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Amoa. manasar ftva IraA.-iTis; WaI!lnhAm. E. a. (.oldflold. Nay. Loula Follln. larrka. CbI. Cll-C'hrenlcia Ataney; Bo rakA Nawa Co. roRTLAXD, PATIROAY. ArRIt. 1. t0. THB EW SAN ITlVNClfH O. It wii in April two years aso that the earthquake and the fire almost de stroyed San Krancisoo. Hardly had the work of ruin ceased when the work of restoration bepan, and it has been pushed rapidly forward ever since. Few resllje exactly how much has been done both to replace fallen buildinps with new and better ones nd to improve the municipal life of Pan Francisco. Sunset Magaiine for April publish? a set of pictures and short articles which pive one a vivid impression of the enormous capital and energy which hava been employed in rebuilding the city. The progress has been something marvelous. The l ity Engineer slates that up to last January one new buildin.c had been completed every hour and forty-five minutes sitice the earthquake, while the expenditure had been 1104 per minute. The Sunset Maira!ne's excellent pic tures show many old landmarks In re stored spiendor. The Claus Spreckels buildiPft looms up with all of its for mer majesty; towering above every thing in the neighborhood. On the nimmlt of Xob Hill the Fairmont Ho tel, which was fireswept but not de molished, makes a grand show with Its new equipment. Oeary street exhibits scarcely a trace of the calamity which laid it in ruins. On this streot stands the first building of reinforced con crete erected in San Francisco, but not the only orre, by any means. This comparatively recent metJiod of archi tecture has been much employed in the work of restoration. Whether It can withstand earthquake shocks bet ter than the steel frame may be a question. It will be remembered that modern steel-frame buildings were not essentially injured by the shocks. Had they escaped the fire they would have needed but slight repairs. Reinforced concrete Is said to have all the advan tages of the steel frame, with some others. Kxperlence will show which Is the better for San Francisco. The commercial and financial inter ests of the city do not appear to have been greatly Impaired by the catastro phe. The new buildings have been erected almost entirely with local means. Only some iS.PPO.OffO has heen borrowed In the East. The bond ed debt of. the city Is J per capita, which may be Instructively compared with New York's J1S7. The estimated value of land and improvements per capita is fl 16. a better showing than Baltimore. Cincinnati or Philadelphia can make. Strangest of all. Pan Fran cisco's bank clearings have grown steadily all through the period of de struction and restoration. In the earthquake year they increased SSOO, OrtO.OO over the previous year. From 1S0S to 107 the increase was S400. onn.000. Surely there is something unusual about a population which can exhibit achievements like these. It is pleasant to notice that the re stored city is to have a water supply Khich cannot be shut off by a single breach in the system. Ther are to be distinct areas -supplied from the res ervoirs through non-commuBlcating mains. In addition, there are to be pumping stations to utilize sea water for protection against fire. "With sup plies so abundant and so wisely ap plied. It is not likely that San Fran cisco will suffer from a second great conflagration in this century. Another contemplated improvement is a scien tific system of sewers and subterra nean instead of overhead wires for streetcars and telephones. Best of all, the cltr has a government which is non-partisan, energetic, competent and entirely free from graft. When the adequate punishment of the old, dis- honest rlngsters liu been effected. I San Francisco can look buck upon the period of her adversity with the re ft Ac tion that out of the" evil has com nothing but good. ' PFyrnarTiNo a r.oon x.ue. Julia Marlowe, one of the finest actresses on the American stage, an ornament to her profession and woman against whom the breath of scandal has never before been direct ed, has been promptly cleared of a criminal charge placed against her by an insanely Jealous woman. There was never the slightest ground for such a charge as was laid at the door of this charming actress and pure woman; but the apparent inability of our laws to protect the reputation of lntwcent people from such attacks has caused ter an endlesa amount of trouble, sorrow and expense. By reason of this unwarranted charge. Miss Marlowe ha been obliged to abandon her tour, disband her company and place her self, under the care of a physician for the remainder of the season. After all this suffering, the Jealous, irrespon sible woman who brought the charges finds that a mistake has been made. So far as Miss Marlowa's legion of friends before and behind the foot lights are concerned, the baseless charges were never regarded as any thing other than unwarranted gossip which so often besmirches clean repu tations on the stage as well as else where. But, aside from the personal ity and the pure life of Miss Marlowe, there were other rea.'ohs why the public was inclined to give her some thing more than the benefit of the doubt. There has been in recent years an ever-increasing tendency on the part of a certain class of people to blacken the reputation of others without first exercising: caution In their .charges. It was cruel rumor, magnified, distorted ajid Incorporated in the complaint in another divorce case, which drove poor Georgie Cay van to a madhouse and thence to an untimely grave. The invesilgatlon which followed the charges, as In the case of Miss Marlowe, of course cleared the unfortunate victim of the dreadful charge made against her. but the law's delay and the offensive pub licity proved too much for as noble and high-minded a woman as ever graced the American stage. The ease with which a good name, especially that of a woman holding so public a position as that of an actress, can be destroyed without redress Is a sad commentary on our laws. There seems to be no limit on the right -of a jealous woman, or even a man, to compromise the name of innocent per sons who are dragged into vile divorce proceedings without the shadow of a pretext for the use of their names. These accused women, who are inno cent of any wrongdoing, and whose names are paraded before the public as co-respondents in some dirty di vorce scandal, tan. of course, sue the defamers for slander or libel, but this, even when their detractors ftsve a de gree of financial responsibility, is very poor recompense for the suffering that has been caused. It Invites more publicity, and at the best is humiliat ing and distasteful to an innocent per son. The promptness with which Miss Marlowe's name was cleared will be extremely gratifying to all decent peo ple, but it is unfortunaie that there is no law that can prevent some other equally prominent and worthy actress from being subjected to similar hu miliation and expense by the whim of some other jealous woman, with a "hair-trigger" impulse, to get even with a worthless man, even though it becomes necessary to blacken the rep utation of an 'Innocent w-oman to ac complish that end. SOMFTH1NG TVK CASTRO. President Castro, of the diminutive government of Venezuela, is inviting trouble. He is becoming annoying. Just as a flea or a mosquito is annoy ing without being dangerous. When the trouble between the mosquito and the cnan becomes too badly strained, the insect is smashed flat and the man forgets the incident. Castro is now playing the part of the mosquito, and Is nearlng the point where he will re ceive attention that will be prompt and effective. Castro, mistaking him self for a big chieftain instead of a small Insect, pompously asserts that "either the I'nited States will respect and support the decision of the mixed international tribunals and those of the tribunals of Venezuela, or it will raise once for all the flag of con quest In America." , There are other ifolutlons of the dif ficulty. We can still leave the "flag of conquest" In tjhe attic, and at the same time refuse to "respect and sup port the decisions" of the Venezuelan tribunals, at least until we can decide to what extent those famous decisions have been Influenced by about as dis reputable a set of grafters and scala wags as can be found In the Southern Hemisphere. It is freely admitted that some of the alleged American citizens who have invaded Venezuela have not graded very much higher In the estimation of Castro than in the country which profited by their de parture, but this offers no excuse for the Injustice which, from appearances, Venezuela is endeavoring to inflict on American citizens, who, in a strictly legitimate manner, have secured con cessions in Castro's land. The Secretary of State, in a letter to Minister Russel about a year ago, ex plained the nature of the trouble which now seems about to reach a crisis by making the unequivocal charge tht "the government of Vene zuela has. within the past few years, practically confiscated or desttoyed all the substantial property interests of Americans in the country. This has been done .sometimes in accordance with the forms of law and contrary to the spirit of the law, and sometimes without even form of law, by one de vice or another, until of the many millions of dollars invested by Ameri can citizens in that country practically nothing remains." In his reply to Sec retary Root's last note, Castro takes the high moral ground that "no seri ous government which pretends to be just can or ought to protect, under the flag of the fatherland, the peculations of adventurers." The United States has no intention of protecting "pecu lators." On the contrary. If the Inves tigation confirms what Is now gener ally v believed, this country will bring the "peculators" (some of whom may be Americans) to Justice. It is not denied that there are peo ple In the United States who are today enjoying the benefit of illegally held property in Venezuela. This property was stolen or confiscated from the le gitimate American owners, by agents of this same Castro, and by those agents turned over to or divided with their American "peculators." ' But re gardless of the peppery demonstrations of Castro, this country will review the evidence carefully before rendering a verdict, and if that verdict should be contrary to Castro's views, it will be nforced without much trouble Bluffs are unpopular in the United States, especially when they are at tempted by the scandal-smirched, two bit republics of the banana belt: THE WOVnF.RFrl, RAIN. The rain is a wonderful thin? that is, in Oregon. It comes Just in time to save the sprouting seeds and plants from being thirsty. It goes away when the flood threatens the decrepit Madi son bridtre. It releases latent heat 'from zones whence the south wind blows. It splotches the ballots of the people in those new-fa.ngled election tents of the Multnomah County Court, but dampens not their spirit. It Is sent on the Just and on the unjust. It washes the flowers clean so that they may not look dingy compared with those creations on the Easter bonnets. Truly wonderful is the rain. The lily, wild currant and dogwood in the wild will now be dressed their finest to celebrate the bonnet day. So will the daisy and cherry and apple blossom In the garden. The flowers are a bit late this Spring. Their friend the rain came timely to spur them on. The farmer has planted his grain and grass and potatoes and trees. "How did the rain know? Who told the rain that the farmer wishes to stop buying taO-a-ton hay? Who cautioned it not to chill the sprouting things as it did In March? Truly wonderful Is the rain. I'P in the mountains the rain Is snow. The snow whitens Mount Hood so that the stranger next Summer may gar.e agape. The snow feeds the Sum mer streams so that the salmon that dodge the grasping fishermen of As toria and The Dalles may continue the breed of royal chinook In tin cans. Over- toward Taquina the rain pre pares the rhododendron blooms for the annual excursion of the Valley folk. l"p In Hood River the straw berries will be redder than usual, and the Spltsenbergs, too. Rogue River Is Said not to have had a visit from the wet. Poor Rogue River! Ever notice the warmth after a heavy rain? That strikes from us the shackles of the fuel trust. Of course the weather kicker is a banished tribe. He tolls not, neither does he spin. Therefore he cares not whether the flowers drink. He runs a peanut stand or a roadhouse, or a mil linery shop. The rain Is trying to make us all rich, only some of us don't know how to use It and others don't save our money. It makes the County Court scrry ta see the roads made soft, but that's because the court fears the votes of the kickers. However, one election day is past, and the next is six weeks distant So let us have the rain, even today if it so wills. But let tomorrow's bon net day be clear. Truly wonderful is the rain. WOMF,N. OOOS AND WALNVT TRF.KK. It is fashionable just now to revile the old proverbs and proclaim that they are concentrated falsehood in stead of truth, as our fathers believed. This may be the case with some of them, but not with all.- The old say ing about women, dogs and walnut trees holds Its own gallantly against the assaults of time and accumulating experience only establishes its truth the more firmly. Of these three spe cies of living creatures the proverb as serts that "the more you beat them the better they be." After reading the tale of Mrs. Gandy, of Tacoma, and her husband, can anybody doubt that the proverb is true? Gandy, we are told, was in the habit of handcuffing his wife to the bedpost when h sallied forth to, pursue his calling as an insurance solicitor, leav ing her thus to pine In solitude all day. Finally wearying of this discipline, she haled him into court and he was Jailed. The sequel is interesting. One, naturally Imagines the lorn and lonely Mrs. Gandy employing her Interval of liberty In gay promenades up and down the grassy streets of the most sedate city In the world, peering into its antiquated shop windows and brushing the dust off the antediluvian bonnets in the millinery stores: but she did nothing of the sort. She sought her husband n his dungeon, and. throwing her lily arms about his neck, shed tears of condolence over his plight. , Women like to be maltreated: at least some women do. There is no mistake about it. The story Is true of the English wife who went among the neighbors one day bewailing the sad fact that her husband hadceased to love her. "How do yoUjknow?" in quired one of her gossips. "How do I know?" replied the mourning one, why, he has not beaten me for a week." What better evidence of fail ing love could she have had? Recog nizing the value to society of a stead fast affection between man and wife, the English laav In Blackstone's time permitted a husband to chastise his spouse with a club of moderate size. This wholesome rule has since been "altered, and what is the result? A vast increase of divorces. Since wife beating was made illegal in England, divorces have multiplied there. In this country, where the husband never was permitted to punish his wife cor poreally, divorces are an evil of such proportions that even our religious editors are shocked by it. Mrs. Gaudy's conduct shows how es sential a little severity is In properly managing a wife, and the frightful prevalence of divorces shows how cau tious we should be In abolishing or changing the good old customs of our fathers- Were they not wiser and better than we? The California Secretary of the Navy and his chief sponsor. Senator Perkins, of California, might as well under stand, once and for all time, that Portland has no desire to have ajiy small cruisers or torpedo-boats sent to this port at a time when there are bat tleships and large cruisers which could be sent here. Ample proof has been submitted to Mr. Metcalf showing that he deliberately misrepresented the condition of the channel from Port land to the sea when he gave as a reason for not sending ships here that there was insufficient depth of water for them. A ton displacement and a foot draft are no greater on a battle ship than on similar -sized craft tn the merchant marine. So long as deeper draft vessels than the battleships are coming and going between Portland and the sea without detention, and without even excltlng'comment, the California Secretary of the Navy can never have a fair or logical reason. for refusing to send the ships to this port. Failing to do this, he must bear the odium of discriminating against the second largest seaport on the Pacific Coast. The Belllngham American printed conspicuously on Its first page, in Its issue of Tuesday, April 14, a statement that credits The Oregofitan with, de claring that "the United Press reports are In every way equal to the report of the Associated Press, and In many ways superior to it." The Oregtnlan madeno such statement. To suit its own purposes, the Belllngham Ameri can has deliberately garbled a remark of The Oregonian on that subject. What The Oregonian did say was that a certain Portland patron of the United Press would undoubtedly de clare, if asked, that the United Press report is In every way equal to the Associated Press report, and in many ways superior to It. This is quite a different matter. Because It Is a dif ferent matter the Belllngham Ameri can has eliminated those words which credit this expression to Its proper source and has quoted them as The Oregonlan's. The Oregonian would pay no attention to a forgery so petty and so obvious except that It would expect to see It reproduced elsewhere If a porrect statement should not now be made. The fine rain which has fallen Over a large portion of the Inland Empire wheat belt in the past forty-eight hours was worth millions to the people of Oregon and Washington. It was exceptionally welcome along the river counties In Oregon, where an Immense acreage of wheat had already begun to feel the effects of the protracted dry spell. The wheat crop of the great Northwest was the predominant factor In relieving the cities and towns of ' Oregon and Washington of the acute financial strain which was so severely felt throughout the East. While we may not this year harvest so large a crop as last year's record breaker, the rain yesterday worked wonders toward bringing its propor tions well up tovarj those of last year, and with no unfavorable conditions later in the season the crop Is certain to be large enough to spread prosper ity throughout the Inland Empire. The ease, grace and greed with which the school lands of Oregon were gobbled up by the Hyde-Renson-TMa-mond-Schnelder combination at Salem during a period of three years, dating from 1 SST. was shown by Banker E. P. McCornack in his detailed statement of the transactions between Hyde and imself. before a criminal court In Washington last Thursday. The wit ness was In close touch for many years at Salem with ways and means by which conscienceless men enrich themselves at the expense of the slate's interests. Including its school lands. His testimony, being at first hand, so to speak, was not shaken or discredited by cross-examination, and should be conclusive regarding the points covered. i The Republican people chose one man for United Stares Senator yester day and the Democratic people chose another!. Now If the .Democratic peo ple can unite with some of the Re publican people, they may defeat the choice of the Republican people in Jha June election. The outcome will be called the choice of all the people. Persons who think Oregon's Senator should be a Republican may be disap pointed, because while being a major ity of the Republican people, they may not be a majority of the Republican and Democratic people. But that won't make much difference, cither. The steamship Teucer, which ar rived at Victoria Thursday, brought, among other cargo, 1200 tons of steel rails which had been shipped from New Tork by a steamer through the Suez and trans-shipped for Victoria at Kobe. This offers Rnother illustra tion of the Impregnable trade position of the Pacific Coast ports on all classes of heavy freight which take a low rate. It also gives an inkling of what may be expected as soon as the Panama Canal is completed and the water routes between the Atlantic and the Pacific ports are shortened by many thousand mlles. Patrlck Powers leaves many friends to mourn him and respect his memory. He was a man of true Impulses, gen erous nature and wide sympathies. Disappointments neither soured nor narrowed him nor made him less broadly tolerant. He knew the re sponsibilities of his place in life and observed them. That place is better for his having been in it. Pat Powers will be long remembered In Portland. He deserves to be. Mr. John Armstrong Chanler, who was declared Insane in New Tork and has since been living on a 500.000-acre estate which he owns in West Virginia, Is seeking permission to return to New York without subjecting himself to the inconvenience of being thrown Into an asylum. There are a good many peo ple in this country who would be in clined to think any man insane who cared to leave a 500.000-acre estate in Virginia to live in New Tork. There Is now talk of putting up In dependent Statement No. 1 candidates for the Legislature where there are no such candidates nominated at the pri mary. It is unimportant, of course, that we have Republicans In a Legis lature. What is wanted is a Legisla ture that will make no inquiries about the Senatorial candidate's politics, but would preferably take a Democrat Mr. Bryan may turn out to be the "people's choice," but first he is taking good care to be the Democratic peo ple's choice. . The grown-up boys in the City Council chamber will continue their Juvenile row in the next meeting. Will the men who were proved "liars" yesterday accept the verdict of the people? Now is the time to begin paying bills that haven't done the candidates any good. Now if the rain knows enough to quit on Easter bonnet Sunday. The defeated ones need not despond. Somebody loves them. HF.R TEARS OF ACCIDKXT One Woman 1'nKine Reeora tf Narrow Baravea From IeatB. New York Tribune. A living chapter of accident I Mr. Helen Moore Wall, once Daniel Web star's private secretary, and now. in her old age, residing alone In a diminu tive cottage in avin HtIL Doreheater, near Boston. Mrs. Wall ha always had remarka bly good health, yet she had paid the doctors many thousands of dollar for attendance upon her, for from her th year, at which early age she fell and broke an ankle. Mrs. Wall life has been a succession of fallings, break ing, maiming, and brnislngs. There I hardly. It 1 said, a bone In her body that has not been broken at some time or other, and not a year has gone over her head since that flrt fracture of her ankle that has not been marked by some accident to her much afflicted body. "I've been tn every sort of accident that can happen to a person," she said, "except one. I've never been run over by an automobile. I'm expecting that any day. and I should think It ought to be the end " And though she Is not in the least lugubrious, but very animat ed, and'often laughs merrily when she tells the long tory of her misadven tures, people who know her know that In her heart she hopes the end will not be long In coming. For he Is 7 years old. and her husband, to whom she was devotedly attached, I dead. Mr. W'all'a many Accidents have been ierely that Fate ha led her tinder through no fault of her own. It Is the plank that fell. Into the train that were wrecked, in front of the horses that ran away. Her first railroad wreck, happened R4 year ago, when a train on which she chanced to be. going out of Cincinnati, ran Info s drove of rattle. In the smash-up Mrs. Wall was thrown against the window with such force that her head broke the heavy pane ef glass, snd was Itself In turn badly broken. That time she required only one surgeon. Several other rail road wrecks have besprinkled her life, with more or less serious consequences. Qnee. years ago. eh was penned In a burning building In Boston, and w-as rescued with difficulty, and not long afterward he was rescued, all but drowned, from the waters of the Tote mac, into which she was precipitated by the overturning of a boat. - At another time a Janitor nearly wrought her destruction, quite without meaning it. He turned off the gas as she was descending the stairs In a pub lic building in Washington, and she made a false step and fell to the bot tom, Injuring one leg badly, bruising her body, and altogether making her self a subject for two surgeons that time. Horse cars have likewise contributed to the excitement of her existence. One started suddenly as she was bosrdtng It, and threw her from the platform, fracturing her kneecsp. Bar next mis hap befell her In Boston. She was walking along the street when two car penters and a heavy plank got mixed up with one arinther, and tumbled down a flight of stairs at the foot of which the combination struck Mrs. Wall, breaking her arm at the wrlet. Phe was just recovering from this accident w-hen a large dog. coming ratherehnst lly around a corner, ran into Mrs. Wall and knocked her down. She got along with one surgeon that time. The marks of her next accident have remained with her all her life. It hap pened a she was coming out of a bake shop. The heavy door closed upon her hand with great force, crushing the bones so fearfully that the hand has been rrfppled ever since. The very next year Mrs. Wall was thrown from a trol ley car and badly Injured. Just at present he Is recovering from a mis hap which befell her on her hearth stone. Phe tripped and fell against a stove, fracturing her hip. Kven Nature ftelpa Taft Vote. Toledo Blade. The Blade' Marion. O.. correspond ent furnishes the following pastoral-political item of news; "Two months ago twin calves of the male gender were bom on the farm of John Bnmdlge. south of Waldo. The calves are Hereford. Remembering Bryan's famous heifer, Bntndlge railed one Bill Bryan and the other Bill Taft. Brundige claims the one he named Bill Taft has grown fat and sleek and bids fair to be a fine steer. The calf named after the Nebraskan. however. Is not a prize winner. All it does. Brundige says, is to stand at the barnyard and bawl." Thus, even nature calls lustily for Bill Taft. of Ohio. PuHIbk the American Kaitlr'a Tall. Army and Navy I,lfe. I knew an Indian. Yellow Facie, who. In order to get hi coup feather, due a hole in the ground on the open prairie far from camp or habitation. Over It he fixed a covering of brush, upon which was laid the carcass of a freshly-slain antelope. In this trap he lay for three days awaiting the eagle's coming. When, at last, lured by the halt, one did alight, he seized It from below, and despite its flapping and clawing Rnd perking, he plucked the precloua feathers before freeing the astonished and terrified bird. I recall none but the Aemrlcan ahortgine who has heen able successfully to pull the American eagle's tall. Sherlock Holmes 1'p to Pate. Oransa (M. J.) firpalch lo New lork Tribune. Detective Sergeant John Drahell went to the home of Joseph Llpman. at 313 Main street to Investigate the supposed robbery of a set of furs valued at $25. He was welcomed hy Mrs. Upman. who showed him to a seat on the lounge in the dtnlng-room. , As Drahell sat down he saw a set of furs lying under the couch cover. He said nothing, however, and allowed Mrs. Llpman to tell her story of the robbery, with all its detail. When she had finished, the detective reached down, picked up the furs, and. holding them before the woman, said: "Here are the furs, madam." Mrs. Lipman nearly collapsed. Won't Stand for Scotch High Bawl, Washington (D. C.) Herald. A Scotch minister has applied to the courts for an Injunction restraining his wife from "yelling at petitioner In a high, shrill, shrieking tone of voice." In-other words, he refuses to stand longer for her Scotch high bawl! Aatl-FYee Pasa Harts Democrat a. Washfngtrm CD. C.) Herald. The Denver hotels have fixed a rate of something like tl4 per day for delegates to the Democratic convention. They probably realize that the anti-free-pass laws will greatly cut down the aggregate attendance- A Plffeieace in !fch t-rapa. Indianapolis News. A Sunday-school in Jamestown. Kan., gave a night-cap social at which 30 night-caps were sold at II each, al though the usual market price In the town is 15 cents. Flmaarlal Drop tn Blllard Stall a. Detroit News. A farmer at Youngstown. Ohio, won a SI bet by putting a blllard ball in his mouth, but as a physician charged him S5 to remove it, he was out of pocket 14-00. Am Indnstriooa Fianc, Anyhow. Baltimore News. An employe of the Oklahoma Senate, who has been accused of being too busy purchasing supplies, is named Ham Bee. , tOMtlON SCMOOI.g ANT I NIvrRITY Kvery tte Ktakee rrovtaioo toe la Btltntton of Hinner lorwfna. PORTINP. Or., April . (To the Edi tor.) Much has been said about the re. lation of the State University to the pub lic school system, and Mr. Cyrna H. "Walker and other have ninde repeated attempt to show that our State 'lTniver- lty Is being built up at the expense of the public schools. The history of our American public school system is enough to refute the argument advanced by Mr. Walker and hi associate. Thomas Jef ferson began hi groat work for the de velopment of our common School system by founding the University of Virginia. The ordinance of 17S7 couples with the grant to the common school a grant to the State University, anil provides that in every state certain lands be act aside for such an Institution of hleher learn ing. F.very etate entering the Union Rlno the adoption of the ordinance of 17S7 ha established a etate university. The University of Oregon at the present time train teachers, principal nd super intendents for our public school and high chool. and through It correspond ence courses serve ahout 3.V teacher In different pari of the tate. The influence ef the University of Oregon ha, at all time, been thrown toward better puhlle schools, for the University la nothing mora nogjess than the head of the pitblio school systbm. Our present excellent high school law were written on the statute book by men who fntght for the University of Oregon in the Legislature. The hlil enacted by our State legislature raising the county school levy from IS to 17 per pupil, was Introduced by Representative I. N. Edward, of Lane County, who I a friend of all educational institutions. It was the Intention of the author of thl bill to raise the levy from IS to IS. hut owing to the bitter opposition that de veloped, a compromise of 17 per pupil was agreed upon. Tle men who fought thl proposed Inereaae for the common school were the one to oppose the Uni versity appropriation bill In the legis lature. Oregon I fully able to support her Stat University, and at the same time furnish every rural district with sufficient money to carry on an eight month' chool. The critic of the t'nlversity of Oregon would have thi proposed Increase fa proposed in the bill now pending) go to the common schools, hut they forget to add that the sum would amount to only 40 cent per year for each child actually enrolled. It Is freely admitted that the rural school districts do not have enough money, but the defeat of thet I'nlverslty appropf lation bill would In no' way Improve their con dition. The Oregonlan's uggelion that the water power and other resources of the state be conserved for the use of our people. Is a timely one. Revenue de rived from this source alone would. In time, build up a magnificent educational system here in Oregon. Our school lands have been frittered away and so bave our Cniverstty lands. These facts, how ever, are not arguments In favor of the defeat of the pending appropriation bill. C N. M ARTHUIt. rtnOEVRI,T ANI TIIR NF.ORO. HI Appointment to Office Baaed OB Merit and Kltoea. New York Ape, While some are advising the negro voters to holt the Kepuhllcan party and support a Democrat nt the coming Tresldcnf !nl election. President Roose velt Is recognizing the negro In a way that no other President of the United States has ever done. Ills recent recog nition of merit and fitness was the appointment of P. I.Blng Williams, of Chicago, as United Stutes Attorney to take charge of the Bureau of emigration for that section of the country. No President has ever appointed so many colored men to prominent Fed eral positions in the Northern States. No other President has hail the cour age to appoint negroes to Federal po sitions In such cities as New York, Chicago and Boston. Attention should he called tn the class of men President Roosevelt has appointed to office. Without excep tion they have been clean and intelli gent men. Among those who have re ceived recognition as representative citizens are William H. Lewis, Assist ant District Attorney of Boston, grad uate of Amherst and Harvard; Charles W. Anderson. Collector of Internal Revenue of New York City, a college graduate and a man of hlnh standing: .1. A. Cohb. Assistant United States District Attorney for the District of Colunihla. a graduate of Flsk Uni versity; Judge R. 11. Terrell, City Magistrate for the District of Colum bia, a graduate of Harvard; R. W. Tyler. Auditor of the Navy, a news paper man of wide experience and a highly cultured and representative citizen of Columbus. O.; Dr. W. T. Ver non, Register of the Treasury, an educator and orator of marked ability. In commenting, the list might ho extended showing how the President has continually sought to reward the best In the race. In the South he lias appointed the same type of men as he has In the Northern and Western States. It is true that other Presidents have appointed numbers of negroes to of fice, but almost without exception these places have been In the Southern Slates, where flye negro exercises little power so far as the counting of votes is concerned. President Roosevelt be lieves that In the Northern States. Where the negro not only votes, but also has his vote counted, some atten tion should be paid to putting negro men in office. No other President, for some unknown reason, ever thought of adhering to such a policy. This does not mean that he has reased appointing negro men to Fed eral positions In the South, but It does mean that he Is giving the race recognition throughout the entire country, and that his Federal appoint ments are not confined to one section rT the United States, as has been the case In the psst. Taft, Greatest AlUAroond Statesman. Washington (. C.) Herald. Representative Hiram Rodney Burton, of Delaware, has known Washington. D. C. since 186a, when he worked here in a dry goods store. He has always been active in politics In his state, and has on two previous occasions been a delegate to Republican conventions. At the con vention recently held In Delaware he was selected as one of the dolegates-at-Iarge to Chicago in June. While the delega tion goes unlnstructed. Representative Burton expresses himself forcibly, saying "any one who claims that the Delaware delegation Is antl-Taft fnakes the asser tion without any basis In fact." He says further that "every man elect, ed as a delegate to the Chicago conven tion Is an admirer of Secretary Taft, and a firm supporter of President Roose velt's policies. We are friendly to Taft. not because President Roosevelt! supports him. but because of the greatness of the man. "Speaking for myself." he continued, "I admire him as the greatest all-around statesman in the United States today." Formal and Informal Eloquence. Boston Globe. Speaker Cannon made a beautiful moral speech to the college-boy delegates who called upon him at the Capitol, say ing in his formal address: "Be practical, be patriotic, have integrity, have . cour age. The world produces not many John the Baptists, to cry with a great voice In the wilderness. God is ever the same, but to each one he is ever according to our individual conception. All of our Christian views are supported, and we all operate together." Then, he said to them informally: "Boys, I am d d glad to see voui" Advertising Talks No. 11. If It FITS You Wear This Cap. By HERBERT KAUFMAN Advertising isn't a rnicihls with which ltr,, bigotoil giiil incupnlili tnerrhants ran turn inrotiiiepttcy into success but. one into which brains and tenacity and conineo cm he poured and changed into dollars. It is only short ml across the fields not a ivtoviiiir jlntf(irm. You enh't "pet there" without "sroitij? souie." It's a gam" in which 11m worker not the shirker ifcts rich. Hy its nioBsurpiiient evtry nuin stands for what he is and for what he dors, not for what he was and whnl he did. Kvery day in the ndvprtisinsr wovld is another dsy and lifts to hp taken care of with the same energy as its yesterday. The quitter can't snnivs whrro the phiL-eer lins the ghost of a chance. Advertising doesn't take the pUce of business talent or business man agement. It simply tellp. what thn husinesR is and how it i tnnimged. The snoh whose father created and who is content to live on what wa handed to him can't stand up against the man who knows he must build for himself. WliBt makes yon think that you are. entitled to prosper as well as a eoni petilor. w ho works twice as hard for his prosperity 1 Why should as many cople como to your store as patronize n shop t ti t makes an endeavor to get their tia l and shows them that it is worth wlulo to come to ils doors T Why should a newspaper send ns many customers to you in hnlf llm time it took to till nti establishment which advertised twice as long and paid twice aa much for its publicity ? This is the day when the best mau wins after he proves that he is tlio best man when the best store wins, when it has shown that it is the best store when the best goods win, after they've been demonstrated to be tha best goods. ' f you want the plum you can't get it by lying under the tree with your mouth open waiting for it to drop too many other men are willing to climb out on the limb and risk their necks in, their eagerness to get it away from you. It is a man's game this advertis ing just hanging on and tugging and straining all thn time to got anil keep ahead. It. is the finite expression of the law of competition which sits in blindfolded justice over the markets; of the world. MtM.RNMI M TO HF) IIRRK IN MM. Baltimore Man tin Figured Out There Iso't Much Time Left. Baltimore Run April II. Seriously begevlng Hint In October, 1!'. or In the year following, the millennium will come, the existing onler of enrthlv things will change and that two-thirds of I he people of the earth the wicked loo thirds will go down to eternal death, Charles 11. Anderson, senior partner In the commission firm of C H. Anderson Co., on South Calvert street, has run. celled two policies of life insurance which would mature at that time. Mr. Anderson is well known In the com mission trade,' and being a hustnoss man he seea no use In continuing tn pay pre miums on policies that will do him no good, because the mlxup that's coining will turn the Insurance conipaslcs upslile. down. The policies cancelled were Issued by New York companies and are of the Jii-year kind, one expiring In 1H14 and the other the time the millennium Is due. Irfits of things are going to happen in 1!I4. Mr. Anderson says, and lie sup ports his belief with a line of Scriptural argument. He believes that there's going to be a great trouble on earth. There will be financial panics, he says, cities will he burned down. earthquakes wl'l come every day, riots will hrepk nut and anarchy blossom, armle and navies will kill each other trying to put down up risings.' ' "To, prove that those things will hap pen," he said, "nil you've got to do Is to look at the things that are happenln now. The trouble Is beginning. Look at the panic Inst October: look at the out breaks of anarchy and ' nil the other trouble in the world. In K'14, when thn millennium comes and Christ comes to rule the earth, nil the existing forms of government will be wiped out and na tions will cease t" exist. "That's proved In the third chapter of Zephantah, in the eighth verse: 'There fore wait ye upon me. said the Ixird, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, that 1 may assemble the king doms, to pour upon them mine Indigna tion, even all my tierce anger: for oil th earth shall' be devoured with the fire of niy jealousy.' " Mr. Anderson says he has been studying the Bible for ten years to got at this conclusion, and he has read, besides, the writings nf Biblical scholars who bollevn the same thing. He believes CliriHt i on earth now, having come In li":l, which was the end of the gentile age in which we are now living. The years between 1S73. the end of the age. and 19H. which he says Is going to he thn time when thn good and the bad are separated, are thn years of harvest, in which the derision between who shall din and who shall livn is being made. "People- Flection" of Senator. THE) DALLES. Or., April 15. (To thn Editor.) You will confer a favor on many voters by answering these ques tions: First Need the people of Orrgon bn surprised, if upon sending a man to tho United States Senate, on Statement No. 1, he Is refused the seat on constitutional grounds? Second Would not the Governor ap point a man of his own liking to fill such vacancy? Third How do expressions like this sound In a land of patriots? "Th Con stitution be damned." PATRIOT. The people of Oregon cannot send a man to the United States Senate on Statement No. 1. He must be elected by the Legislature in- due constitutional form. Thn pretended election of Senator in June by the people, of course, is no election at all. and no person, having been named for Senator in such an elec tion, will present himself to the United States Senate as a Senator, until and unless he shall have been elected by the Legislature. Bolt Strike Horses, MIe Driver. New Orleans World. Lightning struck a buggy near Amerl cus. Ga.. killing the two horses and shat tering one wheel, hut the driver, a farm er, escaped serious Injury,