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TITE MORXINO OREGOXIA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1910. 10 &$ (Drorcmtmt rORTUXD. OHEGOS. rmml at Portland. OTa- PotoS tscmil-Clasa Halter. feabauipttoa Kates lnrrtslr U Aaraaoo. (Bt MAIL. ri:r. 8udr included. 4 X-ai:r. Si ni-.T in. iu.i'd. "'" ; fcrnllr. Sunday Included. tfr mrmtns.. - I-a.lr. Sunday tnrluJed. oM vll f-ailr. wlrhout Sunday. year ...... JX 'ailr. without Sunday. sis snontKS. ... - r.!lr. without SunJar. three mootna... a-- j" !!!. without Sunday, on saootn.... .jjj WktT. on year. ............ ........ tanrtar. ena year . .-. t u SuaOay and weekly. CM yar-- " " (By Carrier), ral'v. fOTflay Inrladed. on year...... lUy. Sunday. Included, an month " Haw Result Sand poslofriee "!f2 rder. rr ordr or personal roar lor.l bark. S-.ampa. coin or rT.n-r ir. ac I ho rt.. Olv addreas la foil. laitudlna eouaty oid "'" J" fossae Ralew 10 to 14 rJ minis 25 ... 2 earns: SO to 4 aas. "",' . 44 to ao pasea, 4 cants, reueisa postasa donbi rat. IM-n Itaataoaa 0(nr r. . '""JV ltB -pcli As-ncT New Tor. roo M Tnftun. but dine Cfcicasa. room til Tribune bulMln. rOKTLAND. !OJ).SKaiAt. ACQ. . W. MR. TAT"8 LETTEK. Jlr. Taft ha choiffl a happy mo ment to write the letter which de stroy the Infatuated belief that he In a mr asset of the "old iruard- ,n New York. As long h kept llenc they used his name without scruple to lend respectability to their purposes, which la many oimm were far from respectable. In New Turk the "old guard" Includes mich men aa Aldrldge. It ta purely sflflsh and ready to sacrifice the good of the pub lic and the welfare of the party to It own little Interests. I-nng ago Its members broke with Mr. Hughes. The rreat measure, whkb be advocated they rejected In the Legislature aa often as they could, and they have aeldom healtated to combine with tna lowest element In the degraded LXrno cratlc party of New Tork to cmnpw their designs. The consequence of their misbehavior ia that the Repub lican party In New Tork haa broken Into bitterly hostile factions. It la threatened with defeat at the coming elections for the simple reason that the "old guard" prefers a Democratic victory to the triumph of the oppos ing Republican aroup. The irround of thnlr preference is not difficult to discover. A rlctory for the Republican party this Fall upon a platform embodying- the Ideas of Roosevelt and Hughes would mean the end of their machine leadership. The "old guard" would be relegated to permanent retirement. New men would take its place and the party would travel In the future along a new road. On the other hand. Demo- rratle success mirht leave the present control of the Republican machine undisturbed. It would sUll be In a position to make profitable trades with Tammany and might look for ward to a hnppy return of the day , when it would have complete mastery of the offices of the state. If It could have' sustained the Illusion that It had Mr. Taft's sympathy and his mora or less open co-operation. Its hold on the party machinery would have been Invincible, no matter what happened t the polls. The forsaken machine remnant which controls the rarty organlxatloa here and there has acted In some other states Tery much as it haa In New York. It has striven fran tically to make It arpear that the President Is also blind and deaf to " public opinion, that ho is hostile to the march of proRress and prefers a Democratic victory to the success of the progressive clement In his own party. Considering the unpardonable mis use which the old guard has made of his name and prestige. Mr. Taft might well Join In the prayer of the Presbyterian Deacon who besouRht the Lord to deliver him from hla friends. His enemies, he said, he could manage without help from on high. Nothing has Injured Mr. Taft so sorely with the great mass of vot ing Republicans as the suspicion 'which the standpatters have sedu lously fostered that he Is opposed to the salutary legislation which the new renditions of our civilisation demand. They have also tried to stir up trou ble between the President and Mr. Kooeevelt with the clear purpose to make Mr. Taft more than ever de pendent upon themselves. They would destroy. If they could, every possibility of his forming any alli ances with any wing f his party but ttuMrs, This they do on the good old principle that misery loves co.npany. No doubt some Intent of th.'s kind guided the machine element In the Kew Tork Republican committee nhcn It rejected Mr. Roosevelt as temporary chairman of the state convention. Standing alone, the old guard would have boen merely ridlo nloua In making a fight upon the ex pTesldent. It might annoy htm for the moment, but In the end It would be crushed under the avenging votes of the porle. The case would be far different, however, if the "old guard" could make It appear that Mr. Taft had coneplrvd with its members to fight the Rooewelt-Hughes Mens. His name might not stave off defeat, but it would raise their petty plot almost to the rank of legitimate party war fare. The letter In which he repudi ates their email Intrlguery shows how thev had misjudged him. He makes it clear that he stands not for the in significant Interests of any wretihed ilKjue. but for the grent principles of progress upon which the Republican party was founded. It began as the defender of human liberty and the elemental rights of man. It will carry on the same mission in the future if Mr. Taft has his way. The mnst surpri.-lng factor in the jow Tnrk Imbroglio is the conduct of Vlce-Preeident Sherman. No doubt It gTatlfietl hi vanity for the moment lo be rut forward, as the successful rival of Mr. Roosevelt for party honor, but he must have been singu larly blind to consequences mhen he rjerrnlttetl himself to be used as the tool of a badlv discredited faction. Almost Immediately after he had been suggested as. temporary chair man of the convention, he hastened to Beverly as if to placate Mr. Taft. Perhaps he fancied that the PrexN ' dent was as fatuously reckless as him self of the great Interests of the Re publican party. Mr. Sherman may have Imagined that Mr. Taft would value a -petty rebuff to Roosevelt more than the ultimate triumph of the principles which his Administra tion stands for. If the Vice-President fhonght so he has now learned of his mistake. Mr. Taft definitely places himself at the head of the entire membership of the Republican party. He is broad enough to lead all the elements which It includes. With his remarkable leu ter to 3Ir. Grlscom vanishes the last hope of the machine clique that they can make him their private property end use him to fortify their small alma. Its lesson Is tfcat the Presi dent fee-longs to the country and not to any little selflph coterie- ErEKAJfTO CXASGKS REEDED. Among Portland's immediate needs Is an Esperanto school. The town must get busy at It right awly. 'With in a year the Ksperanto congress will meet here. There will be delegates from ' every civilised country on the globe; also from Kanaiis. We do not wish them to feel that they are strangers in a strange land, speaking a language the natives do not under stand. It is op to ns to learn enough of their speech, or dialect or lingo to be soclabl. . True, the stereotyped formalities may be observed by prominent per formers with small Intellectual effort. Colonel Cooper, of McMinnvllle, could write an Esperanto address of wel come for Mayor Simon, who could memorise It before all the Broadway bridge bonds are sold. Crlssey. of the Commercial Club, could similarly serve- Harvey Beckwlih. but what about citizens at Urge? Perhaps aa ef fective plan as any would be a Melster schaft system of questions and an swers, such as Mark Twain commend ed for acquiring enough German to travel on In the Kaiser's" realm. Concrete examples of this conver sational literature suggest themselves: "Have you seen Mount Hood?" This la an exceptionally warm or cooli Hummer." "Too late to see our best roses." "What's yours? "Here's looking at you." ; "Accent the socond syllable: Wll-LAM-er." They'ra holding lots acrot the street !" higher." ' "No, Oregon Is not wholly URen lsed." "We have to dump our wood there; we have no alleys nor woodeds." "Salmon 'factories are down the Columbia." "No. not all the Ume; It isn't rain ing now." "With the suburbs. Portland is at least 2S.000 larger than Seattle." As soon as classes are started, many other topics, merely to make convert satlon. may be catalogued and thor oughly practiced, to the end that when visitors and residents meet and engage in talk there shall be On neither side unpleasant and annoying obfuscatlon. THE VKT9-FRBSUEVT-tl TTMitTT. President Taft has a Vice-President on his hands whom he does not want and never did want. Mr. Sherman represents Influences and forces in the Republican party with which the President was not friendly at the time of his own nomination and with which he has sought to get along with as little friction as possible since his election, it Is not surprising to any who recall the real history of Sherman's nomination at Chicago that he has now been persuaded by the New Tork political machine to enter into a scheme to put the President In a compromising position with the definite purpose of creating a schism between him and Roosevelt. The New York little bosses purpose at all haxards to keep the New Tork or ganization In their own-hands, and they will resort to any expedient, however desperate, to provent the leadership from falling Into the hands of Theodore Roosevelt, whom they cordially and consistently hate. In Chicago in 1908 It was the Taft Roosevelt plan to procure the nomi nation to the Vice-Presidency of either Senator Cummins of Iowa or Senator Dolliver of Iowa; They de sired to have aa a running mate for Taft someone who was in accord with the progressive spirit of the Middle West. Klrst Cummins then Polliver declined. Then, after the Taft nomi nation, the New York delegation, finding a situation where there was no definite movement for any Vice Presidential candidate, united on Shernan and forced him on the con vention. It was well-known that President Roosevelt kept the wires to Chicago hoi to prevent selection of Sherman and was very angry with National Chaltman Hitchcock for iht mittlng It- Eut It waa done and Sher man had to be accepted. Now Sherman finds himself in the humiliating position of open antago nism to Taft and Roosevelt. The Vice-Presidency will hereafter cut very little figure In this Administration. iwr-PEMiJEvr nux.v It is officially announced from Teking that the Chinese government has decided to employ no diplomatic adviser In the future. The Wal Wu Pu. the foreign governing board, mill drpend In the future on the views and opinions that are held regard ing foreign affairs by those of Its own reople who have had long ex perience In the consular service abroad. This decision of ancient China to "go It alone" Is said to have come as a surprise and to some ex tent as a disappointment to the for eign communities in the Far East. I'niw there has been a striking change In China character and policy within the past few years, this dis appointment will Increase as the ex periment proprcssee. So long as the Chinese sought" advice from foreign ers who by birth and education were in a position to enlighten them re garding the people with whom they sought business or political relations, China made but few mistakes. The great Chinese empire Is such a rich prise for exploitation that prac tically all nations of the earth were watching It with eager eyes. Various foreign diplomatic advisers were so well aware of this fact, and also so appreciative of the futility of attempt ing to deceive anyone, that their ad vice has In nearly all cases been to the advantage of China. Under the old regime, when China was resting stationary on tho Identical plane of development where she had paused more than ten centuries before, the necessity for any assist ance from the outside world was not pronounced. The victory of Japan, however, brought China out of her sleep of centuries. For the past fif teen year she has been making an effort to take advantage of the In ventions and facilities of modern life. There is much truth In the old raying regarding the difficulty of teaching an old dog new tricks, and China has not yet learned to play fair with other nation. The usual suave evasion and sub terfuge with which mrtHt of her dealn Ings with other countries are sur rounded will quite naturally be much greater without the counsel and ad vice of foreign diplomats who are familiar with the rest of the world as well as with China. If this new China for the Chinese does not display more ability in protecting the Interests of the ancient kingdom than appeared In the old days, the next supplication that swill be heard from China may be a call for a receiver. Kt'LE OF THK MINOR1TY- Mr. Poindexter, candidate for Sen ator, at Vancouver Monday said he did not address himself especially to Republicans, but was "out for the votes of the people." Mr. Polndexter, however. Is a candidate In the Re publican primary, seeking a Republi can nomination and later election by a Republican Legislature as the Re publican primary nominee. Yet he does not hesitate to ask everybody and anybody Republican, Democrat. Socialist. Prohibitionist to Invade the Republican primary, where the three latter do not belong, and give him the nomination from a party to which he does not belong. In Beatfle. three or four "regular" candidates for Senator are quarreling with one another over a omination which none has tho slightest chance of getting. Evidently each would pre fer defeat for himself to victory for his Immediate opponent. At Olympla the Supreme Court de cides that the "seed-id choice"' provi sion of the primary law does not apply to the Srnatorshlp. The candi date for Senator, therefore, who has a bare plurality as In Oregon will get the Snatorshtp. Kverythlng is thus made easy for Poindexter. Where should rct the responsibility for success of a violent iiltra-"lneurgent," who repudiates any obligation even to counsel and at?t with "insurgent" Republicans in Con gress? The majority of Republicans In Washington are undoubtedly against Poindexter: but there, never theless, the minority will rule. IrKiimXJ AUA1XST OIMH4. The heroes of this day- and year are the sturdy nre-flghters who are abroad in the Pacific Northwest, The terrible disadvantage at which these men work: the brave stand that they have made, time and again, against tho speedy, triumphant advance of an all-conquering foe: the fortitude which they have opposed to the fury of the flames; the determination in which, "with throats unslaked and black Hps baked." they have often continued the contest until surround ed by the lurid foe their retreat cut off tnd the fearful odds, which was from the first marshaled against them are elements In a struggle that Is un matched for courage, even on the llerce edge of battle. Tho sole Incentive In this fight was to save first life, then the homes and property of settlers, then the forests. A limited numher of tho fire-fighters were under pay of the Government, but the vast majority were volunteers who gave the best that was In them of strength and purpose and endur ance In tho too-often vain hope of saving life and property from the flames. Heroes all; whether in des perate advance or enforced retreat. IBRJWATIO.f IX MAXHECR rOCXTr. What do our Kastern friends think of one county of 10.000 square miles? They would say probably that it re quires division. Malheur County, at the southeastern end of Oregon, has been waiting 30 years for develop ment enough to demand that two or ftiree moderate-sized counties bo con stituted from her Immense area. But that development had to take two directions railroads and Irrigation. One would not BUtliee, They are in terdependent. That Is to say. rail roads without Irrigation would lack One principal source of traffic irri gation without railroads would pro vide far greater tonnage than could be consumed on the spot. The sur plus would rot or be burned. Thirty years ago Malheur County was one vast and sparsely-settled cattle range. Its widely-separated creeks and springs and waterholes had been seised by cattlemen, big and little, who held to the water by force or bluff. Homesteaders and news comers generally took their Hves in 4 heir hands when they ventured to -beein a settlement within the sacred boundaries. Moreover, there were no wldo and grassy valleys, watered by never-failing streams, to bupplement the scanty rainfall, and peopled by groups and colonies of farmers and dairymen and fruitgrowers. The sage plains and dry valleys, the hills and rocky bluffs, shimmered 1n the Sum mer sun, and were hidden In the Winter snows, as It seemed, forever. Yet the one good outlet for the whole of Mld-Kastern and Mid-Southern Oregon, from the high . plateaus of the Interior to the Snake River Valley, and on to the Columbia and the Pacific, lay down the canyon of the Malheur River, across this county from west to east. Twenty-five years ago the first surveyors for a railroad across Oregon laid down the canyon of the Malheur on their maps as the way out and In for one railroad and no more. But. in spite of surveys many and expectations without end. that railroad Is not yet built, though seemingly now In sight. As Soon as that railroad Is built and opened. Ir rigation In Malheur County, to the full extent that the district offers, is certain of most profitable develop ment. Already there are many small Irri gating ditches In the county and many hundred acres of alfalfa land are watered and yield large profit to tho settlers. But the great systems are yet to come. A good many years ago the United States Government sent Its engineers Into Malheur Coun ty. They proposed to convert a val ley on the Malheur Rlcer called the Harper ranch Into a lake by dam ming the whole stream, and "to util ise the river canyon for their canal and ditches. Their plan had two de fects, that it was very costly, and It closed the canyon for railroad use for all time to come. The settlers did not see thir way, without a railroad, to pay J 42 an acre for their irriga tion, and strong objection was ex pressed at closing out the railroad of the future. So that plan was de ferred, alternatives were sought, and Irrigation of a possible SO, 000 or 40, 000 acres from the Malheur at West gate has taken the place of the orig inal Government plan. But the United States Government engineers also reported as possible of Irrigation about 100.000 acres from the waters of the Owyhee, also flowing through this county, into the Snake, where the Oregon Short Line first touchos the Oregon state line. This is pro nounced feasible and will probably soon be undertaken. In the extreme south of the county Is a small but promising Irrigation plan on the headwaters of Crooked and Rattle snake Creeks, dealing with about 10,000 acres. Another small Irriga tion plan proposes to utilize by stor age the waters of Bully Creek, an other affluent of the Malheur. Again, lying north of the Malheur from Vale is the Willow Creek country, where there are probably 30,000 acres. Irri gable by storing the flood . waters of Willow Creek and turning into the dams some of the head waters of Burnt River. Lastly there is, lying north of the lower course of the Malheur, a great body of irrigable land of the highest prospective fer tility. Altogether the various proj ects will add, when completed, not less than 200.000 acres . of Irrigated land to the wealth of Malheur Coun ty. Count, then, some 10,000 families to find here prosperous lives on these Irrigated lands alone. Add what is reasonable for the Industries of towns and villages certain to arise. Take Into account, the stock cattle, cows, sheep, alfalfa and clover fields, the orchards and truck farms, the wheat, barley and oats. to. pour their contri butions into the total of the state. Here are a few more facts to reckon with! These river and creek valleys will produce peaches, apricots, nec tarines and grapes, aa yell as the ap ples, pears and plums of mere usual production. On the Idaho side of the Snake River, where the melon and fruit Industry Is well established. 11200 per acre Is slated to have been taken from Jonathan apples, $1000 per acre for prunes shipped "green," not dried, and $8000 per acre from melons and small fruits. Such lands are selling today for from $300 to $500 an acre with water rights. It la no wonder, then, that the owners of these Malheur Irrigable lands should be prepared to provide the moaey for building these dams and digging these ditches. And in Kastern Oregon other counties are being examined and tested for similar possibilities, and they are being found. Yet the railroads to open Malheur County and her sisters to the west of her are not yet built, though once and. again foretold .and promised. Ono f the most pathetic Incidents in connection with the forest fires that have devastated the homes and hold ings of many settlers in Western Idaho Is that of the drowning of a woman who leaped Into a well with her baby in her arms, to escape the oncoming fury of the names. Perhaps the distracted mother did not think the .water In the well was deep enough to drown her, but more likely she took the desperate chance, urged as she was by the more horrible fate that pursued her. With this poor crumb of consolation her surviving family must rest satisfied. It is pitiful to think of the old farmer who died at St. Vincent's Hos pital on Monday night. According to the doctors, he had been poisoned with "knockout drops." While we bemoan his misfortune, the thought cannot be avoided that if he had stayed away from the places where "knockout drops" are dispensed, they never would have harmed him. Perhaps It is discreet, upon the whole, for aged farmers to abstain from "tours of the road houses There appears to be a deficiency of financial acumen in Congressman Sib ley's management of .his campaign for re-election in the twenty-eighth Pennsylvania district. His salary for the two years of his term would be $15,000. He has spent in the cam paign, by his own confession, $32,500. What could his plans have been for making good the difference? The In quiry Is purely academic, since he has withdrawn, but still it is Interesting. In a crowded elevator not long ago the passengers were treated to the sight of 'a ten-inch hatsln bobbing about within an ace of a man's eye. The poor creature, unaware of his danger, was deep in talk with a friend. A sudden movement might have blinded him for life. Such a specta cle goes far to reconcile one to the efforts of Legislatures to abridge the deadliness of woman's attire. Dahlman, so-called cowboy candi date, has won the Democratic nomi nation for Governor of Nebraska. He is the hope of all who would buy a drink after 8 P. M., the time saloons close under a hit of freak legislation. Colonel Robert Fitxaimmons now offers the explanation that Jeffries was "doped" at Reno. Probably got it through reading the stuff sent out by that noble band of light experts who said that Jeffries couldn't lose. Oregon to a mau will agree with the Colonel on the proposition that In any great country the prime physical asset is the fertility of the soil. That Is why Oregon will be the greatest state In the Union. By all means, an Oregon exhibit should be made at the Omaha show In January. This state needs a lot Of Nebraska comgrowers to offset the carloads of Nebraska hogs arriving steadily. With a carload of press representa tives accompanying the Colonel, his trip may be considered as important from the news point of view, as the recent event at Reno. County Clerk Fields Is going to file a new declaration which shall defi nitely show that he Is "against the as sembly." And for Fields first, last and always. The Colonel Is touring the West and the "Colonel" Is touring around Coos Bay. There is a mighty difference with a mightier distinction. Democrats who recall the stormy times from 1894 to 1896 must enjoy the news from Beverly and Oyster Bay. Breaking the unwritten law is so much in vogue that the insurance people aro missing many good risks. The latest Joke from Texas is the Indictment of twenty-two whites for kiling eight negroes. Battle Creek has gained 36 per cent in the last decade, 'There's a rea son." . You didn't see Fairbanks when he was there, starting np family rows. Why not change his nickname to Cloudy Jim? TEMPERATURE OX . PLiSET aJARS Theory That It Warmth Is as Cseat as the Earth's. PORTLAND, Aug. 22. (To the Editor.) In the editorial on Mars in The Ore gonian yesterday It Is stated that Mars being a great deal farther from the sun than the earth is, it can neither be so light nor so warm in Mars as it is on the earth. This may he true, and having been ut tered by The Oregonian. the supposition is doubly strong that It Is true. But, like Martin Luther, I must be convinced by clear reason. The fact that Mars Is farther from the sun than the earth is, does not prove that Mars has not a temperature fcigh enough to support vegetable or animal life such as we know upon the earth. The heat of the sun. by Its Intense vi brations, comes to the earth dowered with a power that pierces through the miles of our atmosphere with a freedom that makes it a little too hot here at times to be comfortable. If this same atmosphere were as porous to heat waves as It is to light waves, this heat would evaporate evory night and our tempera ture on the earth would be the same as the temperature outside our atmosphere, that is, 100 degrees below sero. But when the sun "goes down," as we say, the light waves are dissociated from the heat wares, thus robbing them of tbelr power to escape through the atmosphere which holds them close to the earth to work out their beneficent ends for our good. Worlds that are so distant as to receive only a fraction of the heat we enjoy, doubtless have atroospherea that retain all the heat they receive. Thus it ia probable that Mars, having an atmos phere like our own, has a temperature a high as our own. It has now bean, definitely determined that It I not light itself or heat itself that falls upon our earth from the sun. It is merely the light waves and the heat waves that are set In motion in the ether by the light and the heat of the urtn. These heat and light waves travel through inconceivable space without any apparent diminution of their power. It is a well-known fact that heat waves may be sent through a block of Ice with out melting the ice or cooling the heat in the least. Gunpowder may be ex ploded by beat sent through a block of ice. The heat waves from the sun traverse the appalling void of 92,500,W0 miles from the sun to the earth through a temperature of 200 degrees below sero. And yet, falling upon the earth they im mediately create the kindly warmth that coaxei the flowers t;-om the soil, puts the blush on the peach and begrims the brow of labor with drops of sweat "like drops of dew upon a lion's mane." Neither time nor temperature nor uuu -ates or diminishes the power of these 1x71.., ,H-n olmitlil not the Dlanet wtivoo. . . J I -.. - Mars, though farther from the sun than the earth, have a temperature equally as congenial to life as our own?, I am of the opinioln that the poet (as well as The Oregonian) drew on his imagination when he wrote: "Who there inhabit must have other powers, ' Juices and veins and sense and life than ours; , One moment's cold like theirs would pierce the bone, ' Freeze the heart's blood, and turn us all to stone. ANDKEW MARKER. Mr. Marker's argument loses much of Its force when we remembar that Mars has no atmosphere. At least that is the teaching of the foremost astronomers. The planet has scalding weather on the part which faces the sun, followed di rectly by the Intense cold of outer space. The conditions seem to be much the same as on the moon. We fear that Mr. Marker's distinction between heat and light and "beat waves and light waves" Is illusory. There la no other kind of heat than beat waves outside of the human seaaorium, and no other kind of light than light waves. Of course, our sensatone of heat and light are another matter. As to the quantity Of light and heat which Mars receives It is less than half of what comes to the earth. ' The reader must draw his own conclusions. Editor Howe's Philosophy. Atchison Globe. Don't go to the devil before yon are dead. When we greatly admire an angel, we are always shocked at the devil she runs with. One of the funniest sights In the world Is a little bit of a man with a great big look of dlsgsst on his face. Times have changed. They used to have the high-building effect In layer cakes: now it is in the sandwiches. A mother's whipping never amounts to much. When a mother begins to Jaw her son, he usually goes out and gets a switch, and has it over with. If what a woman says of every tenant who has Just moved out of her property Is true, the tenant stood In the middle of every room and scattered grease over every wall and ceiling. When you are sent to the peniten tiary, your sentence will be reduced for good behavior. But it is not necessary to go to the penitentiary to get credit for good behavior; an honest man gets It, as well as a convict. j Terratlloa .Making In C'biaa. Vice-Consul-Oeneral Stuart J. Fuller states that ever since Hongkong was established the Industry of vermilion making, entirely in the hands of the Chinese, has been an Important one. The manufacture of this pigment is among the foremost of the colony's Industries. There are something like 100 small plants for the manufacture of vermilion In Hongkong and Kowloon. The raw material comes from Aus tralia, and the vermilion is prepared altogether by what is known as the wet method. The Chinese made arti ficial cinnabar long before Europe was a civilized country, and to this day there are trade secrets In the vermilion industry which no European has yet been able to fathom. Some of the granite stones here between which the pulverised ore is ground are almost prehistoric. New Resuscitation Rules. Popular Mechanics. The United States Life Saving Serv ice has Mopted new regulations for re storing the apparently drowned. Al though the Howard method has been productive of excellent results in the practice of saving lives, the Government has seen fit to combine it with the Syl vester method, the latter produces deep er inspiration, while the former affects the more complete expiration. The com- f binatlon, therefore, of me two methods tends to produce the most rapid oxy genation of the blood the real object to be gained. The Government will urge the general public to familiarize Itself with these rules, that proper di rections may be given In restoring the apparently drowned and thereby serve as a means of saving many lives an nually. . . Origin of Wagnerlao Music. New York Sun. Wagner had just invented his style Of music. "Got the Idea from Republican har mony," he explained. Herewith ha scored ar fine boiler factory effect. Evidently Had a Hunch. . Baltimore Sun. The charges and countercharges In the Gore Investigation may explain why Oklahoma was so anxious, to have its bank deposits guaranteed by the state. LIFE I! THE OREGON COUNTRY. Too Warn for Temptation. Hcho'a Echoes. A trainload of coal was left on the siding here all day Sunday. One or two cars of this coal would have looked pretty good during a few days of last Winten During H. F, Cewferenea Time Joseph Herald. A number of nice toothsome Juicy young chickens were "borrowed" from George Hoist's coop this week, also from several other coops In town. At a time like this people should know better than to leave their chicken coops unlocked. The "Old Man" Trlhe, Irrigon Irrigator. ( t Word has Just been received that A. Bennett has for the S7U time become a , grandfather. Although it baa ceased j to be a novelty with him. each addition te the ranks seems to please htm be yond measure. In this case the happy mothef is Mrs. J. H. Baisley, of Baker City. Three Generations tie Ha at lag. Medford Bun. A party consisting of J. C Emerlck, V. J. Kmerick and F. T. Emerlck, the grandfather, father and son, departed yesterday for Crater Lake in Mr. Emertck's automobile for the Lakevlew country, where big buck, elk,- grouse, quail and ducks abound and where there are good chances of getting lots of game. Stresuons Day la HiHabero. Argus. Seen On the street In five minutes: Man from Clackamas County talking prohibition and man arguing against it, both being vehement, one in speech, and the other trying to get a word in edgewise. Man trying to water his horse at the publio watering place and leaving the check reins unslackened. Woman protecting a little terrier from being eaten alive by a big dog she pulled the larger one off by sheer strength, using the dog's tail for lev erage, and she won the victory. Man selling a horse for $10 after he had asked $273. A Busy WashlHgrton County Mao. , Hillsboro Argus. James H. Sewell. who a year -or so ago dropped out of hop culture, and has been engaged in general farming, was in town yesterday. Mr. Sewell has been a busy man for some weeks, and, since the 11th of July cut and put in stack 2S0 acres of hay with two six- foot mowers, a 12-foot rake and tour shockers, taod by July 29th had all the hay in bale except what he wanted for home consumption. From the 29th of July to August 13 he cut 40 acres of oats, had the ' hay baled and in the warehouse and barn: sold 225 tons of hay, netting $4000, and still has hay left; has cut up 200 acres of land in small acreage (five-acre tracts) and has surveyed a smaller tract and, by the way, nearly all the 200-acre plat Is sold. Considering that the time elapsed is but 32 days it can readily be seen that Sewell has been busy. HIBERNIAN S iARE VERY GRATEFUL Pleasant Words on Recent National Convention in Portland. Extract From Article In tha National Hibernian. The Portland National convention of our order is now a matter of history, and in spite of the far distant locality In which it was held it may be truly said that in many respects it was the greatest and most significant gathering of the representatives of our, order ever held. ' Numerically speaking it waa not as large as previous conventions, but for the work accomplished, the enthusiasm manifested and the universal acclaim with which our reprasentativea were received in the various communltiea of the far West the convention of 1910 has had no equal in our history. The Journey of our National officers across the continent was made the oc casion of a triumphal procession, and wherever stops were made the recep tions tendered were most enthusias tic in their character and intensely patriotic. ' The Commercial Club of Portland is especially entitled to the thanks and gratitude of every visitor, and. Indeed, of every member of our order, for all that it accomplished for the entertain ment of our people. The members of the club spared neither time nor ex pense in the lavish hospitality con stantly dispensed in their handsome quarters, and their efforts in assisting the local convention committee were exceptionally generous and substan tial. It Is no wonder that Portland is now a great city and that it has quadrupled its population in ten years when it has among its people such a public-spirited organization as the Commercial Club. And In the name of the 200,000 men and women of our organization we thank them most gratefully for their unceasing efforts In making our con vention a grand success. Promiscuous Expectoration. PORTLAND, Aug. 23. (To the Edi tor.) One of the most dangerous habits to the life and health of the community is promiscuous expectora tion. It is a common sight in our crowded thoroughfare to see a man (this is hardly the correct term, hawk and spit on the sidewalk In front of lady, and we see the pavements of our crowded streets marked In this dis gusting way. Aside from the outrage of public morals, the protection of public health demands that we take severe and deci sive steps against this habit. The mucus from a consumptive and dis eased, person is instantly surrounded by flies, which carry the- dangerous germs to passing people, our children be ing most easily affected. Also the germs are put into activity as the spittle dries up. If there Is a law against this it should be strictly enforced, and If there is not, let us see that we have one, for the general cleanliness and health of the city should be the citizens' first consideration. FRED A. VOWLES. no. HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 22. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly advise me Whether Henry J. Bean, mentioned as candidate for the Republican nomina tion as Supreme Judge, is the same man whom President Taft appointed Fed eral Judge a year ago? I. F. BATCHELDER. Henry J. Bean is from Pendleton, and is Circuit Judge for that district. Robert 8. Bean, now Federal Judge and formerly Supreme Judge, is from Eugene. Everything In Seaaon. San Antonio Light. Is it really true that there will be no more noise at Oyster Bay until the ad vent of the "R" months? OREGON'S" LAMEST. Polk County Obasrvsr. AcrriS the doorway to the dim Unknown Fatfc'n hand tha somber curtains draws at last, N Where, from the teeming world of men, alone And unafraid, a mighty Soul haa passed; One who. by his Indomitable will,- Into the ranks where deeds are done had pressed ; TJpreared himself among his fallows 'till He moved, a power fn the growing West. Lament. O. Oreson; Death takes from thee His priceless toll. And srlmly parses on; But one whose hand wrought in thy des tiny j Is. Jr the shadow of that passage, sons. A master spirit housed in mortal clay Lo, with his death, a giant passed away. Dean Collins. Life's Sunny Side Bishop McDowell, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, recently told me an interesting incident illustrative of the humor of the late Bishop C. C. Mc Cabe, known as "Chaplain McCabe." One time the bishop was in a train wreck on which a number of persons were killed or injured, and he wrote a description of his experience to David A Carroll, of this city. After detailing the experiences. of the catastrophe and having expressed his gratitude for his escape from death or hurt, he closed by saying: "I tell you, Carroll, we ought to be grateful for our mercies. Ordinarily we take do note of them. But an ex perience like this teaches us how we are blessed and should have its effect upon our dally lives. We ought to be better men. I have determined that we should. Let's try it, Carroll. Yon try it first, and if yon get along all right I'll try it." Baltimore Evening Sun. see A friend on a visit to Yorkshire caught a chill and was confined to bed. His hostess thought to give her sick visitor a treat during his confinement, so she baked a Yorkshire pudding and took it upstairs. "Just try that." she said.' "it'll shift yer eowd." Then she left him. Going op some time later she In quired. "Well, 'ave ya etten It np?" "Etten It? Bnten it?" gasped her visitor. "No; I'm wearin' it on my chest." London Tld-BUs. Professor William B. Blake. In a Fourth of July address that Tucson still remembers, pointed out the for ward strides that Arizona had mado. "Think of the Ignorance and illiteracy of the past, all vanished now." he said. "Once, while out on a mlneralogical trip, I wandered Into a courthouse in an Arizona village. "The case afoot concerned a letter. The prosecution wanted this letter ad mitted in evidence, but the defense wanted It barred out. Finally the judge said reluctantly: " 'JTand the pesky thing np here and I'll decide on It." "So the letter was handed up to the jndge, and he put on his spectacles and looked at it sideways and crosswise, and a loud laugh went up from the spectators. "What are they laughing at? I asked the man next to me. " 'Why, at the jedge's bluff, o' course," was the reply. 'The old fool can't read readin'-writin", let alone wrltln-writ-ln'.' " New York Tribune. ... 4 A number of years ago he was at tending a caucus in Haverhill. Mass., where, as usual, the slate had been made out in advance. The slate had been given to one Bill Jeffers to nominate, and Bill, Being new at the game, halted and stammered, after he had addressed the chair, until the situation became embarrassing. Mr. Moody promptly relieved the situation. "Mr. Chairman," he said, "I move that the list of names in Bill Jeffers's hat be nominated," and the motion pre vailed. Chicago Evening Post. Where the Argnmeat Is Weak Philadelphia Inquirer. The Alaskan coal lands belong to the i people, and the things should be so ar ranged that the people may get the good of them, which is more than they are doing now. The fallacy consists In the application to these lands of the homestead principle. If any one could work a coal mine as easily as take up a homestead it would be correct and proper to pass laws and establish rules to prevent their monopolization! but as this Is not the case, as to work the Alaskan deposits capital and a great deal of capita! is needed, the sensible course would be to give capital a fair chance. Let the Government impose a reasonable royalty on every ton of cOal mined, and then, Instead of discourag ing, let it invite and facilitate capital istic enterprise. Everyone in that case would be better off, for at present the coal lands are of no use to any One except the insincere self-seeking dema gogues whom they provide with an op. portunity for the manufacture of politi cal capital. Fastest Ship Afloat. Harper's Weekly. The fastest ship in the world is the destroyer Swift, launched recently at Portsmouth, England. This ship, which is of 1800 tons displacement, has a speed exceeding 3S knots. Her fires are fed by petroleum. The turbines give 30,000 horsepower, divided among four screws. . The English admiralty had already realized 34 knots In the destroyers Cobra and Viper. One of these exces sively long boats broke in two upon a wave not long after she was launched. The maximum speed of the French torpedo boats averages about 31 knots. Aggravating Influence. New York Evening Post. Brushing aside all questions of po litical prejudice, serious economic In vestigators wilU arrive at two conclu sions first, that the tariff was neither the sinsle nor the primary cause, as is shown by the fact of rising com modity prices elsewhere than in the Cnited States; but second, that the tariff waa beyond any question an ag gravating influence. ' No Professionals There f Detroit Times. A minister in Massachusetts says he sees no reason why there should not be baseball in heaven. Neither do we, if both sides would bo willing to play with an inexperienced umpire. Anomalous Situation. Albany Journal. If Mayor Gaynur could be permitted to read all the good things that are being printed about him, he might find It difficult to convince himself that he wasn't killed. Popular at Home. Chicago Tribune. "The Iowa Idea" has ne"er been ex actly defined, but there seems td be no doubt that whatever it Is it has a; great vogue in Iowa. 1 He Started the Style. Detroit News. Anotner tide of Italian Immigration Is starting in this direction. Columbus set a powerful example. CURRENT NEWSPAPER JESTS. Read"1s he college hredr- Oipe "Oh no-he nicked up his knowledge of rowing 2nd baseVah to his noma townr-Yonk.rs Statesman. For one man who is ambitious to leave foSprim.' i?h sand, of time there area dosen who want, to cover u- their tracks. Philadelphia Record. Maud "Tom had me talk Intj phono- h- can near my olce while 1 m KTay " CUra-"How lovalyl And be caa stop the machine!" Puck. Flar of truce. Excellency.". What do tha revolutionists want?" "They would like f. SS. a couple of general, . r a can ot condensed milk." St. Loula Btar. 1 often think you can tell people's rhar Kli, by their gardens "I do. too. There s "T," Matchit. who is as mercenary as she ctne, and She prominent plant, in her aarden are moneywort and marygold. Baltimore American. "Are you the owner of tfis place?" asked tha book asent. "I am." replied Tanner Corntossel. '-Anything- I can do for you. "No The chances are that you are too hard worked to have time to Mad anything, and that you havn't any spare chanK. anvljow. J.et me talk to the hired man. Washing-: ton Star. i 1