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TnsMitqtca -ftaiu'ard 111. 1 M i'l \, V. \M|. ItIDW EVKN'Mi. )\\\ I. 11)0.1. Bishop Spalding on Labor Problem. I lie utterances of John I.am aster Spauiding, liirJiup of l'eoria, afti r a five months' attendance upon the Anthracite Coal Commission, who has returned to his field of labor, more than ever itiipres-ed with the intrica cies of the profit ins presented hy the labor question, possesses much inter i-t for the public. He was chosen for that commission as A man of prominence, eminent as a sociologist," and here is an epitome of bis conclu sions after the thorough investigation he helped to make. He holds that " logically, there is ahead of the evolution of industrial Conditions, a final coalition of capital and labor, from which the consuming public will have to protect itself"; that " the term ' prosperity' is one of the anomalies of the competitive sys tem, carrying with it the shadow of over-production, and panic and par alysis of trade"; that "compulsory investigation of the affairs of great corporations and of trade unions seem to point to the solution of the strike measure and its cause," and that " if something is not done to remedy the frightful wastes of the competitive system, socialism will find its oppor tunity." He then expresses the opin ion that "Socialism is an intangible dream of Utopia—an impossible con dition in which men would exist on llat levels of sloven ease, devoid of ambitions and ideals." Tho Bishop counsels the trades unions for adoption of a more con servative policy with reference to men and things. They need, he says, to modify their attitude toward non union men; to temper their aversion to new inventions; to curb their dis position to limit output, and to dis courago resort to tho sympathetic strike and the criminal boycott. He does not regard American laborers as either socialists or anarchists, and if they repel such influences tad main tain a spirit of conservativeness and independence, as well as forbearance and fairness in the settlement of all differences, there is no reason why Labor and Capital may not travel hand by hand along the pathway of mutual aid towards a common destiny with mutual dependence and benefit. Bishop Spaulding is a true Ameri can. For three hundred years his an cestry has been in this country. Lord Baltimore was one of the founders of the Bishop's family in America, and be is a kinusman ol Chief Justice Taney, and three of the Archbishops of Baltimore, including Bishop Car roll, the first American Catholic Bishop. For 29 years he has been Bishop of Peoria, and Protestants as well as Catholics have done him honor. His duty as a citizen has been as sacredly performed as duty to bis church, and his words therefore command attention and reverence. ANOTHER CUBE FOR CONSUMPTION.— Another new cure for consumption has been discovered. It is inhalation of a vapor produced by heating a mix ture of eucalyptus oil, sulphur and charcoal, and it is claimed that practi cal tests havp given better results than from serum, open-air treatment, or any other device so highly recommended. Robt. Schneider, a druggist in Berlin, conceived the idea while traveling in Austria where the eucalyptus tree grows luxuriantly in some places. He noted that in these localities tubercu losis was practically unknown, and when he returned to Berlin he com municated his idea to Prof. Soramer field, a physician of much repute, who experimented in several hospitals with marked success—fully 60 per cent, of his patients being completely cured. The inhalation of the vapor, it is said, kills the bacilli. A " NON-TREATING" HOTEL. —A ho tel backed and managed by tetotalers is soon to be opened in New York, to test the theoretical impression that the liquor habit owes its popularity to motives of sociability. In the new caravansary no drinks will be sold except for personal consumption at the bar, to men only. The best qual ity of liquor will be sold at ten cents a glass, eliminating any possibility of a charge of mercenary influences. It is expected that while the solitary drink will reduce to a minimum the baleful results of drunkenness, it will lead many to abandon the habit en tirely, for as the finest cigar is said to lose its flavor when smoked in the dark, so the effects of the alcoholic stimulant will be incomplete and un satisfactory when not shared with boon companions. TUB Agricultural Department at Washington is engaged in an endeav or to propagate the white orange, specimens of which had been brought from the Mediterranean a few months ago, with cuttings, which were sent to California, as having the best climate and soil to eusure success of the ven ture. It is not claimed that the color will be of any benefit to the quality of the fruit, but that it will be simply an oddity and in active demand until its use becomes general. It may prove, after all, like the China orange, which is only peculiar for its great size, an d possesses very poor edible qualities. A t;iKL at Salt Lake City, Utah, has just awakened from a sloep of 57 days, and will probably live. Her weight was reduced during this experience from 127 to 86 pounds. The doctors say her comatose condition was due to abcess on the braiD. Gov. Richards, of Wyoming, died Tuesday. Borax as a Beautllier, Dr. \\ iky i- demonstrating a theory •'"f his at Washington by a voluutary class of testers of the effects of bora x - cure from clerks in the several depart ments of government. Why they should have been chosen for this ser vice is nut stated, and it may bt that those engaged in a semi-public life may atl'ord a better record than those accepted from the masses of humanity. l»r. Wiley's experiments arc conducted with the greatest secrecy, but it is im possible to keep the general objector apparent results from the public. A dozen or more of these youth are taken from the Agricultural Department, and tliey have been for several months subject to the diet proscribed by the doctor to determine the special etl'ects of borax and other chemicals on pre pared food. It has developed within the past fortnight that all the students subject to this regimen are taking on a pink complexion. Their cheeks are gradually assuming a hue so delicately rosy as to excite the envy of even the fair sex, who have to resort to art in stead of an appeal to nature for the beautiful tint which Jules Verne at tributes to the inhabitants of Mars, in one of bis transcendental romances. If it is the borax in their food that is having this marked eti'oct, l)r. Wiley has never intimated as much, or that it may not be the result of some other drug compounded in liis up to-date laboratory. Is IT Nor CONFESSION OF WEAK NESS?—Among the silly things that lovely woman stoops at times to do, probably none exceeds the fad now re ported to be on in New York, of an Anti-Mashers' League, who wear a dis tinctive button to notify presumptuous youth that they do not want their offi cious and at times impertinent atten tions. This reminds one of the way some shippers have of marking freight packages with tho admonition to "Handle Carefully—Glass," or "This Hide Up, with Care," which almost al ways impels the baggage-smasher to give the injunction a kick by disobey ing it. A virtue which has to be la bled " Hands Off" does not seem to be of that import that may be likened to the purity of the icicles that hang from the eaves of Diana's temple, and one natural result would be that mash ers would adopt the emblem as an in dication that they were champions of those who erect the walls of protec tion. Even the betters of such men have been known to be reliable pro tectors of innocence only against all others but themselves; and this self imposed duty of defense might afford that very opportunity which a cele brated lady once declared to be the turning-point in most lives. A GRUESOME FIND AT MANILA.— A few days ago the wreck of the Span ish warship Reina Christina, carrying the flag of Admiral Montego, sunk years ago in Manila Bay by the Amer ican warships under Dewey, was float ed and beached. The skeletons of about eighty of her crew were found in her hulk. One of these was evi dently of an officer, for he had a sword by his side. There were fifteen shell holes in the hull of the submerged ship, one made evidently by an eight inch shell and the others by smaller shots. There were evidences that the ship had been scuttled, when Admiral Montejo abandoned her. It is proba ble that the skeletons will be shipped to Spain, and it is suggested that an U. S. transport convey them to Spain by way of the Suez canal, in June. THE PEOPLE "A PACK OF WHIPPED DOGS."— Former Judge J. D. Campbell, leading representative of President Baer of the Reading Railroad, lately said, in his address to the Interstate Commerce Commission, that " For more than a quarter of a century the people of New York have wrung the bowels of the commonwealth of Penn sylvania, practically getting their coal for nothing, and now they whine like a pack of whipped dogs, when a decent remunerative price is asked." This is the attorney for the man who said a few months ago that " God had benefi cently placed the welfare of the work ing man in the hands of capital." Master like man, seems to apply right here. BUSINESS MEN'S FEDERATION. —In several parts of the country business men have instituted organizations to meet, or offsot, the demands of labor unions when they become too exacting. At Omaha, last week, an Employers' Federation of 800 was organized to co operate with the National Manufac turers' Association. The platform of the association embraces these three principles: " Freedom to employ union or non-union labor, without dis crimination ; no limitation or restric tion to output; no sympathy strike." They declare an intention to fight to a finish. Rons A GOVERNMENT SAFE. —They seem to be carrying things with a pretty high hand in Administrative circles at Washington, when the wife of a deposed officer in the Postal De partment enters a public office and by aid of a safe-expert picks the lock of the government strong-box, and takes therefrom papers, which her husband, Tyner, Attorney General for the Post office Department, feared would be used against him in pending investi gation. The wife refused to return the papers, on demand, and said that her husband had directed her to act as she had done. AN effort is being made by a test case in Tacoma to have the nickel-in the-slot ordinance of that city de clared unconstitutional. GRANT'S birthday was celebrated at Galena, 111., on the 27th, with elaborate ceremonies. Kate Decadence President Roosevelt is not the only one who sees national decadence in the smaller families that now cluster around the average American fireside, and the increasing preponderance of children of foreign parentage. Mr. Mr. Weston, a writer for the Nineteenth Centuri/, shows by the statistical re cords that, in Massachusetts there are, in a total population of 2,800,000, in round numbers, 1,712,000 of foreign birth ami parentage. In Illinois, the grand total of -1,821,000 population allows 000,747 foreign citizens and 1,-108,000 of foreign parentage. In California the proportion of American children by native parents is still less. Mr. Weston's compilations show that in tins country the foreign birth-rate stands four to one against the births by native parents, and be shows there by that it has bi conic the rule for our families to decline as they are more ami more rcmovtd from foreign origin. He aliirms that not ivcnin France, where tlie matter has assumed an im portance that lias enlisted considera tion of the deepest thinkers for devis ing some means of checking the evil, is a parallel to bo found for race retro gression as in this country, lie ipiotes as probable truth from the Popular Science Monthly the statement that, " we have not so many people as we should have had, had immigration not come to us and the native stock con tinued their old rate of increase." There is no doubt but that liomo geniety of a people is a great incentive to patriotism. It was probably a rec ognition of this quality of descent as an indisputable safeguard, that im pelled our statesmen in founding the republic, to require as the first qualifi cation for our President that he be a "natural born citizen of the United States," the only exception being that be might have been a citizen at the adoption of the constitution and four teen years a resilient of the American colonies. AN ACCOMODATING OPINION. —As- sistant Attorney General Ross has rendered an opinion that the State Auditor may draw a warrant for the St. Louis Fair appropriation, without spe cific authorization by the late statute, or that the State Treasurer may pay on the certificate authorized by the act, without a warrant, but recom mends, for the sake of regularity, that a warrant issue. It is a shame that our law-makers should perform such slip-shod work as to require the aid of the Attorney General or the Supreme Court, of the State, to make their acts intelligible. It often happens that these officers are placed in the dilemma of the negro squire when his master, a " Colonel" of course, boasted of a re markable shot by which he brought to the ground a stalwart buck: "The bullet from my rifle passed through his right eye and lodged in the hind hoof of the animal," and as a smile of incredulity passed over bis auditors, said, " Isn't that so, Sambo?" "Yes, massa," was the ready reply, "dat is the way it happened, suab; you see, jest as yer aimed for dat eye de buck scratch his ear with his hin' foot, and de ball pass slam through dem bofh." Then aside to his master whispered this caution, " Nex' time, masea; bring dem closer togedder, please." AND now it is union against union. The interesting spectacle is afforded in New York of ten thousand men be longiug to the Carpenters' Brother hood striking, not for higher wages, nor better hours nor recognition of the union, but against the employment of members of another union, the" Amal gamated" Carpenters. The demand is that they abandon their organization and come into the Brotherhood, the simon-pure article according to their own very lenient judgment of them selves. In other words, the Amalgam ated must adopt the advanced idea of merger combination. WHEN Mr. Roosevelt has finished his present tour he will have made a complete " swiug" around the circle. Last year he visited New England, the Southern States and the Middle West. Now he is literally at the jumpiDg-off place, unless he embarks for our dis tant colonies, which he is not likely to do, their political prestige at present being nil. His speeches, it is claimed, are non-partisan; but if it be true, they will serve to draw a very nice dis tinction between the meaning of the terms " political" and " partisan." WHILE McKinley as President ap pointed 55 negroes to office, to five that Roosevelt has selected, the latter has positivencss and individual ity airartised his actions more exten sivel than the nine fold offense against the intuitive race prejudice of his pre decessor. The " stren" of Mr. Roose velt's manner is what is objected to ( and like the objection of the French man to the acts of an irresistible Yan kee, it isn't the act to much as " ze grande flourish" with which it is ac companied that raises ire. THE new directory of Seattle form a basis of 160,000 population, which is quite a jump from 80,671, or an in crease of about 200 per cent, per an num from the time stuffy old Uncle Sam made his enumeration. It is claimed that the Directory will have 60,000 names, but then it is a book which is capable of indefinite expan sion where the Seattle idea prevails. PRESIDENT Roosevelt, who is so bitter against childless homes, ought to have been for a few years a laborer with a wife and six children to support on a dollar a day. Then he would have been qualified to speak. THE reception to President Roose velt at Des Moines, lowa, Tuesday, was greatly marred by inclement weather. A Horrible Calamity. The little mining town of Frank, in Southwestern Alberta, 13. C., was prac tically wiped from the face of the earth by a roek slide from Turtle Mountain, Wednesday morning at an early hour, a little after 1 o'clock. The population of the town was about 1,000 inhabitants and so sudden was the outburst, that, it is said, not au inhabitant readied the outside of his domicile to see any part of the action which resulted in so much ruin. It seemed as if the whole side of the mountain had fallen off, a sheer wall of limestone 13,500 feet high from the southern side, overlooking a valley through which Old Man river wends its way. The debris falling into the channel of the river, dammed up the water until a new danger from flood menaced the inhabitants. The mine of ttie Canadian-American Coal and Coke Co., extends along the line of tho mountain in a parallel di rection. 11 has vertical veins and is worked from a tunnel up. The slide fell over this, and at first it was sup posed that none of the operators had escaped, but it seems they had been in quite as safe a position as those on the surface. All the miners found their way out but two, who were su(located, while all the buildings of the com pany and their occupants were over whelmed. The death loss is estimated at 56. The Canadian Pacific is a heavy loser, about two miles of track being buried from 50 to 100 feet deep, and a new line will have to be located and built. The interior of the mine is but slightly damaged, which is fortunate for the operatives, as had it been de iStroyeJ, it would have involved rail ' lions of dollars to resume work, with its attendant delay. Opinion differs as to the cause of the slide. Some think that it was of vol canic origin, but as the apparent smoke issuing from the mountain has subsided it is thought it may have been dust. Others seem to think that it is of seismic origin, and only a trem bler that has set in motion a larger amouut of elevated earth than usual. Mr. Mclnvoy, the geologist, says that Indian legends relate, and the appear of the country indicates,a similar slide occurred many years, probably several centuries ago. The aborigines claim that a large Indian village was de stroyed, while the river was dammed as it is now, long before their great grandfathers had peopled the Earth. Mr. Robertson, the government geol ogist, is of the opinion that a mud slide must have occurred, which of course may not involve either an earthquake or volcanic agency, the disintegration in that being occasioned by water. As ILL-EFFECT OF CIVIL SERVICE. — It lias been shown that while civil service has resulted in some good in the line of " practice makes perfect," it ling likewise demonstrated that there is uo sweet without its bitter, no rose without the thorn, no good with out an attendant evil following closely by. The lato development of grafts in the postal service shows how easy it is for those who develop into splendid clerical machines to give out informa tion of benefit at times, or influence that is as positive as it lias been secret at others, which side issue is not with out profit to tho public functionary or his friends. No thought of it being irregular or improper, of course, for the individual becomes so gradually imbued with the idea that he is an inseparable part of the government, that he can do no wrong, and that he has established an impregnable title to a lease of official tenure during his useful years and a liberal pension when other time and labor-worn animals are turned out to graze upon the common. It is a matter of congratulation that the complaisant habits of these happy go-lucky individuals has been disturbed by the " publicity" which Mr. Roose velt has—no matter with what object in view—so persistently invited. Those who have come to regard official ten uro as a personal perquisite instead ol a public trust, should be awakened by a vigorous kick. IT is perhaps worth noting in these days Bryan's words and doings are re ported almost exclusively hy Republican papers. The Democratic organs are evi dently doing their best to give the im pression that he is dead.— Oly't Patent. Certainly;'tis ever thus with theg. o. p. Like fistes they bark around the heels ol the mastifT. If you ever want to discover the probable place that Democratic lightning will strike, just watch the inclination of the Republi can rods. There is probably no great er cause of nightmare among " our friends, the enemy," than is William J. Bryan, even after he has dcclined'to be a candidate in the next campaign. Several times, just before a Democratic landslide, the Republicans have sang chants at the grave of Democracy. It is, however, a party that has some hope of resurrection and eternal life, as has been proven—Oh, so often. SEATTLE is to have another large and reAlly first-class theater, to cost 1250,000, and seat 3,000 people, on an Orpheum circuit embracing a line of large theaters front New York to San Francisco; thence to I'ortland, Seattle, and the principal cities on the line of the Northern Pacifio to the Eastern metropolis. D. J. tirawman, of San Francisco, the owner of half a dozen leading opera houses, is now in Seattle arranging for the construction of the building soon as a site can be secured. IT really seems that Grover Cleve land is casting his eyes longingly for the Democratic nomination. He has been bobbing up too persistently, of late, to form any other conclusion. He is now patting the South on the back in indorsement of their views on the race problem. A FAIRBANKS BOOM ! IS CAUSING SOME TRIBULATION TO TEDDY. Manna i'romijtd lbs Support to bail banks to " bix L'p" Things in the Last National Con vention —Indiana Is the Storm Center of the Threatened Party Cyclone—The Post Office Scandal Is Causing Much Alarm to the Ad ministration Forces Secretary Moody an Inefficient Officer—A Scandal in the Alas kan Military Service—The Porto Rican Scan dal Will Not Down at the Bidding of the Attorney General. (From our regular correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 213, lUOH. That the Presidential boom of Seu ator Fairbanks of Indiana is causing grave concern to the President and his supporters has been unmistakably shown during the past week. The Civil Service Commissioner Fonlke is going to throw himself into the breach, re sign from his present position and go out to Indiana to try to win the lloos ier support for Mr. Roosevelt. It is well known that as long ago as the Republican Convention which nomi nated Mr. Roosevelt there was a com pact made between Senators Hatir.a and Fairbanks binding the latter to support the former in ense lie desired to succeed Mr. McKinley and Mr. Ilanna to support Mr. Fairbanks in the event that the former did not wish to enter the race. Senator Hanna now appears to believe that the best chances of Republican success lie in the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt, nev ertheless he is hound to support the Indiana statesman if the latter calls upon him to redeem his promise aud Mr. Hanna is not the man to go back on a political promise. A report has readied Washington to the eiFect that Dr. W. Godfrey Hunter, ex-Minister to Guatemala and a prom inent Republican leader of Kentucky, has become an active Fairbanks mali nger in that State and is working to secure a solid delegation pledged to the Indiana Senator in the next con vention. Sonic prominent Kentucky Republicans say that Dr. Hunter will not be able to " deliver the goods" but the mere fact that he has been author ized to make the attempt is most sig nificant. North Carolina Republicans would, it is stated on excellent author ity, gladly vote for Mr. Fairbanks in preference to Mr. Roosevelt and prac tically all of the Southern States will follow the lead of Senator Hanna who is the idol of the Republican party in the South. Meanwhile the split be tween Senator Piatt and Governor Odell in New York is an occasion of serious anxiety and it is held, not without reason, that the President will be unable to carry his own State. In fact, Mr. Lou Puyn, a long acknowl edged Republican oracle in New York State, says the Democrats will carry the State by 100,000 votes. Notwithstanding Postmaster General Payne's statement that no Congres sional influence is being brought to bear to hush the posloffice scandal and save the real rascals from exposure, a surprising number of Congressmen are calling daily at the Department and are spending hours with the Postmas ter General. Senators Aldrich, Stew art, Spooner and a number of others, usually absent from Washington at this time of the year, have had long conferences with Mr. Payne and Rep resentative Babcock has come to Wash ington to stay a month and has al ready had his first interview with the Postmaster General. First Assistant Postmaster General Wynne and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow continue to receive charges of malfeasance and dishonesty Although Mr. Payne tells the newspaper corres pondents each night that he knows of no new developments. One charge, mentioned in these letters a week ago, has proven so grave a violation of the law thAt the Postmaster General, with out waiting for fur'her investigation, has been compelled to take action. The " bookkeeper-machinists" who traveled about the country on pretense of repairing the cancelling machines in use in large postoffices, have been or dered to return to their desks in the various postoffices to which they are charged. A SI,OOO clerk, a negro, who was charged to the city posloffice in Washington, but who had been detailed to act as his special messenger by Su perintendent Beavers, has already been required to return to the work for which he was employed. Accidents in the navy continue to multiply and Secretary Moody, while resisting the influence exerted to pro cure a general investigation, appears to be emirely helpless in the premises. What has long been known to those in close touch with the Navy Depart ment is now becoming generally known, viz: That Senator Lodge played a scurvy trick on his friend, the President, when lie persuaded him to appoiut Mr. Moody to the head of that department. Senator Lodge had but one object in view, the securing of a seat in Congress for his son-iu-law, Mr. Gardiner of Msssachusetts. To ac complish this end he induced the President to award the naval portfolio to Mr. Moody, then Representative ol Mr. Gardiner's district and, with Mr. Moody out of the way, secured Gardi ner's election. Now the entire Navy Department is suffering the conse quences of having a weak man at its head. This condition of affairs the President hopes to remedy by securing authority from Congress to establish a navy general staff*. A scandal of no small proportions has just come to light in connection with the administration of army af fairs in Alaska. A number of army officers, all of those in fact who were on duty at Skagway about a year ago, are to be tried by court martial for selling commissary stores to civilians and pocketing the proceeds. Another officer who had been on duty for some time in Alaska is to be tried for a short age just discovered in his accounts. He claims that his safe was looted but that he will have to prove. Meanwhile the Porto Rican scandal, involving a number of naval and army officers who have been indicted for smuggling will not down. The local judiciary insists on continuing the prosecution notwithstanding the fact that the Attorney General has called off the United States Attorney who began the prosecution. DKM. ANDREW Carnegie's philanthropy has flown off on a tangent. He lias given $600,000 to theTuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, in Alabama, of which Booker T. Washington is principal. In his letter accompanying the donation, he calls Booker T. a " Moses," who " heads his race and leads it to higher and better things." AN IDEAL JUDGE X. Y. W orld, Justice Amos M. Thayer, of the Kightli Circuit Court of the United States, whose opinion in the Northern Securities case has made his name a household word, is a rare example of the judicial character, training and temperament. From personal knowledge extending over thirty years, beginning when, as a young man, Justieo Thayer was first elected to the bench in St. Louis, we can say that a more ideal Judge CHII hardly he imagined. Justices have of ten been named in reward for partisan political services; members of tin- Su preme Court, and even Chief Justices have been so honored. But Justice Thayer never rendered any partisan service; he loves tiie law, lives for the law, thinks of the law, and has no di versions, passions or pleasures except the intellectual enjoyment of arduous duty uprightly performed. Justice Thayer's surroundings are cvidenccof his fairnese. His intimates and associates are unquestionably in terested in corporations, as most men of means are nowadays. He probably never meets a Socialist or even a pro fessional politician socially. He is simply a Judge, knowing and giving the law. And well it is for the country that there arc such men, quiet, silent, re flective, weighing their words, born witli the judicial temper, the legal mind indifferent to politics or public clamor, to do justice in accord with the letter anil the spirit of the law without prejudice or preference. The Weather and Crops. The following report regarding the weather ami crop prospects was issued by the U. S. Weather Bureau at Seat tle for the week ending Monday, the 27th: Spring-like weather has finally ar rived, and the past week was the warmest and most favorable to growth there has yet been this season. The rainfall in the fore part and the latter part part of the week was copious, while there were three fine days in the middle of the week, which afforded an excellent opportunity for farm work, including potato planting and making gardens. Great impetus was given to the growth of vegetation by tlie warm sunshine. Grass has taken a good start and pastures are much improved. Winter wheat which was found to have been badly frozen out in some localities, so as to require resowing, has begun to make progress. The early sown spring wheat is well up and growing nicely. The spring seeding, although well advanced toward com pletion generally, will not be entirely finished in tiie late localities for a week or more. The conditions of soil and weather could not be more favorable for such work, and although the spring is so late, it is thought that the pros pect for all crops is excellent. Fruit trees, with the exception of apples and late prunes, are in general bloom, and the light frosts of the week have done no material injury. Cii'B FLATTERY is to be united with Nome by wireless telegraphy. The work, says Albert L. New, representing the Pacific Wireless Telegraph Co., in a special to the P.-1 , will begin in June, and as it will be finished when the towers are erected and the instru ments installed, there will probably not be much delay in completing the service. The longest of the proposed intervals will be between Cape Flattery and Dutch Harbor, 1,500 miles, which distance Mr. New says is entirely feas ible. Sitka, Juneau, Skagway aud Nome will all be conuected wish the invisible current. It would seem from this that the terminal point a local paper lately said had been " landed" at Seattle, has floated to Capo Flat tery. MANCHLKIA seems to have become quite a bone of contention between Russia, China aud other powers. The former has determined to incorporate the three provinces of Manchuria withiu tiie Russian empire, and China, Japan and other powers object. Eng land is largely increasing her squadron in Asiatic waters, and it is said to be largely due to the policy of Russia in regard to territorial expansion. It is claimed that our government ia like wise in sympathy with the protest while Germany seems inclined to stand in with Russia. TIIK new Chinese Minister to this country thinks that the prejudice in this country against his couutrymen is largely owing to the fact that they do not readily acquire our language. Possibly " pigeou-english" may liave something to do with it, but we think that their innate servility in labor habits based upon centuries of extreme poverty from overpopulation is the great cause which the masses have to see removed before they can view with complacency the invasion of the Isbor tleld by the Asiatics. A VEKITARLK hobo iuvaded the Pres idential train, and was found by a se cret service man, hiding between the baggage and club cars, as it was pulling out from Livingston, last Friday night. He showed fight when discovered, but was finally placed under restraint and ejected at the next station, where he was turned over to the police authori ties. A card found on him showed that his name was Edward Russell, and that be was a member of a Sailors' Un ion, of San Francisco. THE demand for seats at the Mar quam Grand, last week, for the en gagement played Monday and Tues day by the Frohman company, was so great that men and boys were hired to stand in line for turns at the box office all night before the sale opened, and they were paid from $2.50 to $3.50 for merely holding places for the priv ilege of securing choice of seats cost ing $2.50. MOK.MON missionaries, 145 in num ber, have been expelled from Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Mechlenburg, on the ground that they are dissemi nating a religious belief incompatible with the laws of that country. OA.STORIA. U*" l tfc, The Kind You Have Always Baugbl "*7" Tlio Kind You Have Always Bought, and wliicli has been in use for over JO years, has borne the signature of /) - and has been made under his pcr y s«iial supervision since its infancy. j, Allow 110 one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are hub Experiments that trillo with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is I'lcasaiit. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverislmcss. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach ami Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAV STREET, NEW VORR CITY. [HOUSEGLEMM] i tiuveie j X * X £ Demands new Carpets, Linoleums, Mattings, as well as i £ Curtains, I'ortiers and Draperies. Now if wc don't get to ♦ ♦ sell you these things + 1 IE KILL BOTH BE LOU j ♦ Wc would loose the sale and you will loose the difference in -*• ♦ the price what you pay here and what you have to pay for X I the same goods elsewhere. " QUITE A DIFFERENCE X + YOU KNOW." Can you afford to pay more than required? + ♦ All wool 2-ply Super Carpets go at 55c a yard £ Half-wool " " 39c a yard ♦ ♦ English Linoleum wo sell at 45c a yard -T ♦ Linen Warp Matting we sell at 19c a yard X ♦ Brass Extension Bods " " " 5c each £ i White Enamel Curtain Rods we sell at 10c complete X T On Lace Curtains we save you from 50c to SI.OO a pair. T T JiP Portior* we save you from Srte to S3.UU a pair. T •r On Yard Draperies we can do you much good. ♦ 1 Mottman Mercantile Co.! £ ♦ ♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ £ A FEW COPIES OF £ | "The Old Settler" \ £ BY HON. FRANCIS HENRY. £ f n Price, 25 Cents. I A V NICELY ILLUSTRATED. C 2 M O'CONNOR'S 2 *1 508 Main Street, Olympia. - ► « ► * k •4 ► 4 *■ « ► Charley's | SALOON Olympia's Popular Resort; > All the best brands of Im* ' y ported and Domestic Wines JI Liquors and Cigars. ..." < ► CHARLES VIETZEN J; PROPRIETOR. < ► So. 10S West Fourth Street. Thvur JWJ. {[ WE ntKt: HI:NT iirrnu o SUITSS Rest Material and Work- y manship at Reasonable X Rates » Fred Weiss 1 MERCHANT TAILOR. | I 511 Main Street, Olympia. 5 jNEW SPEAKERS J4 - A Just Kcoeived ♦ ! ** a Complete Line of ♦ !;; Speakers $ ;; DIALOGUE BOOKS j :: RECITATION BOOKS | i: | ♦ I i a You ohl tiiiil tho book to suit every I .. one. T I In addition vou will find n COM- I I 0 I'LETK 1.1 NK OK SCHOOL SLI I'LIKS T i ,of every kiud. X ;; S. S. CHURCHILL, ♦ <► The Stationer. • i> -f • - Grainger Block, Olvmpia. • Creditors' Notice. Estate of William 11. Powe, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of admiulfl tration on the estate of William 1». Powe, de ceased, were granted to the undersigned, ou the 26th day of March, PMKI, by the Probate Court of Thurston couuty. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them t»> me for allowance, at Kooin 6, M< Kenny ltlock, Olympia. Wash., which is the plat eot my transaction of business, within 12 months after the date of this not:c \ or they shall be forever barred. I'll is 2>th day of March, 190.". WILLIAM 11. POWK. Jit., Administrator. Israel & Mackay, Attorneys for Adiuiuia* 3 trator. ) First publication, Aptil lb 19tX>.