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Postage Kates lO to 1-i page. 1 cent; 16 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages. 3 cents; 40 to 60 paces. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Kastern Business Offloe The S. C. Beclt wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. POBTLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1010. WICY THE REPKESESTATTVE SYSTEM MUST PREVAIL,. A small plurality for one candidate among many this small plurality not at all or possibly representative, since It consists of but a fragment of a gTeat political party cannot coerce, has no right to attempt to coerce, the great body of a political party, to vote for Its candidate. Herein is where the direct primary, without represent ative selection, fails. But representative selection may be a cure for this imperfection. It is for this reason, and on this basis, that the assembly is called for; . so there may be some correspondence, or co-operation. In recommendation of candidates. Democracy cannot afford to reject the selective or representative princl-. pie'. Democracy Is entitled to the service of its ablest and brightest and most active men. But the plurality primary eliminates these. More, it offers method and meas and instruments of dishonesty, of juggle in politics, never hitherto known. The evil can be met or minimized, if at all, only through" assertion of the representative system, In guidance of nominations. This Is the argument or reason for conven tion or assembly. "Without consulta tion or assembly there Is no employ ment of the representative system. There can be no plan, no basis, for union of men iwho have the same gen eral views on political measures, and who must -unite. If they are to make their purposes effective and useful. Party, without basis of unity for com mon purposes, can mean nothing. One principle or another, without such union, can mean nothing; for, unless men are to unite in support-of meas ures and principles upon which they are agreed, there will be universal chaos. They who oppose conference, assembly or convention, therefore, advocate complete dissolution of po litical and general society though they may not know it. They may not Indeed, they do not understand the general tendency and conse quences of their own principles and purposes. But the results will surely be the same. Men must unite. Gov ernment is only a form or agency which men employ for their purposes. Party is but a means to general ends; but If men can't unite in party, how are they to accomplish anything by political effort?. A modern supposi tion seems to be that they who occu py the offices and collect the taxes and fees, constitute - the government. They, however, are but the flies of successive summers. The real thing to be concerned about Is the effort to cast out the selective and representative system from politics and government. The assembly or convention is an endeavor .to continue and to maintain this sys tem. Opposition to it is denial of the system; coupled with promotion of the idea that, if a candidate, who nominates himself, can obtain a mere plurality over many others, an entire party Is bound to support him, whether its majority thinks him the fit man or not. The only relief from the consequences of this assertion Is that proposed by representative as sembly, to guide nominations for the primary. Selection of representative men may be had by this method. It was employed with great success in Portland, last year. o now, we have a representative, responsible and ef fective municipal government. "Bosses," they say, will control as semblies or conventions. Superior talents, undoubtedly, will take and hold the leadership, in politics, as in all business; but are superior talents to be eliminated from politics? A boss, an eminent politician, must have talents for organization and leader ship; but i3 there to be nc organiza tion, no leadership?' Is democracy to refuse or to reject 'its own active tal ents? Of course it will set aside or turn down in the long run those who displease It. But is It to have no leaders? It must have leaders. Its leaders must toe men of highest and most active talents. But the plurality primary, without guidance from rep resentative association, would elimi nate all these. Men must unite in parties. If they are to get results. If any large or gen eral policy is to be carried on, or car ried through, It can become effective only by men In association with each other that Is, by and through party. Again, men who believe In a general policy harve a right to unite and must unite, to carry It through. They have a right, and It Is their duty, to select representative agents for this purpose and work. They have a right, there fore, and it is their duty, to meet in assembly, conference and representa tive convention. They can organize for- a great common 'purpose In no other way. And they -will do it. Nothing could be more fatuous than the assertion that men who have common objects in politics have no proper right to meet to declare their objects, to de vise means for carrying them, and to indicate the names of men who (as candidates) are preferred by them for the duty. Are men gone mad, that they should deny it? Tet they who exclaim against conference, assembly or convention. Intended for suggestion of candidate., deny this very thing. The denial, moreover, I3 made in the interest of oligarchy, which in sists that a whole political party is bound to the support of candidates nominated by a meager plurality, representing but a fraction of the party's strength and casting but a moiety of its votes. The method 'is based on elimination of the repre sentative system; which never will be given up, because it is the one sure defense and justification, the real citadel, of democracy. Without the representative system democracy can have no standing at all. Into Imper ialism it will plunge, by the shortest road. Democracy, therefore, must adhere to the representative system. - Else it cannot exist. It can have the repre sentative system only through assem bly. There is no other way. Direct popular government is possible only in a small way, in small communities; never on an extended scale. On any large scale there must be resort to the representative system. THE rLUJSTRATTOX AT RHATTI.E. At Seattle thousands upon thou sands participated in the Republican primary, for nomination of Mayor, pretending they were Republicans, yet voting later in the election for the Democratic candidate for Mayor. The "Republican" vote In the pri mary,, for Mayor, was 31,647, while the Republican candidate for Mayor received in the election but 17,817 votes only S77 more than he re ceived at the primary. The vote at the primary for the Democratic can didate for Mayor was only a few hun dreds; yet his vote in the election was 14,380. The figures prove conclusive ly that the great body of Democrats voted as Republicans at the primary for nomination of Republican candi dates, yet in the election voted for the Democratic candidates. That sort of thing has been familiar in Oregon, this long while. The Oregonian's re port from Seattle yesterday contained this statement, viz: The tell-tale figures have me politicians' to thinking. The demonstration is complete that large numbers of Democrats voted for the Republican nominee at the primaries; then turned on him, hoping by the advan tages of a factional fight led by Bouillon and other bolters .to elect Moore, the Demo crat. It is a striking illustration of the Inner workings of the direct primary. It is to meet this most dishonest business, to check or countervail it, that the. Republicans of Oregon in tend now and hereafter to hold repre sentative assemblies for suggestion or recommendation of candidates. It is the only way of honest and purpose ful politics. By practice of the method so plainly developed again at Seattle, Democrats have gained the highest and most Important positions con trolled or to be filled by the electorate of Oregon. It is the most dishonest of all the schemes, the deepest, of all Juggles, ever played in our political affairs. Tet it assumes the peculiar and spotless garb of honesty, which It exclaims is its exclusive own! OREGON-STREET BRIDGE MATTERS. Fpr the upper deck of the projected Oregon-street bridge the O. R. & N. needs small parts of Adams and Ore gon streets, to place thereon a sup porting' abutment or -pier. For the lower deck the company asks for va cation of other streets, whereon to lay its railroad tracks. The first vaca tion would be made for the service and convenience of the river-crossing public; the other for the use and benefit of the railroad. The first Va cation is authorized by an ordinance which has passed the Council and which the Mayor will probably ap prove. The second is under consid eration by city authorities, and they will demand in exchange from the railroad concessions for the city's pro posed Broadway bridge, and perhaps for other things. The distinction between these two matters should be kept in mind by cit izens who have protested against va cation of several city streets at the east approach of .the viaduct. The arguments that oppose the one grant by the -city do not sensibly stand in the way of the other. The city can well afford to give up 100 feet of Adams street and 100 feet of Oregon street, where they intersect, for an abutment supporting the gen eral-traffic deck of the bridge. This deck was forced upon the railroad company by the- demands of the city, and will serve solely the interests of the public. The company was re quired to add the upper deck in re turn for the franchise allowing It to span the river. It would 'seem, there fore, that citizens will suffer not at all from surrender of the street area needed for the supporting piers. The city should resist every attempt of corporations and persons to make away with its streets for their self ish benefit. It should certainly not give the streets which the railroad de sires to possess for its tracks and yards without adequate concessions in return. The point of the matter at present is that the public will get a much-needed benefit, and, indeed, the whole use of the street area to be granted for the upper-deck abutment. PORTLAND LEADS. The Pacific Coast, in general, and Portland in particular, makes a re markably fine showing in an elabor ate compilation of bank clearings ap pearing In the current number of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle of New York. In the groupings of the different cities, those under the heading, "'Pacific" show average gains for February of 29.8 per cent and for January and February, 28.7 per cent. For the month of February and for the two months Portland leads all other large cities on the Pacific Coast in percentage of gains. For February the Portland clearings were 49.9 per cent greater than for the same month last year, Seattle showing a gain of 26.6 per cent, San Francisco 27.6 per cent and Los An geles 24.1 per cent, Portland's gain thus being more than 20 per cent greater . than the average for all of the cities included in the Pacific group. For the two months, the Chronicle credits "this city iwith a gain over the first two months of 1909 of 49 per cent, while Seattle shows an increase of 33.9 per cent, San Francisco 29.5 per cent and Los Angeles 25.3 per cent. In Its grouping of the Kastern cities, including New York, Philadel phia, Pittsburg, Baltimore and twenty other cities, the gain for February was 18.3 per cent, and for January and February 22.6 per cent. The New England group showed a Febru ary gain of 8.2 per cent and for the two months the gain was 11.3 per cent. Chicago and about thirty other Middle Western cities grouped showed a February gain of 7.3 per cent and for the two months the volume of clearings was 6.3 per cent greater than last year. The Southern group, which included everything .from St. Louis to New Orleans, showed a" Feb ruary increase of 13.3 per cent and for the two months 14.5 percent gain. The grand total for the United States showed a February gain of 16.4 per cent and for the two months 19.5 per cent. From these figures, it can be said without the slightest exaggeration that the Pacific Coast is today the most prosperous part of the United States, and it is equally plain that Portland is thej most prosperous, of the large cities on the Pacific CoasU In other words, fhe business of this city for the first two months of 1910 shows the greatest increase among the large cities in the United States. CONSERVATION. Keep off," keep off, and let the tim ber alonel It Is as God made it, and it's beautiful. Keep unhallowed hands from it! Our streams, rushing from the mountains let them alone! It Is sacrilege to disturb the music they have made through the ages. Great mistake has been made by al lowing free use of forest and streams, in the older states. Let us, lovers of nature, stop this now, in the new Pa cific and Rocky Mountain states. Such is the argument. Does It im press you? Does it convince you? Why haven't we kept the whole country the continent from the At lantic to the Pacific in the condition In which the aborigines "conserved" everything? There has been Intelligent use from the beginning, since Europeans came to the country, and conservation with it. Hence all the older states have grown to what they are. Use is con servation, and conservation is use. These "rangers," planted in Pennsyl vania, in Ohio, Indiana, in Missouri, in Arkansas, in Louisiana, would have arrested development there, Just as their presence and the policy they are instructed to enforce, are arrest ing it here, and, will arrest It, more and more. The old policy of the United States was a sound one. It has made the country that is, the older states great. It ought not to be changed, for use against us, now. DEVELOPING OUR RESOURCES. Very few promoters or Industrial operators who have appeared In the Pacific Northwest have accomplished so much with so little advance pub licity as General Manager Welch, of the Northwest Corporation, whose properties are reported to have been taken over by Eastern capitalists. Beginning in a quiet manner a few years ago, Mr. Welch and his associ ates have steadily added .to their holdings until the latter now include either power plants, street railways, gas and electric light plants or water works In nearly a dozen cities in Ore gon, Washington and Idaho, all of these Industries being owned in some of the cities. These capitalists are also the owners of a highly prosperous suburban line connecting Walla Walla, Wash., and Freewater, Or., and con trol valuable water rights and power locations at wSther points in Oregon and Washington. With these holdings of highly profit able industrial plants and transporta tion enterprises scattered over a con siderable territory, it is logical and natural that an attempt should be made to unite them in a compact yet connected system. The advantages of such an amalgamation are so appar ent that there will undoubtedly be an early welding of the various properties into one cohesive force in which the electric line extension will play a most important part. While we have near at hand plenty of evidence of the ad vantages of electric lines as developers of new territory, it is doubtful if there is any more striking example of their value than is offered by the Welch line out of Walla Walla, Wash. Lands which were in no special de mand at from J 50 to J 100 per acre when this line was started now sell readily at from $500 to $1000 per acre, and pay good dividends on these prices. The possibilities for further exten sions and development of this nature are almost unlimited in the Pacftfc Northwest, and the Northwest Cor poration has its numerous plants ad mirably located for the purpose of "connecting up" with each other and supplying light and power and trans portation to communities and districts not yet reached with these modern conveniences and necessities. ICE POWER. .The tremendous power, of moving Ice has been demonstrated during the past Winter, in the wreck and ruin that it has wrought to shipping along the Mississippi River. This demon stration is not new, but the havoc that it has wrought is universal. The Mississippi River does not often freeze over from bank to bank, but the past season has proved an exception in this respect, and as the ice, frozen and piled up in January, was loosened by the warm currents of air and ris ing water, of February, the mass, creaking and groaning and crushing river craft like egg shells, went careening down the mighty stream and out into the Gulf. In the pathway of this gorge lie the wreck and ruin of everything that was within reach. Railway ferries were lifted bodily out Of the river and stranded on the bank. Elegant and commodious passenger boats shared the same fate. The City of Providence, the largest excursion boat on the Mississippi, was first thrown upon the bank, from whence she afterward slid back into the river and sank, a total loss, while powerful tug boats and heavy sand barges, torn from their moorings and hopelessly stranded, testified to the resistless force of the ice. In all the long story of Arctic ex ploration, there is a no more dra matic incident than that of the crush ing, by the tremendous power of the ice floes which had for weeks held her captive, of the steamer Jeannette, of the ill-fated expedition sent out by James Gordon Bennett, under the command of Lieutenant De Long. The hope went out of the hearts of the brave commander and his courageous crew when their only home in an in hospitable waste yielded to the grim power of the Ice and, crushed and splintered, was lost to sight. A power which, if they could have impressed it into their service, would have borne them triumphantly to the North Pole and back again over wintry wastes to tell the story of their wanderings and the success that crowned them, crushed their ship instead and hurled them helpless upon a frozen sea. Equally ' helpless, as far as saving ves sels that are caught in the ice on the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, are the owners and engineers of these vessels. . The power of the. ice is simply resistless and unconquerable. Human ingenuity stands baffled be fore it. unable to cope with it. Ship ping in the ice zone can, neither save itself by retreat, nor defense. Retreat is cut off, and defense is hopeless. It is thus that the banks of the Mis sissippi River, within the ice zone, at the close of a severe Winter, are lined with the skeletons of the finest inland water craft, mutely attesting in their forlorn plight the all-conquering power of ice. Ex-Judge Gordon, of Spokane, Wash., is at last before a jury on the charge of embezzling a large sum of money from the Great Northern Railroad. Details of , the case were pretty well disclosed when Gordon was arrested several months ago. They showed that the alleged em bezzlement was of funds which had been given Gordon by the Great Northern Railroad to be used in set tling a particular claim. Gordon is charged with using the funds in the purchase of a court decision favor able to the railroads. In such circum stances It Is somewhat surprising to read in yesterday's news reports from Spokane that "attorneys indicate by their questions that an attempt will be made to keep the Great Northern as clear of the case as possible." If the railroads can be kept clear of a case in which they supplied money that was spent in securing a decision favorable to them, ex-Judge Gordon ought to be, reasonably sure df ac quittal. The day of the drunkard is about over in a great many walks of life. It has been several years since the rail road corporations became powerful factors in the cause of temperance by refusing to intrust their property and the lives of passengers in their charge to drunken men; and the example thus given was - followed in a large number of other industries. Now comes the Oregon Agricultural Col lege and 'four students are discharged and others are suspended for using liquor. When it becomes generally Impossible for a man who drinks liquor to secure admission to college or employment on railroads or other large industrial undertakings, the tem perance cause will be still further ad vanced. It Is gradually developing that there are sufficient sober, indus trious men in this country to take care of all the desirable positions, and the economic feature of the problem is hastening the adjustment of its moral phase. Thousands and tens of thousands of great timber trees, at and near And round about the City of Portland, have been destroyed to make room for a city, and to open the country around it. Ought this forest to have been conserved? If conserved, what would It be worth? Under conserva tion, what would the whole country from the Atlantic to the Pacific be worth? Ask the Algonquins, the Iro quois, the Dacohtas, the grasshopper eaters of the mid-continent and the clam-eaters of the Pacific Coast, whose kitchen middens remain heaped up at Clatsop, Chinook and the bays of Puget Sound. Those people all were conservationists. In one thing they agreed with those of the modern type they were too lazy to work. The grapevine telegraph, or some similar reliable source of information, wafted into Wall street yesterday the rumor that J. Pierpont Morgan had dropped dead in Italy, and for a mo ment there were signs that Wall street was about to throw one of the fits that have made it famous. Fortunately for Mr. Morgan, and also for Wall street, the rumor was promptly de nied, and then the regular business of shearing the "lambs" proceeded with out unusual disturbance. Portland, some say they who want more official inspectors "is flooded with diseased beef." It Is more flood ed with diseased Imaginations. Port land, now, In. the thought of one sort of people, must have a larger body of officials to inspect beefsteaks; another sort of officials to inspect and plug and clean the teeth of people who eat the beefsteaks. This last is now to be a department of our pub lic schools. Isador St. Martin, who lost his 1fe in a controversy over the merits of the springs which bear his name, cer tainly had the courage of his convic tions. The man who is so firmly convinced of the unequaled quality of something which he possesses that he Is willing to fight to the death in sup port of his contention Is a victim of misdirected zeal. A woman comes forward with a re port of having at the age of 15 years seen a comet in the Fall of 1852. Who will now dare to repeat the old slan der about a woman's extreme sensi tiveness, bordering even upon men dacity, when it comes to telling her age? "The people," at large, have nothing in the world to say about the results of the plurality primary. Some small faction gets the plurality, by a frac tion, for Its candidate, and the mass of the people is left out entirely. Toung Knox will brush kimself up, put on collar and cuffs and sell joy wagons. All the world loves a lover, but most of it would rather see him roll up his sleeves and make a living out of industry rather than wits. Democrats fear the people will re sent the Republican assembly in Ore gon. But let them cheer up. The people last State election accepted the Democratic Assembly candidate for Governor. As a matter of fact, Phil Knox, Sr., said very little; only told the young ster to go to work. Many a father has done worse. High cost of living is not a politi cal problem, but just the same a lot of fellows try to solve It by making politics out of it. Seattle votes for open town and wickedness. Evangelist Matthews should not have wasted his sermons in Portland. Sunshine nowhere- is brighter than right at home in Oregon these days. Then why spend money elsewhere? Mae Wood is glad Tom Piatt is dead. Tes, Mae is now sure of her matrimonial status. The Spring garden time, when so many of us boasted we would do big things,- is here. .... THREE! BOSSES FOR THE STATE. o?-narehlcal Scheme Offered by the U'Rfn Machine. Douglas Leader, Roseburg. Under the title. "Please Read," a pamphlet fathered by certain . "wise statesmen" In Portland and Oregon City, has been printed and mailed to all voters of the State of Oregon. It Includes many bills that will be ini tiated for our November election, and proposes an entirely new system of government. They propose to abolish our present representative system of government, which has stood the test of hundreds of years, and foist upon the people an entirely new and untried scheme. The new system is proposed under the guise of giving more power to the people, but its effect will be, if it should be adopted., to take away the liberty they have, and establish in its place an absolute monarchical form of government. We will take up first the act to create a "A Board of People's Inspec tors of Government, and to provide for the publication and circulation of the Oregon Official Gazette," found on pages 19 and 20, of that publication. The "bill provides for the election of three inspectors, at a salary of $3000 each, with all necessary traveling ex penses. These three Inspectors shall be editors of the Official Gazette, a paper to be printed and circulated by the State of Oregon, which will print re ports of the inspectors, and letters and communications from officials and citi zens on the science of government. These reports, letters, and communica tions will be printed free, provided they meet with the approbation of the Inspectors. But, Mr. Farmer, if your ideas do not meet with favor with the Inspectors you will have to pay adver tising rates to have your article in serted. See section 3. . These three inspectors are to be per fect men. They are to attend the ses sions of the Legislature, see that no mistakes are made, "investigate the management of every public office supported wholly or in part by public funds, as often as may be necessary." They shall conduct all these inspections and investigations and report through the gazette, "solely for the Information of the citizens, without motive or desire for personal, or partisan advantage." In other words, we will have dis honest Legislatures and dishonest of ficials In every branch of government, but we will have three perfect Inspec tors, at an enormous expense, to keep the people informed of their crooked- . These papers are to be sent to every registered voter in the state of Oregon. Extra copies may be had at cost. The state will do .all the printing, and people who are not Oregon registered voters or taxpayers may subscribe at $1 per annum. The bill does not provide for the disposition of that $1 per annum from subscribers, and, of course, it will go to the Inspectors as "emoluments of office." And even if the bill did provide, what a beautiful opportunity for graft there would be! Section 5, page 20, provides that the election shall be by the proportionate method. Election by majorities Is abol ished. Any candidate receiving one-third of the registered vote of the state is to be declared elected. Each elector has three votes, of course, one for each can didate, but he can cast them all for one candidate. In that way three men rep resenting radically different ideas and principles can be elected, thus destroy ing unity In the "Board of Inspectors," and giving greater chance for graft by charging every man for having his ideas of government published in the Gazette. Now, as to the cost of this newfangled scheme. The bill provides (see section 7) that $1 for each registered voter shall be appropriated annually, to pay "bills for expenses and salaries of said board and the bills for the publication of the Gazette." A further appropriation of $15,000 is made for the board to employ "expert accountants and other assist ance," and If that Is not enough they can apply to the people for more. Supposing that we have 150,000 registered voters and taxpayers entitled to a free copy of the Gazette, It will cost the people of Oregon at least $165,000 per annum to carry out the scheme, or $330,000 for a biennial term. Talk about boss rule! Talk about cor ruption! Talk about graft! It la the moat srla-antlc scheme for graft that has ever been called to onr notice, and that under the sanction of law. Who shall we have to inspect the inspectors? This proposed law is promulgated by the same wise lawmakers who foisted upon us the recall and other un-American laws. Reader, pause and reflect. Whither are they leading us? They are seeking to overturn our entire system of govern ment, the representative system that was handed down to us by our fathers, incor porating the wisdom of ages. Shall we continue to blindly follow? No East Side Crematory. PORTLAND, March 8. (To the Editor.) The Oregonian's editorial of last Satur day on Portland's garbage puzzle hit the nail square on the head, and those who cannot see the wisdom of taking the gar bage out of the city are only those- who do not want to see this done. I presume that is why the authorities do not see it. The taxpayer will have to dance to their music and call it good. I notice a communication from Walter Evans, the agent and legal adviser of the Dlxan Crematory Company. I would like to suggest to Mr. Evans fhat he is very much mistaken If he thinks we want a crematory on the East side. Just build one and see what will happen. If the people of North Portland are willing to be damaged in this way, all well and good, but the people of the East side will not allow any kind of crematory, Mr. Evans, or otherwise. In our vicinity we have property which we value more for other purposes AN BAST SIDE TAXPAYER. Mr. Plncbot's "Proofs." Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Everybody admires Mr. Pinchot very much indeed. Everybody is ready to say, "What a fine man." But it is a pity that he should stir up such a tremendous lot of trouble for his admiring friend, the President, without stronger evidence to sustain his charges not only of Mr. Bal linger's rascally character, but of the President's own incompetency. Hewlett's Creations Live Again. London Echo. The first volume of the Fiona Mac leod -edition, appearing in England, contains "Pharais" and "The Mountain Lovers." Maurice Hewlett's novel "Rest Harrow," continues the histories of the persons figuring heretofore in "Open Country" and "Half-Way House," and draws Into its magic circle the elusive Senhouse. HOLDERS OF GREAT FORTUNES Rockefeller, Carnegie and Mrs. Sage: Money They Have Given Away. Chicago Tribvne. Estimated Wealth. Gifts to Date. John D. Rocks -, . feller $1,000,000,600 $132,000,000 Andrew Carnegie 800,000.000 lrt2.0OO.OOO Mrs. Russell gage 60.000.000 20.000,000 ROCKEFELLER'S GIFTS TO DATE. General education board $ S3.00O.0O0 University of Chicago- 35.309,662 Rush Medical College 6.000,000 ; tjnurcrres (known) 5. 200,000 Missions (known) 5,300.000 Baptist foreign missionary fund 3.000.000 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 4,300,000 Small colleges 2.4OO.000 To light hookworm disease 1.O00.000 Barnard College. New York City 1.375,000 Southern education fund ...... 1.123.000 Union Theological Seminary .... 1,100.000 Harvard University 1.OO0.000 Yale University 1.30O.O0O Baptist Educational Society. 1.000,000 Juvenile reformatories 1,000,000 Cleveland city parks 1,000,000 Ten Young Men's Christian Asso ciations 1.25.000 Teachers' College 500,000 Johns Hopkins University 500.000 State of New York for public park a. SOO.000 Bureau or Municipal Research,. New York 400,000 Vassar College 400.000 Brown University .............. 32O.OO0 McMaster's College 27SOOO Rochester Theological Seminary 250.000 vornell University 230,000 Bryn Mawr College 250 000 Case School of Applied Sciences. Cleveland ; 200.000 Oberlln College 200.0OO Baptist Missionary Union , 200 000 Spelman Seminary, Atlanta .... 1S0.0O0 Sea Breeze Home. Coney island 150000 Newton Theological Seminary. . 150 000 Adelphi College. Brooklyn ...... l-5 000 University of Wooster. Ohio .... 12.-'ooo Children's Seaside Home 124 000 Presbyterian work in Egypt and the Soudan Cleveland Social Settlement . . 100 000 Syracuse University looiooo Grinnell College JOO.OOO Smith college ion 000 Wellesley College 10O 0O0 Columbia University 100000 Dennlson College looiooo Curry memorial lOO.OOO Furman University ............ 100 000 Lincoln Memorial Fund 1000O0 University of- Virginia lon'noo Cleveland Y W. c. A. ...""i: JSSiSS University of Nebraska 100 000 il , L'n'verslty loo'.OOO Anti-Saloon League 350 000 Connecticut Wesleyan Univer- ' sltv . ""' --t. j..) Acaaemy St. Thomas College ... Indiana University .... Mount Holyoke College 75.O0O 60.OO0 50.000 50.000 35.000 Dnuriierr college School of Applied Design "'for Bucknell University William Jewell Institute"! Howard College '"" Tarrytown Hospital Foreign Christian Board "of 25.0OO 25.000 2,5.000 25.000 23,000 Italian earthquak; reiie'r fund ! ! ?oooo Miscellaneous gifts , 10,ooSoo Total 132.154,662 BILLBOARD NUISANCE AST EYESORE Dr. Eliot, Late of Harvard, Says Prac tice Is "Usrllfyina- Process." San Francisco Chronicle. Dr. Eliot, late of Harvard University, has given grammatical sanction to a word which very aptly describes a process which is disfiguring San Francisco almost as rapidly as the erection of its new build ings Is beautifying It. With in the last few weeks the "uglifying process" has become particularly pro- SmhA3 htre' ' AdvertLIng- signs anf blllboards have sprung up everywhere in parts of the downtown sections and have given to the landscape a garish coloring offensive to even the least finicky of aesthetic temperaments. Advertising itself is a most excellent thing. All of us believe in advertis ing we read advertisements, we pat ronize advertisers. But most of us are also discriminating and do not want the kind of advertising that mars scen ery, that shuts out light, that depreci ates the value of adjoining property None of us likes the intrusion as we come, say, from the opera, of a flam boyant sign of somebody's wine or of a brand of prepared food or a new soap. In many other cities the movement against the billboard has made sub stantial headway. Both East and West organized effort to eliminate, or at least to regulate, street signs has been tak ing definite and effective form On the Pacific Coast Portland, Seattle and' Los Angeles have grappled with the problem in an intelligent manner, and elsewhere carefully prepared ordinances have either been passed or are being drawn for passage. . Public sentiment here, as elsewhere long ago registered its opposition against the marring of the city by bill boards. The sentiment should be crystallized in action which will prevent the continuance, and much more the increase r,f th, sance. In Europe many cities have not only abolished the billboards in certain districts and places, but they have limited the posters In size and prescribed ornamental boards which limit the number of placards. Street signs and lamp posts have been com bined in a decorative pillar, tasteful as it is useful. There is- a lesson for us in this. Was the Banana the Forbidden Fruit f London Chronicle. The banana, which the late Sir Alfred Jones did so much to popularize in England, is believed by some people to be the original forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. In any case, it is one of the curiosities of the vegetable king dom,' being not a tree, a palm, a bush, a shrub, a vegetable or an herb, but a herbaceous plant with the status of a tree. Although it sometimes attains a height of 30 feet, there Is no woody fiber in any part of its structure, and the bunches growing on the dwarf ba nana plants are often heavier than the stalk which supports them. No plant gives such a quantity of food to the acre as the banana; it yields 44 times more weight than the potato and 133 times more than wheat. Moreover, no Insect will attack it, and it is al ways Immune from disease of any kind. Altogether, a highly favored plant. Goldsmith's Childhood Home. Edinburgh Scotsman. The homo of Oliver Goldsmith's child hood atLissoy. of which he wrote in "The Deserted Village," is a mere shell in ruins. An effort is being made to re construct the old chimney, around which sat the group depicted in "The Vicar of Wakefield." See Morgan. Do you want to buy a flat? Do you want to sell your cat? See Morgan. Do you want to buy a drink? Do you want another think? See Morgan. Do you want to borrow two? Do you want to bet a few? See Morgan. Do you want to take a ride Over to the Jersey side? See Morgan. Would you ride to Boston town. Where the beans are all done brown? See Morgan. Do you want to get a boost To put some feathers in your roost? See Morgan. Do you want to buy some art Of the kind dear to your heart? See Morgan. .If you want to raise some Ned, Tell what's happened all to Ted. He'd see Morgan. When the doctors all draw nigh. With your toes turned to the sky, You'll see Morgan. St. Louis Times. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE One of the New Jersey Representatives in Congress, very much addicted to ap parel of the variety known as "loud." was on his way to the Capitol one day when he encountered Senator Depew. "If you're going to the Capitol," said the Senator, "we might as well walk to gether." "I'm not going there just yet," said the Representative. "I must first stop to see my tailor about a new over coat." "The tailor!" exclaimed Mr. Depew, in mock astonishment. "Why. Jim, it has always been my understand ing, that you were clothed by a cos turner!" Cleveland Leader. B. T. Williams, editor of the famous Cataract Journal, of Niagara Falls, said at a recent dinner: "I have added, gentlemen, another to my long list of Niagara Falls stories. "A Buffalo man brought a relative from Scotland here to see our grand spectacle. The two gazed at the fall in silence a long time. Then the Buffalo man heaved a sigh and said: " 'Ah, Cousin Donald, did you ever see anything so beautiful and strange?" "The Scotchman, after a moment's thought, answered calmly: " 'Weel. for bonnie yon's a' richt: but for strange, no fur I once saw in the town o' Peebles a peacock wl' a wooden leg." Kansas City Star. "Flattery," said William Faversham. at a rehearsal in New York, "has great weight with women." "This fact was brought home to me In my boyhood. Before entering Chisr- well Grammar School, I attended a kind of kindergarten. My teacher there was a very pretty young lady. " 'Willie,' my teacher said to me one morning, 'why was Solomon the wisest man in the world?' " 'Because, ma'am," said I, 'he had so many wives to advise him." " 'Weil,' said my teacher, with a pleas ant Bmlle, 'that is not the precise answer given in the book, but you may go up 'head." New York Press. Booth Tarkington, praising in New York the work of a brother playwright, said: "His work is so very neat. He it was, you know, who wrote that admirably neat epitaph for a photographer: " 'Taken from life." "Exchange. Richard Le Gallienne. the poet, said at a dinner at the Hotel Westminster in New York: "Literary disputes are interesting if properly conducted. Too many of them, however, are suggestive of the Shakes pearean dispute In Tin Can. "Professor Bill Billus. of the Tin Can Dancing Academy, delivered a lecture in the Lone Hand Saloon, and in the course of his argument recited, 'The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck,' a gem. he declared, from Shakespeare's 'Othello.' "But an interrupter rose and strode forward. " 'I am a Boston gent." said the inter rupter, 'and I certify that no Shakes peare never wrote that piece." " 'My friend." said ' Professor Billus. gently, 'I can convince you that he done so.' " "Convince away," said the Bostonlan skeptically. "So Professor Billus led off with his right foot, and followed up the argu ment with a brass cuspidor, falling, in the subsequent clinch, on top. " 'Who writ the piece?' he shouted, as he pummelled his opponent steadily. " 'Shakespeare.' the Bostonlan an swered in smothered tones from beneath. " 'Are you sure?' asked the professor. " 'Dead sure," was the reply. "I seen him do It." "Exchange. John Cudahy, of Chicago, controls the Louisville Packing Company, and paid a visit to the local plant not long ago. He walked through the building unaccom panied, and in one of the corridors found a wrinkled-faced, weather-beaten old Irishman standing on a truck, his arms folded and his short pipe lit, pulling away like a good fellow. Mr. Cudahy said nothing, but kept on in his little tour of inspection. After completing it, he returned the way he had come in, and found the old man still standing in the pose described, his pipe going like the exhaust of a motorboat. He was apparently meditating upon things in general, for he seomed to take no interest In the progress of the truck. "What are you doing?" inquired Mr. Cudahy gently, not wishing to rouse the dreamer too suddenly. "Nothing." replied the latter stolidly. "Do you know who I am?" retorted the Chlcagoan quickly. "I'm Mr. Cudahy, the president of this company." "Is that ' so?" Inquired the truckman with interest. "Well, ye've got a fine Job, and Oi advise ye to hold on to it!" Philadelphia Record. A Hermitage, Over Seven Centuries. London Telegraph. There is a curious rock hermitage at Dale Abbey, about seven miles from Derby, Elngland. From the chronicle of one Thomas de Mufcca, a canon of Dale In. the 15th century, we gather that a baker of the name of Cornelius, of the parish of St. Mary-of-the-Brigg, in Der by, was visited in his sleep by the Vir gin, who bade him abandon all his world ly possessions and go and live a life of solitary devotion at Deepda'e. He did not know the place, but, as generally hap pens in puch cases, his steps were mirac ulously directed thither. -He excavated the cave out of the sandstone rock, erected an altar, adorned by an image of the Virgin, and there for the rest of his days "served God day and night," until In the course of time "he departed hap pily to God out of the prison house of the body." His cell, locally known as the "Hermitage," is embowered in trees, and, although some seven and a half cen turies have passed since it was con structed it has undergone but little change. Ohio Woman With Sense of Humor. Washington (D. C.) Herald. "An Ohio woman who died a few days ago left $50 to her 'only cousin." The name of the only cousin was not mentioned, and the only cousins who have called for the money have become so numerous that some of the Ohio railroads may decide to run cheap ex cursions for the benefit of other only cousins who desire to present their claims." says the Chicago Record-Herald. And yet there are foolish people who insist that no woman ever had a real, genuine sense of humor! ' Acrobatic Money Bass. London Spare Moments. Family Friend I congratulate you. my dear sir, on the marriage of your daughter. I see you are gradually getting all the girls off your hands.' Goldbranch Off my hands! Yes; but the worst of it is, I have to keep all the husbands on their feet. Stolen Thoughts. Puck. I never turn the printed page But what, alas! I see In clever form some clever thought That should have come to me. Of course, T should not want to think Of all the clever things; And yet the thought that I do not - Much worry to me brings. If it were only now and then I missed some nice conceit, I would not be so prone to think My mind is obsolete. But I miss scores of them, and soma So simple quite that I Will have to plead stupidity For letting them pass by. That there are lots of people who Are very bright indeed Becomes apparent more and more To me each time I read.