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TIIE MORXIXO OREGONIAJT, THURSDAY, MAY Z, 1913. 10 rOMTLAXD. OKTCOX. Entered at Portland. Oniu, PoetofTice a ptBd-lM master. taoecrlptioa Hatea Invariably ta Aavaaea: (BT MAIL) Dally, Sundar Included, aaa year. .... Xeil. Sunder Included, eta n nn I h . . 4-I L.nr. Siiadi) Included, three month... Sti faitjr. Bandar 'ncluued, one moala I.;y, without Sunday, on year....... " " La..y. without Sunday. a:z month. - lii.i)-, without Sunday, three month.... J I-atly. without Suoday. one muain wkly. one year i'?! kusdftjr, on year.... ...... ! ? kuaay ut Vrkly. op year. 4BT CARRIER) Dally. Bandar Included, on yar - Da.Vy. Sunday Included, one month Mow t Hemlt Bead potoftlc money ar der. tipran ardor or personal cnec ea your lata) bank. Stamp com or currency are at ender ruk. git potoffl addreea la full. Including county and etate. rexare Katea Tea to 14 paea, 1 cent: 14 to 2 paaea. t cent; to 4 paaea. I eent; 4 to pacea. 4 cent. orujn poetac. double rate. Eastern tlaelaeaa Orflree Vrr Conk lla. .Sew Yora. Bruaawlek building. caaa, aleaer bulldins. baa Fraarlera Office R- J. BldwU Cow til Market street. Karape OtTlce .No. S BaCat atreet B. TRTLAD. WTDNESDAY. MAT t. Ml. GOOD AND BAD LOBBIISTS. The outcry against lobbyists breaks out as often as a tariff bill 5s Intro duced In Congress. It Is heard Jn re gard to other legislation, but more particularly In relation to the tariff, because the tariff vitally affects every interest In the country. We had a great scandal In 1891 when sugar men more accused of Improperly influencing Senators; we have heard It about the wool men and about many other bod lea of manufacturers. It Is not strange that the Underwood bill has caused a renewal of the rrotcsts against lobby Ins:. The finance committee of the Senate Is besieged by lobbyists and smothered with briefs agalntt pro posed tariff changes. These form the bas! of fact for President Wilson's denunciation of lobbyists, but he ap pears to have drawn no distinction be tween good and evil. legitimate and Illegitimate. There la a great deal of Jiumbug in the talk about lobbyists. A lobbyist la simply a man or woman who en deavors to Influence rotes of Senators or Kepresentatlves for or against cer tain Irgislatlon. There are legitimate and Illegitimate ways of doing this. A man whose Interests are affected by a bill has right to appear before a committee of Senate or House In open session and present his arguments. He has a right to address written or print. eJ communications to a committee through Its chairman. He may have a right to send Identical copies to all members) of a committee. All the men encaged In a certain Industry have a right to combine for the employment of one or more men to perform this service for them. That Is legitimate lobbying. But when a man approaches indi vidual members of Congress In pri vate In behalf of a certain bill with Inducements of personal or political profit or advantage, or with threats of political defeat If he acts contrary to the lobbyist's wishes, he la engaged In Illegitimate lobbying. That form .of lobbying la deserving of the severest reprobation the President or any other man can visit upon It. It Is an evil which has been growing and which has been made the subject of prohibitive legislation In many State Lerlslatures. The President and Senate. In their Irritation at the great volume of pro test against the radical features of the Underwood bill, have no right to con found the legitimate with the Illegit imate lobbyists. Kvery Interest has a right to be heard in a proper way a way which affords opportunity for others to meet and answer its argu ments. Those arguments should relate only to the merits of the legislation It self and to its effects on the industry' concerned, and. through that Industry, on the public Interest. Let us do away with the back-room, back-stairs, dark lantern, buttonholing, whispering lob byist, but do not let us close the doors against the man who comes forward openly and frankly to state his case tr that of the Interest he represents. The only possible objection to what we have described as legitimate lobby. Ing Is that It gives Influence to the few who have a special Interest out of all proportion to their numbers. The great mass of the people who have a general Interest are not heard In per son or through their agents. But the Senators and Representatives are pre. sumed to speak and act for the whole people and to decide how far they can yield to the few without being false to the many. There Is also an Independ ent press to speak for the whole peo ple. Legislators heed Its voice In pro portion to Its Independence. MR. HEC8NXR BIIOCXD SHOW HIS HAND. Voters of Portland would doubtless welcome competition In street railway traffic. Desire for Hie opening of ter ritory not now served and for such Improvement in other service as com petition would bring Is commendable. Also the wisdom of admitting new ln terurban lines to the city on properly guarded terms Is too apparent to war rant controversy. Mr. George F. Heusner has applied to the voters for a franchise. The terms of the proposed privilege have been criticised as to details and there Is objection to the operation of broad gauge cars on Seventh street. If a new electric system Is to have the right to run over one or more of Port laud's business streets. It Is difficult to see why It might not as Well be Sev enth, or Broadway, as any other. But there Is one factor that Is of sufficient Importance to cause the voters to hesi tate before approving the Initiated franchise measure that Is on the June ballot. A street railway franchise should not be awarded In the dark. Mr. Heusner has given no word as to the Identity of men or interests that Intend to use the privilege If it be granted. He has intimated that it is to be hand ed over to other persons. The fran chise draft gives him authority to transfer the grant. The public has a right to know to whom the grant Is to e transferred. It is not an uncommon procedure for the speculator to acquire a public utility franchise and dispose of It at large personal profit to whomsoever will buy It. Is Mr. Heusner the agent of Investment seekers who are working out a definite pian for developing city or lnterurban railway traffic, or is he a mere promoter? Does Mr. Heusner know by whom the franchise will finally be utilized, or Is he taking a speculator's chance? Has he given any assurance that the franchise will not be sold to the Portland Railway, Light Power Company, to be utilized not at all? These are questions that overshadow those as to details and streets to be covered. Mr. Heusner ought to come before the people with no facts sup pressed. He ought to lay his cards face up on the table. Concealment of them breeds suspicion. If it la a le gitimate enterprise he Is sponsoring a tangible promise of city electric rail way competition or new lnterurban service a frank revealing of the inter, ests behind him will not hamper but will strengthen his project at the polls. TWELVE GOOD MEN. The Oregonlan prints again here with the names of the twelve candi date recommended by the Committee of One Hundred for the office of City Commissioner. They are given in the order in which- they will appear on the official ballot: W. l Brewster C. O. Orala; r. '. Ntoppeabarh T. M. Harlburt W III H. Daly E. Werleln Robert C Dleek Mnranall uana (ieorae B. Cellars W. H. SfeMoelea C A. Blselow Jann Drta-eall Four are to be elected. The voter may. and should, vote for all the to-.iu. either aa first, second or third choices. It ought to be clear that the only way of making etrecuve me wirlMinrcad sentiment in -Portland for capable Commissioners Is for citizens to act in concert for support or one group of candidates. The voter who votes first choice only for Commissioner, and neglects his second choice, or third choice, lands hie alrl to lam candidate or. candidates outside the twelve. For he definitely refuses to support in any way, even as an alternative, eight worthy candidates for commissioner. THREE VOTES AGAINST THE OFIT. PORTLAND. May 3S. (To tha Editor.) la your comment In The Oresonlan upon th preferential method of votlns you say. anions- other thins. "Th voter should re member that while th system gives him but one vote for th beat man. It (Ives him three votes asalnst the worst man." This I do not question, but does the sys tem operate only In favor of the honeet and competent candidate? Is It not a fact that those voting f.ir th wore! man ar also liven three votes acalnst th beet man? D. MILLER. Certainly. That is why everyone should vote three choices. If the men who are for the worst candidate vote three times against the best candidate, the only safety of those who are for the best man Is to vote three times against the worst man. Of course if the voters who are un able or unwilling to pick out the best candidate are In the majority, the case Is hopeless. In that event one may stay away from the polls or vote only one choice with similar result. But The Oregonlan believes the ma jority Is able to detect the best In the material offered and that the majority will select the nest If not led ayray by those who are advising them iC re linquish two-thirds of their franchise right. No voting system can be devised which will operate only in favor of the honest and competent candidate If the majority are not for him. THE RIGHT Or SELF-GOVERNMENT. The new city charter was,, of course, upheld by the State Supreme Court. Behind the miserable and trifling Dunlway technicalities was an organ ized and formidable. assault upon the right of local self-government. If the charter had been set aside, there wodld have been a definite Interfer ence by the Judicial power with the exercise of a purely political right un der the constitution. The charter was not set aside, and the court leaves It to Portland to determine how and by whom It shall be governed as a mu nicipality. The charter was carried by a few hundred votes; but it was a majority. If the court had said that because sen timent was nearly divided on the char, ter It w-as no charter. It would have undertaken to define how large a vote any charter, and as a necessary corol lary any initiative or referendum measure, shall have to be valid. The court could, of course, say or do noth ing of the kind. It Is concerned with principles, not measures, or numbers, or men's differing opinions. The city will go ahead, as calmly as conditions will permit, to hold Its elec tion next Monday. It has at no time expected to do otherwise. When it wants a new charter, or to readbpt the old charter. It will not appeal to the courts, but will act In its own way through Its Inherent Initiative powers. OVK MORE SILLY ATTACK OS ALBEE. One apostle of untruth, named James, attacks Mr. Albee in a public letter as an enemy of the Oregon sys tem. He has heard somewhere that Albee voted at Salem against the fool ish Kellaher resolution, prepared with the purpose of putting all the State Senators except Kellaher "In a hole," and on that slender foundation James builds his structure of silly campaign buncombe. This James also says Al bee was a member of the "solid ten" In the Council In the Lane administra tion. He was not. He was not a Councilman while Lane was Mayor. Mr. Albee was elected a State Sen ator for Multnomah County In 1908. He was an avowed advocate of the Oregon system, and he signed State ment No. 1, and was elected on that issue, and voted for Senator Chamber, lain In 1909 under Its provisions. Throughout his legislative career his actions were In strict accord with his professions. In 1911 Mr. Kellaher presented at Salem a resolution commending the Oregon system In terms of the most extravagant and unqualified praise "as the best In .the world." The phrase ology was not acceptable to the more conservatively minded Senators, and they asked Kellaher to eliminate Its hyperbole and confine it to a straight forward and convincing statement of the legislative position. He refused, and the resolution was overwhelm Ingly beaten. Then Mr. Albee fathered a resolution commending the Oregon system and Inviting the attention of other state legislatures to Its advan tages. It was adopted. Kellaher voted against the Albee resolution. If Albee, because he voted against the Kellaher resolution, is an enemy of the Oregon system. Kellaher, who voted against the Albee resolu tion, is an enemy of the Oregon, sys tem. But Albee Is not. and never was an enemy of the Oregon system. Kel laher Is one of Its unwise friends. rt'LL TOGETHER FOB DEEP CHANNEL. The Joint offer of the Port of Port land and Port of Astoria Commissions to Join in bearing the expense of oper. atlng the dredge Chinook on the Co lumbla River bar is significant for sev eral reasons. It bespeaks readiness of the two todies to pull together for the common good of -all Columbia River ports and recognition of community of Interest In the maintenance of an open channel to the sea. It also shows that they are awake to the necessity of Im mediate action to secure a deeper channel for the accommodation of the yearly Increasing draft of vessels which visit the Columbia. The statement of the agent of the Hamburg-American line that his com. pany would not begin direct sailings from this port until they were assured of enough water on the bar to prevent delay In waiting for tides doubtless contributed to bring the two Commis sions together. We need a deeper channel this year and the Chinook can give It to us. We shall need it still more next year, when still larger vessels may be coming here by the Panama route, and we shall need greater depth each succeeding year. The north Jetty, construction of which Is now beginning, cannot be expected to have any appreciable effect on the channel until it Is well along. Dredg ing is necessary to carry us over the interval. It is scarcely conceivable that the Government will refuse the use of the Chinook when the two porta stand ready to pay all expenses. Uncle Sam will surely be willing to put up his dredge against Oregon's money in the enterprise. MB8. CO BURN. Mrs. Catharine A. Coburn's life was a fine example of dauntless courage and Invincible fidelity to duty. When she was left a widow with four daugh ters to support, she applied herself loy ally to the task, first as a teacher and then aa a writer for tha nress. Through all the years from 1868 to her death she faced the world with a fortitude which never wavered and by ner aon ttv anH uinriiv nnlrlt won her way to nnvl-l. iirr?Afi in hnr vocation. Since 1888 she had written for The Oregonlan. Constant readers of the paper recognized her articles by their fidelity to the test historic traditions of the state as well as by their spirit of gracious sympathy with the hard conditions of pioneer life. She knew kv her nun exnerlence what those con- titirkno n-.rn nnri could therefore write of the early events in Oregon history with perfect understanding, ner views upon current questions were often colored by the light reflected from the stern experiences of her younger days. She knew the reality of toll, the unen vinhin aifiinrion of the mother of a family who must face the world alone and the harsh struggle to educate her children and send them into life pre pared for Its emergencies. To these incidents of her life Mrs. Coburn owed something of that ripe sympathy which made her the advo cate of all good causes and the loyal friend of those who needed help. She wrote upon economics as one who un derstood the struggle for bread, and upon Oregon history as one who had been part of the events she described. The memory of the pioneers was sa cred to her. Toward the end of her life she saw many of them pass away and she was always ready with some kindly recollection to comfort their friends, some tender tribute to their memory. She knew all their virtues and with unfailing charity forgot their faults. Her sketches of the lives of the pioneers as they passed one by one to the other world will long be treasured In many a household. Now her own time has come to Join the majority and "take her chamber i the .iient holla nf death." Thou- sands will feel that they have lost a viniv onimaellor. The Dloneers will mourn for a friend dear to their hearts. Who can speak so- tenderly, or tneir past? Who can sympathize so warmly with their grief for loved ones gone? She has laid sweet blossoms on many a grave. The Oregonlan joins witn an her friends to pay her the trmute sne has so often paid to others. She was aoul and she lived victoriously a 'beautiful life. She has earned her rest and her memory win be more fragrant than all the flowers upon her grave. COMMENCEMENT IDEALS. The emphasis of commencement thought has altered a little of late years. Students who are ready to leave r-nliee-a do jiot sDeculate so eagerly as they did how to make the world use ful to themselves. They are asking how they may make themselves useful to the world. The Ideal of service has begun to displace acquisition. The new ambition is not to become the richest person in the country, but the most useful. Naturally no student is averse to gathering wealth as he goes along, but it Is not so commonly the rnsi of ambition among the blighter college men aa it was once. Among .he college women riches never were tery highly exalted. Their ideals have aiwava been a little finer than those of the men. Just as they have always vorked more -diligently at tneir ap pointed tasks. To young men college is an old story. They have had pro fessors, lectures and graduation days for many centuries. To women this is all new. and they take it as seriously as they do other novelties. Perhaps In time their ardor will be dulled by use and wont. Perhaps time will only moV it more Intense. It may even affect the men and restore that love of Intellectual things which has almost seemed about to vanish from some of their exclusive colleges. With the new Ideal of service which is pushing to the front In commence ment talk and sermons, there is an imnhn of confidence in the future of education. There was a time when It had fallen somewhat Into routine. Th. rollesrn class was run through a mill and came out with all the angles pretty well rounded orr and an tne standards nicely modeled after an ac cepted pattern, but without mucn sympathy for the needs of the world or much Initiative to take hold of the social plowshare and drive furrows In the soil of their age. The old fashioned college education was com pounded after a fixed recipe, a table spoonful of Latin, a pinch of Greek, a cup of mathematics, a sprinkling of history, and a large pan of football to be mixed well for four years and never baked. Such a confection, sweet as It was to the palate, did not digest very well. The country beheld with apprehen sion that it was producing an educated class inharmonious with American Ideals. The Latin classics, with all their power of thought and beauty of expression, did not Inculcate love of democracy. On the contrary, they are filled with scorn of Lincoln's "common man." and naturally college classes could not be steeped In them for half a dozen years or more without catch ing something of the same tone. There Is nothing In mathematics and very little In dry-as-dust history to enlarge the sympathies or put a college stu dent In touch with his generation. The reeiine- that the accepted college" course was In many particulars a mis take gained ground so rapimy mat we have seen great changes within a very short time. There is a fresh spirit In the col leges which has brought many new studies to the front and transformed the significance of the old ones. Stu dents do not come to commencement dayt now with their eyes fixed on Greece and Rome, but on their own country. The past does not interest them nearly so much as the future. The problems of the Athenian democ racy do not concern them so deeply as those of America, and they are more eager to understand the general strike of the Belgian workmen than the secession of the Roman plebeians to Janiculum. The modern stu dent dwells in his own time, as he ought. The Greek boys did not go back to the days of the Pelasgians to spend their lives, nor did the Rom ans educate their youth to imitate the Alban shepherds. The educated and cultured Roman was emphatically a man of his own generation, and so was the Athenian. It is the privilege of every new cen tury to live a new life, and it is a blessed thing for the world that the colleges are honestly beginning to help us do so, for the tree is still inclined as the twig is bent, and if in our schooldays we look backward, we are never likely to get the forward and up ward gaze as men and women. But that is not all. Portland citi zens who take notice of the progress of events must have remarked upon the number of "extension lectures" which the Reed College professors have been giving this year. They have covered a wide field, but all seem to have centered finally upon the goal of social service. Their perfectly defi nite aim has been to make the world a better place to live in by improve lng the physical and moral condition of men and women. Nor have chil dren been neglected either. The field of the modern college professor is not limited to his class-room. He is the last man on earth to be pictured with his spectacled nose between the lids of a musty tome. He is a man of the world in the new and Christian sense of that expression, and his mission is to magnify the Joy and beauty of life, Reed College has taken up exten sion teaching with exceptional zeal, perhaps, but other colleges are doing as much as they can of the same good work. The Agricultural College has sent Its professors hither and yon with their message of a better life for the rural sections. The state university has obtained a sum from the Legis lature to be spent in carrying educa tion to those who need it. The old notion that the college is a cloistered nook, where a few hundred young men and women are to spend four years secluded from the world, has been abandoned. The college of our day Is not satisfied unless it seizes every opportunity to impress itself upon the public. It seeks not seclusion but broad efficiency. It can not be likened to a shady pool where a fa vored few are permitted to come and drink sparingly, but rather to a mighty river which waters and fertilizes whole states. The student In this year of grace will not leave his alma mater on commencement day to "enter the struggle of life." for he has been in the thick of the struggle during his entire course. THE DIFFERENCE. The primary Impulses behind Mr. Albee's candidacy come from the forces and elements that earnestly de sire good government. ; The primary Impulses behind Mr. Rushlight's candidacy are mainly the forces and elements that are occupied always In looking out for themselves. There are many worthy citizens, un. doubtedly, with Mr. Rushlight, but the unworthy citizens are for him to a man. They have no. use for a man of the Albee type. The time has gone by when the slums' and the tenderloin have any in. fluence on any man's candidacy, ex cept to his detriment. The steady and remarkable growth of the Albee candidacy is a matter of common remark. Probably It can be accounted for to a great extent by the character of the active opposition to Mr. Albee. Wireless telegraphy may soon leap the Icy wastes of the Arctic Ocean and establish communication between the farthest northland of America, Asia and Europe. The Crocker Land expe dition plans to establish a station with a radius of 2000 miles at Flagler Bay. In Greenland a station could be plant ed at 80 degrees, and other stations could be placed at lower altitudes in Alaska, Spltzbergen, the Talmur Penin sula and Kastern Siberia. The Arctic Ocean would then be girdled with sta tions from 700 to 1400 miles from the pole and 750 to 2500 miles from each other. Science will soon leave no place for a guilty man to hide. Says the Louisville Courier-Journal: The right to maks an ass of oneself is Inalienable. But Mr. Slsson should bear In mind that when President Wilson asks him not to make popgun speeches about war with Japan he merely urees him not to make an ass of bis country In th eyes of foreigners who do not understand the unimportance of such speeches aa Mr. Slsson is capable of making. But what Is poor Sisson to do In or der to attract attention? If he were to go quietly on his way, nobody would notice him. He is incapable of any feat of genius except In the direction of asininity. A campaign against tuberculosis has been started in Kentucky and there is good cause for it. In its death rate from that disease Kentucky leads all states in the registration area, proba bly all in the Union. There were 5000 deaths from tuberculosis last year. Education in sanitation is the means adopted to fight it. The two child burglars, 7 and 8, at Astoria, need a few good whippings, with appropriate intervals for contem. platlon, rather than the punishment that is given criminals. Many a good citizen can recall how his father saved him from becoming a criminal. A shake-up In the Reclamation Serv ice, of which Judge King, of Oregon, is chief counsel, should do something for Malheur County, where thousands of acres are awaiting water, for Will R. King is a son of Malheur and knows the situation. When , Caruso's vocal chords wear out he may be able to earn his living by making music with his knuckle bones, for a London doctor says they give out a musical sound. Louisville destroys all undersized berry boxes, but will It not by so doing destroy the undersized prices? TnrroaWd service on the Tillamook line will tend toward better acquaint ance. Candidates' cards are like flakes of snow, and as effective. - The June rise Is coming, after all IVFLCENCB FOR. GOOD IS TREBLES!) Failure to .Vote Second or Third Choice Aids Srronareat Incompetent. PORTLAND, May 28. (To the Edi tor.) The one paramount danger in Monday's election of Commissioners is that many mistaken people may vote only for four men as first choice, and not vote second and third choices at all. Probably 60,000 votes will be cast. Under the new charter no man is elected on first-choice votes unless he has an absolute majority ef votes cast, I. e., over half. With so many can didates. It Is entirely improbable that any one will receive over 30,000 first choice votes. If such majority be not thus had, each candidate's second choice votes will be counted In with his first-choice votes and a second choice vote thus counts for just aa much as a first-choice vote. And the same holds true in counting third choice votes. Whether the voter select his 12 names from those suggested by the Committee of One Hundred or the Pub lic Welfare League, or some other organization in whom he has confi dence, or from other candidates whom he personally knows to be good and capable men, he will probably not go very far wrong. It is significant that all these lists contain In considerable part the same names. The voter's sec ond and third-choice votes will count for some man whom he judges to be at least fair material. And If his particular favorite cannot be elected, he. at least prevents by his vote the election of unfit men. who for mani fest reasons are neither approved by any of these organizations nor by his own Judgment and conscience. You treble your influence for good government by voting for four men as your first choice, for four others as second choice, and four others as third choice for Commissioner. A failure to vote second or third Is equivalent to a vote for the strongest Incompetent in the race. It Is not absolutely essential to Portland's welfare that the one man of your particular choice be elected. But It Is essential that the city's gov ernment be not confided to men un fitted for the task. Politicians, self ishly seeking the election of particu lar men, will vote only for them. But the patriotic citizen, to whom the city's Interest is above that of any individual, should vote for 12. And If every such citizen will go to. the polls Monday, no one need fear the result FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED, Arthur M. Churchill, Secretary. COTJ2VTIXG) PREFERENTIAL VOTES Bearing of Second and Third Choices on Result Explained. PORTLAND, May 28. (To the Edi tor.) The writer, who is one interested in good government for our city, wishes to suggest that you make plain, through The Oregonlan, the effect of second and third choice votes; in other words, Just how these votes are to be counted I approached several groups of men yesterday and brought up the subject of preferential voting. Most of the voters seemed to understand how to mark their ballots as to first, second and third choice, but many of them declared, "I am going to vote straight first choice; that is all that will count, anyway." I think if you will publish the effect of second and third choice upon the count, and show that It does have to do with the result, making It plain and explicit, you will be perform ing a service to the city. VOTER. The Oregonlan, other newspapers and public speakers as well, have already (not once, but several times) explained the preferential voting system In plain and accurate terms. The writer of the foregoing letter, however, reveals the fact that many have not paid attention to these statements and are uninformed or misinformed on the subject. What is needed along with repeated explana tions of the system Is some kind of prod that will cause the voters to read or listen. 1 If all offices are filled by a majority of first-choice votes, only In that event are the second and third-choice votes not counted. If any office is not filled by a ma jority of first-choice votes the second and first-choice votes are added to gether, and one kind counts as much as the other. If the combined votes given any candidate are equivalent to a ma jority of voters voting, the office Is thereby filled and third-choice votes are not counted. If the combined first and second choice votes do not constitute a major ity, the third-choice votes are then added to the other choices. If there Is then a majority of the voters Indicated the majority settles the contest If there is still no majority the candidate having the highest number of combined votes is elected. No National Holiday. . ITN4PPA Or.. Mv 27. (To the Edl tor.) Is Fourth of July a National holiday? E. L. MARTEN. Strictly speaking the Fourth of July Is not a National holiday.- No holidays are declared by Congressional enact ment In the United States except those observed as public holidays in the Dis trict of Columbia. The Fourth of July Is observed in all parts of the United States as result of action by each state. Committee Hakes Correction. PORTLAND, May 28. (To the Edi tor). In the record of candidates as reported by the committee of one nun dred the statement is made concern lng A. E. Borthwick that he "at one time operated a bank at Oswego, Or., but the institution did not pay." in justice to Mr. Borthwick the com mittee desires to state that he was a stockholder in the bank, but had no further Interest or voice In Its man agement. ARTHUR M. CHURCHILL. Secretary Committee of One Hundred. The Printer's Devil's Prayer. Roscoe E. Haynes In the National Printer-Journalist. O, Lord, I pray thee, make me a good printer. Make me as wise as the proof reader, who carries a dictionary In each cf his vest pockets, and as honest as Bill, the pressman, who borrowed a quad last Spring to use as a feed guide and returned It yesterday, as good as new; make me to be faithful as Jerry, the Btoneraan, who comes down to the shop every Sunday and cleans up the pi he has made during the week; as Industrious as Old Tom, the comp, who has not missed a day at his frame since he came to work for the firm 20 years ago; and lastly, O Lord, make me as patient as the pocr boss, who has put up with my deviltry for three mortal years and paid me good, hard cash for the privilege! Rabbit Foot Falls Robber. Butte, Mont., Cor. His faith completely shattered in a certain "left-hind leg of a rabbit caught In a graveyard at midnight," an Austin negro, wanted by Sheriff Matthews, of Travis County, for highway robbery, at tempted, when arrested by Sheriff Tobin, to throw the rabbit's foot as far as he could. The Sheriff, believing that It was part of the booty obtained in a hold-up, made search and found the talisman. "Hit's de fust time dat rabbits foot done fooled me," said the negro. "Ah sho didn't 'spect t' git caught wld dat foot on me. Guess hit ain' no mo' good." Deputy snerin james uaiDraitn nas adopted the foot and wears it in his watch pocket. Stars and Starmakers By Leone Caaa Baer. Ethel Grey Terry is leading woman of the Manhattan Opera-House Stock. She played "bits" with the Baker Players, when her mother, Lillian Lawrence, was leading woman, a half dozen years ago. e e e Eddie Foy, who opens tonight In "Over the River" at the Heilig, has seven little joy Foys. "Bryan" is the oldest of the troupe. He is 16 years of age, named after William Jennings Bryan when he was defeated in his 16-to-l campaign. After Bryan comes Carlo, who Is 14 years old; then comes Richard, who Is 13; Mary, who is 11; Madeline, who is 9; Eddie, who is 7, and Irving Lewis, named after one of the editors of the New York Telegraph, who Is only 4 years old.- The little Foys have a great big part in their father's show. Their mother is no longer a professional. She was a toe dancer In "The Crystal Slipper,1 Foy's first big success in 1889, when produced In Chicago. Eddie Foy's real name Is Edward Fitzgerald, and he Is 56 years young. Mrs. Foy Is Italian. All of-the chil dren resemble her, which is wise for children to do. Only one looks like Eddie, and he Is appropriately called Eddie. Eddie Is the youth of 7 years who has blonde hair, blue eyes and a smile like his father's. -e e e Big, debonair Wallace Munro, called the "handsomest press agent in the business," is In Portland praising the pleasures of the show he represents, "The Case of Becky," in which Frances Starr Is starring under Belasco. This is to be the Rose Festival week at traction at the Heilig, and Is, Inciden tally, Miss Starr's first Portland visit although she Is known In other Pa cific Coast cities. Mr. Munro is accom panied by his wife who is known to the professional world as Charlotte Tlttell, one of the trio of sisters. Thti others were Minnie and Esther known as Essie. Minnie Tlttell-Brune is now at the Lyceum Theater in London ap pearing in "Mistress Nell." Essie has retired and is in Bensonhurst, New York, where she has an art studio and devotes her time to painting. Charlotte (Mrs. Munro) has traveled with her husband for two years. After they leave Portland they go to the other Northwest cities, where "The Case of Becky" Is booked, and then return to Portland to be here for the Festival. This is the first time that either of the Munros have been within hailing distance during our season of roses and they are determined to be "among those present" After the Festival they go back to San Francisco, where Mrs. Munro will appear as Rosalind in "As You Like It?" in a Shakespearean (festival to be given at the Greek Theater in August see Pete, the kicking mule at the Empress, was presented to H. Van Cleve, Its master, by Timothy D. (Big Tim) Sullivan 15 years ago and now as an odd coincidence Sullivan as halt owner of the Sullivan & Consldine clr cult Is paying for the entertainment the mule offers as a vaudeville at traction. Vn Cleve is an ex-jockey. In his last race In the late '80s he rode to victory a horse owned by Sen ator Hearst of California. Later he was engaged as horse trainer by Paddy Sullivan, "Big Tim's" brother, and the receipt of Pete, the mule, as a gift prompted him to enter vaudeville with the kicking brute. Pete now Is years old and is appearing for the first time on the Pacific Coast. The mule Is said to be the only "kicker" In vaudeville to have filled four en gagements at the New York Hippo drome and Van Cleve has a contract for the mule's fifth appearance there, see Henry Hall, who was the first star out of New York in the role of Daniel Voorhies Pike in the Liebler & Co., production of "The Man From Home," has signed for another tour in it next season. Mr. Hall, who always spends his Summers on the Pacific Coast, may be seen In Portland In the near fu ture, as Manager George L. Baker is negotiating with him for a I special season at the Baker. If the negotia tions are successful, it is very likely that Portland will have an oppor tunity to see Mr. Hall in his original role at popular prices. Denver tnea tergoers enjoy the privilege of having many of the country's foremost stars everv Summer. They play special en gagements at the famous Elitch Gardens and Lakeside with the Stock Company support and at prices that rather than play at In New York, they would doubtless prefer starring. e e e This little note from Cecilia Loftus Is gladly printed, and speaks for itself: i should he very rrateful If you would kindly contradict for mo an impression which seems to be genera!. It is In regard to my being referred to as "Cissy of the famous w:nk." : would like to explain hour thle cn'ised impression of me arose. Several years br when I first came to America to give my imitations, a very cbarmlng dancer from the Gaiety Theater, London, also made her appearance in New York at the same time. Her name was Cissy Fitzgerald and she created for her self a little notoriety by winking at the audlenc during her dance. Miss Fitzgerald's press agent, wishing to ma-ce the most of her original little man nerism, saw to it that the bill boards snd barrels cf New York were covered with lith ographs of this lady's head with a very cl arming smile and the very pronounced "wmL." 1 suppose it was because each of us was named "Cissy" that I have since hetn frequeu'ly referred to as "The Woman of the Wink." I think It a little unfair to rob Miss Fltzrerald of the notoriety or ar iati -,rth which belong only to her. I shall be glad therefore If you will "render unto Caesar .i-i.urfA J-f - see Volborg . AhlgTen has joined John Salnpolis" stock company at Dayton, O., opening this next Monday. e e Yamhill street was not even a trail in the forest when John E. Cain, of Wlllard and Cain at the Orpheum, first entertained the theatergoing pub lio of Portland. Mr. Cain lost a fortune years ago in Pacific Coast theatricals when he was manager of the Comique in Tacoma and the Club In Victoria. With the team of Cain and Orndorff, Mr. Cain has played all the old Port land theaters Including the Standard, the Colllseum, Cordray and Marquam. Harry Orndorff Is now stage manager of the San Francisco Orpheum and Mr, Cain was one of the owners, promo ters and managers of the Powell-Street Theater In San Francisco, which opened its doors as the pioneer of high class vaudeville on the Coast, Decem ber 15, 1890. It was Mr. Cain who brought John Cort to Portland for the first time. It was John Cort and Bob Brannigan, variety team in those days, and It was in that capacity that they came up from San Francisco. Mr. Wlllard the creator of Schmuke in the New York "The Rose Maid" produc tion has played Portland with some thing like ten different attractions. Overdone By Dean Collins. My mouth is dry, with a dark brown taste. My head is woozy and light My heart goes wild .if I walk with haste And mists do obscure my sight . 1 A.A lnne. T TV". lllrA t It M-ni)V Alaa, o fi .... ..i.w . - ...... For I have done nothing but smoke ana smoKe Till my brain turned numb and my eyes saw stars On candidates' dark campaign cigars. In sharp campaigns of the bygone days. When men in the field were few, I worried not o'er their generous ways. The cigrars which they did endue. For I could handle and deem it a joke. The few cigars that they gave to smoke; But seventy candidates are by far Too many for each to give a cigar. I count the days and I count each hour, In a haze of the smoke rings hid, For my head is light and there is no power Of thought beneath my lid. Seventy candidates to my lip The tip of the panatella slip It is too much! I puff and pray For smokeless day-after-election day. Twenty-five Years Aga From The Oregonlan of May 29, 18S8. (Special Seattle Edition With Illustrations.! Seattle, W. T the Queen City of the Puget Sound basin. The chief commer cial city of Washington. Independent connection with the Columbia basin. New iron and coal districts being de veloped. Eight hundred houses now in process of construction. Evidence of great prosperity shown In every di rection. Prodigious increase in popu lation and business, based upon the rapidly developing Industry of Wash ington Territory. The incorporation of the Oregon Railway Extension Company means in dependent railway connections between Portland and the Coeur d'Alene minis and Portland and Spokane Falls. All the incorporators, viz., H. W. Corbet t. C. H. Lewis, Henry Failing and M. H. Holcomb, are directors of the O. R. & m r-n a rH the lines which the new company propose to build connects with existing lines or tne u. tu x r. 'The Portlanders promise a boom lit baseball this Summer. The ball will be opened Saturday by a game be tween the Westerns, of San Francisco, and the Portlands. The North Pacific Cannery Company, of East Portland, is getting ready to begin operations, and will start can ning gooseberries in a few days. E. W. Pagett returned yesterday from a visit to the South River coal mine, in which ho is interested. Major John R. Brockenbrough. spe cial agent of the General Land Office, left yesterday for Modoc County, Cali fornia, to investigate what appears to be a gigantic land steal. The steamer Alliance, which was re cently purchased at San Francisco by the Portland & Coast Steamship Com pany, was launched at Astoria in No vember, 1884, as the Emma Hume, for the coasting trade. Soon after the vessel was sold to James McKenna, of San Francisco, and the name changed. ir,. !s Tnrtland having failed to 'raise the requisite $2000, the directors of the Oregon ana ivoomn i Ts-amon'a a Hand t ion have de cided to hold the coming convention and tournament at Seattle, that city teleeraphing that .uou naa oecn ci aside for prizes. a.. .to -i o ntnv 28 Blaine's house was broken into some time afro durlnu . nn.nt,'a Qheonr-A nnri all his politi cal and business correspondence and private papers were overnaunu, fullv examined and a portion of them extracted. FIXES PAID IN INSTALLMENTS Thrift snd Self-Control TauBht Prison ers in Kansas City. Baltimore News. After reading what Judge Bland., of .v.. c-.,.v. aiH ATiinii-ltiai Court in Kan sas City, says about the advantages of his system of allowing the payment of fines in installments, it is hard to find any sound reason why the plan should not be tried in Baltimore. It is especially noteworthy that of 181 men who have been allowed the privilege since the system was insti loot rwnher. only nine have been committed to prison for non-payment In all these cases the ends of justice have been served and 172 men ,o,-- Koan Knnreri the loss of self-re spect, not to mention other evil results. that would come Irom Bpenaing a. term in jail. Justice Bland asks, with good reason, why a man fortunate enough to have .mnnni of his fine at hand should go free at once and a man who lacks it through poverty, but who is welling- to work in order to pay it, should be forced to work in prison instead of outside of prison. Then the facts that the man is spared to his family and that he is forced to practice, toi i .. ionr thn virtues of thrift and ahnw un bltr in the char acter building, that is the basis of all modern reformatory meaauica. At This Season of the Year Everybody is perhaps more logically af fected by advertising than at some other periods, for the warm weather days bring many needs not essential at other times. We turn to negligee attire, to light clothes, to straw hats, to low shoes and to the other need fuls of the times, with relief. And when in want of such things we naturally turn to the advertisements in The Orego nian for information as to the place to buy and the price. Womankind revels in millin erj'i tub dresses, lacy frocks, pumps, waists, hosiery, lingerie and other things. Mere man needs things, too. He requires cooler outer and un derclothing, neckwear, shirts and also those things required in outdoor sports. For boy or girl kind, and baby kind, too, there are plenty of attractions in current advertise ments in The Oregoniau. If you are looking for a Sum mer cottage, a place to board during the heated term, look in The Oregonian. You'll find practically the range of human requirements covered.