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8 THE MORNING ORGONTAN. TUESDAY. SEPTE3IBEH 21. 1915. S: DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR CHURCH MEET 500 Methodists Expected at Conference at Roseburg, t Beginning Tomorrow. BUSY SESSION PREDICTED Taylor-Street Church Case May . Come Before Bishop Cooke on Appeal to Settle Differences. Reception Is Tonight. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) Although the 63d annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church does not open officially here until "Wednes day morning, delegates began arriv ing in Roseburg today from all parts of the state. It la the belief of Rev. "William Riley Jeffrey, who has charge of the pro gramme, that BOO visiting ministers and laymen will be In attendance at the cessions. The conference will be held In the local Methodist Episcopal Church, with Rev. Richard J. Cooke, resident bishop of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, presiding. A preliminary session of the confer ence will be held tomorrow, when the undergraduates In the conference course course of study will be examined- by the official board of examiners of the church. The afternoon will be passed In getting acquainted with the visiting delegates and outlining definite plans for the sessions to follow. Reception to Delegates Tonight. A reception to the presiding bishop end members of the Oregon conference will be held tomorrow night, with Rev. H. J. Van Fossen, district superintend ent, presiding. The programme for the reception in cludes an address of welcome by Mayor Napoleon Rice; greetings by the pastors of the sister churches of the city, ad dress by J. H. Booth, president of the official board of the Roseburg church: response by Bishop Cooke and vocal numbers by Mrs. A. N. Orcutt and Mrs. Lyman Spencer. The business sessions of the confer ence will begin early Wednesday, fol lowing organization. While the dele gates now in the city refused to fore cast what will take place during the conference they intimate that keen in terest will center about many of the matters to be considered. Taylor Street Case May Come I' p. It was practically admitted in Meth odist circles here today that an at tempt probably would be made to in duce Bishop Cooke to use his influence Jn bringing about a settlement of the old Taylor-street Church controversy In Portland. Other matters of equal in terest, it is said, will feature the con ference. Besides the business and social ses sions within the conference the visiting ministers and laymen will be enter tained by the people of Roseburg. Au tomobile drives about Roseburg and the adjacent country will be a daily pastime for the visitors. Most of the delegates and their wives will be en tertained at the homes of local church men. BUSINESS RUSHING IN' EAST All Ketailers in New Xork Report Gains, Says Ilarold Hurlburt. i T h r United States is experiencing a general revival of trade, with contin ued good times, says Harold Hurlbut, a Portland vocalist who has just re turned to this city after passing the last seven montns in vocal study in New York. "I have found a steady and consistent frrowth, of optimism regarding the business prospects for the coming sea son," said Mr. Hurlbut. i. ' Colburn Pinkham, manager of the National Re tail Dry Goods Association, said in a recent conversation, that busi ness with all the firms of the as sociation was on a rapid increase and that a number of sections that had felt the depression greatly during the past year were even at this early date up to standard and reported a steady in crease in sales. DEBATING LEAGUE STARTED Xilliunook County Joint Winter I Series Is Proposed. ' KEHALEM, Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) Plans for a Tillamook County debat ing league for the coming Winter have lieen started, with considerable promise of success. The local literary society has begun the season with a great deal of enthusiasm, and a committee has been appointed for the purpose of ar ranging for the league. Last Winter the people of Nehalem Valley were en tertained by joint debates between the three societies of the valley. Plans are being made to encourage debating societies at Bay City and Tillamook, and at other cities in the county, and for joint debates to be i-.eld each month. Nehalem has some Keen debaters and new material is be ing developed by the weekly meetings, KENDALL PLANS IN SCALE Opposition Develops at Roseburg to ; Surrender of Mill Site. '. ROSEBURG, Or.. Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) Upon the outcome of a meeting of the stockholders of the Douglas County Park & Fair Association, to be Tield here tomorrow night, probably will depend to & great extent the future investments of Kendall Brothers, of I'ittsburg, in this vicinity. The meeting was called to formulate plans whereby the local fair grounds tould be surrendered to Kendall Brothers for a site -for their proposed Fwmlll. Persons opposed to the rail road and sawmill have refused to sur render their stock in the grounds. The proposed mill site represents an invest ment? of $3300 and about three-fourths of the stock has been surrendered. State Fair Notes i- STATE FAIR GROUNDS, Salem, Or.. Sept. 20. (Special.) Miss Pauline Looney and Miss Mary .Mason, Jeffer son, are in -camp until the close of the State Fair. They are at-home to their friends on the oldtlme lot No. 30 looney avenue. They have as guests today Mrs. Cornell aid daughter. Miss Ituby, of Salem. Mrs. E. T. Weatherred, a member of the Board, returned last night from the Gresham fair. She consulted with rail road and Chamber of Commerce officials relative to Transportation day. She re ports that the Elks will bring their band from Portland on Elks day. Mrs, E. E. Morgan, of Portland, ar- rived last -evening, and is In. camp at her cottage. No. 30 Downing avenue. Ben Sutton, of Salem, and Grant Flake, of the same place, pitched tents yesterday. W. J. Entrees, Salem, put up & tent yesterday at No. 33 Moody avenue. Five racers and a colt arrived in from the Woodland Farm, California, this morning, consigned to trainer John B. Stetson. The animals are in the best of condition and no sign of lameness. George Wilbur," of Salem, pitched a tent yesterday at No. 14 Wilkins. The big new well is supplying water to the campers. . The Oregon Patrons of Husbandry win nave a tent on the main avenue, and will be in charge of Mrs. Vail. The Tented City is growing daily and the entire list of shady lots will soon be taken. There is an abundance of room, but the shady choice nooks are mostly engaged. The cry of the newsboy Is heard of mornings and the city is assuming met ropolitan airs. RATE OF INTEREST HIGH SOME3 BANKS CHARGE MORE THAJf 100 PEIl CENT. Fact Concerning Methods Found Throughout Country Disclosed by Member of Reserve Board. RALEIGH, N. C. Sept. 20. Facts con cerning high Interest rates being charged by National banks throughout the country were disclosed by W. P. G. Harding, member of the Federal Re serve Board, in a speech tonight before the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Harding was explaining the Reserve Board regulation granted preferential rediscount rates to notes secured by staple commodity warehouse receipts, provided the makers had been charged not more than 6 per cent interest. "From the report to the Controller of June 23. 1915," he said, "it appears there are five National banks in Ala bama whose maximum rates of interest average 24 per cent, the rate in one case being 60 per cent and in another 34 per cent. The average rate of in terest which one of these banks was charging on all of its loans amounted to 12 per cent and another 10 per cent. In Arkansas one National bank ad mitted making a loan at a- rate as high as 120 per cent, another at 50. another at 60 and another at 25. In Georgia there were 11 banks where the average maximum rate of interest was about 30 per cent.- The maximum rate charged by one of these banks was 40 per cent, and the average on all loans was 15 per cent. In Texas a number of banks reported rates in excess of 100 per cent, and many of them stated their rates on all loans average 1 per cent per month or more. "These high rates, however, are not confined exclusively to the South, for the reports show unreasonable rates of Interest of 50 per cent in the North, as well as in the Far West and South. Twelve per cent seems to be regarded still as not extraordinary by the coun try bankers in Minnesota. Wyoming, Kentucky and California." FIRE LOSSES REDUCED PORTLAND PER CAPITA CUTF"R03I f0.67 TO LESS THAN U Campaign of Education and Activity In Prosecuting; Arson Suspect Is Credited. The fire loss in Portland has been reduced from J6.67 per capita to less than Jl per capita; nearly fSOOO'has been saved through 'the development of care among the citizens in handling fire alarms, and more convictions for arson obtained in Portland than In the entirp United States in the past year, as a result of the educational and pro tective campaign that has been car ried on. Fire Marshal Stevens repoi ted these achievements in an address at the Mem bers'' Council luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Last year- he declared that the Are losses in Portland were $1,750,000; that 16 lives were lost, and 2000 alarms turned in. Indications this year are that the number of alarms will be less tha 1000, and the fire loss considerably less man fl per capita. Every false alarm turned in costs the city SoO, and last year there were 117 false alrams turned in, representing a cost ol X8850. This year only 14 false alarms have been turned in, and none has been turned in since last May. Mr. Stevens said that last year only five men were convicted of arson in the United States. This year in Portland two convictions have already been ob talned, and 12 more are expected. The campaign of education is to be continued this season in schools and public organizations of all kinds. GIRL'S FOOT STRAIGHTENED Removal of Cast Sliows Spccess of Osteopath Operation. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) The condition of the foot of little Mildred Humphreys, of Myrtle Creek who was one of the chief subjects op erated upon at the recent Osteopath convention held In Portland, was re vealed today Wyhen Dr. Snell. a. local physician removed the -case and found that the position of the foot had been entirely corrected. The child was afflicted with infantile paralysis about six years ago, the dis ease leaving the foot In a twisted con dition. Dr. Snell believes that with proper care the foot will become nor mal with the passing of a few years. JUDGE'S HOME IS ROBBED Thieves Ask Neighbor if Anyone Is Expected Home Soon. According to the report made to the police yesterday, the home of Judge M. C. George, 616 Market street drive, was entered Sunday afternoon and ransacked by two young thieves, short ly after the two men had conversed with a neighbor as to the probability of the occupants being home within an hour. Some jewelry and $20 In mony were taKen. Judge George is mi for the Summer, but his home Is occupied by . l. Jones, son-in-law of the judge, and family. They were out for an automobile ride Sunday afternoon. Indian Liquor Seller Sentenced.' - SALEM, Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) .Koocrt tsarton. or Oregon City, charged with giving liquor to Alexander Nor west, a Grande Ronde Indian, was con victed hnd sentenced today in Justice Elgin's court to serve' 80 days jn the county jail. - up the Columbia on steamer Bailey Gatzert. Alder-street dock. Main 911, KIPLING SEES "HILL COUNTRY" AT FRONT Sandbags of Boches Are Seen Through Loophole-Region Fine for Gunners. ENEMY MAKES NO MOVE Colonel Who Loves His Men and Ivm ploys Time Providing for Their Comfort Slakes Deep Im pression on Author. (Continued From First Page.) go on. Stop and wait. We've a moun tain battery to look at." Gun Has No let Name. The guns were not at work for a moment, and the commander, a grim, forceful man, showed me some details of their construction. When we left them In their bower (it looked like a hill priest's wayside shrine) we heard them singing through the steep, de scending pines. They, too, like the 10 men, seem to have no pet name in service. It was polsonously blind country.' The woods blocked all sense of direc tion. Above and around the ground was at any angle you please, and all sounds were split up and muddled by the tree trunks, which acted as silencers. High above us the respectable, all-conceal ing forest had turned into sparse. ghastly blue sticks of timber an as sembly of leper trees around a bald mountain top. "That's where we're going," -said a man . "Isn't it an adorable country?" iimcume gun loosea a lew snots in the fulmbling style of her kind when they feel for an opening. A couple of rifle shots answered. They might have been a half mile away or a hun dred yards below. Unlimited Labor Seen. An adorable country! We climbed lip till we found once again a complete tea garden; little sunk houses, almost invisible in the brown-pink recesses of tne tnick forest. Here the trenches be gan and with them for the next few hours life in two dimensions length and breadth. Men passed on their business: a squad with a captured machine gun, which they tested in a sheltered dip; armorers at their benches, busy with sick rifles: fatigue parties for straw rations and ammunition, long proces sions of single blue figures turned sideways between brown sunless walls. There were no trees above us now. There trunks lay along the edge of tne trench, built in with stones, where necessary, or sometimes overhanarine it in ragged splinters or bushy tops. Bits of cloth, not French, showed, too. in the uneven line of debris at the trench tip, and some thoughtful soul had marked an unexploded Boche trench sweeper as not to be touched. It was a young lawyer from Paris Who pointed that out to me. Front of Line Is Reached, We met the Colonel at the head of an indescribable pit of ruin, full of sunshine, whose steps ran down a steep hillside under the lee of anal most vertically plunging parapet. To the left of that parapet the whole hill side was one gruel of smashed . trees. split stones and powdered soil. It might have been a ragpickers' dump heap on a colossal scale. " Alan looked at it critically. I think he had helped make it not long before. We are on the top of the hill now, and the Boches are below," said he. "We- gave them a very fair sickener lately." "This." said- the Colonel. "Is the front line.". There were overhead guards against hand bombs, which disposed me to be lieve him, but what convinced me most was a corporal urging us in whispers not to talk so loud. The men were at dinner, and a good smell of food filled the trench. This was the first smell I had encountered In my long travels uphill; a mixed, entirely wholesome flavor of stew, leather, earth and rifle oil. A propor tion of men were standing to arms. while others ate; but dinner time is slack time even among animals, and it was close to noon. "Bocbf Get Their Soup." "The Boches gotv their souo a few days ago," someone whispered. I thought of the pulverized hillside. and hoped it had been hot enough. We edged along the still trench. where the soldiers stared with justi fied contempt, I thought, upon the civilian who scuttled through their life for a few emotional minutes in order to make words -out of their bloodj it reminded me or coming In late to a play and incommoding the long line of packed stalls. The whispered dialogue was much the same. "Pardon; I beg your pardon, mon sieur. To the right, monsieur. If mon sieur will lower his head; . one sees best from here monsieur." It was their day and nieht lone business, carried through without dis play or heat or doubt or Indecision. Those off duty, not five feet behind In the dugout, were deep in their papers or their meals or their letters, while death stood ready every minute to drop down into the narrow cut from out of the narrow strip of -unconcerned sky. And for the better part of a week one had skirted miles of such a frieze. The loopholes not in tise were plugged, rather like old-fashioned hives. Said the Colonel, removing a and you will see their sandbags." Through the jumble of riven trees and stones one saw what might have been a bit or green sacking. .. "They're about seven meters distant here," the Colonel went on. That was true, too. Colonel Knows His Men. We entered a little fortalice with a cannon in it at an embrasure, which at that moment struck me as unneces sarily vast, even though it was partly ciosea oy a rrau pacKing case lid. The CtloneI sat him down in front of it and explained the theory of this sort of redoubt. "By the way," he said to a gunner at last." can't you find something better than that? I think it's too light." He twitched the lid aside. "Get a log of wood or something." I loved that Colonel. He knew his men and he knew the Boches-i-had them marked down like birds. When he said they were beside dead trees or behind boulders, sure enough, there they were. But, as I have said, dinner hour is always slack, and, even when we came to a place where a section of trench had been hashed open by trench sweepers and it was recommended to duck and hurry, nothing much hap pened. The uncanny thing was the absence of movement in the Boche trenches. Sometimes one imagined tnat one smelled strange tobacco or heard a rifle-bolt working after a shot: other wise- they were as still as a pig at noonaay. BABY'S EYEBROWS INFLAMED SCALE Scalp Thickly Coated Also. Caused Irritation. Spread to Hair Roots. HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT "When my baby was one month et I saw a yellow scale on bis eyebrows and soon after found that his scalp was thickly coated with it also. The eyebrows be came quite inflamed and caused irritation and the I scale spread to the roots of his hair. His scalp itched so he irritated it. and his hair became thin and dry. "After he was eleven months old . I got some Cutlcura Soap and Ointment. On combing his hair I noticed his scalp was almost clean and with a few applications he was healed." (Signed) Mrs. Nathan Sherman. Kelso, Wash., March 10, 1915. Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. Skin Book 00 request. Ad dress post-cord "Cutievra. Dept. T, Bos- Sold.throughout the world. hunting for gun positions: the hills are full of them and trenches close to gether and commanding each other. You see what a beautiful country it is." Officers' Hobby Is Trenche'x. The Colonel confirmed this, but from another point of view war was his business, as the still woods could tes tify. But his hobby was his trenches. He had tapped mountain streams and dug out a laundry where a man could wash his shirt and go up and be killed in it all in a morning; had drained trenches so muddy that to stretch in them was an offense, and at the bottom of thejiill it looked like a hydropathic establishment on the stage. He had created baths where half a battalion at a time could wash. He never told me how all that coun try had been fought over as fiercely as Ypres in the West, nor what blood had gone down the valley before his trenches were pushed over the scalped mountain top. No, he stretched out new endeavors in earth and stones and trees for the comfort of his men on that populous mountain, and there came a priest who was a sub-lieuten ant out of a. wood of snuff brown shad ows and half veiled trunks. MASONS HOLD SESSIONS AFTER BUSINESS MEETING IN' VAN COUVER AUTO TRIPS TAKEN. Royal Arch Body Concludes Convoca tion Today and Masters Will Convene Tomorrow. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Sept. 20. (Spe ciaL) The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons -of Washington is in ses sion in the local Masonic Temple and more than 100 .Royal Arch delegates are In attendance. This Is the 31st annual convocation of the Grand Chap ter. Convocation was opened, committees appointed and A. L. Miller, of Van couver, past grand high, priest, deliv ered the address of welcome, to which Charles P. Kimball, of Bremerton, dep uty grand high priest, responded. Henry L. Kennan, of Spokane, grand high priest, read his report, after which the reports of Horace W. Tyler, grand treasurer, of Tacoma, and Yancey C. C. Blalock, grand secretary, of Walla Walla, were read. Convocation was resumed at 2 P. M., and after two hours' session, automo biles were provided by the local chap ter and the delegates were taken for trips to various points of interest around the city and into the country. Beginning at 7 P. SI., a special drill team conferred the order of high priesthood. At 8:30 o'clock an Informal reception and dance was held at the Columbia Hotel. The officers for the ensuing year will be elected at the morning session to morrow. On Wednesday the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Washing ton will be held in Masonic Temple. WOMAN WRITER IS DEAD MRS. GEORGE MEL, VI N MILLER SIC CUMBS AT EUGENE. i former Editor of Pacific Monthly Never Recovera Health After ' Death of Only Daughter. EUGENE, Or., Sept 20. (Special.) Mrs. George Melvin Miller, one of the best-known literary women on the Pacific Coast, died at 2 o'clock today at the home of her sister, Mrs. Idaho Campbell, after an illness of four months. Mrs. Miller had not been well for the last seven years, and, accord ing to her friends, had not recovered her full health since the death of her only daughter. Miss Mary Miller, who resided in Portland 13 years ago. Mrs. Miller was born on a farm be tween Leaburg and Thurston, on the McKenzie River, and always had lived in Oregon with the exception of a two-year tour of Europe. She was formerly editor of the Pacific Monthly in Portland and contributed largely to the sunset Magazine. Mrs. Miller had contributed to The Oregonlan in Portland and had charge of the women s department of a Eu gene paper until her recent illness.' She was the author of many poems and fic tion stories and is mentioned in prac tically every compilation of literary people on the Coast. Mrs. Miller was an active member of the Fortnightly Club. Her full name was Lichen Maud Cogswell Miller, and she wrote under her maiden name. She is survived by her husband. George Melvin Miller, of Eugene; two sisters. Mrs. Idaho Campbell, of Eu Looking Forward to otherhood Experienced mothers everywhere are recom mending "Mother's Friend," a wonderful help to all expectant mothers. It is gently ap plied over the muscles, makes them firm and pliant to accommodate expansion with out the usual strain and pain. This also overcomes nausea. It has a most remarkably soothing influence and is declared one of the greatest aids we have for the mother-to-be. ont fall to get a bottle of "Mother's Friend" today of any druggist. Then write to Brad field Regulator Co ICS Lamar. Bid., At lanta. Ga., for a bandnome book that yon win greatly enjoy. Mailed .rrea. Smoke-vise of the Coast gene, and Mrs. Emery Ingham, of Port land, and a brother, Boliver Cogswell. Portland. ' Hood River Dahlia Freakish. HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 20. (Spe cial.) 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This lotion is made by dis solving four ounces of spurmax in one half pint hot water, then adding two teaspoonfuls glycerin. This complex ion beautifler does not rub off or show like powder, and gives a more refined appearance. It removes both shininess and sallowness, rapidly giving the skin a permanent, healthy, youthful appear ance. An especially fine shampoo for this weather can be had at trifling expense by dissolving teaspoonf ul of canthrox in a cup of hot water. Pour slowly on the scalp and massage briskly. This creates a soothing, cooling lather that dissolves and removes all dandruff, ex cess oil and dirt. Rinsing leaves the scalp spotlessly clean, soft and pliant, while the hair takes on a glossy rich ness of natural color, also a fluffiness which makes It seem very much heavier than it is. After a canthrox shampoo arranging the hair is a pleasure. Adv. Success Success Is the child of initiative and sticktoitlveness. In advertising It means sizing up a market and keeping right at It. It means faith, knowledge and courage. It means ability to see mistakes and turn them into triumphs. It means keeping everlastingly at It. The rewards are well worth tha effort their size is without limit. A 5112. AdV, - "No flat plains," said Alan; "no