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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