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Newspaper Page TextOREGON MIST;! Entered at tlie Postofiiee nt St, Helens, Oregon, as second-class mail matter. ISSUKD EVKBY 1;R1IAV IlV K. II. FLAC.G. " EptTOH AND pROl'RIETtJR. SfBSCKlPTUW R.lTKS One year Six months ... .75 Advertising rates made known on s cation, Legal notices 25 cents tier line. CIRCCIT COt'RT OITICUKS : Thomas A. McEruu: District Judg? G. I HEDGES... District Attorney COUNTY OFFICERS : R. S. nATTAX, Judge ...St. Helens V. A. Harris, Clerk St. Helen Martin- Whitk, Sheriff Si. Helens CAsriCR Lihkl, Commissioner Mist H. WksT, Contm'r .Scappoose Emvis Ross, Treasurer- St. Helens A. T. Laws, Assessor...- St. Helens I. H. Cori(I.ANl, School Supt....Hon!ton . Frank B. Prkscott. Surv Rainier H. R. CUFF. Coroner St. Helens IIFt WE NOYHMBKR 2?. YELLOW DOG PARTISANS There is a certain variety of partisan who takes a peculiar pride in nnnounc j ing on b!1 possible occasion that he bus . been Democrat, or a Republican, all his . .life. He is never guilty of scratching . and would vote "for a yellow dog if one happened to be on the party ticket." It ' is the label to which he is attached and not the principles the party is supposed to represent. Everyone who leaves the part to which tie sticks thro-reii nil its . tergiversations is accused of actirg from . improper motives, thoogh he admires the man who leaves the opposite party - and follows his leadership. The latter .is influenced by patriotic motives while the former is denounced as a turncoat. There are, of course, time servers and opportunists who charge their politics to suit their envrionments. Moving frO'.n one State to another, or from one local- , . ity to another, they make each change as !- they deem best for their own personal interests. Such men are turncoats, and are not entitled to respect. But it is doubtful whether they re more biame- worthy than those who continue to act ' " with a party which has abanloned its fundamental principles and fused .. with its old time opponents in the hope of victory. We have in mind an Oregon t banker who contributed money to the Demacratic slate campaign during the . McKin ley-Bryan canvass, and yet who earnestly hoped for the defeat of the " Bryan presidential electors. It was daring that campaign that thousands of Republicans in Oregon flocked to the fusioniets and had it not been for oppo sition of the goli standard Democrat . doubtless Bryan would have carried the . State. The editor of this paper was one of the number who left the Democratic . rauks when that party surrendered to populism. In a political life of over thirty years we have made this one change; but, should a similar criei arise, we would not hesitate to abandon party for principle, and we have no re r ,spect whatever tor the mental calibre of one who would refuse to do so. Grover Cleveland's views of political - econoro? were as far apart as the poles from those of Bryan and his followers, and the Democrats who followed Cleve- ' land's leadership throagh three cam paigna made an absolute surrender of piinciple when they joined the Drvan forces, advocated free silver at an arbi ' trary ratio and denounced .the Pre-ideu of the Lnited Ptate3 for employing troops to suppress disorders which an t anarchist governor of Illinois winked at and condoned. The Republican party of lo-dav, with suchleaders as Roosevelt, Hughe", La follett und Taft, is much nearer to the Democracy of Grover Cleveland than tRNERS READ THE EKLY OREGON IAN OF PORTLAND For the general newsof the World aiso for information about haw io otiak te bes results hi cultivating the soil, Stock Raising Fruit Growing etc. You can secure this excellcitt paper by Subscribing for the Mist Two Papers $1.75 Per Year lllli I'ktiSIDHNI 'S LliVTLR. Ml Should i An Lamest Appeal That Hoed. men may organize financial institvttions and conduct them for years upon a rot ten and d'.hocesl bad', until a money panic fotce-s their exposure, and then Day for Thanksgiving. In his annual Thanksgiving- nroelama. e-.;pe punianiueni tor tneir crimes and ( lK Governor Chamberlain madea very the Democracy of to-dav, under the .leadership of Bryan and Hearst, me Kepuuiican party lias proved d aoapiai.iuty, aua lias demonstrated that it is not living in the past, but is willing to learn by experience. Mr. Ilryail : cuses the Republicans of Jiitviitg- stolen ., the Democratic thuudc-r, and hi accu aation is no doubt true; but it is to bi Loped they will neither tttyl nor adopt hit theories of finance. Just ut present the followers of Bryan are jubilant. ' They think they see in the money panic a sure precursor of iiryanlc victor', ju as mey inougnt in iw that liurd times . would deprive the pe-iple of their sensrs . and they would vote for any (jnaek rein , eay that might be proposed. Tuev ; ,-werj disappjiuted then mid they have never forgiven those who lefustd to aid them by following the pop;ilistic mob. - At it was then, so it will be in l!)u. Radicalism will control the Democratic . party, and Insure the success of the lie publican candidate not becaue the people eutlrely upprove ilm course of that party, but because they have no faith in the ability of its opponents. THANKSGIVING-, WITH RESERVATIONS . f Governor Cliariiherlaln'aTbaiikygiving prclamation is very short mid he ar peais tO be at loss to specify the bless- iujis for wh:ch wo sliuuld be tlmnkfiil. In fact the people of the United Flutes, , a-i a whole, are begiuninir to understand : that they me not as highly favored as a i.ulion they have been in ihe . habit of ussuiiiing. There nro a a& ninny things for winch the people of thus I'Ottntry are anything but thankful. 1 hey do not rejoice in the fact that a ,Tvw men of enormous wealth are able to control Iho truntportutinn facilities of the country and si tux the proilticers ns to havt Ihem absolutely at their mercy. Thajr U not rejoice at Jlie fact that the misery tiny have brought upon thousands. They do not rejoice because the grip ot the trusts has been strengthened in stead of weakened during the past year, in spite of the efforts of the President; n r because one man has sj outstripped all others in the auiussing of wealth that he seems to hold the fate of the catiou in the hollow of his hand. They can not be expected to feel very exuberant over a prosperity so shallow that it tumbles like a houst ol cards whenever Wall street joes ou a spree. The people read and they understand that we have had goood crops and sold them at good prices, and they naturally oi elude that should mean prospeiityj for all. But, seemingly in an inssant, m jrey disappears, and now, in the holi day season, the ceople are more inclined t reflection than to indiscriminate re joicing. The people know there is some thing wrong and unnatural about such a state of affair, and they are anxious to discover a remedy. The political quacks are in the held with their nostrums that will only aggravate the disease, but the demand is for a permanent cure a sys tem of finance that will put it out of the power of a fw men to corner the c rculating medinm or even to amass fortunes so colossal as to make them ab-olute masters of their fellowmen. Sa the holiday rejoicings this year will be shadowed by doubt a; to whether we are citizens'of a free country or only subjects of a:i oligarchy with the forms but not the substance of freedom. A Year of Blood The year l' Ti will long be rememliered in the home of F. N". Tacket, of Alliance ivy., as a year oi moou , wlucn liowed so copiously from Mr, Tacket's lungs that death seemed very near. He writes: severe .mectiing at me lungs and a frightful coujh had brought me at deaths door, when I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, with the astonishing result that after taking four Lotties I was completely re stored and as time has proven permanent ly cured." Guaranteed for sore lungs, coughs and colds. For sale at lloniton, U'arren, Scappoose and Deer Island. I'rice 60c and jfl.OO. Trial bottle free. DISHONESTY THE CAUSE pointed though indirect reference to the financial trouble. The proclamation is as tollows: The President has set apart Thursday, the 28th day of November, A. D. 1007, us a day of thanksgivinir and oravcr. Therefore, I. George E.Cnambcrlain. as Uoveruor of the State of Oregon, do procaim said day at a holiday in this State. Let it be properly observed. Thank iod for the manifold blessings we enjoy, and pray him that we may have more cou6dence lu our neighbors so that the good things we have may continue to abide with ns. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the great seal of the State of Oregon to be affixed at the Capitol in tlie City of Salem, this 14th day of November, A D. PJ07. (Signed) GEO. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Governor. F. W. Benson, Secretary of State. THANKSGIVING DINNER In Kentucky. Willis J. Abbott, onveponding from iVashing'o i, IX C., to The Commoner, writes as iollo s under the da:e of No i ember JI: I have ta k d Keenly with a man ivho is rtc i.-nized in Washington as the lirst linancier of the city outside the treasury department. The windows of ids office lo'ik out on Ihe etatslv colon- ade of that gray granite building in Which iir; kept the millions of the (Jnitv l ta:e government and under he roof of which are housed ihe (secrets of the relations of the United (states treasury with ihe great bai.ks of New York. While. I wes talking with him two foriiii-r treasury officials, who are now high m hanking circlet in New York, ciima i'i to discuss the situation. Toe spot was the ccn:er of national li iance so far m Washington is cm- ri eu. j in; i.aiiKer io w hom I s talking frankly admitted that much of the trouble in New York, indeed most Indianapolis News The light deccuds the softest In Kentucky; The Summer days come oftest In Kentucky; There friendship is the strongest, There love light glows the longest. Yet wrong is always wrongest In Kentucky. Life's burdens bear the lightest In Kentucky; The home fire burns the brightest In Kentucky; While the players are the keenest And cards come out the meanest, The pocket empties cleanest In Kentucky. ' The orators are grandest In Kentucky ; Officials are the blandest In Kentucky; The boys are all the fliest Great danger ever nighest, And taxes are the highest In Kentucky. The blue gras waves the bluest In Kentucky; Yet the blue bloods are the fewest la Kentucky; The moonshine is the clearest By no means it's the dearest And yet it acts the queerest In Kentucky. The dove notes are the saddest In Kentucky; The frolics are the maddest . Tii Kentucky; Hip pockets are the thickest Ai.d pistol hands are quickest The cylinder turns slickest In Keutuckv. DUAL JAPAN Hculton Ladies' Aid to Feed Everyone That' Hungry and Hat the Price. The ladies' Aid Society, ol Houltoo will serve dinner at Perry & Graham'! hnll, Thanksgiving Day, November 2li from 12 a. m. to 3. p. m., the public cordially invited. The following will be served ; Colonial Soup Crisp Crackers Roast Turkey with Stuffing Wild Duck and Gravy Celery, Cranberry and Apple Sauce Riced Potatoes, boiled onions, creamed carrots, salads, fruit and cabbage. pi Mince, Pumpkin and Apple CAKK Fruit Cake Doughnuts Fruit Coffee Adults 50ct. Children under 12, 2jcts. OBITUARY. Charles Mayger, a pioneer ol lK-tU and the founder of the town bearing that name, who died at the St. Vincent hos pital November 10, was bom In France, December 25, 182t. In hit early career he was a sailor. In 1849 he went to I'uget Sound. One year later he locat ed on the Columbia river near what ! now Oak Point, In Cowlitz county Wash ington. At this place he engaged in the lugging business for twenty years, his camp being about the largest business concern In the Tactile Northwest. In 1870 he came to Portland, where he re sided for five years. Later he took up a homestead near the place of bis last res idence, where he lived for 32 years. Mr. Mayger was a public-spirited, farsight- ed, shrewd and industrious business man. lie lormed and managed the Maygei Wool A: Legging company. This com pany subdued .1000 acres of dense forest and opened the way for many settlers. Here and there on the hills and in the valleys may he seen comfortable dwell ings and beautiful dairy farms which lisvs taken the place of once heavily timbered lands. He held various Republican ofllces. He was for two successive terms com missioner of Cowlitat County, was lor many years postmaster at Mayger, Or egon, and started a large general mer chandise store, which was well patron ized. November 17, 1853, he was united in marriage with Minerva Kellum, Or this union twelve childreu were born, six of whom survive, via!: Margaret Jane, wife of Ale M'Ayeal ; Charles W., George G., Jessie ., wife of J. M: iin nls; Minnie E., wife of Fred Haas, and Nellie, wife of Thomas Uogun. Kels n inn. - "The White House, Washington, D. C, Nov. 17, UW7.-My Dear Mr, Cm telyou: I have considered your pro posal. 1 approve the issue of the llfty millions of Panama bonds which will be immediately available as the basis for additional currency. I also approve the issue of 100.000,000, or so much as you may find necessary, of $00 3 jwr cent intereat'lienrltw Government notes, the proceeds of the sale of which can lie at once deposited by you whore the great est need exists, and especially in the West and South, where the crops have to be moved. I have assurance that the leaders of Congress are considering a currency bill which will mevt In per manent fashion the needs of the situa tion, and which I believe will bo passed at an early date after Congress con venes two weeks hence. "What is the most neodcAlljuat Uiat our cilixens should realise how fundamentally sound business condi tions in this country are and how ab surd it Is to permit themselves te get into a panic and create stringency by hoarding their savings instead of trust ing perfectly sound banks. There Is no particle of risk involved in letting busi ness take its natural course and the people can help themselves and the country most by putting into active cir culation the money they are hoarding. "The banks and trust companies are solvent There is more currency in the country today than there was month ago, when the supply was ample. Since then $.',(Ka),0iX) in gold haa been imported and the Government has de posited already $00,000,000. Thtse are facta; and I appeal to the public to co operate with us in restoring normal business conditions. The Government will see that the people do not suffer if only the people themselves will act in a normal way. Crops are good and busi ness conditions are sound, and we should put the money we have into circulation at once to meet the needs of our abound ing prosperity. "There is no analogy at all with the way things were in 1S!3, In November 30, of that year, there was In the Tress ury but $1131,000,000 in gold. On No vember II. of this year, there was In the Treasury $WM.000.0iX) gold. Ten years ago the circulation per capita was $23.23. It is now $:!3.32. The steps that you now take, the ability of the Government to back them up, and the fact that not a particle of risk is involved therein, givo the fullest guarantee of the sound condition of our people and the sound condition of our Treasury, All that our people have to do now is go ahead with their normal business in a normal . fashion, and the whole difficulty disappears; and this end will be achieved, if each man will act as he normally does act, and aa the real conditions of the country's busi ness fully warrants his now acting. Sincerely yours, "THEODORE KOOSEVKLT." rgj MlAsWfteO TENTH AND MORRISON STREETS, PORTLAND, OREQON A. I APfMSTNONO, LL ., PftlNeiPAL Kducsles for success In a short time and at wuall exper,, ind send, ewch tUk dent to a position as soon as competent. Quality Is our motto, and repuutloB t. thorough work bring us over 100 cslls per month for office help, Individ u traction insures rapid progress. We teach the hxMe la(, the cant Jud,, voucher and other modern method of bookkeeping. Chattier Is our sliwtul? easy, rapid, legible. Beautiful catalogue, business forms ami petmumthlp ft. write today. Rclereiices: any merchant, any bank, any newspaper In loUa C. T. WKHCOTr K. K. QUICK. M. I'M-'.NUiTT Tnu Columbia County ABSTRACT AND TRUST CO. Titles Kxaminkd Abstracts Mad No.N-Ri-suiKNT Taxks Paid q Kkal Ivstatk Loans, etc I St. Johns!! St. Johns!!? A QILT EDGED INVESTMENT! Situated between the rivers, with tlecp water frontage $ cm all sides, surrounded nnd crossed by five transcend. :( neut.il railways, it must become the manufacturing and Miippmg center 01 t'oruanti. MONTHLY PAYROLL 50,000! Invest uow, you will double your money iu two yetrt. H. HENDBRSON 103 i Philadelphia St. St, Johns.Oregon Q ST IT! 1JUUUJU AJUJU IT! tl ??VB?TTTT1 mm Pf 1 VXTTl OLK PORTLAND LLTTLR. Three republican cewspapers in Ohio which were favorable to Becretsry Tuft's nomination for President have aban doned his candidacy on the ground that the result of the Cleveland election puis Sir. J aft out of the race, If the defeat The f-idney Bulletin, dincusolr.g the I of Mr. Burton for Mayor of Cleveland is Japanese question in a recent Issue, says f t0 eliminate Mr. Taft from the Preaiden there are e-peiitlally two Japans the , t'l contest, what should be the effect of official and the modern Japan, the Japan j eight succtsdve Democr atic disasters in of th(Japaiieselenders;nndtlieonofIlclal!Nebraska upim the candidacy of Mr. i am: traditional Japan, the Japan of the i Bryan? Japanese people Toe one produced the s s hoei ? ot i You will find Style, Wearing Qualities, Size, and the Comfort You WanL Sorosis Fall Shoes Have All Arrived. Everything, from the Heavy, Flexible Shoea to the Dainyy Evening Slipper. Sorosis Hosiery &I!iTcSS t:n t every carpor.it ion of great size and wer wnich hud b(;eil subjected to an nvcitigati'm of any sjrt hug, proved to ba full of corruption. From the time that the iuvestigition into the insurance onipanies of New York began until iow that ttn-y are mrexligatiiig Thomas K. Uyun's merger, there has been an uninterrupted coursj of revelations of liahouesty oa the part of tha managers ofihiMscoip'utioiis. "It is not," said he "tnat the banks of New York are weak. As a mutter of fact they never were stronger. It is not that there U anything in the country to justify appre hension of disaster. The croDi are und prices high. But fe.v men of great prominence in the United ritates have ! put their personal fortunes far ahead of J their individual honor, or of their duty! to those who have entrusted the man- ttgemeut of the corporations they con trol. I do not believe that either news paper clamor or the trust busting activi ties of the pieaident caused his collapse It is due more than anything else to the entirely justifiable exposition of the limiucial methods of some of the new prnrtltionpi of Mtrl? flounce," Japanese fighting machine, the other inherited from their ancestors the utter ly anrhroniidic" industrial and manufac turing machine. Ami beUecn the pre cocious leaders aid the reactionary led there is a remark ble abys. The lead ers are honest diplomats; the led, "in their commercial methods remain wed ded to the tiadition of concealment, de vice, art and maneuvre." Ihe Japanese General Staff ha it own Arisaka field-gun and its owm Shlliio powder. Yet Japanese agricul ture is served by ox plows with wooden coulters, the grain is threshed with the hand-flail and winnowed by throwing it up iu tha air. The product of such a tbjal nationalism can never become the equal, morally nor intellectually, of a free ami untrainelled people liko the people of the Uniled fctates, and the silly talk we sometimes hear of Japan's ever becoming our serious rival may be passed over without consideration, -Labor Press. Pms Kor Sale I have twenty six weeks old pigs for sale at Jl.&O each N. Sherwood, Bachelor's Flat. Post office, Warren, Ore We have been many times supplied with the nllegiid information that North America and Asia were to lie connected with a railway either above or beneath the wat -rs of Bering sea, perhaps with bridge snans leaninir from Ummt in i. Jland of the Aleutian group. Whether sucn a day will ever come It Is not for ns to say, nut there is evidence to miike it appear that we are even now entering on an srea of sea-building railway con struction. To say nothing of Mr. Ha, Kier reuiaraanie line extending out from the tnalnland of Florida springing irorn Key to key until reaching Key Went far out into the gulf, there is the project of the railwav to connect Ceylon wun India by a line across Adams bridge nnd the shallow water lying; be tween Kameswaram and Tallalmannar at the Northern end of the island. The South Indian railway Is brlncrlna l tracks to the extreme point of the (mail island of lintiietwaram ao tout only a small, gap of water will intervone be tweon the terminal of the Indian and Ceylon railways. Heating stove for sal, cheap, InnulrjJjJ, Two hundred and thirty new people found homes in Oregon every day from September 1st to October 31st as a re sult of the colonist one-way tickets. and through the help of the newapa pers tne population and wealth of the atato has been enormously Increased. The exact number of tickets sold as report ed by Mr. William McMurray, General Passenger Agent of the Harrimnn Lines, for W, was 1,1, 753. For the same time in 11XJ it was Hxyo, an increase of 4863 or about sixty tier cent. This of course does not include tickets sold to Oregon over the Canadian Pacific. Northern Pacific, Great Northern, or any other roads whose tickets came around tiy way of I'uget Sound. The Oregon Development League has made the colonist rates the chief feature of its work. The Portland Commercial Club circulated -WO,!) leaflets with this low rato its central feature, and probably no advertising ever done by any aiaio in the Union has shown ix'b ter results. The rates will bo on again uurmg March and April, 190H. 1 he Oregon Good Koad Association which convened at the Portland Com mercial Uub Thursday and Friday was very uecidmlly the best attended and mom practical good road meeting eve mm in mi auto and was considered uy visitors as eiiual to nriy similar meeting yet held west of the Hockey mouiiiums. A cunvass of the business house, "noicsaie anu retail, as well M the lactones, provo that business ha got moacK to normal condition. Manv .-I"" n increase over last year There has not been a failure or a sua- nenslnn nf m . ,Ki uunlnuM noune or laciory in this city. The neot.le of in state can depend upon the newspapers; of Portland giving them the facts, and moy get tnose farta th,, depend upon any new contrary to the r. nmwmont being merely rumor. Ihe words of Mr. Theodora n wn. cox President of the Portland Flouring " ""uress Derore i&u business men at tho Commercial Club Tuesday night, when ho announced: "The flurrv i over. Will be in the market buying wheat and paying gold for It to-morrow," met with a more enthusiastic reception than any remark that ha been made in this city in many years. There I going to be no let-up In ad vertising Oregon. The exporter of the Mate gathered at Portland t..i.... and there J. a determination to Increase" rather than diminish the good work. mo groat apple dlsr.lav. rrlOrlii In at... show window here. In u,i,iu .i. cttllence of thoso of Hood Kiver and of" the Willamette Valine!. . t. . ? 1 drawn thousand. r,f vi.i. ' .. ftTM" I- more conviimed than ever that Oregon erows thn to on earth. All nf -"u "?" KNIGHT SHOE CO.. THIRD AND WASHINGTON, PORTLAND, ORC. j .mwiffiffiffwiffiffmwwiirw wmmitritfitntrnf DOWN BY THE BIG SAWMILL Receiving New Goods Every Dayl In the Week. : YH12 MUCKLE STOKE! Has a Heputatlon of Long Hliu.ding for Only the 111 In c Ut. Hclciw, General Merchandise; Dart & Muckle. St Hfleiw, - . . OrcgonJ V, skis JOB PRINTING j 1 18 OUR DU8INE88 I i Wfc nave the best and most " ally equipiuid Job Print Z lllce in (k)lmn bin Comity . Irul we a a prepared to do all kin ds of Printing on short notice and at most reasonable prices A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE OREOON RTIIST