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t ! A . dvertising I ob Printing A la busy eeasons brinjjs J yoa yoar share of trade; m Mi Ta a lAni'mfMvBi.l tlr,m J business. Foor printing re- ' fleet i no rrAriit fin a irnM advertising in dull sea- x sons briDffs yoa yoar 6hare, and also tbat of the merchant who "can't &f- j f,r" to advertise. ' a IA1 Dasiness bOase. Lt n dn Anr Jnh ? Printing we jrn&rantee it to be io $ Z every wsy it.Efctory. . $ Published on Mondays and Thursdays Established 1868. Vol. XXXIV. ROSEBURG. DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1903. No. 13 0000000oc00000 A.C.MARSTERS. h.i,.uaii, J F. W. BENSON'. President, Vice President. Douglas County Bank, Established I883. Incorporated 1901 Capital Stock, $50,000.00. . BOARD OF DIRECTORS F. W. BESSON. R. k. BO0TU i. H. BOOTH. J. T. BRIDGES J.F.KEU.T.A.C.M-RSTKRB K. L MILLER. . 1 1 v: UsmMi tMn.fld on 1 mfltAmflin f-iven Pvnrv A general UUUKJIlg llliatucca w en.-., . ry - accotnnioaauon cousifcuiut nu oiu uu -uuoo - 2 Bank open from nine to twelve and from one to three. 0 ooocoooooooeooo vvyvrcvvvov JOHN KING. - D.H.BEMEXT JOHN KING Q BEMENT. Farm and Timber Lands List your Property with Us Ofrirp nnnnitP S. P. Det0t urn pnnp mm u or iu oniiiu! 9 J Are you aware that Spring will soon be here and f ! that Strong, the Furniture Man, is going to .1 Fifct I in iif r.arnpt In All lirartps show you the finest Line cf Carpets In All Grades ever shown in Southern Oregon and some of them have already arrived? Also v . . The Largest Line of Mattings, Our store is well filled with desirable goods and more are arriving daily. k ....- r inniiminc: REMEMBER, we carry a lull line 01 iu miu iftc ii in ninrn CTHFC nil tah t-i otA tr k see us you need ally or by k 1 .- mmr -rx"r t-v T. T T C J ROSEBURG, ORE. J 1 sr tr v i sipri vt .111 rAriH. iwi.j aiiu. an 5 Knontifir trnnr home. If vou can't come to 3 writp TIC ATI il if rnods are not as represented 5 not keep them whether bought person Ji letter Bring Us Your ... CHICKENS. EGGS. BUTTER. 1. 7 FOR CASH OR TRADE OF. BARKER & CO. 1 Drain Gardiner COOS BKY STKGE ROUTE Commencing with Monday, January 20. '02, we wUl charge $7.50 for thefare from Draia t3 Cooa Bay. Baggage allowance with each foil fare 50 pounds. Travelling men are allowed 75 pounds baggage when they have 300 pounds or more. All excess baggage, 3 cts. per pound, and no al -lowance will be made for round trip. DAILY STAGE. For further information address ' J. R- Sawyers, " Proprietor, Drain, Oregon New Arrivals . Krippendorffs for W omen ; Excelcior Shoes for Boys Hagan Shoes for Children Call and See them FLINTS POPULAR SHOE STORE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY Of the Americas Park and Outdoor Art Association Its Ob jects and Alms. Portland, Ore., Feb. 21, 1903. Editor Rosebubq Pliindiaxb, Dkab Sib : Realizing that the success of a movement is assured when the Press advocates it, the Women's Auxil iary of the American Park and Outdoor Art Association lias appointed a com mittee for the express purpoee(of laying its work before the newspapers of the United States, as the surest means of bringing its existence and aims before the people. There can be no doubt of the bearty co-operation of the women of this conn- try in oar our work when once the mat ter Is cleat ly presented. This we beg that you will kindly assist oa in doing by giving a prominent place in your columns to the Information embodied in this letter, as well as generous space to the general and local efforts of this pure ly, and in the broadest sense, philan thropic organization. It is our earnest wish that working branches of the Auxiliary shall be formed in every city, town, village and community. No elaborate machinery is necessary. Any little coterie of 'vomen may form a branch, whose work and ex ample is likely to lead to the regenera tion of the appearace and the healthful ness of a large area, and to the added happiness of all the men, women, chil dren, birds, animals and vegitation within its linii s. This has been done over and over again heretofore, and the process is capable of endless repetition. The object of the Auxiliary is"to leave the world more beautiful than we found it." That is to protect and develop ex isting natural beauty everywhere, and to create beauty to replace the natural beauty that has been destroyed. This work may be done in a door yard, on school grounds, around public buildings, factories and mills, on country roads, in cemeteries, on bits of waste ground anywhere, in large or small parks, etc It may be done by merely keeping a plot of grass neat, by plant ing a tree, by preserving a group of natural shrubbery from destruction by those who do not realise its beauty and actual value, or by undertaking to se cure a state, county or city park or a government reservation. No bit of out door beauty is too small for us to recog nize, and none too great for us to under take to protect or to help to create. Where there is a continuous tearing down there must be some building up, or, obviously, ruin will result. The creation of even one human habitation involves the obliteration or injnry of some natural beauty, if it is nothing more than an unsightly rent in the charming green carpet nature so gener ously spreads over her broad floors. It not infrequently means the complete demolition of natural plantations of trees snd shrubs it would take many years and considerable sums of money to replace, and which, in many instances might be preserved, to the direct mate rial advantage of the owner, by a slight alteration in the location of proposed buildings. , These questions and all others relating to the fitting of grounds for use, are in cluded in the teachings of the Women's Auxiliary. In fact, to be a workisg" member of this organization means a liberal education in outdoor art; the one art in which the whole world has an active, personal interest the only one which affects everybody. We feel that in asking you to give publicity to the aims of the Auxiliary, we are only call' ing your attention to a question of vital interest to every community ; to a pub- lie spirited measure which must appeal to all classes of readers and residenss. For further information please apply to Mrs. R. H. Hoyt, No. 735 Hoyt St.. Portland. Oregon, Chairman Women's Auxiliary for Oregon. CLOSING WORK OF THE SESSION JBBBBiSBSBSBSflRSBBBBSBBBSBBB '' : -''"-". ...... ; ' Governor's Veto of Bill Establishing a Sammer Normal i at Newport not Sustained. Sauif, Or., Feb. 20. Governor Cham berlain this morning vetoed the bill in troduced by Jones of Lincoln and passed by both houses for a state Bummer nor mal school at Newport. In his message explaining his veto, the Governor says that in his message he suggested the proprioty of reducing to two the number of normal schools.' Bat instead of fol lowing this suggesting, the Legislature proposed to add to the burden of taxa tion another normal. Concluding, he said: "It looks as though it was in tended for a Summer excursion rather than for any ultimate good the people of the State would derive therefrom." The House refused to pass the bill over the veto of the Governor. Eauut, Or., Feb. 20. On motion, the House reconsidered its action in refusing to pass the Newport State Summer Nor mal School over the veto of the Govern or. l be question again being up as to whether the bill should pass over the veto of the Governor, a number of speeches were made by Republican members, urging that the bill should be passed over the veto. By a vote of 40 to 20, the bill was passed. Burleigh, Democrat, voted for the bill. . Salem, Or., Feb. 20. The house ex-1 pressed itself in favor of a flat salary for the State Printer by passing Senator Miller's bill to place that official on a fiat salary of (3500 after 1903. . Orton wanted to know what the state would do for a printing plant. "Private people own the present plant, and if you put your State Printer on a salary he will be here without tools to do the work.. The logical thing would be to ap propriate (40,000 for a printing plant." "Let that go until the next session," said Bilyeu, and so the House decided. KO STATS ZXAXDISX. Senator Booth's bill for an act crea ting the office of state examiner of pub lie officers and public offices, allowing that officer a salary of 2400 a year and 11500 for clerical aid. was brought to a sudden standstill when it reached the House. In committee of the whole the provisions of the bill were adapted with amendmens, and on the final vote it was defeated. Then a motion to recon sider was made and this, too, received no support, so the measure may be said to be permanently buried. , The bill was supposed to appoint an officer who would do the work of the various committees appointed ' by the Legislature at every session to examine into the accounts and affairs of the va rious state and charitable ' institutions, and it was claimed that this would do away with considerable expense. THXATSBS ZXXXPT. ' Theaters will be exempt from the gen eral Sunday closing law, according to the vote taken by the House on Senate bill No. 123. This bill was introduced by Sweek and amends the existing law in regard to theaters only. Silxx, Or., Feb. 20 Advocates of Booth's forestry commission bill and of overriding the Governor's veto thereon lacked five of having enough votes to ac complish the latter purpose in the Sen ate yesterday afternoon, and the veto was sustained. There were IS ayes, 13 noes and two absent, Marsters and Carter. Booth opened the debate on the ques tion ot sustaining the veto. He did not wish to urge upon the Senators the over riding of this vote, he said, but he did desire to make an explanation of the matter, to the end that all Senators should understand it, and so that all might share the responsibility of what ever was done. The menace of forest fires was a terrible one. Not only the safety of the forest themselves was threatened, but the safety of farms and of people on the farm also. Timber was the greatest natural resource of the state. When timber was destroyed the loss to the timber owners and the manufactur ers, while great, was not so great as the loss to the people in general. In proof of this he would cite that in Oregon last year $30,000,000 worth of lumber was sold, at an average price of f 10 a thou sand. Of this price the timber owner and the manufacturer cleared but f 1.50 a thousand, the balance, 3.50 a thou sand, being paid out for labor. This showed the vast benefit to the people of the timber and lumber industry. Objection might be taken to the bill on the ground of the cost to the state of carrying out its provisions, but he thought the cost would not be so great as had been assumed by the- Governor and others. Perhaps, too, the bill con tained errors, but why not try it, and if it should prove faulty then amend it at the next session Sale , Or., Feb. 20. The bill report ed favorably by the committee on mines and passed by the Senate, for a bureau of mines, caused, a debate of over an hour in the House this merning, finally resulting in the defeat of Hawkins' motion to indefinitely postpone, and the passage of the bill. For a time it looked if the bill would be defeated, but some earnest addresses by tteaulon, Bobbins, Phelps, Hale, Malarkey, Eeed and Davey brought the bill from defeat to victory, the final vote being 40 to 20. As the bill carried an appropriation of $20,000 for maintaining the bureau and pay in the salary of the Commissioner of Mines, the House was obliged to go into committee of the whole. After dis cussing several of the paragraphs, Kay moved that the committee of the whole arise and report without recommenda- in. The motion was carried, and the report was made. Hawkins moved an indefinite postponement, and the debate was started. The final result was as stated above, the motion to indefinitely poet pone being voted down and the measur ebeing passed. SENATOR BOOTH'S FOREST BILL. The Qovernor Gives His Reasons for Vetoing the SameThe Veto Sustained. Are you particula about your Sal, Ore., Feb. 20. In the Senate this morning the bill to reimburse the Oregon Indian War Yetetans was passed unanimously. The measure carries an appropriation of 1100,000. Kuykendall and Miller msde speeches in support of the bill, which will oow go to the gov ernor. . Fulton presented a resolution which was adopted, extending the thanks of the Senate to President BrownelL Sev eral Senators took occasion to pay their cemplimenta to the president in speak ing in support of the resolution. A report from the joint commission appointed to investigate the peniten tiary reported that it had investigated the recent scandal there and that in its opinion ex-Assistant Warden D2!y was not guilty of the charges made by Mrs. Carlisle. A concurrent resolution by Croisan was adopted, providing that 1000 be given to each of the three widows of the penitentiary guards killed last summer A bill was introduced by Carter and passed under suspension of rules, to ex tend the closed season for elk two years longer. The House bill to amend the law pre cribinir the dosed season for salmon was passed. . Last Thursday afternoon the Senate sustained the Governor's veto of Sena tor Booth's bill for protection of the for ests after a lively debate. The veto, which has joet been sustained, was ac companied by the following message : "I return you herewith Senate Bill No. 50, with my dissent. "The bill purports to be for the pro tection of forest and timber of the state against forest fires. Its object is worthy, but I cannot give my assent to the meas ure before me, for many reasons, two of which I will now consider. "First, it appropriates 500 a year for the purpose of carrying out the provi sions of the act, but while this appro priation is made the bill by . its very terms authorizes the creation of claims against the state and the several coun ties which may reach as much as 1-50,000 or more in one year, for which deficiency appropriation would have to be made at the next sesaion of the Legislature, to cover the state's portion thereof. The fiie commissioners named in the act are authorized to appoint at least one per son in each county of the state as fire warden they may appoint more. , Say that they do appoint two in each county. The salary for each is not to exceed 300; 66 fire wardens at 300 is 119,800 a year. "The fire wardens in each county, at the request of the commission, have power to nominate with the approval of the commission, five rangers, whose salaries are to be paid by the counties, and are not to exceed (2 a day while em ployed in actual service. The secretary of the commission is to receive 5 a day for the time actually employed by him, and he, together with each of the com missioners, receives mileage at the rate of 5 cents a mile for the distance actual ly traveled in performance of duty. "It is safe to say that there will be applications filed with the commission to appoint men to the full limit of their power of appointment, and the expense in the very nature of things, is bound to be large, however capable and honeet the commission may be. A large in debtedness will surely be created against the state and numerous claims against several counties. Protection of the tim ber interests of the state may justify this expense, but it seems to me that the bill itself ex vi tenni should limit the amountof moneys which the commis sion ahall expend, and an appropriation be made therefor. "Second, another objection is the tact that the Legislature undertakes to de prive the Executive of the state of the power given him by the constitution. It will be noticed that this act names the five commissioners, who are to hold their offices for four years, after which the Executive is to appoint admission on the face of the act that the Execu tive is the proper person to appoint the commissioners, and not in the Legisla ture. ' "For the reasons stated. I return the bid with my veto. "GEORGE E. CHAMBERLAIN, "Governor." Treat The Hot Decently. Winter mortality in hogs is largely the result of neglect. Do not treat the hog as a tramp or interloper; be is cer tain to resent it at your expense. Winter mortality is greatly inimical to profits and can be avoided by proper methods, nouse your hogs in dry, clean quarters, and above all, provide an abundant supply of absolutely clean water. Never let them sleep in a straw stack, emerging in the morning steam ing and sweating. Thousands die from this cause. Give them some clover hay to balance the corn, and do not forget wood ashes Intelligent treatment of the hog will have returns in dollars and cents. Coffee, Tea and Spices IF YOU ARE CALL AT CURRIER'S GROCERY " AND ask;ior Price is no higher and every can guaranteed J Rosebur s g Leatln 7 .... . Grocer , Gurrier 000000-OOOOOOOOOCX:OOOOCX50COCXX3 J, T. BRYAN'S. For Holiday Presents o iwoocoo I have no famous bargains to pan cfFcld stock and out-of-date goods, I simply give you honest goods at fair prices, and mark them in plain figures. Call and inspect my i a " . r gooas ana puces Deiore purcnasmg eisewnere. oregon. . J. ! tryan voooooooooooooooooooooooocoooooooc THE SCIENCE OF SUCCEEDING. EXECUTIVE ABILITY nit '"-k ! Hints to Housewives. Half the battle in good cooking, is to have good fresh Groceries, and to get them promptly when ou order them. Call np 'fhone No. 181, for got goods and good service. C. W. PARKS & CO. ik mi, i in it m ---AND- . 1 A EMPIRE r . X 7 Livery Feed ui gals pillzt C. P. Baehakd, Prop. Saddle Horses. Single and Double Rigs at a' I hours Transient Stoc'c gven very best of care ..... Rates always reasonable That man is doomed to a narrow space in life who insists on doing everything for himself. The old adage, thongh true in a sense, is a dangerous one to follow indefinitely. It counsels a man, if he would have a thing well done, to do it himself. No advice could be more fatal, if absolutely followed, to large success. The man who succeeds in a large way directs others. The world is made up of two great classes of people ; those who lead, and those who follow. The man who leads is the man of large successes. He is the one who plans, who organizes, who invents new ways and means, and who secures others to carry his ideas into execution. In brief, he is the one who can set a score or a hundred people to work, and can with ease keep them going so tbat all shall be busy, and so that none shall conflict with another man's task.' It is a very easy habit to fall Into that of by slow degrees killing one's nat ural executive capacity. Large minded people invariably like to see work done well, and as they are naturally more quickly efficient than people ol mediocre gifts, the temptation is to do a piece of werk oneself rather than bother to train lime one else to do it less satisfactorily. Bat one should remember that when he does this, he is making two mistakes : he is robbing the man of smaller calibre of the task that he could in tine thor oughly master ; and he is killing out his own natural capacity for leadership. mere are, ol course, people wno are not fitted for leadership, at least in any large way. But no young man should ever settle himself down to the convic tion that he was not born to lead, until he has made the trial and signally failed ; signally failed because he had not the qualities of leadership, because failure sometimes results, on account of strong adverse circumstances. There are many qualities that a successful leader must have, and it is not a diffi cult matter for any person to determine whether or not he has these gifts. The most successful leaders are men like Na poleon, who have an almost unshakable confidence In themselves and in their Inherent good fortune ; and men who have strong personal magnetism which exerts itself over every one with whom they come in contact, With a personal ity like Napoleon's to direct, tremendous masses of men can be made to act as a unit. The cohesive force, or as the phy siciet would say, the attraction of cohe sion, is so strong between the leader and the followers, and because of the superb power of - the leader, between the indi vidual units, that the combined force of all becomes almost irresistible. The French people, as a nation, are impul sire, good for a dash, but not good for a long pull ; they are excitable and easily aroused to antagonisms against each other : they are impatient of direction for long periods of time, and they are apparently as a rule incapable of any deep sense ol devotion. They are, in fact, such a people as one would deem to le beyond leadership on any exten sive scale. - And yet witness the fact. Napoleon held the wishes and wills of bis vast armies, as it were, in the hollow of his hand. And on great and extreme occasions, at least once or twice, he did ith safety and success what perhaps o other military leader ever dared to do before he acquainted his entire force with the method of attack in full. But there are other qualities of lead ership necessary where one with execlu ire ability is not enljwal with Napo- teon's great power. To be a good lead er, a man must be essentially practical. He must as by instict conceive plans that are capable of being executed, and that involve a saving of time and force, this, for two reasons : Because he must be abl e to show great results, and be cause he must inspire and hold the con- dence of hi s followers. It must be nat ural for him to command ; he must have ths commanding manner, or seem to command as by right. Not that he must necessarily be stern or forbidding in manner. There are many ways of commanding. There is the taciturn commander and the genial one. One commands by fear; the other by love. Of course, the one who commands by love will aim ays reap the richest results the end, because his subordinate will work with an enthusiasm, a joy and a seat that make them quita invinc ible. Yet the one who so commands must also be keen. He must be capa ble of a splendid righteous indignation when occasion requires. He must be as keen and firm in his opposition to trick ery and dissimulation, as he is generous in his appreciation of truth. ' ' lie mast have quick perceptions so that he can seize another's idea at once ; and he must have quick intuitions so that he can understand those under him. And he ought to know by actual experience what a full day's labor means, so that he may be above decep tion, and accessible to sympatny. And above all, he must be possessed ot an open mind. That is, ho should not be settled in the false notion that he is of the salt of the earth and goodness shall die with hiai j that his ideas are tbe only ones of value. A leader some Limes baa a genius working under him, and he ought to be discerning and frank minded enough to discover it. A man who hates details is apt to be the boat leader, because then he natur ally shuns the duties that do not belong HARNESS These prices are good till March i, 1903 : Heavy Concord team harness with breechen $26.75 Heavy team harness with breechen-. 22.C0 Single buggy harness nickle trimmed collar and hames gX0 Hack harness 22.75 $30 saddles cut to 27.C3 Ladies side saddles reduced from $15 to ....... 12.25 Pack saddles, doublcrig complete l.7S Lap covers 1.50 Saddle blankets, 50c and 75c; Lap robes. 3.00 Riling Bridles 63c ; Eiatu 10c a foot Waterproof snaps ZM Team bridles per pair.."....".' .'.....2JS Reduced Prices oa Men's 5boes. Largest StocK of Harness South cf Portland. KicWs Km?. Nezr Ifcpot F. LONG & SONS. J. M. Weatherby T. A. Bury D. L. Marti Roseburg Real Estate Co. Farm and Timber Land Bought and Sold Taxes Paid for Non-Residents. Timber Estimates a Specialty. List your proper ty with us. to him. The man who is good in details should always be a follower, except in those exceptional, almost impossible cases where he has both capacities highly developed. A good leader should also be a man of large hope. Hope it is that enables bim to tread fearlessly the new paths that his keen intellect out lines. A good leader must possess all ot these qualities, although a mediocre leader on a small scale may be endowed only with a keen, practical Intel! gene and the power to command. Every young man should remember that he is put here to make the most of the abilities that have been given him, and that he should be ever reaching out to fill a larger field than the one he oc cupies at present. But if he possesses large executive ability, he may know at onee that with proper effort on his part, a worthy position in lite will be assured him. Probably no man with large gifts of this order ever made a more inauspi cious beginning than did I'resident Grant.- After he had graduated with honors from West- Point, he not only failed id securing any suitable military appointment, but also as a business man he proved a distinct failure. Even when the war came on, and the nation was in crying need of superior leaders, Grant was slow ia getting a foothold. And when he finally did secure a com mand, some one of inferior ability was put in and he in a sense demoted. Un til almost the close of his military ca reer, fortune seemed to confer her hon ors upon him grudgingly, and it was only ths last great chapter in his war experiences that put his ability as a great leader beyond question. It would be a good tiling for a young man who has fai-h , in himself to remember Grant's battlo with fate when things looked blackest to him. He must have bod unquestioned confidence in his own abilities to so pe:sist in Bite of opposition. PEar-. I A. C. Marsters S 'Co. Physicians Prescriptions and Family Kecipes, r,. ., .. , - - Rubber Goods, Toilet 3$, MegjClSCS, C&iSlCS. Articles, Lime and Ce- " ' ment, Paints, Oils and 1 S HI RfllOTO Glaa, Ferramery, Truss- fl X ee, Sponger Brushes Etc 1 H H Jilil U I 0 1 U Rambler Bicycles and . - Sundries. School Sup- plica. Stationery School Books F. S, DAY, JEWELER and WATCHMAKER AH Work Qnaranteed for Reasonable Prices. SecoQj Door north new Bank Building. " Ucsbco jOszoos .WW e Mice I I .TATOM THAT W JL Us VWTlbM 1 W WMIBVSB WiMm --V U .S- SU- It V I - s-1-" tuns, 'mjftai Often, .aso oflJ -K - ' ! rt?g I fx Spraying Mixture should b put on with God pressure THE. BEAN' POWER Outfit will do it. see fa at cimrdiiii & vcolley's