THE WEST SIDE. 1 1 1. IttL tOITM. fosUiii Fi:lis!:::j0::;:sj SUBSCRIPTION RATES. rAYABl.l lit On kt . . . . . . Mix Mvmtli . . . . . T)ii UimUn . . JO AH niRrrtiii unit dwilh MotlrM nut In . Itnw HI h iiiwrml ftw, All vr v ln will b ohrHl Hv twin wr lln. tfcKtM oMluary mmiuU.uti will x vhwipul iw m mm nw ui in ! p? un. iilln all iMiamimtMttnna Air uuhlliwIlOB Tw Wwrr Hip. Mid iuk nil rvmliiwucM rrii k in imk uiuniy J'utiiiiin cum Pny. FRIDAY, AUGUST lt, 1SU9, DEMOCRATIC TICKET. FvMrl'mldwil, UUOVKR CLEVELAND, OTNvwYork. For VtoiTwdtmt. A. K. 8TKVKXSW)X, Otlllluow. For Presidential Ktootom, W. M. fnlvtff.of jftriumu - (Mk K. Nntatut, of t'lutrntn, Kort A, Millar, ol Jhui. , W. F. Hulolifr, of linker. Don't vote as you pray bwiuu'e you might not rote itt nil, then lIl'KBiii for llytuirtlle Md., the first town in the United States to adopt the single tax. Tub irjwrt has just been pwd broad over the country that the 80s serpent hits bwu seen in Lake MU-hignn. It must he on its way to the world's fulr. Xoyr that everybody else la get ting pensions, why is there not pension for the miiu who Rtoyed at home and wore himself out read ng the newspaper rqrarta of the fightini; in front! Thk only futures of the hitrh tariff act that high-tax organ dare boast of are its free list and its re ductions. They foar to discuss its high-protwtive features, now. Tub press criticisms on the adjournment of congrexs all concur in saying that it was a do-nothing congress. This is high praise. The ideal congress now a days is one that does nothing. The Chinese have been admitted in Tacouia. The says Mayor Huson promised the citizens, - if elected, to give them a good govern nieut, and they have got "the Chiuamen and the smallpox." "The McKinley bill raised the duty on silk plush," and the price went down, saysahigh tax content porary; and doubtless it would also say, as a direct cousequeuce of the docren.se in the price, wages went TE Pendleton East Orrgmia copies the article on single tax which we recently printed, aud continues the subject in a way that is truly inspiring to those who are iu favor of justice to everyone. The Etut Oregtmim was the pioneer 'single-tax advocate jn this state, but now many papers are staunch supporters of that eminently just system of taxation. That "visionary scheme," (as the croakers would say,) the single tax, is now in practical operation in Hyattsville, Maryland. In that city all improvements and all per sonal property are exempt from taxation. The only thing they tax is the value of the land. The levy is twenty-five cents on each flOO of value. It is now very unprofit able to hold land simply for specu lation in II vattwville. There was one case where under the old system a piece of land was assesHed for 110 which is now assessed at ItiOO, !L 1 .J When the West Siub talks free trade, it means free trade absolute. If there isanyjuHtification at all for a tariff, it is a tariff for protection For a tann lor revenue mere i not the remotest shadow of a reason. Now we know from actual experi ence thatjso far from raising wages, protective tariffs tend to lower them ; so that there is nothing to justify that kind of a tariff. And as for a tariff for revenue, one must have a very elastic conscience if he favors a tax that will bear just as heavily on the poor as on the rich. Suppose we were to tax coffee, as we prob ably would if a revenue tariff were levied. A poor man drinks as much coffee as a rich man does, and if he used as much, his tax would be just the same. But no one will contend that it would be just to tax the man who has nothing but his day's wages as much as the one who has his millions. And so we are for trade as free between all the world a it is now between Independence and Portland WAGES, WAGES, WAGES. ' The great hue and cry made by the Orcgonian and the small fry of high protection organs "some two years Ago, has now dwindled down to the merest whisper, as to the fact of "high tariff makes high wages." Last week the Oregmkm in a lengthy and quite able article showed that the tariff did not affect wages in one way or another except in a few possible instances.! That is correct, and just the facts which the Democrats have always insisted upon. This, then Is the lust ditch. For if thl tailff dm not in a geueral way, do general good, then in the name of common sense what good la protection at all, only to help the few and oppress loemauyt The great scarecrow of the last election was, If you vote against protection down will go wages. Thousauds were misled and Imlieved it. Now as the cam paign of education has advanced, even the loud cries have softened their tones, aud one reads from the pen of Kdltor II. W. Scott words llketluwe: 4 A deal of nonsense is written about the enect of a protective tariff on wages, perhaps quite at muon on the high tariff as ou the iree-iraue sine or controversy. Most of itisnousense because tier- som eiuleavor to deal with Hie data and conclusions of the tariff question as if it were a proposition iu geometry, capable of mathe matical demonstration and of yield ing exact results. Outhecoutrary, thebiriffqneationls complex, un certain, aud shifting; its apparent data are oftn obscure and mislead ing, and its conclusions depend more upou varying conditions thuu upon any known fixed laws. The truth seems to be that pro-, teetive duties have no direct intlu ence upon wage. tariff intlu euccs wage only through it lutlu ence upon the market, aud this is varying, uncertain, and dependent on conditions which are not the me In different countries and at dtffereut times. Wages are regu lated by supply and demand, and demand for labor Is stimulated by demand for the article which the labor produces. i -' .""- IS MARS LXHABlTKDt It is only about once in every aftccu years that we of Earth have achuuee to observe Mars with any degree of satisfaction. At pres ent that planet is something more than 35,000,000 miles away from ua, and every telescope of any size in the world Is turned Jfarsward. The great interest manifested is due to the fact that Mars is the only planet Iwtiidet the earth in this solar system on when condi tions cajable of supporting life pre vail; aud it is with the hope of dis covering any signs of the existence of intelligent beings there that astronomers ine worm over are nightly watching that fiery orb. Some years ago, when Mars wa About the same distance from the earth theat he is now, Profewor Schlaparelll, u Astronomer ol Milan, Italy, discovered a network of "cauala," as he called them, on the surface of that planet. He observed, also, that these lines, or canals, were in many instance doubled, and that they seemed to oonuect bodies of water. Flammarion, a brilliant French astronomer, at about the same time gave it as his opluion that these tines were true canals, constructed by the people of that plauet. Astronomers the worm over, however, ridiculed the asscrtiou by .i mi i . uie at una ouserver um lines were visible ou the surface of Mars. Not being able to see them themselves, they did not believe anyone else could. And so Bchinparelli was not considered much of an astronomer by his brother scientists, and has been under a cloud ever since. Flam tnarion shared even a worse fate; he published his ideas as to Mars being inhabited, and whs boycotted right and left, so that he weut into mtm as an astronomer. Now, however in view of the events ol the past three weeks, it begins to look as if Schiaparelli was right, and all the others were wrong. The great telescope at the Lick observa tory, in California, the largest in the world, is nightly demonstrating tho correctness of the emineut Italian's observations. Not only are the canals, or lines, plainly vis i Die, nui mey are uouoini, as Hchiaparellt insists. But this is not all. The thirty si x inch lens much more thnu viudi atesthe Italian: it even seems to 'erify several of the speculations of Flanimarian regarding communica tiou with the people of Mars. Said Flammarian fifteen years ago, "ll we were to see a triangle on Mars, we would be considerably puzzled; but if we were to see it change first nto a square and then into a circle, we would think with some reason that such figures reveal without question the presence of a geome trician upon our neighbor world." Imagine then, the astonishment ot the Lick observers when upon four nights in succession the great tele scope showed a perfect triangle con sisting notof three linesof light, but of three- gfeat lights, seemingly placed on three mountain tops far apart. These lights did not burn steadily as long as that part ot the planet on which 4hcy appeared was in view, but went out in an inexplicable manner. They would flash out us soon as darkness had set in, would burn steadily and brilliantly for a few hours, then all would go out at once, as if someone bad turned off an electric current, when great shadows would take thoir places. The first night the astronomers thought some at mospheric or other phenomena caused the lights, and that they were wholly unconnected with the observation of Mars. But next night when the planet put in its appearance, they saw the three Tho. Druggiotq U twU,.W Mm In Mrlnf Dial Ui toll niur ot IIikkI'i nrllU than ol ttt I other bkHid auriRtri, JFot luiUnc! r, O. Uuoai.ii I wtl bin ol Hixxl'i Mn ptrlll thu ll ailitr blood putllUtt, A. W. Uos A Co, I HinhI'i UkM tho lA I All olhr MTMptrlUu, C, r. HLAHONAKOt WtHll WI ot Dood'l lMrll IhAB ot Mr UaillM. fcUMTff SttAWt With M th Ml Ol Ittxxi' li I lo I ot tur olhw kind. r A K. Rtii.iv A Co.1 HiMst'l SrMrlll b on ol tho bMt mtdMiwt, tCitt.MK A Uovir: IIikkI'i rMMiMII It on ol lb bad mttlMiit Iiitd. IU ul Im'rviraf Try yr, i F. P, MHtVI WtMll twit m WNrh ol Hml' KtMttlUA ol tnytliltiii ilinllAr, 0. A. Swani tliMxl'1 I Ui bioal HiUlt trwiwrill ot Ui 4r. THmtt OTH4retal"Uiwi ilmtUrlr. Thll IKipultrttf U burnt, br lluotl't rMHrlll ud lit fMOrtMuf liAv bo known lof Many ywi, uM nul uitllnu II III! malMtto dlil Bl hmhm mrli Anil Uio fkt-u alioKld ortliily (kmivImd miiI ' U ottlM (WUnM Ol lh ouutilrjf thM Moud'l rwHkrillk la foud, NlUbl mtdtiiln. 'Hood's Sarsaparilla old ditl III H tor (H. fre"4 only bf 0. U UOOO A CO., AlKShvvarl, UwU. Mm, 100 Doaa On Dollar strange lights flash out again. The observers knew that the condition of the atmosphere shout Mount llamlltou was wholly different from what it had been tho nigltl before; and even on Mars a cloud or two thai early in t he eveulng Interfered with the observers, drifted away. Then, after burning a few hours, these strange lights again weut out. This was repeated on tho two suc ceeding HiirhU, aud while , the observers have so far made no oom monts, they are noue the less deep ly impressed. , But still more was shown. As in the earth the pole of Mars are covered with eternal snows. - It looks as though intelligent being there had turned the snow-covered southern polo into a large signal background. Over the great plains of pure-white suow, the Lick tele scope plainly shows huge 'black bodies rapidly passing. These change position, and also change both iu length and breadth. Prof sor Barnard state that on several occasions the black bodies would suddenly appear.leaviug two white spots; aud this Is significant not only from tho strange movements of the bodice, which are not such as could be mudo by wind driven clouds, but because they seem to btwr om relutlon to the lights, Appearing at the precise time the lights weut out. Flammarion did not eveu think of such a mode of signaling; but he believed firmly in signals, and it seems he is to 1st at least rehabil itated in reputation by the great telescope no Mount Hamilton. The Lick observer have not, as yet, advanced any opinion. M.uiy others have, and they do uot as a rule believe that Mars is inhabited. Schiaparelli, however, suld ou August 4: "1 am convinced of the bubitubility of the planet. . . . The conditions which prevail on Mars seem to approximate more closely those of the earth than is the case with any other heavenly body. It would indeed bo strange if a world like ours iu many of its Important features should exist wlthoutlife of some kind, csjieclally when we know that such life would be impossible on the earth were such conditions ubsent. The nat uralists and philosophers would say that it is much easier to show that animal life exists ou Mars than that it does not. The burden of proof, therefore, rests on those who deny such existence." And this from the mun who, In the light of the disclosures of the great Lick telescope, must now Iks crowned as the most eminent of living ostroiio mere! ' Spkinokield, 111., July 3. Springfield Typographical union, No. 177, to-day adopted resolutions denouncing Whitolaw Keid as fol lows: Kosolved, that this union, as a iiou-partisan orgunizition, deeply feels the humiliation and affront put upon organized labor and especially upon typographical unionism, by tho high honor be stowed up6u a most persistent and aggressive opponent by one of the great political parties of the United States. "' Resolved, That this onion, in justification of the grand cuuso of organized labor and in defense of Its existence as an honorable and law-abiding institution of this free country, feels it to be a duty to protest; and hereby does solemnly protest, against the nomination for and election to high office and exalted position, of avowed enemies of organized labor as personified in Whitclaw Keid, candidate for vice president of the United States. THE TA fllFFJ'ALh'S. The Chicago Inter Ocean having called attention to two firms, one in Chicago aud one in Fall Itivor, Mass., that had voluntarily raised wages tins year, ami uiireu any Democratic paper to name twenty that had reduced wages,' the Chicago Times arises and drops the following crusher on the Inter Ocean, with the side remark that it can mime instances in the ratio of 100 to 1: In Pennsylvania 10.000 minors struck against a reduction of 10 per cent in their wages. The employers of the Buckeye reaper works, whose wages were reduced 30 percent. Employers ot the Fairfield woolen mills, at Fairfield, 111., wh were This Ft. ftJiVWAD Successors to Goodman reduced to a four days' run by order of the oo m puny, June 8, 1W1. Itlbbou weavers of Patterson, N. J., whose wages were cut 13 per cent, ' Pottery workers at Trenton, N.J. t wages reduced per cent, Employers of the Otis iron and steel conmany, Cleveland; wages reduced !lo r cent. Two thousand five hundred employes of the Crown Iron com pany, Allertou, Pa,, reduced 10 per cent. Weavers in Providence, who were locked out three months iMvt'iiuse of a refusal to accept a redtictlou. i , Spoolers l Wlllsmtle, Conn., wage cut tl.ftO per week. At Jacksonville, HI,, employers cut more mail lit jier cent. Makers of hats at Met huen, Mass,, wages rcdneed 23 per cent. Cotton workers at Lcwiston, Me., reduction 3 per cent. Steel workers at Chattanooga, reduction 10 tier cent. Twenty jHr cent from the wages or the ftixouv Knitting company, Little Falls, N.V. , Iron workers at Suruntou, luu, reduced 10 psr wn t. Silk workers at Warehouse Point, Conn., reduction 27 per cent. Iron workers at Steelton, Bethle hem, and 1'ottstown, Pa,, reduction from 7 to "12 per cent, Spinners at Iowell Muss., whose wages have liecu mlueed three p'r ceut per hundred since the McKin ley bill took effect. Mall Noim. We am indebted to the l'Miuaript flr the following Item. By tho way, the 7Wiwryf Dutliw' lend lug Pht, kiul ll Is rmvivlug ih wiroitiiK it diMrve: Mayor Kill uml wlfu Iiiivb Uvu rvervoiliiKAt Yiuiima imrtloii ir tlie wuek. . , ., The DiiIIm latiliiir mill In rtiliiiluit to Us full cniHiulty with otili-w for fimr week alieau ami nuirw wiiiIiik dslly. Mllo WmmIk, workliiK In tli foundry, ifol a Bpiirk of uiolttm iniB which ttew fmm tfi furiinw on tlio very ediio of his left eyvlkl. It wmm clow vmU for half iuUircut in the luil' vli-wlng proiertl(ii. tjtUU (lisnxter occurred ou the fru of Mrs. Jmnra HrHl wll, fvw tiny bk"- Jiuui llrhl well r don of the widowed lady, wan tlrtvlug a four- linnwM'irbiuilcr In the livid, lie nut down on the uuicliloe side ur tlie team In iimki' Millie uiTdwl djiwlmeut to the Uiirmtw, wni'H HOiiulliliiK mK'iteiied the Iioi-whi and tlmv iiinini forwsrd. Ilu Knililsst lit tho tlU of one of the norm but railed to mtcti them, and wy went the outfit 6n thw run. To ew-niw ouUlde the ranira of the ilokle was tiiiHmlbl. HI only liojie ws to no iiiiuon nuiMeir Uhu the K"nnd tlint the iimchlne mlubt tuow ovt-rhlm. In- ulaiitly tie hiiKKetl the eirih, aud the next ItmUnt the siiiull outer wheel struck him, mi wi tin ovi-r ami h-tivlnit him sevurt'lv hrulwl, but tliiinkful to em-itiie tlie dnmdful futo which a too infill before had thn'stetieil liliu as he fuoed the murderous Jnu of the alckle, iiowiiiiKMMiiwuMiii uie ivulocliy InU A FORTUNE Inherited by few, Is pure, blood, free from hereditary tnint. Catnrrli, con sumption, rlioiinmtlnm, Scrofula, mid many other mnladleg born in tha blood, can be effectually eradi cated only by tho uao of powerful alteratives. Tho standard upeciflo for this purpo.no tho one best known nitd approved in Ayer't Sarsaparilla, the compound, con centrated extract of Honduras Bar Mtpartlla, and other powerful altera tlvea. , "I coiulder that I have been SAVED overal hundred dollar' cxpenso, by ualng Ayer'i riiaiarllla, and would ttrougly urRO all wlio aro troubled with lamismiM or rlidiimntlo piiln to glvo it a trial. 1 tin iiiro It will do litem Hiimaniit good, u It tun done m."-Mr. Joseph Wood, Went J'lutt burgh, N.V. Dr. J. W. Blileldn, ot RmUlivlIlP, "Term., ny: "I rcuaril Ayor' Bmaniiarllla lathe boat blood moillclne on rartli, and know ol many wonderful euro effected by Ita uo." " For many year 1 waa laid up with 8oro( ula, no treatment being ot any bmit-U At lougtti I wm rneominaiidml to give Ayer't Burauparlllaatrlal. 1 did ao, anil By Taking about a doxon bottloa, wa roatorod to par foot health -weighing sao pounda-and am now a believer In tlin merlta ot Ayer'a Surav purllla." Jamei relay, Mine Boat, 8rec nrldgeCoalCo. (Umlted), Vlotorla,Ky. "My nleoe, fiarah A. I.oaee, waa lor year ' afflicted with aeroliiloiit humor In the blood. About l month ago ahe began to ua Ayer'a Baraaparllla, and after taking three bottlna wna oomplotoly cured." l Caffall, 1'. M., Loaee, Utah. Ayer's Sarsaparilla TaiPABBD T ' Dr. J. C. AVER & CO., Lowell, Mass. Bold by all nrugglala. frloa l ; ill bottls.. $1, Space Reserved for which It wna wrouRbt by the flying Usim. The bora) ran u Ulnuuoe ami finally brouulit up aRalixl a tren, um which one of the animal truek Ha head and ilroiiisnl iload. The reap er wa coimllimUy daluaRitl, I invariant U rruH tirnwan. To In end that Oil yesr'a Horti cultural dlnptuy may Im the larirmt aud niot altravtlveever known, and pre immu.ry toaendlog It to fhlcairo In JHM8, the Portland Induatrlal KxkmI lion will otler a Drat preiiilum of (ton aud s (ennui of .'si to tlie two euuuthw iiiakuiKthe Aneat and btrgevl dUplay of frull, iiiuludlug oauned, Rreeii aud dried, irmwn in the county exhibit ton, the canned fruit to be put up by the pvrton by whom It la irowu. A pwiilum ol tati will tie icivi-n to the uouuty niaklnit the ut artistic l la play. The (iwiple of portluml, fully reeihsliiR the liiijK.-runce of the fruit liidualry, and of having it, ataive all other. repivMutett at the World' Kalr, aud to encourage fruit grower to make an extraordinary etf.t to w-livt the very Ut ieilmen, have heartily Joloed with the exsallloit, and will iilti-r premium to the Individuals (about Auu ha been aulworlued to far, and more proinfMl) makliift the beat exhibit of fruit grown by fliem. elvea The county display will In no way Interfere with the Individual blblla. , There I now a big rush to HtockUm A lloukle'tforilm new gude of all kltolaJuBt arriving. Ornue running, but do u l fall, for we are trying to up ply all. ' n Size ladies' watcbes, tlie smallest lmerican watch made. The move ment is just the size of a half dollar. Hew screw filled cases, IS and 18 size. Thinnest screw case ever made. . ' "Something new and neat." 1.0.1'. Masonic, Odd fellows, and I of P. lapel buttons in solid gold. Call in and see them. PATTERSOK BROS., JEWELERS, INDEPENDENCE, OR. FARMERS, We have ample Warehouse room, and will store wheat at most reasonable rates. U n We will furnish sacks Come this way and see 17 AT you. we asic your attention to our Warehouse, Storage, Purchasing, and Sack business. S EI N NE INDEPENDENCE, OR. "T" & CO & Douty. Try Htrong'i riwlauraiit, Woatwwtt A Irwin, propilolore, wlivn In HjiIciii. Meals, first claa Invjery way, iKi cuiU. hend voiir lauiidrv to the Salem steam laundry, Mr. Uotr, driver of the isaieiu autge, will taae it lor you leve order at the iiis-r livery lablv Uioiu. E. L. KETCHUM, M.D. Om and rralili-iKV, ernr nf ItaJln4 and Momiiimui Kinww, INOCPCNDCNCC, OREGON. II BMD FIRM. The undvnilgucd would auv that we are preparud to do all kinds of aND At the moat reasonable rate, (ilw us a call. PITTS & HILLARD, tuctnwn to B. I. Kran(l, Independence, Ore. LOOK THIS WAY ! We. will purchase wheat at the high est market price. as cheaply as anybody .what we have to say to R & CO. ffDODDE Are head-quarter, ffiiS ffl US3E WM, Eii I'ns. Oliver Yoar attention to our. line of clotercg, which las been greatly reduced tj our i5 per cent reduction sale, but we are still abls to satisfy our cus tomers in this is, as well as in ' Summer Dress Goods, lite Golds, - Ginghams, Parasols, Underwear, Hosiery, etc., etc. iuuuijijij i mm F. ANSTINE MONMOUTH WALL 1' ATE 11 . (1001S 'DELIVERED FUR MONMOUTH F. ANSTINE The Oregon State Normal School 1 if"t L The Leading Normal School of the Northwest. A diploma from the achool antitlea one toteaol, ia any oouut, iu the stale with Norm.! v . . .. " J - ,0"' f,,rtlr munition. 7 m 8t,,,e mlh'. per of uZZ Srd rNorm ioma.t iwr auk tj i , . , tiful nk.l Cniii "i. "V "'""'". otli.oReHddreSa" in Polk County for ffl, B WM vsm&z taps. Chilled aod Steel Fins, .... HClTltE FltAMES NITUR a PRICKS lilOUT BOARD OFREOENTS: Heujiimin ScboOeld, Prenideot; J B ""WiSwsretory.. Exoftloio: UwEx- T .hi" i B; Mc1h!rovJ, PTintwi,tM,t oi Iuhholnatrut-tmns Hon.O.W. McBride. nn A.Nlt.,er J n. Wh., HuBD . Holnw, Alfred Laoy, Hon. P. W. , Hnlt-y, Hod, J. J. U.ily. Tlie Statu Normiil is a live sotiool, rap. t f,ici)itl.a for the iiiat trnm.uB of wclier. It Kraduntw ar in deiumid to till piinl position. A bhiu of eiKhty tier w-i't hi nttvudance whh mii.le lm year. Au eimillniont of 5(H) la aiitu'iimled for tlie next yenr. New members have been a.l.led U) the fiionlty, and additional " D ilfe'. J normal, " Hull, f 1.50 per week; fnni Private f.iuuliea, M.fll) per weJfc n. f P Seteml,er 20." For ur j. m. I'OWELL, A. M., Vice rroaid7utr ' " l iMnl '