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ENGLAND SENDS
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and prosecuted for declining to join In
the recent anti-foreign movement, and
unless pressure can be brought to bear
In their favor by the powers their lives
and liberty may be In danger
This revelation OF the persistent anti
foreign policy Of the Chinese govern
ment makes the Russian proposal seem
more than ever impolitic, So far from
being frightened into repentance the
empress dowager and her faction are
steadily engaged In carrying ON the cru
sade against alien influence. Some
more striking measures may be redur-
ed TO produce the requisite impression,
whereas Il the troops should withdraw
from Pekin Chinese insolence and au-
dacity will receive a fresh impetus and
reform will be indefinitely postponed.
It Is possible that the replies OF Ger
many, Austria and italy to the Russian
proposal may take the form OF a state
ment OF the conditions under which
those powers win be prepared to con-
clude peace with China, with reasons
against withdrawal from Pekin until
the terms can be arranged.
The edict addressed to Ii Hung
Chang in the name OF the Chinese em-
peror and dated August ~. en- route TO
Tai Yuen Flu. explains that although
the foreign powers have given assur-
ance that their only object in bringing
troops to the capital is the suppression
OF disorder and that no harm Is in
tended 70 the imperial house. the EN-
peror has felt II his duty. in view Of
the dangers apprehended from the as
sault on Pekin. to comply with the
wishes OF the empress dowager and ac-
company her westward. after lnstruc-
ting Yuug Lui. Hsi Tung and Tsung
Chih to remain In the capital and con-
tinue to carry on the government.
The Times commenting upon this
news. which is reported by its cores
pendent in Shanghai. SAYS that II il De
genuine Il shows that the movements
Of the titular sovereign are still direct
ed by the imperlous will OF the empress
dowager. to whose initiative and sup
port the outbreak Of the Boxer move
ment IS attributed.
The Standards correspondent in Tien
Tsin sends an account OF the arrival Of
the first party OF refugees from PeNin.
Most OF them were American mission
aries The journey to Tien Tsin b.
boat occupied four days. No hosti
Chinese were encountered on the way
but ii was impossible for the refugees
to take rest and all the party seemed
completely worn out.
From the stories told by these refu-
gees it would seem that the reports
which had been circulated regarding
the sufferings of the inmates OF the
Legations during the siege were exag-
gerated Nobody actually went hungry
and the chief strain on the besieged
was the constant fear lest the enemy
should rush the defenses.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06
COPPER EXPORTS INCREASE.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-The exports
Of copper during the month Of August,
according to returns kept by the Met
al Exchange, were 1885 tons. This
Is considerably in excess Of the July
record. when shipments wore about H.
900 tonss Copper producers continue
very confident over-the outlook.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06
"THE NILN AUKEE.'

A familiar name for the chieaR .,
Milwaukee 4 ST. Paul Railway. known
all over the Union as the Great Rail-
way running the Pioneer Limited
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the world" Understands Connec-
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al lines. assuring TO passengers the best
service known. Luxurious coaches.
electric light. steam heat. OF verify
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See that your ticket reads via THE
Milwaukee" when going 20 any point
IN the United States or Canada. All
ticket agents sell them.
For rates, pamphlets or other infor-
nation. address,
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Portland. Oregon. Portland. Or.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06
RoosEvELT's TOUR.
After His Speech at the New York Re-
publican Convention He Starts
for the West.

SARATOGA, Sept. Ex-Governor
Roosevelt after his speech in the Re-
publican state convention here win de-
part on his western speech-n1aking tour
as outlined by himself and the nanag-
ere Of the Republican national COM
mittee.
Governor Roosevelt will be AT Helena
on September II; Butte. September 1S;
Poeatelo. 19; Ogden. 20: Salt Lake,
21; and win speak at Eyanstown. WyO.,
on the 2Zd. He will speak at Denver
September 25. After a tour through
Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa. he will
arrive at Chicago on October 6.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED WEEK
LY EXCURSIONS.

An experienced excuralon conductor
General Freight and Passenger Agent.
wants and welfare OF passengers viii
he In charge OF Tourist sleeping car TO
Chicago via Union Pacific. This car
leaves Portland on "'rhe Portland Chi
cago Special" az p,ib q. M. making close
connections at Chicago with similar
service 10 RoAton and New York. Tl-
DERBY people and ladies travelling alone
or with children win Ind this service
very convenient and satisfactory.
For tickets, berth reservations ana
fun information. call on
O. W. LouNsDERRY.
General Agent. O. r. & ". Co.
or Astoria, Oregon.
], n, LoTuRoP. General Agent
iaS Third 81, Portland, Oregon.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06

BOSTON. Sept. 5.-Rev. F. f. Clark.
D. D.. president OF the society Of Chris
tian Endeavor. has reached Boston on
the steamer Cestrian after an eyentful
journey around the world. His pur-
pose in making the journey was TO at
tend Christian Endeayor conventions
in Japan, China, France. Spain and Ger
many. which were all very successful.
and also the great worlds convention
in London. which was attended by more
than $4,000 people.
DR.. Clark left northern China only
week before the trouble broke out and
barely escaped being shut up in Pekin
with the other foreigners. He declares
that the foreigners were living in ut
ter disregard OF the coming disasters.
Every one Of course knew that the Box
ers were mastering and thought that
the disturbances might mean the over
throw Of the present dynasty. But no
one in the legations or among the mer-
chants or missionaries conceived that
foreigners would suffer severely, much
less that the legations would be be-
sieged. DR.. Clark spoke in the highest
terms of Major Conger. the American
minister. as a man Of great ability.
courtesy and common sense.
DR.. Clark returned home by way Of
the trans-Siberian railway. and the
Amur river. being one Of the first trav-
ellers to cross Siberia by the all-steam
route. which was only opened on the
18th Of May last.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06
THE HAGUE COMMISSION.
Mckinley Offers Appointments to ex-
Presidents Harrison and Cleveland.

NEW YORK. Sept. ga special TO
the World from Washington says:
President Mckinley has received a
reply to the invitation he addressed
to former President Grover Cleveland
to accept an appointment as a member
of the Hague Commission.
Mr.. Cleveland's reply win not be made
public, but it is understood that he has
attached certain conditions to his ac-
eeptance. Former President Harrison
agreed to act as commissioner in a let
ter just received at the white house.
The additional commissioners will be
appointed by the president. Former
Secretary of State olney and for
mer Secretary of State Day are
mentioned in connection with these APP
pointments.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06

NEW YORK. Sept g. Mr.. George
Jameson. former consul-general Of
Her Britannia Majesty at Shanghai. is
passing through New York on his way
to China by way Of Vancouver. Mr.
Jameson is one Of the best-known
authorities on Chinese affairs and has
made study Of the finances Of the
empire which has supplied the materi-
ais fer most that has been recently
written on that subject.
He returns to China as the represen-
tative of the Pekin syndicate which
has received important mining and rail-
road concessions in the province Of
Shan 81, and he has consequently an
immediate interest in the settlement Of
the present troubles and In the political
and material future Of the empire. Mr.
JamiesUn is also one Of the founders
and an honorary secretary Of the China
League an organization recently form
ed In London for the purpose Of supple
mentlng the work Of China az soon as
possible by educating the public mind
Of the United Kingdom in regard to
the magnitude Of the commercial and
other interests dependent upon the
open door" in China. Concerning the
work Of the league Mr.. Jameson said:
Its purposes are similar to those Of
your American Asiatic Association
with which hope it may establish
close and friendly relations. Like those
here who know anything about this
subject, We are impressed with the i'm
portance Of China as an open market
for our manufactures and with the i'm
mense possibilities which that country
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06
UMATILLA FROM NOME.
Brings a Million and Half in Gold
and Some Dlsconsolate Passengers.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-The
steamer Umatilla has arrived from the
north bringing about $1,5OO,OOO in treas
ure from the Klondike and Douglas
island and few nuggets from Nome.
One of the passengers from Dawson
was L. Paitnau. who went to the Klon-
dixie three years ago penniless pros
pector. He was staked by three friends
when he left here. they furnishing his
outfit. he to divide in certain propor-
tions all he made. He has sent out
from the I<londike 1000 to each of his
partners and is reported to have
brought home with him $4,000. The
passengers from Nome all tell stories
Of hard luck.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-09-06
THELOuNRE

Strangers visiting In the city will find
the Louvre an attractive resort wherein
10 spend the evening. The ANIME Sisters
Ladies' Orchestra is still on the bills and
presents nightly musical program Of
exceptional merit Handsome pool and
billiard rooms are q feature in connection
with the house. Palatable lunches will
be served at all nonrs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
THACKERATs PUNCH" coNTRIBUTIoES.

From Notes and Queries
In an early volume of Punch" is a short
poem illustrative of what used to be called the
humors absurdities of Italian opera. The
poem, which is very delicate in construction, I
have been inclined to attribute to Thackeray.
but cannot find ii among the pieces assigned
to him by Mr.. Spelmann Mr.. Shepherd 1t
was, if l remember rightly illustrated by
Thackeray but this circumstance according to
Mr. Spelmann. is not sufficient to prove that
he the author of the letterpress so illus
trated l am inclined to doubt this assump-
ton, and think ii will be found that Thackeray
always illustrated his own articles The point
to which l desire draw attention is the
semblance this poem bears to a poem by Pan
nard.- a French minor poet whose works were
more likely to have been known to Thackeray
than to any other of 'Punch's" contributors at
the time the poem appeared. The first and last
verses of "Punchs' poem are as follows q
quote from memory:
I've seen a tyrant doom a maid,
With trills and roulades many a score,
To instant DEATH She, afraid,
Sings, and the audience cries "Encore!"
I've seen spectators of dance;
Napoleon, MahOmet. the Cid,
Frederick the Great, four kings of France,
Jove and the Muses-scene Madrid.
In George Daniels discursive ''Merrie Eng
land in the Olden Time" is a note TO the fol-
lowing effect:
'.Pannard, minor French poet, whom Mar
montel styles the La Fontaine of the Naude-
Vile has written some admirably de-
scriptiye of an opera behind the scenes:
J'ai VA le soIeil la Iune.
Qui tenOient des discours Fair,
J'ai va le terrible Neptune
Sortir tout frise de la mer
Jai WI Faimable Cytheree,
Au doux regard, TENT tieuri,
Dams une machine entouree
D'amOurs MATHIS de Chamber.
After having seen great number of other
things equally curious, he concludes;
J'ai va des ombres tres palpables
Sc tremousser aux bords du Styx;
J'ai va renfer ct tOuS les diableS
A piedS du paradIS.
"Merrie Eng" l. 122.
The entire poem-or rather sOng-may be
found in lie Depart de POpera COmique. The
atre de Pannard," vol iii p. 222. Did George
Daniel contribute to Punch?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
RIPLINGANA.

NJ Edgar Wallace's poetic address as Tommy
Atkins 10 the ''Uncrowned Laureate" who has
celebrated Tommys deeds is a reasonably neat
uarody Oh MI Kipling's own style:
But you're our partic'lar author. you're our
patron an our friend,
You're the poet Of the crossword an the swear;
You're the poet Of the people, where the red
mapped lands extend.
You're tie poet Of the jungle an the lair,
Ar comDare,
To the eyer speaking voice Of everywhere
There are poets Tot can please you with their
rJrlu.rose-YTlet laye,
There are poets wot can drive man to
But il takes a "pukka' poet. in Patriotic
Craze
To make a chortlin' nation squirm an shrink
Cary an blink;
an -eed7ess thoughtleEs people stop an think!
i In Z biographical notice Of the late DR.. c. a.
Perry d writer for Book News" mentions a
tourney On which the then ailing clergyman met
Rudyard KipIIng. The English author was
seeking quiet and seclusion under an assumed
name. I'm company with his uncle, the Rev.
p. ". Macdonald, he was struggling TO get
bf. Of reet behind pasteboard shutter OF con-
eealnent,' as Berry wrote. But. alas, America
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
OESCHENEN.

Arthur Munby, in The London Spectator.
You should have stay'd, and stay'd alone,
Beneath those shadows of the pines,
Until the golden day was done:
Then that lone lake looks up, and shines
With such smile as might express
The best of human happiness.
No foot is near; a marmot's cry
Strikes the deep silence deeper still;
And those great mOuntain-Walls on high
Are dark with various glOOms, that fill
The dusky vale. Whence comes il, then,
The glow that burns on Oeschenen?
All, look yet higher, toward the East
Yon white Alp in the far blue sky
Bares to the sun her virgin breast
That he may kiss her ere he die;
Then bushes through her trackless SHOWS
One pure, illimitable rose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

reads Kiplng and admires him and whom,
America loves she photographs and nuts in
shop windows? A doctor from Wisconsin but
tOnhoied Berry and-That friend of yours
amt Macdonald. anyway was his cry. DO
you think 1t respectable to keep up a ten-cent
fraud like this. and keep your fellow passen-
gers from the proud privilege of knowing that
they are ploughing the deep with Rudyard Kip
ing, Ell? 1 found his picture in Plain Tales
from the Hills; here it is look at it. and then
call your friend Macdonald if you cam And
hlphng was forced to the unpleasant task of
being himself"
MT hipling himself has lately been quoted
Dy an acquaintance as follows: ''I have some
times been called a poet and other names I
don't like but the one thing am really proud
of Is that edited paper for forty-eight hours
and that it didn't stop"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

remarked to him, My good fellow, how much
further is 1t yet to the fali?' The old fellow
answered Just minute OF two sir AS soon as
the ladies stop talking you will hear the roar"
story about Tennyson, told by the late John
AddngtOn SymOnds, is quoted in the London
eliminating, admirer Of the poet, sitting next
to him at dinner, referred to his lines:
Birds in the high Hall-garden
When twilight falling,
Maud, Maud. Maud Maud,
They were crying and calling"
Beautiful description" said she; zone can al
most hear the nightingales singing" Non
sense, madam" retOrted Tennyson, in his
abrupt manner, they were rooks-rooks"
A queer and unauthenticated rumor that Mr..
Richard LIE Gallenne had for literary effect,
"Frenchified" for himself the prosaic name of
"Galeon" probably had it's origin in a fact
his grandfather was of Guernsey origin, and
spelled his name exactly as the grandson spells
1t to-day. His father, however, dropped the
prefix, as, in his opinion, cumbrous for business
purposes. Did this progenitor write the name
Galleon, after all?
contributed by Professor G. E. Woodbury. to the
forthcoming number of East and West"
MI Justin Mccarthy has been contributing
to "Chambers's Journal paper the witty
sayings he has heard, and in the course of it
mentions a peaceful and silent member of the
House of Commons who one night burst into a
furious attack on Gladstone. Nobody could
understand it; it all unlike the man.
Gladstone. who had not yet taken any part in
the conversation on the incident, now quietly
observed: L have often heard that animal is
dangerous mad sheep 1 sorry to say
that the unfortunate member was known among
his friends from that time forth and for ever
more as the mad sheep"
b characteristic story of Whistler has a place
in the same article. That famous artist was
once painting the portrait of a distinguished
novelist whom Mr.. Mccarthy describes
tremey i'll favored. When the portrait
finished the sitter did not seem satisfied with
it. You don't seem to like it," Whistler said.
The sitter confessed that he did not and said
in Standardization, You must admit that it
is bad work of art" Yes" Whistler re-
piled; but I think you must admit that you
are a bad work of nature"
Mr.. Swinburne has written a poem-a
dedicatory poem to a lady-for insertion in the
second edition of his "Rosamund, Queen of the
LOmbards."
The late David Dwight Wells, author of Her
Ladyship's Elephant" left the MS. of a novel
entitled "ParlOus Times" This book, which is
mentioned as a more serious essay in fiction
than either of Mr.. Wells's earlier works. will
soon be published.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Inc biography of Francis Parkman which
n[, y ID: Farnham has prepared will be pub
ilshe9 this autumn. The author has been al
lowed to use all available material in the pos
session Of the historians relatives, including
letters and vacation journals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

one competent writer-not an historian how
eVer-is on his way to China This is M Pierre
Lou: who goes as aide-de-camp to Admiral
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

AN English critic holds that irritating incon-
ciuslveness is the weakest point of the earnestly
tnoughttui novels, or social studies Of which
America in particular is producing so many
just now
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

The sister OF the lately deceased insane
author Herr Nietzsche rs trying to prevent the
unauthorized publication of any literary ma
terial left by her brother. 1t may be said with
justice that it would be for the worlds good if
this mans work were left to oblivion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Mr. Hall Game has written a novelette, which
he calls Jan the Icelander," and it will soon
be published as a serial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

The original commonplace book of John
Milton, which was discovered about thirty years
ago, has lately been acquired by the British
Museum The owner, Sir r. Graham, offered
it for purchase to the authorities of the Museum
and they wisely grasped the opportunity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

A long poem called 1.-THE Roamer' has been
contributed by Professor G. E. Woodbury. to the
number of East and West
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Another book on the Man in the Iron Mask!
1t is by Mr.. Tighe Hopkins, and is to be a
monograph in two parts. In the first under
the general title of THE Man in the Moon" he
discusses the various old fashioned theories,
from Noltaire's downward In the second, THE
Man in the Mask he details what seems to be
the real story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Miss Frances COurtenay Baylor, a clever
Southern author, who has not published any
thing for some years. has written for children
the story of an English family rice plan
tatlon in Georgia. She calls her book "A
Georgian Bungalow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

THE GATELESS BARRIER. BY Lucas Malet.
LIMO PIP. S54. Dodd. Mead & Co
DRAMA IN SUNSHINE. BY Horace Annesley
Nachell 12mo, pp. S47 The Macmillan Com
FOR BRITAIN'S SOLDIERS. BY Rudyard Kip
ling, S. r. Crockett Sir Walter Besant and
Others Edited by Cutcliffe Hyne limo, PIP. 315.
London: Methuen & Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Jack Raymond" is the title of a forthcoming
novel by Mrs Voynich, the author of that clever
book THE Gadfly."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Mr. Clark RusselTs knowledge of the sea is
the subject of sour incredulity on the part of a
contributor to a London publication, Fair
play" This writer makes cutting reference to
The Lady Maud" "a schooner yacht in which
jbbooms and bOwsprts were mixed up in a
most surprising manner"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

remarked to him, My good fellow, how much
further is 1t yet to the fall? The old fellow
answered. Just minute or two, sir. AS soon as
the ladies stop talking you will hear the roar
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Ouida in her new book of essays gives an
the matter Of plagiarism. London periodical
Puck" The name of a lady was put at the
the editor expecting, despite previous expert
understood my generation. The editor wrote
who had produced this shameless piracy had
the words Of the Emperor Julian, If it be suf-
and to my objection that appropriation of
possibility be otherwise than intentional
Miss Braddon's new novel The Infdel" deals
with the Wesleyan movement of the last cen
fury, and the central interest is to be found in
the love of one of the new Tegionists for the
infidel heroine.
Writing of Browning's love Of animals.
correspondent of The Sphere" remembers call
ing at Warwick Crescent years ago and finding
the poet nursing a goose. That tortoise"
pointing to one in a corner, knows me quite
we'll" he said proudly.
In his book on Upper Wharfedale" Mr.. Harry
Speght tells amusing story about famous
waterfall near Bolton Abbey. The old guide
who showed 1t used to relate with smile that
on one occasion he accompanied a very gar
rulous party of ladies and gentlemen to the
head Of the gorge, when one of the gentlemen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

Miss Julia Fletcher, the American writer gen.
orally known George Fleming" is thinking
of making dramatic adaptation of Bazac's
romance lie Peau de Chagrin." Balzac's nov
els have been comparatively neglected by play
Wrights.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09

The late David Dwight Wells, author of Her
Ladyships Elephant" left the MS. of a novel
entitled "ParOus Times" This book, which is
mentioned as a more serious essay in fiction
than either of Mr.. Wells's earlier works. will
soon be published