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Amos, manager five wagons. Goldfleld. t. Louie Follin; C. B. " Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. . PORTLAND. MONDAY. JAN. 20. 190S. NO HARD TIATKS. The panic in New York is certainly at an end. Banks are full of money again. People will be more cautious than hitherto, and plungers will not be able soon again to get the money and credit upon which they have run riot for five years past. But indus try will soon return to a sound basis. and the apprehension entertained by many that the country was In for an other long period of depression and hard times has no actual foundation. This deliverance is due" to a sound ' money standard that is, to sure maintenance of the gold basis and to the vast productive energies of the country, whose activities have been scarcely Interrupted. Some manufac turing establishments stilt are running on shortened time or with fewer workmen, biit most of these are grad ually recovering. The great agricul tural interest, which is the basis of everything, is at the very top of pros perity. It, is noticeable in exports. It' Is almost beyond credence that our agrl cultural exports for the year 1907 reached the prodigious total of $967 338,447 nearly one thousand million dollars. During December the exports reached a value of $126,851.097 an excess of more than $2,000,000 over the exports of December, 1906. The gold recently Imported to restore our money market was paid for by the exports of December alone, The great exports are wheat, corn, cotton, meats and tobacco. There are many others, but these hold the lead. We shall not only continue general production on the vast scale of last year, but shall increase it. The world wants the commodities: its mar kets will take all we produce, and con sumption is so large, so steady and sure, that there can be no apprehen sion of serious fall of prices. , It is impossible to find any just ground for the pessimistic belief ex pressed a whilo ago that another ex tended period of depression was ahead of us. It was only a plungers' or gamblers' panic. FORECASTS POSSIBILITIES. Two nations are making vast sacri flees to patriotic desire Germany and Japan. The inspiration to it is. the memory of their past and Its hard ships, and the consciousness that their future depends wholly on conserva tion and increase of present strength Inspired by this knowledge, the whole ' people of either nation bear their bur dens cheerfully. Poor as Japan is, she Is ..maintaining and Increasing her armaments to the utmost. Germany, not poor, but remembering past op pressions, and providing against future contingencies, she is doing the same thing. The National Review (London) says that foreigners unversed in German affairs are surprised to . find country that is struggling with heavy deficits and suffering from increased cost of living, yet is able and even willing to face the pros . pect of further unlimited burdens opened up by the Insatiable Kaiser. Put the. Berlin correspondent of the London Times says that "the memory of what was endured by their fathers and grandfathers makes the men of this generation in Germany prepared to contemplate hardships and sacri fices which in other countries would only be regarded as justified in the imminence of soma great national peril." Again, "the Germans seem ready to incur these hardships and . sacrifices on behalf of national ambi tions, such as the desire to make the voice of Germany .as powerful in the decisions of transoceanic questions as that of older and mightier world em pires." It is curious to note that Japan, which has so recently come into the world of nations, is actuated by a similar motive. But the National Review says there is "a sort of semi-conscious understand ing' between the German government and the German people, that the pro digious cost of these portentous pro grammes, which will, all told, proba bly aggregate 500,000,000 sterling be fore they are finished, shall ultimately come out of the pockets of the British, just as the cost of Germany's war with France was paid by the latter." This betrays an uneasiness in England, as to the results of Germany's rivalry in commercial, industrial and naval power. Emphasis is added by the re mark:. "German citizenship, be it re membered, is founded on duty, obliga tion and sacrifice, while British citi zenship consists of rights, privileges and perquisites, and the result of a conflict between such unequaL-forces is regarded as a certainty by the Ger mans. Hence their gigantic gamble in sea power." If British patriotism is below this level, so, it must be admitted, is Amer ican patriotism. If Japan, therefore, shall be able to organize the mighty forces of the Orient, we of America may have as much difficulty in meet ing it as foreseeing Englishmen find or dread for their country, in the growing power of Germany. THE CONSPIRACY OF ORGANIZATION. Why is there no Republican party in Oregon? Because the fundamental principle of party organization has been lost. Without organtzation there can be no party. Somebody, if there is to be party organization, must take the lead Even the flock of sheep has a bell wether. But In Oregon we have arrived at that height of idealistic conception and Imagination, have reached that region of rarefied idealogy, that nir vana of politics, which forbids us to stoop to anything so gross, so materi alistic, as party organization. If two or three, or any half dozen, get to gether for party organization, they are a ring, a machine; they are con spirators against the rights and privi leges of the people if their work is attempted in the name of the Republi can party. Of course Democrats may do this, all right, and Mr. U'Ren may; but the rest of us are out ofit This teaches that it is well to belong to the privileged class. But there never is room in the priv ileged class for more than a few. Else it wouldn't be a privileged class. II you allow free organization you take the multitude, which, as Bishop Butler's logic stated it, "is contrary to the supposition." If you attempt a Republican organi zation in Multnomah you are making ring. If you attempt it in Yamhill you are making a ring. In Wasco or Baker the same. In Clackamas per liaps you might not be open to the accusation. Yet if any one imagines that the Republican party of Oregon is going to do anything without organization and leadership, he is mistaken. Per haps it isn't necessary that the Repub lican, party of Oregon should do any thing. That seems to be the idea of those (so-called) Republicans who have been electing Democrats to the principal offices during all these years, and now are in mortal fear lest some body of citizens may unite in the name of the Republican party and do something. For that would make a machine; and it is an argument against organization, for it is clear that if we forbid organization we shall have no machine. Clearly that way safety lies. No organization no ma chine. When you see the beginning of a formation, the head of an organ ization, hit it! Down with every con spiracy of organization! DON QUIXOTE LAWSON. In the February number of Every body's Magazine Thomas W. Lawson makes an interesting and elaborate explanation as to "Why I Gave Up the Fight." The article, which is in the form of a letter to the editor of Every body's Magazine, covers several pages of the magazine, and is Lawsonian in the highest degree. The editor had mildly reproached Lawson for his an nouncement that he was "going back to stock gambling," intimating in his reproach that Lawson still owed some thing to the people whom he had duped into believing that he could lead them out of the wilderness of high finance. To this the Bostonlan retorts: "You talk of what I owe the people. What do I owe to the gela-tine-splned shrlaeps?. What have the saffron-blooded apes done for me or mine?" etc. In one column Lawson writes of stock gambling as "sapping the life from the American people and rapid ly driving them to slavery." In the next column, in apologizing for his re- turn to the game, where he will "skin pickle and crucify the system,"- he as serts that "money-making in stocks is gambling pure and simple," but, "if this is done according to the rules of the game, the money gained is as honest' as that made in other busi ness." The Lawson mind was in a "fine frenzy rolling" when he penned this explanation. He mentions "Blowzy -crimes and Pecksnlffian thuggeries untold," committed while "the Amer ican people, like megaphone-footed centipedes, have chased themselves around In a circle," etc. The people are accused of bowing "their much-bump-watted foreheads to the pave ments in their abject gratitude" to the System "because they refrained from skinning the people after they had black-jacked them to a we'll-follow-thee-O-masters submission. The frenzied Bostonlan fairly revels in a wealth of language about "Heinze's Jerry-built structure" which "went down like a punk palace," and also has considerable to say about "the doughnut-brained press that acts as powder monkeys in the System's fights" and the "Simon-Smudge guides of the people, the dollar-lapping ink- Usquirters of the System press." Law- son has been mercirui. " lime ana again during my fight, as you know," says he, "I could have blown the Sys tem into the center sulphur heaps of hell, but only at great risk to the peo ple and only by employing System methods, and I refrained." But now the "gelatine-splned shrimps" are left to their fate, and his proposed stock gambling fight will be "according to the code the Ssstem has adopted; scratch, purr or bite, pitch, sugar or slush will be as good for my purpose as theirs." In his letter Mr. Lawson admits that he failed to apply his much-advertised "remedy" because of a lack of $50, 000,000. and the intimation conveyed by his language is that the failure re sulted because the "saffron-blooded apes" would not put up the money. There is still a gleam of hope for the American people. Like the storied Kentuckian who drank up the visible supply of whisky in order to promote the cause of temperance among his associates, Lawson is now determined to make a "good dog" out of the Sys tem by entering Wall street and tak ing all the money away from the Sys tem pirates. In this manner he will get the $50,000,000 which the "shrimps" failed to subscribe, and will also make Henry H. and John D. feel real sorry. Mr. Lawson of Boston is what the late Artemus Ward would term "an amusin' cuss" and so was Don Quixote. THE STATE TO DO IT ALL. It seems that we are to take up in dustrial education in . the public schools of Portland. It is a tendency of the times, against which protest is useless. But it -is an advanced step towards the socialistic state; of which, however, those who are pushing it are little aware. In The Atlantic for January there is a strong article that favors the idea- of industrial education through the pub lic schools. It is based on the ac knowledged fact that there is need of Industrial education for the large masses. But the idea that the public schools should undertake it would cut out Individual Initiative and parental responsibility, and go far towards es tablishment of the socialistic doctrine that the state should take charge and direction of all industry, see to it that every one shall have employment and pay the wages. This will be the logi cal consequence the socialistic doc trine that government Is to take charge and control of processes of production and distribution. It may be started in the public schools;, for it is an easy and logical transition from the teaching of trades by the state, that the state is to direct and control the industry. Parents, then, are to have no re sponsibility, and are not to teach any doctrine of self-dependence and per sonal responsibility to their children. The state Is to become the sole reli ance. There is no possibility of stop- ping "short of this result. BIO SURPLUS OF MONET. 'The question with borrowers is no longer that of monetary supplies and low rates; the question which con fronts lenders is how to employ re muneratively -the vast accumulations of loanable funds." In such language the New York Financier comments on the remarkable recovery in the money market in New. York. The clearing house banks of that city increased treir reserves more than $26,000,000 list week, and there was an increase of more than $38,500,000 in deposits, The full meaning of these big figures can best be understood when we re call that less than sixty days ago our financiers were scouring the world for gold with which to patch up the shat tered reserves. It should also be re membered that with France, Germany and England sending us gold in rec ord-breaking quantities, the total for any three weeks during the movement fell considerably short of what is now pouring into New York from our own hoards in a single week. With confidence unshattered and most of our Institutions able to main tain their credit, there was plenty of motley in the United States for all le gitimate requirements when the recent financial storm broke. As we are now doing less business than we were be fore the trouble began, it is quite clear that with confidence restored the same amount of money available before .the panic would be more than sufficient to .carry on the business at this time We have all of the money that was then in our possession, and in addi tion more than $100,000,000 which was, at enormous expense, rushed into the country to alleviate a crisis which should never have existed. We paid a heavy premium to get that gold into the country, and with money pil ing up in the banks as it will do, now that confidence is restored, there will be such a slackening in the demand that it is not improbable that gold exports will soon set in. The satisfactory condition of the New York banks is reflected all over the country. The hoarders who drew unnumbered millions from the banks of the country are now beginning to realize that it has no earning power In stockings or teapots, and they are now returning their hoards to the banks or seeking investment. It is too late to repair the damage done to the small tradesmen, merchants and banks that were swept off their feet by the wave of hysteria following the row between rival sets of Wall-street gamblers, but it is encouraging in the extreme to note that the trouble is practically over. The lesson has been a severe one; thousands of innocent persons have been ruined along with a hand ful of guilty Wall-street thieves, but the people have been awakened and it is hardly probable that the present generation will witness a parallel case of commercial folly. AGAIN OUR FLEET. The heart of every loyal American must swell with patriotic pride at the presentment made by the Nation's magnificent battle fleet riding at an chor in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro. Fully equipped, fully manned, com manded by an Admiral with a record for naval ability and by officers well trained in the maneuvers of modern naval vessels, the sixteen big battle ships of the United States Navy and their , grim convoy of torpedovboats tell, though their guns are silent, of the power upon which the liberties of the American people rests. Never be fore did a great Nation in time of pro found peace send on a long voyage such a magnificent and so formidable a fleet. Such. perils as lie in wait for such a -fleet on so long a voyage are yet in advance of the ships. But the American people, serene in their con fidence in the strength of the battle ships and the ability of those who command and man them, have con jured up no tales of possible disaster as a supplement to the brilliant prog ress of the fleet thus far. The voyage was carefully planned the ships were splendidly equipped; the possibilities of disaster were not ignored, but taken into careful ac count and intelligently provided against. And while without doubt a strong tension will be relieved when the news comes that the fleet is riding as securely at anchor in the waters of Magdalena Bay as It Is now riding in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, that which is confidently expected will have happened and the transference of a mighty fleet from the waters of the Atlantic to those of the Pacific will have been completed. The sacredness of Government red tape is still being recognized at Wash- ington. A dispatch in yesterday's, Oregbnian announced that a lightship built in the East for service at Blunt's Reef, Cal., had started on her journey to the Pacific Coast. The cost of bringing the vessel out, aside from the risk of losing her. will exceed $15,000, and she could have been built on this Coast for about $5000 more than on the Atlantic This case, however, shows improvement over that of the big Philippine drydock. In that case the Government saved $10,000 by hav ing her built at Newport News In stead of at a. Pacific Coast yard, and then paid $100,000 more to get the craft to her station than it would have cost ' to get her from a Pacific Coast yard, to Manila. State Senator Harry Rosenhaupt, of Spokane, in announcing his candidacy for Congress, declares himself in favor of co-operation' of the state and Gov ernment in opening the Columbia to the sea. This sentiment for an open river has become so strong in Wash ington that every candidate for any office of importance has something to say on the subject. And yet when Portland began the work of improving the river so that ships could come here and carry both Washington and Oregon products to market at low rates of freight, it encountered severe opposition from many Washington newspapers and no aspirant for office thought he was enhancing his pros pects for election bV promising to work for an open river. It is not likely to cease to be thought a strange thing that the Appellate Court of California held in the case of Mayor Schmitz that his act in black mailing certain restaurants in San Francisco by withholding their li censes toi sell wines, until they had paid a specified price to the Mayor's graft collector did not constitute ex tortion under the law. But the de cision, as Judge Dunne, of the trial court, has since re'marked, came from a tribunal whose members have rela tives and intimate' personal friends under indictment by the same grand jury that had found against Schmitz. This is more severe criticism than has been employed by any newspaper. The revenue cutters sent- out from Puget Sound to look for the missing ship Hartfleld are said to have re turned because the wreckage which was found was not necessarily from a vital part of the'ship, and there wje accordingly some doubt about the ves sel being lost. Perhaps if some dead bodies of members of the crew, are washed ashore in a condition to be identified, It might be worth while sending a cutter out again. It would be, of course, everlastingly too late to save any one from the wreck, but it would show that the lifesavlng branch of our revenue service was up and doing. , A ship canal between the Clyde and the Forth is the next great canal scheme. It will form a connecting link between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and will connect the North Sea with the Irish Sea and with the Atlantic. The construction would be no great matter. In comparison withother inter-maritime canals, for the topography favors it. But, since Glasgow is already so great a city, the result might belittle Edinburgh. Yet possibly not.. At Edinburgh there are forces of many kinds that may be able to maintain their' place, even against the tendencies of a commercial age. Union glassworkers In the East have accepted a 25 per cent reduction in wages In the belief that lower prices will Increase the demand for the out put of the factories. The theory is an excellent one and it works out to nicety In most lines. Here in Oregon a reduction In the cost of woodcutting and landclearing has resulted in an in cleased demand for labor which could have found no employment at former wages. Sam Hall, who was picked up by the police on a charge of vagrancy, says he Is a brother of Maxlne Elliott- As Captain Dermit, of San Francisco is the father of Maxine Elliott, whose name before she began getting mar ried was Jessie Dermit, it would seem that Brother Sam was also cruising around the world under a nom de plume. Portland was the first large city in the country to resume cash payments after the recent financial trouble. It is also the financial headquarters of the Pacific Northwest and the first re serve city north of San Francisco, For, these as well as many other good sound business reasons, a Subtreasury should be established In this city. The welfare of Oregon will be pro moted if individual residents make known to their Eastern friends the colonist rate effective March 1. While the boisterous month is far from at tractive in point of weather, it serves well to demonstrate the mildness of our Winter climate. The rumor was floating round last night, and was handed in over our wires, that Japan had "declared war. But on whom, or for what, was not stated. At a later hour the rumor had not been confirmed. Probably Japan doesn't desire war. The Falrview Dairy ' Association in Tillamook paid its patrons $33,394.18 last year for, milk and butter-fat, the price of the latter ranging from 29.4 cents in January to 36 cents in April. No comment or advice is needed to go With these figures. If being Irrational is evidence of in sanity, as Thaw's attorneys contend. there are a whole lot of people ready for the asylum.- But not all irrational people are Incapable of distinguish ing between right and wrong. It is asserted with confidence that the Milwaukee & St. Paul will be com pleted as far West as Butte by the end of June. Its grade for many hun dreds of miles almost touches the Northern Pacific General restoration of confidence and revival of business throughout the country is certain to give a new and active start to the lumber business of Oregon and the Northwest. Cumulative evidence of rapid return to normal conditions is offered in the increase of $26,000,000 in the cash- re serve of New York banks. If Foraker should be nominated it is altogether probable that Bryan would refuse to run. He would be ashamed to take the votes. UNFETTERED DELEGATIONS. . States That Have No Candidates Should Not Commit Themselves. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is understood that an uninstructed delegation will be sent by Iowa to the Republican National Convention. Thus one of the great Republican states has decided that it Is best not to tie up its representatives at a time when the can didates are many and none in the lead as far as positive facts are known. In New Hampshire similar action has been taken, a resolution having been passed that the delegation of the state shall go unin structed. Iowa itself has Republican leaders of National reputation, yet will not urge any one of them as a candidate. Its Republican delegation will be left ires to act according to the situation as it exists when the convention assembles on June 18 next. There will be more light then on the coming campaign. Con gress expects to complete the session be fore that date. Its work will be before the country, making up issues not yet in sight. The course of state conventions and districts in selecting National dele gates will be known. It is possible that the popular tide may then be seen to run strongly, even decisively, for one candi date, but it lB--the merest guessing now to pick the man or to assume that the con vention will not have to rely entirely upon its own judgment. In cases where the Republicans in any state have a candidate of their own, it is natural yiat, if his support is practi cally unanimous, he should toe backed by an instructed delegation. But he must gain largely in the convention when it meets to forge to the front. New York has 78 delegates, but would have to obtain 413 more to reach the nomination. The states that have no candidates of their own should not commit themselves. Navigators take their reckoning for the current day and direct their ships accord ing to what they know unerringly. The ticket to be nominated next June can not be foreseen now. It is quite beyond the bounds of conjecture. Nor are the politi cal conditions of five months hence dis cernible at present. New Issues and cir cumstances knock at the door without advance notice. Unexpected develop ments may occur within the lines of both parties. - A prudent general goes into battle with reserves to -be placed where the stress is greatest. If he w.. heed no plans except the one he originally, ar ranged for himself the probability is that the difference between the theoretical and the real will be painfully impressed upon him. In this matter the Interests of the peo ple and of the party are not always iden tical with those of the politicians. The latter like a certainty along the line of their own preferences and approve of pledged action ii it is what they want. But popular requirements are another thing. Why should Missouri's delegation be placed under s. vow for the National Convention that will not meet until mid summer? The outlook as far as a choice of candidates is concerned is decidedly in doubt. The political feeling that will prevail in June Is unknown and unknow able at this time. The 36 votes of Mis souri In the convention might, if un pledged, turn the scale in behalf of the wisest course and the best ticket- An in structed delegation is in effect a claim that now, instead of June, is the time to tell what the convention ought to do, and that its business is to register perfunctor ily as a whole what has been predeter mined for it In piecemeal fashion, and blindly as to future conditions. Iowa and New Hampshire will not put their dele gations in such a strattjacket. Nor should Missouri. We Quit. Rltrht Here! Astorlan. We have never, for a moment, cher ished the notion of interfering with Portland In any of lier cherished plans for commercial up-lift, save in the case of the Port of Portland bill, last Win ter, when we opposed her teeth and nail" on the simple ground of self- defense and made good in the fight. We know the futility of contending single-handed against her, and the hopelessness of her ever doing aught for this city or this end of the river. We are in her way here; she wants to maintain supreme control of the maritime commerce of the state, and will probably do so until the for tuitous turn shall be made that shall give us our share of it, as the nearest, most, natural, most feasible, of all the cities and harbors in Oregon. We quit, right here! It's up 'to Astoria and Astorians to save their own faces. If this city has the snap, the gumption, the money, and the busi ness . nerve to go after things, to do things, to gain things and to profit by them, now is her chance to do some thing: if she has no qualities of this sort she may simmer into "innocuous desuetude" and make the best of her inanition. We are here to fight for her when it is necessary, but we want a shoulder-mate, a cause, and the backing that goes with honest cham pionship. This man's town has no re course save her own pluck and spirit and power, and she need not look else where for aid or comfort! The Single Tax. St. Helens Mist. The single tax advocates are endeavor ing by initiative petition to secure the adoption of the Henry George system of taxation in Oregon. They offer to the farmers a bribe in the shape of exemp tion for their buildings and improve ments, but propose to place all taxes upon the land.. It is claimed that the adoption of this system of taxation will induce all the manufacturing plants here after located on the Pacific Coast to come to Oregon, but, of course, if such an inducement were offered California and Washington would probably bid a little higher, and our temporary advan tage would be lost. No system of taxa tion that gives one class of property exemption can fail to be burdensome to all other classes. We are engaged in a struggle for equal taxation of all classes of property, and, despite many burdens and setbacks, we are making progress. Instead of exempting all property ex cept the land, we want to see to it that every class of property, without excep tion, bears its full share of the public burden. Every amendment to the pres ent law should be in this direction. Would Tax Foreign Marriages. Washington CD. C.) Dispatch in New Tork Sun. Representative Sabath, of Chicago, does not believe that good, nam, American made dollars should be expended in the purchase of empty foreign titles for American heiresses unless Uncle Sam also gets his rakeoff. He has according ly Introduced a bill to Impose a tax of 26 per coot upon such marriages. His measure provides tnat ait girts, dowries settlements or advances of money or nroDertv made In consideration or in con temolatlon of marriage by any citizen of the United States to any person other than a citizen of the United States shall be subject to a tax of 25 per cent and paid into the Treasury. Under the terms of the bill the Treasury Department is empowered to formulate rules and reg ulations. Four Millions In Pictures. Baltimore . News. M. Groult. the owner of one of the finest art collections in the world, is dead in Paris. The pictures In his gal lerv. which are valued at $4,000,000. In elude masterpieces by Turner, Constable and Gainsborough, and examples of the French painters of tne ugnteenth Cen tury, such as Watteau.. The bulk of the collection has been bequeathed to the Louvre- VISIT OF ADJUTANTS-GENERAL TO IMPROVE COAST DEFENSES 0 REGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 14. The visit ot the Adjutants - General -of Oregon, Washington and California to the Na tional Capital, and their conference with the War Department and with members of Congress, will probably result In leg islation making it possible to organize in all three states special companies of militia for duty at sea-coast defenses.. General -Flnzer, of Oregon, who was very active, as well as General Hamilton, of Washington, left the city well pleased with tireir reception, and confident that their project will be indorsed. Members of the militia companies of the Pacific Coast states do not care for duty at the Coast fortifications. They did not enlist for such service, and pre fer to go into the field. But in view of the sadly depleted ranks of the regular Coast Artillery it was deemed advisable last Summer to send a number of militia infantry companies to the Coast for artillery drill. The men who went did not want to go again, and yet there are men, eligible for militia duty, who would gladly enter the Coast Artillery if they could be placed on the same footing as the men in the regular militia companies. . The first thing which the Adjutants General asked was that the militia companies, instead of attending maneu vers at Coast fortifications this Summer, be sent to the general field maneuvers at American Lake. This was agreed to by the War Department, and none of the in fantry companies in Oregon and Wash ington will have artillery drill this Sum mer. At the same time the Department announced its purpose to modify its plans for the American Lake encampment this year, and instead of maneuvering on such a grand scale as last season and the Summer previous, the maneuvers will be more confined. That is to say, more attention will be given to the individual companies and to the men comprising those companies, and less to the general officers in command. The maneuvers of the past two seasons have been excellent practice for the commanders of regiments and larger bodies of troops; this year the Majors, Captains and Lieutenants will have more individual work, and so will their men. That much disposed of. General Flnzer and the other two Adjutants-General from the Coast had a conference with Assistant Secretary of War Oliver in re gard to the organization of militia com panies, especially recruited for Coast Ar tillery duty. They assured General Oliver that such companies could be readily organized if the War Department would furnish uniforms and all equip ment. That much is done by the gen eral Government for all other -militia or ganizations, including the artillery com panies. But the appropriations for uni forms &nd equipment are restricted to organizations now in existence, and the METHODISTS NOT FOR FAIRBANKS Church Newspaper Saya He Would Be Effaced at the Polls. Zion's Herald. The intimation that the Methodist Epis copal Church at large would support Mr. Fairbanks because he is a Methodist, is wholly erroneous. We do not, at this writing, intend to give an estimate of Mr. Fairbanks or his general popularity. That, for the present, is' waived. He has been prominently before the public for many years, and here in New England he is intelligently understood. But tne in ference that he would carry the support of Methodises generally because he is a Methodist, was emphatically contradicted a few months ago. At the laymen's meet ing held in connection with the session of the annual dbnference in his own ter ritory, last Fall, at which lay delegates were elected to the general conference, though his personal friends made a loyal and earnest effort to elect him, he Was defeated. If Mr. Fairbanks cannot secure the support of Methodists in nis own state, how can he be expected to- have any hold upon the denomination at large? Unfortunately, Mr. Fairbanks is charged with violating, at his own table, prohibi tion principles and practices, which the universal conscience of our denomination holds sacred and inviolable. The Meth odist Episcopal Church is so sensitive in the matter of prohibition that it does not, and will not, condone the chayre against him, nor accept any of the proffered ex planations which have been made to re lieve him from censure. Whether our people are acting wisely or unwisely in the case we do not say, but merely state the simple fact Instead of supporting him for the Presidency because he is -a.i tiv ifaiiIiI lnrs-elv vote a. iviemvjuiDw .. o . . against him. This matter has been thor oughly thresneo out in puouc aiscusaiuua and in our church press, and it is only cold truth to affirm that probably no public man in our denomination would be so unmercifully effaced at the polls if he 'were a candidate for President by Methodists, as i-. Fairbanks. It Was Only the Third. ' Current Literature. A clergyman, having performed the marriage ceremony for a couple, undertook to write out the usual cer tificate, but, being In doubt as to the day of the month, he asked, "This is the ninth, is it not?" "Why, parson," said the blushing bride, "you do all my marrying, and you ought to remember that this is only the third." Her Unruly Children. New Tork World. Australia follows British Columbia in throwing a fit about the Tellow Peril and the Japanese Invasion. Great Britain has a lot of trouble keeping her unly children from "sassing" the visitors. Where the Wars End. Atlanta Constitution. What is the sorrow? A little space The cry of the fallen In the race The dying cry which the world heeds not 111 remembered, or eoon forgot. Joy or sorrow will end In rest Iust, and a rose .on a dreamless breast. What Is the sighing? It Is not long; One In the end are the sigh and song: One the faith, and one the doubt The cry of the vanquished the victors shout. Victor and vanquished must creep for rest When the dust la blown o'er the dreamless breast. And what In the transient gloom and glow Is the beautiful love that we cling to so. The rose red lip. and the sparkling eye? A gracious greeting a sad good-bye! With pallid faces and lips grief prest The lovers creep to the rose for rest. So' we smile at the dark on the pathway rough: There shall be sunshine and rest enough After the stormy ways are past. Rest shall be sweeter at last at last! Joy and sorrow will end in rest Dust, and a rose on a dreamless breast. Had the Grip? - Louisville Courier-Journal. Kerchool Kerchee? His red eyes drip. But silent be! It is the grip. His nose is red. Kerchug! Kerchoo! ' He feels half dead. And so would you In such a plight, A woeful case. ' His skin Is tight And flushed his face. Kerchoo! Kerchee! Just hear him rip! But silent -be It Is the grip. Department cannot divert any of this money towards equipping Coast Artillery companies on the Pacific Coast. It was therefore decided that General Oliver, through Secretary Taft, should recommend te Congress that the appro priation for uniforms and equipment be sufficiently increased to provide for Coast Artillery companies in the three Paciiic Coast states, and arrangements wens made to have such bills presented to both Houses of Congress. The three Adjutants-General saw the various members of the Congressional delegations from their respective states, as well as mem bers of the militia committees, and found universal sentiment in favor of the con templated legislation. With such fa vorable assurances, they left Washington, satisfied that their visit had not been in vain. Of course, however, no Coast Ar tillery companies will be recruited until the desired legislation has been enactea, though preliminary steps will be token if the legislation progresses favorably as the session grows. Adjutant-General Flnzer. of the Oregon puard, speaking of the project, said: There will be no difficulty in recruiting these companies if Congress will make the. necessary appropriation. Similar compa nies have been organized in Massachusetts and other Atlantic Coast states, and ai e doing very efficient work. This particular line or duty appeals to many good mtn who do not enter the National Guard at the present time because they do not want to place themselves in a position where they might be ordered out of the country. I refer particularly to married men. There . are plenty of good men of family In our Coast -states who would readily enlist in the Coast Artlliery branch of the Ouard If the Government would provide the equip ment. They are men of hlsh character: good staunch fellows of Intelligence an-l ability; the kind of men who, under prop.'r training-, could readily learn to handle the Intricate guns that are mounted in our Coast defenses. It retiuires men of excep tional intelligence for this duty, and us lllustrntins the ty?e of men who compri--! our National Guard on the Coast I no-l only say that the Infantry companies wh'.rli were assigned to Coast Artillery duty la-t Summer Droved, in their short stay, thnt they could efficiently aid the reeulars if called upon to do so. They quickly graspe.l the principles on which the sea-coast def rnos are ODerated. If those men were etual t-i. the duty, certainly there are others n"t " now in the Guard who would be equally competent. The Coast Artillery companies of the Mas-, eachussetts Guard, recruited largely fn Bos ton, have their annual maneuvers or drill in the fortifications protecting Boston H;ir-V bor. and several times durlns the year thev go down to the fortifications for spe cial drill and Instruction. On the Coast, by recruiting companies in the cities alonr the coast, we could carry out the same programme with as great success. 1 re gard this as a very important move towaris strengthening the Coast defenses of tho Pacllic Coast, and have strong hones thut our project will succeed. We can recruit the companies gradually i.ntil we get them up to the desired strength, the number nf companies to be governed by the number of fortifications. COR PRESERVATION .OP FORESTS The President's Efforts in This Cause 1 a Sure Title to Fame. Life. It is an interesting house party that the President has planned to have at the White House on the 13th, ltth and 15th of next May. He has invited the Governors of all the states and territories and a'.l the members of Congress to meet hrm on those days to confer with him, and with one another, upon the conservation of the natural resources of the United States. That means chiefly timber and coal, and especially timber, because more can be done by Government to protect the forests that are left than can be done as yet for the conservation of coal, iron, oil or any thing that is under ground. We hope the Governors will accept t'.ie President's invitation, so far as they can and that the meeting may lead to harmo nious and intelligent action. Nothing that President Roosevelt has done will stand more conspicuously to his credit in com ing years than the support he has given, to efforts to save the American forests.! The effort began in President Benjamin. Harrison's time, was helped along earn-i estly by Mr. Cleveland and Mr. McKinley. ; and has been carried forward with great zeal by the present administration, work ing with Mr. Glfford Pinchot, the forester of the Agricultural Department. The labors of the last 15 years have re sulted in the reservation toy the Govern ment of 162,000,000 acres of forest lands (one-fifth of the wooded area of the coun try), all in states west of the Mississippi. The next Congress will be asked to pro vide for a great hardwood forest reserve of about 11,000,000 acres in the Eastern states, in the White Mountains and Ap palachian Mountains. Some of this land is owned by states, some by individuals. Some must be bought: much can be pro tected hy the co-operation of state and Federal authorities. What is necessary is to provide im mense tracts of woodlands which will be systematically protected from fire and waste, and made by intelligent use and supervision to yield an annual supply of timber in perpetuity. Incidentally, these great forest tracts are the reservoirs that hold back water, diminish floods, and help the streams and rivers flowing. Nothing In sight is more important to the future welfare of the country than tnese great plans of forest reservation. Lumber is very dear now, and the Presi dent points out that at the present rate of use and waste our present forests will last not more than 25 years. The measures necessary to provide our chil dren and grandchildren with wood and waterpower are comparable in importance with those we take to provide them with education. Railroad Magnate Cuts His Salary. Washington (D. C.) Dispatch in New Tork Times. President Finley of the Southern Rail way announces that a reduction of 10 per cent in the pay of the president, vice-presidents and all other general officers and their office forces will go Into effect on February 1. The reason assigned Is "in view of the falling off in business and the decrease in revenues." The announcement affects very few em ployes of the road outside of Washington, D. C, as the general officers have their main offices here. It is not expected that at any early date there will be a reduc tion of the salaries of the agents, train men and other employes along the lines. Origin of "The Thunderer." ' London Correspondence of New Tork Herald. It is not perhaps generally known under what circumstance the name of "Thun derer" was applied to the Times. Two ladles of Kew were splashed with mud by an ill-behaved horseman, and the Times taking the matter up in a leading article vigorously denounced the rudeness of the rider, alleged to be the Duke of Cumber land. On the allegation proving false, an other article appealed by way of apology, in which occurred the phrase "we thun dered out." This grandiloquence caught the public fancy and the name "Thun derer" followed as a matter of course. Laylnr Hen Chews Tobacco. Indianapolis News. A hen owned by "Bert" Miller, a law yer, of Toungstown, O., refuses to lay unless she gets her daily cupply of chew ing tobacco. Eastern Potatoes In January. Philadelphia Recrd. William Wild, a farmer, near Plains vllle, Pa., gathered new potatoes the first week in January from a croj planted last August. I f