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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 13, '1905. PERSONAL RELICS OF THE FAMOUS EXPLORER, WILLIAM CLARK INTERESTING ARTICLES PRESERVED BY HIS FAMILY ON EXHIBIT AT THE LEWIS AND CLARK CENTENNIAL SIDE ixom thBTrnviSB'OlXteSnrn- jawoa monument by the women of Orogon there has been little senti ment shown toward the centralizing Idea of the Fair. To be sure our Indebtedness to Lrewla and Clark has been embodied In the name of our Fair, and the orators of occasions have sung their praises, but the word success has been the dominant one. Success being: such a pliant word In this case has meant good financial re turns and wide advertising; so It "was pleasant to the lover of sentiment to be able this last week to step aside for a day and come In close relationship with the descendants of our heroes and hear' from them the veneration with which they hold their great ancestors, and to hear many little details of family history that have never been printed. Lost week having boon sot aside as Clark's day, as many of the family as possible gathered together to commemorate his memory. They were loyal in traditions and sentiment. It was particularly Interesting to come across the relics of the bygone Clarks, and doubly bo those .that were the per sonal property of "William Clark. In the Oregon building within the last weok there has been placed a glass case containing a collection of Clark heirlooms. These are the property of Mrs. S. L. Wi ley, of Fresno, Cal., who Is representing the eight counties of the Ban. Joaquin Valley In the California building. Mrs. "Wiley claims the distinction of being a descendant of the Clark family. Her line of descent is not direct from "William Clark, but she Is hiB great-great-grand-niece, his sister, Ann Clark, being her great-great-grandmother. In fact, Mrs. "Wiley's genealogy runs through the bluost blood, for on her father's side she is the great-granddaughter of Chief Jus tice Marshall, her maiden name having been Mary Louise Marshall. Her collection of heirlooms has great value. She has spent years in collecting thorn from other members of the family, so that now she has practically the great er portion known to exist. Among the relics aro found wills, letters, diaries, bits of Jowolry, pictures, ambrotypes, books, a Jew pieces of china, knives, baby gar ments, a Masonic apron and many other precious trifles. As the Clarks, Lewises, Marehallo and FleldB were closely related by marriago, many of the relics belonged to thorn. One ia naturally more interested in th 4 Mark i wain's Monument to Father Adam The Great American Humorint Explains Why a Big Scheme He Suggested Failed to Materialize. (Msxlt Twain In Harpera Weekly.) SOMEONE has revealed to tho Now York Tribune that I once sug gested to tho Rev. Thomas K. Beech er, of Blmira, N. T., that we get up a monumc'nt to Adam, and that Mr. Beecher favored the project. There is more to it than that. The matter started as a Joke, but It came some what near to materializing. It is long ago 30 years. Mr. Dar win's "Descent of Man" had been in print five jot six years, and the storm of Indignation raised by it was still raging In pulpits and periodicals. In tracing the genesis of tho human race back to its sources Mr. Darwin had left Adam out altogether. Wo had monkeys and "mfcjslng links" and plonty of other kinds of ancestors, but no Adam. Jesting with Mr. Beecher and other friends in Elmlra,- I said there seomed to be a likelihood that the world would discard Adam and ac cept the monkey, and that in course of time Adam's very name would be for gotten in the oarth; therefore this ca lamity ought to be averted: a monu mont would accomplish this, and El mlra ought not to waste this honora ble opportunity to do Adam a favor and herself a credit. Then the unexpected happened. Two bankers came forward and took hold of tho matter not for fun, not for sentiment, but because they saw in tho monument certain commercial advan tages for the town. The project had seemed gently humorous before It was more than that now, with this stern business gravity Injected into it. The bankers discussed tho monument i000Oo if Til e "r 'r with me. We mot several times. They proposed an indestructible memorial, to cost $25,000. The insane oddity of a monument set up in a village to pre serve a name that would outlast the hills and the rocks without any such help would advertise Elmlra to tho ends of the earth and draw custom. It would be tho only monument on tho planet to Adam, and in the matter of Interest and lmpresslvcness could never have a rival until somebody should set up a monument to tho Milky Way. People would come from every cor ner of tho globe and stop off to look at It; no tour of the world would be complete that left out Adam's monu ment. Elmlra would be a Mecca; there would be pilgrim ships at pil grim rates, pilgrim specials on tho Continent's railways; libraries would be written about the monument, every tourist would kodak it, models of it would be for sale ovorywhero In tho earth; its form would becomo as fa miliar as the figure of Napoleon. One of the bankers subscribed $5000, and I think tho other one subscribed half as much, but I do not remember with certainty now whether that was the figure or not WTe got designs made some of thorn came from Paris. In the beginning as a detail of tho project when it was as yet a Joke I had framed a humfrle and beseeching and perfervld petition to Congress, hegglng 4he Government to build the monument, as a testimony of the great Republic's gratitude to tho Father of the Human Race and as a token of her loyalty to him in this dark day of his humiliation, when his older children wore doubting him and deserting, him. JIt seemed to me that this petition 9 0 HO t.o i O 1 s personal belong! nsa of William Clark, and fortunately Mrs. Wiley possesses some very intimate ones, for Instance, a little velvet Jacket worn by the little William of 3 years. It is a quaint little garment of brown and tan spots,1 whose colors seem as bright as when new. One, might fancy it made from his father's waistcoat, as it Is fashioned from many pieces, put to gether with beautiful handstitohing. Another relic is tho scalping-knlfe that William Clark carried on his memorable trip to this Coast. The namo sounds for midable, and, in fact, the knife looks as ought to be presented now It would be widely and feelingly abused and ridiculed and cursed, and would ad vertise our scheme and make our ground-floor stock go off briskly. So I sent it to General Joseph R. Haw ley, who was then in the House, and he said ho would present it. But he did not do it. I think ho explained that when he came to road it ho was afraid of it; it was too serious, too gushy, too sentimental tho House might take it for earnest. We ought to havo carried out our monument scheme; we could have managed it without any great difficul ty, and Elmlra would now be the most celebrated town in tho universe. Very recently I began to build a book In which one of the minor chari octers touched Incidentally upon a project for a monument to Adam, and now the Tribune has come upon a trace of tho forgotten Jest of 30 years ago. Apparently mental telegraphy is still In business. It is odd; but tho freaks of mental telegraphy are usually odd. Two Big Lairs. An Irish soldier wanted to get a furlough and trumped up a story that his wife was very sick and had written him to come home. Tho Captain knew some of Pat's tricks, so he said to him that ho had recejved a letter from the lady and that she told him not to let Pat come home, as he got drunk, broke up the furniture and mistreated her shamefully. Pat saluted and started, to leave the room, but on reaching the door turned and said: "Sir, may I speak to you not. as an officer but as mon to mon?" Tcs. Pat; what is It?" "Well, sor. what Tm after sayin Is this." remarked Pat, going closo to the Captain and lowering his voice, "that you and I are two of tho most iUgant liars that tho Lord ever made. I'm not a married mon." Exchange. ,flaCoO, 34 -4. .A-'. At .t;. . .at, Wvtf fit1" -sty li: though it wrre made for bloody business with its foot-long blade sharpened on both sides and its bone handle, but Mrs. Wiley gives the assurance tliat Its pur poses have always been peaceful, and Evidence of Advancing Political Reform Noted Danish Editor See a SUve Llnlnpr to the Cloud Now llnnlnsr Over Xonrny, CHRISTIANIA, July IS. Vaklemar VedeU editor of Tllskueren. a Danish monthly magazine of high stamllng, writes as follows: "It seems as If the start of a new cen tury has once again rejuvenated Europe. "First we had the change towards pop ular self-administration here in Denmark; then comes the tremendous shaking up of tho great Russia colossus and the ad venturous, victorious march of new-born Japan, a performance of morality In statcscraft such as- history has never soon before. "And then all of a sudden on a beauti ful Summer day we recelvo a dispatch that Norway has discharged her King, discontinued the union, declared herself of full age, with power to dispose over the present and the future. It Is Impos sible to remain blind towards the connec tion between the battle of Mukden, the destruction of the Russian "Armada," and then this cool and collected decision by the Storthing. If this great monstor of a Russian Iceberg, whose shadow eclipsed the sun and sent a withering frost over all European advancement, could suddenly be melted down to noth ing by the Japanese "rising sun." why then not try to throw a tiresome old treaty document Into the stove and pro vide her own Consuls and even a King, of her own for Norway? Wo are again able to take a breathing spell in Europe and shift about a little each by himself. And this first breath of relief, this first straightening of the stiff limbs, was first observed up amongst the snowclad hills of Norway. Where Is tho next move to happen? There Is already great ferment In Hungary. "He Trh,o now dares to talk about poll- mm that it ka never dona dtrry in asythtar more terrible than the skinning of wild animals, digging rccts and making kin dling wood. There Is an aaibrotype of Mrs. Ann Clark Field, wife of Captain John Field, who was killed at Point Pleasant, In the Dunsrcore war, and second sister of Will lam. The ambrotype a ccpy of a paint ing that was destroyed by fire shows the likeness of a placid old lady, with folded hand. In the same case with the ambro type is a collection of locks of hair of the family, among them one of William Clark, cut after his death. It show? it to havo been a soft reddish brown, with occa sional white hairs. History always men tions him as having red -hair, which set him as a being apart to the Indians, but it probably darkened as he grew older. One of the most highly prized relics Is a Masonic apron which belonged to John Clark, father of William. His great grandson. Lewis Field Marshall, always charged his family to save the apron and his mother's picture. The apron Is of white satin, blue lined, with Maaonlo em blems painted on It. One of the oldest heirlooms In the col lection Is a Bible belonging to the Earl of Pembroke a 16th-century ancestor of the Marshall family and a contemporary of Oliver Cromwell, from whom he re ceived It. During an overflow of the Ohio River this Bible, with all the effects of MIHy Field Marshall, the nleco of William Clark, was swept away. Twenty years afterward It came again Into her pos session, having been sent by a family of Creoles, who found it in the Bayou Sara drift. Every unprlnted page Is covered with family genealogies and family names and shows that it was precious to tho heart of each generation. There are also momentoea of tho In domitable George Rogers Clark, the elder brother of William, under whom at tho falls of the Ohio William teamed his first lessons In warfare, having been tak en by him In an expedition against tho Indians at the ago of 14. In after years it was by tho advlco of George Rogers that his own "true -and tried scout. Cha boneau. husband of Sacajawca, was taken on his great exploring trip. There Is a huntlngknlfe of George Rogers Clark in a. beaded buckskin case. The case was tics Is an Ignorant and Impractical theore tician. The .most hopeful sign of the times Is that the two former partners, Norway and Sweden, have laid their case not before the Kings and sovereigns or diplomatic conferences of Europe, but be fore the court of public opinion, not 'by political documents forwarded through diplomatic channels, but by articles In the European press from the pens of their best-known writers. Invitation to AIL "There has been an open and above? board invitation, not to foreign govern ments for intervention, but for. all foreign peoples to seek correct information, and then Judge who is at fault and who Is In. the right. "And the public opinion of Europe doca not care for the treaty of Kiel or the convention of Moss or any other old worm-eaten, dusty parchments. All the old, paper documents and all tho agree ments built upon them by lawyers and historians are swept aside like stuff not appertaining to tho case. If public opin ion Is with Norway In this undertaking Is it because we believe her right ac cording to old treaties and documents from a century back? No. And this Is the most hopeful symptom of our ad vancing political ripeness. We have got ten away from the old-fashioned and time-honored imagination that a people's right or lack of right to do for itself must bo or can possibly bo dictated by a document 100 years old, no matter how many seals have been printed thereon or how many sacred pledges were given by the signers. 'There are very few to be found now who believe that BJomson'sr Nansen's and Sverdrup's people of today must be made by a CreSlr vaxaoa nmri 3sott Bird, who twioe E&red hi Hfe- That GcorgB Rogers Clari -sss ira grounded in his caterhJri ia sttrtm by a quaint llttla leather-bound volnma that looks tiumbed and weH worn; m act. his grandmother said that he knersr it back wards and f;r wards at the age of 2. Mrs. Wiley has. a picture of the beontifnl Span ish senora. Cynthele do Lsyba. of St. Louis. who romantic leve affair witb George Rogers Clark shows th stern quality of the man in giving np his sweet heart for his country. A little pair of beaded Indian moccasins and a pair of exquisitely knitted little white stockings, without heels, aa they were made In those days, that were worn by Henry Clay when a baby, show that the footwear of youngsters of those days was Just as fetching In Its styles now. It Is strange to imagine that the great statesman was ever done up in such charming little affairs. The Marshalls and Clays were closo friends, so these were presented to Milley Fields Marshall by Clay's wife. There Is a quaint secretary made of Chi nese camphorwood. It was mentioned in the will of Milley Field Marshall as "my black box with Beetles & Bugs nailed all over it. Fetehed me from Ghent by Henry Clay." There is a little black silk mitt that was given by Dolly Madison to Milly Field Marshall, whose bridesmaid she was. The case also displays a silver comb that belonged to Mrs. Fanny Clark Fltzhugh. another sister of Cap tain Clark. Two pieces of china are extremely Interesting. They are an old plate and a candlestick. The former Is a sort of double-decked affair, of a style that would be well to revive. It ha3 two bottoms, with a space between that was tilled with hot water to koep the focd warm. The candlestick Is still brilliant with red and green trimmings. These two were on the table when Chief Justice Marshall married Polly Amblor. daughter of the State Treasur er of Virginia at that time. Thero are a number of bit3 of odd Jewelry owned by different members of the family rings, bracelets, pins, chains and a bolt buckle of rare work manship. Mrs. Wiley Is a woman of charming personality, steeped In family history and traditions. She quotes delight fully from the family letters and rec ords, and brings tho past vividly to the present. She Is carefully guarding the family papers, for It Is her Intention to write a history of the Clark family. In It will be found many facts and in cidents never before published, and some very rare letters will be printed. It Is to bo hoped that Mrs. Wiley will In the near future send her book forth. It Is only regretted that she was un able to get It into shapo for tnls year. The Log Cabin Fire. American Homes and Gardens. No log cabin Is complete without an open fireplace. A stove la very much out of keeping with a primitive dwelling. Its dead black walla lend no poetry to the surroundings. A large open fireplace should, by all means, be constructed. For thla purpose an opening should be cut In the rear of the building and framed in the same way as a door or window. If stones are plentiful, a chimney of rustic masonry can be built up on the outside, uring mud or clay for mortar. With such a chimney It will be found best to use only flat stone, because the binding power of the mud Is not very strong, and where the fire opening conryt In contact with the logs of the cabin a thick lining of clay should be applied. Where stones are not available, the frame of the chim ney can be constructed of logs and stlck3, notched and built up llko logs of the main building. A lining of clay at least 12 in ched thick must cover the wood. Tho chimnev should be carried well abovo the gable of the cabin to Insure a good draft In any direction of the wind. The fire place may be raised a little abovo the floor of the cabin and framed in with largo logs well plastered with clay. There AVns Xo Danger. Pearson's Weekly. A. stout old lady was recently passing a cab stand. One of the horses laid down Its ears. and. with a vicious look, mado as if to bite her arm. The lady uttered a cry and hastily Jumped aside, while sho reprimanded the owner of the horse for his carelessness in allowing tho animal to frtghten her. " E won't bite you, mum." said tho Jehu encouragingly; then, seeing her still hesitate, he added. "Lor, you needn't bo afraid; 'o's a vegetarian." bound by what Falsen or Motzfeldt signed in 1S14 or ISIS. "The faith in constitutions, treaties, programmes and agreements, the belief that a small gathering of mere men by composing a collection of paragraphs and then putting their signatures to It. can bind their successors for all eternity this Is altogether a faith which has been burled with the 19th century. "If the Individual cannot be tied for life by contracts such as confirmation and marriage, memberships in lodges or even money debts-f a man is prohibited from tying up his property by testament for an indefinite period how much less then should a growing and developing nation be fettered by an old, dusty document? ConHder how much a political party in n state under changed conditions con siders itself bound by promises and pro grammes made ten years ago, and how little attention thinking people pay to the cry of treason If a party changes its programme. A nation has obligations as well as a person, but it is not the kind, generally speaking, wJiIch adhere to a piece of paper or can be formulated In paragraphs. Norway, by acting as she Is now doing, is true to the obligations Im posed on her by the Eidsvoldsmon In 1S14 In a far stronger degree than If she anxiously peeped Into her old documents and ledgers at every breath before acting. Norway's Legal Basis. "And In addition to this. Norway has a legal base for her act which is solid as rock and no argument will convince the world to tl?e contrary. "In her manner of getting rid of her King. Norway has set an example for the world for all time to come, only it's not so awful easy to execute; but It is as genial and as simple as Columbus' In vention with the egg. A constitutional King can only act through his responsible Ministers; at the moment when he can not provjde himself with responsible Min isters and King Oscar has himself de clared his own bankruptcy in this re specthe has put himself out of action, has ceased to reign. Any and every citi zen may refuse to act as Minister: and If. therefore, a whole nation cannot agree, that no one will act as Minister, a revo lution has been accomplished and a Kl-g-dethroned In a perfectly legal manner And such a revolution is not only legal! right, but may be In the highest scna morally correct "If a monarch refuses to sanction a law which every citizen considers nevesstry. or If he Insists upon a measure w! ' h every citizen considers very dangers as and detrimental, it is not then, morally speaking, correct that everybody refers to co-operate. But this boycotting a King Is. so far as we know, an exclusively Norwegian patent, awl its Invention a-. I oxecutlon is an accomplishment for wM "i every nation in the world, not yet a r - rubllc. should consider themselves gat -ful towards Norway with its Intel W'. -I population. And the whole performar. a went through without a hitch. There w a no hesitation, no doubt as to what t-t c, or how to do It. Every man kn"w i. part to perfection, and no prompter wu needed. Ono forenoon, before even irls tlanla nad any Idea of what was g-!r. to happen, the Storthing declares K! g Oscar's government ended and ftsis-l and appoints a new government. T "a King and his whole royal imrapiT". a ' x being outside Norwegian territory, d other depossesslon act is needed but a mere communication containing the In formation, and the installation rtf its new government Is a matter of an unar! mous vote. There are a few fi-niil cltanges In the government devart ments. a few names and stgne are re painted on doors and ttraks and, i r form's sake. Generals. Judge ami bish ops are Invited to swear allegiance ti the new government. But the whole rrt as the revolutionary apparatus, soldiers marching through the streets, arrests, riots, bloodshed and murder is coraplfc lv eliminated and the machinery of sra'o continues uninterrupted. The nation oIh js the mandates of Michelsen Just as thr would King Oscar's, taxes continue t flow Into the state's treasury and the new recruits meet tor practice. The cur? a decrees are obeyed, the police keep orir and the people sow and reap, sail anl fish and keep the trader going Just a If nothing had happened. It id a real Ucl revolution, which has been enacted ly a modern, enlightened domocrary, with out great cities or great industries. Embarrassing for Prince. "And when Prince Gustaf has Just com pleted a round of foreign visits, and the other courts has been wearing ths Norwegian as well as the Swedish crown. It must havo been embarrassing for h'm self as well as his boats to have notice 1 the indorsement of dismissal engraved upon the Norwegian regalia by MlcheLen and Berner." The.se are Valdemar Vedel's words. al coming as they do from a Dane, they naturally have created in Sweden a ( t ing of resentment against Denmark The Danes side with Norway, and this In itself will probably act as a srromr Incentive for Sweden to avoid open hostility with Norway, not because of any material as. distance which Denmark coukl offer N r- way. but because of the loss which Swe den's trade with Denmark would susta'.a. The financial condition of the cun'rj la steadily improving, as conndepoe I -a business has roturned slnco the stagi tlon which fell upon it three or four ago. Fifth Wheel for an Automobile Scientific American. AN automobile has been designed ta be propelled by a drurallke flf!h wheel, arranged under the center of the vehicle to run In bearings on two hinged arms, which project downward at a slight Inclination and are drawn forward by tonslon springs. The Ilea of these springs la that they tend hold the wheel against the ground a-l Increase its tractive power. This ten sion Is under tho control of the opera tor when tho machine Is traversing a bad road. On any other than a very bad road It Is entirely automatic. When the engine turns tho drlvewheel. acd. the vehicle Is hard to start, owing to a, bad road or an obstruction In front of the wheels, the drlvewheel will take practically the ontiro weight of tha vehicle on itsolf, thus increasing it traction and relieving tho other wheela of any considerable weight. The drive wheel is mado hollow and used as a muffler, or, when a steam onglne 1 used for power, it can be both the muffler and water gear. This simpler fifth-wheel arrangomont makes pos- slble a solid rear axle, and also ren ders unnecessary tho use of rubbcx tlrc3 on commercial vehicles. It haa two sldo disks, between which aro bolted face plates of soft cast steely which are practically indestructible, and which, on granite or stone pave ment, will not slip, as thl3 metal wilV hold on Btones when the weight Is all upon a single driving wheel. The3a platos aro roadlly removable and cant be replaced in Winter by toothed plates for uso on ice or snow. Ween the machlno Is running on soft sand op mud it la driven through the flat; plates, but on any ordinary road sldej disks do the driving. Tho vehicle haa a 4x4 four-cylinder, horizontal gaso line motor, placed at the front. Tho transmission 13 from the engine to at countershaft, and from the counter shaft to tho driving wheel by means of a chain. A gear transmission caa be used, and is found preferable wlUx heavier machines. The tractive ability of this little ma chlno Is shown by the fact that Its hauled two heavy coal wagons, weigh ing two tons oach without a load but with tho wheels of one of them locked so as to slide. It was necessary t3 place two men on tho rear of the ma chine to keep It from being lifted cfj the ground, and every time the ma chine was started the front end would be lifted momentarily, and afterward rest but lightly on the ground. The inventor of this machine, George T. Glover, of Chicago, states that thla principle can be applied to heavy com mercial automobiles, which can be made not only to propel themselves successfully, but also to haul heavy loaded trucks. He has under construc tion trucks of 100 to 2) horse-power, the latter being fitted wltn a 12-cIin-dcr engine and being designed for the purpose of hauling a train of stone laden wagons. The fact that the fifth-wheel auto mobile carries practically all tha weight on Its driving wheel, whlca his a tendency to raise the machine an I get under the load when the power la applied, makes it possible to use thLs machine under conditions where t:a ordinary method of propulsion by ta rear wheels has boen found wanting on account of Insufficient t rue tic n. Such a machine can. therefore, be uscj on ploughed fields or muddy roads, ar4 should be found invaluable to the farm er for haulage work about the farm, as well as for drawing his produ e ta market. The fact that this system cf propulsion has been in successful use f6r several years on a huge snow loco motive, thus demonstrating its entire practicability, should make It apparent to all that it Is a step in the right di rection towards the perfection of com merclal vehicles. The Heroic Rich. Chicago News. Eventually we may expect to heae that somebody has consented at an ap palling sacrifice of personal ambltlona, to become President,