THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY I.IORNING.
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TACOMA MAKING READY FOR GREAT MILITARY TOURNAi-lEi JT
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111 IRRIGATION
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KlilG'S HOUSEHOLD
Two Thousand ricked Troops From Regular Arm? to Encamp In Heart of Northern City to -Participate In
Which Are to Bo Held in Tacoma's, New Stadium.' ,
Governor Stubbs Names Strong When It Comes to Dishonest
'. rxi 1! 1 il! . A P"ll! it .
King George Inherits Grand
mother's Thrifty Habits and
Delegation to the Congress
Elections, Voters in French
Colonics" Can" Outclass " All
Others.
Requires Careful Accounts
TWhfch Meets at Pueblo -oh
' September 26.
to Be Kept of Expenditures.
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Series of Military Maneuvers
PMICE CORRUPT
ELECTIOi! METHODS
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By Lady Mary Munwarlng.
" .' (Publishers' Prs Ld Wire.
- London, July 16. King George Inher
its a goodly share of the. thrifty spirit
of his grandmother. Queen' Victoria. His
majesty is hot In the least parsimonious
or Inclined to scrimp, but he is firmly
of the opinion that the royal household
ia entitled to full value for the money
- it expends just th same as the hum
blest. of his subjects.; V
In this he has the hearty cooperation
Of Queen Mary, who is a careful house
keeper. ' '
Sir William Carrington, keeper of the
king's privy purse, under the direction
of his majesty has formed a clerical de
partment consisting of three clerks.
Dockets for goods purchased for the
kitchens, storekeeper's Or butler's de
partments have to be made out by the
head of each department responsible for
the orders, -which are sent up to the
clerk's office.
A docket gives all particulars of the
article purchased and the name of the
tradesman Who supplied It and Its cost
The particulars of all the daily dockets
are entered up in a general day book,
from which they are transferred to each
tradesman's account in " the royal ledg
ers; the ledgers, by the way, are bound
la dark red leather, and a crown Is
stamped In gold on the back of each, "
Each tradesman who- has the royal
Custom must send In his bill at the end
of each month, when 1U compared with
his ledger account and if it 14 found
to be correct. Is discharged during the
first week in the month. No discount
Js asked for any of the, royal accounts;
a tradesman who receives the royal cus
tom is informed that he must supply
goods at the lowest reasonable prices,
and there is never any attempt at bar
gaining by the offjclal of . the royal
household. ' If tradesman is thought
to be making extortionate charges, he
simply loses the royal custom, so he
rarely or; never attempts to do so.
Business Methods Prevail.
There are, of course, several articles
which' are supplied to the royal house
hold by contract, such as coal, for ex
ample; the contracts, in most instances,
are-made 'for three years,- and'thp con
tractors, are. as a rule, paid In equal
half yearly Installments. -A great deal
of work Is also done at Marlborough
House under contract, such as window
cleaning, ' carpet . clearing, chimney
sweeping and: the glass frames of a
number of large,' pictures are also
cleaned under contract.
' , t- AU the sei'vanta' wages are paid
monthly, the upper servants, holding im
portant and responsible positions, are
paid by check, which is sent to each
from the treasurer's department; the
other servants attend the clerk's office
to receive their wages.
The king's accounts for clothes, ci
gars, theatre tickets, newspapers, books
and other personal articles are sent in
to his secretary, and are not dealt with
at all In the clerical department These
accounts .are also discharged ..every
month, but King George always likes
to see them before they are paid,
i ' Queen Mary an ArUsV
" It Is not generally known that Queen
Mary Is an , artist of no small merit
Among the many souvenirs of her trav
els are some. charmingly executed wa
ter colors of her own painting."
. Encouraged by Queen Alexandra, her
majesty has also become a devotee to
photography, which is, now one of her
favorite hobbles.
- Her artistle- talents have been inher
ited by Princess Mary, who draws ex
ceedingly welL. Among tha queen's most
valued treasures is a little drawing,
done specially, for the wall of her cabin
"In the Opblr during the long colonial
,tour, by Princess Mary, and which was
'duly hung In a place of honor. When
. ,the cruise came' to an end the picture
. was carefully taken down and sent to
Marlborough House to be - kept among
the many mementoes of that memorable
-'Journey..-, . ,
, A report Is current In high social clr
' eles that the differences between the
' Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have
' been or are about to be composed and
that they aoon will be together again.
- 'I have been unable to get any official
oonflrmatlon of thl report, but it Is
renerally believed to be true In well In
formed circles.
1'he Duke of Connaught. 4 when he
takes possession of Rldeau'I&ll, Ottawa,
wlU not. b the first of his family to
" erve the crown In Canada. His grand
father, the Duke of Kent, acted as commander-in-chief
there for some time, and
.his residence, now converted into a ho
. tel. may still be seen near the Mont
gomery Falls, Quebec. Having proved
too much of a martinet at Gibraltar, the
. duke was sent to cool his heels In Cah
. -I.--' ada; but,' being invalided by a fall from
his horse, he the Xather-to-be of Queen
Victoria, returned to England, though
; the following year he was gazetted gen
4 rl . and - sent back to Quebec as com
; mander-ln-chlcf of the forces In "British
- North America."
, Poodles Have Mbtids.
The latest fad of society women in
. connection with their pet dogs is to
have a special Krcnch maid to look
. ' after them.- One Well known dame,, pos
' sexsing a French poodle, keeps It In a
luxuriously furnished room, and has
had shoes made bo that when the anl-
- mnl goes out it shall, if it has been
raining, not put Us feet on the wet
.pavamnnf. : i"
. A 1 eurRilsing dispute has Just arisen
ever the presentation by King Peorge
of . the gun carriage that was used at the
funerals "of King Edward and Queen
Victoria-to the naval establishment on'
JYhale lglaitd,.jBorae-inte.rferlnK cUr-k
t the war office conceived the brilliant
Idea that, as the gun carriage originally
belonged to the army, and was paid for
. out. of the army estimates, , the navy
ebotild now be called upon to pay a sum
- in' compensation; This view iwas coni-
munlcatod to the admiralty authorities,
who, not tmnaturally, declined to dis
cuss the ' matter, and a very pretty
quarrel nsued. )
This dispute quickly reached the ears
of a. highly placed military official, who
promptly ojiashed th whole question
, and gave the clerk who started the
trouble a severe" dressing dqwn. It Is
. mute a moot point from a strictly con
stitutional point of view, whether , his
.., , uiJ.siyJ.'ffiict Ja jtantorriig, 11
rial btlougtng to one service to , the
other. In the meantime the garrison at
the Tower of'Ixndon and Edinburgh
CatK whero the unioer ana gun car
I'isge were re-rpectlveiy Kept, are very
ifcwi.j ll-.at they have been transferred
from their cwtotly to that of the navy,
It is not gweraJly known that King
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MsMsiiBassasM V ' s
Top Tacoma Btadlum.
Center left Artillery maneuvers.
Center right Expert horsemanship.
Bottom Skilled cavalrymen. '
Tacoma, July 16. -Next Sundayafter-
noor., July. 24, at 2 o'clock, Tacoma wilt
become the military center of the Pa
cific northwest and continue so without
interruption until September 1. ,
Saturday afternoon 2000 picked regu
lars will go In cam d In the heart of
the city's most exclusive residence dis
trict and barracks posts from the North
Dakota line west will be depopulated,
with their complements all headed for
the city of destiny.
.' For the only military -tournament to
be held this year west of Missouri river
begins Sunday afternoon, July t 24. ' In
Tacoma big new public school stadium
and a week later the biennial maneuver
period of the department of the Colum
bia and the national guard 'organizations
of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana
and North Dakota opens on the prairies
south of the city.
W here Portland . was the big show
place of the coast five years ago and
Seattle last year; where Spokane has
held the boards with Irrigation con
gresses and other, public gatherings of
national soope, Tacoma will be In the
spot light this summer with what prom
ises to be .the most' spectacular mili
tary, pageantry the northwest has ever
witnessed, '.
Portland Is Invited..
": And Tacoma Invites Portland and the
Willamette valley to be her honored
gues,ts for the next five weeks and View
her offerings in a military way and
"get acquainted." More especially, Ta-
qoma invites Portland and the Oregon
country for the 'week of July 24 to 30.
This Invitation Is also on behalf of the
war department, which has sanctioned
the tournament as an educational event,
not for Tacoma, but for the entire
northwest Tacoma Is merely playing
a selfish part lo the affair. She wants
everybody for a thousand miles around
to come and enjoy themselves, but par
ticularly to learn at first hand thai
You'll like Tacoma," ia not a pretty
sounding slogan void of meaning. And
the Tacoma chamber of ' commerce
pledges Its honor that all who come
wui be amply repaid for the trip.
t AJ1 mobile branches of the military
service will be represented in the tour
nament In patronizing these spectacles
the war department has two prime mo
tives, and both will bo strikingly em
phasized In Tacoma next week. First,
the department alms to keep enlisted
men In the pink of physical condition
and skilled In the peculiar work of the
organizations to which they are at
tached; Second, it aims to demonstrate
to the general publto: the results ob
tained from expenditure of the rood
gtold that public is "obliged to pay for
army maintenance. The commanding
officers have both motives ever In view,
and U Is on record that a tournament
has never been carried through In any
section of the -United States without
imparting an Immense amount of valu
able knowledge and instruction to the
immediately contiguous public. ,
To Educate the Public.
Every move the Tacoma tournament
soldiers make will be In the line of edu
cating the masses, ' During their 'week
in Tacoma they will live In a model
cemn, to be established on a four-acre
tract at North Sixth street and Taeoma
avenue. ,
Surrounded on all sides by beautiful
homes, the soldiers will live for a week
George is extremtly fond of gardening,
and, when living at York Cottage, was
of tan. to be. seen working- vigorously
with spade and rake. He has conslder-i
able taste in the laying out of gardens,
and since his majesty , took over Frog-
more he has done much to, improve the
gardens there, which had previously
been allowed to fall Into decay. . The
king has also brought his sons up to
enjoy gardening, and each has a plot of
garden assigned to him at-York Cot-J
tags and Frogmore.
When yimng, there used to be consid
erable competition between the present
king and the late Duke of Clarence and
Avondale as to who would keep tho best
garden and obtain the best effects, and
in these competitions his majesty was
usually .successful, - He will be much
flntessstoa he viaits Balmoral tnfttbwtePtyHWeteherB-theyrrnrT
the autumn to see the great Improve
ments that have been, carried out in the
groundsjdurlng the past few months.
, It is stated about the court that as
soon as. a- fitting opportunity presents
Itself his majesty will follow the ex
ample of his late father, and purchase a
private residence somewhere wltbln easy
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Ii' '-i ' j,' r , i's'o'w: w.... -::rii
M'. ?V. K-Mk XV:w: $ - win
BlJixjA n, ) ?V - f " p
WtrVVvvw, .y v,"" . rht IfeLa- 2 A ? J till -
exactly as though they were on cam
paign and their tented city will be con
stantly, open to visitors. At American
lake during August there will be an
other camp of the same kind but about
six times larger, and thousands of vis
itors to Tacoma will make the dellsrht-
ful trip out across wooded prairies to i
see it. , .. v
. No small quantity of food will suffice
for these 2000 men during their week
of exertion. The commissary estimate
shows that they .will consume 10,000
pounds of beef, 7000 pounds of potatoes,
2000 pounds of onions, 9500 pounds of
bread, 250 pounds of butter and 12,600
pounds of ice,. In addition to more than
a ton of "trimmings," f or Uncle" Sam
furnishes his men "goodies" with fre
quent regularity despite an Old but pop
ularly prevailing impression that hard
tack and bacon are the principal Items
on the soldier menu,
Unlike the maneuvers at American
lako next month, extending over too
vast an area to be comprehended from
one point of observation, the- -tournament
will occur in an arena of compar
atively limited dimensions, that of the
stadium floor being 174,540 square feet
or four acres. ' .'"v''
'. Will play War Games. . ,
During; the night performances, . the
infantry will display approved methods
of attack and defense In lose simula
tion of real war. To. heighten the ef
fect, companies of the hospital corps
will attend the '.'make believe" injured
men, showing the spectators how wounds
are dressed on a battlefield, how the In
jured are carried to the field hospitals
and how the military surgeon, does his
work. In a musical ; drill known as
"Butts' Manual," and which is a oom
poeite of calisthenics, "setting up" exer
cises and turners' movements, save that
the regulation rifle Is used instead of
a wand, the process of making musoulsr
reach of London, where he and -. the
queen can enjoy rest and Quiet At the
present time King George is worse off
tor residences than has been the case
witn any, British .sovereign for many
years past. ' It is quite out of the ques
tion that .the king and queen should now
reside at either Frogmore or York Cot
tage, since both - these - places are far
too small for the state it will be neces
sary for their j majesties to maintain,
even when living in retirement
EACH RACE OF APES , 1
REPRESENTED IN MAN
Efrlln. July Startling develop,
mcnt of the Darwinian theory is con
biologist. In the Zeitgeist Instead i l
deso-nt from a single race of apes, Mei
er ors propounds the theory that man
kind is really divided into four groat
race groups, each or whicu is descended
fh.n ene of the four , race groups of
anthropoid - apes. . Representatives if
'.h-.ae four' are, to be found in existing
foot soldiers from raw material will be
exemplified.
Going into bivouac the infantrymen
will be aiirprlsecLJby an attack; ,they.,wlll
hurriedly break camp and repel the at
teck, firing off plenty of blank. cart
ridges ' In the process. - Thrills with
out number are In store for. those who
witness the exhibitions of wall scaling.
From 400 to 500 men, carrying full
equipment will swarm over a 12-foot
wall .as though -It were -no, obstacle at
all. ; In th$se events the mountain ar
tillery, populafly known 7as "jackass
batteries" will also particlpaet, taking
their heavy guns, carriages , and two
mules over the wall and. then going Into
action on the other side. '
"Stunts" by the cavalry include
charges, intricate movements on the gal
lop, musical drills of real beauty,' dex
terity in the use of sabers, carbines and
revolvers and all of the varied ways of
attack and defense, both mounted and
unmounted. 'That' the United States
cavalry trooper is a rough rider par ex
cellence will be shown In the bareback
exercises, which include -dismounting,
vaulting and mounting at a full gallop;
Jumping hurdles, dismounting and vault
ing the horse at- the hurdle; , "reaching."
Ttcman riding, dismounting and vaulting
over three horses and landing on the
fourth : animal, face to the rear, and
other feats of skill which are not du
plicated in the best circuses or "wild
west" shows.
Fast and complicated driving, rapid
firing and making and breaking camp
will be shown by the field artillery.
The men, with the maohlne guns at
tached to the Infantry and cavalry regi
ments, will exhibit the ease with which
it Is possible for them ot down their ad
gorfUasv chimpanzees, orangs and gibbon
aftes. From the gorilla type of ape ase
descended, according to Melchers, the
Wttt OTngo-Guinea-Soudan negro, the
Basutos and Zulus, and also. the falr
lalred and red-haired northern races.
Including the Finns. From the chim
panzee ape are descended Bushmen,
J-r-pi Berbers and southern Europeans:
thu orang-outang is the ancestor f the"
Tcsmanlans, Australians and short
headed south Germans, while Mongol
ians, . Malays, Polynesians and Siber
ians como from the gibbon spa.
Dr.- Melchers promises further details
of his remarkable theory,
BIBLE 0ATK MAY BE
AB0L1SHED-4M-SPAIN
Madrid, July 16.The government has
submitted a bill' to parliament, substi
tuting a simple promise for the custom
ary oath taken over the serlptures in
cXnnecttor. with all civil cases.' The bill
which is supported by the king, applies
to the installation of cabinet ministers
versaries with Colt's automatics. In
the artillery drills not a word .will be
spoken by the officers and men partlcl-
ratlng jOrders-wlll be ' communicated
by the flashes of sabers. , , -
To Try for Bcoord. , ,
The "Jackass battery' will prove that'
cannon can be rapidly transported
through the jungle or over the roughest
country on. muleback, and that the as
sembling ani firing- of their field piecas
Is nearly , as. ;ftulck Tas .thought; In .the
Philippines a few years ago, one "jack
ess battery" made a record of 62 sec
onds for advancing 60 yards, unlimber
lng the gun and firing a shot This
record still holds, but It is understood
one of the companies coming to the
Tacoma tournament has been practicing
for months in a determination to lower
it- :?- ' : "V .. . .-..
Probably the" best picture of actual
war conditions wiU be furnished by the
engineer corps, which will build bridges
and culverts in order that -'troops and
supplies may get across an Imaginary,
shallow but, unfordable stream. At
tacked during 4ie twork, they will repell
the onslaught get the Supplies and force
over and blow up or dismantle t the
bridge. This , spectacular feature Oc
cupies less than 10 minutes. Construc
tion and removal of obstructions, dig
ging, of rifle pits and pitfalls, barb wire
entanglements aid , other : rtricks" for
harassing an advancing enemy, will be
features Of the engineers" , work.
Another taste of battle conditions will
be afforded in the attack and defense
of a wagon train, transporting ammuni
tion and food. Regimental parades and
guard mounting will show the cere
monial aspect of . military life. ,
as well as to all court proceedings.
vThe reactionary and clerical Interests
are opposing the measure on the ground
that It. is designed , as a provocation to
tho Vatican., The liberal press, halls It
as. of vUal importance to the seculari
sation of the state and, the moderniza
tion or epain. , .:.!,- :
The government has forwarded to th
Vatican its reply to the note of June
i, iviutu uiiicu vn vno wunarawaf of
me aecree or June 11, granting tolera
tion or non-catnoiio religious societies
The reply is a courteous but firm re
fusal to withdraw the decree. th h.
Jicts of which are again explained. Pro-
n:ier uanaiejas said-; , . ....
"We will- see If we are able to con
vince the Vatican., If we falL wa win
gsa4-4he-Heettl t--lwit'"the govermit PfltTS
piogram. must ns upheld."
Wini Calamet Golf Trophy.
Chicago, July 16. Runcle B. Martin.
of : Wheaton,. today won the Calumet
goir trophy in the open tournament at
the Calumet Country club, defeating
Hunter 8 up and 8 t play, , ; ,
Pueblo, Col., July 16. Gwernor W, R,
Stubbs of Kansas has named a strong
delegation from - that state -, to the
Eighteenth National Irrigation congress,
Pueblo, September 26-ldJ It 1b headed
by Charles E. Sutton of Lawrence, pres
ident of the state board of agriculture.
.Kansas has a particularly strong in
terest In the eighteenth congress. ! Its
western section, especially in the' Gar
den City , districts has long paid close
attention to irrigation and has devel
oped to: a high state under water, From
Dodge City west to :the Colorado line,
along the Arkansas valley, largely by
means, of pumping the underflow of
that river, the country has gone into
extensive cultivation, with sugar beets,
alfalfa, fruit, and truck as great Jlndus
tries. , The Garden 1 City district,' in
Which is located the fjnest sugar mill
in the west, costing mors than a mil
lion dollars, Is a notable example Of ir
rigation by pumping. There are about
60,000 acres under water in that dis
trict alone. . -
' Kansas Leads Nation. ;
'Kansas has always taken a leading
part in the work of the national Irrigation-congress,
- E. R. Moses Vf Great
band was one of the founders of the
congress, and at one timet a vice-president
.and later a member of the execu
ttve committee, At the sixteenth con
gress at- Albuquerque two years ago.
Kansas had a very large delegation, and
the Garden City district sent a special
car. At Spokane last year, Kansas had
a good representation and took an active
part in the campaign that landed ,th
eighteenth congress - for- Pueblo and
the great Arkansas Valley. I Three Gar
den City men are members of the board ,
on control of the eighteenth congressn
F, A. Gillespie, general manager of the
United States Sugar & Land company,
C A. Schneider, postmaster and one of
the leading authorities on .irrigation in
western Kansas, who is also the state's
executive, .committeeman, and R. H.
Faxon, editor of the Garden City Even
ing Telegram, who Is also secretary of
the board of control and In charge of
the publicity work of the congress.
- . , Oovernot stubbs. - -:-Therefore
it is Just natural that Gov
ernor Stubbs should have taken great
pains in the selection of his delegates
from the state at large to the Pueblo
congress, and its makeup includes those
who are of largo affairs, leading in de
velopment work, and all interested in
the cause of irrigation and home-making.
Charles E. Sutton of Lawrence is
president of the state board of agricul
ture and one of the leadlnr farmr
of eastern Kansas. '
F. D. Coburn of ToDeka Is secratnrv fst
the state board of aarlcultur anrt tH
state's press agent His work Is not
only national but international, and the
aavemsmg ne nas given Kansas is of
the most valuable character.
E. R. Moses of Greatbend. ! n im.
plement man and banker, and as stated
Boove.-one or the rounders of the Nat
ional Irrigation congress.
K. il Faxon of Garden Cltv i editnr
of the Evening Telegram, president of
the Arkansas Valley Commercial asso
ciation, president of the New Santa Fe
Trail, and secretary of the board of con
trol "of the Eighteenth National Irriga
tion congress. He has three times been
a member and twice secretary of tha
committee on resolutions of the con
gress, and was a member of the con
gressional committeeiinder appointment
oy rresiaent liars tow in 1D08-9. -....
rather of Irrigation. ,
I. L. Dteserd of Garden Cltv la
of the fathers of Irrigation in western
Kansas and the Arkansas valley. He Is
me presiaeni or tne Finney County
Agricultural society, vice president of
the state board of arglculture, and a
practical farmer, under, irrigation.
James ' W. rtk( of Colby Is one of
the large farmers of northwestern Kan
sas. He Is an extensive wheat grower,"
lawyer by profession, a most-suc
cessful man, and has long been in
terested in irrigation. --'
Jl E. Coffin of Scott, is mayor of his
town, a large land owner, and has one
of the finest private irrigation plants
in western Kansas.
Walter Wellhouse of Topelfa Is secre
tary of the Kansas State Horticultural
soclety..y,3i,ujv,, !
I H. Haines, of Galena represents
southwestern Kansas, a section where
there has , recently been considerable
talk .of further development, ufcder ir
rigation and where the drainage ques
tion is also a problem.
- William Newlln of Hutchinson, was
for five years county clerk of Reno
county, Interested In the state fair, and
proprietor of a fine fruit farm.
Richard J. Hopkins of Garden City, is
a lawyer, a member of the legislature,
a candidate for lieutenant governor, and
an active, capable young Arkansas val
ley citizen;,: .'."...-... ... ",.;
A-. B. Reevo : Of JDodara ; Citv.1 la, a
lawyer, a writer, former mayor of his
city, a largs land owner, and an active
citizen of western Kansas. - 1 -E.
J. Spencer of Wichita has Jiereto
fore been.., delegate to the National
Irrigation congress and has for some
years been active In his interest in
this work. ,
J. B.- Gano of Kling is a former
sheriff of Barber county, and Is sun
erintendent of a, large gypsum plaster
mm at Medicine Lodge.
George B- Cones of Meade comes from
the noted artesian district of south
western Kansas. Is a heavy landowner,
and a former member of the Kansas
legislature.-; . v'--? " ; - v
--Earl Akers of Stafford - is edltorof
the "Stafford 'Republican and one of
the progressiva youns citizens of cen
tral Kansas. . ? ' '"""i :
- John M. Meade of Topeka. is a well
known engineer, ; being chief engineer
for the Santa Fe railroad,, and of high
Standing in his profession. . ,'
; Kansas 'lll, therefore,' be well rep
resented at the Eighteenth National Ir
rigation congress from a state stand
point and this fine delegation will still
further be supplemented by large local
delegations. , '.
TAKES 17 DRINKS;
; WINS BET AND DIES
LTevark,,N. J-, July To w
m .Ul.Vt ViA Vail maiU iirlfK fi. i
Peter Smith, aged 27, drank il whlskjea
and died of the effects. ,
Smltn had been drinking wlth'somo
friends in a saloon in South street when
an Argument arose among the trowd as
to their respective drinking abilities.
Tl wager was made and death fnl-
Jgwd,
" , , 1 By Paul Villlers.
- Parts, July 18. In theogentle arts of"
ballot bos stuffing -intimidation of
voters and stealing of elections gener- '
ally the French polos fes not only have
nothing to lern Volj, ;hxp most expert
American -exponentiof Jhe shade side
of politics but. in f the disclosures
In the examination dirlhe returns from
Guadeloupe, Martinique and j La , Re
union, "Just made by the new chamber "
of deputies, these, cojonists could qual
ify as teachers to any aspirants t who T
wisn to learn the. trick Of carrvlna
elections without votes. :-v;..s
One result of the election' was the t
unseating of the negro deputy Legltl
mus, famous because he was absent so
long during the last parliament that his
existenoe was considered as a myth 'by
some, though he happens to be in Paris
Just now. - Another consequence' may
be to raise, the whole question of the
advisability of any parliamentary rep-
- w vuivmn ihbu '
those of the West' Indies. 'i; ;
Apparently no electoral campaign ever
takes place In ; Guadeloupe and Marti
nique unaccompanied with t fira -v nA
slaughter. . This year , the proceedings
were comparatively mld.' ; only a few
plantations being burnt liv Guadeloupe
and "some pbrsons killed, exact num
ber unobtainable." . - '
Colonial elections also have their in
genuously comio side. M. Legltlmus
for . example,, was beaten : bv his
mltus, for example, was beaten by his
opponent by 2000 votes when three bal
lot boxes still remained tobe opened..
These were Secreted somewhere for four
days When they were opened whole
bundles Of papers for M. . Legltlmus
poured out, and lie caught up the 2000
with 600 extra.. Hence his unseating.
Returns Are Swallowed. .
In some colonial constltueneeir of
ficers at the polling booths calmly tore '
up uie papers oeanns names, tnev an.
liked ATcandidate turning up sudden- ,
ly during such , an operation, the of
ficer, taken by surprise, swallowed the
paper he was going to throw away. - It
wiMa sasBs uiiwnt, a. 1 114 iicarijr uicu.
A remarkable operation discovered '
during the parliamentary inquiry was
as follows:-' A ballot box, on the first
count was found to contain 824 papers
for A candidate and 127 for B. The
box. and -the signed return - were con
veyed to the town hall. ' . ,
-When it reached there the votes were
22 for A and 701 for B. A spurious
certificate of the returning officer had
simple been substituted, with his slg-'
nature forged. Under these elrcum-.
stances, does It really seem Worth while
to ask the colonies to send representa
tives to the home parliament? , ,
This question Is being very seriously
asked in the chamber, and it is regarded
as altogether probable that action will
be taken modifying If not cutting off
colonial representation. v' r (
Street 'Accidents Arc Common,
Comparison is frequently made in
America of the better manner in which
street traf f lo is regulated in London,
Paris and other great European cities
than in i America. -
Once In a while statements are pre
sented which demonstrate that this al
leged superiority of European cities Is
mythical. ' ",'-' ' - : ' '. ' r
For example, a return just mad to
the Paris municipal council shows that
there were .65,870 street .. accidents ,, in
Paris during 1909 in which 81,868 vehi
cles were involved. The same return
shows - there" are something less than
half a million vehicles in the City in
cluding 20.000 hand carts and 9000
barrows." This would indicate -that at
least 18 per cent of the ; vehicles of
Paris were . involved in accidents dur
ing the year. I doubt if any American
city' would show anything like .this
proposition. :.. . :
. Leplne May Sesjgn.
Mieplner the famous-prefect of po
lice of Paris may resign because of
differences with the government
: One point of disagreement comes of
the rule that all public administrations
must accept a certain number of ex
service men every year. Thanks to ,
this, M. Leplne is asked to accept as
policemen two ex-soialers who- have
each served a term of Imprisonment
Le strongly objects, and so do his men.
' Paris rather enjoyed the suit of M,
Deval manager of the 'Theatre . de
l'Athenee, against Mile. Lanthelme for
damages' because shs refused to play
the part fjr which she was cast In an
adaptation of "Manon." The actress' '
defense was that her part contained a
situation "which" offended-her sense of
propriety. : " ' '- '.
Inasmuch as Mile. L.anineime nan a
short time before appeared in a play
eaiied "Le Circuit" waen her role called
for resque situations to which those in
th. L. nam .'nli. sari mild, her ilefanaa .
was looked on in the nature of a Joke.
The court evidentljurtook that view .of
it as the actress was ordered , to pay
the manager $2000 damages.
- - Anarohlsts Are (Avenged. ' --
Italian anarchists have taken an ex-,
traordinary revenge on . a French soldier
who had exposed one of their plots.
A man' named Beau deserted from ,
the French army, went to Italy, and
got, mixed up In an anarchist plot. He
exposed the conspiracy to the police, and
the anarchist were arrested. Fearing
the anarchists' vengeance Beau . fled
back to France, and gavel Mmself up
to the military authorities, being.' con
demned to the period of imprisonment
and ordered t'o complete his term: of
He thought was s-fe in. the army,
but 1 the anarchists ,were on. nis tracK,
with a novel scheme of vengeance. One
of them, named Boschlni, made, friends
with Beau, and while tho latter was on
sentry-go at night at Cherbourg battery
Induced him by the offer of a big bribe
to allow the anarchist .to steal pieces
of the breech block of a certain gun, '
Boschlni got clear away with tho
mechanism; and omitted to give the
promisod bribe to Beau, who has been
arrested on a charge of stealing the
breech' block parts. . . - .
CITIZENS to confer
t-WlTH'P:Rr& N70FF1C1 ALT
' (Hpfrfal Dlpatih to-The Journal.) '
Hermlston, Or., July IS. Tonight a
party of 20 Hermlston business men
will leave on a. special car for Portland,
where they will meet O. R & N, rail
road officials and talk'over plans for
bettering tho .faculties atHermiston., . -