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5 UN ELECTRIC SLEEP "What's Mint it Yours, - and , "What it Yours it Mint." SbaJusptmrt, IF your Hat isn't a Gordon, t r y to change with the next Gordon wearer you meet, See whether he'll quote that couplet, or tell you to buy a GORDON Current Used as an Anaes thetic by Leduc of Paris. DRUGS NO LONGER NEEDED THE MORXING ORJEGONIAN. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1907. $ Danger Resulting From Use of Opiates May Be Avoided Elec tricity Kills by Decomposing Blood and Poisoning It. NEW YORK, Sept. 19. Discussion- of Professor Leduc's reported discovery of a method ol Inducing electric sleep was taken up yesterday by Walter G. j Clark, president of the Barker-Clark Electric Company, and an electrical en gineer of many years' experience, says the Times. He, with Professor Parker, of Columbia University, discovered the new helium lamp, concerning which there was considerable discussion in the newspapers and scientific Journals a few months ago. "As I understand the cable to the Times from Parle," said Mr. Clark, "it seems that Professor Leduc has discov ered a method of inducing sleep simply by the use of some thirty-five volts ap plied to the head intermittently. For a number of years physicians and sur geons In this country have known and used to some extent electricity to carry drug anaesthetics into the body, thus producing anaesthesia without, oblig ing the stomach and Intestines to come In contact with the drugs. But Profes sor Leduc has certainly discovered something wonderful if he has found how to do without the use of these drugs at all. Electricity to Apply Drugs. t "Cataphoresls, which means electric ssmosls, is simply the transmission of a liquid by electric currents. For in stance, if It Is desired to take all feel ing from the legs with cocaine so that an operation may be performed, this may be done by applying- the drug on the positive pole to the base of the splge,- the negative pole being at the foot. The same result would be ac complished by a hypodermic injection In the leg, but many people object to such an Injection, as It sometimes causes swelling and other complica tions. "But this all rests on the use of drugs for anaesthetic purposes; cata phoresls Is simply a new way of apply ing them. I notice that In the interview-with Professor William Halloek of Columbia, it is stated that Dr. E. W. Scripture discovered a method of pro ducing local anaesthesia simply by electric currents. I had not heard of that. "There Is an Impression abroad that Americans usually belittle scientific dis coveries made In other countries, if Pro fessor Leduc has found a way of produc ing anaesthesia, even to the point of un consciousness, lmply by using electric currents, he has advanced a long step forward, and his discovery is something stupendous. Current Decomposes Blood. "For many years I have carried on ex periments to tind out the-effects of- elec tricity on the blood, and I have found that it causes decomposition to go on within the veins and arteries. After a current has been passed through the blood; I have found In the veins and arteries hydrochloric acid, hydrogen gas, chlorine gas. and acetic acid. . I have examined many a man's brain after he has been electrocuted, finding always a lot of mi croscopic gas bubbles in the brain tissue. These bubbles are found to be hydrogen with a trace of chlorine. "From observation, I have come to the conclusion that when an electric current destroys life it usually does so by pro ducing a toxic poison In the blood from decomposition of the blood itself and salts In the blood. Now on account of the ex treme delicacy of the brain tissue, a very small amount of electricity will produce those bubbles of which I spoke, and that means death. Low Current Just as Deadly,. "My 'experiments have not been con clusive, but I have found that a few hun dred volts applied for a considerable time will produce death just as surely as a high potential for a lesser time. In every case Investigated, death came from the breaking up of the tissues and the- blood, due to electrolysis, which a long low cur rent brings about just as certainly as a quick high potential. "Ordinarily, it requires more than 500 volts to kill a man. but I have known of cases where 110 volts caused death when a good connection was made. I remem ber particularly -a sewing machine opera tor in San Francisco who was killed by that voltage; his wet hands made a good connection and the current was long-continued. "The brain Is very rich in phosphorus and sodium, and electrolysis produces a number of compounds in the brain cells. I see that the Times cable says that Pro fessor leduc uses only 35 volts 'to produce his electric sleep. It Is quite possible that he has found a way to' use the currents without producing any of the evil effects about which 1 have been speaking. That care would have to be used with the elec tric method is obvious; but great care also to be used with ether, chloro form, and morphine." Gordon de Luxe TS the only Hat better than a Gordon. May be a little g good, I 3 GROWTH OF THE TROLLEY The Change It Is Effecting in Our Lives and Customs. Indianapolis News. The executive committee of the Cen tral New York Farmers' Club has de nounced the proposed calling of a con vention to take cognisance of the con dition of the farmers of that state. They do not want cognizance taken. Within the last few years the drifc of population has been, they say, from the cities to the country districts. Farm lands are not depreciating, bui rising slowly; the farmers are getting from a fourth to a third more for their products than they were is years ago; there are no abandoned farms in the .state, and the farmers "do not "want to be petted, patronized or made polit ical capital of." The Farmers' Club is made up of representative men of four counties m Central New York, and surely they put forth a ringing declaration of Inde pendence. . What has wrought the gratifying change of which they speak we are left to conjecture. They may be general or special causes, or both. Among special causes must surely be the Influence and effect of the trolley roads. It has changed and Is changing the whole character of rural life. The system is too new to furnish compara tive figures. But we that live in the heart of a great "trolley region" know what an intercommunication it makes. Recently the Chicago Tribune sent a correspondent over a 400-mlle trip by trolley In the State ' of Illinois alone. What he saw and heard Is not a new story, perhaps,, but it accounts some what for the sturdy tone of the New York Farmers' club. This correspond ent speaks of a few links in the chain to be made next year, so as to make possible a continuous trip by trolley from Wheeling to Chicago or St. Louis. A new bridge is to be put across the Mississippi River for trolleys exclu sively. The trolleys' freight traffic increases Constantly. Small freight and perish able products are theirs already, but even bulk freight Is coming their way. and what the full development may be can only be speculated on. All sorts of passenger service are in full flower buffet and chair 'cars and sleepers, with limited trains and special; while for luxury the steam service leaves nothing to pattern after. Ideal lnterurban service is in a re gion of country that has many small towns. In other words, the thicker the settlement along the line the more frequent the cars and the better the service, the characteristic of streetcar service being effective here. Ohio is dotted with small towns and large, and furnishes ideal conditions. But Massa chusetts the home of the trolley Is a still stronger example. Towns there were so thick that the steam roads could not give the required service and then came the trollay, which has fairly grldironed the state. More Interesting, however, is the cor respondent's testimony like so much that has gone before as to the social and commercial effects of this rapidly growing system of intercommunica tion. Briefly: The small towns which thought they were going to be hurt have been helped. The country store keeper who thought he was to be ruined, has braced up, got rid of his old stock, put In new things, added to his variety as well as his styles, and, behold, he is selling more than before. The competition with the city stores, which he thought wag going to ruin him, he has thus met. People went to the cities formerly because they could not get the latest things In clothes, etc.. In the country store. But now they can. While there has thus been given an impetus to trade and banking In coun try towns, there has been at the same time a vast impetus given to the so cial life of the rural region. The boy on the farm can now do his work, and yet in the evening go to the theater or a lecture or a dance In the city if he likes, and be at home in time for a night's sleep, though it be somewhat shortened. " - So not only the boy, but the Void man," is coming oftener to the city or to the country town. And this coming, as well as the increased varieties and fresh styles of things In the country store, results in the farmer wearing "city" clothes, which he finds he can now get as well as the exclusive type that he could only. get formerly. THE ENCROACHING SEA. Ocean Gradually Eating Off the Edge of Many Lands. Charles F. Carter, In Technical World. It is not necessary to be an engineer or even a geologist to be able to per eelve that the sea is advancing upon the eastern and southern coasts of the Unite I States. Submerged stumps, some of them of trees cut down by man, and lagoons and marshes sub merged all along the Coast from New Jersey to Florida within the memory of men now living and the decreasing power available for mills and factories. on tidal etreams, all tell the story of the advancing waters. Then there are the keys which skirt the coast all the way around Florida and on to Alabama. The keys are the high places on lands not yet completely submerged. They are separated from the mainland by shallow sounds from a third of a mile to Ave miles wide, which were the low-lying lands which first succumbed to the onslaught of the sea. West of Mobile Bay the keys have got out from 10 to 15 miles from the mainland. . West of the mouth of the Mississippi the gulf has encroached upon the land from 50 to 100 miles. Here there are neither keya nos their big brothers, the Islands. One interesting evidence of the steady advance of the sea upon the southern coast was found by the engineers building the jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi. On Belize Bayou, a former outlet of the river, was an old Spanish fort built 200 years before. When the engineers found it the water was 10 feet deep over the door sill of the magazine. Even if the water had been level with' the sill when it was laid, which isn't likely, the rate of subsidence must have been five feet a century. The magazine was level and there were no cracks in the walls, showing that it was settling evenly beneath the waters. It con tinued to sink while it was under observation during the building of the jetties. But the most singular fea ture of the land around the mouth of the Mississippi is not that it is sinking, but that it also stretches like wet raw hide. . - On the other side of the Atlantic, the coast line is retreating before the ceaseless onslaughts of the waves, even more rapidly than here. Forty years ago the area of Great Britain was 56.964,260 acres'; today the figures are 56,748,927. The difference, 215,333 acres, represents the amount that has been swallowed up by the sea. England alone has surrendered 524 square miles of her territory to the waves within the last 1000 years. More recently the advance of the waters has been much more rapid, averaging for the last 40 years 1523 acres a year. The ravages of the sea in 1903 were almost unprecedented; Many historical towns, such as Ravensburgh. where Henry IV landed In 1399. have, been submerged. Off the Yorkshire coast alone there are 12 submerged towns and villages. On the coast of "Wales the sea is ad vancing inland at the rate of six' feet a year. Ireland is also being rapidly dissolved Into the ocean. In the south east corner of Waterford County the coast Is ground away at the rate of eight feet a year, on the average. The Every Dollar Spent at the Golden Eagle This Week Means 50c to the Depositors of the Oregon Trust Sl Savings Bank About one-half of the liabilities of the Golden Eagle Department Store, a sum amounting to a trifle over one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is owed to the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank. The entire stock of the store is now being sold by the assignee in charge, for the benefit of the creditors. It can readily be seen tha,t out of every dollar expended at the Golden Eagle Store, one half of the amount goes to help swell the funds out of which the depositors of the defunct bank will be paid. The more money you spend at the Golden Eagle this week, the nearer the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank will come to paying its depositors 100 cents on a dollar. Trade at the Golden Eagle this week and urge your friends to do the same, thus helping out the thousands of depositors, whose names are enrolled as creditors of the Oregon Trust & Savings Bank.- Get your money back. The Golden Eagle's Assignee Sale will help you do it. ensational Values Offered to Golden Eagle's Patrons This Week As fast as goods are sold and lines are depleted, hundreds of lots are condensed and prices on the same mercilessly reduced. See Sunday's big ad for hundreds of special prices for this week. Thousands of lots go unadvertised, which embrace values equal to or greater than those told of in the public print. Come down and mingle with the crowds this week and do your shopping at the Assignee's Sale of the Golden Eagle's stock. Sensation uyers A Monster Sale of Manufacturers' Mended Gloves XTRA SPECIAL for Glove IB Be Early tor Beat Selections. Values up to $2.50 for 59c Pair Be Early for Best Selection. The Golden Eagle glove buyer was fortunate in securing this "plum" for our store clientele. Numerous Eastern "big-store" buyers were reaching for it, -but our representative "saw it first" and got the goods. It's well known among glovemakers that thousands of pairs of gloves are returned ever season to the factory for repairs a slight rip or a mite of a tear; a bit of an imperfection that has passed the scrutiny of a watchful checker is discovered when the gloves reach the purchaser, or vigilant chief of the glove department.. They won't pass muster as strictly "simon-pure" perfect with our examiners, and are returned to the factory. Just so with all stores all over the coun try. Result is an accumulation at the factories of hundreds of pairs of slightly imperfect gloves which they are willing to give to a good year-round customer "for a song." Just before this store's financial troubles our New York- buyer had secured the accumulation of a large Eastern glove factory's mended gloves, splendid values up to $2.50 we now offer them at exactly net cost to us, at Assignee Sale. Choice. 111,000.00 Worth of Seasonable,, Stylish Merchandise in a Mighty, Merciless Massacre Doors Open at 9 A. M. By Order of J. P. KENNEDY, Assignee of the East Side Cars AH Stop in Front of the Doors All Cars Transfer Direct to the Doors The Store That Made the Corner Famous at Third and Yamhill Streets most serious aspect of the continuous shrinkage of the United Kingdom is that there seems to be no way to check it. At Clanshannlng, Ireland, a sea wall was built a dozen years ago. and promptly 'demolished. Since then the sea has been allowed to take its course. Along the Holderness coast in England protective works have been put up at a cost of $15,000 a mile, which is three time the value of the land protected. At Brindlington it has cost $600,000 to protect one mile of coast. Across the English Channel the prob lem of saving the country from the sea is quite as serious as In England. Belgium spent $14,360,850 for protec tion from the waves from 1902 to 1904, and is now preparing to build a sea wall along the" entire coast, 50 miles in extent, from France to Germany, lit erally forced to this huge undertaking. At Point de Grave, on the left bank of the Gironde, France, the lighthouse has been moved three times to save it from the waves. Although $2,400,000 has' been spent on protective work, the sea has eaten away a strip of coast 2000 feet wide in this vicinity in the last 75 years. Germany is spending millions to check the advance of the Baltic Sea upon the interior. The waterfront of Mecklenburg is melting away at. an average rate of eight feet a year. Holland, which was - chiefly stolen from the sea, and where people by the hundred thousand have been drowned repeatedly in Inundations in the last 1600 years, still threatens to return to Its former estate. Careful measure ments made by the Dutch Government show that in the last' half century the loss of beach in the north of Holland has been a strip of an average width of 156 feet, and in the south of Hol land 108 feet. The. coast is subsiding at the rate of four inches to 30 inches a century. At Schevenlngen, where half the village was overwhelmed by the sea in 1570, a church, once in the middle " of the town, is now on the beach. Several other villages which appeared on the maps of 1571 are now three-quarters of a mile out to sea. Greenland is subsiding, and even Aus tralia is being worn away so much that the scanty population of the island continent is obliged to construct ex pensive works on all sides to protect its seaports. Visit Kock Island Office. R. G. Brown, assistant general freight agent for the Rock Island, with headquarters at St. Paul, and Theodore Brent, of Chicago, assistant to Third Vice-President Biddle of the sams sys tem, spent yesterday in Portland. They will be here loday also, and are looking over the territory and calling on rep resentatives of the Rock Island throughout the West. TREE-PLANTING ON PRAIRIE Forest Service Tells Why and Which Species Are Best. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Sept. 20. Extensive investigations of irrigated land In the Western States to determine the ' possibilities of .tree planting on reclaimed tracts have just been completed by experts in the Forest Service and, according to the first reports, the Judicious planting of certain trees around homesteads and along canals will greatly increase the value of land where irrigation has played such a prominent part In development. The land examined is in Montana, Wy oming and the Dakotas, and Is practical ly treeless, as Is the case on most irri gated tracts In these sections. While it was found that the growing of trees un der the conditions found on most of the tracts will be confronted w'th many dif ficulties unless great care is taken, it has been determined that certain species can be grown very successfully' for wind breaks, shelter-belts, fuel and protection for canals. - : " All of the land examined is of great value for agriculture and, of course, tim ber production on a large scale would not be advisable, even if it were feasible. Planting will be profitable chiefly for the protection it will give farm buildings, stock yards and valuable fruit orchards from heavy winds and for the timber which can be grown for fuel, fence-posts and other uses.. The principal difficulties to be met in tree-growing In the regions where the examinations were made are the great ex tremes of temperature, which are always an important consideration, since it is the occasional period of extreme cold and not the average Winter ' temperature which determines the adaptability of a tree. Damage by- drought and extreme heat may be largely over.ome by irrigation, but there is no way to temper the win try blasts of these wind-swept prairies. It has been found, however, that the choice of proper species of trees will meet practically every difficulty encountered. On the irrigated tracts In Montana, Wyoming and the Dakota. Oelts of trees are needed on the north and west to shield the farms from the severe cold winds and on the south to check the dry ing winds that come from that direction. Protection on the east is not bo essential, yet if the management or the buildings will permit, a narrow oelt of trees at least will be desirable. It has been found ppecies moBt suitable for windbreaks and shelter-belts are green ash, boxelder, common cottonwood, lanceleaf cottonwood, Russian wild olive, jack pine, white spruc, wnlte elm, hack berry, balm of Gilead, almondleaf 'wil low, Western yellow pine, Rocky Moun tain Juniper and blue spruce. Next to protection, the most Important reason for tree-planting is the need of local supplies of fuel. The species which are best suited for fuel production in this region are the cottonwoods", aspen and willow.- since ' they will produce the greatest quantity of wood in weight per acre in the least time. For fence-posts, the planting of green ash, diamond wil low, common cottonwood, Russian olive. Rocky Mountain juniper and Western yellow pine is recommended. Green ash and bur oak furnish material valuable for "farm repairs. Settlers on Irrigated land in this region who wish advice on the selection of species and methods of carrying on tree planting may obtain It by writing to the Forester, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. Requests for advice should contain In formation concerning the character of the soil, the purpose for which planting is to be done, and other details which might assist in making the.repry as helpful as possible. ' . INVENTIONS SUPPRESSED Telegraph Companies Now Digging Up Burled Devices. Pittsburg Dispatch. , It is known to those who have taken an Interest In such matters that corpora tions and wealthy Individuals have not only seized upon or purchased for a song the valuable product of the brains of poor Inventors, but they have also often purchased inventions at any price for the purpose of suppressing them for the reason that their adoption and intro duction would destroy established de vices, even though the eventual value would be immeasurable. Now It is as serted that the two great telegraph cor porations . are deliberating over unearth ing from their tomb certain automatic telegraph instruments which were burled for the sole reason that their adoption would have meant an expensive revolu tion throughout all the Incomputable ramifications of their systems. No Invention which saves labor or mul tiplies the capacity for communication or transportation, or which adds to the comfort or safety of the public, should be suppressed or ignored. Long years after the adoption of the airbrake, and years after railway employes had prayed for its application to freight trains, Con gress enacted a law, at the instance of labor organizations, providing fin: this application, but allowing a - designated period to effect the great change. That period elapsed and still the airbrake was only sporadically applied, and investiga tion and further action were necessary before all the railway companies would yield. The change, though expensive, has saved the lives of untold numbers of railway employes, but this possibility did not seem to te of importance to the corporations. A new engineer, or fire man. or brakeman could be brought cheaper than a new airbrake. This is instanced -merely to show the reason why good new inventions are re fused, or purchased and suppressed by corporations because of the immense first cost of their general introduction. The labor world itself has no reason to be afraid of such Inventions. There is always an avenue for the employment of the willing, skillful and Industrious. Workmen no longer, as In the old days of Invention, assemble to smash labor saving devices. These invariably have inured to the benefit of the workman as well as the employer, and in truth it Is due to the machine, and the superior Intelligence required' for Its successful operation, that the workman and work woman of today arc advanced to the standard of organizers and educators of themselves In formal movements having a vital bearing upon their present and future. In this connection It will be recalled that an official investigation of the pat ent office records has been ordered to de termine how many unused patents have been, granted, and to ascertain to what extent applications have been withdrawn before final issue. ' The suppression of useful inventions is said to be common and the Government, desires to know the' facts. Feeding Cows Powdered Milk. An endless-chain arrangement that on its face appears to be the most economi cal scheme ever devised has been Invented by Professor Oscar Erf, of the Kansas State Agricultural College.. Professor Erf takes' the milk from the cows on the col lege farm, converts It Into a powder! and feeds it back to the cows, making what is declared to be the cheapest of all cow foods. There is one flaw in the chain, however. Professor Erf does not main tain that hU new food will 'entirely sat isfy the appetite of the cow. The food invented by Professor Erf is made of buttermilk. He has perfected a system of drying buttermilk and then turning it Into a powder. This dried buttermilk con tains about 70 per cent of protein, twice as much as cottonseed meal, and can be manufactured for a cent and half a pound. Thus a food twice as rich as cot tonseed can be manufactured at approxi mately the cost of the latter. One hun dred pounds of buttermilk will make from nine to ten, pounds of the finished product, and, as tne estimated waste of buttermilk In the creameries of Kansas is half a million pounds daily. It is fig ured that by the adoption of "this process a saving of $400,000 can be made yearly in Kansas alone. The Reporter's Version. Lipplncott's. How reporters sometimes make absurd mistakes In gathering news was humor ously illustrated not long ago, when He licon Hall, Upton Sinclair's Utopian col ony, burned down. Among those injured was Mrs. Grace MacGowan Cooke, the kell-known author. A youthful reporter on one of the big New York dallies, eager to get his story in the first edition, wrote hurriedly that "Grace MacGowan, the cook, suffered from serious burns." And this reminds us of a typographical error in one of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems. The author had written for newspaper a sonnet containing this iine: "My soul Is a lighthouse keepen" To her amazement, the verse read In print: "My soul is a light housekeeper." READY BADWAY'S RELIEF A Family Remedy For Over Sixty Years. Cures and Prevents Colds. Coughs. Sore Throat. Influenza. Bronchitis, Pneumonia. Swelling of the Joints. 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