OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1906.
I ITPcmn I ffir T?t-i-k42-J railroads affecting the price of grain,
VICgUll Vlty iIllcrpriSC, wringing it from the farmer at a low
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FRIDAY. JULY 6, 1906.
A MUCH NEEDED SERVICE.
The subject of providing the ' city
with a street sprinkling system was
suggested at the last meeting of the
Oregon City Board of Trade. And we
are pleased to note that this organiza
tion has taken an active interest in
the matter and appointed a committee
to investigate the cost and the advisa
bility of installing such a service. Main
street should be sprinkled throughout
the business district at any rate. This
service need not prove expensive. Un
der present conditions the cloud of dust
that is raised by each passing street
car or vehicle is intolerable to both
residents and business men who will
cheerfully co-operate in any move--ment
by which this inconvenience may
be abated.
price when it was wanted on the ex
change to help, influence a deal. He
said that the names of the same men
appeared in the directorate of the
railroads and in the elevators compan
ies and that if the Interstate Com
merce Commission would apply the
same probe to the grain roads that
they had applied to the coal and oil
roads, they would find the same state
of rottenness and the same unlawful
combinations in restraint of tra?i3. j
Senator LaFollette's words were in-j
dorsed by Senator Nelson and the res- J
olution of inquiry was promptly adopt- j
ed. ' Now look for some interesting
revelations in the northwest.
o
They say that all Russian names
are spelled phonetically. If they are,
it must sound to an-outsider as though
the whole nation was suffering from
chronic catarrh.
o-
The dry dock Dewey has arrived at
Singapore. Those who bet on her
sinking before she reached Manila will
have "only a few more of uncertainty
ahead of them.
O
Lawyer Patrick is giving the State
of New York a long run for some
body's money.
o
William Jennings' modesty inti-
Is Your
Hair Sick?
BETTER SHIPPING FACILITIES.
Better shipping facilities are needed
at Oregon City. At the present time
persons maKiug extensive smiJiiieuLs
are obliged to haul the same either to
the pulp siding about three miles south
of the city or to Parkplace, much to
the inconvenience of snippers besides
adding to tlie expense of making the
shipments. The Board of Trade has
appointed a committee to confer with
the Southern Pacific Company and see
if that company cannot be induced to
construct in this city a siding at which
freight in large quantities can be load
ed. Farmers have complained that
Oregon City is not as good a marketing
point as it should be and there-.is no
one thing that is more responsible for
this condition than the limited facili
ties for shipping with which the mer
chant and the producer have to con
tend. Any action that will improve
this condition will be welcomed by
both.
o-
BRYAN STICKS TO SILVER.
Bryan is making a vain attempt to
dodge silver. In the latest issue of
his Commoner the leading editorial
bears the omnious title of "In the
Spirit of 189G." Several things are
in the editorial which also call up un
pleasant associations for his party.
"Democrats have no disposition to
forget the Chicago platform" it says,
"for that platform represented in 189G,
even as it does to-day, the real con
servatism of the country. Owing to
the unprecedented production of gold,
the money question is not and will not
be discussed in detail, as it was in
the Chicago platform, but the under
lying principle of .bimetalism, the
quantitative theory has been amply
vindicated, and is now generally rec
ognized." This talk about the "spirit of 1896"
will check that rush of Gold Demo
crats over to Bryan's side. His devo
tion to what he calls "the underlying
principles of bimetalism" shows that
he has hecanted nothing. He stands
just where he stood in 189G. except
that he intimates that for the moment
it will not be expedient to make any
open declaration in favor of throwing
the mints wide open to the coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. He
takes back nothing of "what he said
in favor of the debased dollar ten
years ago or six years ago. He mere
ly concedes that the Republican party
and the gold miners have taken the
money issue out of politics for the
time.
But the rise in silver is likely tc
give Bryan and his friends courage ta
renew their battle for 16 to 1. Silver
has recently averaged G6 cents an
ounce. It has gone up 10 cents an
ounce in a few months. The Bland
coin is no longer a 45-cent dollar, at
the market price for silver. It is now
a 51 cent dollar. Silver - to-day is
about where it was ten years ago
when Bryan began his war in favor of
throwing open the mints to it at the
16 to 1 ratio, without waiting for the
aid or consent of any other nation.
The Bland-Bryan coin may be a 52
cent or a 55-cent dollar in 1908. If
the present raise is maintained to
that time there will be a strong pres
sure on Bryan's party to fenew its old
warfare in favor of free coinage of
silver. In principle Bryan is, as he
shows in his paper, a free silverite.
Despite his dodging, his nomination
in 1908, if it takes place, will put the
silver issue at the front and make the
third battle more disastrous for Bryan
and his dupes than was the second
battle or the first. St. Louis Globe
Deinocrat. o
Now it is the grain roads. Truly this
is an era of national house-cleaning.
In the very last days of the session
Senator LaFollette arose and pre
sented a resolution which will keep
the Interstate Commerce Commission
working fpr almost a year after they
get through with their coal and oil
investigations. - The resolution was
adopted without division and now the j
grain roads will come under the probe.
The gist of it was ust this. Sena-
mates that if the Democratic party
can stand it a third time, he can.
o
Lieutenant Hobson strongly sus
pects Congressman Bankhead 6f hav
ing sprinkled tacks in the track of his
Presidential boom.
o
If Mr. Bryan is at ail short on plat
forms, we understand that David
Bennett Hill had one in stock that was
not used up at Kansas City.
o
In the rush of congressional busi
ness, none of the correspondents have
found time tp assign Secretary Taft to
the Supreme Bench for over a week.
o
If the President does not slow up
a bit, a lot of corporations will not be
left to care whether he accepts a
third term proposition or not.
. o -
It was rather a joke on Congress
man Marshall to find after he had
worked so hard for the free alcohol
bill that North Dakota was barred
from manufacturing alcohol anyhow.
o
The attorneys General hasten to dis
claim arty hope of landing John D.
Rockfeller in the penitentiary. Mr.
Moody probably recollects how many
premature forecasts other lawyers
have already made in that same line.
: O
It is understood that Senator Jeff
Davis will be searched for chair legs
before being admitted to a seat in that
august body.
o
Bertha Krupp's gun factory ought
to be able to fufnish her doctor , hus
band with enough practice to keep
hini from starving to death.
. o
There is this to be said in defense
of those reprehensible Israelites; they
did not call their golden calf potted
chicken.
o
He may say what he pleases about
that inspection bill, but nobody has
discovered any tin cans in Representa
tive Wadsworth's ash barrel.
o
It is an order now for somebody
to charge that Messrs. Neill and Rey
nolds got a rake-off from the Chicago
plumbers for the- boom in that trade
that followed their report.
EDUCATION VS. IGNORANCE.
That's too bad ! We had no
ticed it was looking pretty thin
and rough of late, but naturally
did not like to speak of it. By
the way, Ayer's Hair Vigor is
a regular hair grower, a per
fect hair tonic. The hair stops
coming out, grows faster,
keeps soft and smooth. Ayer's
Hair Vigor cures sick hair,
makes it strong and healthy.
The best hind of a testimonial
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SARSAPARILLA.
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CHERRY PECTORAL.
yers
suit him and the butter fat prices are t
ton Inw 1 1 ia imnnecihlp trv malro f
that man see that the creamery is
not to blame for his condition His
is a plea of dissatisfaction and so it
will be ten years from this time. The
milk from each of these herds was
handled in the same creamery and
the butter packed in the same tub.
It went into the common market and
sold for the same price. For. one man
the creamery made a living and al
lowed him money besides; for the oth
er it paid little for feed and trouble,
yet the fault lay not with the cream
ery. The $G0 man was a dairyman,
the $25 man yas not. He wouldn't
take a year's subscription to a dairy
paper as a gift. He would do noth
ing to educate himself. The low re
sults from his herd were his punish
ment for his ignorance. Nebraska
Dairyman.
MARRIAGE SUPERSTITIONS.
A Kansas creamery reports that for
a year just past it has paid one patron
$l0 per cow for each cow milked in
a herd of sixteen, and five of the num
ber were heifers milking with first
calt. To another patron it paid $25
per cow in a herd of twenty and to
another $17 per cow in a herd of thir
teen. The latter herd is not to be
considered in our remarks, for the
cows were allowed to "rough it" and
no man who pretends to do dairy
farming will so handle his cows. The
325 cows were given good roughage
and exain in abundance, were warmiv
stabled and kindlv treated. The SCO ! and locomotive frames.
cows were bred for the dairy, fed a
balanced ration, and otherwise - treat
ed about the same as their $25 neigh
bors. The cows of each herd were
neighbors, belonged to farmers in the
same community, kept on the same
kind of land and the climatic condi
tions were identical.
What produced the difference in the
earnings of these cows? It was the
No other country has so many su
perstitions about marriage as China.
The Chinese never marry within a
hundred days after a death has taken
place in the family of either the bride
or groom; for if they do .they believe
domestic troubles are sure to follow.
There seems to be no reason for
this belief, and the Chinese do not at
tempt to explain it, but are willing
to let it go as an undisputed fact.
A Chinese bride may be brought to
the house of the groom while there is
a coffin in the house, but not within
one hundred days after it has been
taken out.
If a bride breaks the heel of her
shoe while she is going from her hhs
ers to her husband's home, it is omni
ous of unhappiness to her new rela
tions. A sifle of bacon and a piece of sugar
are hung on the back of the bride's
sedan chair as a peace-offering to evil
spirits, and when she is dressing for
the wedding-ceremony she stands all
the while in a round wicker basket.
When a bride is eating her last meal
at the table of her father before go
ing to live with her husband, she is
allowed to consume only half a bowl
of rice, lest she be followed by con
tinual scarcity in her new abode.
The Story of Hia Fierce Attack on m
Trlpolitan Vessel.
Gardner W. Allen in his book, "Our
Navy and the Barbary Corsairs," re
tells the old story of how Commodore
I Stephen Decatur, then a lieutenant in
I the United States navy, attacked a
I Tripolitan vessel. The incident oceur
! red In 1S04, when Preble was lying off
j Tripoli. Young Decatur had been told
! that the captain of this vessel had
i treacherously murdered his brother,
I John Decatur, after he had surrendered
to him.- Mr. Allen writes: "He j-an
! alongside and at once boarded with
Macdonough and the remnant of his
j crew. Decatur singled out the captain,
I a man of great.size and strength, and
I attacked him furiously. The Tripoli
tan made a thrust with his boarding
pike, and in attempting to parry the
blow Decatur's cutlass was broken off
at the hilt, leaving him for the mo
ment unarmed. Another thrust of the
pike wounded him in the arm. Decatur
seized the weapon, wrenched it away
and grappled with his antagonist. Aft
er a short struggle they fell to the deck,
with Decatur on top.
"Meanwhile the twojrews were fight
ing furiously about their leaders, and
a Tripolitan aimed a blow at Decatur's
head with his scimiter, when a seaman
named Daniel Frazier, having both
arms disabled by wounds, interposed
his head and received the blow, which
laid open the scalp. The Tripolitan
captain, being more powerful than De
catur, soon turned him underneath and,
holding him down with his left hand,
drew a knife and was about to plunge
It into his breast.
"Decatur seized the uplifted arm
with his left hand, while he managed
to get his right into his pocket, where
he had a pistol. Giving it the proper
direction, he fired through the pocket.
The giant relaxed his hold and fell
dead. Having lost seventeen killed, in
cluding their leader, the seven surviv
ing Tripolitans. four of whom were
wounded, soon gnve up the fight."
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CAST STEEL.
. The first steel castings made in this
country were railroad-crossing frogs,
made in 18C7 from crucible steel of
about the same hardness as tool steel,
with a smooth surface, but honey
combed throughout, and far-from per
fect. The improved Besmer pro
cesses were not in successful use for
fifteen or twenty years later.
Now almost any shape which can
be cast in gray of mailable iron can
be made in cast steel. For large and
small marine castings, and in car and
locomotive work, cast steel is taking
the place of cast, mailable, and
wrought iron, for many large and
small parts from couplers, journal
boxes and wheels to rods, truck frames
DID YOU EVER WONDER,
Why a baby carriage isn't known aa
a cry cycle?
Why it is so much easier to be wrong
than it is to be president?
Why some people manage to talk a
great deal without saying anything?
Why so many of our coming men
seem to be handicapped from the start?
Why the company that issues the
map has Ihe only curveless railroad
thereon?
Why the average man invariably
mantes a fool of himself every time he
tries to act up ?
Why men are nearly always embar
rassed whfn they propose either finan
cially or otherwise?
Why so many men who are anxious
to work when sickare just as anxious
to avoid itjwben well?
j Why some men are not as black as
they are painted and some are not as
white as they are whitewashed? Cin
cinnati Enquirer, s ,
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They- Didn't Have Time,
A short time ago some men w
engaged in putting up telegraph poles
on some land belonging to an old farm
er who disliked seeing his wheat
trampled down, according to the vera
cious Register of Great Bend, Kan.
The men produced a paper by which
they said .they had leave to put the
poles where they pleased. The old
farmer went back and turned a large
bull in the field. The savage beast
made after the men, and the old farm
er, seeing them running from the field,
shouted at the top of his voice: "Show
him the paper! Show him the paper!"
ALL THE WORLD
knows that Ballard's .Snow Liniment
'has no superior for. Rheumatism,' Stiff
I Joints, Cuts, Sprains, Lumbago and all
pains. Buy it. try it and you will al
i ways use it. Any body who has used
; Ballard's Snow Liniment is a living
j proof of what it does. All we ask of
difference in the owner. The -feeder
of the $00 cows was a student. He
studied the question' of breeding a
good cow, what and how to feed and
how to care for her. He read a dairy
paper weekly, and filed away for fu
'ture reference bulletins from agri-
you it get a trial
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bottle. Huntley
Colonist's tickets will be sold from
the East to points on the Oregon lines
of the Southern Pacific Co. via Port
land, commencinsr February 15 and
cultural colleges, and studied a book ' continuing daily to and Including April
on "Feeds and Feeding," which cost 7 and from September 15 until October
him $2.00. He owned and operated a
Babcock test, and scales being conv
venient to his milk in the barn, the
weight of each cow's milk night and
morning was recorded. In payment
31. The ratps from some of the princi
pal points are: Chicago, $25; Bloom
ington. "111.. $31.80; St. Louis, $30;
Omaha, $25; Kansas City, $25; Coun
cil Bluffs, $25; St. Joseph, $25; Sioux
for the exercise of brains he received , City, $25; Denver, $25; corresponding
$35 more per cow from his milk for rates will be made from other points
the year than did his neighbor. A ! and will appear to all points on Ore
profitable dairy was 'the reward of his gon lines.
industry. j Persons desiring to pay for tick-
The $25 man used to laugh at his 1 ets to bring anyone from the East or
$G0 neighbor and call him a book ! middle West to Oregon may deposit
farmer, saying that he'd see the day the amount required with the local
when he could afford to spend his time '- agent of the S. P. The company will
in the corn field rather than with his ' do the rest. For further information
cows, but that time seems further off inquire at any Southern Pacific ticket
than ever. The $25 man didn't believe , office.
in studying dairy questions. He knew j -
a cow would give plenty of milk ' Portland Evening Telegram, daily.
on any kind of feed, all that she re-,1 and the Weekly Enterprise, both one
quired was plenty of it. He knew that year, for $5.50.
it didn't pay to pump warm water for
the winter drink, and he was Very
sure that the weighing and testing
tor LaFollette said he had good rea-1 business was a, humbug and unneces-
son to suspect that the grain carry-: ary- iub ibsuh piuim. xuai man
lng roads were just as crooked as any received $25 each per year from his
of the oil or coal roads. He said that cows in milk; it was $5 more per head
some of the largest elevators in the than the feed cost. He and his child
grain belt were owned by practically ren worked and tugged all summer
the same men who owned the rail- making feed for these cows and real-
that ized a mere pittance tor their trouDie-
Tf"TT JT . 0 A care guaranteed If you use
PILES fln SaKJodtoifl
a ahw n Matt. Thompson, Sup't
Graded Schools. StatesT.Ile, N. C, writes: "i can aj
they do all you claim for them." Dr. S. M. Devore,
Karen Rock, W. Va., writes ; They sire universal sai:
raetioo." Dr. H. D. JfcGlll, Clartsbar?, Tvbd., write :
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S 11 bt raft I on.
A teacher in a western public school
was giving her class the first lesson in
subtraction. "Now. in order to sub
tract," she explained, "thhigs have to
be always of the same, denomination.
For instance, we -on!-.lu"t take three
apples from t:mv pe:irs or s'x horses
from nine dog?."
A hand went i:p in t!;e back part of
the room.
"Teacher." shor.ted :i small hoy.
"can't you take four quarts of milk
from three cows?" IIfir;er's Weekly.
With the Uiuc on it.
Grayce Edytlie is rivt.y foy. Sh"
won't say ony.liing a'vjut her lore a:"
fairs, but I b:i'.-e a:i idea thru slie !:a
finally a?ve;t?d yoir: Sanlelgh. OKiJy
-In that case slic U aft to soon sho
i.'itv! I. on's r" '" ( ' ;;i -ie '-.Toti'via
.Stevcn50u" Lnrt Toast.
' A beautiful testimony to one's home
loves was pud by Uobert Louis Ste
venson at a thanksgiving dinner in Sa
moa. "There, ou my right," said Steven
son, replying to an unexpected propos
al of "The Host," "sits she who has
but lately from our own loved native
land come baok to me she whom,
with no lessening of affection to those
others to whom 1 cling, I love better
than all the world besides my mother.
From the opposite end of the table, !
my wife, who baa been all In all to me, j
when the days were very dark, looks
tonight into my eyes while we have j
both grown a bit older with undimin j
ished and undiminishable affection."
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Fireworks originated in the thir-;
J teenth century, along with the evolu
tion of powder and cannon. They-
! were first employed by the Floren
tines, and later the use of fireworks
became popular in Rome at the crea
tion of the Popes.
. The first fireworks which resembles
those which we see nowadays were
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roads that carried the srrain.
there was more than suspicion of co-' The $25 man is grumbling dairy- Sold in Oregon City by Huntley Bros, manufactured by Torre, an Italian ar
lusion between the elevators and the ins don't 'pay. His butter tests do not ( Call for Free Sample. tist, and displayed in Paris in 1764.
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