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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1904
OPJEGON CITY COURIER.
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.For President,
ALTON B. PARKER.
.'For Vice-President
HENRY G. DAVIS.
BUSINESS METHODS ON FARMS.
One of the most hopeful signs of the
' times in tho incrosed application of
business methods by farmers to the
' conduct of .their owu affairs. Tlie
. time is not long pant whr.u it was
charged, and with much truth,
) that tho average farmer seenied to
think that his . only salvation lay in
hard and unremitting toil. If the
. farm proved unprofitable ouo year, he
tried to malio' up for it by working
s luirdor the -next year. Long hours
lif r, no time for planning, and too
. of ton there was little disposition to
: tudy methods. Tho wrok wuh not
; fsyRtemi.ed. Accounts were not kept.
Markets wore not watched. Quality
of product was not considered. Adap
t lability of soil JJnwl surroundings to
. certain products was not studied.
Uut all this is changed now by the
. more intelilgont class of the farmers,
and that menus the greater number of
' thorn. Tho rural free delivery of mail
i makes it possible for the farmer in
.moHt local tea to watch the markets
idaybydiiy, and thus bo prepared to
: take adantago of the best conditions,
".Soils are analyzed, and devoted to
fthe roW for which thoy are best
suited. Accounts are kept, so that
it ie oasly seen what method produces
.tho greatest- profit.
,'Asan illustration of the dovlopnmot
.of liusiuoHS methods among farmers,
:niu1raal dnsuranco may be mentioned,
lit is ovident that the old-linp com-
panes ninko farm property bear a share
' tlio paynioiit of promiums that is ont
of proportion to tho risks. In this
fthe dld-lino companios aro but fol
lowing good businesss methods, as
tho risks on city proproty would call
for ft-very high rate if a farm property
did rot- boar a portion of tho burden
'tXii tlw other hiuid, it is but good busi
micsh policy of tho tanner to insure in
;armnpany that is not burdened by
thet-e extra risks. In such a company
tho paj'n fur tho risks insured until
; uig more. Such a conipitny d oes not
uiond nny great surplus, does not re
'-Haire high-salaried oflicors nor expoa
. sivo quartors.
Thero aro in various parts of tho
oountiyi such organizations, composed
of resilient furmros and business men.
The managers are personaly known in
the territory where they operate; the
bookB of tho company aro easily ac
WKsiblc; no asssessmonts are made ex
cept in case of actual loss ; and, what
is of groat importance, the policy
holders not only pay less for their in--suranee,
but tho money they do pay
jreiiinins in the community and is not
.--K-uf to some distant state.
'Another pluu that is being used of
recent years among fttrmres is the
pooling of products. While this is
not, always successful, it is on tho
.right line and will prove of great
benefit a soon as experience gives the
ability iti handle such affairs pro
perly. Jinny other illustrations 'might ho
-given showing that there is not only
opportunity on the farm for the ex
wocino of the broadest and best busi
ntws judgment, but that many aro
improving tho opportunity.
Till: TRUE INTERESTS OF A NATION..
It is needless to state that no nation
has yet fully realized a correct answer
to tho question, "What are the true
interests of tho country?" AVhen
evtT tlie question is correctly answered,
instead of social degeneration and
eonoinio disputes and armed conflicts,
wo shall have moral development,
material progress, aud universal peace.
Th government of such 'a country
.will grow wore and more rcsjionsive
Hu tlie. wishes of the people, and con
stantly less autoeratio. The machin
ery of government will not be used to
f.vmhcr the interests of grasping cor
porations or tlie selfish ambitions of
1 ho designing politicians.
This condition is not Utopian, but
-an be realized. "There is no force
in nature that can long withhold from
: nation tho liberty which it de
.erves. " These are the words of a
jstatvuiau. They are true; but note
that the reform mut begin -with tli 3
people "the liberty, which (the na
tion) deserves. "Ignorance, selfishness,
brutality, do not deserve librety. A
nation possessesthose characteristics if
the individuals composing that nation
aro ignorant selfish, or brutal. To
endow tho nation with the opposite
qualities, it is necessary to develop
those qualities in the individual citi
zens. The question then resolves it
self into one of improvement of the
individual.
One of the most powerful influences
in the development of character is
our public school system. The influ
ence may not always bo good, but it
is always vast. If the teacher is not
a potent factor in the development of
her pupils, the pupils will influence
each other and ordinarily this influ
ence will not he for the best ; for the
reason that tho vicious aud deprared
are more active in tho propagation
of evil than the better element is in
the inculcation of good.
It is of tho utmost importance, then,
that oar public csliool teachors should
be men and women of broad views and
thorough training; and not only this,
but, they should be in sympathy with
children, able to enter into their joys
and sorrows and thus obtain a mastery
over thora that will load to the upbuild
ing of a usaful and orderly citizenship.
Tho sight of children starving for
want of bread is pitiful indeed ; but
the sight of children starving in mid
for want of mental nourishment, and
in heart for want of moral foo', is
far more pitiful. If tho prime object
of the schools is to fit children for be
coming worthy citizens, how can we
expect this result when a majority of
touchers are themselves unacquainted
with even tho simplest political prob
lems of the age. More boys and girls
just out of the grammar or high
schools, are placed in charge of em
bryo citizens and, though ignorant of
political economy or sociology, though
without experience in tho business
world, and whoso characters are but
in tlie process of tormaton, are ex
pected to fit our children for state
craft, for business, for all the higher
relation of life.
Begin at tlie beginnig. Give our
schools tho right kind of teachers,
and in a few generations we shall
have a nation that will be ablo to see
its true interests.
THE CAMPAIGN AS A COLLEGE.
(From New York World.
The World finds it necessary to differ
with Secretary Shaw on so many ques
tions of policy and principle that it is
a pleasure to be in accord with him on
tho general issue of political cam
paigns. In liis speoch at College Point Sat
urday, opening the Republican cam
paign, Mr. Shaw said :
I believe in political campaigns
and am glad wo aro now about to
enter upon ono. Make no mistake ;
wo cannot have too many campaigns.
Politics is not and must not bo a
squabble for offico, but it is a contest
of polioios. Taking the s lirit rather
than the letter of Mr, Shaw's state
ment, it is unquestionably true that
more danger to good government and
republican institutions is to appre-
lended from too fow political cam
paigns than from too many.
The. campaign of politics is also a
campaign of education. It keeps the
votvr in touch with tho machinery of
government. It.onlarges tho sum total
of his .information, stimulates tho
mbit of thought and makes him a
better citizen. It is his political col-
lego in which he learns how to rule
and what policies are best for him to
uphold.
A presidential campaign in its
broadest sense is a contest of policies,
not a squabble for office, as Mr. Shaw
lys, and contests of policies are tho
very breath of lite of republican in
titntions.
Many business men, who look upon
the slight unsettlonient of trade
which a political campaign generally
produces as ah unmitigated nuisance
regard a presidential election every
four years as wholly unnecessary evil.
There is something to bo said on their
side of the cause but, after all, tho
most important business is honest, re
sponsible, representative government.
Without it the republic cannot ilve.
BUSINESS FOR THE STATE LEAGUE.
(From Oregon Joarnsl.)
The Stato League meeting must not
he permited to degenerate into a gab
fest, a mutual admiration society
or a "hot air" aggregation of fine
spun theorists. Theories, advertising
exploitations and essays upon what
has been done, have their proper and
appropriate places in the program and
will he listened to with respectful at
tention, but after all it is a condition
and not a theory which confronts us
and tho people who como hero to at
tend tho convention ask for bread and
will not bo satisfied with a stouo.
They want something concrete, not
something theoretical.. They realize,
more keenly than do most of the peo
ple of Port laud, though the latter
have at least an equal interest in the
outcome, hat the key to everything
back of Portland, to the wholo Inland
Empire, is tho "open river." They
may be told what has been done in
the past in tho way of tfovclopemeut
and what may be done to attract here
new settlers, and to all of this they
will give a willing ear, but they will
say in return, and with every apper
auco of reason, that what has been
done will bo as nothing compared with
what may be done in the event that
the river is openend to unimpeded
commerce clear to Lewiston. They
will prove to you that because 8 miles
of portage road remains unbuilt from
above Tlie Dalles to Celilo the whole
eastern part of the stato and the con
tinuous territory is practically para
lyzed in its development ; that be
cause of the closed river, railroad
combinations to maintain unresonably
high rates are rendered possible ; that
for the same reason legitimate and
much neoded railway extensions are
not made and the contiguous country,
which might and should be teeming
with population, lies practically in
its virgiH state and without immediate
hope of being put to good use.
If you are a believer in Oregon, if
you wish to see it take the place
which nature intended it to take, if
you wish to see Portland got the ad
vantge of a water haul instead of hav
ing its tributary resources moved
under enormous difficulties to the far
Northwest, you will be interested in
all these things. If you are interested
you will investigate for yourself and
then feel and express unbounded sur
prise, as do these people, that con
ditions have been permitted tD degen
erate and, being realized, it is not
possible for any .one to view them per
functorily or rest satisfied with any
thing short of comploto solution of
the very apparent difficulties which
confront while they paralyze the state.
Tho time for action is now here.
All tho people of the state should ou
list under tho '"open river" banner
for tho whole campaign. There will
be opposition to the movemuiit but
wherever tho light carries the people,
they should go willingly and, shoulder
to shoulder, meeting war if need be,
with reprisals, neither halt nor rest
until the "open river," has been
achieved. That once accomplished
absolutely, the greatest development
agency ever set to work iii Oregon
will have been inaugurated. Then
for the first time the state will be in
a way to come into its own and to
take the place which nature assigned
to it, but from which it is being
thrust aside by the combination of
artinoiolly produced conditions wiiih
are rapidly growing intolerable.
DYSPEPSIA ON THE DECLINE.
Hunll
y Brothers Claim Pepsikola Cures
39 Cases out of 40.
Why any one in Ogon City should
continue to suffer with indigestion when
a 25 cent box of I'kcsikoi.a will cure is
ceriftiuly a mystery. Huntley Bros,
have been selling Pbc-ikola quite aunr
time now, and they know Irum actual
experience right in their owu store just
what this famous liitle chocolate con ted
dypep8ia tablet will do, and if you make
inquiry theBe druggists will tell you they
never knew a remedy in prove to decid
edly beneficial in tlie treatment of indi
gestion, dyspepsia, pnlpitatiou, sleep
lessness and other forme of stomsch
trouble. It certainly oug it to Kive yon
confidence when yuu know that every
box ol I'ki'sikola contmis it) days treat
ment, and at the end of tlmt time if von
are not decidedly benefit W all you need
do is to no back to the druggist and got
your nitmey. Pbpsikola is sold right on
its own merits. It cureB indigestion
simply by toning up the stomach and
digestive oigans so that the food will as
similate and give strengtn to the system,
as nature intended. And I'ispsikola is
such a Kniinl nerve tonic, too. J utt try
a 2d cunt box and see if it don't give you
new energy, new ambition and new cour
age to carry out your plana and daily
work. If it doesn't, your money back.
Oregon Patents.
Granted this week. Reported by
C. A. Snow &. Co., Patent Attorneys,
Washington, D. O., Alexander J.
Smifhson, Portland -Railway. For
copy of above patent send ten conts in
postage stamps with date of this
paper to 0. A. Snow & Co., Washing
ton, D. C.
Brutally Tortured.
A case came to light that for persistent
and unmerciful torture has perhaps never
been equaled. Joe Goloblck' of Colusa,
Calif., writes. "For i5 years I endured
insufferable pain from Rheumatism and
nothing relieved me though I tried every
thing known I came across Electric
Bitters and it's the greatest medicine on
earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it
completely relieved and cured me." just
as good for Liver and Kidnev troubles and
general debility. Only 50c. Satisfaction
guaranteed by Geo. A. Harding, druggist.
Sure Cure for Pi.'es.
Itching Piles produce moisture and
cause itching, this form, as well as Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles are cured
by Dr. Bo-ean ko'a Pile Remedy. Stops
itching and bleeding. Absorbs tumors.
50 cents a jar at Druggists, or sent by
mail. Treatise free. Write me about
vourcsse. Dr. Boeanko, Phi:a., Pa.
For tale bv Charman A Co.
We sell the greatest of blood purifiers,
Acker's Blood hhxir, under a positive
guarantee. It will cure all chronic and
other blood posions If you have eruptions
or Sores on your body, or are pale, weak
or run down, it is just what you need.
We refund moey If you are not satisfied.
50 cis. ana ji.oo. Huntley Bros. Co.
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For Sale at
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40 Acres in Julia Ann Lewis Claim, 2 miles
from Oregon City, all good, level land, at
50 per acre.
128 Acres, level, living water, on Molalla, 60
acres in cultivation, rich soil, on main road,
$40 per acre.
P 344 Acres on O. W. P. &
in 1 cultivation, small house, large barn,
orchard, living springs, two million feet tim
ber, $30 per acre.
IOO Acres, level, 60 in cultivation, good build
ings, i4 miles from terminus of O. W. P. &
Ry. line, at Springwater, $40 per acre.
82 1-2 Acres in famous Logan country, 60
acres in A 1 cultivation, new frame dwelling
cost $1500, large barn, living water, $50 per
acre.
160-Acre Stock Ranch in Sec. 17, T. 4 S.,
R. 5 E., two acres cultivated, small house
' and barn, two million feet fir and cedar, land
mostly good, range immense, $5 per acre.
225 Acres at Logan, 100 acres in cultivation,
50 more nearly ready to break, house, barn,
fruit, good neighborhood, $30 per acre.
Main St., Oregon City, Or.
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The Dragon In America.
(In the August "Arena".)
One of the grave questions that the
next Congress will have to meet is the
new trealy ariftiigemen's with the Chi
nese government, as the period cf the
Exclusion Act terminates in December.
The powerlul Chinese Six Companies is
already at work in tlie interests of its
vastly lucrative traffic in Chinese labor,
and there is every reason to believe that
the same lavish expendi ure of wealth
will he made during tlie fall (hat has
marked l he policy of this powerful and
dangerous body in pst years In view
of' thiB fact, Dr. Charles Frederick
Holder's brilliant exhaustive and fasci
naiing liii-terical sketch of the Chinese
Six Companies entitled "The Dragon in
America," which occupies the p. ace of
honor in "The Arena" for August will
command general attention, and 'o citi
izeDB of California, Oregon and Wash
ington it will occasion particular tatis-
factiou. Hitherto there has been much
heated controversy on the Chinese ques
tion, but seldom If ever has the true in
ward liens of this issue been so ably and)
so judicially presented as has been done
by Dr Holder in this remarkable paper.
Certainly never before has the un-Amer
ican character of the traffic in Chinese
Labor been so clearly pointed out.
"The "Arena" has again taken the
foremost plnce among tlie reviews of
opinion which discuss live questions
ably and in conformity witri tlie prin
ciplesof Democratic institutions. At no
time in its history has it been stronger
or more representative of the bett pro
gressive and liberal thought of the hour
than at the pasent time.
Agnes Silvers commouced action for
divorce from her husband, George
L. Silvers, in tlie Circuit Court Inst
Saturday. Both are well known Ore
gon City poeple, living cross tlie
river. They were married here Sep
teniber 17, 1897. There are two minor
children that tlie plaintiff asks the
Court to grant her the custody of.
She alleges that she was treated
cruelly by her husband 'and asks the
Court for alimony.
Acker's Blood Elixir positively Curss
Chronic Blood Poisoning and all Scrofulous
affections. At ad times a matchless sy-
tern ionic ana puriner. juoney rerunuea u
you are not satisfied. 50c.and $100.
Huntley Bros. Co.
WHY DO YOU COUGH?
Do you know that a little cough is a dan
gerous thing? Are you aware that it often
fastens itself on the lungs, and far too of
ten rtins into Consumption and ends tii
death? Can you afford to trifle with so
serious a matter? Ackers English Rem&df
for Coughs. Colds and Consumption Is be
yond question the greatest of all moctarn
remedies. It will stop a cough in oneii$
and it wi.l check a cold in a day. CfewaH
prevent Croup, relieve Asthma anJusr
Consumption. Our faith in it is so sOrr4g
that we guarantee every bottle to give W
isfaction or money back. Huntley Bros.
Co.
Columbia river sand for sale.
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Ry. line, 160 acres
90 Acres on
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Williams Bros, transfer Co.
Safes, Pianos and furniture ffloving
a Specialty
7 night and Pantls Delivered
to all Parts ef tbe City
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Oregon City Planing Mills
All kinds
Doors and
F. S. BAKER Proprietor,
A New Home Industry
The Cascade Laundry
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Does not wear out'or destroy your linen
Our Wagon will call for your soiled linen each week and
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80 Acres 4 miles from Oregon City, 2003
cords wood, over-half good land, improved
three sides; wood will pay for the gjjv
A ...Ul.inilnn r- a rA
220 in A I LUlllVailun, uitnaiu,
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buildings, 7 acres hops, 6 miles from Hub
bard, $35 per acre. A
main plank road, 45 acres in good
large frame barn, no house; land jgjS
ricn; pjuuu.
41 Acres, 5 miles from Oregon City, 2 miles
. from New Era, 25 acres in cultivation and
in crop, living water, good orchard, buildings
only fair; crop and all, 1500.
thousand acres of good SjS
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iana near line 01 v. v. 1 . ut iwunr,
lots of from 80 acres up, and from glo per
acre up to $1$, on easy terms.
30 Acres, 2 miles from Oregon City, 16 in
cultivation, orchard, all varieties of fruit,
splendid little place, on main, road; $2800;
terms.
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We carry a complete line pt
Coffins, Caskets and Robes."
Th only licensed em
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Calls receive prompt atten
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Opposite masonic Building
Prices Treasonable and
Satisfaction Guaranteed
of Building Material, Sash,
Moulding.
Oregon City, Oregon
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