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Concur* 'Record. J. Sprague, United State* Gibraltar, died recently too, aged 77. He was the Of the American representatives and had been consul at Gibral­ tar fifty-thre years. He was very among the residents. Kr. Sprague waa the dean of the consular service and his reo- «MI at Gibraltar was altogether unique k 0 <&?•*« HORATIO J. SPRAGUE. 'toast eminently gratifying to'tlir snt at Washington. The aged •Dotal was born at Gibraltar, Aug. 12 1628. His father was a Bostonian, who settled in the great fortress town aaon after the war of 1812 and became * permanent resident. In 1845 young Aprague was made consul and re­ gained in that office for fifty-three ysara. He served under fourteen pres- ttonts and personally entertained of them who visited Gibraltar leaving the White House. These Fillmore, Pierce and want. The e»nsul was a warm friend of Admiral Dewey and when the hero of Manila •topped at the Rock on his way home Mr. Sprague took charge of him for • time and hospitably entertained the Cmcms sailor. During the war of the rebellion Mr. Sprague was in a most delicate position, but he carried it off 'with great credit to himself and to the cause of the North. In the late Spanish war he was placed in even a sore exacting situation, but he met It capably and well. Although he had Visited this country but once he was a patriotic and enthusiastic American. The Man on Horseback^ Commenting upon the decrease la the world's output of gold last year as compared with 1899, the Bankers' Magazine is undoubtedly right in say­ ing that but for the Boer war the gold product probably would have more than maintained itself. It Is almost as certainly wrong In saying that "the virtual demonetisa­ tion of silver as a standard of value has within the last five years given a great impetus to the discovery of new gold deposits and the development of gold mines." Gold production may have been stimulated in Colorado and some other parts of the United States by the fill in the value of silver which has been going on for much more than five years, and which cannot have been largely due to demonetization of sil­ ver The greatest of recent discoveries of gold--that in South Africa--cannot be regarded as due in any degree to silver legislation, and the output of the Transvaal mines undoubtedly would have been quite as great if no country on earth had legislated in re­ gard to silver eince 1870. It is prob­ able enough that the continued great output of gold will again arouse ap­ prehensions of a decided fall in the purchasing power of that metal, such as were expressed by the distinguished French economist Michel Chevalier after the great gold discoveries in Cali­ fornia and Australia. We may at least reasonably anticipate a cessation of the insensate clamor or free coinage of silver and that contradiction of terms known as a "double standard." So long as the gold stock is increas­ ing at the rate of $200,000,000 to $250,- 000,000 a year It will hardly be possible to make political capital by raising an uproar about the impoverishment of debtors by increasing the value of gold. With gold demonstrably falling in value that kind of uproar will not promise good dividends to ai^r advea-, turer in the world of politics^ Olit>e Schreiner a "Prisoner. Mrs Olive Schreiner-Cronwright, who Jhltp jbeen confined in a wire netting Sept. 14 is said to have been sot as the date for springing a conspiracy to Overthrow the French republic and In­ stall Prince Louis Napoleon as an em­ peror.--Extract from cablegram from Paris. of tho ldngs Mi won as a rule restricts* to 1M gul new* but on twelfth night it in eus- tomary for thousands to flfcagica hand*. On one occasion Lady Oowpar, a lady in waiting, refused, for tfea aaka of her children, to take part in tha game, as none sat down to tin table with leas than £200, About the year 1744, a rage for "whisk,** or whist, set In, but at first it waa considered too wlae a game for ladies to join in. Hume, the historian, and even the groat Johnson regretted that he had not learned to play cards. In 1746, "Horry" Waipole finds it absolutely neoeasarr to learn "whisk," "having waited la vain for its being left off." Wo flni him in another letter threatening to build an altar to "Pain" to commemo­ rate the escape of his chanting Duch­ ess of Grafton, who, It appears, had been playing ear-dfe in Rome, when she ought to have been at a cardinals reception, where the floor fell In and all the monslgnors were precipitated into the cellar! Cards were so very much in evidence in his time that erven invitations were frequently issued and notes written upon the hacks of play­ ing cards, which on that account Were usually plain without any design. The chevalier's famous order to retreat at Culloden was written on the bade of the nine of hearts. A fresh attempt was made In 1739 to remedy the state of gambling in England, by passing aa act which pro­ vided that "any person keeping a house or other place to game In for­ feits £200, half to the prosecutor and half to the poor of the parish." Whereupon two ladies of title, Mord- ington and Casselis, who kept open houses for gambling, claimed their privilege of peerage In order to In­ timidate the peace officers from doing their duty and suppressing the public gaming houses kept by them«~-l4>gg- man's Magazine. W'- * ^^doertising a* Educator. Advertising is a mode of education If which the knowledge of consumable foods is increased. It sets forth the peculiar excellence of novelties, keeps la mind the merits of staple articles, «ad thus increases the general demand tar commodities. This method of mak­ ing the public acquainted with goods has been resorted to because the mod- ant system of distribution requires that poods be sold in large quantities. Pro­ duction Increases,competition becomes more fierce, and puchasers must be flDtmd. Business men recognize that advertising can Increase sales by in­ creasing the people's familiarity with goods. This better knowledge not «nly helps to educate the Individual, but trains him In other ways. His powers of discrimination are exercised aad developed by the necessity of mating a choice between the articles. ®ven the abuses of advertising aid him for he learns by his mistakes. Adver- tlaemaat sometimes ereates a demand, aometlmea directs it. What greater stimulus can there be for an inventor Chan the fact that a method la in vogue by which a useful article can be im- modteUly placed before the public, with tho probability of large and im- aaodlate returnsf Advertslng fixes new alaplaa. Tea was one of the earliest articles advertised in England. Re­ cently the "blending" of teas has be­ come customary, and the value of the Afferent blends made known.--Jeur- -•(£ at Political Economy. I» a Motiing Spirit. The pretty and charming wife of '*• 4® Assis Brasll, the Brazilian minister to tho United 8tates, is a moving spirit in the younger set of the diplomatic cir­ cle of Washington so*M"ety. Young, brilliant, possessed of many accom­ plishments, she Is much sought after. Minister and Mme. Brasil came to the U n i t e d S t a t e s from the Brazilian legation in Lisbon several years ago. Soth are notable linguists. They have two children, daughters. OLIVE SCHREINER. reservation by the British in 8outh Africa and there kept an isolated pris­ oner, was one of the warmest sympa­ thizers with the Boers during the early troubles in 1899. She was more bitter than her brother, William Philip Schrelner, who, as premier of Cape Colony, openly advocated the cause of the Dutch Afrikanders. Mrs. Cron- wright is descended from Boer ances­ tors and she showed her blood in the book she wrote and published in the defense of her people just before Pres­ ident Kruger declared war on Great Britain. This book was entitled "An English South African View of the Situation," and contained some very free expressions of opinion on the Jus­ tice of British rule or attempted rule In South Africa. iSiA.. THREE AMUSINQ GAMES, Km4 Aboat Them and Be* Haw Ka«h Fan Th«y Are. The game called water sprite affords children a lot of fun. Players stand In two lines facing each other, with % large #pen space, representing a river, between. The child called the Iwater sprite stands between and beck- Ions one to cross. This one signals to one on the opposite side, and they run across to exchange places. If touched by the water sprite, the water sprite and the one touched exchange places, and the game is continued. Last pair pass is another amusing game. The children stand in twos, one behind the other. One who is catcher stands in front with his back ito the others and calls, "Last couple :iout!" when the last two In the line run around to the front and try to join the hands before they are touched by the catcher. The one touched be­ comes catcher, and they take their places ae first couple In the line. To play red Hon, one player, the red lion, stands in a den. The others venture near to him, calling: ' Rod lion, red lion, come out of your den; : Whoever you catch will bo ona of year men. He runs out and tries to catch one. The first one caught joins hands with him, and together they try to catch the others, each captive being added to his line. Only the two persona at the ends of the lino can catak tho others. Hoyai Gomfoolertwt* •'wt Hereafter no woman will bo a genu­ ine snob unless she wears a garter oa her arm. Edward VII. has conferred upon his royal consort, Queen Alexandria, the most noble Order of the Garter, and on the first formal appearance she will be expected to wear it upon her arm instead of elsewhere.--William E. Cur­ tis' London Letter. ^ f Th« IUll«iwu D»ne«,*B«y|]l*t 8evllle Is the one placein the wortd where dancing is a part of religion. The dancing of the Seises before tho high altar, as I saw it at the feast of the Immaculate Conception, to me, waa not simply a curious thing, but a thing perfectly dignified, perfectly religions, without a suspicion of levity or lndo- corum. This consecration of the dance, this turning a possible vice Into a means of devotion, this bringing of tho people's art, the people's passion, into the church, finding it a place there, la precisely one of those acts of dlvlna worldly wisdom which the Cathollo church has often practiced In her con­ quest of the world. And it Is a quite logical development of that very elab­ orate pantomlne, using the word in all seriousness, which the ceremonloa of the church really are, since all havo their symbolical meaning, which they express by their gestures. Already wo find in them every art but one: poetry, (the very substance of the liturgy), ora­ tory, music, both of voices and of In­ struments, sculpture, painting, all tho decorative art, costume, perfume, ovary art lending its service; aad now at last dancing finds Its natural plaoo there, in the one city of tho world Where its presence is most perfectly la keeping.--Spectator. LUN0I3 The great strike of iron, steel and tin workers sweeps over a stretch of country from the western boundary of New Jersey to the Mississippi river Aid beyond. It takes in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi­ nois, with offshoots in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Maryland. Already the strike is on at planta in thirty-nine towns, and all of the plants of the United States Steel Corporation in these various states will, it is be­ lieved, be seriously affected before the end of the trouble. The leaders of the Amalgamated association are going slowly, but threaten to mil a strike on every combination controlled by the United States Steel Corporation before they are done, THO men and plants affected are in Penn­ sylvania and Ohio, aa tho msmbsr at blaek dots oa the map will t* The number of men out now in Penn­ sylvania is ML,000, in Ohio S3,0*0, la Indiana 10,000, and in Tif8t»*fa s'qoql As many more may be involved later In tho struggle with the steel trust Aids Franco-Hit'S-JO Alliance. Princess Cathe­ rine Youriewskii daughter of th$ murdered Emperoj| Alexander II., of Austria by his sec­ ond wife, Princess Dolgorouka, h a a become officially en­ gaged to the Duke of Chaulnes, head of one of the junior branches of that ancient ducal French house, of which the Duke of Luynesis the chief,, T h e D u k e o f Chaulnes has Rus- alan blood in his r e i n s , f o r h i s mother was that famous beauty, Princess Sophie Galltzin, who, aft-: or being treated in the most abomlna-^ ble manner by the, family of her hus-;v band, both prior t<# his death, but more * especially a f t e r- v ^ ward, died literally of starvation lnfY**, 'X v one of the mostr *-•' ' poverty - stricken parts of the French capital. Innocent of anything beyond mere ooquetry and indiscretions, compro­ mised by the attentions of a man who had no other claim to social distinc­ tion than that he was one of her nu­ merous train of admirers, she was de­ prived by her husband's will of the guardianship of her children, which were taken from her by a family coun­ cil. She endeavored to recover them, and was in consequence thereof in­ dicted for attempting to kidnap them. The court, however, prejudiced against her as a foreigner, though it was, declined to convict her on the ground that she had really done noth­ ing to justify her children being taken from her. Lack of funds prevented her from taking any further steps to establish her rights. The social power of her stern fanatic old mother-in-law, the Duchess of Chevreuse, was too great to admit of any one risking her anger 4>y befriending the unfortunate young Ehichess. Every door was closed against her and without a single bad act being proved against her she died of hunger as an outcast in a Paris slum and without seeing her children. Her eldest boy, the present Duke of Chaulnes, was about five years old when she tried to abduct him from the gloomy castle of her mother-in- law in the south of France. IK 1 CATHERINE YOlimmY/ Hard-Hearted 8enqfactors.' Under this quee&but pregnant titlo a writer in the Leipzig Uber Land und Maer makes what he calls a "cpntribu- tion to the psychology of American- Ism." In brief, he points oat that tha benefactions of Andrew Carneglelohn, D. Rockefeller and the late P. D. AT* mour are not properly to bo Included under the head of charity, for the gifts made by these men are philan­ thropic rather than charitable. That la to say, Mr. Carnegie and the rest have no care for the poor and needy and those who cannot help themselves, the proper objects of charity; but de­ vote their money to the uses of the strong and hopeful in the attempt to raise the lowly and the weak of the ooming generation to a higher plane. "This new feature of American life and faith," concludes the writer, "must not be blindly imitated without further investigation." Jean De Reszke, the operatic tenor, has had considerable success as a horseman. At a recent race meeting in Warsaw he started fourteen horses in forty races, winning thirty of them. "Cash" Sloan, a brother of "Tod," rode all the horses and won nineteen con­ secutive races. , Thomas G. Shaughnessy, who auo> ceeded Sir William Van Home aa president of the Canadian Pacific rail­ way system, entered the service of that road as a general storekeeper as lately aa 1882. Japanese Exclusion Act* According to press dispatches, tho Japanese in New York are anxious and alarmed over the agitation on the Pa­ cific coast for an act of congress ex­ cluding their countrymen from the United States. The San Francisco la­ bor unions are said to be preparing a formidable petition., praying for an Enti-Japanese immigration law, and the advisability of a counter-movement Is being considered. General Fitzhugh Lee has decided that the business in which he has de­ termined to engage upon retiring into private life near Richmond, Va., will be "of an industrial character," but beyond this he has refused to make any statement for publication. As early as 1666 there were 40,000 Operatives in the English silk mills pad cocoon houses. , The longest run in candy has been ftiade by chocolate creams and car*. A Vigilant Tatim Rev. H. A. Smoot, pastor of the Bap- tist church of Areola, 111., believes in watching as well as praying, and has offered two little girls a cent for each person they find asleep and a w a k e n d u r i n g services. The of­ fer was made from the puplt In reference to this novel scheme Rev. Mr. Smoot said: "Most of my c o n g r e g a t i o n a r e wide awake people, but occasionally two or three of them drop off to sleep, and it is annoying to me to try to preach and be compelled to face one who is wrapped In slum­ ber." Said one of the deacons: "Mr. Smoot preaches good sermons in an entertaining way, and the man who sleeps during services deserve* a prod." Our metallic products this year am valued at $52t,218,084. t BM Morbid--It Is CmUMmg. Aisortjfd state of mtad, If long eai? tlnued, produces a like condition of body. One should shun a morbid state of mind as much as on© does smallpox or any other contagious disease. Tha people's Health Journal says: "Fl®» nratively speaking, morbidity is a highly contagious disease, and a whole household may become infected by ona lorbid-mlnded individual. Such condi­ tions of mind, which are often culti­ vated, do far more harm than epidem­ ics of smallpox or yellow fever. While these diseases destroy lives and homes of many people, the other, destroying mind and heart, affects the multitude." Herbert Cromble Howe, for a nam •Jbsr oifryears secretary to President Schurman of Cornell university, has been appointed professor of English at tho University of Oregon. « Christened the Maine. Miss Mary Preble Anderson, who broke the customary bottle of cham­ pagne to christen the battleship Maine, launched at Philadelphia Saturday, comes of a famous naval family. She is a great grand-daughter of Commo­ dore Edward Preble, who having dis­ tinguished hiimeelf as a young man in the American navy during the revolu­ tion, commanded the* Constitution-- Old Ironsides--during the famous ex­ pedition against the Barbary pirates. He has always been styled the father of the American navy, because it was he who first made it famous abroad. Hla nephew, Admiral George H* Preble, was distinguished In the war against Mexico and in the civil war, and his grandson, Edward Deering Preble, uncle to Miss Anderson, rose to bo lieutenant commander in the navy, and was navigator of the Kearsarge in its battle with the Alabama. Miss An­ derson lives with her parents in Deer­ ing street, Portland, aad la well known socially. is • " ' '#U MISS MARY PREBLE WHO CHRISTENED THE MAlUE v»r«la«ttD| th« Do**. Aeoording to a paragraph which baa been going the rounds of the French newspapers, M. Wal deck-Rousseau, tho French premier, has all his dogs vac­ cinated to prevent them from having distemper and has never lost one from that disease. Dr. Jenner, who intro­ duced vaccination, proposed that all the dogs In England should- be treated in this manner, but was laughed at for suggesting it. If labor Is divine, tha^naa who rote labor robs divinity. Facts and Figures. Nearly 1,000,000 women in Spain work in/the fields as day laborers; 850,000 women are registered as day servants--that is, they work for their food and lodging. There is no anch class anywhere else. American cottonseed is responsible for a tremendous Increase in the pro­ duction of cotton in Russia, middle Asia, Bokhara, and Khiva. The year 1900 shows an Increase of 44 per cent over 1899 in the Asiatic lands, and the increase in the Russian district is 28 per cent.. Most of the former corn­ fields are now being planted with cot­ ton. The natural fertility of Sicily Is In­ deed remarkable. Without the use of fertilizers three different growths-- olives, vines and wheat--flourish in close proximity. Great sections al­ ready artiflcially watered are among the garden spots of the world. The "Piano del Cappucinnl" at Trapani, on the western shore, the far-famed "Coa- ca 1'Oro," near Palermo, and the en­ tire eastern coast north of Catania aro sections which surpass in fertility the favored valleys of Tuscany. Already 1 " ;V-/' ' * ' : 10,000,000 orange trees, or two-thirds of the total number krown in Italy, flourish on the Island, while cotton and linseed, the almond, the olive, the carob and thfe mandarin are extensive­ ly raised. It is a fact not generally known that there are nearly 400 women pharma­ cists in the United States. One of the largest apothecary establishments in New England employs women almost exclusively, giving them precedence over men and assigning as the reason therefor that women can Be depended on, or, to use the language of the head of the concern: "No big heads, no mis­ takes, hence no suits for damages, as the result of careless reading of ore- scriptions." Many manufacturing chemists employ Yome^ ^ dittsrant capacities. J. A Fillmore, who has resigned the position of manager of the Pacific sys­ tem of the Southern Pacific railway after almost a lifetime of meritorious service, will be paid $1,000 a month by the company till the end of the year and a pension of $500 a thereafter as long as he lives. A Scheme of SociatMb. The socialists of Chicago propose to get incorporated as a buying society. The idea is that if 5,000 or more of them combine and do their buying through a single agency they "will be in a position to secure concessions la prices that a single individual cannot procure." Thus they begin by recognizing eco­ nomic principles which will do more t# win converts than any plan based oa mere theory. Their proposed organi­ sation is not to establish a new social­ istic order of society, but merely to take advantage of existing oondltlons and of economic laws operating under the existing social organization. They propose simply to buy at wholeaale prices or producers' prices. Doubtless for fear that brooding over the big steel strike might inspire some crank to a desperate deed, the police department in New York is taking un­ usual precautions to guard President Schwab of the steel trust. The is true of J. Pierpont Morgan, to guard whom four detectives are reported to have been assigned. red KMeberry. of Albany, whoaa sft» to Lo« fcoseberry is aaada tho subject of rsporta aad count# ; porta tram the headqnsrtsrs of ̂ gossip in Xioaiai, is oao of tho UoBt and most popular & tho of tho British royal ftmily. maitlod Prtaoa Looped U lttl sho waa. the Priaceas EUtt of Vf Leopold, Ilia Duke of Albany, 1884* leaving bis widow with tins dren, Princess Alias and tho , duke. The future Oowwtaaa of berry boars a striking resemblanoo %aV- &a young Queen of Holland, but tldf E: DUCHESS OF (ALBANY. la not surprising when it is rems»> bored that she is an aunt to that to-? teresting sovereign. The ducheaa !• vary domestic in her la aa as*! cellent needlewoman. \ * Vacation for CTramps. A South Dakota newspaper, notta*J|| the absence of that tr»n«nnnHn»»i»«^ citizen, the tramp, tuts summer, do-*-"",,' clares that the news has been spread, t ~ through the land of the "hobo" that tho farming country should be avoid- ;!": od. It is interesting to note that at;' thjs season the tramp element remalna in the more populous centers. Along J ̂ the Mississippi river, the great sum-"V? mer gathering place of tramps, and' . from which geographical line they aro , wont to distribute themselves, thess vf wanderers are herding themselves in the cities. An instance of the condi- i">*• tlons there is furnished by a Dubnquo newspaper, which declares that damigt; contractors find it impossible to aeeova 'V; men. "There are plenty of men here who) aro idle," says this authority, "and al- '?*$ though one contractor has offered to « pay their expenses and give them if f wages of from $1.50 to $1.75 a day, ha£:; has been unable to induce them to ao- ,h- cept employment. They would rather • loaf around tho street corners than do , r work at good) wages. A few days ago a representative of a contractor went »' down to the high bridge, here a gang of 'hoboes' was swallowing beer in a ^ shed, and said he wanted to hire soma,;« men and would pay them good wagea. ^ : But the reply he received was thatf they could earn enough around towa^i;i to buy bear, and that waa all tbap|fp wanted." Would Stop treating- Thomas B. Minahan of Columbua, . Who has originated a movement far the abolition of the American cuatoat' of "treaiing," presented his plans to ; tha central division of the Knighta of Columbus at their meeting In Pot-H in-Bay a few days ago. Mr. Minahan la a prominent attorney of Columbua and deputy of this district of tha Knights of Columbus. This movemeat is endorsed by eminent divines of tho ; Roman Catholic , church and of tho Protestant denomination. He saya|| f •••ma* Nj [TI THQHA6 A MINAHAN. that the obliteration of the cna- tom of treating, ao extensively practiced by Americans, is the firstfe^ real step toward total abstinence. He|#t is confident that with the active sup-g$ port erf the churches the movement^..' will become national. The initial^ |< step was taken in the ranks of the Columbus Council No. 1, Knighta off Columbus, which adopted resolutlona pledging its members to refrain from the custom. Wben it is considered that the national organization haa a 1 membership of 80,000, the real import*- of this crusade will be unl iderstooft \*e. / Indian Girl's UrOenge. Charged with one of the most atsO- clous crimes 4n the history of the B* diaa oottatc? Annie Killdeer, a hilf- ̂ breed Arapaitoo %% squaw. Is a prfcon- ^ V * or at Darlington, {g: Okla. Jealous be­ cause Willis An- dale, a cor boy 4, with whoii sha • seems to hare beea **.• Infatuated, p r o- ferred- a white girl fo her, sha staked him out on tho barren prairie in % '$ the buning sun. within sound of a rippling brook, and let him choke to death for vant of wa- ;£§ ter. She sat by his side, vatching his r, agony and taunting him with the fact ̂ that hla proposed marriage with tha white girl would never take place. 9;J| Every year relatives o; Robert Louis ^ 8tevenson in Scotland send & crown |g and cross of heabher frpn that country, |||| which are placed aa/ his grava hi a