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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1910)
-THE 3IOKXIXO OEEGONIAX, TUESDAY. JTJXE 28, 1910. POBTLAXT). OREGOS. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Postofnce as Second-Class Matter. Subscription ltates In variably In Advance. IBT MAID. pally. Sunday Included, one year 5'S5 Waily, Sunday included, six months " Daily. Sunday included, three months... -) pally, Sunday included, one month Jjaily. without Sunday, one year P-;"" IJai.y. without Sunday, six months -;? Daily, without Sunday, three months...- -t-'o JJaily. without Sunday, one month J"? eekly, one year J g? Sunday, one year Z fcunuay and vtekly, one year -ou (By Carrier). Dally. Sunday Included, one year. ... - !J Dally, Sunday included, one month ' How to Rmit Send Postofnce money or Cer, express order or personal check on your Jocal bank. Btamns, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofnce address m Cull, Including county and Btate- Postage Kates jo to 14 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 2s pages, 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, 8 cents; 40 to liu pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage couble r&t. Eastern Business Ornee The S. C Beck wlth Special Agency jsew Vork. rooms 48 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 610 612 Tribute building. 1 rORTLAJNI, TCESUAI, JTXB 28, 1010. SPEAKING OF "BABOXS." The great "barons" of coal and tim ber and. land and -writer in this country are enthusiastic champions of so called "conservation." Their retinues of lobbyists and claquers talk and "boost for this Government policy that eaves them from low-price competition of coal in Alaska and of timber in Oregon and Washington. These barons are sharp enough to see that Pinchot conservation means non-use of undeveloped resources and tighter high-price monopoly in the goods already appropriated. They know that capitalists of this country, "will not put their dollars into Alaska coal under Pinchot's "lease" system. Just for the sake of vindicating a fine spun and impracticable theory. Therefore they "out-Herod Herod" as iherolc defenders of non-use. They J tell the dear people that the proper way to keep new resources out of the grasp of barons and monopolists 3s to lock them up. No greater "bunco game" ever was practiced on the American people than this. And one of the notable Incon gruities is that it is preached by a man, by name Pinchot, iwho has inher ited great wealth from ancestors who appropriated the resources of New England. The socialistic craze for govern mental ownership of everything and for suppression of individual endeavor has inspired conservation with Its first lease of life; and the barons of various eorts are acting as wetnurses to the Justy infant. No question but extreme conserva tion should be curtailed and private capital should be admitted into devel opment of resources of land and stream in raw regions of the Government-owned "West. Such capital Is now barred by the Pinchot craze. The New York Times notes this need in the case of Alaska, in an edi torial which ends as follows: In the development or such a system (de velopment of resources) It Is obvious that capitalists capable of the Immense task demanding capital should be consulted and their views and plans considered with the utmost candor and with respect. The probabilities are heavily In favor of the in ference that private capital, under proper conditions and with proper regulation, can produce far better results than direct Gov ernment operation. It Is utter stupidity to Ignore these probabilities. It is something like malignnnt stupidity to dismiss them with Jeers at the "Morganheiins," meaning thereby a group of the most powerful and Intelligent financiers and captains of con struction known to modern times, and, therefore. In all history. This 'is the Judgment of heads of the Geological Survey, which is more familiar with affairs in Alaska and the Far West than any other branch of the Government, and which is not tinc tured with the craze of false conserva tion. This Nation has progressed, thus far, through the endeavors of its Individual ( members far more than through those of its officials. This la B. truth for the future Just as it is a truth for the past. COlACTEI, 8EULT7RS ' OCTOONE. Not since the days of Colonel Sellers bas the public been entertained with Such enchanting possibilities for the easy acquisition of great wealth as at the present time, when the muckrak ers are engaged in the literary ex ploitation of Alaska and its resources. Last month one of the recent addi tions to the ranks of the muckrakers' magazines -printed some elaborate fig ures purporting to show the value of the coal and gold deposits. The arti cle, which appeared under the signa ture of thT editor of the magazine, placed the-value of the gold in Alaska nt from Jl, 125, 000, 000 to J2, 250,000, 000, and of the coal, estimated at Jl ' per ton, from $15,104,500,000 to Jl, 610,450,000,000 probably with mom ciphers in reserve, in case the "con servative estimate" should not prove sufficiently attractive. The ostensible reason for printing this extended row of figures was to Show the magnitude of the wealth that Secretary Bollinger was charged with turning overvto the Guggenhelms, who had bought a "pig in a poke" in the Shape of a lot of coal claims. What the muckraking magazine intended to accomplish ffas creation of a public sentiment that would demand with drawal of this presumably enormous wealth fronf" development and exploit ation 'by rich men, who of course were the only ones that could develop and exploit it. But the article brought other returns, more tangible than the gratitude of an. appreciative people, tor In the July issue of the magazine appears a four-page advertisement of Jin Alaska development company which Is using alltof the ciphers strung to gether In the muckrakers" article to Induce the people to -buy stock. The language of the advertisement 13 somewhat vague as to how much of an Interest In that $1,510,450,000,000 worth of coal can be secured for a 520 share in the company, .but to quote from the advertisement: "In order that the benefits may accrue to as large a number of people as possible, no individual will be permitted to hold more than $5000 worth of shares" in "the company. Nothing more alluring In the way of an Investment has yet appeared, for It is easy to understand that with all of that wealth "conserved" for the people who can shake a $20 piece out of the teapot or stocking, there will be no opportunity for the awful Guggen helms to secure a foothold. The suc cess of this new method of attracting Investors will probably induce some of the other muckraking magazine pro prietors to; do' some figuring on the wealth of Alaska, and in the near fu ture we may expect to see the coal and gold resources of Alaska increased In value to at- least twenty-five ciphers following all of the numerals arranged in any kind of order convenient for the muckraker engaged in the cam paign of conservation. ntrMARY LAW STttL IJVES. - Republicans of Coos and Polk Coun ties, meeting In delegated assembly, have named candidates for county of fices. The "ticket" in each case is said to be made up of competent men. These candidates will go before Re publicans in party primaries Septem ber 24, for nomination of rejection. How absurd the contention that the party voters arid people In these coun ties are victims of machine and boss, and that they will have nothing to say about nomination and election! Truth is, they will have everything to say and will say it first in the primaries, and then in the election. Candidates of assembly in Coos and Polk must be approved by party elec tors next September. They must com pete for popular favor with other can didates. The only advantage in their favor is that they bear recommenda tion of a representative body of Re publican citizens. If recommendation of men's fitness for position is a thing to be despised and contemned, as Democrats and their assistants at tempt to assert, that is new doctrine in selection of servants. The people of Polk and Coos Coun ties possess all their primary and elec tion privileges unimpaired. They can nominate and elect whom they choose, regardless of assembly. Same will he true of the people of Oregon after the state Republican as sembly shall have named candidates for state offices. This marks the signal difference, be tween old convention and new assem bly. Primaries formerly were held before convention, and party members had nothing to do with party nomina tions thereafter. Now primaries are held after assembly and party mem bers make the nominations. Nominating assemblies have been held in Oregon and the direct primary law still lives. HOTS AS ITBIJC OFFICIALS. It might not be a bad thing once in fifty years tt choose boys in serious earnest for some of our officials. To give free play to the glorious enthu siasms and splendid zeal of youth would overturn things a little, of course. The country might emerge from the experience in a topsy-turvy condition, but then an occasional over turn is rather wholesome. Once In so often the indent Jews had a year of Jubilee, as they called it, when they set free the slaves and made a redis tribution of land. Nobody has ever said that the effect was bad. . The in evitable tendency of things to crystal lize, usually in imperfect molds, needs something vigorous to counteract it. To be sure, we have Roosevelt, but then he is not imperishable, and the next generation may be entirely with out anything to take his place. In every constitution, perhaps, there should be embodied a provision for a general overhauling. So far as one can see, the simplest way to reach this end would be to turn everything over to the boys for a year, though a month might do. It is open to question whether there Is more genuine reality in what are conceitedly called the "stern realities of mature life" than there is in the roseate dreams of youth. As a rule, the "stern realities" have not proved very durable. They pass away like a vision of the night. They wither like the flower. Like the grass that is cut down, they dry up and disappear.' On the other hand, it is the dreams of, hoyhood that come true, seize upon the world and last forever. Whatsoever Is true, whatsoever is of good report, whatsoever takes hold on the everlast ing laws of God, belongs to the un polluted, thoughts of a eugenic boy. In him is the hope of the world. He em oodles the future. "In thee," said Walt Whitman, addressing a boy, "I rwrap a thousand onward years." ?Tote the word "onward." The boy is dynamic. He moves. His eyes are on the stars, his feet as sault the mountains, his heart throbs with flaming hope. Give him the world for a year -and see what he will do with it. He could not do much worse than men have done, and he might do better. VETCH IX THE NORTHWEST. By the death of the" man who is be lieved to have introduced the vetch plant Into this region is brought to mind a development in husbandry of first economic importance. Dairymen, fruitgrowers and mixed farmers have equal reason in the Pacific Northwest to give thanks for the timely adapta tion to their conditions of this most valuable, all things considered, of the leguminous crops. Its uses are mani fold, and not the least of its worth lies in the fact that it Is pre-eminently a soil renovator. In favorable condi tions, with such conscientious attention as a' careful farmer gives to the phys ical preparation of his seed bed, it has been made to yield enormously on land rated as "run out," and then has left the ground in better condition than it found it.. Where heavy tax is made upon the nitrogen content of the soil as when young orchards are passing through the critical stages of wood- producing the vetch plowed under supplies needful fertility. The place of the vetch in the rotation of crops is fixed naturally; It follows or pre' cedes those crops which have taxed or inevitably will exhaust nitrogenous re sources. It is a restorer of grain lands, a fertilizer for fast-growing orchards, and a succulent milk pro ducer of high rank in dairy economy. By vetch commonly is meant the "vicia sativa," though there are other kinds. It is of the same family as the wild pea,' which grows so abundantly on the western slopes. Professor Thomas Shaw, of the University of .Minnesota, an undoubted authority upon this branch of agricultural sci ence, has said: "The highest adapta tion, viewed from the standpoint of climate, is found in Western Washing ton and in Oregon." He was discuss ing the common vetch. It prefers a cool, humid climate, and is the oppo site of millet in that respect. The plant is an excellent food for stock; it increases the yield of milk of cows; it is peculiarly excellent as food for lambs, and is much relished by swine. In combination with tats. It makes a well-balanced hay. And it is enor mously productive. Professor Shaw estimates it to be good for ten or fif teen tons of green forage to the acre, but there are Oregon farra. ; who can tell much bigger stories. It has an important place In the filling of the silo. That the vetch is not more generally grown hereabouts probably is due to the high price of the seed the cost of the seed of the sand vetch vicia vil losa which is most valuable for so- called infertile, sandy lands, being, at 18 cents or so a pound in some sea sons, virtually beyond the bounds, and the common variety, while cheaper, being altogether too expensive. How ever, the yield of seed where the plant thrives is abundant, and this serves only to suggest another phase of its value in the scheme of things: While the price of the seed continues high, there is good profit in raising seed, and when the price falls we shall have greater areas sown to vetch for feed ing purposes and for restoring to their former vigor the overworked soils. RAILROAD PROSPERITY MEXACED. Continued deterioration in the grain crops in the Middle West and North west offers a much more serious men ace to the prosperity of the railroads than possible refusal of the Govern ment to sanction advance in rates. The additional traffic offered a railroad by a big grain crop can all be handled at a proportionately greater profit than that which is secured from a small crop. The fixed charges and a large portion of the operating expense of a road are no higher when there is a large crop than when there is a fail ure, and the increase in operating ex penses for the big crop is not at all In proportion to the increase in the rev enues. For these reasons the roads which traverse the great grain belt of the Middle West and Northwest can hardly fail to suffer heavily if the crop damage is as bad as reported. The steady expansion in business throughout the West has made it im perative that more facilities be pro vided and money is needed for this work. When a protest was made against the proposed advance in rates, many of the principal railroad presi dents of the country sent up pessimis tic complaints which were heard across the sea. They declared that refusal of the Government to permit an advance in rates meant irreparable harm to the business of their respec tive roads. The foreign investors, al ways cautious, have apparently taken this pessimistic talk at an inflated value, for, instead of buying Ameri can securities, new or old, they have been free sellers and the capital need ed for extensions and improvements will not be forthcoming from the usual source to which we always look when money becomes scarce in this country. The railroad problem, had there been no serious crop damage, might have gradually worked out to the satisfac tion of all interested, although Itwould have taken time to convince investors that most of our railroad properties were good investments, even though ratR could not be raised without a thorough Investigation to determine the merit of the advance. With a prospective decrease of mil lions of tons of grain to be handled, and with the purchasing power of the people in the poor crop districts cor respondingly reduced, new capital for extensions and betterments will not bo easily obtainable. Naturally all lines of Industry will be affected by It, especially the iron and steel industry, which owes so much of its "prosperity to the prosperity of the railroads. The Pacific Northwest is not included in the poor-crop district, for the grain yield now promises to be fully up to that of last year. N-r is there liable to be much of a setback In the rail road building, as most of the projects in which Oregon, Washington and Idaho are Interested were financially taken care of before the money mar ket tightened up In response to the widespread refrain about the increased cost of living and the necessity for higher freight rates. THE CONSCIENTIOUS JUROR. As a palladium of liberty the jury system begins to lose character. Late events seem to show that it has too often become more of a palladium of bribery and graft. The uniformity with which one single, solitary, phe nomenally conscientious person gets on every jury which is commissioned to try the great bribers and monumental "thieves of our day is astonishing, or it would be astonishing if it were not so thoroughly understood by everybody. The person in question is phenom enally conscientious both because of the singular nature of his convictions and because of the tenacity with which he clings to them. The ordinary con science detests thievery and revolts at graft, but the juror of whom we speak is invariably led by his conscience to approve of both, and he never will yield his convictions, no matter how long and vigorously he may be opposed by eleven honest men. The reader will observe that we make a distinction between an "honest" and a conscientious man. The honest Jury man is one who goes straight on in obedience to his oath and convicts a big thief as soon as a little one. If the evidence warrants. The conscientious juryman never finds evidence enough to convict a big thief or briber. Simi larly we have conscientious legislators and occasionally a conscientious judge. All the legislators who voted for Lori mer were presumably conscientious. As we have said, the way the con scientious Juror gets himself chosen is perfectly understood, but the process is one of those secrets which every body knows but nobody seems able to prove. Usually the attorney for the defendant must be content with plac ing a single thoroughly conscientious juror among the. twelve and trust the result to his pertinacity. As a rule the confidence is Justified. A solitary conscientious juror seems amply able to prevent the conviction of Brown, the notorious Lorimer briber. To have gone to the expense and trouble of placing three or four like him on the jury would have been superfluous. It is a primary rule of sound economy not to use two or more tools where one will suffice. The other available conscientious Jurymen will come in handy at Brown's second, third and tenth trials. . The method of arranging a jury to make conviction impossible- has been so completely studied out that no fail ure need be apprehended where the supply of money is sufficient. From an examination of recent trials of Im portant thieves and bribers -one may say that it is always practicable at one stage or another of the game to slip the desirable man into the panel, and when he is once securely seated the at torney for the defense can view the subsequent proceedings with equanim ity. Let the prosecutor produce as much and as weighty evidence as he likes, it makes no difference. There serenely and impregnably established sits the conscientious Juror, and, though the heavens fall, he will vote now, henceforth and forevermore for acquittal. With the poet he cries "This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I." The Jury itself is a very ancient in stitution. It comes down to us from our Anglo-Saxon forefathers and is in vested with that halo of sanctity which attaches to everything that is old enough to be a little "high," in the epi cure's sense of the word. The prac tice of seating a conscientious person on every important Jury is, however, extremely modern and up to date. In critical trials it is found to be superior in efficacy to the cruder device of se lecting nobody but fools for Jurymen. With a Jury of idiots, mattoids and paretics, the high financier or bribing politician and their underlings feel comparatvely safe in court, and yet not entirely so. The most idiotic jury occasionally will convict when the evi dence is terrifyingly strong, as It is in the Brown case in Illinois. To pro vide for such contingencies it is safer upon the whole to take measures, as the defense wisely did in the Brown trial, to seat a conscientious individual on the jury. Then no mishap is possible. Either the crowd on the unfortunate steamer J. S., which burned on the Mississippi a few days ago, was over estimated in the press dispatches or the steamboatMnspectors are quite lib ers! in their views as to how many passengers can with safety be carried on a steamer. The J. S. was a steamer 175 feet long and thirty-three feet beam, or seven feet longer and two feet wider than the steamer Lurline, which runs out of this port, and about twenty feet shorter than our steamer Bailey Gatzert. The Gatzert on a special excursion permit is allowed to carry 600 passengers, and in emergen cies, the LurUne might be allowed to carry 400; but either boat would be crowded with such a number on board. Tet the comparatively small J. S. is reported to have had 1500 on board. With but three lives lost on a steamer carrying about three or four times as many passengers e3 should have been permitted aboard, the disaster might well be termed a fortunate one. A tenth scheme for county division has appeared for initiative enactment next November annexation of a piece of Washington County to Multnomah. These county questions -are proper subjects for 'legislative attention, where they can be studied on theri merits and be amended and adjusted to suit local needs. The great trou ble with initiative measures is that each and all of them emanate from a special interest. No element should ever be allowed to frame laws regard less of other elements of the popula tion. Tet that is what they undertake to do when they refuse to take their bills before the Legislature and insist on enacting them by the "direct" method. Lawmaking Is one of the oTdest of the affairs of men and ages of experience have proved the superi ority of legislation by delegates in stead of by the mass. Delegated, rep resentative government, is the most triumphant lesson of history. The United States of America may be a little slow on the merchant ma rine, but its ability to build and sail yachts a little better and a little faster than any other nation on earth is still very much in evidence. The American schooner yacht Westward won the jubilee prize at Kiel Sunday, defeating the German yacht Germania by nearly two minutes. Whether out for sport or business, American seamen and navigators have always succeeded in making a better showing with' sail craft, large or small, than any of their competitors. Some of this prestige is due to the cunning of the builders, but much of the credit should go to the skillful crews which handle the vessels. It has been many years since the Apierican ships, except for a few stragglers, vanished from the ocean, but the records made by the old clip pers half a century ago vn nearly all of the world's trade routes have never been beaten. The Oriental liner Hercules, which arrived Saturday, brought, with other cargo, 2,500,000 grain bags from Cal cutta. At present quotations, the value of these bags is more than J 125, 000. If the grain crop cf the Pacific Northwest comes up to expectations, it will require nearly $1,000,000 worth of bags to handle it. This is a heavy ex pense on the wheatgrower, which pos sibly may be saved when the Panama Canal is completed, and the wheat can be shipped by steamers which will shorten the passage between tha Coast and Europe to less than half the time now required. Incidentally a saving of about $200,000 a year might be ef fected if these bags were brought in free of duty. The increased cost of living is again in evidence in the figures showing the imports of precious stones for the fiscal year just drawing to a close. During the tweleve months there was brought into the country $45,000,000 worth of these luxuries, of which 85 per cent were diamonds. The figures show a uniform volume of business throughout the year, which hardly bears out the Eastern reports of a tightening money market. When the mines of Nevada are ex hausted the state will still be useful. It need not be obliterated from the map, even if the few inhabitants left there should move away. It ci-.n be used as a sort of social cesspool a place to do deeds and show shows which all respectable communities are ashamed of. A farmer who resists the official inspection of his dairy advertises his business In an undesirable manner. By plain inference he says, "My habits are too filthy to bear the light. The milk which I send to market is too fou-1 for human use." Better let the Inspector look around a little and then clean up. Low water is making navigation dif ficult on the Snake below Riparla. This occurs in June, too. By and by, when most of the water in all the streams is taken for Irrigation, It may become necessary to wingdam the rivers to let fish go through. . It Is estimated that in the fiscal year Just closing this country has imported diamonds and other precious stones of the value of $45,000,0000. It Is comforting to know this much money Is not wasted. Charles Edward Russell as Socialist candidate for Governor of New York means nothing serious just a few more magazine articles. The ragpickers beg pardon. Clip Sorters' Union, of New York is on strike for more pay. It is up to the bosses to raise, the dust. To travel by special train of seven cars must cost Banker Schlff a few thousands a day besides tips for his porters. WAS PARTISANSHIP EVER SHOWN t Then Why- Do Democrats Insist on a Non-Pnrtlsan Supreme Bench. f PORTLAND. June 27. (To the Edi tor.) Th6 proposal to provide for a "non-partisan" Supreme Court arises, one would suppose, from a condition which calls for the reform- of some abuse that has resulted from a parti san bench, yet it must have been ob served that no Instance has been men tioned by the promoters of the scheme where partisan bias has entered into any Supreme Court decision during the past quarter of a century in this state. We have . had several Democratic judges, but no one has ever charged that their decisions were In any sense tinctured with political prejudices or beliefs. Judge Thayer was a pro nounced Democratic partisan, but his de cisions were as free from partisan taint as Brother U'Rren himself could wish in the moments of his greatest conscientious perpendicularity. The same may be said of Judge Strahan. Moreover, this can be. truthfully as serted of the splendid array of Repub lican judges who have graced the Su preme Court bench in this state as far back as we have had Republican judges at all. Who will say that Judge Frank Moore has been influenced In his offi cial actions by the fact that he is a partisan Republican? Or who will even by Innuendo make a similar ac cusation as to Judges Eakin or Mc Bride? Or as to Judges Bean or Wol verton during their extended and hon orable service on the state and Federal bench? Nobobdy has ever so much as hinted that their decisions have been otherwise than entirely free from any color of partisan partiality. Usually, Indeed always before, the advocates of a proposed "reform" in prevailing conditions have at least pre tended to name some Instance where an abuse has been Inflicted on the pub lic, as a reason for the innovation; but here is a bald proposition to do a cer tain thing, and In a very unfair man-, ner, without any claim that a condi tion exists that needs any reform what ever. With all the high-sounding phrases which have been assembled to justify this attempt to elect a couple of ambitious Democratic brothers to the Supreme Court of the state, it is noticeable that no case has been cited where any Republican judge has ever rendered a Republican decision. Indeed with political conditions as they are at present, with Aldrichism, Cannonism, Cumminsism and Lafol letteism in a regular Jeffries-Johnson slugging contest, all In the name of the Republican party, and Chamberlain voting for the highest schedules in the new tariff law which the Portland Evening Journal roundly denounces, and with some degree of justice, the Republican Judge who could write a decision that was without question in the interest of Republican policies would thereby manifest a high degree oi discriminating intellectuality that would of itself mark him as the one shining genius of the age. This effort to "reform", the Supreme Court of the state as to Its implied po litical partisanship in the discharge of It3 duties, and especially at a time when there is so little difference be tween the two leading parties that nearly half the Democrats of the state forget which party they belong to and register as Republicans, is an undis guised reproach upon that distin guished body of jurists. being an as sumption, or rather a charge, that its actions have been so glaringly influ enced by its partisan bias that Justice has been thwarted and the citizens of the state made to suffer in their per sonal or property rights. This proposition radically to change a system which has been in operation for a half century, without citing a single instance where it has wronged in the slightest degree any citizen, is unique in the annals of reform and re formers. Indeed, it is so very unique ! this respect that its only purpose seems to be to give the Democratic party a place on the Supreme Court bench of the state, in which case it becomes a purely partisan movement for a plain partisan purposes doesn't it? T. T. GEER. A Mlssourlan's Will In Verse. Kansas City Star. Joseph J. Cassidy, a Jasper County farmer, died recently and left two wills one In rhyme and the other in prose. The document in verse is void because It antedates the other. The rhyme will was made in 1801 and was witnessed by J. E. Stickney, of Carthage, and Murray Elliott, of Alba. It reads as follows: I, Joseph Johnson Cassidy, Xo hereby publish my intent, Beins; sound of mind and memory. This my will and testament: , That all my just debts first be paid. Expense for burial and funeral made. - And all expenses made of late. Out of my personal and real estate. 1 do bequeath, devise, and give As long as she, my wife, shall live. Lot six in the original town of Lever To her, assigns and heirs, forever. To my adopted daughter Marie I do devise and give in fee The southwest quarter of section seven, Township nine and range eleven. To my two sons, Joseph and Reach I do devise one dollar each. The residue of my estate - I do bequeath to Mary Kate, And hereby do appoint her for my last will executor. Girl Outdoing Abernathys' Ride. New York Press. A Cossack girl named KudashefT. is at tempting a much longer ride than the Abernathy boys accomplished. She has set out to ride from Harbin to St. Peters burg, more than 5420 miles. Her mount is a gray Mongolian pony, a type of ani mal considered unusually hardy. Though she is scarcely more than 22 years old, the girl has no compauion except a pure bred St. Bernard dog, and when she is compelled In her long Journey to camp out, the dog keeps watch. The plucky horsewoman Is armed with a hunting knife and a revolver. She says she en Joys the ridrt alone immensely and that she has no fear whatever. Chicago Deadbeats Physicians. New York Press. Twenty-five rer cent of Chicago people systematically and thoroughly deedbeat the doctors ' evavy year, for only 1 per cent reecive any other kind of charity. Doctors in Chicago are beaten right out of nearly $6,000,000 per annum, or $3000 a doctor. Corporations in Chicago send their Injured or sick to hospitals to re ceive free treatment. St. Peter's, . at Rome, Biggest Church. Kansas City Journal. St. Peter's, at Rome, reared centuries before the age of steam and electricity began, is still the biggest of churches, the most colossal of all places of wor ship. We boast of stadiums which can seat 40,000 spectators of modern sports and forget how much more imposing and immense the Romans made their coli seum, where 87,000 could sit and 15,000 more find standing room. State Record for Large Families. Washington, D. C.. Dispatch. Census enumerators say that Littler County, Arkansas, holds the state record for large families. Mrs. Abraham Ruller, 84 years old. Is the mother of 15 chil dren, all living. Mrs. Laura Rundles, 44 years old, has 22 children living, while two are dead. Mrs. Maggie Howard has been married 19 years and is the mother of 17 children, all living. Ages of Different Trees. Pathfinder. The pine reaches a maximum age of 700 years: the silver flr, 425; the larch, 275; the red beech, 245: the aspen, 210; the birch. 200; the ash, 170; the elder. 145, and the elm, 130. NO MARCH UNDER STARS AND BARS Remarks by a Man Whose Sympathies Are With the South. GRANTS PASS, Or., June 26. To the Editor.) "Strained Magnanimity." an edi torial in The Oregonian, is forceful and correct in most respects. The Grand Army Post of Springfield, Mass., wanted as part of their Fourth of July celebra tion a winning card, hence their invita tion to the Confederate Post at Peters burg, Va., to come In their faded gray and bring their old battleflags. You take this too seriously. This is a com mercial age; even the Fourth of July celebration has. descended into a money making scheme with gain as the prin cipal monitor and guide. It Is permissible for the ex-Confederate soldiers to wear their gray uniform on parade at a Fourth of July celebration, but it is of doubtful propriety for them to march under the Bars and Stars. My father was a Confederate soldier. but he put aside the Confederate flag I when it went down at Appomattox. His son, who writes these lines, has had his share of military service under the Stars and Stripes. With due respect to South ern thought and sentiment, the flag of the dead Confederacy has no place In a Fourth of July celebration, neither in Massachusetts nor Virginia. Some of us know what the South suf fered during the war and after it- Some of us know the horror and infamy of carpetbag rule, to which the South was subject after the war was over. You may search the pages of history in vain for more sublime efforts than was put forth by the South after the war, in taking care of its crippled, sick and maimed soldiers, their widows and or phans, in rebuilding their impoverished country, in guiding and directing the negroes, just emancipated and living up to the new condition of things. Let Virginia place the statue of Lee and Illinois that of Grant in America's Hall of Fame; let the gray and blue mingle In their chosen uniform In comradeship and patriotism, but let each and all meet, march and mingle under the flaunting folds of the Stars and Stripes. W. N. RUGGLE3. FOR STRONG PARTY ORGANIZATION Old Line Democrats Heartily In Favor of the Convention. OREGON CITY, Or.. June 27. To the Editor.) By having a convention (and I. like Ben Hayden, believe in calling things by their proper name), selected by the representative element of each party so that they can get together and discuss policies, make platforms and select can didates, greater good will come to the people than by having a lot of hungry offlceseekers running around the country asking voters to sign petitions and allow ing them to run things. While believing In the primary law, in principle, I also believe that if each convention would permit all names suggested for office to be placed on the primary ticket and each precinct committeeman instructed to cir culate the entire petitions for the ticket, they would save the candidates from be ing grafted by a lot of workers, who charge anywhere from 5 to 10 cents a name, for the required number of names. By this method you do not bar anyone from seeking a nomination, but rather Invite competent men to come out. No self-respecting man, be he Democrat or Republican, wishes to go around asking, or rather begging, people to sign a peti tion. God knows he is making sacrifices enough to accept a public servant's posi tion. Yours for a strong party organiza tion, be it Democratic, Republican or Socialist. A DEMOCRAT OF THE OLD SCHOOL. "THE LAW IS COMMOX SENSE." Typographical Error Does Not Nullify a Statute. . Kansas City Star. A Kansas statute defining embezzle ment was printed with the word "es tate" for "state." It provided punish ment for any "estate, county or city" officer who should misappropriate the money Intrusted to his care. A lower court held that as the word "state" was not In the statute it was not a crime in Kansas for a state officer to embez zle funds. But the Supreme Court of the state reversed that ruling. It holds that the clear intent was to prohibit and penalize dishonesty by state, coun ty and city officers, and that the print ing of the letter "e" before tne word "state" was simply an inconsequential error of the printer. All hail the Supreme Court of Kan sas! Thi3 court does, not believe that the illiteracy of a typesetter or clerk should prevail over the manifest mor ality and common sense of a great peo ple. This court actually does not of fer a premium to the ignorance or dis honesty of a printshop or a prosecuting attorney's office. In some sister states all an attorney for a defendant has to do is to get some stenographer or copy ist to leave out of a statute or an in dictment such word as "the" and the highest courts In those commonwealths will hold that the trial has been fa tally defective. Not so with the court at Topeka. In Kansas, the Supreme Court has shown a fine purpose to cut loose from technical absurdities which have some how grown up and strangely paralyzed the brain cells of many other courts. In fine, the Supreme Court of Kansas Is reaching for the attainment of that highest ideal of justice "The law is common sense." How to Make Beads From Rose Petals. PORTLAND, June 27. (To the Edi tor.) Answering an Inquiry In The Oregonian as to making beads out of rose petals, I herewith give directions: Take any rusty vessel (salt and wat er will make Iron rusty) place rose petals (any color) with sufficient wat er to cover them in the rusty vessel and let them stand four or five days, or until the petals are Dlack. Take this mass and run it through a food grinder or sausage machine several times, using a fine screen.' Squeeze this mass until it Is about the con sistency of putty, mold It, stick a large pin through the center and place in the sun to dry two or three days. Make the molded mass about three times as large as you desire the fin ished beads, as they shrink about two thirds. It takes the petals of two average-size roses for each bead about the diameter of a little finger nail. A. F. MERRILL. Penny Deposits in a German Bank. Consul-General Richard Guenther re ports that at the close of 1909 the Frankfort Savings Fund had 117.400 depositors, who had standing to their credit $22,705,000. on which 3 per cent interest was allowed. The large num ber of depositors Is due to the fact that penny deposits are received. At many places in the city 10-pfennlg (2 cents) savings stamps can be purchased. Col lectors are sent once a week to homes of depositors to receive and credit for these stamps. Besides this Institution Frankfort has 12 savings funds and loan associations for. special classes (school teachers, railroad employes, postofflce employes, members of trade unions, agriculturists, workmen, etc.), which aggregated 42,792 deposit ac counts and $6,734,000. The Nucleus of "Pork." New York Sun.- Washington had Just thrown a dollar across the Potomac. "That Is the beginning of spending money on rivers," they cried. With a blanching face he realized the harm he had done. Needs Talking To. Washington Herald. The first speech Mr. Roosevelt de livers will be to the people of Kansas. That is right. Kansas needs talking to worse than any other state in the Union, perhaps.- LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE The bride-to-be had the air of one who is unreconciled to the existing state of affairs. "Can't we take a wedding trip, as we'd planned?? she asked, plaintively. "Not just now." said the young man, "on account of my partner's illness." "I thought it would be just fun, tak ing that six day's journey in the cars," she sighed. "Well, now, see here," said the young man. "If we take the flat I looked at yesterday, it'll be Just the same as living in the parlor-car stateroom, ex cept that the scenery won't change.". Youth's Companion. Friend Gogson, how is your aero plane getting along? Inventor It is complete, with the ex ception of one little detail I have not jet periected. I shall take up that next. "What is it?" "A mere trifle that I can think out at any time. The principal feature of my Invention Is a safety net that will travel along' under my aeroplane to prevent fatal accident. It will make navigating the air absolutely free from danger. By the. introduction of that net I have revolutionized the entire business." "But how Is the net Itself to be kept free from falling to the ground when anything happens to ydur aeroplane?" "That Is the little detail I haven't worked out yet." Life. A little girl ran into the West Hundred and Twenty-fifth-street police station yesterday morning, handing Captain Farrell a note. "Can my papa stay home?" she asked. The note read: . "Patrolman Frank Sherry, First Pla toon: Just arrived a girl." "He can stay home," said the cap tain. Half an hour later another girl hur ried in with another note. It read: Patrolman Harry Berry, First Pla toon, wants leave of absence for a day. A boy." Captain Farrell had scarcely granted leave to the second happy father when a little boy came In with still another note from Policeman Bernard Welnkel man, of the First platoon. This time it was a girl that had come to the home at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and St. Ann's avenue. Finally, still later in the day. Police man "Diamond Dick" Crossen further depleted the First platoon by announc ing the arrival of a 19-pound baby boy at his home at One Hundred and Twenty-first street and Sylvan avenue. He added to his request for leave of ab sence that the big little fellow would surely be a "cop" some day. "All right," said Captain Farrell, re signedly. "But remember, you men of the First platoon, this is positively thai last." New York Times. He had run up a small bill at the vil lage store, and he went to pay it, first asking for a receipt. . The proprietor grumbled and com plained It was too small to give a re eept for. It would do Just as well, ha said, to cross the account off. and so drew a diagonal pencil line across the book. "Does that settle it?" asked the cus tomer. "Sure" "An" ye'll niver be askin' for it agin? "Certainly not." "Faith, thin, said the other coolly, "an I'll kape me money In me pocket." "But I can rub that out," said tha storekeeper. "I thought so," said the customer dryly. "Maybe ye'll be givln' me a receipt now. Here's yer money." Lip plncotts. Moving Pictures in Germany. Consular Report. The moving-picture shows of Ham burg are not managed as in the United States. In the best places here the highest admission price Is one mark (about two and one-third cents) and the lowest 40 pfennigs (about one cent). Tickets are stamped with the hour or arrival, and between series notices ara displayed on the canvas that certain time tickets have expired and that sup plementary tickets may be purchased from ushers without going outside. Ushers pass through the audience and see that persons holding expired tickets do not remain. The same picture is never repeated in an evening. The usual length of one admission is two hours. Excellent music Is furnished by small orchestras, and In some larger theaters there are brass bands. Smok ing is prohibited and beer is not served in the better-class places, but at some of the popular theaters both smoking and drinking are permitted. The films exhibited In Hamburg are rented from central agencies at a cost of about 2 cents a foot for the first week and less for longer periods, though films not new to the public can be had for as low as 1 4-5 cents. Ed Hone's Philosophy. Atchison Globe. Your best friends "talk about you" at times; don't expect anything else. Men of real genius are so rare that many regard them as either fools or thieves. When you abuse your opposition a good deal, people know your opposition is making headway. Teach your children to be fair. There is nothing in this world more impor tant than fairness. Probably this expression is used oftener by people than any other: "Everything is blamed on me." The only way to get along with a railroad Is to pound h out of it. Don't be fair with it; that's fatal. We are tired having people claim to be younger than they are, and expect ing us to tell the truth about our age. Four Doors for the Negro. Samuel C. Mitchell In Southern .Work man. At the close of the Civil War thera Btood open before the negro four doors of opportunity: (1) thrift, (2) training, (3) morality, and (4) politics. The pity is that he bolted for the fourth door first. That mistake is happily being corrected, and all are now coming to see that the future of the negro hinges upon his training in habits of thrift, cleanliness, home making, obedience to law and kindliness toward his neigh bor. The negro problem, so vast and complicated as to stagger human ef fort, has thus resolved itself into the proper training of the individual black child. A Bell Protects These Cherries. Berwick. Pa.. Dispatch. Disgusted over the depredations of birds in the cherry trees, Mrs. Samuel Rhinard, of Summer Hill, suggested to her husband that he place a bell In ona of the trees and attach a rope to It. Now she sits in the house, and when ever the birds appear, she gives tha rope a pull and the ringing of the bell frightens the birds away. Their Object. Chicago News. Banks The women of my town havi formed a secret society. Rivers -A secret Bociety? Surely, that's a misnomer; women don't know how to keep secrets. Banks But they know how to tell them, and that's why they formed tr-e society. Inoculating Amity. Amity Standard. The railroad company Is a If ttlej choice in furnishing material to fill In the street at the south end of the depot. It Is hauling it from Fourth street In Portland, which is being repaved with concrete and hard-surface material.