The Gazette. Thursday, January 4, 1900. Senator McBkide has been par ticularly favored by appointment on committees in the senate. He has been made chairman of one of the most important committees, that of coast defenses, and is a member of six other committees. His abilities are recognized and his usefulness as a valuable sen ator, for the nation and this coast in particular, is the beaitiest en dorsement he can have. The sen ator was chairman of one of the most important committees in the last session, and his appointment to the chairmanship of so import ant a committee in the present session is just cause for congratu lation for the people of this great and good commonwealth. Nor is this all. Senator Mc Bride's ap pointment to a place ou the com mittee to outline a policy and style of government for the Philippine islands is due recognition of his ability. Today there is no more imporiant work for the American congress than that of properly preparing for the great increase in our volume of business and strength and importance as a nation than the manner in which the Philippine problem is polved. McDride's appointment is a credit to himself and to the people he represents. Oregon Mist. The above voices the sentiments of the Gazette. Knowing Senator McBride as we do, we feel safe in guaranteeing his loyalty to our state. He is first, last and all the time with us. His recognition in Washington is but a repetition of his appreciation by the represen tative men of Oregon. Senator McBride will not be deserted by thos9 who have Oregon's best in tercuts at heart. THE PROBLEM OF PEACE. The campaign of the American forces iu the Philippinns since the end of the rainy season bus been it ehoit oiip, but it seems to have boon so successful that the oft ropealed assurance that the re-1 bullion is crushed enn now be ac cepted. With the insurgent army soattored, its military leaders and its civil founders and directors prisoners, Aguinaldo Hoeing with h small band of followers, there is' nothing lfft on which can bo based the semblance of a claim to an op position government. There will be fighting for some time to come, so long as the scattered companies of Tagals can find enough in the country to forage and thus secure a living, and military ruin will still, of necessity, bo mnintaiued. Hut the organized force of insur gents in the islands has censed to be the problem confronting uh, and the authorities at Washington will have to turn their attention to the real aud more important ques tion of the Philippines the estab lishment of a stable government which shall guarantee to the na tives of the island as well as to evry foreign interest there just and equal rights. The problems of peace are much more difficult than those of war. In a measure the same questions will appear a to the future of Porto llioo aud of Ouba, but the probloin of the far east is a much mors serious one. In the nearer islands there is a bettor understanding of American institutions and methods, and al ready the readjustment of cos turns in public and private life to meet new conditions has so far progressed that the anticipated future seems almost certain. In the Philippines an entirely differ ent situation meets our represen tatives, and progress must neces sarily bo slow, with impatience there and at homo ns well. The cry of the anti-imporialists seems to have spent itself, and there is no shadow of doubt as to the en dorsement by the couutry of the policy of the administra tion thud fur iu maintaining the supremacy of the United States in tliPHs islaudn, and the people are now looking for the indication of the policy of the future. Thore ought to be no waiting now for the hand of destiny to lead, . ro further vacillating, but a careful determination of the couisii iu which thin couutry shall waikout its own destiny iu the eastern hemisphere, a careful con sideration of the rights of these people, who have lately come under our flag, and equally careful conai deration, of our owu lightf, and then a going forward in the work of establishing a government that shall maintain these rights. Firmness and justice must go hand in hand in whatever is done, the ad vance toward the higher plane be made with a recognition of the limitations of the people, and above all there must be absolute honesty in our dealings vith them. The task of the newly appointed insular committee of the senate is by no means a pleasant one, but the personnel of the committee gives assurance that it will be met by earnest and able effort. Around Senator Lodge as chairman the republicans of the senate, in plac ing upon the committee Senators Allison, Davis, ProGtor, McBride aud Beveridge, have gathered the ablest among their number and have thus recognized the impor tance of the question. It is to be hoped that the democratic mem bers of the body will meet the problem in the same spirit, tnd place upon the committee as the representatives of their party not those who w ill seek to block pro gress by quibling and carping, but those who will lend their aid to the solution of the problem. No party can afford politically to assume such an attitude, but above all that is the call of the nation for the service of its best men of all parties iu this direction. The Haverhill Gazette BRITON AND BOER IN SOUTH AFRICA. All the Boers, of both republics men, women, and children com bined hardly begin to equal in number the population of the ob scure suburban town of West Ham, near London. Yet the very same London papers which a few days ago thought the Boers could not and would not fight, and that a few British regiments could go to Pretoria without firing a shot, had now gone to the opposite ex treme of regarding the Boer armies as the most formidable ever knewn in the history of warfare, and were begging their readers to consider that the British empire was en gaged in a hfe-and-death Btruggle. This tone merely invited the con tempt of the world, while it also provoked tha freer expression of enthusiastic admiration for the magnificent stnnd of the Dutch farmers against such overwhelm ing odds. A race that can show such qualities as the Boors have exhibited in the last three months ought not to be exterminated. Its hardy stock ia needed in the work of developing the Dark Continent. Wo all know wall that the Euglish in the course of a few more weeks or months can hammer and blunder their way through to Pretoria, for the si na pie reason that they have money, ships, and guna without limit. They can, if need be, trans port a million fighting men to Natal and Gape Colony; while the whole Bjer natioa is Already in the field, so far as thj two repub lies are conoerned, and the pros pect of assistance from any outside quarter is to remote to be seriously considered. The war against the American colonies was a shameful thing for England, and about the only Englishmen who have come out of it decently on the page of history are the Chathams, Foxes, aud Burkes, who saw :he truth and spoke it with courage. Eng land lost in that war, and her Bar- goynes, Howes, and Comwallises won no glory for themselves or their country. Eoglaud will win in the present war, but it will be Commandants Joubert, Crouje and the other Boer leaders who will oome out with military renown, rather than the Bullers, Methuen, Gataores, or Whites. And there are Boor statesmen, too. From "The Progress of the World," in the American Monthly Kiview of Reviews for January. HomethlnK for tlio Ne w Vp. Tba world-renowned euooees of Hos lotlei'a HloniHoh Hitter., and their con tinued popularity for near half aeeutnry a etoniHcliip, ia .earoely mora won dmful tlmu the welooma that greet Ito8(ittt'j Almanac Tbis medical treutbe la published by tue Hoeteltur Company, Pittsburg IV, under their own immediate supervision, employing nixty humid in that department. The issue of anrne fir 1!.)0 will be over eleven mil ious, printed iu nine languages, Rfer to a copy of it for valuable and lutereel ing reading eonoerulivg health, and num. eionn tentinmnmlg to the t ffioaey of ll'ii't.'tter'a Htomaou liittein. The alina uao for llH'O Cau be obtained, free of Oust, from droggtuts and general country deulere in all part of tbe couutry. PARKER'S UAlft n Al RAM CInuum ud tmuUlW tli Ink. Novit fail to Meator Qry I Sl tl't'M Unit-Kim REV. DR. DCUNE. Rev. N. Doaoe, D. D., Dran of the Theologi cal School of the Portland Univer sity, Celebrated Hi. Golden Wedding Lant September. This worthy man has been at the head of Methodist oh arch work in the Northwest for 46 years. He had a double reason to be congratulated oq this occas ion as he bad been almost totally deaf for years, and in eite of bis advanced mrm v ' t - age, his bearing was restored last April by Dr. Darrin, now looated at the Palace hotel, Heppner. one will attempt to question tbe reverend gentleman's word, as bis unblemished record is well known. He tells bis etory below in hij own words. BEV DK. DOANu's CAB D. University Park, Portland, Or. April 26, 1896 To whom it may oonoero and encour age, lo friends who have enffjred like myself, tbe loss of hearing;. On April 24th I called on Dr. Darrin, whom I be lieved to be a skillful aurist and applied his remedies and electricity to one e-ir and cared the denfness in a few minutes. Then hetnrned bis attention to tbe other ear, which did not seem t yield so readily. For tbis ear tbe doctor gave me medicines to use at home which I am now using. I think it tba duty of all who are afHioted to have tbeir hearing restored If possible, and I know no one whom I think more skillful than Dr. Darrin. Nehbmiah Doanh. What Farther Treatment Old for Iter Dr. Doane. To the Editor: Some two weeks ago or more I said something of legaioing my henrlng under tbe treatment of Dr. Darrin, of which I h id suffered for sev eral fears. On the first application the deafness of one ear (tbe left) was rem edied. Tbe difficulty with the other was more serious. I applied the medicine faithfully and weal aain to tbe dootor, who succeeded entirely in restor ing tbe lost sense of hearing, so that when I went out upon Third street Portland it eeeuifld to be the largest city I was ever in. My hearing still re mains distinct, in both ears equalh good. Nehbm ak Doanb, TO lifcl'UBLlCAN l.l'B l. The following oall b .a been issued to the republican clubs of Oregon: In pursuance of tin provisions of tli3 constitution of the Republican League of Oregon, there will be hold the regu ler biennial meeting on the Brut Tues day of Febru iry nx', aud n oertiin amount of prepiratory work must be dooe by each club in or.lar to entitle it to be represented at the meeting. Your attention is invited lo article X of the constitution, which is an amend ment thereto ad jpted February 1,1898, and provides that mi olub shall bi ea titled to representatiou unless it has been organized at least four months prior to the meeting and shall have Qled a list of its members with the Leagn secretary at least 80 days prior thereto. The importance of the double cam paign next year, ono in the spring and one in tbe fall, renders it especially de sirable that every genuine republican olub in tbe state be put into oonditioo to participate in tbe League meeting, and thus enter with enthusiasm into the work of the campaign. Claud Qatoh, President Harbt L. Wells, SeoreSnry. WHtfAT CHOP OF UNITED SfATES. Tbe Agilnultural Department's StatixticUn Planei It at 647,300,000 Bu-.li.-U. Washington, D. 0., Dooember 15 The etatioian of tbe department of agri culture reports the wheat orop of the United States for 1899 at 547,800.000 bushels, or 12.3 busheli per sore Tbe produotlon of winter wheal at 291,700,000 bushels. Every important wheat grow ing state baa been visited by special agents ot tbe department, and the changes in aoreags are the result of tbeir investigations. The newly seeded area of winter wheat it estimated at 30,150.000 acres, which ia bout 200,000 aores greater than that own in tbe fall of 1898, Tbe sowing of wheat is still going on in California and some of tbe Horn hem state, and the estimate is subject to correction. The average oonditioo ie 97.1. The aoreage sown with wioter rye is estimtited at 7 per oenl less than that of last year. Tbe average ot oonditioo is 1XS.2 per cent. Tbe compilation of the on mil returns from individual farmers it approaching completion. Any slight changes tint may be called tor iu the average yield per aore of ooru, oats, hurley nod other crops as published October 10, wilt be made at an early date, and the flua! flgnres will Ibeu be kV!tilnh!e. NOTICK. Portland, Ore., Deo. 19, 1S9J. To the Republican Olnbs of Oregon: Yoor attention is agtin Culled to tbe fact that the regular bieunial meeting of the Republican State League will be held in this oity on Tt esday, Fthru r tS, 1900. Id accordance witb the proviamu ot the constitution and by la' of the league, it ia neceseary, t entitle a clr.bt to repreiitatiou, that a lint of its mem- bere be filed witn the lugne sforeury I t least 30 daa prior to the date ot ; uxetiug. J. 1. Kbnnrdt, i'. U. box VM. Secretary Seoreur;. I fOur Third u lit Special vl & Hi il it) vi ill it) vl it it) it it it) it it it) it it it) it it it it it) it it it it) it) it) it it) it) it it it) Special Mackintosh Sale We haven't a very large stock this season's stuff, with the exception of a few men's mackin toshes, and we are going to clean them out at special bargain prices. A Misses' brown mackintosh with cape, length 44 to 50 inches, double texture, velvet inlaid collar, $3, now - - $2.50 A ladies' mackintosh with cape and velvet collar, solid colors, navy blue and black, lengths, 58 to 62 inches, $3.50 - 2.75 Men's black tricot mackintoshes with capes at the very low price of - - 1.75 Men's heavy, tan colored, all wool, lined mackintoshes, cut in box coat style, silk velvet collar, were $5.50, now - - 4.50 Our 'Xmas Stock Is opened up and you will find it surpasses them all in the matter of price. Because they are Christmas goods is not a good and sufficient reason for asking double prices. Look them over. You can Save Money. it it it it Minor Heppner, '-Jr?. sw 1 Highest price paid for fat Ileppner, Oregon. BEIZED BY HKiriSH CHUlSKltS, Hevcral Cargoes of American Fioar Wire Taken off Delagoa Hay. New York, Deo. 25 A epeoml to the Herald from Washington says: Secre tary of State Hay will uuve s tharouxh investigation made of ttie reported saiz arns by British cruisers of several oar tiofs of Amerioao tlmr off DoIaKoa buy, Soutb Afrioa. Instructions have beeo sent to the AmerioftD ooosal at Ltreuzo Vtarquez, PortagiiBS South Afrias, di recting bim to make a thorough iuqniry and to do everything in his power to prevent illegal iotertereooo with Ameri can oommerce by either belligoreut. Atnbaesador Oboate baa also been in-strnct-'d to make inquiries In London and to make saoh representations to the D.itish foreign ollico as tbe faots in tbe case may justify . What aotion will be fl jally taken by the goverument will depeuJ on what it revealed by the inquiries. The rtporta that reach Wauhinijlou are uoutlioiul and very meaner. Tby indicate that the British foreign offlje acted on tbe theory tbtttbefljur was deatiuei t jt tbe Bjer irmy, but they do oot iudioute what evi leuoe the British Davil oouiaaanders bad to justify then) iu reaching that oouoIusioD. It is ooutended by tbe legal repreieo tatives of tbe Amsrioan shippers that tbe fl mr was shipped to bmt fl le pur chasers ia Portuguese torritory and thai the shippers bad no knowledge ot any ulterior destination. If it can be shown that the fljur wai shipped from the United States for the express purpose ol heinor forwarded from D.dasoa by into the TfnsvA, it wilt b Ut'lA by the British b vroment thit th shipment whs teohuicilly uuder iuteruatioual a o-Mitinivms v yrf?, au i that the Hour wns as clearly liable to seimre as if it bad b 'ea in traualt to th Trainvanl, The il.to'rioe of cmtiuum voy.ije waa adhered t) very strougty hf tlie Duit;d States during the civil w ir. The most clebraiej o.s under it w tlntt of the British ship Spriiiijb'k, w'lic'a ailed from a British port for Nam, another BrititU pirt, witb mods in teude.l to be rwahipped from tbut port iii BH.ithor vtflel and carried iot-t tU eu fed.'rrti). The S,)riujbk w.t optured before re-tohiug N mao mi whs taken to N..mv Vork. where lbs waj dj l iei lawful pthi and her crgo was co d. mned. Thed''cisiou ws uphold by the sa; r. u.e ooart of the United Stuttj. Tbe Gazette only f 1.50 a j-enr. Si( it it it it it it it it) it) it it) Sale Our former special sales of Capes, Jackets and Fascinators have proven unexpectedly popular and this week we supplement them with a ii) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) ii) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) it) & Go. 9 Oregon. f Fresh Meats Salt and Smoked Meats Pure Rendered Leaf Lard Fish every Friday. Liberty Market Stock. - & Mathews, Proprietors. UlUNf !OUNTV MKWH. Blue Mountain Eagle. J. D. Hanna called at the Eagle office whllj In town from Fox valley Saturday. He made a visit to hli old home In Missouri durlni? the fall and returned to Oregon fully satisfied to permanently resido in Fox valley. G. 3. Andrua, who resides on the head of Granite creek, accompanied by his sou Bert, was In Long Creek Saturday Mr. Andrus recently located la the Middle Fork couutry. coming from the Walla Walla country, and is highly pleased with his new home, E. O. Stansell, who early in the year left Grant county for Bloomlngtou, California, writes the Eagle that California is a hard state to live In, and just as soon as he eould sell his property he intended to return to Oregon. He says if a person has plenty of money, It is a grand country to live In, but If not, he advises all to stay lu Oregon, the laud of plenty. The Eagle Is Informed that a large force of men has again been put at work on the Badger mine at Susanvlile, and that the operttlon of this valuable quartz property has been resumed by the new company, under the management of Alfred llrile. This news will be welcomed by all the laborers who were employed by the former company, and it moans a pay roll of several thousand dollars, a large part of which will be circulated among the people of Grant county. S. M. Bringhain, of Dale, who had charge of building the I'endleton-Susanvllle road, has forwarded his bill of expense for the construc tion of the bridge across the John Day, says the Pendleton Tribune. The entire cost for material was about $197. Of this amount 177.80 had already been paid by the Pendleton Com mercial Association and the remainder will be paid iu a few days. It was ordered paid at the meeting Monday evening. The work of build ing the bridge was done by people living in that locality, under the supervision of Mr. Brlngham, who has been very faithful and diligent in his e It arts to complete the work before heavy snows of winter fell. The road also is practically completed and when spring opens the highway to Susanvlile will be ready for use. The Heppner Steam Laundry All kinds of laurdry wot k done tirst class. Special rates ou family washing. White Shirts a Specialty j White shirts 10 ! Collar. 24 : CntFa, per pair 5 ; Woolen underclother, per piece.... 10 j Ail cotton ihtrtsand undervk tbe, per piece 8 J All necessary mecdin dono r.nd buttons BJcurHv!. Strictly cash on delivery. Druo:s Paints. Oils . and Glass A full stock. O- Kodaks Supplies of all kinds. J CONSER & You can save it illiam A . Bisbee Who carry a Of Heavy atid Shelf Hardware, Graniteware, TiDware, Agricultural Implements, Wagons, Hacks, Etc, Paints and Oils (tbe best in the world). Crockery and Glassware. Give us the cash and you can get as can get laid down in Heppner from Ed. R. Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Guns, Crockery, Etc., Etc. "NAME ON EVERY PIECE." LOWNEY'S Chocolate Bonbons. FOR SALE BY Patterson & Son. Photnolt";s,icif '.Hd'lu'MS: FLOUR The Heppner Flouring Mill Company Hi.ve pei rented arrangements to rnn tbe mill permanently. They have seoared the servioes of a first oliisa mi.Uer, and wheBt sufficient to make and keep on band a permanent supply of Flour, Graham, Cerm Meal, Whole Wheat, Bran and Shorts Of tLe very best quality and guaranteed to give (atiefaotion. We are here to buy wheat and their patronage. When Wheat Prepare for a reaction by concentrating your grain with TM If. 1 ITT t i lie Mutual at tidewater. If you are not fully posted about the advantage of the offer drop Us a line and we will explain. TUg The largest and best selected stock in Morrow county. Jewelry A fine stock to select from. Stationery The very latest. WARREN. by trading with good and as many goods from ns as you anywhere. This we guarantee. Bishop c Christmas Goods Find Hand Painted Chinaware Leather Goods Purses 'Xmas Candies 'Xmas Goods of all kinds Pocket Books Toilet Cases All kinds of leather goods Picture Frames room ln roar of Btore froe to B" PATTERSON & SON, Up-to-date Druggists. (? FLOUR ezobaoge with tbe farmer., and lolioit is depressed Warehouse Co. Mutual Warehouse e Office, 7 First Street, Portland- II e. .4