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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-06
BOOK BY DREYFUs.
He Has Written a Story of His lmpris-
onment on Devils Island.

PARIS, March 5.--Alfred Dreyfus re-
turned to Switzerland today after a
stop In Paris during which he correct
ed the proofs of the book he has COM
pleted entitled Five Years of My Life, ="
dealing with his Imprisonment on Dew
lis Island
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HOUSE COMMITTEE
WILL COME HERE
--~-=.-sae--
TO Look Into Proposed River
and liarbOr improvements.
SENATE MAJORITY HELPLESS.
Defeat Of River and iiarbOr Bill Exelies Agl-
tsilon for Amendment Oi Rules 50
as 10 Properly Limit De.
bate.
SENATE MAJORITY HELPLESS

WASHINGTON. March 5.--T'he house
committee on rivers and harbors today
arranged the details u two trips Of In
specti,n which they Will make. The
nrrt vii be- 10 Havana. The members
win leave tomorrow evening. IN June
they win make a trip to the Pacific
coast. going hrst to Galveston and the
other gulf points then on TO Los An
gcles ana northward. visiting all the
harbnrs ~ for north as Puget sound.
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MANDARINs 70 BE PUNISHED.

PARIS. March 5.-At cabinet coun-
ell held today, the foreign minister, NJ
Delcasse. announced that all mandar-
ins guilty OF crimes at Pekin would be
punished. Two DEGREES provided for by
the ninth article Of the collective note
had been promulgated, enumerating the
punishments pronounced and ordering
the suppression Of examinations In the
provinces where the anti-foreign out
RACES had occurred.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-06
BODY WASHED ASHORE.
Chinese Sailor From the Grew of the
Rio de Janeiro.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.-The
body of a Chinese sailor, undoubtedly
one Of the crew of the Rio de Janeiro,
has been picked up on the Marin coun-
ty side of the bay. 1t is expected that
other bodies will soon drift ashore.
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British Think They Have as
Many Men as They Require.
De WET PROVES TOO SPEEDY
Believed That Beers VIII Recover From Re-
cent Rout In Few Days Burden on
English Taxpayers Much
Increased.

LONDON, March 5.-The war office
has Issued orders stopping the recruit
ing Of yeomanry. on the ground that
the government already has as many
men as are required
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CHINA WANTS INTERPosITIoN.

I
LONDON, March 5.-"F.ussia. having
demanded prompt ratification Of the
Manchurian agreement by Emperor
Kwanc Hsu. the Chinese government
wired its ministers abroad asking for
interpretation" says the Pekin corres-
pondent OF the Morning Post. Great
Britain. Germany, Austria-Hungary
and Japan have threatened to take ae-
tor against China If she permits Rus
sia's dictatlon.
THE Washington government, wnicn
/. the most friendly to Russia, may
persuade her to forego a protectorate
over Manchuria as preventive Of en-
croachments by other powers leading
to the disintegration of China.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-06

WASHINGTON. March 5,-Captains
r. ID. Evans and II. c. Taylor, having
been advanced Ave numbers for SER
vice at the battle Of Santiago were
commissioned as rear-admirals, to date
from February H. last.
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INDIANA LEGISLATURE
House ADOPTED Joint Resolution in Fa-
vor Of Woman's Suffrage.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 5.-By a
vote of 50 to So, the lower house of
the Indiana legislature today adopted
a joint resolution for a constitutional
agreement providing for woman's snf-
rrage in this state.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-06
INAUGURAL FIREWORKS.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-The In
augural display of fireworks postponed
from last night on account of the In
clement weather took place tonight.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-06
BOXER ACTIVITY.

BERLIN. March 5.-COunt Won Wal
ders,e has ordered troops to occupy
Chan Ting, IS kilos north Of Pekin.
where the Boxers are active.
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LIEUTENANT FOUND DEAD.
New Yorker Had One Spree Too Many
in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.-Walter
E. Stewart, jr, OF New York, and for
merly second lieutenant Of the Third
infantry, was found dead In pubic
square this morning, He mad peen
drinking heavily. fr
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-06
HIGHEST TREASURY RESERVE.

WASHINGTON March o. The
amount Of gross gold in the treasury
today was s4S9,4l2,15S, the highest point
ever reached in the history Of the gov
ernnlent.
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AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-Thls was
day of much handshaking and little
business al the White House.
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DONATION TO VASSAR.

POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y, March O.
John d. Rockefeller has given $4,000
to vassar College for new dormitory.
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WHEAT MARKET.

PORTLAND, March 5.-wheat, Wal
Ia Walla, 55956.
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CAPTAIN COMMISSIONED,

r. d. Evans and II. c. Taylor Made
-A&mlrals.
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CHICAGO, March 5.-Wheat, May.
opening, 75hQ75%; closing, 75ss475A.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-03-06

SAN FRANCISCO. March 5.-Wheat
May, 9S9s; cash, 95.
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LIVERPOOL. March 5.--wheat. July.
IS. 1l5sd.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

apparatus similar to a Morse telegram
relay, thus making a circuit, which IS
broken as the magnet moves on and tho
spring pulls down the armaturo. Each
Of these clocks operates an instrument;
that Is to say, regulates the clock work
Wh}ch drives q visual, Photographic, Or
photometric telescope, as the case may
pc, Keeping 1t fixed on a star. Each clock
IS carefully regulated I'd work with a CIV
en- instrument and q table of weights
pre2qred, so that by putting on or taking
on the weights on the pendulum shelf a
clock will keep a given instrument exact
ly following star.
Besides these clocks. there Is also an
instrument originally designed and lately
called q "commutator," and a clock
work device with a horizontal shaft car
rylng brass discs, which make a com
p!ete revolution in one hour, moving
every minute, and regulated by one of the
CLOCKS Resting against the edge of each
alsG Is little lever with g miniature
the disc is solid the lever does no work,
put where 1t is cut away the lever drops
forward and establishes an electrical
connection, taking the place of the finger
N the Key In taking sidereal time. Thus
the ten discs simultaneously control ten
dlfferent pieces of apparatus. scattered
all over the grounds, and yet, with far
greaIeC accuracy than any person could
pretend to secure.
For instance as now arranged the first
d1sc has slots cut in it so that once an
ttOuA uuA ing NLe ulBnL the shutter on the
camera attached to the 15-inch reflector
or mirror, far out On the grounds. opens
Tor Two minutes closes for two minutes,
opens Tor one minute, closes for two min
uteS, opens for two minutes And then
closes for the rest of the hour leaving
on the plate trail of a circumpolar star
FOR r., example like this: = -.
The next disc has three slots which
every twenty minutes set off the funny
little transit photometer the local clock
WORK or Which sets it kicking two sec
onds at time completely around. Gov
erlng TWO degrees at q kick as # photo
long. al 44'7N'
Another disc keeps telescope pointed
Tor ten minutes on a star then releases
1t for minute in which period there il
not time for the star to make an impress
sion on the plate and then arrests the
camera Tor another ten minutes and 80
on all night, making q series of photo
graphs, like successive dots. Of O. star.
II Is by these plates that variable stars.
Where the light is cut off by O revolving
DARK companion, are photographed.
Otner discs move the plate instead OF
the telescope, producing The same ef5s #
and each disc does It's own work on -fims
and without failure. And eli The discs
traVellng together are electrically driven
Py a CLOCK carefully regulated BY com
parlson with the standard. All the in
sTruments, from the fve-inoh transit
Pn9toneter to the eight-inch and eleven
men Draper Photographic telescopes.
are photographing the sky every nigbf
az Cambridge, and the same methods,
PIanned at Cambridge, with Instruments
Quit IN this country. are applied to tbe
same KIND Of work the year round under
the southern Cross in far distant Peru
ana just now In halfway Jamaica
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

sooner than 1t would if the earth were
not travelling ON its orbit but only re-
volving on it's axis.
While for ordinary purposes a single
vertical thread in the meridian circle
would suffice, it is not accurate enough
for science, and so seven vertical cross
hairs are set on each side of the one
which represents the meridian the mean
or average time Of a star crossing them
being taken as it's time of crossing the
meridian, reducing the possible error to
a very email amount. 1t is here that e.ec-
tricity in its close partnership with time
in astronomical work makes its first APP
pearance in the Harvard observatory. By
the side of the observer using the merid-
ian circle is an ordinary telegraph key
AS a given o'clock star" passes each
cross hair the observer touches the key,
which is connected with chronograph or
time-register. This is an instrument with
a cylinder which revolves once every
minute and carries a sheet Of paper ON
which fountain pen rests, making,
normally, parallel straight spirals around
the paper, for as the cylinder turns It
automatically moves to a barely percepti-
bic degree toward one end. When the
key at the meridian circle is pressed, an
electrical connection is broken which
operates miniature magnet, thus moving
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

all Western Pennsylvania. In Eastern
Massachusetts the Harvard observatory
had an important standard time plant,
owning its own wires, which fairly crisis
crossed Boston and it's suburbs But the
increased use of high potential currents
for electric lighting and street railway
purposes increased the liability of crossed
currents and resultant fires, so that a
few yGSAS ago the corporation voted 1t
expedient to abandon the outside service,
especially in view of the fact that the
naval observatory at Washington had
begun furnishing, time free to all corners,
so that the telegraph companies were
able to distribute it generally throughout
the country.
In spite Of this change, however, each
observatory still finds it necessary to de-
term1ne it's own time. Far advanced as
is the skill Of the clock makers who work
for scientists, they cannot compete in. ac-
curacy with a time star" Carefully
as Washington may handle it's work, the
sky may be overcast there while clear
elsewhere, so that greater accuracy
would be attained if several observatories
in different parts of the country were
to cooperate in determining the stand
ard time to be used by all.
All astronomical and many astro-physi-
cal observations and calculations are bas-
distributed by electricity, controls the
greater part of the purely mechanical
work Of observing. This electrical distri-
button has been carried further perhaps
by the staff Of the Harvard observatory
than elsewhere; not only in the plant on
the highest land in Cambridge, but at the
branch station at the foot of Ell Misti In
the mountains of Arequipa, Peru, and the
temporary station at Auandeville on the
Blue mountains of Jamaica, B. w. I
The determination Of the time at the
Harvard observatory. which Is typical Of
the work at the others, Is with the eight
inch visual meridian circle, a telescope on
mighty masonry piers that swings ever
in the meridian Of Cambridge. but which
can swing so as to follow the meridian
from one horizon to the other The mid
die vertical thread of spider web ia it's
field follows the meridian as the operator
moves the telescope and when a star
crosses that vertical thread he knows that
it crosses the meridian.
This IS the fundamental method Of
time-telling by stars. The celestial
heavens are the mightiest and yet the
most infinitely accurate clock that exists,
A given star crosses the meridian at Just
such an interval and nothing short Of
catastrophe involving the probable de-
struction Of the earth, can change that
interval. The interval Is not, however,
the same as one revolution Of the earth
on it's axis-or twenty-fotr hours-as one
would naturally think, but is a sidereal
day, of 20 hours, &c minutes and 400 Sec
onds, 866 Of these days equaling, approx
imately, calendar year; the reason for
the discrepancy being that as the earth
revolves on It's axis 1t is also travelling
round the sum- so that It's position toward
the fixed stars changes a trife each day,
a given star coming into view trife
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05

the pen, which is drawn aside for an In
slant. If a touch ON a key is moment
airy. the pen moves aside and then right
back, leaving an 1nvertedP V-shaped
mark. If the key should be held down,
the top of the inverted would be fiat
tened. the length Of the fairness measur-
ing the time the key was held down
Meanwhile the standard clock also has
been sending in It's record to the chrono-
graph. operating the pen. AS the clock
pendulum swings back and forth it
makes and breaks a circuit which causes
the pen to move back and forth so that
an inverted V representing the pendulum
beat appears at regular intervals. When
star crosses a thread at the same time
as beat the marks coincide, but where
one is just before or just after the other
the top Of the V Is 1attened.
The vertical threads in the field of the
telescope are so fine that a magnify
ing eye-piece is used, in which only
few threads at a tine are seen. BY
placing the threads at different inter
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
USE o. CLOCK Stars
THE ONLY ACCURATE THsfE IS THAT
FURNISHED BY CERTAIN HEA-
VENLY IUlIINARIEs
FUNCTION OF oBsERvAroR1Es
On This Depends Our Time and Nav
tgation-Master Clocks Which
Regulate Distant In
struments.

Special Correspondence Of the Globe.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 1.-The de-
termination of the real and exact time
is one Of the most important functions
of an astronomical observatory. 1t is the
foundation on which all time IS based;
on which the navigation Of the seas de-
ponds, and every owner Of a good atch
is indebted to astronomers for its accu-
racy, secured by regulating it to ''star
time" In former days each observatory
supplied standard time to the country
Immediately surrounding it. The Ale
gheny observatory, for instance, stand
ardized'' Pittsburg, Allegheny City and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
Lake MInnetonlSa Trains - Great
Northern Railway.

Effective a. M Monday, May 9th.
Great Northern trains will run 60 and
from Lake Minnetonka as follows: Leave
m. daily except Sunday; 5:55 p. M every
day, 9:35 a. m. Sunday only. Return
ing: Leave Spring Park $40 a. m. and
$40 p. m. every day and 7:25 every day
schedule may be had at city ticket office.
3S2 Robert street, corner Of Fourth
Patrons will please take notice that
instead of May 4th. as previously an
nOunced.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
AMERICAN SHIP SUBSIDIES.
British Owner Says Would he DetrI-
mental to British Trnde.

LONDON. May AT the annual meet
ing Of the Leyland Steamship line today
Chairman Ellerman declined to discuss
the sale of the line to J. Pierpont Nor
gan & Co. until a special meeting was
called to take the matter up. Reviewing
last years business, Mr. Ellerman re-
ferred to the congressional discussion OF
the subsidy bill as "a period of some anX-
iety." An American subsidy, he added,
would be detrimental to British trade
and might make it next to impossible to
while British ships could not expect gov
eminent aid
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
DROWNED WITH THEIR BABES
Tragic Tale of Disaster on River
Dnieper, in Russia.

LONDON, May A special dispatch
from Odessa, dated April &c, purports to
give an eye witness story of the recent
ferry boat disaster on the river Dnieper,
near KatchkaroVka when almost a
hundred mothers, with their babies, re-
turning from the evening milking, were
drowned A sudden storm sprang up,
there was a panic, the pontoons We're
swamped and only few of those on the
ferry were saved by a boat. Three per-
sons chung to horse " hich swan
ashore. Practically every family in the
village was rendered motherless by the
disaster.
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DEATH ON THE LAKES.
Tug Tecumseh Sinks - Captain and
Two Others Drowned.

LITTLE CURRENT. Great ManitouIin
Island Ont, May 3.-The steamer Ger
manic reports that last night, when Of
Gore Bay light, the tug Tecumsek was
sighted in disabled condition. The
captain Of the tug asked that he be lowed
to Gore bay, and the Germanlc gave her
line. After proceeding some distance
the captain Of the Tecumseh hailed the
steamer saying they were sinking. The
tug was brought longside, and two mcn
and woman were taken oft. when the
tug suddenly lurchcd and sank, carrying
down with it the captain, whose name
was not sScertained, his sister and 4
Toronto man named Forbes.
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RAP AT BOARD OF TRADE.
Kansas City Concern Says 1t Does a
EucIetshoD Eusinegs.,

KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 4.-The Chris
tie Grain and Stock company toTa,- 9Ie5
an answer to the suit brought by the
Chicago Board Of Trade to restrain the
company from using the complaiuants
quotations, on the ground that it is q
bucketshop. Tho defendant alleges that
the board Of trade does similar busi-
ness to that of the bucketshop, and asks
the court to 80 find; 1t also prays the
court to declare void the contract be-
tween the Board Of Trade and the teIe-
graph companies, by which the telegraph
companies are given the exclusive right
to send quotations to such persons as
PENDANT making the claim that the quo
tations belong to the public and aleg-
ing that such contract IS in violation
OF the interstate commerce act and Jae
pool and trust law of Missouri
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
SEALS HARD TO GET.

Fleet Arriving at Victoria, u. c., ne
ports Having Made Small Catches.
VICTORIA. D. c.. Nav 4-Teh follow
ing sealing schooners have arrived here
and report the following catches, the low
est for some years: Lottie I. Alger. 2I4;
Triumph. us; Ocean Belle, 10; Florence
NJ. Smith, 352; Favorite. 161; Viye, SS2;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
BRITISH EXPORT COAL TAX.
Miners Undecided whether to Strike
or Not To-

LONDON. May 4-There were scores
OF meetings today in the coal districts
and there was evidence Of the intelYNe
interest in the tax question felt by both
miners and owners. But the results of
the conferences show the miners are by
no means so unanimous as expected In
supporting q general strike. Chairman
Briggs. of the joint Cancellation board Of
the Yorkshire miners, has issued a man
though he is strongly opposed to the i'm
post, he considers it most unwise to take
such a grave step as stopping the col
Heries. Several miners councils have is-
sued similar advice to the men.
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MONEY TO CHARITY.
Massachusetts, Woman Bequeaths
$125,OOO to Public Institutions.

|AA0,OUO TO Public InstitutiOns.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. May 4.-The Will
Of Mary Shannon Of Newton, filed In the
Middlesex probate court today, cOntlf-
public institutions. Hampton Va) Nor
nal and Agricultural institute gets $40
Co., and Tuskegee (Ala.) institution Kit
tren IN. c. Normal and Industrial
school for negroes, Atlanta (Ga) uuiver-
sity and Mallalieu seminary for poor
whites, Ktnsey, Henri county Ala
5000 each. Massachusetts, Institutions
receive $4,000 Wellesley college IS gly-
en- $15,O0O to be expended in free schoIsf
ships and the American Purity alliance,
of Jersey City, 5000
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
LOUIS NAPoLEQN,s CRADLE.
Presented to the City Of Paris by
Ex-EmDress EuGenIe.

PARIS, May 4-E9- Empress Eugene
has presented the municipality Of Paris
with the cradle Of the Prince Louis Ma
poleon, who was killed in the Zulu war
The cradle Is a superb work Of art. The
body is made Of rosewood and IS dec
GRATED with enamels in antique silver
silver and statue holds the imperial
crown In gilt and bronze over the pill
low, which is white satin embroidered
in gilt with the letter IN" The cradle
was originally a gift from tho munici-
patty Of Paris to Empress Eugene and
is very costly. It has been previously
kept at Chiselhurst, where the eX-em-
press resided before she moved to Farm
borough
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-05
CHILD DIES OF THIRST.
Five-Yenr-OId Wandered Onto Horse
Heaven Plains, Washington.

Heaven Plains, Washington.
PROssER. Wash, May with her
hands and mouth stained from tho
grass and flowers she had eaten in her
drawn in the dying agony Of thirst. the
body Of tho flve-year-old daughter Of
W. B. Mathews, former county commits
sioner, who lost her way in the drcary
wastes Of Horse Heaven plains nearly n
week ago, has been found by scarchCrs.
The child IN her agony had crawled into
q badger hole, where she was found.
e eFd 6 5a99 bgPen da9d Of abd the G9q the
hcurse. so for five days and nights che
had been without food and water.
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Llbbe, 178; Anoka. IS. and R. I Me-

ddaibbe, 173; Anoka, 70. and r. I. Morse.
Among the catch were three seals
branded by the United states on prfh-
lon islands They We're taken south or
Cape Flattery. But for the schooner
Victoria springing her mainmast the
fleet suffered no injuries during the re-
cent gales. The season was not remark
ABLE for. very rough weather but was
too rough to permit boats being lowered
were seen they could not be approach
ed.
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was accepted and the body adjourned.
In the unparalleled confusion, but few
were aware of my Illumination, and /
gladly let it pass-in fact I was weh
pleased to be rid of the whole business.
I will only add that the motion was never
reconsidered. got this idea however, II
you wish to be effective in blocking or
in securing legislation br sure to get hold
of the organization. If Redmond and his
associates instead of struggling with the
shameless policemen would make a rush
for the speaker, or an attack on the
ministers, they would be far more eff
fective.
CLOSING DAYS.
The closing days of the present general
assembly are free from violence, but
they are full of revel and bloodless riot.
Looked at from a certain point of view
it's work sums up an excellent comedy;
from another point of view, 1t is pathet-
ic-almost tragical. It is largely Re-
publican, and Of course that party has
managed everything. 1t met in jan
uary but nothing was accomplished until
a few days ago, because the good man
in the speakers chair, the firm friend
and guide Of the country members, stood
like stone wall against the schemes and
Vaccinations of the bad man, Mr.. Lori
mer, who led "the gang" against the
treasury of the commonwealth. These
men were deadly enemies, and neither
would yield an inch. It was truly won
derful Mr.. Sherman would have 70
fooling; the body would do business or
go home. Mr.. Lorimer would do no
business except such as he chose to die
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HAD DIZZINESS AL OVER HER.

The popularity high
OF Rlpans no one can deny;
Son, uncle and brother
Tumble over each other
AS they hurry the tabules to bu