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22nd YEAR
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 28, 1904.
No. 24.
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It is Right Down to the Ground
And Cuts Close to tk Bone
HOME CIRCLE DEPARTMNET
WHEN
That's 0sf Pi'ice ery and School Sup
plies. The Quality and Quantity of our goods at our Bed
Rock Price is positive proof that we will not be undersold.
We have come to stay. Our method of doing business is a
fixture, the benefits of which go to the people who buy goods
at our store . The steady increase In our business is a safe guar
antee that the people appreciate dependable goods, offered at the
lowest prices in the state. g & g
Saturday, Oct. 22d at' 10 A. M.
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was the opening of the Greatest Book Slaughter that ever oc
cured on the Coast. At each of our stores we place on sale a
thousand volumes, which sell at regular prices, from $2 to $8
per vol. While this elegant lineof new copyright books lasts,
our prices will range from 20c tc $2.00 per vol. A genuine
slaughter sale, the goods must go at either one ot our stores.
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Summer Excursion Rates and
Special Train Service Now
on Between Portland and
Vlalsop Beach.
Best Goods
Superior Servic
Lowest Prices
Hearse to Funerals In town $5.oo.
All Caskets, Coffins, Robes, and Lin
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Office one Door North of Courthouse, or at cigar store opposite Bank of Oregon City
OREGON GITY MACHINE SHOP
12TH AND MAIN STS.
PHILIPP BUCKLEIN, Proprietor
All kinds of machines built and repaired
The Summer schedule of the Astora &
UJlumbla Kiver Railroad h.-.s been in
augurated between Portland, Astora, Gear-
nan ana seaside in connectoln with special
round trip excursion tickets to all Clatsop
aim iionn reacn points, ana train leaves
Union Depot 8:op A. M. daily and runs
through direct, arriving at Astoria 11:30
A. M. Gearhart i2.2oP. M and Seaside
12.30 f. M
The Purtland-Seiside Flyer leaves
Union lepct every Saturday at 2:3d P. M
arriving -ftwra xy r. m. ana runs
through direct, arriving at Gearhart 6:40
r. M. and "-easide 6:50 P. M.
In connectionwlth this improved service,
special round trip seasqn eicursion tickets
are sold from Portland to all Clatsop and
North Beach points at rate of $4 00 for the
round trip, good for return passage until
Oct 15th f
Special Commutatlan tickets, good for five
round trips, are sold from Portland to same
points for 515.OO, good to return until Oct,
i5in.
aaiuraay bpeciai round trip excursion
tickets from Portland to all Clatsop and
North Beach points on sale every baturday
ai rate 01 91 ou ror round trip, good to re
turn aunaay.
Tickets sold from Portland to North
Beach points are Issued in connection with
I K. 01 IN. steamers from Astoria and baa
gage is transferred to and from deDot and
steamer dock at Astoria free of charge, and
auucKeis soia Dy tne (J. K & IN. Co.
from Portland to t latsopand North Beach
points, are interchangeable and will be
honored on trains of this company in either
direction Detween Portland a..d Astoria
for additiona information address (!. A.
Stewart, Agent, 248 Alder St., Portland,
v-ire.orj j. mayo, u. r & f . A
Astoria, Ure. Seaside Souvenir of 1o04
will be mailed to your address free upon
application, write ror it.
GRANDMA SHUTS HER
' EYES.
Within the chimney corner sung
Dear grandma gently rocks,
And knits hor daughter's baby boy
A tiny pair of socks.
But sometimes grandma shuts her eyes
And sings the softest lullabies.
Across her face the happy smiles
All play at hide and seek,
And kiss the faint and faded rose
That lingers on her cheek, '
While thoughts too. sweet for words
arise
When dear grandma shuts her eyes.
Yet, sometimes, pictures in her faoe
Have just a shade of pain,
As golden April sunshine when
It mingles with the rain j .
And then perchance she softly i ghs
Does grandma when she shuts her eyes.
She's growing younger everyday,
She s quite a child again ;
And those she knew in eirlhood's
years
She speaks of now and thet ;
And sweet old songs feebly tries,
Does grandma when she shuts her
eyes.
I used to wonder whv her evos
She closed, but not in sleep,
And while the smiles would all about
Her wrinkled visage creep ;
But I have guessed the truth at last ;
She'sliuts her eyes to view the past.
If we would get the most out of
life, we must learn not only to look
but to see. The sua is not partial to
the rainbow and the rose ; he scatters
his beauty everywhere, the only de
fect is in our vision. 1
A man is no better than his wife
will let him be. Oh wives of Amer
ica, sway your scepters of wifely in
fluence for God and good homes. Do
not urg3 your husbands to annex ,Na
both's vineyard to your palace Of suo-
cess, whether right or wrong, lest the
dogs that come out to destroy Na
both, come and also devour you.
Righteousness will pay best in life,
will pay best in death, will pay best
throughout all eternity.
In our effort to have the mother of
every household appreciate', her in
nuence over her children we are apt
to forget the wife's influence over, hor
husband. 1 In . many households the
influence . upon' the husband) is : the
only home influence, for ' there are
no children. '"-In a great multitude' of
the best and most important families
of the earth there have been no ' des
cendents. . There , is not a child or
grandchild, or any remote deseudent
of Washington, Chas Sumner, Shakes
peare, Cooper, Pope, 'Addison, .Isaac
Newton, Goldsmith, Dryden, ' Moore,
Lord Byron, Walter Scott or scores
of others we could mention. ' Multi
tudes of the finest ' families of the1
earth are extinct,, as though they had :
done enough for the "world . by their
genius or wit, or patriotism, , or dn-
vention, and God withdrew them.
OUR GANDMOTHER'S BIBLE.
and selfish, and a w'orld that is so un
feeling aul tliR strings of the soul
have become untuned and discordant,
we seem to hear , the book saying, as
with-the well remembered tones of a
voice long silent, "Let not your
heart be troubled, for what is life?
It is even as a vapor. " Then our
troublad spirit become a calm; and
the little world that had grown so
great, and so formidable, sinks into
its place again. We are peaceful.
We are strong.
There is no need to take down the
volume from the shelf, or to open it.
A glance , of the eye is sufficient.
Memory and the law of association
supply the rest. Yet there are occas
ions when it is otherwise; hoars in
life when some deep grief has troubled
the heart ; some darker, heavier cloud
is over the spirit and over the dwell
ing, and when it is a comfort to take
down the old ible and search its
wages. Then, for a time, the latest
editions, the original languages, the
notes and commentaries, and all the
critical apparatus which the scholar
surrounds him 'for the study of the
icriptures are laid aside; and the
plain old English Bible that was .our
grandmothers' is taken from the shelf.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD. 1 ,
So suf'ely as the years roll onward
that home in which you dwell will
become extinct. The parents will be
gone, the property will be turned over
into other possessions, you yourself
bill be in other relationships, and that
home which, only a few years ago,
was full of congratulation, will be ex.
twguisnea. wnen tnat period comes
yon will look back to see what you
did do or neglected to do in the way
of making home happy. If you did
not smooth the path of your parents
toward the tomb ; if you did not make
their last days brighter and happy;: if
you allowed your younger brother to
go out into the world unhallowed by
Christian and sisterly influences; if
ydu allowed the youngor sister Of your
Home Circle to come up without feel
iug that there had boen' a most
worthy example, set them on your
part, there will be nothing but bitter
ness of lamentation. ' That bitterness
will be increased by all the surround
ings of that home; by every chair,
every picture,' by the eld time mantle
ornaments, by everything -you "can
think of as connected with that home.
Young woman have yoo, anything to
do in the way of making your father
happy? Now is the time to. attend to
it; or leave it forever undone. We
suppose you notice ' the wrinkles are
gathering and accumulating on those
kindly faces that have so' long looked
upon yon ; there ia frost in the locks ;
the foot is not so firm in its step 1 as
it used to be, and they will soon be
gone. ,The heaviest clod . that ever
falls on the; parent's eoftln-lid . is the
memory Of an uugratoful .daughter.
Oh, make 'their last day , bright and
beautiful. Do not act as if they were !
I will vote against the saloon."
1 Now is your chance for the issue is
j nonpartisan. I -say, Brother, would,
you vote for an institution that would
! unfit your boy for honorable and res
ponsible positions?
Many of the great ra' I road com
panies forbid their employes patron
izing the saloon whether on or' off
duty. Many leading corporations are
refusing to employ nlenwlio drink.
Positions of honor are rapidly being
closed against the drinker, while the
open saloon is unfitting young men
for these places. If your daughter
should marry a man who afterwards
become a drunkard and gambler at the
saloon your vote helped to make,
would yoa not be responsible? Will
yon vote a temptation before your own
or your neighbors's boy? Therein! a
stigma attached to this business.
Some years ago at the Grand Army
encampment, one of our prominent
men, president of the board of trade,
made the address of welcome to the
old boys in blue. He called attention
to our many industries, the mills,
factories, and other institutions, but
did not mention the saloon. I wonder
why? I have noticed in reading the
discription of advertised districts that
they do not offer as an inducement to
emigration the advantages of the sa
loon. My friend, how many instances
can yon recall where a young couple
started in life with fair prospects but
'soon the moderate drinking young
husband was changed into a demon,
j who would beat his wife and children..
I while influenced by liquor sold under
j license by a community for the sake
j of a few hundred dollars liconse fee.
How many heartbroken mothers sit
night after night, waiting for their
husbands, who spend their time drink
ing and gambling at the down town
saloon,
Say, brother, can you afford to vote
such sorrow and misory into1 your'
neighbors, home and ruin our boys
financially, morally , and spiritually?
If your daughter had two suitors, one
an industrious, sober man, the , other
a patron of the saloon and . gambling
den, would you desire hor to marry
the drinker so the sabon might pay
the taxes? ' Now before you vote oon
sult your wife and if you agree that
the saloon as conducted in our oity
is a blessing and a benefit to all con
cerned, then vote for it. But if you
can see much harm coming from the
saloon vote for local option.
M.' YODER.
ASKS FOR COrOPERATION.
Wishes Clackamas to Make (editable
' Showing at the Exposition. . f
in the way.
on various subjects ann in various
languages, stands an old book, in its
plain covering of brown paper, unpre-
After Ions rears have
On one of the shelves of our library, 'passed and you aO out to the wave
surrounded by volumes of all kinds, where thev sleep, vou will find irrow.
subjects and in various im? all over the mound' something
lovlier than cypress. something
; sweeter than the rose, more chaste
possessing to the eye, and apparently . than the lily, the brisht and beanti-
fnl memories of filial kindness per
formed ere the dying hand dropped on
you in benediction and you closed
the lids over the weary eyes of the
worn pilgrims.
Columbia river (and for sale.
C. N. Grkknhan.
Beautiful Columbia River Folder.
The passenger department of the Ore-
gon Railroad & Navigation Company
has just issued a beautiful and costly
panoramic folder entitled "The Colum
bia River, through the Cascade Moun
tains, to the Pacific Ocean." From Ar
lington to Portland, snd from Portland
to the Pacific Ocean, every curve of the
river and every point of interest are
shown, while Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and
Mt. St. Helens, perpetually covered with
st ow, stand out in all their beauty. On
the back ot the man is an intflrennno
story in detail of the trip from Hunting
ton to Portland, and from Portland to
the ocean, not overlooking the beaches
and the 6an Francisco trip by ocean. A
copy of this folder may be secured by
Bending focr cents in stamps (to pay
postage) to A. L. Craig, General Pass
enger Agent ol the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation Company, Portland, Oregon.
By sending the addresa of some friend
in the Eatt, and four cents in postage,
the iolder will be promptly mailed.
Send your job work to the Courier
out of place among the more preten
tious volumes that stand by its side.
To the eye of the stranger it certainly
lias neither beauty nor comliness. Its
covers are worn ; its leaves marred by
long use ; once white, have become
yellow with age ; yet worn and old as
it is, to us it is the most beautiful
and . most valuable book on our
shelves. No other awakens such as
sociations, or so appeals to all that
is best and noblest within us. It is,
or rather it was, our grandmother's
Bible companion of her best and
holiest hours, source of her unspeak
able joy and consolation. It was the
light to her feet and lamp to her
path. It was constantly by hor side
and, as her stops tottered in the ad
vance pilgrimage of life, and her eyes
grew dim with age, more and more
precious became the well-worn pages.
One morning, just as the stars were
fading away into the dawn of the
coming Sabbath, the agod pilgrim
on beyond the morning, and
entered into the rest of the eternal
Sabbath to look upon the face of
Him of whom the law and the
prophets had spoken, and whom, not
having seen, she loved. And now
no legacy is, to us, more precious
than that old Bible. Years have
passed ; but it stands there On its shelf,
eloquent as ever, witness of a beau
tiful life that is finished. When
sometimes, from the cares and con
flicts of eternal lifo, we come back to
the study, weary of the world and
tired of selfish men, that are so hard
, Letter Frsm a Prohibitionist.
Oregon City, .October, 20. The time
is drawing near when legal votors
will be called upon to decide the
saloon question in Clackamas county.
With malice toward none and charity
for all, let us consider this question
with unprejudiced minds. We are
proud of our country, with its froe
institutions and of every business en
terprise that advances the welafaro of
our people. Great is- the responsi
bility of every man who has tho
privilege of the ballot box and greater
still the responsibility of every 0110
who accepts office at their hands.
We reasonably expect every officer to
do his duty in the enforcement of law,
but sometimes we are sorely disap
pointed. In our city the laws are openly vio
lated. Boys in their teens get drunk
at the saloons; whiskey is sold ' to
habitual drunkards; gambling is in
dulged in. Saloons are open on Sun
day and some allow womon to fre
quent their places of business. Can
anyone give reasons why such things
should be tolerated? We are told
that laws regulating the saloon can
not be enforced. If so, let us vote
the business out altoghether. I have
heard hundreds of men say "take
the liquor question out of politicsjiiid
Molalla, Or., Oct. 20.-Now since
old Clackamas county is going 1 to
have an exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark Fair, let us all have jrlde
enough from one county to ssist in
bringing forth . a sample of . its main
and variod resources for this exposi
tion. It is the ohoerful co-operation' the
committee should have from all, as
its task is a laborious one, without
compensaion. As good residents of
Clackamas county we are all inter
ested in putting up a creditable show
ing for the best county in the state.
For if we are not on the alert, some
of the small counties, with one tenth
of the possibilites of ours, will out do
us. And it is none too soon to com
mence thinking seriously along this
line, so when yoa meet the committee
for your precinct you can produee
some products or spooimens of field,
factory or forest that would never be
brought to notice without your assist
ance. By suoh a united effort from
all, we cau make a county exhibit that
will be a credit to our county and
state. ;
While yon see Clackamas exhibits
in its entirety, at the Lewis and
Clark Fair in PJ05, whore you are
going to see and pass judgment! on
its merits and demerits ; think then
juu wm not nave any prmo ror your
country? Just ask yoursolf the ques
tion, did I contribute anything in
that or action to make this the suc
cess it is?
People, the material for the exhibit
is now with you, at your command,
within reach at your homos, or will
bo on hand in season. The commit
tee is a moans of collecting and ar
ranging this material for exhibit,
hence the need of a hearty co-operation
in this work.
J. W. THOMAS.
Sell JnlertBt In Sawmill
Two of the Rioh brothers have dis-
posed of their interest in the Rich
sawmill above Wilhoit Springs, and
have gone to Eastern Oregon to work
on an irrigation ditch. Tli RV will
take up arid land and will take steps
to irrigate it.