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8 THE NORXENG OREGOAX. SATUKDAT. .MAT" 14. 1m. , &t (Dmrimmu PORTLAVD, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Org;on. Postoffice as l-rond-Cla Matter. tubscriptlon Bates Invariably In Advance. (BY MAIL). Pally, Sunday Included, ona year $9.00 Pally, Sunday included, six months.... 4. 25 Oally. Sunday Included, three months. . 2 25 gaily, Sunday Included, ona month..... -75 . ally, without Sunday, one year 6-00 Psily. without Sunday, aix month!.... 8 25 Daily, without Sunday, three months.. 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month 00 tVeelrly, one year 1.50 Sunday, ona year , 2 60 Sunday and weekly, ona year. 8.50 (By Carrier). Daily. Sunday Included, one year...... -00 Dally. Sunday included. one month T5 How to Remit Send Postoffice money Irder, express order or personal check on rour local bank. Stamps, coin or currency kre at the sender's risk. Give postoffice ad Bress In full. Including; county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 16 to 2ft pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, 8 cents; o to 60 pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage Souble rate Eaktern BuslneM Office The S. C. Beck-s-iln Special Agency New York, rooms 48 10 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 310 612 Tribune building. PORTLAND. SATITUAY. MAY 1. 1910. RT-FTBI.ICANS OX T0"VV" GRADE? Democrats are in high glee over the Bspect of . National polities. It seems probable that they will win the House of Representatives in the elections next November. Should their good fortune and Republican Insurgency continue, as they fondly hope, they may then win the Presidency in 1912 end enough Legislatures to give them R majority of the members of the tTnited States Senate. Thereafter a large number of Re publican office-holders -will be turned out to grass. Insurgents and various kinds of reformers with the rest. Re publican holders and seekers of Fed eral office In Oregon will join the down-and-out procession and Demo cratic patriots who have tramped hun gry these sixteen long years past will come Into th fullness of victory. This Is a dream too good for possi ble consummation, in the minds of many Democrats. They fear that the wrong thing at the right time" may be repeated. Their . most cautious prophets are counseling wisdom and circumspection and trying to hold in pober channels the enthusiasm that is beginning to -well up In. the party. The country has had more than a decade of unparalleled prosperity and growth, within a fourteen-year period of Republican administration. Now it evidently seeks a change of some sort. Republicans came Into control promis ing to raise prices, and now the people think prices are too high. Democrats were-put out because they were, held accountable for. low prices, and now they hope to get in again by promis ing low prices. Workers get larger Bhare of the fruits of their labor than ever before, yet think they see better things In political change. Democrats spread discontent with protective tariff, yet do not offer the one remedy for evils of protection tariff for rev enue only Of course they could not carry out such a policy, owing to the multiplicity of their Interests -demanding protection in all states that may Join the Democratic fold. Their shift ing of duties will amount simply to making-the tariff lighter for some in terests and heavier for others, because their own pet industries must be pro tected. The old issue within the Democratic party between radicalism and conserv atism may recur, however, as of old. It Is this that Is making wise counsel ors fear that the outlook is too good to be true. In New York, where Bryan radicalism Is held as an abomination, they are crying aloud for revival of Democratic "safe and sane" doctrines. Meanwhile, old-time radicals, includ ing Bryan himself, are saying little. There have been insurgents In the Democratic party on the one side and then on the other, so often wrecking the plans of the regulars, that great anxiety exists along with the joy. The gnashing of teeth several weeks ago, when Bryan's letter at the Jefferson day feast in Indianapolis dragged free silver from the tomb. Is one of the re cent hateful memories. But internal strife, which has been the bane of Democrats these many years, has now invaded the Republi can party. There seems no chance of reconciliation among Republicans in such states as Indiana and Iowa. Re publicans of New Tork have no recog nized leader, 'now that Hughes has been appointed to the Supreme Court. Scandal in Illinois Is bound-to be dam aging to Republicans: Insurgency in various states has split the party "wide open." Power and prosperity have been too much for the Republican partv, and are bringing it to wreck and ruin Politicians of the Beverldge-Cummlns stamp have sought to exalt themselves at the expense of their party. Though they may have done so for the mo ment, the avenging hand that Is work ing for disruption will not spare them. In Indiana Beveridge and in Nebraska Burkett are fated for downfall along with the ruins of their party.' And there are others. Now the question rises. Can Democrats avail themselves of their opportunity? SHIP Sl-BSIDY'S SHORTCOMINGS. The annual report of the directors of the Cunard line for 1909 has just been made public. This report is of special Interest to the Americans who have been misled by the claque and sophistry of the subsidy-seekers for the famous old Cunard line has always been held up as an example of the benevolence of the British government In providing subsidies for Its ships. But the Cunard line, with its prestige of more than half a century of splen did service, and enjoying the most liberal subsidy that Great Britain pays '.o any ships flying her flag, was obliged to pass the dividend, although the earnings of the line for the twelve months reached the enormous total of more than $14,000,000. After paying operating expenses and making the usual disbursements for repairs. Interest and other expenses, there remained as net profits 8434,. 940. Following Its usual necessary nd prudent custom, the company transferred $400,000 of this amount to the reserve fund, leaving available for dividends the comparatively In significant sum of $34,940, a figure so small that no attempt was made to declare a dividend and the amount was carried forward to the credit of the 1910 profit and loss account. It Is of course needless to say that the Cunard line received but an insignifi cant portion of Its earnings from the country whose flag flies over the fleet. All of the accommodations of the magnificent passenger and freight steamers of the line were at the serv ice of the American people at a rate so low that even the addition of the mail aad. naval reserve subsidy of the British government was Insufficient to enable the stockholders to get any dividend from the 1909 business. The Cunard report presents In the plainest possible manner the problem that must be faced by the American people if any attempt Is to be made to establish a subsidy-supported mer chant marine. If the Cunard line, with cheap ships, cheap labor, low interest rates and the most liberal subsidy that Is received by any Brit ish line. Is unable In a year of world wide prosperity"to pay even a small dividend, what can we expect to do with an American merchant marine? With high-priced ships paid for with money which would command a high rate of Interest, and operated by high priced labor, we are from the begin ning suffering a handicap of such vast proportions that It would be Impos sible to secure a subsidy large enough to Overcome It. ' To summarize,- the foreigners are handling our ocean carrying trade so -much cheaper than we can handle it ourselves that any benefits which might result from the change is more than offset by the economic loss that would result. WATER RATES A POTENT FACT. " Whenever fact and theory collide. It does not require a very close examina tion to disclose which has suffered most. Senator Heyburn. of Idaho, and the Spokane Spokesman-Review are both vehement In expounding their theory that water competition does not exist. Tet the Spokane paper finds It financially advantageous to ship Its Ink by water to Portland and thenoe by rail inland, and Senator Heyburn's constituents find a similar saving In shipping farm machinery by water. Now comes the Interstate Com merce Commission with another deci sion Irt favor of the fact and against the theory. The railroads had ad vanced a rate on wagons from $1.25 to $1.35 per hundred pounds. Then the business left them and took the water route. To get any of it back it was necessary to restore the $1.25 rate. This brought a demand for a rebate from a wagon company. In ruling on the demand the Commission denied the rebate, holding "that the carriers were forced by water compe tition to restore the lower rate in or der to get the business, and not be cause the higher rate was unreason able." - NEED OV TH E DilTIATITE. All the people of the United States are not going to be satisfied with the Congressional railroad bill. It has several clauses over which there are Irreconcilable differences. People In the Coast states want the water-rate clause to stand; people in. the interior do not. Some favor a commerce court; some think one railroad In no circumstances should own stock Jn a competing road; and the expert rate makers think pooling should be legal ized. Some of these vital features are in the bill, others have been eliminat ed or modified. The railroad bill as It emerges from Congress is a sadly bunged-up affair. Obviously here is a question con trol and regulation of the railroads of the country which will never be set tled until it is settled right. Congress is utterly unable to pass a practicable measure, so that nearly everybody who cares anything at all about the great problem of the railroads is dis satisfied with one feature or another of the bill. Let us therefore ignore Congress and as a nation take over the duty of lawmaking under the wise guidance of some inspired lawgiver. Clearly the need of the nation, today Is the initiative and a people's power league covering the forty-six states. In this way only can a perfect measure be devised, and the will of the people be declared and all Issues thus happily determined. Let us have an initia tive bill for the railroads and for all other questions which nobody has yet been able to solve. The initiative will fix 'em. . , ENORMITY - OF "CONSERVATION." When, one considers that 12 per cent of the area of the continental United States is withdrawn from use and settlement, and that most of this land is west of the Rocky Mountains, he begins to have some realization of the stagnating effect of so-called con servation on Western growth. Already the reserved areas exceed the com bined extent of Washington, Oregon, and California, not Including . tim ber tracts which are withheld out side reserves by "regulations," In vio lation of the laws of homestead and timber entry. ,In the Ballinger investigation in the National capital Secretary Ballinger recited that the total of withdrawn areas on April 1, 1909, was more than 375.000 square miles, in the United States and Alaska proper, as follows: Acres. Alaskan coal withdrawal! 8.000,000 Conservation water resources.... 077,000 Withdrawals from all entries un der reclamation act..... 57O.700 Reservoir and power-plant with drawals 40,000 Bird reservation withdrawals.... Coal withdrawals. United States, exclusive of Alaska.... 22.119.fl40 Oil withdrawals 3.65O.200 Phosphate withdrawals 4.0O0 000 Winter game refuge withdrawal. 13S.240 National forests 194.500,043 Temporary withdrawals for pro posed forests T.940,4Sa Forest administrative sites out side of National forests 13.275 Total .241,534,584 With exception of Irrigation with drawals, these lands are fenced off from settlers and capitalists. In pursu ance of Impracticable theories of con servation. Most of the withdrawals are without sanction of law. In Alaska the statute fixed a valuation of $10 an acre for cession of coal lands, . and there was no legal authority for with drawal of any part of the 8,000,000 acres in that territory. Water-power withdrawals have no statutory author ity, nor have the phosphate and - oil withdrawals. The same is true as to the withdrawal of forest administra tive sites outside of National forests. On these legal points the testimony of Secretary Ballinger before the com mittee was clear and conclusive, yet he admitted that he had continued the conservation policy that had caused the withdrawals. When he came in office as Secretary, in March, 1909, he restored some 3,000,000 acres to entry that Secretary Garfield added as necessary adjuncts to water-power sites. Just now the Government Is engaged In restoring 4,000,000 acres of the foregoing total, under the classi fication of non-forest lands. At Pas saic, N. J., last Monday, President Taft announced that the Government need ed an act of Congress to make lawful the withdrawal of some 60.000,000 acres on account of the very grave doubt that the reservation of this land, "if subjected to the test of legality In the courts, could stand." Here, then, is a fad of conservation that obstructs upbuilding of the West in disregard both of the law and of the needs of this part of the Nation, and Substitutes for a regime of law one of a multitudinous bureaucracy. There will be no protest in the West against reasonable withdrawals of lands for forest reserves, nor against correction of laws that make fraud easy In exploitation of resources. But the enormous reservations that save been made in the West in obedience to non-resident theories of Pinchotism are an abuse and an evil that will leave their restrictive impress upon the growth of this part of the United States. NOMINATING JUDGES. The project to turn the nomination of judges over to the lawyers exclu sively is open to grave objections. Since no other candidates would be admitted, of course, the nomination would be equivalent to, election, and the real outcome of the plan would be that the bar -would appoint the members of the state judiciary. No person could ever become a Judge who was not popular with the lawyers, and thus the influence of the bar over the bench, which is already regrettably noticeable, would become irresistible. No court would dare to issue a deci sion which was likely to offend the lawyers as a profession. No Judge would venture to begin those reforms In procedure which are so essential to the welfare of the public because they would not be popular among the lawyers. The profession, profits by chicanery, procrastination, quibbles and -dilatory pleas and with the virtual appointment of the Judiciary given over to it, what changes for the better could we ever expect? The judges would become simply the passive tools of those who put them in place. There are two conceivable argu ments in favor of the plan proposed, but neither of them will stand exam ination. The first is to the effect that lawyers understand better than any body else what qualities a Judge ought to have and would therefore make better selections. This is extremely doubtful. Men of ordinary ability and experience know as well as the law yers do what makes a good judge. There is nothing mysterious about his qualifications. He must know the law, he must be courageous and impartial. The latter traits are much more im portant than the former, because a man may learn what he does not know, but if he lacks the fundamental judicial virtues he is bound to be a failure on the bench. Nor can it be conceded that lawyers are more likely than ordinary citizens to select good judges. They are so fettered by pro fessional prejudices and so misled by self-interest that they are probably much less likely. The chances are a dozen to one that the electorate In general will In a given instance choose a better judge than the lawyers will. The other argument is that the law yers have a unique interest in the character of the Judges. From one point of view they have, but taken broadly, the statement is glaringly fallacious. The lawyer has a profes sional interest In the prejudices and temperament of the judge. ' With a pliable man on the bench, one set of practitioners will have a decided ad vantage over some other set. The interest of the public in the character of the men who must often decide questions affecting their lives and property is much more funda mental than anything merely profes sional can possibly be. The courts are a vital organ of civilization, and it would be suicidal for the civilized public to permit the control over them to lapse into the hands of any re stricted class. Complaints are numer ous enough now of class influence upon the tribunals of justice. It would be unpardonably indiscreet to multi ply grounds for the charge. The legal profession can help raise the charac ter of the bench most effectively by uniting to indorse the nominations of desirable candidates, but the nomina tions themselves should be made in the same way as those of other officials. Ml'SlC- IN THE PlTiUC SCHOOLS. Do we hear and read aright? Does the State Grange really believe that the study of music should be made compulsory in the public schools? Come, come, good friends, this Is car rying education at the public expense a little too far. In point of fact, the study of music in the public schools is a howling farce. Not one out of twenty teachers in the schools has any talent or taste in music, or any natural Voice for singing. Very few of them have had more thanthe merest pre tense of instruction ill it. A few children in every class can be taught to sing, or could be, if they were properly directed by teachers who knew how to teach them. But the large majority of them cannot sing and do not try to sing, even when coached vigorously by distracted teachers, who themselves cannot sing, in order that they may make some sort of a showing when the supervisor of music makes his infrequent rounds. If a child has a voice that later on it would be worth while to cultivate un der the direction of a teacher chosen by judicious, parents, this voice Is more than likely to be overstrained and "cracked" by the instruction re ceived in a class that squeaks in every key under the leadership of .a teacher who knows little or nothing about music, and who frankly admits her de ficiency in this line. THE RUBBER BUBBLE. The report that Peru and Ecuador are about to fight over their boundary line is probably true. There are a number of the South American na tions which seem to enjoy nothing so much as a petty war. It stands them in place of the Sunday picnic and the baseball game which supply cheap entertainment to the American public. If there is nothing substantial to fight over, such countries as Ecuador and Peru experience no difficulty in in venting something. Any little dispute will do. They each carry a chip on their shoulders and are aching for somebody to knock, it off. There are three or four South American nations, notably Chile and the Argentine Re public, which nave progressed far be yond this primitive love of bloodshed and their energy has been rewarded with prosperity and great military prestige. It is not the nation which Is readiest to fight over nothing which wins the most battles. Argentine con tains cities comparable In population with St. Louis and a great deal more beautiful and better governed. To prove that neighbors in South America need not be enemies, we may remember that Argentine and Chile, by Joint action, have pierced the Andes with, a tunnel, and now it is possible to ride across the continent without changing cars. On the other hand, the eastern, or Andean, territory be longing to Peru end Ecuador has scarcely been explored at all. It is a dense tropical forest, destitute of roads and inhabited only by roaming ad venturers or savages. This is the re gion where the rubber tree flourishes. It might be a source of countless wealth' and even under present condi tions produces large quantities of rubber, but it Is said that the possible output of this valuable product ex ceeds hundreds of times over anything that has yet been obtained. The natural rubber trees of South America are so numerous that it is highly unlikely that artificial planta tions will be profitable for many years to come, unless the conditions are very exceptional. This is the princi pal reason why the rubber bubble, now swelling in London, is sure to burst soon with disastrous conse quences to everybody concerned. The petty frontier wars only serve to re tard the development of this lucra tive industry. The Washington state grain Inspec tion law, which has never been much else than a farce, has Just received a staggering blow from the State Su preme Court. The court holds that after a warehouse owner has pur chased wheat at an interior point and hipped it to himself at tidewater, the public has no interest in the transac tion, and the owner of the wheat can not be forced to pay the inspection fee. Since the grain Inspection law was imposed on the State of Washing ton, it has cost the wheat-growers many thousand dollars annually and has been devoid of benefits, for the simple reason that neither foreign nor domestic buyers will pay the slightest attention to the state grades. The "Duwamish graingrowers, the largest oats producers in Washington, mutinied against inspection the first year the law was on the statute books and no attempt has ever been made since to force them to pay inspection fees. The matter has always been of considerable interest to. Oregon, for there Is never a legislative session that does not find some energetic place-hunter endeavoring to foist a similar law on this state. The first carload of 1910 catch of salmon was shipped from Astoria Wednesday, 11 days after the opening of the season. The first carload and a great many other carloads of Ore gon wool of the 1910 clip have already reached the Eastern markets. In a few days the first carload of Oregon strawberries will be pleasing tile Eastern epicures. Within the next 60 days the first carload of 1910 wheat will reach the market from the Ore gon grain fields. Then will come hops and fruit In tralinloads. And the fin est state in the Union will have com pleted another annual harvest of the fields, the orchards and the waters, and a great many more millions will have been added to the wealth of the people. Meanwhile lumber, livestock and dairying; the three great indus tries for which there is no "close sea son," are steadily Increasing the flow of that golden stream which pours into Oregon from all parts of the world. The order for 12,400 freight-cars at a cost of $13,750,000 by the Harri man lines, as announced in The Orego nian yesterday, shows that Harriman's successors will continue to do busi ness at the old stand but on a larger scale. Presumably most of this new equipment will be put into use west of the Rocky Mountains, where agri cultural development has been larger than in the territory served by the Harriman lines east of the great di vide. Oregon, Washington and Idaho are certain to come in for a full share. The new line up the Deschutes will need a lot of this new rolling stock about the time it Is ready to leave the shops; so will the Tillamook road and the extensions north from Klamath Falls and south from Natron. It seems as if the , Union Pacific and Southern Pacific have taken all neces sary precautions against a car famine within the next two years. Now comes our friends, the Grang ers sturdy apostles of the gospel of economy in official life as they long have been urging the necessity of two additional state offices. They think Oregon has rubbed along, so to speak, long enough without a Lieutenant-Governor and a state Auditor, and they favor the creation of these two additional offices. Is this evi dence of the introduction of politicians into the farmers' organization? Time was, as we all remember, when the farmer folk thought there were too many public officials supported by their taxes, and made bold to say so. What has Induced this- change of mind? . Once more the cry js heard down the Columbia River pass from straw berry growers: "Come over into Walla Walla, and help us." And no one an swers. Loafing in. the Plaza and the Park blocks of Portland are a regi ment or more of men who would rather rail at the tyranny of capital and wail because the poor man has no chance than to earn money in health ful, pleasant employment. The very worst roads in : the' Mis souri Valley are said - to be between Kansas City and Omaha, where lies some . of the richest farming country in the world. This is cited in proof of the oft-repeated statement that only an enormously rich country can afford to have bad roads. A Portland white-slaver is held in $5000 bonds. In Seattle, where if is said there are 700 or 800 in the busi ness, similar action would force a. financial stringency. The latest menace' to industrial life Is the explosion of cars of dynamite in transit, Ttt the stuff is needed in economic development and the chance must be taken. The recovery of the lost little boy in an exhausted condition emphasizes the fact that a 2-year-old child re quires care. The proposition to change the shape of American currency is a scheme to reduce the size of a man's pile. It seems curious to see the Beavers lose at home and win when abroad. Perhaps it is In the influence. , Of a verity, lawyers should be al lowed to select the Judges, and pris oners the sheriffs and jailers. " POLITICAL -PARTIES COMPARED. Republicanism and Pemsiuu. and Knv - Issue Wit n Xew Leadens. EUGENE. Or., May IS. (To the Ed itor.) Has the Republican party be come retrograde, or is It changing its general line of policy? Has age any thing to do with It, or is it a mere eddy In the current which" time or new leaders will reverse? Of the two great historical parties, the Democratic, beginning with the Anti-Federalist, and the modern Re publican, beginning; with the Federal ist, certain tendencies seem to be cer tain or fixed. As new issues or ques tions come, new leaders arise, but the two great lines of parties seem to have, after all, a certain unity in their gen eral purpose or views. In general. It may be said of one that its main tenet or faith is strict construction and local supremacy and of the other, liberal construction of the Constitution and National supremacy. These general fundamentals In each seem to tinge or affect the policy or trend of each on nearly all Issues that arise. That Is. one rules mainly in the -abstract, the other In the concrete. One favors. In the main, action in the mass of the people, the other. action in the indi vidual. As partly illustrative of this take the policy of each political party on some great question: Democratic Party. 1. Strict con struction. 2. State rights Republican Party. 1. Liberal con struction. 2. National rights (opposed" to seces (Including right ofl secession ). 3. Favored U. S banka. sion;. 3. Opposed to TJ. S. banks. 4. Opposed slave 4. Favored slave system (or favored system (or local local regulation of regulation). 5. Favored Na tional banking sys tem. 6. Opposed (ex cept as necessary in war) the green back system and lo same). 5. Opposed Na tional banking sys tem. 8- Favored green- dscks and local regulation of cur rency, j cal regulation. 7. Opposed. In the 7. r avors the pro main until recent ly, the protective tariff system. . 8. Favored or fa vors) free coinage tective system. 8. Opposes free coinage of both metals (favors the of both leading! luoLuis as money. gold standard). There seems to be a. striking sim ilarity (or opposition) of tendency here, as much so perhaps as In that of Whig or Tory in Great Britain. Is it true that parties are dead? The recent insurgent movement, rais ing some question as to the necessities of parties, may result in a break-up of organizations of one or other or recasting of the - leadership in same, but it Is hardly likely that trie two great organizations will cease while the present form of government en dures. E. W. DOLAN. ONE NORMAL SCHOOL FOR OREGON. Experience of Kanaaa Oagkt to Be Guide for This State. ALBANY, Or.. May 13. (To the Ed itor.) For nine years I had the honor of holding a professorship- in the State Normal School of Kansas. When Dr. A. R. Taylor came there in 1882 as president be found a situation some what similar to the one existing in Oregon- previous to the action of the last Legislature. President Taylor took Immediate steps to centralize all the normal Instruction in the state at the State Normal at Emporia, and soon built up a good, strong institution. One of the most effective means in bring ing this about was to get the Legisla ture to pass a law refunding all mile age over 100 miles to the students. In this manner the Institution was brought within a radius of 100 miles to every student in the state. Would not such a law be a good thing for Oregon? It would be especially appre ciated here on account of the difficulty of travel across the state. Under the circumstances I think the last Legislature acted most wisely in refusing any more aid to the existing normals. Let' Oregon build one first class, dignified State Normal School, equipped with all modern appliances, and the teachers of the state will rise up and call her blessed. (Mrs.) VIOLA PRICE FRANKLIN.' Fualng of the Parlor Steve. Washington Herald. "All modern improvements" is the sign attached to every up-to-date ' apartment nowadays, and 'there are some advantages in these new-fangled notions that every body demands, yet there is a pathetic side connected with this desire for con veniences and luxuries in the homes of today. Rural or urban life has lost many of the characteristics of former decades, when visits, whether social or business, played a larger part in the life of the citizen than they do today. When a caller came to the house, he was first of fered refreshments, and was then Invited into the parlor or sitting-room, where of a Winter afternoon or evening a bright fire was burning in the stove or grate. This fire was the center of the home sociability. From It radiated the warmth of the welcome; about it gathered host and guest; Its bright blaze symbolized the sparkle of the conversation; Its mel low glow typified the reflective moments, and its dying embers marked the hour of departure. Such a picture can be seen In too few homes of today. Here and there is a fire place, but the habits of the present gen eration are such as to preclude any pos sibility of a visit for the Interchange of opinion. Calls, even when Informal, are usually matter-of-fact. Motor Accessories. Queen. The new motor car luncheon table is finding many appreciative purchasers and all credit is due to the one who thought of making a box of a size to fit on the step of the car with legs to hold up underneath. It is fitted with the usual thermos flask, plated box for chicken and so on, and underneath is a drawer for cutlery, while when opened out the top will be found to be a card table, as in the case of the trav eling washstand. Another capital luncheon case is the one in the form of a footstool with a corrugated rubber-covered top bound with brass. This is, of course, absolutely dustproof. For a party of four it is better to have two of these cases fitted for two each than a larger one for the four. Another ac cessory is a nice large pocket with a board in it for winding veils on and a couple of books with properly spaced and ruled pages for a record of the trips and expenses. Valuable Conveniences. Lowell Courier-Citizen. A grocer in Sioux Falls, S. D., has bounced his bookkeeper, ordered his telephone out and sold his teams. His customers are asked to step in, select and pay cash for the goods and take them home. The merchant cuts his prices and bellvep he has thereby helped to reduce the cost of living. But sup pose everybody did business in that way? Living might be cheaper but it would not be worth so much. The wise shopkeeper will continue his trad ing on modern lines and with up-to-date methods and conveniences. The customers are willing to pay for these things because they are worth ' the price. Always In It. Indianapolis News. It doesn't make any difference what kind of politics it is American, Egyp tian or Norwegian the Colonel is promptly tn it with both feet. soo BUYS TIMBER HERE Eastern Road, With Canadian Pa cific In Deal. In order to show prospective shippers that the allied roads are willing; to purchase supplies in the country from which they desire to draw trade. W. S. Tarrant, 'of the purchasing depart ment of the Soo Line, was In Portland yesterday placing orders for between 2.000.000 and 3.000.000 feet of lumber for immediate delivery. Mr. Tarrant signified that he prob ably would be aMe to place orders of similar or greater volume every three months In Oregon. This is the first time the Canadian Pacific Railroad and the Minneapolis. St. Paul & Sattlt St, Marie Railway have entered the local market. Previ ously they have largely relied on the Auuiut supplies oi Wisconsin and the South, but Mr. Tarrant was most em phatic that In the future it was the Intention of the roads to purchase all the lumber required In Oregon and Washington, giving the greater volume of business to Oregon. The last order placed in Washington was somewhat larger than the con tracts placed yesterday In Portland, but Mr. Tarrant said that was because he had not. previously had the opportunity to investigate the Oregon market. Yesterday, in company with General Freight Agent Cardie, Mr. Tarrant vis ited the various lumber yards to pick out a high grade of manufactured hard fir suitable for box cars. If he is suc cessful In finding what he requires large orders will Be placed. "The Oregon hard fir Is even superior to the Alabama fir," said Mr. Tarrant. "We are anxious to help develop a country from which we are drawing business and placing our supply orders is the best way we can do It. And I would like to point out this Is some what exceptional" for you don't hear of any American road going over the border to purchase In Canada, yet w'e are a Canadian road coming down here for our supplies.- This Is but the be ginning and as we continue building we shall place still more orders here. The superiority of the Oregon fir alone would insure that," OPPOSE EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE Seventh - Street Property - Owners Want Tracks Open to All. Resolving that the Seventh street fran chise be revoked in-Its entirely, the Sev enth street property-owners met yester day in the offices of Attorney Moody to discuss the Hill franchise and the plans of the United Railways on Seventh street. Expressing its desire to be fair to the railway company, resolutions were also passed by the gathering that electrio roads be .granted the franchise. If there was no attempt at a monopoly that would be obnoxious to the owners of property along the street. It was the intention of the United Railways Company to build from Sev enth and Irving streets along Seventh to Hall, then east to Sixth, then along Sixth to Sherman street; also to build from Seventh and Taylor, along Taylor to Front street, to permit connection with the .tracks of the Oregon Electric Rail way. It is understood that the United Rail ways now admit their willingness to abandon the franchise, but the property owners, through Attorney Moody, said it was their desire to see a double-track, broad- gauge line constructed, with a third rail, permitting the street cars to traverse the tracks and a common-user privilege, granted thereon. Thomas Scott Brooke, chairman of the meeting, appointed a committee of five to wait on the directorate of the United Railways to discuss the matter and to continue any negotiations that may be necessary. TRACKLAYERS NEAR BRIDGE Southern Pacific Is Making Good Progress at Oswego. So fast has track-laying progressed to ward the east side of the new Southern Pacific bridge at Oswego that within a week it will be possible for a construc tion train to approach the bridge. Already the tracklayers are at the san itarium a little south of Mllwaukle and they will rush the work along the grad ing through the bluff. ' At the bridge, the west side span has already been com pleted and the east side span has been awaiting the arrival of material, which will be hurried to the spot on the com pletion of the spur from Milwaukie. The Oswego bridge is a high bridge, so that there will be no draw. Masted schooners and the usual traffic of the Willamette River at this point can easily go under it. According to an agreement, a depot must be erected at Jefferson street, Milwaukie. SXOW STORMS ADVERTISE ROAD Great Northern Shows How Pleasant It Is to Bo "Snowbound." A snow storm that blocks traffic is usually a matter a railroad attempts to apologise for, but the versatile ad vertising man of the Great Northern uses the snow storm of last April, when Great Northern trains were stalled for periods of one to three days in South Dakota as an advertising medium. In a little booklet entitled "Snow Bound" special attention is drawn to the conveniences that attend being tied up by snowdrifts on the Great Northern Railway and the .inference is plainly inserted that it is more enjoyable to to be snowbound on the Great Northern than to travel in peace and quietness on any other road. Trolley May Reach Oswego. - On the understanding, that if it is presented with the rights-of-way, the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company has agreed to construct a line from Oregon City to the outskirts of Oswego. While at a later date the line may be extended into the heart of .Oswego, there is no intention to continue the line into Portland in com petition with the Jefferson street line of the Southern Pacific, say officials of this company. B. S. Josselyn, president of the com--pany, said last night that the road would not be constructed if any rights-of-way had to be paid for. Lewis- River to Rave Good Road. WOODLAND, Wash., May 13. (Spe cial.) The contract for the first work on state road No. 15, authorized by the last session of the State Legislature, was let a few days ago and the work will.be done the coming Summer. It will elim inate the worst hill and will make the grade very easy. This road extends from Woodland into Skamania County, a dis tance of 65 miles, and will afford easy ingress and egress to the upper Lewis River country and to Mount St. Helens and Trout Lake. Woman Drinks Poison. HTLLSBORO, Or., May 13. (Special.) Mrs. Ernest W. Foord, formerly Miss Dora Smith, took carbolic acid in an at tempt to commit suicide this afternoon In the presence of her husband. Dr. F. A. Bailey was summoned and adminis tered alcohol and saved ' the woman's life, although her condition is still criti cal. The Foords were married In this city August 19, 1908. The wife has been In ill health for some time and was re cently in a Spokane hospital. WITNESS SA YS' iHE WAS T BRCSTst " Inebriate's Perjury Convicted Man of Illegal Liquor Selling. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Af i ,c cial.) Startling developments came to light tOdaV In the ,i against Charles Beers, convicted of sell ing liquor on Sunday. G. L. Martin was brought into court today on a bench war rant to explain to the court why he had testified falsely when on the witness .stand for the state. In an affidavit filed In court today. whe a. muiion ior a new trial was nre- 1 ted. Martin (wtof-a K o sent hou lnt - iiiil o. r unK- luspr. Witrtec fn. . , . Intoxicated for several days prior to the trial. oiiu Kepi repeating to him that Charles naa sola nim whisky on He now RWAara hie .-,...; Sunday. was - otiuiuuy false. Ha rava that -ViAn - - w - ua wont the witness stand against Beers he i so drunk that Via i .j i. ; . r was --VJU1U til notmng xo say except what Funkhouser had repeated to him. Martin was turned over to the Sheriff, and charges will be preferred against him Monday by J P Stapleton. County Attorney. The motion for a new trial for Beers was overruled by Judge McMaster and sentence will be passed upon him Monday morning. ADVEXTISTS PLAN COXFEREXCE Camp Meeting W ill Be Held at Van couver May 2 6-Jane 5. VANCOUVER. WaslT, May 13. (Spe cial.) The annual conference of the Seventh-Day Adventists of Western Washington will be held In Vancouver May 26 to June 6. It m ill be a regular ' old-fashioned camp meeting and a small town of tents will . spring up at the site, one block from the end of the Eleventh street carllne. Six large pavilion tents and over 100 smaller tents for families arrived today and will be pitched soon. It Is expected that over 200 will be present from the part of the state west of the Cascade ' Mountains. Business sessions will be held in the forenoon and the religious session after noon end evening. Professor Hanson of the Meadow Glade Academy of Brush Prairie. Clark County, will lead his large choir and have direction of the music. Among the prominent visitors from out of the city will be representatives of the National Church Conference from Wash ington. D. C, and several from California. STOCK PENS ARE IX BAD SHAPE Inspector for Malheur County Com plains of Railroad Property. SALEM. Or.. May 13. (Special.) W. W. Hliiton, stock inspector of Malheur County, has filed with the State Railroad Commission a formal complaint against the condition of the stock pens of the Oregon Short Line near Ontario. It is stated that during the year ending March 31, 29,000 cattle. 1200 horses and 6000 sheep passed through the Ontario pens: that the fencing and gates are in . bad condition, the loading chutes without proper wings or rail extensions, and that during the rainy season the mud in the pens is so deep that in some places it is impossible to ride a horse about the en closure. It is said also that there is no water within a mile and a half, and that ship pers frequently have lost a full day al Ontario, with consequent loss on stock when the shipment reached the market. INSURANCE " FIRM AVIXS SX. I1 Railroad Held Responsible for Fire at Winona, Wash. OLYMPIA, Wash.. May 13. (Spe cial.) The State Supreme Court today, sustained the judgment for $2000 re covered against the O. R. & N. Com pany by the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. This company paid $2000 in surance on the store of L.. M. L. Lester, which was destroyed by fire at Win ona. The company then sued the rail way, conteding the railway was liable for the spread of fire. The blaze started from cinders dropped on the track near the depot. .The railway's responsibility arose chiefly from the fact that during the depot fire explosives stored there scat tered the embers to surrounding struc tures, of 'which Lester's store was one. Will of Colonel Goss Filed. VANCOUVER, Wash., May 13. (Spe cial.) The will of the late Colonel James T. Goss, ex-Commander of the Depart ment of Washington and Alaska. Grand' Army, was filed for probate today. It appoints Mrs. Minnie Eddings, a daugh ter, administratrix, and E. G. Crawford, a son-in-law, administrator. The prop erty value, not stated in the will, is left to the several children and near rela tives. Hill's Entertainment Planned. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., May 13. (Spe cial.) The board of directors of the JClamath Chamber of Commerce Is plan ning to entertain Louis W. Hill, presi dent of the Great Northern Railroad, upon- his arrival here, about May 15. A banquet will be given Mr. Hill and party and if their time and inclination will per mit they will be taken in autos through the valleys adjacent to the city. Hood River Scorched $6000. HOOD RIVER, Or., May 13. (Special.) In an early morning fire here today three buildings were destroyed with their contents, entailing a total loss of $6000. The fire originated In Nichol's drug store in the hill section of the city and spread to the adjoining buildings before its progress could be stayed. The total amount of insurance was $4000. Portland Man Out on Ball. GOLDEN D AL E, Wash., May 13. (Spe cial.) Richard A. Wade, the Portland at torney who has been in the Klickitat County Jail on a grand larceny charge since March 20, when he was brought here- from Oregon, was released last night and returned to Portland. A $500 cash bond was deposited for Mr. Wade's appearance in the Superior Court when his case is called for trial. Workman Called by Death. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. May 13. (Spe cial.) John J. Quirk, aged 62. died this morning at the County Hospital from paralysis and pneumonia. He has been working for some tune in the railroad camps near town and when taken ill some two weeks ago was taken charge of by the county. Coroner Whitlock has learned that Quirk had & sister living in Ogdensburg, N. Y. Sane Fourth Is Postponed. EUGENE. Or., May 13. (Special.) Because many of the local merchants have held over large quantities of Fourth of July goods that will be more or less of a loss if the anti-firecracker ordinance recently passed by the City Council goes into effect at once. Mayor Matlock has ruled that the law will not become effective until after this year. Unlicensed Fisherman Fined. EUGENE, Or., May 13. (Special.) Warren Zell paid a dear price for ona poor little eight-inch trout when he was fined yesterday in the Justice's Court $23 for fishing without a license. The law has been violated to some extent this season, and the fine was made heavy to serve as an example. i 1