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Entered at the postoflice in McMinnville, as Second-class matter. M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY", JUNE 21, 1895 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE *2.00 PER YEAR- One Dollar if paid in advance, Single numbers five cent«. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report National Bank The ‘*Tall Sycamore of the V aldo Hill»” Gives Some Unwritten History before Pioneers. —McMinnville, Oregon.— Paid up Capital, $30,000 Transacts a Geueral Banking Bulónos». President, - - J. li COWl.S. Vice President, - LEE LAUGHLIN. Cashier, - E. C. APPERSON Aust. Cashier - - for Infants ar.d Children H-'. N. /./.VA' - HIRTY your»’ observation of Castoria tritò tho patronage of Board of Directors: J. w. 00*18, A. J. APi'EKSON, I.;.:: I. -.1 I.II!.IV WM. CAMPBELL. million« of person», permit nt to «peak of it withont gne»»ing. J. L. ROGERS. It i» unqneationably the best remedy for Infant s and Childron the world has ever known. Sell Bight Exchange and Telegraphic Trans fers on X'ew York, rian Franciaco and Portland. Deposits received subject to check. 1 uterest paid on Time Deposits. Loans money on approved security. Collections made on all accessible points. give» them health. It will »are their lives. In it Mother» have something which is ab»olntely safe and pract|c>lly perfect si child’s medicine. Castoria destroys 5Vorms. E. J. Qualey & Co Castoria allay» Feverishne««. Castoria prevents vomiting Soar Card. QUINCY, MASS., r It 1» harmlos». Children lilt» it. It Castoria care» Diarrhoaa and Wind Colic. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Castoria relieve» Teething Troubles. Castoria pare» Constipation and Flatulency. GRANITE Castoria nentraUxos tho effects of carbonic acid gas or poisoixon« air. Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or other narcotic property. MONUMENTS Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowed», giving healthy and natural «loop. Castoria isjint np in «no-sixe bottles only. It is not sold in bulk. AND ALL KINDS OF Don’t allow any one tr> »ell yon anything elseon the plea or promise CEMETERY FURNISHINGS that it i»“jn»t as Rood" and “ will auswar every purpose.” Sea that yen get C-A-S-T-O-K-I-A. All work fully guaranteed to give perfect satis faction. Refers by permi»Hion to Wm. Me Chris man, Mrs. L. E. Bewley, Mrs. E. D. Fellows. Holl's Old Jewelry Stand, 3d Street. ELSIA is on every wrapper. The fac-«imile »ign.turo of Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. WRIGHT, Manufactures and Deals in HARNESS ! saddles , B ridles , GREAT VALUE spurs . Brushes and sells them cheaper than they can be bought any where else in the Willamette Valley. Our ail home made sets of harness are prouounced unsurpassable by those who buy them WEEKLY NEWS FOR OF THE WORLD LITTLE MONEY. FOR A TRIFLE. 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DON AVAN, General Agent, 122 Third St., Portland, Ore. NOTICE OFIHERIt r<l SALE. OTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, as sheriff of Yamhill county, state of Ore N gon, by virtue of a writ of execution issued out The Reporter of the circuit court of tho state of Oregon, for the county of Yamhill, on the 24th day oi April, A. D. 189o. and bearing said date, upon and to en- I --------IS ONLY-------- iorce that certain judgment rendered by B. F. | Rhodes, justice of the peace, in and for justice of 1 the peace and constable district No. 6, Yamhill county. Oregon. on the 19ch day of March. A. D. 1891. in favor of F. M. Stow, plaiutiff. and against . S J. Dann aud A. J. Dunn, defendants, for the j sum of Thirty-Seven and lO-lOOths dollars,, with interest thereon from March 19th, 1894. at the rate I Having used Chamberlain’s Cough of 8 per cent per annum, and the costs and dis bursements taxed al »11 65. i Remedy in ray family and found it to be And whereas, said judgment was filed and ’ I a first-class article, I take pleasure in docketed in the office ot the clerk of the circuit I court of said state of Oregon, for the county of | recommending it to my friends. J. V. Yamhill, on the 15th day ot January, A. D. 1895 And whereas, by virtue of said judgment and I F oster , Westport, Cal. For sale by S. PROPRIETORS execution, I did on the 24th day of April. A. 1). I Iioworth & Co., Druggists. 1895. duly levy upon real property belonging to said defendants S. J. Dunn and A. J. Dunn, de With one eye on the clock, and the scribed as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the junction of the Portland ' other on your plate, yon cannot enjoy a and Lafayette county roads and running thence ; southwesterly along the line ot the Portland ! • meal. When traveling east, you should road 16 roils to the north bank of the Yamhill take the Northern Pacific, the only din river at low water mark: thence up stream along the line of low water mark of said river 10 rods; | FRESH MEATS OF ALL KINDS. ing car line from Portland ; meals 75 thence northeasterly away from said river on a I line parallel with said PuiUaud road 16 rods to j cents. You don’t have to get up in the the line of said Lafayette road, and thence along CHOICEST IN THE MARKET. morning at 6 o’clock, rush to breakfast said Lafayette road 10 rods to line of said Portland j road and the place ot beginning, containing one | and gulp it down in fifteen or twenty acre, and being a part of the donation land claim j South side Third St. between B »nd C. of Steward Hanna and Mary Jane Hanna, his [ minutes, and then have to wait until 2 wife, and being the land formerly occupied by or three o’clock for lunch or dinner. To the Dayton Flour Mill Co. as the site of their mill ( and warehouse, and situate near or at DavXon. in ■ avoid this, take the Northern Pacific ; Yamhill county, Oregon. The following general forms are always in stock the only dining car route, the only line Now, therefore, by virtue of said execution, I will, on Saturday, tne 22dday of June. A. D. 1895, 1 and for sale at the Reporter office : to the Yellowstone Park and the only at the hour of one o’clock p. m of said day. at Warranty Deeds Real Estate Mortgage the court house door iu McMinnville, in Yamhill line running Pullman Tourist Sleepers Quit-claim Deeds Chattel Mortgage county. Oregon, sell at public auction to the high for Deed without from 12 to 16 hours delay. Satisfaction oi Mort. est bidder fur cash in hand, the above described | Bond Farm Lease Transfer of Mortgage For full information, time cards, maps, real property, to satisfy said execution, costs and Notes and Receipts. Bill of Sale accruing cots. etc., call on or address, We carry a large stock of stationery and are Dated this the 20th day of Mav. A.D. 189o. C. H. F leming , Agent, prepared to do Job printing of every sort in the W. G. dENDERSON, best style of the art and at low figures. McMinnville, Ore. Sheriff of Yamhill County, Oregon. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR CITY MARKET LEGAL BLANKS. Just what is to be or can be ex- i pected in an address before a gather- j ing of actual pioneers from one who 1 never ‘’pioneered" any in all his born days is precisely what puzzles me at , this moment. In all the pioneer ad dresses I have ever heard, the happy narrators grew enthusiastic in the recital of the genuinely patriotic im pulses that prompted them to en counter the “hair-breadth escapes by flood and field” that they knew lay between them and the promised land by the setting sun; but after such a wonderful country as this Or egon of ours has been captured and conquered, the enraptured victors are quite apt to justifiably weave a slight thread of colored romance into the warp of monotonous reality—to relieve the dead level of common prose with a pleasant mixture of ro seate poetry. For instance, a few days since, in conversation with “Uncle" Billy Taylor, one of my nearest neighbors, who settled on his donation land claim, which he still owns, in the fall of 1845, now fully 50 years ago, lack ing only a few months, I asked him how he happened to come to Oregon so long ago, and be replied that in 1844 himself and his wife, to whom he had then been married four years, and his father-in-law, Uncle Jimmy Smith, who was well known in Ma rion county 30 years ago, moved from Franklin county, Missouri, to Holt county, on what was known as the “Platte purchase.” A few weeks after their arrival there, and while seated around their campfire one night, Mr. Smith said, after a pro tracted silence: “William, did you ever bear anything about Oregon?" Mr. Taylor replied that he had heard of such a country, but had never thought anything about it. “Well,” remarked Uncle Jimmy, after an other lapse of silence, and as he rolled a fresh log into the fire, “we had better go there in the spring, there's too infernal much ager in this blasted country." So there was a motive for coming to Oregon that was not so patriotic, perhaps, as it was sensible, though it is possible, I admit, that having been for years so thoroughly the victims of the old- fashioned ague they may have for that reason the more readily hoped to succeed in shaking off the fierce hold of the British lion. But it is not for us of the younger generation to question the motive of any mau who came to Oregon during the first half of the century—whether he came to uphold the war cry, “54-40 or fight,” to escape the ague or to se cure a home in a country where land could be had without price. On this occasion we graciously accept the fact that you have temporarily called us into your service and expect a re cital of the motives that brought us here. I say “us,” for in the young er generation I include the distin guished gentleman who to-day deliv ered the most excellent annual ad dress. I regard him as being still one of the boys, a lover of fun, and who, as you all remember, only a year ago, was engaged in perpetrat ing a most stupendous joke with the eutire state as an interested audi ence. May his youth be perennial 1 My own motive in coming to Oregon is somewhat lost in a film of obscuri ty, superinduced by • circumstances over which I had no adequate con trol. When I got here I seemed to have been here already. As near as I can make out, however, my coming in March, 1851, was owing largely to the fact that my parents preceded me in the summer of ’47, and what ever else I may have to thank them for, I shall never cease to lift my voice in expressions of gratitude that my eyes first saw the light of this world irfthe famous “Waldo hills,” Marion county, Oregon—a region at once picturesque in its typography, matchless as to fertility of soil, un equaled as to the variety of its tim ber, the purity of its running water, and the varied beauty of its fields, pastures, meadows and woods. The poetic enthusiast who wanted to climb where Moses stood and view the landscape o’er would, I am sure, have considered bis anticipations provokingly tame if he could have been with Uncle Dan Waldo on that famous day in 1843 when, from the enchanting eminence just east of the spot where he afterward built his house, he beheld with one extended sweep of the eye the magnificent country that was as unsullied by the touch of man as when first made by “Our father’s God, from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand.” Daniel Waldo, after whom the gar den spot of Oregon was named, was the first permanent settler in that region. A Rocky-mountain trapper, whom Mr. Waldo had met in St. Louis, named Wm. Burroughs, had built a cabin near where the town of Macleay is now situated, but had not done so for the purpose of build ing a home, nor even of holding any land. Mr. Waldo settled on the farm still owned by his son, Judge John B. Waldo, on December 1,1843, and was one of the genuine pioneers of Ore- assess ABSOLUTELY pure gon. He left 3,000 acres of land in I j those days did not dare to aspire; Missouri undisposed of, and came to ' bread was a fabled luxury, and meat Oregon solely to escape not only the i an “iridescent dream.” Hon. David annual but the continued attacks of' ■ Simpson, now living in Salem, came the ague, which at that time had un in 1845, and the next day after his disputed sway on all the river bot I arrival (I believe it was the next toms of the western states. For this day), he began making 1000 rails for reason he passed by the fertile, at two and one-half bushels of potatoes tractive and unoccupied lands of Sa —25 cents a hundred for rails, and a lem, French and Howell’s prairies, dollar a bushel for potatoes. Nowa and located on the higher, pictur days men get 75 cents a hundred for esque and rolling lands of the hills making rails, buy potatoes for 25 and beyond. Mr. Waldo’s judgment nev 30 cents, and complain of hard er failed him. though he did not then times. (Applause.) know that ague is as foreign to any Mr. Simpson boarded with the man location in Oregon as comfort is to he made rails for, and when I said to hades. In the summer of 1844, Mr. him that for a time, at least, he got Waldo built the log house which all the potatoes he could eat, he re served as his home until 1853, when plied: “Oh, yes; but I never was fond he built the substantial frame struc of potatoes, and the mischief of it ture which is to-day the comfortable was he didn’t have anything to eat and well-preserved home of Judge but potatoes. Waldo. The log house still stands' In 1850 my father took up a dona- just as it was built 51 years ago, and i tion land claim of one mile square, on last Sunday, the 9th inst., I stood within two miles of the Waldo place, within its sacred walls, and, with and built a log house 10x12, with a uncovered head, listened in imagina kitchen extension, two sizes smaller, tion to the voices of the past that i Here m v parents lived when I was had on many occasions mingled there I born a year later. Most of us can, I in consultation concerning matters presume, recollect the first thing we that affected the condition of an em can remember. Nother is clearer to bryonic commonwealth. Around the my recollection to-day than the first hospitable fireplace, for which the event that ever impressed itself on generous aperture still remains as a my memory. Architecture in those mute witness of the times of long days was somewhat different from ago, Nesmith and Applegate and the style in vogue at present, and Burnett and Minto and scores of especially was ventilation based on a others had often gathered and dis system that is decidedly out of favor cussed the problems of incipient civ now. In the matter of the floor in il government. Like many another our kitchen above referred to, the pioneer of the early ’40’s, the old log ventilation between the puncheon house is settling to the earth, but, boards that constituted it was so— with the true loyalty of a native son, well, so ample that my sister, who Judge Waldo has this summer placed was two years younger than myself, under it strong fir posts, eight and just able to crawl, acquired the inches in diameter, reaching from habit of depositing our spoon through the eaves to the ground, at inter one of those cracks beneath the floor vals; so that after a generation of at least once every day. We had a faithful duty the venerable fir logs, knife and fork also, but they were taken from the forest 51 years ago. regarded as dangerous weapons, and are literally going on crutches, sup were kept beyond her reach. ported by a younger generation of To make diurnal visits under the their own kind, started from the seed floor and rescue that spoon from long since the historic summer of permanent loss was exacted of 1844. Standing on the dirt floor and me at the tender age of three years, leaning wearily against one of the and is the first thing on this earth wrinkled walls, is an old front door, that I remember. The space was which has not seen active duty for about a foot above the ground, and more than 40 years, but whose latch must have been at least eight feet string could always be found hang square, but it was dark, and my ing on the outside. It was made en youthful imagination had it densely tirely of hand-made nails, whose | inhabited by all the hideous monsters huge battered heads still bear the ever known to geology, zoology, or marks of the son of Vulcan who fully mythology, each with a belligerent earned his wages, no matter what 1 demeanor and a carnivorous intent. his charge. The judge uses the old house for an implement shed, and I In 1855, m.y father sold his 640 lying on the ground at the feet, so to | acres of land, and moved to Silver- speak, of the latest improved twine ! ton. 1 am not sure what he received binder, is an old wooden-axle wagon j for it, but I think it was a yoke of hub, without hub, without spoke, oxen, a pair of tongs and a quarter excepting two, which rolled its weary of beef. I know it was regarded as way 2,000 miles from Missouri to a good trade in those days, for there Oregon, in 1843. There it rests, with was more land in the country than its old lynch-pin attachment, a help anything else. On the 4th of the less, discarded outcast, jeered at by ! ! present month I drove by the same a gorgeous array of steel binders, ' land, which now constitutes several light-draft runners and rotary pul farms highly improved, and which verizers—an eloquent reminder, es would, in ordinary times, ’easily sell pecially to the younger generation, for $25,000. But men cannot forsee that the “world do move.” Hon. the result of these moves ¿on life’s William Martin, present judge of checker-board, and it is probably Umatilla county, helped hew the best, else everybody would soon be logs for the old house, 51 years ago, rich, and there would be nobody to and is still in a good state of preser do the work. It i’was Henry Ward Beecher who said that men in busi vation himself. In the summer of 1845 a log school ness matters were like a successful house was built near the Waldo hunter, who always looked at his house and school was taught in it foresight through his hindsight. To the following winter by a man named day Silverton is one of the most Vernon, who went to California soon thriving towns in Oregon, but when after and has never been heard of my father moved there, in 1855. it since. This was probably the first contained only one house, and it was public school ever taught in Oregon, on wheels, having just arrived from aud was composed chiefly of the chil the pretentious town of Milford, two dren of Dan Waldo and Wm. Taylor. miles above, on Silver creek—though Even in those early days the hab when that house started away Mil its of civilization were settling over ford was depopulated, and has been the young community, and a man ever since. We all know the unimportant esti whose sons are to-day well-known citizens of Marion county lodged a mate placed on the value of Oregon complaint against a neighbor charg as a national acquisition by many -of ing him with acquiring possession of the leading senators at the time the a live mutton without the knowledge question became one of general in or consent of the rightful owner. terest, but I was surprised to find The case was tried before Uncle Dan the same opinion largely prevailing Waldo, who was, by mutual consent in the western states yet. I can the acting “squire” for the neighbor aptly illustrate this fact by narrat hood, and the attorneys were J. W. ing a single instance that occurred Nesmith and Peter H. Burnett, My during a visit I made to the east informant was a boy then, and re- some time since. While traveling members seeing the jury retire be- from Cincinnati to Lexington, my hind the house, in the absence of any seat-mate in the car soon learned room to assemble in, and, while seat that I was from Oregon, and, after ed on some logs by the woodpile, if somewhat protracted study of the each one whittled a pile of shavings general appearance of one who bad while the merits of the case were recently emerged from the jungles discussed, according to the “law and of the great western wilderness, said he had a brother out in Oregon who the evidence. ” From conversations I have had had been there three years, and gave during the past week with several his name. He said he supposed I pioneers of the early ’40s, I judge knew him, and when»I told him I was that the first thing that the head of sorry to say I did not, he replied: every family did upon arriving here “Why, he lives in Oregon!” And was to make some rails for somebody the look of pitying incredulity that who had come the year before in re overspread his countenance betrayed turn for potatoes to eat. Beyond his belief that I had never been near potatoes, the appetite ap, of the average Oregon, else I must have known his arrival in the 1 ‘ Willamette valley in dear brother. The man who has the pioneer in stinct implanted in his bosom, must now sit down like Alexander, and weep for other wildernesses to re claim, or move eastward. Like the breaker which cotnes dashing in on the beach, and, after spending its force, humbly retraces its steps, so the future pioneer must search out some spot he may have overlooked in the mad rush of his great western hegira. So uniform and universal has been the movement of the human family to the westward that an emi gration to the east would seem like a contradiction of terms. The first emigration mentioned in either sacred or profane history, is an ac count of how Cain, after slaying his brother Abel, moved to the land of Nod, east of Eden. This appears to have so thoroughly disgusted people that everybody else has been going west ever since. It was the privilege of our fathers to come west and pos sess themselves of a new world, it is now our duty to accept it from their generous hands, with grateful hearts, and preserve it as a sacred heritage. DYSPEPSIA Is that misery experienced when suddenly made aware that you possess a diabolical arrangement called stomach. No two dyspep tics have the same predominant symptoms, but whatever form dyspepsia takes The underlying cause <• in the LIVES, and one thing is certain no one will remain a dyspeptic who will _______ It will correct Acidity of th» _____ Stomach, Ex pci foul ga».«. Allay Irritation, Fl I I W AA 1 Ua3iAAJ»I “J!iw •* tha time Start the Liver working and all bodily ailment» will disappear. "For more than three yean I suffered with Dyspepsia in its worst form. I tried sever«.! doctors, but they afforded no relief. At last I tried Simmons Liver Regulator, which cured me in a short time. It is a good medicine. I would not U without it.**—J an as A. R oams , Philad'a, Pa. »-EVERY PACKAGE-«* Travelers find a safe companion in De llu our Z Stamp in red on wrapper. J. H. ZEIL1N 4 CO., PbiluUlpUt, P* Witt’s Colic and Cholera Cure. A change in drinking water and in diet, often causes severe aud dangerous complaints. This mediciue always cures them, Rog- opposite direction to which the horses were running, and when the era Bros. farmer had stopped his team the niau THE BALTIC CANAI.. The formal opening of the Baltic canal by the German Emperor on the 18th of this month will be an affair of international importance. All the great powers. France included, will send ships. It should be noticed, as a sign of the times, that the lion and the lamb will lie down together, and that the new canal is evidently wide enough aud deep enough to drown the memory of Alsace and Lorraine. A glance at the map of Europe in stantly shows the immeuse utility of a water-way across the Schleswig- Holstein peninsula. The Baltic canal, therefore, by obviating the long and often stormy passage around Denmark, will not only ad vance commercial interests, but is of much strategic importance to Ger many, affordiug her war-ships a pas sage from sea to sea, without going through foreign waters. The canal, which is on a level with the sea, is wide enough in places to allow iron clads of 10,000 tonnage to pass each other. It extends from Kiel, on the Baltic, to Brunsbuttel, on the North Sea, a distance of about sixty miles, and was begun in 1887. It is 210 feet wide at the water surface, and 80 feet deep. It is estimated that 18,000 ships a year will pass through it. The building of canals is as old as civilization. China has one 852 miles long, built in the seventh and ninth centuries. Besides this and the famous Suez canal, the old world has several great artificial waterways; notably the North Holland canal, connecting Amsterdam with the Helder; the Languedoc, connecting the Mediterranean sea with the Atlantic ocean, and the great Man chester ship canal, opened in 1894, which extends from the Mersey (near Liverpool) to Manchester. The Languedoc canal is 148 miles long, and in places 600 feet above sea level. There is a general revival of inter est in ship canals, which has natur ally followed the success of the Suez enterprize. On this side of the At lantic we are preparing to build the Nicaraguan canal; the great Chicago Drainage channel, which is really a ship canal, will eventually connect lake Michigan with the Mississippi river; and several other canal plans are under discussion, notably that of one across Ohio from Lake Erie to the Ohio river, and one across New York from the lakes to the Hudson. he supposed had been killed vanishing in the distance. DeWitts’ Colic and Cholera Cure er fails to give immediate relief, cures just as sure as you take it. Rogers Bros. OHEUON NEWS AND NOTE«. Senator John H. Mitchell arrived home from Washington the last of the week. The populists meet at Salem to morrow to reorganize their state central committee. The O. R. & N. Co. has substituted a regular passenger train for the mixed train between Portland and The Dalles. The Oregon Press Association will meet in executive session at New port, July 20th, and remain in ses sion four days. Near the mouth of the Yaquina river can be found the handsomest of ornamental trees to be found in the country—the weeping spruce. They are quite numerous in that sec tion. F. A. Link, a well-to-do farmer of the south part of Polk county, has an extraordinary band of 60 head of sheep. They are Cotswold ewes which yield him about 18 pounds of wool per head. The Wasco county grand jury finds that $1311.77 in fraudulent scrip has been issued by its county clerks,and recommends suits against the respective bondsmen. They urge that the sheriff’s books be amined. The burning of the Southern cific repair shops last week was doubtless of incendiary origin, The loss was about $75,000 with no insu rance. A large force of men is thrown out of employment. Fifteen freight cars and one caboose were burned. D. P. Thompson is preparing to leave Portland on a trip through Japan and China, and possibly will make the tour of India, He will leave in July, and will return in about one j ear, when he expects the silver question to be definitely set tled. Jones, the wily burglar who dis turbed the quiet of Salem by his fre quent raids of private residences a few months ago, was sentenced by Judge Burnett on Monday to 8 years in the penitentiary. He plead We recommend DeWitt’s Colic and guilty to five of the seven charges Cholera Cure because we believe it a safe against him. and reliable remedy. Its good effects Senator Mitchell had a conference are shown at once in cases of cholera morbus and similar complaints. Rogers with the secretary of the interior Bros. and secured a recision of the order The Oregonian tells a queer story of an enthusiastic bicyclist who while out in the country a few days since, took occasion to race against time to see how fast he could go. He bowed his back in the most approved ra cing curve, and scorched along the road at a rate that threatened to set the fences and woods afire by friction. He got excited at last, and fairly ran away with himself, and forgot to look out ahead. A farmer driving along the road, saw this human tornado coming, and supposed it would turn out for him, but finally, seeing that the bicyclist had become blind and without sense, as it were, and was running squarely in between bis horses, pulled them back with all his might, causing the pole and neck yoke to rise into the air, and the wild rider “passed under the yoke,” and was wedged in be tween the horses. They took* fright and ran away. The bicycle went under the wagon, the rider grasped the doubletrees and hung on until dragged a few rods, when he let go and passed under the wagon. He straightened out his machine and rode off as rapidly as possible in the issued by the department prohibiting sheep from running at large on the Cascade timber reserve, and there will be no such prohibition of grazing sheep on the reservation. The Portland Sun argues that the new medical law is unconstitutional; that it is in conflict with section 2 of article 15 of the constitution of Or egon, which forbids the legislature creating any office the term of which extends over four years. It says: “The examiners are state officers. Of the first appointees, one holds office for five years, one for four years, and so on, in order to establish rotation in office. After the first appoint ments all examiners are to hold office for five years. The constitution clearly prohibits the creation of any office, the tenure of which is longer than four years. If the constitution counts for anything the law is in valid.” Persons who are subject to diarrhoea will find a speedy cure in DeWitt’s Colic and Cholera Cure. Use no other. It the best that can be made or that money can procure. It leaves the system in natural condition after its use- We sell it. Rogers Bros.