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:t; mmm - EDITOSML BSGE OP THE JOURNAL Mil B-i.l .'.V, i THE JOURNAL A! INPKI'KNURNT 0. . JACKSON. NKWSI'AI'KIl . 'ul.li'.er I'ahll.hwl wr (f"Pl Siii,.r..vt ml lb. Fifth "! nimi utr.-.u. of thorn, regardless of whether they subscribed to Statement No. 1 or not. Nor In this a law passed by a more plurality or a email majority. Tim vote for It was 6 9,668, and ajsnlnut tt 21,162. The majority for It was Rntorwt at it.. poTmffi.V .1 iMriii.i. r f..r -IS, 560. This Is nearly 6,000 liirfror i'..rlliiil. f. raiUluu lhroiik-b ilia Dmll" fcwl-cl-i" itiii TBI. KHHnMCft -MAIN TITS. IH'MH. AU 4aartaiii( r.--l..-l hT ih" number, T'll ttir i.rrtor the drjurtinfiil v.u uu Hut flil office, 11:444; Kt M- roKBioN ADvrinisiNti hki'kfskntative majority than was given fiir Hooae volt In 1904, and more than 17,000 lurKvr than Chamberlain's total vote In the election last Juno. This shows t lint this law was voted for by a great number of Republicans as Tr!"wM-nJnmln Sp-erlnl A-1r-rtlli. AK'J'., 7, " Wlrk Itui r'rTn Vl.11''- j WI'll ?! a 1 M'lll I1LI ill M. U lO nu rAJMn n llmnawl. lert; MoT- II llullillnt. Ililfi. BuNaorlpflon Ti rnn h; null or to any mldr.-m la Um United rit'. nai "' IMILY. On mr fl.ou I One month I .60 SINPAT. 01 Wear., . to I Onf month $ 13 PA1I.V AND 8i:.'IAY. One .yaar 7 Mi I One minth ..-.$ .W 80 here hath been dawning Apothmblue day; Think, wilt thou let It Slip useless away? Out of et&rnlty This new day Is born; Into eternity . ).., - , At night doth return. Thomas Carlyle, METriODISTS AGAIXST CAXXOX. IT IS NOT only the labor unions that are after the ecalp of Speaker -Cannon. The Meth- odlsts of the country are also de manding that some other man be elected speaker. This church, which ', claims over 3,000,000 communicants j . ' in this country, has a Temperance ' 6ociety tnat is taaing an aciive in terest In eecuring a change In the speakership of the house. The grievance of the Methodists la that Speaker Cannon has prevent ; ed the passage of certain "shipment . ; hills" that have been before congress for the past five years. This de , sired legislation does pot aim to im : pose prohibition on any state or lo ' callty, but provides that liquor chipped from one state to another . shall at once become subject to the laws of the state which it enters. This seems reasonable, but the ' Methodists say that Speaker Cannon : . , has prevented the bill from being re ..ported and considered, giving the ex ' cusa that it would bo unconstitu-;- tlonal. As the committee of Methodists rays, this is of course no excuse at all, for it Is the business of the courts and not of the speaker to pass on the constitutionality of laws. And , equally of course, Cannon la pre- venting the passage of this law not because he knows or cares whether it Is constitutional or not, but to do a service to the whiskey trust, Just ; as he does whenever possible to all the trusts and big "interests." Speaker Cannon, this committee cays, and tells no news when it says so, "absolutely controls the proceed ings of the house." If he happens not to like a bill, and he never likes one In the people's Interests, it can not be passed. The committee on rules, consisting of four members be sldes himself and whom he appoints and entirely controls, can prevent the enactment of any bill, and with the majority party hanging together can railroad any bill through in an hour. Bryan in his notification speech animadverted upon this arbi trary and despotic power, ana great many people of many classes and conditions throughout the coun try are becoming tired of It, espe daily when exercised by a stand patter for everything evil In our gov eminent like Cannon. But the Methodist brethren and tba workingnien and others who are disgusted with Cannon's sway congress will not defeat him for speaker In the next house by these declarations of disapproval. mey will only do so when they can get enough voters in their several dis trlcts to defeat not only Cannon but Payne, Dalzell, Boutell, Lorhner and all the clique that stands behind and with him, and that works un ceaelngly for special interests and acainst the public weal. The only . way to get rid of Cannon and can nonlsm Is to turn a lot of the lead Jng Republican members of congress "out into the wilderness, as liryan ays. A COMMA XD OF THE PEOPLE. nianda'e from the people, tho people of nil parties, nil the people. Ily what right, on what excuse, is any member of tho legislature, whnt ever his personal Inclinations, to dis regard nnd defy this law, this plain command; of the people of Oregon? Some politicians and lawyers will say it Is unconstitutional. This is no excuse, If true. These representa tives are elected to obey and serve the people. Their very name rep resentatives (shows that. There is nothing either criminal or impossible about this law. It can easily be obeyed, and the result of obedience to It can nohow be attacked. As true representatives there is only one pos sible action for every one of these mn. Any other action violates the law, misrepresents the people, makes representative government a farce and a mockery. The politics or personality of the man ehonen by the people has noth ing to do with the case. In this in stance it happens that this law was passed and a certain man was chosen by the people at the same time. He happens to differ in politics from a majority of the legislature, but the same voters who passed this law by so great a majority knew that he was likely to be the successful can didate. This did not deter them in the least from voting for this law. They wanted it; they meant it; they are watching to see whether their specific command will bo obeyed or scorned. Observe. Messrs. Members of the Legialature, that this commancT copies direct and fresh from the people. It was "enacted by the People of the State of Oregon." It is not a party, or a faction, or an I organization, or a machine, or aj clique, or a boss, who commands, but "We the People of the state of Ore gon." And the people don't say "ad vise," or "suggest," or "recom mend," but "instruct." This law Is a positive inatructon. What are you, Mr. Representatve or Senator, going to do about it? Here is a clear, decisive test of rep resentative government. Tha peo ple have given a positive, explicit in struction. If it be not obeyed, then representative government does not exist ln Oregon. The people do not yet have control of .their affairs. Their servants do not obey them, nor serve them, but obey and servo in stead some boss, or clique, or party, or "Interest." Then these members of the legislature become not repre sentatives, but betrayers of the people. Wre bavo been saying that the peo ple do not rule, have no or little hand "In government, but In Ore gon we have worked out a plan by which they can do so to some ex tent. Here comes a crucial test as to whether tlffey can do bo in this matter of their senators. Who will rule, the People of Oregon or a por tion of 90 men commanded to do a certain thing but who refuse to do it. Who shall be represented in the sen ate, the people or a clique, a faction, and predatory "interests"? WTe shall see. And don't forget that "We the People" are watching. If we fall now, we shall succeed with truer men next time. that was a crude affair compared to the rurs now In use In all, the prin cipal cities of the world. Sprague Invented the overhead trolley, and his nvHtem of control, with some elaborations.-la ;ln use today. Othom had . the Idea vaguely; he tnade It clear. Only 20 years ago. And now there nro nearly 25.000 miles of electric railways In the United Mates nlono, carrying more than 5,000,- 000,000 peoplo annually. Sprngue's little boxes on wheels have been suc ceeded ljy models o far of con venience, and on some Interurban IIiiob the cars are scarcely Ichs com modious than Pullmans. Some of the long mlddlo west lines maintain sleeping, dining, cold storage, freight, express, milk and mall cars. If all this la not already done here, It will bo soon. And yet only 20 years ago the only streetcars In operation, nvon lu our great cities, were drawn slowly along by poor, tired, overworked horRes, straining and stumbling pit iably on tho up-grades. What a change In 20 years! And this In oily one of many. Small Change I'urlu Green waa not auah duaea. mi mr mi. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE 1 i I TVnl), Just axamlne tha tlvo" liumlma. repraaenta SMALL. ROOM FOR PQ LITICS. STREETCAR DEVELOPMENT. F' ARE MEMBERS "of the next leg islature of Oregon to respect, observe and obey the laws of this state? Who should do so strictly if not they? They are com missioned by the people to mak. amend and repeal lawe, and It would seem clear that they should be especially careful to conform to ex isting laws, especially laws enacted by the people, and Rtlll more es pecially a law er.actf-d by a great majority, a vot of about three and a half to one. and addreed -directly to them. At the election ait June the i re i r ml nassennere pie of Oregon euae'ed this law: !!. ; merciallv practical, however, and K! la nartr1 lit th wr.rla nf ilio C-n o 1 rrinrtn! work lay In Other j EV PEOPLE ever pause to re flect how fast and far develop ment has rushed within the past few vears. A glance at the growth of the electric car ser vice during the past 20 years will serve to illustrate this wonderful march of progress. e learn from the Electric News service that It 'Is only 20 years since the first electric car was pronounced a commercial j,,lf.CppSt in Richmond, Va. With the exception of cable cars !n San Francisco and Chicago, and perhaps a few other cities, horse cars were then in use, and years ago ttiey be came almost as obsolete as omn! buFsc?s or carryalls. The electric railway motor vrns in vented by Thomas IVivenport. a Ver mont blacksmith, in 18-14, snl it. 1838 Robert Davidson, a Scrtr'iman. produced a small locomotive wmch moved at the astonishing fpiJ of four miles an hour. Nine years la'er Fr-ofespor Moses G. Farmer of Salem. Mass.. made a locomotive ciai,e i carrying two passengers. nut, 1 wig not till IS 80 that Thomas A. Edison constructed a locomotive ... - n r A Attrrvlnff epr- pUillrg WO HI" "" v-. l niS B8 ni'l ( HERE1, Is no party business whatever to be done in the next legislature except the election of officers and emploves. These belong, mostly at least, to the Republicans, and for this purpose a party caucus may be justifiable. But beyond this, party nctlon will be wholly mischievous. Partylsm in legislation, is always so. It places party interest above Eervlce of the people. There Is and can properly be no division on party lines in the mat ters of taxation, means of raising revenue, consideration of a water code, bills for Improved highways, caring for the state's educational in terests, nor In scarcely anything else that the people of Oregon are inter ested in and desire legislation upon. The people of Oregon want cer tain legislation enacted, want their representatives to attend carefully and conscientiously to their business, and In this business politics does not enter in the legist except to work mischief and cheat the peoplo out of the service they have a right to de mand. The man who goes to Salem next winter to play politics, party or fac tional, Ivill misrepresent and wrong the people. They did not send him there for that purpose. He cannot serve two masters, the people of Oregon and a party or factional or ganization. Wre cannot expect men elected to a legislature to take no interest whatever In politics; they may prop erly adhere together If anything clearly political comes up; but as to almost all their legitimato legisla tlvo business there Is no room what ever for playing party politics, and those who do this thereby acknowl edge that the people's service is to be neglected. HI failure In Union oounfv- nnlv in V t . .. 1 - .. ..... ' ' e stick to lnoIpI. Aak Aldrlch or Portland la -olnf to ha a bl city; one cuu build now cheaply. e. Hoj.s tuny pay for tha picking-; ao plekoi-M will have the beet of It. Thore'a one tood thlna ahnut xart.ln councllinon; they watch one another, e In a word. Mr. Lawaon a4na to b th Whole Thlug- In the apeculatlve field Why lof.n't eome patriotic circuit manner s.inj lir. Tuft a bl elephant I,a Toilette Innlsts that he la a Ho. publican but be bus few of the alfna or symptom. A Montana town named T ft hurnml but, unlike the man it was named after, It waa small. By -tenacious adherence ta nrtv nan- pie dopiive themaelvea of the power of ncu-suvernintiltl. i e N'o, the opentnir of the Finnish diet win nave no erroct on the lower Co lumbia fish market. A dispatch from New York say that "the president approves of leav ing the question of Governor Hughes renomination open until the conven tion meets and then letting the dele gates themselves decide." This sug gestion will be received with no fa vor, rather with contempt, by the "leaders," alias the bosses. What do the delegates know about what Is good tor the party? What are lead ers and bosses for If not to give or ders to delegates? Su-h an Innova tion as this would endanger the ex istenco of any party machine on earth. A local contemporary that seldom tells the truth editorially about pol itics reiterates the untruth that Bryan on bis return from abroad de clared for immediate government ownership of railroads, and that he has slr.ee abandoned that position. As everybody who read Bryan's speech on that occasion knows, he did not deelaie for government own ership as aa Immediate and positive policy; only that he believed govern ment ownership would eventually prove to be the only means that could be successfully used to pre vf i.t railroad monopoly. And a few years may prove him to be right. It was at Newberg, a pretty, se 'late tow up the river In Yamhill cfiiny. "I.at the deadly revolver la the 1 ai.iin f.f a boy, or two boys, gat j m its work je.-sterday. The boys we-r. sc:;f:iinc over it, raeh trying j r ; i is- .--ire iu i "s.-;',f-tiioii, and like all i fi:pi-I'seii!; i.iiloade'ii revolvers It was ji'ia-bd a.Ti went off and one of the t 1 !s bad' H v wc; id p'ris pre'ty wKb? If not fatally wounded. !t do to give the little rattlesnakes to play So far the "cmaidlnc" 1nd of th circuit court haa not hmn rhunra.l uiiraur man twice a aay. Pity thona -poor ceonle who will aoon Have to return from two or thre.i months' vacation and go to work a little ut,a in. "YVRat would happen if Harrlman should din?" asks an 'anxious Kansas City paper. Is there any probability that he will ever die? It la predicted that Thaw will be nt liberty mmn. Thon won't ho make the money fly? And If he luis enough left, Evelyn will help a lot. Chicago children held funeral services over a InrKe number of birds killed by tho storm. That Is an Improvement over children killing birds. "Oiil Falls on Mount Rainier." says a dispatch. She ctirno from heaven, it Is suppled. It is not stated whether the mountain was much injured. How many more years Is the Nine teenth street bridge, between Washing ton and Morrison, and the vicinity, to leniuln hii eyesore and an ' offense to every pnsHerby? Tt Is reported th.it Roosevelt proposed leavln.c the nomination of governor to ihe dcleKiitca to the state convention. it the li.-ss politicians had any doubt about Roosevelt being- insane, they have none now. A Pittsburg man went to. New Tork to Join a gambler in a sure tiling game to rob another man of J2.000, and the g-Mmblffr robbed him of $600, and then l.e "squealed" nnd wanted the gambler pui.isued. uotn snouid be equally pun islie I. and all their money ought to be com'iscated. The snnie old, worn, raveled, dingy, stale scare: No measure or effort for reform or betterment of political condi tions Is safe; everything proposer with tills in view Is humbug-, follv, demagog Ism, idiocy. Io nothing whatever, never; let. the corrupt, corporatlon-corr-trolled politicians and mlsi-enresenrii- tlves have their own way and rob vou forever and a day. To attempt anv cor rection Is dangerous Innovation, is so cialistlc departure from "principles" Anybody not for Aldrioh and Cannon Is a mattold. Tho Public Accouutant. Portland, Aua;. J4. To tha Editor of j iiv journal ine panic of 1907, from the effect, of which tha country aa a iiuit una nm yi runy recovered, un- eurwira bo many questionable and un lawful auhemaa that defrauded tha in vesting public, and defalcations urn lie. coming of auch frequent occurrence, (nai tne time aeuma rina for tha annlt iuuii oi aoine eneoiive cnecK to keep lunua in vneir jegiumai clianneli, Every thrifty man. aooner or later, ar rives at a point where ho haa aoine little nurpiua rrom lila earnlnas. and the de aire to Increase thla eurplua leads Mm to look for short-term Investments where ha enn obtain a fair rate of In-. terest and have absolute security of principal. v Stocks and bonds seem to be tha moat popular forms of aecurltlea with tha small investor, yat many refrain from Investing, and In a great many Instances actually Imprd their money In their homos, thus practically withdrawing It from circulation, because they are skeptical of tha investment and would aooner lose Interest; for a certain period than (aa they Imagine) obtain a small amount of Interest, and In tha end lose tneir principal. Here tho questlone arise: 'How can confidence be restored? How can money be kept employed In legitimate channels and at the same time give a sense of security to the Investorf" The answer la: "Ily utilising tho services of the public accountant a man who. by his fcpeclallied training, la a true business Burveyor, and, more than any other, qualified to render an impartial and cor rect statement of commercial affairs, as ha finds them. If corporations Intending to conduot lawful enterprises would have disinter ested, practicing public accountants verify the existence and valuation of the assets In which the public are In vite to participate, and then publish their certificate:, business conditions would bo ameliorated, enterprises would acquire a stability that would bespeak success, there would be no water to squeeie out" tn a tight money market, and the periodical trembling of our financial structure would he greatly minimized. If not altogether rectified. In Great Britain, France atjd Ger many, accountancy has long been a rec ognized profession, and the accountant Is regardod as a skilled business ad viser, since his special training makes him thoroughly conversant with the I affairs of commerce, banking, finance and economics, besides which he has necessarily to thoroughly understand bookkeeping In all Its branches and np plications. This, however, Is not the sole desideratum. There, also fiduciary work, such as restates, liquidations and receivership?, are assigned exclusively to the account ant, belonging as tlioy do to his par ticular province. This high standard does not yet ex ist over here, but the necessitv for it is being felt more keenly every day. and it Is gratifying to note that rrrost of tho states are putting through their legis latures bills defining, tho profession of accountancy nnd regulating Its uses and abuses. Among the western states, California and Washington have such laws, let us In Oregon emulate their goofi example. Remembering, as we should, that this nation Is the envy of the world for her commercial activity and aggression, let UEFgee to it that we do our duty in plac ing her business enterprises on a sound basis, and In fostering a specially trained corps to guard those int.-rests eealously. We will then be sure to reap the crop of sound prosperity at home, and added respect and prestige abroad. ARTHUR BERRIDGE. tha eound doctrines expounded In tha editorial noiumns or 1 lie journal, out In tha Heml-Weekly Issue of August 7 I find an editorial under tha headline, r,Art Kxplanatlon Needed." Now Mr. Kdltor, concerning that article, please allow ine to aay "Tnat for aounn logic, 'strong common Bonne,' "'unadulterated truth, and as an honest appeal to rea boh on tho mind of all who read that article, It Is certainly beyond criticism or fault finding from any one whose mind Is open to conviction of real live truths and honest facta. Hrnublloan prlnilplea and Roosevelt policies are directly com noting, ana one is aa mucu ntiDosad to the other aa rire anu water Did not the late congress mOhatlcally prove thla assertion? If the Republican principles bo doaily love Mr. Roosevelt's policies, that tha Republican con gress had a queer way of showing It The Republican convention at Chi cago Indorsed the Roosevelt pollcles(T) Did that convention know that In doing no It at the same time condemned the Republican party In congress because of the world-Known ract "Tnat this boast ed Republican principle was fighting Mr. RooBevelt'a policing Inch by Inch? If Republican Drlnclrles harmonize ao beautifully with Mr. Roosevelt's policies tnon wny in inunuer cua not tnat Re publican congress aunnort those poli cies Instead of opposing . them? Why was it that tne majority rarjv opposed Mr. Roosovolt, while tha minority party supported him. and at times even de fended the Republican president against tne leaders or tne Republican (his own) party? Republican principles be banged! The whole country ia sick of having to swallow Wall street prescriptions through the process of Republican prin ciples. And now here we have Senator Pulton of Oregon fighting against ' the masses of the peoplo, advising Republican Statement No. 1 legis lators to break their word and pledge and reject the people's choice for United States senator, trying to keep the people from purging the United States Bonate by sending honest and trustworthy-representatives of the peo ple there like Governor George E. Chamberlain, a man who Is both tried and true, nnd the overwhelming choice of the people regardless of party or political creed. But Mr. Fulton 1 sim ply advertising his own moral worth (such an It Is) to the world, and Inci dentally showing up the goodness and ttie real tyno of those boaHted Republi can principles and tendencies. The noo- ple have oWady had more than enough of thatxclass bf principles, and can no longer be led to the polls by the nosa nnd made to vote for the G. O. P. that sneezes whenever Wall street gamblers take snuff. No. the Republican leaders In congress did not favor Mr. Roosevelt's (Demo cratic) policies at all. and the Indorse ment bestowed by tha convention at Chicago Is merely a bid for votes and carries no more real value or honest In tentions now than any of the other empty promises ami meaningless phrases in the platform of that party. "The tree must be lodged bv Its fruit' and tl.is tree is grafted too much now. It. K. JOHNSON. Oregon Sidelights Salem Is to have two more moving picture shows, making six. Some Powder river valley cherries measure :i t inches in circumference. The prospects for a good crop of corn on tun oanuy river loam n Uiui coun ty are good this year. The Union county sheriff uses a flying machine at least the North Pnwri.r News reports him making "flying trips." Albany haa but one mlht .f 4, Salem has only two. Very few people in either city need watch! Statesman. v. Republican "Principles." Fairvlew Farm, Brlgp-son, Or., Aug. 12. To the Editor of The Journal I am frequently very highly pleased with Attacks on Gompers. Portland, Aug. 1. To tho Editor of me journal I note at different times attacks on .Samuel Gompers for deliver ine or tne inoor vote to Mr. Hrvan. v. iil say as a union man that Is a right e nine io protect ourselves against an oppressive svstem of Rovernment which we have gone through In the last 12 years. Now Mr. Gompers called on the Jiepunnecn convention at Chicago for favorable legislation to labor and was thrown down. And everything In the platform was voted down. He then went io me democratic convention and had oeiter results, hence he adv se.l the sun port of Bryan among the labor organiza tions. He had a perfect right to give advir as to which party la more favor ably to the wage earner. Just as an em- i oyer nn co go to Air. Tart and ask nis aavice as to an injunction to sup press worklngmen. The Organs of the Body By W. R, O. Latson. M. D. Tha heart la merely a hollow mus cle, consisting of two pumps, one of hich aenda blood to ihe lungs, tha other pumping blood through tha tla auea. Each Bid of tho hoart hohla two ounces off blood, and as the heart con tracta about 78 times a minute, thla means that' 150 ounce, or about one nnd on sixth gallons of blood piss.a through each elda of tho heart every minute. That Is, about 70 gallons every hour, 1.0 80 gallons everv mil nr.n gallons in a year, is pumped by each of tha ventricles, making tho total work of tho heart for the yeur J..206.O00 gil lone Think of the work done by Tffe heart In 10 yearn, ln-20, or in a llfetlmo! Ami tha heart welarha . pound. " . ",l . i "J??"! of blooi leaving the heart travels C21 feet a minnK 1 ... hour, m miles a. day. ai.OuO miles a year. No man probably haa ever trav eled bo far as bis own blood haa. For tha blood to make tha initio .... ,i . circuit from heart to lungs, thon back to tho heart, thence to the tisuon, and finally back to the heart again, require In the adult about 28 iniirf r h omaller body of the child the circuit Is mada much more rapidly and the heart beats correspondingly faster. For in stance, at birth, the l..-nrr ,. about 1S6 o tha minute, and the blood Btreain makes Its entire figure-eight circuit In about 12 seconds. At S years old the heart ruto Is 108. anrt th ii,., stream makes its Journey in about 16 seoonds; at 5 the pulse la 88, and tha blood circuit requires 18 seconds The bloctl Is the great rlunr nf iif u stupendous waterway, tho most popu- 1 3... Bl UB "na.gineo. teeming with, traffic. Laborers soldiers.. rrrii.rd countless millions of .millions of busy workers crowd it enmlnir nn w, . each with his special duty to attend to In a cubic inch of blood there are 1.200 -000,000 of one olass of those tiny la borers. There are nearly two gallons of blood in the human bo-Jr nnfl a or.ii.in contains 231 cublo Inches. So, by multi plying 1,200.000,000 by 231. we shall get yt'TUAiinnieiy mo numoer or erythroc lesi the red oxvgen-carbondloYbi nr. rlera. in the blood. If these lltiln ear ners could be spread in a lsver, tliiy would cover a surface of 28;900 square feet. The red carriers nri not thn nnlv workers embarked in the great lnterso matlc waterway. the blood strenm There nie otbers less numerous, more intelligent, more adaptable, more versa tile. Their duties ate various and im portant; In fact, thoy are the re:U feed era, tho faithful guardians, and tho ef ficient repairers of the body. insurance Rat :s Too High foolishness, declare.- of Oregon: That we. the people of -lh State of Oregon, hereby Inrruct our representative find, attat&r in our Legislative Assembly. a mch cfflcsra. to vote for and lct t!- candidates for United Stales sf nators from this state- ho receive i;.e h.t'-.-ct BombtT of rotes at oar scnrral flection." This ) a Us cf the tUte, ard It is a law paused specifically for the pnr fr0 fcf A:rtlrr5 the action of mrra tcrs ct the IcelslatBP Jin a certain mattrr. It Is an absolute raaixja'e . v . .. v - - a , trca tLfra. isa spua tata aau ii The king of England has frown Into a prrat figure, one resected ar.d admired by the world, principal ly for one n-Mii he works eon FtAntlT fnr vare between cations. ison's principal work lay In other i Aji(J rc x.,rrf4Bicn l8 he "came directions. In 1 88 a par.y oi x- j i.ohps ly" by this bout, on both bis ;erimenter tried to run an pi-ctrir . fa;,.Pr ani h,, mother's side. car In New York amid the hoots as ! , . .. jeers of all beholders. ! ir gfrrrjr. Payne, chairman of Bat In H'9 Dr. Siemais exhibit-) ho o0?o mag ,,r(j means coamlt ed In Berlin, Germany, a small eler- j tiy yc Ctt Dpt vnt to ron for trie locomotive, and for some ; ears j fnvrr.or cf New Tork, because he erperimented. with It with indirf. r- I warts to it(,p Teri the tariff. He cut success. Through all tbee resr , rf ro jccbt; he want to rTl-e It the electric car of today war or -Jy j tQ SD,, t)? protj r,terts , wbotn What Albany needs now 1 rn electric Btreet railway. There has oeu xoo mucn The Democrat. A Jersey bull has heen n,in tn the dormitory herd of cows, says the x-.ugene uuara. Liionv brutes, to liav a dormitory to live in. Finned for 21 hours under an Im mense tree, with one leg and three ribs broken, was tho experience of George Ward, a homesteader In the pf legate COUntrV. On S.llnrrln- n,l Sunday. He was found bv his wife who had searched all niglft and theri had to go three mllea for help Vale Gazette: The local nrtM.Tn tow- Is being as well enforced In Vni could well be expected. When a m.-ri who wants to get drunk is compelled to resort to Jamaica tHnirpr onri , sence of peppermint we fee reason ably sure that the town is dry. T'Je merchants aro already feeling the In fluence of prohibition In easier collec tions, and wo believe will be benefited more and. more as the months go bv. Medford Tribune: Henorts nre roanh. ing the city continually to the effect that limber wolves are ral-Mnc havne v. iih tiie deer in tills co mtv. In on.- Instance five were found where thei had ben slaughtered. A bounty should be offered and this game protected Deer hunting and iroit fishing add much to the attractiveness of southern Oregon, and all evils whlrh tend to In jure either sport should be promptly remedied. A train from Seaside was heM un r.r Carnahan station by a big doe deer an delayed the train for at least five min utes, says Th- Astoria hu.lget. It tood on the 'ruck and shooK its hes'l at the pilot and the engine.r stopped nnu iuui Ft.-wr.ii snois si it wit h a re volver but wlihout effect and all the doe did was to waik up on the sid bank and make a pretty sight f'ir tns passengers aa the train passed by. From the Fan Francisco Chronicle. The people of every city in the United States nre protesting against the exorbitant charges of the Insur ance companies, find there is every s'.,:i of a rebellion which will make theye corporations more trouble than they ever had before. Nobody denies that the price at whlli insurance- is now sold is very far above cost and reason able profit. Kates were rained through out the country immediately after the fine in this city, and reasonable men recognized that the safety o all re quired that the depleted treasuries, o the companies should be replenished and that something must be done for stockholders if the needed new capital was to be obtained by underwriters. The public stood the raise very pa tiently for a year, but It is not In a mood to stand It any longer. If com panies at. present rates can pay from A Umatilla Wheat R aiser 20 to 40 per cent a year as some "f Ing 64.U00 bushels of wheat, and n nra!ljd rream. A Tear after the New Torker shonted la troi at an lectrie car, on that proved a aoccesa. InTented by Fprfj. $'M 4 aloes tha rails La Rlchmon i. Al4 Is his bo nines o aerTe. The latest French "crisis" did BCff tonait to much more tbaa tha ordi nary Frenta tfnel, aa usual. ' ' .V 7S Fulton's KorruhJIenntMn. From the Eiui Oregonlan. ' The Orcgonian s.i s th.it tt will be tmpoR-stbia for a strrpfui rnmpalRn to le earned oa for Taft and the K publican ticket tn Oregon un.l.-r trie leader.!:!" of W. M Coke as chairman of the Republican s:ate eoniT-iltt". for the reason that the Fulion ful- lori will not etani for it" n'akes leadership . If thla is the q.nlitv of Fulton R- pirtU'ranlsm tt Is t:-ne hones? an-i am eere mra'Dftl of tt, tart-.- rne .dlr.g it out If Fiil'on end h;. fl',ors ar -sin cere It telr dl- for the suecesS of I.ruMien rrtTir they ru wwk with anybody leadT If thv wish the pa'tr to ufi they will jvt step to ask who Is cbalrirmn brfora getting Into tj-e hrn " Tmrr. t: r F -Hpa is -Unm the r"l"r rf the r-artT In Ton tm. Id I JtstifUd In tlTrg' that he Is a MmlM. e!f-ek:T riltlrtan. r U f HrHr ambition for th rrty t1 aa hil pwn rwra'.Tial triamrh. Orrm U tri) ir.4 a Democrat te lata ky FuJicw. . them do insurance rates are too high and ways and means will be found t-i get Insurance cheaper. a ho exorbitant rates now charged are endangering mercantile credits owing to the Impos sibility which confronts some firms of carrying proper Insurance and continu ing in business. Bv next July It will ba possible for all "to get established in permanent quarters, and thon the shacks should come down, for they endanger other property. . Except as to those risks, It Is now time for Insurance rates to re turn to those prevalent before the fire, which proved ample for everything but the conflagration risk. As to that, it ought to be provided tor by a small special premium on every policy, to go into a trust fund under control of the t nlted StateB government to pay con flagration losses of all companies con tributing to the fund. There - ought to be state and national legislation looking to that end. l nless the companies spedlly return to reasonable insurance rates, things are llkgjy to happen which wise men would regret. There will be not only a great extension of "mutuals," some of them not very fare to insure in, But all sorts of schemes for state Insur ance will be proposed and a new line cf agitation started. Any one viewing the situation from the outside enn see the vltnl necessity of some movement from the companies to restore rates to a reasonable figure while at thoi same time providing for the confla gratlon rick. Gilliam County AAbeat. From the Com'on Times. H. Cohen, commercial agent for The Oregon Journal, was In town on Monday looking oyer the crop situation. In his opinion the account of the partial fsll uie of the wheat crop In Oillinm county has been very much overdrwn. Lord Mesa his oul .we could tall bint . that, but eastern t ireeon can afford to laugh over these gi:eFse at the amount of wheat we are to have. Of course we al low that the crop Is not as good aa we could wish, am in some sections It Is very short. But where the land waa properly handled and the ummer fallow worked down a verv fnlr ylld is in evi dence. N'ew wli"Bt ! selling for 82 cents per bushel and may g. hla-her. so tnct tne price win in a ret mmi nrr counteract any Bhortnesa in the crop. Mr. Cohen Is an aTeib! fellow bp1 hss the Interests of all parts of the duntrr t heart, he Is also wise to the I'urt that not only will the country town suffer from poor arrlcultural methods n,l snort crops lr mnnien-e, hut that Portland and the lsrrer oltlea alao fe"l the effects He waa therefore verv pi-? s-h to find that eastern Oregon la pTl, and GlU'sm rourtr In r-a-rtlni- isr. wtil send many nunargir Trutn lost of whi-u to the seibnsra iwrere the firnt snow whiten the stutb.ef ielda of the frat Columbia basin. Arnri'.rm to a report from Paris the larre-st submarine ynt troUt will snortlv b launched at Cnertwnirs:. Th Teasel will b 2M fet long, with 2S tons SlsrOacement. and ahe will derelnp a ireaB cr-ed nf-la kants. Hhe will prob ably, adds te report. . haws crew miat la sir firth ta that of a de stroer. . From tho Pendleton Fast Oregonlan. n. Mury mat reaas like a romance of-the world of finance Is contained in nie wheat crop being harvested this ear oy v . r. Temple of this city. V 1th u yield of 70,000 bushels on 2,650 acres ot land owm.d Individually by him, Mr. Temple may be justly termed in o wiiem King or i niatuia county and one of the wheat kings of Oregon. In spite of the fad that no rnln hna fallen on the crop since last April, the uv.-iase iri.-onie rrom ins z.fioo acres tor 19DS will bo $L'0.77 per acre, while tho average for the past 10 years hua been but $18 per acre. All of Mr. Temple's 1908 crop has been sold. Ten thousand bushels were sold at .5 cents several weeks ago. and the remainder has been sold this week at 80 and 81 cents per bushel, and his 1108 crop Is now in the bank. acres Mr. Temple is thresh- g 6-1. UU0 bushels of whent an.l nn 9.111 HcfV-a he will thresh 6,000 bushels of uuriey, maaing a total or 70,000 bushels from 2,65n acres, or an average of 26.4 busncls per acre. This Immense crop has been raised on land which was once considered worthless, and at one time Mr. Temple's father wanted to have him osmina for Insanity when he borrowed $20 000 from Pendleton banks to buy land ad joining his original homestead north west of the city. Hut the result of his farming In that bvuuii oi tne county has amply Justi fied his early Judgment, and he now owns one of the largest and finest blocks of farming land owned by any . ,.iucw ... vaaivin Oregon, By a etrnnge freak of rtrrnm.iin Mr. Temple now owns the land on which he did his first day's work In Cmatllla county 25 years ago when he was but a boy. This tract was then owned bv M. M. Wyrlck. for whom Mr. Temple worked for 1 per day. He had Just arrived from Iowa, where wages were on cents per aay, nnn tne II per dav received by him lookod like a young fortune. He worked for the first year mm wi-u reniea wne&i jann:, and then pegan one oi me most interesting strug gles with the Boml-arid' land, of Umatilla county that haa ever been witnessed in the county. Mr. Temple bought and rented land all Rround him and farmed It himself, working early and late, hauling water for household purposes 11 miles from the t'matilla river, and one vear when he worked hardest he cleared but $100 In 865 days' work. At one time everv neighbor In the entire locality abandoned their land and left the country, bat Mr. Temple staved and farmed and worked and hoped, and when he came to Pendleton eight years ato, then but a young man. he was out of debt, had a handsome bank account and owned 2,600 acres of lnnd. Since then he estimates that the in come from thts land. In rent, has added 200 acres each .year to the original tract. Nothing Is more interesting than thn body's methods of economy. For in stance. In Its work of taking In oxvgon and throwing off carbondioxid, it needs space, surface. And so there has been evolved a method by which in tho lungs the inhaled air reaches a surface of 1.C00 square feet. The peculiar little openings, or vesicles, bv whlrh this economy of space Is gained aro (100.000. 000 In number. There pauses Into r.nd out of the lungs in one day no less than 400 cubic feet of air. Each outgoing breath contains two cubic inches of carbondioxid, and contaminates 5.000 cubic Inches, about half a barrel of air. The lungs exhale every day an amount of carbon that If caught and solidified would about equal a lump of coal weigh ing half a pound. The air breathed out Is moving nt a speed of 43 Inches a second, and Is in haled at a speed of 2 inches n second. In a BUddon Intake of breath, as In t sob or gasp of surprise, the speed of tho Inhalation may be much greater 10 or even 20 feet a second. The external surface of the body' bus an area of about 20 square feet, nnd contains 7,000.000 minute openings, per eplratorv glands, out through which the blood pushes certain of Its poisonous In gredients. The skin has a respiratory as well as a perspiratory function. Through a healthy skin we take in about one Hlxth as much oxygen as through the lungs. This. Date) In History. 1741 Fphrlng, tha navigator, discov ered the ftast Cape. 1769 Napoleon Bonaparts was born nie(Wlf 6. 1S?1. 1771 tlr Walter. Scott, norellst, bora. Died September 21. 1J!. ISO: Bonaparts Invented with power to nominate his successor as ruler of France. 1804 tVork begun on the first public road between Oorrl and Tennes. ln. Francels Julea Paul Ortr, president of Franca, born. Died Sep tember i, 1$1. 14 Mm, Patti sued for divorce from Marquis d cam. 1S The Bering sea arbitration ara.rd w-ra delivered. 1 e7 JoTtf -JiwMm, tha celebrated Tlollnlst. died. Bbrn 1811. Tha problem of prndsjern 1c ta smsU euan'ltlaa quickly ana cheaply hie, apparently, bea aolTed br S French Irrentor. woo has perfected a marhlna which is cheap, simple of oper ation, practically- everlasting, aad thor otighlr practU-aL It may be opaYatex! by a belt connected with a strata n rlwa. a atr-sU Hctrt TnMor. or far .band crank. -Tachclcal WorleV i The average number of hairs on tho human head is 120,000. The li.ilr. par ticularly of blonds, has a very high ten sile strength. It has been estimated that If tho hairs of a blonde could be plaited Into a rope, they would support a weight of 80 tonB. The hair on the head grows at tho rate of about one-flftleth of an Inch each day. or about seven Inches a year. An eyelash grows much faster, sav bout one-twentieth of an inch en.h day, until It reaches a length of four- tentha of an Inch, when it falls out. Tha Ufa of an cyelaah is about 120 days. It lust talu-s about the same length of time, from 120 to 140 days, for tha fingernails to bo entirely renewed. The toenails grow more slowly, requlrlnx from six months to a year for their re newal. e a e The average length of a baby 15 days old Is 19H Inches. During tho next 1R days the baby grows an inch nnd a half. By the end of its first year of life It. has grown to be 28 V4 Inches long. If the child went on growing at this rate. by the end of Its third year of life tt. would have attained the height of tho average adult man, five feet nine inches. By the end of his fifth year he would be ten feet seven Inches tall, and by the time he reaahed his tenth birthday ho would be a veritable Colossus, with a height of Blxty-elght feet three Inches. After the first year, however, the rato of growth gradually decreases. During the second year the average growth of the body is three and one half Inches: during the third year It Is only three Inches; during the fourth year It Is two and a half Inches, and for the next ten years It Is about one and a' half Inches a year. As might be expected, there Is a simi lar alteration In the rate of weight in- crease. During tho first 22 weeks' of life, tha infant doubles Its weight. If a child of average weight continued to grow at this rate, long before his fourth blrthdav he would weigh two tons. The human eye can discern an object so minute as one elx-hundred-anl-twen-ty-flfth of nn Inch 1n diameter. An o'.i Joct of this s1xe makes oh the ro'ni. or sensitive plate of the eye. an lmngo one twelve-thonsnnd-flve-hundredth of nn inch In diameter.- With the help of the microscope the eye can discern nn object one fonr-hundred-thousandlh of an Inch In size. Nerve messages travel at the rate cf 110 feet n second. The body contains Over ?,000 miles of tubing. Tha body secretes eh. day ahwit four gallons, or SO pounds, of digestive fluids. James Kelr Harclic's Birthday. Jsmes Kelr Hardte. M. P. and a p-om- tnent Socialistic labor reader In F.ng- land. who will nhortly visit America. was orn In Scotland. August 15. 151. the son of Scotch working people. Hi beran life aa an errand hoy nnd rlvrt heater In a machine shop wben .pnlv 8 yeara old Tn hl n'rth year, nt being able to make etifflolent money ta aid the family exchequer, be Jf: b' poaltlon and began work ss a "donke"" boy" In a eos.1 mine. At tha age of IS he emancipated himself from the work In the tfHres V becoming seor tary of the miners' union, devoting hla spaao time to writing for newpsper. At tne ag or 25 he begun his c."irer as a labor leader. In 1 ha tried to become elected for parliament, but wnt defeated. Four rra later, however. h was elect ed by a large majority. h was defeated araln In 1895. but was ee-tl araln In inns. Ha la now rwirnlrHin the leader of the Radical wing of the labor imiip In the Hrlt!h hnvre of com mons, and Ib oonstdrd one cf the nrvt powerful mn rprnt;og the 'shoring classes In F.ngland. Will He Ixsietonie. From ths K irns iImi ) Th bo fours f t K g-nlw fr ths pa months rnd',i-v -, ds1r for tha corrpleta d'Wtrnr' on of tha FepoWlcaw partr In frgon; thn wrist Ra.rg-;,t tender !' o'i TStemT If B the T-adr who at-nrt the "reorsnrilsatlon" -will flnd th-rr.. selves mighty Uneon , Tfe' rr Va'plts clr-nls'toB o- fSa rrlH Stater Is wd tT onlr in otbar country sf I ti p-ori a n- T r J n ra.
