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Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1908-12-04

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Watches. clocks,
cut glass. jewelry
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We offer for your selection the
Largest Stock Of High Grade Holl
day Goods ever shown in Condor.
Every article is Quality combined
with the Right Price. The best in
the beginning is the cheapest in
the end. Come to the place where
you know that you will get only
Dependable goods. Our Guarantee
is like Sterling on Silver, and we
Guar antee the goods. Don't have
the feeling that you must buy when
you come into the store. Take it
easy, look around, get posted in
spect our goods. Clothes do not
make the man. Neither do prom
ises make the merchant. But a
liberal inspection of the goods
piled up and scattered around in
this store will tell you whether or
not this is heright place to get the
right:goods at the right prices.
Come in aud see the best, it good
for sore eyes. Here is a partial
list Of the many suitable presents
TO be found here,
Ladies Watches from $1,000 to
10000.
Gentlemens Watches from $1.00
to $4,000.
Bracelets from 800 to $500,
over so styles.
Cut Glass from $500 to $500
the piece.
Fancy Chinaware "Old Ivory"
from $1.00 to $500 the piece.
Fancy Clocks from $1.00 to
$500.
Silverware from Soc to $4,000.
Gold Filled and Solid Gold
Brooches from SOC to $1,000 the
piece.
Gold Filled and Solid Gold
Scarf Pins from Soc to $3.50
each.
Gold Filled and Solid Gold
Crosses from 25c to $3.50.
Hundreds of Solid Gold Rings
from $500 to $500 each.
Gold Filled and Solid Colo
Lockets from $500 to $1,000,
Gold Filled Charms from SOC tC
$500 each.
Solid Gold Mounted Back Combs
from $500 to $1,000.
Hundreds of small articles il
Sterling Silver and Gold FILLED
25c to $1.00 each. We can fit an,
pocket book.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1908-12-04

Invitations are out for the
marriage of Lola Ion Dorsett of
Baker City to George E. Swat
ford, manager of the Condor
Drug Company of this city, on
Wednesday, December 9Th, at
the home of the brides parents.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1908-12-04

Don't forget the big Fair at
the new Academy on the 9th, 9th
and 10th. The new building is
now heated and lighted and
everything will be in first-class
condition for the event. Supper
viii be served on Tuesday eve
ing from five o'clock to eight and
dinner and supper will be served
on Wednesday and Thursday.
All articles for which numbers
have been sold will be raffied be.
fore the public on Thursday even.
ing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
THE GREEN HAT DEPENDED.

Camille Desmoulins stood on a table under tree in Paris more that a hum dred years ago and preached liberty When he sought a symbol for the move ment, he reached up and picked green leaf which he stuck in his hat In an hour Paris was verdant with Nike sym bols.
 The green hats is the emblom of mod l. ern mans struggle for liberty. It is at once his flag and his gage of battle, He is fighting for the freedom of col ors; he is trying to destroy the tyran- ny of black.
 All men like bright hues, though they cannot have them. They blossom in feminine gardens. That's why every man-jack of them likes to see his wife his, sister, or his sweetheart in a frock of red. The redder the better. Oc- casionly there does rise a brave soul who confesses his fondness for things horomatic, in a polkedotted vest or mofe courageous still, tie of reddish hue. He does 1t, though with the op- position. direct, constant, and malicious of all his female relatives and friends. His only solace-the salve for the wounds. of femlninity--is the admira- ton of his less daring brothers,
 With numbers comes strength, how
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
l MORNING THOUGHT
BY ,. MARVIN NICHOLS

The measure of. power is in the ob- stacle overcome.
 There Is a peace that rests on points of bavonets.
 The birds that sing the sweetest songs build their nests low.
 The only freeman is the man with convictions.
 Truth cannot be afraid of being ques- toned.
 The man who is governed by his pas- heels.
 Don't fawn-that's despisable
 Don't be forever bounding and spy Events discover the man but do not Hatred is love at low tide.
 A man may die of wounds. no one of which would prove fatal
 How long will the world continue to sacrifice her saviors? . Every man ought to be bigger than God makes the sunshine; we make the clouds.
 By the east window of every life grow the thorns.
 An untaught faculty is dormant now --some day. dead.
 A borrowed suit rarely ever fits well. gan: First. catch your rabbit"
 Truth is an elastic substance. Life is made up of transformations.
 The fit survive-the unfit perish
 There are but few central suns-the most of us are only satellites.
 The man who really does things does them in his own way.
 A determined thief usually gets what he is after.
 A real comradeship is the place The inevitable destiny of the cur Is the pound.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
TUESDAY. DECEMBER l, 1908

At the recent automobile races in gavannah the winning machine made an average of a mile in ffty-five sec pnds, or an average of sixty-five miles an hour. We hear much these days about accidents and catastrophes caused by reckless speeding but 1t Is very rare, we should say, that one of the machines makes such a speed as this one at Savannah did. While it is true that the fast running was done on a track where there was little or no danger to the public it is plain that a very slight error or fault in the chauffeur in this case must have re- suited in death or serious injury to those in the car. and a deflection of course might have sent the machine dashing into the crowds on the out side. But all these possibilities are forgotten or ignored when once speed mania take hold of the average man. In that case discretion and regard for the safety of others are ignored and the only object kept in view is speed. It is no wonder that we hear of so much damage from overspeeding.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
AN EXTREMIST.

From one of our California contem- poraries. which We unfortunately mis- laid, we clipped the following special sent it from Chicago under date of November 8:
 Charging that Booker T. Washing toms Tuskegee institution is q com plete failure, it's graduates worthless, and its students candidates for the Penitentiary. State Senator Francis B. cation of ! . negro here yesterday, "I am a Northern abolitionist my self" he said. but I am free to con fess that life in. the South has shown me through sad experience that we are continuing the negro schools at our own peril"
 How does that sound from a man who announces himself "a Northern abolitionist"? We are curious to know If there are very many of his sort-men who think as he does, but are not so candid about expressing themselves. It would also be inter- esting to find how many Southern peo- pie there are who agree with this outspokep Marylander. As a matter of fact, We suspect that most of those who will coincide with MT. Livesey are men who have come down from the North and have acquired a knowl- edge of the negro from close asso- ciation with the race.
 It is significant, and almost anus ing, for that matter. what a change comes over the spirit of the dreams of Northern abolitionists" when they come South and become fully ac- quainted with the colored race at close range. In their Northern homes where they rarely see a black face except in the large cities, they spout extensively and learnedly about the down. trodden negro" and his alleged oppression. They berate the Southern people because we refuse to recognize the negro as a social equal; because we insist that. as far as our own section is concerned, this is and shall cause we refuse universal suffrage to the negro. and various and divers other indictments they bring against the South because of matters of which they really know nothing.
 This has been such a common busi- ness among those who still call them selves abolitionists that we of the South have learned to pay little at tention to their mouthings. We know it Is all based or a combination of prejudice and ignorance and we know that if they would take the trouble to come down here and familiarize ] themselves with conditions as they
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01

exist they would change their tune in very brief space of tine.S As matter of fact. some of the bitterest critics of the negro that we have known were Northern men who have made their homes in the South and had their eyes opened.
 As to negro education we think this bitter Northern abolitionist" will not find many to agree with him among the real Southern people. While there may be differences of opinion as to the. effect that education may have on them. most of us agree that they are entitled to an education. just as the white children are. and there is little opposition to giving coiored chill dren their fair share of public school moneys. This Is done as matter of justice, not of sentiment. They are here among us and are to remain here, and we look on 1t as a matter of justice as we'll as good policy to make of them as good citizens as can be done. This Maryland man may speak for himself and other abolition ists of the North, but does not fairly represent real Southern sentiment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
FRENCH PROPHETEss.


 sees War in 1909 and. "New Cata- ! sq e. e4ysme In America. Paris Corespondence New York World. Nine de Thebes the famous Paris ian prophecies, has come out with a startling prophecy for the year 1903. Lifting the futures veil of mystery. she sees death, war of nations ana grave turmoil seizing the affairs of the two continents. ..
 Mime. da Thebes is no rash fortune teller. She is highly educated, ac. complished woman, who has numb cred among her intimate friends some or the most brilliant geniuses of France, such as Alexander Dumas, Sardou' Rodin. Flammarion, and Benjamin Constant. This remarkable woman does not profess to possess occult pow CTS, but she has 6 deep knowledge Of human nature and a wide aoQGain- tanee with public affairs and gives careful thought to her prophecie On this account her word has great weight with her admirers here, and deep interest has been created in what she says.
 "Red year" is the characterization Mme. de Thebes gives to 1909. Its luck stone, she says. will be the anne- thyst. ---'''
 Speaking of America. Mime. de ThebeS mas CnlS 10 say.
 "A steady calm will be established in American affairs, but only for a short time. Then will come a new cataclysm. Complications will develop in South America. The southern re- publics will strengthen themselves"
 The precise nature of the trouble the southern republics are to make, Mime. de Thebes does not undertake to fore cast, but she Is sure there will be inl- portant developments. !.
 The prophecies says that the Ger man imperial family is doomed to wit ness some astounding happenings within the year, and that there will be deep mourning.
 Russia should keep her face turned toward France and away from Ger many" declared Mme. de Thebes. flor Frances great danger the coming year is war. Should war come, will France be victorious?" asks the prophecies, and quickly answers, "Yes, yes"
 Referring to the upset which she foresees in Germany, Mime. de Thebes remarks that "a nation formed by force and duplicity will die by force and duplicity." This may not happen within the year, she ayers, but 1t is imminent
 Austria, in the meantime, will Rd- vance as a great power.
 England will be chastened by pain full mourning" continues Mme. de The bes. There will be great changes in | the Kingdom.
 "A double sorrow awaits Italy Storms will rage around the throne there. Sanguinary dramas of love and hatred will be enacted. wherein many l foreigners In Rome will perish.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01

Mine. de rverrue's properties revealed the fact that she possessed 500 dozen cambric handkerchiefs 490 skirts and sixty pairs of stays.
 As for jewels, men formerly wore diamonds and pearls on their clothes. shoes and hands. while today man of refined taste Is satisfied with a modest ring. simple links. a little pearl as shirt stud and large stone as scarf pin.
 Hospitality then was on far great CT scale than it is now. It would be difficult even for the wealthy owner of a great mansion to place all the year round 700 beds at the disposal of his friends, ss did M. de Rohan at his cas- tie of Saverne. One hundred and eighty horses were always ready to be saddled for his guests and 500 beaters were used daily by him during the shooting season.
 People of moderate means had three days out of six from twelve to twenty guests at a time. People who called on business were invited to dinner and given a room.
 The "bills' of Mime. de Choiseula prove that thirty sheep a month and 5000 chick ems per annurn were reouff- cd to feed her guests. Three hundred pounds of bread was necessary. daily.
 These receptions were elaborate, yet the guests enjoyed the greater free- dom. They called with as many ser wants as they chose to bring and were at liberty to take their meals in the rooms placed at their disposal or in the main dining hall. .
 Domestics--whfch So many people believe were very cheap in those days were, as a matter of fact, more ex- pensive than they now are. During the seventeenth century kitchen wo- man was paid 3 pounds Or pounds q month, mot including wine and lard"
 Gambling went on in most houses. There were games of ''lansquenel" and pharaoh" even in the salons of etn- bassies! Servants asked their mas ters to stake their wages for them. minutes, people staked their houses. their horses, their estates.rhe Duke de Rohan once staked his diamond order. He had not one sou left. ~
 Lawsuits deserve a special mention. They were another craze of)those days. Suits were everlasting; the son took up cases where's his father had left them and transmitted them to his heir. later on: .'f
 It was the fashion; it was a luxury. The costs were collossaL A gentleman was able to say at the beginning of the nineteenth century: My grand father had thfrty-three suIts he won every one Of them and 1t cost him several thousands.'
 The amounts mentioned in the. article are not, of course, the amounts ap- bearing in ancient documents, but their equivalent in modern English money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
oLD-T1ME ExTRAvAGANCE
Modern Household and Dress Bills
 Compared With Those of Tore.

Modern Household and Dress btiis
 Compared With Those Of Tore.
 We hear it said everywhere--at, the beginning and at the end of each sea son-fhat modern evtravagaDee is aDalling that women .overdress. that they spend more for a single hat than their grandmothers did for their whole trousseau.
 Like many other often recurring gem eraI statements. this is far from being accurate, says The London Mail. The weilxnown French writer, M. Henry de. Galher, contributes to the current issue of La Revue a remarkable study on spending Money in Days of Tore"
 From statistics carefully complied from private documents of one or two centuries ago, from letters and bills dating from those distant days, 1t ap- pears that extravagance was far. worse then.
 The greatest change in the matter of expenditure is that during the seven teenth and the eighteenth centuries men spent quite as much--if not more-as women for their own attire.
 Today the average man spends con siderably less than the average woman on clothes and in the wealthy classes the difference is more marked still, since it was recently stated by a queen or fashion that while a man could be quite elegant" by spending 400 pounds a year on himself, woman needed 4Oo pounds a month to dress styltshly
 In the middle class, as in the aristoc- racy 15O years ago more things were re- ouired by a man. He wore night cuffs of lace, his black suit cost pounds Iof our rnoneyl, his hats--he needed half a dozen-1 pound each. He required silk stockings, woolen stockings and skin stockings and i've or six different kinds of boots.
 wear at the barber and wigmaker's. The rniddIe-class woman of those days managed, to dress in a cheaper way, though dress was the main expense.
 Diaries and memoirs establish the curious fact that the upbringing of three children cost a third less than the clothes required by their mother. a modest woman! Men wore ribbons; lace, embroideries and jewelry in as large quantities as women.
 Certain gentleman's suits cost as much as 500, pounds and three of these were required by each guest for great wedding festivals. These were excep- tions. however. An elegant man could ] manage" with six summer and six winter suits. at 100 pounds apiece.
 this. needless to add. does not include the gold or silver buttons on the lace! Let us turn to women. In 1720 Mile.
 de Tournon married in Paris. It was | an elegant marriage, but by no means | a great affair. Her aunt offered her | TOO pounds for fans. bags and gar
 ters" The bride herself bought sev-
 eral gowns at prices varying from 1850 pounds to 400 pounds. These were "ordinary things" For
 the court she required a long gown of | white velvet, elaborately embroidered: | cost 800 pounds, and the same dress could be worn on a few occasions only.
 But gowns are not everything. Un- derwear and other "trihes" have to be
 considered. Mme de Choiseul. the wife of Minister of Louis xY wore several thousand pounds worth of lace
 on her evening dresses, -... The Inventory after the death of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01

''One of the things the throng of visitors to Savannah found this week." remarks The Albany Herald. twas that there are as many, if not more. saloons in that city than there were before the prohibition law went into effect. At the race track, thirsty enthusiasts could buy red liquor at the lemonate stands at fifteen cents a drink. or quart bottles of the same at the prevailing market price. Through out the city the saloons were wide open. front and rear. and there was no more thought of concealment than there was of interference by city or county authorities"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01

The announcement that company with a capital of half a million dol lars has been organized at Atlanta to go extensively into the manufac- ture of paper from cotton stalks indi- cates that We may hope for some defi- mite and profitable results in this di- rection. The matter of utilizing the stalks as the basis of print paper has been frequently discussed of late. and this new movement indicates faith In the project. It is certainly to be hoped that complete success will att tend the experiment in Atlanta.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
Politics and Polificians

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 Linwood. N J.. furnished probably the closest contest Of the November elections, John z. Steel man was elected mayor of the town by plurality of one vote; -.
 Pesident.elect Taft has accepted an invi: tatton to attend ceiebration of Lincolns birthday in Chicago. arranged for February
 The race for United states Senator. in Ohio seems to have narrowed down to Sen P. Taft. the Cincinnati editor. a
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 Thomas L. Fi1sgen. recently q candidate fof President e6 the United states on the he is out of politics for good.
 The Natisnai Lsaeue of Democratic Clubs week to take steps to keep the organization intact and in working shape during the ensuing four years
 Representative William P Hepburn of the Eighth Iowa District, the only Rspub. lIesn candidate for re-eiection in that may contest the. seat Of his successful pen- ocratie opponent.
 For the Indiana senatorship. it is said friends are soiidiy ssaind si John ". Kern. and that there is little possibility of Mir. nsrn asfsss ,Ss; S but % % the syssy way. s4
 The prohtbitionlsts in Missouri propose to Initiative 0i nna fus saoptsd ast month. Under the law It win be necessa- ry to secure about 5d.Oee signatures to pe- amendment before 1t can be submitted to the voters of the state
 .. 7.. Republican and Democratic candidatess for the minor State. offices in Missouri and the provisions Of, the law respecting the tabu- November election on those offices may not be definitely known until after the General Assembly eonyenes in January.
 It costs big money to become Governor of Connecticut. George r. Lilley, the success ful Republican cahdidatA in the recent eieetion' reported his csmPaign expenses a as his Democratic opponent, 933.ooo to be de- feated The goyernorship pays s4:oeo q year.
 On his way from his home in Nebraska to Mexico William J. Bryan stopped off in Corpus Christi Texas. long enough to buy place. 1t Is understood to be his intention to build home on the property and spend part of each winter there.
 Eight times in succession has the state of New York been carried by Republican can- didatas for governor and four times In succession has 1t been carried by Republican candidates for President. Before 1895 New York was the most doubtful state political IY in the country. From 1858 up to that time, there had been Democrauc govern ors for twenty-three years and Republican governors for thirteen years, while In Pres- idsntial campaigns the state had habit of switching from one party to the other every alternate election I
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 The November elections in Porto Rico for representatives to the Insuiar Legislature and the filling of other political and judi cial offices resulted in a sweeping victory unable to carry single legislative dis trict The two chief features, of the Unionist platform are demands for auton@. my and for relief from the tkamnela of American tutors placed at the heads of their departments. They claim the right of statehood without further delay. or to be given independence under American suzeFainty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-01
Fortunes as Ambassadors.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 There is one American theory that deserves permanent retirement; the theory that wealth shall determine a mans fitness for an ambassadors post abroad. One of the problems that MT. Taft must take up soon is that of nam ing representatives of this government to the capitals of Europe. For years 1t has been tn ought impossible to send an ambassador to London, Berlin. Paris or any of several more seats of for eign power unless he possessed a for tune which he was willing to spend for the glorification of his government. He should of course, be a man of cul- ture and. ability, but on top of this mental equipment there must exist the further qualification that he was wealthy. It is time to revise this opinion Presumably Mir. Taft will make many changes among American diplomats abroad. and it wiuld be a wholesome example to all nations if he would choose men to some of the im- portant posts who have no great for tunes, but are throu gh going Americans capable of representing this govern ment and holding up their heads among the elect of the earth. regardless of their bank balances or their invest ments.
 In one of the kaiser's historic indis- cretions he let it be known that the man this government proposed to send to Berlin as ambassador would not be acceptable. because he had not money enough to entertain as lavishly as had his predecessor. It wasl to the credit of the administration at Washington that the undiplon1Itic protest was in- nored and Dr. Hiu was sent to Berlin, This was a good beginning for a re- form that the President elect has 1t in his power fully to carry out. An able, dignified American, forced by necessity to live upon his salary. Is as likely 10 be a true representative of this govern ment abroad as Is the millionaire chosen because of the number of figures he can write after his dollar sign.