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Forelan post age, double rates. w Eastern HuMnrn Offices Verree & co" V Ira. New York. Brunswick building. -ni-ao. 8teer building. Mi Francisco Office P.. J. Bidweil Co.. 713 Market street. I-OBTI. V U, 8A TIKI) AY, J I I. 2S, Ml. THE EUXTION OITLOOK. Another month will find the politi cal campaign under way throughout the country. Representative Under wood is understood to have informed His Democratic followers in the House that after August 1 they may consider themselves free to go home and begin the fight for re-election. By that time ithe House is expected to have passed the conservation bills and the few other remaining parts of Its pro gramme. It will then have no other business except to agree with the Sen Ate on the details of the anti-trust and river and harbor bills. The cam paign for Senatorial nominations is already under way in several states. The campaign finds serious division among both Democrats and Progres sives, and a greater disposition to unity among Republicans than has existed at any time since the begin ning of the Taft Administration. Colonel Roosevelt, finding his third -party ranks sadly shrunken by return 'of many voters to the Republican party, seems to be striving to pre serve his prestige by rallying men of all parties in Xew Tork into a good 'citizens' attack on the bosses of the two old parties. This may be con strued as preliminary to his own re turn to a regenerated and unbossed Republican party, which, he may hope, will renominate him for Presi dent In 1916. That, at least. Is one interpretation to be put on his reported advocacy of Mr. Hinman's nomination for Gover nor by the Republicans. His course does not please the standpat Progres sives and that fact gives color of truth :to the reports that Governor Johnson, of California, has violently denounced the Colonel. Progressives have nomi nated candidates for Senator and Representative In marry states, but their hopes of success rest chiefly on dissatisfaction in the other parties with nominees than on their own strict party strength. Democrats realize that they are handicapped by business conditions, for the Administration's tariff policy, its delay In establishing the new bank system and its insistence on anti-trust legislation are held to have caused the prevailing stagnation. They are on the defensive as to foreign policy, canal tolls, weak diplomatic appoint ments, the spoils system and extrava gant appropriations. They have di vided on canal tolls and Reserve Board appointments, and the division between progressives and reaction aries among them is becoming more sharply defined. They must make a desperate fight to retain control of not only the House, but the Senate, with the knowledge that if they lose the Administration will be powerless to procure constructive legislation during the second half of Mr. Wil son's term. In New York there Is war between the Tammany and anti-Tammany forces, with the Roosevelt forces drawing strongly on the latter, who have Mr. Wilson's sympathy. If the Democrats should win the Senator ship. It will be due to the fight between Mr. Barnes and Colonel Roosevelt. In Illinois the war between reac tionaries and progressive Democrats rages around Roger Sullivan's candi dacy for the Senate, with Secretary Bryan threatening to indorse and speak for Lawrence B. Stringer, the boss' rival, and with a rnena or sax. Sullivan predicting that his nomina tion means the election of the Pro gressive party candidate. In Iowa Democratic hopes of elect ing Mr. Connolly to the Senate rest ' more on the chance that Colonel Roosevelt's promised visit will draw enough votes from Senator Cummins ' to insure his defeat than on Mr. Con nolly's own strength. The Roosevelt Man Chicago Tribune attributes to : Iowa Republicans such fear of this I result that they are trying to Induce ; the Colonel to stay out of the fight ? with the promise of support for the ; Republican nomination for President "in 1916. This theory, however, ig "norea the waning of the Progressive " party. Indiana is the scene of a fight by . Senator Shively for re-election, and here, too, the boss enters Into the calculation, Mr. Shively being backed by Thomas Taggart. The state Is ' claimed by the Progressive party as one of their strongholds and they I hope to draw away many Democrats i who revolt against boss rule. With I parties so mixed, it Is difficult to pre ' diet the result of a three-cornered right, but there as elsewhere the trend . of public opinion Is towards the Re publican party. f In Oregon disgust with the Demo . eratic tariff and its effects on the I state's industries and with the course of Senator Chamberlain Is great; while Mr. Booth, the Republican candidate ! Is so strong that the latter gentle man's election Is probable. California.' over which the Progres ; sive party movement swept more com I T'etely than any other state, has wit ; nessed so marked a retrogression In j Its strength and so decided a setting ; back of the tide to the Republicans " that the latter registered more voters I than the other two leading parties I combined. If registration is any ln L dex. a Republican will succeed Sena tor Perkins, especially as the old par ty Is gaining friends and as dissension weakens the Progressives. Nevada is reported In revolt against Senator Nwlands because he voted rir free wool and free sugar, and the election of a Republican to succeed him would not be surprising. The situation generally Justifies the conclusion that the odds are against the Democrats and that the Republi cans have a fighting chance of Win ning both houses, while the Progres sives will do no more than hold the balance of power where the vote is close between the other parties. WHAT SHOILD THE WOMEN DO? If those excellent women who think they have no interest In public affairs, and ostentatiously refuse to register and vote, will take the trouble to look over the proposed eight-hour consti tutional amendment, they are likely to change their minds. The law has to do with every manner of employ ment In Oregon. No employe of any kind may work more than eight hours In any day; and the eight hours must be consecutive, with a one-hour Inter val for rest or meals, making a stretch of nine In all. The housewife who keeps a maid or cook at work more than eight hours in any day, or more than 4 8 hours in a week, may be fined J1000 or sent to Jail for twelve months. The cook who begins at 6 A. M. must be let off at 3 P. M. each day (she has an hour's Interval) and all day Sunday, or some other day of rest. The maid who starts in her day at 7 A. M. Is through at 4 P. M. The only alternative for the un hnn tisasswA Pfnpr will be to employ ..nntviee f-nnk biiH maid to complete the day or to do the work herself. or to run the risk of fine and impris onment hv kcpDin her domestic serv ants in service throughout the day. It would seem to be a woman s world as well as a man's world. HIS SUDDEN DISCOVEKV. Th. state mjiv nr niav not share the dismay of Mr. U'Ren at his discon certing discovery or a joiter m primary law. It must be a joker, for Mr. U'Ren did not know it was there, though he wrote the bill. But every- hn.lv bIha Irnpw it. The loker consists of a plain re- i quirement that "no independent or nonpartisan candidate shall be per mitted to use any word of the name f anv nnlltir.il rjartv or organization in his candidacy." There ought to be no difficulty in unaersiaiiuins; of that clause. Secretary Olcott has no doubts about It at all. Mr. U'Ren was originally an lnne pendent candidate. Then he con trived to be the Prohibition candidate. Now he wants to be both. But he cannot be. He doesn't know what to do. We don't know what he should do, or we should freely offer our dis interested advice. As it stands, the prohibitionists look upon Mr. U'Ren as a slngle taxer ami the single-taxers look upon him as a prohibitionist. He is get ting nowhere. It is tough. It is a coincidence that when Mr. TTRen be- n ,n rcana that ho had so tied him self up that he couldn't look on way or kick the other, ne aiscovereo ii Joker. IN THE BALAXfKS. The intoi-oat nnrl welfare of the Northwest are to a great extent de pendent on the rivers ana nuiuun bill, now before Congress. , But the measure Is In grave peril of defeat. If there shall be no appropriation for the Important and vital work at the mouth of the Columbia, or for the Celllo canal, or for other Oregon projects. Congress will have failed to do its plain duty, and the commercial and maritime development of the Columbia River and Oregon ports will be heavily retarded. This is the situ ation, briefly and plainly stated. It is the misfortune of the Colum bia River that the fate of its proposed appropriations is Inextricably in volved wtth all other river and harbor projects, meritorious and unmerltor lous. But so It Is. The Oregonlan has sought to show that, if the Co lumbia River should not be permit ted to stand before Congress for what it has a right to demand and expect, and if it should not be rescued from the pork-barrel system of piecemeal and miscellaneous appropriation, the whole scheme of appropriations would break down and the Columbia River would go down with it. There has been an attempt to mis construe and distort The Oregonlan's proper criticism of a vicious system into an attack on the proposed Co lumbia appropriations; but of course It was not. It was a warning and a prophecy. The present plight of the river and harbor bill was clearly fore seen by The Oregonlan. It should have been foreseen by others. Senator Burton was for ten years chairman of the rivers and harbors committee of the House. He Is ad mittedly the best-informed man In the United States on the subject. He has been driven away from support of the present measure, and he may defeat It. He has never before, in his long Congressional career, opposed a rivers and harbors bill. It is impos sible to minimize the weight of his reasons or to question his motives. But it nevertheless remains true that the Columbia River will be sorely hurt if he and his associates will prevail. It may be hoped that a compromise will be reached with Senator Burton by which the Nenvlands plan for a nonpartisan commission to have charge of river and harbor Improve ment, or any similar proposal for scientific and economical river and harbor control, may be adopted, and that the present bill will ,then go through. The Oregon delegation should be encouraged by every avail able means to bring about that result. THE rtarr.urrr m: t . The trial of Madame Calllaux grows more dramatic from day to day. At the scene July 23 the ac cused and her husband were confront ed by Madame Gueydan. the woman whom Calllaux loved and married years ago before he was married to m. ,. . . wife Old rivalries came to light again. Old Jealousies renewed h.i- hatsfnl vio-or. Old woes were raised from the dead to rack the souls of the actors in the trageay. t i honed hv M . LADori, Mauami- Caillaux' great advocate, that he can show mitigating circumstances in in relations between Madame Gueydan and the murdered editor of Figaro. Did she break her faith with her for mer husband and treacherously give secrets to the editor which enabled him to prey upon the Calllaux like a vampire sucking blood? If she did, it Is an important element In the trial. It Is an excuse for the accused which will weigh with a French Jury'. The Jurymen are not bound by the rules of evidence which govern our trials. They do in fact what we only pretend to do in shallow theory; they take the whole truth into considera tion. Motives originating long years ago may have gained strength In secret and finally led up to the crime. The devious trails of Jealousy and love, though seeming to be blind, may bring the Jury at last to the truth, not MORNING OREGONTAN, SATURDAY, TTTr 25, 1914. THE merely to 'the legal truth but to the human truth. French law is incred ibly human. It gossips, lingers, pon ders and sometimes pities. Above all things It Is dramatic. More appealing than any romantic fiction to the im agination, more pathetic than any stage play Is the drama played by Madame Calllaux and her husband in the courtroom with Madame Gueydan stalking like an infuriate Maenad across the scene. The dialogue is not merely between the witnesses and the lawyers, nor between them and the Judge. The witnesses address one another, accus ing, denouncing, threatening. But in the tumult of the trial there is a kind of order and from its confused pas sions we perceive the form of truth slowly emerging. The judge sits like fate and weighs it all and his sum ming up to the Jury will utter the calm edicts of common sense. o KK1M. UP THE DEFICIT. With the prospect of a deficit ex ceeding J $6,000,000 at the end of the next fiscal year. Democratic leaders in Congress have been racking their brains for a scheme to make accounts at least appear to balance without cutting any pork out of appropria tions. They discovered that of the $354,000,000 so far spent on the Pan ama Canal $217,785,130 had been paid from the surplus of the preced ing Republican Administration. They also found that to prevent lack of funds from delaying progress on the canal, their predecessors had author ized the Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds "as the proceeds may be required," though he had used this authority as to only about one-third of the canal expenditures. In the language of the street, the Democrats were "up against It." They needed $20,000,000 to complete the canal and Its incidental structures. but were so far from naving mm . c-aah that theV had tO cover up the great deficit already men tioned They must perforce Issue bonds for that $20,000,000. While they were about it. they provided mat bonds might be issued not only for this sum but tor an eipeuunui" from the appropriations heretofore, herein and hereafter made for the .....niiAn nf the Panama Canal." I. illicit U ...... " ... That would enable them to sell bonds to the amount of $217,785,130 aoai t : . . nut the nroceeds ill the Treasury and then to brag of a sur plus. But Senator Smoot smoked out the ..h.v,o Tie nnlnted out that the amendment offered by the appropria tions committee auinurizuns meant "that for every dollar that has hoer, naiH nut in the nast toward the construction of the Panama Canal from the general funds of the Govern ment the Secretary of the Treasury can now issue bonds for that amount." Senator Bristow dragged the nigger out of the woodpile Into plain view by saying: It Is proposed to authorize tne oecreir, of tho Treasury to sell $200,000,000 of bonds to obtain money with which to pay the cur rent runnlns expenses of the Government. Mr Smoot did "not want to go that far," but said: "That is its ultimate ni.wt " Mr. Bristow. however, was not so squeamish, for he said: That is the object of it. Evidently antici pating a deficit in tho revenues. Instead of nklnir for permission to insuo " It they want to Issue bonds on account oz expenditures which have been made, paid for. and settled, in order to set the money to meet current expenses, the ostensible pur pose being to meet expenditures Incurred In building the canal, although the canal has been constructed and paid for with 'he excep tion of an expenditure of about $20,000,000. Of course, the Democrats denied any such intention, but they rallied to a man in support of the bonding scheme and carried It. Here Is a concrete example of the contrast between what the Democrats call Republican extravagance and Democratic economy. The Republi cans save In the "old stocking" enough money to pay two-thirds of the cost to date of canal construction and thus save the annual Interest on bonds. The Democrats have not even $20, 000.000 In their old stocking where with to finish the job, and they pro pose to fill their stocking by bonding the work for which the Republicans have paid with cash In hand. They propose to create an artificial surplus at an annual cost of millions in Inter est, after the time-honored Demo cratic plan. What a godsend Is the Republican style of extravagance to these eco nomical Democrats! AUTHORS AND KIHTORS. The acrimonious discussion which Henry Sydnor Harrison stirred up by his strictures on the magazine editors in the Atlantic Monthly has not yet died out. It still rumbles in the liter ary heavens like distant thunder. Mr. Harrison accused the editors of fawn ing upon success. He averred that a story, no matter how brilliant it might be, was pretty sure to be re turned with thanks as long as the author was not a celebrity. But let him once gain renown, as Mr. Har rison himself did by publishing "Queed," and then there is a magic change In the spirit of the editors. Stories which they coldly rejected be fore they now clamor to buy. Mr. Harrison told them they might keep on clamoring for all he cared and sent his stories elsewhere. The ordinary writer Is less vindictive th;.n the author of "Queed" and meekly re joices In the sunshine of editorial fa vor even if it has begun to beam upon him a little late. Years ago the Cen turv published a poem about an au thor whose manuscripts had been re jected exasperatlngly year after year. He always sent them to the same magazine editor and the editor always sent them back, of course with thanks. Finally patience ceased" to be a vir tue to .the author's mind and he re solved upon a terrible revenge. Tak ing his stand on the sidewalk oppo site the editor's office he called upon all the powers of darkness for aid and "cursed" him and his magazine In good old medieval style. The con sequences were all he could have ,..i-he.t The office building crumbled Instantly into dust. The paper and presses disappeared in, a yawning chasm and the editor was very prop erly carried off by a fiend with horas and a forked tail. There are hundreds of disappointed authors who would retaliate upon the magazine editors with "curses" if there were any hope of prompt exe cution. Unhappily for them the fiend and his power are not always at their disposal and they have to content themselves with grumbling or silence. It Is only now and then that one of them gets the courage or the oppor tunity to speak out like Mr. Harrison and vent his woe. That writers have a genuine grievance against the mag azine editors seems to be unquestion able. Mr. Harrison's case is not unique by any means. Pretty nearly every unknown person who has put his pen to paper has experienced the same kind of treatment. His wares are not wanted until he is famous and no editor is willing to run the risk of founding his fame, so iaie runs round for him in a vicious circle. The magazine editors claim that fhev- are. alwavs on the wattfh for bud ding genius, but if they are their de tective faculties must De auu. vemu -..mn.r invoriahlv has to fight its way by tooth and nail before it receives any consideration. This would haraiy hennen nntformlv as it does if the editors were really eager to encourage new writers. As a matter of fact. oimeot everv matrazine editor repre sents a literary fashion. He Is chosen for his post because he has acnievea renown by a particular style of writ ing. He naturally believes that the style he has cultivated Is the best pos sible for everybody else and makes It the criterion by which everything sent to him Is Judged. The effect of this practice upon budding genius needs no discussion. It amounts to the con tinuous suppression of originality and enforced obedience to dull routine. The consequence is that our young writers who aspire to magazine suc cess do not seek to develop their best powers. They do not look into life for their material. On the contrary, they try to fix upon some fad or fash ion which they know to be approved bv a rjowerful editor and devote them selves to cultivating it. Through this process, wnicn is n evidence everywhere, our literature has become inanely imitative. The short story has been so subjected to editorial whim and fancy that It has lost much of its vigor. It is the rar est thing in the world of late years to see a short story in any of the lead ing magazines that is not insufferablj dull, though all of them are cut to exact measure and follow the rules laid down by the editors and profes sors. The only good stories are those which, like the Potash and Perlmut ter series, break the rules boldly. An exposition Is to be held next year, probably in Virginia, to cele brate the fiftieth anniversary of negro emancipation and to show the achieve ments of the negro race, and Con gress has voted an appropriation of $55,000 to aid It. Southern Senators were among the warmest supporters of the enterprise and praised the progress made by the negroes and one Senator paid a glowing tribute to their fidelity and devotion. The progress of the negroes justifies the hope that they will earn political equality as a matter of merit, not merely of legal right, and If the race issue can be kept out of politics it may gradually die out through the gradual uplift of the black race. These are the days of all sorts of weird fusion schemes. One of the weirdest is that proposed by ex-Senator W. B. Chandler to the New Hampshire Democrats that, if they will not oppose the re-election of that amiable old reactionary. Senator Gal linger, the Republicans and Progres sives should not oppose the Demo cratic Representatives Reed and Ste vens for re-election and that all par ties support Winston Churchill, Pro gressive, for Governor. As Mr. Chan dler has strong Bull Moose leanings, his motive may be to pull something out of the scramble for his third party. It is remarkable how warlike the Administration becomes under pres sure from Europe. It warns Car ranza that vengeance must not follow his entry Into Mexico City and it pre pares to hurry marines into Haiti and Santo Domingo. Though this is the era of peace, the big armies and na vies of Europe inspire deep respect among the champions of a little navy and the foes of militarism. If weevil is in the importation of Manchurian corn at dock in Seattle and gets foothold on this Coast Just as corn is becoming an important product, the sufferers can charge It to the men who made free trade pos sible, in many cases themselves, by voting wrong. Governor Johnson has taken out of cold storage and used to good effect on his leader some of the epithets he used In 1912, if reports from Califor nia be true. But no matter, the Colonel Is his match in command of language. Vancouver no sooner takes a deep breath of relief at being delivered from one cargo of Hindus than an other .heaves In sight. For a nice, quiet, law-abiding country, Canada makes a great disturbance nowada-s. It was a husky thief who stole the complete Encyclopoedla Britannlca from the McMlnnviile library a few nights ago. A man who could do that could get more value out of a bank. Villa does not need an invitation to march in a triumphal entry at the Mexican capital. He needs watching. Once he checks his bathtub for Mex ico City, the others must beware. The Lawgiver of Clackamas must ride one hobbyhorse at a time. With all his accomplishments he cannot straddle two at the next election. "Is he 'dry' or is he ain't 'dry'?" Rust among the wheat seems to exist only in the minds of the Chi cago bears. When Mr. Earling went where It was said to be. In the Da kotas, he could not find It. The harbor policeman who chases the small boy without a bathing suit cannot have been much of a boy in his youth. Probably he was raised In a bathtub. The Colonel will fix It with Hiram the first time he gets to Sacramento. The Governor of California must be troubled with a seasonal complaint. Villa may be an uninvited guest at the constitutionalist entrance into Mexico City, but It is safe to say he will be in the spotlight. Painting the city automobiles a bright red will not feaze the unofficial joyriders. The carmine color will Just suit them. The Tacoma nine must be learning to play ball if It can cause enough excitement to kill a spectator. Moyer has been re-elected by the Western Federation of Miners. They want that kind of man. George Fred Williams is entitled to a decoration as the prize meddler in the Orient Oregon cheese, Oregon butter and Oregon eggs are good enough for Ore goruans, ( Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan of July Zi, 1864. Colonel Barry's party are now In Washington County, prosecuting the survey of tho railroad route through the Willamette Valley. The Statesman says that Messrs. Cooper, Masters and J. H. Moores have started out to locate the road from Salem to Quartzville In the Santlam mines. The new post road bill contains a large number of new routes for the Pacific Coast, The following new routes are ordered in Oregon: From Portland via Taylor's Ferry and Che halem Gap to Lafayette; from Lafay ette. Yamhill County, to Tillamook Valley; from Dalles City. Or., via Can yon City and Independence to Boise City, Idaho. A bill passed both houses of Con gress appropriating $5000 for the pur pose of enabling the President to ne gotiate with the confederated tribes of Indians of Middle Oregon for the relinquishment of their right to. fish, hunt, gather roots and berries and to pasture stock outside of their reserva tion. The Golden Age. which completed its second volume last Saturday at Lewis ton. I. T.. Is this week to be removed and hereafter published at Bolse City. The Dalles Mountaineer believes that there is a regularly organized gang of hoe-in. c-old dust manufacturers, who almost dally attempt to pass off the best of brass with a slight admixture of gold. Acids are the safest test to detect the swindle. The barn of Green B. Smith, in Polk County, was on Wednesday destroyed by fire, together with a fine stallion, a wagon and many farming utensils. Salem, July 23. A fir broke out in the Mansion House In this city at 1:30 P. M. today and all the buildings on the Mansion House block were de stroyed. Mr. Smith, the owner of the Mansion House, had recently added an other story to the house. Intending to make it a first-class hotel. His loss Mansion House and dwelling house ad Joining is estimated at $6000. Mar shall's market. Myer's washing ma chine factory and Wilson's hall were also entirely destroyed. Mr. Smith was badly burned. The cornerstone of the new univer sity building at Salem was laid on Wednesday. The religious exercises and addresses were at the Methodist Episcopal Church, and consisted of Singing- under the direction of Hon. S. E. May; hymn read by Rev. D. Rut ledge; prayer by Rev. William Roberts; a historical sketch by Rev. G. Hlnes, and an address by Governor Glbbs. A procession was then formed and marched to the foundation, when dif ferent articles were contributed to be deposited in the cornerstone. George Rundell. gutde to Captain Drake's command, arrived at The Dalles yesterday. He reports the whole expedition that is, the commands of Captains Drake and Curry as camped on Crooked River. A portion of the command has been on the head of Bridge Creek, where they surprised & band of Snakes, believed to be a part of the gang that have been depredat ing on the Canyon City road. The In dians retreated and were followed un til it was ascertained that they wore making for the Harney Lake Coun try, when the pursuit was given over. At 2 o'clock on the morning of July 9 a party of Indians made a raid on Jordan's ranch, in the Owyhe coun try, and after killing one man drove off about 40 horses. The next morning 13 men, tinder the leadership of Mike Jordan, started on the Indian trail. The next day they were reinforced 4y eight men. They afterwards came up with the Indians, about 200, in a can yon. Jordan Immediately commenced the attack and, fighting bravely for some time, was shot through the heart by an Indian. Two other men were wounded and tho party fell back for want of sufficient force. The Ladies' Sanitary Fair The re ceipts of the entertainment on Friday evening were $200 In coin. The time was occupied in singing by a choir under the direction of J. B. Wyatt and with remarks by Hon. A. Holbrook, Rev. G. H. Atkinson and Rev. Dr. Eck man. The fair was postponed until this evening. Mr. Holbrook said he had received and sent to the Sanitary Commission over $52,000. The steamer Pacific carried $292,770 in gold dust on the manifest, besides $150,000 in the bands of passengers. S. Ellsworth, of Eugene City, left with his wife and eldest child on the Pacific for the Atlantic States, as a representative of the grand lodge of Oddfellows to the National grand lodge. The telegraph wire between Yreka and Shasta was down yesterday. Hence we are without our usual tele graphic dispatches. CITY HAS BEEN SELLING "SHORT" Responsibility Exists as to Water, Same IS in llliugs aaaau Bay miuviusua. PORTLAND, July 24. (To the Edi tor.) I see by The Oregonlan that one of our city's water consumers Is not satisfied with the new sprinkling or dinance. Who WDuld be? It Is evident that our good Water Commissioner did not stop to think when he made the new ruling, for if he had thought a moment he would have made some other arrangement The writer has paid for his water service for the first 10 months of 1914 under the old ruling. The water office had no hesitancy In accepting the money and giving a receipt therefor under the ruling then in existence. Now comes the Water Commissioner and wants to make a ruling that is retroac tive to cover sales already made. He would tell his groceryman or milkman if either tried this trick that common honesty should force them to live up to their agreement of delivery on goods contracted and paid for or he would want hli money back. There is no way that he can make his ruling stick on water sold, the money taken and a receipt given there for: he must deliver the goods on the conditions that they werei sold under. However. It Is possible for him to make new rulings for unsold goods and serv ice, and there Is no reason why the users who have paid for water and service under the ruling which It was sold should stay up half the night to water his lawn. That the Commission er has sold short Is none of the con Burner's concern that is the Commis sioner's trouble. Get busy. Mr. Com missioner, and do by the water users who have paid for service under the old ruling as you would like to be done by G. H. SPEARMAN. Try Thin on a Caplfnllst. , Boston Times. Sponger (meeting acquaintance) Do you know, old man, I really believe I'm losing my nerve? I'm getting so I hate to ask anyone for a loan. As soon as I saw you I began to tremble. The Troubles of Man. Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. Mali born of woman is of few days und full of trouble. He spends the best years of his, life working up to a five seated car and three servants. Two servants are Inefficient snd the third goes joyriding and wrecks the car. MR. GILL OPPOSES TAX EXEMPTION Progressive Candidate Points Ost Iat Justtre of 1500 Measure. DUFUR. Or.. July 23. (To the Edi tor.) Many people are of the Impres sion that the $1500 exemption amend ment exempts $1500 In value of land and Improvements. It does not exempt any of the land from taxation. It ex empts only improvements and personal property, if I have read It correctly. Here in Wasco County it would prob ably decrease the present taxroll by $3 000.000. The present valuation of the county Is $18,360,000. It takes $190,000 a year to run the county's govern mental machinery. Eleven mills will now suffice. Reduce the value $3,000. 000 and It will be necessary to levy 13 mills. . , . There is a farmer here who -will be a . i. , ..u eicnn TTe hnx a nciuh- CAeilipL iiic au bor who can only claim $100 exemption. The first farmer will have less taxes to pay under the exemption law, the other farmer's tax will Increase. Let us assume that the first farmer Is now assessed $4500. $1500 of which Is im provements and personal property. The second farmer Is assessed at $3100. $100 of which is Improvements. Eleven mills on $4500 is $49.50. taxes now pftld by farmer No. 1. Eleven mills on $3100 Ms $34.10. When No. 1 Is exempted $1500 and No. 2 $100. each will be assessed on $3000, and each will pay $39 tax at 13 mills. Hence it decreases No. 1 s tax $10.60 and Increases No. 2'a tax $4.90. No. 2 has Just purchased a run down farm And will have to build it up. Can anyone show the fairness of the working of this proposition? The man of large wealth will also pay an Increased tax. But while you are catching one of him you will catch 20 poor persons. Corporations will pay higher taxes. The same principle will apply to city lots that applies to the farm. The laboring man who has Just purchased a lot on which to build a home must pay a proportionately higher tax than his neighbor who has his home constructed and finished. It seems to me that the poor man who Is trying to get ahead Is penalized for his effort. If the people adopt this amendment they will have adopted a half-baked system of single tax. The single tax advocates, having been defeated by a two-thirds vote, and knowing the futil ity of offering the real single tax prop osition, are offering this exemption amendment as a big step toward the system they desire. This proposition must be argued as a single tax proposition. It cannot be divorced from that. If you desire sin gle tax. vote for It. If you are opposed to single tax, vote against It. There Is another fact In connection with this amendment. It says "every . - ii i ...aaH tlKhO fur i Til - person snaia wai oaciiiviv v. provements. buildings, orchards, etc. ir I owned $4500 of Improvements that are exemptlble under this amendment, what is to prevent me from giving my wife a bill of sale for $1500 of improvements, and mv father a bill of sale for an other $1500. and claiming exemption on tho entire $liui)f i ne miieiiuinoiu oe,i ".trorir namiii" is to be exempted from tax on $1500 of Improvements. I doubt If any scneme oi eicuiiiimu can be devised which will operate equitably. Criticism is offered to the . ... . i .-I . . . nf tiron- 111 r' . i. . - - erty adopted by the people two years -,, in Bniniani i mi. ... all household furniture whether it be much or little. This is In sense In equitable. I do not believe real tax reform will come through any form of exemption, though I would like to see the. poor relieved from as much of the tax burden as possible. F. M. GILL. Progressive Candidate for Governor. UI9TERIA" I.IKE "BLOOUV SHIRT" Rrllsrloua Prejudice Aroused In Ireland for Purely Political Purposes. PORTLAND, July $4 (To the Edi tor.) Because he is the strongest man England has seen for many a year. Premier and War Minister Asqulth has gone to the limit to conciliate North east Ulster and now by reason of be ing England's strongest man. he will go to the samo limit in upholding the peace and dignity of tha crown. The following facts at this time will hear reDetitlon: Five-sixths of the people of Ireland are In favor of home rule. The majority of the peo ple of Ulster are In favor of home rule. The Irish parliamentary representa tion Is made up of 85 home rulers to 16 Tories. The Province of Ulster sends 17 home rulers to 16 anti-home rulers. Every county. Including the city of Belfast, has at least one Na tionalist representative. In the matter of aggregate wenlth. Ulster stands second to the province of Lelncester: In per capita wealth Lelncester and Munster both exceed Ulster. Religious prejudice Is a political policy, employed to defeat the Liberal party and thus restore the power of an hereditary House of Lords. How can home rule be a religious Issue, when Great Britain's foremost Cath olic, the Duke of Norfolk. Is a radical supporter of Carson's tactics and the chief whips of the Tory party In the House of Commons are avowed Cath olics? Nationalist Ireland in the past was led by such beloved Protestant leaders as Robert Emm. t. Wolf Tone. John MItchel. Thomas Davis, Joseph Blggar and Charles Stewart panu II. and today by such Protestant leaders in the Irish parliamentary party like Stephen Gywn. William Abraham, Cap tain Donelan. James Hogg. Swift Mac Nelll, Richard McGee and T. W. Rus sell; and outside of Parliament by staunch supporters like Lord Plrrle, head of the great Belfast shipyards. Truth is were Ulster Province excluded from the home rule bill by the Brit ish Parliament Ulster Itself would fight the exemption. Ulsterla la a form of political agitation similar to the cry of the "bloody shirt" that years ago inflamed the North against the South. The 70-year-old lawyer chieftain of the Orange forces made two blunders, the first In arming his Ulster men, thereby causing all Nationalist Ire land also to arm. He should have re membered the volunteers who stood behind Gratan's parliament and what happened at that time. The second blunder: He was trapped the moment he entered the conference called by the King. Asqulth has put him In a hole, a hole Asquith dug for him. He might have had royal sympathy: fur ther continuance of his audacious tac tics can bring nothing else but the royal frown. J. HENNESSY MURPHY. RELIGIOUS MAN IS IN DM.KMMI V. titer Rule and Conaclenoe May Com pel Him to Let Lawn Burn. PORTLAND. July 23 (To the Ed itor.) Regarding the new order about using water for irrigating I am Inter ested to note what my neighbor will do If the weather is hot the last days of this month and the first days of next. My neighbor Is very religious and a conscientious observer of the laws and rules of the community. His house number is even. The rules per mit him to water his lawn on Thursday. July 30. He is forbidden to Irrigate on Friday. July 31, and Saturday, August 1. The rules permit him to water on Sunday, AugtiBt 2. but his onscience forbids It. The rules for bid again on Monday, August S. So, if he complies with the rules and follows the dictates of his con science, his lawn will have no water from Thursday until Tuesday. He has a well-kept lawn and takes great pride In keeping It in good condition. I don't believe he will let it spoil, nut when will he water It? OBSKKVER. Muni. - Late Start. Boston Transcript. Aunt Why. Tommy, when I was vour age a He never passed my Hps. ' Tommy When did you begin, auntie? Twenty-Five Year Ago From The OreKonlan of July JS. III. Astoria, July 24. A dispatch Just re ceived from the Cap says '.V bark Is on l:cr beam endr off the weather beach, abreast of EtTbro.ka. The vessel la supposed to be tha Jcannstie Ferguson, from Victoria July 20." Spokane Falls. July 24 Articles of incorporation have bir Hlmi by A. M Cannon. Paul I". Mchr and Charles I. Smith, organlxlng the Unlor. Depot Company of Spokane. A gentleman from tho upper country informed a Salem Stateaman reporter yesterday that the whole for.-e of men on the extension of the Oregon Pacin Railroad had been withdrawn with th exceptln i of a few v ' The Mayor of Altolna yesterday re appointed J. T. Hughea as Polle JvAf. A party of It had a very pleasant picnic at the hatchery on the Clacka mm, In charge of Councilman R. Far rell and Mr. R. Scott, of Mllwaukle. Tho trade with Alaska la at last be ginning to attract the serious W Uon of Portland's business men. rwo ateamera are now running resrulexly on the Portland-Alaska routa. Worklna-men are In demand and there la no need of any one who Is a.Me to work olng Idle, The Metropolitan Railway Company, who are building an electrlo motor line to Fulton I arK, cannot get as many aa they want. Th"J tried Chinese, but they would not worn satisfactorily. John Bays returned rexteraay from San Francisco. The Saturday evening concerts at ML Tabor have proved the most pleas ant and successful feature of subur ban amusement. L. L. Hawkins, who has Juet returned from California, gave hla experlencea yesterday In harpooning porpoises at iledondo Beach. C. J. B. Malarkey has Juat returned from a short sojourn at Clatsop. George H. Durham and family and Dr. J. W. Hf 1 and family, returned from Wilhott Springs yesterday. Walter Jonea. the contractor, yester day succeeded In placing the Oddfel lows' building, on the new foundation, corner of Fifth and J atreeta. Eaat Portland. E. M Sargent, of the real estate firm of iaambert Sargent, left yeaterday for Wilholt Springs. H. D. McGuIre has purchased from Is F Chemln the lntter'a Interest In a 20-acre tract near Irvlngton for $9000. A party' of men of National repute arrived last night and are at the Es mond. They are: Congressman O. W. Dorsey. of Nebraska. Congressman .1. O. Burrows, of Michigan, ex-Oovernor Stewnrt of Vermont. General Nathan Golf of West Virginia, ex-Congressman Havden of Massachusetts and Captain Joiin S. 8. Herr of West Virginia. Per ry 8. Heath, a representative of tho United Press. Is among the vlaltors Congresaman McKlnley, of Ohio, did not come, as was expected. The pari was met by ex-Congreasman M C George, General William Kapua. Presi dent Donald Maclesy and Hr.-retarv Arnold, of the Board of Trade, and Congresaman Blnger Hermann, who es corted them to the Esmond. Here Ihev were met by Senator John H. Mitchell Issaed mm "Various 'reure." Harper's Magazine. Mr. Araabury, the superintendent of the penitentiary, was escorting a pan of women visitors through the build ing. They entered a room where three women were busily sewln. As they turned to leave tne room one of the visitors said: "What vlclous-looklns; creatures' What are they In for? They really look capable of committing any crime." Well," replied the superintendent. t Mis ii ... thev have no other home. That Is my private sitting room and they are my wife and two daughters. ' Features in the Magazine Section of THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN The Great Adventure." An illustrated article by T. R. Mai Mechpm, president of the Aero nautical Society of America, on Lieutenant Porto's, attempt lo cross the Atlantic by air next month. Iron Horse Ii Now 100 Years Old, John Elfreth Wntkins writes of Geoi'frc Stephenson's great inven tion. George Ade's Newest Fables in Slang. Tho famous humorist tells the Fable of the Lonesome Camp on the Frozen Heights. Sketches From Life, by Temple. Daily sights and" scenes are de picted 'by an artist who hns a keen eye for the humorous and the pa thetic. Rushing Our Trade Into the Far Corners. How American wares are invad ing distant nooks and corners of the plobe. Woman Manages World's Great est Buffalo Ranch. Mrs. (i. W. Lillie, wife of Paw nee Bill, has a novel occupation. Illustrated. The American Girl Abroad. Ilarrisiin rVher depicts his hero ine in Japan. Newest Scientific Discoveries. An interesting page describing the wonders of modern science. A Picture Page Book for the Little Ones. Stories, drnwings. puzzles and versef for the boys snd girls. Training Pigeons to Race. An illustrated story on the "Homers" and how they are trained to return to their nest. Four Pages of Comics. Amusing adventures of old Hoc Yak. Uncle .lim and Tad ud Li i. the District School Hoys. Mainiua's Angel Child, Mr. Bones. Hi Hopper a 'id Genial Gene.