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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 26, 1905. FEDERAL EXPOSITION BUILDINGS ARE NEARING COMPLETION boys were "hitting the trail" in earnest. The other statuary is being placed, the work of preparing the electrical display which is to be under the water of Guild's Lake, is now in progress and the esplan ade is about SO per cent completed. Centennial Park has received the last touches, and contains hundreds of shady and cozy nooks that weary and dusty slghtseers will welcome when going to and from the Trail and the island to the mainland. The walks and drives have been covered with their bed of South American red granite, and the contrast between this and the dazzling white of the exhibit buildings is pleasing to the 2i " ' Within the present week it is possible that work wJH begin on seven of the state pavilions. Bids iiCive been opened for the Massachusetts and ew York buildings, and these will soon be in the process of construction. California and "Washington will soon be at work on the buildings which they are to erect. The other states i umw;aH --mtm ' i "linn yi i ! iFjr i SMk.. liMn illii lilW I W HP I iliffwr ' I iilF HBUl nil in I' 1 Tl " T T -V yT WHEN the workmen on the United States Government buildings at the Lewis and Clark Exposition grounds threw down hammers and saws yesterday when the day's work was done it was announced that the percentage of completion of the Government group was 78 per cent. The pair of lofty towers reaches far above the ground. The wings arc re ceding their last coat of dazzling white, the entrances are beginning to take shape and the interior la rapidly receiv ing the finishing touches. In the face of labor troubles and the attempts of agitators to hinder the work. the task of erecting the Government I group has gone forward with consider able speed, and the Government superin tendent, and his inspectors are well pleased with the present outlook. Noth ing unforeseen Intervening, the group will be completed and every exhibit correctly placed before tho opening day of the Centennial. There is still considerable work to be done on the Island, however, and the landscape gardeners will be kept busy almost until the opening day. Tho sunk en garden, which is to be directly In front of the center of the Government group is yet to be completed. Walks, drives and beds of flowers and foliage have to be mapped out and created from the ir regular turf. The lake shore, must be beautified and the life-saving station must be completed and the crew installed. On the mainland the Exposition looks, to the Inexperienced eye, to be completed. Here and there are touches to be given! finishing pats are necessary in places, but the body of the work is done. This, of course, is not true of the new palace of Manufactures, Liberal Arts and Varied Industries, for which the contract was let less than a month ago, but as this building was not included in the first group ordered erected, and as the con tractor is under bond to turn it over to the Exposition officials by May 1. It 'does not detract from the state of completion. The arches of the Bridge of Nations are being constructed, and an idea of the im pression the completed bridge will make can now be gained by looking at the half completed structure. Remington's "Shoot ing Up the Town," known as the "Cow boys on the Trail." has been placed at the entrance of the Trail in such a po sition that It looks as though the cow- will drop in one by one and begin con struction, and the state pavilions will rise rapidly. Officials Move to Grounds. The majority of the Exposition officials have now moved to the grounds from headquarters. The president, secretary state commission and the directors of ex hibits and concessions remain at the city headquarters. However, out wm remove to the grounds within a month. This week a part of the militia guard will be placed on the grounds. The fire department is already installed, and the men have become at home in their build ing. The present entrance will soon be torn away, and the turnstiles placed in posi tion under the collonade. Exhibits are now being placed in the Agricultural Palace, which last week was delivered to the state commission. As they are un packed these exhibits are, by direction of Director of Exhibits Dosch. placed on the floor apace they will occupy when properly arranged. This method will save time, it is thought, and prevent confus ion when, during the last few week3 be fore the opening of the Exposition, ex hibitors will be rushing their displays Into proper shape for inspection by visi tors. Director of Concessions Wakefield, is a busy man arranging details for the numerous concessions, but his work will be well finished when the Exposition opens, and he and his staff will then be ready to attend to the heavy task of col lecting percentages and seeing that those who have concessions live up to their contracts. Lim Jucklin on Horse-Traders OPIE READ'S PHILOSOPHER IN A HUMAN DISCOURSE ON THE UNDERLYING MOTIVE OF TRADE. IT WAS court day in the county seat. Long-legged colts ran after their mothers. On the public square, dogs, meeting one another for the first time, and exercising the right of that ancient enmity which science has not been able to explain, fought desperately. A great day, surely, dating back to the dawn of Anglo Saxon liberty. Amid the gathering throng, heavy of foot and weighty In bearing, walked the Sheriff, spurred like a fighting cock mud-splashed as if he had ridden far to arrest offenders. Merchants hung out their most tempting wares. Red calico blazed in the sun. The restaurant announced catfish, fresh from the creek. Old-time citizens whose minds ran back to tho day when lawyers, with more of oratory than of statute, traveled from one court to another, stood about the liv ery stable. And who is this shrewd fel low with hawk-eye? It Is the horse trad er. He knows the age of every colt that has come into town this day. He knows that tho old clay-bank mare, tied over yonder against the fence, will balk. He knows that a shrewd farmer has filed her teeth to disguise her advancing years. He has the record of yonder mule. He knows that last Spring a year ago he left tho print of iron between a darky's eyes. How ready he is to pass opinion on all phases of life. Book-learning Is the word bluster of the ignorant. To sit down to read is to sit down without thought of your own. Tho reader Is the borrower. In short, ho knows that all intelligence is to be summed up in one's knowledge of a horse. Old Limuel Jucklin came Into the stable, the .great hallway of Intelligence, and took a chair which the proprietor commanded & boy to fetch for him. Whn the old man had taken off his hat and placed it on the ground beside his chair, the horse trader came forward and spoke to him. "Jucklin, ain't it awut time you were gettln' rid of that old sorrel?" "Well. I don't know. He hasn't done me any particular harm." "But has he done you any particular good?" The old-timers gathered about the two men. The clearing-house of wisdom was about to open its session. "His right eye is failing," said tho trader. "Well, but his left eye is all right," re piled Limuel. "And with one eye, he can see only half of a load, be deceived as to its weight, and in consequence will pull better." "But he is threatened with a spavin," retorted the trader. "Maybe so. But when a spavined horse gets warmed up, he feels so good over the relief that he travels faster. It's a renewal of his youth." "But he's losln flesh," persisted the trader. "That's a fact He wae gettin' too fat Anything else the trouble with him? Don't you think he is afflicted with bad dreams? Examine his mane and see if the witches haven't been rldin him. But first tell me what you want me to do with him. I guess you want me to swop for that bay you've got" "Well, I didn't know but we might strike up a trade." "But why do you want a horse that's so out of fix as mine is? Jim." he added, "I was thlnkin of you as I rode into town. I was wonder-In' if you would eventually trade your way Into the middle of eter nity and then be driven out on the other -side. Tour -life has been- a continuous whettin of yourself, to make yourself sharper. You are a fox among men." "But nobody can say I'm a liar, Uncle Urn." "Oh, no. But the worst He Is not the direct lie, but the one that leads man on to one of his own flndln', for then he Is doubly deceived. You let a man set a trap for himself. With apparent open ness, you warn him against yourself, but you don't warn him against himself. The worst deceiver in this world is the one that puts a man in a position to deceive himself. A half truth Is worse than a whole He. It catches more people.' "You are too hard on me. Uncle Llm. Horse trading is my business, and under the law It Is an honest callin'." "Honest, enough from the point of view that self-interest takes." Limuel replied. "But. if you were perfectly honest and gave the other feller as much of the bar gain as you get, you'd never have more than you started In with. You must have a shade the best of it" "'But Isn't that true of all 'business?" "Pretty much," the old man admit ted. "But the man that lives by his wits, lives on the lack of wit in other men. He is a hawk sallin' round the" barnyard of life. In swoppin' horses you first make it a point to find ob jections In the other horse. Your aim Is to make the owner dissatisfied with him. Gradually you show the strong points of your own horse. You are so persuasive that the victim hears and thinks he sees. Virtues drummed into the ears become virtues In the Imagined sight Then you've got him. The limp in your own horse is turned into a sort of grace. It Is the main feature in your horse. A cast in the eye Is not a forerunner of comln blindness, but the promise of better sight You couldn't keep from decelvln your best friend. It isn't gain you are after so much as It is the thrill of beatin' some one. With you it is an appetite Just the same as a man's thirst for drink." "Hold on; you would make me out a thief." "No, but a man that wants to In toxicate himself. It's politics, applied to horses. To mislead a man is to ac quire a sort of majority. If you owned all the horses in the community, you wouldn't be satisfied. Then you'd start out with cows. And ownin all the cows, you'd take dogs. There'd be no such thing as satisfyln' you, and this soothes your conscience. It is much easier to sooth a conscience than a stone bruise." "But you know I wouldn't cheat you." "Oh, you wouldn't cheat any one," Limuel replied. "But the very fact that you want to swop your horse for mine proves that you want to do some thin', and it's natural to suppose that you don't want the wors.t of it Now, we'll take the Circuit Judge, for in stance. He Is your uncle, I believe. You think well of him. You ' know that a horse is a part of his life, for he has to ride horseback from one courthouse to another. But you swapped horses with him until he -was seen walkln, carryin' his saddle. And now you want to see "me walk." "That's where you do me wrong," declared the horse-trader. I swopped several times with my uncle and " "Yes, and shortly afterward he walked Into town, didn't he?" "Well, I don't insure a horse's health. I'm not a horse prophet I can't tell how long a horse may live. I swapped with Uncle Dan three times and-i " "And he walked. Just as I say," Lim uel broke in. "And Is It that you want to see whether or not I can beat him welkin'? We might settle it by walk In round and round the courthouse square." That's all right, Uncle Lim, but I traded with the Judge three days ago, and he rode Into town this mornin'. He says he never had a better saddle horse In his life. And the horse I got from him I'm willln' to let you have. I don't want to see you walk want to see you well mounted. Now, you go and ask the Judge what sort of a horse I let him havo the other day." Just at this moment the Judge came walking Into the stable. "Jim." said he, Bpeaklng to the . trader, "I wish there were some law under which I I could shut you up In the penitentiary, j I went around to the barn just now to ! look at my horse, and and the thine is dead." Old Lim looked at the trader. "Don't believe I want to swap with you. Jim mle. It's ten miles from her to where I live, and I don't care to walk." (Copyrighted. 1905.) OPIE READ. :new books foe library. Large Additions Made for Shelves of Portland's Institution. The Gardening Magazine, which Is new ly published by Doubleday, Page & Co.. has just been added t6 the periodical room of the Portland Library, and will be found very suggestive and of great practical value to all who are Interested, In flower and vegetable garden?. Miss Rockwood will give lectures thte week on the use of the library to the members of the freshman class at the High School. Eighty-five children were present at the story hour Friday afternoon to hear the story of George Washington as a soldier. On March 10 the birthday of the llbrary wlll be appropriately celebrated in the children's room. The list of new books follows: Physiognomy, g Wells. S. R. How to read character.... 139 W456 Religion. Religious education association. Proceed ings of the secondi annual convention. 1904 R208 K3S2 Sociology. Bebel, F. .A. Woman under socialism.... 39G B3S7 Colt Stanton. Neighborhood guilds 331.85 C6S1 Fawcett, Henry. Manual or political econ omy 330 F27S Sellgroan. E. R. A. Progressive taxation in theory and practice 330.2 S464 Dictionaries. Grimm. J. I. K., and Grimm. TV. K. Deutsches Woerterbuck. 9v. in 12.R433 GS64 Seles c. Bryce, James. Relations of the advanced and backward races of mankind. (Ro manes lecture. 1902.) 572 B910 gSmitb, EX E. Golden poppy 5S7.55 S646 Fine Arts and Amusements. Perkins, Thomas, ed. Itlterary of the Eng lish cathedrals. (Bell's Cathedral series) 726.G P4511 Tableaux, charades and pantomimes. .783 T113 Literature. Askey, J. B., ed. Pros and cons..RSLS.5 A835 Chase. E. L.. & French, TV. E. P. TVaes hael R808.5 C487 Gowdy. J. L... comp. Special days In school 808.8 G722 Scudder, H. E., comp. American poem3. 811.08 S436 Scudder. II. E., comp. American prose .....S10.S S436 gWl'lilV. N " P." " Rag-bagV.V.V.V.V.V.818 "TV735r Description and Travel. Burton. J. H. Emigrants' manual; Aus tralia. New Zealand. America and South Africa .O910 B074 Freeman. E. A. Sketches from the subject cad neighbor lands of Venice 914.5 FS55s Starr. Frederick. Ainu group at the St. Louis Exposition 915.2 S766 Story. TV. TV. Castle at St. Angelo and the Evil Eye 914.56 SSSSc gWIHU. N. P. Summer cruise In the Mediterranean 910.4. TV735 TVyld. James. Map of the basin of the Pacific 1.O912.90 TV9S2 TVyld. James. Map of the United States and the relative position of the Oregon & Texas 0912.73 TV3S2 Biography. Brewster. H. P. Saints and festivals of the Christian church R922' BS48 Dodgson. C. L. Life and letters of Lewis Carroll. (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)? by S. D. Colllngwcod B D&45C Fiction. Bradford. Gamaliel. Private tutor B'OOp Brooks, Gcraldine. Romances of colonial days B8734r Huntington. H. S., pseud. His majesty's sloop. Diamond Rock H951h Lane. Mrs. E. (M.) Nancy Stair L285n Lawrence. A. L. Wolverine L419w Books for Children. Ballard. Mrs. J. P. Among the moth and butterflies J395.T B1S9 Blalsdell, A. F.. & Ball. F. K. Hero stories from American history.... J973 B635h Brooks. E. S. Historic Americans.. J923 B873 Brooks, E. S. In blue and white JBS73ib Brooks. Geraldlne. Dames and daughters of colonial days J920.7 BS73 Browne, Frances. Granny's wonderful chalr JFB8S2g Custer. G. A. Tenting on- the plains: by - Mrs. E. (B.) Custer .' JBC987Ct Field. Eugene. Poems of childhood; 11. by Maxfleld Parrish jSll F453p Field. Eugene. Songs of childhood; music bv Reginald De Koven and others.. J784 F453 Foster. Charles. Story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, told in simple language J220 F754 Fraser. TV. A. Mooswa and others of the boundaries .JAF842nt Garland. Hamlin. Boy life on the prairie. JG233b Grlffls. TV. E. Pilsrlms in their three homes. England, Holland. America.... : J974.4 GS82 Hardy. Mrs. A. S. Sea stories for wonder eyes J530 H25S Heermans. J. TV. Stories from the He brew J221 H439 Johonott James. Book of cats and dogs. JAJ73b Lang. Andrew. Brown fairy book.J398 L269br Ma'cdonald. George. Princess and Curdle. J39S M135 Miller, J. M. Philippine folklore stories. 3398 MS4S Pyle. Katherine. Christmas' angel.... jP9963c Raspe, R. E. Surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen JR228t Richards, Mrs. L. E. (H.) Green satin gown JR516g Scudder. H. E. Bodleys telling stories. JS436bt Smith. Mrs. EX T. (M.) Sweet girl gradu ate JS6463BW Stevenson. R, S. Stevenson rong book: verses from a child's garden, with music by various composers J784 SS43 Strickland. Agnes. Queens of Scotland: abridged by Rosalie Kaufman. 2v..J923 S917 Torrey,. Bradford. Everyday birds.. J59S.2 T834i Trowbridge. J T. His one fault JT863h Wade, M. H. Our little Russian cousin. JW121or Watson. John. Young barbarians JTV341y Witt, a Tales of Troy 3938 WS2T g Gift. Railroad Agents Coming. F. A. Miller, general passenger agent of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul, ac companied by B. S. Keely. general freight agent of the same line, will reach Port land tomorrow morning for a short visit of Inspection here. Both of the gentle men are from Chicago, and aro on. a tour of the Coast offices of their company. They will leave Portland Tuesday morn ing for Seattle and other Puget Sound points, and will return Wednesday, leav ing here for their return trip. 3SURIXK Trr. RE3JEDT. A home cure for Eye. troubles.' Never falls to win friends. Used for Infant and adult. Murine don't smart. Soothes Eye-pain. 4
