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Jamestown Exposition Newj Stand; 1'otts & Roeder; Schneider & Kaiser. Pine Beoch, Va. W. A. Cosgrove. PORTLAND, fil'NDAV, MAY 5, 1907. WHAT OF THE NIGHT? Shall i e ever again see the day when ministers will be the leaders of the Na tion In moral reform? That they have largely lost this position, at least for Ihe present, everybody admits. The Fplritual regeneration which we have Just experienced In this country was accomplished with little help and some notable hindrance from the pulpit. Con spicuous ecclesiastics, leaders of so called Christian education, celebrated preachers, have come forward to apolo gize for crime on the ground that it was successful and to excuse the viola tion of the Commandments because It was helpful to certain kinds of busi ness. Will thisNever cease? 'Have the Intellect and zeal of the sects definitely allied themselves wilh unrighteousness and made a perpetual contract with the powers of evil? It cannot be thought so. Like other human institutions, the church has Its periods of spiritual depression and ex altation. Sometimes it appears as the most enlivening of social forces, some times as the most retrogressive. To Say the Protestant denominations are not unsympathetic with the spirit of the age, but they are too weak to make their sympathies tell sufficiently upon current history and the principal cause of their weakness Is disintegra tion. The forces of disintegration be gan to work in Protestantism almost as soon as Luther preached the refor- matlon. That great genius discerned the coming trouble and sought to fore stall it by making the Scriptures an Infallible guide to faith, to replace the vanished authority of tradition, pope and councils. But his effort failed because the -meaning of Scripture must be deter mined by human reason, and to the rea son of each man It may mean some thing different. The hosts of Protest antism broke into wrangling sects. There were Baptists and Anabaptists In Britain, the Netherlands and north ern Italy. There were Calvlnlsts in France, Scotland and Switzerland, The Church of Knglnnd cleaved away from the general Protestant movement and has continued ever since to hover un certainly upon the outer skirts of Ca tholicism. The sects divided and sub divided upon points almost inconceiv ably minute and trifling and perse cuted each other with unrelenting bit terness for differences of opinion which would appear ludicrous had not their influence upon the course of history been, so tragic. Just how far we may depend upon the direct Inspiration of the Holy Spirit to guide our conduct; just bow to administer the rite of bap tism: the exact part which faith plays in the office of salvation, as compared with good works; whether a man is re generated instantaneously or gradual ly; how the church ought to be gov erned all these matters and many others of incomparably less importance have divided Protestant Christians Into warring factions and deferred in definitely the success of their mission in the world. As a unifying principle in religion, the written word has been a failure. Kach text, each variant interpretation of a text, affords ground for a new schism. Protestant Christians have acknowledged this unfortunate weak ness of their position more or less openly and have sought incessantly In recent years for some common ground of federation, if not complete union. But no such ground at first appeared. So long as the. emphasis fell on their creeds they were doomed to disintegra tion and paralysis. Science, therefore, In attacking the foundations of the creeds, took the stage as their best friend, though they scarcely perceived It. When the creeds could no longer be believed, and when the higher criti cism had disposed forever of the In errancy of the Bible. Protestant Christianity seemed at first bereft of its strength. What had really hap pened, however, was" the eradication of the principal cause of its weakness. In place of futile and divisive abstracv tlons came the great principle of real ism, which had already transformed modern literature and now vk-torious-: iv, invaded the realm of. religion. The church, driven from the barren deserts of theology, found new life In the ferr tile problems of sociology. Its aim and mission were transferred from heaven to earth, and the solution of vital questions touching the life of ' man gave fruitful occupation' to intellects which might have , been wasted upon arid metaphysics. As the church be gins to labor at a common definite task, its energies tend toward unity. Work instead of "works" becomes its watchword; and. while faith is by no means dead, its form Is . changed. Christian faith expends itself not upon Intricate subtleties of doctrine, but upon the ideals and character of Jesus. It has been transformed into personal loyalty to the great Teacher. With realism for Its animating principle, and loyalty to Jesus for its creed, the forces of Protestantism no longer find union an Impossible dream. . The work ofcoalition has begun in many direc tions. Only the other day three nu merous bodies formed an organic union in Chicago, merging their futile'differ ences In a common name. The dissent to their action was in itself a sign of encouragement, for' It came 'from that part of the country which is most inaccessible- to new ideas and most retrogressive both In politics and re ligion, j The delegates from Mississippi and Louisiana declined to Join the union because the proposed statement of belief made no mention. of "sanctlfi catlon following regeneration." How like the reverberation of a brazen pot these hollow words fall upon the mod ern ear! They-tell of bygone times and forsaken modes of thought. The In dividual's regeneration and sanctlfica tlon. whatever that may be, are some thing for himself to attend to; the church of today Is occupied with his attitude toward social wrongs and his loyalty to the Prince of Peace. ASHES OF HOPBS. ' .This is what George Ade would call "the cold, gray dawn of the morning after." Yesterday was a strenuous day for many men whose number of alleged friends wouldi make a total several times the enumeration of men, women and children of the city. Hope shone with the sun till the polls closed, and. was not dispelled till the adding machines ceased their cold, metallic clicking. Then the candidates who found their hopes but a taste of salt, likewise found a bit of comfort in the words of the prophet Jeremiah: "Take ye heed every one of his neighbor and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor Will walk with slan ders." ' It is not given In the Great Record that there were municipal elections In the sixth century before Christ; yet many of , the words of the prophet have the sound of warning that comes from the partisan press and one must believe the politician went forth In those days pretty much as he does 25 centuries later. Else why should! Jeremiah, some years before he set up his lamentations, "make a noise" like unto a present-day organ decrying lis rival? This is a day of woe and heartburn ing for the defeated candidates, not iwiiolly.. for. defeat, for that 1s the chance of battle: but for the realiza tion that of all the men whose hand clasp and promise were so freely giv en, 'many were the most cheerful .and deceitful of liars. For figures do not lie and the votes that are not in the box cannot be counted. It but adds to the misery to realize that the men who threw him down will never be known by the prostrated one. So the man who failed to get there can only ask himself: "Does It pay?" And being of necessity of the right temperament else he would not be running he will conclude that per haps it does and hope the people will know him better the next time. THK UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES OF 1'KAtK. A weak, good-nature, incapable of righteous . wrath Is, as President Roosevelt says, almost as unfortunate a mortal attribute as a willingness to do wrong. It is true that the first equipment or attribute usually keeps Its possessor out of Jail; but it contrib utes not Infrequently to the delin quency of others, by overindulgence of their evil propensities. An Illustra tion of this s seen every time a cring ing woman appears before a police magistrate pleading for the release of her brutal husband and insisting that the bruises that are in evidence of his assault upon her with his brawny fists are the result of falling down stairs. In the wider application, a nation Incapable of righteous wrath would be Incapable of maintaining the decent respect of mankind, even if it could maintain Its place upon the map of a strenuous world, which, of course it could not. The statement that the person who has not got it in him to strive manfully against wrong will ac complish but .little, for right needs no proof that ordinary observation does not readily furnish. Without the spirit and ability to resist aggression no in dividual can command respect and no nation can be great. With this reser vation and upon this principle all peace negotiations must proceed. TAINTED NEWS. Municipal ownership of public utili ties may be a good thing or it may be bad. The question has not' yet been decided. People in this country are pretty generally of the opinion that we are too corrupt and too great blockheads to put it In successful practice even If it were excellent; but views on that point may change In course of time. We may ultimately convince ourselves that we are hot greater boobies than other nations. However that may be, the question of municipal ownership ought to be decided upon its merits atvd upon the facts, not upon false information. Col lier's Weekly is printing a series of articles which disclose a systematic propaganda of prevarication in re spect to the success of the experiments American cities have made In. the ownership of gas and water works and street railroads: The propagan da Is operated by a group f men who sedulously conceal their names. Of course they are persons who benefit by the private ownership of franchises and the robbery that too often goes with it. Their method Is to send out dispatches which misrepresent the facts and get them published by hook or crook in reputable papers. Usually it is done by crook, that is, by deceiv ing the papers. The dispatches are plausible in tone and there is nothing about them to Indicate their real na ture and purpose. In Collier's for May 4 there are sev eral photographic Reproductions . of these deceptive news dispatches. One of them from Alabama gives an ac count of a convention which opposed Federal regulation of railroad rates. The truth about the matter was that the convention was dominated by a gang of railroad lawyers and the dis patch was paid; for out of a railroad corruption fund. Another of these mendacious news items stated that the municipal water works of Lin coln. Neb., were a failure. The Com mercial Club of Lincoln held a meet ing to "repel and rebuke" the false hood ami sent out a denial to the press. Everybody remembers that the rail roads carried on a similar campaign when the question of regulating rates was before Congress. Its success was not encouraging, but the monopolists seem incapable of learning anything from experience. The people of this country have developed their brains to the point where they can think for themselves. They do not take their opinions ready-made from corporation lawyers, or can they be permanently misled by faked reports of things which do not happen. THOU ART THE MAN. "And there came a traveler unto the rich man; and he spared to take of his own flook and of his own herd to dress for the wayfaring man that was come: unto, him, but took the- poor man's lamb and -dressed it for the mi that was come unto him." This the rich man did though he had exceeding many flocks and herds of his own, while the poor man had but the one ewe lamb "which he had bought and nourished up; -and it grew together with him and with his children; It did eat of his own meat and drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter." Naturally when David the King, who was a man after God's own heart, heard this story from Nathan his anger was greatly kindled against the rich man; and he said to Nathan, "As my soul llveth, the man that hath done this thing shall sUrely die. And Nathan said to David, 'Thou are the man." " David was King over Israel. Nathan was a ragged old prophet, nt any too tact ful and sadly in want of a bath, as most prophets generally are. His beard was unkempt andl 'probably populous, as Gibbon says the Emperor Julian's used to be. He was far from being a safe man and not very sane. At least he was not sane in the sense of Grover Cleveland and Judge Parker, for he accused evil In high places to its face, which is the last thing in the world a man would do who had a proper feeing for his own interest. When it came to downright mean ness David was near the limit. Uriah, one of his generals,- had a pretty wife. David fell In love with her. He first betrayed the woman, whose dulcet name was Bath-Sheba, and then or dered his soldiers to desert UTiah in a hot battle and let him be killed. When Uriah was well out of the way he took Bath-Sheba into his harem. A very neat bit of tactics It was, showing a genius almost equal in its way to Mr. Harriman's. The ability which today exercises itself in capturing other peo ple's money was in those old Bible times directed toward their wives. If wives are more valuable than money then civilization has advanced since David's time. If they are not, then it has retrograded. By virtue of an ef fort prolonged through some thou sands of years we have finally made the poor man's family comparatively safe from the lust of the rich and pow erful;' shall we ever make his old age secure-' from neglect and penury? The Emperor "William, whom our lov ers of peace denounce for his militar ism, has secured for every working man In the German empire an old age of self-respecting independence. Our wiser statesmen let them perish in the gutter after they have spent their lives in making the rest of us wealthy. The tyrannical German gov ernment husbands the savings of the poor and pensions their old age; our government of the people, by the peo ple and for the people exposes their savings to the rapacity of private bankers and delivers hoary indigence to the poorhouse and the Jail. It is a marvel that any working-man In this country manages to lay up a competence. The marvel arises, not because he lacks opportunity to earn, but because he Is preyed upon by so many parasites. WTe pass by the companies which sell blm bad insur ance for ten times its value, the sav ings banks which are founded for no purpose except to fail, and the trusts which furnish poisonous milk to his children for two prices and levy blood money upon his fuel, his bread and his clothing. What we have in mind to speak of now is a more exasperating and meaner species of robbery. It is that cunning iniquity which compels the workingman and the small con sumer to found universities and en dow magnificent hospitals. If the men who build these grand establish ments did it out of their own means nobody could complain, for education and medicine are fine in themselves. If the people who contribute the money for them got the glory it would not be so bad. But they do not. The money Is taken without our consent, by a sort of illicit ingenuity; and the whole credit of the foundation goes to the robbers. Thus the great endow ment of the Chicago university was extorted from the plain people of the country in small sums and every new gift to that institution is made up by new levies. But who ever thinks of praising the men who earn the money? When Mr. Rockefeller wishes to make a gift to education he lays a tax upon the Nation to raise the funds. He spares of his own flock and of his own herd and takes the poor man's lamb. The way he uses the money may be good, but tha way he gets it Is not good. The same thing is true of the vast sums which we glorify Mr. Carnegie for giving to the cause of peace, to libraries and to schools. - They do not come out of his own pocket. They are extorted from the people by the power to levy -taxes which he possesses or possessed. Car negie and Rockefeller are no more en titled 'to ,-pralse for, their" donations than Congress is when It appropriates public funds. They are less entitled, for Congress acts openly and with the consent of the taxpayers; ' while' our benevolent despots act Clandestinely and without our consent. . In adulat ing them we glorify hypocrisy. Mr. Carnegie's exertions !n the cause of international peace are supported by high-handed robbery. The Czar of Russia poses as the advocate of peace while he slaughters his helpless sub jects by the thousand; Carnegie 'finances a : peace congress upon the fruits of rapine. But the great magnates of monopoly are not alone in their guilt. Who that draws a dividend from Standard Oil stock can say that he is innocent of its lawbreaking? It takes a good deal of scrubbing to cleanse the hands of a person who knowingly -profits by crime even if he is not active in com mitting it. Whoever enjoys benefits from a fraudulent franchise condones the iniquity that taints it. Worse still, he is an enlisted recruit to de- f fend the iniquity and encourage its repetition. Whoever holds stock in a company that practices 'bribery incurs the moral guilt of the bribery, no mat ter how innocent he may be under the law. It is Impossible for the receiver of stolen goods to clear himself by saying that he did not himself pick pockets or break into a house. It is sufficient for his condemnation in the forum of ethics that he has benefited by the crime. (Had we a Nathan to go about today accusing the guilty as he of old did the wicked king ot the Jews, which of us would escape his indictment. "Thou art the man?" QUEER ECONOMICS. The Kansas City Journal has earned a leather medal. It has compressed into a single column more bad logic and more false economics than any paper ever did before. The feat was achieved in an attempt to prove that the Gov ernment ought not to regulate the cor porations! From the bouquet of falla cies which the Journal presents it is possible to cull only one or two of the choicest, but they will suffice to show what the rest are. "A street railway is no more truly a public utility than a barber shop or a shoe store." "The law has exactly the same right to regulate advertising rates or hotel rates as It has to regulate rail road rates or gas rates." If a ten-year-old schoolboy should make such a booby of himself as to write these sentences In a composition he would have to year a d-uncecap. The Kansas City Journal prints them seriously as the best it can furnish in the way of eco nomic doctrine. Its mental state Is probably hopeless, but we are willing to attempt some enlightenment. One might' begin by remarking that a shoe store is generally kept by a natural person instead of one created by the law for that particular purpose. The shoe man holds no franchise giving him exclusive rights; he does not enjoy the power ot eminent domain; he has no monopoly In the public streets; he may not tear up the pavement, thrust vehicles out of his way as a streetcar corporation may, nor is the public com pelled to patronize him whether it likes or not. Everybody must ride on the cars; everybody must use gas. "Above all, everybody who does any business must use the. railroads. There Is a choice among shoe stores. In general there is no choice among gas compa nies, streetcars or railroads. The corporation which owns a rail road is created by the law for that spe cific' purpose. The beneficial accom plishment of the purpose is what it promises-the ' public in return for the privilege to exist. How childish, then, to say that the public has no right to demand that the corporation shall fulfill Its part of the agreement. Seldom In these days does a paper, even among those most besottedly devoted to cor porate Interests, display the contempt for the intelligence of its readers which the Kansas City Journal exhibits in this article. It pleads for capital to build railroads? but If the level of In telligence In that part of the country is correctly Indicated by . what it gives the people to read, their need of school houses is far-more urgent. - THE WAR ON TCBERCCLOSIS. An International Congress on Tu berculosis will be held in Washington, D. C, from September 21, 1908 to Octo ber 12, inclusive. In anticipation of this evetjt the Secretary General of the association. Dr. John S. Fulton has sent out a carefully compiled statement of the object of the associa tion and of Its purpose in calling the convention at the time specified. The study and prevention of tuber culosis have during the past decade occupied many of the highest minds in medical and. biological circles. On this congress which will convene in the National Capital during the most strenuous part . of the Presidential campaign of next . year, will assemble a large number of distinguished men from all parts of the world physi cians, hygienlsts, sociologists and hu manitarians, and each will bring to the conference facts bearing upon the cause, and successful prevention of this moBt dreaded and most prevalent of all of the diseases that have dogged the footsteps of civilization. The most noted authorities on tuberculosis In this country are included among the directors of this association, and they are moreover men wise in public af fairs. The Cbngress will be far more than a convention at which men of science discuss findings and opinions concern ing this disease. An exhibit made up of a large collection of Illustrative ob jects, is being- prepared, the purpose of which Is purely educational. In this the public cannot fail to be interested. The subject is one that belongs to every section of the country, and, in7 deed, of the civilized world, since no place Is so remote that the germs of this insidious disease have not reached It. The exhibit will be open and free to the public at all times during the three weeks of the convention, and Its showing will be of interest to people of all classes since the disease that it will portray in different stages of its progress is literally everybody's dis ease. This association has been in exist ence four years and the Congress of next year will be the largest enter prise that It has undertaken. It has the indorsement of President Roose velt and the Federal Government and every possible facility will be accorded that will have a tendency to widen the scope and insure the success of the convention. The occasion will afford physicians a rare opportunity to meet distin guished members of their profession from all parts of the world. There is no man more eager to close with op portunity than the physician who is, first of all, a student and an enthu siast in his profession; hence this con gress will number hundreds of physi cians, among its attendants, and It may be confidently said that each will return to his practice with a better equipment wherewith to fight tuber culosis than he had before. The restriction of this disease is not alone a medical problem; it is a politi cal and social problem as well. Its wastefulness in human life in arrested energy and in productiveness is a question with which political econo mists must deal. The pitiful and painful progress of its victims toward the certain goal is a phase of the waste that appeals directly and strongly to humanity: the price of its menace is recognized by the sanitarian J and its lnroad upon human life by the statistician. . Awakened Intelli gence everywhere Is asking what shall we -do to be released from the deadly clutcluof this deadliest foe of the hu man race? The answer is: Beware of the beginnings of the- disease: preven tion is always possible, cure at best problematical. To make the danger signals of tuberculosis intelligible to ,the most simple is the first purpose of those who are waging war upon tuber culosis. Knowledge is in this realm all powerful. Ignorance fatally weak. Hence the effort by. sanitarians, hu manitarians and scientists to dissemi nate knowledge In regard to tubercu losis and dispel the ignorance which is Its chief stronghold. Chester Thompson, the . youthful Seattle murderer, for whose life and liberty his father, a noted attorney, made so strenuous, protracted and pathetic a struggle before the Circuit Court at Tacoma, is to be sent to the Insane ward of the penitentiary at Walla Walla in June, unless further stay of proceedings can be secured. This decision is in the Interest of pub lic safety. The lad was acquitted of murder on the ground of insanity. Be fore he committed the crime he was not known to be insane. He was moody, erotic, queer. He is still so. If the mental equipment caused him to commit murder once it rusty again. Hence public safety demands his in carceration and as a law creating a ward In the' penitentiary for insane criminals will go into effect June 12 the court has dcided that to be the proper place for the lad. The decis ion is one in which the public gener ally will concur as being under the cir cumstances just and prudent. Farmers who have been caught by the dry weather without their plow ing completed could have avoided this difficulty to a large degree by follow ing the advice of the Agricultural Col lege to plow under a crop of clover or other crop every few years. Such a practice supplies Tiumus and keeps the soil loose and porous. Continuous cul tivation eventually makes soil "dead," or places it In such condition that the soil will bake hard as soon as warm weather comes. According to reports this has been an unfavorable Spring for cultivating where the soil has not been kept loose. But we shall have plenty of rain yet. Streetcar smokers will now have to keep the fetid filth of their tobacco In their own faces and In their own clothes.- The ban Is ordained, not to compel them to be decent, for that Is impossible, but to force them to respect the sensibilities of others. The tobacco hog will now vent his rudeness in an other direction on the conductor who enforces the new rule. There are city ordinances regulating the stink of garbage wagons on the streets and others are needed to keep within du.i bounds the perfumery of smoke-laden citizens. To be Immensely rich Is to be the prey of blackmailers both before and after death. Not near all the black mailing schemes axe ever brought to light, but those which do become known show that wealth Is often a de stroyer of peace. One of the surest - ways to get. an electric railroad to 'HlllBboro is to keep up the race between Swigert's Oregon Electric Company and Wittenberg's United Railways. Let them go to it. The one who skins the other will be a wonder. We are told that horses have dou bled In value In the last four years. The animals had horse sense enough to know that they must hold them selves at higher figures or be held in contempt by the automobiles. The defeated candidates are wonder ing -what in the world the people can see in the successful candidates. That's what a lot of persons wonder when ever a man or a woman chooses a nominee for life's Journey. The Governor of Washington pro tests against an Oregon quarantine law that will keep Washington sheep off the Oregon ranges. But Oregon has sheep of its own to look after. The man who keeps his ear to the ground to observe the rumblings of popular opinion Is preferable to the one who holds his head so high the people cannot make him hear. Possibly the Corey incident and the criticism it has aroused will make other men of his kind hesitate to take a similar course. Or will It merely harden their consciences? The people of this country as well as a jury of 12 men will tryi the Moyer Haywood case and their verdict will be In accordance with the evidence. Song for sore candidates this morn ing: "And the world goes on just the same." It won't do any good, how ever, "to find the ones to blame," Some of the things that are being said about Mr. W. E. Corey ought to give a more forceul meaning, if pos sible, to the word "excoriation." Oregon is promised a bumper cherry crop. The record of Oregon will be broken for quantity and the world's record for quality. The gas company is bolder now after the primaries and will be In good shape again after the election next month. The burglar who tried to kiss the hired girl should have known better In these days of hard-reckoning with the "help." Those fellows who didn't get the nominations should respect their ene mies at least for being good prophets. Who was It that started that gross libel that a Democrat cannot write. Ex-Candidate Thomas knows better. Salem has begun to pave. And If a good job shall be done the people will never be sorry for the beginning. Now listen to the soft things, in stead of hard, that the nominees will say of their unsuccessful rivals. The State Library at Salem contains tons of books, but no Bible. If is a place frequented by lawyers. The girl who insists upon not, having a chaperone is quite likely to be most in need of one. SYMPOSIUM OF CURRENT STATE TOPICS Why the state Agricultural College Recent Raised the Salary of Their New President. Ontlook for Better Pay for Public School Teachers Shocking Neglect of State Offi cials About Scriptural Literature How the New sbren- Hipping lav Worlto Farm. . ere Goine; to the City ajid Profeosioual Mem to the J-mrm Scarcity of Wood and the Consequent co. WHEN tha Board of Regents of the State Agricultural College a few days ago elected W. J. Kerr, of Utah, to the presidency of the Institution at Corvallis, they raised the salary from 3000 to $5000 a year. This does not mean much in itself, but. when the ultimate consequences are considered, it means much In the great contest that has been waging for some time for higher pay for those engaged in the teaching profes sion. The president of the State Univer sity has been getting but $3000. but It will be readily apparent, that the head of that institution should receive as much as the. head o( the Agricultural College, and the salary at Eugene will be raised. Then It will be seen that the difference between the salaries of the presidents and those of the professors is too great, and there- will be a gradual marking up all along the line, though probably not at the same rate that the salary of the president at Corvallis has been raised. A beginning has Veen made. A higher standard of compensa tion has been set. Some of the advances may not be made for a year or two, and may be slight, but eventually the change of policy will be felt down to the pri mary grades and out in the country schools. As president of the Agricultural College, of Utah, Mr. Kerr received a salary of J4S00 a year, and Oregon made a little raise on that figure in order to get him.- IN the effort to secure the best than for the position the Board of Regents has spared no pains in looking Into men's records and studying their general qual ifications aside from experience and edu cation. A man was desired who would not only be recognized as a specialist in Agricultural College work, but one who would also, by reason of his personal characteristics, be able to continue that good feeling which has existed during the administration of President Gatch. In this connection, a story Is told that shows the views of the members ot the Board as to one kind of man who would not do. There was a large number of applicants for the vacancy caused by resignation of President Gatch. Among them was one man who was vigorous in pressing his claim, and be had such a good record in scholastic attainments and In experience that he seemed to be in a fair way to be the successful aspirant. But he pulled one too many wires. He ascertained that Governor Chamberlain Is a Democrat, while a number of the other members of the Board are Repub licans. Thinking to . win the support of the Republican members he wrote them that the Governor was opposing him be cause he was a Republican. He also spoke of one of his rivals as "that man Blank." Tactics of this kind lost him all his support and made him an Impossible candidate. Not a Republican on the Board would support him. arguing that this single act was sufficient to show that he would not be a safe man. to put at the head of a large Institution. Many a teacher In the common schools' has killed himself oft in pretty much the same way. The - incident just related may serve as an object lesson to some who may in the future be tempted to pull wires whose ends have unknown at tachments. CORVALLIS has figured in education al news in another respect in the past week by reason of the resignation of Principal S. W. Holmes, ot the pub lic schools, who will leave the teaching profession at the end of the present year to take a position as a bookkeeper in the office of a lumber company at Os trander, Washington. This change is one of many Illustrations of the effect ot comparatively low wages paid to teach ers. Men find that they can do better in other occupations and many of them gradually desert the ranks of the public school instructors. The process has al ready resulted In scarcity of teachers and the scarcity will increase. BIBLES are apparently not essen tial features of state libraries and state offices in Oregon. At any rate, Superintendent of Public Instruction Ackerman was unable a few days ago to find a copy of the sacred book around the Capitol at Salem, and he tells the story at his Own expense as well as that of his associates. He owns up to having no Bible in his office-library, though he says he has one at home. When he recently had occasion to use a "Scriptural quota tion in preparing an. address he needed a Bible to give him the exact lan guage, and therefore went up to the State Library, where there are thou sands of volumes of law books, refer ence books and treatises of various kinds. But the book of books, con taining the Ten Commandments, upon which all law is founded, was not there, and, so the report goes, there is no record of one having been there for a dozen years. Then he repaired to the Governor's office, where Pri vate Secretary Gatens volunteered to loan him a Bible, but upon searching for it was unable to find the desired volume. "The Governor must have tak en It with him when he went out on a long trip and wanted something good to read" was the explanation offered. Inquiries at the offices of the Secre tary of State and State Treasurer were met with prompt response that no Bibles were kept there. Then, re membering that the Oregon Library Commission -volunteers to furnish in formation on any and all subjects, he called on Secretary Marvin, only to be turned away empty-handed. . Of course, the State Land Officj didn't have a Bible. Finally, convinced that the search was useless and that if the state ever had a Bible some member of the Legislature must have taken It away by mistake, he gave up the search and sent down town and bought one. OREGON'S new sheep-dipping law Is likely -to- have considerable effect in creating a co-operative spirit among those farmers in Western Oregon who keep small bands of sheep. A sheep dipping vat of approved form costs from 175 to $100, though tanks that will answer the purpose can be had for less. The dipping must be done in the presence of an inspector, who collects front the owner of the sheep a fee of 5 a day and his expenses in going to and from the place where the work is to be done. Owners of small bands of sheep will find It con siderably cheaper to put up community ' dipping plants on the co-operative plan and shear their sheep at the saiiis time, so that they will all be ready to dip at ohm and treat all the sheep of the community at one visit of the inspector. It will be difficult for earn individual to arrange for separate vis its of the Inspectors, troublesome to prepare the vats and dipping solution, and much more expensive. In some places in Eastern Oregon movements are on foot for the establishment of central shearing places, where modern shearing machinery will be provided and the sheep can be dipped at the same time. It Is said that the shear ing can be done at less expense by machinery and with a saving ot from one-half to a pound of wool from each sheep. Sheepowners will find the new regulations burdensome at first, but the Government Inspection rules will make dipping unavoidable. Members of the State Commission believe the farmers In Western Oregon will soon adjust themselves to the requirements, so that the Inspection and dipping need not be very expensive. CHARIVARI parties get into the news columns of papers sot-st frequently by reason of such lawlessness as the break ing of fwlndows and doors or the shooting of some member of the party by the. an gered groom, but last week an affair ot this kind terminated disastrously to per sons who were In no way connected with it. At Albany a party of young people were making "music" with tin pans and other Instruments around a house where a newly married couple had taken their abode, and, while the noise was at its height, a man drove past with his wife and three young children In the carriage with him. His team was scared so that it ran away, demolished the carriage, broke the woman's arm, knocked the man senseless, and Injured the children, though not seriously. A sort of unwrit ten law protects young people from pun ishment on occasions of that kind, else there might be a criminal court record to go with the event. SCARCITY of cord wood and conse quent high prices Is quite likely to prove of advantage In encouraging the owners of some of the Oregon coal mines to develop their properties and place -their product upon the market. Recent ly work has been pushed on some coal lands in Jackson County and It is expect ed that the fuel will soon be coifing out In considerable quantities. Coos County has immense coal fields of high grade product. Columbia County and some Eastern Oregon districts have well known coal deposits. With wood soar ing in price as it has in the past year people will soon be ready to burn coal even In cook stoves. DRIFT of city men to the country and country men to the city is one of tho notable tendencies growing every year more pronounced. Eugene papers con-' vey the information that George A. Dor-., ris, formerly a lawyer and political lead- - . in nun uiiq uatits uilii 1 J a i u- . extensive farmers. His feature this year Is said to be lo acres of asparagus, the product from which he sells in Portland. The Oregon State Journal says he car ries $15 worth to town in his buggy at one trip. Henry Brophy, formerly poli tical boss of Salem, is now a prosperous farmer near Bola and entirely out of politics. Polk County papers at the same time record that J. R. Shepard, one of the best known and most successful farmers in the Valley, is leaving the farm to go to Seattle. He has an Ideal farm at Zena, a beautiful view of Spring Valley, everything In ship-shape, pure, cold spring water piped into his house, and. yet he was going to sell out and go to the city. His city friends told him he was crazy, so he will hold on to the farm till He tries the city for a year or two.' Then he will see. And the same story Is being told from one end of the state to. the other. Names are mere Incidents. Railroad attorneys want to be farmers; successful farmers want to be city bank ers and merchants. Of Mr. Dorrls the Eugene paper says he now has an In come from his farm equal to that of any lawyer In that part of the atate. . . HOWEVER the season may have been for hatching Chinese pheasants in the woods, it is said to be promising for those who raise these game birds in con finement. Eugene Simpson, of Corval-. lis. has about a hundred pheasant hens which he expects will lay 4000 eggs. He has sold most of the year's product and will raise some 600 chicks himself. His China hens lay an average of 40 eggs each during the season, but occasionally a hen will lay as many as 80. JY WOMAN. Mrs. S.'A. Toacum, has t" introduced the first power-milking machine into Coos County, one of , the great dairy regions of Oregon. After a trip of investigation In California she de cided the machines are a success, espe cially when dairy hands are, scarce. Tho machine is operated by a 4-horsepower, gasoline engine. ALBANY Baptists have decided to build a new church at a cost of $900C. It will be of the old mission style and will have a seating capacity of 760 500 In the main auditorium and 2n0 In the gallery. The new structure will be on the site of the old. THAT there has either been a scarcity of lawyers in Iebanon or ought to have been is indicated by the declaration in the Lebanon Criterion that a lawyer of that city recently examined an Ab stract In which 21 conveyances were noted. Of these, 12 were so defective that they would not convey title. The defective conveyances were made a num ber of years ago. The Six o'clock Train. Lucy Foster. In St. Nicholas. The six o'clock train comes through with a banc! And a roar and a toot and a hiss and a' clans: I'm the conductor and Trot's engineer. She cries. "All aboard!" and 1 say. "All right .here"' Mother's a passenger, ridlnft In state; The front chair's for father, he never la late. He comes running in. for the train makes a dah: We stop he jumpp on then we's off like' a flaeh: No matter how much It may snow, blow or rain. Father's always in time for the six o'clock train.