has unfurled Its banner to stay, land values will begin to disap pear. Land speculators will, one by one, offer their land for sale, and, one by one, others will see that real es tate speculation will no looter be profitable and they will refuse to pur chase even at lower figures. Rents will fall and the wages of labor and the profits of business will increase, as a consequence. For the word will have irrevocably gone forth that the rent of the land belongs to all the peo ple and they are about to resume pos session of their inheritance. f The single tax'party in Chicago uses this argument! When we voted the national ticket last fall we probably knew what we were going to vote for; but what will the local ticket we vote thia spring stand for? What is the real difference to you who is elected mayor this spring? It is only a ques tion of a different set of faces at the windows. Why not start the great fight? Why not vote for the most im portant thing that any party can ever offer us? Whynot vote for the single tax? Do you want to Understand clearly and distinctly how to make this great country a material paradise? Do you; want to know how to abolish want and the fear of want, aud how to house all our people In stately and comforta ble mansions, where shall dwell the kindly and majestic men and women of the republic-the real kings and queens of the earth? Then attend the sessions of the Chicago Single Tax club. Do you wish to acquire intellectual power? Do vou wish to train and to discipline your mind as no university training can ever discipline it? Then attend the sessions of the Chicago Single Tax club. The single taxer is the master of logic. The single taxer Is the master in discussion. We are the masters of economic science. In this age of confusions and of insipid mediocrity we are the only ones who dare to teach with authority and without immodesty, and to court the most rigid investigation. ine Mngie lax club meets every Fri day night at Schiller hall.sevenlh floor Schiller building. Everyone is wel come. Come and join in ths great and glorious movement. NOTE AND COMMENT. One of the interesting features of the Marshall celebration at "North Tutuilla" tho other night, was the reading by one of the orators of the day of a flowery document purporting to be a sort of lawyers' creed, confes sion of faith, or code of ethics, to which all members of (he learned pro fession are supposed to subscribe. The I . ... . - latitude which the learned profession allow themselves in interpreting this remarkabe document is so liberal that the outside world may be excused tor never suspecting its existence. The late Marcus Daly seems to have found time between his scraps witn Senator Clark to raise some good horses, of which 133 head from his stables were sold by auction the other day at an average price of $1188 per head. Two of 'the number bringing $60,000 and $10,000 respectively. There does not seem to be any discourage ment for borseraisers in those figures. A steamship loaded with wheat the other day at Puget Sound and started for Liverpool, by way of the Suez canal, which is 1800 miles farther than by way of Cape Horn, but was chosen as the cheaper route as coal costs much less in Japan and Port Said than in the South American seaports. The voyage will cover 16,000 miles and occupy 80 days. The distance by the Niearauga canal, over which the statesmen are parleying and hair splitting, is about 7500 miles, a .clearer illustration of what the last named route means to this coast has perhaps never been given than by the sailing of this ship. A number of years ago a spendthrift king, who did not find money coming in fast enough in the regular way to meet his expenses, instituted , a tax which he called ship money, which John Hampton, one of his subjects, re fused to pay, on the ground that it was levied on inland counties, where' no ship had ever been seen and also that it was designed not to build ships with but for the use of a frivolous court. In the trial which followed the king won, as he practically owned the judges. But Mr. Hampton took an appeal to a higher court, the people, and in the controversy which followed, the king not only failed to collect the taxes but lost his head. This page of history might form atheme of profitable medi tation for Senator Hanna and his col leagues who are also anxious to collect ship money from a people who think they are already paying tribute enough to men of Hanna 's kidney. . The chances for a man of ordinary ability and elastic conscience to ac aumulate wealth in China at the present time is thus described by a cor respondent; a civilian, who accom panied the expeditionary force, had when he started a borrowed horse and a few dollars in money. When he re turned he had two horses, four mules, one thousand taels in sice, and two carts loaded ' with a miscellaneous quantity of loot. Mr. Dooley thus explains the average newspaper's idea of what constitutes news. If a roan, who has been of some use in the world, dies, after hay ing lived an orderly lile, he is good for perhaps half a dozen lines, but if a drunken ruffian goes gunning for a policeman and winds up in jail he is good for a column and a half. To an industrial commission, which was in session a short time ago, one of the witnesses thus defined his idea of what constitutes robbery. It you have to be robbed it does not matter whether you are held up by Dick Turpin with a pistol or by John Rocke feller with a railroad, it's robbery just me same. . Henry ixorman, a well Known news paperman, who has recently been traveling in Asiatic Russia, tell many interesting things of that far away country and speaks thus of ohe of its products. The carpets woven by Turkoman women in their moving tents, without any pattern to copy the design being handed down by in stinct and memory, was both for design and workmanship, the finest thing of the kind in the world. This carpet is perhaps the one relic now left of a great bygone civilization, for assuredly the Turkomans, in their dirt and squalor, could not have invented the beautiful designs that their women made till recently. The different great irmes ot ine rurKomans are mdis tinguisbable in thier dress or their habits, their carpets alone can serve to distinguish them. These are their passports, their visiting cards. Per haps these very patterns were given them by Nebncadnezzar, but aniline dyes anil loom competition are killing these fast, and soon nothing but their old carpets will bo left to tell of a mysterious civilization of the far past, Merv is a town somewhere near the Afghanistan frontier, also a station on the trans-Caspian railway, whOBe absorption by Russia in 1889 caused Gladstone to ask for and instantly re ceive irom ine nngnsn parliament a war grant of $55,000,000 to be ready for Russia's next step south. But Merv has long since ceased to be a Russian boundary, for in the dark you can see a branch line of railway stealing eoutnwara across ttie plain, this is the famous strategical line of one hundred and ninety miles to the very frontier of Afghanistan and eighty miles from Herat. The Rus sians keep this line absolutely secret, no permission to travel by it ever having been given to a foreigner. It .is interesting as one stands here on the edge of the platform and looks down the few yards of this mysteri ous line visible in the dark, to reflect that if the future brings war between England and Russia, its roaring tide will flow over these very rails for the invasion of India, and that if ft brings peace, this will be a station on the through line between Calais and Kandahar. Home day surely, though it may he a long time distant, and only when tens of thousands of Rus sian and British soldier ghosts are wandering through the shades of Walhalla, the traveler from London will hear on this very platform the cry: "Change here for Calcutta." M. AN INCREASE OF PENSIONS. In Certain Cases Under Certain Condi tions Mora Money Is to Ba Allowed. The house committee on pensions has lavoraoiy reported the bill of Kep resentative uaiaerueaa oi Kansas as follows: "All persona who are eligi ble for pensions at the rate of $12 per month under section Z of the act of June 27, 18!"0, relating to pensioners, who are now, or may hereafter become disabled by total blindness or paralysis or any total disability for manual labor, not the result of their own vicious habits, which disables them in such a degree as to require the con stant or frequent and periodical at tendance of another person, or who are or may be without an actual net in come not to exceed $100 per year, ex clusive of any pension, shall be en titled to a pension at the rate of $30 per month from the date of application therefor after the passage of this act." Monay Wade, charged with an as sault, being armed with a dangerous weapon, committed upou Will Evans, also pleaded not guilty in the circuit court at Salem, and w,ill be tried February 19. GENERAL NEWS. The English government is preparing to send to South Africa 30,000 mounted men. Senator Hanna was elected a com rade in Memorial post, G. A. R., in Cleveland, Ohio. Kansas City people are fearing a visit from Mrs. Nation and her small army of saloon crusaders. The deadlock over the election of United States senator continues in the Nebraska, legislature at Lincoln.; The house committee on coinage acted favorably on the bills establish ing branch mints at Omaha and la coma. . General James M. Ruggles, one of the founders of the republican party, died at Hipping Sanitarium, Havana, aged 81 years. It is reported from Vaucouver, B. C, that on January 10, (10 fishing boats near flash ida to were wrecked, and of 410 fishermen only 10 escaped. 1 Smallpox prevails at Glascow, Scot land, in alarming proportions. A score of fresh cases are reported daily, there have been many deaths and there are 453 cases in the hospitals. The board of health of New York city, by a unanimous vote has prohi bited the future slaughter of horses and the sale of meat from all such animals slaughtered elsewhere. The Confederate Veterans'- associa tion of Savannah, Georgia, has passed resolutions against the invitation to President McKinlev to attend the re union of ronfederate veterans in Memphis. The legislature of Virginia accepted from Tennessee the cession of one half of Main street in Bristol as the boundary line between the two states. The matter has been in litigation many years. The house committee on banking and currency tabled the bill repeal imi the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues and the bill requiring national bank depositories to pay interest lo the gov ernment on public deposits. Destructive brush fires throughout the colony of Victoria, Australia, have done great damage to property and stock.. The heat is excessive, and there ' have been violent dust storms in and around Melbourne. Frank Lindmuth died in tho hospi tal at, Helena, Montana, of idood poisoning caused by the bite of n horse above the eye 15 years ago. He neg lected the wound and it gradually took away his sight and finally wasted him away. The resignation of Congressman Charles A. Boutelle, as representative of the Fourth Maine district 'in the national congress, has been received by Governor Hill of Maine, The resignation is to take effect Febru ary. 28. For one hour and 17 minutes Ernest Roeber, the American champion wrestler and the French champion, Paul Pons, struggled for supremacy in a roped ring in New York city Wednes day night. Inspector Thompson stopped the bout at midnight. The senate committee on agriculture Saturday reported the agricultural appropriation bill, which carries a total of $4,503,920, an increase of $126,700 over (be aggregate appropria tions made by the bill as it passed the house. . It has transpired that a man in jail in England who was sentenced in December last to four years imprison ment for robbing a woman in the streets of London, is Charles Allen, one of the postofHce robbers who es caped from Ludlow street jail, New York city, in 1895. Colonel Lew A. Clarke, secretary of the St, Louis Elks lodge, and formerly a well known racetrack official , dtad at St, Louis, from the effects of an operation, aged 77 years. He was a survivor of the' Walker N icarauga ex pedition of 1855, and a national figure in tho Brotherhood of Elks. Captain George Francis Faxon Wilde, recently commander of the battleship Oregon in Asiatic waters, who has beeu detached from sea duty, passed through San Francisco Sunday on bib way to Washington. The Oregon is now in I'rst class condition and will probably start for home about May 1 The Cuban constitutional conven tion will refuse positively to add i clause to the constitution expressing gratitude to the United States. The delegates say such an expression dues not belong in the constitution; but they are willing to adopt an indepen dent resolution thanking the United States. It is now reported that King Edward is a victim oi cancer of the throat. There is absolutely no doubt of this and the beBt specialists in the kingdom agree that his days are numbered. His case is exactly similar to that of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany, ana also that oi trie uuke of rtdin burgh. Frederick Harvey, inanaeer of the eating bouse system of the Santa Fe railway, died at Leavenworth, Kansas, o: cancer, uniy last week: he was brought borne from California where he bad been for his health. Mr. Harvey was horn in London in 1836 and came to America when he was 15 years old. Crying out that drugs were agents of the devils a half dozen women follow era of Downie, the faith cure leader, adopted the tactics of Mrs. Carrie Nation In Chicago and wrecked a nura ber of durg stores on the west side. In some instances there were hand to hand fights with the druueists. No arrests were made. Mayberry irvlving g Prentiss, one of the oldest surviving generals of vol u n teers of the civil war, is dead at his home at Bethany, Mo., sued 81 vcars. He was known as "The Hero of Shiloh." He defeated Generals Holmes and Price at Helena, Ark., on July 4, jwtiz. tie was tne last survivor of the Fitzjohn Porter court martial. Arrangements have been comnleted by the Press club of Chicago and Mrs, Nation's representative whereby she will lecture at the Auditorium next Tuesday under the auspices of the Press club. Mrs. Nation's visit, ac cording to her friends, will be a peace ful one, as she will not underake to destroy any saloons in Chicago. Lieutenant 8. Hooker and Miss Mary Condit-Smith were married Mon day at Epiphany church, Washington, by Bishop Satterlee. Lieutenant Hooker is stationed at the Brooklyn navy yard and is the grandson of Sena tor Stewart. The bride while sojourn ing in China several months ago bo came a prisoner during the siege of Pekin. It is now accepted as a sure thing that the New York Central will bo ex tended ultimately'through the LNorth- western and Union Pacific lines to the coast. The Pennsylvania will be joined with the Atchison, the Erie with the fit. Paul and Northern Pacific, the Baltimore & Ohio will join the Great Northern through some intermediary at Chicago, and the Southern railway will form an alli ance with the Southern Pacific. Ten cases the bubonic of what is supposed to be piaune nave been isolated at Cape lown, South Africa. One of tno victims is a white person. Miss Maud Gonne, the "Irish Joan of Arc." arrived in New York Monday from. Havre. She conies to the United States to work in the interest of the Boer cause. The contest between Billy Smith and Owon Zeigler, at Erie, Pa., was stopped atthe end of the: 10th round, church people demanding the sheriff to enforce the law. i Orders were prepared at . the war de partment for the organization as sembling and equipment of 10 addi tional .regiments authorized by the army reorganization law. Colonel Ferris Forman, who was in command of an Illinois regiment dur ing the Mexican war, of which ho was the last surviving field officer, died at Oakland, Calif., Mondav at the ago of 94 years. ,, , Maurice Thompson,-: the auhor, is dying at hi 4 home in Crawfordville, Indiana. His age is ' 56. Will 11. Thompson, attorney for the Great Northern railway, at Seattle, is his brother. ; . The followers of General Maximo Gomes triumphed in the constitutional convention at Havana. Tho Clause making liini eligible to the presidency of ths republic was adopted' by a vote of 15 to 4. ' . , - ; : John, better known as Coir Feather ley, the well known sporting man, who all his life was referred to as the' "honest gambler; ". died at Denvar, Sunday, of locomotor ataxia, aged 45 years. The biil providing for a restoratiou of capital punishment in Kansas was killed in the senate. The agitation favoring capital punishment started over the recent burning of the . negro Alexander by the Leavenworth mob. Judge Jacob B. Blair, surveyor gen eral of Utah, an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln and a man widely known in public life, died suddenly at Salt Lake City, Wednesday, aged" 80 years. The ; cause of his death' was heart failure. ' L. M. Trumbull, former ueneral counsel for the Texas Pacific railway company, was 1 instantly killed at St. Louis by a iassenger train at a crossing in Webster grove,' St. Louis county. He did not Bee the. train coming and stepped in the way. Sorious report? are iii circulation in St. Petersburg, Russia, regarding the outbreak , of what was first called "hunger typhus, but is now officially admitted to be bubonic plague, on the Khirgiz steppes of Western Siberia. Many thousands have died., ........ Representative Albert I). Shaw of Watertown, N. Y., formerly com mander in chief of tho Grand Army l the Republic, was found dead . Sm.uity morning in his room at the Riuut house in Washington city. A pliyYi cian pronounced death due to apoplexy. Russian officials admit that wide spread distress exists in largo sections of the country, owing to the failure of the cropH. The government already has sent a million and a half roubles for tho relief of the sufferers, and con siders that five and a . half millions will be necessary At the Great Northern general offices it is learned that President J. J. 1 1 1 has acceded to tho demands of labor unions in the northwestern states and will disoense with Japanese labor - in ,1. . . i . m, ine biiops ana on ine roaa. mere were about 2000 orientals thus employed, and of these about 1500 have been "dis placed by white men. Clarence Gordon and Roy Riley, aged 16 and 15, respectively, were' arrested in Kansas City, and $80 in gold was found in a shotbag around Gordon's waist. The boys say they saw two men bury tho money and they watched them and dug it up. It is thought it is part oi uudunys money which was paid for ine return oi ni.i son. It is stated that tho . Savannah, -,; .. i . . . . . ' luisHouri, inuruor mystery is at an end and the grand jury now in session will not indict anyone for the killing oi Frank Richardson, the millionaire merchant. Mrs. Richardson moved to Kansas City.recently after being bound over to the grand jury on a charge of having guilty of knowledge of the murder. . Rev. C M. Sheldon, author of "In His bteps, preached a , sermon at lopeka, Sunday, in which he disa greed with the methods about to be undertaken by the citizens to rid the town of joints. Rev. Sheldon said the responsibility should be laid oiv the individual and that the officers should be forced to do their duty. The lecture of Mrs. Nation, adver tised to be given Tuesday . night in Chicago, under the auspices of the Chicago Press club, has been declared off. Believing from the result of two days' seat sales, which aggregated less than $12, the lecture would be a failuro, the directors of the club de cided to abandon the project. Typographical union, No. 13, in Bos ton, will call a strike in every book and job printing plant in that city in case master printers refiiHo to sign the union stale immediately. They demand that women typesetters shall bo treated as "journeymen composi tors" and receive the same wugea as men for doing the same work. A meeting of the citizens of Topeka, Kansas, at which JIOIJO were nresont. decided that the joints innst go at once. Friday, February 15. 1h the time set when the claning of tho city must be made corouleto. If it is nut done by that time, an army of 1000 men will immediately move upon the joints and remove them by force. Earl Kiser. of Davton. mid Arthur Stone, of Denver, rode in two motor- paced heats of a fivc-milo mirsuit race. at Fresno, Calif., Sunday, Kiser winning both , the firHt iu 8 iuimit.es 10 1-5 seconds,, and the second in 7 minutes 58 seconds. The last lowered the world's record for a motor-paced five-mile race on an eight-lap truck. Ono of tho most interesting events in connection with the opening of the parliament on Thursday ' will be the formal declaration bvthokintfnf bin disbelief in the characteristic doctrines oi the Roman Catholic iniih. Anv person professina the poplnh religion is incapable of inheriting or DOsseHsinu ine crown, ami ttie sovereign is bound vi wane iwu reiiuireu oeciaration either on the throne m the house of lords, in the presence of both houses, at the nm meeting or the llrnt purliarnent after the accession or at the coronation; which ever shall happen first. The Sale or the Billing. , With tho sale of the I'reil. ri,-lr k- Billings by tho United States marshal which otxnrrcd at Portland, a few davs ago, at public auction, the affairs of the Central Navigation & Construction company, which have been attended with so many flrianciH difliculitxa. finally terminated. The Iwat, or what was left ot her where she is stranded on a rock on the upper Columbw a little below Arlington, was bid in by Captain E. W. Spencer for $2S00, and remaining creditors will share in the division of the money after all costs have been paid, realizing from 10 to 15 per cent of their claims. PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS. f The La Grande city election will take place on March 11. CaptainJIloratio Cooke died at hie home ; in Portland Sunday, aged 74 years, oiirheomatism.- Mrs. Mary Bristow.who was stricken with paralysis about two weeks ago, at Forest Grove, died Wednesday. John Perdue, an Oregon pioneer of 1851, died at his home in Perdue, Douglas county, Oregon, February 7. aged 83 years. Henry Emrick, for fortv vears a resi dent of Benton county, died in Port- ; land last Monday. He came to Oregon in 1857 from Ohio. . . In the Willamette valley it is con ceded that all wheat is badlv injured andlthe pasturage is ruined by the frost. The fruit outlook is good. Charles P. Bacou, one of tho best known horsemen in the Pacific North west, died Sunday from the effects oi nu attack of grip, at his residence in Portland. J. H. Peery died at his home near Scio, Linn ' county, Wednesday, aged 57 years, of heart disease. He was found in the field unconscious just be fore bis death. - At Caldwell, Idaho, Josep F. Patter son was arrested on the charge of at tempting to commit rape on his 14 year old orphan niece, Blanche Gregory. . He is in jail. Charles R. Dehm, aged 43 years, died in Portland Saturday. He was the son of Floriaiv Dehm, an old timer of The Dalles, who came to The Dalles with his son Charles in 1864. -Clyde Vaughn, the youth who is charged with striking Lulu Jones, of Jefferson; ' over the head with an ax last fall, pleaded not guilty, at Salem, and will be tried February 15. - Major E. H. Conger, minister to China, has cabled to an Iowa friend that he will accept the republican nomination for governor of Iowa, but will not make a fight for it. ' Charles .Tost, of Portland, knocked out Vic Langley, of Wallace, in the 11th round of what was to be a 20 round bout at Wardner Monday night. Jost weighed 158 pounds and Langley 175. '. Thomas Doherty, assistant hydraulic engineer at the Swan Falls power plant, on Snake river, was drowned Thurs day, falling off the dam into the stream. The body has not been re covered. Six hundred homeseekers arrived I Portland from the east Frulav nnl! .Saturday, over the Oregon Railroad & JNavigation line, a portion of them coming via Spokane and the rest via Huntington. Representative C. W. Bowne of Spo kane county returned to the Groat Northern railway an annual passt it-Miec" for 1901. With the pass Mr. Howne sent a letter giving his reasons: for the return. The dis-joverv of what has been ad judged a good quality of coal on the Grand Rondo river, in the Blue moun tains, a few miles above La Grande, stands as a refutation of the theory of geologists that the coal of this region had burned out. ' John Nelson, a well known resident of Mount Tabor, near Portland, died Sumlay of double pneumonia, after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Nel son did not regard his illness aa seri ous until about three days ago, when ho called in a phvsician. Georgo St. Cyr, member of a well known Canadian family, has been found guilty at Dawson, Alaska, of the murder of II. Davis, and has been sentenced to the gallows. An attempt will be made to secure a new trial, St. Cyr killed Davis, in a cabin on the Hootalinqua river last December dur ing a quarrel. Charles P, Olds, better known art Sandy Olds, the man who killed Emil Weber, in Portland, in 1889, died in a lodging house in that city Tues day night. For the shooting of Weber ho was tried three times, the first two triuls resulting in a verdict of murder in tho first degree, but afterwards he was acquitted. Cicero L. Hogun, a wholesale dealer in harness and saddlery in Portland until a few years age, died in Chicago on the first instant. His remains were brought to Portland for inter ment. He leaves a wife and three children. His age was forty yeanr. lie was working at his trade in Chicago, having failed several yeara ago in business in Portland. CASTE OF TURKISH WOKEN. Ottoman Fair Ones Pear Contamination From Social Interiors. It is not genorally known that there existH among Turkish ladies of high clasis a kind of caste feeling similar to that prevailing among the Hindus, says the London Telegraph. It takes the form of a fear of contamination from the outer world, and in nniv nh. served, as far aa I know, by those who cannot afford to keen servants in sufficient numbers. Before meals ladixa always wash their hands at a tap from which the water runs into a marble basin. They will turn on the tap when they are just going to wash, but when they have finished they let the water run till somebody shuts it off, as to do it themselves would . make them un clean, They cannot oneri nr nhnt a door, as the handle would be unclean,. so a slave is generally kept handy for the purpose. ' (hie of those fastidious ladlPJ. talking to a small niece the otbor day who hail met received a nrnii f beautiful doll from Paris. The ehildl presently laid the doll on the lady's lap, whe Was horrified anil .. . . w. u iuc child to take it away. As the little girj would not move it, and no servant was near, and tho lady would U derlW v. touching a doll that was brought from abroad, the only thing she could think of was to Inmn nn nml lot iku doll fall, which broke to pieces. The same lady will not open a letter coni ng ny post, hut a servant opens it and holds it near ber for her to read. If her handkerchief falls to the ground it is immediate! v detrnvixl nr away, so that she should not use it again. This curious state of exclusive noHs or fanaticism exists, I am told, in many of the large harems. Among men it is not practiced. Unhappy Eastern Oregon. JOnnteni Oregon is unhappy, so its inoin hers of the legislature say, be cause it gets few appropriations, sys, the Portland Oregonian. Yet the say their section pays one-third ofj the. state's taxes. Multnomah couafiy pays, another third, yet gets no appropriat ions, nor expects any. It follows thai the remaining one-third goU the total pudding. This part is less than eg, third, indeed! for a small mim r counties- iu the favored section or. nearly tho whole. The revenues of the stale are expended mainly in tliree or four counties. Bnt it is ddaL.... complain of this. If the constitution were- followed, they would all be ex pended in one county. I nn tuw. Salem hog" muenanimoim i k; esurient fellow grnnters have a few acorns, when he might take them all?- -