THE WEST SIDE JOS, A.C, BRASTtKillhtf and rnll(l"V HI' H0R1 ITION HATh'H. - f IN llVAM'li rwtlv month. . ... ,. ThrM iuokUiiu... .. . . JO FRIDAY, MA UCII S, WOl Social scientists declare that wealth U a disease. Wish we could catch it. Possiblv Oeneral Weylor hasn't his typewriter with turn in Spain Anyhow, he hasn't announced the suppression of the not yet. It is disgraceful that Chinese women living in the track of the advancing Christian armies should feel compelled to kill themselves by thousands to avoid a worse fate, ft Why doesn't Carnune subsidise the shipping of the country him- 8ilf and free lianna from an em barrassing situation? s All the good that Mrs. Nation did in Chicago has been nullified bv the subsequent lour of "Swift- water Bill" from the Klondike dis trict. ft Ji the Daughter of the American Revolution bad the Sampson Schley case to deal with, parlia mentarv rules would Suffer a serious eetbaek. When the eight days granted China by the ultimatum are over there will be nothing left for the allies to do but itrenare another similar document. ft ft A' scientist states that a horse eats nine times his weight each yearand he might have addet that some men eat nine times their worth every day. ft ft ft Now they've struck oil in Alaska Probably regret at bavin sold that country is tho real cause of the - w czar's recent commercial slap at the United States. The senate of Missouri lias passed a bill making the "minimum" Hn alty for kidnapping 100 years in nrison. They are nothing if not merciful in Missouri. The cruel father who seared bis nine-year-old boy's face and hand with a hot iron to cure the lad of naughtiness says he is deeply Borry for what he lias done. A term in jail, however, wouldn't le a bad way to make him just a little sorrier. ft ft ft Senator Culberson, of Texas, has a double who goes about the coun .try personating him and borrowing money. Strangely enough , the proof so afforded of the excellence of the senator's credit does not seem to afford him the least bit of satis Sampson will learn after a while that letter and dispatch writing is not his specialty, just as Hobson learned that kissing was not his, and Dewey learned that he knew little about the real estate business. ft ft ft Cuba proposes that her constitu tion be accepted as it stands and that at the same time a treaty be negotiated giving the United States what it wants. This suggestion is worth considering. We note that Queen Wilhelmina promised to obey, just like common folks. Now we shall see whether she will decline to do so iut like common folks, again. A Los Angeles burglar, whose room was found to be full of plun der, claims to he a newspaper writer. There seems to be no doubt that he has been making lots of "scoopB." Our naval station in the Philip pines will be at Subig bay, thirty miles north of Manila. The harbor is deeper and generally better than that at Manila, and our, Philippine fleet of fifty ships will find ample room there for docking and repairs, ft ft ft The death of Garcia a year or two ago was a calamity to the Cu bans. He was one of tho islanders who knew the obligations bis coun trymen were under to the Ameri cans, and be frequently and con spicuously called the attention of the Cubans to them. However, the Garcia view has yet a chance to as sert itself. The conservatives will have the floor soon in the island. ft ft The truth of the matter' is that Uncle Sam lost the gratitude of Cuba because he interfered with its cock fighting, Sunday wine drink ing' and other, national idiosyncra cies. Puritanism often comes high. ft London has decided to have elec tric lights on the embankments of the Thames in that city. Such recklessness appals one. Can it be that in the next fifty years London will admit the trolley car and even gas put in her houses, fully one half of which are now lighted only by candles? Mr. lianna has given lHdaware just so many minutes to break that deadlock and elect Addicks to the senate. Put what's Hanna, any way? Ho can't even pass bis sub sidy bill.. ft ft ft A Napa city resident yesterday t ' ft A . morning mauc up ms nunu 10 imitate Mrs. Nation, and tho Imita tion proved exact on all point. lie smashed a saloon and ha got into jail. A certain Filipino insurgent chief bag just offer! $10 each for the heads of Americans. It seems like ly that bis own won't bo worth that much, when next ho comes in range, ft ft ft Nobody has dono anything for Yiinuinti since be (Senator Mit chell) left the oenate. Ho lias done much for it m the past, t an lie do it again? Will he do it? Cor vail is Times. If anyone can do it, Senator Mit chell can.. And bo will, too. ft ft It's queer that Pro. Gill, of the Woodburn Indewndent, doesn't mention anything In his paper about that 11500 deal with which ho and the stato bouse janitor were connected. It appears that three of tho olll cials of Yamhill county are short in their accounts. Why didn't they cover their tracks by burning the court house? ft ft ft The Montana house has voted to add to tho school fund the :U),0tX) of alleged briliery money dejtosited with the stato treasurer during tho senatorial struggle of tho last ees? siotr, It furnishes another reason for the election of senators by the direct vote of the jeoplo. The Tom Cat is a monthly pajH-r published by Mrs. C. Kitty, at Miami ville. Ohio. The subhead of Mrs. Kitty's paper is: "We sling ink with one hand, and bold up our pants with tho other." ft ft The gbouls'who tiled their appli cations by telegraph for Consul General Wildman's place while his death was still uncertain, will, it is to bo hoped, fail to profit by their cold blooded ness. The president should appoint men who are at least decent in expressing their de sires. In justice to Sampson, it should be said that nearly all the otlicers of the navy holl the very same sentiments that are expressed in his most injudicious letter. All seem to think that no man can bo a gen tleman who has to work with his hands for bis living, although many of them are tho sons of men who had to do that very thing. The action of Speaker Henderson in regard to tho speech made by Representative Lcnti cannot tie too strongly rebuked. The minority has few enough rights in the lower house now, and if tho speaker is to bo. allowed to suppress any sieeches of which he does not approve, free speech in that body will Ikj a thing of the past. ft ft ft Mr. Markharn's idea that man was built "in the glory and the dream" is as false to history as is the Presbyterian doctrine that all men fell and became guilty through Adam's exploit with the forbidden fruit. We know the record of man's ascent from his lowly companion ship with the brute; it is written in the relics of the stone age and the iron age, the various steps of sav agery and stages of barbarism all following a similar course, whether in Asia, Kurope or America. The idea that man was originally per fect but is now degenerate is deeply ingrained in many minds, but no error of theology is more effectively discredited by scientists and histor ical research. Eugene Guard. While Justice Preweris criticizing the jury Bystem as a relic of the middle ages, let him not forgot that the robes worn by himself and his colleagues are also a little behind the times. ft ft ft It is not generally known that Commissioner Kasson had negotia ted a treaty with Russia by which American steel was to enjoy great advantages in that country and the cirntervailing duty was not to bo imposed on Russian sugar. Put the senate would not ratify it. ft ft ft One on the Nclioolma'uiii. We have all read or heard the story of the school ma'am who asked the little boy to spell "leg." When he couldn't she said: "What Is it that a cow has four of while I have only two?" The answer, given in a shout, is said to have rendered her unconscious. The Wkst Sunt has just heard a new story, which of course is true, inasmuch as the inci dent occurred in a school not very far from Buver. The teacher was trying to get one of the scholars to spell "glass" hut he couldn't see through it apparent ly. Finally the teacher asked him what g-l-a-s-s spelt; he gave it up. She then said: "What do you have in your win dows at home?" Quick as a flash, the little fellow shouted; "fop's old pants !" WASIIINJTO l.KTTKR. Washington, 1. C, Feb. .'. An extra' cession bciiin now con sidered certain, notwithstanding tho eleventh hour efforts in tho Sen ate to prevent it, tho baders of the majority aro considering plans for a short one, by limiting tho legis lation to lo taken up. Tho Presi dent is In spmpathy with tho effort to make tho extra session a short one. The legislation in tho House can bo easily -controlled, ns there will bo no committees until Sienker Henderson, who, will have no re publican opposition to his re-eleo tion, chooses to name them, mid no bills can bo reported unless there aro committees: but tho Senate committees are perpetual, and no thing but the will of the Senators will stand in the way of going into general legislation. An attempt will be niiulo to idoduu the majority in the senate, to limit the subject to be taken up, to tho programme arranged. While the contents of that progra nnie aniiot be positively stated at this time, it is reasonably certain that it will include Cuba, the Philip pines, and the Nicaragua, Canal. Senator Morgan, after making a most sensational sXHeli i ir which ho charged that there was a delib erate attempt to ihrotle the Nicar agua Canal bill, because Great Pritain bud not consented to the legislation, succeeded in giving the bill a parliamentary status, which will enable tho majority to cull it up at any time and pass it if they See tit. Ho does not believe, how ever, that it will be passed. Hefore passing the bill, appropriating ", 000,000 for the St Louis exposition, the senate adopted an amendment, offered by Senator Teller, providing that tho exposition shall be closed Sundays, and another, offered by Senator Tillman, appropriating 'JoO.OUO for the U. S. exhibit at Charleston. S' C. exsisition. .Three retiring Senators were par ticipants in a more or less amusing episode on the lloor of the Senate. Senator Pettigrmv started it by proposing an amendment to the bill reading:"Aiid that the titles of the President shall hereafter be; tho President of the so-called Re public of the United Slates and the Kinw ror of the 1-datuls of tho Sen." Senator Puller put in his oar by asking if the coming inauguration ceremonies were being arranged for this inierial regime, and Senator Pettigrew replied, "yes everything will be conducted with due pomp." Py this time, the senate was in a broad grin which changed to hear ty laughter when Senator Chandler remarked :"Tbe senator from South Dakota and the senator from North Carolina, and myself, should not feel concerned about such matters, for none of us will be here." Outside pressure has saved the Revenue Reduction bill, which was in a fair way to die in a conference deadlock, and the conferees now positively say that a compromise between the senate bill and the house bill, is certain to be reached this week. A list compiled by the Geogra phic Poard, of the correct spelling and pronounciatioii of the names of four thousand places in tho Phil ippines, has been sent to the senate Help 0 0 0 Mature Babies and children need proper food, rarely ever medi cine. If they do not thrive on their food something is wrong. They need a little help to get their digestive machinery working properly. COD LIVER OIL WITH ' HYPOPHOSPHITLS Of LIME . SODA will generally correct this difficulty. If you will put from one fourth to half a teaspoonful in baby's bottle three or four times a day you will soon see a marked improvement. For larger children, from half to a teaspoonful, according to age, dissolved in their milk, if you so desire, will very soon show its great nourish ing power. If the mother's milk does not nourish the baby, she needs the emul sion. It will show an effect at once both upon mother and child. 50c, and $1.00, ill HrugglMa, SCOTT 4 BOWNH, Chcminu, New York, ttt 11 II mil II West Hide and Pacific Homestead, one year, $2. KEKATOIt MIKim.L. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer of February 25th says: , ' At the last moment aftor mid night on Saturday, the rumorrd break to Hon. John II. Mitchell came in the Oregon legislature, and the long deadlock was ended by his election. The entire opposition to Mr Corbelt, a few of the votes that liad stood by him lit previous ballots and a number of democrats luado tip the majority that gave the senatorship to Mr. Mitchell, and prevented an extra session and the indefinite continuance of tho fuo tional struggle that had lasted from the moment tl at the legislature bad organized. The first reflection tipon tho re sult is one of regret that Senator McPridu should not have received the re-election to which he was fairly entitled, He has beets an able and conscientious senator. His recud Is excellent, judged either by the press or tho party standard. Ho had earned the honor which it would have been for the best interests of tho stato to confer upon him, and which he would undoubtedly have receive hut for the bitter factional waged within the party, '-ms friends of Mr. Corbelt, with tho Portland Oregoiiian as their mouth piece, determined to defeat Senator Meltritle; even, if necessary, at tho cost of Republican success itnislf. Their efforts made possible the un expected, in the choice of Senator Mitchell. 0 All of these circumstances have to be taken into account in passing judgment upon the action of the Republicans in the legislature. For years the parly ha had to fight tho aspirations of Mr. Corltett, the Oregon millionaire, whose final ambition it was to secure a seat in the United States Semite. And in the canvass preceding the election at which this legislature was chos en, every Oregon Republican wns made indignant by the sulfordiua-, lion to this end, by tho friends of Mr. Corlwtt and by tho principal Republican newspasr of the state, of personal fairness and of party loyalty. No slander and no mode of attack was list gross, whether directed ugaiust Senator McHride or the national administration, if it seemed to servo this purpose. This explains, if it de not justify, the refusal of the opponent of Mr. Corbelt to enter a caucus, and was the reason of their unyielding de termination that he should not en joy tho fruits of a campaign so conducted. , While the existence of such con ditions is to be regretted, as is the election of a Republican senator by tho aid 0: Democratic votes and the defeat of the man who should have received a second term, there are eoinH!nsatioiiB. One is tho xrtna nent retirement of the candidate who has represented for so long in Oreeon the aspiration of mere wealth to push itself into tho son ate. Another is tho selection of a man who, notwithstanding what is objectionable in bis record, is thor oughly familiar with tho duties of his position and will Im able to ex ercise an influence at the national capital wholly impossible to any untried or inexperienced candidate. Senator Mitchell's original entry into tho senate was made twenty eight years ago, and in that time he bus served as senator three full terms, llo held important com mittee positions, ami with his col league, Mi Dolph, gave to Oregon an influence at Washington out of proportion to the si.e. and impor tance of the slate. Mis familiarity with men, his knowlego of methods of procedure and his ability to step instantly into active work as a senator wjll bo of immense practi cal value to the people of Oregon. His Ion former service will weigh strongly in tho senate where a newly-elected and inexperienced man is at a much greater disadvan tage than in the house, Tho puhlta will hopo'lio has "teamed wisdom by, past mistakes. ThosO who aro dis satisfied with tho outcome know exactly where to locato tho respon sibility and the blame; upon the promoters of tho bitter feud in Ore gon who Bought at any cost to do feat Senator McBrido in iw inter ests of Mr. Corbelt, and have as sisted in accomplishing a result that pivi'haps is the most unpalat ablo to them of all. Commercial College, PORTLAND,'- OHKcioN. Tho only exclusively Pernln Shorthand School in the NurthwfMt; offers unexcelled facilitien for learning this nyHtein, either pernonally or by mail. Tho Porn in employs neither Blinding, position nor arbitrary contraction, and in connoiiue ntlv the Simplest. Most Lcjrlblc and Rapid Shorthand in use. it can be learned in ono-third of tho time required by the Pitman, (Jraham or Muimon uyBtoma. Send for free trial lenson and catalogue. Uoiiiinereial Building, Washington, cor, 2d t. 4 before the President Is authorized to withdraw American authority from Cuba. Unless those who are presumably familiar with the Pres ident's views aro mistaken, the attempt is doomed to failure, even should Senator Spooner's amend ment go through. Tho President is understood to bo of the opinion that tho situation is one that can not bo met by an action of this kind. CATARRH 1 m iwl 1 Of COLD S HEAD Tn , CLKANKINf) AN II II It AM MO HI) UK VOU CATARRH Ely's Cream Balm Kmjt ll ltMht t" ilan, I'ullUIIlt 110 III- Jurinni Uiii. ICtaHuUltf)rilliwlKM, OItw lUltxf ! am. It Ojwnt aim! ClealMHkt Ilia rift! -iu, AH.-tva lii(1mnuitiitt. Ilralt will l-r-ilrrl. lh Wclliliroll. KmturM !! S-H.M ut Tut mill Smrll. I.arg Hmr, Ml exult ' Utiivclala at hp mall; Trial Sl, I0in.ii hy mall. KlV IIUOTIIBIIS.M Waitvu huvei, Ne "tt. Frank llillierl la imw purser on the steamer M.sIih;. TIi former purser, Mr. TspscuW, having accepted th i linn il ngent lor Unit). K.AN.l'o. at Cmvallis, In place of Mr. Thayer, lonimr nginl, who was transferred to tlicHnlcin ullW to till the iNiaiHon vacated hy Agent O. M, Powers, who resigned to go into the newspaper huslness. Mr. till lieri It a veteran purser, and Is well known all along lh Willamette, and Yamhill river. ! ton Herald. Polk County Bank (INt'OHPOKATKD.) . MONMOUTH, OKUOON. i. 11. mm.r.T. r. i unnw I'rrahlxiil, Vlrwmlilrat. Ill I. I'OWr.l.l.. (a.hlrr. v Paid Capital . . $30,000.00 MMX'TOPH: J. If. lluwley, P. L. Campbell, I. M. HltnpNiin, J. It, V. Itiiuer, John It. Hhiiiip, K. H. Powell, Joseph Craven. Transacts a Ceneral Banking and Exchange Business. C. T. HCNKLC, Proprietor Hot and Cold Baths at all Times. INDKPKSDKNCK - - OKKOON NOTARY PUBLIC. Real Estate.... Insurance, Loans. Main Ht. Independence, Ore, hy tho President. The report is intended to bring about uniformity in the spelling and pronunciation of those names which have been badly mixed, owing- to some of the places having both Spanish jind Malay names', and others having Malay names which attempts have boon mado to anglicize. Tho board has followed the spelling found on official Hpanibh charts. Senator Hpooner, who has from the first oppoed an extra session of CongreHH, is having able assis tance in making a last effort to vent tho calling of one by attach ing an amendment to the Army Appropriation bill, declaring the conditions the Cubans must agree Notice of Final Sett lenient. Ill lite I'ounly Court of Inn Hil of On-gutt, fur tiii( n.uiiij-. In tliu mailer "1 1 tie ,-aUle of Mlramtn Hill, ilr.PMet. NolU-e Is liereliy given that III iniilrraliriti-tl aililin-ltl,ir of Hie itaiate of Miramlu Hill, ilreraat-il, linn II In, I hi. Dual areounl of Ihs at liilttlalrattun ol III mlil ilU- Willi III" Clerk of the eon illy eimrl of hhI I rnunty, Hlitle ol onxou, hikI Dial Hi Jii'lm-of I lie aitl-l enurt hiu lUcil rialiinlsv tlm J.1,1 ilajr ol Mureh, Call, al liio'i'lurk A. M, "I mlit 'l' Ml the coml riHim of aulil eiiiirl aa the ilim ami iiliien for I ho liearinir of amil si emuit uii'l ohji-ellona Ilinrt-Ui ami lur Itte aellh mi-iil ot Urn amim. II. H. KF.I.SO, AilmtnlalMilorol the ealnln of MltaiKlu lllll.ilonHMnt. Iiulml I whrimrr Jlt, l il. '-M W AV1T.D -1 upiihlo, ri'lUhle pemoit In nvi-rt euiinlv In rireeiil targe ooiuiniiy of aolhl Itimiie'lal reulallnii;i!ialiirjr ier ytnr, payable? wnekly: H I"'' lay alimliiu-ly nrc ami all eenei: li'Hi(ltt, lamn-llile, riYllitlte alary, no niniiiilaalwn; anlury pithl each Hntiirtlay ami ffHn' money aoviini-i'it each week. MlASIiAHK IIOI'SK, ii.il ln-mborn St., Uilcaa-o. 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