Condon globe., February 21, 1908, Image 2

TO DEVELOP POWER
BIG PLANT TO BE PLACED
OH THE IE8CSrCTES
FrtnevUI Ucttt ami Power CotupaMj
CoatrmplaUng Gigantic Plant at
Lav Kails Where too Hone
Power May B Generated Um
for Transmfcwlow to be SO Mile la
Length. .
H. V. Gates of HUlsboro and man
atw of the PrinevUle Light Wa
ter company, who vm in the city
last week, save it out Sunday that
hi company haa made arrangement
with Deschutes Irrigation ana pow
er company to tnttall a 100 hora
power electric generating it Hon at
Lava falls, six mile south of Bend.
says the PrinevUle Review. Con
traction work is to begin within the
next two months and the plant la to
be completed and ready for business
In a year.
Mr. Gates says h has been nego
tiating with P. S. Stanley of the
Deschutes company tor some time
past for the possession of a power
site at Lava falls. He has a filing on
the Matolea, but that site I somewhat
Isolated, and the territory to be serv
ed ts yet too sparsely settled.
His plan was, however, to install
the plant there and serve Madras,
'Neil and PrinevUle with a 14-hour
current Work was to have com
menced this spring, and the two dl
recent dynamos to be used as excit
ers for the alternating generators
have been in PrinevUle since Sep
tember last, doing service on the local
circuit.
Running across Mr. Stanley In
Portland a while back. Mr. Gates op
ened negotiations for the purchase of
a site at Lava falls, at which point
the Irrigation company has filings
covering seven-tenths of the water in
the Deschutes river.
As Mr. Stanley is not In the elec
tric lighting business and Mr. Gates
never worries himself about irriga
tion problems, the two gentlemen
soon reached an agreement, and
parted shortly afterward with the un
derstandlng that the P. L. A W. could
acquire without interference a power
site at Lava falls provided It would
furnish a 14-hour current to the
settlers along the ditch lines and to
Bend, Lai dlaw and Redmond.
, The line will be approximately 10
miles long and cost for copper; poles
snd fixtures about $10,000 per mile.
The generating station will contain
1000 horse power alternating-current
generators, and the building will cost
complete with equipment, (100,000.
One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is a whole lot of coin to ex
pend on a lighting plant, but by serv
ing ail the western part of the coun
ty Mr. Gates figures that the Invest
ment will pay 4 per cent and maybe
4 from the stsrt
The project will be a great aid to
settlers along the canals, for as well
as lights the farmers will be supplied
with motor power for grinding, elec
tric flatlrons, etc.
WONDERS OP THE NORTH.
Hunting and Farming Are Great Re
sources of Alaska.
. "Circle Is north of Dawson and 110
miles from the noted Tanana coun'
try, now the most famous of Alaska's
gold camps," says C F. Griff In the
Seward Gateway. "There. I an
abundance of game very close to our
camp, and In the shooting there is
no limit with the exception of the
caribou. In the Instance of this an
imal, one of the principal meat sup
plies we have, we do not shoot them
for sport nor allow anyone else to do
so, but each man kills as many as ha
believe will be needed tor hi sus
tenance during the winter.
"There was a band of S000 caribou
in sight of our camp last summer
grazing; upon the aides of the Crazy
mountains. These hills, by the way,
received their odd name from the
fact that each peak resemble the
other to such an extent that even a
trained scout or trapper 1 in great
danger of becoming lost when be en
ten their confines.
"We have a large variety of vege
tables, and during the summer the
24 hours of sunshine add materlaUy
to the rapidity of their growth. The
government supplies seeds to any one
desiring to experiment, and also keeps
a record of the result We grow ver
fine potatoes, beets, turnips, radishes
and lettuce, and our caDoage cannot
be equaled. It I an odd thing, but
If you d g down Into the ground four
feet you must always strike ice.
"Farming Is gradually becoming' a
possibility. Barley and oats are
grown, the 'former seeming to thrive
better than any other gram. I caw
a field of timothy hay last summer
SO inches high. There is a plenty of
wood in the neighborhood of Circle
and we use It for fuel altogether."
.. NO WHEELED TRAFFIC.
In the northeastern corner of
France, In the Pas-de-Calal depart-
ment, there is a stretch of country
which possesses practically no roads.
This region, 'lying between St omer
and the Belgian frontier. Is traversed
In every direction by canals, which
serve as a mean of communication
between the different center of pop
ulation. x -
The people , use skiffs, not unlike
Venetian gondolas, and In these they
glide silently to field and market The
village cure makea his round of visits
by water, the very horses nave to be
taken by boat to and from the fields
in which they, work, and It is no un-
common occurrence for a frisky ani
mal to kick out, overbalance the frail
craft and precipitate its occupants in
fo the water. ' It is a region of per
petual peace, a country ot eternal
calm, where the noise of wheeled traf-
fle la unknown, where the motor horn
ts never heard. A frequent sight In
these narrow waterways Is a funeral
procession. The coffin I placed on a
couple of chair and Is covered with
cloth. The nearest relatives of the
deceased ait behind the coffin, friends
follow In other boata. and the priest
recites his prayer while the little
cortege make Us way slowly to the
burial place. London Graphic.
CANADIAN RAILWAY PROGRESS.
New Transcontinental Lino Fully
Under Way of Construction.
Counsel A. G. Seyfert, writing from
Coillngwood. says that the construc
tion of Canada's new transcontinental
railway from Moncton, on the Atlan
tic, to Prince Rupert, on the Pactfc,
a distance of more than 1000 miles.
Is fully under way, the progress on
which h describes:
It Is provided that It shall be com
pleted by December 1, 111, and
every effort will be made to accom
plish this gigantic work within that
time, at a cost of 1 100.000,000. Ac
cording to the latest Information ob
tainable of the progress made by the
army of 15.000 men at work, the
prairie section now under construc
tion will be completed first, and the
794 miles between Winnipeg and Ed
monton Is to be In operation during
the coming autumn. Steel has been
laid on SIS miles and by the com
missioners for the government sec
tion on 75 miles. The expenditure on
the government section to date has
been (SO.OOo.OOO.
The commissioners have OSS miles
of the easetrn section under contract,
while the company has laid track on
80 miles of the Lake Superior branch,
The mountain sect'on from Edmonton
to Prince Rupert, on the northern
British Columbia coast. Is the most
difficult to build and will be begun
In the coming spring. The building
of the new trsnscontlnental railway
from coast to coast In such a high
latitude, where more than half ot
the year a severe winter prevails. Is
the most stupendeous piece or wora
any country of 0,000.000 people ever
undertook. When completed, it win
make the shortest route between Eur.
one and Asia by 40 hours. It will at
so mean a change In the geography
of Canada. Where there Is now a
wild, uninhabited wilderness, hun
dreds of villages and towns will ne
located In the near future and mil
lions of acres of land occupied and
tilled by. settlers.
ONE MONTH'S SAD RECORD.
The closing month ot the year was
one of the darkest In the history of
the coal mining industry,, for it wit
nessed the occurrence of four sep
arate disasters, each In the Appalach
ian bituminous coal field and each at
tended by the sacrifice of many lives.
The first, on the first day of De
cember, was an explosion at the Na
omi mine of the United States Coal
company, near Pittsburg, Pa.; the
second wrecked mines No. I and 8
of the Fairmont Coal company, of
Monongah, W. Vs.; the third was an
explosion of gas in the Tolande Coal
and-Coke company's mine at Tolande,
Ala.: and the fourth wrecked the
Darr mine of the Pittsburg Coal
company near Connellsvtlle, Pa.
Between 000 and 800 Uvea were
lost In thees explosions, all ot which
occurred within a period of three
weeks.
WRONG CHOICE.
She spent many hours of every day
at her desk writing manuscripts that
no one was willing to print
She traveled far and wide in search
of Impressions and backgrounds, and
she refused the love of a man who
honored her by his preference, sup
posing herself destined to achieve
fame and fortune in literature.
In the end she was doomed to bit
ter disappointment She lost hope'.
youth and beauty and survived the
NEED OF NEW "ECONOMICS-
The thriving town of Berkeley
very hard up for money with which
to conduct Its public schools. The
University of California is in Berke
ley, and has a "faculty of economics;"
but that faculty Is not throwing any
light .on the plain fact that a town
run in the Interest of real estate spec
ulators will always be pinched for
money with which to educate the
children. San Francisco Star.
Decorated Hatpins All the Rage,
Fashionable women are at present
giving their spare moments to form
Ing and decorating hatpins. One
must have so many, and the pins play
such an important part In the effect
of a hat that every woman must have
a dozen or two special ones for each
chapeau. The disks are Immense
and are almost flattened. Women
buy the plain disks, burrow holes with
tools, and after battering strong gum
Into the 1 holes, sink and paste sap
phlres, or pearl, or rubles or emer
alds. Against the emerald surface
the effect is fine. Those of copper
are lovely, but pretty enameled ones
of all colors are seen. The mora.
jeweled the more chic for the plain
hatpin is seen no more.
A Poetical Thief. -
When John Warner, of Bartholo
mew county, Indiana, found his fowls
had been stolen, he might have view
ed his loss with complacency, as he
Is a retired farmer. But when he
found that the thief was one of those
frauds who imagine they can write
poetry, his anger' was Increased by
disgust. What "riled" the old farm
er was finding on his empty henhouse
this Impudent piece of doggerel:
Christmas time is drawing near,
Thought I'd get my chickens here.
A Foregone Ooacluslon.
'"My daughter is going to marry a
millionaire."
"Isn't that nlceT Who is be, and
when is the weddng to be?"
"I don't know yet She's just joined
the chorus." Detroit Fre Press.
nsE
III SPITE OF AUTOS
GOVERNMENT KEPORT
DRAWS COMPARISONS
Ilorare and Mule In United States
Valued at $3,S4,4,0OO oa Janm
ary 1 Mor Horse by 4i,000
Than on Previous January Mute
Also Increase Number of Hog Is
Greater Than Any Other Claas ot
Animal.
That th motor car haa not affect
ed the breeding and raising of horses
and mule to any great extent la
shown by th fact that th value ot
those animal on farm and range
In the.' country I greater than th vaM
ues ot all other live stock combined,
says th Kansas City Star. Th
horses and mule are valued at SI.
34.40,000, and th cattle, sheep and
wins at $1.04. 741.000.' The fig
ure are presented In a report ot th
bureau of statistic mad publlo
terday. They were collected by th
government experts and represent
the values ot live stock on January 1
last
The -report show that In aplte ot
the large number of motor car In
use there were on that dat on th
farms and rangea 10,001,000 horse
and 3,89,000 mule. On January 1
last there were 145,000 more horses
than January 1, 107, and 61,000
more mules.
The average price ot horse was
$93.41 and ot the mules S107.7. Th
number of hogs was greater than that
ot any other class ot livestock, as
the report places them at 64.084,000,
valued at S33.OSO, the average price
being 14.05. The other figures pre
sented by the report are:
Milch cows, 11.14,000, average
price a head. 130.(7, total value,
150,057.000; other cattle (0.073.000,
average price a hear, 11 89, total
value, I84S.03S.000; sheep, (4,(31.000,
average price a hear, (3.88, total val
ue 21 1,784.000; swine, ((,034,000, av
erage price a bead, IMS, total value,
(330.030,000.
Compared with January 1, 107,
the following changes are also Indl
cated:
In numbers, milch cows Increased
226,000, other cattle decreased 1.493,
000, sheep Incheased 1,301,000, swine
Increased 1. 390,000.
In average value a head, horses de
creased .10, mules decreased (4.40
milch cows decreased .33, other cat
tle decreased .31, sheep Increased .04,
swine decreased (1.S7.
In total value, horses Increased
(20.853.000, mules decreased SH.
125.000, milch cows increased 14.60.-
000, other cattle decreased (36,(10,
000, sheep Increased 17,626,000; swine
decreased (73,701,000.
The total value of all animals enu
merated above 6n January 1, 1008
was (4.331,330,000, as compared with
(4,423.(98,000 on January 1, 1007,
decrease ot 182,408,000, or 3.1 per
cent.
PROFITS WITHOUT SALOONS.
Arthur Burrage Farwell devoted
the greater' part of a speech deliv
ered at Palmer Park to statistics de
signed to prove the great financial
and economic benefits to the com
munlty that would follow the closing
of saloons. The object of his attack
was a circular recently distributed by
the saloon Interests putting forth
claim that the closing of the saloons
would deprive 4,000,000 people ot
their livel hood and produce the
greatest panic of history.
'He asserted that the people of Chi
cago spent (52,000,000 a year in sa
loons, or (1,000,000 a week. That
(1,000,000 a week now spent for
drink, he said, would buy:
U'lour, 200,000 barrels at
(4.60 ( 900,000
Groceries 2,500,000
Milk, 1,260,000 quarts at
8 cents 100,000
Stoves. 200,000 at (20... 4,000.000
Coal, 26,000 tons at (8... 2,000,000
Wall paper 600,000
Carpet, 500,000 yards at (1 600,000
Furniture, 100,000 sets at
(50 6,000,000
Clothes, 200,004 suits at
(10 , 2,000,000
Overcoats, 200,000 at 110. 2,000,000
Hats, 200,000 at (3 800,000
Shoes, 200.000 pairs at $3 600,000
Children's shoes, 600,000
pairs at (1.60 750,000
Hose, 1,000,000 pairs at
25 cents 250,000
Flannel, 600,000 yards at
60, cents ' 250,000
Cotton goods, 5,000,000
yards at 10 cents ..... 600,000
Wagons to deliver goods.
5000 at (200 1,000,000
Workingmen's houses, six
rooms, bath and all
modern conveniences,
6000 at $3000 each.... 15,000,000
"And after doing all these things,"
he said, . "we would have enough
money left to pay the
Police department $5,306,000
Fire department 3,125,000
Health department (In
stead of $600,000 as
now) .. , 1,000,000
"And still we would have left over
$4,000,000 for the benefit of the pub
llo school fund or to create and main
tain additional parks and pleasure
grounds for the people,. This list of
goods could be bought not only this
year, but every year."
ROOSEVELOTAN JUSTICE.
On behalf of all our people, on be
half no less of the honest man of
means than the honest man who earns
each day's livelihood by that day'i
sweat of his brow, it Is necessary to
insist upon honesty In business and
politics alike, in all walk of Ufa, in
H
OBSES
big thing and In llttl things; upon
Juat and (air doaling as between maa
nd man. Those who demand this
are striving for the right In th spirit
t Abraham Lincoln when he said:
"Fondly do we hope, fervently do
w ry, that this mighty scourg may
speedily pas away. Yet. It Ood wills
that It continue until all th Wealth
lied up by the bondmen in 350 year
of unrequited toll shall be sunk, un
til every drop ot blood drawn with th
Instt shall be paid with another drawn
with the sword, aa was said '3000
years mo. The judgment ot th Lord
are true and righteous altogether.
With malic toward none; with
charily for all: with firmness In th
right, as Ood give u to ae th right,
let us strive to finish the work w art
In."
In th work ot thf generation are
In there Is, thanks be to th Almighty,
no danger of bloodshed and no us for
th sword, but there Is crave need
for those stern qualities shown allk
by th men of th north and th man
ot th south In th dark day when
each valiantly battled tor th light aa
it waa given for each to see th light
Their spirit ahould b our aplrlt
w strlvs to bring nearer th day
when greed and trickery and cunning
shall be tampled under toot by those
who fight for th righteousness that
exaiietn a nation. From th Message
of Prosldtnt Roosevelt,
REINCARNATION.
Whose soul Is Inhabiting you?
Tour own, you say?
Tea, It ' your's, for th time being.
But It may have belonged t a Ran
goon cnoue t 40 years ago; It may
have swayed th murderous arm of
a French revolutionary under the
terror; It may have been the despair
ing sou) that Impelled some peasant
woman martyr of love to fling her
self Into the sea.
Out of the faith of the 400,000.000
of India flashes the startling light of
reincarnation; and out of the cynical
science of France and England and
Am.-r ra flarea the haunting -fear of
multiplied personalities aa well aa of
that reincarnation which ts the com
monplace of life In the credulous
East.
Experiment and deduction by
minds of the calibre of Mir William
Crookes, Professor Lombroso, Pro
fessor Rlchet and Camllle Flammar
on are making- reincarnation one ot
the supreme Issues of the 30th cen
tury.
In the light of those experiments,
scientists assert, no man dare now
affirm that he Is exclusively himself.
or even exclusively male; and no
woman may deny that she Is woman
only, or uxsert that she Is herself a
she knows herself alone. Oregon
Sunday Journal.
COST OF FOREIGN TITLES.
Tho dopesmith with the blue pen
cil, the huge paper pad and th wor
ried countenance has been busy flgur
Ins out the risks Involved In Interna
tional marriages, with some startling
but expected results.
Over 600 American g'rls have mar
ried titled foreigners within th last
half century and fully 400 ot these
matches have ended In the divorce
courts. Worse than this, over (200,
000,000 In good American money has
been taken across the seas during
th period mentioned, and llttl of It
has ever come back.
Some recent Instances of unhappy
endings of International alliances ara
fresh In the public memory, The
shameful experiences of Anna Gould
with the Count Bonl de Castellana,
the unhappy fate of Conauelo Van
derbllt, who paid (10.000,000 to be
come the Duchess of Marlborough,
and the pending divorce suit of Alice
Thaw, sister of Harry Thaw, against
the Earl of Yarmouth these and
scores of other recent Instances are
warnings that they be seen by all
women not blinded by the glare ot a
coronet
DRY FARMING CONVERTS.
The Thermopolls Record ot Wyo
ming, says of the progress of dry
farming In that state:
Dry farming was, until a few years
ago, considered a myth as applied to
the semi-arid region, but tn many
places it has proved highly successful.
It will not take the place of Irriga
tion where irrigation can be applied,
but it will make much land valuable
that otherwise would be simply waste,
We have often contended and still
contend that there is much land near
Thermopolls, especially along the
foothills, where summer storms are
prevalent, that will at no very far off
day be sown to grain. Intensified
cultivation, among lines that have
proved successful elsewhere, will
bring about this result
The Dry Farming congress that
was recently in session at Salt Lake
did much to 'advance this method of
agriculture. It also did honor
Governor Brooks by electing him
unanimously to the jy-esldency of the
association. The next meeting will
be held at Cheyenne In January,
1909.
WOMEN NEED THE BALLOT.
In his lecture, "What a city can
do, for Its citizens," Hon. Frederick C,
Howe, municipal expert, designates
the granting of suffrage to women
as the city's first duty. He argues
that city administration is housekeep
ing and that the woman suffers most
and gains most by bad or good ad
ministration. "Suffrage would en
large woman's self-respect just as It
enlarges man's," says Mr. Howe, "She
would feel that she was an integral
part of the community in which she
lived. Further than this, it would In
crease man's respect for woman. We
cannot appreciate the change which
would take place In all of us were
this to come about. . On has only
to go to Colorado to see this dif
ference In the attitude of the sexes
toward one another." Farmer'
Wife. .i
TRANSFORMING
OLD FIREARMS
ItF.MilAN UVS MAKERS UK.
CONSTUVCT DISCARDED ARMS
BBSBaJJMn
Radical Change In Equipment ot
Armed Foms- Tlirow Irgo Vuan
titlve ot War Materials un tlw Mar.
k m Great Pecuniary I-oaa to
Omutrk-4 IWIglan IMrvtiaac
Plicae Ami and Make Them Into
Modem and ekrvlcrablo Weanou.
Consul H. Albert Johnson, In lh
followliie- report from Lug, ue-
sorlbes th Belgian Industry of mak
ing over old army rifle and how they
ar sold:
Owtna- to th many and at time
radical changes that have taken place
tn th equipment of th armed force
of th leading nation of in worm,
lane Quantities of war material,
hardly the worn tor wear but hav-
Ing becom obsolete, must from lime
to I me bo discarded as uiuemtwo"-
nrf dunoaed ot. as a rul. as a de-
..1.1. luunmlurv loaa. This fCl I
nsxtlcularlv noticeable in tn case oi
small flroarms. as few Implements of
ar have been more largely limu-
enced by Inventive Ingenuity than the
military rifle.
The narchase of these discarded
weapon, usuully aold at publlo auc
tion, their subsequent transformation,
and eventual deposition form rather
an Important element of the firearm
Industry for which this locality is so
wall known.
It ts quite generally supposed mat
none but new firearms, th product
for the moat part of the larger rao
lories, are shipped from Hugo, but a
vialt to on of the several transfor
mation workshops affords . convlnc-
inf evidence ot the fact that th x
non trade In firearms from this re-
alon Is tar from being exclusively
confined to the newly made artlel
Anion the well known make of
firearms already transformed or un
dorgolng transformation at the hands
ot the Liege gunsmiths may t men
tloned several thousand Martini rifles
discarded by the Roumanian govern
ment; nearly the am quantity of
Oraa rifles superseded in France by
the Lebel, as well as a number of
Comblaln and Alblnl rifles, formerly
used and, to a limited extent, still In
use by- the Belgian civil guards.
Methods of Alteration Hale Price.
All of these arms of the single bar
rel type are transformed Into th
old fashioned flintlock and percus
sion gun. In order' to effect th
change, the barrel, together with the
breech mechanism, ha to be remov
ed and I replaced by a muasle load
ing barrel; the lever la discarded,
the wooden stock only remaining In
tact. The elongated cartridge can
not, of course, be used in these con
verted suns, which must return to
the old-time leaden bullet In
word these weapons are antedated, so
to 'speak, some three or four score
year, returning to the type of small
arm that waa used by the Napoleonic
troops. These transformed weapons,
like other kinds of merchandise, have
their current prices subject to the
tluctstlona of the market At pre
ent prices range from about 80 cents
to $2. The old Beaumont gun of th
Dutch army is quoted at (1, while its
original cost was (12. The Alblnl,
first class arm and In good condition,
sells at 90 cents.
Out of some 8000 gunsmiths who
ply their trade In their own homes,
large proportion are engaged In pro
ducing antiquities, so to speak, as ful
ly 60 per cent of these transformed
guns that are exported from Liege are
flintlock piece.
A large profit in this business
also derived from making use of the
undamaged parts of these second
hand guns, parts that ar usually
in
a condition to bo profitably utilised,
and substituting In their places part
of a decidedly Inferior grade.
Restricting Sale of Repeating Rifle.
In many cases, among th discard
ed arms purchased are to be found
excellent and serviceable repeating
rifles, such as the Austrian Mann
llcher and the German Mauser,
quoted today at (5 and (8 respect
ively. These arms are aold, a
rule, to the governments of certain
remote countries generally classed
uncivilized, and are disposed of with
out undergoing any modification,
With regard to the German rifle, it
may be mentioned that the German
military authorities require the pay
ment of 10 mark (about $2.60) on
each rifle purchased, as a guaranty
that the arm will not be sold to sav
age tribe nor to Irregularly organ
ized troops, this guaranty being re
funded on the presentation of fc, re
ceipt of sale showing that th arm
were not sold to unauthorised per
sons.
These Austrian and German rifle,
however, are classed as choice grades
of arms, and the Sultan of Morocco,
for Instance, has not purchased an
article of this class, although this
potentate has on several occasions
made rather important purchase ot
second-hand arms In ' Liege. Not
long ago he bought soma 40,000
Gras rifles at price ranging from
$1.90 to $2. Abd-el-AzIs haa also
purchased a few mitrailleuses dis
carded by. some of the armies
Europe, and an entire set of military
tents that had been used by the staff
of the Belgian army during the an
nual maneuvers.
Regarding the smuggling of arms
and their sale to unauthorized per
sons, it is, of course, difficult to get
at anything like reliable data, al
though it is well known - that this
contraband trade I extensively car
ried on. The exporter her assart
that he disposes of hi goods to Im
porting agents In . Hamburg, Liver-
pool, London, eto and that If tha
Iniporui sell them to avag tribe
iiinl other unauthorised person It I
thilr own affair and th I.leg
porter I In no way Interested. It
appears I hut ther ar person Who
make a apo-UHy or this contraoana
business and who for a remunerative
iimniiw-iiiii ar ready to act ss Intsr-
liie.lluiy lit-lween thvss Importer and
n V unAMIItnrlsed puri-hnser.
POISOMOUS WATER.
Water that ha one been heated.
or that has stood any length of tlm
In th kettle, cannot be mad to boll
aa quickly a freshly drawn oold
wulor. It this fact wer fully appre
ciated. It would hav mor weight
with housekeeper as an argument
against using water that haa stood
over night than numerous homllle
on the uiihealthfulnea of atai wa
ter. .
Fresh water la living, and watsr
that hua been bolUd, or allowed to
atMttd long absorbing goaea and heat,
I lthor dead or poisoned, m It U
aalvr to boll fresh water than etal
or dead water.
For drinking purpose, water
ahould b bulled, bottled Immediately
and fastened tight. When oool, lay'
the bottle on th Ire. It will be
found superior to lc water on all oc
caslons.
In connection with th subject of
water, there I no peculiar property
ot that liquid which every on should
be made acquainted, and that It, It
oupacliy for absorbing Impurities,
which It Increase proportionately th
colder It geta. Hence, water that haa
stood In an Insufficiently ventilated
sleeping chamber all night I not only
unpleasant but is Injurious to drink.
4nc It readily abanrba th poisonous
gases given off by respiration and the
action of Hi akin.
An ordinary pitcher of water, un
der such communis, at a tmpratur
of (0 degreea, will b found to haVe
absoi bad during tli night from a pint
lo a' pint and a half of carbonlo add
gas, and an Increaso of ammonia.
Ice water is an objectionable drink
at all lime, but If it I Indulged In,
the vessel containing it should never
be lert uncovered In sleeping or sit
ting rooms, because at freesing point
Ha capacity for absorbing these del.
terlous substances I nearly doubled.
Boston Budget and Beacon,
Til KV WILL XMK BACK.
Several hundred fhrmera. who left,
eastern Oregon and the Walla Well
and I'alouse dUtrlda to engag In
wheat growing In the new provinces
of British Columbia will be Interested
n th following Ottawa dispatch,
printed In the Oregonlan recently;
"Tho Dominion government ha
decided to loan a sum of spproxl
mnlely $4,000,000 lo the farmer of
tho new provinces of Allti-rta and
Haskutchewnn whose crops wer a
failure, to purchase seed grain."
With everything favorable In the
new district mentioned, good crops of
wheat can be grown, but when the'
season I unfavorable, as U was last
year, the resulting failure Is so much
worse than any failure of whleb the
Oregon and )V'ushlngton farmer ha
ever heard that It means government
aid or starvation. Another-year Ilk
the one Just closed will see the de
parture for Aimnl 'U of a few thous
and aettlera who have ban-ll drifting
uorthwurd In seutth of cheap land.
La Grande Observer.
MODERN HOUSEWIFE'S LIKE.
Coincident with th transfer ot
household Industries outside th horn
our method of living ar undergoing
as slow but steady revolution. Th
housewife of today is not so busy a
personable as was her grandmother,
says th Delineator for January, Th
food and th clothing that th house
mother one mad herself ar now
largely produced in th factories. Ev
ery article of wearing apparel may
be had from a department store bar
gain counter. Bakeries turn out
bread at (0.000 loave to th baking.
Soups that our mother spent a day
In making, now arrive all ready to
add hot water and serve. Our bacon
I sliced and our cereal steam-cooked
before they reach th kltohen.
Pudding and dessert ar minute
made, and pickles and preserve com
In (7 varieties, bottled and beautiful.
ALASKA MOUNTAIN SUMMITS.
The chief summits of Alaska, I. .,
mountains of more than 16,000 feet,
which Is moro than 20,000 feet In
any other country, lie in three area
the Mt. McKlnley region, th moat
remote, 160 miles northwest of Cook
Inlet, with Mr, McKlnley, 10,800 feet;
Mt Foraker, 17.100 feet and Mt.
Hunter, 15,000 (?) feet; theWrangell
group, 200 mile east, on th left
bank ot th Copper river, with Mts,
San ford, 18,000 feet, and Blackburn,
18,140 feet, and the actlva Wrangel
volcano, 14,600 feet and the St, Ella
alp to th south and southeast, on
me rac i a coast, wirn iwta T n
10,600 feet; Vancouver, 15,66 feet;
St Ellas, 18,024 feet; Crlllon, 16,900
feet; Falrweather 16,600 feet, and
four or five others mor than 11,000
feet. Seward Gateway.
AN IRISHMAN'S RETORT.
An Irishman one day went into a
- v iu Aiier na
was seated and the lather about half
applied the barber was called to an
adjoining room, where he was detain
ed for some time. The barber had in
the shop a pet monkey which was
continually Imitating his master. A
soon as the latter left the room, th
monqey grabbed th brush and pro
ceeded to finish lathering the Irish
man's face. After doing this he took
a razor from Its case and stropped
It and then turned to th Irishman
to shave him. "Sthop that," said th
latter, firmly.,' "Ye can tuck the tow
el in me neck and put the soap on m
face, but, begorrah, yer father' got
to shave me." Tattler,