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Published every Tneaday and Friday by U SriATX&MAXt FCBUSBISQ COMPANY JL J. SEXDRK'Ka. Manager. BUB9CKI PTION ATK& On year, fa advance......'. Mm a,oolha. ia advance... 1 brae iaontha. la advaaee IIjOQ .25 Hint year, en Uiae ...... ' The Watcmaa aaa bees irtt.l1ihad the nearly f - - yean, and it baeaome abaeribera who k " --i 1 it nearly (bat kn. and maay . f.-- mul It tor atrcnerauoa. gome ot t -- to haTlnr the paper dia-onUoiied ai ! -!- axplrattca of tb-l autavrlpUrme, yr o-tieflt ! Uum. ud for other rtaaona we 'Wuciodvd to dtaeonUno aab-cripttona a! u attfted to do ao. All peruana paying bf "4i U?rtbin;. or paying la advance, will bae I ha benefit of tto dollar rate. Bnt If they do im t pay f- r six noalha, tbe rate will be IU5 a year. Karcater a will aend tb paper to ail reipaltla persona who ordr It, tbonirb they aaa fkot acaU the bodcv; Willi tbe nDderatand ln tatthey arc to pay f 1.2S a year, in cat tbey let ba DbaertotkHi avcoooat roa oxer aix anontba. la order ba there may be Bo mlran deratanaise;. we will keep tbia aotice atacdiag at ibis place la the paper. , CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000 BED HIS PLANS. REALIZED. ! One of the favorite schemes of the late John W. Mackay Is about to be realised. While president of the com pany he had done so much to estab lish, Mr. Mackay conceived the ilea that it would, conduce to better service If the men In the employ of the Potai knew that when the best years of Lhefr lives bad been spent In the brainrack ing and health destroying- service' of telegraphing they would not be cast aside like an old shoe, and compelled to finish out the remalnfng years on the money they were not enabled to save out of their salaries. V .Mr. Ma okay's idea, was a pension for men who had been In the employ .f the company for a certain number cf Fears, ""tils death, which was unex pected, though not sudden, prevent-fd him seeing' the fruition of his policy. But it is to come, Just the same. Tbe Postal Company has just issued a. ci' cular to its employes, notifying the-n of the inauguration of a system of p n 10ns under which each man who has been in toe employ of the concern, for fifteen years or more may be bene fited. :'!': ' The scheme Is that any operator r-ho baa been , in the employ of the Poatal for fifteen years may retire on 20 ier cent of the pay he is receiving at the time of his application. For each ad ditionat year of service after fifteen years another 3 per cent is to be ad-, ded. until be is able to draw, without working, 60 per cent of the amount he ? Is drawing at the time of bis retire ment. .? " It was the. well known spirit of lib erality which characterized the lato John W.j Mackay that prompted tbe Idea. That his Influence extends be yond the span of life is shown by -he fact that. what he would have done had be been spared is accomplished nfter bis death. i; ' TAFT JO MILES. General Taft makes a convincing; re ply to General Miles report upon the food conditions -of 'the Philippines. " He lets the General down easy by saying that even he. Governor Taft, thought at one time that the conditions were very serious; - but finds now that the recuperative power of tha natives . Is astonishingly great. There is little dan ger of 'famine; although there are some agricultural difficulties to be overcome. There can be no doubt, however, of the Governor's condemnation of the Gen eral's hastily conceived Ideas of relief. The use of Government transports to bring food would cost four or five times the amount that would be paid to private owners, and the Gene "si's ... ' - - suggeetion that wheat and corn re brought from the United States Is sat irised by tbe declaration tbat the na tives would have to be taught to eat these cereals. They, know how to eat ric, and rice is much cheaper than wheat and costs less to Import. Fin ally, the Governor says be baa nlenty ot rice and the only danger In ts No Hair? " Mjr hiir wai ftlllog out very fast and I was ereatly alarmed. I then tried Ayers Hair Vigor and my hair stopped falling at once.' Mn. G. A. McVay, Alexandria, O. . -The trouble is your hair does not have life enough. Act promptly.. Save your hair. Feed it with'Ayer's Hair Vigor. If the gray hairs are beginning to show, Ayers Hair Vigor will restore color every time SIM a tasda. AS eraobta. If your drnreist eaaaot sappiy you, settd owe atiar aad we wiil expreae yoaabotUa. Deaareaad riratbe aaane o( you aeareat expreaa o&ce. Address. J.CAVLiiCXJ.,Uyweil,HMa. f 1 : j Li U LI I nJ y Rood V c"? the bow V -U - o.ntf pet' d. V . . V .... . ikk Ceabtke. v Scar Stomach. V ' n. Hyieeasia 1)4 Iw.i3est.0a j are sure to fol . low. The Bit- ill op tbe logged bowels wltboat gripinir tbe sys tem. 'Try It gratuitous distribution Is that tb peo ple may be pauperized, by yL ; " In sum. tbe Governor shows tht the General bas been too ready ' to accept things on Insufficient evidence, the second occasion In which General Miles is couriered of ma kins reports upon Important matters without taking case that bis statements should stand criticism. Tbe other occasion was when lm impuxned the humanity of the offl cers and men of our army in the Ph'J Ippines. ' It was easily shown that he had accepted hearsay evidence ami bad done the army gross Injustice. THE WORLD'S FINISH. Time was to " be more exact, time frequently has been when Christian peoples spent a great deal of time upon the end of ; the world. Many novels have been written on the subject, and the sermons that have been preached about it are as the sands of the sea for multitude. The ray for the final catas trophe used to be set with great fre quence and general horror.'! Even still it is announced from tln -to time by cranks, astrologists or religious s enthu siasts 'A few weeks ago the crack of doom''. was set for December I of the iwesent year, , i . " . Of late years preachers have preach ed not so much about the world's finish as about that of its individual inhabi tants. Agreeing tiiat it. Is , too remote a contingency to be seriously thought of by them, laymen have left the con sideration of the end of the world to the sclent ists. The scientists'. are- not of one mind about It- A recently pub lished symposium of their views pos sesses passing- Interest. .' ' ' -. ' - Prof. Albert "H. Walker, formerly of Cornell 'University, - and J now of the University of Michigan, entertains the belief that the earth will eventually be destroyed by the, moon, which will get so close that it will begin grinding around the earth and stamping the life out of everything It contains. The time fixed for this terrible calamity is still afar off thirty thousand years,; or more, v ; J.;:. 4 ' 1 C,: : r':- ; Prof. Simon Newomb ot Johns Hop kins University-' thinks 'that - the world will be burnt up.; ' H Axes he time some millions of years hence, v":. Prof, G. W. Hough of the Northwest ern University, is convinced that tli earth will be a frozen icicle. He savs tliat the scientists do not lack data to prove this theory. ,. But he, too, post pones the Inevitable as long as possi ble. He says: "But we can afford to be opt lmfr tic. We are not going to freeze to death ri nor sre emr children; nor are" our. grandchildren for a thou -and generations to come. But the world cannot last forever, r Its Ufa must go. H '. -y. , :'ycS .;" . So science bas its consolations as well as religion. The exact date of the end of this terrestrial ball cannot be estab lished, nor can the method by which It will again be resolved into the condi tion of "without form and void be set forth with certafney and precision. But it la worth knowing that the end Is too far away In the future, to be remotely Interesting except as a theme of sci entific speculation. . .. TRAIN'8 DEFECTIVE EXPERIENCE, That quaint and curious mixture" of wisdom . sbd fitly. George Francis Train, haa been at If again. Train is an ofa man now. ; He is full of ' yers and - eccentricities, i H ; has always craved ' eccentricities as a. miser craves gold, and In bis -old .age he is able to exhibit a wealth of them. s Hale and hearty up to a short time ago. Train fell ill of smallpox.. But even from his sick bed be Is anxious r to say some thing to startle . the world and perad venture.jar it loose' from Its establish ed notions. f ' '. ' , ' ' ; Calling his physicians to his bed for a clinic the other, day, Mr. Train lec tured them lp this wise I am sur prised to Jlnd veer 'so-called .medicated food (five gtassea of milk each day for four days) ? docTored with . alcohol, I never, having flitted poisonous Jiquor. Ipwyoo 'rom blame. I decline to .take any more. My 'special nurse told me' she bad put an egg th ' the glass. Kow.-I rbave. touched no animal ; food for. three decades, and ' here are two poisons which to me are deadly; be sldes'l cannot , take ' op a newspaper without being, aier with an Instance of carbolic acid poisoning, and yet each day Che nurse sprthkles my floor sever al times with this prison diluted. I believe, the pofbn to be absorbed by the 7.000.000 pores of the skin. George (this is a boy attendant) bangs two curtain Sheets soaked' In formaline at my door. i.The nurse a?o sponges me ail over with! carbolic acid. Having taken no medicine In ialf a century, J am Immune from sickness. Unless I can have a "bit of toast, oat-meal and fruit, t wll eat nothing." . or- THE NEGRO PROrLEM IS NOT A : . NATIONAL ISSUE. t -' 1 - - TS.-F. Bulletin.) . : : One or two Eastern papers are fret ting themselves In the bell-f that (the so-called negro problem will .become a national Issue. They are lenoun-ing the South for disfranchising the color ed voters fend they think It Is the duty of the Federal Government t force the Southern States to cease discrtml at lngv politically, against the' black man. The Supreme Court bas already decid ed that it is not the 'Federal -Government's business to Interfere, and tTr.ua the matter stands. : ? J ' " . The incessant reviling- of the. South ern whites by the Northern press tnd to embitter the South and renew old antagonisms! Time and Booker T. Washington will solve and. are solvit g the negro probjem and the No.-th ill do well and wisely if It lets the Suth alone. .-'v ; ' u - ' ' h Booker, Washington sees that tbe true course for the negro Is not to Im itate the whites and endeavor ' to be come their social equal but to live Ms own life among his own people. ' Iavr ca nnot compel a white man to dine with, a colored man. Why should -t a colored man force himself Into com pany which resents bis intrusion? S-;'f respect should keep a man from doing that; and Washington's thesis is that the colored man must learn to resiect himself. '..' ?'.' Two things the negro must accom plish, according to Washington's Idea, before the negro problem will be In a fair way of solution. & He must develop in himself a character which will make the White man respect him. He must learn to be useful In bis station of life. Character is the main, thing, for it i the quality on which respect Is found ed. The colored race for the, present must bend, all its energy on that point. Political and perhaps social equ-ility will come hereafter If the colored peo ple first build up their character. It Is true that there are white men still per mitted to vote In the Southern States who are quite as ignorant and immor.il as the lowest of the disfranchised ne groes. But the concern of the coord man is not to vote, but to make hlmtv.lf such 'that the voting privilege must be restored to him. 1 ".' There Is no need or room at present for the university educated negro. The white men will not accept him In thlr society and there is no society for him among his own people. The colored f man should learn in order that he may labor, not that be may be idle. Cons- quently what he needs is a 'common school instruction and thorough train- Ing In some Useful craft at which be can make a good living. "Tn all things sociaJ. said Booker TV; Washlnflrt-n. ?we can be as separate as the five fin gers, and yet !-on as tbe hand In . all things essential : to mutual prog-res!.' What boots it for a colored man to be a lawyer or to read Greek? His knowl edge will not open to him the society of the white man. But If he Is a vm peient blacksmith or wheelwright or farmer he . can, at least, compete en equal terms with the white man In the struggle of existence. Iet the nero acquire character, a sound primary ed ucatlon, a mastery of useful crafts and some property and he will not long complain of unjust treatment. ' 'Dr. W. E. B. Da Bols Is the spokes man for the colored mad that is not content to wait and work. He chafes under the Injustice which the netfr-o suffers. He resents the disfranchise ment of his people, the separate. ax-lH for colored children,! the Jim Crow cars. But though an admirable ; per sonality, no doubt, he is not so wise a leader ss Booker Washington. The so lution of the negro problem lies not In law but In education and racial devel opment. It is a thing to be scenm- pllshed not In one day, but during nutuy years. WELL DONE. , ' The. people of Salem responded nobly to" the Call for, help from the stricken people of Heppher. Within a few hours after Mayor1 If mlH 0MY KNEW v " ' - v . ' " ," .j .. ; ; i '.. WHAT AH RAP OF HAPPINESS IT . WOULD BRING TO 8ALEM . Hard to do housework with an ach ing back. Horn of misery at leisure or "at work. .;. If women onyy knew the cause';. Backache pains come from stckr kid- neys h i: y , , . Doan's Kidney Pills will cure it. Salem people endorse this. Mrs. F. Long, wife of F. Long, sad dler and harness maker of Roeeburg. says: -For a long time I was seldom without backache, and any exertion or the slightest cold contracted brought on an aggravated attack. I took medi cine trying to check it, but until ad vised to try Doan's fldney Pills I met with very Indifferent success. Doan's Kidney Pills gave me such prompt re lief that I ; have no hesitation In re commending them to others. My son also -used a box and I heard him ex press himself In high words of praise for. thenu : , . ., nenty more proof like this from 8a-1 mZ- ZT u . r . " Heppner sufferers now amounts to sp- store and ask what his customers re- ; ... ...AA , . port. , J r ' - v ' 1 proximately l!M.v Thli vlll be w For sale" by all dealers. Price" 6 terlally increased, no doubt, by the re cents. Foster-Mllburn Co Buffa1ov rT4s pf the musical entertainment at Satet lyGr 6t House on Saturday Remember. the n3f'," "Pmn'i and tat vinK. the entire- proceeds of which no aubsiitut. -r - - .iar 'are to be sent to lleppner. Difficult Digestion Tbat ts dyspepsia. It makes lite miserable. - Its sufferers eat not because tbey want (a, bus simply because tbey suuf. -;. Tbey know tbey are Irritable and fretful; tot tbey cannot be otherwise. r 1 Tbey complain of a bad taste in tbe mouth, a tenderness at tbe pit of tbe stom ach, an uneasy feeling of puffy fulness, beadacbe, heartburn and what not. Tbo effectual remedy, proved by perma nent cures of thousand a of severe cases, la Hood's Sarsaparilta - Boon's Plixa are the heat cathartfat , Bishop bad received ' telegraphic infor mation" from ;t the' mayor" of Jleppner that money was needed," oh yesterday, over 11000 in cash was made up. If the needs of the people of the stricken dis trict demand tty the - amount will be doubled or trebled by the people, of Sa lem." w vf'c !-' 1 .' : ' - " Never before . was. public, subscrip tion as large as $1000 so quickly made up In Salem, and never was any sum more cheerfully, given. When It was learned that tfie t subscription papers were being circulated, people hunted up the members of the' soliciting com mittee and ; eagerly tendered their money. , It was very well and generously done Such a demonstration of the spirit of sympathy, and betpfulness makes one glad he lives In such a community. THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT. One of the results of the massacre of Jews In Bessarabia, has been an in creased activity and zeal on the part of the promoters of the Zionist movement. In every city where any considerable number of Jews are located mass meet ings -have been held to promulgate the plans of the Zionists and to arouse Jewish Interest In them. It Is thus quite probable that the indigation ex cited by the Russian outrages will ad vance - the .cause of Zionism further than H could" have been otherwise car ried by years of ordinary argument and appeal. -. ' ': In nearly every Instance where such meetings have been extensively report ed the main argument of the speakers was that so long as the Jews are wilh- j out a nation of their own they cannot hare a. voice In Interna tionai aftalrs. : As one speaker put it: "A national nobody can expect no national recog- nltion. If you wish the powers to rec ognize what you are you must plant the .standard of. nationality and estab lish a government At a great meet ing held under" the auspices of the : Zionist Council in Boston one of the ( speakers said: "So long as you look 1 tur .oeip iiuui aujuouy uui yoiii selves and "God you will look In vain.' There 1 M 1 . - . . . Lis buir one. nation " In the world which can solve the Jewish problem, and; that nation is the Jewish nation. It Is! for you as Jews to help yourselves, and then the other, nations . will help you. Zionism presents to you a broad plat form upon which every Jew may stand. Zionism offers the only' adequate or suitable solution for the Jewish prob lenv. . -:v There is, of course, an-element - of truth In all . such statements, and yet to outsiders the Zioplst movement ap pears to be nothing more than. a day! dream colored by emotion. Sentiment J haa always been a powerful factor In j human affairs, and consequently' the! Zionist Is not subject to derision solely J because he Is trying to build upon sen - timent; but in this case the epd to, which the sentiment inspires seems to be not only Impracticable but '. u'nde-1 slrablev The Jew born In America, fori example, has America for his counttry. Why, then, should be seeC another? Most, people agree with a writer In the San Francisco Call who declares that " a strictly racial nation is in our time Impossible. ' An attempt to establish one in Palestine would be an anachron. Ism. Should the Jews, by their wealth, their energy 'and their business capa city, manage to redeem Palestine and make It once more flourish like the rose, the country would Inevitably at tract Immigrants from all quarters. It would not remain a, distinctively Jew ish community very long after it had become prosperous, and the alms of the Zionists would be defeated by the very means they took to accomplish them'. The only hopeful feature of the movement as seen from the outside Is the zeal with which it is being sup ported . by many Jews ' of " undoubted ability 'and' sagaity It is not easy to believe that such men ' are idle dreamers. J 1 Probably ' they perceive something In the race that "outsiders cannot see, and despite' outward ap pearances are not building- wholly up on an unreasoning . sentiment. The one thing certain is that they are mak ing a vigorous propaganda and from all reports are vastly increasing their strength by the accession of large num- j bers and the receipt T liberal eontrib-j otiona to their funds. Thus, whether: they aoicceed or not In establishing a Jewish' nation Ift Palestine, they will form a body of Jews powerful enough to make Its Influence felt in the coun cils of Russia Itself. s lv 5. . The amount raised In Salem for the -ami JL- Again Giving Free Concert Every Evening They treat Chronic and Nervous Diseases, and renlove tumors and killv cancers without knife, pain or blood. Office, Willamette Hotel Hours, 10 to 12 Daily Except Sundays Where they can be consulted In private Hv'mg your egs to the SUlem Codec lloash r anl get your CdfTietj fresh from the lloasler. 144 Court Street: JOHNSON fcOTLYXG, Props. tEfl ian.i-ia.- i.u, -i..lo-)jaPM 1 .tmri 53?E5 Typewriter Simple? Yes Sure? Yet j ; Swift? Yea r? Stronfi? Yet ;. Remington Typewriter C; 327 Broadway, New YorR 492 STARK ST.. A Great Enlargement , . ' ' ' ':. ' " . , ij ; . Wo are now converting our largo lrlck warehouse ami shop into an upholstering cstahlishmcnt andIiave onj;agel another upholsterer who comes well recommenced from a large Eastern concern. For the past year we liave not been able to handle this department with as much promptness as we should. YV make all kind of mattresecsi; couches, cushions, ar any other article in tho upholstery line. A phone will bring our wagon after your repair work, r Theloie I 269 Liberty St.- T-Storei: Salem and Albany FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1903. -Gtatesman's Christmas Piano Contest.. o 9 EadoavaxB Tlaid . Hereby Vote Fee. a say ataelee la tbe Ore go a aiataai ' fyTnii Coapon good for... ...iTot, belftc one ote for eafb cent jrJi la ad vaive for anr of th DaolicattoBafvmed fruta lha ttUiiamin kuilaiar. Cou- ona TiJ after osj muutli. t I e in in Splem . emington PORTLAND. 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