The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1896. 'M ONE OF OREGON'S THRIVING CITIES Albany in the Heart of the Famous Willamette Valley. GREAT WATER POWER. It Is Now a Manufacturing and Distributing Center. FAMOUS FOR ITS FLOUR. In a Beautiful Location. the City’s Growth Has Been Very Steady. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 4.—The town of Albany was one of the pioneer settlements i ton and Northern Polk counties tributary | to the city. The country south and east | of Albany is for miles and miles alevel | prairie with deep, rich, loam soil, none | better in the world. It has enough rise and fall to provide good drainage and produces fruits, vegetables, grains and | grasses in wonderful profusion and per- | fection. The holdings of land, formerly | large, are being broken up into small tracts. | We are credibly informed that the owner of an apple orchard refused $1000 per acre for his orchard of twenty acres in full bearing. Ordinary farming land can | be bought at very reasonable figures, vary- | ing according to location and other con- ditions. North and west of the river the land is more rolling, but none of it steep hills. The character of the soil is more varied, running irom a sandy loam to a deep red | clay, but all good farming and fruit jand. The city itself, while 1018 thus the cen- ter of a farming community fifty miles | across, is not dependent upon the farming class alone. _ ‘A canal taps the Santiam River near the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, and | brings the pure mountain water to the | city for family use and for power. The | 1atter is distributed along the water front by flumes and ditches, and turns the | wheels ot Albany’s numerous manufac- j turing plants. The Calapooia River also furnishes power, entering the Willamette River at this point. There are in the city two fine public school buildings and a large and well- equipped coliege, under the auspices of the Presbyterian church. The Catholics, also, maintain a good academy at this point. The public schools are thoroughly graded. Professor Hiram Gyrce, the city superintendent, is ar enthusiast in public | school work and as painstaking as enthus- | iastic. The corps of teachers are well day. The timber is cheap, inexhaustible and of the best quality. It is obtained from the Cascade Mountains, on the line of the Oregon Central and Eastern Rail- road, and consists of Oregon pine, cedar, hemlock, larch, ete. An article on Albany would not be com- plete without mention of the Quartzville gold mines, forty miles to the east, now becoming so noted. The ores cover a large territory, are low grade, but easily worked, and foreign and home capital are rapidly developing them. They will be an important factor in Albany’s future, as this point is the natural distributing center for that region. As will be seen by the accompanying illustrations Albany’s business streets are of well-built brick blocks, two, three and four stories high, The street railway con- nects the business part of town with the railroad stations. The streets are graded and graveled, and a fire system of sewer- age is practically completed. Our advantages summed up are: Loca- tion, transportation facilities, water-power, naturally graded townsite, valuable min- ing, timber, fruit, farming and dairving country tributary, excellent educational and religious facilities, large manufactur- ing interests already established, and last but not least a healthful location. F. W. BLUMBUKG, Secretary Immigration Board. TO VISIT SACRAMENTO. Distinguished Expert on Dairy BStock Coming to the Fair. SACRAMENTO, CAn., Aug. 6.—Secre- tary Edwin F. Smith of the State Agri- cultural Society has received a letter from Professor Henry E. Alvord, Chief of the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, stating that the Secretary of Agriculture intends sending him on a tour of duty in California in September The Magnificent Gantilever Bridge Which Spans the Willamette River at Albany, Oregon. of ihe Willamette Valley, and from an early date was a leading shipping point. The flour manufactured by the Mag- nolia, the Monteith and the Red Crown flouring-mills has gained a fair name from Los Angeles to Victoria. Anda the guan- tities of wheat, oats, wool, butter, eggs, hay, etc., handled here represent vast sums of money. The town is located on the east side of the Willamette River, eighty miles south of Portland, on a gently rolling prairie, and 1s in the center of the famous Wil- Jamette Valley, which is about seventy- five miles wide. The river is navigable throughout the year, except in the driest seasons. There are two lines of the Southern Pa- qualified for their positions, I am_told, snd merit and not favoritism 1s considered 1 their appointment. So far as I can learn party politics cut no figure in_ ap- pointments. The college is presided over by Pro- tessor W. H. Lee, who is not only very popular, but a first-class educator as well. The courses are very complete and the instructors competent. There being a very small Catholic population, the Academy of Our Lady is not so well patronized as the college. The lady superior is a very pleasant, affable lady, and the programme of the school seems to go like clockwork. i Albany is the county seat of Linn County and the Courthouse and County Jail are substantial brick structures. The latter is fitted with modern steel cells. The population of the town is about 5000 A Fine Group of Build ings in ‘Albany, Oregon. cific Railroad Company, the main line of the Oregon Central and Eastern Railroad, and surveys have been made for the Al- bany and Astoria Railroad, which will no doubt be built when railroad construction is resumed in the United States. It will be seen that there are three ways of shipping to San Francisco and two to Portland, so that Albanv will be in future as in the past a strong competitive point. As a consequence better prices for grain and produce can be depended upon than can be obtained at less favored Jocalities. The river is spanned at this point by a beautiful and substantial cantilever wagon-road bridge of steel, which makes the farming communities of Eastern Ben- and it extends nearly two miles along the river front. | There are seven hotels, four of them | quite large. Eleven churches accommodate | all shades of religious belief. The pastors as a rule are well educated, brainy, live men. The two banks are both very sub- 1 stantial institutions, which the late panic | seemed to have no effect upon. \ A large tannery is in full operation, and | we have a fruit-drier, planing-mill, brew- | ery, soda works, tile factory, four wood- | working factories, two chair factories, large foundry and machine-shop, ice fac- | tory, mattress factory, large- brick woolen | mill, three flouring-mills, four elevators | and warehouses, cigar factory, a creamery, water works and electric-light works. A | company is being organized to build & | large sawmill—capacity 200,000 feet per /’// e sl AL View on a Business Si treet in Albany, Oregon. and that he will attend the State Fair to view our display of dairy cattle and confer | generally with the dairymen of California. | This, Secretary Smith says, is quite a compliment to California, as Professor Alvord judged the dairy classes at the Columbian Exposition and is regarded as | the greatest expert on dairy stock in the United States. It is quite likely he will pe invited by the State Board of Agri- culture to judge these ciasses at the com- ing State i“air. If so, it would givein- creased value to stock that received awards this year and should bring to- gether an exempliary exhibit of dairy stock. —_— GRIEF, REMORSE AND SUICIDE. Tragic Sequel to an lllicit Love—Elope- ment, Criminal Operation and Three Untimely Deaths, LOS ANGELES, CaL, Aug. 6.—William James Relland, a youngrailroad mechanic of Seattle, shot himself through the brain in the presence 'of Coroner Campbell this evening at about 6 o’clock. Grief over the death of his paramour and fear of a crimi- nal prosecution were the causes of Rel- land’s act. The woman was Mrs. Jennie Snyder, who had deserted her family for Relland and come here last month. She died last Wednesday from the results of a criminal operation 1n which Relland was concerned. Mrs. Bnyder left Seattle last June with Relland, bringing her daughter Jennie along. They took a cottage in East Los Angeles, where the tragedy occurred to-day. Mrs. Snyder discovered that she was about to become a mother, so the operation was performed last Friday, she dying yester- day. Relland buried the fcetus in the back yard. He acquainted the woman’s hus- band with her death and asked for money for the funeral expenses. Mr. Snyder asked Attorney J. N. Phil- lips to look after the child. The lawyer told Reliand that he was liable to prose- cuticn for his part in the operation. Rel- land took poison this afternoon, but not enough to kill. Coroner Campbell visited the place this afternoon about 4 o’clock to investigate and discovered the fctus. Relland saw him and became angry at the officer's resence. After some words Reliand went nto a neighbor’s home. There Dr. Camp- bell followed him, after first having or- dered his deputy to notify the police de- tectives to come. The Coroner talked with Relland in order to keep him until the officers ar- rived. There was a noise in the yard and the Coroner looked out of the window in the hope of seeing the detectives, The in- stant Dr. Campbell turned from him land sprang into an adjoining room and, drawing a revolver, sent a bullet crashing through his brain, dying almost in- stantly. An inquest was held to-night on the re- mains of Mrs. Snyder, the jury deciding that she had come to her death from in- ternal htmorrhages, the resuit of & punc- ture of uterus from an instrument in the hands of Dr. A. Shorb, who had been called to attend the woman on Friday, when the operation was attempted. e MRS. HICKS-LORD DEAD. In Her Day She Was One of the Most : Notable Figures in New York ~ P Society. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 6.—Mrs. Annette Hicks-Lord, who was in ber day one of the most notable figures in New York society, died last night, aged 75 vears. Mrs. Hicks-Lord was descended on her mother's side from a titled English family, and was related to General Robert Schenck, once United States Minister to Great Britain. Her father, Unico Peter Wilkins, married Adeline Schenck, whose famil; had a great deal of proper:z on the Fish! River. The couple went to Guiana, where Annette was born, e o oed Forest ¥ires in Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, ARk., Aug. 6.—Forest fires of considerable extent are raging near England, in Lone Oak County, and in several places the cotton and corn fields are toin: vy destroved. Many miles of fencing L uve been reduced to ashes. One hundred State convicts were sent to the scene of the couflagration to-day. These men will be used in cutting down treesand otherwise removing destructible timbers. Itis estimated that 200,000 acres of cotton and corn bave already been destroyed. ————ne Fanderbilt Improving. NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 6.—The report that Cornelius Vanderbilt has suffered a relapse is denied here. On the con A his_physicians report that yesterday had showed more marked improvement | than on any day since his arri: 3 PROSPERDS DA FOR THE MNERS Nine Thousand More Men at Work Than Last : Year. ARMY OF PROSPECTORS Every District in the State Pre- paring for the Boom to Come. BUYERS AND EXPERTS BUSY. The State May Produce $20,000,000 in Gold the Coming Year. The State Mining Bureau for a number of years past has been accustomed, through its -agents, to prepare a table of mines in operation in the State, together with the number of men employed in each mine. The report for the current year bas just been completed and affords the most convincing evidence of the re- vival of the mining industry on a large scale. The remarkable activity noted is con- fined to no particular mining section of the State, but everywhere, whenever a chance exists that money is to be made by the extraction of the precions metals, men are found who are willing to stake their time, money and labor agaiust the chances of a rich discovery; mines that have been abandoned or were, under the old system of mining, unprofitable, are be- 1ingarained. retimbered and put in order for a renewed activity, placers that were thought to be exhausted are to be worked again and hydraulic mining, under the new laws, has returned to life again. In quartz mining, however, the largest development is anticipated. Ore can be reduced so cheaply under present processes that mines producing low-grade ore are in active demand owing to the fact that so much development has usually been ac- complished on these mines thatonly smali capital is required in order tv place them in working order again. The following shows the number of miners employed and registered mines in the ore-producing counties of the State in the year 1895: No.of | No.of Sk Ben. | Mines. 597 a2 413 47 811 96 36 24 381 8 41 7! 28 16 19 59 o1 a1 34 10 924 24 26 72 79 47 216 62 1,357 73 736 62 884 81 234 33 26 2 el (1 10 848 8 4 2 20 8 15 5 405 92 604 78 1,358 | 278 101 2 386 92 369 98 a3 30 72 9 Totals........ 5,404 | 1,661 For the year 1896 a most remarkable change appears. The total number of men employedr: increased by 9006, or almost double, while the number of recorded mines _increased in 1896 over that of the year 1895 by 750. The greatest increase of the men employed is apparently in those districts where the great producing mines are located, though the increase in the new mines is distributed through the State. No. No. CouNTIES of of Men. | Mines. 1,086/ 44 859 70 1,519 194 23| 5 134 35 504/ 47 8 36 115 33 18¢) 49 483 100 39 7 25| 12 132 165 916 111 109 10 2,089 118 14 4 1,017 45 875 84 30 58 235 21 185 48 817 98 5 99 905 1,495 1,849 101 808 1,068 60| 59| 185,410 Louis A. Garnett, whose experience as a miner in this State has embraced almost four decades, regaras the present revival of mining with uUnmixed satisfaction. The withdrawal of nearly 10,000 men from the ranks of the non-producers has al- ruary, in his opinion, produced an appre- ciable effect upon the ovenupgly of Ffiwr in the great centers. The demand for labor of all kinds at the new mines that are being opened promises to reduce the surpius greatly, and the prospect is en- couraging that between agriculture and mining there need not be an idle man in the State in 1897. The reports from all the mining coun- ties are unanimous in their statement of better d conditions resulting from the re- vival of mining. The outfitting of pros- pectors has improved the business of the country towns, enabling the merchants to lil%uidaw their debts to the jobbers and order new goods. The jobbers in this City say that the outfitting demand has saved the spring’s trade. California produced in 1895 in gold and sitver $15,934,107 39, 8 moderate advance over the amount produced in 1894, John J. Valentine, superintendent of Wells, Fargo & Co., predicted that 1896 would show figures approaching $17,500,000, but now admits that his estilnate may be ex- ed. With the prospects of new pro- ducing mines and rieb districts, discovered but undeveloped, and the employment of 10,000 new men in the industry, it is confi- deln:l”hhdhm by man; '.:zh;t C‘lfloi;nil'u tor r 1896 may reac le magnihcent tigure of $20,000,000. it e G © - A Case of Slow Poisoning. ST. PAUL, Mivy., Aug. 6.—Rev. J. C. Hull was arrested yesterday evening and charged with administering poison to his wife. He was up in the Municipal Court to-day and his case postponed for & week without bail. Hull claims his wife is in- sane, and has been ever since were married, some fifteen years ago, but he bas tried bard to keep the secret from the publie. Dr B&'glll. 60| 1t is ridiculo .flmx hmuy‘ i physician, scouts the idea and says he be- lieves Mrs. Hull's case to be one of slow poisoning. e 2 i A4 WOMAN'S HEROISM, Climbed Down a Well and Rescued @ Child. FULTON, Mo., Aug. 6.—Yesterday the 3-year-old son of Zeke Hopkins, who lives in West Fulton, fell heaaforemost into a forty-foot weil. The mother of the child saw the baby as he fell and screamed for assistance. Mrs. Henry Harris, hearing her cries and grasping the situation, ran to the scene, first grabbing up a IonE coal pit rope. Tying the rope around her waist Mrs. Harris climbed down the well, Mrs, Hopkins holding 1ast to" the other end of the rope. She reached the water, some thirty feet from the top, and diving down some four feet under the water, drew the dying child to the surface and to safety. Slowly Mrs. Hopkins drew her precious load to the top and after hard work they brought the little boy to consciousness. After the danger was passed Mrs. Harris fainted, but was brought around all right in a few minutes, e e ont Negroes Not Citizens. YERRY, O.T., Aug. 6.—By a decision handed down by Judge Adams, Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the Creek Nation, the names of over 1700 negroes are stricken from the rolls of citizenship of the nation. The decision holds that the action of the Indian council, after the essage of the emancipation act by the nited States, in admitting the negroes to tribal relations was unconstitutional and therefore at this time invalid. Since the passage of the act these negroes have drawn in annuities from the Creek Gov- ernment over a million dollars, have held sitions of trust and have improved their arms. From the decision of the court there is no appeal. THEY DEMAND PURE FoOD Fruit Exchange Committee Criti- cizes Supervisor Hohbs for Inconsistency. It Is Thought an Appropriation Should Be Had to Establish a Public Laboratory. The committee appointed by the San Francisco Fruit Exchange to attend to the general subject of the public health, and particularly to the question of food adul- teration, has brought in a full report. The report emphasizes the fact that the importation of adulterated jellies and jams from the East isa pressing evil, and states that they were unable to hold a conference with the Board of Supervisors to establish a chemical laboratory for the inspection of imported foods. Without this appropriation the committee reports that all proceedings might as. well be dropved. The following is the text of the report: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6, 1896. To the Board of Lircctors of the San Francisco Fruit Exchange—DEAR SIRS: Your committee appointed to attend to the question of food adulteration and genéral mbglect of public health, particularly regarding the importation of adulterated jeilies and jams from the East, begs leave to report as follows: That this is a most important thing, affect- ing the frui’-growers, fruit-canners apd pack- ers generally throughout the State. ‘We attended several meetings at the Cham- ber of Commerce, 1n conjunction with com- mittees from all the commercial organizations in the City, and recommended that the Board of Supervisors appropriate a sufficient sum to establish & chemical laboratory and general food inspection, the same as is the case in the large cities of the Kast., The Board of Health of San Francisco asked for $25,000 for an Ippmgflluun for the pur- poses named. Part of this was for a perma- nent establishment of & laborato; lic certificates of analysis would the general public. Recognizing the necessity of keeping down the tax levy during this yesr we figured that this appropriation desired would not amount in excess of one-hundredth of 1centon the dollar of taxable property in San Francisco, or half of 1 cent on each $100 of property. We endeavored to hold a conference with the Board of Supervisors, but were unable to do so. They acknowledged that they did not under- , where pub- issued to stand tbe requirements, but when they pre- pared to fix the tax levy they refused to have any one explain the subject. The ridiculous- ness of this whole proposition was that some one of the Finance Committee of the Board ot Supervisors, notably Mr. Hobbs of that com- mittee, objested to the appropriation for public bealth in order to keep down the levy, and reached the height of consistency by moving to incresse the tax levy 5 cents on the $100 by an additional schoolhouse in the district in which he lived by an wpmgrhe tion of $200,000. This man unguestionsbly does not understand that in all civilized communi- ties the question of public health is paramount to all other subjects, and all other departments of the City government are in other communi- ties subordinate to that of Public Health. Your committee finds further that in the appropriations for the Healih Department by ll?e Supervisors are considered gmounts which pl’o'perl{ do not belong' to the depart- ment of public healtn, viz.: Departments such as the Receiving Hospital, Almshouse, prisons, etc. These belong properly to the charity and correction departments, and in Eastern cities they are not considered in con- _nection with appropriations for the public health, which department deals exclusively with the public health of the community. The entire increase of appropriation for pub- lic health by the Board of Supervisors is the munificent sum of $2000 over and above the amounts sufficient ‘l&‘}ny expenses and in- agacwn already created and paid for during the past year. ‘We have investigatea this part of it and find this to be the fact. Unless the amount necessary can be appro- priated to go into the matter in proper sha to make an attempt at it at a) The San Francisco Frult Exchange and the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of this City deserve great credit jor.having un- dertaken the subjeot in order to put ‘this City in line of progress with other large commun- ities throughout the country and pe. As we have said, the entire appropriation re- quired will be one-hundredtn of 1 cent on each dollar of taxable property in ncisco, and as the tax levy is notyet afixed fact we would recommend that & committee be ap- ointed to, demand a conference with the oard of Supervisors and Board ol Health of San Francisco on this subject so that the facts of the case may belsid before them, ‘We can safely say that since tlus sgitation began on the subject of pure foods the falling off in importation of adulterated jeéllies from the East bas been very heavy, an u,&nly Te- quires determined. acfion to stamp this adul- g&r:;ed stuft out of existence in this City and The press of this City has taken hold of this subject and realizes its importance. We further recommand that the services of a comretent attorney be secured to prosecute violati onax ‘;: the pure food wln:; in a‘Pc'»‘lica courts without expense. e association. We fl:’d that the o:fintry Pprocess will not succeed. 2 § ‘Your committee has been tendered the ser- vices of & compatent attorney, who will act for and on behalf -of - exchangé without any nse to it, and wi -yw.ruu the cases that ;:?ye co?ne up, nid we would recommend that these services bg secyred at as early &flu as possible, as several cases are now on the docket and need attention. 2 Tae fruit business of this §tate amounts to ‘many millions o d the capnersof this State are puttiv; - many millions of dol- lars of canned g gg!l?n the Eastern adulterated stuff e the canners did an enormous ess in jellies, which has teraf an the East has u‘g “}h m,n:& is sold for half of the _pure fruit jellies Km ‘whi could be sol¢ lp. 1 istions ‘are ‘sdopted If the above recom: d your committee | | in ing & ::me’re‘:'m wm?‘thc Board of Supervicors on 3 the B B T "LATICe AN fi‘?‘:‘.’.‘%’n‘x&m (mqt !:Elmtx e :ih;: many ot the mat tbc! Th: question [&um nfil ramount to all other considerations; and it is strange that the Board ‘which ‘is com- of intelligent -do nog realize this t. / i & Without the approvriation by the Board of Supervisors the '&mr‘mi‘ as well be finpmmw A g unless the tning is dome 1 mplete nd thorough organized - to bring about B s el 2 AN i The publio weltsre at heart. e sub mitted, 5 SCIENCE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Father P. C. Yorke's Lec- ture in St. Mary’s Cathedral. CHARGES ARE REFUTED. | The Mother Faith Marching in the Van of Civiliza- tion. PAPER AND PRINTING PRESS Galileo’s Theory and Rotraction. Treatment of Keppler and + Tycho Brahe. St. Mary's Cathedral was crowded last evening to hear Rev. P. C. Yorke's lecture upon the subject of ‘“What the Catholic Church Has Done for Science.” The lec- turer held the close attention of his large audience for almost two hours and cited | many historical incidents to refute the | accusation that the church was opposed to the progress of scientific knowledge. The reverend gentleman spoke iz substance as follows: It has become a kind of superstition that all religions, and especially the Catholic religion, are antagonistic to science. If you take up the newspapers you will see that it is the duty of the Catholic church to stifle all scien- tific research, especially since the promulge- tion of the doctrine of infallibility. “After this | the world threw up its hands and said, *This 1s the end of learning and the death of knowledge.” When Christ sent his apostles forth he did not teach them the multiplication table nor instruct them in chemistry butin the doétrine | of faith which he came down from heaven to | give unto mankind. So the church has her sphere of teaching apart from the teachings of science, and she has tenaciously resisted intrusion into her realms of thought. - No one needed to sub- seribe to them but were free to go outside, but within she would brook no dogma other than her own. Yet her teaching hes overflowed into the realm of scientific matters and she has become the fostering mother of that knowledge. It is when the church re- fused to fall down before the secular theories | that the world said she was opposed to science. | 1f e find that the Catholic church has been marching in the van of civilization, that she has been the fountainhead of the learning of | the ages, if we look back from the vantage ground of history and see her the nursing | mother of science, can we echo the accusation uut;he has opposed the advance of knowl- | edge’ We will find that she has led in educational research, and she hasnot been afraid of the light. When the darkness of barbarism came down in Europe till it seemed that the learn- ing of the time would be quenched in the gloom of an Arctic night, it was the caurch that turned_the vandal irom his work of de- suruction. No soomer had the invaders come in contact with the Church of Rome | than they forgot their ferocity and bowed before that which they had stiempted to de- stroy. Then were their feet pisntedin the path that led to our modern civilization. She, the Mother Church, like the prophet of old, gathered up the fire of the altar and hid it in her garment. When order had been restored and govern- sides. In the abbeys and monasteries priests and monks devoted their lives to teaching. From these sprang the great universities that are now the pride of all ages. They spread across Europe, throngh France and to the British Isles, and Ireland shone with the glory of her learning. Italy is and has ever been the center and cradle of civilization. The great means of advancing knowledge is the art of printing. We feel that something is lost if we do not receive our newspaper. In this enlightened uage the poor have literature as well as the rich. In the olden time men prepared the skin of animals whereon to write. They went down 10 the river and gath- ered the reeds, which they split, and that was paper, The urtof printing came down to us from-Catholic lands. If the monks—the “lazy monks”—were so opposed to learning, then was the time to smash the printing-press and check the prog- ress of letrers. The first book on this continent was printed in the City of Mexico and was an explanation of the Catholic doctrine, and the first newspaper in the world was pubiished In Venice. Let me briefly call up more evidences of the attitude of the Catholic Church toward learn- ing. In the sixth century Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer in Alexandria, was succeeded by Cosmos, a Catholic. In the thirteenth century we find Catholic monks such as Marco Polo and others vetrating into the darkness of Eastern barbarism, carrying the light to the benighted nations there. Then we see Columbus commanding a ship bearing a cross of the Most Catholic King of ain sailing western over an unknown ocesn. is continent was named after another Cath- olic explorer. When people pronounce the words Columbia and America they utter s uibute to Catholicism. Other men of the same faith, followed by the grave Spanish soldiers, bore the holy cross of their belief to all parts of the Western Hemisphere. Of course we have all heard of Galileo and his retraction. He has been held up for ages as evidence of the church's hostility to science. Galileo’s error was not in spreading his theory of the earth’s motion around the sun, but in attempting to prove it in scriptural argument. - This the church considered as an_intrusion into ber own realms and he was called upon to cease. He refused to do so and was con- | fined for a while at Rome in a palace. The weird tales of his imprisonment in a dreary dungeon and_his dread experience there fail to the ground. Afterward Galileo was given a pension by the Catholic church and enjoyed this gift all his remaining life. What of Keppler and Tycho Brahe the Protes tant astronomers of Germany and Denmark respectively? Because of their theories ou the same line of those of Galileo they were forced to flee from their Lutheran countrymen and take refuge in Catholic countries, where they were well treated and honored. When you Jhear of Galileo answer by mentioning the ‘names of Keppler and Tycho Brahe. When the Gregorian calendar was estab- lished in Rome, correcting an error in time and adopted by Catholic countries, Protestant England and Germany bitterly opposed it, and longafterward computed time twelve days be- hind the age. Two great men died recently—Huxley, the \agnostic, and Pasteur, the Catholic. The for- mer, with a mind so elear that he could make others see as clearly us he, yet knew nothing of a future state,and thought all men were matter, to return to the elements. He died, and we cannot point to snything he did or discovered to make life easier for his feilows. How it was with Pasteur all men can answer, A man belieying in God, in search- ing the works of God will reach the highest point in the learning of the world. PRIVATE BANKS CLOSED. Qonkling Brothers, Missouri Finanoiers, Forced to the Wall. NEVADA, Mo., Aug. 6.—Sheriff Scro- ghen to-day closed Conkling Bros.” bank- ing-house in this city, the Bank of Bron- augh, Bank of Sneldon and the Bank of Richards, all property of the Conkling brothers, under an injunction of the Ver- non County Circait Court. I W. Conk- ling of the firm says that the closed banks will be able to pay every dollar of the in- debtedness. J. M. George and C. M. Shartel were appointed to take charge of the firm’s business as receivers. e g Low Rates for Political Rallies, GHICAGO, IvrL., Aug.6.—The Western Passenger Association to-day authorized excursion rates for all political rallies doring the campaign. The provision makes the tariff a fare and one-third when the rate is 3 cents a mile and one fare and one-fifth when the local one-way rate is over 3 cents within a distance of fifty miles from the place where the attraction is ment established schools sprang up on llll held. NEW TO-DAY. HOW TO P b A MAKE MONEY! WATCH OUR SPECIAL SALES—Yow'll dress your boy better than he’'s ever . been dressed, before and have money to burn. Friday and. Saturday Specials On the second, floor. Some 2000 Suits, pretty new Fall styles, full weight Zoods, in stylish colorings. The Trousers have DOUBLE SEATS AND KNEES. 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