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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGON I AN, TUESDAY", APRIL 23. I90S. (Drcjrimtan invariably ix AirrAKtac (B Wall rl;T. '!,, T tncjtirted. or.. Tear rnw!y. Siindev IncltMled. it month, ., r,ry. rnipoay tncliiovd. thee, month. Pally, Sunn,- Included, on, mnth Iaily. vlihcut Pundit.'or year f,iy, without Surd,i. f,tlr. wtthotil Sneds. !rw month, iMilir. without Fundsy, on, month... Puntlmr, an, e,r . .. . . .. - Weekly, on, e,r l,ued Thursday!., unday na weekly, on, year.. by ARiur.it. nIT a..-,-- In!nri4 on re,, .. I, on . . 2 5S . ' . 5 . 1 IS . " . s v . 1 1 . 50 t '' P;rn,- 1 i c ' -ided . on, month . TS HOW TO REMIT -Send .Blrt m.? milrr expre", older or per"nl " your lor.-, hank e'sinp,. coin or "" ir. t th, Mndr rl.k Olve poMoffW, d nn rn foil. Including county and ,lat rfTio RATKS. Fet-red at rorllnl. Oregon. Poofrte, a. Second Mstter. in i 14 res . 1 ";. SO t, 44 r,, 3 cent, 4 r,nt. 4 1 o AO r,' For-irn pot,ge. dousl, rate, IMI'ORTAT-The !""' '" " .,7tS. 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H Johnson, Fourteenth nil Franklin treet: N. Whealley; Oakland N, , tit a nd : H B. Amofc manaxer 6v wuR'Mis. IVe'.llnRham. K. t!. t.oldfleld, Nev. Lrfiuie FolHn. r.ureka. t ai. Call-Chronicle Aency; Eu reka New, Co. , rOKTLAJin. Tl'ESDAY, ArRIL XS, 180. THE COXIKREXCE OF GOVERNORS. The conference which will convene at the White House in Washington on May IS will be one of the most im portant meetings of public men that America haa ever seen. Those who are to participate may fairly be called the leaders In our civic life. The Pres ident and the Governors of the sev eral states probably stand nearer to the people and enjoy more of their confidence than either the legislative bodies or the Judiciary. We have learned by sad experience how little Congress and tho State Legislatures will accomplish for the general weal hen left to their own devices. It la only when they are spurred on to their duty by energetic and courageous ex ecutives that they really fulfill the purpose they were created for. In general way the public has come In recent years to believe that it Is better represented by the executives whom it elects than by any other officials. Strang, dominating Governors are popular wherever they appear. Mr. rtoosevelt, the most imperious Prcsl dent we have had since Jackson, is even more popular than he was. The conference, then, will be com posed of a body of men whom the people trust in a peculiar sense. Its purpose Involves the future welfare of the country, perhaps Its future exist ence. What we should do or become if we were bereft of our natural-re sources one does not like to try to imagine. We are in the habit of boast ing that the United States Is the great est country in the world, and in the next breath we always add that its pre-eminent greatness Is due to Its un paralleled natural resources. It haa long been the fashion to speak of these resources as "inexhaustible.' Persons whose school days ran back ten years or so will recall the magnifi cent phrases of their old geography books. The pine forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the turpentine of the I'arollnas, the coal of Pennsylvania the hard wood of the Mississippi Val ley and the Appalachian Range, to gether with a score of other treasures, were all Inexhaustible." fc..perience nag made us wiser. Wisconsin and Minnesota have no more pine. Some is left on the Pa cini: Coast, but not much compared with the growing demands of the world. Hardwood lumber, which used in the good old times to be lav ishly used In every house, is now luxury for the rich. Coal ajid all other kinds of fuel rise steadily In price, Experts tell us we shall never see the day of cheap lumber or fuel again They go on to warn us that in about thirty years at the latest, unless the demand falls off, all our merchantable timber will have been exhausted. How long the coal of the country will last Is not quite so certain, but the limit is by no means remote. Nor Is the sup ply of Iron likely to hold out much longer than the coal. The truth is that we are on the verge of a famine, when we shall all be crying for th natural resources which the Lord gav us so abundantly, and we shall cry In 'ain. Esau will whine for the her! lage which he squandered, but his whines wlI not bring it back. Mill more disquieting is it to re member that the destruction of the forest Involves two indirect evils each ruinous to the country. The first Is the loss of the fertility of the land The fertile part of the earth lies at Its surface. When a country is well for ested rain Is husbanded in the spongy leaf soil and refreshes the earth with out denuding it. But when the trees are gone then there Is nothing to safe. guard the call and it soon follows as It has in Italy. Palestine. Spain and other parts of the world where peopl' have treated their land Just as we are treating ours. The second evil is the tieDosit of the- soil la- rlvor cUannelaJLtates. " The record-breaking ship which r thua convened from nmt- Itahl atrram, ipto arrlea pf rrldle and hal'nurn. In Winter thev nr torrvnta. Summer they are ahnllow pool. connected hy weak rtmlcta. More over, mhen the) forenta r. our whole atem of Irrigation will t with them. ince! Irrliratlon dpentla abeoiuteiy port atorea of water which are re- ained by firet throuah the heats of ummer. All these matter, will be taken up vtematlt-al!y by the conference at Waahlnirton and the foundations of a policy of conservation of natural re source will be laid. When one thinks f It, It la amaiinir that this ha not been done before. But sometimes the moeit obviously necessary tnmfrs ! hose hlch have to wait longest. It s the everlasting glory of Mr. Koose- elt that he ha perceived the over whelming Importance of treasuring our natural resources and has taken he difficult Initial stops to accomplish Very likely nobody less popular han he could have wakened the Na- lon from its hypnotic sleep of false security and compelled It to take an merest In this mtst vital subject. Mr. Roosevelt Is almost the first of our ubllc men to realiae that the United States Is not merely a land of adven ture to be exploited, but a home where people must live as long as the world lasts. He has turned his gaxe away from the absorbing present and fixed It upon the endless future. He has taken thought for the generations un born. He has seen & vision of the eternal march of the human army and boldly proclaims that It ought not and must not march through a stripped nd barren desert. The earth docs not all belong to the present. Poster ity haa Its rights, and this great con ference of our most rusted leaders will take measures to protect tnem. Ut.HT FROM BISHOP UTAIOrXti. The Orcgonian is truly thankful to Bishop Scadding for the light which he throws upon the matters in con troversy between us In his letter printed today, but it were to be wished hat the Illumination had been less mingled with the smoke of ecclesias tical logic. As to the "establishment," for example: The bishop thinks It is misunderstanding to believe that the "hurch of England was established by Henry V11I. Of course It is a mls- nderstandlng. It was established by Elizabeth. But it is a much more serious misunderstanding to believe, as he bishop does, that the Church of England is identical with the Roman 'atholic Church, which it displaced. It is not the same cither in ritual. reed or government. The Church, of England is protestant unless the stat utes of Elizabeth misstate the facts, while the Church of Rome is Catholic. Moreover, we do not mean that the property titles of the Protestant Epis copal Church were "guaranteed" by le acts of Elizabeth, as Bishop Scud ding suggests: what we mean is that they were created. The old church was utterly abolished and a new one took its plaoe. For a long time the profession of the old faith was penal ized in England. Catholics were for bidden to vote, to hold office, to gradu ate at the universities. The property which had belonged to the Church of Rome was confiscated and turned over, largely, to the Church of Eng- and, though some of it was given to laymen. The property rights of the Anglican Church date from this confis cation. Those who believe that the Protestant Church of England had no existence before the time of Henry VIII are unquestionably right. Before his time there was a Catholic Church o which England belonged, or whose faith England professed, but It was not the same church as that which Is now established by law In England. We cannot agree with Bishop Scad- ding that '"established" means simply placed under the law of the land." It means a great deal more than that. For many years the rites of the Epis copalian Church were the only ones which were permitted by law in Great Britain. Dissenters were persecuted, often with great, cruelty. We may mention the Scotch Covenanters and the English Quakers, for example. We may also recall the fact that at one time several hundred clergymen were deprived of their livings In -England because they declined to follow the es tablished ritual. Nor can we agree that tho "hostility" between England and Rome "has been a fruitful cause of sin, indifference and intrdelity." Th'at hostility has done more than anything else to redeem England from sin, to inspire it with true religious zeal, and to remove the causes of in fidelity. But. most valuable of all, the irebellion of the English people against the Church of Rome estab lished the bulwarks of civil liberty in Europe and America. It is a wonder ful thing that Bishop Scadding should select one of the most signally benefi cent events in all history for his espe cial lamentation. Finally, the "present education con troversy" is not irrelevant to this dis cussion. It presents a glaring in stance of the seizure by ecclesiastics of revenues which they have not the ability or inclination to put to useful employment. We commend the bishop for shunning it, but not because it ought to be shunned. AN ERRATIC WHEAT MAftKET. A heavy decline in the European wheat market yesterday, followed by a dragging, listless market in Chicago, again demonstrated the small consid eration that Is this year given the sta tistical position of the cereal. The slight decline in Chicago yesterday was registered in the face of the most bullish .weekly statistics that have ap peared this year. There was a shrink age of more than 4,000,000 bushels in quantities on passage. World's ship ments were about 400,000 bushels smaller than last week and 4,500,000 bushels smaller than for the corre sponding week a year ago, and the American visible showed a decrease of about 900,000 bushels compared with an increase of a similar amount a year ago. The visible, now stands at 3 5. 865,000 bushels, a decrease of more than 17,000,000 bushels as compared with the corresponding date last year, and with two exceptions is the small est that has been shown for ten years. But the buyers who became hysteri cal a few day earlier when a long- expected and much-discounted falling off was recorded In Argentine ship ments, failed to see anything in yes terday's figures to warrant higher prices, and the European market suf fered a sensational decline. Perhaps the most perplexing feature of the wheat situation throughout the season has been the uninterrupted flow of heavy shipments from the United men? with which the Argentine ha been deluging the European markets were expected, a It was well known throughout the world that the crop In the southern country was the largest that had ever been harvested. In this country, however, both the Government statistic and those of private firms showed a crop which was ISO. 000. 000 bushels smaller than that of the preceding year. But from that small crop and the supplies which were carried over from the preceding season there has been shipped a larger amount than was ever shipped in a similar period from any preceding crop. These continued heavy Ameri can shipment have undoubtedly Im pressed the foreigners that the Amer ican crop was much underestimated last year, and now. with another American harvest but a few weeks dis tant, and with weekly shipment aver aging nearly 1.000,000 bushels more than for the same period last year, when there was a big crop to draw on, we may well expect some stubborn resistance to any advances which may be attempted. And yet It will be a very unsafe proceeding for Europe to rely too muchvon early shipments from the 1908 American crop, for If anything serious should happen between now and harvest, there would be no other country in the wide world to which Europe could turn for supplies of any consequence until next Winter, when the Argentine again becomes a free shipper. FOR BETTER FARMTNO. The special farming demonstration trains which the O. R. & N. Co. has planned to run through the wheat belt of Oregon and Washington next month will undoubtedly meet with tho same cordial welcome which the farmers extended to the first of these trains a few weeks earlier. The business of farming is in certain features similar to other enterprises. In practically all lines of industrial endeavor will be found the same earnest desire to se cure the maximum returns from the minimum investment of capital or la bor. And in farming as in other work, the Individual or corporation that can demonstrate how the present methods for attaining certain results can be Improved upon is sure of a hearty re ception. The two most important subjects which are mentioned in the pro gramme issued by General Freight Agent R. B. Miller, under whose di rections the trains will be operated. are "Summer Fallow" and "Conserva tion of Moisture." It has been dem onstrated beyond a possibility of doubt that not only can the loss through having half of the wheat acreage In Summer fallow be saved, but there are certain crops which can alternate with wheat with positive advantage to the soil. We all know what dlversl fled farming has done for the Wlllam ette Valley, and incidentally it might be mentioned that Mr. Miller, as suc cessor of C. H. Markham, of the Southern Pacific, is entitled to much credit for some of the transformation that was wrought in the Valley meth ods of farming. The Willamette Val ley farmers demonstrated that the Idle Summer fallow acreage could be cropped to such good advantage that in a short time the alternating crop was producing more money than was obtained from wheat. Now there is very little wheat grown In the Vallej', and diversified farming not only keeps the land busy all the time, but the re turns are many fold greater than from wheat. By replacing the Summer fallow system with one which will admit of constant use of the land for crops which will replace the qualities of soil that are now extracted by wheatgrow ing, or even while lying idle in Sum mer fallow, the productive area of country in the great Columbia Basin will be nearly doubled. What this means from a traffic and general busi ness standpoint can be understood when we Tecall the enormous amount of agricultural products that are now produced in that great region. The conservation of moisture is also a subject of great concern to the wheatgrowers. Total crop failures are unknown in the Pacific Northwest and for the past ten years We have been remarkably free from even poor crop years. Not all of this Improve ment in conditions is traceable to more favorable climatic conditions, but much of it is the result of better farming. Some of the experts who will accompany the demonstration train have been engaged for many years in scientific experiments which have enabled them to impart to agri culturlsts Information which has been of the highest value in improving the system of farming In semi-arid lands The operation of these trains will enable thousands of farmers to secure, free of cost, some very valuable hints on the industry which means so much to them as well as to all other people in the Pacific Northwest, for it is un necessary to state that anything which in the slightest degree assists the farming community becomes at once to the advantage of all "other lines of industry. The demonstration train will fill a "long-felt want," and should be kept in service until idle Summer fal ow lands are a thing of the past and l better system of farming prevails throughout the great Northwest. BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAFT. After an investigation of the subject of the watersheds of the White and Southern Appalachian Mountains, the Secretary of Agriculture has recom mended that the Government purchase lands .In each range of mountains for the creation of forest reserves. The purpose is to renew the forest growth under a system of protection with view of retaining moisture, preventing floods and maintaining timber supply. The lands which the Secretary would have the (Jovernment purchase have already been denuded of their timber growth and are practically worthless to the owners. It is recommended that the Government pay $6 an acre for 600,000 acres in the White Moun tains, or $3,600,000 for the tract, an9 $3,50 an acre for 5,000,000 acres in the Southern Appalachians, or $17.' 500,000 for that tract. While the correctness of the forest reserve theory cannot be questioned, one cannot reflect upon the monstrous grafts accomplished in the name of forest reserves in Oregon without feel ing certain that Government appropri ations for the purchase of deforested lands in Atlantic States would be the beginning of a system of graft that would eclipse the lieu land and scrip operations ao well known in the West. The Secretary of Agriculture thinks the Government would not be com - JJ pelled la pay mora for the 4and than would an individual. The Secretary must be a farmer with le experience the ways of the world than most farmers In this country have. He cer- ainly has a good opinion of the public plrit of the lumbermen and rancher ho own th stump lands of New Hampshire and the South Atlantic States. He also has confidence that ember of Congress would not pass an appropriation bill with a Joker In it. s they did when the law were passed hlch enabled railroad companies to gobble up the best timber lands of Oregon under the guise of fair ex- nange. The plan evidently Is to set a maxi mum price and pay no more. Under uch a plan a few landholders would sell to the Government and others would hold, believing that eventually there would be a demand for their ands. After having bought a few thousand acres located In the form of checkerboard, some subsequent Sec retary of Agriculture would report that a forest reserve of that sort can- ot be a auccess because of the prl- ate holdings Included within the iim- Us Then It would be up to the Gov ernment to make larger appropria tions, raise the maximum limit and perhaps extend the area of the re serve. The undertaking Is a hazard ous one, even though the need for conservation of timber resources be ac knowledged. The emotional French, having noth- ng else In particular to claw eacn other about, are Just now engaged in fierce war of words over the pro posed interment In the Pantheon of Zola. As It was the dead novelist who anked quite a number of skeletons out of the French closets when he set In motion the investigation that finally righted the wrong which France had nfllcted on Dreyfus, there Is naturally some resentment on the part of the custodians of the afore-mentioned keletons. Madame Zola, apparently knowing that the honor would rest more with the Pantheon and some of its deceased tenants than with her late husband, objects' to the controversy that has been raised and would like to retain possession of her husband's body, but as this would be regarded as a victory for the anti-Dreyfus party, it will probably be permitted to honor the Pantheon with its presence. It Is, of course, only a coincidence hat the news of another big strike in the Alaska gold fields should be re ported just prior to the opening of the transportation season. Eighteen hun dred dollars to the pan is a story which it would be difficult for the miner with the price of a ticket in his pocket to resist, and if there is any thing like a partial substantiation of the Nolan Creek story, it will undoubt edly attract a great many treasure seekers who would be dissatisfied at the slower but more certain methods for securing wealth in the United States. Alaska has poured Into the world's treasury a vast amount of the yellow metal, but it is questionable whether the net results would show that as much has been taken out of the mines of the far north as was spent by the thousands who have searched for gold and found nothing. It has been ninety-six years since the War of 1812 was fought, hut the new pension act, which became effec tive last week, provides for an in crease of pension for one widow of a soldier who fought in that conflict of the long ago. The Civil War ended not quite half a century ago, but there are on the pension roll the names of 183,696 pensioners who will, under the new act, receive an increase of $4 per month. Nearly 8000 Mexican War pensioners and 3171 widows of partici pants In the Indian wars also receive this increase of $4 per month. By the time the army of pensioners who are now being paid for their services during the Civil War have passed away; the pensioners of the Spanish- American War or their widows will be sufficiently numerous to keep the pen sion roll up to its present great pro portions. The folly of permitting children to handle firearms is again illustrated by the death near Cottage Grove of 12-year-old Roy Clark. The boy had' been out hunting with a companion, and stopped to rest, and when he started to continue his trip, pulled the gun toward him, muzzle first, with the usual result. There are imore than enough of these distressing accidents among hunters of mature age who cannot well be prevented from carry ing firearms, and there should at least be some effort made to keep them away from children until they reach an age where they can exercise some discretion and judgment in handling deadly weapons. Oddfellowshlp has entered the nine tieth year of its existence in the United States. Last Sunday, April 26, was its eighty-ninth birthday. As was seem ly, the day was observed with me morial services in various sections of the country, chiefly in the churches. Friendship, love and truth" is the motto of the order, and its work fol lows closely upon the lines thus desig nated. Mr. Cake received 25,700 votes in the Republican primaries for United States Senator and Mr. Chamberlain received some 5000 votes in the Demo cratic primaries. Tet there are some folks who think the people meant for Mr. Cake to withdraw in favor of Mr. Chamberlain. This is indeed a vexing question. As long; as 'pedestrians take risk of serious or fatal injury by walking rail way trestles instead of keeping to the road that parallels It, accident to life and limb will result. Prudence dic tates the way to safety in this matter as in most others. The Quartermaster-General has fig ured it all out that taking a quarter of a million dollars of trade away from this city will "help Portland." Cer tainly; but we are generous enough to ask him to help Seattle and San Francisco in the same liberal fashion. If Banker Ross should have to pay that $576,000 fine with prison labor at $2 a day, he would learn the worth of the hard-earned dollar to the multi tude of poor people who deposit their savings in banks. Give Mr. Ross all his constitutional rights, of course; but is that all he wants? Old-fashioned Portland rejoices over the recrudescence of the dashboard sign chusk or REtM'SLiCA rrcniiS'i Feara T Seerrtarr Tt ft Cast Carry Mr, lark Stale mr Ohio. Washington in. C. Correapondene of the New York Herald. Th, party In New York iwmi to hv r4ach.nl situation where It cannot help Itself, The raid of the Taft men on the. Hughes column, the attitude of stat, leadVrs In eppoalnx 'he Oovemor. the prospects of this flint becomln much more tntenae. tho attitude of the President in forcin; the nomination of a member of his Cabinet, the business depression, the Iar number of Idle men In New York, all hare combined to put the party in a very serious rjredleament. The well Informed politicians of New York, while they expect to see Taft nomi nated, have very little cortndence In th. Secretary' ability to carry the state. All factions In the state are considerfh whether It wfll not bo absolutely essential for them to nominate President Roosevelt. Another Roosevelt wave is coming, but whether It will be strong enough to sweep the convention off Its feet will depend en tirely on the ability of Secretary Taft managers to hold together Inatructed dele gates to the number of 491. All the state bosses of New York, while fighting Hughes. y that he cannot run any bet tor than Secretary Taft. and the strife in the party Is expected to make th public say: "A plague on both your houses." This situation In New York la still being duplicated In Ohio. The flsht Is going on there within the party, and the betting 1 heavy that the Republicans will lose their state ticket and also the electoral vote. Secretary Taft ha had some sucoesse and some reverse during the week. Min nesota went into the Taft band wagon and Instructed the delegates to use all honorable means to bring about Taft's nomination. The movement of the negro voter against Taft has expanded all over the country. The Republicans of the Sixth Congressional, District of South Carolina are antl-Taft. Instructions for Secretary Taft were voted down in the Third and Fifth Congressional conventions of Massa chusetts. On the other hand. Secretary Taft was a victor In the Sixteenth Mis souri. Frank H. Hitchcock, the Secretary's campaign manager, seems to be holding his forces well in hand all through the western country. It wai Mr. Hitchcock's early plan to capture all the West, and he has succeeded, except In the cases of Utah and Nevada. These two states are expected to be for Taft, and thus Mr. Hitchcock" prediction will be made good of having every delegate for the Secre tary of War west of the Mississippi River, The "allies,1' however, are still fighting desperately. Some of them are fighting among themselves, and the anti-Taft campaign seems to lack cohesiveness, but it does not oeem to lack funds. But the money that the Taft managers are spend ing has now reached the enormous total of several hundred thousand dollars. No such expenditures have ever been known In a pre-conventton campaign. When all the facts come out, a it Is believed they must, they will shock the country, it 1 predicted here. THE ROSS VERDICT. ProteeCloai to K,efrl4lnuite Banking-. Eugene Register. Prompt conviction of J. Thorburn Ross of the defunct Title, Guarantee & Trust Company, for appropriating state school funds to his own use, is a warning to all banks, that would speculate, that the practice is not tolerated in Oregon. To convict such manipulators Is a protec tion to legitimate banking In Oregon. Good Lesson and Sound Precedent. Albany Democrat. Mr. Ross thought he couldn't get Justice down in Portland, so he had the ase transferred to Salem, where he got plenty of justice before Judge Burnett, with a vengeance, and people generally will indorse the action of the jury, believing it was justified by the evidence and badly needed every-where as a precedent. It is time that bankers were made to under stand that the trust they have is a serious one and that they must behave themselves. Mr. Ross will appeal. He would do better to begin serving his sentence at once. No Other Outcome Possible. Pendleton Tribune. It seemed no verdict except guilty was possible under the circumstances. The conviction of a man so prominent in business and church circles is attended by a feeling of sorrow, not that he should be shielded from the demands of justice any more than the humblest citizen of the state, but the betrayal of a public trust by such men is calculated to destroy the common faith in our supposedly best men. But when such Instances of decep tion and unreliability as that disclosed by the revelations of the Title bank's affairs are discovered the public conscience de mands that short work be made of the participants in the interest of better busi ness morals and public honesty. Make for Sound Morality. Baker City Democrat, It will be a very decided change for the extinguished president of the bank to change his abode from the comforts of a palace to the soft side of a prison bed, but as he has made the bed himself it Is but just that he should lie on it. There is an atmosphere in this Nation for a con dition of better things, from the lowest rank to the highest stations in the Na tion. The air is full of cleaner things. The people are demanding cleaner politics, the commercial life is demanding cleaner business, the social conditions of the country are demanding cleaner home life. The verdict in the Ross case Is not very reassuring for the balance of the officers who are yet to be tried. No Room Here for Crooked Banks. East Oresonian. There is every evidence that Ross pur posely squandered his depositors- money. There is every evidence that he con ducted a speculative, plunging, "bucket shop" on the capital entrusted to him by the public and his conviction will be a lesson to others who may be similarly inclined. There is room for hundreds of substantial banks In Oregon. There Is room for thousands of investors and room for hundreds of legitimate enterprises, but there is not room for one banking "bucket shop." The quicker Oregon and the West gets on to a substantial banking basis the better for the country. Every failure of a crooked bank only serves to lessen the faith in good banks and the legitimate bankers of the country should repudiate Ross and his ilk. Senator "3etV Davis, Freak Row. Washington (D. C.) Herald. The various species of octopuses will take notice that Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, Is back again In his ac customed place in the United States Senate. It is not known whether his determination to exterminate all of them is still uppermost In his mind, but It will be well for them to keep their weather eye upon him, because he is just as big as ever in avoirdu pois, and his voice as strong, even if be did use it overtime during his re cent campaign in Arkansas. He still has "a chance for a killing, as there are several measures in an embryo state which he can speak on. If permitted. He still has the post of honor in the late "freak row." bis seat marking the southeast corner of the Democratic side. He ha his angelic smile with him, and to the casual observer the big Arkansan doesn't look as if he has been traveling rough and rugged roada since we last saw him. ot Republican Enovch to Hurt. Albany Democrat. A good many people registered as Re rmblicans who are not enough to hurt. iust wanted to get into certain quarter ln the primaries. Initiative and Referendum Measures For th. Information of ,ot,r, ther, will ho puMtahed on th:, par, from day to day brief sum marie, ,f th, laltlatlv, and rfer- ,adum meaawr,, to b, submitted 10 to, pttonle at th, Jun, , lection. toeth,r wui a ,hort ,:at,m,ni of th, argument, for an-i against each. ."SI M nr. hi 1. ntanetri; the time of the general state and county electlona from June to No vember is the purpose of the fourth measure upon which rhe people will vote on June 1. The proposed constitutional amendment was submitted to the people by a resolution of the last legislature. The portion of the constitution affected by the amendment Is section 14 of article 2. which provide, that "Oeneral election ahall be held on the flrt Monday of June, biennially." The proposed amend ment declares that In 1S10, and thereafter, general elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday In November, which is the date of the Na tional election. The amendment also pro vides that all officer except the Gov ernor shall begin their term of office on the first Monday of January after their election. The Governor will begin hi term, a In the past, after hi Inaugura tion, th date of which depend upon the convenience of the Qovernor-elect and th Legislature. The amendment also provide that all law pertaining to nom inations, registrations and other pro ceedings preliminary to elections shall be' enforced the same number of daya prior to the general election a is now provided. This proposed amendment had Its origin in the belief frequently expressed that the state and National election should be held at the same time, thereby saving the trouble and expense of holding two elec tions every fourth year. Since the di rect primary and registration laws were adopted an additional argument has been heard, that the campaign take place at a time of the year when the member of the Oregon delegation are busy at "Washington and cannot return to d'.aouss the Issues xf the day before the people without neglecting their official duties. If the election wa held In November, when oher states hold elections. Sen ators and Congressmen would come home to participate In the political campaign. The argument that has always been used against an amendment such as la now proposed is that National Issues have only a remote, if any, connection with Issues in state politics, and that state elections should be conducted solely with regard to questions of state government and that selection of state and county of ficers should be kept free from the in fluences of party divisions upon the tariff, monetary standards or territorial ex pansion. AS EASTERN OREGON WOOL KISG Tribute 10 the Memory of E. H. Clark, Who Lately Died at Pendleton, Or. LYLE, Wash., April 2. (To the El itor.) About SO years ago, on a well kept horse, there rode into Hcppner a typical New Englander," arranged with tin, taste In the habiliments of an Eng lish huntsman. His high boots, with a glossy shine, were particularly no ticeable to the people about the late Hon. J. L. Morrow's store, the first building erected in town. This man, fresh from the city, was E. H. Clark, a prominent woolbuyer, whose death, after three days' sickness with pneu monia, at Pendleton, occurred last week, Monday. It was E. H. Clark who gave financial assistance in stimulating the growth of the woolgrowing .industry, especially in Morrow County. More than one success ful woolgrower can attribute his advance ment to money advanced on growing wool and the hard sense lectures on better breeds, by the late E. H. Clark, known to many in Morrow County as "Wooly" Clark. The way he won the appellation was through the late Nelson Jones, a sheep man noted for his originality. One day "Nelse," as he was better known, announced in Morrow's store that Clark was in the country. Owing to there be ing many in the country of that name. he was asked what Clark. Mr. Jones, adjusting his hat to the back of his head, and whitlineT away on a stick as ho was wont to do trying to think of the first name, at last uttered: "Oh, Wooly Clark. Just then E. H. Clark popped In the door and heard the utterance. It is needless to say that Mr. Clark paid for cigars for the crowd, and that Jones and he grew to be very close friends. Of the thousands of dollars advanced yearly in years past in Morrow County, E. H. Clark was never known to op press anyone, or to lose a dollar. He aided with financial assistance the founda tion of the structure of woolgrowing In Eastern Oregon. He was abreast with the times, possessed an educated and bright mind. He was a loyal friend and an honest gentleman. J. G. MADDOCK. Danger to an English Ducking; Stool. Westminster Gazette. The pretty Kentish village of Ford wych. near Canterbury, is in danger of losing its ducking stool, for which a large price has been offered by a trans-Atlantic millionaire. This is one of the very few remaining examples left in England of the Instrument formerly designed for the reformation of scolding or otherwise unsatisfac tory wives. This distinction, of course. It shared with the now simi larly rare scold's bridle. It is said, by the way, that the ducking stool at Fordwych was even used in the pun ishment of so-called witches, after the barbarous fashion of those times. Volunteer Road Work for Farmers.. MARSHFIELD, Or., April U.(To the Editor.) Noticing a recent news report in Tfle Oregonian from Weston, that the farmers of that locality had volunteered road work,' and having been a reader of The Oregonian a good part of my lifetime, I wish to say that I think the idea a good one. In my 25 years of farming in the Willamette Valley, I usually found some time for volunteer road work and always considered it a good investment. From my observation and experience, there is hardly a farmer in the Willam ette Valley but could spare from one to a dozen days' extra work on the roads every year. This would go a long way toward solving our road problem. J. W. WATT. A Dot and a Man. London Sunday School Times. He was a doit. But he stayed at home And guarded the family night ahd day. He was a dog That didn't roam. Ha lay on tho porch or chased the stray The tramp, the burglar, the aen, away. For a dog's true heart for that house hold beat At morning and . evening. In cold and heat. He waa a dog. He was a man And didn't stay To cherish hi, wife and children fair. Ha waa a man. And every day Hi, heart grew calloaa. Its love-beat, rare, fle thought of himaelf at tho close of th day. And cigar in hie finger,, hurried away To the club, the lodge, the store, th, Bhow, But h had a right to go, you know. Ho waa a roan. BOOIvS 1 PKOPLF. who are t.wl jU'lcr of Kr.s IIh literature wouM p.i.it ! ...fc lncredulo',1, were one 10 te:i thrn that the name of the one poet in Kn; land whose poetry t now m.vt unsvt'u". ly read by the masses Is one H V. H.i--elay, gipsy. Put it i . rxir-t; lost 1 months Barclay h., .i ocr 75. tW copies of his hoiks. . or Chancer, ala.y Milton and Tennyson: It should be explained, however, t- ,-,.t Barclay's booklet., limited at !r - ow e expense, are bound In p:tiier-lwck cov--.3 and coat 3 cent each, and that lox ad venture and the merry httte rmv'1ie.-- .f rural life form the auhjects from wM, t he drinks poetic Inspiration, in IN- i.i-i two years, he has eomplcte'y tr.te'-l around Rntltnd. betn rtrnien tu -caravan by an old horse. re.l"H i:ic in '.. name of Jush. Bsrelnv', Invert- r. --d'-xvon, la at a country f .1 it-. w:ire h atanil, on the stejis of his carav.tn s-- U.ii; hls book, by ,he-r force tf wit. nanie--and oratory.- He cares nothing of v.;i; the critics of him. and Is meVpenui t of publisher,. "I'm tha poet of the people, in th- surest aense.'" Barclay recently -!. have the genuine gilt of lmprftvsH!vi j can adveritae my book, with veryH'-.. factory results, by attending a eo.im;-.-fir and offering to write with ett ch irk some verse for any girl in tho crow. I who will acknowledge that she Ik in love. Very soon, little slips of paper ure i-,an I- -1 to me, reading 'His name is 1,1,11. mvl his eyes are blue." 'HI, name is .I n k jrii hi hair 1 black.' Then I compose vr,.- about Tom and Jack, and hint tin t wen ding bells will ring soon. I rea.l tnl.s to the crowd, and easily sell my hook? ' One of Barclay's best-known bioks s "Strange Talcs of a Tramp '' It seems only the other d.iy. that t'.-.,-papers contained touehintf ailuion, t "Oillrla's" hist diiy., ami that she ,11. suffering for the ordinary comforts of lit.. It bAs Just been discovered that one nC the best of her latter-day stories hap ueen reposing. marked "accepteii," im! . in published, in the pigeon-hole of a pnh lisher's dek In London. It had appitrem ly been forgotten ahout. or tin- liier.iry adviser perhaps reported that Ouiria's iiay waa done. A correspondent write.- t hit r. the manager of a well-known Now Yoik publishing-house recently gave dire, ttont to bring out to lipht all the mnnuaeriptt marked "purchased," reposing amid tho accumulated dust of years lit the varlons rooms of the firm's literary department. Manuscripts representing tho investment of thousands of dollars were unearthed, but strange to say not one was fnuiei suitable for publication in W. The host of prices had evidently been paid for them, and among the author's names was observed that of Bayard Tuylor. In England certain critics are wonder ing whether the mixing tip of tho Druco case with Dickons' "hiiwin Drood" viis after all nothing more nor less than sa, new instance of the adroitness of the American "publicity agent" in iiliiiz'p.i; current news to boom a book. The suc cess of this particular effort, it Is saii, is noticeable in quite a "little boom" In "Edwin Drood" that cannot be ex plained altogether by the fact that tho hold of Dickens In America grows stronger every year. " Lucille Baldwin van Slyke, who 'ate.. y made her debut in magazine fiction, has bad a remarkable experience. She has not been out of college long, is married and lives in Brooklyn, N. T. None of these things is remarkable, but recently she sent out five stories at one time to different magazines and all five were ac cepted. , An inveterate bully of French rvvs paper editors felt that one of the lit Tary fraternity had wounded his feelings by an intimation that he could Just sign his name, and challenged the scribe to a duel. Every word in the challenge was mis spelled, and the editor's reply read: "Dear ?ir You have called me out without any good reason; 1 have there- , fore, the choice of weapons. I choose tho spelling book, and you are a dead inan." The duel was never fought. , Katherlne Evans Blake is one of the latest names to be added to the Ions list of Indiana novelists. She Is a Honsier by birth, though nowadays she lives in Minneapolis, and her stories are thorough ly Hoosler. "Heaifs Haven,"' published a year or two ago, dealt with the celibate community of Rappitejt at Nw Har mony. "The Stuff of a Man." just issued, has its scene laid at "Blufttown," which is recognized as Rockport, Ind.. a beauti ful town on the bluffs of the Ohio River. Rocknort was Mrs. Blake's birthplace. There at the age of 13 she wrote her first novel in pencil,- on the wrong sld of some rolls of wall-paper with illustra tions by the author. Years after, when the old family farmhouse had been sold. Mrs. Blake visited It; in a bedroom aim tore away a little corner of wall-paper and found some pale lines of childLsfo, writing still visible upon it. , The Outing Publishing Company has received so many requests from writers for an extension of the time limit for the receipt of MSS. In its Jiooft first novel competition that it has decided to post pone the closing of the competition until August 1, 1908. , Josephine raskam Bacon, who as Jose phine Dodpre Daskam. made her first liter ary impression with short stories. 'is a na tive of Stamford, Conn., and a Smith Col lege girl of the class of 'SX. Each reminis cence of her youth is bound uo with a par ticularly active sense of humor, and it is a question whether any school or college girl ever had a livelier career something to which the abundant anecdotes told by her classmates are testimony. After the short stories. Miss Daskam published "The Memoirs of a Baby," which excited attention when it first appeared serially in Harpers Bazar. The fact that Mrs. Bacon s habit Is to restrain herseif from being over-prolific, carries the conviction; that a new story from her pen is really ahout something and worth the telling. Four years ago Mis, Daskam was mar ried to Seldon Bacon. Until recently her residence was in New York City, but at present she is living in th country not many miles outside. Mrs. Bacon's friend In describing her say that she talks a. she writes, crisply, sometimes bitingly. and with refreshing originality in word and phrase. Her new tale, "Ten to Seventeen," conveys just this impression of irrepressible humor and fancy. Blumenthal. the great theater man ager of Berlin, was once talking vvith Tolstoy about Ibsen, and In a moment ot sarcasm said: "I have put a good many of his plays on the stage, but 1 can't say that I quite understand them. Do you understand them?" "Ibsen doesn't under stand them himself," Tolstoy volunteered: "He Just writes them, and then sits down and waits. After awhile his exiJtiuder and dramatic critics come and icil him what he meant." , After a year of secrecy, durins which some prettv wild guesses have been mada a to who was the author of "As tht Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian Prisoner', Wife in Japan." it is at last revealed that she is Miss Eliza Rtihumali Scidmore, a resident of Washington, D. C , a prominent member of the National Geographic Society, author of a number of standard books, IncludinK some oil Alaska, "Jinriksha Days In Japan," "Westward to the Far East." "China, tho Long-Lived Empire."' "Winter India." etc. Of course Miss Scidmore was lit Japan during the war, taut her book Is obviously based on fact, and the illustra tions are from actual people.