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8 THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1914. vmnn FOUTLAKD, OBECON. Entered at Portland, Oregon, PostofBce as second-class matter. Eubscriptlon Kates Invariably in Advance: (BT MAIL) Dally, Sunday Included, one year. . . . . .$8.00 raily, Sunday Included, six months.... 4.25 Daily, Sunday included, three months. . 25.25 Laily, Sunday included, one month.... .75 IJaily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Iaiiy, without Sunday, six months 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 paily. without Sunday, one month. 60 Weekly, one year 1.50 fcunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and Weekly, one year 3.00 (BY CARRIER) rally, Sunday Included, one year fS.OO Iaily, Sunday Included, one. month. . . . .75 Mow to Remit Send postofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Uive postofflce address In full. Including county and state. Postage Rates 12 to .is pages, 1 cent; 18 to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents: CO to 60 pages, 4 cents; o2 to 76 pages, 0 cents; 78 to uz pages. 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree & Conk lin, New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago, Stcger building. San Francisco Officii R. J. Bidwell Co, 742 Market street. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1914. THE CASE OF POSTAL PHONES. The case in favor of Government ownership of telephone and tele graph systems was put to the House of Representatives about as strongly as it can be by Representative Lewis of Maryland, who has evidently gone to the bottom of the system. He showed that rates are higher in this country than in those where the Government owns the service; that the system is less used; that -with us the local telephone rate is higher than the letter rate, while in other countries it is much lower. He shows that other countries make a surplus on -mail, telegraph and tele phone systems combined and he be lieves that we could do as well. He contends that the United States mall service already pays its way and could be made to do so with the ad dition of telegraph and telephone service. He shows that in cheapness and efficiency of mail service the United Staes outranks all nations ex cept Japan, while all surpass us In cheapness and efficiency of telephone service, but his measure of efficiency is not quality and promptness; it is number of service units per employe per hour. Quite likely our Government could equal those of Europe and the British colonies in cheapness and efficiency of telephone and telegraph service, but we' are just establishing a differ ent plan private ownership under public regulation. "Why not give that a fair trial first? It needs great ex pansion to bring it into full opera tion within a reasonable time, but the machinery already created Can.be ex panded. The country can , be dis tricted and 'sub-commissions of the Interstate Commerce Commission can tie created. Valuation can be ex tended from the railroads to all other public utilities under the jurisdic tion of that body. Rates can then be adjusted to pay a fair profit on 'actual investment, with due allow ance for betterments and deprecia tion. ' The strongest point made by Mr. Lewis in favor of Government owner ship is the failure of private enter prise to extend service to small, re mote places which would be reached by the Government in connection with, the mail service. Naturally, if left to their own devices, corpora tions will not extend service .to un profitable" territory, but public regu lation can perhaps supply a remedy. Could not the Interstate Commission be vested with power to compel ex tension of service to such t territory and to readjust rates all around so that the system as a whole would pay? This would require higher rates in populous places, but jfatrons would not bbject if thereby they were en abled to-reach practically every ham let. The privilege of undisturbed ex ercise of t public function, which would be given to the corporation, would justify the demand that it make such extensions. Mr. Lewis dodges the fact that the British postal telegraph service Is operated at a loss by lumping mail, telegraph and telephone together. "Will Payne in the Saturday Evening Post shows that, in order to pay, the English telegraph rates should be raised at least 50 per cent. Each branch of the service should pay its way independently of the others, and accounting should be exact enough to show whether it is doing so, Mr. Lewis also assumes that our mail service is all that it should be, though complaints of inefficiency are many and loud, even from such stalwart upholders of the Administration as the New York World. Mr. Lewis would have done well to withhold his congratulations on the financial results of the parcel post until the railroads, star route and rural carriers are adequately paid. The Government cannot expect long to make a profit by compelling others to render service at a loss. When the carriers are paid what they earn, it will be time enough to strike a bal ance and ascertain whether the par cel post really pays. The serious objection to Govern ment acquisition of the wire systems which is to be found in the addition of 200.000 persons to the civil service is recognized by Mr. Lewis. He tries to minimize it by saying that more than half the employes are girls who remain only three or four years and then leave to get married, and that the automatic telephone is coming into general use. He holds that the Government would not be Justified in buying the telegraph lines, on the ground that they are obsolescent, be ing supplanted by the telephone lines, which perform both functions. By the same reasoning, would the Gov ernment .be justified in buying the telephone lines? Wireless telephony may soon succeed wireless telegraphy and thus render all the wire systems obsolete. Why not await develop ments and make a clean start with the -wfreless system when it is per fected, rather than buy any plant which may soon become junk? That brings up another point. Mr. Payne says In the article quoted that lio improvement in telegraphy has originated from the British Govern ment service. Public ownership puts a damper on invention. Com mittees of Congress must be con vinced of the merits of new inven tions and Congress must be induced to appropriate money for new appar atus and to "scrap" old apparatus when it can ill spare money from public buildings and pensions, which are needed to aid re-election of its members. Brazilian politeness goes to great lengths in its eagerness to make the Pnlonpl hannv. He is known av-v- where- as a mighty . hunter, but we mi$ mm dare Bay he has Jleen secretly ambi tious to be a great discoverer, too. To gratify this laudable desire of his the Brazilians .have hunted up an "unknown river" which the distin guished visitor was permitted to "dis cover" to the sound of the sackbut and merry timbrel. Of course it takes his immortal name. POLITICAL DAWS. A few noisy birds are already squawking the cry of "big business" at some of the candidates in" the primary election. This in spite of the fact that there is about as much opportunity for "big business" to put over something in Oregon in its own behalf to the detriment and opposi tion of the people as there is for an ice trust to succeed in the Arctic circle. If this be not true then the recall and the referendum are impo tent and rule of the people Is' a de lusion. - We doubt, however widely the charge may be spread, that it will turn votes. The chief effect of a "big business" accusation in politics is to keep voters of email minds away from the polls. In previous elections it has been observed that' there are certain timid individuals loath to vote because they cannot find candi dates on the ticket to suit their fancy. Either a candidate Is incompetent or is aligned with, "big business." The latter term is broadly inclusive " as understood by the ignorant voter. It embraces everybody who has made a moderate success in life. It follows, that they who have been moderately successful are aligned with "big business"; they "who have not been moderately successful are incompetent or untrustworthy. As there is no room between the two for any other class, the man who heark ens to the demagogue might as well remain at home on election. There fore he does. The slush about "big business" is supplied almost invariably by the in competent candidate. He mounts a high pinnacle of eelf-asserted virtue and tries to divert notice from his true shortcomings with clamor against opponents. It is well to remember that "a daw's not reckoned a religi ous bird because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple." THE RIGHT BRAND OF ECONOMY. In this discussion of the appropria tions of the last Legislature, Mr. Mc Arthur collated certain facts that are interesting and undeniable. The sum of them is that nearly one-fifth. or about Jl, 000, 000, of the total ap propriated, was for expenditures in cident to measures enacted by the people, for deficiency bills that the Legislature did not create, for meas ures for which there was a public de mand and for purposes afterwards approved by vote of the people. This $1,000,000 cannot be charged as leg islative extravagance. Moreover, a part of the remaining $4,300,000 of appropriations represents the carry ing on of governmental policies and endeavors inaugurated by preceding Legislatures. High taxes are not wholly charge able to the Legislature. They are the result of indifference of or lack of forethought by the people, to extra vagance by officials and departments, and to legislative acquiescence. It is an almost hopeless task to go through the list of appropriations made by the last Legislature and say that this or that item should not have been Included. The needless expenditures are in the main portions, - not - -the whole, of many items. They are scat tered generally through the whole list and in large part are due to dup lication of service. What is needed this year at Salem is a body of men determined to study and overhaul the whole system of administration of state affairs. The demand is not that we give up gov ernmental activities already under taken, but that those that are correl ated be combined under one supervi sion. The public does not demand a penurious policy or a stay in prog ress. It wants the business of the state to be put on a business basis. To do this, the Legislature will have to go back over the proceedings not only of the 1913 session but of sev eral preceding ones. That this businesslike administra tion, may be secy red and economy prevail, it is necessary that men of sound Judgment and known integrity be elected as members . of the Leg islature. In Multnomah County there is opportunity to elect such men for the lower house. There are eleven candidates whose names are on the Republican primary ballot in re sponse to the urging of more than one hundred representative citizens. They are pledged to give the kind of economy that fits the case. They are men whose pre-election pledges can be relied upon as sincere and pertain to be made good, if it is within their power to make them so. VR1)AUN AND THE NEGROES. Senator Vardaman and some of his Southern colleagues waste a great deal of precious time in the bad cause of degrading the negroes. Their theory is that our colored brethren are not human beings, but somewhat highly-developed anthropoids whom it is . advisable "to keep in their proper places" at all costs. The growth of the negroes in wealth, in telligence and professional standing 13 an ominous phenomenon therefore to the Vardaman and Blease type of Southerner. It brings before their excitable imaginations dreadful vis ions of the time when the blacks will be their "social equals." They would rather die than shake hands with a negro or dine with him, though there are certain other intimate relations into which some of them enter with out apparent reluctance, as the number of mulatto children south of Mason and Dixie's line indicates pret ty clearly. . When one of the Vardaman speci mens gets into the Federal Senate he begins at once to try to force every body else to adopt his inhuman views upon the negro question. These fire eaters are particularly disturbed when a negro receives a Federal ap pointment. With them his qualifica tions do not count for anything. He may be a highly intelligent, refined Christian gentleman with all the spe cial attainments which the office de mands, but that makes no difference. His face is black and that is enough to condemn him in their eyes. If the Vardamans had their way no negro would ever hold a Federal appointment in Washington or any where else. The ideal procedure would of course be to give everything to good old bourbon -retainers from Mississippi and Georgia. The trou ble is that the negroes control a good many votes North and South and the President, in spite of his own secret predilections, feels obliged to recog nize the race with an occasional -favor. This always sets the Vardaman pot boiling. Just now this eminent statesman is frothing at the mouth because Mr. Wilson has appointed a negro muni cipal judge of the District of Colum bia. He says he will fight the ap pointment "to the last ditch." What a pity it is that negrophobia has de prived some Southerners' of their common sense. If they had any left they might occasionally think of something useful to say or do in the Senate. . THE ALASKA SWEEPSTAKES. In the few crannies of Christendom where civilization has not bared the lap of ease and luxury there are still to be seen occasionally those splen did struggles with rugged nature in whieh man must use the most primi tive methods and the most deter mined hardihood. Such a spectacle is the annual sweepstakes in Alaska, wherein dog-drawn sleds rade across hundreds of miles of ice and snow in a superb test of speed and endur ance of men and dogs. What could be more thrilling than the trying race just ended over a course of 412 miles through storm and blizzard, with Nature in her most uncompromising mood and a thermo meter standing far below zero? What more dramatic than the finish with the winning driver and his pack of rugged Siberian wolfhounds sweep ing across the line hours ahead of his nearest rival? It is an event to warm the cockles of the heart, yet this great annual event in Alaska will pass before many years with the advent of railroads. At least the competitions will lose their keenness when the dcsg is no longer the main factor in transporta tion, and communication throughout the Northland. Civilization and the railroads have driven the spectacular from the West and left us with only a feeble interest In overland horse racing and tests of physical endur ance. We prefer to thrill over the spurts of aeroplanes, express trains and speeding - automobiles, where courage and ingenuity are on dis play. As the devices of civilization give the people of the Northland a firmer dominion over relentless Na ture and the eternal struggle is lightened, the picturesque overland dog express will gradually lapse into the realm of fond memories, only to be reproduced for exhibition purposes as the Wild West of days gone by is now presented. THE II RE DEMON. Every day we read of some fresh sacrifice of human beings to the fire demon. Yesterday it was seven per sons in a hotel. -Today it is nine Jn a tenement-house. Tomorrow it may be a throng of little children at school and next day the entire audi ence at. a theater. We are so much in the habit of making these -terrible sacrifices to our chosen idol and rev eling over them in the daily papers that the horror of it seems to have been forgotten completely. We think it is fair to say that Fire is the chosen idol of the American people, for they are continually offer ing human sacrifices to him, as the ancient Carthaginians did to Moloch. We are the only people in the world who tolerate the kind of building that makes death by fire an everyday occurrence.- In other countries confla grations are sometimes fatal, but such events are very rare. We pride ourselves on the excellence of our fire companies and the perfection of our apparatus for fighting fire, but all this does not make our lives safe from nightly flames, nor, we might add, from daily flames either. No perfection of organization or apparatus can prevent, fires or insure the safety of human life. The only way to achieve this end is by erecting the kind of buildings which experi ence has shown to be safe in other countries. As long as we permit new death traps to be built and old ones to stand we shall have our daily feast of horrors. Fireproof building is ex pensive at the outset, but it pays in the long run. It is said that some of the insurance companies prefer to. pee fires happen rather frequently. "It is good for our business," they be lieve. If no buildings ever burned down nobody would feel like taking out insurance and the companies would pine away and expire perhaps', or some of hem think they would. But fears of that sort are really groundless. Do the best we can In the way of fireproof construction, there will still be plenty of conflagra tions and plenty of business for in surance men. But it seems to be our duty as civilized creatures to make things as safe as we can. A WILLIAMS FAMILY AFFAIR. Vehement assertions that Con troller of the Currency Williams did not use his position on the Federal reserve bank organization committee to capture one of the banks for His home city, Richmond, were made in the House by Representative Glass, but doubt is cast upon them by the circumstances under which the announcement was made in Rich mond. A Richmond correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says: "That Mr. Williams was absolutely cold blooded would seem to be past be lief," and he states that the Control ler's father, brothers and brother-in-law were intensely interested in the fight. The correspondent says that on April 2f the day on which the an nouncement was made, the bankers and many other citizens were invited to the bank of J. L. Williams & Sons, of which the Controller was formerly a member and of which his father is the head. The elder Williams acted as host, and. though those invited say no intimation was given as to the nature of the announcement to be made, one of them said: "We did not suppose Mr. Williams was invit ing us to a funeral." Telephone con nection was opened between the bank and the Controller's office in Wash ington. The Controller's brother-in-law, E. L. Bemiss, took the Richmond end of the wire and his brother, R. Lancaster Williams, took the Wash ington end. . .After an hour spent in general talk, the Controller took the Washington instrument and, the correspondent-says "after-a bit of ban ter that kept the men at this end in suspense for a few moments, made known the great fact: Richmond had' won." The dispatch closes with this paragraph: It was a joyful occasion and it demonstrat ed In a striking way that Richmond had in Washington at this critical time a real friend, bound to this city by the . closest sort of ties. That is the way it looks in Balti more and that is the way it will 190k to any man who does not close his mind to the facts. That gathering in Richmond and the telephone conver sation 'were strictly a Williams fam ily affair. Mr. Williams' father, brothers, brother-in-law and all his friends and neighbors looked to him to do his best for "the. old town," and he dare not disappoint them. Sup pose, for example, ho had been guid ed only by a stern sense of public duty, and, having cast aside all con siderations of personal interest, kin ship and association, had brought about the location of a bank at Bal timore, what sort of. a life would he have led in Richmond thereafter? There would have been a cold snap wherever he went and he would have received more or less veiled hints that the climate of Baltimore would suit him better. That peace, concord, brotherly and filial love which now seem to reign in the Williams family might easily have ceased to exist, and jangles and jars might have become the rule. Certainly John Skelton saw what was good for him. But Mr. Glass says the committee was unanimous in favor of Richmond and therefore the Virginia capital must have been selected on its mer its. Of course the committee was unanimous. It was necessary that it should be bo In order that Secretary McAdoo's native State of Georgia might get a bank for Atlanta and that Secretary Houston's State of Missouri might get banks at both St. Louis and Kansas City. Mr. Mc Adoo's fortune was made in New York, but his heart- Js in dear old Georgia. Mr. Houston has not lived long in Missouri, but he probably hopes to go back there, and did not wish to be called upon to show Kan sas City why It was not entitled to a bank, for Missourians require a very clear showing. Hence the commit tee was probably unanimous for At lanta, St. Louis and Kansas City also. We all know how these things are done. "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" is the rule In politics, and politics got mixed with banking on this occasion. Prosperity for the farmers of the Pacific Northwest is foretold in the monthly bulletin of the Merchants' National Bank. It says the wheat crop this year should be the largest in the history of the three states, es timating the yield at 75,000,000 bush els. A prosperous fruit year is also foreseen, the apple crop being esti mated 100 per cent higher than that of 1913, and marketing conditions having reached, a high degree of ef ficiency. With such good prospects this section can await with equanim ity the revival of general business and the renewal of investment, immigra tion and development which must ensue from sound basic conditions. The high cost of living for rail roads is illustrated by a few figures from the annual report of the Lehigh Valley. Comparing the year 1913 with 1898, the cost of maintenance of way has increased from $725 to $1524 a mile, passenger cars from $8000 to $12,000 each, freight locomotives from $15,000 to $25,000 each; repairs on a passenger car from $510 to $824 a year and on a freight car from $31 to $70 a year. The railroads are in the same predicament as the work ingman, whose living cost has in creased faster than his wages. A meritorious plan is under way to provide a suitable home for women who have served a jail sentence. - At present there is no refuge in Portland adapted to their special needs and much remediable suffering and de pravity are the consequences. Money is needed to rent a house for this worthy purpose and furnish It. The chairman of the committee is Mrs. F. L. Purse. 1475 Sacramento street, from whom particulars " may be obtained. When a female I. W. W. ranter started a disturbance in Dr, Park hurst's church in New York, the or ganist drowned her noise with music, while the sexton put her out. That music was doubly sweet for what it saved the congregation. Carl Vrooman, of Bloomington, is running against Roger Sullivan for the Democratic nomination for the Illinois Senatorship on a platform made up of the distinctively progress ive principles. What will W. J. Bryan do to help him? It develops that Germany sent Prince Henry to Argentine to offset the effect of trade relations of Teddy's visit. If that was the pur pose, Germany should have sent the Kaiser and the whole royal family. George Alfred Townsend, who has just died in New York, was the pre mier traveling correspondent in the two decades following the Civil War. He was the first newspaperman to "cover" the United States. The new river Roosevelt discovered pans out to be a hidden stream set apart by the hospitable Brazilians for that purpose. Are they trying to land him in Doc Cook's class? If Terrell, proposed for - Municipal Judge of the District of Columbia, were to confine his "operations" to sitting "on "his race, Southern opposi tion might vanish. - A fisherman came all the way from Wisconsin to fish for Oregon salmon. He could have had all the sensation by hitchtng a team of fractious mules to his flshline. The Wisconsin man who came to troll for salmon in the Willamette must have been reading Kipling's masterpiece beginning "I have lived!" At O. A. C- social affairs, spiketail coats are to be barred. Hard on the smartly frocked papa's boys. Or possibly Huerta took a couple of more drinks and had a fresh view of the situation. Coxey's army fell away when the march began. Marching is too much like work. Set the alarm tonight, for excuses will not be taken at the morning service. Once bitten, a man believes in the efficacy of the muzzle. Strawberries now coming in look good enough to eat. Evidently. Huerta cannot believe we are not bluffing. N Mexicans believe the Gringo Is easy. Go to church tomorrow. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonlan of April 18, 1889. Washington. April 17. The President today appointed William H. Calkins, of Washington Territory, to be Associate Justice cf the Supreme Court of that territory. Salem, April 17. Rev. J. W. Harris, of this city, formerly Congregational minister here, has been very sick for several weeks and refuses to eat. His excuse Is that his time has come and that he doesn't want to Interfere with the plan of the Almighty to take him when he pleases. - London, April 17. Parnell has begun suit for libel against the Times. The City Council last evening dis cussed the Bite for the new City Hall. One of the Plaza blocks, the Market block and a half block on Eleventh between Washington and B streets were considered. The Women's North Pacific Board of Missions yesterday heard addresses by Mrs. T. M. Gunn, of Walla Walla; Mrs, W. S. Holt, the Portland missionary to the Chinese; Mrs. H. A Newel), of Sa lem, and Mrs. R. S. Wallace, of Salem. John Kelly, of Kelly, Dunna & Co, who was appointed by Governor Pen noyer Commissioner from Oregon to the Paris Exposition, will leave tomor row for Paris. Goodyear, Cook & Dillon's minstrels will appear at the New Park Theater this evening. Robert Holman left yesterday for New York City. W. A, Wheeler has purchased the business and outfit of the East Port land Vindicator and also the good will and business of the Star. He will com bine both In the Vindicator. W. W. McGuire and E. L. Thorpe both retire from the newspaper business. Harry Stuttsman. who has been en gineer of the East Portland Water Company for six years, has resigned. He has accepted a position on a river boat as engineer. LOCATION OF BRIDGE APPROACH Equitable Franchise Conditions for Brldse Vaers Irged by Mr. Hylnnd. PORTLAND. April 17. (To the Edi tor.) I regret to note that Mr. Moores fails to see the bridge approach situa tion in its true relation to the public good, and to recognise the purpose for which the bridge was originally au thorized; namely, the admission of Clarke County commerce and citizens Into Portland in the best manner pos sible and the consequent development of that territory. Should the proposed approach be built via the Union avenue line. Mr. Moores and others who Intend to use it extensively will be obliged to travel more than one-half mile further than under the present circumstances, or than would be necessary should the ap proach be built at Derby street, allow ing the present Union-avenue service to remain undisturbed. Mr. Moores certainly does not Intend to convey the idea that should the approach be built at Derby street that he or any one else who did not wish to would be obliged to go there to get to Vancouver. As above stated, he could have his choice of routes, either the present service with the Improved condition of a bridge connection added, or take the larger cars on the standard gauge line over the Patton and Derby route. The present vehicle route from Van couver, which It is proposed to abandon, is three-fourths of a mile shorter than the new Union-avenue route would be, and Its abandonment would mean a loss to the county of a $60,000 Investment of the present approach, which could be maintained for many years out of the money saved by building on Derby street. Further, Mr. Moores certainly does not mean to say that many hearings were held, or in fact that any were held, before the decision had been reached by the two Commissioners who located the approach at Union avenue. Through the process of elimination, there were only two who had anything to say about where this bridge ap proach should be. No showing of costs was considered at the Courthouse hear ing, as no estimates were filed. The public will be Indebted to Mr. Moores and his associates If they will really assist In securing equitable franchise conditions for all who wish to use the interstate bridge. Upon this point hangs the last possible chance for any Justice in this whole matter should the rehearing be denied. The plan by which the bridge itself Was moved 600 feet eastward and the approach located to connect with the Union-avenue line, the north approach, at a greater cost, twisted and planned so that standard gauge suburban trains will not be able to use It whether by design or not, fits most beautifully into a scheme whereby the sole benefactor Is the Union-avenue carline. My statement at the North Portland meeting was that consciously or un consciously every one taking part in this controversy was serving In the Interest of one or the other of the traction companies. I am not at all em barrassed by this, as my attitude has always been favorable to the extension of our public service facilities. It would take more than argument to convince an interested public that one single-track narrow-gauge approach across the interstate bridge was of more value to us than two lines in full competitive operation, which are now possible at less .expense to the tax payers In general than the single-track line adopted by the two commissioners. GEORGE M. HYLAND. BRITAIN AS A BIG MO.XEV LEXOER 46,000,000 Inhabitant Owned Uy Less Than i.'O.OOO Bosses. Exchange. In a recent number of London Everyman, L. Q. Chiozza Money, mem ber of Parliament, discusses Britain as the money lender of the world. He sets out that the 46.000,000 inhabitants are owned by less than a quarter of a million people, that Is, that all the ac tivities of the empire are controlled by this handful of persons to whom all pay tribute. He. states that the total aggregate of over-sea investing is about 4,000,000. or $20,000,000, and that the annual profit received by this group of Investors Is fully 200,000,000, or $1,000,000,000 in American money. He comments that Rome drew tribute between the spoils brought home by her generals and the depredations of her usurers in the Roman provinces and wonders what Tiberius Gracchus (Lloyd George) would have said to the Roman equivalent of a cool 200.000,000 sterling. "Tribute drawn by the rich," says Mr. Money, "cannot compensate us for neglect of the use of capital in primary industries here. In the poor British towns the huddled artisans are worsting to have fractions drawn oft from their labor to be embodied as British capital, lent to put up new pub lic buildings in a city in Brazil or Ar gentina. Think of the irony of Itl" NO MORES TIPS IX THIS HOTEL Old Southern, In St. Louis, to Reopen Vnder That System. St. Johns Cor. New York World. With the reopening of the Southern Hotel May 1. St. Louis Will have a tip less hostelry. Bellboys, porters and maids will be forbidden to ask for gratuities or to take them under pen alty of being discharged. Notices to this effect will be placed In every room. Topical Verse The Veteran's Last Sonr. I am standing on the summit of a century of years That hath measured the life of our Nation. I And I see adown the mountain a flood of blood and tears, That was shed for our country's salvation. And I see a miKhty legion who, for that nation's life. Went forth in young manhood's fresh glory; And I see a mighty legion who perished in the strife Now sleeping in garments stiff snd gory. CHORUS. And we're going soon to meet them in that blvouae of the soul. As the shadows around us give warn ing. And I want to see my comrades when the angels call the roll. All ready for inspection in the morn ing. We were boys when we enlisted, and these wrinkled brows were fair. And our eyes were undimmed in their vision. And the frosts that never melt had not gathered on our hair. And our step had not lost its pre cision. But the years have built their terraces on every comrade's brow. And age makes our weary limbs quiver. And the frosts are falling thick and we're on the double-quick To the camp that is over the river. Chorus: But though the veterans vanish, their children still remain. The deeds of their fathers to cherish: And the cause for which we battled our children will maintain. And the foes of our banner shall perish. For we battled not in vain if still that banner waves. Through ages our Nation adorning. And loyal hands shall plant it mid the flowers upon our graves. Till the great reveille in the morning. Chorus: Chaplain John H. Lozier. Word-Language. Como esta Usted was all I knew Of Spanish; you of English knew still less And yet that night how fast the hours flew! In vain I sought for phrases one or two With which my admiration to ex press; Como esta Usted was all I knew. A trifle tiresome grows "How do you do?" After much repetition. I confess; And yet that night how fast the hours flew! Was ever helpless lover forced to sue In such cramped phrase? You laughed at my distress: Como esta Usted was all I knew! So. silent as the Sphinx, I sat by you: Nor, till we parted, dared your hand to press; And yet that night how fast the hours flew! Perchance Love needs no language; there are few Unspoken thoughts Dan Cupid cannot guess. Como esta Usted was all I knew; And yet that night how fast the hours flew! The Century. - The Montesaort Method. "Lady "Bug, Lady 'Bug' Fly away home. Your house Is on fire. Your children will burn!" The Lady "Bug" answered: "I can't interfere; That point Montesaort Makes perfectly clear. "My babes are unfolding Their "will to achieve'; That tire burns houses. They want to believe. "By multiple forms. Is the Infant mind vexed. They must analyse first. And synthesize next. "So they're burning the house. With intent to deduce The simple concrete From the complex abstruse. "If I rush In and rescue My babes from the blaze. They'll depend on such help All the rest of their days. "And so." said the Lady "Bug." "I can't interfere. That point Montessorl Makes perfectly clear." Woman's Home Companion. The Dawddle-Bu-. Did you ever hear the Dawddle-bug? It lives In a place that is warm and snug; I never flies around, but creeps and crawls. And on the sofa or hammock sprawls. Listen! You'll heat its lazy hum: "In a minute I'll come! In a minute I'll come!" In the morning dressing there is a tug. If a child has been stung by the Dawddle-bug: Breakfast table will have to wait; School bell rings for a boy that's late; Unlearned lessons, a dunce cap tall. And no time left for a game of ball. Now a cure for the sting of the Dawddle-bug Lies neither in medicine, pill nor drug. (Some say the oil of birch is good; I haven't tried it, and never would); But the poison can't In the system lurk Of a boy who Is brisk In his play and work. Pathfinder. The Tortoise-Shell Cat. The tortoise-shell cat She sits on the mat. As gay a a sunflower she: In orango and black you see li-;r blink. And her waistcoat's white, and her nose is pink. And her eyes are green of the sea. But all is vanity, all the way; Twilight's coming and close of day. And every cat In tho twilight's graL Kvery possible cat The tortoise-shell cat She is smooth and fat. And we call her Josephine. Because she weareth upon her back This coat of colors, this raven black. This red of the tangerine. But all Is vanity, all the way; Twilight follows the brightest day. And every cat in the twilight's gray, Kvery possible cat. London Punch. In the Balcony. As twilight deepened, he and she Were sitting In the balcony They two together, side by side. To hold her hand he vainly tried. "Oh, no," said she; "I never could Permit you to; no lady would! Besides," she added, 'you forget 'Tis hardly dark enough just yet." Eugene C. Dolson In Lippincott's. The Waist. An imag'nary line is the waist. Which seldom stays long where It's ambles and skips 'Twlxt the shoulders and hips According to popular taste. Anthony Euwer, in Harper's Magazine. Half a Century Ag9 (From The Oregonlan of April 18, 1864.) Cairo. April 14. The Platte Valley from Memphis reports the surrender of Fort Pillow to 6000 rebels, commanded by Forrest. The rebels took one fort and turned its heavy guns on Fort Pil low, pouring death and destruction into our ranks. Colonel Bradford capitu lated at 3 P. M. The rebels butchered every colored soldier, also the officers commanding them. Out of 600 in the garrison only 25 were alive, and somo of these were wounded. Chicago. April 15. A New Orlan3 letter of the 5th says a brilliant fight took place at Fensacola recently be tween the Twenty-third and Twenty fourth New York Cavalry and the Fifty-seventh Alabama rebel cavalry. In which the latter was almost annihi lated In a hand-to-hand fight with sabres. Washington. April 13. In the House the conference committee on the bill to provide a territorial form of govern ment for Montana was instructed to make no Teport that would authorize other than full white male citizens to vote. Des Moines, la., April 11. The emi gration westward is increasing daily. Feed for stock on the plains is said to be very scarce. On Saturday we were shown a series of township maps for Multnomah Coun ty, recently copied from the official maps of the United States Land Office by G. W. Barrage. County Surveyor. The steamer Cowlitz. Cnplain Olson, has been chartered by the Monticello Ac Cowlitz Landing Sti-amboat Com pany to make trl-weekly trips with the lTnited States mails to Monticello and Pumphrey's Landing, in place of the steamer Rescue. Under this arrange ment the opposition between the Res cue and Cowlitz is done away with. The rush on the macadamized road yesterday was unprecedented and the White House was crowded. We have but two 8mashups to report, one a fine car riage owned at the livery stable, corner of First and Salmon streets, and the Cnion Hotel baggage wagon. Yesterday a siwash on a horse with a clootchman seated astride behind htin rode leisurely through tho north end of the city, with the air of being mon arch of all he surveyed. A large 10-stamp mill for the Ains worth Mining Company in the Owyhee district will arrive on the bark Mon itor. Julia Dean Hayne will conclude her professional visit to the city tonight. The performance will consist of "The Belle of the Faubourg" and "The Hon eymoon." SPECIAL FEATURES for The Oregonian Tomorrow Unlocking Alaska. A detailed study of America's greatest storehouse and how the Government railway system ill unlock it. Princess Luisa's Marriage. In her own story of her life the Princess fells of her romantic wed ding, with all its regal appoint ments. Evelyn Thaw's Story. In Bii interview she tells n her work to brine: up her son and for get the pact. Oregon at the Fair A full page, in colors, on the su perb showing Oregon will make next year at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Qneen Eleonore, the Bulgarian sovereign, who will be in our midst shortly, is the fairy queen of the wounded sol diers. The story of her life is a romantic one. The Tiger Decides A thrilling short story of love and adventure by Frank Conly. Complete Sunday. The Chu-rchea What do they need to strengthen their appeal T The question is dis cussed by a number of eminent thinkers. 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