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4f - THE BUXDAH OEEGOlSIAIf, PORTLAND, MAEOR 5, 1905. Forty-Two Years Continuous Service in Congress SENATOR WILLIAM B. ALLISON OF IOWA' BREAKS -ALL RECORDS IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE w ESTBKDA.Y Senator "William B. Al Y Uson, Iowa's greatly beloved senior Senator, completed his 42d year of continuous service in the Congress of the United States, eclipsing all records in this vast field of political effort. Two weeks ago he passed the record established by Senator Sherman, of Ohio, for continuous service in the Senate chamber. This week llr. Allison's Senatorial life trill reach its 22d year. Only two men now in the Senate were members -when Senator Allison took his Beat Stewart of Nevada, and MItcholl of Oregon and neither of these has had con tinuous service since that time. The 88th Congress, which met on the 7th of December, 1S83, witnessed the en trance into political life of three men who have since occupied a conspicuous place in the history of the country, and who were always closely drawn togchcr by the ties of friendship and a similarity o views " upon public .questions. These three men were James A. Garfield, of Ohio, James G. Blaine, of Maine, and "William B. Allison, of Iowa. They en tered Congress young. General Garfield was 22. Mr. Blaine S3 and Mr. Allison 34 years old. Whon he began his legislative career Mr. Allison was a young lawyer of Du buque. His father was a man of mod erate means, who was not able to do very much to advance his son's interests. By teaching and strict economy young Allison succeeded in securing a good ed ucation at Alleghany College, Pennsyl .vania, and at the "Western Reserve College of Ohio. At college some of the traits of character which have since been ob served in him were conspicuous. An old classmate of his said a few days ago: " Allison is a born politician. He never cives offense. I -was at college with him and in his class. He was known then as the 'mediator If there was a difference -between students Allison was the arbi trator. He always commanded the respect of his teachers and the confidence of his classmates. He was ono of the few young anen I have known who had in a very remarkable degree the power of reserve. He -had very many cordial friends, but no special intimates, and even to the se lect few he gave no unlimited insight into the workings or his neart and mind. He was, even then, self-reliant and dis creet." . It Is hardly necessary to say that the characteristics of the boy are still strong in the Senator. No man in the Senate gives a more courteous hearing to his col leagues upon both sides of the chamber. 2Ar. Allison docs not often participate in the debates unless some bill in which he is interested Is involved. He is not an orator. There is nothing imaginative about him. He is a. practical business man. Mr. Allison might fittingly be called the "migratory" Senator, so far as his habits in the Senate chamber are concerned. He Is not In his scat long for any length of time. He is either walking up and down or paying little visits to the seats of his fellow-members, with all of whom he is personally very popular. Mr. Allison, from first to last. In his Congressional career, has been specially occupied with financial questions. He be gan his experience in the House as a member of the .appropriations committee. One of the fortunate accidents of that time gave him a seat next to Mr. Gar- lllsssssML 'CS'B .iSsiBBSSSSMlssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssfllsfll EKXATOR "nHXTAil B. ALXJSOX. OP IOWA. field, who afterward became chairman of the committee on appropriations and President of the United States. At the time there was a small group of Repub licans who acted as Mr. Blaine's lieuten ants, and through their hands all the favors of Congressional politics were made to pass. Those who belonged to that combina tion had the best places and were forced forward m the debates. Through his desk neighborship Mr. Allison became ac quainted with Mr. Garfield and by him was taken into the innermost counsels of the friendly Republican coterie that ruled the legislation of that time. Mr. Allison never took part in any of the factional contests of the party, and while he was always classed as a Blaine Republican, he yet was on the most Intimate terms with the most ardent opponents of Mr. Blaine. This was noticeable later In the Senate, where Mr- Allison sat very near Mr. Conkling all through the latter's war upon the Garfield administration. It was his old relationship with Gar field that led the latter to offer Mr. Alli son the post of Secretary of the Treas ury. The selection of the Secretary of Treasury was made only two days be fore the inauguration of Garfield. There was a-great deal of trouble over the port folio. New Tork insisted upon having it, and strenuous representations were made to Garfield to give this Important post to the state -which had done so much for him. Senator Allison, however, was Garfield's original choice. The latter knew that there. were few men In Congress who had such complete knowledge of the requirements of the various departments of the Govern ment through his long connection with the appropriation committees of Congress. as had Mr. Allison. Further than this, Mr. Allison had adhered throughout his public career to a very correct financial policy, which he had presented with so much finesse as to make nc special an tagonists. But the serious Illness of his wife compelled him to decline the offer. Mr. Allison has more sides to his char acter than the average public man. He is fond of books, art and travel. He knows the politics of Europe nearly .as well as he does the affairs of his own country. Ho was interested with Mr. Blaine and some of his associates in their specula tions in West Virginia coal and railroad properties, and was able to make a mod erate fortune, which has enabled him to live greatly at his ease In his handsome house on Vermont avenue in the capital. Mr. Allison Is social In his tastes, and Is one of the conspicuous figures in Washing ton society. He is very dignified, very kindly and gentle in' his manner, and he possesses a very marked' sense of humor that has influenced his -whole life. Ho never takes himself seriously, and has none of the egotism and vanity which so often belong to men in high positions. The simplicity of his manner and meth ods is shown by the fact that he is one of the few public men in Washington who have no conspicuous staff of toadies to run his political errands or to cajole him and profess an admiration they do not feel over his every public act. Hn TL ' 1 IP jm Ada Rehan Revives "A School ays ome 1 nicK ana r ast ir for Scandal" in New York NEW TORK. Feb. 27. (Special Cor respondence.) In a New Tork sea son tho plays come thick and fast. A person has hardly the time to realize that a new play has gone on before It is .off again to make room for something else. With the exception of the few that make sensational successes the stage is . constantly shifting panorama which hardly gives the critic the time to get around. Among those plays which are on for long runs we may note- that Mrs. Leslie Carter is In her eighth week at the Belasco. David Warficld in "The Music Master" opened at the Belasco, where he played 112 times and then the play was moved to tho Bijou, where it is in its eighth week. Francis Wilson in "Cousin Billy" is at tho Criterion in his ninth week. 'Tho Duchess of Dantzlg" is at Daly's for the sixth week. Maude Adams has added " 'Op o me Thumb" to "The Little Minister," in which play she has been ten weeks at the Smplre. At the Garden Theater "The College Widow" Is entering the 24th week. Blanche Walsh was four weeks at the Herald Square in "The Woman Jn the Case." Mrs. Fisko in "Leah KJeschner" is in the 12th week at the Manhattan The ater. "Humpty Dumpty" is entering the 36th week at the New Amsterdam The ater and at Wallack's Raymond Hitch cock and the "Yankee Consul" are draw ing as large audiences as ever. In addi tion to these there may be a few others that have run five or six weeksi but on the whole this does not represent one quarter of New York's attractions. The most important revival is without question that of Ada Rehan in "The School for ScandaL" She has the same place in the heart of the public that she did 14 years ago. Her company Is a very sine one, including Charles Bichman and William Redmond, but they have moved out to make room for "The Education of" Sir. Plpp," a new comedy by Augustus Thoma. which is based upon Charles IDana Gibson's cartoons. DIgby Bell, one of the best of the old school comedians, created the part of Mr. Plpp and super latively funny he can be In his painfully henpecked situations. Marlon Draugha und Janet Beecher might have served in the capacity of the Gibson models or they are past mistresses In the art of. make up. As far as the plot is concerned any one who knows the Gibson pictures may weave for himself the sort of thing that Augustus Thomas has brought Into play, since that Is the end and the aim of the whole thing. Maude Adams will close her engage ment at the Empire Theater next week, whore she has been, especially attractive ln two plays. There is little -to be told of her part in "The Little Minister," as this has become part of tho dramatic history of the present era, but in the 49-mlnute play called "Op o' me Thumb" Maude Adams has made one of the most re markable successes In her career. To those who know the dainty picture that Miss Adams makes in everything, it would not be possible to describe her as she Is in this playlet, yet if there are those who remember her In "The Lost Paradise," as the hungry little factory girl, they may in a certain sense be able to conceive Miss Adams in the loose garb of a laundry girl, as she appears with an old straw hat pulled way down over her tightly drawn hair, her stooping figure and ungainly carriage bespeaking the half-starved, hard-working glrL It can hardly be said that she is ludicrous, for there is no one on the stage today whb has the pathetic atmosphere of Maude Adams and although there are many laughs in the slay, a&e succeeded In fighting this element with such pathos as to draw tears at the moment when the laugh was at its highest. In a word the story deals with this little workhouse orphan who. while in service in Mme. Dldler's French laundry, tells her associ ates great fairy tales about her birth and her relatives. This she does, not so much in a spirit of telling untruths, as because she lives in a realm of imagination cre ated by the fanciful reading which she does, but all of the girls had their sweet hearts and she had none, due as she sup poses to her very ungainly exterior. A circumstance is Interwoven by which months before a shirt which was left by a customer became an object of impor tance to her, which her imagination makes her accept as a token- that the owner will return to claim her and break the enchantment which holds her en thralled as a laundry apprentice. Each week she has done up this shirt and when taunted about it by her associates she tells them of his letters and his gifts and of his love for her. When they have gone to Hampstead Heath to enjoy a holiday the owner really returns. He is, naturally, & coarse young laboring man, but to her he is her ideal, and to him she opens her heart and tells him how she has no family and no birth, and, to his horror, she even tells him how she has told the girls that he loves her. AH through this scene Miss Adams rises to heights which she has never surpassed in any of her repertoire of the past, and her conception of such situations shows ex quisite eense of discrimination and her most remarkable faculty, which Is that of Intense 'simplicity. Horace Green Smith, well Interpreted by Arthur Byron, is touched by pity for her loneliness, and offers to take her out for this holiday, and asks her to meet him at some remote spot. She realizes that he does not want to be seen with her, and she flies into a rage and declares to him that all she had told him were lies Just to, test him, and that she really is what she' pretended to be to the girls. With a sudden insight and pity In a parental way he kisses her on the cheek and goes away. This Is too much for the little apprentice, who la half -starved physically and wholly starved in affection, -and she drops under the table in a heap. This as a curtain-raiser to "The Little Minister forms about as intense an evening as the theatrical cir cles of New Tork offer, and a good deal more healthy It is than some of the more sensational plays. s William Gillette will come to the Empire Theater March 6 in Sherlock Holmes, when Maude Adams closes. Another play that will close on March 7 is "Cousin Bil ly" at the Criterion, to be followed by Mary Mannerlng in a now play. Francis Wilson is Intensely funny In Clyde Fitch's play, which among its strong points has some extremely weak ones, but Insofar as it was written for the sole purpose of giving Mr. Wilson an opportunity in com edy without music, it was eminently suc cessful. This, however, not -without res ervation. It served the purpose of show ing what he was able to do with straight comedy, and now Mr. Fitch or some one else should devote himself to the task of creating a play of such proportions as .to carry Francis Wilson for at least one season, if not more." This week closes the opera season In New York, which, beyond any question, has been the most successful ever known in this city, after which the company will go on tour. If the tour will be as sac cessful as the New York season has been, Mr. Conrled will t encouraged to do greater things next year that is merely In the way ol longer - seasons, both in New York and on the road, and It looks 4 from tit aspect &l thlosa ea licosb -thU. would be the case, although tho possibil ity is that only Chicago, Boston, and Pitts burg will bo the fortunate cities, since It Is Mr. Conrled's Intention to make the season In New York 20 weeks. In Chicago the advanco sale for "Parsifal" has been so large that it is probable an extra per formance -will be given. If one can realize the terrific cest of carrying such an ex pensive company through the. country It would seem almost fabulous that they could make the tour and not lose hun dreds of thousands. For the greater part the same stars that -appeared In New York will go on the Western trip. Includ ing Sembrich, Nordlca, Caruso, Burgstal ler, Plancon, Scottl, Van Rooy and oth ers. Tho last week of opera in New York will open with "Romeo and Juliet," with Emma Eames as Juliet; "Die Fleder maus" will be given on Wednesday eve ning and "Die Melsterslnger" on Thurs day. "Tosca" will be presented Saturday "afternoon and "Die Walkure" will be the last opera of the season in New York. Realism must be growing on the stage. If we are to Judge by the accidents that occur. For Instance at Nice, Yvonne de New Spring Carpets ARE NOW ON EXHIBITION Our entire stock of New Spring Carpets has arrived and is now on exhibition. Every new design, every swell up-to-date pattern will be found in this immense line. The most important part is that we will sell you the same grade andirfraanj cases the same pattern carpet from 25c to 50c a yard less than the same can be bought elsewhere. Don't fail -togiye us a call and save money on your carpets. PER YARD WE SELL CARPETS ON VERY EASY TERMS : j-sJ ttlrri I-7-C1 ffefcJ t-Ttn - lL ate! Bretty Dresser, golden oak finish j a very special at $11.00 We Lead in Iron Beds From $3.50 Up. , Bed like cut in cream or blue- $10.00 YOTJjfc CREDIT IS GOOD. Our' Line of Buffets Is Complete A very -pretty one, not like cut, in golden or "weathered oak, polish finish $25.00 MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS. It Does Not Cost Much to Own a Fine Extension Table' A pretty one like cut in golden quartered oak, piano polish finish, large 5-inch legs $14.00 LITTLE PRICES LITTLE PAYMENTS. Largest Line of Go-Carts In City Over 100 different styles of Go-Carts. The new Folding Carts have all the latest im provements. Backs adjustable. "Whole Cart can be folded and taken on street cars 50 styles commencing at $2.25 up to $25.00 WE SELL ON EASY PAYMENTS. I. GEVURTZ & SONS THE HOME-FURNISHERS 173-175 FIRST STREET 219 TO 227 YAMHILL STREET Treville was stabbed at the temple In "Rigoletto" and she was unablo to ap pear to take the curtan calls lavished upon her as Gilda. Another caso of stage realism almost compelled Miss Dorothy Dorr to give up her performance on "Wednesday evening- in The "Woman In the Case," on account of throat trouble. This was found to be caused by the violent manner in which Blanche "Walsh choices her nightly in the third act. Miss Dorr had been suffering for some time, and her physician failed utterly to understand the case until he attended the perform ance. Nor is this the first time that Miss Dorr has suffered in the hands of Miss "Walsh, because early In the career of "The "Woman in the Case," or. to be more exact, on the opening night at Rochester, Miss "Walsh struck Miss Dorr's head so hard against the piano as to knock her unconscious. Those on the in side acknowledge that such occurrences are the rule' rather than the exception, except that the public Is not always let into the secret. Before John Burroughs sailed for Bermuda I had the pleasure of an evening with this delightful lover of NatuYe, whose writings are almost as fresh and as fragrant as the wood3 and the fields themselves. Mr. Bur roughs Is a man of 65, with snow white hair and flowing' beard. He is not afraid of walking nor of the open air and is In a sense vigorous, al though he looks old for his years. Those who know his books' wiU know his personality, for It Is revealed through every line. During the even ing Mr. Burroughs was Induced to talk of his Intimate friendship with "Walt "Whitman, and as be in an infprmal manner painted that great American poet he was a living and breathing entity. Mr. Burroughs uses his words as a painter uses a brush. Just a slight shading here or there, throwing the whole subject out into such re markable relief as to make It vital and vigorous. Mr. Burroughs first met "Walt "Whitman In 1864, when the lat ter was spending day after day among the wounded and sick In the hospitals. The particular service that "Whitman did for these wounded soldiers was to write to their families, when they were unable to do so, and Mr. Burroughs said that between tho stationery and the tobacco with which he kept them furnished,, "Whitman himself spent all his money. The friendship between tho two men grew so strong that through the rest of "Whitman's life they were well nigh inseparable. Mr. Burroughs speaks of him as a man who was utterly unconscious of the great ness of ils Intellect, and that which so many people are prone to call the most intense egotism was simply his feeling1 of the universal spirit and his appreciation of his relation to the In finite. He described him as the "gray man." He always wore gray and his neckwear was of a -peculiar grayish, tint, which is strange, for the coloring does not seem to fit the rest of the picture as drawn by Mr. Burroughs. Book lore with "Whitman was held far below the -value of Nature herself and, according to Mr. Burroughs, it would not be pos sible for people In the ordinary, walks of life to understand the passionate OBSERVATION CARS BETWEEN PORTLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO TYPE OF CAR WHICH SOUTHERN" PACIFIC WHX PLACE ON" THE BUN. It has been announced by "W. K. Com an that observation cars will shortly be Installed In service on the Southern Pacific trains between Portland and San Francisco. Three of the cars have arrived. In Portland, and others have been' delivered at San Francisco. The cars received here were direct from the shops of the Pullman Company. Th.y are part of a larre order placed last year by the Harriman lines. The three cars that have arrived here are at the Union Depot. The observation rcctlon is large and commodious, -with plush upholstered chairs, library and readlnc table with a plate-glass observation end that opens upon a wide platform. This will enable a large number of the passengers, to occupy chairs In the open ulr. . Forward Is the naoVlag compartment and. buffet, with chairs upholstered in leather. Throughout, the appointments are of the latest and most improved style, embodying the suggestions that; have been secured thrpzb operation of observation cars of earlier design. The Interior SnlsSv'to elegant. Gt and efectric lights ire both provided. - . love he felt for Nature and the in toxicating Influence which it had over him. A very interesting exhibition was ten dered an Invited audience consisting pt rmjsJ clans, physicians and students of psychology at Stelnway Hall last Monday to witness Mile. Nydla, who, under hyp nosis performed some very remarkable feats. Mile. Nydla is a pianist who has created considerable stir in London where she succeeded In Interesting not only the musical people, but also the Society of Psychical Research, Part of her per formance may readily be understood by all those who know aught of the prin ciples of hypnotism. But the rest of it baffles J&ose who feel themselves able to cope with the mysteries at least to the degree of offering some rational explana tion. The first part of the programme served to have the pianist perform any of the large number of selections printed on a slip and marked by the audience. SInoe the selections on this slip consti tuted part of her enormous repertoire and It was necessary for her hypnotizer to see It, it may be readily understood that it wag by thought transference and her ac quaintance with the selection required. But the rest was not so easy to explain, since the girl was In a trance and con scientiously blindfolded. New music, man uscripts or new -publications, were placed before her and with the hypnotizer at the other end of the room, he not knowing the context of the music, she played them at sight. She was furnished with these selections by some of the most reputable musicians of New. Tork who were thor oughly convinced that there was no pos sibility of collusion. I am making no at tempt to explain the phenomonon. I will only refer to the fact that there are two schools of hypnotism, the one of which claims the power to lie with the hypno tizer or operator and the other which claims tho power to be entirely with the subject. Thi3 latter theory would seem to be proven In the case of Nydia and her performances. Her hypnotizer. who, by the way. Is her husband. Is In no way a scien tific student of psychological phenomena, but happened to stumble on to this power by chance. The story as he told it Is not without interest- It seems that some years ago he was traveling- in Europe and happened into a music store where he selected a number of pieces of popular dance music and light things In general. "Come." he said to the clerk, "have you no one who can run over this music for mo? I don't want all that unless I know whether I like it or not." The clerk said he was very sorry but there was no one around for any such purpose. At this moment a young girl came In who seemed to be quite well acquainted with the es tablishment. The clerk immediately said: "Fraulein will play this for you, will you not. FraulelnT" She imme diately consented to do so. and looking Into the stranger's eyes a tremor passed over her and she sat down to the piano and played the piece before her. not oace but repeated it five or six time during which he kept saying, "Oh, thank you, thank you, well, thank you." but still she kept on until he could no longer contain himself and caught her fay the shoulders, saying: "Well, for God's sake, stop. That's enough." when she suddenly start ed and apologized for not playing It and asked him whether he wanted her to play that for him now. Thoroughly astonished he answer her, "Play It, why no, you have played it for me about six times." She was so bewildered that he thought something wag wrong with her mind and left as soon as possible. He met her again in london four months later when he found that he had a strange effect upon her. Following it out he discovered that he was able to use bis power In connection with music and after marry ing the young lady he was not willing to use her as a subject and practiced It on a great many others until she expressed the desire to be his subject and since the results were better with her be con tinued the practice. "Whatever it Is, it Is very remarkable, and they are not ac cused of trickery, since their exhibitions are not given in that spirit or on that nlane. In !London they have . aroused a great deal of interest, and I .was' fully awaro of all the details iongr oeiore tney landed In New Tork, wfierc they have only come on a visit and will probati ty re tarn to Europe without making publio appearances, unless they alter their pres ent Intentions. EMTXIE FRANCES BAUER. AGAINST TTTT.T.ma TEE TJNITT Strong Protest Made by Writer for Sacredness of Life. PORTLAND, Tlarch 4. To the Editors Headers of the dally papers have for long been shocked by distressing accounts of will ful and frequently unprovoked murders; but more dreadful even than these is the ef fort being made by prominent people to legalize the killing- of Infants and old peo ple. "Thou shalt do no murder." Have- the people who are suggesting It no Slbles? Or. having Bibles, do they never xead therm? Or, reading them, do they venture to op pose their opinions to those of the Al mighty and to make laws subversive of His? Do they propose to convert the members of a time-honored profession into an or ganized band of thugs? Who Is to be the Judge as to the de generacy or otherwise of an infant the un natural and unworthy parent to whom It is unwelcome, or the unscrupulous physician, who, for a sufficient fee, will condemn it and put It out of the way? On what basts is the charge or degeneracy to be founded? Each little one has its own way of showing satisfaction or distress and because ono should depart in some particular from the usual modes of expression. Is it to be con sidered degenerate? It cannot talk; It can-? not reason; It cannot defend Itself; it 13 entirely helpless and dependent upon those into whose charge its Creator has given It. In what possible way. under these circum stances, can its degeneracy be established? Do away with any infant! No, a thousand times no, to the adoption of any such law! Let the laws of Nature, of morality and of hygiene be Inculcated by the law of the land and by the teachings of the schools and of parents, and then' enforced upon rich and poor alike by the officers appointed lor that purpose, and degeneracy In infants will soon disappear. Dr. Osier's very foolish and utterly Incor rect diatrabe upon "old men" has already been sat upon so effectively that there is nothing more to be said, except that if ha and those ' who advocate infant destruction imagine for a moment that their pernicious views will ever become general or popular in any country calling Itself Christian, they only prove that there s truth In the old saying. "Quern Deus vult perdere. prlus de mentat." W. E. TERRELL. Hard Smokers Lose Their Taste. New Tork Sun. "Old smokers who are pretty well sat urated with nicotine are the hardest to suit," said a Broadway cigar dealer. The trouble is that they have lost their taste. I "have one customer, a. broker, who ,can no longer distinguish the flavor of cigars. He smokes S a day. Some times he switches off from the most ex pensive Imported brands to Pitta burg stogies. They all taste alike to him. he says. Last Summer he stopped smoklngr for a month, and when he started Jn again his taste was all right for about a week. Then his relish for good cigars vanished. His case Is by no means ex ceptional. I always distrust the opinion of any smoker who uses more than six cigars a day." Explaining a Dark Mystery. St. Paul Dispatch. First Deacon wonder why ft is that we have so many pennies in the collec tion? Second Deacon The only reason I know of is because we have no smaller coins. Too Slow; Atchison Globe. What" Has, become" of the old-fashioned, courting', that was carried on over th backjfence?- J