The Medford mail., July 31, 1896, Page 2, Image 2

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Mkdpurd, Friday. July 31, 1896.
Our Clubbing List.
The Mail and Weekly S. P. Call $2 25
" " " Examiner 2 35
" " " Chronicle
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" Cosmopolitan ....
" " Popular Science..
" " The Ladies' Home
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2 65
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Ideal - - - 1 75
" Weekly Cincin
nati Enqurier, - - 1 60
some individual who wants a
sure thing when he beta offers to
wager that the next president will
be whiskerless and that hia first
name will be William.
Bach of the leading candidates
for the presidency are smooth
shaven and said to possess features
of the same Napoleonic cast. With
two Napoleons in the field there is
liable to be something greater than
a Waterloo for somebody.
Mitchei.Ii republicans are more
hopeful than they were a month
ago, and claim that when the time
comes the silver interests will unite
and that Mitchell will stand a bet
ter chance than any other man in
the state, and that he is almost sure
to be his own successor.
Our minister to Hawaii has
thrown down his chances for a
nomination to congress from his
home district in Kentucky, and is
going back to Honolulu to have it
out with the .Dole government. It
is evident that Willis desires to go
' down barkin with the adminis
tration.
. The populist convention would
not endorse Sewall, and wouldn't
take Bryan at his word. They did
however fix things by adjourning
just as soon as they had almost
unanimously delegated to the na
tional commitee fall plenary powers
with right to do anything the con
tention could do.
. A well known California miner,
-who has just returned from Alaska,
relates in detail the hardship en-
countered by fortune hunters in
;in their wild and reckless search
for gold and adds that they must
- encounter poisonous gnats and rnos-
- quitos, more greedy, if possible,
- than Seattle locators.
Along with the serious political
upheavals in Dakota comes sensa
tional accounts of volcanoes in
' operation, shifting sand dunes and
' other novel freaks in the bad lands.
1 Dakota has always managed to be
'heard from in one way or another,
-and if the report that an active
"volcano is doing business there
shall not lack for verification, the
land where the Sioux fought their
last fight will continue to be a
mild attraction even after the ex
citement of the present political
campaign shall have passed away.
The Irish world will not support
McKinley, though it has been
ultra protection for years. The
New York Sun, a democratic paper
that has not supported a democratic
national nomination for the past
sixteen years, and which was a But
ler paper in the days when Tamany
was going to defeat Cleveland by
throwing its support to the man of
silver spoons fame, has eschewed
Bryan and gone McKinley and gold
These are the two most remarkable
bolts that have been based appar
enuy utxm predjudicc, and are
somewhat inconsistent with poll
cies advocated in times past.
Someone has struck a keynote
by calling attention to the shame
ful way in which the "ir-reducible
school fund" of the state is being
squandered by means that are both
profligate and careless. Some few
years ago the board loaned a Grant
county man $2500 taking a mort-
on real estate. Unpaid interest to
the amount of $1053.33 and unpaid
taxes amounting to $153.93, to
gether with the cost of foreclosure
which was $227, made the whole
debt to the school fund $3934.29
The mortgaged property sold for
$700, causing a loss to the schoo
fund of over $3200 in one transac
tion. Certainly it seems as if the
next legislature should place better
safeguards about what remains of
the "irreducible fund" even if they
shall have to steal time from the
time allotted for electing a United
States senator in which to do it.
The "middle of the roadsters" in
the St Louis convention turned al
the fires of their wrath on the demo
cratic candidate for vice president.
yet their action hardly meets with
the approbation of the rank and file
of the populist party in most states,
As evidenced by the convention
vote on the nomination of Bryan
who secured over a thousand of the
thirteen hundred votes in the face
of a telegram from him to withdraw
his name if Sewall was not endorsed
it is plain that Bryan was the
man who was wanted by a majority
of the party as well as by a major
ity of its delegates in the conven
tion. In short Bryan was with
them the man of the hour, and it
is hardly probable that the state
conventions will to any great extent
endanger their chances of support
ing him bv allowing two sets cf
electors to run in each state. Re
gardless of the nominations it is
probable that the questions will be
again fought in each state conven
tion and the Bryan and Sewall advo
cates seem to be leading in expres
sions of the strength of their faith.
To one who is able to watch the
growth of the Bryan campaign from
a non-partisan standpoint, there are
certainly many distinguishably in
teresting features to be observed.
The Ulster Uazette.
The most common relics of the
earliest newspapers of the country
are copies of an issue of the Boston
Gazette, published just after the
battle of Lexington and Concord
had stirred up the fires of American
patriotism, and a copy of the Ulster
County (JS. l.) Gazette, published
January 4, 1800. These two pa
pers, or rather the issues of these par
ticular dates, have been reproduced
in almost unlimited numbers, until
there is hardly a town in the coun
try that has not a half dozen or
more copies of the Centennial reprint
distributed among its citizens. A
copy of the Ulster county paper,
which by the way is not of the re
print pattern, which belongs to a
Medford lady, was left at the Mail
office last week. It is printed from
nice clear type, and notwithstand
ing it has been delicately preserved
shows the marks of age. This par
ticular paper has been so well pre
served and so numerously repro
duced because of the very choicely
written account of the death and
burial of George Washington and
the fine eloquent tribute it pays to
the hero of Mt. Vernon. This pa
per also contains an article on
President Adams annual speech to
congress, which was then delivered
verbally to both houses but which
is now sent down prepared and de
livered or rather read by the read
ing clerk in each house. In Presi
dent Adams case congress returned
to the president its ' respectful ac
knowledgements:" now congress
has other and different, and per
haps less courteous ways of paying
its respects to the president when
that body is called down with a
message.
As is the case with nearly all
other papers published at this time
the advertising portion of the pa
per was made up almost entirely of
legal ads, estray notices and notices
of sale. Sheriff sales start out with
"By virtue of a writ of fieri facias;"
a phrase but little used now, and
means about the same thing as the
one now in use: "By order of a
writ of execution." New York had
not at that time disposed of all slaves
and an occasional notice of "A stout
healthy, active negro wench for
sale," graces its columns. Among
other things is a long advertised let
ter list, a general merchandise ad
vertisement written up in verse, and
numerous notices of merchants and
traders to exchange goods for vari
ous kinds of farm produce or even
one kind of produce for another.
It is a big thing to say, but neverthe
less true, that a geat uiltitudo of peo
ple have crowned Simmons Liver
Regulator,, the "The King of Liver
Medicines." There is nothing like it
for malaria, rheumatism, chills and
fever, constipation, billiousness, sick
head ache, indigestion and all trouble
arising from a sluggish or. diseased
liver. Simmons Liver regulator is
the prevention and cure for these ailments.
BITS OF LOCAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Traveling Freight Agent P. B
Whitney, of the S. P. lines in Oregon,
was In Meafora Tuesday nignt. .
The Rogue River railroad passenger
coach is undergoing repairs this
week and the "excursion" car has
been doing service in its stead.
Trains of the Shasta limited are not
as heavy as of yore since the advance
In fares and the discontinuance
of the same is looked for in the near
future.
Tbe Medford-Jackaonville shortline
has iust closed a contract with R. W
Grav. the Medlord lumber merchant.
for 1500 ties, which are now being
placed on the road.
A. B. C. Donnlston, passenger and
ticket agent for the Great Northern
railwav. was in Meafora Tuesday dls
tributlng advertising matter for his
road. W. T. York is local agent for
the company in Medford.
With the coming exposition at Port
land this fall another cheap rate
excursion Is being talked of by
Agent Estes, of Roseburg. Last fall
Mr. Estes conducted a like excursion
and the cheap rate secured enabled a
lartre number of boutnern Oregon
people to visit the metropolis and it is
hoped by many that the same oppor
tunity will be otrered tnis lau.
Wheels and Wheelers.
Assistant S. P. Agent W. II Spear.
who visited Junction City last week,
brought a wheel back with him, thus
adding one more to the list of Medford
wheelmen.
Section Foreman Kelley, of the S. P
has joined the throng who enjoy the
pleasures of bicycling and is now the
possessor of a bicycle a scorcher, at
that. Joe will soon be as swift as any
of 'em. He Is now said to be advising
his company to plank their cattle
guards and bridges.
For a long distance rider Ralph
Uuncn is about as swift as they some
times get. One more trip to Wagner
springs via. Klamath Falls and he
will be prepared to accept most any
sort of a challenge, but the one he will
prefer will be a down grade "coast"
with bush attachments.
Bicycle ridors all over the state have
been watching with interest the race
between one of Portland's crack riders
and the pacing stallion ."Chehalis,"
wnicn took place Saturday last and re
sulted In a victory for the wheelmen
The race was a mile, two In three, and
was won in 2:02. The pacer's best time
was 2:us.
What is the reason that members of
the bicycle club are not doing some-
ming ip me line or repairs on their
iractc. mere is no srood reason whr
Medford should not have some good
races this fall and if tbe club would
do something toward fixing up the
track and as well just a little some
thing to encourage its members to take
an active interest in the affairs of the
club there would be no difficulty in se
curing some good races before the close
of the wheeling season.
W W 9
Talk about vour swift bicvcllsta. but
Mackey, the photographer, is at pres
ent in the lead. Of course all who
learn to ride a wheel are compelled to
undergo a given amount of "dust-biting"
that is, they all are apt to let
the machine get away some times, hut
In this line Mackey always leads. But
he cares nothing for a few bumps and
bruises, knowing full well that a liberal
supply of arnica and Wizard oil will
make well such trifling ills, and be
pushes ahead looklog forward, no
doubt, to a match race between him
self and Frank Wilson, tbe baker.
Aside from tearing up the travel for
three hundred and sixty-three feet, re
moving about two yards of cuticle from
different parts of his anatomv, badly
soiling his clothes, putting eighty-four
"stave-Ins" in bis silk hat and losing
his watch, Mackey's first effort at
learning the ways ol a wheel was a suc
cess. Why the Hair Utu Thin.
When one's hair shows the first evi
dence of thinning oat most people rush
to the barber shop arm have it clipped,
with the thought that it will come in
again in greater luxuriance. This is a
fallacy. The cause of baldness in man
is, says Dr. Leslie Phillips in the Med
ical Record, to be found in the fact that
he cuts his hair. In men the hair is
habitually cut short from childhood,
while in women the converse is almost
universally true. In boyhood and man
hood, by clipping and cutting the hair,
we remove the gentle traction on the
bulb and follicle which the natural
weight of the hair exercises, and
which constitutes the essential and
natural stimulus necessary to secure
due innervation and vascular supply to
the hair-producing structures. Loss of
vigor, and finally more or less pro
nounced atrophy, is the inexorable re
sult, modified or delayed, it may be, by
collateral circumstances, predisposi
tions or conditions. Dr. l'hillips warns
the "new woman" against wearing her
hair short. Almost every theory has
some defect, and we might ask Dr. Phil
lips why men who clip their beards or
6have for a long time do not get bald
on their china.
Woman's Work.
Women were the first shoemakers.
They made beautiful shoes with soles
of rawhide and uppers of dressed skin.
Prof. Mason says that the women who
invented the moccasin should have a
statue by the side of Watt. The Eskimo
woman is a bootmaker. She curries a
part of her equipment of tools in her
mouth, using her teeth to help vnrious
processes. The reticule, tobneco bag,
traveling case, bandbox and packing
trunk all exist among the savages, and
in North America are made by women,
chiefly from the pelts of animals. For
the first two the skins of rodents and
"such small deer" su 111 ce. There is a
beautiful war bonnet of eagle feathers
in the National museum, all the work
on which was done with a sewing-ma
chine by the daughter of a chief, who
had been educated in the Carlisle
school.
The U. S. Gov't Reports
show Royal Baking Powdci
superior to all others
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING
The gold democrats will probably
noid a national conventional Sept. 2.
M. Eugene Spuller, French pol
tician, journalist and author, is
dead, aged 61.
A Stockton, Calif., man has been
arrested for drawing two pensions,
under different names.
Postage stamps to the number of
4,UUU,3U,UU0 are annually used by
tne people in the United States.
Edward B. Winslow, democratic
candidate for govenor, of Main, has
withdrawn, because of the Chicago
platform.
Schweinfurth, . the Rochford
leader of the Church Triumphant,
ib accredited witn a determination
to move his "heaven" to California
The present system of holding
nominating conventions was com
menced in 1832, when Jackson and
VanBuren were nominated by the
democrats.
The Cunard company has or
dered the construction of three 500
ton steamers. . The vessels will be
built at Belfast, and will bo adapted
ior inegut aud cheap passenger
trauic.
The new Oriental Steamship
company, of Japan, is contemplat
ing a traffic agreement with the
Burlington, in which case Tacoma
will become the American termi
nus of the company.
The gold reserve has gone up to
and passed the hundred million
mark, and is steadily being in
creased. The latest report placed
Hat over $103,000,000, with 6,
000,000 in gold being offered.
John Clark Rod path of Green
Castle, the historian, has consented
to be the democratic candidate for
Congress in his district. He is an
extreme advocate of silver, and will
be nominated bv acclamation at
Brazil, Indiana this week.
The people of Briggs, Calif., sub
scribed fo.UUU for the establish
ment of a cannery in order to give
employment to the idle population
or tne town. 1 hey are now enraged
because the proprietors of the can
nery are employing Chinese fruit-
packers instead of white.
Louis Lombard, an American
musician, who is traveling in Japan
writes as follows of Japanese mu
sic: l would respectfully suggest
to music critics the use of the epi
thet 'Japanese' whenever they wish
to describe something feelingless,
out of tune and ineffably ugly."
An Indianan, who was so poor as
to be asked to be sent to tha poor
farm, was surprised by receiving a
check for $500 and the news that
his brothers had made a strike in
Colorado and that his share was
120,000. He cried for joy, but was
so weak that the shock nearly killed
him.
Boies, who has been prominently
mentioned for the democratic and
silver nomination for congress from
the third Iowa district, the district
so long represented bv D. B. Hen
derson, has written a letter stating
that such things cannot be, that he
does not want to run and that he
does not want the notoriety of hav
ing to decline.
Secretary Lamout has returned
from New York, says a Washington
dispatch of the 22d insL He spent
tome time in conference with Sec
retary Carlisle. It can be stated
positively that tbe administration
has not now and has not recently
had any intention to resort to an
other bond issue for the purpose of
replenishing the gold reserve.
The new $1 silver certificate de
signed by Mr. Lowe of New York
made its first public appearance
last Friday and there was a rush
by local business men to get hold
of the $40,000 in new notes paid
out over the treasury counters.
The new note undoubtedly is artis
tic in appearance, but from its
marked difference from the old
notes may not be at first well re
ceived by the conservative element.
The secretary of 6tate of Minne
sota has received for filing the arti
cles of incorporation of the Northern
Pacific Railway company, and the
new charter of the same, as created
by special acts of the legislature of
Wisconsin. This is the charter of
the new or reorganized company,
and represents a capital of $155,
000,000. The fee paid into the
state treasury of Minnesota
amounted to $77,725.
The bimetalic committee has
addressed the voters of the United
States on the charge that they
were repudiators, revolutionists and
anarchists by announcing that in
the convention there were four
veterans of the Mexican war, 49 ex
confederates and 1 union army
veterans of the late war. Of the
700 delegates attending, nine are
prohibitionists, 49 populists, 146
democrats and 526 are republicans.
President Kruger, of the Trans
vaal, is an able statesman, but an
unhappy subject for the sculptor,
as is demonstrated by a . statue of
him to be erected at Pretoria. The
President is portrayed in the quaint
garb which he effects on Sundays
and special occasions, with bis evil
looking tall hat of the fashion of
some fifteen years ago. The statue
is of bronze and is to be mounted
on a pedestal and columns of gran
ite, and at each corner there will be
a figure representing a Transvaal
burgher in the attitude of defense.
One of the greatest sensations in
history of alleged philanthropic
movements in Pittsburg was just
unearthed. Some weeks ago a num
ber of prominent men and women
organized the Civic Club, to help
the poor on Pingree potato patch
plan. Owners of vacant land gave
the use of it. Men were hired to do
the plowing, and considerable
money was spent for Beeds. etc,
The Civic Club presented the
bills for the work to City Control
ler Gurley, and asked that the city
pay them. The controller refused.
He said the whole movement had
passed as philanthropic, and that
the attempt to make the city pay
the bill is preposterous.
The latest production of the
watchmakers of Switzerland is a
watch whose hands move from
right to left instead of from left to
right, as in ordinary watches.
These watches are designed for the
markets of Turkey, Japan and other
oriental countries, where the natives
read from right to left, and where
there has been a demand , for
watches of this character. This
watch is the invention of a Geneva
watchmaker, who has covered it by
Swiss patents, and who has applied
or is applying for patent rights in
the United States. The watch
moves with perfect precision and
seems to be in all respects as good
as other watches.
The United States has again
been compelled to call on the gov
ernment of Columbia to apologize
for the schooner Whitford incident.
A cablegram has been sent to the
minister of the United States at
Bogota, a copy of which he was in
structed to lay before the Colombian
government, demanding that that
government reply immediately to
Two Items
of
To Bargain
Seekers...
25 dozen Ladies
last black hose at 15 cents. Are
good value at 25 cents.
300 yards Everett Classin fiine--
hams at 6 1-4 cents. Other peo
ple ask 10 cents for same goods.
Deuel & Stevens
Medford,
NEW STORE ....
(T&y We have just opened up a new store, and
ll have in stock a complete line of General
Ms Merchandsse, embracing
Dry Goods, Groceries and
No shelf worn goods. Everything new and
fresh. Bedrock prices. Give us a call
J. O. C. WIMER & CO., woodville, OREGON,
After Election there is
Time for Reflection
But it requires only inspection to conclude that the
nobbiest and most complete line of Summer Suits
ever brought to Medford are exhibited by
S. Rosenthal, The Clothier,
A very nice line of black clay worsteds, suitable for
dress, is also a part of his immense stock Fancy
summer shirts, neckwear, bicycle suits, sweaters;
bicycle hose, etc., etc.
the two notes recently addressed to
it in regard to making amends for
the ontrage committed on the
American vessel Whitford is, March
last. Minister McKinley is slirected
to say to the Colombian government
that it must lose go more- time in
making a disavowal and apology
for the outrage perpetrated bv its
officials on a vessel of the American,
merchant marine.
Medford Public School.
The fall term of school will open
on the first Monday in September.
It is of great importance that each
pupil should be in attendance - the
firet day and be prompt and regular
in attendance through the year.
Many of those who failed to secure
promotion in June, to the next
grade, were irregular in attendance.
We desire to o-operate with
n a ran to i m w n a- x . i i
ui puuuiuamy ana study in children
ana we nope to nave your hearty
effort in this direction the coming
year. It is intended to publish a
monthly report showing the number
of pupils who have not been absent
or tardy during each month and
other details of interest to patrons.
By recent action of the.
board all children who were five
years old previous to March 1, 1896
mayenter the first grade, Septem
ber 7th. There are only two periods
of entrance for new pupils in the
primary room; the first week of
school and the first week of March.
Only those six years of age or older
can enter the first primary as new
pupils in March. It may be well
for all who can to take advantage
of this fall entrance.
G. A. Gregory.
Avoid Consumption.
By stopping that cough. We know
of no better remedy for coughs and
colds than the S. B. Cough Cure. 50
cento a bottle. For sale by Cha3.
Strang.
There's more clothing destroyed
by poor soao than bv actnnl mr "iln
Cake" soap contains no free alkali and
win not injure tne finest lace. Try it
and notice the difference in quality.
Lumsden & Berlin.
Merest
full regular made,
Oregon
Provisions