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1002 OREGON NAPOLEON'S 0UDEU. Uiegon City Enterprise. ; R jj FARMS AND FARMING 3 THE LEGION OF HONOR AND HOW IT WAS FOUNDED. ( ltj andCounly OuVUI Taper Hi. J9 CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, FEHUUAUYU. A -9 1 - mmm w y 1 i m j i Published Every Friday. L. U POIU'KU, Taoriuiroa. 8UB4CH1PT10N HATStJi On year Bix months t w Trial sutwcrlption to months 25 A discount ol 50 cents on all subscriptions for one year, 26 cents tor mi months, li paM in advance. Advertising rates given on application. Subscribers will find the date of expira tion stamped on their papers following the.r name. If this date is not changed wlt'iin tTO weeks after a pavnient, kindly notify ns and we will look alter it. Kutered at the postofBc in Oregon City, Or., as second class matter. i lESTS 1U TUB EKTEKPKT9B. Beaver Creek Dr. T. B. Thomas Osnby E. I. Clackamas A Mather MilwaJkie Oscar NMssinrer TJnlm Mills 0. J. Trullinger Meadow Brook Chas. Holman New Era V. S. Newberry Parkplaee R. 0. Holmes Stafford J Q Gage Maliuo C. T. Howard C(irn R. M. Cooper Mulalla Annie Sttibhs Mr.)iim J. C. Marqtiain Butwville B. Jennings A'lrorn Henrv A. Snyder Ej.'le Creek H. Vill)ern Da nsscus J- C. Klliott K.. ty F. Gaitsch C irrin.iviiie...' Geo. J. Cnrrin Mviuot Adolpli AschotI COMPARISON OK SHIP CANALS. The artificial water-ways so far con stituted, which are large enough to be culled ship canals, are only nine in num ber. The Suez canal, completed in 18i'.9, is ninety miles long, and cost $100,000,000. The Russian canal, between Cronstadt anil St. Petersburg, finished in 1S90, is Sixteen utiles long, and cost $10,000,000. The Corinth canal, which connects the gulfs of Corinth and Aegina, was com pleted in 1804, is four miles long, and cost $5,000,000. The Manchester canal, from the Mer tey River to Minchester, wit completed in 1894. It is thirty-five and one half n, ilea long, and cost $75,000,000. The Kaiser Wilhelm canal connects the North Sea with the Baltic. It was finished in 189), at a cost of $40,0(10,000 Its length is sixty-one miles. The Elbe and Trave canal, also be the Baltic and the North Sea, was opened in 1900. Its length is forty-one miles, and it cost $6,000,000. The American ship canals are three in number: The Welland canal connects Lakes Erie and Ontario. It is twenty seven miles long. It was built in 1833, and ha? twice been enlarged in 1871 and 1900. Its cost has been about $31 000.000. There are two canals connecting Lakes Superior and Huron; one is American, the o'lier Canadian. The former was originally constructed by the State of Michigan, but was subsequently enlarged bv the United States at an expense cf $2,lo0,C00. An Isthmian canal by the Nicaragua route would be one hundred and forty seven miles long, and its cost is esti mated at $190,00 0,000. By the partially completed Panama route, the water-would have a length of forty-six miles, half of it at sea-level, and the cost is placed at $184,000,000. The Darien route from Mandingo Bay to Pearl Island harbor, offers the only perfectly straight, sea-level canal yet proposed on the isthmus. It is less than thirty miles between the oceans, and could be built, it is estimated, at $100, 000,000. CEDING THE DANISH ISLANDS. The treaty ceding the Danish West In dies to the United States has been signed. The formalities which delay the transfer of the islands are the ratification of the convention by the American Senate and the Danish Rigedag, and an appropria tion of the purchase price somewhere between three and four millions of dol larsby Congress. The Danish West Indies comprise the islands of St. John, St. Tho.uas and St. Croix. They are, in the aggregate, an area of about one hun dred and twenty-seven square miles, with population of thirty thousand, only about fifteen per cent, of whom are white. There is no color line there, which accounts for the hesitancy of the majority as reported to being annexed to this country, where color is a more distinct racial barrier. However, Den Uiark can not aJur J U keep them, and Kriilt(rw.M' Midwinter Meeting. Among the speakers that will paitiei pute in the deliberations of the Hoiti cultural Convention at Corfallia, the 13th and 14th inst., are: K. K. Smith, Hood River, Apples; 8. W. Olwell, Cen tral Point, Packing Ideals; V. V. Allen, Salem, Processing; A. Sharpies, Goshen, Horticultural Education; U. II. I.atn beit, Portland, Lights and Shades: A. Browned, Albany, Words of Caution; E, Motor, Salem, The S'rawborry; W. K. Dilley, Evaporator Furnaces; L T. Rey nolds, Salem, Farm Impressions; J. T. Brumlieki, Portland, Marketing Dried Fruits. Several other shakers with loaded guns of unknown character have prom ised to be preeut end take part in the discussion. It will he a lively meeting A large attendance and good music are assuied. If interested in horticulture you should make your voice and presence felt at the meeting. Remember, get a R. R. certificate of faie paid; the dale, 13th and 14th iust. Sheep anil Wool. Salt should be accessible to the flock. IHj not change the diet of your sheep suddenly. An open Bhed is generally the best kind of a shelter for sheep. Do not .move your flock faster than a comfortable walk while moving them around. Keep your shotgun handy and a tow extra buckshot shells where you can reach them to be used on the sheep- killing dogs. Feed your sheep liberally, and use only fresh, palatable feed stuffs; in no caw should decomposed cr moldy ma terial he used Never allow your sheep to be excited by hard driving, abuse, loud talking or unnecessary disturbance; do not ex;ose them to cold or storms. we find it easier to take them than to prevent their damaging the Monroe doc trine by falling into the hands of a Euro pean power. The importance ol St. Thomas consists wholly in the possession of one of the finest harbors in the West Indies. Agri culture amounts to nothing, the people being largely supported by foodstuffs brought trom the United States. The principal industry is the coaling of steamers, about thirty calling there every month for that purpose. The coal is mainly the product of this country. St. John is of little consequence, with its seven hundred inhabitants and un filled acres. The investment of capital there might take advantage of the main utility of the island, which would be as grazing land. St. Croix is the largest and most fertile, containing thirty-two sugar ertates, the product of which comes to the United States. The cane is sold by the growers to mills built and operated by the Danish Government, the producer receiving pay based on New York prices. The English language is the popular speech in all the islands, be ing taught in the schools and used in the courts, although the official language is Danish. Taxes are delinquent after the first Monday in April. As the first Monday of April comes on the 7th this year all taxes will be delinquent on the 8th of April unless one half of the same are paid by that time in which event the other half can go until and including the first Monday in October. Unless you pay at least half of your taxes by the first Monday in April you will have to pay a penalty of ten per cent, and in terest. Do not forget this as the ti,i:e can not be extended. This is the law. The statement made last week that taxes were delinquent on April 15th was erro neous. Clackamas County gets sixteen dele gates in the state convention. The rep resentation in a county is based not on the votes in a county but on the number voting at the poles. The larger republi can vote we can get in the county the larger figure we can cut in the state con vention. The fact that you registered two years ago does not entitle you to vote this year. If you wish to vote In June yon must register again. Working Overtime. Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless little workers-Dr. King's New Life Pills. Millions are always at work, night and day, curing Indigestion, Bil iousness, Constipation, Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel bles. Easy, pleasant, safe, sure. Only 25c at Geo, A. Harding 'a drug store. If the principal feed ol hay Is given to sheep in the evening the band will not get you out as t arty In ths morning wl'h their restless ness. Try raising a small flock of sheep on your lai n). There is not a farmer In the Willamette valley w ho cannot atTunl to raise a small hand. A cheap feed for the farmer's family is a nice mutton. The carcass i so small that there is hut little danger of ils spoil iug More being used. The wool will pay for a sheep's keep itig. The carcas is the prollt. The fer tiliser dropped by them and the weeds killed are the bank account. Sheep are great denlrovers ol weeds, weeds are great destroyers ol crops. The farms of the Northwest have too nnny weeds and too lew sheep. In create the sheep and decrease the weeds The Angoras are more prolific, more hardv and can be kept with less tout than sheep. They are essentially browsers, cleaning the farm or ranch of all brush and weeds and depositing fer tilizer on the highest and poorest spots, as those are the places where they camp at night. They are not grazers unless forced to it, and hence, are not in the of other slock, which do not lake the brush and weeds on the high land. If the sheep are running to the straw stack see to it that great holes are not es.ten out and the sheep allowed to fill their fleeces as well as their stomachs with chair and straw. From one to live cents a pound is sometimes deducted for chaffy wool where sheep are allowed free access to stacks. There is another danger with sheep more than w ith any other stock at they give up so readily, and that is if large holes are made In the stacks they are liable to cave in or slide off on the sheep, smothering or seriously injuring them. Straw should be thrown to sheep in large open yards and the throwing should be done before the sheep are let into the yards. RfcAL ESTATE TIUNSrEIN. Furnished Erery Wcuk by Hie I'lucka man Abstract & Trust Coup my. C Karris to G R Shafer, 5.45 acres in lot 2, Bee 10, t 3 s, r 2 e $450 Win Ryan to E T Hall, tract in sec 33, 1 1 s, r 2 e 00 A V Mautz to J Shortledge, 30 acres in Swafford cl 1700 W A Wise to R Wise, 18 interest in 19.90 acres in Eagou cl C Rapp to C T Pembroke, 18 acres in Miy cl t 4 s, r 2 e C Rapp to J E Wells, 6 acres in L May cl 1 4 s, r 2 e 200 150 350 M Siefer to I, Wickline, nw of ne sec 34, t 2 s, r 6 e 450 E A Deakins to P K Harlnell, 0 71 acres in Cran field cl 679 8 Mathews to C VS Armstrong, lots 8. 9, lO&ll.in blk7Milwaukie. 80 J II Gibson to A C Mullins, lots 3 A 4 in blk 28 Milwaukie 2200 A C Mullins to J II Gibson, 22 acres in Campbel cl in 1 1 s, r 2 e 2200 W A Procter to U 8 Griffiths, x)i of nw of nw of sec 27, 1 1 s, r 4 e. 8 Rider to J J Rider, 1 acre in Mails cl 1 3 s, r 2 e 400 40 S J Maynard to A W Cheney, lot blk 94 Oregon City ;00 COMandanlzto F A Huffman, 20.81 acres in Brock cl t 3 s, r 1 e A E Deakins to G W Williams, 9 . acres in Cranfield cl A Lacy to S A Tucker, 41.88 acres lu Lacy cl t 4 8, r 4 e 500 900 629 W II Rick man to A J F Miller, lots 1, 2&3insec4. t 4 8, r5e 1 0 & C R Co to O Wiley, t of siv of sec 15, t 2 8, r 5 e 320 J Wiley to O Wiley sJi of sw of sec 15, t2s, r5e l M II Flannsgtn et al to C M Caii- field, by 81. IT tract in Oregon City cl 480 C E Barney to K Krause, lot in blk 23, Fal s View 150 S Barney K Krause lot 1 blk 23, Falls View 150 CHofftoJG Volpp, tract in Bell cl 1 3 s, r 1 e 296 THE CLACKAMAS ABSTRACT i TRUST CO. are the owners of the copy right to the Thome system of abstract indexes, for Clackamas county, and have the only complete set of abstracts in the County, can furnish information as to title to land at once, on application Loans, Investments, real estate, abstract) etc. Office over Bank of Oregon City. Call and investigate. Address box 37. GRAIX-O! URAIN-OI Remember that name when you want a delicious, appetizing, nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have nsed it. Grain-0 is made of mire aruin. I it aids digestion and strengthens the nerye-. It is not a stimulent but a health builder and the children as well 1 as the adults can drink It with irreat benefit. Costa about i as much as coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. OABVOniA. Bn u Tin Kind Yo Ha Alwnrs Bought I )r 1 1 lha nidlenle U Procl at Tli.t limited ll laaauurntlon I...... -.I Thul Napoleon knew French llnmnn Suture. I'miec owes the Legion of Honor to 'udi'oll. All orders of chivalry hud been abolished by the revolution mid hud left a gup which It wns not easy to till. "Tiny me mere gcegtiws," snld Moiige, the .'lit aiht, who hud taught tin.' revolutionists how to 11111U0 nun powder nut of plaster of purls. "Oee guws, If you will." the llrst consul an swered, "but people like them. Let 11 iipprouch the question fniukly. All iiicii lire eniiinored of decuriitloiis-the- French more tlinn nny. They posi tively hunger for them, mid they huvo til ways done bo." This was nt Multiinlson In IStC In Muy the council d'etat was Invited to consider the project of the Institution of the Legion ( Honor. It wus ridi culed by litany, notably by Moremi, who as victor of llohciillnden was bit terly Jealous of the victor of Marengo. At it dinner party ho sent for his cooU nud said to hlin lu the presence of his Kiiests: "Michel, I mil pleased with your dinner. You hiive Indeed distin guished yourself. 1 will nwurd you a 8iucepiiii of honor." Mine, de Stuel wns also satirical upon the subject. "Ah, 0110 of the decorated?" she used to nsk each guest who was shown Into her salon. Hut Napoleon had gauged human na ture correctly. His legion of Honor did meet a felt want, and It wns defi nitely Inaugurated on July 14. I SO J. Among the eminent men of science n ml men of letters on "nun It was then bestowed were Included I.iiplacc. the mathematician; I-iiIiiihIc, the as tronomer; t'uvler. the naturalist, and I.-gouve, the p et. The most notable name omitted was Hint of Iteriiardln cU St. Pierre. Just then In disgrace for chiimploiiliig Mine, de Stitel, whom Na iMilcon had banished, but he got the decoration Inter on the entreaty of Queen Ilortense. After Jenii (ioethe wns decorated. A little later high promotion In the order was given to (ieiieral Iiinnrqiie, to whom Sir Hudson Lowe had surrender ed nt Cnprl. "What did you do with hlin?" risked Napoleon. "The king of Naples bin him exchanged for a Nea politan geucrnl who wns a prisoner In Sicily." "Very well: there Is no harm In letting this English colonel go. He is not dangerous." It seeina not un likely that Sir Hudson Ixjwe remem bered this sarcasm when he wns Na poleon's Jailer n few yen re afterward. After Napoleon's downfull the ques tion of suppressing the I.ogloii of Hon or nrosc. Clmteaubrlanil. whom Napo leon had not decorated, strongly urged Its abolition. So did Puzzo dl Itorgo. Marshals Victor, Marniont and Mac doiuild opposed. After debate It wns decided to recognize and ret 11 In the or der, not on any high moral or patriotic grounds, but because Iiuls XVI 1 1, could not ntTord to make himself more unpopular than be was nlrendy by stripping people of their decorations. Cbuteuubrland nud Lnmnrtliie consent ed to accept the red ribbon, but It was nUo conferred upon a great number of worthless personages and so brought Into contempt. There have been ninny Legion of Honor scnndals since those days, but one of them surpasses nil the others In magnitude. This Is, of course, the Wil son scandal, the history of which, though Intricate. Is worth recalling. The trouble niny be snld to hnve be gun on the day 011 which Mile. Alice Grevy fell hi love with tin opera singer who need not be mentioned here. He wanted to marry her. and she wanted to marry him. and the piiMrs were be ginning to couple the two names 111 a milliner most emliiirrusslug to the pres ident of the republic. The president, however, sent the opera singer alsiut his business and found his daughter another husband, not n very good bus bund, but the best husband he could procure 011 the spur of the moment Ilia choice fell upon M. Daniel Wilson, who had long been one of M. Grevy's political supporters and wns a lliuinclcr of some mark. No sooner was M. Wilson established at the Elysee than he proceeded to en rich himself by various Uiciius. Among other things, he founded a paper culled Le Monlteur de I'Kxposltlon Unlver eelle. which really covered a tralllc In decorations. The whole story cume out In a state trial toward the end of 18.S7. It was proved that Wilson had tnndo a regular practice of selling the Legion of Honor, or, rather, of Invit ing people who wanted It to bribe hlin to use his Influence to obtain It for them. His overtures were presented through his Jackals. Generals d'Aud Ian and Cufferel and Mines. Limousin and Ratazzl, and the whole party bad to stand In the dock together. Wilson was sentenced to two years' Imprisonment a fine of 8.0JO francs and five years' deprivation of civil rights. He appealed, and the court of cassation annulled the judgment The accused, said the Judges, was obvious ly guilty of everything that he was charged with, but as bis offenses were not anticipated by any punitive law be could not be pnnlshed. 80 he retired to the country and tried to live down his bad name. As he ultimately got himself elected conseilh.-r general, one. must suppose that he succeeded In this object-Pall Mall Gazette. Ills Ml.. Ion. A lawyer was passing along the street carrying under his arm a luw book when he was accosted by a self righteous Individual: "Ha. Mr. Blank! And where are you going to preach to day r "I don't preach, I practice," replied the lawyer. Tho Children l'mincca-Tho IHotlicr n l ricnu. In going over I hi fmioua "Slusla Hoiitu" l the Southern I'acitlc Co , the traveler ever llml soineihing new o ex cite his liiiHginaliuii and Interest, hurl- j lug at Portland, one tiaveres the ho'o . length ol lbs Willamette Valley, the win of the Nmthwcst. M . II. ni l, Mt. Jeffer son and the Tbiee histers and other siiow-csped peaks are kept in sight for hours. The Iwii'ildnl valleys id the b'mp.pi and Hogun liivers, ith the r On bards of prunes, pe4i ln-, apple., slid other fruits, aie a del ght in themselves. The cros.mg of the grot I iiiount.ln Imi rier between tlregoii and Clibiiila re- j veals the giandext mountain ic-tiery In the United Ktalc. I'he wonderful linn lugs, twisting, and doubling of the r.il riMil brum into vie a uraud arraV of , , . pr lui. Krlia lut IrM ()ri towering mountains and profound gorges l...m. l' into which we gase from dlwy helglils,1 urrn Vniin Dl II D D forest clad mountain slopes stretching up httl I U U II DLUUU I' "a' to the line of perpetual snoa', ami the j 0 "' foaming mountain strttsms diishingj --- - ,v- fiercely down deep canyons, now ami! r'r Votinc Men and Tii,ov"li thou slopping for a short rest in somn There Is nothing that will tnl " quiet pool. Afteraday's injoyment of I iw of a young iiihii or woman " 1 old Mt. MiasU, the finest peak on the J to hsve uilern-r Isnnd.y of n"u' continent, we drop rapidly down Hie Tnev may dress eve' B 11 canyon of the (Sacramento to the hroud plains of the Kacrsinento Valley In Cali fornia, and thence through vinyards and orchards to San Francisco. For maps and descriptive literature, address K. R. Miu.kk, O. I. A., 8. V. (Jo., Pottlsiid, Oregon. 1 he Latest Yam. A Pittsburg drummer tells this new yarn: I always carry a bottle of Kemp's I'lalsatn in my grip, I lake cold easily and a few doi ei of the Bal sam always makes me a well man. Everywhere I go I speak a good word for Kemp. I take hold of my custom ers I take old men and young men, and tell them confidentially what I do when I lake cold. At druggists, Kc and 50c. (Inly One Way To Do It. Get from Portland to Chicago in 72 hours-just three days. The "Chlcsgo Portland Siiecial." leaving Portland daily at 9 a. m. via. O. It. 4 N., arrives at Chicago at 9 ::t0 the third day. New York and lioston are reached the fourth day. This train, acknowledged to be the fastest between the Northwest and the Kast, is solidly vestibuled and Its equipment is unsurpassed. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars, up-to-date tourist sleeping cars, library-smoking cars, free reclining chair cars, and un excelled dining cars, the meals on which are equal to those served al ' the very best hotels. Remember this train runs solid Portland to Chicago; there is no change of cars, and the good of it Is. it costs no more to ride on It than on other routes. We have other trains "Pacific Ex press" leaves Portland daily at 9 p. m. via Huntington, and the "Hnokane Flyer" leaves at 8 p. m. daily via Spo kane for Ht. Paul and the East. For rates, sleeping car reservations. call or write to ... F A. L.Cbaio, General Passenger Aeent. 0. It. & N. Co.. Pnrtluml $!5.00to$l8.00aWeek salary for an Intelligent man or woniin In ' sacli town. Perinaiient position. .To cents i '.',r '."."T ,',,re ,mie- Manufacturer. liux 1102, Chicago. ' Liuua The Klml You Hitvo Always Nought, ttil which ha tw in tto for over 0 yearn, lift homo tho flgnatnr " iukI 1u heen iinulo under hi y, j;. i Sr j """"l ipcrvhlon ulnco It lnfa( . Jlaf7UAit't Allow no 0110 totlecelvo you In tiT All 4!iiiiterlVUi. Imitation una "uhni-ii-k.hmi wreiM, F.xnerlnicnU that trlllo with mil endanger tho henlllr lnfunU and thlldrcii-l'Mcrleiieo Hgalnnt l.iierliu, ' H.. f I'"'' Hid' What is CASTORIAf CnrdorU U u harmless ulHtltuto foKWor Oil, V Korlc, Drop mid Soothing Hymn". It 1 1 leaaaut. t,..,.. contain neither Opium, Morphlno lior other NarMi.-t Milmtuiicc. Itanifol lUiruurantco. It destroy AV,)iy nml nllaja reveiNhnes. It cure Dlurrhu'it und V, Colic. It relieve!! Teethinir TroublcK, cured Contlpm: itud riatulency. It naalmllatcH tho I'wmI, rrKulutM . fctonmch and Uowcl.i, givl.itf healthy mid natural slu l K I CENUIHE CASTORIA alv"! l.te Bears tho Signaturo of in ' lay lis OT Vf The Kind You Have Always Bon; the In Use For Over 30 Years. tvi HmH.M, rf v.. w..J' IT I" ' ' Ull i i BEST FOR I 1. 1 u BOWELS; ITII e!( ,..,. ...If "1 Ilkl I kuv.lf pn, .,..1 ! ll. I rr. I,( II , l.nl ,.h,H-..r pill IMH. I. d.... 'ydiln ,l.M.i4 .! imkm fey CANDY CATHARTIC Oj W W VWd per nnds h gu listei bum EAT 'EM LIKE CAD'"' I ih.I. I'.l.l.l.l.. rU"l T.ln ari'H n. l. .r hi. ,.. IV nr Oil,-, f, ' mil li ineir Kinrl ironi or f'w nuissy their neat spfn'srance '(,H j; The Troy laundry makes a 'H,jr tl ladies' and gentlemen's I" ,,, There can b no tietter or.jmr, done at the Trov. l-ave yuo Cll Wl Jolinsou s harber shop. Dime jlopte ..I'" d JOHN YOTJNGI Opp. Huntley's Drur!; FORTY YEARTErO! (Ireat Britain and Am' WANTKU-fEVEIlVL rEr." rharaeler anil good reputaiios i" (one In this county required) and ailvertl.e old enlahli.hed " ne. liouo of iollrl Hnanclal Mc ary $1N tio weekly wim til"" all l.aahlil In e.h mrU Wedrir from head ortlcri. llorae " 'V nisnen wnen necusary. ,lVj -rln.s slf sddre.sed slsiip", Manager, 310 Canton Luildmf. 1 ( Pint onlr tor PtlM nd Iteb i o rtrj ki I. warranted. X"1'' T l h? intlliii.?t'' "t r'" ".'-- WU-U4Ua Mi 1st, .-'". . For sale by Charman A Ci 1. iwwtm:". li ui