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Yamhill County Reporter ■>. I. AXHI'HY, Hdltor A Propr. J U. F.t'K *■ AN, Associai« l.dltor. Subscription $1.00 Per Year. - . zfrff /» r ' FRIDAY, DEC. 28, MMT Senator Allen of Nebraska says that Bryan will again be nominated in 1904. Such faith is sublime. A “green Christmas” in this por tion of the northwest has no signifi cance. A white Christmas would be an oddity. ------ ► «<------- The Boers are about to enlist the Cape Colony population. Should they do this, the entire resources of Great Britain will be required to meet the emergency. irtclty and shape a» they do, they fore the adoption of a protective tar conform to the indi« Idual head as ■ iff. in 1*79, hut nioHt ot Un*ui have never before.” It is a sign of the ad- . arisen since that «late. German ('cult vancement of civilization to s *e om’ists attribute their multiplication, women s bats once more assume de however, not to protection, but to cent proportions and a shape corres the general industrial and commer ponding to good taste. Those out cial tendencies of the age. “Had landish creations of a year ago, that , Germany,” says Lietmann, “not looked like a “hop basket kicked by adopted a protectiv«? policy then* a cow, should have been discarded ) would now I m * in existence a greater long ago. Sensible in shape, ami j number of powerful international something that conforms to the in trusts, and it is very questionable whether consumers would be better | dividual head is better. off than they are today. • • ------- Let us be wise and not borrow ; Til 1*1 I W I i: I H. trouble in worrying about the prob ) able damage to be done by the Hes The year 1900 has grown old, and sian fly or the grain aphis next sum \ the tolling of the watchkeepers' bells rner. At this time the grain looks j at twelve o’clock Monday night will fine, the soil is in splendid condition ' announce to the world the moment and next year’s crop is full of prom of its expiring breath. Th«» year and ise. Pests may eat up the grain, the century will cease to be, and a but there is just as gw«] a chauce new order of things, much the same that they will not. Don't worry. as the old manner of things, will Farmers have done their part, and come upon the scene. Like the years the next best thing to do is to look that have preceded it, the new year cheerful until the worst comes, for will bring much of sorrow to some, the worst may never come. and much of happiness to others; The government of Holland, prob ably for the reason that it would like to stay on the map awhile longer itself, has refused to aid the Boers in their hopeless war against Eng Oregon gets an appropriation from congress of 12,340,500 for rivers and land. harbors. Most of this will he ex The Penobscct tribe of Indians, pended on the jetties at the mouth which numbered 245 in 1880, is now of the Columbia, and on the Willam about 400 strong. Maine appropri ette below Portland. The channel ates annually 18000 for their benefit. between Portland and the sea is be The idea that the red man has been ing deepened every year, and the ap exterminated is not supported by propriations, although comparatively the facts. small, are both timely and necessary. Continued improvement of the great The “yellow” journals which at commercial arteries for the next few one time were in a state of animated years will insure a deep and safe epilepsy for fear the republican party channel for the largest ships. But a was about to partition China now be lapse of vigilance and a lack of activ gin to show signs of nervous collapse ity during the present critical period because the administration does not would prove disastrous to the com do so. mercial interests of Oregon. The belief is growing that the women of Colorado will soon bring that state back into the republican fold. The average woman knows that when the dinner pail of her husband is full there is usually pin money for herself. *>l------ The Galveston News says “the Nic aragua canal, the possession of the Philippines and the open door in Chi na will make Texas the greatest state in the union.” The south can see the road to national greatness though it votes to close it. Edward Cudahy, the millionaire pork packer of Omaha who last week paid $25,000 in gold to the abductors of his son for the safe return of the boy, should not be censured too se verely for yielding to the threats of th«* wretches who were holding his son for ransom. While the saying that “all a man hath will he give for his life" is not universally true, it is asking too much of human nature to expect a father to hold out when his child’s life is at stake. While the payment of the ransom was a wrong to society, Mr. Cudahy, since he has a united family, is doing what be can to repair that wrong, and has offered a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the miscreants, in order to protect other parents from such outrages as he has suffered. Eai and Run. HOLIDAY GIFTS A Useful Article is Always Appreciated. When selecting gifts for Men and Boys, inspect our STOCK OF BEAUTIFUL SILK NECKWEAR. Imperials, Tecks, Four-in-hands, Bat Ends and String Ties, prices from 25c to $1 50 A complete Stock of Silk Suspenders, Hand kerchiefs and Umbrellas, suitable for Christmas (lifts We also have a full stock of Suits, Overcoats, Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Hats and Caps at prices as low as any house in Oregon. ’ 20 per cent discount on Clothing and Overcoats ! I took two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for stomach «rouble,” writes Clarence Carnes, Esq., of Taylorstown. I.oudoun Co., Va "It did meso much good that I didn't take any more 1 can eat most anything now. I am so well pleased with it I hardly know how to thank you for your kind information. I tried a whole lot of things before 1 wrote to you. There was a gentleman told me about your medi cine, and how it had cured his wife, 1 thought I would try a bottle of it. Am now glad I did, for I don't know what I would have done if it had not been for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery.” peace and plenty to some, and to others misfortune and poverty. The “glad tidings of great joy will cheer a great many, but pain and sorrow, Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets anxiety and poverty have not been cure biliousness. banished. The new year of the new They stimulate century will contain elements of bit the sluggish liver, and cleanse the sys terness as well as seasons of con tem of impurities. They tentment, for we cannot bury disap should always be used with " Golden Medical Discov- pointment and sin with the dying ery ” when there is need of year. Sin and sorrow and joy ami a laxative. gladness have always been in the | world and neither this year nor the next year can make any difference) portant to foreign lands as they wer«» in them. Flowers will bloom in the half a century ago, and our manu spring, and snows of winter will factured products are in demand in cover the mountains. We cannot every country in the civilized world. cause the Howers to bloom perpetu- | One hundred years ago every coun ally, and we rejoice that the snows . try in Europe overtopped the United do not chill the air forever. Thus, ) States in the value of its exports. as the seasons come and go we take [ In 1900 the volume of exports from our turn and accept whatever the j the United States is greater than world has in store for us. After all, | that boasted by any other country we but follow in the footsteps of on the globe. those who trod life's journey before The Watchnight Services. us, and leave to those who follow, the same highway to the end of life. It will lie a very interesting meeting “For we are the same our fathers have which will be held at the Methodist been; church next Monday evening to cele We see the same sights our fathers have seen; We drink the same stream and view the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run. “The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think; From the «leath we are shrinking our fathers woulil shrink; To the life we are clinging they also would cling; But it speeds for us all like a bird on the wing.’’ HAMBLIN, The One-Price Clothier There isn’t a man who would be seen running through the street munching a pie«« of pie.* Why not ? Because it would mean dyspepsia and stomach trouble ? Not at all; but because it wouldn't look well. As a matter of fact many a business man snatches a lunch in such a hurry that he might as well take it on the run. That is one reason for the prevailing “stomach trouble” among men of business. There is a certain remedy for diseases of th«- stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It is Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The worst cases of dyspepsia anil catarrh of the stomach have I>een cured by this medicine. It cures where all other means have failed to cure. brate the incoming of the new year and century. As previously stated it will be a union meeting to which the mem- bersof all the ehrrebes are invited. Tbe meeting will begin promptly at eight o’clock and Rev. R. W. King will preside during the evening. The main portions of the program will be as follows: “Progress of Medicine during the Century,” Dr. J C. Micbaux. "Progress of Education «luring the Century,” Prof. W. \V Bristow. “Scientific Progress during tbe Cen tury,” President H. L. Boardman. Personal Reminiscenses of Slavery days, The Civil War and the Recon struction period, Capt. H. S. Maloney. "100 years of Missions,” Rev. G. \V. Fender. . Sermon, Henry T. Atkinson. Special music will he rendered by the choirs of the city; there will also tie a large chorus choir in which all singers are invited Io participate: the arrange- of th«* music will be under tbe direction of the Rev. It \V. King. During the evening there will be in termissions for the | urpose of sociabil ity. No effort has been neglected to make this a most interesting meeting and long to be remembered by those who shall be present. H. L. Scott, builder of the battle ship Oregon, is in the east for the purpose of bidding on some of the new battleship contracts. If repub lics are not. altogether ungrateful, Mr. Scott will fare very well at the hands of those who award the con Some of the newspapers of the • * * * tracts. stat«* arc advancing a number of the “They died! aye! tliev died; and we most childish excuses imaginable, things that are now, It makes a difference whether a against the election of this candidate Who walk on the turf that lies overt state has a member of the river and or that candidate to the United their brow, harbor committee. Mr. Tongue has States senate. The papers arc hav Who make in their dwelling a transient secured for Oregon $2,340,500, while ing their say now, and it is perhaps abode, Washington, which bad no member as well that the editors are indulg Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. of the committee gets $13(1,500. This ing in a little ante-session pastime, is exactly what Mr. Tongue's friends for, whether or not the members of Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure j and pain, urged in the canvass for his reelec the legislature take their advice ser tion—that we had prestige and iously, they, themselves, are to be We mingle together in sunshine and ) rain; should maintain it. Mr. Tongue has the arbiters, and they will be expect And the smiles and the tears, the song , done nobly, and deserves great credit. ed to act without indulging in any and the dirge. great amount of talk. Talk is emi Still follow each other like surge upon i The friends of the ship subsidy nently proper, but it has been dem surge." bill are the rich firms of ship build onstratcd that, talk is sometimes dis ers, und it. is evident that they are astrous to the election of a senator In lliie Century. trying to block legislation unless when indulged in during long periods The exports of the United States their measure can receive favorable by anyone except editors. At this in the first year of the nineteenth consideration. It is evident that a time the question seems to be that century amounted in round numbers great tight is on, and as powerful of caucus or no caucus, or secret cau to $43,000,000. In the year now influences are at work, the canal bill cus or open caucus, and when the closing they will amount to $1,470,- may go down to defeat with the sub legislature convenes the people con 000.000. Sor ami Ulcers never become chronic sidy bill, unless some sort of com tidently expect the members of that In 1801 not more than half of the mil« ss the blood i in poor condition — is sluggish, weak and ««liable to throw of« promise is affected. body to know themselves, and to exports were domestic products. In the p isons tb.it accumulate in it. The —...» - have their minds tilled with the one 1900 nearly all our exports are of system mi; .t I r. lievcd of the unhealthy matt« 1 tluoii h the sore, anil great danger If it is true, as the advocates of idea of doing honor to the ses domestic production to life would follow should it heal liefon the subsidy bill assert, that we are One hundred years ago we were the blood has I k en made pure and healthy sion and freeing Oregon from the paying $500,090 per day to foreign all impurities eliminated from the sys disgrace that the people have come sending abroad no manufactured and tem. S.S.S liegiii, the cure by first cleans ship owners to carry our produce to to kx>k forward to with dismal for«* products whatever. In this year ing and invigorating the blood, building market, it reflects upon the business bodings at each recurring session |!HMt our exports of manufacture«) , up the general health and removing from sagacity of our own ship builders, ’ A CONSTANT DRAth when a senatorial election is on the products alone amount to $500.000, j ll, < eff'tennLef &'ON THE SYSTEM. who have every advantage of cheap 000. calendar. iron, cheap timber, and cheap coal. Up to 1875 our imp«>rts of liter 1 \\ hen this h is teen accomplished the dis gradually ceases, and the sore or They should compel«* for some of chamlis«* greatly exceed«*«! our ex charge heals Some interesting facts concerning It is the tendency of these old this trade and not wait for the gov trusts in European countries are pre ports. Ir. l!MMt our exports exceeded | ulcer uni »lent sores to grow worse and worse, ernment to pay them for hustling. and eventually to destroy the bones. Local senteil in recent consular reports to our imports by $t>5o,0o0,000, and f apparitions. while soothing and to some - —♦ • • — the United States government. The were $30,000 ««oil greater than in any t xtent alleviate p lin. cannot reach the scat of the trouble. 8 S. S. docs, and no matter Oregon lias had many legislative name “trust” appears to be little previous year. apparently bop less your condition sessions when “seas of trouble used, if not unknown, but th«* thing In the first half of the century our h«»w even th itigh y. nr constitution has broker rolled, ami now. perhaps the great itself flourishes. In Germany a trust exports wer«* chiefly agricultural down, it will bring relief when nothing est thing that could be said of this is known as a "cartel." There is one pnxlucts. We wer«* sending abroad ) else can. It supplies tlie rich, pure blood in s -s«rv to li%il the sore and nounsb grand state, would lie that sht* begun in the sugar trade, comprising98 per raw cotton, ami br«*a«lstuffs to f«*«*d the debilitated, di*eased body. I B Talbert. Lock x 245. Win^r.a Mis*., the twentieth century with a legisla cent of the whole. There are others j the people emphyved in manufactur *<\ Mr 8 mc u ’. h - npo my |ug from the kn< e to 1 -H v..‘A 'one *oiid »ore Several phvsu-utns ture that was not a • holdup.” The in the coal, iron, tinplate, oil, soap, ing articles which we purchased Ihe <’;• '!■ I meant I made two trips to H 4 Springs, conditions rest with the members, brick, potassium ami many other Now we are sending abroad not raw hut f«Mtnd im relief 1 v« a « induced to try S S. S , and it ma le * «mplett cure I have been a per- who. if differences of opinion ar«* al trades. Indeed they seem to domi cotton, but manufactures of cotton. (ectly writ tn.in ever since ” is th«- only purely veg- lowed to obstruct legitimate law nate practically all branches of in We are competing with th«* great etald«* blood pantier niakiug. must face an indignant con- ' dustry. Their objects ar«* to sup manufacturing countries of Europe known — contains no pot-mous minerals to stitueHcy. press competition, maintain prices, in nearly every field of industry We ruin the digestion and are n«»t sending coal to Newcastle, and, if necessary, restrict produc add to, rather than relieve your suffer It is interesting to learn from such tion by th«* partial or entire closing but w«* are selling coal to England ings. If your flesh docs not heal readily scratch*«!, bruise. I or cut. vonr blood a higfc authority us the Bos Um Satur of works. Probably th«« total num and Germany. We are outbidding wh-n . 111 b «3 comfition, an I any ordinary sore slay Evening Gazette that “womeu's her of such combinations in Ger th«* iron masters of th«* old world in is ant t.» become chronic. ♦ Sen 1 for c.’ir free bock and write our hats this season are an advance.” I many, in both the wholesale ami the fields which up to this time they phvsi. «.«ns about v «»ar case. We make no They are, we are told, simple in' retail trade, is not less than tbr«*«» have controlled. charge for this service. composition, aad. ‘ lacking in eecen-1 hundred S>tne of these existed be THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO- ATLAHT*. 6A Our food products are still as im-1 SW2ES AMD ULCERS. Each dollar spent with us entitles you to one ticket 011 the $80 Parker Gun, which will be given away New Year’s Day. Suits Made to ©rder Hamblin THE ONE-PRICE CLOTHIER, Union Block, McMinnville. JUUUUUL«. gOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO^ 8 X X $ X X X ¿v MILLINERY ! have now opened our New Milliner}- Store with complete equipment of Ladies’ Goods. Special Sale Until Jan. Isis On Ladies’ and Children’s Jackets, Capes, Hats, etc. These goods sold practically at cost, as we are cleaning up a large eastern consignment of particu- larly high-grade and fine goods. 0 If. A. SWANSON. General Merchandise ♦f 4*t ♦j ♦i ♦i ♦t ♦i ♦i ♦t 8 J acob W ortman , Tres. J ohn W ortm xn , Cashier. - CARLTON, OR. E d H endricks , Vice Pres. A rthur M c P hillips , Asst. Cashier The First National Bank Of McMinnville, Oregon. The Oldest Bank in Yamhill County. Capital and Surplus. $90,000. Established in 1885. Buys and sells exchange on all the principal cities of the United States, and draws direct on all the principal points in Europe. The accounts of Firms and Individuals solicited. » J* » *♦ » » On the Threshold of a New Year We wish to thank those who have helped to make our last year s business satisfactory. IVe acknowledg«» apqreciation and extend to our patrons the sincerest wish that the coming year may be one of happiness and prosperity. Our aim has been to conduct a drug store that should con serve in every way the best interests of the public. The ac compllshmcnt of this purpose has been made possible by the steadfast adherence of those to whom this greeting is ex tended. ROGERS BROS.’ Pharmacy McMinnville, Oregon. The Drug Center of Yamhill County. One Dollar Per Year Take The Reporter and Qet the News