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control OF this river means to Great Britain
the control of a region far greater in eX-
tent than her vast Indian empire and far
richer in natural wealth and resources
region as large as our Mississippi
Valley, embracing within its borders, in
broad and varied zones, all the ranges of
climate and prod act to be found in a Jour
ney from the sources of the Nile to tho
Arctic Ocean. 1t means the control Of
100000 square leagues of the best watered
and most fertile country in the world-a
country whose soil is still virgin and its
rich and varied resources practically un-
touched.
control of the development of this vast
empire and centuries, maybe, of continued
and increasing wealth to be skinned from
the deep and broad stream of trade that
in time will flow from this region through
this its natural gateway.
The Orinoco is much more important
stream from commercial point of view
than its nelghbor the Amazon.
The latter for nearly 5000 miles runs under
the same parallel of latitude and with little
difference of altitude and consequently
little difference of products to stimulate
trade between different points along it's
course as in case of our Mississippi It's
broad mouth, $50 miles wide, and the
position and direction of the stream in re-
iation to the ocean tidal wave form great
hindrance to safe navigation, to say
nothing of the uninhabitable character of
its ''silvas," which stretch from its mouth
nearly to the borders of Peru. With the
Orinoco it is very different. It presents
few ii any obstacles to navigation from its
mouth to its junction with the Cassiquian
River, near 1900 miles. 1t receives from
the west broad sheet of affluents that
take their rise almost within sight of the
Pacific Ocean, giving the broad and fertile
regions which they drain easy access to the
Atlantic.
By the Cassiquian the Orinoco is con-
nected with the Rio Negro. one of the
largest tributaries Of the Amazon, and
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,gy; such tireless industry. 1t meant

energy; such tireless industry. 1t meant
Home.
And who the men? Many came from
Oregon, following Marshall. Here in
Hangtown still is man, famous and be-
loved in Oregon, who was of the first to
join his old comrade. He has been here
nearly fifty years, and now verges on to
80. He is one of those who met under the
great fir trees of Oregon in 1916 and pro-
claiming to the world that they were
"not subjects of England, but citizens OF
the United States," sent Joe Weeks at
midwinter all the way to Wash ington on
horseback as delegate! Truly, I'm those
davs there were giants in the land.
Haskins, author of .'The Argonauts OF
California; saws of this man, Judge Rus
sell, that he is perhaps one of the best read
men on the globe; that he has done notn-
ing else but read and read and mediate
and mediate there in the new little red
wood groves for nearly half century
read and "rock" out gold enough Tor his
simple wants.
The men from the other side of the con-
tinent came mainly by sea, and they, too
were fbookish" men, men OF the very pest
material to be found. Here was Senator
Stanford, Senator Conners, Senator Cole,
pioneers; hallway up the long Struggling
street of Hangtown, half an hours gal
lop from where gold vas first found, Is the
old house of Judge Sanderson, where Sybil
Sanderson was born. In truth this sketch
would be mainly catalogue of names
should it hold all the renowned names OF
FL Dorado.
And this brings me to matter which
have had much at heart for quarter OF
century; the people here were from the
first and are still of the best, the very best
in this broad land. don't know that the
little hbelous stories, sentimental 70"
that bright authors have asked Ell Dorado
tc father have done great harm or that the
people here had cared about them one
way or the other, but do know that iu
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other streams that make up the 80, O00
miles of navigable water in the Amazon
Valley.
The Cassiquian is 16O miles long and as
broad as the Rhine. Though now lying
useless, as it were. between and connecting
these great river basins, it is destined In
time to play as important part In the
commerce of the world as the Suez canal
now does. Boats descending the tributaries
OF the Amazon from the very Pacific coasts
of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
will find a ready exit with their frelghts to
the Atlantic through the Rio Negro, the
Cassiquian and the Orinoco rivers.
The trade of this region naturally belongs
to the United States, and the Caribbean
inland body of water on the Western con-
tinent-barring Hudson Bay-and this
inland sea is bound to play as great part
in the future history and progress of CIV
ilization as the Mediterranean has done in
the past. Bordering its shores on the north
we have our own country, on the south
this vast and rich Amazon Orinoco region
the two brought into close connection by
the Mississippi and OrinocC rivers.
The difference in people and products
will exercise mutually happy influence
on the commercial industries and develop
ment of the two regions and their trade
relations, and stimulate their growth in
population. Great Britain has long had
this in view and placed upon 1t value
which constitutes no small factor in her
calculations as to the Importance of the
control of Venezuela's great river. She
lost the control of the Mississippi and the
empire behind it. Here she can repair
her one great mistake.
The trade and commerce of a country
ten times as large as Spain, enriched by
the greatest variety of products. both veg
etable and mineral, watered in every direc-
ton by navigable rivers, capable of sus-
tanning four times the population of
Europe, is by means of the Cassiquian
and Orinoco rivers made tributary to the
power that controls the mouth of the Ori-
noco.
That control belongs to Venezuela and
to ensure her in the full exercise and en-
joyment thereof is the province and high
privilege as well as the duty of the United
States.
The people of this country demand that
it be done. Let the Monroe doctrine be
made by Congress living principle and
let the administration enforce it to the
letter at any cost. A. l.. MCDONALD.
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THE BARON AND LIEUTENANT.
A Story of American Independence and
Official Etiquette.

Official Etiquette.
The Washington Capital publishes the
following story of Lieutenant Lucien
Young, the naval officer who is not per-
mitted to publish his book on Hawaii,
record of the Cleveland administration.
The scene of the present incident is laid
during the Harrison regime, when Benja-
min f. Tracy was Secretary of the Navy.
1t was Lieutenant Young, according to
the story, who a few years ago offered to
teach Baron Fava, the Italian Embassa-
dor, lesson in American man ners. The
international episode was the request
made by the EN- bassador to the Secret arv
of the Navy for report upon subject of
great importance to him, which he begged
might be delivered the same evening, in
order that he could forward it to his Gov
ernment in the morning mail. Lieutenant
information. He worked all day and
all the evening, with only sandwich
and cup of coffee, excused himself
from dinner party and from an engage
ment he had made to take some ladies TO a
ball. The memorandum was completed
about midnight, when he got a cab and
drove to the Italian legation. Itwas closed
and dark, and no one answered his sum-
mons. Then he went to Baron Fava' S
residence, where he was told that the
Embassador was dining out. He went to
the house where the dinner had been given
and learned that the Baron was at the ball
which he himself wanted to attend but
found there the Baron had left few min
utes before.
Then Young gave up the search and
went to his club. The first man he saw
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him strip blanket from the bed, spread
it upon the floor and proceed to pile upon
it the plunder which he found in the
trunks, chiffoniers, closets and the like.
Then he stepped to the open door into the
passage and stood listening moment.
These occurrences had surprising effect
upon my nerves. The door between my
temporary bedroom and the vestibule was
open for ventilation, and I realized that l
was almost in physical touch with a
man. who would not hesitate to kill
me should that prove necessary to his
safety. I knew that sooner or later he
would descend the stairs, at the foot of
which was the open door of my room. 1t
would not have been difficult for me to
waylay him and make an effort to cripple
or kill him in the darkness with one of a
dozen convenient articles which l remem-
bered were in the room, including heavy
poker, some bronze statuettes, chairs,
stools and the like. Ordinarily. as you
are aware, I am not timid man, but / tell
you now that an unaccountable fear as
sailed me and held me prisoner. It re-
quires good deal of candor to make that
admission, but it is necessary to COM
plete understanding of this remarkable ex-
perience.
After standing in listening attitude q
moment the burglar slowly and cautiously
descended the stairs and, as expected, left
my room alone and proceeded to the
dining-room. I knew that the solid silver
ware had been sent away for safe keeping.
and SO | was not surprised when the
burglar, after handling the plated-ware
which he found and making it tinkle
softly and gently, left it, made an un-
profitable search of other rooms and then
returned to the foot OF the stairs. This
brought him again to my door. He
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Placerville was at one time only known, and
which is now not unfrequently applied, had
its origin in the hanging by mob, In 1S49,
of two Frenchmen and a Spaniard, to an oak
tree at the northwest corner OF Main and Co
Iona streets. The victims had been arrested
for highway robbery. While being tried by a
was doubtful what penalty would be inflicted
on the Ill, an officer from one of the lower coun-
ties arrived, in search of the perpetrators OF
horrible murder in his section, and at once
recognized two of them the murderers for
whom he sought. This at once settled their
fate. Death was decreed, and the sentence
carried out Immediately at the place and in
the manner mentioned.
No; this place was never what the terse
and terrible name might imply. 1t was
never "lawless"; that is, it was never in
the hands of a mob as New York, Chicago,
San Francisco and like places that publish
and sell books of "blood and thunder" about
it have been. The fact is Hangtown had no
law there then. this hanging having been
done in 1848, and not in 1S49. as here set
down. The early miners, and we old ones
still, liked the striking name, for now it
seems nearly half a century of history,
and we will use it to the end. You know
a woman may be so hideously ugly that
she is positively beautiful in her plainness.
So it is with this weird and CHASTITY name,
which really means nothing ugly to US
old ones.
All, me ah. mel if l had only two lives
instead of this f1ayed and raveled fragment
of and end of one! And what would l
do? l would, with the best one of them,
go right off to sparkling, sunlit old Ell
Dorado and there sit down on bit of the
richest and most generous soil on this
globe and go to work. If I got out of
bread l would dig it out of gulch in my
orchard or pasture and then go back again
to work with my vines and fruit trees. |
could and would in only little time make
place much pretter than the one where
l have spent the past ten years; for the
soil and climate is many times more giori-
Gus in Ell Dorado. All this land, plenty
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If there are those inclined to doubt the
probability OF the following story, told to
me as the truth by an eminent and trust
worthy gentleman of San Francisco, they
have yet to learn and comprehend some OF
the most vital things of life. He said
to me:
A few summers ago my family left town
to spend some weeks in the country. |
gave the servants vacation and arranged
to stay alone at my house. For change
had bed placed in the drawing-room,
which was in the front of the house on the
lower floor. On one side of this room was
the vestibule, into which the outer door
opened, and on the other an exterior pas
sage which opened upon the street through
gate, and which ran back alongside the
house to the rear of the premises. 1t was
paved with boards, some of which had
worn slightly loose. The gate was closed
with an ordinary lift latch.
We had lived in the house a number OF
years, but had never slept in that room
before. The front of the room was taken
up with bay-window, which was fur
nished on the inside with ordinary slat-
blinds. My bed was placed at the oppo-
site end of the room, against the sliding
doors.
had arranged to take my meals down
town. On the first evening of my solitary
occupancy returned to the house shortly
after dinner and read in my improvised
bedroom till 10 o'clock. Then l pulled
down one of the upper sashes of the win
dow closed the blinds and went to bed.
Ordinarily I would fall quickly asleep
on retiring, but the novelty of my position,
and perhaps some business anxieties, kept
me awake for an hour or two. This wor-
ried me and made me nervous. The still
ness Of midnight came on, but still l re-
mained awake. 1t was while I was lying
in this state that 1 heard the latch of the
gate opening into the side passage eau
tiously raised, then some one step softly
within, leaving the gate open, and then
footballs proceeding stealthily down the
passage toward the rear of the house, caus-
ing loose board here and there to squeak.
l listened with the most eager and
strained alertness. for my Immediate con-
clusion was that burglar, perhaps having
observed the departure of the family and
assumed that the house had been tempo
place. heard him try and then abandon
the securely barred door opening from the
rear porch upon the passage.
A lattice extended from the lower rear
porch to the upper. Without moving
heard the intruder slowly but nimbly scale
the lattice and step upon the floor of the
upper porch. A hall door and bed
chamber window both opened upon this
porch, and l was curious to note which the
burglar would attack, and began to wonder
if they had been locked.
He chose the window. heard the sash
lock snap under the pressure of his cold
chisel. After pause he stepped into the
room and proceeded to 'ransack it. It was
my wife's room, and although / knew that
she had provided elsewhere for the safe
care of her furs and other more valuable
clothes. | reflected that there must have
been left number of things which burglar
might think worthy of attention. Ihearo
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OF it and close to the road. with natural
water running to waste, is to be had for
the taking. Miles and miles of it almost
ready for TIE plow; and a soil so deep, as
revealed by the banks OF washed-out
mines, practically bottomless. Some such
lands were pointed out to me by the road
side in the seven miles drive from the old
Marshall millsite OF Coloma to Hangtown
and running water, too. What a place
for healthy happy homes is dear old Ell Do
rado to-day. | remain,
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BROWN STOUT FOR A SICK HORSE

The curious Diet Ordered Tor an Army
Equine in India.
London Truth.
The following order has just been issued
at one of the India stations:
Rations-No. 312-On the recommendation
of the veterinary officer in charge Twenty
seventh F. B. R. A., and in accordance with
paragraph $50, A. r. l., vol. v. commissariat,
the officer commanding the station sanctions
the issue of extra diet, as under, to horse 50
for seven days, commencing from the 18th
inst: Two gallons milk, twelve eggs, three
bottles Of stout Imperial quartz.
"Who wouldn't be Royal Artillery
horse?' asks the warrior who sends me
this item, and one can understand
Tommy's feelings under the circum-
stances,
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Hands and Feet.

.'My dear fellow said society woman
of great candor to an awkward. timid
young Harvard graduate whom she was
to present, "you have any amount Of
talent, you have position, you have money,
but you will never be at your ease. never
show at your BEST until you know what to
do with your hands and feet You must
lose them, forget them, be unconscious OF
them."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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In comparison with population the
wealth of the United States is by no means
wonderful, the ratio per head being sur
passed in three countries of Europe-Great
Britain, France and Holland.
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The English newspapers are circulating
the report that it ccst 20 per cent more to
build the steamers st. Louis and st. Paul
built in Glasgow.
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Tragedy of the Conceited Mouse.

lltCle mouse once llVeO uDueT pantry
where all manner of good things were
stored. He fed SO we'll on these dainties
that he became quite fat and very con-
ceited, too, for he thought that the good
things were placed in the pantry for his
especial benefit. "These good people"
said he, ''do all in their power to make me
happy. l, too can make them happy by
tasting of all the nice things they place
before me-" So every night he went regu-
Iarly from dish to dish, nibbling little
bit from one and little bit from another,
until he had l,ibbled at all the dainties.
One very hot summers night as he
crept into the pantry he saw there two tall
white things with beautiful shining bodies.
He didn't know that they were only wax
candles; SO he gaZed in admiration of their
| beauty, wondering who or what they could
be.
Perhaps" said he, "they are the good
people of the house." and as he mused thus
the candles began to bend over with the
heat. "Oh" said he, "they are bowling to
meW So he drew himself up proudly and
then bowed stiffiy to the candles, while
they bent lower and lower until their
heads almost touched their feet. Then
tasting Of the dainties on the dishes.
Well, it happened that he felt very
sleepy that night, so presently he sat down
and rested against one of the candles. and
there soon fell fast asleep. Now while he
slept the candle melted with the heat and
| dropped upon him until it quite covered
all bat his nose; but when the early morn
ing came the air grew chilly and the wax
became hard again, so that the mouse was
held prisoner in the candles cold clutch.
AT last the mouse awOke and was horri-
fed to find that he could not move hand
or foot, for he was completely covered with
hard, cold wax, which held him as firmly
as an iron case.
He squeaked and whimpered, but no
help came; then he cried, "Oh, fool that l
was to fall INTO such q trap; my father
has often said. Beware of the exalted
when they bend low to the humble :"
AS he said these words servant entered
the pantry and took up the candlestick, but
when she saw the mouse's nose she
screamed, and threw the candlestick into
a pail of water. and the poor mouse was
drowned-and that was the sad end of the
conceited little mouse.-R. II. in the New
Budget.
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SOCIETY, A CORRUPTION.
Professional Society Women Parasites
Upon the Worlds Heart-Growth.

Professional Society Women Parasites
Upon the Worlds Heart-Growth.
F Mrs. A D. T. Whitney in discussing so
ciety with her girl friends, in December
Ladies Home Journal, has thi, stinging
charge to make against modern Society, as
it is spelled with capital S: "Society as
pursuit, an end, is a thing without
soul. The home spirit. from the sharing
of which between home and home it grew,
has departed out of it. 1t is dead.
1t is a corruption. A professional
society woman is parasite upon the
wo rld's heart-growth; helping, as mi
crobe of disease, to eat out its vitality.
There is terrible reaction in the influence
of what we make society to be, without its
true heart and center. 1t is to blame for
the many confused problems of our time;
it is responsible for the frantic turning of
the world upside down. Conventional
lties, false effort and restriction crowd III
upon and choke out our most beautiful
and sacred realities. True homes become
more and more scarce. Society women
abandon them; they make of them mere
! arrival and departure stations in the rush
of whirling round. Women who cannot
or who will not maintain the modern arti-
fetal conditions are discouraged and re-
PEELED from any home-making at all. They
are forced, through the very need of their
natures, to outside work and interest for
fellowship; and SO there is a great deal
attempted from strong desire for the best
that is yet, in its turn, untrue. one-sided;
adding fresh arrangement to our per-
picked systems and theories-our transit
tional social and political economies"
The Washington times., 1895-05-16
c. A. c. EASY WINNERS.
Game With Kendall Green Won in
the First Inning.


The Columbia Athletic Club baseball
team won game from the Kendall Green
Deaf and Dumb College team yesterday
afternoon with ridiculous ease. The game
was called at the end of the eighth inning,
the score standing % TO 2.
The game was won in the first inning,
at the end of which the C. A. c. were nine
runs to the good.
The G.. A. G. players are putting up good
team work, and are in shape now 10 try
conclusions with some OF the strong teams
here and elsewhere.
The battery work OF Bernard and Dickin-
son was of the 'star" order, Bernard
especially distinguishing himself in the
box by his fielding in addition TO his
splendid control OF the ball.
Royce Hough at T sht field played his
usual good game, and 4n the fifth spoiled
home ran by phenomenal stop and catch.
His batting was also feature, he having
home run, double, and a single to his
credit.
DalZell has earned his place at the top
of the batting list. He is always good
for hits at the right time. His play at
third yesterday was errorIess
Springman, the star second baseman,
ing game, sroiliIg several seemingly safe
base hits. Lewis home-run hit and a
brilliant catch near center field fence were
additional features. Wells at first bag
took good care of everything that came
his way.
Kieue filed the central position for the
Kendalls for four innings, when he con-
cluded he had enough, and Smielan, right
| fielder, exchanged places with HIM, and
the souti-paw saved his team from even
more disastrous defeat.
Stutsmau at short had plenty to do and did
! it well. His fielding was brilliant.
| In addition TO his pitching, Smielan played
a great fielding game. Price is always a
! hard worker, and yesterday caught great
| game.
The only runs made by the Kendalls
were scored in the second inning. Baum
| gardner hit safely; stole second, and came
home on Smielan's three-bagger, W no
scored on Davis out to center.
| The c. A C. team VIII play game on
| Columbia field On Saturday afternoon with
| the Business High School.
The score of yesterdays game is as fol
| lows:
| ColumbiaA.C... 3 o o s x-2e
| Kendalls 20 2 o o o o 0 o.
| Batteries-C. a. c., Bernard ard Dickin
! son; Kendalls, Kiene and Smielan and
| Price.
Umpire-Mr. How ard.