malevolence ot this plague, it was not Forty-two bushels of wheat is until very re. ent years, however, that the estimated crop of Oregon, specific evidence lias been gathered which has convicted the fly of guilt be Washington and Idaho, accord yond a doubt, and only during his ing to an authority here who has recent trial have the extent ami enor completed a trip through the grain sections. He finds that Succeeding Gresham Vindicator, Gresham Gasette, East Multnomah Record mity of his crime« lieen established. The cheif specialties of the tiy are Oregon will produce 15.000.000 Multnomah Record and Montavilla Herald. now known to tie the transmission of Published Every Friday at Gresham, Ore., by the B batbb S tat « P ublishing C o intestinal diseases, typhoid fever, chol- | bushels, Washington 18.(MX),(HM) H. A. PARS ALL. E ditor and M a nag kb . 9, (MX), 000 era and diarrhea It has also been bushels and Idaho pointed out in recent studies by the bushels. Unfavorable weather KntervU a» ««cond-clas* matter at the postoffice at Urea ham. Oregon Local Government Board of London conditions during the past winter SUHSCfttPTtOH IITES Per Year. Si *M> in advance; to foreign countries. St M>. Six Month» that lie may very poa«ibly carry tuber in some sections caused a falling ?S Three month* trial subscription« W Single copies &c. Ask (or clubbing rates culosis, anthrax, diphtheria, ophthal UBiTTMCfS should N sent b> Express or Poatoffic« Mon«y Order, Registered letter or Check. mia small-pox, staphylococcus infection, off over the total yield of last Stamp» accepted up to 50 cents. year which was 52,500,000 bush •fCfirn (or subscriptions are not sent unless requested The change of label on your paper swine fever, tropical sole, and the eggs will indicate the receipt of your renutia i If it does not please notify us. els for the three states. of parastic worms. OiSCOiTHuHCfS If you do not wish » ar paper continued please notify us about the time the Hence the vigorous campaign now be subscription expires We find this plan most satisfactory to our patrons, though it is not in H. A. Lewis, superintendent ing carried on against the house-fly by accordance with our personal views civic assix'iationa and health Ixiards of the horticultural department CMARGt Of A004ESS In ordering change of address give old as well as new address. In many of the grange fair, has secured C044ESl*04DERTS are wanted in every community If no correspondence sppt'ars froai your throughout the country. neighborhood, you are respectfully requited to send us as many local items as you can. cities placard* have been posted warn the promise of $25 to be applied AOVERTlSlBC RATES PROFESSION AL CARDS (one inch). .'V each issue CARDSOFTHANKS (not exceeding two inches.) 50 cents. LETTKRsOF CONDOLENCE (not exceeding four inches) ing the people in terse text and graphic It will *1 OBITUARIES for subscriber* or their immediate families, free up to DM» word». I cent pictures of the danger from flies, and on art exhibit of apples. per word for additional words W ANT ADS st 1 cent per word for first in»erstion. subsequent be divided into two prizes of $20 insertions. IS to 20 words. 10 cents JO to »» word*. 15 cents. <u to <•» word?. J5 cents RE VDERS giving rules for protection from them ; 1 cent per word per issue DISPLAY ADVERTISING, rates ma le known on application. lectures on the subject are given, and and $5 to be given for the best All Lodge. Grange. School. Church, or other notices or advertisements of socials, parties, even the new popular (ad, the moving display of ten boxes of apples, dances, concerts, theatricals, etc . given for a profit, charged for at regular rates. In order to insure change of ad advertisers must have copy in this office not later than picture show, Ims lieen brought into commercially packed of course. Thursday preceding day of publication. service regarding the dangers of the This should call out some good JOT PtllTlOT is our specialty. We are well equipped to do the best work at current prices Especially farmers’ and business men’s Letter Heads. Envelopes. Butter M rappers. Statements, tnueca domestics, as the house-fly is exhibits. Besides getting the etc. in small or large quantities. Auction Bills. Dodgers. Posters, etc . printed on short notice. scientitlically called, or as l>r. I.. O. prize the winner stands a good Howard has aptly named it. the "ty phoid tiv.’’ liver IW |>er cent of the tiles chance to sell the apples at a LOT of good people down in a rare treat to besmirch his glos that visit our homes and surroundings bargain price. Portland are getting in sy coat with the filth and odors belong to this dangerous stweies terested in the salvation of the of rotting flesh. He then trots The form and character of the tiv's The 0. R. & N. is sending out dog. or else the damnation of the home, licks your hand, kisses the body is particularly adapted for carry a beautiful new booklet on the ing infectious material, and as it breeds dog. They are wasting a lot baby, rubs his sides against your in fecal matter almost exclusively and opportunities for pleasure seek sentiment in defense of the clothes, you pet him. smooth his at the rate of thousands for each indi ers in Oregon, as well as giving noble creature, dear creature we hair, allow him to drivel his sla vidual tiy, the consequent spread of the a few hints to the prospective were about to say. but we might ver over your hands and clothes, disease-breeding germs is apparent. home seekers. Copies for your be misunderstood. The dog is a and then wonder why the baby To prove by experiment, captured self or your friends for the ask- is sick or why you are troubled flies were thoroughly cleaned ami then ing. dear creature—high-priced. allowed to walk over infected material There is no doubt that there with indigestion, intestinal dis They were agaiu examined and the ma have been dogs that were worth eases. tape worms, blood poison, terial winch they carried analysed. In A Sdd Serenade their board. We have read of and all the other things that he one instance, a tiy captured on South Street, New York, last summer was By Eugen« L. Th<»r|«e them, and we have heard tell of ; carries. Our dog may return. If he found to be carrying in his mouth ami them but we never saw one. We on his legs over 100,000 fecal iiactena. "Sighing, dying, lying, frying have seen dogs that were pretty does we will just let him live on. In fact it has been shown that the In the furnace of loves' tire; as pictures, and noble looking He isn’t to blame for being here. number of bacteria on a single tiy may Weeping, creeping, leaping, sleeping, But when he goes, range all the way from 250 to fi.OOO.iXk). Yet my love will ne'er expire.' fellows, but the best of them do We are. more to endanger the lives of when he departs for the unknown This fact becomes even more startling Tbit the song the lover sang their masters and the members from whence no canine ever re when one consideres how rapidly this Aa he tuned hit light guitar ; insect multiplies. It is estimated that of their families than ever was turns, our ownership in dogs one tiy laying 120 eggs at a time will These the words the still night rang, or ever will be offset by the good ends, and we hope our present have a progeny amounting up to the Echoing out their wild notes far. “Moping, groping, hoping, sloping of a hundred dogs could have opinion will not find cause for sextillions at the end of the season. From the fates that lure me on; We are spending considerable time done for him. Occasionally we variation. Cheering, nearing, bearin ', fearing. and money in a war on mosquitoes. (The dog came back.) find a really useful dog. a dog Ixive’s last hope is dead and gone.'' The eases of malaria reported in Greater that can be trusted, that can be New York in 1905 were but 459 and the Then he touched the tinkling chords , found when you want him. that HE INTEREST that is being deaths only 52. Low and tender was the strain, shown in the extermination of Much more is to lie feared from the Hushed his voice, but music's words stays where you want him, and does as you want him to do, but the fly is almost wonderful. common house-fly. This so-called Bore the maid thia sweet refrain. we guarantee that there are not Scarcely twenty years ago the fly harmless insect is one of the chief “Airv, fairy, tarry; marry sources of infection, which in New York more than 50 really useful dogs was considered almost a blessing City One that loves and loves yon most. causes annually about 960 deaths in the city of Portland, and per in disguise. He was at worst a from typhoid fever and about “U00| Scary! dar« I! Hari-Kari! troublesome little torment that deaths yearly from other intestinal dis I'll suicide and yield the ghost. haps in the whole county. Gambol of Grins By Parker ♦ GOOD AT THE SQUEEZE. Alice- la that Wall street admirer Scribbler— I've taken this Joke to of yours a bull or s tn>nr? twenty seven editors, and they have Ethel—Well, he has some bearish all refused to buy It. traits. Jonx That's what I call carrylug a Joke too far. A T One trouble with the dog is that insisted in dabbling into every he must be fed to be of any use. thing, getting a taste of all our It costs something to feed a best foods, giving us an occasion good dog properly, and the same al nip and soiling the windows amount of food given to a half and fine articles of clothing and We have heard it dozen hens would keep the fam furniture. freely contended that flies were ily in eggs. A half starved cur is of no use. a blessing. That their existence He gads the streets and the coun was necessary to the removal of try, performing all sorts of nui decomposing matters and that sances, polluting every object1 should flies be exterminated the that attracts his attention, and dangers arising from inhaling menacing the lives of the child nauseous odors the source of ren on the way to school or which is somewhat lessened by market. No object is too good to the devouring appetite of the fly suffer from his vagaries. I have larva, would produce all manner a dog myself. I have seen him of dangerous diseases. The spoil a woman’s fine dress, kill theory that disagreeable odors my own chickens for pure devil are the source of disease has try, bite a child, pollute the veg been about overcome. Since the etables in the garden and on the days of the plague in England, display rack. He is always some perhaps long before that, the other place. Been away from mystery of the unseen foe that home now two days, and we hope has infected whole towns has he will never come back. The been charged to the odors that only thing he will do worth while have arisen from the polluted is to chase the chickens out of locality. Aa a matter of fact, the yard, and he don’t do that the sickening, nauseating action well; and make it lively for all of any odor is its worst and the cats in the neighborhood. practically only crime. Along He sometimes goes crazy over a with the odor, however, possibly, chipmunk he can’t get, and he countless invisible germs have occasionally warns away a Dago risen to do the work charged to the innocent though vile per peddler. We say the dog is expensive. fumes that have infested these Just now you hear a lot about localities. the fly. Yes, the FLY. He is In the light of modern micro credited with being theawfullest scopical knowledge the true scourge that the world supports source of all these dangers is ex and we are just beginning to plained, and while we have been find it out. The fly is a scaven satisfied with screen doors and ger, he luxuriates in filth. He poison pots for the mature fly for smears himself with the vilest the last decade — fighting the fly decompositions and the most as a nuisance,—the next decade dangerous germs and then comes will see us exterminating the fly into your home and inspects it as a dangerous enemy whose for a good place to deposit his weapons are not mechanical. eggs or to secure a good meal, The following article from the walks all over everything, con Review of Reviews contains so taminates everything, leaves his many good points that we trust way strewn with filth and death, every reader of the Herald will and yet only a few years ago the endeavor to read it. best of us thought the fly’s Moaes must have ha<l some realization worst fault was his autograph. of tlie danger from Hies, for lie witu ss- e<l their dreadful ravages among the Now a dog, flylike,is of the tribe Egyptians at the time of the captivitv of scavengers. There is nothing of the Israelites. But probably even too vile for his nose, he has a before, and certainly many time« since, degenerate taste. He deems it have thinking people sua|>ecte<l the eases. The statistics in practically all American cities—and in many foreign cities, too, for that matter—show a marked rise in the number of deaths from typhoyd fever and intestinal dis eases during the tiy season. In cities where flies are the chief cause of intestinal epidemics the other seasons of the year show comparative freedom from the disease, while in cities where water and uiilk epedemics exist these epedemics may occur at anv sea son of the year. The milk epedemic, however, often takes the place during the fly season because of the infection of milk by flies at the farm or in the milk depots The danger to health is greatest in parts of the city where sanitary pre cautions are most neglected ; but even if you live in a comparatively well-cared for part of the city do not receive the fly into your home as a harmless visitor for lie may come in a carriage or on horseback from the most City parte of tlie city. Hitherto the fly has been regarded as a liarmbess nuisance anil considered to be an annoying creature with great per sistence and excessive familiarity. Re garded in the light of recent knowledge the fly is more dangerous than tlie tiger or the cobra. Worse than that, lie is, at least in our climate, much more to lie feared than tlie mosquito, and may easily lie classed as the most dangerous animal on earth. Thus was heard the mournful word Floating on the quiet air; But another, too, was stirred, Beside the maiden young and fair. Flashing, slashing, smashing, crashing Came the old man s heavy tread; Dashing, mashing, lashi'ig, hashing With his cane the young man's head. Hushed the love-song and the music. Broken banjo—banged-up head; That voting man is feeling too sick. Now he court« the softest bed. BEACH NORTH QUEEN OF THE NORTHWEST RESORTS Near the Mouth of the Columbia River, on the Washington Coast THE PLACE TO SPEND YOUR SUMMER VACA HON Twenty • (Ge Miles of Magnificent Beach I^vel, Coni|«ct and Smooth Many thriving and tidy communities, delightful hotel, cot tage, tent and camp life. All the comforts of home and the healthful, invigorating recreation of the seaside, surf bathing, fishing, clam digging, lieach bon fires, riding, racing, hunting, strolls and drives through picturestque wooded headlands Reduced Rales from all parts of Wash, or Ore. VJ A— -- Wisa _ — Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. Season Rate: From Portland Round Trip, $4.00 Three Day - Saturday to Monday Rate, $3.00 I'urcliKM- tickets and make reservations at City Ticket Office, 3rd and Wash Streets, Portland, or impure of any O K. A N. agent 1-larwlwre for information. WM. M c M urray , General Passenger Agent. PORTLAND, ORL. Elephants. Elephants, those animal sages that are constantly changing keepers, be come so wine and know no much about the tricks of the trade and human ni- ture In general that they finally will not work for any man. It I n doubtful If there Is a bull e'ephant mort than fifty years old performing In this coun try They have not "gone bad.” as the showmen say. but have learned too much, picked up from toelr keepers, and they cannot be worked with safe ty. A d elephant that Is going to make trouble turns tils back on tils Intended victim and liegins to swing his great lexlv from side to side Then lu a flash tie wheel», catches the offender with tils tniuk and burls him perhaps twenty feet away, following swiftly to crust) tlie life from Ills ixidy with his mighty knee«. PORTLAND RAILWAY LIGHT & POWER CO. FREQUENT RAPID COMFORTABLE Springwater Division STATIONS POKTI.AND l.v Golf Junction 5 fllanley *• ixnta J unction ■< Hyramorc.. 1 Jennt* . Llnn<-mann 5 GREHHAM 5 Houm Anoerson.. Hairy Boring BIrfer Bar lo h D»*rp Cr« rk Eagb < rwk. (Jtirrinsville. Es ta<*a<1n Ar (AZADERO LASIHOI JND 13 'TJ 31 31 AA II n An Essay on Cats, A schoolboy wrote an essay on rnta The chapter on different breeds ■up* plies the following information: "Cain that's made for tittle boys and girls to maul and tense la called Mai tease cats. Home cats la known by their queer purr»—these are called I’ur- A r slan cata. Cats with very bad tempera la called Angorrle cata. Homelimes u STATIONS very fine eat la called a Magnificat Cat» with deep feelln's la called Eelin» CAZADKIU) i.» I Estacada cats.”—Exchange. Oregon’s apple show will be held in Portland November 30 to December 2. It will be a great exposition of the state’s fruit growing possibilities and it will be of wide interest because of Oregon’s fame as the home of the red apple. There promises to be exhibits entered in com Estimatsd In Monsy. petition for prizes from every "Tommy,” said the bone, “you quit apple-growing county in the state. ( smoking two or three months didn't you?” The Corvallis Commercial club “Yes. sir." answered the office boy. has already offered $100 for the "How much have you gained In ” best apple exhibit from Benton weight? "Well. sir. countin’ It In nickels. I county and the Hood River Com reckon I’ve gained about four pounds.” mercial club has offered $50 for —Chicago Tribune. prizes for the best apples shown Diplomacy. from that section. Other coun She Inngc<l fol* n now hnt. Ko «he ties will yet be heard from in be.'ii n to worry her biiMbnnd for »1 iirw dress. the same way. ||e-_A new dress! Can't afford It. Tn eight pints of corn cut from the cob put one pint of «nit. t'over with water, bent thoroughly and can with water to cover com. Put nugar to It before It goes to ths table, aa It Im- prove« It Minister- That poor fellow nnkrtl inc for a dime for hlM hungry family, nml DEMAND AND SUPPLY. I preached a Nprnitui on the evils of Old I July Does either of you boys mendicancy to him. use naughty wools? "Hid you give him the dime?*' First KI<1 Well. I ain't much of a “Certainly I couldn't take up a hand nt It. but lllll here kin cuas fini* collection from him, could 1 ?" < 'uaa fvr de Indy. Bill. Ctirrlnsvlll»' I Eagle Creek Deen Creek. 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