The Hood River Glacier.
It's a Cold Day When We Get Left.
VOL. 5.
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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,
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