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i ; CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS.
The recent forest fires that seemed to
spring up as li from some concerted ac
tion, have done millions of dollars of
- damage and' destroyed, perhaps, half a
hundred -Hvea. That these fires did not
coma sooner was not the fault of the
carelessness that caused them, but was
duo, chiefly to the fact that conditions
were not ripe for them. Carelessness,
even to the criminal stage, Is always
., with us. ;
A, few day of East Wlndi a thought
less application of lira to ' "slashing"
dry as dust, or the neglect to put out
campflre,' and avlletrll the finest tim
ber In the world went "tip in smoke. If
the lesson would be heeded it might be
worth even the tremendous price paid,
but neither destruction of property nor
loss of life WlU cause those to be care
ful, who art not naturally so, and forest
Area may be expected just so long as
thera are woods to burn or feather,
brained people to Are them.
it-' might be that a strong criminal
statute properly enforced, and the plac
ing of a few of the criminally "careless
behind the bars,; would have soma effect,
cut It 'would-eearce e worth the at
tempiIt would deter those confined,
but they would be so small a percent
age o the thoughtless generally that
It would not really be fair to them.
Their name is legion, and unfortunately.
tbe woods are full of them. It Is not
all campers, either, or those who are
better qualified to adorn a street car
than to follow a mountain trout. The
settler himself is often the one . to not
only destroy his own property, but that
-Of his neighbors, or even of a whole
community.
' That the fires should break out In so
many places at once is abundant evi
dence that a variety of causes started
them, and that they spread with such
disastrous effect, was due to conditions
that the thoughtless did not take 'into
consideration.
. THE BELGIAN HARE.
t It was only a year ago that the' Belgian
bars was the only topic. He had, so his
advocates told us, come to revolutionize
the world. lie was more tender than
lamb, sweeter than turkey, better, far
batter than beef, and, properly roasted.
Would make Charles Lamb's "Dlsserta
, tion on Roast Pig" read like a chapter
from Ezeklel.
i He was to revolutionize the meat supply
Of the world, and knock the beef trust
Into, a Whole alley full of cocked hats.
He was to supply the world with fish,
i Hash and game. Societies were formed for
. his propagation, and the heralding of his
manifold qualities.
Papers were printed especially for his
glorification. Every dally had a column
devoted to him, people talked Mm,
dreamed him, in fact, did, about every
thing to him but eat him.
Epicures sraaeked their lips as they
read the advance notices and books were
written descriptive of his habits, and
filled With instruction as to his raising
and car. He would eat anything Trom i
sagebrush to green confetti and turn a I
half cent's Worth'of clover Into a dollar's I
Worth Of toothsome and delicious dinner.
He was to wipe out the lines between
rich snd poor as to their food supply, and
bring all up to the common, though su
perior, level of John -rabbit three tim.ia
a day,' as the grand center piece at the
family meals..
.HI fur was to ruin the seal Industry,"
and drive the wood cutting beaver out of
business. Silk hats were to .be made
from his downy fuss, and his feet brought
tuck as they dangled from every watch
chain ,
In three months after the crate was
Started, Belgian hares wera on the mar
ket at fabulous prices, and with a pedi
gree reaching back to the time of Aesop,
and showing a collateral tins of consan
guinity with the- original hare that was
beaten by the tortoise In the footrace at
the Olympic games B. C. 14$ and the
name blown In the bottle.
The Argonaut of San Francisco a year
or more ago made a careful estimate
"from the known rats of Increase, showing
that with one good pair of animals to
start with, there would be at the end of
the year 22, and at the end of five years
If the gourmands,' epicures and poor folks
restrained their appetites, the family
could celebrate their parents' wooden
wedding with 1,809,123 nappy cousins,
sisters and aunts. In the alfalfa patch.
But ha didn't materialise and we Talnly
wonder whyT
Where has he gone, and whence, and
what fort
But the fact is self-evident, for he Is
gone. Faded, as did the tulips of Am
sterdam. Burst, like the Mississippi
Bubble. Dried up and Quit, like a cam
paign speech in the Ides of November.
The place that knew him once Is hare
less, materphorically bald-headed.
The turkey beheld In blm a real cause
' of thanksgiving, and the lambkin gam-
j boled on the grassy hillsides, with no fear
of the butcher. He should have done bet
ter. With mutton at Morgan prices
pork jumping to 16 to 1, and beef clear
.out of sight, the Belgian hare had an
opening that was the chance of his life,
He couldn't fill it. Arizona and Nevada
have not "canned him by the thousands
of tons," but Instead are utilising the
cans for broncho and cayuse.
COOK COUNTY DITCHES.
Work is being pushed actively on Cook
County's irrigating ditches and It will
only be a short time until at least one
hundred thousand acres of so-called des
ert land will be supplied with water. Al
ready land Is being cleared and prepared
to receive both seed and water that will
maks the desert to "blossom as the rose."
Unfortunately Irrigation schemes in Ore
gon have had a hard time. Money has
been hard to get, and many difficulties
have been encountered. These in some
cases have been overcome, and Cook
County will soon have the first really
great ditch in the state. Wasco County
also has a big ditch, but it Is at present
"hung up." What this will mean to Ore
gon can hardly be estimated. If put in
wheat, the 'area " subject to the Cook
County ditch alone should produce 3,000.
000 bushels, and when the full system
of ditches getting their water from the
Deschutes, and now In contemplation, are
completed. It would almost double the
wheat yield of Eastern Oregon. It in
improbable, however, that much of this
land will be devoted to grain growing, as
its remoteness from market will cause its
products to be sent out in the shape of
stock and wool. The completion of thess
ditches and the rapid settlement of C'uo.t
County consequent thereon, will do much
towards causing the transportation com
panles to build for the trade, and one or
more lines of railiiad through Eastern
Oregon are a near possibility.
cook county, which 1b as large as
Massachusetts, has about six thousand
inhabitants, or about one to every 1000
acres. There Is plenty If room for more
without serious crowding. And her des
ert lands, heretofore considered almost
worthless, will be her chief source of
wealth.
SAVE THE GAME.
Back in Minnesota, where once game
was plentiful, and afforded fine sport,
there Is none left, excepting in the south
ern portions. Four-fifths of the state has
practically no game birds or trout.
. Oregon may learn a lesson from this
fact. Oregon will be In the position of
Minnesota yery soon. If -there be not con
stent insistance that the game and fish
laws be enforced. Indeed. It will be pos
siDie oniy to oeler ror a time the ex
termination of the game, for eventually
the settling of the country and the over
crowding of the lands will strike the doom
of the wild animals.
Perhaps it would be difficult to support
a game preservation policy with much of
solid reasoning. Yet there is considerable
sentiment in the subject, and at leas,t the
existence of law should be recognized by
everyone.
One argufnent Is available for the en
forcement' of game laws, and that it is
that the true sportsman will desire to
prevent "pot hutitlng," an occupation de
spised by all well disposed people.
It was pot hunting that killed off the
prairie chicken in Minnesota. Men hunt
ed for the market, and effected enormous
satighterings. And they have almost ex
terminated the prairie chickens.
The Oregon Fish and Game Association
makes an effort to save the game and the
trout, and deserves support from good
cltlsens. A commendable stand has been
taken by Mr. James E. Krause, one of the
officials of the Association, living at Pen
dleton. He should have the assistance of
all -persons who are or who admire true
sportsmen.
MATTER OF ENTERPRISE.
Many who have visited Portland recent
ly can testify thnt there Is a shortage
of passenger coaches on the trains run
ning in and out of the city and a short
est of rooms in the hotels due, per
haps, to a shortage of enterprise. To
le.'o Leader.
It will not Injure Portland to read oc
casionally the cornrrwnfs that are made
in tne newspapers of other places re
garding this towrf. Such statements as
that here reproduced from the Toledo
Leader will cause some thought and per
haps stir to action in the matter of ho
tel accommodations.
Portland needs other large hotels. If
It handle people in a manner satisfact
ory and calculated to provide for a
growing" cTry. " At the- present timer -n-
dreds of transient people are living In
rooms secured in private house a who
prefer' to live in hotels and yet who
cannot secure room a
Although the . remark of the Toledo
paper was made in a desire to "rap"
Portland, the rap will not be valuelers
if it move towards the building of ad
ditional hotels here where the city has
grown far beyond the capacities of those
now standing.
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THE TABASCO COLUMN.
If The Journal Monk, Aiad act een
fired of the department,
order rain.
he - would
Ohio has a well-defined Issue. Tom
Johnson Is for the people, and Hanna is
for Hanna.
The Carnival grounds Indicate that the
lata pleasantness was composed of saw
dust and cQnleWSk
Texaa" ' as
Malnftf 1 d
a ful(M.,f,J Tf-ic fU--
ity Councilman generally has a
thankless job, bat then, most of them are
not looking for thanks.
Mine Owner Coal from Egnlandl I
never figured on that.
"lie has money to burn" Is now
solete. "He has coal to burn" is
modern up-to-date phrase.
ob
the The Dispatch published at Dayton,
Wash., deserves notice in the Tabasco
column, for It is certainly "hot stuff."
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt has Issued
a call to the women of Montana, to stand
up for their rights, but It is only a "cat
call." The Populists are all right, they are
still in the middle of the road, but they
Would not be crowded on the sidewalks of
New York.
Harper's Magazine has started the
Viwy. "Who beheaded Charles I?" Thts
is abollt the liveliest proposition Harper's
ever opened up.
President Baer. of the Reading Rail
road, Is still firmly of the opinion that
Providence Is still firmly on his side of
the coal situation.
The President says application of Re
publican principles will settle the strike.
Now, If the public could see the applica
tion it would be gratified.
The first Issue of the Glendale News
reached The Journal today. It has -room
to grow, but though 'small, it is a credit
to the Infant Industries. '
The hasty messengers struck yesterday
because the manager Insisted on their
wearing red hats. So that this strike Is
against Cardinal principles.
The Tillamook Headlight has a very in
teresting article on the dairy products of
that section under the rather paradoxical
caption "The Cow Is King."
It costs from ten to thirty dollars to
take a dog from New York to Europe. It
looks like a waste of money, when poison
is cheap and clubs abundant.
King Edward's latest photograph shows
that he Is aging rapidly. However, he is
not sensitive, or he would not every day
run up against the sensitive plate.
When Aguinaldo comes out in the open
lo deliver a series of lectures In the Unit
ed States, returned American soldiers
will have a chance to play bolo man.
fit. Louis Is now busy Vcleansing the
city of its political lepers." That's what
the Chronicle calls It, anyway. We
would suggest that the new officials be
given all kinds of serum treatment
The horse of the fashionables now has
long tall. This Is tough on the recent
highly bartered nags with a shoe-brush
caudal, but it Is a stern decree of Fashion
and the bobs must either grow more hair
or go Into retirement.
GET YOUR TICKETS AT THE GATE
It Is stated that the honest tradesmen
who do business within the shadow of
Windsor Castle, as It were, are much
alarmed because King Edward has given
orders that hereafter an admission feo of
2 cents will be charged each person who
visits the castle. The tradespeople pro
fess to believe that this restriction the
cnstle has been free to sightseers hither
towill drive away many visitors and
consequently reduce the amount of their
sales. But this seems to be, a very small
way of looking at the matter. It can
scarcely be possible that any person who
really desires to visit this abode of royalty
will forego the trip because of this paltry
coin. What! turn aside from the inestima
ble opportunity of pressing the floors that
royalties feet have pressed! Forego the
pleasure of looking through Windows that
princely eyes have also used! Miss the!
Wrctiprrs -ami The umbleinKat' royalty's
presence- has made precious! No, Indeed.
Certainly not for the price- of five car
tickets.
Anyway let the pessimistic tradespeople
set their minds easy over those of their
prospective patrons who hail from Amer
ica. They will hear no criticism of King
Kdward's order from them. The American
tourist has come too far to get the
aroma of royalty to be turned aside at
the threshold by the trifling equivalent of
an ordinary tip. Cleveland Plaindealer.
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MEANING OF SARATOGA'S BOOM
As H well known. Hie remarkable fea
tore of the past Bupunef has been the
jrcueea popularity of Baratoga lor a
I . '... t
eraw portion i mew York s fasmonaoiea
and moneyed and "tenderloin" set. The
crowd that "has made the words "a Sara
toga season" tags on a new meaning has
been a motley ert and the revival and
the classes It, has attractt-1 are signifi
cant, . ; , -;; ; 4 .
What does the "rehabilitation of Sara
toga" really mean?' It means that It has
become the Monte Carlo of the United
States, favored by extraordinary legisla
tion, a place unique, for which the State
Oonstltutlon has been violated, laws set
aside, manners and morals blotted out
The kind of Ufa that has been lived here
for the past month. Is the kind of life
tiiat developed In England between the
Restoration and the Revolution. Our mod
em Retsoratlon is more raw than that of
1660. more crude, lacking grace; but, al
together, this old mineral spa, with its
dignified history and ante-bellum tone,
has been turned Into a close American
variation of the Tunbrldge Wells of the
reign of Charles II., when the leaders of
the mode, the .wealthy merchants, the
gentry and the frail and Jilting beauties
brought to it all the luxuries and vices of
London.
Constraint was banished, familiarity
came on short acquaintance, deep play
and intriguing, eating and drinking were
the staple amusements; from craps to
faro, roulette, pontes and slocks there
was nothing you could not lay a wager
on in Saratoga. Great, splenlld agen
cies of Wall street brokerage houses were
established In the best situations; the
curative waters were slighted except as
pick-me-ups after champagne: cafes,
wine stores and shops with the choicest
tobaccos Increased In number and opu
lence; and the small old knick-knack and
souvenir shops looked wonderingly across
the street at radiant new displays of
Broadway and Fifth avenue Jewelers.
Gambling first, then coquetry what
pair of pleasures for hard-headed men of
this time and country! Mind, no names
are named. What are called "Wall street
men," and also merchants who at home
are steady-going enough to suit anyone,
were most conspicuous at each. Every
body plunged, as a recreation, for the
spirit of gambling, which Puritanism laid
low In England previous to that Ttestora
tion before alluded to, then barred from
this new land, has revived and Saratoga
(hasn't New York, too?) epitomized the
facts of It.
All the bearing the whole thing has
would seem to begin and end with what
it reveals about persons who accumulated
themselves their large stores of money.
The triviality of their Interests, the self
Ishness of their alms, the fiat vacuity of
their Idea of living, and the entirely sor
did manner In which they take their holl
days, certainly suggest that wealth Is
not worth while. There Is a good deal
about some modern holders of it that
appeals to the Imagination: you have a
dim vision of past -risk, audacity, force.
Yet to see them outside their work Is to
see them off the stage, disenchanting
'under the eager strain still, but sadly
materialized. The materialism of a mer
cantile democracy is that what the sea
son chiefly called attention to? It re
opened to Inquiry, at all events, the old
question as to whether the stewardship of
wealth means holding it, giving it away,
or blowing It In.
SEEKING THE MYSTICAL.
The hunger displayed by all classes of
people for literature of a mystical or ?r
oterlc. character Is beyond the belief of
anyone not connected with the Bale of
books or periodicals or not in touch with
the work of public libraries throughout
the country. This Includes fortune tell
ing by cards, palmistry, astrology, trie
phenomena of hypnotism, suggestive the
rapeutics, spiritism, mind-readtng, faith
cure, theoaophy, and everything connect
ed with the divining of the future, or the
mystical or occult In mind, matter, or re
ligion. "Many periodicals treating of thso vari
ous subjects are published now In nui.)
languages, and the circulations of some
of them have Increased wonderfully. A
curious phase of the subject la the fact
thnt particular articles in these periodi
cals attract wide attention and are often
quoted and discussed In coteries whien
are not usually supposed to be Interested
In matters beyond th domain of the five
senses. Some of -these magazines In the
Library of Congress have to be kept ut
der lock and are only given out for read
ing to know npersons upon card, because
the temptation to cut or mutilate certain
select portions of the text seem to be
too great for persons of less than ordi
nary will power.
Of course there Is much of this litera
ture of distinct value, especially such is
relates to psycology in any direct or in
direct way. A great deal of It is ethical
and Is of no value as moral Instruction
or teaching. A great deal of It Is ob
scure, and some of it Is almost as unsat
isfactory to the Intelligent reader as a
chapter of Para Cdusus or any of the
old alchemists or searchers after the
elixir of Hfe and tho philosopher's stone.
Even the many volumes devoted to palm
istry may be said to have a ralson d'etre
outside of their mor or less fabled value
as a nleans of divining the future. They
serve, perhaps, to draw attention of peo
ple to their hands and to secure for thom
better care and more cleanliness.
The case which more than all else has
lead to great revival of Interest In this
class of literature is. of course, the won
derful belief In spiritism and the conse
quent deduction that the spirits must
needs know som. thing of the future on
mortals can be dep-.-rded upon In some
vague way to comniunlcate this knowl
edge to the materia world. Some I00K
to tho clairvoyant as the most reliable
source of this supposed ppirlt knowledge
of fhe individual s future; others depend
upon the reader of the cards, the reader
of the palms, or the reader ofthe stars.
But It can all be reduced to one cause
the yearning of man fur Immortality, and
for knowledge of the future years of his
present state. Washington Times.
GREAT GUESSERS IN DEVONSHIRE
At the Tiverton Agricultural Associa
tion, prizes were off red to those who
could give the nearest guess as to the
weight pf a fine Devon bullock. The ani
mal was afterward killed and weighed,
tlx competitors guest-mi the exact weight
at which It turned the scale S5 score 12
pounds. Six others -guessed within half
a pound to a pound, and 15 within two
pounds, of the right yeight. Mot of the
competitors were farmers. Loadon'Dally
Mali. -
A REMARKABLE STORY.
. . . , ...
Ths following remarkable ' statement
was made by United States Senator Ma
son of Illinois, In Chicago ths other day:
"The developments of the last 14 hours
constitute an, open confession af the rob
bery of the state Institutions," said, ho.
His statement was brought out by the
fact that eHnry C. Clasen's salt against
Governor Yates and other state officers
to recover money paid under the S per
cent political assessment of state em.
ployes. had been settled by the refunding
of the money. Mason continued:
"Governor Tates dares not take ' the
witness stand and let me examine him
under oath 15 minutes as to what he has
done with the money thus corruptly tak
en from the state treasury. When the
newspapers charged, nearly a year ago,
that an assessment was being levied on
state employes the Yates administration
denied It. When evidence of tho assess
ment accumulated during the summei
they assumed the air of saying it wns
'nobody's business.' Then Clasen sued
for his money. Three lawyers were hired
to crush him and get his case thrown out
of court, as a sign to the people that
there was nothing in the assessment
charges. Now, rather than let testimony
be taken, and rather than let Yates be
examined under oath, they settled the
case.
"I know what he has done with part of
this money. It was used to corrupt the
primary ballot box Of our party in at
least 40 counties to secure the state con
vention indorsement of Yates and Hop
kins. I have given the names, dates and
places without any denial from the Gov
ernor's appointees, whom I have charged
with thus corruptly polluting the F.epub
lican primary ballot box. Yates says he
knows nothing about It.
"Yates the gentle, the tender, the tear
ful, the pious Yates Is the first Govern
or of Illinois to disgrace the state by di
verting public funds to personal jends.
Contrast his work with that of Senator
Cullom, who, when Governor, took pains
to put a minority member on evtry
state Institution board so as to keep
these institutions out of partisan politics.
Yates has treated the state institutions
as his personal asset. The, only answer
by the Yates gang to the direct and spe
cific charges 1 have made Is that I am
not a Republican.
"I am not permitted by the Republican
committee to speak for the ticket, be
cause I cannot and will not take the
stump and "approve the robbery of tho
dedf and dumb, insane, the blind and
the orphans to make Mr. Hopkins Sena
tor and Mr. Yates Governor. Because I
will not do this, because I believe diver
sion by Yates and his crowd of $trto.tM) of
state funds to affect a convention Is Jurt
as wrong as the theft of a loaf of bread.
I am branded by such men as Lorimcr,
Yates and Hopkins as no longer a Re
publican." 'TWAS A FEARSOME SIGHT.
The .largest Ichthyosarurus were be
tween 30 and 40 feet In length, and oc
curred In considerable numbers in a com
paratively limited area during the i'ouz
period stretching from the upper Ti-ii-.s-slc
and Rhaetlc to the Chalk. Fuslfmm
In shape and some with a long, polntea
snout almost like that of the Gangol'c
dolphin, the head Joined to the body
without a distinct neck, those giant fish
destroyers wera adapted no less for deep
than for shallow water, propelling them
selves by their powerful tails, which had
a vertical fin, and deft in balancing
themselves by strong paddles or tlipper.
In their Irresistible chase after thtir lea
ser neighbors.
In some these paddles were between
five and six feet long, larger In the older,
narrower in the more recent forms, as It
a less purely pelagic habit were indicat
ed. Nor did these reptiles confine their
attacks to fishes, but the smaller mem
bers of their own race were constantly
seized to vary their dietary.
The huge size of their eyes, which, like
those of birds, had a broad ring of bony-
plates round the eyeball, enabled them
to descry their prey afar, to detect It in
the recesses of the dusky depths, in thu
shadows of rocks and stones, or In the
mazes of the seaweed forests.
Once seen, there was small chance of
escape from a foe so swift and so well
armed, for the formidable teeth (without
distinct sockets) were ranged in Jaws
which In some were four feet long. These
great Ichthyosauri fed on the fmnyj
tribes much as the modern toothed
whales how do, and they also had to
come to the surface to breathe. Har
per s.
A SURPRISE FROM SENATOR LODGE
Closing the campaign In Maine lutU Sat
urday, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
a close mend or the President, made a
speech which has not been widely report
ed, and of which the protectionist organs
have had very little to say, for It con
tained a heresy at once alarming and
serious. Mr. Lodge himself usually is for
almost everything that is ultra Republi
can; he has generally stood by protection
as something closely related to religious
gospel, but he distinctly advocated dis
ciplining the Beef Trust by removing the
tariff which entrenches its monopoly. He
does not consider this remedy as fit for
application to all trusts as are not in the
enjoyment of complete monopolies, for the
reason tlmt he .thinks It would hurt the
small competitors worse than the chief
o (lenders, but In such a case as the beef
combination he declared that protection
simply helps it to a position for charging
exorbitant prices.
Senator Lodge in discussing the trust
question thus went a great deal farther
than President Roosevelt has done, for
he proposed a substantial, perfectly feas
ible cure for at least one of the very
worst of the trusts. Perhaps if the Pres
ident keeps on and becomes really earnest
in opposition to such monopoly evils as
he concedes exist, he may acquire the
narve to second-Mr, Lndga'a proposition
but ibis will need more heorlsm than he
has as yet shown either In politics or in
war, for it will virtually, challenge the
trusts to defeat him for the ndmination
of 1904 If they can and the probability Is
that they can. If Mr. Lodge carries his
apparently new conviction to the fl
Congress next winter there will b a
shaking of dry hones and maybe the be
ginning of a much wider division of the
Republican party as represented In Con-
gi ess thqn already exists. Buffalo Cour
tis
TEE NEWPORT SET... , .. '
A . St Paul woman who has returned
from a summer sojournr mtr Eastern, re
sorts and particularly Newport" .where,
through relationship to some prominent
New Yorkers, she had pleasant introduc
tions, recently talked about the "four
hundred" and Henry Watterson s attack
upon them.-" :- ." v-
"Of course. It is true.' she said, "but
It did not do any good and only amused
those it was aimed at.. After meeting
some of those people this summer and
seeing more that I did not mwic, 1 have
come to the conclusion that, they are
much to be pitied; They are so blase, and
jaded and bored that they do the most
absurd and silly things just vO pass the
time and get away from themaalvea.
"Money, even in large quantities. Is no
longer a novelty to them, and rsally, af
ter you have bought everything you want
and given all you can, what good is llT
Those Newport women find much pleas
ure in dress, but if you kn.iw the fa'.U
you would find there is hardly one that is
not dressing needy cousins and niece an1
doing much good with the money as Wnsil
as niueh folly. -
My experience among the 'ew I met ct
that set at Newport Is that they are the
most agreeable persons In the world, with
lovely manners, kind hearts, 'full of hos
pituiity, and yet what Wattersii aid is
true. Hut if Mr. Watterson nad all tho
money he wanted and was bored to death,
he might do some silly things himself.
"Ah for their morals, I think they are
hardly quite as black as he painted them.
Great luxury and unlimited wealth has
never in the history of the World tended
toward strictness In morality, so it would
be utrange if this case Was an exception,
but of course their affairs are more pub
lished than those of any other class, and
we have gotten into ths habit of think
ing them very wicked.
"But there Is a society, even In New
port, which has vome of the old-time con
servatlveness and which Is composed of
delightful people, who regard the "brass
hand'' set with horror.
The other is known us' society strictly
for puo.. cation, but these quiet people
you hear little about, and yet they con
sist of the oldest and best families. They
haven't all got money, either. But blood,
with a capital II, is what counts with
them. Ono of the thief differences I no
ticed between Eastern and Western so
ciety is In the men. The society meji at
Newport that Is the" professional ones,
such as Harry Lehr are well. It would
nut do for me to say. I really believe the.
nicest men muet have come West.
"The men that go out In St. Paul, for
Instance, ure all charming young fellows,
even the very young ones. Rut the danc
ing men In New York are anything but
desirable. They are autocrats; there ar
ho few of them that Society is afraid not
to cater to them, and these young men
will not go where there is uot plenty of
champagne.
"They make themselves very obnoxious,
and ure a brainless set, but what is so
ciety without dancing men?
"The girls are charming, but not of
much account, us the belles are married
women, and It is thought that the Incom
ing fashion of marrying young Is due to
the fact that a girl Is of no importance
unmarried. J It r life really begins with
marriage now that Is, in tho smart let
and the husbands sem singularly free
from Jealousy, owing, perhaps, to the
fact that theV are gay themselves.
"But, take them all In alLtthere are
worse people than these Newporters, even
if they do some silly things, like the Lehr
monkey dinner. That was the climax, and
even the participants are rather ashamed
of that affair."
HAS THE WILL OF WILLIAM PENN
William Penn' Inst will will have a
resting place In Philadelphia hereafter.
It and a )3 timber of other papers, wrt
ten by members of the Penn faml'y, of
historic Interest, were brousht 10 '.his
city Ky J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., who
was back In Philadelphia yesterday after
an automobile trip through Kurope with
his wife, formerly Miss Etbel Jacks.i cf
"Bob White" fame.
Mr. Zimmerman obtained thJ proprie--tor's
will, which Is the original copy of
the Instrument, from Conrad Itanrot of
London, a descendant of a member of
the law firm by which the paper was
draWn.
Muny generations of the Penna, follow
ing William, had as solicitors members
of Mr. Conrad Hanrot's family, and thus
they were, enabled to keep the will and
the other papers in their possession.
The exact date of the major portion of
the will docs not appear. But in an; ad
dition to it, in which William Penn re
lates that he subscribed to the first part
while suffering with a fever, the date
May 27, 1712, Is given.
It appears that certain persona circu
lated a rumor that Penn was not In Ms
right mind when he made the w ill. There
fore, he took occasion to reaffirm his
statements and thank God for restoring
1 irri to health.
Proprietor Penn did not. spell the name
of the commonwealth as we do. At least
he did not object to a notary writing It
"Pensilvanla." That form appears n all
Instances.
His last will was that his territory in
America should be governed according to
the wlsddm of the Earl of OxforJ. 1-Nrl
Mortimer and Will, Earl of Poult)', sub
ject to the Queen's pleasure and for the
benefit of his heirs.
Combined with the testament Is the
testimony of certain persons, made m
1(18, the year cf Penn'e deavh, sett r.
forth that t:vo Ji fcliuscrlpt Is g-jrtultio.
The seal to the will has become de
tached, but It In In Mr. Zimmci mar's
keeping. Philadelphia Press.
JAM FOR BRITISH ARMY.
A curlousfeature of the war has been
the discovery of Jam by the British sol
dier. To Judge from Mr. Broderlck's
printed ealit to A question It! the house
of commons. Jam has leaped from the
rank of a household delicacy to the peti
tion of a military necessity, without
which a campaign can hardly be con
ducted, to success. A total of 34,62,71)2
pounds' of Jam were consumed during the
war by the army, most of It In the eo
onles. It is computed that in the year
1900 alone thirty tralnloads of Jam, at
300 tons to a load, were Bent to' the frort
and that the army consumed more than
half Its weigh,! of jam In that time.
London Express. '
" TONIGHT'S ATTRACTIONS,'
The Marquam "Bachelor's Romance. '
James NeiU' Company. ' .
Cordray's "Thoroughbred Tramp." :
Baker "Lady-Windermere's Fan,"
Nctll Stock Company. -
Fredericksburg Vaudeville.
COMING ATTRACTIONS. .
Marquam "Prince Karl." , Thursday
night the Nsllls. .
"The Starbucks," Neills, for the balance)
of the week.
The Baker "Lady Windermere's Fan,"
Neill Stock Company for the week.,
Cordray's-"A Thoroughbred Tramp,"
balance of the week.
FIRE SUFFERERS' BENEFITS.
6hlelds' Park-Friday night, with a
combination program of special merit,
entire gate receipts to be given to the
Are sufferers.
Marquam OrnniS-TTiegasi-yr September"'
?3d, the James Neill Company and the
Neill Stock Company will present two
plays, Messra Helllg. Neill and Baker
donating the entire box office receipts to
the sufferers from forest fires.
MANAGERS' ANNOUNCEMENTS.
"A BACHELOR'S ROMANCE."
"A Bachelor's Romance," v which the
Neill Company will present at the Mar
qpam Grand Theatre this evening, is an
original play In four acts by Miss Mar
tha Morton. The part of David Holmca.
the literary critic on the Review, in th:s
famous success, was originally playe.l
by Sol Smith Russell. Mr. James Neill.
one qf the handsomest and most'capaN
stars In America, will be seen In tr!s
character In this city. The Neill Oom
pAny has the exclusive right for thi prr
sentation of "A Bachrlor's Romance."
Other characters In the comedy
Gerald Holmes, a pleasure loving man
of the world; Martin Heggs, David's
secretary and confidential man; Hare 11 .'
Reynolds, a reporter on the BUlf of the
Review: Mr. Melberry, an antique lir
ernry man. with a classical education
which he canrot turn Into money ; A r
rhthuld Lytton Savage, 11 modern libr
ary man; Miss Clementine, a maiden lady
with a sharp tongue: Helen hi Grande."
David's slKter. s widow nf Oi world;
Harriet Ijeicaate-r,-- a -Bnclpfy-'-ftlrt; Sal
via. David's ward, anil James, a servant.
The first scene is laid In David's study
In Washington Siuure, in N-w York
City. The second act is at Helen's fash
ionable home, Murray Hill, N. Y. ; the
third act David's study and act fourth
Miss Clementina's home in the country.
"Prince Karl," Richard Mansfield's
comedy success, will uv the bill tomor
row night.
AT THE BAKER.
The fourth performance pf "Lady Win
dermere's Fan" was given last night at
The Bake by the Neill Stock Company,
and the real beauty of the play appears
more apparent after witnessing the sec
ond or third performance. In fact, tt is
almost necessary for the average person
to see the piny for the second time to ba
a.ble to enjoy quickly and without re
straint the various- scenes ami rather
complicated situations. But like many
another superior creation, It Is "per
fectly lovely" after being better under
stood, and no one to whom is given the
quality to appreciate surh things, ever
leaves the Baker Theatre after the play,
but feels as If In some sense he or sha
had been elevated for a time to a higher
plane of thought and a purer sense of
amusement. Everyone remarks about tho
beauty nnd lavish taste In the stage Set
tings, and tho unparalleled Scenery, Thera
Is evidently a scenic artist somewhere In
the background of the Baker Theatre,
whose work has never been excelled and
rarely equaled In any production In Port-,
land.
"A THOROUGHBRED TRAM P."
"A Thoroughbred T.ramp." Is the bill
at Cordray's" tonight and for the bal
ance of the week.
The manager of the company relstPS
the following amusing story of the ex
periences of the tramp on the road:
"While the agent of "A Thoroughbred!
Tramp" Company was changing cars ot
a small Junction In Arkansas last sea
son, he strolled over to a nearby hotel
and sat down on the porch, whloti
proved more inviting than the stuffy lit -
tie- depose -ife- had -hardly -ent "xlown
when the village marshal came out ot
a neighboring barroom." stopped, IcKiked.
up and down tho deserted street, took, a
plug of tobacco . out, cut off a chew,
hitched up his trousers and strolled leis
urely in the direction of the theatrical
man. When directly opposite him he
stopped, leaned up against a pot,
scratched his chin whiskers, and accost
ed the agent:
"Hello, stranger!" "flood mornir.g,
sir," th a sent replied. "Kinder warm."
"Yes, slightly." "Air yeh a drumm-i
"No, sir, I never played In a band.
"Not thet Jtind of a drummer I reck- ni
you all know what I meanthe klna
that sells things." "No, I am not a com
mercial man either," smilingly n
marked the showman. "Wal, what Hlr
yeh?" "I'm with "A Thoroughbred
Tramp." "Oh, yeh air;" the marshal
straightened up, reached out and grasp
ing the agrtU's arm, said: "Jcs you
come with me."
The agent, thinking he -Intended lead
ing him to some spot where he h:nl
cached some raro old Rye 6r Bourbon,
went along willingly enough. About onu
hundred yards from the hotel the mar
shal stopped and pointed to a large tlan
board: "Read thet!" The agent read the
sign aloud. "Notice to tramps Don t
let the sun set on you inside the HmltJ
of this town If you have any further usa
for your miserable lives." "Thet's blm
put thar spressly fer you klne n' people,
an' see thet yeh pay strict 'tention to
it." And tapping his fingors against his
Colts 44, he turned end walked away.
-The agaot followed, but it took 38
minutes explanation'Bpfofe'thB nrarshal--was
made to realize thnt this was a
different kind of a tramp.
Henry Wensler, a war veteran of War.
saw, Ind., has received $125,000 from the
government In payment of accumulated:
pensions. He Is not In a "position to en.
joy his windfall, - however, for he is o(
unsound, mind and has long been Iq
charge of - a guardian appointed by th
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