- ' piAmMAA I UE5I3AY, JANUARY 16, 1900. .1 .
IB I ill
fifty-fire Thousand Finns Are Com
ing to Work ca Tracks.
Wanted in the Westr-Railroads Aimt
Get More Laborers at Lower Vage.s
. Tramps Sell Tickets to Scalpers. '
It is announced by railway represen
tatives that 55.000 Finns will come dur
ing next spring and summer to work
on the railroads of the Northwestern
states and Western British America.
One of the greatest continental tourist
and emigrant agencies, located at Liv
erpool, 'England, is said to have closed
contracts with trans-Atlantic' steam
ship companies and certain railroads cf
this country and Canada for the trans
portation of the Finlanders.
The reason given by railroad officials
for the emigration of the Finlanders is
jthat they arc being persecuted by the
Russian government but it is assumed
that he offers of steady and profitable
employment on railroads in this coun
try and Canada have helped the Finns
to reach the conclusion that it would
be betted for them to leave their native
lan?. ' l ( .
To admit that; employment on rail
roads in this country and Canada has
been guaranteed the Finns would in
volve railroad officials in all kinds of
trouble,' said a representative of . one
0 the Western lines. "To begin with,
such an arrangement would be,in vio
lation f the foreign-contract labor
law. If they knew such an arrange
ment had been made, the labor leaders
" would immediately take steps to pre-r
vent the Finns from ever ' setting foot
on American soil. Nevertheless, the
managers of American railways, partic
ularly those of the Northwest, feel that
they must do. something which will in
Mire cheap labor necessary to carry out
the extensions of track which have
been planned. It was impossible to get
enough track laborers 1 last summer
and fall in certain sections of the coun
try to do the work which the railroads
were very anxious to complete. I
"During the 'hard times' ten times
as many men wanted work as there
was work- for, but in the past two years
carpenters and other mechanics could
sccfre plenty of work at their own
trades, and eath !' much higher wages
than the railroads could afford to pay
for ordinary labor. The result was that
common laborers willing to. work on
track construction, demanded, higher
wages, an average increase of perhaps
5 per cent. The, Finns are a strong,
hardly, industrious race, better for rail
road, construction worl? than Italians
or Greeks. Natives of warm climes
either cannot or vill not. it makes no
difference which I to employers work
as hard as persons coming from more
northern latitudes. : ,
"The importation of the Finns will
be good-, alsq, for the owners of . the
great farms in the West and Ndrth
w est. Last year j it was almost impos
sible to get enough 'hands when most
needed to harvest the crops. The rail
toads helped the1 fanners out as much
as M)5sib!c by c-fTcrng very low rates
of fare to persons willing to' do farm
work during the harvest season, but
the supply of laborers was much less
than the demand. Of the 55,000 Finns
for whom transportation has been ar
ranged about 13.000 will go to Minne
sota and the remainder will go to Up
per Michigan, Northwestern Wiscon
sin, the Northwestern states, and Can
ada. They will -be offered induce
ments to acquire farm lands 6f their
own in the Northwest, and assured of
enough work cn .' railroads to defray
their . living expenses until they .have
suihcient income; from their farms.
Attention of theWestcrn roads has
leen called to a scheme to defraud
them which is now being tried on- an
extensive scale and which in a number
of cases has proved successful. Parties
representing themselves to be in dis
tress have applied to the authorities or
charity organizations of towns and
cities for transportation to 'enable them
to reach their alleged homes. j'When
this has been furnished them, in some
cases, to elude detection, they have ac
tually got on the trains and paid their
way to first stopping place, where they
. have left the tram and returned to the
city. They have then cither sold the
.transportation to the broker or
claimed its redemption from the issu
ing1 joad. In a ; number of cases re
demption has been claimed for already
t'sed but uncollected transportation
the limits of which, have expired.,' The
roads arc warned to be on the look-out
for all s".ch devices to defraud them.
THE WRONG BUTTONS.
When the Dakota Volunteers scram
bled off thq train at the Northern , Pa
cific depot at Spokane they were be
sieged by a crowd o high school girls,
who demanded buttons from the blue
uniforms as souvenirs. The soldiers
lor the most part submitted cheerfully.
Soon their blouses were denuded of
every fastening. 1 Suddenly a tall blond
g'rl ri'shcdv through the depot to the
platform, She was late. The buttons
were all gone, ami her friends proudly
exhibited their trophies.; But the blond
girl had (ome for buttons, and but
tons she onH, hae. i Down at the
end of the p'atform she espied a col
ored man standing near the train. He
was resplendent f in complete , uniform
of bb'e and every bntton was -in place,
"fust because be was a netrro soldier
he has leen overlooked." thbught the
high sclool blonde. "Well, L don't
care for color I want buttons." .
A moment later the- unsuspecting
victim Was accosted : by the blonde
"girl, who had an open penknife in her
hand. "Wron't you give me some of
your boMons?" she sweetly asked, as
she reached for the top one and be
gan to saw the thread with the knife
b!ade. "Hcah! hcah! miss; don't do
dat. It's agin de rides I ain't-' But
it was too late, j With a dextrrity born
f a desire to liave bras buttons;
die, the gir had severed two circlets.
She pa"sed on the third attempt, no
thing the letter;"P" on the button.
With one horrified look at the man fche
-EKLY
realized tht j , .. .
of a MSWiS
buttons on the platform anS
crjmson checks, darted through the
affi-Whllt U,rP0rtcr ed SefuHy
b otfse Wf H OOCe i"aculati
blouse. Spokane Statesman-Review,
HIS MEMORY NEEDED TO JiE
. TRAINED. ,
traSj2':inS f?rjt 1,00,4 on memory
traming, remarked a red-eyed man
with a reminiscent breath as he ap
proached one of the saesmch in a
Ninth street second-hand book shop
recently. "You see, it's jnst this ay,"
be continued, without giving the sales
man a chance to answer. :l met some
old friends of mine last evening and
we started out to make a night of iL,
We whooped things up at a pretty live
Jy clip, and when I started for home,
about 3 o clock, I knew there would be
trouble ahead for me when I got there,
aon see, my wife hasn't any sporting
blood. Well, I was carrying my load
pretty well when I passed an all-night
(jyster saloon, and I was seized with
4 brilliant idoa. 'I'll just take a couple
ot deviled crabs as a peace offering, I
savs to myself. You know, my wife
thinks there's nothing like a deviled
crab.
j "It took about a quarter of tan hour
to tret the staff rcsHv ' -.r.,1 1 t -
chuckling to myself when 1 got home.
u iic Kcjnoie was tnere all ngnt. and I
crfrpt upstairs as softly as possible, be
cause I didn't want to take any chances
if. she was asleep. She usually keeps
thci light burning in our bedroom un-
til II get home, but it was as dark as
nitch. I tiimti!f-H nv-pr t .-,,.-
ito light the gas, but there was never
a skmd from the bed.' I final'y got a
ngnt ana discovered that the bed was
empty and hadn't been disturbed. I
didnft knew what to make of it at first,
but it gradually dawned on me that my
wife had been down in Jersey visiting
her mother for three days, and I had
forgotten about it. That's the reason
I "waint to get a treatise on memory
training." Philadelphia Record.
HELP
TO DECRF.ASED
TAL1TY. .
MOR-
Some suggestive staements are pre
sented in his late report by Dr. Abbott,
secretary of the Massachusetts board
of lieajUh, showing that diseases are be
coming less dangerous ift human life.
It appears that the hygienic condition
of the- people in that commonwcaUh
was better last year than at any previ
ous time for hali a century, and here
were fwer deaths by ncariy 1,300 from
infectious diseases than during the
previous year, notwithstanding- a de
cided increase Of population. The
number of deaths from diphtheria de
creased! one-half, from scarlet fever
more than one-half; deaths from con
sumption were about 5 per cent, lower,
and there were only some half as many
deaths from measles as in the former
year. The actual death rate is given
as eighteen per 1,000, whereas it has
been-" about nineteen for half a century.
There was a slight increase in the num
ber of deaths from typhoid fever,
whooping cough, and cholera infan
tum. Dr. Abbott attributes the gener
al decrease in the death rate to vari-.
ous causes, such as improved sanitary
conditions, stricter quarantine regula
tions, anu imi'ruvciiicuis in ntcuica
treatment.
PECULIAR AND PERTINENT.
Great Britain's volunteer force of
.240,000 is maintained at a cost of nn
der 800,000 pounds a year less than 4
oounds a head;
The Liveroool city council has de
cided to convert or lay down luring
1900 56 miles of electric tramways at a
cost of 1350,000 pounds.
The average age of the British sol
dier now at the front is nearly two
vcars higher than that of the soldier
who foughl at Waterloo.
I look for power in the man; he
affirms ihe dignity of the law; but the
woman rules, and will continue to rule,
through grace alone. Sclril'cr.
GREATEST BANQUET
TORY.
IN HJS-
The greatest banquet in history took
place August 18, lfcWo, when the 40,000
mayors iof France sat at -a table in the
Palais de 1'Industrie,- in Paris. There
were three relays of about 13,000
gcsts- each. To prepare the feast
required seventy-five chief cooks, and
H.O00 waiters, scullions, ccllarmen, and
helpers ; 80,000 plates. 52.000 glasses,
knives, forks, and spoons in a propor
tion ; 40.000 rolls, and fish, and meat,
and fowl by the ton. The banquet was
part of the centenary celebration of the
events of 1789.
i- 't . : ',
VERY NEARLY BOTTLED.
The naturalist's wife had gone out
f..- - tninntrs and left the baby in
Charge of her absent-minded husband.
U'i,.n dim ri'inmnt she was not a lit-
'tlcdisturpcd to, discover the baby cry
ing dismally and its latiier.'wiui a
collection; of his largest bottles of alco
hol before hini. evidently at nis wns
"Why, ; David. David!? cricd, ?.,'c
good woman, snatching up the child,
"whatever1 is the matter?" s
. V.l! nv drar" responded the
great na'turalist, simply, still gazing at
the baby.i "It s very strange om 1
can't find a bottle large, enough to hold
him anywhere." London Tit-Bits.
COULD NOT : UNDERSTAND IT.
Did yon know that ,Mbs Bjones
was going, to marry young Smith?"
"I knewf it; but I can't Understand
. : . :.ii.tKn at hr i ran
HOW a gin Huminiin - -
consent to' marry a man stupid enough
to want IO inujr jiti.
CANNOT FIGURE IT OUT.
I . .-. - - 1 1 . - j '
n:T, 1', 1 nrrttv food hand at
r.,.! Ki f here s one thing I cant
understand aibttut Christmas.- ;
n:r... - tin 'it is that ievervbody!
gives more than he gets and yet no
body get as much as he ives? v I
r;n'i What becomes of the surplus.
Ncr York Weekly. f -' '
"-;!" ' ' ' - , : . -t -
Twice-a-week Statesman, I a rear.
OREGON STATESMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY
THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
The United SUtes finds Itself Bcrdcned with Over-Sea Responsibilities n
me dojpe 01 reace and Gccd
... i - . -
Rico and the
John Bull's island home being rig
idly limited,; his expensive t nature was
forced to expand over the sea, in far
off j lands, wherever his bold advent
urers could gain a fcothold. And so,
bit; by bit, his huge Indian and Colo
nial Empire was built up, until it now
covers nearlvf a fourth of the rth'
surface, and includes, probably, a
fourth of its entire population. The
actual figures are:. Ana. 2-ocviiori
siuare miles : DODuIation.' i im timnm
These . figures are absolutely without
parellel in the history of jthc world.,
John Bull's commands, 1 then, are,
niore or less, willingly obeyed by a
vast host of no fewer than tci.Am.nm
subject people, and this host includes
nations and tribes of almost
known race on the clobe.
every
Let us take' India as the most con
soicuous and, numerically, the most
important example. A small but fit
British army of. 75,000 men, aided by
a native force under British officers of
about twice that number, keeps in ad
mirable order a teeming population
of 300,000,000, a population equal, 'to
that of all Europe, exclusive of our
own 40,000,000. India is, m fact, T a
continent in itself It contains
many
distinct nations and races, lne cen
sus returns dividcthc people vn the
basis 'of language into no less than 118
groups, and even then there were some
hundreds of people speaking an "un
recognizable" language. Out of the
300,000,000 Engl
ish is the customary
ely. 250,000, and the
r.f in,iu :
language of bare
rntiM-Dorn population ot India is
less than half that number. Tliere are
about 50,000,000 speaking Hindi; 50,
000.000, Bengali; J.eo.i.ocx), Tclugu;
.20,000,000, Mahrathi; iS,co3,ooo. Pun
jabi; "and 16,000,000, : Tamil. On the
basis of religion considcrab'y over joo,r
000,000 are Hindoos, 10,000,000 Mo
liammedans; 7,co3,oto or 8,000,000
Buddhists,, and only ,.',500,000 or 3,000,
000 Christians, -and as such- more " fa
vorably disposed toward their Chris
tian rulers than the rest.
In the Straits Settlements a few
Britons keep their eye cn 250.000 Ma
lays, the same numlier of Chinese and
some 55,000 East Indians. In Hong
Kong arid Kowluri over 250,600 Chi
nese are British' subjects. 1 be ''spicy
breezes" of 'Ceylon1 arc inhaled in set
tled peace and are comfort by Mr.
Thomas Atkms the : 2,ooo,coi Cinga
lese, 1,000.600 -Tamils, 250,000 Moors,
and sonic 10,000 Malays u:vcr dusturb
his serenity. In Borneo lit? Dyaks
and other Warlike Ma'ays 1iavc been
and may be troublesome, but the un
rivalled tact and calm courage of Brit
ish Colonial administration may be
trusted to smooth down any and every
disturbance of the peace.
! The famous bay of the south side of
the Gulf of Pechili, -responsible for
the . feeblest and most widely spread
diplomacy of modern times Wci-hai-vei
is to be garrisoned by a British
ofTiccred Chinese regiment, who can.
at any rate, be trusted to ' keep their
fellow pigtails in order.
The African command of John mill
is a particularly heavyburden, and has 00b in Bali and Loin bok, .Dutch New
cost him millions in money and thous-.:Jj;uinca. though the largest section of
ands in men. Besides 1,500,000 blades'! the island, does not contain,- more than
in Cape Colony and its dejendencies,
there are nearly 750,000 Zulu Kaffirs in
Natal; 250,000 Basutos, about 500,000
Matabeles and Mashonas,- with per
haps 200,000 Bechuanas, in Southern
Rhodesia; 650,000 Barotses and other
Bantus'in Northern Rhodesia, besides
the. 850.000 negroes of the Nyassaland
or British Central Africa Protectorate.
Between the Zambest and Tanganyika
less than 300 British, about the same
number of Sikh soldiers and a small
native force under British officers "ad
minister" the homeland of 1.500,000
blacks. South of the Zambesi, and
including the Boers of the Transvaal
and Free State, the entire white jopu-.
lation is very small! in comparison
with the number of blacks. t Further
north, on the east coast, in ' British
East Africa and Uganda. John has to
keep the peace among 2.500,000 trucu-1
lent tribes; ana on inc ouicr mic 01 .
the continent nis rsiger .oasi 1 ruict
toratc and territories on cither .side
of the great river put upon his broad
shoulders the .immensely heavier bur
den of controlling some 30.000,000 ne
groes, mostly warlike Mohammedans,
trained fighters, wh a military organ
ization of hi..!i efficiency.
British governors not long lived . in !
those "white men's graves" have also j
the care of 1.500,000 negroes on' the
Gold Coast, 3.orn.ooo in Lagos, some
so.ooo on the Gambia, and 75.000 in
Sierra. Leone.
What a task the destruction of the'
daring dervishes of the Soudan was! incessant in their. beliefs to their stib
With . less skill or valor Omdurman ject races. France. Spain,' Italy,, and
might have i been another Adowa. ' In Daiticulariy .Germany, and Scandina-
have
wonders, and. tbove all. have made
men of timorors serfs. Besides the
Soudanese, or officers have also to
keep the Aden district Arabs, as well
as the Bahrein islanders in the Persian
G-tlf. ' '.,''
According to a recent official report
there are over one hundred thousand
Indians in Canada, but they have; been
and arc so well treated by the Domin
ion government that they are particu
larly friendly, and cawse; little or no
trouble, even intber wilds of the North
west In Jamaica a third of thr popu
lation are negroes, as also are the bulk
of the inhabitants in the Ixeward and
Windward Islands and Trinidad. The
Tiahama people are nearly all whites,
bnt in British Guiana there arc 100.000
negroes, rrs.coo East I ndian roolies
and 4.000 Chinese. In Britiih Hondu
ras 500 white' people live aihcng 35,ooo
blacks....--,
In Fiji there are 3,500 whites, to ray
000 Fijians. and in our other Polyne
sian islands the -us. hite popnlation is
terv small indeed. In British Guinea
a handful (2V) of EuroiK-an from the
-law and the Bobby" to over 350000
frowsy headed Pipuans. The native,
il
uorernnient in Csba, Paerti
- - -
Philippines.
inhabitants of Tasmania are as extinct
as the dodo, but New South Wales
contains some 5.C00 full blacks, Queens
land probably 12,000, South j Australia
vooo. West Australia 2,coo and Victo
ria onlv about noo. In the 1 ?CoVt1im
Territory of South Australia are 5.000
ri.: 2-f j . ,
cuoi;c9, ana vueensj3nanas
' ""ported somei iaoco Polynesian la
! borer- Zealand has now only
! aDOU 40,000 Maoris, little .more than
i a twentieth of the population of that
prosperous colony.
Frenchmen are proverbially a stay
at home people and only about 500,
ooo French folk live out of France. But
France has, nevertheless, a i splendid
coionial empire of some u.-zso.ooo
sl,:ar niiles, with a iopulation, almost
entirely colored, of over v?,oo0,ooo;
22.000,000 of these are in Asia, 30,000,-
000 in Africa and some 80.030 in Oce
an ica.
In Farther India the Frencn are re
garded as masters by 6.oco,6o6 Anita
mcse. I.5CXJ.OOOI Camboiians, j 2.000,000
Cochin Chinese and I2,ooo1oco Tcmkin-
ese, and it would not be at all an easy
matter to control these- obstinate and
defiant peoples but that the French
officials govern them mainly through
j their own native rulers and officers.
In addition to 6,ooj,co3 Arabs and
Kabylcs 111 Algeria and Tunis, the
French have t keep an ever watchful
jevc on some 2,5oo,qpo marauders in
the Saharan wilds, while their west
eoast authorities must excrci-c a strong
control over the 7..ooo,-:oo Fulahs and
1 V1 t,,c Westcjrii ooudan.'.-.tyjj.ooo on
other negroes in the Scnecal colony
the ivory coast land' in Dahomey, 0.000,
orx in the Gabun and French . Congo
and a few thousand on the-other side
of the continent, besides 3.50CVXXJ Ma
Iacasvs. :!.'.- ' ' .
Germany's burden in the way ot de
pendent colored races is a light one
compared to John Bull's, ,lier entire
colonial populatiou being considerably
under 1 i.oxxooo. On the West Afri
can coast German martinets maintain
a severe authority over 2,500.000 11c-
crocs in Togoland and 3,500,000 in the
Cameroon. German Ea.t Africa "has
a native population 'of some 4,cxw,oon.
Swahili Arabs jabtng the coast and ne
groes in the jinterior. The; Damaras
and Namaqua of Gcriuan Southwest
fifrica do not exceed -250,000 in num
ber. T
In China. fr?m her f; othold of Kiao
chau. the Kaiser's "mailed vfit" ni4y
menace whom he wills. . -
In the Pavific German New Guinea
includes some j 1 to.ooo unkept Papuans,
the Bismarck Architelago contains
1SX.000 and the Solomon Islands yo.ooo
specimens of the same treacherous and
intractable race; 13.000 Polynesians in
(he Marshall Islands, complete the sub
ject race burden of Germany.
'Holland is a very small country, but
(Btif 1 it is the '"heart" of a big domin
ion over sea. ;Tlic Dutch colonial em
pjre in the Indies. East and; West, lias
Sn arca of. 783.000 souare miles and a
total population of 35,000,000, of whom
25.000,000 are in Java. 3.000,000 in Su
matra, 2.000,000 111 Celebes and 1.000,
oo.ooo peopiej In-her Dutch East In
tHan 'possessions Holland finds 460.000
Chinese. 24.000' Arabs and 27,000 other
Orientals; the! rcst 32,000.000 in num
ber, arc natives of the Malay race. The
Dutch West-India Islands : only con
tain .50,000 people, and Dutch Guinea
65,600. ' j
bn spite of the Monroe I and other
doctrines ,to: the contrary, .the United
States now finds itself burdened with
over sea responsibilities, in the shape
of peace and ipood govcrnnient in Cu
ba, with a population of . 1.500.000
idacks. thirty-five jper cent.; Porto Ri
co, with 3TXJOOO blacks dpd 5.000.000,
most of them I still to be tlacificd."
Among a multitude of miner burdens,
voluntarily or j necessarily borne by the
white man. none, perhaps ' is -more en
thusiastically borne than 'the? burden of
imssionary enterprise. Si:iniy and
soicjy to extcrid tlwir own
particular be
liefs or creed, Caucasian peoples free
ly spend millions every year, and send
forth an ever increasing army of edu
cated and well trained m;n ard women
who for the' most, show a jer'i4tcnt en
ergy and determination, in the face of
ten of aiparcntry insuperable f-stacles,
that form, at any rate, an admirable
object lesson to the savage or barbar
olls lHHpks among whom they spend
,he crrcater nart' of their effective lite-
; time. j
This missionary enthusiasm is , not
Ironfined to the Anglo-Saxon race, on-
1y. but the-Latin and Slav races arc as
tions in all psjrts'of the heathen. Mo
hammedan arflf -Buddhist wor!d.
Th-i heavy burden of excessive arm
aments is nok placed on .the white
man's shoulder sb much by the "black
terror" or thej "ycllov danrr" as ; by
the mutual dtrust i oiherwi-e civ
ilized nations.) and an ineradicable sus
picion of each other, which are as
strongly marked; now as they were a
hundred ye3r ago. .1 luce armies anl
powerful navies I arc maintained at a.
frightful cost,
ready at a moment's no
tice to fly at each others toi destroys to
kill, to harry. to waste.
The .cost oi actual war, as in the
present despejrate conflict for suprem
acy in. South J Africa though enormous,
is. however, often enough less burden
some than the losses-caused by rumors
of- war.' ' ; , ) , : ; " ' i-l
' The cost olf war a really great war
such as is now swaging in Siith Afri
cais eiwrmous. bt unless some ter
rific political convelsion throws the
great Powersj of Europe and America
into collision none of the -wars of the
early twentieth century is likely to cost
anything .like the colossal sirugsle in
wlikh Englahdjand her allies on the
1 vrv
-aSSX0-
for Infants
Castorla'is a harmless snbstituto for Castor Oil, Parc
i srorlc, Drops and SooHilng Sjxtips. It is Pleajsant. It
contains neither Opium, MorpUino nor other arcotio
Fnbstancc It destroys 'Worms and allays Fcverisluiess.
It cures Dlarrhoa and Viild Colic, ltrcllevM Tce4h
Inir Troubles! and cures Const i pat ion. ft regulates tho a
Stomach and llowels, ulvinar wealthy and natural lecp
The Children's lanacea The Mother's Friend.
The Kind,' You Have Always Bought
Bears the
In Use For
Twr ei-tr'tum wwwm. tT
Continent were involved a hundred
vcars ago. The twenty-fee ven years war
atrainst the arrogant French Republic,
and then against NajK!ion, cost Eng
land, in actual hard css.li, nearly nine
hundred millions sterling. ' Add to this
the destruction of property, the waste
of life, tho loss of labor, stagnation -of
trade, and . the burden- which we.. -still
to an enormous extent boar laid, open
the century by that war alone, is al
most incalculable. The present war is
estimated to cost nearly a million a
dav. ! ;
The cost of .war -crisis, a mere ru
mor, is of fen heavy.
The direct loss in this case fall, of
course, upon jindividual holders .'of se
critics, wliicp drop in value- aitd
plunge hundreds of wealthy people in
to bankruptcy. The present war is re
sponsible for many such cases; the
ag-xrcKatc los:s. even under the most
favorable "circumstances, consequent on
a war rumor must be counted by. mil
lions.
For instance, on the mere threat of
war with knsAia in 1K85 "consols hhrank
in value some I wcnly-live, niiinons ster-
hnir. h W. Williams, m I'c-arson s
Weekly.
ENGIN
EER1NG NOTES.
All the R'jssian railroad companies
have been ordered to adoju the Wcst-
inuhousc air brake before the begin
riiiR of the year t'jo..
The approach of the St. Paul to' tin:
English coast
ni, one of thc
scl vas sixly
was rcporleir by fllarco
asscngcrs, while the ves-
111 lies out
Careful
HIV
iestigation of too power
plantsi in the city of New York '.shovts
that a inediuili sized isolated plant-can
be", oerated imorc economically than
.the large cc-npal stations, ..
A new elenjent. called victorium, .ha.
been discoverL-l. Until now it has. Ie'en
confo"iided Kvith yttrium. The new
element is of ja browii color, which dis
colors easily m acids."
A German has invented a .' mctho
. which iron and- steel wire may be
coated with lass. This docs away
with the use j of platinum in the con
struction of tlectric-Iight bulbs.
The emperor has granted the Poly
technic college of Berlin the right to
bestow the title of doctor of engineers.
Heretofore the title of doctor has een
given to theologians, philosophers and
lawyers. This action" was recently an
nounced alT'the centennial anniversary
of the college. - ; , '
With the aid of a fine new camcra
tclescopc, recently installed at the Roy
al Observatory at the Caic of- Good
Hope, evidences r.f the presence of
oxyRep have been' discovered-in sever
al stars. I his has hitherto bqen sought'
in vain, and it is also one of the de
ments which has not yet been discov
ered in the sun.
. The Viper, the new English torpedo-
boat, is the fastest craft afloat. She
is propelled, by a 1 arsons steam tur-
Irnc and makes forty-four and one
third miles an hour. Mr: Parsons says
that she will be able to-further lower
this, record, and he expects to sec the
boat make forty-five miles an hour af
ter her engines get running smoothly.
W hile alcohol biltncd under a Y els-
bach mantle produces -a good .light, "It
is not an economical one, and M. Den-
avrouze, the French scientist, has dis
covered that by charging the alcqbol
with hydrocarbons in solution add
ercatly' to the illumination without any
increase in the consumption of the al
cohol. Iamps of this type have been
exhibited -'before srnc learned socie
ties arid gave a bnlhant light..
The details of thel'srcat road, to the
top of Menl Blanchave ail breli ar
ranged, ?hd the projectors say that, by
luly. t'jo2, tourists will be carried" at
least 'four-fifths of the way to the sum
mit. The total cot has been estimat
ed at $f.f'io.oorj. The road will consist
Vf a shaft through the very heart of
the mountain, and i the length of the
s-tbtcrranean road Will lc a little over
six miles. : The terminal will te 1150
fct below the summit of the mountain.
' 1 i'1 - " - ' 1
THE PLAGUE. Gov. T. T. Gcer
rrreutly addrc.cd a letter to Dr.-J, A.
T'ssllop. of Astoria, the state health of
ficer of that port, calling attcnln to
the prevalence of the bubonic plague
in Honolulu, and .adjvising a most strict
enforcement, of thci quarantine regtda
tions in cases of all vessels -i arriving
from forckfn jort. ' Yesterday flic
poverriots received ! a letter fiony Df.
Ku!ton, stating that the state heal) h of
ficer a.nd the federal quarantine officials
are co-operating in the matter; that
every vessel entering the ba'rbor of As
toria from a foreign port is boarded
and thoroughly insecied, and. if it is
considered necessary, is disinfected.
Dr. Fulton says that everything pos
sible is done for the protection of the
public by the health, officers, and he
has no fears - from; importation -of ,the
plague. J ' '
Twke-a-wtek Statesman, $1 a year.
-vS ...w s. !yTw.S..O.
and Children.
Signature of
Over 30 Years,
www ,?"rri, crnfV
HIGH WATER MARK
1
UIE WILLI ME UK AT TAlN EDA
; bTAGK OK 21 FKKT,
0. K. & K. Coiupauy Steamer Ruth
Collides vilU i:riUs:e at Albany
Cousiilirable Uaiuae.
(From Daily, Jan. iOtk) Jf
At noon ycstciday "the Willainttter
iier at this point attained the IiikIi
water. mark ol the season, the Kaugc at
the ih K. S; N. Company! dock regis
tciiug a depth fi -'i feit aoovc hw. WaUf
'mat k. j'! he usually plactJ M mini, which
h;.'l leyn tranfurtiivd into. va mging-'
body of waiter, remained it a Maulstill
v.nlil alkuit S oVWk yesterday Vtc
tiooit, Wiieii it beRioi to MtUdc and the
wo.tits began to sUnvly recede. Re
pi.t fro'ni up-river. pints imlica'tcd
that , the river was faliing, confirming
the theory that the highest staifc 'iiat.-t 1
been reached fur the present freshet;
The U..-R. & N.- Coin-jwiny's. su-a.ncr
Rtrth arrived in the city alwKit I I o'clock
yesterday ,iiKrning fronti Corv.iHis hav
ing been quite 'cxtcirsivviy diinviged, :,
the result of a collivioii hal wilh the
jtint l.illn and BcuUut county bridge,
which j Mils the ' river, at Albany. '1 he
Ku:h was captained by J. P. Coit 'i.
wlrile Pi j-of'!. Miles'. JU41 was direct in'".
the course of the craft when" the col
lision took place. 1 'As a result of the
c(!lisioii the .Ruth's 91'nokestack a.s
badly Vlaniaged while her texas also
sufTereil souu- damage. The priiK-ipa
damage was sustained by the luidRr,
two piers! of which were .more or Us;;,
demolislunl, while the upcr-truru;re
was badlyj strained. Tlie Ruth was 'hot
so "badly damaged but she was able to
cV.ntiniie fn tlowitthe 'river. .Teaching
Salem as .above stated. After unhia-.T-;ng
a-mwijutity of luiniicr here for use
in the Kurtz box factory, she returnoil
up the river to BcMin-villc fjr.a cargo of
wheat. When the river recedes sudi
cienty .to -enable hrf to-pas bene i;h
the big stct4 bridge 'At .this point, the
Ruth will; go to Portland for repiirs.'
- A- telephone imissagcj was trecj ived.
by JoC?I steamboat agents yesterdays in-
forming tjiem that the Oregon Cilv
locks had jbecn elosed. to travel but thr
inefsage ra' mt neccssar for. it isN
known that i8fcct renders it imtvissiblc
for boats to tass t'lrough llie canal,
Stcr.'neri Pomona .jiasscd down the
river 'yesterday morning and will trans
fer rc.ight an-l passeigrrs to the Mton i
at )rcgon City, until the locks , arc
again r-jjiuncd. ' She returned up 'the .
river last night tying ij to hrr Sa!:n
dock .at Tj;3o o'clock, an l a little later
prrycedcdj on her way to Indepcnd . n -e.
No pariictilnr. damage was sustaii'td'-k)r-ally.
al.ng the river front, a-s a re
sult U t'l? freshet. The C. E. com
pany's dock, wbich iq not being -used
this scasoti. is-the oti'ly'onc of the three
Salem docjks and w'arehotes the floo's
of which ixTc not covered . with wate'r
from one jto eight feet deep. A vents
G. M. Power. rJ 4hc O. R. ft N. Con---Tvnny.
and :M.- I. Baldwin, of the O. C.
T. ConiijvtMv. congratulate tltemselvc.'
that their bOiecs a"c still high and dry.
The, long ''.approach 'to the C. & ;.E.
CiMKpany's dock" w,s lorn loose by the
raging current and wMdd have taken
free transtwirtation tt i Portland ha 4 it
not been sectirc'v arrviM-rcd to the main
dock atvl w.trehousc by means' of a
strong rope. j
-. ODDiVlRGINlA NAMES. '
The komjiilcr' rf odd naniVr": ought to
n'ike x- visiit to the , Virginias. I-o n "
recepti' papers from these states it h
Irarncd that Mr. Wynkeep I.eiucn; r,(
?linuc-sota j 13 visiting hi - brotlwr ( in
Martinsburg; that Mis Daisy Bell i
a sa!cwrtiian in a mUliiK-ry yorr in
Culjv-pperflthat Mi" Janic S-tringfel-low
hai aariiiinred- her rnt'a'rriM iit to
a Ponoake vjireflrlier;: that Williaui Hot
died near IVrink "tbeihrr day, and tjwit
there is .1 large family by he name of
Ir 9ii the.., ntighborhrod of Barrack
vii'c arxl Plum Rim;
The steam, turbine takes up about
thrce-fiithi of dhe i space required by
the ,: present. ")pe of, engine.
wax
Candles
in rh
nr 1S wfil riii- V
XlllMVA tlnUm.
nt linht fr- ;0
AritMic wxmm .f i-hn Inn Kmn,
l or diritiRt. Tbr (urt if nrrM i i
cuMllm for h tnIM or (ha
ii'iiiriK will fnoinrw wnrfr to . F
moo. elAfewral in-winn ttt ri.
tKof mmimm. M1 In all color
mal th 1 ! linla ,f
j KTAiumtu ail. ..
d4 aali vTlsara.
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