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8 , THE MORNING OREGOyiAy, TP ESP AY, JULY 37, 1909. mxmx PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postefflce u Eceond-Clut Matter. SnbserlpUan Rates lOTmrlahlr in Advance. IBy Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year $?.O0 Daily, Sunday Included, six months 4 25 Iially. Sunday Included, three months... 2-25 Ia41y. Sunday Included, out month 75 Dally, without Sunriav. one year J 00 Pally, without Sunday, six months S 23 Ially. without Sunday, three montha. ... 1.75 Daily, without Sunday, one month an Weeiclv nm vf ir -4N) Sunday, one year . 2 50 Eunday and weekly, one year.... 3 50 (By Carrier.) Pally. Sunday included, one year SVOO Liailv. Sunday Included, one montn io I!:iw to Remit Send postofflce money rd-r. express order or personal check on jour ln-ai bank Stamps, coin or currency are at tne sender risk, ulve posTorciee aa dress In full. Including- county and state. Postage) Kate 10 to 14 pages. 1 .cent: 10 to P-iKes. 2 cents;.. to to 4' pages. J cents 4 to (W pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage aounle rates. Eaetern Buelneee Ofllre The S. C. Beck wltn Soecial Aeencv New York, rooms 4 BO Tribune building. Chicago, rooms S10-512 1 ribune building. PORTL-WD, TUESDAY, JILT 7. lOS. CONCERNING WEST FOIST. One's first thought upon reading the letter which Lieutenant Hayden con tributes to The Oregonlan this morn ing Is that a school which Inspires such devoted loyalty In Its graduates as West Point seems to have inspired In him must be excellent In many respects. A moment later a second thought Intrudes which rather mars the effect. It Is that some very bad Institutions, both sacred and profane, -have exercised the same sort of Influ ence. Their students have come out filled with deep admiration for the school where they were trained, and often with nothing else. Indeed, a narrow and bigoted Institution, by Its very nature, creates loyalty to Itself, since It fatally circumscribes the out look of the mind and causes the stu- dent to believe that the thin nutriment he has been furnished is the best there Is in the world. We do not mean to say that these remarks apply In their full force to West Point, but they somewhat impair the evidential value of what Lieutenant Hayden advances In defense of that school. Very likely a military course must In the nature of things be somewhat narrow, like ail other technical lines of study, but there Is no reason imag inable why young men who go there to be educated should not be taught to treat one another decently. It Is -not yet proved that hazing and similar brutalities improve the fighting quali ties of a commander or make him more competent for work in the field. Lieutenant Hayden's remark to the ef fect that he is the ninth of his family to enjoy the blessings of a West Point education recalls another observation which Is sometimes made concerning both that school and Annapolis. It is that they tend to become the centers of a- small, rather close, hereditary aristocracy. The sons or near rela tives of those who have graduated there succeed In regular routine to cadetships, and thus the benefit, or in Jury, of the school passes on from one generation to another, like an heir loom. Persons who have not looked Into this curious subject would be as tonished to find how very much the succession to a British dukedom re sembles the appointments to many ca detshlps. They have come to belong almost In fee simple to certain distin guished families. Naturally Lieutenant Hayden, on ac count of his strong family Interest In the school at West Point, which per haps amounts nearly to a feeling of proprietorship, feels hurt at anything like criticism of its shortcomings, but In a country like this It is impossible to shield any Institution supported by the public funds from Investigation and animadversion. His choice of Professor Holden as an example of the scientific eminence which West Point graduates may attain Is not particu larly felicitous. This gentleman as head of the Lick Observatory gath ered some diligent workers around htm who contributed a good deal to astronomical science, but it is not un derstood that he himself produced anything of moment. If he did, what was It? It is quite natural that West Point graduates should be well known, as Lieutenant Hayden says many of them are. Generals, and so forth, have a way of keeping themselves in the eye of the public, especially when there is a war on the tapis: but It Is rather stretching a point to assert that the military academy has graduated more great men than Harvard or Yale. Those who wish to believe such an ab surdity can do so. Professor James and Mr. Balfour have taught us that we can believe anything we choose if we rhoose It hard" enough, but It cannot i be expected that people outside the charmed hereditary circle will be con- vlneed of Lieutenant Hayden's accu racy without much more evidence than has yet appeared. The scientific standing of our West Point graduates f may be gathered from the fact that . some of them have been writing arti cles for the magazines to prove that the airship can never become a practi cal military instrument, while the Germans already have several In ac tual commission equipped with can non and machine guns. ' But perhaps after all it makes very little difference what kind of a school we have at West Point. All the signs indicate that within a few years mili tary science will be completely revo lutionized by the airship and armies will become things of minor import- I ance. They may disappear altogether. 1 i NECESSITY FOB CAl TION. In a collision between streetcar and automobile at Twenty-third and Mar shall Sunday afternoon, good fortune alone prevented a fatal accident. The man most Interested, an Eastern vis itor, whose wife was injured, regards thick foliage at the corner as a con tributing cause to the mishap. Whether the chauffeur used ordinary caution in turning a corner is debata ble: still, the fact cannot be over looked that trees and shrubbery at this season of the year, when everybody who has a motor car uses it for pleas ' ure. add danger to automobiling. The most dangerous Intersection in the city is at Savier and Twenty-seventh streets, where a single track, op erated in a cut through an unimproved street bordered by a forest of young tirs. crosses a thoroughfare which leads to the Llnnton rond. Of even ings an almost continuous procession ' of automobiles passes this unguarded point, some driven slowly, some at moderate speed and a very large pro portion, considering the danger, reck lessly. Speed above six miles an hour by either the streetcar or road vehicle brings them within the danger limit. Thy re U only one way to remove the danger to life and limb Involved at every Intersection where a clear view is not obtainable go slow. It is the clear duty of the chauffeur ap proaching a streetcar track to reduce his machine t walking speed and look to the right and the left. It is the duty of motormen approaching streets frequented by automobiles to slow up and ring the gong, not once, but sev- t . ; - rrY, Dimnrintprtrlent Of I Cldi 1 1 1 1 1 1 o . x tie "l j the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company ougnt to issue oruno n"" lng this point, with a penalty of dls j missal for violation. It will not do 1 for mortormen and chauffeurs to as- sume that a "right of way" they can't see is clear. Before tney come to an obscure meeting point they must know not guess that they will not run Into something. This Is a divided re sponsibility that neither the motorman nor the chauffeur can shirk. T?e- Hfomicqin? this subiect The Oregonlan once more appeals to every car-owner and driver in Portland to slow down at corners. Our streets are narrow. Downtown they are al ways crowded. Time is never so pre cious that you can't spare ten or fif teen seconds to make a slow turn. Im munity from accident begets careless ness that leads to recklessness. When you turn a corner, go slow. THE "ASSEMBLY" METHOD. Urging the "assembly" a a means of suggesting nominations on a select ive plan, so that candidates deemed fit by representatives of a party might have a chance of being named, the Sacramento Union points to the ex ample of Oregon, saving: Unless the Republican party of California Is to be wrecked as was the Republican party of Oregon, suffer humiliation and de feat year alter year as in Oregon, 'under the direct primary system which turns minorities Into majorities. It must give prayerful - retard to the lesson of exper ience, laid like a lamp to its feet. -After an argument to show the evils of self-nomination and. the probability that fitness and' best talent will be passed over by 'such method, . and moreover that one party will surely interfere when It can In the affairs of another, the Union adds: "Assemblies." aa they call them In Ore ffon, practiced by the Democrats and now adopted by the Republicans, have come to stay' as the. only practical protection against the absurdities and Idiosyncrasies of self nomination. And we must come to It In this stste. sooner or later. There can be no doiibt that this method will be adopted, where the direct primary exists, as- a means of guiding the primary. It is the method suggested by .Governor Hughes, of New York; It was introduced success fully In the recent municipal election in Portland, and will undoubtedly be employed by the Republicans of Ore gon in future. It has been employed from the first by the Democrats In this state. Jl'DIOlAL ENCROACHMENT. The Supreme Court of Missouri has just exercised Its constructive veto power over an act of the State Legis lature in a very Interesting manner. The Legislature passed a law which forbade the state courts to punish con tempt with a fine exceeding $50 or with imprisonment for more than ten days. The tribunal of last appeal de clares that this law is unconstitutional and therefore Invalid. A decision of this character coming from the Su preme Court of Missouri will naturally carry great prestige, when we remem ber that this august tribunal has .late ly reversed two criminal convictions, the first of them because the word "the" was left out of an Indictment, the other because the- letter "e" was omitted from a man's name. A bench of judges which performs feats of this character must fairly overflow with wisdom. No wonder the Judges re gard contempt for themselves and their proceedings as a crime of the first magnitude. That they should desire to suppress it by imposing any penalties they may happen to think of without check or restraint upon the passion of the moment Is entirely credible. The decision vetoing the legislative act was one of the four-to-three vari ety which has become common of late. The three Judges who dissented took the ground that courts are the servants of the people and subject to reasonable restraint when the life and liberty of the citizen are at stake. The four who united In annulling the law believe that nothing Is so important as the power of the courts to command respect and enforce authority by Im posing unlimited penalties for what they are pleased to designate as con tempt. Three hundred years ago the English monarchs claimed a similar authority on precisely the same grounds. The authority of the mon arch has vanished. Some of the courts, by insisting on an unreasonable-power over the citizen, are tempting fate to deal likewise with tMem. The authority assumed by the Mis souri court Is twofold. It consists first of the right to declare what acts amount to contempt. There is no limit whatever upon this prerogative except the clemency or self-restraint of the judges. Just as there was no limit upon the authority of Heliogabalus except his conscience. Any act committed by any person Is a contempt of court if the courts choose to say it is. They are the sole arbiters, and. granting that Judges are human brings and not archangels, a time is pretty likely to come when this power will be exer cised in strange and startling ways. It mav become contempt of court some time or other to cast a ballot different from the one preferred by a bench of Judges. The second item In the Missouri claim of Judicial author ity is the right to fix the penalty for contempt without interference from the Legislature, or anybody else on earth. It abolishes all hope of trial bv Jury In cases which have been judi cially subsumed under the elastic cate gory of contempt. It does not require a very active imagination to see this category stretching gradually over all criminal matters in which either graft ers or corporations may be interested as complainants. Since the constitution of Missouri as It now stands permits to the courts of the state an authority which is capable of passing Into an Intolerable tyranny and which Is certain in the course of human nature to do so, the next thing we may expect to hear from that com monwealth is that there is an agita tion on foot to amend the constitu tion by making the courts the crea tures of the Legislature. This would be a great misfortune, but if it hap pens the Judges may thark .their own avidity of power for It. The people of the United States, whatever state they live in, will not submit to the abritrary power of any Individual, no matter what office he holds or what sacred ness he may claim for his prerogative. The desire to be governed by law and not by caprice is inborn in the man of Anglo-Saxon descent. He won the right by hard fighting' through hun dreds of years, and It is not to be pre sumed that he will give it up without fighting as riard and as long to keep it. , ONE OBSERVER'S VIEW. Bishop Smith, of the Methodist Church, has been in Oregon something like a year. In that brief period he has observed a thing or two. "It had been supposed," remarks the bishop, "that the primary law would do much to reform affairs and bring about bet ter conditions, but In Oregon' such has not been the result I understand. It shows that no matter what the law or system, the people must be back of It, or it will not be effective." Just so. The primary law is re sponsible for nothing in Oregon ex cept disorganization and paralysis of the dominant party and promotion of the ambitions and pretensions of self seekers of even' kind. To be sure, it has "put the boss out of business." Certainly it has; and party organiza tion and party effort with him. The first object is undoubtedly highly de sirable; the second to the last degree undesirable, if we are to have political parties at all; and we must have par ties if we are to hae government in the United States as we have known It for more than a century. The mistake made here In Oregon has been to regard the primary law as a sort of fetich, not to be changed, or revised, or even touched by the vandal hands of the practical lawmaker. ' But until the law be made moderate and reasonable, and until It be regarded merely as one of several instruments to make effective and alive an intelli gent and discriminative public con science, It will be impotent for any good. JUST FACTS. The Tacoma Tribune is still .en deavoring to convince itself that the railroads should haul wheat 145 miles beyond Portland and deliver It at Ta coma, although ocean freight rates are exactly the same from this port as they are from Tacoma. Ignoring the plain, undisputed and generally known fact that not a single ship has been chartered for wheat loading at Tacoma this season at even fhe frac tion of a penny less than the rate from Portland, the . Tribune continues to dilate on the alleged dangers and de lays to shipping on the Columbia River. These delays and dangers exist only In the imagination or the Tribune writer, but even were they actuali ties, they would have no bearing what ever on the subject, so long as ship owners are so Indifferent regarding them that they are willing to send vessels to Portland at exactly the same rate as they charge from Puget Sound. The Tribune asserts that vet sels of large tonnage, "like the Min nesota or smaller,, down to 10,000, tons or less, will not be ventured Into the river so long as the deep unobstructed and perfectly sheltered waters of Puget Sound are within a few hours' sail.". The giant Minnesota, which has proved an elephant on the hands of her owners, could not be profitably operated anywhere, and Is not wanted either .here or on Puget Sound. But will the Tribune explain why the British steamship Suveric, 10,000 tons deadweight carrying capacity, now loading at Portland, should steam around from the "deep unobstructed and perfectly sheltered waters of Puget Sound" to load cargo In such an awfully dangerous port as' Port land? Is it possible that the Suveric comes here for the same reason' that the grain ships corner because the cargo is here? In answer to The Oregonlan's query as to why Portland shipped so much more wheat than was shipped from Puget Sound during the past fiscal year, the Tribune says: We reply frankly and say that the dif ference between the fiscal year, which ends August 31. and the calendar year, which ends recember 31. may, be a very consider able difference In wheat movement, and tl at as against the 10.280.8d6 bushels of wheat shipped by Portland in the former, there were 17.534.185 bushels shipped by Tacoma In the latter period. This method of comparing statistics is certainly original, but why not make the comparison ' still more favorable? For example, take Puget Sound figures for two years and compare them wijh those of Portland for one year, and the showing would be great, for Ta coma. However, as the Tribune has mentioned the calendar year, we will present the figures. '. According to "Bulletin No. 6 Series 1908-1909, issued by the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor," the total wheat shipments from all Puget Sound ports for the calendar year ending December 31, 1908, were 11.917.692 bushels. Ship ments from Portland for the same period were 13,042,063 bushels. Coast wise shipments from Puget Sound for the same period were 2.272,562 bush els, and from Portland 3,441,592 bush els, a grand total foreign and coast wise of 16.483,655 bushels from Port land and 14,190,254 bushels from Pu get Sound ports. Bulletin No. 12, same series, issued by the Government, gives the foreign shipments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, as follows: From Pu get Sound, 4.630,174 bushels; from Portland, 6,350.033 bushels. These official figures for the past eighteen months give a very fair idea of the relative importance in the grain trade of Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Ev erett. The difference will be much more pronounced during the season now opening. THE INEVITABLE RESULT. July wheat In Chicago sold at $1.29 per bushel twelve days ago. Yes terday the price declined to $1.05 hi per bushel, and the close .was weak at a decline of 22 H cents per bushel from the high point reached July 15. No such sensational decline in the market has been witnessed since the collapse of the Leiter deal in 1898. This remarkable collapse of the July market is in striking contrast with the strength with which the May option closed, and again illustrates the ex treme difficulty encountered in carry ing high prices into the new-crop season. The May option sold on the last day of May at $1.34 per bushel, because the farmers from the Atlantic to the Pacific were scraping the bins to meet the demand for cash wheat at $1.30 to $1.50 per bushel.' The July option Is going out at a greatly re duced figure because an avalanche of new wheat is sweeping down on the markets More than 1500 carloads of the costly cereal rolled into Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago Saturday and Sunday, and estimates for today's receipts run as high as 2000 cars. The high prices to which the cereal was forced by the remarkable exhaus tion of old-crop supplies are responsi ble for'this rush of new wheat to mar ket, and, regardless of strong statis tical position which may affect' prices later in the season, until this conges tion of new wheat offerings shall be cleaned up. the market will lack sta bility. In the face of this natural and easy movement of wheat the grotesque figures of Secretary Wilson or the manipulation of "kings" like Patten are alike powerless. What happened to the wheat market in the past ten days was told in a most graphic and truthful manner in Frank Norris' mas terpiece, "The Pit." As the big wheat corner engineered "by Jadwin neared a climax, the bull leader paused at the entrance to the floor one day, and, as Norris tells it: Out of that hideous turmoil he Imagined there issued a strange unwonted note; as it were, the first rasp and grind of a new avalanche. Just beginning to stir, a diapason more profound 'than any he bad yet known, a hollow distant bourdon as of the slipping and sliding of some almighty and chaotic power. It was the wheat, the wheat! It was on the move again. From the farms of .Illinois and Iowa, from" the ranches of Kansas and Nebraska, from all the reaches of the Middle West, the wheat, like a tidal wave, was rising, rising, almighty, blood brother to the earthquake, coeval with the volcano and the whirlwind, that gigantic world force, that colossal billow, nourisher of the nations, was swelling and advancing. This avalanche overwhelmed Jad win, and It has overwhelmed every man who ever attempted to stay Its progress. Not even the ma nipulation of the bears can change the inevitable result when the wheat begins moving. As the bear leader In Norris' tale remarked when Jadwin, beaten and despairing, left the pit amidst the victorious cheers of the bears, "They can cheer now, all they want. They didn't do it. It was the wheat itself that beat him; no com bination of men could have done It." As an example of calloused brutal ity and smug- indifference to the rights or feelings of others, the bad man of the West, even at his worst, is leagues behind that band of aristo cratic thugs who either murdered or permitted the murder of young Sut ton. Lieutenant Willing, educated and trained at Government expense to be "an officer and a gentleman," and one on whom fhe Government may some day depend for. the main tenance of law and order, when asked if he thought Sutton was unconscious or dead, replied: "I didn't know nor care whether he was dead or alive." If the character -of the remainder of the force at Annapolis is in keeping with that of the bunch of brutes who were in at the death of young Sutton, the sooner they are replaced by Apache Indians the better it will be for the country. The Apache usually has a cause for his brutality, but the Annapolis brutes had none. Pekin cables yesterday brought the news that there is again much doubt about the United States being permit ted to participate in he Chinese loan. Great Britain, Germany and France have always been very anxious for the moral support of the United States in preventing any advantage in China from going to any particular nation. Their anxiety for a fair deal, however, is less pronounced In the case of this loan, and from appearances the pow ers mentioned have jofned forces for the purpose of keeping the United States out of the field. The matter of the loan is insignificant and paltry, but the trouble which the foreigners have taken to prevent this country from sharing In It offers an excellent reason for the United States to press the matter and insist on securing what rightfully belongs to us. The "July run" of salmon, which ;at times fails to appear until well Into August, is reported to have set in, and since Saturday nigh- the lower river fishermen have been making some ex cellent catches. - It Is believed that, if the run shall continue for a week, the season's pack may be pulled up to av erage proportions. A good run of fish on the Lower Columbia means fully as much to the commercial and industrial situation in that locality as a good crop of wheat means in the region east of the . Cascade Mountains. While there have been some seasons when the run was much lighter and the pack was much smaller than others, a total failure of the industry is unknown. In the forty-odd years since the first royal Chinook was encased in tin, the indus try has added about $100,000,000 to the wealth of the state. Often the law creates strange situa tions. In Newton, N. J., a murderer .nnHmnpH to death has become In sane. The Supreme Court has decided that he cannot be executed until he regains his reason. Meanwhile he Is to stay In state's prison until he re covers. It is not unlikely that. Port land's most recent murder will furnish material for legal complications. Mrs. Collins is said to have considerable financial means. All the Western Senators, who live In the country of cattle and sheep, are on record as opposing the proposed duty on free hides, and will vote for no bill containing such a provision. Is the tariff a local question? Mrs. Collins will plead insanity, of course. She will be able to show that no sane woman of 49 ever mar ried a' man fifteen years her junior, ex pecting to be happy with him, and re alizing her expectations. Watching a cream separator at work, one wonders why a machine is not invented to take the essence from intoxicating liquors, to be used in con centrated fighting form or let alone as may be desired. "Governor" Benson doesn't want to be a candidate for Governor. He wants to be a candidate for Secretary of State. Evidently, he is ambitious. He thinks himself equal to a clerk ship. ' Mark Twain says he "will agree to pilot President Taft safely down the Mississippi River." But it may be Just a trifle hard to get the President to agree to be piloted. No wonder England is excited. All that is needed now to accomplish in vasion of the island Is a million or so aeroplanes In the hands of a million or so Germans. There will, of course, be a Arm opin ion in certain scientific quarters that Thaw is sane, so long as his money holds out. Wild blackberries are said to be fine to "put up." They are after they are picked. . Aviator Bleriot really ought to fly back. It was a very 6hort Summer. STANDS IT FOR HIS ALMA MATER. Lieutenant H. B. Hayden, U. S. A. FlHd Artillery, Defends Went Point. CORVALLIS. Or.,' July '26. (To' the Editor.) In reference to an editorial in The Oregoniarf of July 22, entitled "Edu cation of Young Sutton." I should like to make a few pertinent remarks. In ' the first place. Lieutenant Sutton was not a graduate of either West Point or the Naval Academy, but The Oregon lan devotes two-thirds of Its editorial to a severe criticism of the two academies. I have lived at Annapolis and am a graduate of West Point, and I believe that The Oregonlan is considerably in error when it says education is "canned" at the academies. Or, if tt Is, it might be au excellent idea for some other insti tutions of learning to obtain some out of the same cans.. The Oregonlan makes the statement that St. Cyr has turned out some of the best mathematicians of France, as well as other scientific men, but that "if West Point has graduated any scientist of eminence, their fame has been sedulously concealed from the pub lic." In that, you are wrong. One of the graduates. Dr. E. S. Holden, Is one of the best known astronomers in the world. Furthermore, West Point has produced more well-known men in its 107 years of existence than any other university of this country. ' This statement can be proved, and has been proved by Professor C. W. Lamed, dean of the Academic Board at West Point. This does not ex cept any school of any kind In the United States, notwithstanding the fact that the Point has graduated but 4500-odd men. Its graduates have been presidents and chancellors of universities, ambassa dors at European courts, civil engineers whose reputation and ability has not been surpassed in this or any other country. They have been Senators, Congressmen, lawyers and authors of note. One West Pointer has been President of the United States; one president of the Confederate States . . ' The Oregonlan also says that "the won der is that, they come through the ordeal clean and manly, as most of them do." That is a reflection on the military acad emy that is totally without - foundation. West Point's motto, "Duty, Honor, Coun try," I assure you is no joke, and you will not find anywhere a body of men whose standards of honor and efficiency are higher than the corps of cadets. That standard is maintained by the cadets themselves, and the ideals of graduates is not the result of their in born character it is the result of the "Spirit of Old West Point," the same spirit that produced Grant. Lee, Sher man, Jackson and many others. This is not written as a criticism of The Oregonlan, out it decidedly is a de fense of my alma mater, about which The Oregonlan has made remarks, not only uncalled for. but without foundation in fact. I am a West Pointer, as eight others in my family were before me, and I am proud of it, and as such I respect fully request that this letter, In Justice to the academy," be given a place in The Oregonlan. HERBERT BAINBRIDGE HAYDEN, Lieutenant, Field Artillery. U. S. A. DANGER- OF HEADACHE MEDICINES Bad Effects From Remedies Containing; Antipyrtn and Phenacetln. Acetanilid. antlpyrin and phenacetln (acetphenetklin) are three comparatively new drugs which are widely used to produce insensibility to pain, and pro prietary headaches medicines are very apt to contain one or more of them. The use of such drugs without the advice of a physician Is dangerous, .since they tend to depress the heart and nerves and may lead to the formation of a d r ug habit. This is proved by reports from 400 phy sicians, made In response to inquiries from the United States Department of Agriculture. These physicians stAe that from 1884 xo 1607 they have known 28 deaths resulting from the use of one or another of these drugs, besides 814 cases of poisoning, and 136 cases in which the patient had formed the drug-using habit, with various evil results. In 14 cases antlpyrin was poisonous even when used externally. Even supposing the 525 physicians who railed to reply had no cases' to report, what a terrible showing would be made If the 125.000 physicians In the United States could all give their testimony. Of the 400 physicians, acetanilid is rarely or never prescribed by 212, antlpyrin by 307, and phenacetln by 180. In more than one-half the cases of poisoning the drug was taken by direction of a physician, a fact which leads one to reflect that if the physician is likely to have bad re sults in the use of thess drugs the ordi nary man shouid be, doublv cautious in using them or anything containing them. Nowadays no one need take them un knowingly, for the National food and drugs act requires that labels of pro prietary medicines containing them 6hall show the fact. The statements of these 400 physicians are confirmed by those of a committee of the British Medical Association which investigated the matter in, 1894. The medical Journals also, from time to time, have contained articles describing cases in which the use of these drugs has re sulted badly. Altogether medical litera ture makes a showing of 13 deaths and 297 cashes of poisoning from acetanilid; 488 cases of poisoning from antlpyrin; and 70 cases of poisoning from phenace tln. Physicians are using these drugs less freely and with greater caution than when they were first introduced. But the general public, on the other hand, in reapsnse to ingenious advertising, seems more and more to be purchasing head ache mixtures containing these drugs and dosing themselves without advice from a physician. When - considered in connection with the fact that cases of poisoning and death have been more fre quent in recent years, this should lead the common ran to be extremely cau tious in the use of any remedy contain ing acetanilid, antlpyrin or phenacetin. These facts are shown in detail in bul letin 126 of the Bureau of Chemistry. United States Department of 'Agriculture, entitled "The Harmful . Effects of Acetanilid, Antlpyrin and Phenacetln," recently issued. Playing: Both Ends of the Game. New York Evening Post. Putting down the Havlland breakfast coffee cup and folding his linen napkin, the farmer takes up the telephone exten sion and calls his neighbor. "Is that you, John? . . . Well. John, In the pit gos sip of your Chicago paper you will see that the croppers have started this way again. Yes. Patten's man and two oth ers. One of them ought to be in this morning. I'll run over to the station in my car to see If I can't pick him up. I ll bring him back through the meadow road so that he can see that poor wheat over there on Henry's place. Then I'll turn him over to you. Show him the worst wheat you've got. understand? . . . Yee, that's it. Pass him on to Jack son. He hasn't any wheat worth looking at. Telephone on down the line. Goodby oh, say, 'John! That one cylinder car I told you about is a marvel. . . . Oh, 40 miles. Be as pessimistic as you can. There's a cropper out from New York who represents a bear house. He is com ing to find the wheat. I'll look out for him at this end. Goodby." Good Komi Workers at 70 Tears Old. London Telegraph. Of the workmen employed by the Marlborough Rural District Council for work on the district roads, ten of them average 70 years of age, the combined ages being 701 years. The district sur veyor informed the? council that the ancients were all capable oi earning good money at piece work. SCENERY AND UTILITY. Shall Hetch-Hetchy Minister to the Public Benefit t PORTLAND. Or., July 26. To ' the Editor.) Protest now is raised against use of the water or part of it of Hetch-Hetchy Valley. Toulumne River, some twelve miles from the losemite, . for water supply of San Francisco. The Merced River is the stream of Yosemlte. The "Sister Valley," It is said, must not be desecrated; for "Hetch Hetchy is a striking and beautiful minia ture of Ycserhite." Tourists want both. Our, sympathies are with the tourists. A pamphlet written by a citizen of Ne braska, carrying' loud protest against use of-the" Hetch-Hetchy for water supply of San Francisco, is before us. And yet we think water supply for San Francisco Is of more importance than excitation and gratification of the wonder of the sight seer from the plains of Nebraska. That sight-seer should move out here where scenery Is is evidence from every point of the compass. We of the Pacific States do not under value our scenery. We are more senti mental about it than our visitors can ever be. First thought, always Is to take the visitor to a point where a prospect, on all sides sound, is spread out be fore him, with the rivers and valleys and snowy mountains. Here, and here only. Is full realization of Wordsworth's descrip tion in 'The Excursion": Glory beyond ail glory even seen. By waking sense or by the dreaming soul! Yet our cities must have water; and waier.must be made to flow over the land for production of crops, for the irriguous valley even of Eden could be made to spread its store only by irrigation. iThe water, therefore, must be used, and It will be used, even at the risk of taking away something from the scenery, and spoiling In a degree, the sentimental idea started by the view of Rapid rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. Undoubtedly life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment; and without meat and raiment there will be neither life nor body. San Francisco wants water and must have it. Hetch-Hetchy is found to offer readiest supply. They are sapping the flow on either side at the great cataract of Niagara, for every kind : of service, both in New York and Canada. Within a few years, there will be no Niagara, or other than a puny stream, trickling over the nearly dry precipice. Are our tourists from the West to go there and protest against spoliation of the scenery for the vulgar purpose of supplying light and power for Buffalo and Rochester for Hamilton and Toronto ? There was a grandeur in our woods In the early time, and a sort of idyllic con dition when big game came up to our doors to be shot, and wild fruits in abun dance and sweetest of wild grasses were everywhere. But on the whole. It was a condition that could not abide. San "Francisco must have water, and moreover, there is power in the Tuolumne River that must be made useful to man. So a dam must be erected. Use of these opportunities will multiply the human species and increase the comforts of life, for growing populations. We are en thusiastic about our scenery in these Pa cific states; but we shall have scenery enough left, after we have dammed the Clackamas and the Tuolumne, have di verted the main volume of the Deschutes, the Umpqua and the McKenzie from their beds, for the purposes of irrigation, and even after Niagara sHall have been turned from Its sublimity as a water-fall to the support or help of the millions of people brought by electrical development within reach of its energy. This is not merely prosaic, either. It is high poetry. Moreover. In these . Pacific states, there always will be an unexampled lot of scen ery left over. Utility and scenery have 4 relation to each other, and here is enough of both for lasting equilibrium. W. S. H. ' "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY." Do We Want It First, What Is Meant by the Term? EAGLE CREEK, Or., July. 23. To the Editor.) I have read your criticism of Senator Dolliver s speech on the Income tax and inheritance tax, amendments to the Payne tarirf bill, with much interest. How much money can a man save n a life time? The efficiency of the best human en gine is certainly not more than six times that of an average man. In act, in any kind of physical effort, an ordinary man with the same training can do about one half as much as a "champion"; and can probably do one-third as well as a win ner of the world's record, in about any line. In routine mental work, such as book keaping, the average man can do at least one-third as much as an expert; while, if any of our captains of Industry had died in childhood someone else would nave filled substantially the same place. This other would have s&tten millions of dollars, not by doing more' physical or mental work, but because of oppor tunity. If the business were handled by a dozen different men the case would not be altered. The business would be done. Now. since it is fair to assume that the sum of the physical and nervous energy of different people does not vary much more than the energy of different ani mals of the same species, why should some receive hundreds of times greater return for their labor than others do? . I think your answer will be, that by means of the concentration of wealth we are enabled to have our great in dustrial establishment". It seems to me that the case is similar to that of monarchical forms of government. Un til the people are capable of self-government, the concentration of power in a monarchy is essential. Before we can have an Industrial democracy similar to our political democ racy, we will undoubtedly have to learn many things. But the first question to be settled is not, whether we shall try the socialistic, or the Dolliveristlc experi ment, or attempt to secure it by any of the various methods proposed, but it is this: Do we. want an industrial democ racy? I would like to know your opinion as to the desirability of the thing, supposing it were possible; and it seems to me that you have enough readers who would" be Interested to make It worth while to in clude in the discussion the suggestions just advanced, whether p.ut in exactly the form I have used or not, C. L. CHAMBERS. We seem to have an Industrial democ racy now; only it is not industrious enough. Some men will make larger gains than others, partly due to oppor tunity, but more largely to difference of natural powers. No system of "indus trial democracy," using the phrase as a synonym of the socialistic state, would equalize the powers of men. It isn't "physical energy" that counts, except In very subordinate degree. Pretty Tough, Indeed'. Silver Lake Leader. We understand that A. W. Orton, the new Register of the United States Land Office at Lakevlew, has taken charge. We have no doubt but Mr. Orton is well qualified in every way to handle the business, and will no doubt give perfect satisfaction, but then it's pretty tough for all this to have the knowledge that Senator Bourne could not find a man in all this land district whom he had the confi dence in that had ability to fill this position, without having to go to Port land and Import one. Pretty tough rec ommendation for our own citizens. . I TIME TABLE run rouu n' Quickest to Assimilate Are Bake Apples and Raw Eggs. Scientific American. The subject of food and its digestion is one of the most Important with which the human family is concerned, and yet, strsnge to say, trere is very Uttle known about the comparative digestibility of foods by the average person. It will be seen that the baked apple and the raw egg are near the winning post, the rgg being tied by the fish. Then follows venison, all these being digested within an hour. Then come milk, turkey, duck and oysters. New bread and cheese follow in the same class with the above, the time required to digest them beine about three hours. Then come turnips, potatoes, roast chicken and cahbage. We are fast get ting Into the period of indigestibility. which is beautifully summed up in pork and veal, wh'.ch require, under the mos favorable conditions, five hours to digest. In the sixth hour and "beyond" class, we find jam, crabs and alcoholic beveraget of various descriptions. Certain other articles of food are about as bad as crabs and jam, notably eels, which are notoriously indigestible. requiring six hours, also stone fruits, which require the same period. It wil be seen that, as a rule, cooking facilitates digestion, partly by softening the food and partly by inducing chemi cal changes, which would otherwise have to be induced by functional activities. Fat retards digestion, as it has to under go a long process of emulsifying before being absorbed. This accounts for the Indigestibility of pork. Under normal conditions it is well that the digestive process should not be pro longed beyond four and one-half hours. For Invalids and others with weak stom achs, the time should be much less. As a result of repeated experiments, the fol lowing digestive time table will be found of considerable Interest: How Time. Food. Prepared. H. M. Apples, eweet. Raw 1 30 Apples, green Stewed I Asparagus Boiled 1 Barley Soup.... 1 Barley Boiled 2 Beans Boiled 2 Beans Puree 1 Beef, lean Roasted 3 Beef, tender Stewed 2 SO :m oo 3i so on 45 Beefsteak Grilled 00 Beef, fresh salted Boiled 2 Beef, old salted Boiled Beets Boiled 3 Brains Boiled 1 Bread, fresh Baked 3 Butter Melted 3 Bread and butter (with coffee) 3 'Cabbage Plrkled 4 Celery Boiled 1 Chicken Boiled 2 Chicken Boiled 3 Chicken Fricasseed .? Cheese, old Roast 4 Custard , 3 Duck , Boiled 2 Eel It oast ed 2 Eggs, fresh Roasted fi Eggs, fresh Raw 2 Eggs, fresh Soft boiled .... 3 Eggs, fresh Hard boiled ... 4 Eggs, fresh ... Whipped (raw). 1 Fish (other than fat Scrambled 3 varieties) Fish pother than fat Boiled t varieties) .Fried 3 Fowls Boiled 4 Fowls Roasted 4 Game (most kinds) ... .Roasted 4 Goose : Roasted 2 Hashed meat Warmed 2 Liver (calves) Fried or sauteed 2 Liver (ox) Fried or sauteed 3 Lamb Grilled 2 Lentils Boiled 2 Milk Raw 2 Milk Boiled 2 Mutton Boiled & broiled 3 Mutton (lean) Roasted 3 45 00 SO 45 Ofl on 00 oo oo 30 00 3d on" oo oo i.i 30 30 so 00 30 30 15 00 00 15 oo T.5 30 30 .10 30 15 15 30 OO 15 30 00 30 Nuts. Oysters Raw 2 Oysters Ftewed 3 Onions Stewed 3 Peas Boiled 2 Pig. suckling. Roasted 2 Pork, fat Roasted 5 Pork, salt Boiled .1 Potatoes -....Fried or baked. 2 Rice .Boiled 1 Salad Raw 3 Sausage Gril!ed 3 Sausage Smoked S Suet. Boiled 5 Sago...... ....Boiled ; 1 Soles Fried 3 Spinach Stewed 1 Salmon, fresh Boiled 1 Salmon, smoked .Boiled 4 Stone fruit Raw 6 Tapioca Boiled 2 Tripe Boiled 1 Trout Boiled 1 Turkey Roasted 2 Turlrey Boiled 2 Turnips Boiled ......... 3 Veal Roast, or grilled 5 Venison Grilled 1 on oo on oo so SO 15 30 GOOD MANNERS AT TELEPHONE. School of Etiquette Is Necessary to Preserve Good Temper. Washington Herald. There seems to be needed a school of telephone etiquette wherever that method of conversation without personal pres ence is prevalently employed. It was supersensltiveness that moved a tele phone operator to commit suicide the other day after she had been repri manded by a superintendent because she talked back pertly to a patron "who swore at her. Nevertheless, no one would claim that the man at the other end of the wire had any right to swear. But he forgot too readily that he was not talking to an Impassive piece of cold machinery, but to another human being. It may be admitted that the telephone, while an instrument of such constant utility and convenience that this gen eration may wonder how the fathers ever managed their affairs without Its time-saving aid. is frequently a cause of vexation. What patron, feeling the in stant and imperious pressure of hurry, has not felt the spirit of lmnatlent and sometimes incredulous revolt against that . recurrent voice of "Central!" saying. "Busy?" The caller Is perhaps 'busy also, quite too busy to calmly stand and wait. But that little word is con clusive. There is naught to do but to submit; and submission is not made easier by the suspicion that the operator may herself be busy with something else than her business. But courtesy implies patience, and many persons have learned that angry protest avails not to hasten the connection. Have No Need of Law, Pittsburg Sun. This may be a big country, but It takes only a couple of determined men like Aldrich and Cannon to run it with out benefit of law. United States of Rhode Inland. New York Times. There was a stir in Providence, In Providence, R. I. The flags were floating everywhere. The banners streaming high. The word went 'round Rhode Island. "Hold steady do or die! They're going to move the Capitol To Providence. R. I." And men were full of gladness. And wemen cheered and sang. The bunting flapped out proudly. And all the church bells rang; For was there not good reason. The states took up the cry: "We're going to move the Senate To Providence, R. I." And fast came news and faster From "Washington. D. C. Till all New England heard it And cheered with ecstasy: "Sound loud the drum and cymbals. Let all the banners fly. They're going to move the White House To Providence. R. I." And through the noon and sunlight. And through the dusk and gloam. The cry went up and echoed: "Our Nelse is coming home. The long-fought battles ended, His flags are floating high. He's bringing us the Congress To Providence, R. I." Three cheers!" cried Peleg Potter. "Three cheers!" cried Treadwell True; And so the cheers were echoed Quite all the country through. "The U. 8- of Rhode Island, Its name shall be." they cry, "And all else shall be Annex To Providence, R. I.'