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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1904)
i WEST HIDE ENTERPRISE, INDEfENDKNCK. OREGON DOOOOOPOq qqQQQUUUUMMW j s . . VjV W i-v -vr' T T w - -' - - - 3 ) ) i ) MM. A. to C 10 ( ') ( ) ( ) ( ) o o o ( o cr (i ( D ( i (V () ( ) () (). () O O) (I () () You are cordially invited to call and inspect our new arrivals in Fancy Waistings in Zarinas, Damasks, Ve ronas, Caronas, wool finished Cotton Violes, etc., and also one of the neat est lines of Wool Suitings ever shown in the city. Fine wiles, the newest weave out, in many colors; also et tamines, nub voiles and mohair suitings- Wo also havo recoivod many nico tiling in tho cotton line, a very clioico lino of art goods in Silkaliiics, Cretons and Art Denims in many colors and patterns; aUo a full lino of Fancy Ginghams. Our lino of Drew Trimmings and Allow Laces cannot bo beat. A new lino of Laces and Embroideries, also a full line of Ladies' Muslin Underwear. I I '(v C'O ((' ((( iiESS W. A. Independence, Oregon. NER f l f CD m CO at WWVWWw ANOOftA flOAT HAllt. $Wt Mohair Command The lllirhMt Price ItutThe Vvj Kxceed In QuMutlty- The hair of tha Angora goat may be of three kinds, straight, wavy or in ringlets. The atralght mohair U often very fine and commands the highest p'Ue on, tbe market, but the quantity of it in a fleece ia o much ltss that it ia not the moat proSUble kind to raiae. Where a fleece of straight or wavy mohair might weigh two or three pounds and sail for 40 cents a pound, jCateeofthe ringlet mohair would probably weigh seven or eight pounds and Bell lor 35 cents a pound. Naturally the latter would be more profitable, aa the two ani taala would require practically the time care and feeding throughout in Turkev many of the goats are of the straight haired type; but U is well known to the trade that the fleeces from Turkey are not nearly so hear as those from South Africa, where they make a busineM of breeding for the ringlet fleece. To how what can be done by careful breeding, a three-year-old buck with" a ringlet fleece of thirteon month's growth sheared seventeen and a half pounds of assorted mo hair, besides about a pound and a half of tags. WoolMarket. policy. Many a mortgage be Has rooted off the old honieatead; many a doctor's and grocer's, and eyeu a lawyer'e. bill he has paidi many a girl and boy be ha paid lor, and mmv & new hat and coat and drew; many a "flyer" on the mar ket he baa bad to balance up many a wolf he haa grunted from the door; many a contribution he has made to tbe fund of the church and many a preacher fed Tragedy Averted. "Just In the nick of time our little boy was saved" writes Mm. W. Wat, kin of Pleaaant City, Ohl. "Pneu ruonla had played sad havoo with him and a terrible cough set In besides, Doctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length wa tried Dr. King' New Discovery for Con- mi motion, and our darling waa eaveo. Ile'anow Bound, and well." Every body ought to kuow, It's the only sure cure for Cough, Colds ami an iuon dim-sues. Guaranteed by A. B. Locae, i.,i.t Price 60o and $1.00. Trial ' " n bottles fro. fc i What the Hog Ioes. To us farmers, breeders, feeders, and sellers of the beg be has uses not so fractional as tbe butcher tz is for him, writes W. F. MoSpar. rrin Farm and Fireside He is f i the committee of good farm : nagement; he is the chairman Due on economic production; be 1 a high place as a sa7er of by ducta: and he is at the very llolinun 'aun d. Walter Nicholas, deputy county clerk, hsH received transportation from the government to Ih'b future homo in the Philippine Islands and will eai' lrom the Sound on the 30th inst. County Clerk Laughary haa appointed A. N. Holman, as deputy to succeed Mr. Nicholas. Mr. Holman is a resident of Dallas and a son of Hardy nolraau. War Clwbblng- Kates. The Portland Daily Journal, one year is $4. By ordering now yeu can get both the West Sidb En terprise and Daily Journal, one year for $4.50; the Semi-weekly Journal and West 8ie Enter pbise. one year for 2.25; the Weekly Journal and West 8ide i of all ques lion, of financial EntebTO on. year for 12.10. Annual Klectlon. Members of the Independence Improvement League will take no tice that the annual election of officers will take place next Mon day evening. March 14th, at the city hall. Be on hand promptly Pbesioent ok Lkaove. It Saved Ilia Leg. P. A. Danfortb of LaOrange, Oa., aufiered for sit ruoutha with a fright ful running aore on bla leg; but write that Huck leu's Arnica twelve wholly cured It In hve days. For Ulcers, Wounds, rilea, It'a the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 2b cU. Hold by A. H. Iocke, drugglHt. Botanlcal rianta Hali Ut SMnt rf Lib u4 OmU. , Recent experiment conducted bv moat eminent scientists, prove that light is a great remedial agent ; it is essentially Nature's agent, it may be either sun light or electric light, but it haa a de cided effect in helping nature to banish disease and restore health. Other scien tific men have proved that oiygen elec trifies the heart and can prolong life. The people on this earth are susceptible to some laws which govern plant life. A Slnnt cannot be anrcesafuUT grown in the ark. A man is seldom healthy and strong who Hres in the dark or in antiles rooms. After all, Nature ways are found to be thp best. Nnturr's remedies are always bent for eradicating disease, and by this we mean a medicine made of roots and herbs. They are assimilated in the stomach and taken no by the blood and are, therefore. the moat potent meana which can be em ployed for the retaining of lost health. Dr. R. V. Fierce, consulting- physician to the invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y.. in many years of exten sive practice, found that he could pin his fuith to an alterative extract of certain lauta aat roots fur tba ear of all blood iseasea. This he called Dr. Pierce's Oolden Medical Discovery. Containing no aicohol nor narcotic, entirely vcgetaoict this "Discovery " makes rich red blood anu is a powerful tisane-builder, frivavK the tired business maa or woman renewed strength and health. Rapidly growing school girls and boya often show lntpoverUhed blood by the pimples or bolls which appear on face or neck. To eradicate the poisons from the blood, aad feed the heart, lungs and stomach oa pore blood, nothing ia so good aa Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Don't allow tho dealer to insult your in telligenre by offering his own blood rem- edy to ron instead: of this well knowa preparation of Dr. Pierce's. Ten chances to one he will substitute a cheap compound having a large percentage of alcohol in it. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are the best for the bowels. Vat them with the Discovery. a.tnods by Whleh tle UrrttllUd Caw TsM It Ha Oorta Ost. It ia not always eusy to deter mine when tho spark of life haa be come finally extinfruiNhed. From llio fenr of being buried alive, which pr'vails more ahrnud than in this rountry, some infallible criterion of death, capable of U-inu applied by tint tiifkilled, has ln-n considered a deaidi-rution, and valuable prizes have been offered for such a discov ery. The conditions motit resembling- actual death are syncoj;, as phyxia and trance, particularly the loiter. We must not rely solely on any ono in of death, but combine several. The most reliable sipn of death U cessation of tho heart's action. This, however, must not bo inferred from mcro pulselessness, for the heart may still bo beating and resus citation poshiblo when no pulse can bo felt in the arteries by ordinary manipulation. The use oi the steth oscope is necessary, implying, of . . t I "i MM l IL. course, let-nnicai sain, inougn in heart cannot cease to beat for more than ten seconds without death, ye in considering the very slow and Ice ble action of the heart (eight to ten beat ncr minute) in hibernating an imals, which normally have a pulxe of eighty to ninety per minute, it is well to regard a simUar position as nossible in man and to spend in doubtful cases tip to an Lour in aus miration. An easy method to determine whether tho circulation continues or not is to annlv a ligature on a fin ger or toe. If the circulation has ceased no change ia color is pro duced, but if the circulation contin ties, however feebly, the extremity in course of a few minutes will as sumo a livid tint from strangulntion of the venous flow. The respiration may not be very obvious, and yet it may be iroing on. Homing a com mir ror before the mouth and nostrils and looking for indications of mois lure is a means of ascertaining whether air currents exist. Placing a cup of water on the chest and ob serving whether the reflection on ita surface moves or remains still is well adapted for the purpose in view. Brooklyn lagle. Enjoyed Thwilv. There is a certain small boy in town whose table manners are not tho best. He grips his fork as if afraid it might get away from mm and handles it much as if it were a pitchfork. Reproaches and en treaties on tho part of his parents seem of no avail, especially if the lad ia hunirrv. His big sister's tilefidintrs. "Please, brother, don't eat like a vise." makes no impres sion on the youngster. One day the family were away from home, and the boy and his chum of the same are and neighborhood ameu aione. When ready for the feast the lad of the house was overheard by tne do mestic to remark: "hay, Harry, thero's no one here but us and no body to scold. Let's eat like hogs and enjoy ourselves 1 Huntington (Ind.) Herald. Prolonged Sittinjj Needed. "You want me to tell the whole truth?" asked the witness. "Certainly." replied the judge. "The whole truth about the plain tiff?" "Of course." "How long docs this court expect to sit?" "What difference does that make?" "It makes a lot of difference. couldn't tell the whole truth about that scoundrel inside of thirty days, talking all tho time." Chicago Post. THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER By United States Senatef CHALNCry M. OtPtW V0, V ill Has Effect. "Gentlemen will not, others must not, cut their names on or disfigure in any other way tnae relics. This is a clever and evidently ef iective notioej that is displayed in a small museum. Another exhibition contains the following : Tools are earnestly requested to cut, draw and scratch their names on the articles displayed. Needless to say the sarcastic no tice has the effect of deterring would le vandals. He Laid Down tha Law. Tomson Didn't you ever attempt to lay down the law in your own home ? Meekton Certainly, and with en tire success. I ga?e instructions to the family and to. the servants that Henrietta waa to have her own way in every particnlar, and Henrietta ees to it that my instructions are implicitly carried ont .. HERE w no talent more common than tho ability to. speak and nono rnoro rare than the gift of speaking so as to COMMAND TJIJ5 ATTEXTIO-V and substantial assent of the audience. Tho ordinary talker in a deliberative body kills time and murders patience, irritates the mmnerent ana tires nw inenun. HEAL DEBATING I'OWEIl IS A GIFT as brilliant aa it is use ful. It does not consist in elaborate effort, in the length of tho sjH-ech, in superiority of logic, graco of diction or rhetorical finifib. Any or all of these may prove a detriment, though with tho master they are tools to be utd OR NOT, as tho occasion may require, ilany a massivo structure which the orator haa spent hours in erecting has been demolished and has buried its author under ita ruins by tho dynamite of a ten minute speech. Legijd.itures fear boroa and resent pedagogues. They love good fighters and 1IAIID HITTERS. Like veteran troops, they do not want to be instructed, but to be led. They may sleep through a ponderous oration of Charles Sumner and rise with delight to greet an incisive sarcasm of Thaddeus Ste vens. There are occasions when a labored effort is NECESSARY to outline or defend a policy or to appeal to the party or the country. BUT IN THE EXIGENCIES OF DAILY DISCUSSION IT IS THE CRISP, LUCID AND DIRECT DEBATER WHO CARRIES OR DEFEATS MEASURES. THE 8KILLFUL PARLIAMENTARIAN KNOWS INSTINC TIVELY THE TEMPER OF HIS AUDIENCE. HIS GREATEST TRI UMPHS ARE IN HUMORING ITS MOODS. THE WORLD IS NOT GROWING WORSE By RABBI JOSEPH KRAUSKOPf ef Philadelphia UCII fault ia found by pessimists with the morals of the present day. That there is ground for complaint I would be the last to deny. I know of the laxities that are tolerated even in the so called BEST SO CIETY. I know of the vices that fester uncontrolled on the very surface of the fashionable world. But I also know that in all the centuries that civilized man has lived upon the earth THEEE HAS NEVER BEEN" AX AGE in wnicn the moral sense was so deeply ROOTED AXD AS WIDELY DD7FUSED AS AT THE PRESENT TIME. m. t at Never in the history of man have human, rights been regarded as so sacred and human possessions as so inviolable. Never before hare nations been so fearful of waging cruel war and shedding innocent blood. Never before have nations been so powerfully swayed by THE POWER OF RIGHT. By that power have whole empires m our day been made to tremble, and vast armies -have been made to cower. Never before have the poor and the weak stood as protected under the agis of the law as at the present time. Never before have such liberal provisions been made for healing the sick, for sheltering the aged and infirm, for caring for the orphans, for educating the ig norant, guiding the straying, lifting the fallen. Never before has love held so large a place IN THE CORRECTION OF THE DE FECTIVE and in the education of the young. Gone is the pillory, the torture chamber, the stake. The rod has disappeared from our schoolrooms and the cat-o'-nine-tails from our homes. NEVER BEFORE HAS WOMAN WALKED THE WAY OF LIFE AS SHIELDED AND AS HONORED; NEVER BEFORE HAVE HER GOO GIVEN RIGHTS BEEN SO FREELY GRANTED HER, NOR HAS SHE EVER BEFORE WIELDED SO VAST AN INFLUENCE IN THE UPLIFT OF MAN AND IN THE MORALIZATION OF SOCIETY AS AT THE PRES ENT TIME. THE PERIL OF DISFRANCHISEMENT By Dr. FELIX ADLER T mm HE attempt has often been made in history in Greece and elsewhere to establish a democracy on the basis of slaverv, or of PERMANENT INFERIORITY. It i ... . has never succeeded. It was a wise instinct an instinct of self preservation which dictated to our states the policy of rapidly assimilating EVEN THE IGNORANT elements that came to us from foreign shores. We have gone, perhaps, too far in that direction. The wholly ignorant, the illiterate, the utterly unqualified, should be excluded, but coupled with such exclusion should always be the proviso that IT CAN ONLY BE TEM PORARY. If the lessons of history afforded by the example of other nations should be forgotten, if in the case of the colored people or of any other section of our people the attempt should be made to create a permanently inferior and disfranchised class, OUR DOOM AS A REPUBLIC IS SEALED. The problem is in this sense a national one. Our own political liberties are at stake not the wel fare of the negro alone, but our welfare as a people. WE RI PARTIES IN INTEREST, WE OF THE NORTH. WE MAY NOT, THEREFORE, STAND ASIDE. IT IS OUR RIGHT AS WELL AS OUR DUTY TO BE HEARD.