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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1906. Entered, it the Postofflce at Portland, Or., as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. tr INVARIABLT IN ADVANCE, fa (By Mall or Express.! DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months $8.00 Six months 4.25 Three month 2.25 One month 73 Delivered by carrier, per year 9.00 Uellvered by carrier, per month .75 Less time, per week : 20 Sunday, one year 2. 50 Weekly, one year (issued Thursday) ... 1.60 Sunday and 'Weekly, one year 8.80 HOW TO REMIT Send poatofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. C. Beckwltn Special Acency New Tork. rooms 43-50 Tribune building. Chi cage. rooms 010-512 Tribune building. KEPT OX BALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Fostofflcs News Co.. 178- Dearborn street. St. Jaul. Minn. N. 8t. Marie. Commercial Station. 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It Is to the credit of Dr. Day that he has risen from a lowly estate to his present high positlo'n at the head of a respectable university. All the world rejoices to see any man break away from the twin jailers of ambitious youth, "low birth and Iron fortune"; and there can be no doubt that the stern struggle to rise imparts to a man a certain rugged force of character which serves him well in after life for certain purposes. With this gain, how ever, goes a loss. The time which Is consumed in warfare with adverse con ditions cannot be spent in acquiring "culture and breadth of view. Some times, a ielf-made man develops wide sympathies and catholic opinions upon men and things, but too often he grows twisted In mind and heart. His feel ings are Intense but narrow. Not sel dom in his excessive Joy at being re ceived into membership with th better classes he develops a passion akin to hatred for the humble ranks from which he ha9 risen, and in his zeal to seem like a denizen rather than an alien in the society of the rich and great he adopts with exaggerated em phasis all the prejudices of his new as sociates without much regard to their foundation. Almost every sentence In Dr. Day's baccalaureate sermon was Interesting; not for truth or wisdom, since the ad dress contained little of either; but as an exhibition of the character of the man who delivered It. His fetich wor ship of wealth, his Indifference to moral Issues, his fanatical hatred of. Mr. Roosevelt, were all extremely Interest ing. They revealed not only what kind of a man Dr. Day himself is, but a.o what kind of men are 1n demand for the heads of colleges In our times. T3ut of all the features in this extraordinary sermon the one which most rouses at tention and curiosity Is Dr. Day's bitter contempt for the common people-the class In which he was born, to Which he owes all his strength of mind and body, and with which one would natur ally expect him to sympathize In its ef forts to rise, as he himself has risen, to better things. Does a man who has climbed to eminent station necessarily despise the class to which he belongs by birth? Dr. Day shows his contempt for those who are not wealthy by speaking of their opinions and wishes as "clamor." He has a great deal to say of the mob, the rabble, and their hysterical uiroar. He seems to hold that the common peo ple and thelr.opinions are alike despica ble. Their desires are base, their mo tives ere bad, and If they had their way they would destroy the foundations of society. It Is Inconceivable to this col lege president that any political leader should endeavor to forward the desires of the masses without some underlying intention to use their good will for base personal ends. Dr. Day seems actually to Imagine that Mr. Roosevelt labors to Ingratiate himself, with the mob In or der -to overturn our political institu tions and set up a dynasty upon their ruins. It has never occurred to this eminent divine and distinguished edu cationist that the President may have adopted his course of conduct toward predatory -wealth from a desire to es tablish Justice and advance the welfare of the Nation. One would almost gather from Dr. Day's address that he was unaware of the existence of mo tives of that kind. Are we In danger of becoming a mon archy? If we are, then not only must there be somebody In the country ready to play the usurper, but also the cir cumstances of the time must be such as to favor hia ambition. The head of Syracuse University advances two rea sons for his belief that Mr. Roosevelt "wishes to make himself King of ,trfe United States. One is that the Presi dent has appealed to popular clamor to coerce Congress; the other, that the measures which he has advocated are for the benefit of the general public In stead of for a special class. To many persons not less intelligent than Dr. Day, and quite as well Informed, these things Indicate, not a purpose to de stroy our Government, but a resolute intention to make It fulfill its duties. It Is a tenable opinion that the function of Congress Is to serve as an organ of the popular will. The fundamental principle of Amerlran Institutions Is that the people are honest and" Intelli gent enough to govern themselves. We lect a Corrgress and State Legislatures, not to TUle us, but to act as our ser vants and agents 1n ruling ourselves. "Their business Is to put the will of the people Into the-form of'law." This 3ov ernment exists for the welfare of the whole' Nation, not for a silent group, and it Is our theory that the public knows Its own good better than a ruling class1 could know Jt. In acting upon this theory and In endeavoring to give the masses what they desire through the agency of the Government, Mr. Roosevelt thoroughly conforms to the spirit of American Institutions. The destructive element Is that class of per sons who endeavor to thwart the pop ular welfare and utilize the power of the Government for their own advan tage. Are circumstances at the present time favorable to the ambition of a usurper? What would happen to Mr. Roosevelt's popularity If the people suspected him of wishing to make himself King? Where would he find soldiers to support his power? Who would pay taxes to keep up his standing army? The no tion is unspeakably absurd; but It Is less absurd than the supposition that he has the slightest desire for monarchical power. He never dreamed of such a thing. The only people In America who wish for a monarchy are the vain and Idle rich, who would like to flaunt their fine feathers in the precincts of a court. TTTE PIONEER DEAD OF THE TEAR.. The fatal asterisk of death has been set .against the names of thirty-three members of the Oregon Pioneer Asso ciation since the reunion of 1905. The names of most of these find frequent place In the annals of the state, and many of them will be found in the folk-lore' of coming generations. There is that of Mrs. -M. E. Burbank, whose life was In touch with the passing events of fifty years In Yamhill County; Mrs. Susan Meldrum, who was known for more than two generations In Clack amas County; Mrs. Ruth Scott, whose genial spirit left the stamp of fifty-five years of helpfulness upon the several communities In which she lived in Washington, Multnomah and Clacka mas Counties; Mrs. Amanda Bacon; whom Portland knew for two genera tions; Colonel Eckerson, whom the Na tion knew and whose home was In the Pacific Northwest for half a century; Mrs. Orlena Cardwell Murray, who passed In and out among the people of Portland, active in good ,words and works from girlhood to Old age; Mrs. Jane Goodhue Thomas, whose social and household cheer -was reflected upon the lives of a multitude of pioneers and their descendants; Dr. John Welch, -who was an example among men In' Indus try, probity and usefulness fori a long series of years; Morrison C. Athey, who was known to every man, "woman and child in and about Oregon City during the full three-score years of the allotted age of man. The list might be extended to cover every life represented by the names of the thirty-three members of the Pioneer Association who have passed on since the June reunion of 1905. Each of these names will be supplied by the thought of the one that felt the loss of the pass ing the most keenly. In the annals of community life all appear and reappear in kind deeds and words. For the rest the peculiarities that were in life as sessed as frailties, let kindly oblivion cover them. MAKING OPPORTUNITIES FOB GRAFT. The scandal arising over the at tempted "graft" of $150,000 in connec tion with the opening of the Colvllle reservation. In Washington, may result in Important matters of this nature re ceiving a little more consideration from the Government before they are permit ted to fall into the hands of lobbyists and grafters. The Colville reservation is one of the richest agricultural districts In the Pacific Northwest." It Is not only adapted to farming," dairying and fruit culture, but ft also includes some won derful forests of timber and mines of great richness. All of this great nat ural wealth has been lying practically dormant, while on all sides of it the country developed and grew. The Col ville Indians, like all other Indians, had no. Inclination to engage in tilling the soil, lumbering or mining, but they were anxious to dispose of their vast holdings to people who could do some thing with. them. As Indians have no votes, they were under a great handi cap in getting their project before the public; so, more than a dozen years ago, they began negotiating with white men for the purpose of securing favorable action by Congress. Both the Senate and the House were abundantly supplied with data showing the importance and necessity of opening the reservation, but session after ses sion passed and nothing was accom plished. This delay and apparent diffi culty In securing action, as the years wore on, quite naturally Impressed the Indians with the magnitude of the task that confronted them, and made it much easier for the lobbyists to secure from them the enormous contingent fee which has now provoked so much dis cussion. The natural assumption is that the Government desires to protect the interests of its wards from those who would take advantage of them. Theoretically there was no necessity for the Colvllle Indians to pay one cent of tribute to any one for securing fa vorable action on their lands. Actu ally, however, their failure to have rep resentation at Washington had delayed opening of their reservation for many years, working a hardship on the In dians, who could do nothing with such a vast area of land, and also on hun dreds of settlers who have been waiting for years on the borders for opportunity to enter and begin development of the country. It Is difficult to-believe that the lobbyists have earned $150,000 in conducting this case for the Indians, but it can easily be understood that the Government, by its dilatory tactics, has given them an opening- for estab lishment of a claim that they have earned something. The principle in volved Is not -different from that which has worked a hardship on other clients who have spent long years in endeavor ing to secure Government action on matters of similar Import. Nearly twenty years ago, the Govern ment illegally seized a few sealing schooners in Alaska. A few years after the seizures, acknowledgment of the er ror was made and the claim of the Brit ish sealers, amounting to $425,000, was paid. At the same time a number of American sealing schooners wore seized. The status of these American schooners, as determined by both the British and the American courts, was identically the same as that of the Brit--ish schooners, but as yet the unfortu nate Americans have been unable to secure the money due them. .' One of these claims was favorably reported by the Senate a few weeks ago, and there is at last a prospect that the matter will be settled. In this case ,the law yers engaged to fight the claim through have been promised one-third of the amount awarded not because there is anything unreasonable in the amount of the claim, but simply because they have been forced to spend a considera ble amount of money to carry It through the long years that have passed since Congress was first asked to give the matter the attention to which it was entitled. The lawyers, knowing the protracted struggle involved in se-t curing Congressional action on any matter, simply placed their figure suffi ciently high to cover the expense of a long wait and dilatory tactics. There would have been no necessity. for the present cry of graft over the, J Colvllle matter if the Senate had year ago appointed a committee that could, be trusted to examine the case and re port on it. There has never been any, question over the merits of the project, and speedy action on the case, as soon, as it was reported on, would have made It impossible for the lawyers or lobby ists to secure any kind' of a fee. Grafters, to be successful, must be given' an op portunity, and every- legitimate claim or measure which is abnormally de layed in Congress makes" an opening for the professional promoters of legislation. REFORMED INSURANCE. No sensible person doubts that the shaking up which the life insurance business has enjoyed- of late will ulti mately benefit both the companies nd the policy-holders. The net result will be the employment of honest methods and the practice of wholesome economy. Whatever the investigation may have disolosed of corruption and folly in the management of the companies, it gave no reason to suspect the financial soundness of any of them. Their trou ble was too much money, rather than too little. " Some loss of business has been ex perienced, but nothing to worry over. The Mutual Life reports a shrinkage of some 5 per cent, while the expenses have been cut down 33 1-3 per cent. Such figures are encouraging to policy holders. They speak of sound inten tions and practical reform. The new insurance laws of New York make it impossible to repeat the ex travagance which the Armstrong com mittee disclosed. Even If the compa nies desired to resume the orgy, they have no power to do so. But, clearly, tiey feel no such desire. There is a genuine movement for conservative methods, economy and fair dealing with policy-holders. Some hope is held out' of lower premiums, as one would natur ally expect. Housecleaning is unpleas ant and sometimes" expensive, but cleanliness pays. As an asset in busi ness It is indispensable. SUNDAY AT JAMESTOWN. As everybody expected, the question of closing the Jamestown Exposition on Sunday has been raised by the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, of the National Re form Bureau. Mr. Crafts calls the first day of the week "the Sabbath," either through ignorance or obstinacy, for It is not the Sabbath and there abso lutely nothing in the Scriptures to sanction its observance. Saturday is the Sabbath, and Mr. Crafts violates the fourth commandment in a shocking manner every week by laboring during its holy hours. Were he to advocate closing the exposition on Saturday, one might suppose that his motive was rev erence for the biblical injunction to keep the seventh day sacred. But he demands that the gates be shut on the first day of the week.- Now there is no commandment in the Bible or anywhere else to keep the first day sacred. What, then, can Mr. Crafts' motive be? At first sight it seems as if his ob ject must be to do as much harm as possible by directing customers to sa loons and dens of vice. We have no wish to suggest that Mr. Crafts receives a regular stipend from barkeepers and Jezebels; our impression is that he does not; but he acts precisely as a man would who was In their pay. His bale ful victory over the Army canteen caused rejoicing In Hades. Nothing of late years has so baffled virtue and pro moted vice as the anti-canteen law. To close a great exposition on Sunday is even worse. The proprietors of dives and dens around Jamestown may well present Mr. Crafts with a loving cup If his demand succeeds, for, consciously or not, he is their best friend. But Mr. Crafts does not purposely do evil, though his disregard of evil con sequences is something appalling. His real motive is vanity. He loves to pose as a dictator to Congress, and the basis of his power is his supposed- command of the religious sentiment of the coun try. Congressmen are extremely defer ential to this sentiment, as they ought to be. If Mr. Crafts represented the genuine religious feeling of the country, our lawmakers might well heed his de mands. But he does not. . Religious people are not concerned with the ques tions which Mr. Crafts makes so much of. His so-called reforms are mere fads, all foolish and some of them vi cious. A man does not lose his com mon sense when he becomes religious. He does not set fads and fetiches above everything else. Religious people know the folly of pseudo-Sabbatarianism; they can tell the distinction between false and' true in temperance reform. Congressmen ought not to allow themselves to be bullied by such char acters as Crafts. His opinions are those of an insignificant coterie only. He and his claque are noisy and vituperative, as the Baltimore Herald well says, but beyond shrieking they can do nothing. Few agree with them; fewer still re spect them. On the Sunday question, as on most other questions, the Nation is sane. Why cannot Congressmen muster up courage to trust the good sense of the people and rid themselves once for all of Crafts and his chimeras? Were a referendum of the question pos sible, not one man In ten would vote to close the gates of the Jamestown Expo sition on Sunday. RIDING THE CIRCUIT. The custom of riding the circuit, as applied to the duties of preachers and lawyers, like that of "boarding round," in connection with the vacation of school teaching, was a distinctive fea ture of pioneer life in the West. It has passed away, but has left a store house full of incident and experience, upon which the novelist draws to fur nish humor for the setting out of his historical tale and the biographer trenches heavily when seeking for facts and vicissitudes of his portrayal. Edward Eggleston, in his story, "The Circuit Rider," has given incidents in the life of the preacher, who rode the circuit in the lonely, undeveloped West two-thirds of a century ago. These have had counterpart in the experience of many lives dedicated to spreading the gospel in the wilderness. Whittier, in "Snow Bound.,'' introduces the young schoolmaster who to his stock of knowledge added: All the 'droll experience found. t etranger hearth In boarding round. And Frederick Trevor Hill, in his book, "Lincoln, the Lawyer." sets out in graphic language the experience of the Great Liberator in riding the court circuit in Central Illinois, in the middle years of the last century. This custom was, of course, born of necessity. In those days there was not sufficient legal business, in any one of the email communities, to support a lawyer, much less a law firm. "While comparatively comfortable in the later period of the middle decade of the century, riding the circuit, whether in the interest of law or gospel, still in volved hardships, which could only be surmounted by the best of health and an indomitable spirit. Even then they were at times almost unbearable, and often only -Mr. Lincoln's sense of hu mor made the situation of court riding tolerable for himself and others. He saw the comic side of all that irritated men of more nervous temperament. In an Indolent, easy andi seemingly non observant manner he studied the vari ous types of human nature, encoun tered on the road, took a direct per sonal interest in the people he met and made friends at every stop. The schoolmaster of Whittier's winter tale Could doff at ease hia scholar's- gown -And peddle wares from town to town. The Western preacher who "rode the circuit" could bivouac in the hay mow with the shock-beaded farmer's lad and lose nothing of the fervor, with which he exhorted sinners on the morrow to flee from the wrath to come, and the lawyer riding through the mire, with slackened rein, brought courage and determination to the cause he espoused. The records show all of this, but the incidents that were a part of this phas of life In the wilderness belong to un written history or at best to the folk lore of a past generation. "Chaplain Stubbs" has resigned his position with the Tacoma Seamen's Friend Society; and will retire from active life after more than thirty years' service among the sailors visiting the Columbia River and Puget Sound. Thirty .years, have . wrought . great changes, not only in the type of vessels which visit our ports, but in, the men who sail them, and with these changes have come a 'narrowing field for the labors of men of the Chaplain Stubbs type. In the present age of steam the vesselB are hustled around the world so rapidly that there is very little time in any port, 'and opportunity for estab lishing the bonds of Christian friend ship is- more lirifHestJan it was 1n the old days. But the Chaplain, during his long career at Portland and Ta coma, .has spoke the "good word" to thousands . of seamen who . today are scattered over the. seven seas. Some ot them are commanding crack ocean lin ers and some are still m the forecastle, but they will all have a good word for Chaplain Stubbs and hope that his de clining years will be' marked with the pleasures due one who has well earned his rest. - "Gas" Addtcks, the premier corrop tionlst of the age, has Teached the end of his spectacular career as an aspirant for the United States Senate. Shorn of his wealth, power and prestige, the old man who for more than a dozen years had debauched the Delaware -Legislature yesterday saw swept away the last vestige- of hope of ever reaching the long-sought goal.' The spectacle is not a pleasing one, but it ought to carry with it a lesson for others. The fact that some of-his creatures were in a large measure" responsible for his defeat does not palliate the awful crimes against decency and. morality which the "unspeakable" Addicks committed. It will be many a year before Delaware can live, down the record fastened on it by Addicks, and the corrupt human chattels whom he bought like pigs in a pen. Whatever may be the lack of qualifications of the new Senator, he ought, to be revered by. Delaware as "the man who defeated Addicks." Delay of Insurance companies in San Francisco Is condemned everywhere, but it Is evident that there are compa nies, fully able to pay their losses, hold ing back lest their own promptness might bring distress on others not so fortunate, and cause a disastrous Insur ance smash. The losses are the result of risks legitimately contracted by the companies, and should be paid, and those companies unable to meet their obligations should be uncovered and put where they belong. Meanwhile, there is hope that stockholders In many of the staggered companies may be in duced to make up deficiencies, thus avoiding an insurance collapse. But the wait' is hard on policy-holders. The Washington Times' high opinion of Senator Gearin is undoubtedly de served, but it is based on wrong prem ises. Mr. Gearin will not surrender the Senatorship to Mr. Bourne because he wants to, but because he must. The Legislature Is not Democratic, and it would re-elect Mr. Gearin under no other circumstances. Yet the present Senator gives up gracefully, which is all his most ardent admirers and they are numerous expect or desire him to do. When fire insurance companies, en deavoring to strengthen themselves in the confidence of the public, boast of big-figured "resources" and "assets," they ought, at the same time, to show their money available for policy-holders. This Is of more Interest to the insured than a long string of figures, representing big sums, only a' part of which are used for meeting losses. Linn County is so much pleased with Democrat Milt Miller In the State Sen ate that it has elected a Republican Miller to sit with him, the argument being, evidently, that if a Democratic Miller suited so well, a Republican Mil ler ought tc suit better. " Democrats ought to nominate men named Miller. Let us have the facts concerning, the alleged illegal voting in Sellwood pre cinct, by all means. If men were "run in" and voted by Interested parties who were not entitled "to vote, let the meth ods by which and the motives for which this was done be exposed. President James, of the University of Illinois, will be one of Chicago's expert commission to investigate the packing houses, "While they are hunting slaughter-house experts fresh from the intel lectual packing centers, why overlook Chancellor Day? The Russian nobles decline to give up their surplus estates for the benefit of the peasantry, of course. The only use of the peasants In .Russia is to be of benefit to the nobility. That is why the man with the hoe often drops it for the bomb. They don't have to go to jail, but some way really ought to be devised for Judge McPherson to sentence the guilty packers to a suitable term in their re spective slaughter-houses. It appears to be settled that the rail roads will take" the view that the anti pass law is invalid. It was a narrow escape. It is the common supposition that there Is a good deal more that Director Wittenberg might have said. "Come and see for yourself." say the packers. And smell for yourself? BE BAS RARELY BEEJf SICK. Rockefeller la Not Dyape-ptic, and Weighs 190 Pounds). New York World. For lo! these many years the public, and the cartoonists especially, have had an entirely erroneous notion of John D. Rock efeller's health, according to a statement made yesterday by his physician, Dr. Paul Allen, of 3 East Forty-eighth street. The popular notion has long been that the oil king is a dyspeptic, a man who was growing thin and haggard, who could eat nothing but milk, eges or oatmeal, and was a chronic Invalid. Nothing, ac cording to Dr. Allen, could be further from the truth. This surprising Informa tion came out yesterday when a reporter asked Dr. Allen what course of treatment Mr. Rockefeller had followed In curing himself of dyspepsia. "I never knew that he had dyspepsia," said Dr. Allen. "I have been his physician for a number of years while he was in New York, and he was a patient of my father before me. I never heard that he had dyspepsia. I never attended him for any such ailment, nor did I ever observe in him any symptoms of dyspepsia or In digestion. "I do not know where these stories have originated representing Mr. Rockefeller as a sick man, a dyspeptic and all that. To my knowledge he was never a sick man. He was bothered, at one time, by his hair having a tendency to fall out, and for that he consulted specialists, but oth erwise I never knew him to a sick man. "He Is commonly supposed or represent ed in caricature to be a thin man, whereas he weighs, as near as I could judge, about 190 pounds. No sick man, no man tnln with dyspepsia could ever play golf as he does. . From my observation I should say Mr. Rockefeller is healthier and more rugged than the average man of his years. j. ma has been true of him always so far as I know." The head of the oil trust was born at Richfield Springs, N. Y.,. July 8, 1839, and will be 67 years old in a. few weeks. Ac cording to the "Experience Table" of the insurance companies, he has from eight to ten years" more of life. Being big and healthy, he may live to be 100. , . Price-less Relics of Lincoln Burned. Philadelphia Dispatch in New York Sun. " The "almost priceless collection of Lin coln relics belonging to Major William H. Lambert was destroyed by fire yes terday. . - Major Lambert and his wife and eldest daughter are attending a peace conven tion at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. The . Lincoln Museum, a large room, was a mass of flames when discovered, but' Miss Edith Lambert and a maid, with the garden hose and a patent ex tinguisher, . fought the flames until the arrival of the engines. The firemen quickly subdued the blaze, but not until the Lincoln room had been completely ruined. The collection included 1000 volumes of Lincoln's own library, his private desk and three chairs once -belonging to him, more than 500 books treating - on Lin coln's career, several hundred original Lincoln manuscripts, and a collection of Original - manuscripts by Thackeray. Fifty Thousand-Dollar Dinner. Philadelphia Dispatch. Maharajah Gaekwar, of Baroda, will receive his .first glimpse of American society in Its glory at a dinner to be given tonight at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, in honor of his Maharanl by Mrs. George Law, of New York, who Is here as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Reg inald Vanderbllt. The Prince himself an nounced that this would be his one so ciety function. Reginald Vanderbllt told' the hotel peo ple last night to go ahead, on suggested lines and to forget about expenses. The function will be on Oriental -lines, and Its cost, it was estimated at the hotel last night, would be between $50,000 and $75,000. This will be the only society event at which the Gaekwar and Maharanl will appear during their stay in America. The Maharanl came to Philadelphia in full Eastern costume. To Exterminate the Moth. New York Dispatch. The brown-tailed moth must go. He has refused to go peaceably, and now Congress has voted $100,000 to hasten his departure. Dr. L. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, who has Just returned from Europe, where he went to seek out the proper means of extermina tion, has brought back the .good news that more than 5,000.000 parasites, guar anteed to eat up the brown-tailed moth to his last hair, will arrive this summer. Roosevelt n Good Newspaper Man. Washington (D. C.) Cor. New York World. "President Roosevelt would have made a great city editor for a newspaper." said a veteran correspondent last night. "As soon as one of his big stories falls to pan out he always has another one ready to pop to divert the attention of the public. Look at the way he lets this beef thing loose Just as soon as his sup porters had laid down on the railroad rate bill." Will Get Even Some Day. Kansas City Star. It cost $100,000 to get the drydock Dewey through the Suez Canal. The United States will get even one of these days when the Dreadnaught- wants to pass Panama. Fairbanks in Line for lOOSf St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Vice-President Fairbanks has been eat ing peanuts and drinking pink lemonade -at a circus. Surely Mr. Fairbanks -is a man of the people for 1908. THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE STOCKYARDS EXPOSURE IS NOT LIKELY THERE'LL BE NEED OF ANOTHER A little: bill of FARE. What Botel Diners Ordered and "What They Ate Instead. New York World. Here is yesterday's bill of fare at one of tho largest and most fashion able hotels on Fifth avenue: Little Necks on tha Halt Shell. Olives. Celery. Radishes. Oxtail Soup. ' Boiled Hallhut. Egg- Sauce. Potatoes. Cucumber Salad. French Peas. Grenaidlns de Veau. Jambon lux Eptnards. Langue de Boeuf. Potato Croquettes. Koast Beef. Eggplant. Mince Pie. Cake. Ice Cream. Coffee. Fruit. Nuts. What the Guests Ate. Leaving out the oysters, olives, cel ery and radishes, they had oxtail soup made from a Chicago ox which may have been a "downer," too weak to stand on its feet. They ate bread made from deterio rated flour and baking powder adul terated with alum and tartrate pow ders. They fixed up a beautiful mess of cu cumber salad very likely with oil made from the refuse ot Chicago packing houses and shipped to France, to be re turned as olive and sardine oil. . They enjoyed French peas which had been preserved with deleterious acids. The grenidins de veau were beauti ful to look at, being oval slices of veal, larded, braized and glazed. Nobody dreamed, however, that the veal had been preserved with formaldehyde or salicylic acid, although It was exceed ingly young. It was larded with chol era lard. Those who preferred jambon aux epi nards dallied perforce with ham that had been doctored and fixed up with a hypodermic syringeful of Chicago packing-house "dope." , Or maybe they ate the langue de boeuf. or ox tongue. Here is where the "downer" the Invalid ox comes in again. Ox tail and ox tongues heads or tails the conditions were probably the same at both ends. The. potato croquettes were probably above suspicion. The roast beef brought theox to the front again. Those who ate mince pie got every thing on the bill of fare, over again. The "raising" material in the cake was made of tartrate powder, and tho menu tailed off with coffee, with a good measure of chicory thrown In to make it more profitable. - Everything, considered, therefore, the bill of fare should have read as fol lows: Oysters. . Olives. Celery. Radishes. Oxlail Soup, a la "Downer." Boiled Halibut. Preserved Egg Sauce. Cucumber Salad, a la Refuse Oil. Potatoes. French Peas, a la Formaldehyde. Grenidins de Veau. Sclentificallv Odorless. Jambon aux Eplnards, a la Cholera. Langue de Boeuf. a la Glanders. Potato Croquettes. Roast Beef, a la Sick Ox. Eggplant. Mince Pie. a la everything on the list. Fnture Senator's Third Wife. Washington (D. C.) Times. Now that it is virtually certain that ex-Governor Robert L. Taylor ("Fid dling Bob") will be elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee, Interest In his wife has been awaic enod. That she will take a prominent place In social circles Is agreed. She has superior Intellectual powers, and has attained to some fame in a literary way. Mrs. Taylor is about 30 years of age, and Is a graduate of the Virginia In stitute, in Bristol. Her father, Noah T. St. John, Is a lawyer of great abil ity, and she was a social favorite in Virginia previous to her marriage, two years ago. The present Ms. Taylor Is the third wife of the Tennessee statesman. She Is also a distant relative. His first wife died, and a divorce separated nim from Mrs. Taylor No. 2. French Duel Trajredles by Mall. ' Paris Cable Dispatch In New York Sun. A pair who quarreled have Just settled a duel with the same result as usually at tends a French meeting on the field of horror, but It was more easily achieved. The challenger, who imagined he had been Insulted, wrote to his adversary, a news paper editor, saying: "One does not send seconds to a scoun drel like you. I box your ears by letter instead. Please, therefore, regard them as boxed. The recipient replied: "I regard my ears as having been boxed. Cordially I thank you. In the same manner I blow out your brains with a revolver. Regard yourself as dead. I salute your corpse." Preachers Will Get Rake-Off. Baltimore News. ' A company has been formed In Berlin to sell water from the River Jordan for the purpose of baptism. The water is to sell at 15 marks ($3.60) a bottle, and every pastor who sells a bottle of it la to be entitled to fi. discount of 4 marks. An Old Christening; Robe. Mable Earle In t'ne Smart Set. Who knows what hopes she sewed within the seam, Linking the folds she fashioned, snow on snow. With the white patience of a voiceless dream Hid In her heart, a hundred years ago? Who. knows what prayers she 'broldered In the flowers Flung on the fair, white linen, throat to hem. The litanies of holy, silent hours Twined In the tracery of leaf and stem? Who knows If she looked down from para dise. When alien hands her little son had dressed In the wee robe she wrought and hid her eyes To see him smiling on a stranger's breast? JT From the Chicago Record-Herald. DIED DISAPPOINTED MAN. Gorman's Power Bad Left Him, and Defeat Soured Old Age. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 13. It was- an unfortu nate thing for Arthur Fue Gorman, of Maryland, that he did not die, three years ago unfortunate In that he has for the past three years been a dis heartened, disappointed man. In his days of power, Gorman was happy and successful. He was the - recognized leader of his party in the Senate, he enjoyed good committee assignments, and was a power both In Congress and In his state. In fact, for years he had Maryland under bis thumb, and his rule was supreme. But during the last three years of his life, Gorman lost his power, lost his position, and fell back into the ranks, barely able to keep up with the procession. He not only lost his leadership in the Senate; he lost hia grip on Maryland, and his defeat was the bitterest dose he ever had to swallow. The Jast time he was elected to the Senate, the Democrats of that body were disorganized; they had no recog nized leader. Gorman had led them successfully in the past, and he at tempted to assume his former position. But the very first time he took up the reins the party kicked over the traces, and Gorman, Instead of holding his party together, found himself literally a leader without a following. It was only a short time thereafter that the Democrats of the Senate began to rally around Bailey; the Texas Senator grew, steadily in strength; his grip became firmer, until a year ago he was the undisputed leader of the minority, and Gorman was filling a place In the rear rank. He was not even one of Bailey's counselors. No sooner had he lost his hold on the Senate than Gorman lost control of the machine In Maryland, and this nlade his downfall complete. Natural ly his overthrow was disheartening. He felt, his humiliation keenly, and never from the time he was succeeded by Bailey did Gorman show any inter est In the work of the Senate, and comparatively little interest did he manifest in the party in his state. This disappointment, coupled with ill health, broke Gorman in spirit. He knew that his political career was at an end. It was too late In life to recover his lead ership, and his disappointment had much to do with hastening his end. And yet only two years ago Gorman was talked of as a Presidential possi bility. True, he was not seriously con sidered by many men, but he was men tioned, and, had he himself made a fight, might have secured a fair vote In the convention. In previous conven tions Gorman was more seriously reck oned with, but In his years of political activity he made many enemies, not only at home, but In other Democratic strongholds, and these things always returned to plague him when he sought the highest honor his party could be stow. His was a pitiful ending: the end came after his political career had been terminated by the people who would no lonarer wear the yoke. Like Blaine, he died a broken-hearted man. PENROSE GETS BIS REWARD. President Helps Him Win He Pushes Barnes' Confirmation. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wasn ington. June 12. President Roosevelt is in a measure responsible for restoring to power the old Republican machine In Pennsylvania. Following the death of Senator Quay and the graft ex posures, the machine went to pieces, the old bosses were unhorsed and the people for the first time in many yea in had a say. Senator Penrose, upon the death of Quay, attempted to fill the shoes of the former boss of the Key stone State, but he floundered around and could not make good. The ma chine was down and out, and Penrose went with It. Iu those days Senator Penrose was not in good standing at the White House. He called occasionally, but not frequently, and was never one of the Presidents advisers. But things changed, and circumstances developed which took Mr. Penrose Jto the White House on business very close to the President's heart. The President had nominated his assistant secretary, Ben jamin F. Barnes, to be Postmaster of Washington, D. C. Senator Tillman was wrought up over the appointment, because Barnes had only a few months previously ordered Mrs. Morris forci bly removed from the White House of fices. Tillman swore to defeat Barnes' confirmation. Meanwhile the nomina tion had been referred to the postoffice committee, of which Penrose is chair man. After a short controversy, and following several prolonged conferences with the President, Mr. Penrose se cured a favorable report on the nomi nation, and has promised the President to secure his confirmation. The appointment was purely personal with the President. No one recom mended Barnes for the place, but the President wanted to reward him for his long, faithful service at the White House. Naturally, under the circum stances, the President was extremely anxious to have his appointment con firmed, and he was under many obliga tions to Mr. Penrose for the Interest h showed In the case and for the Influ ence he brought to bear to push the nomination to a vote. The circumstances attending the calls of Mr. Penrose at the Wnite House were such as to establish cordial rela tions with the President, and the re port went out from Washington that he was on terms of Intimacy with the Chief Executive and frequently called in consultation with him. This had a great deal to do with restoring Mr. Penrose to power at home. While the people were still insisting on reform, they were willing to accept the leader ship of a man who was on intimate terms with the President, the greatest reformer in the whole country. Mr. Penrose had the sagacity to lie low and wait for his opportunity, but. when things came his way, he made good use of his advantages gained through the Barnes case. Passing; of Am Anto-Crat. Harper's Weekly. 1 The Auto-crat oh, think of that! he went a fearful pace; He did not smile, though all the while ha had a mobile face. He took no Interest In man, yet sought the human race. The Auto-crat oh. think of that! I never saw him laugh; v In wreckage strowed along the road he wrote his auto-graph. A horrid smell were suited well to be his epitaph. The Auto-crat oh, think of that! upon his dying day The only 'word I ever heard he hadn't auto say. Twaa gasoline that brought about his sad auto-da-fe. The Auto-crat oh. think of that! his end was swift and sharp. I hope It hurt 'twas his desert though I don't wish to carp; Perhaps he's In a sweeter land and plays an auto-harp. 51,148 Persons Rnn rVew York City. New York World. It took 51,146 persons to run the gov ernment of the city of New York last year. That is the official figure from the city's payroll. The number equals the population of Utica, N. Y. ; Houston, Tex.; Portland Me.; Dallas. Tex.; Lincoln, Neb.; Youngs town, O. ; Tacoma, Wash., or Schenectady. N. Y. The salaries paid to these employees was $64,264,547.62. This is J4.000.0CO more than the year before and JS,O0O,00O more than In 1303,