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We have just received the first direct import order of loom ever brought to Pendleton. They are made of the finest Eng lish bristles, with wax back (a new idea) which makes it im possible fot the bristles to come out, as is the case with most brushes. Every brush has our name and guarantee stamped plainly on it, and is not only backed up by ourselves, but the manufacturers as well Should any brush prove unsatisfactory, a new one will be given in its place or money refunded. They come in hard, medium and soft bristles. Where can you buy a brush like them for.the money ? We are making a leader of them at 35 GENTS. BROCK & McCOMAS CO. -h feast (fee(&va$ THURSDAY, JfAY 1, 1902. IN THE CLUTCH O FTHE GIANT. Industry is in the grasp of the combination on every hand. It is an age of big concerns. Business is be ing condensed into systems which manage vast interests with clock-like uniformity. One set of rigid rules governs the railroad employe from the Atlantic to the Pacific. One sys tem rules the operation of overy im portant coal mine and oil plant in the United States. As these great indus tries pass into the hands of the few, the individuality of the employer and the employe vanishes. The human disappears and the machine comes uppermost. Red tape miles of It bewilders the worklngman in overy calling. Through a series of depart ments, ofllccs, "bosses," branches and forces, the trickling stream of revenue and dividend finally empties into the pocket of the private share holder hidden away in the labyrinth of combination. The personality of men is lost in the Iron-clad rules of the system. A man is no more than a machine. If he lives and don't break down, he can work, so long as he "toes the narrow line." Ho has no claim In the matter of his em ployment. A dozen officials in the upper stratas of the business lay down the rules. He can tako his medlclno or quit. This tendency Is destroying the independence of the masses. If the requirements of employment are un pleasant, if they aro humiliating to tho self-respecting free man, it mat tors not to tho great combine. Turn where ho will, tho laborer finds tho same ircn-clad system facing him. The same system, although it debase the individual, rules tho industry in which ho finds employment. The Bamo master is everywhere present. Tho big concern makes its own laws It consults Its own interests. It asks no favors; grants none. It wants service under a certain condition. It pays a fixed price. It Ib out to succeed in its own way and it reck ons no sentiment, no consideration , of morcy or justice which threatens to bar its way. Tho only manner in which this ton dency can bo ovorcomo is for tho employe to form a "morger"' of la bor. They can only "fight tho devil with fire." By beginning with the humblest calling and through overy grade of employment, mako the spirit of combination tho essontluPhnd un derlying thought. Combine overy where. Unite overy calling. Bo fair, but bo men. Say to .this giant that tho individuality and independence or tho toller shall survive. That tho not bo supplanted. Life, liberty, and tho pursuit of happiness" still constitute the social creed of man kind. It shall not bo erased from the code of freedom. It Is necessary in the splendid march of civilization. If the combination of capital is go ing to overshadow the land, the com bination of labor should cast a shad ow of equal length, breadth and height. The equilibrium of society will be in some way preserved. The balance of national pride, good clti- zenshiu and enlightenment shall stand equally poised over the man who hires, and tho man who is hired. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, It is impossible today to make the young American understand how slow in jirowth was the national Idea of the United States. From 1830 to 1SG0 there existed in some parts of the country an affec tation which required public men to speak or write as if there were no nation here. They were wont to re fer to the United States as without a hyphen as I am apt to say as if this were a body of nations who liv ed in what tho French call a "cordial understanding," while each of them paddle its own canoe as a sovereign state. I first visited Charleston, in South Carolina, in 1848. At that time the Charleston Courier had no separate note from day to day of the proceed ings of congress. If anything passed at Washington, at Paris or at The Hague which represented residents of South Carolina, why, tho Courier printed it. If not, no! It was no custom of theirs to print the daily proceedings of the national house or the senate except as they affected South Carolina. Before the civil war people who lived in tho south would say with an air, hardly apologetic, but rather sympathetic, "Ah, yet, they wish for separate sovereignty ( ah, yes, it carries tho young men so far!" Tho tone of the speech implied that there was something a llttlo distinguished, gilt-edged, specially genteel, "you know," in speaking with indifferonco of tho national government. At tho north wo had our own sent! mentalities of the samo sort, or of a llko origin. Tho legislature of Massachusetts lato in tho fifties, forbade tho display of tho flag of the United States on tho state house when tho general court was in session. This belongs to the system df sU' tutes by which tho use of tho prls ons and courthouses of tho states by tho national government was forbid den. It was, Indeed, not forty yorrs sinco James Monroe, the president, had vetoed tho Cumberland road bill, on the ground that the national gov ernment had no right to build roads in tho territories of sovereign states. Monroo and tho men of his sohool had :io objection to the nation's building roads In tho territories, but in the states no! Sldo by side, therefore, with tho quick arming and clothing of sold- lurs, with tho making of gunpowder and with tho rilling of cannon, there was another bit of work to bo done. It was tho proclamation, in tho forms which would best meet tho need of tho time, that men and wo. man shall bo uppermost and tho ma-!m?n ftr0 not to llvo Wr8t for tllom- ch.no shall bo secondary. The law 8 sS theK of God and the law of nature must first for others. "Tho human raco is tho individual, or which men and women are tho separate cens ui germs." This was the first lesson. That we belong to the state. We cannot help it. We aro born into it. As wo are born into the world of oxygen and nitrogen, into the world of carbolic acid, of light and of darkness, we are born into the country. To the nation I owe law, to the nation I owe it that I was born in a house and not left a crying baby on a hillside; to the nation I owe it that somebody had mado the blanket in which I was wrapped when I was a minute old; to the nation, which makes law, I owe to it that I am what I am; If there no any such order in matter of duty that I may speak of the first duty or the second duty, my first duty Is to the nation to which I owo my life. While men were rallying to the support of tho Hag which was a type and symbol of the life of our nation, another duty, as I have said, was making clear, by whatever language men could use, this reality on which civilized life depends. We bear each other's burdens and only so we live. As years go on the value of the contrihutlons that such men as Mul ford and Stllle rendered in the puri fying and strengthening of public opinion as to the place which the na tion holds In the homage of her children will be remembered from year to year with gratitude over now. "The Man Without a Country" is a parable written in the midst of necessities ,to supply, if it could, In a concrete and visible form, tho sim ple doctrine, which is the same doc trine which M'enenius Agrippa ex pressed 2,000 years before, from whom St. Paul borrowed the state ment that there Js one body of which we are many members. It seemed to me bestto repeat the story as it might have been, and I believe that the duty of the writer of a parable is to make it as proba ble as possible. I left with care loop holes enough by which accurate peo ple might see that, while founded on fact, the story was not a fact -1 ...t. iit,,i flint tie muiui a",,, redat d I have many letters, which I Prize highly, from persons w o before were strangers to me. v o read it in dreary watches at sea, or by the light of camp llres on shore, when they were risking their 1 ves or he country which had the right o claim their services, and which Sd not assert that right in vain. Save a memorandum of the death ot Philip Nolan, a black man from Lou sin a, to whom that war gave a countrV, and who laid down . M. . H fo for her on tho banks of the James river. , I suppose that this Philip Nolan was named from the same Philip No Ian who gave a name to my hero. I have had the pleasure of knowing that mv Philip Nolan has made many friends' In all parts of the nation. I have been glad to learn, from time to time, that tho lesson intend ed in the story has been of use in other times under other circum stances from those which surround ed us In 18G3. When Peru found herself hardly pressed by Chili in the war between those nations tho patriots of Peru translated this story into tho Span ish language. At tle outset of our war with Spain the publishers of the Outlook printed it, in their wish that the na tion should not shrink from the du ties of a nation. I may say, In pas sing, that if any one is curious to know why, from 1S01 down, Spain was hated in the southwestern states of our country, he may find one of the causes of such hatred In the story of "Philip Nolan's Friends." The interest in such matters now is such that the sales of this book hi the year of tho Spanish war were larger than those of the year after Its publication. I have been glad to know what the worth of one's coun try is. And I am told that when "Patriot's Day" conies round a fre quent exercise in those new states is a recitation of "The Man Without a Country." EDWARD E. HALE. James Bloom, a pioneer of Cove, Union county, died at Walla Walla where he went to undergo an opera tion. Mr. Bloom has been ill for a I was glad to find, when the story few weeks. Ho was buried at Cove DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS. a. a slight break may end In a great cata.tropho. Bpttpr genii your vehicles to neh1jHi mVAc ami have T necessary repairs mado as soon lis tlioynre apparent. Our prices are roa Stable an5 low "ml our workmanship first class In all respects, and small ropalrs arc Just as carefully looked after as complete renovation. See Us About Gasoline Engines NEAGLE BROTHERS Water St., near Main. Pendleton, Or El Principe Degales Henry The Fourth La Flor Stanford Sanches & Haya El Telegrapho La Mia Charles The Great 2 for 25 cents Maloy. Peadletft and,.. Lumber Y Buy their stnnU u.... hi inu ueneht of discounts, whirl, . thereto sell at a very! margin. " IF YOU NEED . , , Lwmter, Btril Lime, Cement,! Sand, Terra C t or anything to thhj get oor prices. Pendleton Plank m Lumber Yard. R. FORSTER, Proprietor Farmers Custom Mill Fred Walters, Proprietor. Capacity, 160 barrels a day. Flour exchanged for wheat. Flour, Mill Feed, Chopped Feed, etc, alwavi on band. Ma , 1 JUST THINK OF IT Three-fourths of the people In UmifflJ are using our narneas ana uatto i oeher fourth has lust commenced ton AH this goes to show that ours mini GLASS and PRICES IUOHT. We cuni weat-pads.Pack Baddies, Bftgi,8triof d 'lean, wagon covers, banyan, an una JOSEPH ELL, Leading Harness and Si FOLLOW THE CBOWP MAY 3 I SATURDAY I MAY 3 AND YOU WILL ARRIVE AT THE if Sll SrffirPTnS I f F " 1 1 Ti g6t Tt of SPECIAL BARGAINS offered on that day in the several aSKprtrn nS5 nS JJ? k at the b,!T' note Prices remember that every assertion we make is strictly ad to, and all our goods are g arteed to be exactly as represented or money refunded. fwIrS1 AT T?E FAIR' 0ur regular Prices are always far below the otlier leliows, and when we make a special cut on our own prices we make one that means money in your pocket if you buy. For the Kitchen A beautiful line of decorated semi-porcelain ware nice enough for any table. Dinner plates, worth $1.25 per set, sale price per set .'. 35,, Breakfast plates, worth $1.00 per set, sale price per set 7QC Cups and saucers, worth $1.25 per set, sale price per set '. 95c Gravy boat to match above pieces 33c Cream pitcher to match 25c Pickle dish to match 20c All. other pieces at same reduction as above. Fo the War drobe Ladies muslin nightgowns 39c Ladies' muslin drawers t 20c Ladies' knit, knee length drawers, with .ruffle 25c Ladies' sleeveless vests ; 3C Ladies' sun bonnets jgc Children's sun bonnets jgc Misses' underve&ts 3C Misses' hose, regular 15c value jQc Misses' hose, regular 10c jc We can't guarantee that our stock of the above listed artio 20c !8c Fo the Bedroom Wide sheeting, bleached, 8x4, best quality Wide " " 9X4 Wide unbl'ched sheeting, heavy, yd 16 and White bedspreads, very fine and large, value $2.25 $t 75 White bed spreads, value $1.25 $ 00 Silkoline covered comforts, ruffle edges i 75 Sateen covered comforts, very large 200 Curtain Ecrim, values 10c and 12c, per yard 8c Diy Goods, Etc. Ginghams, only .10 vards to one Derson.. .. Calico, only 10 yauds to one person 3c Good LL sheeting or house lining, 100 yds to one person ' c Heavy cheviot shirting 7c Dress duck, usually sold for 12c Brown and grey wool suiting c Wash silk waist patterns, latest designs $f " Hardware Good single washboards 2j Good double washboards Tin pails, 8 quart Galvanized iron tubs, small qc Milk pans, 6 quart, 8c, 8 quart 7 2c nn V.J11 1 . . . ... them in a hurry ; soif wu t TnJ-"LTOW the day, as the prices named will mov . DATE: Saturday, May 3, 902 THE FAIR PLACE: The Place to Save M? m