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nii huiii nil aril i.. si.u. ..mur B FRIDAY, MARCH 14 1902. TliiB Date Iu History Haroh 14. 1ED0 Decisive battle of Ivry nnd victory of Henry of Navarre, which secured him the crown and ended tho "YollglouB wur. 1803 Frederick Theophl lua Klopstock, Ger man poet, died; born 1721. 1S20 Victor Emmanuel, In whose reign the until cation of Italy was John T. Ford. completed, born In Turin; died Jan. 9. 1STS. - IS91 A mob In New Orleans captured the city prison and killed 11 Italians, al leged members of tho Matin and charged with collusion In tho killing of Chief of Police Hennessy. 1S91 John T. Ford, well known theatrical manager, died at Baltimore; born li23. 1S9S Henry Bessemeo, Inventor of the bes semer steel process, died; born 1S13. 130 Roberts' iirmy occupied Bloemfon teln. former capital of the OrnngH Free State. Rev. Thomas Kinnlcut Beecher, noted Congregationallst mln later, died at Elmlra. N. Y.: born V2i. Teddy, the strenuous, has lost some of his metal since he became presi dent. Responsibility is excellent salve for the. scrapping man. Risk will sober the most aggressive. "I-beg-to-report" Lord Kitchener is busy just now. The lioen seem to be very much alive. It is time for England to come to her 3euses and wind up her horrible war with a. hamlt'ull of people. "Long live the Emperor," cried Carter Harison on Prince Henry's re cent Visit to Chicago. Mayor Harri son pretends to be a democrat. If he had been a real one, with no bad taint in his blood, those words would have choked him. What could have been the matter with Carter? Shades of his father! Lord Roseberry, England's great statesman, has a great opportunity to bring about a settlement of the war in South Africa with honor to England and justice to the South African republics, that have won the respect of the world by their struggle against such odds. They are entitled to the right to govern themselves as they see lit. John P. Altgeld, who died Wednes day was a misunderstood man. He was a man of great mental depth, a man who believed in the voice of the people, who was a democrat in the strictest sense -of the word. He de fended the lowly, upheld equality of opportunity and fought for equal rights. He was struck down with apoplexy immediately after making an eloquent appeal on behalf, of the Boors, whose cause was his own came from the. ranks of the lowly, had gained eminence from his own sturdy efforts, and he never forgot the ntrugglers in the lower walks of life. Altgeld dead will bo tendered" greater justice than Altgeld alive. Ho will be accorded a place among the great lovers of democracy, who have quit this sphere in answer to nature's call. His voice, will bo no longer heard in the land, but his good work will live after him! The savings bank deposits of tho United States amount to about $2, 679,000,000, and somebody cites it as proof that Americans take care of their money. There are people who seem to be under tho impression that tho hoarder of money is the only per son that "saves" it. Bless their souls, if every man and woman and child on earth squandered every cent thoy got hold of, tho money would bo still in ovidonco just the same, for deposit in savings banks and for oth or purposes. We should not forget that the man who spendB his money liberally and llgltlmately is even a better man than tho one who hoards and saves it. Tho saving virtue is not the highest ono by any means, and it lias boon cultivated even too much. Somewhere it is written, "Moderation is the silken thread that runs through tho pearl chain, of all virtuo." The man who stints and saves' Is not moderate. Tho cancer of selfishness eats at his soul, and with "love of money," works until it destroy it. Anything that is done to excess is destructive. Astoria people have contributed $1000 for tho .benefit of tho Doer wo men and children In tim catnna in .South Africa. Thin ia gonerpua contribution for so small a city as Astoria for an object .so far away. It shows that Astoria has her full share of people whoso hearts nre In tho right place. Astoria hns sot a good example for the other towns of Oregon. JJut, after the money is contributed, it is possible it cannot reach tho people to whom it is given, on account of the action of tho state department at Washington, which re cently refused to give passports to a gentlemnu and his wife, who had been entrusted with money to take to South Africa for the succor of these miserable people, on tho ground that Great Britain might con sider it "meddling" on our part. Truly, "courtesy between statesmen" is being carried a little too far. Pres ident Roosevelt had better contract the late President McKinlcy's habit, keep his ear close to the ground. Surely he had better be alive to the wishes of the American people than to those of the governing class in England! ' STATE TAXES ARE HIGH. The people who pay taxes univer sally complain about there being one inurth to one-third higher than last year, when they were considered higher than ever before. What will they do about it? People cannot understand how when the expenses of running thv county government hns been reduced one-half that, is for current expenses and the debt of the county wiped out, still the taxes are higher. Some talk as though getting the county out of debt were to blame nml want the county run into debt again. That is false logic. The levy lor county purposes is about three mills less than last year. The school tax and state school tax Is the same. The state government tax is higher by about a mill and a half. The new cash road tax is one and one-half mills added to the cash tax levy. Hence the reduction in county tax es is more than overcome. The legislature annronrinted nenrlv two millions and the increase in state revenues required this year, over the average amount for seven years, is $460,000. This fact has been publish ed over and over again. The neonle have a richt. to howl about taxes being higher as the can didates for the legislature in most cases promised the people reduced taxes to get their votes. Thev nrom lsed to levy no new taxes, to create no new offices. iRut the legislature after it is or ganized plunges Into the vortex of a struggle to elect a senator, becomes as unmanageable as a lot of sa'wlogs tnat nave broken trom their boom in a flood. The only remedy is to send men of tho highest Integrity and business ability, and men who want no person al grafts, to the legislature, and bind them hand and foot to a good busi ness program. 'After the people get the initiative and referendum they will have a lit tle more control over their represen tatives. Until then lay down an iron clad program thus far and no further can you go in spending pub lic money. $3.00 a day men who seek to get to go to the legislature to make out of it what they can for themselves nrn dan gerous and expensive. The man who seeks that three dollar a day job must do business after he gets it to pay his debts. If he don't get big appropriations, rnako new ofnees, create clerkships, and scatter boodle with a lavish .hand how Is he going to pay his campaign bills and hold his place with the par ty for future promotion? . (Send men to tho legislature who are not Jirafters and hnlihin timm with an ironclad pair of business pro gram hobbles to pay taxes. There is no other way to hold down the boodle avalanche. Salem finnitnl Journal. SECRETARY HAY AS A POET. It is quite the proper thing nowa days, says the Pilgrim, to congratu late the nation that" at last tho schol ar, even the lltorarv man. has nnnnn ed in American politics. He has long ukvu u utcior in tne public llfo of Grent Britain, but tho tono nf Amori. can statecraft has beon distinctly unllterary, the verdict of tho Pennsyl vania congressman of Lowpll, that he was nothing but a "damned literary letter," jong standing In tho fullness of Its scorn against anv nutimr n. pearing In public life. The advent of uoosovelt changed all this, for ho is .the author of cloven respectablo books, besides uncounted magazino articles, which are, to quote a eulo gist. "discharKed at a. fltnnnirrnnlini liko bullets from a rlflo" It really ought to liavo beon a magazine gun to mako the simllio perfect. But in a literary administration tho wooing of tho muses is sometimes at tended by embarrassment if not with disaster. There is Secretary Hay, for example. In his earlier day John Hay was a poet, a real ono and not a ero nootaBtei Prosperity not wholly disconnected with tho Stand ard OJ1 Company foundered his. poetic bark, for an Aldrich Bays truly "A man would live in a garrot aloof, ' . . . .. . Ami navo row irtontis ami go poony clad, With an old hat stopping the chink in tho roof, To keep tho Goddess constant and glad." And moreover tho Goddess insists upon nnd inspires high ideals, a lofty love for the right and one's .fellows. The Goddess was with John Hny in those days, and right loyally ho re sponded to the inspiration. We re call no poetic expression of the right attitude of Americans toward nil men striving for liberty, than this closing stanza from John Hay's "Liberty:" "So all in vain with tlmerous ones essay To set the metes and hounds of lib erty. For freedom In Its own eternnl law; It makes its own conditions and in storm Or calm alike fulfills the eternnl Will. Let us then not despise it When it lies Still as a sleeping Hon, when a swarm Of gnat'Hko evils hover round its head; Nor doubt it when in mad disjointed times It shakes the torch of terror, and its cry Shrills o'er the "quaking earth, and in the flame Of riot and war wo see its awful form Rise by the scaffold where tho crim son ax Rings down, its grooves the knell of shuddering kings. Forever in thine eyes, O Liberty, Shines that high light whereby the world is saved, And though thou slay us we will trust in thee." Beautiful and lifty is the sentiment of these lines and cruelly hard to re concile with the position of Mr. Hay as the foremost mbinet official of two administrations determined to drive tho sword, and gun, and torch, md starvation, and robbery, and ra pine all aspirations for liberty from the hearts of a weak people whom the i fortunes of war have delivered over) to American power. Nor is this the I one instance iu which John Hay the) Politician has given the lie to John Hay the Poet. Under the devotional title, "Thy Will Be Done," he sung some years ago the inalienable right of rebellion against tyranny, even at 1 tho risk of the ax: j "When tyrant feet are trampling Upon the common weal, Thou dost not bid us cringe and j writhe I iBeneath the Iron heel; In thy name we assert our rights, , With sword and tongue and pen, j An de'en the headman's ax may Hash Thy message, unto men. j "Thy will! It bids the weak be strong, It bids the strong be just; No lip to fawn, no hand to beg, No brow to seek the dust. Wherever man oppresses man Beneath the liberal sun, O God! Be there thine arm made bare, Thy righteous will be done." It Is small wonder that when a Denver woman wrote to Secretary Hay inquiring about the curious di vetgence between his poetic preach ments and his political practice his private secretary should have re sponded: "The secretary is unable to relieve the confusion of mind you seem to be in in regard to the contradiction you see between his words and his acts." It is easy to sit In tho sunshine And talk to tho man in tho shade; It IsAeasy to float in a well-trimmed boat And point out the places to wade. It Is easy to tell the toller How best he can carry his pack: But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Nels Morris, of Chicago, is tho larg est breeder of Angus cattle in the United States. His "C" ranch in Tex as, contains 280,000 acres upon which feed 15,000 head of this breed of cat tle. D1H TO HAVE THICK, LUXURIANT HAIR Is tho most longed-for de Elro o( o v o ry woman Slio knows whatn power ful aid to beauty it is, and endeavors to mako nor own as soft, glossy and thick as possible. Comparatively tow of them nro uwaro as yet that Nowbro'a lierplcldc. R recent scientific, dts. covery, will enablo them to jiosK-ss lmlr as thick ami luxuriant as anyone could desire. It works on a now the ory of des'troylug tho perm that feeds uion tho halrnxjr, and thus mak. Ins daiulruir and falllug hair Impossible. It then proceeds to product) u (;mvth of thick, glossy htlr that Boon becomes 1 the prhloof Jts owner. One trial wlllcouvluoo you of Ita virtues. FOH QAIU AT ALL riHST OLAUE DHUQ 8TOHI8. What S. Sm S. Does for Children are constantly exposed to all aorta of dis eases. The nir they breathe ia filled with germs, aewer gas and dust from the filthy streets nre inhaled into the lungs and taken into the blood. At the crowded school rooms and other public places they come in contact almost daily with others recovering from or in the first stages of contagious diseases. You can't quarantine against the balance of the world, and the best you can do is to keep their blood in good condition, and thus prevent or at least mitigate the disease. You have perhaps learned from observation or experience that healthy, robust children (and this means, of course, children whose blood is pure) nre not nearly so liable to contract diseases peculiar to them, and when they do it is generally in a mild form. On the other hand, weak, emaciated and sickly ones seem to catch every disease that comes along. This is because their blood is lack ing in nil the elements necessary to sustain and build up the body. Poisons of every description accumulate in the system, because the polluted and sluggish blood is tumble to perform its proper functions. Such children need a blood purifier and tonic to give strength and vitality to their blood, andS. S. S., being a purely vegetable remedy, makes it the safest and best for the delicate constitutions of children. S. S. S. is not only a perfect blood medicine, but is pre-eminently the tonic for children ; it increases their appetites ami strengthens the digestion nnd assimilation of food. If your child ren have any hereditary or acquired taint in their blood, give them S. S. S. and write to our physicians for any information or advice wanted ; this will cost you noth ing, and will start the little weaklings on the road to recovery. Book on Blood and Skin Diseases free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA, OA. A new pro-Boer pnper called Paris Pretoria has made its appearance in Paris. It contains communications sympathizing with tho Boers from a large number of senators and depu ties. A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. 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