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'oJotes issued under the Vreeland bill :ld take the place, virtually, or 'ng-house certificates, which are in emergencies by groups of -without authority of law. The ldos that banks, not less than limber, within districts defined Vnay form voluntary assocla V that If the needs for more lire so pressing in the opln- Secretary of the Treasury lulitlonal issue is necessary. forming the association may ourltles, including commer- ln amounts acceptable to Iatlon. The Secretary of the shall then issue to the banks f soclatlon additional currency ceed 75 per cent of the securl fosited. The capital and sur- he banks belonging to the as Psi shall be jointly and severally Jo the Government for any deft In the amount necessary to pay hjulating notes in case they are rdeemed. The amount of such lonal circulation is not to exceed V00.00O. For the purpose of draw tese notes out of circulation as is the need of them is passed Pre to be taxed at the beginning 4 rent, and the tax Increases every lit 1 per cent until the maximum per cent is reached. In addition is a bank must carry a reserve in or lawful money equal to that i required against deposits. The also provides for a commission i h shall consider the whole cur- question and report at the next Ion. fie bill passed the House some days ' by a strong vote, but has been i ted by the Senate, apparently in interest of a group of plutocratic Inelers, who want opportunity, with Fry increase of the currency, to ike money out of it In their own ly. Of these monopolists the Senate f- the stronghold. A committee of (inference is called for, the issue of Cvhose deliberations cannot be foretold. I The Senate conferees expect to compel those of the House to yield, but they may not succeed. The result may be failure of ail currency legislation. A COl'RSK IN COOKERY. The domestic science course recently added to the high school curriculum In -this city has already become, though barely inaugurated, exceed ingly popular. It is evident that there is a genuine desire among girls of high school age to become "good cooks," the objective point in view be ing ability, first, to help mothers, next to prepare dainty and wholesome food for father, and finally, to provide palatable and attractive meals in their own homes as a condition insuring domestic happiness. This seems to have been proven by the earnestness of the appeals made for instruction in the culinary course, and the replies that have been received to the stereo typed question: "Why do you wish to enter this course?" Let girls who give such reasons as these learn the art of good cookery, by all means. The pity of it is that their educa tion in this art has not been going on In their mothers' kitchens and under mothers' direction for years past. Since It has not, however, as attested by the applicants themselves, who are required to state whether they have done any cooking at home. It cannot begin too soon. If kept free from fads, if plain, practical methods are pursued and the object of preparing good, wholesome food without the waste that follows experiment, is maintained, the domestic science course cannot fail to become popular In the homes that furnish pupils to the high school, as well as a factor of no mean import ance in the health and happiness of the homes over which girls now in the high- school will in a few years preside. "Mothers should teach their girls to cook," say we of the old-fashioned brigade. Granted. But If. owing to conditions incident to the transition era In which we live. It is not practicable to do this, then by all means let the schools take a hand In the matter, to the end that the next generation be not born in apartment houses and brought up on restaurant slops. bakers' pies and street-corner confec tionery, and the preparation of good. palatable, digestible, home-cooked food become a lost art. THE FREAKISH RECALL. So short are the terms of most offi cials In our state that there Is no need of the freakish Initiative petition known as "the recall." In most cases the term of the offi cial would expire before "the recall" could be made effective. Besides, the recall would be an instrument In the hands of personal and political ene mies to trouble and annoy objects of their dislike. Applied to Justices of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, it would tend to weaken the respect entertained for them by the people, and ' would fan party spirit to an extraordinary degree over officials who should at all times be as exempt as possible from it It is vicious, moreover, because It proposes another ' unnecessary and positively mischievous change 'of the constitution of the state. In the official pamphlet containing a list of the "petitions" and "measures' no argument is submitted with this proposition; presumably because even Its author had not the hardihood to attempt it. Scrutinize every proposition to amend the constitution. It will then appear how very few of them should meet with approval. Most of them are of revolutionary character; and the only chance of their adoption is the inattention of the electors. MALICIOUS MISREPRESENTATION. The Oakland Tribune, through Ig norance or malice, has been making extravagant and unjust statements about tbe Columbia River bar. The Tribune terms, the objections made to the discrimination of Secretary Met- calf as "childish and unjust," and, with nonchalant disregard for the facts, asserts that "one of the most dangerous bar harbor entrances in the United States is over the Columbia bar." The depth, asserts the Oakland paper, "Is a scant twenty-three feet. and the mouth of the great river is proverbially a rough bit of water, as many a wreck attests." The depth of water on the Columbia River bar, on an average high tide, is thirty-three feet. There is sufficient depth at less than half tide to admit of the passage of any ship in the Pacific battleship fleet, and deeper draft vessels than most of the craft in this fleet come and go at all hours without regard to the stage of tide. It ill becomes a newspaper printed near the Golden Gate to make any al luslon to "wrecks" near the Columbia River. Not only is the number of wrecks at the Golden Gate much greater than those charged up against the Columbia River, but the loss of Ufa on single disasters to vessels entering or leaving San Francisco has been greater than the aggregate on all of the vessels that have been wrecked near the Columbia bar in the past fifty years. No such wrecks as the City of Rio de Janeiro have ever dark ened the record of the Columbia River, and the Valencia wreck, which cost 160 lives at the entrance to Puget Sound, could never have happened in the vicinity of the Columbia bar. These wrecks are not mentioned as reasons why the Navy Department should refuse to send ships to San Francisco or Puget Sound, but they certainly show that, from the sta-nd point of safety, there is no percentage for the ports which are favored with a visit from the fleet. The Oakland paper Is apparently unaware of the fact that a foot draft or a. foot In length is no greater on a battleship than it is on a' merchant and. as the battleship is much man easier handled than steamers of greater draft and length which come and go without encountering the slightest difficulty, there can be no good reason for failure of Secretary Metcalf to send the ships here. Port land has been subjected to a vast amount of misrepresentation since the California Secretary of the Navy placed his ban of disapproval on the port, but nothing sillier or at a greater variance with the facts has yet ap peared than the screed of the Tribune. BOGUS APPEAL FOB COMMON SCHOOLS. Many of the opponents, of the Uni versity of Oregon appropriation bill base their opposition upon the asser tion that a larger proportion of the educational expenditures should be de- voted to the common schools. It must be remarked, however, that the anxi ety of these people for the welfare of the common schools was not very much In evidence until the university appropriation bill came up for consid eration. Their appeal in behalf of the common schools may, therefore, be at- trlbuted more to their desire to defeat the appropriation bill than to their in terest in the common schools. Doubt less they are loyal friends of the com mon schools, but It is safe to say that a very considerable proportion of those who now oppose the university appropriation make a practice of vot ing against increased tax levies for common schools.' . In his address at Salem in behalf of the appropriation bill Superintendent ef Public Instruction J. H. Ackerman asserted that the university is the head of our educational system. If so. It will not be inappropriate to call the common school the foundation of the educational system. It is in the corn- mon schools that everyboy and girl lays the foundation for his nigh school and college education, and if that foundation be weak, the superstruc ture must forever be unsafe and un certain. The Oregonian, as a sup porter of the university appropriation. proposes also that the common school system be strengthened, and that by the expenditure of more money. This is not a proposal that money be spent needlessly or extravagantly, but that, in order to secure a greater public school service, a larger amount of money be expended therefor. The suggestion is this that the minimum length of the school year be Increased from four months to six months. Prior to 1907 the minimum number of months schools could be maintained was three, but the Legisla ture of that year increased the mini mum to four months. Of course a large majority of the districts maintain public schools for more than four months, all of the city schools having terms covering eight "or nine months. But there are many districts in rural communities that limit themselves to the shortest term allowed by law, and as a consequence the children in these districts do not receive the amount of instruction to which they are entitled. The Oregonian believes that as a gen eral principle every child In the state who has not. completed the eighth grade should have at least six months' schooling every year. Of course there may be unusual conditions which make exceptions necessary, but the welfare of the children themselves de- mands that in general they be given more instruction than that required by the law fixing the minimum length of the school year at present. Far back In me mountains or on ine piams, where there may be but one or two children within a radius of many miles. It might be impracticable to re quire that school be maintained for a period of six months, and yet instances of this kind must be rare. The law should be so framed as -to Insure the maintenance of a school for six months wherever there are children to be taught. If a requirement of that kind would necessitate the levying of spe cial taxes heavier than the people of the district could bear, which is not probable, then the plan of distributing the school funds should be changed for the purpose of throwing a larger proportion of the funds into the re mote districts. In such districts it Is very commonly the case that non-resi' dents owners of timber lands, for ex amplepay a large proportion of any' special taxes levied. Few are the dis tricts that cannot afford to maintain school for six months by means of spe cial taxes added to the funds received from the state.' Let us strengthen our common schools by increasing the length of the school year in those districts where it is now too short. WHEAT AND PROSPERITY. An increasing population, better farming and attendant higher prices for land will eventually give wheat- growing In the Pacific Northwest a much less prominent position than it now holds as the greatest wealth-pro- ducer in this region. But for the pres ent wheat is king, and last year, at a ume mat ineo. men s souis it pourea more millions into the coffers of the Pacific Northwest than were produced by any other resource at our com mand. For this reason nearly every community In Oregon, Washington and Northern Idaho still acknowledges the supremacy of the premier cereal, and will hail with delight the news that timely rains have guaranteed suf ficient moisture to carry the new crop on to harvest in good shape. A good crop in the Pacific Northwest this year would mean more for Port land than ever before, as the coming season will be the first in which the North Bank road will make available to this city a large area of wheat ter ritory that In the past has been tribu tary to Puget Sound. Unfortunately the liberal drenching of the past few days failed to extend to points in Washington where it was needed more than in Oregon. The "dry district,' however, is confined to a comparative ly restricted area. Rain is badly need ed along the main line of the Northern Pacific in the vicinity "of Connell, in the Washtucna country, and in some parts of the Big Bend. It is doubtful if it is now possible to repair all of the damage done by the dry weather in those sections, but in the territory which has always been tributary to Portland, as well as through the great Palouse country, a big crop is practi cally assured. If we should have the usual June rains, the out-turn of this great region will be fully as large as that of last year, and possibly some what larger. Even in the absence of any more moisture, something better than an av erage crop may be expected unless hot winds appear. This possibility, of course, stands as a guard against too much optimism, for the weather is be- yond our control; but the prospects at this date are sufficiently flattering to cause universal cheerfulness. The faith cure for a money stringency may be all right to a certain point, but it can never equal in value as an influ ence on the market the growing crops which promise a good yield. ' The outlook for prices is also very good. although the average throughout the coming season may not run as high as that for last year's crop. This, how ever, is due to a much more favorable prospect for crops In other portions of the United States. It should be re membered that the wheat crop east of the Rocky Mountains last year was more than 100,000,000 bushels short of its predecessor. This meant that the farmers throughout the Dakotas, Kan- I sas, Nebraska and other wheat states I had approximately 1100,000,000 less to spend than during the preceding sea son and the effect of this short crop was felt in Oregon in other directions than through an increased price i for wheat. The poor crops in the Middle West made it impossible for farmers to pur chase Pacific Coast lumber in such I quantities as they had been using prior to the poor crop, and Oregon and Washington mills probably felt the ef fects of that crop failure more than those of any other states in the Union. A good crop throughout the United States will do more to hasten the re turn of good times than all other in fluences that can be brought to bear on the situation. Whatever may be the outcome in other less-favored states, Oregon and Washington are in a position to continue to enjoy immu nity from the most serious features of the recent panic, and. with a good crop assured, the immediate future has in store for us nothing which can cause alarm. N Mr. Harriman has just completed, at cost of $3,500,000, an 11 Vi -mile stretch of track between Omaha and Lane, Neb., thereby reducing the length of the main line of the Union Pacific nine miles. At first glance this would seem' a large sum of money to spend on such a small piece of track. but the saving on a per-ton-per-mil'e basis by this shortening of the track will in the aggregate reach a vast sum every year. Similar improvements on a much smaller scale are now being made on the track between Portland and the Cascades, the original line be ing reconstructed at a cost greater than that of the original construction. Whatever criticism may be directed against Mr. Harriman's stock market deals, or his dilatory tactics regarding opening new territory, he has through out his career displayed remarkable and praiseworthy consistency in his ef forts to keep his roads in perfect phys ical condition. The latest Issue of the New York Financial and Commercial Chronicle contains a detailed review of the bank clearings of the principal cities of the United States for the first four months of 1908. In the Pacific division and in the country as a, whole Portland makes a very ' good showing. San Francisco shows a decrease of 31.1 per cent, Los Angeles 28.9 per cent. Seattle 21.1 per cent, and Portland but 17.8 per cent, with the average de crease for the entire Pacific group 27 per cent. The average decrease for all clearing-house cities in the ' United States for the four months was 2S.8 per cent. It is, of course, not very pleasing to be obliged to mention any decrease as beta fir favorable, but it la gratifying to note that Portland con tinues to make a much better compar ative showing than the other large Coast cities, or than the average for all of the clearing-house cities of the United States. In Alberta, Canada, on the Canadian Paclfio Railroad, about sixty miles north of the Montana line, a large herd of buffaloes has been wintered. with very little loss. There are about 400 head, and' 100 calves are expected this Spring. These buffaloes have been fed on. hay all Winter, but they foraged a good deal for themselves. The Canadian government is fencing in a large preserve, in which the herd will be cared for and protected. An other herd, nearly as large, has been wintered further east, and the two will soon be Joined, making the largest herd of buffaloes known to exist. By the end of the year the herd will num ber nearly one thousand, with a prob able net Increase of 25 per cent annu ally. Elljah Cosgrove. of Quincy, "III., a fisherman of repute, relates that ten years ago he was fishing in one of the famous resort lakes of Indiana, when he dropped a J 10 gold piece into tiro water and saw a pickerel swallow it. Since then he has fished assiduously for the pickerel, and a week ago last Saturday caught it. Opening the fish. he found the original f 10 and $8.59 in small change being the. Interest that had accrued while the money was on deposit in the fish. That story could De beaten by almost any of our Port- Iand fellows who go a-flshing in the Trask River, or other of our Coast streams, and we know It. It doesn't appear that Mr. Chamber lain can really expect to gain anything by his pose for non-partisanship. It can hardly mislead anybody. He will be a non-partisan till a party ques tion may arise; then as surely a Demo crat as any Democrat of them all, from 1860 down to the present day. But some think no party question will ever arise again, The appropriation tor the State Uni versity most certainly will be upheld. It should be upheld by a great major ity, so as to emphasize the position of the people of Oregqp in the matter of upholding the university. Next to the shame of turning down the appro priation would be the shame of small majority for It. x In many ways the single tax is the most dangerous proposition before the people. It would cause revolutionary change in our system of taxation and finance. Doubtless it will be rejected Dut it snouia Be rejected by such a vote as will prevent forever its reap pearance in Oregon. The Legislature will be Republican; tne majority will be committed to Statement No. 1, and it is quite.. ridic ulous to say that it will not elect Mr. Chamberlain, should be receive the plurality of the popular vote. Don't worry,, about that. There will be worry enough without it. A union of strikebreakers in East ern cities is the latest labor union. One would think this a contradictory p"siness. but they declare their organ izatlon a legitimate anion. They are going to "put the kibosh on scab strikebreakers." Steamboat racing on the Columbia Is really a fine sport, and will continue to be until there is a collision or blow-up, or other disaster. It will do a lot of sood, then, of course, to put I o."v uuom u me peni- tentiary. ' Be on the lookout this week, all along the coast of Oregon, for the war fleet. There will be many visitors to coast points. Weather may be clearer on the coast than it is in the interior. Nothing but the fear that he may be brought to the surface again con strains us to refrain from Inquiring as to the whereabouts of Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, Iowa s late favorite son. Small use to complain of the alleged mistakes of the late Republican State Convention. Nobody supposes that dissension in the party could be made deeper or wider than it is. Probably the most suitable general definition of a reformer is a person who has a burning desire to regulate other people's affairs. Now Nat Goodwin wants to marry Edna Goodrich, an actress. Nothing to the rumor, then, that Nat. is, or was, married to Maxlne Elliott? No doubt the little continental Jour ney now being taken hy Prince de Helie and Anna Gould is only an imi tation honeymoon. , Is anybody running against Taft for that Presidential nomination? STUDENTS FOLLOW TRADE. Failure of Ortgoa's Appropriation Would Help California. PORTLAND, 'May 16. (To the Editor.) The following table represents the num ber of OrtRon students in attendance at Stanford University since its opening in 1S91: 1W11-P2 241 1S99-1900 .. M 1S12-93 29I1!X-01 ....50 IJWS-M 60ilft"l-2 N.21 1S3-9S i lwt2-l 2S lRS-6 5Tj l"3-lt 1MW-S7 58! 1004-05 . IS9T-08 K2I MXi-i-OS leWS-98 521 lflooT SI Hy a comparison of this table with the catalogues of the University of Oregon it will be seen that in The -early history of Stanford University there were as many students from Oregon in attend ance at that ope University as were in attendance in those years in the tour college classes of our own State Uni versity. The table further shows that after a period of decline in the attend ance of Oregon students at that Uni versity there has - been a steady in crease since the year 1901-02. It Is not the purpose of the present writer to go- into the causes of this re cent increase, hut these numbers as they appear in this table give food for thought in view of the issue now before the peb- ple of Oregon. It means that California has in the past done a large part of the higher education of the children o Ore gon and Is doing so again. If the present Oregon State University appropriation should fail It Is certain that California would do an Increasing amount of such educative' work in the future. Another consideration- of some weight is the fact that California, through the pushing of transportation lines Into Southeastern and Southwestern Oregon, is already drawing an important part of Oregon trade. It Is certain that to a considerable extent, students will follow trade. This is especially true when the center to which the trade tends is the most commanding educational center on the Pacific Coast, and not far behind some of the larger educational centers of the Atlantic Coast. Add to this, that the education of students in the neigh- borhood of San Francisco lays the foun dation for future business relationships which will Inevitably bring about the further result that trade will follow students. If San Francisco is going to educate the boys and girls of Oregon the trade of Oregon will more and more go to -San Francisco. For it Is true that, given the situation that he have here, while students follow trade, trade In turn will follow students. Stripping the question of all that In the course of the discussion has gathered about it, the issue in June is simply this: will Oregon furnish the higher educa tion for Oregon boys and girls, or will Oregon leave it to San Francisco and take the consequences, whatever they may be? J. R. WILSON. TOO MUCH BURDEN ON LAND. Shows Single Tak Isn't Farmers' Friend and Helpa Privileged Claw. LATOURELLB FALLS. Or.. May 16. (To the Editor.) It seems to me only the highest kind of ignorance, stupidity. Injustice and selfishness to propose law to the people of Oregon to tax in future only land values In this state and no other whatever. And It seems curious to me that people of our state will and can vote for the enactment of such law ' who are endowed with the same mental gifts as we are. Society, and nothing In the world but only society, creates all and every value for society be it land, stones, diamonds, gold, silver, metal, wood, water, coal-oil, coal, minerals, gas, meat, eat, dHnK, clothes, buildings or products of any kind Without the need and the use by society of anything In existence it can have no possible value. No power of sane reason ing can ever get around this undeniable fact. By what sane reason then shall in the future only the value of land be taxed a value whlcji society creates, ana not ail other values created Dy so ciety alike? Land has, in fact, no more value to . farmer or to any other land-owner than the pen of a bookkeeper, or the tools of a carpenter, or the factory of millowner and canner, or ships and rolling stock of transportation lines have for their owners. Why, then, in the name of justice and sound reason, should only the landowners be compelled in the future to pay taxes on his tool like property, which he owns and must have in. order to earn' an honest living with that tool, and not all others in like manner? Is it not an outrageous injustice to tax a poor farmer probably a hundred times more than a clerk or bookkeeper who needs no costly land and other costly tools to earn a living, and who earns probably five or six times more with a good deal less work, and who de mands the same protection and benefit. or even more, which comes from taxation and government? L. FERDINAND FLOSS, A Natural-Born Kicker. IS THERE NOTHING NOW IN PARTY? So It Would Appear from the Action of Oregon Republicans. The Dalles Optimist. We used te thinx that people were divided on party lines because they be lieved that one party was right and the other wrong; or at least they thought one was nearer right than the other. And having chosen a party, it was supposed that they would do what they loyally could for the success of the party of their choice. But we have learned during the last two or three years that the Re publicans of this state have not, as party, acted upon that rule, but have been fighting for the success of their old-time enemy. Some say that if we have no Repub- liean party In the state we at least hold the most of the offices, which shows that we are far more numerous than the Democrats. That Is true. We are twice as strong, numerically, as the other party, but we win by the traditions of the past, by the old teachings and doc trines, which are slowly slipping away, and it will only be a few short years un til the Democrats will wipe us off the map. for no party can live without or ganization, and under the present law there is no chance for the majority party to organize. A good many are saying there is nothing In party. They want to do away with party. All right; but if you scratch that man, or those men, you will find they are not Republicans, but heart and soul desire the destruction of our party. No real Republican will admit that this country would now occupy the high plane it does if the people had not divided on party lines, and no good Republican will admit that any other agency made us what we are except our party. A man who has not that faith, and cannot give his reasons for it, is not a loyal Repub lican. ' The Republicans took charge of this country when it was a sixth-rate power. plunged In debt. In the throes of war, half slave and hair tree, disorder on every hand, and within a decade they had made It a great power, and in 40 years we were one of the first nations on earth and the only retrograde movements made in all that time were made by a Demo cratic accident. Drunk In Seattle. Efveryborys Magazine. The intoxicated Individual who, after bumping Into the same tree 13 times, be moaned the fact that he was lost in an impenetrable forest, is no greater dis grace to modern civilization than the hero of this story: A citizen of Seattle who had looked upon the wine when he was no longer sure what color it was. In the course of his Journey home encountered a tree pro tected by an Iron tree-guard. Grasping the bars, he cautiously felt his way around it twice. "Bother It!" he moaned, sinking to the ground In despair. "Locked in:" MEANS PRACTICAL Pulnta Out That Farms, fe Mar Revert to tbe SALEM, Or., May 16. (To In a folder circulated by taxers, Tom L. Johnson is saying, he was most emphatical.1 favor of the single tax on lan. was desirous of placing all taxes or values." Now. will some aeble advocate o single tax explain the difference be a "single tax on lands" and a single ta "land values?" What is the workable ference? Land as now assessed hi gon is about two-thirds of the whole sessment of the state for 1907. Then all other property is exempted from tai 1 atlon. It will exempt one dollar out each three, and the other two will ha to bear the burden. Thus. If a farmer ha land worth tXiOO. and W00O worth of im provements and other personal property, making altogether 3000, and the tax rate Is 10 mills, his tax will be $30. If we adopt the single tax idea and impose the whole burden on the land, the rate must be raised- one-half, or from 10 mills to 15, and the land must pay the whole of the $30, instead of S20, as before. It is evident that this increased burden of $10 would not extinguish, or even ser iously impair the value of this farm. My question, therefore, is: Do single taxers propose to go further and make a greater levy than necessary for governmental purposes, just to force private owners to surrender their titles to the state? I admit that by the use of the taxing power this may be done. But do the Bingle taxers propose doing this? JOHN P. ROBERTSON. WATTERSON IS OPTIMISTIC Thinks This Is Good Year for tbe Rs publicum Party to Lose. Louisville Courier-Journal. Some let-up in the extravagance of Congress some economics of adminis tration and- abatement of taxes a few peeps into the budget of governmental expenses are most desirable. Shall the scrutiny be committed to the spend thrifts themselves? The old broom Is a trifle worn and a great deal dirty. Only a new broom can be depended on to sweep clean and to sweep well. If for nothing else, let us have a change of parties though but for the sake of the change. The one-party power is almost as dangerous as the one-man power. The Democratic party, intrenched behind the institution of African slavery, grew strong enough to make its exit the sig nal for a bloody war. The Republican party, the bloody shirt waving o'er it, came perilously near Mexicanizing the Government through the attempted im peachment of a President who had com mitted no legal wrong and was only faithful to his oath of office, and it actually stole a Presidential election by appealing to sectional passion and in voking the machinery of the organ ized power which was yet in its hands. Cleveland was merely an aplsode an Interim a snap-shot. Is It not time to give the great body of the poor, plain people a chance, leaving old high tariff and high finance both out of the run ning and the betting? The Republicans are split wide open: This is their year to lose. The dinner pail Is growing emptier and emptier. The voters are getting in the humor to try .Democracy a licK or two. The Ragman went to the Bagman, A-walking In the barn; Says the Bagman to the Ragman, I will do you no harm." On the contrary, as the song goes on to relate, and as the Democratic party may say to the voters of the United States, "I will do you much good!" Once again, then, to your tents, O Israel ! Lrve 95 Years In One House. Barnesvllle ' Correspondence ' Columbus Dispatch. To have been born and to have lived in the same house for 95 and 90 years. respectively, is a record that perhaps few individuals have ever won. But such is the record Of Alexander and Betsy Ogg, brother and sister, and venerable citizens of Warren Township all their long lives. Both were born and are still living in the house where they first saw the light of day near this city. Mr. Ogg and his sister are perhaps the .oldest living per sons who were born in this township away back In the wilderness days, and considering the great shifting of the scenes that has transpired during their long lives, it seems remarkable that they should have remained in contentment at the place of their birth and in the same house that first sheltered them in their infancy. Superstitions Landlord, "13" and "23." Logansport Dispatch to Indianapolis News. The limit of superstition has been reached by Landlord Miller, of the Johnston Hotel, in this city. For years this hostelry has been known as the jonnson iotei. The other day a new electric sign appeared in front with the words "Johnson -Hotel." Many thought a mistake had been made and rushed to Miller, but . he informed them that no mistake had been made; that he had" changed the name from "Johnston Hotel' to "Johnson Hotel," because there are 13 letters in tbe first name. Miller says many traveling men had noted the fact, and that as a result they retusea to stay at tne house. Miller also changed room No. 23 to Parlor A. He says drummers are as superstitious re garding room 23 as they are of room 13. Class Distinction in Graveyard. New Tork Sun. The agent for a cemetery company was expatiating on tne good points of a cer .tain lot. Presently the prospective our chaser interrupted with the enumeration of several prominent families owning property tnere. Is this lot near theirs?" she asked, The agent admitted that it was auite a aistance on. "Then," said the woman, "I don't want it, I'd rather pay more and get In a good neignDornooa. The agent collapsed. ias It come to the point." he said "where people consider their next-door neignoors even in a graveyard " . A FEW SQUIBS. "Everythine comes to him who waits. mused the man in a restaurant: "but it comes coia." i.i:e. "So you are s-oins- to run strictly par- tlsan publication?" "I am.' "wnat will its motto be?" "All the fit," Washington Star. news printed to Aunty "Tommy. I out threa r.le- In her jMieraay, ana now Tnere is only one. How is mat r- i-ommy -.fiease. it was so dark, auntie, i aran t see that one:" fundi. "Verena. Is that younir man out In th Kitchen your first beau?" "Fur tse- land's saKe, no. mum: I'm his nrst sweetheart, Tnou?n; tnat s wny t nna 'lm Interestin' mum." Chicago Tribune. She making up) "And you win admit you were wrong?" He (a young lawyer) "No, but I'll admit that an unintentional error might have unknowingly crept into my assertion. iawn ana country. Short "Yes, I believe some fortune tel lets are on tne level, isot long ago one agree 10 lcu mo aorneimnff aoout my fu ture for a dollar." Long "Well?" Short "I gave her the money and she toM m th time would come when I would wish had my dollar back." Chicago Dally News. "Ob," sobbed Mrs. Casey, "some wan told me husband. Pat, that he c'd have his pants pressed be lettln' th' steam roller run over thlm. an' Pat trofd th' scheme." "Well, phy do ye cry?" asked her friend, Mrs. Gar rlty. "Ohl" walled the wife, "Pat forgot f take th' 4ants off first!" Judge. She (indignantly) "Why did you fail to keep your appointment with me yester dav?" He "I'm awfully sorry, but I was compelled to wait la a restaurant until It was too late." .She ticlly) "Pardon me. but I thought you had a position in a bank. I wasn't aware that you were a waiter.'?- Chicago Daily News. it ben to even t ture be The reasoi ure are the the Statement an indirect mea tsenators Dy tne The measure Is Na of people. First areV believe In direct electio They Insist that the framers States Constitution acted wise? viding for the election of one bra Congress by the people and the othe the state Legislatures, thus establishing a system which would guard against over-conservatism on the one hand and over-radlcaliam on the other. People who take this view assert that corruption is not a necessary Incident of election of Senators by a Legislature and that a healthful public opinion will eliminate this evil and that then there will be no objection to election of Senators as now provided by the United States Constitu tion. Another class opposed to this bill is composed of -those voters who believe In the direct election of Senators, but who are opposed to doing it by means of such a scheme as Statement No. 1 or the meas ure now under consideration. They say that If direct election of Senators is to become the rule in this country, let the change be made by constitutional amend ment and until that can be done, let the procedure prescribed by law bo followed. It is pointed out that the observance of the principle Involved in this measure will compel members of one party to vote for candidates for Senator belonging to an other party and entertaining radically dif ferent views upon all the important is sues in National affairs. TROUT-FISHING IN THB ROCKIES Difference In the Fishes on Opposite Sides of the Range. Forest and Stream. No state in the Union can boast of more square miles ot territory for trout fishing than Colorado. This area Is of coursa limited to the mountain sections. Since our National Democratic Convention Is to be held this year In Denver, I deem It no more than fair to advise my Eastern brothers of the rod where they may go most comfortably from Denver and what can be expected of their quest after trout. Our trout west of the snowy range are all salmon-tinted and, as a rule, are more numerous and larger than in the waters of the eastern watershed. The fish known as the native In waters flowing east of the watershed are yel lowish to dark brown in color, depending on the degree of sunlight to which they are subjected. They have black spots and their flesh Is white in 'color. These are very hardy fish and will live In the snow water up to an altitude of about 10,000 feet. In one stream that I explored carefully there were found no fish whatever from this altitude to the stream's source, a distance of .11 miles, although there ex isted as beautiful pools and riffles for them as there were below that altitude. I asked an old fisherman who had lived near the stream for 20 years as to the reason for this, and his opinion is that the food upon which the nsh live does not exist at this distance from the stream'B source, owing to the low tem perature of the water and of the atmo sphere during the time when the sun U not shining. The native trout are as eccentric In their ways of taking the fly as one could imagine. They will swim slowly toward the lure and when within a few Inches, will suddenly dart and seize It. They seldom leap clear of the water as do the other species. They are really a better bait fish than the other species. Days when they absolutely refuse thefly they can be relied upon to take bait. As to flavor I except none they are the best eating and of the most delicate flavor of any trout that swims, and I have tried tnem from the Allegbanies to Long's Peak. As to bait I might add a word. Earth worms are not native to the soil in th Rockies, but exist only where planted near some spring or in moist ground. Grasshoppers are the standard bait and are best used upon leaders weighted with a split shot about one- foot above the hook, the reason for this being that the waters are so very swift that the bait la soon whipped off If allowed to float. Safe and Sane. From Puck. And now he stood forth acquitted by a jury of his peers of the monstrous charge of murder. "Safe!" he cried, pressing to his bosom the wife who had trusted in him through good and evil report. "And sane!" she sobbed, for there had been no expert testimony. An Ancient Instance. New Tork Sun. Caesar had thrice refused the crown. "However," he remarked, "I dts. tinguished myself from Roosevelt once by writing a message of only three words." He felt that his laurels were secure. EMERSON, Grateful is a world to thee. Glorious bard of liberty, Teacher, seer and scientist or life divine; all do insist Thy name shall honored be. But highest tribute may be paid. And best returns for worth te made. By living what his brave soul dared Pronounce the truth, though friends de clared Him heretic. If undismayed We'd firmly stand for what he stood. We'd learn that wisdom. God and good, Is ours first-hand. If we'll be free, By heeding less conformity. And more the truths of brotherhood. He bids us build this world of ours, As it should be. Ideas tho powers. Which as we recognize, unfold. And perfect sway o'er matter hold; Which proves them spiritual dowers. Appreciation best we show For thoughts, when we beyond them grow, Till others that still more reveal. Enrich our lives and make us feel The author's Joy to have it so. And when from matter ruled by mind. One step advanced in truth, we find, That naught but spirit is. or lives. In the peace such revelation gives r. hares Emerson, serene and kind. Rosine Starr Crisler. ber