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Newspaper Page Text- , rft THE SUNDAY .OBflOlffAK. ' P6wftAiltt AFBIL' 22, i90ff. l?S iWrl,l("""'r Jj- NO RESPECT FOR CREED DR. I1ILLIS' DEXCITCIATIOT OP THE DOCTRIXE OF DAMXATIOX. lion- PlymontU'ti Pastor Fat Him- lelf Oat ot Fellowship of the Church lie Brenn In. Beginning his sermon, Sunday morning. March 23, with a statement of the great Importance that Ideal of -the future life have for men. he Quickly made the as sertion that until eolutlon came the world had no data, for an adequate dis cussion of the problems of right and wrong and penalty. He placed himself' fairly and isouarely upon the ground that both Na ture's penalties and God's punishments represent, not anger, but medicinal love, that they are cot to break the bruised reed, but to bring"growth and victory. He showed out of what partial and carbled materials the mistaken genius of men had erected ideas ofcvcrlastlng hell and of cruel jpd vengeful punishments, pointing with sorrow both to Michael An gelo's artistic ideas and at Calvin's and Jonathan Edwards' dogmatic assertions and passing to the. Presbyterlanlsm of to day. From this background rose, like the finale of a rich and glorious symphony, his concluding apostrophe to the deliver ance of man out of the very sternness of Nature: "Know, then," he said, "that there is a 'deliverer. With confidence that Is absolute and with certainty that is unyielding and Immovable, I point you to Jcsua Chrx3L" Dr. mills' sermon in part follows: . "Among life's gravest problems let ni include the problem of the life to come, with Its penalties and rewards. No other question has so fascinated man, no-other problem is so big with wonder and mjs tery, and none has so fully occupied the thought of the common people not less than of the poet and the philosopher. For when man has tolled long- with bis tool, his 'law, his friendship, and made ready for his old age, it remains for hlra to become good friends with his past, with his conscience and his God, and to pre pare for his- admittance into that court of universal Ioe into which the good and great of all ag hae been garnered. Perhaps', after th'eir many and long In quiries, tho wisest of men can never knon with certainty what is the nature of that future life, what occupations and duties there await them, but certain It is thit "nothing educates man like the Vorecast and preparation for a future that con lessedly must remain unknown. All w'll admit that no child can know beforehand that wisdom, wealth and Influence may be long to three-score years and 10, yet It is to the fast degree important that the boy should wander and dream as to what manner or home shall be his, what tool or task he shall take up; whether glory and honors ehall await him or povrrty and neglect discourage his labors. And If man In his youth prepares for an un known career this side of the grave, man grown gray and old does well also to fore cast that realm beyond tho horizon trhcre mortal law must also reign. If In thu life vices and sins Journey on attended by harvests of unhapplness, perhaps be jond the-grave those who love truth and goodness- will And the angels of God ever upon the wing. "Now our Intellectual tread will be the firmer If we note what evolution has to say1 as to the laws of life, growth and continuance of any organism. Reduced to its simplest possible terms. Mr. Spencer tells us life depends upon correspondence with environment. The stone Is dead. I: has no nerve of connection with nlr or coll. A plant lives a little. It has one nerve down to the soil and another nerve up toward the sun. The lark has more life. It has mouth for food, feet for walk lng, 'wnga for the air and 6ong toward Its fcjlowa. The savage adds jet more life. Ho Is related to soil, to seeds, 4o fruits, to flocks and herds, to Are and clone and metals. The civilized man adds to his life. He runs one nerve toward the kingdom of beauty, one toward the kingdom of color and one toward the king dom of truth; while for man in his nobles, state, there are relations toward the In isible realm, where hope and loe and conscience dwell. Cut off any nerve of re lation and to that extent death has taken place. Cut the root nerve of the plant, and it dies. But tor the bird, death in volves more. Remove the wings, it still has feet. Remove the feet and It has the mouth for food. But removo the head and life Is gone. Because man has a thou eand nerves relating him to the universe, death is more difficult. Cut the optie nerve, the kingdom of beauty goes, bi! man lives. Cut the nerves of hearing also and of speaking, man etlll continues his life. Cut the nerve of conscience and friendship, and the moral realm goes. Many me who are alive phyelcally have been dead for 20 years toward the kin dom of love and conscience. Cut th: nerve of memory and intellect, and the body stilj lives. Cut off hands and feet, the1 pulse still thrives. But touch the. heart life is gone. In man, therefore, tlytr measure of life Is the measure of relation and correspondence. Obedience to the laws of exercise and nutrition fcr etrecgthenlng the nerves of correspondence Increases the life. Contrariwise, d sobe dlepce to these means death. This la nat ural law. Tears will not change 11; groans and shrieks will not Interrupt It. God's world Is one -world The laws that reign today will rule tomorrow and to morrow's tomorrow- Now this law is bis with destiny? Cm "But evolution makes' much of another law the law of the conservation of en 'ergy. A natural law is God's thought organized, and these think and work for God and under him. In accordance with this principle. God governs rocks by force, animals by fear, ravage men by self--lnterest, good men by reason, the bes: men by love. The law In. the lowest realm Is the law of force, and the weak go to the wall, the strong survive. But as man approaches the realm where God dwells he finds the law reversed. There tlie strong go td the wall, while the weak sur vive. Jn the low animal stage, the weak perish and strength survives and multl piles. But when the savage mother iden tifies her babe with herself for reasons of self-lntercot. she wishes" every part of herself to survive, and so lifts the chleld to protect her babe. In the cold and rain ehe makes her body a shield above tho ch'ld. Soon the babe In Its weak ness survives, and the strong mother perishes. But .when men saw that thlfl was after an a form of progress, then all lathers and mothers, named the state, made a law to preserve, not simply banes, but to cause the weak slave and serf and debtor to survive. A law waa made to give the slave his freedom after seven years, so the serf survived. A law was made forbidding the creditor to take the sleeping blanket from the debtor, or to take- his spade or sickle when these were his only means of life. At length the state lifted the shield above the blind the deaf, the aged, and weakness sur vived more and more. Finally Christ came, declaring that the law of force never blossoms until the etrocg perish that the weak may survive. "With these principles In mind, what has Christianity to say of the future life and its penalties and rewards? First, life great problem is to keep the soul that has been achieved for you by your ancestors and by your God. This Is Christ's question: 'What shall It profit a man If he gain the" whole world and lose his own souir The problem of the bad man Is: Given a body fearfully and won derfully made, given a tout fully equipped with faculties .rational, affectional and moral, given nerves running out into the earth beneath and the heavens above, how shall I through sin most quickly cut the nerve toward truth and the nerve toward beauty rnd the nerve toward friendship and the nerve toward all immortal realms, until I stand alone, without a single" nerve of relation a mere lump of flesh, as truly dead as a stone that has no rrrr. toward soil or sua? And the problem of the good man is this: Given a soul, no, matter from whence it came, that now eecms the Image of God, hpw shall I ex ercise and strengthen the nerve of rea son toward truth, the nerve of memory toward a noble past, the nerve of hope toward a great future, the nerve of aspi ration toward he Immortal life, so that 1 shall be as Immortal through faith and love as God and Christ, with whom I am In communion? ' "Now .nl3 automatic Judgment also ex plains the awful warnings of God's word. What terror and alarm in this divine book! What separations and descriptions that blanch the stoutest heart! Listen! 'Because I called, ye refused: I stretched out my hand and no man regarded; there fore, I will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh when ear cometh as 'desolation and destruction sa a whirlwind." Misunderstanding for centuries, men -have thought this was the voice of God speak" ng. From this scripture Dante and Milton created their pictures of lurid, fiery torment. But this voice of warning comes from, the throne In man, and not from the throne of God. It is the-voice of Nature. Proverbs Is the book of wiedom- Wisdom Is here personified and rpeaks to us; The glutton lives for" stalled ox and highly seasonea foods. The drunkard lives for fiery stim ulants and plced wines. The lecherous man Uvea Sot pleasure, and his kiss cf passion sets a blister on the forehead that KEV. DR. XEWELt D WIGHT HILLIS. hitherto was while. And when this evil life has been, persisted In, Nature ascends her Judgment seat. The brain exclaims: 'I have called to ye, oh, ye gluttons, and ye refused." The exhausted .nerve ex claims: 'I have stretched out my hanc, oh, ye drunkards, and no man regarded IL' And the weakened heart cries out. "Te would none of my counsel: ye mocked my reproof, and now J" the Injured brain, or nerve, or stomach, exclaims "I will laugh at your calamity; I will mock at your desolation. When the agonies of sci atica and dyspepsia and all forms of phy sical anguish shall desolate your life, ye shall eat The fruit ot your own devises." It Is tho voice of physiology. It 1s the vofce of Intellect If the scholastic the ologians have substituted God for Nature, there Is no scholar but knows that the book of Proverbs represents Nature and wisdom warning man. And though the wrongdoer, when It is too late, pours forth his tears, though he send forth prayers and exceeding bitter cries, the laws of God will move on. Nothing can stay the penalties. 'He that sows to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption." 'Whatsoever a man sowetb, that shall he reap." This is natural law. This is true today and tomorrow, and shall be true, on the morrow's morrow. "Another partial and hideous view was taught and Is by Jonathan Edwards aLd the Calnnlstlr theologians. They took the words of Solomon, where brain and nerva and stomach speak, saying to the glutton and the drunkard, 'I will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh," and constructed a. form of fu ture punishment therefrom. Adam and Eve represented the race. For their sin ill manblnd n-., tfanmf (n trr!1 nnn. lshment. Christ came In with a lifeboat to save a few of the. lost wretches; as Edwards said, 'the bigger part of men who have died heretofore have gone to hell; tho whole heathen world Is hopelessly doomed: against the non-elect the wrath of God Is burning, the furnace hot, the flames race ard glow and devils are wait ing for their coming like lions restrained and greedy fcr the'r prey." On one page, M. Visiting competitors arc expected Edwards writes: 'God holds the uncon- from Vancouver. Victoria, Seattle, Taco verted over the pit of hell, as much as one ma, Spokane and also some from Callfor holds a spider or a loathsome Insect over nla. Entries to all championship events the fire," "and from time to time the gener- must be In the hands of the secretary of ations In darkened lands, without temple, -the i association1 P. B. Glfford. of Port- without Bible, without religious teacher, are swept Into hell as the- housewife llt.s the lids from the glowing coals and sweep files into the flamed." And today one of our greatest denominations still includes that awful statement In Us conf&slon of faith, saying that certain men and angels are foreordained to everlasting death, be ing 'particularly and unchangeably de signed, and their number is so certain and definite that It cannot be either Increased or diminished.' And every young man who enters tho Presbyterian Church has to solemnly swear to believe ard 'teach this frightful view. Yet every attempt to re vise and expel that statement from the creed has been successfully combat ted by a majority that wishes to retain the doc trine. It would seem that it men believed It. reason would be shaken to Its founda tion. It would seem as if a man would prefer to bs burned at the stake rather than hold and charge 6uch Infinite cruelty upon the all-merciful and all-loving God. The day the echolastlcs wrote that chap- j ter in ine conies:on or xaitn tney got the devil confused with God. What, read the story of Christ's life love, sufferings j and death and then charge God with particularly and unchangeably designing" tne majority ot n children to eternal tor ment I would rather shake my flet in tho face of- the Eternal and fling every vile epithet toward that stainless throne, where eternal mercy sut with the world's aton ing Savior, than lift my hand with that creed toward God's throne and affirm that I taught or believed It: For the man who I doei believe that hideous doctrine the hour of Judgment has already come. His sun Is already darkened; his moon is. turned to blood; his stars have refused to give thIr light. But for the common people driven toward utter denial and atheism by such falso theology, there has risen the light ' of science to reconcile contradiction, to enforce righteousness, to convict of sin and to recover men unto belief In and love for God revealed in our Savior, Jesud Christ. "Equipped with- this automatic Judg ment seat, knitted In by ties of friend ship and association with our fellowe. re sponsible for influence, how solemn the-, thought of that coming judgment day. For wise men science, with- its new em phasis of the permanence of character, has, taken away the dreams of Dante and Mil ton and Edwards, but hag substituted realities that are a, thoussted-fold more Impressive, stem and rleorous. The old ecbolastica only eMsaraed the sorfaee ol Nature's dark flood, over which the mari ner sails. Ours is a moral universe. It is keyed to righteousness, and not happi ness. Dreams become thought, thought becomes -habit, habil becomes character, character becomes destiny. This voice of the sage Is also the voice of Nature and of God. Conscience .never takes a vaca tion. The judge la ever on the bench. Every hour the testimony .comes in. Laws hem man In op every side: God" "never slumbers nor sleeps. Many there arc who dare not trust themselves out under the stars that blaze and, like flaming light, nlngs, burn and sear. For them the heav ens are braes. For them the earth U iron and ashes. But for these broken hearts and wrecked lives Is there no placa of recovery? "And when I see Christ stretching pity ing hands toward sobbing Peter and whis pering, "There Is Joy in heaven over on sinner that repenteth"; when I see Christ's tenderness toward that weeping girl, con cealing her tragedy as she wets Chrlst'H feet, with her tears and wipes them with her hair: when I behold Christ's mercy toward Saul slaying Stephen, and then himself assuming the responsibility o Saul's sin, raising up a new leaderln Steph en's place, and so bearing and atoning for Saul's transgressions, and then going oa to meet Saul in a vision hour and trans form Mm to Paul, then I understand that glorious deliverance that Christ brings to each wicked courtier like Francis Xav. lor; to that wicked thinker, John Bunyan. to the criminal Jean Valjean."" WILCOX TROPHY CONTEST. Close Scores on Wnverly Link-. Coming Tournament. The contest for the T. B. Wilcox trophy cup at the Wavcrly coif links vesterdnv afternoon was exceedingly Hvelv. and fh scores svere well bunched, there being but a. difference of 15 between high and low man: F. G. Wheeler won the contest with a score of IDS and 10 handicap, making a net 98. P. B. Glfford (scratch) and K. L. Macieay, with two plus opposite his name, each made 105 gross. F. S. Wheeler and Dr. H. E. Jones qualified for the finals, and the cup will be contested for every Saturday afternoon from now until the end of June. Yesterday's scores follow: QLssI 2 PLATERS. F. a. Wheeler..... H. E. Jones .. J. K. Kollock N. E. Ayer C. E. Ladd J. E. Young T. B. Wilcox P. B. Glfford R. L. Macieay.... J. Bourne. Jr W. J. Burns W. M. Whldden.. 105 10 111 12 111 10 112 S 114 10 109 4 117 12 10; 106 2 U13 6 121 12 120 10 122 12 119 7 US 2 101 104 104 105 1C5 1C5 107, 107 109 I 110 110 112 D. C. Lewis C iL Lewis.. ThomasKerr 113 ,-. Ciua- The Pacific Northwest Golf Association will hold Its second annual championship meeting, in Portland next Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Saturday. There will be five contests each day. beginning at s:.o A. M.. and continuing until 5 P. lana, not later than Thursday evening. Entries for all other events may be made with the committeeman acting as starter at the links. Only amateur golfers bo longing to clubs on tho Pacific Coast can compete In the open championship events. ,-cl ri. - "" - The other events are open to all amateurs from any part of tho United States or Canada. i "66 HOURS TO ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS" Via the Great Northern Railway. Train leaves Portland dally at 6:20 P. M. Connects at St. Psrul Union Depot for Chi cago.' St. Douls and all points cast and south. For ' tickets, rates, etc. call at City Ticket Office, 122 Third street. Boomer pianos. Wiley B. Allen Co. b(0b1Hs I V JssssssssssssssssssssH ak. r i g"-jjw J"'"" !" tYI J$m Hll laH . ?- -u wSM Kw -. -1 --XL H. 3L MOSTGOKERY'S GREAT BAKE PDP, "BLUE JACKET." 1 . . PROPERTY ASSESSMENT REMEDIES SUGGESTED FOR EXIST ING CONDITIONS. Precinct Assessors Favored In CroolcCoanty Jadsje Bird Stands br Present Lair. The questions of assessment and taxa tion and revision of the assessment laws continue to be discussed with Interest throughout the state. There are as many remedies for existing conditions as there are persons to advocate them. Jujge Wills, of Crook County.favora Precinct As sessors and a State Board of Eq.ua.lza Uon. He considers it useless to u.ge County Assessors to perform their duvy under the present law. Judge Bird, of Yamhill County, thinks the present law Is sufficient if Assessors would enforce It. Judge Potter, ot Lane County, offers as a remedy an inheritance tax and direct levy upon railroads and telegraph JInea and upon counties, according to population, for the purpose of raising state revenue. rilECIXCT ASSESSORS. Crook County- Plan for Getting? a Fall Assessment. PRIN.EVrLLE. Or.. April 2L The liabil ities of Crook County were, according to our last semiannual statement. Including Interest on outstanding warrants, JlS.iHi 75; estimated resources, m,979 70. Of the last amount, SKCO was cash on hand, applicable to tho payment of county warrants. The balance consisted of uncollected taxes due. The tax levy for ISM for general county purposes was placed at 10 mills, and will bring in a revenue of J1S.441 4S. If all is collected, but we expect to fall short of this amount about JIOO. All warrant against this county registered prior to October 14, 1S3S, have been paid. The actual expenditures of this eounty during ISM were approximately $13,000. The In debtedness has m the last year and one half been reduced about 110,000. Our reve nues from all sources In 1900 will be nearly fSMXC. How mines should be taxed is a questios that up to the present time has not been considered in this county, but Indications are that It soon will be. We have no patented mines as yet. but have prospects that apparently will develop Into propertlej of great value. I am ot the opinion that mining Improvements and machinery can only be taxed as personal property, and their values should be governed by their earnings for the year they are taxed. Having served the state for four years upon the State Board of Equalization, and having become familiar with the manner in which assessments are made by As-ws-Sors in this state, and knowing the oath Assessors take before entering upon their duties, it seems to me that suggestions for the benefit of Assessors would be sweetness wasted on the desert air. What do I think would be a remedy for existing evils? My answer Is: Compel every Individual or corporation owning property within any county in this state to deliver to some person In each precinct who shall have been previously appointed by the County Assessor, to receive the same, a full and complete list ot all of his or their property, personal and roil, within the precinct of the person1 so appointed. Listing of property- should be as of March 1. Such a law should be backed by heavy fines or by forfeiture of a large per centum of such property as was not so returned. Thus we would find all the property, aftet whjch It would bo only necessary for the Assessor to visit each precinct and. In conjunction 'with his deputy in the pre. clnct, place an appraisement upon the property. when such lists would b! complete and rcad7 for entry on the county roll. The i Assessor's blanks and assessment rolls should be furnished bv the tnte. ana should correspond as to classification of 1 property, and the Assessor should be corn- pelled by law to use, blanks so furnished and none other. AH classes of property should be placed upon the rolls In a uni form manner, and no two classes of prop erty should be merged under one heading. Summaries of each roll, giving the classes as they appear on the rolls, with the number in each class, and of total valuation, along with the average valua tions in each clara. should be sent to the Secretary of State by a given time or fixed date, under penalty for neglect or tan spina w.3 iu w bj. jiivic auuutu uc oiuic o jj 3,3 'Board of Equalization offeotlcss than five refusal to do so. There should be a State persons, representing as many districts. who should have power to sit as Ions as SO days. Such board should be allowed a reasonable compensation, a part of which should be for traveling expenses, while tho Individual members are In .search o! Information outside of their own districts. It should be their duty to equalize the valuations of each class of property found In the summaries as between counties and return tho same to the Secretary ol State, who should then charge each coun ty with Its Just amount of state taxes, ac cording to the report of such Board of Equalization. Such equalization should i fTl tit. l1. tt it. .tv TV.. ....... .. .". ...j . t.... titbit,, ajj avuic bugh means only will we ever know the true valuation gf the property In this state, lr valuations make high rates. High rates breed llara and causo concealment of Property. Low valuations are bad for the state. High rates are bad for the local- lty. WILLIAM C. WILLS. County Judse. Brycn's I.end-PIpe Clrich. New York Commercial-Advertiser. There arc two sufficient reasons why escape from Bryan's nomination by the Democratic party is hopeless. The first is that there Is absolutely no other candi date to be found. The second Ii that he has unshakable possession of more than enough votes to nominate him. To pre vent his nomination, 311 votes, or more than one-third of the convention, will be necessary. All the votes of the delega tions from all tho states In which there Is any possibility of revolt from hlm-New Ycrkvr. Indiana DO. Ohio 4S. Michigan 2S. Minnesota IS. Iowa U. and Maryland 16 aggregate only 23i Nobody pretends that he will loss the solid delegations from these states, so that tho size of tho nn. j position to him will be much smaller nu- uicrjcauy man mis aggregate. Long be fore any of the states named above are reached In the roll-call, hjs nomination will be assured, and tho chances are ten to one that the call will cither never he finished or that he will be nominated hv I awniMui, v nymu ov pjjc oi me great. -- naFaH iLI ' Bicycle m Second-hand COLUMBIA CLEVELAND EAST PORTLAND AGENT, F. P. Keenan, 134 Grand Avenue est surprises In American politics If a candidate with such a grip as this upon a convention could bo set aside at the last moment, especially when tho party has no available man to take his place. i PRESET LAWS GOOD. All Ther Jfced Is Xced Is Amendment to Make Tuem Effective. M'MINNVILLE. Or., April 2L-The financial condition of Yamhill County at the beginning of 1300 was very satisfactory, especially when we consider the low rate of taxation that has prevailed for a num ber of years pact. Our levy for 1SS0 will be a little heavier than for some years. However, this becomes necessary for more than one reason. Yamhill County has a great many expensive bridges spanning the streams which And their source In the Coast Mountains and then wind their way to the Willamette River, a dlstanco In some streams of 50 miles, all la this county. In the practice of economy that the taxpayers nilght not be overburdened during the hard times through which we have so lately paesed, the County Court spent very little money on these bridges, so during the year ISM It became neces sary to Increase tho expenditure In this direction very largely. So we did not quite get out of debt, as wo had Intended when wo made the levy for this year.. We have no bonded Indebtedness what ever and no road warrants outstanding. But we had county warrants outstanding December M. 1K, $11,372 T9: accrued Inter est on outstanding county, warrants, 3: total liabilities. J12.Z73 79. Our resources are uncollected taxes on roll ot 1S5S, K117. Total liabilities over resources. $6156 79. Our county warrants afthe end of the year were paid up to October Z. 1SS3. The following Is a detailed statement ot our levy for 1S39 and the amount of each fund It will raise: State purposes. 6.30 mills. ralstng430.93 si Scalp bounty. .25 mills, raising.... 1.230 13 School, 5 mills, raising 24.602 79 Indigent soldiers. .10 mill, raising.. 493 03 County purposes, 6.75, raising 33.213 6 Total. 18.40 mills, raising C0.53S 41 Under our present system of raising the state revenue, it seems that some kind ot a law regulating tho equalization ot as sessments in the different counties Is a ne cessity. The manifest injustice of the way in which the present law Is admin istered I so apparent that it is needles.1 to call attention to It It occurs to me that It would result In-better laws If our Legislators would take our present laws on assessment and taxation as they find them and direct their efforts toward amending them where experiences ha3 proven them to be wrong and Ineffective. After following this plan a few yearn, we would. I believe, find a great improve ment !n our system. Instead of this, our Legislators undertake an entire new law from beginning to end. They labor and work at It all through the ccsrfon, and at the close the framer of the bill would not recognize It were his name not on It as the Introducer, and as It pleases no one. It Is lost on Its final passage, and the old law still remain with all of Its weak nesses. Jut as cumbersome and Inopera tive as ever. R. P. BIRD. County Judge. BV DIRECT LEVY. Judge Potter's Plan for Raising: the State' Revenue. EUGENE, Or., April 2L Following is a statement of the financial condition of Lane County December 31, 1S33: Liabilities County warrants outstanding and unpaid .. ...........$100,713 37 Estimated Interest on same 3,5 00 Total noun n Cash In hands of Treasurer, ap plicable to payment or county warrants .........$ 2.3SS 97 Tax levy for UJS State and scalp bounty, 6.S3 mills; school. 5; county and road purposes. 11 95: total. mllls.VS This levy will raise JS4.0S9 S3. Thero are no road warrants outstanding and no road funds on hand. The net Indebtedness of the county Is about 147.09X Since July. 1SS6. the county has erected a Courthouse and furnished it at a total cbst of about r74,OW. nnd during the same time has expended 1C6.000 on road and bridges. Including $4300 ex pended In the purchase of rockcrushers and other road machinery. We have also procured a present ownership list and plats for the Assessor's office, at a cost of $2400. and have had to bear the expense of the trial and execution ti a murderpr. The people of the county are thoroughly awake to the value of good roads, and are willing to subscribe money and work outside or Kielr taxes for the Improvement of the highways. The development of the lum ber and mining industries of the county makes a promise of prosperous times for the future. County warrants are selling at a premium, of mere than 1 per cent, and the population of the county ls in creasing rapidly. I have no suggestion to mako as to the rnmn.. matruvt r i..imr min,. I favor raising the state revenue oy a Coaste POPULAR FROM OCEAN TO The" demand for Free Rear Wheel Auto matic Coaster Brakes on bicycles has be come so general, the output will not meet tho demand at this time, and a probable shortage will occur, here as elsewhere. We are prepared to fit the Morrow Hub Coaster Brake or the Columbia Coaster Brake on New Columblas, Clevelands and Hartords at 5 extra. . MORROW BRAKES Fitted to Bicycle In oc. COLUMBIA BRAKES Fitted to Bleyclca In me. .3.30 ?T50 The Columbia Coaster Brake has fewer parts than any other. Is an absolutely free wheel brake, having no friction between crank and hub coasts farther than other brakes. The simplicity of the Columb'a Brake recommends it to all. It puts no strain on your rim. spokes, hub or renr wheel bearings. Has no equal as a Coaster Brake. The only Coaster Brakg that can ys fitted to a bevel-gear, chainlets bicycle, wh'ch combination make3 the ideal whejl for every day use and for touring, being free from any possible source.of trouble. We maintain the best equipped repair Dhop In the West. All work fully guar anteed and done promptly. Bicycles in A1 repair, No falrjjfler refused. They must be THEBiGFQLJ 9 SURPASSING COfVIPETSHON 132434 direct tax by the state upon railroads and telegraph llnee, and 'some form of Inherit ance tax. In my opinion, a levy upon the counties "according to populatlm would be a better method, of rating the state revenue than the present. If th present method continues, I favor a State Board of Equalization. E. O. POTTER, County Judge The German Agrarians. London Spectator. The squirearchy who are deerhpl hv tnat rather pedantic name have for gener- ations past been the foundation, the bed rock, as the mineralogists say. of the monarchy, not only-in Prussia, but In atl the minor states. They have suDnlied the armies with nSlrpra Tir-v tini- mir.i ii hlchcr rank of tho civil srrvlr.. .-.ml im, tenants and laborers have formed the dj.-pefJa ant. liver trouble from di-'ry most Important section of tho soldiery. crrors- and the cauwa of most dfcests ar. They have ltd. If they have not ruled. . cajlly traceable, but although pile art the large body of small freeholders, and i rcwl troubles are as common ae an of that considerable section of German so- thoe- tlu caus ' oh.cure. clety which on almost every social ques- LoIcnt ?cr,ion' ,s m ftic. som-Jmts tlon falls Into rank behind the aristoc Prdu-i them a:J a sedentary occupation racy. They are monarchies to a man. and ls Dl" Trae -PP""61' ..to '1 P""!"6"11-! the great majority of them are torles of cause, but as a rce pl! .-ml rectal trou the old hlgh-and-dry type now so near'y b!8 appear vrtthou npparent provoc .t.on. extinct In England, Tories such as the' 'here are many pil- saU e, .ami o.r.tmen 3 Scotch landlord, were before the reform ! ??h!ch " t-r-porary relief, ard vvhei bllL Even under the present con-tllutlon, theEe fa"- I6"1' ir hc "n aord VJ hnTOr fT,. hM,t t,h ., ,-,, czpene and I5 t .lllntr to tano tV r'-k. whenever they hold together they cat control the Reichstag. In fact, driven together bv In- the most peremptory kind. They are, terests of Much poorer than the Eng'lsh yquin archy. and much more dependent on "the land." they have been so nearly ruined bt the fall In agricultural prices that they In slst. as their onlv method of -preservation, upon retaining a monopoly of the home market. Without this, they snv, their incomes -will dlr-ippear entirely. Their demand, to which they mike everr thing subordinate. Is for protection In it old sense that !. taxation upon Imported food-and their Ideas about thit tnxntln-. are decidedly large. They have alrpidj raised the orlce of cereals to an artificial level, and they nre now trying, urdrr cov er ot sanitary precautions, to prohibit the Import of meat altogether. I 3 I Prefer Cltlzen-Soldlcra. Junction City Bulletin. The organization a thp imn? tipw mm. I tary companies In Oregon now going on la ;l ruou nung. ana ougnt ,10 ne encour- St k&MKi I have shown that elcrtrlclty Is the grandet cure fir all pains .and we k-c's fhSw.' k2?h' lIvcV olc-ntM" pow-r. and by my nehd h-. cur 5.imln 5fbCt!l "V3 ,n over r)e01 casc Evidence of this" is tHe unvar-Is ed testimony of tho'e whom my treatment has Irstlngly rslrd' who n n r es I mV'lhTmifi"?1 " sone bounding "through thclrSn. anVtLrin lng tnra with new for e and happy ambit o-s Send for my new b:ok t I lng a 1 about it. dr. m. a. Mclaughlin, . lmvSJK 135 Sell for Cash or Installments. FRED. T. MERRILL COMPANY tomuD spflure sunur tacosu OCEAN $10.00 up sold. FORD PENNANT Sixth Street aged, for the more mtiitla companies there are, the less standing Army v.iH be need ed, hence will Icsvn the ex-iense In kern ing up our stardlng Army. As the cvi j denca in the late na's pr-c:ically demsr- . stratrs tnat tne rcgu an are no btt r i fighters than ihe mlll'U volunteer, it wi.l I bf seen thjt we can get along with .a grc it j dc3.asma!.cr standlrg Army. Evory state I s--hco! shouia tfach mi'ifiry tRCtics. !: NO PA1.N!, TRIFLING EXPENSE .V Simple, Ilsr-nlcss ltcnictly far tlic Cure of X'ilc. ! A person contract a contract a eo a. pr.e jmocla. . rhrurrHllsm nrd pleurisy from expj urc I has recourse Jo a surgical operat'on. Bu; I tl"e, Js ?e ,?ac '' Wch " l Tn' -? "f J' -' brine about a permanent rare, and t.iat U ' the well-knov-n Pyramid Pile Curv. In lonsr-stcnuins cases the Pyrcr-id h.is proven to be the only cure eice-u .. dan gerous and cxce-dinKl pilnfui furglcal operat'on, ard Its advantages over ay kind of operation are man), aa it Is pa.n ' lcsr. causes no Interference with dailj occupation, ard being !n the form of a suppository. Is alwa. convenlint a"d ready for :se Tho Pyramid PHe Cure i" an effect ve ' combination of soothing oils and art'rep tlc acids, it contains no cocain" nor nerc destroIng opiatfj. ami unllko most -llo , salves, contains no bichloride or mer cury nor any pokonous. lnjuricus drug ot any k'nd. i All drugsUts roll the Pyramid Tile Cur ' at M centc for a complete treatment of the supro'ltorlcs. A Il'tle booU on cause and cure of pUs WM he malld fne hy addres-lng Pyramll ".u. t-unipany, .Marnai!. ncn. SI IT and Square Treatment SfW"?i"isP-""Kft "wai OHART , Plow is it Dr. McLaughlin's Electric Belt stands out so strongh in the electro medical world? Because. I have so suc cessfully brought to the front the most perfect bod" batten- ever applied to the human system. Because I have so fear lessly exposed those who deceive the pub lic by their cheaply made, injuriors ap pliances. I have seen many people im posed upon by rosy-luted promises and 30-day trial offers; I have seen how pa tients have been dragged to death or tor tured by needless operations, and when their purse gave out, how they were turned awav as no lnnrrpr wnrtfi tmntinn- 110 COLUMBIA STREET SEATTLE. WASH. '99 Models BICCEES so At . -1 . - 1 - A. lw MJM-jts (.i.