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TFIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PQRTLANP. tECEMBEB 2, lflOO. Id HANNA-PETIIGREW FEUD WITT THE OHIO SENATOR STD3IPED SOUTH DAKOTA. Sontk Dakotan "Will Be Mlnsrd in Washington, Despite His Vitriolic Attacks on Colleagraes. In spite of the general rejoicing over tRlchard Franklin Pettigrew?s defeat for the United States Senate, the fact is gen erally recognized that the Senate will not be so interesting a place when he has packed his grip and gone back to South Dakota, says a Washington correspondent of the New York Times. Even the Re publican Senators will have to admit that life Is shorn of much of its excitement. None of the Republican leaders ever came down to the chamber In the morn ing without a feeling of wonder mixed with dread about what Pettlgrew was going to 60 to them that day. The days were few when the South Dakotan had ot some ambuscade carefully prepared lor his former friends on the Republican side. He had not his equal for industry and pertinacity. His attacks were like those of a mosquito, and his energy was as tireless and his activity as constant as those of that unpopular Insect. Pettigrew's defeat Is one of the most curious things in politics. He had prodded and stung Republican Senators all the session, irritating tbem beyond measure, and at last, In the closing hours, he unexpectedly swooped down on Mark Hanna and drew blood. The big Repub lican, who had borne assaults from other quarters without opening his mouth, was aroused by Pettigrew's attack, and there vras a Senatorial fracas for half an hour. "Hanna then first entered the arena as a Senatorial speechmaker. The incident ap parently ended, and Pettigrew certainly expected no worse results from It than, had followed his nagging of other Sena te rs. But Mark Hanna was aroused. It was . personal matter with him now. All the other personal attacks of the last four years had drawn from him nothing but an occasional protest. But he now vowed vengeance on the man who had carried the attacks on his character Into the Senate and had rubbed them in. "He had teen accused of dishonesty to his face and In the Senate. It was this latter JTact that aroused Hanna most of all. It may Tiot be generally known, but there is no man in the Senate not even Mr. Hoar who has such an appreciation of the dignity and majesty of that body aB Mr. Hanna. His conception of it Is even Wghcr than the fact. He could hardly consider himself a member of a more august body if he were a Justice of the Supreme Court. He even has an Idea that the dignity of the Senate Is such that the newspapers should hesitate to criticise a member of it, though he would not apply that Idea to any other legislative body. And here. In this sacred chamber itself, lie was assailed with a partisan viru lence which had never been surpassed and hardly ever equaled in editorials and cartoon?. A Political Vendetta. The campaign came up Just then, and Mr. Hanna's vow of vengeance was for gotten. Probably those who remembered it thought, when the Republican chair man threw himself heart and soul into the fray for McKinley, that he himself Jhad forgotten it in the pursuit of more Important matters, or that his anger had cooled. That betrayed an Ignorance of Mark Hanna. As soon as he felt abso lutely confident that McKinley was sure to be elected, Mr. Hanna dropped every- tning, left the National campaign In the hands of subordinates and began the car rying out of his long-cherished project for vengeance against his political enemy. It was a vendetta of politics. During the remainder of the campaign Hanna camped on the trail of his enemy. He went through South Dakota from erd to end. speaking and working, and left no stone unturned to undo Pettlgrew. As it was generally believed that South Dakota would give her electoral vote to McKinley, Hanna's devotion to that state became Inexplicable. The fact was that the political prophets conceded the Sena torshlp to Pettlgrew, while giving the electoral vote to McKinley; and until the very eve of election this was the slate. Hanna's work undid that. He came back Xrom South Dakota not only with the electoral vote for his chief, but with the scalp of Pettlgrew dangling at his belt. It was a curious and Interesting feud. No two men could be more unlike than Hanna and Pettlgrew, and yet there Is a similarity in the positions they occupy. Hanna Is the business man in politics; bo Is Pettlgrew. Both are or were finan cal magnates. Hanna is the type of the business man In politics who upholds po litical systems as they are; Pettlgrew is the much rarer type of the business man In politics who would tear down and de stroy or, as he would prefer to put it, to reform and regenerate. Pettlgrew is said to have met with financial losses lately, but he -entered the Senate as a rich man. He was the best known capitalist In his state, occupying in that respect the same position that Hanna did in Ohio. His own community was covered with Pettigrew's business enterprises. Hanna started as an em ploy of a wholesale grocery house: Pet tlgrew started as a laborer. Both men made their way In the world by indomi table energy and business ability. Both were Republicans: but Hanna's bent was In the direction of extreme conservatism and Pettlgrew In the direction of extreme radicalism, and each had gone to the fullest extremity of his views when they met as antagonists In the "United States Senate. The radical was unhorsed and thrown out of public life, and the conser vative can say with truth that It was he who did It Nor would he be slow to acknowledge that he did It as a punish ment for the radical's daring to assail him personally and publicly. In fact. the Impression prevails that Hanna is rather proud of the feat. Traps for Republicans. "From the time that Pettlgrew tied him self up to the Silver Republican, party he has devoted himself to making life unrltasant for the Republicans, but he never developed this faoulty so fully and completely as in the last session. No man on tr-o opposition side was so dreaded and disliked. He was cont lually digging trsrs for the Administration Senators. Some of them were serious pitfalls, and the Republicans only avoided them by creat agility, as when he Introduced a resolution, that the Republicans could hardly avoid passing without being put in a bad light, but. drew it so cunningly that to pass it would be an official ac knowledgement of Aguinaldo's govern ment. Others were of a humorous nature, and tended to put the Republicans in a harmlessly ridiculous light. One such was when he asked leavo to print a pamphlet prepared by himself and containing quo tations from the writings of "distinguished Populists," extracts from which he read. The Republicans fell over themselves to object, and then it turned out that the Quotations were from the writings of Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson. At times the badgered Republicans, wor ried beyond endurance, turned savagely on Pettlgrew, but they could not affect him. Their invective, sarcasm and anger made no Impression. There was only one occasion when Pettigrew's composure left him and he became angry. It was when he was made the victim of a tremendous rebuke by Senator Wolcott of Colorado, who has also failed of re-election, and will go out with Pettlgrew, The scene was a I remarkable one. Not even Pettlgrew and Hanna are more unlike than Pettlgrew and Wolcott Pettlgrew Is a tall man. with stooped shoulders and a pale face, deeply lined. His voice is shrill and high almost whining. To listen to It long ets the nerves on edge, Wolcott Is a big man. with a bronsed. failr fact and a tburvlerovs voice. He looks as much like a commercial traveler as Pettlgrew does like a retail dry sotkIs clerk. He Is an orator with a magical voice, of whom It can almost be said, as was said of Garrlck, "He can pronounce the word 'Oh' so as to bring tears to one's eyes." Pettlgrew had triumphantly con cluded one of his assaults on the Admin istration, when Wolcott arose, and In stantly the doors opened and the Senators who had gone into the cloakrooms when Pettlgrew began rolled in like a tide. Wolcott'a Sarape Attack. Standing not more than 10 feet away from Pettlgrew, Wolcott began his speech. He drew a picture of the South Dakotan that was pitiless in its cruelty. As he warmed up to his work he began to walk up and down, never taking his eyes off Pettlgrew, who sat huddled up In his chair, his pale face changing to a dull red and his fingers spread over his left cheek. Occasionally he strode up'to with in a desk's length of his victim and waved his big arm In the air. His great voice pealed and rolled through the Senate like an organ symphony. All the powers of that remarkable voice were displayed to r their fullest extent for the dissection and pulverization of Pettlgrew. He painted a man whose nature was poisoned with suspicion, hatred, and ma levolence; who "views the world with Jaundiced vision," and "when the sun shines sees only the shadows It costs." He held Pettlgrew up as a warning to mankind. In his peroration he strode up to Pettigrew, and shaking his big finger at him, thundered, in the voice of a hu man ocean: "I believe that if ho changed places with Agulnaldo, who is brave, loyal, and patriotic, and Agulnalao stood in the Sen ate representing the great State of South Dakota, which sent Its soldiers to the Philippines and left some of them dead in the trenches there. Agulnaldo would never Tagal though ho Is be found in this body traducing the President of the United States and slandering and ma ligning our officers now at the front and charging tbem with being swindlers and defraudersl" Pettigrew's face had changed from Its dull flush to a dead white when Wolcott concluded. He rose and made a low voiced and bitter reply. In which be made a slur at Wolcott's private life. Wolcott had angered him above all by some refer ences to Pettigrew's relations with his fellow-Senators, and Pettlgrew bitterly replied, "My relations are pleasant with most of them, and I hope the Senator from Colorado will not hide the whole Senate behind his large personality." Hanna's Threat of Revenue. Pettigrew went on day by day hurling darts into the hide of the Republican ele phant Just to hear the huge beast trum pet, until June G, when he made the fatal mistake of waking up Mark Hanna. But for that he might still be in the Senate. He had been bitterly assailing another Senator with the usual results. Suddenly, without the slightest warning, he fell upon Hanna and tore him, tooth and nail. He raked up the story of Hanna's election to the Senate, made flat-footed charges of bribery, and provoked Hanna to do some thing he had never done before make an extemporaneous reply. Hanna denounced Pettlgrew as a "traitor," and read a clip ping from a South Dakota paper calling Pettlgrew a "Judas" and. an "Arnold." At the close of his speech, leaning over his desk until he almost touched Pettl grew, whose back was toward him, he shouted: "Oh, no. Mr. President: the gentleman will find that he Is mistaken In the peo ple of the United States when he attempts through mudsllnglng to Influence their de cision at the polls next November. When it comes to personality, I will stand up against him and compare my charaoter with his. I will let him tell what he knows; then," and Mr. Hanna made a long pause after each word, "I will tell what I know about him." The threat was fulfilled. In private Hanna vowed vengeance on Pettigrew, and he pursued him relentlessly. The ven detta of politics ended In victory for the avenger. Bitter as were Pettigrew's speeches, in private he was an affable and courteous gentleman. His public personality was so strong, however, that It completely ef faced his private personality In the way men regarded him. He bocamo personally unpopular among the Republican Senators and some of the Democrats. At the same time he was an Interesting figure In public life, and Washington will not be so lively now. TAMED A CURMUDGEON. Commercial Traveler Who Called Crusty Merchant Down. "It's a hard life, that of a drummer," said one yesterday to whom 30 years of hard work has given the right to speak with authority. "It's a hard life, but it's an interesting one, and it gives a man a closo hold on hard facts and realities. The drummer learns In a hard school, but ne does learn, and the lessons pay. What Is the first lesson he has to learn? How to manage men; how to approach a re luctant or an Indifferent or a suspicious buyer so as to win his confidence and overcome his indisposition. "Experience teaches this better than anything else, though some men learn It more easily than others. I remember when I first began to travel as a sales man, when I was hardly more than a lad, I had an experience that proved very valuable to me. There was one old fel low on my route who had been known for years as the terror of all traveling men. He was declared to be absolutely the worst-natured, worst-mannered fellow they had ever met anywhere, but I hadn't even heard of him then, and handed him my card. He took it without even glanc ing at it, tore It into bits and threw the pieces on the floor. 'Now, sir,' he said, turning to me, 'get out of my store.' There were two pretty young girls in the store, who . not understand the pro ceeding, and who looked at me as I walked out as If I had been an escapee convict "Well, I smarted for several days over that affair, during which time I made up my mind that I'd even matters up with this time, and he only succeeded In giv ing his wrist a wrench and raising a titter among his customers. "I was nearly out of the door by this him If I could the next time. So before I visited his town again I had a card made expressly for my good friend. I looked exactly like the one that I had used before, only mat It was made of tin. When I reached his town I waited until I saw the store pretty well filled with people and then I walked In and gave him my card He took It Just as before, glared at me and gave the card a twist "But It didn't fall on the floor In bits time, for I really didn't think my life was safe: but ho called after me and I went back. 'Come Into my office he said. I went in, expecting never to come out" " 'What do you want to sell meT he asked. " 'Dress goods, I rosponded. " "Well, go on.' And I actually sold the old curmudgeon $1000 worth of cloths be fore I left For years after so long as he lived. In fact he was one of my best customers and one of the best friends I ever made In my business." Washington 8tar. Ineligible. Detroit Journal. In the blue mountains of Tennessee, a mother Is expostulating earnestly with her daughter. "Yes," the young girl had already said. 'Tm going to marry Bud Bajgforth!" "But" protests the mother, he la soci ally so much your inferior." ' "Love levels ranks J" the daughter sim pers simply. "Ay!" exclaims -the elder woman, with a bitter sneer. "But think of our family feuding with those impossible, gawky, parvenu Bangforths!" The girl shivers perceptibly, and yet remains unmoved IN THE SOCIAL WORLD CContinued from Fifteenth Page.) Wednesday to spend the Thanksgiving vacation at home. Hon. Claud Gatch and family, of Salem, spent Thanksgiving with Corvallls rela tives. Miss Mamie Cauthorn gave a musicals to her students from 4 to 5 Friday after noon. Each member of the class partic ipated in the programme. The affair was most pleasant Joseph Garrow, of Moscow, Idaho, of last year's graduating class of the Ore gon Agricultural College, arrived Tues day from SIssons, Cal., to spend Thanks giving with his mother. The Ladies' Coffee Club, at the regu lar meeting Monday afternoon, adopted a new constitution. It was also decided to give an "at home" to gentlemen friends In Firemen Hall, New Tear's afternoon. A delightful surprise party was given Mr. and Mrs. Lee Henkle at their home, Friday evening. The affair was in honor of the "silver wedding" or the host and BREAKING THE "Don't you think that I shoet rather well, Robcrtsr" "Ves. sir! Oh. yes, sir! Indeed, I dunno as- I over seo a better shooter, never, sir. All you need, tlr. Is to 'It as well as you shoot air, an' you'll be a wunner." Scraps. hostess. About GO guests were present A delicious luncheon wis served. Sixty members of the local lodge of Eastern Star went to Albany Tuesday evening by special train on a visit to the sister lodge. The evening was de lightfully spent special- features being a. sumptuous banquet and numerous felic itous speeches. The Corvallls delegation returned home some time after midnight Jacksonville. Charles Meyer left Jacksonville Tues day for Butte City, Mont County Judge Charles Prim and As sessor J. C. Pendleton returned from Port land Tuesday morning. Frank Ennls, who spent several months In Southern Oregon, left Jacksonville last Sunday for San Francisco. W. R. Stansell, manager of the R. R. Mining and Lumber Company, returned to Jacksonville Monday, from Portland. H. W, Woolton and wife, who have been visiting friends and relatives in our city, left on Monday for their home In Colorado. H. L. Benson, Circuit Judge of the First Judicial District, spent Tuesday in Jack sonville, on his way to Klamath Falls from Portland. W. W. Cardwell, who has been In Alas ka for the post three years, recently re turned. Mr. Cardwell spent his boyhood days in Jacksonville. District Attorney A E. Reams returned from Portland Sunday. He was accom panied by Mrs. Reams, who visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Tongue, at HIJIsboro. Lannls Kllppel, son of ex-Sheriff Kllp pel, of Medford, was recently married at Summer Lake. Lake County, to Miss Florence E. Foster, of that City. Mr. Kllppel Is a native of Jacksonville. George H. HImes, secretary of the Ore gon Historical Society, has been In Jack sonville soliciting facts and data con cerning the early history- and striking Incidents of pioneer days in Southern Ore gon. The Dulles. Mr. Grant Mays left here Tuesday for a three months' stay in California. Mrs. A J. Tolmle entertained a small party of young ladles on Friday after noon. Dr. Gertrude French, of Portland, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smith French, In this city. Mr. A E. Lake and family went to Portland on Thursday to pay a Thanks giving visit to Mr. Lake's father. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Falrfowl, of Port land, have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Schenck for the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Lueddemann have returned from their wedding journey, and will occupy the D. M. French residence on Fourth street this Winter. Mrs. D. M. French and children spent Thanksgiving In The Dalles, expecting to return to Portland early in the week, where her son and daughter are attend ing school. The first dance of he Young Men's Dancing Club was given last Friday night at the Baldwin Opera-House, and was as successful as the parties of this particu lar club always have been. Mr. Girvln Peters, of Baltimore. Md., who is spending the Winter with his uncle. Mr. J. T. Peters, in this city, re turned Thursday from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth MacRae, at their ranch in Grant County. Albany. Arthur Moon has returned to Pendleton. J. R. Wyatt has returned from his hunt ing trip at the bay. Miss Mamie McAllister, of Eugene, is visiting in the city. Ex-Sheriff J. A McFeron has gone to California for the Winter. Miss Minnie Senders, of San Francisco, is visiting friends in the city. Miss Edith Howell has returned from Dallas to spend Thanksgiving. A J. Hunt has returned to Albany after several months spent at Ontario. Mrs. E. C Small, of Salem, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. T. J. Hopkins, in this city. Miss Vlnnle Mayo returned to Portland after several weeks' visit with friends here. The c, H, P. WbUt Club held another of their regular weekly mctings last week at the A, O. U. W. Hall. The engagement h announced of Miss Joyca Brownell, of this city, to Mr. Har old Lynda Hopkins, of Paola. Kan. Several members of the Albany lodge of Knights of Pythias went to Browns ville last week to take part in the initia tion of a number of new members. jHBCtlon City. Mrs. Honcbett is visiting in Albany, the guest of her daughter. Mrs. W. Lewis and daughter, Leah, are in Halsey visiting relatives. Miss Grace Parker is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, W. H. White. W. R. White, of this city, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Ella Benham, in Cot tage Grove. Mrs. Baxter Howard, who has been vte itlng In Wendllng for the past 10 days, has returned home. Mrs. Louise Beebe and daughter, Ida, of this city, have gone to San Francisco for an extended visit The Thanksgiving ball given in the opera-house last Thursday evenlg was largely attended, there being 200 Invita tions Issued. Dr .and Mrs. N, L. Lee and son, Clair, havo returned from Portland, where they NEWS TO HIM. have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Fred Fortmiller. IfORTH OF THE COLUMBIA. .... Vancouver. . Edgar Bundy and Yens Hemichsen left on Thursday for Phoenix, Ariz., to spend the Winter. Mrs. Dixon, of British Columbia, who visited friends here several weeks, left for home the first of the week. W. H. Metcalfe, wife and son left Wednesday for The Dalles, Or,, to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. Metcalfe's mother, Mrs. Ewing. air. and Mrs. John C. Huston spent Thanksgiving with friends at Bridal Veil. General John M. Bacon returned on Wednesday from a visit to Seattle. Walla "Walla. Ray Hill Is home from an extended visit in Spokane. J. M. Douglas has gone to Portland for several weeks. Miss Mary Delaney has returned from a long visit in Spokane. Levi Ankeny and wife have returned from a visit In Portland. Miss Miller, of Portland, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. B. F. Stone. Mrs. H. Dusenberry, of San Francisco, Is the guest of Mrs. Shaw. Ben F. Goldman and bride are domiciled at The Dacres for the Winter. I Mrs. W. H. Newell Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frank J. Parker. Whitman College students had an en joyable dance Thanksgiving eve. A largely attended masque ball was given Thanksgiving eve by the firemen. Mrs. A H. Reynolds and Miss Annie Hill are visiting relatives in North Yaki ma. Mrs. William Rltz entertained the Woman's Reading Club In a delightful manner. Judge and Mrs. Brents ate Thanksgiv ing turkey with Mrs. Brents' parents, near Woltsburg. Captain B. H. Cheever, Sixth Cavalry, and wife have gone to San Francisco to spend a month's leave. Paul Compton and wife are expected from Washington City, where they have been visiting his parents. Hon. George W. Somerindyko, Jr., cams over from Seattle to eat Thanksgiving turkey with his parents. v Mrs. J. D. Laman has returned from Marshaltown. la., where she had been visiting her daughter for several weeks. Mrs. Albert Goldman's two nieces, Miss Amle Stelnman, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Miss Hilda Kline, of San Francisco, are visiting her. St Paul's schoolgirls had a merry coaching party Thanksgiving; Their coaches were decked in yellow and black, the school colors. Lieutenant C. W-. Oiwell, Seventh In fantry, has arrived from Vancouver, and will be In command at Fort Walla Walla during the absence of Captain Cheever. Thursday afternoon about 30 ladles took their sewing and repairing to the residence- of Mrs. F. W. Paine passed a de lightful time. Delicate refreshments were served. Tuesday evening half a score of ladies armed themselves with cakes and made a raid on the residence of Mrs. Jack Jones, whom they found putting her young son to bod. The Invaders took possession of the house and had a jolly time till midnight GhcuRll. Mrs. M. A Adams is at home again after an ,extended visit In Oregon. A R. Badger, of Toledo, was Ytoltlng acquaintances in Chehalla early this week. Miss Hazel Husler has returned to Ta coma after a visit with her grandparents in ChebaUs. Mrs. W. C Greene is home after spend ing the Summer visiting relatives In New York State. Mr. A Mealy and family, after & resi dence o eeveral years in Chehalls, have moved to Seattle. 8. C. White, who has been In Skagway all Summer, is at home, and will spend the Winter with his family In Chehalls. Herman Slegrist and Fred Long, two of ChehalU wdJ.knoTm elty ra, are home after a week spent with friends in Portland. - - Mr. Park Harvey, of Kelso, Cowlitz County-, was married to Miss Mary Bur ton, of Lewis County, by Justice West over, In Chehalls, last Sunday. The Chehalls fire department gave Its eighth annual ball Thanksgiving evening. The occasion was one of much enjoy ment to the large party present. Miss Effie Coftman Is visiting her sis ter, Mtss Marian Coffman, in Seattle. The two young ladles spent Thanksgiving In Everett as the guests ,of Mrs. G. W. Kirk. Dr. J. M. Gunn. of Friday Harbor, was in Chehalls this week. Dr. Gunn has been extended a call by the Presbyterian congregation of Chehalls to become pas tor of their church. Centralis. Mrs. Helen E. Borst and little daugh ter are visiting relatives in Portland. Professor arid Mrs. S. H. Hamer, for merly of this city, aro sow living at Midway, B. C. Mrs. E. C. Mullen, of Riverside, Cal., is in the city visiting her daughter, Mrs. Harry McCormlck. Miss Carrie Taylor left Tuesday for Minnesota, where she will remain sev eral months visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Williams, of Port land, are In the city visiting the lattera parent, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Miller. . A most enjoyable dinner was given on Thursday evening, in honor of Mrs. J. E. Williams, by Mr. and "Mrs. George H. Miller. More properly speaking, the occa sion was a family reunion. A very successful masquerade ball was given at the Centralla Opera-Houee by the orchestra. A large number of mask ers were in attendance, and maqy hand some costumes were on the floor. Prizes were awarded for the most graceful dancers and best-sustained character. Aberdeen. Mr. and Mrs. Carman and Mr. and Mrs. Tanner gave a very pleasant danc ing party at Fireman's Hall, Thursday, evening, to over 200 Invited guests; lunch eon was served and dancing continued to the morning hours. It was one of the roost successful parties given this year. A piano recital was given by Mrs. Gunn at her home, Wednesday evening. The programme was varied and well-rendered, and at Its close a delightful luncheon was served. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Great Pleasure Over Football Re sults Class Election. EUGENE. Nov. 29. The air Is still full of football, the splendid stand of the first eleven against Multnomah's muscle and mud, the overwhelming victory scored by 'W against the plucky little chaps of the Portland Academy, and the coming Interstate struggle with the men of Wash ington, have conspired to make the grid iron and Its warriors the sole center of attention. The enterprise of the manage ment In getting this last game Is worthy of all praise. It bos thus given us a fitting close to Oregon's best football sea sonthe first to score a Berkeley defeat at the hands of a non-Callfornian team. As the Thanksgiving game was held In Portland, the 'Varsity Glee Club gave their fourth annual concert on Tuesday evening. They were greeted with a large house and one liberal in deserved ap plause. The club has a better lot of voices than ever before, and their training has been most thorough. Several numbers were splendidly rendered, but there was a general feeling of disappointment con cerning the quality of the songs chosen and the amount of light comedy work given place In the programme. Director Glen's baritone solos and Arthur Frazer's work on the piano were of very excep tional merit The club's holiday tour will be through Southern Oregon, and possi bly m some of the Valley cities. Professor Young and Professor Schafer, of the department of history, are plan ning to do some research work In the state archives at Salem during the few dayt of the Thanksgiving recess. The class of '01 has chosen Susie Ban nard, of Brownsville, and Richard Shore Smith, of Klamath Falls, as Its repre sentatives In the local oratorical contest to be held the second Friday in February. Miss Bannard has been a leader In the Eutaxlon Society, and Is one of the ed itors of the Oregon Weekly. Mr. Smith has long been well and favorably known as a football-player and track athlete of great prowess, and. Incidentally, Is one of our hard students. U. O. will, In any event, be well represented, when the or atdrs gather for their windy fray. . The Junior class Is making a great bid for fame with a Junior Annual of the sort usually published at live universities. It will be out sometime later, and every one is dreading to find a Just appreciation of himself between Its covers. The Y. M. C. A fellows are working hard to get everything In readiness for their state convention, to be held here December 7 to 10. Speakers of known power are to take part In some very promising programmes, and it Is hoped to bring the full meaning and helpfulness of this movement for right living among college men close home to all undergrad uate Oregonlans. The literary societies bpth held their usual meetings last Friday evening, both debating phases of the predominant East, era question. With the shelving of foot ball this work comes to the front and the numerous college talkers will mani fest themselves as of old during the rainy season now well upon us. CORVALLIS COLLEGE KEWS. Literary Society Slovemeats College Y. M. C A. Literary society spirit Is running high In college circles at the present time. Already there are six societies and two more are in process of organization. At the present time there arc students enough for ten active lyceums. The members of Cauthorn Hall Interest ed in photography have organized a camera club, the object of which Is de velopment and Improvement in the art ot amateur photography. The following of ficers were elected: M. F. Bridges, presi dent and L. Burnaugh, secretary and treasurer. This society will have a room fitted especially for Its use, and will hold regular meetings where Important sub jects can be discussed under the super vision of competent leaders. The Jeff ersonlan Literary Society, which Is one- of -the oldest organizations oL the kind in the institution, recently de cided to make a special study of the rules that govern parliamentary usage; there upon every member in the society pro cured a copy of Roberts' Rules of Or der Last Saturday evening the Phlladel phlans gave a reception to the Plerians, about TO persons being present The reception-room and dlnlng-hall were artis tically decorated Jn class colors and ever greens, many elegant mottoes being neat ly engrossed on the walls of the assembly-rooms. The president Mr. Thomas Bllyeu, served as toastmaster, and the following persons responded to the toasts, "Our School Days," Miss Edith Howard; "The New Woman." D. A. Fruit; "The Ideal Man," Miss Sibyl Cummlngs. Mr. Cummlngs spoke on The Dawning of the New Century." "Our Brother Society" was responded to by Miss Elsie Canfleld, who stated that among the members of the "Phlladelphlan Society "we find the president of the student body, the editor-in-chief of our college paper, the president of the freshman class, and many others who have already gained distinction for themselves, for their Boclety, and for the college. Leo Kraps responded to "Our Sister Society" In a few well-chosen words ot praise, all of which prepared the way nicely for the beautiful closing of the Plerlan-Adelphlan social and literary re union. The freshmen of Cauthorn Hall have organized a football team, and are pre paring for active work. At a recent meet ing the following officers were elected: j Captain. Ira Whitney; vaijitfer, Roy J Luttrell, and coach, L. Burnaugh. Ar rangement are being made for a gamo with the freshmen living in town. There is much good material in the hall, and the coach thinks that with considerable practice a first-class team will be had. Much interest Is being taken In their com ing game. B. T. Colton, international secretary oi the young Men's Christian Association, spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the young men of this institution, hold ing meetings each day he was here. Through his visit probably 30 students have been added to the Y. M. C. A ot this college, swelling- the membership to about TO. The officers of the Y. M. C. A. at the O. A C. are as follows; Presi dent E. R. Shepard; secretory, W. If. Hillman: treasurer, I. C. Brown.; corre sponding secretary, G. H. Thompson. Thanksgiving vacation this year has been extended until next Monday Inclu sive, to accommodate students throughout the Valley who wished to spend Thanks giving Day at home. DAINTIES FOR THE TABLE Well-Tried Home Recipes That May Aid Ye Burdened Housewife In Serving Family Meals. In this festal season of the year, ushered in by our National holiday of Thanksgiv ing, observed throughout the length and breadth of the land on Thursday last and merging Into the Christmas holidays, when good-fellowship and good cheer and thoughtful remembrance of others reign supreme, one's mind naturally turns to the contemplation of good things to eat Feasting plays no unimportant part in the programme provided, from now on until the bells, on the 1st of January next shall ring in a new century. Ana thoughts of what one shall eat naturally lead to the consideration of methods of preparing what Is to be eaten. For the benefit of The Oregonlan's women read ers, therefore the writer has collated some cooking recipes which have been tried and not found wanting, and here they are: Sew England Clam Chowder. This recipe of clam chowder Is vouched, for by a New England housewife: Put in a big kettle enough thin slices of salt pork to cover the bottom, and on the pork put a layer of potatoes cut in small dices. Next should come a layer of chopped onions; then a layer of clams, chopped, and then a layer of crackers. Repeat the process, leaving out the pork, until the kettle Is nearly full, and season well with salt, pepper, a little thyme and a couple of bay leaves. When th whola is In the kettle, pour over It all the clam juice and fill the kettle with water up to the upper layer. Cover It closely, set It over a slow fire; let It cook gently three-quarters of an hour? then serve. Fritters of Chicken. To piepare a very palatable chicken frit ter, make a sauce with one heaped table spoonful of flcur, copked in one table spoonful of hot butter, one cupful of hot chicken stock being added gradually; season with celery, salt and pepper. The sauce should be quite thick, and cream may be used, if you have no stock. Pour half of the sauce Into a small, shallow, buttered pan. Chop one cupful of cold chicken quite fine, and season it with celery, salt and paprika. When the sauce has thickened a little, spread the chicken evenly over the top. Then cover with the remainder of the sauce, being sure to mask all the chicken. Place it on ice, and, when very cold and hard, cut It into small square or oblong pieces. Dip them quickly Into fritter batter, made as for apple fritters, and fry in hot, deep fat Oyster Omelet. To make an oyster omelet, stew a dozen oysters in their own liquor until they are plump. Then remove, drain and cut them In two. Put Into a frying pan two tablespoonfuls of the oyster liquor, a tea spoonful of butter and a sprinkle of flour. Cook for three minutes and add the oys ters. Make a plain omelet, and when it is ready to turn, pour the oyster mixture over it. Fold and serve. A French cook never beats the whites and yolks of the eggs used in an omlet separately. They are broken together In a bowl, and beaten till a spoonful can be taken up. Before they are beaten a tablespoonful of water to each gg is added, and when the mixture is ready for the pan, a dust of pepper and half a teaspoonful of salt to every six eggs are lightly stirred in. Sweetbreads "With Peas. To prepare sweetbreads with peas or mushrooms, clean the swetbread3 thor oughly, and parboil for 20 minutes. Then take the skin off. Cook them in a frylpg pan or oven. Add the desired vegetables and smother with drawn gravy, made with flour and laid on butter butter gives the better flavor. Cook In juice from the sweetbreads and a little water. Cook until brown; add sweetbreads to gravy; season to taste. When finished, odd the green peas or mushrooms. Speaking of mushrooms, this makes a good sauce: Stew some mushrooms In veal gravy, with salt, pepper and butter. Rub together a tablespoonful each of flour and cream. Add this to the mush rooms, and, when thickened, it is ready to serve, hot. If a brown mushroom sauce is desired, have the flour browned. Other Beclpes. To make sauce for veal cutlets, take two tablespoonfuls of drippings, one fourih cup of flour, one pint of stock, or water and stock; one teaspoonful or more of Worcestershire sauce, two tablespoon fuls ot chopped pars-ley, one-half table spoonful of salt and one-eighth of a tea spoonful of pepper. Prepare as a brown sauce, and pour over the cutlets and cook at a temperature of about ISO degrees, Fahr.. for one hour, or until tender. To boll onions so that they shall lose their scent take the largest onions, cut off the strings and tops, but do not re move any of the skin. Put them into salt and water; let them lie an hour, and then take them out Wash them and put tbem into a saucepan, with a good quan tity of water. Boll until they are tender, drain and remove the outer skins until the white part is reached. Then pound them and cook with cream and butter. If kept whole, they may be served with a strong brown gravy, to which a little white wine, claret or ale may be added, If desired. Thins Worth Knowing. Boll eggs for 15 minutes, If required hard. , All jars containing stores should be covered. Fish and onions, or strongly flavored foods, must be kept separate. After slicing onions, put the knife at once into cold water; it removes the smell better than hot When U3lng frozen meat the great point a to slowly and thoroughly thaw It beforo cooklpg. Thin-shelled eggs are less liable to crack when boiled. If put on In cold water and slowly brought to the boll. Use boiling water when It first bolls, or the gases escape and the water becomes flat. Butter, unless clarified, should not be used for greasing tins, etc, as it easily burns. Put the sugar used for sweetening fruit tarts Jn the middle of the fruit not on the top, or It will sodden the pastry. If raw yolks of" eggs are left over from a dish, beat them up with a teaspoonful of water to each yolk and they will nofc dry lip. Avoid banging oven doors while baking; It is the cause of many cakes and pastry being heavy. If using tinned apricots or peaches, a drop or two of almond essence added is an Improvement, as it supplies the loss o & km! iJreorinf. s, PRESS CENSOR AT MANILA RECOLLECTION OF DAYS WHETi Q HAD POWER OF A CZAR. Present Conditions Make the. Lot at the Correspondent jt Fairly Happy One. The removal of the press censorship la the Philippines, by order of General McArthur takes away a serious obstacle to the dissemination of news from that territory, says the Kansas City Star. That is, at least, the current Impres sion among newspaper readers. Whether It will make any appreciable difference in the tenor or volume of dispatches from the Orient Is for the Immediate future to determine. Press censorship Is everywhere recog nized as a military necessity. The cablo into Manila Harbor, terminating at an In significant shed-like structure not a hun dred yards from the beach In Malate, a pleasant suburb of Manila, has been a bone ol contention from the time Admiral Dewey cut the cable after the destruction, of the Spanish fleet, May 1, 1S0S, to with in a few months ago, when the cable com pany filed a large claim for Indemnity with the Secretary of State for damages sustained In the cutting of the cable. Its cutting was a military necessity. Ad miral Dewey asked for permission to uso the wire and it was refused. He then cue the wire. Interrupting a dispatch ad dressed to Madrid telling of a magnificent victory for the Spanish fleet With the subsequent occupation of Ma nila by the land forces under General Mer rltt the cable wa3 repaired and the of ficials of the company maintained com munication with the outside world under the rigid supervision of the commanding; General of the United States Army. A rigid press censorship was established. Colonel Thompson, chief of the United States Signal Corps, was made press cen sor. His relentless blue pencil made life miserable for the newspaper correspond ents who had followed the Army of oc cupation. If the censorship was rigid following the taking of Manila, It was much more so after the outbreak of hos tilities In February, 1899, Cipher dis patches were absolutely prohibited unless the cipher was known to the censor. Private and business dispatches wero held up. If not prohibited, while the wire groaned with the official reports to tho Secretary ot War and other official busi ness. And General Otis 'took a personal Interest In the supervising of the dis patches sent out by the newspaper cor respondents. In addition to his arduous duties of administering civil government, transporting and providing commissary supplies for a vast army, and conducting an active field campaign, General Otis gavo much of his personal time to the ed tlng of dispatches submitted by weary and Impatient correspondents. He was. rigid in bis requirements, and It was not long until a system of smuggling dis patches to Hong Kong was begun and carried through with more or less suc cess. This was found ppnerally unsatis factory, for the reason that It took from five to eight days to get a dispatch to Hong Kong on any of the steamers that sailed three times a week from Manila to Hong Kong. Cabling of casualties was absolutely prohibited, and private dis patches to relatives of men who died or had been killed In action were held back until the news had been officially wired to the War Department at Washington. General Otis was not averse to dictating tho tenor of war dispatches, and It is re corded that one correspondent with a ten dency to hero-making was rebuked by having the blue pencil drawn through a message telling of Colonel 's courage at the Tulljan River, accompanied by the suggestion that if there was any hero making to do he (General Otis) would do It. The English newspapers published in Manila had a wearisome time of It Al most every Item and every article of local news or message from the firing lino passed under the uncompromising bluo pencil of the press censor, and woe be tide any newspaper unfortunate enough to Invoke the wrath of the press censor. Acting on the best of authority one of. the newspapers published an item (a short time previous to the outbreak) to the effect that the German merchants of Ma nila had closed their stores on a tip from Agulnaldo that the city was to be at tacked by the Insurgent forces. The Gen mans resented the appearance of the item by withdrawing their advertising patron age, and a mass meeting of Germans was held protesting against the insinuation that the Germans were in apparent sym pathy with the rebellion. The Germair Consul sent message to the authorities at Berlin. The autocrat of the war de partment at Berlin sent a dispatch to the Secretary of State at Washington, and a wire was sent In hot haste to General Otis to compel the paper to make suitabla retraction or stand the consequences. Act ing under orders from General Otis, Gen eral Hughes. Provost Marshal, suspended the publication of the paper. The ed itors were not disposed to back down at once, but were told that In order to re sume publication they must publish a re tractlqn. An apology to the effect that the paper had published an Item concern ing the German merchants that had dis pleased the military authorities, and that thereafter the newspaper would refrain, under the circumstances, from publishing anything not In accordance with the ex pressed wish of the officials in author ity was submitted to General Otis. The editor did not expect this apology to be accepted, but much to lus surprise it was, and he was allowed to resume pub lication, and the paper has been pub lished continuously ever since. With the censorship now removed It ought to be easier to get full and more exact Information concerning the doings of an army of T0.000 soldiers now engagea in the annual movement against the in surgent stronghold. But with the an nouncement of the removal of the censor ship comes the dispiriting information that the officials of the cable company must furnish a copy of all press dis patches to the office of the military Gov ernor of the Philippines. Thus It will be comparatively easy to suppress an over-zealous correspondent In the Ar my an undesirable officer Is put Into Cov entry. He has a comparatively easy time In his isolation to the newspaper correspondent in the Philippines who Is under the ban of the military authorities. Chinese Estimate of "Woman's Worth, A woman's value in China, says R. E. Speer, in Frank Leslie's Popular Month ly for November, 13 as the mother of sons. Beyond that she lives for the serv ice of man, sometimes even for the dead. I have heard of a girl who became en gaged and was married to a dead man, whose parents did not think it right that he should he a bachelor In the splrl world. In South China there are In some places baby markets, where infant girls can be bought for 50 cents or less. Dr. Martin, President ot the Dowager Em press's new university, says that not on? woman out of 10,000 can read a book un derstandlngly . I asked a group ot, Chinese once why the women were not taught. One replied: "We consider wom en inferior and unworthy." A second said, "The women are considered of not very great use." A third answered: "Tho Chinese have many Immoral novels, and keep women Ignorant so that they cannot read these." A fourth said: "Woman'sr work Is In the house. She has no busi ness with anything outside." i i Xha famous blind oculist Dr. Javal, a mem ber of the Paris Academy of Medicine, and director of the Sorbonno Opthalmological lab oratory, has just been simultaneously promoted to the higtest rank la the French Legion of Honor and decorated with the Black Eagle. This double decoration has met with enthusi astic approbation from all quarters, and the distinguished specialist has bea falrjf 4iu4 wl&jgongr&tvlaUoBS.