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Editorial Section w, -^t- Can there be too much gold In the world? I This question, which, at first blush, I might seem purely academic and fruitful merely of curious specula tlon, Is really a very live and prac tical topic. For the tide of gold pro duction Is rising so rapidly as to ar I rest the attention of political eoono mists, financial theorists and close students of human affairs. The swell ing rivulets of yellow gold from the I mines and diggings and dredgeboats I and gold beaches of the world unite In a great turbid stream that may In the not distant future change the conditions of living radically. S A few short years ago the propo nents of the free silver theory were making dire predictions about the world's supply of gold., They'declared that old mother' earth had. yielded* up the greater share- of her precious store and that not enough could be found' to carry on the business of the world. Commerce, they wero certain, would "go bump," for lack of a metal on which to base the money systemun less, indeed, silver was used as they ad vised. Nothing, they said, but the com plete remonetization of silver could strike the shackles from the workers. They quoted Professor Suess, the Aus trian scientist, who declared on geologi cal grounds that the world was rapidly Hearing the end of its gold resources and that we were facing a terrible in dustrial and financial crisis. And nowgold conits the swelling flood of new gold, rising higher every year and like to double in the next ten years, to settle forever the pretensions of silver to a share of the throne so long occupied bv King Gold. FIRST PRIZE. This Story Gets $5. -$ A Cleansing Breath. John L. Cox, speaker of the Tennes see senate, had an old negro servant, who liked his drink just as well as the best Kentucky colonel in the bluegrass state. One morning, .iust after the cold spell broke, the darky came to Senator Cox. Marse John,'' said he, I '11 jes' up an' clean dese winders dis mornin'." "All right, Caesar,'i replied the senator. I's got ter hab a half tumbler of whisky, Marse John. De're ain't nuffin like whisky for cleaning win- ders." The half tumbler was promptly given to Caesar, who armed himself with some rags and carried the whisky to another room to begin his work. A few. min utes afterward Senator Cox had occa sion to enter his room. Caesar was bus polishing the windows. The tumbler was on the table, but no whisky was in it. Why, Caesar, what's become of the whisky?" asked the senator. I thought you used it in this work." "So I does, Marse John, so I does," was the answer. "You see, sah, I drinks de whisky and blows mah bref agin de winders!" Eva L. Austin. 1309 Third av S. SECOND PRIZE. This Story Gets $3. Equally Gifted. Pat Malooney and Mike Doolittle were friends from the "ould sod*' and each was much given to boasting. One day while walking toward the small town of about two miles distant, they- were discussing the mar velous keenness of their senses, when Mike declared: I tell yez, Pat, my eyesight's thot THE ^WOULD'J1 555 MliLLlOJTJ1 But this, after all, is now become a minor consideration in comparison with the probable effect on human affairs of the tremendous increase in gold.' pro duction. Consider the fact that the gold workings of the world turned out last year $375,000,000 worth of gold and that this year they will yield over $400,000,000. Consider, too, that for the last decade the output has been grow ing at the average rate of thirty mill ions a year, while in .the pervious dec ade the annual increase averaged only nine millions. This was in spite of the Boer war, which put the Rand, one of the greatest mining districts of the world, out of the running for a time and cut its production down to a frac tion of its capacity for another period. In 1899, the year before the war, the Band "was yielding sixty millions a year. NJ W, with cheap coolie labor, it is turning out. &old. at the rate of over a hundred millions a year. Experts believe- thai eventuallv the. great South' AfricWdistrifct will yieia $200,000,000 a yearwhich is half of the probable production of the entire world for 1906. But it is in the United States that the most wonderful showing is being made. For this the great, newly dis covered Tonopah district in Nevada is largely responsible. Nevada, which was supposed to be "worked out," has as tonished the world with a series of great bonanza strikes,'' richer than any hitherto recorded in history, and giving promise of others quite as re markable yet to be discovered in the same region. Tonopah is only four years old and' in that time its handful of mines has turned out ten million in and the ore now "blockedout" in sight will yield $100,000,000. At that, most of the properties are little more than scratched. And Tonopah. destined to be the. metropolis of Nevada, is but one of several camps than which it is probably no richer. Bullfrog, Goldfield, yon church steeple in the distance?" Pat raised his eyes and looked away to the distant spire. "Wall, now, Pat. kin ye see thqt floi thot's after crawlin' around its mid- dle?" '.I.'.'-' Pat raised his hand .to his brow and gazed intently for a moment/ Then a happy smile lighted his whole. coun tenance and he raised a warning fore-j finger and cocked his head drolly-o'n one side as he replied: "N o, Moike,-but", hist! I kin hear him walkin' L. C. G. Big Lake, Minn, S //6/-/0 12,63 HILLIOKvJ1 Says$,:writer on this subject in. the. New Yo'$Post Just as the discovery of gold in South Africa and in, the Klondike stimulated the search for the yellojw metal in widely separated countries, so have the bonanza mines of Nevada sent thousands of pros- tfeetOTs to' look for the elusive "Btrfeak' of yellow,'* ot merely, in the Rockies, but in Mexico, South America and the antip odes. Most of these will fail, as most prospectors have failed in all ages and all countries but some will succeed, and thus will the tide of gold be kept still rising. The gold output of British Columbia for 1905 was $20,000,000, an increase of $2,000,000 over 1904. The district is yet far from being fully developed, and may be expected to show a material increase annually for many years. The production of Mexico is increasing $2,000,000 a year. Australasia has probably reached its zenith, and is likely to show a decline, unless the completion of the transconti nental railroad and the consequent ex ploitation of the great unexplored desert regions of South Australia leads to the discovery of new districts. China and Korea are both expected to exhibit a good that I'll defy ony goou Irishman i isegorra/-' says Pat, "Oi-ve bin to see as far er as well^as Moike Doo* radin the New Tistament from Genisis little's after seein*! Pat d'ye see to .Bivulations, an it's all St. Paul, -$ THIRD PRIZE This Story Gets $2. $ To Avoid a Lunar Collision. An American visiting Dublin told some startling stories about the height of some of the. New..York buildings. An Irishman, who was listening, stood it as long as he coilld and then queried: "Ye haven't seen our newest hotel, have yet" The American thought not. "Well," said the Irishrdan, "it's so tall that we had Pt the two top stories on. hinges.}'t "What for?" asked the.American, "So we/could let 'em down till the moon went by," said Pat. Thpmj3SO.ii, N. D". .-^Marie Simon. Two' gehtlemett of old /Erin/were dis cussing The merits of the Bible. Mike contended that the gopd -book- was faultless, while Pa couldn't see it in' that light., One day""'' .Mik'e:'"say's Thaccusedroff "A: to Pat:'/' "Sure an' phat, fault haye to foind wid de-Biple'f!.' "/Well, Moike,'' saj* ^at^^H do/be thinkin' it shows prejudiee 7 i "How's thatt^aBl^Mke./ ri^ ,1 ^Tjg, "H"/ MINNEAPOLIS MINNE^TA^S^^^^ 14, *9oS. OOLP OUTPUT Y DEdAPEJf J'INCJZ THE GALIZORNIA. DUCOVV^y: 11^7 KILLlOJfJ1- Manhattan, Searchlight and, Rhyolite and foreign capital. 'British' India, the have just, as great possibilities...'/It East Indies, the Yukon,. Alaska, South fairly .'takes one's breath away to con- Saiid., Central America, Egypt Siberia, template the possibilities of these nu-, "Vv"est Africa and .iiicSt. other producing merous mines, whose pay ore often be- regions will probably ^'hotd their own. gins at the grass roots and increases From""West ''Ontario an/important addi- in value as the workings go down. Three railroads, pushing out across the desert to reach this seemingly god-for saken country of alkali and eternal drouth, seek to share in the fruits of the discoveries. For geologists seem confident of the permanence of these veins, which insure to Nevada primacy among the gold-producing states of the union within a year or two. larsre increase, due to improved methods soon exhausted in placer days and* the St. Paul and St.,Paul, and niver a word about Minneapolis at all."' Battle Lake, Minn. H. O. J. Flavored with Fido. One summer day three painters were painting the inside of a house in the country. -Towards teatime the.se. paint ers began: to wish for something to drink. So 'they held a conference, with the. result that'their leader went 'to the mistress of the house and said': "The frames of your oil paintings are very dingy, ma'am. Well clean them for you if you've got any whisky." "How much whisky will be needed?" asked the guileless "6ld lady. "About a quart, mia'amy" said the painter. So the old lady brought to the three: painters a quart of whisky, and they drank it upj and cleaned the' picture frames/with-water. A sunset the old lady, coming to in spect the frames, expressed herself as delighted with them. Oh! she said, f' they look beautiful. And who 'd have thought a quart' of whisky would clean so many?, ft was lucky I saved it I was. whait I washed Fidp in last Sunday." University of Minnesota. -^M. Kl- Powe Eloquence, fgxfc^ man horse ^stealing wa's defended during ""his- trial 4)y ah emi nent lawyer, formerly the governor Jpf the-sta.te. After listening:-to/an^-.elo- quent arid vheart-rending plefk Jior ther defendaftty almost equal to Porti&'s/plea/ for mercy, the jury, with tearau in' their eyes, rendered a verdict uof.^'onot guilty After the trial the accused ntah was asked itple MM ^POkeire 6 toMMCIL QldLi THLE TTORLDil (SOLD OUTPUT cSBGWlJ aaLD TROlX3CJTia! OS THE UlTITBD JG^Tfi^ mums or DOLLARS S 52T 90 SS* so 7S- 7o 6? eo ss So 4? 40 3? tlon. to the world-s total is predicted. Altt^o the mineral resources of the Rainy river'/district .haver, not ..yet been:gvigor- ously1 J- *30 are in operatioofanthese other"gold are building. New Zealand gets two. mil lions a year out of her dredge boats Dredges are operated with equal^suc cess In riyerbeds, banks and sandbars, swamps sea beaches and alluvial de posits far front open water^ but .capable of being reached, by flumes jr ditches, or in which an underground water sup ply by seepage is available In all -'countries in which -placer min ing has been practiced, the dredge is almost certain to follow The rich gold-bearing sandbars of Grasshopper creek that made Bannack the first cap ital of Montana territory, .one of the great mining/camps of the west, were I did. Now I'm not sure whether I did or not,''. C. E. O. Sioux Bapids, Iowa. Very Gtently Broken. The late Senator (juay used to tell of an Irishman w^hb prided himself on his delicacy and tact, i One day when a boy was killed in th$t quarry where Pa worked,-he told the iaen to leave every thing in his hands he would break th news to the boy's pother, as it be done. ..-:._' He werij :home, pht on a black suit and tie, and started for the mother's shanty. "i&ood morning, ma'am," he said. 'Tis the sad accident yer. boy's- gold watch has met wid." "Why/" said the mother, "Tom never had a gold watch." "Sure, ah' thot's lucky," said the diplomat "fur twinty tons of rock,just fell on him." .vS. G, S.v, Worthington, Minh: Had to Furnish BHs Own Coal. Mike and Pat, two Irish- lads, were on their way to the home of the free, when Mike became suddenly ill and died in midocean. The impressive sea burial service was read, the lid of the coffin was nailed down, when it was found, the customary leaden weights were-missing, so great chunks of coal were attached" instead. Pat, upon being asked if he had any thing to say over his dead friend body, blubbered: "Arrahj Mike, me' -bye, I alius knowed where yez waz going, but sure I niver thought they 'd make yez bring yer own coal!'' /r^Helen Macdonnell. 24 Twelfth street Sv/Z dave Tip. the Search. A farmer having lost one of his best cows from' the heTdv set. out to search the surrounding country,, for traces of his valued "critter.*': He had wandered 'thru fields and meadows until :he was wearied, when suddenly at -a crossroad, he noticed a sign, If Manchester 20 Miles." /"'Well," he mused, I might as weel turn back, for there, in plain English, it reads 'Man chased her 2ft miles!''". Ned C. Erickson. 608 West Lake street. N*: ^~-V. 1 lC^OMU,LlpNJ !OI ttlLLIGNtf exploited, yet many minin me believe, that- its gold production will ulti mately rank not far below that of Aus tralasia and the Itand, {.v ....-.._ One of the chief causes of increase in gold output, aside from new dis coveries, is the perfecting of improved methods/ of reduction and extraction. Nor has the limit been reached: I is quite probable that adVaneei methods will soon make it/pw^abl-e to ^m Fdison au^ Repartee. An- Irishman was sitting in the depot 'snjoking, the ether "day, when/a woman came in and, sitting "down, she said-r '^Sir,: if you.- were a. .gentlemanr iyon wouldh^t smoke 4rB/?i ,.fors'onie Mum,'* he said,!U if yez was a lady ye'd sit farther a^ay.^' Pretty sboit "pT:finsbandi ina burst out: T4 If you werthe my I'd give you poison." 1 tbwn was %lmost .dederted. Now the J)usy dredge is making it once moro a center of great activity. There are similar scenes in various parts of Col orado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Ore gon. The possibilities "of the great riv ers of northwestern Canada are tre mendous, and fields/of exploitation are certain to be found in British Colum bia, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia, the Guianas and Brazil. The same is true of many regions in the othera hemisphere. Over -twentyd years aSP :trea much low-grade -orje jiow neglected. Then there is the xeEnterkable recent de velopment/. in^tJB^'drjfiCf^n.^' 6f yalhivial. .de'p 6arl? .^^(f^^ni '''m{iiin0' engineers der. clate vthaifwe are on- the eve' -of aKrevo' lutionary -increase in the gold output frnf dredging alone, for the fields is well nigh worldwide. In California al-- reaidy twenty-seven ships great authority declare that nine-tenths of- the world.'s. gold was washed out in placers- For the last fifteen years these figures might almost be reversed, as practically nine-tenths of the ne^v: gold/Has come frojn quartz mines. The development of 'the/ dredge jsjr-ill swing the .pendulum ba^k -toward placer production, tho tke'quartz yield will continue to increase wonderfully. Some day the sands of the desert, now top far/f^cbm water, will be made to yield up their gold. There are great plains of. black sand, containing besides gold the equally precious platinum, and the secret of how to separate these metals from, the sand profitably will yet be. wrenched from reluctant nature. .Still another contributory cause to the increase in old production is the rise in price of silver and copper. Mines of these two metals,usually yield, some gold as a by-product. Every advance of a fraction of a cent in the price of silver or copper is a bid for the reopen ing of mines long inactive. These, then,, are some of the grounds for predicting the. continued ,and in definite increase in the supply of new gold, and these are the reasons for the question propounded above: Can there be too much gold in circulation? I is a question, of course, that will be answered differently by different inves- /'/'Z':' shoule By Hupo/iVallentjn'." yiASj llllllllllil^ll s\ s*.^^ /90/-/9/O III 40OO '1^'"/ Correspondence, of The Journal./// ./StociJiolm. S\^e4eni Oct*. I-77A gr^eat number of Russian and Finnis'h fevo lutidhists sought refuge he/re "in .Stock-/ holih/ during and after the recent up heaval in, Russia. ..Mahy of these,, per haps the niaioriiy bearded and long haired ih dividual's/bf the foreign /type,, which /wle "have seen on bur'streets dur ing,the last year,-have been bona-fide fugitives from th/e Bussian/ police. But doubtless "some, of' theni :have.,been rath er questionable characters. Any dbnbt on that /point has been removed.' A few mornings,, ago^^ Stock-holnirw4s-dia-^ agreeably surprised to" read in one' of the morning' papers, Dagens Nyheter, that "the police had discovered a large quantity of dynamite and other ma terials for bombmaking.in. the lodgings of two young workmen who belong to what may be called the anarchistic, wing of the socialist party, and who/ are known to be frequently visited by fugitives from Finland and Russia, and to have housed-some of these at differ^ ent times. One of these young Swedes (they were brothers, named Larsson) was the author of- a little volume of revolu tionary poems called the "Songs of Hate,*' while the other one had. notended other connection with' literature than being employed at a bookbinder's. One of the Finns who visited them was a young Mr. Nyman, who, if not a phar maceutist, at all events had studied pharmacy in Finland, This youhg man (he looks quite a boy) had been impli cated in several of the late revolution ary movements in Finland, and as he was wanted by the police, he had found it wiser to move to our hospitable shores. had been watched by the: Stockholm police a long tinie, and when he-was arrested the other dayon sus-. picion, I supposeon'him were found some rather incriminating notes and, Correspondence, which seem to have given the cue to the police where to look for dynamite." A large posse of plain-clothes men entered the rooms of the brothers Lars son and ransacked every corner, with the result mentioned. The poet was arrested at once and the brother was looked 'up in the workshop where h'e is -employed, handcuffed and brought awayHo the police station. Both denied all-knowledge of the find and protested against the arrest. They were. detained -time and then'.allowed, to -go, ljuttheir lodgings werekept under /sur veillance' and made a kind of trap for anv suspicious, character- who jnight call. In thisi way the police made an other* very important capture, /They nettedjva-. certain Luotoj wh,o posies, a-s the chief of' i ---i--~ .Tevoltiticpiaryj HISTORICAL socibrY, A5JJTCS tm-. O^RTJiy1 EJTIMATJSD) tigators. There have been high tides in gold production only twice before. The first followed the discovery of Amerifta^and the exploitation of Peru and Mexico. In the century and a half, following the Columbus voyages the precious. metals declined one-third in purchasing power. The rise in the price of the necessities was followed so tard ily by rise in wages that much hardship resulted. Charles I fell out with the English parliament over money matters, the decline in the purchasing power of gold making heavier taxation necessary to carry out the Stuart's purposes. Thus in a way, the money questionthe eter nal stumbling block of statesmen and politiciansmay be said to have cost Charles his head. The second flood of gold followed the discovery of yellow particles in the raceway of Sutter's mill on the Ameri can river, California, Jan. 24,- 1848. twenty-year period it was $130,000,000 annuallyan increase of 420 per cent. California alone-r-altho its annual put put has, decreased from $65,000,000 to $15,000,0,00has Bince that memorable day yielded gold.to the amount of $i 556,00p,000. Stockholm Police Bare.//* a Big Dynamite Plot 18&& The stupendous consequences of this golden high tide-were neither' wholly good nor wholly evil. American civili zation, which had spent two centuries and a'half in spreading from the Atlan tic to the Missouri river, leaped the des ert and reached the Pacific in one year. It filled the intervening territory with towns-and "cities and farms and ranches in half a century. I brought California ipto the union as a free state, and by destroying the balance between the free and slave states so jealously maintained by the south, led to the repeal of the l-who was^going-to, support the mutineers I at Sveabbfg/bUt'failed pp utterly. (Conspirators finally Confess. illllllllllllllllil I-Jl v-' This: Luotb is however, disowned by" those very people/w/hqm he professes to: captain.. He is'looKeS/.u'riOn as a very suspicious, character and -nis hands are said to be hot very clea^ih/connection with the -fihancial-a^ffairs of the Red Guard./ Ifow faf/^he/wa^ implicated in the plot,'which how was unraveled by the -policej^is'n^t yet known but' that fits visit here "in Stockholm was not wholly unconnected with it is-'to be supp.osed whfinJon^...takes.his.ante- cedentsf into account. The police, who kept Nyman and a couple of other Finns in their-cells,, sifted the matter to seem to flourish there would never have the bottom/and succeeded at last in getting..both.the Swedes and after them Nyman himself to confess. Last Monday night the' report of the. police was given to the press, and with out exaggeration, it may be said that it fell like a bombshell in the midst of our peaceful and law-abiding city. I proved that this young Nyman, who, since Finland had beeome too hot for him, had made Stockholm his home, in tended to repay the hospitality ex to him by introducing one of the least pleasant and commendable phases of the Russian revolutionary move ment, i. e., the plundering of banks. He had persuaded some of the young Swedes that it would be the easiest thing in the world to rob.some branch offices- of one or two/of. the leading banks of Stockholm "by throwing a bomb and frightening the clerks. The money,/he' said, was to be used in the -Russian revolutionary movement. The youths, who already saw them selves/figuring as heroes in modern rev olutionary history, assented and Nyman began preparing the manufacture of the necessary bombs. These were the mate rials discovered in the lodgings of the brothers Larsson. If the police had not been so quick it is not at all unlikely the plan would have succeeded, because, in the bank offices picked out there are pnly a few employees, and during the morning, when the attempt was to be made, there are very few customers. But even if- it had succeeded, it is very unlikely that the Russian revolu tionary movement, or any revolutionary movementf would have benefited. To What /private ends the money.' would have been employed, perhaps ./only Ny man himself is/ able to say,"'^Mig~Ai Real Revolutionaries Discovered Them. ,^_ First 'of a evefiry Russian connected hLe- celebrated- /Eiwnish with .tie reyolutibnaiymovem^t.ut* band the Red/QnifSTaf^' terlyaj|ay^|rtfr connection #ftfc Ny man and "hi* /gang ?r* r-mi '5| 1' 4. r" I r~*s 2 -rJ- -an' 3 Missouri compromise, brought about the fight for Kansas and was one of the causes of the civil war. I caused the building of transcontinental railroads, multiplied immigration from Europe and increased the power, resources and ma terial wealth of the country in a thou sand ways. Naturally, one of the first results was the increase in the cost of living without a corresponding increase in wages. The resulting hardships drovo wage earners from the cities out onto the farms of the west or transformed them into fortune seekers and prospect ors, who in turn discovered new mining districts. The diminishing supply of labor thus automatically operated to elevate the wage level and adjust life to the'new conditions. An era of general prosperity followed. The academicians made dire predic tions of disaster when the California flood tide, augmented by the discovery of gold in Australia, South Africa, Mexico and elsewhere, came sweeping upon the world. Their reasoning was ftood, The average annual world's output for|.tides twenty years prior that discovertt had been but unexpected things happened, is this propensity of the unexpected to occur that upsets economic reason ing so frequently. The great Crimean war, engaging nearly all Europe, ab- .x 6orbed great sums. Extension of trans portation facilities flooded Europe with imports. India took most of the money for these, absorbing 85 per cent of the new specie between 1855 and 1865. In flation and overspeculation culminated in the bursting bubbles of 1857 and the resulting depression was felt all over Europe and Ameriea. The/bu8hessjt) the world today is so interrelated that the distribution of new gold is not nearly so likely to be as during the previous high This will obviate some of the fUtlcv $25^000,000to Fo the nex transitory..ejtf&kjbo,>. large extent. And it seenis/evident 'that the flood of gold:?- cannot result in permanent evils. Yet^ there may be Sections oversuppliedwith'. gold and others lacking sufficient capi-,- tal for development .that will suffer. temporarily. When any country is fully supplied, a further addition means mere dilution and consequent diminution of the old stock in value. But the na tions that are marching in the van of the world's progress are so closely in terlinked that this condition seems im probable in one, unless it exists in all. The greatest danger undoubtedly is that speculation, waste and adventure may run riot, and that commerce may thus ride to a nasty fall, demoralizing to the whole industrial system of the world. Altogether, it will be seen, the ques- tion of what will result from the great-/ est high tide of gold in the world's history, is a most complex and inter esting one. noted that none of the many Russians who have taken- up. their abode here, is in the slightest way implicated or even, suspected by the police. Of course, our own social democratic party has noth-/: ing but abhorrence and disgust for such foolish and criminal tactics as those which Nyman and his followers say they intended to employ in "the service :of the Russian revolution. Even Hinke Bergegren, who is the leader of tho ."young.socialists" here, and who' has strong anarchistic leanings, has nothing but hard words for these young fools, who have b,een led astray by Nyman and insists that it is nothing short of Criminal to introduce these outlandish ways here.. But, of course, these protests avail nothing with the bourgeois press.. All the conservative papers and some of the moderate liberals attaek the social democratic party for having prepared the soil for a crop of anarchistic ways and "means' I is urged 'that if they had not sown the seed of Hatred among the lower classes, such thoughts as now been possible. This way of looking at things seems very unjust, because it is proved beyond dispute, that where tho social democratic party is strong an archists are few and far between and vice versa. :/"^^S Bank Employees Badly Scared. 1 \i Ji The immediate result of the publica- /|1| tion of the police report is, naturally S i enough, a certain amount of disquietude i|M in the banks and especially among those sjpS of their employees who are posted in their smaller branch offices. Of course, f||| they do not like the prospect of being :/|l| held up by revolutionary maniacs or fMi criminals masquerading in the red cloak m of liberty. I has been proposed that -A they should be' armed, but that would fepi on the other hand be rather disquieting l|| to the customers, as the majority of the |ff| employees in question are young ladies |l| not supposed to be able to aim straight. Another result will be that the eon- gig gress of the cadet party in the Russian WM duma which, it has been rumored, was *ff to be held here in Stockholm next month, will now be prohibited. As an other matter of course every refugee tiom Russia or Finland will be kept "$ under the strictest surveilance by the Eloode, olic who now, since they have drawn are not likely to mince matters, and who of course, even if they should M| go to extremes, will now be supported |i by public opinion, since they have saved the community from a dreadful catem ity. Thus many innocent and bona fide 4 refugees from the jjzar 7s dominions who have escaped from tTte tV pfognoms and prison dungeons and.who. had expected to find a haven of freedom here will suffer great inconvenience and discom fort on account of.'the criminal plans laid by the Nyman gang. -^WSJi Over 100 girls of tiie first families of Korea have been taken to the Korean imperial palace, and from among them win be selected a consort for the crown I alsor?to be prince of Korea. 3