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10 T1IE MOKXISW OKECJOXIAN, AVKDIVKSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1910. PORTLAND. OREGOX. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflc as Second-Class Ma,ttr. Subscription Balm InvsriaMr la Advance. (BY MAIL.) rxiily. Sunday Included, one year ?!!? Dally. Sunday Included, six months.... 4. Dally. Huuday Included, three months. . X-a Dally. Sunday Included, one month .ia Daily, without Sunday, ona year o.u Dally, without Sunday, six months iiZ Dally, without Sunday, three months... l.5 Dally, without Sunday, one month .80 Wevkly, one year o'Ra Sunday, one year Sunday and weekly, one year a. 60 (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 8 0? Dally. Sunday Included, one month How to Remit Send PostofTlqe money orlr. express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postorfice ad dress In full, including county and state. J'ostace Kntcs 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent: 16 to 28 paKes. 2 cents: 30 to 40 pases. 3 cents; 40 to 00 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern BuxlnrRft Office. The 8. C. Beck--lth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 f0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-Oli Tribune building. PORTLAND, WKDNERDAT, FEB. 18, 1910. SOMK OF THE REASONS. Even more in the East than In the "West people are losing their old desire for rural Independence and manifest ing; their dislike of work in the coun try. Throughout New England and New Tork farms are abandoned, the fences have disappeared, the dwellings are down, the tenants passed away, the sumac and the crabtree are grow ing up again, and little is left to mark the site of many a farmhouse but the cellar hole. i The attractions of the town are deemed superior to those of the coun try, and the young of either sex pre fer the factory and the mill, with their clang and clatter and company, to the quiet yet far more Independent life of the farm. The gregarious instinct appears to have gained complete dom ination over all the motives that led former generations of men and women to prefer rural life, even in pioneer conditions. During the last few years the num ber of sheep in New England has de creased more than one-half. The re turns of 1891 placed the number of sheep in the six states at 1.204,324. By 1909 the number had dwindled to 540,500. Yet mutton and wool have increased enormously in price, and in creasing numbers of the descendants of the old families have been going all the time to the towns and cities to try the supposed opportunities therein. Facts like the one thus presented in the decline of the number of sheep In New England are but parts of a like story told on all sides in our country. Reduction , of sheep the same fact is observable in Oregon is but one fact in explanation of the in creasing cost of living. The factors of the equation of demand and supply are undergoing revolutionary change. Though the prices are greatly ad vanced over those of aforetime, the relative supply is less; and our coun try folk now, who, with a steady and Intelligent industry, still attend to pro duction, make money at a rate which would have astonished their fathers. It is a common complaint that the middleman makes too much. There are too many middlemen; and this is one manifestation of the change of the disease, if it may be so named. People who flock into the towns and cities must do something, and small dealers multiply. There are so many that they must have large profits to live. The general extravagance of the people contributes to thiir support, and they take the rest of it out in high prices. They who feel that they are growing rich by the steady advance of real property are careless about their expenditures, and a general extrava gance follows the general example. The reverse movement will begin some day, but it will not be perceived till far ad vanced. Then the hurt 'of it will be felt. These are cyclic movements, reminding one of the remark about the wind, which bloweth where It list eth, but doesn't tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth. A New Englander writes to the Sec retary of Agriculture that there are 258 sheep to the square mile in Old England, and but 9.6 to the square mile in New England; and adds: "In the West Riding of Yorkshire, the great and ancient seat of English wool manufacture, there are now kept 730, 000 sheep, producing 4,250,000 pounds of wool, or more sheep and wool than we have in all New England. If our British kinsmen can do these things, why cannot we?" Because our peo ple are unwilling to work in the coun try, and we have no class of people willing to accept the conditions of English country labor. Perhaps we shouldn't wish to have at least not now. SENSITIVE STOCK SrK1IL.OIW. Drastic liquidation in stocks, which was so much in evidence early last week, seems to have spent .its force. While there was some reaction yester day from the excessive buoyancy of Monday's market, the net gains from the low point reached have been" sub stantial. This steadying of prices is an encouraging sign. If there are no further pronounced declines, . it would be pretty good evidence that Wall street was much more frightened than hurt by the alleged threats in the President's speeches. It is this wild unreasoning fear which affects the speculators who gamble on the New York Stock Exchange that is respon sible for the violent slumps that from time to time create havoc in the street. The average Wall-street gambler is almost as superstitious and silly as his fellow gambler who plays faro. . With such temperament, it is, per haps, natural that these speculators should take fright at a very slight shadow and in their hysteria demoral ize the market by selling stocks with a reckless disregard for their in trinsic value. At such times, no at tention is paid to the dividend-earning capacity of stocks, nor to the physical condition of the properties involved. It remains for the actual investors to discover these points, which are overlooked by the speculat ors in their haste to sell. It is on this latter class of stockbuylng that the stability of the stock market must always rest. It was not the speculators or the manipulators who checked the halt and restored confidence in the stock market when it went down with a rush in the dark days of 1907. In stead, it .was the cool-headed, saga clous Investors who began buying be cause stock prices had been ham mered down to a point where the earning power of the properties in volved was certain to return good div idends on the investment. There has, of course, been no such slump as that of 1907, but by far the greatest steadying influence in the market has been the quiet purchasing by investors who bought stocks to hold as dividend-earners, and not to be turned over on the first advance of a point or two. There' is a long list of railroad securities now quoted well up toward "double par" and in most cases the earnings' reports fully jus tify this substantial premium. City real estate, farms, ranches and other forms of property along the route traversed by these road3, have doubled and more than doubled in value since these stocks were on the market at par, and from an earning standpoint they are probably more attractive at present prices than when they were quoted lower. It is not al ways possible to determine the value of a certain stock when the market is exclusively -in the hands of profes sional operators. When buyers who seek Investments and not speculations, enter the market, however, there is established a base for values that has a steadying effect on the general finan cial and commercial situation. THE C.LAVIS METHOD. Mr. Glavls sets himself up as censor of the motives and the conduct of Secretary Ballinger. "Misconduct," he says, but he "makes no charge of corruption." Jt is his opinion that Ballinger has not acted as he should have done, in the matter of "protect ing the public interests in Alaska." But who made Mr. Glavis a Judge? Here is an unimportant clerk, putting on an air of superiority. With it he feeds both his vanity and his spleen. The revelation is perfect. His own statements before the committee of inquiry show him to be a contentious and quarrelsome person, anxious for notoriety. He says he lost confidence in Ballinger. It Is certain, also, that Ballinger has lost confidence in him. Taft, in his speech at New York, spoke' of a prevalent hysteria that runs wild in the impeachment of men of the highest character. There is a species of journalism that is ready always to be its mouthpiece. Through it Glavis has achieved a notoriety highly grat ifying to himself. Yet Glavis is something more than a notoriety-seeker, and a quarrelsome and contentious fellow. He is a petty and sneaking intriguer. Look at the incident of the stolen letters. Glavis was at odds with his superiors and he began surreptitiously to gather "ma terial" for later use. He learned through a subordinate (Spalding) that Land. Commissioner Dennett had writ ten certain letters which are now In the Glavis testimony described " as "funny." This subordinate was acting temporarily as Dennett's stenographer. Glavis asked him for copies of the letters. Spalding refused. Then Glavis ordered him to get the copies and Spalding complied. When Glavis was dismissed, he produced these let ter copies as a vital feature of his great campaign against better men. Look at Glavis again: He complains tht through a "frame-up" . the Gov ernment officials broke open a box left by him in a Seattle grand jury room and recovered thterefrom certain letters abstracted by Glavis from the official files when he left office through discharge. These letters were not very important, but they had been printed as a part of the anti-Bal-linger propaganda in a weekly paper. It appears certain that they were fur nished by Glavis. Moreover, if it could be made to appear that the land office officials would not, or could not, pro duce certain letters, which were miss ing from their files, Glavis and his allies would point triumphantly to an other gross instance of "misconduct" or "corruption" by Ballinger, Pierce and Dennett. Of course, Glavis is shocked at the high-handed methods of the Interior Department officials in forcibly tak ing possession of their ' own papers, which he had stolen. The midnight invasion of private offices and the stealthy plundering- of private letter riles are an exclusive prerogative of Glavis and his kind. IMPROVEMENTS IN MARS. Professor Percival Lowell, of the Flagstaff Observatoryj clings valiantly to his old habit of seeing things in Mars which are invisible to other as tronomers. Almost unanimously his scientific brethren in every part of the world deny that there is anything like a system of canals to be seen on the planet, but Professor Lowell, with his acuter vision, not oniy sees them, but gives details of their construction. To make his triumph complete he has just observed the opening of a new irrigation project in Mars. Water has been brought through a canal lately finished to a tract of land heretofore arid, and doubtless it will presently blossom as the rose. Whether the In habitants are planting pear or apple trees Professor Lowell does not in form the public. If he knows he. per haps deems the matter too trivial for mention. It Is a little peculiar that what Pro fessor Lowell sees so clearly his col leagues cannot see- at all.- They are quite as vigilant as he is in searching the face of the planet'and their tele scopes are no less powerful. The pure air of Arizona gives him a certain ad vantage, but not enough to account for everything. There must be some other reason why the canals are visible to Professor Lowell alone. It will not do to say that he imagines them. If he does he has managed to instil his imaginative faculty into his .photo graphic plates, for they show the canals distinctly. A late photograph shows the new irrigating -canal in a place where pictures made last May contained no trace of it. The im provement on our neighbor's surface has been begun and finished within a year. Keenly suspicious readers may jump to the conclusion that Professor Lowell fakes his Martian discoveries and has deliberately set about making himself notorious by deceiving the world. This is possible, but improb able to the, last degree. He is a scien tific man of high repute, with a great reputation at stake. The case is not. comparable with Dr. Cook's, who sought fame and money by his fraud. Professor Lowell is already famous and he has sufficient money for a schol ar's modest needs. The belief is insistent that he is right and the other astronomers wrong. There are none so blind as those who will not see. According to the old maxim an undevout astron omer is mad and few astronomers are mad. Most of them, therefore, are devout. They are so devout, seemingly, that they refuse to discern in Mars any signs of habitation by in telligent beings. If there are inhabi tants in Mars the old theory .that terrestrial man Is the central creature in the universe falls to the ground. and divers accepted theological views fall to the ground. It may be prac tical considerations of this nature more than any deficiency of vision which. prevent other astronomers from seeing those Martian internal improvements which are so distinctly visible to Professor Lowell. No convincing reason has ever been advanced why Mars or the other plan ets should not be inhabited. Diffi culties of various sorts have been con jured up, but they are far from con clusive. The Martians must differ more or less from human beings in appearance and habits because they live under conditions unlike ours. They may be wiser than we or more foolish, stronger or weaker, and their habits may be entirely different. But there is no ground whatever for denying that they exist. The probability is all the other way. It Is almost insane to believe that the whole universe, except our tiny world, is a lifeless waste. Wherever conditions permit its development life almost certainly exists. A DIREFUL, ROAD TO RICHES. J. Thorburn Ross was convicted of misappropriation of or "high finance" juggling with state school funds. His wild speculations with money confided by depositors to his now defunct bank did not enter the indictment. Neither did the acts of him and his associates. Just prior to the collapse, when they made use of their knowledge that the bank was tottering, to place sums of money to their credit. That was nearly twenty-eight months ago, and now, finally, the Supreme Court of the state issues the final decree. It is stern fate that thus blasts a man in hs prime. Mr. Ross clearly is made to suffer, not alone for his own sins, but also for those .which long have characterized the banking business. The latter account is perhaps the one that demands harshest satisfaction In the punishment of Mr. Ross. For wild banking must stop and those who would 'practice it must be warned therefrom by direful example. The fate of Mr. Ross will be a prov erb to all bankers hereafter. Long time before he resorted to high finance speculation with money of depositors and of the state, in order to make himself rich, others were making' the same use of public funds and of de positors' money in their schemes. If one of them had been taken' up by the law and made example of, probably Mr. Ross would have been deterred from the course that has led to this dismal end. Certainly, others hereafter will not desire to follow this road to riches. PKCHOTIS5I ILLEGAI. Pinchot conservation bears heavily on the growth of the Western coun try and evidence of this truth is seen in retarded settlement of new land in Government areas. People of Oregon and Washington and other states are awakening to realization of what the locking up of vast quantities of their state land in forest reserves and in "withdrawals" in addition to what greedy railroads and wagonroad companies and timber syndicates hold means to the detriment of their progress. Last Monday three strong protests from widely separated districts of the Pacific Northwest were prined in The Oregonian. These articles were spon taneous contributions of their authors and their coincidence was evidence of the contemporaneous thinking- of the people. One from Spokane, is sued by the Western Conservation League, complained that Pinchot con servation violates the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, which guarantee the states the authority which the Pinchot bureau has as sumed; another, from The Oregonian's correspondent in Olympla, explained how the State of Washington is pre vented from administering its school lands by the reserve policy of the For estry Bureau; the third narrated how would-be homesteaders are driven "away from Government land, that the laws say they may enter and claim, by .forest rangers, special agents and inspectors. This Is the essence of Pinchotism. Yet, in the strife between Pinchot and Ballinger, it appears only indirectly. For the "investigation" revolves about questions concerning Ballinger's good faith toward the Government and the public as a citizen and as an official. Ballinger has not undertaken any great curtailment of forest reserve ac tivity or area; probably because amid the present storm he sees no effective way of winning and does not wish conflict with another department of the Government. To the extent, how ever, that he has declared determina tion to act wholly within the law, he has challenged Pinchot conservation. Should he carry that purpose to logi cal conclusion, he ought to become a champion of state conservation. This is the wish of Ballinger's own state and it may be his own. But powerful influences in the East have to be reckoned with. Pinchot con servation is clear invasion of state privileges and of Individual rights of settlement on public land. A JCST DECISION. . It is a comfort to learn that the decision of the South Carolina Su preme Court takes away from Senator Tillman the custody of his grand children and gives it to their mother. There is where it belprigs. In order to effect this piece of manifest justice no doubt the court had to juggle with the law a little, but there was no harm in that. It is juggled with every day. South Carolina, in its sluggish dread of progress, still retains the common law notion that a married woman loses her personality and all her rights in the sublime figure of her husband. She has no claim on her earnings or her children, and when the husband dies his rights are inherited, not by his wife, but by his father. How the court managed to slip around these barbarous legal survivals it is not dis creet to Inquire too closely. The re sult should be thankfully accepted without much attention to the process by which it was reached. Perhaps the court decided the suit upon its merits without regard to the law. Judges do this In their moments of exalted courage and virtue some times and the world Is allways the better for it. Senator Tillman Is not particularly well qualified to be the guardian of young children. His morals are not so bad as his manners, but both leave much to be desired. In the Senate he often happens to take the right side of a question, but his violence and brutality usually make its defenders wish he had chosen the other. If there was any likeli hood of his training the young chll- .dren to think and act like their grand father, it is fortunate for them that the court has taken them away from him. ON BROADER LINKS. The Portland Seamen's Friend So ciety which was organized more than thirty years ago and which. In spite of its former sectarian limitations, has accomplished much good for the port, has recently- 'been reorganized on much broader and more practical lines. The society has formerly been. dependent largely on foreign charity and sectarian support, but will now be conducted as non-sectarian and as a branch of the parent society in New York. The object of the organ ization is clearly indicated by its title. It is supported exclusively for the purpose of aiding seamen visiting the port, who otherwise, would be exposed to the temptations which have had much to do with giving Portland a bad name throughout the maritime -world. The society is entitled to generous support, not only on account of its philanthropic features, but because from a cold-blooded business stand point it is beneficial to the port to keep sailor abuses down to the mini mum. The list of officers and direc tors include Rovert Livingstone, pres ident; Peter Kerr, vice-president; W. R. Mackenzie, treasurer; Rev. William Lovett, secretary, and Samuel Con nell, A. H. Birrell, W. A. Dempsey, Judge W. S. Gilbert, J. K. Gill, Rodney L. Glisan, J. E. Haseltine, John A. Patterson, Sigmund Sichel and Dr. A. C. Smith, directors. This list is a guarantee of the management of the society, which should receive the cor dial support of everyone interested In the good name of the port. REMEMBERING THE MAINE. x The twelve years which have elapsed since the destruction of the battleship Maine, in Havana Harbor, have been among the most momentous In American history. The Spanish War has been- fought, the Philippines acquired and the United States transformed- once for all from a home keeping Nation to a power of world wide interest. Coincident with these external events has been the great economic awakening of the people which has issued in the demand for Internal betterments. How far the expansion of American power and in fluence will go before it stops, nobody can forsee, nor is it possible to pre dict -what will ultimately flow from the demand for economic reforms. In the light of the events which fol lowed upon the destruction of the Maine, some as consequences of it, some as the effects of more complex causes, that catastrophe is worthy of commemoration. Possibly it marked the beginning of a new period of our history. During the memorial serv ices, which will be held at Washing ton and elsewhere, reference will nat urally be made to the cause of the catastrophe to the Maine. The ques tion is still open whether the ex plosion which sunk the battleship was accidental or designed. The official investigation which was made did not really settle it. Hardly anybody would think of discussing the matter in a spirit of hostility to Spain. That Is all over and gone. But there is a legitimate historical curiosity which will not be satisfied until the facts are known and doubt put to rest. , The Port of Siuslaw Association is Justly indignant that the river and harbor bill carried no appropriation for the Siuslaw River improvement and an effort will be made to secure the passage of an arnendment when it reaches the Senate. The Siuslaw is not a large stream when compared with some of the others along the Coast. But it is the largest and only stream on which the people of that rich region can depend for reaching the markets, and when the people are willing to put up $100,000, as they have agreed to do, for the purpose of securfhg eight feet of water at the entrance to the harbor, they display a confidence and an enterprise which entitles them to consideration. An eight-foot channel will, not admit the use of very large vessels, but it will make it possible to ship a large amount of timber which is now worth less by reason of its inaccessibility. Portland has put up millions for river improvement, which should have been made by the Government, and Jt is accordingly in position to sympathize with the Siuslaw people. Another reckless little lad of Portland has lost his life under the wheels of the streetcar. It is not easy to see, from the reports of the occur rence, how this latest fatality could have been avoided except by the vic tim himself. It is the old story of defiance of danger in the face of fear ful odds and of inability to make good. Pity for the horrible fate of the boy, sympathy for his distracted parents these are the tributes whlchj humanity brings to humanity In such a case as this. The warning in the event should not be ignored. It is to parents whose duty it is to Impress upon their children the terrible danger that at tends the attempt to cross the track of a rapidly-moving car, and to boys who In the exuberance of youthful spirits are prone to take chances In "beating the car at a crossing." Such a case as this, could hardly happen without contributory negligence on the part of the victim. Mr. Stubbs. in his testimony in New York yesterday, stated that the South ern Pacific "is California's baby." To listen to the average Californian's opinion of that corporation, one would get the impression that it was an en tire orphan asylum with the inmates hungry all the time. If the Southern Pacific actually is California's baby, California would do well to keep a close watch on the child. Robert E Lee, Jeff. Davis and Bene dict Arnold are the latest nomina tions for the Hall of Fame. Benedict Arnold did the most for his country. Next time Halley's comet visits the earth, seventy-five years hence, the folks will have a big store of fuel in the cellar. Persons who upheld the constitu tion in the Crater Lake road case, were not such foes of Crater Lake, after all. . '" We doubt that, whatever the comet's tall contains, it would seriously affect all persons of our acquaintance. In the final verdict many poor "crit ters" ,may not even hear one voice in their favor. METHODIST ACTIVITY IX ROME, What the American Church Is Doing Through Its Missionaries. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 150 Fifth Avenue, iCew York. Feb 10. (To the Editor.) Many who were pre viously unaware that the Methodist Episcopal Church was at work In Italy have recently been informed of this fact through the cabled statements concerning the refusal of the Vatican to grant an audience to ex-Vlce-Presi-dent Fairbanks, who is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and again through Archbishop Ireland's widely published explanation that the incident was a protest against Metho dist activities in Rome in so far as these activities touched the Roman Catholic population. To many of these persons the following statements of what American Methodism is really doing in Italy may be of interest: ) Standing on high ground, in one of the best sections of Rome, is the cen tral quarters of Methodism In Italy, a building now valued at $225,000, which contains a large audience room for Italian services, an American church, Sunday School room. Epworth League, parlors, offices, a bookstore, a printing plant and rooms for a theological school and a boys' school. In this large building three years ago the great World Sunday School Convention was held, with its delegates from 37 countires. Of the American church which assembles in this building, the Rev. Dr. Bertrand M. Tipple, an alumnus of Syracuse Uni versity and formerly pastor at Stam ford. Conn., has recently become pastor. Among other interesting publications that are being produced ffom the pub lishing plant in this building is the Evangelical Hymnal recently prepared by a Joint commission of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church in Italy, the first joint hymnal to appear in the Italian language. The upper floors of this building are used as class rooms and dormitories for a boys school,-, the Methodist College. Here also the Reeder Theological School prepares young men for the work of the Metho dist ministry in Italy. Next in interest is Crandon ,Hall of The Women's Foreign Missionary So ciety of the church. Here 270 girls re ceived instruction during the last school year. It has 12 years' course, from the kindergarten grade to the col legiate. An industrial department has recently been added. It has a faculty of about 30 teachers, and an income of several thousand dollars sufficient to meet current expenses, except the salaries of two missionaries and one as sistant. Miss Edith Burt, daughter of Bishop William Burt, is at the head of this institution. About 1400 young women have come under the influence of this Christian school since its inception. Italians high in authority In the state recog nize its paramount position as the fore most school for young women in Italy and are lending their support to its success. Of another school of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in Rome the Girls' Home School Miss Italia Garibaldi, granddaugter of the great Italian patriot is in charge. Miss Gari baldi is a Methodist and an alumna of the Crandon Institute. The school of which she is principal enrolled G7 girls in 190D. The Isabel Clark Creche of the Wom an's Foreign Missionary Society enrolls over 100 babies, left each day by mothers who go out to work. Kinder garten methods are used. There is re ligious instruction and a good mid-day meal is given. Living in Rome is the superintendent of the Mediterranean District of the Methodist , Episcopal Church in Italy the Rev. N. Walling Clark, D. D., an alumnus of Wesleyan University, Mid dletown. Conn., who is also president of the Theological School in Rome. His district includes, in addition to Rome, work in Florence and Genoa, as well as in 24 smaller places. There are two other districts in the Italy Con f cr6ncs In Florence is a Methodist Training School- for teachers and evangelists. In Venie is a Boys' Industrial Insti tute, where about 50 boys are trained In various crafts. In the year 1908. Methodist deaconess work was opened in Rome, three deaconesses being in charge who have done good work in visiting and nursing the poor, as well as receiving a few patients Into the home for treatment. At the, time of the earthquake in Southern Italy, two of these deacon esses went to Naples and for seven weeks worked day and night for the sufferers. CHARLES H. FAHS. Missionary Editor. Valueless Mementoes). MOSIER Or., Feb. 14. (To the Editor.) Noticing an account in The Oregonian of an old newspaper giving an account of Lincoln's death being sold for $250. I have found an old paper named the "Ulster County Gazette," published at Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., under date of January 4, 1800. The paper appears to have been is sued in memorial of General Washing ton's death as it Is bordered in black and gives a full account of the burial. Do you know of any society or curio seekers that would be interested in such a paper? R. D. C. The Oregonian does not know of any society or curio seekers that would be interested in such a paper as this cor respondent describes. There are thou sands of copies of the Ulster County Gazette, purporting to have been print ed January 4. 1800, and containing an account of Washington's death. They were undoubtedly printed long after wards, In fac simile of the original edi tion. It is not probable that there are any genuine Gazettes extant out side of the library of Congress.. In deed The Oregonian has never seen elsewhere a single copy that it would be willing to call genuine, and it has seen many. All those persons who have been carefully treasuring the Ulster County Gazette of January' 4, 1800, and a New York Herald of April 15, 1865, under the impression that these are or iginal momentoes of great events, may as well make up their minds that they have something of no particular value. Knew "What She Wan Talking- Abont. New York Tribune. -The library and household effects of a man who had once entertained in a. lavish way were sold at public auction one day last week, and among the per sons who went to the sale were many who had enjoyed the fallen family's hospitality. When a set of after-dinner cups was put up one woman said: "There are only five of those, not six." The auctioneer consulted his catalogue and replied: "Thank you: you are right," and proceeded with the sale. Then the woman whispered to the one next to her: "I knew I .was right, be cause my husband dropped one of that set the last time we dined there." No Time for Domestic Cares, Tacoma Tribune. "Mr. Glavis has entered the apple busi ness." says The Oregonian. "Then he ought to attend to business. But Mrs. Glavis cays he didn't attend to domestic business, either." But The. Oregonian and Mrs. Glavis expect too much of one frail man. With everybody's business and all the cares of state, together with the wor. ries of posterity on his shoulders, we sub mit that Mr. Glavis can have no time for such trifles as apples and a wife. These two have been associated since the Gar den of Eden and have caused a, lot of trouble, anyway. SUIT FOLLOWS AUTO ACCIDENT S Russell Smith, Realty Man, De fendant in $2 60 0 Action. 3. Russell Smith, of the real estate firm of Smith & Everett, with offices in the Swetland building, is being sued be fore a jury in Circuit Judge Gatens' de partment of the Circuit Court for $2600. because his automobile ran into Mabel m in. cotter on August 31 last, at inira . V T .-. i .- .. . .. . C l.w . . . ' U.MU 41U111SUI1 BlltrtlS. 0 1 1 1 1 111 ll V 1113 accident was unavoidable; that the woman suddenly emerged from between two streetcars which were standing near together on Morrison street, and that she stepped In front of the machine. The woman was knocked down and run over, being confined for three weeks aft erward on account of bruises. Smith says the accident could have been pre vented by .reasonable care on her part. It is thought Smith will make a motion for a non-suit this morning, on the ground that it is the duty of every per son in crossing the street to look and listen for approaching vehicles and cars. The plaintiff will contend that it is the duty of the drivers of vehicles to go slow ly at street crossings and in busy parts of the city, and to keep such a sharp lookout for pedestrians that accidents of this character will be avoided. The jury is composed as follows: Charles McDougall. C. C. White, II. B. Archer, A. S. Finger, II C. Fety, F. M. Rankin, J. M. Allen, Frank W. Ariss, F. 1ST. Leahy. William Hudnut, G. J. Epperly, Ellis McLean. 19-YEAR-OLD ACCOUNT SUIT Captain T. A. Schjott Goes lo Law . Over Willamette Heights Lot. The lawsuit of Captain T. A. Schjott against F. C. Hagemann, a ship chandler, was taken under advisement by Circuit Judge Cleland yesterday afternoon. The suit was brought to settle an account which has been standing between Schjott and Hagemann since. 1891, and upon which they have been unable to agree. It appears from the complaint that in 1891, O. Wetten made a contract with John Hale by which Wetten was to .pur chase lot 9. block A, Willamette Heights Addition, for $1500. Wetten transferred his part of the contract to Schjott. who left his real estate matters in the hands of Hagemann, he alleges, because he was a stranger in Portland. He alleges that he has paid. to Hagemann $2072.50 in caBh, and that Hagemann has paid out $1978.35. but Schjott says he has not yet received a deed to his lot. Schjott says Hagemann mortgaged the property in 1905 to Charles F. Blyth for $500: Alice Wiseman also claims an in terest in the lot, and is made a party defendant. The, captain wants the title to the lot transferred to E. M. Ceder burg. Vice-Consul of Norway, the J1000 Wiseman mortgage set aside, and 1500 damages from Hagemann besides $250 at torney's fees. Hagemann also asks an accounting, but maintains that he has faithfully disposed of all money given him by Captain Schjott. GTJARDIAX SOUGHT FOR BOY Son of Late II. AV. Goode Without Legal Custodian. Thomas G. Greene filed with County Judge Webster yesterday morning a pe tition that some responsible person be appointed guardian ad litem for Henry F. Goode, the 15-yeat-old son of the late H. W. Goode. The boy is now in the Lawrencevllle School at Lawrenceville. N. J. His mother. Edith F. Goode. who Is the administratrix of her husband's estate and the lad's legal guardian, is out of the state, says Greene, and is about to sell all or a part of her husband's es tate at pri-ate sale. A letter telling young Goode of the circumstances was mailed more than 15 days ago, the time allowed by law for the filing of objec tions, and he has not yet secured a guardian to answer the notice, says Greene. He thinks, therefore, that the court shou.d take the matter in hand at once. Greene has been acting as Mrs. Goode's attorney in the administration of her husband's estate and appears In the peti tion as a friend of the court. HALF PRICE ASKED ALLOWED City Must Pay $3500 lor Three fourths Acre on Mount Tabor. The city will pay $3500 for three-fourths of an acre on the south slope of Mount Tabor belonging to P. S. Hanson and Florence Hanson. This amount was de cided upon by a juo-y in Judge Cleland's department of the Circuit Court, which tried the city's damage suit against the Hansons. The jury was out half an hour. Witnesses fon the city testified that the property was worth between $2700 and $3500, but the Hansons maintained that they had purchased the property for a home In their declining years, and that it was worth between $7000 and $10,i)0 to them. The property is described as lot J, (Belmont Villa. The city will make it a part of the park system. Charles F. Blythe will be paid $762.80, as he holds a mortgage on the property for that amount. This will make $2737.ro the net amount the Hansons will receive. MERCHANT TIKES OF PARTNER Outfitter AVants Gale Company Dis solved and Injunction Issued. Richard E). Gale wants his partnership with S. Zav-irr in the Gale Outfitting Com pany dissolved, and to that end filed suit in the Circuit Court yesterday. He asks also that a temporary injunction be is sued restraining Zavin from withholding the account books of the firm, and from circulating the report that the firm has gone out of business. The company has a store at 430 Washington street. Gale alleges that he went into partner ship with .Zavin, July 2. last year, invest, ing $2400 in the business. Zavin invested $350 in cash, he says, and $1000 in accounts, giving his time besides. They agreed that each should draw $75 a month salary. On January 11. alleges Gale. Zavin left the store, taking with him the account books and other papers, and lias not re turned. He lias since been making col lections, and has kept the cash, says Gale. Gale also alleges that Zavin is Insolvent. Lineman Asks $15,000 for Fall. John W. Taylor, a lineman who fell from a telephone pole last April when a portion of it split away, brought suit lri the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon against the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company, demanding $15,100 dam ages. He complains that he uad climbed the pole, with the aid of spurs, to the cross-arm supporting the wires, when a piece gave way. throwing him to the ground. He contends that the company should not have allowed rotten and un safe poles to remain standing. His doc tor's bill amounted to $100, he says. Bad Cheek Passer Confesses. ASTORIA. Feb. 15. (Special-.) J. L. Downs, who was arrested Saturday even ing for passing a bogus check, was ar raigned in the Justice Court this after noon on an information charging him with- obtaining money under false pre tenses. He was committed to the County Jail in default of $300 bonds to await the action of the Circuit Court grand jury. Downs, who says he has a wife and three children living at Silverton, ad mitted his guilt and said he had been on a spree for the last three weeks. He Informed Chief Oberg that he passed five bogus checks at Eugene and two at Salem. $30,000 VOTED FOR MISSIONS Adventisus Set Aside Large Sum to Spread Creed. The North Pacific Union Conference, Seventh Day Adventists. in session yes terday In the East Portland Church, voted to appropriate $30,000 for the foreign mission fields, formed a new conference to be called the Southern Oregon Conference and heard an ex tended report on education by M. E. Cady, educational secretary. The $30,000 appropriated is in re sponse to a call issued by the General Conference for $300,000 for foreign mis sion field, and the former amount was assessed to the North Pnoirle confer ence IMsfrlct. To raise the large sum the committee on finance recommended that all Seventh Day Adventist wage earners in the territory devote two weeks' earnings to this "fund: that the farmers set aside the proceeds of two acres of their land and also that one tenth of the tithes be applied to the mission fund, all of which was adopted by the conference. The finance committee recommended that hereafter all money intended for the foreign field should be sent the general treasurer of the conference. On recommendation of the committee on plans a new conference was formed in Southern Oregon to be known as the Southern Oregon Conference. It in cludes seven counties ."outh of the north boundary line of Lane Countv and is taken from Western Oregon con ference. The new conference contains nearly 600 members who contribute JfiOOO annually through tithes. There are 13 churches in the new district. The question of changing the name of Upper Columbia River Conference to Western Oregon Conference was voted down. M. E. Cady. president of Walla Walla College, and conference educational secretary, read a report on the Keventlr Day Adventists- system of education. He held that the system, while it was meeting the conditions fairly well in some respects, was weak, especially in the intermediate schools, which he said ought to be provided with more trained teachers, .and that manual and physical training were not what they ought to be In the schools. His report showed that in the North Pacific Union Con ference there are 4S church schools. 10 intermediate schools or academies and one training school, the Walla Walla College. The total number of teachers and employes in all the schools was given as 160. The average pay of the teachers was reported as $10 a month, and the total annual payroll $37,120. The total enrollment in all the schools, including the Walla Walla Training School, or College, 1520, a large gain, said the secretary. The report urged that the North Pa cific Conference appoint a general edu cational secretary, who should devote his entire time to the supervision of the schools of -the conference, setting forth that the president of the Walla Walla College, acting secretary, could not perform the growing duties of the office. Delegates spent yesterday afternoon at the Mount Tabor Sanatorium, the largest institution of the kind in the North Pacific Conference. iMnner was served in the afternoon and the dele gates were shown through the building from basement to attic. Last night a platform meeting was held in the East Portland Church, when addresses were delivered by the physicians of the sanatorium and others. DOMESTIC SCIENCE DRAWS Course at O. A. C. Attracts 220 Men and Women. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEUK, Corvallis, Feb. 15. (Special.) The exercise of 'Farmers' Week," In cluding the special programme offered by the School of Domestic Science and Art. have attracted 220 men and women, which is more than double the number ever in attendance at these ex ercises in former years. Of this num ber 102 are women taking the work in domestic science and art, and the remaining are studying agricultural subjects. A corps of special lecturers are as sisting the regular instructional force. The speakers have been chosen from among the prominent men of the state and will talk on the practical side of agricultural work in Oregon and the Northwest. These special lectur ers are 1 T. Reynolds, of Salem: C. E. Whisler, of Medford; Austin T. Bux ton, of Forest drove; H. M. Williams, of Portland; Walter M. Pierce, of I .a Grande: D. O. Lively, of Portland; W. K. Newell, of Gaston: A. 1. Mason, of Hood River; A. 11. I.ee. of Portland, and Ferd Groner, of Hillsboro. The lectures and demonstrations in agriculture cover the subjects of ap ple packing, orchard diseases, orchard insects, pruning, budding and grafting fruit trees, stock feeding, diseases of farm animals, dairying, forage crops and landscape and vegetable garden ing. The women are studying all of the problems of home sanitation, house furnishing and decorating, cooking, marketing and gardening. They are taught how to cook and serve special menus, the nutritive values of foods, how to prepare left-over dishes to make them attractive, und how to deal with contagious diseases and pre vent their transmission. ROOSEVELT IX MOVING PICTI'RES, Scenes of African Hunt Seenred Aftel Vast Effort and Risk. New York Press. Experiences of Col. Theodore Roose velt In British East Africa were illus trated by . moving pictures shown privately In 80 Fifth Avenue. His life in camp, the hardships of the jour neys through a country where there are few trails, his stalking of game and the various animals for which he hunted and which he viewed running wild, all were displayed for the enjoy ment of W. N. MacMillan. who was the host of the former President in British East Africa, but who is spending a few days In this city. The pictures were displayed by Cherry Kearton. naturalist, of England, who spent 17 years in making a spe cialty of photographing the birds and beasts of England and Africa. He risked his life time after time to get pictures of the wild beasts, as was proved by his flashlight picture of a lion going to a pool of water, and the pictures of two rhinoceroses charging directly upon the man behind the cam era, who saved his own life and his negative by shooting the animals when they were within three yards. One set of the pictures shows the ex-President coming from his tent in the early morning and giving direc tions to the Africans who are making a fire. They show him striding vigor- ' ously up and down as the tents are being taken down and the march for the day is begun. Another shows Her mit and Colonel Roosevelt being car ried on the backs of the natives across streams of water. tho pack carriers follow closely. Another group of pic tures reveals the ex-President on horseback crossing a stream. The natural history subjects taken by Kearton have an unusual value. They show hippopotami spouting abont in streams chasing one another and fighting as tickbirds run up and down their backs. They show marabout storks and kites feeding and fighting with vultures. There are pictures of the horned chameleons climbing up branches in the wilderness. There are pictures of lizards and of the young dikdik and the cerval cat, again prov ing the patience and daring of the photographer.