-THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 31, 1915. HORSE-BUYING CAMPAIGN IS BEING PUSHED WITH RENEWED ENERGY Agent for French Government Declares Western Stock Sonnder Than Any Elsewhere on Continent and Prices Expected to Be Advanced as Scarcity Becomes Felt Oregon Man Delivers 1000, Promises 500 More. 'tat'- .. arV, jr'' ., ' i 4 J . ' -Wi!Si,: .7V-P2- BT FRED A. WOEFLEN. CONSCRIPTION ot entirely neutra! non-combatants in the United States Is going on in wholesale lots. More than 300,000 disinterested and seemingly Inoffensive and unof fending American neutrals have em barked in the last 15 months for Eu- j uciiiKctcni i i 1 1 "i y aim a. mi (,c Dart of tllRae Yankfi-bred sncii have been sacrificed to dum-dum bullets and ehrapnel shells. The conscription to which the above reference is made is not of any hyphen ated varieties said to exist in this country, but is a forced enlistment of perfectly good and sound American horseflesh, and it Is said by reliable horsemen that before the war closes in Europe, estimating that it will continue for at least another year, more than 1.000,000 neutrals will have been sup plied to feed the cannon. Now that the Middle Western States have been scoured by buyers of Amer ican horseflesh and most of the avail able horses have been taken up and sent across the Atlantic, buyers are be ginning, to look to the Pacific Coast for more active transactions in the horse market than previously. They have, however, piled their business with success in the Northwest for the last ten months, and each state where horses are abundant has supplied 10, 000 to 70.000 to European governments at war for military purposes. With the growing scarcity in Southern and Middle Western States the European nations are sending their horse buying representatives to the North Pacific States In search of horseflesh for their cavalry and light infantry. Buyers Letts Diserfviinatinff. The allies have been most active through American horse buyers. With the opening of the last Spring Eastern buyers began to enter the Western field, and consistent with their actions. ft: "&t' &W?tO't ' large contracts have been closed with Northwest farmers for the immediate delivery of good sound American horses. From all the horse-shipping centers these buyers have come to the North west with contracts In their pockets. At first tliey were discriminating in their choice and took only the best; but in the last three or four months it has been noticed that they have not been so concerned as to the quality. When the orders first came In from the belligerent .nations it was decided that only the top-notch horses should be purchased for war purposes, and there was much dickering before a horse deal was closed. However, since the war has been prolonged and Ameri can horses have not been quite so plen tiful as at first these tuyers have re laxed and at the present the farmer of the Northwest is the man who Just about quotes what he wants for a horse suitable to put into the field. It has come to the point that when a farmer asks a price for a horse he just about gets it, or Mr. Buyer can go without. As a general rule the buyer accepts the farmer's figure, provided the horse is reasonably sound and not too old. Oregon Crop Brings l.OOO.OOO. Thus through the dealings of these European representatives, Oregon probably more than $1,000,000 richer in terms of horse money than it was little more than a year ago, and with the upward rise in the price of horses it bids fair to double tjiat figure be fore the close of the next - Summer. Other Northwest states have furnished large orders and their share of Euro pean cash has been equal to and in many instances greater than that of Oregon. "Why is it, one buyer of more than 50,000 head of horses in the last five months was asked, "that you come to the extreme Western States for you horses when you can get them ' in abundance throughout Texas. Nebraska, Wyoming and other Central and South ern States?" "Because," he said, "the Western horses are better. They stand the . test better, are sounder, have better wind and land on the European seaboard in better condition trsn the Middle West ern or Southern horses. One most no ticeable thing about your Western horses is the soundness of their feet. This probably is one cf the most neces sary things for horses to be placed in the service. "The reports that have been received here on shipments of Western horses to Europe show us that the West will become" our field in the purchase of horses, and that is why we have been ordered by our firms dealing with these countries to come West and buy up all the horses the stockmen will furnish us. Practically every horse firm will have buyers in the Northwest this Winter and next Spring. Inspec tion quarters wfll be transferred from Middle Western stations to Western cities and all the work' incident to shipment will be done in the West." Central Oregon probably will become the rendezvous for these buyers in in creasingly large numbers' next year. This section of the state has already furnished large orders amounting to more than $500,000 and yet no impres sion has been made upon the supply. W. W. ("Bill") Brown, of Fife. Or., probably one of the largest and most successful stockmen in the state can claim the distinction of being horse king so . far as supplying the largest individual order of horses going to the war zone. Along about last Spring some time a buyer for France happened into Burns, Or., He had heard of "Bill" Brown and the approximate number of horses he owned. lOOO Head Sold. Mr: Brown was found and it was not long before this buyer had closed a deal for 1000 head of sound dry horses to be delivered on or- before the middle cf October of this year. Mr. Brown this week delivered into Bend the last of the order and this buyer has closed another contract with the king of Ore gon horsemen In which Mr. Brown will deliver an additional 600 head within the" next few months. When the contract was closed, it Is said, Mr. Brown had no idea of the number of horses he had roaming over the Central Oregon ranges. He had an idea that he had at least 1000 some where within reach, but there was nothing definite. So he began scouring the range, and as a result he is about $100,000 richer in horse money than he was January 1, 1915, and will be about 350,000 richer January 1, 191b. than he Is today through his transac tions with the Republic of France. No man, according to the buyer who closed tne contract with Mr. Brown, has been able to come up to that mark. One Montana horseman made a contract for the delivery of 1000 sound Montana horses from his own ranch, but S40 was all he could produce. In the cue of Bill Brown, of Fife, every horse came from his own stock ranch, and t is said that he has plenty left to do all the work that is necessary on his ranch next year. It might be expected that with the dealings so promiscoun and on such a large scale the supply might be mo diminished as to be detrimental to the farming interests of the state. There are, however, no indications ox sucn up to the present time. "We Intend to ply our business !n fcdaho, Washington, Oregon and Mon tana more strongly in the coming sea son than this year," eaid one buyer of East St. Louis. Just because we have found that the Coast horses are better than the horses we shipped earlier In the vear. "Yes," he said, "the manufacturer of jrannel shells is not the only individ ual who is going to make money off this war. if you wish to speak of it in that way. I venture to say that more than $3,000,000 has already been spent in this country and has been leit di rectlv with the Western and Middle Western stockmen. There is none of this 60-to-90-days' business in payin either. The cash Is waiting him upon the delivery and acceptance of his horses at the stockyards from which the shipment is made. "It is not without feeling and pity.' said one buyer, "that we make th deals we do. When you come upon a fine, sound horse that looks like thoroughbred, it kind of pricks the con science a little to know that the fine animal can stand the war business not more than a few days when it get into the field. We are told by the French army officers who go with us in buying that a horse's life seldom extends beyond four days, provided it is in the field of action. A majority of them go within this time and a very few live more than four day; The best of the average horses in tha country have already gone and have been shot, and we are now compelled to resort In many instances to the in ferior grades, but we have to take them." MONT A VI LL A SCHOOL TEACHES BY USE OF MANUFACTURERS EXHIBITS Industries Are Illustrated and Forms of Life Are Depicted by Use of Working Models, Charts and Stereopticon Slides Activity in Gardening and Domestic Sciencfe Is Turned to Practical Account. . . . f f"Cf -l f , , i i l.-v-rilTTTTTfi?j fcJWV" - yr 5; i! v.y n J" " 1 4 Wt Vtta -.vA 1 v I III CZ3 " : ' kiSM IN LINE with the city-wide endeavor to connect up learning with life In the Portland public schools Is the system of collecting manufacturers' ex hibits to aid the children in their geog raphy and language lessons. Exhibits, showing process of manufacturing cer tain articles, are furnished by leading manufacturers In such form that the children can see, touch and handle a product in the various stages of Its manufacture. For instance, when the chocolate In dustry chances to be mentioned in a geography or domestic science lesson, am exhibit is brought into the class room, which shows the various stages of manufacture from the cocoa bean to a chocolate drop. The difference between chocolate and cocoa is forever fixed in the pupils' minds by a com parison ot two vials, one showing the chocolate before the extraction of the cocoa oil and the other product after the oil is extracted, for cocoa is only chocolate minus the oil. Library Loaaa Exhibits. Exhibits of this nature are used In some of the grade schools, and a col lection of them is owned by the Public Library and loaned out to the schools, but the most comprehensive collection has been made in the Montavllla School through the efforts of the principal, D. A. Wiley. Professor Wiley Is vitalizing the studies of the children under his charge In many ways. Every agency Is made use of in this school to make lessons as real, as much a part of the children's lives, as their play. Montavllla School) took first prize In last Spring's garden 1 contest. This Fall, in order not to I waste the vegetables In the garden, ; the children decided, acting upon a I suggestion fromt heir principal, to can the vegetables to be used in fheir hot lunches during the Winter. Hundreds! of quarts of peas, beans, carrots and I beets have been canned. I Another activity that has proved both useful and instructive in this school is printing. Transfer blanks and many other needed printed forms are made by the hoys, who are so fas cinated with the intricacies of the printers' trade that there are always more of them wanting to work in the printshop than its small quarters will accommodate. This work Is entirely voluntary and is done after school hours. Lantern Slides I'tllised. The exhibits from manufacturers are supplemented by the use of charts, giv ing pictures and descriptive matter. This school also makes a wide use of stereographs. Six hundred slides made for use in the grades are owned by the Montavllla School. Slides on any one of hundreds of subjects may be secured by a teacher desiring them on five minutes notice. A large stereopti con lantern is in use in the assembly hall, and teachers may take their pu pils there at any time the pictures may help to make a lesson clearer. Among the manufacturers' exhibits i ft - tl TOMS) Mimwwil fyf f " . .i 5:.$ 1i V V f. a--- II fa- i i I I I mm SfrBlififl filifiSRfifi -.1 I -1 nmiiriiiiMiii tar are two assortments of articles that perhaps interest the children more than any others. They show the process of making silk, from the moth that lays the eggs that hatch silkworms, to a spool of thread. Desiring to make this subject stiU more interesting Miss Lucie George, teacher of the 6-A and 6-B grades, sends each year to Wash ington for eggs, and the silkworms hatch and spin their cocoons In the windows of the schoolroom, where the children can watch the process from day to day. Local Industries Shown. Exhibits from cotton mills help the pupils to understand the making of cotton cloth and thread. Some of Miss George's pupils have tried growing cotton in the windows. An exhibit from one of the large shears manu facturers has been of ruuch interest to domestic science classes. Exhibits from flouring mills have familiarized the children with one ot Oregon's leading industries. Articles showing the by- Vt-oducts of petroleum have been fur nished by the Standard Oil Company. An exhibit showing the various pro cesses in the making of woolen gar ments has also aroused special inter est, because of the importance ot the wool industry in Oregon. Principal Wiley is planning an ex cursion to one of Portland's woolen mills in order that the children may actually see the manufacturing processes. $1500 King Is Recovered. BALTIMORE, Md.. Oct. 22. Mrs. Ed ward Hanger, of Chicago, who is a guest of Miss N. S. Watts, was shocked upon returning to the home ot her friend from a shopping expedition to find that a diamond ring valued at $1500 was missing from her finger. The ring held a large diamond set in platinum and surrounded by 100 smaller stones. An investigation by detectives brought back the ring, which Mrs. Hag. ger had lost In a store. JOY AND FIXITY OF LIFE FOR BELIEVERS IS DESCRIBED Rev. W. B. Hinson Declares Christianity Must Be Real and Ideal, Above and Apart From Worldly Associations and Deaf to Criticisms of Those Who Are Not Converted to God's Ways. si The Work of a Man. That the man of Oid may be complete, furnished comijletely unto every good work. S Tim.. 3-17. BY REV. tV. B. HINSON, Pastor of the White Temple.) AT the base of the complete furnish ing of the Christian for every good work there must lie clear cut conviction concerning Jesus Christ. I read over for my heartening this morning that wonderful sentence in Corinthians where the Apostle Paul, a quarter of a centu ry after Christ went 'to heaven, said, "He appeared unto over 500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part re main, but some are fallen asleep." The whole life of those Corlnthiar men so changei mat me assumed - an expectant attl-iie. - Alfcuawn. tude, and they were as men waiting for orders from the throne, and other men looking at them marveled at their other-worldliness; and when they died, they died not as ordinary men die. but calmly and trustfully they fell asleep; and I'aul tells you the secret of their changed life and calm death was the clear conviction they possessed regard ing the Savior. They had seen him, and henceforth life was other than it had been before, and death even under went a chansre. The same thing we heard in our lesson this morning: t?imon Peter saw the audience of Jesus receding, and his heart flamed and bled at the same time over the indig nity offered his master, and the trag edy that was being enacted under his gaze: and when the question of Jesus emote his ear like a hammer, up rose the conviction that he had regarding Jesus, and he said. "Go away? Who will go away from God. and external life. and you, the massive Christ?" Clear Conviction Imperative. I say that it is imperative that we nave clear conviction ot the saviorhood of Jesus. The pulpit today is no place I for the man who does not know his Lord. Once more let me affirm that if there be the Unitarian preacher mas querading in the Baptist pulpit, the place for him is outside: for never can the great challenge of the gospel be delivered with proper emphasis until It falls from the lip of a man who knows whom he has believed and is assured that he has passed from death to life through Jesus. And there must be clear-cut conviction as to the lordship of the Savior. Said a man to me once In a special meeting, "If you tell me I can be saved here tonight, and all pertaining to my salvation is finished, and I can go back into my business and social life and live as I have lived be fore, I will profess this religion." And I had to tell the man that was the way to go to hell, not to heaven: yet Is the church afflicted with a great multitude of people who have never laid the right emphasis upon the lord ship of the Christ who redeemed them; and they ne'ed to go next month dunog vacation down to the Damascus road and say not only Who art thou. Lord?" but also say. "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" So there must be a clean-cut conviction concerning Jesus. i- or this Is no time or place for opin ions. The fight is on. and the day has dawned when .men must know, and be sure, and have conviction that has gone into the very warp and woof of life, that runs In the blood, and tingles in. the nerve, and arrests the whole man for the service of God. Belief Changes Attitude. Now that conviction will necessarily crystallize iteelf into conduct. For my deed is my creed, and according to what I believe, I am. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." really and ulti mately. And necesarily if a man has the Christian conviction about Jesus, it will manifest itself in his life. For who can believe with his being's strength that the son of God left the father's glory and came down to a bloody cross, and wore a thorny crown, and died to save him from hell, and live a lite unaffected by that he believes? If this can be done, then law is a lie j and a myth is cause and effect. So. having this conviction concerning Christ, we realize that our one busi ness in the world is to glorify him: that he holds the foreclosed mortgage on every member of the body, faculty of the mind and emotion of the soul; that body, mind and spirit are the fit ting sacrifice presented to the great Christ by his loyal, loving worshiper; and so the man with this conviction about Jesus moves through the world as other men do not move. He is Christ's fool, knowing not the value of the prizes the world offers; seeking no place, no power save a place In the heart of the Christ who possesses all power; heedless of the world's flattery, or the world's curse: with a task to perform, and a business to transact, and a mission to fill, and a life to live; with God's "Well done" as the ultimate goal of his every effort and endeavor. He is on the King's business; and in those Old World Parliaments, the King's business takes precedence over all other business. Thus is It in the Christian life. He listens not to the noises of the world; for his orders he takes from the lips of the King. Criticism Means aoght. He has no ear for the expostulations of & criticising generation: he says, "Stand thou on that side, world; on this side, I." He moves about as stars move in their orbits, God-controlled: he is resistless as the slip of a glacier; he is unmoved as the rising of the swelling I tide: he is God-sufficed, reckle&e of all save the approval of the Christ who for him died, and who for him lives. He is not living so much the "strenuous life," or the "simple life." as he is liv ing the "single life." the life that has one goal, one ambition, one purpose, one dynamic. Now this conduct which is crystal lized conviction about Jesus must be sustained by communion with the King. In his august way. Jesus once said, "Without me you can do nothing." He said. "He that hath the son hath life." And the life evidences itself in con duct, for he adds: "He that hath not the son hath not life"; and death never expresses itself in activity. He said, "Abide in me and ye shall bring forth fruit. Cut yourself off from me and you are dead and worthless." You see when Christ goes out of the life, all goes. It is not losing a dogma, one might still live on: it is not losing an opinion; that might be thrown aside as a garment; but it Is losing bread, water, light, rest, life.v And if you want to see a crystallized illustration of so called Christian conduct severed from communion with the living Christ, look at Unltarianism. Impotent, a mere cult, no missionary power in it. no prayer meeting force in it, preaching as it did in this city last Easter Sunday on "The immortality of Henry Wadsworth Long fellow" cut off from communion with the great Christ, as the son of the liv ing God, and the savior of the world. And in this communion with the Christ, there will necessarily inhere companionship with the King. "They walked no more with him," they went away. But Peter walked with him into a companionship that has made his words immortal, and his life as the shining ot a great planet in the firma ment of grace. And whoso through communion companions with Jesus shall see, as did Peter and James and John, the outputting of the power of the Son of God. and shall see the out raying of the glory of the Son of God and he Fhall see the onrushing of the agony of the Son of God. He shall behold the raising of Jairus' daughter, and know Jesus is the resurrection and the life. He shall see the transfigura tion glory, and have a realization of what heaven must be. And he shall go into Gethsamene. and have fellowship with Christ in his suffering. He shall nave companionship with Jesus. He is the one who' will stand by Moses as he says, "If thy presence go not with us, carry us not up hence." He shall be as was Christmas Evans of Wales. Companionship Is Felt. Late for the meeting in a farmhouse, the farmer's boy went to tell the preacher the time for the service bad come, and the lad. with wonder in his eyes and open mouth, came back and whispered to his father. "He is talking to somebody, for I heard him say, 'If you to, I will, but if you won't so, I won't go either." And the farmer, wise in the learning of Christ, said, "It Is all right, sing another hymn; Christmas is not coming until he brings Christ with him: when he comes, he will bring Christ, and we shall have a .good time." Companionship with Jesus! And this companionship will have its fruitage in an abiding place found in the very heart of the Son of God. For this man of whom I speak shall be as John, he shall lean on the bosom of the Christ; bis communion shall be so intimate, and his companionship so real. I told the young people In Oakland that in these days of degrees, we are losing sight of the only degree they had in the college of Christ. John had it; he was very proud of it; he wore It on his forehead, and in his heart; it was the degree of W. J. L. Over and over he flaunts it in the face of the world. He said. "I am the disciple W. J. L.." "Whom Jeaus Loved." And because he reclined where the great sun of the divine love shone and blazed, he be came himself the apostle of love; the one who looked into the very heart of God Almighty, and said, "God so loved the world he gave his son"; and one who remembered the words of the Master. "Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me. and so let my peace keep your heart quiet in the midst of all tumult." And because he leaned on the bosom of the Lord, he learned lessons other men could not learn. For you know how Peter motioned to John to inquire of Jesus who should be the betrayed; and John was so near, being on the heart of the Lord, and so being near the mouth of the Lord, that Jesus could whisper the name of Judaa to John, and the other disciples not hear the sound O. God has his poets, to whom he whis pers in the ear, and God has his seers for whom he draws the curtain and rends the vail, and lets the glory of the future become the bliss of the present. w Life Is I rued. So move on with your conviction about Jesus, into a changed life; sus tained by communion with Christ: re sulting In companionship with Jesus; finding yourself near to the very heart of the Lord: and you shall know where others guess, and you shall be steady where others tremble, and you shall be unafraid, though the mountains be car ried into the midst of the sea; and you shall be steady, and calm, and unafraid though cosmos rushes back into chaos, and the sky and the sod should come together. This, then, is the complete equip ment of the complete man in Jesus Christ. I know we shall some day be made kings and priests unto God: but I know we are already made kings and priests unto God, and we sit now on thrones of power, and stand by altars of sacrifice. if only we enter into our grand inheri- , tance. and move according to our di- ! vine destiny. Altars of self-denial, I self-sacrifice and self-elimination; al tars where intercessory prayer is the oblation that is burned- to the approval of Jehovah. And kings attaining unto self-conquest, so that we cease to be fussy men. and become firm men; so that we learn with Spurgeon to say. "They say, well let them say": so that we become men who are "rooted and grounded in Christ": and no wind can devastate us. and no earthquake rock us. On the rock, and the rains may descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow, and the man in the house that is erect ed on the rock, says, "Listen to the wind, and hear the rain": and partakes of the meal spread before him "in the presence of his enemies." World's Temptations Lacking. Conquerors of the world, having no eye to the little newspaper, for what can the newspaper do with its fulsome eulogy, or its flippant dispraise; caring not for the strife, because he knows by experience. "Well roars the storm to him who hears a louder voice above the storm." Conquerors of the devil, saying in our degree as Christ said in his infinite scope. "The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me"; scorning tne little kingdoms offered by Satan, ana abiding in the convection that the will of God is heaven on earth, and glory even while we are in tne vale of shadow and toil. To this life God calls us his morn ing; you from your business and work shop and office, and I from my study; you from your home: you from your school. He calls us to live this com plete life, completely furnished unto every good work. He calls us by the bloody cross; he calls us by the gloomy garden of Gethsemane; he calls us by the carpenter shop of Nazareth: he calls us by the manger in the stable of Beth lehem. He calls us to live the life that Is worth while. Just a little while you know and all the coins will drop from the whitening, stiffening fingers: Just a little while and they will put a card in the newspaper thanking the friends who sent, flowers to the funeral; Just a little while and we shall have passed away and the place that knows us now will know us no more forever. Dissolution Is Described. We shall have gone the way the great dramatist was tbinking of when he said. "The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palace's, the solemn temples, the great globe itself and all which it inherits shall dissolve, and like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a rack behind." But he that is com pletely furnished unto every good work hall abide forever. Turn not away, O people, from the Christ, though the multitude may pass Into the purple distance: but cleave unto the Lord, your God, and your life shall have fixity in Jehovah; and you shall never die, but simply fall asleep: and your Immortality shall be glorious beyond the imagination of the angels. Come to this decision. The Savior calls you to it this morning; the one with the scar in the palm, and the scar on the brow. But he will not always be "The Man of Sorrows, familiar with grief." He is coming soon; and a l'.Kht shall drown out the glory of the mid day: and the noise of the tramping hosts of the manifold battalions of the king shall subdue the surge of the sea, and the scream of the wind; and ha shall come, borne on his car whose wheels are burnished worlds, within whose rims whole hells flame, and be fore whose fiery onrush the stars dry up like dewdrops. and he shai; hrii'c: with him on that august occasion t!m "well done" for all who have been com pletely furnished unto every good work.