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THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, rORTLAXD, JIAY HO. 1DOO. PORTLAN'I). OREGOX. Entered at rortland. OrtfOo. poatofOe as SeccDd-Claae Matter. subscription Bates Iarrartably hm drlrwnss, (Br Mail ) Daily, Sundtr Included, one rear SIM Daily. Sunday Included, six monthe IS lially. Sunday Included, three montha.. 1.21 Ijaily. Sunday Included, one month..... -7S ei:y. without Sunday, one year....... 104 Da.ly, wltnout Sunday, six months. . . .. S 75 Dally, without Sunday, three montha. ITS Dally, without Sunday, one month. . . . . so Weekly, one year 1 SO unlay, one year 2 SO fcuadar and weekly, one year.. ....... 1 50 f (By Carrier., Dally. VnndRT Included, one year...... a a Dr.lly. Sunday included, one month... TS How to Remit fiend poytof nee money order, express order or personal check o your local bank, Stamps, coin or currency are at the secdera risk. Give postofflee ad ore In full. Including county and state. Postage Batea 1U to 14 pases. 1 cant; 1 lo 2a f;aes. 2 cents; 20 to 44 psa-ea. S cents ; 46 to AO pafss. 4 senta. Foreign aoatage double ratoa. Ksatrrn Business Office The 8. C Bsck wlth Special Agency New York., rooms 4& E0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooma ilO-iH Tribune bulldlna. rOKTLAM), BINUAV, MAY 10. THE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER. Xo man proves - his faith by his works'more convlcingly than the vol unteer soldier. Often the European conscript knows little of the cause for which his master compels him to fight, and cares less for it. Sometimes he hates It; but the volunteer soldier de votes himself to his cause because he understands and loves It. His faith Is founded In intelligence. Upon its va lidity he stakes his life, demonstrating by his deeds his loyalty to a high pur pose. When Horace Greeley asked the woman suffragist who was Impor tuning him to take up her cause how she would defend the Nation in tima of war. she replied that she would do as he did, stay at home and talk. One need not Impugn the sincerity of those who express their devotion In words only, but surely their faith lacks something of the keen reality of that which urges a man to leave his home with the interests and atfections which cluster round it and risk his life on the battlefield. It is a fine thing, of course, to talk and write for noble purposes, but it is a nauch finer thing to be willing to die for them. After all, the great test of reality Is action. The loyalty which expresses itself on the battlefield is open to no impeach ment. Its genuineness is beyond all cavil or question, but the loyalty which goes no farther than eloquent speeches or beautiful printed exhortations may be genuine, and again it may not. The question is sometimes hard to decide. When the apostle said that faith without works is dead, he touched upon a wider theme than mere eccle siastical belief In creeds and ceremo nies. His doctrine covers the whole of life. Vain and empty, according to his precept, is that patriotism which discharges Itself in words alone and leaves no concrete handiwork to tell its tale. Shadowy as the passing cloud form is that fidelity to the deity which fails to Impress Itself on human life in vital deeds, but evaporates in prayers and vanishes in idle ceremo nies. Just as true religion according to the prophet consists In walking up rightly before Ood, being & course of conduct and not a system of belief, so patriotism must be something more than words, or it will never command full confidence. Faith which has not yet crystallized In deeds is forever open to. the suspicion of Insincerity. That worship of the Almighty which consists only in begging him to do for us things which we may perfectly well do for ourselves never had the ad miration of the biblical writers, and falls to compel the respect of practi cal men. Like that still more pre posterous faith -which Implores the deity to alter the course of the uni verse to gratify the whims of his puny creatures, it ends In disappointment and brings reproach upon true loyalty to the Creator. So it Is with the pa triotism, which Is a kind of faith, when it falls short of deeds. There Is one kind of patriotism which consists in getting as much as possible out of one's beloved country and giving in re turn as little as possible. There Is an other kind which uses the name of country to uphold petty schemes of personal profit. Both these varieties the father of English dictionaries stig matized as the last refuge of scoun drels. Shakespeare tells us truly enough that religion may be nothing more than a cloak to serve the devil in. He might have added quite as truly that patriotism Is sometimes little bet ter than a wordy conduit to the pocket. When a man has freely offered his life for his country, his patriotic faith can no longer be questioned. It Is stamped with the seal of genuineness. The drafted soldier can scarcely deem it a reproach to himself or a deroga tion from his great merit If one admits that the War of the Rebellion was won by the volunteers. Theorists who ad vocate a huge standing army in this country argue that volunteer troops are not to be depended upon In mod ern warfare, because It takes so long to make Foldiors of them. The war would be over If we were fighting a European force, they say. before our men had learned to handle their mus kets. This is very plausible talk, but it is not sound. The North lost the early battles In the Civil War. but It was not because of the Inexpertnesa or cowardice of the raw troops. It was for lack of competent command ers. Under great leaders all soldiers are brave and the tactics of the field are learned almost by Intuition. Un der half-hearted Generals such as the North sent to the front In the begin ning of the war. bravery counts for nothing and discipline is nullified. Our troops were ready for effective cam paigning long before we found officers to lead them. What we need to pre pare ourselves for defense against the armies of the world Is not a vast body of soldiers always under arms, but a corps of competent commanders. Had the Generals in the first two years of the Civil War been half equal to the volunteer troops. Bull Run would not nave been the disaster It was, and Richmond would have fallen without summoning Grant from the West. It is a wise policy to educate com manders in military schools, and the main part of their training should be In loyalty to the principles of Ameri can liberty. Our soldiers will educate themselves In the militia companies and especially In the freedom of the country with guns In their hands. It has been remarked that the young man of Kansas or Nebraska learns to plow, to make love and to shoot straight all at the same time. What better education for a soldier could he have? The Ideal citizen Is a man who la master of circumstances wherever you put him. and the Ideal citizen makes the capable) soldier. History shows that armies drawn, from the hi (Cher citizenship of any country have always defeated regular troops when they have had rood commanders. The way to supply the beet available material for our armies Is to keep the bodies and the brains of the people well nourished and adequately exer cised under wholesome conditions. When the time cornea that shall see health and character sacrificed to any purpose whatever, then we shall have to resort to mercenary standing armies I for our defense, and In our direst need. I like all other decadent nations, we shall Jlnd them useless. THE THING TO DO. Mr. Kellaher has made a discovery, a great discovery. He announces It In his letter printed today. The dis covery hails from Michigan, where he has built nine good electric light plants, and he Is fairly burning to go into the business In Portland. He can build and equip complete for 11.150. 000 a power and distributing system that will put the present concern on the rocks. Mr. Kellaher appears to think The Oregonlan will doubt his statements about this new luminary in the lighting world a fair enough as sumption In the circumstances and he refers us to various important financial houses In Michigan that know all about Mr. Vaughn. But we do not doubt them. Not at all. It is obvious to us. as It Is to Mr. Kel laher. that Mr. Vaughn Is the man of the hour. Just why Mr. Kellaher, or anybody, will insist that the city go Into the lighting business when a light ing expert and financial wonder like Mr. Vaughn is at hand to save the day surpasses ordinary comprehension. Any practical scheme to get cheaper lights, better lights, and more lights The Oregonlan Indorses. If Mr. Vaughn, or any one. Is ready with a proposal to install a competing light ing and power system In Portland, he deserve encouragement, and the city should make a contract with him If his charges are . lower and his service proves to be satisfactory. The city Is not Justified In embarking on any hazardous experiment of municipal ownership and operation, at great cost, when there is reasonable opportunity to get efficient service through private hands. Mr. Kellaher would do It. of course; he doesn't care anything about the cost. What he Is after for him self Is notoriety. The taxpayer can look out for himself. It Is hardly necessary to pay serious attention to Mr. Kellahers statements about the growing profits of the Seat tle plant. There Is In Seattle a con stant call for more money to put Into this foolish Investment. Undoubtedly effort Is made there to show that It Is a good thing, but the demand for more and more money from the taxpayer will finally show him where he Is at. The proposal here Is to start out with a fixed expense, approaching 1200.000 per annum to perform a service now costing approximately 1 1 00.000. Mr. Kellaher kindly permits The Ore gonlan to "figure that way" If It de sires. There Is no other way to figure and reach a correct conclusion. There fore The Oregonlan prefers to figure that way. I UA WARD HOWK. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's serene and vigorous health at the age of 90 may perhaps prove that Inexorable virtue promotes longevity. The career of this remarkable woman comes pretty near covering the entire history of the United States since It became an Im portant Nation. Even If she has not been an essential part of great events, she has been an Intelligent spectator or them for so long that one may guess the principal pang of death to her will be the falling of the curtain upon the varied Interests of her life. Affection finally becomes an old story to a woman of her age. The tie that bind one to family and friends necessarily relax, but Julia Ward Howe has never lost an atom of her keen Interest In the world, and she never will as long as she draws tjreath. Besides her significance as a social landmark. Julia Ward Howe win be remembered as the author of at least one enduring piece of literature. Her "Battle Hymn of the Republic." while In no sense a great poem, has never theless that element of vitality which some better verse lacks. Even the best stanza In her poem, the one beginning. "In the Spring among the lilies." fails to satisfy a tolerably Indulgent critic since Christ was not born In the Spring but at Christmas time and certain ly not among the lilies, but In a manger. However. In taking songs Into their hearts, the people easily overlook trifles of this kind and Julia Ward Howe Is admitted to have the same right to change the seasons around that Shakespeare had to alter the geog. raphy of Europe and push the events of history back and forth. Her Battle Hymn Is National In a much truer sense than "Our country, 'tis of thee." and It Is a better song. It contains sounder sentiment and more of it. Still, coming down to facts, we have no National song worthy of the name and at present there are no signs that we shall have one very soon. AX WHO FAINT AND FAR AWAY. Now and again the echo of old John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry Is sounded by enthusiasts who. like the unreasoning old agitator himself, claim more for the colored man than he himself desires more than he Is able to cope with or to enjoy. At a John Brown memorial meeting at Co lumbus. O.. lately, this echo from the past was sounded by John Brown, of Akron, aged years, son of his father, and by W. F. Cook, of Baltimore, son of J. E. Cook, who was hanged with John Brown for treason to 'the com monwealth of Virginia In November. I8B9. Faint and far away is the echo of events recalled by these names. The exploding rifles of the in. .-..- . v. - ! quick, sharp response of the rifles of the troops sent to subjugate them: the niss or me fierce hatreds engendered In the South by the alleged complicity of Northern abolitionists In the fa natic's plans: the prayer of John Brown simple, fervid, trustful as he was led to the scaffold: the clarion voice or Wendell Phillips by which the execution of John Brown was charac terized as murder, and the high trib ute that he paid to the abolitionist who In that trying time had the cour age of his convictions these things and many more are heard In this echo of a far-away time. John Brown had his champions even In those fearsome days. Whittler sang of him. Walt Whitman bore testimony to the purity of his Intentions. Wendell Phillips lauded htm as a patriot and a martyr. and from thousands of throats welled the chorui John Brown's body Ilea molderlng la the era?.. But hta sou! march Ina oa. The Judgment of mankind, cleared of the mists of strife, assesses the old man at his true worth: that of an Im practical, unreasoning reformer, ex alted by a sense of right whkh scorned to take counsel of expediency; a man of simple. rhtdUlke faith and dauntless courage, yet withal a dan gerous man as far as his Influence ex tended. In that he would have preclpl tated a race war the horrors of w hU h could not be Imagined and the result of which could eselly be foretold; a result that would have mad the laat estate of the black man In America In finitely worae than hl first. F.choea playing upon the rr-ltng shores of fifty years tell faintly of the things and many more. The latest of these was started at a meeting of the National Negro-American League at folumbus a few das ago; the John Brown Memorial Leamie took up the echo and Its faint reverberations were heard throughout the land, only to die way. as echoes do. In the gathering distance, awaiting occasion for resur rection. ARIf-ATT UK. The man who ob.'ected the other day to Hurry Murphy's caricatures because they are not always pretty was like the old maid at the sewing bee. who thought FalstafT would have been a nice man If he had not made so many Improper remarks. Without his gross wit FalstafT would have been some body else, iaricature does not often aim to be pretty, though It clings Jo the truth and Is sometimes beautiful. The' most famous caricature In the world. Don Quixote. Is grotesque In every trait. His figure. hU armor, his horse, are all hideous, but mankind has fallen In love with him In spite of his lack of prettlness. and In the long run It has decided that the out landish parody of a knight whom Cervantes conceived possesses Im measurable bauty..A caricature which does not tell the fruth corresponds to spoken billingsgate. It Is mere vul gar abuse. But not all truth Is fit to be uttered cither vocally or In print. Hence the wise artist who satirizes his .times with his drawing pencil la care ful to select his subj.-cts Judiciously. He Is as anxious to avoid tlie notoriety of the village scold as he Is to make his message effective. Every form of art has Its osn pe culiar method of seizing and holding attention. The caricaturist does nt differ from other, makers of pictures sj much In the principles upon which he works as In the tricks he plays to make his work effective. No art tells the whole 'truth. Every story, every picture, selects something from among a great multitude of facia and rejects the rest. The purpose Is to make the selection telling. Raphael and the other artists of his type emphasize beauty, self-sacrifice, sublimity and the terrible passions of mankind. No woman was ever quite so lovely as the Ststlne Madonna, no man going mad was ever quite so terrible as Uar. To enforce the truth he wishes to tell the artist exaggerates, no matter whether he works with pen or pencil. The caricaturist selects the amusing for hla domain and obtains his effects by pushing some characteristic trait be yond the limits of realltv. Just as every other artist does In different realms. If he should endow a public man whom he wishes to satirize with some entirely new feature, hla ar row would miss the mark. What he does Is to select a prominent nose or a fierce set of teeth which everbody knows actually exist and magnify It. He distorts It also, but If he Is a good workman he never draws It so much awry as to make recognition difficult. All satire Is cruel, but the treat Is good-humored. It resembles a rat w-hlch Is seldom angry with the mouse, though she kills It playing with It. Nowadays any man who cornea Into the public view a great deal must sub mit to be caricatured. People usually come to know him better by some satiric symbol than by hi own rim. Mr. Roosevelt 1 recognized all over the world by the dreadful teeth the newspaper picture-makers have be stowed upon him. and by the big stick. The money magnate 1 clearly marked by his Immortal side whiskers and hi fat lip with the big cigar which he luxuriously puffs while he devours the widow and orphans. We love pic torial political satire In this country beyond measure, but It Is doubtful whether we profit by It very much. If we heeded all the lessons our cari caturists teach us. we should soon be the wisest nation that ever lived. Some caricaturists have been heeded. though. Thomas Nasi helped Immeas urably the war on Tweed, and there la little doubt that Hogarth ha been one of the most effective of moral teach ers. Perhaps Mark Twain, undoubt edly our greatest caricaturist, though he works with words rather than pic tures, has preached the doctrine of sane skepticism and wise tolerance more effectively than any other man of his generation. Who shall say how much less bigoted we are today be. cause of his keen exhortations dis guised in humorous tale? Incken was another caricaturist whose work produced a very marked effect upon the history of his country. English children owe to him more than could easily be computed, while he helped appreciably to get rid of Im prisonment for debt and futile court procedure. For the latter purpose we need a Dickens badly In this country. Inasmuch as we have Inherited all the forlorn delays and subterfuge of the antiquated British law and exagger ated them beyond belief. IHcken also did noble deeds for reform In educa tion, but here effort seems pretty nearly hopeless. Education Is the one field of human endeavor from which we have definitely agreed to banish common sense forever and live wholly upon monkish tradition. In the do. main of medicine Dickens had better success. Salry Gamp, perhaps hla best caricature, was the principal cause of her own extinction, though she will never be forgotten as a crea tion of genius any more than Pick wick. It I sometimes objected to Dickens. Just a our dull critic did to Harry Murphy, that hla creations are gro tesque. Caricature has alwas loved the groteetque. Now and then It has run Into the monstrous. "The satiric figure which the humorous workmen of the Middle- Ages carved on the ca thedrals they built stopped at nothing In the way of distortion. Their taste differed from ours a good deal, for their Imaginations rioted In forms of demon hobgoblins, while we are satis fied to make monsters out of our talesmen. The devU and hla Imp were the most familiar penonasra In the world to the people of the ages of faith. All the old pagan mythology had come down to them from the dominant Roman Empire In one form and another. Chriattanlty stigmatised the nymphs and aa( ra as fiend, but It could not slay them. Kor the peo ple they stilt lived In full activity, and we ee them carved In almost every possible place on the architectural monuments of the ace. Political sa tire became fruitful only with the In vention of printing, since it neces sarily deals with the local and transient: but religious caricature had subjects of universal Interest to treat, and all through the Iark Ages the Irrepressible humor of the people expressed Itself In Impish fig urea which represent the I'ope. the friar, the fate of the sinner and the crime of the heretic. Even the life of Jesus did not escape caricature, while nothing seems to have been quite so funny to the medieval Imagination) as the story of the fall of man. Perhaps the caricaturists of that oar took a saner view of this tremendous event than some of our more solemn mod ern teachers do. rosun Rivr.R inrio knimt. The cccdlal support of the Cowllts River Improvement project by port, land business men Is a good example of the appreciation which the com mercial Interest of Portland have for the waterways leading to this city. The Cowlitz River country la by rail equi distant from Tacoma and Portland, but by reason of the river affording economical transportation facilities, thla city haa always enjoyed prac tically the entire trade of that region, and will undoubtedly continue to do so. The Improvement project accord ingly becomes In degree a matter In which this city ha the same Interest a the actual residents who are de veloping the rich country tributary to the stream. The depth of water aaked by the business men of Kelao and vicinity 1 not unreasonable In view of the volume and character of the business handled. There I no other method of trans portation on earth that In point of economy can equal the water carriers, and the sum asked by the Cowlitz peo ple for the Improvement of their waterway Is Insignificant In compar ison with the business already de veloped, regardleaa of what will b made possible by the Improvement. An eight-foot channel at low water would Insure a depth for good por tion of the year that would enable moderate-sized schooners to ascend the river as far as Kelso. It would also permit passage at all seasons of large barges and river steamers, for which the four-foot channel recom mended Is Insufficient. Portland ha grown big and powerful through her railroad connection and the ocean commerce handled here, but we have not yet reached, nor will we ever reach, a stage where we can afford to Ignore any requests for assistance In Improving the streams which were carrying traffic to this city long be fore the railroads came. Inward and outward tonnage. In cluding timber which Is taken out by way of the fowlltx River, exceed In volume 100.000 ton per year. A the total estimate for the contemplated Improvement la but l.ooo. the traffic for a single year would fully Justify the improvement. irisMlTl DE-M or MCWOKlat, DAT. The year come and the year go. widening the distance between the re currence or Memorial Day and the sad era In our history from which It sprang. Instituted In and by the ten der pathos of a Nation's grief wherein A miahtr mother termed la tears The of her battle rearm. Lmetlr- ail her fal.ew sues It was at first and tor many years ob served with solemnity befitting an un speakable sorrow, born of a mighty struggle In which the bravest and best of the young manhood of the Nation went down to death. The ceremonies or the day upon thee early occasion were funereal In every detail, except only the act of strewing flowers upon the grave or the soldier dead. The funeral march played by the band lhat headed the procession to the cemetery; the long roll of the muffled drum; the flag floating at halfmast with streamers of crape beneath: the sols of women bereaved by the mis chance of war: the subdued crle of wondering children; the chaplain's prayer In dreary monotone; the ad dress or sermon in whi-h the horror r war stood out more prominently than the promise of resurrection these were the features of our earlier Memorial Dae. The Nation was al that time In the very presence of death and the plaint or Its wo was taken up by thousands or muffled voice and borne out upon the air of May. The first touch of brightness given to this somber scene was when, at the suggestion, or a woman who had passed through the I harrowing scenes or war by the side or her oldler husband, the graves of those who fell In battle were strewn with flowers. A generation ha succeeded the war period, yet another generation, shod with youth. Is rushing to meet the years, but a remnant, so to speak, of the generation that knew the bitter ness if civil strife survive. Can we wonder therefore should we complain that the gloom of a public funeral has been relieved by lime, the great healer and restorer? That a genera tion that was not In at the harvest of death ha no desire to glean In its grew some field? That very many have come to regard Memorial 1 Nt y aa a holiday, full of the possibilities of pleasure and practically without sig nificance as a day or woe? Shall we then gird at youth because It haa no desire to dwell In a snrrovful past even on a single day? Or at life that prefers things present to things past? Shalt we not rather acquiesce In the custom that sends battle-scarred vet erans to Instill patriotism themselves the object lessons In the minds or children In sunny school room a upon this occasion rather than gird at the refusal of the Board of Education to dismiss them from school In order that they may Join an annual funeral procession? Is It not too much to ask people to grieve for those whom they never knew, whose) live are Sep. rated from their by nearly half a century of time and change? Is grief a thing that can be forced or ran sor row for the dead become a heritage? Iet ua all therefore especially all of the older generation to whom the Civil War was a vivid reality, and to whom the memory of those who fell In battle Is for personal reason sacred be tolerant or the spirit that regard Memorial Day la Lha light of a simple holiday dedt. atrd to pleasure rather than to woe. Let us see In this change In the observance or the day not Irreverence for the dead, not de cadence of patriotism, but the verdict of human nature, which declare that It I neither w ise nor w holeaome to dwell In the shadow nor profitable to return to them even for a day whn the sunshine, of life berkau and in vite ua. Lt ua pay tribute I the Idler dea.l. not m a mournful spirit, but with fervent doxology In that It was ilren them to die In their coun try' nervic. Ls-l us honor them as heroes, not bewail them a martrs: and. following patriotic eulogy an J song, st re w flowers upon their grate as upon those of our beet beloved, not In token or grief that refuse even the comfort of time and faith, but of love, sympathy anj hope, the three Imperishable Jewel that, death can not take, from the crown or life. at VtlAt riOMM AT tOMT sBt-AXtv ir the time and energy spent In d o Ing foolish or harmful things rould be devoted lo the real betterment or the world. It would become a happier place. In some rltle whenever the cry for lower taxes I raised th au thorities seek to hush It by rutting th salaries or the school teachers. In New Tork. Maor Mct'lellan has met the demand for a decent Sunday la the city by threatening to close the In. nocrnt place of amusement on Coney Island. Thing seem to be so managed by our rulers lhat every movement for better mora! or lower taxe shall strike In some way at the health and comfort of the poor. The tmiuemrnt device on Coney Island may be al'.ty. Most of them are undoubtedly so. but few or none of them are In any way Injurious to morality. Th worst that ran be aald or them I that they afford pastime without much Instruction. The bet that can be said or them Is that they offer hundreds or thousands of people healthy enjoyment on the only day In the seek when they are free from labor. Mayor McClellan selects the destruction of a'.l this harmless pleasure a the only feasible way to exhibit hi astounding piety. To close up Coney Island on Sun day the Mayor of New Tork admits he will be forced to withdraw the po licemen who have been employed to watch the law-breaking saloons. Thus the closed Sunday at Coney Island will mean an open Sunda for all the dives situated elsewhere. But. of course. such o trifling circumstance aa that haa no Influence with Mr. McClellan. Nothing seems to deprive an official of hla common sense so completely a an attack of Sabbatarianism. jrt the consequences of his Insane Impulse be what they may. he rushes madly ahead until he butt Into a dead wall some where. Then there U a rude awaken ing and he vainly alihn he had acted with lee hypocritical deference to formal prejudice and more regard for humanity and reason. The dead wall not very far ahead or Mayor McClel lan la Tammany Hall, which will be sure to pront by his stupiaity. What ever may be said against Tammany. It cannot be accused or lacking com mon settee, while all or Its opponent can. Aa the New Tork Tribune Merely remarka. no government In New Tork. or any other city, ran be more than an Interlude which doe not give th people what they want. The reform administrations In New Tork. one after another. In their thin succession, have given t he people "the kind of government that the city Tiub wants, and the kind the Chamber of Com merce want, and the kind that the Citizens' I'nlon Want, and the kind lhat various taxpayers organization approve, and the kind that some news paper applauds, but they fall to look at municipal questions from th point of view of the man who live In a tenement house, whose daughters work In a ractory and whose sons are learn. Ing a trade." Tammany know what thl grade or people think, and give hem what they want, continues the wise Tribune, and ror that reuoa Tammany remaina the controlling power In New Tork. People of the tenement grade are not Influenced by theoretical consid erations or what la right and wrong about Sunday observance. They un derstand that It la the sole day -f th week when they are free rrom toll and able to artlip!e in outdoor a more -mcota. They feel the deprivation of the amusements a a piece of sense, lew cruelty, and they will promptly vote down any administration which infllcta It upon them. The r1 that the administration ha an extremely virtuous man at lie head who a he Is eager to enforce the statute to th tetter, will not weigh an atom with them. The more Intelligent among thla class of voter will point to dwu of other statute Just Important a the Sunday law which the Mir "take no effort to rnfnrrs and wi: Insist upon knowing why he select for his worthy fal just that law which strike most severely at th poor, and only that. There I no question but that th people f a rl,y Br- entitled to have the kind of a government which they desire. ir th majority of them wish for amusemrnta on Sun. day. It la their right to have them, and the Mayor Is violating hi duty, not refilling it. when h rke up an oh oletj. statute to thwart their enjoy, mertt. Mayor McClellan la a politician, with a politictan'a Instincte and his spasm f Sabbatarian'sm Is merely aa ef fort to make rapltat o-it of the latent bigotry of a section of the commu nity. Such appeala to reactionary feel. Ing are alwa Ignoble and isrr invar, lably fall of their purpose rt th end. but while they are running on to failure, ther sometime rli a great deal of harm. Think ft the Ignorance which ha been fostered by closing art ra Merle. Iihrarie. exhibitions and world fair on Sunday. Think of th vie which haa thus been stimulated and th Innocent delight In beauty which has been prevented. The osten sible motive of u-h mad act is to "honor the Sabbath - The real motive U to. compel people to go and listen ... - , ins enect (a n. tlrely different from what U aimed at, either ostensibly or actually. It la to drive multitude into dens of v1c to relieve themselves from the Intol erable boredom of a Sunday empty of all rational amusement or Instruction. Thl I the one sure result of "blue Sunday." The den of vice ar never closed In a modern city. The place or Innocent resort can b closed, be cause it doe not pay them to defy the taw. The consequence Is obvtoua to any per on who Is not utterlv blind, ed by Mgotrv or political ambition. Poor old France eem to b In for a touch of th renuou life. Anarch, let and Socialists are doing everything la Uielr postr to aid lie government ; the Rourbona I la the situation I a possible opening f..r th. Tiae : reei. Meanwhile the naval Investigation now j in progreee rcvesia a much greater de gree or official corruption than was expo-ted Bribery w aa carried on In the naval bureau lo such an extent that the lives or those on board th submarine veci-a were endangered by dcfe-tle plat., and M. Thome-n. ex Minister of Marine. wi:l be pros, uied for withdrawing official rvporta con cerning bribery case-. Franc had a number or pretty rough dea.s under monarchlat government, but In rrcrtt years she hw been making rather poor headway as a republic. I..ho-icet. gran and a low order or businew morality show much th same mp tome, whether they crop out under a republican or monarchial f.rm of gov ernment. Managers of th San Bernardino High t hoo have determined thor oushly to reorganise and reatstematts that Institution. la explanation th City Superintendent says: -W are expending vast sum of money an nually to fit children rr university entry who by nature should be In strutted how to work with their hands." It a somewhat disconcert ing to learn further that the teacher who Is to work the proposed miracle In the San Bernardino High School haa been drawn from Oregon. It was a great oversight to permit a man car-able of conferring so signal a bless ing upon future gene rat ion as Is Im plied In th change In educational tactics ursreeted by the word of the superintendent above quoted to leave the stale. People who know how to work with their hand, to us tools to advantage, and who. aerene In the knowledge that they know how to ork. ar cheerful worker and earn their pay the represent one or the most crying needa or th home, here a In San Bernardino. Th Intense rivalry between the Hill and th Harrlman avstema for right-of-way advantage through "Lolo Pass calls attention to the ever-Increasing tendency of railroad construction to ward easy grade, Iolo Pass with all of Its advantage did not appeal very strongly to the original North Pacific railroad builder two or three decade go. Th "line of least resistance" received scant consideration then and only moderate attention was paid to curve and grade so long a th mile. ge was shortened. The old order of business has changed now. and Io!o Pas and all other "passes" by which a few feet In elevation can be ved ar eajrerly sought for. Thl belated recognition of the value of low grade was responsible for construction or the North Bank Road Into Portland. It Is also the cause of the building of the Harrlman line down the Snake River from Huntington, and later will cause a change In the Southern Pacific rout over the Siskiyou. Th "passe are In demand and will continue so. After running over forty-five ear without missing a single issue, the Oregon State Journal of Eugene h.vs suspended publication. Klltor and proprietor. H. R. Klncald. haa made a long fight, aa h a vers, m "contribut ing to the enlightenment, entertain ment and happiness of humanity. lo.tr. g money all along the way. Reckoned by the standard thus set up. who shalt say that th Oregon State Journal haa not be.ii a success tn the Journalistic field, desplt the fact that It baa been a failure aa a money, maker? Four armed men Invaded a New Tork restaurant Friday and at th point of a gun robbed twenty cus tomer. The crime must have been committed by local hold-up men. for th bad men of th Wet In searvh or easy money m New Tork rould get it much easier and with less risk by th g"ld brick or the shell game trick. Holding up the average New Tor Iter with a revolver la a harsh and un necessary aa kr.'.ing mosquitor w.th a aledc hammer. Cover them ovr with beautiful flowers, for they offered their live for thl great land of ours; cover them over and covr them deep, the gra. grown mound w h. re th veterans sleep. Blue bloom ror the field and white ror the stars, with red and whit rose to make thirteen bars: let each grave today el the Nation's life story, of the dead man beneath who fought for Old tliorv. Cncle Jo Jocular Cannon lhat cleromen should pray for a tempera, lure of degrees In the shade in order lo hurry the Senate to pass th tariff bill. If the preer of the clergy, men were of any great assistance in politic, it 1 feared that t'acl Jo might not today be holding down his old throne In the llnus. "Jo Simon I not paying my elec tion expenso." declare the weighty Kei!ahr. "Nor mine." aaith the Im maculate Albs. "Nor mine." quoth the prayerful Munly. Alt right, all right; let them pull three straw and th fellow who get the two shortest sav their money. ! An up-atate paper aaa a singer at a revival meeting "touched th heart or the audience" Touching" the puree 1 not io be overlooked as a valued aid in the affair. There was Itev. Hilly Sunday a an example once upon a time. Th three reform rand'datea for Mat or not counting Mr. Mrlvanlel should not despair. Ther Is alwaa a chance to run for something. rVhoo director, for example. Mr. Sabin la o far unopposed. How wi:t It do In rase of do de cision by the umplr for the grieved nine to invoke the referendum among the bleachers? In truth. It must be admitted that the weather the past four days haa not been conducive to finest result In rose culture. A measure under the Initiative may b adopted by a majority of the vote cast on that particular subject. Imn't forget that. Just a pointer to the ri e n t is who would get Mara by wireless, tret line on the new comet and relay. There is comfort In the reflection that prevailing weather lil check th June rise. There are pleeity of flowers on some of the hat. If th garden supply be light. mpoe in their :rU and Bonapartlfti see arr election measures al (twweeahls). TSe pro i ear lr si ef Issuing Kenans of ee- ent brands for the Mnrhsss and lneta!"all.a of a mar.V- rl elev-trte is.urg .tetw w.:i tse voted a In th June clec-v, This treasure w ll be rented to vet, throush tv, personal erTon. of fa-ate rVr..tor Dan K.:.,r w b rrersired ar.4 caused to b, r'r. -jl.:, tve -.-esss-v Init:,:!,, pcn:vr.e after its tj Cun-it quee:i..r.'.rg tb wleocxti f such a rtt-Vft 1 , ,re en. e r It p'-aoed on ti-.c rrriaS ballf-t. In ac tion lo uh:iM is. Hood Is sue. Ma otj'nence provide for a cor. sslon of C-i-ee memhrrw. Tl.ls co- mission . authorised to purrV.ase. Ir.s-al", mar.ta: ard cnerale an electrw l.ki plsr.t for furr.ist.irg the city with power d Hzi.t. Tt-e commissioners deenatsd are Danvrt JylcAllew, XV L- Morcaa ssi C A. rVgetow. Otw . c. . - ear. another for four year and th turd foe tx era. it, length of Ihe4r respevtir terms ta be determined r drawing Iota Oris commissioner ta to fee elee-ted every t , year for a term of e's. year and no res.aent shall bs er.g ble t election aa coer.n.i.sorer who baa not been a re.Kient of Portland f.w fixe year. The cornmlssi.-ta shall organ! by elect. ,r ore of its member aa cl. airman aad shall also elect a clerk and a era-nser w ho shall not be subject to ths Cvtl rr . Ice. nd who ! a'.l serve tn their respec tive capacitie during tl.e pleasure of th commission. All vacarrisa occurring la the cvnni'.ae'.on shall be riled by appo-nt-ment by ths Meor and ths ar-peante shall serve until the wit city elect ton. Regular mw.il.lr me-etsr.sa truest be beVd by the commission of which tha chair, maa shall execute all written contract and stga alt order for th payment of money authorised thereby. All stark or der are to be countersigned by th clerk of the commission and paid by th treas urer out of th money in th Municipal Ught and Power Commission fund. All money received and collected by th commission for the use and conautnptiea of HcM and power are to be deposited with the city treaaurer who sf-all b re quired to give aa additional bond ta uch sum aa ths romrr.isaioa may re-qutr. Th commission ta vested wnh author ity ta employ and discharge, subject to C.tl Service rule. i employe necee aary ta the mar.agemrr.i of the plant; ta make all necessary rule and regulations for operating the plant, ta establish rate for light and poser used by th city and Individual consumer, to re-quire monthly payment of rate and to suspend th erv. Ic on nonpayment of rate or violation or rule and to make all other neceatary rule and regulation convenient foe th conduct of It a buetnesa. Provision la made for th crsattoei of a sinking fund brginnlr.g la) year retire. The ordinance require that on and after January 1. If., a um not exoeedirg 3 per cent of the par value of th bo4 le ans ahatl be est .mated annually la f lr the pght and power rate, tn addition to I!. exprr.a ar.d coat of operation, to getier with Ictereet. all of which shell be mad annually to the Council he for th rest day of January evry year. Th'e 2 per cent ahatl be collected, h-aTi-rv-rg la lr. as a part of Ins cost of th rrn loe and sl.all const 'tuts a ?r.s.!r.g fund ta be used in th rederr.ptiion of th bor.de prowled for la lbs eKlnsnox 4"artrr!r. reports are reerutred t t-e made and puMleoed by the commlssiow sheering in detail (he receipts and S's- burae-mcnts, tocether with aa Inventory of th roperty and material ta lis ps. erselon or control pertaining to th l'.g:.t and power work, with th condition .rd arprosrmate value (Hereof. Ths member of ths rommtssisa are -t h .-e : aed to r.s th rompeetaatteisi of all em plot ra appoiatsd sr employed by lb cotnm'.eioi la ta msnesrmer.t of b Is hi and power plant, but th romnls. loner s ha II not reoeivw any oorr. r ne a -Hon for their srnrVct Ths eesmsai. ssonets als ar expressly ptoblbi'sd from beocsml lg Interested dirsvrUy or Indies.-t!y la th performance of any rscitrart -for th upply of labor or material I th city, car other extract entered nta wader the ulhority of IWa act. or tn th of ry atticls. the ric or roeaorito) e.f which la paid by th CMy Tress u re r. r to ths purchase ef real esist or ary property belonging or to fee take try the rtty. and no eoensntatosr or satsler uner ths eoerrmlasio shall bs la sere slid personally, aa a torkho4der or ehar. bolder or otherwise, ta ary firtw or cor pora t loa or In ary pwblic utility which la ought ta tea acquired or duplicated by ths city, or which Is offered for sale or V-sss by oe t the city." ons of ths cemciudtr.g esnioeis ef th otdinanc proild'S that. If arpmvsd by th soopje. it aha!! become effecttvs not. wltrattartdmg s ry bee- ewoflsr-ting amendment which mar bs adopted by th peopl In the sm e'eeilna. Senator Kelts ber is also sponsor for an other of tr jo. measure that wti ap pear on th official ballot in th city election. If adopted Ihla amendment will prohlb't th us of any patented mate rial or process la the Improvement of errest. It evade a follow; "The Council shall not adopt any plana, ape-: fir a Hon or eistrnale for ary public Improvement which shall require th eariuslv use of a r. patented article or proces pretscted by ar.v trademark or any article or proces wholly co. trolled by err prrsr, firm or corpora tion. f. r ary combination thereof, nor us nor author ae the use of ary yh articls or proce la ih tmprovemer.t of an) street, tlihsir or public pi so la lha City of fortlar.d " There I ror.stdeeahls ohtsciiow to IMi prpod mendmect on th grourd thai proper! -ow-n era should bav ths priviVrgv of selecting the character of materia with which ectior.a of rlre-ti surround Irg their peoperty el-all bs Improved. P I argued thai the rvpenas of these im provement la assessed ass. est the frcp rt -owre-ra and for that reason the) should havs srensthirg tn say aa t the kind of paving, particularly a lor a a they ar wtllirg to par fne- it Ts Joy Mteleew. A twisted auto on a dead man c to eel It he! and bottle ef rem' rrlr. a. and th eu tad den thett t'est T ho" and a bettl ef rum! Th roadhous r-ar and th "ladj friend ' Te ho- and a hetti ef row Jsn at fu. ml.- i v . . saaW eeA V- . - , . . ... - A awerv that mocked their drurket w Ills. A crash and a shriek through the dark- resa thrt-.s. -Joy rtotr.g- la th rare that kill T be: and a bottle rf rsjea' .New Tork Warlg