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Newspaper Page TextYEEELY OREGON STATESMAN, i RIDAV, JUNE 8, 1900, Published every Tuesday and Friday ' ; by the STATESMAN . PUBLISHING CO. .- 266 Commercial St-, Salem, Or. R. J. HENDRICKS, Manager. t SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, in advance. ...........$i oo Six months, in advance.. ...... ,.$ 50 Three months, in advance. E. 25 One year, on time. ............ .$1 25 The Statesman has been estab lished lfr nearly fifty years, and it has some subscribers who have received it nearly that long, and many who have read it for a; generation. Some ol these object to having the paper dis continued at the time of expiration of their subscriptions.! For the benefit of these, and for other reasons, - we have concluded to discontinue subscriptions only when notified to do so. All per ftom paying when subscribing, or pay ing in advance, will have (he benefit of . the dollar rate. 'But if they do not pay lor six months, the rate will be $1.25 a year.. Hereafter we will send the pa per to all responsible persons who or der it, though they may not send the money, with the understanding that thejr are to pay $1.25 a year, in case they let the subscription account run - over six months. J In order that there may be no misunderstanding, we will keep this notice standing at this place in the paper. r SUBSCIUBKRS DESIRING THE AD diet of their paper changed must atat the name of their former postofdee, well as of the office to which they wUb the paper changed. , , . Now for a business administration of the county's affairs. E Lot Tcarce hod . a very substantial compliment in his own home precinct, ' and one that be no doubt highly ap preciates. Now. for the Oregon campaign for prelection, to end. with the November election. This issue must not be lost sight of for a moment". There are a few sore spots in various parts', of Oregon. But Multnomah county i literally filled with woe. The crowd thati got Hckcd down there is sore all over. ' j. All who have been defeated carrcon folc themselves with the reflection that jHiiitics is a mighty poor and shabby business, anyway. And often the man who is elected wouId betterhavc been defeated. The Democrats bave the sheriff, the Populists the clerk, the Prolt: the- justice of the peace and the constable, and the Republicans rtic r:st of the offices. Now everybody ought to be satufitd. and join in the ratifica tion. , . The professions of patriotism -thatj were so loud not many months ago, wben the boys inarched away to the, . Philippines, and afterwards when they returned from the field of war. crowned with glory, were evidently not from the profound depth-si of the heart. At least it they were so, they were- forgotten on election day. vOW FOR A BUSINESS AD- MINISTRATION. The 'Republican candidates for coun ty judge and commissioner have been elected by the people of Marion coun ty. It lias been promised that yi these candidates wre successful, and if the Republican candidate for sheriff was also elected, Marion county ' would have a business- administration of her affairs, administircd for all the people, open and above board, and tree from private graft ot high and low degree -in short, that these offices would be administered as public trusts, and not as private snaps. . ; The Republican candidate for sheriff was not -successful, but it is reported that Sheriff Durbin, who bas been re elected, made promises on the cam laign whkliif they are fulfilled, will aid' the county court in giving tlw business administration that has been promised, and enable them to reform the "abuse that bave been so loudiy complaincd of. It is not too much to - expect Vhat hereafter work of any mag nitude, that is to be performed for the county, in every department, will be awarded after casing for competitive' bids. This will certainly "'save to the taxpayers a large sum annually, and it will give satisfaction to all men who are nrt seeking to inaugurate or per? . petuate some job at the expense of the ucwmty reasry.'. ' Hj With this kind of an administration, the taxes can be lessened and the "ixi tcrcst bearing debt gradually wiped " out. We are certain that Mr. Scott and Mr, Ncecrham. who wtl4 be judge and commissioner respectively, arc committed to this sort oi an administra lion. We feci that every one "who has aided in their election will be heartily glad of his action. And we feel al:-o that every proin"-e that has been made by thesr friends will be amply fulfilled by them in their conduct of the public affair entrusted to them, jointly with Mr. Miley' the covnty comanissioner who hotds over. J MORE WOE IN KANSAS. Kansas bears on her great seal tht motto. "Through difficulties to the fs-tars. A w'ritcr in Tlie Chicago Inter Ocean thinks shc shouJd cltange it and aJtt)t instead the l'rne. "Man never is but alwavs i to he West " Kansas never reaches the star?, or, rather when ihc readies them ste funis spots on them, and turns away. "E Just" at present Kansas is afflicted vriih too much wbeat. " By most states, a superabundance would Ibe hailed as an unmixed blessing. But not so ' in Kansas. ,.'," " " "- -. p. O. ; Popenoe of Topeka says that the Kansas wheat crop this year will lc 00.000000 bushels, or 20,000,000 bushels ahead of all former records. As present Indications point to; somewhat short crops in the Northwest,; Frence, and Russia, the average yalue of Kan sas wheat on the farm this year should not be far from 60 cents a bushel. This would make the aggregate value of the Kansas Wheat crop, about $54,000,000. Kansas will also have an enormous corn crop, and, according to present indications,: will get top prices for it Still Kansas is not happy. V 'Kansas has been, so prosperous the last'.three years that her farmers have paid ofIaU the mortgages they care to pay, and- have so much money left that Kansas banks have sent great sums eastward for investment. It is a fact that the money to finance several industrial enterprises, in the East has been furnished indirectly by Kansas fanners, Trusts have been able to secure loans nceded for their operations from th surplus wealth of the agricultural states. Cven foreign governments and English and German manufacturers and merchants have been aided by American banks whose vaults were stuffed with! the cash of American farmers.! ; E . .;: f Yet, despite all these things, the dispatches from Topeka tell of a new Kansas society organizing to fight the trusts.to smash the money pow;r to wipe out the conscienceless bankers and brokers of Wall street, and the board of trade of Chicago, j From the beginning of her history Kansas has attracted Utopians. Hence, while her people probably possess more general j knowledge than those of any other state, they also have a larger number of octopusJhunters " than any Sther 'American community. There fore, Kansas lacks Oregon equanimity and Iowars contentment. Therefore, ! Kansas always Iras a grievance. If shcj finds no real sorrow at hand she straightway proceeds to make one. Kansas contented would not be Kan- CO LLEOE ATHLETICS. j An issue 'has been fairly presented for serious consideration by college facul ties and the parents of college students ;n a report on collegiate atlilctics pre pared by a iccial committee from the universities of Harvard. Pennsylvania. Brown. Princeton, California, Colum bia and Cornell. This report is a strong protest against the interference of athletics with the studies prescribed in the curricula : of the chooIs. It is also an effort in the direction of a purification of college sports and the maintenance of the Highest amateur standards in the con duct" of inter-collegi.ue games. It has long been patent to even c&' jal observation that athletics occupy a position in the econoTiy of our col -'eges entirely dispropjrtiajiaie to their importance. They consume t'ni.e that should be devoted to mental effort and they distract the attention of the stu dents from their studies, thus obstruct ing and oftentimes hampering the pur poses for which these institutions were founded. The results are satisfactory ncifher to the parents' of the students nor to the taxpayers whose money sup ports the c611eges. The report insists with logical force that no student should be permitted to make athletics the principal occupation of his college life, for it is not the pur pose of the colleges to make athletes, but good citizens, "whose mental pow ers: have been sustained and increased by adequate physical vigor imparted in rhc gymnasium and the field, without creating undue pride of athletic prow es and an exaggerated notion of; its value." The report also recommends that colleges should pay particular at tention to the scholarship of their teams. Every member should be : in good standing, and one student should have as many hours of study as ; an otherNo student who is deficient in his work at the beginning of a term should be perrtiitted to play that year until he has made up the deficiency. : There; will be. of course, strenuous objection by the undergraduates to the report and sturdy opposition to; its adoption as a rule of conduct by; the faculties, and unless the authorities arc sustained by the parents of the students and the common sense'of the commun ity nothing will be accomplished by this proposed reform and the evil oi excess ive athletics in our colleges will ' con tinue to exk.t, a detriment to the morale of the colleges and a waste ot money, effort and time for all concerned. : It is now a question whether our in htitutions ot learning arc to be merely training schools for the gridiron, ) the cinder track and the hippodrome, or whether they are mainly for the edu cation of our youth in the sort of knowledge that shall equip them for Hie -duties of life. . .... WORDS OF WISDOM. In the result in Multnomah county there is" a lesson that is sufficiently clear. In a county where the uofnma:u party possesses an ambitious, powerful and disgruntled faction, that is ready at all times to combine with the oppo sition, it i. the part of wisdom to pur sue a conciliatory course toward such faction. The Oregonian suggested such policy, at the beginning of the contest fiThelchstHm Casts a Shad&a). tf A single drop of '( poison blood u)ilU unless checked in time, make the whale impure. Hood s Sarsaparilla. j is the great leader in blood purifiers. casts no shad&ot, but brings sunshine and health into every household. - J Dyspepsia "For six month tmy sys tem qu5 out of order xuith dyspepsia and impure blood. . Spent lots of 1 money in vain, but Hood's SarsaparSLt cured me thoroughly." Jos. S. Zaoba, Genoa, Neb. Eruptions . had annoying erup tions caused by impure blood, land physi cians' treatment failed to bene fd. Hood's SantparSLa removed them and I am no longer annoyed.0 W. R. Hudson, Natrona, Pa. P11 II 11)1 - IVM. 11 ' 11 i r f f fr ' TTool nil rare Utct Ills ; th tinn-Jrritmtlnir M aly cthrtt m tk with Hrxxt Krpr(l Ifc. for the nominations this year, It was not heeded- What has followed is mat ter of course. 'But the result is not dis astrous.. The two Republican members of the House of Representatives have been re-elected, and . . though:, thi tatti of the Legislature is not yet entirely clear, it is believed that some kind : oi a Republican w:li be or may be elected to the Senate. Whether these; bickerings in the party will, ever cease till there shall be a smashing defeat in both state and. nation seems uncertain; fc but they ougnt to cease, tor tney are; very tire some. Oregonian, yesterday. Indeed they ought .to cease, for they are very tiresome. Perhaps these words of , wisdom, advising a ; conciliatory course; will now be heeded. It has been our observation that it requires a good licking to put some people In a concili atory mood especially in politics, and wberc be side that ts" licked may be obliged in future to seek favors from the other side. Conciliation is a good thing nevertheless; in this lease a very good thing. There is only one way for our grow ers lo be sure they will k able to put up ahoice hop, and that is to spray. They j may j have a choice ; article by "trusting to luck." and the may have a low grade hop, that will j be hard to sell in case the, world han a surplus. The lice are already appearing in spine yards, and : no yard can b certain of immunity from them, excepting in one way. That is by spraying It costs money; but can any .grower wiio ex pects to make a business of it from year to year afford to neglect this part of the induslry of hop growing? Congress now has pending before it a resolution, which is backed by the Republicans and will be opposcdby the Democrats, for a constitutional amend ment empowering that bndy to enact legislation .dealing with jthe trusts. The attitude of the laiiter is ex plained by the fear that they desire to Utilize the trust question as a ' cam paign issue. Adoption ofNthe Republi can ! plan will naturally tike all the wind out of the; Democratic sails, and that is why the latter party is mad. : . rr-J- -Senator McBride was not too busy receiving 'congratulations over the outcome of the- Oregon elections to neglect the important matters be has in hand before Congress, j He 'has in duced the conference committee of the two; Houses" to agree to jjetain the full appropriation for the repair of the Co lumbia river jetty. The 'provision for the survey of the canal wetween Celilo and The Dalles is also retained. " Tms is a very good oraj form the San Francisco Post: "Congratulations to Mrj M. H. de Young uipon his eleva tion to the office of President of the Amicrican. Honorary Commissioners to fhel Paris (Exposition. Mr. de Young's political ambitions appear to thrive best outside of California." Tjlngland cannot afford, to deal too harjshly with the Boers, now that they are1! all but iconquered. It is the part of good statesmanship to make it as easy as j possible1 for; the men who thought they were fighting for their liberties and' their HkIus- I. . The way to reform the abuses in Ma rion county's affairs is t6 reform them, and not employ any halfj-hearted meth ods. There are many leaks, large and small, that sJiould be rstopped. And we predict that they will be. Unless there is a good ideal of concil iation. Senator Joseph 'Simon will find it rather ; "hard sledding' two years frim next winter, when he applies to the Oregon Legislature lor re-election The thing to do is to -spray the hops. I M UTUL S YM PljVTH Y. Collector I'm sorry. but vottr tailor hix tin Mr. Slowpay, 3i is , account against you into . my hands for collec tion. .1.;:- r Mr. Slowpay He lias, eh? Do you work on a connmissioi basis? Collector Yes, sir. 5 !M r. Slo w pay Then you. Chicago . News. "m sorry for GOVERNMENT INr DENMARK. 1 iFor the last thirty years in Denmark the party of the left has had a majority in; live chamber, while tlic king has re tained in power a ministry of fbe right. Julius Flcischmann. the mayor , of Cincinnati, is one of the youngest diief executives of large cities in the coun try. He is but 28 years old. When only 20 he was madc a colonel on the staff of President McKinley, who was then Governor of Ohio4i . . . .. . :. EVIDENCE WAS AGAINST HIM. ; ; ' ' ' ' f. Ifusbaini Could. Not' ; Convince His ; Wife lie Ilad Quit Snioking. :: He had tA?cn married" only two weeks and at the bride's 'persuasion he , had given up smoking, says the Indianapo lis Ntw-s. He Hold iris fellow clerks at the freight office all about it, 3iow bis wife had insisted upon and how great the sacrifice -had been to turn. He dwelt on the fact that he shad njever lenown what a slave he was to the Jrabit and that each suoreeding ; day .the appetite becsme -stronger and stronger. But he intended to hold out. hard s the strug gle was, as it gave' his wife such pleas- ttre. He could hold out till the end of the honeynnoon.; at any rare. 1 j. . He toid the boys that pus wife would visit him at fhe office next day and be! m '.'ml wou-ia iniroouce ner 10 au ot tnem. it happened the morning th'af -she came in that thfe newly' mamed man . was net at his desk. He had "Wen called to an- o:ber part of the "building for a minute or two and ft was in those fatal (Lninntes that nine' boys got in thctr dreadful: work They had carefully saved all their cigar nd-s for several days; in expectation of this visit, and placing them on "the desk they 'con ducted the1 jbrkle to bey husband's oliair. A mcfment later the nusband appeared, one looked at the "snipes" piled up on Hie dsk, and then, with a pained -look; at tier httsttand', ejaculated. "J Charles!" The next morning :he came in smok ing -a cigar. "Couldn't convince her." said the young husband. So I m smbk ing again, I might as well have the game as the name. Butr it was real low down in you fellows. t SOON FORGETS ORTHOGRAPHY, Employment of Amanuenses Causes : f . ilen to I'orget How to Spell. . ; t J ' j,- lt ' .4 J. . . "The practice of using an amanuensis has become almost universal among hvtty men of affair sv- iaiq a 'Magazine street wholesaler, "and it's! dcatbon or tliogTaphy,' says the Pittsburg- .News. "I defy any man who has 'dictated to a stenographer for as long -a period o( nme as two years 10 s-ie .oqwn ana write an ordinary- letter without making at least four or five ridicnloas blunders in spelling. Skill in English orthography is purely an arbitrary accomplishment It's a feat in mnemonics and doesn't necessarily presuppose the possession of any special intelliectual gjfts. The only way that the average maa retains his ability to spell with any reasonable cor rectness is by keeping- constantly, in practice and seeing the ijvritten words before his eyes. Let hnifi suspend th'at mental exercise fora short time arid the first thing you knnwthe'H be spell ing elephant with two f f .1 The stenographer hab?tisas bad as cociinc when once you begin it you ve got to keep it up or you're loH. If 1 attempted1 to write a . letter ; of any length at present myf rcorrespondent wouia tc cerrai-n no set iown as a scan dalous ignoramus, and P believe nine tenths of the business nsen in the city are" tn the same boat. The memory of inost people, by tae way. ichieny grarfiic, as far as spelling is concerned. graphic as far as spelling fs concerned, I mean by that they nave to write a word down on paper and see how h looks be fore they are certain about ks ortlkg- raphy. That is why theyf become rusty sip,,qufck as soon as they give up "Xlie personal handling of , the $en.:' In medi aeval times the upper-classes didn't pre tend to know how to -Write.' They left that to professional scrryeners and -we appear to be drifting back to drat hap py condition oi anairs. ; ' THINKS HIS MARE IS IN A CELL Aged 'Man Learns of the Existence of . the Animal 4rond. 5,f. ; - , ! ' ' " ''Where is that Shanghai policeman wlio stoK? my Irorse?" cried aged Peter (J Conner -as he rushed inh a south side police station the other; day as fast as his feeble legs would carry him, says the Chicago Chronicle, "I'rn onto the tricks , .of these smart cops. They go around picking up all the horses they can find and then sell trjem to the city. I want my horse and I'rh going to stay here till I get it." j "Are you sure n policeman stole your horse? We '11 "havie him arrested, sure, -awl the desk sergeant. . "Yes, I saw the man- take my old mare.- She was strolling along not harming anything and he -ran up and took ber. If I ever gjet in veyes on hiin he'll le sorry for tpo.' and the old man nearly burst into tears when he was told that the horse had not been lodged in the pojice station. It was a revelation to hm when, he was informed that 9t was. tie poundmaster who 3iad picked up his Jiorse and not a ooliceman. and he subdued -his fears but not his anger when . he learnetl that the place to look for the ammal wasrthe pounu ana not tne jau. v THE ANCESTORS ! OF PRESI DENT LINCOLN. It has been learned Chi the first ar rival in America of the family ' of Nancy Hanks.. - President Lincoln's mother, was 'Beniamii Hank-s, who landed in Plymouth, Mass.. in Octoter, 1600. Hw third son. VV lUTam, went to Virginia and raised fivic sons, one, of them. Joseph, marry ing Nancy Shipley, whose sister Mary had married Abra ham Lincofn of Rockingham county. Virginia. From tnis iliiion of Joseph Hanks and Nancy Shipley was born Nancy Hanks, , the eighth child, on Februarys, 1784. . COLUMBIA'S FOOTBALL DATES First Big Game Is Wm1 Harvard Oc ! - tober 13th. : ! t - William Brock Shoemaker, manasrer of the Columbia1 football team, has made public tht complete sdiedule of Columbia's foot ball, contests for ' next season. Columbia's '' tcamwill meet Yale. Harvard. PennsylvaniaTpTinceton and the Carlisle-i tndianSt besides a num ber of smaHer colleges. The football candidates will go into training.' under the direction of, G. Foster Sanford,. at Brandaford Point, Cot., on September 10th. On October 3d the team j . will open the season with af game with Rut- Kers at New Brunswick. It will play Wesleyan at Coiwnbja field on October 6th. ami Williams on October 10th. Tie first biar game of the seaso will take place at -Soldiers jfield, Cambridge,, on October 13th, whent Columbia hopes to down.' the crimson of 'Harvard. After a minor game with Steven in New York on October J7th the Morn itigside boys will line up against the doughty Pennsylyanians at Franklin field, . Phil adelphia, on October Joth. On Octo-i her 2?Cn ' Yale will come to Columbia field. Princctdn' wiil make her only appearance in New York on November Othi. Columbia will take a flying trip to .Buffalo and face the eleven of the university of that- c:tv on. November to'.h. This game is in place of the one with' Cornell last year, The -match 'with West Pointt has bctti dropped, and a csonicst, with Annapolis, to take place at Annapolis, has'beeri substituted. An other minor matcih with Manhattan col lege, instead of with Dartsmouth. as formerly, will be contested on Novem ber 21st. ; On November 2th (Thanks giving day): Columbia, will meet the Carlisle .Indians' at Columbia field in her final game, of the season. " THE BOERS AT ST. HELENA: Quarters Occupied "by Cronje's Soldiers j on the Little Volcanic Island. ' 4 v' On Sunday '. last the Boer prisoners were landed at Jamestown, on the north side .of St. Helena. It was un doubtedly a great event for the people living on that isolated rock. They sel dom see strangers now. Before ' the Suez Canal was built. Jamestown was' of great importance as a coaling and sup ply station, but now it is far off the route of vessels. " If it were not for an occasional whaler wiiich drops irtto port fof a fresh supply of water and provis ions the island would be almost aban doned by the world. Thirty years "ago there "were over 6,000 people living on 7 the island ; but many hundreds of them, failing to earn a Jiving there, have gone to Cape Col ony, and when the Boers landed on Sunday they increased the population fully one-third. So large an influx has never been seen before. IW'hen the prisoners entered the har bor they saw a little town, only a quar ter ofa mile wide and less than a mile inj length, squeezed into a narrow val ley between two hills that rise to a height of about six hundred feet on either side. The hill on tihe west slopes steeply to the town and a flight of near ly seven hundred steps, cut in the face of he rock, leads to the flat plateau above. This eminence i' known as Ladder Hill on account of the flight of stone steps. The plateau is three quarters of a mile wide near the sea and narrower as it penetrates the moun tains on either side. Tlie seaward part of it is covered with military buildings and the plateau is known as Dead wood Hain.' This is where the Boers were sent into camp on St. Helena. Jamestown lies at their feet on the east and in front they have a beautiful view of the sea from a point of vantage 600 feet above the ocean. All the year, rcund the southeast trades blow stead ily, but the hill range through the cen tre of the island shelters the prisoners from the winds which are soipetimes violent, though always warm. They have arrived, however, in the early days of the austral winter, and arc prob ably witnessing a .larger rainfall now than tftey ever saw before. The heav iest rains, however, will soon pass, and as far as weather and climate are con cerned, the.prisoners could hardly wish for a more agreeable abiding place, t Looking directly east across the hills and the intervening valleys tlie Boers may perhaps be able to catch a glimpse of Longwood, three and a half- miles from their camp. which is -famous as the home in which Napoleon, prisoner of England; passed the last six years of his lite. Longwood stands, on another plateau, extending nearly to the sea on the cast and with- two or three long arms running up into the mountains. It was on this nearly flat plateau that Napoleon took his daily - strolls, ; en joying, in some sort, rbe period k. of calm that succeeded the - long years of war and political convulsion in which he was the commanding figure. It the Boers are permitted" to stroll inland as faf as the plateau they occupy extends, they will be within two miles of .Lbng-wood-and a-mile anda half from) the valley of tlie Tomb, where Napoleon's body reposed under a clump ot wniows until 'it was removed to Paris in 1840; and now it rests under the dome. of the Invalides. From Dead wood Iain. however, it is not likely that the Ibwcr iinrtion nf the Vallev of the Tomb can be seen and o the willows under wjliich Hipcreat Corsican was buried are hid- Ann (mm vipW ; From the Boer camp there is no road leading to Longwood or the; famous vallev near it, but -to reach the spot Where Napoleon spent his last it is necessary to climb Rupert s years Hill hv the steeo road wliich sttrmountk it on te cast srde ol. Jamestown ana to the valley and the little iiouse w kNaooleon lived and died. .. . . eads here NJamestown 1 the. only town on the island. It ha never been thought inortti wliiI to build a town on the sout'h coast, for no vessels could safely visit a town there., as tie -waves raised bv the southeast trades break on that steeo shore with: great fury. On the north side of the island in the lee q . . f the winds, where, the Boers are kept, the not surface f the sea is usually calm. Tertians many of the Boers wil mind the isolation of their prison iome as much as the people ot other races might do far most of them are accus- tomeuSto the comparative silence of their great cattle ranches, ywhere they care . are seldom see strangers and do not to meet them, thougli all comers; hospitably welcomed when they appear. Of course none of the prisoners can. es cape from St. Helena as a, numlcr of them did from their camp near Simon Town. Cape Colony. The sea around them hems the captives in more effect ively than any prison wall Sun, April 22(1'. ' V .5. VULGARITY AND SUCCESS. The Realization of the Commercial V ah'c of Publicity. . ' Vulgarity ?s not necessary to con temporary success, but a "thing akin to vulgarity which seenvs indispensable to success in many lines of business is pub licity, says E. S. Martin in Harper's a t m wteKiy. Mne reason why we seem, more vulgar than our fathers is that we have come-so generally to the realization of tr.e commercial value of publicity. A man can be good in a corner, and live justly in the sight of Got! and bear him self 'handsomly toward an fellows wahout any summoning of v.'itnesses. But when it becomes a- question of sell ing goods Ire. is excusable in conclud ing that he can never sell enough to make, himself rich witbout beating a drum and sticking hisTpicture on the outer wall. 'Let -mm stick his picture up if 'Iris, busines seems to require it, bnt, publishing pictures of oflier folks wlio have no interest in his business and. don't want to. be posted is a dif ferent matter.; TheTaW ought to, regu late that...-- ';:;; .:r - ' The law in. the state of New. York. now regulates (by forbidding) the pub-! WaScjny?)! letttfIA orPf t 'jap 0$ tkr.-soijs .wlttfjhavfj peAt danger, dusly 'hurt," or have 'been found", found among the effect of persons who died suddenly, - or committed suicide, unless a coroner directs such publica- tiqt as a means of idertifyingcTiei dead or discovering' a crime. Tins law, whxrh Jlw governor signed jast week, is in timely restraint of a 'species of pub licity which was .sometimes very cruel, for the practice has been to look upon papers found on the unknown dead a 9 thcs. proper Jnot f setisatiQnal ne-s pa pers, to be printed wishout regard to the reputation of the deceased or the feelings of any survivor. , j ; ' 1 THE ERR tS HEELV -t l. The Passing of the' Greatest Engineer ing Freak of the Century. When the Ferris wheel is sent to the scrap lieap a thing likely soon to hap pe the greatest; engineering , vagary of the century, will , have , passed into tliat oblivion reserved for fads, flying machines and perpetual-motion, contriv ances. Not" that the. great Ferris wheel is any of - these, but simply because ; it never eould serve any practical use, be cause no distinctly new principle in en gineering, and because it has a marvel lous faculty of emptying the. coffers of those who try to make its huge bulk earn even a small part-of the cost of maintaining f it to say nothing of the cost of original investment. " As one of the wonders of the World's Fair of 1893 perhaps the chief wonder tht Ferris wheel stood unique. L; great size, marvellous construction and distinct novelty made it not only the crowning feature of the Midway, but the gossip of four continents. During the continuance of the exposition more than a million and a half of visitors from all quarters of the .globe rode In its suspended cars and from a -height ot 264 feet caught a bird-eye glimpse of the fair grounds, uc lake and the dis tant city. ; Though less than a third the height of the Eiffel Tower of the Paris Expo sition, the Ferris wheel was a much greater wonder. The Eiffel Tower was merely a continuous projection of suc cessive towers one upon another. Given ' a .suitable base, its construction simply meant tlie stringing of. iron and steel straight into the air. But in the Ferris . wheel something new in construction was accomplished new because of its great size. It was the projection of a gigantic circle, carrying thousands of tons of steel and iron usjendcd from an axle and readily movable by the ap plication of machinftry,. To have built the Ferris wheel simply to staud upon its periphery would 4iave been a com paratively simple task. " To suspend and give" it motion was tlie conception this mass of metal from a central point of genius. j .Eiffel and hks engineers were three . years building the tower in Paris. The Ferris wheel was constructed and carry- -ing passengers within four hionths. The idea of erecting . this great wheel came to George Washington Gale Fer ris, a native ot Illinois and an engineer for the Pittsburg Iron company, about a year before the opening of the World's Fair. 'Mr. Ferris was theft known as one of the most expect bridge builders in ; America, if not in Tlie world, but when his scheme was mentioned to oth er . engineers it was promptly pro nounced chimerical. .Some went even so far as to laugh at hi iU, and not one dreamed the project ever wouid get be yond the speculative stage. Biu Mr. Ferris was persistent, and, besides, had ; faith in himself. Courageously he set to work and (succeeded in interesting sufficient capital to warrant liim in or dering material for the wheel. About $ 25. 000 was spent in plans., tests,, etc., before the actual construc tion of ti:c wheel began. Some thirty firms took part in its making and a Chicago firm saw to its erection. When ready to be turned the Ferris wheel had cost $362,000 and had consumed about 8.000.000 pounds of iron and steel. The movable part of it weighed 4.200,000 pounds, and it required two engines rt 1.000 horse power each to keep it turn ing. And so nicely adjusted were' all t'hc part's, so well ? balanced was the. great steel circle with its thirty-six cars, capable of carrying 2.160 persons,, that 1 it was under as full control as a sewing machine or a pony engine. Once r . twice during the World's Fair the nio five .power needed adjustment, but the only results so far as the public was concerned were humorus; incidents, which gave the newspaper ; men a. few columns ot anylliing but dull reading matter. . . .'.- ! It is barely possible that had the World's Fair lasted a yeatf or two the Ferris wheel might liave paid for itself. This is based on the assumption that it would !4iave rontinucd to be a novelty for twelve months or more. As it. was the gross earnings, of the wheel during the .fair were $812,000. About one-fiitjj of this went to the stockholders as prof its. The power necessary to operate the big wlieel would have run a cotton factory of 100.000 spindles and 3.000 looms and employing 5.000 operatives: The boilers of live power plant con sumed coal like an ocean liner. N" other single feature of the great expo sition represented such an expenditure of energy. : Bnt the fair lasted only six month and Che Ferris wheel ceased paying div idends witli, the closing of-the exposi tion gates. Had it gone from its place, on the 'Midway direct to the scrap pe or to Coney island, as was at one time suggested, more than, one Chicagoan would liave been some thousands dollars richer today. Jhe ; wheel that was such a drawing card on the shorc of. Lake Mlcbigan, where the surround ings were somewhat proportioned to its size, was moved to the norrh side of the citv and placed in a space so small that the cars hupg over other property while the wheel was revolving..- -'There it. has turned occasionally for the last few years, eating up coal, piling up. cost, an eyesore to the neighbor hood and a white eleptiant to ks own ers.' What has the big wficel cost to Hatp? . Deducting ? tlie sum j paid to stockholders during-he World's Fair. and counting as part of the cost wnat it ha lost to iis owners, it is safe to say that $ixx.ooo will not cover tlie total; To move it froin Jackson Park to the North Side cost alone $175,000. and it is figured it will requirosan ex penditure of at least $25,000 to take .it down ami remove it from where it now; stands. Chicago Post. ; ; "That girl accepts rings from tne.it she doesn't know.' I . "How can she?" "Has to. 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