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S. J. BTNDRirKS, Manager.
T. T. GA, editor.
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CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000
Light Time and Love Time.
(Atlanta Constitution.)
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What of life's tempests
Tbe wrath and the wrongl -It's
light time and love time,
; And life is a song!
Though thick on the life-way
The red thorns may throng,
. Light time that 's love time
Makes all life a song!
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What of the sorrow
That tomes in a sight
Dear, it is light time
The dark shadows flyl ,
Sweet sing the valleys
The high hills and strong;
"Light time is love time,
And life is a. Kng! " -
GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL
KOMXNATIOJrfS.
Our uprightly little exchange at Au
rora, the Borealis, discovers a "weak
point" in the Republican county tieket
in tbe fact hat "most of the offices
were landed in Salem, -the rest ol the
county leing but scantily represented.'
We find this paragraph copied in the
Woodburn Independent, which, in the
same issue, eonineides with this notion,
though it also says that " on the Rep
resentative ticket ISorth Marion re
ceived a full-share of recognition from
the Kepublican convention. J. IT. Set
tlcmier, of Woooourn, J. L. Calvert, of
Hubbard, and J. II. lutchie, of Scotts
Mills, were chosen. " - i
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- But all this leads to the inquiry,
Why pay so much heed to the geograph
ical location of candidates for public
officer An undue regard for the-location
in which a candidate lives at the
expense of the qualifications of the
candidate himself, has weakened more
tickets a hundred times over than it
has 'ever strengthened them. This is
the one mistake that every county con
vention is most likely to make and
generally docs fall into.
The proper rule to obey in the selec
tion of candidates for public office is
to- select the men entirely regardless of
where they may live. If the most
available and competent and popular
man in the county for the position of
county clerk appears to be a citizen of
Brcitcnbush precinct, he is the very
man to nominate, and if the very best
- man for sheriff, from all view points,
apears to be one who also lives In
Breitenbush, there is no good reason
under the sun why he should not be
nominated, also. 5 I ' !
In the' present instance, circumstances
pointed to two Salem men as the proper
nominees for judge and sheriff. They
are both strong men of excellent qualifications,-
neither enhanced nor di
minished because they live in Salem.
Can any voter name one advantage to
any citizen' of Salem which is his be
cause the sheriff or the judge may re-
side heref
If the sheriff had ben chosen from
Sublimity precinct for Instance, would
"that have been of the slightest bene-t
to that precinct or to any man in it,
save to. the sheriff himself! And if
so, howl .Even his deputy would probr
ably be taken from some other pre
cinct. And if Aurora, which had I a
" I suffered terribly for 12 years.
The doctors said taj blood was all
turning to water. At last 1 tried
Af er's Sirsaparilla, and was soon
feeling all rigntsgain." Mrs.J. w
FiaU, Hadlyme, Ct. :
No matter how long you
have been ill, nor how
poorly you may be today,
Ayer's , Sarsaparilla is the
best medicine you can
take for purifying and en
riching the blood. Don't
doubt it; put your whole
trust in lt, A XvSSSi
Ask yonr doctor what he thinks of tbla
grand old familT mrdtcin. Follow bis
4 rice and wa will r-a aatisfied. i
Recovery will never be complete
if the liver is inactive. Ayer's Pills
are liver pills. Purely vegetable.
J. CATER CO., Lowell. Mass.
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Weak?
inost excellent man as a candidate lor
the sheriff's office, had succeeded in
its aspiration, it would not have bene
.fitted a single citizen of that thrifty
locality, to the value of a eent daring
his term of office, save the officer him
self. There is not a voter in Stayton
precinct who will ever know the ' dif
ference between choosing both the
candidates for sheriff and judge from
Salem and selecting one from Butte
ville and the other from Aumsville. Of
all possible grounds . upon which - to
base an objection to nominee this is
the least well taken. i
Besides, Mr. Culver will make pre
cisely as good an officer for every Citi
zen of the county, living, as he does.
in one of the Salem precincts, as though
he lived in ML AngeL- It can make no
possible difference. "' People living in
South Salem - precinct have the
same
Scott
reason to find fault with Judge
beeanse he lives In Salem No. 2,
as the
eitizen of ouverton has to raise a kick
about the same circumstance. Mir. Cul
ver and Mr. Scott live in different
precincts, just ' as mneh so, as . though
one resided in Abiqna and tbe other in
Cbampoeg. . And it would make 'no
difference to Salem if they both lived
in Woodburn.
Luckily, the Kepublican convention
didn't nominate localities, but rather
selected good men regardless o t " geo
graphyand there are good men ia all
the precincts for all the office i, but
not enough positions to go arounl the
more 's the pity. ' '4
THE 'MASSES' AND "CLASSES.
Besides being" aeeused of havini
signs" against the people of the
Unit-
ed States, the Jeffersonian banqueters (
the other night declared through Gov
ernor Chamberlain that "the Democra
tie party is the party o the people, the
party of the masses in their struggle
against the oppression of the trusts.';
There are a number of live Democra
tic papers in the state, looking: after
the interests of their party will not
one of them be kind enough to b; more
specific as to this question of wl o con
stitute the "masses," and that other
aggregation of d !! !!! , who
are popularly known about campaign
times as the classes!" Name ten men
in Oregon who -elong to the detesta
ble "classes," in order that we may,
uiscover iusi now mucu uiuerence mere 1
j; 1 . t. .nir i .1
is between the candidates they vote
for and those who reeeive the support
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of about ten thousand of the "masses." i
The Statesman some lime ago reI
quested any Democratic paper! which I
might feel disposed, to print the name
of the Democrat who made himself I
famous
land
the
log to tne extirpation 01 tne aggrega
.K tto" 1
tion of trusts in the "interests of the f
masses." Up to date, there has been
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during the four years of Cleve-iatlon of iualltie nln kePt him free.p dates are no" later than we have
'a first administration bv seeurine from an inordinate ambition. Had he had. There waS later news in
passage bv Coneress of a law look-:'llTed be wou,d hHVe been ' loyal npr pbrHan& y6pr J&ptcri,- but
no response. The "masses" were iniw"'J i 4
the same helpless predicament in 1892
when tho celebrated campaign of that',8' the reltions between labor and
year was in progress as they are said caPital nd the integrity of his eharae-,
to be now. The classes" were the j ter as a business man and" poKtieian, ,
very same grasping, devouring scoun- ma0 him deserving of the tributes.
drels at that time that they are at Pai1 to his memorT by his sorrowing .
present. The country could never be in J colleagues in the UnTted States Senate. ;,
greater danger than that.it was noti- But tBe government moves on nndis-
fied.was upon it, and relief could only 'turbed in iu accustomed channels, as,
come through the election of a Demo- ik did wnen McKinley was suddenly
cratic Congress that would throttle the taken way, and, fortunately, as itf
monster with the firm irrip of remedial wiU continue to do, irrespective of the .
legis.ation in the "interest, of the
masses." I
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- xui, me name oi ine feniocraiic leg
islator who immortalized himself
the succeeding four years in this
in
re
spect has slipped our memory. Of
course the relief afforded "the masses','
through the legislation enacted during
turuugu ine jt-giBiauua enacieu uunng )
the Democratic ascendency of 1892-6 is j
easily recalled, but the nam. of the
immortal Legislator who initiated the
movement is not just at hand, though,
after all, the name of the benefactor is
not of so much importance as the bene
faction itself. Tbe condition that eon
fronted us was of vastly more concern
than the theory that produced it. '
"AME&HXCAX POLITICS."
Under the above caption, Henry
Litchfield West has a very interesting
article in the April number of the
Forum, in the course of which a de
served tribute is paid not only to the
great executive ability of Senator
Hanna, but to the really statesman
like: qualities he developed with such
remarkable rapidity during the last ten
rears of his life. Unknown to tbe
people of this country ten years ago,
outside his own state of Ohio, be be
came within a decade the most widely
discussed public man in the United
States, and his reputation gradually
but uninterruptedly gained in the es
teem of his fellow men until the day
of his death.
: On Thursday ,the United States Sen
ate devoted an hour to the pronouncing
of eulogies upon Senator Hanna 's mem
ory as a : statesman . and Republican
leader, and with the " performance of
that last duty of his j colleagues the
great Dbioan takes his place in the his
tory of the country he did so much to
develop in many directions. The writer
recalls scores of pleasant incidents con
nected with the Ohio campaign in the
fall of 1901, of which Senator Hanna
was a part, and had numerous opportu
nities of seeing the undoubted personal
popularity he enjoyed among those we
call the "common people.",- That ; he
was a friend to the laboring man 'and
to his interests no one could deny,
either by the .jreeord ke made relating
to the questionS or by the" manifesta
tions of admiration shown him wherev
er he went among the rank and fAt"
of his own state. Wherever he appeared
in a procession along1 the streets prior
to political ii meeting people were
shouting constantly tor? Uncle Mark,?
as he was popularly known everywhere
In his own state.': T':f J ' ' , ' '
TSTe rise of Senator ' Hanna in the
political world, nnknown aa he was at
the age of fifty-five to a position of
prominence and influence within ten
years not . 'surpassed by J any
.other
pnblie man, is an evidence or tnat
equality of privileges and opportunity
of which we so frequently speak in
this country. "; Under the most terrifie
fire, of i abuse ' and misrepresentation
from the first, ho battled against ' the
unfair and discouraging conditions md
finally triumphed by the sheer foree of
his" persisteneyi ability and independ
enee. . '"; 7 -
: v As a helpful force in his own party,
whose advice was sought by even his .
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rivals in important matter. u wu ,
judgment never iauea , in emergencie.
requiring a decision on the spur of the
moment, Senator Hanna w ill be missed
in the councils of his party though
not for long. I The progress of the
world does not depend upon any one
man in the least. No man was ever be
loved by a greater number of his fel
low citizens than was Henry Clay, and
when, after fifty years of active pnblie
service, J be died practically, in tbe
harness, some one said, "the world will
seem lonesome without Henry Clay." ;
But Clay was missed for a day only,
and the government went on as before.
The death of Blaine had quite the
same effect oa the public mind and it
eansed ' a profound realization of the
barrenness' of all strife for political
preferment where it is permitted to
sour the' better qualities of human, nat
ure. Blaine was a successful man in
politics away beyond the average was
Secretary of State under, two adminis
trations, was Speaker of the House of
Representatives for three terms and ,
was in the United States Senates as
often as he liked, yet he died a most
(miserably disappointed man because his
ambition was to be President.
Shortly before he died Blaine said t
1 1 " . 1 1 1 a - 1
bis failure in life, that "the happiest 1
i - Ll 1 . f TT . I '
'man js vue unjtnowo mau. xiis career.
lhad - "tormy one, though always.-.
intended with success, save in the one U
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"tvu"
Residency. Ambition without judg-,.
ment tempered with philosophy, is an -
insufferable temperament
1 oena"-or w"Ba PP eraw-,
I porter of President Eooserelt as ' the;
. 1
- F"" nominee xor me rrrawency. (
a J-
s-sia nnrainn rw nrwui suanan nnTirmtr
& ft 6
in-
l,,af t a n wimV rw mt r a n am m wmA m rm 1
:of the want of the country, especially
,ortune" of anv man
AS TO INDISCRIMINATE BATHING. .
While the W. C T U. organization t
has done and is doing mueh good in
this wicked world, some of its members
have carried their caution beyond the
;
bounds of good judgment by declaring :
that surf bathing by. both sexes at the
same time is highly immoral in its
effects and " should be discontinued.
This declaration of opposition to one
of the most healthful and pleasant of
physical pastimes is as unwise
stimes is as unwise as it;WMainzton didn't tell a lie because he
will prove ineffectual. The Snterming-'
ling of he sexes at the 'beaches as they
joyously and vigorously partake of the
salt air, salt water and "ozone," which
is as free as the winds, is one 6f the
most invigorating exercises that comes
within reaeh of thousands of city peo
ple during the year, r
Of course, though, the protesting wo
men admit all this, but they rest their
objection upon tbe assumption that men
and women thus engaged, garbed with
their scant i bathing suits, only, are
liable to indulge in immoral thoughts,
to the ultimate: injury of tbe people so
participating.; But the prurient do not
have to go to tbe sea coast, to be thus
overcome by immodest , suggestions,
while the innocent can . .bathe . by, the
hour with no thoughts of such lasciv
ious : nature as those imputed by - the
good women of the W. C. T. U.
-The fact j. is, " these - strained : rules
whose object is to insure morality will
always be more or less ineffectual. The
prevention of opportunity is a poor and
unsafe reliance.' ' Opportunities for
wrong doing are to be met with or cre
ated , every? hour ;ia the day and this
condition will always prevail. The
guarantee is found in better teaching
along moral lines that will abstain
from wrong-doing for the sake ; of the
Listing benefits which always - come
from right doing. The man or woman
who has never dona wrong merely , be
cause' no opportunity has ever pre
sented ; itself, has not yet : given any
proof of a fixed morality. If the aver-
age of morality in- tbe large -cities,
(where full suits are usually, worn),,
; ghgon iii lseo.
: (From the Statesman.) -
Don't Let Up. We trust that no
anti-Lane Democrat in any part of
the state will relax! his effort to
defeat the Lane society ia Oregon,
on account of the probable nomin-
ation at Charleston, of Dpnglaa.
The defeat of Joseph become more
the power of Lane will be broken
utterly. V Then let the eneonraging
news from the east be the signal
for renewed effort in Oregon to put
an end' to; the tyranny, corruption
aad imbeeUity of the Lane ayna-;
ty.- That done, and we roll p
2500 majority for the candidates of
the- Charleston eonvention.
LATEST! DOUGLAS' NOMIN A
J . j ' TION BEPOBTED1 I
j TCer Denver : of California, re-eeiv-4
,a dispateh saying that
Dou?bu was nominated that af-
I iWllIMt HO IIVIU..
temoon. The Alta says Gen. Den
. .
ver has lived on the Missouri front
tier and has friends there j. who
would send him the very latest ad
vices. The San Francisco Herald .
says editorially- referring to . Den-
ver's dispatch:
!; "We learn from authority which
r we' deem thoroughly reliable, that
, Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, has
been Wminated for.' President of
the United; States by the Charles-
IC convention." ' i
Bible Meeting The-12th Annual
Meeting of the Oregon Bible Socie-
"ty -will meet; in the M. E. church
in 8alem, on Wednesday,fcMay 9,
1860, at 10 o'clock n. m. Sermon
f by Ber. T.?IL Pearnet 730 p.
m. WJL ROBERTS, See'y.
' Died. At McMinnville, on the
5th inst.i : John Quin'cy, infant son
of S. C. and M. E. Adams, aged six
months. . .
NOTICE.
Margaret
1
.Whereas,
Tayloir, ad-
ministratrix of the estate of James
Tavlnt i1-aa.rl hl filed in the
COunty court 'of Polk eounty, her
-
vouchers upon said estate, and ask-
ed'for final settlement of said es
tate,, therefore, the Tth ; of j Jnne,
i860, will be), the day said petition
win be heard. Those interested
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wil please take notice.
B. Hayden, Co. Judge.
The states' mail arrived just as
we. were going to press, .Mt tne
Tracv Got failed to send it to
- t bis place.
. ' T 111 1.
Assessor. 1 wm
candidate
- for assessor of Marion county at
the" next election.
Wm. SYPHERT.
May, 1th, 1860.
Independent Candidate far Sher-
iff. The undersigned offers him-
self as an independent candidate
for Sheriff of Marion county at the
ensuing June election. j t
GEO. A. EDE?.
Salem, April 15th, 1860.
We omit the market report this
week in order to make room for
the States' news by Express. There
are, no material changes from our
T last quotations.
o
4-
eould be brought up to that prevailing
at the beaches where men and women
bathe promiscuously, the improvement
would be almost beyond computation.
Mark Twain dnee ' said, 1- am a
greater man than Washington was.
ouldB j ean ije but I won't." The
man or woman who has the tendency
and opportunity to do wrong but re
sists them both, is much safer and is
on more enduring ground than the one
who has never been subjected to tbe
temptations of either. That which we
call "moral suasion": is the! best safe
guard against,; "yielding to tempta
tion" yet invented by " mankind.
: Jeff Myers is said to have remarked
that if-Oregon bad 5000 more Demo
crats than it has, Congress would have
long ago passed .that 'Lewis and Clark
appropriation bill. No doubt if we had
that additional number of Democrats
Jeff wonld look differently upon that
offer to make him the Democratic nom
inee for Congress in this district.' Jeff
tried it Once in .1896 with most dis
astrous results. This recalls the fact
that when at' the beginning of 'the last
Republican administration, the Govern
or was required to appointa new Board
of Immigration, he desired to secure the
services of some Democrat whose resi
dence" would be in Southern Oregon. He,
theref ore" wrote to Hon. William M.
ColvigHof Jac1rtonville, -to I the effect
that. the. posxtifear- was, tlreby offered
him, with the hope that he would exert
himself in , the matter of securing a
large immigration to Oregon. The re
turn' mail brought the reply that he
would ; gladly accept tbe appointment
and that be would "do his utmost to
see that before the next election fully
5000 Missouri Democrats were persuad
ed to make their homes in the state,
e.l to make -their homes in the state,)
that it:mighvbe redeemed from Se
'5: From:'';
t! r
- ?l Window
J -ivrfH
i, A Utah paper -recently stated thata
Mormon had just frozen ; to death be-
i. ir- i- . I . .t.tamnt ihll
IWren bi two mt
quite naturally created a feeling of
consternation among those wbo so. well
know that one wife can make things so
hot for "her husband that freezing to
death is a matter, of the utmost impoa-
sibility. An explanation comes, bow-
ever, in the later statement mat one
wife lives in Salt Lake while the oth
er's home was -eighty miles away ' in
-r:u. . , TV. hnaKenif waa m Ilia
ffoiiguaiu v- j . v
way from one city to the other when
he froze to death between , nis
wives." There is a certain ehill about
a paragraph of this character that gets
right into", the marrow of one's bo pea.
1 ' ' ..o .' o.
An Incident la Salem's Early History.
! If " Chemeketa " Prairie " had been
left entirely alone, by the early settlers
and the later ones all . that portion
of Salem now adorned by Commercial
street and the intervening country be
tween it and the river would today be
eovered by, a neavy growth of fir trees
similar to those which constitute Ma
rion Square. -. "The writer easily reealls
when Front street was little" more than
an uncertain . wagon road, with an oc
casional dwelling rear the river' bank
among tne scattering trees. The first
agricultural fair held in ' Oregon was
'pulled . off V on Front street w.here
Marion Square now is, and the horses,
tattle and sheep on exhibition were tied
to the trees 'arid shrubs while the pio
neer judges- critically, examined and
passed upon their "points." An ac
count of this fair' was re-published in
the Statesman a few weeks ago, and a
prominent citizen of Modesto Califor
nia, reading the same, wites that he
well remembers that Fair and how he
undertook to "make fun', of the scrub
stock as it .stood tied to the young trees
as they served the purpose of the mod
ern stock; pens.
But even so far back as 1853, efforts
were beginning to make a showing for
a town on Front street, though the
start was 'made on the corner of Front
and Trade, opposite 'where the Salem
Flouring Mills' warehouse now stands,
In 1851 a small building was erected on
that corner .by Dr. Willson, who donat-
ed Willson 's Avenue; to Salem, and "it
Was used by him as a prog Store. At j riolic j tongue that - was a trifle more
one: time,; T. B. Bicker, a well-known than Lasa ter could endure and he re
citizen - of 8aleni for:' many years af- f sponded with the .statement ' that . he
ter wards and :whd served as its Post-
master in the TO 's, was his partner.
The upper . portion of this house was
Used by Joseph G. Willson as a law of-
fice in ehe early days, when he was a
truggiing young lawyer. In about I860,
having been used in the meantime by
W. K. Smith as a Drug Store, this
building was removed to ijs present site
In the rear of the lot where Theodore
Barr now: resides, on the alley in the
block on tlie corner of which stands the
residence of Dr. Richardson. It stands
there today, a two story barn, of no
prtiensioua woatever, i r.i 11.11 or nia-
torie interest as it crnmbles away aej
the pioneers who wrought in and
around it in the earl v davs of the Ore
gon trntory.
In 1853, Hon. J. W. Nesmith, having
made his fortune, as he thought, in the
milling business over on tbe Bickreal,
sold all bis possessions in Polk county
and moved to 1 Salem, which -had just
been finally .and permanently, it-was
thought, selected- as tbe Territorial
capital. Jfesmith". even then, had some
publican "misrule.' The interesting fea
ture of all this, however, is in fact that
before the next election, the question of
Expansion had become of national im
portance, and, not being able to endorse
tbe position of Mr. Bryan in relation to
it, Col vig announced his intention to
support McKinley, and before election
day had arrived : he had taken the
stump for the Republican ticket. " The
fart is, that he made a better Republi
can orafor than he tltd an immigration
commissionerbetter material being at
hand. , . - -
The .woman who would not put on
her sun . bonnet or other headgear, such
a day as yesterday was, get the rake
and hoe and invite her husband out in
the yard j to delve towards the bowels
of theearth isn't worth the sum: in
vested in the original marriage license.
But there is no such woman in, Salem.
Every husband was in demand yester
day as a substitute for a real gardener
and the array of sun bonnets and dis
carded bats was beautiful to behold.
And " the young women -' without hus
bands were as busy as their "mothers
among" the ' daffodils, hyacinths and
lilies. '. It was an' Ideal spring day and
the Salem ladies made the most of it.
There is nothing prettier than a woman
with a sun bonnet or her husband's hat
on her head unless it is when she is
without it. :'' -'
The Booth' Tucker entertainment was
a clean, helpful, instructive and alto
gether novel portrayal of the great
work being done ' by the Salvation
Army. As he. described the homes for
women: and other homes for men, agen-
cies ia all the cities of the country for
Editorial Sidelight?, tvnd Obaervft.tIcn on Varloue' IfeopU
tvnd TKlrtfs. Picked Up and ScrtbUd 'Down I" mi Odd Times.
political ambition, having already
served a term in the' l'erritorial Legis
lature in Oregon CUy in 1849. ' ;'
A friend of Nesmith's, Informs the
writer that at thaC iime he had proper
ty worth in the neighborhood of $40,000,
ant' he I invested .'a- Ipart of it'r in Salem
realtyi Having been selected s the
capital, and being- without public
buildings of any kino", Kesmitb conclud
ed to construct a suitable building for
Legislative purposes and erected it on
Trade street with a space of about forty
between it and the Willson Drug store.
It was a low two story structure, about
twenty ; by forty feet, and the lower
story was used by the af ritonal g
islature, a part of which, small aai. rit
was, being partitioned off on the north
end for the 4 'executive office" of Gov
ernor Davis.
The; upper story of this building was
occupied by the Statesman, which had
followed the capital Jfrom Oregon City,
and was used as a press room, type set
ting department and editorial office". A
thin partition "fenced" off even ; a
part of this into a bed room which , the
editor called li is home. CoL John Me
Cracken, yet a prominent citizen of
Portland, was Clerk of the House and,
accommodations being very limited, the
Statesman V elitjr, having a. "two
horse", bed, shared it with the Colonel
during the legislative session. '
ForJ a number, of years th house of
representatives met; in the Nesmith
building and the senate in the "Beetor
Building," which was immediately ad
joining the brick now. standing on the
eornerj of Commercial : and Ferry on
the south. In i860 the second story of
the Holman brick (now the Turner
Building) was rented by the state for
legislative purposes, and tbe election of
Nesmith and Baker occurred in4he hall
of the house, the exact room where the
job office of Ross Moores is now located.
In the session of 1858, Judge B. F.
Bonham was a member of the bouse
from Marion county and the sessions
were j j still held in the Xesmith
building. . One of his . colleagues
wai Hon. J. II. Lasater, a young
Tennesseean' with the hot . temper of
many of the Southerp" people. T. J.
Dryer 'was s member from Multnomah,
and for several days had been attack
ing Lasater in debates in a manner cal
culated to arouse : hi .-resentment, but
the patience with which he bore it all
was a surprise to those who knew him
best, ij One day .just before noon, how
ever, Dryer made a thrust with bis vit-
j was a liar.' Dryer intmediately. threw
' his inkstand at Lasater which struck
him on the shoulder, Spattering ink all
ever his face. Lasater jumped across
three fdesks and litt in. -Dry trsi' vicinity
but intervening members prevented a
personal "scrap'' for the time.
principally because of episode,
the House adjourned at once and Dryer
without delav left ih room. Hon ham
came away with Lasater, who declared
his fT intention of . thrashing
Dry?r as 8009 - .as , he copld find
him. As they rwere - coming down
Commercial where the lllihee Club
building now is, they saw Dryer on the
opposite side of the street and Lasater,
without going to a crossing, plunged
into the mud and made a direct line' for
his- Multnomah colleague. Bonham fol
lowed, but before he could enter the
room; where Dryer had gone, Lasater
had him sprawling on the floor and was
proceeding to 'administer that punish
ment! which many sail he certainly de
served. Tne bystanders refused to in-
' terf ere until they considered the pun
helping the ' downfallen, .encouraging
th! unfortunate, aiding the destitute
aid finding. farm homes for those will
ing to come west and lead liferent lives
certainly moss pf his hearers were sur
prised at the a mating extent of their
operations. .Ridiculed by some people,
but j prosecuting' a line of endeavor
remarkably similar, after all, to the
methods of the Savior himself while on
earth, the Salvation Army should be
respectfully treated wherever its mem
bers carry help and comfort to the
discouraged, the wayward and other
despairing pilgrims along life's uncer
tain! pathway. . ;
Breeze Gibson's example as to his
historic oak tree has taken root.' On
Thursday evening President Roosevelt
and j 'Secretary Hitchcock planted
small oak tree in the eastern side of
the White House yard that had. been
grown from an oak tree that stands in
tbe grounds of the Peterhoff Palace in
Russia. This Russian oak was grown
from an acorn picked up under, the fam
ous I oak that 4 shelters . Washington
tomb, at MCVeraen. This is- a nice
little story, blending : sentiment wit h
fact", but will not equal that of tBe Gib
son boys, of Polk county, unless Roose
velt and Hitchcock return in, fifty years
and. perform some sort of appropriate
ceremony under its spreading limbs ia
honor of the romantic event.
An eastern writer while discussing
the vertical system of writing says that
'whatever system of wrjting is follow
ed in copy books in school serves only
to train the band. The adult acquires
individuality in writing and soon de
parts from copy book forms.'' ' This is
ishment had reached that point com
mensurate with the provocation.
Dryer was so badly disfigured that
he did not return to the House durin
tbe remaining few days of the sewM,,
They had some hot times ia tho
days and the pioneer fathers were mca
with decided minds of their ewn.
The Xesmith building was moved i9
1860 to the site of the D'Arrj bri.k
on State' street and was a few -yrar
afterwards burned. It was built bj
Jonathan O 'Donald, who still lives in
Salem, and J. Cary .Geer, who rpi,-,
in Modesto, California, at the age 0f
eighty years.
0 0
Tbe
war
in the east ror,j.
apace," in the newpa rn. Manv
1 1
them, notably the Portland Jour;j
print from day , to day bIHd-eurILr
pictures. of intensely destrut-tive rj,.
acter, usually descriptive of an vngzgt.
ment at sea, always at night, sppiirfot.
Iy that is the pictures are as be a,
ink will make them and while a tr
rifle thunder storm is at its height of
soul-stirring fierceness. Sbaftf of
lightning interspersel - with BtnrBj
war vessels, broken maxts, evt'in-j
steam from tEe most unexpertej quar
ters, floating and disabled seamen Iwing
blown to atoms by exploding hel!,
rain falling in torrents while the Li),
lows are rolling sky high s 11 thes
contribute to the awful scene of ran.
age and death in all these "accurate"
portrayals of the -last." battle." Aftr
studying oae of these illustration of
the fact that "war is h-f," you tun
to the dispatches to read about the ex
tent of the awful fatalities and you art
rewarded with the statement that tbe
report of tbe engagement was not con
firmed but that the fleets are aotnewlirrt
in the "far east" and a most awfnllr
destructive battle ; will certainly bt
pulled off in tbe near future. But the
illustrations, being due, are alwari oi
hand. On such engagement as is pic
tared in the average daily paper jrita
metropolitan pretentions, , would blow
both Bussia and Japan off the map per
manently. It is sincerely to be bopi
that when such battle does roaterializr,
if ever, the" artist " who is engaged ii
illustrating: them by .discounting tbe
future, may be a jKisscnger on the first
vesel that ;ocs swiftly to the bottom
of the sea.
:.!..: O O .
Wbie delving in the very lowr-d
depths of an analytical examinatinn of
the remote possible causes of tbe phe
nomena of bacteria anil its origin, sdI
when, why and how, a Boston phyiriu
discovered that the blues are the dim-t
product' of splanchnic neurasthenia, -w
to intra-abdominal venous ongcaUi&.
Of course this discovery, made-, in tbe
purely accidental process of an-absorbing
investigation along altogether dif
ferent lines, will be of interest to ici
ence, only, since the annnuncemnt of
it to a disconsolate unfortunate alrradr
suffering with the blues, would only ald
to the hyperplastic tendency toward
zymogenic ; turbellaria.- But the experi
ments should go on.
:...:;.'; o o
The Stokesmnn-RevIew has a very
readable editorial on the deasures snd
beauties of fishing, and, in tho course
of it grows quitesentimental, remark
ing that 'recreation in the shape of
fishing does man good because it f
fords neenled exercise and calls for
physical and mental activities thst are
a welcome change." There can be b
doubt of this, especially as to tbe ten
dency to buoy up the mental faculties,
which, as a rule, in the case of the up-
to-date fishermen, are stimulated to the
very' point of intoxication that reacbei
into the realm of irresponsibility.
precisely what the Statesman said . ot
this subject a few weeks ago. Any one
of the so-called systems is as good'ai
another, and for tbe reason given above.
Of any dozen men who studied the
Spencer ia a system forty years s
two of them write any more alike to
day than if they had studied a -I""
different systems.' Men can no more be
taught to write the same "ban!" thoa
they ean be made to turn out aimil'
photographs from the same tarter.
Individuality will assert itself in pt
of " y stems."
Well, gentlemen of the city council,
tbe people are waiting quietly to
what you are going to do about amend
ing that defective ordinance! Tbe 1
was thought to be sound, you wanted 1
enforeed and so did the people,
now your duty is plain. Nobody H f'
ing to be cranky aoout it but the defect
was plainly pointed out and tbe rem
edy is in your hands. The find- reft--'
meeting will be tbe best time to ameol
the ordinance as it was intended to be-
Ex-Senator Wilson, of Washington
has abandoned bis intention of
becoming a candidate for the Sena's
and is going to undertaks the burdm
of carrying the King county man rJ'
Sinee Wilson has had about TerJrlhl
else under the sun since he entered p"
ities this latest affliction , is not cal "
lated t excite any wonder.
While the great J majority '
Eastern papers appear to care n 'tl.
about it, all the Kentucky editors
outrsged because the battleship
after IhVir state has t-ccn placed la - .'
dock.