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HelplHelpI I'm Falling Thus cried the hair. And a kind neighbor came to the res cue with a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. The hair was saved ! In gratitude, it grew long and heavy, and with all the deep, rich color of early life. Sold in all parts of the world for sixty years. " About on year aeo I lost nearly all of my hair following an attack of measles. I was advised by a friend to use Ayer's Hair Vigor. 1 did so, and as a remit I now hare a beautiful he id of hair." HUM, W. J. BaowN. Menoni one Falls, WU. Uads by J. 0. Ayer Oo., Lowell, Mats, f Also manuiaaturara of I 8ARSAPADJLU. PILLS. 1 CUGBfir PECTC5AL. Face.- "Well," laid the customer, as he pain the barber and moved toward the door, "I feel like congratulating myself on get ting safely out of a mighty bad scrape." By placing himself promptly on the out side of the barber shop he avoided get tins himself into a mic'aty bad scrap. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. '1 her is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constltn tlonal remedies.. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustacuian '1 ube. When this tuba is inflamed r; rou have a rumbling sound or linperf ict hear nz. a id when it is entirelv closed. Doafnfts is the resut, and unless the inflammation can be taen out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; li ne cases out of tenjire caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition oi the mucous surfaces. We will Rive One Hundred Dollars for an caso of leafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send foi circulars, free. . . . F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. BoM bv Drupcists. 75c. Taa Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Doesn't Always Follow. Because some men get over a fence safely with a loaded gun it is not al ways safe to assume that they won't examine a mule's heels to settle a bet Washington Post . ...... . 1 THS DAISY FLY KILUI destrora all the flies and affords comfort to every home in dining room, sleeping room and ever place where flies are troublesume. Clean, neat and will not soil oi Inlura Btivthins. k :"; v1a.l -. eft. J y mKi Try tham once and yon will never be without them, U not kep' by aeft.rs, sent prepaid for 20o. BABOLD HOMERS, lt DeKalt Avs Brooklya, X. T l -4 . I i , , i i ' ! if . I". If -' l' .'(VI : A. i .srtaSj St, Helen's Hall, Portland, Or. Resident and Day School for Girls Catalogue on Request in Food 1 Products Libby's Ccoked '.Corned -'Beef-' There's a big dllfer ence between just corned beef the kind sold in bulk and Libby's Ccoked Corned Beef. The difference is in the taste, quality of meat and natural flavor. Every fiber of the meat of Libby's Cooked Corned Beef is evenly and mildly cured, coofeed scientifically arid carefully packed in Lilly's Great W'lilte Kiicbcn It forms an appetiz ing dish, rich in food value and makes a sum mer meal that satisfies. for Qaick Serving : Libby's Cooked Corn ed Beef, cut into thin slices. Arrange on a platter and garnish with Libby's Chow Chow. A tempting dish for luncheon,dinner,supper Writ far frt "book I I "flow) to Mlu Good n.... a. VaL taiM Likky'a wl yaaiealate. A u Alters a jrrr JL. -i i n m Mir cr a, n ? r s mjr Ltty. CMcay STATE CONTROL OF WATER. Paper Presented at Recent Meeting of Oregon State Grange. By John H. Lewis, State Engineer. When we see the miracles wrought by irrigat'on and think of the potential energy of our streams as representing thousands of acres of the most valuable coal lands, it is no wonder that we hesitate to-challenge the statement that the water resources of Oregon are to day its most valuable asset. Yet our legislators have persistently refused to enact laws governing the use and distri bution of this valuable commodity. Far-sighted eorporations are rapidly ac quiring perpetual franchises to the use of water for power development, with out present or possible future compen sation to the public, from whom the privilege is acquired. : Through the lack of a reliable record of vested rights to the use of water, the public has no means of ascertain ing the location and amount of unap propriated water which is available for new uses. Large quantities of water are being held without use through I actual or threatened litigation, and the intending investor or settler moves on to more progressive states, where water rights can be secured by application to . the state officers, and when granted are I protected, the same as other property , riehts. The holder of. these question able vested rights joins with the power interests in opposing the enactment of any law providing for public control and making beneficial use the basis of ights to the use of water. How Water Is Appropriated. Any person can acquire a water rirVht bv simdv costinff a notice at the 1 proposed point of diversion, stating the ! amount of water claimed, the intended . use, and recording a copy of the notice : at the county court house. If the water ' 1. Via niAil tnr iirinrafinfl nurrtnaAA. A certified copy of the notice must be filed with the state engineer within 30 days thereafter. . It makes no differ ence if the waters of the stream are already fully utilized at points below, The notice can specify any amount, even though such amount exceed the regular flow of the stream. It may be impossible to use the water beneficially for the purpose as claimed, but that makes no difference so long as construc tion is commenced within six months. Tour title is ' then, complete, but the reeord is not completed by the filing of proof that -work has commenced. By refiling every six months, a water right oan be held without the performance of any work until some legitimate investor trys to secure control of the same water right. - Then work must be commenced and prosecuted with due diligence. Un der this law one of our leading attor neys has stated that a one-armed man with a shovel, employed at the intake, san bold a water right indefinitely. Thus the legitimate investor must first bay off the notice mam, wlo has sob tributed nothing to the public welfare. Even the payment of this blackmail does not give him clear title to the necessary water, for the apparent sup ply may, perhaps, all be fully utilized in the adjoining counties below, through which the stream runs. In the absence of state eontrol, the nly way for this investor te even guess at the amount of unappropriated water is to first measure the stream, and then travel down the same, meas uring the maximum eapaeity of eaeh ditch, to ascertain how much of this water has already been appropriated. If the stream is a hundred or more miles In length, this task alone would discourage the most enthusiastic in vestor or settler. Then the records of water filings, under our present laws, must also be examined to ascertain how many rights have been initiated which may. ultimately become - vested and prove prior in time to his right. No tices claiming water, posted In thick ets along the banks of a stream, can not be found and are, therefore, of no value to him. The county records are of but little, if any more value, as the recorded claims to water invariably ex ceed many times the regular flow of the stream. For example, the records of Baker county show claims to the waters of Powder river for irrigation purposes amounting to over eighty times the flood flow of this stream at Baker City during 1905, and the 1,145 recorded claims for all purposes amounted to over one hundred and eighty times this flood flow. These claims, therefore, eannot all be vested rights, and it is impossible to ascertain from the reeord which, if any, are valid, or ultimately may become vested. Be sides, many ditches have been built and water diverted without any public reeord whatever. In a separate record will be found court deerees affecting titles to the water of this same stream. These decrees may divide the water among a minority of claimants, without My consideration whatever of the rights of the public in the unappro priated waters. The county reeord thus serves only to eloud title to unappro priated water and discourage invest ments. The stream nnder consideration by the investor may flow through or bor der on two or more eounties where wa ter titles are equally as complicated as described for Baker eounty. To ab stract the water records of the Deschutes river would require a jour ney of practically 1,000 miles, and the examination of the worthless records of five eounties. Under the 19Q3 act, all filings for irrigation purposes were to be recorded in the state engineer's office at Salem, but no penalty was provided to en force this provision. Out of 138 filings in Baker eounty under this act, only five were reeorded at Salem. Thus what was intended for a complete ree- Ovoatlr Enjorcd It. Borns (struggling author) That last book of mine agreeably surprised you, did it? I am glad to hear that. Naggue (literary editor) Tes; I ex pected te devote an entire evening to read ing it It put me to sleep la five min utes, ld fellow. - . Umollolt4 Tribute. "Aunt Letty," said her little nephew from the city, "I saw a bearded lady ia ti dime maseam once. She was a fake, bat you're the reel thing." ord is, therefore, of no value to the public. Resulting Litigation. The conditions in California are identical with those in Oregon. The Commonwealth club has labored for years to secure the enactment of mod- em watap Tanra anil in Ilia nrnitAitrlincra - of this club we find the statement that the bar of Calitornia was delighted to find in their primitive water laws such a fruitful source of income, and did nothing to remedy conditions. "The iTiiiJar::Tothi: is tunes of California, but these fortunes are held exclusively by the attorneys or tnree canaie power, auu cousiaerauie of record of the misguided individuals bent, and will burn for about three who availed themselves of the privilege ours. tX "A"' " reported that a student of th. sued ditch "B" and upon the sworn Eleetro-Techiiicnl Institute of St. Pet evidence introduced obtained a decree ersburg named Frendinberg has invent giving it a priority of twenty cubic ed an apparatus for exploding mines feet of water per second. Ditch "B" Dv wireless telegraphy. Numerous ex sued ditch C" with the same result; periments already made are said to Sh Z .amTrSt, 'lH !2 ed remarkably successful, were still 25 ditches diverting water The apparatus is also claimed to be from the same stream whose rights were not determined. Along the Walla Walla river in Ore gon, litigation to secure a proper di vision of the stream has been in prog rest for about 30 years, without settling a single issue, eal of many This experience is typi-, other communities and should serve to demonstrate the failure of the present system of distributing roceedin s if the brain' ev,dence of 'essenlng PrTheerena?re approximately 200 ditches ' Power and actlvlty PPears wlth the diverting water from this stream in a passage of years, he added the very in distance of 10 miles, for the irrigation teresting statement that the line of of some 5,000 acres. Nearly 500 per- present investigation demonstrates that sons or eorporations have been made the electrical current through the parties to the latest suit, and 25 law- br&ln rotates its molecules to such a ?ie;ht.:etwhi SeTer. i.izr? r the relative rights of the various Physiological response in the direction ditches will be known, but how will the ."' improved memory, water be divided among them! The Everybody knows that the water oi pieneer irrigator knows that the eourf the Great Salt Lake is verv dense as cannot deny hto hi. usual water "P-.wen as very salt, but many will be plv, and though his right has been de-1 . . . , termin.d for perhaps the second 0r1BUPPrlsed t0 l"m . that its density third time, the question is still, how,varles to a remarkable degree from to get this water at the time when time to time. For Instance, In 18S5 tho needed. How will he determine which density was 1.1225, and the percentage of the many ditches above is diverting by weight of solid constituents was water without right, in order to bring 10-710. ln lm the dellgity nml m. aVhnejUdn:rree TlZffi? & en the hf? parties to the suit. New appropriations corded- and tue Percentage of solids can and will be made, thus forcing new , to 27,721 ; In 1907 the density had di litigation. The same conditions which mlnlshed to 1.1810, and the percentage broupht on the present suit still exist of solids to 22.920. Of the solids ln and this decree, without additional leg- 1907i 12.67 per cent was chlorin, 7.53 islation, will be of no more value in j 53 t settling conditions than former decrees, i . . , . Th. .nnm. n.irf h, ,n.i.w. rl.. ! Phate radical, 0.72 per cent potassium, crees, has enacted practically all the water law of this state. To expect the court to provide In their decrees for the complieatr.l administrative machinery to make water decrees effective looks like a complete shifting of the burden from the legislature to the courts. This, in the opinion of leading water right lawyers, is not possible. One of the leading attorneys in the Walla Walla river ease estimates thut the present suit will ultimately cost be tween $20,000 and $25,000. This enor mous drain upon the agricultural re sources of this small valley, for a nega tive result, cannot help but retard set tlement and discourage capital. The purchase of a water right ln Oregon means the purchase of a law - suit. no litigation over water riguus in this state has ever settled any issue so that it eannot again be raised. The decrees are binding upon only the parties to the litigation. These decrees often serve to eumber title to the un used waters, as the state, interested in preserving the unappropriated waters for future users, has not been repre sented in court at trials of these eases. Conserving Our Waters. In the arid portion of this state the area of irrigable land far exceeds the regular water supply. The summer flow of these streams can be increased many fold by the storage of water in the mountains, and using the natural channel to convey such water to the place of intended use. This class of development, which is eneouraged and protected in Wyoming, Idaho and other states, is absolutely impossible in Ore gon, except under the most favorable conditions. Capital will not invest in such storage works until the state pro vides the necessary administrative ma chinery for protecting stored water as . it pastes down the stream past numer ous diteh diversions te the place of in tended isse. No State Protection. It is not a crime in Oregon to steal water. In fact, the law encourages it, As stated above, ay person ean ae autre a water richt bv posting a notice or digging a ditch and diverting water, regardless' as to the area of crops de stroyed at the lower end of the valley by such wrongful diversion. Without the necessary administrative machin ery, and a reliable record of vested rights to the use of water, it would be impossible to enforce any criminal law covering water, even if enacted. Theft of water in an arid region is as serious a crime as destroying the crop of another, since it amounts to the same thing ln the end, yet this state maintains no department having control of diversions from public streams. There is no department to which the homeseeker or investor can write to ascertain if the water rights claimed for eonstmcted works are as represented, or whether any unappro- priated water remains in a certain stream. Even if-unappropriated water exists, there is no method provided by 'AT ?.e?nlr,"K e'e8r " P" title ter this water from the public, to whom it belongs. it requires constant litigation ou toe part of early appropriators to secure their rights. Where the price of justice exceeds the value of the wter right, the place must be abandoned. " (CONCLUDED NEXT WE.) Accepted. "De yon consider your nerve is suffi ciently steady te It you for an airship navigator V "Well, I've been oat In a canoe with a nervous fat girL" Cleveland Plain Deal er. ; , Foiled, Balked, Tna Dw. "I will follow you to the end of the earth l" hissed the villain In her shell like ear. But the clever girl fooled him she didn't go there. Boston Transcript EffiM7ATD. 1 1 ttw-il7 vf ayaBrry In P"3 f Alaska is found a kind ot fish that makes a capital candle when it Is dried. The tail of the fisli 9 stuck luto a crack of a wooden table to hoIJ tt Unrlght, and its uose is rord1ing to gG,T and it gives a good, steady light , suited for directing Whitehead tor- oedoes at long ranges. At a recent meeting of the Roya Society of Canada, Sir James Grant, M. D., presented a paper on the neu- rous ana ceIls of the brains in their relation to the faculty of memory, and, after stating that, as with the other tissues of the body, so with the cells 0.45 per cent magnesium, and 0.04 per ent calcium.- ' - ; - The famous Neanderthal skull found in Switzerland ln 1S5G,' and other sim ilar skulls and parts of skulls found elsewhere In Europe, have been re garded as representing a distinct species of the human race, to which the name Homo Primlgcnlus has been given. Prof. W. J. Sollas undertakes to' show . that there are no grounds whatever for regarding the Neander thal type of man as a separate species. On the contrary, he thinks that "the Neanderthal race, the most remote from us ln time of which we have any ;knowledge( and the Australian, the most remote from us ln space, probably represent divergent branches of the same original stock." Doctor Lydekker remarks that this conclusion of Prof. Sollas' accords with the modern view that the native Australians are low grade members of the Caucasian, or European stock, instead of, ns at one .time supposed, half-bred oceanic ne groes. "The Veddnhs of Ceylon and the Toalas of Celebes apparently mark their line of march from the west to east" "SUMMER COMFORT 1" This Is the very latest for the 190a ummer glr- She, mu8 wuear a col'ar tuat mt the neck and shuts off her hearing, skirts that have enough ma- terlal In them to make a gus bag for Roy Knabeusbue's airship, and a hat, hlg ag a Washtub, that requires a course in Juggling to keep it balanced . , , . ' 00 B " f straight. j A Gerrou Reqaeat. Porter Emerson Browne came into the office yesterday. He had been out ( ln the country for a week and was , very cheerful. Just as he was leaving he said: "Did you hear about that man who died the other day and left e.11 he had to the orphanage?" j "Xo," some one answered. "How ouch did he leave?" , "Twelve children." j Mr. Browne left, too. Everybody's j Magazine. One poor little fly In the bedroom In the morning will do more effectual work than a dozen alarm clocks, costs less, and never gets out of repaid 4 atom ettr Woman's Wit. An emperor of Germany besieged a city which belonged to one of his re bellious noblemen. After the siege had lusted for a long time the emperor de termined to take It by storm and to de stroy all It contained by fire and sword. He did not, however, wish to injure the defenseless women ; therefore, he sent a proclamation Into the town, say ing that all the women might leave the place unhurt and carry with them whatever they held most precious. The uobleman's wife instantly decided to take her husband, and the other women followed her example. They soon is sued from the city gate in a long pro cession, each one with her husband on her shoulders. The emperor was so much struck with the noble conduct of the women that lie spared all ; even the city Itself was left untouched. Mothers will find Mrs. Whitlow's Soothing Byrup the bet t remedy to useforthelroitldr a luring ilie teething period. A Bit Different. Towne There's one thing about my wife. She makes up her mind if she can't afford a thing that she doesn't need it. Browne Something like my wife, only she .buys it first and makes up her mind afterward. Philadelphia Press. fit. Yrtns' Panre and all Nervosa Diabases cermnuontlr cured hr Dr. KUne'a tircat !r. flANtArtt RnnA fnr PUKK Sltr'ai hnttl -M treatise. Ur. 1U U.K.llnc,lxL. V31 Arch St, 1-UUa. Ja. Painful Etiquette. The royal court of France used to be n great place for etiquette. Louis XIV. once caught a severe cold owing to the fact that ou his arising from his bed one cold morning the lord of the chamber, whose duty It was to hand him his shirt, happened to be absent Not one of the numerous courtiers present had the courage to transgress etiquette by handing the garment to the shivering monarch. Loudon Scrap Book. To Breal- in New Shoes. Always shake in Allon's Foot-Easo, a powder, (t cures hot, sweating, aching, swollen Jeet. Cures corns, Ingrowing nails and bunions. At all druggists and shoe steres, 2fo. Dont accept ny substitute. Sample mat IcdFItKE. Addrcsa alien 8. Olmsted, La lloy, N. Y. He Wna Practical. "Young man, you write a good denl of poetry to my daughter." "Tes, sir." "It takes a practlcul man to sup port a wife." "Well, it's this way. I have to write her an occasional letter, and I'm so busy at the office thut I Just copy the poetry to fill ln." The explanation was satisfactory. Exchonge. Troable. Nan So you like Archie, do you? 1 always thought him just the least bi effeminate. Fan Well, he's certainly a good deal more ladylike than you are. WHEN YOU GQKIE TO PGRTUND ARRANGE TO STOP AT ' THE CORNEOUS PARK AND ALDER STS. A New and Modern European Hotel, catering particularly to State people. A refined place for ladies visiting; the city, close to the shopping center. Rates reasonable. Free Bus. N. X. CLARKE, (late of Portland Hotel) Mgr. BORAX FOR FRESH MEATS Fresh meats, dusted over with pow dered borax (which is now prepared of extreme fineness and purity and white as snow) and rubbed in as you . would pepper and salt, will keep fresh much longer. All that is required is to wath the meat before cooking. KEEPS POULTRY SWEET Dead game, poultry, etc., can be kept Bweet for weeks by rubbing them well with powdered borax under the wings, legs, tail and placing a little in the mouth of the bird. Looal atffintft wanted. Write for moner mak Inn plan The Feline Propensity. "How does Mrs. Sleigh get on ln the club?" "Oh, she always comes up to the scratch." "Of course she does. The cat!" Baltimore American. .flfl.fi jut u 'ilie Kind You Hare Always Im lm) Vat hi: I V ture of Clias. II. Fletcher, and has been niario uudcr his personal supervision for over 0 years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-an-good " are but Experiments, and endanger tho health of Children lixperienco against lxperiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Hoothlng Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other JNarcotio Bubstance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and ullays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho Stomach and Bowels, giving1 healthy and natural bleep. Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend. Tlie Kind You Hare Always Bought S7 Bears the In Use. For Over 30 Years. tmi timwa eoaimiv, tt aiuaaa btrsit. ntm tokk c.tt. Truth and Quality appeal to the Well-Informed In every walk of life and are essential to per manent success and creditable stand ing. Accordingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it. is free from all objectionable substances. To get ita beneficial effects alwayB purchase the genuine manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and tor sale by all leading druggists. Onlr Night Air at Nlsbt. Speaking of Floreuce Nightingale and her efforts to keep the world healthy, it seems pertinent to make special mcntlou of her mission in be half of the open window at night Ia the early years of her labors much un intelligent opposition to this method of ventilation because of the supposed harmfulness of the night air was ex pressed, but Miss Nightingale bad one stock argument In support of her posi tion, it being the question, "What air shall we breathe at night but night air?" It was unanswerable from her opponents' point of view, even If It did not always cohvert them, but It did lead a countless number into saner ways ot living and along the way to the present methods of treating tuber culosls. Boston Transcript. More Troable for Johnny. "No." explained Mrs. I.apnlmg. "Johnny says he wasn't bitten by the dog, but I'm not going to take any chances. I shall have him expurgated juat as soon as I can get him to the doctor's." Chicago Trib une. "THE SCHOOL OF QUALITY" Better each year, and larger. We now have two floors 65 x 100 feet. Thorough work tells the story. It counts in tho end, and we admittedly lead in this re spect. Get our catalogue, penwork, etc., then judge for yourself as to quality. A. P. ARMSTRONG, LL.B., Principal Tenth and Morrison Portland, Oregoo C. Gee Wo The woll known reliable CHINESE Root and Herb DOCTOR Hub innde a life ttudf f rontauriri he rim, and in thai bi xxiiy dlrKJoveri'd aud la giwm l,'H'K ln9 to Ule wnrlti iiia wood iijV-w iul reirtxlitw. No Mercury, Poison or Drugs Used He Cures rV 'thorn Operation, or Without the Aid of a Knif 11a Huarante to Cure (Jutnrrh, A tit h ma, Lanib fhront, Ihmimatnm, Nurvotianowi. Nurvoui Debility, Rtomttfih, Xjlvtr. Kidney Tronlle:lMLofit MaaUsod. female WWknwtw ft ml All Prfviito blautintta A SURE CANCER CURE Just Received from Peking, China Safe, Sure Olid Reliable. IT TOtT ABE AJfUCTKl). 1H)N'T DELAY. WCLAVS AUK IMNC.hltOUB. COINSUCTATIOM PKGR U you oannot call, write for sympton blank and olrata lar. Incltme 4 thtiIs In flrnniiifl. , THE O. OKK WO ClUNUSEillCDlcrNECO. IfSl-ii Vint St., dor. Morrlkon, Portland, Oiaeaa, fleam Mention This Paver. PNU No. 23-0 n HEN writing- to advertisers pleeae mention tins paper. HaiMi.iiWiiii.Vtt, lioutrht lias borne tho nitriia. Signature of lilt liH .lirin i