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DAILY OREGON STATESMAN.- - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1902. :c::icc:avuKLYSTAi5::ri ;iJ.'ilj!r "fcverjr Tuesday and Friday by '.he STATESMAN It BUSH I Mi COMfANT . K.J. HEXiJKlcka. Manager. ' SCB&.'Blf'TJOX KATKH. me year, uA var.oe. . ,; -. . . . . . ... rix inontti. in advance. ;..i... ....... I liree mouth, io advance.,..;.. ....... o year, on Uin. ...... -v....... fl 00 .au .2 J Tbe R'&teman has been tMSho 6 ne'ly ;jr-two year, and it bu 'nc rtttcribera who liie received it nearly trat lout;, and many who have read It for a gti-erat-oit. torn of llre object to having tbe paper dMrontJiioed at U titoe of expiraiigfl of 1M-irJiier1ptioi, or tb benefit ot tiitiMt. and lor other Mli ; taare concluded tojfwcoQtiuue uib oriiiio :j!y when aotiried to do no. Ail person paying wi.ert subscribing, or paying in adraiw-e, wul hHV the benefit of the dollar rate. Bnt if th tin not pay I r si months, tbe rate will he Xl a ear. Hereafter we will send the yr.-,t to ali responsible persons who order-ft. though they may not send the moner, with the nnui-rt Tid ing that they are to pay ftJta a year, in -- lbt?y loi the cnbacrlnOon . account run oxer six months. Ia order that there may bn so nhao oerttandinK. we will keep tills notice ataudine at this place la ths paper. CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4003 SCIENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICA, i The British South Africa Company Is about to expend .$35,000 to give the British Association a free trip to Cen tral Africa, that scientific body having: accepted the invitation , to " bold " Its meeting" in 1905 at Victoria Falls on the Zambesi river. The South Africa Company will have a hotel -ready for the ocasion. 5 ; j A few days over forty-eight years ago Livingstone discovered tjiese falls. With his sublime faith in the future of Africa, he believed that the region thereabouts was marked ' for- "pedal development. Jle saw there the tie .Tients of material progress; f such as water power, coal, abundant ; vegota ble products, -i cattle and Intelligent though barbarous natives. Liet us see if his dream is coming true. j 'T hope God will In mercy permit m to establish the Gospel somewhere In this region,? he wrote from the Upper Zambesi. This I very year, Lewanikat the JKtng of that country, whn . In London to attend the coronation of Edward -V.II., asked for more teachers and artisans--so that all of his-peopl may learn" ,nd more cf them may.' be able to build frame houses and work iron. " r- y - Not far from Victoria Palls, Living stone found the only Indication of coal yet revealed In. tiopk-al Africa J Thf British are now preparing to mine, the coal, r Tha , railroad from. Cape Town and Buiuwayo la. day by day, drawing nearer to Victoria rF;tlIs s where the South Africa Company is preparing t turn the -vast water power, lntoj elec tricity. Livingstone, was not th. hal? cracked enthusiast" that many persons believed htm to be. ' , 4 ' ' "7' ' J England's then of science will see at Victoria !-alls. One of the wonders of the world. - The byroad Zambesi sudi denly seems to vanish into ' the bow els of the earth. A wide crack Jn th hard basaltic rock was opened, ages ago, from'bank to,' bank. Nowhere eise'Js a great river suddenly seen : to wholly- dinappear in , a ; narrow.- rooky Chasm. . At the bottom of this . deep rift In the: rock the, engulfed waters emerge through a narrow gullet on th9 left, which Is thirty-six times nar rower than the river above the falls. Any geologist woulii jump at the op portunity to study this remarkable freak of nature. j r"The hotel will be built for the per manent convenience of all visitors to this .wonderful region. Africa !.-. no ' i ' J longer the Dark CotUInent. ! SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION. To, thaJ limited 'ft harmful group of beings with approxlmably normal cerebral development' who still .con sclentlously &lpose vaccination, con tending that it does not immunise the human family from, smallpox, 'we com mend a. perusal of the report of Major Ames, Surgeon of the. United States Afmy, and late director of vaccination In the island of Porto Rico . Thia re port appeared in full In a late number of 'the Pacific Medical Journal, but the essential points are reproduced In an able editorial in tbe New York Medical Record for December , 1902.! When the, United State authorities took possession of Porto Rico in Oc tober, lSjfrt, smallpox was prevalent In endemic form, and by December lt it -, About a year ago my hahrwat comins out very fast, so I bought a bottle or Ayer's Hair Vigor. It tbpped the falling and made my hair prow very rapidly, until now it is 45 inches in length." Mrs. A. Boydston, Atchison, Kans. There's another hunger than that of the stomach. Hair hunger, for instance. Hungry hairneeds food, needs hair vigor Ayer s. This is why we say that Ayer's Hair Vigor always restores color, and makes the hair grow long and Heavy. . utae. an irmhu. ! If your drnirtrist cannot sunply yon. ' "-nd u on uuStar and will express -j.i a bott to. lio i!re and eltr the nam lijoumeirwtuprfinoiUe. Address. J . C. A V EU tx., Lowell. Maas. Long Hair What jam ilamors ? They are vitiated or morbid fluids cours ing the veins and arTecting the tissues. Shcy are commonly due to defective diges tion but Are sometimes Inherited. - , J low do they manifest themselves I In many forms of cutaaeous eruption, salt rheum, ct eczema, pimples and bofla, la weakness, laueuor, general debility. How are they -expelled t By ; Hood's Sarsdparitla whh.-b also builds np the system that has ,fltrsd from them. : '" . , " . It Is the boat medicine tat .ill humors. had become a. widespread epidemic on that island. . It became evident in February that all ordinary ' methods of controlllngr this terrible, scourge would be futile. There were present at that time 2,000 new cases. CJompulsory vac Inatron was begun, and this enforced system of treatment was carried vn with uth thoroughness and energy that by July 1st, after having vaccln-1 a ted 8 60,000 ou t of a, total ; population of 360.000 Inhabitants, the disease had practically disappeared. In the two aivd a half years immediately follow ing this period the mortality from smallpox waa but two In each year, as against ari average of 21 for former years. ' Taking Into consideration the fact that when compulsory vaccina tion was Instituted the disease was 7preadingr rapidly, that It existed . in many ; widely separated communities !n various parts of the island, ; that some of these were not easily accessi ble and that through Ignorance or fear many cases were concealed In out-of-the-way; huts an'd In fthe forests, '-there could be no more positive proof of the nlcaey and safety of enforced -obedience to the established laws relating to the public health. . . ' RE ED'S LAST COUNSEL. What1 may be regarded ias "the last fuolLtical r counsel of Thomas B. Reed to his fellowi citizens appears In an article by him in the current number of. the North American ' Review, un der the title, "What Shall We Do With the Tariff?" The article is written, with all the Incisive vigor for which the ex-Speaker was noted.- and, while brief, contains a massive argument against the oily of interfering with the protective system under which our wonderful prosperity has been ' built up. .."'. Mr. Reed begins by saingif ' V"The tpHonsfor thtjs years-have -"taken Ilae and we have escaped the one great danger of a democracy,-which is the decision of great questions without discussion. lie then' goes' on to re view the prosperity .of J.he ..time and Che1 economic; forces which . have brought about -the formation of .those huge combinations Vof capital aj nown as trusts. ' .These ' unions,' he - says, "have been: forced, uponthe capitalist. This element i of force we must bear In tnind If we. wish to understand this liiestlon. . . . Because of the mur derousl competition It was union . or bankruptcy. . j ' Against the trusts there haaarisen a fear and a clamor. Peopled are afraid of the establishment of monopi olies in certain lines of Industry and are crying out for preventive leglfda1 lion. s Here . Mr. Reed gets In one:7 ' his epigrams, We-,have many reme dies on the stump and In the newspa pers, but the experience of mankind is universal, that Providence has not left us to the. stump orators, or the news papers, of even the statesmen. .He argues that the tendency toward com binations for the purpose-of escaping competition will itself bring Into op eration a counterbalancing reaction. He insists upon. It that . the Govern ment should not Interfere with busl- ntss, and says: , vheire is a plece of wisdom as old as the , world, which Is 'worthy of all consideration let us not be in haste about great matters. When you don't know what to do. don't do It..., If the proposition is to press an odk back into an acorn-it had better be carefully considered. ; J Passing then to a discussion -of the proposed alteration of the tariff for the purpoae of destroying trusts, he says: "Protection in some lands may be the subject of discussion and debate, bul how can it be that in this country and at this . time passes all under standing. In the United States the policy of protection has had a century and a Quarter of alternate triumph and defeat. The friumph has been al ways followed by prosperity, the "de feat by hard times. - The iast decade has been a striking example. We saw fit: to try tariff reform in an act-called the Wilson act. So prompt were t? evidences.of failure to meet the.hopes of Its f ramers that the -country rose as one ftian, repealed the act and sub stituted i therefore the t Dingley act, which was the result of -cafeand skill, and immediately there followed . a demonstration of the advantages : of protection the like of which was never seen in this country. 'r ' . ' Next Mr. Reed sets forth the doc trine thatj protection is a principle which must apply to the whole coun- try and to all American Industries, and j counterfeit cannot be detected because la not a mere matter of expediency toj it contains as much silver as the good be changed from time" to time to suitjofn.' . Thejtttement is . doubtless" ex -especial Interests.. Oh that , phase of aggerated. but it is worth taking, into the question he says: "The idea-thnt consideration as a factor In the rot protection Is In the nature of a medi-'lom." l . .. - rj tine, to be dropped M soon as possl- j : : . t ble. is an Idea we had better examine. France Is supposed to be the eham- What if it Is a foo.1? .The medicln notion cornea from the early , argu-, ment of the selection of Infant Indus- tries" to be fostered and cherished. Time and experience,, have enlarged that notion of protection. vThey have shown thatfprotection ia not" a privil ege, but a system. 'A privilege might be robbery. A' system must Justify itself by results., r . J . .. A ...... Particularly forcible Is the argu ment against tampering with the tar iff by reciprocity treaties. On J that score Mr, Reed says:; The history of reciprocity the world ovet has . been that any treaty thus far devised -has been one-Bided, and the "country losing has put lan end to it. We ;. tried it with Canada. . Our export trade !n-; creased 13 per cent, and theirs increas ed In eleven years 50O per cent." . We had one : wit fi the. Sandwich Islands, and on the average we grave thfm IS, 000; 000 in remitted sugar duties a year and sold them $4,000,000 " worth ; of goods..; In other "words," we gave them all our exports and 11,000,000 besides. This is what jihe friends of free trade were trying to do for Cuba when we were . so apprehensive that the island rould be ruined If we did .not give In charity. what had no foundation in Justice. h i. 1 THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. Senator John D. Daly, of Benton coupty, declared to ah Oregonlan re porter in Portland- on Tuesday that he had not yet decided uponJiis choice for United States SenatorTthis winter. 5 Then, In a sort of ; Christmas-gift spirit, appropriate . to the occasion, he went on tobrag on the many men of Oregon who ; would make good Sena tors.: He said there are a hundred men In Oregon who would .be a credit to the state if seated In the upper house or uongress.' ' And ne spoKcn on a follows, according to the reporter: "Right here In Portland you have number of lawyers, any one of whom would ' make able successors to Mr. Simon. There are Judges Cleland and George, W. D, , Fenton, W. W; Cotton. C. A. Dolph and Rufus Mallory. Among your bankers is W. M. Ladd, and there are plenty -of business men who would make good Senatorsr -ri- ' "Up at Salem there are the three Supreme Judges, F. A. Moore." R- S. Bean and C. E. Wolverton, Judge Geo. H. , Burnett,; Claud . Gatch, " Tilmon Ford, C. B- Moores and W. II. Hobson. Through the rest of the state we, can pick out B. L. Eddy, of Tillamook: H. H. Hewitt, of Albany. Colonel , foran, of Eugene; H E. Ajikeny, of Jackson ville James A. Fee, of Pendleton: Ste phen ", A. Lowell, of Pendleton; W. W. Steiwer of FoskII; J. Il' Rand, of Ba ker City; E. L. Smith, of Hood River:' Charies A. Johns, of Baker City; T. C. Taylor, of Pendleton: J MJ .Chanch. -ef La Grande. Presidemt Gatch, I of ' th Agricultural " Celleg'e,' and Preslfleiit Hawley of illarnette Uriverslty.;-! , Senator pjly'isi'a sly eld coh. He has kissed the blarney stone, ,without a doubt. : But he Is far too modest. He did not men,tVon. himself that is, not In particular. But, (must we suggest It?) he must ; have mentally 'classified himself as among the -number to. make bp the hundred. " ;AhdJ0hn D. Daly, of Benton coun ty, Senator. John D. Daly, of Benton county. And the Oregon Legislature L might go a good deal farther and fare great deal worse, So It might. . . . - 6 The Kansas City Journal Is growing haughty as an Amerind. The editor passed his youth among the SI wash, about Puget ; Sound. He rebukes ,& Kansas author; who makes a Spokane Indian say: ;rWill the white father come into my tepee?" The Spokane has no tepee. His wigwam Is a "wick iup. Now "wickiup" is a lovely word. If there were any sense of beauty and pride of tradition among the hotel keepers there would be a Hotel Wick iup In this town. But why blame a mere literary man for using1 conven tional school-speaker Indian? And Why reproach an illustrious Western author, Mr. Hamlin Garland, for say ing that nm . V rode '. 4a bronco x pony V What is worth saying is worth aaylng strongly," and Mr. ' Garland had to make allowance for the ignorance of the East New York Sun. The Oregonlan has , it that the Northern Pad flc is to build down the Columbia on the ' Washington side, and establish a station at some point opposite Astoria, where the grain ship ments .bound for near and distant ports will be loaded ,onto vessels; and that this will cause the Harriman lines to do the same -thing 'for the south side of the river, thus transferring the bulk of the grain shipping business of Oregon, " and ialso of Washington, to ,the mouth of the Columbia rivert tak ing It away from Portland. 'and ifin facoma and Seattle and -the other Sound cities. ; This would prove a good thingpfor Astoria and the . country along both- the Oregon and Washln ton coast. " " J -i: ' ; " ' - , ,A ' r Says the San Francisco Call: A cur ious objection has been made tt the proposition to have silver dollars re- deemable in gold.' ", At a discussion of the subject In the New York Chamber of Commerce one ot the objector said that fully $40,OOO,OO of the. silver now In circulation is counterfeit, and the P'on debtor nation -of .the world, as hef! puouc aeoi rar surpasses any omer, b"t it appcars'Vher " people are by .o 1 IFS YOUH 0UTY To be stmng and healthy, especially when such a tellable remedy for stom ach, liver and kidney Ilia as lUwtet ter'a Htomach Bitters can be obtained from any drug-i.t. . It will strengthen the nerved, improve the appetite and alolute!y curt? tlrmdmche Nmnstm, dlgetloa, Dysptpslm, Coasttpmtlom, Cbli's ot Ml trim. Ty bottle. Also fcUaiti a copy of omr I90S At mamac from your druggisL It is free. H0STETTEIVS STOMACH BITTKRS. means debtors to their neighbors. On the conjitjiryi they" have,, according to official reports, as much as $6,000,000,000 Invested in foreign countries, and'draw very good Interest ' and 'profits from the, in vestments. ' - 1 . , ; :U T . . . , , - : ' , The-conclBsion' of the British labor union "committee now investigating: In dustrial conditions In this country that the worklngman in America Is zo per cent? better off than he Is in Brit ain is doubtless coirecL At ny rate the Immigration statistics confirm It. , A Portland newspaper is demanding .the construction of nore dwellings in that city. More needed in "Salem, too, and more . housekeeping ; rooms. The immigration of next spring will : ac centuate! the pressing need for more. Som-etHing seems to be really doing in the mjatter of introducing anti-trust bills in Congress. They embody some practical features.; A neighbor sug Restsi that the. trouble will be to pans ? Silver! " Silver! Silver! Was $1.29. Cut price, 44 cents. Grand , clearance sale all this month. -Anaconda Stand ard. Commended . to Mr. Bryan and other gentlemen looking for bargains. There being no United States Sena tor to elect this winter,' tfye cut-price sales will also be extended to the Mon tana Legislature. Anaconda Standard. There Is time yet to get rid of thetast $1.t,O0O of Willamette University's debt before January first, if only tbe pledges come in large enough. ; " ; . '- V Merry Christmas 4s beginning to pro duce : anything but merriment In the mart' behind the check book. - i.Tomi'Recd'a body , lies a , mouldering in the 'round' but It. la 'mentioned that . J, ' : - LS 1 ! ' !. ERSON ALAND GENERAL..: Several Weeks ago when the' market was oolite "' active,' the Evening Tele gram, of Portland, was harping on Its downward tendency, and giving yar- lous trumped up reasons why .-It should be fcpi among them the allegation' 'that hops were being brought in large quantities to this country from Ger many.! ;?Ndwpj again, when the market Is growing better, and i when, the out look Is for Improved prices, that paper declares that It, is "bearish," with a "slightryV downward tendency." end the, old. German hop bugaboo is again trotted out and made to do ridiculous duty. -What is the matter down in the Telegram office? The hop market Is all right, and every pound left in the state will bring 30 cents. If the holders will play out their hands. It is a game of bluff the Eastern brewers are play ing. The large dealers, who . have stocked up with hops, . know it Is a game of bluff, and the brewers will have to show their hands before very long. They will have to have hops. Those who havejhops i to sell at the time will get good prices for them. The brewers can tide oyer for a while without any more hops, but not for very long. ' ' . ' ; SECRETARY . LONG'S FIRST LAW ; L- ; 'U cXSE. .-;'. I . : lion. John D. Long, who has just re-1 tired from the Secretaryship of the United States Navy, occasionally tells to a; few of his friends the story of his first law case. This waa up In Maine, in his native town of Buckfleld. -where he hung out his modest sign on the 1st of March, 1862. i. j . ; . The first day that I began my prac tice. says Mr. Long, a tremendous snow storm came up and rattled the brand-new sign until I thought it would blow away. In the midst of the gale two of my old neighbors came. In to fix up a quarrel ot : long standing. Both were good. friends of mine.. I didn't like to have them air their petty troubles in court, so I told them to settle the matter quietly, and advised thorn as to methods. j N '.: - "They talked the matter over, and at last-amiably agreed, and the trouble was sati9fi;ctoriIy adjusted. . "Just as they were going out of the door in the face of the bitter gale oi- turned back, 'I think we ought to give Johnny something for his trouble, said he. "With these words he pulled 25 cents out. of . . a long leathern purse and handed It to me, The little sign "John D. Long's Law Office." still hangs where it was orig inally pKu-ed, on the wing: of the Long homestead, now Hotel Long. ) ONE GOOD STORY DESERVES AN " ' OTHER. Among the anecdotes of the late CoL Torn Ochiltree " which are floating through the papers just now. the fol lowing is probably the H-it: Col. Ochiltree was capable of telling some remarkable . stories, -when her had a , mind to. Once, upon a time - he upset) lra lxnsdalerjwhen that Englishman was entertained here on hiasatiy home from an expedition ; 'to Alaska. , His lordship was : regarded by some of his admirers as a wonderful explorer. He was quite a lion. A dinner waa given in hi honor by Hermann Oelrichs. Jv Well, Lord Lonsdale told many thrilling tories, and an audible :oh,T went arou.id the table when he fin- Lhetl tf l'lnc" nf n. mtripoi) ri,r.it t,. i Af 1 Ira. in K K f-lrrl a nnmK f,f ,.fr;Vd lir-ns and elf-phJnt?. As 1&4 Eni'IIhman lapsed nlo silence and the applause sank to an echo, all look ed to Colonel Ochiltree to defend his nationality and beat this petrified lion story. :f ' . ' "Texas." said the colonel, after a pause, "has a petrified forest, but, al though they contain no petrified Hons they are "Yemarkable for. having petri fied birds flying over them." "Nonsense!" said Lord Lonsdale; "that is Impossible. Such a phenome non is contrary to the. laws of gravila- tion.: :. '. i ; "Ah. that's easily explained." re sponded Colonel ' Ochiitrfe. quickly. "The laws of gravitation down - there are pWl fled, too." x ' V . . . o o- , . '..;-' Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew Is anhon orary member of a political organlza U6n. The Unconditional Republican Club of Albany at areeent myelin elected herf to honoraryst membership and notified her of the fact. She has accepted the honor and. expressed har appreciation and well wffhea in let ter to District Attorney George" Ad dington, president of the Club. The letter was accompanied by an excel lent portrait of Mrs. , Depew, which she presented to the Club. a o e When Senator Hanna was on ; his way to Washington recently he and some other travelers got out for an airing at Pittsburg and were left be hind, having made a mistake as to the waiting time. , The party included several members of the Bonded Ware house Association, one of whom went to hunt for Pullman car accommoda tion. The Pullman division superin tendent waa very sorry, but he could do nothing until be learned that Mr. Hanna was among those present. A ipeclal was then made up In a hurry and the travelers were soon on their way once more. ,: ' ." ----- . o o o -. The ' great-grandfather of John A. Reeds, of Fort Scott, Kan fought in the. Revolution,' his grandfather,- went through the campaign in MexicoJohn himself shouldered a', musket in : 1861, and John's boy put In a year or two In the Philippines hiking after insur-rectos.-'.. .... . , .. .. .: ! ' , Apropos of the killing of Miss lias FCtt in Philadelphia by , Barry John stone, the actor. It Is not recalled that the actor has ever suffered the death penalty for murder. . This remarkable circumstance was brought out at the trial of Robert B. Gentry, vho killed iladga York In the; same city se vera years ago. In spite-of the able Je fense of the late Charles "W. Brook, one of . the foremost criminal lawyers in America," assisted ' by George - F. Munca oCrPhiladelphla, Gentry- was convicted of murder In the first degree, but be has never been hanped. Other cases equally as flagrant could be re called.; Christmas before last, Peter Carroll of Cleveland. Ohio."' disttibuted : 500 chickens among poor families In !that cty. r J-Ast Christmas Sheriff Barry asked to' be 'taken In as' an equal part ner aiw j.jud cnicKena were aistriDUt ed. - Now Congressman -Beidler- ' has joined the flrm( and 1,500 chickens will be distributed. A l as il iiiiuwiitv mTvr, From, the Cleveland' Plain Dealer.), Toledo,' Ohioy Dec. T-&Iayor i s. M. Jches Is opposed to the custom of lift ing - the hat to women acquaintances. The mayor.. received last -week ... from the wife of one of his erstwhile en tau Elastic political supporters sa most in dignant letter In " which" she Claimed that the mayor had grossly 'insulted her. ' -. The; Insult lay In the' facC.that she had bowed to the mayor In a street car and he had merely nodded -without raising his cap. and went on with his conversation with a laboring man sit ting beside him. The mayor said: "'Now, of course, I had no thought of Insulting thatwo man. I did not raise my cap to her I never raise my cap to anybody or anything. I do not believe it Is right. This lady would think I was crazy If I lifted my cap. for instance, to the woman whom I see scrubbing the mar ble floors of the Boody House corri dor. -Yet if I lifted my cap to the one I should life it to the other. I do not see the necessity for it, and I don't do it." ,, . - ... The Legislature can make the $500v 000 for the 1905 Fair proof against de feat through the referendum by pro-T tiding for the raising of the money by Indirect taxation.. j .. e o el .. The Boston Globe notes an adver tlsment of "prunes, extra large, thirty- five to the pound, only 1 cent pouna; no more-than two pounds to .a customer." Whereat a California ex change truly says: "Thus, we see that Boston i at Last learning to treat the prune as a true Joy and a holiday de light almost given away . to attract custom. May Boston flourish; her peo ple may yet be happy." ;.:-'-:.--; o o o , - Iadysmlth is preparing to make It self another sjch center for the his toric scenes around her as Brussels is for Waterloo. A regular coach service. It seems, la to be organised to Splon K on. and when the passengers have walked over the fatal summit they will nna refreshments and lodging at 'a "Spion kop hotel" which Is to be built forthwith on Three Tree hill. -." V' e e inuring the past season - a popular toreador In Spain took part in 05 fights and killed 133 Dulls. His net profit was $60,000, and the only Injuries he sua tained were a bruise on his foot and a rather bad wound In the legt Soroe- xiiu one win oe oaaiy gorea, but a week or two In a hospital will generally set mm on nis legs again. Dafnsas Cannot Bs Cured ' . by local applications, as they cannot reach tne diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed con dition of the mucous lining "of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound art imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to. its normal condition, bearing will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which Is noth ing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by tatarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Our." Rend for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7 Sc. Hall's Family Pills are the best. - Toilet Sets and a cU.. X Photo 'Albums sr SaturJa, MouJay, Tuelu y. anl Wednesday o(!er all our Toilet Sets and; (i.irners at sacrifice prices, nrs w 1 not want to carry over any of these goods., tJur regular price U tnach lowpr, qtmlitv considered, than elsewhere, as we Wugbt a line of travelctr' samples; but the prices on these days willba25 per ceuL below the regular wholesale price. They: won't last long at thii sacrifice of "protiu! IHE 1'. H. 8a!em7 Oregon. NEW CARS FOR FRUIT FREE CIRCULATION OF Allt RY USE OF DEVICE RECENTLY -7" INVENTED. ' . : Railroad people are very much inter ested :iin thejnventlon of,a new fruit carrying case which. is now being tes ed and which promises to Inaugurate a new era in the fruit-packing industry. The. tremendous,, leas sustained by growers In the past few years ;by tl overcrowding, and promiscuous pack ing of fruit, jammed in a single- box without ventilation or separation, has -now become a thing of the past. . -, The cells are formed by the intersec tion and crossing at right angles of double pieces of absorbent card board, and can be manufactured any siise i' s sired, ranging for the accommodatli' of aprieo'-s, figs. etc.. as weil as tne largest oranges,-; paachee, apples or . pears. The advantage gained by thjte double partitions are twofold .1) a free influx of air is allowed to circu late through each cell, thereby, key ing the fruit perfectly fresh and wnnlo some; (2) should any piece of fruit be come bruised during the picking, and decay should result, the absorbent pa- ; per composing the inner walls of. the cell would immediately take up the cayed matter and prevent the contain-' inaUon of the fruit- One" thick, piece of absorbent card-J and these pieces "are perforated at reg ular intervals of about four inches, ' while the wooden sides, top and bot tom 'of the box- are likewise perforated,-' ensuring a perfect circulation of air'" throughout the entire lot of cells. The: bottom of the case Is reinforced with mn )eX;tr-a- piece of - perforated - : card- : board, to w hich is. nailed small strips or cleats? running the breadth of : the ' card-ooard at about four Inches apart, and wheiv the fruit. is- packed pre- paiaiury iur- Binpymsf a iimiiar ion- , trlvande is placed on the top, forming a splendid cushion and rendering the fruitifreah and free from bruising, re gardless of the handling in transt'r- -tatlon. .- - -'". --' - In shipping' by the ordinary methtxls in tne wen Known com men oox- a. heavy 'expense is Incurred in additin to the freight of from $100 io $150 ier car. for ice, and upon arrival at' deil-nation-even upon so short a trip as from Oroville to Oakland the loss by decay Is found to be from 10 to 25 per cent on oranges and a much larger percentage on lerpops.' - In the recent test of the new cars It was fully and "satisfactorily demon--7 st rated that the fruit carried in i-r-fect condition, and usually without a particle of cold storage. Oakland En quirer. ,;. ; , Smith's Dandruff Pomade . Cures dandruff, eczema, itching sen p. and stops falling of the hair. One ip plioation stops itching scalp, three to. six applications removes all dandruff. Doctors and druggists regard it as the only standard remedy for dandruff und all itching, scaley skin diseases; ptice 50c, at all druggists. Book on Catarrh free. Address Smith Bros Fresno, cal. 5 IT WAS MURDER THE INDIAN POLICE ARE HUNT. INO " FOR SLAYER OF - FIVE CROWS. There' seems to be but little doubt that Five Crows, the Umatilla Indian found dead near Thorn Hollow. Mon day morning, was murdered. The In dian police have been working on the case and have come to the conclusion fhat the aged warrior was foully dealt with; by some of his companions on the night of the return from Athena. Several members of the party, will be placed under arrest., today and biought ttAth city. v, -r r The moat auspicious circumstance In the case pointing to the murder are the evidence Of a strursrle aa nhovn by the ground, the locks of black hair and the fact that not one , cent . of money waa found on the person of the dead Indian, although he was known to have had considerable when he lert for Athena. The theory first put forth that. he had fallen from his pony and -died as a result orthe fall or froze tovr death, has been abandoned complete- i ly. In the first place this was not pos sible as the pony was tied to a tree a short distance from .Where the body lay. In the second placea careful ex amination of the body failed to reveal any Injuries which might have been caused by the fall and resulted , In death. ' " - - All the evidences of violence were on Five Crow's face and not on . his body. From appearances he had strug gled with an adversary for some time. as locks of gray and black Indian hair were scattered over the ground. The Indian police take this as-conclusive evidence that the man was murdered, and unless the guilty party is soon ap prehended every member of the party , returning from Athena will be put4 under arrest. Pendleton Tribune. 14 ,1 v l a a , .... . .av BURGHARDr C . ISTt lb I