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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1893)
-- fcc. wfx, EVITNXNGr CAPITAIi JOUBNAIi, F-REDAY, KOTEMBEB3. MiKS. 3waJnFlii Psjp',- v "y- 'r?.lf1 ' ' ' rt-Z7P': 5 IS I 'il!K aU'ITAI, JOURNAL. 3 I'OBUfiHED DAILY, KXCEFT 8U.NDAY, BT TBI Capital Journal Publishing Company V .aee Black. Commercial Street. H0FE3 BROTHERS, - Editors. 1 Mr, bf curler, per month, Dtlly.br mail, per year, tteklr,8 page, per year, -JOM f i CHURCH4 AND SrATE. Governor Peon yer'a Thanksgiving procamition Is tlie boldest attempt to unite Jbe fonctloDB of church and state1 that hu ever beeu ulaced on record. Probably the only religions function of m. state official Is the lauinx or a prop- erly worded admrfnUlpri seltitig aside a day for all the peop'e to case iroiu buslne and politico an J render appro priate tribute to the divine will that orders the eaons and prepares the bounteom harvest. To indulge In poli Heal Insinuation and sbarp thrusts at a political euemy on such au occasion and In such a document, and of such a character that they border closely on the malicious, is certainly improper. But to Introduce political debate on a sacred occasion Is contrary to the spirit of our laws. It Is a well-known custom all over our country, Including Oregon, for peo ple to assemble In Union Thanbaglving services in auy comninoity on Thanks giving day. It ia part of the genial and universal custom on that day for all classes of cltlz'us, without distinc tion of party or creed, to assemble in one service. It is part of tbnt service to have the presiden'ts proclamation and the governor's proclamation read, setting aside that day for religious wor ship. If such messages bb Governor Pennoyer's are to be read at such gath erings, It will not only profane tbe da, offend many who come to observe the day In Its proper spirit, but it would in troduce into the pu'pit in an official state document a poli Ileal controversy that would Involve the whole assem bly. The minister who did not nKree with the governor's peculiar 'Isms would be justified in refuting them. Anyone In the audience wno did not like tho Populist proclamation could ask leave to reply and it could not be reiUBed. Resolutions would be Intro duced pro and con and a religious meet Ing would break up In a political row. The stump speech would supplant tb pulpit and the house of God be turned into a menagerie of deningogues. The governor wou d not probably care so long as it advertised him. But the evil would not end here. Besides tend ing to disrupt any church that would allow that proclamation to be read from Its pulpil, it would disgrace the occasion to gratify the spleen of one man who nevar fall to allow au oppor tunity to pass to liuvo his illug at President Cleveland. The line of demarcation between church and stale cannot be too Jeulous Jy guarded in our country. Hewboby any act unites the functions of a free church and a free state Is no filodd of American liberty. We have at times approved of acts of Governor Pen noyer's admlnl tratlou und may do so again. But this attempt to Introduce by virtue of the power entrusted to him by tho people his own peculiar politica views, be ihey never so just, into the exercises of a sacred day, and have propounded from the pulpits all over the stat - largo doses of Pennoyer's Populism, Id an outrage in every sense of the word. The preacher or priest who would so far forget himself us to have the message read or referred to from his pulpit would commit another publlo mlBdemcauor of the highest or der. OP INTEREST TO FRUIT GROWERS, from the Portland Rural Northwest. It L stated that J. II. Fletcher, of Vancouver, sold his entire output of prunes, som thing over 70 000 pouuds, in Portland for 7J ceuts per pound. The bulk of his prunes were Italians. Dr. J, R. Card well's crop of dried prunes amounts to 30 tous and he es thxutes that he would havo hud ten tons more if it bad not beeu for the rains. ' Tlib prune crop of Dr. Sharpies, at Eugqtie, Or., amounted to 30 tons when dried. The work of ovaporutlng them was done under tho bupervialou of L. A. Carson. An Incidental advantage of thedovcl opmeut of tho prune industry Is found this year la the faot tbut the evapora tors which were built fur drying prunes are nearly all at work uow on apples. Tho result will be u very greatly in creased output of dried apples for which there is fortunately an exceptional de mand this year on account of the gen eral failure of the apple arop throughout the East. Tho fact that Concord grapes are shipped from western New York to Portland, Or., us woll as to tho Bout d cities, by the car load and retailed at 50 C6uts per basket Is worthy of ilio atten tion of tho fruit growers of this count. The baskets in whloh those gr.ipes are Mold are called ten-pound baskets, but In reality tbey hold a lght pound of yrapc, Jlttlu less than , Th adoption I of this style of boskets proved a great! boon to the Eastern grape growers. Tbe grapes keep well in them and they are very bandy for purchasers. Nearly everywhere from the Mississippi valley east the retail price of these baskets of grapes is about 25 cents. It Is evident that tbe boom In the prune growing industry which Oregon bos been experiencing for Botne years Is about to be succeeded by an apple boom. The fame of Oregon's apples has spread irom ine voiumuiau expuumuu iuucij part of the United States, and already strangers are arriving wbo'are looking for suitable locations for planting out apple orchards. It is absolutely certain that Oregon Is going to become one of trarllner states In the nrdduction of winter apples. While small orchards, composed of many varieties, will not be apt to yield very much profit, commer cial orchards, which can supply each Variety raised in carload lots, will be apt in the Jong run to average up as much, if not more, profit in proportion to investment and expenses os any other kind of fruit. The danger of au over sunnlv of winter apples Is too small to be figured on. ABOUT PAKTY PAPERS. The Statesman is at some trouble to explain that In politica it is alway Republican. Aside from bolting tbe uomation of the Republican county convention for the most important Re publican county office at the last elec tion this Is probably true. It Is so true it is hardly news. It probably regrets Its course as a bolter and takes tbU method of announcing tbat hereafter It will swallow the whole ticket and go it blind, be it never so distasteful. It means to repair its somewhat damaged political reputation and let all know that in future it will be a loyal party irgan. Nothing can be done to shatter us partisan deyotlon in future. Th u Journal "needs to make no such explanation. Its publishers are Repub licans to tbe manor born, But tney carry their sovereignity under their hats and do not lay it down to any power on earth. We prefer to be right rather than partisan. We prefer good government and tbe prosperity of tbe people to party success In state or local u flairs when it can only be bad at the expense of tbe puoiic weal. A great many Republican papers after Harrtsou and Reid were defeated last year de clared If tbey had It to do over again they would not support Reid. The Jouitw Ar, never endorsed Mr. Reid for vie president and never recommended the people to vote for him. If be were nominated next time for president The Journal would not consider itself bound to support him. If would con sider that duty to tho party would re quire bin defeat and a blgberduty to the country would require the lessou to be taught that no such caudidate should over be put up for tho suffrages of tho people. To bring the matter nearer heme: If the crowd of corporation lobbyists' who rati the last legislature, and one of whose pass-peddlers was elected speak er of one of the houses, should secure coutrol of the next Republican state convention and nominate themselves or their tools for the voi'ous state of fices In Oregon (which we do not think tbey vl I do.) We should not considor it good Republicanism to force their services upon the people of this state. If the people havo little or nothing to say as to who shall be put up for office they can at least have something to say as to whom they may vote for at the polls. HOP KEfOltr FitOjl UEKMANY. We havo received the following spe cial report on the Continent hop trade from the German Society of tbe Hop culture Alteustudt, Welssenburg, El sas-iu, (Alsutla,) 6th October. Business Is now more animated, a dreat deul of the German crop was sold, although our dealers did not buy us lively as ex pcoted, what must bo assumed to their Importuut purchasers In foreign cnuu tries as much us to the finauclal diffi cuttles or the commercial crisis. After huvlug paid 180 to 100 marks the low est price or Alsatian uopsisnow over 200 marks and 215 are freely paid for choice. More business would be done If growers were more willing to sell. There are yet more irregular qualities than was expected; In general, hops shuw a good quality, but they don't weigh. Today it Is geuerally admitted that Abatis has not picked more that) si:uuu cwts, una uermany uot more than 200,000 cwts., ueedlng 820 to 350, 000. Belgium, France, Euclaud and America have an average German Im portatlou of 120,000 cwts. Norway, .Sweden, Swltterlaud, Hollond und other countries of about 60 80,000. Austria exported lost year 30.000, Ad mlttlug that Germany will have only to supply the GO or 80,000 cwts. to the smullor countries and that Austria ctn spare this year 40,000 cwt. for export, Germauy will want 140 to icb.000 cwts. The proportion between hops dispos able and wunts of the other couutrlo om bo estimated highest Exportation. FnrBeslumat 40 000 Wanted lluula 80,000 Kuglund U diet, States 80.000 00 to 49,000 10 000 bale of ISO lbs. The German hop trade, which hat Its ramifications in every couulry, does not give very sure news upon tbe growth and the situation of the trade. Brewers confidently believe that enough bops bad been picked for tbe supply ol the season and await a depression of the prices, whilst tbe German mer chants pick up the whole crop pf Aus trio, Hungary and the best qualities or Belgium, Burgundy, and other coun tries. The growers of these countries, which bad better results than Germany were intimidated by false reports of the buyers and sold already a great part or their crop. Germany gathered 716, 656cwts. In 1889, 304,170 in 1882, 487, 420 cwts. in 1890. 433,844 cwts. in 1891, 490,292 cwts. in 1892. It is impossible tbat tbe enormous deficiency of this year will not nave-consequences some time in the season, but as long as brew era and foreign merchants remain quiet I do not expect that prices will rise quickly. Latest news reports more purchasers and a great part of the Ger man crop is sold now. C. Bebkenhaupt. BUSINESS ADVERTISING. Salem bos three dailies, two week lies, two semi-monthly, besides any number of advertising sheets to sup port with subscriptions and advertise ments. A prominent business man, decllues to place an advertisement In The Journal because he says It would .subject him to the begging appeals ond -olicitations'of all these other publica tions. He thinks an advertisement would be a good Investment In The Journal and from a business stand point. But he says it would be like hanging out a sign of free meals for trampe. It would encouraue a flood of solicitations he is not prepared to meet. They do not come in a business way so much as in appeals for education, re ligion, charity and worst of all for political assistance. Advertising Is being reduced more to business principles than lu the past. Busluess men want to know whether a publication has any merit and circula tion before they throw away their money for a "card" to help any "caue." The principal cause is some debilitated pooketbook as a rule. SU8UESTED COMMENT. Salem bos bad Llberatl. Now bring on your literati. Sir Frederick Lockley's opinion of llie preoideot bos been unnonuced. Everybody knows the Statesman is the thick-nnd-tblu Republican party organ. 8ome Salem girls who can sing a lit tle bit can sing all around the Llberatl warbler. The Democrut fulls to respond to the Journal's challenge. The challenge is still good. Governor Pennoyer's Thanksgiving 6tump speech will uot be read from any intelligent Oregon pulpit. Salem bos some hornblowers, too, Mr. Llberatl. The only difference is they don't charge quite so much. The sloiiliua out of Secretary of Stale Geo. W. McBride for an uncalled for persistent newspaper attack is the latest freak. It will soou be time for Bro. Flagg to charge the county $48 again for pub- Isblug what was always published ip The Journal Daily aud Weekly for f 12, Salem will soon have four dally newspapers. It must be a lucrative field when consolidated Portland with nearly one hundred thousand people can get along with two. With so muuy newspaper sharks waiting losuap up the crumbs, tbe Su lem city politicians will probably con' cludv to conduct no "campuiu of edu cation." Every seusiblu minister of the gospel conducting Thanksgiving services will see to it that Governor Pennoyer's per sonal hatred of President Cleveland in not rammed down the throats of hi hearers. A Wonderful Machine. There Is no doubt that in an Is a fine mechanism, but llko every other ma chlue be wears.out by friutiou. It is said that he is born ugaln every two or tnree years, his txxiy is virtually re made from food. To retard this niafc lug over la radically wrong, as a man loses to much vitality In the delaved process tbat it takes a long time to re cuperate. Hie process or making anew Is so accelerated by purglug with Brandreth's Pills that a uew man, as It were, may be made In two or three mouths, and tbe change In tkemecbuu Irm It such that the worn out part U replaced by the new without the usual running down of the entire machine You. don't have to stop for repairs Purge away with Brandreth's Pills the old, diseased and worn out body. They are purely vegetable, absolutely harm less, auu sine to foKe at any time. Why sutler from ludlcestlon and dyspepsia? Simmons Liver Regulator Ib pteisaut aud cuns. Torr'a Pills require no change of Idiot The Experiment Prored ExpenslTe. A lawyer took in a new boy the other day, and an he had Buffered to some extent from the depredations of the former one he determined to try the new lad's honesty at once. He therefore placed a 5 note under a weight on his desk and walked oat without saying a word. Upon his return half an hour later the note had gone, and half a crown was in its place. "Boy, when I went out I left 5 under this weightl" "Yes, sir. But, you see, you hadn't gone five minutes when a man came in with a hill against you for 4 17s. 6d- I think tho change is correct." "You paid a billi" "Yes, sir. There it is, all receipted. The man said it had slipped your mind the last four years, and so" He didn't get any further before ho was rushed down the stairs, and he isn't in the law business now. Lon don Tit-Bits, Rattlesnake Weed. In Monterey, as well as Santa Clara county, there grows a weed called the rattlesnake weed. It is so named from the story that when rattle snakes get to fighting and bite each other this weed, if eaten by them, will prevent death. It grows about six inches tall, has a red stalk and slender leaves. On the top of the stalk comes a head of flowers, and the seeds of these flowers are said to be very annoying to one in passing through a mass of them, as they are furnished with sharp barbs common ly called stickers. The early settlers who had herds of sheep always made their herdsmen keep with them a bottle of strong tea made of rattle snake weed, and when any of the sheep were bitten they were drenched with this tea, which always 6aved them. Pacific Tree and Vine. Richelieu. The elder brother of Richelieu, the cardinal, was a singular man. He committed suicide because of a re buke from his parents. The sister of Richelieu was insane. Richelieu him self had attaeks of insanity. He would figure himself as a horse, but afterward would have no recollection of it. New York Times. Must Be Good. Customer Is this good soap! Dealer Well, mum, the man who writes poetry about that soap gets $10,000 a year. Customer My sakesl Gimme a dozen bars. New York WppVIv DE. L. L. 0AUMEB. Stricken Down with Heart Disease Dr. 3Ille Medical Co., JElkhart, Ind. Gextlbjej : I feel It my duty, as well na e Bleasure, to pubu&n, u ene0t received Irom leisure, to publish, unsolicited, to the world the ivea irom pn. miles- hc?t"tivc RcMcoics. I was Etnckcn aown wun atari hnrtifnif THOUSANDSr Eton of the heart and below lower rib, pain in tho arms, hortne of breath, tslecplessnera, weakness and general debility. The arteries la ay neck would throb violently, the .throbbing of ray heart could be heard across a Urge room and would lhako my whole body. I was eo nerrous that I could not hold my hand steady. I hare been under the treatment of eminent PAlMfMons. and have taken flOJon of Patent MetlMn without the least benefit, A Wend recom. mended your remedies. She was cured by Dr Wiles' remedies Ibavetaken. B-Err ihreo bntiles of your hew tj II K h U InthnnhMT Nervine. My puis i normal, I have no more tDl Gypsum City, Kans. L. I- Cakmzb. SOLO ON A POSITIVt GUARANTEE. TRY DR. MILES' PILLS, 50 DOSES 25 CTS. ciiilil ny U. J. Fry, druggist, Salem a uh. bunna MM Afllif llM 0N10N SYRUP FOR COUGHS COLDS AND CROUP. GRANDMOTHER'S ADVICE In rUln family "t ntn ehlldwa. y only remtxlr for Ooushi, Colds and Croup wu oaloa Trup. It Ujulu ffactm tc-dy u tl wu forty Setrc tco. Now ny crondeMldra Uka Dr. unn" Onion Syrup, which ! alretdy prtpand and nor pliuul to U t&a). Sold Ttrjrwher. Ltrco bottlM SO omU. Tako no ubtutata (at lh Hold hv Bm -ett A VnntfU pe. lUTItTOX MtOTIIEKS Manufacture Standard Pressed Brick, Molded Brick In all Patterna for fronts and supply tbe bhek lor the New Knlem City Hall aud nearly all the One buildings erected tn the Capital City. Y ards near lenltent lary, Salem, Or, S3 dw II m ic XTCnrNQ new i ..? wutnwarra. bl known fey caoUtuM citiM tateuM tuhtn Vnif m.TiKPmo or raorausuia 4tf l... wnM ttiin m nn.l U , ,lr7 UU I ' V" dJr1r p" ntJu4 .. no nrLsiu.Kn! pii c nrumv Dft JCO PrmMalour. Aire tOoTbnuSne tJLCO Null. Xr,JtouaJutrai44ala; . .a . 4 StoW by BfttUtt 4 Va Bhpo. "MV-X? VS .w. Vvvfl jLrJL. M s'5 s rvl c -wU Mr stVMi A Hint to Uorw Dealer. A subscriber writes to an editer: "I havo a horse that has suffered lately from periodical fits of dizzi ness. Please answer through your valuable paper and let me know what I should do with him. I'm afraid ho will get worse if something is not done soon." The editor replies, "Our honest ad vice, based on a very careful perusal of that capital book, 'Every Man His Own Horse Doctor,' would be totako him some time when he is not dizzy and sell him to a stranger." Tit Bits. A Hint to Landladies. Mr. Kicker This chop tastes of soap. Landlady You are mistaken, sir. Mr. Kicker I'm sure of it I be lieve the cook runs tho chops through the clothes wringer so tney wiu spread out and look bigger. Texas Sittings. Hood's Cures Mrs. Jennie Cunntngham. "I Could Eat Nothing bntYery light food, without haTlne terriblo distress In my stomach. Before I had taken one bottle ot Hood's I saw that It was doing me good. I continued to grow better while talcing five bottles, and Now I Can Eat Anything, and my health Is very much better than for years," Mbs Jeswib CmwcfoHAM, South. New Castle, Me. Bo snre to get Hood's Sarsaparilla HOOD'6 PlLLS cure Constipation. 25o E. M. WAITE PRINTING CO., AND JOB PRINTERS AND Legal Blanlc IJubUttJiers. -tuah's New Brlck.over thi bank. Com'l street. Rheumatism, - Lumbago. Sciatica Kidney Complaints, Lame BacK. Ac DR. SANDEH'S ELECTRIC BELT With Electro-Magnetio SUSPENSORY. TOneur without medicine all WttlaM resulting frdtn orcraxAtlon of bnln ncrre force, i exeeneaorlndi iim rauni.1 u, iBDraTtsnu I erttlon, u nerrous debility, sleeplessness, Unenor, rheumatism, kidney, llrer and bladder complaints, lame back. lumbago, scUika, all female complaints. fjr raJ 111 health, eto. TM electrks Belt contains nadrral birmauu over all others. Current Is Instantly felt W wearer or wo forfeit .(,000.00, and will rare all ot tho shore disease, or no pay. Thoa. sands hare been cured by this maKrelons InTtnUoa after all other remedies failed, and we rIt husdrsdj of testimonials In this and erery other stste. Our rewerral laisrent EUCTUC tXXTZJIMVt. tis Pfr-?. bSon tTtT offered weak men, rata wlia al) IU. HaalasMTIraruWrsastkCClBijTXintaSOt. aaaars Band for Illra-J Pamphlet, maaiJ. sealed, fre. 8ANDEN ELEOTRIO CO., So. ITS JFlr Street. POBTLaSB ORS. SALEM GAS LIGHT UL Reduction in Price of Gas. From and after October 1st, 1803. tbe price of gas will be as follews: Less than 600 'cubic feet per month $3.50 per 1000 cubic feet. Over 500 cubic feet per month S3.00 per 1000 cubic feet. Special rates for large consumption given on application to L. B. McCLANE, Manager. THE OLD RELIABLE NORTH SALEM MEAT MARKET, J. H. ALLEN, Prop. Tbe very best of meats at all times, and the bfnt of service. . JGSrOpposlte Wade's Store. J. H. HAAS, TELE TVATCHMAKEK, 2UK Commwtl ct a!m,lDrto. (Next door to Kleln'a.) Specialty ot Spectaclea, and repairing Cloeka. ,. iiiir nun ,j?wiirT MONEY TO LOAN Oa improved Ileal Estate, in amount, and time to suit. No delay In considering loan. FEAR fc FORD, lloom 12. Bnsh tb&tr block. SIM. THE WILLAMETTE, 8AJLEM, OREGON. Bates, 50 to $5.00 per Day The beat hotel between Portland aad Ban Franclaeo. Klrtr!. in .n it. .ni.TT.7. ii..u..:--zr;u.i.,r -"-. sr-z v Choicest Fruits drown In the Willamette Valley, A. 1, WAGNER, Prop. ARE YOU GOING A FISHING? On the label of ertry can Is THE KEW WILLAMETTE STABLES Completed aud ready to vfalt on costofriers.' Horses boarded by day or week at reasonable prices. We keep a full line of Truck, Drays and Express to meet all demands. Also keep tho finest Stallions In this county, for errVice. Barn and residence 2 block south of poetoffice. BY AN & CO. FEOfe THE Q Only One Gent on the Pacific Coast. S V w ,.v iHt C IEAPEST NEWSPAPER Receiving all the Associated Press ht? 7 , 1,t ! c .1 DAILY BY MAIL, PERiYEAR, i ' . I.:, ;,, K " wa Q ' These low hord times ratrs enable eveiy fajmcr tofaj his daily paper- and know the news of the world. Editorial comment is feariees-.and,-.independent. by its publishers to secure good government for the able to deal juBtly and fairly with all. s V O Complete Telegrapliic, State, Capital, F . eign, Market .aVj.a 4. v4 afKKsjC. WjU4, UV JAfcM. ti , . . WMal.V Hunting, Pic-nicing, Camping, Mining, Lumbering, or on a general outing? If you are-do. not ail. tot lay jna supply of the till bordem im sei Condensed Milk. It gives the most deli cious flavor to tea, coffee, chocolate and many summer drinks. It will keep in a-ny climate. You can use it in the place of milk for general cooking purposes. Your Grocer and Druggist sell it. the signature of Gail Borden. DAILY! O Daily Newspaper .(, i. . i IN OREGON ; ft Dispatches. -1 .M ,.1 m TT7N i:"o .iiii.a. v mm a J. acer II i) it state of the market and all 1 Edifj peopl O and Crop News. "? I Inn hi a 'm