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PORTLAND. MONDAY. APRIL 12. 1909.
NEW BUSINESS RECORDS.
Portland bank clearings for the week
Jf lQat Satu"day exceeded by
1 ,600 000 those of any previous week
tnthe history of the city. With a total
of 19.579.188. they exceeded those of
the corresponding week last year by
more than J3.400.000. They were more
than twice as large as the clearings for
the same week ln 1905. when the city
was making active preparation for the
Lewis and Clark Fair, and were 4 hi
times as great as for the correspond
ing week In 1901. Building permits
Issued during the week exceeded
100,000 valuation, and real estate
transfers even at the nominal valuation
1 anc 10 for transactions which
ran ln excess of $100,000 each, were
given well above $600,000.
These figures are all the more re
markable when compared with those
of last year, for the reason that last
year, throughout the month of April,
Portland was clearing an average of
$300,000 worth of wheat and Hour per
week and the lumber business was
booming while this year the grain sea
son practically ended two months ago
onil the lumber business is exceedingly
dull. Portland's building permits are
not only running up Into big figures
numerically, but even the nominal
valuation at which they are issued, and
which in most cases falls to approach
the actual cost of the buildings, shows
a very good class of buildings as com
pared with those of other cities.
For example, the average valuation
placed on the permits issued ln Seattle
in the month of March was $1673 each,
while the Portland permits averaged
U070 each. Seattle figures are not
available except for the first five days
If April, and the average value of per
ilts Issued for that period was $1049.
he average valuation of the Portland
ermlts for the first five days of the
lonth was $1925. With this big show
ig in a year when the grain crop was
11 moved by January 1, and when the
lumber business, the second greatest
industry, is almost stagnant. It is easy
to understand what the future has ln
store after there shall be harvested
what r!ow promises to be the largest
wheat crop ever produced ln the Pa
cific Northwest and our sawmills shall
again get busy.
Portland and the Pacific Northwest
ore no longer dependent on any one or
any two industries, but move steadily
enward with an ever-Increasing stride
. and are now well Into the busiest and
most prosperous season they have ever
known.
NO LONGER A PARTY QUESTION.
Protective tariff will remain, for an
indefinite period, the policy of the
country. Of this there can be no
doubt; and after the experience of the
country with the present proceedings
in congress, wherein members of both
parties contend for local advantages.
through protection. It will be ludicrous
for any party to set up a cry against
the robberies of protective tariff, and
try to make party campaign material
out of It.
For tariff action in the present Con-
press, as the Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican remarks, "Is a contest of local
Interests, against which all attempts to
a raw party lines seem to be futile.
r or your Missouri Democrat is as
ready to forget the last National dec
laration of his party on the tariff when
a tariff on zinc ore is mentioned as
your Florida Democrat when Sea Is
land cotton la up for consideration
against the Egyptian staple; and the
Iowa Republican cares no more for his
national party's declaration on the
subject than the Pennsylvania Repub
lican when the agricultural Interest
comes into collision with the steel In
tcre.st. The platform ln each case will
be interpreted to suit the particular
interest represented."
It is due to Democratic votes that
the old Republican regime was contin
ueil in the House; for protected Demo
initio districts were afraid to entrust
th.-ir own party with command over
the rules and the course of legislation
The tariff, truly. Is a local question
The simplicity of General Hancock hit
the definition exactly.
RKvrVlXO THE BArtXN'O SHIT.
Attracted by high rail freights and
increasing business between the two
coasts of the United States, a move
ment is under way In New York to re
establish a line of sailing vessels in the
round-the-Horn trade. At the present
time, rates by steamer or by rail are
much higher than when the old sailing
ships retired from the route, and it is
thought that there will be a very favor
able opening for the sailing ship. The
traffic would necessarily be confined to
product ln which time was not one of
the. .essential elements, and there- is
considerable freight which will stand
a slow journey, provided there Is a aav.
Ing effected. The projectors of the
line, however, will make an effort to
secure very fast ships. It will, of
course, be Impossible to secure sail
ing craft that can even approach
the time made by the Tehuantepec
route, or by the railroads, but the
building Of fast sailing vessels is not
a lost art, and there are still afloat.
under the American flag, some ships,
notably the Kenllworth. which, under
favorable circumstances, could make
ordinary tramp steamer look to
laurels. None of he present-dav
ins; snips can equal tne average
formaDOffl of the old-time clippers
hch raced round the world in the
ties," but what the present-day
tt lack in speed they make up in
rytng capacity., Undoubtedly, if
American shipowners were per
I'ted to go out Into the world's mar
where other nations buy their
ships, it would be possible to pick up f
consiaeraDie neet or fast sailing i
ships.
There Is at the present time lying at
anchor in Ostend, awaiting a pur
chaser, the British bark Muskoka, the
fastest sailing ship afloat, her speed
records on many of the world's routes
being superior to those of the old-time
clippers. The Muskoka was built at a
cost of $125,000, and is still a com
paratively new shiD. but there Is such
a surplus of sail tonnage lying idle in
European ports that the Dest offer yet
made for her Is $30,000, and a sister
ship, the Owenee, also a record
breaker, sold a few weeks ago for
$40,000.
If American shipowners and mer
chants were permitted to pick up these
bargains, which are available to the
citizens of every other country on earth
except the United States, the establish
ment of a round-the-Horn Hne of fast
sailing ships would be an easy and eco
nomical undertaking. If the projectors
of the contemplated line of American
sailing vessels should, at intervals, find
business dull on American routes, they
would be obliged to either tie up the
vessels or else send them off-shore in
competition with the Owenees and
Muskokas of the British, Germans,
French, Norwegians, Japanese and
others to whom cheap ships are avail
able. In no other form does our ridic
ulous system of protection appear more
odious than ln denying American citi
zens the same opportunities that for
eigners have ln the ocean-carrying
trade.
PRELIMINARY "ASSEMBLIES."
It Is open to any and all persons
who wish to be candidates for the city
election to enter the primaries and
make their contests for the nomina
tions. The law not only allows, but in
vites, this proceeding; and the primary
must be held strictly under the regula
tions of the law.
Various groups of candidates will be
offered in advance. One group has
been offered already. Others will be. !
Active effort Is now In progress to
make up another group, to contest for
the Republican nominations; and on
the Democratic side there is effort to
make one r more tickets. But ln all
cases of party tickets the names must
be entered for decision at the direct
primary election.
Some say that these voluntary
groups and assemblies- which take it
on themselves to "suggest" candidates
are endeavoring to forestall the pri
mary law. It is not apparent that this
is so. Evidently, indeed. It Is not so,
since all party candidates must go to
the primary. Where the nominations
will be made toy direct vota of the elec
tors. Besides, those who are making this
objection to the proceeding already
taken, through which one group of
candidates have been offered on the
Republican side, are active in their ef
forts to prepare another group, ln the
name of the same party", ln advance of
the primary; and Democrats of the
city, on their side, are making like
preparations.
All. evidently, are acting alike in
this business; and the action of each
and every group must be referred to
the i rlmary for decision. One group
is no more endeavoring to forestall or
set aside the primary election method
than another. All must conform to It.
But it is open to each and all to as
semble at their will, to debate and sug
gest and select candidates. Perhaps
this is ring and machine work. All po
litical organization is when carried on
by groups other than your own.
However, all candidates for party
nominations must go to the primary,
for the decision, whether they are to
be their party's candidates or not. Just
now the main effort seems to be to find
another Republican candidate to con
test for the nomination with Joseph
Simon. Some "assembly" will decide it.
GHOSTLY SCIENCE.
Even the ghosts are becoming scien
tiftc. Those airy visitants from the
other world which have been wont to
disport themselves almost without law
and wholly without reason have yield
ed to the spell of the investigator an.d
submitted to be weighed and meas
ured. So much one gathers from
perusal of a rather excited article ln
the March number of Hampton's Mag
azine by Vance Thompson. Just how
intimate Mr. Thompson 13 with the sa
vants of Europe it is not easy to decide.
Dut his discourse fairly glows with
learned confidences. He knows all
that the esoteric biologists of Paris and
elsewhere are speculating about, and,
If he tells the truth, they are on the
trail of some marvelous things. For
example, they have discovered what
they call a mental ball, a sort of
spherical halo which hovers above the
head of each one of us in moments of
distress or excitement, and which may
even be photographed when the con
ditions are extremely favorable. This
mental ball remains attached to the
head by a thin, luminous thread at all
times up to the instant of death. When
dissolution is complete, the connection
Is severed and the halo goes Its way
to some. other world.
To put baldly a scientfiic theory at
which Mr. Thompson's learned philoso
phers venture only to hint, the mental
ball Is nothing more nor less than what
old-fashioned people call the soul.
This entity has always been supposed
to he invisible as well as immortal, but
the Parisian investigators find that it
may easily be observed by the illumin
ated. It comes out, as we have men
tioned, in times of excitement, and
broods ln the air a short distance above
the head. When the subject cools off
it goes back again within the skull.
One might almost say that it seeks the
open air when the interior temperature
rises uncomfortably, but the thin string
of soul substance prevents it from es
caping altogether until death renders
Its tenement uninhabitable. The be
lief, or superstition if you prefer harsh
language, that the soul is a luminous
globe is not so very novel. It was
common ln the old Scandinavian
myths and Bulwer Lytton makes ef
fective use of it ln his "Strange Story."
What surprises one is to see the an
cient glimmer of belief taking 6hape
and substance in the laboratories of
exact research. If such were the lab
oratories which Mr. Thompson visited.
In reading his thrilling account of
these wonders one could wish that he
had been a little more specific about
names and dates. Any actual Incre
ment of knowledge about the "unseen
world" Is sure to excite tremendous in
terest everywhere, and it is discourag
ing to be compelled to revise our con
fidence ln the reported facts too often.
This lively writer promises another set
of revelations even more startling
than the ones of which we are now
speaking, and he may feel assured that
the more definite he makes his account
with respect to names and other par-
ticulars the more credence he will re
ceive.
The discoveries of these European
scientists, if they are scientists and not
humbugs, amount to the principle that
the human body emits radiations,
something after the fashion of radium,
which take various forms and exert
divers Influences upon . those whom
they reach. Some of the radiations
convey thought from one person to an
other. Perhaps it would be more cor
rect to say that they are thought Itself.
Thus they seem to point to a rational
explanation of the phenomena, of te
lepathy. An experiment Is mentioned
which any person may perform and
thereby, prove to his own satisfaction
that emanations proceed from his fin
ger tips. Let an Individual stand be
fore a window ln a strong light and
spread his hands so that their shadow
will fall on a thin screen. .An observer
on the side of the screen away from
the window will, of course, see the out
line of his hands. If, then, the finger
tips are brought near together, but
without tomching, a bluish gray cloud
will be perceived joining them. This
experiment was first made by Dr. J.
Maxwell, avocat-general at the Court
of Appeals ln Paris, and, since he Is a
well-known personage, nobody need
hesitate to repeat It for fear of being
taken ln. According to his account. It
will succeed with about twenty-five
persons out of thirty.
The theory of emanations from the
body also seems to explain the phe
nomena of "materialization," which, in
spite of quantities of fraud, are some
times apparently genuine. The radia
tions from the medium unite with
those from the persons looking on,
and together they become strong
enough to take human shape and even
utter speech. That particular emana
tion which the Investigators call the
"mental ball," or the soul, survives
the shock of death and may be re
called to this world by properly gifted
individuals. . One medium whom Mr.
Thompson had. the fortune to observe
recalled the soul of a French soldier
who had been shot in the German war
and had remained unconscious for al
most forty years. He only discovered
that he was dead when the medium
began to converse with him. It seems
there Is a society of mediums in Paris
who make a practice of meeting occa
sionally to waken slumbering souls and
relieve the distress of those who are
not felicitous in their disembodied ca
reer. No charity could be more disin
terested or cost less money. It may
be recommended to kindly persons
whose means are not adequate to do
anything toward alleviating earthly
misery.
EN SOTJTH CAROLINA.
The primary system, In different
states, works, ln some respects, in the
most opposite ways, according to vari
ant conditions in one and another; and
yet, ln other respects, the results have
a common and most general likeness.
In South Carolina, as the editor of the
Charleston News and Courier writes in
an article published in The Independ
ent (New Tork), the primary system
was adopted, some seventeen years
ago, as a means of holding the Demo
cratic party together, and of prevent
ing any appeal toy defeated candidates
of the primary to the Republican vot
ers in the general election. This is ac
complished, first, by a regulation which
permits only members of the Demo
cratic clubs to vote ln the primary, and
next by requiring every candidate.- for
office to pledge himself to abide the re
sult of the primary and to support the
candidates it may nominate. But the
editor says that It brings the most
mediocre men to the surface, and
causes the retirement of the ablest men
from active participation in the politi
cal life of the state.
In South Carolina, then, under the
peculiar conditions existing there, this
law holds the Democratic party to
gether. But in Oregon it has com
pletely dissolved the Republican party.
In both states the tendency is to bring
commonplace men to the front, and to
retire men of largest constructive force
from the public service. The main ob
jectlon to the primary system, con
tinues this South Carolina writer, "is
the exaltation of mediocre men, who
do not hesitate to appeal to the most
dangerous of prejudices class distinc
tions the steady food of all successful
demagogues." The picture will be
recognized everywhere. The primary
system, adds the South Carolinian,
"has brought into our political life
many very weak and impossible men
We quote one more passage: "If
there is anything good In the primary
plan of selecting candidates, I do not
know what it is. Under the old or
convention plan, better men were
named by the party, and the people
were more fully acquainted with the
candidates and their fitness for the of
fices to which they aspired. The pri
mary plan, ln my opinion, ought not
to be held in better favor than any
other device of demagogy. The best
thing that can be said for it in our
peculiar environment is that it has
held the white people of the state to
gether." There may be those who
think that the best thing that can be
said for'lt ln Oregon, under the condi
tions prevailing here, is that it has
completely dissolved and destroyed the
Republican party of the state.
JOHNNY HAYES. MARATHON RUNNER.
Once upon a time, so goes the story,
the hare got so cocky that he lorded
It over Antmaldom because he could
outrun anything. Long distance or
300-yard dash. It was all the same to
him, except that he never had a trial.
The animals were so convinced by his
cocksure manner that they had not
heart for a trial. But one day exas
peration reached desperation, and a
match was arranged, and to show their
supreme contempt for Mr. Fleetfoot,
they the people entered poor old
Mr. Tortoise as their champion. What
the hare said is not matter of record.
What he did is. The tortoise won; not
by a foul, not by trick or favor, but
just because he was plain Old Plod.
He set his gait and conserved his
wind, and was declared the winner by
such a' lead that Mr. Hare has been
hopping mad ever since. He never
raced again.
These Marathon races and the re
sults remind one of the first contest on
Animal Eield. A Britisher wins, and
Johnny Hayes gets second or third
place; in the next, an Italian Is first,
and Hayes is in his old position, while
the hitherto champion is distanced;
In another, the Canadian Indian Long
boat comes ln ahead, with Johnny
second and previous winners half-dead
by the wayside; in still another, the
latest champion 1s clearly outdistanced,
with an unknown Frenchman winner,
while the New Yorker is close behind.
So it goes, all the way through the list
of races. A winner makes a record.
but there he stops, while Johnny Hayes
never gets into first place, but stays
with the game, knows just what he can
do, keeps his wind and comes ln smil
ing as No. 2 or No. 3, ready for an
other run.
Were Miltiades again to thrash
Datls and Artaphernes on the plain of
Marathon, what do you suppose he
would say after he had given duplicate
dispatches to all the champions? Pos
sibly something of this nature: "Here,
Hayes, those fellows may make it, but
I know you'll get the news to Athens."
Let us give Johnny credit for perti
nacity and pluck. If once he lands in
the lead, he will stay there.
Nobody in the City Water Depart
ment could tell yesterday what broke
the sub-river tubes, or how tooth tubes
were broken at the same time,
or when they could be repaired.
Nor could they . tell where " the
breaks are. The chief eneineer did
not know the consumption of water on
the West Side,-nor the pumping capa- i
city of the Palatine station. There is
wonderful ignorance in the Water De
partment, and peevish retlcenc when
asked for information that the depart
ment ought to be able and willing to
give. Perhaps the memtoers have not
recovered from their recent Increase of
pay. Fortunate for the city that It
does not own an intricate and costly
iignting system for functionaries like
the water officials to operate. Yet
there are projectors who wish the city
launcneu into the lighting business.
The city would better first prove to it
self that it can put efficiency into the
water service.
"Where, oh, where, is the American
Society of Equity, which, in order to
remain true to its name, a few months
ago sent forth the edict that $1.25
per bushel was the proper price for
wheat? With the cash article seillner
in the Middle West at from $1.35 to
$1.45 per bushel, there Is a rebate due
from the society. And where, oh.
where, is that mysterious 143,000,000
bushels which the Government report
ed in farmers' hands on March 1?
And again, where is the famous Wheat
Chart Jones, not to mention Bill Bryan
and the rest of the bunch who for
years drilled It into the public mind
tnat wheat and silver were the Siam
ese twins of political economy and
could be .worked only in double har
ness with a single neckyoke? If Jones.
tsryan et al. could have Induced the
Europeans to eat our silver, thev
might have kept it in the same class
with our wheat.
IX the state had none of these hisrher
educational institutions, and if every
young renow had to rustle and bustle
and hustle and tussle for his education.
as it was in the earlier time, when
men and women were the product of
their own effort, then: First, there
would be no it' . .e for hazing and bath-
tubbing; and, second, everything would
toe on such, basis that there would be
no inclination or disposition that wav
There would be orderly and regular
lives, no overfeeding nor foolery, but
ail would be compelled to work hard
and to study in the intervals of labor,
and then be tired enough to go to bed-
State institutions of higher education
are nurseries of luxury, indolence and
folly, and never can be anything else
The Bristol case is easily accounted
for.
Up at Canby an irrigation comnanv
has been formed to dig a canal. Canby
is on the north bank of the Molalla.
where the loamy soil is underlaid by a
gravel oea tnat makes perfect drain
age. The region shares in the usual
Willamette Valley rainfall, as welf'as
the later dry season, and the object of
the canal is to supply necessary mois
ture to prolong the time of growth and
production. When this is done, the
Canby country will become the great
melon ana tomato district of Oregon.
The Payne tariff bill raises the tax
on lemons from 75 to 93 cents a box.
The excuse is that "lemons are a lux
ury," and that, as taxes on luxuries
are generally approved, the lemon
growers of - Southern California and
Florida ought to have some additional
"encouragement." Yes, indeed, lemons
are a luxury. So are shoes. Our an
cestors had no lemons and went bare
foot. There seems to be great fear in cer
tain circles of a "reorganized" Repub
lican part: ln Portland and Oregon.
A reorganized party might. Indeed, be
formidable, and have some chance of
electing a Governor or Senator, or
Mayor, or something, some time; but
the danger of effectivj reorganization
doesn't seem ver great, and It's hardly
worth whilj to lose any sleep over it
It seems likely that the jury in the
Calhoun case never will be filled and
get to work. For the proceedings are
so long drawn out that members of
the Jury are likely to fall by sickness
and death and old age, one after an
other, till ultimate failure of the ef
fort. Calhoun probably may rest se
cure in the thought that "time and I
there are two of us."
The suggestion is offered the Seattle
Times to increase Its population when
it changes the date; The issues of
Thursday . and Friday had the same
statement at the head of the editorial
page: "Population of Seattle, 276,
462." Were there no births,, or was
the galley boy lax?
Mr. Bryan reprints In his Commoner
the tariff speech he delivered at Des
Moines. Iowa, last August. His object
seems to be to rebuke the members of
his party in Congress, by showing them
how far they have departed from the
faith delivered to them by the peerless
leader.
The Tennessee night riders are still
ridlpg, to the everlasting disgrace of
the state-. Martial law and a few hang
ings might help some ln restoring law
and order ln darkest Tennessee.
Castro, who went to Europe for his
health, is unwillingly forced back. He
is doubtless disgusted, with the doctors
who had him last.
Exasperating Easter Sunday; no
sunshine for the new hats, and no rain
for the old ones. Too bad, but the hats
will keep.
More bridges were needed yesterday
to carry the West Side crowds to the
East Side Bull Run water.
Now Icok out for the strife of con
flicting Interests in the Senate on the
tariff bill.
No Bull Run on dry Sunday,
ness, what a thirst!
Good-
CRAPE 0 Ol R CITY GOVERNMENT
C rifle Tklaka That Rnlkna States Pen.
plea Are Fr Ahead of I" a.
Washington (D. C.) Poet.
Robert Alphonso Taft. son of the Presi
dent of the United States, has been
chosen president of :"The City Govern
ment Club of Tale Collepe." It is com
forting to learn that our great schools
of learning are devoting attention to
this, the most vexed problem of state
craft in our country.
The American people have made
achievement beyond the dream of Utopia
in many thincrs: .but in the maitnr nf
municipal government it Is nuito liipiv
that the Balkan states of Eastern Europe
are far in advance of us. It is the
blackest spot in our escutcheon, and will
be as long as we keep it within the scope
of party politics. So long as universal
manhood suffrage Is allowed ln city elec
tions and universal womanhood suffrage
would only lend virulence to the ulcer
city government will be a political asset
and corruption will run riot in every
municipality.
There is no more reason whv a rvrvn.
taxpayer to the city treasury should vote
ior ine LDmmon e'ouncilmen of the town
than there is that a nonstockholder
should vote, in the election of directors of
DanK or a railroad or other kindred
corporation. There would b an much
sense in submitting to all the voters of
iNew 10m tne selection of the president
of the National Citv Rank nr- rh,
Green's bank, or other bank, as thr la
in submitting to the popular vote the
election of a Mayor of that town. And
imiu tne men who own the town ohoose
the officials of the town graft will run
the town.
The debt of New TorV rr ma; ojk
128, or $117.74 per capita. And Boston,
So wary. heft, and wise, that It acarca re
ceived For Gospel what tna church believed
Boston has a debt of $170.90 par capita
Pirosburir onlv owea sr x n pmit,
Cleveland but $60.81 per capita
11 a city government were run' like a
conservative bank or a prosperous rail
roadby officials chosen by men who own
the town no such showing as we have
cited could exist.
.nut where is the Ts-isitiim
enough to take away the vote of the
nooo ana the loafer in a race for Mayor?
Where? Echo will tell you.
THE ENGLISH MISSION.
InartrqnacT of the Pay of On Am
bassadors.
New York Evening Post.
President Ellofi.
the English mission, vhlrh ..)
tantly conclude to be final, points afresh
the reproach which rests upon our
Government for shabby treatment of
its ambassadors. For it is safe to In
fer that It is not alone his age and
many a man of 60 would be glad to
swap vigor with him at 75 or the fact
that he has made other plans, that Im
pels Mr. Bllot to decline this great
honor and opportunity. The question
of means to maintain the American
Embassy in London with becoming
aignlty may well have been a factor.
It is all, very fine to talk about going
back to ambassadors of large distinc
tion, if shrunk purses, but the simple
fact is that the necessary expenses of
our representative ln England far ex
ceed his salary. He must have a re
spectable and fairly spacious house,
with carriage and sarvants; he must
do a certain amount of entertaining
and traveling. The cost of all this
we have heard figured by a competent
judge at $50,000 a year. And we pay
$17,500! If we were to provide a
suitable embassy building, fully
equipped and manned, that salary
would be Inadequate. As the ease
stands it Is beggarly. There was
quiet talK, to be sure, of a fund ralserl
by Harvard men to enable Mr. Eliot to
meet the unavoidable charges of the
post, but a high-spirited man might
well hesitate to avail himself of such
an otter. It would, ln truth, reflect
more upon his Government than hlm-
ueir. out wo man would like to be
anown as a privately assisted Ambas
sador of the United States. No; the in
Terence is unmistakable: this country
ims bclto u it it wanted to cut a
great figure ln the diplomatic world,
out expected to do it by means of
eitner mendicants, or parvenus.
THE NEXT MAYOR OF NEW YORK
Bat Isn't It Proper Description Also f or
Mayor of Portland, Or.Y
New York Sun.
The next Mayor of New Tork should
be a successful business man. lnti
mately acquainted with the details of
financial operations.
He should be a lawyer of high at
tainments, fully Informed on the legal
history of the city.
H s-hould know the needs and possi
bilities of every portion of the city.
He should be a man of irreproacha
ble honor, richly endowed with wit,
wisdom and learning.
He should be a "good fellow" with
out being undignified; amenable to ad
vice without being weak.
He should be broadly tolerant, but
inflexible in the discharge of his du
ties.
Prosperous Hen Raiser.
Eugene Register.'
Tuesday morning Jack Chase brought
to one of our local grocers two full
cases, or 60 dozen eggs, being the prod
uct or his own hens since Saturday
nignt J! riaay morning he brought ln
four and a half cases more, or in all
o dozen eggs ln five days. Our read
ers can do a little figuring on this to
see if the poultry business pays, as he
received is cents per dozen for them.
Jack is doing some Intensive farming
on- a small farm and has made money
on everything ne fiat put ln and at
tended to ln the right shape. It is
this kind of farming that Is going to
make the land tributary to Eugene
worm an tnat is Deing paid for it and
more, too. Folks who are telling that
fruit and other good land is not worth
the money being paid for it had bet
ter stop and figure out some of these
problems' before they go to kicking too
hard.
Farm Lectore. on Ocean Liners.
New York Herald.
In order to give points to immigrants
coming over, the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society of New York will
put lecturers on each of the big liners,
who, by means of addresses in the Immi
grants' native language, as well as by
moving pictures, will point out the dis
advantages of life ln the American cities
and the advantages of life on the farms.
His Honored Name.
Chicago Record-Herald
He wandered from the little town
A doaen year, or more ago;
He hoped he might achieve renown.
And fancied he was dolnr' so;
He thought of those who stayed behind
To toll unseen and die unknown
While he. more fortunate than they.
"Was mounting upward day by day
And claiming; laurel, a. hi. own.
Ho went back, when ha thought his fame
Had spread to every land and clime.
When he supposed his honored name
Had been exalted for all time
When he believed that every man
From Budapest to Hackensack,
And from Spoodoolt to Ispahan
Must know that few were greater than
He had become, he traveled back
An ancient settler met him where
He lingered when the train had
Well. Dan'l Binka, I do declare!"
gone;
The old man murmured. "Weil. I swan!
I'm glad to see you back again.
I , am. by gum! You're looking prime
Bay. DarTl. If the question's 'fair
What have you been drlvin" at. 'and where
Have you been stayln' all this time?"
MARY GARDEN TALKS OK DEBT
Sona-aUt Hints Thnt Temperamental
ly Snnen W Mra. Mayn't Pay.
New York Cor.. Chicago Tribune.
Mary Garden gave voice' to her in
dignation regarding Mrs. David Mayer,
of Chicago, wife of the retired dry
goods merchant, who, ln the language
of places where the artistic tempera
ment prevails less than it does In Miss
Garden's apartments, "grub staked"
the prima donna during her early days
as a singer.
It was with great reluctance that
Miss Garden was persuaded to speak
aerain. she was all keved un for hor
farewell to the New York public, when
she will sing Salome for the last time
this season.
Miss Mary Garden refused to see anv
callers at her apartments in East
Sixty-fifth street. Her sister. Amy,
came to the door and said, in great
trepidation, that she hoped nobody
would try to speak to Miss Garden
about those horrid Chicago people, for
she did not want her feelings disturbed
before her performance. The slightest
jar. mlKht throw her out altogether,
and the occasion was one that must
suffer no chance of such a catastrophe.
A reporter then called up Miss Gar
den's apartments on the telephone.
"Yes." said sister Amy over the, tola-
phone, "Miss Garden says she has read
the statement of the Mayers that her
conduct has been ungrateful and In
human. As to that she has only this
to say:
Mlss Garden felt she owed an artlnrlr..
debt to the Mayers. She felt she had
repaid this debt by the development of
ner an ana in lull, and that the Mayers
should have appreciated the magnifi
cent return made to them ln that way.
But Miss Garden found they felt she
still owed them a material and mer
cenary debt. She at once paid It glad
ly, because i.he did not want her artis
tio temperament deranged or Irritated
by such unpleasant matters as money
BquELODies.
'Was the money paid with Interest?"
was asked.
A long pause. Sister Amy returned
rather out of breath.
Miss Garden says." she said. "tha.t
the repayment of the money involved
an investment which brought a great,
great artistic return and was paid with
interest."
Does Miss Garden think the Mavera
justified ln calling her inhuman and
ungrateful?"
"Miss Garden says." came the answer
alter the customary pause. Dresumablv
wniie a dainty hand was held over the
telephone transmitter, "just this: 'I be
lieve that I am grateful to the Mavera
tor naving given me the .chance they
did. However, I feel they have re
ceived inestimable returns which are to
te' counted as the result which came
through my career. That payment they
had and their money has been paid
as well.- As to Mrs. Mayer's statement
that I have treated her ln any way, ln
a public or private place, ln which a
woman of refinement should not treat
any woman I believe Is untrue. I am
a woman first and an artist last.1
APRIL FOOL JOKE ON PITTSBURG
Newspaper Said Japs Had Shrlled San
Francisco and Suk Our Fleet.
.fittsDurg Dispatch, to New York.
Herald.
Credulous Pittsburg was alarmed by
report from the Pacific r-rvn.t in
which It was declared that San If run -
Cisco had been blown off the map by a
jupu.iieue neet, oaKiand had been lev
eled, some American Vessels had hn
sunk Just outside the entrance to the
Golden Gate and that gigantic aerial
Japanese monsters were crossing the
Rockies, hurling bombs on the earth
below and leaving devastation and ruin
in. tneir wake.
' The report reached Pittsburg through
the medium of the early edition of a
facetious afternoon ne.WKnn.nAr ori4.H
appeared on the streets with a flaring
ica.iine, Japanese strike Awful Blow
to America on April 1. Japs Invade
America, Destroy Fleets, Capture
Cities, Slay Inhabitants and Make April
a au awiui uay in History.
ittsburg "bit" and "bit" hard, with
in half an hour after the "news" ap
peared upon the streets the down-town
thoroughfares were black with naonla
Smlthfleld street, in front of the publi
cation office of the paper, was one
seething mass of humanity, fighting
and struggling to get within' reading
aistwice or tne Duiietin boards.
Roosevelt Is Hurrying Back," the
second bulletin read. "Seized the Ham
burg, Deposed the Captain and Took
Command, Turned Ship's Prow, Ves
sel Now Headed for the United States
and will Bring Help. Flurry at Capl
tal."
So great had the crowd become at
this time that extra police had been
called to keep order. Men clawed at
each other, tore clothes and fought.
10 maKe matters worse, one lone Chi
naman sauntered down the street. He
was not a Japanese, but he was yellow.
and the mob was in a mood to vent Its
spite. But John Chinaman saw them
coming and he Is possibly running yet.
George Cole, one of the city detec
tives, took the matter so seriously that
he started the formation of a volunteer
military company among the members
of the police force. Then the repeti
tion of the date, April 1. In the bulle
tins gradually struck the crowd and
gradually the war cloud separated.
leaving the same old pall of smoke
over the Smoky City.
STRANGE EARTHQUAKE MIRACLE
Messina Woman, Buried In Room, In
sluts Spirit Fed Her Eight Days.
Robert Hlchens in the Century.
Many curious and Improbable stories
were told in Messina after its disaster.
A woman after the shock was burled
alone ln her room The door was
blocked by fallen masonry. There was
no means of Ingress or egress, and
the rest of the house had fallen ln
ruins. She was uninjured, but she was
imprisoned. In this room she remained
for eight daya It was a bedroom and
contained no food. During the eight
aays sne gave birtn to twins. When
searchers with picks and spades dug
down to where she was, they found
her and the twins strong and well,
They took them out and questioned
her as to how she had managed to
live; why sne had not starved.
Every day a woman came and
brought me food," she answered.
They pointed out that this was im
possible, as there was no means of
getting Into or out of the room, and
the rest of the house had fallen.
"I know." she said. "Nevertheless
It Is true. I don't know how she came
or went- She neveer spoke to me or
looked at me. She was there each
day, put food for me on the table and
disappeared. I had never seen her
before and do not know who she was.
They asked for some description of
the visitor, but could obtain no details.
This woman was not raving. She
was ln good health, well nourished,
and naa nursea tne twins, who are
thriving. She persists in her story.
Old Fire Engine Relta.
Castle Rock (Wash.) Advocate.
Old Tiger, engine- No. 2, which did
noble service in New York, San Fran
Cisco, Portland and Salem, finally land
Ing in Aberdeen, where it was laid e"n
the shelf and about to be dismantled
has been given a new lease of life and
will be placed In the Chehalls County
exhibit at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific
Exposition, where it will be heartily
greeted and fondly caressed by many
old Bremen rrom all over the Coast.
The writer has put in many strenuous,
though happy, hours running with thi
old machine, and It will be a great
pleasure to us to see it once more.
THAT INVERTED GARDEN-POT HAT
It Is Shown to Have Dealt a Crushing
Blow to Wosann Suffrage,
Baltimore News.
fh!d thouht that nothing women
might do l the wajr of aress coul1
strike us with amaaement. True, we
cerniL ,L mlreKular tartlers" eon
wear In th T.ort of Karb ,hey
tion ThJ ! f r,ch Revoc
able in th, 2adreSS that fsshion-
v6 r",. En
frame of mind not en,,," ""'5" ,V . a
With o . -j turumciiawo
lin & time Vhpn nil ,rw . -
awry. We have seen hats In Tate vea"
f&fneth,.n 8? sm it hard
in circumference and heisht that it fi led
the eye like a landseane.
Yet even the blceest r,r ,!. ....
not do more than arouse In mankind a
curiosity as to where the thini
r'fA?: ?StA beco" "identnat
rii;;tU- . . usr.own judgment and
nnT 11 " What was nd what was
not becoming and had reached a sta
where, for better or worse, she w m
the hands of the milliner, as helpless as
a. rudderless boat In a storm. This was
I'vnrorc Decause even men who do not
take much Interest ln .v. '.
cerns hats, except the size of the bill"
tuvuja to realize that a little
woman four feet Ave toche uu had
no business vejLHntr - ,x
.!- lvalr all -".L IHaaf)
'I to the leobsWvant 4
wui no? tter of hats, woman-we
m a m?d " Mareh hare or
as a hatter had lost her sense of pro-
e? thatch- th6r.? 7" n0t the "UB
balk thl,. Pendulum not swim;
dSSl Way' W confidently pre-
T iTV-h.T . JrMUI "Pon our view?
J U hat ?r " inverted washtub. or has
Tr.?aP7 b0t taken to tho reet?
it? Not thins to say abot
v..? 1Ie 0,18 monstrosity remains
to hide pretty faces and stand as visible
th! hanJ woman'S lnab'ty to b,s
Jo flSS. wl" be wlllinp even
to debate the question whether she Is
hat! uffrae. Not with that
TO PROLONG
LI FID OF
TIMBER
Federal
Government EiMrlnratlar
Wltn Antiseptics and OHs.
United States Forester.
Files driven hv th. ,,, n
It 5entlr,s ago are as sound
today as when first placed. The wood-
'II', wh,oh the Egyptians
burled their dead are still preserved
in perfect condition after thousands
of years of service.
me longevity of Umber under these
two extremes of ellmiia on
adIw haS nat"rally made people
astt What causes wood to decay? The
- - . lungi ann bacteria, low
forms of plant life which live In the
wood and draw their nourishment from
It. The little organisms are so little
that a microscope is required to see
them, yet their work results In the
destruction of billions of feet of tim
ber each year and the railroad corpor
ation with its cross-tie bill running up
cvii ngures and tne farmer who
spends a hundred or so dollars a year
for fence posts, are alike drawing upon
. . Ke Dl experts in all parts
of the world . In efforts to learn the
most economical and most satisfact
ory method of preserving wood against
the Inroads of decay.
The small organisms ran o-i-n-n. t-KA-
ln light or in total darkness; but all
of them require air, food, moisture and
heat. If one or more of these essen
tial requirements is lacklno- th
not live, and the decay of timber will
not take place. Wood constantly sub
merged in water never rots, simply be
cause there Is an insufficient B,r,i.
of air. This condition aremmt.
the soundness of the old Raitin tiio
On the other hand. If wood can be kept
ii wm noc decay, because
there will then be too little moisture.
The timber used by the Egyptians will
last indefinitely so long as it is bone
dry.
There are a great many cases, how
ever, where It la Impossible to keep
wood submerged in water, or in an
absolutely air-dry condition. Decay
may be prevented by two general
methods by treating the wood with
antiseptics, thus poisoning the food
supply of the organisms which cause
decay, and by treating it with oils
which render it waterproof. A com
bination of these two methods is most
commonly used, as when wood is treat
ed with creosote, which fills up the
pores of the timber and keeps out
water, and Is also a powerful anti
septic. The United States Government con
siders, the investigations of the pre
servative treatment of timber of such
importance that the business of one
branch of a bureau in the Department
of Agriculture the office of wood
preservation in the forest service at
Washington Is given over entirely
to the work of experiments in co-operation
with railroad companies and In
dividuals, ln prolonging the life of
ralroad ties, mine props, bridge tim
bers, fence posts and transmission
poles. Advice and practical assistance
Is furnished all who request this ad
vice of the forester.
Snre Sign of Mental Incapacity.
Philadelphia Dispatch to the New York
Tribune.
The reading only of headlines of
newspapers and a disposition to eschew
editorials were given as evidence of
mental Incapacity at the hearing before
the register of wills of the contest of
the will of William Johnson Binney,
who left a large estate, and. inciden
tally, $5000 to Dr. Matthew C. Balnes.
It was alleged that the physician had
exerted undue influence over Binney,
and George W. Tyler, a nurse, said
Binney showed marked peculiarities in
skipping the text of articles in news
papers and magazines and reading only
the heads. He said also that once he
read an editorial to his employer, who
did not seem to grasp its meaning.
Apostles' Names for Cat Collars.
Camden, N. J., Dispatch.
In a case ln court at Newark, N. J.,
in which the sanity of a woman whose
will was in dispute was involved, one
man testified that the woman came one
day to him with collars for 13 cats,
which she wanted engraved with the
names of the 12 apostles.
gCPTOSEPLY HUMOROUS.
"Vot'a der difference between capital unl
labor?" "Capital don't haf ter labor, ur.t
labor don't haf der capital." Cleveland
Ladtr. . .
Visitor And when your prisoners are un
ruly, how do you smooth them down?
Warden Easily, ma'am. We iron 'em.
Baltimore American. t
"Isn't it too bad!" sighed Mrs. Lapsling,
"1 shall have to go to the dentist's again.
I find I have another vicarious tooth in mi
upper jaw!" Chicago Tribune.
"The climate is considered very healthy
here, I believe," remarked the tourist in
Arizona. "Yes, if you mind your own busi
ness," replied the native. Philadelphia
Record.
"Which do you prefer, protection or free
trade?" "Well," answered the orator, "it
depends on the audience 1 am &ddreslnK.
In most cases I find it advisable -to com
promise on the humorous anecdote."
Washington 6 tar.
"What do you think of Miss Calihope's
voice ?" whispered the tall girl with the
mountainous pompadour. - "She sings like
a pirate." growled the rud. man ln the
starry vest. "Like a pirate? Gracious!
And what is the resemblance?" "She's
rough on the high C'." Chicago raily
Nem.