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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1906)
Columbia REGISTER TT ini MAGAZINE SECTION. IIOULTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAKCH 16, 1906. r.vz 1 to 4. RICH WEDDING PRESENTS. 7.YS TO I'KSSWESrS DAVGU TEU TUB MOST UAGMFICEXT EVER I'RESEXTEU. Valued at Hundred of Thousand of Dollars-Kare Tapestries Silk, Jewrlrv and other Ornament from Every Country, No oilier Atncrlcun gjrl Laa recelviV WedUlug pri-aunts no nuuiuroua, valu able or interesting aa thoso which have been showered upon rnwlileut I(ooHiV(iU'a oldest daughter. NM!) (Irani who, next to Alice Hoosevolt, had tha most brilliant Wblto House wedding received many rimtlr gifts from all parts of the world but hrr tropsloa pale by comparison with thoae of Ua flnl White lion bride of the prrarat century. For one thins thure were only two hundred guesta at the aarrlaxe of Nelly Grant and Algernon Barlorla whereaa nearly one thousand persona were Invited to tho White lloaao wedding of 19U0 and of course the number of presentt In tha latter caae outnumber thoso In the former tnakaaee In tha aamcr proportion. Recognized at Creat World Tower Tata too. Uncle Ram waa not near ly aa aiuca of a World I'ower In the daa of President Grant aa bo haa bnm alnre the Spanish-American War and consequently It U small won er It the various rulers of tho world have aiaalfoMted greater Intercut In the naptisls ef tho daughter of tho pre wit tlilrf Magistrate tluiit tltfy did la Ike similar event a quartor of a con. tury ago. However, It thould be explained Just here tluit l'resldent Roosevelt's daughter haa received very few pre sents from foreign governments al most all of the gifts having come from the aoverclicnN or other rulera aa In dividual. That the governments thould not send tokens waa tho ex prong Winn of lYetddent and Mrs. Roosevelt and was dourly Indicated to the designed aa a Rift either for royalty or for some distinguished son of France and aven such honor baa btn paid but rarely. It waa the wish of the French people and offlclula to proaent to tho White House bride the moat exquisite and precious thing that could bo aelocted and quite naturally they selected a upcclai product of their beat workshop. Ih Is Gobelin tapentry. tho only one of tha kind ever sent to thla country, haa aa Ua design a reproduction of a painting made by Kbrnian ofEtras burg, a famous Alsatian painter. The tapestry Is two feet wide and four feet long and the predominating colors are bluo, green aud yellow. It waa made fully fifty years ago and the subject Is allegorical in character, re presenting a woman of tho Middle Agea dressed In long flowing robes of blue and yellow and standing before a lectern making Illuminations upon a scroll. Tho figure la almost In pro file and the dark hair la curled about tho bead In classlo atyle. Around the mala picture la a border wider at each end and narrower on the sides In which wreaths, loaves and medal lions appear at Intervals. Thla tap estry, small aa It Is, Is said to be worth from $26,000 to $50,000 Jeweled Necklace from Cuba. For the new Republic's gift to tha daughter of President Koosevelt the Cuban government appropriated the sum of $25,000 and the Cuban Minis ter at I'arla waa entrusted with the task of purchasing the handsomest jeweled necklace that could bo obtain ed with this sum. The White House brldo, by the way, haa received sever al pearls and diamond necklaces. Most of them have come, however, from relative of the brldo and wealthy New York friends. The German Emperor did not take the world into hla confidence with re ference to the prevent sent to th young lady who christened hla yacht but It proved to be a Jowelel bracelet for which the Kniperor mid Kmpnus personally selected and matched the mm Jm -M-a . j? mm PIECE OP CODCLIN TAPESTRY FROM FRANCE Unltod States AmboRHadors and Min isters In the various capitals of the world. Two governments, those of Cuba and France had already made all arrangements for governmental gifts ere the Intimation came from Washington and cf oourse, In each case the original plan was carried out but at the other courts of the world the governments took no action but mere ly left matters In the hands of the rulers who were, to be sure, at entire lllwrty to send presents provided they paid for thorn out of their own pockets. Incomparable Gobelin Tapestry. Of tho thousands of wedding pre tents valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars which arrived at tho White IIouho during the first half of tho month of February undoubtedly one of the moBt attractive was the won derful pieces of GolMilln Tnpestry, tho gift of tho Republic of Franco and which was presented to Miss Roosevelt In person by M. Jusserand, the French Ambassador to tho Unltod States. This gift hns esporlal significance from the fact that tho factory where it was manufactured was established by Louis XIV and Is under, the direct con trol of the government of France. Wovim before- have the looms In this French governmental tapeBtry plant preduced a work of art that was not MORGAN A GOOD LOSER. VENERABLE ALAUAUIAX SBOWX XOT TO US A I'AXAUA CAXAl OUSTRL'CTIOXJST. la Second O'dcat Man In the United States Senate, But Poetised of Creat Vitality-Strong But Always Square fighter. rVnnlor John T. Morgan of Alabama, elghty-ono years old. or eighty-one yeurs young, Is. with the exception of his colleague, Senator I'ettua or Ala bama, the oldest man in the United BtaU's Senate. lie is one of the very active men of the Senate, and of late years hat achlovcd considerable fame because of the vigor wl3i which be champion ed the N'hUragua rout as the proper way for the trans-Isthmian canal, and also for the ardor ami perseverance of bis opposition to the Panama route. Rocs use o tho bltternest of bis antag onism to the purchase by the United States of the concessions of the Franco-Panama canal romp", and because of his determined effort to de feat the adoption of the Panama route. Ken a tor Morgan has In tome quarters gained th reputation of be ing an obstructionist A Square Fighter. Nothing coti'l be farther from the truth. He Is a great and strong fighter, but bis opposition Is fulr and square, be has resorted to ne of the tactics employed by Congressional ob structionists, and when be has been Hnton be has admitted It. This Is lenrly shown In a recent letter to the 'ana ma Canal Commission, declining n Invitation to accompany the Oom- mlswlnn on a trip to the Ithmu. In this letter tho venerablo Senator aays: "Pines tha rsllflrntlnn of th llar- Vsrllla trmty, whlrh I opponed, I hsre dorm all that I could snd much more than thought could rvrr be of advantage tt he country to nuntaln the government In ta ptirpoMt to conntruct a ennui st Tans- ma. Yet I have not believed that auccesa could crown their efforts, even In their mot costly and denpernte form. Tou may flni the key to unlock th barriers that nature has interposed at Panama. If you should be so fortunate, I will applaud your sntus and courage. I wilt vote to provide you with every renxonabla au thority snd power to irrompltnh your aak and to meet your tremendous re sponsibility." This letter ahows that Senator Mor gan Is a good loser as well as a good flcrhter. To Ih a good loser is n admirable trnlt lie does not rankle over defeat nnd does not nurse a cause which he soon Is Irretrievably lost This it practical statesmanship. An Active Record. Senator Morgan has hnd an active life. He was born at Athens, Tenn., Juno 20, 1821, and with his parents went to Alabama when he was nine years old. lie was admitted to the bar of Alabama In 1845; was a Presiden tial elector In ISfiO for the State at arge and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was 0 delegate In lSt'd from Dallas county to the State convention which passed the ordinance of secess ion; Joined tho Confederate army In IStil as a private in the Cahaba Rifles, and when that company was assign' ed to tho Fifth Alabama regiment John Morgan was elected a major and inter lieut-colonel of tho regiment He was commissioned a colonel in 18C2 and raised the fifty-first Alabama regiment and came out of the war a brigadier-general in command of an Alabama brigade. ITe was Preslden tlal elector in 1876 and voted for Samuel J. Tilden. and was elected to the United States Senate to snceed George Goldthwalte, taking his seat Marcn otn, istt. He has been In the Senate ever since, and will probably remain mere as ions aa be Wlanea. or as long as ce urea. at the former city was completed and partly concreted when it filled with water and another one will have to be bored. The Scran ton shaft it now nearly completed. Father Murgaa' wireless system dif fers from all others by dispensing with the Morse system and substituting musical tones each tone represent ing a letter or a code word or group of words, so that a speed about ten times as great as the fastest Morse code can be attained. REWARDED BY CARXEGIE. Mitt Maud Tltua Presented With a Medal and an Lducaiion. When Miss Maud Titus of Newark, N. J., rescued her friend Laura Relf snyder from drowning In a yachting accident In Casco Bay, Nova Scotia, July 30, 1904, she did not know that her act placed her under the watchful eye of Andrew Carnegie, the Steel King. Mlsa Titus and her unfortunate friend were out yachting on that fate ful day when a sudden squall upset tbelr yacht Miss Titus Is an expect swimmer, while Miss Relfsnyder an- I f. HOMES FOR CITY WAIFS. HUM BE RLE SS ORTUASS IX CREAT C1T1ES-UAXY DELIBERATE LY DESERTED. MESSAGES UNDERGROUND. Eight Million Dollars la Charity Last Ywar la New York Alone-Country Hornet Provided la Case a Wfecrc Practicable. At one of the vacation Bible classes last summer, some tenement children were taught a word-guessing game. One of the words selected was "home." The little girl whose turn It was to guess failed to get a clue, and a boy trying to help her, said, "Think of something that smells awful and yon want to get away from quick." The child guessed "house." The dirt and fool atmosphere of his home Is dis gusting to even the tenement chJd bimseiC yet home la the child t great est necessity. Authorities on the sub ject strongly adrocai; thw prtvat fortunes of philanthropists aa wei at state and municipal funds be devoted, not to building Institutions for depen dent children, but to pensioning wid ows with families and finding foster parents for orphans. Of the 600,000 children under 1 years of age who form 18 per cent of the population of New York City. 2v 000 are homeless waifs. About half of these forlorn little ones are babies be tween the ages of two and four. The causes that cperate to bring about this pitiable condition are those that fill the workhouses and prisons, death of one or both parents. Injury through accident consumption, rice. crime, inability to obtain work and in competence, desertion. Juvenile d pravity. Many Half Orphans, Complete orphanage Is less frequent than Is generally supposed, in most cases that come under the attention of the charities associations, the children are half orphans. However when the father Is the surviving parent the re sult as far as tv reeaklne up of the home Is concerned is the same. A. man rarely succeeds in keeping his children together. If they are very young a woman's care is Imperative, and where poverty prevents the hiring of nurses, the charitable lnstitunon is the alternative. If a widow Is left with a family the childrva stand a better chance, 'or not only Is It a notor ious fact that a mother will work border and more effectively than a father to keep tKe brood together, but the charities commissioners, recogulz- Insr the value of even the poorest kind For her act of heroism, Miss Titus, of a home to the child, wi" give sub- who Is only sixteen years old, was a stantiaJ, if limited, aid to that end. warded a Carnegie medal, although T. r. WWt, p,.-,.. at the time her name was under con- The Creat White P,0ue- sideratlon, hundreds of other persons Consumption carries off 1-8 the met- were brought forward as worthy of re- ropo'itan population. The lingering MISS MAUD TITUS Awarded Carnegie Medal and educational Fund. able to swim, quickly sank in the deep water, upon coming to the surface, however, sbo was seized bv the Newark heroine who brought her safely to shore. ward. Since receiving the medal Miss Titus's father died leaving insufficient money to send her to college as she craved. Miss Relfsnyder, apprised tie Carnegie commission of her friend's desire for an education and the com mission decided to grant her S2.50C Five hundred dollars of this is to be paid upon her entrance to a school 1300 annually in advance for three years, and $500 at her graduation This is the largest reward ever given by the commission, tho highest previ lomj being $1,000. illness in tubercular cases is more dis- left dependent on New York's publio charity through the desertion of the parents it reckoned by the thousands. As to the little unfortunates who are classed as ungovernable, who ma away from borne, etc-the fault lies largely in the home. Indifference, neglect and 01 treatment are the causes of Juvenile crime. Third class theatres and their flaming advertise ments are frequently the incentive to petty thieving in order to obtain the price of admission, while the gay career of the villain in the play fires the Imagination of the alum children whose mrroundings an tend to give him a croseyed view of morality. Though the gallery hlseee the stage villain, it admires hit good clothes and dashing pose, and the boy who hat stolen a piece of lead pipe to pay hi . way In thinks he hat just the nerve and wit to save himself from the Baas era ble climax which finishes the had malt on the stage. "fid victim of peverty and rtt C evils In . New York who. through the death or Incotapetenoe of Its patents er Its own depravity, coanes wUhln the jurisdiction of the public charities It usually first tent to ene of the city's tastltuttone. There are 127 of them, and to each the city pays 38 cants a day for each Infant cared for and $2 a week for each child ever two years. The widower sending hla ctlld ta to one of these institutions It requested to pay something towards their support If he fails the dty pays. A municipal officer la test to visit the surviving parents of the chil dren once a year, and where toodldoas) have Improved to the point which as sures health and comfort the child It returned to its home. The parents are not always anxious to regain possess ion of their children. It it a tad com mentary on human nature that they exhibit more eagerness In this direc tion after the child haa reached an art where it can earn money. To Make Better Citizens. New York gives more largely ta charity than any other city and fta methods are most severely criticised. Nearly $5,000,000 waa contributed last year, almost half of which went to In stitutions for the dtute. It hat been universally agreed, however, that the best means for caring for the waifs of great cities Is by providing them with hornet in country families. The precaution of first making sure that the child's parents or relativea wtt. never be able or willing to care for tt is urged. When this point haa bees established and a family can be found willing to accept a foundling, the child may be adopted outright But If there is uncertainty on thla point or for any reason the family is unwilling to definitely adopt a child, he may be -sent out with the understanding that be ia to receive wagea for auch wort as he may be fitted to do, hut be treat ed as one of the family. In Massa- gems. The Kaiser's envoy in America and his bride sent u set of dessert plates of Dresden China. Tho Represent ative's fellow Congressmen from Ohio gave a silver loving cup said to have cost $800 and the XJongresamen re presenting the State of New York made up a fund and purchased a splendid set of ornamental glass made by Tiffany. The White House bride has reason to congratulate herself that all foreign donors, Including the Eur opean and Oriental sovereigns arrang ed to themselves pay the duties on their wonderful collection of silks, rugs, vases and other ornaments. If the President's daughtor had been obliged to defray from her private funds the Import tax on these sou venir it would have played havoo for some time to come with her personal Income of $3,000 a year. A Vast Grccnboasc. The atmosphere of the earth acts very much In the same way aa does the glass of a greenhouseIt allows the rays of the sun to pass through, but Imprisons the heat Thus It is colder on the too of a mountain than at the sea level, because, though the mountain-top Is slightly nearer tne sun, the atmosphere Is very much less dense. A Jesuit of Pennsylvania the Invent or of a New Wireless Telegraph System. Father Joseph Murgaa of Wllkes- uarre, Pennsylvania, expects, within the next month or two to be able to send wireless messages to Europe by means of his new system which is now in practical operation. Since the completion of the aerial wireless system and Its development to Its present stage of perfection Father Murgaa has been experiment ing with an underground service which he believes will be more valu able than the aerial system. His ex periments so far have been limited to short dl8tauc.es with moderate elec trical power and shallow holes. But he is now completing underground stations in Wllkes-Barre and Scran ton and will conduct the experiments on a larger scale. So far as he hat proceeded with this work, so successfully has his theory of underground wireless tel cgraph worked out that recently' he announced he had no doubt of his ability to Bend an underground mess age to Europe and that the experi ment will shortly be made, despite the fact that it la estimated it will coBt $22,000. To accomplish this, he says, a shaft 3,000 feet deep must be sunk in thl? country, and one of similar depth in Europe. Each of these will have to be concreted to render It Impervious to dampness, which would destroy "the efficiency of the wires with which the sending and receiving apparatus will be connected with the surface. A great deal of power will also be re- oulred. The shafts at Wllkes-Barre and Seranton are 800 feet deep and the distance la eighteen miles. The eh aft Titled Celebrities. Edward VII, King of England and Emperor of India, Is imposing enough but such a slender collection of words would never serve to fire the Oriental Imagination, and the Sultan of Turkey is known as "The Finest Pearl of the Age and the Esteemed Centre of the Universe, at Whose Grand Portals Stand the Camels Of Justice and Mercy and to Whom the Eyes of the Kings and Peoples in the West have been Drawn; Lord and Master, the Sultan of Two Shores and the High King of Two Seas, the Crown of Ages and the Pride of AH Countries, the Greatest of all Khallfs. the Shadow of God on J L i,lW 1 cr i n' 1 111 . "laJ- SCENES OP CMILDKEN WHO HAVE FOUND HOMES IN THE COUNTRY. astrous to the family than sudden ,v. c,,M. Af ) Anu,i A death of the nrovidlng head. Tho the Lord of the Universe and the Vlo- healthy members are (deprived of the t,lo r.nn...n. fiiiiton Ahrfni.u.TTiM necessaries of life o provide some The kings of Ava and Ceylon each mi" Ior "e 717. i.iAji ,v . the time the end comes the whole fam- attributes of divinity and proclaimed T Iq"L t rnTte themselves "God - to which His wholly taPJ Majesty of Ava added "King of Kings. "ZZ fTn Vh tV whom all others must obey, as he is the Preserver of all Animals, the Re- ylce and crlme are Tej non dlscour- guiator 01 seasons, uie aiwuiuio mas ter of the Ebb and Flow 01 tne sea Brother to the Sun and King of the Four and Twenty Umbrellas," an anti climax essentially Oriental. chusetta and Pennsylvania children la the second class are placed la country famlUea and their board paid by tha state. Since taking up this method of pro viding' homes for its charges, the Children's Aid Society of New York City has had 23,523 children legally adopted and secured homes In the) country tor 25,537 others who receive wages. At present It is placing an (Continued on next page.) aging sources of distress. The num ber of children renaerea numvirao through the misconduct of tbelr par ents la larsre and is Increasing. In- Am nan ntwh ia the most common form Tho Terslan Shah takes his title- oC brings countless evils In upon the instalment plan, making up its train. Sooner or later the "Gerry" In number what each Incks in lensrth mmM down on the miseraDie He la "Shahin Shah." "Klnc of Kings." fcnma The nsrents are sent to pent "The Rose of Delleht," "The Branch of tentlary or workhouse, or are simply Honor," and others of note, to say put under bonds to contribute to the nothing of what his subjects call mm support of the children, 'ine cnuureu among themselves. pass through the Children s court to Perhaps the oddest and most truth- an asylum, and are sometimes giaa u fnl f thnm nil ta the. title, of the Klne Aannno from their homes, public Chart- of Monomopotapa, who was Btyled ty meaning to them warmer clothlnf, "Lord of the Sun and the Moon, Great sumcent rood ana comiorauie uvu. Magician and Great Thief." t-miw. trorV In New After such glories as these European ' ' "mnetericv. monarchs might be forgiven envy, """i f thrnnempToyed but though it Is not apparant that such J L"I thl toSKSu In has developed, and democratic King Jt to wSl Edward Is content with Tour Majesty American metropolis. or even "Sir." iaw Airatnst Desertion of ChUdern. Desertion has become so common Sire otltraiaa. Unssed laws making it a felony. A large brain does not necessarily TTnder these laws the authorities are Indicate intellect The brain of an able to impose neavier peuaine ana Illiterate person has been found to also to secure extradition ra case mnwi than nf tha mnnt: ooinhrst. the desertlnc parent dm gone to some ed" scientists, '(oefS,-ana" philosophers, other Btate. The number of children, APRON c? PATTERN lr This la th beat apron MtMro vr offend and la otn.thln very !o BMds. Yon cannot lltobDleuedwtth (bla OO and all naw aabaorlb- MNUI PMDlt'i Popslar Moattity wii 1 MoaiTe one roe. i it ia ia a vies natteni. Tacea t yaa. or jiatarlal one yard wide. Only a Mittone. Hmaii. meaium ana uuvealae. Thi PiorLa'a Poru- ui Monthly laa nna. M-peg Iteautlrully muitimtea Dome maffaaioe xor woman ana irlrla. 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