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j .. ...... . - ...... r .. : , ...' - .. - ' ' ... . ... ... t . :" .....' . ..,. . ,. ,. . . ., " V - 1 ' - c t - ... , ' . - ' . -- J OIlZGOir STATZTTLiAlT TUESDAY. MAECIl" 1, 1604. " " '' - : : " - -' - " ' ' ' " - r . . i . -- i ' , " i " : : . - . ' 1 1 1 1 , i i Published every Taeeday and Friday by tbe STATESMAN PCBLXSHISa COKPAKT K. J. HKX0RICK8. Hanarer. ' T. T. GEJtR, Editor. BTTB3CRIPnoit KATES. One year B eJTanee... ...... fljOB Wx uotttu. in advance...... .60 Three months, in advance. ...... .......... ' .25 tijeyear, on Um iS Tbe Etateanaa baa been established tit nearly fifty-two years, and it baa soma subacrf bere who mm receiTca it nearly tnat loo?, and many who have read It for a generation. Some ot these object to baring the paper discontinued at the time of expiration of their aabaerlptlona. For the uuuefit of theae. and for other reasons ee havenoncladed toiaconUnoe aabtcripUosa nry wben noUOed to do ao. A", peraona payina when auuecaitmc, or paring Is ad ranee, will bare thm benefit of the dollar rale. Bat if they do not pay f r ai month, tbe rate will be $Ua a year, tiereaiier we wui aena toe paper vo au responsible peraona who ordf It, though they may not send the money, with the anderstand- In thatthey are to pay Sl a year, In ea they let the abeer!pUon aoooant ran over dz an oath. In order that there may be no mivaa dertndlnir. we will keep thia notice atacdis at thia place In tbe paper. CIRCULATION (8WORN) OVER 4000 8BBm S4E3 e a LOVE. The following poem was printed in the Statesman of May 9, 1851, ami wan credited to Theodosia J. Ellerson, signed and dated Astoria, April 22, 1 831.) There is a bliss that never fades, .'-' But shines j undimmed through every tcene; Its gentle varying lights - and shades, Still leave the youthful soul se- ' rene. ' .'.' No earthly aid it deigns to borrow, To keep alive its cheerful flame; In sickness and in every sorrow, Its attributes an- -till the same. This bliss is love, pure, holy love, Enshrined in every virtuous '.';.' heart; Its essence eometb from alove, . Nor scorns tbe aid of Cupid's dart. Jfay this true love unfading shine, Sweet Frediraka, in thy breast; And may its soothing ray olivine, Make thee forever truly blest. land, and is a marshy flat, similar in many ways to tbe Potom'ae flats wher! our own national capital is situated, and when sel cte- by Peter for & na tional i capital, wss a barren, uninhab ited waste, as was the site of oar cap ital when selected for the same.pnrpos by Washington nearly one hundred years biter. ' ' - - . ' r'.l'.-.'r 'The' indomitable, iron-clad " will oi Peter I tbe Great was shown when, de ciding to buim the Capital of all the Bussia's at tbe barren point selected, almost within the Aretie Circle, he ar bitrarily transported tens of thousands of laborers, who, many without tools, were compelled to dig with their bands and carry the mud , and dirt away in their eaps. There being no stone there, all vessels were required to come laden with unhewn stones, laborers were brought from all parts of the Empire and in one year it is said thwty thou sand dwelling houses were built. "Weal- ' J thy families ' were compelled to move to 8t1 Petersburg and reside there per manently, as a great capital could not he had without wealthy families as necessary features. ' Two thousand criminals destined for Siberia were ordered to St. Petersburg, where with their hands and sticks they l;g and carried dirt away in their hats aud aprons. - Tbe building of stone houses was forbidden in every part of the Empire until the Capital was put upon its feet, in order that nil persons might be brought to St. Petersburg. at least a respectable financial 'show ing, also, at the end of a life devoted to one of. tbe greatest of public duties and necessities. - As long as this pennrious system pursued sueh complaints as this from Tillamook county and they come from others will not only continue, but 'they will grow. And, especially, will we lose tbe better class of teachers, whose abil lties will command a : degree of com pensation in other callings which will yield at least a small profit each year Ignoring. the plain injustice In tne mat ter, a continuation of the present rate of wages is the most expensive pos sible sort' of supposed economy." . MAGNUTED DANGERS. There is great consolation in the re flection that after we get below the surface of many of the latter-day the ories concerning the proper rules to follow in order to have a sure guaran tee against lurking disease, we discover the Teally shaky foundation upon which most of them rest. If all kinds of food we eat and the water we drink and the articles we handle were as completely covered, filled and satu rated with bacilli, microbes and other death-dealing varmints as many, would have us believe, there -would be no use of turning in any direction for possible relief. And we : eat too fast, we bathe too And may the partner of thy heart To whom tby siriilt-s are freely given, Join in that love tii only chart That guides us safly home to heaven. " PETEB THE GREAT. When Peter the Great: built Russia's first navy he was so ignorant of the laws of nature that he refused to equip his vessels -with fresh 'water, snyin; that- it was an extravagant waste of spare to carry water iirsitle a vessel, wnue the vessel must. uoat in water, Hi sailors should) learn to drink salt water, and do away, wth, the foolish habit of carrying fresh wnter on to:ird Ilia experiment killed fMM) of the flow er of his kingdom within two years. Exchange. But, nevertheless, Peter w-is ore -f the greatest constructive statesmen Russia has ever had, and gave that country tbe first impetus it ever knew, and which started it on its carrer as an important nation. The Russian Empire was founded in of three one fiO I, A. I)., by Rurik, brothers who had been ruling jointly over territory mutually allotted to each. Upon the death of his brothers, lie. extended his authority over the, en tire territory, assumed the titlo of prince,- and gave the country the name of Russia, it is said, from the tribe to which he belonged. . t During the next S00 years :he royal line from Rurik was maintained at times and at times not, so frequent were the revolutions and violent the . means employed to gain -the ends of ambition, but' in 1613 the people se lected a new souvereign, Michael Rom anoff, a defendant of Rurik through the female line. .He reigned forty live years and was the grandfather of Peter the Great, who was born in 1672. and was the son of Alexis, son of Mich ael. The present Czar of BussU is a di rect defendant of Peter the Great, and, therefore, of Rurik, who died in A. D. 879. . St. Petersburg, the capital of Eus eia, was founded by Peter the Great in 1704, just two hundred years ago this Rummer. It is located at the junction of the Neva river with the Gulf of Fin Cold "I bad a terrible cold and .could hardly breathe. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and H gave me im mediate relief.' . V. C Lajrton, SideH, 111. How will your cough be tonight ? Worse, prob ably. For it Y first a cold, then a cough, then bron chitis or pneumonia, and at . last consumption. Coughs always tend downward. Stop this tendency by taking Ayers Cherry Pectoral. tEi3i Consult your doctor.' If he ears take it, then do aa be ears.. If hetellayoa not to take it, then, doo't take it. He knows. FEPTY-TWO YEARS AGO. often or not frequently enough, we do History avers that nearly one hundred not have ventilation enough or we are thousand laborers perished luring the J too much exposed, we should wear med- yearjin which these thirty thousand ieated flannels, or, perchance, it were houses were built in that low frozen j better to pay no attention to flannels. country. I We should beware of food that contains With all these cruelties and destrue-1 starch if we weigh a half-pound more tion of life, Peter avowed one ambition J than the prescribed "proportion" to . t iu mase ui couniry one or tne leau- uur ueigni. u ii j an men iurtner jin nations of Europe, and in this re-j from the point of the elbow to the -i t-, r idrimr t!i moana nmnturail I shonuler nlarlA than tho riiloa nf nhniiv. I, .. r. 1 -"J 7 1 - -. s - " h. it successful monarch, j logical proportions allow, it indicates a With I hi- rf s.lve firmly fixed, he pre-j weak stomach that should be properly pared hirii- If for it by committing the! looked after with certain ingredients in government to other hands for a sea- our daily food that may tend to offset son, and going to foreign countries for the discrepancy. the purpose of studying their methods. And now it has been discovered that He went to Holland, located at Saar-I paper money U usnallv inhabited bv ... . rf v lam, a shipbuilding center, nnd hire 1 J greedy bacilli only waiting for an oppor- out as a common laborer, his identity tunity to get in their deadly work, disguised, of course, and received his Microbes are in the air, on tbe earth, wages every Saturday night with the inhabit the water and are omnipresent, rest By this means he became a mas- pmniverous, omnifarious, omniparient I ter of the art of shipbuilding audit J as well as ominous. Instead of forming proven rt-ai iu to mm in arieriiDO naoit oi mewing tobacco we are ears. I told to eschew it. while msnv tobaeen Peter the Great was a tyrant of tbe j users live to be centenarians and many first order, ambitious to make a gre'at j others deny themselves that allged lux name for his country, as a formidable j nry only to be cut off in their youth. power, but with no care for his people, Concerning this last deadly opponent to save as they might be made a means humanjongevky, the Supreme Court of to this end. In the line of his bovern- Minnesota has recently decided that ing"; idea he succeededadmiribly and tobacco is a luxury. , earned his title. He built a magnifi- Of eourse this attitude of the Court cent system of permanent roads, esft a b"! will bring on an attack by the State lished manufactures and did many oth- Board of Health, if that tate has one. er things that placed Russia oa a civ- and the result will be looked for with ilized basis. In later years of his interest, for all students of physiologi reign the title of 'Emperor jf all the cal discoveries must know that if a five RoHsia's" was conferred up an him byl dollar billl is unsafe to handle on ac- the Russian senate or syno.L He died! count of the millions of bacilli that in 1725 and was succeeded by his wife, have pre-empted it, a plug of tobacco should necessarily produce instant 1 aeain. In the meantime ,the average unfor-l tunate citizen who, without, any re-j sponsibility in the matter, finds himself thrust into this bacilli-ridden, world will continue to make the best of the j situation, eat such breakfast foods as seem best suited to bis particular ease and the most unpalatable to his undis cernable but indefatigable pursuers and accept all the paper bills that come his way without too much microscopic inspection "before taking." (From the Statesman of May 18, . 1852. Oregon City.). THE OREGON STATESMAN. Published Every Tuesday Morning i ::-r-. .J. . by ry- Asahel Bush. .: . Office in Frier's Building (second story) first north of the M. E. church. Main street. Entrance in the rear from the north aide. ' i J..-- TERMS: :J , - (Invariably in Advance) : For one year when sent by mail, or taken at . the postoffiee," $7.00; for six months, $4.00; single cop ies,. 25 cents. :- j..,, ; , No paper will be discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lisher, , until all arrearages are paid. . ; Advertising, one square (thir teen lines, or less,) three inser tions, '45.00; . for , every additional insertion, $1.00. ' Advertisements continued - until forbidden and eharged accordingly. WANTED! - ANY quantity of Wheat, Oats, Butter and Eggs, for which the highest 'market price will be paid in exchange for goods at the New ' Store of Ben j. Simpson at Parkers- ' ville, in Marion county. ' . . N. B. The goods are. going off ' by cart loads, bo. hurry along, or ' you may not get your share. 'A May, 4, 1852. ' ... INFORMATION WANTED. Of the whereabouts of George 1 Chappel, who left Oregon in the " fall of forty-nine. Any person who will give any information concern ing him to William Cole, of Polk 4 county, Oregon,- will confer a favor. - California papers please 1 copv. A'pril 13, 1852.' ' ' MARRIED.- In Marion county, on Thursday, 4 the 13th inst., by Rev. William Doberts, Mr. Samuel E. May, 'of. East. Greenwich, Rhode Island, and Miss Rebecca S Par rish, daughter of Rev: E. E. Parrisb, of Marion county, Oregon. Empress Catharine. PAY THEM BETTER WAGES. The letter from the county school sujerintendent of Tillamook county to the Editor of the Oregon Teaehers Monthly, making complaint that more teaehers are wante.l in that county, supports the position taken in these columns some days ago, that until bet ter wages are paid teachers a scarcity of applicants will be found in that line of useful empl lament Last fall the papers throughout the state were frequently voicing local complaints that districts here and there were without schools because no teachers could be had. tion was called to the NOTIOE TO GOLD DIGGERS. 1 For sale by Sims" & Humason, at the Hermitage, one mile above Champoeg, on the north side of the Willamette River, Fifty Horses, in good order, and on reasonable terms. Hermitage, April 5, 1852. NOTICE. TAKEN UP on Baker's prairie, a small blue roan dobv. about 10 or 12 years old, branded on the right hip with a cross and a letter "S under it. He has run here' about eir months. The owner is re- quested to prove property, pay charges and take him awaw LUCIUS A. SEELY. .,' e f a e From :M omce . rl Window Editorial Sidelights Observations on Various Peopls tt.nd Things; Picked Vp and Scribled Down at Odd Times. 1 "79 1 A TALK JUST AMONG OURSELVES The Statesman has been in Salem Public atten-j longer than any other business institu matter at the I tion that is now here. It has crown time and the caiw3 was pointed out. with Salem from the beginning and has wane the wages paid in many districts I contributed what it could at all times otxy not be properly called "starvation to its advancement and welfare. It is rates," the fact will be generally ad-j proud of Salem, owes all it is to it nutted, because undeniable, that not J and in the future a in the past, will one teacher in a hundred can any more l devote all its energies to its growth and than barely live on the prevailing av- j development. erage wages, a ne exception, u mere in this spirit, it has a retard for be any, is where some teacher, may re- the good name of the Capital Citv ceive compensation above the ordinary. which has always been noted for its This is a matter of so much import-1 conservative methods, and which, in ance that it should not merely be given! turn, have frequently been the subject a passing thought and dismissed as ajof affected jest by other communities, situation that, while "there may. bel&ut our lack of a boom in the past something' in the complaint," Tetn" been associated with the lack of a 'teachers can be had," and that is I collapse also. Salem has never been a sifcient. But conditions are changing I tough town nor has it ever had that rep- ai i tea'rs ennnot be had in the fn-ntion. We have excellent schools and tare s in t1e past, unless they are I ehnrches and, for; onr population, many paia ior. iisere is no cause whatever! or tnem. Their influence through fifty i or. ineirmarcity save the fact that7ars of continuous work is seen and better compensation is allowed in al-felt. ; They, with other helpful aeen most any other calling. BriV ani I cies. have md flaim . - ry 7 v vuv. va. lav III UB I stone masons earn two or three times delightful home cities on the coast. as mneH rwr Hv n.-I 1 s ..i I v. . - Lv as many days in the year as the av- should be done at this time which b- erageteacher. Teachers in Salem jub- ing left undone, are not creditable to He schools, at the present wages paid, the eood name of the eiw - tn.h r'i.. ntirr',) II. i . - ... I & ie u i most economy rouow same complaint will as aptly lay tbeir calling for twenty years and at against i almost any other place in the the end of that time have nothing country, and in most of tW fived for that period "of life when f forcibly. ; But thia doe. o younger teachers , wUl repbaee them. I in snbmittinir nncomr.l.ininTi - With lives spent ia the service of the admitted non-enforcement of - the pro- public, in the most useful of aH em-1 visions in our city charter and the or- Acute colds often canss consti- pation, biju$ attacks, indigestion. Ayer's Pills will give prompt reLef. ' a Am co. iim.il uu. ployments, they are required . te sacri- dinances passed la pursuance of it. nee everyttung practically uncompen- , It is not with a captious spirit that sated, in order that the board of trus- the Statesman mentions this matter tees may make a good fiaancial show- Salem is a good town but it can' easilr 7 vi- s.v.vu,uU.& pusnmg ce made better and the best is none too public, bent on business at a break- good to have. Our City Marshal is a neck speed, should remember that these very efficient officer and has given gen- plodding and patient servants of their eral satisfactio. in th .irK-i v:. children should be permitted to make ' duties, yet, we have reached a condition wherche-has flatly refused to enforce eertafn 'clfy ordinances untesss the Citv Council shall in ' advance guarantee that he shall not be held liable for ar rests he may make that do not result in conviction upon trial, in case the de fendant should, seek damages. This the Councill has refuse to do, so the pub lie is notified that the laws willl not be enforced against lawbreakers. this condition should not continue for a day. The laws should be enforced by the officers who are elected by the people, or are appointed for that pur pose Surely no one will dissent from this simple demand, and with entire confidence" in the good intentionss of the' City Marshal, the public will uni versally believe that he should proceed to enforce every law to be found in the city statutes and every requirement of the city charter. If every officer in the state, from the highest to the low est, should make a similar announce ment, we would have a state of practi rai anarcny at once. All tue laws in Christendom do not begin to make government if left to a condition of non-enforcement: Without officers there can be no' government, and there is no difference bctwen the condition of a community whieh has no officers at all and another which has officers who refuse to enforce the law. .There, should be a general demand and there is for the enforcement of every city ordinance. If an ordinance is objectionable, repeal it, but enforce it until it is repealed, no matter what its nature may -be. If there were but one hundred national laws in ex istence and we permitted ten of them to go unenforced we would have gone one-tenth of the way toward actual an-, archy. None of us is an anarchist, but we are growing -in laxity in this direc tion which largely accounts for the increased number of our youthful re formatories, and demand for courts for youthful offenders There ia not annth er nation on' the earth which tolerates the amount of lawbreaking that we do, and. we will reap the results in the fu ture if a- halt is not called with a round It our City ijarshal, who is an excel lent citizen ami officer will proceed to enforce all the city laws, not neeessar uy in a vindictive manner, but judi ciously and earnestly, and eventually. "gidlj, jwdli'--es.ni the approval of every go7iViken;" Yor surely, no loyal eitizen of any eommnnity- will object to the enforcement of its biws. 'W, ".' Cheap Living. ; -:?-The question of how little It is possi ble for a human being to live upon will always be an interesting one and an in telligent discussion of it will usually command attention. As an experiment, merely to discover upon bow small an amount of nourishment the human sys tem can continue to exist, these trials of endurance are interesting to follow, especially, if yon follow as an observer, instead of a participant. There is , a great deal more satisfaction in seeing some enthusiastic , crank deny himself food and drink for a period of forty days, in the supposed interest of hy gienic experiment, than to deliberately devote yourself to the same unselfish serviee of dietetic science, with all the sacrifices it entails. The London correspondent of - the Los Angeles Times, in a recent is sue of that paper, devotes a eolnmn to a consideration of this 'interesting question, giving somewhat in detail the experience of ilerr Joseph Salomon- son, a German with an experimental turn of mind, who claims that with a proper attention to the rules of intelli gent dieting and a sufficient absten tion fromtall kinds of food and drink, the ordinary man can, without trouble, reach the reputed ageof Methuselah. Passing by the reflection that we now have more modern Methuselahs than is good for tbe satisfactory devel opment of the country, it is interesting to note that Mr. Salmonson believes in confining one's diet exclusively to the lireet products of the earth, and every" thing is to be eaten without cooking, the claim being made that "fire takes the living power out of food.' The doc trine is also stoutly asserted that, no liquids pf any kind should be taken in fo the system; other than is furnished by the natural juices of fruit. "Water is full of bacteria, there is none in the juices of fruits." But Mr. Herr S. probably does not live in a country where eoniin rue. a do congregate and multiply. He has prob ably never been confronted by the al-j ternative of choosijg between wormy fruit and river Water, although filtered But the enthusiastic German expert mentor is proving his faith by bis acts. Ho formerly lived at' the rate of $5000 per year while he now "liyes a health ier life on 2.0." As a contributing factor in his search for absolute health and a long life he not only confines his menu to the irect products of . the earth, but be aleeps on the earth. "The fact is," he says, "I go back to the earth fn every way I can. I sleep out on tbe earth and get its warmth, purity and magnetism. Yon can nev?r get man or woman, back into bed again af ter tbey have slept on the earth." While we are disused to accept the results of scientific investigation, or dinarily without too much incredulity, this last conclusion of Mr. Ilerr 8. is so far removed 'from the experience of about one hundred percent of mankind that the disposition to rebel against his entire philosophy is strong in its asser tive power. At this point, one is in clined to question the sanity, not only of the Herr himself, but of the Times correspondent ; who has discovered this unbalanced freak who is making quite a stir in London, although the world really has a large percent of people with a half-suppressed idea that . we have too many alleged comforts. There very prominent man in Oregon who declares his belief that the time is com ing when mankind will live happily on the nourishment afforded by the atmos phere alone, and he points to tbe mag nificent trees of the forest as evidences of what is possible for mankind in that direction and prophesies that the time is coming when men . and women will live on air alone. In the meantime, however, the belief is quite general that roast beef, saur kraut, eggs and salmon, cooked in the best manner, will continue to occupy a prominent place in our daily menu, and that a good bed will remain, as now, a. popular resort for those lucky sons and daughters of Adam who can afford that unrivalled luxury. V , : . U: O v.- O .: - Marlon Agricultural County's First Exhibit. ! Tn this office is a eopy of the States, man printed on Thursday, October J7, 1854, with the name of Joseph O. Wil son written on the margin... It was sent to him a a subscriber, and, evidently, ia after years, when a file of the States man was wanted, was collected along with such others as could be found through the country. Many of tbe copies on file in this office are so mark ed, with the names of old-time pioneers and subscribers, more of them having been returned by CoL J. W. Nesmitb than by any other patron. " In the copy referred to is an account of the first Agricultural Fair ever held in Marion county,) and probably .in the Oregon country. Tie Statesman de votes nearly two columns to its report of it and gives a full list of the exhib itors and the articles exhibited, but the amount paid in premiums, if anything, is withheld. Perhaps there were ' no premiums offered. The air was. held n Salem and it is said the "interest manifested and success obtained, gives earnest of the permanency and useful ness of the fair." The Statesman con fidently asserts that "in everything but, quantity (which was by no means small) we never witnessed a display of fruit that equalled that exhibited there. .nnu we ueneve no otner country can produce pears and apples to equal Ore gon." "We noticed two apples contributed by Mr. M. L. Savage, which weighed two pounds and one contributed by Mr, 1 1 L1 ... . . cn-y onannon wmcn weiguei one pound. One of Mr. Savage 's weighed, we believe, one pound and three ounces." - , ... we quote quite liberally from these pioneer proceedings because they illus trate what conditions were like here 4!. .'i uiiy years ago wane our lathers were just fairly getting possession of the country and beginning to discover its great advantages over the different states from which tbey , had come many of them making great sacrifices to get here. The address was made by ; Jacob Woodsides, a. farmer who lived about three miles directly east of Snlein, - nd was well known to all the early" set tlers. His address is described as le- mg "short, practical and sensible; and well received, as it ought' J to have been. " ' ; ' ' The list of exhibitors is intensely in teresting, having its pathetic side, how ever, showing, as it does, how the -pio neer fathers devoted their lives to the tievelopment of the country under some what diMbuIt circumstances, and pass ed on to tbeir reward, leaving a goodly inheritance to their successors.; There were only thirty-six exhibitors. all told, at the first Marion county fair, and of those progressive, farmers, Uncle John Minto is the sole survivor after a Ir.lf century. I N. English took the premium on a stallion, G. F. MeCorkl on a filly, John Downing on one mare, A. Stanton, one mule, Wm. Murphy j one) Stallion. K. Ijviil one lioru r.l f . .. 7 " " .... . .. v v , . . I IIVA appingfield two roan mares, John Mar tin, one gelding, R. C. Geerr one heifer, R. A. Gesner, best bull, Jos. Cox, one watermelon, J. Magone, wheat, Jams Rickey, squash, T. J. Eyre, beets, Wm. Syphert, corn, Wesley Shannon, !lest winter apples, and J. Woolsi.les third premium on summer apples. ! John Minto entered one pear which took the premium for size, "and Thos. Cross took first premium on the best swine, while W. Kenyon came out first best on "d'gtype." Mrs. L. N. English took tbe second and third premiums on bed quilts wliil, the first went to Mrs. W. Shannon. Mrs. R. C Geer was the prize winner on the best stocking yarn. Nicholas Shrntn won first premium on a " hrti.-tilt urnl hoe." : 1; . A reading of ''the account of this primitive effort of the Oregon pioneer to exhibit the resources of the new country, when compared with tbe mag nificent State Fair held in the s.imo vicinity fifty years later, statement in I'resident speech at Buffalo to the recalls that MeKihley 's effect that "Expositions are the time-keepers .f progress." Nothing could be truer, :m nothing will illustrate better the ad vancement in the development of th. county and stato during tbis time ht,n- a eomirison between that, first f.iir if it 'was" the first and that which we now have- annually.! What a flood of recollections tliij must, bring to the active mind of I'm-le John Minto, who" no doubt, easily re calls that very pear which nut-clriMse.t all of its kind, as well as the very tr. e upon which it grew! And be is the l;it of bis Competitors on that day, yet ac tive, on our streets every 'day,, living " not only in' the past but for the. future, a caller on j the Statesman editor onlv yesterday and whose i interesting t,.n has an" entertaining nnl inint rm-tivo communication in tbis inf)rninj:'s pajier. Long may he live to enrich the j.r nt day literatuie of Oregon with his 'fun of pioneer recollections. j In an editorial paragrnjh' "f that date, the Statesman said: "When in the orchard of R. C, beer, of i'ruit Farm, in the fall of 1S5I, Mr. (i. re marked that he .-would manufacture ri der in five years. We j were a little in credulous, but he redeemfd his prnrtiixe a year in advance. n the day of the ; fair he presented us with a bottle nf. the richest pear eidcrj we ever tatf.l. He manufactured cn a cinmiuon clieeie , press, thres quarts from ten j-.':ir. The ix-ars averaged 17 olunces.' We bi4 have t he firt lieve Mr. Geer resolve.; to cider mill in Oregon." J Another paragraph! rends, '..More Than Their .Shar iMie prop.-ri tnr of Fruit Farm, . and hi hi'h't ''.t.iin', twelve of the first jrinitiniH at the re cent Agricultural fair in thi cotintv." Hut there we're no eodiin m.itii or San Jose s. ale fn thoso days-tmr any spraying niachines. Nj.r p rt, no far as the files f th Statesman xhow, wer there any baeilla in the incut or any croWs in the Salin j water "n Board Of Hc:.lth to scare the wits out; of the people with their depressing).?1 analytu-al. bulletins.: rieets, those were In ifai-t. in manv ' halcvoii da vs. " Oregon i conic the s all righti- Simiiltaheou-dv i -i ' '- nnnouncemients that La Grande is going to niannfartnre break fast food ami Marsh field is arranging for a condense.) milk factory. 'With an abundance of breakfast food ;ml an ample quantity of J-ondensed .milk to go with it, we couid defy the world against a siege of iii.lefinite lengln. Until "rjuite' recently people lived nLig nificently without these)- two lnodtrn adjuncts of improved Jmet hods of living, but .the' discovery o the. nggrfessi vv forked feiil microbes has ma le iiecev sjiry the invention of some counteract- ing foods that will still enable is to No doubt microbes have al.wavs Wen in existence but they did no dam age until they were, discovered by some prowling scientist, ns'a jresult of which, breakfast fools are as inli.jcriHiil.le necessity if we would successfully ct.m bat the perils of living. J Such factories as we have mentioned will be. of great benefit to the localities! where situated and a help to the statel generally. Wc would welcome more of tbem. "There . i 'go.oTBind fOT tDe plaint f a well known Salem business man gainift'thV statement of a Por. Un4 paper 'that we ha ve in Oregon, on ,Bi average,-! ten rainy months each year. .The statement is decidedly mis-' leading. A mo fthHhat has just enoueb raw to insure the maturity of our great variety of crops is not, in the usually accepted meaning of the term, a rainy month. June is not a rainy month in Oregon, save as it does rain sufficiently usually, to drive away any danger of drouth. At any rate, our climate is so free from an, excess of rain, except in the winter when it makes little differ enee whether we have more or less. that it is a thoughtless thing to adver tise to tne world that we have ten rainy months in the year. Having the best climate in the United States for health and the certainty . of crops of all kinds, and inviting, as we are people from everywhere to come among us and stay, we should say that we have just a sufficient number of rain v months to make for' us an excellent country, at least, we never -have to pray for rain nor for it to stop. For many years there have been sen sitive and suspicious people who ac cused Portland with an intention of at tempting to secure the removal of the state capital, with its state institu tions, to that eity, but the spectacn ar'y; tegestered protest by the eitizens of Mt Tabor against the establish enent of a sanitarium in their midst, because a doen or two of AUska's insane are tp be kept there, will doubtless be the means of exploding the idea that Port- proposiuon to locate a few crazies from Alaska brings on an injunction suit, it would be difficult to properly label tbe legal proceedings that would be undertaken if some one should seri ously suggest that this entire asylum be taken to that peaceful village. The "Bits for Breakfast" man says that on account of the scarcity of teachers in Tillamook county,' the home of the nutritious dam, "there ought to be a hegira of school ma'ams from oth er counties to that country on the part of those of them who are lean and anx ious to add to their pulehritn ilinona it. tjractions." But there is not a. achool ma'am in the entire w i W I M UUV already pulchritudinous, and the auth or of the foregoing advice does not know of one to. whom he would make his suggestion personally. . Tbey have a cooking school at Larmstadt,, and not long since several of the pupils tested, by eating, one of their class dishes, from the effects of which several of tbem died. Served them right. Who! ever heard of a r.hir- sician who prescribed for himself? allow that Bennett will to take care of itself he would be less! likely to drift into the company of those, who are gleefully dangling! tbat crown of thorns above the brow of labor. Jeff Myers has no hankering for Con gressional honors. He j made the. rare in '06 and if he had j withdrawn v urged to do, the election would have easily have, gone to the Populist candi date, Vanderburg, and Tongue would probably never have gone to Congress. This wttuld have been an affliction to the state but would no doubt have pro longed Mr. Tongue's life by luany years. ,f - ; In a late number of tl rnmmnn CoL Bryan says "the paramount issue' at thia iim. 41,- 1 . I Taken all in all- considering their experience from first to last, fore and s ft, and up one side and down the oth er, it is quite probable that if the Chi nese had it to do over again tbey would resolutely refuse to invent gunpowder, notwithstanding their pressing neces sity for material in the proper celebra tion of their New Year. -- - A Portlanl visitor from Saturday re-, marked that he never saw such a large proportion of houses painted white as are to be seen inr Halem. Just as large a proportion of dur people? are white and tbey have a way of treating visit ors in the same way. j