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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 23, .ISOtt 3 ADDS CQN0IT10NS TO HIS NEW POLICY Bryan Denies Favoring Own ership More Than Does Roosevelt. WILLIAMS OUT AGAINST-IT Democratic Leader Tries to Mollify Southern Opposition to Kailroad Doctrine and Again Calls Roosevelt Democrat. ' JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 22. Mississippi extended a cordial welcome to W. J. Bryan today when he spoke to about 16.000 people. Leading Democrats from ail parts of the state were here and at the conclusion of the address resolutions commendatory of Mr. Bryan were adopt ed by a strong vote. Mr. Bryan's speech dealt with trusts and government control of railroads and congratulate President Roosevelt upon his Democratic tendencies. Mr. Bryan declared that he had been misquoted and misrepresented in his utterances on the government ownership question; that he simply expressed his views as a private citizen, which he had a right to do, and was not trying to enforce his individual views on the party. He said: Only Favors Ownership If . "I no more favor Government ownership of the railroads than does President Roosevelt, whose utterances on that sub ject are still in the minds of all. And I note that Mr. Fairbanks in his Chicago address stated that the passage of the railroad race law was simply the begin ning. What the Vice-President meant to convey is more open to misconstruction than any one statement. "I am not defending my original state ment on that question nor apologizing for anything I said, and I will reiterate here that eliminated from politics, placed In a position where they cannot longer corrupt legislation. Joint Government and state ownership will be the ultimate result. But the railroads will force the issue, not the people." Mr. Bryan here took up the trust ques tion, for wh'ich he said President Roose velt was a good Democrat as far as he went, but that he had not gone far enough. And if Democratic measures were good when taken up by a Repub lican administration they would be bet ter in the hands of a Democratic Pres ident and Congress. Williams Against Ownership. At the conclusion of Mr. Bryan's ad dress John Sharp Wlllams-spoke briefly. He eulogized Mr. Bryan, calling atten tion to those measures advocated by him that had been enacted by the Republi cans with the aid of Democrats. He called attention to the fact that he had supported Mr. Bryan in two campaigns and would do so again, and stated that he was unalterably opposed to govern ment ownership of railroads. Mr. Bryan was introduced by the Gov ernor in a speech which aroused enthu siasm. The Governor mentioned his name in connection with the Presidency and the audience stood up and cheered for several minutes. Tonight Mr. Bryan was the guest at a public reception In the House of Rep resentatives at the capitol, and the elite of Mississippi did honor to him. To morrow night he leaves for Memphis, where he begins a tour of Tennessee on Monday. A REPLY TO MR. JONES Mr. Varnum Insists That the Garb Does Not Show the Man. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 22 To the Editor.) When the late Mr. Cadmus in vented his celebrated labor-saving device known as the alfabet he little dreamed of the ridiculous uses to which It would be put. He unquestionably meant that each elementary sound of the language should be represented with one character, and could scarcely hav expected that a' time would come when men would glory in the fact that they used 20 or more ideographs to Indicate a single vocal utterance mere ly because, forsooth, a word had been sounded as many different ways in the years of the past. Especially in view of the fact that one character would do the work of the 20 more accurately and cheaply. I am led to these thoughts by a perusal of J. L. Jonz latest contribution to the hilarity of nations. If It be true that one of the 1's la "bouillon" has been drowned in tj soup, then in the name of public health and common decency, let us give the poor thing, a respectable burial Instead of binding the corpse to the living body of our language, and spell It 'bulyon" (short o) ! It may be that we should hav no despotic "uniformity" in language, but if so it would inevitably lose the power to do the only thing It was intended to do to oommunlcate (or conceal) thought. But the fact is that we now hav a most autocratic censorship over the written language, and our truly benevolent Dem Rep Government enforses it in matters of spelling to such an extent that 95 per cent of the failures in Civil Service exams, are due to the fact that the.candi. date finds it Impossible to remember whether it is written "seive" or sieve," and perhaps, in a moment of sanity, vrrtes It "slv." Or, perchance, he wrestles with the problem of represent ing hard c with "og," "so" or "ooh," onlv to discover that it should hav been written "quh"! Our Uncle Samuel will tolerate no "diversity" or "variation" whatever either in "fundamentals" or "details." He insists that in English spelling the "individual" has no "rights or liberties" that authority Is bound to restect. Now. all that we fonetlc "cranes" ask is that the rules of the game be so changed as to make it rea sonably easy to spell "correctly" instead of practically Impossible as now. As to uniformity in food, drink and clothing, let the gentleman hav never a fear. The trusts will attend to that mat ter for the immense majority with their accustomed alacrity and dispatch, as the Government has already done for a very large section of Its employes the Army nd Navy. There are many the prophet of the new dispensation among the number who ap pear to think that written language is a picturesque ruin to be preserved in all its primitive hldeousneas, instead of a mod ern, every-day instrument for carrying on the world's business. He would, there fore, hav us retain all the silent letters that now cumber our written speech be cause he thinks they once had a fonetic value. But If we must follow the ex ample of the past rather than the dic tates of reason, then let us make our let ter to represent actual sounds as it is said they did originally. It is strictly a case of: "Tu hav dhe Plrric Dans az yet. hwax hai dhe Plrric Falancs gone?" Of tu such lesnz. why forget dhe nobler and dhe manlier one?" Our ancestors cooked bread in a "Dutch" oven, but surely that is no rea son Why a moderately intelligent person of the 20th century should forgo the ad vantages of a modern steel range. I hav eeen men who argued that an electric light was deleterious to health because it consumed so much oxygen, but I do not blame the poor chap when I near pre sumably reasoning bipeds gravely arguing that "is" spells lz! "Dhe objections tu a fonetlc sistem of speling, sez dhe Sage of Carroll, are (a) dhat it wil obllerate dhe historl of dhe development of words: (b) destroy their individjualitl; (c) invalidate their pedi gree; and (d) redlus dhem all tu a ded level of uniformity." Mor dredful stll, "it wud destroy poetrl and literary art!" In- (a) Mr. Jonz essays to break a lance with such scholars as Professors Whitney and Marsh, together with prac tically every etymologist of note in the English-speaking world, who plainly de clare that the work of tracing the sounds of words and the development of the language would be very materially aided if only they were spelled as sounded. The "lndlvijuality" of words is to be found in their meaning and not In the particular style of spejling. As well to say that the real man is to be seen in the clothes he wears instead of in his character: (c) and (d) are mere excuses, and dhe last Is most pitiful of all. Is it indeed true that the writing of Shakes peare and Milton hav ceased to be poetrl since tha spelling, has been so radically altered? Or are "Paradise Lost" and "Hamlet" now lacking in 'literary art because we Philistines of a later day hav insisted that haue" shall be written "hav"! Possibly, though, those heirlooms of our race w-ere not poetry and showed no trace of literary art until the icono clasts of modern times changed the spelling of fully 25 per cent of the words without, however, particularly improv ing it. . Herewith I submit what by many Is regarded as the most perfect poem in the language spelled as nearly fonetlc as is possible with our defective, redundant alfabet. I think there will be few so bold as to claim that it is a less perfect series of word pictures in its new dress than in the old. Incidentally, it may be noticed that in a total of 241 words., my system spells 128 fonetically. as against only 30 by the accepted fashion. Dhe Destruction of Senacerib'r Army Dhe Assirian came down like a wolf on dhe fold. Hiz cohorts were gleaming In purple and gold: And dhe sheen of their spears was like stars on dhe sea. Hwen dhe bin wave rols nightly o'r deep Galllae. , Ulce ahs leaves of dhe forest nwen Summer lz green, Dhat host wldh their banners at sunset were seen; Uka dhe leaves of dhe forest bwen Autumn hath blon. Dhat host, on dhe morrow, lay wldhered and strong. For She Angel of Deta bp red his wings on dhe blast. And breathed In dhe face of dhe fo az he past; And dhe eyes of dhe sleepers wacst dedll and chll. And their hearts but onoe heaved and for ever gru stll. t And dhar lay 'dhe steed wldh his nostril all wide. But thru it dhar rold not dhe broth of hiz pride: And dhe font of hiz gasping lay white on dhe turf, And cold az dhe spray of dhe rock-beating surf. And dhar layVthe rider distorted and pale. Wldh dhe du on hiz brow and dhe dust on hiz mall. And dhe tents were all silent, dhe banners aione, Dhe lansez uplifted, dhe trumpets unblown. And dhe widoz of Asshur are loud In their wall. And the idols are broe In dhe tempi of Baal; And dhe might of dhe Gentile, unsmote by dhe sord. Hath melted Ilk sna in dhe glens of dhe Lord. Turz for a fonetic revolution, W. S. VARNUM. ROOT AND PARTY AT COLON Secretary Embarks After Ball and Reception in His Honor.' COLON, Sept. 22. Secretary Root and party arrived here at 5:30 this afternoon. They left Panama at 10:30 o'clock this morning, and stopped at various points along the canal. A reception and ball were given tonight in honor of the Sec retary, after which he embarked on the United States cruiser Columbia. THEY APPEAL TO PRESIDENT Government Bookbinders Carry Complaint to Head of Nation. WASHINGTON, Sept 22. President Feeny, of the local Bookbinders' Union, returned tonight from New York, whither it was reported he had gone for the pur pose of making complaint to the Presi dent concerning conditions In the Gov ernment Printing Office. He eald he had not seen the President, but that Repre sentative Sherman, chairman of the Re publican Congressional campaign com mittee, had promised to make proper representations to the chief executive. Mr. Feeny expects to be called to Oyster Bay after Mr. Sherman sees the Presi dent. Four New Oregon Postmasters. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. SpeciaL New postmasters have been appointed as follows: Oregon Elmpire. Virgil Pugh, vice B. D. Jones, resigned; Hosklns, James M. Wat son, vice M. L. Franth, resigned: Placer, Mrs. Mollie Irwin, vice Allen Reed, re. signed. Washington Glenwood, Joseph Parrott, vice J. O. Shaw, resigned. Rural carriers appointed: Oregon Greeneville. route 3, Frank Van Domelen. carrier, Henry Van Domelen, substitute: North Powder, route 1, Wil liam C. Lee, carrier, Waiter Jones,, sub stitute. . Washington Colby, Arthur L. Williams carrier, Eliza H. Williams substitute; Redmond, route 1, Nels Scholen carrier, Oscar Scholen substitute. MURDERED. FOR HER RINGS Police Consider This Explanation, of Strange Woman's Death. CHICAGO. Sept 23. (Special.) The handsomely gowned woman found float ing in Lake Michigan, off the suburb of Evanston. last night is believed now to have been murdered for her jewelry. One theory is that she waa killed and thrown into the lake from a mysterious yacht the Identity of which the police are trying to learn. A Strang craft was seen oft shore the day before the mur der. Another hypothesis is that the wo man was a passenger on one of the lake liners returning from a nearby resort A third guess is that the body was pitched into the water from the pier near Greenleaf avenue, Evanston. Marks on the woman's fingers show that she must have worn several lings. Any Idea that the case is one of suicide Is precluded by the wound on the head, which the physicians say could have been caused only by a hard blow. The body has been taken to the morgue in the hope that it may be seen by someone who can furnish, a ladies' and Misses' Man-Tailored Coats Elegant styles and shade blendings in the new patterns $11.85 to $35.00 WEALTH IN BLACK SANDS H. FISK GIVES AN OPINION BASED ON EXPERIENCE. Asks That Criticism of Dr. Day's Work Ba Withheld tlnUl He Makes His Report. PORTLAND, Sept. 21. (To the Edi ior.) My attention was called to an editorial in the Mining and Scientific Press, as well as your article in last Sunday's Oregonlan on the black sands of the Pacific Coast. The (act that many have asked my opinion on the subject from a mining and commercial standpoint has inspired me to address this article to you. I think it would be well to withhold all criticism on Dr. Day's examination of the black sand until we have his report in full and see what He says. The black sands of the beach and rivers of Oregon have been a problem which hundreds have tried to solve for the past 40 years, and many machines have been invented and operated for separating the fine gold from the sand, but so far all have proved a failure. Some 20 years ago I thought I had solved it by drying the sand and forc ing it with a screw through molten lead in a large iron pot. It proved a success as far as alloying the gold with the lead, but I found that the lead would oxidize as fast as it was fed, thug forming litherage and losing bo ."a lead and gold, and the loss was equal to tha gain. If any method -could bo devised to prevent the lead from oxi dizing it would be a complete success. I suppose I have made a thousand de terminations of these beach sands, all the way from Cape Blanco to Puget Sound. I do not see how any profit can be made out of it with the excep tion of the beach sand lying between Cape Blanco and Coos Bay, where I am informed that at very low tide the waves concentrate the black sand in a streak about four inches thick, just un der the light white sand which over lays it. This is said to be worth $40 to $50 per ton, and is collected and packed out on mules and subsequently concen trated. From $3 to ti a day to the man is made in this way, and the came has been made by sluicing the sand lying back from the beach. The sand from Coos Bay north to Ya quina Bay will not average more than $1 a ton when concentrated, and from Yaquina Bay north to the Columbia River it will not average more than 10 cents a ton. Good profits have been made in places along the Snake River and its tribu taries as far up as Glen's Ferry, by concentrating the sand on burlap ta bles, and the gold separated by sub sequent amalgamation. All this black sand is extremely fine, like dust, and would take about 50 colors to make a cent. In some places it is coated with silica, like fine prlass, that prevents it from amalgamating, and is difficult to separate by ar.y process except using the sand as a flux in a lead smelter. There is no question about smelting these sands to make iron and possibly steel with electricity, as proposed by Dr. Day; but I fail to see how It oan be done with a profit, when' we take into consideration the labor of col lecting the sand and concentrating it. generating the electric power, the .lime rock for flux, the cost of coke for fuel and the transportation of all this ma terial to the plant. Comparing this with the hundreds of acres of iron ore to be had along the banks of the Columbia River, only to be quarried Instead of concentrated, it seems to me that concentration of sand to get iron is out of the question. Much has been said about monozite, the phosphate of cirium metals and zlcrone, found in the black sand being of great value. There are so many .places where monozite sand is found IF YOU WANT Dress Etfa Autumn For business wear the three-button single-breasted sack coat has the preference. ' The coat is cut with more waist shaped contour than last season, with a decided flare at the bottom, the front hanging straight and cut slightly away from the last, button. The lapels are broad and heavy. Coats are 31 to 33 inches in length, with or without vents. Trousers are roomy at the hips and tapering at the bottom. fl The new patterns are club checks, shadow stripes, slate and olive mix tures, stripes and , blues in smooth and unfinished worsteds Our Suits and Overcoats have all the features embodied in the new models, were made by skilled artist-tailor men, in the best way possible, , and consequently are the same as the best merchant tailor products but at half the tailors' prices. Suits $15 to $40 Overcoats $15 to $40 In the Department The dainty new suits for small boys, and the durable, stylish school suits for older ones, show at a glance the-superiority of Ben Selling clothes. New Norfolk suits, new sailor suits and double-breasted suits $2.50 to $15.00 and in such abundance that it would seem out of place to collect it from these black sands in the small quanti ties they contain. In the old town of Florence, in North ern Idaho, I will warrant a ton a day could bo collected in a common sluice box. The Nome beach, in Alaska, is largely composed of monozite sand. Again these Oregon black sands, especially south of Coos Bay, are largely titanite of iron and are not affected by the mag net. The river sands are largely chro mate of iron, and any iron or steel made from it must contain, besides these metals, manganese, combined and uncomblned carbon alumina and many other metals. On the information furnished by Dr. Day, parties have purchased gasoline engines, concentrators, etc., and have gone to Southern Oregon to work these black sands, and claim a profit of $100 a day can be made: but I predict that the worst day they will experience will be the pay day. , A large quantity of the river sand is sacked up On the Snake River, ready for shipment, expected to be sold at a great profit, to be manufactured into steel, ind I am authorized to make a sale of it to any purchaser in the mar ket for H. J- H. FISK. PROVIDENCE AIDS JOHN D. 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The Japanese demanded an explanation and when this was given, one of the Jap anese stabbed and killed Lieutenant Sot nikoff. while his companions also were cut down. FINDS MAIL CLERK'S BODY Diver Cannot Remove It From Wreckage In the Cimarron. KINGFISHER. Okla.. Sept. 22 The body of Mall Clerk Gamble, who went down In his car with the two other coaches of the Rock Island passenger train at the Cimarron River bridge last Tuesday morning, was discovered tonight by a diver. The corpse is pinned under the wreckage of the mail car and s-, cuers cannot remove it. The mall and smoking cars are still submerged in the river, which ha been erratically rising and falling during the day. It is thought Gamble's body can be recovered tomor row. 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Th4 would-be assassin was not discovered. ' I REDUCED RATE TO SPOKANE. i One Fare for Round Trip. The O. R. & N. and Southern Pacific have announced that account the Pa cine Northwest Convention of Commercial Bodies to be held at Spokane September 25. their agents will sell tickets from all points on their lines to Spokane and re turn for one fare for the round trip, tickets to be on sale September 23 and 24 The rate frm Portland will be 111.20, Tickets at City Ticket Office. Third anij Washington streets. Special