OREGON CITY COUBIER, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1903
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OREGON CITY, MAR. 6, 1903.
UNIONftflLABEl
The value placed by Kid McCoy on
liis wife's affections is a pathetic ev
idence that he needs the money.
The grocery man who started out to
xun his store as Christ would run it
Bias bought five others. The next step
will be the formation of a Christ-like
monopoly.
The Chicago woman who has sued
Iier husband for divorce because he
persists in playing poker with widows
doubtless feels that she is being euch
ered out of her rights.
In places between Paducah and
Cairo the Ohio river is fifteen miles
wide and 100 feet doop, but that cuts
wo ice with the Pittsburg-Cairo nine-,
.foot stage all the year round.
The best thought given expresison
on the birthday of George Washington'
the father of this country, is to be
rfonnd in the address of Booker Wash
ington, the father oi his. race.
So Dr. Ellis Duncan "still retains
1-iis composure and refuses to discuss
flthe family tragedy." Another man
ifestation of Dr. Duncan's wisdom.
"What a pity the press and public can't
Ik), induced to go and do likewise.
Liverpool owns and operates her
..street railway, gas and electric light
plants, and the manngor of the first
named "public utility" has come over
to .tell lis how and with what great
satisfaction to all concerned the thing
is done. .
(Gormany's insistence on immediate
paynuut of its pound of flesh, in spite
of .the .-signed agreement to observe the
fiurnis of the protocol, rounds out as
gmtty a policy as any "world Power"
JVjis imrsuod in the time to which the
memory of man ' runneth not to the
contrary.
Tho Congressional Information Bu
reau contributes to the Congressional
'Uncord a list of ,800 trusts, with an
npgrtiate capitalization of nearly
$14,00O,000,0O0,',but Uncle Mark Hanna
Jiusn't yet retracted his campaign as
sertion that "there ain't no sich tiling
5is n trust" in jill this gal-lorious
couiil ry.
There is some 'compensation in the
present demonstration of tho fact that
the seventy-odd thousand dollars out
if which Hiis country was bounced by
the TJiss Missionary Stone and Mad.
Tsilka abducted and ransom fake, are
.lining put to good use by tho Maceadon
hm and Bulgarian Christian rebels
.jigiiinst Turkish rule.
Twelve deaths from and still hun
dreds of eases of illness from that lilth
ci!'se typhoid fever among tho
pupils of ono of the leading colleges
if the hind is a sad commentary upon
Jlw manner in which many mere than
one educational institution in this and
other countries are conducted. A
Hound .niud in an unsound body is very
like unto new wine in an old bottle.
Says a morning contemporary : "If
King IM ward succeeds in settling the
Irish qiu tsion he will have solved the
moi.t difficult and vexatious of Great
Britain's problems. On his tomb the
.glorious epitaph may bo written: 'Ho
Jtwtored peace to South Africa and
.redressed the grievances of Ireland.
Enough indeed, to confer glory oii'any
sovereign. ' " As an example of the
epitaph's superiority to the truth, tho
inscription would be of value; as a
-deserved tribute, it could with equal
justice he written of President Bacr.
Aniinucomont of tin advuneo since
Hast spring of from 100 to iitK) percent,
in the prices of garden seed isn't in
the nut are of glad tidings of great joy
ut the tail oinl of ground-hog winter,
Jmt the philosophical horticulturist
van divert his mind by turning it to
contemplation of "Roosevelt prosper
ity" in general, and to the specially
gratifying specific, fact that on its
:$J 00,000 capitalization the Standard
J1 Company has declared a quarterly
.dividend of f0,000,000, and in twelve
.yei.rs a total divdend of f t'.'S.OOO.OOO.
Tho gravity of the Eastern situaticn
'l.s revealed in the following picture
from London of the character of Abdul
'ILantid: "Apparently ho has no sort
)f iintiim of political meteorology. It
is becoming evedent to the diplomatic
corps at Constantinople that his colos
sal egotism, his infatuation with ar
bitrary power, the fanaticism with
which he devotes himself to the pan
Islamic movement, his restless inge
nuity in ferreting out enemies these
and other idiosyncrasies of his char
acterhave introduced factors into
the Ottoman problem more difficult to
deal with than Macedonian revolution
ists or Muscovite plotters for a Rusian
protectorate over 'the Balkans.
Republican papers generally congrat
ulated the party that Mr. Addicks of
Delaware had. withdrawn from the
senatorial race. It seems, however,
that Mr. Addicks' withdrawal was
conditional. The condition, although
not bluntly stated, was that Mr. Ad
dicks should be permitted to name the
two senators from that state. So
republican leaders must struggle along
with the Addicks problem a while
longer. The objection which these
leaders make to Addicks is that he has
obtained his prestige as sentorial
candidate by the use of money. That
is indeed strange objection coming
from the representtives of a party that
habitully elects men to the United
States senate whose power and pres
tige has been won along the check
book route.
Samuel F. B. Morse during his work
on the Baltimore and Washington tel
egraph lino in 1843, kept a diary. The
Electrical Review of New York says
that the book was recently discovered
in the library of Thomas A. Edison.
The Review reproduces a number of
interesting extracts from this diary :
Undervthe date of August 10, 1843,1
Mr. Morse describes certain tests he
had made and makes the following
interesting prophecy : "The practical
inference from this law is that a tel
egraphio- communication on my plan
may with certainty be establised across
the Atlantic. Startling as this may
seem now the time will comewhen
this project will be realized. " Com
menting upon this prophecy the Elec
trical Roviow says: "Today there is
no ocean unsphanned by a telegraph
cable. We have completed the first
Paciflo cable and have made a good
start on the second, and Marconi has
established communication across the
Atlantic without wires. It is difficult
to realize that this diary was written
loss than sixty years ago. ' '
The "burn this letter" habit is
not, it seems, after all, peculiar to
American politicians. The Chinese
appear to bo devoted to this same
habit. A writer in Leslie's Weekly
says: "Of all the quaint industries
which furnish a livelihood for a corps
of workers there is none more worthy
of comment than the sacred furnace of
Mon-War, erected and supported by
the religious fervor and reverential
sentiment with which the Chinese
regard their letters and papers. In
every Chinatown, however small, a
building dodicated to Confucius can
be found, and to every almond-eyed
colostial that building is sacred sac
rod from the inscription over tho door
to the bine Hmnlrn r.lmr. pnrla nn n,.l
mingles wnn tno log, lor it is tlie
oven wherein are incinerated all the
letters, newspapers and old books of
the Chinese quarter. Every scrap of
paper upon which a Chinese character
has been written or printed, when its
purpose in the business or social world
has been accomplished, is burned in a
perfumed blaze and -tho ashes are dis-
posed of with reverential care."
A novel fcaturo is attached to tho
London post office. It seems that if
one has difficulty in finding his dest
ination in London he has only to go
to the postolUcc and bo sent through as
an express pared for the small sum oi
3 pence per mile. The London cor
respondent of tho Chicago Record
Herald relates the experience of a man
who discovered this particular feature.
This correspondent says: "The man
ner in which this little known branch
of postal' fcervico was discovered was
very simple. The man in question
called at St. Martin's Lo Grand to
consult a directory, us he wanted to
find tho address of an important cust
omer in a remote part of Balham, one
of the London's most remote suburbs.
'We'll send you there, if you like,
sir,' said an obliging clerk at the ex
press parcel counter. 'Such a Vonting
ency is provided for by the post office
regulations, though wo very seldom
get a customer.' Tho gentleman
agreed,. A neatly uniformed youth
came in rcsponce to a bell, and soon
they were forging through tho crowd.
The youth carried a slip of paper bear
ing the words 'Article required to be
delivered.' Passing along the street
the gentlemen met a partner in bus
iness. He stopped to relate his exper
ience, but this was not allowed. Under
regulations parcels must not enter into
conversation. The messenger boy took
him by the arm, saying: 'You're ex
press, sir. ' The young, postman de
livered the articel promptly and safely,
and tho customer signed a document
as having received the article in good
condition. "
Rosebushes, clematis, ornamental
slirubbeiy, cut flowers at the trreen
house at Gladstone. James W ilkinson,
Prop.
HER FRENCH A FAILURE.
The Tragedy of a Blacking Botlla
In the Latin Quarter.
She was spending her first month In
the Latin quarter of Paris. She spok
English fluently, with a Boston accent;
also she spoke German, could make a
fair stagger at Italian add knew a few
words of Hlndoostauee, but of French
not a syllable.
One morning she found herself In a
wrestling match with a bottle of
French shoe blacking. The pesky bot
tle, understanding that It had to deal
with an alien, refused to give up ftg
cork. Sho had no corkscrew of her
own and did not know how to ask for
one, even If she dared suspect that her
next door neighbor might be possessed
of the luxury. Tha tine of her pet fork
she had bent on the obstinate plug, the
point of her best penknife she had bro
ken off short, and nothing remained
except to throw the bottle out of a
window to get at Its contents. She de
cided as a last resort to try breaking
the neck off the bottle. With a "stove
lid lifter" she administered several
cautious taps In the region of the jugu
lar of the obstinate neck. "Nothin'
doln'." Then she tapped harder still,
and the blacking came. All over het
fingers It came, all over her light wool
en skirt and over much of the floor and
window sill.
She decided to have the skirt cleaned
and, packing It .Into a bundle, tripped
off to an establishment where she
found embarrassment because aha
could not understand questions. Final
ly she got the drift of the conversation.
The cleaners wanted to know what
had caused the spot Fortunately .a
bottle of shoe blacking was standing
near by, and she pointed at this and
"ould" and "ouid" until she left In
heightened spirits, feeling that she was
not helpless and that she had made the
cleaners understand. When the skirt
was duly returned the following week.
It was dyed black. New York Tribune,
ANIMAL ODDITIES.
Breton sheep are not much larger
than a fair sized bare.
The mandarin duck Is one of the most
beautiful of aquatic birds.
The queen is always at the mercy of
the bees and Is a slave Instead of a
ruler.
A beetle one-third the size of a hoi-33
would be able to pull against more
than a dozen horses.
The greyhound, which can cover a
mile In a minute and twenty-eight sec
onds, Is the fastest of quadrupeds. '
The giraffe, armadillo and porcupine
have no vocal cords and are therefore
mute. Whales and serpents are also
voiceless.
The glowworm lays eggs which are
themselves luminous. However, the
young hatched from them are not pos
sessed of those peculiar properties until
after the first transformation.
To escape from dangers which men
ace them starfishes commit suicide.
This instinct of self destruction Is
found only in the highest and lowest
scales of animal life.
Hebrldean Proverbs.
The daily talk of the Hebrideans had
a shrewd picturesqueiiess. "Let the
loan go laughing home," they say.
That is, "Be careful of whatever you
have borrowed." I
If a person were to be met coldly
on going to a friend's house, he would
say:
"The shore Is the same, but the shell
fish is not the same."
The Impossible is denoted by "black
berries In midwinter and sea gulls'
eggs In autumn."
"Better thiu kneading than to be
empty." That is, "Half a loaf is better
than no bread."
"The man who is idle will put the
cats ou the fire."
"He that does not look before him
Will look behind him."
"A house without a dog, without a
cat, without a little child, Is a house
without pleasure and without laugh
ter." Homea In Italy
Speaking of homes and ways of 11 v
lag, Mr. Lulgl Villarl In "Italian Life
In Town and Country" reveals a curi
ous state of affairs. In Italian cities
there are no sltiin districts. The poor
est of the eoiir inuy be lodged In the
same palace with people whose Income
runs over ifi'i.OOO annually. The poor
are packed away in the garrets or In
the cellars, to be sure, and their mis
ery must bo rendered all the more
acute by the sight and scout of such
lavish living. High class Italians lave
'no objections whatever to dwelling over
a shop or place of business.
Foruot Iliinaelf.
Mrs. Ilenpeek We liev bin married
twenty years today, Hiram.
1 1 Irani (with a sigh) Yes, for twenty
years we've fought
Mrs. llenpcck (scowling) What!
I'ou old wretch!
Hiram (qulckly)-Llfe's battles to
gether, Mirandy. Judge.
Too Valuable to Lose.
Mr. Grogau- Sure, Molke, an' what ;
did yoi do wit' yure dorg? " j
Mike Oh, he wuz worf $10 an 6i ,
kep' t'lukin' If some wan sh'd stale :
mu 01 could 111 afford th' loss, so 01 ;
gave urn away, b'gorra! - Chicago
News.
Awfully Benighted.
Pasherly Is he so very ignorant?
Plasherly Ignorant? Why, actually,
he doesn't even know a cure for colds!
Kansas City Independent.
I wonder why It Is we are not all
kinder than we are. now easily It Is
diviet How Instantaneously It acts!
How Infallibly It U remembered!
IU. OUR .ILLS
ARE CATARRHAL
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Catarrhal Diseases are Most
Prevalent in Wfnter. ,
IS THERE NO WAY OF
ESCAPE FROM THEM?
Pe-ru-na Never Fails to Cure
Catarrh Wherever
. Located.
. There are some things which are as
Sure as fate, and can be relied on to occur
to at least one-half of the human family
unless means are taken to prevent.'
First, the climate of winter is sure to
bring colds.
Second, colds not promptly cured are
are to cause catarrh.
Third, catarrh improperly treated is
sure to make life short and miserable.
Catarrh spares no organ or function of
the body. It is capable of destroying
tight, taste, Smell, hearing, digestion,
secretion, assimilation and excretion. '
It pervades every part of the human
body, ' head, throat, stomach, bowels,
bronchial tubes, lungs, liver, kidneys,
bladder and other pelvic organs.
That Peruna cures catarrh wherever
located Is attested by the following tes
timonials sent entirely unsolicited to
Dr. Hartman by grateful men and wo
men who have been cured by Peruna:
Catarrh of The Head.
Mr. D. E. Ramsey writes in a recent
letter from Pine Bluff, Ark., the fol
lowing :
" My son, Leon Ramsey, four years of
age, suffered with catarrh of the head
for eighteen or twenty months. He took
one bottle of your Peruna and could
hear as good as ever." D. R. RAMSEY.
Catarrh of The Nose.
Mr. Herman Ehlke, 952 Orchard street,
Milwaukee, Wis., writes :
" I am entirely cured of my catarrh of
the nose by your Peruna. My case was
a severe one." Herman Ehlke.
Catarrh of The Throat.
B. H. Runyan, Salesville, O., -writes:
" I suffered with catarrh of the throat
for five years. I was induced to try
Peruna. I have used five bottles and am
perfectly well." B. H. Rnnyan.
j Catarrh of The Ear.
Mr. Archie Godin, 188 Beech street,
Titchburg, Mass., writes :
"Peruna has cured me of catarrh of
tha middle ear. I feel better than I hare
lor several years." Archie Godin.
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Catarrh of The Lungs.
Mrs. Emilie Kirckhoff, Ada, Minn.,
writes:
"Through a violent cold contracted
last winter, I became afflicted with ca
tarrh of the nose, which in a short time
affected my lungs. I took Peruna which
cured me thoroughly. I now feel better
than I have for forty years." Mrs.
Emilie Kirckhoff.
Catarrh of The Blartdor.
Mr. John Smith, 311 S. Third street,
Atchison, Kan., writes:
"I was troubled with catarrh of the
urethra and'bladder for two years. At
the time I wrote to you I was under the
core my home doctor, and hod been
for four months.
"I followed your directions but two
months, and can say Peruna cured me
of that trouble. "John Smith.
Catarrh of The Bowels.
Mr. Henry Entzion, South Bend, Ind.,
writes:
" The doctor said I had catarrh of the
bowels and I took his medicine, but
with no relief. I was getting worse all
the time.
" Before I had takn a half bottle of
Peruna I felt like a aw man." Henry
Entzioa
Three doors below Perkins Hotel
Sells Unclaimed
Tailor Suits.
PE-RU-NA
Knocks All Forms of
Catarrh.
FOR PERUNA.
Catarrh of The Kidneys.
Peter J. Unger, Hawley, Pa., writes !
" I think that I am perfectly cured of
catarrh of the kidneys by Peruna, as X
have no trouble of any kind." Peter
J. Ungcr.
Catarrh of The Stomach. 1
A. W. Graves, of Hammond, Ind.,
writing to Dr. Hartman, says:
" I am well of catarrh of the stomach!
after sufterinftwo years. I have taken'
five bottles cf Peruna and one of Manalin
and I feel like a new man now." A. TV.
Graves. '
Pelvlo Catarrh.
Miss Katie Lochman, Lafayette, Ind,
writes :
"I had pelvic catarrh, pain In th
abdomen, back, had stomach trouble
and headache caused by catarrh. I fol-J
lowed your directions; took Peruna and
Manalin according to directions, andj
how happy I feel that I am relieved oil
such a distressing ailment." Miss Katla1
Lochman. I
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