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OREGON CITY, OREGON FRIDAY. JANUARY 19, 1900.
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GUEST OF KING EDWARD.
MRS. POTTER PALMER, SOCIETY
LEADER, SPENDS SEASON
IN LONDON.
Leased "Egypt House", Isle of Wight
Polished floors of Famous Man
sion Persian Carpeted to Please
Royal Whim.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, social censor
for the great world of society In Chi-
cago, is numbered among the few
American women who have really and
truly penetrated to the inner circles of
exclusive society in England.
One hears every day of Mrs. This or
Mrs. That who has set the social world
of London agog, but few of this vast
number ever do more than receive an
invitation or two to affairs which are
by no means the entertainments of the
smart set.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, however, is a
woman whose social position is as
sured and has been for a number of
years. To know her is the open ses-
ame to the most exclusive houses in
America, and so when she went
abroad last summer and announced
her intention of staying for the re
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MRS. POTTER PALMER.
gatta season at Cowes, it meant one
more distinguished American woman
to be admitted to the King's circle.
Mrs. Potter Palmer never does
things by halves, and this was never
more thoroughly demonstrated than
when she arranged the marriage be
tween her niece. Miss Julia Dent
Grant, and the Russian Prince 'Can
tacuzene. It was one of the most bril
liant matrimonial achievements the
social world has ever known, and, un
like so many similar affairs, the union
has turned out to be a supremely
happy one.
, When Mrs. Potter Palmer deter
mined to Join the social colony at
Cowes last year she leased the his
toric Egypt House In England's fa
mous beauty spot, the Isle of Wight.
Everybody who is anybody in English
- society goes down for the regatta sea
son, for the King is sure to be there,
and society flocks at the royal heels.
This recalls that the Interior of
Egypt House Is a splendid example of
the simple luxury which prevails in so
many old English houses. Several
years ago It was leased by Consueio,
Dowager Duchess of Manchester, ine
Duchess is one of the oldest friends of
King Edward, and during the season
that she was mistress of Egypt House
she was the King's hostess on more
than one occasion.
The Duchess had the old place done
over in anticipation of the King s com'
ing and all the floors were highly pol
ished and covered with expensive rugs,
His Majesty was escorting the Duch-
, ess into dinner one evening when he
slipped on the polished floor and nar
rowly escaped getting a bad fall. For
the instant the King was angry and
reminded the Duchess that he detested
polished floors and would never again
enter a house where they prevailed.
Merchants of London received or
ders the following day to take meas
urements of all the floors in Egypt
House, and when the King again vis
'ted the Duchess there he found every
room and corridor carpeted in fine
Persian effects. The King laughed
and partly apologized for his bad tem
per on the previous occasion by say
ing, "You are very good, Duchess. You
see, I am not as young as I used to
be." Since that time polished floors
have been tabooed by the English
smart set.
la Sunless Dungeons.
A victim of Russian severity who
aa at one time immured in the grim
Tortress of Peter and Paul, In St. Pe
tersburg, describes it as resembling a
house of the dead.
"Its dungeons, utterly sunless, are
lodes of gloom and silence. Not a
-ord is spoken among the hapless pris
oners, intercourse being carried on
nainly by gestures. Prisoners com
muuicate with each other by knocking
on the walls of their cells, so many
times for each letter. But 'even this
Is sternly repressed by the authorities,
and captives detected in the practice
are liable to severe punishment.
"In short, the prison reproduces all
the horrors of the dungeons of ro
mance, with mildewed walls, cold si
lence and despair. The fortress, in
deed, is never spoken of in Russia
without a shudder, for imprisonment
there is little better than being buried
alive." '
Noah was a Wise One.
A little girl was asked by her Sun
day school teacher, "who was the
wisest man." "Noah," she answered.
"He was the only ona who knew
enough to go in out of the rain."
FITZHUGH LEE'S VIEWS.
Once Told General Howard Southern
- Defeat Would Work for Good.
In March, 1896, I had the pleasure,
recently remarked-an oflicial of the In
dian Department, of traveling in com
pany with the "Indian party" from
Washington City on its way to Car
lisle, Pa., to attend the annual com
mencement exercises of the Indian
school there.
With the party, which included
some members of both houses of Con
gress and a few officials of the Indian
service, were the fearless, forcible
Fitzhugh Lee, and that knightly
Christian soldier, Major-General O. 0.
Howard.
Naturally the two old veterans,
serving on opposite sides of our coun
try s most desperate war, found much
in common to talk over and discuss;
and were together during the entire
trip.
I had the good luck to be included
In their conversation from time to
time, and heard much that was in
structive and entertaining.
From present events their conversa:
tion drifted back to the heroic days of
the civil war, and they fought over
again many of its battles. Then they
recalled old days at West Point, when
Howard was an instructor and had
"Fitz" as his pupil.
"Do you remember," said General
Howard, "the time at the Point that I
induced you to attend chapel serv
ices?"
'Yes," answered General Lee, "but
I didn't go for the services, I went for
you."
Again their conversation was about
the war, and its decisive battles, and
to the wonderful changes since those
tragic days of '61-5.
They had discussed the industrial
conditions of the country, and General
Lee seemed unusually, well informed
as to the needs and opportunities of
the South. -
'Do you know," he said, "the next
decade will witness an industrial re
naissance for us. We are just begin
ning to get an influx of Northern capi
tal and push; and we are learning that
we can get along without the niggers.'
Yes, assented Howard, whose
thoughts seemed still to cling round
past events, "it s all the result of that
fight at Gettysburg."
, "I don t know as to that, responded
General Lee, "but I wish you would
tell me how 'you'ens' came to win that
battle."
'Well," said the gentle Howard, "I
didn't win it, Fitz, God did."
Yes; General," Lee answered, "I
know you went up into the steeple of
that old church at Gettysburg for some
purpose, but I didn t know, it was for
that"
Lee gazed for some time out of the '
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THE SHERIDAN STATUE.
car window at the flying trees and
wheeling' landscape. His thoughts
seemed far away. Then, without look
ing at Howard, he said, "Well, I'm
d n glad, General, that you licked
us. It was the best thing, that could
have happened for the South."
Where Age BroughtWealth.
A proud father In a western town,
who has a number of daughters of a
marriageable age, in speaking of the
qualities of the girls, said to an ac
quaintance that while he loved each
of them very much, he would like to
see them comfortably married. "I have
a little money," he said, "and they
will not go penniless to their hus
bands." "There is Mary, twenty-five years
old, I shall give her $1,000 when she
marries. Then comes Bet, she is more
than thirty-five, and she will get $3,000,
while the man who takes Eliza, who is
more than forty, will receive $5,000
with her."
The acquaintance after some few mo
ments of serious thought, wanted to
know if he had any daughters .fifty or
sixty years old.
NEW SHERIDAN STATUE.
OUIO ERECTS MONUMENT AT A
COST OF TES THOUSAND
DOLLARS
Striking Figure of the Cavalry Lead
er as He Appeared in the Later
Years of His Life, But Noc as n
Looked During the War.
The dedication of a statue of Gen
eral Phil Sheridan at Somerset, Ohio,
on Nov. 2nd, revives interest in the
career of the great cavalry leader or
the Union armies. The state of Ohio
erected the statue, an equestrian one
and there his birth was recorded,
which wlil stand in the public square
of the quaint old village In which
Sheridan lived as a boy. It was al
ways bnlieved prior to his death, that
Sheridan was born in the village. He
and his family allowed the impression
to remain as there was some hope
that he might be nominated for Presi
dent. Sheridan himself was always
proud to call himself an Ohio man,
When he died his relatives admitted
that he was not even born in this
country, but on a ship when i-.s par
ents were en route from Ireland
They settled first at Albany, N. Y.
and there his birth was recorded
However 't was in Somerset that he
crew up, a quick alert little Irish lad
whose greatest delight In' youth was
to await the coming of the stagie that
he might ride the horses to water.
His old mother used to tell in her da
dining' years'of Phillies great love for
horses and how hard his father used
to whip him for riding every horse he
could hnd to mount
Early Cavalry Training.
That early love of horses stood Phil
in good stead when he entered the
cavalry arm of the service and fitted
him for the famous "Sheridan s Ride
to the battle of Winchester. Sheridan
began as a clerk in the village store
and was sent to West Point by a con
gressman who hoped to catch the
Irish Catholic vote. Alas, the con
gressman was beaten, but he gave the
nation a great soldier and in later
years when the man was in trouble,
Sheridan came to his relief in a grate
ful manner. The mother of Sheridan
almost outlived him and died at the
age of 90 retaining her faculties to the
last. He visited her often and she
was never so happy as when she told
all her neighbors "My I'uillle Is com
ing." He gave her a nice little home
on the edge of the village, and under
a great tree that stands In the yard
speeches have been made by the first
President Harrison, by Slilerman
Tom Corwin, Garfied, Hayes and' Mc-
Kinley. The father of Sheridan lived
I
to see his son win fame in the war,
but died from the kick of a vicious
hurse.
Took Care of Relatives.
The General did much for all his
relatives and his memory Is blessed
In the old town of his boyhood. His
younger brother "Mike" Is a retired
army officer. Another brother, John,
died some years ago and his daughter
Eller is now postmistress of the vil
lage. Mrs. Sheridan, the widow, was
present at the unveiling with her
children, one of them being an officer
in the army. The sculptor, Carl
neber, endeavored to represent Sheri
dan as he may have appeared when
making bis famous ride, except that
he has pictured Sheridan as he looked
in the latter years of his life. The
Sheridan of the battle of Winchester
wore a full beard as pictures taken
then give proof. The Statue cost ten
thousand dollars and the dedication
was attended by Corporal Tanner,
commander of the G. A. R., who made
a speech. Adjutant Tweedale re
.;ted "Sheridan's Ride."
TUE YOUNGEST SENATOR.
Burkett, of Nebraska, Who Defeated
Wm. J. Bryan for the Toga.
From the farm furrow to the Sen
ate is the somewhat remarkable
record of the youngest member of that
body, Elmer J Burkett, of Nebraska.
To be elected a Senator is considered
a distinction worthy the ambition of
any American youth; to be the "baby"
member of the greatest of legislative
bodies is a higher distinction, and es
pecially as iu the case of Mr Burkett
where the race was a hot one, and his
opponent un able and renowned an
tagonist, no other man than William
J. Bryan.
Out in Nebraska, says Edgar C.
Snyder, of the Omaha Bee, who is fa
miliar with state politics, there has
been in the past a number of long
drawn out senatorial deadlocks. The
people were not only dissatisfied with
conditions, but they were determined
to stop it. They concluded to direct
the action of the legislature.
Nomination by the People.
The newspapers took up the matter
of a popular nomination very ener
getically, and the plan was suggested
of having a state convention nominate
a candidate for United States Senator,
and instruct their legislative nominees
to vote for him when the legislature
met. Of course, there was opposition
to the plan in certain quarters, for it
materially interfered with the desires
of the "bosses" who had controlled
Nebraska politics for many years, and
Burkett was not exactly to their liking.
The opposition, however, did not de
velop any great amount of strength,
and Mr- Burkett was unanimously de
clared the choice of the Republicans of
the state for Senator, to succeed Sena-
SENATOR ELMER J. BURKETT
, of Nebraska,
tor Dietrich, and, of course, Republi
can nominees for the legislature were
pledged to carry out the action of the
state convention.
Hot Contest With Bryan.
William Jennings Bryan was the uni
versally accepted candidate against
Burkett, supported by the Democrats.
Populists and Free-Silver Republicans.
The fight was thus narrowed down to
one between Mr. Burkett and Mr.
Bryan for control of the legislature.
Inch one would be senator was de
pendent upon the political complexion
of that body- The campaign, extend
ing over a period of about five months,
was exceedingly virile, and there was
plenty of uncertainty to make it inter
esting, and at times almost bitter.
Mr. Burkett like his distinguished
opponent, is of even temperament,
slow to anger and plenteous in that
brand of good nature that never wears
off; and so whatever may have dis
turbed others, it can be said that noth-
ng harsh or bitter ever passed be
tween them personally.
Koosevelts great popularity made
the state surely Republican, so far as
the electoral ticket was concerned, but
Mr. Bryan's popularity and his force
as a campaigner made the outcome as
to the complexion of the legislature
one of doubt and uncertainty. Then,
too, there were local conditions that
were not advantageous to the Republi
cans. These were the conditions confront
ing Mr. Burkett when the campaign
of 1004 opened- Mr. Bryan, brilliant,
shrewd and resourceful as he is, took
advantage of every mistake of the Re
publicans, and he went into the cam
paign determined to elect a Demo
cratic legislature. He strove mightily;
he held meetings In nlmort every dis
trict; be completely covered the state
with a special train, and made from
five to eight rear-platform speeches a
day, arousing as he always does, great
nthusiasm. But Mr. Burkett was also
over the state. He made as many
speeches as did his opponent, and he is
convincer, and he visited every por
tion of the Commonwealth.
' Genius for Organization.
Probably one of Iiurkett's chief at
tributes In his genius for organization.
As a result of the marshaling of his
forces, a legislature was elected with
every one of the thirty-three members
In the henate a Republican and only
nine Fuslonlsts out of one hundred
members of the House. The legis
lature met and in just six minutes
elected Mv Burkett a Senator.
IN TROPICAL ARIZONA.
DESERT SANDS MING TRANS
FORMED INTO VERDANT
FIELDS AND ORCHARDS.
Country Was Once Inhabited by an
Ancient People Only Ruins Left to
Indicate a Teeming and Prosperous
Population. .
Swinging gently in one's hammock
beneath wide spreading fig trees load
ed with luscious fruit, and breathing
Into the nostrils the fragrance of a
field of Peruvian clover mingling with
the almost tropical bloom auout me, it
Is Indeed hard to believe that this very
spot, only a few years ago, boasted
naught save the homed toad, the
Gila monster and the rattlesnake. A
suspicion of a scent of desert sage
wafted on a summer morning's zephyr
awakes In one a realization that, just
beyond this fair oasis, gaunt desola
tion, weird and mysterious, stalks
wide under relentless skies of brass.
All these thoughts and others are
yours when you drop into Phoenix
or Mesa, or any of the little onses in
the Salt River Valley, after the Ion?
hot ride across the burning sands
which Intervene between It and El
Paso, Texas. You are glad to feast
your eyes on the green verdure which
seems to spring suddenly from out
the sere desert
An Almost Tropical Climate.
Phoenix, beautiful in a garb of
tropical luxuriance, with wide aven
ues shaded by magnificent palms or
shapely umbrella trees, with pleasant
homes almost hidden by vines and
flowers, bids you welcome.
Many of her pioneers and her best
citizens came here to fight a last bat
tle with tliait dreaded scourge, the
White Plague tuberculosis and the
welcome they received from the des
ert brought the bloom of health to
their cheeks and now hope to their
hearts, and Is reflected in the welcome
which greets the stranger at their
gates to-day.
Ours is usually termed a new coun
try, yet in Arizona one views the re
mains of a civilization that flourished
as long ago as the 'eighth or ninth cen
tury, and mayhaps as ancient as that
of the first. There is an irrigation ca
nal, deep and wide, cut from the solid
rock by a race which lived in the
Salt River valley ere man had
learned the use of metals. On the
bank one finds a broken stone axe,
mute evidence of the wonderful pa
tience of a people of whom history
records nothing save this sign of skill
in engineering and irrigation.- Van
ished are they into the misty
past ao long ago thatt the
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SCENE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA
An Irrigation Ditch Runs
boldest legends of the oldest Indian
tribes convey to us no woru or an in
dustrious nice of lnislMiudmeni who
carried the waters of the Salt River
out upon the desert and made it to
blossom. What dreadful catastro
phe overwhelmed thorn? What cruel
fate overtook them and swept them
from the face of the earth? Ask of
tlie desert which quickly returned
to claim its own and obliterated under
Its drifting sands the long lines of
canals and ditches and the wide
spaces of green. It answers not.
Centuries passed, nnd then tlie Anglo
Saxon came to battle with the des
ert As his great steam shovels swept
aside the sands, behold ho found his
canal lines crossed and recrossed by
the ancient ditches or following them.
So great were the returns from ir
rigation in the valley, it was but nat
ural that the old canals should be
widened and lengthened and new
HUOE ALFALFA STACKS.
ditches constructed. With the op
timism which has ever characterized
the desert pioneer, great works were
undertaken-
There came a day when the sup
ply ceased to suffice; Periods of
nnusual and protracted drought fol
lowed Qcb other for a number of
years. Thousands of acres of vines
and orchards perished miserably and
the desert once more began to en
croach upon the cultivated fields.
With a courage born of experience
with arid conditions, a sublime faith
in their chosen field, the people brave
ly tried to meet misfortunes and to
overcome them. It was a hopeless
struggle. Salvation, though near, was
just out of reach. The great floods
which came each year, sweeping away
bridges and tearing out cauals and
ditches, could not be utilized because
GIANT CACTUS OF THE SALT RIVER
VALLEY.
storage necessitated an expenditure
beyond the means of the people.
Once Lair of Geronlmo's Apachea.
Far up In the San Francisco Moun
tains, once the rendezvous of the
Apacho outlaw Geronlmo, and hi9 ,
baud of murderers, Salt River and
Tonto Creek come together in Touto
Basin and flow into a d,pep and nar
row canyon. Near the entrance to
this gorge the Engineers of the Re
clamation Service are building the
Roosevelt; dsim, one of the highest
in tlie world. From bedrock to top
it will be 275 feet high, or about half
the height of Washington monument.
It will be of rubble masonry, and In
its construction) will require 220,000
bbls. of cement. When completed it
will store 1,400,000 aero feet of water,
or sufficient water to cover that many
acres one root ueep. unce mil, it
will insure sufficient water to cover
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feet of wuter, the amouut needed to
produce a full crop. The people are
pledged to pay $3,000,000 In ten years
for this worlcr To-day only 100,000
acres are irrigated undet present sys-
Through tho Town,
terns. Tho Roosevelt dam will double
the acreage. It will also furnish 10,
000 horse power, which can be used
for pumping water from underground
sources where tne supply is known to
be large. Some of tlie power will be
conveyed electrically to tlie Snn Carlos
Indian Reservation, and water pump
ed from wells may restore to the Pima
and Papago Indians tlie lands which
are now worthless, and change a tribe
now almost wholly nomadic into their
former condition of prosperous agri
culturists. t
Thirty miles of wagon road up the
rugged Salt River canyon have been
completed, a cement mill at the dam
site is turning out hundreds of barrels
of fine cement daily, saw mills are
cutting big timbers, brick yards are in
full blast; thirty miles of power canal
now furnishes 4000 horse power for
all constructive purposes, telephone
lines, electric lights and water works
are completed, a city of 1,000
Inhabitants rests In the reservoir
where 170 feet of water will cover It
Geronlmo's Apaches working every
day on roads or timbering all these
signs of activity breathe unmistakable
promise of npeedy prosperity for the
Bimny valley sixty-two mi!e below,
Phoenix redivlvus.
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