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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE FRIDAY APRIL 3. 100K Ouox City Enterprise. CITY AM I'OI STY OFFUm lMl'KK. Published Evory Friday. Subscription Rates. $2 00 1 lH One year 1 v .liiUlt lis Trial subscription, two months ; A discount of 50 cents on all subscriptions for otif yir, '2"i cents for six months, if paid in advance. AI.VKHTlSIXti KATKS ON ArTI.HWTIOS. Subscribers will fiml the date of expiration stamped on their papers following their name. If this is not changed within two weeks after a payment kindly no tify u and the matter will receive our attention. Entered at the postofliee at Oieizon City, Oregon, as second class matter. New Theory Regarding Railroad Wrecks. In communications to The Railway Age Alfred Foster, of Wilmington, X. C . ami W. 1?. Waggoner, of Chicago, advance a startling theory about railroad wrecks, due to engineers disregarding orders or fail ing to obev signals. Both writers are experts of high standing, and -as the result of research extending through many years they unite in declaring that en gineers are peculiarly subject to attacks of petit or Jrandmal. which are forms of epilepsy, or of a pecul iar nervous trouble difficult to detect and diagnose. Mr. Waggoner states his point in this way: 'The concentrated attention on one point for a long period of time required of the engineer of a fast pas senger train brings about a peculiar nervous disturb ance that has many of the external appearances of petit mal, the most noticf able of which is a tempo rary loss Of consciousness." Attention is called to the psychic fact that the easiest and quickest way to lose oneself is by concen trated attention on a given point. According to the theory advanced, years of concentrated thought on one idea or point makes engineers peculiarly suscep tible to epileptic attacks, during which a wave sweeps over the victim and for a few moments dazes or con fuses him, or causes him to loose consciousness. Mr. Foster dec ares that: 'Fpilepsy, which is much more common than gen erally supposed, is quite often the sole factor in other wise inexplicable accidents for example, the recent wreck of the Owl Limited on the Southern Pacific." Why the most trusted engineers should so fre quently fail to do what had become second nature to 1 them is readily explained by Mr. Foster's theory. It is pointed out that the great danger lies in the insidi ous character of the disease. An engineer suffering from it mav lose consciousness for a few moments, and even aphysician'sitting at his side would not be aware that anything was wrong with him, the afllicted man himself scarcely realizing it. Under present con ditions of traffic, however, those few moments are more than likely to be long enough for the train to run into something. Numerous instances are given where examination of engineers w ho have done inexplicable things show ed them to be suffering from this peculiar malady Both writers strongly urge the employment by rail wav managements of competent neurologists. Mr. Foster declares, and Mr. Waggoner agrees with him, that: "It would occur to the layman that the modern fast passenger engine is too complicated and the sig nals to be looked out for too numerous to expect one man to attend to both." Feathered Hats and Heaven. Do the wings of a sea gull on a woman's hat waft her into the shades of sheol? This is the question raised by the startling state ment of Professor Dallas L. Sharp, of Boston Univer sity, to the effect that no woman who wore the feath ers of a song bird or of a sea gull could get into heaver.. Interviews with a number of Chicago women in the Record-Herald reveal a . wide divergence of opinion as to the correctness of Dr. Sharp's ornitho logical observations. There appears to be no verifica tion in holy writ for his sea-gull theory, and as for the feathers of song birds they are not mentioned in the decalogue as barriers against heavenly bliss. In the absence of any biblical injunction against it the women appear inclined to go right along break in" into "heaven" with a new hat as often as the fam ily exchequer or credit will permit. Indeed, some of them exhibit a reckless disposition to take their chances on heaven hereafter if they can linger in the paradise that comes from a feathered headgear that outdoes everything in the block. It will Ie noted that Professor Sharp referred only to the feathers of "song birds and sea gulls." This, . after all. leaveg a wide range for the decorative fancy of women. There is the red-headed woodpecker, the English, bparrow, and the sand-hill crane. Theee and hundreds of other birds do not sing. But why slaughter any of the feathered tribe to adorn woman's headgear when the world is full of flowers and fruits and vegetables, asks the Audubon Society. Why should a woman yearn for the plumage of a sea gull w hen ehe can cover her Easter hat with flowers, with bunches of luscious-looking grapes, or with yellow carrots and red-ripe tomatoes? Have the cherries censed to phake on mother's bonnet? What could be more tempting than a pyramid of pink-yellow jvaches and blue plums peeping from a kiwor of dahlias and hollyhocks? Let the slaughter of the feathered innocents cease. Talk of the Pan-American Raiiroad.! The fascinating project of building a Pan-American j Intercontinental Railroad is not a new one, having boon favorably considered by several Pan-American j congresses. The scheme, however, borrows new in terest from the action of Congress in appropriating' money to investigate the countries through which it( will pass, and gather tacts relative to the trade oppor tunities which may spring from it. The railroad Wis-: tance from New York to Buenos Ay res is placed ntj 10,471 miles. This makes the project the peer of both the Siberian railroad and the building Cape to Cairo ' line. It has not behind it the political incentives that- belong to either, but the inducement to furnish the! capital to complete it must be the profits which the! local sections miuht secure Of the whole distance there is now a continuous rail line from New York to. the southern frontier between Mexico and liuatemula. j In Central and South America there are about l.oOO, miles more in operation that would be available, leav- j in cans approximating 5.0(H) miles to be filled in. 1 The probable commencement of work on the Panama.' Canal is a good business reason tor continuing the line i from Mexico through the Central American states to that point, as it would be a factor for some years in j convevinn supplies and material to the canal builders, j From there southerly through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia the question of profitable traffic is more serious ! and the problems of construction extremely tlillicultl and expensive, although engineers have pronounced them surmountable. It has been estimated that to i till m all the gaps would cost about .f J(KH),ti(H),(HH). j The business of finding the capital has received en-j couragement by the interest which Andrew Carnegie j has been induced to take in the scheme. His purse is j large enough to furnish the whole amount if he chose j to look on it as a monument to his name. Slavery Prevailing in the Philippines. A nood deal has been said ab.t the existence ol slavery in the Philippines, but little positive knowl edge has drifted to these shores regarding the details. A letter from the islands, published in the New York Sun, seems to clear up some of the uncertainties. Ac- j cording to the writer, the insitution was inaugurated j by the Spanish friars, and was easily continued by the well-known buy and shiftless propensities of the na-j tive Filipino. How it came about is thus related: i ft'- V. THE POPULAR GOINTY CLERK i BIIL I VI V-n era naif I Of A Or 8 Kr u 1 1 w anra b hhivoioou. , i r,.iiM. In HiirliiK the ralarr (twiui . , , ., ,,ft.,,.i ii, (. i, ...I t HI I ill1 T i. ..... w i aini H-rY" otiK M.teiii, In tin. hiiiiiiiiit tin- U.wi-U miirrr Ui .'i'fl t ! w Mln l tlm itiiliuutt tin. Ilvr itinl k iilm-y n mi ni Id In. purlin tilurly inil'Jii'l In tilt. mvui;iM of rntarrli, (if iMiirxn II I lint meant liy tliU Unit raturrh It nl'Ki'liltely t'oiillnmt In thi-mi liiUif Nly during tint hi'ikiih t whirl. vo have iidi IihiI llii'tn. Catarrh limy nil u'k nny ontnti In miy the Year, hut Hi" Ilabllltle art. mi niurti K miter foreatarrh timttm-k jmrtlriilror i:nn In riTlnliixi'iiitiiiiHlliiit thre fourth, hin t vnrlell"' hnvti lieeoini. ret'onlx!!, Mr. Unliert I'niiuliui. Ilomeonuthli- 41 MvUlut, for. tstli mul V Nt., X. Viulilii;-,l'iti, 0. C, In a r.went nlttr U: ' tin. IVruna M inlii-i iitt Co., i if Ciiluiiilni, it., luut t!m following til y fiuietiriilng 4 their noted rittnrrli reimily, lVniniw hmvo been a pmclUIng phytlcian for tomo yenn, durlnii h hkh time J lim n mlmtnlilered Peruna In a numhi i nt my patient tor mid, tatarrh ana general debility with great benefit to them. I bave paid partUular attention in Iti effetti, and I bavo abnnlute ton. IIJeiHC in It iuraiivc quaintc, and have no hctltatlon In giving It a wutt emithatk tniiirentent." lion. Cleiii' iil M. llmniuoiid U oiimil i llu. N-Ht known tin b pnju r ini'ii III Ni'v ' I York fit. iU ,m 4 for vnr itlllor 'l . niiKiif Iht'l'rliii'lpnl a n r In Ilurt fnr.l, Colin., luler wan j.roinliiriilly iimiiiH Oil with Ho' Xtw York IliH-onl-vt mul Now York Worhl. lie h trvi-lel rti-nlvt ly mitl I know u alt llou. C. M. lUuuiiua4 ti v n r llio I'iiIIihI sieU'm for hi Uli'iit m ft nrw in.i iiiun. "" r 1 1 1 n n to The JVrun .M'lunii4 Co., l.o yl "Kir Klut lx yrar I liaro tiJ I roiil llu i'vitv full mul wlntr Willi w) voli-c. At linn- It Iij ciU'inlixl t mi hroiii'lilnl tut' mul Iuiik. I think ill Hon. yvm. A. Tenno. Cl-rk of tho cltr find fount v of Sun Frum-lv... wh Cl.lrf I H.W tr.ml.lt. t i.m from wI....Iiik ..uKh Pf-ptity In tlioolllroof liU iiretl.-ft-HHor iliirinn lliu hitter .rt of In U-rin. lie In which I Um wli.-n 1 mm l.ul Iwnivi ViiiivnKon. havlnir Ixfn Nirri mul raUinl In tho fllv of S.m Kruiii-I,, nil him for Vfrl old. mul whlrh h'ft Ino Wltllf, iii:mv vrnrs Ncn prominently lil.-iititl.tl with th ord.-r of Nmivt. Hon of l'",'Urr, K,n,-V I haro Ukt-n iVrutia, nil . .' - . ... ii 4 . ......... l..li. i.. ITm nil i.Ti-i.tifloIlMll V i.iOHH'H 1 t'St, UJ4 wt'll IU1 VUHT iiih'iiiiiivi(;.iii'.w-. - I iKji.uliir youn mnn, hm-Iii11 v biwI lltlfally al., m ovl.li nivil l.y tho hulloU ru"t . . .. i . . I 1. 1- ..!... ..ill f l'.,nnl I'L.rU Bt tliO law Cl.t'ilt.ll, IIO IlttViug ui'joawu t " -j mm ? 4 I BOX. WILLIAM A. DEAXE, OF Sll FRAXCISfO. Cit J MV -'V. rj nearly r,t"Af yoi'-i. ..... In a IcttiT wrn'.'n January iroiu nmi "Lwwi -- - voli-o ha l'U fli'rr than III ov.-r two rt-ar, all of wlil.-h I kin w IllliiK to ltlf; to." Mr. llminoiiil' athlrra I "Thl Arlington," 01 MuiiUkuu tr t, Jlnxik lyn.N. Y. 1'i runa I an Internal rcminly I riftinn him ihn fnlliiwinir loKnrof l't-runtt: Gentlemen:" I would not be without Peruna, as I have found, . i. ntnio r. m.tly for raiarrh. It curn i i i i i-ninrrli whi-ri'Vur liN'ititl. I btourr lank e Filipino. How it came about is thus related: It to be the best remedy torcmarrnai co nptatmsu.m , ,;;.riin. " K,v.. .tr..i.Kth by town A ii,.r Vu i.. finds himself in debt and without I have tried most all of the so-called catarrh remedies advertised, u n.avinK th i..uruit .nn. i,.- A poor Filipino tinds hi mstlt in utui anu a . conscientiously say that of all the remedies for catarrhal ,., h,U iy . i...Mt. th innnm the means to meet his creditors. He forthwith bor rows from a rich neighbor the required amount, often not more than thirty pesos two pesos are equal to about eighty cents of our money pays his ilebts, and becomes from that moment, together with his entire family, a slave to the man who had lent him the money, to remain his slave until his money is paid j ' hack. This poor native and his family work for the, rich native, and in return receive clothes ami food of; the cheapest quality, but, of course, never any money, j They also get a house to live in, but for this house the - man is -supposed to piy rent. As he has no money QQQQQ and ha3 placed himself and family where not one of .Q them can earn anv, this rent can not be paid and is Q added year by year to the original sum borrowed. The j Q . , ii. 1 1 : . - i . ii, Minn r ov-pr nnvinfr ttif (lent. atHl Uien d. man UKa i. ii" .it- j. - slave, leaving his family in like bondage. The Irish Land Bill. The Irish land bill bids fair to become a great agency for the settlement of Ireland's woes. Certainly it is of vaster scone and more liberally designed than any one of the eight or ten bills upon the same subject that have been passed by parliament since liU. Its , own passage is assured, though much amendment is possible. The Irish members of parliament strikingly showed j their thankfulness and appreciation of the bill at the close of the session at which it was introduced. It can i be set down as certain, however, that they will work j hard to alter it so that it will have more compulsory i features and leave less of its benefits dependent upon good administration. The rock of bad administration J is that on which many of the land bills of the past have been wrecked. In the main the provisions of the bill are of the pre cise character predicted by Walter Wellman in his J letters in the Record-Herald last December, lhe readers of this paper may congratulate themselves on having had the coining solution of the Irish problem fully described to them several months before the En glish parliament, press and people bocame cognizant of its details. Iteeord-Herald. In the primaries last Saturday there was small in terest shown except in a few precincts many having but one ticket. The result is that Senator Iirownell will have the support of the delegation. If the dele gation can get him the nomination he will have it. The party has too long acted without the unanimity necessary to accomplish results. The fight for the r-r.n-.tr, of Inn !a vorv mi-rorl Qnrl it. IN AT1V tlTifH Sit nrfH- 11UIU1UUI.1UII ID T J J - - ent. The delegation roin this county should make itself lelt. Jt is m a position to secure me nomination for Senator Brownell if it will do hard work. Lay aside personal differences and unite once for youj own county. A bubal telephone system is to be inaugurated in Polk county. Radiating from .Independence, it will literally bring the farmers of a wide section in touch with each other, besides contributing in a substantial ... . . r .i ivi complaints recommended to me none nave been so oencntiai as Peruna." WILLIAM A. Dl-ASU. CATARRH assu'rii-n UifTm-nt pliane I autumn ratarrh. In earli of tlioitn yarlt. )n different rt of iho y.-.ir. tie different organ n.-ein to Imj tho prill Thero i,lierelore,foilrtpilw well-murk-! eipal ni-ut of the eutarrh. el vurifiiertof ealiirrli. WlntereaUrrh, In tho winter the ratarrh 1 iiiorr fn- riujj cuurrh, Jtiaor caUrrh, uud I ijueiit III tho head, throui and ruluaUy itii'in IiruiiiMt It nreiM-rvn tho vital forr.. N'i remedy run jmHhly mipply th plaex of I'i riiiia. InnUl Uil having lYruna. Tnkn no other remedy. Tlirrt I iu milwlitiite for thl eaturrh rno'Jl' elne. Send for a freo l.k on caUrrh. Addn-H tin. 1'uruiiA Modicic Cu, l luiuhUH, Ohiui Enterprise and W. Oregonian $2 :COCO way to the business interests of Monmouth and Inde-j pendence. Rural mail delivery, rural trolley cari r. i i.i i f . j lines, ana now rural teiepnone service iruiy ineaaya of isolated farms and lonely country life belong to an outdated era in thei history of Oregon. ' t ! t V-'i 7 'V 7 7 7 7 r i 7 7 7 7 READ THIS fiood Laundry Soap, S Lars '2"x'. flood Tahlo Syrup, I gallon can '!', Washiii": l'owdor, 1 jkhj tid ";:. flood Koast Cofli-c, 2 poiiiids 2 flood Groon v'ofloo, 2 " 2."c. Yosornito CoToe, per pkg lie. Soperla-saiW! as Sapolio, 0 bars...... 2")C. Kngli.sh J'reakfast Tea, 1 pound UO'J. Lemon and Vinallo Extracts, (I'ring Uoltle) 1 oz a. Pex Lye, 2 cans 25c Ground Spices (iUilk) 1 pound 2c. Liquid I'luing, 1 bottle. 'c. Wheat Flake, 1 pounds .'. 2"c. Gocd Maple Syrup, I quart 2."c. 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