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"V . i.o4aa roTUMi. r TH I --.. Y. StV - THE UT FtMH. No surprlee D"i be f'' expreed that Prei-ldenl Tuft should lose New jersey, after the almoet uninterrupted HriM of rrvrnn that culminated week with Ohio. New Jersey l mere ly piling Pelion on Omui. New Jersey l.ijred give Colonel K'evelt twentv etght more delegates; bul It l not like ly that they will determine the Ueue I Chicago. Ohio settled It by defin ing clearly Preaident Tafl'a status as defensive candidate and the surviv ins TaJl following as the antl-Kooe-e;t wing of the K'publUan party. Nominally I'refl-lent Taft ha a ma. Jortty of the Republican convention, or he haa the umt thln the marhlnery of the party auppoeedly within hU con trol ao that he can produce the ma jority when and here It I needed. The atratrcy of the Rooevelt man asement In aeekln to break down precedent by refu;n to accept the National committee' choice for tem porary chairman and by Irwtsttnit that contested delegations be not permitted to vote on the temporary orsanlratlon l. mde neceseary by a situation on Ita lace advere. Yet It controverts all the extravagant claims of the Hoosevelt bureau that he has now majority of the delrrates. and It makes clear the Koosevelt purpose In lnaunuratlns; In numerable contents so as to disqualify many delegates from participating In the temporary orranlxatlon. If Roosevelt ses his flht axalnKt Mr. Root he will probably fall to get the nomination. If he Is not able to prevent the National Committee from maklntr up a roll-call that recognises the Taft delegates from the South, he cannot defeat Mr. Root; and the Jig Is up. He must grin and bear It: or If he will neither grin nor bear It. he may bolt. He will bolt, doubtless. If he Is sufficiently provoked. hat the Taft forces, or a lara-e part of them, will shape their course so as to drive Roosevelt out of the convention, or to make an Issue with him ij that If he stays he will be beaten, and If he goes he can be beaten later, is quite obvious. A considerable element of the Taft fol lowing would -welcome the evacuation of the convention by the radical Roose velt followers. They love Taft. but they could survive the sacrifice of their leader If It meant the overthrow and humiliation of his former' friend and sponsor. The real fight Is clearly in the Re publican National committee. If the committee stands pat. Mr. Taft will get the a.-onventlon: hut It will be per fectly aware that the steam-roller 'mu?t be used to crush out all opposition; and. If the steam-roller Is In evidence, the hope of Taft election. If he shall be nominated, will be slight. The com mittee may have the nerve and the will to throw out all the Southern Roose velt delegates; and. If It has. It knows how. Two RrpuMU-an candidates will make certain a Democratic victor. Yet who will sac. In view of h!s ex traordinary record, his unexpected methods, and his uniform sucve es, that Theodore Koosevelt Is not a for midable candidate for President on any platform for anv partv? moor or m m mr:iu ty. With crops of staple commodities approaching 1 1 itf.OOS.Oui) In value, the I'acl.'kc Northwest can view wliaji seren ity the outlook for the )ear I12. De pression from various cauxesk political, financial or Industrial, may seriously affect the hlahly developed Industries rf other sections of the country, but their effect Is l-s-t on the Industries I if the Pacific Northwest. The reason j Is that the Industries of this section are basic. Our products are the staples vi (ifum sou i iviimia. oil n rtrrj per son muft have In g.d times or bad. The lumber Industry Is almost In the same class, for It produces the com moalttv most necessary after food and clothing. The staple commodities enumerated s making up the total of tl50.000.000 are by no means confined merely to grains. More and more are the farm- I era of the Paclnc Northwest diversl- . f)lng their products. A vearly liureas. . tng proportion of the wheat groaersj raise hegs. chickens and fruit. Not j nearly so many as formerly buy their I meat, butter, egxs and poultry from ' the merchant In town. If the wheat crop should falL they no longer record a total loss for the year, for they have other products as an offset. It was formerly the rule that large erops meant low prices, but th Is no longer the case. The consuming ca pacity of the country has grown close to the productive capacity of Its Xarma that, even In years of general good crops, prices remain stab'e at fig ures which yield a good profit to the farmer. Our market for grain and flour In the Orient Is expanding simul. taneous'.y with our market in the East for fruit, wool and lumber. There Is no Immediate danger of overproduc tion of any of these commodities. Such a record of wealth produced by the soil Is a stand!ng Invitajon to oth. ars to come to the Northwest anj share our prosperity. It show that we have substantiated all that wa have said about the resources of this favored region. It tells that what the people of the Pacific Northwest have done others can do. If they will but com and apply their brain and muscle to this fertile sol I. The record of our crops for this year I by no means com plete. No account Is taken of dairy ing, which Is adding many millions yearly to our wealth, nor of livestock, which has made Portland a meat-packing center promising to rival the cities of the Missouri Valley. The present population cf the Pa cific Northwest has worked under dis advantages to which thosas who coma hereafter will not be subject. Future homeseeker In the Oregon country will 'find railroads and trolley Ilneg penetrating to section which until re cently were Inaccessible to market. They will find rural telephones break ing down the Isolation of the farmer. They will find county high school which enable their children to com plete their - education In ordinary branches of study without going far from home, and higher Institutions of learning which will equip the young for any trade or profession. They will find rivers opened to free navigation and harbors Improved by the efforts of the people themselves in co-operation with the Government. Immigration Is no longer Invited by the mere bombast of tho boomer. It Is Invited by the achieved prosperity of the present population. It is no longer Invited to a wild, raw country devoid of the convenience of civiliza tion. It Is Invited to a country where the steam car and trolley car are fast driving the stage coach out of use. The producer Is no longer a helpless unit In marketing his crops. He la a mem ber of a complete, up-to-date market ing organization In any line of Industry. The Oregon country has the re sources; It has furnished proof. It of fers prosperity to any man who Is will. It:g to aid In developing those re sources by Intelligent work. If any man falls to gain a share of that prosperity. It Is his own fault, not the fault of the rountrv. skiv nuvnr.R or Rooe-r.v r.i.T. Theodore Roosevelt drinks very little ll'juor. He says so himself, and It Is undoubtedly the fact. Recent corre spondence on that subject between him and William H. Hatfield, of New York, has appeared In the Eastern papers, and It Is worth reproduction as an In teresting contribution to the other In teresting material of an Interesting campaign. Mr. Hatfield on May 11, 112. wrote Colonel Roosevelt a letter, the pertinent portion of which Is: laar S'r A you ara a war, a atot-y nt daii-tand'a Inlrmparanrt waa rlrrulal4 thr.iuciif-ut th- ,oa,r.ry durlna hla aroni t-fm. En (slay th-re ta attll dtaruaainn upon iha auh"t. A g.Tna'What almliar aian. d-r La now liiraj lot. I frm caat to coaat by political fQrmlfl rrfaralln ou and It la doinaj harm to your rauaa anions; a certain c.aas of totrra. LK you not think that a drmal ahoui'1 he mad by your campaign inar.accra without d'layr Personally, of courM. I take no stock In the story. Colonel Roosevelt replied aa follows: Aa for that Intemperance etory. I hardly know whrthar to nunc It or not. It bap pen that I am. s rrsarda liquor, aa ex crrdtnsly fmpe-'a: man. I dtink about aa much aa tr. l.ymar, Abbott and I say this III) h.a ptnniMlniL I prrer touch whlaky at all ard I haia r.rvrr drunk a highball or a eoktail in my Ufa. I doubt U I drink a 4 Jiro taaapoonfula of brandy a yaar. It la au.-h an inramoua lis that it la a llttla doubtful to know anil to do regarding it. Dr. Abbott is on record as saying that Colonel Roosevelt' greatest In temperance Is his overindulgence In milk, for ho drinks four or five glasses at a meal. He thinks that Theodre really ought to be more moderate. We suppose lacteal Intoxication will now be added to the Colonel's catalogue of crimes. The story of Roosevelt' drinking has been widely circulated and ha been believed by some person, perhaps. But the Colonel's own testimony ought to be sufficient; and. if it Is not. there la other testimony to support It. Ha was in Portland a year ago. the picture of robust and glowing health. No man who drank overmuch could have looked, or seemed, or acted, as Roose velt did. At the banquet given at the Commercial Club, all who observed him said that he drank neither cock tail, nor champagne; but he partook of a little white wine perhaps a glass. There may be something the matter with Roosevelt, but it Isn't drink. THE TROl'BLEU OF Al K.KRSOX. Mr. Ackerson'a name, begins with A, and he headed the recent list of can didates for lelcgate to the National Republican Convention. But that la not the reason Mr. Ackerson also led all the rest In the poll. Not the rea son at all. Dear. no. The reason la that Mr. Ackerson was and Is for Roosevelt for President, and purposely said so. and thoughtfully put It on the ballot in the) nice little vacant space prepared for such things, after the candidate's name. The voter who w as for Hoosevelt naturally voted for a candidate who was for Roosevelt. Rut other voters voted for candi dates who were and are not ardent supporters of Roosevelt, and they were elected, along with the popular Acker son. The careful reader has not for gotten that, under the provisions of our Presidential preference primary law, the elector Is privileged to vote for one candidate for delegate and one only. Mr. lRen, Mr. Bourne and other gentlemen who prepared the law shrewdly Inserted this extraordinary limitation. They feared the steam roller and the making of a slate through the election of delegates from Oregon In blocks of ten. Now there Is and can be no slate In the present Oregon Republican delega tion. So much Is clesr. Bourne. ITRen and the others bullded far better or worse than they knewf The stale has voted for Roosevelt, and. In order to carry out . It aoverlgn will. It Is sending to Chicago a mixed delegation of heterogeneous units. Half are Taft men. half, or nearly half. Roosevelt men. and one is a La Follette man. The delegates are pledged to vote for Roosevelt. They will. But they are not pledged to die In the last ditch with Roosevelt, and some of them may refuse to die in the first ditch when it comes to voting for Roosevelt's man sga.nxt Root for temporary chairman. We really do not know what they will do and are not entirely clear as to their duty to live or die. survive or perish, bolt or stick with Roosevelt. But we sympathise deeply with the worries of Mr. Ackerson and hi friends. Tet they might all have been avoided. If the law had not, through the oversea! and rare finesse of Acker son's friends. Imposed on the cttlsen an Improper and Illegal (probably) limitation that he could vote for only a minor fraction of any delegation to any National convention. A BACaUIICK TO OVgRCOVrtDEXrE. The report of the Senate committee on the Titanic disaster brings out clearly the fact that familiarity with danger bred overconlldecc on the part of the captain of both the Ti tanic and the Caltfomian. Both cap- f tain had so long enjoyed Immunity from collision with Icebergs that they underrated the danger. The same In difference l found In, all occupation where danger Is escaped day after day. Immunity finally makes men so reck less that they forfeit their lives and th ie of others. But th censure dealt out to the Call, fornlan'a captain for not hastening to the rescue when he received the dis tress signals was well merited. But for his Inaction every sou! on board th Titanic might have been saved. His h!p could have reached the Ti tanic in an hour, and the boats of both veosels could have transferred all the passengers and crew before the Ti tanic sank, even though Captain Smith wasted fifteen or twenty precious min ute before ordering distress signals sent. The over-confidence of the Titanic' captain that she waa unslnkable seems to have been shared . by the Call fornlan' captain and to have Inspired hi fatal Indifference. In fact, the same over-confidence ran through the whole tory of the disaster dlsrerard of warnings that Icebergs were near, high speed, delay In calling for help, delay In warning the passengers, delay In launching the boats, blind faith In watertight bulkheads which could not be closed. A sacrifice of MOO lives should serve as a perpetual warning that at sea eternal vigilance 1 the only security of life. A LK4.AL rKOBl.KVt. The charming Clara Norrls. of Elgin, and her gallant lover must have been reading Shakespeare to some purpose. It i favorite device uf tna grrst master to dress up his heroine In male attire and make her flee from her law ful guardians a Ml Norrls has done. Shakespeare seldom permitted his hero and heroine to dwell together In the woods without a chaperone, but that la a mere Incident. We cannot expect real, life to follow the model of the drama exactly In all particulars. It Is often said by critics that Rosa lind and Imogene are Shakespeare' two most lovable heroines. Both of them wore men's clothing at Important crises In their careers. Rosalind posed as a man during the entire episode of the sojourn In the forest of Arden. No body who has witnessed the play finds her any the less charming for her ad venture. A for Imogene. she put on men' garments in order to facilitate the search for her unfaithful husband. This does not differ essentially from the plight of Miss Norrls. who has donned them in order to win a hus band; In our opinion the prize ta worth the effort.- The root of Miss Norrls' trouble lies In the fact that she Is only 17 years old. The law doe not believe that she Is tifflclently mature to select a husband for herself, and therefore If the lover, young Hopson, Is caught, it may go hard with him. In the eye of the courts he la a felon. But love has al ways been In the habit of laughing at courts and other ancient Institutions. It Is prone to take matters by storm and think of consequences only when It la too late. Fond as we are of romance, we ran. not fully approve of Hopson' conduct. It seems as lf he might have waited another year until hts sweetheart had reached the proper age to decldeahe momentous question of marriage for herself. If he could not trust her to wait, perhaps he might have consoled himself with another bride In due time. But now the mischief la done and the authorities are confronted with a practical question for solution. Which Is better, to make a felon of Hopson by prosecuting him to the last notch of the law or to permit him to dwell In peace with the girl who loves him? Which will be more agreeable to think of In a hundred years? , MEMORIAL DAY. The significance of Memorial day will necessarily broaden with the pass ing years. Originally it was consecrated exclusively to the soldiers of the Civil War. Today no impropriety is relt In associating with the honor due to the loyal defenders of their country many other axts of commemorative piety. Memorial day has become an occasion for paying tribute to all whose names are enrolled In the great army of the departed. The theme of the Civil War Is still predominant on May 30, but others are distinctly heard in the rev erential symphony and naturally in the process of time they will become more and more Impressive. The Civil War waa one of the outstanding events of history- No doubt It will be remem bered as the climax of human achieve, ment on the American continent In the nineteenth century. It not only brought about the freedom of the negro, slaves, but It was followed by Important changes In our National life and spirit. Since the war the United States has conceived an entirely new estimate of Its proper position among the nations. We have definitely aban doned the policy of keeping ourselves to ourselves and have assumed the re sponsibilities of an Imperial power with colonial possessions In distant parts of the world. Before the war the United State stood In the same rank with Switzer land and Holland as far as Interna tional affairs were concerned. It was not a small Nation, of course, but it was negligible because It chose to be neglected. A maxim had come down from the father that International en tanglement were to be avoided for the sake of safety and It was religiously obeyed. As long as the country was thinly populated and weak In military power this maxim was wise. But by the time the Civil War had been fought and won we awoke to the con sciousness that we were as strong as any other first-class nation and stronger than most of them. The an cient reasons for pursuing a policy of Isolation were no longer valid. The American people felt equal to under taking Imperial tasks of the widest scope, and when the Spanish War of fered an opening for their energies they were ready to avail themselves of it. Thus the present status of this country as a world power may be traced back directly to the conse quences of the Civil War. But the present Is necessarily more vivid than the past, and as our interest deepens In the international affairs of man kind It Is Inevitable that the memory of the great struggle of the middle nineteenth century should recede Into historical perspective. Another great and still more signifi cant change resulted from the Civil War. Like all supreme achievement It was followed by an outburst of Na tional energy. The same thing hap pened in Greece after the victory over Xerxes at Salamls and In England when the Armada had been defeated. In the United States the vast stores of energy thus set free spent themselves in an attack upon the undeveloped re sources of the country. Never before In all history haa man made o vigor ous an onset upon nature as he did In the half-century following our Civil War. Th onset was not less success ful than energetic. The vacant lands of the West were colonized by home builders. The railroad system of the country was laid out and constructed. The oilfields were opened. The iron and steel Industry waa built up from feeble beginnings. These events were Important in themselves and they were doubly Important on account of the economic changes which they entailed. Aa the attack npon nature continued it became evident that no man possessed private resources sufficient to carry It forward adequately. The enterprises upon which the captains of Industry had entered surpassed any individual power or fortune. It became neces sary either to abandon the task or de vise some system of co-operation. Mammoth fortunes had been accumu lated. What was now required was a method by which they could be com bined for common purposes under ef fective management. The solution of this problem was discovered In the American Trust. The trust came into being through eco nomic warfare as cruel and relentless as Sherman's march to the sea. A the mighty concent moved to its con summation the weak were crushed and the strong Increased their strength. Pity was forgotten and morality was remembered only to be relegated to times less strenuous. The philosophy of Nietzsche replaced the Sermon on the Mount. "Woe to the conquered" became our National maxim in economics. By this process the American peo ple brought into existence a power which seemed for a time to be greater than the National Government and the energies which had been devoted to the conquest of nature were now di verted to the conquest of the corpora tions. To bring these artificial poten tates under the control of the law has been the task of the last ten years and more. Time and effort only demon strate the magnitude and difficulty of the undertaking. In the opinion of many Americans the struggle for con trol of the corporations la fully as Im portant as the Civil War and will In fluence our civilization as profoundly. When the Civil War closed the Imme diate object for which It had been fought was secured by the uncondi tional enfranchisement of the negroes. It required but a few years to prove the unwisdom of this measure and a few years more practically repealed It as.far as the South was concerned. It Is to be hoped that the problem of the corporations will finally be solved more successfully than that of the negro was. But whether It Is or not. for years to come It will fill the thought and Imagination of the country and in eon sequence of its overwhelming Interest the exercises of Memorial day will dwell less exclusively on the glories of the past and concern themselves In creasingly with the struggles of the present. The heroes of the war will not lack their meed of praise, but their example will be applied with growing persistence to stimulate the civ!-; vir tues of the living generation. Democrats in Congress have killed the appropriation for two more battle ships. A penny wise policy Is only to be expected of provincial minds that have not kept pace with our evolution to the dignity of a great world power with vast international relations and responsibilities. The vagaries of a Democratic Congress have afforded us some Insight of what the country would be up against with a Democratic Administration. The Paris newspapers are a Httle hasty In inferring the Kaiser's peaceful Intentions from hla interest in his wife's Spring hats. It may be all a ruse. Who knows but the artful Will iam has laid a subtle scheme to lull Paris Into fatal security by pretending to be absorbed in hats while all the time he Is secretly massing troops along the Rhine? We had not sup posed that Frenchmen could be be guiled so easily. Had Mr. Taft been struck by a real bomb at Rutherford, N. J., It would have given him a second term' beyond all question. If It did not end his life. The one infallible way to lose a cause in this country Is to use violence to promote It and a personal assault upon a President gains public favor for him Instantaneously. If the farmers can make their mar keting trust Nation-wide, the Steel Trust will be a midget by comparison. But can .they? To organize a great trust requires the genius of a Morgan and the lure of a $70,000,000 com mission. Let all political animosity be sus pended today as tribute to the men who gave their lives that this Nation might exist. Without their sacrifice there would be no desire or occasion for political aggrandizement. One fact shines out with a brilliance dazzling almost to blinding, that some people will begin to discuss a mighty mess of crow In a few weeks, and it will not be of the customary Demo cratic brand and blend. The Senate report fixes responsibil ity for death of the Titanic' passen ger on the Californian's Indifference to signals for help, thereby closing the mundane side of the affair. The plight of the Hood River doctor bitten by a rattlesnake while eight miles from a settlement again empha sizes the necessity of having a supply of snake remedy always at hand. The military band is part of the per sonnel of a parade of United States troops and sensible people will not ob ject to its music in a festivity that concerns all the people. Occasionally a cigarette fiend works out his ow-n destruction and endangers ! many lives. There are a few habits worse than smoking clgarVttes, and that often leads to them. Alnsworth, by seeking the downfall of General Wood, Is merely removing the last room for doubt as to the wis dom In the recent Alnsworth retire ment from active service. Army ethics, where all are officers and gentlemen, are beyond the ken of the ordinary mortal, and the higher the rank the more profound Is the problem. A Vancouver couple have remarried after a separation of thirty years. It Is to be hoped they will not find their action hasty. Samuel Untermeyer haa his work cut out when he tries to get a direct answer to a question from John D. Rockefeller. The fruit of the plum tree Is a pow. erful incentive to the politician, but this 1 a bad year for plums. Pity the poor colored delegate, who teeters between lack of money and lack of principle. The orang-outangs In & coming show look like some people you know. The elements are merely clearing the decks for Rose Festival week. Stars and Star-Makers By Iea Caaa Bur. Washington, D. C has seen three in terpretations of the big emotional role of Madame X In Alexandre Bisson's moving play of mother love, and this week at Poll's the playgoers may study a fourth, for Izetta Jewell's conception of the part Is said to differ materially from those presented by Dorothy Don nelly, Madame Bernhardt and Adeline Dunlap. a Edward Cort, manager of the Yakima Theater, North Yakima. Wash., who has been handling the house for the last two years, will not return next Fall, having been chosen by his father. John Cort. of the Northwestern Theatrical Association, to go on the road out of New York next Fall with one of the five shows which Cort will handle for the Authors' Producing Association. His successor has not yet been chosen. I a . a Harrison J. Terry has left the Baker stork company and gone to his Chl csgo home. After a vacation on a flshln' trip in Michigan. Mr. Terry will resume his work In "The Rosary." In which he was first Introduced to Port landers. a a "That's a clever little girl playing the role of the hired girl." sex I to George L. Baker as we sat admiring his stock company last Sunday afternoon, in the opening of "The Deep Purple." "Ye'es?" he asked. In a noncommit tal voice. "Who Is she?" "Why the name In the cast says Mary Edgett," replied the .boss of the show. Which told me nothing. The Iden tity of the clever actress was con cealed by a blonde wig; she ambled about In a slipshod, slattern way that bespoke a true understanding of the ways of the kind she represented, and her slow, soft drawl was delightful In dialect. "But she's new here." I insisted. "Is she?" asked G. La. B. "What d'ye think of her?" "She's dandy. Now you tell me where she came from." "She Is probably some aspiring young woman Milt Seaman or Billy Dills has given a chance," lied Manager Baker glibly. And I believed him. It got out only yesterday that Mary Edgett Is Mr. Baker's daughter, Mabel Baker and this role is her debut. Her stage name, Mary Edgett, Is the maiden name of Mr. Baker's mother. a a a Marjorie Rambeau, who used to be a Lyric stock member here, f;ot a com pany together this Spring and went a tourlng with a booking list of one night stands mapped out that covered well, 'way into the Summer. They got as far as Los Angeles after a five weeks' Jaunt and closed suddenly be cause of bad business. Lloyd Bacon, the 20-year-old son of Frank Bacon, one of the old-time Coast actors, was a member of Miss Rambeau's company, as was also Leila Thompson, second wom an, who was at one time identified with local stock. a a Miss Ethyl Merrett. who holds the role of Hattie. the maid in "The Mir acle" under Florence Roberts at the Orpheum. while a New Yorker by birth. Is an Oregonlan at heart as her mother and 6-year-old baby girl, Bar bara, live In Salem. Miss Merrett topk a flying trip to Salem last Tuesday morning, leaving here at 1:30 o'clock by the Southern Pacific and arriving at the State capital at 8 o'clock in the morning. A taxlcab was waiting and whisked her to the outskirts of the town on South Fourteenth street, where Mrs. L. Townsend, mother of the ac tress, is domiciled in a bungalow Miss Merrett bought and furnished nearly two years ago. That was the first visit Miss Merrett had had with her mother and little daughter iir a year. The actress returned to Portland on the 11 o'clock Oregon Electric In time for the Orpheum matinee. Besides portraying the maid in Miss Roberts' sketch. Miss Merrett sings "The Cru cifixion" off stage. She studied voice under Harry Fellows, tenor soloist with the Victor Herbert Orchestra in New York, and under McKenzle Gordon In San Francisco, where she filled several engagements In cabarets. Miss Mer rett also has appeared as a "single" In vaudeville and was billed In Port land two seasons ago as "the charm ing comedienne." Florence Roberts has arranged for Miss Merrltt to pass next week with her mother and baby girl In Salem, the cast of the vaude ville sketch getting a week's rest in the Jump from Portland to San Fran cisco. a a Jessie. Shirley, one of the best-known actresses the West has produced and who is particularly well known along the Pacific Coast, has been especially engaged to play the leading emotional role In "Way Down East" at the Baker next week. Her stay Is for one week only; then she goes, back home to Spo kane. She own a real house there not the newspaper sort that' usually belongs to actresses. For five years Miss Shirley headed her own stock at the Auditorium Theater in Spokane. Then she took a flyer Into vaudeville, appearing here as an Orpheum bead liner. a a a When I write thJ one more about the Baker I'll be done. Maude Han naford, who came up from San Fran cisco for only a two weeks' engage ment, has made so good, in the best theatrical sense of the term, that she is going to stay on and support Alice Fleming as Ingenue. Miss Fleming opens during Rose Festival week In "Wildfire." a a a Just for being a particularly profit able and tractable star Mlzzi Hajos will be given a new musical play next sea son by Werba Luescher. Miss Hajos' present tour in "The Spring Maid" will not terminate until August. She appears at the Heillg week after next. Oratloa on Garfield. REEDVILLE. Or., May 24. (To the Editor.) Please Inform me where I can get Secretary Blaine's eulogy on President Garfield. O. E. FRANK. "Eulogy on James Abram Garfield," by James G. Blaine, and delivered be fore the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States, Feb ruary VI. 1882, la published by James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, and may be consulted In the circulation depart ment of the Library Association of this city. To obtain the eulogy in volume by Itself one would probably now have to apply to the publishers or seek it in some old bookseller's. Half a Century Ago From' The Oregonian of May 30, 1862. The telegraphic dispatches in the Union of the 22d state that the city elec tion of San Francisco resulted In favor of the whole People's ticket by an aver age majority of 661. Cowies' majority is 855. The whole vote in the city was 11.832. Fort Monroe. May 14. Our losses at Williamsburg sum. up near 2500 killed, wounded and missing. The rebels must have lost 3000. We have over 700 pris oners, besides 800 of their wounded. They captured one of our batteries and made good their evacuation. On the other hand, we have their formidable line works, siege guns and position. The Memphis Appeal of the 15th con tains a dispatch stating that General Butler took possession of the offices of the Consuls of the Netherlands. France and Spain and took from the former the key of the vault of the Canal Bank and removed therefrom 1800.000. placed there to be remitted to Amsterdam, for payment of Interest on bonds. The evacuation of Pensacola and its occupation by the Federals is confirmed. Lieutenant Mullan's wagon road ex pedition were about completing their last bridge on Hellgate River, and in tended, so soon as this was finished, to proceed to Fort Benton. G. H. Barnett, expressman between Walla Walla and Powder River, who came In on Saturday last, informs us that since the first stampede from the mines affairs have assumed altogether a different phase In that locality. Pros pecting parties have found diggings and gone to work with every prospect of receiving a fair reward for their labor. About 100 feet of Cole Ruckles' rail road at the Cascades has been carried away by the high water. A team of six horses got away from their driver down near the lower wharf yesterday afternoon and ran with frightful speed up Front as far as Stark street, where they turned and took out towards the woods. The keeper of the penitentiary has lately "dropped three and picked up one." Three convicts came ' the "che nanlgan" over him last Sunday night and made their escape. A "Ed" Howe Sees Life If you have a little sense, you will find It a big advantage. A man hates his enemies with more enthusiasm than he loves his friends. You are always tempted to mock those you dislike. There never was a man or women who did not occasionally manuafcture a groan to excite the sympathy of friends. A man's Idea of a dull time is to play cards with women, and nothing up. Children are not whipped as much as formerly. When I was a boy. I was whipped at school, at home, by other boys, and by the neighbors; but I haven't seen a child whipped in years. When a married woman congratu lates a bride, she says: "I hope you will be as happy as I am." A married woman always makes a bold front, and hopes rfo one will suspect the real truth. When my stomach is behaving, and I am feeling particularly well, I ar range for a good dinner that will knock xae out next day. A million people ask themselves this question every day: "What is the best thing to do?" And the pitiful truth la, no one knows half the time. As soon as a man believes he has a good many friends, and a persuasive way, he begins to think of running for office, or engaging In something else in which his friends can help. Perkins the Practical Man. PORTLAND, May 29. (To the Edi tor.) That the vast Morgan interests, fearing La Follette, urged Roosevelt's candiuacy, there can be no doubt. George W. Perkins does not deny that he is financing the Roosevelt campaign. When President Taft showed by the records that Roosevelt called off the prosecution of the International Har vester Company because of the threat of the vast Morgan Interests, Mr. Roosevelt did not deny the charge, but only insisted that Mr. Taft, being in his Cabinet at the time, was equally culpable, although the records show Mr. Taft was out of the United States when the matter was discussed. Is it a mere coincidence that with every delegation Mr. Roosevelt secures the stock of the International Har vester Company advances, or is Mr. George W. Perkins, like the late E. IL Harrlman. a "practical" man? A. H. THOMAS. Ettarenlca Explained. PORTLAND, May 27. (To the Edi tor.) What Is an eugeniat and what are the belief of such a person? E. G. S. An eugenist is .an advocate of the science of eugenics. The teachings of that science are his beliefs. Eugenics is the science of Improving stock, whether human or animals, but the term eugenist is usually applied to those interested In Improving human stock. Theories affecting this are va rious. They Include the marriage of only healthy and properly-fitted per sons, the sterilization of the insane and criminal, and pre-natal influence upon the character of the child, phy sical and mental. An article in The Oregonlan of April 14 takes up the sub ject at length. ' Train and Ferry. LANG ELL VALLEY. Or., May 28. (To the Editor.) Please answer the following on the editorial page of your journal: Would a train leaving a ferry boat have a tendency to pull the boat to the landing? Of course the ferry boat Is securely fastened and It could not move. If not, please tell whether the boat would move In any way that is, have a tendency to move in any way? Thanking you in advance, 1 remain. A READER OF YOUR PAPER. If engine and train were all on the ferry, the tendency would be to push the boat away from shore when the train started. If the engine was sta tioned on shore and attached to cars on the ferry, the opposite tendency would be exerted on starting. New Pension Law. LIVINGSTON. Mont.. May 26. (To the Editor.) I noticed an article on the editorial page of The Oregonlan May 21 relative to the new pension bill which has recently been passed. Have you any ruling, or can you ad vise how this will affect the widows of Civil War veterans? G. B. HAYNES. It is our understanding that the new act does not affect widows' pensions. John Bnll Coal Producer. London Dally News. Of the coal produced In England, one ton out of three Is exported. The Memory By Dean Collins. Springing grasses and bursting blos soms. Wakened under the May wind breath; Cover the hills and the sun-bathed valleys. Cover with life the temples of death. Out of the perfumed ocean of blossoms. Gathering those that fairest blow. Wee cast our wreaths on the earthen templeti Tribute to them that sleep below, Theirs was the battle: ours the guerdon. The crown of flowers that we pause to lay Over their dust from the debt we owe them, "Tis but a trifle for us to pay. "Tis but a trifle, and yet it measures The space from time to eternity. Over whose span, renewed and burning. Springs an undying Memory. Dark is the veil that spreads be tween us. Guarding a mystery-none can tell Save the Gods of Life and Death, who rule us And they have treasured their secret well. Closely locked have they held their secret. But through the veil o'er th shrouded door, A voice from the past. In the living mem'ry. Speaks to our hearts forevermore. And the Gods of Life and Death smile on us; "'Tis well! Though a blinded people gives Tribute to idols of gold and silver. Still in Its heart, the Mem'ry lives. "And even so long as they pause to listen Unto the voice of that Mem'ry pure That sings them the birth-story of their nation Tis well! Their liberty shall endure." Portland, May 29. DECORATION DAY. This Is the day of memories, when our hearts Are turned In tender grief to days long fled. From strife, from greed, from Joy's illusive arts We turn, and pause to ponder on our dead. What long-forgotten visions meet the eye! What long-hushed voices echo In the ear! As one by one these spirits, long put by. Rise up and, smiling, beckon to us here! 'Tis well that once each year a day we give i One. day of all the year's encumbered train In which once more in thought our heroes live And move and have thoir being here again. For they were heroes all all noble men, Who gave their lives to save the Nation's own. Whatever else their various lives had been. That thing they did and that shall be their crown. For they were heroes all all noble men Who gave their lives to save the Nation's own. Whatever else their varies lives had been, That thing they did and that shall be their crown. In days of terror when the country" heart Was like to burst in twain, these men stepped lorth . From field and town and money's busy mart. From loved ones and from home's alluring hearth. And some returned, and we, who could not know Those older days, have thrilled to hear them tell Of war's grim horrors, and starvation's woe, Of rags, and pestilence, and crashing shell! How can we know, we of a later day, How may we dare presume to give ' them praise Sufficient they who bravely went their way And gave their lives our glorious flag to raise? But ah! The dead need not our flow ers nor tears. They fight no more nor ever know a pain. In verdant Springtime and in Autumn sere They sleep and never can return again. Too soon we do forget that with ue yet Are living heroes Just these scat tered few Who still survive "Life's fever and its fret" Awaiting orders to a country new. The ifairest flowers are those that live alway The blooms of love that lighten age and care. We honor best the dead we mourn to - day By honoring these whom heaven Wills to spare. JESSIE EVERLY THOMPSON. THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. Our hearts are sad for those dear ones, Our comrades "gone before," The kindest, gentlest, bravest sons That ever woman bore. For those who sleep in "hallow'd greund," O'er which the south winds blow, Or 'neath some long-forgotten mound Where God's sweet flowers grow. (He plants themthere, year after year. To grace those humble tombs O'er which no mourner drops a tear Nor loud-mouthed cannon booms.) Or 'neath the ocean dark and deep, The greatest treasures there, Some long-lost comrades calmly sleep. Without a dream, or care. No more the Southern "stars and bars" Are seen on flood or field. And bloody Battle's hideous scars To Time's effacements yield. G. MARINER TRIPLETT. San Francisco, Cai Nebraska Election Results. FOREST GROVE. Or., May 28. (To the Editor.) Could you please inform me as to the results of the Presidential election in Nebraska for the year 1908. or. if statistics are, not at hand, could you say as to how badly W. J. Bryan was defeated? JAMES RASMUSEN. In tb last Presidential election Bryan carried Nebraska over Taft by a plurality of 4102. A Mud-Dodger In France Baltimore American. In France It will soon be obligatory to provide automobiles with mud guards to protect pedestrians