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STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
S. J. HTXDRTfTKfl. Manager.
I T. T. GEK&, Editor. .
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The Statesman bu been established for nearly
1! fty-two yean, and It hu ion ubecribera who
bars received it nearly that long, and many
who bar read it for ft. generation. gome n
thete objtu to harms; tfie paper diacontinned
at I tie time of expiration of their snbseripttooa.
For the beneflt of these. a4 for other reasons
when mbecribnf , or pa ting in sdrance, will
have th benefit of the-collar rate. Bat If they
do not pay for six months, the rate will he $1.25
a year. Hereafter we will aead the paper to all
responsible persona who orde It, though- they
may not eend the money, with the nnaentand
in g thatthey ace to pay $L25 a year, in cat they
let the sabscrfptlon account ran or.er six
months. In order that there may be no miiran.
der tan ding, we will keep thia notice standing
at thia place ia the paper.
CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000
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NATIONAL AID TO OEEGON JRBI-CATION.
It is given out at Washington that
Chief . Newell of the reclamation ser
vice, has promised to see that sufficient
money shall be taken from the reclama
tion fond to construct a dam across
the outlet of Wallowa Lake to make of
it an immense storage reservoir for
irrigation purposes. This is to be
contingent upon the settlers of that
section agreeing to bear their propor
f tion of the eost of the enterprise. What
their share of the expense will be, ot
how that division of. the eost is to be
ascertained, is not explained.
i The location of Wallowa Lake, in
connection with the formation of the
country around- it,- makes it an ideal
reservoir for ' storage ' jmrposes. It is
surrounded by high mountains, or hills,
and the outlet which forms the head of
tiio Wallowa river, is not more than
one hundred feet wide. The lake itself,
is one of the most beautiful lip-lies of
water in America, oqe mile wide by
fou in length, and has a depth of sev
eral1 hundred feet. "It is at least one
hundred feet alxve the surrounding
eountry and is a veritable eni bituated
1 '- in the foothills of that wonderful val
ley.. ' The construction of a dam of but
fc twenty feet in heiglrt, raising the sur
! face of the entire lake by that much,
Would afford an increased , amount of
available water whose value at the
proper time of the year. -would bo al
most incalculable, and Towing I to . the
character of th canyon through which
the 1 waste water from' the lake flows,
the eost of such a dam would be sur
prisingly small. - It would be a baby
dam compared with those 'constructed
on some of the" rivers in California,
many of which are. more than one hun
dred feet in height. i
'It occurs to the Statesman, l.owever,
that much if not all of the 75,000 acres
of land, which could thus be reclaimed
by making of the Wallowa lake a stor
age reservoir, is now owned by private
parties. There is not much public land
in that country, and "while it should be
placed under irrigation, nd while this
would result in the farther development
of that section, there is a question
whether the public money can be used
under the national irrigation law for
reclaiming lands already belonging to
private parties.' But, however it may
bejdone the waters of that lake are
certain in time to be utilized in - ex
tending tho already enterprising sys
tem of irrigation established in Wal
lowa eounty. ? ; . ' i
COMMON SENSE.
A very sensible editorial -appears in
the Pendleton Tribnne commenting
upon the exceedingly bad taste of the
women of Portland in importing a. lec
turer from India whose subject is the
"child-wife" system in vogue in that
country. That paper points ; out with
vigor, the harmful effeets of: this sort
of "tommyrot," as it is detailed in all
Tired Out
"I was very poorly and could
hardly get about the house. I was
tired out all the time. Then I tried
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and- it only
took two bottles to make me feel
Irs. N. S. Swinney, Princeton, Mo.
Tired when you go to
bed, tired when you get
up. tired all the time,
why? Your blood is im
pure. You are living on
the border line of nerve
exhaustion. You need
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
- $1.0 a toCtic. AM aracrlsts.
Ask yonr doctor what lie thinks of this
grand ukl family nwdicine. Follow his
advice and we will be satisfied. : ,
Take Ayer's Pills with the Sarsa
parilla. They act on the liver, cure
biliousness, headacbe,constfpation.
J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass.
its rtUSlVCiJ-llSLS.IlJ.njustiee, to .'at
mixed audience of 1 girls and women,
many of the former yet in short dresses
and entirely innocent of thist particular
system of female debauchery which is
a fixed custom of that far-off country.
The public discussion of this question
in this country before mixed audiences,
especially in the form it takes and the
disgusting details ' ; which constitute
parts of the lecture cannot in any pos
sible way . contribute to the general
good. Why should the young girls of
the United States be taken. to a public
lecture where they may learn of things,
even in another country, that are dis
gusting in their revelation, lascivious
in their suggestiveaess and wholly bar
ren of any possibility of beneficial re
sults t y '
Tor a week or more, it . has ' hardly
been possible to ' pick np a Portland
paper -without being informed at onee
that in India' girls become grandmoth
ers by the time they are twenty, being
married at the age of about six or sev
en, and if girls ; want to know more
about it, just go to a certain place at
such and such an hour and full infor
mation can be had, free and in detail.
Certainly the intention of the pro
moters of such lectures as this is fori
the best, but the effect can result in no j
benefit from any view and the harm
can be readily understood without be
ing diagramed. A lecture of this char
acter can always-be depended upon to
draw an immense erowd while a disser
tation by some prominent and widely
known speaker on a subject of gTeat
importance to science or government
could scarcely secure an attendance
sufficient to pay hall rent.
One of the hurtful habits of the Sal
vation Armj is to go to the vilest por
tions of a city, and with attractive
music, or other kind, as well as by loud
speaking, draw an immense - audience
of all kinds of people together, and
then march off to another hall a few
blocks distant and leave the motley
crowd collected in that very part of
the town where Jhe temptations to go
wrong are the greatest. As an attrac
tion toward the Whitechapel district of
the average city the Salvation Army
often does a- work which is surprising
to those who recognize its good inten
tions, and the generally unlifting tenden
cies of its efforts.
It is not in any way a good thing to
unnecessarily advertise the public evil
we would wish to remove. Among those
so advertised is the public exploitation
of the "child-wife" custom of India
before the mixed audiences in this
country, where all that could possibly
be d'ine toward its extermination in
India would be as one.rain to the en
tire mass of, sand on the sea shored
HASSIS OS EESMANN?
To satisfy a raffled brother or two,
the Statesman desires to say once
again that it took; no part ia the con
gressional campaign in this county be
for the primaries, or after. It has sot
said one word against -Mr. Hermann 's
record in any way as a Bepresentatiye
in"" Congress. -. -' f i . - j
It has not undertaken to give one
reason why he should not be re-nominated
or why Mr. Harris should be se
lected over him. : '1
. Its editor did not mention the sub
ject to one delegate to the Bepubnean
convention when assembled here or be
fore, so careful was he to take no part
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in the contest. - ,-
He loyally supported Mr. Hermann
in the campaign list year on the stump,
and,' if he shall be re-nominated, will
be glad to do all in his power to , in
sure his election. And this he on do
without eating any crow. "He there
fore, has no opology to make for the
course of the Statesman in printing
the news when this eounty declared for
Mr. Harris. It has spoken well of Hi'.
Harris, as it has of Mr. Hermann, and
believes it no crime to be free to speak
well of any man who deserves it. There
are other Bepublieans besides Mr. Her
mann, and still others besitfes Mr. Half
ris. The political sun of this country
doea not absolutely set and go perma
nently out of business when either of
them absents himself from the public
gaze for a few moments, though this
will, no doubt, surprise some men. -
Marion county has declared for Mr.
Harris. Having done so, the Statesman
said so. It has no opology to make
for the county or the party. It would
have said just as much for Mr. Her
mann under, the same circumstances,;
ured jii by fils innhas and, weighing .a
full half-pound. " Oregon liens are ap
parently in n Easter-egg eontest.
Portland Journal. That is thei biggest
shell; game we have heard of this year
and should be summarily laid out. !
A week ago today snow fell in Wal
lowa valley, according to the Enter
prise News, to the depth of five inches
and on the upland between Wallowa
and Promise there wlr sixteen inches
of fresh snow. At that time in the
Willamette valley we had warm, though
somewhat damp weather, and still we
were complaining. It must not be for
gotten, however, that in Wallowa coun
ty Is where they have good crops, plen
ty of water to irrigate with fat cattle
and sheep and - a prosperous country.
For many kinds of business there is no
better portion of Oregon than that
erstwhile Illibee of Chief Joseph.
A Silverton pajer boasts of an egg
laid by a beta in that town that meas-
- Those Jamestown fellows . have
"eaight oa." Senator "Daniels of Vir
ginia, has asked Congress for an ap
propriation of $3,000,000 for the James
town Exposition, and it is said that
150 members of the Senate and House
werej recently taken t'a" the proposed
site and'-4 'dined and , wined.". Of
eoure that will settle it. At least the
same process seems to have settled the
Lewie land Clark appropriation, once
and fair alL , - - - t .
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' rWJ down upon the Yaln river ev
ervtiihff seems placid, thoush a battle
that .would result in the death of sev. j
eral jthousands of Busso-Japs is long '
overdue, j These dispatches concerning!
the progress of the war, if there j is
any wfer, appear to be as free from in
formation as those concerning the pro-
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gress ocz the umi ana uiara; x air ap
propriation bill' that we have been
reading about for the last three months.
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The Kbublican eounty convention in
Salemf Illinois, the other day broke up,
in a row, and nearly all of the chairs
in the rojom were smashed. There ia
usually socmething doing in this coun
try.! There was a sufficient lack of
harmony there to suit the utmost de
mands of dome Bepublieans we wot of
and what a sickly place it must have
been for ' fading ambitions. '
The appendicits, like the forked-tail
and ;fisky ; microbe, is no respecter of
persons. Mrs. George Gould has just
submitted to an operation for. that
fashionable affliction, the same as the
poverty-stricken working girl, and is
said to be on the road to rapid recov
ery.. -Being mortals, we are not far
apart after all. We just think we are.'
Another Chicago doctor has denounc
ed bathing. No wonder. An ordinary
bath tub of water contains several hun
dred Inillions of voracious microbes, us
ually uncooked, and always on the war
path. An alibi is the only certain pre
ventive. Water and milk are to oe
tabooed, and only beer is safe.
Mr. Bryan does not believe in put
ting the dollar before the man, but he
would like so well to get hold of that
50,000 that his attorneys have appeal
ed the case to the Supreme Court of
Connecticut. However, it would pay for
a good many $100 Democratic platforms.
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SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION OF j BODY AND SEAT
USED ON BEE LINE! BUGGIES.
Were y(tur leys ever cramped in a long ride? Our buggy
has plenty of leg room.' . - -
0.191.--"BEEINE"i RUNABOUT. ('Medium Low Wood Wheels.
No. 191. Fifteen-sixteenths ineh 1 ong distance axle ; Sarven patent woWl wheels, 36x40 inches
high; seven-eighths ineh Kokomo stolid rubber tires. Body, 24x54 ; padded dash; pan seat of attrac
tive design; machine buffer, leather trimmed i carmine gear; extra quality shafts, with Bradley
Nonsuch couplers; 36 inch point leathers. A! swell little job, nicely finished, and one that will
stand up and give good satisfaction. j L
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Here is an opportunity to buy a .wheel at a
MrW 'S sacrifice lroni the real value.
Runabouts and Bike Wagons
A Full Line of
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racss
Light and heavy harness, single and double har
ness, hack, truck, and farm harness. There is
harness here for all your needs and a selection
that will be found difficult to surpass. !
Can you sit comfortably two in a seat and find room for
a lap robe without jelling a great, big, heavy buggy f W
Hare the sides of our seats so as to give you plenty of room
and yet retain a light, attractive appearance, i
How much good is the spring bacJi of your, buggy f Docs
it touch you only at the shouldcr$,or at the small of the
back, where you want it? Look at the cut of our Bee Line
buggy and see the shape of; the back.
Is the back of your buggy high inough f Ours is very
high. '; - . .'.'
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Did you ever have a corner optnt Oursare secure. Sec
our corner iron, j ; ?
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: Jid you ever huve a seal riser break loose f Ours aro
screwed to heavy oak strips, 5 inches wide and 12: inches
long. - --. .;' .
Did you look at Vie lid of your curtain loxt Query : JJ
the rest of- your, buggy built as carelessly as the curtain
box and lidl AVe are careful of every part.
Is the Iracf on the inside of your scat rest over 1 3-4
incites teidei tQurs is 5 inche&. I ' ;
your curiam box lid a tnakc&cUcvc, or is it decfi
enough, so you can. put your apron and curtains away safe
ly t r Our box is four Inches deep In the clear and your cur
tains and aprons will not mould, v
Did you ever have a scat pull apart? Ours will not. ,
How do you think the panel lack is put on your huggyT
LHk t it from behind and you may sec (that it b noC
brace! at all). Our backs are finished th same as phactou
backs. Look at the Bee Line buggy ami see the bracing. ; i
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Do you sometimes put your foot on the panel of youc
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buggy? Of course, you should not! .Well, if you do, tho
solid ,cdge iron that we use will protect the panel from
wearing away or splitting off. . ,
Docs tlie toe rail on your buggy support. your fool j null
where you want.it, or does your foot rest on the front panel;
of your buggy? Jwk and see. Iu our buggy, if any one
touches their feet to the fnmt panel they want to be
onry.
Do you find tJte.bolton of your buggy gives way? Ours
is oak. ' I ,
Look on, the inside of your buggy that is, in the cushion
box Is it painted? Why not? Won't the wet harm thij
i&ood the same as any other? Ours is painted.
. Do you. ever have jdygs slvnv on the ptml and scat risers
of your buggy? ' Our seat risers, arc screwed on from the
inside, no plugs to show. ' 4 . ,
We DARE any one to SHOW W with m'ou lilies.
ell, Ieliis Stavr o.
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F. F. CAREY, Manager
-State Street, SALEH, OR.