OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1901
Oregon City Courier-Herald
By A. W. CHENEY
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PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY.
OREGON CITY, AUG. 30, 1901.
Of the population of Canada, 41 per
cent., or 2,000,000, is Roman Catholic,
1,300,000 of the 1,500,000 population of
Ihe province ot Quebec beinn of that
fnith.
An exchange perpetrates this execra
ble pun: Kaffir corn is proving an ex
cellent feed for cattle in Kansas. A
farmer out there fed one of bis cows the
product last summer and last spring she
.produced a Kaffir two.
What, indeed, is natural law? No
blind, mechanical, self-executing force.
Your state taws are a dead letter, mere
parchment, unless a living power giyes
them force and vitality. Gravitation is
no self-regulating clockwork, but the
living force of Deity holding the uni
Toise. What we call nature's laws are
but the natural ways of the living God,
who is infinite order no Ices than He is
infinite freedom. Ex.
Ik the Porto Rico Herald speaks only
half the truth, the story it unfolds of
American tyranny in the unhappy
island, .reveals a condition that could
hardly be paralleled in and part of Rus
sia. And this under the aegis of the
Stars and Stripes I Oiuelty and tyr
anny ever go hand in band. The island
ers received the United States forces
with open arms, and for this they are
exploited by carpetbaggers and the
trusts.
Engrossing scientific tteoriea and
lilghly artistio maritime drawings do
not always result in serviceable steam
vessels. The two great French cruisers
Jeanne d'Arc and the Chateau-Renault
took six years in building. The one
cost $-1,000,000, the other $3,200,000.
Three hours after leaving port on her
trial trip, the Jeanne d'Arc staggered
back with her engine room and stoke
room uninhabitable and her boilers used
up. As for the Chateau-Renault, her
engines melted with the heat where
they Blood. Britain's ironclads have
been pronounced so top hoavy as to be
nnsafo.
Tub French anthropologists, Gabriel
and Ailrien do Mortilot.are authority for
the Ktatement that in what is known as
tho Chellean epoch.which is supposed to
have ended 150,000 or 100,000 years ago,
thore was junction between Europe and
America by way of tho British Isles, tho
Faroes, Iceland and Greenland. Dr. A.
Kietli, of Great Britain, estimates that
more than 5,000,000 years have elapsed
since the separation of tho human stock
ss a distinct animal form from the an
thropoid animal, which he culls the pro
trogloilyttf. In stuff and municipal administration
reforms lies the whole question of the
practicability of n juster and nobler so
cial system than that which we enjoy
today. The municipal problem is tho
practical problem of tho whole human
race at this moment. Ii contains within
itsv li every possibility of a more just dis
tribution of wealth, of a wider opportun
ity for every ambitious individual. If
the municipal problem can be solved the
problem of a relative economic equality
and the problem ol a relative social 1
equality can be solved also. If the mu
nicipal problem is insoluble, republics
are ft failure and "liberty, equality and
fraternity" will be never attained by
the human race. Wake up then and be
a Citieu, in order that you also may be
a Man. N. Y. Independent.
Tim Methodist bishop, David II.
Moore, of Frankfort, Iml., is in China
us a representative of the Methodist
church to study tho muses that led up
to the Boxer outbreak, lie has trav
eled 5000 n.iles in the Chinese empire
and made nn exhaustive etudy ot the
conditions which preceded the disturb
Alice. Iu lttor llicu fore-shadows his
report lie defends China in the most
, .forcible language. After stating iu de
lull the infamous treatment to which the
-Western powers subjected that country
ior sixty years, be says: "Great wrongs
the Chines'? have committed, but with a
4enth part of tho provocation we would
have done a thousand times more and
greater." Though China is to helpless
to avenge the thousand wrongs inflicted,
she will nurture and cherish feelings
of bitterest hatred for generations, and
if ever, in the cycles of time, the oppor
tunity comes for vengeance on the "for
eign devils," her retribution will be in
describably terrible.
WrjRN one takes a country ramble on a
pleasant summer's day, one may fitly
ponder upon the wondrous significance
of nature's law of the transformation of
energy. It is wondrous to reflect that
all the energy stored up in the timbers
and farmhouses which we pass, as well
as in the grindstone and the axe beside
it, and in the iron axles and heavy tire
of the cart tipped up by the roadside ;
all the energy from moment to moment
given out by the roaring cascade and the
busy wheel that tumbles at its foot, by
the undulating stalks of corn in the field
and the swaying branches in the forest
beyond, by the birds that sing in the
tree-iops and the butterflies which they
chase, by the coy? standing in the brook
and the water that bathes her lazy feet,
by ihe sportsmen who paBa shouting in
the distance as well as by their dogs and
guns; that all this multiform energy is
nothing but metamorphosed solar ra
diance, and that all these various objects
giving life and cheerfulness to the land
scape, have been built up into their cog
nizable forms by the agency of sunbeams
such as those by which the scene is now
rendered visible. In the sense of illim
itable vastness with which we are op
pressed and saddened as we strive to fol
low out in thought the eternal meta
morphosis, we may recognize the mod
ern phase of the feeling which led the
ancient to fall upon his knees and adore
after bis own crude, symbolic fashion
the invisible Power whereof the infi
nite web of phenomena is but the visible
garment. Prof. John Fiske.
HONEST BROTHER JASPER.
In this age of scepticism and "higher
criticism" and re-revision by Protestant
churches of the creeds delivered to them
by the her jic souls who stood ready to
be burned alive lOrthem, it is really
worth while to reflect on the stubborn.
DIDN'T WANT TO SAVE.
The Enterprise "in its issue of last week tries to shield the
board of county commissioners for letting the printing to the
highest bidder, the Enterprise, when there was a much lower
bid on file (or was on file until it was conveniently- "lost" by
the board.")
The platforms of the two conventions in 1900 declared spe
cifically for the letting of the
bidder and not to the highest. The present board took
charge of county affairs in July, 1900, and it is now August,
1901. Why did they wait 12 months before advertising for
bids? They would not have asked for bids at all had not the
Courier-Herald agreed to do work about one-third of former
price, which set the board to thinking. Why discriminate on
account of politics? If the board asked for bids for a bridge
would it let contract to the highest bidder because the lowest X
bidder was a democrat?
simple loyalty to his religious and theo
logical convictions of Rev. John Jasper,
the distinguished black preachor whoso
death, in the Southland, took place re
cently. The Literary Digest published bis fa
mous sermon on the topic that "do sun
do move," based on the text, "The Lord
is a man of war; the Lord is his name,
(Ex. xv, 3,)tlie perorauou of which wus
as follows :
"3redren. ef de Bible say desnn rise
an' sot, den it do rise an' set! An' how
ken it rise an' set ef hit don' movo?
In do tenth chapter o' de book on
Joshwy, an' de twelf, thirteenth, an'
fo'teenth versos, dar is proof strong
ernuff for us all. Da Lawd slid, 'Sun,
stand thou b till on Gideon, and thou
moon in the valley of Ajalon. And the
tun stood Btill and tho moon Btayed un
til the people avenged thomselves upon
their enemies. And thero was no day
like that before it or after it.'
"Bredren of de sun stood still once
when 'twas a-movin' an' den stahted to
hit is a moviu' now 1 Dey
movin ergin
say de earth am roun'. Dat aiu't bo,
bredren j it can't be so, for the book 0'
Revelation, chapter vii, verse 1, read:
'And I saw four angels standing on the
four corners of the earth.' An' now,
bredren an' sisters, wo ia livin' on afo'
cornered earth ; an' ef de earth is got
fo' corners, bow in the name 0' Gawd
ken it be roun ? Ef de worl' is roun' an'
turn over ev'y night, bow wo hoi' on ?
Is wo got claws on our feet like wood
peckers?" THE DEATH OF COMPETITION
All the roAds in the middle west and
northwest in which E. H. llarriman
and J. P. Morgan, tho Van lerbilts and
J. P. Hill are interested, hereafter will
practically be under one management.
The tratlio management of th is van
combination, dealing potentially with
the commerce and industry of more than
ten million people, has been delivered to
J. C. Stubbs.vice-presidentof the South
ern Pacific, and Dariua Miller, second
vice-president of the Great Northern.
This is a dangerous power to entrust
to two men, who are in no wise answer
able to the public, whose sole responsi
bilit.c rests with the railroad and finan
cial kings in control of allied railway.'.
It has been shown that the railroads
take for their toll at least one-third of
the productive resources of the state of
Washington. They evade their just
share of taxation. They can btftld up
this Eectioi; or pull down that district.
The profits of individuals, the prosper
ity or the depression of towns and cities
are in their keeping. They can enliven
or depress the vast industries of sta'e
and communities.
The political power of a combination
of this magnitude and daring is beyond
calculation. It can dominate state leg
islatures and crush the aspiration of
ambitious citizens who refuse to do its
imperious bidding.
It would be trifling with a grave danger
to say that these two men will exert
their stupedeuous powers in moderation.
That plea could be rdvanced with equal
reason in support of the Russian gov
ernment, where the czar's will be abso
lute. ' President Hill and his associates have
realized their dream of a decade. They
have revolutionized ihe transportation
business in the entire wet. They have
eliminated competition. Their achieve
mens brings new problems before the
public. If government control of the
railroads was advisable before it is now
imperative. Thefe Northwestern states
require powerful railway commissions.
If the railway trust shall combat the
creation of these commissions, the peo
ple must organize for self preservation .
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
INCREASE OF CAPITALIZATION.
Few will dispute that the rate of inter
est has declined ; but that, at the same
time, the capitalization of the great
wealth-producing properties has vastly
increased, has not been so manifest.
I
county printing to the lowest J
This fact is of great importance to even
the humblest wageworker. Along with
these two facts, the falling of interest
and the increase of capitalization, go
two others, viz: the rate of profit is fall
ing ; the volume of profit is rising. The
last two facts present a paradox, which
is explained by the two facts preceding,
A practical illustration causes the seem
ing contradiction to disappear.
When interest was 6 per cent ., $0,000,
000 was the interest or income on $100,
000,000. Now, for large sums, interest
has decreased to three per cent. ; hence,
$9,000,000 is at present the income on a
property valued at $300,000,000. If we
investigate, we shall find that the great
industries have increased their capital
ization not in proportion to the lowered
rate of interest, but far beyond this. A
business that yields $1,000,000 is
considered to be worth about $33,000,
000, though it may have cost but $10,
000,000. In short, as the rate of income
decreases, capitalization increases, or, in
other words, the volume of profit in-
creases with the decrease of the rate of
income.
The conclusiw to which this brings
us is rather startling. Finally, unless
there be a change in the trend of busi
ness, or capital's income do not recede
below a certain minimum rate, interest
might or would be reduced to zero and
capital to a sum of infinite magnitude.
Let us take the same amount given
above and observe the colossal increase
of capitalization as interest goes down .
Rate per Cent. Principal. Income.
(1 $ 100,000,000 $ 0,000,000
3 300,000,00il 0,000,000
2 750,000,000 15,000,000
1 1,800,01)0,000 18,000,000
It is useless to continue this series
for the reason, principally, that capital
ization increases not regularly but by
leaps and bounds, at the fiat of the cap
italist, and it is not possible to propl esy
1 1
A great many women are iubject to
Bpells of dizziness, spots before the eyes,
and a ringing noise in the head. These
symptoms are commonly associated with
liver "trouble " as the result of a diseased
condition of the stomach and other or
gans of digestion and nutrition.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov
ery cures diseases of the stomach and the
allied organs of digestion and nutrition.
It cures through the stomach diseases
seemingly remote from that organ, but
which have their origin in a diseased
rlitinn nf tlio stomach and ditrestive
and nutritive system. Hence, cures of
heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and other
organs are constantly effected by the
use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. There is no alcohol in the Discovery"
and it is free from opium, cocaine, and
all other narcotics.
Some dealers may offer a substitute as
"just as good" as Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. There's more profit
in substitutes for the dealer. There's
more health in the "Discovery" for your
Don't be imposed on.
"It is with the greatest pleasure I write you
the benefit my mother has received from your
'Golden Medical Discovery,"' says Miss Carrie
Johnson, of Lowesville, Amherst Co., Virginia.
She suffered untold misery with uterint disease
and nervousness, and had a constant roaring
and ringing noise in her head. After taking
ix bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery she was entirely cured."
When a laxative is required use Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
how enormous the capitalization at 2
per cent, of such a great corporation as
Standard Oil will be a decade hence.
What will have become of the small
capitalists when the billionaire! have
risen to the acme. of their glory in case
they do not tumble while rising they
may figure out to their own satisfaction.
"I Never Knew Pain-Klller to FcV,
before, what can the matter be? Where
is the bottle? There, I thought s-;it
is not Perry Davis' Pain-Killer at all,
but something the druggist must have
made himself and I did not notice it; I
have used Pain Killer for years for diar
rhoea, cramps anil stomach aches and it
never failed."
To Save Her Child
From frightful disfigurement Mrs.
Nannie Galleger, of La Grange, Ga., ap
plied Bucklen's Arnica Salve to great
sores on her head and face, and writes
its quick cure exceedt-d all -her hopes.
It works wonders in Sores, Bruises,
Skin Eruptions, Outs, Burns, Scalds and
Piles. 25c. Cure guaranteed by Geo!
A. Harding, Druggist.
MARKET REPORTS.
POHTLANn,
- (Corrected on Thursday.)
Flour Best $2.G53.50; graham
82.60.
Wheat Walla Walla 5556c; valley
56c57 j bluestem 57c.
Oats White, 1 10 per cental ; gray,
1 10 1 12 per cental.
Barley Feed $15; brewing $16 per t.
Millstnffs Bran $27; middlings 21) ;
shorts $20; chop $1(3.
Hay Timothy $113; clover, 70;
Oregon wild $0.
Butter Fannv creamnry 45 and 53c J
store, 20 and 25'.
Kgijs 17 12 cents per doz.
Poultry Mixed chickens $3.503.75;
hena $4.505; springs $33 50;geee.
$56; ducks $3a3'; live turkeys 8(3
10c; dressed, 10(ai2c.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, weathers
and ewes, sheared, $3 25; dressed, 5
and 6 cents per pound.
Hogs choice heavy, $5 75 and $0 00;
light, $5; dresBett, 6 1-2 and 7 cents per
pound.
Veal Large, 7 and 7 1-2 cents per
pound.
Beef Gross, top steers, $3 50 and $4,
dressed beef, 0 and 7 cents oer pound.
Cheese Full cream HJgC per pound
Young America Pie
Potatoes $1.00(gl. 10 per hundred.
Vegetables Beets $1.50; turnips 90c
per sack ; garlic 7c per lb ; cabbage $1.25
(i1.50 per 100 pounds; cauliflower 75c
per dozen; parsnips 85c p?r sack ; celery
8085o per dozen; asparagus 78c;
peas 23c per pound.
Dried fruit Apples evapora'ed 67;
sun-dried sacks or boxes 34c; pears
sun and evaporated 8gc; pitless plums
78c; Italian prunes 67c; extra
silver choice 5(27.
OltKOON CITY.
Corrected on Thursday.
Wheat, wagon, 56.
Oats, 1 10 per cental.
Potatoes, 95 cents per sack.
Fugs 17 cents per dozen.
Butter, country, 35 to 45c per roll;
creamery, 45c.
Dried apples, 5 to 6c per pound.
Dried prunes Italians, 5c; petite
and German, 4c.
say "Consumption can be cured."
Nature alone won'tdo it. Itneeds!
nelp. Doctors say
"Scott's Emulsion;
is the best help." But you must
continue Its use eveu la hot
weather.
If you have not tried it, send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOWNJJ, Chemists,
409415 l earl Street, Kew York.
joe and fi.oo; all druggist.
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8 drug itofM. 2S D w 2St. j
j SJBOTORS !
! YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT
But the
Goods
Prices
! You Can
I Depend Upon
Patent Flour, made from old wheat. It
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
gold by all grocers. Patronize (
Home Industry
lit Of" w
CATTY -MABKET ffipv
Opposite Hnntley's
FiistZlass lyleats of 11 irjds
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Give yirrj a dall atjd be Treated ?it
Foresight Means Good Sight
If there ever was a truism it is exemplified in the
above headline. Lack ot foresight in attending to th
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 Jeweler
293 riorrison Street, PORTLAND, OREGON
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For all kinds of
CALL
Oregon City Planing Mill
F. S. BAKER, Prop.
SASH, DOORS,
R. L. HOLMAN, Undertaker
Phones 476 and 305. Two Doors South of Court House.
! POPE & CO. I
t HEADQUARTERS FOR
J Hardware, Stoves. Syracuse Chilled and Steel Plows, X
X Harrows and Cultivators, Planet Jr, Drills and
t Hoes, Spray Tumps, Imperial Bicycles. J
I PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
1 Cor. Fourth and Main Sts. OREGON CITY X
I X
Are Bought and
Appreciated by
THE BEST PEOPLE
of Oregon City
A. Holier tson
The 7th St. Grocer
Best Stock of First-Class
to be Found at Bottom
in Oregon City is at
Brown & Welch
Proprietors of the
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O. U. W. Building
OREGON CITY, OREGON
4
Building Material
AT THE
MOULDING, ETC.
We cirry the largest stock of Caskets,
Coflins, Robes and Lining in Clackamas
county.
We are the only undertakers in the
county owning a hearse, which we fur
nish for less than can ba had elsewhere.
vVe are under small expense and do
not ask large profits.
Calls promptly attended night or day.