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THE MORNING OHEUONIAN. MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1903. :iTY NEWS IN BRIEF The Oresronian'a Telephones. iMntlng Room Main OT7 . w. eeott. Eflltor Main 811 sntflns Editor Mln 3A nr jsaitor jiila ltn omrosing tuxnn Mslc BS5 t Side Offle. nd el puperlnteneent Bullaln Red 2S COLlTMniA. EVraBtlcr Room T aiiorui Room ' ,t Sofia Room SM AMCSEMESTS. MARQUAM GRAND THEATER-Tonliht mt a-.ia aciocx. jirs. urune. presenting Marion Crawford' "Unorna." ICORDrtxT'8 THEATER This afternoon at 3:10, UUe evening at 8:13. Aloen Benedict's "Resurrection." I THE BAKER THEATER Tonllht. at 8:15 o eijcx. jurrj uoraon cunts In "WBat Bap pened to Jon." Errsr Oke Must Fat. Employes In the County Assessor's offlce are looking for ward to having a much larger amount of work to do this year than usual, as there will be a r&st Increase In the size or tne personal tax roll, owing to an act passed by the last Legislature allowing no ex emption on personal property. Heretofore household furniture has been assessed at about half Its real value, and, to the amount of 300, was exempted from taxa tion. The number of people whose house hold furniture does not exceed tXO in value Is very large, and they have gone free from personal tax. Under the new law, there will be no exemption, and near ly every householder will have to pay a personal tax. The personal tax roll to be made out will consist of probably ten volumes. Instead or one. as heretofore, and under the new law this roll will have To be completed three months earlier than usual. Under the old law, the Board of Equalization was required to meet In September, but the County Court could, and usually did, grant an extension of 30 days, and the board used to meet on the first Monday In October. Under the new law, the Board of Equalization will meet on the first Monday in July, and the As- ...... , . i . i aessor must have bis roll completed three months earlier than usual. This, with the large Increase In the size of the per sonal tax roll, will make it necessary for the Assessor and his force to hustle. It seems strange; considering how long taxes have been collected, that the best method of doing this has never been definitely de cided. The law governing the assessment and collection of taxes is always being changed, but Is never Just right. The next Legislature will probably change It again, and the Assessor has hardly time to get familiar with one law till he has another to understand. Said Snakes Wcre Ufeftt Mankind generally has had no lore for snakes, since their traditional mother. Eve. was Induced by one of the writhing, venomous looking reptiles to eat the forbidden fruit It is true that men with Imaginary snakes have often been ceen In all the various departments of newspaper offices, hut none of these had desire to asso ciate with the real article. Yesterday a sober. Intelligent-appearing man strolled Into The Oregonlan office, and. taking a chair at a reporter's desk, produced from his pocket a genuine very-much-alive snake, which, after fondling a while in his hands, he turned loose on the desk. As may be Imagined, the reporter at once gave up his desk to the reptile, and devoted his talents to endeavoring to express his Ideas of a man who would select a snake for a pet. He recalled th lncldent in the Garden of Eden, as far as he knew anything of It. and asked the visitor W take the snake off his desk and carry It away out and bruise Its head with his heel, and to please not come back. The snake-charmer accused him of unreasonable prejudice, and. taking the snake In h!s hand, proceeded to expatiate on Its beauty, gracefulness and usefulness. He said it was one of the most useful of created things, as It destroyed more slugs and snails and bugs than many toads and frog, and when It grew Jorge enough j swallowed the frog also. He was told that In the proper place he could find i snakes which would swallow a man. and j advised to go to such a place and give such a snaks a chance to make itself use ful; and. slipping bis pet into his pocket, he departed. The society reporter says: "There is something wrong with the man who makes a pet of a snake." Riotous Lira at Bend. James M. Law rence, for some time connected with The Oregonlan. having tired of the strenuous life of a newspaper man, has accepted the office of United States Commissioner for Crook County, and has taken up his residence at Bend. He is very happy over the nrrwnArlx nf .t nnA ntil.t wlt. this place affords. According to his Ideas, i 4 1 is & mouem jraraaue. uena is situated on a crook In the Deschutes Hlver, 3000 i feet AhnvM th nn rh. L'liiin,. nn- between the timber land and the arid re- j comlnS directly from the glaciers. Is al glon. and the climate is, so Lawrence ' wa'B verT cold. A few warm days melt says, the finest In the world. It Is S5 miles from a railroad. There Is no tele phone there, and no telegraph line reaches ths place, which gives promise of peace and rest to the wearied. There Is fine water, fishing and hunting in the vicin ity. There are two newspapers In the town, and the mall arrives three times a week. There are no lawyers and no doctors In Bend, although there are over JOJ people there. These are onlv a few of the good points of Bend as a place of resiaence wnicn cave come to the knowl edge of Mr. Lawrence. Ha Is likrlv tn Jv discover more as, owing to there being no vacant nouses mere, he and his family win uave 10 live in a tent till a house can oe duhu There- are- some drawbacks jonnectea with getting there, as it costs 'cent a pouna to get freight from the bilroad to Bend, and there are no 11- les nor saloons there. Machines Do Farm Work Now a Considerable number of farmern In thi region are now using potato-planting ma chines, and the number Is growing larger yearly. They are said to do the work well and save much labor. The seed cut from the potatoes Is put In a long re ceptacle mounted on wheels, and this, when driven across the plowed field, makes grooves for several rows. Into which the seed la dropped at the desired depth and covered up. It used to be that a furrow was plowed for each row of po tatoes, end then a boy went along and dropped the pieces of potato as nearly as he could at the right distances apart. Then these were either covered with a plow or by men who followed with hoes. It can easily be seen that much work is saved by using the machine. Another machine .coming Into quite general use among farmers Is the manure-spreader by which a cylinder scatters the manure evenly over the ground as the vehicle moves along across a field. The old style was to fork It out In piles of as nearly tne same size and the same dltn I ble. The machine spreads It much more evenly than can be done by hand, and I io aaves time ana la Dor. with these and the potato-digging machine, life on a potato farm will soon be one continuous play day, and the boys can go fishing all Summer. Admikal Clark Swoxd Presentation. The final meeting of the Admiral Clark testimonial committee will be held to morrow, either In the AInsworth National it uiaa & Tllton Bank. The Admiral, on the advice of his chrildan. will Snn"?; nd ,he committee at Its meeting -" vu now to make toe sword pre sentation. Attention to Proper it-Owners. t am a member of the Painters'. Paperhangers' and Decorators' Union. No. 10. If you wish to give me your work. I guarantee A'OU a good lob. nwl frwV. AnA Ar,t., work at a reasonable price. MH East Mor rison, or painters' phone. Main 1290. Pa. E. De Witt rVi wtt . V . . H.nu. Temporary offlce at residence. St King it. Phone Main MM. Hrs. 1 to :X P. II.' Covi-lete lino Columbia and Hartford Mcyelea. F. P Keenan, First, near Wash. Eaiter lilies, carnations, floral designs, rarden plants. Burkhardt, 3d A. Gllsan. Transit and Persian rugs; one more reek at SO Morrison. Prices reduced. apart a. possible, and then pre.d It about ie r m" l' C,!r0tr'a h,'.lper with a fork or shovel as evenlr nn,.u . Government Printing Office, Wash- Good Hat Is Bcakcz. Market men and caterers, as well as housekeepers, com plain of dearness and scarcity of supplies, and say that farmers and other producers have not kept pace with the growth of the city, so that almost everything In the lino of food supply Is scarce and dear. Managers of transfer companies have sim ilar complaints to make. Speaking of the demand of truck and dray-drivers for an increase of wages, one of these managers said a day or two ago: "We can 111 af ford to advance wages now. Horses and hay are scarce and dear. The farmers gave up raising horses several years ago when times were bard. I don't know that I can blame them, for then they were hardly able to give away horses. Now for a pair of fine heavy horses we have to pay tWO to 500. Hay 1 also dear. The Willamette Valley farmers very generally have allowed their bay fields to remain seeded down too long, and they have be come filled with weeds and trash. Only a few can supply good, clean timothy hay fit for feeding horses. We have to buy hay which when put in the manger the horses have to toss about with their noses in order to pick out something fit to eat. and half of It Is thrown away. Most of the good hay now comes from the Yakima country and from Eastern Oregon, where there Is a good hay-growing region about Weston. Some have thought of getting wheat hay from California, but it Is not bo good as timothy. The farmer, "who feeds us all." always comes In for abuse when bis products are scarce and dear. Many farmers. In the Willamette are again devoting attention to breeding horses. Borne may take a bint from the complaint about hay and cultivate their old hay fields for a year or two. and then seed them down, and so be able to produce the horsemen UkeTonrnvlu Yon w noted for 6oa, ciean timothy which horses and fort should be made to retain this repu tation. Black Bass Becoming Numerous. In dications are that black bass fishing is soon to be a great attraction to sports rnenof this city. These "kings of game fish," as many Eastern soortamm ran. elar ,hea- rc becoming plentiful here. ' and are maKlnr anh .Mviti -. .. a and are makinr such zrowth n inn. the expectation that they will attain a weight much greater than they do East. The black bass has been caught in a num ber of places in the Willamette between Portland and Oregon City for several years, but not often of large size or in large numbers. Once In a while one of three to four pounds has been taken, but generally they have not weighed over half a pound. Out on Columbia Slough a good many have been caught, some weighing one to two pounds, mostly of the big mouthed variety. There are plenty of black bass of two pounds weight and over to be taken there this season. Thjs fact has been established by two impatient fishermen who Just couldn't wait till the black bass season opens June 1 to see what the prospects for bass fishing this season are; so they quietly went out to tne siougn one day last week and sur prisra tnemselvee by catching, one 1 and the other 18 black bass, the least of which weighed two pounds, while some were considerably heavier. They were taken with a No. 5 spoon, and made what would be considered a fine catch by most Eastern sportsmen. There Is bound to be spienaia oass fishing In Columbia Slough and the Willamette before Inmr n. th. bass are becoming numerous and the sup ply of food. In the form of young carp, catfish and minnows, is abundant. Before long Eastern sportsmen will be coming out to Portland to enjoy the sport of bass uomng. iney prerer the small-mouth bass, but to those who are not experts the difference between them and the large-mouthed variety is scarcely per- Ties Jam in tue Sandt River. Tho Business in railroad ties along the Sandy River promises to be very large this sea son. There is a large demand for ties b.i goou prices, ana many will be shipped as far east as the Mississippi. All the mills along the Sandy which saw ties are In active operation. A majority or these ties are hauled to Troutdale, where they are loaded on the cars for uhlnment Snn. of the mills float their product In flumes io me oanay, out it Is Impracticable to get them down excent durlnr th n.nii June rise of the Columbia, when the cur rent of the Sandy, usually very swift. Is backed up sufficiently to enable the big boom at Troutdale to stop the ties. The owners oi tne amerent mills that flume ties to the Sandy have their Initials stamped on the end of e-ery tie. and. as they cannot be sent down In rafts, they are started singly In long lines, and then in some of the gorges and rapids they frequently Jam. The tie-drivers, generally ' ,ream Jj boats, and have to break these "inn coca mui. ioiiow tne ties down . , .v .uc awr mucn oi tne which Is disagreeable work even In mid-Summer, as the water ctf th R,n. the snow on the glaciers and causes the river to rise. The ties get aground In the long gravel bars, and the drivers then have to carry many of them on their shoulders and throw them In the water. This cannot be done with logs, so all at tempts at rafting logs in the Sandy have proved failures, and the owners of timber land up the river have devoted themselves to the railroad tie business. ExCAVATtKO CELLARS. Amona- t)w man- things going on these days which tend to block sidewalks in so many places that people are becoming accustomed to walk ing in the streets is the excavating of basements under buildings where there Jiave been none. One of the most exten sive jods oi mis Kind now under way is that of excavating a basement under the Mitchell. Lewis & Staver building, at the turner oi r irst ana Taylor streets, which .ivuuu oi canning, contractors, have In hand. They dug down under the Taylor- circn iae oi me Duuaing. tunneled In and built a system of narrow-gauge tracks radiating from a turntable. The cars bringing out the earth excavated are hauled jip a steep Incline by a stationary wisiuo m a. pmiiorm irom which they dump their loads into alongside. The work of excavation pro ceeds very rapidly under this arrange ment, the only trouble being to get wag ons to haul the earth away as fast as it Is sent out. Heavy brick walls will be cum arouna me new basement, and a strong cement floor laid. Amnni.nu will be made for pumping out any water mat may seep in. so tne basement will be serviceable at. all times except In case vi a great fiooa. tivii. fa er vice Examinations. The i-niiea states civil Service Commission announces that on May K examinations for the following positions will be held In this city: Assistant telephone oper ator In the Department of Commerce and iaDor. Washington. D. C, at a salary nf trm n v . t . . . . " la-7 ot Pr un partment of a,V.2. ?.U partment of Agriculture, at a salary from lw to Uco per annum; forest draftsman "epanment of Agriculture, at a ajary of tXO per annum; Inspector of rub- V- . ua""naters Department at 2&.1! . "tary of H00 Dr annum, and ETv n.tera ln the Oowrtment hospi- 0i,2m- Pns desiring to com pete should call on or address Z. A. Leigh, secretary of the board of exam iners, Postofflce Department, city. tnTV"5 FLT.-Sportsmen are trnS rt wf"Ur f0"n"1 10 a P"Pou trout-fishing eeason. notwithstanding that but few large catches have been made so far. A great number went out yesterday to many different streams, and. although iJf iU" coW ,n the mormngsTout are beginning to take the fly. and the sport is becoming enjoyable. Some good catches were made last week. In Skamok awa Slough two men caught ln one after noon U fine salmon trout, and the -greater number of these were caught by one as the other was not up to the" wtlea of the trout and could not hook them every time. The catch, however, was enough for two and was proudly exhibited by the success! ful Others. Wise Bbol, dratSotr. thi FaUlnc Paid roit ths Damage. Broken glass all over the bar and a large and peculiarly ferocious Jackknlfe lying behind It were what met the eyes of J. S. Kuhn as ha entered his saloon at the corner of Will lams avenue and Weldler street one morn ing some time ago. A hole through large square of glass In the -window showed where the fragments of glass and the knife had come from. Mr. Kuhn. had no use for the knife, but was anxious to have his window made whole. He had a notice Inserted In The Oregonlan stating that ne nad a rtcullar Jackknlfe In his possession, which the owner could pro cure by calling and furnishing a descrln- tlua of. No one called for some time, but last week a man came In who said a friend had asked him to call and set the knife, which was described, and to pay tor tne Broken glass, air. Kuhn laid out the knife and the glazier's bill, which was P.50. The caller laid down a 10 piece, picked up the knife and the change and departed. Many have wondered why me unite was tnrown tcrougn the glass a ik) wny tne bin for repairing the win aow was paid. It la learned that the owner of the knife, on visiting the saloon one evening and finding It closed, was enragea, and threw b'a knife through the window. He had at Idea that he would eventually be traced and irrMtrd ihmnrh his knife being recognized, and, having learned that breaking a glass window was a more serious matter under the law than many Imagine, be concluded to pay m ujc uamage nc naa aone. . . . ma xiaik or and up. a man who had been out late Saturday night and had gone to his barber's shoD In a hrnir yesterday morning came out an hour later apparently on the verge of nervous pros tration. To a friend who assisted him to a place where he procured a powerful stimulant, which braced his shattered nerves, he explained bis trouble. He said he had taken a chair in the barber shop between two other customers. The artist woraing on tnese men were recounting In cidents of their lives In Leadvlile and on the plains. One. while driving a stage uumi a iearrui graae on the Leadvlllo road, had been chased bv n hni nf In dians, and finally went over a bluff, with tae maians arter him. The other had encaged In a Ufe-and-death struggle with a gambler, endeavoring to wrest a pistol uviu mm, wmcn. in course of the strug. gie. went oft and killed a faro dealer. The man shaving him explained that these blood-curldlng llt.i were being told for the benefit of a young fellow who wanted his hair cut pompadour style, and were intenaea. oy making his hair stand erect. iu lacimaie me operation. First Christian Revivals. Yesterday bj a noiaoie aay at the First Christian Church revival. At the morning service evangelist Wilson preached a stirring sermon on "A Love Story." Ninety-eight mrrvna nave oecn brought into the fel lowship of the church thus far In the meetings. This evening the evangelist's vucme-wiu Dei -joy uells of Heaven.' All are Invited. COMING ATTRACTIONS. Mrs. Brnne In a Coatnme Play at the Jlarqnnm Tonight. Tonlcht at the Mnmnam Th..u. xr. Wallace Munro presents the talented ac tress, .iirs. urune, m F. Marion Craw fords' "L noma." dramatiuH . Williams. Mrs. Brune's performance of Unorna" Is today one of the most bril liant before the public, and while there are many American actresses who essay the same line of work, there Is no ono who can be considered her rival for these very reasons: She has vouth. twantv temperament, and. best of all, talent. She Is absolutely devoid of any mannerisms or theatrlcallsms. so glaringly evident In so many emotional actresses or this day, that Mrs. Brune's engagement Is some- ining we can all look forward to with Pleasure as a truly worthy dramatic treat. Mrs. Brune wears some dresses that are worthy of mention. One of these Is the costume of the high priestess of a templo at Delhi. India. It Is made of silks ana gauze, ana woven Into the materials nro tiny mirrors, which reflect the lights In a thousand rays. Her other gowns were made ln Paris. "Unorna" Is what Is known as a costume nlav. the oh. ental atmosphere giving opportunity for cutuunsie scenic investiture ana costum ing. In the cast are a number of promi nent nciors, sucn as trroii Dunbar, Junius Brutus Booth. Frank Hennlr Claus JSogel. Nancy Paget, Otis Sberdon. Hilda Vernon, Ida Werner and a num ber of others. The engagement will close with tomorrow evening's ' performance. seats are now selling. FOR COXSUMPTIVES. Benefit Performance Will Be Given Tomorrow In Every City. Tomorrow there will be given a matinee at me xarquam Grand, which will be unique In the annala of things theatric ln Portland. There will appear on the stage every company ln the city, and all Riving their services for sweet eharltv. The object of this Is the home that Is to be founded for consumptive actors. Many aim many memoer oi "me profession b9o teen stricken down with this terrible disease, and for want of proper care and adequate means to procure It. has suf. acivtj muu uiru. jianv ana mnnv sn actor is living his life today outcast and alone ln Colorado and Texas, and that In many esses ln poverty and want. Con ditions theatrically are such that It is lmporstble to save any great amount of money lor an orainary professional. Wlih a sincere pity for their brethren ln dis tress the membsrs of the profeiwion have banded together and every manager in the union will give a matinee or a benefit penormance next Tuesday. The actors giro their best their work ni th. appeal ln confidence to the public for support. Your attendance will insure you a pleasant afternoon and the Interest of watching a performance, the like of wmcn you may never havs seen before. Tho following will all appear: Mrs. Brune and her company ln an act of "Unorna." Harry Corson Clarke and his company Jones!"'COnd Ct ' "Wbt Hopened to Alden Benedict's company ln an act of "Resurrection." Weston and Hobart. Hugh J. Emmett and the Gautlers in blgh-claea vaudeville. The stage will be worked by volunteers from the Stagehands' Union, and music discoursed by the massed orchestras from all three theatern. Professionals of every grade have thrown themselves with zest Into the work. Tickets are obtainsble at any of the box orfices at prices ranging from S3 to. 7S cents. Vaudeville .Next. This morning at 10 o'clock the advance r JS.r ,au wlM Placed on sale for the Weston and Herbert big vaudeville show, which will appear at the Marquam Grand Theater Wednesday and Thurs day nights. April J and t The advent of refined vaudeville on the Pacific Coast marks an era In the advancement of theatricals that cannot be too highly ap preciated. Heretofore It baa been a lux ury vouchsafed only to Its votaries on the Orpheum circuit, which embraces all the larger cities of the United 8tates and those of other countries. The ridiculous cruude that Is nmri in smaller towns against this popular form of amusement Is prompted more through Ignorance than from a knowledge of Its moral tendency- The variety theater and vaudeville entertainments should not be confused. Weston and Herbert, who are well known to vaudeville fame, have sur rounded themselves with some of the cleverest people In the nrofesslon. all of whom have attained' a high degree of proficiency ln their line of work. Every feature of the show Is an Instantaneous hit. from the artful Juvenile trio ln their song and dance specialty to the highly amusing and entertaining bioscope pic tures. "David Harnta" Coming. The attraction at the Maranam Grand Theater next Friday night and Saturday matinee win be William H. Crono la AT THE "What Happened to Jones." Jones ..Barry Corton Clark TTofeasor Ooodlry Mortimer Martini Btihop of Ballarat Harry Bradley Richard neatherly ....... Oorr Row William Blzbe William Harris Clsay Margaret Dal Owen Mrs. Ooodley Loralce Lyoaa Marjori Leon llarrold Minerva, Muriel Eton Alviaa Startirht Mm Ktteham Helma Verdi Emrts People laughed until they were nearly exhausted yesterday at Baker's Theater ln witnessing two productions of the ;7:. " """r" ' " " v-oreon tiarae ana nis company. ine meaier was crowded on each occa. slon. and from the instant Mr. Clarke ap- peared on the state, chased by the DOlice from a building where he had been pres- , ., . . ., , . . - V 1 T.v V . t He has played the part of Jones, the drummer, who sells hymn books and play- ing cards, when he can get the chance, hundreds of times, and certainly has ni,4 th. in hi. . five niff.n ,..n. T.f . played It better than be did last night, lt was a aeugnuui presentation and marked by so fine a finish that it did not matter what unexpected difficulty Jones found himjelf In. Mr. Clarke helped him nut Mr n.-w. , ,ll ... ,i out. Mr. Clarke s humor was of the usual Clarke brand-dry, sudden and lnfactious. He sang an amusing sons and was en- "if3- The members of Mr. Clarke's company acquitted themselves very well Indeed. considering that the cast calls for 11 peo- pie and that only four of last night's cast ever played "Jones" before. The farce Is too well known to require detailed ex- planatlon. Suffice it to say that Mr. Clarke first Impersonates the part of Jones, a hymn book drummer, and then, to save himself from arrest, pretends that he Is the Rev. Antony Goodley. the Bishop of Ballarat. The bogus bishop has a hilarious time until the real bishop comes along, and then ludicrous comnll- cations begin. Any one familiar with the TUMMlllnr t.lMlM.....I , 11 tt A, , injwcwcu uj jiui i j tor. -"rio jinons mat ne taxes aavan- msc oi every opportunity to create a laugh, and the result of It all Is seen In his Inimitable presentation of the only Jones. Margaret Dale Owen made a good-look ing ana vivacious Cissy. She wore handsome costume. The surprise of the cast was Verdi Emrie's portrayal of Helma, a Swedish servant with a funny dialect. One week ago Miss Emrie made her first stage appearance, and for a be- glnner her acting shows marked talent She has a true sense of humor, and she Is a girl with a promising future. Myra Ketchum, as Alvina, and William Harris, as the escaped inmate of a sanitarium, are excellent. "What Happened to Jones" runs all week, to be followed by Ralph Stuart In "Prince Otto." "David Harum." The advance sale of seats will be placed on sale next Wednes day morning at 10 o'clock. Will Attend the 3Iarqoo.ro. General Funston and staff from Van couver will attend the Marquam Theater tonight, and Governor Chamberlain will occupy a box. RAISE LARGE FAMILIES. SnscBeatlon to Impose Yearly Fines on All Opponents. " EAST SIDE. PORTLAND, April 18. (To the Editor.) I heartily agree with our President and i the college professors in regard no encouraging large families. If the young men and women refuse to comply with the requirements of God Al mighty and the .alnlrst men of our time, a law should be enacted compelling them to do their duty or pay a yearly fine for refusing. In my humble opinion, the whole trou ble Is that the worklngmen expect too much. Especially Is this true where you find the evils of the union where the worklngmen are taught that they are the lords of creation. In some foreign coun tries, they demand as high as SO cents a day. while it has. been proved by the pro fessors of our colleges that 6 cents a day will keep a man in all he needs. Mr. Macradden. an editor ln New York, baa proved that the family of a worklngman can live well on 60 cents a week, and so has GUman Low, the great artist, now ln Germany. Frank G. Carpenter says: "Skilled and unskilled labor cannot hope to make more than a bare living." Ami yet he goes on to say that street-cleaners over mere get 33 cents a day 13 cents more than they "need. In the Southern cities ln the United States. I have seen the streets filled with Idle men. and vet not one of them could be Induced to sell his labor for less than 10 or 12 cents a day. There Is not enough competition In la. bar. Let the laws of each country deal severely with this race-suicide Question. and Instead of England having 1.000.000 iaie men. ana Germany and the United States each half that number, as now. they will have five times as many. Then-, and not till then, will the workers learn not to expect to revel ln the lap of lux ury, as they are taught to do today. When they learn their nlace. all pan have a Job. and enough to keep them com fortably, and they can spend their time supporting a family. Instead of standing on me street corners talking about how to run the Government. (MISS) HULDA THOMPSON. ROUTE TO THE EAST. Isolation of Or etc on Ended by Com. pletton of L'ulon Pacific. PORTLAND. Or.. April 17.-(To the Edi tor.) In your interesting editorial In The Oregonlan of March 8. entitled "One Tri umph of Steam." at the close of next to the last paragraph, you Bay: "By ISO the Union Pacific Railway scanned the Continent, and with the O. R. &, N. Cn. gave to Oregon an unbroken line of trans portation to the East." Do you mean to say that Oregon bad "an unbroken Una of transportation to the East" In IMS? Please explain. GEORGE H. HIME8. In the haste of writing, our statement was made misleading; It should have read: By ISO the Union Pacific Railway spanned the continent, and, 'ultimately,' with the O. R. & N. Co, gave to Oregon an unbroken line of transportation to the East," Of course everybody In Oregon knows that after the Union Pacific was com pleted ln 1S63. It was necessary to go by steamer to San Francisco to reach the East by rail; that not until 1SS3 and 1S5I was there an unbroken line of trans porta-, tion to the East from Portland via the great transcontinental lines of railroad. . The Isolation of Oregon was really ended by the completion of the Union Pacific, for the ultimate extension of the Oregon onort Line ana iu connection with the . Union Pacific was sure to follow. The advance of the Northern Pacific would, of course, make the Union Pacific anxious for a Portland connection of Its own. In Peace Preparing for War. LONDON. April IS. King Edward has appointed a -royal commission to inquire Into the question of the Importation of food In time of war and other similar sub THEATERS "Resurrection." Katuiha .Masters, ...... .Hettle Bernard PruiceM Korchasin..... ...Margie Dow Maria iTasora. Pearl Bmtth Eophla Iranovs ....Mabel Eaton Vets. Karttx Mrs. J. U. Nicholson KhorOEherka O. Dndley Prince Dmitri Guy Durrtll Prince Korcaasin... .Harold E. Cornell Tikhon .....JoVn II. Nicholson Menshoff. W. J. Schnlts President of Court.... Thomas I. Ryan Breve ....H. B. Cornell Nikltch ,..J. 1L. Nicholson Uncle Simon H. 5. Edwards Jurymen, soldiers, etc That masterpiece of emotional and iUstle pjays, Tolstoi's "Resurrection.' ao dramatized by Charles W. Chase. Is one of the attractions of the theatrical season throughout the country, and was twlce Played yesterday to crowded houses at Cordrays Theater. It was well re- celved. and the star. Hattie Bernard (chase) wan treated to several curtain re- calls. The cruel Russian Jailer herding his prisoners like cattle amid the Intense cold of a Siberian Winter, threw the gallery into excitement, and they hissed Him heartily. It was aleo noticed through- out the play, as a good resolve was voiced or a villainy exposed, the audience be came enthusiastic The production Is well staged, about the best seen at Cordray'a this season. ,,HUe .?enlard'. wfc? .J" ,Katusba ilaslova. the heroine of the play, and Iea(lmK man Quy DureU, wno pIaT, Prince Dmitri Ivanovltch Nekeludoff. are well known on the Pacific Coaet, and have played with success In stock com- panics, both ln this city and Seattle, "Resurrection" la now one of the sensa- tlons ln New York, where Blanche Walsh, as Katusha. Is making one of the great hits of her brilliant career. Miss Bernard brings to the presentation of the wronged Katusha ail her long experience, attrac- tlve personality, fine enunciation, and ability. The etory of the play Is laid In Russia, and ln the first act Miss Bernard appears as Katusha, the peasant girl. pleading for Justice with Prince Dmitri, the aristocrat who hao betrayed her. Tikou. a renasnt nlnvort h- .T ti va olson, loves Katusha ln spite of the blot 1 . . . . .... on ner reputation, tsne is expeuea irom me house of the Ivanovas. and dellber- ately seeks out a life of dissipation to ruin men because one man has rulne-i her life. Her betrayer appears as a Juryman ln a trial where she Is found guilty of murder, and 'Is sentenced to penal servitude In Siberia. Stricken with remorse, he offers to marry her. but she refuses. She develops Into a creature who smokes, drinks alcohol, and sells herself for money. Amid the horrors of Siberian prison life, repentance comes both to Katusha and Prince Dmitri, who has followed her. She Is a woman again and marries Tikhou. while the Prince be- comes a benefactor of the Carnegie type, The play is a powerful one. although the story Is not pleasant In parta. and will be eeen at Cordray'a every night un- til Wednesday night. Jects. 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