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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-12-23
Portland and Return Only $3.50.

Portland and Return Only $3.50.
The Southern Pacific is now SELL
ing round trip tickets to Portland
from Dallas for $3.50, good going
Saturday P. M. or any train of Sun
day, returning Sunday and Non
day, giving all day Sunday and
Monday in Portland. The same ar
rangement applies from Portland,
giving all Portland people chance
to visit valley points at greatly re-
duced rates.
Call on Southern Pacific Com
pany's agent for particulars.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-12-23
Notice to Creditors,

Notice is hereby given that the r,,dorsi,.,
has been duly appointed administrstri t .t
eSIste estate OF NJ + Jones, deceased, by the Countv
court OF the state of Oregon, for Poll CoTntv!s
ost,t Al persons having claims against the said
dni yar{ erG nereoy notified to present the same
~ .HeTelor to the undersigned, at her reSiSaTcs
,I,s az Mest salem, in said County within siT
n0nths from the date of this notice siA
dated ana first published December Is 1oo,
NANCY E. JONES'
Administrative of the estate of
NJ, P. Jones, deceased. VI
Oscar Hayter, Attorney. '-eii' oregon
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-12-23
~TaIIs Gity Notes q

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4 Lodge of Pendo will be organized
here soon.
Fred Holman visited friends al
Airlie last week.
County Treasurer J. Beezley was a
Falls City visitor, Saturday.
MrsStpwart Montgomery daughter,
formerly Of Portland, has returned to
Falls City.
Gilbert Tyson, of the Ford-Tyson
Grocery mpany,iransacted business
in Albany recently,
Mrs. Graham has returned from
Idaho, where she visited her daughter
Mrs. Allan Travis.
Hon. Frank Fawk, Of Rickreall,
was in Falls City on business visit,
Tuesday.
Clarence Aikman, Of ofSugarloaf, was
here recently, and returned home with
a load Of supplies.
Miss Halle Reynolds, Of Dallas,
has been here the past week in the
interest Of the firm Of Ellis & Keyt.
The Ragpole which stood across the
corner from the hotel has been cut
down, as it was considered dangerous.
A family from Independence by the
name Of Lyons have moved into the
new house recently completed by Mr..
Campbell, of Independence.
There will be Christmas trees at
both churches Saturday night. All
are invited to attend and bring pres
ents for anyone they wish.
Mrs. Clay Courier, of Salt Lake
City, accompanied by her little
daughter, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Calkins, in Falls City.
Subject Of morning discourse at the
Christian church next Sunday, "A
Five pointed Prophecy :" evening sub
iect, "a Question of Provisions"
On next Friday afternoon, there
will be Christmas tree at the school
house. Anyone having presents for
the children may hand them to any Of
the teachers.
A travelling show company played
here one night last week, and all who
attended were disguised and wished
they had their money back. This is
the usual result Of such shows.
Cliff Pugh has an excellent new
phone in his store. 1t is much better
than the old one, and does not cause
him so much work in his services as
central for the rural lines
T. d. Hollowell is building one Of
the best green houses in the county
1t has glass on three sides, and a
glass roof on the south side. He will
soon build two more for celery, tomato
plants, etc.
The officers elected at the Christian
Sunday School last Sunday for the
ensuing year are: N. A. Emmitt,
superintendent; Park Calkins, assist
ant; Cecil Dodd, secretary, Mrs. N. A. i
Emmitt, cor. secretary; Mrs. r. A. {
Lucas, treasurer; Alta Hinshaw, |
ibrarian Mrs. Milligan, organist
Charles Frink, chorister. {
A pleasant surprise party was
to Misses Nellie and Lily q
Ross last Friday evening. The eve /
ling was spent in games and social c
Those present were
zulu Kellow, Leona Ferguson, Alta g
lockwood, Viola Gardner, Althea
fardner, Sadie Wheeler, Alma Mason, o
Iaude Ferguson, Maude Lewis, Hazel q
lewis, Elsie Allen, Nellie Ross, Lily Il
Ross, Ernest Buell., Willie Tice, Ray a
lasters, Alfred Lewis, Ennis Frink, u
Flenn Ferguson, Leonard Frink, Ed u
feorge March, George Taylor, John s.
ate, Jerry Morris. II
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-12-23
Notice of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given that the UNDERSIGNED
administrator of the estate of Nsrv ~ lI neu
deceased, has fled his final sccon%t ;. Leigh,
m mlnlStrator in the office of the ConnfT T1ael sI
Oi toiA county, Oregon, and that FriSs,O 4eLA IN
tSsh gay OF January, 1906, at the ho1r of 'Ie Ne
County Court of said county ss tbo 11;onOrsole 1;,l
tne courthouse in Dallas as the place for tba
nearing OF said final account and tba 20 Sa,tie sne
men ment thereof All persons having obieefionass y,
same at said time and place. present. the
Dateo TINS Sth day Of December. 1904
d. E. BERDAN
Administrator of the estate ~
J. n. Hart Attorney. ''''seu'
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-12-23
Notice For Publication.

TIMBER LAND. ACT JUNE ), 1878.
United States Land Ohice,
Oregon City, OREGON.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-12-23
Notice For Publication.

TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 8, 1878.
United States Land Office,
Oregon CitV Oregon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Are Not Pleased.

from the Montgomery Advertiser.
Reports from Birmingham indicate that
some of the republican leaders are not at
all pleased with the Crumpackerism Of
the republican platform. There are many
good republicans in Alabama who believe
in the rule of the white man and who en-
dorse the suffrage planks in our state
constitution. They see that it is best for
both races, and that it is a solution of
a question which has been the cause Of
n1uch trouble in the south, and they are
willing to lee 1t remain settled.
The plank in the republican platform
looking to reduction of southern rep
resentation in congress because of the
alleged discrimination against colored
voters will give new life to sectionalism,
and probably that was what the extrem-
lists at Chicago intended. They know that
their ticket cannot expect any electoral
votes from the south. and they hope to
solidify the colored vote of the north by
this appearance of .solicitude for the
rights of the southern negroes. There
are many Thousand coloreu voters IN the
north and the number is constantly in
creasing. That vote is important for in
many communities the loss of it would
mean the defeat of the republican party.
That accounts Tor the Crumpaclxer plank
in the platform.
But there is one result that is sure to
follow this movement. and that is that
it will still further solidify the south. If
the Chicago convention had nominated a
safe and conservative man, on a fair and
non-sectional platform, many thousands
of votes would have been cast for 1t
which will have nothing to do with
Roosevelt and his south hating platform
The south will remain solid while tie
republicans try to keep 1t so.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Audiences Vary.

Have You ever noticed how the char
acter OF the audiences at a theatre will
vary from night to night?" asked a To-
ca manager "One night the people will
laugh lrodisiously at some witticism of
the comedians and perhaps the next night
the same Joke will fall fiat and the laugh
VIII come somewhere else. Comedians are
accustomed to wait for the laugh at GER
tain stages of their performance but
they are sometimes fooled and the peo-
pie will laugh unexpectedly.
Again, you cannot always tell how We'll
pleased an audience is by the amount of
applause siven. Some people are averse
TO creating racket under any crcum-
stances and no matter how tickled they
are they will make no outward demon
stration more audible than smile Other
people shout with laughter, slap Them
selves and clap their hands at the slight
est provocation, and am inclined to he
lieve that performers like the noisy peo-
pie best, for applause encourages them
to work harder"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Typography Is Popular.

Typography Is getting to be quite n
popular fad in Birmingham. Aside from
its artistic possibilities and the many
pleasant hours of amusement, it fur
nishes the devoted Photographer, it is also
of practical value for decorative pur-
poses. The slxillful Photographer is prac-
tically unfettered in his art. He may
give free reign to his fancy and elaborate
most intricate designs or he may con-
tent himself with simple sketch burned
in hard wood. Young people are devoting
much attention to typography, and
Charley Fell, the 15-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Fell of Birmingham
has shown remarkable proficiency in the
art. Examples of his first efforts show
decided talent, and some sketches he
burned recently would be creditable for
a much more practiced workman. Charley
is a grandson of former Governor Cobb
and intends deyoting himself to art al
though he mas thus far had very little
training.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
About the ella.

"A specimen preserved in alcohol of
the gia, 8. reptile Of the lizard family.
which IS a native of the Great American
desert and the most venomous creature
known to science, attracted considerable
attention while on exhibition here in one
Of the drug stores" said a physician last
night This specimen Is said to be
worth SITS. The reptile was about twenty
inches long, shaped like a lizard, and in
color resembled the deadly moccasin,
though perhaps Of brighter yellow than
many Of this species of reptile. 1t is
much feared by the inhabitants Of the
western states. When bitten by a gila
death comes to the victim quickly, and
IL Is seldom that any one survives its bite.
The gila's venom is stronger than that
OF the RATHER. the cobra, the asp. or any
of the deadly reptiles At this time medi-
cal science is using venomous serum for
treating diseases very successfully and the
sila supplies the most virlle yet die
covered
After being diluted to one hundred
thousandeth part of its pure strength, or
one drop to five gallons of alcohol it is eff
fecttve in the treatment OF divers dis
eases, especially locomotor ataxia, when
only a few drops are given.
Il was told by a western man of an
incident IN connection with the gila that
illustrates how deadly is its bite. party
of cowboys were riding over the plains
when one of them saw a gila in tuft of
grass, and dismounting, struck it with
stone, apparently killing 1t. He tied the
reptile to his saddle as a trophy, and re-
mounting rode on. The gila had not been
killed by the blow, but was stunned In
short time it revived and sank its fangs
deep into the mans thigh. Before as
sistance could be given he fell dead from
the saddle,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Troy Normal College.

The 1904 catalogue of the Troy Normal
college has been received and shows that
institution to be in most floprishing
condition. A total of 40S students were
enrolled during the past year, all of
whom did satisfactory work The Troy
Normal college is one or the strongest
institutions of the kind in the state, and
is accomplishing great work for edu-
cation. Under the presidency OF DR..
James X. Powers later president Of the
University of Alabama, 1t was greatly
strengthened, and now ranks high among
the institutions supported by the state.
Edward M. Shackleford Is now president
of the Troy Normal college He has the
cooperation of an able faculty of six
teen teachers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Tariffs and Business.

The republican platform unhesitat-
ingly declares "a democratic tariff has
always been followed by business adj
versity; a republican tariff by busi-
ness prosperity" The republicans
have said this so many times they
have come to believe it, but unfor-
tunately for them, history is against
them. The Springfield Republican re-
views the facts of history back to
1888, with the following results:
Act of-Character. State of business.
1888. Free trade. Great Prosperity up to
1887 then panic.
1912. . Protection. Fair times.
lS4s. Free trade Good times as a rule
up to 1857
1857. -. Free trade. Panic followed by de-
preston.
ls61-T Protection. Great prosperity after
the war.
1872. Protection. Panic in 1873 and hard
times
1876 Protection. Hard times continued
TO 1879.
1888. Protection. Depression for two
years.
$780, Protection. Good times up to panic
OF 1898.
1884, Free trade. Hard times.
1897 Protection Good times up to 1908.
The unprecedented Dingley tariff
has brought us to depression in bust
ness, to unmstakable hard times, to
low prices for iron. The Mckinley
tariff was in operation in 1898, when
the great panic OF that year occurred,
and the panic of 1873 occurred while
tariff passed by the republicans was
in full operation. The hard times of
1888 were even worse than those of
1897, and throughout all of those
years republican protection was in full
bloom. The record is wholly against
the republicans in the matter of tariffs
and their effects upon business.
"The reader" says the Springfield
Republican, in conclusion, in looking
over the above tabulation, will be
| forced to one conclusion, which is
| pretty near the trutn-that times OF
business prosperity and depression III
the United States have never borne
more than an indirect and somewhat
roseate relationship to tariff changes.
And the other conclusion forced upon
him with even greater certainty and
exactitude is that those who made the
statement that republican tariff has
always been followed by business pros
perity, lied. And equally false is the
statement that democratic tariff has
always been followed by business adj
versity."
] The Springfield Republican is pub
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Fine Roadhed.

Il was impressed by the fact that some
of the electric railway tracks in and
about Birmingham are exceptionally fine
while returning from a trip to East Lake
last night" said visitor who resides
in the east. Il stood up on the way
back, as the car was rather crowded.
and was surprised by the ease with which
l maintained my equilibrium. As usual
thing 1t is hard job to stand erect on
fast-hying trolley car especially a
through train, but l was able to stand UP
all the way to town without holding to
strap and without falling. That speaks
We'll for the roadbed. Although I was on
a special train that was making a fast
trip to town the car sped over the track
with the smoothness of a vestibule train.
understand that the company considers
this one of the best lines of the system,
although the South Ensley line and tile
Bessemer line are also well ballasted 1
think that Birmingham undoubted has
one of the best traction systems among
southern cities and the service Is unusual
ly good, considering the fact that Br-
mingham is comparatively young town.
"Of course New Orleans has a better
system, for that is perhaps the finest in
the south. The schedules in the Crescent
City are marvels of convenience and the
cars run as smoothly as the finest limited
trains"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
judge Parker's Strength.

Including six delegates from Porto
Rico, who may or may not be given
seats, the st. Louis convention will
consist of just one thousand delegates,
and the winner must therefore secure
SGT votes!
The minority made up of all shades
of opinion need command all told but
1874 votes in order to prevent any man
from securing 667. Favorite sons and
dark horses and the supporters of the
lightning-rod brigade will each and all
make it their especial business to pre-
vent the gathering of 667 votes by any
rival.
Under such circumstances can Judge
Parker secure the nomination? The
New York Times, Parker organ, in.
ssts that the Judge is assured of $50
votes on the first ballot, and it be.
Iieyes the weight of $50 votes will call
in 2S7 additional votes. This seems
very uncertain, especially in view OF
the fact that the 2S7 must be drawn
from the ranks of those who went to
the convention with other plans up
their sleeves. Three hundred and
eighty is but a little more than one
third OF the convention.
The one thing that is plain is this
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Vice Presidents Past and to Come.

Alabama is credited with two JUS
tices of the supreme court-McKinley
and Campbell; with a secretary of the
navy; with a minister to France, Rus
STA and Spain, and with a vice-presi-
dent William R. King ran with Frank
lin Pierce in 1852, receiving 254 elect
oral votes, while his whig opponent
received but AZ votes. Mr.. King died
shortly after he took the office, and
David r. Atchison was chosen presi-
dent pro tempore of the senate.
The convention of 1852 was con-
fronted by situation not unlike that
which promises to present itself at
leading aspirant, but Buchanan, Marcy
and Douglass each had plenty of sup
port. The convention lasted four days,
and forty-nine ballots were taken. The
name of Franklin Pierce was not men,
toned until the thirty-fourth ballot,
when he received fifteen votes. He
was nominated on the forty-ninth bal
lot, and William r. King became with
out difficulty his running mate after
serving nearly thirty years in the sem
ate. Mr.. King took the oath of Office
as vice president in Cuba, whittier he
had gone on account of his health,
but he died in the following month.
after serving one month and fourteen
days as vice-president.
In the long list of democratic con-
ventions, beginning in 1882, not much
trouble has arisen over the selection
of candidate for vice-president. AS
a rule no attention is given to the
subject until after the selection OF
presidential candidate, when the man
who can best aid him to carry the
country is selected.
This is why no one has the remotest
idea as to whom will be selected as
running mate at St Louis. A run
ming mate for Mr. Parker might not be
good running mate for Mr.. German,
or Mr.. Olney or whoever else may
draw first prize in the St. Louis lot
terry. Our history shows that the
Office is important, for four vice.presi-
dents have become Presidents by the
accident of death, but this does not
seem to change the methods of cen
ventions, and no doubt they will go ON
picking out a man who can carry a
particularly doubtful state or who can
conciliate some clique or some utter
est, trusting that the nominee for
President will live to serve out full
term.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
What's past : prologue.
Crumnackerism is EMMY.

The suffrage plank of the republi-
can platform is freely denounced by
independent republican papers in all
parts of the north-papers, for exam
pie, like the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. Not one of such papers, so
far as they have come to us, defends
or even excuses this piece of dema-
gogry and buncombe 'It is says
the Public Ledger, "either superfuous
or mischievous. In either case 1t is
ill-judged and provocative of strife and
bitterness, and 1t ought to have been
omitted"
All states restrict suffrage, some re-
curing the prepayment of taxes, some
the holding of property, some eduea-
tional qualifications, and if the Crum-
packer plank in the platform be good
at all It must be extended to Pennsyl-
vania and Massachusetts as well as to
Louisiana and Alabama, and what a
howl there would be If the representa-
lions of the former states should be
cut downl
The question involved is judicial
pne-are the suffrage regulations of
the various states constitutional? This
is the primary and basic question in
the case. The supreme court has had
plenty of opportunities to upset the
Southern suffrage regulations, but in
no case his it touched them. Cases
from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama
and Virginia Lave been brought before
1t, but In each and all Of the cases
there came the intimation that the
states should be left free to determine
their own suffrage rules.
The Juggling of the subject into the
republican platform is meaningless
beyond the retention OF negro votes
in the close and contested northern
states. 1t is mere emptiness other
wise. Any proposition of the sort
would be talked to death in the sen.
ate, and If Mr. Cowherd will manage
the congressional campaign skillfully,
there will lie no republican majority in
the next congress. Business men who
do not want to see the country dis
turbed by great sectional agitation
will vote for democratic congressman
at least, and tome of them are so dis
gusted over the demagogic Crum-
packer plank that they will vote
against Roosevelt and Fairbanks
In Alabama the Crumpacker scheme
will be valueless to the negroes them
selves, for any negro can be registered
In August on the same terms exactly
as the whites. All negroes that can
read and write, OF that pay taxes on
property valued for taxation purposes
at $500 or more can be registered, and
no white mar can be registered on
less qualifications. The temporary
plan of the constitution does not apply
to future registrations, and Crum-
packerism cannot touch in all Justice
and reason the permanent plan of the
constitution of 1901.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
Fairbanks and Indiana.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Does the nomination of Fairbanks as
President Roosevelts running mate take
Indiana out of the doubtful column?
The nomination was mfNte largely upon
the theory that 1t would operate to ths-
end, and it may.
Fairbanks has always been strong in
his home state. Where party organiza-
ton is the controlling factor in politics,
he has long been the acknowledged head
of the republican machine; where dollars
are mighty he has had them and has
known how to use them; where corporate
selves felt he has been the mouthpiece
of the corporations.
One argument advanced by those who
sought to prevent his nomination was that
the clashing of the ambitions of men
who aspire to his place in the senate
might engender fractional strife to de-
gree that would be dangerous. There
will. of course, be merry scrambling
after that toga, but no man who knows
Fairbanks expects him to permit this to
come at time when it will hurt the re-
publican party.
If there is one thing certain about
Charles Warren Fairbanks, it is that he
has no idea Of letting go his hold upon
that senate seat until he has a firm grip
upon the vice presidency. He is a prae-
tical gentleman, this man Fairbanks, and
is not troubled with needless ethics or
unimportant ideals. Why should he turn
loose good thing on a mere promise?
He will not. The men who want 70
succeed him are already beginning their
merry campaign, but there can De no
cut-throat business in it so long as no
vacancy exists. 1t will be waged In way
TO add to, not to substract from, the lotai
of republican votes.
We do not know how It looks to our
esteemer friend Tom Taggart, but at this
distance the Fairbanks nomination seems
to cinch India for the republican ticket.
But there are other northern states whose
votes can be secured for the democrdtic
ticket and will be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-29
LIGHT AND LIFE.

From swinburne's Latest Poem in Har-
per's Magazine.
Ages and creeds that drift
Through change and cloud uplift
The soul that scars and seeks her SOW
ereign shrine
Her faiths yelled altar there
To find, when praise and prayer
Fall baffled, If the darkness be divine.
Lights change and shift through star
and sun;
Night clothed with might Of immemorial
years. is one.
Day, born and slain of night,
Hath hardly life in sight
AS she that bears and Stays him and
survives
And gives us back for one
C1oud-t hwarted fiery sun
The myriad mysteries Of the lustrous
lives
Whose starry soundless music saith
That light and life wax perfect even
through night and death.