McClure's Magazine for July contains an article on "Long Distance Baloon Racing," an account of a trip from France to Russia in 36 hours.

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In Religious Thought

In the May number of the "Beweis des Glaubens," Professor O. Zockler discusses "Christian Science." He compares it with the Dowie Zionism, finding it quieter and more genteel, but at the same time illegal and unscriptural. He comments at length upon Mrs. Eddy and describes her religion as "delivering the sick from the imagination that their trouble is anything real." He says that Christian Science rejects the Trinity; that it is Unitarian, and that of an essentially pantheistic sort. "With this view of God," says Professor Zockler, "there is taught a gnostic-spiritualistic view of sin." He does not think that the Christian Science movement has come to stay; its theory and practice of healing are too confused and defective to support continuous work, while its claim of drawing its teachings from the Bible is pitiful. Professor Zockler goes on to say that "the vague and flimsy teachings of the Christian Scientists may quickly become psuedo-Christian, if not actually antiChristian." The article is a most interesting one.

cannot be admitted to it. Those who favor the building project say that similar structures have been built on other state university grounds, but, on the other hand, it is argued that these same structures have been the cause of endless trouble. Although the Y. M. C. A. of the University of Oregon feels somewhat disappointed over the outcome of it: plan, the vote of the board of regents was unanimous and public sentiment throughout the state seems to endorse their action.

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Leading Events

May 8: New Prussian Cabinet held its first sitting. May 9:

Effort to control Northern Pacific causes a panic in Wall street.

May 12: National organization chinists orders a general strike.

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May 14: Street car strike in Albany, N. Y., led to rioting and bloodshed.

May 16: Presbyterian General Assembly convenes at Philadelphia.

May 18: Battleship Ohio launched at San Francisco.

May 22: Last of American troops leave Pekin.

May 24: Supreme Court of the United States decides that Constitution does not follow flag.

May 27: Supreme Court decides that the United States may levy duty upon Porto Rican imports.

May 30: Hall of Fame at New York, dedicated; Senator Chauncey M. Depew delivering the oration.

May 31: The Western Labor Union decides to go into politics.

June 4: American Medical Association opened its convention at Detroit.

June 6:

Provincial government establish

ed in Cavite.

June 7: Carnegie signed deed transferring $10,000,000 to the Scotch Universities. June 10: President McKinley announces that he is not a candidate for a third term. June 11: International Jubilee tion of Y. M. C. A. begins at Boston. ConvenJune 12: Cuban convention accepted or iginal Platt amendment.

June 15: S. F. Whitney, of Missouri, appointed attorney-general by Philippine commission.

June 16: Bismarck statue unveiled in Beriln.

June 17: Split in Liberal party of England was accentuated.

June 18:

in London.

Death of ex-Governor Pingree

June 19: Third-party movement launched at Kansas City.

June 21: Secretary Root issues an order establishing civil government in the Philippines.

June 22 Adelbert S. Hay fell from a New Haven hotel window and was killed.

General business continues the even tenor of its way, all the leading industries being well employed and confidence being expressed on every hand. The wheat crop in the United States will be a large one this year, while corn, oats and other products give good promise, although there appears to be a shortage of corn in some quarters. due to the drought in the Middle States. The wool crop was a heavy one, most growers being unwilling to sell at the present rates. In the iron and steel markets, there is a firmer and better feeling than in July of last year, although new business is of small volume. The money market throughout the country is a trifle stiff, although here in the Northwest money is plentiful. Despite the recent failure of the Seventh National the banking situation in New York city shows an improvement over last month and it is certain that there will be ample money to meet the early harvest requirements, thus allaying much of the apprehension which has recently been felt.

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Reports from all section of the Pacific Northwest, especially from the Willamette Valley, indicate that the wheat harvest will be the largest one in years, while hops are equally promising. Last year the wheat crop of the Willamette Valley was almost a failure, and, during the two preceding years, the yield was by no means good. But if the present indications count for anything, there will be a bumper crop this sea

son.

Exports from the United States in the fiscal year 1901 now ended will probably reach $1,500,000,000, the highest mark on record. For the eleven months ending with May, 1901, the total exports were $1,385,013,595, or double those of the corresponding period of 1889, and $100,000,000 more than the total of last year, which broke all previous records, taking the commerce for the eleven months ending with May of various years as the basis of comparison, the figures of the treasury bureau of statistics show that during the period of 1899, our exports amounted to $1,130,629,075; in 1900, $1,385,013,595.

The distribution of our exports during the year among the grand divisions will be about as follows: To Europe, $1,155,000,000; to North America, $195,000,000; to South America, $44,000,000; to Asia, $48,000,000; to Oceania, $36,000,000; to Africa, $26,000,000.

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In other words, Hotel Flavel is as complete a summer resort as is to be found anywhere, and it boasts of the finest bathThe ing grounds on the Pacific Beaches. temperature of the river takes the chill off Exthe ocean and there is no undertow. cellent fishing can be had within three hundred feet of the hotel, and Old Fort Stevens is only a mile distant In connection with the hotel there are tennis courts, double bowling alleys, billiard and pool tables, and dark room for photographers.

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There are 500 cottonseed oil mills operating in the Southern States, as against 40 in 1880.

The Iron and Coal Trades Review (London) says:

"One of the most remarkable features of the steel industry for 1900 has ben the production of basic open-hearth steel in the United States. More than 2,500,000 tons of basic steel were made in the United States last year by the open-hearth process, against only 293,000 tons made by the same process in Great Britain, so that the American make, which practically did not begin until six years ago, was very much greater than the British output. The basic process was begun in Great Britain about 20 years ago. Here again the characteristic enterprise of the Americans has enabled them to forge ahead.

Ninety-two works produc

ed open-hearth steel in 1899. It almost looks as though there were no many new worlds for the United Staes to conquer in the way of statistical records."

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The Seventh National Bank of New York city, which closed its doors recently, first came into prominence when the last congress investigated the relations between the United States treasury department and the banks in which the public funds were deposited. It was then learned that the deposits of the money order department of the New York postoffice were not under the control of the treasury department, but had been transferred to the Seventh National Bank, which was under the control of a group of political financiers, with Assistant Postmaster-General Heath at their head. Under this regime, the business of the bank rapidly increased to immense proportions, but the recent collapse may teach New York the lesson which Philadelphia has learned from the banks which utilize political connections in this way. It is not thought that the transactions which led to the Seventh National's suspension involved any criminal conduct, but they certainly involved violations of the national banking law. For instance, the sum of $1,600.000 had been loaned to one firm, while $50,000 is the limit of a single loan in the case of the Seventh National Bank. The banking laws specifically state that not more than one tenth of the capital of a bank shall be loaned to one firm. The non-enforcement of the banking laws has been the cause of more than one failure in the United States.

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