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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1912)
gmtycndfurf utrrpvi.$t HENRY E. BROWNE, Publisher. Entered at the pontofilc at lude peadence, Oreou, a second clfcja matter. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAT Address all oowmunicatioea and make all bills payable to The Enter prise. SUBSCRIPTION KATES One year in advance - l-50 Six months in advance -"6 Three mouths In advance - .50 FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIP The most valuable asset a man can have is a friend. Not that he may have some one who can help him that isn't worth much in the final analysis, but that he may hwve sone one he can help. The friend less man is miserable. Not because there is no one to assist him, but because there is no one he can assist. To have a friend aid you, to hane one give you a certain amount of money when you need that amount, for instance, may be considered a glorious thing. But it is confidence, some one to whom you can willing ly give a hundred dollars and feel that your friendship has been of use to him. That is real friendship. Nor is all this a matter of senti ment. It is a very practical, a very substantial thing. There is a great deal more in this thing of be ing of service to others than the av erage man imagines. Success in life is not the accum ulation of wealth. That is at most only an indiction of success in one particular line. The real test of success is what a man gets out of life. The mere possession of wealth is a bswble, a fiction. Carried to its logical conclusion, no man can possess wealth. He may control it to a certain extent. He may hoard it or disburse it. but wealth of itself is without value. Until it is dis bursed, until it is exchanged for something else, money is of no ac count whatever. It does not even possess the virtue of being beauti ful. But tie man of wealth has greater opportunities of serving others. To that extent he is successful. He has achieved the possibility of being of service. If he proceeds to be of service to others; if he builds a big factory for turning the natural re sources Into necessities or luxuries of the r:e; if he founds schools or colleges; if he uses his wealth in traveling that he may become bet ter acquainted with his fellow man, cr understand M the more the na ture of the world in which he lives that he may be of more comfort to those with whom he cornea in cou tact, th;n he disburses his wealth In the service of others. But where he hoards and grasps. a.id hargs onto nil he csn a oumu latf, cr usi8 it solely for his own deslrts, then Is life a failure. One must serve somebody 'else thm him self to be successful, to get out of life all tin re is la it. Tals does not necessarily moan hat a man who hue a dollar must give it to somebody else. That may ind ed be a very poor service. Be sides, wealtiv or money is not the only thing in the world with which otto may Berve his fellows. He may visit Uie sick id serve by his pres ence. He may rve the whole com munity by standing for those things which are right and by opposing the things which we wrong and there by show friendship, not only for the Individual but for the community. REMAIN SAFE The read peril to peace, order and prosperity in the Roosevelt madness is thw backing he is giving Woodrow Wilson and the democratic party in their campaign of reaction, sectional ism and free trade. Wilson's suc cess would be a calamity involving repression id ruin more wide spread than that which followed the success of democracy in 1S92, and the Wilson low tariff and free trade bill of 1894, for the reason that the nation has expanded since that time and the interests disastrously af fected would be vastly greaOtr. The one absolute guarantee for the country agaiiist another four years of democratic depression and an other Rojsevet prtiic, is to remain in the safe harbor of Taft good times by voting for the republican platform and candidaOts. It should go without saying that Theodore Roosevelt has no chance of success, although he is so eaten with self-pride, with the conviction that he is the only one in ninety mil lions that hta wheels enough in his head to run the national machinery, that it is possible he tiinks the American people are tired of TetTt prosperity and want another Roose velt panic. choo T I ime as Hpproacning and the problem of clothes for the Boys is no doubt uppermost o n y o u r m i n d a t present. LET OS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM FOR YOD We have taken great pains in selecting our Boys' Clothing us to fabrics, pat terns, durability and general appearance. We have now on display the Fall stock, and we can state with pride that we have the largest, best selected assort ment of Boys' Short and Long Pants School Suits ever shown in this town, and very moderately priced. Juvenile Russian Suits $2.50 to $4.50 s Knicker Suits Loner Pants Suits Boy: Boys' 2.50 to 7.50 to 6. 12.50 The Men Who Succeed as heads of . targe enterprises are men of energy. Success today de mands health. To ail is to fail. It's utterly folly for a man to endure a weak, run-down, half alive condition when Electric Bitters will put him right on his feet in short order. "Four bottles did me more real good than any other medicine I veer took," Writes Chrs. B. Allen, Sylvariia, Ga. "After years of suffering with rheu matism, liver trouble, stomach dis order and deranged kidneys, I am again, thanks to Electric Bitters, sound and well." Try them. Only 50c at all druggists. Buy Your Furniture and Carpets of BUREN & HAMILTON THE STOREE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY 9x12 Axminster Rugs $18.50 And everything to furnish the home at correspondingly low prices. Guaranteed Quality. WE PAY THE FREIGHT BUREN&HAMILTON Complete House Furnishers BRING YOUR BOYS HERE, LET US FIT THEM OUT! FREE A Two-Bladed Genuine Sheffield Steel Knife Given Away Absolutely Free With Each Suit. Motorcycle Contest Now On. Votes Given With Each Purchase. Cet In on Thla Boya. Every One Stands an Equal Chance of Getting This $250.00 Motorcycle FREE. Wm. Herzog, Leading Clothier Two Doors South of Post Office INDEPENDENCE,, OREGON fH' t mnJL7 1 IV. W nivii ' mu mi mu iiiiill s us i i n-" su ffrP, fppj L Ira TlH liSI i -z. Millie!!!!! I i i l l m KETTLE: ISCZ-flLL-TOPPER-TEfTKETTLE- TO fear SWri COFFEE-POT- V r -f?& III I 1? i J HEAVY- WflRHLEIZEDPLaWnPrin .Os.. I LnKaC ntv tH"blMli VWIKCLi ysmmr A &RIPPiriS Pfln: 2 ?mnLL HEVER- BlRniflBEQ- DRIPPING-PANS 2-5MflLL&RIPPnri5- CHN-rU50-BE' U5E&-fl5' R0N5TER- Come In and Let Us Explain M To You Our Offer on the ajestic Rang'e Our RANGES and HEATERS Save You One-Third of Your Fuel Bill MAKE YOUR CHOICE EARLY Opirforfc CAST IRON LINED HEATERS GUARANTEED TO SAVE YOU 23 ON YOUR FUEL BIUL. . , . D Qt ( Plows, Harrows and - j Sole agents for the . 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