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About Albany democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1900-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1901)
Some Scientific News. Wherever Uie Romans penetrated they were lure to ereot great batbi. Recent excavations on an eatate la Scotland have revealed the foundations ol an iin menso bath with concrete floors and walls, lead-pipe connection, bypocaust and stoke-hole with a flue extending from it, says The Architect. The foun dations ol tbe piers ol the hypocaust are now displayed. Tbe walls of the rooms are formed of stone and lime covered with etrong concrete, with a polished surface aDd painted a biick-red color. Tbe floors are all of concrete. Tbe study of language! by those who are nut able to obtain actual instruction from the professor has always been bam pered by the fact that notwithstanding the grammar might be maBtered tberel was alwayB trouble with pronuuciatian. This phonetic difficulty has been over come by the International Correspond ence Schools of Scranton, Pa. The eye. tern employed 1b highly interesting, f I each student in the language courses is furnished with a phonograph. The ii. etruetion proper Is given by mail. Tbe essons are dictated by the profeeaora at Bcranton, and tbe phonograph cylinders are sent to the Btudenle. The cylinders are not copies but "master records," so that tbev are so clear tbat the students are easily taught the correct pronun ciation. Tbe courses in tbe foreign lan guages are under the direction of Prof David Petrie-Palmeda, who will give in struction in German: Prof. Eaonard Lamaze, who will teach French, and by Prof, Antonio Llano, who will tearb Spanish. An attempt is to be made by tbe Brit ish authorities in Uganda to utilize the zebra for transport purposes in that country. It is contended tbat tbe char acteristics of tbe animal render specially suited to that district, since it ia natnr ally immune againBt the ravages of the tsetse fly and horee slcknees. The plan suggested is 'the domestication of tbe adult animal. Tbe young zebra cannot be reared apart from ite mother and it is considered that if tbe animal were ao CUBtomed to the presence of man from its birtb, in tbe course of a few years a large supply of zebras will be available for work. Here is tbe way one inau in New York would use Garnegies' millions: "If I bad 275,000.000 to glye away I would convert it into a fund tbe inoome to be used for tbe benefit of the aged and indigent men and woineu of Greater New York over sixty years of age who bavdno means of support, Many of these could and would support them- selveB if every avenue of employment, with few exceptions, were not closed to them becnufo of their ago. There are a multitude of men who in their younger davs have by intelligence and faithful ness helped others along tho road ti Biiccosa who are now penniless, many having wives, depondunt upon them. There are many widows of that class of men who are in need ; also many women who have nover married but who have lived tho moet unaoltiah. lives, helping others through sorrow aud trouble, who in their old ago are led without moans lor their support. It is true thora are several homos for the aged, yet there are hui tltuda who cannot, by reason of souio clause in their bv-laws, Kaiu admission to any one of them and there are mauy nuw waiting until there is a vacancy in some home for them, suffering iu tho meantime. For various reasons too uumorous to meution bore I would not build almshouses, chlolly because I tlunk the majority of men and women would be happier if they could draw a stipulated sum of money monthly and be at liberty tn live whore auu with whom they choio. Tho kindly, thoughtful man who died in Philadelphia last week aud left 2,0OO,O00 lor the benefit of the womeu teachers of that city left it for a moat northy causo but he did not stipulate that a home should be built for them. What n chance for Androw Carnegie, who does not wish toldie rich, to give 25,000 aged poor peo ple tbe sum of W00 annually and still have plenty to give for other worthy purposes, if it be true that his Income ie $15,000,000 yearly. The extra Bryan convention in Ohio should not havo been held. Even though the rogular convention failed to recngmie tbe Kausas City and Chicago conevntions the platlorm presented iB a good one, full ol important issues, one all democrats in that state should be able to uuiteon. Just now there is enough in the tariff, of which the trust is an out' growth, lor all democrats and reformers geuorally to pull together ou. It la time that this flying off the tangent every time something ie doue that does not just suit was stopped. The government alter a very long de lay has begun proceedings to get the 230,000 Captain Carter stole . Watering stock should be made a orlme. It is a crime against the people, a murdering ol their iutereets. Talk ol fiat money, watering stock creates weallii by a mere stroke ol the pen. Recently a fen truit magnates made thirty or forty million dollars by simply changing the capital stock of a concern from f.'W.OOO,' 000 to 170,000,000. Our Timber. Washington, July 27: Stirred up by tbe assertions of tbe agricultural depart ment tbat a large part of tbe bot wave now prevailing in tbe west ia due, direct ly or indirectly, to tbe destruction of tbe forests in that part or tne country and to the north, it is probable that the peo pie there will urge upon Contrme at iie next session advanced steps to preserve what forests are left and to plant others. This whole subject was fought over towards the close of President Cleveland's term, not on account ol the beat but on account of the floods and droughts that have always been charged up to the de struction of the forests. Mr. Cleveland realized tbe danger of tbe forest destruc tion and issued; an order withdrawing from entry and ealej 21,379,gl0 acies of timberlaudB in thn west and northwest ThiB order waBmade upon tbe recm mendation of tbe American Foresfy as sociation and tbe National Association for tbe Advancement of Science in order to preserve tbe forests from destruction and to secure a permanent supply of water for irrigation and manufacturing purposes in the arid regions. For twenty-five or thirty years before, every secretary ;of the interior, (very commissioner of public lands, every for estry association, every irrigation con vention 'and every scientist, economist and philanthropist, who has studied the greatquestion of water supply has urged Congress to enact some law to spare and protect the trees in the western moun tains, but it was not until 1891 that any attention was Jpaid to their appeals. Tnrouab the influence of 'he American Forestry association a new policy wbb then adopted authorizing the president to reserve and set apart any portion of the public lands as a forest cover npon slopes and mountains to hold back the snow and rainfalls, to provent rapid evaporation and to encourage tbe de velopment of tbe timber eupply. For many years the cultivation of artificial groves bad been encouraged by a liberal bounty in lands, but no effective meas ures had been taken to protect the vast natural forests that clothed the mountains and sheltered the water courses of tbe west. Thousands of square miles of magnificent timber had been destroyed by unchecked fires and thousands more had been denuded by tbieyes, without any compensation to the government or a single thought of tho consequence to future generations. An appropriation of 525,000 was placed at tbe disposal of tbe Association for tbe advancement of Science to enable experts to select tbe tracta to be reserved, and upon itB recommendation President Harrison issued a proclamation with drawing from entry and sale some 13, 000,000 acres of lands. Shortly after President Cleveland came into power he issued an order reserving tho Cascade range in Washington, em bracing 4,492,800;ucroj, and Inter lis is sued the other order referred to above. At onco.tho settlers and especially the lumber speculators of the northwest begau an assault on the law, based upon Bliort-eighted, temporary loyal interest. The strongest objuctore were tho railway companies, the tniner6 and local lumber men, who were enjoying the bonetit of these timber tracts both lawfully and un lawfully, and who complninud that the president's order would paralyze in dustry, retard immigration, and deprive tho inhabitants of the regions adjacent to these reservations of the building Itiniuor and fuel that they needed. In response to their demand Congress adopted an ameudment to the suudry civil hill, suspending President Cleve land's proclamation for some nine mouths, at tho end of which time Presi dent McKinley wits to Bay what parlB should be withdrawn und what restored. When tho time was up, President Mc Kinley undid a good deal of the work of his predecetsor, although he allowed the larger part to aland. If he had etood by President's order and extended it, in stead of fielding to the demands of the men who wore making fortuues by cut ting tho timber on which tho prosperity of the country depended, it is probable that the present hot spoil would not have been as widespread and disastrous as it has been. O. M, An eastern hoise, Cresceus, recently trotted a mile iu 2:2V the fastest trot ting on record, mid pretty close to tbe 2 minute gait, which has often beon pre dicted. A few years ago when Flo 1'emple trotted a mile in 2:lo and a fraction It was thought a marvellous feat, ii; "i if In mihI iiwi-teen seconds to this and the bottom ia not yet reached. A prominent New Yorker aays tbat to be really and trnly happy a man must have money. Toat is good, for a man without money will either have to starve or beg, either of which ia misery. As intended though, that a man must have millions, tbe statement is not correct, for everything goes to show that the great est trouble exists among the rich. Peo ple in moderate circumstances are the :iappiest. Uotore yon mention the beat here just talk with some one who has recently bseu In the east, and onr warm weather here will feel lice a cool lephyr from the Pacific. Saturday Night Thoughts. A very pleasing decision tbis week was oe by a judge who declared tbat when Hawaii became a part of tbe United States it was at once subject to the con stitution ol this country and Biiouid be governed by its provi-iors. It doesn't seem as if any sane man could think o'herwiEe, and yet po'.'ticiaoa are claim ing all manner of things ju-t for political purposes. It is as plain as the Three Sisters oo a sunBhinev day. The papers are about full of talk about Admiral Schley's investigation. The investigation ie not to take place until the weather. shall be suitable for tbe leader cutice of the committee. In the meantime it is not too hot for the public to give its opinion ou tbe subject and tbis is being done in an emphatic manner. The result is that Admiral Schley ib being thoroughly vindicated without any investigation, so much so that whentbe committee meets tbs in vestigation will be a tarce. The hot weather in tbe middle weBt baa bo affected the corn crop that the papers there are calling npon farmers to oonsider tbe propriety of more diversifi ed farming. In short, corn has been king there and other things have be"en neglected. They are being advised to raise wheat and more fruit etc, things not affected by tbe beat. That has a familiar ring, only out here tbe farmers are being advice! to raise more corn and cows and sheep and goats etc , instead of so much wheat. The lesson becomes the more emphatic in favor of diversified farming. The farmer should turn hiB attention to all things possible." V Over in Austria tbey are refusing ad mission to American merchants Kho wish to start Borne stores there. Well, now suppose in the United States we should refnee admission to Austrian and German and other merchants who wish to go in to bus'ness bere wouldn't there be a stir. Instead of tbat everybody from a celestial up on do business anywhere in tbis country without any fear of disturb ance. Tbe truth is (other countries are afraid of the enterprising Yankee, V Nothing displays tbe diversity of taste any more than tbe different places select ed by people for tbeir summer outing. One eays there is no place quite tbe equal of the seashore. Another poohooes the great briney ocean with its continual growl and speaks for the ;iofly mountain with its frieky deers and feetive trout. Another wishes to sit down beside some mineral spring aud drink and drink. Another prefers to go off to some big city and Bee the sights, and as well get a change and part with lots of change After all wherever one goes it ia the change tbat does the business if it is done. The automobile lean aristocratic con cern, the machine of the millionaire, with monoy to burn, One on the streets of Albany would be as lonesome as a dude iu a desert. It is a blind pereon who cannot Bee that something is wrong when American manufactured articles are sent to Europe and sold at a good profit for about half what they are sold for in 'the United States, made possible bv the Bo-called protective tftriiT, which tnBtead of being a protection to the people is an oppress or. Bishop Henry L. Burkley relumed to Oregon last Monday from attending the Goueral Conference of his church In the State of Now York. Ho was reelect ed Bishop of the Pacific Coast States for another four year?, having declined to accept a more populous and lucrative district In the East, on the ground that he preferred the Wept whero the people are more civilized and the climate is better. Ue'made a speech for Golden Rule JoneB who was roelected Mayor for a third term by 3300 plurality over the thoroughly organized Republican and Democratic parties, to the great disap pointment of Uanna and his manager, who scored the Bishop severely in (belr newspaper organs for participating in politicB. I'hoy never feel the baiter draw with good op'niou of the law. There are few if any better political speakers in the United States time Bishop Berkley. He goes to California this month to preside over the annual conference in that Slate, Eugene Journal. The folio .v i MR tells of a great disadvan tuge of the automobile : Charles Woedmi of Isleworth, stated that he saw the prisoner's motor car com lug along the road, not at a very quick pace but to carelessly steered and driven th.it it went in zigzag fashion. The rea pn for this was to be found in the fact that the prisoner had his arm a-ound a young lady who was sitting beside him, and was kissing her. Accordingly he had only one arm to aleer and drive with his left. Witness saw the car dash In to the baca of tbe youth Cobbler, wbe had been walking slowly behind a bak er's cart. Cobbler was knocked under the cart and the young lady was pitched out on top of him. Diversified Farming. Suggested by Ihe ruin of the great oorn crop, the Sr. Louis Republic talks diversified farming as follows: If tbe drought drills oae needed lesson Into the mindr and hearts of the farm ers, it will not have been in vaiD. If it succeeds iu teaching the owner ot every qoarter-fention the value of the 'eide products, "' Missouri will be the gainer in tin: end . And Ihere is good rsaaon to hel'eve that t r 1 1 - will be oua of the results of the long continued dry weather. Better than all the elaborah arguments of years are the comparative facts tbat tbe drought is bringing forth. The man wiih an early berry crop, a wheat crop, an orchard, with a few hives of bees next a clover field, and with a barn yard full of chickens on frieediy terms v.itb the pigs and calves is the man who has every cause to thank hiB foreBigbteJness for not being in the fix of his lees provi dent neighbor. For the year 1901 wilt be remembered as tbe year wben the "side-products" kept many a householder from feeling tbe effects of one of tbe severest droughts in tbe history of tbe Btate. Last year tbe value of the eggs and poultry shipped out of Missouri was about twelve and a'balf million dollars. If the lessons of tbis year are remembered, tbe yalue of exports from the chicken industry should be donbled. This year will be remembered, in Miss ouri and in every western state, as the year when the man wbo diversified bis crops could close tbe season'B acconnt to thegocd. Tbe day has passed wben a farmer is accounted the beBt because he van raise the best corn in the county, iu spite of ttie fact that be can raise nothing else with profit in a good year. Iustead of one vast field, there should' be two or three, each bearing a different crop and coming to Imitation at differ ent times, Instead of a herd of 2-year-olris, there should be stock ranging from the new-born calf to the fattened feeef. While raising chickens 'or table use, there is "velvet'' in raising three times as many more for eity markets. If tbis lesson ia learned, the drought losses may be turned into cash. ine jcugena journal getB warmed up on tbe subject of Oregon weather as to! lows: Tbe people of the Willamette valley are just now enjoying their usual quota of genuine summer weather; such as can be found only in Old Webfoot. We do not except even California. Yet, withal in onr rambles around we meet all classes of people. " The weather-crank is ever present, winter and summer. He s designated by the face be wears, In summer time he haB the Bun-grine and feels and looks uncomfortable; in winter the sun-grins are displaced and a digni fied cloudy expression ie noticeable. While the summer hoat is very oppres sive to a great many, it is quite agree able to others, and they seem to make much of Old Sol's warm, genial emilee while they last, for be doesn't Bmi b much in winter and if he does it it a cold, facial grin, or a tiny wink through some rifllo in the clouds. We could not or Bbould we expect or wish for more de lightlul weather than these bright, sun kissed days with the pleasant sea bteezeB to cools your brow and temperate your body and mind. Few places are so fa vorable to the ever prevailing soft breezes from the west and northwest in summer as the Willametto valley. This breeze is noticeable here during the afternoons. Harvest hands in tbe fields do not notice tho heat so much, although they always have an agreeable expectancy of tb usual afternoon breeze. Admiial Schley will become a great man before he gets through with thli. in vestigation. It looks ae if he will be ac quitted before the court of inquiry meets. Whatever Grover Cleveland was as president he undoubtedly la a great fisherman and it is no small thing to really know how 3 catch flab enough to substantiate a fish story. nether a mend ia a giod thing or not depends entiiely who the friend ie A high tariff haa built up the extor tionate trust. The following is not needed here, bnt it ahowa the leading subject in the East these days the thunder etorm ; and telle how to act in case of one: "If oat of doora keep away from trees haystacks, houses, large sheets of water, river banks, etc. If in an open plain, where there are no trees or buildings, you are eafer lying down than standing np. II near a wood, stay there, and do not go nearer. If near a single tall tree you are pretty safe thirty yards away. Indoors yon are safest of all if you adopt Franklin's plan. Find the geometrical center of the room. Bang np a ham mock by silken cords, get in and stay there, Failing a hammock, ait on one chair in the middle of the room with your feet on another, first placing be neath them a feather bed or hair mat tress. But do not sit under the gaa chan delier. Whether out of doors or indoors keep away from the chimney or from metallic masses ol any kind, And pos- sess your souls in patience Oregon salmon Jbereafter will be run by a New Jersey trust. Doesn't that jar you. The bot weather east has been partic ularly hard on the potato crop and the price ia already very high. Tbe report tbat W. K. Hearst is to Btart a oaperin Portland ia probably like Saleu. 'e gas we 1. The Salem papers claim that gas baa been discovered at Salem. Tbis ien't the first time gas has been discovered mere. For some reason or other the Boer war has not ended for several days. What is the matter of the newspaper corres pondents. The dispatches say that the British recently had to run from tthe Boers. That has a revolutionary day sc und. A big wheat crop will mean lowfprices ; but a lagre crop in Oregon at even low prices wilt mean a great deal for the state. . Admiral Schley will come out of the investigation in a blaze of glory, with his colors flying. Just now Astoria is decidedly in the swim from a financial standpoint, the immense run of salmon filling the cof fers of her sitizens. The name of the yacht Constitu tion is evidently a hoodoo. The manner in which the present administration haa treated tne constitution has evidently been transmitted to the yacht. Goasip is a very mean thing to do: but people will talk about the current events of the day and discUBS them, and they have a right to do bo, Wrong should be condemned and right com mended, A man from the middle west ont here sayB be doesn't need to look any further than around Albany for a location. It suits him, and the prospects of this place are tbe best of any of the valley towns. Ihere ie an immense field for investi gation in the timber land frauds. Bight in Linn county there is an onnnrtnnit.it (for inquiry, a larve amount of timber uaving oeen gouDteu up by companies who have undoubtedly employed loca tors. The valleya are wh . make this coun try, not the big peaks like Shasta and Hood. They are pleasing sight , but the valleys make the hojies. It i. time that the railroads appreciated this fact. In Eugene the postmaster, by advice ol the Bpecial agent, haa prohibited the local papers from publishing advertise ments of gifts given by merchants or the date set for drawings or the winning numbers. This has been the postal law for years, and knowing it the Democrat has refused to publish anything pertain ing to such things. Full particulars though of the governments big lottery in Oklahoma may be given. A man named,.;Williams was arrested at Walla Wella for rt.pe on a fifteen year old girl, tried and convicted and Bent to the peniteutiary four years, all within an hour and a half. That was one time wheo Justice took the bar.dage off her eyea and waded in with Bleeves rolled up. The other day when the Pomona was com iug up stream the other eido of Salem Capt. Spong saw a cow stuck in the mud. He stopped the boat and with hie trew got the bovine out of the mud to a safe place. Like o sponge full of water Capt. Spong'a heart is full of kindness for all be.ngs, and the man who treats a dumb animal well may be depended up on in the every day avenues of life. Albany men aie laying for the X-Ray man to poison or salmon him at tbe first opportunity. He was got into the Alco club the other day and generously treat ed to a temperance drink called lemon Bours from which he has not yet recov ered. Hereafter he will travel m the weat side whenever it is possible. Salem Journal. Good for the lemon-sour. We have been in hopea something in Albany would go for Hofer. The following is one of the items that is going the rounds of the papers: A Lewiston girl named Jessie was sent to a famous eastern school and after a year's time wrote to her dad, signing "JeBsica". Iu reply the old man wrote: "Dear Jessica : Your welcome letter re ceived. Mammica and papaica are well. Aunt Maryica and Georgica started for California yesterday. I have bought a new horseica. It is a beautica. Its name Is monoica. Your brother Tomica iB doing finely, and tbe hired girlica ia a peachica." Here is the way the Chicago Inter Ocean pictures life in Oregon: "Billy Camp's great happinesa reminda me that his brother Edward is living an ideal life out in Oregon, He and hie wife (who, aa you may rememoer, was Miss Berenice Addison before her mar riage, anu a reigning uette) are roughing it near a place called Glendale, where tbev have a nest that Ihev mil a i..k. iu," but which is really a little fragment of Belgrnvia in the wilderneea. Here, with horsca and dogs for pets and the rough-ond ready natives for eomnnnmn. and the refinements of civilization tossed in between, they are contriving, so they confess, to find happiness, or something very like it. With a couple so admirably mated haDDiness should nnt ha u seek, but their friends here claim that they went a long wav to look far ii they went a long way to look for They havo been away nine months now but may come back some time. You can't tell. A Revolution. Willkmstad, Island of Curacoa, July 21. Dr. Rangel Gradiras, at the head of 5000 men, has revolted against President Castro of Venezuela. The insurgents are near Santonio de Tacheria, on the Colombian -frontier. The Venezuelan government has sent 10,000 troops to the scene of the uprising. Other outbreaks are expected.- The - whole country ie ready to rise against President Castro. Constitutional guarantees have been sus pended aod complications with (.Colum bia aro feared. The Oklahoma Lottery. El Rbso, July 31. Thousand one hundred names were drawn from each wheel iu the great United States land lottery today, making a grand total of 8700. Tomorrow the list of prizewinners will he completed. The drawing of uumbers will continue on tho platform north of the Irvinir school hnildi nt until about 10,000 names for each land district nave Deen drawn from the wheels, mak iue a total of 20,000 names. The Salmon Trust. Portland. Auir. l.Over tzmnnnn will be distributed by the Portland banks in the next eight days in closing the deal by which the Pacific Packine A i.iuu vuuipauy HevureB control ol zo sal canneries on Puget Sound and in Alaska, K. Onffroy, who has succeeded in orga nizing the trust after four years of steady effort, arrived yesterday. Ais associates in the final details of arrangements, who will reach Portland this morning will bring $3,000,000 in exchange. Held Up. Chicago, July'31 The Baltimore & Ohio passenger train from the EaBt, which was due to arrive at Grand Cent ral Station, bere, at 9 p. m , was held up by 5 maeked men at 8 o'clock tonight uctneeu .ugemore ana It rand Calumet Heights, Ind., 31 miles out from Chica go. One of the mail cars which con tained no money, was dynamited and wrecked. Nothing was secured. A Ivew Party. Columbus, July 31. The "Progressive Democratic party" was organized hero today. The attendanse was so small that many doubted up to 1 p rn whether any attempt would be made to hold a state convention. An Anarchist Arrested. Zurich, Switzerland, July 31. An an archist named Galliotti wbb arrested at Viedikon last night by order of tbe Pros-ecutor-General on information received from Paterson, N. J, Many documents were found at his lodgings. He had been Belected to kill the Czar. A Just Decision - Honolulu, July 26, yia San Francisco, Aug. 1, The Constitution of the United States preceded the flag in Hawaii, ac cording to a decision just rendered by Circuit Judge George D. Gear of the First;Circuit. He haa already released, on habeaa corpus petitions, threelprison era, sentenced for infamous crimes after the resolution of annexation passed Con gress and waas signed bo President Mc Kinley, on;the ground that they were not convicted bv a unanimnnn vpr.11, nt 12 jurors. Afraid of the United States, Vienna, Aug. 1. The; Fremdenblatt publishes an interview with Hrr un chairman of the Shoemekers Guild on the project for opening American retail Bhoe shops in Austria. Herj Bitza says the Americans can sell 39 per cent cheaper than the local makers. Tho citemenljamong the latter increases and violence is tauten ol tf the projected BhopB are opened. Maryland Democrats. Baltimore. Au. 1 The state convention, which met here today, v....v .u..,, 1.1,11 purpose oi me party, if successful in the election, ia to elimi nate the negro from politics in Maryland if such a thing be possible under the constitution ot the state. Under this paromount issue of the campaign will stand the candidates nominated today for Btate oflices. Gorman .dictated the platform which ignores national isBuea. HU Firm Suspended. Chicago, Aug. 1, Board of Trade and buainesg circles generally were Btartled today by tho announcement that the beorge A Phillips Co,, which became famous through itB pool operations in the Chicago corn pit duriBg the nast year, had traneferredjall its open trades to McReynold's & Co. It was at first rumored that a large defalcation had been discovered in; an examination of the books but this proved untrue. Morgan's Refusal. Pittsburg, Aug. 1 The Commercial Gazette will tomorrow say: The Amalgamated executive board last evening received by telegraph a flat re. fusal from J. Pierpont Morgan to reopen the wage conference where it was broken off at the Hotel Lincoln, nearly three weeks ago. This undoubtedly means that the strike will go on. Trust Style. NkwJYork, Aug. l.-There was an other advance to-day of 10 cents a ton in the price of coal sold to the retail deal ers. The advance has been made each month in April, May, June and July. IhiB means a total advance of 75 cents a ton up to September 1. A former Portland" teacher, aftejwarda superintendent of theipublic schools ol fi?it.nakf'Cjty,.hM been Promoted to TnnTi'.ntendcjr of the "bool at John Day .somewhere in eastern Oregon A Eugene man in tbe city this morn ing was throwing cold water on Albany, but it fell off withont chilling any onr. fny right without a $50,000 an ?i l f ?" ,ILom'h "'ate, and i, goin ahead n a healthy way.' It i9 the mott promising city in the valley, regaXja of the prevarication, of the citizen, of the jealous neighboring towns Mr. Wilaon, secretary of agriculture, thinks tbe reason of the drought in tbe east is due to the .tripping ,f the laoi imber and leaving large tracta of open and. It Is claimed that the forest is conducive to ram. But really Is this the reason? Perhaps not. The . Uraw, np what water it can get bold of and it muat come down somewhere according to atmoephe.-ic conditions Why ia there twice., much rain at A.torla aa here i, in places in this valley where there is just as much timber?