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THE RKPVBI.ICAN- CAMPAIGN.
In a masterly address which is posi
tive and aggressive In its style, Dr.
Jsnit-s Witliycombe, at Corvallis last
evening, opened, his campaign' as Re
publican nominee for the. office of Gov
ernor of the State of Oregon. Careful
reading of his spewh, the full" text of
w hich is published elsewhere In thia pa
per. Trill-show that he fearlessly chal
lenges the wisdom of numerous acts of
the Democratic Governor, and maps out
for himself a policy that promises an
administration of which the Republican
party wl'I have no cause to be ashamed.
Though he Is a man of spotless private
and public life, Dr. JVithycombe chooses
to base this campaign chiefly upon the
principles of the ' two "political parties
whose candidates' 'are pitted against
each other, believing that indorsement
of the principles of his party is more
important than any preference between
men.
Though avoiding any mention of the
"liHms of hi Democratic opponent , or
any direct reference, to his. official acts,
the language employed leaves no doubt
in the minds of those familiar with
public affairs in Oregon that Dr. Withy
combe Intends to put George E. ChairiT
berlaln on the'' defensive In this cam
paign. Indication of this purpose is
sfn in his comment on appropriation
hills. . He says: "Every appropriation
bill should stand or fall mpon its own
merits. Bills so-framed as to prevent
this call for a prompt- veto, and this
power fearlessly exercised will speedily
' -correct this long-established abuse of
legislative -power." In other words, the
Republican candidate for Governor
calls upon the Democratic candidate to
explain why he did not veto the million-dollar
appropriation bill of the ses
sion of 1905 and thus avoid the Incon
venience of having tTie appropriations
held up by the referendum and save
the hundred-thousand-dollar Interest
account upon warrants not paid for
want of funds.
Another instance of a challenge of
the acts of the Democratic Governor is
found in the next paragraph, w-here Dr.
Wlthycombe declares himself in favor
of a generous policy In maintenance
of a well-regulated patrol system for
the protection of the forest -wealth.
This points in unmistakable terms to
the course pursued by Governor Cham
berlain in vetoing the forest-patrol bill
passed by the pesslon of 190S. and it is
up to Chamberlain to explain. In a
somewhat more direct manner the Re
publican nominee refers to the exercise
of the pardoning power, expresses the
opinion that this power should- be exer
cised with extreme caution, and de
clares that in the past pardons have
been granted too -freely.- Upon the sub
ject of the granting and limitation of
franchises, and the taxation of the
Mm?, the two Gubernatorial candidates
agree, but upon the subject of owner
ship of public utilities they radically
differ. Governor Chamberlain expressed
himself in plain terms as in favor of
municipal ownership, and Dr. Wlthy
combe is just as plain in opposition,
the latter declaring that private owner
ship gives best administration.
Another issue has been presented for
consideration of Governor Chamberlain
in the recommendation that the office
of State Land Agent be abolished. This
suggestion was first made by T. W.
Dnvenport, whose term as State Land
Agent ended with the Lord administra
tion in l$i9. The office was continued,
however. with new duties added,
through the Geer. and Chamberlain ad
ministrations. Chamberlain has kept
the office filled by appointment, and It
is up to him to show that the incum
bent has earned his salary of S1S00 a
year. Upon the subject of convict labor
there is no issue between the two can
didates for Governor, for Chamberlain
declares his purpose to continue and In
crease employment of convicts upon
the public highways, and Wlthycombe
declares for the same policy, basing his
views upon the success attained In that
direction in Multnomah County.
The two candidates are before the
people and their campaign addresses
have been given the wideeu possible
publicity. One stands for Republican
principles and the other for Democratic
principles. One desires to make this
completely a. Republican state, while
the other seeks to fill as many offices
as possible -with Democrats. The
Democratic candidate wishes this state
to send a Democrat to the United
States Senate, two Democrats to
the House of Representatives, put
a Democrat upon the Supreme
bench and continue Portland and
Multnomah County as- Democratic
strongholds. The Republican candidate
advocates the tilling of these offices
with Republicans, who can be counted
upon to support a Republican National
administration In all things. The Re
publican nominee is the candidate of no
faction, for he has been affiliated with
no faction In the past. He is a Repub
lican without limitation or qualification,
and. if elected, as he will be if he lives
until election day, he will lead the work
of healing the sores from which the
party has Buffered in the past.
EDMUND CREFFIELD.
Religious outbursts like the one which
developed under the influence of Ed
mund Creffield are cases of atavism.
When the wine runs wild he loses that
marked and useful tendency to put on
fat 'which he displays in the sumptuous
environment of the sty. He becomes
lank and lean; his bristles elongate; his
tusks grow keen and powerful and his
legs sinewy. This Is) atavism, or rever
sion to the ancestral type from which
the domestic swine has been gradually
produced by human selection. No spe
cies of animals Is exempt from the
atavistic ' tendency. It shows most
strongly -when they escape from human
care, but no pains In breeding and nur
ture will always prevent it. The dog
.which ran w ild In Jack London's pow
erful tale exhibited mental atavism in
losing one by one the traits which edu
cation and kindness had implanted in
htm ancl resuming the ancient feelings
and habits of his race, and one of the
excellencies of this story is that the au
thor makes the vigor of his canine hero
Increase in the same ratio with his
wildness. Jack London does not con
fute reversion : with degeneracy. De
generate animals are on the road to
death, while atavism often involves a
revival of virility. It is one of Nature's
methods of saving an overcultivated
stock from dissolution.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps remarks in
one of those heartrending tales which
she produced in her earlier and more
genial period that God makes new Ad
ams every day. The new Adams, hu
man creatures who are markedly unlike
either of their parents, are generally
producedby crossing widely different
stocks, and they are cases of atavism
in which the individual harks back in
his mental or physical traits to the
pristine vigor of the race, with more or
less of its pristine savagery. Professor
James, of Harvard, writing upon mob
violence, has pointed out how strong
the tendency Is In most of us to revert
to ancestral savagery in our feelings.
Like Jack London's dog, we need only
some decided impulse In that direction
and away goes the veneer of civiliza
tion In an Instant and we stand re
vealed as a band of howling savages.
A magazipe story published not long
ago had for its central Idea the ata
vistic tendency of a pair of civilized
negroes, man and wife, in San Do
mingo. They were people of wealth
and culture and as religious as most of
us, but on certain nights of the year
when they heard the tom-tom beaten in
a valley not far from their home by
some degraded blacks of the neighbor
hood they sloughed off education, cul
ture and religion like a garment and
slipped away In the darkness to Join
in the licentious orgies of, their race.
The atavistic tendency is stronger in
religion probably than in any other hu
man Institution, because It deals with
the deepest qualities of the soul, with
those faculties of our nature which
change least from age to age. It is a
shallow observation to say that human
nature never changes; then men of one
century are very different in their feel
ings, interests and ambitions from
those of another, but there are some
passion in us which are substantially
the same now as they were when our
ancestors were naked savages, and
there is no reason to expect that they
will ever alter a great deal. These
passions pertain to the mysteries of
death and the generation of life, and
with them It is that religion has its
chief concern.
The earliest religious rites and cere
monies related directly to these two
prime interests of savage man. The
symbols which we now revere as me
morials of vicarious sacrifice originated
in the obscene orgies of phallic worship.
Our great ecclesiastical festivals,
Christmas, Easter and the like, were
celebrated when the world was young
to mark the rhythmic recurrence of the
triumph of life over death, and the gods
were best rHeased when the devotees
abandoned themselves most completely
to their passions. From such ignoble
beginnings the lofty Institution of re
ligion has developed. To these same
beginnings it tends to revert in minds
which have broken away from estab
lished customs. Nearly every great re
ligious revival shows some more or less
pronounced symptoms . of atavism.
There are hysterical cries and groans,
weird contortions of the muscles,
trances, maniacal excitement, in fact
a great many of the phenomena which
we know the worshipers manifested in
the primitive religious orgies of Asia
Minor. In the early campmeetings. of
the Middle West these atavistic tend
encies actually went to the point of
positive immorality, or at least they
occasioned scandal; but in these later
times such excesses arevobserved only
in the exceptionally gross atavisms of
such men as Brigham Young, Dowie
and Creffield.
We account for Edmund Creffield' s
baleful Influence over his associates, by
the well-known power of suggestion.
Poe In one of his extraordinary tales
explains by suggestion the fact that
one suicide Induces others. It is sug
gestion that assembles mobs and raises
their excitement to the point of frenzy.
The same subtle and mysterious influ
ence creates the enthusiasm of political
campaigns.' If any one should ask why
Creffield's power of suggestion could be
exercised only upon certain men
and women, it might be an
swered that some persons are
sensitive to hypnotic Influence while
others are not; some experience con
viction of sin at revivals and become
converted annually, while others are
wholly immune to the influence of the
evangelist; some individuals can call
spirits from the vasty deep, while most
of us have no such power. The realm
of suggestion is vast, mysterious and
dangerous. Of those who venture Into
It the greater number are wrecked mor
ally if not physically. The whole pur
pose and effect of civilization is to
carry us farther and farther away from
its boundaries. The tendency of en
lightened religion is to escape from its
dire. Its demonic. Influences and take
refuge in the calm and safe domain of
reason. But occasionally an Individual
or a number of Individuals free them
selves from the restraints of civiliza
tion and enlightened religion, revert to
those savage practices which were in
vented as our ancestors emerged from
their simian state, and we then behold
th shameful atavism of the Holy Roll
ers. Such exhibitions excite In the ra
tional mind pride and fear in equal de
gree; pride when we estimate the dis
tance the race has traveled from Its
primitive savagery; fear when we con
template the possible degradation to
which it may descend.
THE A I.I.I SON AMEVDMIM.
The Allison amendment to the rate
bill, as it was first proposed, left the
power of the Federal Courts to undo
the- work of the Interstate Commerce
Commission by injunctions perfectly
unrestricted. The Oregonian has re
marked more than once that this ar
rangement would defeat -the purpose of
the bill, and we were astonished when
the report came In that the friends of
rate regulation had accepted it. It
seems now that this report was prema
ture. After another conference upon
the matter the proposed amendment
has been revised In this vital particular.
The power to issue preliminary in
junctions Is not to be taken from the
inferior Federal Courts, but it is to be
hedged about with important restric
tions. For one thing, the injunction
cannot issue upon an ex parte affidavit,
but both parties must have notice and
a fair hearing. Granting that the courts
are Impartial, this provision will tend
toward justice. The second restriction
Is also an excellent one. According to
its terms no Injunction can issue with
out the concurrence of three Judges,
and one may believe that such, concur
rence will never be obtained except In
cases where an Injunction is actually
necessary to prevent an irreparable in
jury, as the common-law authorities
required. Star-chamber writs will be
come a thing of the past, if they have
ever existed-. The third excellent pro
vision is that an appeal from a re
straining order of the Inferior court
shall lie without delay or circumlocu
tion to the Supreme Court.
While one cannot repress a regret
that the injunction power against or
ders of the commission Is not to be
taken from the inferior courts alto
gether and lodged! solely in the Supreme
Court, nevertheless, as a substitute, the
amendment in its present form is the
best possible. The ideal can rarely be
attained in statesmanship. All efforts
toward the cure of evils Inevitably end
in compromises. This should not dis
hearten anybody. Jo compromise is
final. The bad ones give way to the
good and the good yield ultimately, to
better. Thus we advance by slow and
halting steps toward the ideal. So long
as every step is forward and none back
ward, the friends of justice may be of
good courage.
INTENSIFIED FRANCHISE EXPLOITA
TION. Franchise exploitation in its most
acute 1 form is discussed in the May
number of the World's Work with the
City of New York as the victim of this
most pernicious branch, of high finance.
Startling 4n their Immensity are the
figures on this latest consolidation of
the traction facilities of one American
city. As summarized by the writer iin
the World's Work, "the power to charge
a 5-cent fare in one city is capitalized
for more than any trust except one."
The capitalization is $513,000,000, or
more than five times as great is that of
the Standard Oil, more than four times
as great as that of the beef trust, and
$8,000,000 greater than the combined
capitalization of the following big
trusts; -Standard- - Oil, ' beef, express,
brass, window, glass, match, borax,
watch, hardware, safe,, candy, baking
powder,' screw radiator, thread, type,
rubber and -woolen, the combined capi
tal of these eighteen mammoth trusts
being but $505,000,000.
The handsome profits of these
eighteen big trusts are secured from
sale of their products all over the world.
The people of all countries on the face
of the earth contribute to the funds
which pay dividends on this enormous
capitalization. But with the traction
merger the dividends are all wrung
from the people of one city, and, with
their 5-cent fares, the people of New
York are paying dividends on actual
equipment which cost less than $50,000,
000, and on the value of franchises
which cost their owners practically
nothing, but which are now capitalized
for more than $450,000,000. The World's
Work states that "the situation is not
confined to New York. To some extent
it exists In all the large cities. As cit
ies grow the value of their franchises
Increases with great rapidity."
There is. in fact, a striking resem
blance between the New York system
of high finance In traction facilities and
that which we have witnessed in Port
land. It is especially noticeable when
the writer mentions that "the greater
part of this capitalization was the re
sult of successive stock, waterings to
conceal the enormous dividends which
the companies were earning on their
real cost." Then when the era of con
solidation set in, "each consolidation
meant more bonds and stock. The re
ceipts for the sale of bonds more than
paid for the first road and the stock
was distributed as the promoters' prof
its. This stock was afterwards con
verted by successive consolidations into
more bonds and the new stock into
other bonds." With each consolidation
came a reduction in operating expenses,
but all that was saved In this way was
needed to pay dividends on the enor
mous amount of water In the stock.
To pay dividends on this enormous
capitalization .will require $25,000,000
above the cost of operation, and that
there will be no difficulty in paying is
apparent when It Is stated that the
actual . cost of transportation per pas
senger averages 2 cents for each ride,
for which the passenger pays 5 cents,
and the World's Work writer signifi
cantly adds that "until there is a
change in the system of conducting
such public utilities as street-car lines
all this profit will not go to the people,
who in theory own the franchises, but
to the few men who control them In
fact. The concluding words of this re
markable story of franchise exploita
tion have a deep meaning for Portland.
They are as follows:
The illegitimate profits from the exploita
tion of franchises are so enormous that a
trifling; percentage of them provides a huge
fund to corrupt politic, to rjbaidixa politi
cians, to retain tho most powerful members
of the bar, to hire members of the Legis
lature, to influence tho nomination of Judges.
It Is these self-evident public vrrong-s which
have created a cry fjr the municipal owner
ship and operation of all public utilities, and
which are driving a great section of the
population .toward a qualified form of social
ism. They see a great present evil and In
reaction from It they rush together to tho
other extreme. It is the men who create
these great stock-watered corpora: Ion who
are the chief breeders of socialism, of social
discontent, of economic upheaval. Their
greed and the Inherent lawlessness of their
deeds . create a general disregard for the
authority of law.
The remedy for this great evil rests
solely with the Legislature, for that
body alone has the power to pass laws
which can curb the rapacity of the high
financiers who have made fortunes out
of franchise exploitation. That the
classes cannot go on forever confiscat
ing the property of the masses and then
demanding of the rightful owners toll
for the use of the property confiscated
is a certainty. We are nearing "high
water slack" locally and nationally on
this pernicious system of thievery, and
when the ebb tide sets In there will be
an undertow that will drag down the
great financiers who "pressed the limit"
of endurance of the common people.
Now it is rumored that Russia will
ask for the extradition of Gorky. Con
sidering the treatment he has received
in this country, the Russian idol may
feel inclined to go back and face the
music without the necessity of extradi
tion proceedings. That he is fully enti
tled to all of the humiliation and suf
fering "he has endured since landing In
America no one who believes in the first
principles of decency and morality will
question for a moment. His fate is
only one more Illustration of the fact
that it is more advantageous to the
seeker of either money or prestige to
lead a moral life than to play the part
chosen by Gorky. Had he come to this
country alone or accompanied by his le
gitimate wife, his cause would have
awakened a 65-mpathy which would
have made it very difficult for Russia
to have extradited him. As It Is. Amer
icans as a class will now care little
whether he escapes the wrath of the
Czar or remains in this country to be
scorned by all decent people.
Richard Scott, the Milwaukie farmer,
will light his farm buildings and
grounds with electricity generated on
the place, the lighting arrangement be
ing perfected so that light can be
turned on at any part of the farm from
the residence. The "electric-light farm
ers" are not new features of the agri
cultural Industry, but they are as yet
not alarmingly numerous in this field.
When It comes to strictly up-to-date
farming, however, it is but natural to
look for the newest wrinkles on the
farm of a man whose livestock nearly
always carries off a good share of the
prizes at the fairs and expositions in
which they are entered. There are
very few farmers of the Puck and
Judge type in this vicinity, but the
number of scientific farmers of the
Scott type is Increasing rapidly.
In Minnesota it is proposed that ap
plicants for positions as teachers in the
public schools shall be required to pass
a physical examination, the chief pur
pose of which shall be to ascertain
whether they have consumption or
other disease -that might render them
unfit to work in rooms in w-hich a large
number of children are confined for sev
eral hours in the day. The suggestion
is a wise one, and it will be but a few
years until every state has such a re
quirement. The number of persons who
would be shut out of the schools by
such a regulation is exceedingly small
In comparison with the total number of
teachers employed, yet the danger of
transfer of the disease is so great and
Its consequences so certain that all rea
sonable precautions should be taken.
It is announced that California will
ship East within the next few months
$12,000,000 worth of green fruits. Sev
eral million dollars' worth more will be
packed during the season for shipment
later. These figures are much smaller
than the value of the citrus fruit crop,
but as every dollar sent in from the
East to pay for this fruit percolates
through a large number of channels
and has a purchasing power or a pay
ing power many times greater than is
indicated by the actual value of the
product, the fruit crop will be a very
Important factor in easing the financial
strain In stricken California.
Colonel Frank Powell, the famous
Indian scout, better known as White
Beaver, died on a train near El Paso,
Texas, yesterday. Colonel Powell rose
to fame on the frontier simultaneously
with. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and in the
early part of their spectacular career
on the plains their wildest dreams
would -hardly have pictured so prosaic
a death as that which overtook White
Beaver. ' Civilization has moved west
so rapidly that all of the wildness of
the country was eliminated before the
frontiersmen found time to die "with
their boots on."
About the most unstable throne on
earth just now is that of Servia. and
the monarch most apprehensive of los
ing his job, and incidentally his head,
Is King Peter. The man who would be
a King at the price that the Servian
monarch has paid in anxiety ever since
he came to the throne, slippery with
the blood of Alexander and Draga, has
very little conception of a life that is
worth living.
A news -dispatch from Minneapolis
yesterday said that "W. F. Bechtel, ex
president of the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Company, was placed)
on trial for grand larceny." Bechtel
was' president of the Northwestern Na
tional Life, a Minnesota concern, and
not of the Northwestern Mutual Life,
of Wisconsin, which has no ex-presidents
on trial, or of whom it need be
ashamed.
There is more hope for Crook County
than one would infer from reading
United States Court news. Ten promi
nent men of Opal Prairie have formed
what they call the Christian, . Union
Threshing Company and bought a large,
up-to-date outfit. It will need a Chris
tian to run the straw-stacking end.
The Albany (N. Y.) Journal an
nounces that "Jonathan P, Bourde has
been elected Senator In Oregon over his
nearest opponent, Henry McCabe."
Consoling for Mr. Cake, but tough on
J. B., Jr.
When Chauncey M. Depew discovered
one offense with which Industrious ru
mor had forgotten to connect his name,
he rose splendidly to the occasion and
voted to expel Smoot from the Senate.
"Made in Oregon" has a counterpart
north of the state line in a local can
nery that advertises for 2500 tons of to
matoes. It pays the men and town.
Let Mitchell move In the King County
Superior Court for a change of venue
to Benton County, and his troubles will
cease If the court knows herself.
It is near high-water mark for farm
land up the Valley when $180 an acre is
paid for river bottom, as was done at
Eugene Monday.
The O. R. & N. Co. complains of a
scarcity of laborers in Oregon; so does
the Democratic party.
MARCH OF GERMAN PROGRESS.
Economic Position of Country Grow
With Population,
Bradstreet's.
In the last ten years Germany has
added 8,160,000 to its population, which
in 1905 exceeded 60.303,000. It is well
known that a large number of Ger
mans have left their native country
to begin life anew in other lands not
ably the United States but of late,
it appears, immigrants have outnum
bered emigrants, and the fact that, in
face of these circumstances, the condi
tion of the people is steadily improv
ing may not unfairly be said to afford
strong testimony as to the strength of
the economic position of the country.
Yet in spite of the great addition to
the industrial army resulting from this
rapid growth of population, the supply
of native labor does not in good years
equal the demand, and the scarcity of
workmen renders necessary the em
ployment of Russians, Poles, Italians
and other foreigners in house building,
farming and the construction of canals
and waterways. The higher remune
ration to be secured in industrial pur
suits and the attractions of town life,
moreover, cause a diminution in the
number of workers who devote them
selves to agriculture.
A significant feature of the migra
tion from the country to the town is
the circumstance that it is not confined
to the East, where it is often attrib
uted to the patriarchial conditions
prevailing on the great estates. On the
contrary, the same aversion for farm
worK is reported from Bavaria, where
peasant holdings form the great ma
jority of the farms. Some idea of the
scarcity of German farm labor at har
vest time may Ie gathered from the
statement that the foreign contingent
who come into Germany at this season
number about 300,000, comprising 250,
000 Russians and Poles and 50,000 Gal
icians. Ruthenes and Bohemians.
There is a-conflict of opinion with
regard to the contention that the ma
terial condition of the German work
man has greatly improved in recent
years. A fall in the level of wages was
experienced during the depression of
1901 and 1902, but a gradual improve
ment has since been experienced,
though it is asserted that in many
branches the rates paid are still be
low those of 1900. This is the more se
rious, as the prices of many articles
of food, as well as rents, have risen
not inconsiderably, the prices of meat,
for example, being so very high as to
countervail advances of lesf than 10
per cent on the wages of 1904. The sta
tistics compiled by the Imperial sta
tistical department showed, last year,
that the average wholesale prices of
most articles of food had risen con
siderably, and this increase was felt
so acutely by the masses that It gave
rise to loud complaints against the
prohibitive policy of the government
regarding; the importation of foreign
cattle.
At the same time, those who are fa
miliar with the aspects of Germany
ten years ago cannot fail to observe
the general Improvement and greater
prosperity tnat has taken place, this
being shown by the dress of the peo
ple, the better houses in which they
reside, the expenditure on sanitation
and public buildings, and the returns
of the savings banks, income-tax au
thorities and Insurance companies. The
returns of the trade unions, more
over, for 1905, show a very small per
centage of unemployment.
As regards the future, the British
Consul-General at Berlin intimates
that some uncertainty and uneasiness
have been introduced by the new com
mercial treaties which came into oper
ation at the beginning of last month.
The effect of these will, in all proba
bility, be to increase the cost of living
In Germany, owing to the higher du
ties Imposed on the necessaries of life
and on raw .materials and partly fin
ished goods required for industrial
purposes. On the other hand, German
exports will have to. face increased
duties in some of the most Important
foreign markets. But the technical and
tactical efficiency of German manufac
turers and merchants, the skill and
discipline of the workmen, and the
recognized high standard of technical
and scientific training of the clerical
staff, coupled with the constant atten
tion devoted to technical and commer
cial instruction, are a strong guaran
tee that no effort will be spared to
maintain and extend Germany's posi
tion, in the markets of the world.
Cardinala Break With Tradition.
Rome Cable Dispatch.
For the first time since the fall of the
temporal power, members of the College
of Cardinals last nij?ht attended a func
tion given by a diplomat accredited to
the Quirinal. The occasion was a din
ner given by Mr. White. United States
Ambassador to Italy, and Mrs. White for
Archbishop Ireland. and among the
guesrts were Cardinals Vlncenzo, Van
nutelli, Satolll. Mathieu and Martinelll.
Among the other guests was Mrs. Wet
more, wife of the United States Senator
from Rhode Island.
This dinner was originally set for last
week, but was postponed on account of
the San Francisco disaster, and for the
same reason the after-dinner reception
at the Embassy which had been planned
was omitted.
The presence of the four cardinals at
Mr. White's table is regarded as an
augury of approaching good feeling be
tween the Vatican and the Quirinal.
Hair of Six Great Heroes.
New York Tribune.
Displaying a large, old-fashioned seal
ring, General James Grant Wilson stirred
the West End Woman's Republican As
sociation to patriotic enthusiasm yester
day at the meeting of the season by tell
ing them that it contained the hair of
Washington, Hamilton, Lincoln. Grant.
Napoleon and Wellington. He had been
interrupted by frequent applause In his
reminiscences of Lincoln and Grant and
the old war days, when he brought out
the curious and, to many, sacred relic.
"Washington's hair," he went on to
tell the interested women, "was given to
me by his stepson. Lincoln's hair was
given to me by the martyred President
himself. A number of us were with Lin
coln one day, when I asked hrm for a
lock of his hair. "Help yourselves, gen
tlemen!" was his reply.
Metropolitan Cborua Remembered.
New York Tribune.
Herr Conried met representatives of the
Metropolitan chorus. He paid to every
one of the singers two weeks' salary and
gave to every man a new suit of clothes.
The women each received $15 in lieu of a
new dress.
A subscriber at the opera who re
fused to divulge her name sent to each
of the women of the chorus a tailor
made cloth dress, a shirtwaist and a
spring hat that they should not be en
tirely without wardrobe when they ar
rived here. -The members of the orches
tra have lost all their Instruments, and
will be unable to accept engagements un
til they get the means to purchase others.
This will be difficult, as most of them
are penniless.
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., on Deck.
Baltimore News.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is back at Har
vard to resume his studies. Young Roose
velt recently went to Washington, D. C
and soon afterward an operation was per
formed on his right eye. He has spent
his entire vacation under the care of
physicians.
A Bunch of Earthquake Marriages.
Birmingham (Ala.) News.
The earthquake of San Francisco was
followed by an epidemic of marriages.
Maybe it shook the men up to the point
of popping the question.
SUIVU'S SVLTAN JILTED.
Princess of Cotaboto Won By Sultan
of Magnladaao.
Indianapolis News.
These are sad days for the Sultan
of Sulu. Scarcely recovered from the
wound his heart received when the
daughter of the President of the
United States rejected his offer of mar
riage, he now sees another, after whom
he yearned, led to the altar as the
wife of his rival, the Sultan of Ma
gulndano. Advices from the Philippines
tell of the wooing.
The bride is the Princess of Cota
boto, widow of Datto Uto, the Moro
chief who greatly harassed the Span
ish government and who is reputed to
be extremely wealthy and of royal
blood. Hardly 40. she was sought after
by the leading Dattos and Sultans of
the Moro provinces, and when William
J. Bryan visited the islands it was the
princess that sallied forth as the "belle
of the town ." -
Despite the fact that many were in
the contest the Sultan of Magulndano
was regarded with favor by the Prin
cess from the beginning, and the wed
ding would have taken place some
time ago had not a bird flown by the
door of the Princess, going In the
wrong direction. When General Wood
was in Zamboanga, looking after about
600 Moros in Mount' Dajo, he gave in
structions that everything be done to
bring the wedding off in proper state,
befitting the high dignity of the con
tracting parties.
A Government, launch will take the
Sultan to the large embowered marque
of his bride. On one side of the tent
will sit the bride, ensconced in a pile
of cushions, with a cushion in front
of her on which win rest her hands.
Around her will be seated the ladies
of the court, who will fan her and
dance before her, while, the native
priest recites portions of the Koran.
The' ' bridegroom will then advance
toward the Princess and wave around
her head a long white cloth, repeating
after the priest a number of words. In
order that the bride may not put her
feet on the ground for a certain time
after her marriage, she must be car
ried most of the way to the home of
the Sultan by that individual or his
nearest relatives.
yOOG MAN I DIG POTATOES.
Dollar Making Advice Given by John
D. Rockefeller.
Exchange.
For the first time since Attorney-General
Hadley, of Missouri, attempted to
fling a cordon of subpena-servers around
John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in
the wof-ld attended service in the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church yesterday. John
D. looked almost young. He left his
Borne, on West Fjfty-fourth street,
nearly an hour before services began,
and walked down the west sido of Fifth
avenue in the sunshine. Many friends
greeted him.
A young member of the Bible, class
asked the Croesus if he found his pres
ent exercises as wholesome as those he
derived, when a boy, from digging po
tatoes. "You know," said the querist, "you
told us once that kind of exercise was
wonderfully effective."
"Yes," said Rockefeller." and I meant
It, too. At my then age it was the best
exercise I could have found. The first
dollar I put in a bank came from dig
ging potatoes. I could not dig potatoes
now as I dug them then, and, again, there
is not the same necessity. I tell you
young fellows, however, that if more of
you dug potatoes, instead of crouching
over office desks. It would be better for
you in the long run.
"My principal outdoor exercises are
golf and walking. I rest up with an au
tomobile run. Frequently, in skimming
along . a country road, I see a robust
young chap with his back bent over a
potato patch, and I can't help thinking
what a marvelous effect upon his health
in after years that work will have, and
how much more he will get out of life
than city boys.
"Tour city gymnasium is good in its
way, but the open air. the woods and the
fields are the natural mediums for the
attainment of a sound mind In a sound
body."
Preacher Registers as "Lobbyist.'
Albany, N. Y., Dispatch.
A minister of the gospel has been the
first to comply with the Armstrong law
relative to lobbying. Rev. A. S. Gregg
last night filed a certificate with the
Secretary of State acknowledging him
self to be a lobbyist.
Dr. Gregg, as field secretary of the
International Reform Bureau, has been
"lobbying" for over two months in the
interests of the Cassidy-Lansing anti
racetrack gambling bill. Half a hun
dred other lobbyists regularly em
ployed here have so far evaded regis
tering. Policeman's 100 Per Cent Rating;.
New York Press.
John F. Logan has just passed the civil
service examination for policeman in New
York City with a rating of 100 per cent,
being the second man on record to reach
that percentage. Though but 25 years of
age, Logan has been soldier, ranchman,
circus rider and a member of the Panama
police force. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and
weighs 162 pounds.
One, Two, Three and Oat.
New York Press.
- Mayor McClellan, of New York, has
three fads walking, smoking . and
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Simeon Ford Inearths Surprlsion; Sto
ries About the Great tlnnkrr.
Simeon Ford has been giving to the
Philadelphians the results of his studies
Into the character and habits of the late
William Penn. At a dinner of the Penn
sylvania Bankers' Association he said:
"From his portraits I gather that Wil
liam was in the heavyweight class, and
sported a collection of chins, resembling
In appearance the approach to the Na
tional Capitol, all of whicn he worked
overtime in Joshing the untutored sav.
age.
"As an all-around Josher he was in a
class bv himself. If he were alive today ,
he could almost sell life insurance. His
eloquence was such that the untutored,
savages fell all over themselves in their
efforts to underwrite an agreement where
by they undertook to exchange their
broad aores for glass beads preferred and
Jamaica rum common. And they wotildn t
stand for any water in their common,
either!
"The noble elm under which lhat treaty
was made stood until quite recently. A
tree which would stand for that treaty
must necessarily be hard to down. It
was a slippery elm tree under the shade
of which that shady transaction was con
summated. I am the proud possessor of
a rosewood cane made from its wood.
"As I have said. Penn was a Quaker in
religion if a fakir in the real estate busi
ness. He was a man of peace, and a l
wavs got the biggest one.
"The Puritans, it is said, extinguished
the Indian title by the simple expedient
of extinguishing the Indians, but the pious
Penn, instead of shooting them. Rot them
half shot and accomplished the same re-,
suit. Hence the saying. 'The Penn i
mightier than the sword.' (I have seen
the wooden model of this fine old colonial
joke In the Patent Office.
"To show how smooth Penn was. I will
relate an anecdote which is doubtless fa
miliar to all of you.
"The Indians agreed, for s consideration
so small that a microscope went with it,
to grant to Penn as many miles of river
front as a man could traverse in a day.
The Indians, poor, simple souls, thought
Penn would pick out a man with a spav
in, or the spring halt, or the heaves.
"But not sol Penn had a ringer in train
ing on the quiet, who covered about 100
miles, and came in under a strong pull.
When chided for this seeming sharp prac
tice, Penn remarked: 'Children of the
Great White Father, have 1 not always
agreed to give you a run for your money?
You must excuse haste and a bad Penn."
"When Perm's ship arrived In Philadel
phia he enchored off the bar and pro
ceeded at once to a tavern railed the
Blue Anchor Inn. He blew ripht in and
anchored off the bar. Inis tavern was
kept by a man named Guest, who was al
ways sure of at least one patron. It was
a modest caravansary, being but 12 feet
by 22 hardly room for suspicion and
Penn's party completely filled it, and It
reciprocated."
Blind Typewrlttst Can Go Fast.
Tcrre Haute Tribune.
One of the latest additions to the staff
of a large typewriter manufacturer is a
blind girl, whose work makes those of
the girls who can see look like the tra
ditional 30 cents. She is a very attract
ive young woman of 18 or thereabouts,
with a wealth of auburn hair and large,
violet eyes that give no Indication to the
outward observer that they are sightless.
"I think the reason that I can write
faster than most girls who can see is
that I never was able to see the keys,
and had to learn their location by touch
alone." she said the other day. "I have
no other way of locating them, and I
had to be letter-perfect In my work be
fore, the teacher at the institution where
I learned would let me try to do any
thing for any one else. You see," she
added, pathetically, "if I make a mis
take. I can't see it, and some one else
would have to correct it, so I can't af
ford to make mistakes."
From Banker to Philanthropist.
New York Times.
Spencer Trask & Co.. bankers, at 52 Wil-
Ham street, announce the withdrawal of
George Foster Peabody from membership
in the Arm. Charles J. Peabody, a broth
er of Mr. Peabody. explained' that Mr.
PeahKdy's withdrawal was due enttrely to
his desire to devote his energies to edu
cational and philanthropic work.
People Ton Have Heard About.
Congressman Dawson of Iowa wants ths
American hen subetituted for the American
eagle. Is he an agent of the Incubator trust?
Baltimore Sun. ,
Bonl Castellane has evidently loat his nerve.
He might have been leading the Paris mob
while waiting for a better situation to turn
up. Washington Star.
Rojestvensky has asked to be permitted to
go into retirement. It would be interesting to
learn what he calls the condition In which he,
has been living alnce he met Togo. Chicago
Newa. (
The report that Henry James always weigh
each word before writing it probably explains
his style. He rejects all that would make his
meaning plain. Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Bourke, Cockran objects to the atatement
that rogues and lunatics drift naturally into
politics. The records will show that some of
them got In by the draft, rather than the
drift. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Piatt denies that he ever promised not to
be a candidate for the Senate again. Why
couldn't he have kept quiet and permitted
the people to be happy thinking he had prom
ised, anyway? Chicago Record-Herald.
It is now five weeka since Congressman
Charley Towne said he was going back to
Washington "to expose Theodore Roosevelt."
and the President is still being admitted to
respectable society. Los Angeles Times.
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