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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20
NOTICE.

1T THE LAST ANNUAL CoNyEN-
II tion Of the w. c. I. e., Mrs. w a.
Smick, OF Rosebnrg, was elected Vice
President Of the Sixth District. embracing
Lake. jackson, Curry, Josephine, Coos and
Douglas She would respectfully solicit
correspondence respecting the organization
and workings of the society il all parts OF
the finll
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20

SURGEONS CoMING-One or more
Surgeons of the National Gurgicsl In
stitute of San Francisco will he at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel, Roseburg, October
7th, 1854. Persons suffering with any
chronic diseases, or natural deformities
will do we'll to call upon them.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20
El;s8raSao Mineral Water.
EcnEn,e..1. ANALYSIS


CHEMICAL AE0xA-oRy, ASSAY OFFICE, BULLION
RooNs AND Uaf RooMs, 524 Sacramento street, San
Francisco, Npy. ., 1883
Messrs Hchyools Merrill and Sttson. Gentlemen.
/ have submitted to qualitative analysis the sample
OF EdoIado water handed for examination and
find it 10 consist OF the following substances Chlos
rine, Iodine Garbauie Acid, lron, Alumina Limo
aa snesia, Soda and organie matter. -
THOMAS PRICE.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20

! CLEVELAND and fifteen cents bushel
more for wheat is fast becoming the
battle cry of farmers.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20

JOB WoaK-We are making many
improvements iii our job Office and So
hcit the patronage of the public.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20
Club Meeting.
were allowed


The Democratic Club meeting We'd
II 'eday night was we'll attended. The
Y .nkee Doodle Band dispensed good
music suitable to the occasion. The
court room was filed with intelligent
Ia lies and gentlemen. G. Ball president
OF the club called the meeting to order
and introduced Hon. A. f. Campell,
who in an eloquent and we'll timed ad-
dress portrayed the danger to tie
country IN lntrusting the government
IN the hands Of a man known to be
venal and corrupt. and who represented
the eucroachment Of aggrandiscd capital
on lahol. Hon. L. f. Lane was then
called for and made a characteristic
speech, being frequently applauded At
the conclusion of his speech the club
book was opened and the roll increased
to 81 members, The book is in the
hands of w. n. Moore. Sign the club
roll
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Beard 81 per Day; Single Meals, 25 certs
NO c4INkMEN EMPLOYED.
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Road Notice.

ITO VOLUNTEER R0AD-WoRKERS OF DEER
i Creek: Having heretofore called upon the fol-
lowing named persons t work OUT their subserir
ton on the Deer Creek road. commenting on the FIRST
day OF Sewtomber, 1884. in consequence OF large
number Of said persons being engaged in thresh;iig
and hauling their crops Go hereby give notice that
have changed the time for performing said road
labor, and hereby notify all persons who have not
worked trir subscription, that they will be expected
to meet the Supervisor of road district No 26 at Ira
Gengers place, on Deer Creek, on the first Monday
the sixth day Of October 1884, at 7:30 o'clock A. NJ
win teams and shovels subscribed, or suitable
substitutes, or the amount in money The following
are the names OF those who have not worked their
subscription: II Smith, day with team Alfred
Mathews two days with team; Vim Shoemaker, one
daY with team IL Shoemaker, one day with shovel;
Charles Mathews day with shovel; w B Single
ton, two days with team; L Cole, two days with
team; May, one day with shovel; J ID CASSIDY, two
days with shovel; Fl ChaQnan two days with team;
L Tipton two days with team, L c AtteTiury, two
days with shovel; Il r Atterhury, two days With
shovel; John fearce Gay with shovel; r Boggis
one day With shovel Perkins, one day With
team: G Ito son, day with team; l. Gilmore.
one day with team; oty Boon, one day with shoyel.
A. ". SLiMMON,
Road Supervisor.
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y GARD.

r RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE MY
| self as candidate for reelection to
the Office of City Treasurer, at the ensuing
election. JouN CHASE.
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A CARD.

At THE SOLICITATION OF MANY
IL friends, T. j. WILLIAMS has consented
to the use of lis name as candidate for
Marshal. and if elected viii perform the
duties pertaining to the Office.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20

J. W. Hamilton District Attorney
is in Coos Couty attending court.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20

matter will confirm the statsment that
the latter is the one great point. The
best and cheapest means of keeping u
business before the public is through
the columns Of your county paper.
The only Official acts of Governor
Cleveland, which the Republican news
papers have been able to find fault with
are )'ls yetoes of the five cent fare bill
on the elevated railroads of the city of
New York and the Mechanics Lien
law. The Eve cent fare bill was lob
gotten up in the interest of the Astors.
who own a large amount of real prop
erty IN the suburbs of the city. The
constitutional objections contained in
the veto are a sufficient answer to the
job contained in the bill even if the
Interior objects of its authors had not
been known. The Mechanics Lien law
which he vetoed was a scheme devised
by some hungry lawyers to create liti~
cation, and the lien law in force fol-
many years in the State of New York
which it was intended to repeal affords
more perfect security to the mechanic:
than the one proposed. Governor
Cleveland by his knowledge of lega.
practise was enabled to see through tn,
gauze of the new law--hence the veto
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-29
said Mrs. Vane, indifferently. ''You know
cbc 4

said Mrs. Vane, indiferently. ''You know
Sns NV was M;,sy very pretty girl and young;t 9Th
clouded brow and sauntered into the gar.
den.
II could have sworn she cared for me, u
he muttered, "and all the while she was
engaged to some fellow. This night
should have asked her to be my wife,
Curse such false coquettes!'' and he stun.
bled against something on the grass.
s'Hullo, what's this?'
Annie, his own little five-year-old girl,
seemingly quite broken hearted and in
tears.
"Oh, papa" she sobbed, on seeing him,
''she's dorm. Miss Lilly's DORM
He took the little one into his arms tc
try and soothe her.
"Why did Miss Lilly 90, Annie?" said
he.
"Aunt Helen did scold her, papa, tause
she tissed de little flower you dave her.
heard her. And she tisse me and tried
and she is dorm, she's DORM
Meantime Mrs. Vane, in her rivals
empty room, was rejoicing over her depart
ure.
"The game is in my own hands now,''
she thought, s'and shall win the prize"
he sound of horses hoofs under the
window startled her. She sprang to ascer-
tain the cause, and fell back as if she had
received blow. George Wilbraham was
riding away to the station at full speed.
"He suspects me-he will find her and
learn all,' she thought, and sat down con-
quered and despairing.
The game was lost indeed. A letter
from her cousin apprised her that he had
found Lilly in London, and there married
her. He requested Mrs. Vane to leave his
house before he brought his young bride
home.
She obeyed, too humbled and defeated to
utter complaint, and Lilly came back to
be mistress and queen of the home where
sic had once been only governess."
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Blaine's Integrity and nonor.'

Every body knows, or should know, now
low fully Blaine revealed his character in
the Mulligan letters. His poorly dissembled
use of his high position as Speaker of the
House of Representatives simply for his
own personal ends marks him as man who
is utterly unworthy of any trust How i'm
pudent is it, therefore, for him to aspire to
the highest place in the country With
that utter recklessness of principles and of
consequences which his shameless admirers
call cash. he read on the floor of the
House what he willed of the letters he had
flched from Mulligan, and by a most in
genious system of garbling and special
pleading arrested for the time the sentence
that was his just due. Years went by, and
after popular forgetfulness had made dim
his deeds he came forth this year as the Re-
publican candidate for the presidency. But
fate had followed him, and the correspond
ence which he thought he had held entire
and has destroyed re-appeared in the form
of carefully-preserved copies to confront
him in his path to the greatest goal of an
Americans ambition. All the facts that he
had long thought dead and buried came
back to him as forgotten wanderers in a
distant land. When those, who hod still
clung with faith-weak faith though it was
to his failing fortunes, could no longer
follow this dangerous man, and when the
man himself saw the desperate course that
lay before him, his only resort in all his
troubles, his bold and unscrupulous ''dash'
came into play, and knowing that all men
,Oould read the Mulligan letters, he had the
effrontery to beg all men to read them. But
his ''dash" is at last dashed to the ground.
For Blaine in his desperation has declared
that "there is nothing in those letters in
consistent with any sense of integrity and
honor" What? Can man of integrity
and honor write to correspondent of his
rulings as Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentativcs in connection with corporation
whose stock he wishes to secure, and say
to the same correspondent that he knows
''channels in which he can be useful" and
pledge that he will be 'no deadhead in the
enterprise ?" How debased must be the
notion of integrity and honor that moves
either the private or tho public acts of such
a man. By Blaine's own lips is he con-
demned. For the man who has so far for.
gotten the simplest teachings of an honest
life is unfit to be the President of the United
tates.-i2ichmond State.
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Democratic Doctrine in reference to the
Tariff.

From the speech delivered in Cincinnati
on the 7th instant, by Hon. ]. @. A. Eel
lows, of New York, we make the following
extract
s'NOw, what is the Democratic doctrine
with reference to the tariff? Its very plain.
1t is very easy to understand. There is no
man in this audience that may not 20 home
tonight with just as clear conception of
it as the brightest statesman of the land
And it is the same doctrine that the Demo-
cratic party has maintained in every mo-
ment of its existence. The first is this, that
taxation shall be limited to the necessities
of the Government honestly conducted Has
anybody got any fault to find with that prop
osition? Stated in another form of words;
it is just this: We will raise all the money
by taxation that is necessary to carry on the
GOvernment-an honest Government, not
an extravagant one, not licentious, profit
gate one. We will raise all the money that
is needed for that, all the money that is
needed to pension our soldiers and pay our
debts, and we, will raise it by taxation.
Secondly, we propose that that revenue
shall be raised-and want you to hear this
by duties placed upon articles imported
into this country. Some Republicans will
tell you tomorrow, as they have told you
through all days of the past in this canvass,
that the Democratic party is Free Trade
party. Fellow-citizens, doubt if one-tenth
of these Republican orators who are going
through the country know what free trade
means or understand what tariff is. l
have heard Republican speakers in this
campaign who got up and talked about the
tariff with as large a display of ignorance as
if they supposed it was samething to eat
[Great laughter. WhaG is free trade
Free trade means the free interchange of
commodities raised iu our country for those
raised in another-in other words, that you
may bring into this country everything just
as freely as you can send it out. The Demo-
cratic principle is that all our taxes, all that
we need for Government, shall be raised by
custom-house duties upon articles that we
briDgin here that are manufactured abroad.
''The third plank in the Democratic plat
form is that in levying these duties due re-
gard shall be had to assisting American in
dustries. The duties shall be SO levied as
to furnish material protection to all our
existing industries, and shall also be so
levied as to preserve the prices of American
labor at its present or better rates as COM
pared with the labor of Europe.
'Fourthly-and here is very important
item-we propose that the largest amount
of this duty shall be raised out of imported
luxuries, and the least amount out of i'm
ported necessaries. [Appla use.
"Now, that is all there is of the Demo-
cratic tariff doctrine. We expect to raise
all our revenue by import duties just as we
are doing now, but we don't expect to raise
800, 900, 900 year that we don't need.
want to put this right home to you.
"You have been paying out of what you
eat and what you wear 500, 900, 900 of sur
plus unneeded money to the Government
every year. That money has been wasted
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RATES OF ADYERTISING.
IN ARCADIA.
From the November Century,l

From the November Century.l
Because choose to keep my seat,
Norjoin the giddy dancers whirl,
pray you do not laugh. my girl,
Nor ask me why find it sweet
In my old age to watch your glee-
/. too. have been In Already.
And thous h full well know seem
Quite out of place in scenes like this,
You can't imagine how much bliss
1t gives me just to sit and dream,
As your fair form goes fitting by,
How 1, too, dwelt in Already.
For, sweetheart. in your merry eyes
vanished summer buds and blows,
And with the same bright cheeks of rose
see your mothers image rise,
And DER long and weary track
My bnried boyhood wanders back.
And as with tear -dimmed eyes cast
On your sweet form my swimming glance
Think your mother used to dance
Just as you do. in that dead past,
Long years ago.-yts. tifty-three,-
When I. too, dwelt in Already.
And in the music's laughing notes
/ seem to hear old voices ring
That have been hushed all many a spring,
And round about me family floats
The echo of a melody
used to hear in Already.
And yonder youth-nay, do not blush
The boys his father o'er again;
And bark ye, Miss, was not plain
When at his age-what! must hush?
He's coming this way? Yes, 1 see
You two dwell in:Arcady.
r.. T. w. DUKE, JR., of Virginia.
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Can We Afford it?

Can any white Virginian aforda1
the Republican ticket just now
for few moments pause and
matter; let him glance Syer
publican cohorts in this
the elements of which the
let him carefully weigh the h
follow the supremacy, of this mo- (f3fTll(ll
this black dog with a white tail, and we
feel convinced that he will, if he be true
son of our old and revered mother, subor-
dlnate every petty difference that may exist,
and cast in his lot with that party which re-
presents the intelligence and character of
bis native State, as contra distinguished
from political scheming and self seeking on
the one hand, and blind ignorance and
sheep-like unreasoning devotion on the 9TH
er.
We deprecate the 'sColor line" except as
matter of stern political necessity. In
this state 1T IS draacn for as. The negroes
cling together to the number of eighty or
ninety thousand voters, and they vote from
sheer prejudice the Republican ticket
They, with few thousand disaffected
whites. can make majority. What is left
to us to do but to remain solid ourselves,
unless we wish return of Mahoneism with
all of its attendant train of incompetence.
dishonesty, personal and private, socialistic
arraying of class against class, and malici-
GUS slandering of our people and OF our
State, for northern delectation. Can any
true Virginian hesitate now? Can he for
one moment allow the tariff, or any other
issue to intervene, and blind his eyes to the
recent past Charlottesville Jefersonian.
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THE MULE AND THE BoY.-A boy, ap-
parently very much agitated, rushed into a
house recently and said to the lady:
81 don't want ter alarm yer, but I've got
big news. The man sent me up from the
livery stable to tell yer."
Good heavens, what is il? ?"
"Why, you know yer little boy, Aleck,
what the man can't keep outen the livery
stable round the corner?
eyes, well ?"
81 told Aleck just now not to go inter the
stable among the horses, but he wouldn't
mind me-"
'sOh dear! What has happened?:
''He said he wanted to see what mule
would do when you tickled its heels with
straw"
'Oh, heavens p gasped the lady, and
clung to the mantel for support.
'Well, sir, yer boy Aleck got straw,
snuck up behin' a sorrel mule, tickled him
on the heels, an"
(The lady started for the door,
CAN the blamed critter never lifted a
hoof," called the boy, as he lodged out.
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THE INFANT IN POLITICS.

The INFANT IN POLITICS. be
yo1 fur Blaine?"
i "Yes. my son, red hot for Blaine"
'sWell, what about them letters?''
''Well, you see, my boy, an internal ras-
Gel named Fisher-a sneak, liar, thief,
a scalawag and scoundrel named Fisher
published some letters that he says Mr..
Blaine wrote to him."
''Did they show that Mr.. Blaine was a
bad man?"
'No, indeed, my son. On the contrary.
they showed that he is man above re-
proach-a man of lofty honor and strictest
integrity man Of"
''Say. paw, then should think Mr.. Fish
er was real good man to print 'em an
BIZ"
"There, there, never mind, Theophilus
You are too young to understand politics.
Run along and play now"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-29
GIVE HIM A LIFT.

Give him lift! Don't kneel in prayer,
Nor moralise with his despair.
the man is down. and his great need
Is ready help. not prayer and creed.
'Tis time when wounds are washed and healed,
That the inward motive be revealed
But now. whate'er the spirit be,
Mere words are but mockery.
One grain of aid just now is more
To him than tones of sanity lore.
Pray, if you must, in your heart,
But give him lift, give him start.
The world is full of good advice,
Or prayer and praise and preaching nice;
But the generous souls who aid manhind
Are scarce as gold and hard to find.
Give Liz e a christian-speak in deeds,
A noble ife's the best of creeds;
And he shall wear a royal crown
Who gives them lift when they are down.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-29
Dou,t Grown, If You Can Helm n

But don't smile more than you are obliged
to, if you have mouthful of discolored
teeth. If such is the case, procure and use
at least once every day, delightful SOZO-
DON'T, which will remove the unbecoming
spots and specks that disfgure your teeth !;
render them pearly white, make the gums
hard and rosy, and impart fragrance to
your breath. SOZODONT, moreover, con-
tains no corrosive acids or gritty particles,
which is the case with some dentifrices,
but is entirely safe as well as thoroughly
effective. Sold by druggists.
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4s!!8ss
POET TRY.
VILLAGE WEDDING BELLS.

VILLAGE WEDDING BELLS.
Ring on, ring on. ye wedding bells?
There's duty rests with you;
The joy you make is the joy that tells
OF hearts that are brave and true.
The times are hard for simple folk,
They're oft in stormy weather;
But a man and wife must pull through life
And breast the waves together.
One side of life is dark as night,
The other is as clear as day:
In doing right you keep to the light,
And the dark will pass away.
Though times be hard for simple folk;
And we mourn the Ills of fate,
The rule for man is do what he can,
He must learn to work and wait.
Behind the clouds silver light,
A joy for the faithful heart
Then plight your troth by a solemn oath
To be true till death do part.
It's not in vain the wedding bells
Ring joy on the wedding day;
Though the battles nigh, yet hopes are high
And hearts are merry and gay.
Ring on, ring on, ye wedding bells!
There's duty rests with you;
The joy you make is a joy that tells
Ofhearts that are brave and true.
Good Words.
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CALLED HOME.

She has passed away
Like gentle breath,
And her eyes are closed with the sleep of deatl
The leaves on the trees will flutter and fall,
And the drifting SHOWS will cover all,
But she will peacefully, calmly rest.
Forever happy
By angels blest.
Just in the spring
Of womanhood,
Tender and loving, and wise and good,
All too good for the sinful earth!
Only the angels knew her worth,
So they called her unto them,
Decking her brow
With a diadem.
Better to smile
When such life
Gives up the battle of earthly strife.
Better to know that her tasks are done,
Trials ended and glory won
Tears are vain, when a soul SO bright
Wings its way
To the gates of light.
She has passed away,
But her sweet good will,
Like a fragrant odor. fingers still.
The tender lesson that memory brings
The mantle of patience o'er us filings,
We learn 10 follow the path she tired.
To be more like her,
Who has gone to God.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-29
Two Dangerous Seasons.

Spring and fall are times when so many
people get sick. The changes in the wealth
er are severe on feeble persons, and even
those naturally strong are apt, as they say,
''to be feeling miserable" Then they are
just in condition to be struck down with
some kind of fever. A bottle or two of
Parker's Tonic will invigorate the diges-
tion, put the liver, kidneys and blood in
perfect order, and prevent more serious at
tacks. Why suffer, and perhaps die, when
50 simple medicine will save you? Good
for both sexes and all ages.
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his deputie =
now use them ~
This is no light question. 1t stares, US in
the face. 1t is brought home to the white
men of the South. An ignorant negro
mass, peaceable enough naturally when
let alone by these outsiders, but when led
by the leading spirit of South Haters would
menace the prosperity of the South, and the
section struggling twenty years with ad
versity would be relegated to tie position
of Roman province or Siberian colony.
such is the danger with which we are con-
fronted. Such is the only hope Virginia
can expect from him. The menace has
been made. We know our enemy. Vir-
ginia must do her duty.
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CHAFFING THE New GIRL.-"So you are
the new girl,'' said the boarders to the new
waiter; 'and by what name are we to call
you?" ''Pearl,n said the maid, with q
saucy toss of her head. "Ohp' asked the
smart boarder, ''are you the pearl of great
price?" "No, I'm the pearl that was cast
before swine" There was long silence,
broken but by the buzz of the flies in the
milk pitcher. r.-Prouidence News.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-29
LOVES MESSENGERS.

Who will tell him? Who will teach him
Have you voices, merry birds?
Then be voice for me, and reach him
With a thousand pleasing Words
Sing my secret east and west,
Till his answer be confessed
Roses, when you see him coming,
Light of heart and strong of limb.
Make your lover bees stop humming;
Turn your blushes round to him
Blush, dear flowers, that he may learn
How a woman's heart can burn!
Wind. o wind, you happy rover!
Oh that were half as free!
Leave your honey bells and clover.
Go and seek my love for me;
Find. kiss, and clasp him. make him know
It is who love him SO!
-PhiLddelphiU Times
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-10-29

Two HEARTS AND ONE BREATH.-"Fer-
dinand, my love, why do you sit so far from
me this EVENING"" she anxiously inquired.
He was silent, and remained sitting at the
opposite end of the sofa.
Again she spoke. Again he was silent,
hesitated, and finally murmured:
isabella, my dear, blush to tell it, but
have been eating onions to-day"
'sYou darling p exclaimed the lovely girl,
with look of glad surprise Illuminating
her face, as she sprang close to his side, $50
have IY'-Lo,ceU Citizen.