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Outvoted.

A we'll known surgeon was impart-
ing some clinical instruction to half
a dozen students who accompanied
him in his rounds.
Pausing at the bedside of a doubtful
case, he said:
Now, gentlemen, do you think this
is or Is not a case for operation
One by n the students made their
diagnosis, and all Of them came to the
conclusion that 1t was not.
well, gentlemen, you are all wrong"
said the wielder of the scalpel, "and
shall operate tomorrow"
mo, you WON'T" exclaimed the pa
tent az he rose in his bed. "Six to
n Is a good majority. Gimme my
clothes ."-London Tit-Bits.
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Oregon Will Send Wheat to Europe.

The United States has approx
mately SOC, 900, 900 bushels of wheat
on hand this year for export and
practically all of it will probably be
sold to the warning nations of Eu-
rope. According to a report issued
today by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture the wheat pro-
duction of the United States this year
will be around 1872 10000 bushels
and only Col, 900 bushels will be
needed for food consumption and
seed purposes at home.
The per capita wheat consumption
of Oregon for food is 6.1 bushels, and
the total annual requirement for seed
and food purposes in this state is Co.
026,0O0 bushels, leaving a surplus of
production this year of approximate
ly 1~0,57S,00O.
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Government to Help Hog Raisers.

The modern method of solving az
ricultural problems by investigating
them, not only in the labratory, but
also on the farm in cooperation with
the farmer, has given such admirable
results that it is to be applied to the
anti-hog-cholera crusade.
Congress has appropriated a half
million dollars to carry on the work
and experiments will be made in all
parts of the United States. The aim
will be not only to exterminate the
disease in the test sections, but also
to discover the most practical, eff
cient and economical methods for
continuing the work throughout the
country.
This investigation will fill a long
felt want in Oregon, as the hog death
rate in this State from cholera is 20
per 1000 head, and hog raisers are
losing an average of 5000 hogs, val
ued at $66,000 from this disease an
nually.
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Facts For The Farmer.

No farmer is perfect, but our mis-
takes can be reduced to a minimum
by intelligent reading and intense
thinking.
When the farmer fully realizes
Just how closely his interests are
bound up with those of his neighbor
and fellow-farmer, then will farming
become a profitable business.
The highest duty of the State and
Federal governments is to place agri-
cultural education within the reach
of all.
The prosperity of the farmer is CO.
incident with the prosperity of the
State, and fundamentally, the well
fare of the people depends upon the
cultivation of the soil.
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EAGAN, THE BOMB MAN.
No Ono Else on Earth Has a Job Just
Like This New Yorker.


Owen Eagan, as inspector of New
York's bureau Of combustibles, has
opened, analysed and destroyed over
5000 bombs in nineteen years of unin-
terrupted and dangerous duty. He re-
ceives a salary Of $500 a year, and
no one has ever offered to succeed him
when he quits. No life insurance com
pany will take a risk on him, and If he
is injured while opening a bomb he
cannot sue the city for damages. There
isn't another Job like his in the world.
Following is IN extract from an arti-
Gle in the American Magazine:
1.-THE bomb industry in New York
began to be a serious menace ten years
ago, but In those days Eagan had an
hour or two to himself. Nowadays
bombs are coming so fast he calls up
the bureau Of combustibles every half
hour to let one of the three bosses
know where he is. To show the in
creasing popularity of Black Hand ex-
tortion. Eagan handled only thirteen
bombs in 1908, while last year there
were 145, with a property damage es-
timated at $E, 430, an increase of nine
ty-three over 1912.
"And every one of the unexploded
bombs found Is capable Of blowing
Eagan to smithereens were it not for
the care he takes to safeguard his life.
Once he has literally picked a bomb
apart and has supplied the police with
working clews be unconsciously finds
himself the enemy Of the very men
who make bombs. Yet, cognizant Of
that fact, he carries no revolver for
protection, and the only means he uses
to elude the vengeful Is to keep his
whereabouts secret. You won't find
his name, address or telephone number
in any directory, and long ago he dis
carded the use Of mail boxes"
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Army and Navy Of Latin America.

The combined army and navy
strength Of the Latin American repub-
lies is: Army, including total available
strength, 3,560,000; navy. including all
kinds Of craft, eighty-four vessels, with
personnel of 27,000 officers and men.
OF this naval strength all that amounts
to anything are the nine modern (but
not first class) battleships-Argentina
three, Brazil three and Chill three.
Mexico has practically no navy. The
total possible war strength of the Unit
ed States is probably around 10000
0OO.-New York American.
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Absolute Devotion.

hDSOiutC DCNOtlOns
81 think that women ought to have
the ballot"
do you really want it,"
"They must want it. Some of
them are working so ardently for
suffrage that they are paying abso-
lutely no attention to dress."-Kan-
sas City Journal.
A Docile Gun.
The Daily Chronicle on the latest
submarine:
1T will also be equipped with a
quick-fring gun, which disappears
when the vessel is submerged"
This is far the best arrangement;
it would never do for it to be left
floating where any ~passer-by could
pick it up.-Punch.
Apprehensive.
Wife-Ta-ta, dearie. l shall write
before the end of the week.
Husband-Good gracious, Alice!
You must make that check last Ion
ger that that!--London Opinion.
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On The Right Track.

A seedy-looking man walked slow
ly up to the farm house.
MADAM" he said to the farmers
wife, may I chop some wood for
you? I'll do it for nothing"
The lady looked at him suspic-
iously. do you be needin' exercise?"
she inquired.
mot exactly, madam. The only
thing | require is that you let ne sit
by the woodpile and paint for a few
hours. | am an artist of the old
school and | have been commissioned
to do a futurist impression of an
aeroplane. l wish to use the wood
pile as a model.'-Chicago News.
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Revival of the Mustache,

Is the mustache coming into fashion
again? Five of this years rowing
for Oxford university wore deco
rations on the upper lip. Cambridge
had only n example. That, however,
makes six out Of eighteen, an unusual
average today among men who are
not long out of their teens" About
so per cent of the male population in
England are today clean shaven, while
the majority Of the others do not shave
at all.-EXchange.
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Baseball Linqo.

Some day when he doesn't happen to
have more than four or five visitors, If
that time ever comes, we are going to
sit quietly down with our talented
sporting editor and ask him for u
own information why n baseball player
always spears the pill with his right
fin instead Of catching the ball with
his right hand.-Ohio State Journal.
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PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT
Strengthen the Lungs.

The first essential in the avoid.
ance OF tuberculosis Of the lungs
or consumption is to keep the
lungs strong, SO that If the germs
nre breathed they can do no
harm. One of the most impor-
tant things in keeping the lungs
strong Is to keep the chest wide
open so that the lungs CAL be
properly used. If the body Is
dropped or stoops, or II the
shoulders are allowed to drag
forward (round shoulders), or If
the head is carried forward in
stead Of well back over the Shout
ders, the chest must be fatten-
ed, the breathing must be shall
low. and the lungs. not being
freely used, become weak. 1t "
In this type of chest that tuber-
culosis usually begins. The con-
sumptive is usually narrow chest
ed, with dropped shoulders and
with the head craned forward.
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Identified.

Observing an unfamiliar shrub by a
country roadside. a student of botany
stopped to make an examination.
"Are you acquainted with this flow-
er, young man" he asked Of a passing
yokel.
Yep" the boy laconically answered.
ITO what family do you think 1t be-
longs"
Indicating a nearby house with a
pudgy thumb, the boy answered, "Hig-
gins'."-Puck.
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Teacher-Who knows what trip
lets are?
Bright Pupil know, miss; its
twins and one left over.-Boston
Transcript.
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Painful Publicity.

"The streets of New York are a
blaze of glory-a veritable riot" ex-
planned the American. "Why, there's
one electric sign with 100000 lights
in it."
Doesn't that make it rawther
conspicuous, old top?" asked his
British friend.-Harper's Weekly.
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An Excitina Ride.

An English racing automobile at
Brooklands burst a tire while running
119 miles an hour, skidded sidewise
eighty yards, looped three loops back
ward and brought up in plowed ground
Just OF the track with all hands safe.
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What Tile Menu Means.

First Customer-Waiter, bring me
a bottle of Medoc.
Second Customer-Waiter, bring
me a bottle of st. Emilion.
Third Customer-Waiter, bring
me a bottle of POmade.
Fourth Customer--Waiter, bring
me a bottle Of Clos-Vougeot.
Waterfall right, gentlemen. Ito
kitchen)--Four bottles of red wine.
lie Pele-Mele.
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FOK saI,E-one grade yearlir

FOR SALE-One grade yearling
fine wool ram; sheared "a lbs;
price $3.50. Also, two spring Du-
roc Jersey Bears, ready for service;
exceptional prize strain; will register
at $500 each. See them at my
Sagenhurst Farm. 8 miles South of
Heppner. B. H. PECK.
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Cause For Worry.

"What Is Owens worrying about,
his debts?"
mo; because he is unable to con-
tract new ones."-St. Louis Repub-
lie,
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Fulfilling Engagements.

The Flirt-Oh dear, what a lot of
people will be unhappy when get
married!
The Other--Why, how many are
you NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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Forcing a Sale.

"Have you found a customer for
your gramophone YETI"
"Oh, yes. l played 1t for twelve
hours on end, and all the neighbors
dubbed togetheVand bought it from
me."-London Opinion.
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He Knew Him.

Here Is a story attributed to Con-
The river press., 1914-08-05
TWENTY YEARS OF WAR

They have builded at The Hague a
beautiful temple and dedicated it to
arbitration and peace, and Mr.. Bryan.
believing as Benjamin Franklin be-
lieved in 1878. that there never was
a good war or bad peace" is direct.
ing the influence of our state depart
ment against war. The world wide
endeavor to minimize deadly strife
and prOlong peace between friendly
nations is deserving of approval and
praise. though the advice that would
have us disregard the convincing les.
sons of history and discard reasOna.
BILE precautions for national defense
should be rejected as another en-
treme, possibly even more dangerous
than the j;ngo spirit which would
precipitate a nation needlessly into
war.
It will be we'll to remember that
three years after Franklin said there
never was a good war his voice was
lifted powerfully for armed resistance
to England. And the history OF the
nations the last 20 years stands as an
The river press., 1914-08-05
Two Useful Books Free

Two very excellent books-"Dis-
eases of the Horse" and Diseases of
Cattle"-have been issued by the
United States department of agricul-
ture, and may be had for the asking.
These books are edited by the best
veterinarians and are sold by the SUI
perintendent of documents at Wash.
ington for very nominal sum to Gov
er the cost of printing. These same
fine. we'll illustrated books may be OBJ
tanned free by writing to your repre-
sentative or senator. Representatives
Tom Stout and John NJ. Evans
SenatOrs-Henry L. Myers and Thorn
as j. Walsh.
Mr.. T. F. Horsford of Wolf Point
remarked at a farmers institute meet
ing there that the book ON diseases
of cattle saved him good COW a,
least worth sixty dollars. He was
surprised that more stock raisers dc
not have these splendid books on theil
shelves. as we'll as some of the Farm
ers' bulletins from Washington anC
the circulars and bulletins from theil
own state experiment station.
| Our taxes. direct and indirect, e
to keep up these institutions, and il
is only just and fair that we real
some benefit from them or else have
our taxes spent in more useful ser
View. J. Hartman. live stock spec
ialist.
The river press., 1914-08-05
Would Volunteer for War

New York, July 29.-Thousands of
Servians and Austrians residing in
the United States have placed them
selves at the disposal of their respect
i've countries, according to announce.
ments made today by the consuls
here.
kilograms from San Francisco. St.
Louis, St. Paul, Milwaukee and var
ious cities throughout the middle
states caused the Servian consul-gen-
eral to estimate that in the neighbor-
l,ood of 10000 men would immediate
ly respond to a call for recruits.
At the Austro-Hungarian consulate
it was said that about 10000 men OF
all the nationalities that go to make
up the Austro-Hungarian empire had
signitied their intention of returning
to aid in the defense of the country
should they be needed.
The river press., 1914-08-05
Labor Men Censure Duncan

Denver, July 29.--Charles H. Moy.
g.. president OF the Western Fedora
ton CT Miners, made general defense
of his conduct in connection with
The recent Putte labor war, in an ad
dress today before the convention
The delegates resumed discussion OF
a report by special committee
which investigated various charges
against Meyer. The report was fav
orablc to Mo:er.
A resolution censuring Mayor l.. ]
Duncan of Butte, Montana. for alleg
ed statements that President Charles
II. Mover of the federation had re
quested the sending of Montana mil
itiamen to that city. was adopted b,
the Western Federation of Miners il
convention late yesterday. The reso
luton scores Mayor Duncan in strons
terms and requests that he retrac
the alleged statement. If he fails t
Go so, it recommends "the expulsion
Of Mayor Duncan from the socialis
party
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SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LAND

Attention has been called by one of
large numbers of prospective settlers.
that hundreds of homeseekers have
returned east from Montana this year
without locating. because they We're
not in position to squat on unsurveyeG
land. Many thousands who have To-
Gated on unsurveyed land in the north.
west and especially in Montana are
hesitating to carry on development
and improvement until such time as
their lands are surveyed.
Inquiry has developed the fact that
the government stands ready to make
the surveys but only on application of
bona-fide residents of the various town
ships.
Sufficient applications have not been
made, the surveyor general of the Unit
ed States says. and MOntanans are
urged to acquaint settlers with what is
necessary to secure the surveys, fol
the government officials say that they
can see no reason for making surveys
in Montana or any other state, just fol
the sake of knowing that the land has
been surveyed.
The government does not lack funds
In addition to the unused money now
on hand, the civil service bill now be
fore congress contains a large appro
priation for this work but the depart
ment will only proceed to make the SUI
veys upon application. 1t is therefore
urged that the residents of the various
townships in Montana located in un
surveyed territory make application t.
the local Office or direct to the depart
ment and action will be taken immed
lately.
The surveyor general writing of til.
situation says:
ut is not because of the lack o
funds that the surveys in Montana ar,
not being made, as the appropriation:
made by congress for this work have
not been exhausted. They say th'
policy of the department is to mak'
the surveys only on application 70
such surveys from bona-fide resident
of the various townships, and sucl
applications have not been numel
Gus enough to exhaust the availabl
appropriations for this work."
The river press., 1914-08-05
An Expensive Voter

Los Angeles, Cal, July 2s.-Charles
A. Wilson, who lives at the Isthmus
Catalina island, intends to vote at the
approaching state primary election
thereby making himself the most ex.
pensive elector in the state and per.
haps in the United States, according
to estimates here today by election Of
ficials.
Wilson is the only man in his pre-
cinct. The isthmus is II miles from
Avalon, the only town on the island
1t may be reported by launch or stage
Three voters will be sent from Ava
Ion to the isthmus and, with Wilson
as fourth, will constitute the elec
tion board. Wilson will then vote
and after he has done so the boarC
will make up, certify and take in the
returns. The expense is estimated a,
about 500.
The river press., 1914-08-05
WORKING Hard for Suffrage

Butte, July 2l.-The women of Mon
tana are rapidly falling into the suf.
frage line and doing most effective
work. is the report from suffrage
headquarters here. Since the New
York contingent. Miss Katherine
Blake. Miss Margaret Hinchey, Gen.
eral Rosalie Jones and Colonel Ida
Craft came into Montana an added
virility Is apparent in the work. Miss
Blake covered the northern and west
ern sections and will be in BOzeman.
July 81. to speak before the chautau.
qua. thence to Butte. General" Ros-
allie Jones and Colonel" Ida Craft
made a triumphal march through
southern Montana. from Miles City to
MissOula. thence to the Pacific coast.
Miss Margaret Hinchey is working
among the unions in the central Sec
ton: her work has been most salts.
factory.
The river press., 1914-08-05

impressive and solemn reminder that
while civilization has made progress
and nations no longer engage in a
death grapple over such trifles as a
wanton's smile or monarch's pique,
the world is still far from realization
of the pleasing dream of perpetual and
universal peace.
In the last 20 years just passed we
have seen China conquered and Rus
sia defeated py Japan and Corea strip
ped of it's independence. Our own
country has been at war with Spain
and has conquered the Filipinos.
Greece has been badly whipped by
Turkey. and Turkey in turn has
had sound drubbing from Greece
and the Balkan states. Italy has had
her hard struggle in northern Africa,
England fought desperately with the
Beers and Mexico suffered from two
revolutions. Minor instructions and
revolutions have been almost contin-
uously on the state of the worlds
great theater.
Now Britain is on the brink of civil
WdF duu AuSIIld LIOSIuS Will grin
determination to crush Servia, men.
aces half of Europe with the greatest
strife since Napoleon.
Dreamers think that fighting is all
but vanished vice, but wise men
know that the millennium is not for
our eyes, nor yet for our children
War is shocking, cruel, hideous-all
that it has been painted by its sever
est haters; but it is the crimson bios
som of a plant that is rooted in the
human breast. Man has a dual ma
ture. In all the affairs of life, the
petty things as we'll as the great, he
is alternately peace loving and bellig-
erent: sometimes contentious and
sometimes tactful and gentle spoken;
sometimes conciliatory and sometimes
stiffnecked, arrogant and embittered.
These moods sway nations. of which
man is but unit, and the world has
peace or war as the mood may move
one or more nations upon it.-Spokes-
man-Review.
The river press., 1914-08-05

Fine Book and Job Printing q spec
ia!ty at the River Press once.
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Wild Scenes in Wheat Pit

Chicago. July 2S.-The widest
scenes witnessed in the wheat pit
of the board of trade here since the
opening of the twentieth century were
precipitated by Austria's declaration
of war against Servia.
Transactions totalling nearly 100,
10000 bushels sent prices skyward
the net rises being from 81. to Ga
cents.
Stories of fortunes made and lost
We're numerous. the most specific
case of sudden riches being that of a
heretofore obscure trader, who actu
ally pocketed $4,000 which he had
netted in an interval of exactly five
minutes.
Hundreds of spectators thronged
the galleries. watching the traders
struggling in the pit. The uproar was
plainly audible in the streets sur
rounding the board of trade building
The river press., 1914-08-05
inal record dates back to 1887. when
he was convicted in San Francisco of
conspiracy to defraud marine under
writer's of s25O,OOO by burning a ship.
Millions from Apricots

San Francisco. July 2S.-California
has finished harvesting the greatest
apricot crop ever grown in this state.
1t is estimated that 100000 tons Of
fresh apricots were picked, and that
4O,O00,O0O pounds of dried apricots
will be shipped out of the state. These
totals do not include the immense
bulk that will be canned and shipped.
At one cannery alone 100000 cans
be turned out, and this is only one of
many canneries. 1t is estimated that
the crop will bring a total of $4,000
900 into the state, and of this $685.
900 will have been paid to the laborers
in the abutting camps. California now
produces more apricots than any other
district in the world.
The river press., 1914-08-05
Enormous Cost of War

The American Magazine sent Ray
Stannard Baker to Washington to
trace your income tax dollar and re-
port penny for penny exactly how Un-
Gle Sam spends it. The result of his
investigation appears in the August
number. Under the indirect method of
taxation, by which we still continue
to raise most of our revenues, few
people felt any concern as to what
the government spent. but with d.
rect tax like the income tax several
hundred thousand Americans will feel
this year, for the first time, just what
it means to help buy warships and pay
for unnecessary postoffices. Follow
ing is part of Mr.. Bakers report:
"The very first thing that struck
me and struck me hard. was the fact
that, although we have had no great
war in fifty years land only little
one sixteen years ago., over sixty
cents of every dollar from you and me
directly or Indirectly goes for mil
itary purposes including continuing
expenses of past wars-pensions.
| 81 think that few people realize
what this means-in nation which
considers itself peculiarly devoted to
peace.
| SiXty-three per cent to the army,
navy and pensions, and only thirty
seven per cent to pay all the other
vast and useful purposes Of the gov
ernment, excluding postal service and
the preposterous sinking fund-re-
uuired by law, but never provided in
fact. This thirty-seven per cent only
is available for building the Panama
Canal, improving our rivers and har-
bors, supporting the Indians, encour.
aging agriculture, public health and
education. to say nothing of taking
care of the entire machinery of civil
government - congress, executive
courts, and the diplomatic and consu.
lar service.
''In the estimates for the new year
the expenditure of the government for
all purposes with the exceptions
above stated) reaches the vast sum OF
$740. 100000. OF this. $466,00O.0O0 &C
for war purposes and forty-five pei
cent of this goes for pensions, retire
ments, and interest on war debts"