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COURIER-HERALD ' FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER. 26,: 1902.:
Oregon City Courier-Herald
BY A. W. CHENEY
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Cows and horses drink in the same
way .that we do, whereas dogs and cats
drink by lapping. Whence arisea this
difference of habit? ... , V
Why does a duck waddle in walking?
And what is the need for that trait of
structure which causes the waddle? .
How is it that a bulldog is able to re
tain bis bold for a longer period than r
other dogs? .
OREGON CITY, SEPT. 26, 1902.
EtfTKRis estimate the damage done to
the Kentieh (Eng.) hopgrowers by rain
and hail on September 11 at fully $500,-O00.
Average republican vote of the state on
the state on six candidates, excepting
governor, was 46,505, an average plural
ity of 15.013. The average democreti c
vote was 31,49.!. For governor Geer re
ceived 41,581 and Chamberlain 41,857 or
a plurality of 276.
It is reported that experiment is be
ing made on the Rand mines in Orange
river colony and Transvaal, South Af
rica, of employing general white labor at
$1.25 a day and food, equivalent to about
$ 2.20 a day. Female servants are in de
roand at about $25 a month.
VJeorgb Mitchell, general manager of
the Greene Consolidated Copper Co.,
and discoverer of the Cobre Grande cop
per property, claims to have fo nd a
mountain of pure copter in the Btate of
Guerrero, Mexico. Ore in sight is said
to be worth the enormous sum of $536,'
000,000.
It ia significant of the class-conscious
uessof the English working people.that
at the congress of delegates -epresenting
t-oXW.OOO British labor unionists, a resO'
lufioa was pas led asking that the gov
ercruent nension all workingmen who
fctave arrived at the age of GO years.
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Sir William Molock, Canada's postmaster-general,
told the interviewers on
his arrival In New York the other day
that he believed in government owner
ship of railroads and telegrapl lines.
"Isn't that socialism?" Inquired a per
turbed reporter. "Well," answered Sir
William, "isn't socialism a good thing,
if built on a proper foundation?' '
An .Englishman can send a three
pound package from London to Chicago
for .twenty-four cents. An American
Miuat pay twice that amount to send the
isnuie package from New York to Chi
cago. In this brief statement of the al
liance between the postoflice of a foreign
government and an express company
yan will find something to think about
if you are at nil interested in govern
aamt ownership of public necessities
and monopolies.
Senator Bi'Oonkr, of Wisconsin, says
lie cannot afford to accept an appoint
ment to the supreme bench as be cannot
live on the salary, $10,000 per year. We
slways suspected it of some senators.
If Spooner did not add to liia pittance as
senator by being attorney for the Chi
cago, Milwaukie A St. Paul Railroad,
ilia life would be miserable, indeed. As
a corporation lawyer, this republican
tttati'smau lives like a prince.
THE CITY DADS.
Many people are wondering why the
city council does not do more for the
citizens that put them in power. As
the Oregon City correspondents of the
Portland papers don't seem to tell
things exactly as they occur, the Courier-Herald
will attempt to set the people
right on the subject. In the first place
it might be well to state that the council
seems to be run by two or three persons
who seem to think that they are the
"whole thing" and can do as they please
without regard to the welfare cf the
city, and let, their personal feelings enter
into their deliberations. Councilman
Albright, who. by the way, wants to
be mayor next year, stands in with C. D.
Latourette, who now wants another
franchise from the city because, it is
said, he has a mercenary interest in the
matter, and the mayor seems to stand in
with hira. If it is a good thing for Ore
gon City to have a street railway occupy
its water front, let Mr. Latourette have
his franchise, if not, don't give it to him
and end the matter. If we can get an
other electric line into Oregon City from
the country and not impair the city's
interest let him have what he asks.
There seems to be a question whether a
line can be built along Water street
without encroaching on the government
rights on the stream. It's best to look
this matter up before the city gets an
other law suit on its hands.a result of a
past administration. We are now suf
fering from a Bimilar act.
The attitude of the city toward the
electric company that now has a Iran
chise and wants another is not taken
seriously by the aforesaid company, as
it seems to know that secretly the city
council, or part of it, at least, is with
them. We think this company deserves
some recognition, as it already has a
line here, and is preparing to build more
lines in our county. Give it as much as
you would another, but compel it to re
sped the city's interests and require
ments. Councilman Koerner and
couple of others seem to be looking after
the city's interests in this and other
matters before the council, but they
need help. What we want from the city
council is results.
Tub a'j.ount of timber used every year
for ties alone is equivalent to 3,000,000.
O00 fet't of lumber. There are now
auuding nearly 7,500,000 telegraph poles.
The average life of a telegraph pole is
about 10 years, so that nearly 750,000
new poles are required every year.
These figures do not include telephone
poles and poles on the new railway
lines. The total animal consumption of
timber for ties and poles is equivalent
to the timber grown on 100,000 acres
of good virgin forest. For making Bhoe
pegs the wood used in a single year is
equal to the product of fully 3,000 acres
of icond-growth hardwood land. Lasts
and boot trees require at least 500,000
cords more. Most newspaper and pack
ing paper is made from wood. This in
dustry has been developed only within
the last 40 years. The total annual con
sumption of wood pulp is equivalent to
over 800,000,000 board feot of timber, for
which it would be necessary, were the
tiees all growing together, to cut 80,000
ncres of prime woods.
HERE AXD THERE.
Where is Oregon City's immigration
pamphlet that she should be sending
out along with her sister towns to
induce immigrants to notice onr many
inducement to settlers? If we could get
rid of some of the mossback ideas that
n')W preyailin this community we would
have a much larger population.
money for this purpose cannot be raised
by subscription, let the city councilor
county court appropriate a email sum
for it. As a business proposition
it would prove profitable, because th
increased number of citizens would soon
pay the extra tuxes caused thereby
We have so many "knockers" or peopl
that throw cold water on anything un
less it originates iu their fertile brains.
that it is hard for anything of a public
nature to Buceeed unless a few of the
more "holier than thou" people are con
suited first. What we need for success
is a more combined effort to advance
the interests of our town and county.
The Oregon City correspondents of
the Portland dailiesseem to think that
if they can stand in with a certain gang
in Oregon City they are "right in it
It they knew what the average person
thought of their slush they would not
carry their heads so high. You can tell
from reading it where certain informa
tion cornea from.
A Til I LO SOWER'S QUESTIONS.
In Herbert Spencer's latest book,
Kictund Comments,'' he tells how he
0 re protected himself against the
1 ..jUHfity of two ladies, companions on
.'is daily drives iu the country. Says
.e author, "I put a check on this by
i.rkiug one or other question not to be
answered without thought." Finding
the practice to be valuable, it has since
been his habit to "set problems, partly
by way of gauging the knowledge of
ytung people and partly by way of ex-
jTcisina their reasoning powers." One
of the simplest, "which waa sometimes
auawcre l," is this:
How happens it that sheep, rabbits
and hares have eyes on the sides cf their
heads, a hile cats and dogs have their
ejes nearly in Iront?
Of others, eays Mr. Spencer, to which
tit. replies are less obvious, and to mott
of wuich no answers have been forth
OKiiing, here are a few :
llow is it possible Jfor a lark, while
oarirg, to sing for several minutes
without -ressf tion?
i Divorce No Eyi-
1 dence 61 Lower
Morixl Steuidrd
By ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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WOULD recommend every rational man and woman
thinking and writing on the subject of divorce to
run through their life experience, summon up all the
divorced people they know, gauge their moral status
and, if possible, the influence of their lives as writers,
sneakers, artists and philanthropists and SEE IF
TIIEY DO XOT COMPARE FAVORABLY WITH TILE
BEST MEN AND WOMEN OF THEIR ACQUAINTANCE.
In my own circle of friends I can recall at most two dozen all
as gifted, moral and refined men and women as I ever knew. But
few of the women married again, and those who did have been excep
tionally happy in their new relations.
THE RAPIDLY INCREASING NUMBER OF DIVORCE3 80 FAR
FROM SHOWING A LOWER STATE OF MORALS PROVES EX
ACTLY THE REVERSE. , j
Woman is in a transition period from slavery to freedom, and
she will not accept the conditions in married life that she has here
tofore meekly endured.
When the mother, with her steadfast love of home and children,
demands release, we may rest assured her reasons for sundering
the tie are all sufficient to herself and should be to society at large.
THE FREQUENT DEMANDS FOR DIVORCE SIMPLY
MEAN THAT WE HAVE NOT YET REACHED THE
IDEAL MARRIAGE STATE. Divorce is a challenge to our
present system. Evolution has been the law of life. The relation
of the sexes has passed through many phases and is likely to pass
through many more. ,
Where Parents Fail
In Duty to Children
By Count LtO TOLSTOI 0 0 0
OW shall we bring up children, feed them, teach them,
clothe them? As we bring up ourselves, with proper
moderation to fit the individual case, of course. PAR
ENTS AND CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE THE
SAME FOOD, THE SAME BOOKS, THE SAME
HOURS FOR SLEEPING AND RISING.
If father and mother will set a good example by the moderate
use of food and drink, if their clothes are in harmony with their
means and surroundings, if the parents are cleanly, laborious, simple
and eager for self improvement, their children will resemble. them,
and MODERATION AND SIMPLICITY WILL BE THE
KEYNOTE OF THE LITTLE ONES' LIVES.
Here is my advice to parents: Let your children see that you are
trying to improve your conduct and habits all the time ; that, with
out compulsion, you continue to educate your mind. Secondly,
never have a secret before your children ; let nothing in your own
life admit of misconstruction by your children. It is far better that
children know their elders' weaknesses than suspect them of leading
a double life, one to impress them (the children), the other to suit
themselves (the parents).
THAT PARENTS REFUSE TO MAKE GOOD THEIR
FAULTS AND INDEED REFUSE TO ADMIT SUCH WHILE
READILY RECOGNIZING AND PUNISHING THEIR CHIL
DREN'S SHORTCOMINGS CAUSES MOST OF THE DIF
FICULTIES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS OF WniCH FA
THERS AND MOTHERS AND EDUCATORS IN GEN
ERAL COMPLAIN. FOR THAT REASON MANY PAR
ENTS WAGE A PETTY, NAGGING WAR AGAINST THEIR
OWN FLESH AND BLOOD.
Prop.
OREGON CITY. ORE.
Brunswick House and Restaurant
j ';NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS
Steals at All Honrs - Open Day and Night
'V is ; i, Frirea Reasonable .
Only First Class Restaurant in the City
CHAS CATTA,
Opposite Suspension. Bridge
POPE & CO.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Hardware, Stoves. Syracuse Chilled and Steel Plows,
Harrows and Cultivators, Planet Jr., Drills and
Hoes, Spray Pumps, Imperial Bicycles.
PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
Oor. Fourth ami Main Sts. OREGON CITY
3
GOODS.&.
Oh, yes : oh, yes ; coma this way
(or the fullest and freshest stock of
canned goods in town. We have
just receive 1 a large lot of the
very best fruits and vegetables in
cans. Try our sliced peaches, our
fancy corn, or our tender melting
peas 1 Go away, yon make my
mouth water. Oh, no; come round
and buy. Prices very low.
A. ROBERTSON,
7TH ST. GROCER.
Usnig the PATENT FLOUR f
speak of it in a ringing chorus of i
. ml . 1 1.1. T
praise, i. ne Dreaa consequences mat
follow its use are fine enough to
please the most fastidious. We can
not permit our reputation to suffer by
tting anything below our high t
t ndard on 'the market. What the T
lat nt brand is at its besUt is all the X
tirres Made by Portland Flouring J
Mill Co. and sold by all grocer. i
I
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Keepers
and
NATIONAL SINS AND
PUNISHMENT.
THEIR
There is considerable anxiety anion
tome of the republicans to know how
and in who.se lap curtain political plums
are to fall. The aspirants for the Ore
gon City postoftlce are Postmaster Geo.
Horton, Ex-Uecordor Tom P.Ran
dall, with Charles Albright in the dis
tance. The land office regiatership is
still hanging in the balance. The pres
ent incumbent, C. B. Moores, expects
to continue in the service ot Uncle Sam
for another four years. A. S. Dresser is
also spoken of in connection with this
olllce and is really entitled to the posi
tion, but the chances are that the job
will go out of the county. Eli Maddock
still has hopes, but has not the ghost of
aBhow. J.U.Campbell had this bee
in his cap, but he was to have gotten
the military job on the governor's staff
but for some reason Furnish did not have
the desired pull with the voters. The
chairmanship of the county committee
and the district attorney job have proven
very lucrative to him and he is no doubt
satisfied. Ex-Senator L. L. Porter ex
pects some kind of a job, and it is not
known whether he will accept a tendered
position in Piesident Rjosevelt'a cabi
net or not.
School Books 8t ..?'
tre8 Complete astortment of Books.
"Atthe beginning of the 20th cen
tury, under the domination of Hedon
ism, men are devoted frankly to brute
force and cunning," says the London
Saturday Review. "The state is becom
ing a' mere instrument in the grasp of
unscrupulous and all-powerful interests.
Democracy, before our very eyes, is
turning into plutocracy ; aul while we
consider the question of how govern
ments may control trusts, trustB are al
ready controlling governments. The
ideals of the papt have ceased to have
any application for us ; but we show
ourselves singularly incapable of evolv
ing new oneB,"
Henry Watterson, the venerable edi
tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
re-echoes this voice of warning from
across the sea. Having made a study of
the moral status of the city of New York
and her "Four Hundred," he makes
these comments:
He is but a poor observer of contem
porary life, and no prophet at all, who
does not see that the whole trend of pub
lie affairs is set toward an ultimate con
flict between the forces of prerogative,
on the one hand, and the forces of what
the exclusive few delight to call the
Great Unwashed, on Hie other, between
Capital, too often avaricious and grasp
ing, and Labor, grimy and passionate,
and, left riderless, a Monster without a
head. It is beside the purpose to say
that thero are rich men humane, gener
ous, charitable, bo are there poor
men patient, wise, consetvaive. It is
with Forces, not individuals, we shall
have to deal; and, though temporizing
may postpone the day, the day is surely
coming when it is to be decided who
owns the couutry, who controls the gov
ernment, the aggregations ol wealth
mainly piled up in a single section, or
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We carry the only complete line
of Caskets, Coffins, Robes and
Linings in Clackamas County.
We have the only First-Class
Hearse in the County, which we
will furnish for Itea than can be
had elsewhere.
Embalming a Specialty.
Our prices always reasonable.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Phones 411 and 304
nipni!iiimiiiiilip
Brown & Welch
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SHANK & BISSELL, Undertakers
Lower 7th St., Bet. Bridge and Depot.
y ymyiiyniiyii
Phopriktors op the-
the hewers of wood and the drawers of
water who do the work and fight the
battles and pay the taxes, the great com
monalty, of what Abraham Lincoln
called the 'the plain people.' Enlight
ened meu would moderate that con
flict. The scandalous behavior of the
conspicuous rich plays directly to the
lead of the extremist and the agitator,
with unclean hands preparing the pick
ax of the leveler and the brand of the
incendiary. The indifference of the
guild of luxury and wealth not
to mention the common cause which
too many of the worthy rich from a mis
taken sense of association, make with
these is replete with evil auguries.
'We live in an accelerated age.electric-
ity having 'annihilated time and space,
and, the Latin races doomed, Spain
dead, Italy dying, France down with an
incurable disease the causes before
our very eyes shall we not seek to es
cape what seems to have been the desti
ny not so much of luxury and wealth, as
the vicious assumption of claes superior
ity and the injustice of organized money,
percolating what is called society for
pleasure, corrupting the foundations of
the national credit and honor for
profit?"
A very rich man in Xew York was
asked why he did not, like his associ
ates, build a palace on upper Fifth Ave
nue. He looked his questioner in the
eye and said : "Because, when the mob
arises and the rich are slaughtered, I do
not want to be butchered in a marble
morgue of my own building!"
Recently a learned Jewish rabbi in
Chicago boldly pronounced from his pul
pit warnings that the work of the rich
with the poor, the robberies of trusts
and the arrogance of purchased powers
that of right belong to the people, are
hastening us toward an era that will
pale the furies and fatalities of the
French revolution.
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O. U. W. Building
OREGON CITY, OREGON
I YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT
Bat the Best Stock of First-Class
Goods to be Found at Bottom
Prices in Oregon City is at
HARRIS' GROCERY
Established 1870
FURRIERS
Incorporated 1899
G. P. RUMMELIN & SONS,
126 Second Street, near Washington,
Portland, Ore.
Our stock of Fur Garments is now complete, and
intending purchasers will find it of value to call at our
establishment and inspect our Eurs.
We are showing new effects in Fur Coats and Capes.
Our Collarettes and Boas are in entirely new designs and
consist of a great variety.
Mail Orders receive prompt attention.
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