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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND;, SUNDAY MORNINO, JANUARY ' 22, 1911.
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THE DEMOCRATS
T
IHE ACTION OP the Democratic
members of congress In caucus
furnishes ground for hope that
-they have gained wisdom from
experience and recent events, and that
their principal object In the next con
gress will be to do what will please
and serve the pedple best, rather than
to play" politics for some real or Im
aginary partisan advantage.
1 Their decision to have the com
mittees of the house named by the
ways and means committee, the
Democratic members of which were
Belected, Is evidence of the sincerity
'of their protest against Cannonism,
as exhibited during several sessions
In arbitrarily controlling legislation.
The speaker-to-be, Champ Clark,
was a leader In effecting this change,
? and cheerfully relinquished one of
the large powers hitherto possessed
by. the speaker, not only, we may
Suppose, to be ' consistent with f or-
. roer professions, but to bring the
.'flower exercised by the house closer
to the people.
; Jn..the matter, of tariff revision
', there will-be differences of greater
i olr? less magnitude among the Demo
- cratB, both as to the principle or
policy of protection involved and
-'also as to the method' of . revision
7 whether the whole tariff law shall
,be revised at once, or one schedule
; t a time. ' According 'to present In
dications, the latter plan will prob
. aiily prevail, nd It seems the wiser.
lIf the Democrats of the .house will
.next year revise the steel, sugar,
t cotton, rubber, and perhaps two or
' three other schedules, and pass the
bills up to the senate, they will have
: placed the party In .a strong posl
vtidn. If the senate rejects these
bills, the country, that unmistakably
ji wants those schedules radically re
f vised,, will almost surely reject the
f Republican party1 In and will
4 cdhi mission the Democratic party to
'cwrry on Its work. If the senate
raeees the bills, It Will still be the
J Democrats whd will get the credit
for them. "
' It Is true that such piece-meal, re
i vision would leave the tariff law as
' a whole In an Incongruous condition,
temporarily. To make it symmetri
cal and congruous revision should
"take place all along the line. But
Hhls can be done later. And It Is
in this work that the findings of a
tariff commission may be valuable.
The Democrats have a splendid
J opportunity, abd there seems to be
taTTalr chance of their' Improving it.
UNION OF METHODISTS
1 sHE MOVEMENT started for the
j'1 unifying of the churches of
j I America gains impetus as 1t
'com. Th ntnri mth
- .
lowed has been that those bodies
which are kept apart by compara-1
tlvely slight differences in faith and
practice should meet through ap
pointed representatives. The points
of agreement are first considered
and then the obstacles to union.
Tbeif Presbyterians and i the Baptists
bave:already acted. , Now the great
Methodist communion is falling into
line. V
The sub-committee of three from
ach of the great divisions, the Meth
odist Episcopal church, the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South, and
the Methodist Episcopal Protestant,
church, having met at Cincinnati,
$ave just adjourned. The commit
tee have "formed a working plan
that it helieves wilt eventually re
mit in the unification of the three
Ch-urches." The- Hllglit vHriatlon in
doctrine between the Methodist
tiplscopal churches north and south
would hardly have sufficed to keep
them so lone apart had not th
spheres of the two churches been !
.larked out by the Mason and Dixon !
tine, .and the sectional' bitterness j
thereby engendered. The present!
blending of the two streams of'
Christian effort is noticeable as still
another proof that the east and west,
ijutj oi uuiarcauon oeiween north
and south can no longer serve as
f of barrier between the two.
St,' will not be, forgotten that the
ontlnent-wide movement for unify
ing the Christian church was born
f missionary experiences in eastern
lands. It was brought home to the
little missionary garrisons, each
supported by its home society, that
only in union could .strength be
found.,-' -t " - ; r - .
In .the,' separate organizations of
Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, Congregationallsts.
Moravians, and the overlannlnar of
their spheres"; of teaching, schools,
churches, md literature a powerful
-pi-WM-iut-into--thehari(1g--?)r
the adherents of, the native faiths
against which' all the Christian mis-
ikmaries were . enrolled. And yet
when the simple and basic principles
of the Christian faith were the texts
of al( their teaching; those points of
difference became trivial In a true
perspective,
- So, when men had stood shoulder
to shoulder among the crowding
masses of the east, one in faith, in
work. In life. In teaching. It was
unthinkable that when each reached
his native shore tne dead differences
should be revivified. -
'This movement will surely be car
ried out to the full, for It is ground
ed on the spirit of the age, namely,
to gain force by concentration, to
seek"1 efficiency by discarding the ob
solete machinery of the past
TERCENTENARY OF THE
ENGLISH BIBLE
c
ENTENARIES AND bicentenar
ies and tricentenaries"'" of people
without end, have come and
gone. The keeping of the tri
centenary of a book is utterly new.
Centenaries Of events, too, are cel
ebrated now and then, such as the
declaration of Independence, or the
promulgation of some epoch-making
la or constitution. But a book?
The1 growth of free thought in Eng
land, the loosening of the bonds of
Rome over the consciences and lives
of the English folk, kept pace in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
with the restlessness among the
common people under the oppression
of king and nobles. Evidences in
the field of religion are seen in the
repeated retranslation, publishing
In the churches, and then of the
printing and scattering far and wide
of the Bible In English la the homes
of England. Proofs in the social
and the political life of the people
are written In the statute books, the
journals of parliament, and the rec
ords of the great towns and cities.
Once started, these two move
ments have never stayed, but often
change places with each other In the
rate of their advance.
Many have been taught to regard
the English Bible as we have it in
the King James or authorized ver
sion, revised and partly retranslated
bythe company of 47 which sat in
the Jerusalem chamber at Westmin
ster, as a revelation straight from
God. In that thought we do dis
honor to the noble army of preced
ing martyrs of whbse faith the Eng
lish Bible was at once the evidence
and the constant, dally food. Their
battle had been won whether In
the dungeons of their oppressors, or
the public execution, or in the tri
umph In parliament and ir the wider
court of the religion of the nation.
Having been won King James could
call his revisers together at West
minster In peace, thoy could answer
hla summons without fear and in
no danger of molestation, for the
five years, at the end of which the
authorized f version of eEhfllsK
sneaking race was matured and
published bv the king's command.
So the King James Bible, like subi
sequent revisions, was an evolution,
not a new creation
The flr6t translation Into English
was Wyckliffe, the father of English
reformers. He used the Latin Vul
gate for hlSjfbaee. He died In 1492
In 1519 Erasmus wrote his Novum
Instrumentum, in which he para
phrased the New Testament Into
Latin from the original Greek. In
1525 .Tyndale printed in Germany
i and sent to England the first com
plete English Bible. He paid for
hnraudacity with his life in 1536 at
'Brussels. In 1538 Coverdale made a
new translation by command of
King Henry VIII. who was then in
l the thickest of his fight with Rome.
iThls Bible was set up in the English
! Attn HnhAi a A". vasin r Aiif 4 tlir r
, " 1 '
crowd8 of liners. The King set
the Price the parishes should pay at
! ten shillings, unbound, twelve shll-
!,in bo"nd Mff,Ped
l The Geneva Bible and the Bish
op's Bible, ordered by Queen Eliza
beth, came next. At last the Bible
as the world took It from the hands
of the Revisers' Company of King
James saw the light.
The date of the publication Is un
known exactly, so the English speak
ing races have set each, their own
time for the celebration.
On Sunday, March 26, special
services will be held and ser
mons preached in every place of
worship where the Union Jack floats,
and King George's command must be
obeyed.
In Canada a day In February, not
yet announced, Is to be chosen, In
the United States, the week begin
ning April 23 has been selected.
Here, at least, union services will
be demanded, since, from this book
of bookss every shade of the Christ
Ian faith draws and has drawn its
, ,
I lnttpirgyun.
KEEP THE BOND
A'
BOUT A YEAR ago there were
loud promises by the agents of
the' Public Works Engineering
comnanv of tha wonderfnllv
effective garbage incinerator they
would build for Portland If riven
the contract. They made vehement
protests when the city authorities
seemed about to give the contract
to .another firm, declaring that an
efficient burner could be built for a
much smaller amount. Their hul
labaloo was as spectacular as were
their ' promises of the. splendid ere
t matory they would build If only
given the chance.
The city authorities were moved
by the fuss, the promises were
I trusted, and the Public Works peo
ple given tne contract, ror many
years the city had waited for an in
cinerator that would incinerate.
The refuse was almostmountaln
h!hurW'TrulId8lake7Tnd 'ln it
a million rats , held daily . carnival.
Deliverance was wanted from the
reeking mass, and the city ntrusted
to the j Publlo Works people the
building of a plant that would effect
its removal. : 1 ' .: .- " '.
The plant has been built, and is
now in the midst of ltsofficial test.
The builders promised that it would
consume. 160 tons of refuse daily,
but it is only destroying 100 tons.
They promised that it would destroy
every kind of refuse, but certain
kinds have to be burned in the city's
old plant- because the new one will
not burn It . They promised that the
cost of consuming garbage would hot
exceed a certain figure, but it costs
twice that amount. - ,
All these promises are In the writ
ten specifications. They are named
In the bond, and were the considera
tion for which the Public Works
people were given the contract.
The cltv wants the. kind of inclnT l?
erator for which it bargained. It
wants a burner as efficient as that
which was promised In the specifi
cations. It wants an incinerator that
will destroy all kinds of refuse as
was promised. It wants an Incin
erator that will consume garbage at
the figure that was promised. It
wants an incinerator that will con
sume 150 tons of refuse -dally, as
was promised. It wants Superin
tendent Napier," City Health Officer
Wheeler, the city health board and
Mayor Simon to see that Portland
gets for Its money Just the kind of
Incinerator that it was promised.
The elements of efficiency are all
set out in the bond, and there can
be no question. Let every stipula
tion of the bond be exacted before
another dollar is paid. The people
are tired of being promised one thing
and getting another.
A TALE OF THE SEA
T
RUTH OUTCLASSES fiction.
The tale of the rescue of the
captain and his thirty-one sea
men from the burnt steamship
"Parisians" In yesterday's papers,
and their safe landing in Albany,
West Australia, from the British
steamer "Transport," could hardly
have been equaled in J. Fleming
Wilson's short stories or Jules
Verne's tales.
So suddenly did; their ship burn
that In the Immediate horror three
men were lost. The captain and 34
survivors, crowded Into two boatH,
and pushed off into the ocean, with
no provisions, stores, or extra cloth
ing, the nearest land, and that a
barren rock, 40 miles away.
Two days and nights of torment
followed, then one man, then a sec
ond, then a third, perished of the
cold. The rugged outlines of the
efktinct volcano, named St. Paul Isl
and, rose on the horizon, and they
landed on its bare shores to starve,
unless a rescuing ship in , passing
afar off in that lonely ocean should
ce? thelf signals of distress. .
Eagerly they climbed the Island's
extinct crater. Inside Its rim a stone
house had been built. They found
there stored everything to meet their
needs preserved meats, biscuits,
woolen underwear, blankets, match
es. In 1898, 17 years ago, the
French warship "Eure" had landed
her men, built and filled the store
house. Year, after year passed and
rro man In distress sought there for
food In his extremity. At last the
time came round, and over 30 men
were saved by the fine forethought
ed charity of the French captain and
his Crew, whose work was done 17
long years before.
Twenty-three days the ship
wrecked, men lived on that bare rock,
then were rescued by a ship of their
own nation, with a tale to tell that
falls to the lot of very few that go
down to the sea In ships.
Some day, one may Imagine, on
these solitary rocks, standing like
unlit lighthouses In the wild waters,
wireless telegraph stations will be
Installed, with a simple code of sig
nals provided. So news of disaster
and necessity could be sent far into
the air and succor summoned from
ships passing many miles away.
HEROINES OF PEACE
T
HE COMING week Is to witness
effort all over Oregon In be
half of the Scholarship Loan
Fund. The fund has been cre
ated by the Federated Women's
clubs of the state through a cam
paign of four years. It Is the pro
duct of an annual function In which
the various clubs keep open house to j
their friends and devote the pro
ceeds to the enlargement of the
fund. Tt has now reached a total
of $2200, $900 having been added
by the annual entertainment on
Scholarship Loan Fund day last
year. Next Wednesday afternoon is
the day on which the clubs will make
their effort for 1911.
No philanthropy Is more practical
or resultful. The fund is loaned
without Interest to young women of
limited means who are seeking edu
cational preparation for the life
struggle. The clubs have found that
there are vast numbers of girls to
whom these loans:; are a boon, and
that an almost' unlimited sum can
be employed in the activity. In the
three years In which money has been
available, 20 girls have "been aided,
of whom 17. are still recipients of
the bounty, and thefe is still a long
waiting list, biding the time when
there will be money available for
their assistance.
The organization has never lost a
dollar of its loans, a fact that evi
dences the worthiness of those who
are its beneficiaries, and of how
serious Is the general purpose of the
borrowers. In every Instance, as
soon as the educative process . has
brjQugObe.earaiagioveroUllia
borrower Into effectiveness, repay
ment of the loan has been Immedi
ately undertaken. If the true use
fulness of the plan wre thoroughly
understood by the publlo, the fund
would be quickly Increased to many
thousands, Instead Of the few hun
dreds 'at which the asrrreraU now
stands. - -. 1
a young gin struggling to lit. Her
self by self .improvement, for .life's
responsibilities .l80ne of 'the splen
did incidents in the social order. No
contest Is more to be admired, no
endeavor more deserving of encour
agement. We ara phenomenally gen
erous with the heroes of .war; why
should we not have at least some
offering for the heroines of peace?
A STORM SIGNAL - -
S AGITATION for -the ' parcels
post already bearing fruit? 1 An
. announcement In yesterday's dis
patches , seems to indicate as
I
much. A news dispatcli..sayAltliai
officers of the Canadian and Amer
lean express companies; in. confer
ence ' in New York,, announce a re
duction in through rates soon to take
effect, between all .offices ; in the
United States and many In Canada.
Represented at the conference were
the following express companies:
United States. Adams, Canadian,
American, National, Northern,
ern. Western, Pacific, Wells-Fargo
and the New York and Boston
Despatch.'.-' :' . ': vy-.
Explaining the changed rates, it
was officially given out that the re
duction is "of far reaching import
ance. Instead of two companies
which may handle an express pack
age, making a separate charge on
each -"line, the charge will be the
same as if one company ha.d carried
the package from shipping point to
destination." Some of the reduc
tions cited equal 33 per cent.
No other interpretation can be
placed on the announcement than
that it Is the result of fright by the;
companies at the prospect of legist
latlon for Inauguration of a parcels,
post. The reduction is in all human
probability an attempt to forestall
action by congress. The express peo
ple doubtless hope by sacrificing a
small portion of. their present exor
bitant profits to still the agitation
thundering at the doors, of the cap
itol at Washington. It is a case
of lightering cargo in the hope of es
caping the fury of the gale.
A sacrifice of 33 per cent on a
part of their rates would scarcely
be felt by the express companies.
Few if any American activities gath
er such enormous profits on so small
an investment. The. United States
Express company confesses to an in
vestment of only $2,042,000, with
an accumulation of $7,464,000, be
sides $2,000,000 in collateral and
$,895,000 in cash. Besides huge div
idends regularly disbursed, it has
accumulated about five times its or
iginal investment
Moody's magazine says that the
Adams company,;, has 112,000,000
capital after paying big dividends,
including the - disbursement of a
special 200' per" cent' dividend in
1907.
A recent statement of Wells-Fargo
shows these assets: real property,
$4,100,000; equipment used in
transportation, $2,044,000; stocks
owned, $3,211,000; bonds owned,
$3,760,000; loans, $17,165,000; cash
on hand, $5,455,000. 'AH this great
property was accumulated on an in
vestment of only $2,044,000 to say
nothing of huge dividends disbursed
at Intervals among stockholders.
About a year ago, its surplus accum
ulations were so enormous that It
distributed a special cash dividend of
300 per cent, which means that
every holder of a $100 share of stock
was given $300 in cash. In addi
tion, the company increased its cap
ital stock from $8,000,000 to $24',
000,000, and gave to the stockhold
ers the privilege of subscribing for
two shares of stock for every one
then owned. "
The prosperity of all the express
companies 1b like In kind If varying
somewhat in degree. It has not
been in vain that their special agents
have sat in seats among the mighty
In the senate of the United States.
The passing of Piatt, the defeat of
Hale, the disappearance of Aldrich,
the going of Depew, the death of
Elklns, the vanishing of Seott and
the Htorm signals from the parcels
post agitation are episodes compell
ing the official announcement that
express rates are to be cut
MORE WAR -SCARE
C
ONGRESSMAN HUMPHREY of
Washington runs about an even
race with Congressman Mc
Laehlan of California and Hob
of Mississippi In depicting the
son
pitifully defenseless condition of
this country, and especially of this
Pacific slope, as against an attack
and invasion oy japan. He says
Japan could seize Seattle, Tacoma,
Portland, the Bremerton navy yard,
all the transcontinental railroads,
could fortify mountain passes,' and
begin to live upon the fat of this
goodly land before the United States
could get 75,000 troops across the
country or make any effective de
fense. 1
Suppose Japan could do all this;
suppose as a speculative proposition
it would be possible, the question
arises: Is there the least probabll
uy of tne occurrence or such an
event? The talk of these men, if
it la to be seriously considered, car
ries the inference that what Japan
could do .it probably will do, that
Japan '1b likely to carry out this
program, and seize and occupy the
whole Pacific . coast. But Is there
any real danger of this? Is-there
the slightest rational probability of
it? Can anybody suppose that Japan,
groaidng.under-aoenormou debt,
and with Russia ceaselessly watch
ing a chance to retaliate for tho
Russo-Japanese war, would, even 'f
It had a real grievance against this
country, precipitate a conflict with
so mighty, a nation as 'the United
States, a : conflict , that . could only
end in. the defeat and destruction
of the Invaders? .
The affirmative of this theory
seems always to be' assumed by these
perturbed patriots.
The talk of ths Humphreys, the
McLachlans- and Hobsons Is mostly
unreasonable, unhealthy and unwise.
Traced to Its last analysis it usually
reduces itself to absurdity. When
they read in the urws dispatches the
Other day that Japanese officers had
viewed " the - works-; at the Panama
canal, were they not at once filled
with fear that the mikado 1s going
to seize the canal strip and 'annex
it to Japan? . : ,. "
CrniNESE OATHS IN COURT 1
VANCOUVER, British Columbia,-
paper has a rather : ludi
crous account of a scene in
court there the" day before.':
The Chinese commission court - was
sitting for inquiry Into the tricks and
manners of Chinese smugglers, with
whom, accusations had been made.
South-fWtaln of the customs Inspectors'
were in collusion.
The members, one and all. of the
Chinese firm were brought into
court and examined.1 They 'were all
educated in English, and claimed by
their counsel to be christianized;.
The mfin now in question la 1 de
scribed, as tall, well dressed in our
fashion, hair parted neatly tn "the
middle, and "as smart as a whip"."
The government prosecutor exam
ined him, but never a straight an
swer could he get. Up and. down
and across lots counsel took him,
but absolutely in,: Tain, so far as
any admission of part or lot in the
smuggling business went. At last
the Judge interposed. "Let the " wit
ness stand down," he said, "and
fetch a chicken, and administer the
Chinese oath In all its fullness."
Then the Chinaman's counsel was
on his feet at once with the loudest
possible objections. "These men are
christianized, your honor," eald he.
"What' kind of a slur shall we cast
on their new religion, and our old
one, when we admit that we shall
get more truth out of, a chicken
killed In court to give authority to
SEVEN HISTORICAL MYSTERIES
Joan
What became of Joan of Arc? Was
she really burned at the etake at Rouen,
as history tells us, or through some
subterfuge was she mysteriously saved?
In spite of the fact that many historians
have painted her last moments lh a
graphically descriptive way; have re
peated as her last words, "Oh, Rouen I
Rouen, must thou be my last sbode!"
as she was led through the thronged
streets, was It really Joan of Arc? Ar
tists have painted pictures of har kneel
ing at the stake with the crucifix
pressed to her bosom, the flames mount
ing all about her. And finally, tt Is
told, that ber ashes were collected and
thrown Into the river.
Could there have been any mistake,
and that Joan survived for a number
of years after the date named of her
execution, May II, 1431? There are
ancient records that would go to prove
that Joan was not the martyr she has
bean pictured In history, or painted
on eanvas. In August. 141$; more than
eight years after the date of execution,
there appeared In Orleans a woman who
claimed to be Joan of Arc. This may
not seem unusual In view of the many
lmpostot-s who no doubt flourished at
that period.
But there Is testimony to prove that
In the city of Metz. Jehan and Pierre
de Lys. Joan's own brother, met the
Claimant" In 1436 and recognized her
aa their supposedly dead slstor. In
Orleans also, where her etlrrlng exploits
were wen remembered, she was rec
ognized by many of the people who
knew her during the thrilling siege as
the missing Maid of Orleans. The an
nual memorial service for the repose
of the martyr maid's bouI, which had
been held for eight years, was ordered
discontinued.
In the archives of Orleans, it Is shown
Labors Power in Politics on Pacific Coast
Frederick Palmer, who is studying the
relations of capital and labor from such
great viewpoints as those afforded by
the conditions In Los Angales and San
Francisco, Cat, and Columbus, Ohio,
gives In the February number of Hamp
ton's Magazine, a summing up of the
personality of P. H. McCarthy, the labor
union" mayor dictator of San Francisco.
"If you are seeking Information about
the situation there you go first to Mayor
McCarthy himself," says Palmer. "After
two hours with hljri you come away feel
ing that you have gained nothing for
which you came, while he seems to think
that he has shown you everything with
the candor of a watchmaker who has
laid all the works of the watch out on
a glass plate.
"Seeking -explicit information, you
start In with a question regarding the
local labor situation. He waves his
hand to you and begins:
" 1, the present speaker, P. H, Mc
Carthy, giving you the truth and the
facts, tell you that I knew Chicago after
the fire where they had no untons, and
there were more sheriffs' locks on the
doors ' and after a while he interrupts
his speech: 'You were asking me a ques
tion,' he says, 'So you were, and not
about Chicago.'. .
. "But he does not answer It. More
questions and more orations, and finally
you give up. The position which he
holds Is due to a new type of political
machine which h created himself. ,
"The "present speaker la 47 years old,
one of a brood of nine little McCarthys,
born ImCounty Limerick, Ireland. There
he learned, the trade of carpenter and
Joiner.
"When he emigrated to America the
post-fire building boom called him to
Chicago. Subsequently, In St. Louis, he
and . six fellow carpenters formed a
union. That was the parent of the great
national organisation called the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
of America. McCarthy has grown up
with the, union, movement which , waa
then In Its infancy. In place of the old
Knights of Labor and many scattered
organizations he has seen the American
Federation of Labor, under the head of
Samnei-t3MmiperB;"ttwtTnost,TisttiM poli
tician and organizer of men, rise jo Ha
present centralised authority. f
"In 1886 MoCarthy went to San Fran
cisco. The strapping, sturdy-faced youug
Irishman had found his field in a ciUt
the ceremony than on the Bible oath I
that this man has taken?" '
But the Judge was, firm. The j
chicken was decapitated . there in j
court. What the result was in elic
iting the truth or any part of it the
reporter fails to tell.
When, will people learn thejslmple
way of enacting that a falserstate
ment by any witness before a qual
ified court carries with it the pen
alty t of perjury when duly proved In
a 'prosecution ! for that act? '
,Mn these, days tne Vision' of the
penitentiary has more weight on a
witness ninety-nine times out; of a
hundred than the spiritually out of
date terrors of a past age.
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' Getting Back" to the SoU. '
. By E. 'P.; Powell In Outing-.
: Gardening as. a rule la the easiest hold
forordlnary olty people. ' There are not
so many secrets about growing beets,
carrots, potatoes and-beana as there are
about , crowing - plums ' and - apples and
cherries. Any good asrloaUural paper
will carry you through your experiments
and lead you eately to success. There
Is, of course, much more to gardening
than appears on the surface, but you
can learn most of it as you move on,
You have to make your soil, as well as
cultivate your plants.
You must not count on large returns
until you have planted considerable ex
perience aa well aa seeds, but with
the worst sort of blundering you can
hardly fall to set enough vegetables
for home consumption the first year;
the waste can go to your cow and
horse. ,
What you can do will be something
like this: from a garden five rods square
get your table corn In succession, from
July to September. You will from the
same field get plenty of green peas
during the same period. For string
beans and shell beans you will need an
other strip about one rod by four or
five. Potatoes will call for a third
trip six rods by four and good mellow
koII It must be to five you good re
turns. Now when you come to planting
for market, multiply the strips accord
ing; to the amount of vegetables you are
prepared to truck and sell. ' 9
Feminine, .
From the Youngstown Telerram.
A local Ironworker who had been mar
ried a couple of years always declared
that his first son should be named Mat,
after one of his beat friends.
learning that the Ironworker and his
wife had recently been blessed with a
charming baby, the friend smiled all
over his face when he greeted the father
on the street
"Well." he beamed, "how Is little
Mat?" '
"Mat nothing," answered the father;
"It's Matress.". .
of Arc.
that during the month of July, 14S9, 810
llvres had been presented to-Joan dur
ing that period "for. the good she did
to the said town during the siege of
1419." Orleans, it would thus appear,
feasted and honored Joan of Aro eight
years after she was supposed to have
been burned to death. If the new
"Maid" was an Impostor, it Is odd that
no one in all the throngs there (In
cluding her two brothers), dlaoovered
the. fraud.
A letter written to the duke of Orleans
lnvl44S, by Joan's elder brother, Is ex
tant and speaks of Joan as though she
were still living. Court reoords bear
the testimony of a parish priest to the
effect that as late as 1461, while a
member of the original Joan's family,
the woman was received as their own
dear relative.
. The famous Frenoh antiquarian Save
made a thorough study of the case,
ransacking all possible documents, and
came to the -conclusion that not Joan,
but another woman substituted in her
place, was burned at Orleans in 14St
Tha soldlory kept the populace at too
great a distance for the deception to be
noted. Historians have often wondered
why the French king and the French
people, who owed so much to her. ap
parently made no effort to rescue the
girl, if the real Joan was to be thus exe
cuted. '
An old manuscript on the topic, now
preserved In the British Museum, con
tains the sentence) "They burned her,
or another woman like her; on which
point many persons are of, different
opinions. Even as well known a writ
er as Andrew Lang has pronounced the
case "the most surprising and baffling
of historical mysteries."
Tomorrow "Man In the Iron Mask."
then experiencing its first labor fever
over the Chinese Invasion. The one
thought was exclusion; and skilled la
bor, generally speaking, waa without
organization.
" Boys, we must get together, he told
the carpenters; and he marshaled them
with phrase-making. Labor men like
oratory and, like It at length when they
gather in the evening. It takes them out
of the monotony of their daily toll. If
P. H. McCarthy bores the outsider with
reiteration, he dues not bore his fellows.
"Along with the 'gift Of gab' McCar
thy has another, which rarely goes with
oratory. He can organize as iwaH as
agitate. Soon after reaching San Fran
cisco he had a union regularly paying
dues. He dropped the plane; he became
a walking delegate. Always talking and
organizing, attending labor conventions
east and. west,, ho was shortly the na
tional spokesman of the San Francisco
unions. He ltked his job as well aa evef
Theodore Roosevelt liked being presl
dent or Sarah Barnhardt liked to act.
"In 1894 he formed the Fan FranclsoO
Building Trades council, wlrh himself
as president, on a basis Of argument
more substantial than words -which ex
cited the imagination of the mon. Al
ready he was winnlrig Victories for them.
They were feeling tho power of unltv.
When he had brought the hod carrier
and the mason into the same bond, his
next step was along the same- lines that
have made the' American Federation of
Labor what' It la. He would make all
the trades of the city act together.
"Then he made the general Labor
council va dominant hierarchy; a oabl
net . and supreme ccurtiof labor in one
for all the unions. Having brought all'
the unions together, the next step was
to make them vote together. Some of
the men were slow to see that : They
had the old fashioned. Idea that your
pontics- nas notnmg to Co with your
nccupat'ioh. Republican or Democrats
loyalty had the same hold on them as on
farmers or clerks. MrfurfViv nnf nnlv
orated aboui the value of political power
in behalf of labor rights, but as usual
made phrases good with deeds. Having
secured a placa on the charter conven
tion appointed i byMayorjj
rorcea tne shortening or hours and- In
crease of wages ftir t;lty laborers, and
then refused to s'kti .the charter till the
police and the firemen were guaranteed
their demands which ' mad him th
voice of a still wider following." -
New Forecast ofVN'
i doming Week
Washington. Jan. 1L The outlook Is
for ja busy and Interesting week In con
gress, and lthe legislative session In
several of the states also will lay claim
to ; a large share of pubHq attention.
In several of "the states the efforts to
elect i .United' States . senators will be
continued, while In others the senators
now holding office will be' reelected
Without' onnoaltlnn ' t. in-i
. mv..ww JmMB i'VI-
lette of Wisconsin and 8imfn, rnih,,-.
son or Texas are among those slated A
In Cclorado Urn leiltnr SsH11 atiAAaa
a successor to the late Senator Hughea
jujw .Dpetr, xr Denver, former Gov
ernor Alva Adams and Gerald Hughes,
SOn Of the lata HAnlttnV bm mnm
prominently mentioned for ths senators3
A meeting of the Prohibition National
committee wUl be heM In fT,n Am
day to consider the general prospects of
. mjitx - io tusoufs preliminary
plans for the presidential campaign of
next year;..-,';, -v-eLi; y'.
The habeas eornii nnMuutin n ...
vent the extradition of Porter Charlton
w "a-iy to stand trial for the murder
of his wife, Mary Soott Castle Charl
ton, will again come up tfor hearing
Monday In the United States oiroult
court at Trenton. The department of
state has honored the request of the
Italian government tot Charlton's ex
tradition, but the turning over of the
young man to the Italian authorities
was blocked by the prisoner's father,
who applied for the writ of habeas cor.
Th week will be marked by the con
secration of three new bishops, two of
ths Episcopal church and one of the
Roman Catholic church. The Rev.
Louts ChUds Sanford will be consecrated
In San Francisco Wednesday as head
of the new Episcopal diocese In the
San Joaquin valley. In St Paul the
am day will take place the consecra
tion of the Rev. Theodore Payne Thurs-
ton as missionary bishop of the Epis
copal district of eastern Oklahoma The
Catholic priest to be elevated to tha
bishopric is the Rev. Father Edward
D. , Kelly, whose consecration as auxil
iary bishop, of Detroit is scheduled to
take place Thursday In Ann Arbor.
Other Intereatlnv v,nt. k ..w
will Include th celebration of th birth
day ajinlviwaar nt th rumo
v J " . v. .1. BM
peror, th twenty-fifth annual meet
ing ox uie uanaaian society of civil
Engineer In Winnipeg, the annual con
vention Of tha ImnMiHnn e ,...-
can Advertisers in Chicago, th meeting
of the National Merchant Marine Con
gress In washlnarton. ni1 tha nnnln
of the recular session nt tha nmln.
Mini l.nt.ln.i... A M Sv . .. V
Electricity Makes Wool Grow.
From the Technical World Magazine.
According to rroretsor Blla Went-
WOrth Of LOS Oatoa. Cal. him nhaafva.
tlons of the influence of Ma-h vni .
wires on animal and vegetable life dur-
"u mo put year nave provea that eieo-
incuy win more than double the normal
tnareas of the flock and alao a-rMtiv
Increase th yield of wool.
on his experimental farm on th
Tyler place, Roseville, CaL, a band of
1000 Sheen waa dlvidnd. nnm hnt h.lr..
placed in ft- field under th power, wires
of the Great Western Power company,
while th others were kept entirely away
from all electrio Influence that might
emanate.
In th field undar tha alantrln
line th production of lambs averaged
a iraciion over two lambs to each ewe.
In th adjoining field whore electrical
Influence was lacking ,the lambs aver
aged less than on to each ewe 1 "
Similar difference. Professor Went
worth declares, was noted In th wool
yield. From th sheep kept In the elec
trically lnflnenftMi fUM ih, fiuMi
proved not less than 20 per cent heav
ier man tnose rrom the other sheep kept
remote from such Influence.
Prenaratlons are now halna- ma A. n
plow up both fields and plant th
grounds in wneau Tne power company
will be requested to extend th power
lines throughout entire Tvlnr fialrt , an
that the measur of the Influence of
tn powerful electrio current may be In
creased. Professor Wentworth declares
that he Is verr confident that thvlall
of wheat In the Tyler field will be over
ioo per cent neavier than In th adjoin
ing iieia.
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Good Roads Prospect.
From th Astorlah.
Th Good Roads cause deserves sup-'
port and success. The announced Inten
tion of the Oregon Good Roads associa
tion to promote and energize campaign
for the making of a good roads system
In each bounty can have only practical
benefits for the people of the counties.
Good roads are always an Investment
They are never a loss. The point Is
well taken that by Issuing bonds to meet
tho cost of construction, th Improved
highways themselves pay. In use, both
principal and Interest, by means f In
creased property values and aooelerated
development of all kinds. The thought
of giving work to" men out of work,
making them producers and wealth
builders for the 'community Instead of
burdens', should not be forgotten. The
utilization of convict labor In road mak
ing from city, county and stat prison
will remove another burden. There is,
tn short, presented now for acceptance
of the Oregon .legislature, a eerie of
measures that together constitute an
effective plan for providing Oregon with
permanently built highways. Thes
adopted, the way Will be opened to a
greater and broader development of this
state than has ever before been possible.
Public duty suggests the serving of the
need in effective and unselfish way.
New Export Record.
From the Iron Trade Review.
November made a new record lh ex
ports of tonnage lines of iron and steet,
and by th comfortable margin of more ,
than II per cent Th total exports of
scrap, pig Iron, rolled Iron and steel,
nails, pipe and fittings, etc., amounted
to 154,725 gross ' tons. The best month
had been December, 1909, with 1S7.I8I
tons, last November exceeding this by
mora than 12 per cent. It Is rather'
unusual for a new monthly record to
be made, and It is quite unusual for
a monthly record to be broken by So
large a percentage. Thus th record
mail? In December, 190T, exceeded the
previous record by less than a thousand
tons, and that previous record had been
mad long before. In May. 1906.
There Ain't No Remains." J
From the Pittsburg Post
Tou hav all heard the story about the
gentle and considerate cowboy who re
sponded to a telegram f rom , "Jim's
widow" about caring for the remains:
"There ain't no remains; he was et by
a bear." Now if -that was not what hap
pened to Mr.' Roosevelt's celebrated libel
suit against the Mew York World and
th Indianapolis News, it must hay
been a dynamite explosion. Tn era ain't
no remains. And isn't 1t awful, Mabel,'"
that the stiff state's sights decision was
consigned to the new Chief1 Justice
ISrWlA-OwprepwhawerietheraOTT
w naa been expecting the Mad Mullah
of the New Nationalism to emerge from
his hole about groundhog day? After
this unanimous decision of th court
mere ain't no remains: ther ain't Be
hola