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who voted for Qninn, Bennett or Nor
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D.J. McFaul, M. D.
HEPPNER, OREQON.
Building.
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If
W. A. RICHARDSON,
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and City Recorder.
amel AT
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ny way la Die Hue. ai nwii' .
First National Bank
STOri BRANDS.
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saakswp toar brand la freeof ebanje.
Bora. P. O.. Htrtmr, Or -Horses. P B CI left I
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I dart Cati'sk m.on right hlpt ear auis egaara
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ea lft kip.
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l.fl arKiolaW, oatU. same oe UflUip. Me
ut nglil ear.
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rtshi kipi aatss 1 wit bar muter oa rujM
etHMldw.
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Wft etitWi eatlla. sent oa rlgbl lip, aadet Bail
erne; la naM aad SbUI Jl Uft aw
lau Mika. RaDDner. OrHoraa. braadMl
t ( oa lari kia aaUleauMaa4 eroa at Ml
avi aaW aloveoaU rkyht
To be educated one must read
the best literature.
The best literature is expensive.
Lsslla's Illustrated
Weekly.
Published at 110 Klfth Avenue,
New York, is full of the best things.
Ita illustrations are superb: Its
stories charming; and Its literary
departments are edited with con
summate skill.
Such a paper Is a great popular educator. It should be in every
borne.
The subscription price of Leslle'e la A p nntim.
We make the anparalleled offer of a copy of
Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and our Semi-
Weekly one year for only $4.50.
No sucb offer was ever made before. No such offer will ever be made
again. These two papers make a moat acceptable Christmas or blrthdsy
gilt, and will be constant reminders of the giver's kindness.
Remit by postal order or check to the
Heppner, Oregon.
FRANK R00 ERS
i, I, ROBERTS
Rogers & Roberts,
-Contractors sod Builders.-
s Plans and Estimates Given on .'Short Notice.
All Kinds of Repair Work Done-
oeeded lu their plans, Oregon's second
congressional district would now be
represented by a populist instead of ft
republican, pod the Teller resolution
would have gained vote.
Eastern Oregon republicans believe,
and they are justified in so believing,
that the republican opposition to Ellis
was the opposition of spoilsmen ' and
those whom the spoilsmen continued to
delude. And the Northup oampeign
deprived Mr. Tongue, indirectly, of
great many votes be abould have re
ceived. Corvalis Qazette.
The Oregonian of Tuesday weloomea
Senator Mitchell, Oregon's congressman,
Hon. 0. YV. Fulton, Hon. Sol Hirsob,
land others, baok into the republioan
I party, and aays: "Let as have a pro
cession in the streets. Tbs Oregon ian is
willing to march humbly at tha tail of
it." Thus we are oonstrsined to give
tba Oregonian oredit tor at laat having
located its position in tba proosssioo of
republioana. The bead of the proces
sion of which Senator Mitchell, Ore
gon's delegation, Hon. 0. W. Fulton,
Hon. Sol Hireon and all republicans fol
low is MoKinley and the St. Louis plat
form. Ws congratulate Mr. Scott on
having found bis position in tbs "pro
cession" and being willing to take it.
Whether it occurred by aooident or
Just in tba nsnal way, the eiroumatano
wbioh ioduoed tba dslsgates to elect Mr,
Olaud Gatob president of tba lata oon
veotion of republican olubs. and Mr. O.
W. Fulton Its vice president, was ft for
tunate thing for tba republican party
and tor the whole state of Oregon . Es
pecially will tbia be so, if tba reenlt ia
what many anticipate, viz: that Mr. O,
W.Fulton will be the neit republican
nominee for governor of this state, and
that Mr. Claud Oatoh will receive the
republican nomination for secretary of
state. II is reported from Salem, and
declared by many wiae Portlanders, that
ths frisnds of Mr. Oatoh aougbt out tbe
friends of Mr. Fulton and proposed
combination for harmonizing the repnb
lioan party by eliminating Lord and
Kincald. The proposition waa accepted
and Folton nominated Oatoh for presi
dent of tba late convention. Tbe antl-
Himoo meo claim that tbia reauit was
great victory for the whole republican
party and that it means an overwhelm
log defeat for tbe Simon meo in tbe
slate eoDvsotlon on tbe 11th day of next
April. Certainly tbe combination be
C. A. Rhca,
T. A. RHCA.
GEO. W. COM St ft.
8. W. SPKNCCft.
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iSKiZi KETiS OFFICE HOURS-Day and Night Leare your orders "Any Old. Fniton and a.tcb u a. .arpris
Place" and Rog. or Jim will get 'em. o o o o o o
ing as it waa sweeping. Ths Lantern.
lire
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rweaooahle T.rtaa.
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if
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King's New Discovery, for eonsumptlon,
coughs and colds. Tbey do not ask you
to buy before trying. This will alio
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Al"C YOU 111 iNCeUOl aoaUale be aarompl.ibsJ by tbaingnUralsebot-
' . tla. Tbia is ao eiperimsnt and wonld
ilOrSC . be disaatroua to tbe proprietors, did
they not know it wonld invariably eore.
Do You Want a Rig ?
Don't You Want a Place to
Put up Your Team ?
M aWMUW, a.aa
Willi aulil la toil m
WaHashafaM, W, I
Tbs Oasejtte will taks potatoes, apples,
a? o batter a sobwripttos) asrwaats.
,. naa owing this olTiOereo aat'le lbir ;w ,m
acsoaats ia
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u. a i thMM nan no nrocurea at i uouiiwu ajiuub. iaitici usiuuucst,
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this naaaet eJ aaa t se n mA Mt (Mi m m
Tkaai aaniiMaa a, well am u. In tad will Grant, H.rnrv, Crmk, (HWtm sod ether eouBtlaa)
aiid eaa awe atsiwy aad Una la staking Umh ewUona with traveling awn.
fries la leaping will the ttmaa.
THOMPSON & BINNS,
uvBMTMxy, aKxrarasai,
II any of tbs best physloians
;:, i '.: im hel. practice witb
re Dow
great re
sults, and ars reiving on It in most severe
Osaes. It is gosreatawd. Trial bottles
free at Hlooacn Drug Co., E. J. Hlooo
tngr. Itsgalar aise f scats and I LOU.
HOKAL ENVIRONMENT.
(By Lady Cook, nee Tennessee C. Claflin)
The influeooe of environment upon
every organio being ia no longer a matter
of doubl. Tbe reeearohera of reoent
years have thrown much light on tbia
s abject, and have proved tbat the pro
cesses of evolution are very largely de
pendent upon tbe conditions of the en
vironment. We have passed from con
jecture to certainty, and are now able to
predioale what changes would ensue
under certain given circumstanoes. So
many students of pbysioiat phenomena,
inoluding men of the most powerful
minds, have been continuously engaged
in investigating and interpreting tbe
laws of nature during tbe last balf
century, tbat numbera of her most seoret
pages have become more or less an open
book. Before thia, however, the vaguest
notions prevailed. An ' able writer of
the 18th century says: "I am satisfied
tbat every country produces people of
tbe aame bnlk, features and complex
ions, it did two thousand years ago; and
whenever a new set of people take pos
session of a country, tbey beoome like
those who inhabited it before in a very
few generations. If ft swarthy Scythian
or Tartar, of a abort squat make, flat
nose, thick lipa, and little blaok eyes set
deep in bis bead, were to be transported
into Oermany (aa many nations of the
Soytbians were formerly) bis posterity,
in a hundred or two of years, would in
fallibly be tall. Inaty fellows, of fair
complexions, and regular features, at
tbe present Germans are. For notwith
atanding we all sprang from one origi
n.i, our features and complexions, our
atature, and even tempera, vary accord
ing to the part of tbe world we happen
to be planted in. There is something in
tbe air, tbe soil, the diet, or manner of
life, wbioh makes tbe inhabitant! of one
country appear aa it tbey were cast in a
different mould from those of the other."
This statement, however, was only
partially oorreol. Locality alone would
not produoe tbeae cbangea, beoanae en
vironment, powerful aa it is, is only one
faotor out of many in produoing evolu
tionary ohacgea, and can deteriorate as
well as improve. It may bring about
great physioal alterations, may enlarge,
dwarf, may metamorphose an organ,
distort or beautify a atruoture, bat tbe
essential character of the animal or
plant will remain tbe aame. Habit and
race are equally potent in effecting varla"
tions, bnl perhaps tbe most powerful of
all is selection.
Nevertheless the fact remaina tbat en
vironment baa a prodigious infJuenoe in
forming pbysicial obaraotsr. It is tbe
sams in tbe mental and tbe moral world.
Our intellectual culture mainly depends
upon our mental environment, aa onr
moral culture upon our moral environ
ment. If a child of tbe most illiterate
parents bs olosely associated from early
infaooy witb peraons of oulture, tbe
obanoea are many to one that be alao
ill be ooltured. He may not bave tbe
ide mental grasp of one born from a
atook of Intellectual anoeetors, but be
will bave certain improved grasp, and
lila mlod will be harmonized to tbe tone
of theira. There are not many even
amongst those of hereditary oulture who
rise to great Intellectual heights, but all
aoqulr- an intsllsotual tons wbioh adda
to tha refinement and enjoyment of life.
The love of knowledge, for its own sske,
aparl from any notion of utility, ia one
of tba most delightful of intellectual
passions. And this tbey all possess in a
higher or lower degree. Their Intellectu
al environment elevates, aa it wars, and
spiritualizes every sense. Tbey sse, for
iostsoos, witb otber eyes, and bear witb
other ears, than those who bave not
reoelved tbeir mental advantages. And
their preceptions may become ao refined
tbat even tbe meanest things of nature
become objects of absorbing Intsrest
and beauty.
Now all tbia is distinot gain, better
it may be than wealth or power, for it
gives us something wbiob we are alwaya
able to enjoy, and wbiob no one can take
from oa. Nevertheless, blgb culture
msy oo-eiiel witb great vioes, and many
intellootual men have beoome abandoned
voluptuaries, making their great ac
quirement subservient to evil. Thus
splendid pbyaioal and mental powsrs
may be deatrnotive to tbeir possessors
unless Ibey are controlled by oorreol
moral feeling. Cooeeqneully a suitable
moral environment is nsosssary to en
able us to develop tbe blgber faculties
of our nature, and to perfect tbs whole
mso. A good pbyslotal conatitution ia
eminently dealrable; extensive msotal
Boqutrementc are also to be diligeotly
attain.! an far aa we are able: but
sound moral oooatitntioo will do more
for tbe real happiness and welfare of tbe
individual than ftoythlng elae. The
greatest strength and tbe most brilliant
talents. If misdirected, shine witb but
feeble lustre wheel compared witb tbe
sublimity of bigo moral natore.
We beat- roucli of atbletios end the
higher education. Roth are good, hut
neither la tbe highest. Tbe Iroly blgber
education la not to be found In any
scholastic corrloulum, but resides imme.
distely to oar borne, and slrcls of ac
quaintances, and more remote in anr
general environment. Bat wbiis poysi-
eel and mental education Dave ineir
gymnasia, .acboole and ; oollsgse, is
abundasee, moral edoeatiod la left pretty
much lo ebitl for Itself. We put tbe
cart before tbe borss, and sipeot both
to go on straight aud merrily I Ws
soburdioate tbe blgber to the lower, sod
are surprised ii tbe higher do not rule.
PS
FOVDEn
Absolutely Pure
Let men say what tbey will, but no
one is a free agent.' Eaoh is first re
stricted by the eternal laws of nature,
and next is modified by ever varying
oiroumstscoes. Environment fashions -na
whether we will or not ; environment
controls our will, forma our sentiments,
gives us our speeob, our morality, and
our religion, olotbes and educates us,
and shapes our destiny. Fre-destination
is not required tor these things; environ
ment is all-snffloient.
Thia view, which is surely a correot
one, should go far to destroy many
errors, one of which is that all delin- '
quency must be punished. We might
go fsrther and question if any punish
ment is useful, and whether it does not
do more harm than good. What our '
criminals aod ne'er-do-wells of tbe com- '
munity want ia not punishment, but
pity ; and tbat not the idiotio or senti
mental pity ' whioh pets and ooddlea
tbem, and does more tor them than for
honest people, but tbe pity wbiob is
resolute for their reformation or tbeir
destruction reformation it it can ba
attained, extinction it it cannot. We
expeot all our citizens to be well-conducted
and honest. But what sort of
an environment surrounds the greater
part of tbem? Ia it oondootive of manli
ness in tbe men or modesty in tbe
women? Or is it too often a oirole of
vioe and debauohery? Our slums reek
with physioal and moral filth, our streets
are at the meroy of drunken and foul- .
mouthed ruffians and abandoned women,
who perambulate them at pleasure and '
bustle virtue from tbe pavement. Shall
we flog them at tbe oart'a tail, as of old,
or reiorm thenar We cannot ; reauma
obaolete punishments, but how can they
be reformed? By a change of environ
ment; by withdrawing tbem from their
old haunts and compelling tbem to earn
an honest living in specially arranged
homes and in a moral atmosphere. We
bave in this country vast number of
notoriously Immoral persons, on tbe
otber hand we bave a great many intel
lectual and charitably disposed people
witb nothing to do. Here are the two
foroes whlob should ooms togethsr, the
vicious and tbe reformative. Paid agents
would be useless for this remedial work,
ror uoiess done rrom a spirit of pure
obarity it could never suooeed. But
gentle men and women urged by the
divine impulses of tbe good monks and
nuns of old days, could wean back many
an evil and atubborn nature lo tbe paths
of deoency and rectitude, and do what
priaonera and paid chaplains could never
accomplish. At present things are go
ing altogether wrong. The sooial evil is
increasing, so are insanity aod legal
offeooes. Respect on ths part of tba
young for age, for goodness, for tba aex,
aod for their superiors, is deoressiog,
and tbreatena to disappear altogether.
The board schools turn their pupils out
with enough of superficial knowledge lo
make them conceited and saucy, but
with tbe minium of moral training. We
need new environments, or rather a
purifying of the present ones, and tbeae
oan be gained only by general and
systematic effort on tbs part of all
concerned, aod by parental and patriotic
determination to eliminate or suppress,
at any cost, the rapidly increasing in
centives to svil.
If Yoa Wish to be Well
You must fortify your system against
tbe attacks of disease. Your blood moel
be kept purs, your stomach and digea
live organs in order, your appetite good.
Hood's Bsrsspsrllla la tbs msdioios to
build you up, purify and enrich your
blood and give you strsngth. It oreates
an appetite and gives digestive power.
Hood's Fills are tbs favorite family
cathartic, easy to take, sssy to operste.
A FaBULOCB DIHCOVKHY
Mads oa ths Aaerteea Hide of tbe Yskoa.
Vsnooovsr, B. C ., Feb. 10. II is re
ported tbat ft great gold diaoovery has
been mads on tbe American side in tbe
Yokoo country. Fritz Bebnssn, of
Viotoria, writes to bla brother, Karl
Bebnssn, aa follows s
MWe bave struck it rich on an un
known creek across tbe border never
before seen by man. Ia the crevices of
tbe rooks lo ons day ws picked op .'),-
000 in oo eras gold. Bell your bullosas,
or give it away, aod ooms op quick witb
ten noes."
Tbe Behnseos bave large Interests in
Vaooouvsr, aod are ssid to be reliable.
Hevaril Klondikera ware Interviewed
aa to th probability of tbia report being
true. Tbe richness of tbs reputed dis
covery seems ao fabulous aa te create In
tbeir minds doubt as to its trutb-tuloees.
Htop tbat eoogbl Take warning. It
may bad to onumptiin. A 'i&a bot
tle of Hbilob'e Core may save your life.
Hold by Oooser Break.
too soon to sail
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