THE MEDFORD DAILY TRTRTTMI? meutord, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, HAY 19. 1909.
TEACHING FORESTRY
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Introduced In Eastern Schools and Is
NATIONAL BANKS MAY
HALF MILE THROUGH
SEWER TO BREAK JAIL
Chapped Decided Even That Outlet
Preferable to Spending Sum
mer Behind the Bars.
INSURE THEIR ASSETS
BUT THREE POINTS
ARE TO BE CONSID
ERED IN BUYING
LUMBER
Size of the Stock
Grade of Lumber
PRICE
ON THESE THREE
POINTS WE CLAIM
SUPERIORITY
Our source of supply
is from one of the biggest
concerns operating in
one of the finest tracts
of timber on the Pacific
Coast today.
The grades we hold up
to the standard and our
aim is give, not some
thing "just as good" but
something a little better.
The PRICE is always
in keeping with the low
est market quotations.
All these facts are get
ting us the business.
Big Pines
Lumber
Comp'ny
Meeting With Great
Success.
Forestry is attracting wide atten
tion nmong the schools of tho United
States, Not only have many colleges
and universities introduced courses
and even professional schools of for
estry, but elementary phases of the
subject have been introduced into
hundreds of the graded and high
schools, and teachers Rive enthusi
astic reports of the success which is
nttending the new study. Public
school teachers say that they have
found in it n subject interesting to
children, and one which furnishes
much attractive, tangible material to
work upon, developing the child's ob
servation and being at once accepta
ble to tho young mind, and most prac
tical. The public schools of Washington,
I). C, and of parts of Town arc in
the vanguard of this movement. Ev
ery graded school in Washington and
a large numbor of tho rural schools
of Pottawattamie county, Iowa, are
now teaching tho elements of for
estry. In Town the subject ir being tnught
as a commercial course in connection
with home geoirrnphy and agriculture,
while in the Washington schools it is
used in the nature study courses. The
four upper grades of tho Washing
ton schools are studying tho for
est and this yenr all are following
practically the same outline: noxt
yenr this outline will be confined to
the fifth grade, while the other grade
will follow an outline ono step ad
vanced, and so on until by the fourth
yenr . a four-yenr course will bnve
been introduced. As a preparation
for this work, forestry has been
taught in the normal school of tho
District of Columbia for several years
past, and when the young student
teachers tnko up the actual work of
fondling they are already familiar
with the details of elementary forest
study. Prominent among the other
normal schools of the country to take
up work of this kind are those of
Cleveland, O. ; Rochester, y. Y., and
.Toliet. Til.
WALKS 130 MILES
TO SEE A CIRCUS
pi'.nnixn. suy in. who would
think of wnlkinir 130 miles to see n
j circus? Frnnk Koble of Junction
City, Trinity county, did it. Tt is 05
miles from Junction City to Tlodding.
life left the Trinity county town nt 5
'o'clock Thursday mornintr, walked
'every font of the way. nnd renelied
this city nt 0 o'clock Friday evening,
. in ample time to see the circus Sat
urday. Tie left for home this morn-
' ''', expecting to walk nil the way.
'Tn the round trip he will cover 1H0
miles. "Mr. Xolilo decided early Inst
week that he wnnled to see the cir
cus. Not having any private con
veyance and not caring to pay stage
. fare, he decided to make the journey
.on foot.
Attorney General Wickersham Can
See No Legal Reason Why,
They Should Not.
WASHINGTON, May 19. Attor
ney Ooneral Wickerslmm toduy de
cided that a national bank has a le
gal right to insure its assets against
loss. The opinion was rendered in
response to a requost from tho sec
retary of the treasury, who sent to
the attorney general a form of policy
tot bo issued by "an insurance com
pany proposed to be organized." The
attorney general approved the plan of
insurance, but suggested some
changes in tho form of policy.
The demooratio platform a year
ago recommonded n tax on national
banks, nnd on such state banks as
wishod'to come in, to ruise a guar
anty fund to insure tho depositors of
the banks. Mr. Taft opposed this
plan in his campaign speeches, nnd
when Oklahoma as n stnto put tho
plan into oporation the then attor
ney general decided that it could not
ho npplied to national banks.
Mr. Taft opposed it as a proposi
tion to "tux tho honest und prudent
banker to make up for the di.-honcsty
and imprudence of other," that "the
chief nnd, in tho end, probably tho
only benefit would accrue to tho
speculator who would be delighted to
enter the banking business when it
was certain that ho could enjoy any
profit that would accrue, while tho
risk would have to l.o assumed by his
honest and herd- irking fellow."
Tho form of irsu 'ance p'eposod
now is voluntnrv, hut it is remnrkod
that insi'iance by one bank will foroo
all others in its territory to insure,
making it in tho cud pinctica'iy com
pulsory, i
THUNDERBOLT PLAYS
PRANKS WITH COTTAGE
S1SSON. MllV 11 A Inrrlfio
IlillC Storm struck Kisnn linfti'.imi 0
and 10 o'clock this morning which,
though snort ol duration, was ono of
the severest electrical storms over
known hero.
Tho lightning struck the house of
Fred Morloy, on Pino stint, and did
considerable dainnge, wreaking a
nartitioii. dcstroviiin- tlm iiitnriu
hanging on the wall and setting fire
in i no House. .Mr. nud Mrs. Morlcy
were within ton feel of 'where it
truck and if llicv h ad not linen
prompt ill nutting out the flnmnu Hie
building would have been destroyed.
i leiures am! cardhoard in flumes
were crumpled and torn bv Ihe
thunderbolt and yet were not even
scorched. The ilainngo was nut so
much' from fire as it was from Ihe
force of the lightning.
T.r,KTON, N .1., May 19. -1 horn
us Chnppell, a iirii"!-?r, escaped to
day frm tho Mirrer county work
house . ,v cr.ittli.i,' hall a i u!i through
u t-vtrr pipe. Tlio workho: ?c sewer
is tot Much lurtei' in mumitci thau
i man's body and it is in constant
use. ''he won! r is thai the fugitive
as not suffooito.1 dmwi ed be
torc 1:3 reachod the oi.llc'., in an open
field i emote fr.ua the walis of the
u i 'l Mil
Thou was no other wav b whioh
he fji"d have esu.ijicd, so as soon aa
hi absence was rj .orted guiu..f- were
ent ! ihe end c! tho inr l(,t they
" too lute. Scnteli'ng parties
cie then sent out to scour the woods
surrounding tho open field, for it is
taken lor granted that Chnppell will
not try to travel far until he has
had an opportunity to ohange his
clothing.
lie had but a J'ow months to sorve
on ir soutonco for potit larceny, but
he had told Ins fellow-prisoners that
he would never stay in jail through
warm woathor. His assooiatos pre
fer the workhouso in the middle ol!
August to that sower on a crisp win
ter day.
Chappcll's crime consisted of
snatching a five-dollar bill away from
.Samuel Keinngrau, a saloon keoper.
SOIL SURVEYS TO BE ,
MADE IN COOS COUNTY
WASHINGTON, May 10. On the
urgent recommendation of Represen
tative Uuwloy, tho secretary of ag
riculture has ordered that soil sur
veys be made in Coos oounty, Orogon,
during the present summer. Soil spe
cialists will bo sent to Coos county
in about a month, und after arrival
will select tho locality in which thoir
work will bo done. Their report will
be of vnhio hugely in helping fann
ers to determine tho best crops to
raise, anil tho best method of culti-
vnlion to obtain the host results.
50 SPECIMENS SENT
FROM ROOSEVELT CAMP
NAlliOltl, Fust Africa, May 10.
Kilmiiud Heller, ono of the zoologists
of the llooscvelt expedition, came into
Nun-obi this morning with some 50
peciiiicns of uniinal and bird life,
thai arc to be cured and preserved
here. They include ono rhinoceros,
six lions, two giraffes, 20 smallor
kinds of game ami a variety of birds.
yUrs. Tfretu Ifamptoit Isaacs
instructor of "Piano. HLut 51111)06
SluJIo at M..16.nc. !otlb Ocanj. Slrt
BREAD MAY BECOME
LUXURY TO THE POOR
CHICAGO, May 10. All kinds of
bread promise to become a luxury in
some sections of Chicago because of
the action taken by bakers. The
poorer classes are hit by tho advnnee
in prices which went into effect in
j 200 bakeries yesterday. On the other
Hand, the larger retail bakers have
I iiiKeu no action ana say mey will not
make advances until compelled to, 1
l,,l nvnraaa a Cn. flint ....Inca . ......
I ..... . .v.., ,mi. iiiiicnn ,i i.:e
oi wneat and Hour go lower that in
creases will be inevitable. The bak
ery products advanced are pies,
cakes and pastry, which are increas-1
ed 20 per cent, and cup cakes, buns,
rolls, doughnuts nnd cookies, which
sell at 12 cents a dozen, instead of
10.
A German law forbids the habita
tion of any house within six months
after it has been completed, because
the dnmp walls nro unhealthy .
Michigan haB had bnt one govern
or who was born in the state.
New 1909 Model
Electric Irons
Now $5.00
Why not iron in comfort this luinmart
Tbe Electric Iron heats in throe minutoa no wait
ing, no changing irons.
We wt!l stud yoi aa Iroi FREE on tea days' trial
Write, telephone or call at oiir office, 206 West
Berenth street, opposite the Big Electric (Sign.
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Successors to Condor Water I Power Co.