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PARTISAN, NOT PATRIOT:
-pHEODORE ROOSEVELT is
I a curious admixture" of the
. 'v. patriot "and the partisan.
Many of his utterances and his acts
bespeak a ' splendid patriotism, ( a
broad appreciation of the duties and
the opportunities of American cit
izenship. But many times he falls to
the level .of the mere partisan, who
. places his party's good above that of
the nation. An illustration was af
forded last winter when the rate bill
nvas pending in the senate.. Rather
than to allow the bill to be passed by
Democratic : votes, the v president
yielded to the demands of the Repub
lican railroad senators and permitted
the incorporation, of, amendments
which stripped the measure of half its
effectiveness. It was a plain, palp
able, surrender on the part of the
president, and was made for no other
real on than that he feared that his
party might auffer if the ultimate pas
sage of the bill should ba due to
Democratic votes. Rather than run
that risk he preferred to have the rate
bill emasculated. . ' , ' " ,
; The aame narrow, partisan spirit is
manifest again in Roosevelt's letter to
Congressman Watson of Indiana, in
which he declares that it is the duty
of "all . good citizens who have the
welfare of America at heart" to aid
In retaining thepresent Republican
congress in power. - "Partisan issues
are not involved in this campaign . de
- dares Roosevelt, the Republican, and
lie supplements this extraordinary as
sertion with the still more remarkable
statement that "the question of revise
ing the tariff ; standi ' wholly apart
from the question of dealing with the
ao-called "trust"-1 v i'.i v
Th time ,ie long past when the
'American people . can be ' fooled by
sach talk as this. That "the tariff ia
the mother of trusts" is an axiom, so
clear, "ao indisputable that no intel
TTgent man sincerely disputes ' it
When Roosevelt undertakes to do so,
it, is the partisan, not the patriot, who
... speaks. .,,;.;.-'':.' -v'. fi '';
I . Unquestionably the trusts are the
greatest menace to our continued
" prosperity; and "to th equations! life.
No man , . knows . this - better than
(Roosevelt himself. - He has under
taken to "regulate" the trusts a few
of them but regulation is a mere
anaesthetic which dulls the pain but
leaves the cancer untouched. Until
. the people have , a : president and a
congress brave enough to use the
knife, the disease will continue to eat
; Ita daily way to the nation's vitals.
Reduction' of the Iniquitous , tariff
duties which create and feed and
foster the trusts, is the sole sure cure.
Tariff reduction should not be a
v party issue, but it is. The Republican
party has made it an issue and ao
' long as Theodore Roosevelt atands
by the policy of his party he allows
his partisanship to rise " above his
patriotism.
; - f PROGRESS IN MEDICAL
'' SCIENCE.
THERE is constant progress in
'(. medical science, and the won
'. der is that so many, ages
passed with diseases ravaging the
earth without physicians learning
more than they did of diseases and
means of curing them. Within the
memory of many now living smallpox
and diphtheria ; were considered al
,most certainly fatal ailments, while
' now the latter is not considered-as
dangerous as measles or scarlet fever
used to be, and even most cases of
"diphtheria can be cured if taken hold
of ' promptly. Consumption, as it
used to be called, was regarded as in
curable, and millions have suffered an
untimely death from ' this cause, .a
large proportion of whom might have
been aaved if any one had thought of
the simple open air and dietary treat
meat '-'- "".A
Up till now Bright's disease hat
been considered utterly incurable and
diabetes nearly if not quite ao, but it
Is announced that a, certain proprie-
tary treatment has been entirely effi
cacious in curing a considerable num
ber of these cases In San Francisco,
Philadelphia and other cities. Flar
ing advertisements of . cure-alls or
cures -for h it her to fata! diseases are
to be regarded with suspicion, but
known and positively provable cures
of Bnght's disease should not and
cannot be ignored, and the time may
not be far distant when this hitherto
dread and incurable disease, and dia
betes, will in many if not most cases
be cured, as smallpox and diphtheria
are now,--; '!.-.?'-. ''..; "'.'.'
More incredible is the announce
ment in the surgical world .that stu
pidity and even sin may be largely
eradicated from the human system by
a surgical operation,". The process is
simply 1 the removal of the adenoid
growths from the. child, who will then
surely grow up in and unto goodness
and wisdom. The surgeons who have
been, working on this problem believe
that the root of mental and moral evil
lies in tha adenoid growth, and that to
remove the physical causa will inhibit
the mental and moral effects. This
sounds like charlatanry, or faith in
the impossible, yet there may be some
modicum of truth and reason in tt
We can scarcely suppose that re
moval of the adenoid growth in all
children hereafter for a generation or
two would bring on the millenium, yet
it might greatly improve the race in
wisdom and virtue. At leaat so" claims
Dr. Jelly, Of tha ; childrens'" institu
tions of Boston, who saya that
adenoid growths have received much
attention in recent 'years from phy
sicians and social workers, and that it
haa become generally well known
that these growths retard the proper
development of the hearing and other
mental faculties, and .that indirectly,
by nervous irritation, they develop
undesirable traits of character which
to the casual observer appear to be
signs of moral depravity. ,.' So we'
shall not scoff at this new 'surgical
idea but will hope that it may result
in a marked improvement of the hu
man race within the next half a cen
tury. ; ' , ": ''y.-' ' ..
GREAT DEMAND FOR LABOR.
N'
EVER .BEFORE were ao
many men wanted nor
wanted ao badly to work in
railroad building, in the timber and
in mills, and on the farms. . The de
mand cornea from all parte of this
country, particularly the . west, and
even from Mexico and Canada. The
railroad builders want perhaps 20,000
men rrfore than they can find, without
going to China for them, and Chinese
laborers cannot be lawfully brought
into this country. Advertisements
last week in St Paul papers called for
12,665 men' to work - in the harvest
fields of Minnesota and Dakota alone.
where the harvest is later than farther
south,' and even in more aouthern
atates it is not nearly! over yet, in
consequence of tha scarcity of labor.
Inhe Pacific northwest there hive
also been delay and losa owing to the
scarcity of labor, though farmers will
have managed, often by the help of
their own families, to save most of
their crops, particularly as the
weatherwas exceptionally- f inef or
harvest work. ' But at the aame time
cornea demand for an unusual amount
of labor in the woods, in the logging
camps and the sawmills, and in can
neriea and packing houses. The
whole country, at least all the central
and farther west, is calling for labor
ing men ts never before. And yet
thousanda of able-bodied men are idle,
loafing, some of them bumming, lay
ing up no atore for the coming winter
or the possibly approaching hard
times when labor will again ba hunt
ing jobs. But there are no plain sur
face signs of such a period yet and
may not be for some years to come.
The United Statea ia surely snaking
great industrial atrides forward these
days Uncle Joe - Cannon ia ; right
about that though that protection or
the politicians had much to do with it
may well be doubted. :
The women of Oconomowbe, a
small Wisconsin city, have by means
of affair raised $12,000 for the im
provement of roads out of that city,
particularly one leading to Chicago.
Doubtless the men were worked"
for most of , the ' money, but the
women will be primarily responsible
nevertheless for the forthcoming good
roads. Maybe some Oregon women
could do likewise. . t
The morning paper, whose excur
sions from the beaten track of news-
getting are always attended by mis
haps, says poor old James D'Arcy was
driven insane by the heat in Portland.
This statement is a libel on the city
and an injustice to D'Arcy, who lost
the thinking part of him in an effort
to find aome good reason for Port
land's adherence to the fire belL
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The people who wondered how Mr.
Roosevelt could remain silent for a
week will note that the president em
ploys his tongue for something be-
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A Little Out
THINGS PRINTED TO READ, WHILE YOU WAIT.
Why People End Their Llvee.
The New York World .compiled a pat
of Interaattnc facta on tha growth ot
ulcldaa and glvca taa following- reasons
why some poraona ended their Uvea:
"Joalah P. Rlddlo of Jefferson City,
Missouri, because he was too fat.
. -Irene Baltimore Bocxlna of Atlantic
City, baeause aha had a new lavender
drass to be burled In.
Ponlepo FulDonl of Chicago, because
he was in love with a macble statue of
Vy,m : ... . - , ... ...
Mrs., William Thomas of Punxsutaw-
nay, Pennsylvania, because her hair was
turning gray.. " -
Herman Kecuinsr or west Hasieion:
Pennsylvania, because he missed av train.
Jamas Andrews of Oxford. Pennsylva
nia, because ha' had to speak at com
mencement exercises before girls.-.
Mrs. Grace De Wolf of St. Louis, ba.
cauee she could not bekr to be separated
from her slstar-ln-law. ,
Robert Lshman-of Pes Moines. Iowa,
because he believed his family referred
to him . whan they sang "everybody
Worke but rather."
George Hawthorne Smith of New
York, because be believed himself too
old at 41 years of as
Tha Tyranny of Fear.
"There are only two graat foreee In
the history ot mankind: One, the force
of authority; the other, the force ot re
volt Every great man of history, every
man or woman Who eyer accomplished a
real, useful work, was a revolter Is one.
We go along, thinking we can be happy
If we find our Ideals. We eat up repub
lics In place of monarchies, and than we
find ourselvee still soaking the Ideal.
t'Whyt Because we re slaves of fear.
The minute we get our hands on the
right lever, we are paralysed by a fear
that we may be wrong, and that breaks
up the whole game.
"in a thing to do is to abolish rear
and be free In fact ae well as in name.
What's a republic If It Is la reality a
monarchy governed by a lot of men with
money T Why shouldn't we be free!
Maybe we don't want to be!" Fre El
be rtus Hubbard. ' . -
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' Can't Collect From Her.
A Judgment of IS.ItO stands In Ger
many against the wealthy widow of
Charles T.. Yerkes, whoss marriage to
Wilson Mistier soon after the magnate's
death caused a sensation. In September,
1904. Ludwlg Leaala, a factory foreman
In Durlach, was knocked down by Mre.
Yerkes' automobile, which wae being
furiously driven. Leeale -thought lightly
of hie Injurlee and accepted $45, but he
died within a week, leaving a widow and
three children unprovided for. Mrs.
Yerkes refused to contribute to the fam
ily' a relief and efforts to collect have
been futile. .
Where tha Profits Went
'When Alfred E. Bills of Sioux City,
who wants to be "Elijah" Dowle'a suc
cessor, had a bank at Miller, South Da
kota, "Ood"..was on his books as a reg
ular depositor. - According to his former
bookkeeper, Bills religiously deposited to
God's crsdit IS per cent of the profits
sides conversation. 7 He kept it in his
cheek all the time he jeras writing that
letter urging his countrymen not to be
mere partisans, but to vote the Re
publican ticket straight. ' -
The announcement that Mr. Rocke
feller will build a home for aged
chorus girls is tha most amusing
thing we have heard since J. Hsm
Lewis made his famous suggestion
that pensions should be granted to
all the people who had run for office
on th e Populist ticke t. ' .'
It seems that some of the Cubans
have not yet learned Jhat they have
been freed from the hated Spaniard.
They are revolting ,as of yore, and
once- more the banner with the At-
vice "Cuba libre" ia flung to the
breeze.' ' '
Isn't it about time some industrious
statistician figured up how many peo
ple automobilea have killed?. ., They
seem to be nearly as fatal as a daily
Fourth of July
A Tennessee man wants congress to
pass a law against peekaboo waists.
Some men never can think of any
thing practical and useful to make a
hobby of. .-''
Illinois Democrsts seem to suggest
to Mr. Bryan that with reference to
Committeeman Sullivan he, Bryan,
had better attend to his own busi
ness. :
Even England is more prosperous
than for a long time, but how it could
be ao without a high protective tariff
ia a mystery.
John D. Rockefeller ia a man able
to make a billion dollars, and yet can't
refrain from eating too much water
melon.. u ' -v
Even at the Bryan reception there
are to be reserved seats. Is this the
way to treat the common people? .
Shaw '' as a presidential candidate
was done for long ago, and it may be
Fairbanks' turn next '"
A eescow costing $2,000 has been
added to the New York aquarium.
More water in the milk, perhaps.
There is at least one disagreeable
feature about a circus. It leads
some people to write poetry.
The depositors in the Milwaukee-
avenue bank appear likely not only
not to get their money back but not
of the Common
ef the bank and of other 'enterprises In
which Bills wsa Interssted. When the
account had readied quite a anug sura.
Bills, as steward, would take a part or
all of It and Invest It. If the venture
proved successful, the Lord always got
oac every cent of the principal, but the
profits found their way Into Bills'. pri
vate account, y
A Puritanical Republic ' '
Hi the little republic of San : Marine,
in nortnern Italy, locksmiths are forbid'
den to sell latchkeys to young men.
Nobody Is permitted tq play a game of
chance, either in publlo or private. This
latter regulation is a silent rebuke to
Monaco, the amallest of principalities.
wnicn is oniy no miles away. . .
Ftnee are prescribed . for doctors.
chemists or blood letters - who . reveal
professional- secrets. disturbers of
Roman Cathollo aervloee and for usurpa
tion of public esteem by assuming titles.
imprisonment ror rrom one to three
month a is tmpoefed for profanely using
the name of the .deity or of the holy
virgin, or cursing the founder of the re
public s .
Tough qn tha Scotch. k
Prom the London Queen.
Two- end a half eenturlee ago "God
Save the King" was not sung by the
Scotch. Here Is one veree of the Brit
ish national anthem aa it waa rendered
In those days:
Oh. grant that Marshal Wade .
. May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring!
. . May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush'
; Rebellious Scots to crush; j
. God save the king!
4 Twelve Good Rules. '
From the New York Press.
Do you remember the "Twelve Good
Rules" of King Chsrles IT They are
worth pasting In your hat for dally per
usal. .' . .
1. Urge no healthe.
S. Profane no divine ordlnancee.
(. Touch no state matters,
4. Reveal no eecrete.
(. Pick no quarrels.
5. Make no comparisons.
7. Maintain no ill opinions,
8. Keep no bad company.
S. Encourage no vtoe.
10. Make no long meals.
11. Repeat no grievances.
It. Lay no wagers.
Reflections. - ; '-.
A man la soon forgotten after ha la
dead,, vuiless you hsppen to marry his
widow. New York World.
The, nicest thing sbout a summsr va
eation Is the way you enjoy being back
irom it new iora rress.
It used to be a popular fallacy that
sense came with age and wisdom with
experience. Chicago News,
Borne people talk About the demoralis
ing Influence of the theatre because It
costs more than going to church. New
York Tlmee. , , ,
Wireless telegraphy is eomtaret!velv
new, but the kick under tha table le aa
old as marriage. Cleveland Plain Deal
er. ..
even the missing president whom they
would like very much to see person
ally, for a few minutes.
Still, we find it impossible to be-
com,e very etfthusiastic .over those
performances at American lake.
If Witte resigned he showed his
wisdom; if he was fired he was in
luck. ...
This is a wonderfully large country.
Secraryjaf OiiJeen--wholly-lost
m it. ',
t. It looks as if it were all day with
Portland s famous detective. . .
A Persistent Bargainer;
Senator Tillman, apropos of the re-
Date evil, said:
"The dsy will coma when freight
rates will ba Inexorably fixed as pas
senger rates. The Idea of a man trying
to get a lower freight rate than the
schedule will then seem as ludicrous
and absurd aa It would now seem to us
ir we saw a traveler before a ticket
window trying to beat down the price
Of hie ticket. a
"When the railway wae firet Intro
duced in New England, tha canny Yan
kee rarmere eouid not understand that
the price or the tickets was fixed and
unalterable. A New England man onoe
told me that, when he was a boy. on ths
opening dsy of a railway line through
nis village, as heard an old man say to
toe uoaet agent:
M 'What's the price, friend, of a ticket
to BoetonT
" Two ten," the agent answered.'
" Two - ten? Never. Ye must be
crasy. I'll give ye a dollar an' a quar
ter.'
' Two ten le the fare, air.'
'"Make It a dollar and a half, and
I'll go ye, friend.'
"Can't make reductions, sir.' '
" "But it's only a matter of SO mile.'
-1 can't ' help that Two ten's the
fare.'
" I'M give ye one elxty.'
" That won't do." s ,
One seventy-five.'
. "No, elr
"At this point the train departed. The
old man waited till the next train, when
he renewed bis offer of a dollar and a
half. Above II he would not go, and
when the last train left he wae still bar
gaining." , Eaay for Americana,,
Prom the Boston Globe.
William G. McAdoo, the builder of
the world'e greatest underwater tunnels,
as described by an 'English periodical,
saye that American engineers would
make light of the problems presented In
the construction of the much-talked-of
tunnel under the English channel, and
that ' American capitalists would Jump
at thq Investment. -
The work, It Is said, would be child's
play with the struggle which we
had with "the weird geological for
mations under the Hudson river." In
that American undertaking the hardest
stone was found sticking up In ths path
of the englneere, while the bed of the
English ehannel la a uniform layer of
chalk. . '
The distance from London to Parle
could be covered In five end one half
hours, and In oass of war the tunnel
could be effectively closed by flooding.
Only English conservatism la said to
stand In the way of the acromDilah-
ment tt the great englaeetlng (eat,
A Little N
onsense
What Money Cannot Buy.
Pedestrians along Van Nasss avenue
have eeen during the last few days
blind man led by a large shepherd dog,
says the Ban Franelseo Chronicle. ,
' The unusual beauty of the dog haa
caused many to stop and etroke him en
the head and a coin usually ends In the
paim ot tna master. -'
The email boye whtetle and fair girls
snap their fingers Invitingly at the dog,
but he has eyee only tor the blind jn as
ter he leads and cannot be tempted
from his eld A few days ago a bus!
nsse man who had made a great deal of
money liked the looks of the dog and
concluded to buy him,
"Here's 150 for your dog," said the
man, Jingling a handful of gold.
The face of the blind master twitched
with emotion. : '
"Fifty dollars" he said, "would toot
buy a wag of his tall.' , .
' ; They Could Not 8m ,lt ;
During Jones' first. visit to America,
he overheard a very brilliant Joke. Hie
host wae discussing motoring with . a
friend, when the latter said; - - .
"Oh, it only costa me a cent to run
my car every mile." - To whlob hie host
replied 1 "I have often wondered what
the scent was for; I understand now.".
Whan this Joke had been duly ex
plained to Jonea. he thought It was
moat brilliant ' piece of wit. and-deter
mined to recite It at the club when he
returned home. The opportunity even
tualfy arrived, and Jones prepared his
friends for the bearing. ' '
"By the way. you fellows. I -heard a
remarkably clever Joke over - In ,Npw
York. A -chap had been telling my
friend that It only coat him a or e1
halfpenny to run his motor for every
mile, and my host eleverly remarked I
nave orten wondered wnl me scent was
there for." " '
And then1 he wondered whv no one
laughed. V
A Deadhead.
Francis Wilson waa talking ' at the
Playere' club about the Ignorance ' of
dramatlo literature that la too prevalent
in America.'
"Why," eaid Mr. Wilson. " a company
was playing 'She Stoops to Conquer in
a small western town last winter when
a man without any money, wishing to
see the show, stepped up to the boa
office and said:
" 'Pass me in, pleaeeV
The box office man gave a loud.
harsh laugh. . .
" 'Pass you InT What forr he asked.
The applicant drew himself ' up and
answered haughtily:
"What forr Why, because I am
Oliver Goldsmith, author of the play.'.
' Oh, I beg your pardon, air,' replied
the other in a chocked voice, as he hur
riedly wrote out aa order for a box'
aaaaasanasaw .
; . Didn't Scar Ben Any.. . . .
Andrew . Carnegie Is famous for the
excellent advice that he gives to poor
young men.
'In considerable fear," said a New
York millionaire, "I once eonaulted Mr.
Carnegie about a new venture. The
business looked as If it ought . to be
profitable. There Beamed to be a public
need of It. Still, there was soma risk
Involved and I was afraid
"But Mr. Carnegie laughed at my
fears.
"If It's a good thing, plunge in.' he
said. Tear is old womanish. Fear Is
what kseps untold ml 11 lone from making
fortunes. Whsn Benjamin Franklin
thought of atartlng a paper In Phila
delphia, his mother,, greatly alarmed,
tried to dissuade hire. She pointed out
that there were already two newspapere
in America,'"
i Wanted to Get (There First. '
fThei
An Irishman ruahed up the stslrs to
the naturalisation bureau In the federal
building. He appeared, pop eyed, before
Clerk Donovan.
i wish to take out first papers," ex
claimed tha Irishman excitedly. "
"How 'long have you been la thle
Country T" queried Donovan.
"About to minutes say half an hour
that Is, off the Island."
"Well. Isn't this rather euddenr
- "Now,- it's this way, f anner," ex
plained the embryo cltlsea in honeyed
tonss. There was a domned German en
board my ship who bet me he'd get
papers first. He's not hers yet, - Give
me the pepers Jf anner, deer."
v " Yarn About Mexico,
Prom the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Mora than to consular officers and
agents of the United States In Mexico
have reported to Ambassador Thompson
that so far aa they have been able to
ascertain, there ie no real foundation
for the rumor that a revolutionary out
break might be expected In that coun
try next month for the purpose- of ex
pelling Americana. This seriee of stste-
ments may reasonably be regarded as
authoritative.
Certainly If a widespread project ex
isted to drive Americana from Mexico
under threat of killing them if they re
mained, the officials of this government
stationed there and keeping In touch
with the progress of events ought to
know something about it. There -Is.
moreover, the fact to be considered that
Mexloo Jias a government of Ita own,
which, while It may fall short of Ameri
can ideals In many respects, Is, never
theless, highly efficient In the suppres
sion of disorder, provldsd with an armed
force to execute Its decrees and headed
by a man whose long career gives proof
of aggressive energy and Inflexible reso
lution. American capital and - American en
gineers and skilled mechanics have done
much to develop the resources ef Mexico
and to furnish employment for those of
ner people who are' willing to work.
Thle fact has been cordially appreciated
oy mas, as no -naa testified on more
than one occasion. Local discontents
may exist here and there. But there le
no . reason to suppose that the story
eoncemlng a great native "uprising" IB
anything more than a midsummer yarn.
" The Governor's Buggy.
' From the Atlanta Journal. ' 1
The buggy In which Joeeph E. Brawn, f
Georgia's civil war governor, drove hie
bride, in 1141, from South Carolina to
hie home at Canton. Georgia, haa bees,'
given to the cltlsens of Canton by Mrs.
E.-iL. Connally, who had purchased the
old vehiole for 110. .
Tha Joseph E. Brown estate mads a
formal presentation to the town of Can
ton Friday ef the old Brown homestead
and four acree of ground to be used aa
a park. At thle time Mrs. Connallv
also gave the town the old buggy In
which Governor Brown and hie bride
rode all the wey from South Carolina.
The vehicle will be placed In . the
kitchen ef the bld-faahlonsd country
manelon, where It can be eerefuriy pre
served from the weather.
The buggy, though almost IS yeara
old, has suffered but-little from the at
tacks of time and is still sound and
strong.
1
BIRDSEYE VIEWS
cf TIMELY TOPICS
SMALL CHANGS.
A good example la better than crlt-
iciam.
- a e . . ,
Lots of harvesting te be done yet In
uregon. , ., . . ........
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And still the festive hone ma hooping
saywera. ...
Will Uncle Adlei Stevenson be also
ceiled pn to run the third time? '
And so far General Miles hss not beea
mentioned even tor vloe-preeldent. .
Again the ear ahortage. ; Aren't the
railroads ever to build enough caret
. a . .a . - " .
It may be eaater to find out the age
of Ann than aome of the railroad rates.
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The Iowa etandpattere will try to de
feat Cummine, but are not likely to auo-
ceed. : .- - . .. , ; -. .; .
When a man marries hie stenographer
she lg liable to do the dictating there
after. ; '.;,',;'.
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If Roosevelt really " woi't run, he
doesn't, have to, but he needn't get mad
about It ..,(: , .
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Some of those Russian bomb throwers
have bad aim lately; act ae If they were
nervous. " .. .-r ... .
TJncle Joe may make it disagreeably
interesting for Brother Fairbanke and
some othere. i..
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Neither Cannon nor Uttlefleld are
likely to be hasten, though they may be
Beared a little. 1
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The hope are ready; so are about 40,-
000 pickers, and a marry time meny of
them will have. -
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Go It, Harrlman; go It. Hill; the more
rallroade the better; the country Is big
enough for them. .: 1 .. t -. -. -
Nooks and Corner, pf Hi.tbry
NATHANIEL BACON, THE
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
Nathaniel . Bacon wae bora In Sbffolk.
England. January I, 1142, and educated
at the Inna of Court, London. Hand-
eome, Intellectual, rich, with the beat
blood of Britain in hie velna. Bacon, at
thes- age of II. eame to America and
settled In Gloucester county, Vtrginli
When. Bacon landed on the shores of
the new world he round in the colony
some tO.OOS people, a amall minority of
whom were living tn princely styls,
while the overwhelming majority ware
little better than slaves.
Of aristocratic birth. Bacon waa at
hsart a democrat of ths democrats; a
man . who loved -Justice and right aa the
hungry man loves bread, and It took
him but a little while to declare himself.
He put himself squarely on the side
of ths people versus ths stall-fed ml
herity, who -were -doing their beet to
keep them la bondage. - .
At the apex or the Virginia iniquity,
as Bacon found It,. waa old. Governor
Berkeley, the . representative ef . : the
erown. .... '.. ,v. ... . .. ......
Close efter the pompous eld governor
came the "gentlemen," the -aristocrats.
who lived - In the . mansions along the
rivers and feasted on the fat of the
land. .
Against tbla combination Bacon, de
clared "war to the knife."
Circumstances .. opened . the way for
Bacon to atrike the wlehed-for blow
at the selfish and arrogant aristocracy,
and he availed himself of It with the
avidity of a -man of genius and with
the energy of a thoroughly sincere .dem
ocrat, , r-.
In the summer of 1175 there was a
great Indian uprising and old Governor
Berkeley did nothing about It. The
settlers were murdered right and left.
but the governor raised not a hand. He
waa in the fur trade with the Indiana.
As a result of that trade he wae mak
ing money, and why should be Incite the
ill-will of the red men on account ef
the death of a, few palefaces t- , . .
But while Berkeley was taking It
eaay. Bacon acted. A military force
made up of the plain people elected
Bacoa as their general, and tha neces
sary plana were begun to be laid for
the securing of the peace and safety
In the colony that all so earnestly de
sired. . .
Then eld Berkeley got mad to think
Ovulatory Vagaries and Anaesthetics
A PECULIAR COURT DECISION,
Aoeordlng to the decision of a French
court anaesthetics are apt to beget such
strange visions that ths uncorroborated
testimony ef a person aa to things seen
or heard, .Immediately after awakening
from the state of unconsciousness pro
duced by their employment,' cannot be
accepted as legal evidence.
The decision arose out of the ault of
doctor's wife for divorce. One of her
witnesses waa a servant girl employed
at the houee ot a woman whom she had
regarded ae her best friend. -The doctor
had been attending the maid during an
illness which nsceseltated a slight opera
tion for which she wae prepared by the
admlnletratlon of chloroform, on re
gaining consciousness the first thing she
saw, she swore, wse her mistress In
the arms of the doctor who waa bestow
ing upon her euch ardent and oscutatory
proofs of his affection as argued tnucn
previous practice on the eame object.
Servant-girl like, she Immediately told
the doctor'e wife and ructions followed,
culminating In a suit for the eeverlng
of the nuptial tie. '
On the witness stand the girl's evidence
waa unshaksn by cross-examination. She
rave a most circumstantial account of
the scene ehe declared she had witnessed.
Sven to the number ef kisses that had
been exchanged. In seeking to rebut
thie evidence the doctor delivered a
learned disquisition on the effeete of
anaeethetlce In general and chloroform
In particular. ' To attach any credence to
the girl's story, he maintained, showed
gross Ignorance of the properties of the
drug. He caned rroressors srouaraei
and Debove to eupport his vlewe. Both
these eminent authorltlee declared that
chloroform often produces hallucinations
and frequently those of an oeculatory
character. So strong are the Impressions
they maka on tha Imagination of patients,
they eessrted, that-they frequently per
sist aftsr the return te consciousness,
and are as vivid as realities. The serv
ant girt they argued, had an oeculatory
vision while jhe wae under the Influence
ef the anaeetbetle and when ehe revived
and opened. her eyee upon the' doctor
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
j Those hops are nearly .ready. . a .
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Mora Item In Wesoo Newe: ' Even, the
email boys of Moro ere making money
thle year. Todd McCoy and Robbie Hoe
klnson are each earning II per day drlv
ing net teem. . .:''
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Helix Herald: : Grouse ' season epM
Wednesday. Get your license, your gun,
nog and bottle ready for the slaughter,
that la, If you have time to make) a trip
to the mountains a fur the birds. ,.
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Moro Observer: : Spotted fevae eomee
from bttee of sage ticks. - This tick ia
red and the bite la very Irritating. Thle
fever seems to be more prevelent thle
year than ever before, and the doctors
are baffled la treating 1C .. ,
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' Moro Observer: A family of Christian
Science mice have taken up their abode
int the Observer shack. O hey must be
e. ' a. m., as thsy've lived on sawdust
for a long time, no doubt believing It
to be bran.' But believing In thle In
stance wee bad, aa attested by the' dry
bones of some of the vlotlma In the box.
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" Mayor Bateb of Echo writes to the
Register from Hideaway Springs: Peo
ple ere on pleaaure bent. They dance
all night and Bleep and eat all day. ex
eapt what time they are la the pond,
This is the piece to come to ' get
cool. . a , ; a a We went fishing last
Friday and caught III fish, had buckle
berries and a good time, . ., . . '
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Echo -Register: . Numerous combined
harvesters are rapidly clearing up the
grain fields in this part ot the county. .
Four and five men can run one, and a
farmer can ewSp work with hie neigh
bor; Impress, his sons, and ' even hie
daughters, and thus defy tha haughty
labor trust From one ranch eest. of
town 14 machines could be seen at
work one day last week, a s ,
FIRST AMERICAN REBEC
that Bacon had ; dared to - beard 'him
without a commission from his high ,
mlghtlnesav- At that the people got .
mad, sleeted a sufficient' number of
themselves . to the assembly at Jamee
town to control It, and gave Bacon a '
eommlaalon as general.
That made Berkeley more - wrothy
than ever; land he refuaed to sign Ba
con's eommlaalon thst had been given
him by the houee. . . .
' Five hundred fearless patriots gath
ered about Bacon, and with these he
marched to Jamestown, the capital, and , "
demanded the signing-of his commis
sion, and on July 4, 100 yeara before '
the proclamation' of the declaration of
Independence, the stubborn old gov
ernor yielded, and by his signature rati
fied tha votee of the assemblymen. -
...Bacon .Immediately set euWon-- his
march - against - the Indiana. '.But he
bad no sooner gone than the hypocritl
cal jold. governor proclaimed! him a rebel .
and a traitor. ; . - , - ,
This , unaccountable ; action Immedl- '
etely aroused Bacon's anger, and with
his force he marched on - Jamestown.
Berkeley waa there with an army, but -the
army was too cowardly to fight,
end ' Bacon burned Jamestown to the -ground,
leaving only the old brick
church tower, which still -stands. - ' ;'
In the meantime the hated represen
tative of the crown had fled to the
eastsrn shoree of Chesspeake bay.
Where, by promise of booty, he began
raising u. fores to sustain him In office. .
' Having cleared hfeM the rff
land proper; Bacon waa preparing to
cross the Chesspeake for the purpose
of driving Berkeley from Virginia, when
ijeeuny caneo a nail.
In the low, flat marshes of Ttdewatar
Virginia the death malaria lurked, and
before that ellent but terrible foe Bacon
fell, October 11, 1(74, at the early , age
of 14. -
With their gifted young leader eon.
tha people seemed ble to do puniftier
and In the following month Berkeley
and the aristocrats wore In the saddle :
again. - - .
Had Bacon -lived the independence of
America might have come 100 years
earlier than it did. That . malaria in
t-e Jamestown swamps postponed the 1
great declaration and the starry flag
a roupd century. ".."
end her mistress her deluded Imagina
tion made, them .the subjects at- it.
The two professors convinced the court.
The maid's testimony wss rejected. It
did not weigh against the .doctor. But
unfortunately for Mm -his wife's allege'
tlone of unfaithfulness were substanti
ated by other evidence which could not
by any possibility be attributed te
hallucinations due to ' snsesthesla. 80
ths doctor's wifs obtelned her divorce.
But hereafter French. doctors, whd' want
to avoid all risk of having defamatory
and libellous accusation brought against .
them by .feminine patients on whom they '
may. operate wilf be careful to have
witnesses around to protect themsehree
front the results of wsklng visions.
Invention to Utilise the Tidd. .
'' From the Sunday Magaalne.' '
Apparatus by which the Waves , can
be harnessed end made to furnish motive
power for all human neede le patented by
a Callfornlan. . Thla Invention consists of
one er more bargee ecow-llke floats,'
launched upon the eea and anchored at '
suoh.e distance from the shore as to be
always In deep water, and operate unl- -form
I y and In all weather;. - v j
Along the bottom of each float runs a
metal track, upon which are two little
cars, one at each' end, bearing heavy
weights. - The care are connected by a
rod and aa the boat rocks they roll back
and forth along the track, at the aame
time operating a pair of pistons which
compress atr and, through a'tnbe, furnish
pneumatlo power operating . machinery
oa the shore. The pumping mechanism
may also be adapted to- euck water from
under the boat and pipe It to ehore in
a stsady stream .with sufficient force to
operate a water motor on- the beach.
Thue Is power had without recourse to
coal. Such an Invention, If practicable.
would, ef course,- be preferable to jthe
solar angina or windmill, which can atore
up energy only while the eun shines orf
the breese wafts I friskily. ' Neptune le
never at rest, and would be a more" de
pendable elave In harness than either
old Soi or old Boreas. ,
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