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Eiflitotial: Page, of lEo . Joiiiiiml "1 PORTLAND, OREGON ' 1 UESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1904 THE OREGON DAILY c tv Jackson Published every evening (except OFFICIAL. WHERE ART THOU, 'V IS HIGH TIME that the' Hon. ' Roseburg got a tracer to work to vrndt anil vnnH frin1 nf rhft f)rfironlan is bettilinlnB- uv throw the harpoon Into his tender carcass. Whence, where and whither this sudden spasm of militant virtue ' that now shrieks In high falsetto and mourns became it , flada it not In others? Whither are vie drifting and can .such things be, permitted to overcome us like a summer ..shower? . , It Is but a few brief months since mann, thence newly segregated through the violent ef forts' of the president himself from of the general land office at Washington, cast about for va vindication" at the hands of his beloved constituents In Oregon. The secretary of the Interior made no super v.- human effort to conceal the fact had been forcibly ejected from a job which gave him opportunities of whieh the' Hon. : Binger appeared to have . Industriously and enthusiastically taken advantage. He , got the nomination for congress. With tense of superior virtue which has always characterised the Oregonlan Its editorial columns were kept free of any " thing commendatory of Hermann, but the' other columns fairly boomed him. Then was perpetrated the trick to .which Hermann owed his election. That was the no torious Instance in which v the president of the United , .States and the Hon. Binger Hermann were represented standing on the rear end of a Pullman car In terms of ..hilarious amity, it Is now known that an Oregonlan pho tographer had been waiting for hours for this very mo v ment which had been cleverly prearranged without the ' knowledge' of the president, and once the photograph was '"procured it was reproduced under stunning headlines in f the Oregonlan and scattered broadcast through the dis trict This circumstance more than any other led to Her mann's election. t , ., . But now the Oregonlan is beginning' to rip open 'old sores. " In Us good old pharasalcal wayit is at work to show that the Hon, Binger was never all right; that he - left his Washington job under a cloud; that he had stood ; In with the land thieves; that it (the Oregonlan) had done its full duty in exposing evil doers, while some per son whom it will not name further than by designating - him as Binger Hermann of Roseburg, congressman from ( Oregon, had signally failed to do his duty. J Anybody who can tell the difference between a hawk ' and a handsaw can see there's a hen on in the Tall Tower. Binger Hermann has fallen outside the pale, of the sen atorial calculations. He no longer dovetails with the situ-, alion. He may have' been all right last spring and sum !mer, but he is no longer all right now, even though he has the same old odiferous record to go on. I . It is for this reason that we suggest to the Hon.' Binger . Hermann of Roseburg to get out a tracer and locate .Mm-1 self before his job. s, pre-empted by a handsomer man. i SOME PRACTICAL THOUGHTS HE CITT OFFICIALS seem; disposed to And fault with the property owners for streets, and the attitude of ference of the taxpayers which at. times is apparent'. A ; little introspection and reflection would, perhaps, shed some light on this Question, This city assumed a metro politan position so far as trade and commerce la con cerned many years ago. During those years vast sums of money in the aggregate have been spent en the streets. After all these years and after all this money has been i spent, how many streets on either side of the river are in good order or kept in a clean condition?, , The causes for this barren result are not far to seek nor, in the light of the past, Is it a matter for surprise that the property holder, is both suspicious and pessimistic . when the street question Is mentioned. In the first place , there has never been any general scheme or plan for street . improvement adopted. Without this we shall always go on In a hit or miss fashion. Different conditions, physical , and otherwise, the uses and purposes of a street, all enter , into the problem of fixing the particular character of pavement required. Streets when improved have not been maintained or kept in repair. A main artery of travel would be paved and Instantly all the traffic would rush to it, no attention would be given to the maintenance and in a few months lit would be ruined and the property j owners be out both street and money. -The street railways have in many ways discouraged , good pavements on those streets on which their rails are laid. The attempts of the property holders for years to" maintain good pavements on Morrison, Third and First streets are still fresh in the memory of every citizen. In t some respects they are doing better now, but for corpora tions which have secured invaluable privileges from the people of this city at but trivial cost, they at times show 'a woeful lack of appreciation for favors granted. A re cent instance will illustrate this. A movement- was started to improve Twenty-third street. For a good pavement a proper rail is required. Many of the property holders desired to Improve, but it is said the railway lorn . pany operating on this street opposed it because a new track would have to be laid. Now it muBt be conceded there . vi 111 have to be some streets leading to the fair grounds that can be used without producing dislocation of bones or breaking carriages. Twenty-third street is a disgrace to the city as It Is. Twenty-fourth street cannot be used ;ns the council or executive board or somebody or tome r thing has turned it over to the tender mercies of a trac , tion engine from Lovejoy street north until now it Is an .vubomlnation and every crosswalk covered with mud ankle deep, notwithstanding the contractor gave a $1,000 bond nd was to keep the crosswalks clean. Ask any resident of that Btreet or any west of It, what they think of city authorities .who would permit this outrage, or how they look on furnishing more money for street improvements under the present dispensation and they will soon learn why objection is made to throwing money to the dogs, or spending it in so-called improvements. '' It, must be accepted as a fact, owing to climatic and .physical conditions, that good pavements are an im perative necessity. There' should, therefore, be adopted at once some general plan for improvement, some plan that would take into consideration the uses of the par-ticular-'street. Specifications for various kinds of pave ment should be prepared by a killed road builder and should be strictly insisted on. -Once beget confidence in ,. the property holders that they are going to get something for their money and that it wlll be taken care of and there will be no trouble about streets. The burnt child dreads the fire.' The park board, although composed of men of fine attainments'-professionally and otherwise, did not hesitate to take advice , from a high-class landscape gardener. , A prominent citizen of the city, now building a handsome residence, although a student of such matters1 A TOTVrjLM BOAKSXarCr KOTIS. From the New York Pre?. . " A Virginia woman has made her bpard inglumee in this city highly popular with tild-fsRliloned corn pone, A little meal, a little water, a little salt; that's all AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER' ' ' PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO." Sunday) at The Journal Building. Fifth PAPER OP THE CITY OF BINGER? Binger Hermann of locaO himself. His dare it hesitate?. about street vorlc, general. It may be will not do here at holders petition for should be pointed . AC-' the Hon. Binge! Her knowledge of street the commissionership distance of permanently good streets. that the Hon. Binger MUNICIPAL yy?'m . that imposing pre' breakers who are way of putting up land. ' jand.l.he pregonlari; Saloons, gambling plete shutting out great and good end; Oti STREETS product in the gambling line. the condition of the opposition and indif TRYING TO HROUGH the If imitation is the has every reason to of its makeup and Its boiler ; plate Shadow. These Shadow emerges of these mechanical the spirit, the mish are merely the outward expression. vIt is next to impos The meal of the south Is ground in the water mill, slowly and exceeding fine. When sifted and wet It sticks' together Jn a compact mass, and Is a beautiful bread when cooked. Northern meal is klln-drled and granulated; to induce It to form into pones it is necessary to mix JOURNAL JNO. F. CARROLL and Yamhill streets, Portland, Oregon. PORTLAND and an architect by education, employed a landscape gardener to advise him respecting the laying out of his grounds.. Why then should the city hesitate to get the best advice- where millions are to be spent? Nay, how The average citizen knows but-little although he may have good Ideas in that a pavement good In other places all and the fact that a majority of lot it will not make it good. Their error out, and the pavement not laid to let tx perlence teach them. A man with a little savolr falre, and paving, who could talk to tile property owners when the questions arise would, at the present time, be a blessing. Then if the feeling that it ought to be the "other' fellows' street which should be improved this time'' were eliminated, we should be in measurable OWNERSHIP OF NECESSITIES .. . only. --v- HAT "Grand 01d Man of Oregon," Mayor Williams, announces that we are to have a close corporation composed of the municipal government of this city, and the gamblers and saloon keepers who belong to the highly privileged class of "old residents" and law already broken to the new and Curious or shutting up which prevails in Port The mayor's announcement that he has set his foot upon the proposal to allow outsiders to come in and share the good things provided only for the citizens of Portland is made with aa much Impressive strenuousness as was his announcement so often quoted by the Oregonlan, that he would not be "swayed from his judgment by popular clamor or newspaper criticism." The fact that he never had any Judgment of his own in this case doesn't matter at all. His lack of judgment is ably remedied by the ex cellent judgment of the gambling element, ward politicians each outvying the other in deft flat teries and suggestions skillfully made to appear to the mayor as his own "judgment." Almost simultaneously with this announcement of the mayor comes the announcement ' of the Oregonlan that it advocates municipal ownership , of absolute necessities only." '''' . ; '' s . Now we are getting at the real inwardness of things. The citizens of Portland will soon be thoroughly awake to the- great obligation they owe to the Gambling-Municipal -Oregonlaft combine. , ' : . " houses, and other "places of chaste entertainment for the youth and, beautly of Portland are an absolute necessity; private citizens 'cannot supply themselves without great loss and Inconvenience. The possession of opinion forming newspapers, the ownership of the officials of the municipal government and the com of foreign competition ail point to one that of providing the- people of -Port J land with the strictly home-grown, first-class Portland The great struggle of the sublime forces' of immorality is reaching a triumphant end..5 ' The war cry la "public saloons and gambling houses a public trust." The encour agement of local talent and fhe fostering of home in dustries the great aim; and the reward will be to the saloon men and gamblers, the privilege of breaking the laws peacefully and quietly, unmolested by foreign com petition or domestic Interference; for the municipal of ficials the . satisfied conscience of - men who have con tinually and contemptuously snapped their, fingers in the face of the general public, and conscientiously lived up to their oaths of office to uphold lawbreakers "whenever and so long as It should prove profitable and safe, to do so; for the Oregonlan the glowlrf self "saTlsfactldndver ' the help rendered Infant Industries and the assistance given in in stalling injustice upon the throne of broken law and the bringing of disgrace, despair and ruin into many homes of this fair city through the greater facilities for the cor ruption of its youth. ' GRAB THE WATER FUND. manner in which the Issue Is being raised between the city council and the water board there Is danger that the public will grasp the shadow and lose the substance of the controversy. Ostensibly the question at issue is whether the executive or Jhe water board shall attach the fire hydrants to the mains. If this included everything involved, the contro versy would soon be settled. But the heart of the issue is something very different Indeed, for It involves an indirect attempt to divert the money received from water rates to other than the legitimate purposes for which it waa-4n tended and for which it should be spent. Today it. is for hydrants, tomorrow it will be for some thing else and, once the entering wedge Is forced, the line of demarkation between the. water fund and the other city funds will rapidly disappear. The policy of the water board has always been to keep within Its income, to ex tend its mains, to furnish an adequate supply of water and, as fast as possible, to reduce the rates. It Is" mani festly unjust and unbusinesslike to divert this money to other city purposes and thus prevent any reduction of rates, and on the' other hand, to force the user of water to pay for that which is justly chargeable to the property owner. This will be the inevitable result if the practice is ever established of making other funds whole through taking from the water, fund the money which legitimately belongs to it. ' , slncerest flattery surely The Journal be gratified over the slavish imitation mechanical methods which Is shown in contemporary, the Oregonlau's Evening methods have proven so popular in The Journal, they have been so generally accepted as evidence of modern enterprise and progresslveness, that the long enough from Its shell to grab some ideas but not long enough to absorb and the ciulver of life of which thov sible for the klndergartners to get a horizontal view of things so far beyond their intellectual bailiwick. Senator Hanna died last evening at 6.40 o'clock p, m Washington time, or 8:40 o'clock p. m Portland time-. So prompt is The Journal's telegraphic service that the an nouncement of his death went 4nto the regular city edition and was being sold on the streets of Portland before any ether Portland newspaper was aware of his death. The day has gone by when live people are willing to wait for startling news until it comes by slow freight Fortunately they no longer have to dd' so since The Journal came to town. - ','':.: - -.'... ,:f -i V'' ... . . .:- flour with it It is not fit to eat before or after mixing it . Our Virginian orders her meal by the ton from the mill that clicked on her .father's plantation when she was a child. There is no dyspepsia In that sort. You can't buy it in New lorn; no use trying. Vast Railroad Plans : During the present decade more than a billion dollars will be spent in build ing ; - transcontinental - railroads, writes Alexander .Hume Ford In the February iHsue oi tne interior!. lie says that Russia has just com pleted the longest railroad in the world, and that It contemplates building at least two otner lines across Asia. Aus tralia la financing a transtsland railroad. Europe- Is projecting several such lines, while In America has been organise a company which Intends to build a rail road through. Alaska to connect with the Siberian railroad. '.. i'.';:: iKsi?: In South America a continental road has been completed, and-others are be ing constructed. Canada is pushing two lines across the continent - In May a through train will be nut on between Paris and Peking -a journey of s.wuo mues, , occupying 17 .days. other railways in process of construction will add 1,600 miles to the line, extending it to Hong Kong, and .eventually the rails will be extended southward . to Sing apore,, at the extreme southern end of yie Malay peninsula. A ; If present plans are worked out, It will be possible in the future to take a train in Chicago for St Petersburg, Ber tin and Paris wittinut nhanfr This scheme, seems a .Wild one, but not aa wild- as the realised dream of the Siberian railroad would have seemed S9 years ago, , - . Engineers have pronounced ' the Alas kan: railroad feasible, though expensive, Part of the scheme is to have giant ferry boats on Behring straits to carry whole trains, passenger' . and rf relent, across the 40 miles of water that sep arates Asia and the American continent Connection ' would then be made .with the proposed branch of the Siberian rail road, . '. " ; " Russia, still leading In railroad pro jects, , has planned another trans-Asian railroad from east to west keeping near the tropics. Other lines are planned from north to south. Eventually the railroad systems of Russia and India will be connected. v:' The writer says: "The one other trans-Asian railway project Is largely in the hands of Germany, .' It contem plates a southern route from the cap itals of Europe to the far east The German r railway - concession In Turkey has its beginning at Constantinople. The railway now ending at Konea in Asia Minor is to be extended to the head of the Persian gulf via Bagdad. There has been some talk of carrying the rail way on to India, but' the expense of con XSXDOB BAYVEB. A Jewish Estimate of the Lately Sleeted Maryland Senator. Jacob Voorsanger in Emanuel. The elevation of the Hon. Isldor Ray- ner to a seat in the United 8tates sen ate, confers a merited distinction upen one of Maryland's most eminent ctl tens, and is a source of gratification to the people from whose loins he cams forth, and with whom, to a considerable degree, he is still Identified. The political press has fully ex ploited the career of this distinguished American, but we may amplify the data heretofore published by a few family facts. Isldor Ray ner Is the eldest son of the late William B. Rayner of Bal timore, In his time Parnass of the Har Sinai Congregation and one of the most pious Jews of his community. William Rayner was closely identified with every Jewish enterprise. Before the reform days he read the Muasaph prayers on Rosh Ha'Shanah ' and Klppur to the congregation, being a Ben Torali, ; wek versed in the ritual and Jewish learning generally. He was not only a pious, but an eminently Just man. Two years' De fore his death, having earned -a com petence, he assembled his four children, and sensible of the approach of old age and the wisdom of rest, he divided his property among them, reserving on fifth for himself. ' One of4ils daughters. Bertha, afterwards thewlfe-Of DtS L. Frank of Baltimore, became and is at the present time one of the most phil anthropic women In the country. With such a family record, backed by his own sterling merits, Senator Rayno. will doubtless reflect great honor upon the people who are proud to own him; for. Just as the dishonor of any Jew falls to some degree upon all his co religionists that being the justice that stupid prejudice metea but to usso. In a far superior degree, may we rejoice when one of our blood attains to justly earned honors, and promises to develop into a statesman of distinction. Ana surely the past-record of this remark able") man justifies the prediction that he will add to his already numerous lauresl and shine in the highest forum of the world with a luster eclipsed by no con temporary rorce. The election of Senator Rayner brings to the senate the fifth Jew who ever sat in that august body. His predecessors were Yulee of Flordla, Judah P. Ben-Jamln-of North - Carolina, -Benjamin Franklin Jonas of Louisiana and Joseph Simon of Oregon. In the house of rep resentatives Jews have occupied seats almost continuously. Dr. .Voorsanger might have added that In every Instance except that or Joseph Simon they were from the south and Democrats. ihb arxpKBW'8 nAimxS7 tx.ua. There is sadness In the tower, there is weeping in the loft. Grief is scattered everywhere around the shop; The tiles of the dear nephews are in elegantly doried As they cry, "Dear Uncle, .won't you max? em stopr "We're doln' everything we can to keep the thing afloat. Conscious that we are no longer on the top, ; And we hate to feel the fingers of those people on our throat; Oh, uncle, won't you try to make 'em stop? ' , "They're a scoopin' lot of fellows we have realised that truth--And aa peas upon a griddle make -us V hon. r' hop. And now as you have loved us through babyhood and youth, We pray of you, kind uncle, make 'em ; stop. , ; "They git us on their war news and on local stuff as well, Of affairs of state they always have a crop; ' i How In Samuel fetch they do it, it's impossible to tell, ' And It grieves us. Uncle, won't you make 'em stop? , "Olv we're weary, were heartbroken; in anition holds us fast; , , In ouc tracks we feel that we're about to drop. .. The bouncing, bounding Journal has us on the hip at last; ' -8ay, uncle, won't you try to make 'em t0PT" ' 'V' " : Vever Bains Bat It fours. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lake Michigan is. still frosen from shore to i shore, and the Chicago ice companies are wringing their hands bo- 4 cause the ice is toe thick to cut. ' for Coming Years struction through tropical, barren, souta Persia will probably prevent private en terprise attempting this feat although it eeemsi probable that. England may combine with Germany to finance such an undertaking as a check to Russia, giving , European J merchants a direct overland route to India other than Hiobo projected through the czar's domains. "But after all, however 'Russia is the only country 1 that spends money like water pullding seemingly hopeless trans Asian railways, and, as by treaty With Persia, .no other country can for the present, lay any railway on Persian soil without Russia's consent she has prac tlcally checkmated .her rivals, . while quietly preparing the highways and northern caravan routes to India for the laying of rails and crosstles." Speaking of an American project, the writer says: :tv;vp .'.'-' :' -''t.wv;: c "The greatest Intercontinental project now , before the world is the proposed 10,000 mile railway from New York to uuenos Ayres..: ? Andrew Carnegie, has subscribed liberally towaro the prelim Inary survey fund, and promises to aid in financing the' entire scheme. Fully nail the mileage may be said to be com pleted in existing lines, but there still remains a 6.000-mlle gap between south ern Mexico and northern Argentina. This Pan-American - railway : will ' cost some 1260,000,000 to' complete, and for hundreds of - miles will be above the clouds, in many places traversing passes in the Andes higher than the summit of Mount Blanc." Of the, railroad "building situation in the United States the author writes: "While no new - transcontinental rail ways are projected for immediate con struction across the united States, we shall probably spend as much money in the next decade in the rebuilding of our present systems aa will Canada on all her railway projects. The ' Pennsyl vanla. Union PacHlo, and Southern ,Pa? cltic railway companies are spending millions annually straightening their lines,, building tunnels, and reducing grades, the most optimistic prophesying that within a few years at most when these Improvements are completed, we shall be whisked across the continent from New York to San Francisco within three or three and a half days." In the not far distant future-it may be possible to go from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope by an all-rail route. Not content with these great projects. the plan to tunnel under the British channel is being revived. Advice to the Lovelorn ' BY BZATUCS lAISrAZ. Portland. Or., Feb, 12. Dear - Miss Fairfax: I am a young man, 21 years of age, of well-to-do eastern family, and so I- will take the liberty to ask you for a little advice. ; I wish to become acquainted with a respectable young lady, and I do- not know Just how to go at It. I suppose I could get acquainted if I attend the dances, but I am not so inclined. ANXIOUS G. S. D. : AH y ou.h a ve . t O- do - la to -keep your eyes open and your opportunity will come. . DUlard, Or., Feb., I. My Dear Miss Kairrax: ' Noticing your valuable ad vice to lovers in distress I have decided to seek your aid In my trouble. I am very much in lave with a lady wno is mucn my senior. But as I love her so dearly I have every reason to be lleve we would be happy together. Last evening we were out boat riding ana i too tne opportunity to nroDoee. As I was anxiously awaiting her answer the boat struck a rock and tipped over, my feet got tangled in a rope and I was unable to assist her in getting to Bhore. When I got the boat righted and balled out I went to look for her I found her in-a-flt-otrage. She- refused to have anything to do with me, and called me a big, lubberly kid, and a coward, wlih out any manly principles at all, and she would have nothing more to do with me. I want to make, up wtttt ner and try to regain her affections, but she ignores me. I am 20 and she is 33, but I am sure we would be happy If she would only be my wife. What would you ad vise. . , J. H. S. It Is not to be expected 'that a woman of 83 will be satisfied with the love and counsel of a man of 20. Yours Is a "lost cause." Don t pursue it further. No good 'can come of it , ' Dear Mlsa Fairfax I am a young lady of 18. The latter part or September I met a gentleman of about 22. ' I liked him from the first and having seen a great deal of him find that I have grown to love him with all my heart I have looked at the matter in every way and know it is not a mere fancy, ' Now, the question is, now could I let him know 1 care for hint without being In the least way unladylike. I do not know if he loves me or not, but feel sure from his manner toward me that he values my company more than common frlendshln. I think that if he knew I loved him it would make a great deal of difference in his feelings toward me, , Pleaae give me your advice. u. S. M. Do; not make any advances, for if you .do he may take to flight If he shows a preference for you that is am pie to encourage you to further Interest in him. Even in love matters the re ciprocal prtnclnje Is the best to depend on. Too much effort or display on the one side or the other may bring about a contrary result to that desired. The average man appreciates shyness, back wardness, delicacy, refinement in the woman that he has regard for. The for ward, bola woman only attracts the bashful, hesitating, Inexperienced male. We all usually regard that most which we have the least of., .' . JAPAB'S XZBOXABTT niXT. ' '. The growth of Japan's navy is no more wonderful than that of its mer chant fleet Up to 1870 there was none, If we except a few coastwise trading Junks. In 1892 there were 214,000 tons of modern shipping. ; That hss increased in, 10 years to m,000 tons in 1902, and the Japanese merchant fleet 'is soon to take, If it , Has n,ot yet taken, seventh place among the world's peace navies. The growth of the merchant fleet was moat rapid about the time of the Chinese war, rising from 484,000 tons in 1897 to 790,000 tons in 1899. Only Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Norway and Italy surpass the shipping of Japan. The Japanese merchant fleet is even greater than our own foreign fleet' It Js our enormous Vcoastwlse" ; shipping that places us second to Great Britain in total. Japan's naval vessels ere all com manded by Japs. This has about used up the available supply ef native edu cated seamen, so that most of the mer chantmen are , commandeu by Euro peans. But they won't be very long. -, Vanishment to rtt the Crime. From the Cleveland Leader. ' The small boy ls now going through the list of comic valentines in the effort to find one which, fits the particular case he has in mind, . First Visit of Commodore Perry to Japan Recalled by SW'Dth'GtKw. Admiral Ceardslee ' Eliza R. ScldmOre in Chicago Tribune, s The Japanese newspapers have pub lished laudatory notices of Admiral Lee- ter Beardsree, who . died recently in Georgia, for to them he was a historical figure and a figure in their own history. As a midshipman m Commodore Perry's fleet he was a witness' of the Opening of Japan to the world. He revisited it as a ship's commander in 1870, when the country was torn with the Satsuma re bellion, and after his retirement from active service he gratified his. long de sire and spent a year in leisured ease on shore in the far east. ? . ' v : ' Admiral Beardslee hunted up, with the aid of a yachting American friend, ! the exact spot where the boats landed Com modore Perry, and where the president's letter ; was delivered to the unwilling Japanese officials on the' beach of tlrl little village of Kurihama, 40 miles be low Yokohama. ' At the next banquet given him by' the many societies v and ' associations 1 of Toklo, eager to honor the survivor of the Perryf expedition,! he demanded to know why there was no monument : to mark., such an: . Important spot, ;. since Japan . Is dotted witit monuments and memorial stones from .one '.end to the other. Forthwith, 'the Society of Those Who Have Been in America, as Beiyuk uwal might be translated, : promised to erect a monument if Admiral Beardslee would; wait' to dedicate- iti;?w.wvi;y:-- The committee of enthusiastic young men headed by-Baron Kaneko, that Har vard graduate, and degree man, ho stands for good government, purity, and reform in municipal matters, went with the admiral to the spot They planted trees, marked the monument site, and In a little over six months had the memor ial completed- and unveiled with great ceremony on the 48th anniversary pf the landing. ..-.'. V-.,v.:.':v - ....v v ..:.v. Admiral Beardslee had a strong sense of humor and dearly loved to tell how he first set foot on Japan. When the string of ships' boats had landed Com modore Perry and his staff and his flleS of marines, Midshipman Beardslee wm told off to command one of the boats and told not to leave it. While the mys terious proceedings went on In the draped inclosure time dragged on the hands Of the lively young midshipman. and, wearing his boat closer Inshore, he determined to step off on the beach for only a minute, "Just to say he had been on shore In Japan." 1 One cautious foot had Just gone over Jhe gunwale and touched the soft sand when the other officer in command spied him and roared out: "Get into your boat immediately, Mr. Beardslee," and his experience on shore went no further. .... Equally Joyful was the old admiral's memory of his first and" last Interview with Commodore Perry. At that time grog was regularly served in the Ameri can navy, and on great occasions a spe cial ration was given to seamen. One of the officers on the ship to which Mid shipman Beardslee was attached was a hard drinker and had with difficulty been brought out of an attack of delirium tremens on the way up from Canton. His ship S commsnder feared that the Dainty Stnffs and Quaint Modes Affected in Fashionabie Ellen Osborn In the Chicago Record Herald. Because white satin has ' lost its orange flower and "Lohengrin March" associations it . makes the better bridal costume. Explanation is simple: The rise of white satin in favor for even the simplest evening dress has swept away : dressmaking traditions. In the past the satin wedding dress, useless af ter the ceremony, has been a costume set apart sacred to a stiff choklness. The satin evening dress has flouted the law. With its sacrilegious- additions of delicately transparent lace and the Ivory softness of chiffon it has dared to make the consecrated material becoming. Since even the debutante wears white satin, the dressmaker has learned to subject it to everyday, varied handling. . The satin wedding dress, as seen at fashiona ble midwinter bridals. Is no longer, as a rule, dead white, Ivories and creams, according to the coloring- of the bride, are more usual. The old stiff satin hss gone out An ..extremely - soft quality is now chosen, which may be heavy, but Is apt to be almost ss light, in weight and supple-as crepe de' chine. " Trimmings perhaps were " never- before-so rich, yet they are not a mat ter of course. Let me quote one of New York's best designers:; ; "You must consider the bride," said he, when asked to give an opinion as to. the ideal : wedding dress. "A girl with a fine, well-set-up figure and a good carriage can stand magnificence, while a soft-hatred, 'fluffy, looking girl Is lost unless she wears something sim ple and ephemeral. You must consider not only the style of the bride, but her self. It she is likely to be nervous, for instance, she must wear something in which she will feel at ease and com fortable, while for a self-possessed bride it is safe to plan a picture dress or the newest prettlness, even if It is out of the ordinary, v "I believe," he continued, "there Is too much trimming on the ordinary wedding dress. It seems a pity, after the-care we take to keep young girls simply dressed, suddenly, on the wed-1 ding day. Just when we wish them to look their best, to load them with old lace and embroderles unsulted to their years."..--' . A bridal dress worn at this week's most Imposing ceremonial was' made of ivory, white Liberty satin, soft and gleaming. , It had a full trained skirt plaited into the waistband and decorated In front with a panel of Brussels lace, the long point of whose triangle came Just under the point of the waist belt Edging this panel were puffs of chiffon edged with tiny ruches, which ran down the : front and around the train. The bodice was a blouse with a transparent yoke of Venetian laoe. Crossed fronts were edged -with puffs and ruches. The girdle was deep., and' pointed, Each sleeve ; was a succession - of ruched flounces.' The . veil was of tulle, fas tened by a flat wreath of orange blos soms. .;, --.; ..---:, -' ' This dress was no more characteristic of the season's fashions than was an other, of white satin, almost as light as crape. Trails of orange flowers ran down the front, of this dress, marking off a skirt panol; garlands of orange flowers ran around it in circular lines. At the foot of the skirt came two deep full lace founces. The swathed bodice had something of a blouse ef fect, with narrovr girdle. It was al most hidden undar a deep lace shoul der collar. The hair was dressed with knot-of orange flowers at each side of the front the tulle veil falling well behind. " .. ' ' 1 - , . .- . . .. ' White velvet Cresses, usually of a princess cut, are - seen . Occasionally. White brocade doep not jneet with much ravor, except in combination witn white satin. , White - silks are scarcely used, i Moussellne, chiffon,, net and other trans parent fabrics are. hardly so much to the fore as last whiter, " but are still' order for extra grog on the night of the ;i delivery of the president's letter might -be his undoing, and, not to make it an affair of official record and correspond- ' ence, he sent Midshipman Beardslee to the flagship to verbally state the case to Commodore Perry and ask that that particular ship be omitted from the or der. "yj'V' , It was a hoi nighfTn mid-JulyTTThe bommodore; sat at his desfc . collarless, writing. The little midshipman was ush ered in and twirled his cap a few mln- utes, . waiting., The commodore's qullL pen scratched on - and on, came to a stop, and the handsome old head was ' ; raised. - An eagle glance shot from the eye, and the naval diplomat said: "Eight" : ' ' ,: '.. :-y;.;i.-: ,r ' '. The midshipman repeated the mes sage, gave the explanation, and stopped. The handsome bid commodore medi tated a minute, and said j"Umph!" and . resumed writing, and 1 the midshipman slipped through the cabin doorway and breathed freely on deck after the brief interval in the commander's presence. "And that was my first and last in terview with the commodore during the whole cruise," Adnil Beardslee used , ' to say with a chuckle of delight. . -; ? -.- ' The emperor had a special Interest in reoel vlng Admiral Beardslee, and the audience was not the formal, impersonal affair Of set speeches that such affairs -usually are. There were difficulties in arranging for the presentation, however, , as Admiral Beardalee had no naval uni form with him' In Japan. . When he re tired from the navy he-retired, he sajd. He Was a private, citizen Only, and the -gold lace and buttons were not for him ' any more. : ' , . 4 : "But you must wear the uniform of your rank, at the palace," said the de spairing minister.- ' v v.:V- u "Did General Grant wear a uniform la Japan?" skid the retired admiral, : and the vanquished chamberlain arranged for the presentation at' a garden party, where civilian dress was permissible. 'After he had seen the Japan of 1900 Admiral Beardslee in reality retired and settled down to en active life on 'his place at Beaufort N. C, in an old colpn lal mansion, crowded with the trophies and accumulations of a busy life on many seas. Japanese servants and gardener went back to America with him, and the tireless old admiral bad a little Japan on his place of every green and- growing- tiding- he had been able to send. ; Seeds, roots, bulbs, - and speci mens from Japan, chrysanthemums and morning glories, iris and lilies made splendid show for him in a 'first season, and his mulberry trees nourished silk worms that netted their Japanese tend ers 70 pounds of shining, glossy skeins st the first trial. His was a happy old age; full of honors and activities, and the Japanese mourn him., v - ' - Japan has never failed to recognize the debt she owes to tne United States. It was the fleets of . the latter power that showed Japan the open door of the world and started the -chrysanthemum kingdom on its surprising march toward the -front rank among the great powers of the world. - , , . beloved of youthful brides. While crepe de chine is the most useful and beauti ful material for the wedding dress, and though, no- longer the extreme of fash Ion, its vogue -is enduring. Whatever may - be the- case in - February, the lighter materials will come back for bridals in June. ; . - ' ' ' ' - - " i ii 4 J' ;-,.. v The bridesmaid's frock depends on the wedding's color scheme: One wedding outfit now being finished in a Fifth ave nue shop for a February marriage Is lit pink and white. The wedding dress is LofL-WhitesatinThe-mald of honor Is to wear peach-pink. Liberty . satin with white lace, and the four maids are to dress in white muslin flowered witU sprawling pink rosea . The maid of honor will carry a flower muff of white roses decorated with a spray of pink, the maids' baskets will be full of pink roses, and all Ave attendants are to have exquisite picture hats of white mous-" sellne and pink roses. In England it has become the fashion this winter for bridesmaids to 'wear wreaths thd Veils. The wreatns chosen are of flowering myrtle, roses, forget-me-nots, and the like; the veils are always of tulle. . Little flower girls are clad in dresses of uncompromising qualntness. Van dyke gowns are worn, of satin touching the floor, or Louis XVI frocks of white satin hidden under demure white muslin fichus. There are brides who delight in such touches of old-day picturesque-' ness, but others prefer that their flower ' girls should wear simply beruffled frocks of sheer stuff such as the season's fash Ions yield. Flower girls, whether or not they actually scatter blossoms before the bride, carry baskets of roses or of fresh rose petals. . Among trousseau dresses that the week has yielded . must be named a smart, severe golng-away dress, its skirt in dark porcelain blue scloth, finished with halt a dosen little ruffles, its coat; of porcelain blue velvet, half-length, tight fitting, its sleeves were full at the bottom, with corded revere., Tht eollarless throat the fronts and long basques were outlined with cord. The trimming consisted of embroidered tre foils. There was a hat of -velvet and rancy straw trimmed with white feath ers. . ' ?,',";- .. . , An afternoon dress of green taffeta had its full skirt flounced with tiny ruf-. flea waved and bordered with black vel-"1 vet-- Above the flounces came a head ing of large lace medallions. The bodice wss cut out st the throat over a small rounded chemisette of lace, and was 7 trimmed with medallions. 'The elbow sleeves were full and trimmed with lace frills. . . , ; , , A dress of pale porcelain blue taffeta had its skirt widened by two flounces, the first starting from a series of shir- ' rings with a ruched head. The bodice, slightly , bloused, fastened in old style down the front with big buttons. Around the , shoulders was- a guipure yoke hemmed with sable. The sleeves, shirred at the shoulders, ended In cascades of embroidered lawn. To another trousseau belong two charming house . dresses; one of white silk muslin and lace insertion. Its shoul ders covered by a scarf collar tasseled with sliver; the other of pale blue mus lin veiled with, a lace peplum and em broidered with green and- silver flowers. . ; Japan's riaaaeial Position. ; r j From the Boston Herald. According to a recent ' authority, Japan's financial situation is at present most favorable, and in event of emerg ency she would have ample ; available funds. The bank of Japan has a specie reserve of 112,000,000 yen; it has some 40,000,000 lying in London, and it has a 8S.000.000 legal margin of note fasuine- power, The treasury has three capital funds, aggregating 80,000,000 yen and also some 20,000 in London remaining from, the last sale of bonds. The banks throughout the emnlre are nlm m tr have larte stores of idle cash, 1 .;. . .... . '. .. . ; ','.'