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Newspaper Page TextWEEKLY OREGON ;STATESMAN,;;ERIDAYAPRII; IV iQoo. - IEE WEEKLY (Ml SID Published every Tuesday and Friday by the j STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO 266 Commercial St., Salem, Or. R. J. HENDRICKS, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, in advance ....... $1 00 Six months, in advance..... 50 SUBSCRIBERS DESIRING THE IAD- Ait of their paper changed must ttat the name of their former postofflce, mm well as ot the. omce to which they wish che paper changed. , j MARIQ1 CQUHIY REPUBLIC H TICKET BirEEHKVTATivts J. If . Poorman, of Wood bum; Henry Keene, Sr., of Buy ton; C. D llirtmu, of Scotts Jiilfc ; lr. S. N. Smith, of 8lem; Lot. L. l'erce. 0 fcalem. Cocxrir Jc W5B John H. Scott, of Sklem t , 8HEKier CbM. A. Murj.hj, ot Salem.; BEcoftiE J. H. BoUod.of Jeffertoo. TEiCkK8-A. L. DownioK, of Sublimity, j AmENMOK Cbarlea Lembcke, of Battellle. Bckvevoe-B. B. Herrtck, Jr., of Salem. ; j Kci-ebi VTyDKT or BcHOfJi E. T. Moore, ftiivertoo. .- . .CosunwirosEH I.C. Keedham, of Sidney. ) f Coroner Dr. D. W, Lane, of Salem. j Sale DiamtcT Justice of the Peace,! John W. Reynolds; Conuable. D. C. Kioto, f CITIZENS' TICKET, j j Clerk Lieut. VV. E. rinxer. M i There will be ajjreat iruit crop.! inyi way, ' - ; - ' 1 ; j Tim American people arc botit through shedding Iarge,tot, scajlding tears over the fate of the sugar and to bacco speculators of 'Puerto Rico, who were working up sympathy in the n-ame of the "starving women and children'; of that country. ' . This is nn important year in the po litical affairs of the country. There is a na.tional election in November. .We hopei to see; the Marion coun'ty legis lative ticket elected by a large majority; and of the candidates for county ofilicei on thai ticket, nearly all of them should be successful, by large majorities, j Tlverc arc other 3pp0.rm.ive offices, beside that of Stare Food Com mis nWt, winch sljouiT be made elective. In 1'hia articular, . Oregon- needs sev eral mooches of the mithitive and refer ciwhim; thou gin the wh4e system,1 a'S proted by the resolution of tlie last I.egrskiltin, would prove buoglesome ivtvl exp?nve, ami. we believe, j far from sortie factory rn- operation's. ! Despite the late frosts, the prospects for much the largest crops of fruit ever .seen in Willamette valley districts are still almost certain of realization. One grower says he could lose sevem-ty-five per ce.it. or more of the j fruit buds ott his trees, and still havf the biggest crop of fruit he ever picked, lie thinks the thinning out of the fruit by the frosts, where such has beenthe effect, will be more of art advantage than otherwise, imparting a thriftier growth to the remainder, and resulting in larger fruit and of. better quality.' So t litre is no ocasion at all fur gloom in the fruit districts, but every reason; for cheerfulness. ' - The new census will probably show a falling off ir the Clvimse population of Salem. This is "occasioned largely; by the fact that the Chinese are going out of the hop business here, though they are. holding on still and cultivating their yards in other parts of the. W'illamcUe valley. Several of the Chines renters of yards -hereabouts have thrown up their contracts. This has so reduced the Chinese population oi:Sa-j lem autL vicinity, and consequently the Chinese trade, that On Lee .one of the 'Chinese " merchants here, is going to -leave." He is preparing to go to Port land, where 'be has purchased a small store. The competition thxTe, too. is S3 brisk, that few Chinese business men depending. upon the trade of their coun trymen are making anything above ex jcnss. If the present laws are con tinued and enforced, it will not be very many years until the . Japanese popu lation of Oregon and the Northwest will exceed the Chinese population. There is some contracting of hops going on in rbe Willamette. valley, for the coming crop. Ooe dealer is claim ing that his firm is -making a great nany contracts " at eight 1 and a iralf cents, a pound, nother lealer, how ever, .tliiivks the firt one is talking through his bead covering. Offers Jtave betn made at" g .cems. and there is record evidence that some comracts 1ave been closed at this price.; Con tracting. tbp w-ay it has always been carried on here, has proved a very one4 sided business, ar.d the grower. arejnoij in a hnrry to take up. offers at this price. They would not be anxious tcj contract" on ai basis of a cent higler though many of them w-ould be ; glad . . - -vA their crops, or certain parts of them at a "higber price, if they wefd certain they would -have no trou C)! mi making deliveries in case prices should happen to rule lower at baling time. It is notorious that hop I con tracts go through very- smoothly iwhen the market rs above the agreed price; and that they go very haltingly when it rules higlier. Hop buyers axe not generally in business entirely for theic health. , , . ' , , A REPORTED DEMOCRATIC .MOVEMENT IN OPPOSI TION TQ BRYAN. It is reported by the Brooklyn EagTe that a movement is about to be . got nnder V way to briirg about union among Gold Democrat in opposition to the nomination of (Mr. Bryan and that it is" to -start in that borough -of New York. The inquiries of that pa- per as to trie subject aauressea ; 10 tepresentatiyes ol such Brooklyn Dem ocrats 'Mr. Edward M. Sheoard, for nstance iiav'e received : evasive replies only, but for that very reason they sug gest that there is some substantial foundation for? the story; and. more over, it is intrinsically probable. Such a movement, so started1 and propelled, as it necessarily would be propelled, by Democrats who ; had re jected - Mr. Bryan and Ahc national platform of their party in 1896, would be likely, however, to increase rather than diminish the chances ; of his re nomination. Sot it would only tend to exasperate the bitterness of the great body of Democracy because of their desertion at that time of trial. - It would be rei?arded as ah insolent, at tempt of a comparatively small minor ty to resist the will of the party and dictate to the Democrats who polled for Mr. Bryan a million' more votes than were ever before cast fora TVm ocratic candidate for Presklii?l fStati- ng n .New 1 ork, too. it would 'be denounced as a conspiracy of the money power" of the "gold bugs of Wall street," the very, enemies against horn the most passionate sentiment of the present Democratic party is ar rayed. .Moreover, this new Demo cratic party has reason to be encour aged by the outgivings of some of hese prominent deserters of 1806 Jo believe that Mr. Bryan's renewed can didacy will at least be toierated in that quarter and that therefore a comprom- se. with a view to enticing back the gold rebels is as unnecessary as it would be dangerous. - The only chance of preventing the nomination of Mr. Bryan would be i.i formidable opposition to it amonfc his sympathizers of 1806, and it would have to be started elsewhere than in New York, the centre of the hated money power." It would need to bo revolutionary movement in the Bry- uized Democracy itself, the results of which would appear practically in the election of opposing delegates to the national convention from the states where Mr. Bryan's support was most mpassioned four years ago. That i.v there is no possibility of preventing his renomination by the convention of 1900 unless the very forces which rai ted to his support most hotly in i8 hall turn about and -desert him. Of uch a revolution there is no sign - in the Democratic party. The! indications are rather that his renomination, if not acTually unanimous, will, be by a majority which will far exceed the ecessary two-thirds majority and be much greater than that he obtained at his -first nomination. 'So inevitable is this that Democrats hoping for advancement in their party and Democratic politicians and organ izations desirous of retaining their "regularity" are unlikely to give pub lic support to an opposition to a pre destined candidate. That would leye the Brooklyn movement, -if it was started, to be engineered and pushed by Democrats with no regular follow ingby philosophers and not practical politicians. These might make much noise, but they would1 corratl no dele gates 'to the national convention. In New York, Tammany, of course, will support the ticket and the platform, whatever they may be. and it may be assumed that the delegates elected by it will not oppose in the convention a nomination upon which the great body is resolved. Nor is it probable that the delegates from the rest of this state will do differently. They may be all set down for Mr. Bryan if he is the choice of the convention, as un doubtedly he will be. The same is- true of the Now England states and of all the states from which came votes against his nomination in 1806. Thei Democratic organizations will be so licitous, first of all. to secure the mark of "regularity." Accordingly, this alleged Brooklyn movement in opposition to, Mr. Bryan may be set down as of no practical pol itical importance. Democratic po-ljti cians will -fight shy of it, however at tractive it may be to Democratic plvilo sophers. '.;.; ; THE CUBAN CENTRAL, While s the politicians of the United States: are laboring with great energy and patience to give to Cuba : the de gree ofdevelopment enjoyed by other countries, another force, capital, is soon to start working there In a man ner that; will be more prompt in t its effect than the efforts of Secretary Root and Gen. Wood for the island's benefit. ; Tliere is soon to be a railroad run ning from end- to end of Cuba, the en tire amount of money necessary for it having ust been subscribed; in this city. This projected railroad will run from the eastern extremity of the island to some as yet 'unjdeterrnined point in " the western end, and. as has often been pointed out by persons familiar with Cuba's topography, its immediate effect will be to revolutionize the in dustrial conditions of the whole island. The new j company, which is to begin its construction at once, has as yet no name for the 800 miles of road it is to build, but the capital has all been sub scribed by the following t gentlemen: William C. Whitney, Gen. G. II. Dodge, Sir William tVTan Home, J. J. Hill, ; Edward J. -iBerwind. George B. Hopkins, ' George G. 'Haven. H. M. Whitney," II. Walters. L.LP. Morton, Gen. ,Sam. Thomas. Peter. tA. B. Wid ener. Tliomas Dolan. and R. i H. EI kins.-; - ; " 1 - L : -- . ' ' JOY ANDGIFTS. V The closing hours of the late session of the Maryland legislature were ex ccedingly joyous. The general assem bly in Annapolis includes 26 members in the senate ami ninety-6n I in the house of delegates. The Democratic majority being forty-three. There wil be no regular session of the legislature until January, 1902, and in recognition of that fact, perhaps, it appears to have been deomed wise to "ind the wounds caused by factional strife, personal acer bities'; and geographical controversies. by a general manifestation of cordially in the form of souvenir gfts. Party lines were disregarded and no discrim ination was shown While the senator from Hollywood was speaking on the Bottlers bill he was asked by a colleague to "suspend his remarks." He acquisced and a mas sive stiver punch bowl was brought in It was the gift oi the Senators to the presiding officer, from whose ruling no appeal had been taken during the ses sion. . As soon as he had accepted it a large silver pitcher and salver were brought in ami also presented to the presiding officer, the preference of Mary land legislators seeming to be for silver ware souvenirs. While this was taking place in the 'Senate, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the gentleman from Pocomoke, Mr. Wilkinson, was "re ceiving "a magniificenf silver service." Congratulatory speeches followed and then a! chair was presented to one en grossing clerk and a traveling bjg to anotner an apparent discrimination- the significance of which is not explained. The chief clerk of the Senate received a silver service and tray, suitably in- scfiod. and his deputy a handsome Venetian clock and ornaments, nd the clerk of the House an arm chair. Nor were the amenities oi bi-partisa;i.diip neglected. The leader of the Republic an minority, in most appropriate con- rast to the gilts of silver to the Dem ocratic members, received a hanlsome goM watch in token of his zeal and en ergy. ! ' 1 The j Journal o7 the United Service Institution of djondon has just com pleted a taWe giving the percentage of loss per hour in a number of battles as the -true measure of the tactics em ployed. The remarkable -fact appears that, in spite of improvements in fire arms, the percentage (allowing for the different quality of the troops engaged) has gradually decreased. Thus, at Lentihen.Jthe percentages of loss per hour were: Prussians, 4.8; Austrians. 7; at Austerlitz, French, 2.6; Austrians, .2; at; Waterloo, Allies. 2; French, 4; t Sedan, Prussians, 0.5; French. 1.6. Coming to the Boer -war we find the percentages of the Brutish losses at Modder River, Magersfontein and Co- enso respectively, 0.7, 0.7 and 1, those of the Boers being still unknown. The ruling factors determining the rate of loss appear to be wrar training, national characteristics and the kind of roops (whether raised by conscription or by voluntary elnistments). It would be interesting to add to this table data rom our civil war and from the San tiago fight. When Congressman- Tongue gets up to speak in the National House of. Rep resentatives, he is listened lb. This can be said of only forty or fifty of the members of that body. Besides his abil- ty as a speaker and debater Mr. Tongue is a hard and persiVtent worker. He is successful in securing legislation or the; good of 'bis constituency, and lie commands respect when hi makes re quest "m t'lie various departments at the national capital. 'He has justly earned the renominatkn. which has just, been given him, and he should be cltct'ed by a large majority. We think he will be, and that he will carry nearly every coun ty of t lie sevemteen in the First Con gressional district. PECULIAR AND PERTINENT. The heigh of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius "of the age we live inj Rochefoucauld. 1 There is a hospital for trees on the banks of the Seine, in Paris. Trees which grow weak alongthe boulevards are taken 'there to recover. A parent, named Jenkins, in an En glish town. ha named the triplets Vhich arrived the other day Roberts, 3uiler and Tugela. The latter was a girl ba by. : Some one has calculated that the post men, of London walk, together, some thing like 48.360 miles per day a dist ance equal to twice the circumference of the globe. The prosperity of the farmers in the Northwest is indicated by the fact that manyof them are making arraig "merits to visit the Paris exposition this sum-men- - r . ; .-? : . Wiejden, a suburb I of AentJA, has the largest dwelling house in the -rld, It contains 1400 rooms divided ;nto 400 suites and affords shelter to ever 2000 persons. r - . .; Switzeriard is cheerful over tl e Je suits of its exports to the Unitd States last year. 1 The total for the year was $17,234,803.39, an increase of $3,375, 428.39. or 20 per cent over 1808. There were no white inhabitmts ' in Kansas in 1850; in 1856 ihere were less than 10,00, and in i860 but 107.000. At the lastr enumeration. March, 1800, her population was 1425,119, . ' lhe seven provinces of Canada hiive a total area of 1.087.000 square miles the nine territories; 2.331,000 square miles, while the great lakes of the Sjt. Lawrence system have an area ni 47 000 square miles. TWO BAIi Fis (lOOl NED ? ' f-AN'-i They Soeak tb Each Other With ' Words Their .Parents Know Not. .: - v ; ' ! --: 'In tlio Redwood forest of the moun tains of the Coast range. in 'Mendo cino county.1 six; miles east from Fort Bragg.; stands a caoin ! witt neatly fenced garden; and corrals. ; It 1s the home ibf two children who have built up1 a language, I They are children of well-bred, educated parents, ftkiro have been too busy hewing a hvehhood out cf the jjOrest to give the little ones ewn enougfr of their! society to teach them to soeak.' ". - . i Sixteen ; years aga George Hicks and his,, pung wife came out from' fh h.ast to hni a home where the new West offered, as they tliought, wider possibilities. lhey nad a. good smn of money to invest, but like thousand". of others, iMr. Hicks was not sharp e nou gh to keep it. 'W ith two horses, chickens,: the young some cows and couple went by j boat up the coast to J-ort Bragg andlthence struck out into the primeval forest to take up the near est unlocated government land. The Redwoods offereid thean i'hame and a livelihood, but treat labor and little profit. They were destitute of every thing but love apd hope, and the hus band's axe sangj out merrily and soon thereas a cabin in place of the hol 'ow tree thev hid first sought shelter tn. fie added stables and fences ami a .garden, and hjs gun supplied plenty Of venison and quail and grouse, and they were able jto welcome their first little son to a comfortable home. 1 When Frank was three years okl his parents rejoiced) togive him a btby sister, to be a tpmoanion for the boy. wiho. before. playel alone and all da v under the tree, i The babv. 'Mollie. -wac ntarf-l atmnc from her birth inj the boy's charge. Mrs. Hicks isolated hier children from hV rough contact with the Indians and as they must all eaf at one table by the laws of the Western Usaere. she a little table at ojne corner of the porch ano nere tne two children ate the meals tney did not preter to carry off yito the woods. , ' j Almost lefore: the babv could w-nlk Frank carried hfr beyond the r.rren open oh which the house was biiilt and to his favorite mboks in the forest, and she slept her midday naps safe in a great 'houselike hollow tree- The rain in thie tree t6os. the smnl-p of forest fires, the white fog floating aimiy m irom tne ocean, the crav w'hisk of a squirrel or the blue flnsh ni the shattering jay. each had a meaning how could he convey the little sister? There was not one to Cell them .the accented word to exoressithe forest sounds and ine, and, naturally enough, the little ones invented a languane'of their own from- the sounds .they knew, and that language is a true language and has nouns and pronouns and verbs and ad jectives and adverbs. More chan that. their words arelajmost identical with the' root "words of our language. Take foV instance, "oh-in" for fire or heat. which is identical. Sin is fisr and on is done, think is horse, boo is cow and wawa to fly. Jahb! is the redwood, sava thei fawn, mosa the doe; jawawa is the rabbit. , 1 Their voices are soft and their lan guage is the vocaiized type of the forest where they have j grown like two little Sefufirrelsl'healthv land hannv iaml trpnfl' Thy are not saviges. They have dis tinct ideas' Of right and thet is to them the greatest conception ot wrong. They learned ' it from jthe birds when they saw a wicked thjhef help himself from the hardly gathered store of the wood pecker, which they had watched carried nut by nut fromthe ground to a hol- ow tree. ! Mrs. Hicks noticed that the children didi not speak in; English, but thought it was the usual, prattle of babyhood. She tried at spare moments to keep the little ones near her, but they spoke in a language which neither she nor her husband could understand. ! It worried herji and amused their father, but when i a school was opened at Fort . Bragg, iMr. Hicks presented hrmseJf to the tyoung schoolma'ani with Master Franfk. who was to ride the six miles to and from school on an an cient "Mexican pciny. The boy was eight years old, but he had never seen any child but his sister n his lite before! nor any woman ex cept his mother, for his home was sep arated from the world'by the sjlence of the Redwoods.' ' The boy was impressed by the novel ty, but could notj understand what was said to him, nor could he make the chil dren understand Diim. The teacher was patient with himi for she could see he was an unusually right hoy, but she could not do anything with him, and one Saturday rode through the; forest to his home andj consulted witu his mother. Little 'Mollie s devotion to her brother and I his protection of her sug4fsttdto the) teacher to make her Time pupil at school as a balance wheel to her brother. Thev run away; occasionally and stnl talk in their own! language When alone, but they are rapidly becoming profi- . n : -4- r cient in L.ngiisn.-t-vvasnington t'ost. MAN A -MASS )F PATCHES. George Burns, i who hails from Phil adelphia, at present visiting friends at VVirrona. 'Minn., lis without doubt one of the most patched; up pieces oi Hu manity, to 1e fouirkl. ;says an exchange. Burns is between 60 and 70 years ,pf age an-d Jia a long aind interesting his tory. 'In his eary days he 'was grad uated, from the Ajnnapolis Naval School and served his tlime he later became chief , engineer lot Ian Atlantic liner. While in the machinery of the ship, the engines being shut down to nake re pairs, an assistant, not seeing ' the po sition of nis chiet turned 4he steam into whe cylinder heads. The result was that several of. Burns ribs were crushed. his skull was fractured, his right kg broken in several - places, his "eft arm shattered and injurjes sustamed in his chest. ' T !-.!-. Lt I rA ,rti-Vi t -Ti ' 4r skin has .completely healed. He has under the skin pf his chest a iieHuloid plate 'extending . from the breit bo n around ' to' the spine Three ribs arc missing, and where a piece of anashir is missing a piece) of silver connects, the two' erads and ; makes the rib sail of service." ! His. heart is out of pltrr. itml palpkates on - the right jinstead of, the left side. His 'right Teg is so deformed that the knee is at the back 'trssceaQ of the front.'1 'A portion is gone oat of the elbow of the left arm; but he is still able to use tne hrrrb. i-AS 'tne rcsnii v me wufk tkiuir.i New York surgeons. Biirns has silver plate contalnin-s jseyen ouncss of metal .tn his head, taking the place of a i art -,!.. n nil i' tm nwi Tr'vvvy i' i1 y ,for Infants and Children. Castoria is a Jmrmlcss Rnbstitute for Castor Oil, Par jjoric, Drops and Kootliiuer Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It " contains "neither Opium. Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It destroys Worms and, allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Colic. It relieves Teeth Inar Troubles and cures Constipation. It regulates t ho Stomach and Dowels, frmns healthy and natural sleep. The Children's lauaeca The .Mother Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the In Use For thc etw o comvMr, tt CHINA RESISTS PROGRESS. An Effort to Delay the Entry of For eign Civilization. Tlie d"i flic ah its in the way u' sue cess for the engineer and foreign cap- itaiit in vnina are very consioerauie. lu Mie lirst place it may be saiely j s- scried that the authorities actually in power do not want foreigners. The statement one so often sees in articles os the subject that the Japanese w ir has opened tlie eyes of the Chinese and sltown thtin that it they wish to. keep up with other nations they -must r.dopt a jnrore. enlightened policy, is incorrect. oil at an events, misleading, - I'ecattfe whatever truth there is in it depruds upon the lact that the statement is merely to the effect that the ehlighteae 1 policy. is necessary to enable the corn try to progress on the same lines as the rest" of the world, and it is misleading ecatise it . suggests ' that, in the ipin- im ot tne ruling classes, such proves isa thing to- be 'desired. No such fet-I- hsr exists in thc minds of the majority or even of a considerable mi:i'irvy; but it. Is the members of this minority who are most likely to meet visitors H China and who are more likely to be appoint ed -to foreign misstons, and'wiiose v:- v coisequcntly are more readily vnp-esscd fu tile European public, and arc natur ally taken as representative ot the vic-vs of the majority. 1 Nothing would lease the b'llk ' the mandarin class better than th u "or-.-ign natijis should go away and leave. C hina alone. She has done without -ail ways, and steam cotton mills audln;nes--here 1000 tons of coal a day are raised by steam intead of twenty tons, dragged out by coolies, and she can do v. about the in now. The Chinese have, no doubt, begun to realize the fact that foreign .-rs are uVu ... and also that tney are .100 weav 10 tut - ccsstully resist tlKi:3ction, ami inp an. tiieretore. reuucea- 10 . puwiiy tions in everybody s way. In lomg this; most 'of them are honestly con vinced that they are doing their coun try ; a service, and it they cannot keep out? foreign civilization, they -should at least delay its entry as lonsr as possible. H. "Morrison, in -Cassicr's Msg r.'me for Aprjh s APPREHENSIONS OF AN AMA TEUR. T arn not a "spoiled child of suc cess," oh. no,; 'but ever since my ten der; feet first patted the train between our house: and that of the Kansas Pul verizer, upon which I servedfmy devil-.-hip. my mjind has ever and anon been constrained1" to jump the yawning chasm of coming experience that seems -to tower like an- inverted section of--the -'Rocky mountains "etwcen ijie and a howling success, and I can see myself on The summit of literary per fection. Some of the present day aspirants for literary honors may fail to sec the rlose and temler relation between saw ing wood, washing forms, pushing r.oll- ers, pacnymg me concKy ojt spring ci the elitor while his other hall returns 'ast week's calls, hoeing in the garden, and all the minor dutios connected with country, journalism, and success as writers. I hey may get through .vithout it. iMit it is safe to say. it they do. while their productions may have a faifltlemand. they will lack one of the most consoling resources on earth for retreat for shattered hopes, and the best justification for thc cause of "re pectfully returned.' matter, while to all those at least wdio have had such experience, their writing OiH be wh-j fully lackirfg of one of the dearest fea tures, and thereby oe aristocratic and distant, cold and stiff. If you can appreciate tfce sensation that comes over a fellow when he i promoted from devil on the Pulverizer to foreman! on the Sunflower and could-, follow the same to ' advanced stages of 'development, you might be able to form an idea how it feels to have a call to go on the road for a great Western dailv previo'us to which you had been doing ten hours a day over a case.' While the former soon resolves itself into tme of those cases of a "distinction without a difference. though this is n-crt meant to reflect cruelly on followers in the path, the latter remains to be resolved. . (As I look back over thc oaved road cf experience. I do. in a certain sense- find; relief from the feeling of seasick ness which comes from looking into he still gaping chasm .before mc. These .tppTehensions which impel me to write this article, are well" told in the! following letter to my der wife, who for five years has kept her p'om- se to share my toys and sorrows for better or worse, but who. if the worst is, as usual, my tvortion. will have ar rived; justly at that stage where for bearanc? is hyi. longer virue. ' -: My Dear Letha : This - is Saturday. 5:30 P- m.' I have npthinsr to do but wait, which task I will industriously Dr.?ue until .Mondav. as there are n more trains out until that day. As I wait I wilj visit the agent here and spur him to renewed vigor fjr h bn-fit of Mie only piper on earth.' ndiiHi I will' have to do tomorrow art he is express agent on train '' and does rot pet in until laet. This the terminus (end) of the road. and he livq here. "tll day yesterday I was engaged ' Signature of Over 30 Years. .iwnTtTntrt, mwtow errr. in iwriting my article cm the harbor improvements. I sent ' it by express-' today, as the mail bags would n;t hol t the bankrupt-real 'estate oontaimd in the illustration, to say nothing of the. size of the parchments containing the u.me. . All lay I have fn-en in con stant . anl almost breathless expe.efJi tion of an accident to the train and Cfnseiient jierislied hopes, but as eve ping draws nea-r with no sucli nevv, ipy I'hiuights begin to turn f o a consid eration of the awful result that -might accrue to the paper's reputation should it handle the stuff, though I amit a loss to imagine what ( that effect might be. in fact, as you Van see. I don't know what I do tTiink'. At tinies I ' fancy t see my MS rejxising tovvar j the summit of the somewhat dysjMpt!.' " waste basket; but again as a fu.ire 1 merciful fairy crosses thc threshold of my upper room, my hearf plays leap frog with my liver, as in my mind's eye there appears a copy of the "great est newpaper of the Northwest' with i whole page hearing big headlines . ibotit the harlor improvements, while pillowing, a grand panorama of ' gorg-.'. eons land-capes and seascapes.' inter spersed with profiles" of the. town ro'im-. cil anI reading matter to fill up the nooks and crannies and help hold the pictures iri place, appears the name of ' yours traiy.- ! II aim trying to nerve nw-, si'f for the worst and if it comf-s I iiviil laugih in Khfuilish trlee whln T' jlieeklv but firmlv demand niv- i a day. Should the- article apiH.ir in ail its splendor well, you ni.'iv thnik me fto!ish. but it -wouhl not be bevond my thoughts to try to get a nomina tion tor congress or courthouse jan itor, while I could not think of render ing my services' to the ratr for less than $5 a day. ' 5ociftl event of considerable pro portions will lke place here tonight. -"lis can. easy oum inc doorkeeper lor a t; can easy bum thc doorkeeper ! tor I proper recognition of the press. nnVM wnte you nwre tomorrow it I don't elope with, some.; maiden ot pri meval nativity.- a goodly, amount of which pervades this region. ; "Lovingly, ; JASPER." - y BU-4 JOHN FRANCIS DUNNE, GLER. t. - : . - The Irish Boy of Whom England U h Making a Hero. One of the proudest boys in the Brit ish empire is John . Francis Dunne, bit gler of the First Battalion. Royal Dub- A lin Fusiliers. He was wounded at the S battle of Colenso on -Decemil)er is. but -was one of the first to cross the Tugela river, losing .his bugle in the fight On las return to England he was. summon t d to Osl!xrne, where -the.' qiieen p presented- to him a silver bugle, inscribed: "Presented to Bugler Jolin Francis Dunne. P'irst Battalion. Roval DiVblin Fusiliers, by Queen Victoria, to replace iIk- bugle lost on the field of battle at Colenso on December 15, 1800. when he was wounded" - tHis companions thought that he wbuld probably be moTafraid to face thje "queen than the enemy, but he stood hirmly to his guns and came-off with fly ing colors. ' : t . The queen asked him about his heahli and whether he -had' .fully recovered, from his wound; and seemed to he pleased with the frank and manly man ner in which the little soldier acted, and accepted with evident, pleasure . tlie framed portrait of himself which he presented to her. In the room where the little fellow had to wait and, ac cording to one account, this was in tne basement of the palace he was sur rounded bv servants from various; de partments, who were all anxious to '-ee aivd speak to the voune s'ddier. And the ladies from all parts of the build ing came and brought their , birthday ixKiks, which the bugler was asked to sign against the date of his. birth. July 14; and lefore the summons came to appear before the queen he had. held a levee in " the basement on his own ac count. 1 OUR BOYS IN BLUE. Has anylxxly heard that the United Stale is fitrhiintr in the Philippines t? Is it 'generally known that we have an army o'f fcupation in Oiba a rul Puerto Kfcor 'lias inc iruin ieaKer om "j j away frcai home thnng army .service in consequence of recent utile nf Our rrxan anl likewise "' in conse- quence, we have, many wives and.chi- drert - of "LbsentMinded Ueggars also our own. who . could kiiltless profitably apply a few contributions. nAs" against $40,000 we have coatno uted to hedp British soldiers, not one cent have we applied to neetly homes of our soldiers -absent in thc tf11'" pines. 'Will some one carry this tact ti London, and give a tea. and while otie band olavs "Dixie" anl arrr-ther Tl-i tr-i-Cir.o.vo-1" .P.mncr" Will 3 fevv American ladies pass the hat for several thousand boys in blue"? ;God save the Queen" to be stTre. We respect-tier and her gray nairs But "America, for thee, land of the brave 'and free" that's thc song ot men, women, and children suffering, dying, on this side the 'Atlantic Let i pass the hat for these, and "Pay, pay pay!" Harper's 'Baza-. - s However creat the dish that hold.' the tnrbot. the turbot is still greater than the dish. MartiaI, Epigrams. It - : -. -:' ;. i .v, ' ; .