"il O--------------------------------------- He is not only a Jefferson ou their occupation, should be abol­ is Upon the special privileges granted on it. that the promoters trade and traf­ Democrat but a Lincoln Republican ; ished,and will be after the first of the fic, and iu the end become leal cap­ believes in honesty iu office, inde­ year. Better keep such things in the By DUNCAN M. SMITH italists from the proceeds of extor­ pendance in voting, public ownership shade, at least not advertise to their tionate charges wrung from the very of public utilities, regulation and re- wives, daughters and the world that GUARD PRINTING CO., INC. PRODUCES RESULTS. people who presented them with their stiaiut of trusts, in labor unions and there is enough of such vice iu sight Publishers working capital in the s' ape of fran­ farmers’ granges, direct nominations iu Tacoma to produce a revenue of Ob. billing and cooing 1» all very nice. As those who have tried It declare. Published » very Friday, Eugene, Ore. chises, which they iu turn made the and open primaries. Even spreads ♦10,000 a year for the city from the And often It leads to a laudable «puOS With no end of trials and care. hims«-lf over the big tariff question regular system of fines iu vogue. Subscription price, 61.50 per year t asis of stock and bond issues. If Mary is willing. Then BUI does the billing of paid in advance. giilOateudof by saying it is “valuable in itself, Without any urging from her. The Willamette Valley Co. wants an The cooing agreed to. year. but has been unreasonably extended So what should It lead to Entered at the Eugene, Oregon, extension on its gas franchise — of But something that’s bound to occur? postottii’e as second class matter. There will be no division of opinion and outrageously abused." He wants course, bo their morning newspaper votes and will not antagonize the Alone In the twilight when no one Is near Til J diDAT OjrOHEK 11 ou one subject discussed by President Except the mosquitoes and bugs, organ states today. In 90 days they He whispers a tale in her delicate ear Roosevelt in bis Harrisburg speech voter—like the hunter’s coon dog And punctuates often with hugs. will be asking for an extension of the yesterday. Hie remarks were timely would catch them coming and going. And as he grows bolder electiic milway franchise. It's the She leans on his shoulder. and to the point. On the subject of A very encouraging sign; Notwithstanding that the Guard has The department of argiculture is tule that governs practically every It's folly to falter; child labor Mr. Roosevelt sa.d : She ties >n the halter. been enlarged and the cost of publi­ developing h new industry in the pro­ private corporation of this nature— which evety good Which seems to fit dandy and fine. One subject cation materially increased, tie duction of alcohol fiom corncobs, always asking for favors and special In-art above citizen should have at •Tls thus the engagement from nothing­ Guard Printing Co. makes a special ness grows. offer to every new or old subscriber almost all others ¡»the matter of child which the department says, promises privileges and then after they are •A little flirtation to start, In­ granted meeting the complaints of Then later on William makes bold to pro­ during the month of August. All wbo labor. Evei ywhere the great growth to lie of much commeciai value. of modern industrialisai nas been ac ­ pose. will pay one year in advance from vestigations are being made at Hoop­ their patrons with the old Boss Tweed And nothing can pull them apart. Aug. l.’iHjfor »be Weekly Guard at companied by abuses in connection eston, Ill,, and have proved that the query: “Well, what are you going The neighbors may titter. But he is no quitter; only ♦1.50 a year, will be given bls with the employment ot labor which to do about it? ” He girds up his loins and stands pat large quantities of corncobs which choice of the Twice a Week St. Louis have necessitated a complete change And with the fair creature in the attitudes of the state toward every year go to waste can be made He calls on a preacher, Republic,or the‘‘Oregoi> Agricultur•” And then they adjourn to a flat At last the president of the Mormon labor. to produce acohol in sufficient quant­ ralist, absolutely free for one year. Ttijs is above all true in connection The Republic Is oue of the larges* ities to justify the erection of a dis­ church has been arrested charged Accidents Will Happen. and best family newspaper.» in Amer witli tii»> employment of child labor. tilling plant in connection with a with having plural wives In his ex­ In Pennsylvania you have made a icaand the “Oregon Agriculturalist’’ amination before the Heuate commit­ Is one of the best and most practical beginning, but only a beginning, in corn cannery. So far the department tee bearings on the Smoot ease Pres­ administra- proper legislation and has succeeded by the simple process farm, truit uud stock papers iu the tion on this subject ; the law must if of fermentation in getting a yield of ident Smith admitted that he had five Went. Subacribrs, old or new, may take necessary be strengthened, and it 11 gallons of alcohol from a ton of wives, but it seems to have taken their choice of either paper during must be rigorously enforced, The iMi- A department of- the Utah officials a good while to tional government can do but little in green corn stalks. He| tember as a premium. ticia) sayB that the test show that learn the fact. Apparently they would Those who failed to get the prom­ th»' matter of child labor, though ill be earnestly hope that that little there are 240 pounds of fermentable not have discovered it at this t me ised premium magazines will be given their choice of either of these papers permitted to be done by Congress, substance in a ton of green field corn had not another child been born to iu place of the magazines without The great bulk of the work, however, which will yield about half their Smith’s fifth and last wife. “He was nnitA Hu.llv ipinrtal in n further cost, by sending their names must be left to the state legislatures ; weight in absolute alcohol, In round French duel.” and if our state legislatures woulil act We have read Mr. Hearst ’ s letter of and a I tresses to this office. So “Shot by his opponent?” far we have been unable to compel as drastically and yet as wisely on a numbers a ton of stalkH will pro- acceptance and conclude that Chas. “No; be slipped on a banana peel this subject of child labor as Penn duce 100 pounds of alcohol or 200 E. Hughes is a boodler and a corpora­ that somebody had carelessly left on the Eastern publishers to keep their agreement in regard to the magazines sylvania has acted^within the present pounds of proof spirits ; as a gallon tion tool. Also we bave perused Mr. the field of honor.” ami feel the disappointment as keenly year as regards the subjects I have of alcohol weighs nearly 7 pounds, Hughes’ epistle to hie Republican enumerated above, the gain would be as our Htibscribeis. Never Grows Old. there should be 15 gallons of alcohol friends and it has convinced us that literally incalculable; and on« of The Weekly Guard is still clubbed A Philadelphia expert who may or with tlie Semi Weekly Oregon Journal the most vital needs of modern Amer­ in a ton of etalks. The addition of Mr. Hearst is an anarchist, and an may not know what he is talking ican life woulil at last be adequately the corn on the cob adds further to at ♦2.25 a year for both papers. enemy to good government. If we about claim? that the charming mem­ Mail all remittances and communi- mt t. the possibilities of alcohol obtainable were a New York voter we should bers of the female sex cease to be girls at the immature age of thirty-five cati» ns to from a ton of cobs, and will have its probably go fishing on e'ectiou day. ( and straightway liecouie women. They are trying to find out who GUARD PRINTING CO., This in some parts of the country influence in bringing the i|uantity to Eugene. Oregon. kill»«»! one Carey Snyder near Hills­ woulil be regarded as a base slander. a greater figure. While some enterprising ladies are boro some ti n months ago. the body graudmothers at that age, yet there having been found in a thicket a mile Says the Coos Bay Daily Times: are others who. while they do not play High finance is not «11 confined to from that place. A bullet bole in the “The city of Eugene is making great with dolls, still Insist that they are girls and they don’t care who knows it. Wall Btroet. in Roseburg, for in­ forehead cause»! the coroner’s jury Htrl(leH Jn improvement. It is not be- There is no arbitrary rule that may­ stance, F. J. Blakeley, president and Monday tn give a verdict of suicide, cause-the city-has” tabooed saloons, be made to apply in all cases. Much the doctor discovered manager of the light and water sys­ but afterward but because the business men have depends on temperament and the char­ ity of tlie neighbors. But, still, whose tems, was charged in a public meet­ that the skull was fractured on top taken hold of things rivlit and are business is It anyway if a girl wants ing of tlie city council Monday night and at the base from Mows of u dull bound to”see the"-university town to be a girl at fifty? No man of re­ New Orleans, Oct. 5. — A tornado However, it is not out with not liuving invested a dollar in instrument, brought up to a standard where other this morning swept a section of the finement would ask her if she got sea­ sick coming over in the Mayflower, the properties he controls. This Mr. ot any sympathy for the murdered ! cities will tiave to keep busy if they state one hundred miles wide and hit even though he wanted to know. The Blakeley indignantly denied and de­ man that the matter is being investi­ would not get left in the race. Just this city after 8 o'clock. Property Philadelphia expert might have been clared he had put 619,000 into the gated. He was the son of a wealthy uow the paving of Willamette street was damaged to the extent of #200,660 In much better business. plants which he refuse»! the \Villuni - father ami trod the primrose path til) is being discussed ou every side, and here. The tornado was most 3evere at F’ ’hing to Fear. ette jVal'ey Co.'s offer of ♦220,000 he finally got into the Missouri peni­ all ttn> property owners signify' their Pontachatoula, fifty miles north of tLis city, where tour persons were ”1 think you said that he is a very for, demanding ♦260,000. It seem tentiary for tearing a diamond ear willingness to help in the work. Un­ crushed to death and many injured. brainy young man.” that Messrs. Sheridan and Blakely tin»» from the eat of the wife of a der such circumstances the street will “Ob. yes. but be never lets that an­ The tornado picked up a negro bd ily and blew him away as he was noy people when be is iu company.” bought the two opposition plants pawnbroker from whom be was pre | be paved. ’’ trying to cross Douglas square in this of the city soine three years ago, tending to ttiaae a loan Shipped Hard tu Overcome. Pennsylvania, which started in with city. He has not been heard ot paying the stockholders with stock to Oregon by his wealthy fattier and “There's nothing strong about him.” since. in the consolidated company, but given regular remittances,iu company » four million appropriation to build “Ob. yes. there is." lb»! residence of Robert Hawes at state eapilol, has just dedicated a “What Is it?” ' the controlling in- with a dashing woman he met and holding Pontbalouca »as raxed and Hawes “His habit of doing nothing.” thirteen million dollar structure. Ex terest themselves, and issuing some married at Portland, he led n fast lite. and several of h's family killed. (200,000 of bonds, which were dis- The remittances stopped, and soon cessive extravagances have been prac­ About a dozen iujured in this city Not So Cheap. He stole a kiss. posed of to investors, thus acquiring after the Forest Grove bank was rob ticed, the chandaliers alone costing have been takeu to the hospitals. It Then matte It twice. is leported that lives were lost at their ownership virtually without bed of several thousand dollars. With more than two million ami the furni­ But later on LakePoucliartrain points, but prob ­ He paid the pries. The building thi investment of any money ot the robbery Snyder disappeared. It ture three million. ably not a life was lost at New Or­ committee, by a joker inserted in is thought he was a party to the their own. leans. Don’t cultivate the acquaintance of a The path of the tornado through doctor. He may iu the goodn«?ss of his The poiut flint interests tin« public crime and that he was killed by con­ the orig’nal appropriation lull, ha had been emptying gob­ The Independent Long Distance indebtedness and the additional ♦JO,- lets of wine, executed a few of the Telephone Co. is beginning to con­ 000 was to la» paid Blakely iu the stope that hail made her a favorite, struct its lines throughout tile state stock of their company. This means aud gave the toast, "Here's cham­ and expects to thoroughly cover the that the Willamette Valley Co. was pagne to- iny real friends and real Hire some one to say good things Willamette valley in due course of magnanimously willing to succeed jwiin to my sham friends." the sen about you If you can't bear them in Special Correspondence. any other way. Blakely’s company to the ownership ator got champagne or its equivlaent- time. Patrons of th»' telephone mon­ Florence, Oct. 5.—The tug Roberts opoly will not t»e sorry to see an op ­ of the water and light systems ot ■ for awhile, but uow he is getting tb»> sailed Saturday for Astoria, where Nothing hurts a tyrant L---- ‘ so much as a position line in the field, since the she will receive a catgo of cannery dose of his own medicine. Rose but g provided they could be ac­ j "real |'ain." present service is about as li»i as it and cold storage supplies for the quired without the investment of a msauiry experts nave no occasion to Florence Canning Co., owtuei by Wm. dollar of money on their part—they Those huriicanes on the Uulf seem well could be ill Eugene and else­ poiut the finger of scorn at the lawyers Kyle A Sons Co. where throughout the valley. were ready to receive dividends fiotn to come in cycles of about fiv»' years. who take one side of a case or the The gasoline schooner Washcalote, other for pay and make no pretensions the conanmes, forcing the smaller Five yearn ago Galveston was over owned by the Siuslaw Lumber Co., Twvntv cent copper is almost in of twlfevtng any other way than the Corpoiation out of the field. Blakely whelme»! by the great storm that sight. In Montana the earnings of saiieh tyranny and insolence of arbitrary power are every vear decrt-a-» the leaders.of the world’s thought, not only tlie English speak^ C nations, but the other Christian nations as well, have vet much t?] in teaching REVERENCE FOR THE WILL OF THE JORITY an recta it. lhere is too much unhealthy legislation and not half enough healthy resjiect for the laws we have. In the wave of socialism and anarchy which is now approaching us there should be one bulwark to which an honest corporation or an honest citizen can look at all time» with confidence. When the courts lose the respect of decent Amer­ icans, THEN INDEED MAY PATRIOTISM SHUDDER and anarchy and socialism grow bold. f WHEN A HIGH EXECUTIVE OFFICIAL OF THIS COUNTRY PUB- LICLY DENOUNCES THE DECISION OF A JUDGE OR A COURT, THAT ACT CLOSELY APPROACHES ANARCHY. * : H poem for Coday « i * ★ ** ★ ****** ★ ♦* ★ * ★ *<* ★ * ★ **♦ ★ ♦*** ★★★★★ ****************« » I * ♦ ♦ » : I EPISTLE TO A YOUNG By Robert Burns LANG hae thought, my youth- fu' friend, A something to have sent you. Though it should serve nae lther end Than ju.t a kind memento. But he w the .ubject-theme may gang Let time and chance determine; Perhaps It may turn out a sang. Perhaps turn out a sermon. Ye'll try the world soon, my lad, And. Andrew dear, believe me. Ye 11 find mankind an unco squad. And muckle they may grieve ye: For care and trouble set your thought, Ev'n when your end's attain'd; And a' your views may come to naught. Where ev’ry nerve Is strained. SHIPPING NOTES FROM FLORENCE PORT 1'11 no say men are villains a'; The real, harden’d wicked. Wha hae nae check but human law. Are to a few restricted; But, och! mankind are unco weak An’ little to be trusted; If seif the wavering balance shake, It s rarely right adjusted! » » » » » ♦ I i I ♦ » * i ♦ » FRIEND Yet they wha fa' in Fortune's strife. Their fate we should na censure. For still th Important end of life. They equally may answer: A man may hae an honest heart, Tho' poortlth hourly stare him; A man may tak a neebor's part, Yet hae na, cash to spare him. Ay five aff-han' your story tell. When wf a bosom crony; But still keep something to yoursel’, Ye scarcely tell to ony. Conceal yoursel' as weel s ye can Frae crltleal dissection; But kvvk thro' ev'ry other man, W1 sharpen'd, sly Inspection. The sacred lowe o’ weel-plao’d love Luxuriantly Indulge It; But never Tempt th' illicit rove, Tho na,thing should dlvlig, it; I waive the quantum o' the ,ln. The haaarii of cone» dins; But. och! it hardens a slthln. And petrifies the feeling! To catch Dame Fortune's gold« smile. Assiduous wait upon her; And gnther gear by ev ry w»« That's justified by honor. Not for to hide it in a lo uS®» Nor for a train-attendant. But for the glorious privilege Of being Independent. The fear o' Hell's a hangman » •»» To haud the wretch in pr“’r' . But where ye feel your honor gna Let that ay be yout ,"’rd"' _ Its slightest touches, instant Debar a' side pretences. And resolutely keep .is .»«•■ Uncaring consequence*. The great Creator to . Must sure tweome the ■ re But still the preaching cant And sv’n the rigid f*;1’1’": g Yet ne’er with the PV"t«"' Be complaisance . ,np An atheist laugh * a poor ’ For Deity off,nded: Wh«i ranting roun l In r1’**“'* * R.dglon may be I , Or if she gl e a random sting. It may b, llttlw tn‘n' -a- But whet on life we re e A conscience but a A correspondence fl1 1 . Ia sure a noble an-.... : : « « « « « « « « « « « « « « « i Î I « « : : Adieu, d-r. aml^le Your heart can ne er a May prudence, fortlt • Erect your brow w3d ;« In plowman phrase ’P«*1 ” _ _<«r Still dally to grow wc And may you be''*r.^* , « Than ever did th ad * mere a a aon< that 1 detest. nev*r me rest; And morring through my head the cadence rings. 11 Tnurderi tbers i. u tB hummln< In the alr- n • the gory song ths blamed mosquito sing* v. aaaiog >be advice of al1 ■J'®* Is as perilous as having when yon are ill- People wbo wear tr‘’" ¿¿^6* wrong «id* out are mor« pleasant