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Newspaper Page TextMORNIXG -OREGOXIAX. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1908. SUCCESS WEAKENS APPEAL FOR COIN Republican Campaign Manag ers Displeased by Large Majority in Vermont. FINANCIERS CLOSE PURSES Democratic Committee Xot Likely to Collect More Than $2 00,000 to Make Aggressive light for Candidate, BY LLOYD F. LONERGAX. NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-(9pedal.) Although of course they will not admit It for publication, the Republican cam paign managers are sorry that the Re publican majority in Vermont reached the proportions it" did. For the result tiaa been that .the flnanclera to whom they appeal simply laugh at requests for tmoney. "You don't need a cent. You have a srlnch." they are told, thereby adding ma terially to the unhapplness of National Treasurer George R. Sheldon. Democrats speak of the 1900 fight, so far as they themselves were concerned. 'bs "the starvation and poverty cam paign." But this year the financial crisis lias fallen on all political headquarters, and. comparatively. It Is as severe as the Mow that tied up Wall street last August 'end September. VThe Republicans have the best of us, or they can secure credit." mourned a fading Democrat at the Hoffman House .today. "We are liable to be turned into :the street any old morning, and we hardly 'bave the price of postage stamps." The Democratic National committee men in charge of Eastern headquarters have had several conferences on the -money question. Some were on the verge of giving up the endeavor to make n aggressive fight in this part of the country, particularly as they doubted the possibility of success. Others counseled fjnaking the best front possible "along llines of strictest economy." and this sen Kiment prevailed after many warm dls cusslons. Make Poverty Virtue. "We must make a virtue of our pov ierty." is the order of National Chairman (Mack, and taking this aa their cue. the Democrats are trying to appear virtuous, 'while loudly admitting that they are poor. Spellbinders on the stump will grow eloquent on the subject of poverty, and well they may. for orators must be content with unpaid honor. For there la no money in the Democratic treasury for speakers this year. Almost the only contributions to the Democratic treasury up to date have been the collection of small sums by 'Western and Southern newspapers and the pools of pennies and dollars made lip by enthusiastic Bryan organizations. How much these have amounted to up to date la not accurately known. It is privately admitted that there is not In eight for the entire Democratic National campaign mow than 1200.000. which will mot go far toward an aggressive fight. Much of the money gathered Is being used in Chicago for the Western cam paign. Eastern headquarters In the .Hoffman House was expected not only :to finance itself with contributions from this part of the country, but also to send 'remittances westward. But hard times have fallen on the Hoff man House political managers. Con tributions are few and small. The most 'noticeable absentees are the rich Demo crats who financed the campaign of 1904 to the extent of $S00.000. So far as to known, not one of them has contributed a cent, and most of them are still in Europe. "Flngy" Connerg Has Troubles. Chairman "Fingy" Conners. of the state tcommlttee, Is also having his troubles. Nobody cares to contribute, to his cam ipaign fund until after the state conven tion Is held, and, the identity of the can- didates established. Under these clrcum , stances the Democratic campaigners here jare simply marking time. No literature is ( being sent out. no meetings arranged, no (speakers engaged. Everything Is in abey j ance pending the nominations. On the Republican side there is one j great advantage namely, credit. Posses sion of that valuable asset, bred of rich funds and prompt payments in the past, I has enabled both National and state nian- agers to go ahead with active work al j most regardless of the diminished con tributions. All the machinery of party or- I ganization Is kept up from year to year ' by regularly employed staffs of workers. The Democrats have been obliged to build . up everything afresh out of the debris of past disasters. The Republicans had a ' machine in perfect repair ready to start the instant steam was turned on. Na 1 tional headquarters in the metropolitan tower resembles a business establishment, with each department running regular j hours and filling In dally Its assigned part . of the political game. There is no confu- sion, no lost motion and no uncertainty of action. Every branch of the service save one Is free from trouble. The "room of gloom" is the treasurer's office, for the obligations are piling up. Experts figure that it costs twice as much to finance a Republican campaign as it does a Demo cratic one. The latter have been accus tomed to practice economy, and to secure volunteers whose only remuneration is po litical glory. But the late Senator Hanna, with his rich campaign chests of the past, and his lavish expenditures, put the Re publican machine on a different basis. Long for Bryan Scare. There 'is talk of the necessity of a Bryan scare to make Wall street wake up and take notice. Men who have been so licited for funds take refuge behind ob jections to the law compelling publicity, and Its forbidding contributions from cor porations. Some of them go further than this. and profess an actual indifference as to the result of the campaign. The Hearst campaigners are also suffer ing from the pangs of poverty. Candidate Hisgen, who is a wealthy' man. is paying his own expenses In the tour of the Unit ed States which is now under way. He has made a contribution to the fund In his home state (Massachusetts), but haa clearly Indicated that he has no intention of being an "easy mark." And it might be added that William Randolph Hearst is not spending money like a drunken eailor this year. In a word the campaign plans of the new organiza tion provide for the greatest possible amount of noise at the least possible ex pense. If an orator wants to unburden himself, he will be welcomed at any meet ing. But he must pay his own car fare and provide his own raiment, food, shel ter and drinks. Just as the hard times of last Winter were called the "Rich Man's Panic," and the possessors of luxuries found economy difficult to practice, so the prospects of depleted treasuries are causing night snares to campaign managers." E.tabli8hedl850.FIFTY.EIGHTYEARSlNBUblINtia-ttaDii5neaioOu i j.QU WailUllH Ott.ll IS X.rZA II P'gWtegft, Good Merchandise Only-Quality Considered, Our Price. Are Always the Lowest Sale of La Parisienne Ear Rings $1.25-$ 1.75 andT$3.50 Values, Only 59c La Parisienne Earrings and Screws, as illustrated pearl, tur quoise and coral in rolled gold setting; all sizes.- The CQ. latest and most fashionable style everywhere. Sale at..-''' Newest 9-gore, flare Walking Skirts, of all-wool panama, in black, navy and brown, made with novelty strapping and but ton trimmings. A decided novelty in walking skirts. J"7 Al Strictly tailor-made, selling regularly at $12.50 H mhl It Real Value $48.00 NOTE We always dispose of ererr old suit in our stock before September 1st. Tht is the reuon we offer no sale, of $50.00 -suit, at $18.45 or $21.25. Every in our stock is newly arrived from New York, smart and up-to- date in every detail. High-Class Tailored Suits $25 We offer a variety of entirely new models in Tailored Suits, made of fine broad cloth in black and colors, and all-wool fancy mixed cloths, at $25.00. However, it is the general character, style and graceful cut of the suits to which we wish to call attention, rather than the price, for we would be equally enthusiastic about their .... . .1 i :i rf txv fin superb values it we soia tnem at tne raawi ci icwu Highest-Class Tailor-Made Suits, $35 Ladies' Strictly Tailored Suits of finest imported serges in plain and fancy weaves, also of broadcloths, plain or satin trimmed, made in 36 and 40-inch coat styles, lined with taffeta and peau de cygne silks. The skirts are made in the very newest flare and circular shapes. Smart Novelty Tailored Suits at $45 Ladies'' Novelty Tailor Suits of finest all-wool broadcloth in black and all the new est shades made in 38 to 40-inch lengths. Fancy coat styles with vestees, fancy em- . .... . i i 11 : l. .Mire4- flar ann (rnrM broidery and Draia trimming, ine ssins nc mi m "" - - &- styles trimmed to match the coats; real value 3bU. HeatherbloompettiCOatS$2.49 These are the newest Fall styles in Heatherbloom Taffeta Petti coats black, navy, brown and blue. They have the delicate rustle and shimmer of the finest silk taffeta, but they wear twice as long and cost half as much four times better. Strictly tailor- made, with deep circular section ruffle and dust ruffle, trimmed with hemstitching. values. Real Value $60.00 Regular $3.50 $2.49 I lilt Relsem Cape Gloves $3-$325 Vals. $2.49 Monday we place on sale an immense special purchase of Elbow-Length Cape Gloves the most stylish "glove for street wear this Fall without doubt the greatest bargain in this sea son's most stylish glove. Finest quality leath- er, Relsem London make, plain or with; straps at wrist. Regular $3.00 and $3.25 values. $2.49 Dress Goods Monday Sales New Bordered Suitings New Combination Suitings New Chiffon Broadcloths Novelty Broadcloths New Stripe Worsteds 46-inch, all-wool Herringbone stripe Serges; unequalled for school wear; in navy, electric blue, wine, brown 7Q and green; at, the yard I y 54-inch, all-wool English Tailor Suiting j new stripe effects; all the lead- Qgc ing colors; at, the yard 46-inch novelty stripe Cheviots and Worsted suitings; in the latest colors, smoke, taupe, olive, electric fljl OC navy, brown, etc.; yard V Z,Yn 52-inch Chiffon Broadcloths-; the $2.00 kind; in all the leading Fall & 1 AQ Wc- nt. the vard x New Herringbone Suitings New Velveteens and Corduroys Imitation Furs and Cloakings New Tailor Stripes and Plaids New Black Dress Goods 54-inch imported French Chiffon Broad cloth; sponged and shrunk; guaranteed not to spot ; full line of 50 new Fall col ors, for street and evening 0 QQ wear; regular $3.50 quality. . PS't 50-ineh new stripe Venetian Broadcloths, one of the richest fabrics of (tl QQ the season; all colors; yard. . YiMu Louis Chiffon Cotele and plain Chiffon Velveteens, fashion's favorite for coats and costumes; at, the yard, 1 CA 85, $1.00 and Portland agents for Velutina; ask to see the new colors. NORWAY SHUT OUT Great Shipping Nation Barred . From Naval Conference. BUT SPAIN IS INVITED Original Plan to Allow Participation of Only Eight Great Powers Not Adhered To Re sults Are Queer. LONDON, Sept. 12. (Special.) When Sir Edward Grey issued Invitation, last May, for a conference or the great naval powers to be held In London In October, he suggested that by August 1 each of the governments Invited should be ready with a memorandum of their views on the Questions on the programme. With such memoranda in his possession the British Foreign Minister will no doubt be able profitably to employ the months of August and September in ascertaining whether there Is any prospect of arriv ing at an agreement upon any or all of the subjects down for discussion. To Judge from experience at The Hague, the success or failure of the conference In October will depend more upon the pre liminary pourparlers of the governments than upon the debates of their delegates. There are two or three questions of a preliminary nature that will have to be definitely disposed of before October. The first of these relates to the constitution of the conference; the second to Its au thority; and the third to the scope or elasticity of Its mandate. The first ques tion to be decided Is the governments which ought to be represented at the con ference, which will meet In London in October. When the project was first mooted at The Hague It was understood that Invitations would be limited to the eight great powers that Is to say, to the six great powers of Europe, the United States and Japan. That was. at least, an intelligible prin ciple, but it has been departed from In two directions. Spain has been invited, and Holland, although neither state can be regarded as a great power, or even as a naval power of the first class. Spain may possibly have been included as rep resenting the Spanish world In both hem ispheres, but. If so. the question is asked, why should Portugal and Brazil be Ignored? Holland Is included as a mat ter of courtesy to the state whose cap ital is the seat of The Hague conference. But it the original constitution of. the conference is to be extended it Is dif ficult to see why Norway, one of the most important shipping nations in the world, should Hot be Included. At present. Norway and greater Port ugal are not invited, and only ten states will be represented, as at present ar ranged. It Is. however, still open to con sideration whether the number should not be raised to 12. OLDFIELD WINS AUTO RACE Take9 $2500 Sweepstakes In Finals at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI. O.. Sept. 13. Barney Old field was the victor over Walter Christie in the finals today of the $2500 sweep stakes in which Oldfleld. Christie and Charlie Soules competed at the Latonla racetracks. No records were broken, Oldfleld win ning the last race of the match from Christie In 1:04 2-5. Previous to this Christie defeated Oldfleld in one minute and one second. But as Oldfleld had won the day before, honors were even and an additional race was necessary. This was won by Oldfleld. VOTING IN MAINE TODAY Liquor Question Again Chief Issue Before People of State. PORTLAND, Me.. Sept. 13. With ,the Republicans confident and the Democrats hopeful, and with clearly defined Issues of local rather than of National Importance, the voters of Maine will cast their ballots tomorrow for Governor, Congressmen, Eta to AiMlior. members of the Legislature and county officials. In addition they will be asked to accept two proposed amend ments to the state constitution, both deal ing with the Initiative and referendum. The election, of Bert M. Fernald by at least 15,000 plurality was claimed tonight by the Republican' leaders, while their Democratic opponents predicted success of Gardner, who heads their ticket, by a safe margin. The Republicans have won in Maine 1n every election since 1SS0 by pluralities averaging about 23,000 on Presidential years. The paramount issue in Maine is again the liquor question and resubmission of the constitutional amendment to the peo ple. The Democrats have also put for ward a plea for taxation of the wild lands and a reform In the business methods of .v.. ni Tho Ttpnnhlicnns strongly advocate the enforcement of the prohibi tion law. SWITCH - CAUSES DISASTER THIRTV-FOCR PASSENGERS IX JCBED IX THE EAST. wnoT n nw vpRr,F rF r,RF.AT DISCOVERIES IN OCCUI T RF AT M. DECLARES THOMAS A. EDISON Noted Inventor Talks of His Work and Present Efforts to Lessen Cost of Building Homes. Persons With Grievance Against the Railroad Company Believed to Have Planned Wreck. MEADVILLE. Pa.. Sept. 13. Thirty four persons were Injured early today In the wreck of Erie train No. 4, Chicago to New York express, at Geneva. Pa., a small station eight miles west of here. The wreck, railroad officials believe, was due to persons having a grievance against the company opening a switch shortly be fore the passenger train arrived. The in jured were brought to this city and 23 were taken to a Spencer hospital. Five, after having their injuries dressed, were discharged, while 18 still remain at the hospital. Thirty-one of the injured were passen gers and three railroad employes. A ma jority of the former were Italian and Greek laborers. It is not believed any of the victims will die. The train Is due here at 12:50 A. M., but was an hour late and was running over 60 miles an hour. Upon striking the open switch the entire train left the track, the locomotive turning over upon its side. Two of the cars, a combina tion smoker and baggage-car and a day coach, were demolished. A majority of the Injured were riding In the combina tion car. Among those Injured were: Mrs. Myrtle Baldwin and 6-year-old daughter. Lucille, of Van Buren, Ind., both painfully injured. John McDiil, of Meadville. . fireman, bruised. Edward Cox. Meadville. thigh broken and left leg fractured; serious. Fred Jackson. Brooklyn Navy-yard, head cut and hips bruised; serious. W. P. Hamlin, Rochester, N. Y.. chest bruised. W. H. Chadwick, Suffem, N. Y., badly shaken up. TEACH PRINCES PUNTING Professional Waterman Gives Ed ward and Albert Lessons. LONDON, Sept. 13. (Special.) Prince Edward and Prince Albert of Wales, who are Just now spending part of their holi days with their monther at Frogmore, have had their first lesson in punting on the Thames, their instructor being Gerge Haines, the well-known professional. At tended by their tutor. Mr. Hua, the young Princes went to Old Windsor. They were dressed in boating flannels and showed much keenness and enthusiasm In fol lowing the instructions of their guide, although they quicWy discovered that punting is not so easy as it looks. After several turns, however, their Royal Highnesses began to acquire the knack of using the pole and controlling its vagaries. For over an hour Prince Edward end his brother manfully grappled with their task and by that time were able to get along the stream excellently, going as far as Magna Cnarta Island and back. - San Pedro Shipping. SAN PEDRO. Cal., Sept. 13. The schooner Balboa, Captain Burmedeter. arrived this morning H days from Ta coma, carrying S50.C00 feet of lumber. The schooner RojWSomers arrived this afternoon from Grays Harbor, carrying 400,000 feet of lumber. , BY ARTHUR A. GREENE. HE world is on the verge of some wonderful discoveries in the occult realm. Electricity Is going to solve many of the mysteries of life and death, thought transference, miracles and the like a good deal sooner than you think, young man," said Thomas A. Edison to me in the lobby of the Portland Hotel last night. ' I undertook to draw him out further on the subject, but the wizard would say no more... He seemed much more Interested in physical matters, al though he said as I have quoted him with impressiveness that made the cold chills run up and down my spine. Almost any schoolboy In almost any schoolroom in almost any of the civil ized countries, if asked to name the six greatest living men, would cer tainly include Thomas A. Edison's name In the list. If not at the head of it, and a jury of sage!, would agree with him. Yet "landing" this man, who seems to possess ., almost super human qualities t mind for an inter view, is a very easy matter. The suc cessful country bai.ker, whom Mr.' Edi son resembles, would make a lot more fuss about talking for publication. He's the most unassuming "personage" It has ever been my lucky lot to shake hands with and so companionable that the veriest tyro would be Instantly at ease with him. His simple directness was illustrated when a card was sent to him at dinner asking for an ap pointment, and he returned It with the message; "After dinner Edison" writ ten on its back in his fine cramped handwriting. That's characteristic of the man; no frills and no posturing. He looks like his pictures; of medium height, heavy, 190 as to weight perhaps, as gray of hair as a man's should be beyond 60, but no more so; his eyes blue-gray, with twinkles In them. His face is full, smooth-shaven and as healthy looking as a clean blooded boy's. He talks in a low. not particularly distinct voice, as is the habit with men who do not hear well. With the one exception of a slight deafness, h? seems "fit as a fiddle," and his swinging walk is unusual in a man of his bulk and age. It was a distinct surprise to find him of such a placid temperament. I had ex pected to find a man whose average day's work was 20 hours for a quarter of a century what the women call "a bundle of nerves," but he doesn't seem to have bn in his system. He laughs frequently, and when he Isn't smiling, which was in frequent during the three-quarters of an hour I was with him, his face fairly beams. The much-abused word "genial" may be most appropriately applied to him. I was particularly struck with his hands, which are long and narrow and thin. His head Is big, for when we In advertently exchanged hats at the end of the Interview his straw settled down onto my ears as for one Immense moment I wore the hat of Edison. He smokes, but not passionately, for his cigar went out as he talked and he forgot all about It Occasionally there were grammatical lapses In his conversation, for I remem ber distinctly that more than once he said "wasn't no," and he told me that he came of "a long-lived race," pro nouncing the 1 In lived as if it had a breve over it. But to get back to that talk: The marvellous man of Menlo Park is just now yery much Interested in his experi ments with concrete. "I have two engi neers back home working out my plans In experiments for building cheap houses for working men." said he changing in stantly from occultism to the very tangi ble, "and I'm very sure they will find that my latest work will succeed. I be came interested In the necessity of pro viding better homes for the laboring man, the fellow who earns $1.60 to tl a. day, you know, after Investigating how they live in the slums of . Newark. I found that the cheapest rental for two miser able little rooms 10x12 was $9 a month. Well, when a man has a wife and several children cooped up In a place like that its tough and I concluded to try what I coulci do to help matters. I think I have hit upon a scheme that will revolutionize home building for poor folks. "The plan is simple enough when once you get the secret of properly mixing your concrete and that I think I've done. I had a lot of trouble with air. The air gets trapped In bubbles In the concrete and makes trouble but that Is practically remedied now. The whole plan Is simply a scheme of iron forms made 2x4 feet in GREAT INVENTOR WHO IS VISITING PORTLAND 1 fe. . vaJi':-;::. , (( ' M r v- . . :t: 'i : : : - ' 1 ss :::: .yyu'.J: :. .-: I I ' v ' ' x : & -3 .. - Thainaa A. Edlnon. size and made out of cast iron. That's my brick, you see. Then these forms are placed one upon another and bolted to gether. We use four electric derricks to hoist them into position. Xow for a two-family house, three-stories high with 13 rooms in it. and this is the class of buildings we are preparing to build, it takes two working days to place all the moulds in position. These moulds are made with grooves and relief designs that are highly ornamental into which the con crete settles and Is moulded Into all sorts of beautiful architectural embellishments. The concrete Is mixed very liquid, most people think concrete can't .be pumped but we know very little about concrete yet. It can be pumped, though. 'Then, as I say. this thin concrete Is raised to the top of the wall of moulds and there delivered by 12 spouts until the moulds are entirely filled and overflowing. After "six days we take the moulds down and you have your house. With six sets of moulds 33 men can build 12 of these houses a month, complete, in every par ticular. The cost of each house, ready to move In, will be from S1000 to $1200 and in Portland would be about $1400 to $1500 be cause of the additional cost of materials and labor here. Remember this is a house of 13 rooms and basement with sta tionary wash tubs and all that. Even the newels and- stair rails are of con crete, the only wood that's used being window sashes and strips to tack carpets onto the floors. There is usually enough sand and- gravel In the soil that is ex cavated from the cellar to mix the con crete: that's an item I forgot to speak of. "We are going to rent those houses, all ready for the tenants to move into, for $7.40 for each half, allowing the renter 11.60 a month for carfare, thus meeting exactly the present rate of $9 a month for two rooms, 10x12, which are simply death-traps. Don't you think that's doing pretty well? A building out fit to construct such houses will be ex pensive. Six seta of molds, enough to keep six houses under way all the time, will cost $26,000. but they . will last for ever. Then, allowing 6 per cent for In terest and 4 per cent for breakage, you have $110 more, and. as I say, you have to buy your cement, using the soil from the cellar to mix It. An outfit won't be so expensive, after all." I had been putting down a few figures on the back of an envelope, and the Wizard said, abruptly. In his good-natured way, "I wouldn't take notes. It spoils the memory." Then I asked him about his electric storage battery for au tomobiles. "Why, that's already in use. The Adams Express people are using 30 of them In New York, and Tiffany's have 20. Express wagons, trucks and- the like can be operated so much more cheaply with them than by horses that in a few years you'll see mighty few horses on the streets of the big cities. The battery is good for driving a touring-car 100 miles at one charging, with four passengers, and 135 miles with two passengers. But It s the truckage that I'm interested in. Why. do you know that in New York City alone more truckage is carried every day than over all the railroads west of the Rocky Mountains? It costs as much to deliver freight from the stations or docks in New York to the uptown de partment stores as it does to carry it from Buffalo to New York. Street traf fic is so congested, owing to the cum bersome horse vehicles, that it fre quently takes a half a day to get the load through, and It costs $7 a load. The storage battery is going to do away with such conditions very soon. "My most important Invention? Well, I should - say the Incandescent electric light I know I worked harder on that than anything else. It took me seven years before I perfected it in '79. The phonograph I worked on for a good while but I had one made that would talk in a day after I finally stumbled on the secret. I was working that day on a plan for an automatic telegraph. I had a steel disc with the Morse alphabet on it and on this a circular piece of paper on which I was embossing the dots and dashes. I noticed in whirling the paper over the metal disk at a high velocity by means of an electrical current that I got a musical sound. Just sort of a mur mur. I figured that if that sound was produced while turning at the rate of SO words a minute by running it at the rate of 1500 words a minute I could reproduce the human voice. I did it all right that da.Yes. I helped on the telrphone. I In rented the talking end and Bell the re ceiving end. I was also the first one to apply electric power to streetcars. Henry Vlllard and I used to be partners, you know, and one day. I think it was in 185. I took him and Morgan and a whole gang of pretty big financiers down to my place, where I had built three miles of track. The car worked all right, but after we went back and talked the thing over In the back room of J. P. Morgan's office, that crowd of capitalists decided there wasn't anything in the trolley business. I told them they could have the rights for the $40,000 I had put into the thing, but they couldn't see it. Funny, isn't it? Then Sprague and some of the other boys In my laboratories and I put In the first practical line in Richmond, Va. I think that was the same year. I put up the money, and while that line didn't ex actly bust me. I was pretty badly bent when I got rid of it. The fellows who got it made a barrel of money out ofjt, but us poor devils never made a cent." I asked Mr. Edison how much money, at a rough estimate, has been made as a direct result of his Inventions. We are all sordid, you know, and like to talk of filthy lucre, so I, Ignoring the infinitely better things than money he had given the world, asked him that. He squinted up his eyes and thought a moment. "Well, you've got me. I ex pect I've spent something like $30,- nnA AAA .. . ... . . nn.n on1 Cthf ltPnnle'8. U'llf.VUU I'l nij " " " ..v. ........ , , . but 1 don't know how much I've made them nor myself. I make it and spend It. Dog-on-it, I put it right back into new things. By the way. don't forget that concrete house business I'm going to give away. The method of prepar ing the concrete and making ahe plates, vou know. There will be no patent on it." Weird tales are told of the daily hab its of the man and. to my surprise, I heard him verify most of them. "No. I don't eat much. That dinner I kept you waiting on me for consisted of a bowl of soup. That was all. I didn't have any breakfast or lunch. People all eat too much. It's a very bad habit. I've eaten so little all these years that my stomach has grown so small It doesn't take much to fill It Eating Is largely a habit, like drinking whisky and playing poker. So is sleeping. Four hours is enough for any orte who is In good health. In fact, I know a lot of very busy men who take no more. The difference between them and me Is that they eat a big dinner and then go to the theater and afterward go to Bupper. Then, likely as not, they will go to the club and drink whisky and play poker until 4 o'clock in the morning and then get up at 8. Now, science is my game of poker. I like It a lot better and win oftener. So when I worked at It 20 hours out of the 24 for more than 25 years I got a constitution that can't be beaten. I'm sound all through. The Wizard spoke of the activity of the Japanese In the field of Invention, and declared that some of his brightest stu dents had been from the Flowery King dom. "Watch the Japs. You'll bave to look out for those fellows. Not that I think there is danger of war, but we'll have to hurry to keep even with them In a commercial and scientific way. They're the best bacteriologists in the world now." And In closing this Interview this boy ish, democratic, whole-souled, greatest among the world's Inventors squinted up his eyes again and said: "Electricity! Why. we're just groping In the dark. We don't know anything about its illimitable possibilities. Some one will come .after me and the other fellows and carry on what we've started. Just groping in the dark." And then he gave me his hand, like a woman pianist's, and said: "First time live ever been In Port land. Like the town. Was in San Francisco 30 years ago. The air up in Yellowstone Park is like champagne. Almost as good here. I 'missed being in that big stage hold-up In the park just two days. I'd gladly have coughed up a couple of hundred dollars to have had the experience. Say, you said something about Napoleon awhile ago. Wouldn't he have been a great real es tate agent out in this country?"