GOVERNOR OF OREGON CAPITOL BUILDING, SALEM, OREGON. A Letter From the Executire Offlce of Oregon. ia known from the Atlantic to the I acific. Letters of congratulation and commendation testifying to the merits of £ Pe-ru-nu us a catarrh remedy are pouring 1 g from ever y State in the Union. Dr. llartman ia receiving hundreds of such let ters daily. All classes write these letters, from the highest to the lowest. The outdoor laborer, the indoor artisan, the clerk, the editor, the statesman, the preacher—all agree that Pe-ru-na is the ca tarrh remedy of the age. The stage and rostrum, recognizing catarrh as their great est enray, are especially enthusiastic in their praise and testimony. Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. I e-ru-na is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of ca tarrh To prevent colas, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Pe-ru na not only cures catarrh, but prevents. Every household should he supplied with this great remedy for coughs, colds and so forth. The Governor of Oregon is an ardent ad mirer of Pe-ru-na. He keeps it continually | THE WORLD'S COFFEE SUPPLY. Three-Fourths of All That Is Used A- Comes From Brazil. Coffee was originally indigenous to Abyssinia, l'rom whence it was intro duced in Ceylon and Java, but since its introduction into the West Indies and South America its original hab itat has almost been forgotten. Its cultivation in its native home has been completely neglected. Brazil is now the most important coffee pro ducing country of tho world, produc ing, according to the "Government Crop Reporter," almost three-fourths of the annual crop. Brazil's position with reference to the coffee market is much like that which this country occupies as regards corn. Similarly, while Chicago is the chief corn mart of the world, Santos, in the State of San Pau'.o, Brazil, is the chief coffee mart. From this point about one-third of the world's coffee commerce orig inates. How to Prove a Diamond's Worth. 4 " In detecting a false gem from a ! genuine, the X-ray can be relied on with absolute certainty. Diamonds, as is well known, are pure carbon; and carbon, which is opaque to the or dinary light, is transparent to tho Roentgen light, while glass, which is transparent to ordinary light, is opaque to the Roentgen ray. On an X-ray photograph of a real diamond nothing will show but tho shadow of the gold setting. Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." MADE; BY TK& MAKER* OF ■Egpgg Btl j KSp OILED CLOTHING K HAVE THE SAME POINTS Em Or CXCEU&NSE AND GIVE " "'jp'-TM COMPLETE SATISFACTION $3 & SHOES S IV. Douglas shoes are the standard of the world. W. L. Dow/las made and "Old mora men'a Good rear Wait (Hand Sonod Proceo.il ahora In Ihe lint month* of 1003 than anr.othfr manufacturer, ♦m nftfl BBWABD will I*l <1 to anions nho J> I U.LUIJ ran dliprore thla ilotrniont. W. L. DOUCL.AB $4 SHOES CANNOT BE EXCELLED. 11,103,8201 w.'i'.'-u S-,340,000 pje'nlCaTXameVt *'c'lf'cdlf.'w'** "mora Co/I, Nat. Kangaroo. Knot Color Eyelet* ineU. Caution tSm.n n nd??lo h ha. a on^YSt'om. Shoes by mail. 25c. extra. /"• Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON. MASS. in the house. In a recent letter to Dr. llartman he 6ays: STATE OF OREGON, ) EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, > SALEM, May 9, 1898. ) The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Dear Sire—l have had occasion to use your Pe-ru-na medicine in my family for colds, and it proved to be an excellent rem edy. I have not had occasion to use it for other ailments. Yours very truly, W. M. Lord. It will be noticed that the Governor says he has not had occasion to use Pe-ru na for other ailments. The reason for this is most other ailments begin with a cold. Using Pe-ru-na to promptly cure colds, he protects his family against other ailments. This is exactly what every other family in the United States should do. Keep Pe-ru na in the house. Use it for coughs, colds, la grippe and other climatic affections of winter, and there will he no other ail ments in the house. Such families should provide themselves with a conv of Dr. Ilartman's free book, entitled "Winter Ca tarrh." Address Dr. llartman, Columbus, Ohio. LAND'S END SARDINES. How Cornwall Fishermen Net Pil chards for British Markets. The old debate as to whether pil chards are not Identical with sardines has now been decided in the affirm ative. According to Mr. Aflalo, the word sardine must he taken to mean indefinitely a small fish preserved in oil, and not an Individual species. This small fish may be a pilchard or it may be a sprat. That is to say, nat uralists do not recognize a fish called tho sardine; tho word merely signi fies a method of preparation. The point may be disputed, but cannot be controverted. Visitors to Cornwail sometimes deny it on the ground that tho pilchards shown to them are larger than the average sardine, but thoy should remember that the fish are usually packed minus head and tail, which means a considerable dim inution in size. For centuries this transformation of pilchards into sar dines has been going on. We read in Moryson's "Itinerary," a book familiar to Shakespeare's day, that "the inhab itants of Cornwall make great gain by the fishing of pilchards, which they salt and dry in the smoke, and export a huge multitude of them yearly into Spain and Italy." This practice of smoking them gave the fish the name of fumadoes, corrupted locally into "fair maids." 'Tis the silver fair maids that cause such a strife 'Twixt the master-seiner and his drunken wife. The fish are not preserved in this manner now, but are piled and pressed in layers of salt. Being thoroughly 3alted and relieved of superfluous fluids they are taken from tho fish cellars and dispatched in barrels to the local or foreign "sardiners." The difference in size between these Cor nish "sardines" and those caught on the coasts ol' France is really a result of difference in netting, not in tho spe cies of the fish. The Cornish fishers uso a net with a comparatively large mesh, this letting the smaller and more delicate fish escape, but the French, with a closer mosh, pay spe cial attention to the smaller fish. The men of St. Ives and Newlyn are very conservative, as will be remembered by their agitation on the Sunday question; but the adoption of a closer mesh would bo a move in the right direction. Eight young Chinese lady students, aged from 14 to 21, belonging to some of the most wealthy and distinguished families in the province of Kiangsu, I left there recently for Japan, to go through a course of education extend ing over three or four years. This is entirely unprecedented in the history of Chinese education. Bad Coughs! j " I had a bad cough for six I weeks and could find no relief 1 until I tried Ayer's Cherry Pecto ral. Only one-fourth of the bottle cured me." j L. Hawn, Newington, Ont. Neglected colds always lead to something serious. They run into chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, or consumption. Don't wait, but take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral just as soon as your cough begins. A few doses will cure you then. Three sixes: 25c., 50c., SI. All dri|flsts. Consult your doctor. If lie aays take it. then do as he saya. If ho tells you not to take It, then don't take it. He knows. Leave It with him. We are willing. U J- C. AYER CO.. Lowell, Maas. I BAMBOO FOR THE WORLD. Am Almost Unlimited Supply in lite Pliil ipplnes—lts flfnny Uses. If, In the course of human events, it ever happens that the Philippine Isl ands should become a sovereign State, part of or independent of the United States, it needs no great stretch of im agination to prophesy that its emblem will be the stately and useful bamboo tree, which is so beloved of all tbe Filipinos. To the visitor first viewing the isl ands from the deck of an incoming ship, the towering, bare trunks of the bamboo, canopied with its turf ted top of light, feathery plumes, that respond with languorous, graceful waves to even the softest breeze, make tbe most noticeable feature of the landscape. Not only is It met with in the wild state everywhere, but the natives sur round their houses, usually built en tirely of the bamboo, with cultivated groves of the trees, its bareness of trunk up to almost its extreme height, exceeding sixty feet in some eases, and its broad, spreading top making It the most desirable shade tree on the islands. But, while Its use for shade purposes is fully appreciated, the bam boo is put to many more practical uses. Whole villages, varying as to struc ture from the smallest hut up to the large aud architecturally ambitious church edifices, are built of the split trunks of these giant trees. The wood is tough, pliable and elastic, and houses built of it by native experts have been known to withstand the storms and heat of several generations. And it is wonderful with what rapidity a house may be thrown together when the bamboo Is used. One temporary dweller in the centre of the Island of Luzon, having to en tertain some visitors, had an extensive wing attached to his bungalow by two Filipino carpenters in three days roofed, floored, and ready for occu pancy. The bamboo is also used In the con struction of suspension bridges, and on the islands are many such bridges, some several hundred feet In length, over which a light train might safely he run. Piping Is also made from the trunks by a hollowing process, and furniture, rafts, scaffolding, carts, bas kets, vessels to contain liquids, weapons, cordage, huts, mats, palings, carrying poles, and many other useful things are manufactured from the tree. It is also supposed to contain medic inal qualities, as from it a white sub stance is taken which the natives use to allay the inflammation of the eyes caused by the intensity of the sun's rays, the more superstitious believing El so that a stmie which is occasionally ound imbedded in the larger trunks contains the power to cure all the ills that the body is cursed with. Tliofie Poor Ricli Hoys. While settlements and all those who are eager to advance the condition of the poor spend unlimited time in fur thering schemes to give east side boys a chance to play, no one thinks of the poor, unfortunate hoys who live in the better class flats on the west side. Yet their case needs looking into even more than the hoys of the slums, for the lat ter, at least, have the freedom ol' the streets. The flat boys have no public playgrounds. They cannot play before their own doors, because the janitors won't have them there; they cannot play across the street, because the jan itor there chases them, and so it is with every spot on the streets. Even the centre of the road is restricted, for they could play ball there if the law did not forbid. As a natural result, therefore, "Satan finds mischief" for them to do, which usually gets them under the eyes of the,policeman, and, Indeed, often leads to, serious trouble, and another boy gone wrong. As one of these unfortunates sagely remarks, "If the city would give us a place to play ball and other games it wouldn't need to pay so many policemen to chase us all the time."—New York Her ald. One Yonnffster'n Stock of Namnn, The person with perhaps the longest name of any person, big or little, in the Western hemisphere, is blacking hoots on Paducah's streets. This youngster with the wealth of title will answer to the name of Arthur or Hugh, but If one proposes to give him all that is due, one must address tl'o young gentle man as Arthur Hugh Thomas DeWltt Talmage Hardin Ireland Marlon Ed ward Llnnie Branch Sam Jones Pigue Reuben Walker Chiles. Young Arthur Hugh, etc., Chiles is tile sixteen-year-old son of the Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Chiles. Often byway of a joke young Chiles says to a pros pective patron: "I'll tell you what I'll do. mister. I'll tell you my uame, and if you can repeat it, I'll blaelc your shoes free. If you fail, you pay." If the man agrees, the boy rattles off the whole seventeen as fast as his tongue can form the words. Ho has never yet failed to get the mouey.- Fadueah News-Democrat. Australia's Blackberry rear. Blackberries thrive more luxuriantly In Australia than In Europe or Amer ica, their growth being so rapid that In many places they are regarded as an agricultural pest. Like the first rabbits, the original blackberry vines have grown and multiplied until they bid fair to cover tlie face of the coun try. The bushes are not cultivated— they can look after themselves, as many Australian agriculturists are painfully aware—but the jam made from their fruit Is sufficiently tempt ing to make one forget their unwel come presence on the farm.—The Cal ien. In cases where bronchitis has become chronic from want of proper treatment in the earlier stages, there is nothing so good as Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, in conjunction with which is strongly advised the use of St. Jacobs Oil as an out .ward application along the front of the throat, from close up under the chin to .well down to the top of the chest; the one remedy assists the other, and as intended, they work in complete nnison. The won derful penetrating power of St. Jacobs Oil enables it to reach the adhesion of foreign matter which lines the bronchial tubes and which makes breathing more and more difficult. As these adhesions become inflamed and enlarged, St. Jacobs Oil causes such adhesions to break away, making expectoration easier and more free. Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, drank slowly and very hot, soothes and heals the parts, is comforting and quieting, stops the cough and relieves the breathing. This manner of treatment (and there ia no other two remedies that will work together so successfully) reaches the difficulty from the outside and the inside at the same time. St. Jacobs Oil reaches the roots of the adhesion, and assists Dr. August Koe nig's Hamburg Drcast Tea in clearing them; then both remedies act in unison in healing and curing. The above remarks apply with equal force in cases of asthma, croup, whooping cough, enlarged tonsils and all bronchial affections. Every family should have St. Jacobs Oil and Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea always in the house in order that they may be promptly used in the first stages. Often the maladies develop with wonderful ra pidity, and complications take place with equal suddenness. The British public use up nearly 800 tons of cardboard yearly in tile form of post cards. JUNE TINT BUTTEB COLOB makes top OF the market butter. The Press an Americanizer. The progress of Americanization of the thousands of immigrants to this country advances naturally because of association, but another factor is hinted at in the report of the census bureau on the newspapers printed here in languages other than English. In the United States there were pub lished in 1900, 17,194 papers in Eng lish, as against 13,848 in 1890, an increase of about 24 per cent. Dur ing the same period the number printed in other tongues declined from 1,053 to 1,026, although the number of immigrants increased 1,210,538 dur ing the decade. The inference drawn from these comparisons is that more of the foreign population are reading the publications printed in English, and in this way learning faster the language and customs of the country, and that they are depending less upon the languages with which thev are fa miliar. As to the nationalities that are making the greatest progress in this direction it would appear, from the decline in their papers, that the Dutch arc in the lead, notwithstand ing that they are inclined to settle in colonies, where the tendency nat urally would be to continue the cus toms and language of the mother country. Next to these are the French, most of whom are from Can ada. and are fast becoming American ized, even in many cases to the adop tion of American names. The Ger mans also are quick to learn the lan guage of the country, and there are 114 fewer papers printed in German than there were 10 years ago. Care In Packing Good Fruit. In a recent report by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson regarding the re sults from shipments of fruit to land he states that the returns from two lots of pears were 60 per cent, more for the lot that was packed after each specimen was wrapped in oiled paper. It may be said that this result was largely due to the fact that our English friends were not familiar with fruit put up in this manner and bought it because of the novel way of packing. Possibly there is some thing in this, but, on the other hand, it has been demonstrated time and again that there is a market for good fruit put up in attractive form. It would not do to pack inferior fruit in this manner, for it would kill the market, but the very care taken to pack the fruit attractively indicates to the buyer t*at it is likely to be superior to thai packed in the ordi nary manner, hence ho is willing to pay the additional price asked for it. If one has some especially good speci mens it will cost but a few dollars for paper and baskets to try the plan extensively and prove its value. The Good Woman's Wish. Arehbishcp-elect John M. Farley en joys a good story as well as the next, and when passing a social hour some times recounts his experiences. At a dinner given to the Very Rev. Dean Liagr, in Yonkers several weeks ago the Bishop related the following to the delectation of the assembled guests: "It was shortly after I had been made vicar general or monsig nor —I do not remember which—when an aged Irish woman encountered me on the street. She was a good old soul and had been a member of our parish church for years. Grasping me by the hand, she remarked: 'Oh, father, and sure the Lord bless you; I hear they gave you a rise.' I re plied that her information was cor rect. 'Well,' she responded, 'an' I'm pleased for that: it's yourself that deserves the rise.' I thanked the good woman sincerely, and was about to leave lier, when, still holding my hand, she remarked: 'And all I hope is that the next rise they give you will be to heaven."' Web-Spining by Red Ants. A remarkable exhibition of the web spining powers of the red ant (Oeophila smqragdina) has been re ported by Mr. E. G. Green, of the bot anic gardens at Peradeniya. Ceylon. A breach having been made in a structure of leaves on which they were at work, the ants quickly drew the edges of the leaves together, and about an hour afterward they were seen to be passing back and forth across the gap two white grubs from whose mouths issued continuous threads of silk that the ants were using to repair the damage. The lar vae had evidently been brought from •j neat some distance away. of Richmond, Va., a great sufferer with woman's troubles, tells of her cure by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. " DEAR MRS. PINKIIAM : For some years I suffered with backache, severe bearing-down pains, leucorrhcea, and falling of the womb. I tried many remedies, but nothing gave any positive relief. "I commenced taking I.ydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound in June, 1901. When I had taken the first half bottle, I felt a vast im provement, and have now taken ten bottles with the result that I feel like a new woman. When I commenced taking the Vegetable Com pound I felt all worn out and was fast approaching complete nervous collapse. I weighed only 98 pounds. Now I weigh 1091 pounds and am improving every day. I gladly testify to the benefits received."— MRS. R. C. TUPMAN, 423 West 30th St., Richmond, Va. When a medicine lias been successful in more than a million cases, Is it justice to yourself to say, without trying it, "I do not believe it would help me " ? Surely you cannot wish to remain weak and sick and discour aged, exhausted with each day's work. You have some derange ment of the feminine organism, and Eydia E. Pinkliam's Vege table Compound will lieip you just as surely as it lias others. Mrs. W. H. Pelliam, Jr., 108 E. l.aker St., Richmond, Va., says : " DEAR MRS. PIXKHAM : —I must say tht Ido not believe there is any female medicine to compare with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and I return to you my heartfelt thanks for what your medicine has done for me. Before taking the Vegetable Compound I was so badly off that I thought I could not live much y longer. The little work I had to do was a faff/sB. . burden to me. I suffered with irregular iMS®f menstruation and lcucorrhoea, which caused ( s Wan an irritation of the parts. I looked like S|ssj|a® _ JJB one who had consumption, but Ido not look -i" IB) like that now, and I owe it all to your wonder "l took only six bottles, but it has made ...■x iuo feel like a new person. 1 thank e ' s su °k a female helper Vl - 2. ""TA V Be it, therefore, believed by nil women who are ill that Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound, is the medicine they should take. It has stood the test of time, and >* lias hundreds of thousands of cures to its credit. Women should consider it unwise to use any other medicine. Mrs. Pinkham, whose address is Lynn, Mass., wilt answer cheer fully and without cost all letters addressed to lier by sick women. Perhaps she has just the knowledge that will help your case try her to-day it costs nothing. ArnAA FORFEIT If wo cannot forthwith produce the orij-lnnl latter. and signatures of \MBIO9I abovo testimonials, which will prove their absolute Kenuinenoss. VvUvU Lydia h. Piukham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Silk is considered unclean by the Mohammedans, because it is the prod uct of a worm. • 100 Rewarrl. 3100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to lonrn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that science has been able to euro in all its stages, and thai is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now k no cm to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is talc on inter nally, acting diroctlyuDon tho blood and mu cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of thedisease,and giving tho patient strength by building up the con stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer One Hun dred Dollars for any ease that it fails to cure, bend for list of testimonials. Address P. J. CHENEY it Co., Toledo, O. Fold by Druggists, 75r. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. There are no less than 3282 different, spe cies of fish inhabiting the waters of Amer ica north of the Isthmus of Panama. FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous nessaftor first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat Norvoltostoror.s3trial bottle and treatisefroo Dr.lb H.KT.INE. Ltd..'.131 Arch St., Phila.,Pa. When a fellow proposes he expects the girl to take him at his word. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion,allays pain.eures wind colic. 'J sc. a bottle The truth is not always pleasant, and that's when it is generally told. Plso'sCutoisthebes. medicine wo ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.—War. O. EMDBLEY, Vanb iren. Ind., Feb. 10, IDOO. j American shoes arc worn by thousands of Europeans in their native lands. liENßipW^S.^W^ rosecu tea C I 11 ms. SmluuivM \\ luUuh.cnilas chllui*! utir DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; CITM riNi. iloolt of tonimooul* ma I() ilnriMmuulin! !•>•. Dr. X. H. BXLV'A BEOMt. floi B, Atlouift. u*. P. N. U. 44, 'O2. a Don Congb Bjnip. Taswe Good. la® Rn 4 In tlrao. boin by dnureleta. Kffl I 11 INVESTMENT Tho Preferred Stock of the W L Doiiidcis oe Capital Stock, $2,000,000. £1,000,000 Preferred Stock. £1,000,000 Common Stocks Shares, SIOO each. Sold at Par. Only Preferred Stack offered for sle. V/. L. Bougies retains all Common Slock. The Preferred Stock of the 1.. Douglas Shoe Com* puny pay® letter ilian Savings Brink® or Oovernuicnt Bonds. Kvery dollar of stock ottered the public he® In-lnnd it more than a dollat s /. gorthw actualns.it:<. u . i.. dividend pny in the world prooncllig Men's [ tioorlyear Welt (linnii Sewed IV *',"',7' >IU " n,,( ' eßi,ar y 11 vldeiid on the preferred stock of Si or ;.o<io. ' The annual huatn. H now i* &•" :**) 000, it is Increasing very rapidly, and will enual s7,ftOouo tor th • year tuna. The factory is now turning out 70o pairs or shoes per day, ami an addition to the plant is Wing built which will increase the capacity to KVOOO pairs per day. The reason I am ottering the lTelerred Sio k for sale Is to perpetuate the businc.is. It yon wish to invest in theWst shoe business in the world, which is permanent, and receive 7 per cent .>n your iiniic\, pin can p:n has. ~;ic sh.ir-'i.rm in 11 :s greal business. Send money by cashier's ehc" kor eeili. tied check, made payable lo W. U Douglas. If there is no hank in your town, send money by < xpresi or JHW ofllec money orders. Proß|H>etiis giving lull Information nlout this great anil profitable business sent upon application. Address W. L. IPO S' 1. AS, KSriHikluu, Mass. I I have been using Ripans Tabules for over two years | as a medicine for general ! ills. I always keep a sup- | , ply on hand, and find they come in handy for everyday use in case of headache, constipation or a biiious I attack. At druggists. I'ha Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle. 60 cents, contains a supply for a year i
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