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DALLAS, SATURDAY, DEC. 30.
Shirk in
One of the most common, and at the
same time most dangerous habits that
persons are liable to acquire, is the
'habit of shirking. When ouce acquired,
it ii almost impossible to break it. The
student who shirks from the task of
study, shuffles from his recitation, and
is always behind in his studies. The
The mechanic who shirks from his
labor, both of mind and body, which is
absolutely essential to keep htm fully
up in his trade, has no ono to blame if
he fall in the rear of one who has the
nerve to labor and wait. So with all
other trades and professions. The man
rho lacks the pluck to say " No" when
tempted to do any wrong thing, but
shirks the responsibility by a half-way
yielding, throws himself into the
meshes of the Evil Ono as effectually
as he who acquiesces without any reluc
tance. The business man who knows
that it would be to his advautage to
advertise, but shirks from it because of
the little expense connected with it,
feels the effects of that negligence as
effectually as the man j who wilfully
neglects the advantages derived there
from without making any excuse. No
sympathy should be allotted to the
shirk" in any manner, but the bold,
brave man who sees his duty, and see
ing, dares to do it, despite all opposi
fjorj, is worthy of all commendation.
A POWER VllL TCMPliilANCE
LECTUHE.
Occasionally a paper not published
directly in the cauo of temperance,
gives facts and figures which constitute
a powerful argument in favor of that
cause. In an issue of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin appeared the following,
which brings directly before us for
consideration this great question as a
fruitful source of expenditure, without
any adequate remuneration :
"The consumption of liquors in the
United States for the last year, as re
ported from the National Bureau of
Statistics wai, of win.-key sixty rail
lion gallons ; imported spirits, two
and a half millions; imported gin,
ten millions seven huudred thousand;
and of ale, beer and porter, six an l a
half millions of barrels. The quantity
of native wines, brandies, etc., is not
given, but the value is estimated at
$3,500,000. For these liquors it is
estimated that the drinkers paid, io
round numbers, $600,000,000. This
estimate only includes the "straight"
liquors, chat is, those of the manufac
ture or importation of which regular
return for taxation was made. To it
fhould b added the product ot illicit
etills, and the liquors that were man
ufactured by dilution and adulteration,
though the processes whereby strych'
nine and other " poisons" arc added to
give flavor" to the water. Probably,
to put this as equal to one eixth of the
amount duly reported would not be too
large an estimate, and it doubtless sold
at the same rate, which would make
the annual expenditure for liquors of
all sorts, $700,000,000, or over eighteen
dollars ahead for the entire population
The same amount annually applied in
payment of the National Debt would in
a little over four ysars extinguish it ;
or expended for educational purposes,
would provide ample facilities for giv
ing first-class schooling to every child
in the country. What good came of
the swallowing of these liquors, suffici
ent in volume to have floated a good
sized craft, it would require very close
figuring to show, and a very few figures
would doubtless suffice for the state
ment. How much evil would be no
less difficult to compute, but the result
would be a powerful temperance argu
ment To those having a turn ifor
speculation of the kind, these statistics
furnish almost inexhaustablc material,
hewing upon such topics as wasted
wages, poverty, ruined health and pros
pects, degradation and crime."
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Tax on National Bank Shares.
-A dispatch from Madison, Wiscon
sin, December 8th, says :
"In an action brought by represent
tatives of two National Banks in this
State, a year or more ago, involving the
validity of the State law for -the taxa
tion of shares of National Banks for the
years 1865jind 1800, which wa3 de
cided by the Supreme Court of Wis
consin agrainst the plaintiffs, and by
them carried to the Supreme Court of
the United States, the decision of the
State Court has been affirmed by Chief
Justice Chase, all of the Justices con
curring in the decision. The amount
involved in these cases is f between fifty
and seventy-five thonsand dollars, pay
ment of which will reduce the tax to a
corresponding
years.
amount for
ensuing
TI ITON ON DIVOHCE.
Theodore Tilton writes to the .Chi
cago Journal a letter, in which he ex
presses himself very freely on the ques
tion of divorce and marriage We
condense a few extracts, to show the
doctrine which ho and his co workers
are taking such pains to disseminate.
Not that we endorso them; far from it;
but that our readers may bo con
vinced, fiom the writer's own pen, of
the justness of the charges which have
been mai against him 'that he was
teaching a dangerous and pernicious
doctrine, which will, if followed out,
lead to a system of legal concubinage.
His language is clear, forcible and to
the point :
" My opinion is this, namely, that
there should be as little legislation
against divorce as there is against mar
riageas little legal restraiut laid upon
the one as upon the other- as littlo in
terference by the politicians at Spring
field or Albany with the ono as with the
other.
In other words, I would blot out our
forty different State codes of divorce,
and leave marriage existing on the
statute book as a civil contract which,
indeed, it now pretends to be, but is
not and, as such, mako it obeisant
only to that ordinary theory of civil
contracts whose prime feature is disso
lubility by mutual consent.
The only necessity to report to any legal
tribunal would theu be in the case of
one party desiring to bind, and the
other to be unbound; in which instance
the contract would be adjudicated like
any other contract on its merits, and
according to equity and right
All questions growing out of the
rights of property and the maintenance
of children would continue to atand
as they do now on an independent
logal basis of their own ; except that,
as our present laws are too prone to give
the property and children to the father
rather than to the mother, they should
be amended in the suffering wife's
behalf."
DrsmiACKtjtiL Crusade. A dis
patch from Columbus, Ohio, December
7th, says:
u The war of the races still continues
in portion of this country. In Perry
Township it is stated that parents have
instructed their gonf?Q offspring to club
and stone all colored children who at
tempted to enter the public sohool
houscs. In Jack-on Township the
School Board has closed the school
houses, ostensibly to avoid uxo spread
of small pox, but, ii is charged, really
to tiro out the patience of the colored
people. In Norwich Township colored
children are allowed to take seats in
the school-room, but the teachers in
Home schools waste no time in thtir in--struction,
by order of the School
Board."
Ocean Telfshaphs. A Bill has
been introduced in Congress for the
formation of two Ocean Telegraph Cos.,
one for a telegraph from the Western
Coast of the United States to China
and Japan, the other from the Atlantic
Coast to Europe, by way of the Ber
mudas and Azores. The stock of the
Atlantic Company is fixed at $12,000
000, ; that of the Paciflo Company at
88,000,000.
A Communist Revelation.
In a letter from the London corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
we fiud this statement, which, perhaps,
gome German reader will be able to
verify : '
"There are beginning to be ugly
whispers against the good faith of the
Premier of the International himself,
Dr. Karl Marx, partly based upon his
having married a German Countess,
lie is a man of ability, and has had a
long and various history in connection
with European politics A radical in
London tells mo that there is, in a
biography of the poet Heine, published
in America, a curious passage, not to
be found in European books, about
Heine, in which Marx played a part.
It wrs discovered, I believe, in 1848,
when the Republic came into power,
that Heme, who had passed the most
of his time at Paris, had sold his pen
to the previous French Government,
and had written against his own coun
try. When Heine was called to an
account for this, it is said that Marx
who was Heine's friend, advised the
poet to take the audacious line and say
that he had taken the subsidy to aid
the distressed Germans in France.
But Heine, always impecunious, and
not very philanthropic, was at least no
hypocrite, and ho said that he had
accepted the money to write as he did,
as a man who is nearly frozen accepts
the first cloak he can get. I cannot
vouch for the truth of this story.
The Portland papers give full ac
counts of a Christmas festival at the
Insane Asylum, and report everything
about the Asylum in good condition,
and conducted in excellent stylo.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
The Kansas City Times of December
19th says : . : f
".While the region adjacent to Kan
sas City is enjoying fine Indian-Summer
weather, the people of Colorado,
Western Kansas and Nebraska are
suffering untold horrors from deep
suows and biting cold winds. Every
day reports are received of more hor
rors from the plains west of Omaha,
of trains buried in snow, roads blocked
up, families frozen to death, stock
perishing, and as yet not half is told.
Gentlemen who came on the Kansas
City, Saint Joseph and Council Bluffs
ltoad yesterday, inform us that on
Sunday last a terrible affair occurred
in Saline County, Nebraska. A party
of immigrants, with their families,
were passing through the county west
ward, when the cold constantly in
creasing, they concluded to camp and
light a fire. They were on a piece of
high prairie, and several miles from
any house, but some three miles from
them was a piece of timber. After
unhitching their teams the men started
for this timber, to procure fuel. Not
returning for several hours, the women
left their children and started to hunt
them. This is all that is known,
savo that next day the bodies of seven
teen persons who had perished from
the intense cold were found. The
children who were left in the wagons
were the only surrivors of the party
who had started to procure homes in the
West. i
Gladstone sajrs that during the last
eighteen years the publio debt of Eng
land has been reduced $1GO,000,000.
Since the close of our civil wir, 18G5,
the United States havo paid over
500,000,000 of their debt, and re
duced thcannuil inter est $38,000,000
How Artificial Diamonds Are
Made. Artificial diamonds arc made
of a peculiar glass called strass. Thy
glass has a property of refracting light
in the same way as the diamond, and
its manufacture has been carried to
such perfection that an ordinary ob
server cannot distinguish gems made
of it from real diamonds. Alter a few
years, these diamonds tend to crystahze,
so that in tea years they become urbid
and loiie all their lustre. These sto ics,
however can always ba distinguished by
a practical lapidary by various tests, such
as hardness and peculiarities iu cutting.
Diamonds are also imitated by a system
called blockage, in which a very thin
slab of diamond is cemented to some
stone such as quartz or white topaz.
Other rest etonoo, ouch us zircon ant!
topaz, when they are'colorcd, or 'only
slightly colored, arc passed off as dia
monds. It is generally supposed that
diamonds are white, but! they are of all
colors. False diamond arc made al
most entirely in Parisi Alaska and
California diamonds are' only quartz or
rock quartz.
How to See Under Water. A
correspondent of the Scientific Ameri
can writes . " I once had Occasi m to
examine the bottom of, a mill pond for
which I constructed a float out of inch
plank, sufficient to I buoy me up ;
through the center of this float I cut a
hole, and placed a blanket over it,
when I was enabled to clearly discover
objects on the bottom, and several lost
tools were discoverd and picked up I
am satisfied that, where water is suffi
ciently clear, this " Iter plan cou'd be
successfully used for searching for lost
bodies and articles, j I would suggest
that this experiment be tried on the sea,
for I am satisfied that with a craft
liketho Great Eastern, where an obser
vatory could be placed at the bottom,
with sufficient darkness, by the aid of
glasses we could caze down into the
depths of the sea, the same as we can
survey the starry heavens at midnight.
Another American in Japanese
Service. And now another Ameri
can has been called into the service
of the Japanese! Government. This
time it is General George B. Williams,
of Indiana, who has been 'engaged by
Mr. Moir, the Japanese Minister, to go
to that country for, the purpose, of Or
ganizing an Internal Ilevenuo system
there similar to our own. General
Williams is now Second Deputy Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, and
has also had experience as Assessor.
Collector and Supervisor of Internal
Revenue, having been employed in
these separate offices for an aggregate
of five or six years. The engagement
is for three years at a largo salary.
General Williams will sail from San
Francisco for ( Japan on the first of
January next.?
Banks were first established by the
Lombard Jews in Italy. Tho name is
derived from f' banco" bench benches
being erected in the market-places for
the exchange of money. The first pub
lio bank was at Venice, 1550. The
bank ot England was established in
1693. In 1600 its notes were 20 per
eeut. discount.
u If whom1 the gods love die young,"
and if "the wicked shall not five out
naif their! days." now arc old men
clasied? -
State Clems.
Gleanings from State Exchange. .
The Senator is raised and repaired,
and again making her regular trips.;
the Guard gives tho population of
Eugene at 1,200. )
. The City Council of Corvallis has
passed an oridnanco prohibiting gam
bling. The fare from Portland to Corvallis
by the river boats is $11 50.
The new M. E. Church edifice at
Jefferson was dedicated last Sunday.
On Yaquina Bay one day last week
two men killed three bears and one
deer.
The snow from the last storm reach
ed a depth of only three inches at the
Dalles.
Float ico has been running in the
lower Columbia the last few days, suf
ficient to hinder navigation.
ttev. Milton Kelly, living near Port
land, had his barn burned on Monday
uight. Loss about 10,000.
Mr. Put Smith has gone East for
tho purpose of purchasing some fast
horses and fine sheep for Oregon.
Reports of cold weather como from
all parts of the State. Wednesday
morning the thermometer in Portland
showed the mercury to be four degrees
above zero.
Julius Cardwell, alias "Chalk Line,"
was severely stabbed by James Weaver
at Oakland, during an affray cn Friday
last. The injuries were thought to be
fatal.
The editor of the Roseburg Plain
healer has been presented with a beet
which measured thirty-fonr inches in
circumference. lie has nho received
somo of the largest onions ever seen.
At Canyon City, Grant County, a
fire company has been organized and
water works constructed, at a cost of
35,000. The town has been rebuilt,
and looks. better than ever before.
A donation party at the Dalles vis
ited the Rev. Thomas Coudou last
week, had a good time, and left sub
stantial things worth two hundred and
fifty doiiars.
The S'atettnan h doubtless right in
the opinion that under the litigant law
the people of Oregon are annually
swindled out of more money than it is
charged that May "absorbed." Ore
ganian.
Tho Enterprise is informed that the
Willamette Transportation Company
have signified no intention of repaying
the damage done to' freight by the
sinking of the Senator, and states that
the P. T. Co. always paid such damage
wttbcmt lely.
The whole number of scholars in
attendance at the Methodist Sunday
School at Salem during the year was
4,384. At tho Christian Sunday
School, 3,400. At the Catholic Sun
day School the weekly attendance is
about CO, and the wholo attendance for
the year 3,000.
The Baker County Democrat says :
W. II. Thompson, Esq., of Eagle
Creek, recently sold twenty acres of
mining ground to the Ah Tyc Co.
for 0,000. About sixteen of the Ce
lestials are now engaged rocking, and
they make fair . wages, even iu cold
weather. '
Little Elk. Ths settlers on this
little river dscrvc great credit for their
iudustry and perseverance. They have
a road leaving the Yaquina wagon
road in Bio igett's Valley, and inter
secting the fiamo ten miles this side of
Elk City, thus saving a distance of six
miles from Co ;allis to littlo Elk.
These peoplo need a bridge across the
river to enable them to cross in the
winter season. Gazelle.
A Scallawag named Simeon Lowell
lived at Bucna Vista and worked in the
pottery business, lie had a family,
and a wife who is much respected by
all who know her. lie left not long
since, having borrowed all ho could
from everybody who would lend him a
dollar. Ho disappeared at night, and
was lately heard from at Salt Lake,
where he writes back to some one
abusing his wife. She is washing to
support herself and children, and has
the sympathy of all.
The Statesman has the following
paragraph, which is understood to refer
to a " retired artist in Indian vouch
ers:" What man is there in Oregon
who will hesitate to believe that if May
had held office and got rich twelve or
fifteen years ago, and not been found
out, but had saved up and bought
horses, and lands, and sheep, and cat
tle, and factory stock, and have con'
trived to be a Democrat, ho could to
day have been a member in full stand
ing in the Salem ring ?
Tho Eugene Guard says that a few
days ago, as the stage from the South
was coming down a hill about ten miles
this side of Roseburg, the brako broke,
and the stage running on the horses,
the driver jumped off his box and left
them to shift for themselves. There
wero several passengers in the coach,
one of whom jumped out and was so
badly injured that he had to be left.
The horses ran about half a milo, when
they brought up on " both sides of a
tree." At latest accounts one of the
horses had not been found,
REAL ESTATE.
If. II. TYSOIV, t
REAL ESTATE & HENRI AGENT,
KEPUIICAi, OFFICE.
Dallas, Oregon.
Special attention giren to Sale or Purchase of
Real Estate, Collection of Claims, Ac.
Agent Union Mutual Life Insurance Co.
For Sale.
FflEN ACRES OF LAND, with good House
I and Barn, all fenced and under good Im
proveinent, situated in tbe Town of Dallas,
Folk County, an extraordinary opportunity.
TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX
Acres of Land one Mile North of Eola,
Polk County, good House, good Double Earn,
and other Bnildings. All under fence, with Cue
Orchard, and in high frtaU of cultivation.
A HOUSE AND LOT IN CENTRAL
j Salem, near the two Central School
Houses. The House contains Eight Rooms,
all Plastered, with Hard Finish, Darn, Wood
House, and all conveniences to make it
desirable.
A FINE MILL SITE IN SOUTH SALEM,
on Willamette Slough. A block of Six
Lots, enclosed with Board Fence, good House,
Barn, Ac.
A OOOD STOCK FARM, CONTAINING
J 480 Acres, good House, two Barns,
Orchard, Ac, tituated on Upper Salt Creek, 7
miles from Dallas.
4 FARM CONTAINING 250 ACRES, 100
J acres under fence, 60 acres under the
plow ; good House, Barn, and fine Orchard,
situated 1J miles west of Dallas.
rpHREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES
JL of land, 200 acres under fence, 25 acres
cultivated, .ood log barn, with lumber for
house, good orchard, living water near all the
year round. 3 miles south-west of Simpson's
Bridge, Big Luckiatnute.
A FIRST-CLASS FARM, SITUATED AT
Pleasant Hill, about two miles from Sher
idan, in Polk County, containing 180 acres, all
under fence, 200 acres in cultivation, good
Burn, Orcbaid, and a comfortable farm House.
For tale at the low price of fifteen dollars per
acre.
A GOOD BUSINESS LOCATION AT
Buena Vista, Polk county. Warehouse
with capacity of 40,000 battels ; trade already
establibed with the interior, and connection
with the Willamette Transportation Company.
Good dwelling bouse, and everything ready lor
occupation. A splendid tpening for business.
For sale cheap.
FOR REST.
A D
GOOD COMFORTABLE HOUSE AND
larn, with plenty of fire-wood convenient.
fcituate about two miles suulh-wettt of Dallas.
For Particulars enquire of R. II. Tyson,
Rki'I'bmcak OrriCB.
Anollier Proclamation
rBOM THS
STOKE !
ANOTHER NEW DEPARTURE
IS TIIE PRICK Or
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING.
MOOTS,
SHOES,
HATS,
CAPS,
&c.
We are determined to offer the above-named
goods at LOWER PRICES than any Store
north of the Bay of San Francisco.
We are also able and willing to pay more to
the Farmers of Polk County for all kinds of
Country Produce, either in CASH or Mer
chandise, than any other Store1 in the State of
Oregon.
It is a well-known fact, and can be attested
to by hundreds, that more solid honest value
can bo obtained for a twenty dollar piece at
the overland Store, than for thirty dollars
elsewhere. Let this fact be remembered that
twenty-five cents on every dollar can bo saved
by tradnig at the
OVERLAND.
We are continually receiving goods by every
steamer, and we defy competition,
Salem, Nov. 25, 1871. 39-tf
Forty Years' Experience have tested
the virtues of Dr. Witar'$ Italian of Wild
Cherry, and the result is that it is the best rem
edy extant for pulmonary and lung diseases,
enbracing a whole range from a slight cold to a
ettled consumption. Were it not for its
merits, it would long since bare "died, and
mad no igu," 213mt.
. NE W A D VER TI SEMEN TS.
W, H. RU3ELL,
DENTIST,
Is now stopping in Dallas, and is ready to
attend to all thnao requiring hi aipistance.
Artificial Teeth of tho very finest and best
kind.
Satisfaction guaranteed, or no charges made.
Now is the time to call on the Doctor.
Office, opposite Kiucuid's Photographic Gal
lery. 37-tf
RE-OPEWIWC.
AT THE OLD CORNER,
H 0 L n A r J BLOCK,
COMMEHCIAI, STK GET,' 8ALI2.U.
J. B. & ITS. SI 1 s H,
Having Re-opened in the 01 1 Stand a Com
plete Assortment of GENERAL MERCHAN
DIZE, arc ready to wait upon the Public, and
offer their Stock at very low Prices.
All kinds of Produce taVen in Exchange.
We cannot bo undersold. Please give us a
call. No trouble to show gooda. Everybody
call.
37-tf
J. B. i M. HIRSCn.
C. W. IIOBART.
i. W. HOBAKT.
SADDLE, IIARIVJESS &
COL. LA R SHOP!,
North-East Corner of '
Main and Mill Streets. Dallas.
GEORGE W. H0BART & CO.
Will Manufacture and keep CONSTANTLY
ON HAND a largo Assortment of
SADDLERY, HARNESS, AND
COLLARS,
Consisting of all tbe
HORSE EQUIPJIEIYTS
Usually kept in a
FIRST CLASS SADDLERY SHOP,
All of which will be made ot
TIIE REST MATERIAL.
Also. CARRIAGE TRIMMINO ami IM
PAIRING done to ordtr on the shortest
notice.
Call and examine our Work before cnrchaji-.
ing elsewhere.
41-tf GEO. W. IIOBART A CO.
This Space
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FOR.
J. W. GILBERT,
Boot ami Slice Dealer,
COMMERCIAL STREET, SALEM.
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Mothers, I've Fociml II!
IOR YEARS I HAVE SEARCHED FOR
a remedy that will CURE your children
bv removing the CAUSE, and at last I can say
"Eureka." TRY IT.
CARtVSirJITIVE CORDIAL.
This is a pleasant antacid, and in lanro doses
laxative; in small doses, an astringent medi
cine; exceedingly useful in all bowel affections,
especially of children. It is a safe, certain
and eCectual remedy for Cholic, Diarrhoea.
Cholera Morbus, Summer Complaint, Griping
Pain, Sour Stomach, Costiveness, Wind on tho
Stomach, Crying and Fretting of Children. In
Teething, thero is nothing that equals it. It
softens tbe Gums, and renders Teething easy.
it ,is no immune medicine, got up to sell.
but a' really valuable preparation, havingbeen
in nse for several years it recommends itself.
Do not give your children tho "soothing-
syrups, ' tor tliey stupily wunout doing any
permanent good.
Prepared by
Or. W. WATERHO USE,
MONMOUTH, OREGON.
For Sale by Druggists. The trade supplied
on reasonable terms. Hundreds of Testimo
nials can be given if nccessnry.
13-tf UK. W. WATERnOUSE.
LA CUEOLE ACADEMY,
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON.
FACULTY.
M. M OGLESBY, Principal, anp TEacnan
or Mathematical a? Natural Scikscks.
MISS E. A. WITT EN, Tkaciirr or Music.
MISS A. E. SCUIUER, Tbachbr or tub
Primary Department asp Fresch.
tv, rir.t Tnrin of 1871.2 was commenced on
tho second Monday (llth day) of Dec., 1S71.
All students will bo atlowed the benefit of
the endowmeut fund, amounting to about $200.
TUITION :
Primart Braxchrs, per Term
$4
00
00
Intkrmepiatb -
llinimir
6
8 00
Latin and French cacu a eir.
Music, $12 per Term. , . .
r),.fmi will be made from the time of enter
ing to the close of each term, ot half term, as
the ease may be. No deductions will be made
axcent in eases of protracted sickness.
JJy order l luo uoara ox xjustooa. v-w
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