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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
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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
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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
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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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