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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE 3, 1013. i I-IEJOURNAL IV 1 I r prMtftN'T NwaPAIElt ht. jii : phlnhf .-ijr Muiilnj Bioriiln lit lb Journal Bull li , ltruxlw. r and YaBihlll !.. riirnnnu. . ,.i.r.. .i iha nualutflr It Hvrtiand. IT, It IHM9 Main T173l Ham. A-O001 Ail Oaparlmanti rrbfd ttf lhaa BObr. 1II b nprtof hil rti-nartnwiit 90 want. ,a..KHU.N AllVKHTI.SiNU KKI'KKolCNTOI VI Prnlamla aV kruloor lo.. nrunawira '""." u tint .. n.w xri t.a Hull. tin. ChleanA. J SuhMrlniln laraia by mall or la U UtUu SutM.or MailMl DAILY Oh rttr.... .19.00 On noatk... J' DNPAt On rW ...HBO f ' ,B Am TMr........tT.S0 I Ob wonts ...I 13 Knowledge 1 proud ,tbs n hat learned no much; Wisdom is r humble 'that ha knows no more.-Cowper., rORTLAN'P BONDS AT HOME fHE poor, man In Portland haa - I no chance to buy city nonas, I When bonds are to be Bold, the arrangement la Buch.that onlY'blK Investors can bid.. Gener ally brokers buy them, and subse quently work them off at a profit to 1nve8tor. : Always the aenomma tions are such that the securities are beyond the reach ot the masses. It ought not to be so. The chance to buy these bonds, ought to be placed as a privilege before all who have small hoards of savings. They ought to be placed as a boon before people with but a few dollars to ' invest. . ' The experience of Baltimore Is complete proof that The Journal's program as to city bonds is perfect Iv feasible. In that city $688,000 in Baltimore bonds were sold to Balti more, people in eight, days. The securities there were called city stock. The issue was in small denominations, and the interest four per cent The sales were made at 90, which makes the rate of interest four and a half per cent The buyers were from all classes. A heavy portion of the money bore evidence of having been hoarded, One elderly man made bis purchase . with $1300 in gold and bank notes carried in a cloth sack in which the money had evidently been secreted. Another, man bought $5000 .worth of the stock with money carried in a pasteboard box, and it was his savings for 33 years.' The stock was In $100 denomin ations. On one day the 6ales were $121,300. On another day. they ag gregated $132,700. ' The total for eight days was, $688,000. At the end of nine days, the city withdrew the stock from cale because it had secured all the funds desired for temporary uses, and withheld the further flotation of securities in the expectation ; of obtaining, better prices. ' t .". Speaking of the sale, the Balti more Sun says: From the beginning, the sale was a (success. It exceeded all expectations. The first day's sales amounted to $43, 500. Each day since, the sales have exceeded that amount. On the second day they ran up to 176,600, and on the third day to $121,400. From the start the sale proved popular. Among others who indorsed the Gale and advised people to invest in the issue was Cardinal Gibbons. There was a rush to take money from other investments where it was earning a smaller, rate of interest. , The president of the Savings bank of Baltimore issued a public state ment in which he approved the ac tion of depositors of his institution who were withdrawing their sav ings and investing them In the city stock, saying: "It was a wise move" on the part of such depositors. The bringing into circulation of much money that had .been hoarded wasa gratifying feature of the sale. Much-of the money paid for the bonds had never before been in vested. It had been saved little by little and kept in the home of the navers. It earned nothing for them. ! it performed no useful service for others. The owners of it were in eonstant danger of losing it by fire Dr theft. As a result of the popu lar bond Bale, much of such money i has been turned over to the city for use in public improvements, and the former owners of It are for the first time receiving interest on their Investment. . Another feature of the sale is that; great number of people have' been' brought into a closer relation with Ihe city that will influence them lo give closer attention to the city's business affairs and more careful consideration in the selection of men to direct those affairs. One man who bought several shares as a gift to his young son said he looked up on the gift as an Investment in good citizenship as well as in money, The Baltimore sale has demon itrated that the people of a city are ready to put their money into city ecurities if the sale be made on lerms and in a manner within reach f ' average persons. It hag made tity stock popular as an investment with persons who never before were Interested in it, a result that is cer tain to be of permanent benefit to Baltimore. t , . .. Perhaps two facts stand out more prominently than any other as lea ions of the Baltimore sale. They are: 1. The creation of a dependable come market for city stock that rould always be availed of by the tity directly with the people. ' ': i 'be t't(alIJsLmeut of direct .material relationship between the iitUeu and bis government, and the NiltJvatlon . oI a liing interest. unng-me peopia m aoneat sua ef- fktcnt methods in municipal man agement. The results In HaUImoro should be duplicated In Portland. Portland debitors have $753,898 In postal savings and it draws but two per cent interest. Baltimore investors put IG88.000 In eight days Into Baltimore city stook on terms I hut ylold them four and a half per cent interest. If the small investors of Balti more are given a chance at sound securities 00 n interest basis of four and a half per cent, why should not the small investors of Portland be given the same opportunity? Why continue to sell Portland securities in such a way that they are avail able only to rich bond buyers? , What does Portland's new com missioner of finance think about it? JfO STIGMA OXTIIE PA.RT1T T (IE JOURNAL is criticised by a correspondent for publication of the fact that the Glendale bank robber is known as a Socialist agitator. Why not publish it?. If It had been a preacher does anybody doubt for a minute that the fact that he was a preacher would not have been mentioned in the news? Or if he had been a college preei- . A a a aft . aemj vr a oanxer; . , It is no 'stigma on Socialism that one socialist so-canea nas gone wrong. Nor is it a blemish on Chris tianlty when a, preacher falls. The publication relative to the Glendale fugitive does sot in the slightest reflect on his party. MAY FIGIIT, BUT NOT WA B' ULGARIA and Servla will arbi trate their difficulties before the Czar of Russia. There will be no war, but the fight ing may continue for a time. Dec larations of war are dangerous to Europe. The Peace of London did not set tie a dispute between two nations over division of the spoils of war. Servla and Bulgaria entered into a secret agreement before war was de clared against Turkey as to division of conquered territory. But the territory proved larger than was contemplated when war was de clared. Also, Servia played a larger part in the hostilities than was an ticipated, and Servia now claims a full-sized slice of Macedonia. Bui garia Insists upon cutting the pie; hence the present fighting and the Czar's offer to arbitrate. Servla was denied northern Al bania by the powers, and with that denial went hope of ah outlet on the Adriatic sea. Bulgaria has reached the Mediterranean, and Greece has secured Salonika and the Aegean islands. It Servia is to re ceive compensation, it must come out of disputed territory in Mace donia, But consent to arbitration was not voluntary. The Czar's offer could not, be denied. Intimation of military measures .by the powers was effective. Europe did not propose to face the danger of inability to lo calize the fighting. So Bulgaria and Servia may fight until their dispute is arbitrated, but neither can declare war. WALL STREET "CUES" B' USINESS men who take their cues from Wall Btreet should listen to James J. Hill, who has prospered in spite of Wall street. Interviewed on the business outlook at Ottawa the other day, Mr. Hill showed characteristic im patience with stdVk Jobbers who rush to cover whenever anybody suggests" that the rule of right be adopted. He said: What is the matter with Wall street any way? Are they going crazy there? Every one in as blue as indigo, and half the people do not know what they are blue about. All that people have to do In time? like these is ke.-p a clear head and avoid getting rattled; then everything will come out all right. The man wno sells the United States "short" is going to suffer for it like the mischief. He will take his medi cine, and it will not be sweet, either. I want to say, too, that the Washing ton situation is all right. To hear Borne people talk, you would suppose that the administration was bent upon up setting things. That Is perfect fool ishness. I was at the capital the other day, and talked, to all the leaders, and I know that they are aiming todo the best thing for the whole country. They are perfectly well-meaning men, and if New Yorkers think otherwise, why don't they jump on.. the train and-see the Washington situation .for themselves?- I have been there, and I know what I am talking about. Mr. Hill is optimistic. He ad raits the money market Is a prob lem, but he Is certain it will work out all right. Recent money com plications are troublesome, but Mr. Hill says they are insignificant com pared with the offsetting factor' of good crops and the wealth that will flow from another harvest; He says nervous Wall Street should realize that the United States will derive ten billion dollars out of the ground this year; a sum whicl exceeds vlio world's gold production Jt o r t e n years. ' " ' i ,' '..' , GRESHAM'S OBJECT LESSON G' RESHAM has furnished an ob ject- lesson for Portland and other municipalities on the purchase of private property for public use,.- Her property own ers hve shamed Portland property owners w-haefter account the city legitimate prey for private greed. Gresham has citizens stirred by nh "" ' in-mmg-tu Bell , to the pnWic at prices below ruling prices to individuals. At the annual school meeting there last Monday 'nine sites Wetre offered for a high school building. The offers were listed on a blackboard, and It in luHiHted that all the prices wero below figures quoted to Individ ua enterprise. Civic patriotism of nine property owners won the fight for a new high school. Gresham will have the school. Patrons discussed the proposition for three hours and determined to lot tho people decide between the nine Bites. A Bpeclal election wll bo held. The vote will be by, ballot with first, second and third choices The nine tracts will be listed and tbeir location and cost printed on the ballots. An entire afternoon will bo given over to the election, ,' Gresham's object lesson is timely, Does ownership of property in Port land destroy civic- patriotism? A TIMELY- BIOVEMKNT t: HE Oregon Bankers' Association proposes a, defense of Incoming 1 honieseeters against' ' inflated land values. It has launched a movement to prevent newcomers from falling vie tims to boom prices. At the Cor vallls meeting the association pro vided for an accurate and depend able appraisement of properties, which appraisal shall be available to Intending purchasers. . The program proposes in each county seat or large town a commit tee, of three that will make ap pralsals in the vicinity. "The com mittee will consist of one member of the bankers' association and two members 'of the local commercial club or development league. The findings of this committee will be always available to arriving home seekers. It is a deliberate move to put a stop to the realty inflation. It pro poses to give the Intending settler a chance in the world by squeezing the water out of realty capitalization. There could be no better activity. Speculators and speculation have run riot in the Northwest. The present complaints ot quiet times are largely the result of the ballooning of spec ulators, with city, suburban and other lands in the markets. Prices cannot always be pushed upward. The bankers are render ing the state a high service In pro posing resistance to sale of unduly Inflated properties. It is a needed and timely program by which to counteract unenviable repute some times brought on the state by over capitalization of properties in the past. Nobody knows better than do the bankers, the evil consequences of victimizing newcomers or others with dishonest prices. JANE ADDAMS FOR MAYOR w OMAN suffrage in Illinois has resulted in proposal or jane Addams for mayor of Chi cago in 19J5 The women have taken up the cry, and Indica tions are that when. Miss Addams re turns from Europe she will be wel comed by a demand that she become an independent candidate. Men mayors of Chicago have been only fractional successes. The hu man problem in that city has been too big for men. Is it too big for women? Good government of cities is the most difficult problem con fronting America., But good city government is making progress, and women have been a contributing force. Women are humanizing gov ernment; they are demanding that the human being be given prece dence. The suggestion of Jane Addams for mayor of Chicagotaken in con nection with unsuccessful attempts elsewhere to line up the woman vote for women candidates at city elec tions, because they were women, has significance. It is significant that Chicago women propose that Miss Addams stand as a non-partisan can didate, for partisan politics has no proper place In municipal elections. It Is especially significant that Chi cago women's first use of their new ly acquired right of franchise has turned them toward a woman of Miss Addams' standing. CRITICISM OF COURTS w HEN Judge Smith McPherson comes to .the defense of newspaper criticism of courts, , as he did Thursday at Colorado Springs, the presump tion is that courts sometimes need criticism. Judge McPherson knows, for few courts have been subjected to keener criticism than has the fed eral court over which he presides. He is right in saying that a judge must commahd respect. He sees the relation of things when he says it is not much to the credit of a man to have said of him that he is honest. It is fundamental that judges must be honest; it should' be' fundamental that they give honesty free scope of action.. : ', - Criticism that directs attention to technicalities used for defeating jus tice is not criticism of, .a court; it is criticism of an .individual wearing a court's vestments. Judges will be beyond ' criticism when they, com mand respect, and not until then.. - v Colonel Harvey having selected Senator Borah as the Republican presidential nominee ifor 1916, the gi. o. pr:imay just as well dispense with the usual formalities.' Imitation may be" the sincerest flattery,' but will hardly console Pen dleton for the impudent theft of wi er duck byototKton as the slogan of its frpntier show. Oregon pioneers are undoubtedly proud of this young .commonwealth's remarkable growth. Yet it Is prob- aMo that few among them would not, If tliey could, hark back to tho duys of their youth and boo tho state as they once saw it a wilderness of foreat and stream and Bagolrusn plain. And as for recreation, gun nlng for Indians beats the 'nioviW ---froin a pioneer standpoint. Congress haH no further ,oxcuh for delay in solving, its problems of political economy,' now that the col lege graduates are charting the seas for tho ship of state, t , Georgia's penitentiary contains no newspaper men, but not a few Geor gia readers will doubtless consider this an Inexplicable oversight. A New' York woman made five beds in eight minutes, but public praise of her record, doesn't come from those who Blept In them. tToromiinlratloiM tent to The Jourutl for publlritHon la tbli department ibould b writ irn un onlr od tide of tb Ptiwr. (bould not txtt-Rd Sou word la lnf ta end mutt bt s camtuuled br th turn and addi-M of tbt rnder. It the writer does not daelr M Mr tb aim publlfbod. be ebouli o sum.) Woman's Influence Upon Laws. -Hood rtlver; Or., June 14. To the Ed itor of The Journal In, the Orceronian of Juhe 13, on page 10, is an interesting article: "Hobbles for Federal Courts.' In The Journal of same date, is an ar tlcle, on page 1. "Woman - Buffrag Amendment (Jets . Favoring Report" Now if this suffrage amendment passes congress, and I nape it will, we some day will have woman Judges ou tho federal bench, and If thev wear' ''hob' bie skirts" they may not need any otn er "hobbles." one of our noted public speakers Bald years, end year ago Women are wiser than we. are. and they are willing to admit it." 1 guess this is so, and I would like to see at least half our judges, lawyers, ' Jurors, or juroresses, as well as other officers, women. I don t see how a woman can have a fair trial when the Judge, Jurors and lawyers who handle her case are ail men. Men may try ever so hard to deal out justice to a woman, but it seems to me almost an Imposlbllity. When we elect a few. women as law makers perhaps the courts will not be bothered o much as to what tho law s In any given case. Our supreme court recognizes "Gould on ' Pleading" as a good authority. On the first page of the preface to the fourth edition are these words: "No extent of revision. or 'reform, will ever make untrue tha maxim that 'the law Is unknown t him who knoweth not the reason there, of.'" Now compare this with what our preface to "General Laws of 1911" says: "The enrolled acts, as filed in the office of the secretary of state, are uu of had spelling, improper punctua tion, and apparent omission of neces sary words." On the first page of the preface to "General Laws of 1913" we find this: "The-enrolleJ acts, as filed in the office of the sec retary of fctate, contain some Incorrect penipg, improper punctuation, and ap parent omiKsions of necessary words.' "The state printer corrects obvious errors," etc Now this looks to me as if the state printer wero lawmaker" to some extent The more haste, the less soeed" an- plies with equal fitness to Jaw as well ar other business, and although alter a case is started there is plenty of tlmo isiten oerore a decision is rendered, generally; yet it 'seems to me a little more slowness In passing, laws, and a little more haste in enforcing them, Js what the people wish. Still, I have no desire to find fault, as I am a weak ling myself. We hear a good deal about "man-dam-us" proceedings. If .we get woman Judges; will it be "women-dam-us" proceedings? I don't think so. . lour editorial in Friday's Journal un der the title, "Illinois and Women" should be an eye-opener to some women of today, for If they don't look out for their rights no one will do so, lfseemx. It is an old law maxim, "No man should sleep upon his rights," and why should a woman, unless she thinks faith is bet ter than wisdom? J. M. BLOSSOM - The Lobbyists. ' Oregon City, Or., June 1, -To the Editor of The Journal I have noticed in the papers that nobody seem to be able to define a lobbyist, or, an I would prefer to say, does not care to. It ap pears to me that a corporation or "big business" concern that, after hav ing been beaten at the polls, resorts to defpicablo means of defeating tho popular will of the people by employ ing; men who are posted In every par ticular, to go to Washington person ally to influence representatives of the people, Is guilty of lobbying. I also notice that a senator accuses President Wilson of lobbying. Now, I would say in regard to thia that If President Wilson did not do everything that lay in his power to present the will of the people to congress he would not be the man that the people ex pected he was when they voted for him. We know too well by experience what those lobbyists will resort to. I believe a law should be passed making it a criminal offense for anyone to approach a representative Individually on matters of legislation; especially should this be forbidden tothose in terests that have been defeated at the polls. , . j, Qt Scores Health Certificate Law. Portland, June 17. To the Editor "of The Journal Much is beine said about the marriage license traffic now going4 to Vancouver on account of the new law requiring a certificate from a "licensed physician, or-Allopatltlc doc tor. The law, like all other sumptuary laws' or claws legislation. Is illeRal,: un constitutional and not worth the paper it is printed on. It was passed at the behest of the dominant Sehcrol- of political doctors, who: seem to control legislation, and is one of the many schemes of the American Medical as sociation, or medical trust, to increase private medical practice. The consti tution of the United' 8tates guarantees all men equal rights; the right to choose his healer of any school as well as his religious adviser, and the sooner people wake up to this fact the sooner they can assert their legal rights. The Allopathic school of medicine, which is only experimental, and has re peatedly reversed itself,, has been , on the toboggan for years; as the people have awakened to tbe fact that medi cines . ands operations cure nothing. There are skilled; physicians of the ' Naturopathic, . Eclectic, Hom eopathic, IlyAropathlc, - Osteopath ic, Chiropractic, ISwedish ' iWe ments and other drugless schools go" far In advance of the -carving .and serum injecting ( school that comparisons are odious; yet, owing to the suptneness and ignorance of the appointing pow ers, none of these schools is,.'ecognzed on tne various "health boards."- , Be I tig class legislation 1n favor of Letters From the People ; SrTTTninrl'ho appTIeaTniuV gut away for a marriage 'license' and Is refused by a county clerk, becusse1 he has no certificate from a "licensed" Allopathic doctor, hag legal" ground fof a suit for damages against the -clerk and his bondsmen. The law is only a graft to incrnemdjval itractfecr for 'no doclojry!,hcrself is tainted? The saving -of Uioy PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CUANCU The woman pioneers, after all, bora ins Heavier uuruciiN, ' e If there were no au h thing as wrth er, wouldn't many ptiopla be dumb? I.. e The only trouble with Jun I thi It Ima only 30 duys, inntead of 300. ur OVVV, 1 . Every saloon keeper who violates thu law U helping to put saloons out of uumiiewi! suogoiner. People who make and carry on the worms mnocont umuntimcnu are also among iiona io oe recognized as Its benefactors, . . It looks like the big trusts would ne inclined to do something to cause their dissolution; It seems to add great ly to their prosperity. . ' , -.With his reputation, It la a wonder that many women are not clamoring for the privilege of furnishing ball for diamond broker Von Klein. . ' e 'Mr. Benson will unsnVt mnn... fight hard liquor only, not beer or wines i-oi .!; ,,lle nop growers ana vine- jaiuimy may Decome ma allies. ' This is the tlmn nf a I , 11 " 1 1 n u (i J" whi-ii ana is most loath to leave even for a few hours, the beauti ful, blooming and fragrant earth. Mr. 8. Benson, a mminneir. "ll'J,' 0'nSLo spend many thousands of dollars fighting whiskey,- but he mar lobbT harttCtorUatln n insidious If the governing rrimtnlln.,. m employ, canabln man. nnrl Mnltr am mnn as are actually neededi iand will pay nnim iph out nniv wnat their services are really respectively worth, J.h L.111 mak, comma.ndaWe and val uable innovation. ... ODDITIES OF THE "EDIBLE BUG" By J. Earl Clauson. . Did you know that the lobster is a relative of the butterfly? The kinship la 'hot merely that of two members of the animal kingdom.' The lobster and the butterfly are actually in one and the same great group of the kingdom, like the clam and the snail, or the whale and the giraffe, whose spheres of activity are so widely separated. It is patent even to unskilled observa tion that there is close relationship be tween the lobster and the crab; but It demands some scientific knowledge to associate the traditional Broadway dain ty with, for Instance? the beach flea, lilch has helped to render us uncom fortable at our favorite bathing re sort, or, more strikingly-still, with the wood louse. Tet all three are Included In the subdivision of Crustacea known as the malacostraca, and from the Crus tacea to the other subdivisions of the arthropods which Include butterflies, June bugs and bumblebees, Is not a pro digious step. WlTlle, therefore, it may not be scien tifically accurate to refer to the lobster as a bug, that popular creature Is actu ally much more an Insect than it Is a mollusc, like tho oyster with which it lives in close neighborliness, or than a fish, like those which swim about and frequently afford the lobster a meal. Will It destroy your taste for lobsters to be reminded that they are first cousins to the house fly? It is simply, as Darwin pointed out 'in the case of other creatures a great many years ago, that the lobster and its friends, the crab, ' the prawn and the shrimp, chose one method of life, while the butterfly and its set chose another. So the first crowd developed character istics suited to the conditions in which it lived, including as one of the most Important, since its members do not move rapidly for great distances, a coat of armor to protect them from their In numerable enemies; whll the butter files and the great host of other winged arthropods shed every bit of superfluous weight, trusting to swiftness to carry them out of danger, and to protective coloring to conceal them when flight is unavailing.. ' . During tha last 15 years our knowl edge of the lobster has increased to such an extent that at present there is probably no marine-invertebrate that Is better known. .""": In the course of the research into tbe lobster's makeup and mode . of living many curious facts have been revealed. Not many years ago some well inten tioned persons interested In the preven tion of cruelty to animals movement agitated against the manner of prepar ing that delightful dish known as broiled live lobster. It was argued that hideous cruelty was involved in putting any ani mal on a hot grill when It was still alive. . In principle the argument was sound enough; but there Is comfort In remem bering that the lobster Is one of the most primitive of animals In Its nerv ous"" organization, and its sufferings cannot therefore be measured in terms of -uman understanding. Its intelli gence is limited to elemental Instincts, such as concealment from enemies, the search for food arid the reproduction of species. It lacks wholly the sense of bearing In our meaning of the- word, its vision is dim and its dependence in the struggle for existence is on its sense of smell. It is credited also With the possession ofx the fifth sense taste, which enables it to distinguish between fresh food and foul, and to display a preference -for the former. It is the scavenger of the ocean floor only be cause it is not equipped for catching all the living-Trey it wouta line. Amn. the odd orsans with which the lobster is equipped are its balancers, or statocysts. In so supporting ana ri less an element as salt water,, and with a coat ot heavy armor on it back, the animal has to fight continually against being overturned and deposited bottom i.nw.rd. To enable it to wage a success ful battle for equilibrium the statocysts haVe been developed, xney consist oi ur mp in the base of the first pair ot antennae. It was believed that these were auditory organs unin noi wa ago some scientist revealed their true func tion. The location of the statocyst is ln- ActA bv a shallow pit. of the outer rsKln. A minute porerbarely large enough to admit the point or a pin, opens mro.ugn this into a chamber on the floor of which are 400, more or less, tiny hairs, oii earth, can tell about a man's physi cal condition umesa ne Dears uuiwaiu evidence or scars of venereal disease. Let some man--bring suit for dam ages and the force will soon end . ,i, . A REFORMED. ALLOPATH. Why, to Vancouver? .Portland, Or.,: June 19. -To -the Editor of The Journal Anent th .new mar riage law and Its effect upon the June brides, it seems, that a few questions is tne preaueciion of th rounles to so to Vancouver, and Tlnfs sot wayrronTThe exumfiiaUoiiTbeiiig abided by, except for the prescribed by Oregon,' to be considered an admission on the part of the groom that he would be unable to show a clean bill of health and can ths consent nf the to-be bride be gelned for such a pro cedure by anv other reason thairthat she AND. NEWS IN BRIEF OKEGO.V SIDELIGHTS The riiriKiKHl(iii of the Christina cliiiicli at R'ikiT, not waiting fur the rni)otlon of the new church, meets for HfM-vk-t's in tho IjitMcmcnt of the rUIng edifice. e Two cltlarns of Paisley were fined lust week liu Justice court fur using proi fune lnngiiHKn. On swore In a theatre und one un the publie street, "Ten and? costs," His Honor said. e . ...... '. , The 'Misfits" man of the Albany Democrat Invites ' Teddy Roosevelt to come out to Linn county and go up Into the hills for a rouli time of It, "and if that isn't enotieh, he might try some of the rouds ground Albany," i ''. ' The Estacada Progress points the way to specialisation In an entirely new field by suggesting a thistle cutting day as a phase of the local cleanup campaign. It nominates the Ladles' Improvement club to be leader in tne good work. Hood River county and the city of Hood River have mighty little use for their new Jail,, now that they have it. Tha viclnaae warms with berry Dickers, power project laborers, workers on the streets ana oiner transients; yei noi a man has been Incarcerated 'for more than a month. : , , , . Falls City News: Farmer Martin Deal owns a cat. The cat has two kit lens. Mr. Deal caught two young- rab bits and aavo them to the cat family for food. Mrs. Cat adopted the rabbits, in stead ot eating them,. and Is doing her best to raise them In the way good kittens should be brought up. . .. - H. E. Browne, the veteran newspaper man, wno recently severed nis connec tion with the Independence Enterprise to enter the dally field as a reporter, hna returned to his first love, and will become once more an ornament to the country press, as soon as he snail nave suited himself as to location. each provided with ' a nerve element. Some' of the hairs have bent shafts, some are threadlike, and to the tips of many are glued a great many fine grains of sand.. The chamber Is filled with wa ter. When some disturbance of tbe ele ment in which It lives, or the pull of gravity, disarranges the lobster's equilib rium, the swaying of the body causes the little hairs to tremble, or the grains of sand to rattle over them, and a warn ing is sent to the whole nervous system to guard against an upset. There is no more remarkable phenome non of invertebrate life than the poVer of the lobster and its kind to amputate limbs wiil and develop new ones. It ofii (en occurs inat Dy me bhcfuico pi a cIhw the crustacean can escape with Its life from an enemy; and It never hesi tates to make the sacrifice. It is as if a man whose foe had caught him by the hand was to drop his entire arm at tbe shoulder socket, confident that within a short time a new arm would replace the one that was lost This process, which is known to sci ence as anatomy, Is accomplished through reflex muscular contraction. Nature has established a definite breaking plane, where the amputation always takes place. There Is little loss of blood, and within a few days new tissue of the kind destroyed makes its appearance at the place of the wound, and the work of regeneration is begun. Lobsters are restricted in their growth by an inelastic shell, which when the body within demands larger quarters is cast off to give place tp a new one. Molts in the adult lobster may be as Infrequent as once In' two years, and the regenerated member may wait upon two or more molts before attaining the size of tbe lost one. In Its first year it molts from 14 to 17 times, and attains a total length of not to exceed three Inches. To reach a marketable state teff inches it must molt from 23 to 25 times, a process that requires five years for the male and a year and a half long er for the female. As the lobster grows older.-the periods between molts lengthen, following the universal law that youth is the time for growth. Whether there is for the lobster, as for land animals, an age limit for Increase of size, has not been definitely determined. It is suspected, however, that the molting process is con tinued throughout life; since it Is essen tial not alone to growth, but to escape from troublesome parasites that attach themselves to the shell Jt may be that natural death comes to the lobster, not directly from old age, but -from weak ness, which prevents it from casting its heavy armor, rusty from use and scarred in many a conflict. Under favorable conditions the lob ster attains a ripe old age, greater than the dog's and equal to the horse's. Es timating from- what Is known of the rate of growth, a lobster 22 inches long had reaohed 33 years. It had also a weight of Jl pounds. The largest lobster of which authentic details exist weighed 34 pounds. It wag taken alive by fishermen off Atlantic Highlands, N. J in the spring of 1897. Another giant was taken In the same waters in the spring of 1897. This sped men weighed 31 pounds. Today the ordinary restaurant lob ster seldom exceeds a pound and a half; In the early days of the fisheries, how ever, giants must have been abundant in the same waters where now one of 10 pounds' weight is photographed 'for the newspapers., . -t In this year of grace, before the benefi cent results of learned and patient in vestigation have been felt in any gen eral way, lobster is one 6f the most ex pensive of foods. Its purchase includes more waste than does almost any other comestible from the sea. Chemical analy sis gives the proportions of edible parts and shell as follows: Total edible part, 39.77 per cent; shell, 8747 per cent; loss In cleaning, 2.76 per cent. 'The pro portions of water-ande dry substance In the edible portion are estimated to be: Water, 82.73 per cent;, dry substance, 17.27 per cent. The' clear meat of the tail and claws constitutes only 27 per cent of the lob ster's Entire weight. Adding to this other easily accessible parts which are ordinarily picked out might, bring the tota) saved to one-thjrd the weight With loffster costing, , as if does generally nowadays, 30 to 35 cents a pound, the person with a taste for this sort of food -whose, nutritive value, by the way, compared with beef taken as a Standard, Is 61.97 per cent pays from 90 cents to 11.05 a pound. ' . ' .,' difference - between, the J2.50- medical fee and the expense of a trip for two to Vancouver is so trivial that even the mention of It is silly, and I believe that when this proposition is looked upon in its true light by the public a Van couver marriage will carry with It such a stigma that it will become decidedly unpopular, v This law was passed to remedy an entirely too prevalent condition, and as a lirotection to women, and while I think it should have Included, both if exesthera JJa. flatxeuan for lie .nut rea sons stated. Whlle-could readily un. defstanijwhy, a se.lf -respecting man living in another state should come to Oregon-ho have ihe ceremony per formed, an opposite course Is beyond my comprehension. J 1 - CUA8,- K. SHORT, DESPOTISM IN WEST VIRGINIA . From tlm Taciturn Ti llAine. , RcgardlcHM of the merits 'of the con troversy betWHTN the miners and mlim owners in -West .Virginia, the uiidlnput."l tustlmonyof witnesses In the ln-ii'ilntf before tho sonMe committee niiLBt inuk.! the blood of honest men boll. The -an-thotittf of the slate -.apparently tiavt und the rights of! man 4n tliclr. Iilau handed luwlrssnetiN exercised uiuUt Uij clonk of authority, '" The constitution of the state of 't Virginia, child of the Civil war und or ganized when national feelings were in tense, provides Chat the constitution "f the United States shall always be in ef fect; that under no circumstances shall the" right of hubens corpus bei denied; that no citizen shall be deprived of lift', liberty, or property without due process of law; that the military authority slwil not supersede ' ihe civil authority evvn under the pleas of necessity; that tliera shall be trial before a Jury In open com t for all criminal offenses. Yet it appears that the rigut of habeas corpus has been denied; that cltlr.eiu have been deprived of their liberty with out due process of law;, that a so called military authority 'has superseded tho civil authority; that trial by Jury has beon denied to alleged criminal offend ers and they have been convicted and fined In accordance with the arbitrary, findings of drum head court-martials. The undisputed record shows that at the mandate, of the -mine owners the state authorities equipped an "armored" train, ran it through the strike regions and used rapid fire gun on defenseless wo men and children. ' , The definition of a new crime should be written snd placed on the' statute books. There shttulif .be Indictment and exemplary punishment of all public of ficers who misuse their power to nul lify constitutions. The disorder of the rioter who throws a brick at a time of excitement is nothing to the disorder ot a police officer who breaks up a peace able meeting or tha governor who kid naps free citizens by the use of the mili tary and holds them as his prisoners. From the Omaha World-Herald. Whether the senate committee Investi gation hastened it or not, war time rule (n'the coal strike district of West Vir ginia has ended. The last of the state troops have been sent home. ' The public must think It was high time, for, though the senatorial Inquiry Is stitll In progress, and probably will be for some time to come, enough light, Has been thrown up and , down Cabin creek and Paint orek to show that while the military held sway there wi an irrational despotism shocking to American sentiment. ' Tha Kern resolution, under which thu investigation was authorised, has been Justified, for It is in evidence that things have been done in the West Vir ginia coal strike regions that the Amer ican people could not have wanted done and which will never be done again, Two of the captains who were in com mandv testified that their proceedings were conducted without regard to tho civil laws of the state, that they ar rested, arraigned, fried and convicted offenders in the strike xone without u recourse to the civil courts, although these were not superseded, and they Im posed sentences without regard to thu limitations imposed by the laws of West Virginia. They frankly suld on the stand that they thought the constitu tion and statutes of West Virginia hnd been suspended. It was the drum luad court-martial for every alleged offender and every offense, -and the facts of iomn of the cases remind one of the revolu tionary tribunal of Paris -or tbe . sum mary deportation of prisoners to Siberia. vlartlul law may have been necessary, tough this is not established, but It was exercised without discretion, no That the perfectly innocent were madu tauffer as well as those against whom offenses were chtrged. ' It may be prqjllcted that the commit tee will find that there was an unwar ranted abridgement of the rights of thousands of citizens not directly in volved In the strike, and that the re sult of the Investigation will be a mora precise anJ severe limitation of. the power exercised under martial law. From the New York Press. -Without getting the lid much more than pried1 loose, the senate Inquiry in the West .Virginia coal fields already has proved that those who demanded it were entirely in the right The suspen sion of the processes of civil law In. fa vor of drumhead courtmartial proceed ings at a time when the courts were In operation and perfectly capable Of at tending to their own business, is nearly or quite without precedent. The mili tary commission which was sent Into the disturbed regions seems, from thu testimony to Jjava been quite as extremv in its methods as the most severe critics have charged. The theory on which the military commission acted was assured- . commission's members explain that they assumed that, martial law having been declared, tha constitution and alt its guarantees were suspended. The military commission becamsa the sole and su preme authority and its discretion was limited by no consideration of constitu tional rights and Immunities. It's Goodbye, John. From the Cincinnati Times Star. There is no hope in Kansas. The fol lowing is from the Hiawatha Kan.) World i, "John Smith will be operated on tomorrow by Dr. Hatchfield. Mr. Smith will leave a widow and three children." . v . . Summer Comfort for -the Stay-at-Homes The first warm days brlnji disappointments to many of un who cannot Join the genlil summer exodus from town, but who, for one reason or another, must stay in our houses r apartments during the warm months. . We can't all go to the moun tains or seashore, but. by a" careful and judicious expendi ture, every woman can muke . a summer atmosphere in her own home if she chooses. Rugs, heavy curtains, and ' draperies can be put carefullv away, and in their place can be substituted a whole new set of - things at a surprisingly low Vost There is an infinite num ber of fibre rugs In the market . to fit any size apace; there a:'e v dainty fresh, cotton curtain . materials In charming. designs; and as for cretonnes for f urn i-i- lure coveiUngs, , their beauty , and variety are bewildering Just read carefully thrnugr fthe housefurntghlng advertise ments in THE JOURNAL snd calculate for yourself how lit tle these , Mummer comforts t would actually cost,,' - t ..-.-rT.: ; -