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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1910)
I TOPICS OF THF TIMES aw Tie til J hvn laid a doing fk," write th poet Which It luiporUut, If tru. . Chicago achool uhlldrn are Uucht how to rook beef. 4 Why MH ehu thein tow to gel lit Th mail Dim wor hla ;afflnlty's name in hi but tarn) cvldaatty had something oh hU mind, ' . r.-srsesrtjTjcm. ; , Xy Colib will receive it.QOO a year or thru year, which goe to ihpw that It it th bits that get th money. A man In California caught young octopus. Tb accounts did hot specl (y whether It wes of tb milk or beef variety. ' 1 Kentucky rats more bmp than any auto In th Union, and yt aba baa uhatltyled tbt lctrlo cbalr for tba fallow. William Rockefeller announce that tba Standard Oil Company la cuing to teat tba Sherman act. Tba Hbarman art mut be a pretty good act. On of tba acleutUt announce that there I a fortune In klnimd milk. Itirhaiw b II wher tb baaltb d pertinent doesn't watch vary clonal. Tb movmnt to cultivate vacant lota la comtuendebl on. They bould rerlalnly b abl to ralat aoina thin battar than crop of oytr and tomalo can. (BSSBSX!SSSHSSS A cbemlctt analysis how that M per renl of a cup of tea la watr. Thl do not refer to boarding bouaa la, which contain vea a greater percent ag or wtr. A ha did not ft tb andttranr ti of a ninety mil boraabark ride, on of tb rear-admiral of tb navy I to be retired Would It not bava Wen more appropriate to try biro on wlotmlng? -xsanssssa A Maaeachusetta eoraralanoj of In v obligation ha found that tba cost of living I In Canada than It la In thla country. Hut of count the bat ting average of the Joy of living In tbt country I higher. &;raiissss!ssss i n a New York court a baby' cry aed It fatoer from going to prlaon by moving the pity of the Judge. It tt bad Inn a good baby that never cried, ibla wouldn't bv happened, which make tb moral of tb Mory rather mixed Some mll boy In Gotham IN up a playmate and ant hi clothing on Or and only prompt rcu by pas rriby saved him from serious In Jury Tb lltll tormentor wer dl mined wlib a reprimand, which how why aom people think Solomon knew what ha we talking about "CSyuey Smith." th famou v gcllat. who conducted s aerlea ot uo ceful rellglou meeting In America )at winter. I.a been leading a ten day' mlavlon In I'srl. Tbt I tb Brat time I rice Moody and Ssnkey vlalted tbeclty In UJ that Frotesisnl revival meeting bav tucen held In tb French capital. aressssssrsssasssai The national tloua of Representa tives ba passed a bill creating an art CMnmlaaton which aball exercls pow er of aupervtalon over tb esthetic Ida of urh work of tb governmunt the erection of public building, the placing ot ttua and other moo umenia, and tb laying out of pub lic parka. Tb lack ot auch a body I apparent In almott vry American city. A paaaag In Sir Ernest Shackle ton' account of bl antarctic Journey Illustrates the way In which bardahlp roeter ympathy. During thrv month of bl experience near th aotitb pole ha and bl men ufferd auch extreme of hunger that, a they ant nibbling acb bl alngle blacult, a crumb dropped by any on of them "would be followed by all pair of aye," and If th owner had not no ticed the loa. hi attention would be called to It. "W mad up our mind." be recently told a London audlnnr, "that never again would w e a hun gry peraon flattening hla oa agatnat cook shop without giving blm some thing to eat" A young man to b a success should train hlmaelf never to let anything awarv blm from bl purpoae. and whan one h undertake to do a thing be (bould fallow It up to th vary nd. llocsuae olhera may predict fallur la no reaaon for a young man to aaaum that a tak cannot b brought to a sue reaaful termination. Da honeat and bov board In all you under tak. Thl will tnd you wll In caaa that your da require a rigid Investigation on th part of your auperlor. D so ergetlo and ahow th kenat lnlrat la your work and k all of th know Mia that you can. Th tlm will com In vry man' llf wha h will be called upon to how hi ral worth. Opitortunlty In aom ea may th man, but th man for opportunity generally I th ma a who ba learned hla Uieaon of thrift and nergy ed Ingty well. B honeat In your dealing both wltb your employer a well a ho you do bulna with, a a breach of lru la th hardt mUtake for a mau to llv down. Stick to your vocation, atudy . try to prov It and declare to yourwlf that If you win you will not llp a cog, but will nakt other follow a fast a they mad you. 'i 'i . mams:axatxasea ' Prealdwit Kmurltu Eliot ot Harvard Unlvenlty wa recently quoted aa fa voring a law to uthorlao phyalclau to put hoplna patient out of their mtaery by palnlea mean. II denle tb accuracy of th report. 11 aya be doe not bellev lu the right of one peraon to kill another to nd bl agony, but ho doe bellnv that we bould avail ourexlve of anodynea, ven though their un in a bopelaaa caa may ahortao th brlnf remaining pan ot lite. Title) amount to much th aanie thing a tba statement al leged to be erroneou. except that Dr. Kllot seem to hint at aulild rather than profenelonal murder. Tb patient may tak anuilynf until bl pain I relieved and rlak fatal conawjuencc But It mua be remembered that many agonld patleni are In a condition which IncapaclUtiia tbi'tn tot' volun tary action; and moat of them could not procure the powerful ancdyna re quired without a doctor's preacrlp tlon. What Dhttll the doctor do In tuch a caaof Hball h give the medicine with th irlmry object of Mlnvlng the pain and rlak the killing? If tbt patient din would the preaent law ex onerate the phyalilan? Would tba court and Jury prraum. a In th caae of a (erloua aurgh-al operation, that tb Intent waa merciful and not homi cidal In caae of an arraignment and trial th verdict would undoubtedly b Influenced by th clrcunutance. Tb turgeon who perform what I calld a mJor operation. Ilrt notify ing the patient and bl friend that th effect may be fatal stthougb be bopwi for recovery, I never moleeted If th (uffnrer dl-a under th knife. Wby may ha not take chancra with a drug aa well a with a aaw or cutting InatrumrntT Probably no change In the eilntlng law la needed to cover reasonable caaea. Wher th part lea are all reputable It will uaually be pre sumed that the exlgenclea of the caa required tba medtrament and that th death waa tb Incidental and not tb premeditated outcom. LOWXB 8T AS D A R D Of ' UVIHO. War Uefmt frmmrmi ftm at Ilia k frtvmt, rraf. UaMW Saye. Ther la very little Improvement In igbt toward lowering the high prlcea, declare I'rof, Trank J. Good now of Columbia I'nivereity in tb Delinea tor. When eaatern farm wer culti vated at a profit price of agricultural com mod 1 1 tee were much higher (al low a jr being made for the then pur rhaalog power of a dollar) than now. And price will have to go consider ably higher han now before those farma can again be profitably culti vated. It would appear that In tie mean time th people will be obliged to ad Juat themaelvea to the changed condi tion. Tbt will probably Involve lowering of th (tandard of living, tb Increeut of the rural aa compared with tbe urban population, the development of eaatern agricultural landa and of local markata evnrywber throughout tbe tountry and the abandonment of our preaent expenalv cyatem ot dis tribution. It will tuevltahly be accompanied by comlderabl dlatree. particularly In th cltle. The aufferlog due to thl procve of adjuntmcnt may undoubt edly be eoniewbat alleviated by ener getic action on the part of the govern-' ment wltb reference to the violation of lawa prohibiting monopoly and re atralnt of trade, and by (he removal at one of all dulti-e n food product. llut, until the adjuittment baa been made, price will probably continue to Increase, and. after It has been made, will remain higher than they used lo be, For It lit hardly conceivable that agricultural couiliiodltlea can perma nently be old at the prlcea to which the preaent generation baa been ac cuatomed unlea aom almost revolu tionary change In agricultural meth od ar made. The lletlseheat. Th hedgehog I the Heor ol taste which, like 8ni Wellt-r knowl edge of London, are "cxtenalve and peculiar," y the Scotsman. Scorn ing faatldlouanens, It can make a hear ty meal ou nearly any Insect and I one of the vertebrate which can tackle th cockroach. For eftVctusl extermination of beetle and cricket It I uiuftil aa a mongooii anions' th rata, but It la not generally known that It ha a partiality toward enakes and adder. Th method It employ for the at tack ar interesting Having come upon tbe adder, It good that roptll to th offeiulv and at the first dart Immediately roll Into a ball. The ad der 1 then left to attack the plno, In which encounter It nuturally comes off second bent. After awhile, when th hedgehog feel that hla antagonist ha exhausted hi power, it once more open out nd make a bite at the ad der'a back, thereby breaking It spin. It then proceeds to crunch th whole ef tbe rcptiloi body by mean or It powerful Jawa, and arter that It 1 ld to start at th tall and devour Its pry. A Mere Advaaeed ae. Mr. Caller Do you know th wo man next door well enough to apeak tof Mr, Bubbub Well enough? I know hr too well to peak to, Boston Evening Transcript, Waara Ik lmeaoMs. Jack Who wa the bet man at your wedding? ' ... Tom-My wife; but I didn't know It. -Boaton Evening Transcript . Everybody Ukos to attend a wd ding with th possible exceptlon ol tb bridegroom Navyrs New rea With tb policy of building two hip a yar w bav adhered to tb plan of building thm by division. Th North Dakota, Delaware, Utah and Florida will consUlut on fleet division, and they ar on In type. Tb Arkansas and Wyoming, and tb two ahlpa authorised by thla Congress will complete another division, and wilt b'asntlally of th gam general typ. Ja th Interval, howavar, sine th North Dakota aod Dekwar wr planned a uew factor of Uuprovtmcnt ha been furnished by th Bureau of Ordnanc In tba damonatratlon tha w can make a 14-Inch gun that will lead tbo world for power and penetra tion. Tbl was tb Ida of Rear Ad miral Mason, and on hi authority Congress a year ago appropriated $100,000 to mak a 14-Inch rlfl and Uat It Thl was don In th course of a tew month, and th gun proved to bo auecessful beyond all that bad been expected of It It necessarily follow that tb next ships to b built must carry H Inch guns. Th new ship, th Nevada and Ok lahoma, will be S4 feet long and feet beam. Their draft will be JgJ feet Their displacement will be at least M.0O0 tone, and probably 27.000. Th speed will be Zl knoU. th coal load J.OoO ton, and they will carry a complement of 7& officer and 1,600 men. Th armor will ba 11-Inch on tb belt and on tbe barbette and c Inch on th tides. There will be, in addition to th ten 14-Inch runs, sev enteen 6-inch guna A a floating fortrti tb ihlp will thu bav two gun tor every sector and with over lapping range. A 5-inch gun ha been placed at tb atern to protect from torpedo attack. A lmllar provision would be made at tb stem but for tbo difficulty of putting a abutter there that will keep out water la heavy ra. There will be no auperstructure for turrets. Th middle turret aft and tb rear turret forward ar railed abov their neighbor o that helr gun may fir over them. Thla la an Ameri can Idea. Foreign navle ar Juat be ginning to adopt it Year ago tb uertmposed turret was believed to be a good thing, but tt waa doubted If heavy guna could be used In th super Impoted turret. And tbera was doubt If thev could ba ued In turrets raised above other turreta, although not su- perlmpoaed over them. To Mermlne th matter one for all In th presence of much debate about It, a practical trial of the matter waa made. It wa' rlalmed that the concussion from the 11-inch run would kill any living being within th lower turret. At (list cats and dog were placed in a turret on the old monitor Florida, now the Tallabasaee, and the big gun were KINO OF KIM0 8 COOKS. Hew nmtaU aoverela)' Meats Are rrre by f 10,000 Cf. Mr Mttnavnr th tif1 iuwib At Ylupk- Inrham nl-M rwv-imlM mii Imnnriaftt TU-Htt th lh Mill kniiuknM Hta J- ary Is 110.000 per annum and he Is recognised as being ons of tbe greatest culinary srtlata in the world. The royal kitchen and the whole kitchen stsff are under bis complete control. upening on in main aitcnea at eu lI.Im nf It are half Hnun mllr kitchens, and on th other aid ther m fiuir nfflfM. m-hr ftha clrlral work In connection with th kitchen epartment are attended to. una or hee office I Mr. Menager'i prlvat room, Mr Monairer dnea not live In liurk- Ingham palace, but ha hi prlvat residence cioa 10 u. uo arriving at th palace uaually about 11 o'clock In the morning hla Drat care I to In pect the lunch menu for that day, hi,.h ha been nrenared by hla first aslatnut, and alao tba menu for break- faat the following morning. He tnen prepare tbe dlnuer menu for th fol lowing day a task that occuple him uaually a couple or hour. Mn tain rilnnpr at tha roal tabl ar ever tb earn. Certain dlabea are from time to time repeatea, irequenuy y tpecml request ot tn King, oui i,. i niv he termed th general cheni of each dinner I alway dif ferent. On of the aide kitchen 1 reserved aolely for Mr, Menager ut. where ha carrle out experimental cu linary operatlona and I constantly ilaboratlng and working out new Idea Some dlihea bav taken him montna of preparation before be ha decided to put them Into th menu Thre I nna ,,n Pi 1 1-111 f SaUC Which Mr. MCO' tger Invented gom yar ago to which the king ha a particular uaing. r. Manager wa mklng experiment for over three year before he served thl unci to the royal table. fired. The cats and dogs sustained no Injury from the concussion, although th former were somewhat shaken by tba contact with tbe Utter once or twice. Then a few mldihlpmen war put In tb turret and again th big gun ware fired, and again with no bad results. Then, to mak a final and permanent teat of the matter, three tough old rear admirals were put In and fired over, and when they came out all right the principle waa held to be established tbst heavy guns could be Bred In an engagement over a neighboring turret without any 'dis tress to tb Inmate. That teat ha been of Incalculable value to our navy, and aa a consequenoe the two new ship will be so arranged that they can lire four of their huge gun ahead or attern. Tbo 14-Inch rifle weigh C3.S ton, or liil.TOO pound. With turret and mount each turret of the new ships. Including the two guns, will weigh bout 600 tons. About as much more I to be credited In weight to the ar morplate. It Is calculated that the SS.OOO-ton ahlp will carry ten 14-Inch gun without difficulty. Remember that In tbe matter of ammunition the Increase ot weight la as the cube of the calibre. Wher the It-Inch gun throw a projectile weighing 800 pound, these monster gun will hurt a shell weighing 1,400 pounds. Thla calls for storage capacity and weight carrying ability In th new ship. But tho 1 4-Inch guns are made ao that Thar ar many dishes, by th way, which can be taated now her except at th royal table. Tbe secret ot their preparation I known only to Mr. Men ager, and he guard uch secrets with great care. None of his assistants has the lesst notion ot how these special dishes and sauces are prepared. They simply bsve the handling of the raw material and each assistant carries out different directions In Its prepara tion for the table. Tbe dinner menu la submitted every day to tbelr majesties for approval; but this Is a mere matter of form, for neither the king nor queen ever thinks of altering or Interfering with Mr. Menager' arrangements. At S o'clock a report la laid before the great chef by the order cook ot tbe various meats that have been or dered In accordance with Mr. Men sger's instructions ot tha day before, and also what la called a kitchen re port 1 given to him by the bead as sistant cook which Is a detailed state ment ot the manner In which the din ner for that night la to be prepared. After seeing thst everything Is In or der for their evening's work, Mr. Men ager generally leavea th palace about 4 o'clock, returning at 6: SO, when he never fall o make a personal Inspec tion ot th varlou ranges, ovn and tovea and take a careful note of the temperature in each. Tbe preparation ot the royal .dinner ta then begun. Mr. Menager remain In the kitchen while the work la go ing forward, keeping a keen eye on everything and everyone, and lsaulng from tlm to tlm Instruction to hi firt lieutenant At 8: SO exactly a bell U rung and the tervant who are to bear th dishes to th atat dining room enter th kitchen. At o'clock 'dinner I aerved, and Mr. Manager' work for th day I ovef. H remain In hi prlvat room until 10 o'clock, when he receive a message from the king commenting the dinner. Tbl Is a ceremony hut I Be Greatest Afloat i XM I If-aVAV MCVADA Wf tby do not of themselves or la their carriages Increase the weight In the ratio that tho projectile la Increased The powder charge for these guns will be from US to I7U pounds The Bu ilt velocity In foot seconds will be Z.600. With a trajectory sufficiently high their rang might be, as Is often claimed, 25 miles. For good, every day fighting, however, they will do soma good hitting at eight or ten mile. Do you want to bav some Idea of th terrible fighting efficiency of these new Dreadnoughts the moat powerful that the world has yet aeenT Well, tor a comparison, tak the Connecti cut which only a tew yearn back say ten was our greatest ahlp. Sh ha four 12-lnch gun and can throw In fir minutes 40 shell weighing MO pounds. That la 32,600 pounds, or over 16 tons of death and destruction. As suming that the service of the 14-tnch gun will be somewhat slower than that ot the 12-Inch, It Is doubtless sat to say that the tea 14-tnch guna on either the Nevada or tbe Oklahoma will de liver 80 (hell In five minutes, or 11. 000 pounds of projectiles,' with their deadly load of high explosive, any pound of which detonated in the psy chological place on the enemy's ahlp would alnk It Tod can rake the sta tistics of the navies of the world and yon will nowhere find anything ap proaching the force of thla fir. It Is nearly twice that ot the best Dread nought In the British navy to-day. majesty never forgets to perform. London Answer. DAKOTA'S MIXED hf ARRIAOl. t'aloaa WUM Mm aaeV taataai W)ata No Ftooth !.' In the Dakota when a white man wed aa aboriginal woman and public ly acknowledge her as hla wife he provide her with as good a home and clothing as be can afford, aad he treats her as he would treat a white woman. He sees to It that she learns to cook, to sew and to keep house, and In other ways tries to educate and uplift her. SUI1 more Interesting Is tha fact that these mixed marriages Involve little or no social disability. The white husbands are rarely. If ever, barred from associations with the whites be- Cftuss of their wives. To be sure, a man known to be liv ing with an Indian woman who 1 "without benefit of clergy." la, aa n rule. In the language ot o Whit River plainsman, "purty nigh ostrich lacd." But this would be true tt he were known to be maintaining simi lar relations with a white woman. "Such loose-hitched tie-ups used to be kind o' common around here,1 said my White River man. according to a writer tn Everybody', "and nobody thought much about 'em. But there's ao many sehoolma'am com out here from New England and other places that folks don't stand tor that sort o' thing no more." Legally married Indian wives pay no more social penalty than do their white husbands. Generally, the little red hen atlcka to her home and doe not go out with her white husband for a social evening as often aa would a wifs of her own race. But thla 1 largely a matter of Indian tempera rrent . Aa for the half-blood children, a they grow up they are aaked to the country dance or the picnic with th white young men and women at the J The new ships will probably have the "peach basket" fire-control towers, which have now been Installed on nearly all the battleships. Just at present there Is a division of opinion aa to the value of these towers, and . there are two schools of thonght la th navy aa to them. A special board la at work to get all the data possible as to the advantage and defect of these towers, and another board will probably, ba appointed In the near fu ture to conalder the matter and make rocomendatlon aa to the future policy In regard to them. If the corresponding bureau of aa olher country have accomplished what the Bureau of Construction has done since the beginnings ot the new navy. 25 year ago. It has been kept from th current history of naval achieve ment , No praise can be too earnest or distinct for what these officers have done for their country. Their work redounds to the credit ot each pass ing secretary and of the entire body of officer In th navy. When the crucial hour shsll come and the fate of the nation may depend on the great naval struggle for which countless million and unflagging seal for many year have been given In preparation, to them will be due the victory. If It be a victory. Their share la the result will be, perhaps, lea ung than that ot th men who command th ahlpa and man the guna, hut a generous peo ple will none the lea remember their good work. Philadelphia Ledger. community. Some of the handsome, well-educated young halt-breeds are In as much demand at social functions as are those whose parents both belong to th "auperlor race." In the school", too, the half-breed children mingle with the children ot white famllle on equal terms and suffer little. If anything, from race prejudices or preferment Wlaawallte aa XtwiMitna. In Holland births, msrriages am. deaths are Indicated by windmills. When a miller is married hs stops his mill with the arms of the wheel In a slanting posltjon and with tbe sails unfurled. His friends and guests fre quently do the same with their mills In token ot the ceremony. To Indicate a birth the wheel Is stopped In a slanting position, but at a more acute angle than that of a marriage, and with th two upper sail unfurled. Should a miller die the sails of hla mill are all furled, and the wheel 1 turned round until the arms form an upright cross.' In which position they are left until after the funeral. - Setf-aadrtae. "I srussa I'll a-n hark tn th ,,.! said the gentle grandmother. "Whats the trouble?" lnnulnul t.. son-in-law. "Aren't we treating yon rlghtr "Tea. But the haaehall hers, and I won't be ahia to .-. temptation to see the games." "No. It I am seen in the grand stand looking bals and hearty ru be almost sure to spoil somebody's excuse for be ing awar from tha offlr w. ... - ' ' ton Star. . ' Willi..!,. ( He I akd your fathr' .nn... by telephone. . . She what did h say? ' He He said. 'I dnn't km k r, hut It "a all right. Home Ufa. 7- Bt the tlma von aa mrw made jour mistake It la too late
