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WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1900. r - NATIONAL CAPITAL: NEWS. Sympathy of Some Congressmen Agricultural Department Experiments Vith Molasses as a Ration Stock Against the Pensioning of Ex-Slaves, of Course ; General NotesJ WASHINGTON. . Jan. 26. The largest theatre in , Washington was packed to ,the doors on Sunday night last, by an immense crowd, which en thusiastically expressed , its sympathy with the Boers in their fight against Great Britain. The meeting was called under the auspices of the United Irish . tercst, and disregards the statutory re Societies in combination with a large auiremeni f relative nii-.1i K. number of German citizens of the city. ,teen persons, . localities and particu It. was planned as a means of showing ; lar descriptions of traffic public sympathy, and as such was a The agricultural department wishes great success, the speakers including J farmers in sugar growing regions to many members! of congress and other I make tests as to the value of feeding public men. The keynote of the j molasses j to stock. The question is speeches was that the Boers were fight-;! being studied at several of the exper ing for their independence against tre- l imentai stations, but fhe results of a mtndous odds, our own forefathers tyiidcr trial is desired. The molasses did more than a century ago:-.. Among? should be mixed with some other ma- those who occupied scats on the stage were senators Mason of Illinois, Allen of, Nebraska, and Tillman of South Carolina, Representatives Clark, - De Armond and Cochran of Missouri, Bailey of Texas, Carmack and Cox of Tennessee,. Rhea of Kentucky, Jones and Lamb of Virginia. Shafroth of Colorado, Dovener of West Virginia, Meyer of Louisiana, Sulzer of New York, and Lent; of Ohio, and others, kedhot resolutions were adopted de nouncing Che British ministry and fall ing on. the president to offer mediation. "The shortest period in which a patent can be secured is seven weeks," said Patent Commissioner Duell, , re cently, "and it can be done in that time only by the attorney for the claim ant conceding practically all the ob jections, of this office. The work of this bureau is far closer up than ever before, but it is still about one month behind on. original, and two weeks be hind on amended applications are re turned to the attorneys to be amended, because they make too broad claims. This is proper, of course, because - the value of a patent lies in its breadth, and it is an attorney's duty to his cli ent to fight ofr this. v If he does not, the patent may be of little value when granted." ' From a report by the consul at Ba tavia Java, to the state department, the sugar packers there are looking lor a new packing case for shipping sugar, fhe supply of bamboo heretofore used for making the shipping rases, showing signs of becoming extinct. The inven tion of a good substitute for bamboo would, it is thought by the consul, make a fortune, in Java alone. ' The interstate commerce commission has decided that the attempt of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and other southern .roadi to so I manipulate rates a to injure life cotton trade of Savannah, is unlawful, and has ordered it to desist therefrom. The commis sion, lays down the! general principle that, a carrier cannot lawfully cr-tablish and maintain n adjustment . of rates which in practice prevents shippers on its line from availing themselves of a principal market, which they have long been, using, and confer a substantial monopoly upon a new market in which, ClflKl - BULVER TREATY A DISCUSSION OK ITS HISTORY BY THIS SEW YORK SOS. ! Held t j the Best of Authority That It la of So Effect Sow So the Senate Thinks. (N. Y.I Sim Editorial.) The oonents of the Nicaragua ca nal bill. Which ' has been reported to the senate of the United States, allege that it involvesa violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. As this objection constitutes the ! principal objection to the bill, it may be timely and useiul to review the treaty's history. . In order to comprehend the motive which impelled j our government to en ter into the convention i named, and the consideration for the compact which we supposed ourselves to have acquired, it is j indispensable to recall the circumstances under which the transaction occurred. We should be gin by mentioning that, in "the. coarse of the year 1847, differences had arisen between the Republic of Nicaragua ani a tribe of Indians called Mosquitos, who dwell upon the Atlantic coast pi the Nicaragua isthmus and over whom Britain claimed" -to exercise some kind of protection. On January 9, 1848, the Nicaraguans hoisted their flag in San Juan del .Norte, otherwise known as Grey Town, which was generally re garded as the 1 inevitable terminus of any railway or canal crossing the isth- mus within the! territory of Nicaragua. .On: the following ad of .February was signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidal- - go between this country . and Mexico whereby we acquired California, and, immediately afterward. Great Britain espoused the cause j of the Mosquitos and forced, ftie I Nicaraguans to terms. This act was construed by our gov ernment as indicative of an intention to prevent the construction of a1 canal r across j the American isthmus with American money and under American protection and control. The relations netween Great Britain and the United States soon assumed a threatening as-1 pect. and one of the first administrattve mensnrec nt Pt-eitn fa ,'nr aftr he took office oh March 4; 1849, was - to this ountry is a canal under American send a diplomatic agent to Central j control The capital invested in the America. Soon after this agent's ar-f enterprise must look for protection to rival, the British took forcible- posses- one or more of the great powers of the sion of certain islands in. the Bay of world. 'No European power can be al Fonseca, on the Pacific, side of v the lowed to intervene for such protection. Nicaraguan isthmus, ostensibly td tn-; The United States "must exercise such force claims for the indemnification of I control a3 will enable this country to Washington People and for the Boers. for for reasons of its own, It has greater interest. Another ruling is that when a carrier makes rates to two competing markets which give the one practically a monopoly over the other becasue it can secure re-shipments from the fa vored locality and none from the oth- cr, 11 goes oeyona serving its tair ui- terial which absorbs it so that it rnav be readily handled. At the Texas sta tion, molasses was advantageously in troduced into a ration of cotton-seed meal and; cotton-seed hulls for cattle. The use of half a pint of molasses for each daily ratiorr resulted in the profit able consumption of a larger amount of food by cattle. It did not improve a ration consisting largely of silage. There ii not the slightest doubt that the Nicaragua canal bill will soon pass both ; houses of congress. A reliable poll shows that there are sixty-two senators and 254 representatives in favor of action at this session; and one senator and twenty-nine representatives in favor of delay. This is a declared majority of ' more than two-thirds in the senate, and of nearly three-fourths in the house. Even this does not measure the strength of the movement of the canal, as many members Who re fuse to state their position at present will undoubtedly vote for action when the time comes. Probably four-fifths of each house favors action at this ses sion. - j ; . The senate committee on pensions has reported adversely a bill to pension ex-slaves. J It has done this, instead of simply pigeonholing the1 bill and allow ing it to sleep, because dishonest men. are using the fact that it has been intro duced as a means of obtaining money from the i poverty stricken Southern negroes. An association has been formed under the name of The ex Slave Bounty and Pension Association of the United States of America, with local associations in various parts of the country, and constitutions and by laws have beert adopted and member ship certificates issued op6n the hy pothesis and promise that congress would cerfainiy favorably legislate on the subject. The committee has in its possession (certificates showing the tre- mendous growth m membership, and enabling i to estimate the probable amount of jmoney already taken by the promoters Jof the scheme. It is a safe presumption that an amount aggregat ing $100,000 has been taken fronts the poor and deluded victims. The pro moters of I the schem know perfectly well, says the committee, that such a bill will never be passed. British 'subjects against the states of Honduras jind Salvador, but in reality, as Americans believed, to compel this country to enter into an agreement for a joint construction and Operation of the proposed canaL At all events, it was evident that delay might augment the misunderstanding ami precipitate a conflict.) Accordingly, Mr. Clayton, the secretary of state, and Sir Henry Bulwcr, representing Great Britain, framed the treaty of April 19, 1850, the first article of which provides that neither government "will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the ship canal which may be constructed between i the Atlantic and the Pacific oceansJiy the way of the river-5anrjuan .de Nicaragua, or either or both of the lakei of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific; ocean; or eret or maintain any fortifications, "or occupy, or for tify, or colonize, or assume, or exer cise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito. Coast, or any part of Central America; or make use of any protection which either pow er may afford". J or any alliance which either power has, or may have to or with any state or people," for any of the above purposes. - After the treaty was ! signed. Sir Henry Bulwer filed in the state depart ment a memorandum to the effect that nothing in the treaty should be held to abrogate the right of j British sub iects to maintain -theiM woodcutting "settlement" in the coast district known as the Belize, and Mr. Clayton stated that such1 Was his understanding. Our government is in nowise bound by Mr. Clayton's Statement. But. even if it were, fhe f 'settlement" of which Sir Henry Blwer spoke, which merely gave the ! British subjects the right of denizenship and '; woodcutting under the sovereignty of , the Republic of Honduras, was, after the beginning of our civil war, transformed by Great Britain in to a crown colony, which, of course, involved the assumption of British Sovereignty. ; For ? this reason, and because of the disappointment of the expectation entertained at the time of the framing of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, an (expectation constituting an other reason for our assent to that treaty, that, namely, that ; Brish cap ital would be forthcoming for the con struction of a Nicaragua canal, a mes sage sent 1 from the White House to the senate on March O, 1880, expressed the following view: "The policy of protect its national interests and main tain the rights of those whose private capital is embarked in the work." Such a canal would, virtually, be a "part of the coast line of the United -States; and its relations to this country are mat ters of paramount concern to the peo ple of the United States, No other great power 'would, under ' similar cir cumstances, fail to assert a rightful control over a work so closely and vitally affecting its interest and welfare.'- .:.... ; . These views were reiterated in the inaugural address delivered by Presi dent Garfield on March 4, t8&t.-V shall urge." said the president, ,f"no narrow policy, njor ' seek peculiar . or exclusive privileges in any commercial route; but, in the language I of my predecessor. I believe it to be "the right and duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and au thority over any interoceanic . canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interests. Hie first commun ication relating t5 this subject sent by Mr. is lame, secretary of state,, to Mr. Lowell, then our, minister Britain, was dated June 24. to 1881. Great Mr Blame said that--the United States would no interfere with the projected ranami canal considered as a com mercial enterprise; "but -its political control must be in the hands of this country,", such control being provided for by the treaty4of 1846 between the United States and the Republic of New Granada. Mr. Blaine added that : an agreement between the powers of Eu rope to guarantee jointly the neutrali ty.. and, in effect control the political character of the fanama canal, and, in ferentially. any j trans-isthmian canal "would be viewed, by th's government with the gravest concern. Earl Gran ille, the British secretary for foreign affairs, did not reply to this! despatch till November 16, 1881, and he then, substantially, confined himself to say ing that the position of Great Britain was determined by the provisions of the Clayton-Buwer treaty. To this as sertion, Mr. Blaine replied in a letter to Mr. Lowell, dated November 104 1881. The views set forth in his letter are those held by a great majority of well-informed Americans today. They may be- condensed as follows: The Clayton-Bulwer (convention was made forty years ago under conditions which "were temporary! in their nature, and can never be reproduced." The re markable development of the United States on the Pacific coast since . that time has created! duties for the federal government, the discharge of which requires modifications of the Clayton Buwer treaty.. Mr. Blaine proceeded to point out thatj "the operation of the treaty practically concedes to Great Britain the control of anv canal that may be constructed." Why? Because it is incumbent up on Great Britain, with its extended col onial possessions, to maintain a much larger naval establishment than we require. Hence, it the United states bind themselves not. to fortify a Nica- ragua canal on land, Great Britain, then, would hav ie an advantage which would prove decisive in the possible case of a struggle for the control of the interoceanie waterway. The treaty moreover, binds! the " United States not, to use its military force in any pre cautionary measure, while it leaves the naval power of Great Britain perfectly free and unrestrained. If no American soldier is to be quartered on the isth mus, no war vessel of Great Britain should be allowed in the waters commanding-cither entrance to the canal." Mr. Blaine proceeded: "This govern ment with respect to European stated will not consent to perpetuate auy treaty which impeaches our rightful! and long-established claims to prior ity on the American continent." It would be, he said, vas reasonable for the United States to demand a share in the fortifications by which Great Britain excludes jail other powers from the waters of the Red Sea, and thus virtually controls; the Suez canal, or to demand their .neutralization, as for England to make the same demand in perpetuity from tihe United States with respect to the transit across the Amer ican continent, j Attention was ialso directed by ,Mr. Blaine to the fat that, by the super vision of the -United States alone, could a trans-isthmian f canal be secured against the obstructions incident- to war.. Our . government is,' of all gov-: ernments. the. lest likely to be , en gaged in war. s that, while, for self protection, she Asserts her right' to control the Nicaragua' canal, she also offers the practical neutralization of it as respects European powers.. We' ob serve, finally, that the letter to Mr. Lowell did not fail to lay stress upon the truth sbOve ( mentioned that one of the moti"- nluced our gov ernment to assent to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, a motive plainly inferable from every line of the convention, was the expected aid of British capital. That expectation has not been re alized. The changed condition of the United States since 1850 has dimin ished, if not extinguished, any advan tage to be derived from iat source. The resources f the American gov ernment and of the American people are amply f sufficient to construct an in teroceanie canal. Foreign capital, can no longer enter as an essential factor into the determination of the prob lem, , S .- For rhe reasons just indicated, ;Mr. Blaine proposed 1 certain modifications of the ClaytorivBulwer treaty. ,He would cancel every part thereof which forbids the United States to fortify the canal or to hold the political control of it in conjunction with the country in which it is situated. He would also treat as; obsolete the clause of the con vention to the effect that treaty stipu lations sliould be made for a joint pro tectorate of any trans-isthmian rail way or canal. Mr. Blaine would re tain in full force, he said, every part of the treaty whereby Great Britain and the United States had agreed to make no acquisition of territory in ' Central America. On the other hand, he had no objection to maintaining the clause looking to the establishment of a free port at each end of the proposed canal, and he thought that the distance irom enner ena 01 inc tan 1 time of war, captures might be made, ! should be as liberal as possible." In his answer toi Mr. Blaine $ despatcn, Earl Granville refused to recognize any weight in the airffrlents above ad duced, or to accept' the conclusions drawn: from them. ; Mr. : Frelinghuysen, who succeeded Mr. Blaine in the office of secretary, of state, transmitted to Mr. Lowell a view of the canal question somewhat different from Mr. Blaine's. He main tained that a protectorate of the terri tory, through which the trans-isthmian canal may run, ought to be exercised jointly Jby the United States and the Central American republic concerned, and by no other power. A protector ate in which one or more European nations should participate, would be, he said, in conflict with the Monroe doctrine, which "is cherished by the American people, and has - been ap proved by the government r of Great Britain." Mr. Frelinghuysen went pn to say ' that Great Britain now exer cises absolute sovereignty over Belize, or British Honduras, and that, since 1850. the boundaries of the Belize set tlement, now transformed into a crown colony, had been greatly extended at the cost of the neighboring American republics. Yet, under the Clayton Bulwer treaty, neither! the United States! nor Great Britain has. the right to exercise sovereignty over, or . to colonize, one square foot of Central America. Inasmuch as Great Britain has violated, and continues to violate, that provision, Mr. Frelinghuysen con-; eluded that ' the Clayton-Bui wer .treaty is avoidable at the pleasure of, the "Unit ed States. - That is precisely the position taken by the committee (of which Senator McBride of Oregon is a member), which has unanimously reported the Nicaragua canal bill to the senate. The position is that Great Britain having failed ' tpjponfprm to the provisions of the Clayton-Bui wer treaty, that treaty is voidable at oar option, and the con gress ; -of the United States will pro ceed to exercise the option. WOMEN NOT FITTED -FOR BUS INESS. Such Is the Opinion of Chas. T. Ycrkes, Chicago' Millionaire. New York. Jan. 24. Now comes Charles T. Yerkes, who has made a good ! many millions in business, de claring that so far as knowledge of business is concerned woman is pretty muchj of a failure. This appears right upon j the heels of Mrs. Henrotin's strictures upon women in society in Chicago. Mr. Yerkes has a beautiful, home in New York, but spends most of his time in Chicago, where his interests are, and he really: belongs to- that city. It is not an off-hand opinion, but a carefully prepared article published in the current number of the Weekly Democratic Magazine of Chicago.' "It! is ncj doubt true," he writes, "that 1 women should be the bright or nament of society and the tender com panion of man, and it his province to protect her and work for her; yet there! are naturally many women who cannot be so protected, women who are compelled to take care of them selves, that we should provide, as far as we can, with the means of self-protection. "The ignorance of women in regard to business affairs is proverbial; in fact it is stupendous. As a class they do nt seem to have the most remote idea' of what business means. Of course, there j are exceptions, but we speak of the majority. Few women know, ex cept by name, what a bank check is, or, if they do.; would not know how to draw J one iit case of necessity. As for girls about leaving scho'ol, I may say there 1 are practically none understand ing sc.ich a proceeding. Their educa tion is almost for the social, or what is termed the society world. To be able to take care ot themselves is not even a secondary thought, for it is not a thought at all. "The rudiments of business educa tion jshould be given, to girls. The proportion of women who marry and have ,homes I oi their own and natural protestors 19 greater than those who have j not, but it is necessary that the former class have something of a busi ness knowledge, and the latter as much as they can obtain." S. F. Bulletin. . 1 . TRAINING;, GIRL JOURNALISTS. -The : cias in : journalism in Mwinfr 'Holroke Colleorc i someihinsj of a departure. Courses supposed to fit I for newspaper work! have' languished in many educa-, tional institutions fSr men. but the alongj this line among women students. 1-1 ...... me pupils at liotyoke were at hrst set to reporting;; real events, but it was nected 'with the life of a woman's col-! Iccre !vere rather mfacpr rnmnaril with (those of the metropolitan world. Prof"!S"r Svn ihrn c Uit t.tlmla T - - . - .- iijru j to describe in two columns an imagin-M ary tire. According to the New York World nine out of the stxfpn cmhrvn reporters assigned to the story talked about! the "devouring clement." Others iiu ui loss or iuc, ont'iaiini to give the names and addre&es ol the victims. NtmrkaScitirme tnnrtUr ' ia t!i nvt ct.ni Thprefafter comes practice 4in editorial writing, with special attention to with ering! comment on "esteemed "Content- . r . - " ' C , .117 t V . - iviuiic. odjs mev oria: ro gin IS allowed in the iourn.i!im rniiru i. less she sitms a lurur ctatintr ihit ihi ; 1 - & . - " . e... really) desires to become a newspaper woman." After a girl is graduated from the class she is allowed tn h. come local correspondent at . Mo'int lT t . - . . . xioiyoke tor a New: England newspa per. jThe girl do not like writing on ly descriptions of the town pump or the dog pond, and manage to drag in plenty of editorial stuff about expan sion and the tariff." Boston Journal. DEATH REVEALED IN DREAM. St. Joseph, t Mkh.j Jan. 21. John Morrison, No. 913 Front street, dreamed last night that C A. Reeves, a neighbor, had died suddenly. 1 At breakfast this morning he told r the dream to his parents. Soon afterward messenger ; cal.ed at the Morrison residence and informed the family that Mr. "Reeves was dead. : He had been a sufferer from cancer for the last six months. - (- ?' . Fine Printing. , Statesman Job Office. THEY WEBB HEARD APPEAL CASES ABGVEtXBKPOKE THE SCFREME COl'BT.' ! Polk Coanty Sawmill Peopl DUpt over Uiil'Mtf UClMlemek-A Letter? Ticket Cm. . ! '. .. m X l " ' . r (From Daily, Jan. 31st). In the supreme court, yesterday, three cases were argued and submitted, upon appeals from the state circuit conrts. as follows: ' ' . ;. v'f Mary E. Hallock, appellant, vs. R. Suitor, respondent, appeal . from Polk county. A brief statement of the case is as follows: ...... . . : The LaCreole creek rises near the summit of the coat range of moun tains, in Polk Cofinty, Oregon, and rmis in an easterly! direction, emptying into the Willamette river. Its -channel is deep and the banks thereof are high and rocky, j The appellant owns1 lands upon both sides of i the creek. The re spondent owns lands adjacent to the creek, above the Hands of 'appellant; and all the lands of appellant, except a small number of acres around and near her mill and residence, running west into the mountains and adiacent to "said creek, are vacant, linfenced timber lands, the j chief value of which is for the timber j thereon;; and the only means of conveyinsr the loirs" to the valley. fr commercial purposes is by floating or driving them down said creek. The LaCreole creek is a navigable stream for floating'! logs during what is known as the rainy or winter season and during seach season will 'carry large quantities of logs from the moun tains to the valley j to be manufactured into lumber for commercial purposes, but during the highest stages of the creek it carries sucih a large volume of water and its flow is so rapid that there is danger in losing a large percentage on account of not; being able to con trol the logs cpmiing in a large body; and running rapidly when they reach the boom khere they are turned from .the main rhannel !of the creek in:o a race which floats the logs to the mill pond, but by the usc of dams in said creek logs can be floated at periods when ther : is no, danger of loss and without in any way interfering with the appellant's mill oir water power and without damage ot injury to any of her property or rights! belonging or-apper taining thereto; aind the dams are of as much v ilue to appellant, in propor tion to the capacity of her mill, as they are to resi ondent The respondent, at a cost of about .$10,000, constructed a steam sawmill plant of from 25.000 to 35,000 feet IcaDacity per day, within the limits of the town ot Dallas, in 1 oik county, onj the LaCreole creek. The appellant's mill is situated three or three and a half miles further up the creek, in the mountains, and has a ca The dams j are known4 as Dam No. 1, Dam 'No.. 4, Dam No. 3 in the order in which they were built. ,Dam No. 1 is on respondent's own land, about ten miles above appcl'ant's mill, and was constructed during the monih of March 1897, and Iwas bj)crated several times prior to the building of Dam No. 2. Dam No. 2 was constructed during the month of April, 897, and both dams were .operated seVeral times prior to situated on the land of another party. who consented toi the building thereof. On about the twenty-eigh:h . day of June, 1897, with ; the knowledge and consent of appellant, respondent com menced the construction of Dam No. 3. and when about half completed and a large amount of labor dene and money expended thereon, was notified by appellant's attorney, to proceed no pirther in building said dam, when respondent and , appellant's attorney, by mutual consent, met in Dallas to adjust the differences between the parties, and after meeting and consult ing together, appellant's attorney, who is her son-in-law, told respondent , to go ahead and finish his dam and use it. Respondent finished the dam at a cost of about $750. AH three dams had been fully completed. The. bed of the creek had been improved and all three dams operated once before the com mencement of this suit. The total amount oi expense in constructing the three dams and improving the channel of the creek is about $3500. Appellant broitght this suit for an injunction to enjoin the ,use of the dam npon her property, also to enjoin de fendant from trespassing upon her property along said creek, also from interfering with her water-power. Ap pellant alleges that these acts are of ir reparable damage to hc"r as they stop her sawmill business, destroy her wa ter power, and are trespasses upon, her property without ' her consent. Upon the issues being made up a trial was had resulting in a decree in favor of the defendant, and plaintiff appealed. . M. K.- Kameta, respondent, vs. D. M. Mclat-chlan chief of police of the city of Portland, appellant, appeal, from Multnomah county. A statement of rhe ease follows: . ! The respondent was arrested in Port land and brought io trial for violating an ordinance No. 10250 prohibiting the sale of, or hiring in possession, lottery tickets or tools or instruments used or intended to be used in making lottery tickets, and was brought to. trial in the municipal court upon, a complaint which charged that saiJ , re spondent on the twenty-second day of September, A. D. 1899. in the 'city aforesaid, did wilfully and unlawfully have in his possession for an. unlawful purpose a lottery ticket and tickets, tools, instruments, samps and devices used and intended to be used in con triving, preparing for sale and distri bution of said lottery ticket within the corporate limits oT the city - of Portland, Oregon, etc The respond ent was duly tried and found guilty and fined by the municipal court $75, and in default of payment of ih- fine was committed to the Cnjt jail, when the respondent petitioned the circu t court of Multnomah cornty for a writ of habeas corpus, which writ was allow ed by said court and the appellant pro duced respondent in court - and made a return on said (writ, that he held re spondent by reason of commitment in "the municipal court after trial and con viction of respondent upon said com plaint. Respondent demurred to the return,-the case was argued .before the court and taken under advisefnent by the court and the court sustained the demurrer i . and - dismissed respondent from custody.1 AppcUarrfappealed to the supreme court and the question, to be decided upon this appeal is whether or not the demurrer (. .should have beon sustained. RtrORU SCHOOL LIEJURY. Thrown Open to the Boys Last Even ing A Valuable Addition to , that Institution. i The boys Jat the reform school were made glad. last evening, by the . open ing of jhe reading room and library of that institution for the boys in training there. The room is a commodious and extremely pleasant, one. furnished with six large library tallies, and- provided with a large number of comfortable chairs. The material contributed for the library, consists of reading matter of thej besf character, including maga zines, ! papers and choice bookstand, although, the supply is, as yet,-; limited, it is hoped that from, some source fur ther additions may bV secured for this most important "featuw of the school. The eagerness witltwhich the boys embraced the. opportunity to read is ntaniiest apireciation of-the tabors of Supt."'and .Mrs. ' H. E. Bickers and their associates.' in their efforts to sup ply this need in the institution, arid it is believed the library will be a valuable addition to the educational department of the school. It is certainly a move in the right direction, and, if the at tention of the legislature, is called to this department, there is no doubt, but a substantial appropriation will be made for the benefit .-of. this library, - t I SOUSA NOT DISCOURAGED. Says That the Americans Are th? Most Musical -People on Earth. (Chicago Injer Ocean.) John Philip Sousa said in a recent interview: ' "I b'clieve the Americans are the most musical people in the worhL- It's a bold statement, but! I base it on the veriri democratic fact that one hears moic music whistled in the streets of our 'cities than in any other country in -V : world. There i more of the mass lovcj of music. Thei critics isay that our popular music lis banal from a symphonic standpoint, but at least' it teaches interval andfrhythm, aod thoss are the basis for a. future letter kriowl-' edge , "I will venture to prophesy that in from twentv-five toi fifty years "from now.AmeJrica will be prc-eniinently the musical nation of the world. The inclination of the .' human family is to paks through successive periods of commercial activity art, and luxury. We arc. in our commercial period now., and when the brains from which have sprung the telegraph and telephone turn to art there wjll be an American age to succeed the Renaissance, the Elizabethan, and-th Victorian eras." r V PRINCE OF WALES. Here are some intrresting facts about the Prince of Wales, which arc con densed from his biography as written by his private secretary: lie is colonel eight times over. 1 He has one private secretary, two as sistant secretaries, and a staff of clerks to assist them. lie receives aoo letters a day, and an swers most of them. . Every minute of Jiis time in London is spent according fto schedule. He has' every onW of knighthood in Europe. .'.':-. i tlis uniforms are worth $75,000. He is : the v chief horse-owner, dog owner and yatchsman in Europe. lie goes to church every: Sundey tnnrninif.J '". j ' j He started life with an income of $5S.ooo a year. j . He says he Jias ho debts. ! He loves to;Vavl incognito in Paris. J I is favorite Wiiicle in London is a handsome .cab,' yet his stables cost $75, xx a year. I lie thinks his nephew, the German enuH-ror, ! is too sensational. ' lie has friends in every nation, and speaks German, ..t'rench, Italian. anl Kr-ssian. .. .' j '- ..- He is 5 feet 6 inches tall, and weighs ifto tottnds. ; j I He is 57 years bbl. and has four grandchildren. - I I j " When he was vonncr he w.i vrrv ten derhearted, and cried for.dayswhen a tutor icit nun. 1 He is said to be bne of the best &hot4 in England. 1 He sets the fashion in clothes for tlir whole world. j He ( popularized fthe Alphine hat. .1 He has thirteen! university degrees. He has; made rnore speeches than any man in the wqrhl. but mostly short ores. . j - 1 .: , He owns the deepest mine in V.ntr. land, i ' J j He was the first Christian In lin with the Sultan of Turkey.--Buffalo Times. i:. ' RATS DISSEMNIATE PLAGUE. Tacoma. Waihi jlan. . ments with dead rats at Kobe, Japan, show plainly tha they are the mam fac tor in the dissemination of plague srerms in Oriental citir. rmrAinr to advices received here more than 3.000 rodents were handled during the ivooe experiments. , ' The health ilrrrtm.nf nf Osaka. Yok-f.h.imi itnnc-Vrr .i Shanghai have hundreds of thousands of. rat traps, which are being distrib uted among the natives with strict or ders! to kill and bum all the rats possi ble, jit is hoped thus to check the plague. 1 v,.;.. - - .. j . WOULD NOT ACCEPT. Wm. A. Entrlartd. son rf 9 mrrnor' democratic vice presidential candidate from. Indiana, and "captain of volun teers in the 'war with Soain. h turned to the treasury a check for $1172 sent him, for his services, witfh the statement that he would not!, ac cept pay for services, to his country in time of danger. It is the only case of the i kind in the Spanish war.