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TIIE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN. PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 15, 1907 or j onto miser ok TiTn TPTTX , f 1? pvnne THE- CONDUCT WELL, sir," eald Mr. Dooley, l m glad o see tnat our great transportation prob lems are bein' settled In th' right way." "How's that?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "With a whack In th' eye," said Mr. Dooley. " 'Tls th' ony way to solve anny problem that can't be' solved out iv a little arithmetic book. 'Tls th' Archey Road way an' I'm proud to think it's got as far as Wall Sthreet." "Ye know th" Illinye Centhral? Why do I ask? Iv coorse ye know It. "Tis wan lv th' Institutions iv our fair city. It has a rockln' chair on our front toop. It's thracks are our lawn. Whin an American city is blessed be HIven with a site alonslde lv th' shinin' ocean, th' sparklln' lake or th' purlin' river, It shows its gratlchood to HIven be g-lvin' th' site to a glue facthry, a lumber yard or a railroad. Th" arly pioneers come here an' hooked th' city eway fr'm th' Indyans. Thin they wint down to th' lake front an' looked It over an" says they: This here beau tiful view Is too good fr th' likes iv us. We must give it to some railroad that is worthy lvlt. We'll ask th' Illinye Centhral to take it. As Fr us, we'll dump a barrow iv ashes into this swamp an' make a home fr oursilves. "An" th' Illinye Centhral has been there to this day. It's th' great Insti tution. I feel a kind lv reverence f r It. I've voted fr It ivry time I wint to th' polls to cast me lmpeeryal suf frage away fr'm me. It's been Mayor lv this city more thin wanst, Gov'nor iv th' state, a majority lv th' Llgisla chure. th' State's Attorney an' always th" Coroner. It's set on th' bench. It's edited newspapers. In th' rural communities, as Hogan calls thim, it's held lvry office fr'm postmasther to town Marshal. I Judge how a man stands be what railroad thracks are nearest to him. I live in lowly style between th' Alton an' th' Belt Line. I'm betther off thin th' onforchnlt neighbors iv th" C, B. & Q., although th' people near th' Panhandle look down on me. But If Rothschild was to come in here some night an' take an overdose iv kimmel an go to sleep beside th' stove, th' next day wud find me In a palashal club on. Michigan av noo, dhrlnkln' me schooner iv sherry wine an' bein' so intimate with th' Illi nye Centhral right iv way that if I wint to sleep In me chair I'd have me toes cut off. It's th' grand, vlnlrable Institution. It hides th' water .we've got to dhrink fr'm us befure we dhrlnk it; it enables th" people lv Hyde Park to lay in their Winter's supply iv soft coal be carryln' It home lvry Sum mer's night in their eyes; It divides our beautiful park into two parts an' spreads a pleasing shade iv smoke an' eteam over th' heads lv th' throngs lv light-hearted an' careless people that frequent that gr-reat popular playground. Our little childer go down to th' lake to lave their tired limbs an' lave thim on th Illinye Cen thral thracks. Te'U plaze me be laugh In'. Thank ye kindly. "Well, sir, I had an Idee that this vin'rable Institution must be con trolled be a kind lv men diffrent fr'm th' likes lv ye an' me. I've had me dhreams lv power. Often, on a hot afthernoon, whin there was naw thln' betther to do, I've been Prlsident iv th' United States, Czar iv Rooshya, or even Pope lv Rome. But I niver thought lv mesilf runnln" th" Illinye Centhral railroad. I niver looked so high. I figured thim mighty men, with their vast brains chuggin' away in heads about as big as th' Aujitiroom Hotel, settin" in some vast stone build in' in New York an goyernin' th' em pire that stretches fr'm Chicago to Kankakee an' New Orleens. I didn't lnvy thim. Ithought it must make their heads ache. An' I was wrong, Hinnlssy. I'm always wrong whin I figure annybody as much greater thin mesllf. An" I'm nearly always wrong whin I don't figure him as a little greater. To tell ye th' truth I was cut out f r a railroad director. If I cud get out lv range lv Father Kelly's teaehin's, I'd make a fine high fl-nan-ceer. I have th' punch, or used to have it. Divvle th' headache comes out lv wan lv their directors meetin's. There ain't a headache in a bar'l lv thim. If ye saw wan lv them meetin's adjournin' afther dlscussin' th' prob lems that means life an" death to us, ye'd see nawthin" worse thin a bloody nose or a black eye. Th' great fl-han-ceers come out lookln' as though they were comln' fr'm anny kind lv a mer rymakin'. "It must be great fun to be a di rector lv wan lv thim railroads. Th' directors gather fr'm rar an' near, -full iv good spirits afther th' run up fr'm Newport, 'I hope we can hurry through,' says wan great fl-nanceer. 'I oughtn't to be here at all, but th' last wurruds lv me dyin' father was to cop all th' directors' fees I cud get near. Pah was a director In nine hundhred comp'nies an' he got so ex pert he cud spear a fee without losln' his ethrlde. But I oughtn't to be here. I've got an engagement to be chased King Oscar's Son Is Wined and Dined Society at Washington, D. C, Receives Swedish Prince With Open Arms. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. (Special Correspondence.) The eyes of so ciety were this week divided be twen the Northern centers occupied with the entertainment of a real live Prince of royal blood, and the festivities at home arranged in honor of the several hundred delegates to the International Zoological Congress recently held in Boston. Many of those near and dear to social-official Washington shared in both series of feastlngs and fetings. Concerning the eon of King Oscar of Sweden, they are Unanimous in declaring him a most dem ocratic and diplomatic young person. They also agree that his English was SO per cent better than their Swed'sh. In deed, they are generous in their praise of his fluent speech in the mother tongtie of America, and declare that this mastery of our language added to the glory of the reputation made by the Prince In this country. The delegation of visiting scientists Va over 200 strong and Included leading men of science from Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Mex ico, Japan and other oountries, and their wives and daughters. I"rom the moment of. their arrival, Tuesday afternoon, until their departure on Friday, the entire party was "personally confl"-!. The gentlemen were taken in charge by their brother scientists here and Immediately Invited to write another chapter in th alrady brilliant history of the Cosmos Club, which has for its headquarters the famous "Dolly Madison House" on Lafa yette Square. The ladles were equally well entertained by the following special committee: Mrs. Adams, chairman; Mrs. Irving W. Adams, Mrs. Henry F. Blount, Mrs. Frank Baker, Miss Baker, Miss Eva Baker, Mrs. Cyrus Adler, Miss Edith Coyle, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Ransome and Miss West, daughter of Commissioner Henry L. West, who gave the address of wel come to the delegation on behalf of the district. A day of sightseeing on Wednesday was followed by a large reception at the Congressional Library in the evening. The various government laboratories were opened Thursday morning for special -Inspection by the scientists, according to their Individual interest, and in the even ing another large reception was given. This time the scene of merriment was the institution given by the English philan thropist. Mr. James Smithson. for "the diffusion of knowledge among men." from which beneflclert gift to the young republic has sprung all of the scientific bureaus of the government. Here 'the mind could feast at will or one's Joy be unrestrained; the dress of the Americans of yesterday compared with that of to day, and the history of our country, as told on rork or tames of stone, be read by him who understandeth. Here also science is brought within the comprehen sion of the untrained mind in the only room of the kind In America, devoted en tirely to the use of children. The wall fleeoratlon is not the least of its attrac tions, it being done after a Celtic pat tern. As Labor1 day is, by common consent, regarded by the devotees of fashion, as he dividing date between .the Summer and Autumn season, a social upheaval is in progress. People who, like General and Mrs. Corbln, have been here more or less all Summer, are now taking their "nidation, and those who went abroad early in the Spring, are hurrying home as fast as the . steamship companies can bring them, to be some cases, the raison d'etre for prolonging the season at sea shore or mountain resort. Others are turning townward, and after a few days' here and there en route, will reopen their suburban home, whence they can direct the remantllng of their Washington resi dence. " The Secretary of Agriculture, the chate laine of whose home is traveling on tee continent with no date set for her return, headed the list of returning officials. He reached here the last of August and" was foremost in making welcome the world's distinguished men of science who were our guests this week. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Metcalf have started eastward from their California home, and are expected to re open their home here some time next week. According to present plans, the next arrivals in officialdom, will be Sec retary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs. Straus, who have covered more miles since leaving the capital than any other members of the Cabinet circle, except, of course, Mr. Roosevelt s "traveling secre tary" and his wife, who are booked to leave Seattle September 10, for a trip to the Orient, which will bring uiem home by way of the Siberian Railroad and through Europe, In time for the beginning of the formal season. Mrs. Garfield was here for a few days recently, but was apparently more on business than on pleasure bent. She came primarily to look after the needs of the larger home she will occupy during the coming Winter, and in which Dame Rumor says she will Inaugurate the so-' cial programme by which she hopes to reach the height of her ambition even the position of Mistress of the White House itself. ' This youngest member of the "boudoir Cabinet" takes as serious a view of her duties to her family of four boys as she does of her obligation to her husband, and that she expects the latter to fully maintain the prestige of the name they bear, none who knows her can doubt. After Inspecting her future home, she paid a visit to Mr. Garfield's newly fur nished and redecorated offices at the Department of the Interior, and heard it whispered approvingly In official circles that he had planned to save the Govern ment the neat little sum of $200,000 on the management of the patent and pension offices alone, without the dismissal of a single clerk, she started back to the boys and the farm in O-o, where she will remain another month. The farm, by the way. is the same at Mentor, where Hon. and Mrs. James A. Garfield brought up their boys, and where the news of his election to the highest office in the gift of the people was of ficially announced to the second martyr President. Another change of residence. It is well to record early, is that made during the week by Admiral and Mrs. Dewey, who, during the coming season will occupy the letter's home in K street. This makes the next-door neighbors of the Secre tary f War and marks the reopening of the residence, which was a hospitable center during the entire regime of the Hltchcocks as members of the Cabinet circle. -The Admiral and Mrs. Dewey, since their marriage, have lived in the house given to the former by the people of Washington to commemorate th battle of Manila Bay, and while it is delightfully arranged for social purposes, it win not accommodate the large guest list of the Admiral of the Navy. Their change into larger quarters is therefore taken as an indication that Mrs. Dewey's health Is sufficiently restored to permit her to take again an active part in social life, especially to entertain that branch of which she is the leader by virtue of her husband's official rank. The Dewey home on Rhode Island ave nue has been taken by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mitchell, who. until their marriage in the early Spring, entertained hand somely in separate establishments. Mrs. Mitchell began her social career here aa Miss Augusta Hancock, niece of General Winfleld Scott Hancock, and continued it as the wife of Colonel Luther Hau, U. S. A. She emerged from the retirement of mourning for her first husband to in troduce her three charming daughters, one of whom has since become Mrs. Jay "Lipplneott, of Philadelphia, and another Mrs. Charles Mason, of this city. The youngest sister is still Miss Irene Hau. The new home of the Comptroller of the Currency and Mrs. William Barret Rldgeley is assuming an unwonted ac tivity, In anticipation of the approaching marriage of the eldest daughter of the house, Miss Catherine Cullom Rldgeley, which is set for October 24, the twenty fifth anniversary of the wedding of the parents of the brlde-eiect. Miss Rldgeley and her sister. Miss Elanor Ridgeley, are exceedingly pretty girls, their beauty being of the Saxon type inherited from their mother,- the first Mrs. Ridgeley, nee Miss Cullom, daughter of United States Senator Shelby Cullom, of Illi nois. Both girls were sent to a finishing school abroad, and Miss Catherine espec ially Is a fine linguist. Aa Mrs. Phelps Brown, it is confidentially expected she will hold the position she made In the hearts of the people, when as "the lovely Miss Rldgeley," she gave much of her time and of her talents for the benefit of those less fortunately placed. The Congressional circle will lose at least three of its popular maidens before Congress convenes In December. The first to go was Miss Elizabeth Richard son, who was married on Wednesday, at her father's home, in Huntsville, Ala., to Thomas B. Howell, ot . Richmond, Va. As the engagement had naK been announced, the wedding was the great est surprise of the season. Early in OctODer, Miss Elizabeth Wyndam Washington, daughter ot Rep resentative and Mrs. Joseph E. Washing ton of Wessyngton, Tenn., will become the bride of H. S. Stuart Hotchklss, and probably come to the Capital for the Winter. No date has yet been set for the mar riage of Miss Carolyn Huff and Murray Cobb, which it was thought would take place at the country home of the bride's parents, Representative and Mrs. George Huff, near Greensburg. Penn., until rush orders went Into operation in their new Washington home, which will be ready for occupancy early in November. Mr. Cobb is now visiting the family of his fiancee and society expects to be no tified of a decision aa to time and place before his retuVn to Washington. Instinct Before Training. "" Kansas City Star. A farmer near Carthage, Mo., has a shepherd dog which he has trained to go to the rural mall box and bring back the letters in his mouth. The other day the dog was returning when he flushed a rabbit. Instinct was stronger than training and the dog pursued the rabbit, barking to let eft his surplus excitement. A neighbor who saw the chase said: "Oh, but it was a pretty racel I saw a streak of dog and a perfect whirlwind of letters and paper that fairly made me dizzy. I never knew before how to appre ciate the fast mall service. be a p'ollaman at three,' he says. 1 don't care how long we stay,', says Clarence Steenevant, another director. 'I told th' boys on'y yesterday that I enjoyed these here meetin's lv th' boord lv th' Aryzony Centhral more thin annythln' that happens,' says he. This Isn't th' Aryzony Centhral," says another sage fl-nanceer. 'I don't care,' says Clarence, 'It's soma Cen thral. I'm goln' to go out there wan lv these days,' says he. 'I wuddent chance It,' Bays Percy Lumley. 'A frlnd lv mine has Just come back, an' he says he suffered Incredible priva tions In a hotel In Saint Looey. They were days an' days without absinthe.' The" meetln' will come to ordher,' says the chairman. 'Little wans, th' main figure who owns this here lmpeeryal railroad will not be able to come to th' meetln' as he has matthers lv more Importance thin this here Jerkwather line. Gintlemen, I hope ye realize that th" lntherest In mlllyons lv peo ple dlpinds on ye'er action today. Now what will ye'er action be? Let me see. I thought I put it In me change pocket. Oh, here It Is. No, this Is a good thing, at th' races. Ah, I've found it. Th' main squeeze has kind ly jotted down on a corner lv a news paper what ye will do. Have ye heerd th' ' question ? Ye have not. All in favor will say, Aye. Conthry minded will say nawthin'. Th' ayes have It. Th' sic'rlty will pass th' fresh air fund an' wu'll all go over to th' Dutchman's an' get a dhrlnk,' says he. "At. this minylt a tall, Imposing looking man arose. 'Mister Chair man', says he th lnthrests lv th' people are very dear to me,' says he. 'I will not submit to havln' thim throd undherfoot," he says. 'I wish to offer a resolution, he says. 'Where as,' he says, 'I have lost me Job, and whereas I want It back, and whereas it don't look as if I was goln' to get It backr Therefore, be It resolved that th' counthry Is goln' to th' dlwle,' he saya. 'Ye're a liar,' says th' chairman. 'I'll lay ye'er motion on th' table,' says he. 'I move,' says th' director to lay th' chairman undher th' table, says he. 'Do I have a second to th' motion?' say th' chairman. 1 don't needa second,' says th' director. 'I'll put th' motion mesilf,' he says, an' he busted him wan. Thin' bein' over fifty, he followed th' punch up be fall-1 in' on his prosthrate foe. Accounts differ, Hinnlssy, lv what happened af ther that. Some say th' frind lv th' people took th' gr-reat magnate be th' hair lv his head an' dhragged him around th' room. Others say he grabbed him be th shouldhers an' shook him while th' magnate thried to use an Iron Ink well In th' debate. Annyhow, an lnjyable time was had. Th' grave an rlvrend boord danced around th" two capitalists. 'Give it to him, Stuyve,' says wan lv thim. Th' boot, th' ' boot, Jimmy.' Tin to wan on Stuyve." "If he'd lver got that hay maker acrost 'twud have been all over.' An' so it wint, s happy, gay an' free as ye'd find a meetln' lv long shoremen's Union, Number Elghtt "Well, sir, I'm glad to know about thim that they're Just like oursilves. I thought- lv thim settlln' our affairs be deep thought or in some akelly un canny way. But instead lv that, thy're light-hearted an' Joyous in their meth ods. They pass th' lie an' th" divi dend at th' same time. They slam each other around th' room, bite, gouge an pull l.alr Just th same as we do. Th' on'y fault I have to And with thim Is that they do It badly. Be all accounts It was a poor fight. Nay- ther lv thim had a mark whin he come out. I tell ye It don't tend to impress us Investors with th' safety iv our ln thrests to know that they're ln-th' hands lv a couple lv old gintlemen that make passes at each other like a near-sighted proflssor thryln' to catch a butther-fly In a net. It's a tur-Bble thing fr me to think that this here gr-reat Institution Is run be a man that ye can see almost anny day sprlntin' around a long table while another old gintleman thrles to put In a knock-out blow on his shouldher blades. I see be th' ' pa-aper Harrlman's very sore about th' way th'( railroad prlsldint conducted hlmilf. Whin he got news lv th' fight,, he wired: "Where was ye'er uppercut?' an' he's thinkin' lv puttin' a new man In charge. He's wired Jeffreys. If he gets him there'll be no talk lv th' conthrol lv th' road passin'. He'll read In th' pa-apers: 'An attempt was made to wrest th' con throl lv th' Illinye Centhral fr'm th' present dominant lnthrests yesterdah, but it failed In th' first round be a right to th' pint lv Jaw. Director Sharkey fought gamely, but he was outclassed'." "What were they flghtln fr?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "What was th' purse?" "They were fightin' fr us," said Mr. Dooley. "An how did It come out?" asked Mr. Hennessy. "They divided th' purse," said Mr. Dooley. (Copyright, 1907, by H. H. McClure Co.) raced Kates TO THE Oregon State Fair SALEM, . OREGON Will Be Made by The Oregon R. R. & Navigation Co. and Southern Pacific Company (Lines in Oregon) ... From All Points in Oregon f O. R. & N. Sept. 12, 14, 17 and 19 TICKETS ON SALE Final return limit, Sept. 23. O. R. 4 N. tickets must be validated for return by 8. P.; agent at Salem or at Fair Grounds. 1 S. P. Co. Sept IS, 16, 17, 18, 10, 20, 21 Final return limit. Sept 22. , PORTLAND DAY At the Fair is Thursday, Sept. 19 Special Train Special Rate Round Trip Tickets cfij "3 ff From Portland H A vlJ Leave Portland. Union Depot. .. .0:00 A. M. East Washington Street.... OilO A. M. riekets on Sale at City Ticket Office, Third and Washington Streets, Union Depot and East Washington Street, Portland. WM McMURRAY, Gen'l Pass. Agent Portland, Oregon B A GAT LEY ZERT CASCADE LOCKS "We want you to go to "Cascade Locks on the beauti ful steamboat, Bailey Gatzert, Sunday, September 15,' leaving Alder-street Dock at 9 A. M,; returning about'5 P. M. Fare $1 for round trip." Meals 50c. You know all about the Gatzert, best boat on the river. 1W Millions From Or egon's River Beds G. E. S. Wood, F. M. Bachelor and Other Prominent Oregon Men Vigorously Push ing the Great Enterprise. fl Now Control 12,000 Acres That Will Positively Yield . From $7000 to $25,000 an Acre. Two years ago a group of Oregon men of the highest stand ing and integrity, the most trustworthy character, practical, substantial, experienced in mines and mining, organized the Western Exploration & Dredging Company, with H. "W. Goode (now deceased) as president; F. M. Bachelor, secretary and general manager, and other well-known bankers and mining men as directors, for the purpose of developing the gold-dredging industry in Oregon, even as it had already been developed in California. They went to work with characteristic energy and determination the late Mr. Goode 's unflagging zeal in accomplishing the success of our great Exposition being a fair sample of their broad-gauge methods and plans. They located the richest gold-bearing fields along the Burnt River Valleys, in famous old Baker County, set testing drills to work, and for two years the most thorough tests have been made, by means of modern mining machinery that cannot err. Their Report Is Now Ready It shows that this Burnt River land, in the jaws of the mon ster dredge, will positively yield from $7000 to $25,000 an acre. Just do some figuring for yourself and estimate the yield from 12,000 acres of this land. The Old Baker County Mining Section Famed the world over is full of cradles of gold. The surface has hardly been scratched ; yet, by the crudest of hand meth ods, thousands upon thousands of dollars have been extracted. The most inexperienced person must gain a glimmering of the certain immensity of the output under the dredge, which leaves no particle of gold in its wake. ' In California and New Zealand The experimental grounds of the dredge, more gold has been taken from deserted mines and tailings by the dredge than was taken out by the first miners, whose discoveries startled the world. 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