Morning Oregonian., August 06, 1908, Page 4, Image 4

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, - TTTUKSDAY. AUGUST 6, 1903.
FATHER ACCUSED
OF KILLING SOUS
Mutilated and Destroyed Bod
ies, According to Story
of His Daughter.
SUSPECT DENIES IT ALL
bays Sons felmply Went Away, but
Strong Circumstantial Evidence
Is Inearthed by Coun
ty Officers.
CHESTER. 111.. Auir. 5. (Special.)
A remarkable prisoner in the County
Jail here is William flimm, a farmer,
upected of killing his two sons and
of chopping the body of one of them
to pieres and burning the flesh and
bones bit by bit. and of keeping the
mangled body of the other son three
days and nights in the house. His
daughter. 24 years old, complained
against him. She says that for three
days the body of her brother lay In a
corner behrbd the stove, with feet pro
truding half way across a doorway,
where the little girls of the family
tripped over them going in and out.
Thia daughter declares she saw her
father kill one of her brothers in the
backyard of the homestead. It was a
desperate fight, she says, and In it
three of her father's ribe were broken,
but at last he overcame his son and
crushed his skull with a hammer.
Then she watched her father drag
the body to a field, she says, and peeped
through a fence while he cut up the
body and threw the dismembered part
upon a fire of rail? and stumps until all
was burned.
Denies Story.
The father denies it all. He says
his two sons went away. One of the
sons has been mieslng since July 4 last.
The other has been gone three months.
No trace of them has been found. They
simply dropped out of sight upon the
very day their sister says they were
killed. The farm has been searched
for the bodies, but they have not been
found. A grave was found upon the
farm covered with limbs broken from
nearby tree, but when it was dug into
It was found to be empty. Two sharp
ened sticks four feet Jong were found
at the bottom of the grave.
In the house where these things are
alleged to have been done the three
daughters of Stamm are staying alone,
while the father Is In a cell. It is a
tow-celled log house, its floor bare of
rug r mat. with only a few articles
of home-made furniture. Here the fam
ily lived in squalor, the mother away
In an Insane asylum for 14 years, the
father going about In raga and the
children going barefoot.
Money Hoarded in Trunk.
In an old yellow trunk In a corner
the Sheriff found J2680 in gold and sil
ver and paper currency wrapped in a
dirty rag. And yet the three young
women of the family. 24. 15 and 14
years of age. never in all their lives
bad a new pair of shoes until the
Sheriff bought them and gave them to
the girls. They always went baretoot
Jn warm weather and wore cheap boys'
shoes in Winter. Neither of these
young women ever had anything but a
home-made dress of the poorest calico.
Neither of them ever had a hat. Neither
of them was ever In a church or at a
picnic or a show or a party. The girl
of 24 was never In school. She never
bad a beau, never went to a neighbor's
house, and the neighbors never culled
to see them. This young woman of 24
never had a bonnet or a shawl or a
clo-ik. ,
When the neighbors went to the
house after the father was arrested the
three girls, as timid as the quail which
whistle In the fields around their lonely
cabin, fled to the corn field and hid.
When they were sought they dodged
among the corn and weeds like rabbits.
They were as wild as If they lived in
a Congo jungle. And yet their home
near Modoc, is only 54 miles from t.
Louis and 18 miles from Chester, the
capital of Randolph County.
The girls were coaxed to pose for
their pictures and the eldest sat upon
the edge of a bed and bashfully told
her story. Above- her head the Lord's
Prayer. In colors, was tacked to the
logs. It was the only picture in the
cabin and the only attempt at orna
ment. There was not even a picture
carl or a book In the house.
Sitting there beneath the Lord's
Prayer, which she could not read or
understand, she pointed to the opposite
corner and "s.ild: "Frits laid over there
In that corner with his head to the wall
and his legs' sticking out across the
door. Father brought htm home at
nisht In the wagon and I helped carry
him In and lay him there. He laid
there three dajs.
"Then what became of hImT' she was
asked.
"I don't know. I helped father put
him In the wagon and he drove away."
Luira. the 15-year-old daughter, de
nies this. "It's all a lie." she said.
"Then what did become of your two
brothers?"
"I don't know." she answered. "Frltr
went to a Fourth of July picnic at Red
bud and never came back."
"And what of Charles?"
"He went fishing and never came
back."
The younprest sister cannot be in
duced lo talk.
Character Is Unlovely.
Stamm Is a scrawney man of 55. He
has i-pent his life drudging early and
late upon his farm, going ragged and
ill-kempt himself, living like a paur-er.
He shunned his neighbors and was dls
likel and shunned by them. Ho never
went to church or town meeting, never
voted and many of the people of the
villnfre of Modoc, two miles away, had
nevir seen him to know him. He was
mean, nagging and cruel to his chil
dren. The eldest is Maggie. 24. The
next was Frits. 21. Then came Charles,
IS: Laura. 15. and Lena. 14 years old.
FTIt and Charles had never been five
miles from home. Last year & neigh
bor took Frltx to a saloon In Modoc
and. when they came out the young
man. already of age, asked: "Was that
a church?"
Fritz and Charles drudged with their
tnther on the farm and knew nothing
else. The girls worked In the fields,
too, all of them helping to pile up the
' gol-J and silver that was mounting into
the thousands In the old yellow trunk.
But they did not know it. They did
not know, until the Sheriff showed It
to them that there was money in the
trunk that was guarded by an iron pad
lock. The neighbors" teli stories of how
Stamm beat his boys. He had a vicious
temper. Joseph Davie tells that last
April, when stamm and his son Charles
were putting new shingles on their
barn, the father stood up and In a rage
threw a hatchet with all his might at the
boy. It barely missed him. And that
was only a few days oerore ine aa .
dtsap'peared.
In addition to his own farm, hidden
among the tall pecan and oak trees,
Stamm rented a piece of corn land in
the rich river bottom. Early last July
he and Fritz were camped in a tent
down there working -in- the growing
corn. The morning of July 4 Fritx was
seen walking from his home toward the
camp on the rented place. So far as
can be learned, he was never seen alive
again, and the' neighbors were so little
used to seeing him around that nobody
Inquired after him until his sister Mag
gie told her mother's brother that he
had been killed. This rumor, went
through the neighborhood, but Stamm
was such a moody man, and his family
were so "queer." that no one investi
gated" until three' months . ago, when
Charles disappeared and Maggie again
went to her uncle with the story that
he had been killed, too.- Then the uncle
put an advertisement in the country
paper, asking for Information about
Frita and Charles, and this, increased
the gossip.
All this time the father of the miss-,
ing boys went about his work, refusing
to answer questions about his sons,
making no inquiries about them, and
seeming not to care whether they were
found or not.
A week ago boys picking blackberries
on Stamm'a rented place In the bottom
land came upon a heap of brush piled
carefully as if to hide something be
neath. They pulled it away and found
what seemed to be a grave. It was six
feet long and two and one-half feet
wide, and the earth that had been filled
Into It had sunken six Inches, just as
a grave or like excavation always does.
This was reported in the village and
Sheriff -Henry Burns was sent for. He
Judged, from the examination he made,
that the brush covering the grave had
been broken from surrounding trees
about a year ago, or about the time
Fritx disappeared, and the earth irr it
would have sunk about as it was in
that .time.
Sheriff Opens Grave.
The grave was only 40 feet from the
site of Stamm's camp when he and
Frltx were working there a year ago.
The Sheriff dug into the grave. It was
four feet deep, the original .outline of it
easily discerned from the surrounding
clay that had been undisturbed, and at
the bottom he found two stakes each
four feet long and each sharpened to a
point. But there were no bones or
traces of a body. The Sheriff went to
Stamm and told him of the grave and
that he had opened It.
"You didn't find anything In it, did
you?" asked Stamm.
Stamm was taken to Jail. No charge
has yet been placed against him. The
Sheriff says he took him Into custody
fr two reasons: To get him away
from his daughters, so they might talk
without Intimidation from him. and to
protect him from mob violence, which
was threatened.
If the story told by Maggie Stamm is
true the body of Fritz remained at the
camp injhe bottoms two days, and was
then taken to the farm hquse and laid
there three days, in the hottest part of
July, and was then taken away, per
haps to be dumped In the river.
Body In Bedroom.
And if the story Is true, the three
girls slept for three nights in the same
room in which the body of their
brother lay In a corner, unshrouded
and unblessed.
"Did you sleep any while the body
lay there?" Maggie Stamm was asked.
"Yes. we slept, and father slept in
the next room."
If her story Is true, the family arose
as usual each morning and ate break
fa, ignoring the stark figure' in the
corner, and went about the day's work
as If the little log cabin had nothing
to Mde. Maggie tells this stcry of how
Cha-les was killed May 3 last:
"Charlie went fishing and did not get
home In time to milk the cows. Father
had to do It. and It made him mad
When Charlie came home father took
after him. They fought in the back
yard and father hit him In the head
with a hammer."
She says that the body was put In a
box and hidden In the house for two
days, and then the father took it out
at night and burned It.
FEAR FRENCH ACGRESSION
GERMAN'S DISSATISFIED OVER
OCCUPATION OF ASEMMUR..
Regard It as Permanent Foothold
' In Morocco Report De
presses Bourse.
BERLIN. Aug. R. (Special.) A
great deal of dissatisfaction prevails
here over the occupation of Asemmur,
Morocco, by the French troops, as It Is
believed to Indicate permanency. . The
Bouise has been depressed by the re
port. The stock market, and, indeed,
wider circle, have also been disturbed
by reports which have simultaneously
been circulated from various quarters
to the effect that, before Prince von
Buclsw's departure for Nordeney, the
Imperial Chancellor repeatedly . held
long consultations with Ilerr von Hol
stein. who was for many years the
most influential member of the staff of
the Foreign Office. It is Implied that,
as a result of these conversations, the
German government. In any question
which may arise with regard to Mo
rocco, will no longer negotiate with
France in a moderate and amicable
spirit. ,
The uneasiness on the Bourse and in
other circles in which these reports found
credence was Intensified by accounts of
a speech which was delivered to 10.00J
non-Socialist workmen by Professor
Lamprecht in a Leipzig beer garden last
Sunday. Dr. Lamprecht. who Is profes
sor of history at Leipzig University and
has written a book entitled "What Is
History?" gave what he considered to be
an account of the development of the
great colonial powers, and Imputed to
Great Britain and France a desire to pre
vent the legitimate expansion of the Ger
man Empire. Although his arguments
were threadbare and typical of the Pan
Germanism of which Leipzig has long
been a center, they did not fail to excite
the enthusiasm of his audience. In his
opinion the destiny of Germany la In
volved In the Macedonian and Morocco
questions, and if the German people
mean to prove victorious in any conflict
which may be Impending, the whole na
tion miiFt become Imbued with a sens?
of the Importance of German interests
in those two spheres.
He added that the time had come when
it ought to be publicly proclaimed that
the next few years would be extremely
critical for Germany, since questions of
vital Importance to the empire and to it
position In the world would call for so
lution. He concluded with the words:
"We do not want to take anything from
anybody, but may the devil take any
body who would take anything from us."
The Bourse appears to apprehend that
the agitators who are at work In the
press and on the platform are under the
impression that they are cairylng out in
the letter the spirit of Emperor William's
recent appeals to the nation.
Finnish Diet Opens.
HELS1NGFORS. Aug. 5. The new Fin
nish Diet was formally opened at the
palace today by Governor-General Boeck
man with the customary- ceremonials. .
FIGHT CENTERS
ABOUT HUGHES
Renomination .Necessary to
Bring New York Into Line
for Taft and ..Sherman.
IS POPULAR WITH PEOPLE
Defeat of Their Favorite Would
Place State In "Doubtful Col-", "
nmn Bryan Needs It to
Wln Presidency.
CHTCAGO. Aug. 6. (Raymond In the
Chicago Tribune.) Decidedly the most
Important thing In politics at the pres
ent time is the movement on foot to
induce Governor Hughes to consent to
run for re-election in New York. For
a long time it was supposed that "Jim
mie" Wadsworth or Herbert Parsons
or some of the old guard in the Repub
lican organization would be the candi
date, but events have shaped them
selves rapidly lately and the chances
are that Hughes will appeal once more
to the people In his own behalf.
The result can hardly be doubtful.
When he .ran before he was unknown,
at least as an executive. He had made
a splendid reputation in conducting the
Insurance Inquiry, but that was no as
surance to the people that he would
make a particularly good governor. He
was a lawyer to the core and at first
found It difficult to make headway in a
popular Campaign. He was up against
a combination which, whatever may
be thought about it in other respects,
was certainly a powerful one from a
political point of view.
Cold, almost frigid with his public
Intensely earnest, full of strange polit
ical righteousness, and actually out of
touch with the machine element in his
own party. Hughes had a hard row to
hoe in the opening of his campaign.
Opposed to him was a daring, defiant
and politically unscrupulous candidate,
who spent money like water and who
did not hesitate to appeal to a danger
ous element In the community. From
the beginning the result was In doubt.
The laboring classes, and more partic
ularly the tenement house denizens,
were with Hearst to a remarkable de
gree, and followed him blindly, be
lieving he would be able to accomplish
all the vague reforms he promised the
people. The dominant element In the
Democracy was behind their candidate,
and had It not been for one thing
Hearst might have won.
. Victory Won by Roosevelt.
Roosevelt made Hughes governor. If
he did not actually elect him, he at
least dealt a staggering blow to his
opponent. Not until Root made his
famous speech directly charging Hearst
with responsibility for the murder of
McKinlev did the law and order ele
ment of New York begin to take cour
age. Up to that time, which was Just
before the election, business men were
frightened at the outlook and began to
speculate upon the fantastic perform
ances which were almost sure to take
place at Albany In case of the election
of the Independence League candidate,
who had made sr many nebulous prom
ises of reform that he would be com
pelled. If elected, to do strange things.
As it was. Hughes was elected by a
nominal plurality of about 58,000 over
the straight Democratic vote. Hearst,
however, had about 17.000 yotes of the
Independence League ticket, so that
Hughes' real plurality was only about
40.000, which Is not too great a measure
to be accorded to the intervention of
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root.
Since then great things have hap
pened In New York. The new Govern
or, elected alone on his ticket and sur
rounded by a nest of Democratic state
officials, found himself almost imme
diately confronted with a fight in
his "own party. What he achieved
under those circumstances can
hardly be over-estimated. If he had
done nothing else than secure
the passage of the public utilities law,
the name of Charles E. Hughes would
have been writen -high up on the scroll
of those men who have done great
deeds for the people.
From the day of his election until
today he has been at odds with the Re
publican state machine. He was fought
openly by many of the leaders of his
own party and yet he won his fight by
the simple device of appealing to the
Temple. He used no patronage, resorted
to no threats, and even declined the,
aid of the National administration,
thereby causing President Roosevelt's
friends to call him ungrateful.
Whenever he was confronted by an
adverse majority in the Legislature,
generally Involving a combination of
politically unscrupulous Republicans
and Democrats, he. sat quietly In the
executive chamber and penned a soul
stirring message. Such tactics soon
put the people behind him and there
never has been any time when his re
election, if he desired one, could be
considered in doubt.
Wants Hughes o Run Again.
Under sucli circumstances it Is no
wonder that National Chairman Hitch
cock has been holding conferences in
New York with Herbert Parsons, chair
man of the New York county commit
tee; William I- Ward, National com
mitteeman: Tim Woodruff, the head of
the state committee, and other leaders
for the express purpose of securing the
consent of Hughes to run again.
That he would be a vote-getter there
can be no doubt, no matter who may
be pitted against him by the Democrats
and with his name on the ticket, com
bined with that of Jim Sherman, the
element of state pride would be so
great. In all probability, as to give New
York to the Republicans both on the
state and National tickets.
It has often been figured out that
Bryan cannot possibly win without
New York, and this is probably a true
statement, because that great common
wealth possesses overshadowing im
portance In American politics. Of the
total of 483 votes in the electoral col
lege. New York has 39, or approximate
ly R per cent.
When one eliminates the solid outh
on the Democratic side and the sure
Republican, states of the North on the
other, the 39 votes of New York come
close to determining the election. They
count for more than Indiana. Nebraska,
Maryland and West Virginia, four so
called doubtful states, put together.
In 1896 when Bryari was at the high
water mark of his popularity he se
cured 46 electoral votes from the strict
ly Northern states of California, Colo
rado. Idaho. Montana, Nebraska, Ne
vada. South Dakota, Utah, Washing
ton. Wyoming and Kansas. And yet he
lost the election by a majority of 95 in
the electoral college.
In 1900. when he was again a candi
date. Bryan secured only 13 votes from
all the strictly Northern states, and
these came from the four mountain
commonwealths of Colorado. Idaho.
Montana and Nevada. At no time did
he" make any Impression on New York
state.
With Sherman on the Republican
National ticket and with Hughes
as the Republican candidate for
Governor, it seems almost im
possible to believe that, the . Ne-'
braska leader can have any better
luck this year than in the two pre
ceding elections, when he was a can-
didate. " 1
New York Normally Doubtful.
Nevertheless. ' New : York may fairly;
claim to be a doubtful state under nor-,
mal circumstances. It gave its elec-;
toral vote to the Democracy In 1868,'
1876, 188 and In 1892. In the Inter-i
vening Presidential - elections it was!
Republican, even in 1888. when Grover
Cleveland was a candidate. " Four years:
ago Roosevelt carried the state by the
phenomenal plurality of 175.622,.. and,
yet only a few years before he had nar-;
rowly escaped- defeat when he was run
ning for Governor. ' - T ' 1 ' :
- It Is evident-to -everybody there was
a tremendous stay-at-home vote in New
York state two years ago, when all the
Democratic- candidates -were elected,
with the single exception of .Hearst.
These minor candidates were success
ful by pluralities ranging from about
6000 to about 11.000. and Hearst ac
tually had a larger percentage of tile
total vote cast than Parker received
two years before.
Roosevelt polled 110.000 votes more
than Hughes did two years later at the
conclusion of one of the most exciting
campaigns in the history of the state.
With two popular local candidates
and with a full vote of .approximately
2.000.000. Taft and Hughes ought to
be able to clear up not less than 100,
000 plurality in New York state next
November. If the present estimates of
the Republican leaders count for any
thing. BUSIES' STRANGE ESCAPE
MARY M'GANN'S PREMONITION
SAVES THEIR LIVES.
Removes From Danger-Point Just
Brjfore Canopy Over Infant
Asylum Falls.
BOSTON.Aug. 5. Forty babies mirae
ulo'usly escaped serious injuries when the
canvas canopy over the roof of St. Mary's
Infant Asylum, Dorchester, blew down
in yesterday's gale.
As if forewarned, Miss Mary McGdnn,
superintendent of the nurses, ordered the
children removed , from the west side of
the roof, where most of the damage was
done, only two minutes before the props
gave way. With a baby In her arms,
MIsh McGann was hit on the shoulder by
a falling prop. Another prop smashed
against a basket where a baby lay asleep
and pushed it .ahead a foot, but did not
disturb the child.
On the east side of the roof 50 babies
lay in baskets, but the falling canvas
did not . touch them, because of a long
cross-beam that chanced to be over them.
Only two years ago the canopy was
erected on the roof, which is the highest
point in Dorchester, after many sacrifices,
and the Sisters of Charity rejoiced as they
saw the children all healthy through hav
ing plenty of fresh air. Now the children
will have to remain indoors a large part
of the time.
Miss Mary McGann, who turned out to
be a heroine, explained to a reporter the
details of the misfortune. She said:
"I noticed a storm rising in the north
west and soon it rained heavily. In order
that the Infants might not be sprinkled I
ordered their removal from places where
the rain appeared to be blowing In.
"A half-dozen nurses were quickly at
work, some shoving the baskets to the
east side of the roof and others taking
them down to the fifth floor.
"Scarcely had the nurses completed that
task when the gale blew more fiercely.
Suddenly the props began to give way.
The fence supporting the props blew In.
Then the whole framework crashed down,
bricks flying from the chimney and wires
becoming everywhere tangled. Running
for safety, I was hit by a prop on the
shoulder. The blow caused a good-sized
black and blue spot, but it is not serious.
"What confusion! Nurses ran here and
there in fear that the babies would be
killed. Some of the children yelled from
the novelty of tne situation. I had a little
boy In my arms and actually threw him
to one of the nurses, who caught him. A
beam struck one baby's basket, but some
how didn't injure the child. Then came
minutes of suspense. We were afraid
every instant the whole canopy would
crash down upon us before we could get
the babies to places of safety.
"Plucklly the nurses kept at their work.
They were Misses Mary Hildreth. Jennnle
Igo. Mary O'Reilley. May Adams. Annie
Hart, Adelaide McGregor and Annie Bar
ry. Dr. Scannell was on hand doing his
bast to quiet the excitement."
EXILES MOTHM-UW
ALFONSO PROVES HIMSELF
BOSS IN ROYAL HOUSEHOLD.
Hot-Headed Young Husband's Ac
tion Approved by Queen Victoria.
Mamma Battenberg Goes.
PARIS. .Aug. 5. (Special.) Poor
King Alfonso, of Spain,-has discovered,
to his sorrow, that even in royal fam
ilies mothers-in-law are no better than
they are pictured in the comic papers.
The mother of Queen Victoria, Princess
Battenberg, endeavored, in keeping
with mother-in-law traditions, to run
the household of the young couple at
Madrid. At first the Jars In married
life were slight, but daily they in
creased In violence until the King put
his foot down and gave bis mother-in-law
an exhibition of royal temper
which would have done Justice to his
relative by marriage. King Edward of
England. The quarrel was tempestu
ous and the -compliments exchanged
entirely outside the book of court con
versation, so the mother-in-law sud
denly packed her trunks and left the
palace, vowing she would never re
turn. This happened several weeks ago.
but so strained are the relations be
tween herself and her royal son-in-law
that not even during her daugh
ter's recent illness did she visit her.
King Alfonso, who is as stubborn as
a mule, is determined to have his way
In his household and will tolerate no
Interference from any of his wife's
relatives. The young Queen, who is
greatly in love with her hot-headed
husband, is entirely on his side and re
fuses to see her mother until she prom
ises never to consider herself anything
but a guest when at Madrid.
NO BETS ON BASEBALL
American League Will Stamp Out
Gambling on Games.
CHICAGO, Aug. 5. Efforts to stamp out
gambling in baseball Immediately will bs
made by the American League. President
Johnson, of the league. It is announced
tody. . will issue a "bulletin to every
Ame.-lcan League club calling attention
to the prevalence of betting and asking
each club owner to enforce to the letter
There is no age when a man is
so particular about his clothes as
when -he "begins to take notice."
There is no Firm that is more
particular than we are about the
make, style and fit of our suits
for YOUNG men.
There is no other store In this
section where young men can get
all the new kinks in dress, be
cause we are the only store that
has actually a Resident Buyer In
New York who constantly sends
us the newest things:
Here are suits that are Just "the
real thing" for young men at J15.
16S -170 THIRD STREET.
the section in the league constitution pro
hibiting betting.
President Johnson figures that in order
to discourage the gamblers it may be
necessary to place under arrest every one
caught making bets at a bail park. If the
city police cannot be entrusted to enforce
the ordei he' will recommend that the club
owners assign a force of private detec
tives to ferret out the bettors and those
receiving bets.
"There is no question but the gamblers
who have been put out of business by
adverse legislation against the turf have
flocked to baseball," said Mr. Johnson.
"It has become an evil which must be
nipped now if the game is to be kept
clean. Of course, I am powerless to do
anything against the hand bookmakers
around town outside the ball grounds, and
that is up to the authorities of the dif
ferent cities.
"Gambling inside the American League
grounds around the circuit, however,
must be suppressed at once."
QUAINT FRENCH FARM
Charming Old Bourbonnals Threat
' ened by Scientific Agriculture. -
Vance Thompson in Outing.
It was years ago that I first knew
the farm the farm and the broad, rich
plains of the Bourbonnals. A land of
grain and flax and fruit and cattle. A
lane of great white bulls; and the race
of men Is sober and strong. This Is the
real France, the true France, the France
of the center. Industrious and conserva
tive, melancholy and good. In the years I
have gone back there very often to the
old farm on the Ourcq, for they are all
friends of mine, the old farmer, and
the old lad3 who do the work; the
blithe girls and the old women who
sun themselves in the doorways; and
the great white bulls, I have been with
them in harvest time, when the grain
Is homeward borne in the big. blue
painted cartL-; and in the windy Au
tumn, when the sowers go forth to
cast the seed into the earth; we have
danced together at the village fair on
the fete day of Saint Roch and made
the stations of the cross: we have
watched together through the Nights
of Ghosts a fearful night and eaten
reverently at Christmastlde the little
cakes which are the bread of the good
Lord.
Paris Is all very well; here one may
live and do his work in the world: but
the best of it is that a road leads hence
to the Bourbonnals, to the low stone
farmhouse, to Pierre driving his oxen
afield "Get on, Charolals, ho! Limou
sin, oho! oho!" and old Jeanne knit
ling In the sun. The life is poor and
coarse and hard. The old province of
the Bourbons is not the laughing
France of the olive and the vine; but It
is the true France, the best France,
and wnen you know it well you will
agree with me that it holds the hope
and the future of the race. In the
Bourbonnais more than anywhere else,
the peasants have been able to keep
their small holdings: they are peasant
proprietors. Little by little, however,
their lands are slipping from them into
the hands of the great exploiters; the
economic future is dark, but no farm
ers save those of America are mak
ing so brave a stand for independence.
I do not doubt that the Bourbouichon
is fighting against fate. Scientific ag
riculture, machinery, farm laborers'
unions, politics, socialism and the
devil are all conspiring to destroy the
Independence of the man of the soil, to
enlist him In the Industrial rank and
file, to subject him to the new
feudality.
Old customs and old usages will per
ish; where the white oxen went afield
the steam harvester will rumble and
snort; in the meantime Pierre and his
farm are typical of France.
In Naples we have no races like England,
no casino like Monte carlo, no. motor omni
buses, no motor races, no .'lhlllt, no uf
fraitettes. no dlrectolre gowns, no conver
sation, no norhlna:. The curious thins; is
that in Naples one c-fi be happier than
anywhere else. II Maltlnu.
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These walnuts are a sample or nuts of this year's growth. on lanas being
planted by T. Wlthycombe on his
SILVER HILL WALNUT PLANTATION
only miles from Portland. Will soil you 10 acres more or less planted, rared for
for six years, at only the real value of implanted land now. It w 111 th-n be a
pood commercial proposition at J3000.00 per acre. Have a few more tracts left.
Real, first-class walnut laid is scarce.
See T. WITHYCOMBR. OOfl Commercial Bloek. Portland. Oregon.
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