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THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVES, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1914. Roll the Dollars Our Way and they will Roll Back to You. Business Men of Dallas have what you want when you want it. M. D. ELLIS, Manager CARL H. MANOCK, Pharmacist In Dallas National Bank Block' ELLIS' DRUG STORE Drugs, Stationery, Rubber Goods, Drug Sundries, Etc. Fancy Imported Cigars PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY PHONE 1622 The Uglow Clothing' House The Most Up-to-Date Gent's Fur nishing Store in Polk County Copeland-Ryder and Florsheim Shoes Anderson Tailored Clothes C. H. MORRIS Jeweler and Optician LARGE STOCK, LOW PRICES BRING YOUR EYES TO US FOR GLASSES STORIES OF THE ROLLING DOLLAR Origin of One Mail Order House. Copyright, 1914 S. P. WATCH INSPECTOR PHONE 531 Dallas Garage general ncmininu a General Repairing Cheaper and Better than any other place. Storage Very Cheap. Everything in the repair line kept in stock. We have anything in the Accessory line. Thos. Catherwood, Proprietor M. M. DUNGAN C. W. DUNGAN DUNGAN BROTHERS PAINTS AND WALL PAPER Glass, Picture and Room Moulding - - Painting and Decorating Phone, Main 1512 ORIGIN OF THE MAIL ORDER HOUSE. "You can start from nowhere and get far up the ladder sometimes, but you 'll drop back unless the bottom of the ladder is planted pretty solidly," said The Rolling Dollar to his friend the Dollar Greenback. "I know how one of the biggest mail order houses started. Roberts was a watch peddler up in Wisconsin, and he was broke. He had to get to Milwaukee, so he put up his own watch as security for a -ticket with the station agent, whom we'll call Stacy. The ticket man was shrewd enough to sell the watlch for twice the price of the ticket. 'Stacy liked the game, so he got Roberts to express a dozen watches to fictitious mimes at his station. Each watch was billed at $25, the bill showing the $10 had already been paid: Stacy, acting as express agent, unloaded these at $15 each, for the people who bought them thought it a great bargain. They didn't know the watches cost $3.50 each. Finally the railroad fired Stacy. "The pair of schemers opened, up in Milwaukee and bought 1000 watches at $3 each. All were sent to fake names in Illinois, Wisconsin and Kansas. When the express agent reported them undelivered,, ithey wrote him some mistake' had been made, but) as iff 10 had already been paid on the watch they would pay him $2 commission for selling it for $15. ' i "That scheme netted them $10,000. Next they bought a lot of child's furniture and advertised it so as to lead people to believe they would get a full set of furniture for $5. Foolish folks all over the country bit on that, but they kept within the law in their advertising, so they wenfl unpunished. Both partners are out of it now. Stacy has more money than he knows what to do with, while Roberts, on the other hand, was working for $18 a week some time ago, having been forced out of the business. Yet the house they started is doing millions of dollars worth of business all over the United States. Roberts has al ready gone back where he belong ed; how long can such a house con tinue to live off short-sighted or trust ful people? "A while ago that house bought 3,000 bicycles, alt alike, for $6.50 each. They devised three different brand names, and sold one brand at $16.25, one at $12.50 and one at $12.75, all the machines being iden tical. "That's their system, and that is the kind of competition the local mer chant has to meet. And the mer chant is right here all the time to build schools and keep up roads and bridges by paying taxes, besides help ing to support the churches, the char ities and everything for the public good. "If I was a human being instead of a hard-working dollar here in Cen terville I'd certainly give my store keeper a chance at my trade instead of feeding those people in Chicago, Buffalo and New Yprk." n Pharmacy Professor Resigns. C. M. McKellips, professor of pharmacy in the Oregon Agricultural college, has tendered his resignation to take effect at the end of the pres ent school year. Professor McKillips wishes to devote his time to private work, after having served sixteen years on the college faculty. Miss Arlene ' Bennett and Miss Edith Catherwood spent Wednesday in Monmouth, visiting the State Nor WRITE THIS DOWN ON YOUR CALENDAR CHAUTAUQUA 3 SEX BIG DAYS JUNE 27 JULY 2 rirs. Gregory invites the Ladies to come in and look over her line of Corsets. ' Both back and front lace. $1 to $5. She is also showing a fine line of Ladies' and Children's Under wear and Hosiery You want what you want when you want it v v LET US DEMONSTRATE TO YOU THE Parker Lucky Curve Fountain Pen THE KIND THAT DOES NOT LEAK THE FULLER PHARMACY Black & Robbie Garage General Auto Repairing. Vulcanizing. Auto Supplies Prest-O-Lite Service. Complete Stock of Tires Exclusive Agents for Maxwell Cars in PolK County Come in and get a demonstration Telephone No. 364 telephone;io53 A TRIAL BUNDLE SOLICITED Dallas Steam Laundry WORK UNEXCELLED WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED A. E. THOMPSON Proprietor SMOKERS, ATTENTION If you want "The Best Smoke" try the high-grade brands found at , THE BELVIDERE J. V. CHITTY 326 MAIN STREET PHONE 934 LINOLEUM PI FINE PATTERNS ALL GRADES Small Amount of Second Hand Linoleum IIGTO DAVIS & HORN THE PLACE TO ELL SECOND HAND DEPARTMENT STORAGE THE RELIABLE HOMEFURNISHERS BW, S OR Emm rl&7 4t(wSs ii'A!--J?lfJfk The Latest and Most Up to Date Window Shades Made to Order. Prices Always Right. Dallas, Oregon CANADA AND OUR FARMER. Wall Street Journal: This country has invested approximately $65,000, 000 in Canada. Of this sum probably $130,000,000 has been placed in land, apart from lumber and mineral devel opments. A number of reasons ex plain the attractions of a new coun try. Such attractions are seen in the almost immediately productie returns of extraordinary 'grain crops, in in creased real estate values, and in the possibility of high interest returns. These have been potent factors in stimulating immigration and invest ment by American citizens. Drain in men and money from the United States has been large. Esti mate assigns about $1000 as the av erage sum taken by the American into Canada when he settles there. This compares with the $15 of the European immigrant and the $150 of the British settler. This has totaled, in an emigration principally from our west into western Canada, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, a sum in cash and property amount ing to possibly $150,000,000 annually. But now the American is returning and Canada is taking fright. True, influx of new population for eight months ending November 30 was 340, 899, an increase of 19,841, or 6 per cent. But in the same period immi gration from the United States de clined 21,763, or 20 per cent from 108,035 to 86,272. , At the moment Canada is showing distinct indications of changing eco nomic conditions. Foreign trade has fallen off. Customs collections have decreased. Bank clearings have de clined. There is reaction from the late boom times. This has been fol lowed by inevitable contraction, seen in liquidation of various forms. Positive proofs are found in rail road reports. For its fiscal year 1913, the Canadian Northern sold 19,755 acres compared with 55,111 in 1912. Canadian Pacific sales totaled 474,789 instead of 669,639. Private owners and companies have suffered equally and have sacrificed property to lower values. - All this has undoubtedly unsettled American investment and affected im migration. Added to this is the de creased margin of profit on wheat farming. There is international busi ness depression which finds a usual counterpart in lower commodity j prices. . Whether the arrested movement of American farmers into Canada will take larger proportions is a matter of as mucin interest to ourselves as of concern to our neighbor. FRESH AIR THE BEST TONIC. In the spring the tired man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of tonics. The first heats of spring or early summer after a wearying win ter of withstanding the strain of cold and the debilitating effects of furnace heat and stuffy rooms bring on that tired feeling that we otherwise know as spring fever. In April or Hay, ac cording to the forwardness or the backwardness of the season, the nse of the patent medicines miscalled ton ics flourishes, says the Spokesman Review. Fortunately, however, the employ ment of these medical concoctions has ceased to be as prevalent as it was a generation ago. Our grandmother had someiexouse for doctoring her family in spring, for medical science had not made such general progress among the people, but there is next to no ex euse for doing so now. If she was a farmer's wife her simples or herbs were safe and helpful things to take, but not so much may be confidently affirmed of Doctor Skull-and-Bones ' patent. This generally consists of the old lady's "yarbs" from which she brewed her tonic, but to this harmless base have been added a gen erous dosage of pure alcohol and probably a dash of poisonous strych nine. The trusting dweller in city tents hies him to the nearest corner drag store and buys this compound without knowing whether it is a enre or killer. But conditions and prastiees are be coming modified. People have learned, and more people are daily learning, that boon nature provides the real remedies for spring fever or the tired feeling. Great draughts of fresh air and swinging walks across the fields or through the leafy groves and a plunge in outdoor pool or in door cold bath are the genuine invig orators. The chase of the elusive ten nis ball over a bard court or of the springy golf ball over a turfed links is the best of all tonics. "Throw physic to the dogs I'll none of it!" Letter heads, envelopes, and all kinds of good printing done at the Observer office. The average man always seems to be in need of a little mors than be can get.