OREGON CIT.Y COURIER-HERALD. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1901. Oregon City Courier-Herald By A. W. CHENEY . Uut 1 in Oregon Oitr pwtofflce M 2nd-cl matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ("JaJd'ia advance, per year 1 e. month I aa'iaonttu'trial 26 JMThe date opposite your address on the ft denotes (he time to which you have paid. 1 1 litis uutioe is marked your subscription is due. - ' CLUBBING RATES. rwitt Weekly Oregonlan ? 00 ' Tri-Weekly N. Y. World J f -National Watchman ' Appeal to Reason J J" " Weekly Kxaminer ? ' liryan'a Commoner ADVERTISING SATES. - Standing ImHtneRS advertiiemento: Per month t wsfeesloual cards,! pei year): 1 to 10 Inches . Tc per inoli, 12 luohes lor $5, 20 Inches (column) I f,-30 inches, 12. Transient advortlsements: Per week 1 inch lo, 2 inches 75e, 8 inches $1,4 inohes l.a6,o sviBches 11.50,10 inches 'Lbt). 20 inches 85 tic-gai ailvertisements: Per in -h first inser- toil!, each additional Insertion 60c. Aflilavits jl publication will not be furnlhed until pub lication ti'tss-arepald. l.jcal notices; Klve cants per line per week ? 3r month H0, PATRONIZE HOMK INDUSTRY. OREGON OITY, FEB. 22, 1901. Out Revolutionary forefft hers fought seven years to obtain political liberty. . Stow these United States of Amen a tiave a seven years' war on hand trying to enslave a people who do not want to tie ruled by thm. Ex, The superintendent of schools at Spo kane, Wash., desirous of testing the 'power of composition existing in a class - -of 8-year-olds, requested that three sen tences be written, each to contain one of the three words, "bees." "boys," and ""bear." A small girl laboriously con tacted the following sentence: "Boys ..bees bare when they go in swimming." Tub United States will spend more I lor Its Army and navy, including the , psymeut of pensions, during the next ' fiscal year than will be spent by either of tbe great military nations of Europe. a round figures our military expenses i for the year will be $400,000,000. No " wonder that thoughtful men are begin i rung to wonder where this thing will l: Stop. Thb Grand .Army of the Republic is fast passing off the earthly stage of ex- istonce. In 1890 its ranks numbered -. 100,480, while now there remain onlv '. 276,602. Thus a great division of 123,827 members have ceased to respond to roll i call. But though the veterans are fast passing away, the pension roll is still v growing-t-containing over one million t names. ' Ik we are bent on slaughter, let it be i in open guise. If we lust for the Fili- piuo'a land, let us not glaze our enter- prise with fulne anil sinister pretense .Rather let us boldly raise the somber ' flag of international piracy, wlilstle scruple down the wind, and then close vin upon our feeble victim to the cry of "Loot and glory I" From Towne's Speech. Thr center of population in the U United Htates is now at a point in lati "'tsde dog. 8 min. SO sea. north and -1 longitude 85 dog. 43 min. 61 hoc. weBt, which point is in southern Indiana about utiwn miles southeast of the city of Columbus. Since the last census of "1801), tho center of population has moved westward about fourteen miles and south jbout three miles. So sure are the Kuropemi statesmen v thut. the Austrian empire is bound to i .brv.ak. up with the death of the aged em ' jwrf-.r, that calculations have been al . rea.y inado as to the division of the npoils. The empire is made up of va- rimiu races, including Hungarians, Ojw'!ih, tiermans, Poles and Croats. .These races ore held together solely by - the authority of the umporer. A dis pute over tlie HtU'Ct'Hsiou would bleak Uir single tie that holds the empire to- i gtiier. Then would come the struggle of the Uussians, Germans, Italians and .Hungarians to seine the separated prov tiaotta and aunex them, France and "Great Britain would of course have no !h.uicn to share in the plunder, for they - do not border on any part of the Aus . trian domain, but they would undonbt- wl'y insist upon having a voice in the distribution. Kvkuvonb has hour I not only of the enormous sums realir.i'd from the great inventions of the last half century, but aloof the luro returns yielded by tilings apparently trilling which have tf rihk the public fancy or met the pill.- . Jscnoed. The toy called the returning halt, a small ball attached to an elastic serine;, is said to have produced a profit -of $"0,000 a year; the rubber tip on , 1el pencils V yielded a competence ta the inventor; more than $1,000,000 . lias-been earne ' by the gimlet-pointed . icrew, tho inventor of which was so , poor that he trudged on foot from l'hila- vWphia U Washington to get his patent; i tn rollw skato has yielded $1,000,000 i wtler the patentee spent $M5,0Q0 in Kng . famd fighting iufringeuients; the dancing . irirow is set down for $75,000, and the copper tip for children's shoes at f2, 000,000; the spring window roller pays $100,000 a year, the needle threader $10, 000 a year, from the drive well $3,000, 000 a year has been realized ; the stylo graphic pen is credited with 100,000 a year; and the egg beater, the rubber stamp, and the marking pen for shading different colors with large sums. These are only a few examples among-hundreds that might be cited. No wonder inventors are hopeful when they reflect that comfort for life and fortune for their children may come from a single fortu nate idea. Century Magazine. FACTS WITHOUT COMMENT. Fob the year 1896 the appropriation for the navy was (in round numbers) $27,000,000. ' tlx 1898, the year of the Spanish war, it was $58,000,000. Last year it was $55,100,000. 1 This year the bill as reported to the house calls for $77,00,000, with authori zation for additional naval construction which, included in the bill, as it should be, would swell tbe total to nearly H00, 00,000. The entire ordinary expenditures of the government twelve years ago were less than $300,000,000. CHRISTIAN SOLDIERY. ' A wave of fear and horror preceded the advent of the allies in China to sucli an extent that in many of the villages people committed suicide to save them selves from their Christian conquerors. Soldiers were so busy looting that tbey did not attempt to bury the bodies un til finally the fear of disease compelled them. Mr. Wihiard, an American sojourn ing in China, has made the futile at tempt to describe the cowardly devilish- ness that characterized the German pu itive expeditions led bv Count Von Waldersee, in which the Fiench and British took part. They have been nothing but expedi tions for murder and brigandage. Cities have been entered without resistance. and whose people, by orders of Li Hung Chang, had received the foreign troops hospitably, feeding them and furnithing all needed supplies. Such cities have been systematically looted and every Chinese murdered who dared to resist the breaking of his doors and theft of t.is property. ' One of these forays visited the citV of Tuliu, which was entered without firing a shot and found to be already in pos session ol a British non-com missioned officer and two privates. The troops looted and burned the town. When another large city was entered without resistance by order of Earl LI the troops were fed. There was no Chi nese military forte near. The Inhabit- ants were non-combatants and unarmed, Incapable of resistance. The day the allied forces took possession the streets teemed with people and the daily life and business flowed normally. The n xt day shops were closed and the streets were deserted, except by German trench and Italian soldiers,, wheeling carta loaded with stolen property. The city was systematically looted. The narrator says: "Now and then a woman's piercing scream broke from the mullling depths of aclusterof houses and spent its echoes in tho empty Btieets." " All who resisted robbery wore killed, and exen the Sikhs and Sepoys sickened of the mere butchery of unarmed men while they were begging for mercy. White ciyilian looters now to almost alone thioughout North China and de mand money and lake property from the terrified people. One of these en terprising persons started in with no capital but a mule cart and has rohheil until he is rich. He had only to enter a villag j and announce hat he wa a "high, top-side English war man" to easily rob the town. It Is reported that an attache of the American legation is in posessitnof over $700,000 in money and valuables stolen from the house of l.u Sen, the unfortu nate Chinese nobleman who was exe cuted by order of the Empress Dowager because he was opposed to the Boxer uprising against foreigners. His family has been outraged and oppressed, and finally robbed of all they had, by the very people in whose behalf he lost his life. Tho missionaries will hardlv ex- pect that family to build many Christian churches. M'.1.$V(?7UV LETTER. (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, Feb, 15, 1901. By standing together in their .opposL lion to the ship subsidy bill, the demo, cratic and populist senators have forced the republicans to change their tactics. They began the tight last week by blus tering and bragging about how easy they would tire out the opposition by night sessions. After holding two niuht sessums, at neither of which a republi can quorum whs maintained, they aban doned the night sessions, and are now- seeking to cajole the opposition into agreeing to set a time for voting on the bill. hile it is impossible to sav with any degree of certainty wht the result or this change of tactics will be, Senator Jones, who is leading the opposition. says the bill will not be voted upon ,t this session, end thftt if the republicans ' : are determined to pass it, they must do so at an extra session of the next con gress. , Mr. McKinley is pulling for an extra session, provided, of course, that a valid excuse can be put forward for calling one, and the republican leaders in the senate are pulling to avoid an extra session, by leaving no valid excuse for one. An amendment has already been offered to the army appropriation bill, by Senator Spooner, giving Mr. McKin ley authority to establish a civil govern ment in the Philippines, and one is now being prepaied setting forth the condi tions that Cuba mnst comply with to get the U. S. troops withdrawn. Three of Mr. McKinley's nominations to be brigadier-generals, Wood, Bell and Grant may be held up permanent ly. All the other nominations for gen erals, including that of Miles, to be lieutenant general, have been favorably reported to the senate and will at once be confirmed, but the committee on military affairs, after several members had expressed the opinion that these three officers had not seen sufficient service to entitle them to promotion over many older and more' experienced officers, decided to delay action upon the nominations until a further inves tigation could be made of their military records. Wood was promoted over more than five hundred officers and Bell over more than one . thousand, while Fred Grant, although he is now serning in the Philippines as as a brigadier gen eral of volunteers, is regarded as practi cally a civilian. Senator Bacon tells an amusing and instructive story of the methods of le islation in the Mexican congress meth ods which the republicans have to an ex tent already introduced in one branch of our congress. Speaking of his visit to the lower house of the Mexican con gress, Senator Bacon said : "I went there day after day and never saw a member rise and address the Chair. Bill after bill was passed without a vote in the negative and without a word of dis cussion. I became very much interested in this state of affairs, and not being able to speak Spanish, I inquired of a gentleman at the door who spoke Eng lish, to explain the situation to me. 'Oh,' he replied, 'there is no need for any debate. These bills are sent to us by the president and he tells us that he wants them passed. When he lets us know that he is in favor of the bills, we are all in favor of them, too.' " A proposition to make Cuba pay the expenses incurred by this country dur ing the war with Spain, has been put forward by Representative Levy, of New York, but probably with more de sire to fuddle the situation than to seri ously push the idea of trying to make Cuba pay our war expenses. LOCAL COMMENT. Imagine what a rattling there would be among the dry bones and wet stomach. s should Mrs. Carrie Nation visit Oregon City, and begin the work of demolislMuent with her little hatchet. Phillip Koob would look on with dismay at the improvements he has made; Matthias would take refuge in Buech's cellar ; Wallace Cole would complain of the wanton destruction of valuable property, while Ohailey Kelly would get out in the middle of the street,' and make a free silver Fpeech ; Charles Nob litt would take the first car for Port land, and Johnny Kelly would take ref uge in Albright's cold ttorage. God only knows what the rest of them would do, Homer Davenpoit is now visiting his old ho, ne at Silve. ton, and many stories are being rehearsed of his early attempts to become an artist in Portland. Befort Davenport atieinpted to draw the siove, he was living in East Portland, whih the wiiler was doing editorial work on the Vindicator, an organ of the East Portland Water Company. Davenport was apparently an easygoing sort of lol low, and was often seeu wandering ahou. the streets ill an aimless sort ol way One Saturday afternoon the writer went to Long Bench, and on the boat was a widow who kepi a lodging house aojoiii' ing the printing office, and she volun teered the information tnat her daugh ter, another young lady and Davenport were camped at the beach, and exiemied an earnest invitation lo dine with them while there. However, when the 11 waco dock was reached, it was learned that the landlady of the lodging house had a 100-pound basket of supplementary provisions lor the Long Beach camp, which the writer tugged up the incline to the waiting cars. The following day was spent at the camp. McGuire, presi dent of the EaBt Portland Water Com pany, also owned another paper on the West Side, which he de-tired to illustrate, Davenport asked for some work, and McGuire tequested him to sketch t ie writer to see what he could do. I think he did some work for this paper. Two or three individuals have said some very scabby things about the paper mal employes during the past week, ou account ol the projected plan to establish a c i-operative meat market. Remarks have been made that thev did not pay their bills ; that they did not work regularly. Such talk is libelous. If it were not lor the mill hands there would he but very little business ami few residents iu Oregon City. Many ol the mill hands own their homes and pay their bills promptly; they are among our best cituens and active promoters in every good movement. The majority ol them, too, woik 12 hours almont every lay and are not idlers by any means. t Canemah is anxious to regjiri her prestige, possessed when a boatyard was located there, and horse cars conveved the freight around the falls from one steamer to another. She expects to re gain some of this prestige hen wharves are erected, and boats transfer their freight to the cars. the fakiestof fakes is the Oregou City- edition of the Evening Telegram. In the articles of incorporation of the Co-opera-,' tive Meat Market, V scnueDei ana w. W. H. Samson were put down as incor porators, when in fact, they were oidy witnesses to the document. It is only the cheap, codfish people, who are anxious to get into print in that paper. None of the Oregon City news is printed in the Portland edition. LOCAL SUMMARY School report cards for sale at this of fice Money to loan at lowest rates. C. rl. Dye. . The finest bon bon boxes in town at the K. K K Kuerten's Boston bread, five cents a loaf ; all eastern flour, Kozy Kandy Kitchen, op to date on home-made candies. The latest in chocolate of all kinds at the Kozy Kandy Kitchen, Dr. R. B. Beatie, denial offices, rooms 15 and 16, Weinbard building. A few watches for sale cheap at lounger s. Watches cleaned, $1. The latest out Try the marsh mallow kisses at the Kozy Kandy Kitchen. R. L. Hotman, leading undertaker two doors south of court house, Oregon City A brand new top b iggy for sale at a sacrifice. Inquire at Courier-Herald office. Go to Cheney's and get small photos ; retouched and finished on platinum ; 10 for 35c. Shank & Bissell carry the most com plete line of undertakers' supplier in Oregon City. $20 to $100 to loan on cha tel or per sonal security. DimickaSe Eabtham, Agts. First class stamDS at Cheney's art gallery, 16 for 25c, No extra charge for two heads. 1 If you want good wood from large yel low fir timber, order of C. E. Stewart, Carus, or E, H. Cooper, Oregon City. For Sale Cheap Good house of seven rooms; 2 lots; barn.' fruit, etc. At Elyville. See the owner, Adam Haas, who lives on place. ' Dr. J. Burt Moore is now prepared to answer professional calls. Office tem porally at residence, 10th street, near Jefferson, Oregon City. To Loan on Farm Property $500, $1000, $1500, at 7 per cent, one, two or three years. Dimick & Eastham, law yers, Oregon City Oregon. For Sale or Trade. House and lot on Madison, near Thiid;good well; will rent for $8 ; cheap at $800, or will trade for farm near town. Address M. Ek strand, Oregou City. ' For Sale 75 acres of timber land 1 mile from Oregon City. Price $75 per acre. Will take partly .in exchange some desirable farming land. Address Wm. Beard, Ely, Or. When you visit Portland don't fail to get your meals at the Royal Restauraut, hirst and Madison. 1 hey snrve an ex cellent meal at a moderate price ; a good square meal, with pudding and pie, 15c. Stuck for sale in the Amencui Mines Development Company ol Minneapolis Minn., by O. A. Cheney, Mi-g"ii City. Sl'OPS THK COITIM VNI V fl K 4 OFF THK COLl. Laxative Bromo-Qi.i dne Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cu-e no Pay Price 5 centp. I his picture is the trade mark of SCOTT'S KMt'I.SlOX, ami is on every bottle of SCOTT'S EMUL SION in the World, which now amounts lo many millions yearly. This great business has grown to such vast proportions, FrsfV-Recause the proprietors have always lxen most careful iu selecting the various ingredients used in its composition, namely; the finest Cod Liver Oil, and the purest Hypophosphites. ' SeconJ;-Because they have so skillfully combined .the various ingredients that the best possible results are obtained by its use. TAr:-Pecause it has made so many sickly, delicate children strong and healthy, given health and rosy cheeks to so many pale, anaemic girls, and healed the lungs and restored to full health, so many thousands in the first stages 0 Consumption. If vou have not tried it. enj for free wimple, Its agreeable tnste wilt suronse vou. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. 409-415 Pearl Street, New York, joe mi $1.00; all druggists. 1 ft? M To the Public: ' I desire to announce to the people of Oregon City and Clackamas County that I have pnrchased the interest of H. L. Price in the firm of Price Bros. Thanking the patrons for past favors, I solicit a continuance of the same, I have enlarged the stock and will keep nothing but up-to-date goods. A few days more of ''Dissolution Sale" prices. Yours to serve, - J. M. PRICE ,. , Successor to Price Bros. - Fffth and Main Sts. OREGON CITY YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT I But the Best Stock of First-Class Goods to be Found at Bottom Prices in Oregon City is at I HARRIS' GROCERY You Can Depend Upon Patent Flour, X makes the best bread and pastry and always ! gives satisfaction to the housewife, Be sure and order Patent Flour made by the Port land Flouring Mills at Oregon City and . . 80'd by all grocers. Patronize Home Industry H. Bethke's Meat Market Opposite Huntley's First- Class Pyleats ol jll igds Satistaction Guaranteed Give ElirQ a Gall arjd be Treated Rijt Foresight Means Good Sight If there ever was a truism it is exemplified in the 9: above headline. Lack ol foresight in attending to the eyes in time means in the end poor sight.' We employ , the latest most scientific methods in testing the eyes, and charge nothing for the examination. Dr. Phillips, an expert graduate oculist and optican, has charge of our optical department. A. N. WRIGHT The Iowa Jeveler 393 norrlson Street, PORTLAND, OREQON Fine Angel Wine and You Gold Cakes Everybody else will know, that Joseph Kuerten's Bakery and Confectionery Has the best of everything. All my Bread is like home-made; baked from best and strongest flour and no wind in it. Every day all kinds of Confectionery fresh and made out of the best materials. The best P. 0. Box 359. Telephone 394 OREGON CITY, OREGON Cream Puffs Ladvfintrers J riacaroons 5 4 It's Easy to Stand OR WALK, OR REST With your feet encased in our Floral Queen $3.00 Shoes well made, stylish, healthful, econo mical. It's a '-wonder" in shoe values. Ask to see it. Dozen of other varieties foot wear for all people and all purses. KRAUSSE IBROS. made from old wheat. it Brown & Welch , Proprietors op the Seventh Street Meat Market A. O. U. W. Building OREGON CITY, OREGON I All kinds of Layer. Fruit Know ) Cakes, Jelly I Rolls AND Fresh Douphnnt. Cookies n,i j; toffee Loafs I