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No More Hollands.

Washington-The house naval af-
fairs committee has completed the
consideration of the naval appropria-
ton bill and Chairman Foss was di-
rected to report the bill to the house.
No authorization of additional vessels
of the Holland submarine class will be
recommended by the committee at
this time. The total amount carried
by the bill is $77,OOO,OOO, an increase of
S13,000,000 over that of the present
year.
Two battleships and two cruisers are
to be contracted for under. the head
of increase of the navy
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If a hero be a man who loses all
thought of self In the effort to serve a
worthy cause, William Kridor, Chicago
fagman, deserves a niche Of his own in
the temple where the deeds of brave
men are kept green In memory. 1t was
Kridor's duty to guard the crossing of
the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad
at 33d street. He was standing near
his watchman's shanty, watching the
approach of a passenger train, when a
woman came in sight and without no
ticing the train started to walk across
the tracks in front of 1t. Kridor shout
ed warning, which was not needed.
Perhaps the woman was deaf, perhaps
she was only in a hurry. At any rate
she kept on and Kridor saw that she
would probably be struck by the train.
He had already complied with the
strict requirements of his duty, but he
was not yet satisfied. He rushed for
ward and attempted to drag the woman
back out Of the danger which threat
ened her. She resisted and in an in
slant the engine struck the two. Kri-
Z dor was crushed to death under the
wheels. The woman he was attempt
ing TO save was also struck and severe
Iy injured. Kridor's death was mod
estly mentioned in the newspapers. In
reality he deserved as much praise as
If he had risked and lost his life in
leading forlorn hope ON the battle
field. He had given all he had to give
In the interest of an unself1sh cause.
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CLARK IN AGAIN.
Gets Copper Mine Highly Valued in
British Columbia.

Vancouver, B. Cit is stated that
the Britannia Copper mine, on How
ard Sound, twenty-five miles from
Vancouver, has been sold to Senator
w. A. Clark, of Butte, Mont. it is said
that Clark's agents have been here for
the past two weeks examining the
property. The purchase price is re-
ported to be $1,10O,OOO, of which it is
understood $40. 900 is to be paid by jan
uary 10 to hold the property while
some further development work is car
ried on. Negotiations for the securing
of this mine have been in progress for
the past year on behalf of, various
English and American syndicates.
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More Resignation. at Stanford.

Stanford University is once more
passing through a period of unrest. 1t
is ali on account of additional res1g-
nations of several of it's professors
The last two to denote their disapprov-
al of the interference with free speech
are Professors Howard and Spencer
The end may not be yet for a feeling
of uncertainty and unrest peryades
the student body and even the most
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To England in Two DAYS.

'Fast electric ships crossing the
ocean at more than a mile a minute,
will go from New York to Liverpool
in two days." writes John Elfreth Wat
kins, Jr., of what May Happen in the
Next Hundred Years." in the Ladies'
Home Journal. ''The bodies of these
ships will be built above the waves.
They will be supported upon runners,
somewhat like those of the sleigh
These runners will be very buoyant
Upon their under sides will be aper-
lures eXpelling jets Of air. In this way
a film of air will be kept between them
and the waters surface. This film, to.
gether with the small surface of the
runners, will reduce friction against
the waves to the smallest possible de
gree. Propellers turned by electricity
will screw themselves through both
the water beneath and the air above
Ships with cabins artificially cooled
will be entirely fireproof. In storm
they will dive below the water anG
there await fair weather"
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A Prison Clerk Defaults.

The whereabouts of C. J. Walden,
former clerk of the San Quentin jute
mill, is still unknown, and an investi-
cation of his accounts reveal a very
bad state of affairs. Some of the prop
erty has been traced to Joseph Levy,
junk dealer, of San Francisco, and
immediate steps will be taken to pros
ecute the latter named individual. Di-
rector Fitzgerald is looking carefully
after the interests of the prison, and
is vigorously picking up evidence in
support of his position. Walden was
at one time a prisoner of the institu-
ton, but through excellent conduct
had obtained the good will and conf
dence of all.
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Married a Cuban Belle.

A. E. Frye. a form er superintendent
of schools in Cuba, has arrived with
his bride on visit to relatives in San
Bernardino and Highland. Prof. Frye,
who was married on New Years day
to Senorita Maria Terra, a beautiful
Cuban school teacher, was formerly
superintendent of schools in San Ber-
nardino and owns property near there.
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Governor Dole's report that the ma
tive Hawaiian race is dying out and be-
ing replaced by newcomers is in accord
ance with the natural progress of
events. Wherever the white man goes
he supersedes the natives, and though
he may not always eradicate them, he
takes possession Of the country and be-
comes the master. So it will be in
Hawaii. Before many generations have
passed pure-blooded Hawaiian will be
q curiosity in Hawaii itself.
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conservative members of the faculty
are candidly apprehensive. They are
concerned deeply over the future OF
Stanford. They believe the university
is passing through most critical Or
deal and only calmness, judgment and
cool discretion will carry it through
without dangerous injury to every
thing which is of material value to it.
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Andrew Carnegie, with all of his
striving and yearnings after the luxury
of dying poor, has still, it is said, some
thing like $2O,OOO,O0O standing between
him and the honorable death which he
Graves. He will have to redoubie his
activities in the way of disbursement.
Otherwise the grim messenger Is likely
to find him unprepared.
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The number of trusted men that are
found to have been long robbing the
funds in their keeping shows that pub
lie offices and private concerns ought
frequently to check up the accounts of
every man that has opportunities to
steal, no matter how much he may be
trusted.
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canoe until within the last three years.
As early as 1917 an attempt was made
in this direction. This act was amendJ
ed in 1920 to authorize the Secretary
of the Navy, under the direction Of the
President of the United States, to re-
serve such public lands as produce the
live oak and red cedar woods for the
purpose of supplying the navy with
timber for its use. Penalties We're also
provided in this act for the unauthor-
lied cutting or removing of timber
from the lands thus reserved, or from
any other public lands of the United
States. Other acts were passed in 1892,
1927 and 1881, but no national policy
OF forestry was outlined in any of these
measures. Carl Schurz, as Secretary Of
the Interior in President Hayes Cab
met, in 1877, strongly urged national
administration of the public forests and
prepared a bill to that effect, which,
however, failed of passage. There was
no further forest protection afforded
until 1891, when Secretary Noble Sc
cured the insertion of a brief clause to
the appropriation bill authorizing for
est reservations. The National Acad-
envy of Sciences next took up the fight,
and Secretary Hoke Smith, in Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration, made
an attempt to carry out a system of
forest reservation on a large scale.
Finally, by act of Congress, June 4,
1897, the present forestry law was en-
acted, which is but little more than
an expansion of that recommended by
Secretary Schurz in 1877.
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Say what you will, the unpurchase-
able man is known in his community as
the man who "needs fixing" A mans
character filters out into the commu-
nifty.
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New Salt Works.

Another salt plant is to be estab-
lished at San Diego, T. E. Metcalf of
Los Angeles and Jacob Gruendike OF
La Costa to be promoters of the under
taking. The plant will be located at
La Costa, sea water being the source
of supply. An advance in the price OF
salt has given decided impetus to the
new undertaking by Messrs. Gruendike
and Metcalf
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between Chicago-Florida lines and the
Chicago-California lines over winter
resort business. While the Florida
roads have done a good business since
the Inauguration of their limited train
service, the California lines say it has
not hurt the travel over the latter.
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According to decision Of the New
York Supreme Court, if you are in a
game of poker and loan money to an
other player with which to pay gam
bling debt, you cannot collect the
amount at law. 1t remains for HOyle
10 accept the ruling.
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The Defenders Name.

Boston.-fhe Lawson yacht advis-
DRY committee has decided to name the
cup defender America, In commemora-
ton of the original America which
won the cup.
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American Cities.

. Chicago now contains greater popu-
,lation than all the cities of the United
States contained in 1910, and New York
now has a greater population than all
the cities together had in 1850.
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More than II per cent of the walters
in Germany and 81 per cent of the wal
tresses receive no wages at all, being
expected to subsist on fees.
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They are now making artificial eggs,
but the hen may safely defy the manu-
facturer to get up an article that can be
Matched.
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Many people will be surprised to
learn that the United States has had no
national forestry laws of special signiti-
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-26

Constitutional pessimists are the bane
Of life. There are people who would
croak if they were dying.
Holbrook argus., 1901-01-26

Cyrano has company. His extraordin-
airy nose caused the apprehension Of a
counterfeiter in Chicago.
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Practical experience is deathblow
to illusions. --..
The Washington times., 1901-07-18
American Goods in England.

The lugubrious tone of our British
cousins in speaking of the industrial in
vasion OF England by the United States
is at times highly amusing. One not
somewhat familiar with the situation
would be led to suppose that Great
Britain was hanging by the eyelids over
the abyss of utter ruin. IL an Ameri-
can syndicate purchases a line of Brit
ish steamers a wall goes up from every
part Of the United Kingdom; If an
American manufacturer underbids his
English competitors and secures con-
tract for the supply of locomotives or
bridge material the fog in London in
stantly becomes many degrees thicker.
If American cotton or iron or steel or
office furniture is seen anywhere in the
British market ii is instantly seized up
on and made text for Journalistic
calamity howl that would do credit
10 any populistic newspaper in the Uni
ted States
On the othert hand, it is source of
very great pleasure to us on this side
of the Atlantic TO learn OF American
goods finding sale in the British mar
kets. Not because we desire to ruin
British industry. but because 1t be-
speaks the trenie ndous growth and
strength % our oHn. Until the United
States forged 70 the front England led
the world as an industrial nation. The
commercial policy of this country was
shaped with the especial object ip view
of warding Off English competition in
the American markets. a certain class
of American statesmen were never so
happy as when depicting the calamities
that would befall US if the cheap
goods OF England, manufactured by
cheap labor were permitted TO be
sold in anything like free competition
with our own. Now II seems that we
The Washington times., 1901-07-18
PERSONAL.

Sir John Ramsden is the richest OF all
English baronets. His income is esti-
mated to foot up $4,000 a year.
DR.. Hatoyama, a member of the Japan
ese Diet, and a prominent Jurist. will
leave Japan in September for the United
States to receive the degree of Ii. ID.
from Yale. DR. Hatoyama will deliver an
essay comparing the laws of France and
Japan.
The Duke of Newcastle Is one of the few
E.ngIishnen who still cling to trjcycling.
He rides machine ms de ir this country.
Sir Harry Johnston. who has returned to
London from Uganda, has brought with
him what is said to be the finest collcc-
tcn of photographs ever obtained in
Africa.
Sir John Leng is said to he the oldest of
the eminent London journalists now in
active service. He has just celebrated his
golden Jubilee as editor and proprietor
Ills best paying property is a popular
periodical. The Peoples Friend
jeremiah Curtin. the translator of Sien-
kiewicz's works has long been noted as
one of the most accomplished phlologists
in the world A London writer attributes
10 him more or less intimate acquaintance
with SON . seventy languages and says
that he has recently taken up the study of
Chinese.
The Oxfordshire stail at recent sale
in Earl's Court was presided over by the
Duchess of Marlborough. She was mar
fled In 1895 and has two children The
cId. 81 is the ;odsou of King Edward VII
: nd bears Il striking resemblance to his
cousin Winston Spencer Churchill. His
rame is John Albert Edward William
hurchiH Marquis of Blandford. He was
born In 1897 His brother, Lord Ivor
Charles Churchill, is three years old
The Washington times., 1901-07-18
RepubItcnn Politics.

1t is in no way surprising that there
should be at this time some lack of har-
mony in the Democratic party. We are
face to face with new Developments.
national ana international, political, in
dustrial, and social. These develop
ments strongly suggest the propriety
OF relesating some of the old issues into
the background. or of abandoning them
entirely. To pursue such course Will
of necessity involve some friction and
i'll feeling. 1t goes without saying that
it will be the aim of the Republican
leaders to foment .inharmony among
Democrats in every possible way.
Under any circumstances and at any
time they naturally would do this. but
now they have an especial incentive to
pursue such a course.
The truth is that at bottom there is
no more harmony in the Republican
party than there is among its oppo-
nents. but the Republicans being in
power every motivv--f self-Interest
prompts them to stand together de-
spite their differences. 1t is extremely
doubtful If those who favor the policy
of President McKinley's Administra
ton in all of its leading features come
anywhere near constituting majority
of the American electorate. The result
of the last general election is in no
sense a criterion. Mr. Mckinley, as is
we'll known, received the suffrages of
hundreds of thousands of voters who
were very far from approving his gen.
eral course. Large numbers Of Demo-
Gratis voted for him because of their OBJ
jections to certain planks in their own
party platform, and he received the
support of, perhaps, an equal number
of Republicans who. while seriously
questioning the wisdom and propriety
of the Republican policy in some essen
tial particulars. were not quite pre-
pared to bolt their party. These gen
orally supported the Republican candi-
dates in the hope of being able subse-
quently 10 work out the desired re-
forms.
That the course OF the party will he
absolutely dictated by the machine of
which Mr. Hanna Is the head Is about
as certain as anything in politics ell
can !lt uiSStilti'ilt iNEDubiitdiis
will find themselves powerless. and, in
the House of Representatives at least,
they will he almost voiceless when the
next Congress convenes. We may be
sure that the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Re
publicans in the House will not be per-
mitted to do anything substantial, and
that they will only be allowed to talk
against Republican policy when. under
the ironclad rules of that body, it can
not be prevented.
At this time the Republican party
has nothing more to offer in the way Of
an affirmative policy. The President is
absolute in the Philippines. the doc
trine OF the extra constitutional powers
of Congress has, in a way, been upheld
by the Supreme Court. the trusts are in
almost complete Industrial control. and
the leaders of the party in power do not
deem II wise at this iuncture TO at
tempt anything more along their Pecu-
liar lines. They are quite content to let
matters rest as they are, and pursue q
policy of mastery inactivity Especial
ly are they desirous of suppressing
anything in the way of protest from
Republicans in Congress. The Com
mittee on Ways and Means of TIE
The Washington times., 1901-07-18
DO NOT WAR THE FLAG.

The Star would once more suggest
to the Promoting and Publicity Commit
tee of the Worlds Fair that the Old dag
the Stars and Stripes-is not thing to
be tampered with. even in tine interest OF
so great an enterprise as the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition. Do not mar its
glorious face with notices or devices OF
any kind-do not mix the French flag up
with it. except under certain conditions.
where they he entwined; do not even at
tempt to place upon the flag a map Of
the gl0rious land embraced In the pHr-
chase Itself. for Old Glory stands fer the
Union Il whole. besides. throughout all
the earth it is the beacon which is leading
all peoples up to Il knowledge of the true
meaning of freedom. 1t is all right ts
imprint a picture of the hag upon any
thing and everything that may be sent
out to advertise the fair. but do not.
under any circumstances. mar the beauty
Of the stars and Stripes by emblazon-
ing over them ANYTHING .whatever. The
flag itself is the greatest advertisement
the Worlds Fair could possibly have
st. Louis Star.
The Washington times., 1901-07-18

can produce many manufactured arti-
cles of prime utility. pay freight upon
them across the Atlantic Ocean, and
fairly compete with the English pro-
ducer in his own market. If we can do
this. it is manifest that very little arti-
fetal protection is required to preserve
the American market for the American
producer to whatever extent may be
necessary for the welfare of the coun-
try.
If we can compete With England in
the English market we have very little
to fear from any other country any
where, and we can safely adopt a COM
mercial policy that will make other ma
tions our friends rather than enemies
casting about for retaliatory measures
and combinations whereby to punish us
for our unfairness. As for England
she may find consolation in the thought
that she has to buy many things in
other countries anyway. and she may
as Well buy from us as from the na-
she does not want to buy manufactured
goods at all that she can make herself.
but probably she will have to make
large purchases even upon that line,
and it will not hurt her any more
to take them from us than it will to set
them elsewhere-not SO much if we fur
nish the best articles, and it is only
upon that basis that we can hope to
secure the trade.
The Washington times., 1901-07-18
The Prosperity Argument.

Regardless of party predictions. all
| fair minded and patriotic Americans
must desire to see the prosperity of the
country preserved upon the highest
possible plane. This is to the substan-
tial interest of all classes of people.
II is. therefore, unfortunate that the
| Republican party should so persistently
claim that all the prosperity the coun-
try ever enjoys is due to their policy.
The claim is unfortunate from every
possible point of view. In the first place,
the effect is to instill into the minds
of millions of people the idea that the
business and Industrial acGmen Of the
I nation counts for nothing--that bust
ness cannot thrive separate and apart
from the political maneuvring and
trickery of comparatively small CO.
terie Of men whose sole idea of business
is politics, and who are in politics not
as "Grones." to use Representative
Hulrs expression. but partly for glory
and partly for the money to be made.
Secondly, the effect is to prevent the
study of sound economics, a knowledge
of which is essential for an understand
ing Of the monetary and industrial con-
ditions upon which permanent and sub
stantial prosperity must rest. The
average American voter goes 10 Eis
Representative or Senator's for his
knowledge of economic principles,
when IN The most of cases neither the
Representative nor the Senators ever
bestowed an hour of careful study upon
the subject. AS partisan spirit IS
strong with the Democracy also, such
a course bv the Republican leaders has
the effect of forcing their opponents to
take issue upoa the merits Of certain
policy In about the same frame of mind
and the outcome is that questions I.ure-
" economic are frequently decided by
the voters as mere party questions, and
wholly without Tndersta nding IF the
economic principles involved
In this respect, however, the Demo-
Gratis who occupy the position of party
leaders stand primarily upon distinct
ly higher ground than do their oppo-
nents. Whatever may be their short
comings as party managers. and how
ever defective may be their knowledge
of economic principles. the Democratic
The Washington times., 1901-07-18

Yesterdays reports from the corn belt
were more depressing than ever. The To-
cal showers which have been noted prove
to have been too limited in area and too
insignificant to afford the slightest relief.
and the statement is made that. as the
situation stands, the farmers of Kansas
and Oklahoma would be glad to feel that
they were going to secure one-fourth of
a crop. Weather conditions remain at a
standstill in other parts of the drought
region, the damage increasing by leaps
and bounds under the continuance of
broiling heat and blistering winds.
The Washington times., 1901-07-18

According to the industrial census of
1895, Germany had population of 26,96l,-
Us women. OF this number 1881 per cent
were engaged in some profession or trade,
and about per cent were domestic ser
wants The former class had increased
over l. 900, 600 from 1882 to 1895; and at the
latter date 1874 per cent of the entire
working population were women. In the
clothing. textile. and foodstuffs industries
Cwhere women workers would naturally
be most numerous) female labor has tend
ed to supplant male workers For in
stance in the tailoring trades the num-
Der of men increased 1879 per cent from
lSS, to 1895. while the number of women
increased 1895 per cent. But. even in
those lines Cf industry in which the abso-
lutte number of women workers il least,
the relative number, as compared with
men has increased rapidly. 1t seems,
then, that women are pressing into new
lires of work and are practically monop-
oliZing others.
The number of married women in all
professional employments increased IS. Il
per cent from 1SS2 to 1885 whereas the
number Of single women increased by l4.36
per cent during the same period. Many
of the married women work at home
about 40 per cent. But perhaps the ad-
Vantages Of dome site surroundings are
more than offset by the unsanitary con-
ditions Of such labcr. The Investigations
conducted in Baden in lsyS revealed the
fact that in 1891. = per cent of the adult
women workers in factories were mar
ried; in 1898 they We're 30 per cent. The
cause for this element of labor is found
In the necessity of suppiementing the in
sufficient Income of the head OF the fam
lily. In proportion as the wage of the
husband and father is raised the wife and
mother can devote herself to home lu-
ties. Ii seems impossitlc-at at The present
time, however, TO prohibit married wo-
men from. working; but 1t is possible to
labor.