THE SUNDAY OREGpyiAX, PORTL1M), JATTTTA "ITT" T5, 1914. GUS MOSER WOULD RUN FOR GOVERNOR MAYOR ACGU3ED OF LABOR LAW BREACH WRITER LIKES CITY MAY IRWIN, IN WITTY VEIN, TELLS LIFE STORY PORTLAND GIRL BECOMES SILENT DRAMA HEROINE Rhea Mitchell, Tonner Baker Stock Ingenue, Writes of Thrills Encoun tered as Leading Woman for the "Movies" Theater Lights Missed. Star at Heilig Theater Writes "Confession," in Which She Admits Every thing but Her Age Sons Are Her Fads. Minnesota Professor Says tf,v tinction Is Portland's. State Senator Is Aspirant for Republican Nomination at Primaries in May. Complaint Made That Police and Firemen Work More Than 8 Hours Daily. SCENERY CAUSES ECSTACY 16 l" - i RECORD IS HIS PLATFORM T'ornial Announcement Cites Meas ures Supported In Last Legisla ture and Declares for Rigid Enforcement of Laws. Ous C. Moser. State Senator, is the latest announced aspirant for the Re publican nomination for Governor at the May primaries. Mr. Moser made his formal announcement yesterday. Mr. Moser refers the people to the record he made in the last Legislature .s an earnest of what may be expected of him if he is elected Governor. The minimum waye for women is cited as a type of the legislation that he sup ported during the session. Good roads, improved schools, effi cient executive administration and effi cient and vigorous enforcement of all criminal statutes are included in the planks of Senator Moser's platform. Mr. Moser was born and raised on a farm in .Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Later he taught school for several years, and then attended college at Valparaiso, Ind. He came to Oregron nearly 23 years ago, and has made his homo in Portland ever since. He was admitted to the bar in 1894. and since that time has always followed the prac tice of his profession. He Is a life member of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, and for many years has been a member of the Portland Com mercial Club, and has taken an active part in the professional, commercial and political affairs of this city and state. He served for nearly four years Chief Deputy District Attorney for Multnomah County, and is a holdover benator for Multnomah County. Mover Always) Republican He has always been a Republican, and has campaigned in various parts of the state for the National Repub lican ticket in every Presidential elec tion, beginning with the McKinley cam pal en in 1S96. He is a vigorous cam paigner, and will make an active com paign. The following; la the formal state ment issued by him: , "After mature deliberation and con ferences with many of my friends In different parts of the state, and having received many assurances of earnest nupport and probable success, I have positively determined to become a can didate for the Republican nomination for Governor at the primary election in May, 1914. and I therefore solicit the support of my friends and the Repub licans of Oregon generally, for such nomination. 1 realize that the position is one of high honor, and should be one of dignity and firmness. By this I do not mean thathe Governor should feel that he is above or better than the great body of his constituents, or that he should hold himself aloof from them, but that he should faithfully and con scientiously discharge his full duty, and do all within his power to see that the laws are faithfully executed, and that the dignity of his sovereign state is properly preserved. "My platform will be more complete ly set forth in the declaration I shall shortly file with the Secretary of State, hut in the meantime I shall here men tion some ot the things for which I stand. , Record Part of Platform. "In the first place I am willing to stand by my record as State Senator made at the last session of the Legls Uiture. No doubt I made some mis takes. Anyone would. But taking that record as a whole. I am glad to make It a part of iny platform as candidate lor Governor. "Five of the laws passed at that ses sion wore referred to the people by referendum petitions. Pour of these wore approvd by the people last No vember by overwhelming majorities. 1 voted for these four. The fifth was almost as badly defeated, and I had vot-'d against it. I worked and voted against the new tax law which has caused so much unfavorable comment and wilr work great hardships. "I worked and voted for Senator Ma larkey's minimum wage bllL which places in the hands of an impartial commission the fixing of minimum wages and maximum hours of labor for women and girls, the employers, em ployes and disinterested parties consti tuting such commission. This in prefer ence to a flat eight-hour law to apply in all cases, and I believe a fair trial will justify the law In the minds of all concerned. "I believe tnat eight hours per day Is as long as any man should work at hard manual labor, but there are ex ceptions to all cases, and rather than fix a hard and fast rule by law that no man shall labor more than eiirht hours per day, 1 favor a law providing lor an impartial commission to fix the maximum hours of labor for men in various employments along lines simi lar to the provisions of the Malarkey viil wiin reierence xo women. Good Koailn Advocated. i nave long been, and am now, an earnest advocate of good roads. The last Legislature made a good beginning. although many conflicting views and opinions hud to be harmonized, and concessions had to be made by all to pet any start at all. Experience will jiolnt out the weaknesses, and I shall favor any amendments which will rem e1y these. Good roads, permanent good roads, should become general, reaching inn iarms and the producers in every airection. "One of the great bulwarks of the date and Nation is our public school system, and 1 favor every action pos sible to Improve and advance it so tha our boys and girls may all be able to net the advantages they deserve, and a least the fundamentals so necessary in every-oay lire. "I also bellve in placing the advan tasres of higher education within reach of all, and to that end favor proper an suitable maintenance of our state edu cational institutions. "I believe in economical and efficien administration of the affairs of th state, and pledge myself to such policy, li nominaieu anu elected. "And above all, I believe in the vigor ous and efficient enforcement of all the criminal statutes, including those regu lating or prohibiting the sale of intoxl eating liquors, and this I should d with firmness and Impartiality. Th rich, the poor, the great, the humble, the capitalist, the laborer, the church man and he liquor dealer shall be meas ured by the same standard, and each shall answer for his own acts. "I here pledge my best efforts to do all within my power to lighten the bur ilen and increase the happiness and prosperity of each of Oregon's proud citizens. GREATEST CUJ IN PRICES ever known in pianos and player pianos. See Graves Music Co. adv., page 10. section ?. Adv. r V -s - J TACTS OF rTKREST IN "WIDOW BY PROXY." There ar many Interesting things about the alar of "Widow by Proxy," which comes to the Heilig Theater this week that are not known to the rank and file of theater goers. For Instance, her name never was May Irwrn, She was born Campbell, and now is Mrs. Kurt Eisfeldt. As a star, some of her best roles were in "The Widow Jones." "Sis ter Mary," "The Swell Mins Fitz well,M "The Belle of Bridgeport, "Mrs. Black Is Back and in George Ade's funny one-act play, "Mm. peckham'a Carouse. The songs she made famous are almost with out number. Miss Irwin has written for The Oregonian in her characteristic, hu morous way her "confession," as she 'calls it. and tells why she went on the stage. BT MAT IRWIN. M T maiden name was Ada Camp bell, but that was some time ago, so don't try to remember It. My father was a good, kindly lumber dealer in Whitby, Ont. Pop was a good liver. and what with his interests in pine and hemlock, frequently omitted to lay something- by for a rainy day, feeling it might snow and upset things; so when the end came we were left penni less. It's hard enough, goodness knows, to be penniless in places like New York or Camden, N. J., or Dea Moines, la., but nothing to jingle in vv nltby is something terrible. Being penniless, my sister and I were what you might call "in reduced circumstances," but we did not lose heart. I had long had an ambition to be a trained nurse, but in Whitby there were no trainers, and so I took the next best thing and entered upon a dramatic career at the age of 11 years. I was married before I was 16. Home Thought Best. From early childhood I have alwavs felt that home was the finest place on earth. Think of frying crullers and playing the banjo, and working doilies! feople really do not know me. Seeing e in a Hotel dining-room or on a trollej- car, or the stage, is very, very different from seeing me at home. I'm quite another person there. Atmosphere is everything. On a Btage a woman's one thing, and making chutney sauce, she's another. If ! were not on the stage playing "Widow by Proxy," the best comedy I have ever had, I would settle down into the most domesticated woman in the world. I love to fuss around the shooflles and boil cabbage and bait mouse traps, and enter into the true spirit of the fireside. For a long time x ve nai it in mind to retire: but It has never got beyond my mind. Ie hesitated. Backing away from the treasurers office requires real hero ism, and I'm a woman. When I decide to quit. I shall go, bift-bang, just like that. One night in the calcium and the next In the kerosene. Over the fence is out, is my way of retiring. No farewelllng all over the works year after year. Thank heaven, I can afford to retire at any time I can afford to retire. Cur rency has been given to a rumor that I have made some money. The cur rency in true. I am a capitalizette. so : : - WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE GLEE CLUB TO 3VL.-KE PACIFIC COAST VISIT THIS YEAR. If l?A If . - ' - - - f i I- ill V'L v I 7 I ' ' 8h.-nrM...,r n.H ..- rr U , ltt J 1 1.. ? L 1 ORGANIZATION PLASS EXTENSIVE TOIB. PULLMAN, Wash.. Jan. 17. (Special.) The Washington State College Glee Club for the first time in several years will visit the Pacific Coast cities. The tour as planned is the most extensive which the club has undertaken since its organization. Coincidental with the Coast trip is the ract that the Glee Club of this season Is perhaps the . best which Washington State College has ever produced. This Is the 17th annual tour and the itinerary of the trip is as follows: January 23, Tekoa, Wash.; January 24, Harrison, Idaho: January 26, Coeur d'Alene. , 1, :fan"ary 27. Harrington, Wash.; January 28, Wenatchee, Wash.; January 29, Cashmere, Wash.; January 30, Mount Vernon, Wash.; January 81. Belllngham, Wash.; February 2, Tacoma, Wash.; Ferbuary 3, Olytnpla. Wash.; February 4. Chehalis. Wash.; February 5. The Dalles. Or : February 6. Prescott, Wash.; February 7. Pomeroy, Wash.; February 14, Pullman. Wash- x 9 am. x V ;::5 W2 1 1 tr'A ft CY-K- J- -V . to speak. Still. I'm not boasting. I en tered the profession as a slip of a girl, and from a slip I have grown a bank account. I haven't been lucky at all. but a very hard-working woman. That's what I was, am and will be. Genius is only the art of taking pains. I work, work, work. I have scarcely time to draw my breath or my salary. I don't go home till morning. It's a des perately gay and flippant life just one round of merriment and spearmint after another. My supper is usually so near my breakfast that were I other than a person of fine constitution and by-laws I'd. have indigestion long ago. Both Are Fads. Yes, I have fads. They're my boys. I'm very ambitious for them. Walter, the elder, is in a broker's office in Wall street. Harry is learning the insurance business. The stage for them? Not much; in fact, not any. One actress in the family will be about all. My sense of humor is keener today than it ever was; and I owe it all to a drop of Scotch in my veins. My mother is Scotch-Canadian, and. al though she's 81, she doesn't look a day over 50. Her sense of humor keeps her young; and that's true of every woman who looks upon life with a twinkle in her eye. Any time you hear any one say that wpmen haven t a sense of humor, don t you believe it! I'd rather play to an audience of women than of men any time, and still they tell me I know men pretty well. For that matter, I natter myself that I know how to make men laugh. And this brings us to the be ginning and end of this happy meet ing. No woman outlives her sense of humor. It sticks to her as long as she can stick to earth. All she needs is a chance to express It. It was purely by accident that I met "Widow by Proxy." A friend of mine bumped Into Willie Elliot, who asked: "Is May Irwin looking for a play?" fahe s going blind looking for one, ' replied the truthful boy. The next thing I knew. I was say ing "Good morning" to Mr. Klliot. and as luck would have It, Mrs. Cushing ame in while I was looking over her- play. That settled it A bargain was made then and there. PIONEER OF 1851 PASSES AVIIIiam J. Howlett Dies on Farm on AVhlch He Located in 1854. William J. Howlett, who died at his home at Eagle Creek, Clackamas Coun ty, January 7, was born In Jennings County, Indiana, in 1831, and crossed the plains to Oregon in 1851. In 1854 Mr. Howlett located on the farm where he died. September 20, 1854, he married Miss Sabina Markwood, daughter of David Markwood, who came West in 1853. To Mr. and Mrs. Howlett were born four children, Mrs. Viola A. Douglas, of Portland; Mrs. Mary Jane Douglas, of St. Joseph, Or.; Mrs. Louise F. Cooke, of Damascus. Or., and Mrs. Lydla Woodle, of Estacada, Or. Mr. HowTett was Justice of Peace 14 years and school director and clerk for many years. Funeral services were conducted at his home by Rev. A. G. Dix. of Portland. A large number of friends gathered to pay their last re spects. Six grandsons, AVIIIiam W. Cooke, Ray Woodle. Walter Douglas, Ed Douglas, Guy Woodle and Roy Douglas were pallbearers. He left a widow, four daughters, 27 grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren. THREAT OF ARREST ISSUED City Attorney Im. Roche Favors Get ting Decision From Supreme Court, as Cost of Change Would Ran Into Millions. To test out the eight-hour state Iaw to see whether the Supreme Court will interpret.it to apply to firemen and policemen in the Portland service as well as to all other city employes and laborers In general. Mayor Albee will submit to arrest by the State Bureau of Labor. This action was decided upon by the Mavor and Clt- Attn-c- La Roche yesterday upon receipt of a irom u .f. j-iorr. Commissioner of Labor, in which he declares that th. city is violating the eight-hour law py requiring firemen to work mm-o than eight hours. Should the city lose in n raw of thi. kind it would be thrown into a deplor. able financial condition by reason of the necessity of trebling the number of firemen in the service and E-re.-.tu- increasing the Police Denartmont in the Fire Department the ih amount to approximately S600.inn a year. To comply with the eight-hour law the salary item would have to be increased to about $1,800,000. Other expenses which would be necessary to handle the department would raise the cost probably to over $2,000,000 a vear. The number of firemen would have to be increased from about 400 to about 1350. Coat Would Be Tremendona. In the Polled Department the cost would be increased greatly because under present conditions many of. the men work long hours overtime and would have to be paid for such labor under this law. The demand from Commissioner Hoff to enforce the eight-hour law in these two departments was received by Mayor Albee yesterday as follows: Hon. H. R. Albe, Mayor, Portland Or My Dear Sir: After Investigation of the con dition In the Portland police dnirtm.ni nnrf alBo the fire department. I find that you are .,u.nu..H ii.il is commraoniy Known as the eight-hour law on public works by permit ting your firemen and your police officers to be on duty longer than the hours pre scribed by this law. chapter 61. sections 4 and a. general laws of Oregon, 1913, and as in terpreted by the Supreme Court of the state In the case, the State vs. Dr. R. l,ee Sterner Please see that this Is remedied at once and the law compiled with; otherwise it will be my duty to make arrest and take the matter Into court. Trusting thla will have your early atten tion, I remain sincerely vpurs, O. P. HOFF, Commissioner. Immediately City Attorney LaRoche looked up the law and the decision of the State Supreme Court in the case of Dr. Lee Steiner, head of the liastern Oregon Insane Asylum, and found that In this there is ground for question as to the right of the city to require more than eight hours service from firemen and policemen. Tborouirh Teat Dtealred. "If the Supreme Court should hold that officers or firemen are laborers," said Mr. LaRoche yesterday, "these employes of the city would come under the provisions of the eight-hour law. It is too serious a matter for the city to take any chance with, and I have advised Mayor Albee to submit to ar rest by Mr. Hoff and then take the case Into the Supreme Court for de cision. I have no doubt but that the Supreme Court will rule for the city." ai me lime tne eight-hour law was before the State Legislature the ques tion of its applying to firemen came up and an opinion written by ex-City Attorney want, was to the effect that it could not apply. He went deenlv into the subject and presented manv arguments and citations to prove his point. MRS. PATTERSON IS REGENT Daughters of American Revolution Elect Officers for Vear. The Daughters of the American Revolution. Multnomah Chapter, met yesterday at the home of Mrs. Wallace McCamant In King street and the an nual election of officers took place. Mrs. E. C. Shevlln has been regent for the past two years, and the new re gent is Mrs. I. N. Patterson; vice-regent, Mrs. J. T. Mays secretary, Mrs W. H. Chapin; treasurer, Mrs. H. M. Van Doeurs; registrar, Mrs. A. E. Rockey; historian, Mrs. J. T. Rass. The board of managers elected are Mrs. C. TJ. Gantenbeln, Mrs. James Falling and Mrs. W. E. Thomas. Annual reports were read, but no new business of a definite nature was transacted. Fol lowing the meeting a social hour was passed, the tea table being - presided over by Mrs. A. E. Rockey and Mrs. Boudinot Seeley. Mrs. John V. Beau mont, state regent, attended the meet ing. Social Hour to Be Held. The Goodfellowshlp Society of Trin ity Episcopal Church will hold a social hour in the parish-house. Nineteenth and Davis streets, this evening - from 7 to 7:55. Strangers in the city are especially invited. Take any car pass ing Nineteenth and Washington streets. BY T.KON-R CASS TtAllR. HEA MITCHELL, petite and blonde, was a familiar figure on the Baker Theater stage four seasons ago. Hhe was in her primer davs of learn ing to be an actress then, although she crept eteadily to the head of her class because she had the 'divine spark" within her soul, and without which Da vid Belasco says you may just as well not try to reach anything in the dra matic world or any other. When he saw how talented was the little Portland girl. Manager George L. Baker, of the Baker stock, gave her 'a chance," which is the thing all of us strive for in the beginnings. She was sent to Spokane as ingenue with Franklyn Lnderwood and Frances Slos son. Then her climb was meteoric after that season. She was ingenue with the Vancouver stock and then with the Alcazar, in San Francisco, had a sea son's dip in vaudeville on the Orpheuni, and has now realized her life-long ambition, to be a motion picture act ress. Always the motion picture the ater has held the strongest drawing power for Rhea, and she spent all her nickels and dimes in a prand orgv of sight-seeing in the realm of silent dra ma. Now she is living in Los Angeles and pursuing the eventful career of a mo tion picture artist in Santa Monica Can yon. And best of all. she is a. leading woman for the New York Motion Pic ture Company, featuring Broncho Dom ino and Kay-Bee films. The pictures are for the greater part two-reel lllms taking a fortnight to make. The first one for which Miss Mitchell posed Is entitled "A New Eng land Idyll." and is ready for release. A typical Western story is "Repaid," the second one in which she worked- Also she played second woman in a recent Selig release, "The Heart of Maggie Ualone." IVewsy lietter Received. In a chatty, newsy letter sent me the other day, Rhea writes of her new work. "In the 'Royal Barrier' Pictures." writes Rhea, "I have to drown myself at the finish. I think it must have been a pretty mean author who would write a scenario with a plunge into a cold stream for this season of the year. . -During one week I was in the saddle for four days, nt so much in the picture, but riding up to locations which we otherwise could not reach ex cept by a single trial. . . . The studio where we work is very large. There are seven stages built upon a big hill. The dressing-rooms .are a. row of log cabins. At the foot of the hill is the canyon, a magnificent spot. In this canyon are the tepees of the Indians and the homes of the 101 cowboys, a big restaurant, ammunition and gun rooms, etc. "We have a buffalo, two bears, and just now six grand and noble lions are on the way to Join our zoo. . . . Besides which we have Indians, real ones, cowboys also real, a full and complete wardrobe and sewing-room, six companies and a lot of camera men. . . . Believe me. It is 'some' village all by itself. "The trip back and forth seemed to me an endless one at first, but I'm almost used to it by this time. We go in an automobile to Los Angeles from camp. There is no carllne that reaches us. ... I have to get up at 6:30. and I get back to Los Angeles at 6 P. M. I have a cunning apart ment, and loads of nice acquaintances whom I scarcely have time to bow to, I'm so busy. And when -I'm not busy, I'm sleeping. Sometimes I just fall into bed, dead tired from climbing hills or being pursued through gul lies. The camp is right by the ocean. It is a wonderful place. "But please don't think that I do I " I' $ 'Is - I - t ? xr not miss tne theater, tor I do. I miss it terribly, no music, no lights, no de liclous smell of lots of makeup, no creeping out into the 8 weet-smelllng dark after a perfectly gorgeous and successful night with the audience you love out front sending its love across the footlights. Worst of all, no flowers This seems like a sort 'of Imitation of -the life I led in the theater. The social life here is really lovely, however. We have danc ing parties, and there is something do ing every minute of the time. "I've got a lot of new 'still' pic tures of 'scenes' I've been taken in that are rather interesting. One of them was taken in a boudoir set show ing ten thousand dollars' worth of furniture and me. In the same com pany with me Is Hershall Mayall, one time matinee idol, and Walter Ed wards, who played young Ryder In 'The Lion and the Mouse.' and Regi nald Barker, of 'Paid in Full.' Don't know how long I'm in It for, but one never does know. I see the Gleasons, Jimmy and Lucille, his wife, and their adorable son, and dear Mina Crollus every once in a while; also our old friend Donald Bowles." . . . The rest of the letter is full of quaint little messages to Rhea's friends here and she counts them in stacks. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Mitchell, who live at 6S1 Kearney street, today are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary. Down in Santa Monica, or presumably down in Los Angeles, since it's Sunday and a day of rest, Rhea is eating a big cake and lots of the attendant "flxin's" that 'were prepared for the silver wedding dinner at the Mitchell home In Port land. Rhea gets a box of goodies from home nearly every week. BUILDING LAW AT ISSUE Lawyer In Blrrell Wooden Structure Case Attacks Statute. Validity of the building law which provides for the destruction of edifices more than 40 per cent deteriorated was attacked in .Municipal Court yester day by Attorney A. F. Flegel, ap pearing on behalf . of A. H. Birrell, owner of a wooden building at the northeast corner of Grand avenue and East Alder street. Municipal Judge Stevenson refused to accept argument on the validity of the law, but ordered the attorneys in the case to confine their arguments to the facts concerning the building. He said that he did not consider it part of Municipal Court procedure to test the laws, and would leave that feature to a higher coTfrt in case the matter was appealed from his decision. Judge Stevenson took the matter under ad visement, and asked for briefs and authorities. Churcli to Hold Reception. Members of the First Christian Church, at Columbia and Park streets, will give a reception Monday night in honor of their pastor, Kev. W. M. Rea gor, who will leave Portland this week for Lexington, Ky.. where he will pass his vacation. Mr. Reagor has been pastor of the First Christian Church for five years. There ere 2S pounds of blood In the body of an average grown-up person. Social Charm Konnd Her Declared Contrast With Business Rush of Seattle by Richard Burton, Teacher of Literature. Richard Burton, professor of English literature at the University of Minne sota, who has visited Portland several times on lecture tours, contributes an article entitled "Coastwise Cities" to the current issue of the Bellman, a Minneapolis weekly magazine, in which he expresses his impressions of Port land. Professor Burton swings from poetic description of Tacoma. which h calls "a charming town," and the moun tain or tne same name, to his consider ation of Portland. "Sitting in the courtyard of vour ho tel at Tacoma." he says, "you feel as though ail the world were offered you to see, always and ever dominated bv the sliver cone of the majestic moun tain." "How different Is the imnression made by Portland, the stately," he con tinues, "so much more settled and solid It seems to the Easterner. Here la a town that appears to unite the excel lencies of the new and the old. less of contrast and more of harmony, yet with tne sparKie or atmosphere and the ex citement of scenery, the wondrous nat ural resources and surroundings that make for distinction. "Viewing the city from the heights where the houses of the privileged dot tne winding terraces and vantage points of beauty. the three mighty peaks of Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams, with Rainier Itself visible under right conditions of weather, take the eye with rapture and are sentinels that guard the valleys of the Columbia and the Willamette. Re vealed in the clear, or veiled in the cloud, one is aware that these gigantic niii-creatures are but the dominant notes of a scene which is unsurpassed on earth In its kind. The Columbia River, most rapid and deep of great streams, moves through shaggy forests, and beside its waters, as the train from the East winds around dizzy curves, the imagination easily conjures up visions of red men and the wild animals they hunted. All is on a grandiose scale and the tonic air induces to deep breaths and large resolutions. "The social charm of Portland con trasts with the business rush of Seattle, and one feels more and more that it is rare good luck to live where nature thus meets man with all the gifts of the soil and man has been so alert to seize them. "Portland in rose week pelts you with royal blossoms that typify this prodi gality. The apples one buys in Seattle and Portland are likewise a sort of symboK the dower of Ceres, standing for all the kindly fruits of earth that the great teeming areas surrounding these cities, or tributary to ihem, offer the children of men." MAX REISS NOW HUNTED Elopement Husband of Jessie Wil son" Vices After Murder. That Max RTeiss. husband of "Jessie Wilson," the woman killed two weeks ago, and for whose murder J. BedufI and George Hohoff are in Jail, fled from Portland the night after the murder and did not attempt to aid in the search for the assassins, was dis covered by Detective Sergeant Hawley yesterday, after a week's investiga tion of the man and his Portland haunts. Acting on a request from Sol Lange, of 6405 Frunkstown avenue, Pittsburg, Penn., brother of Mrs. Reiss, Hawley has been tracing the actions of Reiss. Lange wrote that Reiss was the legal husband of the woman, and that they were the principals in a runaway mar riage when the woman was only 17 years of ape. Detective Hawley says that the death of Mrs. Reiss saved Reiss from prosecution on a criminal charge, in which his wife would have been a witness. Pastor St. John to Speak. The third of the studies on the Na ture of Man, given by Pastor St. John at the Central Portland Church, East Eleventh and Everett, will be held to night at 7:45, the subject being "If a Man Dieth. Shall He Live Again?" SEE THAT MRVE The Correction of Defective Eyesight It is very important that you have implicit faith in the ability of your optician, since there are several important features which must be left solely to his ability and honor. You cannot possibly appreciate the quality of lenses furnished, and yet on this feature depends the degTee of satisfaction to be obtained from the use of glasses. In our optical work we frequent ly find people wearing inferior and imperfect lenses, for which they have paid a full price. We will not economize in this in stance, for we always insist on furnishing the best materials at prices that are reasonable. We believe you will be satisfied with the service, the prices asked and with the results ob tained. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE Second Floor Corbett Bldg. Fifth and Morrison