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PAGE TWELVB. Pastor UNGRATEFUL ' ALL' -THE HUMAN RACE "0 Come, Let Us Give Thanks IMo tiis Lord; For Ha Is Good!" DIVINE MERCY ENDURETH. Ingratitude Sin and a Shame All Should Render Praia Though Not All May Pray Tha Diffarono. Cauaea For Thankfulneat Why 80 Paw Raapond Cauaaa of Ingratitud and Discontent Dumb Brutaa Mora Grataful Tha Ramady. Indianapolis, ind., November 23. Pastor Russell gavo two address eg hero today. We report the one from the text, "0 give tlianks unto the Lord; for He Is good!-for Ills mercy endureth foreverl" (I'salm l:(0:l.) The pastor laid lu part: Ingrutltudo is v K one of the least excusnblo sins. But alas, It Is everywhere manifested. Rich and poor, learned and Ignorant, appear to be growing In the spirit of Ingrati tude, unthniiltfulnoss, discontent, mur muring. And all this Is In the face of the greatest blessings that the world has ever known. With tho dawning of the New Kra God acenis to be open ing Ills hand and showering bless ings everywhere. "Ho openeth Ills band and sntlslleth every living thing" except rebellious man. The more blessings coming to man, tho more Intelligence- be attains, tho less he seems to recognize the Fountain, the Source, of his favors, It seems paradoxical, but yet It is true, that tho day of tho greatest favors the world has ever known Is tho day of tho greatest In gratitude and dlscontout. Laaaona From tha Brutaa, The bruto creation look up to man as their god-and propurly so; for this is the Dlrluo arrangement, tln.t man should be the god to boasts, llsh and fowl. Man Is In the likeness of his Creator, who Is the God of the Uni verse, With what shame do we rcallzo that the ox knowoth Ills owner and the ass his master's crib, yet man Ignores his Maker, uud scorns bent upon for getting Hlml There Is a reason for nil this. The formation of the human brain shows us that reverence and gratitude to (iod would bo the natural disposition of hu manity. Tho organs of veneration, worship, spirituality, He at tho apex of the human constitution. In nothing thorofoi-e could man, rightly guided. Hud so much pleasure, peace and satis faction as in the reebgnltlon of his Ood and the acknowledgment of obligation to Illm. Why, then, tho Aversion to Owl, the endeavor to forget Illin? tho Ignoring of Ills blessings and mercies, and the attempt to account for them all as matters of chance, operations of nature? Why Is It that tho family dog exhibits more of the spirit of loyalty, reverence, obedience and confidence In Ills muster tliuu man, with a higher In tellect and capability, exercises toward tho (iod of all grace, the Father of Mercies V 2 Corinthians 1:3. "An Enamy Has Dona Thla." Our Lord In the parable of the Wheat and the Tares declares that lie sowed good seed uure Truth, Intended to bring forth true, loyal children of Clod, children of the Kingdom. He tells us also that when tho Apostle bad fallen asleep In death the enemy, Nil tun, over sowed the wheat Meld with tare Need fuls' doctrines. NL I'aul designated these "doctrines 0f devils," (1 Timothy :t.) In due llino fie litre seed brought forth In tho Church a terrible crop of demon doctrine', which have gone forth to the whole world to misrepre sent (Jod mid Ills purposes. I I'ndoubtodly it is these doctrines of demons that hav gotten their hold In our minds from childhood's hours, which have efTMed such n poisonous liillncnco upon humanity as to drlvo the musses away from Ood -some In fear, some In disgust, some In total nn. belief. Is It any wonder that Intelll jient people should try to convince themselves that there is no such tiod Its the creeds have represented? It Is not strange. It really Is to their credit that they refuse to worship a Mug pictured In tho creeds ns far worse than the most depraved human being Hint ever was born. It. Is no wonder that men try to dis believe In a timl wlio, they nre told, had plotted the eternal torture of the race long before He created It, and has tmide every preparation for human tor ture to nil eternity! Is It any wonder that the world repudiates the Hlblo. and desire to repudiate It since Christians tell us that the lllble Is tho authority for all the atrocious the orles respecting the Almighty's pur poses? Wo peed not wonder. W sre mere ly rcnplng In the present unbelief and ilWrmiloiit the results of the false doc trines handed down to lis, mid believed by ns l,o l the Word of find, without the pruprr exerolwe of our heads or hearts to pmv those and to te that tti,V are doctrines of devils, wtolly Russell's separate from and contrary to tie teaching of God's Word. His Text and Context, Notice Upw contrary our text Is to everything we have been taught re specting the Heavenly Father. It gives us the true basis for things an appreciation of God's goodness: "0 give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good!" Then follows the assurance that Divine mercy endureth forever. Ah! this Is the merciful God which our souls have hungered after! When St. Faul declared that the heathen were feeling after God that tbey might find HI in, it was this true God whose mer cy endureth forever that they were feeling after. And when we presented to them a horrible misrepresentation, showing Him to be the Instigator of eternal torturu for all our race, this blasphemy has served to turn their hearts from Him and from the Bible, It Is high time that we realized the terrible mistake we made. It Is high time that we began to preach the Mes sage of our text, "His mercy endureth forever." This expression respecting the endlessness of Divine Mercy is re peated twenty-five times in this one I'salm alone. And yet we as Chris tians have denied this statement, and have declared instead that God's mer cy is only for the Elect; that the thou sands of millions of heathendom and other hundreds of millions In Christen dom will have no mercy. Knowing that the majority of minds nre darkened through sin, Ignorance, and superstition; knowing that the Apostle declares that Stitnn bus blind ed the minds of nil unbelievers; know ing that the Lord through the Apostles and tho Prophets has declared that tho coming Ago of Messiah's Kingdom Is the time when all tho deaf ears will be unstopped and nil the blinded eyes opened, nnd that the glory of tho Lord shall cover the whole earth in spite of all this we have cried out to tho world thut there will be no mercy for them beyond the grave, that God's mercy does not endure forever, but merely for the time we call the pres ent life. Why do we thus contradict the Al mighty? What motive Is there behind this? In seeking to restrict tho grace of Ood to the present unfavorable time of blindness and darkness, we have bad tho encouragement of Satan, and the visions, messages nnd dreams caused by tho fallen angels. St. Paul pictured our day exactly, snylng, "Many shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils." Tell tha Truth 8hme the Day 1 1. It Is time for all who love the Lord and the Hlblo to get straight them selves nnd then to help others. It Is time that the world knew what real cause It has for gmtltudo to God and for contentment with the blessings now being enjoyed. It Is time to tell them that tho death of Christ is to be the full offset of the sin of Adam, and that the death penalty of Adam's sin Is to be fully lifted. It is time to tell them that during Messiah's Ilelgu of a thousand years tho world will rise again out of sin ami death to righteous ness and llfo everlasting tho reversal uf the present relgu of HI 11 nnd Death, It Is time to tell them that God In deed has been electing, or selecting, saintly ones, but not to the Injury of the non-elect; that the work of the Klect, In association with Jesus for a thousand years, will bo the blessing of all tho families of tho earth the non elect. It Is time to tell the world that the Itlble hell is the tomb, Shool, Hades; that from it nil will bo redeemed nnd will have opportunity for resurrection to perfection of llfo everlasting; and that only tho wilfully wicked will dlit the Second Death, symbolically Illus trated by Gehenna. It Is time to tell them that all both good and bad, rich snd poor have been going to tho lll blu hell, the tomb; and that the First Iteaurroctlon will be constituted only of the saintly, the Church, who are to bo associated with Christ lu His Kiug-doni.-ltovelatton 2(1:0. It is time to tell them that none ex cept (hose begotten of tho Holy Spirit sines Pentecost will ever reach tho Heavenly condition and share the Di vine nature. It Is time to tell tlieiu that Ood's blessed provision for Adam and the remainder of his race Is Hostl-tutlon-restoratlou to human perfec tion from which they fell, and to a world-wide Kden-God's footstool mado glorious. It Is time to tell them that nil the thorns, thlstli-a, trials, dlWrultUn, nor rows and tear of the past six thou sand yours are part of tho penalty, "Dying, thou Shalt die." It Is time to tell theiu that Ood during Messiah's Kingdom, by uplifting the race, will wipe away tho tears from oT nil faces. It Is time to let them know that He Is Indeed u Ood whoso mercy endur eth forever; and that although His mercy Is ns yet extended only to the Church and to Natural Israel, eventu ally In the coining Aue It shall extend to every member of tho rnce for which Christ died. On This Baaie Thankfulneae. On the basis of this knowledge of Clod, knowledge of why sorrow nnd death prevail, the world would be ready to acknowledge the grace of God, His boundless mercy, and willing and glad to give thanks to Illm. We make a sharp dUllnctlon be tweeu the privilege of prayer and thanksgiving. All who appreciate God's goodness may offer worship lu the sense of thanks, acknowledgment appreciation. Prayer Is a wholly dif ferent matter. None have the privi lege of prayer with the assurance It will It heard except the) who np- proach G.hI through tho great Advo cate whom Ho has appointed. And none can approach through this Advo cste xrpt on the Dlvtiuj tarnis that Sermon they become Ills disciples, and take up their cross and follow Him. Thus the number privileged to ap proach the Throne of Heavenly Grace and obtain help lu time of need Is lim ited to the Church of Christ. These buve special guidance in all their af fairs, because they have come Into the family of God. But even those who are aliens and strangers may pay bom age in the presence of the great King Just as only the citizens of a country may have the ballot or other privileges of citizenship, but the foreigner may uncover his bead, hail the ruler and acknowledge blessings enjoyed, even though be has not become a citizen and does not enjoy the privileges of the ballot, etc. ' ' ' Thanksgiving Day. A beautiful and appropriate custom prevails In the United States the set ting apart of the last Thursday in each November as a duy of special thanks giving to God for the harvest bounties and all the blessings of the year past With tho majority It has deteriorated into a mere formalism a holiday. The cause of this U the growth of unbe lief, and unbelief has grown with high er education; for the educated, repelled by the false pictures of the Almighty, have turned from the God of the Bible and from any conception of, a personal God, nnd are Instructing the flower of the rising generation In Infidelity, un. belief in tho Bible we might ulmost say, In nthelsm. This is the key to the situation. The only way back to God, to faith, con tentment, thanksgiving, Is through the dissemination of the knowledge of the glory of God, that ne Is a God of Love, that His mercy endureth for ever, that He has only begun Ills sal vation In the gathering of the Church, and that eventually It shall extend to every creature, during Messiah's Thousand-Year Itclgn. Let us not wait for denominational movement, which will never 'come. Let us each feel a personal responsi bility. Let each one who receives tho blessing "show forth the praises of Illm who called us out of darkness Into His marvelous light." Let each 0110 who appreciates the true basis of thankfulness report the Message of the Kingdom to others, that they, too, may bo blesRed. The Bible, however, docs not lend us to liopo for any such condition at the present time. On the contrary, It tells that the present unbelief and discon tent will Increase, nnd will Involve the entlro world In a Time of Trouble, the cllmnx of which will be anarchy, "His Maroy Endureth Forever." However, the Bible proceeds to tell that In man's extremity, when faith shall have largely flod from the world, when discontent shall have burst into anarchy, when the present social fab ric shall have collapsed, then God will, nevertheless, be merciful; for His mer cy endureth forever. God's mercy will then be manifested in the prompt establishment of the Messianic Kingdom. Man's extremity will be Ood's opportunity for showing forth Ills great mercy and love; for He loved tho world when they were yet sinners. Unmans B:H. Let Us Be Thankful. If our hearts have not been over come by tho tldnl wnves of unbelief sweeping over tho world, it Is a cause for gratitude to God, nnd for a resolu. tloii that, by Ills grace, we will seek to know 1 1 1 111 better, appreciate Illm more, and Increase our thankfulness. If wo have u faith that recognize Dl vlno providence, especially In the uf fairs of the Church, and also In the af fairs of the world, let us be grateful, nnd let us remember that faith can be cultivated or can be dwarfed. With the disciples of old let us pray, "Lord, Increase our faith"; and let us use the means the Lord has provided for the Increase of our faith. Let us note in God's Word tho fulfilments of His promises nnd the application of the Scriptures to our own personnl ex periences. Let us ((row In apprecia tion of tho truths of the Bible, In In creased energy In the study of the Bi ble and In the application of Its Mes sage to our owu hearts. Let ns alsogrow In Increased thankfulness and elTort to show forth the praises of the Lord and to assist others out of darkness Into the light which we ourselves nre more nnd more enjoying. Willie we are not to think of God lu the way wo do of man, that He would be similarly hurt or pleased or offended or happlllcd, nevertheless we know that man was made In God's linage. We are Justified, therefore, In assuming that as we would appreciate thankfulness, gratitude. In the heart of those who are sharers of our botin tiesour children or our servants or our dumb aulinals-so (iod Is surely pleased with those who are apprecia tive of Ills goodness, who think upon Ills favors and who make acknowl edgment of them, who seek to show forth His praises to others nnd who by faith are trusting Him even where they cannot trace Htm, . 0 Qive Thanks to God I My hope Is that not only tho audi ence I am now addressing will have a very happy and appreciative Thanks giving Day on Thursday next, but that the same blessing may extend to all of the larger coiigtvmitlon which 1 address weekly through tho public press. Kven If but a few shall be made more thankful to Oval for His mercies, that few, J nm sure, will lie made more happy themselves, more pleasing to GihI. And If they bo uot already of HI consecrated people, t am sure that the gratitude arising from their hearts lu sweet Incense to our Maker will rvmt upon themselves favorably and help them to that eon. dltlon of heart nnd mind In which they might become holy and acceptable sac rlrtces to Ood through .lesus Christ Heimut l- l. , UNITED STATES ENGLISH. Tliey Think Abroad Wo Are Forming a New Language Here, Unless tuey are fairly conversant with current transatlantic fiction, and. ubove all, with 1 lie newspapers of to day. Englishmen do not realize that a new language seems In process of for mation In the United States. A Dan ish savant, the professor of languages at the Copenhagen university, has pre dicted that in a few centuries "they will be speaking American over in England instead of English." He Is also of the opinion that "the so called slang of the present American tongue Is far more poetical, picturesque and serviceable than the English of Shakes peare's time." Making allowance for a certain ex aggeration, this expression of opinion Is notable us showing that an expert believes a new American "language" to be in course of development. Ameri can slang is certainly more forceful and expressive than the argot of the British Isles, and. although much of it Is quite unnecessary, It consists In large part of the employment of very up to (fate metaphor, rather than the use of "cant' phrases." us they were termed In the eighteenth century. ( In fact the use "f metaphor Is so pronounced that 11114 - Mshman. oth erwise Ignorant of yiT'Vhiited States lingo" might understand much of It If he were conversant with the technical terms employed In engineering or rail way operations. It Is creeping- Into English rather rapidly, n fact heartily to be deplored. Iindon Globe. SWEET POTATOES IN JAPAN. One of tha Three Thingt There Native Women Really Love. The sweet potato seems to have emigrated from China 'via the Loo Choo Islands to ,lnnin. Nearly two centuries ago Aokl Konyo recommend ed to the shogun the cultivation of the sweet potato all over the empire. In grateful memory- of the benefactor there now stands over Aokl's grave a monument with this unique' Inscrip tion, "The potato professor." One. of the-distinguishing features of Tokyo is tho sweet potato bakeries, where, during the colder mouths, hot potatoes prove a godsend to many. Around these potato shops the poorer children crowd with their coppers, nuxlous for the morsel which is to them what mill: chocolate Is to cbll drcn of the west. Humor hns It that there nre but three tlilnrs tho Japa nese woman really loves pumpkin, thentor going nnd sweet potato. , At present there ere more than 1,000 potato ovens In Toko, and the sale of roust potatoes anuuully totals more than 1.000.000 yen In 110 country In the world can the poor people get pure, wholesome food more conveniently and economically than In Japan. Whether one gots a box of rice with pickles and dry llsh In a station or 11 pot of ten for Wi cents on thu train, It Is always clean nnd attractively served. Detroit News Tribune. Real Founders of Rueeian Muaio. The old saying that n man must do vote his whole llfo to one thing to be rome really great finds a curious ex ception In the founders of the new Rus sian music. The most brilliant men In this work all originally followed other lines. Tschnlkpwsky was a lawyer; Caesar Cul was professor of fortifica tions In the Military Academy of St Petersburg nnd Is today lieutenant gen oral of Knsslan engineers; Borodlne was a physician; Itlmsky-Korsakov was an olllcer lu the Husslun navy; Balaleff was a timber merchant; Mous sorgsky was a soldier, being an of ficer In one of the most famous regi ments, nnd Soknlsky was In the diplo matic service, being stationed for sev eral years In New York and afterward becoming editor of the principal news paper of Odessa. Ladles' Home Jour nal. Tha 8kaptio!am of Posterity. There Is one very lare. very sad and very certain truth 11 bout all the re lation of past and future. That truth Is this the future will uot believe us. it will not believe our most solemn and profound assertions. It will ratloualir.e them or ridicule them. In one way or another It will explain them nwuy, for that Is the most certain thing about the attitude of men toward their remote ancestors. They will believe the testi mony of material things or of their own conjectures, but never the swuni word f their fathers. Were It not so theiv would be no iihiiii for historical criti cism or perhaps for history ns n sci ence at all.-lllllalre Belloc In Pall Mall Magazine. Senieleis Question. Ilrlgga had hired a horse to take a little exercise. He got more exercise than he wauled, and as be limped to the side of the road to rest himself a kind friend asked him: "What did you come down so quick for?" "What did I iinu down so quick for? Do you sis anything up in the air for me to bold 011 to?" he asked grimly. -Chicago News. Embarrassing, "Do you oversee the president?" ask ed Willie of his uncle, who lived In Wasliluiitnn. "Yes: nearly every day," was the reply. "And does he ever yuu?" queried tho little fellow. -Chtcauc 1 News. Mk and the Te-th. Milk, because It contains so much lime. Is one of the best foods for the eeth, which often decay for the lack of lime. There iv nothing hypoeril-iral about the frank admiration some men have for themselves. A Thanksgiving dinner to tha hungry poof doesn't belp much; bnt a little, lei's, hop. 'S FOUND TO BE CORRECT First President Work Approved by Government Men Employed to Check Over County Line. HIS SUEVET MASKS MADE VEST HIGH IN TBEES This Is Explained by Fact That He Bode on Horseback and Used an As With Very Long Handle. Government surveyors, who have just been checking up somo of the lines roputed to have been run by George Washington in his days of chain and compass work, have found tbein good About 1751, according to tradition, Geargo Washington, then 19 years eld, ran out for Lord Thomas Fairfax the line between what was then to be Aug usta and Frederick counties, Virginia, this being only a part of a great deal of surveying which he is said to have engaged upon at that time. Those two counties were separated from what was thon Orange county, and the grant to Lord Fairfax was supposed to extend westward to the Pacific ocoon. Subse quently these largo tracts were further subdivided, so that the "Fairfax lino" as it was generally known, runs now between Rockingham and Shenandoah counties, with the original Augueta and Frederick counties to south and north respectively. , in the organic act for tho Jormation of the two counties, or "parishes" at thoy wero then callod, it was required that the lino should be a straight one from tho head spring of Iledgman riv or, one of the sources of tho Rappahan nock, to tha hoad spring of the Potom ac. Since it was required that the line should be straight it was first neces sary to get the approximate course by building large bonfires on the inter vening high points. Then starting from the top of tho Massanuttcn mountains, tho line was run straight away over in tervening mountains and rivers toward the" northwest. The Fairfax Stone. Away off. across a' part of what is now West Virginia there is a largo rock kupwa today as the Fairfax stono. It is the monument which marks the Boutliwest cornor of Garret county, Md., tho southeast corner of Preston" county, W, Va., and prominent points in the boundaries in two other West Virginia counties. A line from Orange court house, coinciding with the Shenandoah and Rockingham county line, passes through this Fairfax stono, which gives the name to a nearby ftation, Fairfax, on the Wostorn Maryland railroad. It hps been assumed that, in running this line a high peak northwest of Orange court house was the starting point, and that from' here it was possible to see a distant peak in the north mountain range ovor the top of the intervening Mjnasnnutten mountain. , Washington, of course, used a simple complins, and his line could not be ex pected to chock absolutely with that obtained by the government survoyors, who have ,retraccd his survey, using the high power transits and all tho refined and accurate methods which modorn in struments allow. Nevertheless, the line was run so carefully in the first place that but littlo variation has been found in it. Even without instruments it is possiblo to disiagiiish the course of tho lino with surprising distinctness. From the top of Middle Mountain in the Masxnnuttori range, the Shenandoah Rorhingham. or Fairfax line ran bo read ily followed by means of the boundary fences dating from earliest days, and by the blocks of timbor, alternately cleared awey or left standing, which come up from either county and stop at the line, liko squares in a checker board. Then if one turns to tho south east the same demarcations are plain across the valley of tho south fork of f t IH 1f nM s WW imiw vn WW WIS tpi! P VW KWJf MM tlf tj WM y-tkL.-hJ.-Li.wJ.i1,.L.-. U- .....t, f-r--rtjM my fjMtM tsKilm I U s r 4ft J tibsiti Hi'i nrrti Why Drink Water When You Can Get Salem Beer? g The Most Popular Beverage on the Pacific. Coast M Salem Bottled Beer it brewed in one of the most modern plants on the Pacific Coast. It is god in steel flats-lined tank. It ia conveyed by modern pipe lino system direct to the bottle house, bottled under pressure and never comet in con tact with the air from the time it leave the fermenting tank until the bottle it opened by the consumer. Therefore the consumer ia absolutely assured a beer of ideal effervescence, anap and purity. A trial will aurely convince you. Get it from your local dealer or aend order to tha u CI SI Si n t! Salem u n 1:4 Bi Children Cry Tlie Kind You nave Always in use ior over HO years, 1 ana sonal '-CUcU; Allow All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Aareotlo substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it -has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Tlie Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years THI OKNTAUM COMFANV, NKW VOMK CITV. TnrHrniiii.Kr I Shoiiflndonh, cutting straight through the present Pago county, which is made of land fonnerely in Shenandoah county belonging to the Fairfax grant, and partly from land formerly in Booking ham. Thus, as far as the eye can see in either direction, this old line shows plainly. The Washington compaBS, now to be seen at the V. S. national museum in tho city named for its owner, is pre sumed to be the same one used in run ning this lino more than 160 years ago. Washington's Survey Maria. The Fairfax stone stands as a per manent monument. In addition, there are, throughout that section of the country, various othor records of these Washington surveys. For example, a large white oak which stands at the comer of a farm about l'a miles from Lost City, Harley county, W. Va., was, according to a persistent story of that section of tho country, marked by Wash in gon. Survey blazes cut into trees, and since grown over, have been cut away and a count of the annual layers of growth over the old wounds bIiows them to have been mado at the time Washington was surveying. One strange thing about these blazes is that they are sevoral feet higher than those put to troes by woodsmen of today. This fact has given rise to a sort of super stition that Washington, known to have been very tall, was actually a giant, Othor authorities have said that Wash ington did much of his work on horse back, and mode his blazes with a long handled ax from the saddle. The town of Whitepost, Clarke coun ty, Vo., takes its name from a post pre sumed to have been set by Washington as one of his survey marks. The post, formerly exposed, is now covered by a protecting case which sholtors it from the wnnther, and from the desoiling hand of the vandal tourist. Why the Line Is Betr.tced. The reason that this old Washington survey lino is beiug retraced is beeauso the federal government is purchasing lands in this neighborhood, in connec tion with the now Appalachian forests which aro being acquired at the head waters of navigablo streams, under tho terms of the Weeks law, designed to protect these watersheds from tho evils ewery Association Salem, Oregon TTift-Tmrf np nifiwniiinuM Wim jimiigpg, ww mm mm Matt Ml 4wMwMkiMwka.aaiwalHlMj.kliUilaiMiMial for Fletcher's m Bought, and which h&a been lias borne the signature ot has been made under his per supervision since its infancy. no one to deceive you ia this. Signature of of deforestation. The government re quires a clear title before tho land can he paid for. In making sure of tho ti--tlcs it is necessary, in many cases, to go back to original royal grants, or to colonial records, and to have recourse to resurveys before the facts of owner ship can be indisputably established. CONVENTIONS OPEN. ID SITED MESS LEASED WIDE. New York, Dec. 2. Four big conven tions opened here today. Thoy are the annual meetings of the Felt Hat Manu facturers' Association) New York State Brewers' Association; American Scan dinavian Society and the American So . cioty of Refrigerating Engineers. The Scandinavian Society will continue its sessions tomorrow. EXAMINATIONS ON. frjNiTiD rnass ijabed wins. Washington, Dec. 2. Civil Bervice ex amination to fill positions under the interstate commerce commission valua tion board wore opened today. Further examinations will be held December 3. Successful candidates will do the work of valuing the railroads of the nation. A woman teems to think she is a du tiful wife if she pretends to keep on loving her husband after she knows she doesn't. j; Bread, Cakes, Pastries t Made elean; sold clean, baked by i Goldsmith k Theurer's Salem Royal Bakery Insuring highest quality Phone 378 240 S. Commercial fit., SaJem, Or Wsf yw ! 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