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1 WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO Their Hnceln WrU Ke.di l Strong; HHT All the blood in the body passes th rough the kidneys once every three minute. The kidneys filter the blood. They work night and day. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impure matter daily, when unhealthy some part of this impure matter is left in the blood. This brings on many d leases and symptoms-pain in the back, headache, nervousness, hot, dry skin, rheumatic pains, gout, gravel, disorders of the. eyesight and hearing, dizziness irreg ular heart, debility, drowsiness, dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But if you keep the filters right you will have no trouble with your kid neva. E. L. Berry, Main St. Heppner Oregon says: "You are welcome to use my name as one who has been cured of Kidney complaint by Doan's Kidney Pills. Mv kidneys were weak and my back was so painful thatI was obliged to walk all stooped over. The contents of one box of Doan's Kidney Pills effected a core and dur ing the pas two years there has been no recurrence of the trouble. For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. Red Front Livery & Feed Stables Willis Stewart, Prop FIRST-CLASS LIVERY RIGS Kept constantly on hand and can be furnished on short notice to parties wishing to drive into the interior. First class : : Hacks and Buggies CALL AROUND AND SEE US. WE CATER TO THE : ; : , : : COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS : AND CAN FURNISH RIGS AND DRIVER ON SHORT NOTICE : :' HEPPNER, - OREGON left me with a frightful cough and very weaK. I naa speiis wnen acouiu hardly breathe or speak for 10 to 20 minutes. My doctor could not help me, but I was completely cured by DR. KING'S New Discovery Mrs. J. E. Cox, Joliet, 111. SOc AND $1.00 AT ALL DRUGGISTS. For Sale. A thoroughbred Jersey bull, one year of age and-dehomed. Will sell tbia animal cheap. EPH ESKELSON, Lexington , Oregon. Lost. A yearliDg bav colt, with one white hind foot, branded :P on right shoulder. This animal was missed from the Andrew Neal castors at Lone Rock the early prt of October 1911. A reward of $5 00 jwill be paid for in formation leading to its recovry. AARON PETERSON, 1 mo. EiRht Miile Oregon. Gi to the Bakery for yoor Lread. 26 loaves for 1 00. Whr not select that carpet from the new lines at Case's Furniture Store. ;capli Ait Awful fate. A thousand tongues could not ex press the gratilu-le of Mr. J. E. Cox, ot Joliet, III. for her wonderful deliv erance from an awful fate. Tvnhoid pneumonia had left me with a dread ful cnnjih," she. wries. "Sometimes I bad s'Jcb awful roughing soells I boughc I would die. I could get no tio'p from doctor's treatment er other medicines till I used Dr. King's New Discover. But I owe my life to this wonderful remedy for I hirdly eoueh at all now." Quick and safe, itt the most reliable of all tl.roatand luog medicines. Eery bottle guar antied. 50o and tl 00. Trial bottle f re at Slocura Drug Co. Pr. C C. Chick and Wiliard Elake, of Ion attended Masonic ceremonies in Heppner on last Friday evening. II PHEIBDONtA i NEW LABOR BILL A TAFT POLICY Liability and Compensation ' Measure Progressive. JUSTICE IS ITS OBJECT. President Approve Proposed Legisla tion Making Federal Labor Laws Fit Modern Condition Legal Machinery Simplified. As the result of the personal interest of President Taft In all matters af fecting the workingmen of the country, congress has before It today a com prehensive bill on employers' liability and workmen's compensation -which is recognized as one of the most progres sive of the many achievements of the Taft administration. The bill was re ported by a commission appointed by President Taft pursuant to a Joint res olution of congress passed on June 2", 1010, and It was recently sent to con gress by the president, accompanied with a message recommending Its pas sage. As drafted the measure pro vides, an exclusive remedy and com pensation for accidental Injuries re sulting In disabilities or death to em ployees of common carriers engaged In Interstate or foreign commerce or In the District of Columbia. This comprehensive legislation is the direct outcome of the general unsatis faetoriness of labor legislation passed by congress In recent years and is il lustrative of the Taft method of reach ing on admitted evil by a painstaking investigation followed by carefully considered laws. As Is well known, the first employers' liability law passed in the last administration was declared unconstitutional by the courts. A new law to take its place was passed un der this administration, but it was gen erally understood at the time that the comprehensive measure now before congress was to follow, both as to liability and compensation, as soon as the necessary Investigation into the subject could be made. The result is that the workingmen of the United States, so far as they can be reached by federal law, will soon, be working under one of the most enlightened la bor laws on record. s Provision is made in the bill, as draft ed tentatively, that every common car rier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce shall pay compensations in the amounts specified in the bill to any of its employees who sustains personal injury by accident arising out of aud In the course of his employment and resulting In his disability or to his de pendents In case of death. It is provided In the bill that the In jured employee shall have medical at tendance and surgical aid when nec essary, the last mentioned being limit ed to $200. The monthly wages of au employee are deemed to be twenty-six times the established day's pay, and $50 is the minimum monthly wage pay ment. It is also provided that all.com- pensatlon shall be paid monthly unless computed to a lump sum. Death benefits are provided for at a specific percentage of the man's wages to be paid to the widow with an in crease in the amount when there are dependent children, aud In case of no dependents the payment of the burial expenses fs required. The matter of personal Injury compensation is also covered in a fair and equitable pro vision. Another feature of the proposed act Is a clear definition of the term "de pendent" as well as of what consti tutes an "injury" and an "employee." Legal complications are provided for, reports of accidents, payhieuts and operations under the law to the inter state commerce commission are re quired, and it Is declared that the pro posed act shall take effect on July 1, 1912, and cited as "the federal com pensation act of 1912." In its Investigations of this subject the commission determined at the out set that in substance the doctrines of the common law originating under com paratively simple conditions were un just as applied to the complex relations of master and servant. The use of complicated machinery, steam and elec tricity has had the effect of increasing the deplorable antagonism between employer and employee and often giving a few injured employees Jarge and frequently extravagaut damages, while the gren majority have been left to bear the entire burden without any recompense whatever. At the time of the adoption of the common law mien of liability Indus trial conditions were radically differ ent from those of today. The number of employees was smaller because there were few big industrial plants. The business carried on was small in extent, the appliances used In the work consisted largely of hand tools, while the power was simple in char acter, with little danger to the em pijyee. Under such conditions the rules of common law originated. Today there In a vast difference. President Taft, In the mesnge which transmitted the report of the commis sion to congress, nptly says, in speak ing f the proposed bill, "that it is one of the great steps of progress toward a satisfactory solution of an Important phase of the controversies between em ployers and employees that have len proposed within the last two or three deendes. The old rules of liability un der the common law were adapted to a different aee and condition' and were asasaasa'ssss'ss,''',s "- i CHINAMEN ARE TOUGH. They Can Live Under Condition That Would Kill a Whte Man. Peculiar power to resist disease la a characteristic of the Chinese, accord ing to Professor K. A. Ross. For In stance, out of tea children bora ia western homes three, normally the weakest three, will fall to grow up. Out of ten children born in China about eight are doomed to die In infancy. The difference ia due to the hardships that infant life meets with among the Chinese, and with such rigorous selec tion there results a stock displaying a peculiar hardiness. Living In the su persaturated, man stifled land, pro foundly Ignorant of the principles of hygiene, the masses have developed an immunity to noxious microbes which excites the wonder and envy of the for eigner. "They are not affected by a mosquito bite that will raise a large lump on the lately come foreigner," says Professor Ross. "They can use contaminated water from canals without incurring dysentery. There is very little typhoid, and what there is Is so attenuated it was long doubted to be typhoid. AU physicians agree that among the Chi nese Binallpox is a mild disease. The chief of the army medical staff points out that during the autumn maneuvers the soldiers sleep on damp ground with a little straw under them without any ill effects. "Coolies, after two hours of burden bearing nt a dog trot, will shovel them selves full of hot rice with scarcely anv mastication and burry on for an other two hours. A white man would writhe with indigestion. The Chinese seem able to sleep iu any position. I have seen them sleeping ou piles of bricks or stones or poles, with a block or a brick for a pillow and with the hot sun shining full into the face. They stand a cramped position louger than we can and can keep on longer at monotonous toil unrelieved by change or break." Chicago News. MATHEMATICAL SIGNS. Process by Which These Familiar Characters Were Evolved. The sign of addition i3 derived from the initial letter of the word ''plus." In making the capital letter it was made more and more carelessly until the top part of the "p" was placed near the center; hence the plus sign was finally reached. The sign of subtraction was derived from the word "minus." The word was first contracted into mus, with a horizontal line above to indicate the contraction, which was a printer's freak that may be found in almost any' book bearing a date earlier than the beginning of the eighteenth century. After the lapse of a long period of time the letters were omitted altogether, leaving only the short line so well known to all. The multiplication sign was obtained by changing the plus sign into a char acter resembling the letter x. This was done simply because' multiplica tion is but a shorter form of addition. Division was formerly indicated by placing the dividend above a horizontal line and the divisor below. In order to save space In printing the dividend was placed to the left and the divisor to the right, with a simple dot in place of eaeh. The radical sign was derived from the initial letter of the word "radix." The sign of equality is said to have first been used in the year 1557 -by a sharp mathematician, who adopted it as a substitute for the words "equal to." - Enlightening a Poet. The English poet Mr. i'owys told this anecdote, in which he claimed to have been the party of the second part. lie said that he was tailing to au old country woman on the occasion of the queen's jubilee in 1807. "What do you understand by the word 'Jubi lee?'" he asked her.' "Well," answered the old dame, "if you've been married fifty years and the man's alive it's a golden wedding. If lie's dead it's a jubilee." Ancient Cancer Cure. An ancient oriental cure for cancer was to apply n live toad to the affected part. A well authenticated case of this form of treatment was that of th wife of a merchant of Smyrna. A lire toad was strapped tightly over the diseased part. and. It was said, the woman was completely cured within a short time. It was a sacrifice upon the part of the toad, bowexer, as it died after It had been on duty twenty-four hours. The Best He Could Do. "Mr. Addem." said a tightwad mer chant to his si& faced bookkeeper. "I wish you would try to look a little more cheerful." "I think," replied the bookkeeper, swallowing a big lump. ""that for 30 shillings n week I'm awfully Jolly." London Mail. ' Exciting. "Anything going ou this evening?" ' "Yes: there's to be a performance nl :e Afhletic gardens. A fellow will undertake to subdue an automobile that has a record of having killed six men. He's to do It In one hour or for leit $1,000."-Chicago Tribune. With an Incumbrance. "No." said Mr. Cumrox. "i dont In the least disapprove of my daughter's marrying a title." "But you Heem dissatisfied " "1 am. What I object to Is the fel low that goe with It." Washington Star. Beware of bnd beginnings. He who does not take the first wrong step will never take the second. CRIMINALS IN FRANCE. ' fri Jit jqi ' ' "it Curious Device Used to Land Them Safely In Jail. Scarcely a day passes without a pic ture appearing In the French press ot a prisoner being led off to the station by a policeman and the description, "the Apache being taken away band cuffed by the agents." As a matter of fact, handcuffs are altogether out of date in France and are never used. Instead of the bracelets every po liceman carries a "cabriolet," which is a very rough and massively made ar ticle resembling a huge watch chain some ten inches long wWh a stout wooden crossbar at eitbend. An expert can slip this over th wrist of an offender In a twinkling and with both the crossbars in bis band has only to give It a twist to inflict the most excruciating pain and compel In stant and lamblike submission. Another common method of prevent ing escape Is to make the prisoner place both his hands in bis side trouser pockets and then pass a string around his wrists and around his waist and bid him march. He can walk at a very smart pace, but any attempt to run out of a shambling trot immedi ately brings biin down, nose to the pavement. If no string is handy all the brace buttons of the trousers are cut off and the culprit is made again to put bis hands in his pockets. As in the for mer case, be can only walk, since so soon as he frees his hands bis nether garments fail about his legs and be Is "entrave." Few of these devices are apparent to the casual passerby, who often won ders at the passive docility with which some villainous looking individual un der arrest follows bis captor to the station. Sometimes on a country road one may meet a couple of gendarmes on foot or on horseback, leading a prisoner between them. This Is In obedience to a quaint reg ulation whereby prisoners are never sent by train from place to place, as there are no funds set apart for rail way fares. Consequently four or five times as much is spent In food, drink and lodging for the escort as would be for the ticket, but the regulations are observed. In such cases the po lice often use the "poucettes." though strictly speaking this instrument is not legal, s It is n sort of loose thumbscrew, which is fixed so as to keep the two thumbs comfortably together so long as the man does not struggle, but a twist of the string held by one of the police is onough to destroy any wish to escape. London Standard. "Mad Anthony" Wayn. The nickname of "Mad Anthony" at tached to the name of General Wayne . TMvlMf(rktin,i7 fnnm ti'iw fine to no trace of Insanity, but instead to the . man's wild, reckless courage in plung ing into battle where the odds against hitn seemed hopeless. He hud other nicknames too. "Dandy Wayne" was one or tlieui, because of his absurd love for wearing fine clothes in the wilderness and in battle. The Indians gave him the nickname of "Black Snake" from the swift and deadliness of his attack. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war Sir Henry Clinton said of Wayne: "Wherever Mad An thony Wayne is there's always a fight. That's what he is" there for." And Clinton had sufficient experience to kuow whereof he spoke. Our Climate an Asset. On no other continent, under no oth er sun. in no other zone, in all the world, can be found the same extent of fertile, available agricultural land as in these United States. And rn no other equally large tract as that stretching from the Atlantic to the Tacific and between the great lakes and the gulf cau be duplicated the same amount of normally good weath er as nature has bestowed ou this fa vored land. Our rain and sunshine are so proportioned the one to the other as to produce the best yearly conditions ou earth. Detroit free Press. An AITAround Sermon. A sermon had been preached in a cathedral, and some of the clergy who had been present were discussing It nt the bishop' luncheon t:ib!e. One said. "Was not that sermon n little high?'" "High:" exclaimed u not her. "It struck me as being decidedly 'low.' " "Well, now." put In an orthodox cleric of the old school.. "1 should have described it as rather "broad." What do you say. bishop?" "I." replied the prelate, "thought It was father 'long.' " J. M. , Hansford is down from Hard man for a few days this week Let the AKERS PATENT FASTEN ER reduce your draper troubles to a minimum this season. The fastener, which is illustrated here, la stamped from sheet steel, h iviii two brads strin k up Jtoio each jaw which are driven Into the li when l-e Jaws are set up. Tbla holds the stifk as If In a Vise. There ai no ri vets going through tne stick to weaken or spll' It, Wo use the best No. 6 duck, straight grained ash sticks and first quality leather belt. We guarantee the quality and we guarantee the workmanship. These drapers will cost tow ne more than other makes and they will save you much time and annoyance. Ton' tall to use one on our Harvester or Header this season, Notice! Call and look over the new line of SPRING & SUMMER SAMPLES Just Received. LOUIS PEARSON, Tailor. oi VAWTER CRAWFORD Notary Public . Insurance Agent Represents some Leading Fire Insurance Companies, including The Home of New York, The Hartford, and The I'liumlx of Loudon, also American Bonding Co. of Baltimore. Office: Gazette, Heppner, Oregon Oc The Plowing Season And VAUGHN & SONS have on a new supply of Canton and Syracuse Plows Gangs, Sulkeys, and Walking. Call before buying and look at the new Two Way Sulkey ' with all the good features the other makes have, and some special features that no others have. VAUGHN "& SONS, Heppner O era ELMER BEAMAN Fuel Dealer Rock Springs Coal, Pine, Fir and Oak Cord Wood and Slab Wood. SELLS FOR CASH ON DELIVERY. Leave yous Orders with Slocum Drug Company nd they will receive prompt attention. MlKEHEALY, Proprietor Telephone... Livery Stable - TELEPHONE 201 - COURTEOUS TREATMENT AND FIRST-CLASS SERVICE, f WE PAY FOR ALL TELEPHONES FOP RIGS. I LOWER MAIN STREET THE CITY MEAT MARKET KINSMAN & IIVIvIv, Props. Fresh Beef, Pork, Mutton, Sugar cured Ham and Bacon and Home-rendered Lard. Top Prices Paid for Hides and Pelts. FRESH FISH THURSDAYS. A NEW INSTRUMENT An ttachment tor hoe drills as illustrated here has two very val uable ami tmior snt features which eve-y rrogresslve farmer will appreciate tince. They are made to fit any hoe, are easily ad justed and tni-wer the double purpoie of regulating the depth of IT WILL DO IT sowing and at he same time pretifes the soil firmly around the grain thus insuring- immed iate germination. "' Sph-ndirt results are obtained from their use. Manufactured by Pendleton Iron Works, Pendleton. Oregon. We have an ap-to-date machine shop and found ry and employ skilled workmen in every depart ment. We solicit your patronage. 4 DC DO U o fl -j.-r. 30 THE HOME OF THE SPOTTED HORSES HEPPNER, ORKGON