Jill UIOIY Cr.ECCn STATET.lAfi
FniUfcd starr Tueadar u4 Friday by the
cTATESMjLS FCBUBHXSQ COUFAJiY
X. J. HTCfDRICK. Manacer.
T. T. 3&VR, JEdltor.
BUBSCEIPTlOir JCATJC&
Ons yew to advance.., njgt
Pis inotr, u advance J0
TbrM Biwaib. In advance 94
The BuUacnan bM been etAbMbert for nearly
Cf:y-two years, snd li bM son subscribers who
hT received It nrir that loot and bidt
who har read it lor tMMntloa. Homo h
thaaw object to having Lb paper dia-onUcned
ft tb time of expiration of fbrtf iibamMloot,
tor the bunefit of Uvea, end for other rtMou
we naveeonelo'led to 'iUcontinne abrcrlpUooe
Only when notified to do so. AH persona pavtnf
when sabaerlbnK. or partus in ad rase. w1d
haretbw benefit of th dollar rat. Bat U they
do not pT tor ix soon the, tbe rat will be $1.25
Tear. Hereafter we will send the paper to aU
responsible persons who ri. it. tbouirh they
nay not end tbe money, wtih tbe understand.
in tbattbey are to pay I1.2S year, lu case they
let ibe tfaoacripUon aonoant ma ever tz
months. Ia order that there asay be no miiun
dentana'iBfr. we will beep this notice standing
at this place in tbe paper.
CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000
MODEXN TACTICS IN WAEFAax.
Stripped of all unnecessary verbiage,
the object which a nation has when it
goes to war with another, is to kill as
many of the. other's soldiers as possi
ble, and to do it quieklj. War means
death. Powder and guns and bayonets
are used for no otber reason than that
they are engines of destruction, and
modern inventions In that direction a.e
so very much improved over those ia
use forty years ago, that the natural
expectation Is an 'increased effective
ness as to death-dealing results. ,
- But, singularly enough, the reverse
has followed. . Armies numbering way
up into tbe thousands can "fight"
all day with the latest appliances for
mowing down men at a fearful rate
and at almost unbelieveable distances,
and after it is all over it is found that
a roan hero and there has been killed
and perhaps a dozen injured. A few
are also ''missing" usually.
In this respect, modern "wars" con
stitute a travesty on the idea. Guns
have been invented that will carry a
mile, say, so the armies arc careful to
remain ft mile and a quarter apart.
Each army is bent upon the destruction
of the other, has been maneuvering a
month for an opportunity to "get at"
the other, but when the distance- be
tween them is finally reduced to that
point where there is no intervening ob
stacle, that ungovernable eagerness to
carve the enemy which op to that time
had been literally insuppressablc, de
part, and the "engagement" is pulled
off at a safe distance.
. The Russians and Japanese will prob
ably "fight "through entire summer
without killing as many men altogeth
er as lost their lives at Gettysburg
within three days probably not so
many, as were killed in Pickett's cele
brated charge within the space of three
-Lours. .
Itrshould be rememberd that there
were'54,000 men killed, wounded and
missing at Gettysburg, 25,000 at Antie
tam, 28,000 at Chancellorsvi lie, 33,000
at Chiekamagua, 23,000 at Shiloh, 18,
000 at Fredricksburg, 23,000 at Stone
Kiver and there were so many cngage-
ments failed mere skirmishes, ' where
5000 or more were killed and miHsine,
that they were scarcely worth record
ing;. ; . .
Iut the men in the great Civil War
were fighting' for what they regarded
as a great principle, and when two
armies fouud themselves within flght;
ing distance, they proceeded to get
near enough to accomplish what they
had in view. In all the annals of the
world's military history there has nev
er been a war which developed so much
courage .of the highest order as that
which was waged between the North
and the South, for and against a prin
ciple which had its first tangible ex
pression in the Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions of 1798.
AT SEA.
Notwithstanding the long and dis
jointed platform adopted at St. Louis',
the lmocratie party appears to have
no definite idea as to what really ails
the country to a sufficient extent that
Hair Splits
'I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor
for thirty years. It is elegant for
a hair dressing and for keeping the
bair from splitting at the ends."
J . A. Crue nenf elder, Grant! ork. 111..
Hair-splitting splits
friendships. If the, hair
splitting is done n your
OWn hcad.it loses frirnrlc
1 for you, for every hair of
your neaa is a friend.
; Ayer's Hair Vigor in
advance will prevent the
splitting. If the splitting
has begun, it will stop it.
M-n a MUM. All rrrJ.
jz, rr'i.n?:? r yon.
,,r w"iwr ami w win
or your --.a:
the promulgation of
'specific grievance. Protection la said to
b robbery, but just what system "of
"tariff reform" could be devised that
would rob more people in the game
length of time than was accomplished
within four years under tbe only Demo
cratic tariff we , have ; had forj fifty
years; would be difficult to imagine. -Even
Governor Chamberlain, in his
interviews since returning from the
East,; says nothing abbot the tariff as
an issue in the pending campaign
going so far away from it, in fact, as
to admit that "Wall Street," that dis
tressing bogey man whose very name
prostrates the Democratic masses, is
about equally disposed towards Roose
velt and Parker.
But the tariff in its protective form
has come to stay in this conntry for
many a year ia the future. The Demo
crats will not seriously attack it in this
campaign and te voters will gladly
let it alone. In this connection we wish
to call attention to a speech recently
made by Congressman McCleary, of
Minnesota, on the present tariff sys
tem, which is a masterpiece of logic,
and unanswerable, as may be said,
indeed, of any speech Mr. McCleary
ehooses to deliver on any subject.1:
The Statesman desires to call tbe
attention of its readers to this speech,
which can be secured, free, by making
application to the American Protective
Tariff League, through its secretary,
Mr. W. IV Wakeman, 339 Broadway,
New York, N. J.
MUTUAL ECSTAST.
"Secretary Shaw should be the hap
piest man in the United States. lie
aay, high prices indicate prosperity,
and prices are going higher .every
day' Baker City Democrat.
, But Secretary Shaw has no right to
a monopoly of this inexpressible pleas
ure. ; For about four years to-w.it, be
tween '03 and '97, the Democrats- all
over; the country jdioutcd themselves
hoarse in bilter denounoiation of the
gold standard, giving not only as a rea
son, but the reason, that it had caused
money values -to appreciate and all
other values to correspondingly depro
eiate, untir1 the prevailing low
prices were driving the Masses
to actual want, and the . tyran
ny of the Money Power, the EelcnMess
Octopus, etc, had done it alL
Oh, no. Now that under the gold
standard prices have turned from that
pitiable condition, our . Democratic
brothers should not be so painfully
modest that thev feel themselves on-
. . . v- t.
worthy to share in the general rejoicing
over the narrow escape guaranteed by
the timely return of high prices, ior
whirh deliverance the Democrats them
selves uttered their most devout and
constant implorations.
INHERITED. CALAMITIES.
In an effort to utterly discredit
Alexander Hamilton as a great states
man, using as an excuse for set doing
the centenary of his death a few days
ago, Col. AVatterson says, among a lot
of otber things that are unfounded
conclusions, that "Hamilton Is not
without many adherents to his views
in this country today, whose influence
is seen in the existence of trusts, sub
sidies, and other centralizing tenden-
eies as the outgrowth of his teach-
mgs."
Among which, perhaps, might be
mentioned 40,000,000 that have been
pilod up by Uncle Gassaway, every
dollar of which has been earned by the
sweat of his face and of other peo
ple'sthe cheerful support of the Dem
ocratic nominee for President by
Wall Htree and the Democratic criti
cism that if .Roosevelt, as the President
of a centralized government, i would
"but say tbe'word," and enter a sov
ereign state and suppress its militia
with Federal troops, we might expect
justice to prevail in Colorado! Oh, yes,
there are evidences of. Hamilton's
hand to be seen here and there ia this
country yet.
SECOND PLACE.
In speaking of Salem's population
the Portland Journal refers to it as" the
second city in tbe state in importance
and population, but adds that surfe
claim "would be disputed by Astoriahfve) he herself would have in all prob
and doubtless by llaker City." .i i -.L. t - .
The claim is so manifestly. true that
one is surprised to read in the Astor
iaa such a paragraph as the following:
f "Perhaps by Astoria" is good J
such a cute way of slurring the un-
disputed second city of Oregon, ;
i with fully 3,000 more people than
Balem and 4,000 more than Baker
City.". - .-: . ; : ; , : ly-
But Astoria said nothing about the
statement of the Jourtuduntil the run
of oc key e salmon became phenomenal,
as tbe dispatches inform us. We will
gladly submit to a test of the matter
at any time save during the open fish
ing season. : -. . ' - , ' ' ; . ' ) .
It . is some consolation, however, . to
observe that . the Astoria n places us
1,000 to the good of Baker, though the
papers of that hustling burg are yet to
hear from. In -the meantime, watch us
growl : .t
i SPECIAL FBOVIDENCES.
- -
j It . certainly doing no injustice to
other speakers who entertained the
visitors to tbe late Chantauquan assem
blage at Gladstone Park, to say that
Dr, Dwight Hillis was the ablest of
them all. No ordinary man Could hold
CLECir A1TD X.
Cleon hath a million acres, ne'er a one
Clcon dwclleth in a palace, in a cot -
tage I'
Cleon bath a .dozen fortunes, not a
penny I.
Yet the poorer' of the twaia Is Cleon,
o and not I.
Cleon true possesscth acres, but the and .Kentucky f There are many legis
6 landscape I; ; 1 , - (latere in those states voting wrong all
Half tbe ebarins to me it yieldeth, ta6 tiiner and with faithful wives who
uiuucj cauuuv vuj,
Cleon harbors sloth and dullness, fresh
ening vigor I;
lie in velvet, I in fustian, richer man
am L
Ceon is a slave to grandeur, free as
- - -
, : thought am I
CJ eon fees a score of doctors, need of
- .-'.-none have It '
Wealth-surrounded, eare-envlroned, Cle
on fears to die;
Death may eome hell find me ready
nappier man am I.
Cleon sees nc charm : in nature, in
daisy I; r :.
Cleon hears no anthems ringing Jn the
sea and sky:
Nature sings to me forever, earnest
- listener I; j-
8tate for ' state, with all attendants,
who would change? Not I.
; j ; Charles Mackay.
his position in Plymouth church, as the
successor of Henry Ward Beeeher and
Dr. Lyman Abbott. He ia a deep think
er, a very entertaining speaker and
with e manner of delivery wholly his
own, it being peculiar in that he makes
few gestures, frequently speaking 1
ten minutes without moving either hand
and talking straight : before him over
the heads of his audience. He speaks
rapidly like a machine set to work, and
his ideas, always rieh with intellectual
food, are thrown out like sparks from
a dynamo.
But Dr. Hillis has. some peculiar
ideas,' nevertheless. His sermon last
Sunday afternoon, delivered to 5,000
people, was based upon the proposition
that sorrow and adversity' are as essen
tial to the development of ; the best
there is in. a man as are joy and an
unbroken experience of gratifying
success. To this proposition, in the
abstract, few people of observation will
take i, exception, but, certainly, most
thoughtful people will dissent from his
position that God directly visits, per
sonal afflictions upon people that the
development of stronger character may
ensue and that individuals so punished
may feel themselves drawn closer to
tbe Divine Power as a result of the
chastisement.
rThe fallacy of this doctrine is shown
by the mere statement of it. If God
were' taking a direet interest in the
welfare of individuals in this manner,
to be fair and impartial, such afflictions
would be universal, r whereas, we fre
quently see the most devout of men
loaded down with afflictions of various
kinus, men who, apparently needed no
reminder of their duties in this respect,
and, on the other hand, the world is
full of men, making no pretense to
Christianity, rich in this world's goods,
with, excellent health, surrounded by
every comfort and entirely free from
sueii sorrows as Dr. Hillis described as
being sent to men and women at times, j
solely for the purpoe of making them
certain inheritors of that beatific .life
which the future holds for the faithful.
Such a doctrine is the essence of
f orcordination, destroys individual re
sponsibility for the sort of life men
may; lead, and says, in terms, that the
man whom God negleets to visit by
severe affliction has a smaller chance
for ultimate redemption than Lis more
fortunate neighbor who has been se-,
verely chastised, and, therefore, i large
measure, not responsible for what the
after life has in store for him.
This indefensible doctrine had its
day during the last two centuries but
has few sincere advocates today.
Dr. Hillis took for his text, primar
ily, the instance of a woman whose lit
tle babe bad been taken from her by
death and bad appealed to him
for consolation, if, any 'were to be had,
and he bad replied that it was a direct
visitation from God to weave a golden
thread which should at all times
through her life draw her heart to the
treasure 4hat lies secure in Christ's
bosom, etc. ,
The inference from this is, of course,
that if her babe had been permitted to
aTjfility wandered away from the correct
vm v w auit a ju anni a. i uiii iuu cut h ur s.
path) and finally been lost! And yet,
both -the doctor and the woman could
have named thousands of other women
whose babes are spared to them in all
their beauty and comforting compan
ionship, thus, by 1 inference, contribut
ing to the final - consignment of the
mothers to a world of unending punish
ment! ; ,. -; r -
At the late eampmeeting at Turner a
minister who believed this doctrine of
implied individual irresponsiblity,
gave the instance of a member of tbe
Nebraska sebate a few years ago, who
voted "no" on a' bill providing for
prohibition in that state, lie had been
married but a week to a lovely woman,
who Was in the gallery during roll call,
and so chagrined was she at her hus
band's .vote, that she called, a page and
sent him a note ' saying that "if you !
love me, cnange your vote to yes' at
once
He read the notc looked in '
1
' .
, WMaScu.hv mm n. 4K r j r
Jooks with her, and arose m b,. seat
and changed his nt: lhn Mmino it-'
" : ' J o . f
rt :
siist c nnisteT that C a l'"' "B8umer bnt should
IsiasUc minister, that Cod was ,n that, not be thus imported on general princi-
J woman ' heart and that lie had used I
her at a means of converting ner nus-
band to tae great cause of temper- I
ai , - . . - . j
j And 7t, tne average miao, ; iree 10 j
reason, wiu at once inquire wny sucu
attention should "bo lavished upon the
cause of temperance! in Nebraska, while
so ranch remains undone in Missouri
would bo only too willing to give their
aid to the cause' of temperance if their
j hearts were but touched in the manner
that inspired -tbe wife of tbe derelict
Nebraska legisltaorf . '
This idea of special providences of
God in small matters directly destroys
individual responsibility and has dona
more to 'undermine true - religion than
all other causes combined.. There are
certain fixed laws of right and Wrong,
well . understood by everybody, and i o
one is going to escape the consequences
of their violation by attempting a sbel-
ter behind the plea that .aJ
some people more than others, God is no
respecter of persons.
THE BENSON LAND CASE.
Of course, there is not an honest man
in Oregon (and most men in Oregon are
honest) who does not wish to see all
grafters, in whatever branch of tbe
public service they may be found oper
ating, city, county, state or nation,
punished to the fullest extent of the
law governing such abuses. The best
results of civil government can only be
.I,-
the prosecution of
betrayal of a publie j
such instances of
trust. Not only will no man who has,
.-ill ,.
interests of - his country at j
ject to this, but every good!
v.
the best
heart object
citizen will aid in ferreting out sneh . " V- "T T get out on tbe platform at some
infractions of the code of public hon.jof rPoaching outbreak, whidh.s always 8tation at Green JUvcr, hua audi
estyasfaras be has the power to do part,of ,t, that constitutesihe chief u WOader bow be vrill ever endure
. . . .. . incredient of the unforcivoable nnuc- . L . .rri. ;.-.
1 m vi- x. of approaching outbreak, whi4h is always
code of public hon- 5 11 7- 6 . . - , .
., . ,1a part, of it, that constitutes the chief
las tbe power to do , . r ' . . .. .
, ,. - f ingredient of the unforgivoable nnuc-
twin jifci'Kit ion nf i (
so. liut the wholesale accusation or 1
, both in and out of office, of crook-
men
edncss, if in, and of a desire to swin-
die the state or general government, if I
out, and having public business to
transact, in the absence Of proof, but
on general principles; is a jwsitive
wrong, not only to the men so accused,
but has a baleful effect upon tho rising
generation. .
The present administration of the In
terior. Department at Washington has
madca reord, not only for ; honesty,
wbiei is good, and to be commended,
but it has gone so far in that direction
that in many eases it has besmirched
the standing of good and innocent men
ia its desire to emphasize its reputation
for pursuing those bent on plundering
tbe public land department.
If Mr. Benson and his associates in
their business of acquiring lands oh a
huge scale have violated the national
or state laws regulating such matters,
they should be visited with whatever
punishment the law provides for such
cases, but the examination of the na
ture of their transactions by the dis
trict eourt of New York indicates that
the zeal of the Interior Department
has out run its discretion. If theso
men are guilty the Statesman trusts
they may be adequately punished, but
so many of the cases so industriously
worked up by inspectors whose first
desire appears'to be the establishment
of a good reason for their appointment
have fallen through, upon the first in
vestigation, that tbe public has begun
to have little faith in thex" exposures"
that are from time brought to light.
"ECONOMIC WISDOM."
"Of eourse, it .would have been a
matter of great satisfaction to those
of us who have always been insistent
and unyielding gold standard Demo
crats if we could have had a declara
tion in the platform committing our
party in distinct terms to , the accept
ance and constant defence and mainte
nance of the gold standard not be
cause of an unexpected increase in gold
production, but on the grounds of
economic wisdom and national honor."
G rover Cleveland.
And it is presumed that Judge Par
ker holds precisely tbe same views re
lating to the money standard that
should prevail in this country. Mr.
Cleveland takes no stock in the subter
fuge of the Klondike mines, but relies
upon tbe principle as one of "economic
wisdom and national honor." Whether
Judge Parker will declare in his letter
of acceptance his belief in tbe gold
standard as one of political expediency
or as a measure of "economic wisdom
and national honor," will be watched
with much interest; ';
INFECTED rBUTT.
The;fruit inspector for Sea trie re
cently 'condemned an aggregate of two
carloads of California peaches which
had been bought by the dealers in that
city and placed on tbe" market. They
were from Vacaville, Sonoma county,
and were badly infected with what is
known as peach moth, a worm that
buries itself in the fruit and causes it
to decay. One. bouse alone had bought
1200 crates in one of which there were
but fdur sound peaches to be found.
, While we have no regularly authoriz
ed state, or. city fruit inspector, the
j horticultural commissioner from each
district can do mch tw.,.i wv:
- r. .
I " v.oUulli a
o - x 1 1:1 tun lULPrraii nr I rii I r rnnm m
hy Joca, , dealers, especially that
. . . J
- tates. This proteeon ly
nfllCu nan been avnt hlr. frnm !
From
the
Office.
Window
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Hiawatha Barred. . ,''--;'.::
. A f ew tayi ago one of tbe Louden
papers contained this advertisement:
Wanted: Offiee Boy;-pdite, at
tentive, 'quick; v one who does ot
' whistle f Hiawatha' preferrcL Ad
- 'dress, cc." ; k
A London man who saw the advc r-
itisemeat remarked to a friend that the
advertiser would never find .what he
was afterf-that he bad twenty boys in
his employ, every one of whom whittled
"Hiawatha." .
While it is likely that sueli a boy
will never be discovered, f he anxiety of
the advertiser will generally be sppre-
eiated. 6ne of the greatest
vuranees
on this planet is the unconscious whist
ler of " Hiawatha," and they are all
unconscious. Nobody ever commits
that unpardonable offense if be knows
it, and therein lies the only avenue to
its toleration. Sight here Sflem,
boys belonging to the best families we
have, while going along the streets
with the best of intentions, apparently,
every surface indication pointing to a
sornd rond- and honorable intention,
will suddenly stab the otherwise quiet
, , -. - , : ,
od discordant elements of ; erring in -
disee-rdant elements of jarring in -
barmony that ebaracterise those pattii-
mr uara! ot -Tu.cu t u-
Saf .lbe "ention of the helpless boy.
14 " PfrhP suddenness, the ut -
ter absence of any apparent inoication
jmeanor. jThjj boy himself doesn't know
" f. . " , ...
what H. has done. The affront l.aS
t '?At 1 ' fa?
"'"r""" " 1""
t a. 1. 1
0..UU1 tu uV "viPy in 1S47, herding the few head of
his object was, be would i.only deny .looM eatUc ,B the traiI of tho tmigraIlt
that he I had whistled Hiawatha or rajn )
anything; else-aud at that very mo- WLat Wt5 want no in a flving Ina.
ment he was, perhaps really tl mking bne . wm take m to Ncw ,York
of his dear mother at home. '- !. . 1' ... i. . .
, i ... ,n cn hours. After that, a pneumatic
Public I sympathy will be v.ith the . J . , . ... .
, f . . . r ... . tube through which we can make Chi-
London advertiser, since he' will bo ;.. . , .1
I ' ' ' - . icaS ln twenty minutes and around the
compelled to puraae his business with-' , , .' , . . .
i 1 . , , , . .world in a day, with stop-ever privi-.
girl as ah office boy, some f vhoui, it
is believied, do not whistle "lliawa-
itha," at
least not in its acute stages.
O O -M
In Old Kentucky. '
in Kentucky, Carrie Nation
have found ber equal in trtren-
Down
seems to
uosity
LV few days ago, at Guthrie, in
that statj
o, he met a young; man on the
streets who was smoking a cigarette,
and without warning, slapped ii fioia
his mouth. The wicked fellow rcgnin-
. 1 t... -:ir i :
Cd tho
amageu, uuv oim , iuniing
rdiancc for sending him to the bud
place, when the female Kansan repeated-
the act, whereupon,' the young
man promptly knocked her, Jown with
bis fist. "'--'!
After loudly bewailing the departed
chivalry in the Blue Grass btate, .she
wended her way over to Elizibethtown,
doubtless thinking that in a city boast
ing suclij
a charming name fiie would be
pies. It is enough t Le compelled to j
contend with those that are indigenous '
s -
to the country
And noW the inoictment against Ben
son, thi alleged land grafter, whose
running down by the "inspectors"
sent out by Secretary Hitchcock was
said to have been the greatest case of
unearthing frauds ever accomplished
on the
face of the earth, involving
practically every prominent man on the
Pacific coast, has fallen through after
a thorough examination in the United
States district court ia New York, -t
will bef remembered that after the i.-,-000
Republican majority in Oregon last
June Sjecietary Hitebcock took all the
credit jto himself, claiming it was the
result of bis prosecution of land graft
ers in jOregon. After Roosevelt's elec
tion this fall we may listen for Hitch
cock's modest assertion that it was the
result ( pt bis "unearthing of Ben
son 's unparalleled crookedness :in . the
prosecution of his land deals. In the
meantime one can readily 'foresee the
result jf the McKinley-Wa re trials if
they ever come to pass.
Marion county should lose no time in
acreptjng the offer of the Lewis and
Clark laanagers to donate $500 toward
a c.iunty exhibit at the Exposition next
year,; provided, as we understand it,
the county will expend as much ia ad
dition.) Since it is to the interert of
every county in the state to make of
the Fair as great a success as possible,
and since without a magnificent display
of Oregon 's resources, such- success ean
not Ixi ' expected, it will Le the duty
of every county ia tho state to earnest
ly and enthusiastically 'assist in this
matter. . Thi3 offer of the Lewis and
Clark managers, is a liberal one, and
should cnliei tbe co-operation of all our
peoplej. . Now is tbe time to remove
that; Vushel which has been covering
Oregoi's possibilities most successfully
ever Since it was nettled.
irl - i : . ,
oS cl ZoU
that liefore any serious case, are tried
'in their " respective courts involving
Editorial IdelliJhls e.nd ptweryektions on Various PeopU
and Thlnis. Picked Up and Scrlbled Down . at OdiiTirtiea.
treated with more considcratisn for the
sex she ajurn5 more or less.
. llut ber career here was even wore
turbulent ;than at Guthrie. Her first
act was to invade a saloon, owned by
Mr." A. It. jNeighprs, who, rpon r.cr sec
ond attack assaulted her in a manner
that at once put ber out of business so
far as that town is concerned.
, Carrie !no doubt now recalls that
there are jdifferent kinds of Neighbors,
and that jwhile yon havo no right to
covet his jwife nor his man-servant, the
injunction lies equally strong against
coveting jiis saloon. The perceptive
faculties j of Mrs. Nation Lave been
fearfully neglected if she bas failed to
learn that the Kentuckian, of all' men,
will staud no nonsense when it comes
to interfering with Lis whiskey or bis
tobacco.
j ' o o ;
' We're Hard to Please.
When the pilgrims who wended their
way to Cjregon from Illinois had Mis
souri in '43-4, there was a well-grounded
complaint that it was a long and te
dious journey, involving a great wtste
of time.! Later, when stage coaches
were substituted for ox teams, CheTe
was general rejoicing for awhile, ; but
more rapid transit was longed for,
which came in the '70 's. Since tlten it
has beenj possible to go to Chicago in
four days, pleasantly ensconsed in; a
iU4ouuj j'viv , ,
jwith cvrr attendant eomfort that
j with cvierjr attendant
'exuId bejimagined. .
But the ruiiman car has become in
u is pokey. After riding
jafcout ,wo tfae avcrag; rcs8CIiger
. A.., 41,-
'
station, say,
...'i.
bly wonder
.1,
t xo more UJ
r.vo rai-rp uavg 01 m -iue ; wr-ier s
Ju of fourtecn yc!trS)
Wdlkcj ,,ractieally every step, from the
Missouri river to the Willamette val-
leges. Ueyond that, at present, at Uast,
we " seek not to penetrate the veil."
Hut Uuele John Minto easily -recalls
when times and even aspirations were
'different. On the 5th dav of December.
he mailed a letter to Lis father,
who was living -in Pennsylvania, -from
j Astoria,' the mail going out bv a Ilud-
son's Day steamer for Liveriool. Af -
ter reaching that KnglisU port, the let-
ter was returned to America .and in
the course of human events, it reached
his father in Central Pennsylvania. Mr,
.-l'r:... i,:- i .
Minto received an answer to his htter
on the 13th of July, 1847, at Astoria." It
was one of a large batch of letters
brought from the Missouri river, ad
dressed to jteople living all over this
country, by Mr. J. M. Shively, ' afterr
ward, and for some years, postmaster tt
Astoria. -
VTho letter was handed io MrMinto
just where tho town of Hammond new
stands, and he says,a take- it altogotlicr,
Perhaps Milt Miller was not very
mad, anvwav. What is a mcrn nm.
bership in a Democratic National com
mittee to Milt in a campaign with a
gold standard man at the head of the
ticket? . The Governor probably im
pressed this fact upon. him, as wo are
assured that all is peace on th San
tiam. j
While eery prospect pleases,
And only Man is Tile."
All such stre't corner cranks as
Dowie and Creffield should be suppress
ed by the authorities at the locipiency
of their demonstrations, instead of
waiting until the poison! which has un
dermined them has inoculated a lot of
other people. There should be no ex
hibition; of mawkish sentimentality as
to the 'freedom of speech" for a man
whose moulhings prove that his mental
equilibrium is a thing of the past.
In disgust, Santos Dumont has gone
to Europe with the intention of not re
turning until next' year, doubtless con
vinced that he would have no fair
chance in tbe United States in compe
tition with the hot air period of a Pres
idential compaign.
Hare you noticed that Carl Schurz
has not yet given the public bis views
on the political ' situation f Ho is no
doubt carefully thinking it over, but
when 'he does eome to the front yon
will find him talking like a Dutch
Uncle.
questions of a purely ethical nature,
the frazzled condition of the scales
which the beautiful Goldcss of Justice
on the court houc holds in ictacular
prominence should be submitted to a
careful process of direct examination.
CoL Watte rson warns Parker, whom
he is enthusiastically suppojling, that be
would acrej no oflSco under the sun.
But he should communicate his inten
tion to Boosevelt, who will have tho
question of offices to deal with. ,
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The . Baker City Democrat says
"Eagle Valley, appropriately called
'The Garden of Eden,', is treaking all
notwithstanding the "deliy in tli
mails," flat it! was alout the -happiest
day of bis life. He bad been ''married
the day before to one of Astoria's fair.
eta uauguicrs, uss A. .Morri.n,
and they were then on the bank f tho
Columbia ready to go aboard the tkifl
in which they made the trip from tluro
to their future; homo near Salem.
And Mr. Minto says, even ;iow, near
ly sixty, years afterward, that timrs
didn't seem so, bad, since he tan imaK.
ine nothiag that would have 'added to
his' store, of happiness, notwithstand
ing it required two years and : l:ilf
send a letter to Pennsylvania aud get
an answer.
Forgcttiag Details.
The other day a party of Salemitrs
were discusosing the rather !ry su'iinu.r
we have exjericnce.I, when one f thcrn
recalled the dry summer of 1h:i, An
other added that b. remembered th.it
summer and how cxeeelingly smokv it
was. Then -several others ree.-dk,l 1U
smoke of 1S83. Still anjother rccill.xl
that it was o. smoky that as ; .he ennio
up the Columbia in August ,f that
year, passengers on the boat could rare
ly see either Shore, and that the plot
was constantly blowing the whistle u
running under slow bells. He remarket,
incidentally, that he came to 8;d.m on
that trip and heard Henry ',eer.her ilc
liver his lecture here, 'casually mM-
ing that ex-Governor Gi'l.bs intMluccd
him to the audience.'
It happened that nost of the nrty
heard Beochef on that occasion Mid at
enee one of tbcln said that not nlv
did.Gibbs not introduce him but that
1 .1 : 1 ir. . . "e -
uuimiir uiu. jic came 011 tiie ntajj.? fn
attended and began h i lecture vjlhcut
even .addressrag the'..' audience. l-Vri'.er
conversation "li.Hclii..-d the fact fiint tl.o
cnti,e I,nrtr that liilds vas
there except j tho positive ii.. livi.fuat
who had made his way here itiiirujrU-'
the smok?. . Several of them ii.sisti d
that iu 1SS3 Cilbs ha t bwii dea I for
ages. - "
" Of course the dry summer' was ft rg.d
ten in the newiy-crcate 1 intercut in t bo
more important nubjeet ns to w iiii in
troduced IJeecher at Heed's i.er.i
House on that August evening way
back in '83,' and as there is im file of
the Statesman for that year n 'Si.Jnu
the dixptitant with tho livre lif.'d i,.eui
ory, having l,usine in 1'o'rtl.iud a .lay
or two afterward, went t , the 'i..l li :
library, -'consulted the tiles of th,. (ire-
goniari, andj found in ' the
-aleai
Notes" for August, .13, l.v.1, that,
on
lth - evening before, De.-ch.-r had ie. tur
ed here and .Was listeuod to 'Uy tho
intellectual classes of Mnri n s nd adjoining-counties,
tbe lecture was uj t
the fullest expectation and no imu 4a
difapointed in the great uiv rs.rlion-.
al orator, either ia uianuer f lciiury
or vigor of thought.'"' It ;ul A
that "ex-Covernor (iibbs ha I the ien
or of introducing Mr..- I'.eociier."
So Loring K. A'dams v.as li'ht, after
all. .'""'.' ' ' '
Kx-Governor Gibbs di"d in Jaiuiary,
187, in . Ignition, aro! ltls remains ere
brought to Dregon for interment by an
act. ..of the Legislature v liich aj jit iii
atel mony for that purpose.
records this year in the amount "pt its
fruit yield."; The Garden of Kd.cn al
ways was noted for its fruit yield, but
Eagle Valley! is religiously admonished
to refrain from undertaking to break
the record. Buceess ia tht Hue-Wouli
mean certain irouble.
The NewcYork Herald says r'airl,a'nks
'is as pink" an a girl from tho country."
riitt n-iiv ;..,t..r..MU:i.!.. ;,m.iii..i !!.
n.aj a..v ..... v-.ir.ii'.u ....-.... .....
eriminntion against '.the girl from .the v
cityf: Think of the loely lhk teas
she attends., '
The latesil Iondon fashion-decrees
that the creates on 'men 'a trousers fdiall(
be on the-siles .instead of the front.
Thin wilLK n new wrinkle tn the Itror-
rotes we saw at St. Louis.
.The Prohibition Presidential ti kct,
Swallow and Carrol, is a genuine r
nithological combination, 'but .we. 'ft'c
not certain whether a Swallow ever
Carols unless it coe on a Lark. . .
So far as known, Parker -ha-sn ?t spok
en since he. sent Hill 's telegram to fc't.
Louis. No doubt when he lii u'difiel of
hs nomiafion and asked to accept .he.
will respond, "I will.'
The St. Louis ilol. Democrat sng
geMa that the favorite form of ojcnint;
Democratic jneetings this year will be
"My Fellow Gold I'-ngs.""
"The smoke of little has cleared
away" and amon the "missing 'is I'an
Laniont. Also Hoke Saiith. Likewise
Horace Boies.- !
Judge Patker is hul to be a goo I
horseman. He certainly turned a fam
ous somersault when. hc"iflpp'd frm
Bryan and f ree silver to' Parker aal
gold.
When the facts are nil known Eng
land Malacca little of having any j'1
eausc for complaint, after nil.
No doubt Grand IV DavisV check
book is what put a stop to'nis matri
motsial program. t -