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THURSDAY, ' JUNE 22, 1905."'
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THE OR EGO N DIAIL Y
AN
","C S. JACKSON
, published every evening ' ( except Sunday ) . end evary Sunday morning at
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get to the; bottom of
-j r- - --- MATTERS.
'IIILE it may W said that it
never to get the, report,
commissioner of New York
" world on the Equitable matter, it "may still be regarded
i as somewhat surprising that previous investigations have
- never brought td the surface any of the facts with which
"llie public has been regaled during the past few months
through a fight betweenthe officers of the company iu
st!f. This furnishes proof that the
'?1nsurAace' department. exercises "oterll the great-insur
ance companies is scarcely such as to
,-the protection which 4t should demand.
But the public is nowt face toface with conditions and
ihv. -will learn 'with interest and perhaps concern She
' conclusions reached byMr. Hendricks
' report 'whicH be has just submitted.
diallvaarree with his conclusion that
the nytii?T.7atinn tsf the company will
demanded and indeed required for the
policy-holders whose ; premiums - have pled tlp. silch
enormoua' assets. - The evils are" fundamental. If they
, grew into dreadful abuses under the Alexander-Hyde
, regime they will ultimately groW into' equally great
abuses under the Ryan regime. Even such control as
comes from a mutualiiation of the company provides
all too little protection for the policy-holders. 7
But, it would be a serious mistake to confine the in
vestigations to the Equitable alone. That work must be
don in thorough and workmanlike manner-but-it
should be extended to embrace all the big companies.
It is quite apparent from the enormous surpluses piled up
that the cost of insurance is entirely top high to the in
dividual policy-holders. It is likewise apparent that the
Equitable people have not been alone in the manipulation
-of these funds for the benefJftheJndividuafs.who had
rthe trust controTbfTthem. They have been unscrup
ulously used in the building up of -huge prjyate fortunes,
to .heat down legitimate competition and to overawe,
sandbag-and pluck all other interests opposed to them.
' Mo mWfc shameful- record of high finance has ever been
exposed-tQithe startled gaze of the
There was a time, perhaps, when the
. these things as inevitable and beyond
" a a . . e a
nave regaraea uem wun tne wonderment mat. would
have followed a circumstantial story of chicanery from
another planet But that is ho" longer true They now
look into these matters with deep, personal concern.
They begin to appreciate them in their wider-significance
and most dangerous bearings. They begin to regard
them as part of a vast conspiracy that would concentrate
the money power of the country into-the
men with the- direful - results- that
, Hence the public is on the qui vive and
1 the facts clear to the very bottom of
before it. '
ROOSEVELT, MORTON, BOWEN, ET AL;
fT iHEvPJR.ESinENT is -havmg'-a
' - '' domestically, these days domestically; in; a geo-
graphical and -political sense, of course. He is
acting asa aort of attorney-at-large for certain men who
have been floating before the public gaze, for awhile,
and (hough the president may hot completely make out
his casnTIo the public's entire satisfaction, he will be
universally credited with good motives and 'desires.
. In th.ec.ase of Ex-Secretary of the Navy Morton, the
president has very nearly convinced us. :-He .explains
Morton's fault at great length, and it must be confessed
that the -excuses the president makes
perhaps--we. should say are reasonable
says, in substance, that although Morton, as vice-presi
dent and manager of the Santa Fe railroad, violated-the
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law. be did so only because everybody
was doing 4he. same thing; that the
ter and was so reaAkriby all railroad men ; that when an
investigation came Morton alone of the railroad men told
the truth frankly, and so helped to pave the-way-to the
correction of the abuses; that) Morton was himself al
ways opposed to these scandalous and illegal rebates and
special privileges, and gladly confessed that he had vio
lated the law, for the very purpose of helping to stop the
abuses; that "forjhisjeasonjhe president .determined to
. reward Morton and put liim in the cabinet, as was done;
r and that Mr. Morton has made an excellent secretary of
the navy, and-will undoubtedly reform the affairs of the
Equitable Assurance company. '- .-. t.,
T We admit that, in all this the president makes a strong
case for his client, and we are willing to give the Scotch
.verdict not guilty, but don't do it again.
ere is one very
eDie' fcifurc
and others that have been or will be noticed and that is
the entire frankness with which the president speaks.
He takes the whole country into his confidence as a child
"would. He gives the- people-all his- reasons when-the
proper time comes.: He. tells everybody not only-what
has been done but why-he did it. His official life is an
-open bcMoteTlief t U no hugsermuggery about it. This
is one reason why the' American people love and trust
Theodore Roosevelt. . ' -
In the Loomis-Bowen case it is not so cleat that the
president has made rmt a good "case for his client,
Loomis, though it must be admitted that he and Sec
retary1 Taft know much more about it than , we-can at
this distance aftd it is to bV assumed -all, the time that
they are acting from the highest of motives and for the
best interests of the country. Yet the statements that
' Mr. Bowen makes regarding Loomis cannot be lightly
. tossed aside. He accuses the assistant secretary of state
of having been a grafter jh Caracas, of having used his
C i ' i ' Market for Stumps.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel. - " t
A new Industry-Tn the Mgion at the
head of-the lakes' Is the gathejrlog of
the tree stumps for use In the Maine
Shipyards. A- large number !tf wooden
stilps ara. built every year, and It has
- baeo found that tha' moat efficient for
ner bracks ara those jmadTa from thea
atumps, and himdreda are shipped east
'cverx day Tha rodta of tha-.tta..nd
a short section of the sCumP are. used
1 In making the braces, and aturapa from
: traaa about a foot In diameter ara found
to- ba -th best: 'The stump Is taken
from the ground aad roughly hewn Into
4ahape before being shipped. , After its
reoelpt at tha shipyards )t Is made Into
a perfect brace. The coat of a carload
of the stumps- Is 41W"Ttrt-and--a
freight charges run over 1100 a 'car.
't Scenery Back From The DalleiT"
s, From Tha Dalles Chronicle.
'Talk -about acenerv." said B..A-"fllf.
ford twho by tha way know what he I
talking about), "within eight hours' ride
.of The, Dalles is noma of tba grandest
scenery a man ever gased upon. Yo
aemlta ran t beat It." Enthuelastlo la
no name -for the three tonrlsta Rev. D.
,,V. Olfford, Daniel Polmg and B. A. Olf
Iford -who, returning home last nlaht
at 11 o'clock and getting a much-needed
rest, endeavored tfals morning to da
vriba srkav .she had . seen to shslr
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING Ca
- ' streets, roruano, urefon. -
insurance
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it better late tUan
which the insurance
Caracas;
Dear Sir In reference to the portion of Mr. Mer
cado's claim 'which I bought I want to state that the
only terms of settlement which I wilt accept other
than a full tash payment of about 30,400 bolivars in
-J gold are the following: I wULaccepl 20,000 bolivars
in gold and 10,400 bolivars in salt bonds at the rate
- of 82 per cent, or 5 per cent below the quoted market
. rate, provided it does not go below 60 per cent.
Verv truly. F. B. LOOMIS.
present to the
oversight which trie
afford the public
in the preliminary
- ! They will cor-?
nothing short of
the -swell-head.L-should
shouldn't Loomis,
eltcrt the rttrtrmi
together an attorney
protection of the
partial judge also.'
OREGON'S
STORIA is
heavily in
mmuflity
several respects that
Astoria isjroing to
surface eruptions it win grauuauy pay us -aeois ; w win
soon drop by common consent its petty wranglings and
jealousies, and grow
Astoria is perhaps
gon only SaUm
Salem will grow
toria should from its location hold the second place in
Oregon's future. Jt surely will if its people will pull to
gether for a bigger and a bettef Astoria. . - ,
We think that all
Clatsop, as well as Sheriff Word of Multnomah ; and
Sheriff Brown of Bakerdid the right thing-fti closing up
certain disreputable, .places, in Astoria. True, Astoriais
American people.
people, regarding
a seaport Moreover, it is a fishing town, loggers and
lumbermen congregate there. Many of : these men are
single. It is not to be expected that a city like that will
be-quite as xlean -and straight- morally-as ttewberg, for
instance. But it can be more decent than it has been, and
it is going to be, with great and noticeable credit to itself.
The dream-iiAstoria-of -wresting - the - commercial
prestige away from Portland has passed. The ships will
continue to come to Portland. The channel being suf
ficiently deepened, and.we know that this can and will be
done, Portland "will be forever 'the entrepot the one
place of all this region where trains meet ships. But it
does not follow that Astoria shall therefore amount to
nothing.- It has immense resources all around it as yet
scarcely, touched-J. It. jSjiand will bemorC-. and more,
the metropolis in yery sense of the eoast region all the
way from Puget Sound to San Francisco.
remedy, Jwould
a
hands of a few
necessarily follow.
demands that all
the mess be laid
; -
strenuous time
- The Astoria people
among the "best
independent, wiae-awaice, active, intelligent in every
sense good citizens. ' Among them wajjave found a
United States senator, a secretary of state, and other peo
ple who deserved promotion and honor.
While keeping your eye on various-places,' don't for
get Astoria, the most unique of American cities founded;
almost 100 year's ago,and just now entering upon a new"
era of decent progress. -
or explanations. L
A HINT
and strong. He
i -HAT every
be sought
else in his position-! r-ir should dispute for when everybody Is placed
law was a dead let
pon precisely the
be no-genuine cause of . couiplaint. I here is one le
gitimate source of raising such revenue that has been
strangely overlooked and that is the Associated Press
franchiseThisli8Jn(l has been for years amonopqly
franchise, through whjch a monopoly in the newspaper
field was maintained, Kit franchise is owned by the
Oregonian. For 40 years it used this as a club to keep
competing newspapers out of its JieltLThrough, lhisas.r.
sociation of newspapers scattered over the country it was
possible thus to furnish the general news of the world to
its patrons at 'a lower rate than it could possibly be ob
tained through The single-handed efforts of any individ
ual newspaper. Indeed until very lately the cost of ob
taining such news in other directions was prohibitive.
With this as a club jthe OregrmU.njuccecdedJ until the
publfcatJon'ofThe journal waste gTm7Tn"lfirotlnng every
other opposition, newspaper enterprise. The possession
of this exclusive news franchise added very matePially to
the value of its property and Because of this very monopoly-it
Jiadjn.itshand power which it constantly ex
ercised to overawe the assessors in the past and prevent
them from making an assessment on its news Jran
chise7 BuI "now that the public has a clearer apprehen
sion of the value of such exclusive franchises, partly
through the belated work of the Oregonian itself, it is
ready to take up the whole question and to offer what
ever encouragement theassessor may need in doing his
whole duty in this direction. ' As this season's work in
the assessor's office is being marked bymany innova
tions, all of which seem to be aimed in the direction of
giving every - taxpayer a square deal, Mr. Sigler will
doubtless be glad to have called to his attention this
new svoiirceof revenue whicV has hitherto escaped of
ficial notice but which merits the closest attention and
scrutiny if there is to be a square deal in fact as well as
in theory. : - --f ;
about tins case
friends. If. J, Anderson had told some
thing, about It after-working with tha
rangers up in tba "Mount Hood district.'
and now coma others who corroborate
his statements and want everybody else
to aee it. They roU to the. Meadows
and then took-the new trail Just cleared
by tha government arid struck out for
th" east fork of Hood rtver, where they
tackled a canyon 1,000 feet deep. This
canyon prcventa tha road being extended.
to Cloud Cap, but '"on want a no grander
scenery nor better, place to.. camp than
right there.' Bay they.."And to think
such scenery Is In easy arceaa of The
Dalles! Bomnthing should be done right
away bo that all may know of It," la the
opinion, tii'y offer.
Lost His Periwinkles.-
From tha Pilot Rock Record.
Ed .iohnson. tha fisherman, threatens
to sua A. J. Btuxlevant for damages sus
tained through the loxa of a lot of perl,
winkles which Mr. Johnson , had fished
oat of tha water at considerable loaa
of tlroe to himself and afterward cached
them -In the ditch, through which water
waa-meandering by -his house-at tha
time." but which was shut off through
Instructions given by M,r- fturtevant,' re
sulting In tha death of his fish bait - As
a - consequence, Mr. Johnson haa not
only -Buffered loss of food, but much
mental worry snd domestic infelicity,
and will ask for damages In proportion
to the Injury he hat received.-, ,
' J O URN AL
JNO. P. CARROUU
The Journal BuHdiar, Fifth and Yamhill
position tqjmake deals . with and in behalf of the New
York-Bermudex Asphalt company, and he sets forth par
ticular facts and documents that appear convincing in
particular this letter, which he say he found on file at
,Nqw, Mr. "Attorney. PresidenV-is thiiJetter genuine?
If so,; what business had a minister of the United States
fo Venezuela to be "buying up i claims of the asphalt trust
against - the Veneiuelan government. very likely
Jlowen.-who seems to have acquired an extreme case of
have been -kicked .out,, but
also? The president must not be al
for hisfriends; he must be therrmW
' .. .
UNIQUE CITY BY THE SEA.
in a bad way on the surface. It is
debt , municipally. It is a peculiar
none just like atia..the world in
are obvious to any enquirer. .But
get rid of its troubles they are only
into a large, respectable city.
now the, second city in size in ore
- competing for - that 1 honor.- While
and become a large- interior-town, .As
things considered fcherut Jwinviiie Qt
not jiotjcing some elements are
people on earth." They are patriotic.
TO ASSESSOR SIGLER.
legitimate source of revenue -should
out for taxation purposes no one
same leve.l.,inlhis respect there can
Cecilia's Trousseau Tax. "T
-. .., Frome the' London Mall. "JJ
There , Is nothing more interesting in
connection with tha Oerman - Imperial
wedding than the old-world "trousseau"
or "princess" tax. which haa been revived
in- the duchies of- Macklenburg-Schwerln
and Mecklenburg-Btrellts to provide for a
proper wedding outfit for the royal bride.
head, levied upon all tha Inhabitants of
the two' federal atatea. The Impost . is
In no sense a voluntary one and not a
little discontent and III feeling have beeh
aroused owing to the levying of It, as the
Inhabitants are far fromjlch. No less
a personage than the kaiser himself and
his empress objected very strongly to it.
Although pgwerlesa to ; Interfere,
i The tax dates froiin'Ths feudal ages
Snd was last exacted on the occasion of
the Duchess Elisabeth of Mecklenburg's
marriage to; the now reigning grand duke
of Oldenburg, and again when tha sister
of the young' duke of . M ecklenburr
Sch-werln married Prince Christian of
Denmark.
... : '
His Way of .Expressing Gratitude,
From the Clevafsnd ?Ltder.
"If I refuse him I fear he will do
something desperate." i .'
. "Nonaenaa, dear! He will merely ba
grateful to you for giving him an x
cuse to go ap4 t vryd.runk. -
SMALL CHANGE.
Whda. Bill!
4 ' '
Open 'era evenings. '
Dr. Lane Is consldartnk.
Bom men naVar know" when to quit
Let tba peqple aaa thlncs 8undaya.
-;-A graftar (a a thief and a traitor.
Politic cuts little flrura tbeaa days.
Grand Juries ara effectlnc a revolu
lion. , . sr. -.. " ... . . .
Mayor Weaver aeeraa to ba an. answer
to prayer. - - .
Theaa are the .days . when tha straw
hat ahlnea. -
Oovei'nor, . Doualai
has had enough.
Brlhf fellow, that.
'Dear Blll .wrote Bowen to Taft-No
man of. aoo pounda .could atand that
Still there . ara placea not properly
cleaned up wont ba till after July. 1,
There ara jurors '"iecepted" who ra
road and TOnfeaa to a Tnlnd. , nderful !
Judclna br tha aaueala of some ceo-
pli, perhaps there ahould' ba mora In
aictmenta. If you go to N To'k, ba careful of tha
Subway. But no -matter. . If you have
your Ufa Inaurad. ...... ' r ; .
-Thr aft "exhibit at tha exposition- la
not only worth going to aee. but it is
worth appreciative study. ,
It seems aa if tha Roaeburg land -of
fice ahould bo reopened for buainess.
Roaeburg Review.. By B. at B,Sr
Yesterday' tha Salem Statesman waa.
still standing pat -on tha Dlngley tariff
and oppoalng tha proaeoutlon of thlevea.
Washington Poati A phyalclan haa
discovered that rocking a baby to sleep
inducea atupldlty. Discovery cornea too
lata to help us any, j . v, -
Tha paopla have found out one thing
through - the Equitable squabble that
they jra being junconacjojahly robbed
by tha Ufa inauraiica companlea.
Couldn't tha - fool csar redeem hla
horrible record a little by agreeing to
tha Inevitable beforehand for once, in
stead of haggling about It and finally
"yielding 7 .. ... , .--
Indianapolis Btarnf it will help Rus
sia any, .tha powers might agree-'td call
her present atatua tha "acrid terminal"
Instead of tha "bitter end." of which
Russia seems so much In dread.
A Boston paper tal kg at-rt lonath I
about the election of "three Democratic
governors" Folk, Douglaa and Johnson.
Doesn't . Boston yet know that Oregon
s on the. map, and has a Democratic
governor ? ., Look - weat, plaaae. , r
Build good roads. . .
Oregon la all right.
Never let a good work drsg.
Bring in your exhibits right along.
8om things short, but maybe all tha
better. ,. .
Caterpillars
numerous around Flor
anca. . .
There may be a 6,000 sugar beet farm-
near tena.
New (0,000 feet a
Falle CUy, ,
day sawmill at
Nobody will 'know which county Is
beat till-fall. far "-. . ,
"Joseph city fathers are figuring on a
water system.
TnTamooTTHeadllghrTTTeafs old, and
no algns of light head. .
Fixing up threshing machines and
buying new ones in eastern Oregon.
A Couuille mill mads an average run
of nearly 17,000 feet a day during May.
f Journal, which ta,lka every , day for
Oregon. L :-. l .
Pendleton East Oregonian, June 19:
Tha Blue Mountain creamery yesterday
used over- SO galloha of lea cream in
supplying its customer It was, the
bu ales t dayp, the . sea son. In the -Ice
cream line . . ......
Pendleton hasmore saloons In pro
portion -to population than any other
citv In Oreaon. .There are 27 saloons
there and the census Just completed gtvea
tha exact population. at 6,700, or one
aaloon for every 111' people. After all.
this is not Biieh a very good recommen
dation' for that town. " '
-'Tha Albany Democrat man. ssys that
a salesman In the - Foreign. Exhibits
building offered an Albany man a big
urrav-of -articles for IMS.-- which he
graudally reduced to 50 centa, ahowlng
tha spirit of tha Business ana -wnat one
meets at the expoaltlon In tha trading
line. v r ;-.:J.r:::::
CcamTTxcept-lt' water- bowds. la
practically out of debt and will soon
be on a caah basis. - O 111 lam county haa
no bonded Indebtedness and when alt
taxes ara paid will have money In the
treasury, and with almost k brand new
courthouse, a now l,uuu.vvw rauroaa
right Into. the heart of, the county, tin
ooen river to the Sea,
ana inaicaunn
Condon and "GUlIam are all right.
Th building of . the new Blayton
woolen mllla wilt begin aoon and tha
work will ba rushed to completion. The
main building will be 60 by 120fet,
two and one lmlf stories high. The
upper floor of this building will be used
In tha manufacture of clothing, the sec
ond floor will contain the carding and
spinning department, and tha first tha
weaving and finishing. Another build
ing 60 by 60 feet, also of Btone, will be
built 50 'feet dlxtant from the main
building, to eontaln tha drying and" pick
ing departments. The number, of em
ployee will be about 0d and thf payroll
over M.000 a month..., . -. .. .. y.
" i ' ; "" ' 1 1 (,--
A Tip. ;
' From Mfe.' , '
Every boy ahould raflect that ha haa
only four limbs, two eyes and one life,
that July 4 comes every year and laets
about three weeks, rand govern himself
accordingly. t.' -
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- OREGON SIDELIGHTS'
dinkelspiel' sees 'the
census taker
- By aaorge T. Hobart.
Copxright, 1909. by W. R. Hrat
It happened yesterday morning vile
yet der aun vas early 'in der aky.
8uddnly df rlo wr rakthf orm f a
man cama ushlng ilka a virlvlnd up
der front steba. ' 1
. MJt -a- graceful, sveep of his feet he
capsetted der milk cuii und crushed
boneaih his heel a small pleca of .colt
vater vleh der Jca truat left dare before
it melted. .
Mlt a short arm chab der man .aelsured
der door bell und aent der echoes und
a part of der door flying in all direc
tion!. ;. - .. r ,.
"Vot can 'it bar I set to myaelf.
My vifo heard - tne -und fainted.
Chumplng into my horaeleaa pajamas
I rushed to der door und opened it
vide. ;
-a It hot enough or.QuX'sei
man.- .' '':
-Dink of der terrible sttivatlon.7"
t Per qvestlon " must ba answered, bo
eauaa dare vaa no eggscape, no vay.to
dotch It. Tventy yeara in der Jallhouaa
If i -refusaled to-anawer it;-:-. -.-
ranght in trr tolla af terall doaa
Vould kind heaven Bend . soma
relief? But no. der qveation must ba
answered. ,
It vas der cenaua tookfr.
For a. moment all vaa so still you
could hear der market drop in Vail
atreet.
Den like der rattle of muaketry' on a
roof garden- der qveatlona fell all around
ma: : , - "' '
"Vas you white or black und how do
youaecount for ltT
"If a herring und a half cost a shilling
und a half, how much la a 10-cent cigar
worth' in American money?
Xo you eat oatmeal . for breakfast.
und vy do you eat broakfaat van It. la
cheaper to sleepT .
"JJlt you efer belong to a trust, und
how inany years dlt you serve for itt-
Do you belief in der beauties of Ufa
insurance und If so vlch vun,' Hyde or
Alexander? "
Vlch kind of a summer reaort do you
preference, aeaalda or - mountains, or
vould irou rather-atay. at home und. let
a plain burglar get your money? "
Hat you efer bad der measles, una
vy? .
."Dlt you "efer : haf a policeman , in
your family, und vot vas he after?
Do you safe-your money peraonaiiy,
or do you get dem to safe It for you at
der racetrack?- - ;
- "Ven you voka up dlt you turn ofer
und-vent to sleep again? -r
"Do you own der house you live in,
or does def chanltor dink hs Owns IV?
' "Vaa your married life happy,' und
who Is to blame? . v
i'Do you own a auto, or do you dink
you ought toown a..auto,und If you
ought to owrua-auto vould you kill pe-
daattUns for self derensa or ror piaaa
ura onlyf
-"Ven laat seen vot vas ydr , visible
means of supportr
Den der censua-tooker vlped der- per
spiration from his heated -brow, -.und.
borlna: a hole in bis tongue mlt his lead
pcricll, ho valted for ma to hand htm .a
cubbla'of answers.
. "Yes." i resDonBed. afcaant-mindedly.
"Den dare vas a thunderous sound like
ven der angry atorm clouds , vaa brew-
tng lrt der brewery. . ,.
, It vaa my vlfe csnteinaMdPwn atalra.
' "I haf oferheard him," aha vispered
mlt a hoarseness. "Vy do you stand
dare- Ilka- a vooden - manat Vy? Haf
ou aot no brafery leftT Vara la all
your Dutch courage? ' Show aome of it.
show It! Ask him some qvestlonB! Haf
sou lost your interrogation point? QollTH. take tho quickest road coming
on: be a man und enow your apunai
Ask him a. cubble of hard vunsr;
"It Is too late,'-1 made der murmur;
too lata. He knows efarydlng!"
-"Ach, hlmwral!" Bet my vlfe. oes
ha know dot I am atlH vearing last sum
mar's Mother Hubbard?" ' j
va." I resDonsed mlt a sorrowful
ness, und den my vlfe collapsed herSnlf
und a large part of der hall floor.
Mlt a fiendish, laughter der census
tooker dlaappearanced in der next door,
und I knew nuddlng more because he
knew it all. D. DINKEI.SPIEL.
Per Oeorga V. Hobart.-
WcddingGown8oLDuchsa Cecelia.
From the - New York American.
Of cloth of silver, woven of threads
of Bolld silver, fine aa cobwebs. In
fashion the gown Is exceedingly simple,
aa the very heavy material doea not
admit of muchdraplng. Tha Bllghtly
decollete corsage haa very short sleeves,
being little more thsn a big puIW and
. iighilv drsnsil at llif tiPttr" "
-It Is eleborately embroidered in silver
applique, with a rosebud and art thistle
pattern combined.--A bertha of the em
broidery outlines the decollete and the
aklrt snd long train have a wtdo.naunce
of the same embroidery. ,
- The whole. In solid silver U reUeyejJ
by a royal court train of ruhy velvet,
embroidered ln'-llvrt-and - lined -with
ermine. " "' . -
It la. held in place art the shot lders by
diamond eagles. Some Idea of the rich
ness of this regal robe msy be attained
when It la contemplated that the material
alone which, by tha way, la Russian In
fabric cost 15,000 francs, and upon the
work of embroidering 60 girls were kept
busy over three weeks. -The whole robe
completed repreaenta a Value of over Sp.
000 francs; , - f n --
At tha wedding ceremony the. Grand
Duchess Anaatasla, mother of thsrbrlde,
wore her own wedding gownof 25 yeara
ago, which Is of the same cloth of sil
ver as that of her daughter.
- It was thla motherly-instinct that her
dauabter should .wear a wedding gown
of tha same material aa her own which
prompted the grand duchess, who is a
Russian, to select that material outside
Germany, Jujst -aa she' selected Levlllon
In PaHs to create the gown, because
Levlllon had always made tha Ducheaa
Cecilia's gowns since she was a little
girl, little -.thinking, perhapa, that aha
would bring down upon her head tha
wrath of tha Oerman people and tha con
demnation . of the German press in
. The Wearing jpt -Tuxedos. '
- - Beaunck frt tha Haberdasher.- -While
the vogue' of the evening Jacket
seems to.be-spreading, it really lent,
unless we accept tha diner at flashy
hotels as setting tha mode. ' I have been
at particular ps.tns to look- Into thla and
I find among men- of asaured- social poal
tlon a dlslncHaailon to wear ths '.Jacket
at any tlma. Tha plea that thagarment
la' comfortable la-quite without -pM;
a belted "Norfolk -would -be even more
comfortable, and yer to: appesr ln.lt of
an evening would stsmp the wearer aa a
"bounder" of the craeeeet type. Don't
misunderstand me, the evening jacket Is
proper enough .In . its . place, but that
Isn't where women are to ba met.. Go
to any of tha popular seaaKU resorts snd
you will sea. the evening Jacket In tha
plentltnde of Its glory. Visit any of
tha really smart summering plaeee. how.
ever, aur h aa Newport. Bar Harisr.qr
Narrag ansett, . aaa . ' number . of
Jacketed -man may be counted on- eneVt
14 Hngera. I am not an antl-Jacketer. but
I malnutn . firmly that - tha . garment
ahould ba reserved for those occasions tor
which only It Is suited and not worn
about poomiacuouslyv " ' -
PORTLAND TO BE THE
GREATEST CITY 4
In republishing an engineer's report
from The Journal, H. R. Kincald, editor
or the .Oregon State Joufnai, published
at Eugene, says:-., :-'
"During the' laat! S3 year or more we
have oTTen stated in editorials in the
Oregon State Journal, as well as In con
versations with numerous persons in
Eugene, Portland and elsewhere, our be?
Ilef that Portland, Oregon, la deatlned to
become the. greatest city on the western
coaat of the - American,, continent, ; aur
paaalng San' Francisco and . any other
place on Puget sound or elsewhere along
th--Paclflocost of America, and be
coming one of the" greatest cities in tha
world. A" few months" ago wa made
this then .arid now 'seemingly ridiculous
prediction,' at his residence In Portland,
to- Mx Fred V. - Holman, a well-known
attornay-ef that city and a regent of the
ynlveraityuof Oregon. -A bout tS yeara ago,
while returning home to Eugene from a
trip to Seattle, ws made the same pre
dictlon, which seemed mors absurd, then
than Undoes now or did a few yeara
or a few months ago, to the late Will
lam 8. Ladd In his banking bouae In
Portland. On many other occaatons we
have expressed the same. opinion .- to
people in Ban Francisco, Seattle, Spokane,
Portland, Salem. Eugene and elsewhere.
at home and abroad, and irequently the
aama views In edltorlala In these col
umns. Our reasons for so believing have
been that San Francisco Is too. farj
south; that Portland la In the latitude !
of greatest cities around tne globe: has
the ' only great liver - on tha western
coast that outs thr'ought the mountains
and placea It on fresh water, with the
orient acroas the ocean on one side of
ly and half a continent tributary to.lt
on the etner side. In the canter, with
Oregon, California and Mexloo on the
south and Washington, British Columbia
and, Alaska on the north-w.rerijUia greatJ
cicy- mnr pc. oui uever uiitir-wtw, nm
even In Portland among the people who
had the greatest Interest at stake, have
we aver round a alngle person at any
time or In. any place who agreed with
ua In the opinion that Portland will
soma time be the chief city on. the Pa.
clflo-coast and one of the largest In tha
world. They all thought that San Fran
cisco, Seattle or 'soma other place on
the aound or aoma other place , along
the coast, would , be tha largest city,
Portland was not In It at all with any
of them, not wtth Its cltlsens, and per.
hapa 1b not yet. . It ia too near them,
Now, after waiting for SO or 4J years for
a solitary convert to what aaemed te b
an absurd theory, wa have found a report-
tn a newspaper that a civil engi
neer, who has recently come to. Port
land, expresses' similar opinion, and
we hasten to print It.-It will not ba
long before there will be others itho. will
begin-to-see algns of coming events, and
then there will be a mighty rush to
get In-on ' the ground floor.-any where
between the falls and 'tha mouth of the
Willamette." . . '. ' ''
- Fast Traln-nrt Thfhgir '- ;
''":' Mr Wast Jones, . : i
: The New Yorker was on his way to
the Centrifugal station. "I'm going
to Chicago,"-ha told his friend. - .
"But tha Penneylvanus will get -you
there in II hours, said hls friend. -"I
know," responded tha New Yorker.
backr"
Satan caught eight of a . snowball
which Borne charitable soul had thrown
Into. his domain .... - i-- -
J'lt ahrlnka like the Equitable eurplus.
1 heiua'rked sadly. , .'V
The Ducheas Cecilia wore a gown
which had been crttleleed by tha kaiser.
Sha had to get out of bed at . dawn
because the kaiser had set the fashion
In his palace.
Bhe passed through streets decorated
In accordance with tha naiaers ideas.
Sha listened to a sermon from a text
chosen by the kaiser.
At the end of tha day she must have
fait' a little uncertain aa. to whether
she was married to the kalaer or to the
crown prince.
- Alfona'o and Edwsrd were slone for a
moment. "
"I wish I had your tact and popular
1 WISH nau Jr i """ ."'"-"U,n,1. - wK- ,h. and
JJty.anjl secursjoalnaaironso.
"I'd give them all,
asld Edward, "to
have your youth. . . : -
Thn tha vouna king thonght-of cer
tain pretty facea and smiled. Thftlold
klnsMhought of certain bright eyes and
sighed, - , . ' .
z The Swedish Nobilityv
- From the - Pall - Mall -Gasette. -Profeasor
Fahlbeck glvea ua a his
torical sketch of what Is perhaps the
mnat Interesting nobility In Europe.
One all-oowerful. thla began to lose
power under Qustavus ' Wasa. - and
Charles XI. with the help of the mer
chsnt claas, gave lti the political coup
da grace In 1660, only a few years be
fore our own revolution. -y- '
Of the 1,000 noble .families In Sweden
at least three quarters are 'of .Swedish
or Finnleh origin, and t" Bernadolfe
dynasty is only responsible for some
150 creations. The.weskest point In the
order 'seems to be Its wsnt of vitality,
only one family having laatad mow tha"
300 yeara, while only JO have passed
their second century. This Profeeaor
Fahlbeck explains by the number of
bachelors to be found among it ranke,
and also to the paucity of children with
whlch-thS better ctaae In Sweden seem
to be blessod a complaint of which we
have heard something elBewhere.
Yet Swedes, sb a rule, make good hus
bands, and the attention of the fair
American might be profitably turned to
their nobility whan all the eligible Eng.
llsh dukes have been captured. Mean
whlTr" the'ai'TsTdcTattoO-rnT-Wf "Swedish
society and that. of Norway, where Pro
feasor Fahibock tells us there sre only
flva noble famtllea. smply explains the
aMfference in thla ill-matched union.
"7' The ' Farmera " Retort,'- "'
From tho Kanaas City Journal.
' "Why don't vou natronlss home mar-,
chanta?" asked a Hiawatha merchant of
a Brown county farmer, who was haul
ing home a shipment or goods pur
chased rrom a man oraer noun-.
"Why doean't the kome merchant ouy
Of thehoma" farmart" asked the old
farmar rlaht bSck. "Lat fall I offered
you soma fine potatoes for 40 canta a;
bushel. You preferred to handle Colo-j
rado potatoes. Mine, rotted In tha
ground. My neighbors had to let their
berrlerand cherrtea go to waste because ,
von merehanta ipreferred cherries and
berries from Missouri and Arkansaa.J
Before asking the farmers why they. go(
away from noma 10 nuy. imp nrsi anu
ask yourself whyt ;ou to . W'
OUR WANTS 'ARE LIKE
SANDS OF THEtSEA
y Bar. Thomas X. Clragory.
"Msn wants but llttla hare below,' :
Nor wanta that little long." .
So sang the poet, and a greater truth .
was never told
But it Is a pity that the poet .did, not J
UBS tha WOrd "naeda' ln.lfl nt ,ha
word "wanta" ' . ...
It ia perfectly true that we needHBut
little here belowand that is what tba
poet meant to Bay but it la, unfortun
ately, anything but true that we wsnt
but Uttle. ".
Our wanteour artificial longlriga
sre Innumerable, endless, ever-growing.
evar-matstent, and thereby hangs; the
tale of our human misery. "' . -
Our needs the thlnga that aje re
quired to enable ua to properly live our
lffa and adequately fulfill the ends of
our being are few and simple.
As another poet haa written
"A Held of corn, a founuin, and a wood
Is all tha wealth by Nature understood." -
Something to eat, something to drink"
snd something 4 keep ua warm. , ' Food,; '
clothing, aheltar. These ara thethrae-'
primal neceaaltlea, of our human nature.
,rtheaa things we- inuafr-have, Iw-order
that we may live and ao-our worlt;-but-w
ahould concern ourselves with them
no further than la necessary.
Plenty of good, wholesome' food Is
better than all the vtanda of the epi
cure; a. comfortable dwelling place, large
enough, but not too large, la better than
a jualace; and. the glass of pure, cool .'
water Is better thsn any. other drink
that was ever provided by Jiature or ln
vented 1y msn. ."
With eomfortablo shelter, wholesome
food, and the drink which "cheera but
not Inebriates." we are all ready for the
proper doing of our worx. and for the
proper enjoyment of the beautiful world
in which the Creator has placed 'ua . r
But we are Buch fools we cannot, 'or :
will not, stop with ths necessities with -the
thlnga that we need but must go
on manufacturing a whole army of
wants.-an -innumerable"-multitude of
longings and desires, to make us
wretched. " ' , . '
"Things" on tha tsble". 'Hhings" In the
wardrobe, -"things" in the-house how -they
do tyrannise It over us, and die '
tract us, snd,. in. many cases, drive us .
Into crlma, madness, aulctds! r -
- How many people there ar" who ara
crasy about clothes, how many who aro
crasy about, houses and furniture, how -many
who are always debating the
question, "What shall we atT' forget
ting, in the meantime, all about the -really
Important matter; tne improve
ment of their minds and hearts and the
genersl betterment of the race to which .
they belong. , . ' -
. The sensible, bohest man or woman,
who. has a work to do aha la anxious
to do It. does not worry much over
such things. Such a person know that
houses, and furniture, and clothes, and
food are means,' not ends; and If th.
work la only being done, and the world
in .which' they And them serves -hnrnly-,
being enjoyed, that la enough,
- Speaking of enjoying tha. world, how
can It be done If we undertake to go
througn.Jfc. loaded down with baggage,
with what jthe old Romans used to call
"impedimenta" the things - 'that Im
pede? , -
- We should go through life as light nn
possible,- carrying no more -upon - out
bodice than we are obliged to carry.
. Think of tha awful loads tinder which
many peopla ara - groanlnarlfumlture,
dishes, clothes, lsrders Urnlturo that.
Is only In the way. - dlanes that they
never ua. clothes .that are - only for
show, and .larders that serve no other
purpose thsn-W- keep them -under the
doctor's care! .. -
Verily. Puck, we majr, exclaim -with
(he "What foola these mortals be!"
I wish every man - and - woman In
America would buy a copy of Thoreau's
"Walden" and read It aa the most de
vout do their Bibles... Jt would do us
more god thsn the Philippines will ever-p
do ua . .,. r-.y -.
En ' route up- the Missouri river from '
Fort Mandan, near ths site of Bismarck,
N. D. The partjr.Js now nearlng the :
Rocky mountains. 1
June 23 We now set out to pass the
portage and halted for dinner at eight
miles' distance near a Tittle stream-. The
axletrees-of our -carriage,"' whlch had
been made of an old mast, and the Cot
tonwood tongues broka before we came
there; but we renewed -them wUfc - tha
timber of the sweet willow,- which lasted
till within half a mile of our intended .
- ""ff"" "".k. V. mach baa-
gage- as we could carry on our backs
down to tha river, where we formed an;
encampment 1n a small grove of timber-
opposite to the Whltebear islands. . Here
the banka on both sides of the river
sre handsome, level and extensive; "that,
near our camp is not more thsn two feet
abiivo the aur face of the water. - -- ..
The rtvT-s-about sOO-yarda wide Just-
above these Islands, 10 feet deep In most
placea, and with a very gentle current.
The plains, however, on this part or the
river are not so fertile as . those from
the mouth of the Musselshell snd thence
downward; there la more stone on The"
aides of ths hills ana on the broken
Islands thsn Is-to be found lower down.
We saw oh the plains vaat herds of
buffaloes, a number small birds 'and the ;
large brown curlew, which la now sitting
and lays Its eggs, which are of a pale
blue with black specks, on the ground .
without any nest.- There Is also a species
of lark much resembling Ihe bird called" -the
oldfleld lark, with a yellow breast
and a black apot cav the eroup, tnougn
It differs from the latter in having Its
tall formed of feathers of ah unequal
length and pointed; the beak. too. la
somewhat longerand more curved,-and
the note, differs, considerably. ... The
nrlcklv near annoyed us very much to-
day by sticking through our moccasins.
As soon as we had kindled our fires we
examined .the . meat wnicn captain .
Clark Jiad Irtt here, but found that the
greater psTrt' of U -had been ..taken by
the wolvea " - - - ,- r :
- China Saves All but Time.
Broughton Brandenburg in tne June
cosmopolitan.
& rtiinasa youngster has slight foot-
hold-in the wtrtd.Tinr in hla earliest
rtavs is Initiate -into that economy In '
all things-which becomes his .lifelong
nablt. ..---.. - - - --- -- .r-r -A
friend 'of mine hd - this fact Im
pressed upon him one day as hi stomi
at the door of a cooIle-hlrlng establish
ment bargaining for soms -men for
transport work. When ha talks he al
ways lets his pipe go out, lights It
again, lets It go out sgsln, snd so on, as
long as he. is engaged. .
Thla day ths process consumed the
fire-ends of many matches, and he threw
salda the attcks but little burnt . Sud
denly he- rhsnced to turn around, and
aaw a small boy. In whoae countenaaoa
was written great Joy, standing with
eight or tan match-atlcks In his hand
and waiting eagerly for ths' next. ; He
wanted them to take to hla mother as
an addition, to Uis family, fuel jninpi. .
LEWIS AND 1 CLARK
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