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HOW
THE "REPUBLICAN PARTY
CAN LOSE OR WIN.
1
The tariff In the leading Issue in the
Congressional campaign which clone)
November. . ' "
Thetralff will be the leading
almost the only Isxue, In the, Presi
dntial campaign of 1904. ;. ,i
- yirtr Republican party la divided on
the tariff, question. This Ira fart to
be deplored, but not concealed. It if
better to face the truth than to dodge
If the present division within s the
Republican party continues for., the
next two years the Republican party
will not elect' a President or a Con
gress In 1904." !
i The Republican party has invariably
won when united on the tariff. j.
The Republican -party has Invariably
lost when divided on the tariff, j
The defeat of 189$ was brought about
by Republicans .Who thoughtand said
tb.lt the McKlnley tariff was too high,
and not by Democrats who thought
and said the same thing. L ;.'
It was the frugal class in our voting
population, shaken in Its own belief by
Republican wavering as to the wisdom
drtd efficiency of the McKlnley tariff,
whose vote elected Orover Cleveland.
These frugal people were made .to be
lieve that prices -wre too high In 1892,
and that the best ' way to cheapen
prices was to elect a tariff reform ad
ministration. These same frugal people
V ill decide the question of tariff repeal
In 1904 If Republicans persist In telling
them that'under the Dlngley tariff
prices are too high and that Increased
foreign competition rla needed In order
to. lower, domestic price. -i--. , I .
it only the Democrats and free trad 7
crst said that prices were too h!h and
nutjjt be reduced, by tariff rewal the
frugal classes would not believe It. It
is 1 when Reoubllcans tell them; this
that they fiell-ve it. and they wlllWote
a they believe. : 1 '
either In the Congressional cam
li.isn of 1802 nor in the Presidential
campaign of 1904 can the.. Republican
party possibly lose If It stands together
on the tariff question. If it stops talk
ins; fe kind of stuff that should be left
t' Democrats alone to
talk namely
Mjjj necessity for tariff revision.
if Republicans continue to use cam
paten arguments Against the Repub
lican party the defeat of the. Repub
lican party I an assured fact. It can
b brought auout .in no- other way.
"American Kcniumlst." Friday. Octo
ber M. iuxia. ' . , ; -,
The above Is very plain talk, from
& source that Is soundly Republican.
Tariff revision is liable to be taken by
many people to indicate more than it
is meant. to Imply In the mouths of
Republicans. The Republican leaders
ought to get together on the tariff
question before they get too wide
apart. There Is danger in the cry for
the taking off of all duties on goods
manufactured by so-called trusts.
Competition must be encouraged, but
the repeal' of nil duties on goods man
ufactured by trusts Is not the way to
encourage compel U Ion. It may In ome
cases discourage and prevent It, en
tirely. Other ways must be found to
encourage and build up competition
and to prevent Injury to the general
public on account of the Inordinate
greed of the trust magnates who raise
prices beyond the measure of cost of
- production and .reasonable profits
the capital necessary. 1 s
OA
Sad Coughs
"I iud bid cough for six
weeks and could find no relief un
til I tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
One-fourth of bottle cured me."
L. Havn, Newington, Ont.
Neglected colds always
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They run inro chronic
bronchitis, pneumonia,
asthma, or consumption.
Dcn't wait, but take
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begins. A few doses will
H cure you then.
Consult your doctor. If he says t
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I Uk it, tta don't take it. lisitac
take it.
not to
aowa.
Oyer's Ptiia curs sny tendency
ts biliousness or constipation, and
i- us hasten recovery. Purely vege
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stuffy feeling about the nose that makes
breathing difiicult, chest pain , and ss the
disease progresses, a discharge of nauseat
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one continually hawking and spitting. ,
Catarrh is a most disgusting disease.
The foul mucous secretions that are con
stantly dropping back into the stomach
contaminate and poison the blood and is
distributed throughout the body, and it
then becomes a deep-seated, systemic,
persistent disease that must be treated
through the blood, for' it is beyond the
reach of sprays, washes, powders or ex
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Catarrhal matter and purges the blood of
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MORE DRAIN TILE.
'The continued wet season this year
has not been an unmixed evil. It has
brought Joy and gladness and plenty
of business to tilemakera and drainage
engineers. People are draining' their
lands who never drained before, and
those who always drain, now drain the
tttore. An amusing letter from Sioux
City Iowa, .to the Live Stock fWorld,
lewcribes the hilarity . of a tilemaker
if that state, who, while treating a
crowd, thus related ; his experience:
'"Step up.gent'emen, and be with me.
for I'm riding the crest of a wave of
prosperity No, I'm not a diamond
broker I deal In tile red draining
tile;' they sell like hot cakeg Just now.
Last year live stock ; was depressed,
but it was nothing to the gloom of the
tilemaker. The whole country seemed
to be drying up, and not an order was
to be Jiad. Whenever I dlactosed my
business I was given the grand 'haw
haw!' . I tried to swap my tlleworks
for a farm, ut I couldn't unload. Then
old Jupiter TMuvlun unrolled several
lengths of hose and proceeded to dot
the Mawkeye prairies with the prettiest
aggregation of sink holes and -sloughs
that ever gladdened the heart" of "a
tilemaker on the verge of bankruptcy;
and now I can't keep up with my or
lers." It Is a fact that more drainage
has been planned in Iowa than ran be
carried out in a decade, thousands of
acres of high-priced soil having ben
under water, while It is planned to
iraln an Immense area of lowlands by
a huge canal emptying into the Miss
issippi river. Country rtentleman.
It would be a grand thing 'for : th
Willamette valley If there could be a
boom created In some way In the use
jt drain tile. "There are thousands
tnd thousands of acres of land in the
Willamette vallev that can srofltably
he drained. It would .put it In better
comlitkm for working the year through.
tnd It would Insure larger and better
crops. The general use of drain "I lie
will dor more for diversified farming
than any " other one thingexcepting
only more cows, and still more cows. 4
IT WOULD BE HARD.
The merger of the Gould System of
Railroads Into one organization with a
capital of 1800,000,000, now said to be
practically Completed, gives a foretaste
of the possibility Of several of " the
Treat railroad systems getting together
Into one giguntlc affair and practically
controlling the entire railway system
of the country. . A few years ago a sug
gestion such as this would have been
ridiculed, but In this day of modern
financiering, when one man practically
controls a billion of money, the proba
bility of the Anal consummation of the
greater scheme does not appear to be
so absurd as It might have less than a
generation ago. Mobile, AIa4 Regis
ter. A big thing, almost beyond the reach
of ImaglnaTon. nut it would probably
be hard to convince some of our peo
ple that It is a bad thing in this par
ticular Instance the people- of South
ern, Southwestern and Southeastern
Oregon, which sections will feel the
beneficial effects of greatly increased
commerce on account of the merger;
through the construction of railroad
lines extending from Salt Lake- City to
Coos Bay. It is sometimes the'other
fellow's" merger that is the bad and
wicked merger. , , ,
THE MANIFEST DESTINY OF CAN
ADA.
A description of present conditions
in Canada giveto by an Ottawa corre
spondent of that Important financii'
and commercial authority, the Londor
Economist, has In it much slgr.lfl
cance. . '
A very remarkable, even a revolu
jtlonary change In the movement c
population In the Canajlan posses-
. -I
sions has taken place during the past
five years,' In. 1899 there were 1.200,
GOO natives of Canada and Newfound
land In the United States. The drift
of emigration was then and for many
years has beenl wholly from Canada to
this country, yet the whole" population
of Canada, native and foreign-born, I
now. only 5,400.000. An Bngliah social
philosopher of distinction, had explain
ed this direction of the current by at
tributing It to the general tendency of
the population to escape from a rigorous-
climate:- but as 80 per cent, of
these Canadian emigrants settled . In
our states which lie, next to the Can
adian border, and consequently have a
climate which is practically the same,
his theory fell to the ground.
It has received another staggering
blow during the last five years. Since
1897 emigration from the United States
to Canada has begun to set In, and the
volume of It has become very consid
erable. The great amount 'of ree
grant" land obtainable In the Canadian
Northwest is attracting emigration
from our Northwests where such land
is mostly taken up, and the attraction
is the greater because that region of
Canada seems destined. to be a great
wheat-producing country. Official
Canadian statistics give the volume of
this Immigration as 75,000 up to the
end of last June, and the Interior De
partment at Ottawa estimates that by
a year from that time It will be 100,.
000.
This lost to us at the present Is
looked, on in Canada, it seems, as pos
sibly a future gain. "Some Canadians,"
says the Economist's correspondent,
"fear that these new arrivals may some
day bring about the secession of the
Canadian Northwest from the rest of
the Dominion. That is, the fear Is
that : the ; newcomers .will Americanize
the region in which they settle; nor is
It an unreasonable conclusion. Already
the new settlers are grumbling about
the Canadian tariff, by reason of which
they' have to pay more for "nearly all
factory made goods, Including farm
implements, than they paid In the
United States," "so that, though they
may have been protectionists at home,
they are tariff reformers In Canada, In
iha Interests -of thelr-iown pockets."
Yet "meanwhile the manufacturers of
the older jprovincee have begun a
campaign for higher duties." ,
The remedy is very sfmple, however,
and Canadians have good reason to
feel" thankful that the accession of
Americans i, to the Northwest ' has
brought it to their attention so con
vincingly. Of course, says a writer in
the New, York Sun, It Is annexation.
LThe futility of attempting to compete
with the United - States, "soon to em
brace two hundred' millions of the En
glish-speaking raee and capable of
supplying most of the world's wants,"
aa Mr. Carnegie said Hit Str. Andrew's
University recently, wll be made more
apparent; every da to the relatively
feeble Canada, and it will discover and
acknowledge that Its own destiny is
to become a part of the great American
political and economical sgstem whose
supremacy Is already, established.
"America," as Mr. Carnegie proved to
his Scotch audience by abundant and
Indisputable statistics, "now ' makes
more steel than all the rest, of the
i ,
world. In Iron and coal her produc
tion Is greatest and It Is also so in
textile's. i.She produces three-quarters
of the world's cotton. The value of
her manufactures is about triple that
of your own. Her exports are greater
and the (Clearing House exchanges at
New York are almost double those of
London."
The mere instinct of self-preservation
will lead Canada to become an
Integral part of this dominant world
power. .
GOOD ROADS.
James W Abbott, Commissioner of
Highways for the Department of Ag
riculture, and Judge Scott. President
of the Oregon Good Hoads Association,
left Portland yesterday, for Salem,
where they will visit Warden Janes,
of the State Penitentiary. f Their prin
cipal object is to discuss with the War
den the general feasibility of working
convicts on highway improvements
throughout Oregon. ' . "
This- subject was first publicly
broached by Mr. Abbott In an inter
view published In the- Journal a few
days ago. It Is & matter on which the
good roads official is very enthusiastic
and It Is very possible that a bill pro
viding that state prisoners shall be
employed in building highways through
the state, will be presented to the next
Legislature. Poxtlatul Evening Jour
nal. The above Is from the issue of the
paper named for last Wednesday- This
subject has been "broached" publicly
many times before.
In Oregon . the employment of the
convicts in general , road building
might be1 all right as far as It went,
but It would not go very far. There
is not enough of it. There are not a
hundred men In the Penitentiary st
this time who could be used as "trust
ies" to work on roads. The cost of
keeping that number, or less, outside
the walls of the prison, and conveying
them from place to place, would be ex
pensive. Provision would have to be
made for sUcl taring and feeding them,
md there would be extra expense for
l f
The Statesman for se vera years, baa
tdvocated the creation of the office of
State Engineer of, Roads. It has not
had a grat deal "of sympathy
r,
....... .
nany quarters, but this pjper still be-
iievea that is the way to make a bV
ginning. .As ha b-en often said In
SICK HADE- Tfll .
, WEAK MADE STROM
MARVELOUS ELIXIR OF LIFE DI3
COVERED DY FAMOUS DOCTOR
SCIENTIST THAT CURES EVERY I
KNOWN AILMENT.
Wonderful Cures. Ar Effected - Thst
: Sam Like M.iracles Performed
The Secret of Long Life' of
Olden Times Revived.
The Remedy Is Free. to All Who Send
Name and Address.-
After years of .patient study, and
del vinf Into the dusty record of the
past, as weTV&s following modern ex
periments In - tho realms of medical
science. Dr.. James W. KJdd. 30.".3
Eialtes . building". Fort Wayne. Ind
makes the startling announce-
DR. JAMES WILLIAM KIDD.
ment that he has surely discovered the
elixir of life. That he Is able with the
aid of a mysterious compound, known
only to himself, produced as a result
of the years he has spent In searching
for this precious life-giving Doon,. to
cure any and every disease that is
known to the human body. .There Is
no doubt of t the doctor's earnest nesa
in making his claim and the remarka
ble cures that he Is . daily effecting
seem to bear -him out very strongly.
His theory which he advances Is one
of reason and baaed or sound experi
ence In a medical practice of many
years. It costs . nothing to try his
"Elixir of Ufe," as he calls It. for he
sends it free, to ' anyone who is a
sufferer, in sufficient quantities to
convince of Its ability to cure, so
there Is absolutely no risk to run.
Some of the; cures cited are r very re
markable, and but for reliable wit
nesses would hardly be' credited. The
lame have thrown away crutches and
walked about after 'two or-three trials
of the remedy. The sick, given up by
home doctors, have been restored to
their families and friends in perfect
health. Rheumatism, neuralgia, stom
ach, heart, liver, kidney, blood and
skin diseases and bladder troubles
disappear as by magic, lleadach?,
backaches, nervousness, fevers, .con
sumption, coughs, colds, asthma., ca
tarrh, bronchitis and all affections- of
the throat, lungs or any vital organs
are .easily overcome In & spaceof time
that is simply marvelous. - "
Partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia,
dropsy, gout, scrofula and piles are
quickly and permanently removed. It
purifies the entire system, blood and
tissues, restores normal nerve power,
circulation , and a state of perfect
health Is produced, at once. To the
doctor all systems are alike and equal
ly afTected by this great "Elixir of
Life." Send for the remedy today. 'It
Is free to every sufferer. State what
you want to be cured of and the sure
remedy for It will be sent you free by
return mall.
this connection, what Is everybody 's
business Is nobody's: business. ThereJ
must be some ono to take particular
notice of road matters, and have, super
vision over this work, and keep up an
agitation, so as to gain and hold the
attention of the public. When all the
people-of Oregon are convinced that
we ought to have good roads, and that
they will be worth their cost, then
there will soon-be permanent highways.
The Statesman . believes the roads
should be built at the cost of the state,
the counties and the districts jointly.
If the Federal Government can be en
listed and Induced to bear, part of the
expense, all the . butler. In districts
desiring to pay the cost by Issuing
bonds, there should be. statutory pro
vision to cover . this.
It . would take the few convicts who
could be spared a long, time to make
much of an impression. Men and teams
can be had in the districts where the
roads are to bo built. A permanent
highway will cost from $3,000 to S.00rt
per mile. The expense is not a small
matter. It Is a large matter. The ag
gregate for. the whole state will be Im
mense. The following is part of a dis
patch appearing In the Oregon lan of
last Tuesday, showing that the Gran
gers of Clatsop and Columbia, counties
believe with the Statesman that the
matter ought to be under atate direc
tion: ' ' ,
ST. HELENS; "-Or... Oc. 27. "Good
Koads" was the principal subject of
discussion at the quarterly meeting of
the district Pomona Grange for Clat
sop and Columbia counties, which ad
journed at 1 o'clock' Sunday morning,
after . holding day and ; night sessions
at Houlton. ,
The. following resolutions were re
ported by "the good roads committee
and adooted: '. ,
X That we favor a State Highway
Commission.
' "2. That air main roads be laid out
by the state. " ' -
"3. That any one claiming damages
by reason of a road : being located
through his premises f should present
said claim to the county court, and If
it is shown that said road is a benefit
to the claimant, such benefit shall be
taken Into consideration . and chlrged
to the -claimant. ;
"4. That the grade on state road-
shall not exceed 10 per cent. , - '
"5. Thut our- Itepresentatives In
J-.... M ..1 Jt ....... 1 .... . .. .. .
ietre approprlaton of roon,y
(i,e ULlic roarfs, and counties should
locrejse the road tax levy andappro-
stations for that purpose. .
., . . ..' i
. c rwommfM ine n$e or con-
kt i.i tor to build imblic r&ads.
... UvU....-... v.mc.
In-
: fAR AND WASHtNGTOII. FORTLAWO. OftCOON
The school where thorough work fa doner where the reason is
tveays given; where confidence fa developed; where bookkeeyin?
iluught exactly ax books are kept in bnsihess ; where shorthand is
iiadeisy; where penmanship is at its best; where hundreds of
bookkeepeut and stenograph" have been educated for success in
life; where thousands more will be. Open all the year. Catalogue free.
; A. P. ARMSTRONG. LL. O., PRINCIPAL
v I
A YOUNG FOLKS' PARTY.-
"N.--T. Sunr A laudable reception
"will be given to Dr. William B. Hurd.
of Brooklyn, In his own house this af
ternoon. Sometimes he Is called the
"pioneer dentist" of Williamsburg.
Williamsburg was only a viJlage when
he settled there; and In his memory
draggling Brooklyn has grown to be
a strapping town and a big part of a
big city. Technically he Is an old set
tler, but In a new country the stand
ards of age "cannot be depended upon.
Dr. Hurd stands straight, sticks to his
profession and doesn't yield to the vul
gar and foolish misconception which
looks at &0 and thereabouts as an
tiquity. Marianne In . Jane Austen's "Sense
and Sensibility." laid down as a law
the theory that a woman of 27 was too
old .to feel or be capable of love: and
he thought a man jl 35 a monument
of eld. We laugh at this dogmatism of
youth when we cease to have what, Is
too narrowly called youth. And If we
are of sound and disponing mind, we
shall laugh when we are 80at the veal
Iness of people who think that old.
There Is a sliding wale in the defini
tion of youth; and Its metes and bounds
shall not be planted by boys. .
.But to Dr. Ilurd's party. There will
be between sixty and eighty men at It
and no children need apply.- EVcry
guest will have to be seventy at leasts
Eighty-two quaUfld persons were in
vited. Some are ninety and more. The
average age will be between 75 and 80.
More-Juvenile than we could wish, but
still encouraging. Those fellows are
young enough to onjoy themselves and
just about old enough to know how tl
do it. Anything should be welcomed
that knocks between the eyes' the "no
tion that youth and age are not rela
tive and elastic terms.
Jin the prevalent misunderstanding
of the boundaries of Infancy and old
age, a party of. folks who are 75 or
more- Is called ran : old folks': party.
Juster views will regard it as a young
folks' party. Thla habit of popping oft
just when you are beginning to live
must be stopped. , Our Two-Hundred-Year
Class has many, members already.
Our Hundred-Year Class is so full that
we are forced to' discourage all but
the most gifted applicants for admis
sion.. The people In the eighties and
nineties are the preparatory school,
we might almost say the kindergar
ten. A hew question has been raised In
one of the Congress. districts of Ken
lucky, where a candidate has been
nominated on a platform pledging him,
If tlected, to j"work for the passage
of a bill prohibiting the Federal Gov
ernment from 'issuing licenses for the
sale of liquor In any community where
there Is prohibition under local? op
tion." Kentucky has lis counties. In
ninety of these total or limited pro
hlbltion is legally established under
the state liquor law, which provides
for the submission, not oftener than
once in three years, of the ocal option
proposition to the voters, on demand.
The Federal Government In! the Issue
of liquor licenses, wholesale or retail.
takes into no account the question of
state or local prohibition of the sale
of, spirits. The .anomaly lst therefore
presented, in several states or coun
ties. in states, which Interdict or pro
hibit It. of a liquor traffic carried on
under United States Government li
cense. Should legislation be obtained.
as the prohibition men In Kentucky
demand, restricting the Issue of retail
liquor licenses by the Internal Rev
enue Department to counties in which
liquor selling is lawful, the liquor pow
er would be seriously affected.
The Pomona Grange for Clatsop and
Columbia counties has declared In fa
vor of a State Highway Commission.
The Statesman has for several years
been advocating such a commission, or
rather State Engineer of Roads. This
paper, has been sneered at often for
this. But It Is the way to secure the
construction cf ' highways. What Is
everybody's business is nobody's busi
ness. A state official looking out for
the construction of rood roads, and
.keeping the matter b-fore the public,
will finally succeed In getting the
movement in this direction on a ner-
tti . .
mannt anJ aolU1 fo,n' " cot
"-.' .A ...all. . . . ...
iw uim Kvifu i oil .us jintt a tot
of money. But It Is high time Oregon
made a beginning In the right way.
When operators and miners agreed
. - V C. . . I J. .. . . . .
apiKlntetl Dy iient Roose.
.' , . ,u . , . .
U K Ws would
oraif m rooo uhd. . hi, on me Brat
oay upon wnicn miners applied
. ..... .
for
iwork. many of them wej-e confronted'"0 ne hm,1J ,eave hom without a
r--ih - 0rTW1, 1 bottle of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera
,ith an agreement by which they were an,, Dlarrhoea Remedy. For sate by
iu pieuge tnemseives not 'to interfere
with non-union men. The commission
lis expected to settle every question at
Issue and the requirement of a pledge,
was simply a repudiation of the com
mission. As a matter of fact, the .sign
ing of the pledge is worthless. If the
commission should reinstate all of the
strikers, the non-union men would
have to go out under the terms of tin
arbltratoin. If the commission should
decide that the non-union men slio-jld
retain their places, an Interference on
the part of the strikers would h a
violation , of the .arbitration, . .md
whether under pledge or not the miner
who Interfered under this condition
with a non-union man could and wuld
be dismissed under the terms of ih
agreement. The pledge proposition ap
pears to be nothing more than a .use
less piece of annoyance.
Elma, Wash., boasts of a man who
has sold the products of his three-acre
farm this year for $407, not Incluuing
butter, eggs 'and milk. Ills pro lucts
were strawberries, peas, cabbage. ' to
rn at os, carrots, parsnips, beets, oni ns,
lettuce, squashes, pumpkins and l.ins.
The entire amount will foot up over
$600. This Is over $200 an acre. Here
Is diversified -and Intensified agriculture
that is the real thing. The Elma man
who made the record is Wm. liar ling,
Jr. ; '
The way to build roads Is to build
them, and to go at it with the under
standing that It will take a Ion? time
and cost a great deal" of money. If
this facfH"Ould be Impressed upon 'the
Oregon legislature to convene ' next
winter it would, perhaps save a lot of
useless tlnkcrlngvith the road laws.
The chief business of Oregon Legisla
tures heretofore has been the parsing
of road laws, and yet we nave no gd
roads 'worth mentioning '
A correspondent suggests that Ifxthe
Greater Salem Commercial Club dooi
nofcbmpk'te' 'theTseh&ing of the 10,000
folders to the llarrlman people, for dis
tribution in the East, perhaps It would
be well for private citizens to tul;e -it
up. It must be attended to in s nte
way, The matter must not be neg
lected. The opportunity must not be
lost.
Sonic pf the Indiana socialists are
resisting the payment of taxes. They
say that "society is organized for the
benefit of the rich," and that ''the rich'
should pay for it. Also that taxcx are
a' "tribute" and that they are not the
men to pay tribute to anybody. Taxes
have no friends except the collectors.
It is estimated by the railroad peo
ple that 1.000 new - people have .Mite
Into the Willamette valley within the
past' month. With the advertising
campaign of the llarrlman people, this
year's splendid results will be a.uaz
Ingly Increased next .year, and for the
years to follow, for a long- time.
The Colombian Government i In
need of money, a chronic condition In
the James' Crow 'republics to the nmih
of us, and lt wants to get a lift from
the United- States on account of the
proponed Panama canal. This Y.t. tl.ee
Nation may be depended upon, how
ever, to drive a good bargain, one way
or another. ; ,
The cliff dweller of the Southwest,
an archaeologist has discovered, II veil
at least 1,000 years ago and were swept
out of erlstence by volcanic eruptions.
With the memory of St, Pierre fresh
In mind, this latter discovery ought to
give the more modern Inhabitants . of
the same region somewhat of a quaky
feeling. )
The BOera having become well ac
quainted with the American mule
through the thousands they captured
from the British, have sent represen
tatives to this country to buy a large
number of them, to be paid for out of
British gold, appropriated from the
British' treaaury for restocking Bo.-r
farms; V--. ,-
Thanksgiving Day will be the 27th
of Nof ember., This Nation has a great
many things to be thankfur for, and
Oregon Is not the least among the sis
terhood of states possessing substan
tial reasons for feelings of gratitude.
The thirteen carloads of French
prunes on their way to France fjnm
Salem, Oregon, are to be appropriately
labeled. People along the route will
know where they came from and
whither they ar bound.
A Word to Travelers.
The excitement Itfcldent to travelling
and change of food and water often
brings on diarrhoea, and for this reason
Stone's drug stores.
N.