OREGON - CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY,. QCTQBER10,. 1902, .
Oregon City Courier-Herald
BY A. W. CHENEY
Entered iu Oregon City Postufflce as 2nd-clas matter
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OREGON CITY, OCT. 10, 1902.
American capitalists are investing in
Ireland.
The capitalization of the concerns in
which J. P. Morgan & Co. are either
directly or indirectly interested U 6,-448,500,000.
Tub oldest piece of writing in the
'world is on a fragment of a vase found at
Nipur. It is an inscription in picture
writing and dates 4500 years be
fore Chri it. The University of Penn
sylvania has obtained it. Noah must
have dropped it inadvertently out of the
ark.
Thank God for an henest, brave law
yerl Justice Holmes, recently appoint
ed to the supreme court of the United
States, is reported to have asked in a re
cent decision, "What have we better
than a blind guess to show that the
criminalflaw in its present form does
more good than harm?"
Tan decrease of 106 millions in the
exports of 1902 us compared with the
exports of 1901 and the increase of 80
millions in the imports for
the same period is not being dis
cussed much by republican leaders, but
it ought to be considered by the rank
and file. When the balance of trade in
our favor is increasing the fact is pro
claimed in big headlines and the republi
can party is given all the credit, but when
the balance falls it Beems to be a matter
too insignificant to mention.
Tub table below gives the bank clear
ances for the week ending October 2d
of Portland anl Seattle and' three busi
ness centers of the South, and their re
apective populat;ons accorr ing to the
census of 1900. The showing made is
not (lettering to the Pacific North went,
Clearings Population
Portland . , $ 3,951,752 90,4:6
Seattle 4,251,183 80,071
Houston 10,713,000 44,633
Galveston 9,705,000
Savannah 4,074,000
37,789
54,244
Tub statement that from January 1 to
June 1 no lees than 21,077 citizens of the
United States settled in the province o(
Manitoba and adjacent territories is
made by a writer in the Springfield
(Mass ) republican. It is pointed out
that 25.000,000 acres of land in the Ca
nadian northwest are now owned by
citizens of this country ; 5,000,000 have
been acquired during the present yenr,
and about one-fifth of this area has been
taken by bona fide settlers from the
states. The remaining 4,000,000 acres
have been sold to laud companies who
are reselling it at a profit to the tide of
emigrants. It is said that from a single
Iowa, neighborhood 40 families have
gone to this new territory within a few
months.
Waltek Wellhan, Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago-Record. Her
ald, writes: "It is agreed by loading
financiers that if anything were to hap
pen to knock the props from under the
hundreds of millions of industrial bonds
and stocks the most serious trouble
would eusuo." What kind of "props"
do these concerns rest upon that these
'propH" are so frail that a revision of
the tariff, to meet conditions w hich even
many republican newspapers and lead
ers admit require, would result in "niont
serious trouble?" It is admitted by
this republican correspondent that there
lias been a "dreadful orgy of stock water
ing." It is also declared that what Sec
retary of the Treasury Shaw calls "the
uiBBB of undigested industrial securities"
has "absorbed an alaru.lng share of tho
people's savings." And yet in the face
of these conditions nothing must be
done to disturb tho advantage which
the.-e water curing speculators enjoy
through the favor of the republican
party 1
Tim permanent interests of tho United
States in the Panama canal willdeiuaud
the utmost degree of security Against
tho oft-recurring revolutions on the
isthmus, and thequeetiou already press
ing for action is, What will that form of
security be? The Panama canal may
prove a veritable Pandora's box of inter
national complications. The Monroe
doctrine may protect the republic of
Columbia against European encroach
ments, but not against yankee expan
sion. It may not come to the latter, so
far as the absorption of any South Ameri
can republic by tho United States is
concerned, but an American protector
ate over Colombia, or at least the
Isthmus, is one of the possibilities of
the not distant future. Such a step is in
vited by the acquisition of the Panama
canal, and such a stop, once taken, in
cites more aggretsive steps. Some new
precedents are very likely to be estab
lished in our foioigu relations as the re
sult of isthmian interests. The devel
opment of the Inevitable problem will
be watched with interest.
A peculiar crisis if impending among
Methodists of the United States, and
the bishops and other officials are mak
ing extraordinary plans to meet it. Mis
sionary operations of thu church in
China, India, Japan, Corea, the Philip
pines, Mexico, South America and
Porto Rico have expanded so suddenly
and to such magnitude that the annual
income of $1,250,000 of the missionary
society is no longer adequate. During
the past year a campaign has been in
progress to increase the revenue to $1,
500,000 and it may be necessary to ask
for $2,000,000 soon. Additional field
agents are at woik in all parts of the
United States trying to increase the
missionary contributions. On October
22-24 a huge mass convention will be
held in Gray's armory, Cleveland, 0 ,
for the purpose of giving added impetus
to the movement. Arrangements have
been made to accommodate 2500 dele
gates from Sunday schools, Epworth
Leagues, Woman's .Missionary Societies,
City Evangelical Unions, besides bish
ops, church editors, educators, presiding
elders and pastors. Bishop Hrtz;ll,
who has returned from Africa, will make
addresses at the convention and then in
churches. Bishop Moore is homeward
bound from China fo rthe same purpose.
Dr. C.W. Drees is raising a fuud of $8),
000 for educational and mission work in
Porto Rico.
A COMPARISON,
The present prosperity of the United
States is assumed by many to be a mat
ter of course. That the assumption is
not logical and our circumstances could
be the reverse of what they are we can
easily see by comparing this country
with Russia, which was at a period not
far distant, for a Bemi-civilized state, at
least, in a generally prosperous condi
tion. Of the 130,000,003 inhabitants
in the empire, 120,000,000 are peasants.
Within 35 years, writes a recent publi
cist, this vast population of workers has
lost not less than 35 per cent of its wealth
and in the thickly peopled black-earth
regions of Great Russia food production
has decreased 44 per cent.
The arrears of taxes of the peasants
have become a fabulous sum which they
cau never pay. For a quarter of a cen
tury they have been subject to economic
decay. The biith rate of the Slavs has
decreased at an alarming ratio. One
year of famine after anothtr is ruining
their physique. The soil has been ex
hausted by wretched farming. Hosts of
them have been compelled by want to
sell their draft animals and, being
hopelessly in debt, have become the
slaves of money-lenders. For 20 years,
the Russian government has done noth
ing to foster agriculture and it will not
give private charity or enterprise a free
hand to mitigate the ever increasing evil.
In fact, the well nieh boundless Rus
sian empire, regardless of its practically
unlimited undeveloped natural wealth.is
yearly becoming more and more im
poverished, and ruin seems the inevita
ble goal: not financial ruin, merely, but
the slow yet sure dying out of a large
part ot her population. Russian states
men who keep thei- eyes open admit
tnat tne situation is extremely grave.
If the dirty, ignorant, bigoted, hungry
millions rise in revolution, not all the
soldiers of the empire will be able to
stem the mighty storm.
Sociological conditions in the United
States differ bo greatly from those in
Russia, that it does not seem possible
our people could descend to the depths
reached by the children of the"Whit
Czar." But, notwithstanding. Russia
teaches us the lesson that there is noth-
ing necessarily in the nature of things
to preveut a great nation from going
rapidly down hill. There is nn flflvincr
grace in mere bulk.
Soliceto Taxpayers and Prop
erty Owners.
Notice is !hereliv
of equalization of the county of Clacka
mas, State of Oregon, will for the week
ueginniug iuotiuiiy, October 13th, 1902,
be in attenduiwa .it tl,o (r,,. i ... '
county clerk, in said county and state,
ui mo iui(iuw oi puuiiciy examining
the assessment mile r.t i .?.
for the year 1902, and correcting aller
rors in valuation, description or quali
ties of lands, lots or other property. It
is the duty of all persons interested to
appear at the time and place herein
luuimuueu, aim can we attention of said
board to any eirorsin assessment, or
property not assessed, so that the Bame
my ub corrected in tne manner pro
vided by law.
Em Williams,
Assessor of Clackamas County.
Please call early in tho week.
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,v1)r8: R-B. and A. L. Beatie, dentists,
Woiuhard building. '
How's This!
We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, O.
e the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the hist 15 years, and be
heve him perfectly honorable iu all
business transactions and financially
ahlo to carry out any obligations made
by their thin.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O.
Walding Kinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, acting upon the blood aud mucous
surfaces of the eyitem. Price 75c per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testi
monials free.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The Potentiality
f the Blues
By J. CARROLL BECKWITH.
National Academician
rr;'''v'i'M'iT'M''Miv''tir"?7i'iMH"H'tir7''ii"H'''iSt'Hwiirni;i'M'i'i'i(iiHi
BELIEVE IN THE POTENTIALITY OF TEE
"BLUES." I consider them a natural and necessary
onttet for our overcharged natures and particularly
salutary to those 'engaged in any form of art work
WE ARE SO CONSTITUTED THAT FAILURE 13
OFTTIME8 NECESSARY TO 8UCCESS.
The pendulum swings of its own momentum, and if wo riso to
heights of olation we must descend to depths of despondency, and,
conversely, FROM A STATE OF DESPONDENCY WE RE
BOUND TO A TRUER AND SANER REALIZATION OP
OUR SURROUNDINGS.
Some years ago I congratulated a French artist upon his recent
success in the Paris salon and was surprised to hear him reply:
"I scarcely noticed that I had been successful. I have so
Bchooled myself to resist these emotions that I have reached a con
dition where success no longer elates nor failure depresses."
Although at the moment I admired his philosophy and envied
him his capacity for controlling his emotions, yet on second thought
I realized that the vibratory quality of temperament which is so
essential to the highest degree of happiness as well as to the highest
degree of artistic achievement was being lost in this effort at nega
tion in his emotions.
NOW, A MAN WILL COME OUT OF A FIT OF THE
"BLUES" OVER FAILURE OFTENTIMES VERY MUCH
ENLIGHTENED AND MORE RESOLUTE THAN BEFORE.
A well adjusted, normal temperament should enjoy elation and
stoically endure depression.
If one strives to be well adjusted, these emotions should, to a
degree, be governed by reason, and no excess in the indulgence of
either should bo permitted. But no artistic product can be obtained
from a nature devoid of the emotional quality. In poetry, music,
painting and sculpture it is imperatively essential and should not
bo discouraged.
I REITERATE THAT I BELIEVE IN THE POTENTIALITY OP
THE "BLUES."
B
usiness
Makes Business
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By LESLIE M. SHAW, Secretary of the Treasury
USINESS depression dissipates both organized and unor
ganized capital. Enforced idleness means financial ruin
to individuals, to business firms and to corporations both
great and small. ON THE CONTRARY, BUSI
NESS PROSPERITY INSPIRES HOPEFULNESS.
It encourages tho individual to reach out, to expand, to buy more
land, more houses, more cattle, to erect more stores, build moro
Bhops and to embark in new enterprises. It leads to the organization
of corporations. It inspires both dreams of great things and the
consummation of gigantic enterprises. IT LEADS TO THE
COMBINATION OF CAPITAL AND THE ORGANIZA
TION OF LABOR. Does any ono suppose that tho anthracite
coal miners could be kept together if there were a million men out
of employment and their families begging bread ?
We Furnish the SCHOOL SUPPLIES for the OREGON
CITY SCHOOLS as we were the Lowest bidders and were
awarded the Contract.
We would be pleased to figure with any ScllOOL DiSTRICT
in the county for their supplies. We buy very close and give our
customers the benefit of the lowest Cash Price.
We carry all the BOOKS used in the Schools of this county
and sell them at the lowest State Trices.
Here is a few of our Cut Prices
25 Slate Pencils 5c
6 Lead Pencils 5c
Extra Large Tablets 5c
Companions 5c
Rulers and Tablets with each complete Book order
Charman & Co
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CUT-PRICE DRUGGISTS
Prescriptions a specialty Mail orders promptly attended to
Wood's Sarsaparilla, f 1 size only 50c
Brunswick Re use and Restaurant
ETEWiY FE EWISIIED ROOMS
Meals at All Honrs Open Day and Night
Flic es Reasonable
Only First Class Restaurant in the City
CHAS CATTA, Prop.
Opposite Suspension, Bridge OREGON CITY, ORE.
I POPE & CO.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Hardware, Stoves. Syiacuse Chilled and Steel Plows,
Harrows and Cultivators, Planet Jr., Drills and
Hoes, Spray Pumps, Imperial Bicycles.
PLUMBING A SPECIALTY '
t Oor. Fourth and Main Sts. OREGON CITY
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GET YOUR
MONEY'S WORTH
Money we're so often told is the
root of all evil, yec who of us have not
wislied at times we might have a few
cords of the root. But instead of the
idle wishing prudent people look
closer after their expenditures.
Right here we can help you. We
covet confidence and challenge com
petition. A. Robertson,
7th St. Grocer.
The Flour
of the Family
The flour of all the Oregon City families
is "Patent" flour. The intelligent house
wife always gets "Patent" flour because,
it is better and more ecomonical to use
Made in Oregon City by the Portland
Flouring Mills Co.
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We carry the onlycompleteline
of Caekets, Coffins, Robes and
Linings in Clackamas County.
We have the only First-Class
Hearse in the County, which r
will furnish for less than can be
had elsewhere.
Embalming a Ppecialty.
Our prices always reasonable.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
SHANK & BISSELL, Undertakers
Phones 411 and 304. Lower 7th St., Bet. Bridge and Depot.
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Brown & Welch
-Proprietors of the
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O. U. W. Building
OREGON CITY, OREGON
I YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT
I Bat the Best Stock of First-Class
Goods to be Found at Bottom
J Prices in Oregon City is at
I HARRIS' RROnF.RY
BUS!
Established 1S70
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 F.urs.
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.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.
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Leading and Reliable Farriers of the Norihwest
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