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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SSATDTtBAY, 'AUGUST 4, 1900. LOWELL: BY HARRIET CopjTtrht, 1000. by THE OREGONIAN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES When I first met Mr. Lowell I thought of the ethereal, evanishing quality or Shelley, mingled Tdth the shrewd com mon sense of Poor Richard, and Air. Underwood has recorded the same im pression. Yet, In spite of the shrewd ness and of the laughing sparkle of smile and eye. whenever the countenance vrjs In repose- Vcrc was something in the earnest look or in the sense it gave oT the presence of genius that made It arch angellc In suggestion. The face had a rather extraordinary beauty a brlgut color, eyes that had a blue blaze to them, the forehead low and white, witn xlch chestnut hair parted like a woman', the mouth hidden In a beard or brighter shade. His dres- was in perfect taste, his manner was charming, and his wit bubbled through the whole conversation. I had previously seen the portrait of Page, and thoucht It all one would have It: bat that dav It seemed to me cnyrcly Inadcquate. If you will pardon the pergonal reminis cence. I had gone to a dinner given Sy the publishers of the Atlantic to certain of the contributors (I was young), .an-i Mrs. Stowe and I had waited in the drawing-room three-quarters of an hour, neither knowing each other, she as .shy as I. She hal ased me at last If 1 knew what time t was, and I had said I did not. The silence had grown Impen etrable, and I was in a chill dismay, when Mr. Iowell, as one of our hosts, came in. and It was like a burst of sun shine, melting the ice instantly with his debonair geniality and sweetness. Dr. Holmes and Mr. "Whittier, Mr. Long fellow, Professor Stowe, Mr. Whipple, Edmund Qulncy, Frank "Underwood were, with others, among the guests. Or all the brilliant company present 1 tmn Colonel Higglnson and I are the oni. survivors. In those days Mr. Lowell was the rd-ltor-ln-ohief of the Atlantic Month'y, and those of his contributors who found favor with him had a delightful friend. He fostered and developed such powir as they had, an! his suggestions were in valuable. His letters were precious pos sessions: many of them too personal tor publication. Perhaps I ought not to print the subjoined, written, I th'nk, in rep'y to one in which 1 had withdrawn a poem he did not altogether like: "'I vnnder that a woman should be so unskilled in the iuntlcss varieties of no that mean yes as to call my note a 'refusal. I dare saj I am a gcoe lor taking any kh.d of interest in ray con tributors Derail the -alue of their nam.'s on the cover. . . . But is it w:Ui what women write as with themselves that ne must like altogether or t not at all? Did I not tell you that what I was thinking of avss ycu and not the Atlantic? I have ;i i etion that young au thors should never Irj experiments en tho public tha.1 they should always Iook to making their impression a cumulative one and, abovs ..'A should beware o. watering their reputation. For the nrw thing a writer must accomplish is sue cess. After that the world is only too kind, and if one be really worth any thing, success is a bond given for some thing better namely, excellence. "Well, what am I driving at, then'' Why, I have sent your poem to the printer. The opinions of and arc quite as likely to jump with that or tho public as mine. But do not, 1 beg. misunderstand me. When I write to jou about anything of yours I do not write officially, but simply because I feel an interest in what you do with yourself. As editor, I write no letters unless under downright compulsion. I have too much to do. and, moreover, letters don't say Just what wo tell them to say. nor Just as we should lie- to have them say It. "But when vx.iv poem is printed, may I demand a categorical exposition of cer tain passages that puzzled even me, and I was 42 last month? As far as printing is concerned, if j ou like the poem that is enough." (Was there ever such editor before or Eince?) I had submitted luy first story under a pseudonym. But I sent him, at another time, with the fatuity of the young writer, a story with a new pseudonym after he knew my own name. (1 some times wondered if he were kinder to me because In total ignorance that it was his mother's name I had chosen the name of Spence for one of my disguises.) My sister copied the story for me, and lest our script should have any resem blance, I had her make a difference In the shape of certain letters. I received an early reply, addressed not to the pseudonym, bat to me, saying that al though the "ds" were all "ds," the 1-dees were tho same, ilr. Lowell made the Atlantic of those early days a wondenul thing. It seemed In some way a mirror of his own lndnlJ uallty, as he himself w as to a degree the mirror of the genlut of the age. But he was an editor who managed things in nis own unique vay, reading a manuscript wherever the spirit found him or he found the time, and clapping It into some unlikely plae of the moment; so that long after he left the editorial chair people were sending to his successor man. uscripts that they found unaccountably on their table, or In their desks. But the work was irksome, and he re signed It to Mr. Fields after about flvo years. But in those five years he had done more to stimulate thought and style and to create a high standard of literary art among us than any other single force. Some time later he became an associate editor of the North Amer ican Review for a few years. His mother had a memory stored with the ballads of many lands, in many tongues, and she made poetry the atmosphere of his being. It is not im possible that she brought into the fam ily that wild strain which feeds genius, a certain tang added to the drink of the gods. She belongea on his own moth er's side to the Trails or Trolls of the Orkneys, a tradition of the house giving her descent from Sir Patrick Spens, who lies "Forty miles off Aberdeen, Tls fifty fathoms deep." On the other side the Lowells descend ed from Perdval Lowell, who settled In "Kewbury. Mass., In 1637 were people of power for generations. John Lowell was the author of the section in the bill of rights through which slavery In Massa chusetts ceased to exist. John Lowell, Jr., founded a course of free lectures In Boston with a fund of SJjO.OrtJ. writing his will on the top of the pyramids perhaps from fancy, perhaps because he thought he might not get down alive. Francis Cabot Lowell was the first to see the possibilities of cotton J manufac ture, and the town of Lowell was named for him. The quality of the race is illus trated by the panel on one of the Elm wood -walls, found in Xewburyport in the house of one of his old forbears, where on is painted a group of clergy. In wigs j and gowns and bands, sitting around a i table and smoking their long pipes, while ; over a recess the legend runs in Latin: i "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials. liberty; in all things, charity." His father was a Unitarian minister, idolized in his parish, preaching in the old West Church of Boston, not far beyond the bridge, but living at Elmwood. a leafy place of trees and lawns and birds in Cambridge, where Mr. Lowell, his young est child, was born and passed the great r port of his life. Mr. Xowell was S3 when he married Maria White, a beautiful creature, who faded away after nine years, but whoso heavenly influence -was lifelong. Their children died in infancy, with the ex PRESCOTT SPOFFORD feeyrnour Eaton.) DIRECTED BY PROF. SFYMOUP EATON ception of Mabel, who survived until recently. The poems written by Maria Lowell were very lovely, high-minded, musical, and were privately printed in a small volume subsequent to her death, which occurred a year after their return from Europe In 1S53. In the heat of the anti-slavery contest came the first series of the "Biglow Pa pers," like which for absolute original ity, rollicking fun, splendid -wit and fiery denunciation there was never anything before, nor can be again. While their humor was tricksy, their satire was stinging, and they were a terrific weap on In the cause they championed, all the more terrific that it seemed only a play- hf."- iV-t .. rr n r 11, &.!. trLflrt ArTW A&nA It. TirrrAr ThA aaitrtnH T-I YlT-nVrfH Tin less effective in the days of the Civil War. Tne use of the dialect and archa isms, that have nearly disappeared from Xew England, tracing which and their affiliations in language was a peculiar pleasure of Lowell's, make tho pages of tho "Biglow Papers" a study in the Doric, as one might say: the character ization there is complete, with the most delicate painting: now and then pas sages of pastoral beauty appear, and everywhere wit sparkles like a shower in the sun, or rather In the lightnings of storm. ADoundlng as hey do also In sweet humor and tender patriot, with the rendering of life ond manners. It Is to he doubted if lon;r after much great contemporaneous veire has been forgot ten this martcrplcce will not remain, Im perishable as an epic. it was In the early years of h's mar riage that our poet wxote the faultlcs5 "tr Launfal," and among otners tr.e ringing and stirring - rcsrnt Crisis." certain lines of which have passed Into all men's memories, such as "Truth for ever on the scaffold; wrong forc er on tho thror.e," and "Humanltr swf-rs onward, -where tcdny the martyr stands; On the morroT crouches Judas with the ?Uer in his hands." In tremendous contrast to such work as this Is the "Fable for Critics," with its inimitable drollery, published anony mously In ISIS. If this was suggested by "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," It bore no likeness, being utterly novel and original. If the writer was unspar ing In relation to fraud and imbecility, he was equally unsparing of his own pretensions, and the praise he awarded was positive and generous. Nothing lovelier In its way was ever written than what he says of Hawthorne and John Dwlght and Irving. But Lowell loved to praise; there was no foothold or cranny for praise to plant itself that ho did not seize. Having remained a widower four years, Mr. Lowell married Miss Frances Dun lap, of Portland, in 1857, taking her, after a brief residence elsewhere, to Elm wood, where he was born, the years passing delightfully with study, work and the friends of a charmed circle. He went to Europe again in 1573, and not long after that period he was appointed Minister to Spain, subsequently becom ing our Minister to England, welcomed there by English Journals as tho am bassador from the republic of American literature to the court of Shakespeare, and beginning public life at an eminence Where others leave off. His culture, his high breeding, his wit and charm, to gether with his fine political tact, gave him an Immense popularity In Great Britain. Not without his critics concern ing the Irish question, he was, neverthe less, a large factor In the production of tho cordial feeling that has been going on between England and America, and growing since his day. But he never for an Instant forgot that he was an Amer ican, the patriotism that was rather flamboyant in his essay upon "A Certain Condescension in Foreigners" never de creasing in ardor the same love of coun try that madeihlm do his best with the grace of song and the sting of epigram to remove her wrong and shame. He re turned to America when a new Admin istration came in, having lost his wife and having begun to grow old. It is not able that as the years advanced the more conservative he grew, clinging to old Ideals and refusing to accept the new, and possibly his absence from home and consequent unacqualntance made some of his personal judgments of leas value than once. He had always had certain fixed faiths in things spiritual, of which one was a strong assurance of tho im mortality of the soul. Once he wroto of himself in an illness: "I lost all con sciousness of my flesh. I, was dispersed through space In some Inconceivable fashion and mixed with the milky way. Yet the very fact that 1 had a confused consciousness of the milky way as some thing to bo mingled with proved that 1 was then as much of an inclvldual as ever." Later his Ideals of the spiritual life became more concrete. while his soul was full of hope and trust, and his religious experience deepened. But age could not wither nor custom stale Lowell's Infinite variety. His great, bright intelligence never paled. High tnoughts and fine Imaginings were about him to the last, as when in dying he thought he entertained a King. And did he not? Surely the heavenly domlna tions. Princes, powers, might have gath- ered about a kindred being when entering ' the room where the soul of Lowell left its hindering clay. ? Newburyport. Mass. Tleld to Ansiver. The preliminary examination of William Griffin, charged with larceny from a ves sel, took place yesterday in Justice Vrce land's court. Ho vas bound over to ap- If. Hw I A v-O fl X III' y .;,; FRO V. V EARL V PORTRAIT OF LOW .SLL. pear before the grand jury., As he was unable to -furnish the necessary security for his bonds, which were $2C, he was sent to the county jail to await trial. Griffin's home is hear a fishing station or Warren's cannery on the Columbia, 'xfie complaint alleges that Griffin was caugljt, In the act of stealing a fishing-wheel scow and two chinook salmon from a ves sel, the property of F. M. Warren, a canneryman. The salmon are said to have weighed 25 pounds each, and were valued at $3 CO. Constable A. J. Goodman made the arrest. Griffin is accused of having committed the theft through malicious ness, as he and Warren were not on the best of terms. "BLOW AT PORTLAND." Grain Denier Writes of Railroad Discrimination. JULIAETTA. Id.. Aug. 3. (To the Edi torsReferring to nn article in ycur issue i ing been shipping grain and flax from 1 this section for over a year, kindly allow j me to give you a f e-v facts as to tho Northern Pacific's policy, and as to the Idaho grain merchants' handicap in c:n sequenee thereof. , Last j ear, the writer, for the Inland Grain Company, sold some 30,000 bushcl3 oT wheat to Portland mills for Alblna delivery, and having two shipping points on the Clearwater as well ds the tram way at this point, as It was easier to i get-cars for points beyond JuHaetta, commenced to fill the ar.le from the form er pain's, 'len car wefe received and receipted fc- by North' rn rarlf.e agents tith destina Ijii T.rlt'eii ''A'.blna, (Die ton, Ma Waliula," as bills of lading on file will show, but all the 10 cars - e e haulod by Northern Tad lc to To-fand and uur crm.any hs.d them transferred to Alblna by dray at a cost of alK-ut w. any portion of which the Northern I'a clfic declined to par. stating ihat no grain would be carried via Wallula be jond Jullactta, which was the limit of their agreement with the Oregon Rallr'ad & Na!att.m Company, but the Northern Pacific hud so failed to give notice even to Its agents, this Is only cr.e case In many. If grain was switched fp-m Port land to Alblna the cost therefor was taxed up to the shipper. It was cer tainly never known to have been borne by the Northern Pacific. In our case we snipped tho balance of contrac to Taco ma, where It Just so happened the buyers could use It at same price, but ss a rule the Tacema maikct Is from 1 cent to 2 cents lower than Alblna or Portland. Cars, as stated, wsrc, furnished freely for Clearwater points, but exasperatlngly sparingly for this point and Kcndrlck. The truth is, the Nez Perces reservation comprises about 700,000 acres of wonder fully productive soil, and until this sea son was never over one-fourth broken, although plowing was all that was neces sary, and Idaho has never known a bet ter crop. This, with the territory from Moscow to Lewlston. is all tributary to Portland, and should go there and I am satisfied every warehouseman on the line would gladly sign an agreement to ship every pound by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company if they will but ex tend Into this soctlon. The Oregon Rail road & Navigation Company treats Its customers like they were men. and the Northern Pacific treats them like victims of circumstance, in consequence of which at all competitive points the former take from CO to 90 per cent of the business. This last move of the Northern Pacific Is only a late thing so far as old shipping points are concerned, but as a matter of course such a move will this year turn many times 2S.000 tons from Portland, as the Genesee branch of the Northern Pa cific from Pullman, which taps one of the richest grain sections in Idaho, will be affected. Portland should secure trans portation for this country's grain by the harvest of 1901. A. L. MACLEOD. SAN FRANCISCO PROSPERING War "With China Means & Great Deal to Bar City. M. Brown, a retired merchant of San Francisco, is spending a few days at the Portland. He has not visited this city since 1897, and thinks Portland has kept pace with the rest of the Coast in im provements in the meantime. He saya San Francisco is prospering under the stimulus of war, and now that a long war with China Is probable, that city has an Indefinite period of prosperity .ahead of iC "The war in China," he said yesterday, "will increase business on the entire Coast, as tho Russians, French, Germans, English and Japanese will be obliged to deal in the nearest market, and so every city on the Coast will profit by tho sale of goods to the besieging armies. "The war is very sure to be a long one. as the Chinese, are as thick as flies, and the task of killing them off will be a big one. I believe the old empire will have to be finally partitioned among the civ ilized powers, as the Chinese have shown that they cannot be trusted with the lives of missionaries and Consuls, while they are likely to let this hatred of for eigners get the better of them and repeat the massacres at any time." Municipal Court. Joseph Saunders, arrested Thursday for stealing a coat from Nathan Hccht, was sentenced to SO days In the City Jail. Thi raso nf Pnrllns Tontlft nn Tnl!nr arrested yesterday by Patrolman Nelson. l-on the complaint of J. Crintone, for In juring personal property, went over until today. Crintone alleges In his complaint that Tontie broke into a trunk left in his care hy F. Bogerl. now in San Fran cisco. Tontle,. In defense, asserts that Bogeri owed him money and left the trunk as security. Peter Parent, who runs a street canary bird show, arrested by License Officer Rogaway for telling fortunes without a license, was ordered released upon tak ing out a $15 license mm FLEET FOR AUGUSf HAlUiECH CASTLE COMPLETED HEI1 CARGO YESTERDAY. Bowman D. Law Arrives at Astoria Another Sqnare-Itigrgcr- Outside Marine Kotes. The British ship Harlech Castle finished loading at the Elevator Dock yesterday afternoon, and the August grain fleet has at last made a start. The second vessel of the fleet, the Nithsdale, Is loading rap Idly, and will probably finish early next week, with the Rlgel in about the same position. The docks are working with full crews now, quite a number of men having come in from the Sound, where lower wages are paid, and there will be but small likelihood of another pause In operations for nearly a year. The early floet Is commencing to shdw up, and will clean up the docks ready fof the ro cclpt of new wheat, which is already roll ing down to tidewater. The big ship Ce- datbank. -whtrh nrrtvivrt in Thitr.sfJn.v. f was followed yesterday by 'the Bowman B. Law, which comes In ballast from Yokohama to load flour for Europe. Another square-rigger was reported outside last evening. There are so many vessels due at the present tlmo that there Is quite an opportunity for guessing at tho Identity of the stranger. The Dec can has been so long on the way that she Is slightly overdue, being out 175 days from Hamburg. The Rlversdale, from the same port. Is also slightly over duo, with 153 days against her. The Ore alla is out H days from Shanghai, and as the Ceflorbank made the run from Hong Kong In 42 days, the Orealla should have been here sooner. The Robert Rlckmers Is out 37 days from Hlogo, and the Genesta has been 30 days on the way from Shanghai. The Cedarbank left up last evening In tow of the Ocklahama, and the Law will follow today. IX A LEAKY SHIP. Cnrondelet Leaves Honolnln "With Men at the Pumps. , The crew of the American bark Caron dclet will apparently be obliged to earn their wages on the trip wh'ch the vessel Is now making from Honolulu. The Re publican of the loth says: "The captain of the Carondelet con cluded to sail at very short notice Inst night, and hacks were fent scurrying aiound for Clipping Commissioner Por ter Toyd. after he had closed his office, for the rh'p's article. Captain' Stetson succeeded, with the aid of the United States Sailors' ITome, in getting a crew yesteiday, and decided that, as the Tourth was about here, an'l sailor men usually celebrate on the Natior-'s birth-' day, he had better ret to sea before the festivities beran. The ship was leaklrg a ffcd deal, too, srd that was another reason why the skipper wanted to go to sea before the m"n found out the large r mount of work to be don-i at the pumps. The Carondelet is bound for the Sound in ballast." IMfr German Transport. The steamship Bosnia, of tho Hamburg-AmTic.-.n line, lately impressed by t'..e German Government to carry supnllr- to China for' t' e Kn-er's troops, left Phii ndMph'a last week for San Francisco. She has In her hold over 000 tons ot co'.I, a1 reco;d-brraklng cargo In itself, nn't whon she reaches the Pacific Coast It Is said she will rh'.p at lean l."" horses for trie use of the German Cavairy In China. Mnrlne Tittten. The steamer R. R. Thomp-oh Is on the Astoria run for a few days, in place .of the Hassnld, which is off for cl ght re pairs. " ' t The California Shipping Company has offered a prize of ?S0O to tho captain who mHkes the fastest run botween Honolulu and New York with a susar cargo. The. tug Maggie, which was so routhly handled at Sluslaw a few months aro. Is lyins at the foot of Couch street await ing repairs to her machinery, which got out of line when she was In trouble The steamer Columbia made a fast run down the coast, reaching San Fran cisco Thurrday evening, thus putting In only one night at sa. The State arrived late yesterday, having met the same breeze which was pushing the Columbia down the coast. Domestic nnd Foreiprn Ports. ASTORIA, Aug. 3. Arrivcr at 10:40and loft up at 2 P. M. Steamer State of Cali fornia. Arrived British bark Bowman B. Law, from Yokohama; steamer W. H. Harrison, from Tillamook. Left up at & P. M. British bark Cedarbank. Condi tion of tho bar at 5 P. M.. moderate: wind northwest; weather hazy. Square rigger outside. San Francisco, Aug. 3. Sailed Schoon ers Daisy Rowe and James A. Garfield, "for Coos Bay. Arrived Aug. 2 Steamers Columbia, from Portland; Areata, from Coos Bay: Grace Dollar, from Gray's Harbor; United States, steamship Iowa, from Esqulmalt ; steamer Bristol, from Oyster Harbor. Sailed Steamer Victoria, for Chemalnus; barkentlne J. M. Griffith, for Port Hadlock. Port Townsend, Aug. 3. Passed Steamer Newsboy, from Cape Nome for Seattle. Seattle Arrived Aug. 2 Steamer Dlrl go, from Skagway. Sailed Aug. 3 Steamer Al-Kl, for Skagway; steamer EUhu Thomson, for Cape Nome. Arrived Steamer Farallon, from Skagway. Hong Kong Sailed Aug. 2 Ship Gov ernor Roble, for Port Townsend. Port Townsend, Autsr. 3. Arrlved-rShlp Abner Coburn, from Hong Kong; ship Howard D. Troop, from Shanghai; bark Stillwater, from Manila. Port Ludlow Sailed Aug. 2 Bark Star of Bengal, for Melbourne. Port Townsend, Aug. 3. Arrived Bark entlne Quickstep, from Honolulu. Seattle, Aug. 3. Arrived Bark Sussex, from Honolulu. New York. Aug. 3. Arrived Graf Wal dcrsee, from Hamburg. Liverpool, Aug. 3. Arrived Pennlond, from Philadelphia. Havre, Aug. 3. Arrived La Cham pagne, from New York. Browhead, Aug. 3. Passed Steamer Lucanla, from New York for Queens town and Liverpool. Lizard, Aug. 3. Passed Steamer South wark. from New York for Antwerp. Naples, Aug. 3. Arrived Steamer Ems, from New York via Gibraltar for Genoa, and proceeded. Glasgow, Aug. S. Sailed Carthegenlan, for Philadelphia; Laurentlan, for New York. London, Aug. 3. Sailed Mesaba, for New York. Movllle, Aug. 3. Balled Astoria, from Glasgow for New York. Queenstown, Aug. 3. Sailed New Eng land, from Liverpool for Boston. Southampton, Aug. 3. Sailed Augusta Victoria, from Hamburg for New York via Cherbourg. New York, Aug. 3. Arrlved-jRoland, from Bremen; Columbia, from Hamburg, etc Boston, Auff. 8. Arrived Ultonla, from Liverpool. Queenstown, Aug. 3. Arrived Lucanla. from New York, for Liverpool, and pro ceeded. Salem's Popular Loans. Capital Journal. The popular 4-per-cent school loan bids fair, to make a record comparable to that of the city's popular loan. The latter was subscribed three times over, and the former would undoubtedly reach that figure if the books were open for the same length of time. With but two weeks to go on. and no previous notice, the subscriptions will probably run to double the amount of the loan. The Salem way of borrowing money la attracting attention all over Oregon, and favorable comments are appearing in the press of all parts of the state. It Is one of the best advertisements that this com munity has ever had, for it shows the confidence of the people in the solvency of their own local government, and It shows good business management on the part of our officials and a disposition to use their positions for the benefit of the community, and not to boost some private graft. A few years of such management all along the line would result in a material reduction in taxation. COMMENDS REV. B. P. HILL Prohibitionist Writes Him a Letter on Local and National Affairs. F. McKercher has furnished The Orego nlan with a copy of a letter he has writ ten to Rev. Edgar P. Hill, as follows: "Portland, July 30. Rev. Edgar P. Hill. D. D., Hlllarden. Wash. Dear Sir and Brother: I desire to commend your vig orous protest against the action of our city officials, for It Is just what every man who voted for them ought to do, but at the same time I can but deprecate tne confiding nature that permits you and the public to be regularly imposed upon and sold out year after year by just such sets of political tricksters as these lngrates, two of whom you are 'glad to call personal friends.' "The implicit trust that the voting church places In ante-election promises would be childish If It were not some thing more nearly sinful. "Do you not know that the National life of a party which these officers serve depends upon Its ability to placate the whisky vote, and that It Is "Under the absolute domination of a brilliant coterie of demagogues that dictates nominations and permits no one in office, from Presi dent down (except here and there one Just to take the curse off and to fool the Christian vote) who cannot be depended upon, in advance, to do precisely what these city officials aTe doing? "As a matter of political consistency whj- should these men be decent, or why should you, or any one, expect anything better from them than that which they are doing bartering the public virtue for the same old 'thirty pieces of silver,' while their three counterparts In the ex ecutive branch of our National govern ment have set them an exalted example of the same sort of political perfidy, es pecially as their perfidious acts have been commended and their characters vin dicated hy the renomlnation of McKln ley, and no doubt will be further sanc tioned by the voting church In Novem ber, ' regardless of whether he be re elected or not. that depending upon tho particular swing of the whisky pendulum, which, again, in turn depends upon which partv gives promise of the greater de gree of villainy in the sacrifice of all things sacred In it-, subserviency to the behests of the rum power. "I assume that you are conversant with (and with me are cont'nually deploring) the record of the present Chr'stlan admin istration; how McTvlnlev falsified the truth to the members of the Volunteers and others wl en petitioned to suppress the canteen: how he has continuously vio lated his oath of office in his persistent nullification of the anti-canteen law.whlch is as plainly prohibitory as 'thou shalt not .-teal"; and how he has1 turned the Philippines. Cuba and Porto Rico over to the rapacity and greed of the whisky rlnr. and Invited unon the Nation, as well as urn his own herd, the blood of all whom whisky Is slaylnsr and rtinnlns: In tho-e lindo for, to be Ignorant of these thinfrs. Is to be unworthy of Amer ican citizenship! "And. .-fain, whv should you and 'a lnrrre clas of people' be so 'terribly In earnest upon this question since you are accv.toncd to being 'trifled with' in pre cisely this manner, the exception. If you can point to one in Portland elections, but proving the rule. 'Whv protest against the licensing of gambling when the church vote openly snd publicly (even if tacitly) consents to the l'cens'ng of the saloon, the mdst monstrous abomination with which the world has ever been cursed, and justi fies the acilon by the Idf-ntical reasoning vou decline to accept from these officers. You rightly Insist that 'they have no more riiht to license gambling than murder and robbery ' but you seemingly overlook the fact that they boloni? to a license party, that their party licenses the saloon, and in so doing licenses mur der in its most atrocious form, and rob berv In Its most woeful sense. "These men are politically consistent entirely so. The President chooses which law he shall enforce so do they, by the same sign expediency; under the same warrant party sanction for the same purpose power. "I rejoice to hear your voice in con demnntlon of this great evil In our midst, but I must insist that your political af filiations are woefully Inconsistent with your logical reasoning and Christian at titude toward this shameful thing, and that for you and 05 per cent of the Chris tian voters of the land to confirm these sinners and their party In their bertayal of sacred trusts, by voting with them and for them, thus assuring the nation, so far as your power goes, of the perpet uation of this diabolism in places high and low, gives no hopeful sign of any change for the better. "The powers of evil and of darkness do not fear such protests: Had you clinched your arguments by appending the statement, 'I have cast my last vot for a party that licenses any cort of sin,' they would tremb'e. Verv sin cerely yours, F. M'KERCHER." DESERVES CORDIAL SUPPORT Portland Driving Parle Company's Efforts to Elevate Racing'. All good citizens of Poitland who desire that the beautiful metropolis of Oregon should take first rank in all things as she deserves, are called upon, through civic pride, to put a shoulder to the wheel and assist Messrs. Roberts and Williams in placing this good city at the head In all 6ports. Harness racing In Portland has declined in public favor be cause in the past it has not been clean and high class. The Portland Driving Park Company has secured the services of Charles A. Willis, of New York City, one of the most competent, experienced and success ful managers of harness meetings In this or any country. Mr. Willis comes vouched for by lead ing citizens of the Eastern States- and by newspapers of the East and West. Portlanders should see to it that he is supported In his endeavors to put racing on a high plane, and this they can do by their counsel and cheerful help to wards the end sought. Even though the best horses and the best possible con tests are assured, it will not avail to es tablish and popularize clean sport, unless the best class of the citizens of Portland will lend their countenance and aid. Har ness racing In Portland must be built up from the foundation, as the old structure is concededly too rotten to patch up or build upon. HOLLADAY ESTATE SETTLED Administrator James Steel Flies Hli ' Final Report. James Steel has filed his final report as administrator of the estate of Ben Holladay, deceased. It shows that the Inventoried value of the property was 51.0SS.SS9, and S19-.755 was realized, not in cluded In the inventory, making a total of 51,105,644. There was received and dis bursed J55S,'85S, and there Is a balanct on hand of 573S, which goes to the ad ministrator. The shrinkage was large, $548,677, due to numerous explained causes. The administrator had charge of the estate for a number of years, and per formed a great deal of work. His statu tory compensation was 522,092, but as there is not enough money on hand to pay the balance due, he deducted 51SS3, making his compensation $20,403, most ot which was received long ago. Soma pre ferred claims were paid in full, and tho general creditors received a dividend of about 50 per cent. A small sum due cer tain creditors remains on hand uncalled for. Joseph Holladay was the first adminis trator of the estate, and the report goes back to the time his claim of 5339,000 and Interest, as the result of a suit between him and Ben Holladay, was liquidated by the transfer of property. Ben Holladay sued Joseph Holladay to recover all of the property, which he contended the lat ter held as trustee, and Judge Stevens de creed that 5339,000 was due to Joseph from Ben. Many of the clalmB disposed of were large. Esther Holladay, who was the wife of Ben Holladay. filed a claim for about 5100,000. a considerable portion of which was paid. Popnllsts Copy Democratic Call. Spokane Chronicle. Chairman John Coffeen calls attention to and Interesting feature of the call for the People's Party State Convention as sent out by their state executive committee. It Is identical with that sent out tby the Democratic central committee, except for the change in the name of the party. "It is a verbatim copy of the Demo cratic call," he says, "even to the qualifi cation for voters, at the primaries that they will support Bryan and Stevenson this Fall. Now there was no need In the world of the state committee bringing out a bone ot contention In their call by adding the name of Stevenson, when the Populists had named Towne for Vice President, for Bryan Presidential electors must vote for Stevenson." Grain Fire on Tygh Ridge. The Dalles Chronicle. Monday last out on Tygh ridge on the Raster ranch, where the Glavey boya were heading, a box of the header got overheated and It became necessary to melt some babbit for Its repair. A fire was built in the stubble and a man placed over It with a bucket of water to keep It from spreading. It spite of all his caro, the fire got beyond his control and In a little while had destroyed 30 acres of grain. Every header crew within sight of the fire for miles around was on the ground in a few minutes, fighting the fire till It was got under control. How the Germans Will Vote. Woodburn Independent. Fred Dose Is back from the South. He reports good times everywhere, and says McKlnley's re-election Is certain. He talked with many Germans and found they were all for McKlnley. No More Dread of the Dental Chair TBETH EXTRACTED AND FILLED AB SOLUTELY WITHOUT PAIN, by oar lata ncientlflc method applied to tho rums. No rlecp-producinr agents or cocalno. Theas aro the only dental parlors in Port land havtne PATENTED APPLIANCES and lnsrredlenta to extract. All and apply jold crowns and porcelain crowns undetectable from natural teeth, and warranted for 10 years. WITHOUT THE LEA3T PAIN. Full set ot teeth, 55, a perfect fit ruaranteed or no pay. Gold crowns. 5S. Gold flUInis, 51. Sil ver nlllrcs. COc. AH work done by GRADU ATE DENTI8T3 of from 12 to 20 years' ex perience, and each department In cnarse of a socialist. Give us a call, and you will find us to do exn-Ur as -we advertloe. We -Kill tall you In advance exactly frhat your work will coct by a ?"REE EXAMINATION. SET TEETH $3.00 GOLD CHOW7TS . ..., $5.00 GOLD FILLINGS ni.Od SILVER FILLINGS .60 MO PLATES wm New York Dtntal Parlors MAIN OFFICE: Fourth and Morrison its., Portland. Or. HOURS-8 to 8; SUNDAYS, 10 TO 4. BRANCH OFFICES: 723 Market st.. San Francisco. CaL 1A Fliat air.. 8eattleu "Wajh. you Remove the Effect Newbro's Herpicide kills the dandruff germ which causes fallmcf hair, and, finally, baldness. No other hair preparation kills the dandruff germ. Stop dan druff, there'll be no falling hair, no baldness. Diaaxsox, IT. D., Hot. 8, W. Hare been usinsr nerplelde.aad hare used about one-thild of a $1 bottle, and fiodtcaS it does all, and oren more, than yoa claim for It. It not only cleanses the scalp from dan druff and proTenta the hair from falUneout. but promotes a new trrowth. IlaTO only used the quantity mentioned, and hare more hair on mThead than 1 hare had for years. I also find that it tovips the hair soft and clossy. Ervrxaa Dodo. Por 5ale at nil Ffcrf-Clau Drug Storw. mimmmi Sallow Skin laestion. etc. j 10 cents and 25 cents Druggists, i 3ictd mm Thompson's Eye Water t eje, IPfilSft feSWS M a ' -Sall j an a j G j ( fej ! IS 1 ISi Cause, I 1 Mmnm P EC M$X M IP p IIS vl j2 Wind saj i Pain & Stomach I Torpid Liver ! WW THE PALATIAL OREGONIAN BUI Hot a darlc ofllce in the baildlxtff absolutely fireproof; electric Ilsltt nnd arteslnn yraterj perfect anita tion and thorough, ventilation. Ele vator ran day and night. Room. ATNSLIE. DR. GEORGE. Physician. ..CC8-00J ALDRICH. S. W.. General Contractor 810 ANDKRSOJT. GUSTAV. Attomey-at-Law . ASSOCIATED PRKSSr E. L. PowelU Mjrr SOS AUSTEN. F. C.. Manager for Oreon ami WaahJnffton BanXerar Life Anwclatton, of Des Moines. la.-.. 305-303 BANKERS' LIFE ASSOCLVTION. OF DES MOINES. IA. J. C. Austen. Manager BnC-803 BATNTUN. GEO. R.. Msr. for Chaa. Scrlb- ners Sonn .....311 SEALS. EDWARD A. Forecast Official V. 8. Weather Bureau ...310 BENJAMIN. R W.. Dentist...... .... H BTN5TVANGER. DR. O. S.. Phys. & Bur 410-ttt BROOKE. DR. J. M.. Phys. Ss Burr Tftt-TfW BROWN. MTRA. M. D. 31.t-aU BRUERE. DR. G E.. Phystctan 412-U3-41 BUSTEED RICHARD. Acent Wilson & Mc- Callay Tobacco Co, .. f!02-60 CAUKIN. G. E.. District Agent Travelers' Insurance Co. ... ................ ........Tia CKRDWELU DR. J. R ....HM CTROT.Tfc W T.. Special Agent Mutual Rmerv Fund Wf A'n. ..601 COLUMBIA TEI.EPTTOXF mMPNT . VM-eavnn.(V)?-fli3-nu-n rnRVRT,rt?S. C. W Phv nnd Sunr-on ...20 COVER, F. C.. Cashier Fqultable Life ... 3M COtUER. P. F.. Publisher: S. P. McGulre. Manager 413-Ui WY. J. C. A T. N. . 319 DAVIS. NAPOHEON. Ttwldent Columbta Telephone Co .........,(WT DTCKFON. DR. T F.. PhWetnn Tlt-TH DRATCF. DR IT R. Phvslclan 812-31J-BH nWTTTR. .TOF. F.. Tobaccos 4M EDITORIAL RCOMP EIMh floor EQUITABtn I.TFEAFSTIRANn: SOCIETTt Ii. Samuel. Mamrer: F. C. Covr. Cashier SM EVENING TTXFGRAM ...S23 Alder Krpet FENTON. J. D..rpvMclnn and Sur3jeon.30tl:3Ift HENTON. DR. KTfKS P.. Eye and Eor..,-31t FENTON. MATTHEW F . DentUt BOf FIDELITT MTfTTTI. T.ITE ASSOCIATION: E. C. Ptarlc. Mnnatr... ....t GATA'ANI. W. H.. Enclneer and Draughts man 808 GAVIN. A.. President Oreiion Camera Club. 214-213-21C-2tT GERT. DR. EDWARD P.. Physician and Furxeon 212-213 rrnRBtE pun ro . Ltd.. Fine Art Publlsh- m: M. C. McGreevy. Mjrr. 318 OIKST. A. J.. Phytic! nnd Sursenn...T00-Tia GODDARD. E. C. CO.. Foow-ar. ,..... .Ground floor. 129 Sixth street GOLDMAN. WILLIAM. Mar.ia-ir Manhattan Life Insurance Po of New York...... 200-219 GRANT. FRANK S.. Attom-v-at-Lcw ....flit IIAMMAM BATHS. Klnc .t Cotnpton. 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