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H BMRirnny rates.
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Tata, rarmi Inbuaa bulialog. bi-
cege. rooms 610 ill Intmna buliain.
UTI OX SALB.
CMcar. Auilterbim Anna: Frfeir.ra
Km Co, 1 Dearborn atraali h.mpir
Stand.
s. Pant. Mlaav K. St. alarla. commercial
Station.
(otarart (Springe, Co Fall. H. ft.
Denver. HamlltcB aid KanclricA- "'J
FeTaataanUi uraol; Pratt WCI"
Fifteenth itr-eat; H P. HanMB. S. Blc
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Ku:l and Walnut; lorea M"
MlABMaolia M. J. Cavanauch. oO Bootn
Third.
ItM-temU. O Town Nawa Co.
C layrland. O. Jamaa Pushaw. Itrr
l-artor trat
ah.nrtr.n. I. C KMtt Hnuaa Fan
aytvan:a avnue; Ctnumbia Kti ta
PHtabsr. Pai Fort Pitt Kawa CO.
Phlladrrpbls.' Pa Kyan a Tnettn Ilrk
CBica; Frnn Swa Co.; Kembia, A.
Lianraster avanua.
Saw Yark VitT Hota'.ln nwatnA
Park Rcw. SS:h and PrMdway.
Krcadway and Broadway and SlHh.
Shona 6J7A S;n.e ccPiaa dr ivarad:
onra A C.. Av.jr hiua; Broadway Tna
atar Nawa Stand; Kmrlra Kti Stand.
PirdaB. D. U Bcyla; Ixiwa Broa, IX
Twenty-Rlth atroat.
Omaha Farlralow ProA. rnlon Station;
Kutai.l Stationary Co.: Ktm At Aranaoa.
Ikoa Motnoa. la. Uoia Jacob a
Fraans. tal. Tourirt Nawa C.
oarramnKi, fal. SacrAmanto Nt Co..
0 K atraat; Amoa Kt Cc
Fait lA. Moon Foe A stationary Co.:
Bo.-tiltM A Hanran; O. V. Jawalt. P. O.
cornar: Stalpock Broa.
Istas Braoh. tai. B. E Ami
Pmaadasa. tai. Amna Nawa Co.
oaa IXrro, B E. Am OA
Pan Joaa. Emarson W.
Hoaatoa, Tw. Intarnatlonal Kawa Arancy.
Dallaa. Ta. Southwastarn Nawi Arant.
1 44 Mam atraatt aiao two atraat wadoaA
Ft. TA'arin. Tax. SouthwastarD. J. and A.
Aancy
ArnnHIla, Tot. Ttmmona A- Popo.
Aa PraBotaco. Foratar A Oraar: Farry
Naa Stand; Hotal St Francis Nawa Sland;
U PBrant: N. Whaatlay; Fatrmount Hotal
Nawa Siartd; Ao Nawa Co.; Inltad Nawa
Aranay. 14V Kddy atraat; B. E. Amoa. roAB
arr thraa watrona; Xorlda N. 165 A.
fri;!tr traat.
Onklnnd. la!. H Johnron. Fourtaonth
and Franklin atraati: N. Whaatlay; Oakland
Nawa Stand; B. E. 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,