2i CREDIT PAYS SINGLE-TAX V3 WEALTH, TAILORING. .......mil seeompanHnPat, with , vote rll" d trt(lu ,, to another UVe"1", K0Wrl i TV f few x , , Tho world bad turned blue afrain. ' "And it tan's neoosaary that you nothin .bead ot Mm but hould," p-t.n Mrt. Boor. -Coni ther nilfhtin tho .troet. Hon, my good girl. B. U not a fit so- thc m thrce hour, h0 w.mlerod qualntance tor you." I t tl)0 jower part of the town, and at tfbe dragged tbe . younfor woman h founJ bimsti( in front away, and gate her" Jjoc ,ance to reP y- nsylvaniaraUroadferry-bouso Uwrence. half cruodatbe ntf thus in- j of CorUanat street. TVen with .W. persons . f foUowlng others P"'""' Y ' hep, hts tuna tfarlr ,Pltt,Vlhaua lnuW and and hU temper for a a then, turning -.- , ol i-iuuo down , TO M tiii:i;i"k covntv imikss. Xw Item d Editorial Hx- Th.E.wnoe of rwdomiirttOoatrol ..tT-...s.. f fliia'a uwn ol tn iiu" " Labor. always on IlKUll unions. tom.pted.waa follcwlng vuom toolishtoaiu over hlu like naan. band was law upon n . ,.Thi8 -a to Tronton. io i s -r a ha turned about, tbe policeman BO u frll?nd n0b-lie there, and had directed him to Murray street tood . J fcsr0 , thousand quicker before him. ' ' ...,, v than a wink it I can only reach him. 7" . mthinT like . soe , he coum "j 5 liil ! i WK LOOMS MiLrET. a aquare meal he forsrot even the means )T which the money had been obtained. vinA wu his one irreat need. He looked ' about him for a restaurant. There vas : none In sight Away to the left was tho felevated railroad. Ha knew that it would take him down town where eat ing houses would be plenty, and he hur ried to a station. ' An L-traln at ten miles an hour is not rapid transit to a man who has not dined for two-flays. Before he reached the fcity Hall station Drane fully realued , Vow badly Kew York needed another and a quicker System. Electricity in a inoment of excitement would have been the proper thing to keep pace with his . tio.n the iournPT .impauenco. . ended before the tissue oi nis j Vholly wasted away; and two minutes ' rater Jie was seated at a restaurant , iable And had ordered just seventy cents worth of food.' ' Nothing, from fish-balU )o terrapinhad ever tasted so good to him as that soup. - Wn," thought ho, when tho food had Pgun to take effect, "I'll treat him to a ten-course dinner." The world took an a different aspect as he ate. Ho felt Sure that every thing would oorae out right. His acquaint ance at Murray gtreetwould gladly help tin out of his predicament, and he fcould laugh at his strange experience. "With i a tifcht waist band and ninety-live cents in bis pocket, he was a rich man wrain as he strolled up to the desk to ray his check. Just there temptation ' aoiUd upon Mm. He wanted to smoke It seemed as if his longing for food had been feeble to his present craving lor just one fragrant whiff of tobacco. "How much are those cigars?' ho asked, indicating some which tho man at the desk had just spread before a cus tomer. , -'Fifteen cents two lor a quaruci, r.KiV here. Touni? feller, said to, . Sl.miortod by a "I oaw da young woman give you some- j wouJ(J have 8torttd along thiug.au1 that's enough for you, see? . u chlH.ru...y, but a ferry was a Don't you follow her no more. different matter. How be regretted the llrane couldn't abide the idea of an- ffe w Um Other incaroeraUon. and ha obeyed the j f-.a polioeman a instrucUons, with wrath la , f tho orry wa3 hli aoul. And yet, coo.ed stoop- house used as an down a bit, fce perceive that hi. i noe had come U. tho con ilon bad.been am.ltoraUHl to tho cxU-nt now ch Uf on. silver dollar, a lf Uon by fion and ask for a night's io means to be overlook. H i J,,, snd wtth tUls purpose in wind . -j.i n,rt Vi-alized the ! out."1"1 " . . . , ..J, i ti never am t ou . . bo entered the uo i - " ah ...w hub no -.a see iuo u.ivT.""... ing it a man with a concertina in his hand dropped into a chair near him. ' Hello, Billv," said the clerk to the "where's vourside partner-. donno," replied lUUy. "Ouess he's In the jug. I haven't seen him since the three o'clock boat this morn- '"-Going to play a lone hand to-night?" "Guess 1 11 have to, I cau do tho dancing all right, but I can't sing. You'd better come along, Jimmy, and try your little song on the public Jimmy laughed, and it was evident that the offer was intended as a joke; but it set Lawrence thinking. The man with the concertina took a seat in a remote corner and appeared to bo Eoirewhat downcast Lawrence ap proached him. "Did I understand yon to say that vou were going to give an enier.u ment somewhere and desired a singer7 he asked. , ,- Billy looked up with an amused stare. . 'he inauired. "?o foolin. now. I took a feller on bis word some years ago, and when he opened his mouth aboard the ferry-boat the passengers came pretty near throw in' us both overboard." 'I didn't know that entertainments were allowed on the ferry-boats," said Lawrence. "There was a-sign prohibit ing such things on the boat I came over '""Don't worry abort tbe sign," said Billy. "I stand in with all the night rews. Kow can you sing, honest? Vhat do you -know? All the old chest nuts, I suppose. Give us a sample. If it's very bad I'll beg the clerk's pardon, and you won't get shot." Drane was amused. He had a tenor voice of good power and compass and excellently cultivated, -lie looked Billy squarely and sternly in the eye for a Jnmont. and then srave him a short vocal exercise somewhat pyrotechnic in its character, and concluding with a smooth, mellow howl in the neighbor hood of high C. Billy and every body else in tho placo jumped to their feet, but they did not run away, as Drane had feared they might. "Say," said Billy, slowly, putting his foreunger on thetreast of Drane's coat, that's great stuff. Just do that a couple of times on board the boat while I knock out a littlo accompaniment on the old concertina, and we'll pick up fcrane was elatod. Here was his cbam-e to escape from all bis difficulties. i4 .nn.li.rl that he bad not thought earlier of using his. voice to mako his (Observer.) Phr rilV Numnicr has six sternly boarder. f...t. l.na rureliKsed t. c railroad hou at Moniuouth. .re beinir rapidly old . ...... im,.U are tiicd of lirro inm . i waiting forn gd I'riec. c tn or throe years ago, George W'hite Ml off a ear. He now ruflVring from injury he received from the foll.-Uiokrcill Cor. IT,,,,. A. K. Lylelfft Monday hi, btmch graes ram-b. after imr ,ha,ing several he.d of W etfoot cattle. Mr. Fred MeCarter e compamedMr.I.vh'to his ra. ch, where he will mnain for uoine time. lr next saturua.v iib'. ' k of changing rails "om n.... MicrKii" am for wor lurvn between Dundee will be eon: pk ted ami then all but about twenty of the mm engaged will bo di.ehargex The remaining twenty men will gather up all the M Narrow Guagfl rails and bring them to the lY" at Sheridan Junction, where they will be stored until deposed of The new track will be a credit to the country, ami we t.u.-v ere many moons the same im provement ttill be maite Sheridan Junction ai.u aui.i. He had often been affected by just 3uth entertainments as ho now proposed to take part in, and he had woudefd I W hat would be the success ot a reai.y I r.t. nrfnrtner. He had no end ni t.hn retilv. t.n, in orwvt music, and he resolved Drane reflected that a man so poor as I tfao fprry.boafs passengers socio- nt ffnrrt to cav eih-'cu , .. , Tv.r, timn draf-rru new.vvu" tif tning worm ncuiuj. - ' oentaiora cigr " heavily tiil twelve ociotu, "" for twelve and a half by simply pure has- ' ,n wM ris0. uniy v:s Tbero ii. it ftppfaw to me, very l,,y conception of the proper functions of government in the minds of many estimable cUue. The "Moated banker" being con ridtredan evil, Hi assumed that government ought to "get at him by means of the taxing power in some way or other not yet dis covered by u - U forgotten that an intelligent uxe ot the ballot ...;.,i,t imi.iffiirate a system of gov ,,,t deiHiMtaries, by means ol which the profits now going U nriatto bankers might bo diverted into the public till, and bank fail ure avoided. In like uf.nner the millions now made by railroad ex- t..riion. wrecking of railroads, etc., ,ight ! kept in the rightful own ers pocket., were the government nut in possesion ol Uieso monojm li. s. liut to allow millions to tie ...niuilute in private hands by ls- .oPion of various monopolies, ami i M,.Y,i,t to fax away these i urn ii i ad thoUL'h wo should Ilium"". " by improper drainage, allow an immense, lake to uceumulate. and then end -avor to ladle it dry with pitchforks. It is eingular, too, how i! ,le notice is taken of "the robber hoUkcsall that is left," while all sorts of schemes are in vogue for the taxing of the rich on the money they are supposed to nos hms. " Hut a little investigation will discover tho fact that nature has provided a tax fund amply sufficient for the most extended governmental purposes, so that such natural monopolies as nul-.-oads, telegraphs,-etc. may be run by the government at cost, no iK'eileil irom iiif-i- I Ha nf mint nl lie AIMP llllv Vl MlllU'llo t ,.i,,t n.ai. Sdtisfaekion Guaranteed T. UYTOH JENKS, ludepeiuleiu o, Or, -KIKST t l.ASS- DRAIN TILE is jnanufact tired by tho 1 11. MrCAllKj 1rP" "I'ricea "to "uit tho times. Ollieo and factory INDICTKNUKNOK, OUK150S. ARE YOU A TENDERFOOT? llirrv'll tMtntrmiMi. HUli BOOTS & SHOES jrin-vr'H We are closing out our nucoi Gears' Furnishing Goods .1 (rlmtti'ost. H. S.'Fortwood, Moiituouth, Oregon. If tho merchant taki enro of a hugu .ynlort 0fo.couuUamliW'm,ifllt hU Kh1, to iiy ny I"" cmlitr' and InWwtl on outnUntHng counts. , lhi! IT IS BETTER Vor ll.o cuMlomor if the morchant comluc l 1,1,, LuHinoM on a Mrictly fttHh UhI. Ho ha, H,uHHlfora fon-oof hookkcoi and hil colloctors; ho figure on no hm from lu,1 w has no inU-rt'Ht to y on out llerauH" wo conduct out dohtH, niu Ktuiidiiiy; money without giving crodit wo nro nblo t husineHH DRESS MAKING lltemuer.) Grandma UiUhm, who has been sick all summer, is now very low Rev. F. Dillard llolman is I,ae' hc wrote t Henry licorge that he revenue iH'ina sources. When Win. Wl son Jr. was first convinced of the soundness ( f tho single-tax theory r.i 1.r.li nvr :it orot trie urtii'i" w.v.. Lebanon. At lionco's Teedee lumlier mill Ust week a vicious saw clipped off a thumb for B. F. Zumwalt. l!,nrv Brown lost a tine team by drowning at the Smith ford down the Rickreall last Saturday. The new officials of the Eastern Star lodge in Dallas are to oe J. II. Townscnd, Mrs. Ed Biddlo. Mrs. A. B. Muir, Mrs. J. J. Vv isc- man, Miss Nora Craven ami -Miss luez Vaughn. Rev. L. W. Morrison, who went from Dallas to preach over in the Tillamook country lor a ear. writes to us that he is well pleased with his surroundings and he thinks there is a grand outcome for that region. On Monday 150 head of two- vear-om caitio viwg, Marion county and delivered to A. R. Lyfe at Derry. They were driven to Portland, to be shipped to The Dalles, and then driven out to his Hay creek ranch. a a .i i .. ..,-;,-,.u fur troodn tliut vou glYO VOll Hie limeri y r can .d.tuin anywhere. (Vine and tentonrolVca The" Monmoutli Mercantile ir MONMOUTH OREGON. fJRAZER & SON. 11 Miss Sophia Goff. Huh Intely ri tunii il from Him l'nilieleo and is prepared ti ivt her patrons the bvneJlt of n new .yti'm "f Dress Cttlllni; d l'ittltiir Cor. Itailrnail mid 1 tN i n ;: v.v kn i kn n k, 1 1 1 : ;on . Orercome by this unassailable :lly is a would and Drano arittifiietic, ha laid down his last quar- j 4 much, ashamed ot bis ing two. -i-j i .-nkT moment ho was en Wrtng'one of tho weeds for winch ew Yora U justly Infamous to such adr-greo as he had never enjoyed a good ouc in iiis life. But he was penniless again. He crossed City llall Park with a firm Step, and hi head in tho air. His woes Vrte floating away in smoke; his hopes were high. He walked down Murray street and quickly found tbe number ho sought The name Richard H. Billia, in white letters on a window of the Jower story, set all doubts at rest; and, tAA ti.e nin himself sat at a desk ia plain Tiew from the sidewalk. Lawrence P.he tfceir t.ng ln identified him at once from description, fcacuritv of the passaire and he f eit that be was sared. forward and after .cabins on the ' Mr. Billings, however, was engaged In g;de earnest conversation, and Lawrt r.ce, ; ,.We.u baTe t0 wait tm she starts," tfter staring at him a minute through ! "That's tho rule, and por- he window, decided to wallc arouna tue it.'iu8t M vv( 11. None of 'cm can ; ... i . ; fVtnnra m TiniHll ' blocu ana rivo ""; - escaDe after society under ordinary cireumownci s, but now he only thanked his stars that the fellow was no worse. Ho was a great deal more ashamed of the concer tina, and afraid cf it, too. They left the hotel and boarded the (welve-o'clock boat. Drane was nervous, lie hadn't decided what to sing and ho feard the miscellaneous audience to the last degree. . He had often sung in public, and occasionally in costumed light opera parts, but ho had never be n so thoroughly and outrageously "mado up" before, . , , between 1 1 did not believe it a panacea lor an social ills. "Sop do I' rejdied Mr fieortre 'but 1 believe freedom y." And smglc-tnxers know that there can bo no freedom until equal freedom in the ue of the earth is secured, and that the single tax will secure this latter. Says the St. Louis Courier: "The essence of freedom is self-ownership, and that is manifested in the control of trie fruits of one's own labor. e i :.. 4l. ll-nve the essence oi slavery lack of self-ownership, and one is a slave U the extent that he is not free to i.r.Klute, and free to ex change his fcrcdWi. This basis of property rights socialism denies, while noon it the single-taxer bases his argument." What is necessary is first to free labor before we engage in schemes of national co operation, which will naturally follow as soon as tiie way is prepared for them. It is becoming more and more fashion able to howl against the usurer as the urch-enemy of the race, and in this we are not a whit more reason able than are Jew-baiting Knssians; while the eager demand ior THE ELITE Confectionery, Xutn, IWi-n and Domestic Fruit, Cigars and Thaeeo, Kte. Sawing rnilii" d Supplie Moliino rpira .nU olood. 2T ID 13 IDLES &o OIL W. H. WHEELER, PROP, MONMOUTH. H A Z E R A S aHtand-. f.r t.-Ht,. IJnaliiy QutantU v. The tfrnt nursti.m. is here ran you buy ll.o be Stov, Uluare, Cutlery, Cr-kery, b, om ;,u?ion is, where can yot. buy the most for the least T'llnds fr Anstter. The fM A tion is, t Kramer A Son s lh str .o the St'iMiid question is, at Krax'T v "" s. V .oiiNforpr-f. Th.Mroof,.f.hepudd.ne is in P ' S latinj. Th, yrJ of tlm v, ia tho fact that our trade this year c nunterahly ex cerds hist year's. FEAZER & SON, r MONMOUTH, ORE. IFOR" niul way lanhi.v: qai ii PORTLAND Tak? Steamer Altona . f I .. .1 ,i,,ii Milt IIIIVM. II HUI r'' 7 " ' n l Ve lll'icpeiiiumu j ' ( Leave Salem Fast Time. Cheap Rate tor SAL KM & INDKI'HNl'KNCH :-: STAGE :-: J. II. THOMPSON' I'rop.' I-eaves Independence every morn ing (except Sunday) at a. in. Leaves Sal. ni at '1 p. in. . Leave order at Little I'ulaee Ilotrl r nt INmtofllee. y Kreiulit and pawciiRers earned ou reu soimble term. EHAFS J7 Estss I Elkins, (Tranpcript.) i i r lUft.-in li'ia An appxe ouyer .run. - , . t rcslric. been pu.cha-ing nppks in tlic , cwnt peo. Northern part of this county, pa, , ing 25 cents per bushel. jjJ Sam Lliiott is gui.ru.ii2 the fourj &i iU hlliim) prisoners in the county jail, nights frpe lhe janJ) the Morehouse Sheriff riummer -does not lr"I,0Se i 'of tllC supplies man needs to to let them slip from his clutches j iuany wariU Giv(, free acceps to unused lands, the Lending- I I,. dear little eliap that notl.r!H The kwiI ehap 'ttr llkw The Irritation chap tlmt iioIkhIj UJ All acree with the -nie.tle! who tay that BRUG STQR1 PATTERSON BRO! ; the proper place to get your DEUGS and MEDICINE The U.re is open every Sunday. Jewelry utore in connect. again. . . i fir T i J. W. Under anu v . ' i glut in have formed a partnersnip unun the name of Crider it Wells, for the purpose of engaging in the packing business. They will open out December 10th. Socially speaking, the chrysan themum fair was a decided hit; the labor market would be at once relieved snu inc eua the stimulus felt through all brandies of industry. I have, for instance, some talent in thc line of gardening and horticulture, and if 1 can find a piece of unused land within easy reach of the city I can make an excellent living on a very small area. Cut now il I start out to hunt for such land I find a 'culation L vu-VrKtinKBS. When be nao compieu-M , - . - , ...... i;,ti0 nervous Iinanciany, h us u- - the tikvit Mr. Billing was no lon-cr , MW Mng3. Billy acknov. 1- , at. City hall never looked lovelier. ' nnrtS ' 'Ioyoa thinlc I'd b8tteMry to J booUlg Renting spring, ft hi heart stood sUl. He hurried ;b w , Unir.mer. autumn and winter, each ; raT)aciou3 owner, with sp' Into the ofiIo. ' ,',,.,.! "Billy." replied Drane, pclatin to , ,,,.. ; th; tarb of tho seafon 1 ;.. i,ia cve who, if he lets me have -Mr- BiUmga has ijum the concertina bilc tho cold porspi- , , ,,,. f.n.,,1 . ' ...: ,:.....,1 ,, a rent ration fathered on hi brow, "if you it rc-ree.a-., , it ai an, ....-.-.. . - let that thing irrak Idoso while I'm wjtj, 'Jl different varieties of t lie j ftrt w,l l,.aVe me nothing Tor my- BinKingril throw you overlaid." Howt-rs indicnU-d in the name tiv( aud I conclude I had Utter 1 buS" n" yoTwon'r ' t he fair, gave the room a., apar S noShl'sstaru-d, . anee sugs.mg that para-J.so had ' Billy ptwhed Drane out into the cahm j U-en regained with all or its Ioll and then ixtraettd a fi-w wails from the ; itV g .0d crowd was present conce rtina by way cf pi-dude. Vi h-n ho . t ( ,,:ov ,ie , Ctsion. had fltislicd, L:ano bi pan tie w-ell- 4I-l.--, knowa iir, "S;;ii;to lA.-r.lil, v.licu u , ... iv. Ulle two r.lCtly City Draymen aii k.nds of Hauling in or out of the city Promptly attended to. Charges reasonable. IS still ope; CITY LIVERY SALE and FEED STALLED KKLLHY it HOY, I'ropn. Hiicecri to A. V. IXH-kiiloadr. Rtvl. 5 t , At Grand Ceatral depot." said an office boy. '"He is going on to Boston to-n:?jt. If you hvrrr up there you can catch him. Have you got a message for himT "N'ot I wish to ate him pernonally. "Go on," said the boy, "you want to - atrlke him for the price of a beer." Drane could not wait to reprove the routh for his Impudence. lie was in , much of hurry to ret to the d.-pot. li. learned that the bain which Jlr. Xlillint... u. w Uke left at six o clock. It wMt'uen half-past Dvc. ' Whca ho had reached the ntret he re flected that it would be necessary know where the Grand Central depot -jl before foin there. u w y outs mzmM?? gulted to a high ttnc voice, but not to an audience of New Jei-eey people re- ti.i.ninir ts their homci in the oead ol night. After the firstfewmclodious notes j pendence. C; bad ajitattd the air, an intoxicated citi- 0ffice fr-i ir-n wuktd up with a start and shouted: ed that if it w wn k m and gjn mei-bin - ai Fa he ..i..,ukllo;. Sin?' Annie La' incbrii -nd sitimtt-d lots in a cuburb of I ort land fjr a houpo and lot in Inde- C&l' at the h.NTKBi'KisE ticulars. drift hack to town and compete with my fu'lovrs lor a chance to work for a. master 'by the day. Whoever doubts that free land would relieve the surplus of com peting laborer, or be taken advant age of by them, will do well to con sider the rush to Okloliaina, etc, M. .ake flood turnouUfor Conimeic'id rr.fii Ilorhenboar.led by the week or moiitli INI) K l KM) 1 :N ('15,011 New Goods! New Prices! at price t tho tin., Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Etc., TL,. raCLSO, Proprietor. Alexander-Cooper Drug C- PerfuiueH, Stationery, l'.iiiitK, O'.Ih, VarnifheH, Ilnn'hrF, Comhc, !;o:i;i, Syringe P, Always aim to please and keep on hand f linouu t . ' t . A Jf5 -K-C :f.,,- -j-i.'- 'u,i1tilnir. 1'ntent M!. Cijrarf, ' Tlicriiioi-' llookt Penl. ' reon-' Etc- IXDEI'KXUKXCK Dray & Truck Co. Praying of all kinds in and out of the city will receive prompt and careful atten tion if entruided to A..W. Docksteader, v (fltirressor to Cha. StAaW) Xf.Vuf -prices are the lowest. Carefully -:- Compo 1 n -v T I (ill f Prescriptions :-: OjNhY ;1PVTISTIC V0RI( Tl'lF.D f- During at least cvc. fprnli. Si-H ;vf-fT" Life a reexrd ahouKi l k it;'.ff'?rVf?5 Kern's likeu., ; j ''Jr.. J.-V: iA"' Ifcl v , iu. these r-I'b. rill auppiy j" hini INDEPENDENCE, - OREGON. the very lowest rstes. ! ,