THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY . MORNING. MAY 3, 1908.
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ISTORV OF NORTH AMtiK
ICA' Vol 0, edited by Fran
els N. Thorpe, Ph. . D.
"Island Possessions, by A. E,
McKlnley. Ph. D. Quite prop
erty the treatment of this part of the
history of North America should remain
for the closing- volume! It close a se
rles of perhaps the moat notable his
tories ever i produced in . America; cer
tainly none haa ever had a broader
scope, and none haa had brought Into
them more authoritative uueoi or vun
sclenttous and intelligent service. The
authors of the various volumes have
been men eminent in the partioular
field of which they have written; men
whose names stand for great achieve
ments in the world Of letter, ana men
whose education and training for the
worn has Deen above reproacu. .
Professor McKlnley. in bringing the
series to the finis, has maintained to
the end the standard that was original
ly set and which has been Conscientious
ly adhered to throughout. 4
It has been a difficult tasV that, was
assigned Trofessor McKlnley, for as
Island possessions our colonies can
hardly yet be passed into history, but
aarthe editor says in his introduction.
"It is yet too soon to play the prophet
with reepectf to these new possessions,
but as prophecy ultimately accords with
history the future of these possessions
may best be read in their history before
. their acquisition by the United States
and in the trend of affairs since they
became American, soli." It Is In this
way. then, the- author has chosen to
treat his. subject. He givss graphical
ly the history of these possessions, be
ginning with our relations with Cube,
out of which our island- possessions
grew. The way Cuba has -woven in and
out of American history from the day
of its discovery to the present is in
teresting in the extreme, u It gives
one much to speculate upon; for. small
and comparatively unimportant as it is,
l haa ihni1 tha Tn&O of thS WOrld
and confronted the United States witfej
the greatest problems or us existence,
though the author does not concede that
it made the United States a world pow
er, for he believes It was that before
the Maine went down tn Havana har
bor. -In speaklnw of the belief -by such
men as Jefferson. John Qulncy .Adams
and others of the foupders of our re
public that Cuba must eventually be
annexed to the United States, the au
thor drops a sentence which indicates
his doubt on the subject. He' says:
The -movement toward "annexation thus
Irdorsed so heartily by the early fath
ers has not yet reached Its goal, and it
la new questionable whether it ever will
be attained." f
The author devotes two chapters to
n exhaustive treatment of Porto ' Rico
and then lakes up Hswaflthe Phil
ippines, Samoa, imam ino me inmjr
islands. America's interest la nil these
i. nt mioh recent date that evenyone
timniit in familiar with the facts a
they passed In review through the dally
papers, but perhaps the history before
they came to us is less familiar than
any other countries on the globe. But
to properly and Intelligently meet the
problems of these possessions as they
Will Ire presenieu iiuiu wnm w ,... .
Bhouli not only be the pleasure but the
duty of every gdod cltisen to Inform
himself, for the problems are now ours
to solve, and not the problems of our
hali-clvil!ed -wards. To study these
things no better text book could.be
provided thun Professor McKlnley has
given in mm nisivry. " "
uie past and brought to us much valu
able Information, and Just the Informa
tion wc must have if as a nation we
are to pursue our policy of expansion
with wisdom and Justice. The lust 200
pages cf this .book Is given to a general
fnuex of the Entire 20 volumes, there
are Included many interesting iiiusira
c uinTi nit niHDa and. facsimiles.
An interesting feature is a Tu U facsim
ile, .mom. or in may
tween apnln and the United States.
B'lnla- cannot be written to the review
Just tribute being paid to the publish
ers for their enterprise, publio spirit
and generosity which prompted them
to undertake a work of such magnitude
and so successfully push it to comple
tion, and they richly deserve the re
ward of appreciation, which simply
means that in purchasing the series the
favor must eventually rest tfpon the
buyer, who will be more than repaid
for the ' outlay of money. For particu
lars, George Barrie & Sons. 1313 Wal
nut street, Philadelphia.
"The Judgment of Eve," by May Sin
clair. The publishers announce this as
a novel where "there is no problem in
volved, no case of alienated love, no
psychological dilemma," and, yet it Is
very doubtful if at the conclusion the
reader would agree entirely with this
statement for there is as deep a prob
lem Evolved aa ever faced the human
race the problem of reproduction.
It la a simple story all too common in
tne conaiuon or our ran eiuiguremucui.
Acaie Purcell was the pretta; belle of
the village, and Just beginning to grow
passe from the fact of sisters, back of
her arriving at w a marriageable age.
When the atory opens she had two lov
ers, John Hurst the strong, forceful
money maker, and Arthur Catty, the
sentimental bank clerks The first is dis
carded for his materialism, and the lat
ter accepted , for his- Intellectuality,
which was the spurious type so often
developed in lieu of will power and
generally indexing supreme selfishness.
Hurst married Aggie's sister Susie, and
together they waxed fat and grew rich.
Miss Sinclair has given us a type in
Aggie that happily is going out or date.
It Is doubtful It she can be found any
where today in the ranks f educated
women. The evolution has come
through education and the emancipa
tion will be the saving of the nation.
Whllo the Aggies are passing there are
still, a few men and women who' prate
of wifely -submission and face suicide
as the heaven and hell of marital dlety.
Tha saving grace of Arthur Oatty was
his Industry; he plodded along like a
patient anlmaL leaving the pleasures
of life behind. While he earned bread
for the six little Oattys that arrived in
that many years and grew petulant and
exacting under the burden of the family
Aggie was bringing into his house
never recognisine- his own responsibil
ity In the matter. Aggie was the de
voted, faithful wife and ' mother, 'ac
cepting the punishment 'of Eve and kiss
ing the rod that smote her, paying to
the utmost . farthing the' command,
, "Wives, submit yourselves unto you
own husbands as unto the Lord." Like
wise her husband accepted -: the , place
k "as head'of the wlfer even as Christ Is
the head of the -church." ' There was
no lack of marital love between this
Fair, no disloyalty by -word or deed, la
act they lived the most exemplary life
according, to- scripture interpretation,
and yet, was- the result satisfactory?
This la the problem of the book, with
apologies to Miss Sinclair's ' publishers
for contradicting their statement 'that
H is ft book without a problem.-- -
' Miss Sinclair's style needs no.com-
aocl their
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writer of fiction.
The DUbltahers have certainly done
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and exquisitely bound, with some good
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"The Sacred' Herb," by Fergus Hume.
Like all of Mr. Humes' work, this is
an original plot, of compelling interest.
It Is not a detective story, though the
unraveling of a crime is the motif of
tne taie.
A rich old man had been murdered In
his country home under very peculiar
circumstances, no one being near but
nia niece, who teatiTled tnat she haa
ntered the room and found It full of
raxrant white smoke, which .rendered
ler unconscious. She was tried for the
murder, but acquitted for tack or posl'
tlve evidence.
During the trial a wealthy young no
bleman, by chance wandered Into the
courtroom, and watching the trial, fell
In love with the girl.. Realizing that
her Innocence could never be wholly es
tablished to the world until 'the real
murderer was brought to -Justice, he
takes upon himself the task of finding
him. ,
Being an. elctenslve and observant
. .... 1 V. w ..i a l . i j.nA.i.
tion of the fragrant, white smoke the
sacred herb which only grows on Easter
island, so he starts out to rind the
herb in possession of some one, and
detecting the odor at a mask ball he
gets the clue which carries him through
a labyrinth of exciting -adventures
whloh creates a complex and complicat
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Clairvoyance and hypnotism play a
strong' part, and add their mystic charm
to the solution of the mystery.
The story Is well worth reading, and
Is notable for both plot and execution,
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"Alexander H. Stephens," by Louis
Pendleton (American Crisis Biogra
phies) In' reading the biography of
Alexander H. Stephens one Is forced to
the conclusion that certainly great Is
sues produce great men. The three
score years and ten that covered the
span of bis life were unquestionably
the most momentous In the history of
the United States, for issues were
raised and forever laid, more portentous
than ever before, or even again "111
have to be met This does not mean
to belittle the wider scope or magni
tude of the problems that ase coming
to us through -our colonial possessions,
our race problems and many other
things of a grave and serious nature.
But when they come we will meet them
as a united nation. ' The issues' that
met Stephens and that -brilliant galaxy
of statesmen, were the Issues of a di
vided country; a country . feeling, its
way to world sower through an un
tried system of government Few ni-f
tions have ever been put to such a test
and no country could bsve withstood
ii wunout me cuiene oi great men, men
of colossal intellect,, such as America
had at that time upon both sides of the
Mason and Dixon line.- Among these
towered .Alexander H. Stephens, aa txp
lcal an American as ever -raised his
voice in debate in the nation's capitoL
A Georgian f by birth, a child of the peo
ple, stuntedK by the curse of the south
ern states Ichlld labor he - arose - to
eminence through self-education and be-,
came the great exponent and. cham
pion of state sovereignty. His fine legal
mind and convincing oratory made him
a power In his town state and In the
councils of the natioiy, He became vice
president of the Confederacy, Jhougn al-
WAva Annnlnr UHtMlLnn. inrf Vita
avowed opposition to the policy of Jef-
xerson uavis never endeared him to the
worshipers of "the lost cause as were
many of the hot-headed enthusiasts who
were pigmies of intellect compared with
him. let in even so Impartial, just and
conscientious a work as Mr. Pendleton
has given, the most careless -reader
must regard, Alexander H. Stephens as
ons of the few great balance wheels
t..ai kept the ship of state from going
upon the- rocks of irretrievable ruin, t
The author in his biography haa been
fair tn every particular, giving histor
ical facta and dates and allowing thr
reader to place the subject in whatever
niche thev may deem him - fitted for. '
The work Is fuU enough to show the
Influence of Stephens' life upon publio
affairs for a space of nearly 60 years,
yet it does not deal enough, with detail
to become tiresome, ,
It is ur to tne stanaara or tne worK
tha. has preceded, it in this valuable
series of biographies, all of which can
bei highly;, commended, - particularly to
y,oung readers wno . nave -not yet ar
5s i WW"-
rived at the age to enjoy or profitably
read more profound history.
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It may bo remembered that several
months nzo a local theatre was about
to produce a dramatization of Mr. Louis
Joseph Vance's "The Brass Bowl," and
to the disappointment of many Hn in
junction was served upon the theatre
ros..lning it from producing the play,
because of a violation of the copyright.
It will consequently be a pleasant sur
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have made satisfactory arrangements
and ' ihe Brass Bowl" will be staged
this fall..
This was Mr. Vance's first great lit
erary success, but the current - number
of Bookman reports his latest book,
"The Black Bag." as leading the list
of best-selling books of America.
"The Bird Our Brother." bv Ollvs
Thome Miller. Mrs. Miller has un
doubtedly made a more intimate study
of the ways and manners of birds than
any other American writer, perhaps
than any other writer in the world. Her
observations cover a period of 25 years
or more, during which she has devoted
a very large share of her time to that
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Interpretation for which she is famous.
Now she gives us the net results of her
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that she finds In the birds a closeT men
tal and moral relationship with man
than IS allowed to them hv -Art a In
recent writers.
All readers who are Intprpstod in tha
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to learn what Mrs. Miller has to say
out of her fund of bird lore.
The. book IS written n Mm MlUnr'a
always readable stvle. and ham th
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To introduce to .the fiction reading
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whose previous book, "A Flight to
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In "The Adventures of Charles Edward"
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The'experlenees of a nractlcal nhoto-
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the principal feature of Photo-Era
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Using an Ordtnarv Window," by Felix
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C0UET JAILS HUSBAND;
COLLECTION FOR WIFE
" St.' Louis, April 2. After denouncing
Frank, Jaslnskl "for mistreating the
mother of his, seven children, , Police
Court Judge Pollard today fined) Jas
lnskl $600 and then adjourned ; court
five minutes, while he took up a col
lection for the toll 'worn woman.
- The Judge started the collection with
$B. The clerk canvassed the court-room-end
the collection totaled 317.
Judge Pollard presented the money to
the woman, who was weeping with grat
itude. . 1 ' r
"God) bless every contributor to this,
Whatever the sum. Court will now re
sume." said the Judge. Jaslnskl went
to tha workhouse. ,
WOMEN'S CLUBS MID WORK
Edited by Mrs,
OMAN'S progress- and . achieve
ments were ' excellently set
forth, Iq the following address,
given by 'Mrs. A. B, Manley
- ' at the last m aetlng of the
Woman's club which' was designated, as
"Woman's DayJ and was in charge of
Mrs. Manley; ' 1
"When I was altfid to Join the
Woman's club I was told I could be
active or not, but. at the en J of two
years I find myself responsible for a
day. . I have been asked, what benefits
has the club tq offer? and been told
If I had lots of money or was smart
I'd Join the Woman idub. .
"Immediately after joining the club
I was asked to what side I belonged.
After two years' membership I have not
discovered the dividing line; it i Just
the club to me.
"As this was to be a woman's day
I thought I would tell you of some of
tha lines and varieties of occupations of
women least known about in which
hwomen have made a success, for you are
All r&ml Ar with f na . manv urrwi liva
risen tS eminence In the law, medicine
or uie ministry.
"Lucy Baker Jerome In an article en
titled 'Business Women of California'
tells of the success of many women in
unique fields of tabor, viz: farming.
uee jieeping, puuiiiy raining, upiei
clerks, librarians, photography and
iuns,
lithography. The insurance business
shows a number of brilliantly success
ful women. There are 12 women notar
ies in Ban Francisco, all of whom have
won the confidence of the business men
of the city. Advertising is followed by
a few and with great success by the
women who attempt it.
"Mrs. Julia P. Thomas Is one of the
very f ew . women who have turned to
ballooning for amusement. 6 he never
experiences - fear while In the wicker
chair though Bhe has had experiences
which were sufficient to make her
change ' her opinion of aerial naviga
tion. She is much interested In the
experiments of her husband. Dr.
Thomas, with balloons and airships, so
that ballooning to her is really more
than pastime.
"In Prussia and Scotland two brand
new fields of activity have been thrown
open to women. In Prussia a special
police corps composed of women has
been created for the purpose of taking
care of drunken men who are Incapaci
tated for taking care of themselves. Th.e
women wear a Uniform resembling the
garb of the Salvation army. The mem
bvTf of the corps are aealgned by their
chief to airrereni pars or me ciy una
usually work in PJ VVhen assist-1
ance is needed it is summoned by means
or a wlllSlie, just as reguwr puuueuieu
call for one another. ,
"In Scotland almost all the various
branches of railroad labor have been
opened to women. Today all along the
Scottish lines one may see women super
intending stations, managing the trans
fer of baggage, selling tickets, working
signals everything but ruuning engines
and breaking trains.
"Finland, by united and equal suf
frage. Justly considers Itself the most
advanced country in the world, and is
planning to give the country the best
administration In the civilised world.
Dagmar Neovlus-ls one of the greatest
statesmen and politicians In the world.
In the late uprising against Russia she
played a leading part At present she
Is righting for Finland's Independence.
In a rment letter from her she says:
I will demand our congress shall found
art schools for girls and the education
of women as well as of men shall be
ree of cost. Ftnlantt ought to be the
freest and best ruled country In the
world '
Miss Margaret A. Hanna will be one
of tho attaches to accompany the United
States delegation to the second Hague
conference the first woman, it 1s said,
to hold such a position. Miss Hanna
Is private secretary to Second Assist
ant Secretary of State Adee and has an
extensive knowledge of International
law and precedent. Her appointment W
a recognition of the ability she has
shown tn handling diplomatic matters
,hi,h iinvo been assigned ner In the
"Mli Marv Clark Is the only woman
in h wnfld who has nv.de a "iiecess
D-mminB- nfiuicrm t hT the n.arkot.
ck. a hiirhor (trade an more
of It to the acre than her ncibors
it,a Jessie Ackerinun contributes
to the 'Woman's Journal' ori uK-rest ng
r, thn woman's clubs of the
Argentine Republic. Argentina Is prob
ably the only country in the world
whose congress PPrPrVte.h.$1JJiftnM
year to aid the work of the national
council of women.
"Miss Mary A. Booth of Springfield.
Massachusetts, is an expert In Photo
micography the delicate are of Photo
graphing through a microscope She
can take an excellent photograph of a
Crossly, daughter bf
Prosecutor Crossly of 1 ronton New
Jersey. haB taken up the unusual duty
of serving notices for the attorney gen
eral on the presidents of lawbreaklng
corporations. As Is well known some of
these magnates show great -skin in
evading male process servers, but when
a representative of a big concern hears
that a young lady wants to see him
and he catches a glimpse oi a dwuuiui
a-irl waiting m the anteroom he hastens
to ojen ' the door of his office and is
promptly served with a notice.
"Miss Carrie Hamilton of Brattleboro
la the only woman ice dealer in Ver
mont Last winter her-ice concern har
vested more ice than any other concern
In the state. . . ,
EgVPt weicomea, iasv '
rl graduate, the A. Br degree having
hn rained by a Moslem girl student
"Miss Louise Crane has been ap
pointed oermanent secretary twr the
Mississippi division of the Southern Cot
ton association. She Is the only woman
official of this graet planters combine.
She prefers to dress in homespun gar
ments mide from her own cotton.
"Miss Minnie Hagmann of St tnls
is a skilled blacksmith. Her father
says she knows more about blacksmlth
ing and wagon building than the aver
age skilled workman, and takes more in
terest in her father's business than any
min he could possibly hire.
"Miss Marie C. Kiser of Trenton, New
Jersey, is believed to be the first wom
an to enter the ranks of the profes
sional chauffeur. .
J'A woman druggist is at the head of
the large municipal hospitals of Am
sterdam. She and her seven young as
sistants average 900 perscrlptiona a
da"Mlss Alice Toder of Pennsylvania
conducts the only farm run on modern
agricultural principles in Berar prov
ince of India. She was sent out by the
Christian Alliance of the United Evan
gelical church to teach natives expert
farming. Her farm is the only one In
the province that can withstand the long
dry season. Three hundred native or
phans live and work on the place under
the care and tuition of . Miss Yoder and
her four assistants.
"Miss Elizabeth Grace is a probation
officer of the Chicago Juvenile court
She was sworn in as a police officer
and her beat Is the stockjards district
one of the toughest In the city where
she v finds plenty of strenuous work.
Having a ,warm Mnd sympathetic na
ture she appeals to boys and shows
great tact In handling the fathers when
occasion demands. Reports say she pos
sesses a power over this element that a
man could not attain.
"Suzanne Meyer, a French woman, has
for three years cultivated the curious
art of modeling bread crumbs. She
soaks the bread in various colored
liquids and then works with the paste
from a palette, having Invented the
process which makes bread crumbs elas
tic and almost unbreakable. The French
government has bought one of ner
works an apple tree In blossom.
"For a few moments let us look at
what other clubs are doing. Mrs. J. E.
Foster, who is sent out by the govern
ment In the interest of prison reform,
savsf--i 'In . prison reform no state is
ahead of Indiana in its desire to minis
ter to women who are down and out I
have traveled In .Russia and seen Its
prisons, to Chln, Japan and the. Phil
ippine Islands, and I Judge a nation by
its treatment of classes thafSafe down
and out.' . i .' '."
"No state but Indiana has taken Its
women from Jail to a 1 workhouse , for
women;, through medical science has
been enacted a law that the power . to
Sarah A. Evans
create shall be taken from degenerate
men. Indiana is the only state that
has been brave enough to take tha step.
Indiana air o haa the honor of establish
ing the first woman's prison in America.
To an Indiana woman belongs the honor
of founding in 186 the first woman's
club In tha United States. (Ed note: This
was called Minerva irfterary society and
was started by Mr a. Runcie. who is
still living. SorOBls of New York was
the first organisation "of women to
adopt the j name 'club' In 1884. and
Phoebe Cary was its first president) -
"I quoto from an add reus by Rabbi M.
M. Feuerllcht entitled "The Club Wom
an's Relation to th Child Problem," in
which he aava; 'The women' club to
day has proved Itself a savior of the
nation's Ideal. '--- In this mag
netism of human personality which the
juvenile court supplies in its volunteer
probation system the club women of the
state and nation may find a. most appro
priate and salutary relation to the child
problem." ,
This valuable paper will be finished In
next week' Journal. ,
.'.y-'::-'-V It fct'K
HE History of EngllshT'Art," by
Mrs. John Scott was the first
paper read, before the art de-
1 partment of the Portland Woman's dub
meeting at1 the city library Tuesday aft
ernoon. The birth and growth of art in
England wars touched upon in a general
way and a resume of prominent artists,
beginning with Hogarth, who lived from
UK 7 to 174, and including the artists
of the present day, was given. As each
one was mentioned and his great works
expatiated upon, copies of them loaned
by the Christensen Art company of this
city were placed upon the easel. These
pictures Justified , Mrs. Scott's criticism,
In wnion, she quoted Van Dyke, namely,
tnat the ever practical English do not
depart from' their rule even in paint
ings. While not lacking in apprecia
tion of beauty, they care little tor art
for art'a sake,; preferring their paint
ings be true to nature, that they depict
some reallstlo scene. On the whole, the
English iiave been nation of great
thinkers and statesmen rather than of
great artists.
The opening of Flemish art was de
scribed by Mrs. timer, she telling
the conditions under which it came into
life, of the hard fought battles for re
ligious and civil liberty waged by the
people of Flanders, so when, the time
th0UKhts toward art. It was for the home
d , tht) cnurcb7they Dainted noth-
could
and not the church they painted noth
ing was permitted which reminded them
tne naiea priests or or tne carnaae
of war.
Miss Elisabeth Sharp, then read a
most instructive treatise on the Flemish
and Dutch schools. It Is in miniature
painting that the Dutch excel, in which
they are destined to precede the rest of
the world. Their devotion to detail is
remarkable; their art Is realistic but
non-intellectual. The Dutch artist la
little troubled wlth poetic rrensy and
Dutch art Is the autobiography o'f a
self-contained people.- It has never'be
come world-embracing It Is all for Hol
land and but little beyond it. In short,
the art of Holland is a local art.
-in landers, under the reign of
France, art flourished in all the bril
liancy oi which the French nation is so
fond. All their wealth of color, of warm
and radiant lire I reflected in their art,
and Huberts, with his great sweeping
lines of beauty, portrays the spirit as
well as the genius of Flemish art.
When Mrs. Alice Welster, the gifted
leader of the department, expresses her
self. If but briefly, upon art in any of
its phases, the privilege of belonging
to her .class- Is keenly felt by all its
members. She talked this afternoon
upon the.-geography of art and showed
that even art is subject to and intlu
, enced by climatic conditions.
The Dutch people, living in cramped
quarters of their island home, a land of
so much rain and wind and fog that
there is little pleasure to be had out of
doors, turn naturally to their warm flre-
8idesr.,ant their art is of homelyao
mestic scenes. As tne northern people
have been the laborers of the world,
their art deals chiefly with matter and
man; while in the south, the sunny
south, where the people live out In the
free air of heaven, where many of their
couches are canopied only by the clouds
and they subsist chiefly upon delicious
fruits so bountifully supplied by lavish
nature, what wonder that their art "re
flects "some touch of nature's genial
glow."
Conceding, then, the influence of cli
mate upon art,who can tell when the
west will give to America her Rut.ens
our Pacific northwest, rich with the
spoils of nature, with her Incomparable
climate, her ocean, her rivers, her trees
and her flowers her mountains, of
which Byron might have said:
"Mount Hood Is the monarch of moun
tains. They crowned him long-asro
On a throne of rocks. In a robe of
, clouds.
With a diadem of snow."
K K It
ULIA WARD HOWE, in. reply to a
J recent syndicated article entitled,
"American Suffragettes," an entire
ly ono-slded account of the referendum
on woman suffrage taken in . Massa
chusetts 13 years ago, says:
"In 1895f he Massachsuetts legislature
gave all the women opposed to equal
suffrage the opportunity to vote no on
the question, Is It expedient that mu
nicipal suffrage should be extended to
women r Of the 676.000 women of vot
ing age in -Massachusetts only 861 voted
against It The opponents covered the
walls and fences in every town and v li
ft ge in the state with huge posters urg
ing the women to vote no; yet In 238
out of the 822 towns of Massachusetts
not one woman voted In tha negative.
In every county and In every senatorlnl
and representative district the women's
vote was in favor, the majority in the
affirmative averaging 26 to 1.
"In Maine, Illinois, Iowa, New York,
Kansas, in short, wherever petitions in
favor of woman suffrage and remon
strances against it have . been sent to
the legislature, the petitioners have al
ways outnumbered" the remonstrants
and generally have outnumbered them
60 or 100 to 1. In New York, at the
time of the last constitutional conven
tion, the suffragists secured 300,000
signatures to their petitions, the antls
only 15,000. When Chicago women, led
by Jane Addams, lately tried to obtain
a municipal woman suffrage elause In
the new city charter, 7 organisations
with an aggregate membership of 10,
000 women, petitioned for suffrage,
while only one small organisation of
women petitioned against it
"Most women are indifferent,' but of
those who take any interest either way
the large majority are In favor. This
has been shown, wherever the matter
has been brought to a test
v at ''''.'
I q ELF-CONTROL" was the subject
tor discussion at the psychology
J department of the Woman's 'club
last Tuesday, after the uiual half hour
with the Yoga philosophy, which the
class is studying. The department Is
? rowing steadily In' Interest and, the, at
enrtance Is regular. , - 1,
The discussion ' on i "Self-Control
brought "but many fine and Interesting
points, taeu-coniroi ts tne fundamental
gln with the material things, for until
mey are in suoieciion tne mind cannot
control the higher development With
this thought as a start the by-paths of
reason and argument were so numerous
and tempting the hour of adjournment
arrived before the class felt they were
fairly started. Mrs. Welster, the leader,
is most happyi.n her selection of sub
jects and tactful la handling the argu
ments, giving every one the opportunity
to express their opinions and encourag
ing them to do so, yet being Just in the
distribution of time so that each may
be heard- Under, her guidance the class
has had a season of great, pleasure and
profit to, every one. -;
h t 1 n
THE Present Day club held Its regn
, iar meeting Tuesday' t this week
at the home of Mrs. A. M. Jeffrtss,
788 East Salmon street v . j . -; f.--v
Mrs. Mulr gave a very Interesting
paper on Scotch characteristics and Mrs.
Ballon one on Irish and Scotch castles.
Refreshments were then served. .
HIT; RECOVER ; KILLED
BY ANOTHER TRAIN
Voting Man Meets Death While Rid
ing With Young :
, Woman.
Wilmington, Del., May i. Henry
Walsh, a young merchant of Marshall
ton, near here, who had just recovered
frpm injuries received by being struck
by a Baltimore & Ohio railroad train
about four months ago, last evening
called at the home of Miss Lillian Mc
pougall to take her for a drive.
Ae the pair were crossing the Balti
more Ohio tracks at Kiamensl their
vehicle was struck by an eaatbound
freight train.
Welsh was Instantly killed and Miss
McDougall was badly hurt She was
brought to the Delaware hospital here,
and her recovery is doubtful.
The horse was killed and the vehicle
demolished. The accident occurred near
the place where Welsh was first in
jured. .'
"CHROMATIC" LAUGH
TAUGHT IN LONDON
London, May 2. To make London
ers speak musically and laugh "chro
matically" is a reform advocated by Dr.
W. H Qummlngs, principal of the Guild
Hall Schol of Music. Dr. Cummlnga is
distressed by the harsh and"-unmusical
voices of city-bred children of the low
er classes, and contends that voice pro
duction should be taught in the publio
schools of London.
The "chromatin." laugh, a scientific,
musical development of the present
raucous sound which the London child
emits will result from the systematlo
training of Its vocal organs.
H0US OF COMMONS
BARS PATENT SALT
London, May 2. Enough there are
now before the house of commons por-
Dealers' Next Great
Dock Auction
AT THE CORNER OF FRONT AND
SALMON STS., TOMORROW, '10 A. M.
. Have you seen a real, genuine auotion
house? No. 'Then come to the dock to
morrow and you will sea something
never seen before.
FURNITURE
Of every description. Not only one of
each, but many of eaoh. Tou can buy a
dozen of anything for the price of one
tomorrow. Small items will he enld in
quantities, but the more expensive pieces
will be sold one at a time to give pri
vate ouyers an equal cnance witn tne
dealers. Now, for Instance, we must
sell 35 new refrigerators, 10 Steel
ranges. 100 tents. 40 bedroom suites In
black walnut oak, etc.; 160 yards car-
?et, 3 parlor suites, i leather couches,
wardrobes, hundreds of chairs, rock
ers, tables, center stands, couches, silk
hobs ana nair mattresses.
AT THIS BALE
We have fixtures and supplies for gro
cery, men, butchers, plumbers, tailors,
confectioners etc;
THINK OF IT.
ONE HALF BLOCK
Filled wltH goods of every description,
to be sold to the highest bidder tomor
row 10 a. m. sharp by the Portland
Auction company.
For strictly nign class housefurnish-
lngs come to our
Auction Sales
AT THE OLD STAND.
211 FIRST STREET
Tuesday 10 A. M Thurs
day 10 A.M., Frjday 2 P.M.
You know what you get here, the
finest of hounefumlshlngs for what
thev will bring at auction. Keep a
lookout for our notice of sale of fine
old hand-made violins from the old
makers. These are no trash. Only
genuine.
Portland Auction Co.
Main 6655.' A-4121.
AUCTION SALES
UPRIGHT PIANO, CARPETS AND
FURNITURE REMOVED TO
BAKER'S AUCTION HOUSE
For absolute sale by auction on
Tuesday Next
We are Instructed to Bell by public
auotion the following first-class house
hold furnishings, comprising UPRIGHT
PIANO. A RICH. MELLOW TONE (by
C, J. Whitney. Detroit, Mich.) with stool
ahd scarf, lady's parlor desk and chair,
parlor suite, round center table, hand
some parlor Davenport, mahogany and
weathered oak rockers with genuine
leather seats, weathered oak combina
tion desk with bent glass door, large
pictures and oil paintings, costly hall
seat and mirror. Morris chairs, elegant
dining-room set in golden oak. vis.,
buffet, round extension table, set of
chairs, china closet in weathered oak.
decorated dinner set, antique oak hall
table, couches In leather and velour,
handsome Axmlster rugs, seven Brus
sels ' carpets, modern brass bed, satin
MIiiDii, w.m aj, .IIR .
silk floss mattresses, birdseye maple
Y rmcess areeser, very sty.isn dressing
table with large oval mirror, handsome
dressers, wash ' stands. rockers and
chairs to match, kitchen cabinet, meat
safes, heating stoves. ' lace curtains,
wardrobe and other useful lots, all in
first-class order. On view TOMORROW,
MONDAY. v ,
BALE ON TUESDAY NEXT,. AT 10
O'CLOCK, SHARP.. .
GEORGE BAKER A SON, ' Auctioneers,
Auction Sale Thursday Next
For general household goods and fur
niture, at JiAiSJliK S AUCTION HULtiEj
168 Park Bt , between Morrison and
Alder.
Sale At 10 o'clock.
BAKER SON. Auctioneers.'
Mt.
Why pay rent when you have an offer like this-r-$1,050
.2-room and 'space for two more; ground 0.1x110; fins
i condition. Chicken house, fruit, etc. Only $10'J o-h
- and $10 per month. r " -
Other good barjjains in houses, lots and acre tracts.
; Also 4-roonif house to rent, $10.00.
, O. N. FORD
Stewarts Station on Mount Scott line. Open Sumli) . I ,
. ' - Tabor 501. '
tentlous questions of ImmenseViathmf
importance, the thing which baa tm,-;
thrilled members concern. th k ,t.- ... .
(Which provide them with media.
v lew nays ago several members wl"
happen to De doctors of medidn. n i
scientists, tested the patent salt whu k
Is provided, to., the house of rommm ,
There have been many cases of appendi
citis In the house of late, end the
learned members resolved that the sut
provided to the house was the cause of
the disease. ... .... -
As a result the patent salt haa beea
Banished, from the houses forever.
SILE X)ILSAPL0TT0
'BLOW UP A CHURCJt
. f ..."., ". !'-,.. ,.r-.v. ... .... .
Bath, Me., May S. Miss Mary
Morse, or?nlst of the .University
church in this city, foiled a desnerate
attempt to blow up the edl0.ee with gas
an hour before services began a few
days ago. When she arrived at the
cnurcn she noticed that a smalt lamp
was missing from the organ, and de
tected an odor of gas. .
Looking under the platform from
which the - organ rested. Miss Morn
saw flames, and called the Janitor, whj
liui um wiv nra'wun a lew DUCKnta or
water. An investigation showed that
a gas pipe leading beneath the organ had
been disconnected and a lighted lamp
placed beneath to touch oft the fluid as
soon as It filled the compartment. A
basket of shavings . was -also there.
The police have no clue to the perpe
trator. la answering ad.rtlaesieats herds,
ratios Th. Journal.
pie.M
Auction Sale
At Wilson's Auction &
Commission House .
173-175 Second 'Street,' corner of
Yamhill Street, Monday and
Wednesday, 10 a. m.
As usual, on Monday and Wednesday.
May 4 and 6. we will offer for sale a
general line of household furniture for
the parlor, library, dining room, bed . '
room, kitchen and office, comprising a
large rosewood piano, an Estey organ,
mahogany muslo cabinet, . guitar and
mandolin, motion picture machine, rats
slon library tables, oomplete set of en
cyclopedias, golden oak, mission and . -
manogany bookcases and ladies - aesxs,
hall trees, leather and velvet couches.
center tables, dining sets, - iron bed, -
springs, mattresses, pictures, linoleum
and carpets, Including the following
qualities: Axmlnster. Body- Brussels,
velvet, moouette. eta. Also othes
household necessities. v
MONDAY at 11 o'Clock
I WILL 8KLL TO THE HIGHEST
BIDDER FOR CASH, SEVEN LAJtQB
BEACH LOTS DM OCEAN PARK. PA
CIFIC COUNTY, WASHINGTON. PLAT
CAN BB eKKr4 AT OUH AUCTIUM
ROOM BEFORE SALE.
. J. T. WILBQN, Auctioneer.
Special Auction Sale
Of Extra Fine Household Furni
ture, Tuesday, May 5, 10 a. m.,
271 Twenty-second St., North.
I win sell to the highest bidder for
CASH, the EXTRA FINE FURNI
TURE In the home Of 8idney X. Acker- .
man, consisting of in part, LARGS
GRANDPA'S CLOCK IN WEATHERED
OAK. FUMED OAK ROCKER, G1X.T
ARMCHAIR, oak armchair, upholstered
In leather, Merge . leather upholstered
rocker. MAHOGANY ROCKER up
holstered in leather, bookcase, EXTRA
FINE WILTON RUGS AND BRUS
SELS carpet, BRASS AND IRON .
FIRE-SET screen, brass 5 . o'clock tea
kettle CHOICE lot of glassware In
goblets, decanters, grapefruit dishes,
finger bowls, etc., 70 pieces of BEAU
TIFUL HAVILAND CHINA DECORAT
ED IN GOLD, ROGERS BROS.' BEST
SILVERWARE, BUFFET, EXTEN
SION TABLE, t DINING CHAIRS to
match, TWO LARGE- BRASS-B10DS,
also Iron beds, springs. HAIR AND
FLOSS MATTRESSES, two r largs
B1RDSETE MAPLE DRESSERS and
wash stands, BIRDSEYE MAPLE
CHIFFONIERS, oak bookcase, very
pretty curtains, drapes and portieres,
fliree extra good ELECTRIC READING
LAMPS, violin stand, Jardinieres, RE
FRIGERATOR, ras stove. itMt ra ntr .
gas water heater, wringer,- ash barrels,
porch seat, etc. TERMS CASH. NO
RESERVE. This is the sale if you
want good furniture. . v" -
T. WILSON, Auctioneer.
Rare Sale of Beach Lots
At Nehalem Bay, will be held at
our salesrooms, 173-175 Second
Street, corner Yamhill Street,
Wednesday evening, 8 o'clock.
This will be one of the most SEN
SATIONAL sales of BEACH. PROPKR
TY ever offered In the STATE .of ORW
GON. Come and be convinced of this
statement. .1 'V . .
Special Auction Sale
Of choice Household Furniture,
Thursday, May 7, at 10 a. m.
S21 19th Street North, ; corner
Quimby St . , ' "
Having RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS
from MRjf GEORGE RAE, I will sell
the FURNITURE of hlsBEAUTIFUL
HOME, which CONSISTS of the fol
lowing: ONE UPRIGHT WEBER PI
ANO. GENUINE IRISH POINT LACH
CURTAINS (Cost $50 per pair), BEAU
TIFUL MAHOGANY MUSIC CABIN
ET. ONE FINE PARLOR SET up
holstered In plush, LARGE FRENCH
PLATE MIRROR. COSTLY j OIL
PAINTING by W. S. Parrott) lance
JARDINIERES, BRONZE 8TATUK3.
brass fireplace set, EXTRA FIN HI
mahogany hall seat and ' mirror, hall '
chairs, lamps, dining table -and chairs,
oak Sideboard, SINGER sewing -ma-Chine,
MAHOGANY and GOLPTOT
OAK CHIFFONIER, ' BRASS - BKI
hair mattress, good blanket, feather
pillows, large COMBINATION BOOK
CASE, POPULAR UNIVERSAL steel
range, hose, REFRIGERATOR, dishes, .
etc If you want good furniture come
to this sale, there Is everything you
want.
J. T. . WILSON, Auctioneer.
FRIDAY'S SPECIAL
Friday, April 8, 10 a. at sales
rooms 173-175 Second Street
WE " WILLS SELL FANCY ANr
STAPLE LOT OF GROCERIES AN!)
PROVISIONS-MIXED LINE OF NO
TIONS. DRYGOODS, ETC. SHOKS,
PAINTS AND- OILS, HARDWAUK.
CROCKERY, TINWARE, COMPUTIN G
SCALES, SHOW CASES AND COITfcii
MILLS. '
Kindly note that we pay CASH fr
furniture, that we have a LARUK at-,
sortment of furniture on hand at U
times: that we sell furniture prlvat)
every day of the week. Both phone,
Main 12; A-J. '
J. T. WTLSOX. Auctioneer.
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