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down stairs as you found us all iu a Leap." “ But, madam,” s»id the doorkeeper, THE OLD, OLD STOBY. ((you are iu possession o f a great secret BY M IX XR H A IU . 4 o f our order, and must go up to be ini'* tiated and sworn, and then go in the I bade him good-1re with a laughing eye, In a earelons, girlish way ; regular way." But I turned «side in time to hide “ Regular way V* exclaimed the lady, The tear that was bound to stray ; “ aud do you suppose I am going near Y et I brushed it off with a joyous laugh, It had fallen by hint unseen; the tarual place, and ride that ar critter f o r he must not know, ere I turned to go, withont a bridle or a ladies saddle? What a foolish girl I ’d been No, never! I dou’ t want nothing to lie must noLknow why I trembled so, do with the man that rides it. I ’d 'Neath tfio glance of his dark blue eye; look nice perched upon a billy-goat— But back iu uiy heart, front whence it would wouldn’t I ? No, n ev er! I ’ ll never go start, I must crush the rebel sigh. nigh it again, nor your hall neither— I hurried along through tho motley throng, if I can prevent it no lady shall ever Hut my eyes with tears were dim, W h y I ’d sooner And my heart was sore— ’1 would beat no more join the Odd Fellows. With the hope I was dear to him* be a Free Mason, and be broiled on a grid iron as long os fire could be kept f o r his words were cold, and his parting told under it, and pulled from garret to cel Me each warm love throb to still; But my passion wild, liko a wayward child, lar, with a halter, in a pair o f old Would yield not to reasou's will. breeeffes and slippers just as my poor I had loved him long, though I knew ’ t was dead husband. And he lived over it, wrong. For he gave me no look, no w ord; but 1 never could live over such another Yet, passing me by with a careless eye, ride as I took to-day.’ ’ > F IR E S ID E M IS C E L L A N Y . The chords o f my heart were stirred. I have seen him smile on the lovely, while lie has oftentimes frowned on me ; Yet his name and face I can ne’er erase From the book o f my memory. I will keep them there, and often in prayer llis dear name I ’ll waft above, Aud tho angels alone, with the night wind’s moan, Will hear of my hopeless love. W O M A N 'S C U R IO S IT Y . H o w to he M iserable . — Sit b y » window, and look over the way to your neighbor’s elegant mansion which he has recently built, and paid for, and fitted oat, and wish, “ O , that I were a rich man !” Get augry with your neighbor, and think you have not a friend in the world. Shed a tear or two, and take a walk in the burial ground, continually saying to yourself, “ W hen shall I be buried here ?” V Sign a note for a friend, and never forget your kindness, and every hour in the day whisper to yourself, “ I wonder if he will eyer pay the note ?” Think everybody means to cheat you. Closely examine every bill you take, and doubt its being genuine until you have put your neighbor to a great deal o f trouble. Put confidence in nobody, and believe every man you trade with to be a rogue. Never accomodate i f you can possibly help it. Never visit the sick or afflicted, and never give a cent to assist the poor. Buy as choap as you can, and screw down to the lowest mill. Griud the faces o f the unfortunate. Brood over your misfortunes, your lack o f talents, aud believe at no distant day you will come to want. Let the workhouse be ever in your mind, with all the horrors o f distress and poverty. A lodge o f the Independent Order o f Odd Fellows, at Woodston, determined to have their lodge-room done up clean und nice. It was resolved unanimously that Mrs. K . should be employed to do the job. After the meeting adjourned the Ouardiau, who knew the inquisitive character o f Mrs. K ., procured a billy- goat, and placed him in a closet that was kept as a reservoir for secret things. H e then informed the lady o f the wishes o f the lodge, and requested her to come early next morning, as he would then he at leisure to show her what was and what was not to be done. Morning name, and with it Madame K , with her broom, brushes, pails, tubs, etc., and found the (Juardian waiting for her. “ Now, Madame,” said he, “ I will tell you what we want doue, and how we came to employ you. The brothers said it was difficult to get anybody to do the job, and not be meddling with the secrets in the little closet; we have W histling G irls . — There is a l<wt the key, and cannot find it to look the door. I assured them that you proverb that cou^d be depended o n .” “ Whistling girls and crowing hens, “ Bepeuded on { I guess I can. Always come to some bad end.” M y poor dead gone husband, he be Bat, notwithstanding the old proverb, longed to the Free Masons, or anti-Ma- a writer steps forward to defend the sous, I don't know which. H e used to whistling g ir ls io th is in d e p e n d e n t tell me all the secrets o f the concern, asbion : “ Show me the girl who has and when he showed me all the marks the hardihood to whistle in these days, the grid-iron made when he was initia when everything, even the hair o f your ted, and told me how they fixed poor lead, is at a discount, and I ’ ll show Morgan, I never told a living soul to you a girl that oan be depended upon, this day ; if nobody troubles your closet and one that will not fail you in time o f to find out your secrets till I do, they need, and will give you a true hearty will lay there till they rot, they will.” grasp, the oordial hand shake, the warm, “ I thought so,” said the Guardian, genuine welcome, no tip o f the kid “ and now I want you to commence in ^love, and a cold ‘ bow do you d o ? ’ who that corner, and give the whole room a can brave danger, look toil in the face decent cleaning, and I pledge my word without shrinking, laugh with those and honor for your fidelity to your that laugh, and weep with those that promise, now don’ t go into that closet,” weep, as well as whistle with those that and then left the lady to herself. whistle, who can in fact take the world No sooner had she heard the sound as she finds it, rough and rugged, and o f his feet on the last step o f the stairs not go as though she was walking on than she exclaimed, “ Don’ t get into the eggs, and afraid o f cracking a shell, closet! I ’ ll warrant there’s a grid-iron, who deals in substance, not in shadow. or some nonsense, just like the anti- These are the kind who have given a Masons for all the world, I ’ ll be bound. 99 new reading to the proverb. I will take one peep, and nobody will be any the wiser, as I can keep it to T iie W orld F ailing at L ast .— myself. Campbell, the author o f the “ Pleasaures Suiting the action to the word, she of Hope,” in his old age wrote, “ I am stepped lightly to the forbidden closet, alone in this world. M y wife and child and turned the button, which was no of ray hopes are d ea d ; my surviving sooner done, than bah ! went th$ billy child is consigned to a living tom b; my goat with a spring to regain his liberty, old friends, brothers and sisters are dead, which came near upsetting her lady all but one, and she, too is dyin g; my ship. Roth started for the door, but it last hopes are blighted. A s for fame, was filled with implements for house it is a bubble that must soon burst. cleaning, and all were swept from their Earned for others, shared with others, position down to the bottom o f the it was sweet, but at my age, to my own stairs. solitary experience, it is bitter. Left in The noise and oonfusion occasioned my chamber alone by myself, is it won by such unceremonious coming down derful my philosophy at times takes stairs drew half the town to witness flight; that I run into com pany; resort Mrs. K ’s efforts to get from under the to that which blunts, bat heals no pile of pails, tubs, brooms, and brushes pang; and then, sick of the world and in the street. dissatisfied with myself, shrink back W ho should be first to the «pot but into solitude ?” and in this state o f the rascally door-keeper, who, after re mind the author of the “ Pleasures of leasing the goat, which was a cripple H ope ” died. for life, and uplifting the rubbish that Am ong the gifts to a new married bound the good woman to the earth, pair at a town in New Jersey, was a anxiously inquired if she had been “ ta broom sent to the lady, accompanied by king the degrees ?” the following sentim ent: “ Taking the degrees 1” exclaimed “ This trifling gift accept from me, the lady, “ if you call tumbling from the Its use I would commend, top to the bottom o f the stairs with the In sunshine use the brushy part, devil after ye, taking things by degrees In storms the other end.” I have them, and if ye frightened folks as ye have me, and hurt them to boot I ’ ll warrant they will make as much noise as I did.” “ I hope you did not open the closet madam,” said the door-keeper. “ Open the closet! Eve ate the applo she was forbidden! I f you want her to do anything, tell her not to do it, am she’ ll do it certain. I could not stanc the temptation. The secret was there I wanted to know it. I opened the door and out popped the tarnal critter right into my face. I thought the de vil had me, and T broke for the stairs with the devil butting me at every jump- I fell over tho tub, aud got ladies— girls we mean— never marry a man who has no trade, who loafs in his early years, in hopes o f something to turn up, and who affects to despise mechanical employments. He will lead his bride to worse than poverty nine cases out o f ten. Y FABMERS^ STORE ! M oney H E 8 T 4 I B E S T O R E !1 M A IN H a ved ! H . Willamettfi Iron Works Company EOLA, W ISHES TO INFORM THE PUBLIC I that be keep» constantly on hand a large assortment o f r jlI I E LAB«ESX AND B BS! STOCK OF OENERAL M ERCHANDISE, Spaeially adapted to the wants ot the community, embracing D ry Goods, Clothing, Boots, * Shoes, Groceries, " and Crockery, That baa aver Ua«u offered in Polk Co., is just received at CRONE A W O L F’S New tyro story building at INDEPENDENCE, which we will sell CHEAPER than the CHEAP EST. We are prepared through recent arrange- meats made in San Praneisoo, to find constant sale for »11 kinds of Produce, and paying the highest market price for W HEAT. We also have in connection with oar store, A LARG E W AREH OUSE, where we offer storage on good terms. We also keep 1 CRONE * WOLF, N EW FIR M ! N E W GOODS ! H E W S T Y L E S ! AMD REDUCED PRICES IRON FOUNDERS, «T E A R ENGINE AND T y # * C a l l , and Judge fo r y o u re e ly fa .-^ ^ C. B. 8 T I L E S ’ H EAD Q U AR TER S! M ain street, O pposite C ourt H ouse, ‘new Store! I Hew Goods! AM NOW P R E P A R E D TO OFFER largo assortment o f choiap A PROVISIONS, G R O C E R IE S, W OODEN W ARE, TOBACCO, FRUITS, CIGARS, YA N K E E NOTIONS, Etc., Etc, S A W and F L O U R IN G M IL L S , OR N ON-RETENTION, OR IN CO N TI NENCE o f Urine, irritation, InfiamaMou or ulceration o f the bladder or kidneys, disoasos Ac., Ac., Ac. o f the prostrate glands, stone in the bladder Manufacture and Repair Machinery o f »11 calculus gravel or brickdust deposits, aad a), kinds. the dlsaasei o f the bladder, kidneys and drop sical swellings Iron Shutter W o r k at San F ra n cia eo USE H ELM BO LP’ S FLU ID E X T R A C T C ost and F r e ig h t. BUCHU. I design to keep only the CHOICEST and BEST articles and sell them at a Small Profit For Cash. M Y M O T T O .— Q u ick sales aud sm all profits. O. HAVE JUST RECEIVED THE Largest aud most Complete stock o f B. STILES. Randall’s Patent Grinder and Amalgamator. Dunbar’s Self-adjusting Patent Piston Packing Stevens’ “ “ “ “ Either applied to old or new steam cylinders. Q u a rt» Stam pers, S hoes and D ies, L A D I E S ’ T R IM M E D HATS! To which we invite the attention o f tho Ladies. Also, to our full stock o f DRESS GOODS, con sisting o f Silks, Irish and French Poplins, French Merinos, all-wool Empress and half and all-wool Delaines; and especially to our com plete assortment o f Brass Buttons, Fringes, Gimps and Velvets o f all colors, our Ginghams, Lawns, Cambrics, Swisses, etc., etc., in great variety. We oall the attention o f GENTS and HEADS OF FAM ILIES to our fine assortment of CLOTHING and H A R D W A R E , G R O C E R IE S and CROCKERY. A ll ot w h ic h w » w ill ex ch a n g e for W o o l, W h ea t, lla c o u . B u tter, E g g s , F la xseed or w ashed Cotton R u gs. Call and see us. You will always find us happy to see yen, happier when we show yo» eur goods, and happiest when we sell to you. W . C . B R O W N At C O . Dallas, Polk county, April 30, 1809. 1 DRUG STORE. N orthw est C o rn e r M ain und M ili 8 t»., D A L L A S , OGN. p u r c h a s e d the o l d s t a n d formerly belonging to W. S. Robb, und wishing to live and let live, I will still at low rates, FO R CASH, everything in my line: a v in g H ‘a n i A u a w H o s 9 n a k i v v a ■°0 *1 ’d J0J rinoSy ‘omy •poppa iqSisuj «ni* ‘SaOJHd dNVIXHOd peqejmiy paw 00 !,ou jjoqg uo peuepjo ‘g,aoiu3[iJuij Sa; -I83AJBJJ i«jaaflÌ8 paw 'sioqsaiqx ‘sJopua]{ ‘ bjo -nojq ‘gj«4»«H »* qons ‘ARaNIHOVK-^ •oonpojjj paw uiwjf) jo sjjos ;;w eSwjo,* qo OAiaoaa jo fnq o, pojwdajd ojw pay G M ORE T H A N Bear testimony to the Wonderful Curative Effects o f £, a A . It. G ILBER T. G IL B E R T BROS., AND IM PO RT ER s V ll M ANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND : a i v s n Shoe F in d in g s ! French and American Calf Skins, U P P E R AND SO LE LE A T H E R , M O R O C C O S, L I N IN G S , E tc ., Salem - - • • Oregon. H ig h e s t Cash P r ic e P u ld for H id es »ltd F u rs. 6 GEO. A , S D K S. }- •{ BAM’ L HKADRICK GEO. A. EDES A Co., o d jo qao,8 po,oo|a8-;;3M v q,;¿\. jd a » p !w M i* ia iiv At the old stand formerly oocupied by M. R. Cox A Co., Union Bloek, CALIFO RN IA VINEGAR BITTERS w v Manufactured from the native Herbs and Roots ol California, T h e G reat Rlood P u rifier FOR IN FLAM M ATO RY AND CHRON IC RHEUMATISM AND GOUT. D Y SPE P NMoa-aais-da si T7 SIA or INDIGESTION. BILIO U S, R E M IT X N areasiiH S A av s ih x h o g o h x t y TENT and IN TERM ITTEN T FEVERS, DISEASES OF THE BLOOD, L IV E R , K ID N EYS and BLADDER, these B ITT E R S have been most successful. SUCH DISEAS ES are caused by V IT IA T E D BLOOD, which is generally produced by derangement o f the D IG ESTIVE ORGANS. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or ^ores; cleanse it when HE U N DERSIGNED HAS JUST R E - you find it obstructed and sluggish in the ceived and is now opening a carefully se veins ; cleanse it when it is foul, and your feel ings will tell you when. Keep tb* blood heal lected stock of thy, and all will be well. AGENTS, ANHOOP AND YO U TH FU L V IG O R are regained by Helmheld's Extract B u. chu. B Y OVERLAND ROUTE S T E P IN! T J. H. LEW IS. 4 r . h . M c D o n a l d a Importing W holesale C o s M ATTERED CONSTITUTION E E 8T O R . ED by Helmbold's Extras! Buehu. ., DRUGGIST«, Corner Pine and Sansome Streets, San Fran cisco, Cal., and Sacramonto, Cal., and 34 Platt street, N. Y. 8 -ly s AL T .— CARMEN ISLAN D AND LIV- ERPOOL Salt, in quantities to suit, at COX 4 EARHART*S, Salem. ELMBOLD'S EX TRACT BUOHU AN D improved Rose Wash cure secret and del. ioate disorder», in all their etages, at little ex- pease, little or uo change in diet, uo inconven. ience and no exposure. It is pleasant io taata and odor, immediate in its action and free from all injurious properties' H $15 BUY THE BEST $15 SENT BY EXPRESS, CASH ON DELIVERY. T H E G E N U IN E PREMIUM GANG ___ PLOWS ! O roide G old W i t c h e s ! M PROVED AND MANUFACTURED BY us are all tho host make, Hunting caret, finely chased and beautifully enamelled, Patent and Detached Leecrt. /nil jctcvled, and every watch perfectly regulated and adjusted, and G u a ra n te e d b y th e C om p a n y to keep cor rect time, and trear and not taruieh, but retain an appearance equal to solid gold as long as worn. These celebrated watches we are now send ing out by mail and express, C. 0. D., any where within the United States and Canadas, at the regular wholesale price, payable on de livery. h e u n d e r s ig n e d , h a v in g pur No m oney la requ ired in ad va n ce, as we chased the exslusive right from Wm. Ma refer that all should reoeive and see the goods son, for the District comprising the counties of fore paying for them. POLK and MARION, is manufacturing these A S in g le W atch to any A dd ress, S IS . Celebrated Plows, and is ready to fill orders for the same on short notice. A CLUB OF S IX , with an extra watch to the agent sending tho club, $90, making seven Come, Farmers, and encourage watches for $90. Also, a superb lot o f most elegant Oroide Webfbot Ingenuity fc Enterprise Chains, of the latest and most oostly styles and And enable yourselves to raise Large Crops. patterns, for Ladies’ and Gentlemen's wear, from ten to forty inches in length, at prices of F o r S ale at m y Shop at flO O e a ch . $2, $4, $6 aud $8 each ; sent when ordered with watch at the regular wholesale prices. I THE BEST KNOWN TO MANI PLOW HELMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU Is a certain cure for diseases of the BLADDER, KIDNEYS, GRAVEL, DtlOPSY. ORGANIC WEAKNESS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, GENERAL DEBILITY, And all the diseases of the URINARY ORGANS, “ CHALLENGE.” T T . H. LUCAS, 6 D ix ie , P o lk cou n ty, O g n . Splendid Opportunity To Invest! to b a d h ealth , i have eoneluded to sell out all » y property in Independence, consisting o f one Town Lot, one Store— with w areroa» attached— neatly fitted up and filled with Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, and in fact evory thing generally kept in a Drug Store. Terms reasonable. Call on, or address L. A. ROBB, 21 Independence, Oregon. w in g O C om m ercia l S treet, Salem . A man’s usefulness begins when he jp ff* A Liberal discount made to Country cooscs to think about w om en; a wo man’s usefulness when she begins to Traders. GEORGE A. EDRS, think about men. 3 BAM’ L HEADRICK. Wheat Wanted. w ELCH’S PREMIUM SALMON— BEST in market— >n Aits or barrels. For sal« at CQX à E A R U a r T ’S, Sale». £|| 3TUAU3WN08 V NAfiONVA M ed icin es, PAINTS, OILS and DYN-STUFfS, HE GLORY OF MAN IS S T R E N G T H , Therefore the nervous and debilitated should immediately use Helmbold's S xtrh ct Bucbu. T asiemim mam D EALERS IN D ru g s, 9 fe © »! SHOES, MASON’S « A N « AND D EALERS IN r p A K E NO MORE U N P L E A SA N T O R X unsafe remedies for unpleasant and dan. gerous diseases. Use Helmbold's Extras! B u . chu and Improved Ruse Wash. ‘asaoHaHVM aonvi v And everything else that is kept in a FIRST CLASS DRUG STORE. J . W. G I L B E R T . 200,000 P E R S O N S ‘aio,« oq; q,;n uoipsuuoo u; ‘oAwq os;w •pojin* aq ,(uwo noi j; oos puw uo euioa og Also, Soda, E T C ., E T C ., Cream Tartar, Which he proposes to sell as CHEAP as the Saleratus, Sago, same quality o f goods oan be procured Bird Seed, this side o f Portland. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Call and See Me. Domestic Dyes, D o n ’ t F o r g e t the C h ick a m in . Washing Ponders, B . F . N I C H O L S , Druggist B Dr. Joseph W alker’s J s Dry Goode, Drugs, Patent Medicines, Groceries, Boots & Shoes, And all kinds o f PU RE LIQUORS, put up expressly for Modicinal use. Ladies’ Dress Goods, P E R F U M E R I E S O F A L L K IN D S . Ren’s Clothing, I 1 NFEBLED AN D D E LIO A TS CONSTI TUTIONS o f both sexes, use Helmbold's ract Buehu. It will give brisk and encr* A IT E R S .— DO YOU W ANT 60M E Fine Cloth Gaiters ? if so. supply your getic feeling, and enable you to aleap wall. selves at J. H. L E W IS ’S. • n io “ o j x i° d ‘»auapuadapui Ever brought into Polk county, including Spring and Summer goods o f the Latest Styles, which we are determined to sell as Cheap, or Cheaper than those o f less inducement. We have a very fine assortment o f F Whaeler A Of the best hard iron. W . C . BROW N & C O , OENERAL MERCHANDISE B EXTRACT BUCHU gives health and vjgor to the frame, sas n to the pallid cheek. Debility is aeoom- panied by many alarming symptom», aad if no treatment is submitted to, consumption, insan ity or epeleptic fits ensue. purposes. We ore prepared to execute orders tor all classes o f Machinery and Boiler Work, such as QUARTZ MILLS, M IN ING PUMPS, General Assortment o f Tin-ware, W ELMBOLD'S MINING AND STEAMBOAT M ACH IN ES! AT THE OLD HEADQU ARTERS OF E CH U is plea—ut in Usta and odor, free from all injurious properties, and MÉ-adiat» in its notion. PORTLAN D, OGN. Also, a Briok Stört« Main »treat, opposite the Court House, Balias, Ogn. H B O IL E R B U IL D E R «. Dry Goods, Groceries, h e se w o r k s a r e l o c a t e d on t h e bank o f the river, one block north o f Queens ware, Couch’s Wharf, and have facilities tor turning Hardware, out machinery promptly and efficiently. We have secured the services o f Mr. John Boots A Shoes, Nation, »8 Director of the Works, whose expe rience on Coast for sixteen years gives him Hats A Caps, » thorough this knowledge o f the various kinds of Etc., Etc., Etc. machinery required for mining and milling . M O L IN E and B O S T O N C L I P P E R * PLOW S. ELMBOLD’S FLUID RKTSAOT BU HOSTS FRONT AND E B ISSIT I, D O T Y , IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY I oung “ Bob, how is your sweetheart getting alon g?” “ Pretty well, sho says J needn’ t call any more,” STREET, W » *0 E W IL L PA Y SEVEN TY CENTS for Wheat in Trade, or Sixty Cents Cash, ; until a further rise iu the market. * CRONE A WOLF, Whether existing in MALE OR FEMALE, From whatever eauae originating, and no matter of HOW LONG STANDING. Diseases of these organ* require the see of % diuretic. If no treatment is submitted *•» Con sumption insanity may ensue* Our Semi and blood are supported from these seuraes, a»d audthe HEALTH AND HAPPINESS, and that of Posterity, depend ujon prompt us* o! a reliable remedy- D e scrib e th e w a tch requ ired , whether HELMBOLD’S EXTRACT BUCHU, Ladies’ or Gentlemen’s size, and address your Established upwards o f 10 year«, prepared by orders and letters to H. T. MELHBOLD, T I f E O R O ID E W A T C H CO ., 13-8t r $ 8 F u lton street, N ew Y o r k . No. 504 Broadway New No. 104 Seuth T » * Philadelphia, F w . WAT80N 4 GRISWltl, Architects and Practical BOUSE CARPENTERS, INDPiNDENCE, OREGON IL L take"Contracts for Building Houses o f any description or size, in town or Price, $1 25 per bottle, or si* bottles fo r $$ Sé delivered to any address. country. Satisfaction guaranteed. v I W LL SORTS OF GOODS SOLD FOB Cash or Marketable Produce at J. H. LEWIS’S* SOLD BY DRUGGISTS E V E R Y W H E R E fi-ly