THE liAKIIE DAILY TIMES, FEIJ. 0. I!05. Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar CURES Hoarseness, Coughs, Colds and Sore Throat. The standard remedy used for generations. 25 Cents, 50 Cents, $1.00 prr bottle; the larprst size cheapest. At all druggibts. Refuse substitutes. PIKE'S TOOTHACHE DROPS CURE IN ONE MINUTE EXPLORING WESTERN CANADA. The Northern Rockies Not So High as Was Thought Some New Passes Found, Suitable for Railroads, In no part of the -world except in Alaska, has there been more rapid prog ress in geographical exploration in the past few years than in Hritish Colum bia. The latest facts concern a number of new passes through the Rocky Moun tains. Some readers may be surprised that there should be anything left in British Columbia to discover. The fuct is, that the Government surveys are yet far from eoverinu the larger portion cf that hiir region. The fine peorraphieal work that a missionary has recently been doing shows that tnere are sua opportun ities for discovery in this part of the Dominion. Father Morice, whose mission station is on the shores of Lake Stuart, nearly in the centre of the province, has been travelling many hundreds of miles in a canoe, mapping all the streams, nines mountains and valleys in the upper ba- gin of the Netchakhoh River. A fine map of bis discoveries, which has just been published by tne fteucnaiei veo graphical Society of Switzerland, shows many details that have been seen on no previous map. Lake Morice, for example, which is not found on the latest atlas sheets of BritiHh Colum bia, is fifty miles long, and 77 feet deep. , The new passes in the Rockies have been studied by a party of Grand Trunk Pacific engineers who have been engaged in the work about a year. A newspaper has reported that this party has discov ered the Smoke River, Porcupine, Red Deer, Wapiti and Pine River passes, but this statement is not quite cor rect. AH these great passes through the Rockies to the north of the Canadian Pacific Railroad have been known to ex. ist for some time, but the engineers have been the first to study them in detail, and they now report that they are all available for railroads, that the gradients on the east are very gentle and that some of the passes are wide enough, for double tracks. The scheme of the Canadian Pacific Railroad was laughed at as impractica ble until the gieat gateway through Kicking Horse Pass was discovered. It is now known that further north there are several other passes lower than those which the Canadian Pacific uses and that they will amply sullke for all of Canada's railroad needs through the mountains. Explorations of the past few years show that the old ideas of the heights of the leading peaks of the Canadian Rockies were much exaggerated. Paks still appear on some of the maps as from 15,000 to 17,000 feet above the sea. I)r. Hector recently wrote that prob ably none of the mountains of British Columbia rises above 13,000 to 13,500 feet. Outram, Collie and about a dozen other men have within the past ten years ascended many of the high peaks of the Canadian Rockies and made ob servations to ascertain their altitude. The result is a decided decrease in the previously accepted altitude of a num ber of the luguest mountains oi uiesu ranges. New xork bun. TWO NEW CLAIMS PRESENTED. Franco-Venezuelan Commission Ad' journs Until Friday Next. Xorthficld. Feb. 9.Tho Franco-Ven ezuelan arbitration court, which has not been in seioti for several days owing to the indisposition of the umpire. Hon, Frank l'lumley, and the secretary, Charles A. Plumley, met yesterday when two new claims were presented, Adjournment was then token until next Friday at 10 o clock in tt:e lorenoon. The claim submitted by French citi rens against the Venezuelan government are in French and Spanish and must be translated into English. EDUCATIONAL. President Eliot of Harvard univer sity lias boon elected a cnrrespontlin.? member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science of the Institute of , France. Trofcssor Chnrle F. Thwlng, presi dent of the Western Reserve univer j sity, expbiins the rowdyism of college ! students. as due to the reaction which every man feels from obedience to pre scribed rules and regulations. Viceroy Sheng of the rechlli province of China bus provided five scholarships for Chinese students now at the Lnl versify of California. This is the first Instance on record that scholarships have been given by a Chinese official to the students of any American or Euro pean university. i The Times Daily Short Story. or or decency : THE END OF IT Copyright, 1904. by Richard B. Shelton.1 Vandyne stood very stiff uud itralgbt, with folded arms. Outlined against the background of dull sky md gray water his figure seemed al r.o.st heroic. Despite his clothes of conventional cut, there was something suggestive f the bronze age about hlm-some hint of rugged, primitive strength. Miss Pesboro realized sud denly that the mask of conventional restraint had been thrown aside find that there stood before her nil of the rugged, primitive man that lay beneath that mask. A moment ago she had been inclined to laugh. Now there was a strange sensation tugging at ber heart, but whether It was pity or fear she could not tell. This was the stage of the game she generally found most enjoya blethis climax, where she always ex pressed her surprise and sorrow and bound up the wounded heart with the hnim nt fWl sisterly advice. She had particularly enjoyed the anticipa tion of giving this sisterly advice to Vandyne, but somehow the realization bade fair to fall short of the anticipa tion. Vandyne's eyes seemed to search the secret corners of ber soul, and be neath ttiat cahn, stony scrutiny she was stunned and helpless. She seemed to feel rather than bear Vandyne's deep voice saying, with quiet bitter ness: "I congratulate you. Miss Desboro. 1 have seen the game before, but never played like this, Yon have thoroughly mastered all its fine points." She looked up with an appealing glance. That same tippe'iling glance had saved the situation for her many times before this. But for once it failed The primitive man before her was cn maved by its eloquence. "Do you think yon are quite fair to me?" she asked, with an nt tempt nt hauteur that fell pathetically flat. Vandyne smiled slowly. "Do you think you have been fair to me?" he said. The girl pulled her gloves nervously. "I don't know what you call fair," she Kiiid. "You irrasn at straws. You take possibilities for certainties." Vandvne touched harshly. "In other words, 1 have made the ghastly mis take of thinking you Imbued with all the qualities of the perfect woman. when In reality you are a heartless tri filer." , The girl sprang to her feet, ber eyes nbbize. "You are going too far, Mr. Vandyne!" she said heatedly. "You are saying things quite beyond bounds of courtesy OR Quickly yields to the s;ecific action of Brown's Instant Relief. All dealers. 25c. Korwaj Medicine Co., Norway, Mo. PROFIT IN A SKUNK FARM. "A STATE FOR SALE." Lincoln Steffens on Corrup tion in Politics. SYSTEM OF RHODE ISLAND Vandyne was unmoved by the out burst lie looked at ber with a calm that was almost contemptuous. "I am not speaking with the inten ion nf Vipinir eniirtr-ous or decent. 1 om simnlv statimr the truth as I see it If It hurts, I am sorry, but you de serve it" The girl flushed. Ko man bad ever before spokeu t ber In this fashion, but beneath her an ger was a wholesome respect for thi courage and candor of the man. "Of course you have the right t eay all this," she said bitterly. "You have given me the right," hi returned. "Oh, It's always the girl's fault, oi course," she said. "A man mistakes her motives, and then she must suffei for hia mistakes." "Motives, ( think you'll admit, an rather hard to understand sometimes, said he. The girl turned from him. "I am go ing back to the boose." she said. "1 had hoped we might be friends; but since we can't, periinp It's best not tc try." She started to walk away, but Van dyue's voice stopped her. "Walt a moment," be said curtly, How Yankee Fanners Turn Malodorous Creatures to Account. In the northern part of Connecticut, lose to the Massachusetts line and near .-cttlcment of Shakers, is a skunk arm which is run by two youm; farm ers with profit to themselves if with lseomfurt to their neighbors. 1ms lo cality had always been greatly troubled by skunks, and after warring against them incessantly, these two tanners, ohn and Joseph Kmc, decided to make a blessing out of evil, and capture the skunks for market. As skunk skins are worth from 40 cents to $1.50 apiece, they decided to trap the animals and market their pelts. So they set their traps and waited, but in a considerable time only a tew ot the nttie DiacK ana white creatures were caught, so the method was deemed too slow a one to be remunerative, and the King brothers decided to hunt them. The clan that they follow is this: Just as it is growing dark they go forth into the fields with a courageous out. discreet dog. A number of skunk holes are visited in succession. The dog fenitfs around each, and it does not take him long to decide whether the skunlc is at home or not. If the skunk lias gone out he starts on its trail until he comes within a sate distance oi it. Then he bays long and loud and the two farmers creep swiftly up and usual ly find the little animal sitting up on its hind legs, meditating humiliation to the dog. Whi e t ie skunk is thus oceupiea one of the farmers sneaks behind it and drops a net over it The net is made of a barrel hoop over which is stretched a hair, and the whole lasienea 10 short handle. As soon as tins net, is dropped over the skunk it jumps into the ton 01 the uatr ana me uw scooped carefully under it, and it is lifted into the air in the net. Then the neck of a meal bag w hich the other farmer carries is opened and the small bunch of fur slipped into it. There the animal curls up and gives no further trouble. After the hunt has lasted about three hours the men return home, gen erally brinirinc several skunks with them, and as a good-sized animal weighs from ten to twelve pounds, the burden nf earrvincr them is not an easy one. The pelts of these animals are only valuable in cold weather. If killed bo fore October the skin will be blue on the under side. Later it will become white and bring a much higher price in the market. But it is not always easy to hunt them in the fall and win ter months, so the Kings hunt them in the summer and keen them carefully until it is cold enough for them to be slaughtered. When thesa men first caught the skunks they were turned into a. home made of an old hencoop, with a yard inclosed with wire. Boards and tin" were sunk into the ground to keen the creatures from diginng out, This -was an acceptable home to tho skunks, but persons living in the vicin ity of the skunk farm ciaimea tnai ai( no time was the air fit to breathe, so j the animals, were removed to the barn. Into this barn the skunks are shaken from the bag when the farmers return from a hunt. In boxes in the center of the floor and in corners skunks are to be seen piled in heaps fast asleep. They are fed every everting, and eat nearly everything that is meat. They are given bits of nuiskrat and rabbit and the carcasses of all small animals. The King brothers have a fondness for the creatures and say that each one has an individuality of its own. When the men go into the barn the skunks rub against them and squeal and tumble about ilke pampered kittens. The Kings "monkey with the buzz saw" by pick ing the animals up by the tail. It is said that this an easy thing to do if it is done quickly, and with a jerk, but most visitors are willing to take the Kings' word for it without trying the experiment for themselves. The fur dealers send agents through out the country eacli tan to ooiuin How a ommercial Aristocracy Corrupted the Good American Stock of a State and Laid Foundation of Financial and Political System. Guaranteed to Core. "Aren't the people themselves dis honest?" asks Lincoln Steffens in an article in McClure's Magazine for Feb ruary entitled "Ithode Island A State For Sale." The "grafters" who bat ten on us say so. Politicians have ex cused their own corruption to me time and again by declaring that "we're all corrupt," and promoters and swindlers alike describe their victims as "smart folk who think to beat us at our own game." Without going into the cynic's sweeping summary that "man always was and always will be corrupt" It is but fair while we are following the trail of the grafters to consider their ; Ik) not listen to pe ople who advise this aid that cu 11 rtnifdjr jut to bare something to cay. Tru t your Corigh and jour life to a doctor's precriptl rj,, the effects of tthith have been known for 30 year. Boderic's Wild Cherry Cough Balsam It to the prescription of one of the most uccofsiul practitioners in the city of Portland, Me. a has tn Ailed thou sands of tiiu-s lv patient aMe to tr-t then St. Kamly t-iken by every per son, especially children. " Prioe fic. Kxtra larpe bottles, gold by all dfttlen iu medicines. mm. OK. C. H. MILL Telephone at OK DK. F. M. L . Telepti Koom 7, furrier I Elwln I Attorney and Cc Collections, K Uramte Telephone 10-4. -.rT restricted, as before, to real estate holders till 1S8S, when personal prop erty qualified a foreign born as well ns a nntive voter. The "mob," which owned nothing nnd paid no taxes, was allowed to vote, but only upon regis tering four months before election and then not "upon any proposition to im pose a tax or the expenditure of mon ey." These registered voters, for ex DR. LEWIS OSTEOPATHIC Office tn Room S5, In Hours, 9 a. m. to 12 nt. an; day, Tnwlay, Thurmlay i Telephone (.". MRS. H. A. EXPEKIEM i No. 193 South Main sr. Telephone t )! M' WELCH J All Rl'i'lH Of Elect r Wiring, Uh i Weai dealers in f in. ( Mturcs &- t oiisi Kver itiuin Mudnru None lut expert hi work KUArftntd. Office at No. 10 Flu- P ea ihatr corrupt political system Pi, cannot vote for members of city "Vou shall bear a few things I have $ to say before you leave. f.,w weftks they will he killed by shooting them with ft revolver i and their skins will go on the walls to drv and wait for the agents, Well?" she asked wen- She turned. lil.v i want to say that it is such women j ns you thnt make uiismjyulsts women who lead men on to laugh at them and Dinke sport of them." lie paused. "Is that ail V she asked coldly. "I have known little, very little, of women in my life." he went on, "and 1 have nlwnys placed them mentally In a shrine as something holy and sacred, rerhapa I should thank you for unde ceiving me." She turned away again. Vandyne could not see the tears In her eyes. "It's an ill wind that blows no good," he went on cruelly. "At least yon bnve tnncht the that what seems to be and what Is nre very different mat ters. That is all. Permit me to con grntuhite you again, and goodby." lie turned on his heel nnd strode down the bank toward the water. The sound of unrestrained sobbing made him turn back. The girl was standing quite still, with her hands over her ryes. lie hurried up the bank nnd stood before her, repentant and help less before her stormy grief. "Good Lordl" he gasped contritely. "What have I done?" "You you have made mo love you; that's what you've done." she sobbed. And the bronze man suddenly be came very human. IUC1IARI) Is. SHELTOM. New York Tribune. TIIx Renl Need. "What was that stun Chnrley Kal low was buying?" "'Hair reuewer' for his mustache." "Hub! What he wants Is "hair orig inator.' " Philadelphia Press. Sword Iu Japan. Aithmifdi wearing swords has entire ly ceased for years in Jo pan. the old esteem and reverence for the weapon and its use still exist among lie ,;en tlemen of the country, and many of the nobility have at their b-.u-es regular establishments where fencing Is prac ticed. ' Tyrol 5!nM Carriers. Many of the rural letter carriers in the Tyrol ore women. ..1. 1,. . tJ innovation in western ,lt .irrw sacs Mary Carmui;;h in nosary Magazine, but a fast dying custom amonc orientals. a srm op BnAtrry is a joy forever. TR. T. FFLIX GOTTKArB' OKIKNTA! U CKEAM, OB MAGICAL BEAUX! Ft UK Bemorns -ran, JimpiM.r-rxMrtBs, Irtmn I'uciien, ttan, ana fum diMMet, and sri-ry MemiKli ivlHlWO ILWNI 11115 vmt y'jjot 66 yearn, and la II mn htrmlMl taMe It to b Ills pro!trlymtlft. AHipt ao coiiiiUt. f-tt of similar nam, lir. L. A. Suit talit to a lady ot U bant. ton (a pnceituj 'As yon ladles will dm them. 1 raoommsad 'Csuriud's Creim' atJona." Icairn 55 ss th leant harmful of all th sm preparations. UWJI Vnr tvv ail lmvelta and Fatter In tna r. B.. ( Htsmiaa. aoa turop. JKRD..T. HOPMNS, Prsp'r, 37 Grit Jonss St, H. 1, they are upbuilding is founded on the dishonesty of the American people. Is it? It is in Ithode Island. The system of Rhode Island which has produced the man who is at the bead of the po litical system of the United States is grounded on the lowest layer of connip tion that I have found thus far tne bribery of voters with cash nt the polls. Other states know the practice. In Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois nnd Penn- j gylvania "workers" are paid "to get out the vote," but this la only prelim inary; the direct and decisive purchase of power comes later in conventions and legislatures. In these states the corrtiptlonlsts buy the people's repre sentatives. In lihode Island they buy the people themselves. The conditions are puliar. As the Rhode Islanders say, their state is peculiar in many ways. But It is American. The smallest of the states, it Is one of the biggest in our history. Poor in soil, it is rich in waterways, and the Rhode Islanders, turning early from agriculture to manufacture, made goods which they sent forth from their macnificent harbor to all the world in shins that brought home cargoes of wealth. One of the New England group of colonies, Rhode Island was founded as a refuge from the Puritan intolerance of Massachusetts. One of the "original thirteen states," It was the first (May 4, 1776) to declare Its in dependence of Great Britain and the last (May 29, 1790) to give allegiance to the United States. So the American spirit of commercial enterprise nnd po litical independence has burned blgn in Rhode Island. There is nothing pe culiar about that, and there is nothing peculiar about the general result of the corruption of the state. Rhode Island Is an oligarchy. But so were Wisconsin and Illinois and Mis sour!, nnd so are New York, Pennsyl vania and New Jersey. The oligarchy Is the typical form of the actual gov ernment of our states. There is one peculiarity about the Rhode Island oli garchy, however. It Is constitutional The oligarchies of other states were grafted upon constitutional deinocrn cies. Rhode Island never was a dom ocracy, and in that peculiarity lies the peculiar significance of this state to the rest of us Rhode Island has a restricted suf frage. Many a good American thinks that if we could "keep the Ignorant foreigner from voting" and otherwise limit the suffrage to persons or prop erty who would have a direct personal financial interest in government we then should have good government. Should we? Rhode Island can answer that question. Again, many "thinkers" have thought that it was the wicked cities with their mixed populations which have degraded and disgraced us and that If we could hut devise some scheme of representation by which the balance of power could be given into j the honest bands of the good old A user-1 lean stock out upon the healthy conn-. tryside we then should he saved. Rhode Island tins such n scheme The Significance to the rest of us of the story of Rhode Island lies in the fact thnt its essentially typical condition was reached under extraordinary cir cumstances which some "leading citi r.ens" In other states think would cor rect their evils. "Leading citizens" have made lihode Island what It is. They always have ruled there. I have called the state an oligarchy. It used to be an aris tocracy. "Freeholders" nnd their eld est sons alone participated in the colonial government under the charter of riiarles II.. and after the Revolu tion, when all the other states adopted constitutions, Rhode Island went on under its royal charter of UVd nnd an "unwritten constitution till IMi cannot stop to describe this "landed 1 aristocracy" in an American state. It is sufficient that it cioseu wiui u,K Dorr rebellion. The abuses were so in tolerable that the people, the patient American people who have submitted to Croker, Quay, Cox nnd other des pots, rose in open revolt. The next experiment was'n com mercial aristocracy." The constitution of 1842 "extended" the suffrage from holders of real to those also possess ed of personal property -If they were native born. The "foreigu vote" was councils. The moft effective restriction of the suffrage, however, was established in the constitutional scheme of dispropor tionate representation. The governor, elected by a majority (now by n plu rality) of the voters of all classes, was made a "pure executive;" be has no veto. All legislative powers were lodg ed in the general assembly of two houses. The lower branch, the House of representatives, is limited to seven ty-two members, no matter what tne population may be, and, while eaen town shall have nt least one repre sentative, no city may have more than one-sixth of the membership, lias is undemocratic enough, but the senate, savs the constitution, "shall consist of one senator from each town ana city in the state." Here is the crnx of the situation. A town In Rhode Island is what is known to most of us as a township. There are thirty-eight "towns and cities" In the state. Their population in 1900 was 428.M1. Of this total 30,027 lived in twenty towns. Thus less than one- eleventh of the people or the state elect more than five-tenths a majority of the senate. Providence, with 29.030 qualified voters, has one senator; Little Comnton elected one one year ny a unanimous vote of 78. There nre four teen such "towns" with less than 500 nualified voters; there are twenty with less than 2.000 each. Thus was the sovereignty of the state put Into the hands of the "good old Amertcnn stock out in the country." What happened? The "best people" continued to rule. The "best people" of the period after the new constitu tion were manufacturers, but their flue old houses stand today as witnesses not only to their wealth, but also to a refined taste. There can be no doubt that they came as near forming a real aristocracy as commercialism can pro duce. They certainly were just the kind of men thnt many theorists sny should have control of government Well, they got control of Rhode Is land. How? With money. Aristocrats though they were, they were business men first, nnd they went after the key to control in a businesslike way. They bought up the towns. The "best peo ple" sent offers of bribes to the good people of the countryside, and the good people took the bribes nnd let the best people run the government It was n commercial aristocracy that corrupted the American stock In Rhode Island and laid the foundation of the present financial and political system of cor ruption in the slate. ', ." f .-, a U0B , C I,. '-- W; . M t-U. ,.; parr, THE CORJRE Newest E Meets - 0. W. BOYEA, - - Reed Block. ! STYLES HENRY HU,: .H&ON UNDEin;, Kuneral directors and aeral supplies. Nigra tended to. No. 16 W Residence up sth-. H. E. JLr PAINTING AND F AND CAL-M A share of your ii 6 Thurston Pik- H. VV. SCOT Office In W Over Ladd's store. 4 stenographer tn offlcm. Ltvery, Board; and 1. 59 So. Main St., Re a. m. wor; tj utiefS oi to- promptly it--h., iSnrr, V t jjsl 13-S '.(US, JiG. is wlictted. t .-r, Vt. A:tcmey. notary id cs Statics. '..:h End Hotel. :;i0N. 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