Hillsboro Independent.
E. V. BATH. Editor and Proprietor.
At a meeting held in Forest Grove
last Saturday the school tax levy
was mack at 5 mills, 4 mills for
regular expenses and i mill for
kinkitn run.!. Th smu"I valua
tion of .he district $931,145. The
levy last year was 4 mills.
The federal grand jury of Des
Moines, la., has indicted Sears,
Roebuck & Co., the big Chicago
mail order house, on a charge of
usiiijf the United States mail to de
fraud unsuspecting buyers. Thi
same firm, through fear ot the pure
fool law, were recently forced to
close out their grocery department
President Roosevelt insists that
the pure food law must be obeyed
that iu regard to whiskey there is
t.ir ,. ti- i -i
'"compound" must not be register
eil as "whiskey straight," and the
contents of the bottle must be just
what the revenue stamp calls tor,
ami nothing more or less.
At a recent meeting of the Na
tional Orange, at Hartford, Conn.,
a resolution favoring woman's suf
frage was passed unanimously,
Resolutions in favor of woman's
suflrage have also been adopted by
the state granges of California,
Delaware", Illinois, Kentucky, New
Yoik, Maine, Minnesota, Mary
land, Michigan, New Jersey, Ore
gon, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wash'
iugton.
The pardoning of Ilembre, the
S.uullake murderer, bv Gov. Cham
beilain has caused a good deal of in
dignaut protest from all partsof the
state. The jury lefore whom he
was tried stood 1 1 to i for conviction
of one of the most diabolical mur
ders ever ierpetrated in this state,
and afier a compromise verdict he
was sentenced to ten years. The
people of Tillamook feel very sore
at the governor for letting Ilembre
1ihi.sc, lor the general verdict there
and in Yamhill county is that he
should have been hung.
State Treasurer Steel filed his
new bond demanded by Gov. Cham
berlain last Friday and it was sign
ed with ninety-two sureties, aggre
gating $035,000, just $35,000 more
than was demanded. Mr. Steel
say that lie lnul been offered dure
ty to the amount of 95.000 more.
Washington county people on the
bond are W. K. Newell, $ 1,000; E.
W. Haines, $5,000; M. II. Shipley,
$1,000; J. N. Hodman, $r,ooo;
John TcmpUton, $2,000; Louis J.
Corl, $1,000, and S. U. Starrett,
$1,000. One-fourth of the total
amount was secured in Salem.
Here is a good argument for
the building of macadam roads,
such as is advocated by County
Judge Goodin: A horse belonging
to H. liigelow met with a horrible
death a few days ago on the Mo
lall.i road near Orcgou City. Bige
low wis driving a four-horse team
after daik, when one of the animals
leaped iu the air and giving a
shrill scream iu a lew seconds drop
pel dead. A sharp pointed plank
from the road had tilted up and
strut k the animal in the stomach,
leiictrating nearly through his
lMhly, the point being only a few
inches from his back.
The Oiegon Klectric Railway
commenced operation ltween Port
land and Salem last Wednesday
lint one car a day will run from
each tet initial uutil more equip
ment arrives, which will le a week
or ten days, when another car will
be put on each way, to be followed
bv others ns rapidly as needed. The
name of the Nations, commencing
with Portland are Multnomah, Tu
alatin. Tonquiu, Willsonville, Don
aid, West 'oodburn. Vaconda and
Salem. Single otnw.iV fares are
based 011 a 3 cent jer mile rate, but
round-trip, commutation and week
end tickets are selling at close to a
2-cent jh r mile rate. The fare from
Portland to Salem, a distance of 50
miles is $150, or $2 75 for the
round trip.
The W oodhurn Independent has
not given up the hope of Mr. Roose
velt's leiioinination, and says: ' Let
it not It- understood that President
RiHev It's second declination de
finitely settles the presidential ques
tion in so far as Roosevelt is con
cerned. It is not dead bv any
means. All Kooscvelt can say will
not kill it. Tiie more emphatically
lie tiei lines tne more t tie masses
wish him to accept. The rumble
dies down, then gets louder, be
comes a whiper and, as the time ot
holdirg the convention draws near
er, swells in volume. It is not
what Roosevelt wants in this re
sped, but what the people, the real
masters, want. Why not renomin
ate Roosevelt and put him on a
platform containing a plank declar
ing for one presidential term of six
years?"
The following from the Boston
Herald, should be read by every
wage-earner: "The public should
be taught the use of checks, and
the desirability of opening individ
ual bank accounts on which checks
can be drawn. There is no reason
why wage-earners and salaried em
ployes should not be paid by checks
and draw upon their deposits by
check to suit their needs and re
sources. A general practice of this
sort would encourage thrift and at
the same time familiarize the bulk
of the population with the principals
of banking, or, at any rate, with the
rudimentary principals; would
make exchange easier, facilitate
circulation, and soundly extend
the system of credit, which is the
basis of business. That this can he
done with benefit to the country
and with profit to the banks there
can be no doubt, and it is well that
the public should become familiar
with the idea and its practice."
Referring to the great problem of
forestry in the United States Presi
dent Roosevelt says: "We have
made a beginning, but only a be
ginning. 1 ne country ts unques
tionably on the verge of a timber
famine. The only trouble with the
movement for the preservation of
forests is that it has not gone nearly
far enough, and was not begun
soon enough. It is a most lortun
ate thing, however, that we began
it when we did. We should ac
quire in the Appalachian and White
Mountain regions all the forest
lands that it is possible to acquire
for the use of the nation. These
1 inds, because they form a national
asset, are as emphatically national
as the rivers which they feed, and
which flow through so many states
before they reach the ocean." It
is said that under the present pol
icies of use and waste, the timber
supply of the United States will last
probably from twenty to thirty
three years.
Jack London, who was sent
arouud the world by the Woman's
Home Companion, one of the very
best magazines for women publish
ed, visited the lepers of Moloki, on
the island of Hawaii, and in the
January number of that publication
says: "Leprosy is not so contagi
ous as is imagined. I went for a
week's visit to the leper settlement
and I took my wife along all of
which would have not happened
had we had any apprehension of
contracting the disease. Nor did
we wear long, gauntleted gloves
and keep apart from the lepers. On
the contrary, we mingled with
them, and before we left knew
scores of them by sight and name,
The precaution of simple cleanli
ness seem to be all that is neces
sary. On returning to their own
houses, after having been among
and handling lepers, thenon lepers,
such as the physicians and super
intendents, merely wash their faces
and hands with mildly antiseptic
soap and change their coats."
In the past a greater portion of
road work in this county has been
only of the temporary kind, and
while large sums of money has been
expended, most of it has been thrown
away. Now we do not wish it
understood that this waste has been
intentional, for we believe that the
men who have had the road work
in hand have been conscientious,
faithful in every respect, and were
spending the money as to them
seemed best and most economial
But they were not building the
kind of a road that this country
must have if the good-road question
is properly solved. It is,' Tiowever,
gratifying to know that at last this
wasts ot money and hard work is
to be stopped. Tigardvitle, Beaver-
dam, South Forest Grove and sev
eral other places have held special
meetings and voted from 2 to 5
mills special tax lor permanent 1m
provements on roads in their dis
tricts, and this money is all to be
spent under the direction and con
trol of the county court These
districts believe that the only way
to get good, permanent roads is for
each road district to vote this spe
cial tax, in addition to the tax lev
ied by the county, build the m ic
adamized road, which has already
been constructed in parts of the
county and proven successful This
mnu 01 roua is more expensive than
the old sort to build, but in the end
tne cheapest, and when completed
the taxpayers will have something
to show for their money.
Everybody knows Tom Richard
son, manager of the Portland Com
mercial Club, and secretary of the
Oregon Development League, and
his opinion upon almost any sub
iect is valuable and usually correct.
A lornier newspaper mau himself,
and one who has tried the "patent
insides" and the "all home" print
method of running a country office,
the following from his pen, uude'
date of December 30, makes Jus
feel that we made no mistake iu
going back to all home-print: Mr
Richardson says: "My Dear Mr.
Bath. I want to congratulate you
upon the appearance of Tiik Inde
pendent as an all home print
paper. It is certainly a big im
provement, making Tiik Indepen
dent more cf a home newspaper
because of the additional space for
local an opportunity you have
availed yourself of. Your readers
should take advantage of the
change, and when they want to
make presents to friends at a dis
tance, send them a copy of The
Independent for a year. The
paper will henceforth be more of
directory of Ilillsboro and Wash
iugton county than was possible iu
the past. I am sufficiently old
fashioned enough, as a former
country newspaper mau, to believe
that community correspondence is
an adjunct of the home paper that
is hard to improve upon. Again
congratulating you, I am, very
truly yours, Tom Richardson."
Advice to mothers: Don't let
your children waste away. Keep
them strong and healthy during
the winter with Ilollister's Rocky
Mountain Tea. It is the greatest
tonic for children. Pure and harni.
less, does the greatest good. 35c
tea oi tablets. Delta Drug Store.
Uncle Tom Coming.
Leon W. Washburn, with Stet
son s 'Uncle Ioms Cabin Com
pany, begins an engagement at the
Crescent Theatre tomorrow, Satur
day, January 4, when the patrons of
that popular house will see this
time-honored play in all its superior
attractiveness. "Uncle Tom," the
hero of this purposeful story, is por
trayed by Fred Bennett, Stetson's
original "Uncle Torn," probly
the bent known ranpernouator ol thin
celebrated character in the world
There will be two Topsies and two
Mark in the great double cast. The
work of the competent players' is
further enhanced by beautiful stage
settings and new electric devices
Col. Sawyer's celebrated pack of
Siberian bloodhounds is one of the
features with this company, as well
as the prize Shetland ponies. New
and novel specialties are introduced
by the Creole Ladies' Ouartette;
John Loery, champion buck and
wing dancer, assisted by the Mis
sissippi singer, Lu Oeette; The
Lone Star Quintette," in superb vo
calizations and the grotesque "Lim
ber Lee." The street parade of
this company will be worth going
to see. Matinee at 2:15; evening
performance, 8:20.
John "What kind of tea do you ;
ike best?" Precilla "Go-tees, I
some, but Kocky Mountain lea
best." John "Why. Hollistei'.s '
Rocky Mountain Tea best?" Pre
cilla "It speaks for itself, John."
(Makes lovely complexions.) Delta
Drug Store.
A Core for Misery.
"I have found a cure for the mis
ery malaria poison produces," says
R. M. James of Louelleti, S. C. "It
is called Electric flitters and comes
in 50c bottles. It breaks up a case
of chills or a bilious attack iu al
most no time, and it puts yellow
jaundice clean out of commission.
This great tonic medicine and blood
purifier gives quick relief iu all
tomach, liver and kidney com
plaints and the misery of lamb back.
Sold under guarantee at the Delta
drug store.
Portland and Return, 85c.
From now until further notice
round trip tickets from Ilillsboro
to Portland and return, will be
sold at 85 cents, pood on any Sat
urday train, and return inc on
any Saturday, Sundavnr Monday
rmin u;t trll!PI)V
num. 11 in, iiiL.uvjihn; l ,
G. 1 A.
It Does the Business
E 15. Charntierlain of Clinton,
Maine, says of Hucklen's Arnica
live: "It does the business: I
have used it for piles and it .cured
them; ued it for char ped hands
and itemed them; applied it on an
old sore and it healed it without
Heaving a scar behind.' 25c at the
Delta drug store.
r put ouorV
"bad . ,hort UTrf popularity, or. rat
r. It bad ., polarity at
was the drtui ot plw. 'k,u- fU
er tull-t irtkh t1 , "
with wow, to rerloue tjle.
Many of thon, -ere aitreinely beauti
ful ami lrtNfk, bat tier would not
U. W.Jm,.u wouid not buy then, for
ttienihM tcu, no woman care to
wear a nnr..urtoa of another worn
an,' nor would tay buy tliem aa Vrw
enta for iuhq for ebrloua reaaon. Nei
ther cuul.1 , m fery well preaent a
woman with aa article bearing th
bead of uaoUier woman. o tboa de
slifua hu.l t te retired or mada over."
Now York l-rrta.
Tale, ef the Derb
When ihv 1 ukof Queennherry ("Old
Q ") wim eighty-all and tn very feebl
bcalth, fHeujj tried In Tain to dla
aumle bin. fnm ixjUiji to the Derby of
1810. -Not iu hla Indignant re
tort "W hy, I hiren t niUaetl a ueruy
for thlrr years, and I'll go If I die) on
the road " n wnt, but it waa for the
laat time, fur be died before the year
waa out. Veur after year Lord Palmer
aton rmlc jown to Eiaom on Derby
uuj, until In istfl tue weauier cum-
peiieu iiuij to (jrire down. -11 me
either win, I ihan't survive" a year,"
lie aald to some frlenda on the course.
Glndlatour ("the forelKner") came In
first, and tu the following October Pal
meraton wa, hplng In Westminster
abbey.-Wpdtmlniter Gaxette.
He Know, Hew Adam Felt
A youtiS' man wa taken to a hos
pital and suffered the removal of a
rib. Whi-ii he rauie to hlmeelf be waa
told what hud been done and seemed
utlsned. Shortly after be dropped
Into a .'tnlc.ncioua atate and kept
calling for the woman." For two
days ho waa delirious and frequenUy
culled for "the woman." "I want to
nee tho womnn," he kept a lug. At
lunt the nurse In deaperatlon an lit,
"Well, fin the woman." The man
looked at ht-r critically from top to toe
and sulit, "Who would have thought
that they could have made auch a pret
ty girl out of one of my rlba." And then
he aettlod back on hla pillow, and
when he awoke again he waa In bis
right mind aud waa better.
A Ventilation Teat.
It Is very hard to make an Impres
sion on thoKe people who defend their
posseaalona on all occaalona. A lndy
wua explaining to a visitor the many
advantugi-i of concrete hollow block
construction, of which the walla of her
new home were built
"The air apices in the walla afford
Insulation agalnat beat In aummer and
cold In winter," the explained. "Be
sides, such walla afford venUlatlon and
InHura a more healthful houee."
Tho visitor reflected a moment and
replied:
"Our frame bouae must be quite ns
well built. Every night we lock tho
cat In tho cellar and have to lot bor
out of the attic In the morning."
ToutUa Companion.
Whl and Dolphins.
Whether whali and dolphins rer
alocp obaervttlon ao far has been un
able to dlecnvev
SoorVj'llHle Joke.
Bocratea .haAJ J..- fcia
wtonr to foctutber now and then
with a convlTiy circle of phlloeopherH,
geometer nod ot'iers. On such occa
alona at the itroke of 2 a. m. he would
rlae (It ia reported of him that he al-
wuya could rlan) md addreaa the chair.
Mr. l'renldint," be would aay, "I
move you that tula circle now go home
and aqunre itaclf."
Ami hla credit was auch and people
were ao uat-d to taking htm seriously
Uint It came to be believed that the
squaring of the circle waa an tmpoav.
albie thlug.-Puck.
Phoenix Lime
Liquid Spray
A pure, clear liquid combination or Lime
and Sulphur, found most effective at Ore
gon Experiment Station in 1905
Tlioiiinli got results ulnn It in liXHI. Fir twenty yera the David M
Pnnne Company have at all time been in the lead in manufacturing tlx
lent an. I innct reliable praving materials.
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Authors Worried About Title.
KovelUta sind a deal of time ovar
their tlUea. Ilekena worked through
thirteen before he found the fourteenth
In "Hard Time." Hamttfa famous
soliloquy, as Mr. Ortbbln reminds us,
has one sentence that has given three
writer their titles. W. D. Howella
has employed "The Undiscovered Coun
try," Itobert Barr "From Whoa
Bourne." while David Christie Murray
and Henry Herman twuit tho tall of
th nuotaUoa by ercploylrg "One Trv
eler Ileturna." But is the title of aueti
Importance? asks the Iondon Chron
ica. It t delightful to know that
novelist search the Scripture and
read tbelr Shakespeare lu the queat
for titles. But ono recur to the meth
od of Lyttou when he wanted to dis
cover whether bis name or hla nature
waa the attraction. Why should not
all alx shilling volume be entitled aim
ply "My Novel?"
Catching a Thief.
Salndo, one of the cleverest of the
Tart detectives, waa one day making
hla round of tu Quartier du Temple
when he found himself In a group
listening to a man selling ellver
watche for 5 francs each. Salndo
bought ono and, having aaaured him
self that it was genuine, came to the
not unnatural conclusion that these
watches could not have been come
by houeatly. The vender waa, how
ever, a giant, and Haludo waa by do
mean blexsed with large proportions.
n furthermore argued that there
were confederate amoug that group.
In a minute or two be had formed a
plan. He asked the man to take a
glass of wine, saying that be meant
to purchase another wutch. The offer
was accepted, and a fecund watch was
tendered, which Kalmlo pretended to
examine. He, however, auddeuly took
to hi bevls, watch in hand. There
upon the vender pursued, crying:
"Stop thief!"
When Salndo got him a fur a the
police station, ho turned around,
clutched the other by the throat and,
to the great astonishment of every
ene, led hi captive Inside.
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