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THE! OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL'. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. PBCBMBEK It HOi. GERMANS FEAR NEW AMERICAN PERIL Believe J. Pierpont Morgan May Move All Their Art Treas ures to New York. CROWN PRINCE CROWS DAILY MORE SULLEN Bnde-Elect. However, le Very Much in Love with Her Young Fiance. (By Malcolm Clark.) (Cooyrlsht. Hrarat Nwt Service, by Leaaed w"lr to The Journal.) Berlin. Dec 10. German papers now .ee h new form of the American peril. John D. Rockefeller and the American Tobacco Truat hava ions figured In this role, but now it la J. Pierpont Morgan i not Morgan, the financier and trust . organiser but J. P Morgan, the presi dent of the Metropolitan museum of art. If one should believe tba pen pictures of the German preas, tba, famous finan cier Intends to spend the rest of his Ufa I bribing guardians of the museuma and flattering art lovers of Europe to part with their treasures, until every paint 'lng and atatue of value shall hava been moved to the great museum In New York. European art lovers In general, and Oermana In particular, ought to form a league to fight Mr. Morgan's supposed plans, say these papers, which also strongly advise that the relchatag paas law forbidding the export of all works s. of art, similar to the one In force Id Italy. Prince Qro ws Sullen. It Is an open secret In court circles that as the time set for the crown prince's wedding approaches that young man Is growing dally more sullen and Is only prevent i-d from rebelling openly - against his father'a wlahes by the in fuence of the empress. Time and again i he haa declared that ha would far ratber . realgn all his Imperial righta and privi leges than marry a girl he does not love. but the discipline to which he haa been " subject ever since a child still holds him back. The apartments to be used by the young couple are now almost ready for I occupancy, but the prince ahows no ln- terast In the preparations whatever and has grown considerably thinner during the last two months and has kept away i from his usual haunts, while working harder than ever with his regiment. Zs Much la Love. His In-le elect, on the other hand, la much in love with her young fiance, who ! really la a most congenial and pleasant young man, without a touch of the prtde which haa made so many members of the . Hohensollern family exceedingly diffi cult to associate with. The people of Rostock, in Mecklen-burg-Schwerln, has decided that they will not submit to the special tax to be levied on the subjects of the grand duchy to pay for the troaaseau of the Liuchess Cecelia, who Is to marry the German crown prince within a Tory short time, unless they are absolutely " They arVvery much dissatisfied with their ruler, who a few days ago had the audacity to aak for a raise of salary. t They have, engaged a number of promi nent lawyers to find out whether the laws of the country allow the ruler to collect a special tax under the present . circumstances. If they do, the Mecklen burgers swear that It Is a high time the laws were changed. WOULDN'T IT MAKE YOU MAD If after working hard all year mak ing toys: And delivering them in all sorts of weather And taking the greatest care in their distribution Then to find yourself denounced a fraud and a humbug? as Wouldn't It Jar You? RUSSIAN THISTLE IS WORKING HAVOC Montana Farmers Will Ask Con gress to Have Eastern Seed sfirpments inspected. CARD PLAYER LOSES ALL HIS ILL GOTTEN GAINS (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Carkston. Wash., Dec. 10. Thomas Gibbons was held up and robbed of 1181 while going from t'larkston to Lewiston Thursday night. He had won the money in a card game In a local saloon, and the payment was witnessed by several men, who are supposed to Imve followed him. The robber demanded the money at the point of a gun, and Gibbons, who Is past SO years of sge, grabbed the gun and beat the robber, but to no avail finally being overcome end giving up the cash. There IS no clue. (Special Dispatch br Leased Wire to Th Journal! Washington, IX C. Dee. 10. At the request of the commanding officer of Fort Law ton. Second Lieutenant Paul 11 McDonald, who waa arrested here to day, was confined st Fort Meyer. He is charged with Irregularities In his finan cial transactions. The arrest was made principally by General ChafTee, upon whom McDonald called to tender his reslgnstion. IT Advice to Busy Men If there la one thins; that sBMM M tm preaaed upon the uilurU of men the busi ness man of today It la the important esre el- his teeth. The man who thlnka thm avlmimrtant should ronsider. or listen, to the advice of rears of experience, sad not nlt thss Important organs, sa the are the gat-nay to health and success in Mfe. Ton perhaps do not know bow rejml alee .ronr teeth are. with those decayed and discolored looking teeth which rou hare. It enly require!, a few sitnmc of jour time s few days In s jear to hating your teeth kept In perfect order, and the etpenae Is small aa compared to the looks, comfort and pleasure to he flrrt.ed from a haiulKmn.. looking nvrtitti of teeth. If yon come here for your work Ton'll set the heat. I con Sect a Isrge practice, huylng in large ouan- tltlea. taking adrantage of all discount, whir, with my flrst clsss equipped dental amis ana my espericured workmen at Sly command, enable sss to give yon better serrlra than you ran get elaewhere, for very little mosey. OOMSTTLTATIOlf nn. FEU KXAsOKABLL . Office Basra I s. at. te S a. si. Zrsa-laga-T SO to I SO o olook. laarfara-O a. at. to 1 p. m. Dr. B. E. Wright's Dental Office MIS WasUmiOTOV ST., COS. SEVEXTK. Phone Ms In Si 10. sflos Staualoff Mag., Is lam. Or. .. (Special Dtapatrh to The Journal Great Kalis, Mont., Dec. 10. The farmers of norhern Montana are great ly exercised over the alarming spread, of the Russian thistle, which haa practic ally taken possession of large tracts of land In several sections. A petition Is now being circulated in Cascade county which will be submitted to congress, asking for the enactment of a law re quiring the Inspection of all seeds sent to the county by eastern seedsmen. N. Cutrlght one of tho petition com mittee, declares: "The principal source of Infection Is from grass seed sent here by eastern merchants." Continuing he said: "John Castner of Belt, seeded down 350 acres this year knd this fall the ground Is one mass of Russian thistles. Cattle cannot feed in the field where It is, sheep cannot feed through It, horses cannot feed through It, and where a field becomes, overrun with the pest It is ruined. "Hedges of ' thistles," declared Cut right, 'lined the highways for miles ami the havoc wrought Is almost unbeliev able, whole farms being laid waste." CARNEGIE SUMMONED (Continued from Page One) has been lost to her family ever since her first adventure. I doubt If they knew of her existence until this latest case came out. Her people are honest. PET DOG SUBJECT OF AN EPITAPH r-rienas or rim.o tw, Cwua Author, Now the Object of His Friends Jests. AMERICAN IS HONORED BY PARIS UNIVERSITY Turkish Military Officers and Soldiers Discontented and Want Their Pay. HER BIG SECRET. Mrs Chadwiok Uses the "Child Tarn" frit Ores Attest ' (Special Dispatch by I-caaed Wire to The Journal) Cleveland, O.. Dec. 10. "Mrs. Chad wlck told me, and I believed then. In the strictest confidence." aald Banker C T. Beckwlth, In his confession to Marshal Chandler, "that she waa the Illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carne gie and that he turned over an Immense fortune to her. I believed all along that she told the truth, and for that reason I was so confident that the debts would be settled." Beckwlth further confessed that Mrs. Chadwlck had made a promise to him that he (Beckwlth) would be made trus tee of the $6,000,000 fund which she claimed, and he thon believed, were good securities and In the possession of 1 1 'i Reynolds. At the time the con fession was made It was only guessed that the securities were worthless. While Beckwlth intimated to Chandler that he expected to receive a large sal nry for handling the securities aa trua- tee, no figure was mentioned, and the name of Cashier Spear was not men tioned In connection with the trustee fchlp. The citizens' bank was not referred to as trustee of the I5.noo.ooo Ira Reynolds fund. It was only Beckwlth personally. That Mrs. Chadwlck freely used the Carnegie Illegitimate child yarn In ex planation of her Carnegie note Is evi dent. She told the same story to Ira Reynolds and pledged him to secrecy. Just as she did in the case of Banker Beckwlth. FATALLY ST. SQUAW. (Special Dispatch to Tha Journal I Rtlte. Idaho, Dec. 10. Mrs. Peeluts, a Neg Perce Indian squaw, waa leuU night horribly cut on the head and ribs by W. Jones, who was drunk and Jealous. Her wounds sre probably fatal. Jones cs-csped. (By Paul Tllllers.) (Copyright. Hearst News Berries, by Leased Wire to The Journal.) Paris. Dec. 10. Pierre lotl, the fa mous author. Is being teased a good deal by rfls friends In this city because he wrote an epitaph over Bebe. the pet dog of Florlsel von Reutcr, the young boy composer, who has been collaborat ing with Queen Carmen Sylva on an opera. Bebe died In Constantinople, where Dotl's vessel Is stationed and waa burled with great ceremony. Its owner writing a funeral march which waa played by the marine band when Its body was sunk Into the Bosphorus. The epitaph reads In translation: 'This is In memory of a very little dog. Of pauper parentage he waa born this winter in the gutter, but had the good fortune to be adopted by a little boy of genius named Florlsel von Rou te r. "He waa gentle and good and he wss named Bebe. He greatly loved all sweets, but above all. he tenderly loved rionxei ana ne nan no peace each morn ing until taken Into his room to be as sured that his young benefactor was still there and to say 'Good morning.' .Kverjr thing Jeemed to promise him a bright future, but- with the confidence of childhood he wanted to walk under tne wnceis of a haughty carriage, which did not fear to pass over his little body end no one can now say where his In nocent little soul has gone. At the re quest of Florlsel. who haa sorrowed much, a French bard has written this epiiajiii Honor aa American. Prof. Barrett Wendell, who was re cently matriculated as a nrofesanr nt Kngllsh literature and languages at the Boroonnc, nas received a most cordial reception by Parisian society and bids fair to become one of the most popular or Americans nere. The dignified con slstorfum of scientists and academicians who rule Paris' old university only after many debates, resolved to accept the comparatively young American professor as one of their august body. This Is the first timo that she foreigner occupies a chair at a French university, but now that they have once made their first step they are extending a cordial welcome to their new colleague. It has been made possible to found a regular chair for English by the gene rosity of M J. Hyde, president of the federation de 1 Alliance Francalse In the United States, who Is personally a warm admirer of France, and Who has founded a chair In French at the university of Harvard. Prof. Wendell, who was pre sented to the minister of public Instruc tion by the American ambassador, Is giving his first series of lectures on "America, Its Institutions and Ideas," to crowded audiences. Turks Waa the "Tin." Wars may come and wars may go, but the Macedonian war becomes chronic. Though the death of the Greek band captain, Paul Melas, Is now officially confirmed, still It Is "long live the Greek -band captain!" The Turkish military officers are getting aa discon tented aa the rebels. The sultan has forgotten to send on their pay for a considerable time nowand though blood- shedding for fun Is often times very much to the appetite of the Turk, stlU he recognises that fun does not fill the hookah for him. He made a pretty coup when, the other day, he seised the telegraph offices and put himself In direct communication with the palace. Or was It the telephone of fices he seised? if so, heaven pity the poor sultan. IUrr-B-R-R-"Hallo, Hallo, Hallo, sultan. Is this Sultan? Greet- ww. aUettam. tn self tfce hdaewm. and all the young families; and say, sultan, the fellows here want to know when It Is that "tin" Is coming? Obi It will, will AT Well, If It should happen to miss the road and not arrive, I'll ring you up again, tomorrow morning, without fall. Thank you, sultan. Good-bye." IS VISIBLY AGITATED (Continued from Page One) a cannonade in the vehicle for all Mich aels would h k.o known about it. Judg ing by his astounding ignorance of what did happen. Yesterday he seemed to have forgotten considerably than he had the first time he testified. If a postponement should occur, it seems likely that his mind would be an utter blank. Oases at "Three rate." Most of the time while Rand was endeavoring vainly to extract a few facts from the cabman. Nan Patterson's eyes wandered over the witness' head to the picture of the 'Three Fates," the women who watch so calmly, so benignly over the wretched unfortunates who come for a little while into their pres ence. The second of the three, the meas urer. Is a woman much of the type of this girl prisoner a woman of a full rounded figure, of graceful curves and ample proportions. The face Is such a face as this un happy actress might have been had she never known the temptation of tender loin life, of after-theatre suppers, of friendship with bookmakers, prise fight ers and Jockeys and of night hansom cabs and the other sinister diversions which have brought her a prisoner Into this court charged with killing the man she says she loved. But if her manner of life has brought her Into grave trouble. It has at least calloused her so that she Is able to bear It far better than could any woman less experienced In that kind ot exist ence. She Bobbed, so a witness has said, when her gallant bookmaker slapped her across the face and called her foul names. She wept when her tender and considerate brother-in-law, J. Morgan Smith, struck her and ordered her about like a stage manager. But she docs no sobbing now, even when in peril of her life at the recital of her hapless past, and not until this afternoon, wheh ahe flashed from her eyes that appeal to the Jurymen, haa she done one thing that would lead one to believe that she was a woman In grave trouble. SAYS A RADICAL PARTY IS NEEDED Former Senator Pettigrew Talks of Lessons Taught by the Last Election. JUDGES CONTINUE TO SERVE THEIR MASTERS Proof Shows that Discrimination of Freight Rates Is Back bone of Trusts. (Special Dlapatrh by Leaaed Wire to The Journal) Chicago. Dec. 10. F. R. Pettigrew of Sioux Falls, S. D., who for II years represented his state in the United States senate, passed through Chicago from New York on his way home. Mr. Pettigrew was a guest at the Auditor ium, leaving for the west at t o'clock In the evening. During his term of ser vice In the senate he waa a member of the committee on Interstate commerce and la considered an authority on rail way matters. "The result of the last election shows that It Is useless to hope that any party can be organised to secure the support of the plutocratlcal elements by out bidding the Republicans." aald ex-Senator Pettigrew. "It shows that what Is needed Is a radical party, representing producing classes, offering no compro mise with predatory wealth, and In sisting that those who produce shall en Joy the fruits of their labor, and not have these fruits taken away by legis lation conferring the right to tax pro duction. That la the lesson taught hy the last election." "What do you think will be the effect of the message of President Roosevelt?" was asked. Section Zs Weak. "There Is one section of the message on which I would like to say a few words, and that la hie request for con trol of the rallroada 'This is weak for the reason that this power haa given to the nterstate com mission more than 20 years ago by act of congress, and that power has been lost, according to the evidence presented by the commission itself, not by act Of congress, but by the decision of the courts. These courts arc lnvarlobly composed of Judges who have been in the service of the railway corporations, and who therefore, as Judges, continue to serve their masters. "The railway rates in the country, if given alike to all, could be van mate rially decreased if the government owend the roads, and the great combinations that now plunder the people would find serious competition from individual en terprises If it were not for the enormous discrimination given by the railroads to the trusts, which Is equal In Itself to a big profit and goea against all Individ ual competition. Backbone of Trusts. "Thus we are destroying the Individ ual In the Interest of the great combi nations and lowering the standard of our citizenship. "Walter Logan, before the American Bar association, said that the Standard Oil alone had driven out of business no less than 10,000 individual producers, who were unable to meet them on ac count or tne enormous freight discrimi nation. -T " ;." 'JT' " " "I think that he estimated the number too low; 20,000 would come nearer the mark of thoae driven to the wall, to pau perism; and from being small traders, to the position f employes; their manhood broken and their citlsenshlp lowered. "The proof shows conclusively what discrimination In freight ratse Is to the backbone of the trusts." MRS. HOWARD GOULD HAS MORE TROUBLES Is Also Defendant in Suit Brought by Artist for Five Thousand Dollars. LADY CURZ0N IS TO RIDE BEHIND A DONKEY (Copyright. Hearst News Berries, by Leased Wire to The Joarsal.) Txmdon. Deo. 10. Lord Curxon ordered for his wife before his departure a bath chair rarrage very like the one often used by. the late Queen Victoria. It la to be drawn by a small donkey, and Lady Curson will drive about in It and Inhale the sea breeses on the cliffs overlooking Christ church, on the bay, one of the prettiest spots In Hampshire. Hlghcllrra castle, where Lady Curson III spend the next three months, is rented by George Cavendlsh-Bentlnck. whose wife Is a sister or Mrs. Ogden Mills, snd a great friend of the Cnrsons. King Edward haa twice visited the ravendlsh-rtentlncks at Highctlffe, and an these great occasions the show of piste snd flowers has been smaslng. The grounds are famous In the neighborhood. Part of the house Is very oM, but It haa modern additions in the Gothic style.. (Speclarmspxtcb by leased Wire to The Journal) New York, Doc. 10. Be cause the secret of her intention to surprise her husband at Christmas with a full length on painting of herself leaked out. Mrs Howard Gould broke her contract Slth Henry Jones Thaddeus. the well known artist, she charges and refused to con tinue the sittings. Thaddeus completed the painting, but Mrs. Gould would neither accept It nor pay the contract price of $5,000, so he has sued for that amount The bringing of the suit has been kept a secret up to this time, but when Mr. Thaddeus heard of Mrs. Gould's troubles with her dressmaker, by whom she has been sued for 13.780, he determined to give publicity to Ms own case. When It comes to trial some Interesting letters written by Mrs. Gould will bo produced. Mr. Thaddeus alleges in his complaint that on March 10 of this year he was engaged by Mrs. Gould to paint a full length oil portrait of -herself , she -agreeing to give him the necesssry number of sittings at his studio. He says that after the first few sit tings Mrs. Gould neglected to keep her appointments with him. 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