Let Everybody Sober Down. Mr. Hill says the country needs to sober down! and lot up a little on the roads. Probably Mr, Harriraan thinks the same. The proposition is some thing worth considering. While the public is passing judgment let the peo ple take note of both sides. The rail roads need to sober down and let the people have a show. The railroads have now been the means of many saw mills shutting down in the Northwest, crippling their business. Drunk with their enormous profits the railroads have wanted more, and put another story on their structure. Besides this the railroads have been affecting indus tries generally by discharging many of their employees under the excuse of the times. The railroads also need to sober down. Let everybody sober down, peoplo and railroads and do busi ness along Bquare lines in the interest of all. Mr. Hearst of New York. Mr. Hearst has been completely knocked out ot his chances of being mayor of Now York. The Democrat doesn't know whether he has been elected or not. Mr. Hearst is an able man, but he iB nevertheless erratic, does freak things, and a man who has been intimate with him declares he is the moot insincere man he ever knew, It is a great question whether he is really in earnest in his stand for the common people or is playing a great game for effect. Some declare both. So long as there is a doubt it will be impossible for Mr. Hearst ever to oc cupy any important position nationally. He has been in congress, but that was not difficult in Now York city, for Tam many ruled. Whatever Mr. Hearst is politically he is after all a very inter esting character in American Journal ism, and his doings always attract at cntion. Can Die R. It. Com. Do It. The railroad commission is about to make the Southern Pacific continue its No. 11 and 12 train service through to Ashland whether the business of the road during the winter justifies it or not. Traffic beyond Roseburg during the winter months is expensive and travel is much smaller than during the Bummer, hence the Company thought best to stop the service of theso trains beyond Rosoburg. This gives the peo ple south two trains each way daily. They want these other trains in addi tion, Can the R, R, Com, compel tho road to run tho trains to Ashland. Have they any such power is an inter esting question. Tho question of how much authority tho commission has is an interesting one. It certainly has a good deal. But it is very doubtful whether it can make effective an order in a case of this character. The result will show. Easy to vVrite Love Letters. "I am loving fondly and tenderly and feel so dovoted to you." wrote Mrs. Bradley to the man whom she soon afterward murdered. Love letters published show an amount or gush that Is excruciating, and then came tho awful murder, which has been at tracting the attention of tho whole country. Of course Mrs. Bradley did not love tho man or sho would not have murdered him. Tho defense is that she was insuno, but she was not. Sho was liko a good many sentimental poo plo in the world. Somo couples tho most demonstrative in public quarrel the most in private, and anybody can write a lovo letter. There is a great deal of insincerity in tho world it is dillicult to fathom, Society is full of it. Mrs. Bradley is just liko a good many other peoplo, except they never reach tho murder point. Vote tor the Most Efficient Alen. Tho Democrat has no candidate in this city election. All it wants is the election of somo good men who will work for tho interest of tho city and enforce tho laws of tho city properly. A good notice for any of tho present officials in tho diachargo of their duties is simply news. Tho Democrat is alwaysjglad to pat an official on the back who Joes well, that's all. Thero may be others who could do it better. If there aro the peoplo want to know it, becauso it is not a matter of friend-, ship but of efficiency. A man may vote against his best friend consistently if he should think some one else would fill tho otlico better. It is time men everywhere were elected becauso Uiey arc tho ones needed. l'rcD.'.cd 1 houghts. Congressman Watson has declared that ho regards Secretary Root as,,the wisest man in the world today on matters re lating to tho affairs of tho nation". For a man who wants to run for Gov ernor of Indiana, he is not making a strong bid for the White House indorse ment. If President Roosevelt will not eulo gise Thomas Jefferson, ho may succeed in pulling Mr. Bryan's last prop from under him. Frenzied thoughts. Mr. John Temple Graves, the South ern editor now in charge of Hearst's papers, hints that he may make N. Y. City "dry" in time. Impossible! How could dryness and Colonel dwell in the same town? "Attitude of Fairbanks" is a current caption. It means relation to the nom ination, and not to the insiduous cock tail, and so is not of minor interest. Senor Alcorta, one of the leaders of tho "revoltuion of 1906" has iB&ued a pronunciamento in which he declaies that the only way to establish stable government is for the Cubans to unite first, Then they must stay united and stop playing soldier. The Philippines are starting in on their promised home rule. Cuba is wondering what they will do with it. Umbrella repairing is a poor business, on account of the opportunities one has for exchanging an old one for a new one. "Successful dishonesty" is another telling presidential phrase. It is the unsuccessful thief who has heretofore been getting it in the neck, Hetty Green says there is no pleas uro like making money, but some peo ple would dispute with her if they could have the pleasure of spending what she has made. The Charlestown News and Courier suggests that even Hades may be in corporated under the laws of New Jersey. Impossible. Water is allowed in New Jersey corporations. FIRST BOAT Will Be Up the reiver Tomorrow. The river has again reached boating stage after a rest of several months, and tomorow regardless of the bars the government ought to cut Sown, will be gin running for the winter's campaign. Tho Pomona came up in Salem today, and will be in Albany tomorrow fore noon going up lo Corvallis, going down stream Monday morning, then up and down alternate days, leaving Albany for Portland every Monday, Wed nesday and Friday morning. Ulvde Laughead, son or Mrs, Judge H. H. Hewitt, has been appointed Al bany agent by the O. C. T. Co., and will have charee of the business here the coming year, a comDetent and pop ular young man who may be depended upon in the river trallic. this Doac irainc is always welcome to Albany people. The AlbanyB. & P, Co. Extensive repairs and alterations are being made at the plant of tho Albany Butter & Produce Comnanv in this city. with a view to increasing its output of butter, ico cream and ice during the coming season. Mr. Mitcham, who has been connect ed with the Hazelwood Creamery Com pany of Portland tho past seven years has accepted tho field work for;the local company, with supervision over the plant as well. Mr. J. W. Barton who has tor some time past handled tho local affairs of tho Hazelwood branch in Albany has also gone with the A. B. & 1'. Lo. and will have immediate charge of the test ing and receiving departments. A first class butter matter win oe added and the ouput of this institution promises to be largely increased in the near futuro. A Wet Affair. This afternoon at 3 o'clock Albany College and Pacific of Forest Grove be gan a fierce field, fight for goals, with Putterson, Towns, Burtchett and Wil bur behind the lino, and Howard, An derson. Yates. Hodge. Warmouth. Schumate and Burtchett in the line for AUianv. and Humphreys f 1. l'ernn and Robinson, h, Gwynn qb, McCoy c, Bry ant and Coch g, Aller and Waterman t. and two Abrahams ends for Forest Grove. MISFITS. A Mixture of Things and Thoughts It is easy to make millions out of gold mines in a play. Treasurer Stool should resign ut once He has shown his calibre. Tho Union Oil Co. is about to jolt the Standard Oil l.o. Ten to one the Mand ard never finds it out. i 1,000 car loads of wheat are to beship ped from Oregon to eastern markets at once. ir. iiarriiuiiu huh coiiociuuu. Is there such a thing as moral de pravity. A Long Beach, Calif., boy held up and robbed tho woman who had I liut'rionded him. But one doesn't have I to go away from home for examples of moral depravity. I A campaign has bee l begun in Eu gene to stamp out the blind pigs, of which there aro many. The authorities ought to be ashamed of themselves for sticKing tnoir noses uuu utu ousiness of the blind piggers. I New $20 pieces are out. On one side is a very homely eagle, on the other an Indian of the old stripe, while the edge of the coin is surrounded by a number of stars, raised. As the man is dead who maue the design it is safe to say anything one pleases. Saturday Night Thounnts. All over the country things have been looking better for a fact, and there is certainly an improvement. One can hardly figure out why they are as theyare but they are nevertheless. This closes four weeks of holidays, the most in the history of the state. Twenty-four hol idays running, with the courts tied up, but banks running about as usual. It will alway be an unsettled question whether it was a good thing for the state to have the holidays. It is said there would have been a run on the Portland banks the next day which would have precipitated a gen eral run, but this is partly speculation. It iB doubtful it there would have been any run on more than one other bank. The act made people unnecessarily sus picious and set the wheels of prognos tication going. After once going it was hard to break loose, like the fellow hold of the bull's tail, and there you ire. It is shaping itself up well and there is a big gold lining to the cloud The trial of a woman back east for the murder of her husband has been a prominent thing in the papers, given more attention than it has deserved full of its foolishness and lovesick para graphs. It makes one wonder how much real siheerity there is in the world. Probably a good deal. Mixed up with the marriage hypocrisy there are thousands and thousands of faithful husbands and wives, willing to bear and forbear, not governed by sensuality andjjust, but appreciating the real relationship in the marital life, placing it on a foundation that cannot be reached by divorce courts nor the whims of gossips. A clean character cannot be injured. Men may try to throw mud upon it and besmirch it, but in the end it will1 emerge triumphant and spotlss yet. A person does well in this world to keep a going, sawing wood along the lines which he conscientiously believes to be riget, regardless of the slurs and slanders of those whj spend their lives in the endeavor to tear down rather than build up. There are two classes of men, and these are the ones, those who help to build up and those who help to tear down'character. There is little use of arguing with the latter, I obtuse and conscienceless. One does well in this world to pay very little at tention to the stabs of the vicious, but to keep straight ahead, putting in the best licks one knows how for the bet terment of society, government and mankind, The biggest mistake a boy makes is that of becoming a spendthrift, throw ing his money away foolishly on things that do him no good from any standpoint. Nine times out of ten it means a life of failure. It pays a bov to practice business habits while young. He should not be a miser, but he should learn to do things in a practical way, looking ahead, considering the future. It should be the ambition of every boy some day to be married, and he will need to prepare for it, both in charac ter and business ability. No man should ever get married until he can furnish a good home for his compan ion, and he needs to begin getting ready when a boy. Look ahead. A Good One for Crowder. Scio News: Among the names of candidates for marshal of Albanv, to be voted for at the city election, to occur next month, we notice the name of our old friend C. W. Crowder. Just waat kind of a marshal Charley would make remains yet to be seen; but as he is energetic and painstaking, and believes that any- thing that is worth doing at all is worth well doing. The News opines he would make a good one. We have known him intimately and well for the past twenty years. We know him to be a man of good habits, and one who is wholly reliable. We wish him success. The Jefferson Bank. Review: A well attended meeting of tho de positors of the Oregon State Bank was held at the Masonic hall yesterday. J. 1. Jones acted as chairman. A report of the committee appointed to examine the condition of the bank snowed the amount of the deposits to be $81,000 ano tne tianK assets to be SIOS.OOU, thus showing that the bank was alright. In addition to all this the president of the oanK, air. Aupperle, offered to put up the splendid nrouertv of the Jelferaon Mill Co. as additional security for the depositors provided tne said depositors would accept 4 per cent certificates of deposit, payable on or before one year trom date, for rnonev now on deoosit This proposition was accepted. I'romi'ilj oblatnod. or FEl HETf'HNtO. SO TEARS KJtPfftlf NCI. Ot. CHAHOkftAHK THC LOWEST. Send model, photo or vLotoli (or eipert eoiuvti and (ret, report on pe-trnuhllUT. INFRINOSMCNT utti conducted before nil round. Patent obtained thrown or, wvm. TISKDand SOLD, frvo. TRAOI-MARKS. PCN .IONS aim COPYRIGHTS quickly obuuned. Opposite U. S. Patent Offloti WASHINGTON, D. O. HYDRANTS. Hub Bryant Discusses a Question to Be Voted Or.. Editor Democrat: There is much being said in relation to the hydrant ordinance just barely passed over the Mayor's veto. What is the effect of passing thia or dinance? I answer tie up the city in a contract for ten years giving the com pany who now have the cinch on the city ten years longer to fasten its grasp on this people. It is difficult to predict just what our city will be in ten years. We hope to have thribbled our popula tion by that time. We ought in justice to our children to adopt some means to bri. g a regular income into our city instead of getting further and further in debt. Can this be done by giving out con tracts and franchises to soulless corpor ations? I think not. So long as we let them run our business that long will thev use our highways with practically no consideration to us. They secure every advantage of the people they can. Their business is to get the most money for the least service. In order to carry out their plans and make money for themselves they employ the shrewdest lawyer to be had. They subsidize all the newspapers they can, and are ready to bribe our legislators to act and do their bidding in fleecing the people. It seems to me the proper thing to do is to ratify our Mayor's action and at the nroner time or times to bond our city for money to either , purcnase or put in new sucn water works, liirhts and street cars as from time to time seems for the best inter est of the city. Bv owninc said utMities the city would have a constant income and would pay out of debt. The water plant propo- it-i'rtn ia rino nf thia timi Dnn't. C1VA ' ourselves away by tieing up for ten years. The tie up is wnat trie water , company want more than the hundred dollars ;per month. Why not furnish the wa.er tree tor use ot our streets, as is done in Roseburg. Corvallis has her water system which is paying the city a g od income. Eugene has voted to own her own water works. Why not Albany. H. BRYANT. Gus barker Enroute. The depot gang today was thrown in-1 toastateofexc.tement by therece.pt UL a picture ui n.. w, uaiAci uuu 1110 son Jesse, in the latter's auto car, with Gus hold of the wheel, a fierce look on his face., his lips closely drawn, an expression of determination cover ing his countenance. It was supposed to be just after an 80 mile an hour run Mr. Barker is having the time of nis life. Mondav he will continue south. bound for Los Angeles and thence east ward indeterminately towards the ris ing sun. Just From Scotland. Rev, and Mrs. William Harper and daughter arrived this noon from Scot land, on a visit at the home of the niece of Mrs. Harper, Mrs. J. D. Ellis. On their way they visited relatives at Northfield, Minn., and other eastern cities. Rev. Harper has been a mis sionary in India for over twenty years, and has a son there prominent in the English service. They are on their way there now to resume their work. On their way they will stop at New Zeland, where Miss Harper will remain, changing her name this winter. Dur ing the past winter they have been vis iting the childhood scenes ot Mr. ana Mrs. Harper in Scotland. Probably another week of Holi- . days. Last week it was said the holidays might end tonight. Tonight it is said they may end in a week from tonight. It is pretty well settled that they will last all of next week. So it is reported by those who have conferred with Gov ernor Chamberlain, funds expected from the east not yet having arrived in Portland. Survey Completed. The survey of the Electric Line from Salem to Eugene, under A. Welch pro moter, has been comi leted. The Al bany crew met the Eugene crew this week near Pooria. Farmers generally are said to be anxious to have the line. It will mean much to them. Modern Foot Ball. Halsey has had a;sei'ious foot ball accident.' While playing there Frank Kirk in a mix-up of some kind had his left leg broken in two places, one be low the knee and the other at the ankle. On the same day Geo. Drinkard had a bone cracked and Ed Thomb, of the Junction team, was laid out. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I Lucas County. ( Frank J . Cheney makes oath that he is senior Partner oi tie hr.n ot r . J. Chenev & Co. doirs business in the City of Tolc Jo, County and State afore said, ard that said fir.n will pay the sum oi ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every cai.e of Catirrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me ar.d subscribed in my presence, this 6.h r!ay of Decern ber, A. D. 1SS6. A. W. GLEASON, (Seal) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally, and acU directly on the blood and mucus surface of tho system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY .CO.. Toledo, O. Sold bv all druguists. 75. Take Hall's Family fills for consti pation. MISFITS. Look out tor a boat almost any time. Don't be a clam, openup, keep things going. Use the smiling method, but don't slop over. Try Optimism for awhile and see how it works. There will be plenty of turkey! the same. just Plenty of cranberries, healthiest thing going. about the If it is cool today the reason will plain. The Alaskan is in town. be The President is kept busy saying he wont run for a third term. 23 Montana delegates will skiddo the rivers and harbors eongress. to jnow let the holidays end and give the water a chance to seek its level. Every bnsiness man should belong to the AlbanyLinnCountyOregonClub. Try it lor uptimtsm. $50,000,000 for government Panama bonds went like a streak. The people know a good thing Over two dozen pianos bought during the holidays speaks pretty well for Liim county's financial condition. Begin whetting your appetite for the ..... S.H LFJ'TnL VU r ' ' These holidays have taken the rsnap out 0f tne eEai business for a few weeks, but the open season will make up for it. W. C. Brown, aged 83, on his birth-' day, Nov. 30, will give a dinner to all I tne (viaows in uauas. 74 invitations I have been issued. Considerable excitmet at We3 station recentIy was caused when Daye Vandernool. an old bachelor, came home from Corvallis with a washing ma chine. Some Methodist ministers from the east in passing through The Dalles if erred to it as the litWe village It is easy to imagine what The Dalles peo- pie said. These holidays have been the means of discovering somemiehtv weal banks scattered over the country and has as well brought out the strong banks. Albany is to be congratulated upon "having the latter. The Stevensons are getting there. John H. Stevenson, son of the nsw state game warden, has been appointed a deputy district attorney at Portland. Several years experience as a reporter on the Telegram nas fitted him for the , position. When President Cleveland forced a bond issue to help the times out in 1893 the republican papers heaped all kinds of abuse on him. Now the republican administiation has very properly done t. At.: t..i. it. n uiu uhuib tiling, cut, it was uruver then, now Teddy. j These holidays have been the means of letting people know theconditions of of the banks they patronize, and this is right, they have. a right to know. It is not the size but the manner of doing business, borne of the small country ummo u jueji. j naio as uic uig uuea, if run along honorable lines. .j . ,t , President Roosevelt deposited his whole month's salary in a Washington bank just like other people, and the fact was telegraphed all over the Unit- ed States. The President did right and set a good example. Albany people are An;nlr ior mi,., fU D:.ir whether hired men liked the President or merchants. It's the optimistic way, helps promote confidence and keeps the wheels going. A decision has been made by the su- prcme court of Illinois that owners of property rented for saloons are liable for damages in case of illegal sale of liquor. Always morally so this puts a legal cinch on it. It should be extend ed to houses rented for prostitution and other infamous purposes. When the law puts its hands down heavy on these thing it adds to the immorality of the offenses. The Democrat every day or two re ceives from the east some marvellous cirulation increasing scheme, premium businesses, fountain pens, cut glass sets, other sets, pretty women voting con tests, all manners of affairs, but the Democrat continues to saw wood on its merits. It has no schemes but to give the local news the best it knows how in a readable way, and those who take the paper and use its advertising columns do so purely from a business standpoint of reaching the people. U. i IW I I III 1 , PROCURED ANO DEFENDED. Jatnod' I draw lur orvholo.toreip.Tt eeArch And free report I Free adrloe. how to oblAUl pfctente, trwle mrki, I conjrtt-ha, etc N ALL COUNTRIES. I Btuinttt Jireetv'ak II 'tullrtfton sovti tim, I momnf ana ejien int fatent Pitnt ind Infrinfftnent Pncties Exelatlvely. Write or eorn to uiti IS mftU tm. pp. United lUtel VftlMt Cfie, WASHINGTON, D. C. HTM TELEGRAPHIC. Ashland, Nov, 21. -The Coroner left early this morning to bring the body of William W. Erb, a farmer and Btock- man who was found shot to death at his mountain ranch yesterday after noon, twenty-five miles east off here, in wiiat is Known as ueaa inaians. tie was found face down in a pool of blood, wiui a noie in nis neau, a rine oeside his bodv. It is believed to have hnen accidental. He was aged fifty, a prom inent Mason. New york. Nov. 21. Mrs. Bradley finished her story today. She gave many details of her relations with Brown. Many letters were shown on the trial, ceeming with love, showing Browns jealousies and many quarrels. Tacoma, Nov. 22. Fighting desper ately to save the life of herself and four small children from a drunken husband, Mrs. Edward Brace prevented murder last night by throwing a lamp at her husband, breaking it, and setting fire to their clothing. The clothes spattered the burning oil. He attempt ed to brain his wi fe with an axe, when the police arrived as the woman fell headlong down the stairs, arresting the man. New York. Nov. 22. Insanity ex perts were present in the Bradley trial today. The defense will attempt to mony. The trial was adjourned this afternoon till Monday. Troutdale, Or., Nov. 22.-Arthur I Larson, aged three, was playing with his father when he told the latter "You can't catch me," and backed into a tub ot hot water just as he said it. He died this morning. C. H. NEWS. Deeds recorded: Lewis Montgomery to Ida Mae Montgomery, 160a $ 1 Lewis Montgomery to Clarence T. Brock 1-4 interest in several tracts 1 Frank S. Walker to E. A. Hale, 20.C1 .' 501 Mortgages $1700 and $81.67. Release $1000. 1 Hunters license W, H. Lacey, gent. No. 1477. Tan- People Who Come and Go. Dean Knox, Corvallis B. G. Leedy, Sherwood D. H. Ingersoll. Portland J. K. Alexander, " S. A. Armstead, " E. B. Johnson, " J. F. Wesely, Scio Mrs1 E. J. Powell, Roy Powell, Moro I. H. Burgghardt, Salem Chas. Bilyeu, Dallas M. C. Brown, Peoria Otto Hansen, Salem. Hugh Cumming, Halsey. J. P. Stewart, Bayself, Idaho. H. Haoson, Tillamook. C. R. Archerd, Portland. F. C. Watson, " C. A. Malbeauf, Portland. Chas. Loomis & fam, Newport. O. C. Graves, Newport. Silas Couey, Tallman. A. M, Ray & wf, Mill City. W. h. Sharp, Portland. Mrs. N. H. Looney, Salem. IN AND AROUND ALBANY. Just received Graham crackers, 10c pke. Owen Beam Main 51. Burdette organ only $34 at Eilers Closing-out sale. Chickering Square Grand piano only $68 at Eilers Closing-out sale. Speciallessons and practice in t hree itep at (hi dancing school tonight at 8 o'clock. Apples, wrapped, late Grvenstines $i per Dox, good Baldwins sl.26 per , box, at Ellis & Sons. Baltimore Block. The funeral service of the late Mont Lines, who died in Eastern Oregon, will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the city cemetery. Rit:m.-- t tj.-.j , uo?,tlm0re 8 Llve Blrd Ioad can be Dear. Imperial Second street, for your meals. ' The Imperial Sunday dinners are good ones. What's going to happen. When? "oy- Fresh butter cuds at the Elite, made athome. I Try our fresh butter cups. The Elite inaKes cnem. Columbia Flash Lights, three sizes. Ralston Electric Supply Co. Try the Imperial, Second street. Good meals promptly seived. New crop walnuts and almonds just, received by Tomlinson & Holman. Miss Mattie Sutton, nurse, 704 Broad albin St., Albany. Phone Black 481. Some fine Factory loads with Chilled shot at Baltimore's. Glass, all sizes and kinds, for sale at the Albany Planing Mill, cheaper thaD anywhere else in Albany. Skilfully set if desired. Pure Maple Syrup, Tomlinson & Holman have received another shipment of that pure maple syrup direct from the grower at Cly mer. New York. If you want some thing genuine and at the same time deicious have them send you a can. Nothi ng Bettei Than Klineler's Pen-1 -'vania Bucl -wheat. Thi OregonJMarket is the oniy one who has this celebrated buckwln a from this year', crop. Take no itl e none jest aa good.