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S' DEAD LAST EDITION. WOODARD, CLARKE & CO. Memprial Services at Arlington, Where 30,000 ' Heroes; SleepPresideht!s Speech. hub Okrlppa-McRte New ..SJWocisUoii.) . WAflHINOTOir, May 80. Th sleeping .eroes of the Civil and Spanish wars . Were given reverent homage at the na tional eapltol today by the President, his Cabinet and the officers of, the army and navy. 'Organisations, veterans and the , grabllo by thousands, laden with flower and flags, made a pilgrimage to the cem terles... ., ; C y - At Arlington, where 80,000 soldiers are burled, the 'principal exercises were held. : President Roosevelt did not leave the White House for Arlington until about : aoon, when he went under the escort'of George H. Harris of the District of Co lumbia National Guard Brigade and his talt.:. ,;- y -. . rlous Grand Army posts and Spanish war Veterans, who were assigned to Arling ton, preceded the executive by train. After reaching 'the cemetery the ad . Vance guard, led by the Marin Band, -jxiuneu m.i uii lomo gi me unuown, where a dirge was rendered. The pro cession, then re-formed and wound Us wajr to the amphitheater; where the President, his Cabinet, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army Torrance and ' many other distinguished personages In both official and -private life were gath ered. As the bugles sounded the "assembly" the band rendered an introductory dirge. Nearer, My God, to Thee" was then sung by the memorial choir and the throng In unison. Department Commander Bingham then called the audience to order, and the choir rendered a cantata with deep feel ing. Assistant Adjutant-General Chase then read the 'orders" and Edwin B. Hay. delivered Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, At Its conclusion more muslo was rendered, after which the President arose and delivered his oration to the hushed crowd. After the President had concluded his address,' during which hardly a sound was to be heard. General Torrance spoke briefly, after which the ceremonies were concluded by the singing of "America" and the benediction. President-Roosevelt's speech was as fol lows: . PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. "It Is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holidays In commem oration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in our history. There should be few such holidays. To Increaa their DlinbiP ll In rhnnti thm W.ah. ington and Lincoln the man who did! most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve It stand hesfl and shoulders above all our other pub lic men.' and have' by common ci, -?nt won the right to this pre-eminence. Among the holidays which commemo rate the turning points In American his tcry, Thanksgiving has a significance pe culiarly its own. On July 4 we celebate the birth of the nation; on this day, the 80th of May, we call to mind the deaths of those who died that the nation might live, who wagered all that life holds dear for the great price of death in battle, who poured out their blood like water In order that the mighty national structure raised by the far-seeing patriotism bf Wn.hlnrtnn. UYnnlilln Marshall - Ha mil. ton and the other great leaders of the Revolution, great fratners of the Consti tution, should not crumble into meaning less ruins, r' t, , . ... In Lincoln's Time. You whom I address today and your comrades who wore the blue beside you lr. .Aha perilous years . during,' 'which strong, sad, patient Lincoln bore- the crushing load of national leadership, 'per formed the one feat the failure to per form which would have meant destruo-. tlon to everything which make the name America a symbol of hope among the na tions of mankind.: Tou did the greatest and most necessary task which has ' ever fallen to the 'lot of "any men on 'this Western Homlsphere. Nearly three eetw turies have passed. since the waters of our. coasts were first furrowed, by . the our efforts in the future both the, way you did your work In war and the way In which nrhen the war was over you turned again to the work of peace. In wa atid in peace alike your example will stand a the Wisest of lessons to us and our chil dren and our children's children. i Cruelty In Philippine, . ' J Just at this moment the army of the United States, led by. men . who served among you in the great war. Is carrying to completion a small but peculiarly try ing and difficult war, in which 4s Involved not only the honor of the flag, : but the triumph of civilisation over fomes which stand for the black chaos of savagery and barbarism.' The task has not been as difficult or as Important as yours, but, oh. my comrades, the men ita the uniform of DECORATION DAY. 1902. High lift your children, mothers i Let their young eyes behoV A dying army marching, time-beaten, spent and old. As they toil by, as tattered as the banners that they wave, See the worn hands saluting I Lo ! They salute the grave I fcigh lift your children, mothers !" Let their young voices cheer ( The brave 0. hearts that slowly draw on and disappear Thin ranks that front the shadows, ranks must'ring out so fast, 'Tis as a phantom army, that solemnly drifts past. A fading army marching with weak and falt'ring tread But pressing all around it there throng the mighty dead ! Aye, bright and splendid spirits ! Their battle linesare drawn, And Comrade waits for Comrade beside the gates of Dawn. . J. W. Mulles.. keels of the men, whose children's chil dren were. to Inherit this fair land. Over m century ana a nan or coiomtn grown. followed the settlement; and now for over a century and a quarter we have been a nation. During our four generations of nation al life we have had to do many tasks, and some of them of far-reaching Impor tance, but the only really vital task was the one you did, the task of saving the Union. There were other crises In which to have gone wrong would have meant disaster; but this wajs the one crisis In which to Jhave gone wrong would have meant not merely disaster, but annihila tion. For failure at any otner point, atonement epuld have been made; but had you failed, in the Iron days the loss would have been irretrievable. Upon your success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much of the future of mankind as a whole. A Reunited Country. Tou left us a 'reunited country. Tou left us 4he right of brotherhood with the men In gray, who with such courage and such devotion for what they deemed th -right, fought atralnst you, But you left us much more even than your achieve ment, for yon left us the memory of hw It was achieved, ' Tou, who made good by your valor and patriotism the states manship of Lincoln and the soldiership of Grant, have set as the standards for There's Style and Finish TO OUR Straw HATS U you need one now why not have h decidedly up-to-date? That's the kind we offer, and it's most complete Jine of beauties. Take your choice anions PANAMAS, PORTO RJCANS, MJLANS or MACK INAWS they are the leaders. Our prices are always reasonable. M. SICHEL, AfcN'S FURNISHER, and HATTER, 288 Washington St., Portland, Or. 5ole Agent tor the . JAMESON MAT. m DO The Weather Tonight and Saturday, fair, light Irost tonight;: warmer Saturday NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY '- 1 ' " If Yon are in heed of Summer UNDERWEAR This is rare opportunity to get two tufts for the price of , one. They are regular 50c goods in all colors and sites. : Now is the time to lay in supply while these prices latt. Fifty-Cent UNDERWEAR for 25c. u HENRY J. WHITE I 169 Third Street Sole Agent for the KING Hat.- i t y- ft Between Morrison mod Yamhill I I 1 30 OC the United States, who have for the last three years patiently and uncomplaining ly championed the American cause In the Philippine Islands, are your younger brothers, your sons. They have shown themselves not unworthy of you, and they are entitled to the support of all men who are proud of what you did. These younger comrades of yours have fought under terrible difficulties and have received terrible provocation from a very cruel and very treacherous enemy. Under, the strain of these provocations I deeply deplore to say that some among: them have so far forgotten themselves as to counsel, and commit, in retaliation, acts of cruelty.. The fact that for evjery guilty act committed by one of 4 our troops a hundred acts of far greater atrocity have been committed by the hostile natives upon our troops, or upon the peaceable and lawabiding natives who are friendly to us, can not be held to excuse' any wrongdoer on our aide. Determined and unswerving effort must be made, and la being made, to find out every Instance of barbarity on the part of our troops, to punish those guilty of it, and to tak. If possible, even stronger measures than have already been taken to minimize or prevent the occurrence of all such in stances In the f uture. " Lynching Deplored. , . From time to time there occur In our country, to the deep and lasting shame of our people, lynchings carried on under circumstances of Inhuman cruelty and barbarity a cruelty Infinitely worse than any that has ever been committed by our troops In the Philippine; worse to the victims, and far more brutalislng to those guilty of it. The men who fall to con demn these lynchings, and yet clamor about wha ha been done in the Philip pines, are Indeed guilty of neglecting the beam in their own eye while taunting their brother about the mote in his. Un derstand me. These lynchings afford us ho excuse for failure to atop cruelty in the Philippines. Every effort Is being made, and will be made, to minimize the chances of cruelty occurtng. But keep In mind that these cruelties In the Philippines have been wholly ex ceptional, and have' been shamelessly ex aggerated. We deeply and bitterly regret that any such cruelties should have been committed, no matter how rarely, no mat ter under what provocation, by American troops. But they afford far less Justifica tion for a general condemnation of our Army than these lynching afford for the condemnation ot the communities In which they have taken place. In .each ease it is Well to condemn the deed, ana it Is well also to refrain from Including both guilty and Innocent in the same sweeping condemnation. In every community there are people who commit acts of well nigh inconceiva ble horror and baseness. If we. fix ouf eyes only upon these Individuals and upon their acts, and If we forget the far more numerous citizens of upright and honest life and blind ourselves to .their count less deeds of wisdom and Justice and philanthropy, it la easy enough to con demn the community. There la not a city in this land which we could not thus condemn if we fixed our eyes -purely upon its police record and .refuse to look at what .lt had accomplished for decency and Justice and .charity. Tet this is exactly the attitude which has been taken by too many men with refer ence : to our Army in . the , Philippines; and It Is an attitude both absurd and cruelly unjust :,vi4 Mmu The rules of warfare wtolch have been promulgated by the War Department and accepted as the basis of conduct by ouc troops In the field are the rules laid down by Abraham Lincoln when you, my hear ers, were fighting for the Union, i These rules. provide,, of course. . for ; the Just severity- necessary in war. ' The most de structive er ll forms -or cruelty. would oe xo snow weaxnese werier sternness Is demanded by iron needV s But All cruelty Page.) Ill Lincoln, McKinley and Other Worthies Re- mem (Scrlppa-McRae News Association.) SPRINGFIELD. " M. May S0.-Ceremo-nies over Lincoln's tomb Were celebrated here today la. the usual order. The, ex ercises were preceded by a great parade. , MCKINLEY'S TOMB. CANTON, Ohio, (Mey.lfc-MeKiniey Post today distributed: many flowers sent here for the -casket and vauit of the late Pres ident. They Were' Impartial,-placing only the customary Grand Army emblem on the martyr's casket. V : ' ' ' CUBAN CCtTESY. HAVANA; May J K).-The battleship Maine was decorated today with Cu-. ban and American flags', Veose garlands and wreaths at ths otjSer of President Palma. Servloes were held, at the Ameri can Churches. ', .'"! MIL'ES IN GOTHAM. NEW YORK, May JO.tA feature of to day's celebration was tne unveiling by General Miles of the Sailors and Soldiers' monument in Riverside ark,. which oost a quarter of a mWoh. A parade pre ceding this consisted of Veterans and reg ulars by thbtisands and was reviewed by MUfs, Admiral Barker, Generals How ard and Brooks.' and Mayor Low. STATUE UNVEILED. PHILADELPHIA, 1 May 80.-At30.000 bronze bust of tue late President McKin ley was unveiled today lu the corridor of the poatoffice by the Letter Carriers' As sociation bf Philadelphia; ' Former Post master General Smith was the orator of the occasion. . ' c IN LEAVENWORTH. LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. May SO.-The bones of Generat Leavenworth, founder of this fort, was reinterred here today In the National- Cemetery. General Bates presided and an Immense parade of regulars and veterans preceded tne ceremony. IN SAN FRANCISCO. SAN FRANCISCO.', May 30.-The ob servance of Memorial day was ' unusually quiet. A military parade and the distri bution of flowers by rhlps on the water, of the -bay were the only fea-; tures. .:,t: ,',: WILL WED (Continued on Booow4 Benjamin Hunt Forced to Marry Miss Hoenig. Detective Frank Snow returned from San Francisco last night, having-in cus tody Benjamin F. Hunt, wanted here for taking advantage of Miss Louise Hoenig under promise of marriage. Hunt, after leaving here, went direct to San Francisco and enlisted In the United States Navy and was assigned to the training ship Pensacola. Snow found him in charge of the mlltlary author ties on boat Island. Assistant District Attorney Spencer has tried to suppress the facta, and this morning Chief of Police McLauchlan re fused to allow anybody to see the pris oner. Just why they should take this course, is not known. . However, Detective Snow not having received silence orders from his supe riors, said that Hunt admitted his inti macy with the girl, and expressed him self perfectly willing to marry her. In fact, he told the officer that he wanted to marry Miss Hoenig before he ran away, but that her parents would not permit him to do so. Hunt is well known here having been employed in a local theatre as an usher. He is about IS. years of age. while Miss Hoenig is about the same age. There will be no prosecution In the case, as Hunt was slmpy brought back to be forced Into a marriage, .which he ex presses himself as perfectly willing to ac cept In fact. Detective Snow says Hunt expressed bis fondness for the girl from the first. FELL DEAD IN HIS DAUGHTER'S ARMS . i DENVER, May St After bringing his train In safely and reporting to the dis patchers George W. RIdgeway, one of the oldest engineers, both In age . and point of service, on the Denver Y Rio Grande, dropped dead in the arms ot his daughter. Sir. RIdgeway had been forced to take, a vacation of four weeks because of ill health, hut a week ago believed himself able to again take his run. and he. was put on No. 78, the local freight from Pu eblo to Denver. . : He left Pueblo at ( o'clock and pulled into Denver about 4 o'clock in the after noon. He went to bis. residence. No. 413 South Twelfth street, end in reply to his Wife's Inquiries remarked that he had never, felt better in his life. He sat in an easy chair and appeared to he think ing. Shortly before o'clock he was celled to dinner. Rising from his chair, and 'without saying word, he plunged forward. Mrs. B. 8. Simpson, his daugh terf ;who ta knewm en the stage by her maiden' name, . Kate RIdgeway, cugh( him. ''He died In her arsszV : HILL IS FEARFUL That Martinique Will Be Utterly Destroyed. Peiee SUN Rumbles Sullenly t Threatening a Fresh Outbreak. i OScrlpps-McRae News Association.) PORT DB FRANCE. May SO.-The newspapers' story 'of .ae wonderful ad ventures of George Kavanaugh, who was reported to have gone within a mile of Pelee, taking pictures and viewing the awful scenes of desolation. Is pronounced Imaginative here. Pelee continues to smoke and to growl sullenly as though gathering strength for another eruption. The showers of ashes continue, and it Is as impossible to venture near now as during the ' few days following the , de struction of St. Pierre. The cruiser Cin cinnati silled quietly last night -for Cast ries with Geologist Hill aboard. He fears for the safoty of the Island. George Kavanaugh's safety is now- assured. M S Papers Jubilant Over Peace Prospects. (Journal Special Service.) LONDON. May to. The morning papers are unanimous in accepting the statement of the government' leader, A. J. Balfour, in the House of Commons, as having but one meaning, namely, peace; but the pa pers believe, that Its long experience with the astute Boer character compels the government to the unusual precaution oi announcing nothing until the terms of peace are actually signed, lest another surprise should be forthcoming at the last moment. For reasons similar to the fore going, the censorship In South Africa has been seriously devoted to preventing the terms of peace from leaking out. The delegates who left Pretoria at o'clock Wednesday night Include Acting President Schalkburger of the Trans vaal, General Lucas Meyer, Commander In-Chief of the Orange Free State forces; General Botha, the Transvaal Commander-in-Chief, Generals Delarey and Dewet, State Secretary Reltz of the Transvaal, General Smuts, Commandant Beyers and Landrost Brand. Alfonso DIMHOIllB First Official Act of the Young King of Spain. (Scripps-McRae News Association.) MADRID, May SO.-The official gazette today publishes a decree by King Alfonso dissolving the Cortes. This Is Alfono's first political act. A NEW JOB (Scripps-McRae News Association.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.-Captaln of Detectives John F. Seymour,' who has been connected with the city police force since, 1884, resigned today to accept a position with the Fair estate. Captain John 'B. Martin will be his successor. MANY; APPLICANTS Want to Serve Old Uncle Sam on the Sea. Many boys want to go to sea. This is evidenced ' by the number of appli cants at the navy recruiting office In the Poatoffice building. To prevent a rush at the last -minute, persons desiring to enlist had better do so at onoe. The office will be open from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. dally until Juiti Si when. Chief Master-at-Arms Josephson, Lieutenant J. P. Morton and Dr. W. L. Bell will move to Whatcom. Wash., where they will stay,from. June C to June 11; Olympia, Waah., June 13-18; Salera, June 19-24; Ashland, June 25-28. , The recruiting officers - are especially after Portland "policemen, as they could get positions as masters-at-arms, with salaries of from ISO to $50- per month with hoard. y V'-J: ":rr- MANN ia ABBOTT 93 SECOND STREET Stark an4 Oak es e 4e w -e Garden Hose. ALL QUAUTOS. LOVVTWT FfclCta, ' Store open 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Woodord, Clarke (2b Co. Canadian Money receives! at aar. A FULL LINE OP CENUINE - V i Russian Hand-Cut Brasses At fair prices. The first time this kind ot a line has been shown. A large assortment of novel electrical shades. . . . . Call and see us. s i The John Barrett Company New Stores, cor. Sixth and Alder Sts. opposite Oregonian Bldg. PHONE MAIN 122. PORTLAND, OREGON THE Brunswfck-Bdike-Collender Co. - Leading Manufacturers in the World of Billiard and Pool Tables. Saloon Fixtures BOWLING ALLEYS AND SUPPLIES. Office aird Salesrooms 49 Third St., Portland, Ore. 3? A Valuable i(ttPr ,wyo d , bracer don't ask forlWKISraJaV-yws-'d- you will' get cheap 'bulk . goods. Ask for . ' ? '' -r . ' . - - OLD VALLEY WHISKEY and you will get an article nine years old and of an extra special 1 quality. - rienrv Fleckenstein & Co.. Aots.Mi 5 GOING TO BUILD? To householders and persons about to build, oat trrnr ttctvtp rn?oTrTkTc - : Gas and Electrical Fixtures S Are now on sale at PRICES NO OTHER CON- 2 S CERN CAN DUPLICATE. . S J PARQUET PLOORINO: INTERLOCKING RUBBER TUB. "J American Tank & Fixture Co ..Z' ntttih f ,v Welch 4 Rlner Sol Northwest Agents. ""T 175 Fourth SU Near YamhiB. 2 a. Incandescent Arc Lamps ' on meter basis of , u ' Sc. PER HOUR WHILE BURNING . , Electric Lamps belov cost to consumers o our current viz , 15c EACH, $1.75 PER DOZEN Portland General Electric Co Seventh and Alder Sts. Phones 385 Ho Mora Oread of the Dental Chair New York. Dental - Parlors 4th and Morrison Sts., Portland, Ore . . : . J C3 rtATt3 No Pain No Gas r , Full Set of Teeth $5.00 Teetk extra ettd aad Clisa abeointar wtthaat ealiL4 Bt mv late Ssethod applied to the rums. , Ne sleep-productiMr asents er eooalae. ' - -These are the only dental Darters I Portlaad havlBJt sataateA seftV - sjMes and taredlents to .street. SU aod spply. gold erewss and perrnehs erowtu undeectsble trem aataral testa, sad warranted lor 10 rears. .Wue at tk least psia. . , , , . . . ' ; - v Hoars: Bs&O to frOOSandayt &30 to 9iOQ. Advcrtiho in Tho JC r Of M (f'-y ft ii- y-' yv.
