THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, KAY 3, 1903. IS YANGER GETS DECISION FIGHTS TWENTY FIERCE KOUAUS "WITH KID BROAD. Order el Keatnelcy Judge to Keep Peace Falls to Prevent Savage Contest at Louisville. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. May 2. Benny Yan ger and Kid Broad -went 20 fast rounds at the Southern Athletic Club tonight. Yan ger getting the decision. Twice during the first ten rounds the men seemed to tire, "but they recuperated quickly and got at It again hammer and tongs. Broad proved a glutton "Jor punishment, and Yanygr clearly outpointed him. Yanger dw first blood in the third round wltlj. a hard emash to the nose. Broad kept on play ing for the body, and his blows seemed to shake Yanger considerably. Alter this Yanger freshened, but Broad seemed rather winded. Broad landed three stinging rights on Yanger" Jaw in quick succession at the opening of the sixth. Yanger drove a pair of rights to the stomach, and then repeated the dose with a vigor which sent Broad into a clinch. Broad began to slow down in the eighth under a broadside of body blows. Nevertheless, his punches would jar Yanger when they went home. Yanger began to feel around with upper cuts, but missed. The ninth round de veloped a terrible exchange of- right Jabs tn the hea&. -with honors about even. It was anybody's fight up to the 17th sound, although Yanger appeared the Iresher. From this to the end both tried fnr n. knockout, but without success, the 20th rourid endlner with a fierce mix-up. The decision of Referee Hurst awarding the fight to Yanger was approved by the crowd, Yanger having clearly proved him self the cleverer and faster man of the two. isroaa was very wuuuijr t finish. Judge Caruth. of the Criminal Division f thfl Countv Court, this afternoon is ed an order for the arrest of Broad, Yanger and R. C Gray, manager of the Southern Athletic Club. When the mat ter was bppught before Judge Caruth ho announced that it was too much t ask nv Kentucklan to miss the derby, and that therefore he would hear the case at 6 o'clock this evening. At that hour ach of the three was'placea under $1000 bpnds to keep the peace. This action meant that the contest wpuld go on. The only siMHtv of prevention was on the ground of brutality. Brltt Agrees to Fignt Gann, ran FRANCISCO.. May 2. Jimmy Brltt, the pugiliBt, has yielded to the advice of his friends and decided to wipe out the fAinr line. He will now agree to a match with Joe Gans, and endeavor to wrest from the colored fighter the lightweight championship of the world. BASEBALL KOTES. What tlie Fans Are Saying and the riayers Doing. TSs easier to knock than to boost when the Browns are on the toboggan. Fans, hold your roasting department at evens TTifiniureinent can tighten up the Tfien it they don't win their share of gamee let's all turn loose our toasting machines. rnn TTnrlnw Is the latest player to aug ment the ranks of the Brown hospital corps. The Brown patcher -will be out of the game for at least a week. Schaffer has cut out all of the funny coaching stunts that he was wont to pull rf Anrinc- the early cart of the season. Some gnat-brained crank at Loe Angeles tnnlr M-PPtltionS tO MS 8IUniS, HUB unite ti,T-tiie,rBrown first baseman put his hu xnor in cold storage: Manager vigneux should take him aside and whisper some thing to him. The local fans have been waiting for his fun. Notes from the Brown hospital corps: Smith's lingering case of Chariey Horse sticks closer than a jpther-ln-law. His sprained ankle is slowly mending. Man ager Vlgneux's injured wrist received an other cruel wrench during the Wednesday game. It will be weeks before he will be able to report "cured." Jay Andrews has two fingers that distress him a great deal. Slagle's broken digit is still very painful, but he pitched splendid ball during the initial game. Van Buren's ankle Is again in commission, and he Is no longer in the hospital. Shields and Carlo Smith were Interest ing visitors on the opening day of the golf tournament at the Waverly lmks. Newton, the defeated champion, and Mr. Young were paired on the opening day, and the two baseballlsts followed the play ers over the course. Young swatted the white ball for a drive of J15 yards. Smith when he saw the ball sail high into the air and then foot out the great distance, came near going wild with delight. "Ah, boy," he shcuted to Shields, "I've learned the trick now; nothing but homers for me after this. I'm going to come out here every day and take lessons. When I get the trick corked up. then I'm going to challenge big Ed Delehanty and the rest of the big league sluggers to a batting contest. Nothing to it boy; these golfers can sure show us hoT to hit." Shlefds was quite Interested, and he declared af terward that he was studying the golfer's method of place hitting. Both players have bought a driving club and a half dozen golf balls and are practicing In cecret, hoping to win some money from the rest of the team by betting that they Can drive the little white Tsall over 200 feet Here arc a few of Mique Fisher's funny interviews: "Hey, there! Here I've been in town over a day and you haven't been around to see me yet. That's a nice way to treat me, now, ain't It?" The reporter turned around and gazed on the broad features of Michael A. Fish es the Sacramento' baseball manager, toupee and all. "Say. young feller, I've got the best baseball team that ever happened. They can't stop me for that pennant Why. Tm afraid the Senators are so strong that they will break up the league they win eo far." "Say, Mique. show him that toupee." interjected Morley. "What ain't he seen that yet? Why. I thought everybody In California had seen my toupee. The reporters have been tak ing pictures of it In San Francisco. It's a sure peach. Here It Is," and Stlque re moved his hat exposing to view a swell tilack wig. He says he's 22 with it on and 44 with it off, and looks the part "Say, you fellows never heard about Reilly coming np to Sacramento and offer ing me the State Capitol building to jump to the opposition, did you? Well, It was a faet On the square, he had a deed to the building all written out don't know how he got it but it sure looked all right Wen. I wouldn't go. Then he offered me the Southern Pacific Railway Company, but I paid: ICay, nay. And, say, speak ing of the Capitol building. I don't sup pose you heard that they had to put police around that bir glided ball the last few days of the Legislature, but it was a fact Some of the fellows were going to scrape the gilding off and sell It "I've got a big dog up at Sacramento, and he has been tired ever clnee he chased .Doyle.. Cutter and HildebraMi to the de pot: he couldn't keep up -wiUi me. I met Reilly at the depot that night and he said: "Mike. I'll make this cost you some money.' I told him 'Don't do it Charlie. I haven't got a cent Then he said he'd sue me. and I told him to go ahead, only not for .any rotten little sum not less than $20,000 anyway. Why, that would give tne a standing In Bradstreet I could go cut and borrow money c-n the strength of being sued like that But Reilly wouldn't sue. Tye get a trunkf ul of Injunctions. You ought to see them. Why, all I've got to do is to press, the button and out comes an Injunction any way I want It I sare fobled some of those rubber-legged ball players, and I guess Til fool some more of them before I get through. 'Yes, sir, I've got the best ball club on earth. You ought to see those fellows play ball. All pltchtrs look alike to them. This first baseman of mine, Townsend, la worth 3000 Unglaubs on a ball team. If anybody wants to see baseball played right he can se.e my boys the rest of this week. If they get beaten this series the public will see the best six games of hall ever played. 'T wish you could have seen my crowd Sunday. There was 6900 paid admissions to my grounds, and that doesn't count 400 fans who were roosting in one tree out side, and 396 who were on another tree on the other side. Then there was the knot hole brigade of several thousand, too." They say at Sacramento that Fisher Is such a public benefactor that he has knot holes punched in the fence for the benefit of the kids on the outside who cannot pay to get in. This is the best year for baseball we ever had In Sacramento, and I am going to run an excursion down here July 4, when my team plays in Los Angeles again," continued Mimic "I am sure 250 fans -will come, and they'll make noise enough for all the rest." "That young Thomas of yours is quite a pitcher, isn't he. MiqueT remarked a bystander to Fisher. "Thomas? Oh, he can pitch all right. Seattle never got a man to second base Sunday, the last game he pitched." Mique has decided to keep on paying Thomas money.- Chances are the clever little fellow will be a member of the Sen ators as long as Fisher owns the club, for he has pitched his way into the man ager's heart and pocketbook as wen. Another thins I forget to tell you about is mv erounds. I've got the finest grounds on earth," stated Mique, witn emphasis. "They have a little bigger stand at the Polo grounds In New York and some other places, but rve got tne original swell field, apd you'll say so. too. when vou see It. For such a truly great man, Mr. Fisher Is most aDDroachable: the easiest man to touch In the business, and he readily con- eonfod to hft Interviewed on any oia sur- Icct at all. Asked If it were true that It urns thrnurrh his Influence that the state capital remained at Sacramento, he read llv admitted It. and In his own graphic and inimitable style described the trans action as follows: "Thrft was 47 Senators an' 'leven hun dred Assemblymen come out to my house at 2 In the morning, and they says to me: 'Mike, they says, 'shall we move ner to Rm Joser An' I says: 'Naw! She's doln' good where she is,' an' that's the reason Vifs there vet-" On the subject of the loss of the first two games to Morley, he had a great deal to say. "That first game we was all tired. My hnvs ain't used to this boofay car grub an' sleepln in Pullman cars ain't such an pnsv Tame as it looks. "Then In the middle of the night I wake up an' my fine imported toopee was gone thought I'd been scalped. That toopee post me S7.47 at Weinstock-Lublns an' of course I couldn't stand for any raw work like that, so I hollered and got tne Doys up to help look for It. An' what do you Mntr? That nlceer norter found It In the aisle and thought I'd left It there to be combed! Sure, I ain't kidding you. So we didn't get much sleep, an' the boys was tired. Then the second game. I -was awful worried and nervous. I just hap pened to think that I'm paying for a room an a bath at the Rosslyn and here I've in town two days an' I ain't had a bath yet! It kind of rattled me to think oi losing an luiii. - but I'll ret even. I'm goln' to take three baths tonight an' that'll put me square with the house." Los Angeles Herald. Baseball's death roll for 1902 contains the names of many who have played the ttma fimrnd as Its most brilliant his torians, handled the indicator as judges of play, and directed its anairs rrom tom irprlnl benches. rtt nil thf ritatlntrulshcd dead of the vear none was better known than Harry M. Weldon, late sporting editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, upon -whose grave the snn-- at January fell. Months alter trnrd the echo of a nlstol shot startled th -whole sDortintr world. Crazed by worry over Western League affairs, of which organization he was president, the veteran sporting editor of the Kansas City Star surswoned death to his relief, and he gained trife release he sought. That was nnt the onlv tracedv to cast a shadow unon the ball field during the season One morning in March Thomas E. Burns was found dead in bed at Jersey City. ThP. old manager of the Chicago team, and one of tho famous stonewall Infield when Ned Williamson, Fred Pfeffer and A. C. Anson made up the White Stock- Inc auartet. had lust accepted the man agement of the Jersey City club. In the Eastern League, when his contract was canceled by the angel of death. Another startling death was that of Fred Jevne, the old umpire, who tumbled out of a hotel window at Denver and sunerea ratal injury. The San Francisco Examiner says of Flannerr: "He behaves like a bucking broncho. He nlays his team like Crea- tore used to Dlay the Royal Italian Band. He lurches and groans and tears his top knot when he Is on the line personally conducting a runner over the straight and narrow paths. On the field he works away in center, yet is always bellowing words of cheer and command away in. even to his catcher. If willingness to per- spire carte blanche and intelligent work will win, Flannery sureiy nas me pen nant lashed to the Helena mast. Hurlburt a giant catcher, who was with Atlanta In the Southern League last year, has been signed by Los Angeles, of th Pacific Coast League. iuriDuriB parents are said to be very wealthy. A Child's History of Basebnll. The first pitcher to use a curve was William A. Cummlngs, of Ware, Mass No less than 94 players In the National Leacue batted .300 or better In 1894. Che Boston National League club is the only club in existence organized before 1S71. Bill McGunnigle. catching behind the bat for Fall River in 1875, was the first player to make use of a mitt Boston won every game played on the home grounds in 1S75, and lost eight games during the season Bobby Lowe made four consecutive home runs off Pitcher Chamberlain at Boston in 1894. The baseball mask was invented In 1S76 by Thayer, of Harvard, who took the Idea from the fencing mask. Lajole was the first major league player to go through an entire season with batting average of .400 or more. The rule giving a batsman his base upon being hit by a pitched ball was first adopt cd by the old American Association. The highest score on i.--rd was made June S. 1889, at Buffalo, when the Colum- blas were defeated by ih Niagaras, 209 to 10. The first game of ball was played by the Knickerbockers and New Yorks June 14. 1S4S. at the Elyslan fields, Hoboken, N. J. Jim O'Rourke. of Bridgeport Conn., Is the holder of the record for the longest service on tne diamond. He made his debut In 1S72 with the Mansfield nine of Middleton, Conn., and has seen continu ous service ever since. Harvard Has Best Shots. PHILADELPHIA, May 2. The intercol legiate shoot between Harvard, Prince ton, Pennsylvania and Yale here today was won by Harvard, with a total of 200 out of a possible 250; Princeton second, "with 137; Pennsylvania, third, 173; Yale, fourth, 172. Costs the dealer more. But Opla zults discriminating smokers. SUPERSTITION !N RACING PROMIXEXT HORSEOWJjERS HAVE MAXY FREAK FANCIES. The Photographer the Most Cor dially Hated and Feared Some Hard Lack Stories. Turfmen from time immemorial have paid big toll to superstition. Some of the leading horsemen of this country today follow signs and accept certain events as omens. Some will scratch a horse if a cock crows In front of the stable on Fri day morning. Other consider that to drop handkerchief accidentally means cer tain defeat and the loss of hundreds of dollars. There are at the present time at least half a dozen prominent West ern turfmen who believe that to have a photographer snap a picture of one of their horses means bad luck. Sam Hildreth Is one of the turfmen who will go out of his way to dodge some thing that he thinks may cause him nad luck. He believes in dreams, and he dreads a camera as he hates a tout Hil dreth has had his superstitions proved to hlra. With him. as he puts it it is no Idle notion; It has been shown to him time and again. At Memphis there came a new proof to Hildreth that signs are a potent factor in the luck of a turfman. His 3-year-old filly WItfull. who won the Crescent City Derby and who Is entered for the Amer ican Derby at Washington Park, ran into the rail on the Memphis racetrack and was injured, tnougn, as developments have shown, not seriously. It was not a mere accident that WItfull was Injured, If you hear Hildreth tell the story. It was fate. The morning of the day on which Witfull was Injured a pho tographer, who was working for a Chi cago newspaper, hung around the Hil dreth stable until he succeeded in get ting a good picture of the filly. When Hildreth learned of it. he was mad clear through. He had Intended to bet heavily on WIt full to win the race. She was fit and he believed her best but she had had her picture taken, and what was the use of throwing money away, he asked nimseii. He wanted to scratcch her from the race. but then he realized that he owed a duty to the racing association. It had ad vertised the race and a crowd had been drawn to the track in the expectation of seeing a great contest, with Witfull as one of the stars. So she was carded to go to tho post Hildreth would not bet on her. He was convinced that she could not finish first After he declined to tell numerous ques tioners who usually try to talk to him at a racetrack, he went out to find the place where he always watches a race. He had a particular spot at Memphis. Not to be in that spot was to court disaster. On this "particular day, which was Monday, Hildreth found his place occu pied. What could have been worse? un top of an unfavorable sign like the tak ing of a picture the owner's place had been occupied. Surely the portent was something dire. And so HUdretn De- Heved. Hildreth then knew that Witfull would He feared that never nnisn tne race. something would happen to her, and even J before she turned Into the stretch and then swerved Into the fence Hildreth knew It was going to happen. He said so afterward, and one has to take his word for It in the race oi two sucn awful signs, Hildreth thinks It Is strange that the filly Is sUll alive: but she is, and Is In Chicago, and will race again If there are no more pictures taken of her and if some one does not get on the spot where Hildreth wants to stand when he watches one of his own horses In a race. The case of Witfull Is only one of the many Illustrations Hildreth has had that there is something In signs. Just tnose that can be told of since he came to Chi cago are enough to convince him. Iast Spring he had Waring worked up to the point where he believed the horse would be able to stand a season of rac ing. At Worth the ever-busy photogra pher took a picture of Waring, and three hours later the grand old horse was dead. At Harlem last June Hildreth sent his Derby favorite, the famous McChesney, to the post It was to-be McChesneys trial for the Derby, and thousands of people were there to see the great colt perform. Before he got to the post tho colt had been photographed half a dozen ' CUP DEFENDER RELIANCE. THE SPEEDY CRAFT IS SHOWX BOW OX, REACHING OX THE STARBOARD TACK. times. In the race. It will be remembered, he fell, and it was long after the Derby was run that McChesney was ready to run In another race. Ry that time the horse had been sold. Hildreth, thought he was hoodooed. And there have been other Instances. John W. Schorr Is as bad, about having his horses photographed sis Is Hildreth. Just before the Derby in 1901 Lady Schorr broke down. It happened just after a picture of her had been taken. There has been no time when the horses of J. W. Schorr could be photographed with, the owner's consent. He Is as supersti tious about It as Hildreth. It -was re ported a while ago that .he had reformed In this respect, but It was a false report. Tho Memphis brewer would rather have a horse run away than to be photo graphed. There are other owners who have dif ferent superstitions. The stables on a racetrack lnclosure bear evidence of them. Some owners could not get along without goats. There are others who think that chickens will Bring luck. Harry Stover keeps the skin of a snake In his stable, and doesn't mind if there are a few live ones near by. If the owner does not have a superstitltion It is a sure that the stable hands will have. sign There are no Instances, however, of signs being fulfilled to any other owner as they have to Sam Hildreth. He has the champion hard-luck superstition of the country. ROOSEVELT AND HARVARD Likely Place for Introduction of the Strenuous Life. From the New York Times. Why should not Mr. Roosevelt become actual President of Harvard? Why not indeed? It Is impossible to imagine any position whatever In which the President could be placed to which the prefix "ex would not be absurdly inappropriate. It Is equally Impossible to Imagine any posi tion In which he would not be very much at large. He would at once "get busy at the head of that or any other Institu tion, and he would promote business in others. When the existing undergraduate body thinks of his presidency. It must lament that itself was born too early. Under the grinding tyranny of the faculty committee on athletics Its victims now groan helpless. How would they rejoice If they could look forward to a Roose veltlan regime? The new president would put that body In Its placo if he had to lick every member of it And how happy would those undergraduates be who feel themselves capable of filling every item of tne Cecil Rhodes bill except the disgust lng first which the name "scholarship' implies. If they were sure that this friv olous and Irrelevant objection would no longer be brought up against them. It would not be. Can anybody imagine President Roosevelt letting a good left tackle go becauso he could not decline "musa, musae," or, for that matter, be cause he could not spell "cat"? Assured ly not Harvard would be first In the field and on the river, whatever became of the Homer examinations and the prize debates or its president would know the reason why. His aspiration for his undergradu ates would be that of the poet about his dusky brood": Iron-Joined cupple-elnewed, tby shall dire and they shall run; Catch the wild goat by the hair sad hurl their lances in the sun; i Whistle back the parrot's call ana leap the rain bows of the brooks. Not with blinded eyesight poring over miser able books. Theodore Roosevelt must have- conduced considerably to the enllvenment of Har vard when he was there as an undergrad uate, even though cramped by the tram mels of an" effete system of discipline and ' 'alse standard of Instruction. But In stalled there as president with ample power to his free and strenuous elbow. what a transformation he would work! All over our broad land youths more dls tlngulshed for strenuosity than for stu dlousness would be begging the "old man' to send them to Harvard as the first arena ever opened for their peculiar gifts in the guise ot an Institution of learning. The presidency of Harvard would be great while it lasted. There Is no doubt about that People Who Appear Old. Success. People who appear old must expect to be considered so; and, If they apply for position with every appearance that sen lllty has struck them, and that they have gone to seed, they cannot expect f avorabl consideration. If gray-haired applicants for positions would only appreciate the value of appearances and would "brace up" when they seek situation go 'nsrell- CTOomed" and well dressed, with elastic steps, showing that they still possess fire. force and enthusiasm they would elimi nate an obstacle greater than, their gray hairs. We think ourselves Into Incapacity by looking for signs of age and dwelling on them, and the body follows the thought We should, therefore, avoid the appear ance of age In every possible way, by dress, carriage, conversation, and espe cially by our attitude toward people and things. It is not difficult to preserve the buoyancy and freshness of youth, but It must be done by constant effort and prac tice. A musician who expects to mane only one or two important appearances a year must keep up his practice. Youth fulness cannot be put on for a day If old age has had a grip On you for months. It is important to preserve tho fire of youth as long as possible, to carry freshness and vigor Into old. age by keeping up a hearty interest in everything that interests youth. Many of ns seem to think that youthful sports and pastimes are foolish, and, be fore we know it. vrjs get entirely out of sympathy with all young life, and conse quently really old, whatever our years. We must think youthful thoughts, asso ciate with young people, and Interest them. When a person ceases to Interest the young, he may be sure that he Is showing signs of old age. STRONGEST OF NATIONS. America One Nation Blessed With "Wealth of Resoarces. Chicago Inter Ocean. Many" Americans, when told their coun try is the strongest of .nations, are apt to doubt the statement and to point to the larger fleets and armies of others as Jus tifying, their doubt War is. Indeed, the crucial test of a na tion's energy, but fleets must be built, equipped and manned, and armies must be fed. armed and recruited, and to do these things requires both wealth and men. Comparison of the gross financial re sources of nations is impossible. But it is possible to compare the strain put upon .these resources by the annual receipts and expenditures of their governments. Here is such a comparison of the United States, Great Britain, France and Ger many for their last complete fiscal years: Expen- Rerelnts. dltures. Balance. TJ. s Gt Britain. France WS4.326.2S0 J59&038.SO4 i 91.287,376 , 695.899.762 951.49S.85t 255.599.092 , 693,275.735 695,250.216 25.519 , 550,251.240 65S.011.46S 7.760.22S Germany This comparison is not however, quite fair to the United States. The European nations conduct their postal service on commercial principles and make money out of it This the United States does not attempt to do. All three own telegraphs and some of them railroads, and make money out of them. To make the com parison quite fair the net pronts or our telegraphs and railroads should be added to our surplus balance. As this Is im practicable, let us eliminate those three items from all tho accounts, xnen tne comparison stands: Expen- Reccipts. dltures. Balance. U. S $562,478,233 5468.7SS.705 93.6S9.5Z3 Grt Britain. 60S.7CO.700 SS6.7C9.732 278.C09.C32 France ....:. 643.107.7C-2 647.000,216 3.S92.514 Germany ... 427.957,553 45s,Mi.Sit zi.sm.ju Great Britain's heavy deficit was due, of course, to the Boer War. But France and Germany were at peace. Yet when the profits they make from their people out of posts, telegraphs and railways are dis regarded their national business ior tne year shows a loss. Only the United States had a surplus, nominally of $93, 689,523. and, with the postal deficit de ducted, actually of J91.2S7.376. Nor was this better financial position or the United States attained by taxing Its people more heavily than other nations. On the contrary, the burden of our Gov ernment unon Its people s wealth is much the Uchtest Taking the population of the United States as 50.000.000. ot ureat .Brit ain and France as 40.000.000 each, and of Germany as 55.000.000. the per capita dls trlbutlon of the Items m tne last taoie was: Kmen- Recelpts. dltures. Bal. .S 7.03 S 5.S6 $1.17 United States Great Britain . France . 15.21 22.16 6.95 . 16.07 16.17 0.10 . 7.7S 8.23 0.50 Germany While every Derson under the American flasr has an Interest of $1.1 1 in tne riation al surplus for the last fiscal year, every man, woman and child In France, Ger many and Great Britain, as a result oi that year's business, went in debt to the nation's creditors from 10 cents to Detailed comparisons of expenditures, Bhnwinir what the people of the four na tions not from their government ior tne taxes they paid, Is difficult, jowlng to the difference In purposes of expenditure. The United States, for example, spent $10,049, B84 on Its Indian wards, an item unknown to Euronean budgets. Then the United States Is vastly more liberal with pen slons to Its defenders than any other na tion has ever dared to be. But there are two items which occur In all the budgets Interest on the public debt and cost of army and navy. These compare, in gross amounts and per capita, as follows: Per Army Per Tntrest. can. and navy. cap. TJ. S.- $29,108,000 $0,363 180.O75.UW Gt. Britain ..ioo.osj.ww 2.tx zwvtso.wu i.oo France 240,333,000 e.uos isi.3w.wu Germany .... ZL073,uw w.3 iDs,a),wu -.f With its low taxes and relatively small debt and low Insurance charge for that is what armies and navies are the superior financial strength of the united states Is unouestloned. And we have not only the wealth. We have also the men. The United States could. If fighting for Its life, put In the field more than 10,- 000,000 fighting men. They mignt not. as a body, know so wen now to ngnt as France's corresponding 5.000,000 or Ger many's 6.000.000. but they would be vast ly more numerous and they would learn the trade of war faster. As for Great Britain, she Is Inferior not only to the United States, but also to Germany In available numtier or flghtlne men. She has not In all her em nite over 50.COO.000 people from whom to draw armies that could be relied on to fight for England under any and all cir cumstances. In a national llfe-and-death strutrele the millions of India would hav to be counted out at once. The United States alone rules colored races that could be relied on to fight for it as white men fight The United States of America is the strongest of nations. The American people are thoroughly Justified In saying to themselves, in slight alteration or the old song: We don't want to flght; but, by Jingo, if we do We've- got the men can build the ships we'i got the money, tool FAIREST VANDERBILT MAID Ko Fear for Miss May of Washington in the Old Bridesmaid Adage, New York Press. If Miss Isabel May respects the most time-honored of superstitions she never again will be a bridesmaid. On Tuesday she was one of the four attendants of Miss Cathleen Neileon. Last Summe she acted In similar capacity when Miss Lily Oelrlchs was married to Peter D, Martin. "Thrice a bridesmaid, never bride," the makers of saws tell us, and there" has been comment since Miss May agreed to attend Miss Nellson. Now wo hear she will attend Mls3 Thaw at her wedding to the Earl of Yarmouth. Even If Miss May were to act contrary to tra ditlon and go to the altar for the third time as the bride's attendant it Is more than possible the superstition never would be realized In her case, for she Is as at tractive as she is rich. This is saying creat deal, because the May fortune is great and Ml May is one of two daugh ter8. Socially the family leads in Wash Ington. where Its members pass their Win ters. They are connected with many New York families, the Astors, Oelrichses, Geb hards and Colemsns and when Henry May, Miss Isabel's father, was young he was the greatest beau ot his day. Miss May was the handeoarest of all ! They Have Met With Because they conform to every practical idea of what an Automobile should be. Long Wheel Base, Elliptic Springs, Thorough Flexibility, Handsome Finish, POWER AND SPEED MAKE THE EQUAL TO THE $2500 KIND AT ONE-THIRD THE PRICE. MODEL C's $750 MODEL E's $850 Four sold by us this week. Many more figuring for next week. If you are interested, now is the time to buy. Call or write and we will be pleased to tell you of their many good points. Drop in anyway. We have bargains in Steam, Electric and Gasoline Autos. Rambler, Crescent, Imperial, Barnes and Ideal Bicycles Cash or installments. I Fred T. Merrill Cycle Company, inc. 105-107-IOD-IH SIXTH ST., PORTLAND, OR. SPOKANE SEATTLE TACOMA the bridesmaids, although Mrs. Vanderbllt chose the best looking girls of her set Miss Mav is extremely tall and hers la what Is known as a "willowy" figure. She lg more the type of Englishwoman than American girl and her accent Is distinctly English. She has brown hair and fine blue eyes, and her coiffure usually is elab orate with puffs and curls. She is distin guished In society as one of the few young women who never wear jewels, iliss May j passes her Summers In Southampton or Newport Time to Get Oat-of-Doors. The Independent The time has come Yor us once more to go out of doors. We realize that we are a part of nature, a part ot the apple buds, and the violets, and the cherry blossoms.. Tho voices that whisper through the half grown leaves are growing articulate In our ears as we get older and wiser, xne house was orlglnaly an Improved cave. The very best house, and the only decent house for a human being, is mat wmcn grows about us to express our senUments and thoughts. We must not make too much of it, or It becomes a shell that limits our growth. At present the house Is the burden of .civilization. It Is one of tho chief hindrances to a free and beau tiful development of character. We are busy all our lives trying to stuff our houses full of furniture ana prevent tne sun from coming Into the windows to fade our carpets. We set these houses In rows as we set rows of tombstones, and they are monuments, not to our manhood, but to our folly. It will be one of the chief problems of the new age how to get out of doors. A city is a sometnmg mane up of houses street after street of plied brick and stone. Make the best of them and they are stony-fronted; make the worst of them and they are so full or diseases, tragedies and old traditions that we can do nothing with them unul they chance to be burned. Hawthorne says the curse ot Rome is that It was built so solidly it could not be burned over once in 100 years. The salvation ot our house and city life Is that It can occasionally be burned up. As we go back to country life we must woman's Nature Mother's Friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness, and all unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system for the ordeal that she passes through the event safely and with but little suffering, as numbers have testified and said, "it is worth its weight in gold." $1.00 per bottle of druggists. Book containing valuable information mailed free. 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WALKER, 181 First Street, Corner Yarnhfll, Portland, Or Universal Approval j Gasoline Runabouts Monarch, (fOC -Ivx C $L) LU $ Old wheels taken in trade. not be slaves to our shell growth. The family must have elasticity and a chance to express new thoughts and feel new things. It must be able to work Itself out In new forms and methods. Our houses must be grown not In rows, bu"t where there Is most of sweetness and strength and Individuality for ourselves: Our schoolhouses also, like our home steads, must express liberty instead of slavery liberty to know and to think and to feel; not a mere obligation to give up the liberty of childhood for bondage to books. We must begin to live our lives, out of doors far more than we have done. and the school must be out of doors a3 well as the family. Our cities will nat urally expand Instead of compressing themselves. The home life of both toll ers and capitalists will creep out among the glens and among the hills. Success of the Solemn. Ass. Washington Post Look about you, gentle reader, and con sider the solemn ass In every walk of life. Who so respected, so admired, so influen tial? He never takes' sides. He never Is a partisan. He goes along with knitted brows, his thoughts too deep- for utter ance. Smaller men may abandon them selves to hasty Indications, to rash pref erences, to robust views. He never does. If he speaks at all, it is with such pro fundity and circumlocution and complex ity that the most recondite cryptogram ever rescued from a pyramid would seem to burst of innocent and childish candor in comparison. Yet he wears fine rai ment every day. He enjoys the respect and confidence of the community. He prospers. The oil of opulence anoints him. He is the Incarnation of success! Dairy Produce at Chicago. CHICAGO, May 2. On the Produce Ex change today the butter market was easy; creameries, 1220c; dairies, 1519c Eggs, firm, 1314c Cheese new, firm, Hc. Wool at St. IOHls. ST. LOUIS. May 2. 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