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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13, 1006.
A VISIONARY DANGER.
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,