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There is now pending, to be voted on by the people of Portland, an amend ment to the city charter, drawn adroit ly in the interest of the street railway combination of the city, the object of which is to strengthen this monopoly and to give it a further and stronger hold upon the city than it has at, the present. This proposition is in line with and is a continuation of the series of efforts' carried on during many years; for exploitation pf "franchises" in Portland, for further enrichment of the reigning families who think they own the city. The amendment pro posed is purposely made obscure. ' It is framed so, with subtle intent, rfor de ception of the public; for it is believed. evidently, that the general voter, not understanding It, will vote for it, on the supposition that It Is the right thing. Here is the proposition, put with subtlety in a cloud of words intended to obscure it, but still carrying the meaning that the exploiters intend: Whonever any person or corjoration owning or operating street railways in the City of Portland, under a franchise or franchises granted by tho city, makes application build, maintain and operate connecting lines of railway upon streets of the city upon which no tracks are laid, for the purpose of connecting such street railway!, or connecting such etreet railways with street railways owned or operated by others, the Council may by ordinance from tlmo to time grant, upon such conditions and terms. as it may pre scribe, to euch person or corporation, the right to build, maintain and operate for such pur poses, not otherwise, lines of track upon the streets not already occupied by railway tracks. without complying with the provisions of this charter governing the granting of franchises, except those set out In Section 97 of this charter; provided, however, that such conneo xion lines nnan in no instance exceed one thousand three hundred feet (1300) In length. and provided, further, that the franchise or franchises under which jsuch person or cor poration Is operating such line of railway si to bo connected shall in all respects be deemed embodied in and an integral part of such grant, as though expressly embodied in and made- an integral part of the ordinance granting such right. The single purpose of thin is to strengthen the hold of the monopoly on the street railway franchises of Port land; to get something more for noth lng, out of the public,, on pretense of devotion to the public Interests. These sly .operators have manipulated this business, through the city government, for many years. They are capitalizing the results at many millions of dollars. on which they expect the people of Portland, whose streets they have taken possession, of, without paying a dollar for the right, to pay line divi dends. with a, happy regularity. The combination may, under this amendment, not only place its tracks, without paying the city anything for the right, on each and every street paralleling its present lines, for a dis tance of five blocks cither way, but it may-also absolutely prevent any com peting company from obtaining rights of way for tracks along any street within five blocks of the lines of the present company. This it may do slm ply by putting "loops" and laterals here and there along its own lines reaching out to the nearest parallel streets. . The Fifth-street line, for ex ample, could- build a loop on Salmon street to Seventh, to Main and back to Fifth. This one block of track on Seventh street would prevent any com peting company from building a line along Seventh street, because -it could not get a right of way between Salmon and Main. Of course, it is precisely lor the purpose of shutting out compe tition that the street railway company has framed and Is promoting this char ter amendment. It does not escape observation that the organ of the reigning plutocratic families who are exploiting things in this way is vehement and venomous in its opposition to Judge "Williams of course because "the old man" can't be used for the purposes they have in view. Understanding these matters, the people of Parilaa.-axe not likely, to & cept the professions of the gentlemen who assume to embo.dy in themselves j all disinterestedness and all the -virtues of our municipal life. They -who. through subtle work these twenty years,- have possessed, them selves of all these "franchises," for which they have paid nothing the right to occupy the streets of Port land. whlchv they have capitalized at millions of dollars have made enough, for the present, out of these privileges; so this amendment may as well be. turned down. TO OPEN, TJIE CLEARWATER. Out of Wall street comes a fairly well-authenticated announcement of at least a partial restoration of peace in the Clearwater country, with outlines of a. definite plan for opening up that isouted territorv with rail transpor tation. The plan provides" for the build ing' and joint control of a road by the Northern Pacific and Oregon Rail road &. Navigation Company. This so lution of the difficulty is a natural and logical result of the encroachment of outside parties on this special preserve of the two, big factions engaged In the fight. Just prior to the completion of plans for the -electric line Into the Clearwater country, it was definitely announced that the "Wall-street Inter ests which control the destinies of both the Northern Pacific and the O. R. & N. Co. had placed the ban on any more railroad building In the Immediate fu ture This decision would probably have held good, had not the threatened ad vent of other parties in .the field forced a change of attitude. The agreement for joint construction and operation of the new road in the Clearwater does not necessarily mean complete restora tion of peace and elimination of com petition. It is not improbable that the road will be built under a flag of truce. The construction has been delayed be cause the two roads were unable to ar rive at a satisfactory agreement re garding the division of the territory. "While the quarrel was on, an outside company came In and was n a fair way to walk off with the prize, leav ing the main contestants with very little to disptue over. To prevent this unexpected denouement immediate ac tion was necessary, and both parties have apparently willingly consented to a truce until the line Is built, and will await, a further opportunity before set tling the differences which for years have prevented either road entering the field. As previously stated, the traffic al ready developed in the Clearwater country is taxing the facilities of the Northern Pacific to lift It up through Potlatch Canyon, and the additional traffic created by the proposed exten sion will demand the completion of the road between Lewiston and Riparla as soon as the new traffic begins to move. With a water-level route out of the country, the Northern Pacific will, of course, abandon the road up the can yon and a vast tide of traffic will fol low the course of least resistance and come down Snake River. The North ern Pacific has undoubtedly foreseen these coming changes, and has been preparing for tnem. it has secured a large tract of the most valuable water front property in the City of Portland, and year after year It has maintained a force of- engineers running lines and collecting details regarding a route down the north bank of the Columbia River. "While this work was in progress the road was hauling wheat Into Portland from points east of the Cascade Moun tains, making an unnnecessary detour of several hundred miles over fearful grades. There will be no more money wasted on this kind of railroading af ter the Hill road has some water-level grade experience out of the Clearwater country, and. after the traffic passes RIparia. it will not be hauled over an other chain of mountains, but instead will follow on down the Columbia River over a line built down the north bank, or, pending the completion of such a line, it may come in over the O. R. & N. tracks. In the old days of high rates and a comparatively limited amount of traffic, the economic advan tages of the water-level route were ig nored. not through any fault of the practical railroad men, but by the land boomers who were temporarily in charge of the Northern Pacific Rail road and cared more about building up Tacoma than they cared about the traffic of the road. The policy of the present manage ment seems to be that of a common carrier, and not a town-lot boomer. With the completion of a line down the river to Portland it will haul wheat from the interior to Portland or Puget Sound with strict impartiality as to rates and service. Railroad develop-J ment in the Pacific Northwest has been retarded for many years, but with the ice broken in the Clearwater, we are almost certain to witness some sudden changes in other long-neglected local!. ties. IT IS VV TO PARENTS. The article from the Ladies' Home Journal, published in The Oregonian, on "Follies for the Fourth of July," is pertinent and timely. The fatalities due to unwise parental indulgence upon that day. as represented In the toy pis tol, the giant firecracker and other noise-producing exponents of Juvenile enthusiasm, have Increased steadily from year to year, until they have reached alarming and Indeed shocking proportions. The desire to make a noise on the Fourth of July Is a natural one to juvenile Americans. Indeed, this de sire is' not confined to the youngsters, and it is not the policy of men who re member when they were boys to dis courage it- But events have too often proven that this desire is not exercised wisely, and that It must be kept within reasonable limits, if deaths from lock jaw dnd injuries more or less serious a"nd permanent to a large number of boys are not to follow the celebration of the National holiday. Looking over the casualty list of the last Fourth of July, it would seem that no father in the United States would run the risk of being accessory before the fact to his son's death from tetanus by giving him a toy cannon as a part of his equipment for producing noise on the coming Fourth of July; or of the loss of his son's eyesight, or of other wise disabling him for life "by provid ing him with "cannon crackers" or the toy pistol which shoots blank cart ridges. The Home Journal accounts these three things as the chief enemies of child life and limb in connection with the annual carnival of noise by which our natal day is celebrated. Elim inate these-and the casualty list would fall to the minimum. If indeed It were not altogether eliminated from the sum ming up of the day's happenings. But the fact, as dsfaoostrated year after year, shows that parental pru dence is not proof against the desire to see the b'oy have a "good time." The casualty list grows year after year, and as a result' the number of deaths from the -most hopeless and agonizing of all maladies increases. Warnings, backed "toy statistics that show an ap palling loss of- life and limb, have been given through the newspapers. Phy sicians, not unmindful of their duty in the premises, have laid the most dis tressing facts before their special con stituency in the hope that they would profit by the examples cited. But the casualty list continues to grow and the small boy to have his "fun." THE OHIO REPUBLICANS. The Ohio State Republican Conven tion adopted a ringing platform, point ing with pride to what had been done by the Republican Administration and declaring its unalterable purpose to support whatever hereafter may be done by the same Administration. But it fixed no beacon whatever by which the Republican majority in Congress might be guided on grave v domestic problems now confronting the country. The Ohio Republicans are standpatters. They accept still without qualm or question the solemn tariff declarations of McKinley and Hanna. No tariff re form for them; no tariff revision in theirs. They propose to' hew to the tariff line. let the chips fall where they may. Secretary Taft is from Ohio. He made a great speech before the conven tion, in which he outlined In a very guarded way the desires and purposes of the Republican Administration, but it is obyious that Secretary Taft did not frame the -platform; for the plank on railroad rate policies is curious. It tenders hearty support of the Ohio Re publicans to the President for his "com prehensive enforcement of the Repub lican laws against monopolies, com bines and trusts In restraint of trade.' Certainly. Everybody Is for enforce ment of the law. So are the Democrats. Then the convention denounces "unjust discriminations and special favors In the form of railway rebates, or by any other device." Sure. Down with the iniquitous rebates. That is safe doc trine, and will look very well In any platform. There is not the slightest doubt but that it will be In every plat form. The Ohio Republicans have not compromised themselves with the rail roads, with the trusts, with the monop olles or with the people. The platform goes on to demand such further legls lation as "may. after full investigation, seem to the Republican Congress and Administration wise and conservative." That is to say, after Congress has en acted the legislation, we are ready to swallow the whole carcass, hide and all, but we propose to take no chances beforehand In prescribing a diet for Congress that may not be acceptable to all concerned. . ff the Republicans of the Nation are to take a firm stand upon the great problem of railroad control, they must avoid the cowardly example of the Ohio Republicans, who never at any time since the beginning of the McKin- Iey-Hanna regime have said anything about any question whatever that was of value to the party or to the Nation. It is perhaps due to the Ohio conven tion to say that, while it may have been fearful of offending the railroads, it was equally afraid of offending the President. For example, it madecau tious reference to the recent order of the Secretary of War that all supplies and machinery for the Panama Canal pending action by Congress, should be bought In the markets of the world The platform believes that "Congress should so legislate that American ships and American sailors shall carry Amer ican products over all seas and through the Panama Canal that the United States - of America is building." No danger of hurting anybody's feelings by that utterance. It will please the boosters of the ship subsidy and will neither surprise nor injure its oppo nents. because the latter expected the Ohio Republicans, in deference to the late Senator Hanna, to go a great deal farther on that question. Such a 'com monplace declaration on such a source will not help the ship-subsidy scheme. Governor Myron T. Herrick has been renominated. Two years ago he beat Tom L. Johnson by 113,812. Last year Roosevelt carried the state by 255,421 In 1900 McKinley had a plurality of 69, 036. There Is no doubt of the success of the Republican ticket this Fall. NORWAY AND SWEDEN. News dispatches point to the out break of war between these Scnndi navian neighbors. It is absolutely Im possible for outsiders to appreciate the ground of dispute as giving cause for so terrible an 'alternative as war. By the act of union following the treaty of Kiel. January 14, -1S14, the. two coun tries were joined in a union declared by each to be indissoluble and irrevo cable. But this union convention, dat lng from August 14, 1814, proclaimed the Independence of Norway In union with Sweden. This independence takes form in a separate Parliament Iegislat ing on all matters internal to Norway No allegation is published that this in dependence has been invaded by Swc den. The common affairs of the two kingdoms towards the outside world are regulated by combined meetings of the joint -Council of State. Hitherto Am bassadors, Foreign Ministers and Con sular representatives have been jointly appointed, and accredited by the -.joint kingdoms of Sweden and Norway to the world. Now comes the rub. Norway, feel ing that In the appointment of .Consuls and their actions, she has been slight ed, now demands separate Consulships Inasmuch as Sweden is by far the larger and wealthier member of the partnership, it seems as if Norway were insisting on assuming a needless bur den. So far as can be seen from the outside, purely a question of sent! ment Is in issue. But with sensitiv and high-spirited nations, as with men sentiment gives many fighting grounds If the worst comes to the worst, the nations will look on and grieve. A WORTHY OBJECT. The Travelers' Aid Society, organ ized for the purpose of protecting un sopnisticatea ana innocent young women who have come and will come to this city In the nope of securing employment at the Exposition, is likely to find plenty to do. The lack of con sideration and prudence shown by well disposed young women and girls in coming hither in pursuit of such a for lorn hope marks them as easy prey for the human ghouls that are ever on .the alert for prey of this kind. The T. W. C. A., the Woman's Union the Society of Christian Endeavor and I smaller, church, ami charitable eocjetkc Jyrap&tketlc ill have all that they can do to shelter and protect, by systematized effort. persons of this type from the most grievous and irreparable disaster that can befall womanhood. The object is not reformatory, but preventive. Young omen who are alone and practically moneyless are to be met upon their ar rival, -sheltered temporarily, given, when practicable, work in households hereby they may earn the price of a return ticket to their homes, and by such other devices as may be found necessary made to feel the gravity of the situation in which their own folly! has placed them. Those who are really Innocent, whose worst sin has been" lack of prudence In coming here under such circumstances, can, though per haps with much humiliation and some hardship, be saved from the worst that may befall them. The effort to warn and protect them is a worthy one. and should be encouraged by such means as are necessary to secure the obiect ought; Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, known wherever dollars jingle and wherever trade has got beyond the bartering stage, died at Paris yesterday. Baron Rothschild was one of a famous family of financiers, and in his lifetime as- Isted In the promotion of some of the greatest industrial and financial schemes ever recorded. His operations extended to an parts of the known world,-and" among his customers were Kings and Emperors. He made the power of money felt in many of the Old World capitals, and through the tremendous influence always accom panying great wealth was enabled not Infrequently to shape the political as well as the financial policies of many monarchies. The name Rothschild has for generations been one with which to conjure, but on a tombstone it means no more to Its owner than that of the humblest pauper. The evanescent na ture of the great mystery which we call life Is never more apparent than when some celebrity of world-wide fame re turns to the clay from which he sprung. Rev. Robert Hope, on Sunday. May 14. from the pulpit of All Saints' Prot estant Episcopal Church, of Portland, had somewhat to say on the tendency of the pulpit to do political work. which is worth repetition. "There is no denying," said he, "the truth of much of the criticism of the modern pulpit. Honest men of the world are questioning the good faith of preach ers and their followers. We hear too much of Paul and Cephas and Apollos. It is worse when the sheep are fed on the husks of 'graft' and kindred sub jects. He added: "Mans there are to day who look with alarm on the tend ency which would rob the pulpit of its glorious privilege of preaching a living gospel to the times, to turn it into a medium of party and political strife." It was work of this kind by three or four of the preachers of Portland that brought out the scathing denunciation of their methods by Mayor Williams. The Oregonian is opposed to common gambling and to every species of gam bling. But all the, low, common and vulgar gambling which has been ob served In this town of Portland Is but a bagatelle as compared with the gam bling, Involving millions, In which our saints of finance and exploitation have been concerned and still are engaged They are scheming to make millions. and have mude millions, not directly by gambling on "Jackpots," but by seizure of "public utilities"; and by capitaliza tion of them at millions. It Is easy. out of the profits, to maintain the plu tocratlc organ, to approve and defend and the favorite method is to attack trifling and minor vices. Under this cloak the "big graft" often gets In. If the Philadelphia machine is really in earnest In Its ournose to imneaeh .Mayor weaver, it will venture to heights of audacity hitherto unat- tained in this country. It Is" probably ail a bluff. let there Is reason for Boss Durham and his gang to be an prehenslve. The gas lease was passed by an overwhelming majority of the two branches of the ring Council, but the pressure of public Indignation Is so heavy that the Mayor's veto may. after all. be sustained. The Infamy of the Philadelphia steal will best be un derstood when it is stated that it is proposed to surrender a gas lease now paying $1,250,000 a year and substitute for It a 75-year lease for the cash sum of $25,000,000. The funeral of Miss Charity Ankeny, daughter of Senator Ankeny. will be held at Walla Walla, her home city, tomorrow afternoon. The event will conclude the record of a brief life of sunshine and promise that was closed all too soon. In this most tender and profound sorrow Senator Ankeny and his family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends throughout the Pacific Northwest. Benton ' Killln was one of the self made men and one of the useful men of Oregon. He had been a hard and successful worker; he was a man of force and integrity: he was true to all the obligations of the man and of the citizen. A malignant disease carried him off early, as he was but 63. "He should have died hereafter." The Mayor called a meeting of the Common Council to consider and to deal with the situation "as to saloons and sale of liquors about the entrance of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The' members of the Common Council did not respond. So probably there will be no change. The Mayor Is not responsi ble. The organ of the plutocratic first families of Portland, loquitur: "We had a chance to make $4,000,000 by sell ing the public streets of Portland. But The Oregonian is 'knocking us. It is a wicked and sinful newspaper." It is no time to question the authority of the Chief of Police to drive crooks and vagrants out of the city. What do the constitutional lawyers that are raising objections want? Vagrants and crooks to remain? There are some people inclined to think the public interest would have been materially advanced if the City Council had adopted yesterday's tac tics at all its meetings - for the. past three years. Philadelphia has a public opinion The bosses have found it out at last. Or perhaps the people have just found it out- The real explanation of it all is that the absentee Couhciimen went on a 0REG0N0Z0NE. . The other day an Indiana . boy coughed up a head of timothy hay. His parents, who are thrifty, think of planting him to alfalfa next season. It Is said that a forthcoming bro chure by President Roosevelt is en titled: "How to Make Vice-Presidents Work for Their Salary." The Literary Digest has discovered a new way to spell Kozhdestvensny. That's It. So long as Mac Wood remains at large. Senator Piatt may envy- the se curity of his late Connecticut name sake. From Ohio comes the pathetic news that there are not enough suitable jobs in the state penitentiary to go round amongst the bankers now making their headquarters In. that institution. Man ual labor is said to be decidedly dis tasteful to bankers. They have soft white hands, and cannot be expected to compete wfth the horny-handed sons of toil who happen to be sojourning in the same place. ' The Punk Punster. Sarcastic Smith I heard a man say today that Missouri people don't keep up with current literature. Can you tell me why, if that Is true? The Punk Punster Yes; It is because they are devoting too much of their time to Folklore. Sarcastic Smith That's ancient. At the Portland Fair. On the Fair site by the lake side. Where the sights are always fair, I will meet you, I will greet you I'll be there. By the lake side on the inside. Where the Inn Inside the site Gets the "iguestlng, I'll 'be resting Day and night. On the broad side of the road side O'er the lake side (hear my tale!), I'll go spinning for an inning On the Trail. A Tragecfy Narrowly Averted." A Portland man picked up a maga zine recently without reading the name of It and began to peruse an article "aeaded: "Little Things to Watch." This is what he read: "Keep your tank full. "Scour those platinum points. "Keep your wiring in condition. "Mind your speed; the Constable will get you If you don't watch out. "Keep your tank full. "Clean your engine often. "Start her easy. -Don't run around corners like the mill tall of tophet. "Grease is not made, for radiators. "Keep your tank full. "Loose battery connections are bad "Keep your points bright and 1-32 of an inch apart. "Don't carry your spark plug In your pocket. "Keep vour tank full. "Learn to time your valve?. "Retard the Ignition before, you crank. "Keep your tank full. "But don't fill your tank by lamp light. . "Carry some coarse linen and litharge and glycerine paste to mend leaky Joints. "Number your wires and terminals if you don't want the crowd to guy you "Keep your tank full." By the time the reader got down to this sixth reiteration of the intempe rate" admonition to keep his tank full. nc was convinced mat ne was not pe rusing a Prohibition party organ: in fnit lie becan to fear that he was headed for the Keeley cure house or the . bughouse. What was his "spark plug? How could he "time his valves?" Why was it more perilous to "fill his tank by" lamplight" than by gaslight or moonlight? Was his "wiring" out of condition? Had his nose become a ra diator" and did it look greasy? He had not taken a drink fbr three days, and yet he fancied that he saw rats scud ding across the floor. How could he escape being gotten by the Constable If he kept his tank full six times a day? Another big blue rat ran out from under his chair and then he read the name of the magazine. It was the May number of the Auto Advocate and Country Roads, and the list of ad- .monitlons was signed "Old Chauffeur." Poet's Day at Portland. There, is to bc'a Poets' Day at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, July 15. All poets In good standing arc invited. Magazine poets, of course, are barred. Spring poets and obituary poets will be admitted If they will sign the reform pledge. Pot3 who practice the dropstitch style, just like this, invented by James Whitcomb Riley, will' not be 'recognized unless they present certificates from Mr. Riley showing that they have secured his release of copy right. Any poet who has perpetrated a poem entitled "When My Ship Comes In" will be met at the depot .and put aboard the next ship bound out for the Canary Islands. Claimants to the authorship of "Beautiful Snow" need not apply. Sons of poets are eligible, as also are sons of veteran poets. Special booths are provided In the Machinery building for m'achlno poets. Apprentice poets will be admitted on probation, though journeymen are pre ferred, as they are not so ambitious to work overtime. In the case of the latter, working cards up to date will be re quired, and the cards must be stamped by Local No. 999. Poets' Amalgamated Un ion. Lady poets like Ella Wheeler Wilcox are warned that this Is not a hot climate. Poet laureates like Alfred Austin may enter under protest, their eligibility to be referred at once to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pegasus and Other Animals. Tearful poets, who ooze with soulful stanzas concerning despair, disappointment and death, will be re ferred to the National Irrigation Commis sion for credentials, and as there Is much arid land in the West they may be found useful. Foots who have published books through the press of Richard G. Badger, at Boston, may pass the turnstiles upon payment of the regular admission. Just as they pass Into the Gorham Press of Mr. Badger by paying the fee. Dialect poets will be welcome after passing a creditable examination in the old blue spelling-book. Negro dialect poets will bo killed and cremated. Pike County poets will be sent to John Hay for discipline. Real poets will receive crowns made of the leaves of the Oregon grape, guarac teed not to intoxicate. AH other poets. are cordially invited, and no questions asked. - ROBBBTUS LOVB. WEALTH AISD POWER OF ROTHSCHILDS Horr the Family Attained DUtlactlea In the Flaaaclal World Maln niay ot Many European Xatleaa Tlee TraaltlOHal Pellcy ef latcr Marriage. - Baron Mayer Alphonse James De Roth schild, who died yesterday, was born In 1S27. He was the eldest son of Jacob James Mayer and Betty Rothschold, of the Vienna House of the Rothschilds. Upon his father's death he became the head of the Paris house and married Le onora Rothschild, of the London house, thus again linking together the several divisions of the family. About 1753 there died Amschel Moses, the head of the Rothschild family. He left a son, Mayer Amschel. who died In 1S12. It was this son who was the first great Rothschild and who was the real founder of Ihc Rothschild wealth. He was called Amschel of the Red Shield. In lSOS, when Napolean was about to In vade Germany the hoUr of the Roth schilds came. Amschel had impressed Landgrave of Hesse with his honesty and I capacity. He happened to have at that time about five millions of dollars, a part I of which was what the Landgrave got j for the Hessians he sold to George III for export to America. The Landgrave saw his money about to disappear into the war-chest of Bonaparte. He asked Amschel to take It and bear it away in ' safety. Amschel transported it across the mountains on mule back and to Man chester, where his son, Nathan Mayer. was established as his agent for the pur chase of cotton goods. During the entire "Napoleonic era this huge sum was in the hands of the Rothschilds for speculation. In one of the five years of that period Isathan boasted that he had Increased his own capital twenty-five hundred times. The prob ability is that this personal capital at the outset wa3 about one hundred thousand dollars. When Napoleon was dethroned the Rothschilds offered to repay: the Land grave refused. He "finally took interest at two percent, but refused all back pay ments. Not until 1832, when Napoleon was dead and Europe tranquil again, did the heirs ot the Landgrave take their money again. By that time it was but a modest portion of the real capital of the Rothschilds. This, then was the foundation of the Rothschild millions. After the Napole onic era. when the crowned heads were greatly In arrears. It became known that the house of Rothschild was the best financial agent. The house became bankers and financial agents for the gov ernments and sovcrigns of Europe, 'rne financial empire of the Rothschilds was founded and upon his deathbed Amschel gave the advice that has to the present time kept the house a financial leader. He told his children: "Intermarry." It occurred that Amschel's energy and ability was not succeeded by mediocrity. His five sons developed wonderful ability. Amschel Mayer, belonged to the Frank fort house. Solomon to the Vienna branch. Nathan Mayer to the London house. Charles the Naples branch. James, Baron de Rothschild, to the Paris house. James, who was born in 1792, married Betty Rothschild, of the Vienna branch. and by her had three children, the eldest being the late Mayer Alphonse James, who. until his recent death, was the head of the Paris branch. This branch of the family, though the most splendidly and conspicuously seated of all. is both in wealth and in financial brain-power, in ferior to the Vienna and London bran ches. Society and national patriotism have operated to weaken, to a certain ex tent, singleness of devotion to family and to finance. There is a question as to who will now be the head of the Paris branch. Of the late baron's brothers there remains Gustave. who has not Intermarried, and Edmund James, who married Adelheld Rothschild of the now defunct Frank fort house, which passed out of exlstanco when Anselm Mayer died childless in 1S55. To the late baron there was born two - children, Beatrice and Edmund Al phonse James. The son Is unmarried, but has given indications of great financial ability, and it may come to pass that he will take a consort from one of the other ODD BITS 0F0REG0N LIFE. Jack Rummcll's Bid for Fame. Albany Democrat. Jack Rummcll. of Jackson County. has killed 7S bears, and Is entitled to a place In the President's Cabinet. Sad Accident to Something. Hazel Bend. Cor. Tillamook Herald. W. D. Gladwill's colt kicked Mr. Mill's dog last week and broke its leg. Let Him Go Barefoot, Like the Dogs. Ontario Argus. C. C Carter presented his span of greyhounds to George Currey. of Jun tura. Charley likes dogs all right, but when It comes to masticating the only pair of socks he had on earth he thought It was time to cry out ice water. Jenkins and Billlngsley are smiling. One Lady's Oversight. . Freewater Times. Doctors get us against some queer propositions occasionally. An M. D. not far from here told us of a lady: whosc foot he was treating for a severe sprain. After examining the Injured foot, he asked the lady to bare the other that he might compare their size, to ;ee the amount of inflammation. He was amused by the lady replying: "But. doctor, I can't take off my stocking; I only washed this one foot." All the News From Habbitville. Irrigon Irrigator. The Rabbitvllle brass band will toot In the park next Sunday (afternoon. Some bands play, some bands discourse, some bands render. Our band is at its best on a toot. Oiir city blacksmith has returned and is at work again. His countenance is not as pleasant as It was before the mule kicked him, but he knows more. The City drugstore is now selling its large stock of codfish at reduced prices. a'he proprietor of the Bunco House sent me word to say that there are no bugs In the Bunco House beds. So we make the statement as requested. There are no bugs In the Bunco House beds. But the Bunco House guests will say we arc a darned liar. The city barber got full last Satur day night and in shaving Si Butterbot tom cut off a small section from the south half of Si's east ear. We are sorry t6 say SI got mad. SI always was a fin nlcky cuss. In speaking in the town hall the other night, Jo. Stifel said It was a bad hall to speak in, the obstetrics being very -poor. What Jo. don't know about obstetrics would fill, a large book. Summerbottom's oldest girl writes us a note asking If it is safe for a sin gle i;irl to go walking with a young man after darK- in ner case u wu safely say It is: but the young man is tailing -a desperate chance. A Way That Cowboys Have. Chicago Tribune. One' of the groups of statuary that will occupy a commanding position at the Lewis and Clark Exposition is called "Cowboys Hitting the Trail." The cow bora it depicts may be engaged in hitting the trail, bat they seem to be shootJag. at the -senita branches and follow in his father's foot steps. There was a time when the Rothschild millions was at stake. It was at the time the' Iron Duke was preparing to cross swords with Napoleon. The Roth schilds had been compelled by their bus iness to become allies ot Napoleon's en emies and upllfters pf feudalism. They wished Napoleon to lose at Waterloo, but' it was necessary that they know the re sult of the battle as soon as possible. If Napoleon was about to win the Roth schilds stood to lose a great deal, but it they knew it in advance of the rest of the world they could save themselves from ruin and might, perhaps. mak terras with the conqueror. Nathan, then the active head of the Londan house, de cided that here was a crisis where no agent could be employed. He secretly left London, crossed to Belgium, and went to the camp of the Allies. The soldiers insulted him and treated him with Indifference, but were obliged to tolerate his presence. Wellington was defeated on the first day of the battle and on the second day was steaauy driven back. Late in the afternoon the other financial messengers present left the field to carry the news of Wellington's disaster abroad. Roth schild remained. He did not leave until he saw the defeated Frenchmen flying the field. Then he rode' toward Ostend rode like a madman. He sought a boat man to take him across the Channel. There was a storm and all refused' to venture. At last he discovered one In straightened circumstances. He gave this man s family five thousand pounds. and the boatman started on the trip. They reached the other side In safety. Rothschild set out tor i.onaon, anvmg at full speed; Before him had gone news of Welling ton's defeat. Without waiting to dress or eat Rothschild sauntered Into the stock exchange, shambled up to the pil lar where he always stood and leaned there with a dejected look upon Ins race. He said not a word. Everyone knew the Rothschild stake was on the Allies. That statue seemed to tell them the whole story. They frantically sold English funds, the funds of the Allies and Nath an's agents acting under his orders, bought all they sold. When Nathan shuf fled away to sleep he was to finance what Napoleon would have been to politics had he won Waterloo. r The fortune of the Rothschilds was not only saved, but was more than doubled. Since that time the house of Rothschild has not been seriously threatened. But to-day there are inroads on the strength of the financial empire, inroads that per haps fortell disaster, at least to some of the branches. Rothschilds are retiring from business, entering society, taking to the arts. One practices medicine. In termarriage is not so frequent as in the days of the founders. The head of one branch died childless. Dr. Henri, just mentioned as in the medical field, mar ried outside the family and has no char acteristics common to the house except the name he bears. Gustax. of the Paris house, married outside the family. One of his daughters refused a Rothschild to wed Baron Lambert. A daughter of Solomon went against the wishes of her family to marry outside. Ferdinand, of the Vienna house, the strongest branch, has retired from the financial field. These things have weakened the Rothschild strength and may be the beginning of the end. In an effort to recuperate the house of Rothschild has recently sent two Of its scions to America, to learn banking as it is practiced here. These representatives , will In a few years control the destinies of the house. They are . working as clerks In the office of a New York firm, the agents of the Rothschilds in America, where, as yet. the financial kingdom has failed to subject. Though the Roth schilds have large interests in America the control Is not In their hands. The American money market is still managed by Americans, and the financial brains of the Rothschilds are forced to com pete with the brains of Rockefeller, of Morgan, of others who have founded financial kingdoms without the aid of a Landgrave. FRAUDS IN DAMAGE SUITS. (Items Introducing "The Profession of Get ting Hurt," by Theodore "Waters. In "the June Pearson's.) A Chicago jury has found Inga Hanson guilty of perjury. She claimed to have been rendered deaf, dumb and paralyzed through being knocked down and dragged by a trolley car. Chicago news dispatch. A Marselllne. Mo., man has just con fessed that he purposely lost his leg by thrusting it underUhc wheels of a Texas and Pacific Railroad train, for which he recovered 3,000 damages. News de spatch from Austin, Tex. A Philadelphia woman has just com pleted a sentence In jail for teaching her children to injure themselves in trolley cars that she might claim damages. From letter to author. A New York accident insurance com pany has just refused to pay ddmages to a man for the malady known as syno vitis because he was found to have pro duced the effect of the disease by sand papering his knees and applying a fly- blister there.to. Statement made to auth or by company. The city of Chicago is groaning under the burden of personal injury suits. Over twenty-six hundred suits are now pend ing against the city, and many of these bear the earmarks of fraud. William S. Kies. Assistant City Attorney. In ten years the amount paid by Texas railroads for personal injuries has grown from $293,000 to $1,763,000. The rich pick ings from the damage-suit business 13 attracting a horde of lawyers to the damage-suit centers, such as Houston and San Antonio, and the result is that they are turning their attention to others be sides the railroads. Vice-President C. H. Markham, Southern Pacific Railroad. On Authors. New York Evenlpg Post. They were reminiscing at a lunch table In a Fulton-street restaurant. " 'Oliver Optic!' I should say when I was a lad! Happiest days of my life! Did you ever read his 'Treasure Island'?" "No. Are you sure that Oliver Op tic ?" "Of course not. Jules Verne wrote 'Treasure Island.' And then there was a story of Venus rising from the ashes. It was about a bird, for some reason. Ac cording to the history of Greece that I used to read, Venus rose from the sea." They went so deep, on this, into the archaeology of Venus that they forgot to tip the waiter. To Marry for $1000. Fairmount Cor. Baltimore Sun. A strange agreement has been ad mitted to record here In the office of the Clerk of the County Court. By its terms. Miss Gertrude Lowther. of Ritchlo County, agrees to marry B. W. Harden, of Catawba. W. Va.. and to remain his wife until his death, when she Is to receive $1000 from his estate. Harden Is 59 years old and Is a rich widower. Miss Lowther Is 3S years old. The marriage license has been granted. Reading Jurors -Jieeded. Raleigh Times. At no distant day the man who reads the newspapers and Is posted as- to what is going on In the country will be sought out as the only sort of man- competent to sit upon a. Jury- The strange tMag is yby. it is not so now.