THE
Roseburg Plaindealer
PublU&ed Monday una Thunulays.
PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO.
H. H. BROOKES, Editor and Publisher
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Advertising Rates on Application.
JULY 9. 1903.
War Clouds.
The black war clouds begin to
gather in the Yellow Sea. For the
past six weeks it has been apparent
that the relations between the United
States and Russia were being gradual
ly strained and this has been most
noticible since the United States de
clared or intimated to Russia that the
permanent occupation of Manchuria
by Russia could not be allowed, and
that our commerce demanded an open
entry in Chinese ports without Rus
sian interference. For months past
Russia has been gathering an army
and made very war like preparations
at Port Arthur, has fortified the port
and gathered there the best of her
war ships. It will be remembered
that sometime ago the Sultan of Tur
key allowed Russia passage for the
Black Sea squadron through the
Bosporus contrary to the treaty
rights with England and France. At
that time France winked at the viola
lion of the treaty and England only
mildly protested but immediatelylsent
another fleet to keep an eye on the
Russian vessels. These warships are
now at Port Arthur.
When the massacre of the Jews oc
curred and the Hebrews of this coun
try commenced to circulate a petition
for President'. RooseveltJito sendjto
Russia, Count Cassini the Russian
Ambassador at "Washington commenc
ed to pay the New York papers money
to withhold the real facts of the mas
sacre and to defend Russia. The fact
that Cassini was playing adouble role
soon leaked out and it was jmade
manifest that he or his government
was falsifying not only in the massa
cre reports but also in the affairs in
Manchuria. In other words the evi
dence of falsehood was proven by
Russian acts. The relations with this
government became strained and at
tenuated and our minister at St.
Petersburg wanted to return
America to see a distant lady rela-
indisposed and a sea triptoSt Peters-
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Tnro:tT-r,nl1 lift' litm 'crnrvl-'nnil Wid&o annarent to everv thinkinc man in
Jf '.i. v."ei'ja"' "w " v. 1 A i w
h6 wanted to talk over matters with the dying chamber scenes and that is
the Czar.
While this little play has been go- If he is a saint he has been removed
ias on Uncle Sam has not been idle by Aimignty power irom me tempu-
and our fleet in the Pacific Ocean has
been eiven orders to mobilize on the
j
it ten to one. While it was in the
Black Sea it was safe. Now that it is
divided on the Okhotsk, Yellow and
Chinese Seas it can only protect the
Russian ports from the war vessels of
England.
There will be a complete back
down by Russia or the greatest war
the world has ever seen will be the
result.
Government Land Frauds.
The Eugene Register says; "Now a
Lakeview land office employee is said to
have gone wrong and will be discharged
from office. There has been consider
able noise about land frauds in Oregon,
but the process of discovery is very
slow. The people of Oreeon dislike the
idea of the state's reputation being held
up on ugly charges for a year without
any proof of crookedness being produced
nor prosecutions pushed to a conclusion."
Why does the Register beat around
the bush. The government has not
made charges of fraud and the only
papers in the State damaging the
State's reputation are the Oregonian,
Telegram and Jounal, all of Portland.
The Oregonian commenced the triade
of abuse against Binger Hermann
and kept it up continuously for six
or seven months and the abuse was
taken up by the "me too" Telegram in
a more quiet way and these two pa
pers supplied the mud balls which
were fired off during the late , con
gressional campaign by Jacksons little
gun. If the leading Oregon news
papers would stop publishing screeds
about government land frauds the
state would have a better reputation
and also stigma would be removed
from a score of faithfull officials in
the land offices.
The Dyine Pontiff.
The reports coming from Rome re
garding the Pope are very conflicting,
misleading and unreliable in every
particular except that they point to
inevitable death and in dishing up the
news the reporters for the Associated
Press and the Yellow Journals vie
with each other in reported alterna
tions of hope and fear and the writ
ten scenes and words spoken in the
death chamber if true, places the
poor dying pontiff in the same posi
tion as any dying man whose system
is thoroughly impregnated with drugs;
and the effort being made to show
that the death chamber is a veritable
"holy of holies" and that the words
to and acts of the Pope are infallible is
nothing more than an effort to delude
tive married andCount Cassini became the public at large.
There is one thing that must be
the Pope is either a saint or a sinner.
tions surrounding humanity or he
crucified the flesh to such an extent
Oriental station and previous orders that he knows absolutely nothing
for the return to this country of the about fatherhood and true manhood,
marines on the station have been can
celled for Admiral Evans has notified
the navy department, that in his
opinion, it would be unwise to return
them to the United States at this
time: and it was hinted there would
be woriff or'them to do on land as theJ
situation in China is not at all satisfactory.
Secretary Hay is determined that
Russia shall not encrouch upon Ameri
can trade ports nor shut out mer
chants out of Northern China and.
the navy department has rquietly
massed a magnificient fleet there, not
to protect our interests in the Philip
pines but to keep an open door to
China, this is the Plalndealer's opin
ion. That England and Japan are de
termined upon war if necessary to keep
the treaty ports of China open there
can be no doubt; and when England
issued a note to Russia requiring that
power to withdraw from Manchuria
it means withdrawal or fight and as
for the Russian Black Sea squadron
it is today in a more hopeless condi
tion in case of war than the Spanish
fleet was in. Santiago Bay for the
British andJapanese fleet outnumber
But let us see if an illusion found
entrance into his brain? Only last
Saturday a mitre said to have been
worn by St Gennaro, a great saint
and bishop of Naples and possessed
of the power of working miracles was
carried from that city to Rome with
great ceremony and placed on a table
by the side of the dying man to save
him from death by means of a faith
cure in the power of a dead bishop's
head gear. Is this illusion, delusion
or superstition? And yesterday as
the somber shades of night deepened
into gloom if not dispair the Pope had
an illusion when he thought he saw a
strange being in the room and ap
proaching his bed and called out for
help to his valet; and thus is demon
strated that prince and pope, baron
and beggar, intellectual gaint or
pigmy, we are all one when the ocean
beating on the sand of time is reach
ed and every man has to leave time
for eternity and the garment of in
fallibility worn by the Pope is laid in
a heap with the garments worn by
the enimies of the church of Rome.
As a strong dying man struggling
against the inevitable we sympathize
with the Pope but his death bed
scenes reveal the fact that lights
and shadows cross our paths in rapid
succession and that no man can truly
say "I have no illusions", because at
the last moment the delusion of the
statement is manifest to every think
ing man.
We have received so many objec
tions from all parts of the county to
our proposed plan of issuing only
once a week that we are compelled
to return to twice-a-weekas formally.
AdvertlteraeaU
The Message of Christian Science.
Tn thenresomeof this we cannot bo
nrnnd. wa cannot cive or aeceive
congratulstions; we can only begrateful,
and endeavor to live such lives aa will
bo worthy the great trust given to us.
From the address of Mrs. Blanche
II. Hoaon at the dedication Second
Church of Christ Scientist Salem, Ore
THE NEW HIOH SCHOOL BUILD1NQ.
At a meeting of the voters of Dis
trict No. 4, held at the school build
ing, Monday afternoon, the report of
the committee appointed to select a
site for the new high school building
was accepted and a meeting was
called to decide on the cost of the
building on August 3. The report
of the committee was as follows:
We, your committee heretofore
selected at a meeting held by the
voters of the district to select a site
upon which to erect a high school
building and to recommend plans for
such building would respectfully re
port: That we published a notice in each
of the local newspapers requesting
that persons who had land which was
suitable upon which to erect the
school building in contemplation
should furnish the committee with
description of same and the terms up
on which it would be conveyed to the
school district and in response to the
said published notice we received two
offers.
One from the owners of the Kin
ney Addition to Roseburg, of a
tract in the northern part of said ad
dition, which is very nicely located,
As the duties of your committee
are simply to make recommendations
we submit the offer for site and plan3
for your consideration.
The manner of raising the neces
sary fund to construct the school
building was not referred to your
committee and we therefore are not
required to make recommendation on
that subject, but would suggest that
if the voters determine to erect the
school building that the necessary
fund be raised by bonding the district
the bonds to be paid in annual pay
ment of such sum as the voters may
determine the final payment to be
made three years from date of issue
with annual interest. We are of the
opinion that bonds at annual in
terest can be negotiated at par with
out difficulty, the interest to be paid
annually.
J. G. Flook, Chairman,
H. WOLLESBERC,
J. W. Hamilton,
J. W. Wright,
J. C. FlTXERTO.V,
Committee.
Miss Regma Rast is visiting friends
near Drain.
Dr. James Bradley, formerly ol this
city pissed through Roseburg on Friday
evenings local enroutc to Mexico where
be hai extensive mining intersts.
Roseburg Hive Xo. U. L. O. T. M
held an installation of officer" lat Friday
evening. All the former officers were
installed with the exception of r.ord
keeper, MrsJessie Rapp boingrlected to
that place.
and his love for the young, fair and
beautiful, was nothing more or less
than like the love and affection a
mule bestows upon a colt.
On his third day's sickness the Pope
said: "I have no illusions", but has
not the life of that vigorous man been
an illusion to the world and delusion to
himself? Admitting that he has led
a pure life has he not willfully violat
ed the command of his Creator the
first command ever given as recorded
in sacred writ from God to man be
fruitful and multiply." Can any man
violate a direct command of his
Creator and not have an illusion? Is
there anything God has made in the
animal or vegetable kingdom that can
arrive at a state of perfection with
out having re-produced its own kind?
It is true life may be there without
the nower of re-nroduction but the
r a
animal or vegetable is dwarfed and
perfection and rotundity from a blade
of crass to the noblest red wood,
from the smallest insect to the mas
sive elephant is attained in fruitition.
Has not the Pontiff hugged a delusion
to his breast that allowed illusions to
enter his brain?
The world has bad, in this age, a
message, a message which adds noth
ing to the Christianity of Christ, takes
nothine from it, but one which eo inter
prets the life-work of the Master that to
the Christianity of the people an lmmeasS
nrable decree of the knowledge of God is
added and a weight of doubt and fear
and misery ts taken away.
This messace is called Christian Scince.
The messenger is a woman of pore and
consecrated life who has been given the
wisdom to deliver and protect this
message. Those who have heaid it are
striving to be Christian Scientists Sci
entific Christians.
First, one, or two, or three in a com
munity heard this message, responded
to its demands, and received its blessing.
As the value of it grew upon them,
they gathered together "in his name" to
study the Scriptures in the light of this
revelation which had brought peace and
healing to them.
The trials of pioneer days strengt hen
ed and purified, and oat of it all there
have grown many companies of happy
Christians, who are 60 enriched and
blessed that the upspringing of beau
tiful chnrch buildings is a natural and
spontaneous expression of their joy and
gratitude. All over our land these
eloquent witnesses have been establish
ed, and is cause for much rejoicing
that the faithful workers are enriching
us all by the evidences of their fidelity.
The real reward which is coming to
the Christian Scientists in this hour is
not in the beautiful church buildings, in
the external signs of prosperity which
mark the progress of our cause, out in
the ever-increasing knowledge ol God
which is comine into the heart and life
as tne result of sacrifice, obedience, and
oyalty.
Jesus said. " Seek ye first the kingdom
of God, and His righteousness ; and al,
these thines shall be added unto you''
Thosa who are obeying this are learning
that in findinc the kingdom, in abiding
5n tn unfa fihelter. in excluding from
thought everything unlike that kingdom
lies the real reward, the real joy.
Tim Bxtirnal buildinc has been
"added" because it is the honest fruit
of right thinking, of right living.
It stands as the symbol, the witness,
not as the thing itself.
It bears witness to fidelity, to un
swerving allegiance to aperfect ideal, to
consecrated toil in the endeavor to make
that ideal a living, practical reality,
It is a testimonial to the meek and
eonsecrated life of our Leader, whose
teachings have amused this generation
to a clearer comprehension of the eaving
healing mission of Jesus the Christ, and
it gives glorious evidence that. "God is
with men" id that tho demonstration
of His loving redemption of "tho child
ren of men" is at hand.
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that every detail receives our
personal attention.
FULLERTON RICHARDSON,
REGISTERED DRUGGISTS.
Phone 451. ROSEBURG, ORE. Near Depot.
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with a commanding view of the
City of Roseburg and surround
ing country. The owners very gen
erously offered to donate this tract
to the school district.
The other offer comes from the
owners of the Waite Addition to-wit:
The Cobb Real Estate Company. The
tract offered lies south of the resi
dence of the late Aaron Rose some
two or three hundred yards. This
offer comprises twelve lots 40xlOS
feet each. The owners of the last
named tract also offer to donate the
tract to the school district to be
used for school purposes.
After careful consideration we
deem the last named tract more cen
trally located and thereby accommo
dating the greater number of people
in said district and for that reason
have decided to recommend its selec
tion. We also advertised for plans for
the building and have received sev
eral which we herewith submit for
your consideration.
In the judgment of your committee
a substantial wooden building, prop
erly furnished, such as will meet the
requirements of tho district will
cost about twenty thousand dollars."
Did you ever try Osteop3thv for that
rheumatism? Iu works like" a charm.
In the line of store fixtures Fisher fc
Bellows, this week received a fine new
glass show case and counter. It greatly
improves the appearance of the store.
F. G. Leonard who was formerly
proprietor of the Roseburg Roller Mills
of this city has purchased a flour mill
at Garfield, Washington and will wovo
his family to that place toon.
Messrs. Ira Wimberly of Drain and
John Kent of Elkton executors in tho
estate of Levi Kent, deceased were in
Rosebury yesterday on business con
nected with the fiuaJ settlement of tho
estate.
At the meeting of the Umpqua Valley
Prune association, held Saturday after
moon, thefollowing oflicers wereelected:
Morris Weber, President; Roy C.Brown.
Secretary. The board of directors
consists of the three above named
gentlemen and II. S. Gilo and W. S.
Wright of Salem.
On Saturday evening Henry Martin
dale of Camas Valley while placing his
revolver in his holster was accidently
shot by the hammer of the pistol catch
ing in his suspenders, cansing the weap
on to discharge. The ball entered tho
abdomen and ploughed its way down
ward along tho inner side of tho right
leg coining out Just abovo tho knee.
Dr. Hoover attended the patient and
it will bo sonio time boforo Mr. Martin
dale recovers.
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