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H?5ytS?r ?- 3331 -vsbf jgp -y u THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 15, 190. - iff M zz - OKEGOM'S MOST FAMOUS ATHLETE Joseph H. Smith, "Who Excelled in All Fields of Sport and Wno "Won Many Victories for the Multnomah Gab JOSEPH H. SMITH Is the greatest all round athlete that Oregon has ever produced, and his records and accom plishments can show to the younger gen eration of baseball, football and tennis players and track athletes -what a man can do who has never trained for an athletic event. Smith is a natural-born athlete, and has been able to do anything: he has ever tried at the first attempt. His cool head and lltho physique won many a victory for the Multnomah Club. ' As one of Smith's friends said: "Smith's fame has come because he was always Johnny-on-the-spot, when he was needed. No matter if it were a football game al most lost or a ball game with the bases full and only one man out. Smith was equal to the occasion, and made the necessary ground or struck out the neces sary man." The facts of Smith's career have been gathered from friends. His estimation of his accomplishments has always been con fined to the time Immediately following the game or whatever kind of sport it was he was engaged In. If he pulled vic tory out of what seemed hopeless defeat, he was glad at the time, but that was the last heard of it from him. He loves the excitement at the time, but he does not value his record in itself, except as showing himself that he can do it again. And every one wishes be would take the time to try. His athletic career began in the late 'SOa at the Bishop Scott Academy, where he played baseball welL But he was only a boy, and was soon sent away to Law xenceville School, in New Jersey. There as he grew his fame came quickly. It was baseball there with him then as with every one else In that time. He was there three years, and learned to pitch. At Lawrenceville it is told yet how Smith handled the ball, and the wonderful throw he had. His record for throwing the ball has not been broken there yet, and It was made in 1S92. That was his last year there, but many men who afterward played on the fast ball teams that Har vard, Yale and Princeton used to have at that time, have been fanned by him. His arm was at Its very best then, and he was relied "upon by his school to win games for it. During the last Spring he was pitching three and four games a week, and in the last game he pitched be fore vacation he felt a sudden pain above his elbow. Immediately afterward he came out-here and pitched for" the Mult nomah Club. His arm was weakened for the season, and more or less permanently. His school-fellows at Lawrenceville say that Portland has never seen him. at his best, on account of that bad arm, but It has seen him pitch wonderful games. In 1894 he pitched the Multnomah Club Into the Northwest championship. The Seat tie game was the most exciting of the scries, and this Is the way It ended: The score was C-5, In favor of Multnomah In the ninth, but Seattle had the bases full, and only one man was out. That was Just the situation where Smith shone. Here was the place where his headiness could come In. He struck his two men straight, and the championship was Multnomah's. And he is Just as good at the bat. The following year, which was a time when tho old Portland Athletic Club flourished, Portland and Multnomah played a close game, and in tho ninth the score was 8-7, against Multnomah, with a man on sec ond. Smith came to tho bat like the re nowned Casey, but he did not have his fate. He knocked a clean two-bagger, tying the score. Ho stole third and was brought in himself by Shortstop Thomp son. Smith was much admired before he did that trick, bift no crowd that ever witnessed a game on Multnomah Field ever went so wild. Tho Portland sup porters had been so sure of victory that they had already lined up for the march of triumph. The excitement of the Mult nomah rooters when Smith gavo the game the sudden turn was something delirious. That was the last of his baseball until ho pitched for the Second Oregon Volun teers in the Philippines. There had been a series of games among the regiments of different states, and the championship lay in tho end between Oregon and Penn sylvania. Smith had not lost a game. Oregon was one run shy toward tho end of the game. There was a man on base. liner over third that struck far out and JOSEPH H. SMITH. minute the band begins to play in the vil lage street, people begin -to dig down in the weasel skin for the price of tickets. It is a show which never becomes old to the masses, and no matter how dull the theatrical seasonmay be, "Tom people" are prosperous. , There have been hustle and bustle about the Tailroad tracks- at Fourth avenue, north, and Fifth street this week. The two big cars belonging to the Minneapolis promoters have been repainted and scrubbed until they shine like Uncle Tom's countenance. Trucks have been hauling in load after load of canvas for the big tents, and scenery, seats, dogs, ponies, trom bones, actors and actorines, and all that goes to make up the traveling village, have been In evidence. The bloodhounds have consistently tried to bite the leg of every loafer they could' reach, and the Shetland ponies have, tried to "kick the sides out of the car." Marks came near meeting his finish while assisting to feed the, pups, and Miss Ophelia sat on the car steps and made goo-goolzed eyes at the manager. All was hurry and bustle. Seriously speaking, the Uncle Tom business has come to be regarded as much of an Invest ment as the playing of stocks and bonds. lty people smile at the old play, but it takes cold cash and a lot of It to put a .r show of the kind on the road. It is a miniature circus these days, and demands the same keen business management re quired in any other line of business. The show which has been outfitting in Min neapolis this week carries almost 75 peo ple, including actors, canvasmen, business agents and the ticket-sellers and takers. The company will play North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Large crowds have watched the work from the Fifth-street bridge, but the abusive language used by the dogs has prevented too large a crowd from Interfering with the work of the laborers. MENU FOR COMPANY DINNER AND LUNCH flirted along through the grass. The nfan came in and Smith likewise. It was the cleanest homo run he ever made. "Foul," said the umpire, and the championship was Pennsy's. Smith's football record Is scarcely less illustrious. He played here one season, and the next two he was made captain of the team. Football was not then what it is now, but Smith knew the game as it should be played, and taught his men form. In those days Blyth and Jack Sav age used to play guards, and the line was Immovable. Smith bad been in the line at Lawrenceville himself, but here he was a running half and fullback. At school he had a record of being able to handle any man under 23) pounds, and he only weighed 1G0 himself. In one par ticular game when he first came out. In 1B93. the score stood 4-0 against Multno mah. The touchdown only counted four then. But the drop-kick counted five, as now. Few people here had ever seen a drop kicked in a game. Multnomah could only work the ball to the 30-yard line. Smith asked the time left to play. Ten Beconds he was told. He dropped back and did what has often been done since, but which in that day was a great feat he kicked a goal from the field, and won the game. That Is Smith's great virtue as an athlete he wins. Unfortunately, his football career came to an abrupt end in the Rugby football game played between the Multnomah and Olympls Clubs at the Midwinter Fair, In San Francisco. He threw out his knee, and was not able to play for some years, and since then he has got out of the habit. Oddly enough, Smith's all-around ath letic fame is somewhat of an accident, as far as purpose of being known for it Is concerned. The active sports, such as baseball, football and tennis, in which he had a record here, also at Lawrenceville, have always been of more interest than anything else In the athletic line to him. But he ran some at school, and while at Lawrenceville, while playing third base, he would have to Jump several stationary hurdles every time he allowed a ball to pass. The fact that he became a pro ficient hurdler from that practice does not imply that he let many balls pass, but shows the aptitude he had for any form of sport. He was the first man to intro duce to Portland the proper way of hurd ling. It was 1893, when he was the big gun in the baseball world, that he won the all round championship In field athletics. He really put little time to it, as he was more Interested In baseball at the time, but he was a good hurdler, could handle the weights, ran a good clip and could Jump well further than any one. He went in against men like Alva Stevens and Foster Beck, the latter having won the championship the year before. He won. He won in almost everything. Sud denly his fame shot sky-high In that di rection. He trained a little for those par ticular sports after that. As to training in general, he Is always in condition. He does not train at all, in fact, but he could go out on the track or ball diamond and do as well as ever. The famous ball game he pitched in Manila, after long unfamillarity with the game, shows how ho retains his skill. He represented the club In the hurdles and broad Jump successfully several times after he was champion, but it was mere ly to help out the team, he did not care for tho honors. He was also the club's amateur champion boxer, and recently was on the Multnomah billiard team that defeated the Commercial Club. An illustration of his athletic readiness was shown two years ago, when the ten nis fever struck the club. Smith had not touched a racquet for years, but he took up the sport, and a few days later gave Walter Goss, the local champion, one of. the fastest games of his life. Smith won his share of the game, too, but Goss' superior training and experience gave him the victory. Things that can be termed sports are really his forte, and he plays them and plays them well because he likes them and is a natural-born athlete. rAVCTTUTIVDV I 1H1H? TIHTf r .k. r r lfc kK. J .HA b m 9m fcfc - WATER WILL HOT QUENCH Only those who have experienced the awful itching and burning of Bczema can know how it feels to be consumed by the blistering, fiery acids oozing out through the pores of the skin. There is no other skin disease that compares in severity with Bczema. It begins as a mere redness of the slrinj or comes in little watery blisters and pimples, discharging a thin sticky fluid which hardens into scabs and scales, leaving a raw and inflamed surface as they peel off, while the itching is almost intolerable. Bczema is the most vicious and violent of all skin diseases, appearing in many different forms: the dry and scaly kind with brownish white crusts, which gives the skin a rough, leathery appear ance, and producing sometimes painful fissures and sores. In other cases the skin has a swollen, moist appearance, with occasional profuse discharges of watery matter. Bt all the varieties and types of this aggravating disease are akin and are caused by impure blood and an over-acid condition of this vital fluid that seems to set the skin on fire, kindling a flame that water will not quench, and an itchmg, stinging eruption that lotions, soaps, salves and powders cannot suppress. As the poi- W w ! m' SAN F-RAyNCISeO. HAS MEW CLUB The Sequoia Is to Foster Art, Literature, Music and Drama Conreid's Artists and Greeks Players May Come to the Coast i AN FRANCISCO. May 1L (Special Correspondence.) A club with lofty ambitions has been formed here by artists, literary folk and the patrons of art. They have banded together under the California name of "Sequoia," but their ideas are borrowed from lands remote. Tho object is to promote art and literature In San Francisco. The new organization hopes to father (or mother, for it is made up of men and women) a salon on broader lines than has heretofore been attempted' west of New York. In addition, the study of music will be encouraged by bringing to California tho finest vocalists and in strumentalists In the world. Tho drama will receive a like recognition. Already contemplated' are tho bringing of Con reld's group of operatic stars to the Coast in the Fall and a Western tour for the Ben Greet miracle players. The club has Included in its personnel mon and women of financial prominence, as well as those more directly Interested in art. The presi dency of the club has been bestowed upon Charles S. Aiken, editor of Sunset Maga zine. MIsb Jessica Picxotto, the first wo man to receive a Ph. D. degree from the University of California, and an authority on sociology. Is vice-president, promi nent among the 100 members are: Frank lin K. Iano. late candidate for Governor and for Mayor; British Consul-General Bennett, Mrs. B. F. Norris wife of tho novelist; William Greer Harrison, presi dent of the Olympic Club; ex-Mayor James D. Phelan, John McNaught, managing editor of the Call; Charles Kceler, tho poet; Fremont Older, managing editor of tho Bulletin; Ashton Stevens, dramatic critic of tho Examiner: William Keith, tho artist, and Ernest Simpson, city editor of the Chronicle. In addition there are a score of the most prominent society mat rons and a strong representation from the artists and musicians of the city. Strange among the court records of tho week have been two breach of promise suits, in the one, the plaintiff was her own attorney. She was a Mrs. Richards, of whom a wealthy Chicagoan had grown weary. She agreeably accepted the first twelve Jurymen offered. Frequent exhibitions of hysteria and her statement that "our relations were as pure as those of the angels" failed to impress the Jury in tho face of some very plain and un adorned assertions of the defcntlant. He had offered her $500. but the Jury awarded her but $1.00. The other case was that of a trapeze ac tress. Miss Lconna Sonne by name, who asked for $100,000 from W. L. B. Carey, a Manxman, the son of Colonel Carey, of Crimean war fame. In view of the fact that this was the third tlmo the aerial artist had appealed to the courts for golden heart salve tho equilibrium of the defendant was not affected. A court-martial is in sight for Colonel William Pitcher, who Is accused of trifling with the affections of some score of young women. Colonel Pitcher, who Is a brother of Major Pitcher, superintendent of the Yellowstone Park, is on duty at the Pre- (d&io. He was first charged with Jilting Miss Caroline Harold, of Washington, but since then reports have floated In from several places where Pitcher has been stationed, telling of his lovemaklng, but non-marrying ways. So many, of these tales have reached the war office that Sec retary Taft has had them made into for mal charges. Taft is determined that the brand of romancing charged against Pitcher shall cease in the Army. He is quoted as saying that no man guilty of the misconduct charged against Pitcher Is fit to wear an American Army uniform. To give Pitcher a chance to clear him self he has ordered a court-martial. A new movo by tho commercial bodies of San Francisco calculated to remedy a great defect In the city's business life Is the plan set on foot this week to supply the harbor with adequate dockage facili ties. The great ferry building completed in 189S at a cost of $700,000 was outgrown two years ago, and so crowded have be come conditions on the water front that confusion and delay are the results. Three transpacific steamship companies are giv en one wharf between them. The Gov ernment Is confined to one dock for Its transports, where three are essential. The Southern Pacific ferry slips, crowded to twice their capacity, have been divided for a second time, on this occasion for the new Key transbay system. The seawall is banked with merchandise which should occupy a space half again as extensive. Boats criss-cros3 and back in order to avoid collision and wait In the stream for a vacant dock. Passengers wade through coops and barrels to gain their boats, and river steamers crowd their moorings in close formation. In order to remedy all this the commercial bodies propose to bring about an Issue of bonds for har bor Improvements to the extent of $2,000. 000. Wharfage rates at this port are ex cessively high, and with the poor accom modations they will become forbidding. unless action is taken. The proposed im provements aro for new jiocks, a seawall extension and extensive warehouse facili ties. The party of 50 Filipinos, representing the commercial Interests of the islands will be entertained In San Francisco upon their arrival here, at the end of the month. They will spend five or six days here, and during that time will be shown all the courtesies which a city can ex tend. They will be under the special care of Governor Pardee, Mayor Schmitz, Rear-Admiral Kempff and Major Devol. From here the Filipinos will go to the St. Louis Fair. The departure of Mme. Sembrlch will bo followed closely by the arrival here of Richard Mansfield. Mansfield has not been In San Francisco in 11 years. San Franciscans have said and written unkind things about Mansfield In view of the constancy with 'which he has shunned the Pacific Coast. However, now that the great prosperity of the Pacific Coast and the waning glory of the East have sent him scrambling over the Rockies, San Franciscans relent and open their arms to receive him. His $30,000 special will back into the yards here in a day or two. Box-office receipts at this date indicate a close rivalry with the thousands which flowed into the "Ben Hur' and Weber & Fields treasuries. An interesting event of the week's so cial whirl was the, marriage last night of Miss Ella R. Goodall and Dr. Charles Minor Cooper, both of San Francisco. Mrs. William Skene, of Portland, was matron of honor. Miss Goodall is tho daughter of the well-known shipowner. P. H. H. Holland, of Portland. Is reg istered at the St. Francis. R. Morris, a railroad man, of Portland, was a visitor here this week. Torn mens Prepare to Hit Pike Little Eva and the Bloodhounds Are Get ting Ready for the Summer Campaign Minneapolis Journal. T"OXI people are getting ready for 1 the pike.' To the uninitiated this ambiguous statement means little, but to those in the know it conveys the sentiment that the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shows are getting ready for the annual tour. The fierce Sibe rian bloodhounds have been hauled from their Winter kennels and treated by vet erinarians for the distemper and mange, and Elizas all over the country have been climbing stairs and skipping ropes to get rid of surplus tissue. A fat Eliza rolling over floating ice and chased by. man-eating hounds at 10. 20 and 30 would be a vio lation of the conventions which no mana ger would stand for not for a minute. The biggest "Uncle Tom's Cabin" show ( in the business is just now fitting out for tne season in .mnneapous. -j.ai& m Head quarters for the Wilharts & Smith's "Pre mier Uncle Tom's Cabin Company," and it takes two cars to carry the hounds. Little Evas, Simon Legrees. Topsies, tents, scats and those who follow the thesplan life and "double in brass." "Tom people" travel in style. They have at their dis posal a private sleeping and dining car. This car Is the perambulating home of 52 people. Including the colored folk who wear white coats and silk tiles in the pa rade, peel potatoes, and wash dishes, show up In a cotton-plcklng scene, act as chat tels in the auction-house, weep with gusto at the death of diminutive Eva. and cut pigeon wings at the concert which fol lows the big show. They also act as the "gentlemanly ticket-sellers who will now pass among you," and make themselves generally useful when not otherwise em ployed. Nothing but wind and water can beat the managers of an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" show out of getting the money. From the THE accompanying menus for a com pany dinner and luncheon were especially, prepared by Miss Farmer, of Boston School of Cookery, for The Or egonian. The recipes are some of her best, and may be followed with good results if care Is taken to make all given measures level ones, never heap ing or scant. A Company Dinner. Canape Tourr&ne. Little Neck Clams on Shell. Olives. Brownbread Sandwiches. Radishes. French White Soup, with Chicken Custard. Dinner Bread. Fried Bass in Potato. Nests. Dressed Cucumbers. Mushrooms Under Glass. Roman Punch. Fillet of Beef -with Vegetables. Cheese Balls. Pastry Straws. Sherry's Lettuce Salad. Sultana Roll, Claret Sauce. Maccedolna Pud- mng. Fancy Cakes. Fancy Cakes. Water Thins. Roquefort Cheese. Coffee in Drawing-Room. A Company Luncheon. Grape Fruit with Apricot Brandy. tiam ana xomato uonsomme. Bouchees a la Portland. Fillets of Flounder, Mushroom Sauce. Planked Chicken. Potatoes, club style. Cauliflower a la Huntington. Onion Souffle. Froien Tomato Salad, Mayonnaise. Ginger Cream. Angel Cake. Fillet of Beef With Vegetables. Wipe fillets, remove fat veins and tendinous portions. Skewer Into shape. Put one-half pound butter into a very hot frying pan, then put in fillets and turn until seared and well browned all over; then turn occasionally to finish cooking, time being allowed about 30 minutes. After removing fillet to hot platter, add to butter in pan one cup rich brown stock. Thicken gravy, sea son with salt, pepper and lemon Juice, and add one-half pound cooked fresh mushrooms. Surround the fillet with carrots cut in fancy shape, cooked In boiling water and seasoned, green peas, cooked raisins and mushrooms. Frozen Tomato Salad. To one-quart can tomatoes add three tablespoons powdered sugar and sea son highly with salt and cayenne. Rub through a sieve, turn into small tin boxes, cover tightly, pack in salt and ice, using equal parts, and let stand three or four hours. Remove from molds, arrange on lettuce leaves and garnish with mayonnaise dressing. Clam and Tomato Consomme. Mix one quart consomme with one pint each of clam water and tomato. Clear, add soft part of clams, and serve with bread sticks. Shad Vert-pre. Split fish, place in buttered baking dish, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with two shallots finely chopped, and pour over one-half cup white wine. Cover with buttered pa per and bake 25 minutes. Remove to serving dish and pour over a sauce made of two tablespoons butter, three tablespoons flour, one cup white stock. and the liquid drained from fish; color with spinach, greens and parsley. Sea son with salt, pepper and lemon Juice, and add more butter if desired. Cheese and Tomato Salad. Peel six medium-sized tomatoes and scoop out a portion of the center. Fill cavity with Roquefort and Neufchatel cheese seasoned with salt, pepper and cayenne, and moistened with olive oil and vinegar. Serve on lettuce leaves, with or without French dressing. Mushrooms Under Glass. Cream two tablespoons butter, add one-half tablespoon lemon Juice, one quarter teaspoon salt and a few grains of pepper: then add one-quarter tea spoon finely chopped parsley. Toast a circular piece of bread cut two-eighths of an inch In thickness, put half the sauce on under slice of toast and place toast on baking dish; pile on mush room caps in conical shape. Put re gaining sauce over mushrooms, and add heavy cream, using oiio-quarter cup. Cover with glass and cook on top of range 25 minutes, adding more cream if necessary. Just before serv ing add one-half to one teaspoon of sherry rr Madeira wine. Onion. Souffle. Melt four tablespoons butter, add four tablespoons flour and pour on gradually one-half cup of water in which onions . have been cooked, and one-third cup cream. Add one cup cooked onions rubbed through a sieve. Beat yolks three eggs until light, com bine mixtures, and fold In whites three eggs beaten until stiff. Bake In but tered baking dish In moderate oven 25 minutes. Serve at once. Cheese Balls. Mash a cream cheese and season with salt and paprika. Add one tablespoon cracker dust, form into balls, roll in cracker dust, egg and cracker dust, and fry in deep fat and drain. Deviled Sandwiches. Fry two ounces blanched and shred ded almonds in butter until well browned. Then finely chop. Add two tablespoons finely chopped pickles, one tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, one tablespoon Chutney and a few grains of cayenne. Add twice as much finely chopped cooked chicken and moisten with mayonnaise dressing. Cauliflower a la Huntington. Steam cauliflower until eoft; separate Into pieces and pour over It the follow ing sauce: Mix 1U teaspoons mustard. 1U teaspoons salt. 1 teaspoon powdered sugar and one-quarter teaepoon paprika. Dear Sirs i la tho summer of 1S98 1 was attacked with. a breaking out, which, dootors said was Eczema. It com menced on the inside of my arms and gradually spread. The doctors who examined me said they oouM our e it, and treated me for some time, but it grew worse all the while. I then wrote you, and upon receipt of a reply to my letter I got six bottles of S. S. S. and began taking it according to directions. I had used four and a half bottles before seeing any effect at all; then the Eozema seemed to get a great deal "worse, bat I kent on. takincr the medioine and in three or ever. It is particularly bad in warm weath- four days the eruption commenced to shed off. I could - tw,,x.,. 4-1,;,. .. .1,0. d,:M ; ..- rub it off like bran, and this was the end of the Eozema. er, because at this season the skin is react- x t in riine bottles, and never spent that much money for anything that did me so much good. JEave felt better in every way since. I am 68 years old, and was so stiff that I oould hardly walk and was compelled to quit work, but since taking S. SL S. have been on the go all the time. Very truly, J G. MoNAIR. Garth, Va. sonous acids in the blood increase the erup tion spreads and becomes more angry look ing, and the itching and burning more un bearable. Bczema is the. commonest of all skin diseases, and the most aggravating and treacherous, disappearing at times, then re turning suddenly and in a severer form than ing and the blood is making extra effort to throw off the morbid secretions and acid im purities that have been accumulating during the long winter months, and there is an over flow of the acrid matter and acid poison through the pores, producing irritation and redness of the skin and all the terrors of Bczema, Soothing applications are beneficial and advisable, but not curative, because the seat of the disease is in the blood, and external or surface treatment cannot change bad blood into good blood or purge the system of impurities. Only a blood purifier can do this, and while treat ing the skin the blood must be looked after or the disease is sure to return when the blood is again overcharged with acids. S. S. S. to purify and cleanse the blood, and some non-irritating, soothing salve or lotion, is the proper treatmerit for all forms of Bczema. S. o. o. has made some remarkable cures of this stubborn skin dis ease cases that had become chronic from long neglect or wrong, treatment. - S. S. S. is the only guaranteed strictly vegetable blood remedy. It is without a single mineral in gredient, but of medicinal roots that come from the fields and forests or Nature's store-houses. S. S. S. combines both purifying and tonic properties that enter into the circulation and destroy the impurities, and at the same time tone up the general system. Skin diseases are, after all, only symp toms of impure and vitiated blood and external signs of disordered systems, and when you cure the blood the eruptions disappear. If you have Bczema or any blood disease, sore or eruption, write us and our physician will gladly advise you and furnish any information desired without cost to you. Book on the Skin and its diseases free. THE SWIFT SPEG1FIG COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA, j w m ." Add yolks 3 egg3 slightly beaten, one fourth cup olive oil and one-half cup vinegar In which one-half teaspoon fine ly chopped shallot has Infused five min utes. Cook over hot water until mix ture thickens, remove from range and add one-half teaspoon curry powder, 2 tablespoons melted butter and 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley. Orange Mint Salad. Remove pulp of four large oranges, add 2 tablespoons finely chopped mint and 1 tablespoon each of lemon juice and sher ry wine. Chill thoroughly and serve in glasses, garnishing each with a sprig of mint. . Pineapple and Celery Salad. Mix equal parts of finely cut celery and shredded pineapple. Serve on lettuce leaves; garnish with mayonnaise and green and red peppers. RIFLEMEN AT PRACTICE. of Miss Ina Weatherwax, a bride-to-be. The house was decorated with branches of red huckleberry. The game of "500" was played. Miss McCutcheon winning the prize, a pretty purse. Guests were present from Hoquiam and Cosmopolls, as well as this place. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. C R. Green and Mrs. Fred Green. They Prepare to Contest for Prizes at National Guard Encampment. Rifle practice among the Oregon Na tional Guard will be lively from now on, In anticipation of the work in trying to capture the prize for. the best team shoot ing at the encampment of the National Guards of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, at American Lake, near Tacoraa, July 7 to 21 Inclusive. An order Issued by Adjutant-General W. E. Flnzer declares that the current season for rifle practice is open and will close October 31, so that the rifle range back of the City Park will soon receive lots of marksmen anxious to qualify. For the present season the maximum fixed ammunition for target practice to be issued to companies of Infantry, with out charge, will be 5000 rounds. Two thousand rounds of fixed ammunition will be forwarded for each company without requisition. The new firing regulations for small arms, United States Army, are now out and one copy will be sent to each officer as soon as received from the department. The order says: Practice with the United States magazine rifle, caliber .30, will be required of every officer and enlteted man in the infantry arm of the service, except regimental bands and hos pital corps, and with the carbine and re volver for the cavalry arm of the service. Of ficers and enlisted men In batteries -will prac tice with the revolver, and may qualify with the United States magazine rifle or carbine. Members of regimental bands and hospital corps will be permitted to qualify with the magazine rifle or carbine. Members of regi mental banda and hospital corps will be per mitted to qualify with the magazine rifle caliber .30, and to those qualifying, decora tions will be Issued. Field, staff and line of ficers, and noncommissioned staff officers of regiments of Infantry, may qualify with the revolver. There will be a company, regimental and state figure of merit. The state figure of merit will be the combined figure of merit of all or ganizations. All figures of merit will be com puted by multiplying the number of expert riflemen by 200: Pf sharpshooters by 150; of marksmen by 100; of first classmen by 75; of second classmen by 50; of third classmen by 10; of fourth classmen by zero, and by divid ing the sum of the products thus' obtained by the total number of officers and enlisted men in the above seven classes." Centralia Society Items. The ladies of the Baptist Church gave a May day social in the parlors of their church Thursday evening. Mrs. 0. P. Taylor gave a reception to a large number of friends Thursday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nudd. Mrs. George irysart entertained a large number of her women friends Wednesday afternoon at the novel game of "nations." Her large residence was tastefully dec orated and the guests were entertained with music by Misses Ellsbury, Sommer ville, Fowler and Avis Dysart. Elegant refreshments were served. Mrs. Dysart was assisted in the dining and reception room3 by Misses Mary Fowler, Nellie Dunckley, Bernlce Thompson and Avis Dysart. Methodists and Heretics. SHERIDAN, Or., May 13. (To the Editor.) In an editorial of May 12, you say that Methodists are dissenters, here tics, nonconformitlsts; the children of heresy, and in turn the fathers of it. This simply goes to show that you are not well informed as to the histpry of the M. E. Church. What people may charge the church with and facts are two entirely different things. You might just as well say that the American people are anarchists, the chil dren of anarchists, and in turn tne fathers of anarchy. The Revolutionary War had as much to do with the making of the M. E. Church as it had to do with the making of our Nation. The M. E. Church has always taken the Bible for Its standard of Faith: and at the same time It has always taken a stand that that Bible teaches certain fundamental truths. Now, If the Methodists are heretics, the children of heresy,. and In turn the fathers of it, is It not right and proper that they shall say what kind of here tics shall be Methodists? The M. E. Church stands for a reli gious principle just as much as our Na tion stands for a principle of Govern ment. In my mind the M. E. Church comes tho nearest to being Ideal American of any religious organization tfiat we have. J. W. GORR. Pastor II. E. Church, Sheridan, Or. Our correspondent has misinterpreted The Oregonlan's remark, which was en tirely favorable to the heretical origin of Methodism, likening It to the heresy of Jesus. 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