Ft.tUil.e4 every Tuesday and Friday by the etaxzias pcxLisnxsa coiiPAsrr ' R. j- HXymilCXB. Manager. T. T. GZjLH, dltor. EC"B3CBUETI05 KaTK One yea 1a advene.. fUM Hi uuratni, in advance.... .fcO T hree months, la a4raac Onevear, on time L25 The Statesman baa been eetabliahed far nearlv ffty-two years, end it baa mm subecribera who dt received u nearly inu iodc-, and aaany who br read, it for a generation. Sou, ot then object to banns tue paper discontinued at toe time of ezpieaUon of their anbacrintiona. i or the benefit of theee. and for other reaaoaa bave concluded todbKxnatinne abtcricttonj on ly when notified to do ao. A persona paylnc when subactibng, or paying in advance, wia bare th rxnefit of the dollar rate. Bat U they do not pay for six monthm, the rate will be IL25 a year. Hereafter we will aend the paper to all responsible persona who ordc tt, though they may not send the money, wita the aaaef-atand-Ing thatthey are to pay 11.25 a year, la eaaa they let h anbecrlption -aeeonnt ran over six aontha. Ia order thai there' may be ao mlniB demanding, we will keep this notice stacdlng at toLS ptace in me paper. : CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000 GORDON'S TRTBUTE TO VALOR ' From address o.f General Gordon, de livered at' New Orleans .reunion, of United Confederate : Yeterans last May. K V i "We have long since drawn the ear tain of oblivion over the regrettable and unseemly thing of the- past; and we cherish, as Americans, the valor and nobler deeds of both armies, and of all sections. We of the South are satisfied with our own record, and, the power that would. attempt to make ns blush for it would be both stupid ana blind. We are heirs, joint heirs with the Republic's children, in-the inherit ance of freedom left by- our sires. We are proud of all the past; and, although we are now facing a future pregnant with tremendous possibilities, yet we face jt with a strength of hope and assurance born of an unswerving pur pose to dischariae our every duty to all races and to the whole country. We are growing old, but we still stand firmly on a narrow strip of land which separates us from a boundless ocean of eternity. And as we go hence we will calmlv drop our mantles on the shoulders of our boys, who will worth ily wear them, and in no crisis of the Republic, whether" in forum or -field. will they be found wanting." CRITICISM BY PBOXY. In a somewhat, lengthy editorial, en titled "A Discreditable Record," the - Oregonian pays a well dcrerved tribute to the military; record of General Miles and sharply criticises the Secretary of War - for administering a shameful snub to that distinguished military officer on his retirement frcm the army. Tbi conspicuous mistreatment was em phasized by the unstinted praise which was bestowed on General Young when he retired a short time ago, a tribute which was withheld from General Mile on a similar occasion for the reason, a alleged, that established rules forbid reference to tho retiring ofli cer's military career. In reference to this treatment of General Miles the. Oregonian charac terizes it as "the -darkest spot on , the record of the Secretary of War," and this serves to recall the fact that the v Secretary of War on that occasion had prepared a letter which was highly laudatory ol General Miles, but the President would not permit it to.be issued. All this is set oulPin a special dispatch from Washington, printed in jlhe Oregonian of August 10, in which it -is said that "Secretary Root has always bad the greatest admiration, for General Miles 'as a soldier, and : had matters been left in Mr. Root's hands, the General would have retired with flying colors, instead of with an un precedented snub." ..-." The dispatch' continues as follows: , "Mr. Root wanted General Miles to have the honor of being the last Com manding General of the Army, as Con gress intended, and a week ago issued an order which clearly indicated that the command was to be discontinued. At the same time he prepared a fare . well letter to General Miles which was of the most laudatory type. "Mr. Foot took the matter to Oyster ,1'ay and submitted it to the President. Roosevelt tore up the letter and order ed that a retirement letter of the cold est and most formal style, bo issued, and that General Young, be appointed to the command of fhe Army for six , days, so that General Miles .would be deprived of the honor which Congress intended him to nave. . I In the years to come, when the his tory of theeountry shall have been fairly written, Secretary Root will air ' I have Dted AVer's HatrVlee for thirty rears, ft it elegant for a hair dressing and for keeping tbe hair from splitting at the ends." uruencnieiaer, uractrorx, III. i Hair-splitting splits friendships. If the hair splitting is done on your own head, i tyloses friends for you, for every hair of your head is a friend. . Ayer's Hair Vigor in advance will prevent the splitting? If the splitting has begun, it will stop it. a kettle, Alt ararrlsta. If yoor drncirtot cannot snpprr you, send ua one doilar and we will express you a bottle, lie aare and Five the nam of tout nearest er- office, Adlrm, Splits Jl1 stand as LTV anions the many distin guished Secretaries of Wlar as any" of his predecessors, nnl ess Edwin 2JL Stan ton be excepted, and . this "darkest spot " on his record, l should not be placed to bis credit. If he had not been, overruled by his superior officer that spot would never hare been made. At the time it occurred the Oregonian sharply criticised President Roosevelt, by saying that "the display of person al feeling at such a .time may weU : be regretted as unworthy a broad minded man who is the constitutional Com-mander-in-ehief of the United States Army1! adding that, in view of Mfles splendid record, "even a President of the United 8tates mights .doff his hat without.' offending his dignity." - In Justice to tbe retiring Secretary of War' these facts should not be for gotten ! when summing op his record, and he should be given whatever ' of credit belongs to bis undoubted desire to do. justice to General Miles. -". v When asked for his opinion as to who is the ablest member of his cabi net recently, President Roosevelt is said to: have "replied .that Mr. Root stands! at I be head of tbe list, saying, in substance, that 'While each officer was an excellent man for his particular post, yet neither of them would be suitable for any other with the excep tion of Mr. Root, who could fill any position in the cabinet with the same abilityj that has characterized bis ad ministration of the War Department. This is, indeed, a high tribute from one who knows, but the inference should not be drawn that any member of Roosevelt's cabinet takes an import ant official step without being under the instructions of his chief. A NEEDED BEFORM. The i Statesman heartily agrees with an exchange that the custom, or rather, law, which permits the issuance of in vitations to various persons named to witness"' the execution . of convicted criminals is unnecessary and is tinged with a vein of barbarism. It only serves the purpose of contributing to the morbid side of humanity and is wholly without any good purpose. It is well for certain officers whose official duties may place them where special knowledge of the details in such mat ters is es-ential, but beyond , that .the law governing executions, should not It is to yie credit of progressive hu manity that a reform in this matter has been assorting itself within the past few decades. The writer of this paragraph was a -witness to the execu tion of Beale and Baker in this city in April,: 1865, on the gravelly banks of South Mill Creek, a few rods above where the bridge crosses that stream leading to the Win I Scno. The scaffold was erected on the epmmon with no enclosure of, any kind, and the crowd which pressed around to witness the execution certainly , num bered, not less than five hundred people, men, women and children. Of course, if such a thing were per missable at thu time, it is possible that as large a crowd of people would assemble to witness a similar affair, but it is lot believed that the best class of people would flock from all parts of the country, as they did then, to bo present "at such a shocking spec tacle. The fruits of education along tho right line are noticeable in every direction, and while executions are no longer permitted to be viewed by the public, a still further reform is needed in the diminution of the number ad mitted as spectators at .hese necessary but shocking vindications of the law's majesty. i " MB.' WATTERSON'S HOROSCOPE. Evidently Br 'er Watterson is not par ticularly charmed with the unusual activity of Mr. William Jennings Bry an, of Lincoln, Nebraska, who will be remembered as .an erstwhile candidate for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket, to wit, in , 1896 and again in 1900. The caustic Kentucky editor and noted Democratic critic intimates that Mr. Bryan's recent visit was the result of a coalition between the foreign em bassies, all Republicans, and the Re publican leaders at home, to give Mr. Bryan as much prominence as possible while abroad that his new" notoriety might the more nearly make his renom lost ion certain at the coming national convention. ' T To an ' outsider the situation is, in deed, ludicrous. : Why Mr. Bryan has not subsided snd attended to his news paper duties,- aa any ether man under the sun ' would . have done, . is , past a ready solution save by the one conclu sion that he intends to be the - next Democratic candidate i or President or to : dictate his selection. Uis never ceasing activity and persistent personal display before the public cannot be ac counted for fey any other disposition of the phenomena." ? Having been inglor ionsly defeated twice, why doesn't the man subside for a day or two, at least, as every other prominent man of what ever party, does occasionally AV'by should he be burdened with the assump tion that the . guidance of the Demo cratic party and the "selection of its can didates and current principles rest ex clusively-with him 'Why should not Mr.1 Cleveland have the same right Ho sssume that the platform and the can didate, mast conform to j his personal decree f 4- Cleveland , , has been-; twice electel President as a .Democrat, while Bryan has been defeated twice, and yet the defeat carry "the Ark e the Covenant,' as against the only man the Democrats have elected President during the last fifty years! ,- - I . ' Verily, the persistent party effontery of the man is the wonder of the age. It is no surprise that Mr. Watterson is amazed beyond even ais usual power of expression. Bat it suits the Republi cans. v The reassertion of the - Kansas City platform, "in ts entirety" wiU be worth an even one hundred thousand Democratic votes for Roosevelt. ' And Mr. Watterson is j not the only man whose vision embraces, that fact. A PERNICIOUS CUSTOM. "If Armstrong was half as crazy aa the wandering i veilings contained in his letter left for publication, ana his remarks on tbe scaffold, would indicate, he was almost - proper candidate f or the syum instead of the process oa capital punishment. Having undergone the experience of professed "repent ance," he could stand in me presence of an assemblage of our best eiti-ens and lecture them as to their unties per taining to good citizenship 1 He had been the timely, and, therefore, it would be presumed, the providential means of sending Minnie Knsminger to heaven, where he chastened through '"repent ance would soon meet her, asd live with her in happiness through all etern ity! , As presented by him to the young men of the eountry he was a specially favored individual, made so, through the medium of his awful crime. , He had simply hurried along a condition which was commendable irym every point of view and was glad that, through his crime, his murdered sweet heart who refused him here would wel come his delayed coming. What a won der it is, now' that we look back, that such a : prolonged effort was made by bis attorneys to delay the realization of such a state oV incomparable ecstasy as thisl I . . '- j No executed criminal should be per mitted to give out suen- drivelling idiocy. It is a perversion of common sense, it a travesty on the better view of religion, is harmful, so far as it may: have any eucet at all, on young people, and others, and should be buried with its author. There is ueeiue.iy too much, publicity g-'vien to these unpleas ant processes which vindicate the force of the law by means of capital punish ment and the morbid desire to read of them should be curtai.eu by a suppres sion of the details connected with their execution. That the law has been en forced . and the culprit hanged is all the public should be interested in. The tendency.;, no dou .t, in. the right ui rection. ' .v?or OVERDO IN O A GOOD THINO. The Statesman is in receipt of the Taeoma DSifKpws o. January 18th, containing Something like one hundred pages of descriptive and illustrateu reading matter pertaining to the prog ress and prospects or tae wty of Des tiny. It is a magnificent 'issue, both in extent and quality and reflectsgreat creilit on the management of that bustl ing daily, but the immensity of it sug gests the doubt of the' real value of such overgrown special issues. No business man anywhere,' not even in Taeoma, and especially, in Taeoma, can afford to squander, the' time neecs sary to read even a small part of this great paper. , Idle people wu not read it and busy people cannot. .Life is too short to waste any considerable part of a day in undertaking to -read such a paper. Looking at. this question trom the standpoint ot a reader the States man wishes to repeat a former observa tron that if the publishers of these im mense issues desire first of all that they be read, they should print them in magazine form where the reading of one section wi not surely result n scatter ing the remaining sections about the room; from which -i condition they will never be rescued. In nine hhmes ; out of ten these large issues of; our leading papers " ia disconnected sections are used more for waste paper than for any other purpose. By the .time one glances at some of the more attractive pictures the leisure hour has expired and then tH next issue is here, wuu the evening paper in tervening, if you taae an evening paper. , On the other hand, if these really val uable exhibitions of enterprise which so often contain matter of great value were issued with their sections .n bound form, they could be picked up at odd moments and really enjoyed. The time is coming when this will be done, in the interest of the publishers as weU as of the overwhelmed reader who, as a role, finds' himself a helpless victim before such aa endless mass of the uncollect able'and ungovernable product of the printing press and the japer mill! That supposed , ibvineible power, in politics. called Capital, is now reported as "losing faith in the Democrats. ' Hostility to Roosevelt in '; the same quarter has already been declared, aad just where Capitol " will finally anchor in its Presidential support is becoming oae of the interesting 'qnestions of the times. And yet, perhaps notxxly -wants a President who is actually hostile to capital, as sack A country - full of workingmen .and no capitalists would not be the most desirable place ' in which to live Roosevelt is aot opposed to the legitimate uses of capital, and is, therefore, a 'safe man for U classes tO Support "Mil.".-. ' ,.: BYTHEPAPJ.IERS nrxE'sESTrjro crroimATion' ob TAINHD IXOM PROSPEROUS i SUSAIi RESIDENTS. r Brooks rarmirig Comimmlty Is Becom ing Mofs Thickly Settled By Indns - trions - Immigrants Crop of 1 Oats Idtst Season was large ana axost Granaries Are Still Fined. (From Sanday's Daily.) ' It is only necessary to converse with a few of the numerous farmers which daily visit the ' Capital City, to find that the eountry was never in so pros perous condition as at present.. The in-r dieations for T next year's crop axe splendid, and the comfortable bank ac counts will be further ; increased, 1 , as such a thing as a mortgage on tbe farm is now a thing of the past. A Statesman reporter yesterday conversed with j a few of his farmer friends, and their in teresting talks are given herewith for the benefit of the Statesman readers. , ' Property Around Brooks. 4 f .. Matty It.' Jones, tbe prosperons far mer from near Brooks, was in the city during the past week and had a great deal to Say regarding the condition of the farming community in which he re sides. Mr. Jones knows what it is to be prosperous, as he has only recently moved into one of the finest eountry mansions ia the great agricultural state of Oregon. He has named his ranch the 'Labish Meadows, and is living in all the luxuries of eountry life under the most -auspicious f condi tion. Mr. Jones said that never be fore in the history of the country ha the Brooks farming community been! in such a prosperous condition. He thinks the recent' heavy immigration intp the eountry . has bad a great deal to do with this satisfactory condition. ; ' 4 .Some energetie young men from Min nesota bought a piece of timbered land in that neighborhood about a year ago, and have Since been devoting their en ergies to clearing the land and selling the wood which they have marketed in Brooks, and shipped to Oregon City and Portland, thereby yielding a hand some profit besides preparing the land for cultivation. The boys, are now offering the' land for sale in small tracts for f40 per acre and have good prospects of selling. Many of the farms in that neighborhood are being sold to immigrants who recognize the . value-of the land for farming, and these people, by practicing diversified farming, ; are making the farms pay" better than for merly and thereby making the conir mnnity more; prosperofin. A jroodly num ber of "thte soil tillers"' grow hops, and of course these Vise individuals are getting rich. Mr. Jones reported that winter grain was ' in first class condition, - giving promise of gool crops, for the acreage, although -not, so much of the land was devoted to raising grain as formerly. On account of the mild . winter, the pasturage is' excellent, and the farmers around Brooks are interested quite ex tensively in sheep and cattle. f - " j an i i Few Facts About Stock. ' ' , L. B. Geer, ex-State Land Agent, was in the city ' yesterday from BTs "ranch" in the Waldo Hills. "By,' as he is more commonly called, is Very much pleased with the condition of winter grain in general, which is, . he says, as good or better than It has been for years. The recent blustery weather did not affect the grain in the least, which is coming on nicely and promises a bountirul crop. ; Although Mr. Geer is quite an ex tensive farmer, ' upon a diversified scale, he is more interested in stock than anything else. He says the live stock market is not so gooI now as it was in other years at this season, and he .accounts for it by the approaching Presidential- ' -campaign, which never fails to .produce stagnation in the mar kets of all products. Another bit 'of information which he imparted and is not generally known, is that the livestock raisers are not feeding their stock for market now, but are breeding over until next year. when' the market will revive and mucw better profits, will be realized, j t While the latest quotations of $45 to $t.50 per hundred for best steers, are consid ered fairly gool prices for stock os foot, there is very little of this quality of beef cattle to be procured for the reason, as he stated, that breeders are not now'feedmg for the market. 'Mr. Geer breeds nothing but the best, his favorite breed being the Shorthorns, and. he now has seventy eight head on his hands, more than die wants for this year, but he can not dis pose of them on the market now as they are not in marketable condition. 1 On account of having so much stock on hand he was obliged to build over .3,000 feet of shed and he did not like that very much, but it was necessary! for tne proper care or bis stock. Under the present - condition of af fairs, Mr. Geer' says that the, packers control the steck market on account of the cold storage system. They buy up all of the available , stock when - tbe prices are low and put it ia cold sf or age. -5 Then when, the market booms as a result of the' apparent: shortage in the visible supply they unload and get the benefit of it before the grower Is ready wilk more cattle for the market. He thinks that the action of the Na tional Livestock Association, in Port land recently, in electing to establish packing plants of their own throughout the eountry, will have a tendency to relieve this cendition very-j. materially. From Across the "Creek. 'h iO. E. Price, the wood dealer, remark ed to' a Statesman rnnrti vmwI that he had just made another sale of gmq oaa wood for f..50 per cord, and Was havlne no diffirnltv in u-llinn oil of his wood at: the same price, as fart as ne couki nam t to town, and this is pretty lively, as so 'much work, has done on the roads in Polk county that tney are almost as goof for hauling as in summer. With a five-horn um trail wagon he daily draws to market mree ana a nair cords o woIJ, T. Mr. Price keeps so many horses that he-is interested ' in the feed market, and was making inqniries yesterday as to the nriee on ihcu pnfninmilii.. does n6t look1 for hich TirieM nn this season,' as there' are so man v En the country. He runs a thresting 'ma- ; A Few Words About "CoL Jeff. 'The wide swath CoL Jeff Meyers is cutting in Washington Cty this win ter, hobnobbing with United States Senators stnd members' of tbs "Lower House, persuading them that the " Ore gon Country " is wel worthy an ap propriation of -$2,125,000 to assist in properly eeiebrating the Lewis and Clark fair, calla to mind the fact that that valiant military hero of the Forks of the Santiam was once younger than he is now and certainly gave no indica tion of that prominence whieh his gooa nature, good sense, not to say good looks, have! since brought him. Just where Cot. Jeff originally came from is notk nown to this writer. 'Per baps inquiry would develop the fact that he was born in or near 8eio, that historic capital of "The Forks," made famous in the early times by the trite sayings and homely virtues of Joab Powell. Certain it is, however, as to tbe Col., that his fame or name "had not gone 'beyond the boundaries ' of . his native precinct until he appeared at the State House on the first day of the Legislative session ot 1893. He came armed with regularly certified ' creden tials from ithe clerk of Linn eounty which entitled him to membership, in the lower house of ithe Legislature. ' And the CoL was one' of the most retired and meek members of that dis tinguished : body. It ' being before the days of his bloody military experience which earns to him when oovernor Ien noyer refused to allow the state's can bon to be used in celebrating the in auguration of President Cleveland, the martial eplrit which has characterized his bearing in latter years had not become notieable. But he was suddenly brought to the front in the Hoaseiby the appearance of a bill providing for the creatiotn of a nenf eounty out of the eastern part of 'Linn1, with Seio as the county seat. The ooject of the move ment was ; to cut off that Democratic stronghold! and : insure a Republican county out 01 Linn as it would be then constituted. It was generally conced ed to be a Republican measure and, as this writer recalls tne circumstance, was introduced by a committee in .the Senate, it. being impossible to induce any member of Linn county to father it. The prospect of a county seat with all its advantages had caused a sentir ment immediately around Scio to favor the project, but the Democrats of the eounty 'generally, were, of course, op posed to it for political reasons. Kai turally, being guided by that ambition which has since develope'd in the CoL, ant which he must have been, even then, nurturing, he could not afford to antagonize the Democracy o the en tire 'eonntv. and at -tbe same time de- sire to placate the political friends of his own precinct- It was a predicament whieh frequently environs politicians of of, even more extended experience, and Col.' Jeff was in hot water without any asbestos protection. , - The climax came when one day a del egation of prominent . Scio citizens, with a vision of local sheriffs and is court house, suddenly appeared on the scene to read the riot act to CoLyJeif, for dereliction of duty to, the interests of bis home people. In the middle of the forenoon, while enjoying that pleas ant sensation accompanying the swing ing movement peculiar to the ; House chairs, the dreaming ol. was simply paralyzed to behold in the lobby about a dozen ,wcll known townsmen whose visages betrayed the anger that lurked in their bosoms. They were after the CoL, a'nd he knew it Without making any inquiry." : -; 1 Immediately Ujion aajouvment at the noon hour the impatient delegation; sought an interview with thy recalci trant representative, but in the confus ion following adjournment the CoL' dis appeared! in the most miraculous man ner Diligent search was made and. anxious inquiries failed to ascertain his, whereabouts. A few moments later the writer of; this reminiscence encountered him on State street near the State House grounds, making rapid progress towards the Willamette .lloteL Upon being told that his numerous constitu ents who were paying him a visit were still in the House searching for him, he explained that be was aware of their presence ' and the object of their visit,' and in order to escape' the unpleasant interview which he anticipated he had had recourse to the stairs which de chine, and last year threshed almost as many oats as wneai, arxuic i;,uuu ousn els. and Shenard mnchine in thn aama neighborhood, threshed about 20,000 Dusneis s very lew oi inese oais nave been marketed, says ' Mr. Price,: .and Verv farmer haa ki Ionia MlmA tn overflowing with oats.. They are all l- l -i : : . t. . i . ..as , umuiug wiiu (uo vxpecuuoa ui. aeutng in the spring for 40 cents per bysheL River Channel Changing. ' F. (3. MeLench. a rtroanernna firmn from Sorinir Vallev. whn this city? near the Fair Grounds, haS sold a large quantity of balm , wood, to the Snanldincr Titrtri n a ' Hnmnanv I rt Newberg, the wood to be used ia the ympvfw ffluu at cn-egon v ity, -ana recent Iv the comnanv aent K ifMnui Tni gene to haul awav a cmantitv. ! TKb steamer j went up into the slongh sev- eni roues io get io t convenient " spot for loadioflT the WomL Thil Vtrinrm thj steamer jo within a. short distance of Mr. MeLeneh's house, andite is jubi lant oyef the achievement. This is the first time a-steamer "ever -anvimiaA this body of water since the channel of ne river cnangea many jrears ago, the channel now beinir several nile in fh east. It has long been pointed out that the fivef was changing back to tbe old channel and Mr. McLench hopes some time t9 ?see, steamers running psst his house every day. Such is the qaeer and frequent action of rivers. - j - j Wonderful Nerve. ' Is displaved bv man -w m mnrnt .nliir. fair fjains of ajvlilonfal Pni. w- Bruises, ; Burns, Braids, Sore feet er aa-eleV J:a W m. . a . u jouis. xyit tnere's no need tor it. Bneklen's Arnica. Salve will kill the pais and care the trouble tt'm the best Salve nn Hli tnr t;i. r t Tyrfrrrjt druggist, Salem, Ore i " - - - k FEIOM TEIE ; OFFICE WINDOW 6 ' ! . aaaaaaaaaaaa a Editorial Sad o 1 i f! H t s and Various People and Thlnffs, Picked Up and Scribbled Down at Odd Moments. scend " from an adjoining committee room into the lower corridor' and had thus left his pursuers in tbe lurch. And the smile which lit up the beam ing countenance of the CoL (to be) was lovely to behold. '. The project to make a new county of a part of Linn unally died n-borin' and everything went Pleasantly after ward, but the genius shown by the youthful Jeff in outwitting his pursu ers at the very moment of expected victory, was but an early symptom of thst strategy which soon afterward brought him military, fame and has since msrked his steadily growing prominence among the men in the com munities where he has lived. -: '0 . O. . ,":VT. The Albany 1 Democrat says "two Salem osteopaths claim to have treated sir hundred cases in six dsys a land office business." It certainly wm, if tbey did it. It was a land office busi ness, perhaps, because the' , distressed victims of disease went to them in lieu of the other physicians,, although it is a base thingj to insinuate that Salem had six hnndred sick people in six days. But the Democrat never . reserves its opinionl ' . -..' ., Gen. J. Warren' teener, who was a member of congress twenty years ago and was speaker of the: House of Rep resentatives, announces that he will be a candidate for congress from the Springfield district text falL Most people thought Keifer was dead. He was when he leit congress two decades agO-. .-'':. .'-V - '-' ' I ' The Cincianati Commercial Tribune suggests that i "if they" really want to start a revolutionj let Congressmen be gin to print their pictures, with each speech, in ; the Congressional Record. There are some things a free people will not sland." No doubt if this scheme, had been in vogue when Eddy, of Minnesota, was a raemuer of the House, the printing of his picture in tbe Record would have start ed a riot in fifteen minutes.' When he was a can didate for re-election once upon a time he was publicly accused of having ad vocated one thing and of "actually do ing anothef, j and it was; heralded all over his district, that he was " double faced," but he confounded his enemies along this line by declaring before an immenseaudience that it was not true, that he was not two fared, anri won the favor of the multitude by asking if thre was one in that vast audience who for one moment believed that if he had two faces he would be wearing that one! And he was re-elected. . :.:: . (. o o i It is' given out that among the 32,000,000 men jn, the 4 Suited States there are j but 5w,OuO .wbo ; are really handsome. Just what proportion of them lives i Salemsnl what" their names are has, not yet been derided. Perhaps the special privileges of leap year will soon Wgin to .-sclose their identity of those, at least, who are not already married.. ' . . J O ... ' , ' In a very interesting write up of the First Presbyterian church, of Portland, the Oregonian Says front r start; to finish there have been four regular pastors." It is to be regretted that the account d.id not proceed to give the time made on the . first - and second quarters and jnst how the contest ap peared as the home stretch was reached. We'll wager that : the . writer didn't know, probably being a tenderfoot, t ' . - O . . . -O-. V The New York Press remarks that -'it's very foolish for a woman to lace so tight that when she gets hugged it doesn't seem any different,' Now, no woman on earth-ever laced so tightly as that. Siime things are impossible, and this being one of them, our. New York contemporary, especially in view of the name it bears, should know it. The Pendleton Tribune says "it's a long jump from a rabbit cannery to a beet sugar factory, but Echo is about to accomplisli that feat." . Well, if Echo uses rabbit feet to make the jump with, it will; not 1m such a wonderful thing-after all not to those who are familiar with me powers of that bene ficiary of the late lamented bounty law, ! . O ;-. O Since the announcement is made that 4Ww"aa"a,njn,k BITS FOR BREAKFAST. V - s s ; v w : t 'I'.. '!': I .""! :, : Salem people are not superstitious, but tbey- will: see Ghosts" at the Grand 'Opera House tonight. ! .: ';: ' :' : ;--"-' Rumors of war make stocks weak in Wall Street. But the actual thing, if it comes, will make a better demand for American mules and other commodities and stocks will be stronger for it. '- "Tictures will be introduced -at Sa lem public schools.. They will hot lw cut from the colored supplements." Portland Telegram (No, indeed. Each one will be from a master band, aad a study worthy of the place it occupies, to inspire the fancy and the genius of theyoutbfuL) ' ". " ! i v; - V, ' I Now tbe Sound papers begin to tell about the .expectel rush to the Far i rsortb, and to. report wonderful finds of gold in the frozen region." It is the best harvest for the Sound cities. ' - :'.--.":. . a---:: The geese arc flying north, and the old timers say spring is at hand. Tbe rythmical henk of tbe wild geese was heard over Salem last night. - . a-Vi-vkK i - The coldest weather in thirty years in Wisconsin yesterday. - And it has been a good deal too. cold for' an Ore gonian every winter of the thirty. A-'- . ;;!'. V-H - "The rural telephone' system is still growing on i the west side. 'Another line is to . lead out , of Monmouth, through a well settled farming district.-'. M r-i '""I :- :;M.-."' Vi ; Attend the Push Club meetiuz this evening, if yon are a member. . Attvud ObscrvatioYis on 'Armstrong was hung without a hitch," the wonder arises how the rope was fastened, anyway. . . :!'--- O O ' , The Prineviile Review Accuses the alitor of the Crook County Journal of being a " succedaneous editor, smarting under the pulchrious paucity of cam paign materiaL" That baci'lla of this character should attack a man living in the balmy atmosphere of Eastern Oregon with its mountain water is cause for genuine surprise and is. in fact, a matter requiring the attention of the State Boara of Health. A Ij. patch from Omaha: announces tlist a man, named Henry oster "recently es caped' the gallows there through the agency of a diminutive bacillus, terh nically called the "biplo-hacillieapMl.--' tus-aerogenes." J'This undoubtedly longs , to the : prthenailc-majacop--terygious variety," i.d ill prl able efficacy ! is commendcl to oor belligerent U brethren of 'r.k county. Under. the evident strained relations existing there "airy-' thing that promises immediate relief is worth trying. ! ' - . o o '.;-.'' ( : Hats in Church. The ladies of ; Salem have shown so much appreciation of the suggestion in these columns a few weeks ago protest ing against the i thoughtless custom of interfering with the concluding portion of a theatrical production by oeginniny to put: their hats on their heads before the villain has fairlyfinished his work that encouragement is - furnished t venture another hint along the same . line. -This is the observance of the growing suctomi of removing hats in church. Can any latiy give a good rear son for removing her hat in the theater, which she always 4loes,and not doing so in church Why this special exhibi tion of thoughtfulness for the comfort of others in a theater nhd the. lack of it in church f Of 'course, there is no ex cuse for it at all, and none will b" offered. - f ' Who wonld, undertake to give an estt- i mate of the number-of-men in Salem who deliberately; stay away from church' ; for the reason that they know before -i going that a glimpse of tnc,'minlster 'who j may officiate will only be had through ; the mere chance of securing a Seat where no lvel. hat on n more lovely " lady-is located immediately in front of ! him? ' : . " . - . ' '. This is no joking matter. The new found danger of being unable- to escape from an ordinary rliurch in ease if firo no doubt frightfns many men from go ing who would otherwise' i.e-glad to at- tend and the list of stay -aways is largely swelled! oy the array of hiits each Sunday which obseures (he. vision of the average man who finds himself : helplessly 'surrosnded by the- limitlesH display of ornithological relies 7il matchless flowers that bloom in tho spring. r' , -j ' . ' . 'j t'erta'nlv heaverage woman wlu ! realizes that the i man wh. stays away from church may for that reason )e j punished in the future for it will re- j: fnse to be a contributing factor. to that i end by continuing a- needless, custom j "which drives the religiously i n i ! ' man to absent himself from church and f thus 1 erome prey to the maivy evil influences which may at any time claim him as a victim. Every church in Salem has a minister whoso sermons ; each Sunday are .well... worth the time! of any man to go and hear, but it is no pleasure in list en to. a man If you nnot see him that m, some men. If your eyes are resting ex clusively on the teajitifnl ladies, and their gorgeously decorated bats your mind is sure to be there also, and tl t words of the eloquent preacher are like ly to fall .'on 'deaf ears and an iina.tten tive mind. For all practical purpose a visit . to aj milinery establishment, would be just as profitable provided J. did not result in a purchase ' ' Not long since complaint was maiPn in the Statesman-, by an aiti,sed hiatT: who bad been to a gathering where liw was seated behind a. wall of ladies' hats and was 'nnarde to see even J)oj, Epley, who was one of the principal figures . on the platform. More -'than this neel not bo eaid. Certainly I h ladies will adopt this new and prefisijig reform without 1 any special or pf"; longed ; persuasion by . their ill-lreaAe but patient brothers, husbands ijnd f at hers. - , i any way,. if you believe in Salem, In fact, if you are not a lnembcr you should be. . - - ! t ' ' : ( - i' The latest news from the war in the Orient is that there is no war, but there is going to be. This has, in fact, been the latest news 'for ."so long that it is not news at all, but ancient his tory.' ;- ! ! ' .- ' .- . '.' - ' ' ' - -. Tho intense cold weather has causal so much pneumonia and kindred ail' ments that there is not enough room in the hospitals of-New York for tim sick, and they: are stacked rund n tbe floors. Again, Jet it be said that Oregon is the best country in Hi" world. . The extremes of climate hetol do not make life unbearable. - 4 - ' How's This! - ' : :' We offer One Hundred Dollirs Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. y. J. Cheney it Co., Props, Toledo, O. We. the nndersicrned. have known F. J. Cheney forf tbe last 15 yearsf snl believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. I j i WEST k, TKAUX, ' 1 1 Wholesale I)rngnsts, Toledo, O. WALDINOv KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. , Hall's Catarrh Cure is'" taken infer nally, acting directly upon the blood: and mucous-snrfaces of the syBteni.; Price, 75c bottle, Kdd by all druggists. Testimonials free. , Hall's Family Pills are the best. ' . -- 1 . ; The maximum temperature for the 24 hours preceding " o'clock p. m. yes terday was 44 degrees Fahrenheit,-and the minimum for tbe. sarao 'period .11 degrees. The stage of tbe river was 9 feet above low water mark.