the Redeemer and Savior of mankind alone can bring salvation and peace." It is due, asserts the Holy Father, to neglect of God that the people are "oppressed with incessant fears and anguish." Dr. Stanley Hall's address on Bible instruction in the Sunday school has excited an animated discussion of the subject and evoked some criticism. His idea is to the effect that children should be familiarized first with Bible stories beginning with the creation, and that the new testament teaching should follow as a natural sequence. Leading Events Nov. 1-Japanese press stronger foreign policy. demands a Nov. 2-Judge Estee decides that the constitution does not follow the flag. Nov. 3-Mammoth Republican parade in New York. Similar Democratic demonstration in Chicago. Nov. 4-The London Times announces several new cabinet probabilities. Nov. 5-Russia proposes a protectorate over Manchuria. Nov. 6-Election returns give McKinley the Presidency. Nov. 7-British troops in China execute three Boxer chiefs. Nov. 8-Canadian election returns show a Liberal majority. Nov. 9-General Buller arrives at Southampton. Nov. 10-The German government clines to buy Count Zeppelin's airship. de Nov. 11-Russian troops are being withdrawn from Pekin. Nov. 12-Morocco declines to pay the indemnity demanded by the United States. Nov. 13-Director Vaille reports on Philippine postal service. Nov. 14-Chinese Emperor and Empress decided to return to Pekin. Nov. 15-All obstacles in way of completion of Nicaragua canal declared re moved. Nov. 16-Secret treaty between Russia and China is concluded. Nov. 17-Oregon defeats California on the gridiron. December 1-Nicaragua cedes to United States the right of way for inter-oceanic canal. December 2-Italy reports a deficit of 180,000,000 lire for 1901-02. December 3-Second session of the 56th Congress convenes.-Emperor William refuses to receive Kruger. December 4-Three drafts of a constitution for Cuba submitted at Havana.-Isthmian canal commission favors Nicaragua route. December 5-A reduction of $40,000,000 in taxes is contemplated. December 6-British meet reverses in South Africa. December 7-Activity in Luzon and insurgents meet with severe loss. December 8- Presbyterian General Assembly's committee recommends that some revision or change be made in the Confession of Faith.-Kruger received by Queen Wilhelmina. December 9-Foreign ministers in China directed to sign joint note. December 10-Captain Carter must serve out his sentence at the federal penitentiary. December 11-Dutch government refuses to make any effort for arbitration between Transvaal and Great Britain, contending that such action is solely within the province of the great powers. December 12-One hundredth anniversary of establishment of seat of government in Washington celebrated.-De Wet outwits the British. December 13-Reported that Empress Dowager of China agrees to peace terms. December 14-British suffer reverses in South Africa. December 15 - Bryan announces that he will start a weekly paper, to be called the Commoner. Library Association December 16-The Pope announces that of Portland it is his conviction that the United States should retain the Philippines. December 17- Argument on the Philippine and Porto Rican test cases, which are expected to settle the status of our new possessions, was begun in the supreme court. STARK STREET Bet. 7th and Park 24,000 Volumes and over 200 Periodicals. $5.00 a year and $1.50 a Quarter. Two Books Allowed on all Subscriptions. HOURS: From 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Daily Except Sundays and Holidays. December 18-Rockefeller gives $1,500,- EDWARD HOLMAN 000 to Chicago university, making $10,000,000 in all given by him to this institution. -British suffer losses in South Africa. December 19-Contracts for 11 armored warships are awarded by Secretary Long. December 20-Argument in Philippine and Porto Rican case closed. December 21-Boers are repulsed. Deceber 22-Governor Roosevelt removes District Attorney Gardiner, of New York, on charges. December 23-Kitchener reports that invasion of Cape Colony by Boers has been checked. Love. Oh man, whene'er thy heart is touched And when the woes of brother man And linked to him in closest union Then thou art breaking loose from fetters When thou thy human love betrayest -Andrew Franzen. UNDERTAKER, EMBALMER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Experienced Lady Assistant. 280 Yamhill Street THE J. K. GILL CO. BOOKSELLERS and STATIONERS Financial Business has made as notable an advancement in the nineteenth century as even science has. Its field for enterprise has become the whole world. It now controls the destines of nations. Governmental policies are directed by the necessities of commerce. Business has made science contribute its knowledge and invention its ingenuity to increase its gains. The cable, the telegraph, the telephone, the steam engine, the electric light and power, the manifold looms and engines and inventions of the century have increased the powers and opportunities of the merchant and financier of today far beyond anything dreamed of 100 years ago. The day of the small trader seems to be near an end. Great combinations of capital are now necessary to move the trade of the world. The brilliant editor of the Journal of Commerce, William Dodsworth, writing on the achievements of the past century and the outlook for the next, from the standpoint of business, says: "We enter the twentieth century controlling immense potentialities for fur W. P. FULLER & CO'S. Rubber-Cement Floor Paint WEARS LIKE IRON DRIES HARD OVER NIGHT ...THE... Blumauer-Frank ther progress. A vast field of achieve Drug Co. ment lies before us, in respect to which we have as yet done little beyond preliminary prospecting. Much as we have already won, we are still but pioneering in the world's progress. Our equipment for doing the work of civilization is, however, more effective than any ever before placed in the hands of the world's workers. If the productivity of the individual civilized man has been more than duplicated within the last fifty years, what further increases of production may not be expected from the higher economies of the new century? The WHOLESALE Fourth and Morrison Streets W. C. Noon Bag Co. INCORPORATED 1893. Manufacturers and Importers of BAG PRINTING A SPECIALTY. 32-34 First St. North and 210-212-214-216 Couch St. PORTLAND, OREGON the undeveloped markets proportionately to the expansion of production among the civilized nations? The end of the century finds Christendom burthened with an over-production so threatening that international politics have become absolutely commercialized, and armies and navics are regarded as the mere instrumentalities for opening new markets or monopolizing old ones. We carry this burning question over from the old century, and at the opening of the new. we find Christendom imperatively summoned to adjust a world-wide politicoeconomic crisis. The seriousness of this situation lies mainly in the fact that, while the white nations have made such stupendous progress, the yellow and black populations have remained stagnant, which results in an utter dislocation of the old-time relations between the races." The year has been a prosperous one for business, in spite of the Presidential year and the coal strike. Whether its volume was as large as in 1899 it is too early yet to say with absolute certainty, but while there was decided reaction in the earlier months, there has been a wonderful revival since the November election, and, taken as a whole, the business of 1900 has probably equaled that of 1899, when the prosperity of the country reached its high-water mark. There has certainly been a falling off in the volume. of Wall-street speculation this year, although during the past two months there has been a boom in the stock market which, in most respects, has never been equaled. The foreign trade of 1900 has never been equaled by this country, and its most gratifying feature is a tremendous balance of exports over imports. The end of the century finds Europe in debt to the United States. The domestic trade, as has already been said, was probably as large as that of 1899, or perhaps larger. Railroad earnings increased 10 per cent. The payments of dividends and interest exceeded those of any former year. While the crops were somewhat smaller, they were ample, and were, moreover, marketed at higher prices. The total wheat crop was 25,000,000 bushels less than in 1899. The corn crop was 27,000,000 more. A Test Game of the Rice Gambit. During his stay at London, Prof. Isaac L. Rice of this city, the inventor of the Rice gambit, arrangeu, according to the London Field, a consultation game at the Claridge Hotel, in which Lasker and Rice conducted a Rice gambit in consultation against Maroczy an Hoffer. The White allies won the game after thirty moves. The Rice gambit has been tried hundreds of times at the Manhattan Chess Club during the last two or three years by the leading players. It has been successful, according to a conservative estimate, in more than three-quarters of its trials. This extraordinary test of it in London must add greatly to its reputation. Lasker and Rice. 1 P-K 4 2 P-KB 4 3 Kt-KB 3 Maroczy and Hoffer. Black. P-K 4 Kt-KB 3 4 P-KR 4 P-Q 4 B-Q 3 7 PX P 8 Castles (a) 9 R-K 10 P-B 3 11 P-Q 4 12 Kt-Q 2 13 Kt-B 3 Bx Kt Q-K 2 P-Kt 6 Portland Plating and Mfg: Works 392 Washington St., PORTLAND, OR. |