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V'EEKLy OREGON STATESMAN, j TUESDAY, APRIL" 17, lyoo. QUESTIONS OP DAY OBCGOVS CHIEF EXECITIVK DISCUS 8ES.TBE SUBJ ECT Im an Article la Faelfie Moathly ,Got. T. T. Gcrr rrodlct Burets of Kepabll i cmaa In November. In the March r number of the Pacific Montbly published in Portland, Gover nor T. T. Geer;has an able article on "Questions of the Day" In which he dis cusses the Republican outlook or the presidential campaign in November. After a comprehensive discussion of conditions, oyemor Geer predicts the ?ucces of the Republicans. The article is as follows: ; "There is not; necessarily anyx parti sanship in the Matemenc tTrat the .Re publican party never entered" a cam paign with' brighter prospects for suc cess than those ssurroundingr it at pres ent. .Thi statement is devoid of par ty prejudice forithe; reason that conser vative leaders of the Democratic party tacitly ;admit the fact themselves. It "has ben scarcely more than a monfh since Mr. Bourke Cock-ran and Senator Jones each made a public 'statement to the effect that be was not -sure what par ticular objections thenr party would urge in ojostion to the 'Republicans this year.jbut that the people might rest a-sureo wneni rive .proper time comes, objections would be invented or dis covered, or iWh! : "The factis.; as I seen by everybody abose visron is not warpet by parti i:tKir.ss or sf.hlwd perverseness. that every prophecy made by the opposition ro tne KepuMican party in iStCt lias tal len absolutely and conspicuously unful filled. There were two great questions involved in that camoaien. the menace that threatened fbd verv liberties of the- feople. fin a further continuation of the accursed gold jtandard. and rh? 'down fall of the Republic. wbicb was soon to 1. realized through 'government bv injunction. Certairfiy no commenta tor n the present outlook lor the pros peers of rhe Republican party can fe justly charged with imfairness. if he re frrs to these two bugbears of two years ago. iL,wouHl le impossible to forget the prophecies; oj dare calamity '-which would overtake the country in the ecnt of i Republican success, even if one were sot disposed. It require no .K'.tttM vntmury to recall the tamou speecnes- 01 iir. jjryan as iie swept across the prairies Of the 'Mississippi Valley, wiarnin an unsusjectiig people from thet rear platform of a railway train that! a dtom more awful than anv- mini; Knvwn wnce tne days-or HMm ami Cionirratl was awaiting them tin less , they; threw off their apathy, and win a nnai, struggling ettort to tree themselves from- tlve insidious encroach ments of; rhe deadly Octopus, demand i rie tree ani unlimited coinage 01 silver, witlaout waiting tor the consent ot any other nation on earth! 4'Ot course, no Democratic or Popu list brorher can ; have any objection wjvatever 1 to, recalling these dire fore lodings, for 'he not only -shared- them but gave voluminous and forceful ex prcskm to them on every occasion that ttirm-lbed the slightest opiortumty Four years ago, at tbi time, it' three nu'ii were atjiered together" on a -stree corner, one might sat'ely assume that two of them were silver men. explaining with loud tones and fierce, vehement gestures to Mme timid, uncertain Re puhifan that the low prices then pre vailing for everytlang. the excessively large nuniber of wOrkingmeri vwbo were out of employment ami ube "distressing ly low wage allowed those .who were employed, was all due to a contracting currency, j resulting 4,recl'v 'pom the "crime of !7J,' which struck down onc- . half the fnoney of the country, etc' How- familiar these expressiaons seem i afier being tenderly entombed tor-a; season of irestf In this connection one is prone to pause, and wirls h'stening at titude, harken for the admonishing voice of the silver orator as he threat ens to prove to a suffering people that 'wheat and silver go together by the exhibition, "of a chart, rhtrt. no matter where the ieaker might land, could never be mistaken. "But fie is not to be heard. Surely; the student of the- times is not to he crit icised at hi ventures to observe that the silver orator is not to be heard with his wheat irfvirr. Nor that he is rest ing from his labors in a field of con tracted currency. Nor that Colonel ttryan. in his incessant round of peram bulating oratory, hay made no mention of a discredited and disabled w-heat j chart, nor (that 'he has not, for more than a year, singled out tor special cast ration that ;bxlevilet emissary of the Knglish gokfcngs. who came over here1 in 187.2, and. with $100,000, corrupted Congress Sn4o "striking Jowt one-half the money; in the coumrj'-. anJ" yct wlieat - wheat is ai low now as it was then. Why abandoninent oJthe-cause of the peo ple? The j Colonel's silver voice was never more ekxjuent $ian now, nor. seemingly tnore' ijn reluctantly disposed to notify, j with -olatile fiflrrase, an in different people of an approaching des truction of rheirigovenwnentat fabric. "The fat is ressurrected echoes from the campaign of of stretcsh across a field of exienience that ha-s expOs'd to the pnlrficj traze a state of flagrant dis sention in the domestic coalition which wheat ami silverware sakl to have enttr ed into 1873. and Which ha become Ksseveretj ami disconfant, if not tellig . erenr. It is not going too far to say that bis Infidelity has several -times reached that tlegree of abamloned reck lessness Wliere s.Hver actually went up. j leaving -wheat to continue its downward; course, unwept ami urthelped. Gf sourse this easily accounts for the de sert kn oil the Vause by tfoe erstwhile Democratic! ami! Populist brother, b.tt it does not account for "tin? faith if such faith exists- whcv any one may have in the dark- disasters these discredited prophets again profess to see in the clouded hor2onj by means of a distort ed fancy. 1 I 5 f . . ' " ' , "It is. indeed, la mark of patriotism to see an active :slicttde for the welfare of the country a-nd to 4e ready to ward off the approach of impending danger, but when a party professes to see dis aster of rlie-worst form in a certain line of policy,! -and; a i triar of that j policy proves its fears to have teen : utterly without foundation and- especially when thi experience', haa been repeated over and overiaeaiii with the ame i result, the oeoblc 4egin to acept the new quad- quaa - rienndal batch Of alarms with a decree of sceoticism not to-be wondered at. There could W nreatenmsr ; onr 5nstifitW5c 4 , welure of -our people than those so re peatedly ami even f-Uiivntiv by Colonel Bryan lour years ago. and y were evwemiy Relieved by.hnn dreds ot thousands of people. The writer heard him declare at Salt Lake, in July. i97. to a large assembly, rhat the 'gold Standard was laying waste ) more 1 acres ot land in the United States every year Uian was the SpaniSi army in Cuba. And flie declared that "the gold standard is causing the death off more people in the United States everV vr hati t3i Spanish army in Cuba When he made me hrst statennertt he was unable to say another word for several t minute tv reason of the -wild and tumultuous ap plause and throwing of hats in tSie air by whk-h h was greeted. ! And the same hysterical reception was given the other statement ty the txcitetl -mnhkude. who really seemeif to believe it and. to eet actual comfort from the I satisfaction it appeared to afford. x : The utter recklessness of these state ment's Should have leen apparent at the time to ever' tltoughtful person, and it it is tacitly admitted now oy'Mr. Bryan himselt, as 'he. goes up and down the country in the pursuit o his profes sion and says practically 'nothing- about the destructive, agency of the gold stamlaril. He sees OaiSigers in orher directions rovf, and a'lthiough w4ieat is as low as in o6. ami needs the same legfslative nurture, it gets no word ot encouragement 4rom thse colonel, ami his wheat Chart ami the crim-of tj form no part of his camoaisro vocab ulary. . . ; "Mr. Brjln sees no greater dangers now than he did four years ago in deed, fhere could" 9e no greater ones than those whiclt disturbed his slum bers then, and. since .they faileil to ma terialize at all, rhe results of his pro phetic vision will 'be accepted with even lessMseriousness than then. At that timet factories were not in opera tion and appeals were made to work- ingmen to vote for free coinage as the only means ot restoring a condition wntere employment could be reasonably expected, iprices -were too low. They were low everywhere because one-half of the money of the country had been struck down and there was not money enough to do tlae business oi the coun try. It required a Phousand dollars in money to k a thousand dollars' worth of business. The 'qua n tit ive theory of money was all right. We- wante-J high prices. "Xow we have high prices for prac tically everything m Hie united States, excepting only wheat and hops, and our brothers of tflie opjxjsition are not asking any legislative he ip "for them, as they were lour jX'ars ago. Nothing is being said alxrut the 'quantitive theory' of money, ami ince rhe business of the country h mw larger by far than ever tx-iore. ami is s admitted hy them ami since the business is actually "being done, there is no cry any Where any norp that 'there is not money enough to k the 1usmess oi tile country. aw inat tow prices nave "disap peared, and workingmen are every where employed at increasing wages, high prices arc steadily denounced as an industrial outrage, ifiie product 01 the trusts that have 3een created by a 'high tariff and threatening to enslave tiie masses,' etc. Four years ago the country was on the borderland of ruin because of the prevalence of low prices. Salvation would only come throtigh high prices, wliidh never coukl be real ized except througi the free coinage of silver. Now that higfli prices have come through other means, they are a curse of untold magnitude. '"The sincerity of our broifliers jwouhl he more nearly proven it rhey wxuld, this year, continue-their 'gallant fight for wrheat in the present despondent condition of the market. The price of evcrjhing else is heyond the need of any special assistance, wlvflrh affords an adKlitional reason why its theartless de sertion by its: spectacular champions of four years ago is actually cruel. "There are -so few exceptions to the reasonably prosperous condition of the country, either as to products or local ities, that the continued supremacy f the Republican party cannot be well doubted, Tbere is another reason for rhis belief that" surpasses the fact men tioned. It is positively right on most of the great questions that concern the people-and tlieir interests. This is not to say that it does not make mistakes. Blind devotion to party is not an evi dence of either patriotism or good judgment. The writer is decidedly of the opinion t'liat it is now makinz a mistake on the Puerto Rico question, from w'hich it w?l lej compeHotl tr re cede, but there is a IHne of policy on rhe great national questions that frhc peojle have unikrmly indorsed since tihe government was i organized. The Republican party today occupies prac tically the same ground on the two leading questions before the coiintry rhat the Democratic party always- heid prior to the advent of Bryamsm arid Populism. Reference; is had to expan sion and sound money. 'Tlie fact i is, until the question of slavery 4ecame tfhe -riaramount. one be fore the country, fhe position of the Democratic party jivas generally in harmiony with the he st interests of tiie country. It went wrong on that ques tion, and hundred o thousamls of men who are Republican today became so only because of its mistake on tltat is nie. The emancipation proclamation eliminated the slavcfrT question from national politics, yet the Democratic party has. never beett ahle to get back to its "former sound j position on other issues, but, instead, has been courting with unsound finance, at intervals, un til four years ago it af so far departed from the fakh of it founders rhat its presidential j-andidati was perfectly sat isfactory to tiie most ultra fiatists the country afforded. j L ; 1 . In Feibrtiar)'. i84i. Thomaa II. Ben ton, who was one oi tbxvnwst eminent ami conspicuous Dejmoerats the coun try ever had, made an elaborate speech in the United State senate, in whitfa occurred this paragraph! '. "'If there were a thousand conshtts tional provisions in favor; of paper money. I should, still be against it against the thing itsdf per se, and promter se- on acomit of its ntense baseness and vice. But the const-ita-tion is again?; it Clearly so upon its face, upon it history, upon its early practice, rpon its uniform nterpreta tron. The universal expression at the A its adoption -was that the new overnment was a hard money govern ment, anade by hard money men, and that it as to save the country from the f Mnpr'monft. AH the ear- 1 curses nfnrmA My act.onsottfRo w tb Ka-au r-wj " i as true to hard money as the needle to the pole' -; - ' . r : -'-""'V-'" " ? :1 1 "And while the country had at all times Sid paper suostitutes for money promises to pay money when due the: idea of absolute fiat money, the material of which it i made being T-hof!y im-i material, depending "for its sole value upon the frtarr.p of the" Government. never found expression jji the mind ot any Democrat whose utterances werej recorded in the history of the country! bfforc the war. And yet lie. Brjan wio hokis the Democratic party of to-j day in itfhe hollow of his hand, is the idol of the Populists, as -well, and is accepts ed by the members oi that party as ai satisfactory exponent of its fiat notions of money. A comparison of the Omai 4ta pJatform, whose endorsers .entha:as4 tically supported the last Democratic candidate for President wh?! tiie above quotation of Colonel Benton s, ideas ott wie money question, -will show wiera tiie Democratic party has drifted, and lican party's oudook at this time is con spkruousJy bright. ! i ! The Republican party of today not only occupies the same position on tfh money question me Uemocrattc party did for forty years before the war, bujt its "expansion poii5y. is identical wi that of the same party during its entir history, lhe fact is, the expansion at our national domain has always been extremely popular ami fias always beei tavored ty the party that tias-liappeneii to be in power when the opportunitv for acquiring additional territory has of fered itself. Lxpansron 8ias always servi ed as a huglear to be used by those oujt of ; power, at the time, to predict thie ntrtst awful consequences to the G01- ernment and to our liberties- 1 "For instance, when tSar .treaty rojr the purchase of the Iuisiana country was ociore congress, in jctoter. isoj. i.Mr. tjnswokl. ot Connecticut, saw: " 'In tiv iulment it would be a hari- py thing tor this country mi our boum artes were confined to New Orleans and tiie Floridas. The vast and unmanage able extent, to which the accession iif IxtMsrana will give the United State, t'le consequent dispersion of our lob ulation, and the distraction to that bal ance which is so important to maintain eween the Eastern and Western Matels threatens, at no distant day, the sub version of the Union.' . 4 i "'liliat was nearly a full hundred years ago. and the Union has not been 'sub verted' yet, although no doubt Mr. unswoid nao the same painiui soncitmae for the country that disturbes Mr. Bryan today. Tlere has always been a prolific and noisy crop ot alarmists Whio have seen destructive agencies fat work at the root of our liberties, bht in sjr.te ot their prophecies, our Gov eminent is now tne strongest in tne workl the strongest the world has evjer known and our pewple are the trees: and most prosperous. The time is rap felly approachiiTg when, as the resu't jof a protective tariff, we shall , furnish 11 tfbtu countries of the world with ifjokl- stuffs. clothing and every species of manufactured goods. Inoeed that time Is now here, ami its coming s accom paniel witb the probable ability to con tribute to the peace of mtnd of ojur Democratic brothers-, by materially re ducing in the near future; our tatjiff duties in many directions hut just what injury can be worked by a tariff, hoj matter now Jiigii. on tne ..importation of an article whicbl we are ail rhe t;ne importing is not easily understood. "Tlve condition! of the country niay not be, indeed, it is not in all particulars what we w'ould bave ft ff detals wre left to us. but we bavc, within tc last decade seen it so much i worse niat thoughtful men will go slow to seriouisly criticise. Out bonds have always been pain in gold, but the average Repmb lican Congressman has heretofore been so timid about publically pronounctng the word gokl tlrat be woukc! not sup port a law distinctly saying they would be so paid. He was afraid to vote for a law providing for doing the t'hng that he was in favor of and really do ing. He was timid. That is all pas$ed now. We have the gold standard les tabliihel,and the opposition, in looking around for their quadrennian specter bave selected the trusts a a probable nightmare that wnW answer their pur pose. T9ie formation of trusts may yet le. a question of sufficient impartattee to justify senous legislative tnterterchce but uo to this time the:r pro,latle in jury of the public interests has bten largely exaggerated for political pjur- ooses. The average crtizen, who is the representative of tine 'plain people.' jas tlv remembers that hve years ago we had no trusts, and very little else, fnd that while we now have a great ariray of tbem. we also have the greatest busi ness activity in all lines ever before known, with wvrkingmen employed jev eryWhere, very few failures in any kind Of business and prices for most every product ot the country more satisfac tory than tor some previous years-f-ai though people bave ft-arned hut prices are not always affected by legislation. "Under these circumstances it is inot at all probable that the Republican party wnil be displaced at the coming elec tion. The bawl of the calf ami the yeep of the chicken is heard in the vaiiey.j.ne rascally mole furrows and upheaves ihe kiwn and the newly planted leds. the perfumes of the sweet briar and mvH blosssoms of tree, shrub and flower, per mcates the atmosphere and glorious Na ture is leanne out into one vast sea o emerald and sunshine. In Wah:ni-.n Summer fluttereth apace. .Pity.ajlhip Independent. Slopay I don t seem to get jany better, doctor. -k f Dr. Kraft You worry too much t hat's. What's the matter. j SJopcy Ob! I don't think I do. Dr. Kraft Ah! but I think you do Vow. tihere' that last year s biil 01 mine. Ton't you think you'd feet (bet ter if you had that off your mind?" Philadelphia Fttss. Portland lieed sellers sa the oenjiind for rape was ne-er betJre so ftreat Hnndrtd of farmers are S larrie it on their sammtf fallow for pasturage. I U the verv thing for sheep. Every farmer could utilize more than his pres ent amount of pasturage. L.x. 44 Ah. yes. he groaned. I have paid the nenahviof my folly. -T4ie penalty of your folly is in Ick, said the man who knew mm. "What do you mean? ic the onlv thrnsr rou r.ave ever paid. Chicago Times-Htfald. .4 Kr nrt wll I.-4 ami1 'it is because we have wkhin a thie be- 1 a if ;p3i;i.i ' rini 1? 1.. - lrook.s. ;. 4. FOR LAST QUARTER KPT. J. D. LEE FILES REPORT OF TUB FESITEXTUKt. &fcowlt thm Xao&br of PrUoaar im 11U :CuMf-Ct of Keeptar tbo 1 Bl IuUtatloa. (From Djily Statesman, ApriS 15th.) Supt. J. D. Lee yesterday filed his re port, for rhe 'quarter ending Marcb 31 St. it the office of Secretary of State; F. I. Dunbar, showing rlie expenditures for he ouarter and amount s drawn- from he Several funds, together with the mis cellaneous statement. J The report shows an increase in tiie number f persons in custody, oi ten. forty haying been re ceived, while twenty-nine were dis- cbarged ami one dietl. ;The earnings of . . - ... .1 1 .1 itic 4nstJtution srsow up wei. live con victs having teen worked considerably luring the three months, oiwwirjg are rhe statistics taken from the report: Miscelianeoas Statement , Xo, conlricts cVose of thii quarter.. 2524 No. coni cts close of last quarter. . .314 Increase dtirm quarter. . ..... - .. . . 10 Received during quarter-.... --i.; 40 Discharjjced.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29 Died.. J. 1. .. .. ... ... I Dailylaverage 3 1 5.22. ..'j. : ' Earnings f Board Ui S. prisoners. . . . .$ 514 28 Convict labor N. W; foiiivdtt . . 2310 53 Convict! labor Reiorm sJr.k1. ; 30 40 Convict! labor mute schyM. . 30 40 15 72 40 12 00 Convict labor Wind school . . Convict, labor public' roads. . Team libor public roads.... . -. " ' Total i. .. .. .$i8$5 61 i j '' "Receipts, Board U, S. prisoners. . . , .$ 400 85 The .expenditures are given as follows. Paul from the varums funds .indicated: I i ' Salary Fund. : ! Salaries officers and employes. $4460 00 General Expense Fund. Meat....'. .. .. Flour --and feed., ... .. ...$1607 34 5 54 Groceries, provisions, crockery J5J0 70 Dry gviiods. cloth. 4lankets. . . . y)i 22 Leather and, findings 3S1 5-2 Drugs and medicines j . . . ? iof 7S Stationery, etc. . . . . j 24 Faints. 01K glass, etc........ 70 01 Lu in ler 44 34 Hardware, implements, etc...;. ' 42O 65 Live sifoeki rent. etc. 35 00 Miscei'lamous exieiises i 71 70 1 Total.: ........ .. $606290 Relief DisCliarged Convicts. Iaid prisoners ciischarged 5 22 30 Rogue.s Gallery. Photographing Convicts 23 00 Electric Lighting. Lights and Lamps... .$ 562 70 v a Public Road Fund. Picks.. .. .,. Salary supervisor Total. . . .... 2 50 90 26 $ 9-2 76 A PROSPEROUS GRANGE. A gcntleiiian wbo rvccntly visited Turner vjraiige says mat 111c iiijciiious aioj?n,-M by that industrial body are copied by many ot the reading valley granges The memlers have chosen sides sane what as theyjdid in the spelling school days, and thp captains see to it that every membeon their respective sides does something tor the good of the or der. Some speak, .others ing; other furnish instrumental music, while not a few bring in the- names of applicants for membership. Everything! counts so many-points: and ,at the ertd 01 tiie month the winnurg side is treated to a banquet by their opponents. 1 he meet ings ate as interesting as any political convention, and the Grange is, steadily growing. DOING ; WELL. Muths & Wass rtvati are now proprietors of the Salem soap factory, near? the woolen mill. The niembers ; of the firm are; Charles Muths and Jr-ll. WassmanJ and they have bought the plant. Mr. Wassman used .0 manufacture soaj in Eugene, and Mr. Mufls hasi had experience in tfhe business. This firm 'has been oper ating only since April 1st. and they are already turning out! large quantities ot soap "of rhe various ; kinds, and of very superior quality, and they are 1 satisfied with the encouragement they are re ceiving! at the bands of rhe business community and the consumers. This is a very imiort3nt industry for Salem: it is nOwjngriod and aflle 1ands. and no dxubt itsJbusiness wiH grow stead ily. - M I-- ' A BIG SUIT Tiie London t San Francisco Bankv plaimiff. vW. The Sa lem Consolidated Street Railway Com pany, let al.. defendants, is the title of a foreclosure suit filed in the circuit court. i i Judgment Jasked for $100,000, less $27,426.60 raid. and for $7,500 at torneys' fees. The mortgage sought to 3e foreclosed cover: a large portion of the connpany's property in this city. I)f1ph. ,Malkr'. Simon & Gearin are the attorneys for-theplaintiff. : EOER WO.V.EH W1TB RIFLES HOLD THE BRITISH AT BAY Foni teen Dead Women Found In One ' trench at Spion Kop. Eay . oneted or Snot - ( Forn Pretoria lletter brll. C. I f II- ltgas. in New York WorM.) The British bavfc opposed to them at ?et 1.000 Boer women. They are not nurses, cook oar camp followers. Thry are soldiers, as brave a their Withers, husbands and brothers. The world know no finer example of heTO lsn4 than that exhibited br fourteen Womtn on one of the five days' fight ing around Spion s Kop. the second Majuba. A strictlj family party of Boers, fourteen- meV and their wive, wee; intrenched in) one posrtion and he'id k.'with amasrfng bravery against a ismall iorce of British. - For a long time the men ifougbt incessantly and kept theif wives busy rekad ing. their rifles. 1 . Finally fifty British soldiers, with j a ...M A - V flu n rfuVimn Ac thev tame ClOiC. closer, the Boer meji crept over the rth,,rkL and -while the women 'Mon h,wuinir. tried wttb the butts of .1 their rifles to hammer back the Brit ish. Before their wives' eyes every one of the fourteeen Boers Were killed bayoneted or shot. f j . t The fourteen . women, so quickly widowed, never thought of (surrender, but fought most ivahamly ami coolly for half an hour! The Bjraish sur rounded them: not one oflthc four teen survived to imourn her husJand. Two davsl late wben the iBritislf forces retired across the Tugela twen ty-eight corpses, fourteen iueft. four teen women, were! louml within a ram us of one hundred feet. Now there is a bsgr lonx mound whee rest the bodies of as brave a band as ever fought for freedom. Scores of women have beien in every conwiando's laager I have (visited, and only one has been without her riiie and bandaliers Mrs, Joiiert. wife of the commandant general of the Trans vaal forces. .But their bf-avery does not rt these women oi any wnmahly qualities love, tenderness, gentleness, pitv. ' V ' ' ' : ' Not r from the Praetorta laager I found young Boer woman under the canopy of one of the big trekking wagoms. Her tt-rs werjf falling so copiously that they moistened her dress waist. She: was alWnit nineteen years old, comely., fairly welt dressed. It is nothing strange to see a Bier woman weeping; there 5 tvot one but has lost a father or brother, or inanir relatives in the War. 'But this . one's grief was so extreme that 1 stpped, and found she spoke Etiglish. excep tionally well. She told nie her sister" had leen killed 1 a sharpshooter the day lHrre. t ' . "She was my twin sifter, and wo never passed a day apart." she said between her sobs. "It breaks my heartto think that is-he lies over rtiere under the ground." Slip printed to a mound of fresb earth with a line of stones around land jovier it. a short distance away. 4 I She told me, too, her father, five Iwothers ami innumerilile relatives were fighting. ( "Ouch!" she exclaimejl. as her am suddenly twitched. Then I saw a small hole in thej tight (sleeve tf her dress just above the elbow. "Have you Wen wonndd?" I asked "Oh. yes." she replied "A bullet grazeti me. and occasionally it pains me very much. Then this girl of n'inejteen years ex plained, rather ! apologetically. that her father comjieHed he to remain in the wagon until the -wound was healed. "If it were not for him." he. said. "I should not be here crying;- I u oe down in yonder trench, to le." where 1 ought Try to imagine a In de and groom r honeymoon. going to war ort thei Vet I have seen them I. left Pretoria for the K so. woven front a friend introducet me to a vouhg Boer couple who were going on tin same' train. I thouglu my friend wais joking when he said they were going to tight the British, although jwth Boer man and wife hid Mauser fides, ami each 'wore three bandoliers, two over., the shoul ders, one around the waist. As we sficd the Boer .and, his wife chatted gayly amis unobtrusively dis played the greatest afflection for each othei4. I made up 'my -mind the woman was going as far as the army officials would permit and., then bid rrcr hus- baml good-bye. ! When the train; reached the end of thie line Madame 1 4Boer aliehted wilh her husband, assisted; in taking two horses trom tiie last car on the train, 3nd, after leaing liglitly to the sad dle, rode away toward tone of the laag ers in flte distance She sat her horse as well as her husband, and the rifle that was slung over heir shoulder prob- . aoiy aiu as mucn execution aiterwaru as that of him who rode beside her. Several days later jl was walking slowly behind one! of the trenches oc cupicd hy the soldiers from the Trcr tona dustrict. -Some tone hailed -me. "Hello. -Mr. Yankee!"! There in the truck were my friends of the train They were having a cup of coffee, and invited me to join them. ; "I can't offer you any sugar," apol ogized Madame lioer "because there isn't any in the "counkry.. ami I will not guarantee that the coffee is not roasted corn, but youi can't expect a luxurious luncheon iniiwar times, you know." ! In the course of an hour's conversa tion rhey told m! most ingenuously that they had been imarried only a week and that they were campaigning on their bridal tour. A 'happier new ly married couple I never saw. tRememlwrr thai the Boer woman in herits bravery from htr grandmother; that a handful of women helped to -repel the "hordes of Zulusj fifty years ago. No finer, more inspiring exempli fication of patriotism can be found on God's footstool than a Boer woman by her husband'. side) a rifle . in her hands and well filled bandoliers 'over her shouMcrs. ' All but one of the women whom I have seen wore black or brown dress es. One was in 'man's apparel, but the iBoers tell me the women often put on .their husband's clothing when their own becomes worn; In the early days of the campiagn the British captured three Boer women in men's clothing i and they are still held as prisoners of war on the war ships at Simons own. near Cape Town, but they have teen supplied with proper clothing. .( j I .shall never forget a big athletic woman I sawoutside of Ladysmith. She had the recklessness of a sailor after he has kxted a rumshop. She fcarlessry walked around in the open w-ithin riffle range of the British. She wore a sort of Quaker poke bonnet, a raan'i coat, a torn black dress and a pair of heavy" field shoes. She grasped her rifle near ,thc muzzle and dragged the breech in the dust, while, shading her eyes ith her left hand. she tried to catch sight of an enemy. I " ' Often a. I watched her she dropped, made a rest for her rifle 'with her left arm. and pulled the trigger. -TWtt. lowering her rifle, she looked fixedly for a few seconds, at the object she fired at. and arose to" continue' her fearless meandering. Everyt Boer, man or woman, old or voting, firmly helieives that the repub lics will ultimately iumphv - ABOUT; APRIL. The name April is supposed to have its derivation tfron the Latin operirc, "to open. because the buds open at this time of the year. Ctaarlemagne called 'it. the "grass month,"' a name still given it by the Dutch. . . ' In the time of Nero h was called Neroneui. With the Romans April was the second month of the year, and the thirtieth day was added to it by j'di'is Caesar. ' The first day of Airil the Romans consecrated to Venus, goxkless tl" beau ty, motber of love. iueeu -of-, laughter and mistress of the graces. On this day Roman wives and virgins assembled at the Temple of Virile Fortune and, dis closing their fcrsonaV deformities, prayed the goddess to conceal them from their! husbands, present ami to cme. - '. ' s ' ' The Saxons ca'dwl April "Oster or "Eastermonth." in which month they celebrated feasts to tiie fixlJess ''Fos ter" or Easter. i ' Tiie first of April is AH Ftol s Day. ami the custom of sending ptple on empty errands ami then laughing at them is common the- world over, linen- tal scholars say it is derived from h?" hult feasts of the Hindoos, where a im- ilar enstom prevails. ."In France the fxiokd man is called pisson d'avril or "silly fisb." and in Scotland he is cal'ed a giww m.earwng a cuckoo. On antique monuments Apruhs s represented, as a dancing j-oun with a . rattle in his- hand AsJinuwUI is the deity supmisoil to rule the destiny of one Inini in April. The daisy s the flower tUnhcatt to this month, and accvrding to an a7icnt Vlish superstitKm the Uprillnrn liouJd wear a diafnond in orkr to avert calrfrity and bring god luck. Here is a verse to tims enevi; S"hie w!k from April dates her years, Diamomls jbould wear, lest bitter tears For vain repentaiH-e-thw, this stone Emblem-of innocence is .known.; CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. , The Kind Yen Haw teajs Bc:jhl Bears the Signature of MARRIED. LOW-RONCO In SaU-m. Oregon, Sunday.- April 15. lyoo.. at t p. m., Mrs. Kate Konco to W. S. Low . Rev. J. J. I-lvans, of the First Chris tian Church, 'officiating. - ' MJLLF.R. At the family home, cor ner of Outage ami C 'lut . street, in this city, at 4 a. Saturday. April .14. igoo. of paralysis. 'Mrs. 'Mrs. Wil liam Miller aged about (5 years. "'The deceased was a native of Hol land and crossed fthe ocean with her parents wheit hejwas alxut 10 years of age, locating in New Vork. The fam ily afterward removed, to Iowa where in the' no's she lefame the wifc of lVter Barendrick. Twelve years afn-r their marriage, the couple came to Oregon locating in Yamhill county, later remov ing to Salem.' Her first husband died in Salem in 1887, and she married Wil liam Miller in the summer of iKon. who. with three children by her first husband. -survives her. The children two sm and a daughter, are: Henry Baren drick. of Tort land; S. A. Barendrick. of Salem: and -Mrs. Ofivc Magness, of Wheatland, Yamhill county. " Tiie deceased was a prominent mem-,, her -of Chad wick Chapter No. yj. Order of the Eastern Star. She was a life king member of tiie Evangelical church. M'DONALD. the family home. 5ci, Oregon, Friday Aipril i.V njoo.. Mrs Jane Munkers Mc Donald aged 79 years. f Deceased was Ixirn in issour a daughter of Uncle .Benjamin M linkers, one f the pioneers of 1845. In that state she became the wife of Nathaniel Green, McDonald,. and the young couple came to Oregon with the Munkirs party in 1845. settling in Clack .inns county, 20 miles east of Oregon City. Her father ami husband 4okpart in the Cayuse war, leaving the women ahwie on the lonesome homestead during the campaign. Following the war the f i n ny decided to go to California, and a start was made, but the party stoped on the North Santiam river on account of Fathers MumYers' oor health, and here a donation land claim rwas taken and a -permanent hmie founded.'- Her father built the first sawmill at that place, being the. first in Oregon- south of -the falls; he also operated the first ferry across the Santiam river, --two miles alcove the present Gihleri ferry. The entire Jamily, of which leceasil was a prominnt member, did much to build up Oregon, wresting the state from the wilderness. Deceasel was an -ardent member of the "Hardshell" Baptist cliiu-ch all her life, and was noted far ami wide for her sweet Christian diixsitioh. and lofty character. Slic leaves three sons ami three daughters, many (jrandchil dren and numermis friends to mourn her demise. Hon Jefferson Mycrs,of BOOTH BY. Iri San Francisco. Cak. TueKhiy. April 10. . lotxi, A. II J Brth by, of Melvama, Marion comity, (Jr-" ':' egon. -;':'" :' ' ' - DeceascVl wabr the past fifteen year a resident of Mehatua. Recently he went to California for the bem-fit l his fhcalth. am! wltile there it became necessary to have a delicate surgical operatwm perforim'd. which terminated fatally. 'He leaves a wife ami mimeroiit friend's to mjurn bw untimely demise. HENDERSON. At the family home on North Front street Salem. Ore ToiK Sunday, April 15. urv, tiie in fmt daughter of iMr. and Mrs. W. W. Henderson. .;. ' f- FlBIAN. At the family home north of Salem. Oregon, Sunday, April 15, 1000, the infant child of Mr. ami Mr. John Fabian. DDARBORN. At the Good Samari tan hospital, Portland, at 6 a. m. Tuesday. April 17. 1900, Frank S. Dearborn, aged 36 ycari. I1ie decedent was ne of Salem '4 well-known book and stationery deal ers and was the son of (Mrs. II. A. Dearborn, ot South Salem. Five months ago be wasstricken with ty phoid fever, which, despite the medical aid given by the most skillful physician of this city and Portland, caused his passing away at the hour above stated. His mother, three stiters, ami a broth er survive Jvim. His father. R. II, Dear- born, died several years ago. f - ffl fl . ffDr-William' 1 I J I II II aFHe. likkMorbat I II I ilaj tb itcUlng l Indian Pita curs Hitii.i. nd Ibcbinr aUa; tb itching t once, act 4 s poultice, rlvea Instant r. let. lit. W imam' lDf)lanPilr Oint ment U prepared for Files and Itch ing of the privaus parts. Kvery box It l arranted. 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