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Poatstire Kates 12 to 18 pages, 1 cent; 18 to sx pages i: cents; s- to pages, 50 to tu paces, 4 cents; 62 to 18 pages. 5 cents; 78 to 1)2 pace. 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Kawtern Huskies Offices Verree A Confc lln. New lark. Brunswick; building. Chi cago, Btegex building. Han Francisco Office K. J. Bldwell Co., 142 Market street. Kuropean Office No. 3 Regent street S. "W., London. rOBTIAXD, THURSDAY, JTX.Y 8, 1913. LEE'S StTFrtEME EFFORT. Death began his harvest early on the morning of Friday. July 3. Be fore Thursday's fighting ended, late at night, the Confederate General Ed ward Johnson had established himself on the western slope of Culp's Hill. Should he hold his position It might become a center of disintegration for the entire Union force. Slocum there for gave orders to dislodge Johnson at any cost, and by 4 o'clock, when the Summer day was breaking, the as fault began. Troops hurried forward from both armies to Join in the strug gle, and it was not long until the con tested redoubt was the scene of fright ful carnage. The Confederates strove with demoniac energy to hold their ground and push forward to the sum mit of Culp's Hill, which seemed al most within their grasp. But the Union soldiers were fighting now with new vigor. The sad old tale of panic stricken -commanders and bewildered troops led aimlessly to their death was ended. At the center of the bat tlefield Meade's capacious intelligence comprehended every detail of the sit uation SJid mastered every emergency us it developed. The men had under stood him with swift intuition when he showed himself in the cemetery at 8 o'clock on Thursday morning, and through the vicissitudes of that fear ful day his calm competence had bound their hearts to him with the chains of loyal love. Brave men an swered noble generalship with limit less devotion and gladly died, know ing that their lives were no longer wasted. Through the sunny hours of the long forenoon the Confederates sent wave after wave of their hlgh-souled troops to beat vainly against the fortifica tions on Culp's Hill and sink back broken and ruined. Life was cheap on that July morning. For seven hours the fight raged up and down the slope, and then the Confederates, convinced at last that nothing was to be Rained by wholesale murder, sul lenly withdrew and left the contested position to their foes. Thus the day began with victory for Meade and the army of liberty. "While the struggle was proceeding on Culp's Hill Lee was busy making his dispositions for a su preme effort. He had spent the whole of Thursday probing for a. weak spot in. the Federal lines, and at nightfall he had found none, or next to none. At every point heroic attack had been baffled by heroic resistance. No flaw appeared, no sign of shrinking that seemed to Invite further assault. And yet there was one spot where the line had wavered under the terrible strain, and Lee's attention had been fixed upon it ever since. When, as dark ness began to deepen on Thursday night, the Confederate General "Wright rushed furiously from Semin ary Ridge upon Hancock's line, it gave way for an instant. Not for long. It quickly rallied and timely reinforcements regained all that had been lost, except the lives of the dead. Still, at that point the Union line had wavered, and but for Meade's prudent forethought and ready help Wright might have driven all before him and passed on to the rear of the Army of the Potomac. What had happened on Thursday might be re peated with better fortune on Friday. So Lee reasoned as he applied his su perb intelligence to the problem of wrecking the great army which faced him along the hills south of Gettys burg. If he could drive those in trenched thousands flying before him only once more, the Union cause would be shattered and he would shine through all coming ages as the founder of a new Nation. His coun trymen, would crown him with imper ishable fame. Europe would do him regal honor. The point where attack appeared not entirely hopeless was on the southern declivity of Cemetery Hill, not far from the center of Han cock's position. In the valley behind it the Federal reserves were posted on the roads to Baltimore and Taney town. In front ran the Emmitsburg road, that highway of death along which so many thousands of ruddy youths had marched to return . no more. Across the Emmitsburg road a mile away stretched Seminary Ridge from north to south, a fertile declivity rich with fields of grain and fruit laden orchards, and here Lee massed his artillery". His purpose was to con centrate a deadly fire upon the point wnicn ne naa resolved to attack and paralyze the Federal defense before he advanced his troops. When the guns had done their work of destruc tion, Pickett was to charge. From 11 o'clock to 1 Lee was busy completing his preparations. His bat teries extended from a point opposite Little Round Top as far as Oak Hill, north of the Lutheran school. Meade had divined Lee's intent, and he, too, had not been idle. He had armed the ridge with heavy runs from c. Hill to Little Round Top, placing them with careful art so that the balls would fly over the heads of his infantry- About 1 o'clock, at a precon certed signal, the Confederate cannon opened fire. The whole line of Sem inary Ridge blazed with flaming death and the Federal batteries replied in stantly with all their thunder. The Confederate fire was concentrated upon the spot where Pickett was to charge. Balls fell on every inch of ground. The guns were dismounted. Caissons full of ammunition exploded. Men and horses were rent in frag ments. The earth was miry with blood. But as fast as guns were shat tered new ones moved into position from behind Cemetery Ridge and companies of soldiers marched eager ly forward to replace their dismem bered comrades. The Infantry found some semblance of shelter behind tone walls and fence rails. The dead passed to their reward and the living waited for the sterner ordeal which was soon to come. After an hour of artillery fire Meade ordered his guns to pause. He knew that Lee expected to silence them, and he was willing to let him believe his plan had suc ceeded. It was also well to give the cannon time to cool and the men a breathing spell. When the Federal guns fell silent, Pickett changed. He had 15,060 men, the finest sons of "Virginia, bravest of the brave, splendid in mien and stat ure. They came out into the sunshine from the shade of the orchards on Seminary Ridge and dressed their long, gray line quietly, with cool ges tures, as men go about the business of the day. Their business was to die. They marched across the mile of open ground between Seminary Ridge and Hancock's troops without losing their nice precision of front and step. They were parading for inspection before the Eternal Commander. As they drew near the slope the cannon which they had thought silenced forever be gan to play upon them with the hail of ruin. They marched onward. When Hancock's waiting infantry say the whites of their eyes gleaming in the last sunshine they were ever to know on earth, they opened fire and rank after rank went down. The Virgin ians stepped over their dead and marched on up the hill. Their calm courage deepened to frenzied fury. The guns on Little Round Top plowed ruinously through their line from the south. Cemetery Hill rained destruc tion on their left. They crowded to gether and plunged forward with irre sistible momentum. The Federal line gave way where Pickett's men struck it fairly, and for one great moment it seemed as if Lee had triumphed and slavery was to darken the future of the American continent. But Meade was ready. Like a giant fighting for life, he heaved whole regiments of passionate soldiers into the breach. The impetus of Pickett's men was dis sipated in the masses that withstood them and they could go no further. The tide rose, broke on the solid rocks and ebbed away. The disheartened Virginians fled down the slope in a storm of bullets, bearing in their shat tered ranks the dead hope of the Con federacy. Lee read in their panic- stricken faces the destiny of the cause he loved. He immediately began his dispositions for retreat, and never again did the Confederates gain a footing on the soil of freedom. From that day their decline was constant. OVER $40,000,000. Government must have money for Its support. The United States Is a billion-dollar country, for it takes about a billion dollars to meet its current expenses. Somebody must put up the billion dollars. In one way or another it comes out of the Ameri can people, and no others. If they want to pay less for government they must spend less. Yet there is nowhere any effective demand for economy or for a restric tion of the scope and standard of out lay. The only obvious thing about our amazing method of finance under the present National Administration is that Congress goes calmly ahead cutting oft revenue and adding to outlay. A single illustration Is the astounding Jump of the expenditure for pensions from $154,000,000 per annum in 1912 to $175,134,000 !n 1914. Soon undoubtedly it will be $200,000,000 per annum. The Federal Government's books at the close of business June 30, 1913, showed a surplus of $40,083,229. This extraordinary showing was made de spite the immense appropriations of Congress pensions, Navy, Army, postofflce, and all. It is well to re member the sum $40,083,229 on the right side of the ledger. Is any one willing to predict that, under the Underwood tariff bill, the surplus on June 30, 1914, will be more than $40,000,000? WOMAN'S DRESS. Dr. Delk, of Philadelphia, a speak er at the World's Christian riHnohin Conference, expresses an inability to rememDer when womankind dressed In a more susreestlve wav than nnw Small wonder memory fails him. The gentleman would require a cosmic memory or unparalleled proportions to carry him back to a style in wo man's apparel wherein sex display was more pronounced. Perhaps, could he ruminate through the dim mists of prehistoric antiauitv. he mlcht styles suggestive of the modern tend ency. There was Eve, for example. . Sex display appears to have become the keynote in present-day feminine apparel. Having gone the limit in clinging, diaphanous and form-fitting garments, many women have aban doned mere suggestlveness and ' are now slitting the skirts up the side. Modesty, that subtle attribute which once had its part in regulating the fashions, seems to have been relegated wholly to the vicinity of the ears. These alone, it would appear, must be zealously guarded from the vulgar masculine gaze. They are secreted with that dainty but certain care which once stood sentinel over shape ly ankle and other portions of the fe male anatomy that today are disclosed by the clever intricacies of modern gowns. Aside from the ears, there appear to be no restrictions. KEEP DIGGING ON THE BAR. The success achieved by the dredge Chinook in deepening the channel aaross the Columbia River bar Justi fies the movement begun at Astoria to have this work continued and extend ed. At least five years will elapse be fore the north Jetty Is completed, and, though partial benefits may accrue when it is well advanced, we cannot await its completion before furnishing a deeper channel. New- steamship lines have begun plying to this port, running vessels of deeper draft than have been accus tomed to visit the Columbia. The channel is now deep enough to ac commodate them, but, as the com merce of the port grows, larger ves sels will come until the time may soon arrive when we must provide depth of water for the largest vessels afloat. This will require that the work of dredging be carried on every season, that the channel may grow deeper as the draft of vessels grows. If we can secure a forty-foot channel before the north Jetty is completed, we should do so rather than await the scouring process which will fol low confinement of the tide by that structure. We can then rely upon the Jetties to maintain the channel at that depth. This requires not only that the Chi nook be kept at work, but that at least one more dredge he built in time to go to work next season. Public bodies of Portland should unite their efforts with those of the Astoria Port Commission in working to secure this additional dredge. ' At the same time dredging in the chan nel between Portland and the sea should be continued without inter ruption and the Port of Portland Commission should not begrudge the necessary expenditure. As the chan nel is deepened, the area excavated in gaining each foot of depth will in crease and more machines may be come necessary. In that case they should be built. Portland is Just com ing into her own as one of the world's ports,- and should go forward year by year in the race to the front rank. DBIXKING IX "WET" AND "XR" PLACES. A speaker on temperance at the Christian Citizenship Conference made the statement that "40 per cent of the people of this country live in 'dry' territory, and that a canvass has shown 60 per cent to be favorable to temperance." The auditors were nat urally much gratified at this favorable demonstration of the growth of the temperance, or prohibition, cause. Naturally they assumed that with the great expansion, of the "dry" area and the growth of a sentiment favor able either to no drink or less drink, the country had become more sober. It would seem to follow logically that, if no liquor can legally be sold in nearly one-half of the territory of the United States, it could not be drunk. But is it true? Is less liquor sold or less liquor used than in former years? The Government at Washing ton has Just made Its report of its financial operations for the preced ing fiscal year; and it is interesting to note this single paragraph from the Associated Press report: The drinking and smoking of the Ameri can people during the last twelve months brought the Federal Government the enor mous total of t309.478.000 in internal rev enue receipts, which was $16, 500,000 greater than in 1912 and one of the highest amounts on record. There is no available segregation of the respective amounts realized from liquor and from tobacco; but the sta tistics of previous years show that the receipts from the tax on liquors are about two and one-half times greater than from the tax on tobacco. The increase from liquor and fer mented spirits is by far the largest Item in the internal revenue collec tions. It grows more year by year, rather than less. Evidently, therefore, more whisky, beer and wine and the rest are used. We would not? discourage our prohi bition and temperance friends by cit ing these significant figures. We merely call attention to the fact, and inquire whether with the constantly widening expansion of the "dry" field there is a compensating Increase in liquor manufacture and consumption in the remaining "wet" area? Or do people drink as much as ever, or nearly as much, in places where the law seeks to prevent them? TirE 8KAME OF NEW YORK. New York State under the alternate boss rule of such men as Barnes and Murphy maintains a prison at Sinsr Sing, the description of which by the grand Jury of Westchester County would fit any medieval dungeon or anv prison of the most backward domain of Spanish America. When one reads a few of the statements made after per sonal examination and with full offi cial responsibility, one will agree with the grand Jury that Sing Sing is unfit for the housing of animals, much less of human beings, and is a scandal to the State of New York. The tortures Inflicted In the cooler are described in horrible detail and their consequences are thus stated: We find that until within a short time before this investigation began men have been driven insane by the incarceration In the .cooler, that men have iona Into the cooler and during a very short time have lost from twenty-five to thirty pounds, and that In consequence of the agony and suf- terms wnlie incarcerated have attempted suicide. The cells in the cooler are cunningly designed to be perfectly dark and to admit enough -air to sustain life, though appearing to be air tight. The prisoner, therefore, feels as if he were suffocating. The only furniture is a mattress, thrown in at night and re moved by. day. The prisoner must' stand or lie on the wet stone flagging. Food is given only twice a day and consists of ten ounces of bread and eight ounces of water, equal to three quarters of a tumblerful. The pangs of thirst sometimes drive prisoners to drink the disinfectant placed In the cells. The prison was built in 1825 and has 1200 cells, none of which gets air or light directly from outside and many of which face a solid wall with no aperture. Sunlight never pene trates many of these cells and it enters many others for only a brief period each day. The ground Is only a few feet above tidewater. One can wet one's hand by simply drawing it over the wall and many men have left the prison permanently crippled by rheumatism, while many others have cdntracted a more disastrous organic disease of the heart, which sometimes proves fatal. The prison is pronounced a breed ing place of tuberculosis germs. It was built to house 1200, but as many as 2000 have been lodged there, and the number always ranges from 1500 to 2000. Men are doubled up in ill-ventilated, unlighted cells, seven feet long, three feet four inches wide and six feet six inches high, a space less than half that which the law re quires for each- person in a lodging house. Men who are repugnant and dangerous to each other are frequent ly lodged together in these narrow dens and requests for change of cell mates are denied. . Men diseased in body, mind or habits are coupled with others who are clean in all respects, and those in advanced stages of tuber culosis are housed with men in per fect health. Physicians do not direct which men shall occupy the same cell. The kitchen Is antiquated and un sanitary and food can only be boiled or stewed. Many inmates do not get enough even of such food. The hos pital i3 infested with vermin and the facilities there are inadequate. There Is no resident physician and a person taken ill at night must wait till morn ing for a doctor. The boilers are obso lete and liable at any time to ex plode. The laundry is unsanitary, breeds disease germs and spreads con tagion. Clothes go back still damp to the convict Just after he has had his weekly bath. Being put on at such time and worn in subsequent exposure to wintry wind, they cause rheumatism and pulmonary disease. This report proves that the rule of the bosses, alternately Democratic and Republican, has been most miserably inefficient so far as the prisons are concerned. The bosses say, though in carefully veiled phrase, that the peo ple are not competent to run their own government and make this the excuse for opposition to the Sulzer direct pri mary bill. The bosses have proved so incompetent that it is time they let the people try their hands. Gradual extinction of the aboriginal Hawaiian, raises a question whether the white man does not load his bur den on the black man's back and pass on, leaving the blck to die under it. The Kanaka population of Hawaii decreased 12.6 per cent in the last decade, but was not supplanted by the white race, but by Orientals, who now compose 55 per cent of the total. Cau casians constitute only 23 per cent, and of these one-half are Portuguese, Spanish and . Porto Ricans, leaving only 15 per cent of the conquering na tionalities. These brought their bur den of vice and disease and left it to the black men. How have they really benefited him? We Anglo-Saxons are great hypocrites. Will the Pendleton East Oregonian, which recently reprinted conspicuous ly from the Portland paper of which It Is the unfailing echo the misrepre sentation that the Oregon Legislature had indorsed the West honor system Inform its readers and The Oregonian what Legislature and in what terms? The Oregonian has not been able to find the record of indorsement, either direct or- Implied, and it invites the East Oregonian to a field of investi gation where its superior, talents of parrotry may be somewhat misplaced, yet where the facts ought to be easy to ascertain. The Supreme Court of Mississippi ia still Interpreting the law according to academic methods, without regard to the actual facrfs of life. This court says a razor Is not a weapon but "an instrument of toilet." Common sense says that, when used In shaving the wielder, a razor is an instrument of toilet, but when used to carve another than the wielder, it is a weapon. If a bloodthirsty negro brandished a razor over the venerable heads of the Mis sissippi Jurists, they would quickly re vise their opinion. The 'best testimony to the efficiency of the anti-trust suits of the Taft Ad ministration is to be found in these words of George W. Perkins in a let ter to the New York World: I do most vigorously resent the treat ment that I received at the hands of the Taft Administration in the matter of the International Harvester Company. When anything is being done which arouses Mr. Perkins resentment,' the rest of us view the proceedings with great complacency. There may be some consolation for venal Congressmen in the reflection that, according to the melodramatic Mulhall, they are no more venal than the labor leaders. It appears that he experienced no particular difficulty in buying up as many of either species as he needed from time to time. But perhaps Mulhall is an imaginative genius. Men may not be so bad as he depicts them. It will be Greek meeting Greek when the Rothschilds confront Stand ard Oil on the oleaginous arena. We do not care a great deal how much damage they do to one another if they do not form an alliance In the end and take it all out of the wretched consumer. Heretofore that has been the . usual Issue of these fights be tween the cohorts of big money. Both Servia and Bulgaria agreed to arbitration, but each defined differ ently the things to be arbitrated. Hence the outbreak of war. If some great power were to arbitrate with a club. It might bring them to reason. Like the Mexicans, they seem to have acquired such a confirmed habit of fighting that they don't know when to quit. Time was when a new Administra tion carefully recognized the Irish, German, negro and other elements. The Wilson Administration has gener ously recognized the literary element. Are we coming to the time when there will be novelists' campaign clubs or magazine editors' diplomatic sweep stakes? The guileless farmer continues to be the victim of the racetrack swin dler, despite constant exposure of this class of schemers. There always will be people to bet on the other man's game. Hot weather and discomforts of camp life are sending the veterans home from Gettysburg. What was ease fifty years ago Is too much for the man fifty years older. The Mormon faith was bitterly as sailed at the World's Christian Citi zenship Conference. The Mormon faith Is used to such hard usage. With a temperature of 103 and all the ice tied up in cold storage, the Cincinnati undertaker wears a smile that will not come off. v When grown people find difficulty in dodging automobiles, there is lit tle wonder children are run down oc casionally. New York forbids use of the Frled mann serum. Other states should fol low this worthy example. A "plucking board" could perform valuable service in the Portland po lice department. A large percentage of Vancouver brides are widows. They know how to land 'em. Young America is too well educated for an old-fashioned celebration of the Fourth. A vast Alaskan iceberg is on the move. No doubt Chicago would wel come it. McNeil's Island is to be investi gated. "Turn out the rascals!" So there's a corset trust. The peo ple are forever being squeezed." Doctors might do well to lay in a few first-aid packets today. The man with a garden finds this great weather for weeds. It's got to be a habit with the Bul gars and Greeks. Everybody should remain safe and sane tomorrow. ' The rebel yell at Gettysburg has lost its sting. The Beavers , brought home good ball. Regular made-to-order weather. Just in Jest A Few Selected Pleasantries From o temporary KILea. Bookseller (having taken an order for notepaper) Have you read "Peb bles," sir? Had a wonderful sale. The Author of "Pebbles" Has it? I think I could write as good a. book my self. Bookseller (always prepared to agree with a customer) Do you? Well, I really believe our boy could, sir. Punch. r "Why did you break Into the house In the middle of the day?" asked the magistrate. "Well," said the accused, "I had sev eral others to cover that evening." London Evening Standard. e Brown I wonder If Smith would In dorse my note? Jones How long has he known you? Brown A month. Jones I'm afraid that's too long. Chicago News. "What became of that Russian Count who insulted you? "He choked to death." "How did that happen?" "I made him swallow his words." New York Mail. Judge Name? Prisoner Smith. Judge Occupation? Prisoner Locksmith. Judges Officer, lock Smith up. Employer (to cashier told you the afternoon? New Boy Yes, him when I saw kee Free Press. Wanted Burly vtdual to read houses. We hav two years. Th Gargoyle. new boy) Has the vhat you have to do in sir. I was to wake you coming. Mllwau- beauty-proof lndl meters in sorority en't made a nickel In Gas Co. Michigan Gabe What is an optimist? Steve An optimist la & cross-eyed man who is thankful that he isn't bow legged. Cincinnati Enquirer. "Am I ail the world to you. Jack, dear?" she cooed. "You are certainly a fair portion of It," he told her, and so made the classy double play of pleasing her and keep ing to the exact truth. Boston Tran script. Traveling Lecturer for Society (to the remaining listener) I should like to thank you, sir. for so attentively hearing me to the end of a rather too long speech. Local Member of Society Not at all, sir. I'm the second speaker. Punch. "Every time I speak in public I Insist on being liberally remunerated," said the orator. "And quite properly," replied the strictly business man. "While your re marks may not be valuable, you are entitled to compensation for the risk you take of Injuring your political fu ture." Washington Star. Too Much. Two copy boys on the New York Evening World were hav ing an acrimonious discussion one afternoon as they sat on their bench next to the city editor's desk. "I guess they never named any towns for you," said one. "Maybe not," said the other; "but there's a town up yonder in New Eng land named for you, all right." "What town is that?" asked the first boy, falling into the trap. "Marblehead," said the other. At this point the first blow was struck. Saturday Evening Post. Merchant (to clerk) This won't do. Every time you see a "6" you call It a "2." What Is the matter with you near-sighted?" Clerk No, sir; it's a matter of habit. I used to work in a ladles' shoe shop. He No man is as black as he Is painted. She And no woman Is as white as ahe Is powdered. Cincinnati Enquirer. She The Jeweler says the diamond In my engagement ring Is not genuine. He Um er he told me the ring was real gold. I forgot to ask him about the stone. Mabel Daddy, dear! What am I doing specially on the 14th? I've put red ink round it on the calendar, but I can't remember. Daddy Won't the knots -In your handkerchief help you? Mabel Oh, I tied those to remember I'd marked the calendar. London Punch. He I can trace my ancestry back through nine generations. She What else can you do? (Then he blinked and looked at her as if he wondered how far he had dropped.) Chicago Times-Herald. Sam Pone Didn't you buy de horse dat you was lookln' at, Ras?" Ras Hollow Naw; I was kinda un certain 'bout his age. He had one toof and I couldn't tell whether it were de tirst or de last. New York American. On the edge of a small river In Ire land Is a stone with the following strange inscriptloji, no doubt intended for the Information of strangers travel ing that way: "N. B. When this stone is out of sight. It is unsafe to ford the river." Toronto Globe. HOW TO SAVE CLOVER FROM RAIN Successful Experiment la Described ia Detail by Mr. Newell. GASTON, Or., June 30. (To the Ed itor.) Every June the Willamette Val ley farmer has to face the problem ot saving his clover hay. Your advice to grow timothy in rotation Is good, but the clover and vetch must be the main hay crop. In such a season as this It Is an exceedingly difficult problem, but I have partially solved it by filling a silo, and by providing hay caps for the cocks In the field. Clover makes a fair grade of silage for Summer feed ing, and the wetter it is the better it packs in the silo. A trial of the muslin hay caps con vinces me that they will save" the crop In any ordinary rainy June. A field of clover was cut the 9th and 10th ot June, shocked up and covered with the caps Just before the rains began. it stood all during the heavy rain with out leaking a drop through the caps, but after ten days began to spoil from the ground? Advantage was taken of a few hours between showers to turn the cocks upside down and recap them. They stood thus until the 26th. when they were opened up and aired out and hauled into the barn the next day, a fairly good lot of hay. The caps were made as follows: Un bleached "Cabot A" muslin was pur chased from the local merchant at 12V4c pe" yard. It was 45 inches wide ana was torn Into strips 40 Inches long, a stout 12-lnch string tied to each corner, and a half pound wooden block tied to the end of each string. Not one or them blew off at any time, nor did a drop of rain penetrate them. The caps cost a little less than 17c each, making the cost of covering a ton of hay about $2. GO. As the caps should last 8 or 10 years the cost Is small. Hereafter "Cloverldge Farm" will be provided with enough caps to cover all the early hay, and it will be cut early. This way of waiting until the June rains are over before cutting the clover, seriously damages the first crop and prevents getting a decent sec ond crop. W. K. NKWEL1 Stars and Starmakers By Walter May. Howard Russell, who has been one ot George Baker's highly successful Juvenile men in the latter's various stock companies throughout the West, was In Portland this week on a seven days" vacation. Mr. Russell returns to Vancouver, B. C, Sunday to resume his stock engagement. The company has been running In Vancouver for 76 suc cessive weeks, and Mr. Russell says the end Is not yet. The widely heralded break between Willie Rock and Maude Fulton, who were a big headline hit at the Orpheum recently, apparently is broken off. It was announced they would star Indi vidually after the conclusion of their Orpheum tour. It is not so, we are led to believe, as they have been billed to do a combined feature at the New Gai ety Theater In New York. s Here Is one of the newest bon mots accredited to Henry Hall, who is clos ing his engagement as leading man with the Baker players this week: "Why do they laugh? Why do they laugh?" asked Mr. Hall in the manner of Flies-on-Parade one evening while he was in a Chicago cafe en route to Portland. He indicated a merry group at a nearby table. "The tall man," explained a friend, "has been married to the short woman 26 years tonight and they are very happy." Mr. Hall glowed and remarked: "Fine, I'm glad of It. They do say the first 26 years are the hardest." Leila Huges Is the newest appear ance In the theatrical firmament, who is proclaimed by the manager-scientists as being a real star. Next sea son Miss Huges is to star In a new musical comedy, the book of which is to be furnished by Fred De Gresac, librettist of "The Enchantress," "Sweet hearts" and "The Purple Road." The composer's name Is not announced. Miss Huges was a telling success in Strauss' "My Little Friend." Margaret Illlngton will appear in the leading role of "Within the Law" company, which is coming to the Coast. Arch Selwyn. it Is said offered Miss Illlngton a record salary for two years. Miss Illlngton will play the role of Mary Turner originated by Jane Cowl, who came West in "The Gamblers" two seasons ago. There Will Be six "Within the Law!' companies on tour. Miss Illington was last here in "Kind ling." Franklyn Underwood and Frances Slosson, who close this week at Ye Lib erty in Oakland, Cal., will be succeed ed by Henry Hall, who closes this week at the Baker In Portland. Miss Slos son, especially popular In" Portland and In Spokane, where she figured as the recalcitrant In the green tights epi sode, will undergo a long-deferred op eration in hope of recovering her health. After her recovery she will go with her husband, Mr. Underwood, to New York. It Is rumored Mr. Under wood Is negotiating for a stock thea ter in Spokane for next year. . This is a fish story. Jacques Shore, Theodore Bendlx, Hal Davis and Al bert Wiser, Orpheum attractions this week, will fish between trains at Grants Pass en route to San Francisco. The quartet will leave immediately after the show Sunday night and take the- last train out of Grants Pass that will land them In San Francisco in time for the curtain. The four play ers are said to be fishing maniacs. How they paid no heed to tne knock Ot opportunity in Portland several years ago and suffered resultant finan cial loss Is recalled by two performers at the Empress John C. Tremayne, principal in the support of Porter J. White in "Scandal," and Harold Ken nedy, blackfacer. Tremayne, before he was won by the glare of the footlights, was a designer of women's hats In New York. Seven years ago he visited Port land with his own act, a sketch called "The Girl of the Times." Then he was advised by friends here to open a mil linery shop and a bargain in an up town location was shown the actor. Tremayne passed up the opportunity. Now, he declares, the most prosperous shop In his line is situated exactly where he was advised to locate as the pioneer man milliner of Portland. This Is Tremayne's third visit to ' Portland. After his first appearance at the old Grand in "The Girl of the Times" he presented the same sketch at the Orpheum five years ago. Kennedy says he missed his Portland opportunity nine years ago when he and his brother played with George Primrose at the Marquam Grand. Prim rose offered to sell the Kennedy boys a few acres Just outside Portland at an exceedingly low price. They demurred, seeing no prospect of gain. Only re cently Primrose was reported to have made a fortune on the same acreage. Kennedy appeared later with Primrose at the Orpheum and during his long affiliation with the great minstrel he was his understudy. At the Helllg this week in addition to marvelous motion pictures, there is a youthful musical prodigy who for the present seems to have been born to blush unseen. He Is Roy O. Myers, 23 years old, who can sit down to the piano and play for four hours straight without repeating himself. His reaches three full notes over an octave, is as quick as lightning in accompanying the changes in the pictures and for real music does wonders that are an attrac tion in themselves. Trixie Friganza, who has the prin cipal feminine role in "The Passing Show" of 1913, which comes to the Heilig early In August was born in Cincinnati the date not given. Her real name Is Delia O'Callaghan. Harvesting of Clover Hay. YAMHILL, Or., June 30 (To the Ed itor.) I, with Mr. Yoder, of Hubbard, appreciate The Oregonian's advice to the farmer. AH up-to-date farmers are willing to take advice given from a "ten-story building" but by virtue of the farmer's practical experience he reserves the right to challenge the remarks of the so-called book farmer. I am willing to admit the difficulty of raising clover for hay as I have put in most of today spreading out clover that has been rained on. However, the " harvesting of clover hay in the Willamette Valley Is be coming an item of more importance each succeeding year on account of the greater amount of clover that is being grown. If some "ten-story building" farmer could work out a plan for harvesting this nitrogen man ufacturing crop It would be a boon to Western Oregon for the raising of this crop does not want to be discouraged, by any mean. K. EATON. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of July S, 1SSS. Tacoma, W. T., July 2. The verdict In the case of the United States against ex-Chief Customs Inspector Erwin A. Gardner, charged with smuggling opium, acquitted the defendant on both counts. Salem, July 2. Secretary McBrlde and Superintendent McElroy today went to Corvallls to attend a meeting of the State Educational Board, which will superintend the transfer of the Agricultural College to the state. Seattle, July 2. Governor Semple and staff arrived today and made head quarters at H. L. Yesler's. Gettysburg, July 2. The second day of the reunion opened clear and beau tiful. At 4:30 P. M. the grand pro cession moved to the rostrum in the National Cemetery, where the exercises of reunion between the blue and the gray took place. General Sickles was presiding officer. Brief addresses were made by General Beaver, of Penn sylvania: General Hooker, ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and Generals Longstreet, Slocum and Curtin, and a letter was read from the widow of General Pickett. When Governor Gor don, of Georgia, appeared the cheers were almost deafening. A meeting of the high school alumni last night adopted resolutions protest ing against the removal of Professor R. K. Warren. Yesterday afternoon the breaking ot ground for the new Grace Methodist Episcopal Church took place at the corner of Taylor and Tenth streets. Rev. Dr. Ross Houghton, pastor of the church, broke ground and A. W. Oliver, Edward Cornell, Architect McCaw and seven others assisted In filling the first wagon of earth. Councilman Tyler Woodward was elected president of the Council last evening. T. J. Farron opened in "Soap Bub bles" at the New Park Theater last nltrht. Monday night Lewis Morrison will open In "A Dark Secret." A petition of the majority of the property owners on Williams avenue from Cherry street to the city limits was presented to the East Portland City Council for the Improvement of that street to connect with Williams avenue In Albino. Mr. William Wadhams has returned from his Eastern trip. Mr. Hubert Howe Bancroft, the well known historian, and wife arrived yes terday from San Francisco and are at the Esmond. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of July 3, 1S6S. A recent letter from Leavenworth says that there Is an enormous ex odus from Missouri for the plains and for Oregon and California. The cit izens are leaving in large numbers to escape the enrollment of militia and the prospect of conscription. Frederick, ltd., June 25. There Is no doubt that more than half of Lee's army is now in Maryland, advancing in three columns on Pennsylvania. New York, June 25. A special tele gram to the World says there are strong Indications that Lee has not only achieved his grand project of massing his strength on this side of the Potomac, but is actually within a short distance of Washington. Harrisburg, Pa,. June 26. It Is gen erally understood that Hooker's army Is at Maryland Heights and that he is preparing to meet Lee In person. The Brother Jonathan arrived at this place yesterday direct from San Francisco. The beautiful American flag recently subscribed for by numerous ladles In this city will be presented to the Hibernian Benevolent Society at their hall, corner of Third and Oak streets, at 9 o'clock on the morning of the Fourth. The misses who are to represent the several states of the Union In the car on the Fourth are requested to meet at Buchtel and Cardwell's Daguerrean rooms at 9 o'clock on that morning. Holidays. TATTON, Or., June 26. (To the Editor.) Pleaae . state whether the Fourth of July, the 25th of December and New Year's day have to be made holidays every year by the President or not. A SUBSCRIBER. The President issues no proclamation concerning either holiday. They are holidays by virtue of state laws. Maxim Guns. PORTLAND, June 26. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me where the Maxim gun works are located. A. E. HUBBARD. ' Maxim automatic machine guns are manufactured at factories in Sheffield and Birmingham, England by Vlckers' Sons & Maxim. Hot Weather Opportunities Now that the Summer is at its height and merchants every where are adjusting their stocks for the Fall campaign, you will find it exceedingly profitable for you to read through the various advertisements in THE OREGONIAN. When Summer days are hot test the merchant usually has his mind in the direction of Autumn. Stock inventories bring to light many lines that, while wholly desirable, must be dis posed of without loss of time. These goods are seasonable. It is not considered good store keeping to carry merchandise over from one season to another. Merchandise must be sold while there is a demand not when it isn't seasonable or de sirable. Therefore, prices are liberally reduced to effect rapid and com prehensive clearances. It is really surprising' how many desirable things can be picked up at this season of the year. The stores that advertise must naturally have the best induce ments to offer, for advertising creates business and the busy stores are those that have the liveliest attractions. Think it over. Then turn to our advertising columns.