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LESSONS IN TOWN; BUILDING.
Six mouths ago several public spirited ladies of
Tort Townsend organized a civic club. The object
f the society was the beautifying and improving
f the city. After the first half year of active work
the membership numbers over 300 ladies, and many
of the representative men, who are accepted as hon
orary, members. , Jhe organization has succeeded in
tnying and paying for a public park. This has been
cleared and partly planted to trees and shrubs. The
streets hve bee.ckaned and walks repaired. School
grounds hay been beautified and made more home
Eke, To commemorate the excellent work of six months
the ladies held a festival of three days. They point
irith much pride to the results of organization in
behalf of the town. They have changed the theories
about everybody's business being nobody's affairs
and shown that the people must be interested before
any radical changes can be made in municipal mat
ters. They have demonstrated that a city can be
kept clean and free from epidemics and contagious
diseases by proper methods. Their city has become
a model and for this reason they are ready to make
erry.
A modern city cannot be built up without giving
attention to the details' of minor conveniencies, says
the Post-Intelligencer. .The streets may be graded
and laek in suitable crossings and walks or have not
the needed drinking fountains. Publit alleys in
the business centers will be receptacles for trash and
disease germs if not kept clean. It is the work of
the societies to look after those public matters. The
fcdies are not meddling with affairs that properly
lelong to the municipal ' directors, but rather act
ing: as supplemental powers in cleaning and beautify
ing the town. ; ' : f
The lesson of Port Townsend should be carried
lome to every city in this state. A clean city means
leafthy ehildren and contented men and more pa
triotic women. No family can be happy when sick
Bess continues in the home year after year. Unclean
titles produce various diseases that rob the fami
lial ef their peace and money. Scavengers of the
strafe are as much necessary as gulls of the seas.
Itery disease-breeding pool and alley should be
cleaned and purified. Let other cities study the
civic Isson& -
wen? found and from that and other sources the vol
ume of money has Ixvn increased until we now have
almut '0 per cent niotv than we had in 1S!H and
everybody is glad. Who have been vindicated, those
who said we needed inoiv money or those who said
we had enough and now boast of the unexpected in
crease? To be consistent the republicans ought to
propose to retire the increase and go back to the
amount we had in ISiHi. The money qestion will
again receive attention when the demand for money
overtakes the supply, but the quantitive theory lias
triumphed."
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li J MONEY QUESTION SETTLED,
s i j?mjf.thejnost interesting developments of the
jresent campaign is the statement of Mr. Bryan that
the money question the effort in behalf of silver
Is temporarily settled. Mr. Bryan says the law of
appfy las for the time put the silver issue in the
Background, but that, whenever there again becomes
a stiarcity of money, it will be revived. The current
iao ij the Commoner contains the following refer
tnw Vth matter, under the heading, "Silver Demo
erafe. Vindicated." As giving an idea of the posi
fma af the silver element, it will prove of interest :
"While the money question is not an issue in the
jB-esent, campaign, both Parker and Roosevelt being
far ffii the silver democrats can insist that their
jwiiiiun, has been vindicated and that the question has
(jcresswl in importance only because an unexpected
mei-raw In the volume of money has raised prices
and fcrotrght in part what bimetallism would have
fcoayfct rn a larger measure. The present situation
na t flhzstrated as follows: Suppose the demo
crats of a city believed the water supply to be in
fEiaka, pointed to a lake nearby, called silver
Me, and proposed that an additional supply be
Irwfi?&l from that source. Suppose the republicans
sbjertcd on the ground that the water supply was
wttEkient and carried the election. Then suppose
a spikes borst forth in the center of the city sup
flyuig half as much water as the city used before;
ami suppose that all the people rejoiced in the ad
ditional supply and benefited by it who would say
tSxt the- republicans were vindicated ! To be con
sistent ivjraulicans would have to favor plugging up
the spring end returning to the quantity in use be
Sore the spring appeared.
4TBi? describes what has happened in the finan
ciiiF arfdL The democrats contended that more
aioney ww needed and pointed to the silver reservoir
as. trap eoly available source from which to draw
mwafj-. .The republicans insisted that we had money
,;wHrgfr, let soon after the election new gold mines
CTR1NU CANCKK.
So many announcements of the discovery of a
successful method of treating malignant tumors
has proven erroneous and disappointing that every
fresh one is received by medical men with great
caution. Such is the attitude which the profession
has assumed in regard to Dr. Doyen, who talked
about his own system to the Paris Academy of Med-
ieino last week. Owing to the apparent increase in q
the prevalence of cancer in the United States and O
Europe, any real improvement m coping wnu in
evil is not likely to be ignored ; but every new rem
edy must bo judged by its results. Now, no one is
in a better position to put Dr. Doyen's work in a
favorable light than himself, and the statistics which
he is able to present can hardly be called encourag
ing. Out of 216 cases which he has treated he pre
tends to have effected cures in only 42. lie pro
nounces 128 of them failures, and the other 46 are
still under observation.
A proposition was made to his hearers by Dr.
Doyen which certainly ought to throw more light on
the subject, lie asks to have his scrum tested, either
in hospitals or private practice, by other physicians.
and the appointment of a committee to conduct tin
experiments has been authorized. Perhaps his own
claims, which are extremely modest, will 1h? con
firmed, and perhaps they will not. A somewhat
similar trial was given in England last winter to
the anti-toxin of a German specialist, Dr. Otto
Schmidt. The latter had declared that in almost
every one of 29 cases in which his remedy was em
ployed the condition of the patient was materially
bettered. An English physician, Johnson, had sonic
faith in the serum, in consequence of watching two
of these cases, but another one, named Power, also
tried it" in three cases, and declared that it proved of
no service whatever. Schmidt was still further dis
credited a few months later by the experts for whose
work provision is made by the British Cancer Re
search Fund. They can find no evidence that there
is a special parasite of cancer, though the German
acts upon the supposition that there is one and that he
has been able to find it. Whether Dr. Doyen's anti
toxin is manufactured on the same plan is not clear;
nor is it evident that the English investigators in
tended to disparage him. Nevertheless, until he can
obtain . corroborative testimony from his fellow
countrymen as he may possibly do within a year-
it would be foolish to base much hope on his representations.
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Dr. W. T. Bel field, of Chicago, recently delivered
an address to the members of the Chicago Woman's
Aid in Sinai temple and this address will be in
teresting to men and women everywhere and will up
doubtedly be with many of the so-called stronger
sex. "In the lower organisms," said the lecturer,
"the female eats the male. A little higher up in the
scale of evolution the female discovers that the male
can work and supply her with food, while she re
produces the species. As a worker the male de
veloped certain qualities unknown to the female
qualities that are specially developed in the very
highest animals, the human race. But the female
remains, even in the human species, as the conserved
of the race and the depositor of all the virtues that
render society possible and that perpetuate human
culture."
A tramp who wrecked a trolley car in Atlanta
has been sent to the Georgia penitentiary for life.
Now for the negligent employe on steam roads, and
give President Hill an opportunity to revise his
statement that public negligence in prosecuting the
negligent employe is the fruitful cause of accidents.
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543-545 Bond St
There might be a good fighting chance ir Wis
consin, as Mr. Taggart says there is, if the demo
cratic party in the Badger state was of fighting
size.
Can it be possible that General Funston, in rec
ommending an increase of 5 per cent in the pay of
army officers, wants to get into the swim again f
Mrs. Maybrick's denials of intentions to become
an actress will never be fully credited until she goes
on the stage.
The maker of the campaign button is about as
busy as a tailor would be in an Igorrote village.
The official starter seems to have had trouble in
getting the Baltic fleet up to the tape.
Mr. Bryan is the chunk of iron in the Taggart-
onian life preserver.
It Is Now Time
to decide what school to attend
next fall. If you have not al
ready made up your mind, send
for th e catalogue of the
PACIFIC LUTHERAN .
ACADEMY AND
BUSINESS COLLEGE
This school exists for its stu
dents and its work has been plan
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greatest benefit to the greatest
number in the shortest possible
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DEPARTMENT B,
PACIFIC LUTHERAN ACADEMY.
Parkland, Wain.
repuhllrun rlty coiivfiillon, hereinafter
lfl(f!in (!. which said tMegnle are
apportioned n follow, to. wit:
Firm Wurd 12 delegates.'
Hecond Ward -12 delegate.
Third Wurd -13 ilelegule.
The following polling plitres mid
Judge for on Id primary election have
been selected:
First Wurd Polling place, court
house; Judge of elwllon, g. (. Trut
linger, P. J. Ouodimin, J. A. Montgom
ery. Hi'cond Ward Polling plucc. olllc of
C. E. Fouler, 694 Commercial atreet;
Judgea of election, Jumea W. Welch, C.
E. Foster and B. A. Elgner.
Third Wurd Polling place, offlca of
Aatorla Box Company; Judgt of elec
tion, Uuat Holmea, Iver Auderaoit. W.
T. Scholfleld.
Furthermore, notice la hereby given
that a republican rlty convention will
be held at th court houee In the city
at Aatorla, Oregon, on Wednesday.
November . 1904, at the hour of 3 p.
rn.. for the purpose of nomlnutlng can
didate for the following city officea
to be elected at the city election on
Wednesday, December 14, 1904;
OrieTnUy attorney, for a term of two
yearn. --...
On councilman from the Second
wurd. for a term of three yeitra.
One councilman from the Third
ward, for a term of thre yeara.
By order of the republican tily cen
tral committee,
HAUUIHON ALLEN. Chairman.
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Notice of Primsry Election.
Notice I hereby given that a pri
mary election for the republican party
will be held In the city of Aatorla,
Oregon, Saturday, November 5, 1904,
between the hours of 12 m. and 5
p. m. of said day, for the purpose of
electing thirty-six (36) delegates to a
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