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About Clackamas County record. (Oregon City, Clackamas County, Or.) 1903-190? | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1903)
Clackamas County Record Twice a Week. Published Every Monday and Thurs day by THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Entered January 6, 1903, at Oregon City, Oregon, as second-class matter, nnder the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. I Subscription Per Year $1.50 Advertising Rates on Application. Much preliminary work is necessary to setting on foot large enterprises. This sort of activity Is going on quietly but constantly on the projected railway up the West side of the Will amette to Oregon City and from Ore gon City to .the Molalla country. The Latourettes who are promoting the project usually accomplish their purposes, and no one who knows them doubts their ultimate success in this undertaking. It is currently reported that the leg islature turned the promoters of this road down in their efforts to get permission to jbridge the Willamette. The report is Very likely true, as the legislature is very often made up of a gang of boodlers who are neither a benefit at home or an ornament abroad, but simply leaches who live off the credulity of the people who place them in positions of trust. ' Transportation companies have been the making of this western country it is not old enough yet to stand without more of them and, properly restrained with wholesome laws, it is not possible to have too many of them. The poople's only care should be that that their pubilo servants should be neither tools of corpora tions nor men who will take the ever present opportunity of levying black mail upon them. Some Oregon! City people's ex- perionce withjan Eastern clothing firm will serve to convince them that it is impractible to 'purchasing wearing apparel without personally inspect ing it. A garment bought of anjagent representation or usually misrepresen tation will fail to satisfy the pur chaser nine times out of ten he will bo disappointed both n the fit and in the material Eastern merchant! le housos that Bend their agents into the Western towns to take orders contri bute nothing to the support or advan commit to the cities they graft on. It is an inoxcusable spirit of selfish' noss that iinpells a man to expect the advantages of business houses and all the conveniences of a city, and to be a t tho same timo a dead weight for his town to carry. How does any thiuking man expeot his community to prospor if thore is no loyalty to its constitutions and enterprises. The man who thinks that lie can live alone should be loft to live alone. Thus he will bo brought to realize tho orror of his philosophy. Tho trusts have carried the day in Iowa. Governor Cummins, who led the faction of the Republican Party demanding a revision of the present tariff law soourod a 'platform that Bounded a little like revision but that in reality did not oommit the party to any position uu tho tariff question, The compromise of the party may help President Roosovolt ill his cam paign, but hojdid not need tho sac rilice. It will also go about us far as any one act could go in turuingthe State of Iowa over to the Democrats four yours later. Tho people of state have a right to demand that -party oomo before them on one side or tho other of a question that is agi tating the whole State, and it is uu fair to Republicans to allow them the opportunity only of voting for representatives whose Jposition is left undefined or to vote against the ticket The Republican Party has seldom been guilty, as it has been in this stance . of getting on the fence, in it may bo inferred that President Roobo velt is not having any serious trouble with the trusts. Tho Depot Saloon, across the street from the Southern Paoilto depot has closed its doors for the seveutli time, The place has changed hands a dozen titling iii the wist your, uud not one of the proprietors seems to have been able to make a successful .venture of it. PERSONAL MENTION. County Superintendent J. O. Zinser has been engaged by the Holmes Busi ness College, of Portland, for the summer months and is conducting a college course in theory. Captain J. T. Apperson, of Park place, is the owner of 20 lots in sewer district number three, where a sewer is now being constructed. The privi lege of owning these lots will cost Captain Apperson .over 900, to say nothing of the additional expense of making connections upon the comple tion of the sewer. VOTE FOR CARNIVAL QUEEN. Miss Eleanor Williams Leads with 19 Votes Contest Closes Tomorow. Tho vote for queen of the W. of W. Carnival was counted this morning. Miss Eleanor Williams has taken a lead over her opponents and now has 69 votes. The contest will close to morrow night. The vote of .today follows: Miss Eleanor Williams 69. Miss Echo Samson . '. 48 Mrs. Anne Darling...'. 41 Miss Grace Marshall 10 Willamette Valley Cbautauqna Assoc iatiun. The Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association will be held at Gladstone Park, near Oregon City, July 14th to 26th inclusive. Rate of one and one-third fare on the certificate plan has been made from all points on Oregon Lines. Special attractions have been provided. "Germaine" the magician, with his wonderful productions; R. J. Burdette, the cele brated humorist, will entertain in his usual delightful manner, while the lec tures of Hon. Champ Clark and Hon. J. P. Dolliver will be an intellectual treat. Many of the attractions have been provided, mak ing the finest entertain ment ever given at this Chautauqua. R. L. Holman, leading undertaker, County coroner. Oregon City, Or. Beatio & Buatio, dentists, Weinhard building, rooms 16, 17 and 18. Clackamas County Record $1.60 A SAILOR'S MASCOTS. BTleeellaneoae Collection That. Ha Takes From the Shore. Jack Tar is notoriously Improvident, and most of our naval seamen when they get ashore spend their money, be more or less, with a lavish hand. Shore leave la limited to twenty-four hours, but in that brief time the unre strained sailor manages to run through about all the cash he carries with htm. He plunges Into a whirl of dissipation Ind Is oftentimes cheated or robbed of a good share of his ready assets, but a percentage of the latter is also apt to go for anything that happens to strike his almost childish fancy. Mascots are the seafarer's delight, and whatever he may come across which seems to htm to have a tallsmanlc property he is bound to buy it If he can; hence when the "pier jumpers," as thoso'on shore leave are technically called, return in well filled barges to the ship and under direction of the master at arms climb up to the deck they are likely to bring with them a miscellaneous collection of goats, dogs, parrots, monkeys, roost ers, etc. One sailor on the Kearsarge, either in or out of his senses at the time, went bo fur as to purchase as a mascot a colored baby from Its mother for tho sum of 40 cents and came aboard with it in his arms. He wns not allowed to retain It, however, and the child was eventually restored to Its repeutant and hysterical parent. How many of the mascots niaj be kept on board lies within the discretion of the captain. A liberal policy Is pur sued In this matter. But manifestly there Is a limit to the number of those that can be accommodated. The sur plus Is sent ashore without delay. When the returned "pier Junipers" are lined up while the ship's writer calls the roll to discover the laggards, It Is one of the most perplexing duties of tho ofllcer of the deck to decide what dumb creatures niny or may not be added to the vessel's menagerie. If the vessel Is on her way homeward from tho tropIcs.Nsho usually carries a large variety of living presents for the home friends of the sailors. Rut these are only temporary tenants of the hold and would not ho permitted to remain on board long. Leslie's Weekly. FACTS ABOUT FOLKS. In estimation of measurement men are more accurate than women. Moral action In child life Is more matter of Imitation than intellect. Dull children are tho most uoruly, and unruly children are the dullest Sweet Is tasted best on the tip of the tongue, Bour ou the edgo and bitter at the base. Mental Images themselves constitute the motive, the springs of action for all we do. Girls show less interest In material things than boys and admire the es thetic more. Those who have endured the most hardship in life are usually the least sensitive to pain. Blushing conies from shyness and fear, Is unnatural and morbid and Is greater In women than in men. llupld readers do their work better, as well as in lees time, and retain more of the substance of what is read than slow readers. The Ptwlomi an Health. The passions' effect on the health Is not sufficiently regarded,'' says a phy sician In the Philadelphia Record. "The passion which la best for the health la avarice. It keeps one cool, encourages regular and industrious habits, leads to abstemiousness and makes against all excess. And hence fixe avaricious, the misers, live to a great age. The misers of history were all noted for their longevity. Rage Is very bad for one. ' The passion causes in Irregular, intermittent beating of the heart, and the intermlttency In time may become chronic Hatred cre ates fever. If we hate, we grow lean. This hot passion eats us like a flame. Fear Is bad for the nerves, the heart and the brain, and therefore we should never permit ourselves to be afraid. But the strangest effects of all have been caused by the passion of grief. The medical books record cases where, coming suddenly In a violent shock, it has caused a loss of blood from the lungs In one person, paralysis of the tongue In another and a failure of sight or temporary blindness in a third." "Three Sheets la the Wlad." "What was the origin of the phrase for drunkenness, three sheets In the wind?' " a landsman asked a sailor the other day. "Well." said the sailor, "I'll explain that matter to yon. The two lower corners of a ship's sail are held taut by two ropes, one called a tack and another called a sheet. The tack Is always kept very tight, but the sheet Is loosened according to the wind, and the looser the sheet Is the more freely the sail swings. If the sail is quite free, its sheet is said to be 'in the wind.' Now, suppose that all three of a ship's sails were quite free. They would then fly about very crazlly, and the ship would wabble. The course of the ship would be a zigzag one, and the reason for this would be that she had 'three sheets In the wind. That, 1 guess, is why a man, when he zigzags In his course. Is said to be three sheets In the wind' also." Philadelphia Rec ord. An Irish Duel. The annals of the Emerald Isle bris tle with Incidents of dueling in which Irish humor, if not at all times Irish bravery, is conspicuous. On one oc cusion Sir Jonah Burrlngton fought a duel with a barrister named McNally. The latter had one leg shorter than the other and because It was his habit when in a hurry to take two thumping steps with the short leg to bring up the space made by the long one he was nicknamed "One Pound Two." McNal ly could get no one of his bar to fight him, and so he challenged Barrington, who good naturedly exchanged shots In the Phoenix park. The baronet hit his opponent in the braces, then called the "gallows," and feared he had killed him. When the result was made known, one of the seconds shouted, "Mac, you are the only rogue I ever knew who was saved by the gallows." Slaaahter Eoase Byproducts. Some of the uses of byproducts of slaughtered animals: The blood la used for the production of albumen, the bones for knife handles, toothbrush handles, chessmen, etc.; the horns for combs, backs of brushes, large buttons, etc.; the hoofs for buttons, ornaments and fertilizers. Neat's foot oil, extract ed from the feet, has a high commer cial value. The fat Is used for glycer in and butterln. Gelatin, glue, pep sin and other articles are obtained from slaughtered cattle and sheep. The value of such articles mude every year represents many millions of dol lars. Children and Growth. The year of greatest growth in boys Is the seventeenth; In girls, the four teenth. While girls reach full celght In their fifteenth year, they acquire full weight ht the ago of twenty. Boys are stronger than girls from birth to the eleventh year; then girls become supe rior physically to the seventeenth year, v hen tho tables are again turned and remain so. From Novenilr to April cuiiuren grow very little and gain no weight; from April to July they gain In height, but lose In weight, and from July to November they Increase greatly in weight, but not In height. Meanlnera of Several Names. Asia means morning or east; Europe, evening or west; Australia means lying to or in the south; hence we may con sider that these names mean eastern land, western land and southern land. Asia Is a Greek word; Europe is a He brew word; Australia is a Latin word. The origin of the word Africa Is uncer tain. Some conjecture that It is a Se mitic word meaning "Land of Wander ere." TJnaflected. Miss Spcltz Of course, no one could truthfully speak of her as pretty. Mr. Lovett Well er perhaps not, but she has such a quiet, unaffected manner. Miss Speltz Yes, but It has taken her several years to acquire it Phila delphia Press. Aaklna; a Good Deal. "IIow about the rent of this house of yours. Flitter? Doesn't the landlord ask a good deal for It?" Flitter Yes; he often asks five and six times a month for It. New Yorker. Proof Positive. Miss Charcoal-l tell yo Mis' John sfng, dese heah patent medicines hain't no 'count at all. I'ze been usln' dls lily balm face bleach fo' a yeah now, an It 'fected me none. Exchange. Not Settled. Jones Poes he love her still? Johnsou No; her father keeps h!m on the Jump all the time. Kansas City Independent. NEWFOUNDLAND WRECKEFtl The Boantr That Is Cleaaed From a Barren Shore. In bygone times it was the practict of the Newfoundland coast folk to ap propriate everything they secured, but this lawlessness had to be sternly re pressed. Now the unwritten rule li that they get "half their hand," or 5C per cent, as salvage. In portable and valuable articles, such as silverware, there la still a strong temptation to keep the whole, but the punishment It severe. Champagne, liquors, cabin tore and the like have also a trick of disappearing, and In the poorest fisher's cottage you will come upon rare china, dainty hapery, silverware of price and wines to tempt an epi cure. The salvors are reckless and un thinking, and as they gather in hun dreds every man pre-empts what he can. In the rush there Is much de stroyed. When the Herder was lost In 1882 they burned whalebone worth $15,000 a ton to save leather costing 20 cents a pound. In the Emmellne wreck of 1900 they trampled crates of costly glassware to get at four cases of French prayer books valued at 25 cents apiece. On one occasion two salvors had got ashore a piano and were adopting the Solomon-like expe dient of sawing it In half when a shrewder chum bought It from them for a bottle of whisky looted from the captain's cabin. When the Grasbrook went ashore In 1800 every man on the shore provided himself with a German concertina, of which Instruments of torture she had a large consignment, and to secure them packages of much more costly freight were thrown over board. When the Orion, from Balti more for Copenhagen, struck the back of Cape Race and went to pieces she bad a large consignment of bicycles on board, and they were auctioned in St. John's and disposed of all over the island. The Abbeymore's lading in 1898 included some cases of splendid English rifles for Canada, and these are now to be seen adorning every fisher's cottage along the shore. P. T. McGrath in McClure's. FOOD, WATER AND AIR. The Essential Things Out of Whlclt Blood Is Hade. These are the things out of which blood is made. If the food is nutri tious and properly cooked, if the air is pure and full of oxygen, if the watet is clean and free from Impurities, the blood will be rich and red and full ot vitality. Barring physical accidents, there ii no sickness except that depending di rectly upon a want of food or watei or air, sometimes all three. When any one is sick the presumption is that he has been trying to subsist on poor food or vitiated air or bad water, one or more. In order to have good food a person ought to have the first eating of It. Food that has been mussed over and left by one person is not fit to be eaten by another. In order to have good air a person ought to have the first breathing of it. Air that has been breathed by other persons is not fit to breathe again. Water should be fresh from some spring or well. If hydrant water must be used let It run a bit, as the house pipes are apt to be of lead and not iron like the pipes that convey the wa ter through the city. Food that is relished, air that cools and invigorates, water that is quaffed with eager thirst these are '.he things that make blood. Put fresh air Into the lungs, good food and pure water Into the stomach, and nature will do the rest Medical Talk. A Trick WliU an Egg. Place two V shuped wineglasses of the same size near the edge of a table. In the right hand one put an egg. Just fitting the rim of the glass. Hold the bases of the glasses firmly down, the top rims touching ench other. Now, with a quick, sharp breath, blow upon the Hue where the, egg and the glass meet. The egg will jump to the other glass. With a little practice this can be done every time. He careful to blow in a line with the left hand glass, or the egg will Jump In the wrong di rection and land on the table with dis astrous results. ' Her Objection. "Don't you think you are taking the wrong stand when you say you do not wish your son to marry, Mrs. WI1 loughby?" asked an Intimate friend. "Don't you know it is natural and best for a young man to marry and that he will not think any the less of his moth er because he has a wife?" "Oh, it Isn't that," protested Mrs. Willoughby. "I don't mind his marry ing on general principles, but I don't want to be called 'the old Mrs. Wil loughby.'" New York Press. Awake. Sharp Why, I almost lost money on the goods I sold to you. How much do you think I made on the order? Byer About twenty-five times as much. Sharp Twenty-five times as much as what? Byer As you were going to say you made. Philadelphia Ledger. Not rd to It. Hostess I wonder why your little brother seems so restless and uncom fortable? Little Ethel I think It's 'cause his hands Is clean. Stray Stories. All One to Rim. "Look, papal The duke has brought his coronet." "Tell him to go ahead and play it I don't mind the noise." Life. There are more fools than sages, and aaaong sages there is more folly than wisdom. Chamfort Have Yotf a Fatfin E have sold twenty-four farms in Clackamas County since Decem ber 1st. Let Us Sell Yours We have issued a phamphlet showing the County's resources, advantages, etc., and will be glad to send one to your Eastern mend us his address C. N. PLOWMAN & CO., Over the Bank of Oregon City. I STRAIN'S Challenge Sale I At 285-287 Washington St. Portland, Or. STILL GOES GAILY ON i ' . . ' " $50,000.00 of uncalled-for tailor made undelivered and misfit suits, topcoats, overcoats, coats, vests and pants on sale at 20 Cents on the Dollar Turn out in thousands and take advant age of the greatest clothing event of all time. This sale never had an equal Satisfaction or Your Money Back THAT'S STRAIN'S WAY J. W. Fine Whiskies and Cigars All goods bought in bond. Some Famous Old Brands James E. Pepper, Kentucky Bourbon Old Sam Harris, Kentucky Bourbon ::::::::: Old Roxbury Rye ::::::::: Cor. Railroad Ave. and Main Street, Oregon City THE FAY SHOLES OUR LEADER SINGLE KEYBOARD Send for Booklet. Typewriters of AH Makes SOLD RENTED Expert Repairing at Reasonable Prices. Parts and Supplies for all Machines. RUBBER STAMPS, SCALES, ETC. YourJOrders.Solicited. W Stark Street COAST AGENCY CO., , Oregon. if you will give COLE Purity and quality guaranteed. THE JEWETT OUR LEADER DOUBLE KEYBOARD Send for Booklet. i