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-iS -Si' hs.!nniiOnoo Mower Gut "V i; 'Named for its principal ieatnre-DBAW CI1T. No neck-weight j Knife can be lined np with pit man when: wear occurs. The finger . bar in which the knife runs is drawn from a point in front-not pushed from the main frame of the machine. All other mowers push the finger bar more or less and that is what reduces the 6nttin power and makes them dangerous to ride on: r When the finger bar is pushed-much or little-ttere must be a bar to push it-a push bar. AH iront-bar mowers have, push bars except the CHAMPION. The CHAMPION has none. The CHAMPION finger bar is drawn, not pushed in the least. If a mower has a push : bar it is dangerous to ride upon it, and it loses cutting power when in tough grass, because J the tendency is to lift the wheels: On other mowers the finger it THB'BHR: NO PUSH. XJ This Draws (be BarA Added Traction.. . THE WHEELS' WILL NOT, LIFT FROM THE GROUND. Wheels cannot lift from the ground. : Balanced adjustable finger bar, flexible swath board. Draw cut sizes' 4 J and 5 ft. Big draw cut sizes, 6, 7 and 8 ft. Every Champion Mower has two knives. The Cham pion is draw cut and has increased traction and power in hard cuttiDg, that is, the resistance of the grass in cutting draws the wheels tighter to the ground. It is light draft and has no neck weight. bar is almost entirely pushed Some other mowers have a small draw rod, but remember they also have a big push bar.. ALL SUCH MOWERS ARE PUSH CUT. When the finger bar of a push cut mower strikes forcibly, a fixed obstruction, the inside wheel raises off the ground. Tough grass acts as an oh struction to the-cutter bar, and when the cutter bar of a push cut mower is obstructed, however little, 'the tendency of the wheels is to lift." It is only when the obstruction takes thtp form of a fixed ob stacle that the wheels will actually lift clear oft the ground; but the tendency to lift is still there, and the tougher the grass the lighter the wheels press on the ground and the less f traction you have just when you need it most. : 1 CHAMPION THE CHAMPION lock-lever self-dump rake. 'With this machine a boy may rake the heaviest hay and bunch it with the rake as well as a man. The foot lever for holding the teeth down may be locked or not as desired; when locked no effort is required to hold the teeth down while gathering, but simply the weight of the driver's foot will keep them in position. It is a simple device. It cannot get out of order. 23 77fAHAM PION LOOC-ZEKERSELF J)UMJ Everything in Agricultur Implements And everything in Wxgons. Buggies. Bike Wagons, R.in&.boits, or Vehicles. We Have EVERYTHING br WHEELS M TTrPWlPI I ! - - Sa 219-229-237 lb LEWIS RranK H 9 rri 111 JLJTX U.11V11Q TATE STREET & STAY E CAREY ER COM! 3 ANY , Manager - - SALEM, OREGON Concerning Celebrated Characters Henry James, the novelist, recently visited Henry Adams, the historian, at the Washington home of the latter. Mr. J ames was making hit iirst visit to the capital city of bis native land in twent . years. He found much to divert him, tf. much to admire and some things which lie utterly failed to comprehend, j Mr. Adams, who lives rn "Washington at least seven months out of every year, found his guest more amused than he , anticipated, for even Such James en- - thusiaats as the courtly Mr. Adams do : ' not consider their idol a promoter of ' gyety. . Mr. Adams' diagnosis of the ease was that air. James needed an interpreter, since he was so behind in the vernacu a lar that he did not understand the pop- ulsr slang, and failed to enjoy the tid bits of wit which otherwise would have t given him unbounding joy. Mr.: Ad- ' ams, therefore, put a "Foolish Dic tionary" before his guest and told him to study up every evening before he - 'Went out to dinner. i , ' '.And if you don't mind, Jamespust observe what people say here and try to talk like them,'' Mr. Adams admon ished. "My household is. on the toint of dissolution because you give orders different from those that Buttons and the cook 'are used to hearing. Now, yesterday, you came home tired. In the afternoon and told the boy to get you a basin of tea.' lie obeyed orders, out when it came to the cook, that digni tary declared that no such performance should go on in this house unless I gave the orders myself. -The cook told me confidently, later, that he thought yon. were just a little fuddled and he sent1 ' up some apollinaris and seltzer to cool you uown. lie added that once he had served with a man, who, when he got like that, would fill the wash pitcher - "'with punch and drink himself into in r sensibility: out of his shaving mug." ' , r k- , . : .' It happened at an : afternoon recep- , tion at the White House," one .of those delightful jumbles of official, resident and diplomatic society for which this administration is famous. In a corner of the state dining room & little group was making merry over tea and wafers, when a handsome, well-rounded man elbowed his' way through and grasped one of the party cordially by the, hand. 'I am glad to see yoW h ; x . claimed, '! to k you here; fine , gathering; Mrs. Boosevelt looking tip- ' tOp." The other gasped an inarticulate re ply and the stranger continued: 'I ,. just came over to say that this is not bo bad, when one gets used to it," with a comprehensive gesture, which ' took in ceiling, walla, floor and the as ' sembled guests.;, - ;- i , - : "Some- of these foreign chaps have been giving me a jolly about how fine it is and how artistic, and that bofeh. . Much they know in their frog-eating countries, where half of them live over the butcher shop. Oh, don't you tell me. I went last summer' to visit a guy I met here, lie was in the 'corps,' he called it, and he lived tip sv narrow alley in Paris, in the worst smelling ' hole I ever got into give you my word, I thought I'd been murdered for my watch and fob. Well," with a loud ; guffaw, "this is some better than that." :: . V - d : i: w Everybody within air feet was now listening to the" outburst and then the " gentleman, accosted, who is abort and bland looking, drew himself tip and exclaimed 'frigidly: "I think you have mistaken me for some one elaei 'I am the minister from the Netherlands." The stranger gasped, blinked arid then apologized: "1 took you for Me Kim, the man who uid over the house, architect, you know; blessed if you eould not pass for him any da jr.", This was the beginning, and for two mortal hours the genial M. Marees van Swinderen explained to at least ten others that he was merely a foreign envoy, the representative of ' her ma jesty, Queen Wilhelmina, and hot the man to be praised or berated lior'the present aspect of the historic home of the president. j ! The house of representatives is to have a fine marble building devoted to office purposes for the 386 members of the lower branch of congress. Every part of government service envies the meniWrs their coming luxury, but no one denies that this addition to the house has been needed for some years past. Every old nook and corner in the south wing of the Capitol has been converted into use by the members and tneir much badgered secretaries. But Marse Sidney Mudd of Maryland has showed the greatest ingenuity in secur ing a spot wherein his 'faithful scribe may lay down his weary pen. At the end of the long corridor where the members must pass in en tering the council halls from Pennsyl vania avenue is a huge wooden ; box, used to store away wood for the open grates in the committee rooms. This box Mr. Mudd and his secretary con sider theif castle and they resent in trusion on their privacy. Of course, the casual visitor , does not know that Mr. Mudd has pre-empted the wood re ceptacle and sometimes a man, tired of supporting his avoirdupois first on one foot and then on the other, perches himself on the box. If Mr. Mudd hap pens along--and the doorkeepers have noticed that he always happens when ever an interloper is In possession, he asks rather frigidly If the man is wait ing for any one. If the intruder re plies in the negative Mr. Mudd invari ably answers, "Well; I am. I am wait ing for my secretary and you have his seat." : ' ' ' lie then proceeds to Climb on the wood box and hold fast until his bright young man appears with , pencil and note book. It one of the sights of the day to see Mr. .Mudd stamp up and down the corridor, heedless c whom may be passing, frowning," clutching his watehchain and pulling his hair, in the throes .of dictating a difficult letter or composing a speecn. 'As Uncle Joe Cannon paraphrases the famous Beed witticism: ."It's worth a trip to the Capitol to see Mr. Mudd when he thinks he is thinking." There are : pitfalls in diplomacy of which the general public never dreams. The secretary of state has 'just safely passed a crisis which made all the min or officials ia the department hold their breath. Each month there ia .issued from the ministry ef foreign affairs a small bine book bearing the legend, "The Diplomatic List," wherein ia in scribed the name and address of every member of the corps, together ' with each member of his family. This list is furnished gratis by the department to the diplomats themBelvea, axul to all who have occasion for such a document. It is, of course, exceedingly useful as a social register and is a golden book to the ambitious hostesses of the na tional capital and other cities. But some of the foreign envoys are fond of splurging with an infinite va riety of titles, surnames and abbrevia tions and thereby reducing the clerical force of the department and the social scribes of the White House to the verge of dementia. The Cuban republic has recorded such names as Senora Dona Maria del Pilar Martinez-Pozo de Mar tin de Bevero and Senor Don Manuel de la Vega y Calderon, and it is surely a task to transcribe all this in German type on an official document or a so cial remembrance from the executive mansion. But the Cubans stoutly main tain that they cannot drop a "de la" or "y" without hopelessly mixing their identity, r Mr. Hay's recent victory lies in per suading the genial secretary of the Netherlands to drop at least one title and to record his nourishing Christian cognomens in abbreviations. When the suave gentleman known in society now simply as Baron van Thuyll first came to Washington he wrote a communica tion to the state department and signed ' Baron Ernest Leopold Liutwilde vaneTbuyII, Dtandbolder van Seroos kerken," with the addition of some high sonnding military titles and cogno mens which go with orders of chivalry. Mr. Hay in a kinaly manner got out of the genial Dutchman which of all this array he preferred to adopt, and he is now entered on the diplomatic list as ''Baron E. L. L. van Thuyll van serooskerken. " . ere-.' A select audience at the national cap ital' had an impressive object lesson not long since about the license al lowed to genius. Ernest Thompson Seton, the eminent naturalist, was. in vited to speak to some members of the Cosmos Club on the habits of rodents. The popular writer began very enter tainingly and the scientists,' who had a practical as well as scholastic end in view, were delighted. But Mr. Seton veered off, told about deers, big black bears, the ways of - ants,' anything, everything except about rats, on which subject the scientific men were pining forexpert knowledge. In that audience was a delegation of Indians Pueblos from New Mexico, here on business before the eomissioner of Indian affairs. Now, these Indians had been lured to the (lecture on tL'e plea of hearing many strange and. won derful things about animals, but after a bear story "the leader became very restless. Finally, he asked permission to interrupt, n when it had been granted he put Mr. Seton through a cross-examination ' which would have put Mr.; Jerome, New York city 's attor ney to the blush. ( '- j t -t:.:'-. i Mr. Seton at length reached the point where he eould not give any further in formation. Then the Indian, with a smile, asked permission of the audi ence to tell what he knew about bears. It was readily granted, and the simple son of the forest gave one of the weird est and most fascinating recitals of bear habits aad thrilling descriptions of Bruin adventures which even the illustrious naturalist had ever heard. The Pueblo then branched into rat lore and he was equally weU informed in this , branch. : Mr. .Seton was inclined to be a little huffy, but he soon regained his. .suave manner and joined in the coraial applause accorded bis inter loper. i . -. One of the most gifted members, of the diplomatic corps m Washington is the first secretary of the Russian em bassy,- Theodore Hansen. Mr. Hansen is a musician of rare attainments and he has always entertained the idea that he missed his vocation in choosing di plomacy as a career instead of art. He has studied trader the most famous masters and inline best equipped con servatories or Europe, lie is proud that he is one of the few pupils whom the great master, Rubinstein, consent ed to teach, even though he realized that Mr. Hansen considered music as a recreation and not a serious profes sion. Thp piano is Mr. Ilansens specialty, although he can play ten other musi ral instruments as skillfully as a mem ber of a symphony orchestra, nis home in Washington is a treasure house of relics belonging to the great composers of medieval and modern times, lie has a piano which was once the property of Abbe Liszt. lie has violins, mando lins and guitars, all with fascinating histories, worthy of a separate telling. But, most of all, Mr. Hansen prizes his collection of manuscripts. He has auto graph copies of Bach 'a compositions and of Wagner, Verdi, Gounod and Schubert and more than a hundred autograph letters from the renowned masters who have revolutionized mod era music. Mr. Hansen's, favorite hospitality during the season is o give a' series'of musical teas. He plays himself and gets other noted artists to help out in the ' program. Between each division of the nrOCTam. nrettv little paces hand around tea, ices." bonbons and conserved fruit. There is some talk or having a "musical dinner at the secretary's-' a feature of entertainment popular in Paris and Berlin, but never attempted rn Washington. MUCH TRAVELED MAN EETTJRNS. Colonel Hofer, proprietor of The Journal, Wbo left Salem ' three weeks ago for a trip to the East, returned yesterday morning, 'lhe colonel re ports having had a pleasant trip, en joying everymoment he was away from his labors. He' says that spring is open inging up well in the East after a most severe winter and there Is every promise for big crops. . A feature of the trip was that after reaching Nebraska he waa never- oat of sight of snow until he reached the Sacramento valley. The : snow, how ever, served good purpose, for it fell befqre the severe eofds experienced daring the whiter set' iny thus "leaving the ground in good shape after the snow cleared away.i. While East the colonel visited bis mother in Chicago and his old home in Iowa. In the. Windy City the col onel saw something of the strike that is now being waged there between the eloakmakers, teamsters aad the Mont gomery Ward & Co. He sa vs. that the strike was precipitated by the employ ers on the day of the election of Mayor Dunne,' and for no other purpose than to test him in his assertion that be stood for arbitration of all strikes. And for th same reason the laborers tried to put the strike off. It is sot what people eat, but what they digest, that makj them strong. - Persona Side of John Hay's Life John Hay, secretary of estate, is in tensely human. Eom those fortunate enough to know him personally and from the fewer number-who may be termed his intimates, he attracts sin cere affection. , At sixty-six years of age he still unfolds in his ome and among his dose friends a ocnghtf ul personality, which is the equable com plement of his brilliancy in affairs of state. . The statesman who will " re membered as premier of the Boosevelt cabinet is ia all his relatione a man of simple directness. He is something of a pessimist concerning himself, looking at his own works, as it were, through the little end of a telescope. Yet this tendency does not affect his cleir vision of other men and their works or his appreciation of all that is good in life. The Hay home, in Washington, a comfortable large red brick house at the corner of Sixteenth and H streets Northwest, reflects the individuality of its owner. Just within the portals one used to be reminded of Mr. llay's fam ous "Pike County Ballads, for on the north wall' of ,the entrance hall hung a pictdre of Jim Bludsoe, the red light of his burning steamer playing on, the river pilot's breast and face. Underneath the memorable lines: III hold her nozzle agin' the bank - Till the last galoot's ashore. i ' The Hay family, which, when In Washington, resides in this house, con sists of Mr. and Mrs. Hay. Two charm ing daughters have been married, the secretary's oldest son met with sudden death a few years ago in New Haven, and the-youngest son, Clarence Hay, is away at college. Secretary Hay is es sentially a home man. Within the four walls of his comfortable residence he Spends most of his time, This recalls a story 01 years ago. At his bachelor dinner one of his friends remarked: '.'And how long i your honey moon last!" ' i "Why." replied Mr. nay, rl ex pect it to last the rest of my life." Every weekday morning Mr. Hay works from 9 o'clock until 1:30 at the state. department.- Such matters as re quire his attention after that hour he attends to in his study at home. The room in which he usually r actives vis itors is on the first floor. A great fire place occupies part of the wail space on one side. Comfortable settles offer inviting repose within the gonial glow. At one end of the room is a hi !esk where Mr Hay-works. , The Hay library contains everything that is good.- The taste of the secre tary is nothing if not catholic in lit erature. He appreciates everything that is well done from the classics to nonsense verses. His tasts are, in fact, shown by his own writings, which cover a wide range, from pathos and, keen humor to the most serious and polished diction of his greatest! speeches. , John Hay is a man of speech which falls with wonderful expressive ness upon the ear, whose spoken ad dresses stand closest scrutiny in 'cold, gray print. Tet he occasionally uses slang if he finds for purposes of brev ity or emphasis it better suits his pur pose. : , '-- -' --- -."'"-" ; :" 7 ' -: Secretary;. Hay's closest personal friend is perhaps Henry Adams, the historian, who is his next door neighbor in H street. The secretary's only ex ercise consists of long walks in com pany with Mr. Adams. They have con genial tastes in literature. Mr. Adams writes for the "love of writing, never having his recent works printed ex cept lor his own delectation. Inthe language in which they were first written Secretary. Hay is fond of perusing the works of great authors. believing that something is always lost in translation. For poetry he has a wonderful mem ory. It is related that not one of bis friends has ever been able to quote from standard poetical works a pas sage which Mr. u ay could not imme diately place by naming the author. Whether Mr. Hay has written much fiction in recent years . is something of a puzzle to bis friends. A successful novel recently published anonymously was the subject of much speculation and it was surmised by some critics that it may have come from the pen of the author of " Little Breeches." Jt is thought that' the man who from the days of his youth has found so much pleasure and not a little fmc in his pen has probably not yet forsaken lui thorship, and that later there may be added to the list of his works t-metliiiig to be prized in literature. No '.'me moirs'' need be ''expected, -however, at least touching diplomatic questions, for Mr. Hay abhors the man who. leaves behind him secrets which be. has feared to, reveal while living.. Over the fireplace in the dining room hangs a Botticelli Madonna with a his tory. Not alone was it painted by the master, more than four hundred years ago; not alone had it hung in the pal aces of great nobles before it became the property of the present owner, but Secretary Hay a. few years ago saved it from declining into a wrinkled mass of pigment. He had observed that the reverse side of the wooden panel on whieh it was painted was badly cracked. The cracks threatened to in crease and to break through tho paint, destroying forever the beautiful repre sentation of a Madonna- in profile,' the full length figure surrounded by a host of cherubim. A smaller Madouni; but of which question had been raised whether it were .executed 'by Botticelli or his master, Fra Lippo Linpi, the Carmelite also showed similar dis tressing tendencies. The authenticated Botticelli was Mr. Hay 's greatest con cern, for it is valued at $10,000. An artist who had been found willing to attempt the salvation of the pictures died before his task was begun. Mr. Hay found in New York a man confi dent of bis ability to avert the im peding ruin. After working success fully with the smaller Madonna he pro ceeded to treat the larger. .Ilia object was o remove from lhe panel tho paint laid on four centuries before without cracking, ruMang, scratching or bending it. Over the painted surface were laid neore of sheets of damp tixmie paper. There was just enough thin paste to .raune them to adhere nt certain points. Over the ridges of paint which in some linn Ilotticelli had used to enhance tlie re- , lief the tissue was moulded by hani with infinite care. More sheets of ti sue paper were adied, until a fairly thick matrix was formed. Then tb whole was laid . away . and., dried for many days. Face down the panel wa placed upon a soft but firm bed, and the masterpiece doctor attacked the re verse side with. sandpaper. The rtiacni tude of his task may be nj.i.reriatpJ when it is said that the panel wa an inch thick. Slowly it wa worn away, until there remained between the paint and the deft hand of the nrtit onlr ttancrliko sheet of wood." Tbi al delicately resolved into dust. Then linen cnuvas was moulded to the p'g" ment, and when it was secure tli painting was fuly restored, with bo danger of cracking and good for fmir hundred years more. Jt was nn m frame built in tho wall above th fireplace in tho dining room, and there it is to stay. In the preservation of this painting Secretary Hay took stm delight, just as he would hare decj-Iy deplored its loss. From the sublime to the ridicule ranges Mr. Hay's tasto in art, for among his most highly prized p"'w sions are the cartoons which have marked the controversial zenith of tet tain of his public policies. In a little room just off the hall j" telling cartoon representing Mr. ilaT astride the second Hay -PauneeMe treaty galloping a winner under wire of a diplomatic racecourse. 0n room in the house is coveted on evert wall with originals of excellent rr" toons. Some are adverse to the scr'' tary, some are laudatory all re'. ' er. Mr. Hay has a high appreciation of wit and is broad enough to la'1!-'" as heartily as anv one at a far1'' which good naturedly pokes fun at " policies. Secretary and Mrs. flay do not more much in "fashionable! society." their daughters were married there ar fewer social functions in their than formerly, but invitations to Hers at the home of the secretary l state are seldom 'declined by any Legal Blanks at Statesman Job 0Se MA 1 'Vl-M By Caution 2:252, Lrr"v'rS tjiu. .. via ..sim .rnz Jnni rxr 2-- RaatUm 234'. iXdj Careful 1:26. fclu i.f.l M :IliZ. Heln N'orta 2:1 BUvJl 2-l, Ore"" abtn(3) 3I6K. Caution's sir was Eleetioneer, streol 162 la the list b4 W dame oi la tMlhrC . His sons have sired 1231 In U list. o-n(l First iltmOUTH . by Prtsm 179S. lr of Fran M. 1:17. Honestr eo7vs l:4H. Ma.Urno2:i: others, and tit hi dam COMAlK baadsom blood bajr with black points, 15. U hands hffh. ' a.'-.i traces to tbe very beet families. He Is a cloee. oonpactlr built horae; a trotter w'th f alu , Tel. He teU a very onltoira lotof eoita, all rnre Raited, whlca may be talr jroQada co ma win make the aeaeoa of 1906 at the oawo stats fai bocsi - ' SaO, With Ual Reran frlll6 .,' WBch la WOmAH mares bred to co ma will be nominated la VUe ajuoo Oren FntoHty, 1 cludwayeer'itnbiirrtlptlon to the Rural Spirit. MOUWEJ PAiiM, Owsw. O.UH1.. bilixj.h. K.rMr. ralr lironnda. Oretron. wwi . ar w v m v sa- mm , iiisin 1 m i iw VI ar leU k .a 74. iiumv-; - - , 1 elOW, ireef UtUe Thorre (p) STV. Backi borne 2:'81-f. fjB I'JJa :l7i. Tempest 2: IS. Thorn wood 2 :19 k. Capt. Thorn ( l-Wi 61 uru lama of ten Is the list. , ... .n(j ii J