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PAGE SIX THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. EIGHT PAGES Kfterriiigton Peters Salem's Oldestand We make a specialty of supplying the trade with the best make lof instruments that can be procured in the world. Our ininumso ine comprises the following: MASON i, IIAMLIN, PACKARD, UOBERT M. CABLE, MILTON, HARRINGTON, KRAKIIUR, HLRDMAN AND MANY OTHERS. In Player Piano Players We have the Emerson, llardman, Harrington, Fisher, Autotone, Milton. Wo olso havo a complete lino of phonographs, recordsf musical instruments, sheet music, and all kinds of sewing machine supplies including the celebrated Singer Sewing Machine WRITE FOR CATALOG AND TRICE LIST TO gberriiton $ Peters, OFFICIALS H. HIRSCHBERG, President D. W. SEARS. Vice-Prcs. R. R. DeARMOND, Cashier THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Incorporated 1889 Transact a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deposits j DIRECTORS: H. HIRSCHBER.Q. V. H. WALKER, D. W. BEARS B. F. SMITH, OTIS D. BUTLER New Meat MarKet We are pleased to announce to our patrons that we hare recently opened a Meat Market on C street, near our for mer location and will always supply the trade with a choice line of all kinds of meats. Call upon us if you have choice beef, veal, and other meats for the markets. A. INDEPENDENCE SHOE SHOP O. FLOYD,, Proprietor THE BEST EQUIPPED SHOP IN POLK COUNTY. ALL KINDS OF HOE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, ORE. PAINT YOUR. ROOF R.emolite will positively water proof any surface to which It Is applied and Is especially adapted for old leaky composition, metal or shingle roofs. REMOLITE Is a perfect heat reslster, being the best manufact ured for stacks, boilers and all surfaces subjected to Intense heat. Can be applied while surface Is either hot or cold. Call and see color card and get prices. Independence Seed & Feed Store "THEY HAVE IT" Best Piano House Salem, Oregon NELSON WHEN EVERYTHING IS RUNNING SMOOTHLY about your auto, how much bet ter you enjoy your outing. When you know .that we've looked It over and you don't have to worry about this, that or the other thing getting out of order. What a satisfaction to you. Be on, the safe side and bring your car here before starting out. THE INDEPENDENCE GARAGE, 8 H. Edwards SHOULD WATCH THE LAWYER Mother-ln-Law of Client Hm Suspi cions of Attorney Who Advised ! Client Not to Get Divorce. ' "DM you sou the luwyvr?" , mother asked. ! "Yes." ! "What did he say?" "He said I had a very poor case I He told me that nearly every man lost his temper sometimes and said i harsh things to his wife. Did father 'ever treat you that way?" "We are not discussing your fath er. Did you tell him that George had refused one night when he didn't get home until after 8 o'clock to explain?" 'Yes. And he said I would have to get specific evldeuce if I hoped to ob tain a divorce." "What did he mean by specific evi dence?" "I asked him that. He explained that I would have to be able to swear that George was where he bad no right to be that night" "Well, for goodness' sake, does he think you could be out following your husband around all the time? Did you tell him that George had nearly $2 less when he got home that night than be had when he went away In the morning?" "Yes. I told him that; but he said It didn't prove anything. lie even! 1 advised me not to try to get a divorce ' and to be reasonable." I "Reasonable? Mabel, that man Isn't all right Oh, how I pity his ; poor wife. She seems so happy, too. The poor, blind thing! It only shows that all men are alike. I must tell i her, the next time I see her, to loor j out for him. MISUNDERSTOOD. "Have you and your husband never had any spats?" "My husband has a pair, but wouldn't wear the nasty things." Muffled Knocks. "Mlbbs, I'm glad to Bee you living In a respectable neighborhood. Have you got over your feeling of strange ness yet?" us uun iu u Bum lu riuo in yuur i own automobile, Isn't It, old chap? I suppose they demand a chattel mort gage on one of these machines when they sell it" ! "This picture doesn't look a bit like i you, Miss Oamley, but It's very pleas- ing to look at" i "Gumwell, you write a beautiful hand; I've seen your signature at the bottom of so many promissory notes, you know." "I wish I had as much money as you have, Rogers; I'd er spend a little of It occasionally." Kicking With the Tide. Percy Haughton, the football coach, was talking about queer football games. "There was a Thanksgiving day game in Philadelphia," he said, "that. ; was played in a deluge of snow and : rain, with Franklin field a foot deep In cold, gray slush. "The Cornell man, who won the j toss, said rather bitterly before the game began : "'Do we have to play In this field?" ! '"Yes, of course you do,' was the Impatient reply. 'Come, come, you've ! won the toss, which end do you take?' "'Well,' said the Cornell man, shak I lng his head at the gray waste of wa ; ters spread before him, 'well, I guess I we'll kick with the tide.' "Philadel phia Press. Favorite Fiction. "It will be no trouble at all, I assure you." "Yes, sir. This gas engine will start Just as well in cold weather as In warm." "I knew him when he wasn't knee high to a grasshopper." "I shall take great pleasure In do ing all I can to secure the position for you." "My friends, I don't want you to vote for me if you disapprove of my record." No Faith Healer. "Oh, mother," sobbed the young wife, "I've discovered that John does not trust me!" "Why, my child, what has he done?" "Well, you know, I cooked my first dinner for him today and he invited a friend to dine with him." The sobs broke out afresh. "And, oh, mother, the man he Invited was a doctor!" rathflnder. Why He Switched. "I notice, senator," said the beau tiful girl, "that you are advocating a good many things which you said four years ago would ruin the country." "Yes." "What has caused you to believe In them?" "I don't believe in them, but the public seems to." bet ti ii VM sr.wv ' " wwr Jf vI w . mar m- . j m. w m i .m o . -i -v. r. - v -v r m CCOSSINO A 10M Motamhlque to Mombasa Is a four days' sail, passing the dollghtful. palm-covered Is land of Zanzibar on the way writes Sir Henry Soton-Karr, C. M. Q., a big game hunter. This island deserves a longer vls- tt and a fuller account than I had time to pay or am able to give, But a ten-mile motor drive and a short 'day's visit afforded a glimpse of Its luxuriant cocoanut and clove planta- Uons, Us beautiful vegetation, Its nar- row eastern streets and brass- studded doors, and Its heterogeneous colored population. Mombasa, or rather KUlndlni (Mom basa being the town). Is a One har bor, the best of shelter, 'fairly er. : of access, and with good anchoraje. Moreover, It Is an Increasingly busy port, and a standing witness to the foresight of the late Lord Salisbury when he faced the responsibility of the Uganda railway, of which It is the terminus and the outlet My Immediate objective In visiting the newest English colony was a month's safari from Nairobi and some big-game hunting. So I left Mombasa j by the first available train, and In twenty-four hours had ascended 6,000 feet through palm grove, tropical jungle. , thorn and grass-covered plain and : mountain ranges, to the high table land that makes British East Africa 'possible as a white man's colony and i another cradle for our race. Of this ! tableland Nairobi Is the capital, and the social anl political center. Incl ! dentally I was Informed that 200 young British wives In and around Nairobi had produced among them during the last two or three years no fewer than 120 bonnle white babies 120 "bundles of possibilities" for the furtherance and future extension of British do minion and Anglo-Saxon civilization. Great Variety of Sport Never have I seen anything like the quantity of big game In any part of the world such as now exist in their thousands in British East Africa. Even Western America thirty years ago had nothing like this wealth of wild fauna. I rather doubt If South America In its pioneer days equaled It In this respect. For some hours be fore reaching Nairobi thousands of ebra, hartebeeste (kongonl), gazelle of various kinds ("Grant's" and "tom mies") can be seen from the railway carriage windows dotting the plains and grass-covered, tree-sprinkled hill sides through which the railway runs. :.erds of wildebeeste are almost al ways In sight; also other varieties of buck or antelope, such as lmpala and oribl. Also an occasional rhino, and frequently a herd of giraffe. One has heard so much of hunting parties visiting Nairobi of late years and returning In every case laden with spoils and trophies of the chase, that I had a sort "of feeling before hand that the game would soon be all killed, unless one hurried up and went soon. But now the mystery was solved. The country is so fertile, pas toral and extensive, and the climate so equable, that It is capable of main taining an almost Incredible amount of game. The game Is there, and has not been recklessly slaughtered and squandered In the past It Is now only saot In a sportsmanlike manner, under strict regulation as to Dumbers and locality some rarer kinds being absolutely protected and only on payment of a substantial license fee; and so the con sequence is that, If anything, the game Is Increasing in numbers, not dimin ishing. In fact, the boot Is on the other leg. The question Is whether, In some districts, the commoner kinds of game are too numerous and should not, In the Interests of settlers and their fencing and crops, be great ly reduced in numbers or even alto gether killed off. So far as my own hunting experi ences are concerned, I enjoyed a most delightful and productive three weeks' safari, during the course of which I shot about forty head of big game, either for meat or for trophies, includ ing eighteen different varieties, among them a great python sixteen feet long. I am bound to confess, in my view, that there is no great sporting merit in obtaining the ordinary common big game trophies of East Africa, such as wildebeeste, hartebeeste, the vari ous kinds of gazelle and smaller an telope, zebra and warthog, all of which are to be found op the open plains and outside -long grass and Jun gle. It is merely a question of how long one stays out and how many car tridges one uses. Poor Opinion of Lion. There are, however, other varieties of big game much harder to find and shoot, and in the hunting of which some woodcraft and Intelligence, as well as straight shooting, are required, , IX)RD IN IA5T AFRICA and there Is more danger to be faced. The dangerous game are the lion and leopard, the rhino, buffalo and ele phant As a matter of fact, those are all hard to find In the grassy, jungly ravines and thick forests In which they hide during the day. LJon hunt .lng. In particular, U the most "chancy" sport possible. This great cam Ivors only feeds at night, and kills once In twenty-four or forty eight hours some authorities say the latter. He Is somewhat generously styled, the king of beaBti, being, as a rule, a sneaking, crawling, night-prowling brute, hiding away In deep ravines and thick reedbods until night comes, when he goes forth to hunt Some sportsmen have been years In Africa without getting a shot at a Hon; others drop across one In the first week. I was not fortunate enough on this trip to get a shot at a lion, though I saw three, and beard soveral others at night grunting and roaring close to camp. My most exciting experiences were with buffalo. This great mammal Is a fine sporting beast, and I have the greatest respect for biro. On the whole I consider him to be the most dangerous game I have ever hunted. He Is massive and powerful, extraordi nary quick In his movements for so large and heavy a creature, endowed with great vitality and very bard to kill. Also he plays the game of hlde-and soek in the grassy ravines and Jungle of his native borne with much success; and when bunted and wounded, turns on his pursuer with the utmost determination and ferocity. In fact he plays the game to perfec tion. REWARD APPEALED TO Saving Girls' Lives Would Be Attrac tive If Unlimited Kisses Fol lowed Brave Action. While reading the paper t'other morning I noticed that a sweet Bos ton lass who was saved from being run over by a train by a brave man, rewarded blm with a kiss. This trifling little Incident has sug gested to me wonderful possibilities along this line. Soon as I can find the time to get around to It, I'm gonna go Into the life-saving business In the life-saving of charming young railroad tracks and on street corners where traffic Is thickest and where there is a congestion of motor cars and at all other dangerous places I can find Just stick around, you un derstand, waiting for an opportunity to save some Bweet thing's life for her. Vasslr, I'll butt right In where an gels fear to tread carrying my life in one hand and my courage In the other. When I see a sweet and alto gether charming maiden standing be wildered on a railroad track or In front of an oncoming truck or behind a buzz wagon that is backing up, I'll holler, "Fear not, fair creature I will save you!" Then I'll Jump right in, pick her up in my arms and carry her to safety. Having saved the girl's life for her, I'll stand there waiting to be kissed, and If she doesn't kiss me I'll be pret ty doggone sore. If she doesn't kiss me, do you know what I'll do? I'll send her dad a bill for saving his daughter's life. Boston Post Poison Kills In Forty-nine Years. Abraham D. Tompkins Is dead at Tarrytown, N. Y., indirectly the vic tim of a poisoning plot 49 years ago. In February, 1864, Tompkins' sister Theresa received a letter from a Jeal ous lover warning her not to keep company with a certain young man. She did not heed the warning, and arsenic was placed In the well. She was the first to be taken 111, and died within a week. Another sister was bedridden for 25 years before she died. Tompkins was paralyzed through his left side from the poison, but although a cripple be had been able to run a little news store. The man who placed the poison In th well was never caught. Kills Two Wildcats. Charles A. MyerB, a flagman on th Pennsylvania railroad, killed two wild cats with a club he was carrying Myers was flagging the rear of hit train on the Columbia and Port Do posit railroad at Haines station when attacked by the animals. The train had stopped near a strip of woods and the wildcats, half-grown ones, attacked so suddenly Myers had scarcely time to defend himself. He came out ol the battle with his face scratched and his -clothes torn to shreds. LITTER NEEDED BY POULTRY One of Most Essential Requirements of Chicks, ss It Promotes Grrowth nd Development (Dy C. C. PIIKUI.OCK.) Outside of fund, grit and water, Ut ter Is the most Important thing about the polutry house. It induces oxurclso, which Is essontlul to the growth mid development of the chicks. Tim poultry ninn should always bo enroful as to the material he supplies for the litter. Bo sure It Is clona and dry never use musty or moldy litter. It will be disastrous. Many buns have been killed In musty llltor. The litter should bo of a mntorlal easily digested, for It Is a well known fuct that the fowls consume a large por cent of tholr litter. Dry loaves make a good HUor, but cannot ba di gested. Straw Is excellent for the oldor fowls, but It Is not advlaablo for the baby chicks. Cut clover or cut alfalfa make the best litter one could provide for the chicks. It Is easily dlgostlbln, Inexpen sive, and Is easily procured. Band makes a good scratch material, but the little chicks are apt to eat too much of it, as they do not have a very good Idea as to what they should eat. A mixture of cut clover and snnd sprinkled on the floors of the brood ers is hard to bent. Never allow the litter to become damp. Dampness Is the greatest enemy of chicks, nemovs It every day and oftener If the woatber Is very damp. OUR MOST DESTRUCTIVE BIRD Cooper's Hawk Is Strong Enough to Carry Away Good-Sized Chicken or Cotton-Tall Rabbit (Or W. U M'ATER.) Cooper's hawk may be taken as a type of tho group of hawks whose habits are responsible for 'the con demnation of birds of prey as a whole. This group Includes throe species: Cooper's hawk, the sharp-skinned hawk and the goshaw k. They are oft- ; en spokon of a bluo darters, a name wMi.h AmfAHDi n fti.riintnHflHn dif ference In their manner of hunting from that of other hawka. Tha course over the country at great speed and capture tholr prey by sudden darts, seizing their victims while in I full flight. Coopers hawk, which occurs throughout tho United States, 'la pre eminently a "chicken hawk," and Is tit, tnft tYi a maf dou t fit 1 va a ; to conten(, Mt becauBa Is Individually worse than the gos hawk, but bocauso It Is so much more numerous than the aggregate damage done far exceeds that of all other birds of prey. It Is strong enough to carry away a good-sized chicken, grouso, or cot tontail rabbit. It is especially fond of domostlcated doves nnd when It finds a cote easy of appronch, it usually takes a toll of one or two a day. Prac tically every stomach of Cooper's hawk examined In experiments have con tained remains of wild birds or poul try. Feed your fowls a varloty of foods. Get In plenty of llttor for the wlntor scratching. Alaylng flock o fhens will drink about seven quarts of wator a day. Hens will not lay whon permitted to run about the farm in tho wet and cold. A large part of the food for poul try should be grains because they are natural grain eaters. Green food of some kind is neces sary to make hens do their best In the line of egg production. All laying and growing chickens must have some kind of meat food In order to do their best. Sudden fright and excitement at once tells on the egg crop. Never al low strange dogs about where the hens are. Light framed birds that mature quickly, such as Leghorns and Minor cas, should not be kept with those of the heavier fowls. The male bird Is the most impor tant Individual In a breeding pen through which to raise the egg laying qualities of young fowls. Visit the chicken house at night. Note tho quality of tho air, and the breathing of tho birds. If tho house is stifling, It needs more air. White of the egg is recommended in cases of fracture In chickens, for soaking the bandages, thus binding them together and stiffening. Exercise produces warmth, provides pleasure and promotes health, there fore it is well to let hens hunt In a deep litter of straw for all their grsunr I Cooper's Hawk. 1 BBaaaawg I i ii