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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
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THE INDEPENDENCE
NATIONAL BANK
Incorporated 1889
Transact a General Banking Business
Interest Paid on Time Deposits j
DIRECTORS:
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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
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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.
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"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."
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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.
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