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VI.VVI1WI
21st ;YEAR
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ,13, 1903
NO. 27
SO DECEPTIVE
Many Oregon City People Foil to Realize
the Seriousness.
Backache is bo deceptive,
It come and goes-keeps you guessing.
Learn the cause-then cure it.
Nine times out of ten it conies from
the kidneys. ' 1
' That's why Doan's Kidneys Pills care
it.
- Cure every kidney ill from backache
to diabetes.
Here's a case to prove it :
Mrs. D. Murphy, widow, who lives at
395 Ivon St Portland, says: "Years
go, Alien living in Kansas was great
ly troubled with, kidney complaint. At
that time, I was, I might say, perfect
ly helpless for months, bnt in time it
wore awav as mysteriously as it came,
It did not bother' me again nntil last fall
when there was every sympton of its re
'turn, and knowing what I had tu flared
formerly I began ' to : look around for
something t check it, and on looking
over the the paper I noticed Doan's
Kidney Pills highly recommended so I
procured them and took' them as direct
ed. It only required a few '.day's treat
ment to ward off the attack. ' Since then
i I have recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills to a number of my friends." '
Plenty more proof like tbis from Ore
gon City people. Call at C. G Hunt
ley's ilru j store and ask what his cus
tomers report.
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FosterMilbnrn Co.
Remember the name Doan's and take
no other.
Doesn't Respect Old Age.
It's "hameful when ynth fails to show
. proper respect for old age, bnt ' just the
contrnry in the case of Dr. King's New
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matter how Revere and irrespective of
old age, Dyspepsia, Jaundhe, Fever,
Uona'lpation ail yield to this perfect pill.
zoo at Ueo. A. Harding s drug etore.
TO CIHE A COLD IN ONE DY
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druggist rt fund the monpy If It fni's to cure.
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BUY TrtE
SEWING MACHINE
Do not be deceived by those who ad
vertise a $60.00 Sewing Machine for
20.00. This kind of a machine con
be bought from us or any of our
' . dealers from $16.00 to $18.00.
WK MARC A VARICTY.
THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST.
The Feed determines the strength or
weakness of Sewing Machines. The
Doiible Feed combined with other
strong points makes the New Home
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IteforCIRCUURStSSS
We manufacture and prices before purchasing
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350 Morrison St., PCRTI-AND, ORE
THE MORNINO TUB
cannot be enjoyed in a basin of limited
capacity nor where the water supply and
temperature is uncertain by reason of
defective plumbing or heating apparatns.
To have both pui in thorough working
order' will not prove expensive if the
work Is done by
F. C.CADKE
60 different games all new
one. in each package of
Lion Coffee
at your Grocer's.
MlMiim tri
THIS IB Tl PUMPKIN THAT UIDSEI -RAISED
How Many Seeds in the "Big Fellow" is the All Absorbing Question.
"IT IS JUST
Why not try it?
A $400 Piano
is not picked up
in the street
every day
the pumpkin
we cut last year had
404 seed in it.
Study up on pumpkinology. It will do you good. You may conclude that you
have a "pumpkin head," but if you get the piano you will be sure that you are a wise guy
S1 t earner
RemarKabte Exploit of
a Sla-Ve Pilot During
the Civil War.
Hotv He Captured a Confeder
ate Uransport and Turned
It O-Cer to the Feder
al Force.
General Robert Smalls of Beaufort
S. C, one of the most influential ami
well to do colored men In the south,
bears the unique distinction of having
stolen a vessel from the Confederates
and bringing it safely into the L'nlou
lines.
The transport Planter, the vessel stol
en, was the special dispatch boat o)
General ttipley, the Confederate pos
commander at Charleston, S. C, anc
Robert Smalls was serving in the ca
pacity of wheelman, but was virtually
the pilot. In those days no negro couii
be a pilot in southern waters, bui
Smalls really did the work of a pilot
and It was while serving in this capuc
ity that he found his chance to steui
the transport.
"I sometimes wonder," said Genera)
Smalls recently while discussing tin
Incident, "if it can really be true that 1
am here under my own vine ami fif:
tree after taking the chances I did wltl.
the riauter, but I know that I am here
and I know, too, that I hope to end my
days" right here where I was born. 1
will come pretty near remaining hcrr
until I pass to the beyond if laws nrr
not enacted which will make It tinpos
slble for a colored man to live in tu
state. I love the state of my nativity
but it's an awful gloomy outlook he
sometimes for the colored race.
"But about the taking of the Tlanter
We had been engaged in May, 1803. li
removing guns from Cole's Island
James island and bad returned t
Charleston on the evening of the Vth
The officers all-went ashore, leaving
myself and seven other colored men ov
board. I determined to make an effor
to carry out my plans to steal the tran?
port, and to the seven men I tin folded
my intentions. Five of them willingly
agreed to stand by me, but the other
two showed the , white feather and
went ashore. As -quickly as possible
we got up steam, and at about 2 o'clock
in the morning of the 13th unlucky,
too we moved off from the dock and
steamed up to North Atlantic wharf,
where my wife and two children, with
three other men and four women, em
barked with the.
"As we passed Fort Johnson I blew
the usual' signal, got the return signal
and steamed on down the bay. Ap
proaching Fort Sumter, I put on a large
straw hat which Captain Relay of the
Planter usually wore, and, pulling It
well ovef my face, I leaned out of the
window of tie pilot house and gave tho
signal, receiving 'All right' in return.
I had been sized up as Captain Relay,
and I .suppose they thought that Genpr-
AS EASY AS
6 ,?
! J i
to - K
ai Kipiey was on board going on a tour
Of Inspection. - '
"That was about the only time I ever
impersonated a white man, and I did
it successfully too. The transport had
successfully passed beyond Sumter's
guns before anything wrong was sus
pected. When they saw that the Plant
er was making for the Federal lines
they signaled to stop us, but I man-
SMALLS STOOD CALMLY AT THE HELM.
aged to land safely In the enemy's my
friends' lines before anything could
be done, though the Federal fleet came
near firing into the transport before I
got the flag of truce up and flung to
the breeze. Captain Nicholson of the
boat Onward came on board the Plant
er, and I told him what I had done
and turned the vessel over to him. Of
course I was warmly received and
highly congratulated by all the officers.
Bnt, my, my, my bide would not have
heM shucks If I bad. been caught be
fore I got . the Planter to the Federal
"I continued to act as pilot for the
Planter and the Crusader and at block
ading pilot between Charleston and
Beaufort, and it wae mj pleasure to
assist in removing torpedoes from the
rivers near the coast which I had been
forced to aid in putting in. Even while
I was at work putting in these torpe
does I had determined that I would
help remove them. While engaged ai
pilot of the two vessels we had sev
eral fights and narrow escapes, but
Old Master seemed to be on our side.
"On Dec. 1, 18G3, 1 was bringing the
Tlantcr from Folly Island to Morris I
land with supplies, and when midway
through the narrow creek the enemy'r
batteries on James island, known ar
Secesslonvllle, opened fire upon Inm
The caotain of the Planter desortc
FALLING OFF A LOG"
her and sought safety in a coat bunker.
There was nothing for me to do savr
take charge, and I brought her safi
from under fire and out of danger
For this act General Gilmore, the com
mander of the department of the south
who was then on Morris Island ami
was a witness, ordered the lmmedlntf
discharge of the captain, and I was
placed in command of the Planter as
captain. . That is the manner in which
I was made captain and not for bring
ing the Planter out of the Charleston
harbor, as has been erroneously stated.
It was because I rescued the Planter
the second time." '
THE GRANGE SECRETARY.
An Important Office and One on
Which SacceR Dependa.
There are three offices in the subor
dinate grange that must be filled by
competent and faithful officers or tht
grange will not attain the highest sue
Cess. These offices are master, lectur
er and secretary.
The master needs to be a good exee.
utlve officer, with the faculty of keep
ing things moving all along the Hue
The lecturer should be about the best
man or woman the grange will afford.
The efficient,' working grange is made
such very largely by Its lecturer. The
interest and usefulness of the meetings
will depend almost altogether on this
officer. And you must have another
"best" person as secretary.
With a good secretary the master's
work is lightened much. A careless,
uninterested secretary can kill any
grange in six months or greatly hinder
its efficiency. The secretary who will
not attend grange meetings and look
after the numerous details of his work
carefully and diligently should never
be continued In office. If he can bo In
duced to resign before his term of of
fice expires all the better for the grange.
He mURt be present at every meeting
unless detained by Illness or some oth
er most Important reason; he must be
punctual; he must think no detail of
his official duties unimportant; be musl
reply promptly to all official or busi
ness letters; he must make bis quarter
ly reports the moment they are due to
be made; he must keep bis records in
good shape; he must see that the dues
are collected, and he must do a hun
dred other things that fall to bis lot
"Just as and Just when they should be
done. Unless he does this he is not the
man (M'eecretar.' ' ' ' ' " "' ""
. Farmers and Cltleens.
The grange has much to do outside
the farm and Its Immediate interests.
The fanner has something more to do
than to simply till the soli. He must
be an up to date business man; be must
be an active, not merely a passive, cltl
cen; he must have a live Interest In
good government in town, county, state
and nation; he must be In politics to
the extent that he should Insist on hon
est government and be willing to do bis
part to make it so.
The defacing of farm buildings by
huge patent medicine advertisements
should be the subject of protestation In
every grange, and no granger should
allow his premises to be thus disfigured.
A good guess
would be hot less
' than two seed'
and not more than
5000 seeds.
Thati
is a
good "tip"-take-it.
'Reign qf
Terror
Story of the Alleged JVe
gro Tlot In JVebuyorK.
In IU Early Day.
Amazing Outburst Against the
IBlacK? In Which Many
, Were Hanged and TSurn
ed at the StaKfi.
Professor George E. Comfort, direct
or of the Museum of Fine Arts at
Syracuse, N. Y:, is of old Holland an
cestry and reintly while tracing the
genealogy of his family he came upon
a very rare and curious book entitled
"The New York Conspiracy; or, A His
tory pf the Negro Plot, With the Jour
nal of Proceedings Against the Con
spirators at New York In the Years
1741-42," etc. This was republished in
1810. It does not appear that there
really was any such plot, but there
was a rumor of a plot which, sayf
Professor Comfort, was "magnified bj
popular fear and rage into a general
conspiracy of the negro slaves to bum
New York, murder the white men and
take the white women for wives and
then to sot up an Independent govern
ment by secret assistance from Spain
and France."
The account in this book, ho says, re
cords "the darkest blot on the history
of the Anglo-Saxon race on the Ameri
can continent. The whole evont, as
here described, reads like one of the
terrific outbursts of unbridled passion
during the European middle ages."
No legal counsel was granted the ac
cused, who In their poverty, Ignorance
and fright could make no adequate
defense and fell easy prey. The en
tire slave population, numbering 2,000
(Hildreth says 1,200 or 1,500), when
the whole population of tho city was
but 7,000, were accused of being en
gaged in this fictitious plot. Tbe peo
nio were alarmed by tbe occurrence of
Tfie trutfi, .
the whole trfutlv
and nothing but
the truth
in time telling mean
the time told by the
elg in
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Every Elgin Watch is fully guaranteed. All jeweler
hare Elgin Watches. "Timemaltera and Timekeeperi," an
' Illustrated history of the watch, Bent free upon request to
Elgin National Watch Co., (tarn, ilunoo.
nine fires in rapid succession, most ot
which were the burning out of tufl
chimneys. A woman Indented to
service bought her liberty by giving
false tales of a plot formed by her
master, a tavern keeper, and three
negroes to burn the city and murder
the 'whites, and she was re-enforced
by a woman of the streets under con
viction, for a robbery, who turned In
former to secure her safety.
Frofessor Comfort is particularly af
fected by the fact that two of th
slaves owned by his ancestor, Gorardu
Comfort, were condemned with foui
other negroes to be "chained to i
Stake and burned until they should b
severally, dead." One of them wa'
thus burned. , The other turned ktng'i
witness and made a confession, whlc!
Implicated others, black and white
and secured the commuting of his sen
fence to transportation. All the grouni
there was for his story was that ne
groes and others used to meet at Oe
rardus Comfort's well for visits am
frolics, and It was charged that then
THE FAOOTS WEBB SET ON FI11X.
were meetings held at, his cooper's
shop, in. whose yard the well was for
promoting the conspiracy,
Gerardus Comfort, who was a Quak
er, gave his quiet testimony without
effect. It was near his shop that Mary
Burton, the indented servant above re
ferred to, served ale in a cobbler'8 shp
and much disliked to serve blacks.
When the governor proclaimed his re
wards of money, manumission and so
on to any informers this woman ac
cepted $500, and on her palpably false
testimony her master, the cobbler, and
his wife, as also John fry, a sup
posed Roman Catholic priest, were
banged. A daughter of tbe cobbler also
turned king's witness to save her neck.
Two slaves already tied to the stake
were offered pardon if they would con
fess. They both broke down and began
their pitiful false stories, but the crowd
grew Impatient at the threatened lo:--of
their luxury and set fire to the fag
ots. Yet this "officially suborned tosti
uiony, obtuined under so revolting 'cir
cumstances, was employed for convict
Ing others, whlto and black."
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is Pleas
ant to Take.
The finest quality of granulated loaf
sugar i' used in the manufacture of
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rick, of Toolesville, Md , in speaking of
this remedy, say : VI hare used Cham
lierlain i (Jounh Remedy with my child
ren for several years can truthfully say
It Is tbe best preparation of the kind I
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sale by Geo. A. Harding,
"I owe mj whol life of Burdock Blood Bittern.
BcrofuluiH ioren covered mjr body. I aoemed
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well woman." Mn. Cbu Button, Uanllle,
Midi.
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