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A Remarkable showing.
The statement of the foreign
commerce of the United States for
the calendar year 1891, just issued
"fey the bureau of statistics, makes
the most remarkable showing for
the export trade in the history of
the country'. The December state
ment that completes the year is
the most favorable ever issued. In
that month the United States ex
ported merchandise to the value
of $119,932,532. This wonderful
total was never reached before.
It was never approached, except
in the two preceding months of
November and October, when the
figures, respectively, reached $110,
103,536 and $102,877,213. Never
before October, 1891, did the value
ot exports reach the $100,000,000
mark. The total exports for the
last quarter of 1891 were thus
$332,913,311 a sum larger than
the value of the total of exports for
any entire year before 1870, with !
two exceptions.
The exports for the full year
were $970,50G,2S2, exceeding those
ot the banner year 18S0 by over
$80,000,000.
The showing of the trade bal
ances for the last quarter is as re
markable as the export record.
The excess of exports over imports
in December was $50,4S7,877 ; in
November, $45,218,235, and in
October, $36,040,708. This repre
sents almost the trade balance for
the year, the total excess of ex
ports over imports of merchandise
for the twelve months being $142,
193,636. In spite of the favorable balance
the year closed without bringing
back the gold that was sent over
in the spring. The gold exports
took altogether $79,0S8,312 of
gold, and in spite of the heavy
purchases of Europe from the
United States only $44,970,110
came back. That $34,118,202 has
been kept by Europe in spite of
the balance of trade shows with
what desperation the statesmen
and financiers of the old world are
struggling to secure gold for the
future. To hold it the European
countries have sacrificed goods and
American securities held abroad to
a large amount. San Francisco
Examiner.
No, the United States doesn't
amount to much. As the London
Times says, we are a set of brag
ging blusterers; but yet a few facts
are in order. For instance, in '91
the tonnage of the Detroit river, a
narrow little stream in the north
ern part of North America,
reached an aggregate exceeding
the tonnage of all the shipping of
London and Liverpool. The ton
nage of the Sault Ste Marie canal,
a little insignificant canal was
greater for six months of '91, than
the tonnage of the Suez canal for
the entire year. The value of the
cotton grown in seven of the forty
four states of the Union in '91 was
$400,000,000, exceeding the Brit
ish revenue from its most extensive
empire. The total manufactures of
this country for '91 was $1,750,000
more in value than the manufact
ures of Great Britain for the same
period. Brethren let us pray that
our minds may be disabused from
prejudice. Ex.
A country physician, laboring
snder the most trying circum
stances, writes to the city doctor
for imformation as follows : "Dear
dock I hav a pashunt whos phisi
col sines shoes that the windpipe
was ulcerated of, and his lungs has
dropped intoo his stumick. He is
ratable to swoller and I feer his
stumick tube is. gon. 1 hav' giv
hyroevry thing without effeckt.
his father is welthy Onerable and
Nifluenshial. he is an active mem
Ber of the M. E. church and god
ros I Hoot want to loose hym.
what shall I due. ans. by reurne
sale, yours in needed
It does us good to- see every
house in town occupied, but we
shoald have more dwellings for
mat,
A STISON03IY AND THE BIBLE.
Astronomers can calculate back
ward. As they can foretell the
exact date of an eclipse or reckon
the return of a comet hundreds of
years from now, so they can turn
to the past and give the dates of
unusual appearances in the celes
tial sphere hundreds of years ago.
The time ot the birth of Christ,
according to the Bible description,
is substantiated by astronomy, and
even iufidel astronomers have been
compelled to testify that in about
the year 1 there was a very strange
unaccountable display among the
heavenly bodies. Relying upon
the strength of these facts, Lieut.
Totten, of Yale, is after Bob Inger
soll, and the irreverent colonel will
have to get down from his lofty
peak of the imagination and an
swer the hard, cold, stubborn facts
of astronomy and calculus. Bob
says that the sun never obeyed
Joshua nor did the moon rest over
the valley of Ajalon. Totten says
that astronomy shows that Josh
ua's day was forty-seven hours and
twenty minutes and that the valley
of Ajalon was the exact place the
moon would have been in case the
revolution of the earth was ar
rested as Joshua praj'ed it should
be. He also says that Chinese,
Jewish and Grecian history all
give account of a day of forty-seven
hours and twenty minutes just
about that time. So, too, in the
prophecy of Isaiah, in the book of
Kings, that the sun-dial of Ileze-
kiah should be turned back ten
degrees or forty minutes. Totten
says that unless it was so the facts
of astronomy could not have ex
isted. The eclipses of the sun
right on down from that time
show that there must have been a
day of forty.seven hours and
twenty minutes and that the dial
must have turned back forty min
utes to have made up the two days
complete. When it comes to as
tronomy Bob is not in it.
. The declination of Mr. Blaine as
a candidate before the next repub
lican national convention is a
grievous announcement to his
large circle of personal admirers
and political friends. Mr. Blaine is
the undoubted choice of his party
for the nomination, but his positive
refusal will not be disastrous in
any way to party prospects in the
outcome, as opposing partisan pa
pers would have us believe. This
announcement makes Mr. Harri
son's renomination a reasonable
certainty, and harmonizes all the
factional disturbances in the party
organization. The Secretary real
izes the importance to the finan
cial and material interests of the
country, of the success of the repub
lican party, and urges devotion to
duty as the safest plan for the
party in the coming contest. Party
leaders will do well to heed Mr.
Blaine's advice.
The outlook for railway work
for 1892 is brighter than tha out
look of year ago. One of the most
significant signs is that 600,000
tons of new steel rails have al
ready been contracted for! This
amount alone is equivalent to
6000 miles of new track if laid only
on new lines. Much of it will
doubtless be laid for renewals, but
contracts already out for 6,000
miles of new rails before the be
gimng-of the year furnishes a very
healthy indication for the prospect
both of the iron and steel and the
railway building industries during
the coming year. Exchange.
What the orange lands are to
California the prune lands are to
Oregon and Washington. These
states produce the finest prunes in
the world, and with care in the
cultivation will some day be able
to supply the entire market of the
United States, which heretofore
has been, supplied by Austria,
Hungary, Italy and France. The
lands along the Willamette river
are capable of supplying the en
tire home market. Read the
article in the Gazette "Fruit Cul
ture in Oregon."
Our democratic exchanges speak
favorably of J udge Burnett, of this
city, for supreme judge to succeed
Judge Strahan. As we have said
; before, J udge Burnett would poll
, as many democratic votes as any
other man in the party, but Ore
gon is republican on a party vote
by about 10,000 majority.
HONESTY IN POLITICS.
Independence in politics is keep
ing pace with the progress of
events. It manifests itself in every
section of the country today as it
has never done before. Partisan
ship is giving way to local self-
interests and the recognition of
individual benefits. Real issues,
instead of political heresies, are
presented to the people tor their
independent and thoughtful con
sideration. Personal or private
characters of candidates are no
more regarded as points in politi
cal campaigns. Candidates are sup
posed to repi-esent principles, and
it is not the province of thinking
people to inquire into the secrets
of their private lives.
Independence in politics is hon
esty in politics. To exercise a con
scientions conviction is the duty of
every patriotic American. It is
right that men should have opin
ions; but false opinions indicate n
false man.
STANFORD'S SCHEME.
Senators Pefler and Stanford
joining hands on a grand scheme to
convert the United States treasury
into a pawnbroker's shop is a sight
to make the good angels weep.
Boston Herald.
Senator Stanford and his follow
ers think an issue of $100,000,000
of government notes based on
farm mortgages would furnish a
sound circulating medium. Then,
what do they want with silver?
Philapelphia Inquirer.
If Senator Stanford wants to
help the professional politica
farmers he can best do it by open
ing up his barrel and making a try
for the presidency. He should
not try to make the country pay
the expenses of his little boom.
St. Louis Star-Sayings.
Senator Stanford made a speech
yesterday in favor of his Utopian
scheme to loan $100,000,000 of
treasury notes to farmers at 2 per
cent per annum. Why doesn't he
try the experiment on his own ac
count for awhile ? He has plenty
of money and there are. lots of
farmers in California ready to bor
row it. Denver Republican.
An exchange says that a move
ment is on loot to have a conven
tion of assessors of Oregon. Some
of the assessors hare written to
the state board of equalization,
favoring such a meeting. Oregon
now has thirl y-one assessors, and
it is thought some excellent prac
tical results might be attained by
holding a general convention. The
secretary of the board has pre
pared a circular letter to be sent
to the assessors for the holding of
such a meeting in Portland at the
St. Charles hotel on February 26,
1892, at 10 o'clock.
The Salem cannery added one
hundred families to the population
of that city, and last year used the
product from 1100 acres of land in
vegetables alone, besides purchas
ing large quantities of prunes,
peaches, pears, cherries and ber
ries. In addition to its vast benefit
to the community, it pays a fair
dividend to stockholders. Rose
burg Review.
An exchange states that "Presi
dent William Henry Harrison, the
ninth president of the United
States, lived only thirty-one days
after his inauguration to the office,
in March, 1839." That is where
you are wrong. Mr. Harrison was
not elected until November, 1840,
and died April 4, 1S41, after being
in office just one month.
One of our best and newsiest
exchanges is the Portland Evening
Telegram. It comes to us this week
in a new dress and presents an ex.
cellent appearance. Politically, we
do not agree with the Telegram,
but it is liberal and reasonable in
the exposition of its political princi
ples, and we wish it all manner of
prosperity.
An exchange suggests that all
sons of veterans, who were born
since the war, ought to receive
pensions from the government, be
cause had their fathers been killed
they may not have .been born.
The poor boys ran an awful risk.
Chauncey M. Depew says Presi
dent Harrison's renomination is a
settled fact since Mr. Blaine has
declined. - ' ,
DA VID B. HILL.
It would truly be a sad com
mentary on our democratic, fed
eral government to have for its
chief magistrate such - a character
as David B. Hill. That man is
not the representative of prin
ciples, but is the embodiment of
political filth and official corrup
tion. Througn his trickery and
demagoguery New York state has
been permanently secured to the
control-!" the Tammany ring a
ring, the leadership ot which is
tainted with infamy and spotted
with crime.
Some one has suggested a com
parison between Cleveland and
Hill. It is easv to make. The one,
ike Blaine Harrison and McKin-
ley, though differing in political
ideas, is a statesman Grover
Cleveland, an honest and sincere
man; the other is the true and
tried tool of the Tammany gang, a
shyster and dry-rot politican
David B. Hill, a man not fit to
grace a senatorial seat. Is it possi
ble that the democratic party will
sustain such a leadership the com
ing campaign? We think not. It
does not seem possible.
Governor Pennoyer is regarded
as a presidential candidate by a
Washington city paper. The gov
ernor, however, is not ready for
the position yet. After his guber
natorial term is expired he wants to
preside over the management of
his saw-mill for a few more years.
Governor Pennoyer generally
knows what he is doing.
a
George W. Peck, Wisconsin
funny governor, is a candidate for
the vice-presidential nomination
on the democratic ticket. That's
good. But the democrats will
need more than a Peck to pull
them over the rocky road to the
white house next November.
The Louisiana democrats are
talking old-time tactics the shot
gun and the rifle for campaign pur
poses. As there are only two tick
ets in the field, the democrats and
the democrats, it is likely that the
democrats will continue to hold
the offices.
Chinese women who marry
American citizens, it has been de
cided, will be admitted to this
country. Taken in conjunction
with our superior divorce facilities,
what a field of industry is thus
opened up. Ex.
I
Bradstreet's reports eighteen
failures in the Pacific coast states
and territories for the week end
ing February 6lh, as compared
with thirteen for the previous week
and twenty for the corresponding
week of 1S9 1.
Harry Miller's boom struck
Portland last Wednesday evening,
when he went down there to at
tend the meeting of the republican
committee, and the people thought
it was an earthquake Eugene
Journal.
The Northwest Progress is a
new paper just issued at Mon
mouth with prohibition procliv
ities. It looks nice and may do
well, but Monmouth is the grave
yard of several good-looking news
papers. Nebraska furnishes rather a
unique sample of dilatory justice.
A convict, has just been granted a
new trial, but investigation showed
that he had served his sentence
and only wanted to be let alone.
Sunday is St. Valentine's day
a day the observance of. which
will soon be obsolete. Let it go;
it is a day on which spite is ram
pant. Humanity is progressing
now..
President Arnold's place in the
college will be hard to fill with the
efficiency that characterized his
efforts. He was a teacher of ac
knowledged ability.
Matthew Stanley Quay has
come clear after all this talk of
corruption. That's all right. It
was a clear case in a great many
respects. See?
The carnage factory is an evi
dence of downright enterprise. . It
took pluck to commence such an
enterprise, and it shows that en
ergy is abroad.
Mr. Blaine's letter is conclusive.
His' influence, however, will be
felt in the presidential race, ' .
Toji Platt, the boss, don't want
Harrison for a second term, and
the people don't want Tom Piatt's
advice for president making or un
making. That's all.
The atrocious intensity of grippe
is such that the person in doubt as
to whether he has had it, can safely
make affidavit that it has never
touched him.
Boyd will be governor of Ne
braska alter all. Thayer shrinks
under the high-court decision and
turns over the office to the people's
choice.
Corvallis property is increasing
in values. It will pay to invest in
real estate here and the home
seeker cannot find a healthier lo
cality. It now looks like Hill's snap
convention would give the New
York delegation to Cleveland in
June.
Induce your eastern friend to
come to Corvallis and locate by
sending him the Gazette.
It looks brighter for Corvallis
this year than ever before. Pros
perity awaits us.
Mr. Cleveland does not seem to
be "on the decline" just yet. How
about it, anvhow ?
TIMELY TALK.
Editor Gazette:
Is it not time for us to pause and
cosider; yes, and to act when the
young lads of t his enlightened city
are seen to reel home in a state of
intoxication? What can a man I
beg man's pardon. I should have
said male, for he can not be a man
in the fullest sense of the word
be thinking who will sell his self
respect and his soul for filthy lucre
by giving to a boy intoxicating
drink? Can that same male think
that perhaps his own son may live
to curse the day that his father
ever entered such a foul and de
grading business? Stop and con
sider, ye men for thus we must
designate you what ye are
doing. Yes. and God will require
an account of the souls you have
ruined. Are you willing to meet
the judgment dealt out to you by
this just judge? Think of the
souls you have ruined and the ac
count of them to be rendered and
shudder at the result.
Yes, one day last Aveek a boy of
about nineteen years was seen be
ing led home by his little brother
and a friend so horribly drunk
that he could not walk, and when
lifted into the saddle he had not
the control of himself to be able
to keep his seat.
Picture, if yon can, the scene as
he arrives in this condition at his
home and is met by the loving
ones. The mother's tears and the
sister's sorrow. May God soon send
the milleniiim that all such scenes
may beiorcver blotted out of ex
istence. X.
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Head one Solid Sore. Itching Awful.
Hud to Tio His Hands to Cradle,
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a solid sore from the crown
to bis eyebrows, it was
also all over bis ears, mott
of his face, and small places
on different parts of bis
body. There were sixteen
weeks that we bad to keep
bis bands tied toUiecradle
and bold them bcn be
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