The Sunday Oregonian., July 06, 1902, PART TWO, Page 11, Image 11

THE SUNDAY OEEGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 6, 3,902.
IX
NEW-CLERKS ARE CHOSEN
COUJfTY OFFICERS-ELECT MAKE
SEX.ECTJOXS OF DEPDTIES.
Radical Changes in Many Places
JfeTr Regime 1V111 Ucsln
. ' Monday, i.
The new county officers take charge on
Monday at noon, and the selections of
new deputies have alroady been made.
County Clerk Frank Fields has made
public the names of his appointees as fol
lows: James S. McCord. chief deputy in
the recording: department; A. C. Smith,
chief In the State Circuit Court, and A.
C. Bancroft, in the County Clerk's office
proper. The other deputies will be:
George Wilson, Halvor- Ra3ch, Harry
Bamford, J L. Dunlap, F. W. Prasp, J.
H. Bush, W. O. Kerns, Robert Reld, Ma
rion Johnson, Theodore "Wells, J. J.
Chambreau, Mrs. Elizabeth Layman,
Mrs. E. H. Allen, Miss UL A. Henson,
Miss 3Iinnie S. Phillips and Miss E. M.
Hess. Messrs. Dunlap, Kerns and Miss
Hess have been employed under Clerk
Swetland, and are all experienced and
competent. McCord has been for two
years chief deputy under Recorder Beach,
and Miss Henson Is a copyist in the office.
Miss Phillips and Mrs. Allen have been
employed at the Circuit Court Clerk's of
fice for a long: time.
James M. Stott will succeed Horaco W.
Thlelsen as chief deputy Sheriff. Deputies
under Sheriff Storey will be: Charles R.
Frazler, Penumbra Kelly, .Fred Matthews,
H. Schneider, Charles Johnson and John
Versteeg. The first three and also Stott
have served under Sheriff Frazler. Mr.
' Stott Is a capable man, and will make a
good TJndersherlff. In the tax depart
ment Sheriff Storey will have D. S. Dry
den, M. Relnsteln, F. E. Chamberlain,
,George L. Durham, cashier (reappointed),
IDavld Steel (reappointed), "Walt Daniels.
D. D. Jackson will bo County Jailer.
2C. C. Ovlatt, who has done first-class
work as head of the tax department un-
'der Sheriff Frazler, does not desire to
'hold the "place longer, as he intends en
gaging in business for himself.
Captain R. S. Greonleaf will be Deputy
County Surveyor under John M. Hurl
burL It is stated that F. Otto Burckhardt
will be deputy under County Auditor Carl
Srandes.
Jay H. Upton will be stenographer, for
County Judge Webster, and S. Bullock,
'bailiff.
-For County Physician, to succeed Dr.
Harry F. McKay, who has resigned,'. Dr.
Hamilton, who Is in Dr. A. C. Smith's
office. Is being favorably mentioned.
CARED FOR JESSE JAMES.
T)r. Ridge Relates an Incident of tho
Dead Bandit's Life.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A gentleman of stalwart, erect figure,
full, flowing white beard and altogether
of a distinguished appearance, not unlike
a retired Admiral in his white traveling
cap, attracted attention in the Grand Ho
tel lobby yesterday. It was Dr. L M.
Hldge, of Kansas City, Mo., who saved
Jesse James' life when he lay desperately
wounded and hunted day and night dur
ing the Civil "War. Dr. Ridge is accom
panied by his wife, who is the daughter of
Bartjett Campbell, deceased, of this cityr
prominent In the commercial circles of tho
city in his time and one of the organizers
of the Chamber of Commerce. They are
here to .visit relatives and old friends.
Asked to relate his professional experience
and personal knowledge of the famous
bandit, Dr. Ridge replied:
"My acquaintance with the James fam
ily dates back to 1S4S, when I went to
Kansas City to practice my profession.
The James boys were then little fellows,
.and the family resided in Kansas City,
then a straggling, Tlver-bank village ot
less than 400 population, for it had only
400 people when the cholera A'lsltedlt in
1549. The father of the James boys wan an
eloquent Baptist minister, a man of edu
cation and refinement, and of excellent
antecedents. He died while on his way to
California to recover his rapidly falling
health. The widow afterwards married
Dr. Samuels, -nho purchased a farm in
Clay County, Missouri, about 30 miles
from Kansas City, where the family was
living when the Civil "War broke out in all
its border hate and fury.
"Jesse was shot In a fight in Ray Coun
ts', Missouri, and was carried off the field
by his comrades In arms and secreted
from tho enemy, who were hunting him
by hundreds in every direction. Thomas
James, Jesse's uncle, a reputable mer
chant and citizen of Kansas Cjty, who
amassed a fortune, came to me and re
lated his nephew was nigh unto death and
asked mo if I Would give him my pro
fessional attention. It was a dangerous
undertaking, but I agreed to do the best
I could, and Mr. James then told me where
to find Jesse. The wounded boy, for such
lie was then in 1SC2, lay hidden In a gar
ret of a little wayside and isolated inn
on the north side of the Missouri River,
near the ferry. Just across from Kansas
City, in Clay County. The little tavern
was owned and kept by John Mlmms,
whose wife was Jesse's aunt, his father's
elster. I knew all tho country thereabouts
well, and got to the place by a circuitous
route on horseback. I hitched my horse
out In the thick underbrush and made
my way Into the house by the back way,
the 'family aware of my coming. I was
6hown to a room in the second story and
then into a clothes closet, from the floor
of which a small movable ladder reached
ito a trap door opening Into the Joft. There
lay Jesse in great pain and in a very dan
gerous condition, for he had received no
medical attention. A minnle ball aa big
as my thumb had entered his right breast
above tho nipple and passed clear through
his body. I visited him clandestinely for
two months, and as soon as ho was able
to sit steadily in the saddle he mounted
his horse and rode away to war again."
HAS A BOOK BLACK LIST.
Evnnston Library Bars Mnny "Well
Known "Works.
Chicago Tribune.
Boccaccio's "Decameron," Hardy's
"Jude, the Obscure," and Marion Har
land's "Dr. Dale" on these books has
fallen the heavy hand of Evanston's dis
approval. No longer do they smile down upon
patrons of thepubllc library and seem to
invite tho young and unwary to peruse
them. Theyaro on the Index Evanston
iensls and are exiled to the dusty, dreary
region where bad books go when they
are found out.
To secure one of these frowned upon
volumes one 'must apply in person to the
librarian and satisfy that official that the
applicant Is a proper person to read the
volume more proper than the book Itself.
No children or other impressionable per
son can hope to pass the searching ex
amination which is to precede the produc
tion of the volumes. '
But there are others. On the proscribed
list is "A Lady of Quality," by Frances
Hodgson Burnett.
Julian Hawthorne, as the author ot "A
Fool of Nature," also comes under the
ban. and "Sir Richard Calmady," by Lu
cas Malet, Is another.
"The Aristocrats," by Gertrude Ather
ton. hereafter will only be handled from
the library to the favored few, and the
same is the case with "The Secret Or
chard," by Egerton Gastle, and "Orloff and
His TVife." by Maxim Gorky."
"If I Were King," by Justin McCarthy,
is not in the strictly proscribed list, but
protests against It have been received by
the. library authorities.
"Tess of the D'Urbervillea' by Thomas
Hardy, is under suspicion.
Evanston Itself, or such proportion of
Evanston as may be what the world calls
literaryris responsible for the smashing of
idols. The system .of suppression is simple,
TVhenev.er-a patrdn of the library objects
T to a book it is examined by the librarian
of one of the assistants. Then, it it is
found to bo "unfit for the use of the young
or the impressionable," it is put on the
blacklist.
Once on the blacklist it is the province
of the librarian to decide who shall be the
"favored few."
"While the censorship is in full sway
wicked persons are conspiring not a. hun
dred feet from the library. There, in a'
book store, can be found the outpourings
of the eoul of Mary MacLane, with her
"damn, damn, damn."
This book, however, is not even on the
blacklisted catalogue of the library.
v"Wllllam 8. Lord, secretary of the board
of directors, said that the blacklisted books
had not been "excluded from circulation
altogether," but that they "were to bo kept
away from "tho young and those who
might be harmed by them."
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THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
Interesting: History of a Koted Re
ligions Paper.
New York Sun.
'.The sale of the New York Observer last
week brings up many interesting remi
niscences of religious Journalism in -this
country and of the division thatdlsturbed
so long the peace of the Presbyterian
COD A. aTKEXXA .
President D. P. Thompson Gram
mar School Alumni,
Church, of the stanchest school of which
that paper was the earliest and most con
sistent organ.
In -iS23. when the Observer was estab
lished, Presbyterianlfim was the most pow- j
enui religious lnuucnce in ew a one a.
very great part; of,, tho baroT, the;-most
substantial "business element, and of the
most notable intellectual and social circles
of our society was connected with that
church. The Roman Catholic population
of New York was then small, both rela
tively and actually; In 1S27 It was esti
mated by a Bishop of that church at only
about 25,000. though it had increased large
ly during tho decade by reason of the Irish
immigration. The whole population of the
town was in 1S30 about 200.000; and it had
increased by nearly one-half since 120.
"When in 1S09 the Trinity Corpbration be
gan tho building of St. John's Church In
Varick street there was surprise at the
spending of so much money to put up a
church In that marshy region on tho out
skirts of tho town. Those were very primi
tive days for New York. In 1S22, the year
before the establishment of tho Observer,
came a virulent visitation of yellow fever,
the mortality from which -was more than
1200 between July and November, and the
panic-stricken inhabitants moved helter
skelter to hastily constructed refuges in
Greenwich village, or the then open part
of the ialand. In 1S23 the epidemic raged
still moro violently, and the temporary
emigration to the northward was repeated.
In Broadway at that time there were only
scattered buildings above tCanal street.
In 1S23 Sidney Edwards Morse came to
New York for the purpose of starting a
rellgibus paper, and, with his brother,
Richard Carey Morse, founded the Ob
server. The two wero brothers of the
Illustrious Morse to whom wo owe practi
cal telegraphy, and were sons of the Rev.
Jedidiah Morse, who studied theology un
der the famous Jonathan Edwards, and
was a life-long assailant of the Unltarian
ism which had Invaded the Puritan pre
serve of New England. Sidney came to
New York after a successful experience
In establishing and conducting at Boston
the first religious newspaper published in
America, the Boston Recorder, founded
In 1815. It is an interesting circumstance
that he had been Induced to undertako
that earlier task by Jeremiah Evarte, no
table for his connection with tho great
Congregational foreign missionary society
and also as the father of tho late and
distinguished William Maxwell Evarts.
In 1S5S the Rev. Dr. fiamuel Irenaeus
Prime became a part owner -of the Ob
server, which then had grown Into a val
uable property, and as Its editor, before
and afterward, he gavo distinction to tho
paper. Dr. Prime was a man of an en
gaging personality into whoso genial na
ture little of the iron of Calvinism seemed
to have entered, though that It was in his
head the long leadership by his- paper of
the strictest school of Presbyterlanlsm
demonstrated. Al this time tho Observer
had a very large patronage at the South,
for it was the target for Abolition assault.
Its' Southern Presbyterian patrons may
not havo been prompt pay, but their ac
counts were good!, even if they had run
unpaid for half a generation, and by the
collection of thoso past' dues, when the
cotton crop was- especially rich, the Ob
server got a handsome revenue. Of
course, the Civil "War shut off that source
of profit, but when the terrible conflict
was over many of these old dobts were
paid under the impulse of the stern Pres
byterian conscience of tho South. Dr.
Prime was a voluminous author, and one
of his many books, "The Power of
Prayer," which gave the history of tho
great religious revival in 1S57, or "The
Great Awakening," as It is called, was
translated into French and into a dialect
of the East Indies and was sold by the
hundred thousand.
The time of the editorship of Dr. Prime
was the most prosperous period in tho
long history of the Observer. Of recent
Vears thnf nannr 'haa vlmr-ast &
our religious newspapers generally. The
aeciine or religious faith, or of religious
partisanship, together with the increasing
preference of the religious public for so
called secular papers, has drained very
much of the life out of them.' In the old
days the Observer had two distinct de
partments, "Religious" and "Secular,"
and so arranged that the paper could be
sharply divided for Similar and fn-r vir.
j day reading respectively. In the one, the
wunu t.o come was the theme; in the
other, tttis world of fact and sensa and
self-seeking.
In the search after lost prosperity sev
eral formerly religious newspapers, the
Independent and the Outlook, for exam
ple, have cast off religion as a distin
guishing feature and have become sub
stantially "secular," with the little of re
ligion they contain very much diluted
and sugared to suit the more skeptical
or purely aesthetic taste of this tlmo.
Generally the appearance of the papers
which still seek to justify their title as
religious Is not now suggestive of material
prosperity. Handsome fortunes, like those
of the Morses, which had their foundation
In the Observer, and still have conspicuous
practical illustration in the large Morse
Building at Beekman and Nassau streets,
are no longer obtainable from the publi
cation of distinctively religious papers.
Nor does there remain to thrm mn thn
i shadow of the powerful. influence they
once wieiaea in tneir churches. - ,
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GHOSTS OF OLDER DAYS
EAIUT CEXTUItr SPIRITS JOfOWJi
Kf "WASniXGTOX.
Many Persons Frightened "by Tomb
ot Decatur "Benntlfnl Marcla
Barns" and General Van Ness.
"Did you ever see a ghost?
This question was asked contemplatively
.the other day by one of the oldest resi
dents of the district, and he answered It
himself, says an article in the "Washington
Star.
"No. Nor I nor any one else. Never
theless we "Washington school boys of 1S33
and 1S40 had established In our own minds
two or three hobgoblin, scarecrow strong
holds from which no amount or reasoning
or ridicule could exorcise the ghosts.
There was a strong vein of superstition
in thoso early days and w boys struck
It rich.
"In the first place, beyond the slashes
to the north of us were Meridian Hill and
tho tomb of Commodore Decatur. Al-
THE D. P. THOMPSON
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
ALUMNI
The D. P. Thompson Grammar
School Alumni cae a reception to
the new graduates at tho "home of
Yallle Collins, on Thursday even
ing. July 3. The new members in
troduced were: Esther Peterson, Essie-
Lcary, Gertie Stopper, Cora
Bhorey. Frelda Blelck, Maggie Jen
son. Handle Eaverts, Victor Vlcrs
dorf and Charles Norton. The ad
dress of welcome was delivered by
the president. After the formal cer
emonies were oer the evenlne was
spent In games, .songs and a gen
eral good time. Professor George Ev.
Jamison, principal of the D. P.
Thompson School, and Laura Myers,
teacher of the class, were prominent
among the visitors.
ready crumbling the vault was and the
iron bars of the two little side windows
on the hillside were bent and broken.
But wo boys, even when wo peeked in
and were scared out of a month's growth,
could seo nothing except a dimly defined
fioffln. In which our imagination beheld
Decatur, who had been recently deposit
ed there after his encounter with Commo
dore Barron. "What a pity thoso two
could not have mado it up and remained
friends!
"Another spot was opposite our school
house. Just east of and adjoining the
Protestant Orphan Asylum, erected and
endowed by 'the beautiful Marcla Burns,'
daughter of 'Obstinate Davy,' so christen
ed by George Washington, and wife of
General John Poter Van Ness, M. C,
from New York, citizen and Mayor of
"Washington. President of the Metropoli
tan Bank, etc
The "Temple of Vesta."
"'Obstinate Davy' had surrendered to
General Washington and yielded a moiety
of his broad acres for the National seat
of government, then died, bequeathing the
rest of them and all his other possessions
to the 'Beautiful Marcla, who had pre
viously been gobbled up by tho dashing
Representative from tho empire state.
She must have loved him at least at
first. She gave everything over to him,
and he built himself a magnificent man
sion on the- north bank of the Potomac,
not a stone's throw from the cottage
which had been the birthplace and homo
of Marcla, and. where sho often took
refuge to tho day of her death to brood
on the dissatisfactions of life. She be
came a 'devotee,' a recluse, and built In
addition to this asylum a couple of
churches and the mausoleum patterned
upon the Temple of Vesta in Rome, In
which she and the General should He
side by side forever.
"The terrible year of 1832, when the
cholera seized "Washington, was tho coun
terpart of tho slaughter of the first-born
In Egj-pt, and every household bewailed
its dead. Marcla Burns died unnoticed,
but not of tho plague, and left tho gay
widower to his devices and tha use of
all her Inheritance.
"This Temple of Vesta was a regular
bugaboo to all the Washington boys ot
that day. It stood directly on H street,
divided from It only by a high, straight
barred black Iron fence and a grassy
mound surrounding Its pillared circum
ference. Its steps of the same dark brown
stone of which the mausoleum was built.
"Oh, the horrid groans, the dismal sighs,
the shrill shrieks and screams that Issued
from that vault day and night when
Marcla Burns lay there alone all those
years from 1S36 to 1840! All we boys who
dared strove to catch a glimpse of her in
the awful habiliments of the grave.
Ghosts in the Octagon House.
"The Octagon House at that time was
haunted. Of course it was. So was Dick
Adams' old turner shop, on D street, be
tween Ninth and Tenth streets northwest,
a few doors above the corner of Ninth,
where I was born and lived for 23 years.
The Octagon House was one of tho Dick
inson Taylor many fine mansions.
"Certcs, there are ghoste, and ghosts
every where, as 'every old man knows, but
unimaginative people cannot see them.
"The way in which Van Nes3 became a
citizen and Mayor of Washington was
this: Smitten by the charms of the 'Beau
tiful Marcla' and the broad acres of db
stlnate Davy, tho gallant representative
of a New York district began to neglect
his Congressional duties and his indignant
constituents. And when he accepted some
military appointment in the District of
Columbia militia, that was the last feath
er. They appealed to Congress, which
quietly relieved him from the office he had
held from the year 100. He was removed
on the 17th of January, 1803, and settled
down In Washington in the grand and
extensive mansion ho had built, as I said,
a short distance from Marcla'a cottage, to
entertain and receive his future constit
uents. "General Van Ness was Involved In a
long, hotly contested cause celcbre going
on In the old City -Hall In those days.
Multitudes were unable to get admission.
This was when Marcla had been sleeping
10 or 12 years in the Temple of Vesta, The
Widow Connor was blooming and buxom,
and everybody said ho would be flung
cast In heavy damages. Besides the wid
ow had a still more beautiful and bloom
ing daughter blue Irish eyes, etc She
was about 17 years of age.
Her cheeks were like ros.
Her lips much the same, ,
Like a dish of fresh strawberries
Smothered In chrame.
"And her name was Serena. She was al
together charming, tall, graceful, refined,
highly educated, with big, soulful eyes
and a wlldernes of golden hair shot with
sunbeams. It makes the old man feel
young again just for a minute to recall
Miss Serena Connor.
'Widow Connor and Her Daughter.
"There she was in court every day, a
picture of precocious young ladyhood, df
filial piety. Her volco was low and mu
sical, and she herself was 'mild and love
ly gentle as tho Summer breeze, and her
enunciation clear as a bell and cultured;
her little mice ot eet booted, and her
dimpled little hands perfectly gloved.
When the weather grew hot and the
courtroom breathless she took off her hat
and veil,' and shook out her golden curls,
and everybody said that the Widow Con
nor would win her case. She accompanied
her mother through all the long trial.
"The contention was General John Peter
had won her second mortgage affections,
married, deserted her and broken her
heart She wanted a settlement, a divi
sion of Ihe property, recognition of her
wifehood and any other perquisites and
incidentals the' court could throw Jn. Un
til she obtained these advantages she was.
going to struggle with all her widow s
might to capture a good big, solid chunk
of that other widow's mite, then In pos
session of General John Peter Van Ness.
"But she didn't. She failed in her suit.
She and the seraphic Serena disappeared
from Washington, and so 4Id General Van
Ness, until he died in March. 1S47, jmd
went to rejoin his 'sainted Marcla.
"I have told this episode in the life of a
Mayor of Washington because I find no
book or newspaper has touched upon it,
andltshouldmake mighty interesting read
ing. In the old days, the Van .Ness man
sion faced north like the White House,
with the same number, six stone pillars,
supporting the carriage entrance. The
building was two-story, basement "and at
tic in height; with a roof sloping Horn a
higher elevation In the middle to the four
sides, each side lighted by two -windows,
circular and slngle-paned. i
"There wero f6ur tall chimneys, which
arc now cracked and crumbling. Today
the glass Is all out of tbe attic, the plas
tering down mostly, or hanging, and the
laths showing, and daylight shines
through various chinks and crevices in the
roof. There wero nine windows on each
of the four sides, each of two panes only,
of thick, fine glass, not even yet cracked
or broken. Opposite tho big front door,
straight through the, wide hallway, is the
great pillared portico on the south side,
facing and overlooking all the .grounds
and the 'Beautiful River of Swans,' the.
Potomac, floating along In gleaming, glit
tering roajestj-.
Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not
dull.
Strong without rage, without o'crflowlng, fulL
Spirit Tenants of Van "Scan Mansion.
"Hood's description of the Haunted
House perfectly answers the description
of this historic property now. Read It.
"And why should ghosts'" be wanting?"
Do not old obstinate Davy Burns, tne
Illustrious George Washington, the immor
tal poet, Tom Moore; the irascible and
heart-sick- rom-hope-deferrea Major l'En
fant, the disappointed, who planned his
matchlers city to be the worthy capital of
50 sovereign states and a population of
oOO.OOO.OOO Americans, and was turned out
of his place, and never paid by Congress;
do not these revisit the glimpses of the
moon, making 'night hideous? Does not
the beautiful, pious, charitable, "heart
broken Marcla. ever come back to weep
and. wring her hands In the old rude cabin
of her childhood and bewail the vanity
Of all human expectations? Arid 'what
.about my old friend. Colonel Thoma3
Green, murdered in a madhouse, robbed
and murdered, isn't he permitted to come
back home and. air his grievances under
the ghosts of his own vines and fig trees?
"Why should 'Heme the Hunter" and
The Headless Horseman, accompanied
with thcwlndlrig of the -mellow horn and
the panting, baying hounds, pursue tho
chase, capering midnlghtly around the
gables, chimneys and rooftrees of tho
dreary old manse, and sweep off and die
away In the distance, as hundreds of 'su
perstitious darkles In tho days and nights
when the place became a negro picnic and
lager beer garden have often seen and
heard them? Why should Heme the
Hunter be here In America? He must have
come over with the Knickerbockers. I
have never seen hide or hair of them, but
our colored fellow-cltlzens say o, and
swear It. Some of them have second sight.
I should think it would Indeed require
optics keen to seo what is not to be
seen.'
"And now I have done, but I Intend to
say that little cotton-headed, fat-faced,
sturdy-legged Alexander R. Shepherd,
then not more than 5 or 6 years old, was
ono of tho worst scared boys among us at
passing tho Temple of Vesta. But "he's
not afraid of ghosts now, and the succes
sor of Mayor Van Ness, the ex-Governor,
is coming back soon to remain among us,
we hope, for many happy years to come."
PRICELESS CHINESE CURIOS
Jado Seals and Tablets Seized by
Customs Oillcers From Soldier.
San Francisco Examiner.
lieutenant J. B. Schoeffel, of the Ninth
Infantry, regrets a purchase of Chinese
curios which he made -while his regiment
was- at Pekln two years ago. He paid ?60
for a lot of jade seals and tablets which
were displayed for sale in a bazaar, and a
few days ago the articles wero taken
possession of by tha customs officers who
searched the transport Hancock.
"It Is not the loss of the ornaments that
I deplore," said Lieutenant Schoeffel, "but
the fact that I packed them around with
me for two years. If it had ever occurred
to me that they were selzable I would
not have brought them or attempted to
bring them home. Now. I suppose, there
will bo a demand from Washington for an
explanation' of how tho seals and tablets
came into my hands."
The Jade consists of five Imperial seals,
weighing about six .pounds, of rectangular
shape, about six Inches square and three
inches in height. Carved dragons In
crouching attitudes surmount tho block,
serving aa handles. Chinese characters
are carved In relief on tho baso of the
seals, and a yellow tassel Is knotted on
one of them. Ten tablets are of dark
green Jade, eacfi Inscribed on one side with
Cblneso characters traced in gold. The
five-toed dragon, the Chinese royal
escutcheon, Is imprinted on the other side,,
also traced in gold. The tablets are ten
inches by five, by one-half an inch in
thickness.
Deputy surveyor St. John ordered the
articles held until the matter Is referred
to tho Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
ington. They will probably bo sent back
to the Chinese Government, as .a reward
has been offered for tbe recovery of all
such ornaments.
It Is likely that tho seals and tablets
purchased by Lieutenant Schoeffel were
originally stolen from the Forbidden City
during the troublous times of the Boxer
uprising. The Chinese dealer from whom
theso articles were purchased stated that
they were stolen by him whllo the impe
rial apartments were being looted, but
that is a common claim of the curio deal
ers In Pekln. The Chlneso Government,
however, has notified its Caucasian con
temporaries that many valuable Jade sym
bols and records were stolen by officials
and disposed of through curio dealers to
tourists and others, and as tho property
was invaluable aside from its Intrinsic
worth, ample reward would be paid for Its
return.
The Magnetic "North Pole
Nature
In a lecture lately delivered before tho
Norwegian Geographical Society by Cap
tain R. Amundsen, tho author gave an
account of the proposed exploring ex
pedition to the magnetic" north pole.
Captain Amundsen was the first officer of
the Belgica, which sailed for tho Antarc
tic in August, 1S97, with the view of de
termining the exact locality of the mag
netic south pole, and It was whllo that
.ship lay fixed in the drift ice west of
Grahamland that the -Idea was conceived
of exploring the magnetic north pole. For
the contemplated expedition, the GJoea,
one of the strongest and best sailing ves
sels of the arctic fleet, has been pur
chased at Tromsoc In 1S31 Sir James
Clark Ross reached a position where the
dipping needle was only deflected one
minute from an absolutely vertical posi
tion, but the question has been raised
whether the magnetic pole is actually
only a point, or whether tho peculiarity
of tho needle assuming a vertical posi
tion extends over a large area, and, fur
ther, whether tho magnetic polo changes
Its position.
With the object of solving these two
questions, Captain Amundsen will sail in
WE FILL
Temporary
Patrons of this store are
EXCEPTIONAL
GOOD VALUES
SaleNof Silks
A new lot of corded wash silks, choice colorings and
styles, in stripes and plaids, sold everywhere QQn
at 50c yard, sale price dub
Black silk grenadines, 42 inches wide, all pure QQn
silk, worth ?1.50 yard, rale price tJUo
?L00 yard guaranteed black taffeta, for skirts, "7Qft
excellent quality and finish, sale price lUu
. . Sale of Dress Goods
10 pieces black brocaded satin soliels, 42 inches
wide, worth 40 and 45c yard.- sale price
Twenty pieces of bright color plaids, suitable for
children's dresses, regular 15c and 20c grades, 4 ni
sale price I jLlxj
Thirteen pieces all wool Venetians, 3S inches wide, de
sirable shades of gray, brown
ular 65c values; sale price
Sale of Linens
Five pieces bleached linen ,table damask, 58 Inchc3
wide,, newest patterns, worth 50c yard, sale QCa
price U U u
German table linen, 58 inches wide, half bleached,
dice patterns, good wearing quality, regular Cfn
65c grade, sale price OUu
Six pieces 56-inch -red table damask, colora perfectly
fast, heavy, firm quality, worth
price
Sale of Underwear
100 dozen ladies' half-sleeve vests, worth 15c and i f)
20c, sale price fUu
Misses sleeveless vests, all sizes, taped and silk
trimmed neck and armholes, 20c kind; sale f 01n
price I Lls
50 dozen ladies' long and half sleeve vests; also knee
and ankle length pants. These are worth
from 25c to 50c each, sale price
Sale of Umbrellas
200 ladies' 24 and 26-inch gloria umbrellas, with steel
rod and frame, Dresden and natural wood han- 7fjn
dies, sale price lull
Domestic Dept.
Twill cretonnes, large floral patterns, good color- 7lp
lngs, yard 2u
38-inch curtain scrim, ecru color, lace stripes,
yard JU
Cotton coverts for skirts, dark and medium "inn
colors, yard ! Uu
1800 yards of good quality percales, new pat- ifin
terns, fast colors, yard IUu
36-inch unbleached sheeting, fine firm quality, gln
yard 1, i U2U
Check nainsook, for waists and children's dresses, C
regular 7c grade Co
Tapestry table covers, assorted colors, full V "JCn
yards square, each 0J
Sale of Shirtwaists
25 dozen waists made from good quality percale, nn
all sizes, worth 50c, sale price Zou
Large Iqt of dimities and percale waists in all sizes,
choice colors and styles, worth 65c and 75c, "Qn
sale price "fbu
White shirtwaists, at 75c, $1.00,
and
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tho Spring: of 1903. Tho GJoea Is to bo
fitted with a petroleum engine, and will
carry a crew of seven men. A traveling
magneto-meter Is under construction at
tho Deutsche Seewarte. and will resnmblp
that used on board the Fram. A dipping 1
needle Is being constructed In London,
and will be examined at the observatory
of the- National Physical Laboratory. It
Is proposed to take magnetic observa
tions as frequently as practicable, to
leave the ship either at Matty Island or
King "William 'Land, and as soon as the
severest part of tho "Winter Is over to
continue the Journey with the sledges to
the place on Boothia reached by Boss.
DEGENERATE FIRECRACKER
Flea for Rehabilitation of a Once
"Worthy Fourth of July Fentnre.
Saturday Evening Post.
Something ought to bo done to rehabili
tate tho Fourth of July celebration, es
pecially Its firecracker department. The
celebration of the present day Is but a
pale reflection and a far-off echo of tho
glorious triumph of tho past; and tha
sickly, petulant pop of the contemporary
firecracker appears but sorry comparison
with tho detonation of Its predecessor of
a few years aback. It Is sad to seo a
National Institution thus going to the
dogs; but the dogs need not worry It no
longer frightens them a3 In times past It
did.
Tho old celebration used to come In at
one minute past midnight wfth a terrific
discharge of the village bras3 cannon.
This formidable piece of ordnance, loaded
with quantities of the loudest powder,
wedged down with wet grass, was then
kept In action by enthusiastic yeomen till
sunrise; and throughout the day there
were desultory bangs, unless, indeed, tho
thing blew up at about 9 o'clock, as It too
frequently did, with a great scattering
around of the said unfortunate yeomen.
Then, during the day, there was the pro
gramme; races of all kinds, especially
trotting races by local nngs, some ot
which Tvould not infrequently cover the
mile in less than three minutes, and run
ning races In which quantities of dust
were kicked up. There were divers other
contests and patriotic songs, rendered by
the gleo club with much sound and fury,
with the reading of the Declaration of In
dependence by the schoolmaster In a pen
etrating voice; and. as the cap sheaf of
the whole more Important even than the
cannon Itself the oration by the candi
date for Congress, In which, with the cor
ner of one eye on the votes of the local
citizens from a certain green Isle, the tall
of tho British Hon was given a few
pretty little tiny klck3haw klnks-the
wholo Interspersed,' punctuated and mado
i9iioreioi9etio9eoieoeoeeeeeeeae9oeosoess,
MAIL ORDERS AT ADVERTISED PRICES
Store, cor. Fifth and
provided with the best for the money. Quality is the
keynote of our transactions.
100 dozen men's
are worth 20c
and modes, reg
:50C
. .
Ladies' jackets, in tan, castor and black, finely
tailored, mercerized lining, $9.00 kind for. . .
35c yard, sale OKn
ix;e
25 pieces of different styles and colors in dimities
and lawns, worth 10 and 12c, sale price
18c
Misses' kid and
tips, medium
misses sizes, 11
styles, misses
'special at
Child's sizes, 8
at..'.
?1.25, $1.50
1.75
Child's size, 6 to
at.
allvo by the, resounding explosions of
bushels of firecrackers.
But now this sort of celebration Is be
coming rare, and the firecracker Is degen
erate. "What Is meant Is the small, ordi
nary cracker. When It consents to go off
at all It is with an Insignificant little siz
zling, asthmatic, tentative, apologetic pop
which Is about as spirit-stirring as the
report of a root beer cork. Why is this?
Has a trust got hold of the cracker In
dustry? Or does It need a trust to put
"life and mettle" Into It? Or is the Mon
golian played out, and has he lost his
cracker cunning? .Perhaps all firecrackers
are now made in Connecticut. If so, they
must bo manufactured in old wooden nut
meg factories.
These latter-dny inaudible firecrackers
are frauds, cheating the small boy out of
his hard-saved dime. And as to the tall of
the lion, what is it for? It In an orna
mental rather than an essential appen
dage, and a gentle little twist, with a bit
of a knot or two Juat for remembrance
lest ho forget can do no harm, and la
sure to awaken enthusiasm on the rear
benches.
Give us back our old celebration! and In
the matter of the firecrackers there should
bo legislation; the makers must be com
pelled by law to use better powder and
more of it.
Mayor Jones 111.
TOLEDO. O.. July 5. There is very little
foundation for the sensational reports con
jght k Power Co,
Now under construction.
A population of 40.000 distributed ovor tha
-wealthiest farming- country ot the world la trib
utary to this road. First Issue of 1000 shares,
par value C100 each, now selling- at 500 per
share. AN INVESTMENT, NOT A SPECULA
tlon. Shares fully paid and nonassessable.
Low capitalization; 1,500,000; 13,000 shares,
at $100 eaeh.
LlCCtriC KV. Valky Grove
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Yamhill Sts.
Sale of Men's Wear
Men's fancy percale shirts, wfrth separate cuffs,
choice styles and colorings, worth Sac, sale OC
price 0 0 b
Ten dozen men's all-wool sweaters, in colors, black,
navy blue and red, regular price $1.75, sale i QC
price Iidu
part wool half hose, medium weight;
also heavy cotton, in tans and black. These
15c
pair, sale price
Ready-Made Garments
50 ladies walking skirts, made of good grade of cloth
in shades of gray and brown, -15 rows of n nr
stitching on flounce, regular $4 values for.,. ZiOU
Large lot of black dress skirts, made from all-wool
cheviot serge, trimmed with satin ribbon on ! en
flounce, well lined; sale price .iiOU
.6,90
Sale of Hosiery
50c ladies' Imported fancy stockings, large as- QCa
sortment of styles and colors; sale price uOb
Children's silk finish stockings, fast black, sizes 5 to
8, hose that would be cheap at 35c pair, nc
, sale price ZOb
200 dozen children's fine ribbed fast black seam
less hose, worth 15c, sizes 5 to 8, sale
10c
,
Sale of Wash Goods
30 pieces of lawns and bastiste, worth 10c yard, n
dark and light colorings, sale price ub
.8C
Plain lawns, 32 inches wide, in black, sky blue, nn
pink, green and gray, worth 15c yd., sale price. I Ub
Shoes
Women's vici kid Oxford ties, velvet inserted tops,
fancy wove kid tips and facings, heavy hand-turned
soles, Utz & Dunn's make, regular $3 grade, n nrj
special at ZiUu
Women's kid Oxford ties, fancy perforated vamps,
kid tips, turn soles, all solid, good wearing leather,
uppers and soles neat and stylish, our $1.75 j cr
grade, special at I00
Women's 'kid Oxford ties, medium light, flexible, all
leather soles, patent tips, good style and neat J nr
fitting, our $1.50 grade, special to close at tiZO
Canvas shoes, all leather soles, counters and insoles,
nice and comfortable for outing and beach 4 en
shoes, good style, men's, sizes-'O to 11 liOU
Boys sizes, 2 to 5V2, $1.10 np
and I.ZO
Youths' sizes, 12 to 2, i nn
at i.uu
Titan calf lace shoes, good style stock
soles, a good -dry Weather shoe,
90c
to 2, special at
Child's sizes. 8 to 11, pn.
special at uUG
Misses' kangaroo calf and seal grain lace shoes, all
leather, splendid outing .and beach shoes, good
sizes, 11 to 2, $l.o0 grade,
.1,25
to 11, our $1.25 grade, i fin
ftUU
8, our $1.00 grade,
.80c
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cerning the health of Mayor Jones. He Is
suffering from a slight attack of bron
chitis, which keeps him at home, but his
physician says his condition Is In nowise
serious.
Slstlncrniihcd everyrvhere for
Delicacy of Flavour,
Superior Quality, anil
Highly Nutritive Properties.
GRATEFUL COMFORTING
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