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THE HOOD KIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1912 3 0 S American Lawyers Have Been Given 2 Too Much fL ifl JAt. jAt S Power 0 0 0 0 Br JUDCB J. D. LAWSON of t. Louis. Member of Committee of Amerlctn Law Society Which Investigated Foreign Method HN INVESTIGATION OF FRENCH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LEADS ME TO REAFFIRM MY POSITION THAT THE ROW TR8 OF AMERICAN LAWYERS OUGHT TO BE CURBED, WHILE THE POWERS OF TRIAL JUDGES OUGHT TO BE ENLARGED. APPEALS OUGHT ONLY BE GRANTED ON THE GROUNDS OF A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND NOT ON THE PRESENT TECHNICAL RULES OF PROCEDURE. The great difference between European and American procedure ia the part played by lawyers in the United States, where they are prac tically everything and the judges are minor issues. In Europe the judges are everything. IX FRANCE THE LAWYERS ARE ALMOST ELIMINATED. They only address the jury. They do not cross examine the witnesses. The judge does that If, when the judge has finished, the lawyer for the defense thinks that some points have not been covered he asks the judge to put such a question to the witness. While the French system is adverse to the Anglo-Saxon ideas in many respects, there is a good point, such as an endeavor to ignore technicalities and get at the truth. Under the present French system it is PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR TILE GUILTY TO ESCAPE. JAPANESE LABOR PROBLEM DISCUSSED That the valley I facing a strlou liibur problem to the Increasing num ber of Japanese here, wai the declar ation made by A. I. Mason at the meeting of the People's Forum Fri day. After the meeting adjourned, Mr. Mason took the floor and nuked for a couple of minute In which to bring up the subject. " We have been dlttrumring matters of Importance to the state," said Mr. Mason, "but there In a matter of vi tal local Importance which I wish to bring to your attention. It Is the labor problem. We have a conn tan t ly IncreaMlug Japanese population In thin county and as a rettult It I get ting harder all the time to get good native labor. White laborer are re-fu-lng to come here to work when they learn that they must compete with cheap JapaneHe tabor. "I wan talking today with a man from Wateonvllle, Cut. He said that practically all the labor In the fruit district there Ik now being done by forelguerta, many of them Slave and Hungarians and many Japanese The orchard are owned by Ameri cans who sublet them to the foreign ers because of the cheupnexs of the labor. However, the rtnult has Iteen that the grade and pack of Watson vllle apples has Imhmi rapidly deterio rating and that section has no long er the reputation for Its fruit which It formerly possessed. I Itellevo that we are approaching the same condi tion here. 'The foreign residents of our valley, although peaceable and Industrious, do not materially benefit the com munity. The money they earn Is most of It sent to a foreign country; not many of them !ecoroe citizens. They do not help you. Mr. Store keeper, because the most of their earnings are uot spent here. Tbey do not help you, Mr. Minister, because tbey do uot unite with your churches. They are a foreign element In our population and an element which we cannot assimilate. I submit It to your coiiHlderatlon as one of the lo cal problems which challenge onr serious consideration." Whims of lbn. Like many another mun great In bis writings, Ileoiik Ibsen was not with out hie foibles. Scorning company as be professed to do and declaring al ways for solitude, he nevertheless de lighted to be dined, and to Invite him to a banquet In bis own especial honor was to give the great man unalloyed pleasure. In bla latter, days, too, be developed a passion for decorations, of which be received a large number from bis own and foreign monarchs, and on public occasions be would wear alt bla Insignia aa probably the most decorat ed author Id the world. It was on public occasions that Ibsen would car ry a small mirror and comb In the crown of his bat, and "coram populo" would proceed to arrange bla busby hair and whiskers. Dyeing. Tbe practice of dyeing la so ancient that It would be folly to attempt to say where or when It originated. Tbe place or period of Its genesis no one can tell or even guess. As far back aa history or tradition can take us we And tbe dyeing vat Phoenicia waa famous for Its rich dyes, as was Egypt also. Modern chemistry does not seem to add much to tbe efficacy of tbe art Tbe colors of tbe most ancient times of which we have any knowledge were as "fast" as any that can be made to day. In fact. It Is held by some au thorities that the men of four or Ave thousand years ago possessed secrets about dyeing that would be greatly appreciated by us if we could get bold of them. New York' American. Ma Knew, if He Didn't "Are you going to marry Bister Ruthr asked tbe email boy of tbe young man who bad been Invited to Sunday dinner. "Well er." stammered the young man In great embarrassment, "I er I really don't know, you know." "That's Just what 1 thought," said tbe boy. "Well, ma says you are." Ladles' Home Journal. Llttls Pitohsrs. Willie Uncle Jack, did you choke on that cake batter ma made yesterday? Rich Old Cncle Good heavens, no, child! What put such an extraordinary Idea into your head? Willie Why, I heard pa fell ma be made you cough op tbe dough. Exchange. A little sunshine set aside for a rainy day Is better than an umbrella. Youth's Companion. Regular Sunday excursion to Park dale. Pleasant trip for yourself and friends. THREE SONGS. r f They Will Live Above All Other Mi the Man Who Hoard Thorn. Tbe brilliant, fashionably clad audi ence roared an ovation to the great singer. She waa unquestionably the beat soprano in the world. The critic turned to his friend, tbe aelf made mil lionaire, and said: "Did you ever hearny song more exquisitely rendered V "Yea,' aald tbe rich man musingly, for be was touched by tbe magic of what be bad beard. "Yea; I have heard three greater alngers." "I want to know!" exclaimed the critic "The first was years ago. The singer was plain of face and gray of hair and tired of body. There waa much work to do and many little mouths to feed. X waa tbe youngest child, sick and cross, and that dear alnger crooned to me a lullaby, and I alept It waa a wonderful song. "The next waa years afterward. We bad a little cottage. It waa aummer, and the windows and doors were open. My wife waa in the kltcher. preparing supper. She was singing something about ber true love coming borne to her. It waa for me. And that, too. was a wonderful song. "8ome more years elapse. There la a little toddler In the garden, and she ainga hesitantly something about dad dy and bis baby. "These are the three singers, my friend, who beat all your Tetrazrlnla." And the critic T Well, perhapa the critic agreed with him. Albany Times-Union. LIQUID AIR. The Wsy It Aots as a Prossrvstive of Animal Matter. It Is sometimes necessary to pre serve parts of a human body or of some other animal for tbe purpose of testing for the presence of poisons. In such cases the preservative must fulfil certain special requlrementa. It moat be able to prevent absolutely any decay or putrefaction; It must not It self cause any change In the tissues, either structural or chemical; It must not Introduce any substance that would In any way Interfere with the subsequent testa or give rise to false conclusions, and It must be easily han dled. Liquid air has been found to be quite well adapted to this use. Its low temperature (about 400 degrees below tero, Fahrenheit) prevents ab solutely all putrefaction as well as all other chemical change. At the same time. It prevents the evaporation of any volatile substance that may be present, such aa carbon monoxide or hydrocyanic add gaa. Experiments have ahown that the most delicate tissues, such as glands and brain, are quite unaffected by being placed In liquid air for a long time, and the tissues even retain their natural colors. For the purpose of making chemical testa In a piece of tissue It Is frequent ly necessary to cut tbe material up Into very email pieces. Tissues that have been preserved In liquid air are frosen so bard that they may be ground np Into a fine powder. Har-pot's. Titbits of the Ancient Crooks. As delicacies the Greeks ate young foxes caught In the autumn, robins and sparrows and certain kinds of fish snared by moonlight There la a scrap of an old Greek comedy In which a cook boasts of frying a fish so exqui sitely that It threw him grateful looks from the pan. A famous Greek dish was the Trojan pig. half of It boiled and the other half roasted. It was stuffed with egg, ortolana and thru shea. The Romans ate snails giant monsters fattened until their sheila held an Incredible amount of snail. The kettle In a high class Ro man kitchen was often shaped like an elephant'a head. The water was pour ed through the trunk. The gridiron might be a huge silver spider or a skeleton fish. Oysters st Thsy Grow. When young oysters first appear they are called "spat" and are no larger than a plnhead. At the age of one year they are known as "brood" and a bushel measure will hold about 6,400 of them. When they are three years old they are designated aa "ware" and the 6.400 of them will then fill three one bushel measures. They are not ready for market until they are four years old, and then they have arrived to a dignity of proportion that If the buahel of broods has not lost any of Its members It will require nearly seven of such measures to carry them to market Uncle Bonbon. An elderly beau had been delivering himself of certain forcible home truths when lecturing his nephew. "Wonderful chap, your uncle," ob served a friend when the old gentle man had disappeared. "So well pre served." "I don't know so much about hla be ing well preserved," growled the of fended nephew, "but he Is unpleasant ly candid." Youth's Companion. A Dobatsd Definition. "A gentleman," says a contemporary, "Is a man who feels uncomfortable while be slta In a car and sees a wo man banging to a strap." Not so, brother. A gentleman doesn't keep bis seat long enough to feel un comfortable. Roaton Transcript No Roturns Wsntsd. 'E says to me, 'Why don't yer tt ImT "It 'lm.' I says. 'What's the use of my Ittln" "1m? 'EM Mt me back again.' "London Tatler. 4 PHEASANT NURSERIES. Those In French Forest Equal Inetitw tions For Human Beings. To Louis XIV. France la said to be indebted for tbe Importation of Its pheasants, writes Llllie Hamilton French In the Century. On that aide of the forest Complegne nearest to Complegne Itself la a falaanderle cov ering many hundreds of acres In which the breeding of these birds, begun on der hla protection and further encour aged by Charlea X. and Louis Philippe, la now carried on by a private person, who rents bla right to do so from the state. I have never seen a place so abut in and protected by wire fencea and lock ed gates, stone walls and more gates, special guards In special houses, police dogs, guns and traps. There la even a thick kind of double mattress made to cover the guards, who In winter must sleep out of doors In watching for poachers. I have never aeen insti tutions for human beings better plan ned In the way of nurseries and at tendants, hygienic lawa and systems of feeding. The pheasants when finally shot must have a wonderful flavor, and In a aln gle day as many as a thousand are of ten shot within those walls, each one of the thousand having cost Its owner the sum of 40 francs to raise. GARRICK'S MOBILE FACE. It Drove 8ir Joshua Reynolds Into a Fit of Temper. This story of an artist's despair while working on Garrick'a portrait la often printed, but It la reproduced In "David Garrick and His French Friends," with a footnote saying that the experience waa made the material for a French vauievllle sketch: li was pi easy task to transfer to the canvas features so changeable. Gar rick, as a model, threw painters Into despair. Let us listen a moment to Northcote relating Sir Joshua Reynolds' experiences: "When the artist bad worked on the face till he had drawn It very correct ly, as he saw It at the time. Garrick caught an opportunity, while the painter waa not looking at him, totally to change his countenance and expres sion, when the poor painter patiently worked on to alter the picture and make It like what he then saw, and when Garrick perceived that It was thus altered he seized another oppor tunity and changed his countenance to a third character, which, when the poor tantalized artist perceived, he. In a great rage, threw down his palette and pencils on the floor, saying be believed be waa painting from tbe devil and would do no more to the picture." Creating a Vaeanoy. When the republic had been set up in France In 1848. wrote the Baroness Bonde, the first attempta of the en franchised people to use their new powers resulted In the election of the most miscellaneous assembly that had ever tried to govern a country. A member nominated from Rouen went to Paris and selected his seat He had hardly taken It when his next neigh bor turned and stared at him. The Rouen man, embarrassed, turned up his coat collar, but too late. "Sir," aald his lynx eyed colleague, "I believe I had the honor of sending you to the galleys for murder In 18, when I was Judge. You had strangled the servant of tbe cure who had brought you up and robbed the worthy man. Oblige me by resigning Imme diately." The next day tbe monlteur announc ed that there waa a vacancy for Ron en, but did not tell why. Sulcido snd the Wsathor. Suicide Is most frequent in summer, when the air Is clear and the sun shines. In Europe tbe maximum of suicides Is reached In June and the minimum In December. Yet there are fewer suicides In the torrid than In the temperate sone. In the United States, in all seasons, there are more sulclaea on sunny days than on cloudy days. Some theorists reason that fine weather aggravates the mental depres sion of the unhappy by Its contrasting sunshine. In dark weather there are few suicides and fewer In time of war or following some great catas trophe. During the first three months that follow a devastating earthquake there are fewer deaths by suicide than before the cataclysm. Harper's. The "Mikado." Most people outside Japan are wont to speak of the "mikado," but really that title- Is obsolete. The Japanese never use that appellation themselves, and they do not like others to do so Educated Japanese speak of their sov ereign as "shnojo sama," and the or dinary folk term him "tenshl sama." "Tanno" Is the title used in all official documenta, and for the foreigner tbe most correct form Is "kotel" that la, emperor. Westminster Gazette. A Facotious Convict. "This confinement" said the long faced prison visitor, "must digress yon greatly." "Tea," replied the facetious convict; "I find the prison bnrs grating." "Ah, life to you Is a failure:" "Yes; it's nothing but a cell" The Rstort Vicious. The Ex Hero Ah. my boy, when I played Hamlet the audience took fif teen minutes to leave the house. The Vicious Ex Comedian (i-oldlyV Was he Inmc? Ixuulon Answers. Life Is made up of little things, and he Unit scorn them despises his own real Interest. Barker. EXPERT EXPLAINS HYDROMETER'S USE The method of using tbe Ilaume hydrometer la explained by W. H. Lawrence aa follows: The Haume hydrometer consists of a weighted, hollow glass bulb with a graduated neck. These Instru ments usually have two scale, one showing the Haume, the other tbe specific gravity. The Ilaume Is grad uated from 0 to 38 degrees and the other from 1 000 to 1.3T.0 specific grav. Ity. Owing to the size of the scale either the Ilaume or the specific grav ity Is read with euse and accuracy. It should be borne lu mind In read ing the Instrument to note the gen eral surface of tbe liquid and not the point where tbe liquid climbs up the stem. Owlug to great variations In the amounts of soluble sulphur In commercial as well as home-made Mine sulphur mixtures It Is wise to test each lot, since there are frequent variations In strength of tbe differ ent lots of the same brand. For winter spraying for San Jose scale the 4.5 degrees Haume mixture Is advised, although where Infesta tion Is slight and the application Is made primarily as an annual "house cleaner, tbe 3.0 degrees mixture Is more frequently applied. The strength of the summer spray used Is usually about 15 degrees Baume. Owing to the variations lu the sizes of spraying tanks and measuring vessels and Inaccuracy In reading the scales, for practical field work and to avoid confusion, the general rule of using one gallon of lime sulphur to as many gallons of water as Baume degrees shown by the scale or tbe decimal of the specific gravity is usually suggested. This may be determined approximately by divid ing the Ilaume degrees by three. The number of dilutions may be ac curately determined by taking tbe specific gravity of the concentrate lime-sulphur, dividing the decimal of the spray desired and the quotient will give tbe number of dilutions. For example, use 28 degrees Baume, Decimal of .p. sr. of concentrate (10) .24 12 Decimal of p. sr. spray desired (1) 02 or the total value of diluted spray. To make the dilution add one part of lime sulphur to eleven parts of water. While there is a fairly uni form relation between the degrees Baume and the amount of sulphur In solutions the proper dilutions can ouly be made in case Impurities to Increase the density of the concen trate have not been added. Impurt ties can only be detected through chemical analysts. To obtain accu rate readings the hydrometer must be washed In clear water to prevent accumulations of the solution upon the bulb and stem. , SHOWERS ARE GIVEN IN MISS WOODWORKS HONOR Miss Idell Wood worth, whose mar riage to Hoy F. Dean will take place October 9, has been the honoree at a number of pre-nupttal entertain ments the past week. The members or tbe J. V. G. club, entertained at tbe home of Miss Bry ant, gave a china shower for the bride-elect Tuesday evening. Wednesday afternoon the Wednes day Afternoon Club surprised Miss Wood worth at her home with a parcel shower of china, linens and other useful articles. At their last regular meeting the members of tbe Sans-souct Club tame laden with numerous pieces of Ituen, which they presented to the future bride. Miss May Davidson entertained a number of Miss Wood worth's friends at a "Kodak" luncheon, at which time the guest of honor was showered with an attractive assortment of linens. A number of Informal affairs are planned for the coming week. Unitarian Church Next Sunday at the Unitarian church two services will lie held: At 11 o'clock the usual service of wor ship with sermon; at 7:30 p. m., the second In the series on tbe politi cal platforms at their last meeting. Mrs. Minnie Brewen King of Hood River will speak on the Socialist Platform. J. D. Mac Lucas also will speak. The public Is cordially In vited to both meetings. Board of Equalization Will meet the third Monday In Oc tober at the courthouse at 10 o'clock a. m. to examine and correct all er rors In the assessment roll. If any taxpayers have any objection to their assessments, they must file complaint during the first week of tbe session. J. Wickham, 38 41c County Assessor. Christian Science Services " Christian Science services are held In tbe Commercial Club rooms Sundays at 11 a. m. Subject, "Unre ality." Sunday school at same hour In Room 2, Davidson Bldg. Wednes day meetings In same room 8 p. m. Heading room open dally, 2 to 5 p. ni CULL APPLES Hood River Apple Vinegar Co. will pay $8 per ton for this grade in sacks delivered to factory. Sept. 25, 1912. A News adv. does the business. Our CHEAP FLAT RATES For Electric Light and Power J Ire jTtill Open to you Jo Our big and complete system permits us to supply you with anything: in the electrical energy line in town or coun try. If you want light, power or heat Ht Minimum Cost TALK IT OVER WITH US Our Rates Are the Lowest contract with us means security and assured sertice HOOD RIVER GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY Jcmc of SERVICE at LOWEST COST" PMONE 55 Third and Cascade Ave. tore your Ipples IN OUR NEW MODERN COLD STORAGE PLANT EQUIPPED WITH THE LATEST Dry Air System We have every facility for handling, shipping and delivering. CHARGES REASONABLE Union Meat Company Warthouf Dtpt, Portland, Oregon Auto Livery at Parkdale Will carry parties to any part of the Valley, or Cloud Cap Inn. Calls promptly answered. Rhone Odell 188 J. M. CLARK LOW FARES WEST Fall Colonist Period Daily Until Oct. 10th to all points on the SPOKANE, PORTLAND & SEATTLE RY. FROM Chicago $38.00 Cincinnati 42.85 Milwaukee St?. 70 St. Louis 37.00 New York 55.00 Detroit 43.00 St. Paul $30.00 Kansas City 30.00 Omaha 30.00 Pes Moines 32.83 Indianapolis 40. (X) Denver 30.00 From other eastern points in proportion. Tell'yonr frienda is the Rut of this opportunity of movins Wait at low ratee. Direct train eenrica via Hurlincton Route, Northern Paeifte and Ureal Northern Kailwaye and the North Hank Road. You can deposit funda with me and weetbound tirketa wiil be fumiahad people In the IV tail furnished on requeet. A BOOK ABOUT OREQON-WASHINQTON A flfty pajre illustrated book deecribins the diatricta on tha North Bank Road will be forwarded to you or your frienda if you will writa W, K-Cnan. (letMral Freight Affent, Portland. K. A. Ul.Hk.KT. (!, W. K. COM AN White Salmon. Waah. On L Frt and Tana, At.. Portland. Ore.