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Many facilities have been added, and will constantly be added, to make the Statu-as for the next year a better newspaper than ever before. 8am plea of the books and papers may be seen at the business office of the Statbbmax. New Yoax Post: The Maryland can ass of this year thus possesses a nation' al as well as a local significance, and will bars Its bearing upon the presidential contest of next year. The whole country will watch to see whether Mr. Cleveland wil I cast the weight of his influence with Gorman ring, which represents in politics all that be opposes, by giving lligins and Rasin the Indorsement of retention in office. If be does, it will un doubtedly cost him next year a large ahare of that support, upon grounds of civil service reform, which be received three years ago, and leave him in that respect little if any advantage over a re- DcLtTHpAXAoaArwra: Duluth's ne vacregauoBU ennreb wiU have a stair- NHuranui arrangers can climb cp tmier the spire and see the city from ru.ous point of view. , 887 A SEW DEPARTTBK. The Vanderbilt university, of Nash ville, Tenn., announces a new departure that other colleges of the country would do well to follow. The dean of the en gineering department, Mr. Landreth, baa issued circulars announcing that a class in highway construction is to be opened free of charge to one principal or deputy highway commissioner or other official from each county, the beneficiary to be appointed by the county judge. The coarse of instruction will extend from Feb. 1 to April 1 and will consist of lec tures and work on the economical loca tion of highways to conform to conditions of topography and traffic, principles of construction of new and reconstruction of old roads, methods of drainage, simple highway structures, retaining walls, cul verts, simple bridges; also practice in field sketching, platting, draughting and co mputing estimates of cost. Tuition in manual technology at the Vanderbilt is free to all students ; and now the opening of a class in road engineering to public officials charged with oversight of the highways is a step to be highly commend ed. The offer is not restricted to state lines, but limited only by the capacity of the institution. The question of improved public roads is one ef the most important in the entire realm of public economy. Road making is a science ; and though not abstruse, yet some measure of study and practical training are essential to the thorough comprehension of the principles of con struction that have been found by expe rience to be most economical and ser viceable. There is no country in the world, wherein the people are equally wealthy and intelligent, that has such abomina bly bad public roads as are found in the United States, especially in the Western States. One reason is we have so much greater mileage to construct; but the principal trouble is cultivated brains and practical skill are not applied to the bu siness of r jad-making. t In some of the European countries the superintendence of public highways is intrusted only to specially trained expert government engineers. The roads are laid out, graded, and worked on a system based on well-established principles. We shall have to adopt in this country some system of official oversight of the high ways if we ever improve npon pur pres ent execrable wagon tracks. It is exceedingly gratifying that our higher institutions of le arning are giving some attention to technical training, and to fitting the young to use their intellects in the performance of the practical du ties of life. The Vanderbilt has made the entire nation its debtor by this new departure. WELL IMJN'K. The Southern Pacific railway com piny has just issued a handsome little book, bearing the title of "Shasta, the Keystone of California Scenery," in which a gener al description of the scenery from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, over this new branch of the outhern I'acinc.iis given in very' attractive and readable shape, with illustrations that are at once graphic, novel well and handsomely exe cuted. The work is by E. McD. John stone. One passage especially meets the views of the writer of thin, and is the more im portant as it is a fact. It is concerning the beautiful Willamette, and is as fol lows : . " l he waters ol this nohle stream are furnished by the ever melting snows of the Cascade mountains. Its course for 150 miles through the finest valley in America is marked by many a curve of exquisite beauty." lint the writer stores id hastens to re pudiate the following "Story of a Man, Dog, and a Bone," as the plot is laid in a section where he got his first grub-stake, not far from Shoestring, and near the classic banks of Thief Creek. If Mr. Johnstone ever passes through the beau tiful Myrtle creek valley, he will see at one the injustice and impossibility of the story. Read the story : A man near couth l-mpoua river took his dog and went a-hunting, and in one of those very "dense forests on the headwaters of Myrtle brook he found him self completely lost. Day after day he wandered about, and found nothing but starvation and bis dog staring him in the face. Driven by hunger to a last resort he cut the dog's tail off and roasted it. When be had finished his meal he saw with sorrow that bis poor dog was hun gry, and hi oate him mi boxk! Truly a merciful man is merciful to bis beast." Kestcckt has lost another vigorous citizen in the person of Jack Turner, of Plneville. Mr. Turner's vication was that of managing a Kentucky vendetta. He had been carrying on the business for something like twenty years. He had lulled bis father-in-law and a brother-in- law and a sheriff of the Law in advancing his particular interests. When be died suddenly the other day it was found that his body contained some fifty Winchester rifle bullets, to say nothing of a handful of buckshot thrown in for goo! measure. No announcement is made as to who will succeed Mr. Turner as vendettaist extra ordinary ,bnt it L presumeJ that business 'will be carried on at the old stand by 1 some interesting member 'of bis proud " and sensitive familv. FOWDEBXTw SEW PBOGBAKXE. Mr. Fowderly again displays his knowl edge of the conditions of labor by advis ing of the adoption of a new policy for the Knights of Labor. It is plain as any thing can be that bricklayers can not have any intimate knowledge of the wants of printers, nor printers of those of cigar makers, nor cigar-makers of those of painters, and so on through the long cat alogue of trades. The grocery trade never thinks of asking the advice of the dry goods trade as to a tariff of prices, the iron-makers' association does not fix the price of wool, nor do the wool-growers presume to regulate the output of the su gar refineries. It is only in the labor market that there has been effort to sub ject the prices varices commodities to the dictation of men who know nothing of their values nor of the fluctuations in the demand for them. The general as sembly of the knights of labor has been burdened with work for which it was emi nently unfitted. Mr. Fowderly proposes giving each trade the right of forming a national assembly, acting in some degree of rela tionship to the general assembly of K. pf L. The national trades assembly is pro perly to be endowed with supreme power in regulating prices of labor in' its own de partment, and of adjudging upon local complaints. No strike in any trade is to be held lawful unless sanctioned by a three-fourths vote of the national assem bly. Arbitration is always to be encour aged. And each national assembly is to maintain a bureau of statistics of the growth or diminution of the volume of trade, and of changes in the price of la bor and products. The latter provision is wise, as furnishing a basis of adjudica tion in case of difference between em ployer and employed, and the former provision is wise as relegating the affairs of each trade to its own members. Mr, Powderly's new policy very closely re sembles that which the conservative press has often commended to the attention of the Knights of Labor. BLAINE, FOR INSTANCE. The fishery question has to be settled some how and at some time ; as to the latter, the sooner the better ; as to the former it should be settled so that our fishermen should not feel as if they are sneak thieves on the high seas, nor as if they were beggars in Canadian ports. There is no Jingo feeling pervading this nation, no desire of twisting the British lion's tail, no wish to cast the shadow of the American eagle over the threshold of the haughty court of St. James ; we have outgrown all that sort of thing and have buried the hatchet of hatred and prejudice. - Bat in place of the departed effervescence of the days of our juvenility there is a quiet knowledge of our importance in the family of na tions which leads us to expect plain and fair dealing from other powers. The man chosen by our government to confer with the representative of England should b e as fully American in spirit, as Mr. Cham berlain is English ; he should also be a man of affairs, np in the history of treat ies, and versed in marine law and statis tics. England has appointed one of her best men to do her business in the fish ery matter ; it will not do for us to ap point either a ward politician or a crotch ety theon.-t. Things are moving down in Kentucky. Tbe last election shows that since that event in Jessamine county the grand jury has indicted a number of leading politicians, among them the county judge, for assault and battery ; a representative elect, for carrying concealed weapons ; the county jailer, for voting fraudulently. They are doing considerable thinking down south these days and the outlook is hopeful. Glenn bills and Bald Knobbers and kuklux don't represent the best elements of Southern societv. Harriet Beeches Stows recently wrote to a fi Send as follows: "I was seventy six on my last birthday, and have all my bodily powers perfect; can walk from three to seven miles a day without un due fatigue ; have a healthy appetite, and a quiet sleep every night. In view of all these items I scarcely think that I am a subject for lamentation. I do not lament over myself. It is true that I do not in tend to write any more for the public. I always thought that authors should stop in good time, before readers stop reading. Lord Salisbubt has written to the Glasgow tories that "in course of time the Gladstone policy mas", be explained definitely." This means that Mr. Glad stone must return to power. It can be construed in no other way, since Mr. Gladstone will hardly be required to ex press himself more definitely than here tofore until, as prime minister, be intro duces another Home Rule Bill. Lord Salisbury's admission is certainly impor tant as to fact, even though somewhat indefinite as to time. Eighty thousand children appeared for duty before sixteen hundred teachers npon the first day of the opening term of the Chicago public schools. This is a larger army than Grant bad at Shiloh, or Rosecrans at Ptone River, or Meade at Gettysburg, or Sherman on his march to the Mas. Sran.c is trasurerof a woman's dab in Boston. , Already then are sev eral gentlemen who wiah to reduce her name. f - PELLETS, Editos Statesman : The state fair opens to-morrow. As I have no peanut stand on the ground, and have no inter est in a tin-horn lay-out. and don't care a tinker's imprecation what horse gets his nose over the wire first in any of tbe races, I have no suggestion whatever to make. As I have no crazy qnilt or pil low slip to exhibit, I dont consider that I own the fair. But I bare an interest in it common to that of all Oregonians, and bops it will be a grand and whooping soccess. I am not a prophet, nor a son of a prophet, bot can state for a dead cer tainty that we will have fair weather. He was a Salem young man, and she wss one of the host of beautiful and at tractive young women of the city of churches. Us was dressed in a suit of store clothes and an absent look. He also wore a necktie and a cane. But be was not pressing bis suit. It was net be cause be was not suited, for be was dumb with admiration for her multifarious charms and multitudinous accomplish ments. She wore a pea green dress that fitted her au fait, as it were, and she also had her countenance draped in a be witching look, trimmed with bangs. They had been exchanging sweet non sense and conversing together upon the fine weather, and the brilliant prospects of a long dry spell, if it don't rain. Fi nally they got down to tbe great and cavernous subject of prohibition. He said be believed in prohibition, that he was down on the demon of drink from principle, and he wanted the strong arm of the law to get in its work, and crush out the accursed traffic in strong drink, or words to that effect. Then he ven tured to ask her opinion upon the sub ject. She answered that she was in favor of license. And when bis inquisi tive nature prompted him to inquire "what kind of license,high or low license," she paralyzed him .as she softly mur mured "marriage license!" And then there was a sound as of little birds, with wondrous sweet voices, singing in all the trees, and I left the spot. If the Statesman feels bo disposed, it may charge this item up to County Clerk Chapman, at twenty-five cents a line. My word for it, I am not line about it. "Talk about boom in Los Angeles," said Wash Stimpeon. "It may be a pretty big boom, but I'll tell you no man in Los Angeles can afford to pay $8000 for a corner lot for a taffy factory." Tux lady editor of the Douglasville, Georgia, Industrial, has felt it necessary to make an explanation as follows : "Since the first issue of my journal sixty-four offers of marriage have been made to me by parties I never saw. From such a list I could undoubtedly select a curiosity worth tnummyifying. But the plain na ked truth is that a few years since I act ually met a crank face to face who had the courage to vocalize his offering. I at first positively refused, directly relented, shortly acquiesced. The fact is I am married and have three youthful daugh ters and a husband." , Talking about real estate, and the in flation of property values, an illustration of how a poor clerk supporting a whole sale family npon a retail salary just $300 per year comes from California by the associated underground air line. Upon his salary of $300 per year this clerk saved $515 in three months, which be in vested in a lot 20x40 feet on the maid street of the town in - which he resided. In just eight weeks the same lot was 80x 160 feet, and is now worth $516. It is presumed that the hippopotamus just three weeks old with the circus that is coming was born three weeks old, as the bills were probably printed about four years ago for any circus that would buy them. He is probably a thirteenth cousin to the man who was born twenty one years old, with a wooden leg. The old saw that a man better be born lucky than rich should be changed by an act of the legislature to something that will leave the impression that a man had better D3 born a cheerful liar than a grandson of Jay Gould. Tbe boom in Southern California is kept up by cheerful liars. They all lie. That's their capital. That's their stock in trade. And it's contagious. The very embodiments of truth snd examples of incarnate veracity go there and come away with the infection. It's tbe Mecca of liars, and no wonder there is a boom I There is a boom in lies. Witness the popularity of "She" and other volumes of lies by the same cheerful snd monumental liar. It's a pity that Ananias and Sapphira and Si- non, and all the great liars of history, didn't live in tbe present sge. It would have been money in their pockets if they bad been born. a few thousand years later. George Washington was quite pop ular in his time, bat he was fortunate that be lived and died in an age that was congenial to his habits. He wouldn't amount to much now. Ned H. Pell. Gotebxob Fobakeb, of Ohio, is not easily frightened by the firing along the democratic fas. II fought in fourteen battles' before he was nine teen years old, and baa been shot at many time before by the same crowd that is now hooting at bins. THE SOILfWEARING OCT. EnrroB Statesman: In your issue of the 8th inst, appears an item in regard to a crop of oats raised near Macleay, aver aging about fifty bushels per acre. The item states that the land on which this crop was raised has been in cultivation ever since 1852, and cites this fact as evidence, in connection with the large( T) yield, that Oregon soil does net wear out. Tbe Inquiry, "Who says Oregon soil is wearing oat r' it seems to me, is answered by the party who furnished the abeve item. Farming land that was broke op in 52, ten or fifteen years ago, under fa vorable conditions, would prod ace from sixty to eighty bushels per sere. Tbe same land to-day, if it bad been devoted to grain from that time, yields from thir ty to sixty bushel of oats per acre. There is no question among practical farmers about oar soil's losing its prod active pow; ers. The evidence is before as. The writer hss in mind fields that, ten years ago, when properly tilled, would yield from forty to fifty bushels of wheat per acre. But there has been a very appar ent "shrinkage" of late years, the average yields growing decidedly less year by year. This harvest just closed, these same fields, under the same system of culture have shown from eighteen to twenty-five bushels per acre. Yet, right in the face of these bare facts, our people persist in saying to the world that "Ore gon soil never wears out." That our soil does possess very "lasting" qualities none can deny, but why persist in over drawing the matter in this "warranted not to rip, tear nor ravel" style ? Oregon land that has been in wheat and oats ever since '52 is wearing out, as the facts show. To say that a continual drainage of the elements of osr soil, nec essarily the result of excessive wheat raising, does not lessen its productive ness, is simply to contradict nature, and the sooner tbe farmers of Oregon realize this fact the better, for our future pros pect for living prices for grain in the fu ture is gloomy. Is it not about time for the people of Oregon to come to a real izing sense of the situation and turn their attention to other pursuits than wheat farming and "cent per cent" money loaning? Farmer. Silvebtos, Sept. 10. GO TERN OB. BARTXKTT'g DEATH. Washington Bartlett, governor of Cali ifornia, died in Oakland on Monday, the 12th inst. He was a man who had many very firm friends, and, although not a man of great ability or statesmanship, was gifted with the qualities of honesty and integrity. He died without wife or family, and leaves a considerable estate. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Waterman, is a republican, although the dead governor was a democrat. Waterman is spoken of by those who know him beet as a grasping time-server, without much respect for principle. His being a re publican does not save bim from being a very shabby excuse for a man. He may worry through his term of accidental prominence without increasing his un popularity, and then be will be heard from no more. His private secretary, Marcus D. Boruck, owner of the San Francisco Spirit of the Times, is an able man and crank of the Frank Pixley order, only a bigger crank; and not so good a writer. He used to be a republican, but hehasbeentrainingwith the '"American" party lately, and ran for state senator at the last election upon that ticket. NORTHWEST NEWSPAPERS. The Portland News, which, by the way, is brightening and improving under the present management, has the following to say in the course of an article upon the newspapers of the northwest : In the early days there were in all this territory which now embraces Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana terri tories Wyoming also only five news papers, every one of them weekly; not one daily among them. In Portland were the Oregonian, the Times, the Standard In Oregon City was the Argus, in Salem the Statesman. Not another in all this coast region. After Washington Territory was carved from Oregon and a juicy rib she has proved the pioneer press ol the territory was established at Olympia, the capital. Of these newspapers only two survive, the Portland Oregonian and the Salem Statesman. The two existing of all these early period weeklies the Ore gonian and the Salem Statesman are now and have been for years, dailies." A real estate agent of Portland, who recently visited boomland in California, returns with the opinion that the South ern Pacific railroad will do as mnch for Oregon as it has done for California. which is a great deal. He thinks that at least seventy thousand people are now beailed for Oregon, and will visit this state in tbe next year or two. There is no doubt that times will lives op when eonection"by rail with California is com pleted. Real estate transfers will Largely increase, and all kinds of business will be brisker. The population that the rail road will induce to come here will bring about these things. This is what we want. We want better times and' more prosper ity generally, bat no boom, such as tbe term implies. " And it is the opinion of tbe writer that we will be far enough away from tbe storm center of the real "boom" to get all hs beneficial effects of renewed energy and general prosperity, free from its bad effects ot inflated values and visionary prosperity, 1 THE PRESIDENT AND HIS PARTY, Of the three editors, Watterson, Dana, and Pulitzer, who have made war npon Mr. Cleveland from within the ranks of bis own party no two have followed ths same line of attack. Mr. Watterson has striven to disaffect the free-trade majority of democrats by charges of presidential cowardice in surrender' to Randallism. Mr. Dana baa sought to embitter tbe whig minority in the democratic party by charging that tbe president was no friend of protection to American industry, and to anger "the old-fashioned democracy" by denouncing bis professed leaning to ward rougw umpian doctrine. Mr. Pulit- zer has sought to discredit bim with the mugwumps by charging him with dupli city in making the worst appointments and the best promises. AH the charges are true enough and the variety of their character and the radical difference of the natures of the persons preferring them, as well as the differences in the mental and moral makeup of tbe persons sought to be disaffected by them, may be taken as at least first-fare evidence of the president's unacceptableness to the old- timed democracy, to the small whig ele ment which it absorbed during the sioo era, and to the mugwumpian element which aided his election. Never before has there been probability of the re nom ination of a president who was disliked bv the rank and file of his party and distrusted by those roving members of other parties whose temporary alliance had endowed a minority with the attri butes of a majority. FROM TUESDAY'S DAILY. Tub Commissioners Will Sue. The com plaint of E. Somerville, of Pendleton, to the Oregon railroad commission of overcharges on a carload of wheat from Pendleton to Portland will come up in the state circuit court for the Sixth district in a few days. In the set creating the railway com mission passed by the last legisla ture there is the same provision concern ing tbe bringing of suits in the state federal courts as is contained in tbe inter state commerce act. The commissioners or the party claiming to be injured may bring an action. In the Somerville case the commissioners will act and the court will be asked to declare what charges are "juBt and reasonable." The commis sioners would have brought suit ere this had not Judge Ison been taken ill. Brought to the Pen. Yesterday Sheriff J. M. Bently and his deputy, U. C. Means, arrived from Pendleton with Thomas Matthews and W. E. Estes in charge for the penitentiary. The pris oners were arrested some time since for stealing eight head of cattle from Mr. Barnhart and six head from Mr. Beat, of Umatilla county. Estes tuined State's evidence and was let oflwith one year for each charge. Matthews was given three years cn each charge. Good Wobi. Benson A Morris, of Turner, on last Friday afternoon and Saturday forenoon, threshed on N. Sil vers' place, near Turner, 2400 bushels of oats, with a J. I. Case "agitator," twelve horse power Stillwater engine, thirty-two inch cylinder. Who ha a belter record than this? They also hauled their separ ator with their engine all through thresh ing, Ufting only two horses with tbe out fit. They also stacked all their straw with one man, with a Reeves stacker. Semi-Annual Account Filed. W. J. Polley, administrator of the estate of Lewis Johnson, deceased, filed his first semi-annual account of the estate in the office of the clerk of the probate court yesterday. For Toilet Use. 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