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| He marketed hit products oo the
Eugene public market, which en
a bled him to get a fair price for
them.
These are merely two acatieriug
•«be- ríe "o.
11.63 a year la advance instances, but they are surely bet.
,-r reading lhau the copious tales
A d vertisin g, 2-ic an inch ; no diacout-
for lim e or space , no charge for con
( wreck and ruin on the farm
poatikiu or c jangee.
i«t have been Hooding the papers
( a T a l a - f o i P aragrap hs," 6c a line.
or the past few years.
HALflEY ENTERPRISE
ka i» « e e » a « * > '— *< > T « t e r r a l — »tsva
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e a b U s k r« eve ry
T h tre O e y
» y V *n . U W H K K L Z H
» • advertising disguized as aewa.
To Advertisers
Copy received before Tuesday is ii
tiuie for good position. Wednesday i>
late and Thursday's m ail is loo late
Office hoars, V to 12 and 2 to 5, excep
Mondays sad Friday forenoons.
MUST H E L P T H E M S E L V E S
Much troth sod fury i t exhib
ited when seekers after vote» talk
le farmers about the economic »H-
uatlou, and promises are made of
impotable legislatioa t t a l will re
store the equilibrium that ia pre
euruod to have exiated in the years
of Adam'« decadence, or auont
the early Christiane, when the fish,
erioao, the carpenter, the tent
maker and the physician and pre
auiaably the tiller of the soil “ ha*
all tbiugs common.”
Laws are oot going to cnre the
farmeii'n ills. They could not dt
it if they were made by farmers,
and they surely will not whan, as
in the late lamented congress,
there are 320 lawyers and a dozei
or two of farmers in the lawmak
ing body.
When a plasterer commands
$12 for an eight-hour day aud a
farmer sells the product of a week
of 14. or IB-hour days lor n*
more there is something wrong
that will not he righted by a tsriff
on wheat.
When the fanner sells for 91
what the consumer pays 93 or $4
for there is injustice that will not
be remedied by loaning the farmer
money Io live and pay interest < n.
The farmer needs help to get
out of debt, not to get deeper in.
The poiltiviao a u d the money
leaden will not help him. They
o »n’ t.
He must help himself.
“ The gods help him who helps
himself. ”
He may help himself by co-op
erative selling, hut in thia it wi
require eleruel vigilance to avoid
being thorn by the tame eharper»
who are shearing him now.
There was n oo-operutive dairy
meu'a association in wealern Or»
gon. I t col I a | eed. Its manage
had iuvolved it in transaction
which its inemhers declaied war*
ruinous. And that manager w: $
found (o ba J a stockholder in i
riv a l• concern I
Tb0 Dearboru (M ich .) Innde
pondenteaye :
M A R Y S M IT H ’S N A M E ’ your campfire and look out f r
cigarelf. They are dangerous.
Controller Uraeral Curl rules
(bat a married woman must use JoMph E. Cox
bsr husband's name in signing
Mrs. L. M. Begley was it Pori-
documents in bis department— land leal week at tbe funeral of
John Smith's wife must sign "M rs bar father, Joseph E. Cox, »bo
John Sm ith,” not *• Mrs. Mery died In that city Aug. 17, aged 78
Joseph K. Cox was born io Iowa.
Sm ith.’* He is reported as saying
His first wife was Nancy
(hat the latter is not her lega Houghton, for whose fam illy the
name. We know that some strng town of Houghton, Clatsop county.
birds get into public offices but Oregon, was named. After over
did not know that such an ignor 20 ye«rs, during which eight chil-
dren were born, ade died,
stuur was controller general of the
Mr. Col later married Mra. Ida
United States treasury.
V aaO rdenof Roseburg, wbo sur
The laws aud court decisions vives him
Mr Coa’ children were Lillie
permit a person to change his
her name at will,' and the sub. May (Mrs. Begley), Joseph Lee,
M»ry (deceased), Bertha Mabel,
ject is not one of those which tbe
Ernest (deceased), Albert. Earl
constitution permits tbe federal (deceased) and Eula Isabel.
government to meddle with in tin
He also le-ves nine grandchil.
dren aud two gieal grandchiidreu,
states.
wbo .eside iu Trenton, N. J.
When application la made to
court to place a change of name No sob o( grief, do wild lament be there
MRS.
Lion county is headquarters fur
he kind of cows referred to above.
July a short distance from the
ounty line is 0 . A. C ., the birth
lace first of the 200-egg heu,
lien of the 200-egg fleck and later
f the 300 egg ben and >fiock. At
our couuty seat is a pickle factoiy
«ady to»coutract for hhndrede of
icres of eucumhers, if of tbe
right vsrietiea, properly grown and
jroperiy harvested. The cannery
>t the same plaze could not get
naif the strawberries it wauts-i
hie year. Sieuberg Bros, could
mt gel all the evergreen blacKber.
lee they advertised for.
If therej were no market of any
xind for wheat the Linn farmers
■red not starve. Linn couuty hay
■eed not he freighted to other
places to be turned into profitable
fairy products.
Go to the county fair.
Take
the whole family.
Keep your
syce aud ears open.
You may
learn from others und others may
earn from you along the lines of
I If help as contrasted wfth the
irnken reed of government aid.
I o break the sabbath of the holy air.
bv radio stations
This may ex
Chicago bad u murder a day plain the whereabouts of some
during July. The daily average telegrapher wbo has left this earth
s 10 burglaries. Other crime»'
sud regHrdiug whose destination
•ccurred in proportion.—Journal.
there was uncertainty.
W ell. Chicago ia iri tbe same
state with Herrin.
Candidates of all three parties
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favor the farmer, lhe laborer and
world peace. Why not elect 'em
J lA ll 6 C d tA ir r ll
d 4 A * 1 lA fM A
W ie < llC lH 8
*• * Combined a ll and be h a p p y ?
Trea tm e n t,b o th
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local and internal, and-has been success-
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,
,
ful in the treatment of Catarrh for ovet
F ‘Hy.e.ght people h is e been
,’urty years. Sold by all druggists.
fined tor causing forest fires, ; If
F. J. C H E N E Y & C O ., Toledo, Ohle y 0U g„ camping totally extinguish
Dr. C. FICQ, Dentist
“ PLATES
THAT
F IT ”
Growns, bridge work and fillings. It wil
pay you Io get my prices on vour dental work.
Cusick bank building. Albany
z O. W . F R U M
pQr G r a in S a c k s and T w i n e see
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fat
all
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£ I.a s t year the owner of a 30-acrr
tract near Eugene marketed from
h a land a total uf 42000 worth ol
p «ducts with hie own labor, hlr-
mg no outside help This tear he
has harvested from approximately
two acres a little better than eigln
tons of string beans aud has eom*
yet to pick. He has sold at the
cm nery a considerable quantity oi
osrrots and beets. He has nin»
oows that will net him 9100 eacf
i n a year above cost of keep Tha-
it tbe kind of cows to have.
Another swell tract owner neai
K tig a n e g rew end marketed from
tw o terse 9J00i( worth of vogota-
blea and geueral garden "tru u ek,”
Armstrong Linoleum »*12 $18.75
Congoleum Rugs -
16.00
New stock of Axminster
Special
Small Rugs
$2.25 to $5.75
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on record tne change bae already But, in thejr stead, the silent-breathing
prayer
been made and the objeci ia to have
O f bearta a till w a itin g for a rest like
means uf proving it if the individ
tbiae.
ual's identity is questioned.
Miss W innifred Rose, proprietor
of the M -rinello parlors, listed in
It has been considered in most our Albany directory, was badly
s-ates th a t the direct income tax was n oised and lacerated in an auto,
one of the fairest of a ’T methods of mobile collision on ber way back
raising money for public purposes, to Albany from a visit with her
everything considered, and th a t the parents at Independence last week
Inheritance tax was desirable to pre Monday.
vent the accumulation of vast estates
Suit has been brought by W- A,
i<nd their perpetuation in the same
and J. J. Barrett to restrain tbe
families. — Albany Democrat.
Albany bridge contractors from
The la tte r object was what the lamaging their property east of
fathers aimed at when they placed the approach on this side of the
a clause in the federal constitution Willamette. This action, it is be.
lieved, will lead to a determination
prohibiting laws of entail. The in- of the legal rights of the paries.
I d Oklahoma, whert lor sey* ral hiritan ce tax is a good second to
/rare the K. K. K. baa been s id e th a t constitutional inhibition.
o impeach governors who would
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not do it. bidding and oust them j ,
of th # t h r e , p a r t i „
without much regard for evidence, th, presidentiaI race HnnGHUCe d i,
Walton, the last one so expelled,' approVB, of lhe warnied.over K
ha- been nominated for th . federal , K K b„ t ded#re H ,)Ot W((rtll , fae
senate by the primaries of ,b e |trouh|e
oppo, illo„. I(s mete
do umsnt paity and in fh . s a u ..|ori<J Pftre#r h„ pa, „ d j , Ml ith
.„y Mrs. Richardson, wife of • n | and it
on the dow
other expelled governor, has be. n j
put up for governor alter aa anti. J Moisecede signals, supposedly
klan campaign.
from Mars, bave been picked up
The owner of the largest hep
yard in the world! at Independ
ence, Oregon, obtained accurate
inside information of the results
achieved by the ring in th e ix -
ploitation oi ths prune and epn
cot growers. He investigated tbe
poultiyiusw s association, now be
ginning to wobble under the Ss-
piro plan. Other owners of large
aud productive hop yards likewise to
gated- and stayed out of the oc* to
opeiative scheme.
Todav the Saptro plan It as to
dead in Oregon as i* »onia he in
Santa Clara valley, Cal., if the
Califprniane could free tbemselve«
of its grip. The hupgroweri went
stli further and bought the crops
of the Sepiro co-operatives at u
batter price than tbe uiatiagers oi
the co-operative association« wen
gsttiug for their members' hope
A more promising field fur self
help is illustrated in the following
paragraphs Iro n tbe Eugene Reg
ister :
• H IL L & <S § Hardware •
New alid best grade of Second
; : Sacks on hand
Market prices paid for any kind of
a
4/
G R A IN A N D H A Y £
A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
I k y is worth ju st
much in storage as
you m ight get for it in case of tire. T lu
American Eagle Fire Insurance company,
will pay you
of the cash value in case,
of loss by tire.
i
O ur prices sell our goods
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Any Girl in Trouble -
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may communicate w ith Ensign Lee of the Salvation A rm y at tbe
a
W hite Shield Home, 565 M ayfair avenue, Portland, Oregon.
A Question That
is Easily Answered
is wba^to offer your lady friend in
the way of refreshments. Just
bring her here and treat har to
m in t of -»ur delicious iso cream.
That she will like it goes without
saying. Besides, she will appre.
ciate your thoughtfulness and gen
erosity.
ClaFk’s Confectionery
and
mounted higher. "
Digging! out samples at abort In ter
vals and fa d in g specks of gold In each
he need up much o f tbe morning. Py
rites was nowhere In s ig h t The sun
was nearly overhead aa be Ailed hlo
pan from tho topmost mound. Instead
of hurrying down the ridge, however,
he sqnared his shoulder» to get the
klnkw out o f his back and glanced
curlostsly about the pannramaxof hill»
|p d
ridges and melancholy woods.
T h e n staring down at the fre»h mound
he m u tte red :
" I f yon were all pure gold, friend
d irt, I'd swap you In a second Just to
know w hat Jim Omaha looks lik e ;
Juet to knew I f be lias reached D ead
wood C ity yet.”
H e mounted the ridge to where It
we» d e a r o f tree». T h e sun had con
quered the mists and the heaven»
shone blue. T o all appearancee It wae
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a dead land. No »mokes w ere to be
seen, no habitations, no sounds of hu
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man voice«. And yet there were In
Dlnsdale. “T won't bother to get my
A rn a g on Pyrites' advice Dlnsdaie pan working till we strike homethitig
dians lu rkin g In the deep gulches and,
continued afoot, w alking beside his more promising.”
ru m o r persisted, there w ere organised
horse, his revolver ready to resent an
horse thieves w ith rendeivon* on the
Eating nn early supper, the burroa
ambush. A few miles brought them to were loaded and the tw o ;s tru c k to
divide, w hile posslhfy other Ione pros
the Rapid, which they crossed Just the southeast for a mile and then
pectors, like Pyrites, were seeking
below the forks. Pyrites' lust for test turned east lnt£ a dry w ater course
fortune In the w lm f-ng depths below.
ing tho gravel could not be denied and began mounting the divide. In
He le ft his pau and pick while he re-
longer, and ns their next march would all they did not cover more than two
connolterwd the toji of the ridge H e
taka them up ou to the divide, due ! miles before the glanting sun ray»
reached th e crest only to discover an
east, Dlnsdnlo wax w illing to call It a !
He
warned them It was tim e to m ake o th e r and higher ridge ahead.
day's travel.
camp. Dlnsdale left this Tnatter en descended Into the -h a llo w valley, be
They unpacked the htirroe and • tirely to Pyrites, and the location se tw een the two mid followed It down
pitched their tent, and Pyrites Ashed j lected was closot&v a spring, near a / o r a fo iy th of a m ile, proceeding
out his pan, about a foot and a h a lf ' growth of stunrtM^Vtfejhtg*. Aa Py-
rio w ly ami w atchful fo r Indian signs.
In diam eter, and shoveled some th irty
H e was surprised and keenly In ter
rites pitched the tent lie commented;
pounds of dirt Into IL. and hurried to |
ested In turning a "wooded bend to be
"W e're below 'Elk buttes and abo ut
the rivulet.
Dlnsdale
stood
und j ten miles east n t E llh o r e prnlrie. Z d hold a king log cdhln ahead Beyond
It » » re h a lf a dozen open sheds aftd a
watched him. Pyrites exclaimed some like to go over fte r e and pift In • f e w
rouidi ¿erral. H e « mid detect no signs
days.”
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thing under his breath.
How does It pan 8,»T" asked Dlna-
“I'm more I interested In (lie di vide of lB e sbont the (6-ace. W ith a shrug
of bis shoulders h e boldly advanced,
dale. with a dicker of Interest.
ahead than In dby grass pr^lrto».’’ said
tellin g h lm aelf:
“About four or flve colors.”
Dlnsdale.
,
" I f any one Is ttiere he most have
“W hat'» that In money?”
"Oh. we'tl loAk over the divide Arst.
seen roe I ’m a lo a f prospector, trying
Pyrites, scratching his head, unw ill now we’re w ltM n pistol shot »f It."
to Ard old Iron P y rih e a ”
ingly a d m itte d :
“Any danger from horse V ilevi-s? "
About a flfth of a cent.”
T h e cabin door w hs closed and.
"Hosa thlevflg? Good lA hd! W h at
Great Scott! I f that's prospecting
w h a t was unusual, blankets were hung
made you th in k 'o f hots thieves? Let's
I'm through. W hy, It costs me Afteen
not have any outlaw talk. 'We'ne hon over the small win flows. These were
lacking glass, but w » re partly*blocked
cents to Are one of my guns once I"
est prospectors. W e doo’l w a t t any
By strips of tim ber. H e Arst examined
cried Dlnsdale In high disgust.
truck w ith u nlaw fu l men.*
Pyrites Instantly regained his op
the shed» and corralk. None contained
"That s right." h eartily a«reed'D ln»-
Jiorsea.
timism. "The value o f that pas simply
dale. "All I ask Is no» to be dis
proves there's gold everyw hw e In these
turbed in ray gold-btintlng.'*
"They're ready to rw c for a heap of
hills. This ain't where wg wasvalm-
The next morning thsy breuJh»d a I them when put 'to It." he thought aa
ing for anyway. I want tojtuorkjlloso
white mist n hep they craw led from the I
««ltanced to the doi.r aud rapped
to tbe divide aud locute a ' vein." * 7 . " -
. tent- Dlnsdale was tor an Inm edl.ite 1 m artly. As be had eupactod there
•T h a t w ill he more like It ” mumbled | departure for a higher level. Pyrites
w as no response T h ere was a hole for
s latchstring, bat nn rsw hlde thong
•J Insisted on breakfast und something of
sn examination o f the gully they had S was visible. H e tried the door sad
been following.
| felt the bar resist the pressure.
"B ut they get In some w ay," he pon
“Just as you ssy You're, tho boss.”
dered. He »hepped hack and examined
surrendered Dlnsdale. “P fit I'v e got
the windows and then rssturaed to the
the gold fever and a fte r w e'ye had cof
door. Then he smiled a t the a rtfu l
fee I'm going to twke m y p„n and
sim plicity of It. T h e hole In the door
•trik e out up the ridge."
was never need fo r the latchatrlng. but
"You'll get lost sure as apples," re
merely to discourage a trespasser At
monstrated Pyriies “D u don't know
one side of the door sad concealed by
these hills, w ith thek- gorges and
a strip o f hanging hark was the thong.
broken tops."
H e seized It and tugged sharply. The
" I know hills m u c ltw o r» « than these
har rose Inside and the door swung
Baked masses of dry cinders w ith no
open.
Dinning w ater to teU you lh p JaT of th „
Six rough hanks* were oo seek ef the
land. This counter Is .«Inple
Man *|
side walls T he chimney and Areplarw
can't get lost. Don t be ■frigid.''
were at the fa rth e r end with several
Have It so. hjopc
atr)k. ,
kettles and fry in g pins. Neer the door
bushel of nuggets. I'U gfjck aDong her».
was a table Tht» arrangement made
You'll he hack by. n m m /'
It nereasary to bring the food the es-
"Have dinner ready and eat I f I
don't show up. T mars strike soroerklng
big and forget I'm h u n g ry '-
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*^°.n ^ l , n n r e »’‘ove his companion
Dlnsda.e halted and dug Tvwn a foot
, and carefully examined the dirt W lth-
C. 1’. STAFFORD, Agent
eo’ M not
what he had uncovered, but by rolling
some of the dtrt between h l* Angers fee
I was rewarded w ith a small scale of
“About Foot or FI vs Colom."
' ta i
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8tnrk ’
fiirt to a ttrac t Pyrites
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nttent'ca I
p r e length e f the room, an unnecessary
i been veo I once, he decided.
Piled In one earner near the Breplace
we T« seven saddle« gonr e f these 4M
not look as If they had aver been
use- I T he ashes In the Areplace wera
cold
and no Are could have burned
there • fo r tw enty-four hours. Tiptoeing
hack to the door he puzzled over the
awkv mrd pcsitioa of the table. H l»
(Continued frvo . *a « a 3?