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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1913. 10 rOBTLAXD. OEKJOS. Entered at Prtland. Oreson. Postoftlca rend-cl- mattar. autxcrlpilaa Hate Invariably in Aavanea: (BT MAIL) Dally. Sanday Included, on. year. - ri.y. Sunday Included. :x raontna. . .... L: y. Sundai Included, three moolM,.. Li:y. undr 'Bcruoxl. one month. .... - kniiy. without Sunday, om year J " L'n.iy. without Bunday. mix months...... - I-ai.y. without Sunday. threa montHa.... l.ai.y. without Sunday, om moaia " vk:y. on year i !I Sunday. year J " Sunday and Weakly. era year (BT CARRIER) CIIy. Sunday Included, an year Da; ty. Bandar Included, on month Hew l Remit bend poasoffiea money or der, expreea order or pereonal cnack on your local bank. Ft am pa. cota or currency are at .cnier-a rlek. Gle poat-rfw addreaa fl. rncludlnc county and atata. Paotaao Katew Tea to M ?. ?atJ If to It patea. cento; S to f " centa: ft to tf PUH. eanta. oruja pcttaff. double rate. Lax era Bo-iac-a OffVow Vorreo Conlt lin. .Vie Vera. Brunawick bulldlas. Chi cago. Strcer bulldlnc Baa rrmarlaew Olflew R. J. BldwfU Co, 1(1 Market alroet. Caropeaa Offlew No. Recent atroot M. W.. Lftfiooa PORTLAN D. mXIXAT, MAT M. MEMORIAL DAT. Inevitably as the years now by the solemnity of Memorial day will be tempered with Joy. Time aasuagra all grief, but It will magnify our sense of gratitude to the men who rave their Uvea for their country. The pain of their sacrifice will fade In the light of Its beauty, and while tears must always flow when we remember the Xatlon'a dead, they wl not quench the grateful smiles with which we think of the heritage they have be queathed us. It la characteristic of human nature to forget the struggle with all Its sorrows and remember only the prlxe to which It led. "We en Joy the triumph of some great actor as he portrays Hamlet or Lear without a thought of the years of toll by which he prepared himself for his perfect art. Caesar lives for us as the great Roman conqueror and lawgiver, and the dark days when he hesitated on the basks of the Rubicon doubting of his destiny sink out of sight. In the same way as we fix our minds more and more with every year upon the blessings which we owe to our Na tional heroes, the day when we com memorate them loses some of its mel ancholy and brighten with gratitude. Memorial day can never become a mere holiday for sport. A sense of fitness will always Impart a serious tone to its exercises. ut grief for the past will give "way as the years elapse to weighty reflection upon National problems and prudent forethought for the future. What more auspicious oc casion could we find for deliberation upon the country welfare than the day when we call to mind the virtues and sacrifices of Its departed great? They gave their lives to Insure the per petuity of onr Institutions. It Is not asking too much or their descendants to give one day In the year to serious thought for the same purpose. As this spirit makes Itself felt more pow erfully, the services of Memorial day will assume an aspect of reverent Joy ousness. We shall be as those who mourn not without hope, confident that we can build nobly upon the foundations whlch have been laid down for ns. And as the day takes on this air of solemn cheerfulness its spirit will enlarge. Americana have In the past been singular among the Nations for the ex. elusive reverence they have paid to statesmen and soldiers. Nobody could find fault with Oil disposition, for the debt we owe them 1 beyond computa tion, and no honor to their memories can bo too great. Still there have been others In the course of our his tory who merit recognition on a day like this, when the Nation may fitly render tribute to all its distinguished dead. The Italian government has named one of Its new battleships -Dante Allghlerl." In this way it com memorates the most famous man who ever was born in it territory, not ex cepting any of the Romans, unless it be Caesar himself. Dante, like most men of his age. took part in a cam paign or two. but he wa not a soldier nor was he a statesman. He wa em phatically a poet and a such hi name Is conferred toy his country upon a ship of war. The United State has no poet to compare with Dante, but what impropriety would there be in naming some Teasel "The Longfel low"? Whether w ever do this or not. there will surely come a time when Longfellow and all our "worthy poets win be commemorated with the other National heroes on Memorial day. The country will not be content to permit any of her children to be forgotten when the rest are honored. Those who have served In war and those who have served In peace will be equally remembered, and all will share alike in th gratitude of the people. The first sight which the traveler goe to see in Rotterdam I the statue of Erasmus In the market place. Eras mus wa not a soldier. He wa a monk. But the Dutch, who are, not wanting In reverence for their war riors and statesmen, rank him with the highest and remember him in their national festivals because he won as much for humanity In peace as any of the others did In war. It is difficult to see how the modern world could ever have come into its own without the work Erasmus did. though. the only weapon he wielded wa his pen. The people of Paris name their streets after the great event of their history and the men whom they revere. Al though the French are the most mili tary nation In the world, soldiers have no preference over poets and drama tists In this respect. If there is a ttreet named for Napoleon, there is another for Victor Hugo. Nor would soldiers themselves have It otherwise. The true military hero understands that his service, Indis pensable as It Is. could not sustain so-t-iet without the co-operation of many other men. Achilles would have been forgotten In a generation or two after his death but for Homer. The soldier defends and enlarges the civilisation of the world, but it takes a multitude cf hands and brains, different from his. to construct It and make it vital. This the true soldier knows perfectly well, and none would rejoice more than he to see the heroes of civic life honored equally with himself on Mem orial day. Indeed it will probably be through the patriotic efforts of mili tary men that the day will become -,,! commemorative of the entire scope of the Nation's greatness, as it must sometime. Meanwnne. tne soi- m. .nun,inr f its anirlt crows more impressive every year. Already the deepest tone we near a it returns i that of brotherhood and unity. Old enmities have passed into oblivion. Old causes of dissension have died. All th forces which make, for National greatness meet harmoniously to find in th nast new hope for the future, and the noble deeds we commemorate give us steadfast faith that deeds as noble can be done again. Every hero U the spiritual father of a line of heroes running on and on a long as the Nation endures. SATE MEN TO KLECT. Th, nniv ritirim of the recom mendation of the Committee of One Hundred has been directed at tne mi.,iitn fmm nnt the Inclusion in. the list of twelve fit candidates of cer tain names. frionrta nt nther candidates believe them suitable, and doubtless the twelve picked by the committee are not the nniv men whom It would De saie to elect Commissioners. But there must be concentration If competent com missioners are to be elected. The trelve recommended are good -. Th renresant a variety of oc cupations. They are clean, honorable and Intelligent. The oregonian again present the list and urge the voters to vote for each of the twelve either on first, second or third choice.. The list Is nubllsbed In the order or rnmmlttrt recommendation, not in the order the name appear on the ballot. as stated yesterday. The numoer placed toefore each name indicates tne ballot place: 0. XT. I Rreweler . C. C.Crala ST. T. N. Slonpmbach M- T. MT Horlbort . M III II. IHly . K- Werlela ' 1 1 .4 k- ma & -rmh.ll N. Oolia 1. (mots l- Cellars 19. W. II. MrMonlea tS. '. A. illgrloOT S3, jonn litaoiu ornOAL EvXPXAEfER WRONG. Km nna In Mayor Rushlight's name la causlna- to be Imposed upon the nnximnectina- Journal report of speeches the Mayor doe not make. For example, we discover in tne coi nmn nf the more or less tuneful sec- vtniin of the Rushlirht orchestra the News being rightfully accorded the first Tlollnshlp an account or tne Mavnr'e meetlnsr at Mairs 11 ail. Ai- bina, Wednesday night, which put in the Mayor's mouth an elaborate ae fense of his administration for the uiu nnwerionteri increase in taxes. The staggering excess f $1,00,000 to be exact. $1.614.20J.81 for.tne Kusniigni biennial period over any previous ad ministration whatever. has been achieved by the present Mayor. The Mayor I reported In his admiring or he making a vigorous reply to his critics. In this fashion: They do not tell yoa that tho annual lery has bern Increaaed many mill by reason of . ..kn.hm.nt .f the Tinok Commlaalon. tho eonatnictlon of tho ll.siw.000 Broadway bndze. tho Eaax xwenty-tmru-eiri forced concreto orKis. inn ci1ui . land for parka, playitrounda and th boule- . . . imn-nv-rnvnt nf roadwara. vara m, i n. - - the addition of acorea of policemen for your protection, tne eeiaoueuravni o. " ' .... .a th. MirrhaM of SIOO.- 000 worth of nw equipment for th Kir .v ... .An.i..u!liin of a new City I rr 1 1 iiic 11 , ...v - - - Jail and emergency hoepltal. tha Increaaed fore of employe maae neceeevy w th pur milk ordinanc and many other .hl.li Involve levies to nrariw t" " ' - provide for a sinkln fund and for Interest on bonded Indebtedness. There la more like it. The Mayor ctirl nnt make these remarks in hi speech, but we suppose he acquires. h.nnr he aonears. leave to prim whatever he mieht have said, and we shall take the liberty of assuming that It I really the Rushlight explanation to the gToanlng taxpayers. The reason the critics Of the Ituan- llght administration have not told the things the Mayor mentions Is un doubtedly that there was no excuse nr occasion for telling them, for they are not the truth. The largest items the Mayor cites have only the small est bearing on the increase fn taxes. for the following reasons: The Dock Commission is covered, by a bond issue. The S 1.600.000 Broadway bridge is covered by a bond Issue. taii-vhnae nf narks and nlavsrounds Is covered by a special one-half-mlll levy. The new City Jail is covered by a bond Issue. The lainavlnr nublio has paid the principal on none of these bonds, and the payments of interest and the small tax for sinking funds (one-tenth of a mill) 1 practically negligible. We hone that Mayor Kusnngnt know whr taxes have increased. His Official Explainer does not know. The publlo may not know why, but It knows how much. SfT-EBVlSIOJi OF PARTIES. Senator Sherman's bill providing for presidential primaries and Federal supervision of National conventions goes to the extreme in legal direction of party affairs. Parties were for merly regarded a voluntary associa tions of individuals which had full control of their own affairs, but gov ernmental regulation, both state and National, has been constantly extend ed, until almost every move a party make la regulated by state law. Fed. eral legislation ha hitherto been con fined to restriction and publicity of campaign contributions, but Mr. Sher man now proposes to reduce conven tions to mere bodies ratifying popular votes, adopting platforms and electing committees. He proposes to deprive National committee of almost all power except those of fixing the date and place of conventions, issuing the formal call and conducting campaigns after nominations are made. Tk Sherman bill recognizes state prima TT laws a tha lawful guide in choosing delegates to National conven. tlons and party committeemen. It fixes the basis of representation in conventions at one delegate and one alternate for every 15.000 votes cast by the party in the state, but it allows at least one delegate for each congres sional district and two for each Sena tor and Representatlve-at-Iarge In a stnte casting more than 25.000 votes for the party, or one additional where the vote Is less than 25.000. In states where there Is no law providing for primaries on the National ticket, local officials may place on the ballot names of candidate for delegates, alternates and committeemen. Delegates not elected by primary are disqualified. Voters may indicate their preference for President and Vice-President and name of candidates for those offices must be placed on the ballot upon pe tition of 5 per cent of tho party voters of the state or district, and upon writ ten acceptance by the candidate. The Secretary of State In each state certi fies the results of the primary to the Secretary of the Interior, who certifies to the convention the temporary roll of delegates. Contests will be decided by the state authorities, from whom an appeal may be taken, not to the Na tional committee, but to the convention Itself. If a National committeeman is not selected under a state primary law, he Is elected by the delegation. This bill deprives a party of all voice in the adoption of Its own basis of rep. resentatlon and In deciding in the first Instance on ti-e qualifications of dele gates. It gives National sanction to such outrageous laws as mat or Cali fornia, which sets aside the district basis of representation, thus stifling the expression of local preference, per mits the name of a party to De stolen hv 1t nnnonentn. and practically dis franchises that party. If the Repub lican party should make headway in the South, one can scarcely imagine the IpbilI devices which would be re sorted to by the Southern oligarchy for its destruction. The state autnoriues, vested with power to decide who are and who are not elected delegates. could rig up delegations to conventions of opposite political raitn. in sucn man ner as to promote discord and the nomination of weak candidates. Con ventions would become ratification meetings, not only f.or the popular choice for Presidential nomination, but for state officials' decisions on contests. Mr. Sherman seems to have abandoned the Roosevelt plan of giving contested delegates no voice in these decisions. A Republican convention might then be composed largely of men whose cre dentials were contested and wno naa been seated during preliminary pro ceedings by Democratic state officials. In seeking mean to prevent the steallna. nf nominations by members of a party, Mr. Sherman has discovered means of enabling members of one party to have a strong voice in nomi nating candidates for the opposite party. That la the kind of progress toward letting the people rule which tha Bull Moose party offers. A HAPPY -LAND FOR SOME. . PORTLAND. May 29. To tho Editor.) The , Oretcoulan's edILorlal, "Penalona for Firemen." Indlcatea that yoa or not pay Ins your full share of tae. My taxea were 13t per cent of my total tnoome. How much wen yours r O. A. PIETZOLD. Mr. Pletzold 'must belong to the "property-Toor" class, who never think of unloading or of becoming more industrious. The "property poor" . would be Just as hard up if taxes were reduced 50 per cent, for the reduction would impel them to load up with more property and cry for still lower taxes, that they might acquire still more property. There are all grades among the "property-poor." The spirit is found among men of moderate earning capacity and corres pondingly small holdings as It is among the large land misers. If -our correspondent pays taxes on J100 worth of property, the fireman's pension law would cost him 1 cent a year: If he pays on 11000, it would cost him 10 cents; if he pays on f 10.000 it would cost him $1. The tax payer who can't afford to perform a plain duty no more burdensome than this toward the men he employs to protect his property ought to be hap pier In Fran Josef land, where there are neither fire departments nor taxes. FIGHTING FLIES. Who is not a foe to the fly? The crusade against the insidious pst has enrolled both old and young. The in fant swats him. The elegant society dame deals out death to him with her bejeweled fan. The modern world rec ognizes In the little buzzing fly Just about the deadliest enemy It has to deal with. Rattlesnakes and tigers are comparatively harmless. Even the mosquito, though hols bad enough, Is not so fell a foe to our race as the housefly. And to think that for millions of years he 'was thought to tje as Innocent as the babe- unbornl Everybody hated hlra but nobody feared him. His an tics upon bald heads were the diver sion of youth. His funeral in the huckleberry pie drew tears of mirth. But now all Is changed. We no longer laugh at the housefly. We dread him worse than plague, pestilence and war. Indeed he embodies In his own small person both plague and pestilence and more than the horrors of war. More than five million lethal germs have been counted on a single fly which buzzed merrily Into a milk pitcher af ter his repast in a garbage can. To speak roundly, the housefly is horribly nasty. The flea and the bed bug are cleanly compared with him, and far less dangerous to life. The day is at hand when a fly in the kitchen will be a greater scandal than a louse on Tommy's brow. "Oh, yes," it will be said of the slatternly house wife, "no doubt she has her good points, but look at the file in her kitchen. Mrs. Grundy saw two when she waa there last Tuesday." Two flies are two too many. The problem Is how to eliminate both of them. Swatting has proved effective In a way, but not wholly so. It Is a palliative measure merely. The swat come in after the mischief is done. What is needed la some way to an nihilate the fly before he Is born, and science has found a method at once easy and infallible. It consists simply In abolishing filth. Who wants filth around hi house? Get rid of It In all Its modes and degrees and there will be no more flies to bother and slay. Brooms, disinfectants and fire are the best weapons to use against the deadly housefly. rROSPEBITT E THE MOLAIXA VALLEY. The Canby Irrigator state that about $400 a day 1 coming regularly Into that town from the sale of eggs, which are shipped by the mercantile establishments and commission houses of that place. As these establishments probably make about 10 per cent for their labors, there is left the tidy sum of 1360 a day, or about $9000 per month, cutting out Sundays, which goes into the pockets of the poultry owners, principally the farmers of the Molalla Valley. In addition to this, there are large quantities of garden truck shipped from Canby every day, and rhubarb, which grows to perfection in that neighborhood, Is now being shipped to California In carload lots. Then we must remember that in the Fall of each year there are something like 400 carloads of potatoes shipped from there, principally to points in Cali fornia, and as the Molalla growers have established a reputation for their spuds, they get the top price in the California markets. The sweet corn shipped from Canby Is as fine as ever was grown, while lettuce, radishes and strawberries from that locality sell well up to the top. There are many growers of clover seed in the valley, making It the largest clover seed market In the Nortlyvest, and the buyers gobble up the entire product each year at some thing over the quotations from other points. There are also a large num ber of dairy cows in the valley, and the butter, cream, milk and cheese shipped out each year amount to a great many thousands of dollars, and the so-called "by-product" from the dairy ranches, cheese and butter fac tories the hog brings in a very large sum annually. We hear it often said that the Mo lalla Valley ranks among the most prosperous sections of the state. Is it to be wondered at? Would the land owners be wise to go wholesale into apple, pear and grape-growing, as many think they should? There is Just as good fruit raised in that val ley as Is produced f In Oregon, but roniiv the t-ro win tr of standard fruits, such as apples, pears, prunes, peacnes, apricots and grapes, is a side industry with them. Many young orcnaros nave been planted, but while the owners are waiting for these orchards to come Intn full frnlHnn thev flre rrowinar rich from their gardens, dairies, pigpens and cnicKen coops. . Isn't the Molalla policy a pretty good policy for the landowners of other sections to emulate, or at least seriously to Investigate and consiaer ; ONE CONVICTED BRIBE-SEEKER. Conviction of State Senator Stillwell, of New York, on a charge of soliciting a bribe also convicts the twenty-eight Senators composing the majority which exonerated him of not regard ing bribery as a crime. It establishes the standard of Integrity observed in the New York Legislature. It is the first case within many years where a bribe-seeker has been convicted in that state, "though it is notorious that legislation- has been bought and sold and that members have introduced "cinch" bills In order to be bought off. The standard of public honesty will be improved by Stillwell's conviction, to some extent at least. It reminds public officials that. In the eyes of the law and of public opinion, as voiced by a Jury, bribery Is a crime. One man having had the courago to strike back, others may do the same and more con victions may follow. In time New York may come to have a fairly honest Legislature, Its reputation may so im prove that membership will cease to be ground of suspicion that a man is corrupt. Then a larger proportion of honest men and men of a higher type and greater ability may seek and ob tain election." Landmarks of the battlefield of Waterloo are In danger of obliteration.- The farmhouses of La Hale Salnte and Hougoumont may be re built, in which case marks of cannon shot would disappear. Already part of the wall of Hougoumont against which the French directed their as sault, has been torn down, tramcars run from Brussels and a British offi cer says "tawdry cafes" have been erected on the spot where the last charge of the Imperial Guard was re pulsed. The approaching Gettysburg celebration has suggested co-operation between England and Belgium for the. preservation of the battlefield as Get tysburg ha been preserved. One who has seen other famous battlefields and has endeavored to identify points on them mentioned in history can realize how soon they become changed beyond recognition. A Boston contemporary offers Ore gon some advice upon the fruit busi ness which Is worth heeding. The first principle it lays down for us is to ship "only such fruit as will sell on its mer its." The second is to establish can neries and driers to take up the un salable surplus. The third, to foster the home market, something that never has been done' adequately, and not yield utterly to "the lure of the long hauL" This advice is pretty ob vious, but none the less sound for that The looker-on often sees more of the game than the players. An interesting phenomenon of our day is the sudden upspringlng of thriv. ing cities in parts of Canada which have always beep thought of as ice bound wastes. The boom town called Athabasca Landing Is 100 miles beyond "the farthest limit of habitation." as we used to know it. People are flock ing there by the thousand for free land and now another city has been found ed 200 miles farther on. Canada has millions of acres of wheat land which It Is giving in quarter sections to homesteaders. Those distressingly wise people who Intend to vote only "first choice" may gain a little more wisdom still by glancing at what happened in Denver. That city had a few more candidates than Portland on its preferential bal lot, but the number was substantially similar and not a man of them all was elected by first-choice votes. Nor by first and second choice. In every case the third-choice votes had to be added in. Here is a plain lesson for the citizen who wants his ballot to count. A balky horse comes pretty near to taxing the limit of human endurance; yet it should not be the victim of In flamed rage. The man who maltreats it would hesitate if the "animal were in position to hit back. So the law steps In as the friend of the horse and lays a heavy hand on the offender, which ia well. A plcturo of Now Tork In 1656 shows a portentous gibbet In the foreground and a windmill at the back. Positions are more than reversed In our time. The windmill Is at th front and th gibbet Is nowhere. Brooklyn Eagle. Walt till President Wilson builds his gibbet high as Hainan's. That will be at the front. "Go slow" is advice to Japan from English sources. Excellent advice, in. deed. Uncle Sam Is a tougher nut to crack than figures, statistics and theo. retical essays indicate. The Government official who would stop the racing of steamers on the lower river in its present stage of water has little sporting blood in his veins. Salute the flag today for what it represents and in reverence of the men who gave their lives to make It mean something. ' . The battle at Guaymas Is being postponed from time to time. No doubt the moving picture men ran short .of films. You can measure the candidate also by the manner of political tricks and subterfuges he launches against adver saries. Married schoolteachers in New York seem to have peculiar ideas of pe culiar conditions of peculiar affairs. Three days more of air-castle build ing, and all but four will get back to earth. Progress will shortly receive added stimulus. Graduation day is close at hand. Possibly the Beavers were waiting for the mercury to set the upward pace. That raise of wages for the carmen sounds a lot like hard times, doesn't it? Have Mexico and Japan gone to sleep on the Job? Rose-making weather's back at work. GOOD WORK THAT IS NOT CHARITY Working . Woman Resents Application of Term to Service rnia or. PORTLAND, May 29. (To the Edi tor.) Having attended a meeting a few Avpnlnn nco of a woman's club or league, In this city, for the so-called help and advancement of tne wonting woman. I listened with ot a little in dignation to the address of the even ing, where the speaker referred many times to the grand work and the "char ity" which this organization was ac complishing toward the "working woman"; also an appeal was made to the people to help this work along to the end that the working woman might be protected from the many evils that beset her path when not protected by the home, as many other so-called more fortunate women are. I cannot remem ber the exact . words, but they were to that effect. Now, as a working woman, I wish to protest against this word "charity" when used in connection with work of this kind, for, as I understand it, the women who patronize those places pay for the accommodations which they re ceive there, and are more than willing to do so, as the average working woman does not need, nor is she looking for charity, but Is-amply able to pay her way at all times. These clubs and meeting places are an advantage to women' in order that they may meet and exchange Ideas, also for social purposes, to the end that they may become better acquainted with each other and establish a fellow ship that could not be otherwise ac complished, but when they are ex ploited under the name of "charity" It is an Insult to the average self-supporting woman, who is usually abun dantly able to take care of herself, and has done so In the past. As to the fear expressed that the "working woman" might not long, t.i... th. li.ln a thsA anplntles. be V HiU II . 1 1' I. - able to maintain the high character which belong to woman, . it looked into I venture to say that the character and life of the average working woman" would" be found to compare quite favorably with that of her so-called more fortunate sister who is protected by the home. In fact, her work in the world has a tendency to develop a strength of character which .v... ova,.-",, wnmHii whose ill i n cl and heart have never been broadened by contact with tne business worm uuwo nothing about more is the pity, for work In the world enables her to see the smallness and futility of those petty little gossipings and slights which so many women Indulge in. Then. too. the average working woman usually has her time and mind taken up with her work and is not so apt to fall a victim to the wiles of that Individual whom we have always been taught to believe "finds work for the Idle to do." as the woman who belongs to the lei sure class and who "tolls not, neither does she spin." " ' Of course, I do not mean to have it understood that I do not consider the home the best place for woman, and the place in which she can do the most good, if she does her duty there, but feel that there Is at the present time on the part of women a tendency to neglect the work in their own homes, where they are needed, and go about to clubs and societies working imag inary reforms when their efforts would be of more avail if used In their own homes. If women looked after the wel fare of their own children more and Instilled Into their minds principles of a sound moral character instead of spending so much of their time in out side work there would not be so much need for this rescue work that Is now being so widely exploited. Also, If the women who employ women would use a little of the con sideration they so loudly express at their clubs In the treatment and the advancement of the women whom they employ In their own households they would be doing a wider good and a much more needed work; then "housework' for working women would not be looked upon as the bugbear as It now i .i monv T.-nm n who are fitted for that line of work would be glad to take it up and wouicr not oe anvou iv work for starvation wages in factories as they now are. Of course. I know that many women treat those whom they employ in their households with ii j anRirif.ra.tion. but I am ww. . - sorry to have to say that I fear that those who do so are noi m . . ... -v.aitt.a- n t think- that you will find many of them active in club and reform work. Women are too prone to forget tne work that is near them and to wander far-afield looking for the good that they could accomplish within their own doors. Let us give the working woman a rest" and look, for a change. Into the .1 a aama nf tllA W O ITl P W fl O are not working women and see what we will find there. A WOMAN WHO WORKS. TRIBUTE TO MRS. C. A. COBlItST Old Salem Friend Telia of Her Sympa thy for Pioneers. SALEM, Or., May 28. (To the Edi tor ) I was much grieved this moan ing to learn that Mrs. C. A. Coburn had passed on. I had known her cince tne time when we were both young, and had for many years greatly admired her splendid talents and her beautiful womanhood. Mrs. Coburn was more than unusual ly talented. As a writer on almost .my subject she was able and brilliant, but on matters pertaining to the early pioneers and her old acquaintances, she was one of the most touching bio graphers whose writings I have been privileged to read. Coming to Ore gon when a young girl, she had passsd through the hardships of pioneer llf3, and fully appreciated them. With thsa who had passed through these hard ships she always felt a warm sympathy All through her editorial work she ever was en the side of truth. Justice i . v.aa aftfvananln UUU. iwn.w w..-. -- r' For all these years that have passoi sne nas bioou a,,o ... . . . sister, Mrs. Duniway, and given her voice and pen in favor of the en franchisement of women. She as lived to see the triumph of this move ment, and none rejoiced more over it than she. Her whole life was spent to serve others, and to mako the world better, and Oregon Is vastly advanced by reason of her life and Its efforts. To such an one we cannot say good night, hut In some fairer land bid me good morning. J- C. M. TRIBUTE OF" THE FLOWERS. Breathe balmy airs, ye fragrant flowers, O'er every silent sleeper's head; Ye crystal dews and Summer showers Dress In fresh green each lowly bed. Strew loving offerings o'er the brave. Their country's Joy, ' their country's pride; For us their precious lives they gave, For Freedom's sacred cause they died. Long, where on glory's fields they fell. May Freedom's spotless banner wave, . j , o tT-iViiita. crrateful tell Where live the free, where sleep the brave. samuei . Dmnu. Ear of Com 32 Years Old. r .-alia -Kin nlanateh to N. T. Sun. B, L. Angell has an ear of yellow corn which is 82 years old. The corn was of the last crop raised by tha late James H. McBrlde between Centralis - L' 1-r.a na Tt bnH h PPD k rtTl t. fl ITIO n C tl.il Lt SJ.w. the household treasures all these years by Mrs. Agnes aicuriae, niu vnuuw, -uV died last wtex. airs, mcjonue Angell's grandmother, and before death gave the heirloom to him to be per petuated In the family. Mr. Angell will plant several grains of the ear this Summer to ascertain if the vitality is still in the corn after the 32-year dry ing process. RAISING CHICKEXS IX THE CITY One Who Haa Tried It Says It Is Not Profitable. PORTLAND. May 29. (To the Edi tor.) A chicken fancier writes In The Oregonian, May 26, as to raising chick ens In the city limits, i raisea cnicK ens In the city for nearly seven years, and am unable to say where the profit comes in. With the high cost of feed, no person can make a profit off chick ens, and chickens will not produce enough eggs on table scraps. A chicken needs a variety of feed sucn as wneat, barlev. shorts, bran and shell and the like to be healthy and egg-producing. As to a hobby, let those who care for it go outside the city limits. 1 can DOint out chicken yards and houses in a thickly-settled neighborhood, where I live, whose owners clean them out twice or three times a year, and some have never been cleaned. The stench coming from those yards Is ' strong enough to kill a horse. I say it s a torture to the chickens to be pennea ud in a run xxiz or larger ana nevei have fresh soil to scratch In. It's against nature; the fowl cannot be healthy nor can the eggs it lays db healthy. Talk about making sanitary laws. We have lots of them on the books now; in fact, too many. But are they enforced? There is a class of people who are Indifferent to laws. We have an or dinance that chickens must not run at large. Is that enforced? No. I do not blame the official of the Munici pal Court for refusing to be bothered with neighbors' quarrels about chick ens. I for several years had to put up with my neighbor's chickens Hying over mv fence, scratching in my well- kept garden and destroying seeds and plants. To chicken fanciers I suggest my nlun: Get vour eeg supply from a farm er by parcel post. I hope the city will make a law as suggested by Judge Tazwell no chicken-house within 100 feet of any dwelling. That gives rhtrlt-n fanciers a chance in the sub urbs to ' follow their hobby. By all means let's get through wlttt tnis chicken nuisance. ANOTHER CHICKEN FANCIER. PARK BOND ISSrE IS NECESSITY Safety of Children and Economy In Purchases Call for Action. T1AT) T A X" Tl ,f .. 90 Ta, tnA Rfl- itor.) The recommendation of the Tax payers league to vow no un -" $2,000,000 park bond issue Is unfortu nate for Portland. The league, in its own words, says that It "favors the acquisition of parks and playgrounds as needed and where needed, but does not believe at this time that public necessity requires the issuance of $2,000,000 in bonds for this purpose." f Ul 11BI1Q ,iS AC, v.-.w. . parks and playgrounds. It is deolor- aoiy snort or email n.n awiv.w.w throughout the city. There are many sections of the city that are rapidly becoming thoroughly congested, notably South Portland and Albina (Albina Is one location having 300 people to the acre) which have no parks or playgrounds. Three children were killed on the streets of South Portland last year. What constitutes K...k1l. aaaBolfrv if allnh aanHltiOn3 dO not? Are these gentlemen ignorant of the situation inis sureiy is me n.mu est interpretation to give their recom mendation. Furthermore, $2,000,000 will buy less land the longer buying is postponed, and it will be Increasingly more diffi cult to find suitable area not built upon In the crowded districts where the need of parks is the greatest. When "public necessity" has become so acute that the "Taxpayers' League" comprehends it, opportunity will have ceased to knock at their door, and they will find themselves compelled to buy land which Is not suitable at prices that will stun them. A $2,000,000 bond issue now is econo my It Is public necessity; furthermore, it Is sound public, policy. Voters should not heed this recommendation of the Taxpayers' League. ROBERT H. STRONG. , LEGAL KNOWLEDGE IN COUNCIL Work Yet to Be Done That Requlrea Expert Advice. PORTLAND, May 29. (To the Ed itor.) The decision of the Supreme Court now permits the city to move forward. The change is momentous. Judge McBrlde says: " It must bo confessed that the change Is a tremendous one. and the centralization of all tho powers of the city in the hands of five men is an experiment In which mis takes. In tho selection of the persons who are to wield this enormous grant of power, might be fraught with serious consequences. This verifies Judge. Kavanaugh's statement on another page. The attack of Mr. Duniway upon the new charter is only a sample of the attacks that will be made upon every act of the new Council. A great deal of work Is yet necessary to make an economical and smooth-running gov ernment under the new charter. The different branches of city government must be segregated and assigned to the different departments. The duties of the officers and employes must be clearly and distinctly defined. Safe guards against abuse must be enacted. Plain and simple provisions must be made for public improvements. Obscurity and technicality in these working laws would be disastrous to the city. Law suits would" be en gendered and appeals made and valu able time would be consumed before the Council would be able to do any thing towards securing the economical and efficient government designed by the charter. I know that good men are going to be elected Commissioners, and I hope that a method of doing business may be provided which will enable them to get results. I have struggled, to the best of my ability, to obtain the pass age of a good charter, and I know that we have such a charter. If the new Council shall have sufficient, legal knowledge In the body Itself of its meaning and effect it will greatly aid in immediately carrying out Its pur pose, and all its supporters will have cause for congratulation upon its passage. WM. C. BENBOW. An Enclneer on Commission. PORTLAND. May 29. (To the Ed itor.) The selection of the four men who are to transact the business of the city for us is a matter of vital im portance. It has not only a direct bearing upon the prosperity and repu tation of Portland, but - affects the pocket-book of every citizen. The number of candidates who really stand a show of election is not more than two dozen, and probably less. The dif ferent public welfare committees that made lists of those candidates deemed best fitted for the offices have agreed quite closely on the names selected. Among these appears the names of two engineers, one the present City Engi neer and the other a man who has been City Engineer of Manila and had much other public service. Questions of engineering involving the expenditure of great sums of mone and affecting all the residents of the city, are of frequent occurrence in the city's business. These include street improvements,- sewers, water service, bridges, - the filling of gulches, public buildings and-- the operation of the building department. Some of these Items are certain to mean much to all of us. A Commissioner of executive ability, and also with an engineering training, can be of great value to the public in overseeing the departments that have charge of such work, and also by his Influence in the Council when special matters, of which engi neering questions form a part, are be ing passed .upon. I believe, therefore, that ws should give our support to the election of one of these engineer candidates. They have been highly indorsed, and we are not likely to make an error in voting for either one. A CITIZEN. The Common User Ealloon By Dean Colllna. I feel a great idea surge, . ... .. . . ,laa Oh, Dan, wltn tny Dig g uanuuu I have a plan that I would urge iTnnn tho. Dun in ivrln tune. Why linger in the azure sky In solitary grandeur high? W.hy boost for naught save thy own cause .' Make haste! Full soon On thy balloon Pray tack a Common User Clause. Why hog the hot air, as it were, Oh, Dan, with thy big gas balloon? How the would-be Commissioner Would deem it, from thy hand, a boon If you would let him also tag . His name upon that big gas bag. Look, listen, stop, consider, pause. Reflect, and soon On thy balloon, Thou'lt tack a Common User Clause. Twenty-five Years Ago From Th Oregonian of May SO, 18SS. New York, May 29. The Tribune pub lishes a letter from Mr. Blaine dated Paris. May 17, saying: "Assuming that the Presidential nomination could by any possible chance be offered to me, I could not accept it without leaving in the minds of thousands of men the impression that I had not been free from indirection, and, therefore, I could not accept It at alL" Seattle, May 29. Ex-Chief Justice Roger S. Greene, late of the Territorial Supreme Court, is now closing up all his legal business preparatory to de voting his entire time -to the ministry. New York, May 29. At the general Methodist conference today. Bishops Vincent, Fitzgerald, Goodsell, Joyce and Newman and Missionary Bishop Tho burn .were consecrated. Monday night a wild steer forced Its way into the lawn of Mrs. H. H. Royal's boarding-house on Fourth and M streets. East Portland. Several gentlemen mi ting near the house were quickly out a oil H a a o-aa Kot SO With Mr. Pear- son, who was sitting with his back towards the approaching animai. -n" animal came against his chair and . . u a fi it ?-am under him. Me then skipped into the house with the steer close onto him. a Ti'.nar iottr to the SDOkane Falls Review says: II. W. Monnastes. City Treasurer of Portland and inter ested in the Stemwinder and Sierra Nevada mines, is here this week. Van B. De Lashmutt has purchased one- half of the banK nere. t ivh the ardent lover of turf sports and horsemen, received a fine colt on the steamer state oi wmuutui. .Tne Beveridee. manager 'of tha Wil lamette baseball club, returned yes terday from Seattle, where ne com pleted arrangements with the Browns to play two games against the Wll lamettes at Clinton and McCoy's grounds in East Portland. Johnny Parkhill. an Indian war vet eran and also a Mexican war veteran, was notified Monday that he would be granted a pension. The east half of lot 8 in block 49, .i .. -a- nt Alftor and Third 3UUliica.il wv, .w w - . . n.a 1 . u.il.rHnv t ft John Angel, the well-known real estate agent, to Judge K. JV1 uemeni iui 000. Mr. Dement contemplates the erec tion of a four-story brick block. Yesterday afternoon the Oregon Rail way & Navigation Company's new and elegant sidewheel steamer T. J. Potter was launched from the ways at the old boneyard. Firemen and Old Age. PORTLAND. May 29. (To the Edi tor.) A careful reading of your edi torial on the proposed pension fund for disabled firemen suggests a question which I trust you will kindly answer. What about the firemen who are not injured or disabled, but who remain in the service until the natural failure of old affe the ills of flesh that come to allof us in the course of time shall have rendered them unfit for further service? Are they to receive old-age pensions from this fund for as many years as they may chance to live? A VOTER. The measure does not provide for automatic retirement on pension at a stated age; constructively, however, the fireman who became permanently dis abled through enchoachment of age would receive half pay .during the re mainder of his days. Not at All Theatrical. Detroit Free Press. "He says he's a self-made man. What sort of a fellow is he?" "Oh, Just like all amateur produc tions!" 71 FEATURES -for SUNDAY Breakfast, a Cause of Divorce The morning meal really plays an important part in our domes tic tragedies, a matter which is delved into extensively. Zapata, A close-range study of Mexico's bold, bad bandit, written by an American newspa per writer who has been on the staff of a big Mexican daily. Theodore Roosevelt Another chapter in his own story of his own life. Resurrecting the Dead How life is suspended and then set in operation at Johns Hopkins Uni versity. Eat Chalk That is the great est health diet in the world, ac cording to an eminent German physician, who tells why. The Trail of the Silk An other Potash and Perlniutter story by Montague Glass. His Evening Out A discus sion by Laura Jean Libbey of whether or not all of a man's evenings belong to his wife. Dogs of War They are real pups and are now a part of every modern army, their keen instincts being invaluable to troops in the field. Our Naval Wasps A page in colors, illustrated with remark able action pictures, dealing with American torpedo-boat de stroyers. Women Rule Spain Alfonso is dominated by women of the Spanish court, reports a Madrid correspondent, who has dug up a live story at the capital. MANY OTHER FEATURES