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Ongun, m an4-clM mMlar.
FRIDAY, NOV. 8. 1898.
AdmrlUtng it to (foM st-Aal sfwwH
tit povtr.StacauUiy.
TAert ii but mm wajqfobhintng &"
nm-pubUdty; 6 h Kfy qf obtain
ing publkl'jfach-a 'UngJSIackmod
Ton total value of exports from
the United States in ISM, was $1,
015,732,011. v
Ik 1867 the debt of the United
States per capita was 109.26, while
in 1892 it wn only 112,08.
Sow that confidence is restored
let us hear something about that
railroad to Salem, and also to Falls
city.
Oregon is not a small pumpkin
after all when she carries away
twenty awards at the World's fair
to California twelve, and Washing
ton four.
Is 1892 the United States export
ed 12,604,686 pounds of bops and
paid 15 cents duty on 2,496,224
pounds Imported. Put hops on the
free list, what thent
Nov is the time to form fruit
planting companies and borrow
money for eight and ten years and
pay it back out of the profits of
fruit raising in Polk county.
Althouo a the United States ex
norted 157.280.351. bushels of
wheat last year to foreign countries
we imported 2,459,602, bushels and
paid a duty of 25 cents a. bushel
Supposing wheat was on the free
list what would be the reaultt
Wb imported into the Uuited
States last year 148.670,672 pounds
of all kinds of wool. Supposing
wool is placed on the free list how
many pounds will we get from
abroad, and how willjit effect the
home productf
Obeoo.v, according to the census
of 1890 had 111,744 voting popula
tion, of whom 102,113 were white.
Mississippi had.271,080, voting pop
ulation, of whom 150,469, or more
than half, were colored. South
Carolina had 132.919 voters
to 102657 whites. South
Carolina in 1892 cast 70,444 votes
for president, of which 54,692, were
Democratic, 13,345 were Republic
an and 2-107 were People's party.
Florida had a population, ac
cording to census of 1890, of u91,
422, and had a voting population
of 96,213, of whom 58,068 were
white and 38,145 colored. In 1892
the .total vote foi president was
35,561. The number of Democrat
ic rotes was 30,143, of Prohibition
475, and People' Party 4,843, and
not a single Republican vote. The
present legislature has on joint bal
lot 100members;97 being democrat),
1 Peoples, 1 Independent and 1 Re
publican. No doubt that republi
can feels lonely.
our creditors not forcing us, The
lottalug out now of millions of dol
lars means that every man must
pay who is able to do so, tod so the
courts will be. lively, but still
many a family is going to sutler.
We have been on the verge of finan
cial disaster too long to ull at ouoe
recover, Our advice to everyone
Is, if you borrow mooey now borrow
a small amount. Within six
mouths more money will be offered
than there are takers, provided the
security is good, and interest rates
will go down. There are said to be
seven hundred million dollars, in
gold, just waitiog to rash lot1)
America when confideuce is restored
That money is glad to bring four
per cent per annum. Our banks
can now pay for it, from six to
seven per ceut, therefore it will
seek an early investment.
Tim time has now come when
money will be made very rapidly,
in real estate. The first persons to
get the influx of gold lll be the
rich men. They will squeeze the
small fry, and unless yoa have
your eyes open will get your prop
erty for a song. AU you waut now
if you are on a solid foundation, 1b
time to get your affairs in shape.
Money will soon be ready to loan
on real estate, for terms of years
at si low as six per cent per an
uum in moderate slsed loaus.
Small loans of course will be ten per
cent Loans on poor security will
be as hard to get as ever.
In 1878 the total paper money
circulation in the U. 8. was 1345,
910,655 and-we had 1(128,400,203 in
gold and 915,059,823 in vllver in
the treasury, to redeem it. The
paper currency being 37.1 per ceut
gold and 4.3 per cent silver.
Last year we had 9837,252,095 in
paper curreucy with 9278,846,760
in gold, and 9103,187,017 in silver
coin or bullion to redeem it. The
ratio to paper currency was 31.4
per cent and 45.4 per cent silver.
It will be noticed quite an increase
of silver and a decrease of gold.
That is the reason why the Slier
man purchatiug act was doing
harm.
Cnr(iiUS fmmtr TraSta.
A railroad manthat is, a conduct
or or brakemau sometimes makes
from 18 cents to 10 extra by collect
ing fares in box cars from gentlemen
who are not haukuring after noto
riety, but who are going from one
settlement to anothor as quietly as
possible bo as not to got their names
in the pupur. A dollar will carry a
man a long way In a box car, al
though it does not give him the priv
ilege of suing the company in case of
anacvldent
Well regulated crews divide the
train Into two equal perts. The head
brakeman has the tint half of the
train, the hind brakeman has the lat
ter half and the conductor gets the
caboose fares, which he sometimes
divides with the company, but con
ductors have been discharged for be
ing too honest In that retipect Train-
masters, superin tenden ts and general
managers have most of them com
menced by carrying water to the sec
tion crews and wound their way up
on the brakeman and conductor lad
der, and they don't like to see old
landmarks destroyed or adultoratod.
-Grafton (N. D.) Record,
- We often hear the fiat money
men say. "Let us get along with
out paying,out gold. Paper money
will pass in America. Let us be
lnnepenuenc oi oiner nations."
Din ing 1892 the United States paid
out 1126,801,607, for coffee, $14,873,
222 for tea, and 9115,784,034, for
sugar and molasses imported, or a
total for those three articles alone,
of 9256,958,863. Our total imports
last year amounted in value to 9827,
401,573, and yet we can live within
ourselves, says the fiat money man.
You can preach to the people to
live on bread and water, but will
they heed the preachingt
The way we look at the financial
question now is this: Our people
have after a hard a stubborn fight,
announced to the world their deter
mination of having an "honest dol
lar" consequently the millions of
dollars in gold which has been in
hiding for the past year will come
forth with a retnrn of confidence
times will improve, Heretofore we
have all been living from hand to
mouthy not forcing our debtors,and
The DmplMd Left Hand.
The douirimxl left hand makes good
its claims in many cases to be the
deftor of the two. The fingers that
touch and adjust with such nicety
the strings of the violin are surely as
cunning as those that move the bow.
Tho hand that guides the reins and
steers with exactness the horse
through the crowded streets is quite
as cunning as, one might say much
more than, tho band that wields the
wmp. uut great is zasmon: unan
swerable is theory.
It would appear that as life becomes
more and more complex we are be
coming more and more specialized,
and the 'difference between our lim
its is encouraged rather than hin
dered by every screw made in Bir
mingham and by every slap admin
istered to the offending fingers that
would dare to shako hands incorrect
ly GTiambeni'Jouriial
Collej lioj. of Old.
"Talk about your college 'boys
waiting on tables in the summer
to pay their way through college 1"
said an old sailor, "why, you ought
to have seen the young follows who
used to ship on the New Bedford
whalers for a cruise. My I but the
chests they had on thorn and the
arms and the healthy color! It was
the making of many a good man in
those days, I can tell you. You'll run
across one of them now and thon,
and if you get a chance to look at
his arm youll see an anchor, or a
capstan, or a full rigged ship in India
ink, or something else there as a
sign of the old time. And youll
always find hint a pretty good sort
of follow." New York Tribune.
Wooden Mono la England.
Wooden money in the shape of ex
chequer tallies was, prior to the es
tablishment of the Bank of England
in 1604, current in this country. Tal
lies was the name given to the notched
sticks formerly in uae in England for
keeping the accounts of the ex
chequer. They were square rods of
hazel or willow, lnscrilxid on one side
tjLnolchosJndicating the sunj (of
I 7 J
Ml WatT Wreck
With 0 turn. Ititm trouble Md (mm!)? hreae.
tewe Before 1 bed takes halt S Mil ft
eofs Umpum I Ml bottw. Kw I am
Hood'sisCurc3
fee Stalls, tor U of whUh mjt ihsuki m diM
Mood's Mrsaparllla." mm. M. t.
Bona, Oorer, Iron 0. Mo. Got Hood'.
MetoeVa Fill ture 0nUUia bf rlur
IM Sh WlUIUa MHIm al Ui aUinwUrr mumL
THE
IIIEFEOEKCE THE CI.
-Cm
IF
Has now in stock and Is cont inually
inauufucturiug tiling of all
sizes for drains and
drainage.
I. G. filtt, IllSffl
GEO. E. BREY,
DKAI.KK IK
In jptndnc, ' Oregon. 4:
which tho tally was au acknowledg
ment and on two other nidus with
the sum in lUmiitu rhaructiTS.
When the trannacliou was com
plot!, the tally recoriiuiir it was
split length wiwi, so that each wvtion
oontalntxl a half of each notch and
one of the written side. One half,
called tho billy or check, was given
to the person for whose survive it
was intondod, the other half, called
the counter tally, was retained in the
exchequer until its comtponding
tally should bo brought it by the. per
son who had last given value for it.
It thus became a current token
representing cash. After the Mtab
liMhnient of tho Bank of England
government payments were made
through its agency. Tho iw of tal
lies in the exchequer was alxilished
by statuto 25, Ooorgo ID, Tlio old
tallies were by the acts 4 and 8, Wil
liam IV, ordered to bo destroyed, and
it was burning thorn that canned the
conflagration by which the old houses
of parliament were domolished.
Pnulad Otr "Kl rrr.
"Who is Etta Eurr, mammal" aaked
one little girl who lives in tho Quaker
City, "right in our milnt," as the
popular bit of bad grammar goes.
"Etta FaiT? thoughtfuUy replied
mamma, mouUtlly conning ovor her
calling list . "I don't know any such
person."
"Oh, yes, you do," persisted the
little one. "We sing about her, you
know." "The Sweot By and By"
was indeed a Sunday evening favor
it in that homo, but no one had ever
Boticed that "UirlieVluid always
faithfully rendered one line: "
"By faith we can see Etta Farr."
And that curiosity concerning Et
ta's identity was rife within her small
botom, Washington Nows.
, What It Wn
"Your wife seems to bo of a very
sunny disposition. She is always
smiling."
"It isn't that. It's good toothy-
Amusing Journal.
Collle at Work,
At 6 o'clock this morning I saw a
mountain shepherd standing at a gate
on the hilltop. Seven sheep were on
the outoide of tho gate six of the
shepherd's flock, the other a strayor.
The man wanted his own sheep in,
so before opening the gate ho quiet
ly said, "Rob, catch the strayer,"
In an instant Rob pinned tho sheep,
holding him, strong and wild as he
was, as though he wore in a vise.
and thon by another word Gled was
told to bring the others in through
the gate now opened for thorn, Al
though Glod brought his six wild
sheep right over Rob and his strayor,
the sheep was held securely till tne
gate was closed and the order given
to "lot it gang." uor. ixmoou ispeo
tator. ,
Alwayi So. ,
Cass (to Bass, who has perpetrated
witticism) Rather an old joke
that.
Bans Did you evor know a really
good joke that wasn't an old onef
Boston Transcript.
STOP THAT WOMAN I .
Dou't let her wasto her time travel
ing, when she can buy of us what ah
want at prices equally low. Our
tot k of
BOOTS & SHOES,
8LIPPER8 and RUBBERS
Is as carefully selected as toy yoa
can Mud, and onr
PRICES ARE LOWER , ,
Than our competitors' prices, be
cause we buy cheaper and can anord
to sell lower.
BE REASONABLE
And help build op your to? a by
trading with
MILLER &- PATTERSON,
INDEPENDENCE, OR.
49
W. H. WHEELER
-DCALKR IN-
SEWING MACHINES,
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE,
Sewing Machino I Neodlos and Oil.
Sewing Machines Repaired.
EAST 81 OK OF MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, OB. 49
$20000 STOCK
Must bo closed out In
tho next Sixty Days I
soi
W OF ISB.
Bring your cash and get
your goods for fall and win
ter, at prices that will make
you happy.
There is no
Reserve.
Everything Goes.
J. C I M 1UV
41
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Independence.
What is Life
Without a Dinner V
An Aching Void.
What is Dinner
without Food?
A Distressing Dream.
i
Wbat Would Independence Be Vithout
MURM & SiNDERCOCK'S
Grocery ?
A Desert Waste.
McFftchcran k Sandnrowik sro here I
PlniKir Hour Corneal ,
llcllcuclt's Appear I
Rwulti
DomeHlIc Pnuw)
no !Mn to Oroiiun M.roablllt Cu',)
Buy an
A I A D lH I nri( It frees you from
rttnnill WUVWIV care about waklnc.
I also have a large variety of other clocks
at all prices. Watches, too.
Come and see our latest designs and
get prices.
O. A. KRAMER.
Th.Uasl.i
i:?e
Dsaltr
J. F. U'DOIKIELL
Th. U.SIftf
Otal.r
-C.rrl.sth. I.rf..t. tf-
fes B fcj hi Ii d fen,
Pm&vr. Drill, t1il-lnil W-l
Jtows, itlilli'S 'iJ Wnlkliia ( ill)
vaum., I'lmifl Jr. ilardva U.iH.
Hultny mill (tang riowtkAKifiiwiiil
roUlol'l tiu, I:t, lw , sid
HprlujMOKli ;mrmws.
m mm
WAGON
tlusranUMMl tli. Wt Slid llfhHt
, runnliiit wui)ii iuhU. Mr. o'Ihui
noli U, by s went arraii'mfm Ih.
' Miiiufi!lirHr' nl.Miiti wllltTirry
Ih. Irpt and uumi owniilfts Itn.
' oirimieinmiliiev-r bmunht lul'olk
ouudIjt.
BE?, JiLIAII CO,
The Druggists.
They Have the Goods.
They Sell at Low Prices.
The Quality is Superior,
They are Accommodating
School.Books and Stationery,
They keep evetythinj called for.
They will fill oiders by mail or by
telephone. They keep pens, ink,
writing paper, in .act, a ."ull line
in that department. .MHsaaaahw
4 REMEMBER
That Shelley, Alexander & Co. fill pre
scriptions at all hours of the day or night
and havo an experienced pharmacist.
S ALBM STUJ DTEIKfi 1XD CLEiKlliG WORKS
WALDCMAR NELSON, Proprt.tor.
183 CorcurLoxclaa Stxcet.
I-jihUlllil In 1H84 with th. niwil (Miniilfio nd xHniiivf nlmit In the ((.
Hteam rnM-lty. twl v horm-.ptiwfr, Ijnlltn' and gent' oUuliliid and line feliria
ofKllklnilidtniitHliinddyed. ('Hn,-U. ISUiikeU, Flsnoeln, Hllk Undcrwrar,
Ladlw" Halt Straw Hnia. and ft-ail'nn'lim.d, dyl and rvnoraird.' Hllk Halt
lnnd. Wlk Hl, Htlfl HaW, and Nift lints tliHd, dywl. bhxked and re
novated. MfLeav. Order with Independence, Monmonlh, and Falls City Stage Driv
ers. Or 8end by Mail or Express.
Independence ROLLER MILLS,
SKINNER & CO., Proprietors,
Wish to notify the public that Ihey are now
Ready to Receive Grain in Exchange for Flour.
Wo have also put In a Novr Improved Cleaner and will do a
Goneral Warehouse Business on tho most favorable terms.
The highest market price paid for wheat at all times.
Independence Stables.
Stylish Turnouts Alwavs In Readiness.
Havlnir latclv miroluwwl ti
'ones, we are now bettor prppared than ever to meet the demands oi
the public a we are now making and are preparing to nmke many
substantial, liunrovenienta. TWma hnur.i.Ji k., .1
. - .. vj vug unj wr u vuwi
Tiavoling men a specialty. ' '
i5.M;fif?'ii?Tf?.lf."r "l1. flBl1'' ,,"1 Hn Iwtwwn Balrm and Fall. CIW. mf
tM ,SS-'' lwi'M. I"'"-rnrt"" ' Hlni"li.m Prom
eaiiu mr lnamwuueuoe, .tje hi t p.m.j Iwvo. ludoiwu doiuw ftir KhIU Mj at i p.ia.
PETER COOK Prop.
Keep Your EKE On This Space
Clodfelter Bros., the Dealers In
Books. Stationery
Will have something new fo tell
you soon.
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