CIRCULATION MAKES
Some Iooiile
Buy advertising space because rut 's are
low generally the circulation in a tight
loirer. Circulation determine the value
of advertising ; there is no other standard.
The Qaxette is willing to abide by it.
OFFICIAL
Th Paper. Without it advertisers get
nothing for their money. The Gazette,
with one exception, has the largest circula
tion of any paper in Eastern Oregon.
Therefore it ranks hiqh as an advertising
medium.
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neuralgia,
and sciatica
can always be
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with
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A cure
is sure to follow
the persistent
use of this
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will cure you.
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DIGTIOKBHY.
OmCI-Ii BIEEOTOET.
United Bt'ites Officials.
Piesident Grover Cleveland
ViHree'ident . Ad ai Stevenson
rSwo1sii...V.........Walter l.Ureshatn
Beoretsry of Treasury John t, . t iir
Secretary of Interior.. : Hoke Sunt h
becrewr, of War Daniel S. Lamm,
Secretary of Navy. Hi ary A. Herbert
l'oUnater-eneral '"Jli H,'nlv
Attornet-General Richard H. Olney
kiecretaify of Agriculture .J. Sterling Morton
t State of Oregon.
r,T,-ii. S. Pennoyer
Secretary of Stat
Treasurer
Bupt. Public Instruction.
Senators
,i. W. McIInde
..Phil. WetsctiHU
...E. B. McElroy
(J. H.Hitcliell
(J.N
. Duluh
( Bincer Hermann
Coiurressmen 1w.lt. Ellis
!jt.. Frank O.Baker
, v A
Supreme Judges.,
jw
la.
F. A. Moore
W. P. Lord
tj. Bean
Seventh Judicial District.
i-4 ; W. L. BradBhaw
i..tinD Attorney W. H. Wils n
Morrow County Officials.
joint Sesator Hry Black nan
Representative l- f N- ',r.',w,"
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' tjommissionerH.
T Ht Uol-us
Clerk...'. ,i,y-M,?1T
Bheritf Nob'f;
n, W. J.L' ezer
Assessor. .'.'.'!.' It. L. haw
laa Brown
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Coroner T. W. Ayers, J r
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o ' . .... A. A. Roberts,
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vu: i vm F. J. Hallock
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Bchool and business house, it tills a vacancy,
ami fnrniHheH knowledne which no one hun
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publishers the fact, that this is the very work
coiunlete on which about forty of the best years
nf th author's life were so well employed in
writing. It contains tnc ctiuie voettuuiary oi
about luO.UUO words, including tne correct spew
ing, derivation anu uciiuiiion oi same, anu is
the regular standard size, containing about
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ii o;Mp -ft i.t l'; fnr AccntR, and earli paper
t ii fi'jvr ti; nr vou-'.lH'sforthe responal
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EGG SEASON, 1893.
Twenty-six Imported Fowls Es
pecially for the Egg; Trade,
300 BuEING BUS.
8 Pens Wyandottee, 6 Pens Plymouth
Books, 5 Pens Light Brabmas, 3
Pens Brown Leghorns, 2 Pens
Wbite Leghorns.
The Above Varieties Consulate The Very Cream
of All Poultry.
EGGS. 1 SITTING, $3.00; 2 SITTINGS
$5.00. I GUARANTEE A GOOD
HATCH.
Address of Colonel P. Donan Before tho
Ores-en Press Association at the
Meeting at The Dulles.
Mb. Prbsidknt and Gkntlemen of the
Oregon Press association ; Ladies
and Gentlemen:
The edUor is the soul of the sublunary
universe. Suspend all the papers, stop
all the printing presses for a single
month and earth would be a vast gigan
tic bedlam. Science, art, business liter
ature and law would come to a dead
standstill. Everything would be awry.
Cirouit, county and probate courts,
judgments, executions, sentences, sher
iffs' sales, railroad time tables, elections,
trades, traffic, births, deaths, marriages
and divorces would get into mich a
tangle that it would take a legion of
senatorial railroad lawyers a Methuse
lah's lifetime to unravel the brain twist
ing muddle. Nobody would know any
thing. Everybody would know nothing
thoroughly and extensively. The
whole human and hu-woman race would
be profoundly accomplished ignoram
usesadmirably fitted for average con
ressmen and dog law legislators. Mer
cantile establishments would be removed
none could tell when or whither. Farms
would be sold by mortgagees or trustees,
and the hapless possessor would never
get an Inkling of It till the purohaser
and title deeds appeared. The seeker
for religion's consolations would stumble
into the little church around the corner,
to find that it had weeks ago been con
verted into an original package juicery.
Merchants would be nabbed by United
Btates marshals and stamp stickers for
violating revenue and license regulations
of whloh they hud never heard or
dreamt. Steamship departures, home
and foreign wars, legislative riots and
deadlocks; prices of wheat, whisky and
other necessaries pf.V'Jfc time of sals,
meetings and removal! tax lists, public
A few Choice Cockerels tot sale at $3 00
eaoh and trios at $10.00. Send
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Picture"?, 17, 70" and sample doe free.
J. F. SMITH & TO., Proprlstors, MEW YORK.
LUMBEll!
rV flr,-c.l Lumber. 16 miles of Heppner, at
7E HAVE FOR SALE ALL KINDS OF UN
i dressed I
what is known
SOOTT
t the
SAWMIIilJ
PER 1,000 FEET, ROUGH,
CLEAR,
,10 00
17 60
IF DELIVERED IN HEPPNER, WILL ADD
ti.uu per l.ouo (eet, additional.
Where?
it ihmhatnaink'E. Iu addition to b
tailoring business, be has added a fine
line of underwear of all kinds, negligee
hirta, hosiery, etc. Also has on baud
some elegant patterns iur .ut... .
Abrahamsiok. May street. Heppner. Ur.
rvfc i. fVUni1 have iust received
oar load of Mitohell Wagons, Hacks,
etc., and have bIbo a large supply of farm
ing imnlementa of all kinds.
Jf, N. BROWN, JA3. P. HAMILTON
Attorney at Law,
Brown & Hamilton
Pmrtira in all coort of th atata. Iniorance,
ttl eaut collection aad loan atnt.
Prompt atteuUOD (iea to all boaiOMt ntmat
d to them.
Qrncm. Mai Stout, Hbppnm. Omaom.
L. HAMILTON. Prop.
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The success of this Orest Cough Cure Is
without a parallel in the history of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell iton a pos
itive guarantee, ft test that no other cure can
successfully stand. That it may become
known, the Proprietors, at an enormous ex
pense, are placing a Sample Bottle Free Into
every home in the United States and Canada.
If vou have a Cough, Wore Throat, or Bron
chitis, use it, for it will cure you. If your
child has the Croup, or Whooping Cough , use
It promptly, and relief Is suro. if you dread
that insidious disease Consumption, use It.
Ask your Druggist for BHILOH'H CURB,
Pricel0cts..50cts. andtl.00. If your Lungs
are sore or Back lame, use Shtloh's Porous
Plaster. Price V cts. For sale by U Drug
gists and Dealers.
CURED GF SICK HEADACHE.
W. D. F.lward, Palmyra, O., wrltMi
I have been a great nafTcrer from
CofttlvenenM and hlrk lisadachet and
bav tried naauy medicines, ui
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fj rsJS ; k- ''J
is i '
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find tbai one pill net hetter Iota
three o( an; other kind, and does) not
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coated. Uoeo email. Price, 33 eaata.
SOI.L EVEUrWHKRE.
OfOce, 110 to Hi Wasuingtoa bU, X, Y,
Plao'i TVme'lr tor Catarrh la tba
Beit, Tjuiat to rc. arid C'Ywapt!.
AoM bf DrorirliU or tent by maU.
Kjo K. T. HwlUoa, Warns ra.
aasembiiea, prise fights and other ebulll
tKt of down-easty cuUure, editorial
jaunts and receptions all, all would be
an endless, hopeless, inextricable jungle.
There would be no advertising except
in wretched scrawls pinned up on post
offlce and courthouse doors, back fences,
blacksmith shops and crossroads gin
mills. Young ladies would not know
where to get the newest and daintiest
devices In ribbons, laces, feathers and
flummeries, carmine saucers, masouline-eye-distracting
hosiery ,gllt-edged prayer
boobs for Lent, and " loves of bonnets for
Easter, " Dandified young bucks of the
wouldbe dude variety would be lost in
blundering attempts to find bobtail
ooata,lmpossible-to-sit-down-in breeches,
ear-sawing flop over collars and speckled
pony neckties to their notion. Every
body would fleece everybody else, and
corruption and crime would reign.
Civilization oulminates in the power
press. It is the grand total of the differ
ence between a boastful United Statian
and a beastly Hottentot; between Yan-
keedoodle and Tiinbuctoodle.
Who or what builds all our railroads,
makes the first suggestion, points out
the advantages, pushes a charter through
congress or legislature, works up the in
terest, secures the subscriptions and
sends forth its bugle-blast of welcome
to the first train over the line? The
newspaper.
Who or what, by heralding abroad the
rich resources and incomparable advan
tages of soil, climate and varied produc
tion, the agricultural, pastoral, mineral
and timberal wealth of this, that or the
other great region, draws- in immigra
tion and capital, opens up all our farms
and mines, builds mills, factories,
schools and churches, raises cities from
nothingness and causes our mighty
wildernesses to rejoice and blossom like
a senatorial nose 1 The newspaper.
Who or what makes all our states
men, our congressmen, governors and
presidents (and sometimes, God knows,
out of woefully small ana poor mate
rial), publishes the first call on some in
significant jackleg or shabby trickster
to run for constable or legislator, dog-
felter or congressman, writes up bis
waddling, stuttering speeches into
thunder-bursts of eloquence, calls meet
ings to hear nim, gets up receptions and
serenades, bogus interviews and letters
f indorsement, and finally makes a
royal elephant of statecraft out ef a
pismire of stupidity and despicablenesa? ,
The newspaper.
Who or what gives reputation to men
and women, to cities, states and nations?
The newspaper.
Who or what brings trade to the mer
chant, patients to the doctor and vic
tims to the lawyerr I he newspuper.
The foundation of every enterprise,
material, moral, financial and political
is laid in and by the newspaper. It is
the great necessity of the age as much
an essential of every civilized breakfast
table as ita muffins and poached eggs,
it napkins, hash and Mocha. It is the
world's guide and banner bearer, en
Hghtener, counselor and grandwst evan
gel of advancement. And ahl what a
toiler, what a ceaseless, tireless worker
in every field of thought, investiga
tion, enterprise and action must the
worthy conductor of this mighty en
rinrv. the wielder of these wondrous
powers and influences the editor be!
No laborer with pick and spade on all
earth's highways and byways must delve
so diligently, so endlessly as he. He too
often leads a galley slave's existence a
dog s life and a very poor article of dog
at that.
His work, like woman's, is never done.
He has to write politics of the dirtiest
kind and it is all dirty elections, re
ligion, history, statistics often false as
a Porter census report business, rail
roads, finance, steamboats, improve
ments, and dis-imnrovements, which
seem nowadays largely in the majority
He has to write distinguished arrivals,
stray mule notices, crops, weather, mar
kets, crimes and rascalities wherein is
embraced much of the political history
of the day. He has to write perjonal
notioes, often of numbskulls and no
bodies: births, deaths, weddings and
other calamities; removals, sales in
eluding senatorial ones, in whioh the
senatorship is first sold and then the
people trades, exchanges and failures
pre-eminently conspicuous among
which come most of the statesmen and
statesmanship of thest) latter days. He
has to write puffs of new books and new
music, puffs of new exchanges and new
advertisers, puffs of muddle-headed
speakers and nimble-footed dancers;
puffs of re-opened theatres, barrooms
and churches; puffs of sermons, ballads.
bishops and ballets, and puffs of people
that puff him. He has to write descrip
tions of balls, picnics, concerts, revivals
and smashups; extravaganzas on recep
tions, rallies, reunions and mass meet
ings; denunciations of infamous Indian
policies, dissertations on fashions, essayi
on morality, and criticisms on the follies
of the day, and subscribers who do not
pay
Daily and hourly he must run the
whole gauntlet of emotions and tear the
last feeling of sentiment to tatters. He
must be glad to hear this and pained to
hear that, delighted to meet one, and
distressed to hear of an accident to an
other; shocked at this, enraptured with
that; commiserating here, congratulat
ing there; mourning today, rejoioing to
morrow; now grinding out an obituary
full of orocodile tears and doleful dog
gerel, and now jingling a merry wed
ding strain. He must be ever ready-to
entertain his elderly female constituents
with information in regard to the prices
of butter and eggs; cures for measles,
croup and chicken cholera; the trium
phant progress of the prohibition cause
often with a olove in his mouth; the
condition of the heathen away from
home, and the prospects of charity fairs
and church festivals, He must always
be prepared to dash off, at a moments
warning, in any tune or key, from con-
! gressional riotry and the latest importa
tion of swine and jackasses, to supreme
court decision, or ruins of Egypt, Rome
and the nearest rival town, labor strikes
led always by chin-workers presiden
tial microscopies, gubernatorial tickets
and size of cabbage heads and pumpkins.
And worse than all, he must, at the bid
ding of any and every mob of inebriated
and unclean partisans, known as a con'
rention, unceasingly blow and puff po
litical toad-frogs and lesser vermin into
majestic lions of statecraft, and trans
form stupid and thievish nonentities
Into colossal giants of wisdom, learning,
eloquence and virtue.
Then, after all his weary, endless toil
ing, he must endure, with the patience
of a dogfennel-orowned martvr, the im
pertinent suggestions and criticisms of
every wiseacre in tne universe, wno
knows jiiHt how a newspaper should be
run; and must bear the jeers and strict
ures, grumblings, growls, and miscellan
eous and assorted mulligrubs of a world
of moral hypochondriacs, cranks and
chronic fault finders. If he is witty and
jocular, they pronounce him a frivolous
rehasher of stale Almanac jokes; and if
he is grave, logical and dignified, they
declare him stupid and tiresome. If he
boldly denounces rascality and wrong
wherever he finds them, they say he is
impolitio and injures the party; and if
he does not, they Bay he is timid and
I bought up. If he publishes the trrimes
and outrages, frauds, swindles, legisla
tive and congressional proceedings and
multiplex iniquities that constitute fully
at the county s expense. Work as he
will, do or do not as he may, the whole
yelping pack is at his heels with a
chorus of complaint, rebuke and vitu
peration. Predestined stepchild of hard
luck, he is "damned if he doee, and
damned if he doesn't. "
Alas! alasl if there glows no holy pa
triotic fire upon his altar of daily sacri
fice, if he be not illumined and consecra
ted with pure and heroic ambition to
advance the welfare of his country and
his people; if over all his work exalted
love of liberty and right and ardent de
sire to serve his age cast not their sacred
halo, his labor is but ill paid slavery
and his life a weary failure.
And yet these plodding crowbaits on
the treadmill wheel of life: these un
paid and unthanked drudges of the
printing office; these too often threadbare-coated
and seedy editors of Cristen
dom, wield a scepter more potent than
the use of its "Brains, muscle, type" and
kill without a thought of recompense.
In the language of Holy Writ, "the.
laborer is worthy of his hire. " Editor,
as a class, are laborers, and there la no
more reason why their labor should be
given to public enterprises and political
parties, free of charge, than that of
merchants, mechanics, lawyers, doctors
or grave diggers. Politics and the pub
lic have no peculiar claims on them, de
manding a sacrifice of their private
rights and interests. Their first duty,
like that of other working Christians, is
to themselves and their families; and
that duty can never be discharged by
making deadhead pack mules of them
selves for everybody's schemes and
profit but tneir own. "Business is
business" should be the rule and maxim
of editors as well as other men.
2d We must stop the sibuse of each
other; we must dnm liameful tor-
kings or coroneted nobles, for news-1 rents of billingsgate wlk-Ii have so long
papers rule the world to-day. And the flowed through our columns upon our
only reason it is not tar better ruled is brother toilers. Why cannot editors be
that not one newspaper man in a thous- 1 gentlemen toward each other? Their
and appreciates the awful, the tremen-1 private characters and peculiarities are
dous responsibility that rests upon him. I no more legitimate subjects of discus
The preacher or the popular orator now lion than those of other professional
and then addresses a few hundred men. If their papers nre newsy, bright
hearers. His voice can reach but few,
His eloqrwnee dies away within the
walls of some small, crowded hall. Not
so with the tditor. Day after day and
week after week he sends his views, his
fuehngs, his sentiments on all the multi
farious questions of public and private
life into ten thousand homes. The tele
graph and steam press duplicate his
every utterance a myriad-fold. He talks
to the fathers, the mothers, the children.
He impresses his thoughts and opinions,
his foibles and peculiarities upon their
minds. He sits and confabulates wltu
them at their tables. He draws up his
chair and chats with them around the
winter hearth. Humble and obscure
though he may be, by the republications
of his contemporaries, he makes one in
million fireside groups m palace ana
hovel. You have men among you who,
in this way, have lounged in the boudoirs
of empresses and queens and talked tace
to face with earth's mightiest potentates.
Oh, the power the magical, wonderful
power for good or evil of even the coun
triest of country editors! And oh, that
every editor on our continent, in city or
country, might feel the vastness and
sacredness of the trust committed to
him!
If all the great brotherhood wore true
and incorruptible patriots; men of in
flexible integrity; above a mean or base
act; beyond the reach of bribes, threats,
wheedlings or intimidations; holding
themselves aloof from all rascalities and
the very appearance of dishonesty;
championing no disreputable man or
measure, and scorning the narrow big
otries and prejudices of party; and if
all their papers should open, at once,' a
bold and vigorous war for truth, justice
and right, regardless of every personal
or partisan interest, aim or ambition,
America would ere long be a sublunary
paradise. Wrong, oppression, thievery,
plundering of the people and all the
glozed-over villainies that now curse
and disgrace us would be scourged back
to the foul pit that gave them birth; and
freedom, decency, peace and prosperity
would hold a jubilee from Maine to
Mexico. Ottr mourning would be turned
into joy, and the ashes of Borrow into
the sweet oil of gladness. Our nights
would be filled with the ravishing music
of seraphic hurdy-gurdies and cracked
accordeons; the cares that infest our
days would pack their duds like fuga
cious bank cashiers, and as silently steal
away; and, on the highest pinnacle of
the temple of progress, like an exultant
Shanghai rooster carved in brass, would
stand a colossal Editor, as the concen
trated embodiment of all that is truest,
and noblest, ana most potential for good
in humanity's ideals,
But, brethren of the press, Derore
theBe halcyon days shall dawn, there are
many obstaoles in part at least or our
own creation to be removed, many
evils in our brotherhood to lie wiped
out, many faults and follies to tie aban
doned, and many wrongs to be corrected,
Some of these hindrances to our ad
vancement; some of these causes of our
professional lack of the fortune and
standing and influence to which we are
entitled; some of these reasons for our
being too often regarded with a sort of
diluted disdain (even by the political
punnets we ourselves have made), de
mand extirpation. They have been tol
erated far too long, and we can never
rise to the full dignity and capabilities
of our profession until we rid ourselves
of them.
1st We must put our business on
business footing. Poverty invites op
pression and contumely; and we shall as
and enterprising, and always on the side
of the people and the right, it matters
not who conducts them, and bnt little
what the conduct of their conductors
may be. Onrs is the only decent profes
sion that indulges in these indecencies.
What would be thought of a preaoher
who should denounce his ministerial
brother across the way as a lop-eared
hellhound of Zion, and warn astonished
salvation seekers to stay away from his
vestibule of perdition, miscalled a
church? What would lie the opinion of
a theater mannger who should stand in
his electric-lighted balcony, and while the
band played a furious " Rogues March, "
harangue the muiltitude in regard to the
infamous humbnggeries of the establish
ment three blocks below; declaring its
tragedy all rant and the enchanting fig
ures of its ballet dancers all sawdust
and cotton batting? And what would
the pill gobbling world say of a doctor
who should ride around proclaiming all
his brother pillars of society diabolical
quacks, in league with undertakers,
tombstone makers, death, hell and the
grave? Yet all these hideous barbar
isms and vulgarisms are part of the
daily intercourse of editors with each
other of editors even of the great city
papers of editors, who, more than any
other class of teachers and exemplars,
save one, boneath the skies, are the '
light of the earth of editors, in whose
almost omnipotent hands, in a great
measure, rest the intellectual and moral
destinies of the world. No wonder our
profession stands no higher than it does
when its own member thuB degrade it
end fho.nl-
, Concluded in our Next.
Pa.,
It Should be ill Every House.
B. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Shnrpsburg,
says he will not be without Dr.
King's New Discovery for consumption,
Coughs and CoIiIh, that it cured his wife
o waB threatened with 1'iiftimoiiin al
ter an attack of "La Grippe," when vnri-
U8 other remedies and several pliysi-
niis had done her no good. Robert
arber, of Conksport, I'a., clniros Dr.
ing's New Disooverv has done him
more good than anything be ever nsed
for lung trouble. Nothing like it. Try
Free trial bottles at Hlocnm-ilohnson
Drug Co. Large bottles, 50o and 81.00
coffin for his mother
to
in-law, without offering or expecting
pay for their respective wares or services,
as into a newspaper omco and demand
JORDAN r'OitklNUB.
half the news of the day, they decry him claf or profrasicm. lie poor until we
as a vulgar and sensational panderer to tttnlP out the antiquated idea that our
depraved tastes; and If he does not, they offices are in any sense the property of
sneer at him as old fogyish and behind j P"blic or th politicians. All the
the age. If he prints an occasional ser- world I"u"t "'"d" to nnrterstand that
,i.,h,i. ,i,n nnritunWl ' newspaper office is a business estab-
bigot and blockhead; and, if he produce, liniment, by which editors and printers
a stray extract from some glib tongued ! n'uflt n"ke ''' ft'11 ,httt B man hM
.,ti, ornoer after litrht. thev howl : the same right to walk into a grocery
.. ...;.t v,!.., . a l,luMr,l,r,,r ft , store and order a barrel of sugar or
trMnarriomlv imthers all the local ; of coffee, or into a law cilice and
.. u.,rl a,ia.in r,f his region, thev scout I demand a legal opinion of its occupant,
ki.n u. trashv and trifling, trvinst to in- i"1" Rn undertaker's shop and request
terfere with thehighperogativesof "the the pleasure of
five o'clook teas and old ladies sewing
societies; and if he fails to do so, they
flout him as lazy and uninteresting. If
he supports a scoundrelly convention
nominee, they hound him as a Bharneless
corruption if -t; and if he manfully and
honently refuses to do it, they kick him
out of the party as a traitor and a dis
organizes If he lies they raise their
hands in holy horror atliisnnreliability;
and if he telis the truth, they set biin
down as an idiot sadly wanting in dis
cretion. lfoh, rarest of improbabili
ties ! he mukes money, they insinuate
that he has done it by dabbling in jobs,
by Belling himself and hi paper to
rogues ami ringxters; and if, as i true
in too many cases, he Ktays too poor to
pay for a red flannel patch on his blue
corduroy trousers, except on the great
moral principle of "half cawh and half
in advertising, " they sneer at him as a
shiftless vagabond, destined to be buried
As it seems to be quite the style to
rite items from Jordan Fork, please ac-
ept these from a different source.
We are having frequent showers, which
tend to wouderlully help the wheat and
garden crops.
Flowing is the order of the day, al
though many are substituting the plow
for the harrow, and using it energetically
to get rid of the weeds.
We are pleased to note the arrival,
from Missouri, of Mr. Clms. Williams,
ei.liew of W. H. Williams of this place.
He Beems to like the oouutry very well
so far, and we hope may be persuaded
to bemime one of us, as Missouri is loo
muddy for health or pleasure.
We notioed a short time ngo, that
nnr worthy oorrenponuiiii -uncie
I'om," was inclined to oritioisn this
part of the world in general, and the
iioat in partioillar. N w it aeaiiii to
me, that he ib a little nil, as rrom good
authority the goat he left in death's
embrace, is Hill alive and acting his
usual way in good Until, at the uraugs
Hall. I am thinking "Uncle Tom," like a
great mauy others, is prone to write of
something he knows nothing atiour.
And again he rererrs to a certain new
lireotor laok of hair, let tutu take that
home to himself, and see if there isn t
a spot on bis own head, that shines like
a bright.new dollar, and more, "Uncle
Tom," I want to tell you that the kick-
-rs of whom yuti rcrur, are nut all in
the went end of dietrict No. II. and
while the people in the west and are nut
angels by any means, they believe, like
vou, tn have justice dune all, and are
willing to do what is right, who oould
ask more? Of courso when the east
end tries to ontne ' Hamuel Legree" on
them, tbey rebel.
The goat ll alive anil who Is to blame
Kor I'ncleTom's telling a yarn?
II bald headed men were the fashion agalu,
Would this cmlly man run lo the burn?
It kickers were plrtiired bv the sets tln-y do,
rou d llnd one among them to look like you.
ANON.
JiiRhkn FoitK, April l!l, 1HM.
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