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12 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1910 IS BRAGG : MERCANTILE A Potato Has Eyes, but It doesn't read this paper. You ought to be different. Don't be a potato. Subscribe now. Settle It Now Settle It Right For constitutional amendment giving to cities and towns exclusive power to license, regulate, control, suppress, or prohibit the sale of intox icating liquors within the municipality. 328 X Yes ENDORSED BY 40,000 OREGON CITIZENS nnnnrm-i tj r k KUUdCVtLI 0 UWH bOCK The Most Popular Book By The Most Popular Man African GamcTrails Civit In book form by Roonvelt'i own hand tht tola account of hit African Hunt CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 163 Fifth Avonua Naw York W WANTED NOW m ia erery U City, Town and VilUg I Colonel Rooeerelt'e M OUR first lot of New Fall Styles of Ladies' Suits are now on sale and we are going to offer them at especially attractive prices. Lewis W. Lapadins Suits are strictly high class. This line is usually sold for from $25.00 to $40.00, but we are going to place them on sale at $18.50 to $30, and other Suits from $10 up. We will also make some unusual low prices on Ladies' Misses' and Children's Coats and Capes, that you will have to see to appre ciate. Don't wait till the BEST are gone. COME AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS. The Real Meaning A Of Conservation. By Dr. JOSEPH A. HOLMES of the United State Geological Survey. CIIERE are serious misunderstandings as to what is meant by conservation of resources. This certainly does not imply a CIIECK TO INDUS TRY nor a curtailment or lessening of the needs of the in dividual or of the nation. The needs of both the individual and the nation will increase at even a greater ratio than increase in popula tion. It certainly does not imply any DENIAL OF THE POWER or the right of the present generation to use so much of these re sources as it actually needs. It does not carry with it any expectation that the men of this gen eration will handle these resources without profit to themselves in order that something may be left for the future. UNLESS TIIERE ARE PROFITS ASSOCIATED WITH INDUSTRY TIIERE WELL BE NO INDUSTRY. CONSERVATION SIMPLY MEANS A WISE USE OF OUR RE SOURCESTHE PREVENTION OF WASTE. THUS THE MAN WHO MANAGES HIS FARM 80 AS TO HAND IT OVER TO HIS SON IN BETTER CONDITION THAN IT WAS WHEN HE HIMSELF TOOK CHARGE IS PRACTICING CONSERVATION. THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE NATION THAT SEE THAT THE LANDS ARE TILLED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE NOT ERODED AND WASHED INTO THE 8TREAM8 AND HARBORS ARE PRACTICING CONSERVATION. But the individual or the nation that allows its natural gas to escape into the atmosphere, that leaves half its coal underground in mining operations and transforms into power from 6 to 10 per cent only of that coal which is brought to the surface or which loses half its metal resources in the mining, treatment and use of these metals is WASTING RESOURCES WIIICII BELOXO TO THE NA TION AND THE RACE RATHER THAN TO THE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL OR SINGLE GENERATION. BUFFALO VERNON AT PENDLETON ROUND-UP "Buffalo" Vernon, the man who nan won International fame Irtraune of hid ability to handle the wildcat and HtrongeHt bull and nteer with hi hand and teeth and who will be one of the premier attraction at the North went Hound-up to be held In Pendleton, Oregon, Sept. 2il, 'M and Oct. 1 of thin year, In an Oregon boy. For thin re a h on IiIh appearance At the It mind -up will be awaited with more than the timial amount of In terext by all OregonlanM. Veruon wan rained In Ontral Ore gon nnd lived there until he wan grown. It Wan while riding the range for httt father and neighbors that be acquired bin find eijx-rience In bundling Mteer and bulln and nil of the warn he now wean were not acquired lu hi f'tmouH wrentle with the bull In Old Mexico, or In bin pre vious ami nubHeuent encounter In the kIiow rlngn of the country. Home of them were acquired In ex hlbltlonn which were wltneHed by only a few cowboy In the wild of Central Oregon. At the Kound up "Hnffalo" Vernon w III mount a ntcer running an fat nn clx or eight cow puncher ran make hi f n go, wltop him with hi band. throw him In the mime mariner and then hold him down with hN teeth. No one eNe in the world h;m ever HiicceMMfiilly attempted thin feat. He la alo an expert fancy roper and rider and will give an exnli.iilou of uteer tielrig and riding on em h day of the Hound-up. MANY KINDS OF FLLAS. About 400 Different Srecie, Art Known to Naturalitts One of the first n;it umli-1 in, !.. voted themselves to u i 1 1 . 1 1 tlens, with such uiicrow oie4 iwtv then available, wit l.eriiw.-nln.. I,. liiitch man, who lived lit the cimI uf thescven teenth century. Ieeinvehlinek discov ered (bat a small tulle fed on the Hen. and It was this discover) which In spired Swift's familiar lines: Bo. naturalist obere. a rim Hath smaller flena that on nim prey. And these neve inuiler still in tm 'ern. And ao proceed ad infinitum. The flea's pnraslte, however, to be accurate, I not another (Va or even another Insect, but u a mtn. classed among the sarcopiliine. ,. naeus, wrltlriK In 17.V1 described only two specie of flea. The first, which was the human flea, he rluhtlv nn moil Pulei Irrltans. The second was the chigoe of hot countries To account of Its burrowing habit, he gava the name of I'ulei penetrans. At the present ilny itlmtit 4m ll(Terent specie, of fleas have Ix-cii ilcsc rlled and named ,y the small band of w len Uflc men who have devoted themselves to their Btudr. Most of these have been discovered within quire reeent years, so it I probable thru runny new forms and varieties will be collected and observed. -n n rold Ituxscll In Lon don National Review. OLD TIME HAT STAMPS. Death Ueed to Be the Penalty In Eng land For Forging Them. Hats have In Knuhiml been subject to very severe protective euiictments. The. blocked lieiiver hat, for Instance. Imported by Sir Walter Knlclgh from the Low Countries, won Its wny so rapidly that iu 1571 Queen Elizabeth passed an art to protect the making of "thrummed" caps, made from wool, for the advantage of the landed pro prietors, whose sheep furnished the material. The statute provided that every male iersou "shall on Sundays and holidays wear on bis bead a cap of velvet wool made In Eugland, pen alty, 3s. Cd. per day. About a century later the law, for wblcb there Is nothing too hlgb or too low, having taxed men's shoes, turned Its attention once more to their bats and soon put a check on all Improves ments In the trade by requiring every vender of bits to take out a license under a heavy penalty. Subsequently a stamp duty was Imposed on all hats, which were olliclally marked inside where the maker's name now appears. The penalty for selling a bat without a stamp was 10, and the penalty for forging a bat stamp was death, whence, no doubt, the modern custom of the man who goes to church, alts down, looks Into bis bat to read bis maker's name! Loudon Chronicle. POLK'S GAZETTEER A Rualawai nirwfory of each City. Town and Ville im Orriron and WitPthlna-ton, fflvinjr m Dearrlptlve ptketrh of each plar, loratlo, Shipping Far lilt lea and CIhmiI fled IHrfH-tnry - of each BualBeaa and lrofelon. R. L. ror.K CO., Iae. attl, Waah. 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