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11 ED'S SAHITV England," he said. "I mean that we had so far as I remember, no females that felt that a mistake had been made in creating them females Instead of males. They seemed well satisfied with the sex that God had given them, and thought, perhaps, if they thought any thing about it, that a person feminine by nature but who trlee to become mas culine by artifice, falls as far short of what she wants to be as she does of remaining what she ought to be; or to express It by a line quoted from the poet Drayton 'Nor man nor . woman, scarce hermapbordlte.' " It is strange how mortally ' afraid some people seem to be of "tainted" money. In olden times people were a freat deal more philosophical about his matter. "Non olet. said the Roman statesmen and took money wherever they could extort it. Congressman-elect Wiley of New Jersey seems to he particularly afraid of con tamination by coming in eontart with tainted greenbacks or yellowbacks, lie proposes to introduce a bill tn con gress providing that all used bills re turned to the United States treasury for redemption be destroyed and new. bills -be issued in their places. Stand ard Oil money shoulu be disinfected be fore it Is turned over to the treasury. It might become a source of great dan ger to . official circles tn Washlnstoiv SANTA CLAUS AS HE USED TO BE IS QUESTiOHED English Weekly Prints Star v:1ling Article FrojrTPen of German Physician. OPEN AFTER DECEMBER 15 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, ' SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 13. 1908. ' HIS By Kaloolm Clarke. ' . Berlin, Deo. I J. What the German! Jare not whisper has been sal4 byva well known German physician In an Knglish .weekly,: paper he kaiser is hopelessly and progressively insane.. The article, which Is of course unsigned, or the author would probably be drawn and . quartered, has created an enormous sen sation throughout Germany. ' "Why do we allow ' "a Single" Individual, whether king of . England or anarchist, to con tinue to. throw poisoned bombs amongst a peacefully striving nation?" " the article begins, i. "Why should ; Emperor William alone be at liberty to endanger, front his ambush of imperial dignity, the peace of the nations of Europe? He alone Is the immediate danger of our times. But let -us add at once that we have nJ right to blame him. This seems a paradox, but if the nations will only understand the real condition of affairs all danger would at once disap pear, although Emperor William may go on making speeches, sending wires and publishing .interviews to his heart's con tent." - - . .. -, After enumerating 'some of the most flagrant misdeeds and, one is tempted to say, crimes, committed by the kaiser, the writer concludes: "But it is time that nations should ask' themselves the ouestlon: 'What is the secret of this man's actions r And they, ought to know the answer, which Is fully under stood among diplomatists and in large circles in Germany. "Emperor William offers a rather typical picture of a certain kind of men tal disease. He suffers from a malig nant inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), which In en ever increas ing degree is affecting his brain. In order to be near him Professor Possow, ?,ne.i. tha n'Khent living authorities on that disease, was called from Heidelberg to settle down in Berlin. ''The fate of nations may depend on this fact bring known and thoroughly understood by the English. The kaiser complains of being alone among a na tion of 60.000,000. And so indeed he is a man with a progressive mental dis ease is always alone. But for his pres ent capers the bacilli that attack his brain are alone responsible. British people can hardlv understand how much the Germans have already had to suffer on. account of their emperor. Shall they' again suffershall fresh enmity arise between the British and the Germans on account of the latest folly of this dan gerous man who wears tHe purple? The emperor lias dethroned himself, al though he may still continue to wear the much abused crown of his forefathers." Six weeks' mild Imprisonment, which might Just as well be called a vacation is the punishment which a court-martial at Mets has seen fit to Impose upon a regimental bandmaster convicted of, haying cruelly 111 treated 411 subor dinates on 1280 separate counts. The court" only investigated 856 charges, which were all supported by strong evi dence. There Is great Indignation at the sen tence, and it is pointed out that to ill treat a soldier in Germany, according to the. decision of the court-martial, costs only a little more than an hour's pleas ant relief from duty on full pay. ' The statement has repeatedly been made in various European and American SRpers that the widow of the murdered irand Duke Serge, Grand Duchess Elis abeth Feodorowna, sister of the csarina " Music is heaven's best gift to man; N the only art of earth pro- S moted to The sweetest melody, the richest harmony, is possible only through the medium of a fine instru ment. . The great Melville Clark "Apollo Flayer . Piano" Is the most complete musical Instrument in the world plays 88 Votes, or the entire keyboard of the piaao, when played either way other player pianos operate only 68 of the 86 notes when played by means of the perforated roll "Melville Clark," "XTer Pond." "OabUr," "Behning," "Seven port j reaoy" and "Bradbury" pianos have but few equals and no superiors, we arv exclusive agents for these justly celebrated makes also many oth ers and we are making some generous concessions in price as well as liberal terms of payment to Christmas buyers. orsir xTxmr snrxraro ' - i . Hovenden-Soule Piano COB. MOUUSOK and This cartoon shows many striking chanrea from the modern conception of Santa Claus and his traditional ceindeer outfit. Here we see rattier a miaaie aged man, without tha gray beaid, but had taken the veil and entered a. nunerr. One pa"per even published, her daily lire in a convent where speech was forbid den. . The fact is that the grand duches, who has always been Interested In charity, and who is the idol of the people of Mos cow, has founded In that city what we would call a "deaconesses home," the object of which Is to supply the popu lation of tfre poorer classes with free nurses, district visitor and Infant school teachers, . The authorities of Berlin point with great pride to the fact that in spite of the bad times only 1 1-3 per cent of th people of the greatest city are unem ployed. For the purpose of determining the number likely -to be dependent on public charity durlng"the winter, and this re vealed the fact that out of the 8. OS 8.000 ?eople living in -the metropolitan dls rict only 40,124 people, Including 1716 women, are out of work. , NEW BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY The following newt hooks may be ex amined at the publio library during this week and will be ready for circulation Monday, December 14: BIOGRAPHY. Hawkins A Seadog of DVon; the Life of Sir John Hawkins; by It. A J. Walling, 1907. BOOKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Astrnp Blandt Nordpolens Naboer. Carlen Rosen pa Tistelon. Tegner Fritlofs Saga. Chateaubriand Les Martyrs. Cooper Stlfinder. Ibsen Peer Gynt. Kullberg Ludwig Rosenberg & (John. Llmnn Hohenzollern. Maeterlinck Le Tresor des Humbles. Rosny Les deux Femmes. heaven.' Co. W. PABK with the same genial face. It may be Santa. Claus' is aging with the succeed ing years, although the children hate to think he will ever grow too old to make his annual visit Instead of tha Sperling Elne Weltreise Unter Deutscher Flagge. DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. Calvert Toledo; an' Historical and Descriptive Account, 1907. Craig Recollections of 'an . Ill-fated Expedition -to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brasil, 190T. Lane Cairo Fifty Tears Ago, 1896. Sintth China and America Today, 1HU3. FICTION. Day The Story of Two Boys; Retold Dy Pinion jonnson. Oppenheim The Great Secret Smedley The Daughter. Williams The Girl and the Game. ana umer college atones. FINE ARTS. Abraham The Complete Mountaineer, 1907. Sullivan The Olymplo Games at Ainens, iob. 1907, Van Dyck Sir Anthony Van Dyck; by Hugh Stokes, 190E. Wrignt The Art of Caricature. 1904. LANGUAGE. Monsanto & Languelller A Practical course in epanisn, ibos. Wesselv & Oirones Handy Diction ary of the English and Spanish Lan guages. LITERATURE. Trevelyan The Poetry and Philoso phy of George Meredith, 1906. warren, comp. Under the Holly Bough, a collection of Christmas poems, 1907? RELIGION. Paris, comp. Pleasant Sunday After noons for the Children, a book for pa rents. 1907. Lindsay History of the Reforma tion, av.. 1906-1907. Plummer The Church of the Early Fathers, 1903. SCIENCE. Hepworth Note's on Maritime Me teorology. 1907. Houston Wonder Book of Volcanoes' and .Earthquakes, 1907. SOCIOLOGY. Mackey Symbolism of Free Masonry, ISO a. Shuck Mediaeval Stories, translated from the Swedish by W. F. Harvey, 190JL Wilson Constitutional Government in the United States. 1908. ' USEFUL ARTS. LIdgerwood Manufacturing Company CabTeways for Hoisting and Convey ing, 1908. LIdgerwood Manufacturing Company Logging by Steam, 1905. Moody Men, Who Sell Things, obser vations and experiences of over 20 years as traveling salesman. 1908. Rlckard Guide to Technical Writ ing. 1908. Rowarf Boiler Incrustation, and Cor rosion, 1904. Starbuck 'Practical Wrinkles for the Plumber, 1907. Terry India Rubber and Its Manu facture, 1907. Vosburgh The Tinsmith's Helper ana rauern hook, ea. 4, BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE DE PARTMENT. Berlepsch Rhodendron, bllder a den Schwelzer Aloen. Channing History of the United States, v. 2, 1908. Crelle Calculating Tables, ed. S, 1906. Dresden Konigllcne Gemaldegalerle, catalog. FUNNY. MAPER DRESS RECEIVES A PRIZE Mrs. George E. Spees. A ' most unlaua eoetume was worn to the masquerade ball given by Mount Hood circle. Women of Woodcraft- last week. Mrs.. George E. Spees of - 261 Clay street,- 1ras the wearer. The cos tume was made entirely ." from : the comia sections 'of the Saturday and Sunday Journal and was most artist ically arrarged. . The body of the dress was made np of the different features . in the big Journal eomlo section, the underskirt being made from papers portraying the adventures and ttjublea of Winsome Wlnaiefc with an oversklrt of Happy " Aft ?t r V mm ' reindeer we sea the festive turkey and several elfs. Instead of the modern presents we see the class of Christmas coys wnicn pieaaea me cnuaren oi ou years ago. Stray Topics From Old New York New York, fiec. 12. It Is 1iot pleasant to contemplate the evanescence of fame, it makes one shudder to think of the sacrilege of grinding the mummy of some ancient Egyptian king into powder to be used as a pigment or of Caesar's body, "turned to clay," to be used to close a bunghole. It gives a shock to one's bump of reverence to see a ?own that once adorned some world amous queen, dragged over the rough boards of a stage by some cheap act ress. The sale of a great man's per sonal effects is - sadder and more de pressing than his funeral. ' Sentimentallsm Is not a prominent American characteristic. A great man may die, his death may mean a great loss to the country or to the world in general, but beyond the passing of memorial resolutions and more or less pomp displayed at his funeral ' the American public pays no further trib ute to his memory. In some cases a monument is erected In honor of the great departed, provided he had been a general, a governor or a distinguished politician. Little else counts and even in such cases the erection of the mon ument Is considered compensation-In full for everything of merit the .de ceased may have done for his country. The' other day the personal effects of Edwin. Booth, Including a large quantity of stage costumes which he had worn during his long and honor able career, were sold at auction in one of the fashionable suction rooms on Fifth avenue. - The things were sold by order of Mrs. Edwin Booth-Oross-mann, the daughter of Edwin Booth, who probably needed ready cash more than a lot of old costumes and still older furniture and bric-a-brac, the principal value of which consisted in their intimate association with her great and lamented father. Mrs. Gross man may not be to blame for this apparent lack of filial veneration for her father's momory, yet the idea of the auction sale is shocking and re pulsive to finer sensibilities. "Sic transit gloria mttndi.", Some unidentified scoundrel, un doubtedly belonging to the clan of anarchistlo murderers and cutthroats which seem to be the most charac teristic, industrial product of Pater son, ' N. J., threw a bomb at a police officer in that city the other day. Ho missed the officer but the exploding bomb wrecked a building and injured several screens. It is incredible that the existence of such a hotbed of an archism and crime should be tolerated In any civilized community. So long as the Patetson anarchists confined them serves to assassinating American pres ldents. the police authorities of that cltv smiled indulgently at the "inno opnt riHHtlmn" nf their anarchistic pets. If the latter, however, should begin to use members of the Paterson police force as targets for bombs. Jt Is quite likely that the police authorities will reach the conclusion that it would be in the interest of the community to tnmn out that nest of criminals. Scarcely a week passes without the announcement that some prominent actor or actress has gone on the vau deville stao-e. It begins to look as if th liiva of the legitimate playhouses were counted and as If they would be compelled to become vaudeville houses or close ineir aoors. a urcm urai has been written about the commer cialism of the stage, with special ref nn tn tha commercialism of the theatrical managers. But, how about the players? Is It not the rankest kind of commercialism if a good etor or actress, for the sake of Increasing their Incomes, abandon the legitimate for the vaudeville staee? The latest addi tion to the ranks of the deserters from the legitimate stage Is Mrs. James n.nrn Pnttpr. What makes the sten taken by her so much more inexplicable Is that she did not have to take it for the sake of money. She is reputed to be quite wealthy. ? Persistence may be a virtue, but it mav hr-ome danaerous If' exercised without discretion. A book agent, for instance, who had been Klcnej out or the front door, would Te absolutely foolhardy, should he attempt to re enter the house through the back door. One of the members of the burglar fraternity learned by experience the other day that? not only in the book agent's profession, but also in the housebreakers' profession persistence may lose virtue and become an ill ad vised blunder. Some time ago the man was arrested for trying to break! into the establishment of a wholesale fur dealer. His companion was sent to the penitentiary, but he, himself, es caped. The other day he made a eecond attempt to rob the same fur establish ment and ws promptly oaught in the ftCt In sharp contrast to the Rev. Dr. Aked. of Rockefeler's church, th Rev. Dr, Parkhurst Is not an admirer of the ubiquitous suffragette. On the occa sion of his Thanksgiving sermon at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian church. Dr. Parkhurst - Bpoke of the womanly character of the New Eng land women in colonial times and com pared them with the' women of the present generation in New York. In cidentally he- gave onej ot the clever est epigrammatlo definitions of "suf- "We had no euf f ragetteg in New Hooligan and Maude. The waist was made from paper from the Saturday section, principally that of the Teddy Bears and their adventures. The cuffs, the collar and belt were made from headlines of the paper. . Mrs. Spees spent a lot of time mak ing the costume, and she fully deserved the handsome prise which she received. This Was but one of many amusing and original costumes seen on the floor that evening. v Disillusion. V T.lttle Johnnie had Just learned the heartbreaking fact that there -wasn't a "really," Santa Claus, and. he felt that the world had collapsed about his ears. , "J d don't believe n nothing at all,? he sobbed. , "I dd don't bu--rbelteve there s any George Washington neither!" 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