' : : : : i : g: .it. ..I r. I I. ... ."'! v.iciy cr.icc;j svatzzxu Fubllihed every TveacUy and Friday by tb J. ITEXDRTCKS. Xanagec I. T. GJiiH, J41tor. 8TTB9CBXPTIOJI KATES. '' Ctis year tnadvanee... ..................... fun iiz month, la advance..... ......... ...... Three months, in advance J2S Umtw.m Oma .......... , L2a Tb BtaUaman ha been established Ibr nearly f fty-iwo veara, and it baa aoma aabaertbera who hare received It nearly tbat lon. aad many who h&r cad U for a generation. ' Soma o thM obe to hTinf th papa diatontinaed at U ttma of aarptrmuoa of their snfaaertpUona. for Um basest of these, aad for other remaona e have concluded to discontinue subcriptions aaly whea notified to do so. AM persons peyln f whea robea-lbnc, or partus ta advaaee, wid baratbv benefit of the dollar rata. Bat if they do not pay for six aaoatba, the rata will be IL2S a year. Hereafter wa will aead the paper to all responsible persooe wbo erda It, tnooga they nay not aend tba aaoaey. wttb the naderatand la c tbattbey are to pay 1J4 a year, la eaaa tby let tba sabeeriptlon aceoant run over six - baontha. Ia order tbat there aaay be no atiana. deratandloir. we will keep thia aoUoa standing at thia piece la the paper. - . - : C CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000 IT IS BECAUSE MEN ABE BUILT THAT WAT; "Now, who eaa explain why Washing ton county should go against local op tion, while Clackamas oa the other side of Multnomah, aad most other counties, gave local option a very large majority! This is one of the little mysteries of -the election.' Portland Journal. This is no more unaccountable than a thousand other thin 39 we' see every day. It is no more singular than that the editor of the Journal is a Democrat if he is and the editor of the Ore gonian is a Republican, nor than the fact that Dr. frill is a Presbyterian aad . J)r. Driver is a Methodist. There is nothing more reraarkattle about it ihah that the Journal should believe Binger Hermann a dishonest official if it real ly did while a? majority of. 7000 people in his district did not believe any such thing. . And yet there are a great many things connected with what we call peo : pie's idiosyncracies, that are unexplai.11 ,: able, as, indeed, life itself is. The question raised .by the Journal refers so directly to conditions ..that confront us every day 'that it should soften the disposition to judge harshly in instances where our own judgment seems to te so clear as to leave no room for an hon est contrary opinion. Why, should .Marion be -so over whelmingly" Republican while, Linn, just by its side, should be so uniformly Democratic T ?he same conditions exist in both, as to national policies, and the same results follow, yet Bryan's peculiar notions oa finan cial questions foiled a favorable rea . - ponse in the-minds of a vast majority rot Linn county's people while the re verse result obtained in Marion eounty. The same evidence will convict a man of murder in. the first degree in the mind of one juror that will aequit him in the mind of another. One precinct of honest men of equal intelligence will pronounee overwhelmingly in favor of absolute prohibition while an adjoin . Jng one of the same kind of men will take' the position . that such-, questions should be left to the influences of mor- al suasion.' ' ' 1 1 H i H ? The fact is that no honest man should be blamed for his opinion since he is not responsible for it. No Methodist believes he is wrong in his belief, for if he did, he would change it and cease to ... , be a Methodist. A man is a Methodist because he believes that way and can not help it. The same may be said of men of all beliefs ia religion, politics, or other questions that divide ns into parties, churches or kindreu org&aiza tions. The mystery at the election which discovered Washington county to be largely against local option while Clack- amas is largely in its favor, is of a piece which surprises us every day as we take note of the different opinions entertained by those who have equal opportunities for studying every detail of the questions concerned. From the famous "eight to seven." decision that made aad unmade a President .of the United States, to the smallest precinct , . . contests on more unimportant problems, we see accumulating evidence that we BlackHdir M I have used your H sir Vigor ror five year and am greatly pleased with it. It certainly re stores the oritiaal color to gray hair. It keeps my hair soft.' Mrs. llelea Kiixenny,Ntw Portland. Me. Ayer's Hair Vigor has been restoring color to Cray hair for fifty years, end it never fails to do this work, cither. You can rely upon it for stopping your hair from falling, for keeping your scalp clean, and for making your hair grow. f SLM a kettle. AS aratrMs. , If year drarrtot cannot supply yon, seod ae one doiW aad we will expreaa you a bottle. Be aare aad aira the aaaao of yoox aeareat expreea oflice. Addreae. J. C AY EE CO., Lowell, Maaa! What arc Rumors? ,Tbey are vitiated or morbid fluids court ing the relcs and affecting the tissues, Tbey are commocily due to detective diges tion but are sometimes Irxberited. How do tbey manlfeat tbemaelvea f In many forms of cnta neons erupt Son, salt rheum or eczema, pimples and bofls, sod in weakness, languor, general debility. How are they expelled? By - Hood's Sarsaparilla which also builds op the system that has suffered from them. . It Is the beat snedlctno tor all bomon k have a government by chance, in large measnrej after 'alL , AT CHEMAWA. 'j ; So far as the publie has been inform ed it has not been determined what will be done with Superintendent Potter as to his connection with the Indian School at Chemawa. The furore start ed a few weeks ago by a dispatch from Washington that affairs at the Indian School were in a very bad shape and that Mr. Potter would probably be re moved, proved to be based largely on "hot air," an investigation proving that the little . irregularities which had failed to conform to the require ments of red tape exactions, were too frivolous to specifically mention. It was telegraphed here from Wash ington that the Salem bankers had eomplained that Superintendent Potter was lax ia bis business transactions with them. This report our bankers promptly denied, la a case of this kind what can be said of the originator of such reports! Anything that ean be said of a public officiaKin the way of tarnishing his record appears in 4he eyes of some people to be the first duty resting upon them. It establishes them as guardians of the publie weaL In the case of Mr. Potter it may be aaid that be has easily made the most efficient Superintendent the Chemawa School has ever bad and that he has the confidence of every business man ' in Salem and elsewhere where his official relations have taken him. He has so successfully managed and built up this, institution that it would be a positive wrong to remove him to any other field, . not only an injustice to him as an officer, but to the best in terests of the wards of the govern ment who have for years been under his careful management. This; little blow at Chemawa is loubtlesg an offshoot of Secretary Hitchcock's herculean effort to "clean up the state." If Potter can be re moved, Hermann's majority next time should be 15,000. an East" winner. At the inter-state oratorical contest at the State University on Saturdav evening James Mott of Salem, won the prize in such an Uncertain manner that even bis contestants could easily see that they were outclassed as to the manner and general effectiveness of de livery. Although but a freshman he easily excelled bis opponents who have just finished their graduating courses at the Universities of Washington and Idaho. II is subject was decidedly out of the usual, he having taken the character of Benedict Arnold and carefully delin eated his career in a manner that plac ed a different phase to his motives and provocation which finally led to hirbe trayal of the American cause. Young Mott has the grace of a natur al orator, blended with a tendency to ward histronic talent that, .if. properly cultivated, will make ot him a speaker of note. Salem has reason to feel proud of hia achievements, and as he seems disposed to take his success in a com mon sense manner, we may expect to hear more of him. The State Univer sity has been having ill luck in these contests, this being the first victory since 1896. DEFINING MODERN DEMOCRACY. 1 The first installment of Oregon dele gates to the Democratic national con vention to appear from under the wreck of the 6th of - June is in evidence in Portland and a few ot them -are actu ally engaged in defining what, in their judgment, Democracy. for this year is going to be. Governor Chamberlain is quite convinced that certain "great national priaeiplea," (the . quotations are ours) for which the Democracy con tended for years with a persistency that seemed certain proof of sincerity, are dead and should be buried. Of course, these "great and funda mental issues," upon tbe. success of which four and eight yeara ago the "perpetuity of free institutions"-de pended,are now dead as the result of Bepablieaa successes before the people. They are dead and ready for burial by their erstwhile friends merely because their sponsors were wrong all the time. Bet just how many of them it Is best to bury just now, is a problem about which the brethren themselves are not s greed. Indeed, some of faithful are not i favorable to the proposal to inter any: of them. There is Brother Bryan, the greatest - man in ' the Democratic party today, who is radically opposed to the abandonment of aajr principle for which be has ever contended. Once a Democrat, always a Democrat," ia a good party ery, all right, but just what constitutes a Demoeraiis a question that has not been specially raised by the . designings Republicans it ia one that puxrles the brethren , themselves more than all others. ? " Our own Governor Chamberlain, a possible candidate for the Vice Presi dency, wants an ti -expansion dropped from the list of alleged live ' issues, while Bryan, in his latest manifesto, contained in the: Nebraska State plat form, sees visions of throttled liberty in the Bepnbliean policy of Imperial ism and the specter of Militarism which is the legitimate child of Empire. But, while the Governor is willing to be liberal in abandoning former Deme eratie principles, among whJeK is anti expansion listen to tbe fchade of Jef ferson groan Fred Holman, another Oregon delegate who ; seems to ; have crawled from the wreck a day, or two ago, is of the opinion that the plat-fornv-to-be ahonld contain' strong and unequivocal declarations . against the abrogation by the President and Con gress of , unconstitutional , authority on eolonial policy; ete." : 4 . Mr. Holman appears to be a follower of Bryan on the question of Imperial ism, as against the belief of the Gov ernor that such questions should ba de lared dead, though Mr. Holman believes that "the platform should relegate free coinage of silver and "greenbaekism." This, of course, is a "slap at Bryan," but this reference to greenbaekism, which most people had really forgotten altogether, only serves to remind nS of the fact that any of the old and set tled questions which rested so near the Democratic heart in times , past are likely to be resurrected again. In this dilemma; if the suggestion of an outsider is deemed to be worth any thing, the Statesman would like to hint that Delegate Butcher, of Baker City, has a very lueid idea concerning the Democratic situation, whieh, if ac cepted, ' will dispel the shadows that promise a deal of , trouble in the earn' of the brethren when they meet in gen eral conclave in f St. Louis. Butcher says the national convention should make a strong and unequivocal declar ation "in favor of the time-honored principles of the Democratic party. ' ' This, it seems to us, would allay all dissension, make a smooth pathway for the assembled delegates and would at last bring Cleveland, Bryan, Hill and Parker together on a platform that neither could feel was a compromise of great questions for whieh he has eon tended nobly in the past in the interest of the Masses. Clearly, "Butch ' ' has the situation well in hand and his perception of the real difficulty and the only way ont of it should lead to his selection as chair man of'the Oregon delegation and the Chief. Counsellor in the national con vention. . ; i S . THE CIVIL SEE VICE HUMBUG. The little tempest now raging in Portland between A. A. Courtenef , one of the local board of civil service com missioners, and B. L- Stow ell, the re cently removed secretary of the board, serves to call attention again to the absurdity which lies at the bottom of the entire civil serviee idea. That! the element of favoritism en ters largely into the system, cannot be denied.: It will always' be so, even with the best intentions o f any eommis-1 sion. But this is not the chief objec tion to the rale that requires applicants for position in the public , service to satisfactorily answer ' a lot of catch questions which frequently have no bearing whatever, on their.' fitness, which, alone, should be the test of effi ciency. . . V .Under the eivij service rules there is ho adequate method of discovering the honesty of an applicant. In fact, thia attribute, while not altogether neglect ed, is one of minor importance, and the pert fellow. who is "up" in his answers to the different conundrums propound ed to him, is the successful applicant. If a young man can glibly answer a dozen or so questions that prove noth ings as to his actual qualifications for the work applied for, he ean depend ifpon getting the position, though it may be his intention to steal every thing in sight that' he ean get away with and coneeaL The trouble these times is not that so many in the publie employ are in- A TEXAS WONDER HALX'8 GREAT DISCOVEST. One small bottle of the Texas Won der, Hall's Great Discovery, cures all kidney and bladder troubles, removes gravel, cure diabetes, seminal emis sions, weak aad lame ' backs, rheuma tism and all irregularities of the kid neys and bladder in both men and wo men, regulates bladder trouble in chil dren. 1 If not sold ; by yonr druggist, will be sent by mail oa receipt of $1. One small bottle is two month's treat ment. Dr. Ernest W. Hall, sole manu facturer, P. O. box, 629, St.' Ixrcia, Mo. Send for testimonials. Sold by all drug gists and Dr. S. C. Stone's Drag Store. . .BEAD TTTTH. . ' . ' To Whom It May Concern: . This is to eertify.4hat I was down for nine months with kidney and blad der trouble, and tried all known reme dies to no avail until a neighbor induc ed me to get a bottle of Texas Won der, one half of whieh cured me sound and well; this I would cheerful! v swrear to. aad for the benefit of those who are afflicted and wishing to be permanent ly cured, they can obtain a bottle at mv house Joeated on West 11th street. Yours truly, .. ; ... y ; , , J.J. BEALE, ' - ; s Medford, Or. If you neg lect the stom ach and bow els you ara going to snfTer from Kaassa, ZkZZtMistk, Sleeplessness, CsBstiaatJos, DytsessU sad lagestlsa. , Tne Bitters will strength en tbe atom acli, keep the bowels open and prevent these ailments . lfsaettls f 1 V ' fN ,STOMACH fm competent but that they kre, dishonest. The civil serviee examination pretends to establish 'the competency of the ap plicant while the more important con sideration of honesty cannot be deter mined, by any examination' that can be made by a, commission appointed gto pass upon a lot of questions prepared largely to test the 'degree to which the guessing ability has been developed. The old system embodied in the dec laration that "to the victors belong the spoils," is not , a bad one to follow, after aD, and though it be Democratic as to its origin, it is an idea that should not be too deeply "buried' as a dead one. neadsj of departments should have a larger latitude in the matter of their subordinate appointees.. No -doubt better service would be the result aad it would be much fairer to those who though in authority, have little to say as to whom they may trust with the details of the business with whieh is confided to their hands. A man may be able to accurately measure the" altitude of a distant moun tain by gecmetrTcal, calculation, or to tell you insl;antly'tTie very day of the week, and t be hour, upon which Cicero first saw the light of day, and yet be the slickest pilferer that ever wielded a pen. Th publie serviee is not at this time - suffering' for a lack of effi ciency" among its employees, tbut a sur feit of grafters. ' It is a condition that has grown up under the civil service system, andj though not altogether, yet it is largely, responsible for it. . 1 T FIN ALLY SETTLED. . There isj no kind - of contest whieh comes before the people that equals in persistent refusal to be side-tracked or in its bitterness, the, one involving the changing of the location of a county seat. Of all efforts of this character that whieh J has been efore the people of Union county for over thirty years has been the most noted and tenacious. At length, however it1 ha been set tled, perhaps for all time, by the very decisive voie of ,54 for X Grande to 1003 for Union. There will be no legal contest over the result, as Union is showing a commendable spirit and is disposed toj gracefully bow to the in evitable. And why notf It is beauti fully situated in one 'of the best sec tions of the Grand Bonde valley, sur rounded byj fertile lands and with a splendid water power. The mere com mercial advantage of "having the eoun ty seat,' while of some importance, to be sure, is not indispensable to a town that has tne many elements. leading to a successful growth that characterize the location of Union, and its courage-v ous attitude since the election has been known is itself iadieative of i that per manent growth which will no doubt mark its future career. ) r : If the people of Union will live up to the spirit shown by the Bepnbliean, published here, it will scarcely have reason to miss whatever of advantage the county seat has been to its busi ness. The Bepubliean says: "Don't Leet frightened over this eounty seat matter, along without it, if Union can get necessary,' and thrive and prosper. Our soil will be just as good, our timber areas as great, our water j as pure, our fruit yield just as heavy, Our skies just as blue as if wq I had the eounty seat (and we have it yet), so keep cool and look pleasant. There wilt be enough of us left here to do business yet." , - .-' r. . ' . 's: '. Whatever may be said of Mr. Bry an's continued popularity, er the re verse, it cannot be denied that he re tains his hold on the Nebraska Democ racy. At no time in the past has he been more supremely in control of the party organization than now..' At tbe late state convention, though consist ing of a thousand delegates, not a score could be found who were willing to pro ceed, until the judgment of tbe prophet himself could be obtained. He will go to 8t. Irols with histt solidly at his back, with the Kansas City platform re-endorsed and with such prestige that those who are clamoring for fitting ob sequies over a job lot of dead issues will find the Defender of the Brow of Labor there ready to call in question the claim, no matter by whom present ed, that death, has overtaken any aia gle "principle" for which the fathers ever contended. - The Eugene Begister, with several other Bepnbliean newspapers of the state, calls attention to the necessity of passing at the next session of the Legislature the Vet6ed'law providing for printiAg'party tickets oa the om cial ballot in groope, in order that the voter, who so desires, may mark his ticket, if he wishes to vote It straight, by making one mark at the top, instead of searching the names ont one by one all over a blanket ballot. This is good suggestion to which the States man haa frequently referred, and there is no doubt of '.its' passage at the next session. Since most men of all parties vote at least a majority of their party tickets, it will be easier to hunt out the names of the men of whom they disapprove, being fewer, than to be compelled to search for the . names f those they intend to support. The average man will take special pleasure fn finding the name of the man he is opposed to, and will do it,' for which reason the present method should be reversed for the convenience of the voter., Why should the names of can didates be printed on the ballot alpha betically. What paper in Oregon will volunteer to defend it t ' ' Through the public spirit of Werner Breyman and the estate of his brother, Eugene, steps have. been taken to erect a publie fountain on Collage street, opposite the center of the postoffiee block, on the east side of the street. The fountain with all its appurtenances is now on the road and is expected to arrive within a week. The Statesman desires to suggest that, the eity should take ateps at once to grade this street and build a permanent cement walk from State street to Court, including the crossings, of both streets, before the location of the fountain is begun. It will be a beautiful work of art, an or nament to the eity and whatever steps may be necessary to 'provide for it should be cheerfully taken and at once. When ("he grounds are made ready the erection of the fountain will be a mat ter of but IE few days and we shonld have the benefit of its presence during the summer months of this year. Some wags with a sense of humor abnormally developed draped the office of the Tillamook Headlight in mourn ing the night after the election, com menting upon , which, the Headlight makes the decfarafion that the (result of the election is "a direct blow to the eounty and those who have interested themselves in its development." I But these spells do not, as a rule, last long. It will not be a month until the Head light will be telling the outside world that Tillamook is the best country on earth for new corners' to settle in and that its dairying industry cannot be excelled, etc., etc And I nobody will dispute it ; - "A Tillamook man has cured several cows of milk fever1 by the following process: Milk the cow dry and 'then pump the; uidei-"fu?? of air, leaving it there for eight boeVs. He used a bicy cle pump and a glass tube to inject the air. . He say a in . thirty ' minutes' the cow was relieved and ready to eaC" Tillamook paper. This is interesting, if true,' ' but the publie would like to know what became of the man who con ceived the? idea whether he died of appendicitis' or spinal meningitis. This is evidently but half the story. A Portland woman who is the mother of fifteen children has sued the father of them for divorce. Probably upon the ground of inhuman treatment, but she was a long time finding it out. skim linns dlood nuns Spz2dily, Permanently, and 1 Economically Cured : tyCuticura VIIEN ALLELSE FAILS Complete Externa) and i Internal Treatment ! Price One Dollah j i- : m --' ' ' ' ; t fef , Ia the treatment of tottering, disfig uring, itching, scaly, crusted, pimply, blotchy and scrofulous humors of the skin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair, Cutlcura Soap, Ointment and fills have been wonderfully successf uL Even the most obstinate of constitatlonst bo mors, such as bad blood, scrofula. In herited and contagious humors, with .loss of hair, glandular swellings, nicer oos patches la the throat and mouth, ore eyes, copper-coloured blotches, as well as bolls, carbuncles, scurvy, sties, n leers aad sores arising from an impure eondlOoa of tba blood, yield to the Cutlcora Treatment, when an other remedies falL And greater a it possible, U the wonderful record of cures of torturing, disflgurins; humors among infants and children. The suffering which Cutlcura Remedies have alleviated among the Joong. and the comfort they hare af orded worn-out and worried parents, nam led to their adoption la countless homes as priceless curatives for the skin and blood. Infantile and birth ho. mors, milk crust. scaUed head, eczema, rashes and every form of Itching, scaly, pimply sain sad scalp humors, with toes of hair, of Infancy and childhood, are speedily, permanently aad economically cured when all other remedies suitable' for children, and even the best phy sicians. falL . fa tm 9t (.mminUm V t FUw, . mm 1 W t mim q. i Turf, tun 4. ht tmwt tinn, I.W CMmkaS a a i mi .. in i a p mm mm PAY-IIP u Tbe taxes and interest, and we will give a term of years to fay for this farm, 80 acres of good laod, 14 acres in Cultivation, and 25 ready for the plow; house, barn . and outbuildings. Young orchard, good water, fenced. Located 8 miles from railroad town, 1 mile from school, near rural mail route, price $10 per acre. Let us show this. Will exchange. 5 acres of good unimprov ed fruit land near Salem. Make your own terms i We have good farms in all parts of the county. A large list of city property. See us before you buy. Have, you any thing for. ale or trade? Call, we may have the kind of property ,you want : H. S. rSADCLIFF Room 11, over Red Front -Drug8tore. i - : Corner of Commero'al and State BANCTEERS' DAT i AT THE -' BIO . PIANO . SALE SATURDAY r. ' .-M 299 COMMERCIAL STEEET Cascara or Chittim Bark and Oregon Grape Root i Bought by t" - A. B. Lothrop, Albany, Oregon Bepreaantinc Qucgvabtme A Cow San Francisco T-. eanchees "jgr .. SlSj AY r: .f ' AT THE ; "15: 1TVS via atfi TSTLIT piano "532 fmrF sale HTR TBT SATHEDAY W 299 COMMERCIAL STREET ' Is a Tough Character - Frank Hughes, who a few weeks ago served twelve days in tbe city, jail for the larceny of a knife -from -the- White House restaurant, waa run . in. again yesterday and booked upon a charge of drunkenness. Hughes is a, tough char acter and deserves: the limit for eah o (Tense. - .?".";' - V. Driven to Desperation. 'Living at an out of the way place, remote from civilization, a family is of ten driven to desperation in ease of ac cident, resulting in ' Burns, . Cuts, Wounds, Ulcers, etc Lay in a supply of Bueklen's Arnica Halve. It's the best on earth. ' 25c at Dj. J. Fry's drug store. "..' Legal Blanks at Rtitesman Job Office Legal Blanks at Statesman Job Odes oing!! Mm ! ! ! The big piano sale is in full blast, and more people aro 'talkiug piano' in Salem today than everdid before Salem people are not only TALK ING about our piano bargains, but tbe wise ones are taking ad vantage of our unprecedented offers. of- Some - -: are coming around -AFTER tbe pianos are sold. These are the people who are al ways going to do things "next yearn and it is these same "next year" people who are always won dering why their next door neigh bors are doing so much j better than they. you '"next year" people; you j will . . i never own a piano until yoxi get '- : I : !. -' -.. . 1 ; one, and now is your chance; Your Life- ime Chance. These You help us in this emergency and we will help you many dol lars worth and give you the easi est" way to do your part. Wanters? A iKlA rvn (T mm m Oregon's Leading JIusic House Salem Branch 299 Commercial St. wake Dp Pianos Must Be Sold now About This! - . ' Piano r mm it