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THE MORNING OllEGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1906. PRISON BAG MILL VS. STOVE PLANT CLUBWOMEN IND THEIR SESSION KpmuriitimEiiirai'irnnsiiniiiURiiit'ainimraiii -n J if", SHOE. FOR MEN $300 g, $400 10 I Jute Factory Has Drawbacks, Think Oregon Visitors at Walla Walla. SEE NO SACK-PRICE CHECK Is Speculative Business Which WouIdJ Supplant Stale's Present Sure Income at Salem With an I'ncertain Return.. BY A STAFF WHITER. Because imported grain bags on the Oregon side of tlie state boundary cost Vmatllla wheat growers this year an average of 10 cents each, while prison made bags on the Washington side cost Walla Wai'.a growers Cli cents. Vmatilla growers are demanding that Oregon es tablish a bag mill in its penitentiary at Salem, as Washington did 13 years ago. Umatilla farmers are using 2.000.000 sacks this year. The Walla Walla prison price would malce the total cost of these bass $1:!O.0UO. but the cost in Umatilla is about f 300.001), a difference of $70,000. This exhibit makes the demand for a prison jute mill in Oregon sound reasona ble. It lends strength to the argument that Oregon can profitably spend J125.000 for a jute plant and abolish its 22-year-old stove foundry.' The argument is still further fortified by the contention that even if the economic advantages of the change were not so favorable, Oregon could afford it, simply in order to take away cenvict labor from competition with free stove labor and supply farmers with cheap sacks. ' The demand for a jute mill is receiving attention all over Oregon and has se cured a good many converts. It may be come one of the important subjects of legislation at the capitul this Winter. At testing the widespread . interest . in the matter, Z?, members of the Legislature visited the jute mill at Walla Walla last Tuesday, accompanied by Governor Cham, brrlain and C W. James, superintendent of the Oregon prison. A large delegation cf Umatilla residents was present, in cluding W. R. Kllis, Congressman-elect, ami T. T. tieer. ex-Governor. Governor TMeud piloted the visitors through the plant, assisted by H. T. Jones, of Olym. iia, member of the State Board of Con trol, and M. K. Klncaid. the new super intendent of the Walla Walla prison. Oregon Plan Held "Good Enough." The jute-mill idea did not captivate- the visiting Governor and lawmakers as the Umatilla men wished for. The Washing Ion officials commended the idea highly for their own state, but the visitors most ly took to the opinion hat the Oregon method of prison employment was Just as good, if not better, and that the 314 cents cheaper price for prison bags this year at Walla Walla was due to tem porary conditions not likely to be re peated. Prominent citizens of Pendleton admit tlwt the idea has not "taken hold" and that they hardly expect it to prevail in the Legislature. Among the Legisla tors, as they gathered in Pendleton Tues day night after inspection of the Walla Walla plant, there was little advocacy of the change at Salem. Nor was the Idan of working the convicts on roads j much favored, the chief objection being the seeming impossibility of employing them in that manner continuously through the long rainy period of Western Oregon. These were the opinions also of Governor Chamberlain and Superintendent James, us regards Jute mll! and road work. To understand the jute-mill situation as it was viewed Tuesday by the Oregonians," it will be necessary to go over considera ble ground, not only In Walla Walla, but in Salem also, because the merits of the two systems must be compared before choosing the one better suited to Oregon. The Stato of Washington is committed to the business of making jute bags. The results, while faulty in some respects, on the whole are satisfactory. Convicts have a wholesome employment which will be improved by enlargement of the plant and by several law changes which now ham per the management. But Oregon has a system of equally good employment and the economic results appear more satis factory. In the Salem prison are 350 convicts, between 150 and 200 of whom could be em ployed in a jute mill. In the Walla Walla prison are S60 convicts, of which from 2") to 275 can be employed at a time in the. present mill. Advantages of Stove Founrdy. The economic advantages of the foun dry plan at Salem over the jute mill method may be summarized as follows, the comparison being especially pertinent because the Walla Walla plant is of just the size that Oregon would need. Present revenue to the State of Oregon from labor of convicts at 314 cents an liour, and from rent of the foundry in the prison, amounts to about J1S.000 a year, on a two-year contract, to expire next year: on a ten-year contract, this could be increased to more than $25,000, because a higher price could be secured for con vict labor. Tievcnue to the Stato of Washington from Its jiue mill has been about $11,000 a year in the last two yejirs. with 250 to 275 men employed, whereas", in the Oregon prison but ISO men have been at work In the foundry. The "Walla Walla prison managers think that the mil! can be made to yield a net revenue of between $15,000 and $20,000 a year. At Walla Walla and Salem, labor of convicts is not an Item of expense In production, cost of maintaining the prison proper being held aiKirt from that of running the mills and the foundry. : The stove foundry l. not speculative, so far as the state is concerned; the jute mill is speculative. The foundry Imposes on the state no risks: the jute mil! im poses heavy risks, because raw jute prod uct from India is controlled by a so called trust ami by speculators, who ad vanced the price from $15.67 a bale in 3505 to $28.75 a bale In lSOti. ' which latter price would have compelled the prison to charge ll'j cents a sack, instead of 614 ccnt., had the state not bought Its jute supply a year ago at $18.34 a bale. It thus PROMINENT DELEGATES TO THE OREGON FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS J. 4 . 1 K1S3 Mrs. Susie Tlmni, . Troutdale Wom en's Club. appears that the 6',4-cent price for prison bugs is due to conditions which are not likely to favor the Walla Walla jute mill again, and the 3'i-cent disparity between prison price and market price is hardly , an argument in Oregon. Washington invested $.".S,000 last year in jute for this year's bags at $18.34 per bale. This year it will have to invest between $75,000 and $100,(100 in jute for next year's bugs, taking chances on the market being maintained. Should the market price of jute drop, the prison would then have to sell bags at a loss or carry over a large stock, as it did in 1903-4. In Oregon an estimated S.000,000 bags are consumed annually;' in Washington 12, 000.000. A jute mill in Oregon could pro duce not more than 1,300,000 bags, that being the output capacity of the Walla Walla plant. That would supply only the Willamette Valley, while the great majority of farmers would have to buy bags from the market, when the market price was higher than the prison price. All farmers would buy from the market when the prison price was higher, as was proved in 1903 in Washington, when its jute mill was left with 1,200,000 bags on hand. Farmers nearest the prison get the prison bags, and the benefit goes to a small fraction of the state taxpayers. Less Revenue in Jute Mill. As Oregon can make $25,000 a year out of tht stove labor of convicts and now makes $1S,00) at Salem, an addi tional investment of $125,000 in a jute mill, if based on business considera tions, should increase that revenue; but it seems assured that the change would diminish the revenue. ' That the change would, not improve the life of the prisoners, either in em ployment, discipline or health, was the general opinion of the visitors at Walla Walla, in fact the Walla Walla insti tution is not' up to the records of the Salem prison in those respects. The visitors judjred that the employment at Walla Walla is no more satisfactory to the state or the convicts than at Salem. A jute mill, being highly inflamma ble, is in constant danger of burning up, while this menace does not threaten the stove foundry. Because the state must require cash on delivery of bags, many buyers , pre fer to buy of dealers, who give them credit until after harvest. This puts the state to disadvantage. iiuougn a drop in tho price of jute, the prison mill may be compelled to carry over - large stocks - of- .bags or sell them at a loss. Free-Labor Argument. Against these objections stands one argument that free labor should not be put in competition with prison la bor, as is done when convicts make stoves. And it Is asserted that a prison jute mill at Salem would be a regulator of bag prices this In spite of the con trary evidence furnished by the Walla Walla iant and by manipulation of the jute market by spepulatora and the "trust." This article will not deal with the free-labor-eoinpetition argument; that is a question wholly apart from the issue of business expediency presented by the proposal to change from stove foundry to jute mill. It may be noted in passing that the labor objection did not have much weight with the legislators visiting- Walla Walla. They generally took the view that any work of convicts will compete somehow with free labor and that stove making- will compete very little, perhaps less than in any other labor. Oregon has only one stove factory outside of its prison it being in Portland and its output is small; besides nine-tenths of the stoves on the Oregon market are im ported. The visiting- legislators cicd that in other states prisoners make articles which sell beside those of free workmen, notably shovels and pitch forks from the Iowa penitentiary. Jute Mill Satisfies Washington. In Washington the jute mill method will be carried on. It is probably well that once begun the plan should be continued. But Oregon seems to have a good system of its own, without ex penditure of large sums for plants. Its prisoners find the labor healthful and not wearing-. Comparison of the Salem and the Walla Walla prisons shows several points In favor of the Oregon institution. At Salem there is loss percentage of insubordination and sickness. At Walla Walla the prison Mrs, R. I.. Bnnllr. Ashland Study Club. 4 f & t Mrs. I. I. Wheeler. Cottage Orove Women's Club. ers work, only every other day and then only half of them are employed, owing to the short supply of jute and to the smallness of the plant. Again, the plant must be shut down once' a year for repairs. And, should the mill be unable .to sell its bags, it will hare to stay Idle for that reason also. Idle ness is very unfortunate for prisoners. It is the worst of prison tortures, to be confined in cells for want of work. At Walla Walla rows of cells are full of idle prisoners, peering out of their eagres like the wild animals in Port land's City Park zoo, which are ob jects of pity to many Portlanders. Should Oregon install a jute plant it would secure one about the size of that at Walla Walla. Plant for Oregon $125,000. The Walla Walla plant was appraised on September 30, 1906, at $125,000, of which $50,000 was for machinery, including 70 looms. The state government plans to double the size of the plant, and esti mates that the cost of so doing will be between $100,000 and $125,000. To install and equip a plant like the present one would cost $125,000. estimates Superintend ent Kincaid. To run the'mill takes about $75,000 a year. The gross profits for two years ending September 30, 1906. were $22, 149.01, of which $12,602.52 was for the last nine months. Superintendent Kincaid said that he expects the net profit to reach $15,000 for the year, and that had the Board of Control been allowed by the law to put up the price of prison bags as the market advanced, the profits would be $30,000. The board was required to fix the price on January 1, 1906, for the year.. The prison plant was unusually favored this year by the high rise of jute prices. Its jute supply was purchased last year at $18.34 per 400-pound bale. The cost of each bag to the state has begn 5.42 cents each. The prison has old the bags at 6'2 cents, making a profit of nearly 1 cent. Between January 1 and Steptember 30, 1906, the nill turned out 1,339,650 grain bags, together with a considerable OUR ENTOMOLOGICAL PROBLEM Insect Pests, and the Necessity of Waging Unceasing War on Them Con stant Menace to Forest, Orchard and Garden. NO SUBJECT is of greater interest or importance to our Pacific States than that of finding effective ways of dealing with our insect pests. We sim ply must fight them, and we must -destroy them. They infest our forests and or chards and gardens. It is not our busi ness to waste time in speculative inquiry as to why Nature has troubled man with these destructive pests. Man's business is to study how he may destroy them and to destroy them. For it is true, as the Boston Transcript says, that although destructive insects are as old as human history, having had their ravages in early times graphically related in the Biblical annals, it is safe to say that no nation or people ever before faced entomological problems of such gravity as those which now confront the United States. The large scale ' which characterizes all American operations' not only prevails in pests, but greatly affects their activity, and but for correspondingly large proportions of our modern measures of resistance. Just as In fire departments and the relief expeditions, our Insect ene mies would literally destroy the ground from under all present-day civilization. One of the factors of the new entomo logical problem is the increase in trans portation facilities, not only in number, but in speed, and this includes the oceanic steamships as well as the railroad and the automobile. The same agencies that have annihilated time and space in the interests of man have accomplished the same result for destructive pests of all kinds. Approximately 100 of our trouble some insect pests have been brought into this country from abroad; if today a sci entist were to name the 50 which are the most destructive, he would select 40 com paratively recent immigrants; their trans fer from one continent to another has greatly increased their power to inflict in jury. An imported pest is always worse, chiefly because it Is so apt to have left its natural enemies behind. It may find here climatic conditions that suit it better. Another factor in the problem arises from the effects of modern civilization, in one way or another, on the life of our in sectivorous birds; these are far less nu merous and consequently less efficient to day in keeping down pests thhn they were in the past. The chemical spray must undertake the work they have laid down. And in spite of the public-spirited efforts of the present day, it seems unlikely that bird life can be restored to its old pro portions, or led to play its old part in maintaining the balance of nature against insects. Much of the depletion of bird "af"" jtn G. A. Pogue, Ontario Work and Win Club. Mrs. Ie Moorehouse. Prndleton Current Topics Club. amount of -hop cloth, oat bags, hop warp, wool bags, fleece twine, floor matting and other products made from jute. It is es timated that tho mill can make between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 bags. a year. Labor Cost Xot Counted. Support . of . the Oregon prison proper costs about $50,000 a. year; of the Wash ington prison, 575.000. In whatever way the prisoners should be employed their cost-of maintenance would not be charged against the product as cost of labor. In the-stove foundry. and in the jute mill, the net profit is the money returned from the work of the convicts over and above expenses of maintaining plant, buying raw materials and such other necessary outlays, but with wages omitted. In the Oregon foundry, where the state receives 3'i cents an hour for the labor of convicts, under contract with Loewenberg & Going Company, the expenses are in significant; in the Washington jute mill, where raw material and power have to be bought, and expensive machinery must be maintained, the outlay is considerable. The Board of Control last year paid out $58,000 for raw material. In 1903-4 Oregon received nearly $30,000 for the work of its prisoners. In 1905-6 the sum will not be so large, because of idleness between expiration of an old con tract and beglnnig of a new, and during repairs. But Superintendent James esti mates that, at 3V4 cents an hour, 150 pris oners employed daily, the state will have an average return of $16,000 or $17,000 a year. In addition is $2400 a year for rental of the foundry, making between $18,000 and $20,000 a year. - Revenue Can Be . Increased. This revenue can be largely increased through a ten-year contract, which would increase the hourly pay to 4 cents and perhaps 5 cents. With 150 men. this would yield an income of more than $25,000 a year. Thus it will be seen that Oregon gets back a considerable sum of money and could get back half of the annual cost of the penitentiary all this without expend- life is inevitable with civilization; some species exist only in the undisturbed for est of the wilderness, and as this Is swept away, they have no suitable homes. It is noted in New .England that old insect friends suddenly change their char acter and appear in the guise of pests. For example, there has always been a common moth, to which nobody has paid any attention, although it is widely dis tributed, and known under various names. Reports during the last Summer began to come in from the cranberry bogs, telling of the working of certain Insects, which was thought to be the raiding of the army worm: scientific Investigation disclosed that this was not the offender at all. but the common moth, that had never before been known to be of any economic Im portance, for good or bad. Similar changes of habits of an Insect are possibilities with which the bug-fighters must always reck on. The cause for the -change remains unsolved.' for the most part, but the fact itself is painfully apparent. This entails a watchfulness, not only on the known injurious insects, but against many others which may suddenly become so. The principle upon which the treatment of pests is planned rests on the idea that somewhere in the life of every insect spe cies, perhaps from meeting its own ene mis, or from climatic conditions, it is weaker than at any other tiins. The first thing is to determine scientifically this weakest- link in the chain of insect life and to strike a blow then and there. Ex perimentation as to the best method of destroying it follows this disclosure from its life history of its vulnerable point. Twenty years ago plant diseases did much more harm than insects, but today this situation is apparently reversed, and the fighting of this class of pests has taken first place in the preventive med icine of agriculture, so tofspeak. The En tomological Bureau in W'ashington main tains a staff of more than 50 men. The land grant colleges all have experiment stations, which are devoting considerable energy to this work, and passing around their ideas. While climatic conditions vary greatly, so that the -Atlantic coast has relatively few lessons for the Pacific, and the extreme South little help for the North, In methods of treatment much often may be gained. It is a great subject and It presents dif ficulties; but industry, supported by intel ligence, will solve it that is to say. will solve it practically; for though we shall not succeed in freeing plant life wholly from anima! parasitic life, success in a measurable degree will be attained; In deed, Is now in sight. - 0 fl . - - - Vl A L ? I - ' ? - I " '" h- - X) ' k: (l ' l I ' v 1 I I tf 1 I A r- i 1 , ' Mrs. J. A. Abbott, Forest Grove Women's Club. r':"': Twmmvnmm"" ' ' .Mrs. VY. J- May, Baker City Alpha ' - Literary tlnb. iture of a further $125,000 for a jute mill. . Washington's jute mill, employing 100 more prisoners, does not make so good a showing. The profits for two years have been only $11,000 a year, and always are uncertain. The state prison at San Quen tin, Cal., has a jute mill, which has cost the state a great deal of money to oper ate, ' according to information received from its warden by Governor Chamber lain in 1904. From an economic viewpoint the San Quentih plant has not been a gain to the state. It has been the victim of rises and falls in the jute market, and has found itself in possession of large left-over stocks of bags. This experience lias been repeated at Walla Walla. In 1903, the Washington prison carried over a stock of 1,20,000 bags, which were disposed of in 1904, through a, favorable turn in the market. This subservience of a prison jute mill to speculators and the jute "trust," which is supposed to control prices of India jute, makes one of the chief objections of Governor Chamberlain to . establishment of a jute mill at Salem. It will be seen that there is a large ele ment of chance and speculation in buying jute supplies for the following year's manufacture of bags. In such purchases mistakes undoubtedly will be made, and the mistakes will be counted up against the managers of the institution, perhaps giving rise to scandal. It is easy to see that the bag business is more precarious for the state than stove foundry. In a word.! a jute mill in the Oregon prison would not regulate the price of bags, because it could produce only 20 per cent of the bags needed (Walla Walla prison bags at 6 cents failed to hold down market- prices this year): the mill would be dependent on the jute market, which is the real regulator of bag prices, and which is beyond the power of the state ' to -control: it would substitute a $20,000 or $25,000 sure income from the stove plant with an uncertain, speculative in come; it would supply a small fraction of farmers with cheap bags at the expense of the state: it would not nrovide a more convicts than that in the stove foundry. If is admitted that the Walla Walla jute mill is considered satisfactory in Wash ington. Governor Mead remarked, last Tuesday that if his state had no jute mill and was about to choose an employment for its prisoners, he would recommend a bag factory. That is because Ills state is committed to the' jute mill policy, has found it a good mode of work for prison ers and has had no experience with the Oregon method. Besides, the managers of the AValla Walla plant want Oregon to go into the business, because with Washington, California and Oregon In the jute'market, raw material could be bought at Calcutta at more favorable terms than at present. The uncertainty of the jute market Is the reat drawback to a prison bag plant. It is a difficulty which the Oregon prison does not now encounter. And while the contractors, who buy the stove labor of the prisoners undoubtedly make some profit, there is reason to believe that it is not. a great profit. Besides, it can be limited by award of future contracts by conipetitive bids. S. GIBSON IS GIVEN LIBERTY But Will Remain- In .County Jail as ' Putcr's Amanuensis. William C. Gibson, the printer, who was arrested October 14 on a charge of arson, and has since been confined in the County Jail, was yesterday afternoon released from custody. Deputy District Attorney Moser having filed a dismissal of the crim inal proceedings against him. In discussing the reasons for the action of the District Attorney's office in the case. District Attorney Manning last night declared that there was not sufficient evi dence to convict Gibson in the first place, and besides he was crazy drunk at the time he is alleged to have committed the crime. 'He has a wife and two small children, who were suffering for food," said Mr. Manning, "and I let him go as a measure of justice." Gibson has been confined in the same cell with Puter, of land-fraud notoriety, ever since his arrest, and has been assist ing the latter in the compilation of his book. It Is understood that he will re sume this occupation for a fortnight long er, an arrangement of that character hav ing been entered into yesterday. Although nominally at liberty, Gibson1 will have to be locked up again While at work in Puter's cell. Federation's Largest Most Successful Convention. PRAISED BY MRS. DECKER President of National Organization Says She Will Carry Home Most Pleasing Recollections of Gathering. After three days' of earnest conference and club work, the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs closed its sixth annual convention yesterday afternoon and the delegates in a body visited the Neighbor hood House in South Portland as guests of the Council of Jewis Women. The convention is considered to have been the largest and most satisfactory in all re spects of any so far held in the state, and tiie fact that an attempted amendment to the constitution, providing for biennial Instead of annual meetings, was overwhelmingly-defeated is sfgnlticant of the deep interest taken In Federation affairs by the individual clubs of Oregon. The reports of club presidents unfortu nately,' was a hurried feature of the aft ernoon's programme, as many had to leave early to catch outgoing trains, but it was to be gathered from the facts and figures given that the individual clubs of the federation are all doing good won: and accomplishing much good for their respective communities. Practically every, one of them has either established or -s at present interested in free libraries anil reading-rooms, and the pride taken in civics seems to be comrpon to all the clubs. Clubs in the smaller towns of the state are struggling with obstreperous Councils in an effort to have stock laws enforced; others are causing old sidewalks to be re paired or renewed. The city streets are being cleaned tip and rid of weeds and obnoxious growths through the agitation of women's clubs, and the larger affairs of the state are being helped through their efforts. Mrs. W. Wynn Johnson, president of the Portland Women's Club. :tnd Mrs. Ben Selling, president of the Council of Jewish Women, represented the two largest organizations in the federation, and their reports were most satisfactory and complete, each showing a vat amount of good accomplished, by public measures and privately. Mrs, Decker Praises Oregon. After all clubs had reported Mrs. Deck er responded to a call for a report from the General Federation, ami took occa sion to encourage the Oregon clubs and praise them for the good work they have done and are doing now. She considers Oregon right to the front in the clubdom of the Nation., and declares that she will always have much to tell of this stato and its progressive women when she vis its other gatherings of the same kind never forgetting- the fine weather and beautiful roses of Portland. County Superintendent of Schools R. F. Robinson was yesterday's speaker, and explained thoroughly to the assembled clubs his theory of teaching children soil culture, as was done last year by the schools of Multnomah Count. The great importance of teaching children to love plant life and understand the soil, and the happy results of private ownership on the part of boys and girls were pre sented to the mothers and tochers pres ent in a new light. He said, in part: Children do not ordinarily take to the idea of gardening because they have n.-ver experienced the joy o ownership. Tiify may he allowed to hoe potatoes but they are some one else'n potatoes, somebody else's garden. Ownership intensities the iuteiest which a person takes in any matter, and how much more true is this of child lil'e. In Philadelphia a few years aeo the r-lty authorities were bemoaning the fact that there were so many unsightly lots. These lots were used to dump all sorts of refuse and there really seemed no remedy for the condition until- the school authorities came forward- and offered to improve tiie lots If the school children should be allowed the use of them for cordon plots. The idea was successful ar.d now the city of Philadelphia rejoices in beautiful flower pardens in piae"e of fcarhaKe patches. We should have some thing of the kind In Portland, and we have plenty of lots that could he so utilized. Recommend Kthical Instruction. The resolution introduced recommend ing more definite and intelligent ethical instruction in the public schools of tiie stale brought on a long discussion at the morning session, the question having many supporters and many opponents, who considered that the schools are now teaching morals on the highest practical plane. The resolution passed was as fol lows: Whereas. It is the conviction or many people interested in the riKht development of children that, ftlthounh thousands of no ble and conscientious teachers in the Uni ted States are voluntarily doing a great work in character building, schools do not provide for the moral education of the young: therefore, be it Resolved. That this conference recom mends that the matter of more definite and more intelligent ethical instruction be In vestigated by the educational section of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs dur ing the next two years. Two Interesting Papers. "Our National Official Organ" was the r,ri nf an interesting imnpr hv Mrs 1 Evans, and Mrs. J. C. Pritchard spoke on "Our national Jiureau oi jniormu lion." There were greetings during the afternoon from many local organizations through their presidents. Including the Daughters of the Revolution, Home Training Association. Daughters of the Confederacy. Visiting Nurse Association, Young Women's Christian Association, New Kngland Conservatory of Music Club, Forestry Club. Jewish Council, Travelers' Aid and several others. Invitations were extended by both Sa lem and The Dalles to the Federation to meet in their cities next year, and the acceptance was referred to the executive board. CLAMOR ATTRACTS POLICE Mrs. Henuingcr Objected to Hus band's Attention to Actress. CHICAGO, Nov. 1. Late auto rides, ex tended trips to near-by cities, champagne and revels in downtown cafes, are all al leged to have figured In the matrimonial fortunes of "Dr. and Mrs. Mabel Hen ninger," and even the insane asylum has played its part. Dr. Henningor's love for the beautiful actress sprang Into being early in her career at Bush Temple. During these meetings, which it is charged gradually broadened into auto rides and downtown suppers, Mrs. Hennlnger, either knew nothing or said nothing. It was different with Walter .McCul lough, who w-as the husband of Miss Montgomery. He upbraided his wife, but the Bohemian suppers with champagne trimmings did not cease, it is claimed, and It was not until Dr. Hennlnger and Miss Montgomery made an extended trip Oregon and u.)i:il.lli;,Hll(ljlS'-'-J &aiiiin!inuiiiisaiimiLTi;i:ii!5 WE have a man in our "Patriot" factory who does nothing but assort leather. All day long he keeps hi3 well trained fingers running up and down, over and under the skins, feeling out the imperfections. He has keen eyes which in stantly "spy out" "faulty fin ish and blemishes. Leather must be very fine before it gets into the "Patriot" grade. Even the cutter who cuts out the different parts of the shoe . i3 a close examiner and always re jects imperfect material. After the leathers are all cut out they are inr.pectid agcin, every single piece being scrutinized. Three times th:3 is done. That'3 the way it goe3 all through the plant. Every employee con stantly lctokicg for faults. Every man striving for the best and with the idea ever foremost ia his mind "Make them Better." MADE BY ROBERTS, JOHNSON & RAND SHOT CO. ST. LOUIS, rso. Sold In Portland By THE CHICAGO r. D. SMITH. IWsr.. 69-71 THJRD STREET 'T.j'.'ii.iiifjitwifiiwiffli.i.nriMiffliiiiiiinifl'fflrani to Milwaukee that the doctor's wife ap peared on the scene. Mrs. llenninger lay in wait and confronted the pair just as they drove up in front of Miss Montgom ery's apartments in an Buto. So insistent did Mrs. llenningr-r become in her accusations that the attention of the Chicago-avenue iliee was attracted, but tliey decllnod to make arrests unless warrant's" were procured. Mrs. Ilcnninwr continued her accusations against her husband for several days, and was sent to a detention hospital. It was srvcitl weeks before she secured her rclcaso. She thru filed an immediate suit for di vorce, and when the action was rooi menced Miss Montgomery disappeared. The decree was granted Mrs. llcnniiiger, with a cash settlement of ;ono. MeOil louch also filed action for divorce and a decree was granted him Tuesday, only one day preceding the announcement of the marriage of Dr. lleiminger and the actress. IS MENACETO HEALTH. Committee Keports ltcfiartliiis Stagnant Pool on lnion Avenue. Stagnant water in the slough at Union avenue and Fast Morrison street, is a menace to the health of the surrounding residents, according to a report tiled with the Health Hoard yesterday morning- hy Dr. W. B. Braden. Dr. C. H. Raffety and Dr. G. M. MeCorklo. Health Officer Wheel er was instructed to investigate and take such measures as should be found neces sary to abate the nuisance, which Is on property belonging to the Hawthorne es tate. Mrs. Sarah A. Kvans. City Market In spector, reported to the board that she is having difficulty in enforcing her orders that proprietors of grocery stores shall post notices in their places of business forbidding smoking. The grocers rebel against tite rule, asserting that it is un necessary, harmful to their business and offends their customers. Few of them have posted the notices. OF INTEREST TO VISITORS Free Museum nnd JIlMorioal Society Ope ii to Public livery lay. rORTI.AXU, Nnv. 1. (To tho Krtitor.) Xo plm-o in Ui city ifi of more IniTosi to the avraffo visitor than t h City Mall, unit yt many vtsitot-H to .Portland havo t- Irani this by nifrc hun. There should lif ftoine way to Kt the principal places of interest before the pen pie, that strangers who visit our city will not have to ask if we have a muse n iii or historical soelety, and wIipi It can he found. Th- attendant at the ro.m il the Orepon Historical Woriety; has often heard people lernark, "I neai'ly missed see in? thla; L did not know there was such a place in Portland.' or. "If a friend f mine had not told me, I should have missed thiB place." These rooms, which are located on th top floor, northwest corner. In the City Had, were visited during Octohcr hy lfino people, as is shown by the visitors' register; '.'l states outside of Orefion are represented, registering visitors; cipht foreign coun tries are also represented, registering visitors, and 4:ili visitors from 1-D towns In the Btatc out wide of Portland. These rooms are open from 1 to 5 P. M., free to all every day except Sundays and holidays. CITIZEN. The original and only Full Measure Hons la located Ml 327 Washington street, brtweon Sixth and Seventh, riionc Main, "JUST A LITTLE" Cirnpe-Nut Worked Wonders f"" an Vnfor tunule Woman. "At last I was oliliged to Kit all day at a sevvinp machine in a factory." said an Knplisli lady who w-as once well and happy, but whose flrcnnistancos :hanKOd so that she was compelled to earn lirr living. "I soon suffered dreadfully with in digestion, some days thought I would die from acute pain in front of the waist line. I took about everything; for in digestion without any permanent relief: tried starvation but suffered Just as much whether I ate anything or not. "Curiosity caused me to try a package of Grape-Nuts food for a change. Then I got a second package and began to use it regularly. What was my surprise bowels became regular, no more head aches, piles trouhledl me less frequently and best of all the stomach trouble was gone entirely. I wanted Grape-Nuts for luncheon as well as breakfast seemed as if my system craved what was good for it. "Everyone in the family has taken to eating Grape-Nuts. They said I ate it with so much r-lish they thought it must be very good and so it Is. "My little girl has gained five pounds since she started eating Grape-Nuts in about three months. I think everyone, sick or well, should eat Grape-Nuts at least twice every day." Name given by Fostum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. "There's a reason." Read the famous book, "The Koad to Wcllvillc,"' In pkgs.