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Porttmbrnry : IF YOU DOfi'T READ IF YOU SEE IT Irt .1 The Plaindealer The Plaindealer i You Don't Get the News. IT IS SO. Vol. XXVII. ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1896. No. 23. Ta M. CRAWFOKD, Attorney at Law, Room S, Marsters BnUdlnr. - R03EBOKQ, OR. VB05lncss bcforo the U. 3. Lund OBlcc and mfnlug cases k specialty. Lite Receiver D. a Land Office CrOKQE X. BROWS. jROWN & TUSTCN, Attorneys-at-Law, Rooms? and S Jit Wilson Block. ROSEBURG, OR. w. R. WILLIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Will trcUct In all tia courts of the BUI. Of. ie fa the Court House, DongUs eoontj-. Or. c. A. SEHLBREDE, Attorney at Law, Ofico oTr the Fiwtofiea on Jtekaoa street. w. W. CARDWELL, Attorney at Law, ROSEBURG, OREGON. Li Fayette Lane. Jcdge L. Loccujlkt JANE & LO UGHARY, Attorneys & Counselors at Law Moiebnrg, Oregon. Vi 111 prattle la 11 the foarU of Oregon. Of Sec la the Hrlar-Wilxm block. P B. OOFFMAN, Physician and Surgeon (C. S. ETHTninlng Surgeon.) OFFICE. Koobh 6 and 7 M inters' Bulldinr. Residence. First door South of Mrs. Currier's I Boarding House. ES? Special attention to Surgery and lb Disease of Wonen. jT J. OZIAS, 31. D., Physician and Surgeon, ROSEBURG, OR. OSce in S. Marks & Co-'s Block, upstairs. Calls promptly answered day or night. J L. TiTTT.T.FiR, M. D., Surgeon and Homoeopathio Physician, SMhuv, Oregon. gaCVroaie diawsea a pecialty. YILL. P. HEYDON, County Surveyor, and JJotary rtxlillc. Omcz: la Court House. mbn tor Rnrmlnr aadTieM Soles aheeld tie sAltrased' to VflD. P.Hejcon, County Sax; Tcycr, Koseburg.or. P. BRIGGS, U.S. Deputy Mineral Bnrrcjor and notary Public. Omcx: County Jail Bunding-, up stairs. IW Spccll attention paid to Transfers and toaTeyanees. Address, ROSEBURG. OR. JERRY J. WILSON, Watchmaker and Jeweler, 4xz Jackson Street, At Lucrsscn"! Ggar Factory. ROSEBURG. .All Repairing entrnsted to my care -will be PROMPTLY and carefully done. PRICES REASONABLE. Slv3 HJC sa C?SUL WOODWARD THE ROSEBUEG Does Up ALL COMPETITORS! We are always in the Lead, and mean to keep there. The Golden Harvest is upon us, and farm ers aro smiling because Woodward loots to their interest. BUGGY ILtWNsE&S Full Trimmed TEAM HARNESS These are all Leather and Warranted. SADDLES At Reduced Prices. Consult your pane and he tore and so Woodward before buying. W. 6. WOODWARD To the Public. On and after this date, I wish it under stood that my terms for all undertaker's goods are cash with tbe order. I And it impossible to do business on a crcdi- my patrons and myself by selling strictly for cash. P. Besedick, Undertaker, Roseburg, Ore., April 12, 1895. A. SALZMAN, (Successor to J. JASKUI.EK.) Practical : Watchmaker, : Jeweler : and : Optician. DEALER IS WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELKY, AND FANCY GOODS. X&SXsJLs.B.smjt ao. HI xr:S. jsX-y Gonuluo I2Sr-iiv.ilIii.il 13 vo A COMl'LKTE STOCK OF Cutlery, Notions, Tobacco, Cigars unci Smokers' Articles. Also Proprietor and Jlanager or Rosoburg's Famous Itargnin Store. "WE SELL Charter Oak AND COOK STOVES. The Best Stove ;is Always the CHEAPEST. CHURCHILL, WOOLLEY & MCKENZIE'S Roseburg Hardware Co. Having decided to retire (commencing Monday, April 20th) 1 will oner , my entire stock of Dry Goods and Clothing, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, FURNISHING G00D5, FANCY GOODS, ETC., AT COST. Remember these are New and Fresh Goods, direct from the markets of Chicaeo and New York, and those who take advantage of this sale will save money. ggPAlso, Store Fixtures for Sale. A.CMRSTERS&C A LIME PLASTER A FULL LIME OF ALL ORDERS GIiihscs niitl Spcctuclcs THE FAMOUS superior ING C OT from business in Roseburg, Y'ours Truly, 0. Choice Collection, at Prices that Sell. AND CEMENT. WINDOW GLASS PROMPTLY PILLED. PRINCIPLES, NOT HEN. This was a great rallying cry, in polit ical campalgna oyer a quarter of a cen tury ago and should bo today. This meant, not that the man should bo overlooked, but that he would be over shadowed! by the greater principle of tlio party ho represented. But alas, thero has been bo much disappointment and, I might say, disgrace, from tho act ion of agents supposed to personify great mcaures, that we are strongly dispoEed to bo more careful in this later day, in tho choice of the instruments in the carrying out of theso great measures of progress and reform. It will not do, as was expected of you, to consider every man who stands for a principle to bo above, eelfish ambition or 'aggrandize ment. Today we need prliiciples and men. We, as much as ever, need to bo guided by lofty principles, and noble purposes, but wo must bo more careful into whoso keeping we entrust the exe cution of these sacred obligations. Tiie republican party is sponsor for all the great, progressive movements in this couutry for the past thirty years, and wo are today, as a nation, paying dearly for the blunder of letting tho reins of gov ernment slip through that party's hands. Wo are suffering from a business stagna tion and depression, unknown in extent, heretofore, in tho history of our country. But, thank GoJ, tho remedy is near. Not too near, however, to prevent hard ship and even suffering, jTho silent wheel, tho noiteless workshop, the closed portals to the former bivrs of in dustry. Our waning commerce, the idle artisan, the pale, thlnly'elad mother and shoeless children. These and a hundred other direful evidences of our great mistake, confront us at every hand, throughout the length and breadth of this once happy and contented land. I tie question cl the kind ol money our people shall get in return for their labor, is dwarfed, at least for the present, over shadowed by the fact of getting it at all. One compensation, however, is ours. An important lesson has been learned, And not only to ourselves, making us the more energetic, more deeply inter ested in the conduct of our national af fairs, bnt also to the teachable members of other parties, who realize at hut, that the tinio honored traditions and historic memories of the past, will not release us from this thraldom, but the restoration of a living, active principle cf political economy, and the thirty or mcrothon 1 find newlv made ibv a smart trick) ad ministration democratic votereTwili he swept aside like a cobweb before the avalanche of suffragists, democrats side by side with republicans, at the coming national elections, eager to repair a great injury, and restore to our beloved coun try the .'genius of onr prosperity, tho overshadowing principle of the hour, Protection to American Industry. The subject is too great for this limited article, and we turn to the next import ant question, having the principle be fore us: who is the man that today stands before his country pre-eminently the exponent and embodiment of this great principle? Of the other parties, Bland means silver, Cleveland, the op posite extreme, and Weaver, a wide range of populistie theories, but protec tion is McKinley. And this important fast is echoed from Maine to tho gulf, from tbe Atlantic to tbc Pacific, in a clear cut, unmistakable mauner, not to be mis-interpreted or misunderstood I am glad to know the republican party is not a one man party, that all tho excellence and virtue in the party is not confined to one man, or that ouly ono man is Iparchance available s leader; that its nominations never go begging, but that we as a party are proud ol such stalwarts ol republicanism as Reed, Harrison, Allison, and a scoro of others, good men and true, strong pro tective and sound money men, but the conclusion is inevitable, the man of the hour and for the exigency is McKinley R. E. The Champion's Belt. Accordiug to the latest intelligence from the East, Bob l'itzsimmons is mak ing preparations to visit England, A particular friend of Lanky Bob, a resi dent of this city, received a letter from "the champion" not very long ago, and it terminated thusly : "Yes, friend: I am going to London, and if Corbett persists in putting stumbling blocks in my way 1 will do with him as ho lias done to me. If Peter Jackson is anything liko what ho was when we last saw him in this country, I will turu the championship to Peter. You know that Jackson has tried every means to get a return match with Cor bett, but Artful lames has always avoided a second meeting with Gentle inan Peter. Now, if Jackson i3 in any kind of con dition. I will transfer thu title I hold to him, and Corbett must then light Jack son or get off the earth, 1 had a letter from I)ndon not very long ago and the writer said that Jackson was not half us bad, physically, as the correspondents of American papers reported him to bo. Jackson can make a good light yot, and I have every reason to beliovo that ho will punch tho head oil' of Corbett if tho two will ever meet. If Peter suffera de feat I will meet Corbett. Exchange. The U. S. Gov't Reports show Royal Baking Powdci suoerlor to all others. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. The Douglas County Sunday School Association held its annual meeting in the First Baptist church of Roseburg, May 15, 1G and 17. A short session was called Friday evening, all me omcers ueiDg present. President Sehlbrede stated briefly the object of the convention. After a song service, and recitation by little Mies May Neil, the convention adj'ourned until 9 :30 Saturday morning. Meeting called to order Saturday morn ing at 10 o'clock by President Sehlbrode. This being a business session, after the opening services, the yearly reports of all the officers were read and approved. In the afternoon, plans for conven tional work were opened by F. W. Wcolley and discuseed by President Sehlbrede, E. 31. Lyons of Myrtle Creek, Rev. John L. Jones and others. Brother Lyons spoke very earnestly in favor of dividing the county into districts, and thus have more definite work done. A committee wa3 appointed and their re port accepted, dividing tho county into seven districts, their centers being Can- yonville, Ten Mile, Roseburg, Oakland, Drain, Gardiner and Coles Valley. A committee was also appointed to purchase and arrange a map of the coun ty, tpon which the different Sunday Schools were located. Said map to be taheu to tho Btate convention, Very interesting and instructive dis cussions upon important Sunday School subjects were brought forth, causing an interchange of idea and plans beneficial to all. The Sunday Schools represented were as follows: Roseburg Christian, .1. G. Flook; Methodist, F. W. Woolley ; Presbyterian, P. Benedict; Baptist, Miss Delia Brown; United Brethren, C. T. Gazelle. Edenbower Methodist, MarkC. Mun sou. Pine Grove Union, C. T. Brown. Myrtlo Creek Union. E. M. Lyons. Oakland Methodist, Miss Julia Ray mond. Winchester Congregational, Zopcr Agee. Dillard and Civil Bend Mis. S. L. Dillard. The same officers were re-elected for the ensuing year, it being thought policy not to change as they have tbe Sunday School work of the county well in hand. Bills to the amouut of $2.45 were read and apprvoed after the payment of which the balance not to exceed .the amount, be sent to settle our state pledge of $15. Rev. Kennedy advocated that a grand union Sanday School picnic be held in Roseburg some time during tbe summer, which met with general approval. Adj'ourned until evening. Meeting called to order at S o'clock by President Sehlbrede ; Eong, Peace be Still ; prayer by Rev. McLain, after which the Bap tist and Christian combined choir rend ered a very pleasant song. The address of welcome was delivered by E. D. Stratford in a very hearty man ner. He expressed the thanks of tbe good people of Roseburg in a very cordial and sympathetic manner. Tbe respons?, by E. M. Lyons of Myr tle CreeV, was delivered in a pleasant way. He tendered the thanks of the delegates and friends for the kind and hospitable reception given to each. The Baptist choir then favored tho con gregation by singing an anthem, which was appreciated by all. Rev. John L. Jones delivered an ad dress stating who should he Sunday School scholars ; that the older people should constitute a large part of the Sun day Schcol congregation . Also that the children wiold a mighty influence in the world and that many useful lessons can bo drawn from them, proving that the voung had the needed energy, which, when developed, will stand in the mighty causo of Christianity. After a tong tho following programme was rendered : Recitation, Jay Woodruff. Recitation, Emma Sehlbrede. Recitation, Miss Julia Raymond. Recitation, Walter Faulkner. Reading, Mis3 Daisy Dilwoith. Collection taken, fl.GL', Dismissed by song and prayer. Sunday morning at 10 o'clock the Sun day School met in their respective places and marched to the Baptist church, where a grand union was held, conduct ed by President Sehlbredo. A very prof itable and happy hour was spent on the lesson. Tho evening service consisted of ser mons by Revs. Kennedy and McLain. Both aro eloquent men and tho congre gation was much enthused by their well directed discourses. President Sehlbredo stated briefly the work douo and proposed by tho conven tion, and at prayer by Key. Jones every body felt that Hie meetings had been profitable and instructive, and that Doug las county had a bright future in storo for its Sunday School. M.utK C. Munsox, Rec. Secretary. To the Public. I have bought the moat market for merly run by J. Bitzer, and will continue at tho old stand. I shall endeavor to furnish tho pcoplo of Roseburg with tho best of meat, hoping to get a share of tho public patrunniiG. and that Bitzer's old patrons will stay with mo. I am, yours to please, II. T. Bii-mii. Sheep dip at Marsters'. 'AMERICA'S GREATEST.' 'Tis midnight. A dim light is burning in the Private Den of the Greatest News paper on Earth. In the middle of the room stands a table with some strange looking instruments lying upjn it. On one side of the room sits Michael Liber, pen in hand, with great stacks of manu script piled up before him for the next issue ; on the other is the steel cage in which tbe maniac editor impatiently walks to and fro, jangling his chains and muttering to himself. A step is heard, the door opens softly and Freddie Freshet and E. JlcSweeper enter, carrying between them the ap parently lifeless body of a man. The scribe at the desk looks up from his pa pers and asks: "What have you there, slaves?" "A man," answered Mc- Sweeper "whom we found in the neigh borhood of Council No. 22, and we sus pect tuat lie is an A. if. A. will your Highnes3 please investigate';" "A. P. A.l" howled the maniac from his cage, "Ough! let me have his blood!" "Silence," commanded the scribe, lay him on the table, while I examine into his mental condition." The limp body wa3 stretched on the table and the scribe, turning a powerful X ray upon the victim's brain, spoke as follows: "He has views of his own on all ques tions, especially in politics, and refuses to be govrrned by political bosses. He does not believe in the state supporting any sectarian institutionwhatever, but believes that our public schools should be protected. He belieyes in the taxa tion of all church property. He does not believe in the enlistment in the army or navy of any one not a citizen of the United States. He thinks that the im portation of pauper labor should be pro hibited," "Yes," he added, after wip ing the perspiration from his brow, "he has strong symptoms of A. P. A.ism, very strong symptoms. Tnrn him loose, and I will give him a wnto-up in to morrow's issue." fbe scribe returned to his desk; Freshet and McS weeper lifted the body from the table and departed, and, save for the occasional muttering3 from tbe steel cage, and tho scratch of the pen at tbc desk, silence prevailed in the Pri vate Den of the Greatest Newspaper on Earth, with a circulation of 7,777,777 On the dawning of the second day after the transpiring of the little .inci dent jast described, the dead body of a man was found on tbc pavement. In one hand he grasped a copy of the Greatest Newspaper on Earth, and his glassy eye3 seemed to stare at an art icle on the top of the page. We recog nizehimasthe victim of the X ray in vestigation of two nights before, and tho article as the promised "write-up." He had died like the Philistines of old. Piper. Yoncalla Scool Report. The following is the report of Yo callajschool for the month ending May S, 1S96. No. enrolled, 115. No. days attendance. 1941. No. days absence, 53. Average No. belonging, 100. Ayerage daily attendance, 97. Those obtaining SO per cent or upward in examination are : Eighth Grade. Gertrude Lamb, 97 Manley Strawn, 95; Chas. Watnsley, S9 Alva Wise, S3. Seventh Grade. Warren Burt, 94 Rae Applegate, 92; Arthur Burt, t'l Jennie Bottler, 90; John Barns, SS Flora Shipley, S3 ; Blanche Dougherty, S3; Sidney Helli well, S2; Sixth Grade. Clydo Woodson, 95 EddFegler, 92; Benj. Huntington, 92 Mary Bull, SO. Fifth Grade. Emily Devoro, 91 Clay Dovore, 92 ; John Hangleperg, 92 Divino Cook, SS; Mabel Kinman, SS Emma Derrick, SS; Eva Applegate, SI Eve Applegate, S2 ; Frank Derrick, 82 Lloyd Wise, S2; Benjamin Buttler, SO Fourth Grade. Josie Hangleberg, S4 Herman Thiele, S3. Ttiird Grade. Lillie Newman, 90 Bertram Applegate, S7; Otto Thiele, SO Second Grade. Frod Mahn, 94; Rex Cowan, 95; Jimmio Bull, 90; Luther Dougherty. 90; Vivian Yett, So; Carl Uiag, S3; Chas. Stan, S5; Archy Allen So. First Grade. Buth Helliwell, 90 Ruby Allen, 90; Verda Clurk, 89; Char lie McCurdy, S7; Elmer Staley, S' Harry Marsters, 97 ; Boyd Ambrose, So Charlie Warner, S5. Hallie T. Hamlin, Principal Maggie Wilson, Assistant. Rev. W. E. Ross Scorched. 'A Woman" correspondent of the Herald of Albany takes Rev. W. E R033, tho evangelist, to task for some of his pulpit defemations of her sex. She says : A stranger in that city would havo thought from some of his expres sions that "every other homo was brothel and the mothers and daughters thereof, inmates." "A woman" then reads him a salutary lesson, declaring that the "City of Abany -holds as many Christian young men and women as any city in the Willamette valley, if they do not cover themselves with iron-clad an armor as tho Rev. W. K. Ross. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Award. EDITORIAL MADNESS. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad," is an old Greecian adage that evolving time has made axio matic. A few months ago, the Review with a superabundance of self assurance in its ability to do a little stamping busi ness, assured its readeis that it would in short time "stamp out" the few A. P. .'a in Roseburg. They were, it said, a lot of "highbinders" made up of the scum of society" and it wonld yield up the ghost under tbe rays from the great calcium light of "tbe greatest." But time rolled on, the stamping machine stamped and stamped and stamped, and tho more it stamped the more the highbinders increased ; and that "scum of society" liko the Irish girl's ecu m on tbe milk which she threw away that tho milk might te pure milk, mum," waa found to be on top, and the pure milk of the Review began to look a little blue and is getting bluer all the time. The fact is, each person who joins the A. P. A.'s, is at perfect liberty to vote his own party ticket, and had the Review not insulted them by its own mad condem nation of them, every A. P. A. demo crat (and there are many of them) would ote tli9 democrat ticket, but after being abused as they have been by the Review they will not vote that ticket, and where they will go to the republican or popu list parties, or diyide on them it re mains to be seen. Certain it iu the Re view that has driven every one from democracy. The republican ticket is made up of good, honest able men, such as we hope will commend the ticket to their sup port, though it is morally certain many democrats of the order will support the populist ticket. The Review "has cut off its nose to pile its face," by its senseless abuse of this order, verifying the old Greek adage, Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." Poor Man's rioney. "Silyer is the poor man's money," is the free silverite'a cry. Ah, indeed it is, and free silver coinage wonld grind him down to the finest degree of poverty, by reducing the prices of labor, as it has in all free silver coinage countries, without lowering at the same ratio the cost o living. Free silver coinage would drive half our metal money into hidinc and thus, instead of increasing the per ccpita of circulation it would dimish it. Now gold and silver coins ate interchangeable, dollar for dollar, and government paper is at a par with either and possesses the Bame purchasing power. What more can tire laboring man ask. What he most needs is employment. Give him that and be will laugh at all i?ms. Michael Liber, the correspondent of the Review, and who has been under the ban of the good people of Drain, has as sumed a new pseudonym and changed his locality and style of composition. His last effusion is from Peel and instead of eolid proso be ha3 assumed to court tne Sacred Nine ; but, from an overdose of Irish usquebaugh, he has found in his wanderings a Bachus instead of either Apollo or Melpomene of the nine, and under Bachus' inspiration he pours out his soul in doggerel. But that takes with tbe class of men who read the Re view as classic poetry dees with learned folk. New York, Brooklyn and adjoiniug towns of minor note have been consoli dated into one mighty city, termed "Greater New York," This gives New York a population of 2,9So,422 with a debtof $2,533,320,329. This consolida tion was effected by Governor Morton's signature to the bill passed by the state legislature. Greater Xew York now covers an area of3593.i square miles of territorv. Its population is over eight time3 that of the entire state of Oregon. Democrats are trembling in their boots. A few days ago they were offer ing to bet that Ageo will bo elected sheriff. Now that they are met with cash on that proposition they back squate down. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to bo incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local rem edies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounce! it in curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, aud there fore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Chenoy & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on tho market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces of Ihe system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to care. Seed for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75ii. Hall'a Family Pills are tho bost. Notice to the Traveling Public. Mrs. Moore, the proprietor of the Pri vate Boarding House, formerly known as tho Farmers' Hotel, on Lane street, one iiluck east of the depot, has acquired the imputation of lieing one of the bast cater ers in t hi' city. Meals 1" cents; boanl and lodging $3..r0