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ATHENA, OCTOBER 24. 1905
The war in the Far East bag left
Japan with a debt of $1,260,000,000.
liio interest on this sura will approach
175,000,000 auuually, an ontlay that
represents a per capita tax throughout
the empire of $8 a year as against $3
bofore the war. The per capita share
of the national debt before the war
was $6; it is now $25. The govern
ment is facing these facts boldly, and
urges the necessity upon the business
men of redoubling their energies,
looking to increased developments in
publio works of all kinds, that the na
tion may secure victories in peace as
well as in war, says the Review.
It will be seen that Japan sorely need
ed the indemnity, or a large part of
it, that her peace envoys demanded,
but it is equally apparent that she was
in no condition, financially speaking,
to continue the war in support of the
demand. The wisdom of the "elder
statesmen" in conceding this point
and others necessary to a conclusion
of peace is already apparent. Japan
did well to make peace on as favor
able terms as she did while yet ber
credit was good and ber people were
clamorous for. war instead of peace.
The cold wave which we have been
experiencing during the past week
seems to have been general throughout
Eastern Oregon. Old settlers of Grant
county say it is the coldest weather
ever known during the mouth of Octo
ber, in some localities the thermom
eter running down to throe degrees
above zero. It is thought that muoh
damage has boon done to fruit in the
John Day valley, as it is roported that
fully one half the fruit is still on the
trees. The heavy irosts iu this vicin
ity have done but little if any damage,
as there is but little fruit left on the
trees, and uo reports have yet been re
ooivod as to damage to potatoes or
other vegetables.
An effort is being made by the offi
cials of Boise City to abolish cigarette
smoking among boys of that city. An
ordinance has boon passed prohibiting
the use or possession of cigarettes, or
of auy Hud all materials that compose
them, by persons under 21 .years of
uge. A flue of $20 or imprkoumeut
for five days, or both, is the penalty
for the violation of this ordiuanqo.
Tho result of this law should Rod uo
doubt will be watched closely by pa
tents and teachers in this vicinity.
A recent census of the homeless poor
of London, taken at night, showed
t hut 1,001) men and 312 women wore in
the streets or on stuircuses. Iu the
The furniture
Our furniture department now occupies more space thau
any other department in our entire store. Formerly we oo
oupiedthe balcony iu the old store but now we have the
whole ground floor and balcony in the new store for furni
ture exclusitely. This means more space and better dis
play. Our eleven years of experience bus taught us what
you want and we know we can please you. The new fall
goods the products of the best factories in the country
are now nearly all here. If you are unable to come and see
for yourself, write us and we will slend you descriptions
aud prices on anythiug you want. This year's stock is
without'a doubt the best aud most complete stock in the
Inland Empire.
Remember we pay the freight when bill amounts to $10.
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that night were 23,690 persons, of
whom 21,251 were single men, 1,688
single women, 857 married couples,
and 84 children under 10 years of age.
"It is deplorable," says an exchange
"to see an aged and long honored
statesman like Senator Mitchell con
victed of corruption." Not at alL It
is deplorable that he should be guilty
of corrupting, but convicting of cor
rupt statesmen should never be de
plored. George Gould declares that the
future looks bright George probably
hag bis coal in the shed paid for.
WIND AND WAVE AID COAST PORTS.
(Portland JournaL)
The prospective growth of commerce
between Pacific coast ports and the
rapidly opening markets of the orient
is the subject of an article prepared
by O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau
of statistics, which was regarded as of
so much importance by the Japanese
governmenttbat is has been translated
into the Japanese language and circu
lated in that country as well as this
as a publio document.
Mr. Austin summarizes the results
of observations and experiments by
British and American naval officers as
to Pacific winds and currents, which
in bis opinion make it inevitable that
the trade with eastern Asia will be
carried on almost exclusively by the
Pacific ports of the United States.
"Nature," be says, "has given to the
United States marked advantages re
garding the movement of vessels be
tween ber western shores and the east
ern coast of Asia, where the trade of
the orient must always center."
The equatorial current, Mr. Austin
points out, begins its western move
ment at the very point where an Isth
mian canal would enter the Pacific,
and moves steadily westward to the
vicinity of the Philippines; then
turning northwest along the coast of
China, and Japan it is deflected to the
east, and flows across the Pacific to
the north Pacific American coast; then
turns south and moves along our coast
to its starting point, thus completing
a circuit. Tbe air currents, while
their exact location is somewhat
affected by the change of seasons, fol
low practically the same lines and are
equally reliable.
The rate of speed at which this
great ocean current ceaselessly flows
in its monster ellipse is about one
mile an hour, though the movement
of the air current is, of course, muoh
more rapid.
"These facts," Mr. Austin says,
"justify me in the assertion that this
steady, permanent flow of air and
water, a flow which will never cease
so long as the earth revolves toward
the east and the great bodies of laud
and water retain their present relative
position must always give- to the
North American coutineut a marked
advantage in tbe commerce of the
Pacific
"Its vessels from the eastern coast,
entering tbe Pacifio at the isthmus,
will move westward, aided by the air
and water currents, past our Hawaiian
islands, Wake island "uud Guam to
tbe Philippines; thence northward to
those two great trade centers, Shang
hai aud Yokohama, and thence, still
following these currents, will move
to tbe east, along that shortest route
known as the 'great circle' in the
north Pacific, touch -at our western
ports for transshipment of freights for
the east, and then, still following the
ooeau current down our Pacifio coast
will reach the -entrance to- the isth
mian canal, having been aided by
favoring currents of air and water in
the en til o circle tour of 18,000 miles.
"Ibo feasibility of this plan is
found in the fact that, while tbe
actual sailing distance from the west
ern end of the proposed isthmian canal
to Manila via Hawaii aud Guam is
0,500 miles, the return trip from
Manila via Shanghai, Yokohama aud
San Francisco to tbe canal is but
10,000 miles, with the advantage of
favoring wind and current in prao-
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tically every mile of the entire dis
tance. " , -. - ,'"
Upon this theory it would seem that
the commerce originating on one coast
canal would be comparatively small,
and passing through tbe isthmian
for transcontinental railroads would
bring tbe exports to Pacifio coast
ports , and would bsve to da so in
competition with tbe canaL But tbe
canal would be long in building and
by the time the prestige of Pacific
coast ports will be fully established
and acknowledged. Even the winds
and tbe waves work for them.
THE PASSINC OF IRVING.
(Rev. Andreas Bard, in Union.)
Tbe curtain baa dropped on the
final acf, the last mask bas been laid
aside and Sir Henry Irving sees no
longer through a glass darkly but faoe
to face. It was significant tbat the
great actor bad just finished tbe part
ing woi'ds of Thomas A. , Beckett:
"Into Tby bands, oh, God; through
night to night; . into Tby bands,"
when tbe shadow of eternity lowered
upon bis noble heart and summoned
him to the choir invisible. ,. ..
Tbe stage bas perhaps never , pro
duced an exponent ot drama superior
to tbe deceased. Irving did not raise
the rafters of heaven with theatrical
rant, be did not saw tbe air or split
the ears of the groundling with catch
ing exaggerations. He did not possess
tbe emotional intensity of a Booth or
the grace of a Mansfield or the mag
netism of a Garrick. Tbe writer once
bad tbe privilege to witness bis ren
dering of Charles I. in Philadelphia
and only by referring to , tbe above
criticism he could account for the
comparatively small audience tbat
greeted the classical actor. Tbe mul
titude preferred Hacket who was play
ing on tbe same evening "Don Cesar's
Return." In Charles L Irving's pe
culiar ability stands out clear and
distinot. To the student of history
who recognizes in tbe English mon
arch one of tbe most unfathomable
personalities tbe world bas ever known
Irving illustrated by splendid and dig
nified acting tbe blending in this char
acter of tbe saint and tbe weakling,
tbe mighty and tbe mean. Every
trace of "making a bit'" with tbe
crowd was eliminated, tbe tendency
being to educate rather than to please.
An atmosphere of high idealism per
vaded stage and auditorium during
the entire performance and the long-dreamed-of
co-operation of stage and
pulpit seemed to have come to pass.
Some more actors like Irving would
greatly aid in the elevation of the
atrical standards and Ellen Terry's
suggestion to erect for tbe deceased a
temple where the histrionic art might
be consecrated to its high calling
would materalize his grand ideals.
CHAIN GANG EMPIfYMENT
(Spokesman-Review.)
The decision in the "Georgia chain
gang case" by the United States su
preme court will be read with consid
erable interest by those towns and
counties in eastern Washington where
it has been customary to put tramps
and minor offenders to work upon the
streets and roadways. Quite an agir
tation was created recently at one
point owiug to the aotion of the county
commissioners in discontinuing tbe
practice.
The supreme court upholds the
Georgia state law authorizing the re
corder of a city to sentence violators of
city ordinances to labor on the publio
works. Harry Jamison, who was sen
tenced to such work, took his case to
the United States district court and
the judge released him on the ground
that the "punishment was infamous
andjoontrary to the constitution of the
United States. " The case was then
taken to tbe supreme court, which
reversed the Georgia court. " . . ,
Tbe circumstances of this partic
ular case may have seemed sufficient to
Judge Speer to justify bis denun
ciation of tbe punishment, but tbe
Spokesman-Review oauuot see tbat it
is "infamous" to make some classes
of offenders labor on publio works.
The average tramp or hobo, ' for in
stance, not being ashamed to beg in
publio, and steal when be can not get
food by begging, bas no right to con
sider himself subject to Infamous
treatment when be is made to work in
publio. To work Is not any more hu
milating thau "to beg.
Reasonable objection can, of course,
be taken to tbe chain gang system if
carried to an extent where it is ap
plied to persons of ordinary good char
acter who have been convicted of tbe
violation of a local ordinance, but the
judge would have avery perverted idea
of the intent of the law who would
sentence snob a one to publio labor.
By its decision the United States su
preme court reversed the decision of
Judge Speer of the district court for
the southern district of Georgia, and
sustained the seuteuoe imposed by the
recorder's court
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