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1 TUB QEKLY CaECG'I SKIP Published every Tuesday and Friday . ' by the ; .- STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. 266 Commercial St., Sa'en Or. :.. R. J. HENDRICKS, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: i One year, in advance .$! 00 Six months, in advance... . .$ 50 Three months, in advance....... .$ ,25! One year, on time. .,...$1 25 llihed for nearly fifty years, and it has nearlv that lone, and manv who h-ve read it for a generation. Some 01 these object to having the papcrj dis - continued at the time of expiration o their subscription. For the benefit of these, and tor other reasons, we have concluded to discontinue subscriptions only when notified to do so. All per son paying when subscribing, or pay ing in advance, will have the benefit of ' the dollar rate. But 11 they do not, pay for 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 they are to nay $1.25 a year, in case they let the subscription account ! run I and give It thorough study, and have over six months. In order that therein Gill readv that will umbn a I.ir tnt may be no misunderstanding, we I will keep this notice standing at this place in the pa;er. SUBSCRIBERS DESIftlNQ TUB AD- diets of their paper changed must atat the name of their former postofflce, as well as of the office to which they wiah the paper changed. WOOD WANTED. 0 1 i !sulscr1lers intending to pay sthe Statesman in wxk1 will please haul the same an early as possible. We 'can use some iolc oak nnd some small lir. Needed, a State Engineer 0f.lJ.0ads in Oregon. We wonder if any -member of j the Oregon legislature Is preparing to do anything for gwsl roads -wxt winter' A State Kngineer of Iloads could also give the prorier directions j for building the right kind of bicycle paths. ' i - The hop growers who have been Fpraying their hop vines for the lice. nnd who are prepared to continue; the oieratloii. are not worrying over much about the weather conditio!!. They n re likely to turn out a .choice or at h-ast prime quality, no matter what kind of weather they may le favored with from thisT time on. And choice or even prime Oregon hop are going to lie sought after this fail, ami good prices paid for them. As to the. lower grades, that depends. j , i The spraying of 'hops I like insur ing your proierty. It may not burn. but even if it d.oes not the feeling of (security: you have enjoyed is worth the cost. ThMi-e may not do serious injury to the hops. I'avorable weather conditions tiujiy prevent. Put It is a gtssl tiling to Ih preiareil for unfavor able weatitcr Uonditions. As was aid by a well known Marion county grow er quoted m-entiy, no man can a (lord to go into the hop growing' industry, or to remain in ft, without figuring on the cost -'of spraying each season as ojt equal iuqortauce with cultivating. ! The Statesman Is n reeelut of a communication from a very reliable party of Portland -going over tin' rec onl and life of Hon. II. W. Corbett, of that city, and tending to prove that many of the Isiasted charitable tiets of Mr. M.oiintt bave not Ihiui deloid Mif selfish cttusitlcratioiis or sinister motives., - We refuse to publish Jtliis article for the present, for tlie reason fiat we do not wish to" pnrsm this weil known Oregon citizen. wiio. des pite his alleged frailties that are com niioii to most of mankind, has ier formelj many liels of public lsnefac tton that tuld not have leen prompt ei by Aellish or sinister' thoughts.; We do not desire to haras Mr. Corlett, or to sec- him harassed. And we think the occasion of his candidacy for' the Vrrted Slates Seuate Is not a, serious mailer in oilrr wonls. he has not the ghost of. a sliow of having his ambi tion ssitistiHl. v Tliere may le one or ;.tuo, or even a half dozen, members or the legislature who art ! williiig to tote., for Mi. t'orlH lt for this ol lice, and ierehatice a like iitiiuler of 'oth ers Who might "induci-d tu le ceme upior!ers of his candidacy. No more. -It Is reganbnl more in the iKitme of a joke .--than otherwise. If oiuy Mr. Corbett-will let themi do so, we believe -the vast majority of .the HtpIe of Oregon will lx glad tore- menlr him only for his go si qtia li lies and gracious acts, and to draw 'tie veil of oblivion-over all else 'con cerning him, forgetting all tlie tilings bis euemi-'s and the morbid members of the community would like to see ruit on parade and harped ion with the rek'Uth-sness of the furies. I , '; There 'is a great dil of complaint among Wlieelmen concerning tlie bl e.vcle psitiis and the manner iu which :-tbey were built last year. The state-tiM-nt "Is rteju'iHly made that j the money extended In their c-oiistrtictlon v a s th ro w n a way, or . worsts l la 11 -tl'iowu awav. Put we insist that tJ :H statements an reckless, and ll ;it n great deal of good was at-iu-pii-ltwl iu faror of whetdmen by the building of the paths, and consequent ' ly In favor of the whole community, for it has come to pass that a large proportion of all the people, men, women and children use bicycles. As much, perhaps, - was aeeoniidlshed In Marion county as might reasonably hare been, expected from the expendl tare of the small amount of money and scattered over so much territory .V very good start was made, and wheelmen are enabled to go from place to place with a degree of com fort (although a small degree) where they could not ride at all without the path. We hope to seethe matter of t-ouItutiouality of the bitycle law de- terniiiied soon. If it is decided to be unconstitutional, or even if It Is not, J the Legislature at it session of next winter must by all means go over the whole matter and change the experi mental draft of the law to something Intended for permanency. 'The biej-ele riders of the Mate will not generally object to paying a small annual tax, when they are assured that it will be judiciously and economically expended iu the construction of good paths for tlieir use. Will not some Marion county, member - take the matter I up will hold water, and at the same time result in the construction of bicycle I ki t lis . a II over t her well set tlei I por- tlous of the state? A I1USINE.SS PROPOSITION. In rare moments the Hen. James Hamilton Lewis of Washington recog nizes a fact. Speak iug of the Pacific states he says: "The Philippine question Is the most troublesome one with which the Dem ocrat's have to deal ou 4 he coast. The p-ople out there look uKn it as a business proiosition and it Is hard to g4 them to listen to the doctrinal view of the Democrats." ? Commenting upon this scintillation of the Honorable Jim Ham, the New York Sun very appropriately says: The tnide with im East is a very in teresting business proposition to the Pacific 'states. They have had practi cal proof already of the value of the Philippines to them. It is useless' to clatter, to them about an imaginary empire. Itugaboos cannot frighten them Info forgetting their own Inter"- ests and Surrendering a iositive ad vantage the value of which will grow from year to year. ' "Oregon has awptwl the business prolMisition. California : and Washing ton will do tlie same. The Piiilipoincs is a business preiosition will not be reject d by a practical people., - "This instinct of business is supiort- ed by a deep and unconquerable $vu- t'lnent. patriotism, tlie feeling that tlie integrity of American territory must Ik maintained ami tlie prestige of Ok? American flag must not be lessened. True Americanism and business siT gacity are on tlie Republican'" side in this campaign. Ilomautfc gabble nltout 'empire and 'greed will be vain agiiust irresistible fact and feeling." .MASKA IN THIS CAM PA KIN. This, from the Mobile Daily-' Regis ter.- is a sample of tlie arguments we shall hear from tlie Ilryauite news-paiH-rs ami orators during the cam paign: v.-- I- . "Porto Ille is as much a .part of the Pnitetl States tt'iTMorj as is New Mex l-o. or Oklahoma, or Alaska, yet, le csius of the sugar Interest.-the fruit ieterest. the toliae-o interest, and otli er protected industries in this couutrj-, the IJepulli-an party sees fit to treat tlM Islaud as If it were an alien land, to Is taxed witliout representation and. what is wrse, wit In nit any con stitutional authority on our part to levy Hie tax. "If we can tax these people.'' without asking their consent, and simply lie cause we have the jwwer to do so, what is to stand in tlie way of cbs gress treating a state in the same Weil, what alsmt tlie case of Alas ka, which is as much n iKtrt of t'niteil States territory as I'orto Rico? , The same -onjri-ess which passtl Hie Porto Itico act, imposing temiorariiy a tariff there which is not uniform tliroughout he Uniteil States, passed also the Alaska act, imposing an elai orate sj'stem of excise, taxes ieculiar to t lint territory, and i-ouseinetrtly not uniform throughout the tnitel Stats. If one of these two acts is un-ousti-tutioual, so Is the o '.her. If one is an tis4aiH-c of taxation without reiresu tatioii. so Is the other. If Porjo Kico is trcafi"l "as if it were an alien. land." si Is Alaska.', If one territory is ul jiftetl.,. to gpveruiiMut witliout the consent of tlie governelt,, so is tla other. If there Is any outrage, or de imrt tire from American principles, or Indication of the decay of republican lust it ut ions In one case, so is there iu the other easi . , . .s- -r- Why not Im iKinest ami denounce the Itepnblif-au jwrty for "imperialism" In Alaska if you are going to denounce It for -imperialism in INtrto Rico and the IMiillppiues? New York Sun. Tlie alove answer Is a good one. Put there Is still another thing to tie aJd, eom-erning a fact in this connec tion that will suggest Itself to every reading ierson In the-United Slates and that is that the people of Porto Il'co are at liln-rty to make whatever -ort of government ami Impose what ever form of taxation they may de sire. It is their freely to elect, as le tween the system of raising reveniN for the exienses of tin-fir govern mental jnacblnery devised by the t'ongress of ll-e t'nited States ami one of their own making and administering. : The peo- ' -..;r'..- . " - .. ?; "..'." - ! pie of Porto Ilk-o. if they are fubject- i ed to taxation without representation, may have at their own option taxa tion with representation, on any plan they m4y prefer. ' GOOD l'OIl UTAH. Utah Is not worrying a great deal just now over free silver coinage; & wftness the following editorial from the salt Lake Tribune, which was not very long ago -ousidered one of the ablest newhpairs In the whole coun- try in the advocacy of that theory: The platform, the framing of which cost so much labor and awak- ened so much contention was read by that lopullst from South, Carolina who only a few weeks ago, addressing a graduating class of whom a colored youth was : a member, declared that "If you scratch a nigger, you will find a savage; that same senator who iKKistetl in the senate of the United States last spring that In South Caro lina they had legislated against the negroes, counted them out aud kiliiHl them, and tried in every way to annul an amendment to the constitution of the United' States made in their be half. J How . .'most T Impressive must have ! been his emphasis on the Iniq uity of governments being carried 011 without the consent of the goverueil! Tlie plank against imperialism is but froth, but , the foam thrown up against the piles of the wharf by the Incoming, tide. It Is tin a parity with Tilden'a "reform" cry in lSll when the records showed tlmt there were TO ler cent less defalcations tinder Grant tliau umler Washington. There was not a man In the convention that did not know that the cry was but an empty slogan, intended for campaign purposes only. Every; intelligent man there knew that the Philippines were acquired precisely as California was acquired, ami that what has been done then has been In exact accord with what Jefferson dftl in Louisiana; that the i same spirit has governed, though less harshly, that 'sent General Jackson to govern Florida; that what has been; done has been in exact ac cord with what was done with Call foinia, and! is t now being done in Alaska. Tiie euarires in the resolution are a base islander of President M c Klulej- and a direct' snub "offered-to the opinions of Admiral Dewey "and every distinguished American who has been familiar with affairs in the Phil ippines. The only harm which the resolution can possibly do will be iu causing the deaths of more of our sol diers in those islands. "Quite as contemptible Is the refer ence 10 I'orto i;ux. mere was an island that had been war swept and storm swept;' the people, were starv lug, and objects of charity; the need of ministering to them was imperative and innuinent, and the congress of the Uuittnl States, Hinder the express direction 'of the constitution, levied a tariff: of alxuit one-fourth the Dingle.- tariff: sclietlule against certain of - by products, and In the same bill direi-t ed that .every dollar thus collected should be made a free gift to that un happy' people. Put all that is treated as legislation InteudtHl to build up monopolies at home and destroy for ever : the IilKrty of the men and women of Porto Pico. "And the resolution was read by Tillman: . "The denunciation of trusts was ex leeied. It-was quite as pronounced eight; years ago. The ieopie liecame excited, and on election day turned over l the executive and legislative functions. ol tiie goveruineut to tlii iH-mwracy. We . all know what fol IowimI. Monopolies are furiously de nounced; and this was expected. The trouble is that those monopolies, as a rule, give a very large proportion of the skilled 5 lalior of the country em ployment, and there is not one of them that has not as many Democrats as Uepubllcntis as stx-kIioltleis, onl were Mr. liryan President tomori-uw le could not interfere with one of them. ;; The denunciation of the protective tariff Is covert, but It is pronounced. It hovvs that the ancient I'om'bon spirit Is still domiuent -tliat spirit that learns nothing and forgets noth: ing. :- : j - "The whole in.struuient Is a patch, work of complaints and tepinings; it advocate what It reimdiales in prac tice every day; luucli of it is uuti ue in fact, and where a remedy is pre Kctilnd the programme Is uuicjuiblc. It was shouteil for by thousands ol men in tl eonvcntioti, who were se cretly rejoicing that its provisions can never be carried out. " r "In Its framewoik it is bungling and crude." - . THE OCTOPUS ir.VMPAXT. . Said the New York Sun on Thurs day last: "Atnr. , Col. Pryan will fill the state fair grounds nt Iiidian.-i jlis with .thender against trusts, an all but paramount or pretty paramount issue to some or many Democrat. . - Ang. 7. certain T Kansas farmers wilt assemble at Topeka and consider ways and means of selling their crops . AT... . . . - iu tin tiejii aoramage iy means or a combination. -Tliese Smilloer nmni.11. 1 ollsts are hot only not 'afraid of the P,Mt Vf t,U M"ft ,M' ,5lin r' '' lly, fronting an enemy, and certainly need Odomt iKit thev want to i--to,.e T "T"" day or two, ?Pg ammunition, wlihoet the 'means n:i 11-J 1 " ?h'n Avantni of it ami if of .rvirsr fo o, ratioJ The anny their own hook. "Aug. Is to see a darker deciL fa that day, and at Lincoln, Neb., of all places : In' the - world, fariiiers of that i?tate are to confer. They are "He is Wise Who Talks Bat Little." This is only U half truth. If ivise men hkd held their 1 - nOttltng SLDOUt tiie Circulation of the blood. If it U)ere not for this advertisement yoa ' 4. t, , , 4. ZTZa '''""" '"p" Oarsapartlla tS 1 the greatest I medtCUie m liie SVOHd tO j pari fv and enrich yotsr Blood, create an appetite, oive yott strength and steady nerves. Impure Blood MjtompUxhn'cMs bad. Hood's SjtrsjLpafSIjt. did much good by notifying my blood. SMyl skin is two dev." cAnritD.McCcy, WjUsoniovm, P. ft. ilood't P1I1 cure Htw ills ; the pftn-trrlbttlng nnd lily cmt hurtie o tk with Hood tjaroapatJll. full of greed. They wajit. to oppress and pauperize the country, and make it a nation " pf serfs. They Ualk" of forming a trust for the imrpose of regulating the jrice of tlic-ir cropsi and selling- tliem at the highest ligures Thej- want to fix grain elevator rates. too. They' are going to ask the next Legislature jto force; the elevator com panies to st'oi-e grain 'at a rate to lie fixed by the State Hoard of Agricul ture or by a board composed of well known farniers. A most refreshing plan, showing that these; farmers are not citizens of Altruria but of Egoria Kotn as a xoe or trusts ami as a camera fanner, Col. Pryanmust be pjuneu. by these exhibit ions of com mercialism U and greed.;? After , flu close of the. notification how he can not fly too soon to .Nebraska ; and Kansas and lalior 'To liersuade these rasping ami lnonoiHilfstic members of the producing -lasses that truT-.s are an evil Rim a curse. There may hot lie any! more liop lice this season j than now apwar on tlie vines. Tlie latest lot of tiles that de- Iosit the eggs for tlu- Ijice wein to lie all dead, and there 1 m y not tH' an other brood. leading growers tliiuk there vill not be. at thert- are enough lice in all the uhsprayed yards to do serious damage to the lK'j in i-ase the wwither ; becomes-., unfavor able. And there jls Voryf little time left in which to spray, with lieneficijtl ef fects, for the burrs will soon be form ing, and wlieu the lice get; into these they will stay-there: There is no get ting them out, by spraying or other wise. It Is too bad that all the: hop growers o3 Oregon ilo not follow tlie example of the leading and most 'suc cessful ones, and -calculate ' spraying as much a necessityis cultivating the yards. . The Hon. l M. I Plack, who sits t'lHui the Ik-ih H in Missouri and ij a Gold Democrat, has said, this, td fie Kansas City '-Journal':. ( 'Thit Gjdd Ieinoci-at lias strong coiivict ions, ami he stood by 1 hem four years' ago. lie is stronger than ever today, jliocajisc lie sees how right he was tlien. T tlpnk we will have to vote for; Mc- Kiuley." ,The Gqfd Deinot-nit threw away half ot his vote four years, ago. r a great many of them diU This year-there will- be uo m-caslon! or op- portunity for this. A Little Hock paper ! reports it hat there is but a single pauper on! tlie Kansas state poor, farm. Tin- -forlorn bid chap spends most of 1iis time sit ting on t hei front porch In-wailing Iiis ooeliness ind deiMiunciiig tlie pierni- eioits pnsH-Mty which liiis robbml him of his iconipa nions. The Twij-?-a-We-k Statesiiian has more than, twice as many subseriliers as the m-i-klr Statesman: -had nine months ago! It Is lheref.re more than twh-e as giNsl an advertising uiedium. ttiougn the rates have not cliansel. nd it is growing Iw-tter every week. TJIEIU DUINK IS MADDENlkG! .auve j ippie or ine i-iiipinos is i.t Ilorrble !oin-o-tion. I he effiict of the so--alleil AmericH saloon on the Pilipino is not nearlv as bad as ihe effect of I-Iijiiiio jiq.'r on American soioters. says tiie Omr.l P-ee. ... Iu fact, in- lormeis is l',;t "n--I I v st'lHTior to the lath-r, sine- 15m A"n k-an liquors !o not prisltuH. Uia.i'ie or i-reaic ait imioediaie ai'ei;,e f more tieij;e HoltiirK a reuutiir Arniv man-who 'tis just returned friiia : M-i- V nila to l is.honi at IiubHijapons. isrys f tlie F'lipino iKwe: It is 1101 heat tlat Is driving tiie -'i)flM:y crazy, it is just simply IeiK.' Abs.idhe is i,t hi the same class, is It look' like water and taste like licorice. ? ;ys, fand when the Joys can t g-t le" r wli'n- ky. they -iwy 'Ihhu' f rn.n tlie ia fives. It takt a pint of It to m.w? . diink- ing man drunk. The third or fonrth ronseentirrv drink 'makes a b'Knul.tg j hliot out of the victim. The K-iMJe -s , crave it utter tucy nave m-' tasted ! 'It. Out on the Iims the tsys n- r , get IeT or whisky and when ihe US- r mes !m u:w ihiio una mi 1 lie , fellows buy it. .1 : : j in ini" souiiiern ii;in!isv ncri- i . demaad is not so Jrreat, the eaiives for mntcHal., As nn tine olticer ex sell ft for tliree ints a canteeiiful, but i!cst it; "The army ordnance of art rnd Manila the deina id Is m kt: iVer" Is haglin?' over the i.rieo oer niSseC: tit .III cents; After a man .drinks alKiut a'm'twU-M in n,. ri..t.l ,n.i.. he can t get It he will go mad."-- Then the oflicers have to shackle him End he is sent to the, hospital for ..the in sane at - ashit.gton. TIwv fell ni that Ihe iHr fellows who liave Imtu taken there will never get well-."! i. WASiilNGTpN CORRESPONDENCE W:ishbirt,n-' I: t.. July '11',. The tamp liooksj n-ci iiily tried by tlw postolli'.-e tlepartuiiut have, been a great success, and ip to date Jt is es timated that'll profit of over $2Mf0t has iu.fi-tied 011 tuem. Alwut t ,'".7aH) biHn sold, be one of hi tlH-ni ot ail kinds-have ind they Avill continue' to be one of rl' pr-i nianeiit ii;titutieus of the d? imrtit ut. Defects in ear'ty i.saes (mvifH'i'n lenHHtKil by smiag a better- giatk of panifiiiH' prtiu-r, which is l'jw'guaranteetl to remain In gool tun Vlitiou when subjected to a test in KMch it is iunueive! in water-heated to 110 degrees, whjch Is conjidorably ,hne r tisiu any m at to whicn it tti be subject el nudt-r ciinditluns that can pro:perIy"lK provided for. Tlie im provements add somewhat to tlie cost bf the I looks, but there Is still a profit oil them-iu excess of the profit Vv c' red from tlie stamps, j The new German reciprocity -treaty has been proclaimed. Genmuiy f e ciui'h ml ret ions vn still wines,' argoR Iiaiutings aud statuary, the amount of the.ivtluclions- ill eacli ease Wing tixetl in ihf ' Imijiiey.aet. Jn return tlie United States i-ei-urcs the most ta vokiI iintiou treatment, or. in oIIkt words. the miiiiiiitiin tariff rates on a-if'U-Ies esiioi-tl to Germany, tier many lun . several taritfs. one reserved for commercial friemls and others for nations with which 'the relations are not so close. I. The United States has ejoyei the ...minimum rates up to this time without equivalent. Ko it is said. Now our absolute right to these mini mum -rates is to-be confirnK'd ami ree ogjihi'.tl. I If the- Cliinese situation -should. -le-conufsueh as to -compel the calling -of coegtess in extra session, that, body wdi tind difficulty hi sccuriug a 'place iu which to sit. Tlie c:ipitol is now in possession of a vrps of iiiH-lianies and it will icquire thrt or four ' months' steady work to put it in s-iiape for oc cupancy. All the carpets, desks, chairs, and -other furniture have been removed from the senate and house and scattered ' through, the corridors. Work of all kind is ling done, such as installing new machinery, elevators, replacing worn-out floors,-' gas and electric . tLxt tires. -' and. painting.: Possibly 'General1 Miles may be sent to China, now that all chance of his winrjuq a vat. nniirary rep:at.i-t that ' might' ' make hini a: formidable canttlilate for l!r presidency is over He isa nxious to go. and the ad van tages j of -sending - a 'high ranking of fiee'r iii the event of joint internation al oiierntiotis are iuite material, it is probable ihat tlie senior- officers sent to 1 lie scene by other governments will outrank Prigadicr General Chaff t'.. who is the higliest ranking of any of ovr oflicers tletailed for duty in China. There are a; to be many quesiions of coiumand and authority, and a de cis'on hi favor of One or auotner of ficer may ii:an a great deal." 'ihe 1 r--t ! 1111 ia 11 Canal commission has at last luactienliy it-ached tUeVonclu- sjon tliat there are but two available canal " roHitcs across the Isthmus 'of Panama.-- These are the Nicaragua route: and thu Panama 'route. Though filial iufonritioii hiis nut been- re ceived relative to the advantages of the Panama route, it is the lielief of the' commission that it is not practi cable. - Owing, to thegreat ' displace ment merchant sliips ate now attain ing, it is probable tlie commission wilt recommend a canal of greater width and depth than hitherto regarded as pH;essary. iThere will consequently lx an iin'rease incest. Applications for tlie .organization of national banks muli-r' the ' gold . law have heeii' ' diminishing of late, sind treasury oJHcials say that' the high' water mark has passiil. The average nrmher of daily applications actel t'pon during the first t hit e imuit lis af ter ihe Jaw went into effect- were from seven to ten. nut tins uumner. is i v. decrensimr and the daily iiiiihImts now pevcr ocecil three or four. For sev eral months the number wil probably hold at these figures and by the enl of the current year there will Im Itut iii- iMM'tnal number applyiusr. Tlte 1 mrk e (-:i lias at last gotten 'nto the courts., after hanging tire for many yenrs. According' to .the alle gations' of tlie petition inst filed in the seme me com t of the iTisiricr.-'-Charles Di'ikts, then gov iiKir of I'tah. plaecl Pniou Pacific rajlway bonds ay;gr:ga ti,ig over 1, I'M Km in: value ill tlie I'nitrd Stales treasury for safe key ing. Tils heirs now want to get then ljck The ! ImhkIs are said to have been seen in the Treasury iuIKM. but since then have disapjiean-d and there Is no recoiu thaf.tbey- ev-r exisld. A batch of iiiM-umeiits captiinil by Gi ncral "Puns I on In the l.Miiiippiiies' has reached the "war .depart incut and Is iielievod to include autlK-iitic cop?e.-? of Agninaldo's jirivate- pajM-rs. Tliere are riM-erds. aceounis. retMiits, secret inst reel ions and i-orrespoiidein-e." The lettvrs .discovered are espieially inter e(t,g..'tif it is likeiy-lluit cn-r:tiiTy llHt will qtviilge the contents of some of-them. esiMtdally as it furtiislies ismI citeipaign material. The pajK-rs are said to involve a uimilK r of prom-, 'eeitt' iKMvde in Manila and Hong Kong, among others tin?" ronreseuta tfves in the Orient of large American !i''i. ! ' :.' " '''' -lameiitn-bie lack of syslTn In tee war i!i,j;rrtineul t'iiur the present orga il7.a I ion ;s aga m lteeoin; lpiuir cit. It now seem that the b.-ilter.Vj order ! to-China has., been ref.iseil Mrn'ss;oii to take any of th- '2'1 iporniRln guns which h;tv Jm ci stonsl st Manila for te;ly n year without- ever hflmz .tseil and Isa tnrt-.l witr-on: ?;uu-. Fnrfher. If the Imttery tloe get . f MTniissiou- to take f I ;'ese. irrent d'lTteitlfy vUt bt- experi enced In providing h io,vdf.-r T'wi n;fTttH nir,, tle-n'rmi-vribi:orK ..;i.-.-r Ix-jthu tufot hit Ions avHI- si nomlwr i.r firms for the purclia. "tir.ii-ivvder and fit ojict ih-s. i,nt bnv done iinto'nz on aece.rnt.of w nt ti e nrtny ord ttft ice ..M'....- ..r. .... s mivM nf imn!- nml we -rlisll find 01 dim nee office Is the last bramli of j I Till V ' "the army to realize this emergency, j and the last to prepare for .lt. L'ach I aroiv bin-e.iii U i-nloit l.v a liiit,i it.. I gnt, and there hcpiiis lo lie no general! rcsoiisilfie head anywhere." I TIKES OF IlfS WIFE'S ESTATE. Standard Oil. Official 1 Would Avoid Care of Insane Woman's Wealth. : Henry M- Flagler, a Stamlard Oil official, has asked the court s in Jtw York to relieve him as committee r the. iiersou and estate of his wife, Ida A. Flagler. ,who was det-lared an J In competent several mouths ago. . j As a result the Justice has appointed N'alhauial Myers as referee - to-hear the testimony and determine' whether. ! Mr. Flagler isiiall Is released from; the commission. Pending the TefertH?si te- lort Augustus. V. auderiool has ltceu appoiuteil -siacial guardian of Mta. Flagler. -. ' ':. -,"." ' : - i . : , Mr. Fl.igler: lias also asked tluit ! Dr. Carlos F. Maclkmald, the insanity ex ix i-f. lie appaiuted In his place, Mrs." Flagler is at Dr. Mat-Donald's sauitar inni at Pleasantville. Mr. Flagler as seits that when he took iKissession (,f l's wife's jroiH-rty she hail stocks aiul sfH.-nrit.ies to tlK value of l,lii.VJiNi. Sie l:al -ash to 'the amount of is;.. Hi. On January Sth.last Mr. Flasrler made, an accounting of his wi.'e's-t'l-.rirces, ' which showed that she; wait Iosse"el of stM-ks ami se-urities ti the amount of $l.ti27,H0 and cash to Ihe amount of 2rt.lT7. Mr. Flagler asserts' that he has h-cided to niaki hs jM-rmaiicnt home in Florida atn that -he has 110 tnteution f retiirnii to New Yor; whatever. For this rea" son he f-hs. to lie released frouj the commission; ' j As to the flpivointmeiit of a coniinit lee for 'the : estate of his wite. Mr. F;iglr sugg-st s tlie name of Kuirene M. Ashley,- a lawyer of New Ytrk t.'ily. ".-... ONLY TillNtJ . UK COULD PAY. $ 1 -" '-' ,i Tom Lowery- Calhil Upon; Piei-jM.nt Morgan with His Kcspfs-ts Only. 'Colonel Thomas F. Iiwery. of Min nesota, railway promoter and oe;-:it-or of ; national reputaiioii. aiidlitow juoiidin nt in tlie management of 1 lie great S;x lines is i-onspieno.is.; aiul comncinding in ixTsonal appearam-t' in whatever group of. men he niay chance fo li nil 1 dace. His character," training and,, reputation are such tivat his' opinion's' comma ml the respect ahUe of business men. "lawyers. 'itolUiri.-ui's ' and clergynh-n. He is at home with all sorts" and conditions of ii!.cii-.imm'. company or pir:i tes. or loiisliorenVeu; he Wis nevjr knowfii to lose liis tem per; he has': the confidence .of capital ists everywhere. Hut Hove nods, good Homer sometimes -dozes, and even a juiiagoil like! Tom Jowcry has played in hard luck. He has "-rone broke" moio than ojui. but has always I.I,.. lH.sl.up serenely" again like a.iiiUoer ball. J. PierjuTfiit .Morgan tells or hlni that one d.iy 'wlien a loan of kiine1 millions,- for "which Lowery was- re KiMiiisihlc, was to fa II; due on ihmih. the Minnesotan sent his card' about o'clock. "Show Itim in." was I lie or der of tin- great financier.. Lowery was as screu'eau.d bland and as khh Ii at ease with all the world :is if a certi fied ch-ck for liimn roiis inillioiis, was lepos.ng in' his pock't. I have trailed pionii'tly lliis inorii iug. Mr,: Mijrgan." he sa id. . "in order .--to piy my espiH-ts, I 1 an t jiay any thi ig else." ' j " I'ut liis p.-iper was renewed in sli,rf Mrde'. . j SUGGKS1HI.V (IF l? II 'T lA.Mi-:. Tin: if all . Iiste:td -of jreseniiig so large a part of this memorial' for names llial will only become fatuous during the 1 wen ticth ceimuy. to tlie exclusion: of maiiv brave and im'-le m n Sand wonu 11 w ho -shared in tlie const ruf live robii'ldiiiir of tlie retnildie. woulj d u not be far li'fter to inscribe tlie whole one hundred, .and tiny names uo,. in order to include such names as Low- (II. Holmes, Whittier. Pdaine an l iili crs . tins wouiii inaKe 11 a momum-iu to the Jii-sf century of our national I'fe.'and fut lire generations couldi pro- ide suitable honors f.or their fowu yriMKl ami great. The Hall of fr'anie cannot serve us a jierpetttal tablet lor .-ill great Americans, past and to come; why, then, extend it arbitrarily lit be. year 1:000, instead of letting' it j help jieip tuate tin memory, of those we have iroiuced tlius far? Surely tin ; leu velotis era of history nunM' and lived and fought; out and - wrought out tcie in t Lis free and'" mighty m-w em pire ot the KYest, from coloui.il billies tlovn to l!i, lias proilueed at least one hundred and fifty names wiorihy of lasting' honor and remeinliniiice, eel fain to be ac-orded by all Ajaet i-. cans who shall ever -f"il a throb of iiialilude Tor the ci vilT.n ion aiidjf n " do:n they enjoy. Gimton's Mauii.iie for May. '. CAltlUKU PIGFONS IX FN(;i.M. Fnlishuien iu all qnariers.of (li island are training carrier .pigeon fr . the purjios.' of .'systematic t r;i nsaiis xioti of messages. At the Crystal!. ld- . nee a pigeon post lias Ih-cii . fi-tal-lishiil and it is said lolls work ins jretTecily. "Numerous clubs h.isv. sprung up, --which carry on regnl.ir oifiiMMiicaihiu with coiitin -iisal points by means, of these "poslmeii f the air." It iis thought that Ilnghiud"1 trained pigeons will be iuiuieiiseiy Valuable to the country in the event of war. It Is recalled that one of i.oid J'hschild's pigeons lirt-itglit 1 KugJ.ind the first news of the I; 1 1 If of Waterloo and that large usej ;! made of such birds during tije fi ' of I'-'.ris. - . : ? :' FltHITS AMONG : jFTriSH SCIKIOLHOYS. Fights are ,n recognized part of. the scb'M)l elueal ion. among 'the lys; I" America - when, Iw.ys fight it is Ihimusi i bey are angry 'with t-iH-li other; BJ Kngland they light Is-ca use they are. anxious in find out which is the l'Oer man physicaljly. Tiiey may have no ;iit.irre ior ill fis-bng, but if their l'r"f nds cannot jignn as to tlieir r" -pective ; prowess.- the ultimate rcsiilt is pretty apt lo be a "mill," " f "Itiglit ahead of iis." restuiid Ihe traveler. who wiis. namitffng his-csej rknees. yawiieilie moiintaiii puss "lo yoit, k'mw.'X artlessly hitcrrui ih! ,ne of th yMingcr women la h? -ompany, . tidy .seems very queer to . mi'i How caiy a mountain yawn?" "Did von tier-r i I 'iiioIhi-I:IIII tiUP'' miss' "ho asked. And' there were . . " ' . .... r.. n",,v ""tHiis.-t.lil-iigo 1 '" tCfZX L 3 eS.-T" Xt X - Beam Jwi Si u Km toi ni.e Eiffnatw f