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Published Krery Friday Morning.
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Mahkr would not fight because
le had too much sand in his eyes.
Tab wheat riao seems t hare
, oma to a stopping place, and the
aarket is hovering between a rise in deposits and collections, bat fol
false "Ex" brand. We shall have
the satisfaction of knowing that
there was something about it that
possibly merited reproduction
and open reprisals are preferable to
suggestions of unlimited piracy.
The new Cuban general went in
to the fight against his handful of
rebellious Cuban patriots with a
show of considerable brilliancy, and
a sort of general air of superiority
backed up by an ability to pick up
the Cuban armies as if they were
but pawns upon a chess board. He
drew a military line across tne is
land to divide the forces rebellious
to Spanish dominion, but the wa
has been passed and the divided
armies are camped on the same
side of it.
A fellow, who had no capital
but was abundantly supplied with
that trait of character known as
"cheek," went to Alaska to engage
in the banking business. He ran
the only bank in the territory at
Juneau, and did a (rood business
aid a decline. ,
Cobxa's pig-tail rebellion is fad-
Jag away before the hosts of the
king. The victorious royal army
Measures its successes by queues
captured.
Foreign investors are no longer
disposing of American securities.
Daring the last week a London
eampany advanced a million dol
lars to Chicago & Western.
lowing in tne footsteps or many
another thrifty financier of his
stamp, he spent the deposits and put
the collections in his pocket. The
bank has gone the way of all uncer
tainties and the banker is liable to
go the way of the mob.
A ysw political party has been
launched at Omaha and signatures
are being obtained to a call for
convention not later than May next
The resolution which set forth the
The farce which was being en- new party contains a declaration of
acted on the banks of the Rio independence from all capitalistic
rande by a job lot of pugilists has
leen ended. The "manly art" is
left too dead to be resurrected on
American soil.
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xiAWAn s ausxy ex-queen is no
lunger a prisoner of state, but she
is warned not to cross the dead line
fry attempting to leave the island
en which she resides. A sort of
Ompromise on the banishment idea.
JrusiONiSTs in the Lane county
populist convention did not get
what they went after. They were
defeated by a vote of two to one,
and chased each other out of the
convention as soon as their fate was
sealed.
middle-class reform and other
parties, and declares for the better
ing of the conditions of the labor
ing classes, shortening the hours
I of labor in proportion to the pro
gress of production, and such other
measures as will insure the pro
ducer a full return of the value
taken from him. General Kelley
of commonweal fame, is the Moses
who is expected to do the leading
A correspondent, to the Rose-
burg Review who resides near the
scene of Murderer Brown s fina
disappearance, lets the Doaglss
county officials down rather roughly
for their strange and indifferent
conduct in the entire chase. He
says that the fact that Brown's
father and brother were very much
agitated prior to the alleged drown
ing, but are now happy and con
tented is proof of the fact that he
is safe from pursuit, and the further
fact that the reward which the
sheriff offered for his eapture has
been withdrawn is proof that the
officials believe Brown to be some
where in Coos county, and that he
was liable, to be returned by seme
body who would like the reward.
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AuiiN ihk iii ail. puonsnes a
communication from the A. P. A.'s
of Medford, this time in reply to
that of Rev. Desmarais, published
two weeks ago. The A. P. A.'s
have agreed to let this be their last
letter in the controversy, so that The
Mail has concluded to admit a re
ply and close its columns to the
further diseussion of this question.
We believe no fair-minded person
has reason for finding fault with
the course taken in this matter.
While we would like to accede to
any further requests for space, we
have neither the time nor can we
afford to yield space sufficient for a
president of Mexioo? Neither of continuous and intelligent discus
them own a belt, but the latter sion of the issues involved. The
'has done some effective fighting Mail seeks no other credit or honor
ia his day and the former has thaQ that which comes to a fear
done a good deal of talking along less and reliable gatherer and dis-
that line. semmator of news. In matters of
political or religious differences it
positively will not participate, fur
ther than in the exposition of
cases of individual corruption or the
commendation of that which is
praiseworthy, regardless of political
divisons or religious tenets or beliefs.
It is related that Fitzsimmons
. shouts in a boasting manner of bis
ability to whip anybody in the
world. The island of Cuba is bid
ding for men who can and will
fight, so that Fitzy will not need
mt vuuipuuu uiat, iua uccupauon s
ftne.. .
There is considerable bombast
about some of the world's alleged
philanthropy, after all. In Chicago
there are over two and a half mil
lions gathered annually for charity,
hut the cost of disbursment dimin
ished the actual sum which charitv
received by 40 per cent.
Investments in corporations and
stock companies should be shunned
is the advice given by Andrew Car-
egie to young men. They should
invest in homes, real estate and
first mortgages, he says; no young
san can honestly purchase one
hare of speculatigq stock and of
wotirse Mr. Carnegie knows.
Corbktt has announced that he
will challenge the winner of the
Maher-Fitzsimmons fight. Is it to
he the govern r of Texas or the
Doubtless an imperialist, or a
loyalist, or even a pretender, could
airy the day in France. Repub
lican patriotism seems to be at its
lowest ebb since the founding of
the last republic, so low as to
permit a call for the abolishment
f the senate to go unchallenged.
Twenty-five years under one form
f government is a long time be
tween changes in France.
When creditable matter taken
from The Mail, is not worth proper
eredit, publishers appropriating it
will confer a great favor if they will
se it quite as their own it is pref
erable to the mutilations of that
delusively delusive and falsely
Now that the tariff bill has been
side-tracked and the free silver
feature of the bond bill floored, con
gress will have more spare moments
to attend to the scoring of Sec
retary Morton for his failure to
spend a few hundred thousand dol
lars a year in. buying up the
old seed stock in the country at a
fancy price. The members of both
branches of oongress are determined
to force the government to supply
them with seeds for distribution
among their constituents. It turn
ishes an easy, simple and inexpen
sive way of bidding for votes, since
the government furnishes every
thing from the seed purchase to ad
dressing the packages and paying
the freight. Though this system
was inaugurated for the purpose of
introducing new and untried va
nties of vegetables, cereals and
grasses, it has been proven that
nothing of the kind was being done.
and that the seeds which the a'gricu
tural department has been supply
ing have come from the poor selling
varietiea.broken stocks and remants
of the seed houses throughput the
United States, purchased at fre
quently fabulous prices, while the
request to report results was very
rarely complied with. It is indeed
doubtful if fifty per cent of the stuff
ever reached people who have any
use for it, or if one-half of the other
fifty per cent reach people who
have either the time or disposition
to make any use of it in any experi
mental way, but congress is prac
tically a unit in its determination
to have seeds, and the secretary of
agriculture will have to furnish
them or keep himself in a good
many kinds of trouble between now
and the day of adjournment.
Congress has called upon At
torney General Harmon to explain
what steps he has taken to secure
tne enforcement of the anti-trust
law, and has intimated that
would like to know the reason be
has sought to enforce the law
against trusts, combinations and
conspiracies in res taint of trade.
The attorney general in replying,
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evauea tne airect question, out re
views the law as constructed by the
supreme court and reminds congress
of its inability to reach the most
complete monopolies acquired by
unlawful combinations of concerns
which are naturally competitors
ine construction ot tne supreme
court excludes from the operations
of the law all sueh combinations,
even though they may control the
markets of the country, if , the en
gaging in interstate commerce is
held to be merely one ef the inci
dents of the business and not its
direct and immediate object. While
congress has not the power to pre
vent the organization of trusts, ex
cept those of a commercial nature, it
may make it unlawful to ship the
articles they own, produce or con
trol from one state to another, and
thus carry out the designs of such
organization. The attorney general
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re com menus mat tne jaw be so
amended as to leave no doubt as to
its definition of trusts as they effect
trade and commerce, that it con
tain a provision like that of the
interstate commerce law to prevent
the refusal of witnesses answering
on the grounds of self-accrimina
tion and by lessening the difficulty
of obtaining proof, if not entirely re
moving it, by enacting as a rule of
evidence that the purchase or com
bination in any form of enterprises
in different states, which were com
petitors before such purchase or com
bination, should be prima facie
evidence of an' attempt to monopo-
ize. ... v . ' '
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Charles Christy, an enthusiastic Cuban na-
triot, who hails from Warerly, Kansas, and la a
lawyer by profession, has Just returned to bis
Kansas borne from the scene of the eonfllot.
He says that be with about 400 others warn
captured in a battle near Havana, and that all
but 16 Americans, himself among the number'
were unea up ana snot.
For the first time in a half oentur the
American side of Niagara Falls is compara
tlTely dry, caused by the formation ot an toe
iam, extending from the Amerioaa shore about
iQlf way across the river. The water Is di
verted to the Canadian shore, and at times it is
possible for a man to walk from the American
snore to uoat island without wetting bis feet.
A most startling discovery has been made in
connection with the investigation of Roentgen's
nnw force la photography. Professor Salvlont
of Perugi read a paper before the Rome Medi
cal academy in which he described the optioal
Instrument of his invention, which edables the
humun eve, by rorans of Roentgen rays, to see
through anything which those rays can pene
trate, it is said that balvlonl produced this
wonderful invention and bv its means the ntav.
siolana present were enabled to see the con
tents of a closed aluminum box . Unfortunately,
no explanation is given of the means used to
make the hitherto Invisible rays perceptible by
man's optic nerve.
In Rnglnnd tomato nlunts have been grafted
on potato plants, giving a crop of tomatoes
above ground and potu'.oes below. Potatoes
grafted on tomatoes have produced flowers, to
matoes and a few tubers. An experiment in
this direction was made tlurlrjg the past season
in Wisconsin. Two tubers were planted In
separate pots in March, and when about four
to live inches hlh the plant wuh cut oft half an
inch from the level of the soil and a graft ot a
tomato introduced on May 8. Tho result was
that the potato, nourished by the tomato pi nut
above ground, produced a crop ot potatoes in
tun pot, ana also tho tomato plantubnve ground
irouueeu a rainy goou crop of tomatoes, nour
ished by the ixtuto roots in the pot.
Just received. Oliver black land
plows. Something- uew. Beit ut.
Kama k Gllksy.
TOLD IN A SENTENCE.
Floods are raging in South Aus
tralia. The proceeds of the $100,000,000
bond sale is $111,378,800. '
New York political prophets are
giving the republican national ticket
to Morton and Allison.
Dr. Brown's trial, to which the
public will not be admitted, was
opened by the council of churches
last Tuesday.
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The Carnegies will endeavor
utilize the Cathode ray in photo
graphing and detecting flaws in
their armor plate.
A ieuar rails, xowa, man was
converted at a church revival and
confessed having committed
murder in Colorado in 1890.
The new bible, prepared for use
in the public schools of Chicago by
a committee of Catholics, Prates
tants and Jews, is now completed.
It is said that Nansen, the Nor
wegian explorer, has been at the
north pole, found land there, set up
the nag of Norway, and is now
making bis way to civilization.
The highest figure mentioned by
bidders in the recent government
bond sale was that of Henry Mer
riam,address not given, who pledged
himself to take f 5U's worth at $150.
President Cleveland has been
agreed upon upon an arbitrator be
tween Italy and Brazil, and al
claims not agreed upon within the
next two months are to be submitted
to him.
Mrs. Mary Davidson, who has
been figured prominently in a San
Fracisco church scandal, has been
arraigned in the superior court on
the charge of extortion of $500 from
Dr. Brown.
The so-called May brick commit
tee has presented an exhaustive re
view of the case, including many
new and important features, to the
home secretary at London for his
consideration.
ms aw
ine emperor oi Japan nas pre
sented Mrs. Walter O. Gresham
with a roll of gobelin and a pair of
enameled vases as a token of his
appreciation for the friendship of
tne ex-seeretary of state.
ftfl aw a
vviuiam waiaori Asior, pro
prietor of the rail Mall Gazette,
London, has dismissed his editor
for sneering at America, and pro
poses to procure the services of an
American for that position.
The Investment Corporation, of
New York, bought $2,000,000 of
the new bonds for 110.90, and made
their first payment and part of the
second with gold never taken from
the United States treasury.
Dr. Calhoun Simon, of New York,
announces a discovery, which is
that of photographing the brain,
ithout the use of the Roentgen
Cathode ray, and by which he ob
tained a photograph of his own
brain.
Arrangements are being made to
being daily 10,000,000 gallons of
sea water into London for public
and private baths, for road water
and sewer flushing, the water to be
taken from the ocean fifty miles
away.
There is a rumor in cirealation
hich states, that Mrs. Amelie
Rives Chanler, who won consider
able fame as the author of ".The
Quick or the Dead," is about to
marry the Russian Prince Trou-
belzkoi.
Three masked men entered the
Market street bank, San Francisco,
ast luesday morning, threw the
cashier and book-keeper into the
vault, took all the coin from the
cashier's counter and made good
their escape.
A Texas Minister has been found
guilty of heresy, but as he is in
possession of the church and the
arger part of the congregation are
indifferent as to the result, he is
not much troubled over the findings
ot the trial body.
John Hays Hammond, the Ameri
can engineer who fell ill in the Pre
toria jail is out on $50,000 bail and is
occupying a cottage in the Trans
vaal capital, but is under rigid
police restrictions to prevent him
umpmg his bail.
There is current a report to the
effect that the Japanese are now
manufacturing the Cleveland, Co-
umbia, Rambler, and every other
make of American bicycle, true to
the original, even to the patent
date, and placing them on the mar
ket for $17 each.
Cincinnati has a scandal in which
young lady betrayed was mur
dered and three young scape goats,
who have wretchedly thrown down
the heritage of an honorable birth
right, are in a fair way to pay the
penalty of their waywardness on
Kentucky gallows.
Emperor William, while riding in
an open carriage, was struck with
what he at first thought an "infer
nal" package, and an examination
did not established a very different
condition of things, as the papers
were filled with socialist speeches
and attack on the crown.
Chicago druggists have formed a
syndicate to fight the manufacturers
of proprietary medicines on account
of cut rates in department stores,
and propose to duplicate everything
in the patent medicine line with
equally good and less expensive
preparations of their own.
The people of Egypt are satisfied
with British occupation of that
country, a fact which is borne out
by the uneasy and restless feeling,
amounting almost to a pantic,
which was brought about by the re
port that the country was about to
be evacuated by the English.
A number of the leading accident
insurance companies have pro
nounced their ultimatum in the
matter of bicycle riding, have de
clared it a hazardous occupation
and will even up matters by charg
ing heavier premiums or reducing
the amount of weekly accident or
death benefits.
The governor of the Mexican
state of Chihuahua has placed
guards over Fitzsimmons and other
prize-fighters who are quartered on
that side of the border, and notified
the pugilists that they are not to
leave their quarters without per
mission and the company of an at
tendant. Madrid dispatches say that
Campos, since the recent demon
strations at the Spanish capital,
has declined to assume the presi
dency of the supreme council of
war. to which he has been appointed
and has signified his purpose of
leaving the country, having, be says,
to accompany an invalid son who
goes to Germany to recuperate his
health.
The Washington correspondent
to the New York World claims to
have discovered that bids were
opened at the treasury department
several hours before the time for re
ceiving bids had expired, and that
the Morgan syndicate gat such tips
as enabled them to fix up the
proper fractions on the bid which
they put in only a few moments
ahead of the fixed hour.
Call and Settle at once.
It ia quite necessary in my business
that I have a little cash. I have several
accounts on my books that ought to be
fixed up. You owe me, 1 owe some
other fellow. By paying me your bill
you settle two account. The man who
responds when asked is the man who
is extended further accommodation
when he needs tbem. Can't you hustte
some money for ae?
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You can get lots of goods at our store for very -
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within the reach of all. Call and see us and
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HARDWARE...
Is one of the necesities of life. It is something you
must. have, yet it dees not necessarily follow that be
cause of this extortionate prices should be charged.1 We
make a small profit on all the goods we handle if we
dind't we couldn't do business, but we
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MEDFORD, ORB.
A Large Lot
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both in bulk and packages.
Call at the
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