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Br Beselena.
HEN Will Carleton wrota his
. famous ballad, "Over tba Hills
to the Poorhouse,". ha must
hav had In mind soma dreary
place on a bleak New England
Had he lived in""Oregon his
Bung would have had different Hit.
Multnomah county's poorhouse bulllij thinss
Inss. some 14 In number, are situated
In tho midst of an ocean of green;
nature and art combined to make the
place a most attractive spot There, Is
nothing In any of the various buildings
to suggest that .here Is the last refuge
of thuse who found, themselves unable
to cope with "the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune," and have coma here
to sisend : their declining rears, "the
world forgetting, by the world forgot"
D.'D. Jackson is tha superintendent
In charge. His wife also takes an active
interest in the work. Dr. E. P. Geary,
county physician: Pr. C. Ft Holt house
physician, and Miss M. C. Craw, head
nurse, constitute tha rest of tha force.
Installing Electricity.'
During Mr. Jackson's- three years'
tenure in office ha has . dona wonders
In the way of improvement and altera
tions. Electricians have Ifeen, busy for
wfceks past wiring the different build
ings and they s re soon to have electric
lights for tha first time. - X new coat
of gray paint Is to be given the build
ings, and some needful improvements
made inside. All these improvements
Mi. Jackson is having made from the
appropriation allowed him by tha com
missioners for tha running of the farm,
Jie estimates that about 18 per capita
OS TfS
la required to furnish each inmate with
Includes
necessary.
food, clothes, medicines and operations
when necessary.
The food is as rood. If not better,
than many of them would get If they
were ' out' In tha : world dependent on
their own resources. Yesterday's din
ner consisted of roast beef, boiled po
tatoes, baked beans, bread and butter,
lettuce, tea and coffee. Fruits and
vegetables are erown on the farm and
In season tha tables are , supplied with
them. " .
. Tha rooms are tha perfection of neat
ness and are certainly an Improvement
in tha way of accommodation to what
tha majority of the Inmates could ex
pect from, tha cheap dodging houses In
town.-' . , . . , j
An . up-to-date chemical engine has
saved the farm from ' destruction on
three separate occasions. On the walls
of tha engine house hang a couple of
pictures from tha brush of Jesse Wad
dell, :. an old-time sign frolnter of this
city, who was at one time an Inmate
of tha farm. There is a hospital fitted
up with all sorts of appliances for mod
ern surgery, and a tubercular hospital,
large, light and airy also a number of
tents where patient can live who pre
fer an outdoor life.
Among the 175 inmates of the farm
there are all sorts and conditions of
CONSUMPTIVES WtJSP.
men. Graduates front Tale, Harvard,
Columbia) and. Oxford, men of refine
ment and education, past masters of the
social amenities of life, meet on a social
plane With the flotsam and jetsam and
tha derelicts of life.. The superintend
ent says that drink Is the cause of tha
downfall of SO per - cent of tha cases
under his chares. Other cases are due
to physical 'infirmities, old age ; and
sometimes a los of ambition and Just a
general letting go of their grip on life
a spirit of "I don't cars what becomes
of me now.", These are the most pitiful
cases of all. ' Tat, while it evokes pity,
there is ' also an element of contempt
mixed with it One expects so much
from men who started the battle of Ufa
so well equipped with mental attain
ments. The pity of it that it should
all be wasted! . '
' . There are many Interesting characters
among these wards of the county, many
of whom are well known to old-timers.
Hers is a man who for many years set
type on the Oregonian. Hera is another
they call "Judge" -no empty title in his
case.' but honestly and legitimately
earned; here is "Askansaw,": a Harvard
graduate and ex-school teacher; here
also are graduates from Yale and Ox
ford universities professional and busi
ness men. Who can proba-beneath the
surface and discover tha ethical rea
sons for the downfall, of such men as
these? Is the cause of their seeming
contentment with their present condi
tion the fact that their fall was so much
greater than .that of a plain, ordinary
man-who had nothing to expect from
life, that they became broken in mind
and body? Their 1 cases are certainly
Interesting problems to tha student of
human nature.
Draw. Monthly' Allowances. ' .
Superintendent Jackson, believes that
If there Js-a spark of latent ambition
smouldering in the breast of any of his
Charges It is a good idea to foster it.
For this reason many of tha men are
drawing small monthly allowances for
various duties they perform around the
farm. Tha men who. take cars of the
chickens and geese, tha livestock, the
dairy, etc., are all paid for their services'
and are thus enabled to supply . them
selves with many little extra luxuries.
Besides, the men who work are given
a better tania tnanf tnose who ao not
labor, and it. seems to be a, wise dis
crimination, except, of course, in case
of sickness. -
. In a little shack a mile or a mil and
a half from tha other buildings lives
Sing Bong, tha Chinese leper. Sing of
necessity leads a lonely life,' but seems
to take his lot with tha stoicism char
acteristic of his race. When called out
to bo photographed he cams forth most
cheerfully and greeted his visitors - in
a husky croak. The disease seems to
have fastened on his vocal chords and
rendered him almost speechless.'1 Poor
Blng Bong is not a pleasing object to
look at; his body is swollen Ao twice
Its natural else, but he posed . himself
Willingly and seemed to be most inter
ested in. the fact that ha was about to
hava his picture taken. Someone pre
sented him with a canary not long ago,
and ha takes much pleasure and 'comfort
In the companionship of his feathered
friend. . - ' , '
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Indian Brave an Inmate. '
That ' evan -' tha noble red . man . will
occasionally succumb to - adversity is
attested by: the fact that ' tha county
farm shelters beneath its democratic
rouf; Joe Basket 'an Umpqua bra ve, son
of a famous scout in tha war with Cap
tain' Jack in the lava beds of southern
Oregon somewhere In tha early 70s. ,
Perhaps Joe would not hava , given up
so easily, were it not for the fact that
he has lost his leg and for that reason
finds the hftspltallty of the palefaces
mora to his liking than the hostility of
his own-people to one in affliction.
Tha potter's field ilea a little way
from the-' main . building. Dotted -here
and there in symmetrical rows are small
white handboards,-each, bearing name
and data,: and underneath He all that
was . once " mortal ' of . another of ' life's
failures or unfortunates. It Is not an
unpleasant spot, with the sun shining
down upon it and the green grass wav-
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Dazzled the World But Died Bankrupt
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THERE is no mora fascinating story
in the history of "tha British turf
than that of Henry; Weysford
Plantagenet fourth and last Mar
quess of Hastings, the - richly
dowered young nobleman who for a few
mad years dazzled tha world by his
prodigality and made It gasp by his
reckleKSness, only to perish in early
m.nhnmM 'rained, discredited.7: d iB if raced
a story the very pity and tragedy of
which invest U wun a strange auure
rncnt, and which serves as an enduring
warning against me giamur nuu ganncr
of gambling on the turf.
Mother Notorious Gambler.
Seldom has a man entered the world
under such conditions of splendor and
promise as this heir to great wealth
and high rank, who was cradled in July,
but he was born with a fatal taint
in his blood, which was destined to be
Ms undoing.- His mother was one of
the most notorious aamblers in Europe
a woman who spent 1 her days and
frhia e't Continental gaming tables.
nUngr rr gold with the fierce seat of
1 he confirmed gambler. .'The Jolly Fast
Marrhloness" was the name by which
fhe was known from one end of Europe
m the other; and no one could accuse
) it of not having well earned her. title,
tun father, the marquess, on the Other
! :n t. had an absorbing passion for
1 intiiiK, and wasnerer happy -unless
! . w-rf following the hounds.
;-, r,re the embryo' peer had leartied
t t i.tln his father -died; and when, he
9 years old the death "Of his alder
, . : r made tha boy a marqfuess snd
i c r.er of vast estates, which yielded
,., 1 . 1 revenue. Hera, then, thus early
' i . . 5, wa hava all tha tlement ot
potential tragedy, youth of weak
character, with tha gambling taint in
his blood, in the uncontrolled posses
sion of an income large enough to in
dulge any vicious propensity.'
Horse Cost Seventy Thousand. -
As an undergraduate at Oxford be
began his swift and brief .career of
dlssiDation. sauanderlng his money right
and left in the company - of tha loosest
and fastest of his fellows and the
prey of a gang of .unprincipled adven-
turers. It was at this time, while sun
in his 'teens,; that the young marquess
made his first turf venture in the pur
chase of Kangaroo.: for which be paid
the unprecedented sum of $70,000 to Mr,
Henry Padwlck. Kangaroo was a fraud,
not worth his keep, and : after a most
disappointing - career eventually enaea
his days between tha shafts of a Lon
don hansom. .
. One would have thought that this first
unlucky experience would have , been a
lesson and a warning, to his lordship,
but It seems, curiously enough,1" only to
hava whetted his appetite for: tha turf;
for a little later we find him owner of
no fewer than (0 race horses in training
under John Daly, and finally launched
as a patron of the turf. Many of his
horses were of excellent quality, too-
for,, there were few" better judges - at
horseflesh than the marquess, and for a
time it seemed as -if he were- destined
to make a big fortune,, as a racing man.
In The Earl he had a perfect treas
ure, for be simply romped away with
tha Grand Prix da Paris, . and ought
easily to have won 'the Derby and St
Legar if proper care bad been taken of
him, " while in three years 1864. I860
and 1SJ the marquess won over $265.-
000 Iri stakes. He was equally fortu
nate for a time in backing other men's
horses, for lecturer's wln,ln the Cesare
wltch put 8376,004 in his pocket. It is
little wonder that in these early Jays
ha 1 was 1 in tha habit of boasting .. that
he could "make a certain 8160.000 a year
out of betting." And so he might ave
dona if he had kept his bead. .
' Probably ' his early successes turned
his brain never at any time strong, for
ha seems literally to have courted dls
aster - by , wild and - reckless plunging
One reads remarkable accounts of ha
marquess sweeping on to tha race course
in a gorgeous carriage drawn by four
to six horses, to be immediately sur
rounded by clamorous crowd of book
makers, whose wagers ha snapped up as
fast as they could shout them, regard
less of their amount.
, "They'.re laying odds on yours, my
lord " one bookmaker exclaims.
"What odds?" blandly replies - tha
owner. .-. .'
. "Well, my lonj. I'll take you mon-
ceys to r
"Put it down," is the brief response.
' "And me 300 to SOO!" "And me!"
"And me!" clamor a' swarm of pencillers
who come clustering up.
- "Done with you,' and you, and you"-
the bets are booked as freely as prof
fered. . ,'','-'
"And now, my lord. If you've a mind
for a bit mora, I'll take jyou J.gOft vto
Z.000." . . , '
"And '.ao-yoa shall."' is tha gay an
swer, as the backer expands tinder the
cheery, influence of the biggest bet of
the day. Then with their 70s to 40s
and 7 ponies to 4, tha smaller fry are
duly anregistered.. and . tha marquess
drives off. his escort gathers round him,
and away they daaa - V, .
Such Is a contemporary description of
a typical scene on the racecourse, with
this prodigal young peer as its central
figure; and similar scenes were enacted
at almost every, great race in England
for the. four or five years of his me
teoric career. Can one wonder that no
purse, however deep, could long stand
against such reckless wagering, or that
tba. .fatal day of reckoning, could not
lung ue ueiayeu , , - ; ,
' But the real cause of "Harry Hast
Inge' undoing- 'was a woman-Lady
Florence Cecilia Paget daughter of the
second Marquess of Anglesey. Lady
Florence, as soma of our readea will re
call, was one of tha loveliest women of
her time, an epitome of' female
charms." - Many a wooer sought her
hand; but her smiles were Reserved for
but two :of them all the young Mar
quess of Hastings and Mr. Henry Chap
lin, then (and we may say; even now)
one of tha handsomest men in England.
The story of her beauty and her frail
ty is still well remembered -how she "be
came affianced to Mr. Chaplin,' and then',
by a dramatic! act of fickleness, cruelly
abandoned him in favor of her titled
lover. One day, in Mr. Chaplin's company,
she drove uj to Swan & Edgar's and en
tered - tha; shop, leaving her fiance In
the carriage to await her return. But
he waited in vain, for-the fickle woman
slipped, .through -the -shot --trot try aback
entrance, entered a cab in which Lord
Hastings was awaiting her coming, and
was driven rapidly away, while tha man
to whom she had pledged her troth was
patiently expecting her return, at the
opposite side of tha building. , -
For this act of treachery a terrible
penalty was exacted a few month later.
i JJatween tha two tnan-vtha betrayer and ,
tha betrayed -a fierce, relentless - feud
was waged from that fatal day. Mr.
Chaplin scored the first point in tha
dual, when Hermit was put up to auc
tion; Lord Hastings forced tha bidding
up to 85.000 which . was considered
ridiculously high price for such a poor
animal; but a- further bid of. 8260 se
cured tha animal-for his rival,' and with
if though he little- suspected it at the
time, the means of a well-planned re
venge. ' t
Hermit was . entered for the 1867
Derby, but so ' poor were his chance
considered that odds of 66 to 1 were
freely laid against him. Tha marques
laid persistently and heavily against his
rival s horse until he stood to. lose over
6000,000; never, we may be sure, dream
lng for a moment that Hermit could by
any possibility win. . The memory of
that sensational and tragic race is al
most as fresh now as onthe day when
it was run. - The snow was falling in a
blinding shower as the horses struggled
gamely over the heavy course; to the
amazement of every . onlooker Hermit
was seen gradually to force his way to
the front, and. amid a scene of unprece
dented excitement he passed tha post a
winner. ,.'
Heavy as wa tha blow, the marquess
took it with a smile, although, in order
to pay. his losses,-: he had to part with
his magnificent' estate of Loudoun, la
Scotland, , valued at 81,600,00a. 'And
when he drove off the course in a ba
rouche and four, with soma of his boon
companions, to dina at Richmond.- he
was:' to all appearand the . gayest of
them : alL :. But he was a crushed and
broken .man. - He -never recovered from
the blow which Fate dealt him that day,
and but a few hours before his death
be said to a friend, with a pathetic min
gling of pluck and pride: "Hermit fair
ly broke my heart But. I didn't show
itdldir .
But Nemesis was still on tha track of
Harry Hastings, relentless in pursuit;
and tha next and last, blow fell' in the
autumn of thl black year. Ill lordship
had entered his two-year-old filly, Lady
Elisabeth, for the Middle' Park Plata at
the Newmarket Second , October meet
ing, and - confidently looked to her to
recoup his losses.. To his consternation
however,; she utterly failed to come up
to i his ' expectations, and - finished," in
stead of first, a bad fifth.
, . For , a moment he turned pal and
reeled under this cruel stroke. Alarmed
by 'his look of anguish and despair,.
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, one of
the best-hearted of women, by whose
carriage he wa standing, sought to dis
tract him by thrusting her betting book
into ,hls hand.: Prof easing to be much
concerned at her own losses, she asked
him, in an agitated voice, ."Tell me how
I stand?". In a moment tha marquess
was himself; and, vglanclng over the
book, ' handed it back to her. with the
words, as calm and unconcerned as if
he himself had no. interest in the race,
' you nave lost tzi." .
That it is said. Was the only occa
sion on ' Which his lordship showed the
slightest emotion, however great his
losaea But human ' nature, however
controlled.': has its limits of endurance;
and the -marquess realized that ha had
thrown his dice for the last time and
had lost" He was a hopelessly ruined
man; and, - what was far worse, mora
galling, to his proud nature he was dis
graced, -for he was utterably unable to
pay 1 his, creditors. lHs ancestral 'es
tates- and his money,' accumulated dur
ing his long minority, had all gone; and
though ha sold his horses and hounds.
and pawned his furniture and Jeweiery
all he had in the world he still re
mained 8200,000 In debt to. the King.
Nor -was this all; for grave doubt was
cast on his honour, his most cherished
possession, by the.enexpllcable running
of Lady Elizabeth, and by his scratching
of The Earl on the evening before tha
race, who was considered a certain win
ner of -the Derby of 1868. ; These ques
tionable, proceeding, raised - storm- of
abuse and suspicion over tha head of
the fallen Idol. . .
lng above It Hera lie buried many man
who were once well knon in Portland,
but who suddenly dropped from sight
There are' 1.600 eraves and a record has
been kept of them since 1867. The first
person interred in this burying ground
was Henry Howland, at one time a wall
known resident of this.clty.
And ' so tha sun rises and sets day
after day on the lnmntes of the farm,
the living and tha dead. Oblivion ha
overtaken the latter; as for tha former,
they have sought it to the best of their
ability in the one place left them until
the recording angel shall write , over
their remains the one word finis. '
. The career, which had opened with
such a blase of promise was now near
ing It close under clouds and tempests.
Shattered n Jiealth and fortune and
brokan in spirit, the young man escaoed
from England for a few months to aeek
heaitn and peace in Norway, But th
quest was In vain; tha fiat had gone
forth that his day of conquest and da
feat alike was over, and he returned to
.r-Kland a dying man.. (
Only, once mora wa his familiar fig
ure seen on any racecourse, and that .
was at the Newmarket First October
meeting orvj8i?8, nearly a year after
he had received his last staggering blow.
Pallid, emaciated, a pltlfjul wreck of
his former strength, he tat' cushioned
and rug-covered In a basket-carriage, an
Object of pity to all beholders, while
ha watched his beautiful mare Athena
win a race, and . staggering from hi
carriage he patted her graceful nsck
as she wa led away to tha weighing
t Willi .
- Even at this eleventh- hour he co3
not, bankrupt as. ha was, refrain, front 1
wagering a modest "pony," and he smil
ed a wan, pathetic smile when tha book
maker brutally said, "Now mind, I'm
to be paid this," And that was tha last
tha world saw of the once gay, dehor
air, reckless plunger who had flamed
so brilliantly across tho sky," a short
lived, dazzling meteor of the Turf, ,
.- It was his intention to spend tha win
ter abroad. In the hope that the flicker
of life that wa left in him might be
fanned into flame under the blue skies
and mild air of .Egypt; but he did not .
live to make the Journey. On the 11th
Of November he breathed his last, hav
ing crowded into 26 years an experience
of the vicissitudes of fortune such as -few
men have known in throe times his
brief span; and leaving behind him thj
memory, of a wasted Ufa, relieved and
let us pay this tribute to; him by a
courage, which, under other conditions,
might have made his name honoured
and revered.