The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, July 08, 1893, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Hood River lacier. vol r, HOOD IUVEU, OKKOON, SATURDAY. JULY 8, 181)3. NO. 0. Sfcod Iiver (Slacier. it ii 1 1 . 1 1 p. i ) Kvitur HATimiiAT mmmso ar The Glacier Publishing Company. M list IIIITION I'lllUK. OllB Vfftf 111. . , tin hi-Klw ( njiy , ti oe I r Hi ICnU THE GLACIER Grant Evans, Propr. """ii'l St., iipur Ouli. . Hood Ulnr, Or. Nlmvhig nn. I Hair cutting nmtly dona. Nil Mllli tillll (illUIUIltuCll. OCdDKNTAL IN'KWS. A I'liiii.'iiiian Ordered Deported I'nder the Henry Act. W AT Kit MOWING INTO SAI.TOS. lii'snlul inns Ailnptcil lii Opposition to Ilic ('aiiiiiiettl Miiiinir Hill l.'lili r.orax Deposit. iarher Shoo r Water is Mowing into Sultoii Luke, and it nmy ! lilleil um it wiis two years ago. "1" In- new 1 x claims fuiiinl in tin' Ci'liro .Mountains are said to be very t it-li . A coiiHcrvut ic estimate of tin' I'stuti' of Senator Stanford places it over fltl,- (100,111111. A rich Imnu deposit lias been discov ered in NrY.nlii about sixty milt's from Aiiui'lii'. WimgDip Km, ii Cliimimiin nt Ios Angelc, lni-i been ordered deported 1111-ili-r t In-1 inn y in t. Sciiiiii.i tumble with the Cheveiincs at 1 1 rt Kfuuli, Mont., over the nUcmpt ill iiiii'.-tof nn Indian is ri'iorti'i. I'.hIm for thr construction of the if t tv nt tin' 1 1 1 1 ;i in c of Sun Diego Hay have been j .ii I it imIii-.I I iy the government offi cials. Sacramento is to have u supply of pirn', clear water. Two or three com panies will hiil mi specifications ordered 1 1 y (lie I 'ity I ni-tees. J. I'. I'agan, speeiitl traveling ngciit for the Travelers' liiHiiraiice Company of 1 1. h i ford, 'miii., for the Territory of New Mexico, has heen swindling people. i lie Yuma Imlians have ruisctl a good crop of coin mi the river liottoms this year, ami their crop of w heat anil lncl- iih will keeji them in m u I living until next fall. The contract for the erection of a new cilv hull in Salem will lie let to Ilutch ins Soulhwick for $49,010. The plans were Hiinewhut iiltereil, reducing Un original hiil fl,'.,.r:i. Sheriff Kay at Visalia, Cal., now keeps the wards of Kvuns and Soiling lockeil, anil the guards of each man will remain inside w ith the wounded outlaws, heside having a guard outside. The jury in the case of Mrs. II. M. Johnson, who sued the Southern Pacific Company at 1 'arson, Nov., for damages, caused iiv the death of her htishand, obtained ii verdict of if-'o.OOO. The Salt Lake Chamlier of Commerce has adopted resolutions indorsing the Denver, Salt Lake and San Francisco railroad proposition and encouraging the ell'orts of Salt Luke capitalists in that, direction. James I.nnioreaux of Idaho Kails, Idaho, hail brought suit in the Fifth 1 list rict Court against the Knsor Insti tute of Poealcllo for $0,000 damages, hecause it tried and failed to euro him of the liquor habit. A gentleman of Olyinpia, Wash., lias 'rt i1,' conceived the idea of utilizing the water power of Tuniwaler, iv tmbtirb, in gener ating electricity for the work of dredg ing Olyinpia harbor and redeeming the tide hinds. At low water the falls at Tumwiiter produce 9,000-horso power, and a proposition for the utilizing of this power has been made to the com pany eontrolling it. Tho oflicials of t he dredger company have asked the light and power company for a formal prop osition to furnish IlOO-horso power by electricity with which to finish their government contract in the harbor. Tho plans for tho harbor improvement are elaborate? as proposed by the Harbor Line Commission and approved bv tho War Department. The area of re deemed land will extend to tho end of the long wharf, a distance of about a mile from tho city front, covering an area of about six blocks at the south end and tapering to about 1,000 feet at the end of the. long wharf. Surround ing this will he a reserved strip of 300 feet for piers. To tho west of this will be the harbor proper. Extending down the west side of this redeemed land will run the Northern Pacific track and an avenue 150 feet wide. On tho east side a water-way is proposod, with a 300-foot reserve for wharves and mill and manu facturing sites. Tho Turn water water way willall'ord deep water a mile be yond Capitol Point, whoro tho new Statohouse is to bo built. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Superintendent Stump has decided that alien emigrant cat I lemon must pay a head tux uiid are subject to the laws us regards inspection, uiiIchm they are regularly employed on the vessel as helpers. The coast -defense ship Monterey will he olliciully accepted, and the Navy De part uieiil will iiMHUine control of her im mediately, payingoverto the contractors nil of the reserve fund that has been held up as a guarantee of the comple tion of the vessel. The I'liiled States government through Secretary liionliuiii has declined to act as arbitrator between France and Sinm in the dispute between those countries iin to the jurisdiction over territory near Siam. The intervention of this govern ment was asked by Siam. A statement prepared by Commis nioiicrof Internal Keveinic Miller shows that, the collections of internal revenue for the eleven months of the current fis cal year amounted to tUr,iWJJ,.'!iHl, an in crease over the corresponding period of the last fiscal year of $7,407, 10,'i. I 'pon the recommendation of Com missioner l-oi lueii of the pension ollice Secretary Smith has dropped from the rolls of the pension ollice the names of twenty-eight special examiners now in the Held, the terms of their one-year ap pointment having expired. A II the spe cial examiners, dropped are Republicans. Of the ninety special examiners still re tained sixty are Ih publicans and thirty Democrats. The government is not. disposed to ac cept as liual the decision of the I'nited Slates District Court at Seattle, Wash., that it has lost entire power to control the use of the hinds of the I'uyallup In dians near Tucoiua by reason of the al lotment of the lands in severalty, and At loriiey- ieneral Olney has given in structions to the I'nited States District Attorney at Seattle to make an appear ance immediately in behalf of the In dian Agent. One of the first matters of importance that will he presented to the next Con gress w ill Is- the bill, already framed, providing for the establishment of a Na tional Itourdof Health, with headquar ters in Washington City. The board, as devised by thr projectors, is to co-operate with the State and municipal authorities in the matter of sanitarv improvement. The IhiMcsI feature of the proposition, and one that is likely to result in a seri ous cout rovers v, is that which bestows upon the I man I legislative, judicial ami execi'tive powers of an independent character. It is a matter of surprise among a large number of army ntlicerH that so many should be willing to accept details at Indian agencies. It has already been explained that these olliccrs are willing to go to hull. in agencies in order to get riil of disagreeable associations and the dull routine of camp, hut another factor which would seem to deter them from going to agencies is the fact that all olli ccrs are now examined for promotion, and that they would be much more apt to be promoted if they continued in the active service instead of going away from it. It is claimed that all army officers who accept Indian agency details will keep up their studies on military mat ters, so that they may he able to pass the examinations when promotions are offered them. Chicago exposition. In a North Dakota exhibit at the fair there are 1 40 exhibits of w heat and 300 kinds of grain. The gates of the fair grounds at Chi cago are to lie kept open until 11 o'clock at night hereafter. The expected World's Fair traffic from Kurope has thus far failed to materialize, while tht! Eastward travel seems to be undiminished. . Paymaster (ieneral Stewart has com pleted a statement of expenditures of the naval review. The total expense of the review was $70,800. Internal revenue officers actually seized a miniature distillery on exhibi tion at the World's Kair, because all of the red-tape technicalities had not been complied w ith in setting it up. The exposition authorities have set apart October 20 to 21 for the big re union of war veterans, both Confederate and Union. The Grand Army mists will mala' efforts to bring all the old soldiers possible to Chicago. Another attraction is being arranged by the exposition an thorites and tho people of Midway Plaisance. It is pro posed that all the natives take part in a grand ball, to be given tho lirst week in July. Tho ball proper is to bo preceded bv a grand niarcli and the exhibition of all the strange dances to bo seen on the Midway. Tho Methodists will not withdraw their exhibit from tho World's Fair. After three hours' discussion a commit tee decided to cover up all exhibits of the church Sundays, and all members of the church are asked to do the same with their individual exhibits. Canada outstripped her competitors in the Juno exhibit of cheese. There were 007 exhibits, mostly of factory cheese. Of these 135 scored high enough to win medals or diplomas, 120 of them being Canadian manufacture. Thirty ono Canadian lots scored higher than any from the United States, ranging in cxcellanco from 00 per cent down. The council of administration will hereafter have full authority over all matters of general administration con nected with tho exposition. Tho directors have adopted the report of the executive committee as outlined last week. This action abolishes all the committees of the local directory, except the executive, finance and legis lative, and charges the council of ad ministration with carrying out the orders of theso three committees. The council lias been given authority to dis charge or employ any officers. EASTERN MKLAXGK. Tlic Number of Sheep Sheared in Montana. DISHONEST WATKK COLLECTORS. IluildiiiifH Occupied y Government Clerks to he Examined The t'hlhlH-Drciel Home. Our "militia of the sea" now numlers about 1,000 men. The gold in the Treasury is slightly increasing in quantity. Winter wheat is nearly all harvested in the Southern States. Tho Delaware militia will lie dis banded for luck of funds. Denver claims a opuliition of 182,000, bused on directory names. The Capital National Hunk at Indian apolis has reopened itsi doors. Detroit's city government is waging u determined war on the gas companies. Proctor Knott of Kentucky has declined the oiler of the Jlawuiiau mis sion. The Mississippi river at New Orleans is within one foot of the highest jsjint ever recorded. Missouri is the first State to build a Confederate home entirely from indi vidual contribution. The protest against rapid bicycle riding on frequented streets is general ull over the country. The Wabash has adopted the rule limiting tickets to continuous nassaire one day from date of sale. The mackerel fishers are having great sport this year. Nothing like it has been enjoyed for years past. Natural gas discovered near Newlin, Tex., is frightening the colored popula tion away Irom that vicinity. As the hot weather begins Phila delphia is having trouble w ith its gar- hago ol an alarming character. It is reported that a new line of steamers are to ply between New York, Jamaica and Central America. American capitalists are said to have bought much land on tho Isthmus of Tchauhtopoe for bonanza farming. Cleveland is to arbitrate the dispute U'tween Argentina and liruzil over the (Missession of thr State of Parana. Wholesale poisoning of sheep is the latest phase of the Colorado war be tween sheepmen and cattlemen. Lust vear there were 1.800.000 sheen sheared in Montana, an increase of 33 per cent over the previous year. An Kast Tennessee young woman has brought suit for f 1,000 against a man for saying that she had false teeth. Senator Stewart has recently ex pressed the belief that the Sherman silver purchasing act will not be re pealed. The fear is taking form in Western Kansas that this season will not pro duce more than three or four crops of alfalfa. The unveiling of the monument to Nathan Hale in City Hall Park, New York, has been postjKihed until Sep tember 22. The builders of the new cruiser New York will receive about $70,000 in premiums by the government's accep tance of the vessel. Water collectors at Detroit have been stealing. 11. L. James committed suicide when his theft was discovered. Several are under arrest. The Chicago and Northwestern has secured an entrance into Denver by the purchase of the Scranton road, a coal line seventeen miles long. A monument to the memory of William Cullen Bryant, the American historian and poet, will shortly ho placed in Central Park, New York. Every building in Washington oc cupied by government clerks is to be subjected to a thorough examination as to its safety, lighting and ventilation. The Governor of New York has just vetoed a bill making tho use of cheese as an article of diet compulsory in the military camps and prisons of the State. There are now in the elevators of Minneapolis, iHiluth and Superior about 24,000,000 bushels of wheat, or about twice as much as they contained a year ago. The Tree-planting and Fountain Society of Brooklyn is actively engaged in arousing intelligent interest in the planting and care of street trees in that city. The feeling at Washington is that the financial crisis is past. The condition of the country as reviewed from a treas ury standpoint shows general improve ment. J. H. Richardson of New Haven, Conn., has begun suits for $50,000,000 for infringement of a patent held by him by reaper manufacturers of the United States. The complete official returns of the Chinese registration have been received at Washington. Thev show that out of 110,000 Chinese in the United States 13,139 registered. The International Typographical Union has declared that no one shall be admitted to the Childs-Drexel Home unless he bad been a member of the union for five years. The Oil-well Supply Company, one of tho most extensive corporations in Pennsylvania and the largest concern of its kind in the world, has gone into the hands of a receiver. J'.KSINKSS It It KV IT I KM. New York State is said to have more newspapers than the entire Southern Hemisphere. The Merrimac. river is said to move more machinery than any other stream in the world. The American Aluminium Company will erect a manufacturing plant near Clayton, Mo. There are twenty-eight passenger trains daily from New York and Phila delphia to Chicago. About $211,000,000 are annually sent by Italian laborers in this country to their families in Italy. There are less than 1 MX) Spaniards, (ireeks and Portuguese in anyone of the chief cities of the country. Half a million patents issued by this government bear excellent testimony to the country's inventive genius. It was only 1 10 years after the discov ery of America that the first glass works were established in the colonies. A smelter has begun operations at San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It is the only smelter in Mexico working copper ore. England bears the palm over all coun tries, even the United States, in the number of women employed by govern ment. The Phillippine Islands export more than 100,000 cigars annually, almost 3,000 tons of coffee and 220,000 toiiB of sugar. Kurope produces almost as much to bacco as does the United States, Austria supplying about one-third of the Euro pean crop. The corn exported to Mexico from the United States during the recent famine would fill a solid train seventy-seven miles long. Last year New York citv paid for its school bill $4,000,000; for its amusement bill, $7,000,000, and for its drink bill, (00,000,000. (iutta porcha was first introduced into Kurope from Malaga in 1852. The an nual consumption now amounts to4,000.- 000 pounds. The average cost of travel on the Lon don roads is only .10 of a cent a mile, and the Orcat Eastern comes at .040 of a cent a mile. Japan's foreign trade during 1892 ex ceeded that of 1891 20,000,000 yen. The principal increase was in the values of silk and tea. There are 28,00(1 Chinese inhabitants in the chief cities of the United States 24,000 of them in San Francisco and 3,000 in New York. Grand old Missouri is without a rival in the world in the amount of lead out put. The annual lead product of the State is 30,000,000 tons. There are several dozen men in Lon don who earn their living by catching rats. They are mostly employed at ho tels, clubs and restaurants. The schooner Good Intent, which was launched at Braintree, Mass., in 1813, is still in service, plying between Bangor, Me., and neighloring ports. The orange industry of Florida has in- creasen irom ouu.ouu ooxes in to 3,900,000 for the past season. This vear's crop will exceed 5,000,000 boxes. The fluctuations of the stock market a few months after Jav Gould's death increased the value of his estate to $89.- 000,000, and afterward reduced it to$61, 000,000. This country exported 10,075,000 yards of cotton goods to Brazil during the eight months to March 1, an increase of over 50 per cent over the same period a year ago. The New Hampshire experiment farm finds that milk from the best cows costs I1..' cents a quart; from their poorest, 4 'a cents, as it costs just as much to feed the smaller producer. The whole length of the main Siberian line is 4,700 miles and its estimated cost $190,000,000. The line, with branches, will cover 5,000 miles, to he built by an expenditure of $200,000,000. The total production of silver in the world during the last vear was placed at 145,000,000 ounces troy, of which the United States produced 00,000,000 ounces, or upward of 41 per cent of the whole amount. PURELY PERSONAL. Philip J. Armour has adopted a diet of bread and milk in the hope of im proving his health. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wears a thumb ring, and uses five quarts of milk to one complexion bath. The only ornaments ever worn bv the widowed Archduchess Stephanie is a locket containing the portrait of her lit tle daughter on the one side and that of her mother, the Queen of the Belgians, on the other. Arthur Balfour savs that his greatest political help comes from his sister, Miss Agnes Balfour, who is his housekeeper. Each day she devotes a fixed amount of time to reading the newspapers and marking what is useful for his perusal. The present sent bv the Czar to the Turkish Sultan, an album of paintings of all the Russian warships in the Black Sea fleet, is a remarkablv peculiar one. The recipient may regard it as in-sultan or think it merely a piece of czar-casm. John Ledyard, the great traveler, says that among all nations women adorn themselves more than men, but that wherever found thev are the same kind, civil, humane and tender beings, in clined to be cheerful, timorous and mod est. Charles F. Wright of London, who is now spreading the light of theosophy in this country, declares that the elixir of life is no dream of the alchemists, but may be reached through the " expansion of the individual consciousness," what ever that means. F0KEIGN FLASHES. A Knit Jiegnn 152 Years Ago Just Concluded. OIL WELLS OF THE CASPIAN. Mummified BodleH of Three Massa cred MiHtdonarien Brought Back From Africa. France is buying Irish horses for cavaly use. The manufacture of wine is becoming a thriving industry in Palestine. The total tonnage launched in Great Britain in 1892 was 35,000,000 last year. The value of England's exports of metals and machinery fell off $35,000,000 last year. Ijrd Ixirne receives a salary of $0,000 a year as Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle. The Town Council of Bruges, Bel gium, has resolved to give $400,000 toward a ship canal. Married couples in Norway are privi leged V) ride on railroads at a' fare and a half for each couple. The Emperor William will command in person the Sixteenth Army Corps at the autumn maneuvers. IiOud complaints are heard on all sides of the continued high price of butcher's meat in Paris. Ten war vessels of the British navy were condemned last month as unfit for service and ordered sold. Sharpshooters riding in steel-clad ve hicles w ill be a feature of next autumn's German army maneuvers. The Hamburg Tank Steamship Com pany will go out of the business hecause of unprofitable freight rates. Paris has a new playhouse called the Theater of the Poets. The success of the new venture is not assured. Quit a number of express locomotives are fired principally with oil on the Great Eastern railway of England. London's most famous playhouse Drury Lane is to be torn down and another structure placed on its site. It is stated from Batoum that famine, for some time threatened, has suddenly become acute in some districts of Ar menia. Of the American cities represented at the Foremen's Congress at London Kansas City made the most creditable showing. Police and artillery had to be used at Berne, Switzerland, to disperse rioters, who had attacked a gang of imported Italians. Argentine bond holders at London are considering the agreement between the Rothschild committee and the Republic. Russian Jews are reported to have settled in South America in large num bers, and are among the most prosper ous colonists. Salmon from California have been successfully acclimatized on the lakes of the Marne and Saone canal at Nievre, France. Prince Bismarck will go to Kissingen with his family next month to drink the waters. A palace has been placed at his disposal. In France the railways employ 24,080 women. Most of them, however, merely receive a small sum for opening and closing gates. Owing to the effect of the recent drought in Germany on the farmers, a suspension of the duties on corn and maize is proposed. One thousand and fifty-six lives were saved by life-boat men "on the coast of Great Britain during the last year and without the loss of one life-boat man. A suit in the English Chancery Court begun 152 years ago was concluded the other day. The government duties and legal fees covered nearly the entire sum fought for. The Swedish government has estab lished on the coast nine stations for medical observation. The object of this measure is to protect the country from cholera. The Constans party in France is making strenuous efforts, in view of the illness of President Carnot, to make political capital out of the Panama canal scandal. Five acres of park land per week is the record of the London County Coun cil, as since its organization a few years ago it has purchased and made accessible no less than 994 acres in parks. All the wells of Berlin have been ex amined, and out of some 800 one-fourth were declared doubtful and one-fourth unfit for use. Similar examinations are being made all over the country. Aluminium is to be used wherever practicable in the accouterments, arms and equipments of the German army. Bv its use the weight carried by infantry will be a trifle over fifty-seven pounds, w here now it is about sixty-eight and one-half pounds. A constant and large increase is noted in the output of the oil wells of the Cas pian region. About 3,000 tons are ex ported every working day of the year from Batoum alone, and the exports of last year were 63,533 tons in excess of those of the previous year. Foureau, the explorer, who has just returned from the Sahara, brought with him the bodies of three missionaries of the Congregation of the White Fathers, who in 1881 were massacred by Tou aregs. The bodies, while they had be come completely mummified and lost four-fifths of their weight, were other wise in an excellent state of preservation. RHINEBECK'3 CH03T. Ad Apparition That Frlu'liN'tin and Myt tlflrs the Villain. Rhirmbeck, X. Y., U a fine old Dutch American town In the valley of the Hud son, the summer home of Vice President Morton. Recently many Rliinebeckers have taken up the notion that the vicinity la liKUritd. The ghont is In the form of a tall old woman iu black, and many have Hen ft not the superstitioua only, hut the wxil, nervy and hard headed. John Judvui was the first to see her (or it). It was a very dork night, and be Is not of a persistently inquiring mind, so when the tall black form suddenly rcme before him in the road he went home without un seemly delay. Next to see her was David Ackert, a tall and vigorous business man who has an inquiring mind and a deal of nerve. lie tried to make her out, hut she haMeriid awuy and into the woods. Thomas Sinclare was the next reliable person to en counter the strange woman, lie met her on theoutskirts of the village about 10 o'clock at night. She was pacing in the middle of the road with her head bent low and her long arms clasped behind her. Sinclare merely took one look. She was next seen in a schoolhouse at dusk by the schoolteacher, Miss Welch, who fol lowed the usual rule in (such cases by Itreaking it for home. In the next six weeks she was seen by many, always in ths ame guise that of a very tall old woman in black. The old town constable and de tective, Gus Quirk, thinks it is a tall young man doing the funny business, but the sin gular feature of it is that whenever any one tries to get a good view of it the apparition vanishes into the woods. All the usylunn are appealed to for information of any es caped lunatic. Facta About the 1'apury. Leo is the 257th pope. Twenty-four of bis predecessors were Johns, 16 were Greg orys, 14 Clements, 14 Benedicts, 13 Inno cents, 12 Leos, i) Piuses, 9 Bonifaces, 8 Pauls, 8 Urbans, 8 Alexanders, 10 Stephens, 6 Adrians and 5 each named Sextus, Nich olas, .Martin and Celestine. In the earliest days of the church the prelates raised to the pontificate retained their own names, but the custom of adopting the name of some predecessor has obtained for some centuries. Fifteen of the popes have been French men, 13 have been Greeks, K have heen Syr ians, 6 have been Germ; :. , 5 Spaniards, 2 came from Africa and S each from Savoy, England, Sweden, Dalmulia, Holland, Por tugal and Crete. Since all the popes Rave been chosen from among the Italian cardinals. Pius IX reigned as pope a longer period than any of his predecessors, his pontifical life extending over a period of 31 years. St. Peter's pontificate is counted by Catholics from A. D. 33 to CO. St. Felix II, the 87th pope, who died in 30C, was the first pope to die a natural death. Eight popes died with in a month after succession, 'J2 more died before serving two years, 54 reigned be tween four and five years, 57 more failed to" serve 10 years, 51 died before the l.xh year, 18 reigned between 15 and 20 years, and only 9 passed the 20th year. In all the annals of secular governments there is not so long line. The pontifical court is the only Byzantine court now left in existence. Its oiiicersare innumerable, its routine is complicated, and the ceremonies are almost infinite. Etiquette has largely given place to ease in the lay courts, hut the formality of other days still continues in the Vatican. Every dig nitary has his own place and makes a point in maintaining it. There is a fixed rule for the dress to be worn at every hour of the day; rules are prescribed as to kneeling and so on. Leo XIII was very careful to insist on the strictest observance of the old time etiquette, and in this particular he differed radically from his predecessor, Pius IX, who was inclined to be much more easy going in matters of ceremony. Investigations Into the Unknown. An orthodox clergyman who officiates over a prosperous church in a town in Illi nois called upon me duringthe summer. I had known him at college. He informed me, to my astonishment, that he was en gaged with a leading physician of his town in systematically studying psychical phe nomena. "I do not believe in spiritual ism," he remarked, "but we have both been amazed to find how many persons have had most extraordinary experiences. We have closely questioned persons who came into the doctor's office, and, although they usually professed ignorauce of any personal knowl edge of extra normal phenomena and fre quently laughed at everything of the kind after my friend, the doctor, gave them the main points in several well authenticated cases which had come to his notice, they usually gave some more or less remarkable experiences, with names and dates, which enabled us afterward to verify hitherto carefully guarded secrets. "We have both," he declared, "been as tonished at the number of persons who are among the most thoughtful and substan tial of our people who have had experiences in their homes which transcend the ordi nary and are to us inexplicable, but as yet we are merely collecting reliable data." This gentleman is representative of a large class of careful thinkers who today are quietly accumulating facts upon which to base an intelligent conclusion, and thus are following the modern method of scien tific inquiry. Arena. Oaths in Oldeu Times. The Roman oath of olden times was Kade with great solemnity and elabora tion. In Roman mythology Juno, mak ing a promise to sleep, strengthened it 1 by taking the heavens in one hand and the earth in the other. Greeks and Ro mans swore by their gods, by the Styx, by Olympus, by hell, by their sacred springs, wells and rivers, and by the sun and the moon. Their oaths were of much value and meaning during the early days of tha republic, but worthless after they became corrupt. Oaths lost their sanctity and became colloquial or profane at a very early time among the Jews. Greek ladies swore daintily by Venus, Diana and Juno, and now and then by some male god whose name was frequently taken in vain by their liege lords. The French monarchs, too, had their own peculiar forms of oaths. St. Louis Republic. K 1 . L. , ... !