DISCONTINUE WAR Roosevelt Sends Messages to Russia and Japan. SUGGESTS DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS O ffe rs to Help in the Preliminary Ar. „_rangements if Warned by the Warring Nations. f" Washington, June 10.— An identical mote, the text of which, by authority of regarding the application of the eight-hour law on the Isthmus of Panama was made public today. He holds that the act of August 1, 1892, which limits and re­ stricts to eight hours the daily service o f laborers and mechanics employed by the government of the Unite«! States or by any contract*» or subcontractor upon the public works of the United States, applies to the employment of laborers and mechanics in the con­ struction of the Panama canal. That act, however, the attorney gen­ eral holds, does not apply to the office force of the Isthmian Canal commis­ sion staiione«! on the Isthmus, or to any of the employes of the government who are hot within the ordinary mean­ ing of the words “ laborers and mechan­ ics.” Also that the scope of the act is not limited by the territorial jurisdic­ tion of congress. In answer to the request of the secre­ tary of war for an opinion on the ad­ ditional question of whether the pro­ visions cf the act mentione«! apply to the hours of labor of “ mechanics and laborers” employed in the construc­ tion, maintenance and operation of the Panama railroad and steamship line, the attorney general decides in the neg­ ative. READY T O S E L L TIM B ER. Government will Now Open Forest Reserves to Loggers. Washington, June it.— Following out its declared intention of developing forest reserves by use, the bureau of Forestry aur.om.-es, by special bulletin, that mature timber in all forest re* serves is to be offered for sale. The restriction formerly laid upon the ex* port of timber from the stales in which the forest reserves were located has been removed, and the law n o« placée no limitation on the shipment oi tim­ ber grown on any forest reserve, except those in the state of Idaho and the Black H ills reserve, in South Dakota. The effect of this change in the law, and the declared policy of the depart­ ment of Agriculture, is that the timber on the reserves may now be cut and disposed of to the highest bidder. On many of the reserves there are great quantities of mature timber, and on surne of them the facilities tor getting it out at a reasonable cost are excellent. Tue forest service, which has charge of the administration of the reserves, is a ixious to begin the cutting of this m iture timbei as soon as possible, and it is prepared to consider offers from lumbermen who wish to undertake such operations. It is perhaps well to call attention to the tact that this announcement does not mean that the forest reserves aie going to be devastated umler authority of the government. On the contrary, t; e distinct and definite purpose of the forest service is to impro. e the re­ serves by utilizing the material that is now fit for lumber. In doing so, it will also provide for the reproduction of the forest and the restocking of those areas upon which forest condi­ tions are defective. Work of this kind has been successfully carried on for some years in the Black H ills forest reserve, and has been begun with the greatest promise of success on the lands of the Chippewa Indians, in Northern Minnesota, from which it is proposed to create another National reserve. The public in general, and lumber­ men in particular, w ill be interested to know that in this last case the re­ strictions impose«! by the forester have in no way hampered the lumbering operations. Timber sold at public sale, with full knowledge of these re- strictions7 brought higher prices than were obtained for white and Norway pine in the same region, and the slash has been burned and got out of the way at a cost of about 12 cents per 1 000 feet board measurement. The supervisor of each forest reserve is authorized to receive applications for the right to cut tiinlier; intending pur­ chasers should communicate with him, not with the department at Washing­ ton. O V E R T U R N TH E W H ITE W ASH . Convention o f Baptists Refuses to En­ dorse Rockefeller. North Bend, Ind., June 9. — “ Re­ solved, that we express ourselvs against the present tendency to criticise the great Baptist brotherhood in the person of one of its most active members, and this in the face of the fact that there is no evidence to prove Mr. Rockefeller is or ever has been either directly or indirectly connected with coniluct that is out of line with the highest moral­ ity .” This resolution cause«! a storm of protests today at the convention of the Northern Iniliana Baptists’ association. It was voted down after vigorous com­ ment, both in defense of it and in op­ position to it. The defense of John D. Rockefeller was drawn by Rev. Mr. Wheeler, of Elkhart, who intr«xluced it and made a speech in defense of it. Rev. Mr. Lan­ kin, of Mishawaka, also defended it. The protests were started by Rev. C. R. Parker, of Laporte, who, among other things, sait): “ Rotten things should be dealt with in the most rigid way.” DETHRONES OSCAR Norwegian Storthing Dissolves Union with Sweden. CONSULAR VETO IS THE CAUSE Ready to Elect a Bernadotte as Ruler — Prepared fo r War if Necessary. Christiana, Norway, June 8.— “ Nor­ way from tcalay is a fully independent and sovereign state.” This is the text of the editorials in the Norwegian newspapers and it re­ flects the spirit with which the people of Norway accept today’s action of the Storthing when it proclaims«! King Oscar no longer king of Norway. The 8torthing w ill, if necessary, de­ fend the step taken today by force of arms. If a print e'of the house of Bernadotte should consent to occupy the throne of Norway he must give up all idea of succession to the Swedish throne. M. Anctantler w ill be Norway’ s first foieign minister. He is now chief of the department of Commerce, Naviga­ tion and Industry. It is learned that Crown Prince Gus­ tav w ill return immediately from Ber­ lin. It is understixxl that an extra­ ordinary session of the Swedish Riksdaf w ill be called June 2fi, if not earlier, as the result of today’s action of the Stor­ thing. It is not anticipated that King Oscar w ill consent to any prince of the house of Bernadotte accepting the Norwegian crown. Should the king refuse, there is a possibility that the throne may be offered to Prince Waldemar, the third son of King Christian, of Denmark. The people of Denmark largely sympa­ thize with the Norwegian demands. The consular bill, while apparently of little importance, was designed to open the whole question of foreign affairs, which Norway desires to man­ age independently of Sweden. One of the causes of the desire in Sweden and Norway for separate n- sular systems was the fact that Sweden is for protection and Norway is for free trade, and also because of Norway’s more extensive sea trade and other di­ vergencies of commercial interests. T E R M S OF PEACE. Russia Has Asked What the Japanese Government Wants. Washington, June 8. — Preliminary peace negotiations between Russia and Japan are generally believed to be un­ der way, and it is conceded that Presi­ dent Roosevelt w ill in all probability act, not as a mediator, but as “ the friendly channel of communication.” There is as yet no official admission that Russia has ac«-epted what Count Cassini in his cablegram to Count Lamsdorff last week described as “ the offer of good w ill of the president,” al­ though instructions to the ambassador are believed to have reached here to­ night in a long cablegram which was re- ceivetl at the Russian embassy quite late and was laid lefore the ambassador just before he retired. Immetliately after his return from a long conference with the president, Mr Takahira, the Japanese minister, liegan the preparation of a dispatch to his government, upon which he was occu­ pied until quite late. For the firet time since the annihilation of the Rus­ sian fleet the minister did not feel at liberty to comment on any phase of the situation. W ILL DETH RO NE KING. Norway Ha* Decided on Revolution­ ary Action. Copenhagen, June 7.— The Chris■ tiauia correspondent of the National Tidenden says: I t is the general opinion that t disso­ , iur a mongrel as a pure bred, and tha lution between Norway and Sweden is profits are nowhere near no great, to now inevitable, but that it cannot occur say nothing of the pleasure derived without removing or suspending the from a nice, uniform flock of fowls. existing Norwegian legal power. P r o fit in P ig * . Before the end of this week the Stoi- A good way Is to have pigs come In G ood C h ick en Coot». thing will have adopted resolutions March or April, and that they may Tht* I* especially valuable for rais­ enjoy plenty to eat, feed the sows on which, from the instant they come in ing early chicks. One and two are force, will mean the dethronement of two common window glasses, which waste milk with buckwheat meal, bran and oats ground together, or corn the king. are fastened In grooves In the boards. and pea meal. A sufficient quantity of The Norwegians maintain that the The op|x>slte side of the coop Is simply this should tn due time be put in a king, by not revoking his veto given at plastering lath. The roof Is composed shallow trough, set In a separate part of two doors which can be raised wheu of the pen Into which the pigs, but not Stockholm of the law for separate con­ sunlight or more air Is wanted than sular representation and partly by his can be had at the ends, which have a the sow, can go. As soon as pastur­ age Is ready they should be turned out absence from Norway, has suspei ded short piece of lath at the top. The to feed, and by sowing as early as pos­ his rights and duties as king of Nor­ small door slides up and down, and sible three pounds o f rape per acre on can be kept at any desired height by way. goo«l land, preferably that which needs Under article 13 of the constitution a nail being put through the hole In summer fallowing, the pigs may be put the door Into the hole In the board on to this with excellent results along the Storthing w ill install a responsible in the latter part of summer, provhled government, which in the absence of a portion Is reserved for reund two or three months before using, only In that case the meal must May Be Means o f Liberating Russia's be kept dry, and not allowed to heat Oppressed People. or get sour. Set In barrels In a dry Tokio, June 7.— “ If Russia prefers to store room Is the best place for 1L continue the war, Japan is w illing to Feeding of Bran to Poultry. meet the enemy’ s challenge,” says the It Is certainly excellent for poultry Kokumin Shimbun, a leading paper of and one point In the favor of bran Is that It contains a much larger propor­ this city, commenting on Russia's ap­ tion of lime than any other cheap food parent stubbornness in admitting that derived from grain, and, as the shells the time has arrived to arrange for end­ platform It will be vermin proof. This o f eggs are composed of lime, It Is es­ coop Is cheap, durable and can be made ing hostilities. It declares that, did sential that f«x>d rich In lime should of any size. the responsibility rest upon Japan to be provided, writes A. V. Meerach In Western Poultry Journal. It may be B est H o rs e to R a is e. decide the question, the Japanese could There Is no doubt that the best horse urged that the use of oyster shell* will not afford to ignore the demands of for the farmer to raise Is the draft provide lime, but It will be found that other countries for the cessation of hos­ horse, 'toe farmer neixls sometimes It Is the lime In the food that Is most tilities, though based upon purely hu­ to raise roadsters and driving horses; serviceable because It Is In a form that manitarian principles. As t i e case but In the main the draft loads all oth­ can be better digested and assimilated stands, however, says the Kokumin ers. The demand Is not so much for than carbonate o f lime. Clover is cer­ Shimbun, it is the enemy who desires an Improved kind o f horse as for a tainly also rich in lime, and when a the indefinite protraction of hostilities, first-class animal o f the kinds we now maah o f cut clover and bran Is given ami nothing prevents Japan from shear­ have. The draft horse can be raised to the fowls they will need no oyster ing Russia of her military strength as with little expense to the farmer, and shells or other mineral matter as a she has deprived her of her naval he begins to pay hts way before the source from which to provide lime for power. time comes to market him. The draft the shells o f eggs. In this way it would be possible to colt works In easily with the general S e lf-C le a n in g C istern . liberate the czar’ s stricken people, who work o f the farm. The farmer may Owing to the natural tendency o f have long suffered from the oppression fln«l It difficult to sell a light harness sedimentary deposits In the cistern to of the autocracy, to restore inilepend- horse for carriage purposes, but he settle and accumulate in the bottom, ence to the Poles and Finns, to estab­ never has trouble In selling a flrst- all users know how difficult a matter lish a free state out of the remaining class draft horse. In any event It portion of Russia and to bridge the should be remembered that It requires It Is to avoid stale water conditions. To chasm dividing that country from the no more labor to care for a good draft powers. Japan, it adds, is ready for horse than for a poor one. The horse any war program, whether for 20, 30 of quality will consume no more feed or 100 years. than the other, but the margin between cost and selling price Is very much greater In the case o f the good horse W O R T H Y O F G REAT EVENT. than between the cost and selling price of the inferior horse. Vice President Fairbanks Speaks in Praise o f Portland Fair. T h e 81lo. King gives the following statements Chicago, June 7. — Vice President and Mi's. Fairbanks arrived in Chicago In regurd to building stone silos, says Hoard's Dairyman: today from Portland, Or, where the "Th e portion o f the silo wall which vice president went to open the expo­ I* below ground better be about two sition. Tomorrow the vice president feet thick and laid In cement rather w ill make an address at the laying of than lime, the cement being desirable the corner stone of the new Federal because lljne mortar becomes hard so vory slowly In heavy walls, especially building at Flint, Mich. below ground. A fter the wall Is two Mr. Fairbanks was inspired by the feet above grouml good lime mortar Portland exposition and he did not hes­ may be used, but In this case there ought to be at least two months for itate to say so. • E L F -C L E A f i l l f Q C IST K H N . “ The exposition is in every way the wall to season and set before fill­ ing. The upper portion of the silo wall worthy of the event it commemorates,” need not be heavier than eighteen relieve such conditions Is the object of said the vice president. “ The people Inches, and If the size of stone permits this invention. In ordinary «-onstruc- of the coast took a pride in the enter­ of It the outer surface o f the wall may tlon, overflow action Is intended to prise from its inception, and they ful­ be drawn gradually to a thickness of merely prevent running over, conse­ filled their ideals. The exposition has twelve Inches at the top.” quently the top water only Is drawn a worthy setting. Nature aided the off, while all sedimentary elements S o r t in g P o ta to e s . builders, and the site and its surround­ gravitating to the bottom, remain. W. Make a box 12 feet long and 4 feet J. Black o f Fort Wayne, Ind., conceiv­ ings are of rare beauty. The buildings are properly grou|>ed for pur|x>ses of wide, like the Illustration, with three ed the Idea that overflow action the best effect and their artistic excel­ partitions, the back piece should be brought through and from the bottom lence cannot be denied. It seems to about 4 feet high, the next 3 feet and of the cistern would prevent this trou­ me that the fair cannot fail of the suc­ ble. “ Cut” shows how automatic over­ cess that it most certainly deserves. flow action Is brought about We had a delightful time in Portland. A l f a l f a fo r H o g P a s tu re . The people of the west are charming An experiment station has stated hosts'.” that on g«xxl alfalfa more than 2.000 pounds of pork should be produced Good Work o f Submarines. each season from an acre, and that London, June 7.— The correspomlent half o f this at least should t>* credited at Tokio of the Daily Telegraph says: to the pasture. This being the case It It is officially announced that subma­ Is about as valuable a crop as can be rines were actually use«l in the Tsu grown on the land for feuding pur­ Straits battle. During the battle Ad­ poses.— Farmer's Advocate. FOB S O B TtS O PITTATO M I. miral Togo, on the Mikasa, displayed Pope Thanks the Mikado. Rome, June 8.— The pope today ad­ dressed an autograph letter to the em­ peror of Japan, thanking him warmly for the liberty granted to Catholic mis­ sionaries in allowing them to enter the territory conquere«! by the Japanese, and helping them to establish their houses. The 1 tter was rent through the Con­ gregation of the Propagamla to Monsig­ nor Alvarez, apostolic prefect at the island of Shikoku, who w ill deliver it to the Japanese emperor. There al­ ready existed in Manchuria two apos­ Will Agree on M orocco. Sweden is Loyal to Oscar. Paris. June 10.— Herr von Flotow, Stockholm, June 9.— The Norwegian tolic vicorates. counsellor of the German embassy, coup d’ etat was answered here tonight Warships will Intern. who was among the callers on M. by a great patriotic «lemonstration of Rouvier on the owasion of his first re­ loynlty to and sympathy with King Manila, June 8 — Rear Admiral En- ception yesterday, says he informed the Oscar. A great procession, accom­ qnist received at 1 o’clock this morn­ latter that Germany welcomed the op­ panied by bands, went to Rosendal ing the following cable from St. Peters­ portunity to take up the Moroccan Castle, where the bands playe«l the burg: admirable «'oolness. The Mikasa ap- question with France in a conciliatory national anthem. In a few minutes “ Remain at Manila at the disposi­ prf»eheeen w ill take place at Ottawa in the near It every day. state commerce law. Smokers may ! naval anchorage at With the hauling of import cigarettes from other states an«l ' Staten island, to«Iay, and w ill proceed ! going on for the past 15 year*. He is futnre an«l hea«lqn«rters will be estab­ the cream the work hi greatly re- Ths 50 years old. He came to Washington lished at Toronto for the Canadians smoke them, but it is held unlawful to sea on the way to Cherbourg. dncefl, because a fighter rig may he from Memphis, and has been identified and at Buffalo for the Americans. Brooklyn w ill receive the casket. to sell or give them away. used. The patron should theref ore with thia institution since 1880. be contented with this saving In cost No Let-Up On B eef Trust. Tidal Waves in Lake Michigan. Russian Loss May Be 15.000. and not try to double the saving by Three Thousand Men Idle. Chicago, June 7. — Shifting atmos- j natabltshtng a syiWem of every other Chicago, June 9.— Instructions were Gunshu Pass, June 10. — According Grand Rapids, Mich., June 8.— The pheric conditions on take Michigan day delivery. to report* receive«! by General Linie- received today by the Federal grand vitch from naval officers who have ar­ jnry which ha* been investigating the flooil situation in Grand Rapids is tie-{ caused a succession of tidal waves to- A b o lis h th e M o n g rvd . rive«! at Vladivostok, the losses of Ad­ affairs of the beef industry, to continue coming more serious tonight, and the , day, two being repo:t*d in Chicago.] The mongrel fowl should he gtven no miral Rojestvensky’ s fleet were from the inveet gation and return indict­ Grand river is rising at the rate of six 1 Each of the waves on the Chicago side 9.000 to 10,000 officers and men killed ment* if the juror* find that ths testi­ inches an hour. Three thousand fac- of the lake roee to a height of three and place either on the farm or the city tot It cost* Just as raueh to feed and case I tory employee have been made idle. | one-half feet. or drowned, and about 5.000 prisoners. mony warrant* such action. C h a n g e o f F eed s Deal rn b le. Milk producing foods should be fed to the dairy row, n«»t fattening foods. A variety should be provided when pos­ sible. A change In the feed every few days will be quite acceptable to the dairy sow. C h ic k e n N o te s, Green bone stionld be fed three times a week to the laying bens and dally to the male bird. Hememtier that a lousy hen cannot give yon the results that she could If free from lice. A few drops of tlrx-tnre o f Iron In the drtoking water make an excellent sjirtog ton!* for the fowta. AH deformed chirks should be killed as soon aa hatched. It la a waste of time to try to rafee them. I f the egg» from a certain pen are found to he largely Infertile, lose no time In getting a new male to bead the pen. Never set a deformed or 111 shaped egg. ft Is a waste of time. Select the best shaped egg* and be sure that they are from strong, vigorous stock.—Com­ mercial P«mltry.