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l>i»play ad», to be chanyrd weekly
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A man who doea not advertise
simply because his grandfather
did not, ought to wear k nee
breeches and a queue.
This is settling up time and.
while we have little use for mon-
ey ourselves, those from whotp
we buy ink. paper, type, gasoline,
fuel, etc., seem to want money
for their stuff.
Tlie publisher of a paper must "news’’ which is consumed in
live ax well mm the clothier, the place of the real article and oft« n
dry goods man or the grocer. To without being distinguished from
get the wherewith to live he has it
one thing to sell and another to
rent. He sells his paper and he
The Commerce Court has l»een
rents the space in his columns. appealed to by the railroads to
¡These ate his principal sources of reverse the Interstate Commerce
income and can any one inform Commission in th«- matter of the
us w hy he is expected to give • lumber rales from Oregon to San
either away? He can. of courx«*, Francisco, ami in the matter of
do so if he chooses and ax a mat the one dollar "blanket rate"
ter of fact he does furnish a good case on lemons. The lumber
d«-al of his sjMice rent free. But men and the lemon growers SB
it does not follow that he ought thought they had won signal vic
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i to I m - exjiected to do so ax a mat tories. but ¡t seems that they are • M
ter of course, and further, when only deeper m th«* meshes of the
once h«- does it ought to I m * recog law. However, the people still
nised ax a contribution just as feel that they are sab* in appeal o
much as the sugar or coffee given ing to the Interstate Commerce
Largest Stock outside of Portland
by the grocer. But it is not gen Commission for justice.
Samples and Estimates on Request
erally looked at in that light, yet
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«everybody knows that the very
FISHING TACKLE
existence of a newspaper depends are three perrons in the United
upon the selling of th«* paper and States who enjoy the privilege
the rent of the space a» much aS « f Receiving and sending letters •' Expert Truss fitting Camera supplies, etc
a merchant’s success depends up , without being oblige«! to use
on the sale of hts goods. TM>rc postage stamps? These are the
Albany, Ore
is just us much reason for the widows of former fresidents
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m«*rchant giving his goods awly MrcGrover Cleveland, Mrs. Ben- a
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Harrison
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.Mrs.
Jam«*
there is for the i
A. Garfield. By a special act of
Congress these th re«* ladies en
Fearing, perhaps, that there
joy the privilege, so if you have
w aid i ' t be enough mir«-ria! for
occasion to write them you need
the ¡>olitical forecasters to work
not affix any stamp to your letter.
on this year, there have lieen es-
toblished. mainly tn Washingtoi .
The change that is coming over
a large number of political news’
th • country 1« illustrated in a
bureaus, and these are shower rather marked degree when the
ing the newspaper correspond
suggestion can la- made seriously
ents, ax well as the editors
that a woman lx* named tor the
throughout the country, with
Supreme Bench, without causing
propaganda about the candidates
anyone to smile. The successful
in whose interests the bureaus
candidate for the Presidency
ar«> supposed to be working.
this year will without doubt be
Very often the candidates are the
one who makes an appeal to the
ones huving the smallest real in
woman voter.
terest in the game, but some
times they serve as stalking
All th«* lat< at at) lea in m< n'a dre»
horses for other interests and nt hat» for spring have arrived at Wceely
the same time help to make and « am'»
N. I. Morrison, Scio, Oregon
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If you should have us use aome
of our type on those wedding in
vitations there would only lie one
way to tell them from an en
graved job Viz., by the price
and of course it is not aimolutely
necessary for you to tell folks
how much money you saved on
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having the job done at home.
z\ voting lady a sensible girl
gives the following catalogue of
different kinds of love: “The
sweetest, a mother’s love; the
longest, a brother's love; the
strongest, a woman’s love; the
dearest, a man's love; and the
sweetest,
longest, strongest,
dearest love a 'love of a bon-
net.’ "
The United States and Ger
many seem to have united in de p-
manding a "hands off” policy in
China, This wouid seem to Is
only just, Perhaps the great
powers will find it much easier
in the future to annex helpless
countn«*s under the pretext of
extending a "protectorate.’’ Cer
tainly, the United States <I« m .-
not wish to annex any mor«1 ter
ritory, simply for the purpose of ;
extending its possessions.
Every great crisis in the his
tory of the world has found its
man to control ind guide it. Call
this Providence or accident, the
American revolution was no ex
ception to it Before the first
murmurs of discontent were
heurd in that struggle, the man
was being prepared for the crisis.
On the lianksof the Potomac anti
the Rapjmhannock, thirty years
before U*xington and Bunker
Hdl, a truthful and manly boy
was growing up, ripening into
stalwart young manhiMxl. With
only the common school educa- 1
tion of that early day, the young
man was soon being educated in
the broader school of nature and
experience, in the great forest,
under theojien heavens, with his
surveyor’s chain and his sword,
in Indian wars, defending the
frontier settlements from savage
incursions. That boy was named
George Washington and we will
all celebrate his birthday today.
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