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NLWfiPAPLns AS HISTORY
H crahl Dianoin liuitor.
A controversy is said to have arisen
lietwecn John Fisk and Thomas Went-
worth Higginson 18 to whether news-
paper reports of evenls are of high value
! as materials for history, Fisk taking the
HELPING HOUSE IN A STOMACH.
Fishiivj Gazette.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
F k OM o r »
REGULAS C o U llE S I-O N P E X T .
both parties, uill have trouble in And-
ing out just “ where they are at ”
politically. Of course, Mr. Dubois has
no better facility for guessing what
either party will do, than hundreds of
other intelligent men have. fTis opinion
SPECHI
If a boat is anchored in any one of the
«•biinnel’s which separated Iheqnicksamig
Washington, July 17th, 1S99
°f B|e mouth of the Thames, when the
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Because the law under which General
lide is running fast during calm summer
j Nelson A. Miles has been acting Sucre-, ,a merely given,for what it is worth.
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weather, multitudes of jelly lish may be j
•A R IS E S T H R O U G H J E A L O U S Y .’
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r L ' l i C M V allirmative side and Higginson the nega- seen floating just below the surface.
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Some are no bigger than teacups, and secretary ami the assistant secretary,
five.
was put on the statue bovks a long ‘It is a foolish personal jealousy that
Of course F.ske is correct. Ho is not they ail have some curious markiugs on
E d ito r anil Proprietor.
the
top,
and
move
by
contracting
and
time “S°' “ æ " ta “
to re^ nl opposes the ceremoay o f corner stone
only a iiiucli greater historian than his
i the occurrence as without siiruilicance. 'i laying bv Ancient Freemasons. This is
antagonist in this dispute, hut is a far expanding the lower parts of their I
Florence, Ore. Ju ly 2S, 189V.
As a matter of fact it was very signifi-' a ^,uat0lIl" tini(J ,10I10reJ anJ v0norable.
better authority on a question of this bodies.
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cant—significant
Hour after hour ttieeo heantiful tilings innt B*in*0cant of
of a a very
very radical
rilt’'ca' !
tha ritual outline of this work
kind. Even in these days, when the
Enterprising citizens of I'bigene and
float by, and thoir numbers are inealcul- Ch“nee
tlie roli‘tlons between Gen- ! Masonry there is nothing more beauti-
, public printing offices of the leading Eu­
those living along the road to Florence,
Miles ami the administration, or u*
of an
""¡fui and appropriate and were these
ropean governments and of the United able. If otte is cangili with thè
including that town have subscribed
I attempt to trap Miles into attempting to cerenlonieg left t0 tho ,iailJs of «hoover
.States, especially of the United States, the Angers usually perforate its jelly-like
about $500 to improve tlio road leading
make some use of ids temporary autl.or- uh)m)
iu ulan/ ingUn.
turn out blue, red and yellow books and structure, and if it is placed on n board
to tidewater ill condition tljat Hip county
ity that would mako trouble for him. ces a beautiful proceeding would be
executive documents with a profusion tiic creature seems to run away in the
will appropriate two dollars to every one
A little thought will convince most per­ omitted and those words and phrases
altogether unknown in provious ages, form of wuter.
subscribed by the citizeiis. Wo think
sons of this fact. Tiie law is an old one, which may cause better deeds or
the average person would have hut
Now a great many of the larger kinds
the county should not hesitate to meet
directing
the general commanding tho thoughts to spring forth from the hu­
i a vague idea of what was going on in iiis when carefully examined, are found
this proposition of tiro people.—Broad-
army
to
become acting secretary of man breast would bo lost forever, a
j country or in the outside world if lie to have within thoir large stomachs a
arc.
war
during
the absence of tho secre­ tiling which our world can poor affjrJ.”
were forced to rely on these sources for small white shrimp with most beautiful
tary and the assistant secretary from
: bis information. Even tiie professional emerald colored eyes. It was supposed
Oregon Stale Journal.
Washington, bnt does anybody suppose
We hold a different opinion in some
Ki sani, A A lukb lias resigned from historian would be hampered if lie were that these shrimps formed the food of
that wliile Gen. Miles was publicly crit­
respects from that expressed by the
tho cabinet and President McGinley has fostricted to this particular field for lhe the jelly Ash, or medusae, as They are
icising the acts of the war department,
accepted the resignation. T lio business , duta-
Journal in the above paragraph. Tho
properly called, but careful investiga­
and
Secretary Alger was scheming to
of the office was turned over to Assist-
H, during the excavation by Schlic- tion proved that these lively little creat-
corner stone is a very important part in
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And some plausible way of deposiug
ant Secretary Meiklejohu who will have 11111,1 ?n tl,e sites of Troy, Mycenae and 1 ures with beautiful eyes only exist in
tiie construction of a building and it is
cliargo till Alger’s successor is appointed, j otlier Greek cities, lie had dug up a few ! the large medusae, and that they make Miles from command of the army, that necessary that it be properly laid. It
anytldng could induce tiie secretary
News of the resignation is received nu* >PnP‘-,rs, providing there had been the stomach of these wandering masses
lias become a custom that laving the
with satisfaction by all 'parts of the !,iny*n *bu old days when theso towns ! of animal jelly their home and larder, and assistant secretary to have absented corner stone of important buildings
country it being the opinion of a largo j "eru 111 tiiclr prime, what Aoods of light! The shrimp soon dies if taken from its tliemselves, at once, even for a single shall bo accompanied by appropriate
day. Their doing so now was for a pnr-
majority of tiie people that a different tl>cy "’°ulJ have thrown upon thodoings | shelter, and specimens of it are never
exercises. These are usually arranged
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head for the department was needed. ““J bfoof the people of their locality in ! found swimming with the common pose, even if that purpose is unknown. I , , for and , conducted
bv the company, sect
It is said that no papers, requiring tlie i
their
time.
shrimps which live in tlie sea aroand our
or society owning the building. If a
^Vliile it is impossible before his success­
signature of the secretary, were carried
They would have told a more vivid coasts.
church, tiie ceremonies are carried out
or is chosen to toil what other changes
to Gen. Miles while he was acting secre­
The shrimp lives at the expenso ol tlie
j by the denomination owning it. If de- i
will he made, it is thought in many tale of tiie customs, passions and ambi-
quarters that Otis will be recalled abd nu lions of the denizens of those old tywiis jelly Ash, and feeds upon some of tho tary,—in short while he was legally the signed fora lodge room tiie exercises are
otlier officer pi,iced in command in the of thirty or forty centuries ago thitn was small creatures which aro entangled by acting secretary, steps had been taken in conducted by the order to which it be- J
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advance, wliidi prevented Iiis perform-
Bhillipines.
ever imparted by the urns and obelisks (he peculiar structure of its mouth.
longs. If for a city httH, a court house,
ing any duties pertaining to that position.
which have been brought to the light.
Tlio jelly Ash floats along collecting
or other public building, representatives
Sleeplessness, melancholia, stomach | Xenophon lias many of the qualities of a food, and killing every small living tiling If a trap was set for General Miles, lie of all parties, sects and denominations,
pains, heart troubles. Iludyap cures, good rejiorler. ills style is direct, gos- . hat touches jts stinging body, while tiie was wise enough to avoid being caught. shouid be given places in all public ex­
All druggists. 50 cents.
! sipy and picturesque, lie makes that shrimp enjoys itself and lives inside, out Ho was prepared to porforu^ any duties ercises connected with its construction
before him, but lie did not seek to make
800 or 1000 miles of thè rotreat of thè of danger, and in great comfort.
whether it be laying the corner stone or
FOR A SHORT TIME
duties.
SUBJECT
TO
TA X.
Ten Tliousand uptlie valley of ilio Tigris
Thu shrimp swims in and out, and is
dedicating the building. When any
Comptroller
TraceweU,
of
tiie
treasury
to tlie Black Sea Umiliar ground to mod­ never harmed by the deadly poison of
such exercises connected with a public
FOR CASH OtNJLY.
department, who was vfcioujly attacked
The convent ion of judges, commiss­ em renderà.
the wonderful Btiarp stiugs of the
edifice constructed with public funds
by
tiie
professional
civil
service
reform-
ioners and assessors recently held iu
Gaesar’s simple, pointed and concen- medusa.
I and paid for by taxation, are given over
era, because of Iiis action, last spring, in
Portland appointed a eomin.ittee consist- truied narrative lias made the campaign
Now tlio most wonderful part of tlio
to any order, sect or denomination it is
ing J. W. Hobart, D. 1’. Burton und in Gaul enact itself over again to sixty singular history is how tiie jelly Ash and deciding tliat deputy U. S. marshals a violation of the spirit and traditions
A. B. Alexander to consider the qnes- generations of men. Yet if a modern the shrimp come together. There aro were not “feberal officers” within tiie of this country. No matter ho.v beauti­
tion of assessing notes secured by newspaper reporter or two had been no lelly Asti in tlio winter and early meaning of the law, says tlio civil ser- ful their ceremonies may be, it is not
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mortgage. They asked Attorney Gon- present with those old Greeks und Itom- spring, and the whole of them die in thc „ vice commission might easily have found
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our free institutions for
live question to occupy tiie time
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i such exercises to be carried out in that
following question.
i on tlio events and conditions yhich tiie shrimp leaves tho stomach of the they used in writing to Secretary Gage, i
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way. In countries wiiere thero is an
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Are notes secured by mortgage subject j would have reconstructed tho whole jelly fish nnd lays its eggs at tiie bottom requesting that lie direct the comp-
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established
religion
such services are
the
decision
referred
to,
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to assessment and taxation when held scheme of society of those far off days,
of tlio shallow sea.
because that decision had been endorsed | U3Ua“y lield Under tho dire“tion of the
by resident owners? Judge Blackburn j One of the drawbacks to tho investiga-
The jelly Ash lays thousands of tiny by one of thc U. 8. supreme court, and j C'IUrC*1' ^ Ut *n t'*° blllted States
nnswers the.question in tho affirmative.: lor into tho early history of tlio United eggs, which being covered with small,
where there is no established church,
l i e says: “ Ah answer to your’ question States is that there were very few nows- movable hairs, row tliemselves into quiet, even had it been reversed by tiie same
high authority, the question would be a ! th?ng8 ar“ Very diirerent’ Just
invoives the consideration of section 1 of papers printed iu those days, and tho rocky nooks on the coast and settle
I what a howl would be raised among our
article 0, of tho constitution of the state, Ales of only a small portion of them have down. These eggs become adherent to live one, because of tiie recent civil ser­ ! protestant friends if tho ceremonies of
vice order of tiie president, which specif­
and of sections 2729, 2731 and 2732 of been preserved.
pieces of shell or stone, nnd do not turn
dedicating seme public buildings were
H ill’s Annotated Laws, and, perhaps, . Niles’ Register, a weekly paper print- to jelly fishes auy more than butterfly’s ically places deputy marshals outside of
given over to the Catholics church.
the civil service rule. Speaking of tho
some other lections thereof.
ed iu Baltimore, which was started in eggs turn to a butterfly.
And would not the Catholics have the
harsh criticism of Secretary Gage, by
“ Under this provision (section 1. 1811 and was continued until 1819, the
A stem springs from them, and
same
right to object if such ceremonies
article 9, constitution), only that class younger Niles conducting it after his hrauclis arise from it nil covered with tiie Civil Service Reform League of New
were
directed
by tiie protestants? But
of property can bo exempted from as- father’s deutli, is the chief reliance for tiny cups, whose rims are crowned with York, which Mr Gage lias answered at
are
there
not
just
as good reasons for
aessment and taxation which comes tlio political history of tlio early part of small arms, called tentacles. This is length, Mr. Tracewell said:
objecting
to
such
exercises
being carried
“These gentlemen apparently do not
clearly within ouo of those exceptions, the period which it covered. Any one of tiie first stage of a jelly Ashe's life. Now
on
under
the
auspices
of
a
secret order?
and theso exceptions aro not operative, I half a dozon papers printed in Baltimore l ho shrimp's eggs hatches about the recognise their best friends, for Secre­
We think there are.
tary Gage is and always has been a
unless a law lias been enacted by the ' today, however, has more news in i
samo time ns the stem just mentioned
A custom may he very old and still
legislative assombly for Hie express gle issue than Nilos printod in Uvo or six begins to grow, and tiie young shrimp stanch friend and supporter of the civil
be
wrong and we hold that it is wrong
service
reform
principles.
I
have
purpose of exempting these excepted editions.
is not at all liko the old one; it has a
classes.”
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| The newspapers of tiie present time
watched his course carefully and have for the «eremonies of laying tiie corner
big head, a small body, and very long
never known of a single instance where stone of a public building to be conduct-
The classes of property exempted are give every event and issue iu all aspects. legs.
lie
has made tlie least exception on ac- ed
a 8eeret order as has been done
“such only as ale Used for municipal, They give it earlier, fuller and in better
In tiie first of thoir existence tiie jelly
count of tlie position ot tlie man he ‘u tll*B 8late tw>«te in tlie past few
educational, literary , scientific religious shape than was done in tho past, or tliaa Ash and tiie shrimp are separate, and
or charitable purposes.
can bo done by any government precau unlike what they subsequently turn to. wanted for tho service, and I venture i
In section 2731' of tho code, in the tion. They provide the “abstract and As tlio warm weather comes on, tiie the assertion that lie lias never made an
FARM NOTES.
definition of personal property is in- brief chronicles of the time” with an in ­ stem witli its brandies and cuplikc ends appointment or approved of a promotion
cluded “all debts due of become due terprise anil a fidelity which make them begins to bud, and after a wliile out Of that wns not in Ills judgment, for tbo Mississippi Valley Deiuecret,
from solvent debtors, whether on ac- of the highest value as a relax of the the buds spring lively jelly Ash, which good of tlie service, and it is a mistake
tomatoes will not be so easily affected
count, contract, note, mortgage, or bfo of the period.
soon swim off. About this timo the for anyone to attack iiis course in the vith rot if tlie vines ?re fastened to
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name of civil service reform,”
otherwise," etc.
John Fiske speaks for t ii e guild of young shrimp easts off its skiu and grows
■p,
“P1'1«1*1 stakes. An excellent wav is to
Tlie gentlemen who asked Secretary , ,
y is io
“Tiie debt which the note evidences, professional historians when lie places into tiie form of the old one, and invari­ Gage to have tlie comptroller review iiis
'æ 100,1 to lol‘r
sllarPen tlie
and the mortgage to secure it, are intuit- Ids high estimate upon tiie worth of able seeks shelter in thc stomach of the decision, overlooked tlie faetthat neither
1 tho louer en Is and drive them
gihle property and follow tiie |>erson of newspaper narrative as material for tho first young jelly Asti it comes across iu
I into tlie ground; the hoops should he
tlie
secretary
of
the
treasury,
nor
tlie
tiie ownor.”
I history of a nation or an age,
its swimming to and fro’
| fastened to the staves with nails end
President himself, lias any authority
It seems some assessors have been
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Tins extraordinary circle of events
i they will bo found better than wire,
over such a decision which only thc
assessing notes secured by mortgages WHO IS Women as we|l as in en orc goes on yoar after year, and tiie reason
j At this season of the year, when most
' courts can ciiange or upset.
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of the produce of the farm is being made
nnd others have not. Tiie doubt wheth­
made miserable bv kidney w Ity tiie young shrimp should seek an
| The comptroller is nearer a real czar
TO
and bladder trouble.
Hr animal totally unlike itself mid very
er such notes are taxable has arisen
ready to ship, tlie farmer should keep a j . w . C A R M A N
P R O P R 'F T n »
! in authority than any official we have.
Kilmer’s Swamp Root too
from the repeal of tiie mortgage tax law.
fatal to otlier shrimps is one of those
sharp lookout for market reports of
| Senator Scott, of W. Va., who has lately
BLAME.
great
kidney
remedy
under Judge Blackburn's opinion the
promptly cures. At drug- tilings iu nature that no one can under­ ! returned from an extonded trip on tlie I prices. The oqe who does will know how
face of a mortgage debt is trtxable now ' ^¡it , ¡„ fl(ty oent an,| (lo„,lr iiw s Yo;l stand. Certaiuly no otlier kipd of
to sell more intelligently and will have
Pacific slope, sumarized his impression
ns much us under the old mor'tgago tax may have a sample bottlo by mail free, shrimp could live in tiie medusa's stom­
! a great advantage over him who ships
of public sentiment in that section tints- . .
law except that only notes held by res- «Iso pamphlet telling all alont it. Ad ach.
I his produce to the commission mer­
ly : “Tlie advocacy of expansion is not
Idents of the stole can be assessed. dreM’ Dr i<ll‘,,0,' A
Binghamton,
chant and then waits for the return in
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confined to any party. The commercial
’rids gives persons living in other Btutes
order
to learn the prices.
IM P R O V E D T R A IN S E R V IC E .
view of extending tlie possessions of tlie
a chance to loan money in Oiegou with­
U, B. ap;ieals strongly to the people of
Gno of the editors wrote tho the follow­
out paying tax on it, while those living
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Effective Feb. 12th, the Northern the Pacific Slope, and there is little dif-
ing
for
tiie
Salem
Journal:
here must psy tint tax.
Pacific will inaugurate double train ser­ fereuee of opinion on account of politics.
"This whole trip has beon a succession vice between Portland and all points , ,,
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of surprises. To many of the visitors east. Train, will leave Portland at 11:30 Ke«*m ,in S ,llp •B“« 1’»'» «" the Philip-
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Severe nervous si>ells, bearing down . . .
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Oregon lias been a revelation. Her re- n m, and 11 p in daily. These trains pines, there ia a very general liclief that
pains, loss of appetite. Hudyan cures
sources are perhaps more varied than will both be first class and fully equipped Gen. Otis lias failed to measure the full
You arc master o f your
All druggists. &0 cents.
! those of any other state in tlie Union. , In every res|«eet, heated by steam, extent of tlie insurrection, and lie is erit-
vestibuled, standard Pullman and cised for not demanding long ago, a health, and if yOU fo not
AVith magnificent forests which the mills tourist sleepers, dining cars and colonist
attend to duty, the blame is
I t is a great disappointment to many cannot manufacture into lumber as fast
I sleeping curs, witli through sleeping larger army, so as to clean up tlie work
cities of tli is stole that tlie bova of tlie as they grow; with tier mineral resources
easily
located. I f your blood
of
suppressing
tlie
insurrection.
The
ears to Missouri River points via Bill­
second Oregon regiment voted to be
action
of
tlie
President
in
enlarging
tlie
is
out
o f order. Hood’s Sar-
which are just Itcgiuning to bo develop­ ings, which renders tlie service now-
mastered out at San Francisco instead ed; with Iter fertile nnd ineghaustiblu off, rial by the Northern Pacific nn- *rn>y for U « purpose of making a viuor- Saparilla ivill purify it.
of Vancouver. No doubt all the proiu- valleys; witli her wonderful fishing eqtialied by any otlier tranacontinental, ous campaign, is approved.
„»’A 'V f c ?P? i.9c r*nied-r ,wr ‘^»bles
Inent cities along the route of travel interests and her vast area of rjeli grat­ line. The only line to tlie Buffalo, According to tho opinion of cx-Senator ot the blood, kidneys, bowels or liver
K id n e y s - “ My kidneys troubled
would have made great preparations to ing lands, she certainly stands without Hump territoiy. See that your tickets Dubois, who is now in Washington, the t i ll o n M lviee hwk Hood a Sarsaparilla
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which save pro. pt relief. I citer appetite
read via the Northern Pacific to all I _ _ i ; „ _ .,
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policy of expansion will cause thc repub- My strep is re'rThiue. ],
welcome home tho brave boys and the a peer in tlio great sisterhood of states
J ¿ ÿ a ir ib /t ô î- •
w i.l
poinls east or south. F or further infor-
,
hc*"’ t0 aba,lJo" “ .e protective tariff
people would have been glad to honor This ia not said simply in return (or a .nation call on address,
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policy and advocate the raising of ail
8crcfutO l«3 Humor- “ le s s In terrible
them in that way. But tlie matter of few railroad courtesies and ns an attempt
condition from tn«- Itetiinr and burnin- of
General Agent, Engefie, Or.
money by internal revenue taxation. scrufub-na humor, (¡rev,- worse under
saving tiieir travel pay is an i in portent to compensate a people whose hospitsl-
tnm»n m t of serrml doctor». Tbot Hood*»
I He also expresses the opinion that the Sarsaparilla and Hood’s Pills. These rurrd
for sale or E xc hange
fenturo witli many of them aud tlic ity knows no limit, hut it is tlio voice of
T O OUR PA TR O N S-
dem«>crats will advocate protection and me thoroughly.” J. J. Lm-us, Fultvu N Y
A G K M S U \ \ T K P r o H " T H B L IF E A ND
a conviction forced u|<on me after liav-
ncbievvinents nf A dm iral
the trorhV«
people should not be so selfish as to
ing traversed this great state from east K r H t t - l ih o h ! heru. Hv M urat H nl«U «1. Uin oppose expansion, and that lioth parties
A house and lot J in; Glouada. The I
llfv -lo tu (rivin, «m l «•Im lrvr of the nation'«
V o have made arrangements by
ask the boys to make further sacrifice t(,
(rom north (u w ut,, Vnd hioi.
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will
oppose
trusts
in
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nationvl
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