THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1906.
GREETS POVERTY
IT
LAUGHTER
San Francisco Recovers Her
Spirits, Though Living
Amid Ruins.
NEVER STOPPED BUSINESS
Ordered New Stocks Before Debris
Was Cold Prove' loyalty by
Standing by Banks Stand
Disaster's Test.
BY ARNO DOS C fit.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 8. (Special
Correspondence.) Life in what was
once the gayest city in America
is attaining toward the normal
once more. If the water were
good, San Francisco would be today an
attractive place to live in. People
have always Jived here mainly because
they liked it, and they are remaining
for the same reason. Let Chicago or
New York have a similar catastrophe,
and no one would remain who could
not make money by so doing. Here
the larger portion of the population is
now living on savings bank accounts,
and many have no immediate prospect
of better employment than piling
brick, yet they do not even consider
the possibility of leaving the city.
There are now over 200,000 persons
resident in San Francisco, and at least
100,000 former San Franciscans coming
to the city from surrounding towns
each day, all of whom will return to
live as soon as they can find a roof to
cover them.
Begin to Enjoy Life.
These people are light of heart, the
world is very beautiful to them and
full of delights; even in distress they
laughed at their plight, and, now that
active resumption of business has be
gun and money is moving once more,
they are beginning really to enjoy life
once more. They take up every amuse
ment that Is offered them, and noth
ing will pay better than th high-class
restaurants and the theaters, which
are being rushed to completion in the
unburned section of the city. At the
Chutes, where the Orpheum has
opened, there is not standing room to
be had. Day and night all the cars are
Jammed with people going to one place
or another. Everyone Is always on the
move, the same old San Francisco.
Rough and Ready Buildings.
This resourceful people has taken
the short cut to regained prosperity,
and is throwing up any kind of build
ing in which to carry on business.
Hundreds of one-story clapboard and
corrugated iron buildings have been
built In the last four weeks, some of
them covering large tracts of ground.
They are scattered through every por
tion of the burned district. I have
been told that the large jobbers, both
foreign and domestic, have carried on
their business regardless of every
thing, and have only missed a few
shipments. By so doing they have pre
vented a loss of business, which would
otherwise have been taken by Port
land and Puget Sound cities. All freight
consigned to San Francisco has been
rushed through, and this facilitated
the handling of business. The large
business houses In consequence will be
forced as rapidly as possible to build
permanent quarters.
Manufacturers, printers and retailers
have all placed orders for machinery and
materials in the East, which will enable
them to begin business shortly on as large
a scale as formerly. When sufficient time
has elapsed for these orders to be filled
the city will again be in full swing. If
those men had waited for the Insurance
adjusters to finish with them, they would
probably never have had the courage to
place their orders. As It is, they will
have to pull out somehow, and they will
Great Test of Loyalty.
It Is well enough to talk about the fine
spirit San Franciscans 'have shown, but
their loyalty has been given its final test
and it has rung true. When the banks
opened there was not even the semblance
of a run upon them. Instead, men went
to their banks and deposited what little
money they had, and have been drawing
it out J5 at a time, as they have needed
It.
( or ' many meanwhile it has been a.
struggle to obtain the bare necessities of
life. Most were . too proud to remain
longer on relief rations than they could
help. Men have been given an opportunity
to show what they were made of. and the
result has been remarkable. Men who
had never touched a tool have taught
themselves to be good mechanics; clerks
have become contractors, stenographers
have turned cook, frivolous women have
risen to the occasion and shown them'
selves to be good wives. But those unfor
tunates of limited capacity have found It
hard. They could not "make good." Such
has been the plight of many women cut
off from their salary or Income, generally
with some one else to support. Many
have even been forced to seek dishonor.
More Interesting Than Ever.
Taking everything into consideration.
San Francisco just now is more interest
ing than ever before. The life of the city
has been laid bare, and It has proved it
self to be far better than Its detainers
have credited it with being. Moreover,
there are big things going on. Sweeping
movements, public and general, have been
in progress from the first day after the
earthquake, and these have been growing
in strength and taking varied forms as
conditions passed from one phase to an
other. Even a month ago, when it looked
as if San Francisco were gasping its last
breath, there were tremendous movements
under the surface which are now coming
to the top. The subtle change of events
from day to day is fascinating to watch
and will be during the few years It takes
to restore the city which took 60 to build
The Newspaper Reporter.
Rutland (Vt.) News.
The status of the newspaper report
er varies to a large degree with the
locality. The reporter in his. work, and
the reporter individually, is steadily
becoming a more Important factor in
the every-day life of any community
where his services are required. It is
perhaps In the Btnaller cities, the
"country towns," that his personality
counts for the most, although In every
place he is steadily and surely being
lifted from practically the oblivion in
which In years past public sentiment
and lack of understanding of his work
,and value has placed him. The Mont
pelier Journal pays a beautiful tribute
to a reporter well known throughout
Vermont, W. A. Shay, who succumbed
to pneumonia. The following excerpt
is reproduced, inasmuch as It applies
not only to the subject of the tribute,
but in a general way is descriptive of
the life and work of many of his pro
fession: "His success was yours. He
worked with vigor, not to furnish his
quota of items for the paper, but to
get all there was going of interest for
the people to read. Enthusiasm in his
work was one of his characteristics.
Tou have seen him every day as he
plodded on his dally round. He has
greeted you at the railroad station, on
the streets, in the stores and offices,
and has made this world a little, yes, a
good deal, brighter and happier for
having lived. You have laughed at his
wit over your teacups, you have seen
the pathos which many times marked
his writing, when his heart was
touched. He has been a part of the
city. He has known you through and
through, has written the obituary no
tices of your friends, has rejoiced with
you in your Joy and sorrowed with you
in your grief. Who can tell what an
Influence his writings which for years
have passed down to the files have
hid? He has done his duty cheerfully.
and has finished. His long-time famil
iar form on the streets will be seen no
more. He haR laid down his pencil."
RACE ACROSS THE PACIFIC
THREE YACHTS WILL START AT
NOON TODAY.
Weather Promises to Be Fine at San
Pedro, and Fleet Will Accompany
the Vessels to Sea.
SAN PEDRO, Cal., June 10. Lying
quietly at anchor In the lea of the Govern
ment breakwater In the outer harbor are
the three crack ocean racers that will
start at noon tomorrow on the first trans
pacific yacht race ever sailed under the
auspices of the South Coast Yacht Club,
of San Pedro.
The weather Is fine, and there is prom
ise of a good sailing breeze for the atart.
The entries for the big event are La Pa
loma, defender for the Hawaiian Yacht
Club: the Anemone, of the New York
Yacht Club, which also sails under the
colors of the Southeast Yacht Club, of
this city, and the Lurllne, of the South
Coast Yacht Club.
Ia Paloma, which arrived only yester
day from San Francisco, has been put in
condition and will be under the command
of Commodore C. W. McFarland, of the
Hawaiian Yacht Club. She is schooner
rigged and has a length of only 47 feet,
but showed her ability to make fast time
across the Pacific In her recent trip to
San Francisco, when she won over the
F. C. Allen by making the distance of 2R92
miles in 29 days. She is backed heavily
by the Islanders.
The Lurllne will be sailed by Commodore
Sinclalre, of the South Coast Yacht Club,
and is also schooner-rigged and has a
length of 91 feet. Her backing is prin
cipally along the Pacific Coast.
The Anemone is the largest yacht of
the three, having a length of 112 feet. She
is ketch-rlgsred and will be sailed by CUp
taln Llndsbury, who will be accompanied
by her owner. C. L. Tutt, of Colorado
Springs. She will be backed by Eastern
ers. The start of the race across the Pacific
will be accompanied by 17 yachts of the
South Coast Yacht Club, which will stay
with the course of the racers 30 miles,
then return around Santa Catalina Islands
and thence back to the point of starting.
SENSATIONS OF A WORM
Being Cut In Two Has Little Effect
on the Squirmer.
Kansas City Star.
Some remarkable experiments have
been carried on to prove whether the low
er animals suffer pain or sensations of
any kind when injured. The most strik
ing of these experiments were made on
the common earthworm. If such a low
animal be divided at Its middle trans
versely only the posterior half shows
those squirming and Jerking movements
which, anthropomorphically viewed, seem
to Indicate pain; the anterior half (con
taining the brain) crawls, as ordinarily,
away. Now, If each of these halves be
halved again the posterior segment of
each squirms, while the anterior halves
crawl away. This same process may be
continued with precisely like result until
the pieces are no longer large enough to
crawl indoptVdently. This striking phe
nomenon Is explained In part by the two
sets of muscular fbers In the worm, one
longitudinal, causing the squirming and
Jerking, and the other circular, which
produce the crawling. Why In the pos
terior segments the former set should be
stimulated and in the anterior the latter
set Professor Norman says he does not
know. For its purpose the experiment
seems conclusive. The abdomen of a her
mit crab may be cut in two without any
"but a very slight response" from any
remaining movable organ. "Limulus"
stops a few seconds when four or five
hundred abdominal segments are cut
away, then proceeds quietly breathing as
before. Its order of events is, regularly,
cessation of breathing, flexion of abdo
men, pause, extension of abdomen, , res
piratory movements. "Geophilus'' cut In
two In the middle continues its crawling,
the front half going forward and the rear
half backward. Millipedes divided while
walking do not hasten nor stop nor Jerk.
Dragon files lose parts of their abdomens
without any appreciable change in position.
A Bucket-Shop Tragedy.
Everybody's Magazine.
In the Summer of 1903 Ridgway Bow
ker, then more than 60 years old, had
saved $5000 from his wages as a type
setter in a daily newspaper office. There
was no dishonest penny among those dol
lars. Nor was there taint of dishonesty
in the man who had saved them. For
his wife and for his nine children Bowker
had worthy aspirations. He wanted to
do better by them than his scant earnings
had made possible; he wanted to leave
them secure from want.
While reading a Philadelphia newspaper
famed for moral tone and intelligence,
Mr. Bowker, whose home is in Camden,
N. J., came across an advertisement.
. . . It was a small tragedy and soon
over. Ridgway Bowker, savings and
home gone, and family brought to penury,
found work as a laborer in a Federal
building in Philadelphia. In going to nd
from his work he walks six miles each
day, without overcoat and gloves, even
In severe Winter weather; he is too poor
to buy luxuries. His salary is , $60 a
month. With his 60 wasted years behind
him, he has faced the world poor and
become a hero for the sake of "one of
the best families God ever gave a man."
n 1 . 1 " - 1 " 1 ' " " ' ' ,i - . ' - i
"I OLDS, WORT MAN ' & KING 5th, 6th and Wash. Sts.
Joins the Mutton-Chop Brigade.
Atchison Globe.
When a young man cannot think of
any other way of attracting attention,
he grows whiskers in front of bis ears.
The "Different Store
An Overflow Announcement of Bigger Bargains Than Usual
It took a full page in each of the Sunday papers,
with today's overflow, to tell the news for Monday
and nearly all that news is of merchandise at less than
regular prices REAL bargains the sort that are the
incidents in . any healthy business. How well this
Etore's values satisfy is splendidly evidenced by the
magnificent growth of the business by the hearty con
fidence and good-will of not only our home folk of
Portland, but the people of the Northwest. Yes the
store satisfies you better than it does us and we shall
keep it BEST by making steadily BETTER as time
' goes on.
OLDS, WORTMAN & KING.
Housewives! Read These Prices on
Dinner Sets
(3rd floor., 3 passenger elevators.)
A GOOD STEEL RANGE AT A BARGAIN. LAWN
MOWERS TOR LESS. READ:
Thinking' of stocking up the summer cottage? If not, per
haps you'll need something advertised here in the town
house. At any rate, here's great opportunity to save. Just
think of buying a splendid hundred-piece dinner set, cheap
at $8.00 for $6.50. And that's only one of toany big
values today in the "Housekeepers' Exchange," on 3rd
floor. .
Blue Enameled Steel Range with high closet,, regular value
$80; special, $55.
LAWN MOWERS.
12-inch, brass bearings, good quality, at $2.25 and up.
14-inch, brass bearings, good quality, at $2.50 and up. '
16-inch, brass bearings, good quality, at $2.75 and up.
HAVILAND WHITE CHINA DINNER SETS. .
Ranson and Marseilles Shape.
60-piece set, regular value, $20.80; special, $16.75.
lOO-pieCe set, regular value $28.95; special, $24.50.
112-piece set, regular value $32.60; special, $27.50.
WHITE SEMI-PORCELAIN DINNER SETS.
50-piece set, regular value $4.08; special, $3.25.
fiO-piece set, regular value $5.20 ; special, $4.15.
100-piece set, regular value $8.00; special, $6.50.
LIBBEY CUT GLASS..
For June weddings and remembrances. Trade-mark
etched on every piece, at special reduced prices.
New line Candle and Electric Shades. New shapes, in
paper, linen and silk.
$2.00 HAMMOCKS, $1.35.
Heavy canvas weave Hammocks, assorted colors; full size,
wide valance, concealed spreader, stationary or throw-back
pillow; regular value $2.00; special, $1.35 each.
THE CLIMAX IN BARGAIN MAKING COMES IN A
Remarkable Sale of Pretty
Lace Curtains for Today
(4th floor.)
Several months
ago a famous
factory across
the "big pond"
which connects
our New York
office with
the markets of
the Old World,
made up several
thousand pairs
of curtains to
our order at a
third less than
the regular
price; 'twas
their dull season
and they wanted
work for their
skilled hands.
We knew our
outlet and were
glad to close
such a deal.
The last of them
are offered today
as printed below.
$7.50 LACE CURTAINS $4.38.
A line of fine imported Irish Point Lace Curtains to be
sold at less than cost of manufacture today. Hundreds of
pairs and 21 styles to select from; regular value $7.50;
special $4.38 pair. (See window.)
$19.50
Baby Go -Carts
$15.95
Adjustable footrest, reclining
back, patent foot brake, anti
friction wheel fasteners; cush
ion rubber tires, reed body, up
holstered sides, complete with
cushion and parasol; regular
value $19.50; special $15.95
each.
$8.00 BABY 'GO-CARTS, $5.95.
Reed body, complete with cushion and parasol, adjustable
footrest, reclining back; folds up into very small space; can
be taken on street cars, trains, etc.; regular value $8.00;
special, $5.95 each.
Stock-Reducing Sale of
22s Knit Underwear
1st floor.
Thank the cool, rainy weather of the
past two weeks for this sweeping reduc
tion in prices. ' Stocks are too heavy, but
the undergarments are all of the sorts
that seemed to be best, and we had many
good kinds on which to base judgment.
Special values today these.
Women's Silk Vests, cream tinted or
pure white;- low neck and sleeveless,
handsome silk crocheted yoke. Special
at $2.64.
Same Vests as above, but not so elab
orately trimmed. Special at $2.19.
Women's Silk and Lisle Vests, in
white, low neck and sleeveless, plain or
crocheted yoke, fine gauze weight; a
great value. Special at $1.48.
Same Vests as above, but not quite so
fine. Special at $1.05.
Women's Pine White Lisle Vests, sleeveless, Swiss ribbed,
crocheted yoke. Great special values at 63 and 85S
Women's Pine White Swiss Ribbed Union Suits, sleeveless,
lace-trimmed yoke, lace at knee; a very fine garment. Special
at $1.69.
Women's Silk and Lisle Union Suits, sleeveless, knee
length or long sleeves, ankle length; hand-finished, silk
trimmed. Special at $1.94.
Women's Silk and Cotton Union Suits, with long or short
sleeves or sleeveless and knee or ankle length; silk trimmed.
Special at $1.48.
Women's White Lisle Union Suits, long or short sleeves
or sleeveless and knee or ankle length. Special at $1.05.
Women's White Cotton Union Suits, all styles. Great
special values at 63 and 8oJ.
Women's White Cotton Union Suits, with long sleeves,
ankle length, silk tape and neat crochet trimming; our 75c
value. Special at 5o.
Women's White Cotton Union Suits, low neck, no sleeves,
knee length, correctly shaped and neatly trimmed; our 60c
value. Special at 42.
Infants' Pure Silk Vests, long sleeves, all open front The
"Alma." Special at: Size 1 $1.25, size 2 $1.34. size
3 $1.44, size 4 $1.50, size 5 $1.59, size 6 $1.69.
Infants' Pure Silk and Wool Vests, very tine and soft, all
open front The "Alma." Special at: Size 1 85S size 2
94. size 3 $1.00, size 4 $1.10, size 5 $1.18, size 6
v$1.25.
' Infants' Merino Vests, fine, light weight, in white, all open
front; a splendid Summer garment. Special at 42S
Misses' Pine White Swiss Ribbed Vests and Pants, vests
long or short sleeves or sleeveless; pants plain or lace trim
med; knee length. Special at 21S 26S 30.
WHITE WOOL BLANKETS.
Special at $1.40, $5.25, $5.75, $6.60, $7.00, $7.95, $8.80 to
$13.20 pair.
PEACE IS HIS POLICY
Francis Joseph Receives the
Austrians and Hungarians.
exonerated the Austrian Government or
officials from any connivance In the
demonstration and declined to take any
formal action regarding it. The Hun
garian delegation unanimously resolved
to hoist the Hungarian and Croatian flags
over the building during the sessions of
the delegations.
SPEECH TO THE DELEGATES
Friendly Relations With All the
Foreign Powers and Alliance
With Germany and Italy
Has Been Renewed.
VIENNA, June 10. Bmperor Francis
Joseph today received the members of
the Austrian and Hungarian delegations
In formal audience at the Hofburg. Re
plying to the addresses of the delegations,
the Kmperor, In a speech, thanked them
for their loyal devotion. The foreign re
lations of Austria and Hungary, he de
clared, were entirely friendly. After an
expression of deep indignation at the at
tempted assassination of King Alfonso
and Queen Victoria, the Emperor con
tinued :
"Our alliance with Germany proves it
self to be now, as hitherto, by virtue of
Its defensive and conservative character.
a valuable guarantee for peace. By the
visit Emperor William paid me a few
days ago, our intimate and friendly rela
tions again were placed on record, and
marked by the same feelings of trust as
our relations with our ally, Italy, with
which we find ourselves In gratifying ac
cord on matters affecting us in common."
Referring to Russia and the Balkans,
he said that although the situation In
the Balkans showed many defects, it was
undoubtedly improved and that above all
it had been found possible to avoid more
serious complications. He expressed sat
isfaction that peace had been declared
by Russia and Japan, "thanks to the un
selfish mediation of President Roosevelt,"
and for the settlement at AJgeclras of the
difficulty between Germany and France
over Morocco, "to which our mediatory
action contributed not the least part."
"As in the past,' the Emperor con
tinued, "the preservation of the peace of
Europe and above all In the monarchy
will continue in the future to be the
dominant idea of our foreign policy in
dealing with international affairs."
Emperor Francis Joseph announced
that credits would be submitted for the
purchase of arms and war materials for
the more speedy construction of war
ships and armament.
The reading of Emperor Francis
Joseph's speech from the throne today
was attended by exciting incidents. After
listening to the speech the delegations
proceeded with their respective sittings.
Meanwhile the anti-Semite Burgomaster
Lueger addressed an enormous meeting of
clericals and anti-Semites outside the
chamber of the Parliament building, in
veighing against Hungary and denouncing
Francis Kossuth, the Hungarian Minister
of Commerce, as a traitor.
At the conclusion of the meeting a mob,
estimated by some to number 20,000,
rushed to the Hungarian Ministry and
there indulged for half an hour in
demonstrations of such serious character
as to Impel the Austrian Minister to the
unusual course of apologizing to the Hun
garian Ministers.
During the demonstration Dr. Werkle,
the Hungarian Premier, and Herr Kos
suth came to the windows, but were
obliged to beat a ppeedy retreat, as their
appearance redoubled the violence of the
demonstrators. It Is believed the real mo
tive of the anti-Semitic leaders was less
opposition to the Hungarian than to uni
versal suffrage, which they say will
strengthen the socialists in Parliament
at their expense.
In the subsequent debate Dr. Werkle
Hungarian Delegation Insulted.
VIENNA. June 10. Three thousand
Christian Socialists,' after a meeting In
the City Hail this morning, made a dem
onstration against the Hungarian Minis
try building, where the Hungarian dele
gation was sitting, breaking the windows.
The police had difficulty In dispersing the
demonstrators.
Baron von Beck, the Austrian Premier,
Immediately called in Dr. Wekerle, the
Hungarian Premier, and Francis Kos
suth, and expressed his deep regret at
the demonstration. addUig that he had
ordered a searching investigation of the
affair to be made with a view of punish
ing those guilty of participation In It.
Baron von Beck requested Dr. Wekerle
to communicate his statement to the
members of the Hungarian delegation.
Baron Richard von Bienerth, Minister of
the Interior, made a similar apology.
BENSON IS TO BE SENATOR
WILL ACCEPT APPOINTMENT
FROM KANSAS GOVERNOR.
PLANS OF FRENCH CABINET
Statement Prepared for Presentation
to Chamber of Deputies Today.
PARIS, June 10. The Cabinet today defi
nitely drew up a statement of the govern
ment's plans for presentation to the
Chamber of Deputies tomorrow. It indi
cates the necessity of the making up of
deficits in the budget, and for that pur
pose will ask for supplementary taxation;
announces the presentation of an income
tax bill, affecting particularly, incomes
from capital and the Intention or hasten
ing a bill In the Senate for workmen's
pensions.
The statement also announces that bills
will be introduced for a general amnesty
and for rform In court-martials, and that
the govefiiiot refuse3 to- recognize, the
right of state employes to strike..
Dock Fire at Southampton.
SOUTHAMPTON, June 10. Fire that
broke out on the docks here Saturday
night destroyed a railway shed and a few
trucks. The loss was slight.
Sufficiently Identified.
Everybody's.
She walked into a branch bank on
upper Broadway and pushed a check
through the paying teller's window.
"You will have to be identified,"
said he. "I don't know you, madam."
"You don't, eh?" said the woman,
with fire in her eye. "Aren't you the
father of the Smith family that haB a
flat in the Pileremln apartments?"
"Y-e-s."
"Well, I am the red-beaded Janltress
that your wife's always complaining
about. When you left home this morning
I heard you say: 'Emily, if our children
get fighting with that old fury in the
basement, don't quarrel with her. Wait
till I get home and let me talk to her.'
Now, if you think you can get the best of
an argument with "
' "Here's your money, madam," said the
paying teller, and she took it and went.
After Formal Notification, the Judge
Will Proceed at Once to
Washington.
OTTAWA. Kan.. June 10. Judge Alfred
Watson Benson, of this city, who yester
day was offered the appointment of United
States Senator to succeed Joseph R. Bur
ton, stated today that he would accept
the position. He will officially notify
Governor Hoch tomorrow of his accept
ance. Judge Benson expects to start for
Washington tomorrow.
Will Stand on His Record.
TOPEKA. Kan., June 10. In an inter
view at Ottawa today. Judge Benson said:
"I do not see why I should not admit at
this time that I have decided to accept
Governor Hoch's offer. I shall go to To
peka tomorrow morning and formally in
form Governor Hoch that I accept the ap
pointment. "I presume that I shall be a candidate
for re-election to the Senate before the
State Legislature next Winter. My in
clination Is to ask the people to send me
back if my services are satisfactory. The
whole thing comes as a surprise to me,
for I never for a moment considered my
appointment to the Senate a possibility."
After formally accepting the appoint
ment. Mr. Benson will leave for Washing
ton this week to take up his seat in the
Senate.
A Man Who Could Not Be Spared.
New York Sun.
The old story that the Secretary of the
Interior,, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, will
soon retire from the Cabinet, on the
score of age and increasing infirmities, is
revived In a news "beat" in a Western
paper. This time the report comes from
"friends" In Washington, D. C. On pre
vious occasions it was traced to enemies,
who reprobated Mr. Hitchcock's course
In putting that dauntless prosecutor.
Francis Heney, on the trail of the land
thieves and congratulating him every
time a fresh conviction was secured.
These rascals so closely Identified with
land entiles and subsequent transfers
have always said that Mr. Hitchcock was
too old for the Interior Department and
was breaking up. What a grand Secre
tary he would have made if he had been
caught and put on guard while young!
How many broad acres of arable, grazing,
mineral and forest land would have been
saved to the people! But perhaps the
jails were not large enough in his vigor
ous young manhood.
Not long ago Mr. Hitchcock was anx
ious to see the prosecution through to the
last indictment and the whole robber
gang "cleaned up," to use a Western
expression. His 70 years sat on him light
ly when he thought of the good work
that was being done and of now Uncle
Sam was coming Into his own again. It
was the gang that was breaking up, not
the constitution of sturdy old Ethan Allen
Hitchcock. He Is one of the most valua
ble assets In the Cabinet of a President
who Is a- scourge to evil-doers and has a
weakness for fighters of fraud and graft.
Brotherly Love Finds Voice.
American Spectator.
There la a story told by Senator Pet
tus, of Alabama, on himself about
what happened to him when he was
a little chap attending church service.
"I was only 10 years old," said the
veteran of the Senate chamber, "and
had been sent to attend Sunday serv
ice alone. I always accompanied my
mother, but on this particular Sunday
she was slightly indisposed and there
by forced to remain at home.
"I was occupying a seat very near
the pulpit, and the theme of the divine
was 'Am I my brother's keeper?'
"After preaching about 15 minutes
he reached the climax of his remarks
with the words of his subject, and his
gaze seemed to rest directly on me. I
commenced to fidget a little, but ha
didn't turn his eyes from mine for a
second, and after a short pause he
burst forth again: "Am I my brother's
keeper?' .
"I could stand It no longer, and I
answered, 'No, sir.' "
PACKERS TO THEIR KNEES
SECRET SERVICE MEN GET
STARTLING TESTIMONY.
Investigation at Chicago Brings to
Light Preservatives Used by
the Beef Trust.
WASHINGTON. June 10. (Special.)
Secret service men are reported to be on
the way here with sensational Informa
tion In their possession as to use of pre
servatives by the beef trust. They were
sent to Chicago by order of the President
as soon as he had been advised verbally
of the results of the investigation of La
bor Commissioner Nelli and James Rey
nolds. It is said that they have con
cluded an exhaustive inquiry which will
not only bring the packers to their knees
but will remove the powerful influences
that are being exerted agHlnst Congress
and the great cattle Interests with a
view of forcing the President to capitu
late. This pressure has become gigantic.
Every business, political and financial
ramification of the great trust is being
utilized directly and Indirectly to have
a halt called on the governmental ex
posure, and, if possible, get an official
declaration that the portrayal of condi
tions in the packing-houses has been ex
aggerated. Cattle interests of the great
West and Southwest, which for years
have been clamoring in Congress and out
side of it for protection against the trust,
have even been persuaded that a contin
uation of governmental hostility will ruin
them.
The cry of panic has been raised. Not
only bankers handling trust funds, but
their employes, friends and acquaintances
In the business, social and political world,
have been enlisted to use their efforts in
the gigantic struggle that is now In
progress, to stem the tide against the
packers.
The "VlenlebtHterabsriLbearltAtlonsknmml
siondelefflertenversamrnl un gspett Hon' ' Soclet y
has been formed at Berne. Switzerland, for
the purpose of combating the proposal of cafe
proprietor to Increase the price of beer.
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Wanted to Match Her Eyes.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
She was pretty, and this fact served to
lessen the anger of the clerk who had
shown her every piece of silk in stock.
She had discarded everything but two
pieces of blue stuff; these she clung to
and murmured over. She would look up
Into his eyes with that trusting, melting
look we all know so well; then she would
open her mouth as though to speak, but
didn't. Other customers were waiting
for the clerk. This drove her to action.
"Would you mind calling a lady clerk?"
she murmuringly asked. The man looked
surprised and hurt. "Oh! never mind,"
she said, "you needn't send for one; I'm
going to ask you. What I want to know
Is which one of these two pieces of silk
matches my eyes best really matches,
you know?" The man looked carefully
and told her.
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