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1 .THE OREGON DAILY JOTJimAW PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JSVJaayG. MARCII 21, 1903. ... 13 THE lEOFiN s a WTSTTHtMr WIT 1 T"TTT TTT ) AlNUtiNi MAKilNLK For More Than Half a Century He Has Plowed Through Stormy Seas O'er All the World. sti jr wi an Ther li an ancient mariner now In tMa city who hai been a Mi lor for M year. Ho has sailed around Cap Morn mora than a acora of times and has plowed through the choppy waters OS Good Hope on many voyages. Ha has visited (.'very deep water harbor this side of Paradise, and for years has been a friend of the famous "Flying Dutch man." The wanderer's name Is George Smith; at least, that la what his nam has been during- the past half century; he was christened Adolph Leopold Otto Schmidt, but this waa too much for I sailor. Smith's first voyago waa from Namel, Prussia, to Scotland. Ha was IS years old. The trip waa a rough on and he noon became sick of It. Hut having left school to co to sea. he mnde the best; nf a bad job. This first voyage was In 1M7, and wns made on the brig "Han nah." Tortny, his long, white beard makes him look like some church patrl arch Instead of a sailor. But the sea still calls him her son. JEaa Been Many Harbors. 'My boy," began Smdth. "I have been through the mill pretty hard. I've seen vary port th re Is; have been Bhtp- wrecked several times- have been In les that blew the paint off the masts and lieie I urn. I wish to God I'd stayed at school. My first passage was a bad one, but I stayed by the brig. After few short European trips, I shipped for New York. "In the early '50s, I was In the coast ing trade on the China coast. It was dangerous business those days, as I'rates were thick and very desperate. We ofttn had to light our way Into hurbor. I once saw II of the bloody devils hanged In a row at Singapore. They wire captured near that city, tak en ashore and strung up. They were a scared that they had to be held up. while the neckties w$re being put on them. We never had much trouble near Singa pore after that. hlpwraokad Three Times. "Yes, I have been shipwrecked,"' h continued, "and It's no fun, either. Th first -thlp I was on that went down waa the Empress Eugenie in 185R off the Newfoundland banks; all hands were taken off by a passing ship. The other ships sank In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the John Banyan, in 1S71, and the Van Dykr-. In lHiS. the latter occuting within a short distance of the place where the Hunyan went down 14 years before. All hands were saved both times, but, sir, we got awful wet. "I was the last man to leave the John Hunyan. Somehow we got a rope to the shore and fixed a sort of bucket by which the men were hauled to land. The skipper wanted to go first. He said he would manage yie shore end of the line. When he landed he ran inland. I sup pose th poor man waa hungry and didn't give a how we got along." American Ihlps Bast. This Ancient Mariner has sailed In every kind of craft known since the daya of Noah. He has been under flags of every hue and stripe. And thla Is bis verdict on the best on th seas: "I like American shlpo better than any ether. They work the men hard, but they feed 'em. And they make sailor out of farmers, too. A man can get' along In a Yankee ship if he works and behaves himself. I have never been struck on board a ship. If you do as you are told no one will touch you. I hav been everything except skipper and cook, and have kept out of trouble with th captuns. "Boys on board an English ship ar treated too well: on a Uerman vessel they ar worked too hard: Yanke boys work hard but haw a nice time some times." Several tranr Happening- Smith baa been baptised time with out number, but he says a llttl dunk ing Uon't hurt a man. Still, ha h been in the very Jaw of death on sev eral occasions such as he doe not wish to hav repeated. On his first passage across th "herring pond" th whole watch, with th exception of hlmaelf and th captain, were washed over board. The worst gal he ever encoun tered was off the Horn about 26 years aro. Her is the yarn: "1 sailed from Orenby on th Ship San Tona 'bound for Valparaiso. Every thing waa smooth sailing until w re ceived the Cap Horn sea. Then th winds began to blow great guns; the soas rolled aa high a our main royal yard and hug block of lc nor In sight. The storm kept up for aU weeks and during that tlm th captain never took off his clothes. Of our, w started to round the corner under reefei lower topsails, but these were soon car rled away. We then bent other can vas, but every stitch on all th yards was blown off. We wer under bare poles for several daya. At last, a jib was rhrged up to keep us a bit steadier. Yes, we were off th bloomln' Cape for six weeks. I'll never forget that pas sage. "Another time I nearly went to Davy Jones' locker was when I fell off the main yard Into a mess of shark. The captain threw me over a large plank that happened to be on deck, and I crawled onto It before th aa wolves got ma Put they cam awful close. I felt one grab my foot, but all he got waa a boot heel. Ttoay kept awlmming all aroand me and their mouths looked as big as a mainsail. At last I was picked up by th ship's boat. "I was sallmaker of a ship one time that ran out of grub. We had too many people aboard, a crew of a shipwrecked vessel having been picked up. Th pas sage was delayed by calms and soon all the stores were gone. Then w ate anything that could b eaten. A man would fight over a biscuit crumb. After several days of this starvation, we sighted a passing steamer, and got more stores.' Kem embers Xdnoola's Death Smith says that he remembers the time President Lincoln waa assassin ated. He waa in Liverpool at the time. and says that for a couple of weeks af terwards all the ships comttig to that port from America wer searched for accomplices of Booth in this crime. The hero of this yarn tacked Into Paris a few months after the Franco Prussian war. He was spotted as a Uerman and had to get out of the city at a 40-knot speed, or another Mr. Smith would have been playing a golden harp. Th old man of the sea has been In mutinies and typhoon and fever ships. He has sailed from the Arctic Ocean to the Horn and from the Baltic to the Yellow Sea. To him th nor'west winds are the sweetest lunaDya ana tne stars of th Southern sales his best friends. Preferred Stock Canned Oooda. Allen & Lewis' Best Brand. POPULAR WITH THB PEOPLE CORDRAY'S THEATRE JOHN F. CORDRAY, Manager. ONE WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 22 hypnotism; lured two : girls away Brideand Sister Abducted Thro'Strange Power Matinee at 2:15 Tomorrow Evening at 8:15 HISS BOYX.E. Tha Eminent Cerman Comedian CHAS. A. (Karl) GARDNER f In jLlncoln J. Carter's New Sensational Scenic Drama 1 The Darkest ii Brother Accuses Wife's Old Sweet heart of Luring the Young Woman Away . s NEW YORK. March B.-A atranga tale of hypnotism, abduction and deser tion was related to the police yesterday by Benno Behrendt, who saya ha la a broker and who occupies apartments at No. 266 West Ninety-seventh street Behrendt' bride of two months and his year-old deter hav been missing alno Monday, and he declares tney have been hypnotised - and abducted by a former admirer of Mai wife. Not until after ha had spent two days searching for them with the aid of Ave private detective did Behrendt Inform the po lice, and then only when called upon by Central Offloe Detective Lynch. Behrendt was married laat New Year's eve In a romantic fashion. He went with hla bride to Jersey City, where the marriage waa performed. He says hla honeymoon was Ideally happy until he returned home Monday to find hla wife gone and a little later received a message by telephone Informing- him that he would never see bis wife or sis ter again. "When I left my wife Monday she kissed me," said Behrendt yesterday, "tihe waved me a good-bye from the window and watched me out of eight. I'm sure she has been hypnotised by a former lover, who la an ex-convict. She is hypnotised and kept somewhere by this man and I am sure that if I tried to find them I would be killed. "I have not ventured out of door since I discovered my wife was gone. I learned today Just where she waa, but I did not go to find her for fear I would be harmed." For some reason Behrendt at first re fused to tall bis story to any save one newspaper, to which he had confided It early In the day. Wkth representatives of this paper he remained in his apart ments all the afternoon, denying him self to all other callers. Bald Tney Were Coming Soma. He sent down word about the middle ol the afternoon that be had received word that his wife and sister would re turn home within two hours. When they did not come, hla nervousness and anxiety seemed to Increase. When he was finally Induced to appear he showed signs of having passed through a severe mental ordeal. His hair waa rumpled, his eyea were red, his face was unshaven and he wore no collar. He told the story of his fife's disap pearance reluctantly, saying he wished to avoid any further scandal. 'I am sure they are hypnotised." he said, "but a woman detective In my em- play has found them, and they will re turn here Inside of two hours. It will be all right." Asked where the two women were, he said: - "I would hate to have It known where my sister is, on account of the reputa tion of the place." Behrendt was disinclined to talk about himself. He said at first that he had been in New York but a Bhort time. and that he waa an European. Later he said he had lived n New York several years, "off and on." He raid he was a broker, with offices In Nassau street, but refused to say any more about him self. His bride, he said, was a Miss Bailey of Syracuse. 'The night before our marriage." he said, "my wife told me all about this man, who has hpnotic power, and who Is an ex-convict. I understood the whole story. After we were married we came here to live, and my sister Viola, who IP. came to live with us. Mv wife waa exceedingly fond of her. Now they have disappeared together. I waited here at home for hours, thinking they would return, and then I was called on the telephone and a male voice told mo I would not see my wife or sister again. That made me frantic and I tried to find out where they were. I employed five detectives to search for them. They were located today, and I expect them home at any moment. ''I mean to pursue this man who has abducted them to the last, even if I have to go to jail for It. My wife and sister are being held by force." MARQUAM GRAND THEATRE CAL.VIN KlLja, Manactr, THREE NIQHTS, COMMENCINQ MONDAY, MARCH 23. . It .. Asrr- UJ hps : WLz4Wl il mm- Lat ilme of tht sreatoat play of thl generation, presented by the original Louise. Dig company. Including Gthelyn Palmer. Sumptuous Scenic Production. K rmiCI Sntlr arqatt $lMi. Beats ar sow selling nttr rarauatta Oirol tlM. Carriage at 10 iM o'oloek. Balooay, flrat raw T5o laat row BO. OaUery SSo and M. Boas and zga flOOO. Hour A POWERFUL DRAMATIC STORY MAGNIFICENTLY STAGED BEAUTIFUL SPECIAL SCENERY A PLAY THAT THRILLS SEE-The Fight in the Dark; The Disappear ing Train, and the Grand Electrical Finale SunsetThe Acme of Stage Realism Special Matinee Saturday P BICES EVEWriTGB, SSo and 600. Or THB HOUSE. MATINEES, 0 So TO CBTLDBEB-, 100. AMY VAT I Next Attraction -THE PATAU WEDDINQ India and the United State. In 1902 India exported roods worth $403,000,000 and imported goods worth $264,000,000. The United States bought from India last year goods valued at $48,421,218 and old to India goods valued at only $4, a,876. India's leading import is cotton goods, of which she buys about $100,000,000 worth a year. India's leading Items of yearly export are: Grain, $00,000,000; seed for making oil, $30,000,000; raw cotton, $,000,000; jute and its manufactures, $50,000,000; cotton, yarn and cloth, $30,000,000; hides and skins, $25,000,000; opium, $25,000,000; indigo, $6,000,000; tea, $25,000,000; coffee, $4,000,000. India's area Is a little more than one half that of the United States. India's population Is 300.000,000 one fifth of all the people In the world. The trade of India with the-world baa Increased eightfold since 1840. Great Britain at present has two-fifths of It. United States' trade with India will be Immensely Increased by the cutting of the Panama Canal. At present our chdef export to India Is mineral oil, of which we sold her $1 -500,000 worth last year. MARCH 27-28 Friday and Saturday MATINEE SATURDAY 11 inli& F BOOK BY HARRY 8. SMITH Marquam Theatre w ii in, PRESENTED IN BURLESQUE, BY MARCH 27-28 Friday and Saturday MATINEE SATURDAY IZARP E WILE MUSIC BY VICTOR HERBERT M ultnomah Amateur Athletic Club .4 TWO NIGHTS AND A MATINEE sxKzcnov or b. d. allxit THE PRINCIPALS Kibosh, th Wizard ....BOB McCRACKEN King Ptol&.... GEORGE EASTMJW Queen Simeona LOUIS BRUCE Princets Cleopatra LOU GERLINGER Cheops STUART McGUIRE Ptarmigan NICK ZJiN Jtbydos ED WARNOCK Obtliska SAM JORDAN Netocrls -RUSH DRAKE Myrta - HARRY GAYLORD Famous Opera j& Spectacular Production New Scenery j& Striking Costumes 100 Male Voices 14 Boy Sopranos and Altos 12 Ballet Dancers- Original Costumes Orchestra of 20 Pieces CEOBTTS DBXbUSD BT W. E. BOTZB F BIB GI7a, LB TBAXBZD BT WTT.IiT,f BXBVABD, OF TXB BiUBT INBTBTJOTID BT BOBS BVCKXBMXTBB CO. v.n fX3 O . - Boxes and loges, $9.00; lower floor and first six rows of balcony, ft.OO; last tlx rowt of balcony, 75c; gauy330- r IXlVsE'O and 25c. Coupon tickets redeemable one day before regular box office opening. Now on sale at Club, B. B.JCtant, Schiller's, Levy & Kolinsky's cigar stores, Atdrlch Pharmacy and M. Slchel. If (OUT i ma mm Residents Make Improve ments to Farms, PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY, Jeremiah Barnhart of Pendleton, whose liabilities are J 12,000. and Nathan H Sams of Milton, against whom creditors are clamoring- for f 1,107, hava flled peti tions In bankruptcy In the Federal Court. Waks Ton. A new calling device la belne intro duced In hotels, where g-uests require to be awakened at special times to catch more or less early trains. A clock Is act up In the office and la so constructed that it can be made to give a calling1 ring In any room at any time; it can " be set to the required times, and it will do It duty faithfully, without over sleeping Itself, aa porters and others sometimes do.' Tour wife will aoDreolate Monooola Try It , Whit Newcomers Arc Being Of fered in the Way of. Investments. (Staff Correspondence.) EUGENE, Ore.. March 20. Lane County haS an area of 2,784,760 acre, of which 126,000 are under cultivation. Of the remainder, a vast extent is arable, and there Is an enormous quan tity of land ion which stands 28,000, 0p0. 000 feet of timber. Production In the county during- 1902 waa: . Wheat, bushels Oata, bushels Barley and rye, bushels ...... Corn, bushels Hay, tons Potatoes, bushels Butter and cheese, pounda . . Hops, pounds Apples, bushels Pears, bushels . Prunes, bushels Lumber, feet . . Wool, pounda . Gold dUBt 7i 0,000 . 625.000 28,000 25,000 102,000 260,000 690,009 1,200,000 300,000 ?n ono 75,00 .145.Ouu.uuo 165,000 $200,000 Were one to assert "-that Lane County is aa large as the Willamette Valley, the assertion would seem at first blush, to the uninformed, extravagant. Yet the county runs 150 miles inland from th Pacific Ocean to the summit of the Cas- cade mountains, and -extends 60 miles from north to south, averaging 50 mllea, including the upper end or the Willam ette Valley and the greater part of the Umpqua Valley, the second largest val ley in Western Oregon. This constitutes an area of 7, Willamette 7 1 CgVII. AU. VUUBVliyiH square miles, .find the .a muoa If any larger. It I 123 miles via rail from Eugene to Portland, which represents almost precisely the Willamette Valley's length. The latter has approximately 9,000 square mllea. The VoasiblUtUa. When one considers that, from all this Imperial possibility, only $6,281,021 ap pears upon the assessor's books as the 1902 valuation of property of all kinds, the conclusion Is Irresistible that the more than 50 years of settlement here have sufficed only to Induce a trifle of exploration. , When one comes here, sees the re newal of life, the stir of industry, the plans for the future, the things already actually accomplished In the renaissance of Lane County activity, he concludes that the course of events is towards better things for this part of the valley. A general observation in a previous letter was that the Willamette- valley needs paint. The observation applies to Lane County, although not to Eugene. Kugene ia bright, up-to-date, and Is sub ject to few if any adverse criticisms. So, were one to go through Lane County, as would be the case In the other valley oountles, he would well supply himself with a bucket of red paint and go swashing it onto barns and buildings that were not even painted when the carpenter originally finished his work. Hiding along the country roads the other day with John P. Jones, the Southern Pacific traveling passenger agent, the paint habit was witnessed In Its Incipient stages. Th Teno Corner. Not only doe one see the farmer's son plying the paint brush, and' experience Joy in seeing It, but he also notices that the Lane County farmer begins to "sweep the corners and under the -bed." His fence corners are looking as though he had achieved the conclusion that he owes something to the esthetic" j' sense, and that it Is his duty to rememtpr that people who ride along the country road enjoy their Journey much more if they pass farms that look spick and span. And. too, he knows incidentally that if one of the country-road riders chances to be a home-seeker, he will be more apt to buy that farm If It presents a cleap, well kept appearance. "See that fence corner." said Mr. Jones. "I have passed It during many years and groaned at the appearance. Now, as you see, It Is good enough for a city lawn on a corner." Judging from what I have learned during the past few days, that same John P. Jones Is' doing much to induce the better conditions. Lane County thanks to the oncoming boom 1 ordering her Easter bonnet, and' proposes to send not to some vil lage mUllnar but to gay Paris for a really, truly "creation," for Lane County has determined to be ready for the army of homeseekers. What th County Offers. What does Lane County offer to the homeseeker? An empire of 7,000 square miles more than Is ruled by many a European prince In which are lumbering, live stock, farming, dairying, fruit raising, mining and the other incidental Indus tries. Agricultural land range in value from $8 to $60. A year ago, the range was $5 to $35, acoordlng to some litera ture gotten out by the Eugene Immigra tion Committee. Farm lands are advanc ing In price; advancing too rapidly to suit the future good of the county. Over - capitalisation ia exactly what drives Eastern people to the Pacific Coast, though some well-to-do people come who have lots of money and can aford to pay any price. But this up ward tendency is natural and cannot bo checked. And, during the ensuing five years, there is bound to be a regulation boom in the Lane County part of the valley. The homeseeker finds a range of op portunity in this county that enables him to find what suits him somewhere from salt water on the west to the mountains on the east. J. E. L. T HAYWOOD CLUB BEGINS BUILDING Work on the foundation for the Hay wood Club's new building opposite the postoffice at University Park has been completed and work on the. upper struc ture will begin at once. The new building will be 46 feet 'In, length and 72 feet In width. It will con sist of two stories, the upper fl,oor be ing finished for entertainments and dances and the lower section divided Into store rooms. The upper floor will be ; beautifully furnished and will have a gallery with sufficient space to seat 150 people. The main floor will also be fitted up In fine style and the hall will have a capacity for about 500 people. The entire building will coet, when completed, about $4,000, and will be foimullj dedicated by th Haywood Club by presenting the delightful operetta, "The Haymakers," on the evening of June L ' sar ikta jtoiivoxn -jmxn hojj x(i v iao no (hit xsvja iv.nH.ior iuva noduuo hhx asa BROOKLYN WANTS SEWER DISTRICT Brooklyn residents ar clamoring 4ut a new aeweraga dlatifct for 11m f nttr. of the city. The demand baa become gaMrakaaft It is quite likely that a m41nj of t)) residents of the vicinity will be fcaV l , uie near future to awaken pubiia to terest , in the project, , The entire Brooklyn district la now) without Bewerage facilities of any kind and In consequence, that eotion of th city has more sickness per reaktett than any portion within the oity1 Um Its. Residents of Brooklyn have ban trying- for some time to get th ctfy authorities to look Into th matter and. . devise some plan for a new sewec dla trlct without making the coat of coa-r struction too expensive. The Brooklyn district embrace all that portion of the city lying between the raver, East Twentieth, Powell atreet and the Crematorium. Th district la fairly well populated and la making? some wonderful stride in growth at thai present time. As soon aa the Oregon ; Water Power , & Hallway Company oa - -structs its new car shop at the edge of the district that section of th city; trill receive additional growth. QUARIES TO BE INSPECTED The Council committee who hav In charge the rock crushing plant, met . yesterday afternoon. ' The principal business before the commute was the:, consideration of a suitable location for . a quarry. Rumelln reported that there -was little or no difficulty in obtaining a quarry, but. there might be aom dlffl- . culty experienced In getting Just th right kind. ' - r The owner of quarrie at Weber ; Butte, Marquam Qulch, Bt Helen' Road, Bunker Hill on the Columbia River. Oswego, and other localities, deair to have their properties inspected by th committee. ' ' It was especially recommended that no quarry be considered upon th merits of lta sample alone, and that a personal visit to , th properties b th only method of Judging. . A representative '. of the O. R. A K. appeared and expressed a dnstr to hav th commute Inspect a quarry which la situated along his company's line I near this city. Thl was agreed t and i on next Tuesday at t a. m. th Junkst I will b made, . ,- r
