Statesman. The farm ers around G ardiner, Doug­ las county, used to sell th eir butler at all kinds of prices, generally low, some­ » » D I D EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. tim es not being able to sell at any price. E. H. W o o d w a r d , E d it o r & P u b l is h e r . Since the establishm ent of the creamery there, they always get 20 to 30 cents, or tho equivalent for their milk sold to FR ID A Y , D EC EM B ER 2, 1898. th e cream ery. NEWBERG GRAPHIC. Sntsrcd as second cia » in itie r at the poitofllce at Newberg, Oregon. S y S ’'’SS';'SS"¡ W ATCH T HIS>SS‘-* 2 Sv 2 S*>*£T In response to an appeal by G en. W heeler over 100 American colleges have each offered to take two or more young Cubans to be educated free. The hum anitarian side of the Cuban question is not overlooked. Eugene Guard. The new battleship W isconsin got ■tuck in th e mud at Ban Francisco the o th er day when she was launched hut seeing she is named for the “ Badger” state she ought to be able to work h er­ self out. M O R R IS M E R C A N T I! COLUM N. H om er D avenport, the famous car­ toonist of the E xam iner-Journal is visit­ ing his fath er and relatives in Marion county. Hom er used to “ fire” for en ­ gineer J. J . O’Neil on th e old Oregonian road th a t ran through Silverton, and the cartoonist enjoyed th e fun of “ firing” for h it old engineer coming down the Siskiyous. D avenport is th e choicest flower blooming in the field of the world’s brighest traducers of character and lam pooners of sham in public affairs and m en. He receives $13,000 a year salary and $100 a m onth as “ spend­ ing m oney.” He will retu rn to New York in a lew weeks via Los Angelos. CO Death’s Betrothal. A few years ago a New York new sp ap er conducted an open discu ssio n ;.pon th e to p ic : “ Is M arriage a F a ilu r e ? ” T he answ er is easy and upon th e surface. W here th ere is m utual love and respect, if th ere is also h ealth , m arriage is a success. W hen health is left out, even the m ost a rd e n t love does n ot count, an d m arriage is in v ariab ly a failure. M odem science has cried th e w arn in g so often th a t all should realize th e dan g ers o f w edlock to people in ill-h ealth . In a case o f th is kind death lu rk s on every side —in th e kiss o f betrothal and th e caress of th e honeym oon T he m an who is suffering from ill-health is a physical b an k ru p t, and has no rig h t to condem n a wom an to be his n u rse for life and the m o th er of babes th a t in h e rit h is physical w eakness. Dr, P ierce's G olden M edical D iscovery acts d irectly on th e digestive organism . It m ak es it strong and its action perfect. W hen a m a n ’s d i­ gestion is all rig h t his blood will be pure; w hen h is blood is pure h is nervous system Will be strong and h is h e a lth vigorous. A wom an who suffers from w eakness and disease o f the delicate organism o f h er sex is certain to suffer from general ill-health, and to be an unhappy, help less invalid and a d isa p p o in tm en t as a wife. H er ch ild ren will be weak, p u n y and peevish. A hap p y hom e is an im possibility for h e r u n til her h e a lth is restored. Dr. P ierce’s F av o rite P rescription cures all trou b les o f th e dis- tin c tly fem inine organism . It cu res them speedily, com pletely and perm an en tly . It fits for wifehood and m otherhood. Both m edicines are sold by all good dealers. Hodson Bros. > O ur line of m edium grade Dress Goods a n d O u tin g F la n n e ls—P rin ts— G ingham s etc., is now very com plete a n d ut low prices. o tì o W e have a nice stock o f C h ild ren ’s H ose—h e a v y —stro n g —m ade for ser­ vice. ’S?-; e ia ano æs + ss -; (g r " K londike Sox for m e n —m ade of very h eavy hom e m ad e Y arn. sold places—the event th a t carried th e n a ­ tional gathering a t Chicago off its feet— The Oregonian who reads of the storms cannot be repeated. The crown of and blizzards th a t are raging throughout thorns and cross of gold have lost th eir th e whole region east of th e Rockies, power to charm . B ryan will not appear looks out on our fields of growing grain Denver News. at the next convention in a blaze of o ra ­ H ere in Colorado there was no sh rin k ­ and grasses, w ith complacency, and torical fervor, or, if he does, the effect of ing th e silver question. I t was pushed realizes th a t " it is good to be h ere .” w hat he says will be discounted. E lim ­ to the front by th e friends of silver und inating all th a t helped before, w hat is kept th ere. The result is a state ticket The scarcity of an article is often w hat elected by twice the m ajority ever be­ there left to reconcile the Democracy to makes it appreciated. In Indiana fore given to a state ticket. The moral a leader and an issue th a t have both ••• tow ns, according to some of our ex­ is plain. Bilver m ust bo made the great been beaten when th e chances were far I have decided th at New- changes, evening parties are popular issue of 1900. Bryan m ust lie nominated more in th eir favor than they ever can berg is the place to do busi­ now w here an apple is given to each of by a rising vote. be again? W ith bim etalism on tlio guests. Such is life in a country the Hag carried by our patriotic leader, ness. T his tim e it is your In trying to account for the victory of where th e apple crop is an uncertain silver will as surely win as tho battle of had presidential tick ets in th e field a t Republicanism on November 8th Col­ Shoe and H a t T rade th at I each q u ad ren n ial election. T h e popu­ onel Bryan says th a t it was due, in the qu an tity . 1900 will be fought. w ant. I am located across list p arty had Its real germ in the m ain, to the fact th a t the adm inistration the street from Sutton, Cal­ F arm ers’ A lliance, w hich Included not i had ju st concluded a successful war. Tn every com m unity there will be Salem Independent. kins & Co. o n ly the inflationist greenbackers, but ! B ut if tins is true, it it likely th a t when Californians are buying Oregon hay found a few men who take the lead in a large num ber of d iscontented p e r-1 the A dm inistration itself comes up for a My stock is not as yet and seed w heat. Y et th e average Cali­ new enterprises, while there are a much sons, and nt a conference in 1892 th ey | verdict a sim ilar vote of confidence will complete but will be soon. larger num ber of doubting T hom as’ who fornian will tell you that Oregon is a called th e O m aha convention of 1892. j be w ithheld? And can the Democracy cautiously wait to see th e condition of backwoods nothing whose only product I will be glad to see all my T h is convention adopted a platform \ hope to prevent th a t vote by projecting is mud and w ater. W e note one thin g : tho c a t’s paw after tho chestnuts are old custom ers and thous­ th a t carrb d p atern alistic ideas to the the silver issue into th e canvass? Good raked from th e fire. This would be a California is very glad to pay a good ands of new ones. g rea'est extrem e, In d o rsin g g o v ern m en t j politics will suggest th a t the A dm inis­ very slow going world if the la tte r class figure for Oregon oats, hay, fruit, pota­ ow n ersh ip of railw ays, telegraphs and tration be m et and fought on its own I shall endeavor to keep toes, etc., when site lias a dro u th , which was our sole dependence. occurs too often to suit a Webfooter. telephones, an d d eclaring th a t all th e ground by some D em ocrat who took an as near w hat you w ant as I g o vernm ent h ad to do to m ake th e n a ­ active part against the Spaniards. T hat Crops never fail in Oregon. can in M en’s, W om en’s, One of th e principal Missouri indus tion prosperous was to s ta rt th e p rin t­ th e party managers are looking for such Boys', Misses and C hild­ tries received a black eye the other Rural Spirit. ing presses to w ork g rin d in g o u t paper a leader already, th eir nervous eagerness re n ’s Shoes and H ats. Many boys and girls become sick of m oney. night. A railroad hold-up was an tici­ to learn the politics of Admiral Dewey pated by the Missouri Pacific officials farm life and farm work, simply because Resp. yours, S tran g e as It m ay seem, these doc­ attests. Should he have Democratic and u force of arm ed detectives sent out th eir parents never try to show them trin es were npproved by th o u san d s of mailings nothing could prevent his nom ­ on th e tra in who captured one of the and teaeli them th e beauties, the won­ voters, w ho were d iscontented w ith ination, if he lived. Back of him are outlaws and shot and crippled another. derful secrets, the independence, the th e ir lot d u rin g tho period know n as Joe W heeler and Fitzhugh Lee and even Such a piece of business as this is cal­ contentm ent, and the necessity of a th e h a rd tim es. In 1892 th e populist L ieutenant H obson. We would give culated to mukc the Jam es boys turn in whole round of expert knowledge and p a rty secured tw en ty tw o electoral inoro for the convention chances of any practice which m ust ultim ately become votes for Jam es 11. W eaver, its presi­ one of these than for th n t of th e Lost th eir graves. the fortunate possession of tho "success­ d ential candidate, an d elected a U nited Cause cham pion, who, having led the ful farm er,” in the tru e acceptation of States S enator a n d eleven m em bers of Democracy once iuto a quagm ire of de­ An exchange, in an obituary of a man the term . tho house. Ill 1891 it hud four sen­ feat, wants them to follow him over ttie who had died in the com m unity, said : "A long procession followed the rem ains S tar P ointer, the famous pacer with ators, not Including Jo n es and Stew art. sam e course again, rath e r than to swing in behind a leader who promises them a to th eir last roasting place.” Of course tlie world’s record of 1 :59l,'i for a mile, T h e real d eath blow to th e populist fighting chance on firm ground.—S. F. th e family rushed to tho “ p rin t shop” was sold at Madison Square garden, New The largest stock of.. to have th e error in th e word "ro a stin g ” York, Monday night, to W . J . W hite, of p arty ns uu in d ep en d e n t organization Chronicle. corrected. Tho editor explained th a t Cleveland, O., for $15,000, $600 less than cume about in 1890, w hen th e dem o­ he could not do it until tho seven y ears’ he was sold for in 1897 to Jam es A. cratic p arty , fn'se to th e trad itio n s of R usa? C a lle d F o r . back subscription, which tho deceased Murphy, of Chicago. The advertised JeflTerson and C leveland, declared in T he O regon society of Sons of th e favor of free eoinnge and nom inated sale of tliis famous horse was sullicient owed had been paid. A m erican R evolution Is an o rg an iza­ T he result was a fusion w ith to fill the big aren a, and when the horse B ryan. tion composed of descendants of ances­ tho dem ocratic parly in th e national A glance at a map of Oregon showing was led to tho auctioneer’s block 10,000 election an d tlio d ra w in g of th e lines tors w ho assisted in estab lish in g A m er­ ican independence. A ny mule decend- tho railroads, post roads, postollices, persons wero present. sharply on ih e silver qnesilou. P er­ a n t of such ancestor is eligible to ad. towns and cities reveals the fact th a t a hap s on« th ird of B ry a n 's votes were D ecay o f P o pulism . mission Into th e society. Its objects very large p art of the map is white pa­ from populists, w hile M cK inley re­ Everything in the Building line from a keg of Nail« to a bill of Lumber, are purely p atrio tic an d historical. If th ere is one th in g th n t is show n per indicating th a t in proportion to area ceived th e votes of th o u san d s of dem o­ Furnished at the lowest living price. O ne of th em is to stim u la te in terest in Oregon is yet a very sp ircely settled m ore clearly th a n a n y th in g else by th e crats w ho could n o t stom ach populism th e history of th e A m erican revolution state. The fact is this Oregon of ours is recen t election it Is th e decay of the an d preferred to vote to m ain tain the and lo ja lty to its principles F o r th is T h ere was a tim e a big country. From east to west Ore­ populist p a rty . nutlonal honor rattie r th an to vote for purpose tlie society offers th ree prizes gon is 370 miles across, and 270 miles about four years ago w hen g reat th in g s repudiation. T h e m iddle of tlio road $¿3, $15 und $10 respect fit ly, for th e across from north to south, giving it an were expected o f th e new p a rty , w hich populists refused th is fusion, hut th ey best essay w ritten liy a n y stu d e n t of areaof 96,000 square m iles. The acreage h ad arisen on th e ashes of th e old are in th e g reat m inority. an y college, u n iv ersity , norm al school, Today tho p arty is is greater th an th a t of all tho New E ng­ greenbackors. Tlio elections of 1898 found a decline sem inary, or academ y In O regon, on T h ere is no populist p arty land states, West Virginia and Delaware dead. of th e free silver se n tim e n t. T he ag i­ a n y one of th e follow ing three sut) added, or greater than tho aggregate of w o rth y tho nam e of a p a rty , and they tatio n being chiefly duo to th e discon­ jects: New Y ork, Pennsylvania and Delaware, are n o t m uch stronger th a n th e p ro h i­ te n t, good crop* m ade tlio west again or Iowa and Ohio, or Illinois and Lou­ bitionists. In some states a t th e recent 1. George Rogers C lark, an d th e rep u b lican , sh ak in g even such populis­ isiana, or of the total area of E ngland, election th e prohib itio n ists polled more tic center» as K ansas a n d N ebraska. W in n in g o f th e W est. votes thuii did th e populists. T he pop­ Boot land and Wales. 2. Paul Jones, and th e N av al W a r­ In th e south th e populist p a rty was ulist representation in congress has fare of th e revolution. w iped ou t. Do we like to sell poor goods? No. Em phatically no! boon reduced by one half. 3. T he F in an cierin g of th e revolu­ If ten pounds of real first class dried A nd today, w hile free silver survives W ould Dewey have succeeded if he had been outfitted w ith dam p tio n ; R obert Morris, I lay in Solomon applos can 1« found in a lot as they in so far as it is th e doctrine of a portion powder, castiron guns and Chinam en for gunners? If not how can you A stu d y of th e election re tu rn s from come from the average Oregon dryer tho of th e dem ocratic p a rty , th ere is no a n d B enjam in F ra n k lin . expect your cooking to be good or wholesome if you buy adulterated th e south a n d w est allows th is c o n ­ It Is expected th a t essays will tre a t buyer may consider th a t he lias struck a stro n g p a rty to u ig e irredeem able pa­ food products? * clusively. In th e w est It is seeu th a t of th e topics nam ed in th e foregoing good lot morely as an accident. The j per m oney an d su ch soclall-tle mens If you buy your G roceries at Joe W ilson’s you can depend upon m ost o f (lie populists have gone back In d iv id u a ls arc nam ed for custom is to buy apples in miscellaneous ures as g o v ern m en t o w nership of rail­ subject. g e ttin g ju st w hat you pay for. W e w on’t su b stitute second grade to the republican p a rty , f>oiu w hich th e purpose of a ttra c tin g of essayists to lots from the orchards, made up of prob­ w ays, teleg rap h s a n d telephones.—O. sugar for the best quality. (lie p a rt tak en by tlie Individuals in ably a dozen different varieties, some be­ th e y o rig in ally cam e. In th e south M. P arks in C hicago T ribune-H erald. C TO S. WILSON, th e y are now dem ocrats. A nd tills in th e w ork w h ich forms th e general su b ­ ing over ripe while others aro little spite of th e fact th a t a few years ago ject. knotty, wormy, tilings, w hich, if they llr jA n 'n I f A m b i t i o n . w estern populists fused w ith th e repub­ Essays are lim ited in len g th to tw e n ­ wore allowed to m ature free o ' worms licans. H ut th e stre n g th of tho old Colonel Bryan, in his anxiety to es- ty-five h u n d re d w ords; m u st he w rit­ would not bo ripo before M a y o r Ju n e p arty tics h av e proved too strong, and ; eape the fate th a t Samuel J. Tilden and ten on legal cap on one side of th e pa­ of the following season. Does anybody w ith tho aw ak en in g to th e know ledge j Ids fraud issue met in tho Democratic per in (lie s tu d e n t’s ow n h and w riting, \ suppose th a t palatable fruit can lie made of the fallacy of populistic notions National Convention of 1890, has issued and m ust be accom panied by a certifi­ front such a u iixtuie as this? If they th e y have given th e ir allegiance again an appeal to his party to stand by the cate of tlie president or principal of l lie , do they aro badly m istaken. The fruit to tho p a rty to w h ich th e y belonged silver issue and fight it out again in collegiate or academ ic in stitu tio n a t­ ntny be bleached with sulphur us strong before populism reared its head. 1900. The appeal is in the form of nn tended by th e a u th o r, to th e fact t liât as is supposed to bo used in the infernal assertion th a t th e Democracy will take th e a u th o r is a bona title stu d e n t th e re -| regions «ml the cook may use two meas­ l’rosperity has killed th o populist th a t course, hut it is none tile less a of, and lias been In a tte n d a n c e th erein 1 ures of sugar to one of apples and yet it p arty . It prospered w hen th e c o u n try piece of special pleading, which might not less titan six w eeks d u ring th e will only m ake a dish of insipid stuff of w as poor, b u t w ith th e re tu rn o f good fairly have as its refrain tho pathetic school y ear of 1899-99. F.ssays m ust be about tho right quality to set ix-fore an tim es th ere is no longer a n y reason for line of K ipling's Recessional, “ Lest we forw arded to th e ch a irm a n of the c o m -1 Oregon hobo. The drie I apples of our its existence. T hey had no defin ite forget!” Through every sentence Col­ m it too in charge W allace M eC am ant, fathers days th a t were peeled and q u a r­ plans or purpose. T he o n ly cohesive onel ltrynn’s personal anxiety shows, 34 C oncord hui d in g , P ortland, so as to tered by hand and dried in the sun w ere “ A great monthly newspaper.”— The Bookm an. force am ong th e m was th e conviction lie keenly realizes th a t new occasions reach him not later th a n F ebruary 1, sometimes of questionable “ rep u tatio n ” th a t success is sy n o n y m o u s w ith dis may suggest new duties and new men in yet they made a savory dish in com pari­ 1999. In aw ard in g th e prizes, ttie com ­ honesty. T h e y had a general g riev ­ PAH), and th a t, unless silver is kept in HE magazine for up-to-date people. It son to the m achine dried product us it is m ittee will be governed by these three ance against th e world, n slf w hat o thers the mind Slid hearts of the Democracy, put up in Oregon today. Oregon apples consider clous: gives its own illustrated account of h ad a ttain ed o r obtained had been ta ­ (o the exclusion of ail else, he may find will make most excellent dried fruit to 1. H istorical accuracy. ken from th em lie n e e th e y I relieved himself set aside two years hence as the the current history of this country and be sure if half a care is used m selecting 2. M anner of tre a tm e n t. th n t th e only honest people were those standard-bearer of th e party. and handling the fruit hut they w on't 3 O rth o g rap h y , g ram m ar, sy n tax Europe, and, in addition, selects the best w ho luid n o th in g , an d th is was th e But as .asucs are made by events rath do it with the present slipshod method card in al do ctrin e of th e ir creed. Since er th an by request, it m ust strike Col­ and p u n ctu atio n that is in all the other magazines, American, in vogue. Sim iliar prizes w ere offered by th e tile farm ers in th e southw est harvested onel B ryan’s frien Is th a t his chances, good crops llie.v have begun to lake a a f t c all, are quite hopeless. Two things society last year and com petition there- English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, aw u r n Kits s k k l r. m ore cheerful view of th in g s an I are are to !»• lacking in 1!KX>—ves, three— for confined to stu d e n ts In th e put lie and Russian. It is for people who want to AsMand Ttdlnf«. populists n o longer. th a t made B ria n 's nomin it ion on a sil­ and high schools o f th e state T he re The activity in railroad building is ver platform inevitable in 1SV6. Two s ilts obtained were very g ratify in g >o know what is going on in the world. A one of the liest indications of the re­ It is true th a t th e p pulists still m ake years ago there were h »rd tim es to sug­ th e society, and h ig h ly creditable to turned prosperity th at has come to the a pretension of m a in ta in in g th e ir or gest a financial rem edy; but now the th e stu d en ts co m p etin g hundred timely illustrations in every number. T his y ear land since the election of President Mc­ gani/.atlon, but of *o little Im portance tim es are go al and they are likely, un­ the com petition w ill be lim ited to stu K inley. Before th at happy event «11 of are lim y a« a p arty th a t I suppose most der llie im petus given to trade and com d en ts in collegiate an d academ ic in sti­ Price, $ 3 .5 0 per yea r. th e railroad* of th e country th a t were people have forgotten th a t th e y have mer.ie b y » Republican economic and tutions as starve nam ed, and no person Sam ple copy, 10 cents. not already in the hands of the receivers n o m in ated WbavWrtr B arker a n d Ig­ expansion policy, to g r iw b etter. This not a stu d e n t th ereo f w ill be eligible to were rapidly drifting th a t way n atiu s D onne’ly ns th e ir ticket for 1900. will elim inate, therefore, the sp irit of compete. Send a postal card to learn how to get Dr. When John Lind, the euccoesful Dem­ T h ey are likely to cut a sm all figure In discontent which w is answered in 1S96 ' nv additional inform ation rela'ive by Bryan and silver. Moreover, tho a r­ to the com petition w hich may Is* de­ ocratic candidate for governor of Minne­ future years. Albert Shaw's “ History of the Spanish W ar” gum ent th a t gold is disappearing no sired, will Is* cheerfully furnished by sota, whs on the stum p, he (rankly sai l lover 500 illustrations, 1,200 pages' and the T h o u g h I tie populist p a rty first be­ longer holds good. Since M cK inley's th e clislriiiaii of th e com m ittee. th a t the silver issue was settled by the The “ Review of R eview s” together for only two election the production of th e yellow cam e p ro m in e n t In I'v e, it had several election of Presidedt McKinley, in l9itti, essay w hich is aw arded tt.e first prize dollars down and monthly payments. and lie proposed to give t h e gold s t a n ­ fiirerunners in th e sam e field, all of metal ha* more th an doubled and the will he published in full, w ith th e These were th e gold fields of the Philippines are yet to nam e of th e a u th o r, in th e public press. d a r d a chance. One of th e re-itlis is th e m since 1976. th a t he is the first D em ocrat who l u s greenback, a n ti m onopoly a n d labor l patronage a n d k in d w ishes ex p ressed — » w ithin past th ree m o n th s— We w ill en deavor to m erit a con­ tinuance. M O B IMS M E R C A N T IL E C O .’S COLUM N.