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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Czarina Is a Vandal.
- New YORK commercial Adyertiser.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
A peculiar alteration made by the czarina
has been much talked about and criticised
in st. Petersburg. She has had the study
of Alexander II, which UP to now has been
preserved untouched, turned into a bath
room In this room Alexander II signed
the manifesto which abolished serfdom in
Russia. and thus gave liberty to $4,000, goo
of his subjects. However long may 1--we
I shall never be able to do better deed"
Expressed the wish that the room should re-
main lust as 1t was. For forty years mo-
body touched this sacred spot. But now.
by order Of the cxarina, all the documents
q lumber room. The imperial library Ia g.
Petersbu. has taken steps TO have At least
the historical documents saved.
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small cross streets that,flie between Upper
Baker street and Lissons Grove, until she
stopped before a small, gather respectable
looking house half way along a short side
street, and taking her key from her pocket
entered. ri
In the small hall it was quite dark, but
she struck a match and lit a cheap paraffin
candle which stood therein readiness then
led me upstairs to a small sitting room on
the first floor, dingy, stuffy little place Of
character which showed me that she and
her father lived in lodgings. She set the
lamp on the table 81 and saying that she
would go and acquaint the invalid with my
arrival, went out, closing the door quietly
after her. The room was evidently the
home Of a studious off poor, man, for in a
small deal bookcase knoticed, well-kept and
well-arranged. numberfof standard works
on science and theology. sas well as various
volumes which told xme imutely that their
owner was student. while upon the table
lay couple of critical reviews, with the
Saturday and Spectator"
l took up the latter and glanced it over
in order to pass the time; for my conduct
ress seemed to be in long consultation with
her father My eye caught an article that
interested me. and / read it through, for
getting for moment all about my call
there. Fully ten minutes elapsed, when of
a sudden heard the voice of a man speak
Ing somewhat indistinctIy In a room above
that in which I was sitting. He seemed to
be talking low and gruf1y, SO that was UNI
able to distinguish what was said. AT last,
however the girl returned and, asking me
to follow her. conducted me to a bedroom
on the next floor.
The only illumination was single night
light burning In saucer, casting faint,
uncertain light over everything. and shaded
with an open book SO that the occupant
of the bed lay In deepest shadow. Unlike
what one would have been expected to find
in such a house Ian iron bedstead with
brass RAID the bed was q great old-fash-
Toned one. with heavy wool damask hang
ings: and advancing toward 1t. while the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
CHAPTER Xxx.
My New Patient.

In the feverish restlessness of the Lon
don night. with it's rumbling market wagons
and the constant tinkling Of cab bells, so
different to the calm, moonlit stiffness of
tho previous night in rural England, ]
wrote long explanatory letter to my
love.
admitted that I had wronged her by
my apparent GOODNESS and indifference, but
sought TO excuse myself on the ground
OF the pressure OF work upon me. She
knew well that was not a rich man, and
in that slavery to which was now tied
I had an obJect-the object 4 had placed
before her In the dawning days OF our az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
CHAPTER XIX.
Jevons Grows Mysterious.

On coming down to breakfast on the fol-
lowing morning found Mrs. Mvart await
Ing me alone. The old lady apologized for
Mary's non-appearance. saying that 1t was
her habit to have her tea in her room, but
that she sent me a message of farewell.
Had it been at all possible 1 would have
left by later train, for l was extremely
anxious to watch her demeanor after last
nights clandestine meeting, but with such
a crowd of patients awaiting me 1t was
Imperative to leave by the first train. Even
that would not bring me to Kings Cross
before nearly IL o'clock.
well, now, DOCTOR" Mrs. Mivart COM
menced rather anxiously when we were
seated and she had handed me my coffee.
"You saw Mary last night. and had an OPP
portunity of speaking with her. What is
your opinion? Don't hesitate to tell me
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
MI. Lynch as a Queller Of Riots.

About this time foreigners were brought
into the coke regions and all sorts of trou-
BILE resulted. The riotous element held full
sway, and mine and county officials hid
themselves because drink-crazed strikers
swore that they would kill the first Amer
lean who attempted to interfere with their
anarchistic dongs. Everybody was scared
everybody except Tom" Lynch. Despite
the pleading of friends this small man
would walk into the midst of a group or
strikers and order them to scatter to their
homes; and they obeyed. He did more to
uuell riots in the Connellsville region than
dozen officials. So Mr.. Lynch was made
superintendent of everything that Flick and
Carnegie owned in the coal and coke line
Five years ago, when Mr.. Frick retired.
Mr. Lynch took his place as president OF
the coke company. He is worth about
50 100000.
The story of how Mr.. Charles NJ. Schwab
became one of Mr.. Carnegie's most trusted
lieutenants has already been told many
times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22
THE B0ER OF THE PRESENT.
1t Took Time for Him to Learn thar
He Was Beaten.

Edgar Wallace. in London Mail
The days of war were not very far be-
hind him when he began to realize a great
truth, and il has so sobered him that he
does not seem like the Boer we knew of
other days. but rather civil, quiet-spoken
improvement on the old pattern-improved
out of recognition. For the truth that has
come so slowly is the fact that he is a
badly beaten man. The men whom he had
expected to meet, the brother. the father
the friend-what of them? He had believed
that they were with other commanders
or, at the worst, in the hands of the hos
pitabe British When war was over he
waited for them TO appear, with all the
pleasure of anticipation. The missing ones
came not. but I'm their place came. or sent
the folks who had seen them die or had
helped to bury them. This was the first
SOLDERING draught that came TO the Boer
The Boer losses were much heavier than he
had been led to believe.
In Great Britain there are unfortunately.
many homes desolated by war; there are
vacancies which even time. that fell de-
stroyer OF ideal who turns the beautiful 10
commonplace. can never fill But think of
a nation no single member of which but
has lost a relative.
/ think I am right In saying that no one
Boer family in South Africa came un-
scathed through the war. and not one-third
of the losses were ever realized until the
war ended. The little village ciiques were
broken and scattered. the little makeshifts
for society were devastated. the dorp ora
cles whose illogical periods had filled the
sunlit spaces where the drowsy oxen dozed.
whose rude fingers had spun the wheel
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other vegetables largely, the total output
of the United States in 1900 being en. 2ls. s93
pounds, valued at s13926,72l.
Corn, peas. beans. pumpkins, sweet po-
tatoes, gumbo or okra, and succotash
helped to swell the total product of canned
vegetables in the United States to liz, 467,-
073 pounds. worth s45,s79.54S. 1t is within
the memory Of midde-aged persons when
none of these varieties Of canned vegeta-
bles were on the market; now they are an
important factor in winter living. The loss
Of the tomato crop in this State would have
been felt throughout the United States, and
would have affected the price of canned
tomatoes to millions of people. Indiana's
output of tS272, 9S4 pounds of tomatoes in
1900. and considerably larger now, feeds a
great many people. and its loss would be
materially felt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22

The following from statement in yester-
days Journal puts the case of Mr.. Holtz-
mans overcharges as prosecuting attorney
so clearly that it is worth repeating and
emphasizing:
1t is claimed by attorneys who have gone
carefully into the law that Mr.. Hoffman
had no more right to file a claim against
Marion county for his services as prosecut-
ing attorney in this circuit than he would
have had to file claim for such services
against any bank or business establishment
In this city. The law provides explicitly
now the prosecuting attorney shall be paid
for his services. He is paid $500 per year
salary from the State treasury and in adj
dition he shall receive certain fees from
partles successfully prosecuted by him.
When he filed a claim against the county
for additional compensation for his serv-
ices as prosecuting attorney, whether in the
Criminal Court or any other court, he was
doing thing for which no law provides
and which he had no right to do When he
took the money from the county treasury
he took that which belonged to the people.
not to him, and to which he had not the
shadow of just claim. Not only had he
no right to file these claims or to take the
money from the county, but the statutes of
Indiana make 1t a criminal offense for him
to do SO, and the same laws were in force
and effect during all the time he was in
office.
The laws of Indiana make it a penal
offense. punishable by fine and imprison-
ment. if a public officer, "by color of his
Office, asks, demands or receives any fee
or reward other than as allowed by law,
to execute or do his official duty" The
Supreme Court has held repeatedly that a
public official holding salaried office shall
receive only the salary fixed and prescribed
by law Where does this leave Mr. Holtz-
man who. during two terms as prosecutor,
claimed and received $500 in excess of the
salary of the office?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22
DEMOCRATIC UNCERTAINTY.

In his Chillicothe speech Senator For
aker touched upon very important point
when he discussed the lack of uniformity
sincere programme of legislation. 1t is
not matter of dispute that the Democratic
platform in national affairs, as we'll as in
State and local campaigns. is made up with
the sole purpose of catching votes. If the
party succeeds in an election it is then a
matter of guesswork as to what it will or
will not do. Senator Foraker recalled the
last Democratic effort at legislation in the
following paragraph:
So long as they are out of power no
harm is done, but If they should be restored
TO power such dissensions would of them
selves paralyze all their efforts and visit
upon the country again the disastrous ex-
periences to which we were subjected in
1893. when, for the same reason, they found
themselves unable to legislate about the
tariff and because of that inability and
their laundering errors lost the confidence
OF the business interests and plunged the
whole country into a disastrous and long
continued panic.
Every man remembers 1893 and the i'm
mediately following years. The memory of
the sufferings in most households is not
likely to die out for a generation. There
were, of course, various causes for the
general smash of business, but the great
big contributing factor was the long period
of dread uncertainty as to what the party
then in power was likely to do on the sub
ject of the tariff. The House passed the
Wilson BILL a very radical measure, which
would have meant very violent change
Of base for all American industry. Then
followed struggle Of months in the SEN
ate, with the President doing everything
in his power to force the Wilson bill
through and few of the Democratic SEN
ators holding out for a less radical meas
ure. In the meantime, of course, industry
halted and commerce fell fiat Men would
not buy goods that might have half their
value knocked out in a day. Men would not
manufacture when the next week might
see prices for their product that would not
more than pay for the raw material.
This meant general stagnation until some
thing definite should be settled upon, and
this, in turn, meant idle workmen and a
sudden tremendous slump in the purchasing
power VI the peopic, SiNihS ISduy 10 manu-
all the elements of general industrial and
commercial panic. Any measure, passed
quickly, would have been less disastrous
than the uncertainty that paralyzed bus
mess.
And yet the Democratic party was far
more united in policy in 1892 and 1893 than
1t has ever been since or is to-day. If, by
any mischance. it were to come into power
in 1904 nobody would or could know for a
year what was to become of our monetary
standard or the tariff basis to which our
business is at present adjusted. BY the
time the party had threshed out its internal
differences on these propositions there
would be precious little business left in the
country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22
SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY.



"People interested In scientific forestry
win regret to learn of the suspension of the
Cornell College of Forestry. This is serious
setback for movement In practical educa-
ton from which very much in the way OF
good results was expected. Instead Of the
blow being administered by ignorant out
siders it seems to have been given by the
scientific foresters themselves.
According to all accounts. the suspen-
sion of the institution was due to the in
ability of the heads of the college to use
good judgement in constituting the purpose
Of the grants of sl65, 900 worth 10000 acres)
of forest and $4,000 in money. Since this
was done on account OF complaints of
denudation of forests by lumbermen, the
plain purpose was to aid and demonstrate
the preservation of forests. Preservation
does not mean denudation. But the college
took the ground that the purpose was to
teach the pupils how to utilize forest prod
ucts and proceeded to give the instruction
which they could have obtained in any lum-
Der camp by denuding 1,500 acres of land
in three years and replanting, according to
the legislative report, only 275. The in
struction that the State intended to secure
was how to preserve the forest by remov-
ing only the fully matured timber, leaving
the forest as whole intact This the
college appears to have wholly failed TO do
and ii is fairly chargeable with the failure
TO continue the appropriation. In view Of
the efforts being made throughout the
country in the direction of forest preserva-
ton and the urgent necessity for such
efforts the failure of this experiment in
New York is to be regretted"
The spectacle Of forestry college, sup
piled with funds by the State TO give prac-
teal instruction In forest perpetuatio
going extensively into the work OF milling
and destroying the few remaining forests
of the State as a money-making enterprise,
must awaken the friends of practical for
estry 10 the fact that so-called scientific
forestry as taught by many scientists is a
dismal failure.
What has befanen New York is about to
be accomplished in Indiana, where a saw
| mill is being erected by the Forestry Board
! as means of educating the Hoosier
| farmers In the mystery of saving the for
ests- And this upon the property bought
| pent forest reserve
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as prosecutor Mr.. Hoffman charged and
received $500 for services performed in the
line of duty over and above the salary he
was legally entitled to receive. To carry
out this charge successfully there was neces-
sary. first, deliberate preparation on the
part Of Mr.. Hoffman; second, connivance
by the County Commissioners; third, CO.
operation by Thomas Taggart. county audi
tor. By the aid of these friends in need"
Mr.. Hoffman succeeded in adding $500
out of the public treasury to the salary
which the law said should be in full for
his services. This record kills him dead
as a proposed reformer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22
THE CANNING INDUSTRY.

The tomato crop had narrow escape
during the recent cold "spell," and was
probably slightly injured in some locali-
for the year, a growing industry in Indi-
ana, and lessened by that much the supply
of what has become almost a necessity in
the way of winter food. In the way of
canned foods especially there is nothing
cheaper or more widely used than toma-
toes. Considering the universal use of
these and other canned vegetables at pres
ent. it is surprising that the canning
process was not applied long before 1t was.
1t originated in France. EARLY IN the nine
tenth century, under the stimulus of a
government reward for a method of preser-
walton Of foods for sea service. From
France it spread to England. and from
there to the United States. The early at
tempts at preserving food were confined to
fruit and glass jars. The canning of lob
sters and oysters originated in the United
States. did also the canning of vegeta-
bles, and the use of tin cans instead of
glass. At first the construction of the cans
by hand was slow and costly the manu-
facture of 100 being considered a good
days work. Now they are made chiefly
sands. For many years there was a popu-
lar prejudice against canned foods, and 1t
is only within the last twenty years that
the industry assumed large proportions. In
1900 there 1,s0s fruit and vegetable
canning establishments, with 27,743,O67 cap
dhe annual value Of $56.66s,31s. The rapid
growth of the business may be inferred
from the fact that in 1870 there were only
81 establishments. with an invested capt.
tai of 1855. 925. and an annual output OF
IS. 425677. From 1870 to 1850 the number of
from 1850 to 1890 lis per cent. and from
1880 to 1900 1O4 per cent. The wages paid
in canning establishments increased from
s771.64s In 1870 to ss.05O,7ss in 1900. When II
is remembered that the really busy season
in the canning business covers only abou,
four months. 1t is evident that a large
number of persons are employed at good
wages. Indiana stands ninth In the num-
Der of canning establishments. having G.
in 1900. while New York reported Sill, Mary
land 271. California 1876. Michigan IS, vir.
ginia S. New Jersey 73 Ohio 10 and ILL
nois 6l The capital invested In the bust.
ness in Indiana in 1900 was sl.2O5. 499. the
average number of wage-earners employed
2.O0O the wages paid 1885, 457, and the value
of products SIS $685. While Indiana ranked
ninth in number OF canning establishments
she ranked fifth In value of products, being
exceeded only by California. Maryland
| New York and Illinois. or four establish
ments in the United States that employed
| over 1000 persons. two were in Indiana
one in New York and one In Maryland. II
the number of pounds of canned shrimp
and vegetables turned out during the yeal
Indiana stood third. being exceeded onl,
by Maryland and New York. In tomatoe,
Indiana stood third. in corn sixth, in pea.
| fourth. in beans fifth, in pumpkins second
| There were put up in this State s.. 272, So
pounds Of tomatoes. valued at $.2S60S7
! The tomato canning industry leads al
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-ward--what of these? Dead. or. wcise
still. traitors. Leaders still remained, but
they were leaders whose life's energies had
been devoted 10 promoting hostility to
Britain and whose faculties other than
the destructive had become atrophied by
long disuse. Relationship, comradeship.
society, all had been changed The nation
al ideals could no longer exist; they must
be reconstructed. The homes they had
lived in. the towns they were born in,
wrecked and leveled, gave them no tangi-
bic hold on the past afforded them TO loose
end TO which they might splice the new
life to the old and resume. IL meant
fresh start all over again: new grooves.
new aspirations. The war had done more
than kill, IL had made chaos. They We're
beaten. hopelessly, irreparably. The Beers
realized this very slowly for IL is not in the
nature of things that they should think
quickly, and realizing IL they have become
gentler. a better and a more friendly peo-
pie.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-22
FEW IMM1GRANTs WITH MONEY.
Small Amounts That Most of Them
Bring to This Country.
Boston Transcript

Boston Transcript.
During this season of the year immigrants
are pouring into the country through the
port of Boston by thousands, and very few
of these people who have come to make new
homes on American soil have more than ten
or twenty dollars capital to begin on. Com
missioner George b. Billings. when asked
to-day about the matter. turned TO the re-
turn sheets Of several recently arrived yes
sells, and. running them over, showed that
the figures seldom go above that limit
Many, in fact. are not under $40 merely,
but under $40. This was especially true or
the Portuguese, who, so Tar as money
goes, seem to be the poorest class Of inpai-
grants of ALL Many OF them have no more
than s. to their names when dropped at
their destinations. The Italians, OF whom
also a large number come to this port.
have sums varying from a pitiful - TO
IS, $40, $12, or even as high as SIS. Immi-
grants from other nationalities come in
with as little and with as varying amounts,
so it is impossible to lay down any general
rule.
Swedes and English speaking people are
apt to have the most money with them.
On one recent ship, which brought num-
Der of English and Scotch immigrants in
the steerage, sums like $50, $50 and $50 were
common, but this was unusual One or two
amounts that are near 500 are the average
that the steerage will have. At the immi-
grafton office a passenger with more than
500. though not exceptional. Is looked upon
as unusual Many of the steerage pas
sengers with such large amounts are
former immigrants who have been visiting
their old homes and return with drafts In
their possession.
Now and then, however. somebody with
a comparative fortune will work his way
through the commissioners routine, and ne
is as likely 10 turn up from remote and
unsupported quarters as from anywhere.
Such arrived on the Vancouver not
long ago, and strange to say, he was Jew
from Roumania, Of people oppressed and
in poverty He had no less than $500 In
his possession, and this is the largest
amount of immigrants money that the
office has heard about for some time.