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', 3 Our Richard Hud nut's Perfumes and Toilet Requisites Is now open for your inspection, including perfumes, toilet soaps, cold creams, satchet powders, talcum powders, almond meals, ets. We will be pleased to show you these goods whether you intend to buy or not. BROCK & McCOMAS CO. DRUGGISTS FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1903. Knowledge does not comprise all which. Is contained In tho large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined; the pas sions are to bo restrained; true and worthy motives are to bo in spired; a profound religious feel ing is tp be instilled, and pure morality Inculcated under all circumstances. All this is com prised in education. Daniel Webster. CORPORATION TAX LAW ASSAIL ED The Baker City Democrat of March 11, works itself into a "One frenzy" over the Imaginary Injustice of the corporation tax law, just passed by the Oregon legislature. It says "the mining men of Oregon have combined to repeal the corpora tion tax law and the portage railway bill by invoking the referendum pow er of the people." Let the Democrat and the mining men Invoke tho power of the people on these measures, if they have any doubts about public sentiment on the question. If they think the Eastern Oregon farmer who has paid extortionate freight rates for twenty years on his wheat and wool don't want the port ago road, give him a chance to vote The doubt will be dispelled in a thun derous snowslide In favor of the port age. And if these gentlemen imagine for a moment that the people are dissat isfied with that corporation tax law, which justly imposes a medium li cense on large aggregations of capi tal, for the purpose of equalizing the burden of taxation, give them a chance to vote on this also. The trouble with Oregon has been that about one-flfth of the property In tho state has paid all the taxes. The great mining corporations which have paraded in ten figures in ad vertising circulars, boom pamphlets and homeseoker literature, are non entities on tax rolls . They live and enjoy the protection of tho law, but melt away into intan gible nothingness on the appearance of tho assessor. A half dozen men could, heretofore, raise a fund of J2.60 to pay the secretary of state for filing incorporation papers, and launch a one million dollar concern. They could operate in the state, sue and be sued, break up, bankrupt or pay dividends, just as fickle fortune decreed, and tho people of Oregon, whose property was listed with the assessor, paid the bills. What was It to the corporations, whether farm values went up or down? What to the merry jugglers who played with strings of figures, in capitalizing transitory concerns, as If they conjured up tho millions from chaos, whether county levies were high or low? Let the gentlemen help pay the bills. Tho law is not unjust. The license for organizing a corporation with ?1,000.000 of capital is only 7C; Uio annual license on this $1,000,000 is but $125. mat corporation doing business in Oregon can justly com plain at this moderate tax? ' What body of men doing business in good faith in this stato would ob ject to paying 7G for a license, per mitting them to organize at $1,000, 000. Capital is capital whether In vested in farm lands, mining stock or sheep, and should bo called upon to contribute to tho support of govern ment. Just how tho Baker City Democrat can connect tho corporation tax law with the atato portago road bill, It is Impossible to understand. By' what devious path of logic lio travels to reach the conclusion that tho citizens of Oregon will repeal tho portago uwy mil, simply because a few members of Inflated corporations ob ject to paying, their just 8haro of tax ation, Is also Impossible to under stand, If there was injustlco n the meas ure, It would be a pleasure to Join Line of- the democrat in its ten-column chorus of condemnation. But thevirtue of the corporation tax is so apparent that the East Oregon- Ian takes pleasure in defending the richts of the neonle by saying that whatever squeezes another dollar of taxes out of million dollar corpora tions Is good for Oregon, IDAHO GOING BACKWARD. Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, is tho only one of the newly elected United States senators, east or west, who is so honelesslv fossilized as to advocate the present method of selecting Unit ed States senators. In renlv to tho Hearst papers inquiry on this vital Issue, he says: "My views nre strong ly in favor of the old system. I do not think anything better can be said than the wise words uttered by the fathers in the discussions of the question when the constitution was adopted." According to this logic, the whirl ing trains of wheat now making the continent ring with joy should be sup planted by a boy on horseback going to mill, with a bushel of corn in one end of a sack and a rock in the other, to make it balance. The forefathers, just emerging from despotism, did nobly. The sentiments they expressed were glorious in their day, and many of them are appropri ate in the advanced conditions now. But for a man, who has enjoyed the benefit of the wisdom of a century's progress, to say that the country must be governed today by policies so conspicuously out-of-date, Is past understanding except to those who selected such a curio to represent Idaho. If this is the reformation promised by tho republican landslide, In that state, the landslide has done its work well, for the track of progress is blockaded, and Idaho is going back ward, if she is moving at all. This sentiment, however. Is In keeping with the defeat of the refer endum bill by the Idaho legislature, and Is a twin brother to the Owens sentiment, which declares that the shorter tho day's work for laborers, tho more time there remains for dis sipation. It is strange to think that Idaho touches shoulders with Oregon, where the election of United States senators by the people, the referendum, the flat salary, advanced labor legisla tion and other progressive Ideas, reign supreme, and yet, has not caught the signal to advance. The East Oregonian wants corres pondents in tho country districts- young men or women who are in touch with their surroundings; who know what live news Is. and who can tell It in a manner to be appreciated by newspaper readers, ait mwa items are paid for; each man's labor is part of his capital and should yield an Income. The small towns and country districts of Umatilla countv are plentifully supplied with active young men and women, who are able to correspond nnd who could gradu ally build up a demand for their work. Readers soon learn to love regular correspondents. Their let ters become. In a sense. indlsDentia. ble to a live paper. You are invited to send in tho news. Echo is on the vergo of her most prosperous era and tho settlement and reclamation of tho Irrigation res ervation will mean to her what tho rich wheat fields of this section meant to tho former village of Pendleton. THE FIRST HARD TO GET. Tho cltlzenn nf untn,, i... ... - --------- """U UIO suu- scrlbed ?1200 as a nucleus fund for Uio construction nf crushed rock road In tho vicinity of their town. This In a rnmn,fln,inw movement and nno th nf will xr I n mt The construction of this Ave miles win do an incentive to tho construc tion of many other miles of the samo kind of roads later on. If the people over thero are in tho f0..ondiU.n as tha lePl on n f " they know wTo.1 Ir i . Ul luo oeuenw or good fJL 1 T m.'108 for an example tho ft6?1 w,not BlP- 1 would be iinnS Tyh0, But llk0 tho mil. iir.f B ihw dollars, tha iStm,lM ?r actually good roada cl" bard to set La Grande Ohronl- MASON'S SCRAPPY BOY. Senator Mason's youngest son, Ro derick, Is a fighter. On more than one occasion during the senator'.! term In congress young Roderick lias proved his perfect ability to take cart of himself under almost any circum stances, much to tho personal discom fort, not to say disfigurement, of cer tain boys. Roderick was veiy much Interested In the outcome of the ic cent senatorial campaign in llllnol.3. He was, perhaps, the most ardent par tisan under the banner of Seuato'1 Mason, and when the news reached Washington that Representative Hop kins had been chosen to succeed the junior senator from Illinois the youngster was very much disappoint ed. One evening recently Senator Ma son and his family were gathered around the fire In his home In Colum bia road discussing what should be done after March 4, when the senator's term expired. After considerable talk, in the course of which .Master Roderick expressed his poor opinion of those who were responsible for his fnflirtr'u iiti fTrtliif thorn rnnin n hill in the conversation. All at onco Roder ick's fare brightened up with a look that indicated that no nan mi upon a good idea. Turning to Mrs. Mason, flici lirv ontrorlv flomn 11 ilPfl "Mama, has Mr. Hopkins got a boy about my size? If he has I will fix him. all right." Chicago Chronicle. RETIRING SENATORS. The United States senators who re tired Wednesday from expiration of terms were: Jones of Nevada, Well ington of Maryland, Deboe of Ken tucky, Pritchnrd of North Carolina, Mason of Illinois, Simon of Oregon, Harris of Kansas, Turner of Wash ington. Hatfield of Idaho. McLauren of South Carolina, Vest of Missouri, Jones of Arkansas, and Rawlins of Utah. Jones of Nevada had been a member of the upper house for a per iod of 30 years. Tn hlc oprmnn nAYf fiiirirlnv T?nv Addison Moore, of the Bergen Bap- Mct nlmrrh nf Tprsow fMtv toIH trv tn nrnvo thnf Trolfinil'fi iintrnn saint was a Baptist, on the ground that he j Baptized by immersion. LOOK. OUT FOR The cold-wave fla!r means zero weather, icy, moisture - ladeu winds. and Uie becin- ning of winter in earn est. To Catarrh suffer ers there in nothinrr cheering in Uiese climatic changes, for with the return of mid vopatlK-r an me disagreeable symptoms of Catarrh armear: blindim heaflarlia fi77itcc rr- o 1 i. stuffy feeling about the nose that makes breathing difficult, chest pains, and as the disease progresses, a discharge of nauseat ing matter f mm thp thrnftt OTlfl nnat trMnc 0 A.WS.? one continually hawking and spitting. vuuiiiu is a iiiosL uisgusung uisease. The foul mucous secretions that are con stantly droDiiinr back into tlie cinmat, contaminate and poison the blood and is distributed throughout the body, and it then becomes a deep-seated, systemic. Dersistent uisease that must lie trQt,l through the blood, for it is beyond the . . . rcui-u m sprays, wasues, powuers or ex ternal treatment of any kind. S. S. S. soon clears the sTlnn of nil Catarrhal matter and purges the blood of the irritating poisons, thus effectually checking the further progress of this seri ous and far reaching disease. Lookout for Catarrh in winter, for cold stirs the blood and causes excessive secre tion of mucus and brings to life all the slumbering poisons that make Catarrh siumoenng poisons sss uie most abominable of all diseases. S.S.S. keeos the blood in uch perfect order mat com waves cause no alarm anA UA change from the heat of summer to the rigors of winter produce no hurtful effects. Write US if Tflll llnvo Patrrl, o,1 ... .Physicians will adviseyou without charee. The Swift Speolflo Co., Atlanta, Qt. IUCC&IVKS MUCH ATTKNTION ta our Mfaml. Instruction l rt. wordlax. eapttaUiUK. minetoatfaw BPub(. ic All our tMchlnc U prmcO mI; Um dneciiea we ctra k --T A MUS Wit BS DMr-th run. ,.. STmABatea, m tmttneaa sua ud worn. JM aa bMUuwpera wad toaocraMM. wvrm thla. Open all th m; -wlrmtr 4ttoa at uy Um; UIocm tnt. PORTLAND BUSINESS COLLBQB PO&TUUTD, ORKQOH . r. aumtboh a, u. vuviarAx. LET US FILL YOUR BILL FOR LUMBER We can supply you with Building Material of all descriptions and save you money. DOORS WINDOWS (MMHR1I 1 Building paper, lime, cement, brick and sand. Wood gutters lor barns and dwellings a specialty. Oregon Lumber Yard Alta St., Opp. Court House THE EVENING Declining years the sir. nf the hi . ea for nutrition. Life then depends so much on the body's power to repair loss and waste. This ability to shake oft local disorders and to draw heavily on the body s reserve force are privileges that, youth alone can claim. With age comes slow movement, slower operation of the whole body's forces. Trifles become burdens and wc live in the past. Ordinary food no longer nourishes. Poor teeth, perhaps, and improper mastication give the stomach work that it is not supposed to do the digestion is taxed and even injured when it. should be troubled least. Many elderly persons get strength and nourishment from Scott's Emulsion It slips into the blood so quickly that the stomach is not aware of its presence. Not only does Scott's Emulsion furnish nourishment itself, but it helps to digest other food. It aids in the proper distribution of food benefits simplifies the stomach's work. Moreover, the lime and soda contained in Scott's Emulsion in the form of hypophosphites nourish the bones and reduce the acid in the blood which feeds rheumatism. We'll send you a sample free upon request. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., New York, HOLT The only successful Harvester ever used in Umatilla County. THE HOLT does satisfac.tnrv - . . not an exoeriment. hut nractinal. advertising tne machine nets is from 75 machines in use in Umatilla County. Lightest draught and long est lifed harvester made. Sold by E. L. SMITH Sweet Potatoes, the good kind. , Celery, fresh and crisp. Cabbage, solid heads. Garden Seeds The kind that trrow in ihi nil and climate. Fresh stock of loni Seeds. D. KEHLER & SON The Big Store in a Small Room. A1U Street, Opposite Savings Bank Lumber, Lumber, Lumber. All kinds for all purposes Sash, Doors and Blinds. Planing of all to otder. Don't nlnr-p uuildinc Material until n i consulted us. Pendleton Planing Mill an F LIFE I Nmv ? time when one is on the other constant care in the matter ot power grows less and less. The wnrr nn nnv tr;nl .1 I.l i. - . . u 4 . .. J ...AAV. Ul llll.U. XI li nc tim lmo nrn.n k is those who have used it. Over 311 Court Street Peodleton, Oregon Real Estate is the Base of all Wealth l I lie best investments in land on the Pacific Coast are in the Yakima Valley. The soil and climate are produc tive of more diversified crops than any other section of the country. The Nessly-Scott Invest ment Co. have a large list of raw and improved lands, suitable for any purpose. Prices are so low that val ues double in a short time. Investigate. It's a money making proposition for you. Pasture Und, $1.50 to $3.00 per acre. Choice Raw Lands, $6.00 to 90.00 per acre. Improved Lands ta crop. $12 ? 5 Per acre. A few home steads still left. Ne88ly-Soott Investment Co,, ProsBer, Waah. LOSSES ALWAYS MET PROMPTLY By the Fire Insurance Com panies we represent. Our companies stand first in the world. London nchj Firo W0G3 NorUi British AVntlhi W4'683 FRANK B. CLOPTOH MM HARVESTER I 1 t Goods v-uiimiB in aaily, BUck as Skirts, Shirt Waist - : .. onus, iviusnn Under. wear, amrt Waists, Silk ivionte Carlos and On. uerskirts. .riiesearebv me urai in siyie and price in town. Ed Eben 645 Main street. Enjoy your leisure time at ROBINSON'S AMUSEMENT tINDER W. & C. R. MPfflj First-class Bowling Alleyt Best Billiard and Pool Tabis Shooting and Throwing Gallsl les. Musical entertainment rvni evening. Best order maintaiitii? Temperance refreshments a cigars. Drop in and while spare time. IT SURPRISES THEM To hear you have not got u Winona W Thoso outer bearing block preTent thi J nlnn . r. .. nn ... i .. 1 VflMn definnoe to the vrcnUii-r. They nerer crwil uuiti iuum) sp ten, uur uacu iuu xnacifl dv inn winnmt Miinnruiiirinffuj. .m .uci umunuuu licit, vi n on uv usea in cotmructlon. call aru seeui jg me iiiccett plow ln earth, we nate ... We nail finrf irtiarA.itiA Hia fltnrer Tons AND Tons Just received anothe. car load ot Poultry anu stock supplies at the CHOP MILL 127 and 129 East Alta Street The Columbia Lodging House Nwlv Furnished. Rnr In rnnneCtiC5J In Center of Bl Lumber Yard, WiMT rORSTCK) Prfur F. X. Sc&empp Proprietor AGENT 800 MAW STREET