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9 THE MORNING OEEGOMAN, SATURDAY, MAY D, 1914. mtron POKTI ASD. UBEGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. PoatofBce as secoud-cl&aa matter. Subscription Katet Invariably In Advance: 7 (RT U A l.t Daily. Sunday lncladed. one rear..... Daily. Sunday included, bix montna... J Liaily, Sunday Included, three month ' Daily, Sunday included, one month. , ' uany, witnouc bunaay, one yew j Dally, without Sunday, six months JS.00 . 2.25 . .75 . e.oo . 8.-5 60 .. 1.60 .. 2.40 . . 3.50 . .9.00 .. -is f D 1 1 J , .. IlltUUl DUUUOJ, LI" V ........ " " - u&uy. without Sunday, ona raoutn... Weekly, one year..... X Sunday, one year.... Sunday and Weekly, one year. - J (BI CARRIER) i Daily, Sunday Included, one year.... - Daily, Sunday included, one month. . liftw to ftomit Sand rjoctofnee money or- e'er, express order or personal check on your- HKKI DUU. OUtlUin, 1.1) 111 ur - - '- sender's risk. Uive postorhce address in lull. i Including county and state. ; JPoatage Bates 2 to IS pages. 1 cent: 16 ' lo S2 pases. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pases. 8 cents; ; 60 to 60 pages, 4 cents; 02 to 76 pases. 5 - cents; id to i2 pages, o cents. Foreign post 7 age. double rates. ; Eastern Business OfBces Verree & Conk- !!q, tiv York. .Brunswick buildiug. Chi- 4 rago, stcger building. J ban sYranciaeo Oliice K. J. r T42 Market street. Btdwell Co- i PORTLAND. SATCBDAY, MAY . 1914. 1 COLONEI, BOOSKVELT'S OFPORTIMTV 1 Colonel Koosevelt's criticisms or) J the foreign policy of the Wilson Ad ministration have put Into straight- 5 forward language thoughts which t have been in many men's minds in ! more or less definite form. A feeling i of uneasiness and dissatisfaction widespread at the muddling of Mexi can affairs, the proposal to back wa- 'i ter on canal tolls, at the apology and '. indemnity to Colombia and at the extreme deference to European opin 1 ion. A true National spirit breathes ? through Colonel Roosevelt's words. It la refreshingly in contrast with I what he correctly terms the "timid and involved course" of the Admin istration. If the Colonel will but seize it, he has a fine opportunity to make him- ; self the spokesman of a National pro .' test against the policy of humiliation and dishonor masquerading under cloak of supersensitive regard for National honor.' No other man can j do so as well as he. Ex-Presiden ; Taft, though respected personally, is "' discredited by his official and pohti cal blunders. No other man than Colonel Roosevelt, holding those prin clples of National unity and National self-respect which have found their champion in the Republican party, ' can better express what is in many " men's minds and draw those men : together. The ex-President owes it to him self, to the Nation and to the party which formerly bestowed the highest . honors on him to forget his old quar rels and to leave to the future his : schemes of practical idealism whil he works with all other men of lik mind to deal with the problems of i the immediate present. The bosses ; who fought him are so thoroughly discredited that it needs only a union ; of all progressive elements holding ' to the Republican political faith In order to effect their final defeat. The Republican party will not forgive '. such men as Barnes, Penrose and Crane for furnishing the pretext for, .'. if they did not provoke, the bolt of 1912. Their day is done, and a new lay has dawned in which the party conventions will truly represent and express the opinions of its members, (' free from dictation by any boss. In suggesting that Colonel Roose ," velt postpone for the present, we do : not ask him to abandon, his plans of ' social betterment". Those plans in v the main are and long have been the aims of the Republican party and '.: had in part been carried out before :- the schism of 1912. We simply ask )' him to put them aside for the time : being, while the opponents of Demo- i cratic misrule get together on the " urgent problems of the immediate " present. The country now "needs to render the Democratic Administra- tion as far as possible powerless for - further harm by taking from it con- , . trol of Congress. That done, no more !j such measures as the discriminative .Underwood tariff and the canal tolls repeal bill can be passed, the Colom- :' bian treaty of apology ard indemnity '.' cannot be ratified and the co-opera- ' tion of Congress in dealing with Mexico can be secured only on con dition that the Administration's pol icy is brought into closer accord with public opinion. That opinion con demns impotent, gratuitous meddling in Mexico's internal affairs, and de . " mands firmness in guarding the in terests of the United States and .of American citizens' lives and fortunes .;ln foreign lands. The question who shall lead the "reunited Republican forces should be left to the future. The work of the present is the reorganization of divided army with a slogan in which . all can join with one voice, an army which, united, would be invincible, r Colonel Roosevelt owes it to his party ;and his country to aid in the work ' - of reunion, that the principles which he holds in common with its mem - bers may triumph. adored and petted by his mate the more selfishly conceited he grows. Woman will win the respect of her fellow-pilgrim by demonstrating that she is worthy of it. The ordinary, unregenerate man believes in his se cret heart than every woman "is a simpleton and despises her accord ingly. Her proper tactics, if she ever wants to" be anything better than a doll, is to prove to him that she Is not a simpleton by asserting her hu man rights and dignity in every legit imate way. THE TEAPOT TEMPEST. Governor "West has quietly with drawn his troops from Milwaukie tavern, in marked contrast '"with the sensational display with which they were dispatched there. " The Gov ernor announces that he has personal assurances from the management of the Friars' Clu that the law will be obeyed. The Governor is easily persuaded at the wrong time. Why did he not have his interview with the club managers before he sounded the riot call and brought out the militia? Be cause, of course, it is his habit to act first and think afterwards. It is perhaps matter of no great moment that word has gone out to the world that the Governor of Ore gon has called out the troops to sup press lawlessness in the immediate vicinity of Portland. It is perhaps no great matter that the city and state are advertised everywhere, by the spectacular performances of the Governor, as a place where civil law has failed and order may be pre served and public safety be secured only by the frequent declaration of martial law. But it is a serious thing that the menace of military force should be constantly present in every Oregon community and that the es tablished processes of law should be so often interrupted by impertinent interference with their operation. writers than among the- Americans in our most flagrantly provincial and conceited days. Neither centralization of authority nor . direct accountability will put brains irfto his witlass head if he be elected. Half a Century Ago WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE SAID. If Dr. C. J. Smith had been well advised, and had himself been can did and straightforward, he would have given out a public statement of the following purport, when reference was made to the open-town condi tions of Pendleton in 1898, under his administration as Mayor: "J did the best I could "with condi tions as they existed at that time. Pendleton had for years been wide open. The saloons had run day and night, gambling was common, and the disorderly houses were only too well patronized. Public sentiment wai tolerant of those things, - and there was no expectation or demand that a Mayor do more than keep them under sharp surveillance and reason able control. I sought to reduce law lessness, and I did. I demanded fair public order, and I got it. I kept close .watch, and made frequent ar rests, so that the elements of vice and disorder were never permitted to have free rein. No Mayor, however earnest -for reform, could have done more then. I have no reason to be ashamed of my record, and I will not repudiate it. Let my enemies make the most of what- happened sixteen years ago in a frontier town, Where there were many rough men and many unfortunate women to deal with." But what Dr. C. J. Smith really did was to give a public Interview, in which he made the following state ments among other similar things: When I went into office I found a sys tem of monthly fines of women in vogue. I put a stop to it. I found gamblers were paying similar fines for the privilege of plying their trade. I put a stop to that. I found saloons open on Sunday. 1 closed them and drove the gamblers from town. These things were all a matter of record and could have been procured by the Ore- gonian had it had a disposition to state the facts. Mayor Smith did not put a stop to the system of fines on women; nor did he end the era of gambling. or monthly fines on gamblers; . nor did he close the saloons on Sunday The witnesses for Dr. Smith agree for the most part that he always said he would enforce the laws. No doubt. He says so now. FRlEISIA'?f "CURE" DISCREDITED. A bulletin has been issued by the Department of Health of New York City Jtvhich should end Dr. F. F. Friedmann's pretensions to have dis covered a cure yfor tuberculosis. It tells the result of observation of forty-seven of the seventy-seven cases which Dr. Frledmann treated last year, nineteen of the other thirty hav ing eluded observation and eleven having removed from the city. Of the forty-seven, twelve died, twenty two are still in hospitals, seven are attending clinics, one is under private treatment and five are at home. Not a single cure is to the credit of the boasted turtle serum. Publication of this bulletin is time ly, for the Friedmann Company, which had been forbidden to treat patients pending inquiry, has shown signs of renewed life. Official in quiry into the efficacy of the serum was obstructed by Dr. Friedmann's refusal to furnish either the Govern ment or the city with samples ade quate, for rnorough investigation. The health authorities, therefore, had to rely on observation of individual cases. Dr. Friedmann has shown the same unwillingness to aid inquiry in Germany, and the only word from that country which is at all favorable to his pretensions Is n opinion of Dr, Ehrllch, discoverer of salvarsan, that "there might be curative properties in turtle serum. The great Friedmann bubble has burst for sufferers from tuberculosis, but it has been solidified into gold for the doctor, for during his two months' stay in this country he cleared 40, 000 over expenses. This money was obtained by raising false hopes in the hearts of those sufferers to whom. above all others, should be given the sympathy of every man and- woman, The doctor who falsely claimed to have climbed a mountain and pre tended to have discovered the North Pole has been branded as a faker; what shall we say of this doctor, who imposes on the credulity of the af flicted? There are not adjectives in the dictionary severe enough to char acterize him. Secretary Cowles, of the Postal Progress League, advocates Govern ment ownership of railroads, tel egraphs, telephones, automobile serv ice and the aerial service of the future. France is trying Government ownership of railroads and is paying big deficits every year. Expenses of operation went up to 82 per cent of receipts, due to increase of wages and number of employes. Any railroad in the United States which spent 82 per cent of Its revenue on operation would -go- into receivership. Their ratio rarely runs above 67 per cent. We cannot hope to do better than France under Government ownership? so we had better let it alone. . The New York Sun asks If ex-Gov ernor Odell is to return to active poli tics and strive for leadership in alli ance with Colonel Roosevelt, by whom he was driven into retirement in 1906. Both the old guard and the young guard are said by the Sun to be dissatisfied with the leadership of William Barnes. It suggests that both the ex-President and the ex- Governor being practical men, they might combine to drive out Mr. Barnes and reunite the Republican party for victory. The Colonel could then take revenge for the "crime' of 1912.' An amazingly hopeful writer on the drama prophesies a time when we shall witness contests between competing playwrights with the same furious Joy we now feel at a baseball game. Such contests "were common at Athens and the mob went wild over them, but they did all sorts of queer things in that city. Before we agree to get excited over a dramatic competition we beg to be assured of some genuine merit in the competitors. REFORMING WITH FORMS. The case against the bi-cameral : BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Professor William T. Sedgwick, of '-' the Massachusetts Institute of Tech . nology, has hatched up an amusing argument against woman suffrage. He says in his erudite way that "the 1 brute in man" makes votes for worn cn dangerous. The brute is now somewhat restrained by chivalrous feeling for the weak and submissive female. But let her once dare to as- . jert herself and the feeble barrier '; that totterinsrly protects her will be ' burst and outrage will follow outrage each more hideous than the other The great beaifty of this argument is its wide sweep. It applies to every subject and downtrodden class in the world just as aptly as to women. The poor creatures should let sleeping " (togs lie and make the best of their . hard lot. For if they try to better their condition they will only rouse - the ferocious passions of their op pressors and bring worse miseries - upon themselves than they ever suf- ' -. fered before. If there is any force in Professor Sedgwick's argument ' history ought to show that every -struggle of the oppressed has only . strengthened oppression. Unfortu nately for him, it shows the precise opposite. He assures us that man's nature is essentially brutal and urges the women to believe that their only safety lies in coddling the monster. Give him plenty of sugary sops and all will be well. Provoke him by a show of self-respecting independence " and the consequences will be dread ful. No woman will be safe any where on the face of the earth from his devouring passion. We take it " that Professor Sedgwick stands on no safer ground here than in the rest of his remarks. There is certainly far too much of the brute in most men, v.t it is not as- a rule subdued by and coddling. Experience - teaches that the more the male HISTORICAL LIARS. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart's paper on "American Historical Li ars" has inspired some severe com ment in the Eastern papers. One of them speaks of it as "professorial. nurbane and harsh." This same or gan of opinion goes on to remark that "the truth of history is neces sarily an illusion," since witnesses in recounting the same circumstance always contradict one another. It would be disagreeable to believe that we must resign ourselves to skepti cism of such a sweeping nature.. If all history is necessarily false because witnesses differ among themselves then there is no such thing as Justice in our courts, because the verdict in every case is founded upon human testimony. Our Pyrrhonic contemporary would have us believe that this foundation is- worse than shifting, sand, but we cannot persuade ourselves that it is so insecure. The courts have, from aes of experience with liars and fools, gradually built up a method by which the truth can be reached through a fog of illusion. It takes an extremely gifted liar to defend a mendacious story under a fire of expert cross-questions. Either he will contradict himself or he will fall foul of facts which are inconsistent with his tale or his manner will , betray him to the jury. It must also be borne in mind that Legislature is set out In the Saturday Evening Post by Governor Hodges, of Kansas, perhaps as effectively as it can be, and yet his article does not convince us that the average Legis lature has a lower sense of duty and responsibility than the people It rep resents or that a change in form would cause the people to elect a law making body more interested in the public welfare than they are- them selves. But in the event some Oregon vot ers find convincing argument therein for the abolishment- of the Senate it is well for them to recall that the proffered Oregon amendment does not propose to change the character of the House and to note that Gov ernor Hodges asserts that a one- chamber Legislature of large mem bership elected from widely separat ed districts would be almost as ob jectionable as the two-house system, The proposal in Oregon is not for state commission government, yet that is Governor Hodges' solution. A considerable part of Governor Hodges" article is devoted to a list of bungled laws passed in his own and other states. Another salient point he makes is that a few leaders are now the real lawmakers in every Legisla ture, the-others voting as they are told, yet the leaders have not a strict accountability to the public such as would be attained by the selection of a one-house Legislature of small membership. Trading between houses and the great volume of legislation adopted within a short time are given due consideration. But nearly everything the Governor of Kansas says about the bi-cameral Legislature can be repeated truth fully afbout the one-house Legislature as established in cities having com mission government and some of the same faults may be related of the ini tiative and referendum. Adoption of laws that do not carry the necessary enacting clause is men tioned. The people of Oregon adopt ed one such law. It was published in the state official pamphlet, sent to every voter in Oregon and given the aDDroval of thousands of electors, yet the omission was not discovered until after the election at which It carried. The people of Oregon were deceived into adopting a tax measure they did not want by the insertion of a eaten phrase. Twice, through lack of un derstanding, they closed up valufable fisheries by enactments ana notn times the Legislature was called upon to unravel the tangle. These incidents are cited to indi cate that the Legislature in dts care lessness is merely representative of the Tjeople who elect it. Direct re sponsibility to the people will not it self eauiD a lawmaker witn intelli gence or cure him of obstinacy. The Portland City Commission welV illus trated that fact in insistence upon the purchase of $500,000 worth of unneeded water meters in the face of plainly pronounced public opposition and it would have made the pur chase but for a spontaneous referen dum. What was the most unpopular measure adopted by the 1913 Legisla ture in Oregon? The new tax law. undoubtedly. Yet it did not originate in the Legislature. It was the prod net of a commission a commission A daring literary man named Tully has dramatized the , Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This is the most wonderful example of bricks without straw we ever happened to hear of. There is not a spark of dramatic spirit in the Rubaiyat. The poem is leisurely,, disconnected, philosophic. It has no plot and no action. Unless we miss our guess Mr. Tully's play pleases, if it pleases at all, more by its philosophy than by its dramatic quality. From The Oregonian of May 9, 1S64. The Union convention of Multnomah County on Saturday nominated the fol lowing candidates: For Representa tives, L H. Wakefield, P. Wasserman. John Powell; for County Clerk. H. C Coulson: for Sheriff. Jacob Stitzel; for County Treasurer, D. W. Williams; for Commissioners, A. C. R. Shaw, H. W. Corbett; for Assessor, John Dolaji; for Coroner, Dr. Hicklin; for Surveyor, O. . Burrage. for Superintendent of Schools. G. H. Atkinson. At the theater on last Saturday night there was a house full and to spare to hear the rival candidates for Congress, J. H. I). Henderson and Colonel r J. K. Kelly. San Francisco, May 7. The overland telegraph line has not worked for sev eral days, and . we are without late Eastern intelligence. San Francisco. May 7. General Chip man, formerly a member of Congress from Michigan, was yesterday arrested by the Provost Marshal and sent to Al catraz for treasonable expressions made at a recent speech in a club meet ing. ' Alexandria, La. May 23. The of fensive campaign against the rebels for the present is at an end. General Banks' army is moving back on this Place. The rebels followed our forces from Grand Echo, and near Carr River an engagement took place, in which tne rebels lost 1000 meg and nine pieces of artillery. Guerrillas under Quan- trell have committed many depreda tions along the Red River. They have captured and burned the steamer Hast ings and fired into the gunboat Ben ton, killing the captain and 20 of the cre-w. Washington, May 5. The Army of the Potomac has advanced toward Richmond, and a struggle for the rebel capital is about to begin. Our army has crossed the Rapldan, and Lee has been compelled to fall back. The fine bottom near the river lust below the penitentiary is extensively Patronized by travelers on their route to tne mines as a camping ground. It was near that spot that a couple of gentlemen stepped ashore from an In dian canoe on their route to Vancouver from Oregon City to pass a night in November, 1843, and where the first impressions were conceived that have resulted in the growth and prosperity of our city. A reaction against Bergson's popu lar philosophy is well under way in the European "WorId of letters and science. Most readers have prob ably felt the presence of something Jesuitical in his arguments. His per sistent denigration of intelligence and exaltation of "intuition" would lead us straight back to witchcraft If it were not combated. The reaction has come none too soon. The steamer Rescue was emnloverl on Saturday by De Witt & Co. to ascend the Sandy about two miles to take on 150,000 shingles, but could not make the trip up the Sandy in consequence oi snags, drifting trees, etc. Ten wagons for the upper country. some of which convey families and household goods, were loaded on steam ers in this city yesterday. SPIES IS FASHION AS IN WAR We thought Funston would not be content very long with a marking- time programme at Vera Cruz. The War Department slipped one over on the astute peace-at-any price advo cates by sending Funston, man of ac tion, to the front. Dr. Cline's plan to flavor water melon must not be pushed to a finish. First thing he knows some evil-mind ed man will substitute a flask for the bottle of milk, or ginger, or vanilla. or whatever the doctor " suggests. Then what? Ia Europe. Second Rate Millinery Firms' Piratea Steal Xcw Dcslgu. London Answers. In order to become a successful fash ion designer an artist must possess not only great skill, but also imagination of a high order and the most perfect taste. Such a combination is so rare that the possessor, can. command a very high salary a salary far beyond the means of any but the largest and most Important milinery firms. The second rate firms cannot afford the prices asked; and some prefer to achieve success by dishonest means. It is the latter who employ -what are PASSING OF HriLEVS WIDOW Rontantte I-ove and Marriage of the London Chronicle. rt-ofessor Huxley, the famous scien tist, died in June, 1S95, at the age of 69. His widow, who was born in the same yeas as her illustrious husband. died recently. Romantic circumstances attended their meeting, their courtship and their mar riage. Mrs. Huxley was a Miss Heath orn. one of a large Kentish family set tled near Maidstone. When she was 18 she accompanied her mother to Austra lia, where her father had gone some years before. It was at Sydney, in 1847. that she met Huxley, who was as sistant surgeon on H. M. S. Rattle snake, then on a surveying cruise in the seas between Australia and the Gret Barrier Reef. They became engaged almost at once, but Huxley's son and biographer after ward wrote: "For her he was to serve longer and harder than Jacob thought to serve for Rachel, but who was to be his help and stay for 40 years, in his struggles ready to counsel, in adversity to comfort; the critic whose Judgment he valued above almost any. and whose praise he cared most to win. The engagement lasted nearly eight years. At first came separation, caused by the successive exploring voyages of the Rattlesnake, on one of which th young surgeon was only kept back by his captain s orders from joining Ken nedy's ill-fated expedition through the bush to Cape York. The Rattlesnake returned to England near the end of 1850, and Huxley did not see his future wife again for nearly five years more. It was arranged that their marriage should take place when Huxley was promoted to the rank of full surgeon, bur promotion was not so rapid as he expected, and the difficulty of obtain ing a decent position In England In reasonable trme seemed almost in superable. Although the young ' in vestigator leaped at once into the front ranks of science and was elected F. R. S. at the age of 27. this was, as he said, "distinction,- but not bread." Miss Heathorn returned to England with her parents in 1856, when Huxley had attained some of the more solid rewards of science and had been elected to a professorship at the Royal School of Mines. She had been very ill in Australia, and it Is related in the "Life" that Huxley took her, on her arrival, to one of the most famous physicians of the day, as a patient in whom he was interested. As a member of the profession he asked the , specialist's candid opinion of the case. I give her six months to live," was his deliberate opinion. "Will, six months or not," replied Huxley, "she is going to be my wife." Those who are given a death sentence by a doctor may take courage from the fact that Mrs. Huxley bore her husband three sons and four daughters, and lived 58 years and a half in excess of the time allotted to her by Harley street. Mrs. Huxley was a perfect companion to her husband in every respect. Witb her excellent knowledge of German she spent two years of her girlhood at school in Germany she was able to as sist "tilm in translations, and she was his chosen fireside critic She had literary gifts of no mean value, which found expression In verse. A volume of her poems was published only three years ago, and recently some verses from her pen appeared In the English Review. Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of May 9, 1S89. Santa Barbara. May S. The cruiser Charleston arrived here on her trial trip from San Francisco today. Her maximum speed was 14.12 knots. Candidates were nominated yester day for delegates to the constitutional convention as follows: Democrats at Colfax. C. H. Warner and G. P. T. Mc Crosky; at Palouse City, J. M. Reed and James Hungate, Democrats; W. H. McClure. People's; at Chehalis. S. S. Berry, of Chehalis. and J. B. Leach, of San Juan, democrats, at Cathlamet. O. A. Bowen, of Wahkiakum, and James A. Burk. of Cowlitz. Republicans; at Walla Walla, B. L. Sharpstein and N. G. Blalock. Democrats. Tacoma. May 8. County Assessor Cook testimates the population of Ta coma at 22,500. Superintendent Wetsel and his teach ers are making preparations for the East Portland teachers' meetings on Saturday. The following teachers will take part: G. A. Adams. Miss Eugenia Craig. Miss D. E. Uoodman. Miss Mary Hamilton. Miss Etta Bens, Miss Ella McBrlde, Mrs. A. E. Sloan. Miss Elvenie Grenier. Miss Kate Prideaux. Miss An na Gray, Mrs. F. E. Alfred. A W. Llewellyn and W. T. Pope left for Washington County yesterday on a fishing trip. From Illinois comes a dispatch announcing that another horse has been blown into a tree by the wind. That report is getting to be a regu lar horse chestnut. But if Huerta does blow up in ac cordance with the Administration's earnest plans, .who'll be to blame if chaos and anarchy run amuck in the Mexican capital? Vera Cruz papers are praising us already. All Mexico will be doing it when they know us better, but it may take stringent measures to bring them to their senses. The international body of miners is sensible " in deciding against a gen eral strike, which would of necessity be a losing fight. Men gain wisdom by experience. The amount Oregon will receive from the General Government will not pay for filling chuckholes. Ore gon will get good roads by building them. Democrats in Congress are rushing things in the hope of getting home in July to, campaign. They surely have a lot of explaining ahead of them. the a-reat maioritv of witnesses, while they see events from their own point that had given many months of study of view, are not liars. They tell the to the subject. In effect the enact- truth as they saw it. If their sight ment was legislation such as would differed from other men's they are be accomplished, in method at least, not to blame. In the same way we I by a permanent lawmaking commis- are bound to take it for granted that I sion most writers of memoirs and annals, letters and inscriptions, were honest at heart. They have often been lg norant, conceited, bigoted and preju diced, but seldom outright liars. Historians, like lawyers, have in vented a system of cross-questioning by which they can often bring truth to light out of the- most unpromising materials. The very contradictions of witnesses are sometimes service able, for if among their differences If the same thought and effort that are devoted in Oregon and elsewhere to attempts to cure the ills of govern ment by changing methods of election and forms of governing bodies were devoted to arousing the public Inter est in the election of capable men to the Legislature, most of the legisla tive bunsrlinsr would cease. It has been demonstrated in this cltv that men of brains and standing can bo Induced to accept the thank thorp, is a sinele point of agreement less task of making laws; that is. they can be Induced to become canaiaatesj If such men are elected this year, th task of Inducing men of the same type to become candidates hereafter will not be half so arduous, ratri otic, intelligent citizens do not shrink from legislative work, but they do fear the odium of defeat by nincom doods and demagogues. Neither the need of electing capa ble men nor the difficulty thereof would be lessened by adopting & com mission form of state government. big salary is Just as attractive to the unfit as to the fit. xne unaesiraoi candidate will always be In the field this is almost certain to be true. The modern "science of history," or "his torical criticism," is scarcely more than an elaborate art of cross-ques tioning applied to documents. When American historians are subjected to it we do not imagine that they turn out to be worse liars than the Greeks or Germans. Our early biographies were singu larly childish and silly in the main. but among them were a few gems like Franklin's life of himself which redeem all the rest. The chances are that there were more liars and worse ones among the French revolutionary The Seaside Signal is in size one of the smallest weekly papers in Oregon. In "ginger" it leads all, for it has just installed a latest model linotype. known as "milliners' pirates," or "fash ion Bpies." Fashion's secret service employs a host of unscrupulous and often very clever folk, and this is the season at which they are most busy. Their meth ods vary greatly. Some are merely eye-pirates. These are nearly all women women with good memories and clever with pen or pencil. Their mode of working is of the simplest. They merely study the designs exhibited in the best shop wln- ows, and then go home and sketch rom memory what they have seen, and send the sketch, with descriptions, to their employers. Some of. these people go further. Well, but quietly dressed, they enter the shop, and in the guise of purchasers manage to inspect the latest hats or frocks. Such a woman usually goes away without having seen "anything to please her, but if she repeats the ex- eriment too often is very soon sus pected. - One of the cleverest of fashion spies had her career brought to an inglori ous close. She was a young- woman of exceptional smartness who for some ears had made a handsome income by selling the latest models from Paris to dressmakers in Buenos Aires and Rio. Handsomely dressed, and accom panied by a gray-haired man of dis tinguished appearance, she one day entered the salon of a famous firm, and, while mannequins paraded before her, she sketched the new costumes in a notebook, under pretense of taking notes of what she bought- She did not notice that a mirror was behind her, but a saleswoman, glanc- ng in it, saw the sketches. No fuss was made, but-the thief was lured to an nner room and there locked up until she gave up the sketches. At last the general Weather Office has justified itself as a prophet. The showers predicted for the end of this week materialized. Seemingly it takes more votes to become Queen of the Rose Festival than to become President of the United tates. That was a dire slam to pull off a movie drama in the Governor's office and not have the Governor in person as the hero. Possessing a stock farm up the val ley, "Pat" McArthur, who would go to Congress, knows all about tuber culous kine. While Teddy 'may be a little weak from loss of weight, he has all his wonted vocal powers Intact and un impaired. ' Villa and Carranza are busy send Ing love notes this way. In the hope of getting more arms and ammuni tion. .The Colonel has opened fire at long range on the Administration's namby pamby foreign policy. Efficiency versus sickly sentimen tality seems to be the issue at Vera Cruz, Huerta threatens to end mediation My, how scared that makes us all. Young John D. is reported much better. How relieved we all are. Chicago morning newspapers getting down to business basis. The battle for Queen of the Roses is now on to go to the finish. GHOST WARNING OF WAR, HIDES Historic Spirit Seea at Fort Ontario Ia Conflict Barometer. Kansas City tSar. An extract from a letter written by a young Army officer at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y-, to a Kansas Citian: At present we are in the unpleasant situation of waiting for some sort of ders to leave this hole. Some two hun dred years ago one British soldier by the nstrne of Fikes was killed by somebody or other who had no right to do it- Now, when the United States goes to war, h amiable ghost wanders around the reserva tion. In other words, he Is a sort barometer which indicates when war Is due. He has not been seen In connection with the present trouble, so I presume- It will all blow over. There are authentic records of his appearance in 1S12. ISfil and 1898. I may add a little history of this place. It was first called Fort Oswego and was built by the British. Montcalm came along and took it from them. ' It was then returned to the British at the end of the war. At the start of the Revolution It was taken by the Americans, then retaken by the British. At the close of .the war it was restored to the Americana, who rebuilt it. In 1812 it was again taken by the British, who restored it to the Americans at the end of the war. It was threatened by the Fenians In 1862. who were prevented from taking Canada by the Oswego and Buffalo police forces. It was rebuilt of stone and brick in 1906. So you see the place has a unique history. The climate is execrable. We are now having our first Indication that Summer will be along about the Fourth of July to sojourn with us for a few daVs. when she will depart in favor -of Fall. Everybody will be glad to get away. The little boy of H. H. Holmes ' on Tuesday pierced the lid and pupil of one of his eyes with a small penknife. Oregon City. May 8. A contest is be ing started by the defeated candidate for City Treasurer. Isaao Ackerman. on the Citizens' ticket, against F. K. Char- man, the Republican candidate. New York. May 8. The Inman line steamer City of Paris arrived today and broke all records from Queens town. Her time was 6 days. 23 hours. minutes. This is the first -voyage across the Atlantic in less than eight days. The advance guard of several hun dred disappointed Oklahoma boomers has struck this city. Willis Dunlway. formerly of this city. but is now on a stock ranch in Lost River Valley, was severely kicked by a stallion a few days since. The south section of the big hotel presents a scene of great activity. Plumbers and carpenters are at work. George Langford is running up chim neys and finishing up his contract. The slaters have made considerable progress. Robert Holman, who Is East on a visit, has been received with great eclat by his old-time friends, the vol unteer firemen of Brooklyn, N. Y. The Fourth Presbyterian Church and Rev. Thomas Boyd, the pastor, have purchased from Mrs. Matthew P. Deady. a half block on Gibbs street between South Front and First streets, for $8250. A church and residence for the pastor will be built. Bids for clearing, grading and bridg ing the line of the Metropolitan Rail way Company from the city limits to Fulton Park, were opened yesterday. EXPERIENCE OF A HOMESEEKER, There's something here in Oregon That I can t understand; It attacks my constitution And holds me to this land. The boys who came out here before Are happy, fat and free. And I can't see why on earth Taint good enough for me. My wife back in the East declares I shall no longer roam. But I'm trying hard to compromise And start a Western -home. I have sold m return ticket And have sent her all-the dough. And I rather think she'll travel When she finds she has a show. There's plenty of room out here for us, I hope she 11 say I shall. For I want to start in business With the Panama Canal. I'll exchange the frigid norther For the Chinook's balmy breath. And accept the gentle rain drops For the cyclone's path of death. The cold, the heat, the lightning. I'll gladly leave behind. And take my humble chances In a more congenial clime. ALBERT EASY. EffipipBcy Move Praised. Brownsville Times. Much favorable comment is being made throughout the state on the ac tion of a number of Multnomah County taxpayers In calling upon 12 leading business men of that county to become candidates for the Legislature. Through the effort 12 good men have responded to the call, and their names will be submitted for the indorsement of the electorate at the May -primaries. Had similar action been taken in every county in Oregon prior to the primary election the personnel of the next Leg islative Assembly would doubtless have been improved to a marked degree and the state given a busy-less session of that body that would relieve it of the odium which Is now attached to it. UNDER THE PALM. Abide with me in Southern lands. When afternoons grow cool and calm. To lazy lie with idle hands Beneath the drooping fringe of palm. Where out from lucent water rings The rush's rod shoots clear and keen. As swaying in the wind it swings Its tawny tail of velveteen. . Where ocean breakers : lashed with spray Seek refuge in the sheltered cove, And 'mong the pebbles fling away The burden of their treasure-trove. While children search the shore for shells. Enchanted witb their mellow moan- So sweet the diapason dwells In their sonorous monotone. ' Till eve appears with scornful mien. In robe of gold and purple drest. 1 And slowly draws a crimson screen Athwart the portals of the West And crowns the brows of distant hills With opalescent diadems. And trails among the pools and rills The splendor of her broidered hems. I What time the olive maids draw near With curious vessels in their hands. To fill with water cool and clear From -cisterns in the salty sands. And linger in the setting sun Like sandal d Greeks - neath Attic skies, Tall virgin queens with hearts unwon And passion burning in their eyes. Anon the crescent dips her bowl Of silver in the tranquil sea. To quench the smoldering clouds that roll. Enwrapt In flame, along the lea. And when the gloaming- steals to woo The twilight in her trysting place. And folds his arms of dusky hue Around her in a fond embrace. Too soon I hear the twittering Of drowsy birds that nestle high. While gentle breezes sweetly sing A soft and soothing lullaby. Too soon the twinkling stars peep up Above the ocean's liquid brim. As wine beads In the reveller's cup Will gather round the crystal rim. Or like those little glistening tears That from the depths of Sorrow flow, When memory saunters thro' the years. Those happy years of long ago. But sorrow never enters here. Intruding on this peaceful calm. For Joy is ever hiding near To chase her from beneath the palm. J. O. FREEMAN. Salem, Or, J. D. and W. H. Kilpatrick. of Kil patrick Bros. & Collins, ratlroad con tractors, are at the Esmond. Captain E. S. Edwards was appointed local inspector of hulls yesterday. Features for Tomorrow Snapshots at Vera Cruz A Fall Page of Action Pictures Direct Prom the Scene of Invasion in Mexico Another Mexican page is frotn a correspondent of The Oregonian and presents a clear and graphic picture or-the Fearl ot Mexico as it now appears under the Stars and Stripes. The Corbett-Sullivan Mill "W. A. Brady tells for the first time his own inside story of the greatest battle in ring history. V Harrison Fisher Pictures Harrison Fisher, the famous artist, has completed a new and striking series, "The Greatest Mo ments of a Girl's Life." Each one of the 12 drawings in this series occupies a full pase a pasre worth cutting out and saving. The first drawing, "The Proposal," will ap pear tomorrow. The Mexican Army It isn't much of 'an army from a fighting standpoint, but for pic- turesqueness and incapacity it is the most remarkable in the world, all of which is shown in a feature article illustrated by photographs- Planning Wars. "While mediation has the limelight iust now, yet the plans for possi ble .trouble go merrily on. Ihe man who plans our wars and the nature of his work are covered by a Washington correspondent, or. The Oregonian. Breezy Suzanne Ellis - Parker Butler's delightful new character passes a few enter taining remarks on "The Point of View." - With the Fleet An illustrated page, in colors, on the work of the great American fleet in Mexican waters. It is the story not only of the great fighting machines, but of the men and how they live. Genevieve's Moods. The fourth article in this series portraying the inner moods of a spirited girl, nas to ao wnn vno domestic mood. Fire Fight Fire A story of heroism by George Allen England. A red-blooaed story, Complete Sunday. At Portsmouth Theodore Roosevelt's own story of how Japan and Russia were brought together after bitter fight ing m the Orient. Oregon's Flowers "Who's Who Among the Wild Flowers" is one of a whole page of illustrated features for the chil dren. SCOEES OF OTHER FEATURES Order today of your news dealer.