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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1893)
The Hood River Glacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 5. HOOD IUVKU. OREGON, SATURDAY. D KG) KM IS Kit M. IBM. no. ;n. 3fcod Ivjver Slacicr. 'Ulll.liuikli IVIIIT MTtlKDAT MORNlna if The Claclor Publishing Company. I ll HlrTION I'HItt fr ft go iiiniiiii. er ThtM tuniitlif .... K"kL CaaW THE GLACIER Barber Shop Grant Evans, Propr. ""l St, n-r ()k. Hood Hirer, Or. Moving ami llulr milling neatly dun.. .Stifctiim (iuaiaut.cii, I.alc News. Tlio Fruit Exchange of Riverside, Cal., has taken the place of private shipping linns, hik I none u( the latter ur in biiHi- IICSH this HCUHOII, Charges arc iiiiuli' against tint present CoiumisKionerH of A 1 1 11 county, Idaho, iiml some of their predecessors for re ceiving fees illegally. A cranberry imirhli near Kitnii!rlii, Wash., has yielded 2.5UO gallons of berries this Hcason. Tin yield in of si i-ll.-rit quality, the berries beiug large mill of line flavor. At Park fit y, Utah, a funeral proces sion was stampeded, resulting 111 two fatalities. A team in the procession ran im ,1V, ami caused every oilier train to stampede, including that drawing the hcirse with the body of Mrs. Van Nli ink. Stanton ltohaiiIJohu Spraguc were fatally injured, w heels were lirokrn, carriages upset nixl men, women and children tnrouii into heap with the struggling horses ami splintering ve hicles. I he hearse itself was disfigured ami a half-do.cn jieojile seriously in jureil. Nine passenger conductors on the Se attle, Lake hoio ami Eastern railway, w ho were discharged bv Receiver Brown on the charge of "knocking down," have brought suit in the Tinted Staten Court at Seattle to compel the receiver to prefer (-barges against I hem U'fore thcGricvanccCoinniilleeof the Brother IumhI of Railway 'I raiiimeii, of w hich they are member. The claim iH niado thai the Noithcru racilie, of which the Lake Miore is ti hraiich, had agreed that no one should he discharged without lot m l charges and nn inveHliation. A daring attempt to escape from the Westminister penitentiary at Van couver, It. ('., wan made the other night by three convicts, who with fifty others hud been working all the afternoon in the ground. When the men were ordered to form up to return to prison a number made a break for liberty. The attempt to escape was evidently prcar langcd, an they threw stones at the guards and ran' in the direction w here only one guard wan stationed. He tired over their hernia to Htop them, ami all but three were wared and turned back. These three, however, kept on, but w ere fired at by other guards. Kennedy, the ringleader, who wan serving a lifcscn tence for murder committed in the in terior, wan hit ill the leg, fell, and the two others then Rave themselves up. It in believed n plan had been arranged for n general revolt. The new cruder Olympia on her trial tcHtdid not equal tho expectations of her builders, but still far exceeded the reipiirementH, and established a record for an Nil-knot course of about 21.07. Much to the surprise of everyone, the (lav wiih nearly perfect. The ocean wan like a big mill pond, and wan only milled by the big cruiser herself nfl she sped through the water, Rending a spray over her how until tin) decks wore drenched. From (ioletn Point to Point Conception quite, a sea wan running, lint not enough to retard headway to any extent. The rcuHon why the cruiser did not equal her previous record is an unexplained mystery. J lor machinery worked per fectly, and there wiih not tho sligliest break. The time of 21.07 is liable to correction on account of the currentH, $liieh may result in tho Olympiad favor. There- wan a lraft four inches greater than tho requirements which will hIho bo counted in tho calculations, which will not bo made for several days. The maxiuin speed to estimated at 22.05. Papers have been filed in the Circuit Court of Union county, Or., which in volve the title of the extensive mining property of tho Oregon Oold Mining Company at Cornucopia. Thero have been three isHiiesof bonds on tho prop erty for . 10,01)0, !f200,000 and $30,000 respectively, and mortgages issued to secure them. The suit is brought by A. L. Schmidt us trustee for the bond holders, it. being alleged that tho cov enants of tho mortgages have been broken and that the property should be turned over to tho bondholders. They ask that a receiver be appointed pend ing the suit, and pray for judgment and decree; that the terms of the mort gage bo declared broken ; that the trus tee is entitled to the property; that the amount of principal and interest due be fixed bv tho court, and for foreclosing the mortgage and directing the sale of the property ; for fixing priority of pay ment, and for declaring the same a lien upon the property. T. H. Crawford and T. C. Hyde are tho attorneys for plaint iffs. The mines have suspended opera tions for the season. The mills have just completed tho most prosperous run ever made. Heavy snow is given as the cause of the suspension. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Southern Democrat ic Senators threat en to defeat the tariff bill unless it is radically modified. The Oregon delegation was very active in securing the extension of time for set tlers on the forfeited railroad lauds until IHU7. lienrcMeiitativo .;jH' w,.,,t from the Mouse to the Senate, and Sen ator I'olph had it piuiped immediately w ithout, reference to a committee. Sen ator I loliih had introduced and had re- oiled from his Committee on Public .amis a bill nf a similar charade raiii ho the parliamentary Hiatus of the meas ure gave him an opportunity to put it through without any delay. Settlers on them, lands will be greatly bcnclilcd hy the extension granted, especially during lliese lianl limes. I he bill for the adiuifHioli of I'tah was pasHcd without division bv the House at the conclusion of the debate, New lauds of Nevada made his maiden speech in siippoit of admission. He thought I'tah was fully prepared for Statehood, but. objected to leaving t he allot meiit of lands in I'tah to bureau ollicers in Washing ton, w ho did not imdiMstaiid the condi tions there. The I'niled StalcM, he mid. should co-operate in tlr reclamation of the arid lauds in that legion. In d feuding Nevada he paid he w as unable to understand w by there should be somuch aversion to a State which, when the country was in revolution, had poured liiiXMHXi.iKMl mio the treasury. .New- lauds claimed the cause of the present impression in I lah wiih tin result of leg islation leveled at her interests. The annual report of Prof. Meiiden hall, chief of the coast geodetic survey, is interesting. The reiiort says that pre liminary surveys needed for the location of a northea'-tern Ixniiidury line between the I'niteil Slates mid Canada art! Hear ing coniplc t ion. Tin' surveys have been begun for the location of the tsiuiiilarv line between California and Nevada from Lake Tahoe to the Colorado river, and ollieer of the survey have been sent to Southeastern Alaska under instruction", to co-operate with ollicers detailed by the liomiuiou of Canada to locate the Isiuinlary line between Alaska and Brit ish Columbia. In accordance w ith re quests, the survey detailed an ollicer to act as a member of the hoard of engi neers to devise a system of sewerageaud grading of streets in San Francisco and to co-operate w ith the Harbor Line Com mission of the Slate of Washington in tin." harlMir surveys of Puget Sound. The ComtniMcc on Public Lands re ported favorably Kepreseiitative Her mann's bill prescrihing limitations for the completion of titles of lands in Ore gon and Washington claimed under I In law commonly known as the "donation act." The 1st day of January, IH'.i'i, is llxed as the period within which ti mil pnsifs can be made, mid thereafter all such lands under incomplete proof w ill be held abandoned and the lands will become part part of the puMic domain and subject to settlement. Such land as may have been claimed by purchase fioiu the original claimant, or occupied and in undisturbed MiHsessioii for twenty years by such purchasers nud occupants, or heirs at law or devisees, shall have pref erence of right of title by purchase or payment of $1 2f per acre within ninety days after January 1, 1S'.i5. The bill is recommended by several Commissioners of I he general land ollice and tho pres ent Secretary of the Interior. The majority report on civil service for the present year is a document of about l.r,UH) words. The most interesting por tion is that hearing on the extension of the classified service to free-delivery post ollices, the subject on which Commis sioner Johnston dissented and was ac cordingly removed by the President a short time ago. The report condemns the removal of the salary list to a classi fied service in custom-houses, and recom mends classification by grade. In sup port of this view the satisfactory results of classification in the railway mail serv ice are cited. The report says that in the unclassified service, taken as a whole, the government methods of the United States are so utterly indefensible from the standpoint of decency and morality' that it is dillicult for a man of ordinary intelligence who wishes well to his coun try to discuss the arguments advanced in their favor with anything like toler ance. The report likens our system to those employed in Morocco and Turkey. The number of persons connected with civil service in the United States isaliout 200,000. Tho minority report of Com missioner Johnston opposes, the exten sion of the classified service to free-de livery postofliccH as ill-advised and harm ful to the cause of civil service reform. It is probable the State Department will soon enter upon negotiations looking to the adjustment of our relations with China. The enactment of the (iearv law will be regarded as an infraction of the existing treaty, necessitating a new treaty. It is understood Ciresham de sires to make an extension of our trade relations and privileges with China the central feature of his administration. The Secretary is know n to havo little fait h in the future of our trade relations with tho Spanish-American Republics, and has made no recommendation for an appropriation for the maintenance of the bureau of American Republics. It is known that Yung Yu, the recently ar rived Chinese envov, comes expressly charged with negotiations for a new treaty. 1 he Chinese government is sat isfied with the amendment to the Oeary act, and is not anxious to extend the fu-ivilege of immigration for its people, mt is solicitous for their protection and privileges. Chinese statesmen are said to regard with favor the extension of trade relations with the United States in preference to the governments having a more aggressive policy. The coming ne gotiations will embrace a settlement of the question of immigration, tho treat ment of the Chinese already here or who may hereafter come legally, and the pro tection of American citizens residing in China. At the Cninese legation it is in timated the Minister is hopeful of changes in the treaty, but is not disposed to pre maturely anticipate them. TIIH M 1 1) W I NT Kit KXI'OSmoN. The best, news of the week ill connec tion w ith the coining California Midwin ter international KxoHilion has been the extension of the lime limit of excur sion tickets from the Fast to thirty days. This means that those who go tot'alilor n ill. to see the Midwinter Imposition will have n month in which to visit, other parts of the Stale besides those contigu ous to San Francisco, and that the bene fits to be derived by the cntro Pacific ( 'oust w ill be correspondingly multiplied. And just hero there ought to be a word sai 1 (i I mii 1 1 the number of visitors that may reasonably be expected to come out of the frozen Fast to hibernato in the country " Win-re Urn h ut never fii'lin In tin- "till bloom ItiK hoVHTH, Ami tint hi'i' I.nn.iic't oil throlIKh u whole year o tloWITK." Those who have already arrived at San Francisco as the advance guard of the griuid army of midwinter eoritinciit croHHcrs say that the influx of visitors will exceed the most sanguine expecta tions of t!ie friends of toe exposition. Faslern railway managers are constantly sending to the department of publicity and promotion for advertising matter in (oimectioii with the fair. Their patrons are hungry for informal ion on the sub ject. Some of them are so hungry that more than one of the great trunk lines have deemed it necessary to prepare vast quantities: of matter, based on the mate rial furnished bv this department, with which to satisfy the popular demands. All this means that thousands of people in the Fast an? going to tuke advantage of cheap rates and the special attractions of the exposition as an excuse for mak ing a long-promised trip to the " land of sunshine, fruit and (lowers. " Meanwhile the list of attractions con tinues to grow, and there will be lively times during the next three weeks, get ting all the concessions in readiness for the opening day. Then- is one feature of the contemplated attractions, how ever, for which no elaborate building has to be erected, and yet it is one in which a very wide-spread interest centers, and that Is the grand athletic tournament. This to'irtiamcnt is to cover the entire term of the exposition. The contests will not be on each succeeding day's pro gramme, but there w ill be several events each week, and every Saturday will be I ai gel y devoted to this feature. There will be games of lacrosse between Brit ish Columbian and American teams; there will Ik- )mIo matches between swell society riders; there will be foot ball games between college and univer sity teams ; there will Ihi races and all sorts of contests on the cimlar path, and last, though by no means least, a series of baseball games, in which the entire Pacilic Coast isiovited to take part. With a view to facilitating arrange ments for the last-mentioned feature in this connection Colonel T. P. Robinson of San Francisco has U-en selected to ar range the games on the diamond field, and in order to have the largest possible number of clubs participate that gentle man desires the addresses of every uni form! d baseball club not. only in the stale of California, but in all the States of the Pacilic Coast. These addresses should Ik- sent to him at Room .'52, second lloor. Mills building, San Francisco, and based upon the number of aildresses of intending participants which may be re- ceivcil, there will bo arranged such a baseball tournament as has never before been seen anywhere in the world. In the long list of other attractions it is dillicult to select one that is worthy of more special mention than the rest, but perhaps the latest added features may lie tin1 most interesting. The very latest and the most startling of all the sugges tions that have been forthcoming in the form of concessional features of the fair is that which is to represent " Dante's Inferno," and which has already begun to be spoken of about town as " hell on earth." This concession is to be located in a very prominent part of the exposi tion grounds, and tho character of the entrance to the building containing the exhibit is one that will attract inevitable attention. A great dragon's head, 15 feet in height, with bat-like wings protruding irom either side, seems to crouch against the ground and grin a welcome to the passing crowds. The bat-like wings and entire front, in fact, are gilded to look like burnished gold, and when the sun is relleected from it it presents as brilliant an exterior as one can easily imagine. Out. of the center of the lower part of this figure-head, so to speak, projects a long red tongue of the dragon, and onto this those who care to venture in must step anil walk between the teeth of the dragon's lower jaw into the very body of the beast. The interior arrangements of these " infernal regions " are rendered remark ably ellective by the highly colored sta lactites which hang from the walls, and which seem to extend for miles, almost, away in the distance. This perspective is produced by means of mirrors. There are mirrors on every hand, and never before has there been a better utilization of tho looking-glass for illusionary pur poses. Hidden lights are made use of to add to the effects of the scene, and in tricacies of passage are also brought into play. In one large grotto a stage is erected, and half a dozen skeletons, dancing gro tesquely in the foreground, are so re flected 'by mirrors that their number seems to bo " legion." At another point after traversing several tortuous avenues the visitor comes upon acleverconstruc tion of mirrors above and below and with lights so arranged that there really seems to bo no top or bottom to the place, and hence the name of the "Bottomless Pit." Only a little farther away the visitor comes to the " Endless Cave," produced in the same way and quite as interesting. As the visitor to this remarkable place progresses from point to point, he rises to a higher elevation, and bv traversing an almost imperceptible grade he finally finds himself on the shores of a great lake, into which pours a fall of lava, and it is here perhaps that he gets the best idea of this representation of the "in fernal regions." The effect is produced, of course, by colored lights playing upon the decorations of the structure and bv divers and sundry devicew for the en hancing of these ell'ecls. There is much that in grotesque about the dancing skel I'toiiH in the cave referred to, and there in considerable that is uncanny in every part of this arrangement, but. there is nothing that in 'IjsgiiHting and terrifying, though there in much to amuse. When people turn to go out after having seen all the hIiow they llnd theniHolveH con fronted by numberless passages which sei'iu to lead everywhere, but which really lead nowhere, for when you start to follow one yon run iihimp against a a mirror, and the result is that before ion lind the way out you are fully con vinced that thin particular type of "hell" is a decidedly jolly place to lie in. FORKKJN NKWS. aris in to have a world's fair congress. The Socialist associations of Sicily count .'!00,(XX) members. The Argentine navy now comprises fifty-four first-class vessels. Austria will tax all foreign insurance companies within her Imnlers. Finland is to have a State telephone line at a cost of 100,000 marks. The total mileage of railways now open to traffic in Japan is 1,717. " Mr. Aslor's Ixmdon newspaper has got him into a f 100,000 libel suit. Prim-ess Biatrice has presented three tigers to the L-indon zoological gardens. Tin1 Pitcairn Islanders have been pre sented w ith a lifelwiat by Queen Victoria. The famine in Russia has made the condition of tho peasants more deplor able. (ierman troops are to be sent on long, forced winter marches to make them tough. A French Deputy, M. Iygues, pro poses an increased duty on corn from f 1 to i.t;o. Austrian Socialists will inaugurate a universal strike as a protest against the army bill. War between Fcuador and Peru over the Ixiundary dispute seems to lie abso lutely certain. Free trade ruins many farmers in Eng land. They wish they could move their farms to France. The influenza epidemic in Kiel spreads rapidly. Three hundred marines are under treatment. The Bavarian War Minister asserts that dueling cannot be abolished in civilized countries'. The English government proposes to place a tax oi i penny in the shilling on theater admissions. There are .'1,000 cases of influenza at Hamburg, and the epidemic is spread ing all over Germany. Paris is trying the experiment of pav ing a street with mahogany. It is cost ing only sfit a square yard. There is a report that Greece will give Russia a Mediterranean port, or that France may give her Ajaccio. A royal decree has been issued at Brussels appointing a commission to investigate speculative stocks. After all the fuss the Bank of Eng land's loss through the cashier's loans on bad security is but 1100,000. Dr. Siemer's report on Northern Pa cific securities has sent Rerlin's Deut sche Bank securities up three points. The Bank of England destroys about :550,000 of its notes every week to re place them with freshly printed ones. St. Petersburg newspapers are growl ing over the defeat of the recent French Cabinet as a treason to Russo-French alliance. An attempt is being made under the auspicies of the Royal Geographical Society to renew interest in Antarctic ex ploration. Canon Farrar is about to erect in St. Margaret's Church, Ixmdon, a small but beautiful memorial to the late Dr. Phil lips Brooks. Drs. Libbertz and Laubenheimen, col leagues of Prof. Koch, are preparing an antidote to diphtheria and are confident of its success. Tho Manchester canal, now finished, has cost the lives of 158 men, the perma nent injury of 186 and the temporary injury of 1,404. The house of Rotschild has made its annual gift of 100,000 francs to assist the tenants in Paris who are in difficulties over their rent. It is announced that France and Eng land hate agreed as to Siani. This means that there will soon be one less nation in the world. Brigands in the Caucasus are becom ing bolder than ever before. Extra ordinary stories of their recent outrages are coming to hand. An outbreak of a most infectious type of influenza is the prevailing topic of personal concern not only in England, but throughout Europe. Irish constables have been instructed not to interfere, directly or indirectly, with the collection of funds for the benefit of evicted tenants. The Mayor of Milan and other promi nent persons have issued a call for sub scriptions for erecting a monument in that city iu memory of MacMahon. The Swiss government denies that it is about to expel hundreds of Anarchists from the Republic. They won't be molested as long as they keep quiet. The sales of sealskins have just closed in London. Nearly 120,000 skins were disposed of for $1,810,000. The prices have fallen off from 15 to 25 per cent. The Vienna iron ring has collapsed. It was formed in 1890. If the Bohemian and Moravian iron works would have remained in the ring, it would have been renewed. Germany has decided to paint the ves sels of her navy a dull yellowish brown, w hich would make it difficult for the enemy to distinguish them even at short distancee. EASTERN ITKMS. It 1h feared that the Missouri river will break its banks alxive Omaha. Navigation on the Mississippi above , ; In . - ii i . vttiro, in., ih practically suspenueu. A whole fleet of lake craft is stuck in the ice floe at the head of Lake Erie Minnesota has passed a law that all substitutes for butter Mha.ll be colore pink. f An anti-cigarette crusade has been or ganized in the public schools of New roric. Congressman Holman of Indiana has succeeded to the title of "Father of the House." Oklahoma has now more population than any other Territory, except per haps Utah. At the present rate the Treasury deficit by the end of fiscal year will amount to fW,UW,UA). Reading, Pa., is to have a sewage pumping station, with a daily capacity of 6,000,000 gallons. For the first time in years book-making on horse races is carried on at present in Philadelphia. An appropriation of $1,000,000 will le asked of Congress to improve the harbor of Duluth," Minn. Attorney-General A. G. Smith of In diana receives fees, it is said, to the amount of $40,000 a year. Under the new rules forth prevention of forest fires New York did not have any serious ones the past year. A bill is to be introduced in the Ohio Legislature looking to the regulation, if not the suppression of football. Five hundred and twenty Mississippi convicts were hired out to cotton-planters at $7.50 per month per head. The Cleveland (0.) street-railway authorities give $100 to all conductors who serve a year without accident. The Savannah News expresses the fear ttiat the large shipments of oranges now being made from that city may glut the Eastern markets. Next spring a newly organized com pany proposes to build and operate an electric trolley railway between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Revenues have come short of expendi tures about $:30,000,000 thus far this fiscal year, and only five months of the year have expired. President Cleveland has summarily removed from office the Postmaster of Topeka, Kan., for kicking out seventeen Republican letter carriers. Boston's census of the unemployed fixes their number at 40,000, and lier leading citizens are moving toward some concerted action for their relief. Ex-President Harrison has nearly completed the lecture he is to deliver at the Stanford University. He will leave for California early in February. Two new memliers of the Aster family have been discovered by New York's State Botanist. This swells the Four Hundred to Four Hundred and Two. It is estimated that $4,000,000 worth of the Wisconson tobacco crop is " tied up " in warehouses in that State, uncertainty as to the tariff making buyers conserv ative. A movement is on foot at Chicago to erect a monument to the memory of Mayor Harrison on the Administration plaza, where the Columbian bell now stands. Rev. Mr. White of Brooklyn, known to fame as the "marrying minister," w ho never turned away a loving couple, is dead. In his life he married 14,000 people. The "danse du ventre," which created such a sensation at the Chicago Fair, has been suppressed in New York on the ground that it is brutal and dis gusting. It is said that the University of Chi cago will publish a magazine intended to be a rival of the Century and repre sentative of the thought and tendencies of the West. It is estimated that damage to the extent of at least $4,000,0X) has been caused to the crops in the Northwest during the present year by a w eed known as the Russian thistle. The old parish prison at New Orleans has been sold for $11,000. It was from this building that eleven Italians, charged with killing Chief of Police Hennessy, were taken and lynched. The gross receipts of the Yale-Princeton football game at New York on Thanksgiving dav were $41,000; ex penses, $14,000; leaving $27,000 to be equally divided between the colleges. Commissioner Miller estimates that $11,000,000 will be necessary to pay the bounty on this season's sugar crop. A California firm has filed a claim for bounty on 15,000,000 pounds of beet sugar. The Georgia Legislature has declared for free coinage of silver and denied the right of the national government to interfere with, restrict or regulate the issue of paper currency by authority of the State Legislature. The New York Presbytery has adopted a resolution declaring that in loyal com pliance with the form of government and with the action of the General As sembly the Presbytery recommends that students for the ministry shall not pursue studies in anv seminary disap proved by the General Assembly. The supervising architect of the Treas ury has written a letter to Bankhead, Chairman of the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, stating that it will cost $162,000 to pile the Seventh and Mission streets site in San Francisco in order to make it a solid foundation for a postoffice building. Representative Bowers of California has introduced a bill iu the House to prohibit officers and employes of na tional banks holding any office in any savings bank, and to prohibit the loca tion of any national bank or its con tinuance in business in any building in which the business of any savings bank is conducted. HOW RAILROAD3 AFFECT CLIMATE, Silent f'onrfiirtoM of Klrrtrlclty lletwenn tli l.artl, and the ( loiiiln. Dr. fjeorgu W, Sloan has a theory con cerning l ie climatic chiino!! that have taken ku:ti in the United States, espe cially in Indiana and farther to the west and northwest, that is apparently borne out by the facts. Spreading a map of the United State before the reporter he began to explain his views. "You will observe here," said the doctor, "the level tract of country lyin between the MisKlssippI river and the foot liill of the great chain of mountains known as the Rockies. That tract in for mer years waH considered, and was for the fciost part, an arid plain. Winds from the north and south swept over it backward and forward. It was furnished with river having their sources in the mountains, but there were no extensive bodies of water, such as the great lakes. "Air currents from the Pacific laden with moisture, striking the mountain peaks of the Rockies and Sierra N'evadas, made snow and rain at the season these winds prevailed. This gave to the Pacific coast wet and dry seasons. In order that the sky moisture might be precipitated it was necessary there should be some elec trical connections between the upper cur rent and the ground. The plains being practically dry that is, having no great bodies of water there was no evaporation of moisture to produce an electric current, and in the next place the small amount of moisture in the clouds was carried east ward and southward. Coming to the east, it came within the influence of the great lakes that gave and continue to give ns our rain and snow. Cold winds from the arctic region came rushing down through this plain, bringing cold weather with them. "Of late years there have been built through the mountains and across these plains four lines of railway, whose bands of steel act as silent electrical conductors, bringing into this once arid region a good amount of rain and an amount of vegeta tion unknown in former times. It is a well known fact that moisture has a mitigating influence upon temperature, and that there is not now the severe cold that once charac terized the immense area of which I am speaking. The changes in temperature west of Indiana have brought about changes in our own state. As to the in fluence of great bodies of w.iter upon cli mate we know that the eastern shore of Lake Michigan is a good fruit area that the winds from the west and northwest crossing that lake are tempered by its moisture and reduced in temperature. "The area east of the lake is a peach country, while farther south in Indiana, where this influence is not so great, peach trees do not withstand the winters. This, at least, has been the case; but for the lavt eight or nine winters the temperature has been milder and peach trees have survived. The increase of rain in this state in the winter is not unconnected with the elec trical conditions I have named concerning the great region here on the map. As rail roads have multiplied and trees have been removed our winter rains have been more frequent, while there has been less snow and ice. Cultivation of the land, too, has brought rain with it. There are also elec trical disturbances connected with the movements of rains, though perhaps these are less definite than the other causes I have named. "My idea is that, while we may occa sionally have a cold snap to rush down upon us, these will be but temporary, and we will never a train have long continued cold winters. Our climate is changing, and these changes come more through the influence of man than from nature." In- dinepolis Journal. Folly of Hoarding. It is really remarkable that so many people in this country, who have funds from which they might earn a good rate of interest, persist in locking up notes in safe deposit vaults or pack them away in old stockings. Money will earn today large returns, with the best of real es tate security as first class collateral to protect the lender, and yet a great many individuals, waiting for they know not what, decline to take advantage of what is an unusual opportunity for making money. The currency of a country is intended to circulate as evidence of cred it. If it does not, it becomes absolutely useless to everybody. In a famine a com munity would be no better off if it locked up millions of barrels of flour than if it had none at all. The same is precisely true of money. Washington News. Browning to Coleridge. Browning loaned Lord Coleridge one sf his works to read, and afterward, meeting the poet, the lord chief justice said to him: "What I could understand I heartily admired, and parts ought to be immortal. But as to much of it I really could not tell whether I admired it or not, because for the life of me I could not understand it." Browning re plied, "If a reader of your caliber un derstands 10 per cent of what I write, I think I ought to be content." San Fran cisco Argonaut. A Hard Conundrum. Of the 1,300,000,000 or 1,400,000,000 of people populating the earth, how many may be said to dominate it? Is the di rection of all affairs sublunary in the hands of more or less than 10,000 men and women? I do not mean as elected or hereditary rulers of nations merely, but persons in the capacity of rulefs, finan ciers, priests, soldiers, writers, states men, etc. Cor. New York Sun. She Likes America. Every one's right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" must certainly be in the air of the land of the free. It is told of the Corean minister to Washington that a lady asked him how he liked America. "Oh, very good," he replied. "And your wife. How does she like itf" "Oh. she like it too eoodl She sav: '1 good as you now. I not go back any more.' ".New xorfc Tunes, V-