The National tribune., 1907-07-04

appointment to which has made posi-
BILE the retirement of mapv a member
besides Mr.. Bryce. is purely a nominal
office, without emoluments or duties
The Chiltern Hundreds.ait may be said
in passing, are three so-called manors
I Stoke, Desborough. and Ronenham, In
Buckinghamshire, which formerly be.
longed to royal deInesne. The liberat.
ing stewardship is now granted as q
matter of course to any member of tbs
lower House who desires an honorable
discharge from his legislative duties.
i Among the letters that recently came
to the Dead Letter Office from Mexico
as unclaimed" was one written 81
years ago 1t was written in 1877,
and addressed to othe Captain of {
schooner. Inclosed was a note, in 8
child's characteristic scrawI:
Dear Father. love you and I wan
you to come home. I shall be six thi:
week.-Robie"
The publicity given this letter at the
time resulted in the receipt of a note
yesterday from Capt o. W. French
| Lincolnville, Me, stating that he had
read an account OF the return of the
old letters. He says he was Captain ol
the schooner Flora Conden of Belfast
Me-, which WAS at Minatitlan. Mexico
in March and April. 1877. and he had
a son who wrote him notes at that time
This led the writer 20 believe the letter
belonged to him and he desired tc
have it restored to him.
Capt. French wrote: "Am glad
be able to say that all parties. includ-
| ing the schooner, are still on deck, the
son being a resident of San Francisco
having passed through quake and fra
safely, and the letters will be truly
relics of by-sone days
The Post Office Department will
forward the letters to Capt. French
! Many of the letters returned from
Mexico were written at points around
| New Orleans, La. Others We're written
from ports along the New England
coast, from which vessels sailed for
MEXICAN seaports. The letter. were
unearthed in a sailors post-ofice and
promptly forwarded to Washington.
For the first time the courts of the
District of Columbia viii have to deal
with suit for maintenance instituted
by fuil-blooded Indian woman against
her husband. also an Indian.
Mrs. Rosa La Flesche. who filed suit
Monday against her husband, Francis La
Flesche, a clerk in the Indian Bureau
here. wGs married little more than
year ago. Mrs. La Flesche is Chip
pa"'a, while her husband is OF the
Omaha tribe. of which his father was
Chief and of which he might have been
head had he cared to give up his as
sociations in the East and live among
mis- people.
Mr.. Ia Fiesche is a writer. a grad
uate of The National University Law
School of this city, and a strap
ping, great big fellow, who has been
spoiled by education and injudicious
hattery. He is not brilliant just plain.
ordinary Indian. and looks it. He is
"becfA' and undeniably lazy at every
thing but books.
Former Senator William T. Chand-
Ter. while making no announcement as
Yet Of his candidacy for Governor OF
Few Hampshire. has given statement
which leaves no d0Hbt that he is in th,.
hands of his fFienas and that he be-
Heves there is an 9exceilent chance of
defeating the old nHachTne which few
years ago retired HIN from the Senate.
Any one wishing to risk decapitation
at 40 cents day can be accommodate
with job by the Japa nese Government
right away quick. .Hn There are other
chances thrown in sas an inducement.
You may die of nfalarial fever or YOU
may get snake biten,l and thero are
several other chaTeas for your family
to collect your iifeuinsurance But tha
jobs are waiting and any one who
wants theEa can getithem. 1t is in col
lectinS cannhor in Formosa and the
Information is confidedEto the Rureau
OF Ma Manura:tures by Consul J. II. Ar
mold of T'aElsui
The Japacese Government has Drac-
tically a monopoly Of the camphor mar
k"t of the world. There are a good
many scattered camphor trees in Fu-
chau province in China, but they are
being ruthlessly cut down. and UP to
daie tAera has been nothing done 10
replace them. There is being small
la; levied on camphor and camyhor
OIL in China now. and this will raise
about $4,000 year, which is to be
devoted to rep'anting camphor trees
thtt Is. SO I1u. n Of this sum as does not
stick with the tax collector But cam
pior is slow-growing tree. taking
about 80 years to mature into "a good
producer, and at the end of that time
ii Is cut down TO get tln camDhor, so
camphor-foreSt planting is a better Oc-
cuDation for the second generation than
it is as a revenue producer for the pres
ent.
For the benefit of people who do not
know how conphor is produced ii can
be said briefly that the tree Is chopped
dp into chips and these are distilled in |
water over a wood fire. BY this crude |
method camphor is accumulated. and |
then this rough product has to be sent |
70 the refineries to be clarified The |
japanese Government produces about |
80 per cent of the worlds camphor.
and Of this about 30 per cent is taken |
by the cs,iulCid manufacturers
The bulk of the worlds camphor
comes from Fornosa, and the japanese |
Government has the monopoly of the
The lowlands that are
Easy Of access have been pretty well
cut over and the forests that are In |
reach now are in the mountainous dis
tricts. where the head hunters reside |
one company sent 1000 coolies into
these hills recently and 33 per cent of
them died of malaria. OF the rest the |
head hunters and the native snakes
and insects harvested a large number |
AS the laborers were paid only 40 cents |
a day and could make half that much
In the less strenuous work of the low
lands, there is a sort of paucity of labor |
in the camphor market.
A staff correspondent of the Baltimore
sun, who has been browsing around |
down at Annapolis, sends his paper n |
dispatch which IL extremely illuminate
nS as to the struggles in which naval |
officers must constantly engage in order
70 keep out of debt. Extravagances en-
forced by the eXigencieS of their posi-
ton consume their meager pay. and
relief at the hands of Congress- in the
sorrn of higher stipends. is imperativeIy
needed