OREGON CITY COURIER IjFRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1909
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A CENTURY AGO.
One hundred years ago today was
born the great Poet Alfred Tennyson,
at Somersby, Lincolnshire. The son
of an EnKllsh clergy, who was dis
tinguished by a love of learning and
devotion to music, art and literature.
These Qualities, as well as his fond
ness for out-of-door living were in
herlted by his children, and two of
Alfred's brothers wrote poetry, and at
one time his brother Charles gave
greater promise of excelling than did
he. Tennyson was educated in Trin
ity College, Cambridge, where his
poem "Tlmbuctoo" gained the chan
cellor's medal. He did not complete
his college course and very little Is
known of the details of his early life.
His earliest published volume was a
little book, the joint work of his
brother Charles and himself, entitled
"Poems of Two Brothers." In 1830
appeared another volume "Poems
Chiefly Lyrical," which contained the
promise of his best work.
Tennyson's two volumes "English
Idyls and Other Poems," appeared in
1842 and made him famous. His best
known work, "In Memoriam," is an
elaborate elegy for his early friend,
Arthur Hallam, who was betrothed to
Tennyson's sister and who died in
1833. The volume which appeared
about 1850, contained over one hun
dred short poems, many of which, are
of surpassing beauty. The same year
would be satisfactory to our consti
tuents. Speaker Cannon himself as
sured that we need have no fear
about voting for the bill for the Sen
ato would increase all the rates the
House had reduced. Now If Mr. Can
non acepts a bill which, contains any
of these reductions It will be dis
tinctly an Instance of bad faith on his
part." The Payne bill was received
by a gullible public as an evidence of
sincerity on the part of the Republi
cans, but how iuslncere It was is
clearly demonstrated by Representa
tive Edward's expose.
The proposition of Franklin Mac
Veagh, one of the quasi-Democratic
members of President Taft's cabinet,
to establish a federal Ice plant In
Washlngton'and to make the ice need
ed for us in all the big offices of the
government is one which should com
mand the approval of all who favor
economical administration. Secretary
MacVeagh sets forth that his depart
ment uses a ton of ice every twenty-
four hours In the water coolers of his
department, that the department has
been paying f 7.G5 a ton to private
dealers for its supply and that now
he can secure Ice from the govern
ment plant which supplies the Post-
office Department for 65 cents a ton,
a saving of $7 a day, or approximately
$2,300 a year. Mr. MacVeagh believes
the Postofflce ice plant should be In
creased so that it can supply each
of the nine government departments.
While the amount used by the var
ious departments will vary the treas
ury perhaps furnishes a fair average,
so that would mean nine departments
an annual saving of over $20,000.
Compared with federal expenses gen
erally that amount looks small, but
It is only by looking to the Innumer
able small items that anything like
a large aggregate saving can be effected.
President Taft and his cabinet are
applying themselves to a problem of
the greatest importance entirely out-
he succeeded Wordsworth as poet side of politics. Republican, demo-
laureate, and for many years he en
joyed a pension of two hundred pounds
a year. Seven years later it was fol
lowed by "Maud and Other Poems,"
which, while admired by many, and
containing much noble verse, was for
some reason a disappointment to the
lovers of Tennyson though used by
himself in littlo mention here and
there throughout his life perhaps more
than others.
Tennyson lived in and about Lon
don until his fortieth year, when he
was married and took up his resi
dence nt Twickenham, removing later
to the Isle of Wight, where he lived
for many years. The latter part of
his life was spent at Aldworth House,
near Halsemere, Surrey, where he
died from old age, October 6, 1892.
Among the poems that have made
a place of their own In the world of
lyric poetry are Tennyson's "Tears,
Idle Tears," and "Break, Break,
Break," written with I he passion of
fathomless thought so prominent with
the great poet who was ever mourn
fully longing for days that had gone
by, the still voice of yesterday, how
the poet's heart yearned for the life
that was swallowed up In the fleeting
past, no sought the breakers that they
might loose his tongue.
"Break, break, break
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could
utter
The thoughts that arise In me."
What can we judge of the heart-
acho that brought tears from the
depths of divine dlspalr, as be gazed
crats, populists, socalists and every
body Is In sympathy with the policy
to reduce government expenses and
there never was, in this hemisphere
at least, a richer field for reduction.
It Is well known that the govern
ment, in Its civil branches could be
conducted for less than half the many
millions It now costs. The govern
ment printing office for evample Is
the largest and most expensive print
ing establishment In the world. It
will be Impracticable under present
and prospective political conditions
to acomodate It, but its expense could
be reduced at least thirty three per
cent. The Post Offlfllce Department
has recently established an Ice plant
by which Ice Is furnished to the thou
sands of clerks for less than a dollar
a ton. The other departments are
paying over seven dollars per ton.
These are only one or two of hun
dreds of Instances of Items and ex
penses where great saving can be
accomplished.
venture to predict that not until Dem-
over the ripened autumn fields niidTcrntlc candidates for both houses of
thought of the days that were no
more.
"Dear as remembered kisses after
death,
And surest as those by hopeless fancy
feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as
love,
Deep as first love, and wild as all re
gret; O Death in life! tho days that are
no more."
It Is becoming dally more evident
that If this country is ever to receive
a genulno revision of the tariff down
ward Is muHt be by democratic ma
jorities In both houses of congress.
No man could have struggled more
valiantly for real revision than has
President Taft. And no man could
have met with more signal defeat.
There have been some "concessions"
to the views of tho President but
they lmvo been chiefly or an incon
sequential character and In schedules
where they will afford the consumer
ill tie or no relief. It is extremely
dtublful If a single commodity will
bo a penny cheaper to the consumer
because of the republican revision.
The fa roe of this revision is well Il
lustrated by tho exposure, by a repub
lican member of the House, of the
methods .adopted by Speaker Cannon
and his allies to deceive the people
Into the belief that they were to en
joy an r.ctual revision downward. Rep
resentative Edwards, a republican
from Kentucky, in a moment, of nn
ger, betrayed this one secret of the
republican method of procedure. Says
Mr. Edwards, "Those of us who voted
for tho House bill with its free hides,
$1 lumber, reduced duty on coal, re
ductions In the cotton schedule, etc.,
did so with tho distinct understand
ing that the rates were to be increas
ed In the Semite to a point which
If, however, tfie Democratic party
Is ever to be entrusted with power
to revise the tariff it must present
a more united front than has been
shown during this tariff fight. When
Senator Culborson, the Democratic
leader, called a caucus of his party
associates to consider what they could
do to promote downward revision
there was only one policy on which
it was possible for them to agree
and that was on the Income tax. We
Unheard of Cowardice.
From the Josephine County Caves
near Grants Pass there comes to light
through the press a story of cowar
dice that Is seldom equalled, ana one
which is enough to cause people of
this state to blush with shame to think
that within our borders mere uwen
people with not enough humanity in
their temperaments to prevent them
from running away and leaving a man
accidentlv shot, td die in the darkness
of one of the interior chambers of
a cavern, his distracted wire being
left alone to care for him as best she
might.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mr. and
Mrs Frank Vineyard, two other wo
men and several children strated on-
a picnicking trip Sunday and were
exploring the caves, having reached
the third chamber, when Mr. Ellis,
who was In advance of the party, ac
cidently shot himself through the left
eye with a revolver he was carrying,
tiio bullet ranging upward through
his brain. Without waiting to In
vestigate, all but Mrs. Ellis turned
and fled from the cave, leaving be
hind the wounded man. His wife
rushed to him, dragged him to a
more comfortable position and tried
to staunch the flow of blood, but to
no avail. Only one torch was left
behind by the cowards who fled, and
this went out, leaving the distracted
wife in stygian darkness, trying In
vain to bring back to conclousness
her dying husband, whose life blood
Uoured over her, drenching and stain
ine her garments. That she did not
go stark mad is a wonder, for with
the knowledge that she and her nus
band, who was dying with no attempt
made to save his lite, had been ues
erted by false friends, her thoughts
must have been terrible Indeed.
Hours she laid there, tearing her
white underskirt into strips in a vain
effort to staunch the Copious flow of
blood, until finally Ellis' spirit passer
into the beyond, when the woman,
overcome with grief and weakened
by her terrible vigil, crept cautiously
around on the floor, now slippery with
her husband's blood, until she found
the guide string, and following this,
she reached the entrance to the cav
ern and started for the nearest set
tlement. Smeared from head to foot
with blood, the face scratched by
crawling on the cave floor In the dark
ness, her clothing tattered and hair
dishevelled, Mrs. Ellis presented an
awful sight when she finally reach
ed aid.
The action of the rest of the party
Is being unfavorably commented up
on throughout the Northwest, their
action in the matter having placed
them in a very unenviable position.
state to give Its approval. Senator
W. L. Jones has written to Governor
M. E. Hay asking him to use his in
fluence with the legislature to this
end. Senator Jones believes that the
measure Is a worthy one, and he
wants to see the Evergreen State
make a name for herself. The law
makers meet in Olympla on August
11th to take up the impeachment trial
of John H. Schlvely.
EVENTS IN OUR STATE
OF MINOR IMPORTANCE
Jacob Kami, pioneer steamboatman,
who built the first stern wheel steam
er on the Willamette River, Is mak
ing plans to put a line of steamers on
the Upper Columbia and Snake riv
ers. He expects to put the steamer
Norma in commission above Celilo.
and the Undine on the lower end of
the route. It Is thought large quanti
ties of wheat will be secured on the
run up the river to Lewiston,
SIGNS OF PROGRESS
Items Concerning Oregon's Advance
ment Cleaned From the Columns
of Our Exchanges.
Conventions of more than usual In
terest to tho whole Northwest will
be held in Portland the middle of
Aliens! Thp Amprlpnn AaanMntlnn
of Farmers Institute Workers will '"l?tte vaIley. at a cost of more than
eather there for the 14th annual meet-1 i."",uuu
A very instructive farmers' insti
tute was held Saturday evening in
Ontario by instructors of the Oregon
Agricultural College.
One day last week 27 oil contracts
of the Portland Oil and Gas Company
filed for record with Recorder Malon
ey, of Yamhill County. They embrace
contracts on lands lying between Am
ity and North Yamhill. Contracts tak
en by the rival company, the Oregon
Oil and Gas Company, were filed for
record some months ago, on lands
within the same area.
Work on the road improvements
through Gresham Is progressing fine
ly. About forty loads of material is
being placed each day. When you
realize that each load covers about a
yard of the road's length it will be
seen that the Improvement is moving
right along.
S. C. Stewart, president of a bank
at Axtel, Neb., and his brother, J. M.
Stewart, who Is connected with a
bank at Lincoln, Neb., and E. B. Day,
of Aberdeen, Wash., a son-ln-Iaw of
J. M. Stewart, were in Lebanon Fri
day looking over the place with a view
to starting another bank in this city.
Lebanon Express-Advance.
A mammoth sawmill plant and fif
teen miles of railroad will be con
structed by the Booth-Kelly Lumber
company -and their associates In the
vicinity of Yamsay mountain, where
the parties concerned have holdiiiES
or about 87,000 acres of timber
According to a Portland dispatch
October has been set as at date for the
complete electrification of the Wil-
Congress stand for election on plat
forms which pledge them to actual
and even reduction of tho tariff rates,
and not until they give their solemn
word not to follow the lead of Senator
Bailey of Texas and reject as Imprac
ticable tho platform pledges, will the
American people trust them to revise
the tnrfff. It must ho remembered
that it was on a distinct pledge to
cut. the tariff rates that Democratic
victory was last won and then, when
as ultra conservative Senate refused
to follow the lead of the House and
pass tho Wilson bill as It was pass
ed there, the public lost faith and It
has not since been posslblo for the
Democrats to regain the confidence
they once enjoyed. The spectacle of
a Democratic Senator voting for every
increase proposed "by the Republican
leaders nnd finally for the Iniquitous
Senato bill, which was tttt bad that
even a Republican President has been
exerting his every energy to correct
Its most glaring defects, Is ono to in
spire confidence or to lead the peo
ple to believe that they can rely on
tho Democratic party to give them
genuine tariff revision,
ing on August 10 and 17. The Associ
ation for the Promotion of Agricul
tural Science will meet August 17 and
the Association of American Agricul
tural Colleges will hold the 23rd an
nuul convention on Augdst 18, 19 and
20. The conventions will deal with
scientific agriculture and Improved
farming methods will be discussed
fully. Able authorities on these sub
jects will speak. Many will be in at
tendance from all parts of the United
States.-
The meetings will be held in the
convention hall of the Commercial
Club. Following the final session on
Friday, the visitors will be taken by
special train on a trip through the
Willamette Valley as guests of the
Commercial Club. The hop, prune,
walnut and other leading crops of
the district will be seen. Corvallls
will entertain the delegates over night.
On the following day a similar trip
will be made" to Hood River, where
tlie extensive apple orchards will be
inspected.
Several thousnnd dollars have been
aised In Seattle to buy a home for
Florenco Bromley nnd her six orphan
brothers and sisters. This woman has
proved herself an exceptional heroine
for when her mother died she under
took to Keep tho whole family to
gether and succeeded, through her
own efforts while working In one of
the down-town stores. The struggle
did not become known until two of
the children were stricken with dlp
therla. A benefit performance at one
of the theaters netted a thousand
dollars, and other charity affairs have
raised the remainder.. Now tho fam
ily will be Installed In a neat little
cottage on the outskirts of the city.
1 909 Nearly Half Gone
Oregon lumbermen will participate
quite generally in the semi-annual
meeting of the Western Pino Manufac
turers' Association at Spokane on Au
gust 9. The program Is an interesting
one nnd many will go from this state.
Among the speakers will be Gilford
I'lncnot, united States Forester. Con
isorvatlnn and reforestation are sub
jects that will be discussed and are of
general Interest to lumbermen.
Hogs continue to make new records
in the Portland market. What is said
to have been the highest price ever
paid in any market in the United
States was realized here during the
past week when $9.50 was paid for a
bunch of fine porkers. Many other
sales at better than $9 per 100 pounds
were made In the local stoekvards.
These attractive figures ought to en
courage farmers to raise more hogs
A construction crew started out
from Roseburg Wednesday to becin
the placing of a double metallic tele
phone circuit between that city and
uoos Bay,
Chamberlain's Cholic, Cholera and Di
arrhoea Remedy Never Known
to Fail.
Governor Hay has removed J. M.
Snow from the office of State High
way Comiulsioner. According to re
ports, there has been friction between
the two officers, but this Is denied
by both of them. The governor says
that tho best Interests of the public
road system demanded a change. Mr.
Snow declares himself at a loss to
understand why he has been asked
since 1898. H. L. Bowlby has been
to quit. He has filled the position
appointed to fill the office. Formerly
he was Instructor of engineering In
the State University. He is closely
Identified with tho good roads organ
ization In this state.
And you have not yet opened that Bank account
that you have been promising yourself that you
would. You have been neglecting one of the es
sentials to your life's happiness and success In this
delay, Do not put off this Important matter any
longer, but NOW, RIGHT NOW, take the step
that will surely lead to success in life. You will
never save unless you make a start and if yoil wait
until you have a large sum the time may never
come and the start never be made. Remember
that a small beginning sometimes makes large
ending. Do not put it off any longer but make
your first deposit today and we will help you save
Tho price of hops Is soarlmr and (lie
advance means money In the pock
ets of the Northwest growers. A repe
tition of the soaring days of 1904 In
the hop-trade Is promised. Brewers
of the world are said to be facing a
serious shortage of hops. The market
In Portland has been lifted In a few
weeks from 10 tr 20 cents. Even old
hops command good prices. Offers
of 13 cents have been made for the
1908 crop, that a few weeks ago went
begging for 5 cents. Short crops in
England and Germany are reported
to be boosting the price.
"I have used Chamberlain's Cholic,
Cholrea and Diarrhoea Remedy since
it was first Introduced to the public
In 1872, and have never found one
Instant where a cure was not speedily
effected by Its use. I have been a
commercial traveler for eighteen
years, and never start out on a trip
without this, my faithful friend," says
H. S. Nicholas of Oakland, Ind. Ter.
For sale by Jones Drug Company.
Distribution of the new centB,
which bear the head of Lincoln in
stead of that of the Indian which has
ornamented them for so many years,
began Monday. The Philadelphia
mint has a total of over 30,000,000
on hand. As there are 1,850,000,
000 pennies of the old style In cir
culation, It will be years before the
Lincoln coin entirely supplants the
familiar Indian head.
President Tart's Western trip will
Include stops at Spokane Sept. 29,
Seattle Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, and at
Portland Oct. 2.'
Five West Point cadets, who are
said to lu.-.-e been concerned In the
recent hazing of Cadet Sutton, a
brother or the late Lieut. Sutton,
will be sent home to await final ac
tion by President Taft and the sec
retary of war.
EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO
Acapiilco in Mollis nnd Inhabitants
Vare Famine.
Mexico City, Aug. 3. Dispatches
from Acapulco state that 73 distinct
shocks of e -.irthquuke have been felt
there sine" the first quake Friday.
The city lm ; been destroyed and the
Inhabitants lace a fa mine. During
one of the shocks a tidal wave en
gulfed th.' harbor and a number of
lives were lost. Chilpu n ini; i ab o
has been rue: 'rally destroyed Wh-t
the en rtb (inula1 of Friday lulled In
do was ace-miilh-hed by :h? r .; r
one Saturday, which el'L.'r I. v hvl
or rendered uninhabi'. -b: ' . vc.-y
building in the tvjo pU'.co;-.
if the special session of the leg
islature will indorse the proposed
amendment to the federal constitu
tion for an Income tax, Washington
will have the honor of being the first
The Bank of Oregon City
ElectrSc
Succeed when everything else fails.
In nervous prostration and female
weaknesses they are the supreme
remedy, as thousands have testified.
FORKIDNEY.LIVERAND
STOMACH TROUBLE
is the best medicine ever sold
over a druggist's counter.
J
You Man
Need It
Ask your doctor about the
wisdom of your keeping Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral in the house,
ready for colds, coughs, croup,
bronchitis. If he says it's all
right, then get a bottle of it
at once. Why not show a
Ifttle foresight in such matters?
Early treatment, early cure.
A
W t publiiti our formula
yers
W banifh alcohol
from our niedtciuot
We urge you to
oontult your
doctor
Sajem Mop men report that 20
cints for 19U9 hops Is being freely
offered.
Oregon City The farmers of Tu
alatin are arranging to hold a farm
era' convention and barbecue for
Saturday, August 7.
Pilot Rock This city was visited
Saturday "morning with the gruatest
fire In its history, the damage being
approximately $15,000.
Roseburg Joe Lesiua, who was
convicted of selling one bottle of
beer, was fined $150. This Is the
first conviction for selling beer in
this county since the adoption of the
local option law.
Albany Committees have already
organized for the third annual Al
bany Apple Fair, to be held this
fall, and plans for the biggest event
of the kind in the history of the
Willamette Valley are under way.
St. Helens Two men were
drowned and four narrowly escaped
a similar fate when a boat belong
to the steamer Yosemlte overturned
in the Columbia river Saturday af
ternoon. The victims were sailors
on the steamer.
Salem Articles of Incorporation
have been filed In the office of the
secretary of Btate for the Oregon
Horticultural Society. The society
Is being incorporated so that it may
legally receive a bequest willed to
it by a Yamhill county pioneer:
Pendleton Mrs. Mabel Warner'
has again lost out in the battle
which she has been waging in the
courts of Umatilla county for more
than three years for the possession
of the $50,000 estate of the - late
James W. Young, of Weston.
Albany Jhe race meet of the Al
bany Fair Association has been
called off. The directors and the
owners of the track are unable to
come to a proper understanding con
cerning the future lease. This
means that there will be no races
in Albany this fall.
Eugene In order to better serve
the patrons of his route, J. H. Max
well, United States mall carrier on a
rural route, has purchased an au
tomobile to deliver the mail. He
will be enabled to cover his route In
two hours.
Pendleton Bacuse Frank John
son, a young Indian, overdid the'
thing in eloping with his. mother's
horses and buggy, as well as with
his friend's wife, he is now occupy
ing a cell in the city Jail, awaiting
the arrival of a deputy United States
marshal from Portland.
Albany A romance which began
years ago in Austria, 10,000 miles
away, culminated here when Stanis
laus Strylewicz, of Linn county, se
cured a license to wed Miss Jadwiga,
who arrived Saturday to become the
bride of her girlhood sweetheart in
the fatherland.
Salem The last big fill In the
Salem, FallB City & Western railway
Is being made and before September
1 trains will be running regularly
between Salem, Dallas and Falls
City. The construction crews are
now within a mile of West Salem
and the work is progressing at 'a
very satisfactory rate of speed.
Portland One hundred delegates
from the Portland churches of the
Christian denomination will start
October 6 for Pittsburg to attend
the Centennial International Chris
tian Convention, to be held there Oc
tober 11-19. It is expected this will
rank among the largest church con
ventions of recent years.
Salem George Qulnn, employed
on a five-story steel building, had a
remarkable escape from Instant
death, when he Jell from the fifth
to the third floor of the building,
crashing throughJhe temporary floor
and barely averting a fall to the
ground. He was able to walk to a
doctor's office, after being extricated
from the debris, but will be laid up
for a few days.
Pendleton An unknown tramp,
whose foot was severed by the
wheels of a car under which he was
riding near Meacham Saturday, ex
hibited uniyjual grit by clinging to
his precarious seat on the brakebeam
for more than seven miles after the
accident occurred. He was placed on
a stretcher and taken to the La
Grande hospital.
The Dalles Maud Krokes, a 14-year-old
girl of Roseburg, was taken
from a train here by Sheriff Chris
man. While being held here, word
was received that she was on her
way to marry, an employe of a cir
cus she had met In Roseburg. She
will be sent direct to the Reform
school.
Portland The American Associa
tion of Farmers' Institute Workers
will assemble for their 14th annual
convention on August 16 and 17.
The Association for the Promotion
of Agricultural Science will convene
on August 17 and the Association
of American Agricultural Colleges
and Experiment Stations will Insti
tute the 23d annual convention on
August 18 and will continue until
adjournment on -August 20. These
conventions will be held in Portland.
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SYNOPSIS PRUDENTIAL ANNUAL STATEMENT
Synopsis of the Annual Statement of the Prudential Insurance Company of
America of Newark, in the State of New Jersey, on the 31st day of De
cember, 1908, made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Ore
gon, pursuant to law:
CAPITAL.
Amount of capital paid up ? 2,000,000.00
INCOME.
Premiums received during the year i ? 53,230,281.03
Gross Interest, dividends and rents received during the year 7,033,424.89
Income from other sources received during year 73,327.90
Total income $ 00,337,034.42
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid to policy holders during the year ? 19,496,113.52
Dividends paid during the year pn capital stock 200,000.00
Commissions and salaries paid during the year 12,434.100.37
Taxes, licenses and fees paid during the year 1,249,895.10
Amount of all other expenditures . . f 3,248,105.97
Total expenditures 3G,P28,340.9G
. ASSETS.
Market value of real estate owned $ 12,110,144.80
Market value of stocks and bonds owned 95,932,859.75
Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc 38,618,581.39
Premium notes and policy loans 10,061,074.89
Cash in banks and on hand 11,399,698.42
Net uncollected and deferred premiums 3,958,392.18
Other assets (net) 1,791,017.19
Total admitted assets $ 173,871,768.62
LIABILITIES. .
Net reserve, including special reserve $ 136,620,308.00
Total policy claims 703,593.58
All other liabilities 36,714,917.04
Total liabilities ; , $ 174,038,818.62
Total insurance in force December 31, 1908! $1,44G,178,850.00
BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE YEAR.
Total risks written during the year $ 231,111.00
Gross premiums received during the year 13,696.59
Premiums returned during the year 6.60
Ixisses paid during the year 518.00
Losses incurred during the year 532.00
Total amount of risks outstanding In Oregon December
31, 1908 445,999.00
THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA,
By Leslie D. Ward, Vice-President.
Statutory resident general agent and attorney in fact:
John Pauer, Supt, Industrial Dept., Rothchlld Building; P. M. Howard,
Manager Ord. Dept., 618-19 Corbett Building, Portland, Oregon.
W. H. DAUGHERTY. Special Agent,
555 Center Street, SALEM, OREGON.
not known whether the tubers be
come infected from the ripened spores
of the fungus that fall from the leaves.
It Is not of great Importance to the
farmer to know how the Infection
takes place. That the tubers rot either
In the ground or after they have been
dug for some time. If the leaves are
infected with late blight, is a well
established fact. It is not uncommon
for the yield of potatoes to be de
creased from one-half to two-thirds on
account of late blight, and hence the
importance of exercising precaution
ary measures looking towards exter
minating the Jate blight fungus.
Careful, painstaking, spraying with
Bordaux mixture and Paris green in
the proportion of one pound of green
to about 130 gallons of. Bordaux is
necessary to keep ahead of the rav
ages of blight.
By careful experiments, extending
over a series of years, the New York
Experiment Station has demonstrated
that It pays to spray as many as seven
times. Beyond tho seventh spraying
the increase in the crop was not suf
ficient to pay the additional cost. Be
yond the fourth spraying some sea
sons the increased yield just about
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by Over-Work.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
Weak and unhealthy kidneys art re
sponsible for much sickness and suffering,
tneretore, it kidney
trouble is permitted to
continue, serious re
sults are most, likely
to follow. Your other
organs may need at
tention, but your kid
neys most, because
they do most and
should have attention
first. Therefore, when
your kidneys are weak or out of order,
you can understand how quickly your en
tire body is affected and how every organ
seems to fail to do its duty.
If you are sick or " feel badly," begin
taking the great kidney remedy, Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. A trial will con
vince you of its great merit.
The mild and immediate effect of
Swamp-Root, the great kidney and
bladder remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest because its remarkable
health restoring properties have been
proven in thousands of the most distress
ing cases. If you need a medicine you
should have the best.
Sold by druggists in
fifty-cent and one-dollar
sizes. You may
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also a
Damnniei leninir vou iion. i u
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Bitighamtoii, N. Y. Don't make any mis
take, but remember the name, Swainp
Root, and don't let a dealer sell you
something in place of Swamp-Root if
you do you will be disappointed.
paid the actual expense of 'the last
three sprayings, but taking one year
with another there was decided aver
age profit up to the seventh time
over. Of course the principal value
is in the first four sprayings at per
iods of about ten days. Spraying
is an assurance against blight every
year.
SCHOOL OF QUALITY.
A splendidly written advertisement
appearing in mis Issue of the Courier
is that oi the Portland Business Col
lege. Tills Institution has adopted
"The .School of Quality" as its slogan.
This is a suggestive sentiment, and
one that means much to a student
who will enter into its full spirit.
Persons who are interested in a prac
tical education will do well to write
for a catalogue of the Portland Busi
ness Colloge. It is an attractive pub
lication, containing specimens of pen
manship, samples of business forms,
etc., In addition to full particulars
about the several courses of study
taught, with rates of tuition for each,
ft Is sent tree to any address on application.
What is Best for Indigestion?
Mr. A. Robinson, of Drumquln, On
tario, has beeu troubled for years
with indigestion, and recommends
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets as "ths best medicine I ever
used." If troubled with indigestion
or constipation give them a trial.
They are certain to prove beneficial.
They are easy to take and pleasant
in effect. Price, 25 cents. Samples
free at Jones Drug Company.
. Mrs. A. L. Jones and Mrs. Kate
Goucher, both of Eldorado visited
Oregon City friends last week.
Miss Florence McFarland returned
to this city Tuesday from an outing
in the vicinity of Mount Hood. She
reports an enjoyable trip.
Hard Luck.
"Jones met with a sad misfortune
on the Fourth."
"How's that?"
"Filled hla ears fullof cotton to
deaden the sound of the cannon crack
ers, and a spark flew In and set the
cotton on fire." .
"For twenty years I suffered from
a bad case of granulated sore eyes,"
says Martin Boyd, of Henrietta, Ky.
"In February, ltl03, a gentleman asked
me to try Chamberlain's Salve. I
bought one box and used about two
thirds of it and my eyes have not
given me any trouble since." This
salve is for sale by Jones Drug Company.
Buy your Ptintintr from TSi Courier.
Maker of Good Things with Type,
Paper and Ink.
J Potato Blight.
i Thousands of bushels of potatoes
are usually destroyed by the fungu3
I disease known as late blight or potato
rot. There are two kinds of blight.
; One is called early blight and the
, other late blight. Both are fungus
diseases and both attack the leaves
Mn.. i. ... j .. .. lvl lllr lilt- n'l "in nutiLiva
h.y.K b0P calle? nd sta?li' nlv the leaves, while the latter at
Ltr rWfile,T,ble 18 due, i"y 'acks in addition to the leaves, the
tor wiiw fi mlyube,ieve yourow1oc-! tubers in the ground and causes them
of Ayer's Pills will do such bovs a great
CURES
Rheumatism,
Neuralgia,
Cuts, Sores,
Wounds,
mmknv. - irm :a
r- .
del of good. Thev keep the liver active.
Md by the j. c. Ajtr Co., Lowgll, Km
Just how the fungus is transferred i
from the leaves to the tubers Is not i
definitely understood. That is, it is I
Try it To-day
Get the
Genuine.
Refuse all
Imitations.
Ti BALLARD SNOW LINIMENT CO., ST. LOUIS, MO.
UiVTrJ Sold and Recommended by KSESBiZ
The Jones Drag Company, Inc.
CURES
Bruises, Burns, I
Stiff Joints,
Lame Back,
Sprains, Etc.,
Price
25c, 50c
and $1.00
Per
Cottle.