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FDTTRELL LOSES TO HIS TEAM-MATE Johnson Scores Decisive Vic- . tory in State Tennis Tourney. FIRST SET GOES TO LOSER In Second and Third Sets, However, Smaller Man "Come Into His Own" and Takes Both at 6-1. 6-4 vnckersham Victor. Outclassing his opponent at almost every stage of the game, showing a steadiness seldom witnessed In a youngster. William Johnson, of San Francisco, one of the trio of California players taking part In the state tourney at the Multnomah courts, yesterday de cisively defeated his doubles partner in a three-set match, tne nrst 01 wnicn he lost 7-6- The second and third sets went to Johnson in easy fashion, 6-1 and 6-4. Ella Fottrell, also of San Francisco, whom many had picked to be runner up, at least. In this tournament, was the victim of Johnson's wiles. The victor played a winning game from the start and it was nip and tuck in the deuce set It was pretty tennis and anybody's victory till the last point had been played and Fottrell, on own service, won the much-needed seventh game. Fottrell Takes Flight. From the opening of the second set with Johnson serving. Fottrell seemed to take an aviation trip and he never did "return to his own." His nerve was still there, but his steady, pains taking stroke, and true eye had ap parently left him. Be that as it may he couldn't find Johnson's serve or his return and repeatedly banged the ball outside the court. This occurred no less than a clean dozen times to five recorded against Johnson. With his victory in the sec ond set, allowing his opponent only one game. Johnson's confidence held stronger than ever and he clearly out shone his teammate, also from San Francisco way. Ten "outs" were scored against Fot trell this last set as against Johnson's seven, the set going 6-4. It was beautiful tennis, but It was clearly shown that Johnson had the finer points of the game well up his sleeve and when It cam to the keenest kind of headwork the smaller lad "was there.'" His placing was almost perfect, his service true and strong enough and sis eye faultless. Table Gives Results). Table showing play in Fottrell-John. son match, follows: Outs. Passes. Net. Doubles. Service. Johnson 23 24 .".2 t 0 Fottrell 34 25 37 S 1 Another match In the men's singles which attracted unusual attention was that between City Champion Wicker sham and James Shives, one of the Irvington Club's best. Wlckersham proved conclusively that he still has the strength, the service and the return that has always been his and had he been playing on a clay court, to which he is better acquainted, he would have put up a better game than he did. As it was, he won, though not till, after a hard fight. Among the women's matches that was played in the morning between Miss Campbell and Miss Parker, both of Portland, was one well worth see ing. As this is Miss Parker's first tournament appearance, she has not yet acquired her tournament nerve, though she did put up a good, hard fight, even though she lost by the scores of 6-2, 6- 2. Miss Campbell is playing a won derful game this year and has a good chance to meet the present title hold er. Miss Stella Fording, in the challenge round. New Talent Saovrs. If nothing more it might be said here that the Oregon state this year has done much already. It has shown that two coming tennis players among the women of Portland are the Misses Parker and Sinclair. Of the afternoon matches among the fair sex the doubles between Mrs. Judge and Miss Campbell and Miss Fox and Mrs. Northrup. proved unusually exciting going three sets, the latter team winning 7-5, 5-7, -2. It was a great match. Testerday's results follow: Harrington best Humphrey. 6-8. 6-3 (con solation): Kelly beat Edgar, default (con solation); Miss Valleau and Fottrell . beat Mlsa Fordlns: and Shlvea. 6-3. B-4: Miss Bean and Gosa beat Miss Fox and K. Smith. 0-7 7-5: Mlsa Byron and wlckersham heat Mr. Northrup and Stewart. -3. 8-2: V.:m l-ampbell beat Miss Parker. 6-2. 6-2: Wlrkersham beat Shlvea 6-1. 6-1: Wilder heat Van I-odnrT-STIM: Stewart beat Knud son II-2. 6-3 (consolation: McCormlck beat r--her 6-1 6-2 (consolation): Ewlng b?at Wakenian 6-2. 6-2: Miss Fording and Miss Vall-au heat Miss Sinclair and Miss Ropor. 7- 5 H-2: Miss Fox and Mrs. Northrup beat Miss Campbell and Mrs. Judse. 7-3.. 5-7. -::: Johnson beat Fottrell. 5-7. 6-1. 6-4: Van Loan and Rosenfeld beat Katx and niea. default: Frohman beat Dunne, de fault (consolation); Ladd beat McAlpln. de fault (consolation): Ewlng and Brewster beat Kelly nd Bent, default: Miss Byron beat Miss Bean. 6-4. 6-3; K. Smith beat (Gilbert. 9-7. 6-0 (consolation); Bilderback beat Katx. 4-6. 6-0. 6-3. Schedule for Today. 9:50 A- M. Miss Campbell vs. Mrs. North-' rU l'o A. M- Miss Gosa and Miss Bean va. Miss Bent and Miss Thayer. II A M. Bllderbock va Wlckersham. Miss Fox and Mrs. Northrup va. Mlsa Par ker and Miss Chamberlain. Miss Valleau vs. Mlas Byron. Kelly va. Gill (consolaUon. p M Richardson vs. Johnson. Gosa and tVlckersbam vs. Shlves and Elton. Mrs. Judge vs. Miss Sinclair (consolation). V m Ladd vs. K- Smith (consolation. 3 -.6 p" M Mlsa Bean and Gosa vs. Miss Rvron and Wlckersham. Mlsa Valleau and Fottrell vs. Miss Parker and Johnson, Mc Cormick vs. Stewart (consolation). 4 -.u p m Miss Bean vs. Mtsa Fox (con solation)': Johnson and Fottrell vs. Rosen feld. Froham vs. Harrlgan (consolation). THE GERMAN P0ST0FF1CE An Knslij-hman's Playful Hit at Teuton Efficiency. V. Harris Peane in Wide World Mag azine. The postofflces in Germany are pe culiar institutions. They are a far sighted peo'ple. the Germans, and they allow for expansion. If there are any postofflces In the country of less than three stories. I must have overlooked them. Every floor is divided Into about four departments, and every de partment has about a dozen offices. In som.e of the smaller towns, where business Is not very brisk, the staff consists of one official. You have to make an appointment with him if you want to be served. Entering on the ground floor, you run round and tap with your money at every pigeon-hole until he answers. Tou then ask him for a stamp, whereupon he orders you to go to No. 1 pigeon-hole and wait there till he comes. You wait patiently for about five minutes, and then he pops his head out of No. 2 and -vants to know if you've gone to sleep. When von ask for a five-cent stamp, he says: -Oh. I thought It was a penny one you wanted." and instructs you to try at No. 7. At No. 7 he probably discovers he has run out of five-cent stamps. and you have to go to windows No. 1 and No. 11 and get two two-cent ones and a one-cent. By this time you are getting quite . i i t .. n-li .n .nn aak htm where the telegraph office Is, he will probably get out his guide-book and hunt the place out for you. He may even offer I o Ll.iv rr jy " -' telegraph clerk as well, and haa got to get there enynow, in uruer w to you. The Germans themselves, when they go to buy a stamp, make a day of It and take their lunch with them. It is i. - . .Irhl en mO that mnth'T quite av jj - and a group of children sitting on the stairs, eating tneir oreaa w.na mubas and WOnaermu . iinmoi w- member them when he . comes bac-t with the stamp. POE HELD UNAMERICAN BRITISH CRITIC SATS HE WAS SPIRITUAL FOREIGNER. Antbor Declares That Whitman's Writings Are in ' Strong Con trast to Predecessor. LONDON, July 11. (Special.) Re valuations of the work of several American authors form a conspicuous portion of "All Manner of Folk." a new book that is shortly to appear from the pen of Holbrook Jackson. This writer's study of Bernard Shaw and other works have made good his claim to be considered one of the most penetrating English critics of the pe riod. He combines the business man s hold on the practical affairs of life and the vision of the poet, qualities that an well displayed in the article on "Edgar Allan Poe." He says. "The works of Allan Poe are the least American of all the out standing literary works of the United States. Although born in America, of American parents, Poe was a spiritual foreigner In that land, and he never became naturalized. I sometimes fancy that America collected Poe as Ameri cans love to collect antiquities from the Old World; he is her first old master. ... He was the first of the English speaking decadents." No writer stands in stronger artistic contrast to Poe than Walt Whitman, whom Holbrook Jackson enthusiastic ally appraises. "Of all American writ ings his are the most native: other American writers are native because, having been born in America, they write about American thlnga when they might, with slight reservations, have produced much the same work in any other country; he is American In attitude and idea, the Inner vision of the United States striving for expres sion. His poems are Intended to be preludea to living, inducements to a strong and free existence." Some wise things are also freshly said about Henry David Thoreau, who has a strong and loyal following in England. "He possessed the spirit of the boy, backed by all the wisdom of the ages, and he learnt how to taste all the stars and all the heavens in a crust of bread." Whistler's picture of hla mother Is passed under review In the art section of "All Manner of Folk." and an ac count la given of Holbrook Jackson's meeting with Jo Davidson, the Ameri can sculptor. In his studio In the Boule vard Edgar Qulnet, Paris. "I had enough of the Beaux Arts In three weeks," Jo explained In speaking of his training. "What I wanted was life: they offered me antiquities." And this is how Jackson sums up the American sculptor "Jo Davidson is a representative of the new individual ism. He sings his songs In bronze and creates tone poems in clay in his own way." REFORM BILL SHARP ENGLISH MEASURE CONTAINS DRASTIC PROVISIONS. In One Sweep 28 Antiquated Laws Are Repealed and 44 Others Are Somewhat Slashed. LONDON, July 13. (Special.) The new electoral reform bill. Just intro duced by the Liberal government, cuts right to the root of present methods in the old country. At one sweep it repeals 28 existing statutes and par tially repeals 44 others. That fact alone is sufficient to rouse the oppo sition to activity, for there Is nervous ness over so drastic an extension of democratic government. How the measure is to be got through puzzles even those in the confidence of Premier Asqulth. for the session is loaded already with the home rule bill and the disestablishment of the Welsh Church MIL But as such a measure as this can very well be run close up to a. dissolution and In fact usually is so arranged It may be taken for granted that the Premier has his plans fully laid. It embodies all the proposals made by radical reformers for years past. Under present conditions voters have to be owners, occupiers or lodgers whose holding comes up to a certain annual value. They only secure Inclu sion on the register of voters by a cumbersome system that entails great expense on the party organizations and often keeps the voters waiting two years before he can exercise the fran chise. At the same time property- owners are eligible wherever they have property, so that there are men who have as many as SO votes, most of which they can cast If the election days are spread over a considerable period, as usually happens in England. The universities return nine members, quite apart from the towns In which the col leges are.. This representation oi tne universities it is proposed to abolish. Under these new proposals all men will be eligible at the age of 21; they will be Qualified for voting by six months' residence In a district, and the City Clerks and local authorities will be responsible for the maintenance oi the register. Every property-owner will have to declare where he will ex ercise his own v6te and if he attempts to vote more than once he will be li able to a penalty of $1000. The bill is calculated to knock 250. 000 plural votes off the existing reg isters and to add 2.500.000 of those not hitherto eligible. A large number of male household servants, among others. are for the first time to be qualified. As most of the plural votes are con sidered to be Conservative It will be seen that the passage of the measure ought to help the Liberals to keep in power. In addition, the vexed question of admitting women on the same terms is to be raised again in the deliberations on the motion of a private member. And as a necessary corollary of the hill there will be a redistribution of seats, for since the last electoral shuf fle there has been such growth in some places and such shrinkage In others that representation Is wholly out of proportion today. For instance, while Romford has an electorate or mnj sa.ooo It has only one member, the same as Whitehaven with an electorate of only S050. A rearrangement under the new proposals would reduce the num ber of members. The home rule bill does the same, so if both the Irish measure and this electoral reform bill are adopted the next House of Com- ons will have 600 instead oi ooo mem bers, GERMAN SUBJECTS CLAIM PROTECTION All Classes Complain of Com petitors or Unfavorable Conditions in Trade. GOVERNMENT IS CALLED ON Several Organizations Have Secured Concessions and ' Legislation Favorable to Trade Others Demand Like Assistance. BERLIN, July 1J. (Special.) A feature of Germany's protection and state regulation Is that these create specific class conflicts In addition to the matter-of-fact industrial conflicts, and that the class conflicts, like the industrial conflicts, are always settled by fresh state Interference. The fin ishing manufacturer wants protection against the high prices of the trusts, which sell him dear material; and the townsman wants protection against the high prices of the agriculturist; and these conflicts go on without regard to the wealth or poverty of Individuals. But in the class scale, between dif ferent categories of wealth, there Is an other struggle going on; and each In terest appeals to the state to protect It by measures which often impair the general efficiency of production and distribution. The most vigorous of these Interests at present is the middle class, the "Mlttelstand," which means not the professional classes but the middle and small retail tradesmen, the clerk and poorer official, and the large army of skilled workers and craftsmen who carry on their work independent ly or as employers of small numbers. All three classes are now deep In what Is called the "Middle-Class Movement." They are fighting nominally against the capitalists above ana tne wage earners below; but among themselves their Interests conflict, and the only feature which unites them is the com mon demand that the state shall pro tect them by means of restrictive and prohibitory legislation, by means of punitive class taxation. The "middle-class" revolt among the retail tradesmen Is at present active. The revolters are organized In a con siderable number of powerful leagues, of which the "Middle-Class Union" is the best known. Their programme Is to war "against the abuses of mobile capital and against the mass attack of the Social-Democratic workmen." Their chief work Is against the capitalistic concentration of retail trading: and for that reason the "Middle-Class move ment" has a strongly anti-Semitic tinge. The middle-class retail busi nesses complain that they are going to the wall. In truth, the number of Independent retail businesses has in creased In the last 30 years at three times the rate of the population, so that It is over-competition of their own kind that the complainants suffer from. The Increase in the number of retail businesses on capitalistic lines also does them harm. Retailers Hit at Capital. The retailers have a programme di rected mainly against capital and against -outsiders. At first they de manded state restriction, heavy taxa tion, or prohibition of co-operative sup ply unions; but of late the movement has taken the form of a demand for legislation against large general shops, and especially against "universal pro viders.' Other measures demanded are: Lower taxation for the "middle-class," etiean credit for retailers and retail trade chambers. The whole movement is directed against competition. The demand is seriously made that taxa tion shall be Increased In proportion a the tradesmen cuts hla profit on lnr dividual articles.- By this means the big tradesmen would either be crushed out of existence or would have to raise his margin of profit. Naturally, tne de mand Is also made for the suppression Af tat stiil municipal trading. The "middle class" retail movement has had considerable success with Its demand for state Interference. In 10 It secured an amendment compelling co-operative retail societies In Prussia to pay Income tax, even when they do business only with their own members. Another success was the legal limita tion of the hawking business to cer tain products: and the enforcement of other restrictions intended to raise dif ficulties against hawking. The great triumph, however, was the Imposition in Prussia and in Bavaria of a special tax on department shops and bazaars. In Prussia the tax is paid by all shops which trade In more than four speci fied groups of goods, if their annual turnover exceeds $100,000. The tax Is a progressive, one, rising from 1 per cent of the turnover. If the trader with intent to evade the tax organizes his business in separate shops he must pay I per cent on the turnover, lrrespect i.. f ih amount. In Bavaria the tax rises from 0.5 to t per cent on the turnover. . The "middle class iravuer. i ilk. in mmm this tax Increased. The department retailers call it "the garrotting tax," and the consumer, middle class or not. complains that It keeps up prices and hampers efficient distribution. Movesaeat Aatl-Semltle. The "middle class" hand workers and .r,n,m.n r also strongly organized In order to get state protection against competition. Their largest sjkkisuu". the "Verband deutscher Gewerbever elne," has 1400 branches. This move ment is also in part anti-Semitic, inas much as the modern Idea of free prac tice of trades and crafts Is denounced as "Judo-Liberal" In origin. The state. It is held, should legislate to restore compulsory membership of guilds; should compel aprentlceshlp and ex amination, and enforce other measures in order to prevent competition from the poorer outside classes. Proposals of this kind have been before the Bundesrat, and about JO years ago It was the opposition of the Bundeerat which prevented the passage of a Prus sian Minister's Bill establishing com pulsory guild membership and appren ticeship. This bill proposed to limit by periodical decision of the Bundesrat the number of apprentice In each trade. Later the Prussian Government pro posed a bill establishing compulsory guilds for the whole empire, and other wise regulating and restricting mem bership of the skilled trades: but the project fell owing to opposition from the South German governments. In the end a law was passed establishing a system of "Handworkers' Chambers," analogous to the existing Chambers of Commerce, maintained out of local finances, and with the same semi-official character. The Chambers were giv en the right to supervise the system of apprenticeship, organize industrial in struction, hold examinations and con trol the guilds. This measure did not satisfy the "middle-class" hand-workers. They continued to press the demand that only those who naa Deen apprenticea for a fixed time.' and had passed an ex amination for "master," should be al- ial to oractlce a trade. Their de mand has not been met; but a later w. nasied In ISO, forbade the taking of apprentices by workers who had not J Gray's Great Sale Cliesterfie 273-275 Morrison at Fourth 1 1 ' i . "m nut..." hv naaalnsr ex aminations after three years' appren ticeship, xne nana- wui oia umuu now mostly lost hope of gaining Its aim of forbidding the practice of trades by outsiders; but at present Is agita ting In favor of a monopoly in public works.- Salarleal Man Haa No Relresa. The third class of participants in the "middle-class" agitation are the small officials, clerks, and other persona with low fixed salaries. They are organized chiefly in an "Association of Persons With Fixed Salaries," and their inter ests are contrary to those of the other "middle classes," both of which are really Interested in the state Keeping up prices and - profits. The "fixed-salary" class suffer from such measures. Their wish Is that large "department shops should be allowed to cut-down middlemen's profits: and that the skilled trades should work cheaply. The "fixed-salary" class Is also opposed to Import duties. It complains that for It alone the state does nothing. The stato Intervenes to keep up the wholesale price of food, to keep up the retail shop profit, and to keep up the profit of master decorator or master plumber and others. The fixed-salary man has to pay tribute to all. for the state does not try to put up ais "s't nut them up himself he la helpless. The refinements of this conflict are outside the scope of a newspaper arti cle. The essential fact is that each class Imagines that there is a -Just" or v. i - - A., Af nrnfit anil se- reaSOnawiC tain.-. r -- curlty for itself, which the state should guarantee It. In practice, the reason able standard Is always the utmost that - tf-an hot), for at tne unci rni wu.r. - - -the time being. The state system of protection gives a plausibility to every demand: as the aggrieved Interest ... - hv HinlA Dir. pieaas mat it is vvv - ------ ' . tlcular Import duty or export bounty. and argues that me nam modify Its customs tariff,, it can at least help by penal taxation of some competitor, by prohibition against trad ing In particular lines or under par ticular conditions, or ny raising cles against the free choice of hand! craxts. A. . This German experience shows tnat protection is a complicated thing, and cannot be bandied by merely drafting an important tariff. Every protection ist law or state measure of Interference with freedom to trade brings after it several other similar measure without, however, restoring equilibrium to the general satisfaction MANY WIVES ARE DESERTED Scottish Officials Disturbed at Ira migration to Canada. GLASGOW. July 1. (Special.) Amazing statements are In circulation as to the emigration from Scotland, especially to Canada. Local officials declare there are deserted wives and families In their area, who are costing the poor law authorities $30,000 a year to relieve. aimii.. innrts come from other .- - c .i.nA knH it Is calculated that the home taxpayers are being called upon to pay fully lloO.ooo a year on this account, omowime prehenslve Investigation baa been or dered, but the statements appear to be well established already. In many cases, as a matter of fact, the breadwinner haa gone to establish a home before sending for his family. . , , .nkmHlljka sri snslous DUt IU ....... w - to obtain in such cases some return of the public money expenaea on -im maintenance of the families ' mean while, r i EGYPTIAN RELICS FOUND Antiquities of Fourth to Twelfth Dynasties Are Discovered. MILAN, July 14. (Special.) Eighty eight huge cases of Egyptian antlcul- OF FINE Most every man in Portland knows the true worth of these fine garments. Our Summer Clearance is of real interest to you Liberal Price Reductions Perfect Clothes Satisfaction Let Us Wait on You Today $20 Suits Now $15.00 $25 Suits Now $19.00 $30 Suits Now $23.50 $35 Suits Now $26.50 $40 Suits Now $29.50 $45 Suits Now $34.50 TERMS OF SALE STRICTLY CASH K. M. I .1 1 nHne Ills last season's exploration work at Assiut, undertaken by the Italian Arcnaeoiogicai jnmBiuu. under the direction of the famous Egyptologist, Professor Ernest Schlap perelli. are now being transferred to the Turin Museum, which contains one of the finest collections of this kind in Europe. Special interest centers in the Schlap parelll finds from the circumstance Better Than Id Clothe GRAY that they mostly relate to. the period between the fourth and twelfth dynas ties that Is, from th 36th to the 3d centuries before Christ, with regard to which archaelologlcal material has hitherto been very scarce. The tombs of this epoch were found intact and more than 130 coffins were recovered In a splendid state of preser vation. They contain skeletons and all kinds of art objeots, pieces of furnl- Meat Of course you don't feel like eating: uracil this warm weather feel languid and tired. Don't try to eat when you dont feel like it nourish your body with ft glass- of GOOD beer with each meal and at bedtime. To be StTRE tliat it's good ask for coldb: In thk perfect brew yon get all the nourishing properties of the finest matt, prepared under the direction of a skilled brewmaster, and the tonic properties of the world's best hops. Tor, to a body of the famous Oregon hops we add enough imported hops to give Hop Gold Beer the flaw that yon miss in the others. Tour dealer will be glad to take your order for Hop Gold he knows yon '11 be a regular customer if he sends you this best of brews. STAR BREWERY HORTOKRjr BREWING COMPAHT PORTLAND VAXCOTJVEBi 273-275 Morrison at Fourth ture, and fragments of wooden statues The new finds of painted sarcophagi are said to be exceedingly fire. Racently patents hav. ben takan n for an artifiolal silk, th. baa. of whlcb differs from thoa. now in us. It has tb advantax. that It is uninflammable, unaf fected by humidity and Indestructible b alda or alcohol. Th. new silk ' at bass spun glass spun at l-lth of a hair's Asaaw eter. 4