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San Francisco, Forster orear; Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; I Parent; N. Wheatley; Fairmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.: United News Agency. 14 Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man agr three wagons; Worlds N. S.. 2625 A. fcutter street. Cikland, Cat TV. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager five wagons: Welllngh&m. E. G. Ooldtleld. Nev. l.ou!s Follln. f ureka, Cal. Call-Chronlcla Agency; Eu reka News Co. TORTUANO, 8ATIRUAY, APRIL 4. 1B0. THE I'KOBLbn OF DEMOCRACY. Will municipal ownership of public utilities be sueeessf ul ? Jt depends en tirely on the character of the people, :ind on the activity of honest and able men in public affairs. Note what lias happened in San Krancisco. Note again what has hap pened In Chicago: where the water employes have robbed the city of im mense sums. It is not enough that democracy should be better than autocracy, aris tocracy, monarchy and olisrarchy. Jt must be thoroughly honest. But to work It lip to that point and keep it there Is a labor indeed. The main reason is that democracy finds it as hard to get rid of favoritism and of pi"fPi"s w''i fasten themselves upon Government, as monarchy and oligarchy have found it. Nay, more difficult; for a single despot could get rid of the person he wanted to throw out. But a democracy often finds it a more difficult undertaking; for the "boss" has a "pull" on multi tudes, who are attached to him by In terests that are interwoven with the whole, frame-work of the political organization, and with its business in terests, too. Hut, it is easier to dislodge political and party favorites, under democracy, than under such government, for ex ample, as that of Louis XV of France, where the King and the Court were everything: where the most potent force in government was the King's mistresses, and when one "Madame" was out and another was to be chosen, the nobility was vexed and felt itself humiliated, because the King did- not take his new mistress from their ranks, but took Jeanne J'oisson, of humble birih, and made her Madame de Pompadour. But even this was a triumph of democracy: for it helped to bring on the Revolution. The absolute necessity of de.mocrary Is enforcement of honety and intelli gence in government, and selection of men who can he depended on for the service. These mostly must come from the htlmble and obscure classes; for the so-called upper classes are dis inclined to serve. They are willing to take the A-hole Government and "run" it; and then they will run it into every kind of oppression, favoritism and abuse. This has been the lesson of aJl experience and history. Democ racy Is open to the same or similar abuses: for it runs into government by managers, bosses, grafters and favorites, who, however, may be more easily dislodged than if their tenure were held from the mistresses of kings. But democracy has Its faults and its dangers. It is easily misled. Too many of its members, moreover, are self-seekers, and believe that graft Is universal: therefore thev are entitled to all they can extort from the public. This, from the San Francisco Chroni cle, is an expression of a sound Judg ment, vir.: "The objection to municipal ownership in the United States is based on a disbelief that there would be either competency or honesty in the manage ment." Again, let it be said and re peated, till It shall pass into the cur rency of a proverb, that the success of democracy depends on the charac ter of the people. Here Is the problem of democracy. On second thought, the Trans-Faci-fic Freight Bureau seems to have de cided that a discrimination of tl per ton against the Pacific Coast millers, who had made possible establishment of trans-Pacific lines, was ill-advised, and they hastened to remove the ob noxious differential. Low rates across the Pacific quite naturally Increase the profits of the wheaigrower, but when they are used to the detriment of the milling business, they are fully as harmful to the farmer as they are to the miller, for the milling industry is steadily Increasing the price of wheat In the Pacific Northwest. If the trade is driven to China, where Orientals, are employed In the mills, the advan tages of a competitive milling demand for wheat w-ill be lost to the farmers who market their wheat at Portland and Puget Sound. POLITICAL, ALM-ANAC8. During recent years Rev. H. L. Barkley, Bishop of the Church of United Brethren, has not been saying much about politics, and perhaps do ing less. Formerly he was very active for a time, and once or twice was elected to the Legislature. He was professedly a Republican, but was captivated by his own arguments for free silver, which were as good as any man ever made or could make, and by his admiration of the brilliancy displayed by Mr. Bryan in support of that great article of economic, political and financial philosophy free coinage at the revealed ratio of sixteen to one. Mr. Barkley Is an excellent speaker, a good debater ready, nimble, argute: and no one can wonder that he breaks Into politics now and then. By it Brother Barkley never brings the cloth into disrepute,' for ho is a man of unfailing good nature and always talks interestingly without dropping into uncharitable personalities about hi opponents. After long silence about politics Mr. Barkley appears again, this time with the prediction that "Senator Fulton will win the nomination for United States Senator at the primary election April 17, Governor Chamberlain will beat him at the polls In June, and the Legislature, 65 per cfmt of which will be Statement No. 1 men, vill elect Chamberlain Senator." Of the possi bility of such programme, or a simi lar one, others besides Mr. Barkley have entertained an idea a good while: yet some have substituted the name of Mr. Cake for Mr. Fulton; which, how ever, would not materially alter the programme. No one knows betteT than Mr. Barkley for he Is a goodobserver that there Is no principle of loyalty to party or coherency for common and definite objects, among the Repub licans of Oregon. This knowledge is the basis of his political clairvoyance. But it is somewhat common property. Our Democratic brethren are acting upon it, in nearly all parts of the state, and in particular In Multnomah County, where they have declined to offer a party ticket, but haveregls tered as Republicans, in order that they may call for Republican tickets when they go to the primary election, so they may vote for Statement No. 1, or (possible) Chamberlain Repub licans. But, after all, this will not tend to the abolition of party, for Chamberlain will always be a bed rock Democrat. But It's very well. Why not? There Is no need of any concern about It. Only let us not start out to get one re sult, and through blindness and blun der, get another, and very different one. Prophets have long been In dis repute, more or less; but that has been a consequence of prophets not follow ing their proper function, which is not to foretell particular events, but to deal with moral questions and their conse quences. We do not range Brother Barkley with the prophets, therefore, but classify him with the forecasters, whose announcements are worth con sideration, though they don't always correctly foretell " the weather. This year there will be an unusual number of makers of political almanacs. THF WHITMAN ENDOWMKNT. The endowment fund of J2, 000. 000, which It Is proposed to ralsefor Whit man College at Walla Walla, looks large to us because we are accustomed to small things educationally In this part of the world. Compared with the resources of most of our colleges. It is enormous. Compared with the endowment of Stanford or the Uni versity of Chicago It Is insignificant. The zealous promoters of the project to raise $2,000,000 for Whitman ex claim that this sum would make their college "the Tale of the" West." The West does not want a Yale. It wants a university adapted to conditions fundamentally different from those of the Atlantic seaboard. But If we de sired ever so eagerly to reproduce Connecticut's ancient and aristocratic scat of learning, two million dollars would not bring us very near the goal. In 1905 the endowment of Tale, ac cording to an eminent authority, was $7,317,000 and a little more. Since then it has received Mr. Rockefeller's million and other contributions, which probably bring the amount up to $9,000,000. The proposed endowment of 12,000,- 000 would not transform Whitman into a second Tale, but It might easily make the 'flourishing and vigorous college at Walla Walla the best center of instruction north of the California line. Even with its present very mod est income Whitman holds its own in competition with the state schools at Mocsow, Pullman, Seattle and Eugene. It seems to exercise great attractive power over students and exhibits a principle of vitality which promise great things for the future. We should not be surprised If within a year or two Whitman College actually raised the two million dollars. Much stranger and more discouraging feats nave oeen accompusnea Dy colleges in other, parts of the world. In these times of vast benefactions to educa tion a. little well-directed persuasion ought to secure the sum without much delay. If the fund Is raised one may ven ture to hope that the plan to spend half of it on new buildings will not be carried out. It Is a mistake for a col lege to invest more money in build ings than it absolutely must, though the mistake is often made. It is not uncommon to see a thrtftless school which has spent all its funds upon fine buildings and has nothing left wherewith to pay Its professors and furnish a library. The first thought of a wise faculty is to invest every ob tainable penny In productive securi ties. Buildings should be erected out of income, newr, if it can be avoided, out of capital. Handsome college structures housing a faculty of starv ing professors present a spectacle of folly which no future endowment should be permitted to repeat. When the teachers have been made comfort able and the library supplied with books and two orx three modest lab' oratories fitted out with first-rate ap paratus, then it Is time to think of expensive halls and sumptuous chapels. The truth is that a college which has made a name for itself, as Whit man seems In a fair way to do, can depend upon special gifts to pay- for new buildings as it needs them. Peo ple In general who have money to bestow like better to put it into a dormitory, chapel or library, which can bear the name of the donor, than to merge it Into the general college fund. Buildings come vastly easier than books, apparatus and professors' salaries. Hence, the college adminis tration ought to seize eagerly upon every cent It can beg or borrow, and sink it without delay In the irreducible productive endowment, trusting to be reaved widows and kindly plutocrats to erect -whatever buildings may be needed from time to time. A well paid faculty will do better teaching In an old barn than a lean and hungry horde of shivering professors can do In a palace. But fine buildings, it will be replied. have great advertising value. What do they advertise? Themselves and' nothing else. Nobody can tell from Its buildings what kind of teaching a college does any more than he can tell from a woman's gowns what her char acter is. The only thing of any con sequence in a school is the Instruction it gives ant the influence that goes with Instruction. This must speak for itself. Magnificent paJaces can not vouch for it. Neither numbers of students nor athletic glory nor famous specialists can make good its absence. Most colleges are advertised too much. An undue proportion of their energy Is spent In attracting new students. More of it should be consumed ' for those who are already there. Facul ties are Hike the big insurance com panies, which deplete their funds to obtain new business, while the old is neglected. The Ideal seat of learning is a college with not too many stu dents and a large corps of instructors. It is a place where the student can come under the influence of strong teachers year after year until they have developed his soul In virile thought and noble aspiration. "Book learning " deserves all the contempt which it receives from practical men. It Is easy to get, easy to lose, and worthless unless the possessor has learned how to use it from contact with living masters. We trust, there fore, that Whitman will not try to be a big college until bigness is forced upon It, but will strive rather for that excellence which Is measured by qual ity inetead of quantity. MISLEADING STATISTIC. The subdued nature and Innate modesty of a large number of Port land people are reflected every day in the city statistics. Perusal of these statistics makes it decidedly noticeable that the only time some of our people seem to have a regard for accuracy is In giving the age of persons who hve died. It is, of course, of no great in terest or value to the public to see on the records that a marriage license has been issued to John Smith, "over twenty-one," or Jane Brown, "over eighteen;" but we should like to see building permits and real estate trans fers recorded at approximalely their, true value. Mention has frequently been made of our grotesque local regulations and charges for Issuing building permits on a "valuation basis, instead of at a flat rate, but our contractors continue to take out $1000 permits for J2000 buildings, Jl'OOO permits for $4000 buildings, and so on throughout the scale. The real estate transfers for Thurs day, as printed In yesterday's Ore- gonlan, reached the very satisfactory total of $223,031, but even that figure does not approximate the actual cash value for which the property was sold. Modestly sandwiched In between an $8000 and a $35,000 transfer In yes terday's Oregonlan was one for $10. Of course It helped to Rwell the total, and without it intending investors from Los Angeles, Seattle or any other up-to-date city would have noted that our transfers were but $223,021. And yet the property represented by that insignificant $10 item was sold and deeded to the new owner for a consid eration of $20,000 cash. There was a number of other trans fers In which the consideration was given as from $1 to $10. Had the proper valuation been given, the total on the day's business would have run well about $250,000. This practice of concealing our business Is misleading to strangers who compare the totals with those of other cities whose in habitants are unafraid ofmaking too favorable a showing. It would be in teresting to know why this misrepre sentation of values is continued. It surely cannot be that the Assessor Is deceived by it, and assesses $20,000 lots at $10 because that Is the only consideration which may come under his notice. A DAUGKKOrS DRIR. It appears that little Albert Clarke was. undergoing an operation for the removal of adenoids when he died from the effect of the chloroform which the doctors had piven him to produce anaesthesia. For such sim ple operations upon children careful physicians do not as a rule like to use chloroform, since it is well known that the drug is dangerous. Ether is much preferred. Indeed many physicians dislike to administer chloroform even to adults, for the peril which may attend its use Is always present when there is the slightest defect in the heart's action. Sometimes these defects are latent and cannot be detected by ordinary tests. In such a case the patient un der the influence of chloroform will suddenly show signs of collapse in spite of every precaution and death may follow Immediately. Physicians have certain expedients to which they resort when a patient manifests dan gerous symptoms under chloroform, but unless the heart is sound thev are all liable to fall. No doctor who values his reputation ever thinks of administering chloro form to a patient, either young or old. without making at least a mechanical examination of the heart; but the re sult of such a test is uncertain. Of course, there are ways of detecting almost every possible cardiac weak ness, but some of them are tedious and require expert knowledge. It is hardly putting the matter too strongly to say that in the present state' of medical science a person who submits to chloroform imperils his life. The chances are, of course, that he will return to consciousness unharmed, but still he may not. There is a risk, and while the number of deaths from the drug Is not very great, yet It is great enough to make patients cautious and cause physicians to exercise extreme care. Perhaps the death, of Albert Clarke was unavoidable, but his friends can hardly help feeling that If the physicians had administered ether Instead of chloroform he might still be alive. A new York dispatch says that 'there was little surprise expressed In any quarter" over the announcement that Mrs. Alfred vanderbllt had sued her husband for divorce. Neither Is It a surprise to the country at large to learn that there was so "little sur prise" expressed In New Tork. Mar riage and divorce, with the attendant scandal, have become sp much part and parcel or life among the Idle rich in gay Manhattan that respectable people, with regard for the sacredness of the marriage tie, long ago ceased to express astonishment over any dis closure made regarding Manhattan morals. The disreputable foreigners who land on our shores are not the only "undesirables" whose deportation would be of positive benefit to the country. William J. Bryan has great ora torical power. Not Indeed so great as that of Henry Clay but great. Clay, however, never sard anything worth remembrance. Neither does Bryan. Nobody ever consults Clay's speeches, or quotes them. Bryan makes no speech that will be quoted fifty, or even twenty, years hence. Oratory Is a gift; It Is histrionic ac tion; It doesn't depend at all on the worth or weight of the matter, but on the manner of delivery. The great orations of history never had any auditors. But they are read, through all ages. Clay said nothing; Bryan says nothing. But Clay could set peo ple wild; and so can Bryan; In less degree. There la no need whatever of party. That Is the order of the day. You don't need to vote In the primary for Cake or for Fulton, or for one man or another for the Legislature, or for the House of Representatives in Con gress, because he's a party man. Cut 'em all out. Let's have a scrub race on- candidates, without regard to party. It's disreputable, under the new dispensation, to profess attach ment to party, or to have any political principles. All this has been super seded by the new light. It's been coming for years; and that's the rea son why The Oregonian withdrew, and now tarries' at a distance, overlooking the scene from the Delectable Moun tains. There is no present objection to use of the water of Bull Run, below the city's Intaket by the Mount Hood Railway & Power Company, or by any other concern. The objection is that after their power plant shall have been established, and the city shall find It necessary to take out more water, as it surely will, these users below will complain of the diminution of their supply and hold the city up for big money or forbid the diversion of the water above. Before the city shall grant any rights, this matter should be settled by written stipulations of the closest kind. One of our fossils, a relic of a long past age, quotes Daniel Webster against The Oregonian. The idea, in these new times, of quoting Webster for or against anything! The new spirit of these progressive times will not have It. Even C. E. S. Wood says he Is "not much In sympathy with any generation being in bonds to the dead." Yet we are grieved to see him carry up to the court-room old tomes, from which he reads prece dents, to hold our progressive society chained to the body of that death. Weeks ago The Oregonian showed how utterly unfit the Aldrlch currency bill is, and gave the reasons why It should not pas. But It has passed the Senaie, and now the commercial and industrial organizations of New York and other Eastern cities "are holding meetings to protest against it, and sending resolutions to the House which declare that there would better be no currency legislation than this. With the National banks of Chicago opposing the Aldrich bill and the New York Chamber of Commerce against all measures, the people must look to themselves for financial relief in crises. This is precisely where we started and where we shall always stand. Congress cannot make a law compelling scared depositors to put their money back. Banks must wait until the scare Is over. In every county men are announcing themselves, through the local papers, as Republican candidates for divers, sundry and various offices, but hardly any as Democratic candidates. After sn election or two more, men will not he so anxious to obtain Republican nominations. The new system will fix 'em. Two immense business blocks, one to cost $400,000, the other twice as much, round out unprecedented March building operations in Portland. It is gratifying in this connection to note that a daily average of fifteen permits for homes costing $1500 to $3000 keeps up steadily. Miss Helen Gould has had to curtail her list of benevolences, owing to the financial stress; but Madame Anna goes right ahead with her philan thropic scheme for the improvement of the material welfare of all appli cants from the impecunious French nobility. At the Democratic love-feast in Salem, our distinguished townsman, Frederick Holman, urged not only Statement No. 1, but the election of a Democratic Legislature as well. What's the use of a Democratic Legis lature If we are to have Statement No. 1? Says a Portland banker exultantly: "Oregon is not in bondage to the East." Nor to any other point of the compass. Our only bondage is right here at home, and that in a limited way to the late W. S. ITRen. Mr. Vard'aman, of Mississippi, says that Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, is "thrilled with a cosmic oneness." Shouldn't wonder. But not slxteen-to-oneness", this year. Declaration of the usual quarterly dividend of 1 per cent by the North ern Pacific shows how hard the trans continental lines were hit by the panic. It may be regarded as certain that President Paul Morton didn't get that ptomaine poisoning from handling tainted Insurance money. SALKM HORSE SHOW ALL READY Best llorseflesh In Northwest to Be Exhibited for Cups or Prizes. SALEM, Or., April 3. (Special.) Two hundred of the best horses in the North west will be lined up in the parade of the Salem horses how at 10 o'clock to morrow morning. Present Indications are that one of the biggest crowds ever gathered in Salem will be here to wit ness the exhibition. The event will be an important one in the affsirs of this part of the state, for it will not only demonstrate what horse breeders have been dotnir for the livestock industry In recent years, but will also-arouse a more widespread Interest in good hossoflesh. Realizing the value of this exhibition of horses, the business men of Salem con tributed $500 in cash premiums and 50 silver cups and other articles as prizes to be awarded. No entry fee will be charged. The parade will start from the corner of Court and Liberty streets at 10 A. M.. and will traverse the principal streets. C. W. Yannke will be marshal of the day. Premiums will be awarded as soon after the parade as possible and at 3 o'clock there will be a parade of prize winners. S. S. Bailey, of Seattle, and Dr. James Withytrombe, of Corvallis, will make the awards. V. W. C A. CONVENTIOX BEGINS Over 175 Delegates Fresent at Eu gene From the Xorthwest. UNIVERSITY' OF OREGON, Eugene, Or., April 3. (Special.) The thirteenth annual convention of the Y. W. C A. of the Northwest opened this morning at the University. Over 175 delenates are In attendance from different educational in stitutions of Oregon and Idaho. The day sessions are held in VUlard Hall and to day's programme there included the fol lowing talks: Miss Frances Gage, on "The Beatitudes and tne 20th Century "; "Bible Study," by Dr. William F. Co hum, of New York; President P. I Camp bell. "Place of the Association In College Life"; Miss Valentine Pritchard. -Settlement Work": Mrs. Jessie M. Honey man, of Portland, "Social Economics." Tonight in the Methodist Church, Df. Benjamin F. Young, pastor of the Taylor street Methodist Church, of Portland, spoke on "The Man of Nazareth." Miss Francis Gage followed him with a talk on "National and State Work," which also was well received. The convention will last until Sunday night. More dele gates are expected tomorrow. CARPENTER IS ELECTROCUTED Holding Cable That Hits High Volt age Wlres Body Burned Black. COLFAX. Wash., April (Special.) William 9. Jamieson. aged about 28 years, home unknown, a bridge carpenter with the C. M. & St. P., was electrocuted at Rosalia Thursday afternoon. Jamieson had been working on a trestle which crosses the Spokane Inland Electric Line when the accident occurred. He was on the ground holding a cable wire, which reached the trestle above the Inland wires. While baoking with the cable he became entangled in thS wire and fell, the cable struck the electric wires and BOO volts passed through his body, burning it black. His lingers snd feet were burned off. Coroner Crawford, of Colfax, tnok charge of the body. Several pictures taken at Lindsay, Ontario, were in his possession, also a credit slip for $2S9.50 on the Bank of Montreal, of Spokane. YARDS SHUT OFF CLOSES MILL Wilson Bros.' Mill at Aberdeen Has Been Idle for Month. ABERDEEN. Wash., April 3. (Spe cial.) Work at the Union and Amer ican Mills will be resumed Monday, after a suspension for two months. The Wilson Brothers' Mill has been closed for a month, owing to peculiar conditions. During the engineers' strike the mill was run at its full ca pacity and there being no steamers the docks became congested. Now, owing to the location of the Wilson Brothers vards In San Francisco, the repair of a bridge' has shut them oft from' trsftic. Inasmuch ns steamers cannot get to the yards the congestion here cannot be relieved, hence It was neces sary to close the mill. CHILD IS BCRXED TO DEATH Little Boy Sets Fire to Baby Sister, AVho Is Tied In Hlfrh Chair. BROWNSVILLE, Or.. April 3. (Spe cial.) The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tra TTull was so severely burned at the family home near Craw fnrrtsville yesterday morning that she died soon after. The child, together with her 4-year-old brother, were left In the house while the mother went to the barn. . During her absence the boy ob tained some paper and. setting it on flro from the stove, in some way Ignited the dress of his HtUe sister, who wtis tied In a hlghchair. When the mother rushed to the scene the clothing of the child was burned off. The little one suffered great agony until death. BOTH SIDES STAXDIf3 FIRM Shingle-Weavers and Manufacturers at Raymond Still at Outs. RAYMOND. Wash.. April 3. (Special.) TJo settlement has yet been reached be tween the local shingle-manufacturers and the striking shingle-weavers. Over 100 men are affected and three mlllB are closed. The mlllowners are searching for nonunion crews and say they will resume operations sometime next week. The manufacturers say that the present price, of shingles is lower than the cost of manufacturing and that it Is necessary to reduce wages from the 1907 scale to that of 1906, a reduction of about 12 per cent, in order to make expenses. The weavers are firm and are hopeful of win ning the fight. XORMAL STCDEXT'S FORTUXE Falls Heir to $ 1 05,000 Will Con tinue Course In School. WESTON. Or.. April 3 (Special.) W. W. Scales, a normal sophomore, is heir to a fortune of Jlofi.AOO, this being his share of an uncle's estate. Mr. Scales has just returned from Rosehurg, where the affairs of the estate were settled after being in litigation, and has received his legacy. He has decided to remain at the normal and complete the course. Mines Discharge Men. JACKSONVILLE. Or., April 3. (Special.) The Blue Ledge Copper Mines, 40 miles southwest of Jackson ville, have discharged 100 men. leav ing 15 at work. This Is due. it is said, to financial conditions in the East and also to the fact that no further de velopment can be done until a smelter Is built The property Is looking well. $60,000 Raised for Hotel. THE DALLES, Or.. April 3. Spe cal.) The citizens . committee has to day completed the task of raising $60, 00ft, fhe amount requisite for the con struction of a new modern hotel. The subscribers met tonight to organize a corporation as the initial step in the enterprise. COMPAVY IX GOOD CXJXpiTIOX Oregon City Soldier Boys to Cele brate Anniversary With Smoker. OREGON CITY, Or., April 3. (Special.) Company G, Third Regiment, Oregon National Guard, Is arranging for the celebration of the first anniversary of its organization, and will give a smoker Mon day evening. May 11. The company Is In better shape than at any time since It was organized, and there has been no change in Its commissioned officers. In indoor target practice, scores of 42 ittit 43 have been made out of a possible &0. The equipment of Krag-Jorgenson rifles Is being exchanged for the new Spring fields. The company is going to tlm maneuvers at American Lake, along with the National Guard of Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and Montana, and the Unit ed States troops. Corporal Gaylord Godfrey has been promoted to Junior sergeant, passing the highest-examina tion of any of the candidates. CJuartet- master Sergeant Isador Price has been transferred to The Dalles. MEDFORD BOXDS FOR WATER Majority of 373 for Isstte Results. Hard Work Done. MEDFORD. Or.. April 3. (Special.) The city bond issue for the acquisition of a water right and construction of a pipeline to conduct water to this city from Wasson Creek Spring, at the base of ML Pitt, 18 miles distant from Med ford. was voted upon today, resulting in a majority of 373 In favor of the Issue. Medford's promoters and boosters for a greater Medford began early this morn ing to get busy and by noon Indications were proving that the. good and true cut zens hfld an eye for the future welfare of Medford. The bond Issue will beof the denominations of $10,000 each, to be disposed of as needed as the work of construction advances. RAILROADS TO RETALIATE Examine Kecords to 'Find AYtiat X Farm Property Is Taxed. SPOKANE, Wash.. April 3. (Special.) Fop months the Northern Pacific haa had a Rents examining the county records for valuation and taxation of farm prop erty along Us rifcht-of-Tvay in Eastern "Washington -counties, to lay the founda tion for a battle- to escape a portion of the increased burden which the State Tax Oommis&ion purposes to lay upon the railroad. It finds farm lands that pell for $5J an acre, or upon which loans of $35 an acre are made, taxed at $13 an acre. The railroad will demand either that its assessment be redured .or that the assessment on farms be raised. T.ane County Fair. EUGENR, Or.', April 3. The I-ane County Agricultural Society filed its articles of incorporation today, the In corporators being: Albert Hampton, Henry HoMpnbeck and David Link. This is thfl organization that has been at work for some time petting organized and securing a fair site in the Huddleton Addition In southwest Kupene. The capital stock is $49,000, each share beinx ?300. "Work will begin on the new grounds early in the Spring. Lane Socialists Nominate. RI'GENE, Or., April 3. (Special.) The Lane County Socialists held an ail-dfty convention here today. H. M. Manvllle was chosen chairman of the convention and E. C. Cole secretary. A full county ticket was placed In the field. The meeting was addressed by J. B. Osborne and Mrs. Jessie Myers. On the county ticket Mrs. Jessie Myers -was nominated for County School Superln ten dent. Over 100 Socialists were in attendance from all parts of Lane County. Wants to Witfen Street. MONTKSANO, "Wash.. April S (Spe cial.) The City of Montesano haa tiled suit In the Superior Court against the property owners on both sides of Main street, in this city, for a strip of land 10 feet wide. The city claims this strip of land through the original deed of gift whn the town was first laid out, hut that it had never been used when the streets were laid out. W, H. A hie is counsel for the city and B. G. Cheney for the property owners. Coeur d'Aleno Allotments. BPOK.ANB. Wash.. April 3. (Special.) On the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, a few ijriles from Tekoa. Wash., the first allots luents In severally on the fajnous Coeur D'Alene Indian Reservation were made yesterday. The chief of the tribe semred the flr.st allotment. The work will he long-drawn out, as all the lands must be surveyed and papers drawn up. On Mine That Pays. SPOKANE. Wash., April 3. (Specie! ) With the payment tomorrow of divi dend No. 127, the Runker Hill & Sulli van Mining & Concentrating Company, the mines of which are at Wardner, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alnes, has paid to its stockholders $tnno,ono. The divi dends paid since January 1 total $255,000. STERLING BILL IS AMEXDED House Committee Reverse Itself on Negligence Clause. WASHINGTON. April 3. The Ster ling employers' liability bill, to which, in an amended form, the House judi ciary committee agreed last Wednes day by a vote of 10 to 7. was re amended today, that committee by a vote of 11 to reversing itself. It was not a, party vote. Seven Demo crats combined with four Republicans to make up the majority ballot. The clause amended today is that relating to contributory negligence. Last Wednesday the committee amend ed the clause so as to conform with the La Follette bill in Its original form. Today the committee changed the section, so as to read that "contribu tory negligence," instead of "slight" contributory negligence, shall not be a bar to recovery, but the jury shall apportion tbe negliirpnce of the em ployers and of the employes and allow the employe such sum of money as shall be in proportion to the ratio which his negligence bears to the negligence of the employer. Representative Littlefield (Maine), Parker (New Jersey) and Bannon (Ohio) will file a minority report de claring the section as amended today to be unconstitutional. REPORT ELKIXS KESOLdTlOX Committee Recommends Suspension Commodity Clause to 20 Month. WASHINGTON. April 3. The Seriate committee on Interstate commerce today voted unanimously to report the Elklns' resolution to suspend the commodity clause of the present interstate commerce law, but the time when the clause will take effect was changed to January 1. 1910. making the extension 20 months instead of two years. The committee today received a letter from the Interstate Commerce Commis sion approving the resolution. Advertising Talks No. 6 CATO'S FOLLOW-UP SYSTEM By Herbert Kaufman If a man lambasted you on the ptsj and walked away and wnitpd a week before he repeated the performance, he wouldn't hurt you very b;ully. Be tween attacks you would have an op portunity to recover from the effeut of the first blow. But if he smashed you and kept mauling, each impact of. his fist would find you less able to stand the ham mering, and half a dozen jabs would probably knock you down. Xow, advertising is. after all, a matter of hitting the eye of the pnb lie. If yon allow too great an inter val to elapse between insertions of copy, the effect of the first advertise ment -will have worn away by the time you hit again. You may continue your scattered talks over a stretch of years, but you will not derive the same benefit that wnnld resuit from a greater concentration. In other words, by appearing in print every day you are able to pet the benefit of the impression created the day before, and as each piece of copy makes its appearance the result of your pub licity on the reader's mind is more pronounced you mustn't stop short of a knock-dow n impression. Persistency is the foundation of ad vertising success. Regularity of in sertion is just as important as clever phrasing. The man who hangs on is the man who wins out. Calo the El der is an example to' every merchant who uses the newspapers and should be an inspiration to every storekeep er who does not. For 20 years he arose daily in the Roman Senate and cried out for the destruction of Car thnge. In the beginning he fonnd his confreres very unresponsive. But, h kept on every day, montjh after month and year after year, sinking into the minds of all the necessity of destroy ing Carthage, until he set all the Sen ate thinking upon the subject, and in the end Rome sent an array across tbi Mediterranean and ended the reign of the Hannibals and Hamilears over Northern Africa. The persistent ut terances of a single man did it. The history of every mercantile suc cess is parallel. The advertiser who does not let a day slip by without having his say is hound to be heard and have his influence felt. Every insertion of copy brings stronger re turns, because it has the benefit of what has been said before, until the public's attention is like an eye that, has been so repeafedly struck that thn least touch of suggestion will feel like a blow. Copyright. !. nnvAN and ritoHiniTTr.-v. Xrhrnska nulnmia Han One Card Which He Thinks Will win. WashlnKton Dispatch to the Brooklyn; EsKle. "I have heen told," sa-ld a. prominent Democratic politician, "that William JenniiiRs Bryan has an miplayed card up his sleeve on which he Is depending for election, provided he is nominated fir the Presidency. I further understand that the final trick with which Bryan hopes to win the Presidential same Is strong prohihilion plank In the Demo cratic platform. I am Inclined to think that thre Is something In this story. Only those who travel aliout the country a good deal and are close ohservcrs of the trend of sen timent can appreciate the force of th great temperance wave that is sweeping over the nation. I think without doubt it is the greatest moral movement of the day. 1 can easily understand how it might be made the leading campaign Is sue In fact, the determining Issue of the. Presidential campaign. "Mr. Rryan Is peculiarly well fitted to make a fight for National prohibition by reason of his well-known temperate habitd. The sentiment against the un restricted sale of Intoxicating Honors is spreading over the country like a prairie fire. "I have heard It asserted by competent authorities that. Indiana, Ohio, Illinois: and even Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska could be earrled by Rryan on a. prohibi tion platform. This seems like queer rea-soning to many persons who do not know of the tremendous feeling that has been developed on this subject In these communities." HE NEVER B l AM EI) BO07.I fFTInted by Request ) He fitek a bottle up to bed. Drank whisky hot each night; lrank eerktafls in the morning. But never rotlld get tight. Jit phfverd In the evening. And always bad the blue Until he took a bowl or two But he never blamed the boon. His JNlnts were full of rheumatiz: His appetite was slack: He had pains between the shoulder; Chills ran down tils bark. He sutTered wlh Insomnia: At night be routdn't sneers. He said it was the climate But he never blamed the booze. Hts ronstitutlon was run down (It was overwork, he said); His legs were swelled eaeh mom'ns. And he often had ewelleo head.. He tackled teer. wine, whisky. And If they didn't fuse He blamed It on dyspepsia But he never blamed the booze. He claimed he. hardly slept at nig And always had bad dreams; He claimed he often 'ay awake Till ea.rly sunrise beams. He thought It was malaria Alas! 'twas but a ruse. He blamed it on most everything But he never blamed the booze. His liver tieeded scraping. And his kidneys had the gout; He swallowed lots of bitters, Till at last he cleaned them out. His legs were awelled with dropsy. Till he had to cut his shoes; He blamed It on the doctor But he never blamed the booze. Then he had the tremens, And he tackled Tats and snakes; First he had the fever. Then he hart tbe shakes. At last he had a funeral. And. to give him his Just dues. The epitaph carved for him was- "H never blamed tha booze.'