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EVOLUTION, SAFETY AND SANITY.
A Democratic paper tells us that:
"Colonel Bryan appears to be regarded
cls entirely safe and sane now, although
he has not changed his views as to
what constitutes true Democracy. The
country has simply 'evoluted' up to
his breadth of statesmanship."
Cefonel Bryan Is on a Journey around
-km. world. Tru -world, swmo In him
much larger than he had supposed.
He finds it contains) many power
ful nations, and that the United
States is only one of many. The
dfcsccvery appears to have affected
his thinking, greatly. He says the sil
question, which a few years ago
lie held paramount to all others, is "a
Cead horse." That Is his own expres
sion, adopted since he began to travel,
and became safe and sane. He finds
the world so much bigger than he sup-
. posed that he concludes the United
States could not maintain gold and sil
ver under free coinage at a fixed ratio
made by the United States. To main
tain this dogma was, however, the sole
Issue made by him in his two contests
for the Presidency. He stood by that
proposition and fell by It. But the coun
try has not "evoluted" up to that
"breadth of statesmanship." Mr. Bryan
has changed his views, therefore, as to
-hnt i.nnat!(iitAa "tnia namruipann
He, or it, is no longer for free coinage
..rjuilver.
jfhe excuse everywhere attempted by
apologists Is that the purpose of Mr.
Bryan and his followers was to supply
the deficiency of gold by free coinage
of silver. In the first place, there was
'' no deficiency of gold; and In the next
place free coinage of silver at 16 to 1
would have expelled all gold and
made money scarcer, at the same time
debasing It. The proofs from history
and experience, as well as from com
mon sense, were absolute. Indeed the
proposition was so self-evident that no
proof was needed.
There was no scarcity of gold in the
world at large, but a fatuous policy
was making gold scarce in the United
States. Coinage of silver at a rapid
rate and issue of silver paper during
many years sent gold In Immense sums
to foreign countries, or caused it to be
hidden away. The cry that gold was
scarce in the United States therefore
was Irrational. We had made It scarce.
But there was no complaint In other
countries of scarcity of gold. Kvery
civilized country except our own had
gold enough for all the purposes of
business and credit. But Bryan and his
followers, refused to believe that there
was any other country than our own;
or at least professed to believe that our
country could alone control the ratlosof
gold and silver, usedas money, for the
whole world. This they made the fun
damental principle of their party. It
was what "constituted true Democ
racy." They had no Idea whatever that
the world was as big as Mr. Bryan
now finds it.
As to increase of gold, now given as
excuse for abandonment of silver, the
truth is that the gold supply of the
world, for ten years prior to 1S96, had
increased, as tables of all nations
show, at a more rapid rate than it has
increased during the ten years since
1896. The world's product increased
from $106,163,900 in 1886 to $202,251,600 in
1896, or over 90 per cent. It Is esti
mated for this year (1906), on the basis
of last year's output, at $350,000,000, or
about 73 per cent. Gold, abundant
enough everywhere else, ten years ago,
had been made scarce in our country
by pressing the delusion and folly that
culminated in the Bryan campaign of
1896, repeated four years later. If It
be said that all this is an old story, like
the contents of last year's almanacs,
the ready answer is that old stories are
mighty good for warning, Instruction,
reproof and doctrine, and that among
the most valuable things in all archives
are the contents of old almanacs.
Mr. Bryan and his party will now try
to shift the basis of "true democracy"
from the silver craze of his former
campaigns to an effort to get on the
ground taken by President Roosevelt,
for regulation of the trusts and con
trol of monopolies. Probably, however,
there are a great many who will re
member Bryan's former campaigns,
and entertain a reasonable doubt
whether the prophet of the crown of
thorns and cross of gold can be a safe
and sane man for the Presidency, on
any platform. Yet of course, having
eeen something of the world, and found
out that there are other countries than
our own, he has grown broader in his
views, and wouldn't now have a plat
form based on "the eternal verities"
he saw in silver a few years ago.
The marvelous thing about the Colfax
hearing Is that the Seattle and Tacoma
millers and their allies claim that they
pay more for wheat than Portland, and
yet they can't get it in competition
with -Portland. The producer, through
some unaccountable perversity, persists
et the expense of his own pocket in
filing to Portland. The cure for this
jtapsy-turvy industrial and financial
paradox Is the "Joint rate,' a device by
which the O. R. & N. surrenders the
largest part of the haul to its competi
tors, the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern, and permits the Seattle
buyer to get Into exclusive O. B. & N.
territory at the expense of the O. R. &
N. Tet suppose the Joint rate sgoes
Into effect, and the O. R. & N., in order
to keep the business, cuts rates, for all
its Eastern Washington business, in
both exclusive and competitive terrl
tory; where will Seattle and Tacoma
come out?
MB. M'CABTNEY'B HEART.
The prayer for a clean heart seems
to have been answered literally in the
case of Mr. McCartney, of Pasadena,
though, of course, through human
agency. Having inadvertently punc
tured himself with a rake tooth and dis
tributed some grains of sand over his
heart through the wound, he resorted
to the surgeons for relief. These learned
and skillful artists made a neat in
cision in Mr. McCartney's chest about
where the historic rib was taken out
for Eve's benefit, pulled his heart
through the opening, gave it a thorough
scrubbing and replaced it. During the
operation Mr. McCartney's heart con
tinued. to beat its funeral march to
the grave without the least interrup
tion, and, by all accounts, it will con
tinue to beat quite as if it had never
seen the light of day.
All this puts some strain upon one's
credulity, but it is by no means im
possible. Modern surgery has done
things even more wonderful. After
the heart has ceased to beat, for exam
pie, its pulsations have been revived by
massage and the patient restored to
life. The surgeon inserts his hand
through an opening made for the pur
pose, grasps the organ and imitates its
natural rhythmic motion. After a time
the hand is withdrawn and the beats
continue unaided. This operation has
been done more than once. It may be
come .of prime importance in cases of
so-called heart failure, which are so
frequent In modern times. Everybody
knows that the latter-day surgeon has
not the least difficulty in removing a
man s stomach. The vacancy where it
was i filled by stretching and splicing
the alimentary canal, and the patient
passes the remainder of his life happily
immune from the possibility of dyspep
sia. That remainder Is usually brief,
but it makes up in quality what it
lacks In quantity. Think of the Joy
of eating cucumbers in endless numbers
with no fear of cramps.
To cut out a piece of the intestine
and splice what is left Is an easy Job
for the surgeon. He can manufacture
a new nose without the least difficulty
and make an eye which looks better
than the natural one; but there are
limits to his art. He cannot cure a
cancer; neither can he make hair grow
on a bald head.
THE POISON INDUSTBY.
It required seventeen years of agita
tion to pass the Heyburn pure-food bill
through the United States Senate. The
welfare of the consumer gains the at
tention of Congress only after every
thing else has been provided for, and
then but half-heartedly, with many a
timid glance from the members to their
masters to see how much they may
safely concede to popular clamor. Very
likely, however, the consumer gets all
the consideration from his representa
tive that he deserves, for he is a fear
ful, long-suffering creature, created ap
parently to be shorn and swindled. He
eats what the trusts set before him
and asks no questions. He takes tu
berculosis in his beef with sweet resig
nation and devours tapioca and lamp
black for pepper with a humble and
contrite heart. Like Mithrldates, King
of Pontus, the American consumer has
learned to feed on poisons and no doubt
he finds in them a kind of nutriment
as the sad creatures of the expiring
world did in Byron's "Dream." The
learned and pious Dr. Day, of Mr. Arch-1
hold's university at Syracuse, says that
If all the stories told about our food
and drink were true everybody would
have been dead long ago. Dr. Day for
gets that a goodly portion of us are al
ready dead. The multitude of those
who have passed over far outnumbers
all the living, while a great many more
are dying. It is, in fact, a dying world,
and who shall say how much the speed
of our general demise is accelerated by
the poisons which are served up to us in
our meat and drink? Nay, even our
medicines are not exempt from lethal
drugs. When we have a headache they
administer to us acetanelld, which para-lj-zes
the heart; whereas most people
would prefer a good heart to a
good head any day. To have too good
a head smacks rather of conceit and ac
quisitiveness, but who could have too
good a heart? Defend us, therefore.
UCrom acetanelld in all its sinuous as
hwcts, and give us an honest headache
instead. Defend us, too, from opium in
our toddy.
What blacker treachery could be
committed against a man than to put
opium in his morning bitters "unbe
knowst" to him, and by insidious
stages and slow degrees make an opium
fiend of him? Yet this, according to
Congressman Mann, of Illinois, is ex
actly what some of our purveyors of
soothing and stimulating draughts sys
tematically do. The trick of Hamlet's
uncle, who stole upon his father sleep
ing of an afternoon under an apple tree
and poured Juice of cursed hebenon in
the porches of his ear, could not com
pare in miqiuty with the deed of the
man. who sells us laudanum for stom
ach bitters. Nor is this the worst of it.
A grown man is suposed to be able to
look out for himself; the babies,, are
helpless. The dopes, the poisons, the
devilish potions which are administered
by ignorant parents and nurses to keep
Infants sttll at night and hush their
howls by day they have to swallow and
take the consequences. And those con
sequences, as the records of number
less Coroners Juries show, are death,
notwithstanding Dr. Day.
The Heyburn bill as it passed the
Senate was satisfactory to the friends
of pure-food legislation, but, like the
Beverldge hill for meat inspection, it
did not, for some mysterious reason,
satisfy the House. A substitute meas
ure wa there prepared which left out
most of the vital features of the Hey
burn bill, but which retained provisions
for making the labels on bottles and
packages state the quantity of poison
In their contents and for compelling
manufacturers to mark canned goods
and the like with their correct weight.
This Is the bill now before the House,
and Mr. Mann delivered a speech the
other day In favor of'lt which he illus
trated with enough adulterated and
poisoned goods to stock a corner gro
cery. With the report of Mr. Mann's
speech comes the suspicious statement
that now the enemies of pure-food leg
islation are fighting for the Heyburn
bill. Why are they doing so? The
Heyburn bill is incomparably worse for
the poison industry than the House
substitute. Why should those - who
profit by doping the public with filth
and disease in the form of food and
drink now favor the measure which
they formerly opposed and oppose the
measure which they then favored?
Have they experienced a change of
heart? Do they perceive the inquity of
their huslness at last and wish to unite
in its destruction? Not .at all. Their
project is to play fast and loose. They
purpose to turn their powerful lobby
against whatever measure may be un
der Immediate consideration. Their
game is perpetually to urge the substi
tution of something else for the 'thing
in hand, and thus forever prevent pure
food legislation.
What honest manufacturer, either of
food or medicines, could object to stat
ing in the labels the exact amount of
arsenic, opium or other poison which
they contain? This is all that the
House bill requires, and the require
ment is certainly reasonable. What
honest man could object to marking his
parcels with their correct weight? If
the consumer is to get only half
pounds when he buys pounds, , why
should he not pay half dollars ana call
them dollars? The goose and the gan
der ought to fare alike In this business.
If the consumer Is to be forever bun
coed he must assert his inalienable
right to bunco in return. If we are to
have no legislation in favor of fair
dealing, we must resort to the primal
lex tallonis. He that poisons his fel
low-man shall himself drink poison, and
he that gives short weight shall re
ceive short pay.
The worst feature of the filth and
fcunco industries is that they put the
dealer who wishes td be honest at an
enormous disadvantage. How can he
sell pure goods in competition with
those who deal out dope and dirt? How
can pure sugar compete with sand?
What show has cider vinegar in the
market against vitriol? The demand
for pure food Is really part of the fight
agralnst graft. So long as the public
submit to be swindled there will be
plenty to swindle them. So long as
they look on meekly while the poison
lobby manipulates Congress, Just so
long will there be inaction. A clamor
as loud and insistent as that for rate
regulation would 6ena the pure-food
bill through Congress like an arrow to
its mark.
THE WAR ON PRIVILEGE.
The American Nation is today under
going a revolution the full extent and
importance of which will not be unfler
stood or appreciated until it shall be
viewed from the distance of a half cen
tury or more, after its ends shall have
been accomplished. There is now in
full sway in this entire country an up
rising of the unprivileged classes
against the privileged classes, and the
movement will not stop until we have
achieved the realization of that funda
mental principle of our Government
that all men are created equal, and
that they are endowed with certain
inalienable rights, among which are
life, liberfy and the pursuit of happi
ness. Steadily we have been drifting
away from that principle in practical
application, but now, with a short turn,
we are coming back to it, swiftly and
surely.
As was very clearly Bhown by Shailer
Mathews in the opening chapters of his
history of the French Revolution, that
conflict was not a revolt against abso
lutism, not an uprising against mon
archy, but a revolt against inequalities,
abuses and special privileges. In
France the nobility were practically
exempt from the payment of taxes, but
lived upon exactions from the common
ers. To the nobility and the wealthy
commoners were granted special privi
leges of various kinds which they en-
Joyed at expense of the peasants.
Every head of a family was compelled
to purchase annually, at a price fixed
by the Government, seven pounds of
salt for evry person in his family
above the age of seven years. He was
not permitted to buy the salt In an open
market at competitive prices. There
were taxes on food products, a monop
oly of which was held by privileged
persons, sometimes including the King
himself. Favored persons of the nobil
ity or wealthy commoners were ap
pointed to sinecures, receiving high sal
aries without performing any service to
the people who paid the taxes. Alto
gether, it is said, from 177 to 1789,
$16,000,000 had been given to members of
the royal family. The nobility claimed
and enjoyed the right to hunt over the
fields of the peasants, and this they did
regardless of injury to growing crops.
However great damage the deer and
pigeons might be doing the crops, the
farmer could not kill them. The nobil
ity lived In the city, away from their
estates and as far a posslhle from
contact with the despised commoners.
And we have conditions not so very
different in this country today. The
taxes which the working people, the
producers, pay to the Government are
not exorbitant, but the same cannot be
said of the taxes paid to the holders
of special privileges, who have been
granted by the Government the power
to exact taxes from the people. What!
It isn't true? Then what are the exor
bitant prices of the tariff-protected
trusts but taxes? When the dukes and
lords of the steel trust and a hundred
other trusts are permitted to charge
prices that make them multi-million- J
aires in a few short years, under formally-enacted
laws prices which they
could -not exact without the aid of such
laws what is it but a transfer of the '
taxing power from the Government to
the American nobility? When special
privileges are bestowed upon certain
residents of Portland which enable
them to sell for $6,000,000 a property in
which they have a tangible investment
of only $2,000,000, what is it but a giv
ing away of the taxing power when
the holders of those special privileges
can exact from tHe people of Portland
fares large enough to pay a high rate of
Interest on the $6,000,000? The com
moners of Portland pay .a tax which
the nobility of Portland are permitted
to collect and put in their own pockets.
It is a condition true not only of Port
land, but of the entire country, and
every thinking, every observing, man
knows it.
But these conditions are not to last
forever. The unprivileged have risen
up against the privileged and the war
will not cease until equality before the
law has been reached. It is a war, not
of bullets and bloodshed, but a war no
less earnest and uncompromising. The
Insurance lords have already been shorn
of their power to live in luxury and
wanton extravagance upon the earn
ings of the tolling masses- The beef
trust lqrds, who have compelled the
working people of this country to buy
diseased food at prices fixed by them,
are being brought to Justice. The pro
test of the people of France against a
system which permitted the gift of $16,
000,000 to the royalty of France was
no more effective than will be the pro
test of the people of Portland and of
Oregon against the system which per
mitted the gift of $4,000,000 to the no
bility of Portland. The revolution is on
and special privileges must go.
Here in Oregon there has already
been a revolution in state government.
The adoption of the initiative and refer
endum four years ago was a transfor
mation of this state from a purely rep
resentative form 'of government to a
mixture of the representative and the
pure democracy. It was a revolution
which the people .did not seek. Oregon
did not want the initiative and refer
endum. It was forced upon the state
by corporate greed, whose representa-
tives in the State Legislature betrayed
the people and added to the powers and
prlvilges of the nobility. The people
reluctantly adopted this amendment to
the constitution, but did it because
there Was no other apparent method f
curbing the power of the privileged
classes. The people did not want the
direct primary, but it was forced upon
them by the nobility, who, through
their political bosses, controlled con
ventions, named the candidates, and
thus made themselves secure in the
control of State government. Repre
sentatives of the holders of privileges
were able to defeat legislation which
was Intended to make the nobility of
Oregon pay taxes in the same propor-
tion that the commoners paid, and by
so doing they compelled the common
ers to adopt the initiative and referen
dum. If the nobility of the United
States succeeds in defeating the efforts
of President Roosevelt to establish a
system of equal rights for all and spe
cial privileges Tor none, we may expect
some kind of National initiative and
referendum, with all its attendant dan
gers of excess and extreme.
If the royalty and nobility of Amer
ica must proceed In accordance with
the policy of that French monarch who
said "After us the deluge," why, then,
the deluge will .come.
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"Well-nigh desperate" is the situation
of the American life insurance compa
nies in Austria-Hungary, according to
a correspondent of the London Econo
mist. The majority of the healthy per
sons insured are withdrawing and ef
fecting insurance with Austrian com
panies, and the result is likely to be the
retention by the American companies
doing business there of only the un
sound lives which will disastrously ad
vance the mortality rate. If as a result
of recent exposures American compa
nies shall be compelled to abandon for
eign fields. It may be a benefit to them.
The expense of getting and holding
huslness abroad has been very heavy.
The effort to build big and bigger
steamships hasn't yet reached the limit.
The Hamburg - American Steamship
Company announces that it is about to
construct an Atlantic liner which will
be 800 feet in length, with a ninety
foot beam and a tonnage of 35,000. The
new Ounarder now building is 760 feet
in length, with a tonnage of 25,000. The
new Hamburg-American vessel will
have a tonnage of 16,000 in excess of
any ship now actually afloat.
New England is beginning again-to
discover the "Oregon Country." Last
Sunday's issue Of the Springfield Re
publican devotes the whole of a front
page to its resources. More than a
generation ago the present editor's
grandfather, the elder Sam Bowles, vis
ited Oregon and devoted columns from
his own pen to telling the truth about
the land a gracious and generous ser
vice that is still remembered by old
timers. If there were ever any persons who
labored under the delusion that the
Washington Railroad Commission was
sitting up nights to devise ways and
means to help 'out the Portland Jobber,
they have been disillusioned. But whom
is the Commission helping, except, of
course, the enterprising and conserva
tive statesmen who are drawing the
salaries?
There are worse things on the streets
than boys playing ball. There are au
tomobiles that give grown folks palpi
tation of the heart and street-cars that
malm infants. Healthy lads are not to
be nailed down these fine evenings.
Very likely if they had added to the
bill for the President's traveling ex
penses a proviso that he should devote
his time exclusively to Its expenditure
while Congress was In session it would
have gone through a-whooping..
i
Another season of degree fests in the
colleges of the country Is fast drawing
to a close. -Mr. Bryan thus far has es
caped. The only prominent American
who needs no vaccination against tak
ing degrees Is John D. Rockefeller.
Just for the sake of variety, Mr. Ste
vens loses a few votes on the recount.
and Mr. Word again has hopes of nos
ing out. May the longest nose win.
Mr. Schwab vigorously denies that
he is a candidate for the United States
Senate from Nevada. That will be a
great shock to Nevada.
Does Mr. Bryan really think he is
making a hit with the Swedish vote
by occupying an orchestra seat at King
Haakon's coronation?
1
Possibly the Portland anarchists did
not reflect that, if they should put
Roosevelt out of the way, the Big Stick
would be President.
i
The great problem as to a lock canal
or a sea-level canal has been solved.
All that remains now is to dig the canal.
There are people who still think that
the food of our daddies is good enough
for them. If they can get it.
i r
After all, it isn't so much a question
about what to eat as what not to eat.
This is truly the month when matri
mony becomes epidemic.
Wet, Town and the Normal School.
Nevberg Graphic.
Prior to the election the Mayor and
Council of the town of Weston Issued a
circular calling on the people to vote for
the licensing of saloons and arguing that
the license money was needed to defray
the running expenses of the town. The
admonition was heeded and Weston went
wet. This is where one of our so-called
normal schools is located, and a great
place it is to send young teachers to
get high ideas of life. How would it do
to ask the Mayor to furnish the school
a text book on "Political Economy"?
People's Choice Mast Be Ratified.
Lebanon Criterion.
Some seem to think Jonathan Bourne
will not make the election to the United
States Senate before the next Oregon
Legislature. We believe in this they are
mistaken. No man who signed Statement
No. 1 can avoid supporting him all the
time and live politically. And those who
did not sign will find that the people
will not approve the people's choice being
Ignored or turned down, even though they
do cot like Mr. Bourne.
WILLIAM H. WALLACE.
Historical Figure In the History of
Washington.
1 Leslie's Weekly.
The grave of Colonel William H.
Wallace, who played an interesting
part in the early histories of Iowa,
Washington and Idaho, was a personal
friend of Abraham Lincoln, and acted
as a pallbearer at the funeral of the
great emancipator, has lately been dis
covered In the old Fort Steilacoom
Cemetery, near Tacoma, Wash. The ter
ritorial pioneers of Pierce County, of
which Tacoma is the seat, will take
the matter up, with the purpose of
having the grave not only preserved,
but properly marked.
The cemetery in which lie the re
mains of Colonel Wallace and his wife
is in a state of desecration, and for a
number of years no effort has been
made to maintain It- It is a plat of
ground about half an acre in extent.
The old Fort Steilacoom grounds are
now devoted to the state hospital for
the insane, and the cemetery is imme
diately behind one of the main build
ings. The lettering on some of the old
headboards can still be deciphered, and
they show a large number of burials
in the '60's and '69's. There have been
but few since Colonel Wallace was
burled there in 1879. The cemetery was
established in 1848 by Company M, of
the First Artillery, which was sent
out from New York In November, leav
ing on the same day that Taylor was
elected President. Frederick Myer, 80
years of age, and living near the old
fort grounds, is the only survivor of
this company of 108 men.
Colonel Wallace was born at Tryo,
Miami County, Ohio, July 19, 1311. He
was admitted to the bar in Indiana,
and in 1835 moved to Iowa, where he
was elected a member of the first Leg
islature, and served as Speaker of the
first House. By President Taylor he
was appointed receiver of public
moneys at Fairfield, la. He moved to
Washington Territory in 1853, and
served for a number of years in the
territorial Legislature. In 1861 Presi
dent Lincoln appointed him Governor
of the territory, and Colonel Wallace
was later elected delegate to the 37th
Congress. Before his term expired the
Territory of Idaho was set off from
Washington, and Lincoln appointed
him its first Governor. Upon his arrival
there, pending the first election, he was
nominated by the Republicans and
elected the first delegate tfc Congress
from the territory. Colonel and Mrs.
Wallace were In the city of Washing
ton at the time the new territory was
named, and while a Congressional
committee was trying to agree upon
some fitting name, Mrs. Wallace sug
gested Idaho. Colonel Wallace later
returned to Pierce County, and at the
time of his death was Judge of Pro
bate. During the Indian wars in Wash
ington he served as Captain of a vol
unteer company. Mrs. Wallace was
Miss Suzanna Brazelton, of Guilford
County, North Carolina. Her father was
General Braselton. Colonel Wallace
died February 7, 1879, and his wife a
number of years later. The only known
portrait of him a painting Is one of
the treasured exhibits In the Ferry Mu
seum at Tacoma, as la also a tall hat of
ancient style, and a good deal the
worse for hard usage, which the Col
onel wore while he was In attendance
at the Lincoln obsequies. Both these
attract the attention of all visitors to
the museum.
It's Mr. "Bose-'n-fell."
W. Y. C. In New York World. ' '
n my rounds of the country I have
heard probably as many as 50 different
ways of pronouncing the President's name
as many, I mean, from lips of native
born. English-speaking persons. The in
closed rhyme shows the negro "twist" in
many parts of the South. It conveys, too,
a very good idea in a single word of the
up and down in popular expectancy of the
Presidents political thermometer. Just
now, according to the rhyme, the mercury
is so well up that many who are moved by
It are seeking the shady and sequestered
places:
Mlstah Rose-'n-fell, Mlstah Rose-'n-fell,
He don' rose ergin.
How com' now Mlstah Rockyfell,
You dem wit dat Chercargo smell.
An' all yer railroad men, up 'n tell
Et de name wit er funny spell
Ain' don' rose errjn?
Pioneers and Portland.
Woodburn Independent.
The pioneers who visited Portland last
week looked upon that magnificent and
growing city, then naturally gave them
selves due credit for blazing the way.
They were the ones who did the real
work and made all things possible. Those
who came later with money and de
veloped, can thank those men who had
the endurance and underwent-great hard
ships to lay such a solid foundation. All
praise to the pioneers, of whom one by
one is passing away.
Be Was a Poor Speller.
Chicago Chronicle.
The spelling reform brethren now
claim William Shakespeare as one of
their confraternity and they are right.
A man who consistently refused to
pell his own name the same way
twice in succession certainly must be
credited with latitudinarian views in
the matter of orthography.
He Never Sleeps.
The Dalles Optimist.
It is said that the U'Ren amendment
factory up at the falls of the Willamette,
is running night and day grinding out new
conundrums to puzzle and befog the vot
ers at our next election, in June. 1908.
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BOOTH-TUCKER TO MARRY.
Colonel Emma Reld, of Ireland ex
Commander's Fiancee.
I Minneapolis (Minn.) Despatch.
The engagement of ex-Commander
Booth-Tucker, of London, international
secretary of the Salvation Army, to
Colonel Emma Reld, at present in
charge of the Salvation Army forces in
Ireland, was announced here today.
The wedding will be in London and
will be private. The date has not yet
been settled. The announcement was
made by Major Merrlwether, of the
Salvation Army here, a special friend
of ex-Commander Booth-Tucker.
Mr. Booth-Tucker came to America
in 1896 to take up S alvation Army
work. He stayed in this country eight
ana a half years, in wnich time he
saw the work of the Army in America
grow until more than $900,000 was col
lected annually by the Salvation Army
wnen he returned to England In 1904.
in England, Booth-Tucker became In
ternational secretary of the Salvation
Army.
Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker, the first
wife of Booth-Tucker, was killed in
railroad wreck near Marceline, Mo.,
ucioDer zs, isos. she was the daugh
ter of General Ballington Booth. Booth
Tucker's real name is F. de la Tom
Tucker. At his marriage he adopted
tne Hyphenated form. Four of hi
seven children are living.
Men Only for Asphalt Trust.
Chicago Dispatch in Philadelphia
rxorth American.
No woman wanted after July 1. This
is the general order that has startled
the employes of the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company, the great corporation
interested in the asphalt paving Indus
try throughout the United States.
Every girl, and there are thousands
employed by the company, which has
offices in all cities of Importance in
the country, will be discharged next
month. The reason assigned, although
satisfactory to business men, has
aroused champions of the "business
woman.
The cause of the order was ex
plained today by an officer of the com
pany. "Women may be all right at home;
but they are not 'fit' when it comes
down to working for a big corpora
tton," said the officer.
"Their capacity is limited. They are
all right at making worsted slippers
and sofa pillows, and they can chew
gum and write shorthand at the same
time, but they can't boss a street-paving
gang nor figure out how much
asphalt it will take to fix a street."
Getting Used to Being Indicted.
Washington (D. C.) Cor. New York
World.
Arthur Evans, general counsel for
Swift & Co., the meat packers, blew
along Pennsylvania avenue.
"Hi, there. Arthur!" shouted a friend.
"Where have you been?"
"Oh!" said Evans, "I've been down
in Nashville getting indicted with the
Fertilizer Trust. Got to be a habit
with me now. Every town I drop into
I find the hospitable citizens waiting
to indict me. All the rage."
Punishing a Slow Motorist.
New York Sun.
An automobile driver was arrested re
cently while driving slowly through a vil
lage and fined $5. He demanded why he
had been so treated, as he had not- vlo
lated any speed ordinance, but could get
no satisfaction. Later a court officer ex
plained the whole matter by saying: "We
held a meeting last night and decided that
this speeding must stop. This man was
the first to come along slow enough for
us to catch, so we arrested him."
They Voted First.
Umpqua Valley News.
Here's some sarcasm from the pen of
Editor Newport, of the Lebanon Criterion:
"One of the very strange things about the
election of Mr. Chamberlain for Governor
is that many Republicans who claim to
be ardent temperance workers supported
him. One of the Injunctions of the tem
perance workers was 'vote as you pray.
These, however, must have voted' and
then prayed.
Sons In Kansas.
Kansas City Journal.
Here is one of the little things that
make trouble for the Postmaster at
Llndsborg: There are 246 Johnsons,
134 Andersons, 87 Swensons, and 99
Petersons who get mail at his office.
Think of a line of school children
rushing in there 16 feet deep and all
yelling at once. "Any mail for John
sons?" "Any mail for Andersons?"
"Any mall for Petersons?" "Any mall
for Swensons?"
Best Shot In the United States Army.
Baltimore News.
The complete records of rifle, pistol and
carbine firing of the United States Army
for 1905, Just published, show Abraham
Hill, a Sergeant In the Twenty-fourth In
fantry, stationed In the Department of
Dakota, to be the best shot in the Army.
The percentage of possible shots made by
him on slow fire, timed fire and skirmlBh
fire was 86.33.
As to Georare C, Is He So Very Dead'
St. Helens Mist.
The Oregon City Enterprise is devoting
a great deal of space to funeral sermon
ettes over the political remains of George
C. Brownell, who it reiterates is dead,
dead. dead. If he is so very dead, would
it not be well to quit stamping on the
remains?
MIDDLE NORTHWEST
From the St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
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SOME FEATURES
OF THE SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
First and foremost, all the world's
news by Associated Press, special
correspondent and members of The
Oregonian staff, making the fullest
and most complete record of any
Pacific Coast newspaper. a
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
WOMAN IN EUROPE
Lina Cavalieri she is once a muslo
hall singer, now a grand opera
star whose ambition was aroused
by an old maid sister. She is one
of the celebrities of Paris Several
striking photographs accompanying
the sketch.
CATCHING THE TOOTHSOME
OREGON CRAWFISH
The season for 1906 is fairly on,
and an illustrated story tells how
and where the delicious crustaceans
are caught for the Portland mar
ket, and of creeks near town which
furnish good sport for fishing par
ties. CAUSES OF THE GREAT
CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE
Compilation of facts and theories
concerning the disturbance of the
earth's surface, which covers the
scientific phase of the disaster.
The subject is treated with the
view of making"" the matter clear
to the average reader and Is free
from technicalities. Illustrations
add to its clearness and human in
terest. A TILLAMOOK COUNTY
BEAR HUNT-
A story by an Oregonian who went
after the bear himself, not a news
paper man's yarn. There is a lot
of readable incidental matter re
lating to an early morning chase
that ended successfully.
PORTLAND AS A VAST
SUMMER KINDERGARTEN
An appreciative woman points out
wherein Portland as a city and In
Its environment offers an incom
parable field for kindergartening
and calls on every mother to en
gage in the work and delights of
nature study.
HOW TO RID THE
COUNTRY OF ANARCHISTS
Our Government is committed to
the policy of confining Imported
murderous reformers. A Washing
ton correspondent tells of methods
of elimination proposed by crime
experts.
MOST ACCOMPLISHED UARS
IN CHRISTENDOM
A. H. Ballard writes the first of a
series of sketches on nabobs in
New York, whom he has inter
viewed. His initial subject is Will
iam H. Vanderbilt.
MICHAEL DAVITT, IRELAND'S
GREAT BENEFACTOR
P. A. O'Faxrell, a Pacific Coast
man, writes from Dublin, paying a
tribute to the work of this useful
man, and presenting a resume of
conditions in Ireland today that
bespeak the rising of freedom's
sun.
WHAT THEY EAT AT
THE WHITE HOUSE
The steward in the President's
home furnishes the story, which
contains facts, not Inventions. Mr.
Roosevelt and his family are "good
eaters" and demand the best that
the market affords. Bills of fare
are given for one day's meals,
which are representative of what
Is provided at the White House
at this season of the year.
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
OF GEORGE H. WILLIAMS
There was a time In this Nation's
. history when the Chief Executive
never thought of vetoing a bill un
less he believed it to be unconsti
tutional. Judge Williams points
out the rise and growth of the
veto power and the changes in
public opinion on this subject.
THE ROOSEVELT BEARS
AT A SUMMER RESORT
They go to Atlantic City, have a
plunge In the ocean, then do the
promenade act and take in the
side shows.
BOOK REVIEWS AND NEWS
OF LITERARY FIELD
The Oregonlan's book page con
tains reviews of the newest books,
as well as news and gossip con
cerning personages in the world of
letters. Among this week's book
reviews: "In Cure of Her Soul,"
by Frederic Jesup Stlmson; "Bal
zac, a Critical Study," by Hlppolyte
Adolphe Talne; "The Mystery of
the Lost Dauphin," by Senora
Emilia Pardo Bazan; "Extra Dry
Being Further Adventures of tile
Water Wagon," by Bert Leston
Taylor and W. C. Gibson; "Susan
Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs,"
by Anne Warner; "The Building
of the Organ," by Nathan Haskell
Dole; "Our Little Scotch Cousin."
by Blanche MeManus; "The Story
of Paul Jones," by Alfred Henry
Lewis; "Stand Pat," by David A.
Curtis; "Larry Hudson's Ambi
tion." by James Otis; "The Tracer
of Lost Persons," by Robert W.
- Chambers; "The Girl With the
Blue Sailor," by Burton E. Steven
son; "The Cruise of the Yacht
Dido," by' Charles G. D. Roberts;
"Alpatok, the Story of an Eskimo
Dog." by Marshall Saunders, and
"Sandy, From the Sierras," by
Richard Barry.
COMPLETE REVIEW OF
THE SPORTING WORLD
Owing to its unequaled facilities
for both telegraphic and local news
The Oregonian is able to give its
readers a more complete and ac
tive sporting department than any
other paper in the Northwest. Sev
eral pages of tdmtfrrow's paper will
be devoted to articles thoroughly
covering this field. Athletic events
in all parts of the world are chron
icled In the Associated Press dis
patches, and the latest local hap
penings are handled in breezy ar
ticles by staff -writers. This service
is supplemented by special letters
to The Oregonian. All will be in
terested in reading a resume of
th California situation from the
pen of Harry B. Smith.
SOCIETY, MUSIC
AND THE DRAMA
Nothing which comes under these
departments is omitted in the Sun
day Oregonian. All of the activity
of the past week Is recorded in
very interesting articles, and an
nouncements for the coming week
are given. The latest in local the
atricals and music and practically
everything of a social nature is
presented. Several of the most im
portant June weddings are de
scribed in tomorrow's paper. Pho
- tographa and sketches by staff ar
tists are a feature of these pages.
COMMENCEMENT DAYS
AT WEST POINT
Nowhere in the country is more
importance attached to the festivi
ties of graduation time than at
West Point, where Uncle Sam's
army officers receive their com
mission. The brilliant gathering
and Impressive ceremonies are
graphically described this week in
the New York letter from Emile
Frances Bauer. The graduation
parade is the greatest event of the
year at West Point.