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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1903)
HOOD RIVER GLACIER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1903. LOTHING For Your Boys In two and three piece Suits for $1.60, $2.25, $2.75, $3, $3.50 and up. If your boy needs a Suit, we are in a position to save you money. Shirt Waists A beautiful line of Evening Shirt Waists in" Silks just the thing for parties. Call and see them. We are sure they are just what you want. Also have them in French and Opera flannel for service and warmth. COFFEE We will receive this week Scanlon Coffees the best States. Try it. You will money back cheerfully. I OF HOOD RIVER The lumber industry in Hood River hue hardly made a beginning. It is truly in its infancy. Ask any one what ia the leading industry of the valley, and tew people would hesitate to say it le fruit growing. Well and good, (or more people are directly concerned with fruit growing than anything else, yet with a quarter million dollars coming into the valley each year from the sale of straw berries, cherries and apples, this sum within a year or two won't represent one half or even one-quarter of the income derived from the lumber sales. Fruit growing, rapid as will be the increase in carload shipments of strawberries and apples, within the next five years, and large as will be the money returns, will then have to he clashed as an industry second in importance, and that for years to come. This may seem surprising without an explanation. But if the big sawmill of the Mount Hood Lumber company, over near the boat landing, should be kept running night and day and Sundays, with a capacity to turn out 300,000 feet of lumber every 24 hours, or a total of 109,500,000 feet in 305 days, the present managers of the company would have given way to others long betore the last stick of timber north of Mount Hood could be sawed into lumber. The sup ply of saw-timber tributary to Hood Hood river is by no means inexhausta ble, but the possibilities haven't been calculated to a nicety yet, and suffice to say that the lumber industry is soon to add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the aggregated bank accounts of the people of Hood River. TheGlacier editor knew there was a large body of timber on the headwaters of Hood river, but he never fully real ized what an enormous amount there is of it, nor what vast sums of money it represents, until last Saturday, when in company with Charles T. Early, super intendent of the Mount Hood Lumber company, he was driven to the logging camps above Winans, and there saw for himself what is being done, and learned in conversation with Mr. Early some thing of the lumbering possibilities of Hood River valley. This was the first time he saw logging operations on an ex tensive scale, and he knows more than Bragg Watch For BARTMESS' Xmas Display OF FURNITURE There is no more useful or appropriate present than some article of Furniture. If you are unde cided in your choice, drop in and I will try to os aist you by showing you articles that are always in place for Christmas presents. In a few days I shall In ready to occupy my BRICK ANNEX, which will give me more than 10,000 square feet of floor space,, and will assure an abundance of room to display the class of goods in keeping with the Towth of the citv. Lowest prices guaranteed. Doors and Windows. All Kinds Build ing Material. UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. S. E. BARTMESS. Opera Shawls In Silks and Wools. Something you need at this season of the year. Nice line to se lect from, ranging in price from 25c to $4.50. In these we have bargains for you, so don't forget to come in and look them over. COFFEE the celebrated Chase & coffees in the United find it the best or your You can do better at 1 0 s ! he did before this trip. Early in the present year, the Mount Hood Lumber company, with a paid up capital stock of $400,000, purchased the saw mill interests of the Lost Lake Lum ber company. The statement was then made to the Glacier that the new com pany intended to run the mill. To make this assertion good, the company appro priated $15,000 for improvements in the stream of Hood river, which would make log driving possible, and insure a con stant supply of logs to keep the saws of the big mill busy. That was six months ago. Since then hundreds of big boul ders have been blasted from the river, and at points along the stream where the water had a tendency to seek two or three channels, "cribs" have been built, forcing the water into one channel and preventing the logs from piling high and dry upon the bank. These cribs, put in for an experiment, have proven a great success, and more are to be made next year. There were many doubts as to the practicability of float ing saw logs down Hood river, but all these have been dispelled, and the big boom in the Columbia river has been collecting logs every day since the freshet early in November. The logging activities of the mill com pany are con fined just now to a bunch of red fir timber between the Eastand West forks of Hood river, about 15 miles southwest of town. Splash dams have been built, one in each fork of the river at this point. These dams are opened once A day and start a flood sufficient to carry what logs that have been placed in either stream down to the main river, where there is force enough to take the logs on down to the mouth of the river. Both horses and donkey engines are em ployed in hauling the logs to the edge of the bluff, where they are rolled into a chute and stai ted on a lightning trip to the water. On the East fork there is a chute 1,500 feet in length, the lower half being almost level, and logs weigh ing half a ton slide down this dry flume in less than five seconds. Wouldn't care to ride astride one, would you?. Skid roads are made wherever it is handier to use horses in dragging out the logs from the timber, but these are not necessary when the 20-horse power donkey engines are employed. These engines are capable ol pulling with half a mile of cable. By means of relays, it is thus possible to get logs to the riv er from timber several miles distant. A foot or so of snow makes this kind of work easier. When saw-timbers are snaked on Dy horses, the bark is re moved from one side of the log. No matter how perfectly round and smooth a tree may appear, one side is always heavier than the other. It is the heav ier aide of course that is pealed. The inexperienced hand would have con siderable trouble in determining this, but a trained logger will rarely' miss it oncein a hundred times. A sight well worth the day's trip wag a log jam in the narrows above the falls of the West fork. When the heavy rains came the fore part of last month more logs had been turned into the river than a sudden rise could take care of, and a jam was the result. Mr. Early said that the first day after the jam formed there were 3,000,000 feet of logs in the gorge. Logs 40 feet in length were standing upright. It was a solid mass of logs for a quarter of a mile, and was a wonderful Bight. But to Mr. Early it would have been a more welcome scene had the logs been col ected in the boom at the mouth of the river. The logging camps are in charge of two very competent foremen, Charley Smith and w. u. Moat. UNION SERVICES THANKSGIVING. (Continued from Page 4.) DAY. peace and domestic prosperity. True, we lack in coast defenses, and our read iness for war Is inferior to that of any otner nret-ciass power, yet we cannot, by reason of our peculiar geographical position, be easily surprised into com bat with foreign powers. Our "good land" ia situated in the temperate zone, a belt of the earth's surface which em braces most of the energy and enter prise of the human race. We are not far from the frozen regions of the North; we are a good way from the burning suns of the South. We are too far south to be bound in by the perpet ual chains or frost or the isortli ; loo fur north for our social character to sink beneath the enervuting influences or a tropical mm. Vet in our beloved land may be found the climate of all the zones, of the torrid, the temperate and the polar regions, and here may be found the products of all ciunutes and of all countries. Our good land is on that side of the equator destined bv Providence to be the great dwelling place of humanity. We are in the lut- itude and longitude where the great nations of the earth dwell in prosperity nnd power. A richer and more mag nificent inheritance wuh never portion ed out to any people, Palestine to the Jews not excepted. 3. Not only Is ours a good land in Its geographical position, but it Is such in the progress or its civilization. What discoveries have leen made! What in ventions have been pu ten ted! The farmer used to separate the wheat from the chaff by holding up a shovelful and allowing it to drop off slowly, thus permitting the wind to blow the chad' away. Our good ancestors, in a stern way and upon theological grounds, ob jected to any more improved method of separating the cnnn from the wheat. The first fanning mills were objected to. Our early forefathers said, "They are a sacriligious defiance of the Divine displeasure, and it is a usurpation of the Divine prerogative for puny man to raise the wind by any such contriv ance." What would they think now? We gather our crops from the stem, ready for the iraraer. with our coiunli- cated but smoothly-running piece of machinery, we travel ny steam and electricity. We talk by lightning. The unseen forces of earth and air are harnessed to do man's bidding. With the X-rays we can look into and through the human body. The light from distant planets is flashed to us, separated from the component parts of our world and used to serve man. Surely outs is a "good land" relative to the products of man's inventive genius and the fruits of our Christian civiliza tion. 4. Aeain. observe that we have a "good laud" with respect to education al facilities, uur "good laud" has the best common school system in the world. Our schools and colleges are prosperous. Our people are growing rapidly In the desire for higher educa tion: illiteracy is decreasing, ine facilities for obtaining a higher educa tion are growing better. Of making many good liooks there Is literally no end. . Magazines richly illustrated and ably edited newspapers, filled with intelligence from an parts oi me worm, fly by the million a day from lightning speed presses. And now the grange and farmers' Institutes, as well as teachers and unprejudiced educators of our Institutions of learning, have taken ud the matter of practical education and are Insisting that the science of agriculture and horticulture shall be taught lu our common scnoois. Amer ica is the only country in the world which spends more money for educa tion than for war or preparation for war. Great Britain does not spend one-third as much money for public education as fhe spends on her army. France not one-ninth as much. Russia not one-twentieth as much. Our lead ing institutions of learning are being lantelv endowed with money, thus in suring their stability and perpetuity. Ours Is the only land where a rail split ter and boatman can rise from the humblest loir cabin and poorest parent age lo the highest position within the gift of the people. 6. kui the Kirengm oi our repunncis not alone in our superb common school system and our higher institutions of learning; not alone in our principles of government, admittedly the highest and best; not alone in a high order of statesmanship; but the wealth of our good land and the strength of our re public are inherent in our religious principles and blessings, our Bibles, our churches and our Christian homes. Lord Bacon said, "lu knowledge with out love there is something of malig nity." Coleridge said that "in the mere products or the understanding there is death " Strong and cultured nations, under the pressure of moral corruption, have sunk into darkness and oblivion. The worth of our good land is in its Christian civilization, and this, and this alone, is the guarantee of its stability and perpetuity. Abolish the liilile, the churches and our Christ ian homes, and our "good land" will soon be a mere remembrance. There are those who would destroy our altars, hush the chiming of our church bells, abolish our sabbaths,esile our pastors and injure Christian homes, but notwithstanding these, the eojnel of the Son of God triumphs gloriously. With our millions or Christian people and Christian homes, with our thou sands of churches and pastors doing a lxwneeiil worn in tne name or our Master, we have a right to make the claim that ours is emphatically a Christian nation and will continue to be such, more and more exercising the leaven of the gospel in behalf of hu manity all over the world ; evermore will this gospel develop and apply it self accordiug to its own inherent en ergies. from the festival height of this day we may and should set forth the in quiry, As a people are we exposed to no lierils? As a nation are we threatened with no dangers that mi At eventuate in national calamity? Can we boast of immunity from evil forces which make for uatioual dissolution and downfall and that tend to the grav peril of the home or tne inuiviuuar; 1 lie history of the Jews brings us an answer. We are justly proud of our good land, but let us not forget that some things are a menace to our liberty and happiness. We have been tolerating some things which are a sharp reflection upon our wisdom and understanding. 1. One of these is the trade in demor alizing literature. Ibis trade has grown to alarming proportions. We respect the doctrine of personal liberty. but even this cherished doctrine lias its limitations, "ellow journalism" nnd the dime novel type of reading matter should nnd no place in our homes and in the hands of our children. While the public prints which full into the hands of our people are filled with tales of illicit love, accounts of murder, se duction and suicide, the seeds of sociu and moral disintegration are surely be ingsown. And well may we stop to inquire, What will the harvest be? The publication of the accounts of crime, excepting so far as such miblica tion will act as a deterrent, should be actively discouraged and prohibited by those who lov6 our homes uud institu tions. Criminologists tell us that the increase of crime is due to the wide and prominent setting forth of criminal deeds, thus planting the seeds of vice and sin. The Christian people of our "good land" have it in their bands to throttle yellow journalism and dime novel publications, and the public con science should be awake to this foe of the home and t lie nation. We should recognize with alarm this impending danger and effectually control it, thor oughly stamp it out. 2. Another element or danger to our "L'ood and ' Is the vervDrevu ent Imhit of gambling. Persons who fall into this habit rarely ever reform. The im morality of gambling Is seen in its cre ating in a man the expectation of get ting something for nothing, or at least for which he has given no equivalent. jno nation can establish, its integrity nor make secure its place in the world's He thut permits theevil genius of gam bling to gain a national foothold. The tendency of our times is to secure prop erties by gambling processes, and whether these be curried on in Wall street or in the w heat pit, or in carefully-guarded saloon rooms, the immor ality is the same, and the bail effect upon public morals is the same. The devil was never more devil than when telling young men and women that the way to get on in the world is by the gain that will come bv gambling operations. The deep hold this habit has on putJlio lite is seen in the dill - culty of controlling it in the large cen ters, lummany won in the interest i f bad and vicious public morals. In our own metropolis of Portland a compro mise has been effected with gambleiv. We cannot control New York nor Port land, but we can, by u decisive ni;d uncompromising attitude against it, throttle it within our sphere of influ ence and put a ban on the vicious prin ciple that we may get something for nothing. Gambling is a colossal evil and should be put entirely away from us. 3. And what shall we say of that twin gigantic evil, the liquor truffle. This is tne greatest evil thut curses our na tion and the human race. Broken hearts and ruined homes, blasted rep utations, fortunes scattered and children disgraced, pauperism and crime are the awful ruits of this iniquitous tratlic For the nation to tolerate this trulllc is to nurse a viper in its bosom. This tratlic, with its train of evils, is a men ace to the innocence of maidenhood, to the purity of womanhood and the sanc tity of the home, and such a iriirnntie social evil is deserving of the stamp of severest social ostracism. Let us nut this evil away from us. 4. 1 lie desecration of the Lord's dav has attained the proportions of a na tional evil. Owing to selfish greed, a million of our laborers have no more facilities for attending public worship or enjoying the repose of t he day of rent than it they lived in central Africa. On the high ground of religious princi ple, as well as on the low ground of ex pediency, tue neart or our Christian civilization conteud for the proper ob servance of the Lord's Day. There is grave danger that the European con tinental Sunday may be imported to become a component part of our public lite, trance bus her horse racmg.Spain her bull baiting, Italy her operas. Ire land her political meetings. America has a portion of all these and a good many things besides. These sins are n Earasite on our free institutions, our ousted civilization and our religious principles. Mingled therefore withour thanksgiving for generous harvests, for health, for peace within our borders, and for a large manner of Dfosneritv.let our confessions be heard and our sins be sought out and put away from before me jjora. nesnati be u wiser, a bet ter, happier and more prosperous peo ple when such evils as vile literature, the saloon and brothel, the gambling den, with their black train of attending evils, shall find no longer a place in our goou tana. 'lo no other people in all the world is the exhortation to be eodlv and true so significant as in ourown lund. And do you ask why? Because ours is a nation of freemen. Our national life is in our own hands. Our destiny is in our own keeping. Rector of St. Luke's. Ashburnham, Ont., April IS, 1 1)03.-1 think it is only right that I should tell you whata wonderful efteet Chamber lain's Cough Remedy has produced. The day before Easter I was so dis tressed with a cold and cough that I did not think to be able to take any duties the next day, as my voice was almost choked by the cough. The same day I received an order from you for a sample bottle of your cough remedy. I at once procured a sample bottle, and took about three doses of the medicine. To my great relief the cough and cold disap peared and I was able to preach three times on Easter day. I know that this rapid and effective cure was due to your cough remedy. I make this testimo nial without solicitation, being thank ful to have round such a Ood-sent rem edy. Respectfully yours, E. A. Lang- It, M. A. .Hector of St.Lnke's church. To Chamberlain Medicine Co. This rem edy is for sale by all druggists. A Frightened Horse. Running like mad down the street dumping the occupants, or a hundred other accidents, are every day occurren ces. It behooves everybody to have a reliable salve handy and there's nnne as good as Bucklen s Arnica salve. Burns, cuts, sores, eczema and piles disappear quickly under its soothing effect. 25 c at (. baa. .V Clarke drug store. Bilious Colic Prevented. Take a double dose of Chamberlain's Colic.Cholera and Diarrhira Remedy as soon as the first symptom of the disease appears and a threatened attack may be warded on. Hundreds of people use the remedy in this way with perfect success. For sale by all druggists. Barnes collects rent.paystaies. draws op transfer papers and writes insurance. To the People of Hood River: Our stock of FANCY and STAPLE GRO CERIES, Gents' FURNISHING GOODS, etc., etc., is now very COMPLETE. These goods are ALL NEW, and have been CAREFULLY selected in order that we might give each cus tomer BEST POSSIBLE VALUE for the price charged. Hoping to MERIT a share of your PAT RONAGE, we are, Yours truly, 1 eqgsai No. 2, STUMP PULLERS. We arry a complete slock of Y. smith (irubblnn MucMui's, wire cable, rope shortnertt, blocks, root hooks, etc., for which we are gcnerul agents for Oregon ami Washington, Write for catalogue, SEHTOIT "WALTHEE, ONLY exclusive Hardware Store in THE DALLES, OR. OZONE FOR SKYSCRAPERS. How Freoli Air Is Supplied In the Modern Tall IlulldlnxN. nundreds of wen ami women nro boxed up all day long In llttlo cnges on every floor or tiio modern oii'.co building. Yet this mass of huddled humanity never suffers from any lack of fresh air. The ventilation is per fect, a fact which often surprises for eign architects. The delivery of fresh air into a sky scraper is as big a busiess as the do- livery of water or electricity. It is not left to chance. Cold, fresh air Is forced into the building by a blowing engine and passes through largo duets and controlling registers to the different rooms. In winter this air Is heated by passing through coils of steam pipes. Often the blower is arranged to de liver both hot and cold air, and the duets arc provided with mixing valves which can be set to combine the two blasts in any required, proportion. Thus one can have fresh air of exact ly the temperature called for by the weather. Bad air Is got rid of by wall regis ters near the Uoor through which the vitiated air escapes Into ducts which lead to a largo common outlet above the roof. These ducts may bo of sheet Iron or they may be of tile built In the wall like chimney flues. Some times they are large spaces Inclosed In the upper parts of the corridors by false ceilings. In other cases the bad air is taken to the basement and discharged by an exhaust fan Into a tall oulsidu shaft used for that purpose only. New York rress. Ilard to I-'lnd. The bishop of never mjnd where- being a newcomer and being somewhat troubled with a neglected diocese, thought to inspire his clergy to tike occasional services during the week by periodically visiting and taking oue liimself. On one of theso occasions. TRUE TO NAME. I have for wile thN mmioti. oi Yellmv Newtown Pippins; .,( Spiizcnhuri.'s li.uo ArkansHs Hhu k. raflej oti wltol'a nmts hikI from feions that wen carefully M-bvi.tl tnmi Home of t he hct h'arinsr trees In Hiwd Hivir vailev. I do not hesitate to cunrn nlee my tree true to mime. St-nil for pi itt-s t.i N. B. H akvivV, I'mp. Milwaukee, Or. V. K. STRANG, l-nl n-rent. YVK DO Job Printing neatly and promptly. Our oll.re is' fully "equipped with lati?t style of j ty k? and up-to-date material. We carry a full line of printer:' ttatim, ery.'and can till your order for a visiting card or a fuil-p.vc color ; poMor. II.v.c your Hutionery ! printed bv E. R. BRADLEY. PHONE 51. --SW5, drifts having found quite a gooa twigrrgvi tlou and having been moved to much eloquence in his sermon, he felt a not unnatural desire to know if be had made any impression on the usually unimpressionable yokels. So he put some leading questions to an old clerk who was helping him to unrobe In the vestry. "Well, I hope they've been pleased with yer," said the old man patroniz ingly, "and 1 am sure we takes it wcry kind o' yer worship to come down nnd preach to us; but, yer know, a worsser one would have done for the likes of us, if so be." he lidded, with becoming humility, "one could be found." Lon don Tit-liits.' Quaint ltemodlca. Among members of the Greek church in Macedonia the following recipes are regarded as highly useful: To pacify one's enemies write the psalm "Known In Jnd:ea," dissolve it In water and give your enemy lo drink thereof, and he will be paeilied. For a startled and frightened nun take three dry chest nuts and sow thistle nnd three glasses Oregon Nursery Co. t iit tirM-cluss, vlioli-r(iolc1 nnd budded Tree, send your order to the old reliable Oreuon N in-very Co., nt halem, Oregon. We have yet for sale a few more thousand tiisi-Wuss NewKiun I 'i 1 1 pi us, Kpltzeuburga, and a full line of all other vurletlea of ap-!t-s ulhl t;elliTnl lilirstry Ktock. Now Is the time to place your order, before all the best trees are sold. C. T. It.VW.SON. HOOD RIVER NURSERY. Stock Grown on Full Eoots. AVo tlcsiro to lot our frionds nnd patrons know Hint for tho fall planting we will have and can sup ply in any number Cherry, ear,Apricot, Peach& Plum Trees GRAPES, CURRANTS, BERRY PLANTS, Shade and Ornamental Trees. Also, all the standard varieties of apple trees. Can supply the trade with plenty of Newtown, Spitzen bi i'ii- and Jonathan apple trees. RAWSON & STANTON, Hood River, Or. When You Come to Town Do not tail to call and see us and give us a chance to till your order. We quote Flour in not less than barrel lots at warehouse: Dalles Patent, per lbl...$l..j0 White River, jier bbl..?-i.23 Dalles Straight, 3.55. Feed at warehouse in not less than half-ton lots: Kolled barley, per ton. 24..j0 Shorts, per ton $22.50 Oats, per ton 25.00 Bran and Shorts 22.00 liran, per ton, $21.50. Yours trulv, bone & Mcdonald Stages to Cloud Cap Inn. Ticket o trice for the Rejrtilator Line of Steamers Telephone nd live a liaek carry you to and from the boat landing If you want a rirt-ela turnout call on the HOOD RIVER TANSFER AND LIVERY CO 1SW i of old" wine ana let nun arniK inereoi early and late. Write also "In the be ginning was the word" and let him carry it. First Aid. "Now," said the professor, "suppose you had been called to see a patient with hysterics some one, for Instance, who had started laughing and found It impossible to stop what Is the first thing you would do?" "Amputate his funny bone," prompt ly replied the new student. Houston Tost The Great Drawback. "Well, the statements they make against you aren't true," said the poli tician's wife. "Why don't you denj them?'" "I'm afraid 11 will incite them to dl up some other libelous statements thai are true." Philadelphia Ledger. If people talked only when they hai something to say the silence would b too dense to stir with a stick. Gal reston News. F. H. STANTON