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OREGON STATKMAK miDAT, JAXUAHr Jl, 1902. Issued every Tuesday and i Friday by the ' STATESMAN PUBKCSHING COMPANY R. 4. HKHIRICKS. MMi(r s SUBSCRIPTION RATES. rOne year, in advance. $1; Six months, in advance, 50 cents; Tli roe months, in advance 25 cents; One year, on time, 1.25. ; i me statesman baa been establish- , Jng In advance', will have the benefit of ed for nearly fifty-two years, anil It has 1 the dollar rate. But fcf they do not nay sore subscribers who hare receded it w six monins. me rate win oe jlz a all responsible persons who or- though they may not send the with , the understanding that nearly that Ions. a-nd nany who . hav vvr 0 read It for a generation, ' Some of der It. thtne object to having the paper Us- money. continued at the time of explratloa of. they are to pay $L25 a year, in case their subscriptions. For the benefit of ; they let , the subscription account run thessf and for other reasons., we nave over six months. In, order that there -concluded to discontinue subscriptions may be no misunderstanding, we will only when notified, to do so. All per- ; keep this notice standing at this place sons paying: when subscribing, or pay-; la the paper. T Cottage Grove has redeemed itself. By a vote of 4 totl.it decided tolevy a school tax and ! open its ; schools. which had tbeen closed for lack of funds, ' While It is hoped that the ransom of $72,000, reported' to have been paid for the .release of Miss Stone, jrnay ac cbmpllsh Its purpose In! giving this iiuuie w7 ner jioeriy, yer. mi is .nox the proper -way to deal with the 'out laws who have Infected that .portion of Europe for 'centuries. It only encour ages the crime arid Ufa promise of a tanking re ward for the capture f the . fttrxt missionary who goes irjto that fection. V While all will rejoice over Miss Stone's Freedom, many Will que tlon the Wisdom of the means reported to for during ber Tberty; The boon anti-toxin has been to hu- manity Is shown by the comparison of deaths In Chicago, from diphtheria. in ivy.- the deaths f ram this disase numbered 1420, and during 1901 less than fW -ere reported from Jhls cause & The Chicago Record-Herald says "Pure diphtheria anti-toxin promptly nnd propenly adrrtinkcerert will stop v ' the diseafceJ wlthodt causing new com plications. Its use is as wine as the use of vaccine to prfcwnt smallpox, and the neglet-t of either is IKtle less than . a crime.". One by one the scourges of the race are overcome by medical sci ence and It ?ls ruH. unreasonable to be lie ve; that cures will Boon be annoutic- ed for consumption "ami. cancer. Is absolutely nothing to indicate that Ihe disgruntled are . so numerous as" to cause a serious contest. i There .'will be a .few precincts where local fac tions will fight it out as usual but ai a great majority of the delegates to the county convention will bet elected with. out opposition. There Is no groui for the report that . a j bigj fightfis among me probabilities at the corning primaries of the Republican party in this count v. He says: - ''t' " "If the law cannot find these fel lows guilty; 1 will devise a new scheme whereby customers being im posed upon by dishonest dealers may be protected. Every day between the hours of 10: and 11 a, m. I will re- eelve samples of, milk and test the ' same free of charge.' I . will show buyers Just what they get for their good moneyand If milk Is found ad . ulterated pt butter is found : short 'weight or worked over, then it is the customer's own fault If he continues to potronlze the 'dealer from whom it was obtained. This way a milkman will soon be found ufj and the result no doubt would soon lead him to change his Imefhpds, else Into bank ruptcy .-"':''!?, " - -i' S-V :'.' I GILBERT CASE IS DISMISSED 1 this is a disputable presuni'tiin and If the debtor honestly tHeves himself be solvent or if he ;estatUshs his want of knowledge as to his Insolvency he !then rebuts the' ptfesumption of an In tent Xo prefer wlich arises from the fact of -actual Insolvency. Collier on Bankruptcy, Jl.j The bankruptcy act declares that a p!fon shall be deemed ffa Pl!lr Pr!4t fht 1 I insolvent within the provisions of the ; I act whenever the aggregat T. CJItcrt Is Sclveot v THE OPPOSITION TO EXCLUSION, The World Almanac for 1902 gives a carefully revised list of the millionaires in this country, and their addresses a list, by the way; which will no doubt be worked ' rather hard by solicitors and others, now that It has bee'n published. It is not contended of course that this is absolutely accurate. , It makes the number of millionaires 3,046. while the New York Herald'a ' report made 1 It nearly 4,000. New Tork7 stated leads with S94; then, follow' Pennsylvania with 369, Massachusetts with 313, Illln ois with 275, Ohio with 162. Missouri with 161, Michigan 111, California 110, Maryland 104f, etc. Dropping to the other endNorth Dakota boasts but one solitary millionaire, and Arisona. New Mexico, Wyoming, South Dakota and Arkansas only two apiece. The Dis triet of Columbia, with 49. has by far the largest number of rich men In proi portion to inhabitants. This is because It has been adopted for residence pur poses by people of wealth from other parts of the country. r PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY DIS- MISSED AT YESTERDAY'S SES SION OF U. S. COURT.. The friends of Willamette University The Chinese exclusion bill prepared hoW COme to ne nt and ""tribute ineir enort toward making the meet ings held In the interest of that jin stitution success. Willamette Unl Versity Is the oldest institution In the Northwest, and It must becomef the best; It must be,' provided with wiit- by th Pacific coast delegation InjCon gressj is meetinir with stronjrer dddo. sitron, than its authors suDDosedi could be bnought to beari Steamship com panics and others gaining by the In flux f Chinese coolies I to our shores are making a strong fight against the able, hulhiin educational apparatus. A pftltibn has Just been filed with e ItuNrian Ooveimricnt asking fur the ditwsftn iwt womt-n, as stuJenU to the National t'liiversitr. It seems absurd to Werner h, people that such a privi- leg should be. so long denied, but one rtoest not have have, to go far in our ,wti coum,ryt find .examples Of con servatism !ln regard to co-education as can. be found any place. Harvard UnU-ersIty has , repeatedly refused to- artmit women .to' its. lectures and when the demand became so Irresistible that it could not longer he withstood- a separate school -was established in (jiimbridge for women, and goes by the name of Radx-UITe Coltfge.V Harvard professors are the Instructor, but no woman Is admit lei no the classes of the university proper.! : Home of the papers in the Val have the Mea that there Is going to ss one expresses- It,; "an awful crap st the Republican primarl s this spring in Marion county.: Tns Is hews to" the people of the county where politics is Ibm least of their troubles. There are i few howlers loose in this cotmjty, and they af'giving the impression that , thewools.are full .of .'thenybut there T save me cmidi 99 1 v That Is the heartfelt cry of tnanv a mother who sees her beloved child wast ing sad lading day by day. I Sometimes it's too late for medical aid to help the child. , It ts w weak, so Uckias in stamina that there is no t'Sntage ground of art p. , ' One of the rcnlt9 of 'the ase of Ir. Piece's Favorite Prcscri ption pre-, ceediug maternity is a strong, healthy child. Thousands of mothers .testify to this; Frequently nnsm wnir, -1 was never able ' to raise! child before asin" Favorite Pre scription," or "All my other children are sickly except ,1 this one, and I took your Favorite Prescriptio this time." All the child's strength comes from the mot her. Favorite Prescti ptioa give the mother streagtb to gire her child. There is no alcohol in Favorite-Prescription;" it contains neither opium, co ' caine, "nor r ' other narcotic. It is a purely 'vegetable and, perfectly harmless medicine in any coadition of the female system. . 4 '. - Accept no anbstitste for "Favorite Pre scription. .There is nothing ?jost as good " for woman's ills, v j , Sick women are invited to conselt Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. Correspondence coafideattal. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, jjuf lo, N. Y. : 1 - i r: "t aaa bo tttankfnlor wast Ir. Pierce's Fa vorite rreorriptioa -has dose fee sic." writes Mrs. Joha T. Smith, ol Slocmn. BntiOi Coiombia (Box jo), "ft helped nte throspk the loeg SBootks of pregaaacy and I have a bis. stroar baby girl, the saont healUiv of aU set three; aod It cured me of. a diaeaac which was Lakins a r II my atrenrta." . . Free. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Med ical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense cf mailing only. Send t one-cent stamps for the book la doth binding, or st 00c -cent stamps for bill. iThe influence! of Minister Wu, is tfXt ajnd It is reported that' many jxar- tfes have been retained by hlri to If , possible defeat legislation on this .sub ject at the present ; sesHion. John W. Foster. ex-Secretary of State, i, one ot the Advocates retained to present the claim of. the Chinese, evidently f em ployed for the -political pull'1 he is supposed to possess. The ' Raw Fran cisco Chronicle referring to Mr. Fos ter and his connection with the opposi tion, jto .exclusion says:' i ,: John' W. Foster, who rs working against Chinese exclusion i for the large fee which he will get from the Chinese Minister and the Eastern In terests that w!l be aided by allowing cooifies to enter this country without check. Is a Hessian in law and diplo macy, who is williRg to give his ser vices to the highest bidder. After serving as our Minister to 1 Mexico, ne cooiiy became attorney for Mexi co against the United States and be repeated the same game after acting as LTnlted States Minister to Spain. He has served China as attorney on several occasions and he has never failed to impress the Chinese with hit political influence in this country,, an Influence which is absolutely mythi cal. and able Instructors, to supplement the excellent work now being done. Thfs will 'cost money, but If the many frleiids of the school pull together the work of raising the required amount will not be difficult. Oregon can eil afford td contribute liberally to this pioneer institution,- r the history j'' of which is a part of the story of the settlement and development of i the state. M: The Boston Transcript is trying to hetpj along the pro-Chinese case in Congress, rays the Chronicle, by j cir culatlng the mossgrown falsehood that "housekeepers on the Paclflc' coast are unanimous In hoping that the Chinese exclusion act may soon be repealed as a solution of the; servant problem I The latter has; not figured In the Chin ese question since exclusion went into effect, nor does It now. The: people of this coast are a Unit against-the repeal I of the exclusion laws; that has been 1 repeatedly proved In. the most convinc ing manner. ) ' aggregate of his prop erty, exclusive of -any property which he may have conveyed, transferred. concealed or remoyed, or permitted to be wncealed vr retpoveil, with 4ntent to defraud.: hinder ori delay his creditors. shall not at a fair valuation be sudlci- tnt in amount to pay his debts. . ? 11 is inn necessary 10 Know wnetner the resrondent.' A T. Gilbert, was in solvent when he mjade the transfers re ferred to, and If s, baa he established his want of knowledge at the time as to his financial condition T It is contended for: the petitioners that A. T. (Gilbert) must be presumed insolvent because he did not In his an wer make a full Wnd complete show Ing to the contrary. The rule Invoked is a rule of good fajith. prior to the fil ing or the petition Mn bankruptcy A. T. Gilbert had" assisted the' receiver In the United States Court In nrenarinr (rrom inunwayi statesman.) fan inventory of bis assets and liabUI- Judge C. TJ. HelHnger, of -the United j That invenWry appears to have Condition of the Bank as to Solvency Depends . Upon the . Estimates of Valuo Placed Upon tho Assets- Transfers of Property. . States Clrciiit Court, at Portland, yes terday handed down his decision In the Gilbert Bros, bank case, by dismiss Ing the petition, in bankruptcy. The court's decision In full is as follows: This Is a proceeding In Involuntary bankruptcy against A. T. and F. X Gilbert, asj paitners. In the conduct p the; banking business of Gilbert Broth ens, at Faliftn, Or. f The. petitioners In been full and complete. The respond- ent. A. T. Gilbert, advised with the re ! ceiyer as , to the probable loss that I would result In Collecting the over drafts of the brik. Thereafter he transferred the1 aels ofT thX bank to the receiver in thej State Court.x Attorn neys who appeared for the plaintiff In the suit In the Chjted States Courtre present the petl timers here. Substan tially all that is: r w known, after all the testimony had been taken, and all there is (n lrnniv waa than 4 -1 r . i .... I . ...u.... u amenuea peuttons are public record. These fact n W ... iaa Murttis, William Iwan and. A. S. Ep-f I thorise presuniption .of Insolvency i ptey, creditors of. Gilbert Brothers InI a"""t A. T. Gilbert,' and such insoly- must be otherwise amw ts r a a the aggregate sum of J1978. Subse- IZlur " w -.. .m. IN-c,u praying states Circuit Court made an inventory .. .ujuuicauon in vans- of the assets of R lhr nrnth... (,nm ruptcy. The acts of bankruptcy relied upon by the-' creditors, are alleged as follows;. That Gilbert Brothers, be Ing Insolvent, ilid within four months of the filing ojr the original petition trans-. fer securities by way of preference' to certain c-reditors to the aggregate amount In jthe vaIoe of $T000- that sub- Howj About Feel your pulse i few minutes. Is it regular? Are you short of breath .after slight .exertion as going up stairs, sweeping, walking, etc? Do you have pain in lefti breast; side or between shoulder blades, chok ing sensations,: fainting or smothering spells, inability to lie on left side? j If you have' any of these symptoms you certainly have . a weak heart, and should immediately take ' MUeV Heart Cure Mr. F. IL Oaks of Jamestown, N. y, whose genial face appears above. sat: ; sccsave use oi tobacco Krk.uir affected my heart, a suffered sevrre pains about the heart, and in the int shoulder and side; whale the palpitation would awaken me from nir sleep; 1 beraa tak ing Dr.' M.lcs' licait Cuts aad oon, found pentisuent reLcL" lfoM by all !rustsi. j Dr. Mile Madical Co., Elkhart, lod. I-er cent to general creditors. t he ii Ivld ids to b' paid ! t he 1 i i if :' " i ine cuizens or cottage urove are en- couraging a proposition to construct a railroad from that place to; the Bo hemia mines. A committee has been A few weeks ago a large raeetinR of J appointed and reports 'favorably! upon THE RAILROAD MERGER. the state of public sentiment toward the enterprise... There is general good feeling toward the road all along, the route, and the committee hopes to be able to secure the right of. way and auamonai encouragement for the builders of the road. The road would be a potent factor In opening; up a very rich mining region. Cottage Grove can I safely invest In such an enterprise. It Is said that ex-Secretary Gage would like to succeed WJIliam E., Mason In the United States; Senate: While teihif thaKthe arrangement for the Man cou,d Proved upon In many i .i a- 1 wn ass IahU U 1 . ' u control of th sywtems. by means of the I l " irowwie mat. tne Northern Securities Company, will be I "epubliCans will select such a man as orf beneflctaiv t! shippers than the j ,J,aKe ror that purpose. Gage la: a rank uurr ana uui 01 narmony with the best interests of the Republican party in many other respects. ' Illinois is not hard up for Senatorial timber. and Gage will doubtless be left to at tend to those business matters that forced him to leave the Cabinet. ' ' farmers in convention In North Dakota passed a reolutton endorsing the ac tion of J. J. 21111 In his fight against the L'nion Pacific Biailroad Company, which tried to gel possession of the Ilurilngton, in order to divert the traffic to Its lines across the continent nstead Of over the Northern -Pacific Great Northern. Now : come the shippers of Minneapolis, grain men, men and merchants, with a Je- tltiohxasking Ooverrtpr Van San t to desist from further ppposltSon to the merger. The petitioners state it is their m existing condttlor Ins view of the conflicting opinions expressed it Is :harVfor one who hai not jgiven cireful thoWht and made a study of the subject to determine what the interests of the people demand. In discussing this: question an; exchange tThere are those In the Northwest who believe that'; Governor Geer of Oregon took the only sensible view of this matter,1 knowing full well hat companies have the same rights Individuals to buy stocks on the ma ket and do what they will with thel properties. If the same man or as soclation of men does .happen to act control of connecting or parallel Unes of j railroad, and attempt) to operate them against the people rights, the remedy is In Congress and can be easily Invoked. If by combination the railroads cani make lower rates of freight and passenger transporta tion and will give the people the ben efit of this advantage as they h'tve promised to do, it Is dimctiK to see. wherein the much mooted merger cah hurt anjione. Ijlf these promises are not kept then the people can easily force the establishment of fair rates. : s. FOR" PURE FOOD. The Dairy and Food Commissioner la having a hard time with Portland milkmen who persist in selling as ad ulterated article to their j customers, cohjtrary to the laws of the state. Var ionf tempts have been made to stop this practice. It has been hard to dis cover Infringements of the; law, In a manner, where prosecutions can be successfully prosecuted. He has re sorted to another roeascre- which he thinks Is In the Interest of pure food. An Kastern scientist predicted a short time ago that the glacial age will re turn and cover the American contin ent again with show and Ice.1 and re main for a thousand years. Oregofi- ians are wondering it the tlnwffBr ihin : . . . . - I 1. sequent to the OHng of the original pe tition A.; T Gilbert entered into a writ ten siipulatrun in a suit then pending against Gilbert Brothers brought by pr In the Interest of the heirs of William Cosper "deceased whereby It was stipu lated that one; Cktud Gatch' might be aprointed (receiver of said . Arm. and that said Gatch should convert the as sets of the! firm into cash for the pay ment or ail the firm s creditors and. the winding up of its business; "that to this end A. T. Oirbert suffered a decree to be' entered in riaid suit, and that he 1 tnerearter transferred the asests of the firm to the' receives : Other acts of DanKruptcy were alleged in the petl tlonij tiled,! but upon 4 he hearing, these were aoarwionea. It !ls contended that F. N. Gilbert is a partner n the fcuslness 'Of Gilbert rtroitiers. and this Is a Vfuestlon In the casei material only In he event that an act of bankruptcy la proven as al leged. ' J - i ''1. r The stipulation that a Vecelver might be appointed, and the subsequent trans. fer by -' A. T. Gilbert, do hot have the effect of a general assignment 1 within the meaning of the bankruptcy act. This question was decided by the Cir cuit . Court of Appeals in the Second Circuit In a recent case, in which the court say's: "When the statute de clares that a general assignment for the benefit of creditors Is an act of bankruptcy, can it be construed to In clude an act which is not a general as signment?! We think that it cannot, because the term has a universally un derstood land recognised meanina throughout the different states, and means a transfer and conveyance by a person oflaH his property to a named person upon a trust, which Is to be worked out in some states by a court of probata and Insolvency, In some states by ia curt of common law, and in some states by a trustee, subject only to the supervision to 'which any trustee is subjected. It Is a deed r conveyance which the grantor makes voluntarily;' or sometimes 'by compul sion, at the instance of a, court of In-I solvency. A jietition for the' appoint ment of a receiver ts-; no that prcted- ing which Is universally recognised as an assign mnt, and its 'equivalency of result, if eciuivalency exists. Is hot im portant. The bankruptcy statute has said that! the one. is an act of -bankruptcy and has said nothing about the other. In direct terms; and when acts of bankruptcy are classified, as they are in the statute of ljs, it is not the province or a court to emarge, the clas sification because the omitted class seems to j partake of the sin of the named class."' In re Kmpire Metallic Bedstead! Co., 98 Fed. Rep., i. This Is a much stronaer case ae-alnst the contention that consent to the an tclntmenc if a receiver oreratea as an assignment within the meaning of the bankruptcy act, than that from which the above quotation Is made. The suit event is already, at hand MARION CKAWFOKD WRITES, P. Marion Crawford finds his ideal home in a breeze-swept villa, perched high on the picturesque cliffs 1?f Sanf Angello dl Sorrento, overiookine- the beautiful Bay of Naples and Its roi mantic shores. There IS. indeed, no Oner site to beNfound anywhere about this far-famed bay than that occupied by tho "Villa fcrawford.? with its cheerful land ward Vutlook over scat tered towns, oUve-clad hills, and fra grant grove dotted With whlte-walled dwellings, to where Vesuvius rears his mihty cone J and Naples queens it among her subject villages, far out across the shining bay to the enchant ing island of Ischia. set like a lustrous Jewel in the Tyrrhenian Sea, The house Itself Is an unpretentious buiUllng of stucco and. rough atone. It is reached by following si country road, overhung by olive, lemon and orange trees, or about a mile from Sorrento, then turn ing through a gray-stone gateway, em- Dowered in ivy, and going along a nar row driveway almost to the verge of the cliff, where the villa stands, some two hundred feet above the bay. Feb ruary Ladies Home Journal. 1 In which Receiver Gatch was appointed was -not I a friendly suit. . It is not laimed that it was procured or acqui esced in jy A. T. Gilbert. , The ank of Gilbert ; Brothers had already been forced ta supend by , reason of a suit prevtouf ly brought In the Circuit Court of the United -States for this district by one 'or the heirs of Win Urn Cosper, claimlngj a liability from the bank, to said heirs In the sum of (d,000. A re ceiver was appointed to take charge of the property and assets of the suspend ed bank,' during the pendency of the suit. The bill of complaint In that suit was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. In the meantime the administrator of the Cosper estate brought in the State Court the suit In which, Gatch was ap pointed receiver. Roth of these ault were in the same right, and hostile to the respondents. In stipulating, as' he did. A. T- Gilbert acquiesced Inwhat he could not help, and thereby saved needless expense to the estate and de lay in its distribution. -,: To authorise an adjudication of bank ruptcy, yt must appear that the trans fers complained of were made with in tent to prefer the creditors to wbcra lhr - made If tW FMTk.i4int va (tnsolvent. and ' had knowledge of the ! fart. I an , Intent to prefer will be eon- ciui-eiy presumed. TbrP Is a further presumption that the oebtor knows his financiali condition as to solvency, but l which such assets fare placed. In round numbers, at J1G4.3. and he liabilities at $191,000. lie tejitlfies that iiU esti mate of, assets w re made "-from the books of, the bank, from the notes that were found In ihe bank and the copies that were deposited as collateral, from Information obtained from A. T. Gil bert and from information . wherever he could find it that he deemed reliable a to the value aid condition of the property. ' j . The principal aKu-ts of Gilbert Eros, consists, of overdrafts and loans and discounts, the face value of the former "ir itu m inir lacier 1 ne conaiuon or we bank as to solv ency depends upon the estimate of the value placed upon! these assets. The receiver in the Uhited States Circuit Court valued jthe Overdrafts at $81J23. and the loan a unrt illu-minfa ) c iui --"- -I --J"V....t f a 1 . . . ' . L . - - un tne lormer or 1I.j3. and on the latter of $13,357; Mr. Conway, a man of experience in such matters, who assisted the receiver In preparing his Inventory, agrees Jmbwtanfially In this Btlfnti n Ik. ..LvV1 - i -"' .m iiruuie jun on over drafts,! but he estimates the loss oh loans and discounts at $2,000. Since the Inventory referred to was made. three-fourths In amount of the over drafts have been collected by the State Court receiver, who testifies that the loss on this - account will not exceed two,, three or four thousand dollars jne loan and discount account,, with the exception of sorne $20,000 In amount, consists of what arte called piano notes. xnese notes are. an exceptional kind of assets. They are payable generally on long time, in lasialllments, and are se cured; by the Instrbraent sold. "Whale, a Witness who has had some connection withthis business! places the loss on these notes at $30. A. T. Gilbert ' In advising the receiver of the JL'nlted States Circuit Conrt. estimated their value at $70,000. hirt he stated at the time that his est Innate was low because the bank was In the hands of a receiv er,; that the notes Mere good, and ought to pay put nearly their face Value, and would jo so if he I was able to collect them.r There Is a wide discrepancy be tween the wltnesss as to the value. of the other assets of A. T. Girtiert. con sistlng principally Of ieal estate, so that upon the estimate of values made by tne witnesses for the petitioners ! the naoiiiuei o liiiiwt u rot hers exceed the assets by above $.V),fKi0, while upon the estimates madd by the witnesses for A. T. Glrbert. his assets exceed his Ma bf lilies by about $25.tMK). Opinion evl dence is untrustworthy at iest, but this evidence has not the usual qualify of expert opinion founded upon , reasons which asTond some basis for a Judgment as to its value. The opinions In this case pro and con are mere guesses, sig- nuying little, proving nothing.- In such a case where a long and hostile Inquiry nas left the question ofthe solvency of A. T .Gilbert in doubt, wJlat must the conclusion be as to what A. T. Gilbert himself thought of bis solvency at the time the transfers complained of were made? Under the; old bankruptcy! act. Inability to pay debts as they matured constituted insolvency. Then the. mat ter or solvency wa a simple one. Now ribed: Does the re- The dirTerrnce :.W- tween the face mf thf ebts ajb g.l 10 .haX-e been preferred amltheir pro raia wf:hut preference, distributed among the unsecured! creditors, wmamount to a little less than Vie per cenctr the unsecured IncU-btedne. while ,thr-um-mrssions of the referee and trust e in ranktuptcy uion thf estate availuti, for general dlt rtbut (on. on -ThWim estimate, will be atmttt l. jr tt tir of the unsecured indebtjedness. The, a cruing expense vf tike receivership In the Slate Court will probably n 1 c-qual thest-. and the other -ts and clharires that will result .front the administra tion of the estate In a. bankrupt v Court,! and the benefit to the unsecured creditors fromt sqch h!mlnlsrat ion. if: any should rx-Hult, will not be apprt- i-1 able. C- equal his liabiUtie thing about which know, but If h solvent, it is enouxj :his. where with those who forming a trustworthy the respondent so sary conclusion th self, so, and that a new test is presc spondent's proterty at a fair valuation ? And this is v1 the owner rnayAot himself thin kshe is h; and in a case like thei-S. eonaliv capable think otherwise . of pinion, think ven.. It Is a neces he thought him was honest In that opinion. Wherethe facts and clrcum stances permit it, the ptesumttion mtkt be in favor.'of goKl faith rather than the contrary.'''.; , ; ij j The presumptlori arising from the trnfer of proper y by n insolvent ts afrected by the amount of such trans rer. . Thus where ithe transfer was of all one's property.j this was held to af ford a violent, almost conclusive, pre sumption of an intent to prefer, where there were other, creditors unprovided for. In re Walte 1 Low elL 207. Fed. Oases. 17.014; and k like effect was giv en in Toof vs. Marjtln. 13 Wal. 0. to the transfer of an insolvent :-f a large part of bis property." In this case the transfer was of a! comparatively small part of the property of A. T. Gilbert so small that the expediency of resort ing to a bankruptcy court, rather than permit distribution of the assets of: the bank through the pending proceed-! lugs in the State Cburt may be doubted. Mary II Wi Skins. Ella Wheeler Wil- i iu- vic.driuynuiniiuf'j m arecox, sna majtjr mor.-Februarf set aaiqe. n win a?a not more t han one : dies Home Journal. The! petitioners, however, express a hope that the banktiuptcy court may succeed in discverin nh:r qsscis that have been misapplied or covered up: but what -the tecelvers have not foun.l. and the large amount of testimony taW-j en so far has not discl.ised, is not' worth ' considering In estimating 1hV. posnihle advantage t result from ihe ex. rc-ie -of Jurrsdlctlonln ' what Is . at U-ft a J doubt rul case. . " ' ! ." ;-, It is due to the pelitkmers, however;; . to state -that in thej petitions 'filed in this case certain trunsfeis to La.lj. Rush, A: Rush, and the First .National Rank of Portland, aggregating a larx amount, were alleged to be preferences. the petitioners had ascertained tha ' these transfers were jfor a iresrnt K"h- sideratlon and valid, nd the cmplaint as Xm them was abandoned. retitlon, dismlsseUp This ClimaU 'is Good t enough for anybody with weak lungs. The patient need not travel. He tan sret welt her with !ti Hl r aii..'. Lung Italsam. takenl freauoiiilv when coughing and shortness of breath after exercise serve notice upon hirn that serious pulmonary trouble Is not far away. Allen's Uunj?- Italsani is free' from any form of opium. h i ' ; ' , ;r , , r-l ; TUB HOUSE AN Ol'KKA RITll.T. Francis Wilson's lteautiful . Country. Place Rulit with Ihe Profits of j .:;rTbe Merry Monarch.' 'f ""The Orchard -rsoi called lncause It Was orliclnallv an nnhl orchnr.l-ni New .RiK hclle. New York,' Is; the Miin mcr home of Franc isj Wilson. Ihe com -ic op?ra star." write i Franklin U. Wl- f ley. in 'the February Indb-s' Home: Journal, i "The ground was Imuicht sr a modest house started 'when the run of.The Merry Monarch' began. As the profits of that opera lpcrea-d. the original plans were enlarged In one way and another, until about a third of t lie returns from the on-ra had lecii exiended. -The' houw s of stone and stands on a terraee1 knoll. From the i upper wlndowsMherci Is a ,'twent y-mile ' vjew of Ing Island Found; and among the furnishings 'artJa set of diningr room chairs and a settee made from the elaborately carved pew dtxrs once In, Christ Church at tratfqrd-6n-Avon. and a chair given to lr Ktfwln tan.-.' seer by Sir Walter Scott from! hist library at Abbotsford WRITERS WHOSli NAMES v .TAIN "W." .;'-: COS' The Y Remarkable Persistency with Which This Letter. Has Allied j Itself to Literature. Reglnning with William Shakespeare, wo remember - Instantly - Sir Walter; 8cott. William Wordsworth, Washing ton Irving, William Makepeace Thack eray. Henry W. Longfellow, John Whlttier, WillUm I Cullen Rrvant. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Walt Whitman. Others whose names occur almost simultane ously are William Cowper. Isaac Watts, Henry Ward lieecher. Daniel Webster. Wendell Philips, George Wil liam Curtis. Richard Grant White, Ju lia Ward Howe. George W. Cable, Wil liam D. Howells. Charles Dudley War- ner and Richard Watson Gilder. To these are easily added Sir William Ulackstone. John Wesley. Edmund' Waller.; Nathaniel P. Willi. Walter Savage Landor, Will. Carleton. James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Went worth Higginson. Dr, 8. W'elr Mitchell. Ham ilton Wright Mabie.j William H. Pres- cott, Constance Fenimore Woolson,