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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1006
HOW THEY DID IT.
Fault is not to be found with the
present charter of the city as it stands
so much as with the use that was
made of the methods employed in its
formation and adoption, for exemption
of the holders of old franchises, from
the terme of the new charter, by re
arranging in advance the whole bunch
of them, extending them to long terms
and juggling the whole business so as
to add immensely to the value of the
old franchises, at the expense of the
city. With the charter as it stands we
have found and now And little fault;
but there is every reason to censure
and condemn the rascally proceedings
In connection with its formation and
enactment; through which old fran
chises were renewed Just before Its en
actment, and for which Its enactment
was delayed in order that the authors
of the conspiracy might make profit
for themselves and immense profit
they made while subjecting future
franchises to conditions from which
they exempted their own. This was a
most scoundrelly piece of business,
pursued and accomplished through plu
tocratic craft and greed. It should
consign to infamy every person con
cerned in it; and it stands as a warn
ing against repope of further confidence
in them, in any matter whatever. You
may bar your doors against common
burglars; but how are you to provide
against these secret schemes of whole
sale plunder, under forms of law, and
under professions of public spirit and
virtue? Of course you see that men
who will deal with a public trust In
this way will take also every advan
tage In private business, through craft
and cunning, that they possibly can.
The editor of The Oregonian, though
nominally a member of the charter board.
was seldom present at the meetings, and
paid little attention to the proceedings. He
was a member of no one of Its com
mittees, never was present at a com
mittee meeting and confesses that he
didn't know at all what was going on.
It was a fault, perhaps, that he did
not withdraw his name from the board,
or that he did not suspect that the chief
actors In the preparation of the char
ter and holders of the franchises had
sinister purposes, that ought to be
watched and exposed. He, with others,
naturally Bilpposed there was to be a
square deal. There were. Indeed, many
meetings of the board; but, as he re
members, he was present not above
twice, and then only a few minutes
either time. But, if he didn't know
what was going on. and what was in
tended, neither did the majority of the
members. About three men made the
charier, and not above five knew what
was in It. These were In the secret of
the juggle with the franchises, under
the old charter, and were engaged In
getting special privileges under it, in
anticipation of the adoption of the new
one. which denies such privileges to
others.
Though we have said we have not
found much fault with the new char
ter, here Is a very serious fault In it.
It does not give the city power to regu
late the charges for service, or to pre
scribe the quality and extent of the
service itself. No doubt this was pur
posely omitted: since the operation of
the old franchises was to continue un
der the new charter, and our franchise
holders didn't want to be hampered by
sueh restrictions. Inasmuch as they
copied closely from the charter of San
Francisco, in these matters, except in
this particular, it need not be sup
posed this omission was unintentional
or accidental. The fact Is that until
attention to the charter and to the
franchises was forced by the gas In
vestigation, only the interested parties
and they were few knew fully what
had been done by these schemers for
personal advantage. And perhaps all
don't know all about It yet.
But at length we do know much. We
know, for example, how these first
class citizens got larger advantages
under the new charter than any others
ever can obtain under it; and how they,
by "working" the Common Council and
the Legislature, exempted themselves
and their assigns from burdens that
others must bear. Thus, we can get no
report of the operations carried on un
der the franchises, that were fixed up
and extended to long terms Just before
the new charter went into effect en
actment of which was held up five days
in the Legislature, after it had passed
both houses, in order that the work re
quired might be completed In Com
mon Council of Portland. But every
holder of a franchise now granted must
make a report to the City Auditor of
his whole business every year. In full
detail, showing receipts - from all
sources and all expenditures for all
purposes, together with full statement
of all assets and debts, costs and profits
of service, etc., as the Auditor may re
quire; and the Mayor is to embody it
In his annual report for Information of
the public. But our operators exempt-
ed themselves from this and other re
quirements by getting their franchises
extended barely ahead of time, holding
up the proceedings in the Legislature
to accomplish it. So the people have
no means whatever of arriving at
knowledge of what the greatest and
most numerous of the corporations op
erating under out public franchises are
doing, or of controlling their action,
for nearly thirty years to come. But
our thrifty charter and franchise-
mongers have maae rigorous cuiiui
tlons for all who may desire to enter
into competition with them. These
proceedings were employed largely for
the purpose of increasing the value of
the franchises for sale; or. If sale could
not be effected, great advantages would
result from the conditions, to our
thrifty "best citizens." In a multitude
of ways, too long to enumerate, they
arranged it so that privileges and ad
vantages are secured to those holding
the franchises existing at the time
the new charter was enacted; while
"every franchise (granted under thla
charter" is subject to the close condi
tions from which these people excepted
themselves. Hence the people can know
nothing about the operations of the
great public-service corporations in
which the authors of this conspiracy
were interested. And they have sold
out for millions, and put into their
pockets the proceeds of the colossal
fraud.
A true story, as well as a fable, may
teach a moral. This true story teaches
a moral It will be well to remember,
namely: ."Don't trust your 'best citi
zens.' Watch them."
THE BOARDING-HOUSE HABIT.
Births in Portland are much belbw
normal conditions. Why should they
be? There are marriages enough, and
married couples enough. But few
children. Many couples have none.
What is the reason? The boarding
house habit. The desire of so many
couples to avoid the duties and respon
sibilities of family life. At bottom,
self-indulgence and general selfishness.
They who intend not to have children
never should marry at all. Marriage
for such is mere profanation.
Persons who marry, man and wife,
who go to boarding-houses, have no
children, and stifle life in its secret and
sacred sources, never can know any
thing of the joys of bringing up a fam
ily, which exceeds all other joys of the
world. Such deserve no happiness;
never get It. Of course It is a sacrifice
to bring forth and bring up children.
Yet the most inestimable of human
rewards. In this world there is nothing
so fine as the spectacle of a young mar
ried couple living in their own little
home, alive to every duty, day and
night, and bringing up their children.
They who refuse this miss all the beet
rewards of life.
Why is it refused? Through hard
human selfishness. Of course no word
that can be spoken will change or
amend It. But these persons, man and
wife, living In profanation of marriage,
have and can have no happiness, never
will have happiness; because they do
not deserve It.
A NEW DOCTRINE
Most people felt their blood run cold
when the newspapers printed the re
port that five respectable citizens of
Toledo had been imprisoned for organ
izing an ice trust. Td be sure, Ice
trusts were unlawful, but so were oth
ers, and there was a common under
standing that laws of this kind were
not meant to be enforced. They were
like plaster of paris birthday cakes,
baked to be looked at, but not eaten.
If things came to a pass where some
body must be punished for breaking
the anti-trust statutes to satisfy the
clamors of the mob, it was understood
that the penalty should be one that
would not hurt the criminal's feelings
or injure his respectability. A rich
lawbreaker might be fined, for exam
ple, but never imprisoned To pay, a
fine with graceful indifference rather
enhances one's social prestige. It Is an
effectual way to display a man's wealth
and, when not too heavy, introduces
an agreeable variety in the tiresome
monotony of spending money. But im
prisonment hurts. A family sometimes
boasts that one of its ancestors was
hanged, but never that he spent a term
In the City Jail. There is no way to
dignify a sojourn in the cooler. It is
pure, unadulterated punishment. Hence
the general shudder when five mem
bers of the first families of Toledo
were marched from the Police Court to
the jail and there locked up in their re
spective cells. We all felt much as the
besotted peasants of Europe did when
the French cut Citizen Capet's head off.
Would not the stars flee from their
places? Would not the heavens fall?
They have not fallen yet, at any rate,
and the sentence was passed two or
three weeks ago.
The ice-trust magnates whom Mayor
Whltlock, of Toledo, and his Prosecut
ing Attorney marched oft to Jail were
no worse and no better than the mem
bers of the first families of Portland
and other cities who are engaged in
transactions of the same sort. They
were highly respected citizens, leaders
in high finance, church members and
contributors to good works. Their only
fault was that they were pirates who
utterly disregarded the law when It
stood in the way of plunder. Formerly
pirates had for their emblem the black
flag adorned with a skull and cross-
bones. This they ran up to the mast
head when a prize was in sight to warn
their victims to get ready to die. Our
plutocratic pirates have discarded this
barbaric emblem and adopted in Its
stead a motto. "We Intend to run our
business in our own way" is the mod
ern substitute for the death's head and
bloody bones, and, though mild and
innocent in appearance, it is really
much more deadly than the other. The
beef trust claimed the right to run its
business in its own way and flood the
country with meat putrescent and de
filed, which had been doctored with
chemicals to look harmless. The milk
trusts in many cities claim the right
to run their business in their own way
and deal out to babies foul and disease
laden milk. The ice trusts demand the
same privilege. All they ask is to be
let alone.
It Is safe to say tltat our piratical
trusts cause more deaths in a single
year than all the nautical pirates on all
the seas of the world in the last five
centuries. Think of the ghastly doom
roll of the railroads alone and add to
It the multitudes slain by poisonous
food, drink and medicine. They include
the young children sacrificed to the plu
tocracy In mills and the strong men
killed by machinery, and all those who
succumb to deadly disease brought on
by fetid air and inhuman conditions of
labor. The deeds of Captain Kidd were
the pastimes of an innocent child com
pared with what our prayerful aristo
crats are doing in defiance of the law
year in and year out. And yet when a
little bunch of them is sent to jail we
shudder as if sacrilege had been com
mitted. The discovery that law can strike the
rich Is new In our social system. We
have hitherto supposed that gold was a
sort of lightning rod. Whoever had
enough of it was as safe in a courtroom
as a barn with a dozen points on the
roof Is In a thunder storm. The truth
that trust magnates and plutocrats or
all sorts can be punished for their
crimes like common men will rank with
the great scientific discoveries such as
Newton's law of gravitation and Dar
win's natural selection. Moreover, It
has been brought to light by men who j
ought to rank in political economy and
jurisprudence with Galileo and Huy-
gens In physical science, for it will
transform civilization. These dis
coverers are not college professors.
Few advances In any science have been
made within college walls, in this coun
try at any rate. The legal and political J
science of the colleges is a mass of con
ventional statements, some true and
many false, but all adapted to sustain
and Justify the special privileges of
the plutocratic rulers of the Nation.
Political economy, for example, is a
collection of the rules which the "eco
nomic man" follows in his pursuit of
wealth. "Economic man" is a polite
synonym for hog. A swine, up to the
limits of his opportunities, obeys all the
precepts of political economy without
any instruction whatever.
Our new leaders in thought and con
duct do not believe that the hog is a
worthy model for human beings to imi
tate. They discard the infernal precept
that any man has a right to conduct
his business as he pleases without re
gard to the welfare of others. Bach
person engaged in trade depends upon
organized society for defense and sup
port. Without the public, neither his
business nor himself could exist. There
fore in every enterprise the public is a
partner and should have something to
say about the method of conducting it.
It Is a wholesome doctrine that any
business carried on to the detriment of
the public is a crime. This doctrine is
slowly taking the form of law and the
nascent law acquires energetic potency
in the hands of our new school of polit
ical leaders. t
ARMOR-PLATE MONOPOLY.
The spectacle of the representatives
of the Bethlehem and Carnegie Steel
Companies pleading against granting
the Midvale Steel Company a "monop
oly" of the armor-plate business of the
Government was rare and pathetic.
There is but one customer for armor
plate in the United States, and that
customer Is the Government. When we
first began construction of battleships
the Carnegie and the Bethlehem armor
plate manufacturers formed a com
bination and proceeded to rob the Gov
ernment in the most approved manner
of modern Industrial highwaymen.
The charges were so extortionate that
at nearly every session of Congress the
matter of establishing a Government
plant for manufacture of the armor
has been seriously considered. Natur
ally, with a business that yielded such
extravagant profits competition at
last appeared, and last year the Mid
vale Steel Company put in a bid that
was so much lower than that of the
Carnegie trust that It created the
greatest consternation, and Incidentally
secured for the new bidder all the work
that the ordnance department thought
could be turned out with the compara
tively limited facilities of the plant.
The profits, even at the reduced fig
ures, were so enormous that the Mid
vale people immediately began enlarg
ing the plant, and this year was In po
sition to bid for the entire amount of
armor-plate needed. They submitted
bids for supplying the plate needed for
the two battleships now under con
struction at prices $170,000 lower than
those submitted by the Carnegie-Bethlehem
trust. The able gentlemen who
guide the destinies of the Carnegie
trust may be grafters, but they are not
fools, and when they discovered that
the Midvale opposition was the real
thing, and not a bluff, they began beg
ging for a portion of the contract, of
fering to accept the same rates as were
submitted by the Midvale company.
The Secretary of the Navy seemed
indisposed to accept the statement of
the Midvale people that they could turn
out the full amount of plate needed,
and on that ground divided the con
tracts between the new company and
the trusts. Now there are rumors that
the Midvale has been taken into the
fold by the others, and again there is
no competition in the making of armor
plate in the United States, although
there are three big plants at which it
is manufactured. No one ever heard of
the leopard changing spots, or of a
trust reducing prices, consequently the
next armor-plate contract will neces
sarily be let to the trust at the old-time
fabulous prices which have aided Car
negie in sowing libraries around the
world with the recklessness of a man
who is spending other people's money.
Secretary Bonaparte states that the
bids, which, of course, were all pared
down to the Midvale basis, were "lower
than any price heretofore paid by the
Government for like armor, and lower,
so far as the department is informed,
than is paid by any foreign govern
ment." As the Midvale works had previously
had experience in making armor-plate,
they, of course, made their bids with a
margin of profit. According to the Sec
retary of the Navy, they demonstrated
that armor-plate could be made in this
country as cheaply as in Europe. This
being the case, there is no reason to
fear European competition, and. In or
der that the three-cornered trust so re
cently amalgamated cannot force
prices up to the figures demanded by
the Carnegie-Bethlehem trust, an im
mediate effort should be made to curb
this monopoly by admitting foreign
bidders. There are very few serious
minded people in this country who be
lieve the steel trust or the armor trust
would fail to secure all of the American
contracts for their product if the law
compelling purchase of armor "of do
mestic manufacture only" was repealed
tomorrow.
Farmers who have spent their lives in
the Willamette Valley will scarcely un
derstand the dispatches which give an
account of efforts to break the elevator
monopoly. In the Middle West the
grain warehouses are called elevators
because the grain is elevated to bins
high up in the buildings and run down
through spouts to the cleaners and
finally to the cars. In the Willamette
Valley an elevator is a warehouse.
Grand Duke Alexis, the baby Czaro
witz of Russia, is being taught to kiss
ikons and wear a cross around his neck
as a safeguard against violence and
a pledge of loyalty to holy Russia. Poor
little chap, only two years old and born
to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
He will, if signs serve, find something
more practical than myths and tradi
tions necessary to equip him as a ruler
of the most turbulent empire on the face
of the earth unless Indeed turbulence
is merged into peace and tyranny into
liberty long before his time comes. In
this case, as a young man without a
job and with his own way to make in
the world, he will stand some chance
of living happily and dying in his bed.
Salem city officialdom is hopelessly
divided and wrought up to the point of
open warfare over the question whether
brakebeam passengers on the Southern
Pacific shall be invited to stop in Salem
or ordered to move on. Those who be
neve that the weary Willies would help
harvest the hay crop and garner the
grain want the hobos to alight and
make Salem their rendezvous. Those
who believe the dusty wayfarers would
not work if they had a chance and are
more likely to burglarize homes than
pitch hay argue that the police should
keep the city free of ufiknown tran
sients who have no visible means of
support. It's a close question in sociol
ogy and well worthy the profound
study it is receiving. The solution, if
accompanied with new light upon the
subject, will be awaited with anxious
interest by all communities stricken by
the labor famine.
The organ of the first families was
not always the organ of the first fami
lies. It was started without their as
sistance, and was about to die; but
presently they took it up and made it
their organ. It cannot now avail any
thing for it to reprint against the
pluto-aristocracy what it said before
they plumped their money into it and
made it their organ. It was against
them before that; since then It has
been their willing servitor, fed on the
crumbs that fall from the plutocratic
tables. To make good, the crumb-picker
and pap-sucker of the first families
now apologizes, and defends what It
says It opposed before they adopted th
"little sore-eyed thing," as it has since
described what it was in its earlier
days, and numbered it among their ser
vants. Not one accusation, not one of the
statements made by The Oregonian as
to the mammoth franchise steal, has
been met, or controverted. They can
not be. They are truth, the overwhelm
ing and damning truth. There is noth
ing to be said in defense or explana
tion of the perfidious and conscience
less betrayal of the people by the fran
chlsegraibbers; therefore they say
nothing except to shout that "You're
another." "Yes, we stole the fran
chises,' they say, "but why didn't you
catch, expose and stop us then?" High
morality of this kind ever asserts its
right to rob and steal when no one is
looking, and to keep what it steals be
cause the thieves were not caught in
the act.
The defeat of the street-car men's
union is a notable victory for the Port-
Jand street railway system. It is nota
ble because it was won by the unflinch
ing loyalty of a large number of men
who have held their positions for a
great many years and who have the
highest respect and admiration for
Manager Fuller. Perhaps, if there were
more men of the Fuller type in charge
of large numbers of wage-earners,
strikes would be fewer. The Oregonian
is not in sympathy with many of the
practices of the street-car monopoly,
but there is certainly no criticism due
on the manner in which Mr. Fuller
handles the old men who have known
him for many years.
Since Oregon occupies the apparently
Inconsistent position of raising hops for
the manufacture of beer at the same
time that it is proceeding to prohibit
the consumption of beer, would it not
be wise to strike a happy medium and
remove the Inconsistency by merely
prohibiting the sale of liquor of strong
er Intoxicating power than beer? Now
this is a suggestion in behalf of tem
perance and hopgrowing. To prohibit
the sale of whisky would reduce the
amount of drunkenness but would In
crease the sale of beer. Now, Mr.
Amos, you and Mr. Deckebach have the
floor. You may both speak at once, If
you wish.
"Mr. Jackson," a name common in
the comic papers a portrait of Mr.
Jackson, a colored gentleman, usually
accompanies the witticisms says
something about Mr. Scott, meaning
the editor of The Oregonian. With Mr.
Jackson Mr. Scott has no controversy.
Mr. Jackson is a property not a sep
arate or individual entity. What The
Oregonian may have to say, on any
topic Mr. Jackson may be interested
in, refers to Mr. Jackson's masters.
Mr. Jackson will not engage the atten
tion of The Oregonian.
In view of the Maegly junction, de
cision. It is possible that Mr. Hill will
And It unnecessary to pull that fine
hew depot at Seattle out by the roots
and replant it at Everett. If Judge
Frazer could be induced to go over to
Seattle and determine just what each
of the warring factions ought to have,
white-winged peace would settle along
the shores of Elliott Bay in short order.
In the circumstances the refusal of
the street-car men to strike was wise.
Clearly they are not prepared for so
grave an issue. Besides, the differ
ences are not yet clearly defined. It
may be hoped and expected that em
ployers and employed will adjust dif
ferences and get together, so no strike
ever will be necessary.
Of course now, infidels, apostates, un
believers, heretics, proletarians and
one-gallus democrats shouldn't have
much to say. "Strike the drums! Let
not the heavens hear these telltale
women rail on the Lord's anointed.
Strike, I say!"
The chronic kickers had the scare of
their lives, for they were face to face
with the dilemma of walking or hiring
an automobile. They should get to
gether now and resolve that any car
service Is better than- none.
The Chicago banker who says he
ought to be in the penitentiary, and is
trj'ing to get in, should be accommo
dated. Yet he is setting a very bad
example for other alleged bankers.
The Oregonian has wished to put all
the people on their guard against those
whose wealth has become dropsical
through sharking up estates. Keep out
of their clutches.
The Czar feels that so long as he ex-
ercises
the imperial
prerogative of
his crown and
vetoing his own acts,
august head are safe.
The Oregonian admits it was de
ceived. It depended on the integrity
of "best citizens." It never will again.
WHAT PORTLAND HAS LOST.
Awake at
Last to Wrongs
by Fran-
cfalae Monster.
Morning Astorian.
Portland has just awakened to the
fact that she has been shamefully
treated by the street railway combine;
that she has been gulled to the last
dollar's worth of franchise property
she possessed; and that she is, prac
tically, without recourse except upon
the plea of eminent domain for the re
covery of the ravaged rights she gave
so willingly to the adroit thieves.
Well. It was getting around to Port
land, anyway; every other city on the
Coast has had an experience of the
sart with corporate vultures, and now
the Oregon metropolis can put up her
fight. We hope for the city's sake she
will put up a clean, hard, winning
scrap; that she will be so successful
that every other outraged community
in the land will have a winning predi
cate to operate uponwhen they shall
be called upon to light the like. But.
In the light of past experience, the
country over, we are compelled to
nurse a reasonable v doubt of that
success.
But Then, You Know, They Posed aa
Honorable Men.
Hlllsboro Argus.
Portland is just discovering that in
the past she has been robbed of valu
able franchises. The time to have
stopped this filching of public prop
erty was when it was being consum
mated. It's a poor time to lock the
stable door after the ass has been
stolen.
No Shave in Fifty Years.
Meadville (Penn.) Cor. Chicago Tribune.
M. T. Freeman, of Chicago Township,
Crawford County, one of the original Fre
mont Republicans, is now in his 81st
year. His first Presidential vote was cast
for General Taylor In 1848, and since the
formation of the Republican party he has
been an ardent Republican, voting for
General Fremont, the first nominee of
the party for President, in 1856.
At that time Mr. Freeman made a com
pact that he would not shave until Fre
mont was elected. His candidate lost,
and Mr. Freeman remained steadfast to
his agreement. No razor has touched his
face since 1856, and while he never let
the beard grow to an unusual length,
still he has never had it trimmed short.
Mr. Freeman has received an Invitation,
as one of the original Republicans, to at
tend the golden jubilee of the Republican
party held in Philadelphia. K
Mr. Freeman is still a bright and Inter
esting conversationalist. When 15 years
old he attended the celebrated Whig and
Democratic mass meeting held in Erie,
on September 10. 1840, which undoubtedly
was the largest mass, meeting ever held
In this end of the state, people traveling
In wagons 100 miles to attend. Those
were the times when "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too," "Log Cabin and Hard Cider,"
and "Roast Beef and a Dollar a Day"
were the slogans.
A Department Drug Store.
Report from Rabbltvllle In The Dalles
Optimist.
For a full line of canned and pickled
things and codfish and also hamm, call at
the city drug store. Likewise ladle's cor
setts and eoo'k stoves. A few of them
choice potaters still on hand and a few
settins of gooses eggs. Also a fresh cow
with caff by her side. Try one of our
new perscriptions called the Shepherd's
Delight. They are very encouraging this
hot weather.
A Ballad of Andrew.
The June Critic.
"When Andrew was a 'ittlo lad
He had no books to read.
And so he butit a library
His Intellect to feed.
Whene'er he saw a useful book
Says he, "I will put that in";
And German, French and Scots he took
But nary Greek nor Latin.
So diligent a lad, I fear,
"Will not be seen again;
He labored fourteen hours a day,
And read the other ten.
But when hie money all was spent.
Says he, "So poor I feel.
There's nothing left for me to do
But make a little steel."
Then everybody bought his steel
And paid him such a price
That Andrew was a millionaire
In Just about a trice.
But now he felt a fearful fear
That rose to such a pitch
It haunted him by day and night
The fear of dying rich.
He did not want the charge to stand
On the eternal docket
That A. Carnegie had expired
With money In his pocket
Says he, "To keep from such a fate
I'll alter my char-ac-ter:
I'll leave off making steel and be
Henceforth a benefactor."
In tfteologic zeal he gave
An organ to a church.
And then endowed an "Institute
Of Biblical Research."
He saw that college profs die poor
In spite of their endeavor;
He filled their pockets up with cash
And now they'll live forever.
He saw that we Americans
In courage are but zeros;
He spent ten million dollars to
Transform us into heroes.
He saw we couldn't spell. Bays be.
While tears his eyes did fill.
'"Spell Just as badly as you please.
And I will pay the bill."
What things are lovely, true and pure,
Of good report and right.
On these our Andrew thinks, and these
He helps with all his might.
So here's to Andrew Carnegie, K
And when he's called above.
He may go poor In pocket, but
He will go rich In love.
THAT THRIFT
JOHN D.'S FRENCH CHATEAU. s.
Rockefeller Stopping In a Town That
Royalty Often Visited.
New York World.
The Chateau des Avenues. In Complegne.
France, where John D. Rockefeller Is
stopping with Professor and Mrs. Strong,
his son-in-law and daughter, Is a two
story brick and stone structure, of antique
design, but in good condition. It has the
steep roof of the old French castle and all
the modern improvements of science. Its
grounds are ample. It Is owned by the
Countess de l'Algle. to whose husband
Napoleon IIL gave the structure. Louis
XIV. had a hunting box on the side of
the estate, and It was In the old days a
favorite resort of the monarch.
Complegne. which Is only one hour and
a quarter from the French capital, U?
rather famous for Its golf links. They
are beautifully laid out and adjoin a his
toric forest of about 36.000 acres. The
main course has 18 holes and there is a
smaller one expressly for women.
Being on the road to Rhfelms. the
French klnes earlv acaulred the habit of
stopping here for rest on their way home
after being crowned. The first castle In
town was built by Clovls. Charlemagne
enlarged It and Charles the Bald further
enlarged It still more. Other castles were
built by other rulers.
Louis XVI. was a great deal at Com
plegne, and it was probable here that he
saw ffrst the Indications of temper on the
part of the people which was to result In
the Revolution. One of the chateaux
begun in the reign of Loulx XV. was used
by the Czar in 1901 on his visit.
In 1S06 Napoleon, who had decided to
use the castle for a palace, turned out
the rebellious students who had used It
as a school and made preparations to re
ceive his bride. Archduchess Mar,!e Lou
ise. The wedding festivities took place
In this- town, and It was here that "L'Aig
lon" was born.
An old history of the town still in man
uscript tells how the Empress used to
place the baby on the floor, where the
Emperor would be sure to find it. The
happy father would take the child up,
tease It, and then place It In front of a
mirror and tell It to behold the future
Empercr of the world.
A Disappointed American-Britisher.
South Bend., Ind., Tribune.
William Waldorf Astor is reported to be
very ill. The announcement of his sick
ness will brlpg forth little sympathy here
in America, for no man in recent years
has given the people of this country such
Just reason for cordial dislike. Mr. Astor
found America too democratic, and so,
some years ago, he became a British sub
ject. Since going to England his entire
time has been devoted to an effort to gain
royal favor. His overtures have, how
ever, met with rather Indifferent success
and it is said that he is a very much dis
appointed man. Mr. Astor was ambitious
to become a member of the British no
bility. He wanted to bear a title
commensurate with his millions. He
thought that he could buy the object of
his desire. In pursuit of this belief, he
wined and dined those of influence and
In every manner made his wish patent.
iThe career of William Waldorf Astor has
'been a negative one. It Is difficult to un
derstand his attitude.
Trsgedy of a Forsrotten Shell.
New York Times.
The Natal Mercury (South Africa) tells
the story of a Boer farmer named Mool
man, who lately found a 4.7 naval shell
lying on the veldt unexploded and took
It home to his sister. She wanted the
shell for decoration purposes, and be
gan to dig out the lyddite, and, to soften
it, poured cold water upon It. The
lyddite and water began to effervesce,
and the girl went indoors, and from the
end of the passage watched the shell,
which lay upon the doorstep. Suddenly
there was a terrific explosion, and Miss
Moolman fell dead, struck in the breast
by a piece of shell. The whole house was
wrecked, every pane of glass, every win
dow frame and every door being cast to
the ground, and most of the furniture
being upset and smashed.
A Solemn Prophecy In Politics.
Triple-Leaded Editorial Paragraph In
New Tork Sun.
The Sun craves permission to present
its humble service to the supreme pow
ers at Oyster Bay, to Messrs. Piatt and
Depew, to the new and austere hier
archy of Odell and associates, to one
Frank Wayland Higgins. the putative
Governor of the State of New York, and
to all sober-minded and self-respecting
Republicans to whose confidence it
can appear, and, with all deference and
respect, submits:
The next Governor of the State of
New York will be a Democrat.
The next Governor of the State of New
York will be the next President of the
United States.
He Won't Last That Long.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Mr. Bryan rises like a balloon In
1906, but his problem Is to land in 1908,
Horse Talk.
New York World.
Note The Bide-a-Wee Society proposes to
furnish free straw hats and free drinks to
all working horses which apply.
That suits us. See?
And here's our best to the Bide-a-Wee.
It's mighty hard lines on a decent hoes
That works all day a-bearlng his cross.
Nor ever complaining, nor going on strike,
Nor scrapping about what he doesn't like.
To have to suffer a long, long dry
"When good cool water don't come very high;
And to keep on trot to get hia work done.
With his head unprotected from a broiling sun.
So when we see
The Bide-a-Wee.
Or anybody elae.
Doing "such deeds of charity.
The horse Is with them on the spot
To give them all the pull he's got;
And whinny our thanks to tlfem and say
They're acting in a Christian way.
For a horse must look to the kind above
For a little share of human love.
Which, if they choose to disregard,
He's up against It mighty hard.
He Is Indeed!
MAY FOLLOW FAWNING.
From the Washington Evening Star.
SOME FEATURES OF
THE SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
First and f ore man t, mil the world
news by Associated Pptm, special I
correspondents and members of The
Oregonian stuff, mukinjr the fullest
and most complete record of any
Pacific Coast newspaper.
HAPPY CHILDREN AT PLAY
IN THE SUMMER'S HEAT
A warm weather round up by
Marlon MacRae. of Portland
younsters, rich, poor, and neither
rich nor poor, enjoying themselves
during the heated term dut In the
j open air under our wealth of shade
; a human story well told and well
pictured, by a staff photographer.
PORTLAND BOYS
LEARNING TO SWIM
Their teacher Is L W. Myers, an
expert In the employ of the Young
Men's Christian Association. The
most useful part of the instruction
is class-work, showing how to res
scue drowning persons and resus
citate the unconscious.
NEZ PERCES INDIANS
CELEBRATE THE FOURTH
Their manner differentiates from
the white man's, yet on the last
National holiday they recounted at
the Lapwal Agency, the brave
deeds of their fathers: illustrated
by photographs by Major Lee
Moorhouse, of Pendleton. ,
MIGHTY OCEAN RISING
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
A stupendous volume of water
from the Colorado River that can
not be checked, Is pouring Into the
Imperial Valley, destroying town,
farms and orchards. One mistake
of man promises to fill up an In
land sea that has been dry for
ages.
SONS OF EMINENT MEN
WINNING FOR 1 HEMSELVES
Four boys of presidents have
reached manhood and on their ac
count have made names respected
In this country. Running comment
by Dexter Marshall on young men
who are likely to figure large la
future America; well illustrated.
WILL TRY TO SWIM
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
Two Americans, George Kistler, of
Philadelphia. and William J.
Glover, ot Blkton, Md., are now
training for the blue-ribbon feat In
natation swimming the 20 miles of
choppy water between Dover and
Calais. Kach expects to duplicate
Captain Mathew Webb's great
stunt of 31 years ago.
SOME MIRACLES
IN MINIATURE
Alfred Benzon, a famous mind
reader. Is visiting Portland. Some
of his occult feats are simply as
tounding. He "performed" pri
vately for an Oregonian reporter,
who recorded faithfully the mental
and digital wonders.
PERRY'S FLAGSHIP TO BE
RAISED AND PRESERVED
Congress, at the last session, ap
propriated $20,000 to lift the Ni
agara out of the sand and tow it
to Erie, where It will be set up,
as a museum in the Soldiers' and
Sailors' Home. It was this war
ship under direction of Commodore
Perry that defeated the British
and drove them from Lake Erie In
1813.
RECOLLECTIONS OF
GEORGE H. WILLIAMS
The veteran Jurist had a personal
acquaintance with General W. T.
Sherman, Senator John Sherman,
Generals Sheridan. Hancock,
Thomas and Meade, and gives an
estimate of them.
SUSAN CLEGG AND HER
FRIEND MRS. LATHROP
The village philosopher goes to the
convention, but gets back the
same day. If you want to forget
the weather and other, troubles,
read her first experience In a city
bathtub.
HUMOROUS PHASES OF WOMAN
SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN
Dr. George C. Cressey, . formerly
pastor of the First Unitarian
church, writes about It from Lon
don. British equal suffragists
were making big strides toward
recognition by Parliament when
several cranks by strange antics
gave the movement a bard back
set. THE ROOSEVELT BEARS
END THEIR JOURNEY
With tomorrow's issue. Paul
Piper's Jingles and E. K. Culver's
pictures of the famous bears come
to an end. The Teddy's visit
Washington, pay their respects to
President Roosevelt, shoot up the
town, don cowboys' costumes and
leave for the far West.
BOOK REVIEWS AND NEWS
OF LITERARY FIELD
"What's going on In the world of
letters Is recorded. Among this
week's book reviews are: "The
Awakening of Helena Richie." by
Margaret Deland: "Foibles of the
Bench." by Henry S. Wilcox:
"The Life of General Hugh Mer
cer," by John F. Goolrick: "Making
Men and Women." by Emma A.
Robinson; and "Humor of Bulls
and Blunders," edited by Marshall
Brown.
SPORTS, BOTH AMATEUR
AND PROFESSIONAL
There Is practically nothing of mo
ment In sportdom that Is not to
be found In The Sunday Oregonian.
The completeness of this depart
ment Is not approached by any oth
er newspaper In the Northwest.
Spotting news from all parts of the
world 'comes to The Oregonian in
Associated Press dispatches,
SOCIETY, MUSIC AND
THE DRAMA
All of the local social happennlgs
are chronicled In these depart
ments. There Is a readable re
view of the past week, with its
weddings and various gatherings
hesldes announcements of the no
table events that are to come. Mu
sical and theatrical news is thor
oughly covered by competent writ
ers, and special attention Is given
to telling what is In store at the
different playhouses. Photographs
and sketches add to the Interest of
these pages.
TREATS IN STORE FOR
MUSICAL NEW YORK
New Yorkers are , eagerly looking
forward to what Is expected to be
the most brilliant operatic season
that an American city has ever
experienced. During the coming
Fall and Winter many of the
greatest artists of the world are to
appear at the great metropolis, be
sides the best musical organiza
tions of this country. Although
the season Is not definitely out
lined at present. It is known that
the productions will be dazzling
and stupendous. It is all told In
the usual letter from Emile Fran
ces Bauer.
HOW WASHINGTON SOCIETY
IS SPENDING THE SUMMER
With the adjournment of Congress
and the advent of the hot months,
society at the National capital are
leaving for the vacation months.
In the Washington letter this week
is some interesting chat about the
plans of Senators, Representatives
and members of the various diplo
matic corps.