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TITR MOItXIXG OREGOXTAN, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1911. G rOBTLAMD. OUXGO. En -era M rartlaad, Or Peeteffl a lM CM Matter. aaecriatle Ktiw-IsvarUftly ta Advance. (BY MAIU) Iai?. Wn4ar tactadart. aaa vtf Ij:t. Rtta'Ur tniu44. ata aaata..... l r. 4rtF iaide, taraa aaia... .lj I i r. sis4r inia-iad. aaa m-ai. . . . . .Ti I-aty. !nq jn4ar. aaa ....... I-arr. arrthntit Saa4r. tnoatha. . . ... " Iai.y. i:noi c ialr. taraa mAntka.. X ai r. witixal is. aaa aMlk Wt. aaa raar J" sa-tar. ......... S3a aiutdajr sad waaa.;?. aaa jer. .... aft LB T CARRIE"-! ranT. "ait-far tnriadad. aaa yar-. . Wi.r. iaaau teaiodad. aaa maatfc. , Maw aa Waaal. Sin pnataOlaa wamar araar. aa?raa araea- ar P ' aai cbara aa tmtt lacaj aaa a. stampa, ootp ar rurraar ra at taa MaltTi rua. Gira aoato.T'.a eadraa ta rail tadadia ae-aaur aa atata. rmaa llalaa 1 a 14 paa-a. 1 rant: IS a 3 aajaa. J casta: ta . aaeta; aa ta u paa-aa, aaa la. rcata aaatage dauaia rata. ii awaa uiiaa"i ti a v. " ha ea Tar a. tiraaaa-lc ksUdla- CoJ aaaa. tar SaUdla- rOBTLaUOX MOXDAT. aTXT 91. In. lACaUEB-B ATTKXM, TO THX rTOITX. Reciprocity or no reciprocity. U o be fought oat at th poll In Cana-U. Sir Wilfrid Laurter ha no rrwaxj of foreleg hi Hou.e of Common to stop talking and rota, bat ho can refer th question, to the people, and ha done ao with evident confidence In the re volt. Th Canadian Parliament resemble th United State Senate In one par ticular. It ha no direct mean of com. pelllng th cllna of debet against the will of the mlnortty.howevcr email, but the Senate ha devised a war of curing unanlmou consent to close debate and to vote, which overcomes th difficulty. Ju.it how this Is accom plished Is not clearly known, but pos sibly a timely threat to sidetrack some measure In which an obetructlonlst Is daaply Interested proves effective. When the hot weather comes, the Sen at finds Itself unanimous In the desire to adjourn and so home, which also has the same effect. But the power of a Canadian Cab inet to secure a dissolution of Parlia ment and the election of a new one on a concrete Issue of first Importance Rives th Dominion all the advantages of the referendum without It draw back. Th question la fought out at the polls, and after sum a verdict the losing party only hurt Its own cause by continuing to block a vote. The Dominion Is greatly divided on th Lisue. and sectional and local In terest will influence the result there, as la this country. Protection ha ar tificially developed a considerable manufacturing interest in the old provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and there th opposition has Its main strength. Laurler will find almost united support In th prairie provinces, wher graln-gTowlng I th chief In dustry, and where many American have settled. Th maritime province In th east and British Columbia In th west appear to be divided. Lau rler. however. Is an astute politician and a good Judge of politics, as hi long record of victory attests, and must have mad an accurate forecast of th result before be took tha risk of aa appeal to the people. -WHAT Jf.tX HAS POJfE. About two month ago ther was published In The Oregonlan a letter from Prtnevllle. written by a staff cor respondent, which. among other thing, dealt with th ra of E. A. Puet and th story of Mr. Bawl Is of such a helpful character that It will bear repeating and emphasising. Her la a synopsis of th article that appeared In The Oregonlan: ktr. fluaaaf'a Blara la Joat aurth of PVM Putta poataffla. Ha atoi. bera an J t"k as a k nei.4 lual aaal of bia praaml fciuea. la lava. He "aa vary poor. lie I :rear team, aa a.l aoa. ik r fa sad t&ree cblMrea. aad oaa ot the rai.4ra wae aa air a r'M4 cWal After -o4:na fcia fl.ias (ae to the iand eff.ee be bad le tnaa tlx la hie name, and tbat be had earaed at trraaa a..ey aa Re r m in. N.ln aotilnf ta lle a. be was ffrtd ta maae a Utt mwoer aa be area! a. una. and irtla ba did tow ataaln the Junlp-- lata ftraaaod aa be cwared Sua land. Ha aaa:e4 Ibia Vtfof lata Iowa, aevente-a or a'vnteatt mitaa. and triea ot a tr yrov-ert'e aad aua liinea aa ware Indlep-neatUe. Ae be S"l a litt.e laad ciaared ha aet It ta vi,& ettiaa la ae maa? potataea aa y-ei.iu.a. Someftraee ba dtd a mm days ara fr tha ae:c")bora. or la towa. Put ba snbbed away. ctartae bia land ae rauidiy e ba ra.d. aatu It aaa all In cuitl.aUoo, mry o.t af It. aad ail aad-r fnra. Tbea ba went te:e tba ditch, a half Bit:, ivtv. and bTJtM 1 arrea. taenty nf wbleb aa loa bls-t tor Irrigation, aad be b4ii a beea-ifm basaalo de.tilfif that a oi d da rradit la ear of Portlaad'e euborte. A Sna lawn ruae dowa ta the prUe rvad. trtere ara frail Ireea. rnea buebee and ehrjte a '. ler J around. aI eriowlng th wairbf il ffft't of eailted atleadaau Turheye and rbwheea era running about, and eterrthtn eetoaene proaperttr and rollure. At tne aouth eotraaa to tba da-elltnc there etanda, aa tbaaa adte are tabea. a Una bore and buasr. tar Mr. Baaeet aad bar dausbter are juat saina aa a vlait to one of their BV.a-Fvbare. A&d aa they dfiva letj and me blean4 sad rather waves them aa siid there eaeme to ba aa air of prtda end Inde pendence aa each eeuatenanre, pride for aarb other the prtde of accompllaameat. Te the aorta of tha haute le a n!d of rd rlover. about forty acrea. anould Judae There era about slate fine Jere-r-Daroc h.it runain an this clover, aad Juat a day or two before my v'ett ba bad sold fortyibre head at lea ceete per pound, tba averace eijt beinr ariuni 2oo pound, the euro received beia And titer bad made Ifieir weiabt prtncipaUy oft the clover. Mr. busset Is out of debt. He has some money ahead., HI credit Is good. HI reputation for probity and integrity is equal to that or any man In Crook County. His holdings are worth considerable In excess of f!0. 000. He could sell for the figure given almost any day, and the purchaser would get a mighty good bargain. But th place 1 not for sale, never will be aa long as the present owner has hi health and strength. Ever since th first murmurs of railway building to th Interior were heard ther have been insistent cries from many source. "What are the chances for a poor n.r.n in Central Oregon? and we think th Busset story answers these querlee. But nine out of ten of tha Inquirers want an easier path to tread than that trodden by tha Busset family. They want less labor, mora comforts, better living, now and then a holiday. In other words they want to twgin about wher the Busset family found themselves after four years of tha hardest labor and most biting fru gality. To such peop! tn Busset story Is of no avail. For such people there are no openings In Crook County, no openings In Oregon any more than ther ar In any other portion of the Union. And that applle not only to th poor man. the man In tha class Mr. Busset was In eight years ago. but to tha man of small or moderate means, for without thrift and frugal- I ly no man can succeed on the soil. It I thought by many that any man can be a successful farmer, that It takes no ability, no "gumption" to run a farm. Th beet answer to that can be found In the thousands of failure and th few successes like the Bus seta. "But. say the carpers, "the Busset went there eight years ago. when there were many good openings; ther ar no such chance now." Some thing similar to that has been the wail of the pessimists ever since the Chil dren of Israel crossed th Red Sea. The rear guard undoubtedly thought I th advance guard had th best of It. And th same cry will be heard rrom the dissatisfied as long a time en durtw. Ther never wa as good a tiro a todar. There never were as many op portunities as there are today, either in Central Oregon. Western Oregon or anv other portion of the Northwest. It Is not a lack of opportunltlea that la rinldlne? ttf k Bart of OUf Stat. 11 Is th lack of Bussetm of men of ln dustrr. lnterrttv. frugality. A to th condition of th Busset from a worldly standpoint, they ar not "rich." Some of our multl-mllllon-alre sometimes spend more money. f.r more, than th Buasets ar worth on a single supper for a few friends. But ther Is no wealthy man In th whole world any better off than this Central Oregon farmer. Ther I no happier home on earth than his. there Is no man la the world more Justly proud of accomplishment than he. Itlch: ieook at his life, at the wet ne.t of It. the life of his wife and children living close to Natur and close to God! What th country need I not more millionaires, but mor Busset. And let it be hoped that many of them may ehooae Oregon a their field of operations. WAR-CLOrD ROLLS A WAT. The Moroccan ww-cloud I already blowing away, and instead of the clash of arms, we shall hear the clash of diplomatic tongues. The British view Is that Germany has been bluffing, and since her bluff Is called by a united Britain and the Franco-British alliance stands a test. Oermany la pre paring to back down with aa much dignity as the circumstance will al Ioat. Tct the English are not satisfied. They believe with few exception that a war with Germany Is Inevitable, and the sooner th better, they say. Every year that It Is delayed the German navy Is stronger, and tne strain 01 maintaining the British navy at the two-power standard become corre spondingly greater. The English know that a single-handed fight with Germany would bo a Titanic struggle of donbtful result. They, therefore, wish to make sure of an ally. While Prance Is bound by treaty to assist Britain, the latter country fears France might draw back If the quar rel were Britain's alone. Britain wishes to make Morocco the cause of war. sine th French Interest there Is greater than the British, and the two nations would be bound to stand to gether. Perhaps that Is the very reason why the Kaiser doe not wish to flht now. II my hav been merely testing th strength of the alliance by tne Agadlr expedition. Having found that the tie between the two powers would keep them united against him, even under the test of war. he draws back and trusts to time to provoke dissension, or even coolness. The Kaiser has mad many threat of war or, at least, movements which seemed to portend war but In his reign of twenty-three years h ha not yet made war. He would Ilk to fight If the odds were his way. but every time he makes a belligerent move he finds the odds against him. Thus the war lord has perforc been a peace-lord. A DIKTtXCTtO.X VUKS OVMtXOOgv. In his exposition of the merit of the British ss compared with the American Constitution. Mr. ITRen lays especial Irene on what Is In effect the application of the referendum when a parliamentary election results from a conflict between the two houses on some great National issue. Mr. LTRen cannot find In this British application of the sound principle of appeal to the peopT any endorsement of the Oregon application of th same principle. There certainly should be suah an ap peal to the people In every democratic government, but Mr. ITRen and hi associate have not found th only true application of It. Since 190 there have 'been only three Important measure on which the existing British government ha appealed to the people, which Is the common British phrase for the refer endum. The advocacy of home rule by Gladstone In I8SS caused a split In his party and an election in ISM. In which he was defeated. He raised th Isaue gnln in IMS. the Lords rejected his bill, but he did not appeal to th people. In 190 the Lords rejected Lloyd-George's budget, thus raising the constitutional question a to their right to amend or reject taxation measures. An election was fought on that issue in January. 110, and the government won. It then proposed reform of the House of Lords and won another election on that Issue In De cember. 110. All then elections may fairly be called referendum election on vital national questions. The subjects were proper ones to be referred to the peo ple. They were clear cut, easily un derstood, and could be threshed out in a political campaign. They were sub mitted to the peopl by their chosen representatives, and th election may be described a both a test of strength between th two parties and a request for Instructions from those the Com mons represented. The mind of the voters had been already educated on the subject by long, exhaustive debates in Parliament and by public speeches, newspaper and magazine articles. These applications of the referendum have had most beneficent effect, for they may have saved the British peo ple from violent revolutionary changes. Contrast the British with th ITRen system. Under the latter any clique of obscure. Irresponsible Individuals which Is disgruntled over the passage of some bill by the Legislature can hire a corps of signature-hunters and circulate petitions for a referendum vote. Thousands of persons may be Induced to sign the petitions without knowing who Is responsible for them or what are the motive of the pro moters of the referendum. Nor are the latter compelled to give any rea sons. There may have been little or no question aa to the propriety of the bill In question when It waa before th Legislature, so that the discussion may j have been alight and the public may be little Informed on th subject. On the other hand, the bill may be one whtch Is urgently demanded by the public Interest, such aa the state uni versity appropriation bill, which was held up several years ago and the uni versity appropriation bill which is now heM un. There may be only ghost of a chance that a bill will be rejected on a referendum vote, but It is held up Just the same, Th worst motive may be behind the referendum petition, but the Identity of It real authors may remain long hidden while Ignature-huntera are the only persons known to be connected with It. Such a system Is not the referendum as they have It In Oreat Britain, or in narttxorland. It la not a device to as sure that legislation shell express the popular will, as Is the Intent of the referendum; It Is a chlorororming or aarrt Basa.eVlnatJon Of legislation rdhAiil ren.it In the ttnnular Will. When the Oregon constitution has been so amended that the rcrerenau ean he tnvokari nnlr bv men Who d clare their name and their reasons for objecting to the bill In question; wnen the success of a referendum petition depend not on the efforts of the petition-peddlers, but on the Interest of the signers, aa evinced by their going voluntarily to the Courthouse or some other public office to sign It; when som limit Is placed on th class of bills subject to tha referendum, that the ballot may not be loaded down with trivial questions by som man' nlre a nrn nk-tnaaa then the referen dum will hav become what It was in tended to be-1-, useful check on tne T-ae-talatrir and a means for that body to appeal to the people on measures regarding whicn it is in aouoi. TIES IXSIIKATIOX XX HCTIOX. Re. Luther Warren will not be able to convince many people that the great writer of fiction were Inspired by the devil. Such ranting only serves to alienate people from religion, instead of drawing them to It, Did Satan In spire Mrs. Stowe to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin." or Hawthorne to write "The Scarlet Letter" ? Did Satan control the genius of Dickens and Thackeray, of Stevenson. Hugo. Klngaley? Did he Inspire Upton Sinclair to write "The Jungle." which brought about the cleaning up of the packing-houses? Mr. Warren Inveighs against fiction aa lies, but a large part of the teach ing of Jesus was by mean of parables, which were fiction. He calls fiction lies, but he would not call parables lies. The best works of fiction are only parables up to date, picturing a phase of life for th purpose 01 point ing a moral. To condemn all fiction Indiscrim inately because much of it is bad Is as unreasonable as would be the con demnation of all preachers because some of them talk twaddle. DEMOCRATIC 8IIREWDXTS3. The bill for publicity of campaign expenses, with which Congress Is now occupied, amounts, of course, to a "corrupt practices" act. The ostensi ble purpose Is merely to secure pub licity for money received and spent In elections, but this of Itself will be the most efficient of all prevention against fraud and corruption. Bribery In all It protean forms would go out of fashion If It had to b confessed In the newspapers before election day.e As the bill left the House, where It orig inated. It contained a pretty piece of sharp practice. It was made to apply to elections, but not to primaries. The effect of this was to subject the Re publican to the publicity act and ex empt the Democrat. The trick Is easy to understand. It all depend on the fact that In the South, where the Democrats hold way, the primaries are decisive and the subsequent elections only a form. But In the Republican states It Is the election that counts. Hence, under the bill as the House Democrat shaped It, campaign expense must be made public by Republicans, but not In any genuine sense by tha Southern Demo crats. Very likely this was contrived only for the fun of doing something "smart." Th' unfairness was too gross to escape atiintln In the Senate. Per haps It excited some scornful resent ment ther aa being a reflection on the common sens of that exalted chamber. At any rate, the Senate ha worked the bill over and made It one of the best publicity measure in the world. It forbid not only extravagant elec tion expenses, but. perhaps even more pertinently, all those crafty practices by which vote ar Improperly Influ enced, For example. It Is made un lawful to corrupt the voter by promises of office, favor or Influence. Such a prohibition can never be more than partially effective, but even the incom plete extirpation of this source of evil from our politic would act like a cleansing bath on some public men. It la far too common to see a man go Into office so swathed In the bonds of ante-election promise that he 1 use less to the public Since the bill passed the Senate almost - without dissent, there Is a fair prospect of Its becom ing law. The Democrats of the House may feel obliged to accept It for very shame, and of course Mr. Taft would sign It- No doubt a marked increase of decency In National politic "would result. FORESTRY IX THE XOBTTTtrxST. Tt Is refreshing- after readlnr the masses of high-flown. Impractical, tneoreticai stun wnicn nas oeen print ed of late years about forest conserva tism t r vaail aurh ' enmmon-SAnae treatise on the subject as E. T. Allen's "Practical Forestry in the jsortn araat " nubllaharl bv the Western For estry and Conservation Association. The book Is written from tne stand point or the lumoerman, Dut it snows that his Interest Is Identical with that of the state and the consumer. The book 1 particularly timely in view of the sporadic outbreaks of for est fires and that It takes up tnat subject first of all. Containing half the merchantable timber in the United a.otaa tha five atates of Oree-on. Washington, California, Idaho and Montana annually destroy, on an av erage, timber which. If used, would bring In $40,000,000, while an almost umi lnaa results ' from Idleness of burnt and cut-over land. In addition, . of state tax revenue Is de stroyed and productiveness of land Is injured by impairment oi tne woou and esater supply. Mr. Allen points out that forest wealth Is community wealth, four-fifths of the price paid for Its products going for labor and ...rniiaa Wealth derived from this source In the five state now aggre gates I1Z6.00O.UUU a year. r ureal fire not only destroy $40,000,000 a rtireotiv and much more Indirect ly, but they raise the price of what remain by reducing the euppiy. as .v.. iimWtH area an Meet to taxation 1 reduced, the taxation born; by the farmer must te increasea. inuugn tie destruction has rendered him less .vie m ar tha burden. The loss. therefore, by forest fires falls with four times a much weignt on tne rest of the community as on the lumberman. Mr. Allen estimates that a second cut of timber may be made in the Northwest sixty years after Iand is replanted and that each year s growth on deforested land would be worth $2,750,000, but almost nothing Is be ing done to produce this value. Co-operation between state and lumbermen, such as has been inaugu rated In Oregon, Is urged to stop for est fires as a first step. The laws axe declared fairly good, but, says Mr. Allen, "almost every forest commu nity sees fire after fire set through Irnoranc. carelessness or on purpose, and, so far from punishing the offend ers, accords them every privilege of business and society. In cities arson leads to the penitentiary. A forest fire may destroy millions and the cause not even be investigated." 'An aggravated case may cause an arrest, "but acquit tal is practically certain." The remedy is fire patrol, on which the lumber Interests In 110 spent $$00,000 in Washington. $200,000 in Idaho, $130,000 In Oregon. But the state and lumbermen must work to gether, the men employed having of ficial authority to enforce the law, Where timber values do not warrant patrol, the state owes Its citizens pro tection for their property qf other kinds. State fire patrol men must have authority to arrest violators of fire laws and thus prevent fires. Reforestation of burned-over and cut-over land Is the next step to pres ervation of the forests. Mr. Allen says the state should provide for refor estatlon of their school and tax deed land, which, he says, would "In the long run pay a thousand per cent In dividends for the education of our children and our children's children The states should secure legislation to solidify their forest land and to buy cut-over land and replant It. More Important Is reforestation by private owners with state encouragement. The lumberman must sacrifice present profit In order to preserve some of the present tree or to plant new ones. To Induce him to do this it is neces sary that the atata protect him from destruction of his investment by fire and that the profit be not eaten up by taxes before the crop Is harvested. By encouraging a timber-owner to re nlant. the state preserves as a source of revenue land which otherwise would become a desert and a men ace to stream-flow. As a means of encouraging replanting, Mr. Allen quotes the recommendation of the National Conservation Commission: "An annual tax upon the land Itself, exclusive of the timber, and a tax upon the timber when cut." Mr. Allen also deals exhaustively with the lumberman's Interest In for estry and with methods of replanting. His suggestions are so practical and Inspired by such equal consideration for the Interests of all parties to the forest problem that they will meet with general approval. The sale by a pioneer family of a SOO-acre farm for $50,000 Is to have a fit sequel In the building of a cozy bungalow at White Salmon and an auto tour of California, They are the kind of new rich who have earned the comforts of an old age of ease. If the New Yorker who bought their farm should make it his home, he can com pare the pleasures of husbandry with the feverish Ufa of sweltering New York, and tempt others to come by th pplee he will send them and the letters he will write. trm Juu Harden, of Nashville, is no blase bride. True, she has Just been married for the eixin ume, mu haa renj heA her seventy-third year. but ahe felt Just as happy and nerv ously excited as she aid at ner iirst mirrim. Mav she have the same sensations at all her future weddings. No doubt she will have more ox mem, for seventy-three is an early age at which to stop getting married. iitinnr eatutea of suicide nrtde takes a high place. It caused Mr. and Mrs. Crans. in Middletown. N. Y to die to gether, rather lhan tell of their pov erty and ask for help. It caused Mary Ilg to drown herself because a fake beauty doctor had marred her beauty. It refuses to listen to reason, and must , .iino.-at to have its way unless It can be gratified In some way con sistent with continued living. Thii la nna nf the vear when the Oregon hopgrower makes money to At for the years when he made losses. It is also one of the years when the brewer studies what substitute for hops will make as good beer. fhafinar at Government tutelage on the part of Nes Perce Indian is a good sign of their progress in civiliza tion; but none should be released from It unless they can control their appe tite for liquor. The quickest solution of the water problem Is to let those who cannot get any on their several floors have all they want while It Is shut off from those who get It. on their first floors. Easy, isn't it? tX-hen fre Martin TJuffV. Of Mon tana ran under her sheltering wings her little nephew and niece. Just over, Immigration Commissioner Williams, at New York, will not aare aeport them. The record of fatalities on the Alps bids fair to corroborate- Grahame- Whlte's assertion that climbing moun tains on foot is more perilous than climbing the air in an aeroplane. November 15 is the date of the big Oreeon apple show at Portland, and any day this week Is a date for spray ing for codling moth to help make ex hibit for the show. The month closing today Is near the record for little rain In July. A sane Fourth even seems to have cut out the thunder storm customary on the. aft ernoon of that day. The prompt suppression of forest fires Is a testimonial to the efficiency of the state forest patrol and of the forces employed by timber-owners.. If millionaire auto tourists are to be arrested for gambling. Nevada will have difficulty in separating them from their money. Thla la a vear of bumDer -crone in the Pacific Northwest, even the whales contributing their quota. with all tha 1911 hons needed bv th e brewers, the makers of yeast will hit a rising market. What's Doing. in Oregon Bound to Keep Clean. Condon Times. Ed Stlnchflald has had his house at Mayvllle fitted . with a complete sys tem of pipes with hot and cold water In every room. x Potate Wlthla Potafe. Cottage Grove Leader. J. W. Go war exhibited a freak po tato to a Leader representative Satur day. It was a sound last year's potato which had laid in a cool place and in side of which was growing four young potatoes that had grown to such pro portions as to burst the old potato open on one side. Preacher's Paata Bnrwed. Condon Time. "Man I born to trouble as the sparks fly upward." So thinks Mr. Thompson, a minister of the gospel, living on the John Day. ner the Gibson ranch. Mr. Thompson's house burned last week with all the coutents: even the poor man's Sunday pants, with a consider able amount of bills In the pocket. went up in smoke. Wasp Start Ranaway. Banks Herald. Master Clarence Reynolds, son of Vr. and Mrs. T. M. Reynolds, doesn't think that wasps mix well with pontes, milk and Boys. Last Thursday morn ing as Clarence was taking the cream down to the gate with his pony nitcneo to the pung, a nest of wasps attacked the pony, and the result was a run away and an overturned sled, but Clarence managed to keep the cream can right end up. Good Things Bunched. Redmond Spokesman. According to interviews published in the Portland papers with officers of the Oregon Trunk Railroad in relation to the completion of the railroad bridge across Crooked River, It begins to look as if the road would not get Into Redmond until about Christmas time. That would bring our Fourth of July, Railroad day celebration. Thanksgiving, Christmas and rew Year's celebration all at one time. Oakdale Ha Unlucky Man. Polk County Observer. - While attempting to unload a hay rack in order to fix a broken coupling pole, J. S. Macomber, of Oakdale, was knocked unconscious, Monday evening, but was revived by strenuous work on the part of those working with him. He was struck by the rack, which had been Insecurely propped. On account of the numerous accidents which have happened to him, Mr. Maoomber Is be coming known as the "unlucky man of Oakdale." The Aato In Rural Life. Polk County Itemlzer. Monday night Dr. B. H. McCallon performed a feat of doctoring that would not hav been possible under old conditions prior to the advent of autos. He was first called to the home of Joe A. Cornley. on the Maloney place about five miles from town, and as sisted the stork in bringing in a baby girl. Hardly had he got home and nicely ensconced in bed when he was called to Falls City to bring In a boy at the home of Dick Paul. Th's made a total of 30 miles traveled. Bill Uanley Look Ahead. Harney County News. When Mr. Hanley has the Blltzer Valley canalled and the waters there of properly conserved, and the waters tributary to his other farms used, as It Is possible to use them, and he Is then ready to place the holdings of his com pany on the market In Bmall tracts,- be will have no reason to mourn the fact that the large-herding cattle bUBlnees has been "developed" out of existence. Nor will the country suffer from the change, either. The big cattle herd, raised and fed for beef exclusively, will be replaced by the smaller herd to be used for dairy and creamery pur poses, with Its adjunct of hog raising, with an absence of wholesale Winter losses, with the growing of grain crops, tame grasses and vegetables, with the utilization of the land In intensified efforts, and all resulting In the pro duction of far greater wealth by the many than is now possible under ex isting conditions. It is In contemplation of this change that Mr. Hanley is bending his ener gies for the development that will make the change profitable, not only to the Individuals who participate, but to himself and his associates, in dis posing of their extensive holdings. Mr. Hanley see far enough ahead to know exactly what he Is about; that's all. Gana and Small Bora. BAKER. Or.. July 29. (To the Edi tor.) Referring to the Judicious re marks of A. B. Holloway on "man kill ing" In the woods by tenderfeet hun ters. It might be well also to prevent kids below 15 years banging away in the oountry with rifles of which they do not realize the long range and pene tration. Some law 1 surely badly needed for the use of guns at large, when one sees 8 and 10-year-old kids handling rifles In the woods, which custom has already caused many acci dents. SUBSCRIBER. THE BALLAD OF THE HAND-MADE PILL. ' Attend and I will troll for you A little song of 111. About a thirteon-fifty clerk Who smoked the hand-turned pill. His bOBS has called and in he comes. ' Atire witn expeciaiion; "You've worked right hard all year. my iaa. Hike out for a 'vacation, tvhiia I find out If it be true. I ever really needed you"). Armed to teeth with shooting irons. He seeks a distant hut, A quaint primeval cabin. Deep in tne tail uncut; "Hera I will stick around and queer The destlnie of fish and deer." And while he sticks around to put A klDOSn upon nan ana game. Deft he rolls a weedy stick. And tips it irom xne suipnura Deep In his lungs the smoke he leaves. And shoots the snipe Into the leaves. But later, looking in the rear. He sees, with bosom quaking. His hop has started bigger smoke Than e er he ureamea or maxing; ,"tt- Indira nf thiners In vender wood. Td best go while the going's good." He heaves the sod in heavy chunks From nylng neeis to snun me name. But though he travels some, he finds He's bucked against a losing game; But, e'er the flames can tag his back. They have to turn inree townsaips black. 'Twas going some, the way he made T-I.A riraat fire aet down to work And clean a billion dollar wood -t- ..t.h a thlrteen-flftv clerk Something that one is bound to feel Was rather an expensive aeai. This Is the little catch I troll. About tne mirteen-imy cnap. That tossed away a hand-rolled snipe Into old Mother Nature's lap. And cleaned three townships up! You That was some costly cigarette! Dean toiiint uuiy 29, uj. WHY ESPERANTO WILL NOT DIE. i Convert Believes Language Not Ap proached by New or Old Rivals. PORTLAND, July 29. (To the Edi tor.) I would beg a few lines to re spond to criticisms made of Esperanto. As ti whether or not Esperanto will share the fate of Volapuk and cease to be studied In a few years, I think not. Volapuk fall d, not because the world was not in need of a universal lan guage, but because in practice it was found to be literally unspeakable. Its grammar was simple enough, but the body of the language was made up of words arbitrarily invented; they were hard to learn and worse to pronounce and understand. It was too stiff. That is. to say many of Its primary words sounded so nearly alike that they were not easily distinguished one from an other when spoken by different na tionalities. EsDeranto. on the other hand, not I only possesses an exceedingly easy grammar, but the body or tne language is made up from root words selected, as far as possible, with reference to the maximum of their internationally. The root of all Esperanto words may be found In some modern language, generally In two or more. The only change which Is ever made is to ad Just their spelling so as to make them phonetic and to- bring them within the rules of the Esperanto orthography. In short, all parts of Esperanto have been thought out with the idea to make it practical as well as easy to learn. That this' aim has been reached has been abundantly proven by the wide use to which it has been put and Is being put all the time. A thousand: different titles books and pamphlets have so far been published In it, and one hundred periodicals appear regu larly In different parts of the world. Numerous conventions have also been held, where the language was freely spoken and used by the nationalities participating. The very wide use of suffixes and prefixes and word combinations which is provided for, gives the language great range of expression. This per mits of a much smaller vocabulary than can be got along with in a natural language. It la true that "usually the life of a universal language is brief." It is said that 40 or B0 attempts have been made to supplant Esperanto by other arti ficial languages brought out since the birth of the former. They have failed, because there was no need for them. Esperanto" fills the bill, and there Is now no more reason for bringing out another international language than there Is for the invention of a new telegraphic alphabet to change the one Invented by Professor Morse half a century ago. H. DENLINGER. A at or I a of the West. New York Globe. In the not distant future, said the Hon. A. W. Lafferty, of Oregon, to- the House the other day, you will be asked to sanction the loan of a few army tents to the City of Astoria, In my atate, which celebrates on August 10 of this year the centenary of Us found ing. You are lucky not to be asked for money, I trust, therefore, there will be no objection to loaning us the tents. This was the substance of Congress man Lafferty's preface to an Orego nlan's appreciation of his wonderful state. Including a skeleton history of Astoria's origin and rise to greatness. That far Western metropolis has spe cial claims upon the interest of New Yorkers because it was founded in 1811 and named by John Jacob Astor, whose descendants still own a consid erable share of this benighted town at the other end of the continent. Within a year or two John Jacob sold out to a Canadian concern, after ward absorbed by the great Hudson Bay Company, and Astoria became "Fort George." In 181S. however, it came back to the AmeiHcans, and was promptly rechrlstened Astoria. And Astoria it has remained ever since. Astoria had a population of 8381 in 1900, and was apparently the second city of the state, Portland standing at the head of the list with 90,426. ITpon the whole, therefore. It seems advis able, as the Hon. Lafferty suggests, for Congress to snap up the chance of escaping with the loan of a few tents. Astoria's first centennial birthday cer tainly deserves that relatively small subsidy from the Federal Government. Foreigner and Illiterates. VALE, Or., July 30. (To the Edi tor.) What per cent of the population of the United States is foreign born? What per cent of the population of the United States cannot read or write? LESTER L. HOPE. According to the census of 1900 the proportion of illiterate 10 years of age and over In Continental United States, Including negroes and foreign born whites, was 106.J per thousand popu lation. The census reports for the same year give the foreign born population of the United States as 10,460. OSS, or about 13.7 per cent of the total. Statistics for 1910 In these particulars have not been complied. Sugar Bounties. PORTLAND, July $9. (To the Edi tor.) Klndy publish the provisions of the McKinley bounty bill on sugar, be fore the enactment of the Wilson-Gorman bill putting sugar back on the tariff list. I. F. DOUGHERTY. The bounty on sugar became effect ive in part July 1, 1891. The bounty rate was 2 cents per pound on sugar testing not less than 90 degrees by the polarlscope produced In the United States from beets, cane, sorghum end maple. On sugar testing less than 90 degrees and not less than 80 degrees the bounty was 14 cents, beginning October 1, 1890. All bounty payments ceased August 27, 1894. Brad's Bit o' Verse (Copyright, 1911, by W. D. Mens-) Father Adam lived in paradise till he was told to roam he loved his dear old garden, and called it home, sweet home. But he had no advantage when you figure up the price, for I live in a home sweet home and call It paradise. It's the sweetest kind of pleasure when the toilsome day is o'er, to see the home light gleam, and hear the welcome at the door. I'm a lord In love's dominion; and the kiddies laugh and shout when we fortify our castle from the care and strife without; and the queenly little mother comes our happiness to share I'm as proud as any monarch and my throne's the old arm chair. You can have your fame and glory and your wealth and fashions fine; give me tha sweet home circle where the heart's affections twine. With my family around me, by the firelight's ruddy glow, there is nothing half so soothing in this rapid world below. Let others boast of conquests on the land or on the sea; not a word of hate or envy will they ever hear from me; for I have my landlocked harbor with its ships from every mart I have my garden of the gods, my Eden of the heart. 'Tls the happiest little kingdom beneath the starry dome; and I find life's richest treasures in the paradise of home. Advertising Talks Br William C Freeman. "Eleventh hour nitvertlwlnc, like 11th hour repentance, while better than no advertising at all, cannot bring the maximum reault. A corporation which has incurred public disfavor, or which has permitted dlafavor to grow up all about it while it maintained a deadly silence, cannot step out with a single advertisement. Just as the clock strikes, and win the confidence and resipect of the people. Such a corporation, no matter how undeserved its unpopularity, baa failed to pave it way, by frank publicity, into the confidence of the people, and its 11th hour convention to the gospel of advertising cannot be expected to brinjp aalvation. A recent illustration was the adver tisement of the Knickerbocker Ice Co., headed "Fair Play for the Iceman." It occupied nearly three full columns filled with arguments and figures to show that the company was not traf ficking in the sufferings of the multi tude of consumers." The advertisement followed an acute attack by the press on the Ice Com pany, which had kept its affairs so con fidential that it took detectives to find them out. It was so evidently an at tempt to stem the tide of public dla favor that, as an advertisement, it could not produce anything like the desired result. It would be good business for the Knickerbocker Ice Co. in fact, for all corporations to cultivate public confidence through well planned, con stant advrrtialug campaigns. If the ice company, for instance, in a series of small advertisements run ning through the year, had demons trated the aincerlty of its effort to sup ply New York with ice at reasonable cost, and had explained, when the ex tremely hot weather began, that un usual difficulties were at hand, and had asked for patience while it did the best it could, would there have been any demand for a public Investigation t The wisest corporation lawyers in the country men like Paul Cravath, Judge Gary and ex-Governor Frank S. Black have repeatedly warned the corpora tions about their absolute need of pub licity. t Every stockholder in every corpora tion should impress upon his board of directors, and ther In turn should im press upon its president, that the 11th hoar is no time to begin that it is steady, frank, all-tbe-year-round pub licity that wins public esteem. (To be Continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright, 1811, by George Matthew Adams) Women live longer than men, and this is the reason: They eat less, and eat Blower. Many a robber is honest; he really be lieves that if you invest in his scheme, he will not only make money for you, but for himself. This is another variety of dangerous man you should look out for when you have your eyes peeled. There are many good people; I have . noticed that people everywhere claim they have the best neighbors in the world. When a lazy man cannot find any other excuse, he always says he is sick. He can always work that. When a boy returns from college, he shows his superiority as surely as a man who has been elected to Congress. Nearly every man thinks that while there never was a good lecture, be could deliver one. When a man wants to sharpen a knife, he hunts up a whetstone. When a woman wants to sharpen a knife, she takes a few swipes on a crock. There never was a beef carcass so good that there was not a neck piece. Before I die I would like-to-see some thing done on time. The mother of a boy was sitting on the porch. The boy came out eating a big piece of bread and butter. "If that should fall on your toes," the mother said, "it would mash them." Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan July 31, 1861. Vigilance Hook and Ladder Company have received three finely framed pic tures which cost upwards of $100. One represents a scene in the United States Senate, in 1850, Henry Clay address ing that body. Another "Washington Crossing the Delaware," and the third "Benjamin Franklin at the Court of France in 1776." They are the gift of H. W. Corhett, of this city. Mr. Cor bett was elected City Treasurer some years since during his absence from the city. He afterwards donated the emoluments of his office to the five fire companies In existence. The hook and ladder company requested to have their portion of it exjiended in pictures in adorning their hall. Governor Wallace was received at Olympia on the 18th inst. with a salute of 100 guns. His election as delegate is conceded by all. Mr. Samuel Hunsacker, of Douglat County, left In our office this morning four beautiful specimens of salt manu factured at the salt springs in that county, live miles from Oakland. It is white, pure and manifestly a good article for the table, for the dairy and for preserving meats. It will compare with the salt made at Syracuse, New York. We learn that the water Is abundant and that Messrs. Dillard & Sons make at their establishment 600 pounds and Messrs. Ward & Moore, at theirs 400 pounds every 24 hours. It sells readily for' J3 and $3.50 jer 100 pounds. The Umpqua country will be independent of the balance of the world for salt. TVow Whose Business Is Itf New York Herald. Beoause they refused to tell their ages, 25 teachers In the public schools of Paterson, N. J will go on their Summer vacations without their sala ries for the last month they worked. On their return they will unite in an appeal to the courts. The city super intendent, Mr. Wilson, a few weeks ago prepared a list of questions which would furnish the department with a history of every teacher. Among the questions was, "When were you born?" The younger teachers had no hesitancy about answering, but many of the older teachers returned the blanks without answer to the question as to age and were told they must reply or go with out their salary. Several of the teach ers answered under duress. The 25 who still refuse declare that the ques tion Is Impertinent and unwarranted. Montana. WOODBURN, Or.,- July 30. (To the Editor.) In what state did General Custer make his last stand against the Indians? A SUBSCRIBES-