S. N, V
k OUR COUNTY
t Correspondents
Jacksonville Sews.
Dupty Recorder Austin
Holt is
enjoying a vacation. I
A daughter was born, November'
the Sth, to Mr. and Mrs. J. K.
Reeve. . .
Waiter Williams has gone to Sac
ramento to accept a position in an
electric establishment.
Marshal Dyar is nursing a
sprained arm, caused by trying
to train his bicj-cle te -stand up on
two feet.
Fletcher Linn, who travels in
the interest of the Oregon Manufac
turing company, spent Sunday with
relatives.
C. A. Cogsnell and wife, of Lake
"view, this week visited their daugh
ter and niece, who are attending St.
Mary's Academy.
Mrs. Wm. Colvis returned home
Mondav from Wooville, where she
called be the illness and -death
of her sister Mrs. Jones. j
Mrs T onra i.nv Pl.-irV rf
is visiting relatives ia Jacksonville.!
Her husband expeetsto spend, the
holidavs here with his family.
Mrs. A. H. Maegiv
and two
daughters left for their
homo in
Portland Saturdav evening, after
a
two months' visit with relatives.
Jackson county is keeping up its
rreputation in furnishing .its usual
number of insane for the asylum.
Two persons were committed !to
that institution last week.
Paris Hamilton, of TJniorrtown
precinct is dangerously ill at the
home of Mrs. S. Cantrai, and 'fears
are entertained as to his recovery.
Dr. Pickel, of Medford, is n at
tendance. The election retoras were can
vassed Friday by Clerk Jackson, R.
S. Dunlap and E. B. Foudray, - of
Phoenix. There were 373$ -votes
cast at the November election, a
gain of nearly 300 sirace June.
The DeMcss family will .give one
of their excellent entertainments at
theTJ. S. hall, on Monday, the 16tfc.
One-half of the proceeds will be
given the M. E. church. There has
been 100 tickets sold npto this date.
John Knox, who has spent some
time in this vicinity looking after
mining interests, left Tuesday 'for
Hay wards, California, to join his
family, who will accompany him on
a trip to New Jersey to -spend the
-winter.
-The announcement -of he marri
age of James Townsend and "Hiss
.'Nora Berry, has been made 'for
November 18th, at the home of Mrs.
M.E. Houser, mother of the bride
elect, at Butte, Montana. Miss
Nora has many friends dn Jackson
ville who wish for her much happi
ness. News reached us from Cinnebar
that James McCully left-camp-witb
intention of coming home to attend
the election and visit relatives
but was lost and was -out over night
. in the snow. He was found the fol
lowing day and taken back to
camp. No further particulars have
reached his friends as yet.
The funeral of the late Mrs. W.
V. Jones, of Woodville, took place
here Tuesday after the arrival of
the noon train. A large concourse
of sympathising friends were in at
tendance. Mrs. Jones was a lady
of excellent qualities and coe dearly
loved by all her acquaintances. She
leaves a husband and three smaM
' children to mourn the loss of a wife;
- and mother. The deceased was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. N.
BirdBeyvof Bolt. This is Che sec-'
end bereavement that has befallen
them in less than one year.
Table Rock items.
Mr. York made Table Rock a
business visit Saturday.
Miss Annie Clements returned to
her Antioeh school Monday.
S. U. Mitehell, of Central Point,
visited Table Rock friends last
week.
Rogue river took quite a rise
Blood...
Bubbles.
Those pimples or blotches
that disfigure your skin, are
blood bubbles. They mark
the unhealthy condition of the
blood-current that throws them
up. You must get down to
the blood, before yon can be
rid of them. Local treatment
is useless. It suppresses, but
does not heal. The best rem
edy for eruptions, scrofula,
' sores, and all blood diseases, is
Ayer's j
Sarsaparilla. f
Monday but soon went back to her
normal condition.
Several droves of fat hogs have
been driven to market from this sec
tion in the last few days.
We are informed that Wm. Byhee ;
sold over two thousand sheep last
week, the price was not stated.
E. B. Jennings has leased the
Drum farm, and all the plow land
will be seeded in wheat this fall.
Kelly Bros., of Grants Pass,turned
over their work horses and cattle to
Wm, Bybee last week, who will
winter them.
Wheat buyers have been quite
numerous lately and somes good
sales have been made. This is
what makes the farmers smile.
Already we hear the old story of
too much rain. Farmers are anx
ious to begin plowing but it 'is a
little too wet- Guess things will
right themselves soon so everybody
wii-1 be' happy.
J. C. P.
Talent Whispers.
by f. sua nr.
Although news items are scarce,
ivet it cannot truthfully be said that
it is dry here after three days of
iTaitl
Dr. Stanfield, of Medford, has
been here to see absut locating fr
the practice of medioine. Having
lived here a while -once, lw is anx
ious to relocate in this quiet inland
town.
JefT. Bell, since returning from
eastern Oregon has purchased of A.
Alford, fifteen acres of garden land.
Consideration $800. iVLr. Bell and
sof are building a house and other
wise improving the plaee for a home.
Jacob Shively and son, John,
have purchased an acre of land of
i, Robinson on the -creek. They
kave already erected e neat d wel
ling house and expect to utili?e
ebout a four horse water power for
wood working purposes.
Central Point! terns.
Glen Owea .has gone to Watkwes
to open a barber shop.
A. M. Ford pent a day here last
week with bk brother, E. A. Ford.
T. Brockley. of Mt. Pitt, was here
one day last 'week purchasing SRp
plies. T. J. Ke&oe. of Chimney Rock,
spent a few days with relatives here
last week.
James Pasts and .vife retured
to their home in Pokegama, Caii.,
last Thursday.
Edward Falconer, of Tacoaea,
spent a few days herlast week wich
his brotberindaw, Jacnes Bleviae.
Mrs. I. A. May, acd daughter,
'Nellie, made friends t Jacksonville
a visit the first of the reek.
Mrs. J. W. Merritt-epent several
days last week with her parents,
Mr. and Mr. W. T. Moore, of Jack
sonville. Misses Stella, and Lizzie Stidhai
and Nellie 3lay are attending
teachers examination at Jacksos
ville this week.
W. U'. Scott-found a pair of eye
glasses last week which the owiwr
can have by calling at tho postollioe
and giving description.
Before purchasing watches and
jewelery, call and see the new line
just received at Dr. Hinkles. Prices
to suit the times.
Our citr presents a .lively ap-
parance the Jast feiv weeks -owing to
the large shipments of wheat, hay
and stock from ibis point.
The ladies of the M. E. .church
gave a dinner, at twenty ents a
plate, on election day, and netted a
ueat sum wliieh will be used to pay
off the debt oa the parsonage.
In a commercial transaction the
dargest check that evr was paid
was the one that was :gned after
the amalgamation of the diamond
mines 01 Kimberlev ia. Ion tin
purchase of the various couflicti&g
interests which have so far divided
the diamond mining industry of
South Africa $2G30,00Q a very
heay payment, which was justified
by the fact that, even after such an
enormous expenditure, the Do Beers
consolidated mines paid 16 per cent
the next year, 25 per cent the next,
and up to the present a grand divi
dend total of 186 per cent on
the capital upon which the con
solidation was originally formed.
How to Prevent Croup.
SOME READING THAT WILL PHOVE IX
TEEE8TINO TO YOUNG MOTHERS.
HOW GUARD AGAINST THE DISEASE.
Croup is a terror to young mothers
and to post them concerning the cause,
first symptoms and treatment is the
object of this itsm. The origin of
croup is a common cold. Children
who are subject to it take cold very
easily and croup is sure to follow. The
first symptom is horseness; that is
soon followed by a peculiar rough
cough, which ia easy recognized and
will never be forgotten by one who has
heard it. The time to act is when the
child first becomes hoarse. It Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is freely givon
all tendency to croup will soon disap
appear. Even after the croupy cough
has developed it will prevent the at
tack. There is no danger in giving
this remedy for it contains nothig in
jurious. For Bale by Geo. H. Haskins.
A BOTYOltfUtSS PIT.
'Exploration tt & XYeuiiur Cavo Formation
in France.
Among- the most remarkable of na
ture's wonders the subterranean pit at
Jean J on vean, near vauclusc, Franee.
! which reaches a dt.pth of live hundred
and forty feet, while nowhero more
than twelve feet wide, has only recent
ly been explored. The Fivn-jh Society
of Speleology (cave study) erected a
derrick at the mouth of tno nit which I
begix.s with a funnel fifteen foot v.idd
at the top and narrows down to Hires
feet at a depth of about twenty fuefc.
From hero down the crevice in tho
rock, for such it is, extends vertiaJlyv i
getting wider as it extends- deeper, un- ;
til at a depth of alwr.it four hundred ;
and sevcnty-ilpe feet it is twelvw foot
wide. At this point the shaft !;-. as
into a roomy care in(which jut beneath
the opening of the vertical pita thick
layer of clay, containing remains -pf
bones, both human and animal, was
found. The explorers found no evi
dence that the place had ever been vis
ited by man, but tradition has it that
criminals "were thrown int the "bot
tomless pit." a.sit was popularly called
in the neighbor'iiood. and the remains in
the cave just beneath the Uiaft tend to
corroborate this belief.
The descent made into the shaft was
exceed injly !i!lieull; it established the
fact that thw:e .must be c. furtlvr cavo
iar btdow the one now VzmVu. intt the
j-ere-viijc-through which .u is afcessibif
l is ehviked up with debri.. a id bowlders
, so that it r ill be a very '.!:,';, .:!t nnitir
j to pen .'t rate further kun t!;e ::ve than
! hus been done. Tiv;' d-. .-ix--t. xtni
i reached. Si- this ervrk'o is liv. hviiidird
land ninety-! hrve fvei- ittiderjii-uvmd.
I Great p::::thioso' wu.er r.!.-.h th;x:!:ri)
the shaft at every ll:u. l here i'.a.s!na,
still no tra.v of Kai.-r v-;ui i-.:nd in the
cave cxp lozvd, wh:.:h pruve;; that .n.io
other subterranean exit must cxLsa.
UJSES FOH OLD RAILS.
A Ureut Amount cf larlri-Wlrc Pcarlne
I M!il?r Tti r.j.
In-Speaking of the use-of uld Tails re
cently, says the Eillwur lie-viewer, an
otl'icir.l of the Isnnsyivania railnvid
stated the life of a rail on tho Pennsyl
vania lines ttc.it is about eleven years
and on the Pennsylvania railroad only
nine .years. The difference is perhaps
due to heavier traffic on the J'ennsyl
vunim. railroad. The Trietion of con
stanlly passing train wears un the rail
until it must be replaced by. a new one.
The company pays twenty-four dollars
a iton now twesnty-two -dollars and
the rrails used in thnt lin average
eighty-five pounds '.to the yaTd. When
itfau passed its useful tagei he rail is.
reniactHi.
J'he old rails thaUare taken out from,
time to time are rathereil up every
month and sold to junk ami scrap deal
ers at twelve dollars a ton. Ot can read
ily be seen that the company pays only
twelve dollars foe the use-oi rails per
tji. he price reeeivci from the scrap
man is a goixl figure, when at is known
that the rails, whan sold, are of no use
to the company. tJlails - that are not
match worn are sold to factories along
the road at eighteen dollars per ton,
wltere they are oasd for sidings and an
swer the purpose fpiite .aswell as new
rails. There are imany .tk&es to which
the old rail is pet. .A great amount of
barb-wire fencingSs mad of railroad
irau and very of ten .the rails are used as
foundations for large buildiags. There
are not many people who know that
the. Masonic temple an Chiotgo rests on
&. foundation of siaalTavils,ayer upon
lilayer, six feet deep. ,
,1A
CANINE -CURIOSITY.
Blx rfopnill nd
Tramp
Dog of JttHln-Bwy.
There is a Newfoundland, dojr at Putin-
Bay that is certahUy a curiosity. His
name is Rover and he is known at
every, house and hostelry on the island.
TeoRi ago he was -named by Mr. Jay
Cooke. the millionaire banker and
owner of Gibraltar, the eliff-jfirt little
island that nestles 'ia the bosom of
Put-inrBay, hardly yet separated from
its parent mother by.a narrow line of
shoaltt. Mr. Cooke had no use for Iiover
-and pave him away when he was quite
young to a family on .the island of the
-name of Roclfinjj. In the course of time,
ays the Buffalo Commercial, the Roel
ng family moved a way and iiover, who
had (frown into fine proportions, was
left .alone without a master. .Several
times attempts were made to domicile
the brute, but thej were of ne avail,
lie either would not forpel his old mas
ter or else had determined to be true to
his name and lead a roving- life. At
any rate, -for the past three or four
years Borer has been the -tramp dog of
the island, without any home. Every
body likes kim, and there is not a child
that does not save him a piece of meat
or crust of Vread. He makes the rounds
from house to house, and always seeks
the kitchen door first. Be is round,
fat and sleek, and lives on the fat f
the land and k the common property -cs"
the island.
SHE WAS ECONOMICAL.
After TeattaaT tbe Remit Her Ila-
band Wm t'napnredattoe.
VTHh one of those -good intentions
with which the infernal regions are
said to be paved, tux economic uptown
housewife recently dyed her hubby'a
shabby hat. The operation wns per
formed, says the Philadelphia Record,
with a toothbrush and a package of
patent dye, unknown to the owner of
the headgear, who put bis hot on be
fore it was dry and sallied forth to his
Chestnut street office. On drying the
Derby turned a beautiful bronze, at
tracting no little attention as its igno
rant and LTissful wearer passed
through the, principal streets. Before
he reached the office le woa caught
in a shower, and when he afterward
saw himself in a mirror his counte
nance was decorated like that of an
Indian chieftain in war paint. The
dye wasn't fast black indeed, it
wasn't even black, and to the preju
diced eye of the unhappy husband it
seemed to have been composed of
green, pink, blue, purple nnd yellow.
The lecture he delivered on "false. econ
omy" when he renched home would
have done credit to Mrs, Caudle.
OF GREAT
COST. I
New York
'lrm to Sleet tfcrlMiind
for
1,OCO Ulrjxlca.
The most prominent Xcxv York jew
elry firm has Bonicthilig- V.c w for wheel
men in a silver bicycle, which was ut
on exhibition at their store a frw days
ag-o. The wheel is the fii t of the kind
ever mutle. In ouiei to insure Ktrenjrth
aiul durability it vs neccasary to have
he apiorting rods and fipokt s of st col.
All he rest of he frame is of litcrl'inff
sil-.ci-. The lmd!e bur is of plain sd
vsv, with burnished ivory liaudh's. The
olbcr silver starts :;re finely cuirraved
by L::nd, wKJi rvjxmsso ttchhifi of the
Lcuis XVI, style. The rprocki-t wheel
is of pteis silver. Thii .sjuldlr: itself is!
Kiudded with silver nails-. The cost of j
the insnc-hine, as it rK is5(;0. Aj
fc-lver iantcrn to p with it will add
from 3-00 to $200 to ib.e I r'fo.
Thf coinptttml v.fceei veijrbs about
C6 jMOMids. A nieuilxii- of ".lie company
raid, in explaining' the e:nKt: neiion of
thctiew bike: "This whovl wna buili.
to Supply n dt-nvajnl which we know to
exist urnou? sonje of our patrons for
410 Iter audnionM'Xjx'r.sive whes ! than
eon be had on Uie market iit ja-eKCiit.
'fMteh a wbpe-1 co hau tried to nuke,
jind 1 believe, that -another s;is;i avi!!
see many of tiictn al the. frJiiiab!e
resorts."
A woman's v.in-el is beivtr fuiisiird
in the firm's sho; 5. Th;s v.hf-i I v. ;!!
l e inu-h r.ifire rclJy oriai::-i:t.-('.. ai:d
its prx-e av.'II be '?! ,f IK1.. A lunurr.
which is bfie.fr made to ftv wMi it, will
lx. set W;h i:eO!!i!E : tones will
ctvT nt veral hnn-Jrod de't:;rs.
5JI AT H E W AT ! CS A N D ASTT. C N O M Y
Two
ai5 Xort?ifr.v lo 2larh Oi'.kt.
TVob'ibly in none c.f th - scii-nees. np
plird or pure, is ;v k:tc.v!i'd' of hijrher
Tnthcn-.uti so csspnt':.l us astron
omy. O-rta'-n);- none -iiivo'-.i-s so much
neither iat ieai lulor. The ir.i-thed oC
The Irtst Kfjaircs is one in almost con
Wunt 'wKc'lrt those currvd in es!ro
nomical caJcnlution..-nnd ihc amount of
tibor often vntailfd bytiiis pwess is
irpourrh'tov-nnke tte bead of an ordi
Jiary eitica swim eveu:1o think of.
v)mtof' the most erctensivr. least sqtinre
soltft-jons rrcr nuifte. says the Titls-i
burjfU Drspatch, has n-c-nt!y In-enpub-
iiiiv-u ny i-roi. Mtiiwr.'ai ijoeuinprn.
The 'holkrnetric tt-ri!inrhitions of the
srui-s in"Cie clurtir Prnrtepe (the Pee
hi) jjavt- rise txux Ferier. of 74 normal
t pro trans. invo3Ttrjr 74 unknown qmn-i-iiticK.
'The so3.tnin of this set of
rprintittei was -Rftireteir y I"Tof. Si-hor
in teir-TBr-eks ty means of the -;-!
Ciaussiaia. methoa-of cfc irntion. IV-f.
' Scbur c-anies toffee- conclusion t!;at w
oiher: lo-Mhod ly siiiwsivo a;'prev;
rnintions is to i-flw-jiarwl to thr
Ctiussiax: metlwKl,-evonXiiur-h it miifht
i-pni;a promweji avirp- of lalMir n;
ndranet. l'rof. Jvhnr Twntions nsthe
"lenpes-x Toast fnnjro obtmion he ha:-,
"beeu h&ie to fitrfi'-in nsir-Miotnical liter--ature
a peolpjir -wljs-iiipi-nt made by
Ibieyer, in whiriki-j urtM normal er-nn-'fions
-R-'ith 68 unknowns was sueee-ss-"tully
sdSed by (lae famous computer.
iDiuw, in three smraths.
fQAVE
TMErrrsHiA jag.
tij"f 8-ns-
Entrtsllax j
ImVMJU arsis.
"Did .you ever se drunien fish?" in-
Wuired-a Sonotua-e-nunty nine gr-owrr.
o oc woaMoi-tinfess-ihat he hail
-c-rji mujAiunm-iKNU, ftuu uir Kilt-nee in
rflicnted.jk predj-Mtfation t incrvlulity,
xays a writer in thr "San Fnncisco Post.
""I suppose yxmire polci? to tell us
rtxut ;a druaben catfish stapperinp
.-Jiown tbrouph tlxrf hard, and catch-:in-;
a hjr-3?" supr-TBSHHl one.
"Do yo i think l.aai a liarT demaod
cfl the taTuer, indhrnantly.UMit he was
Jrtft in .i-norancR.us to the in lief of his
hearers. ""My winery is rhiht on the
bank of .a!ittlereek. This -tone ofthe
year the 'water xta-ials in pools and
evrry ooi is full of-Trout, swkers and
ptW. AH f the wj-Kte from the winery
is thrown into tie tnt-k, and that is
cntuipb U-Jisoolor.1i;e watrr. lut ihe
otlier day a bip vat of sour clnrrt burst
mill nearlyinll of ii. ran down i-jto the
hole of water just be'-ow the -winery.
In half an hour tlie ymtl wan eik.wdetl
with fish float inp bejly up. I thoupht
Jjiey-were (Jaulviand pu?Jcl a b pike
ut, but he wtppled asd.flopiiedaA-ound
justdtke.an oW.drunk.tr-rinp to pet up
without nnyttinp to bold on to. One
by one they disappeared as thoy ;so- J
nerea ,up, nntl when the -water vlestred
t-ose days afterward therecw-osn't adevd
fish in ithe pooL They hud just ba-en
jaRped:"
METAL OF J.HE STANDARDS.
Xalve J-.tamUhw K Mineral 4nltat:e far
.be Vat-pone.
Tbere-aDe:no products of hu-isnn skill
on wVieh.a-rrcater.d,,gree of ore is ex
pended than the bthudards of weight
and mcci-sore in use among the civilized
nations of ike globe. Two things in
particular Iuum: .to be considered accu
racy and dxuyfeUity. 2"uture does not
furuush any single metal, or mineral,
which exactly answers the require
ments for a standard of measure or
weight that -shall be, as nearly .as possi
ble, unalterable.
The best substance yet produced for
this purpose ia an alloy of ninety per
cent, of platinum with ten per cent, of
iridium. This is called iridio-platinum,
and it is the substance of which the
new metric standards prepared by the
international committee of weights and
measures are composed.
It is hard, it is less affected by beat
than any pure metal, it is practically
non-oxidizable, or not subject to rust,
and it can be finely engraved. Jn fact
the lines on the standard meters are
hardly visible to the naked eye, yet
they are smooth, even, sharp and accu
rate. If our civilization should ever be lost,
and relies of it should be discovered in
some brighter nge in the remote future,
there is nothing which would bear
higher testimony to its character than
these standard meusnres of iridio-platinum
for the production and preserva
tion of which the science of our day has
done Its very best.
BICYCLES
BUMBLEBEE OPIUM FIENDS.
Krratlo 1'cnunylv.tnia Itinera That Ie
liRht tti Hitting the I'ipc.
The argument that dumb brutes shun
the beverages and drugs that man uses
as u stimulant does not hold water as
far as Ilucks county bumblebees are
concerned. Some of them have been
led sad! v astray nud are addited
to
"hitting the pipe," so to speak.
Ihicks comity's opium joint is located
on Finnliook farm, about a mile west
of Doylestown. the trial grounds of a
well-known Philadelphia seedliouse.
r.ays th'i ."hiladclphia Ledger. In one
portion of tha farm are several large
beds of poppy plants. It is here the
bees get drank. The poppies are not
tho poisonous Chinese variety from
which opium is obtained, but they con
tain enough of the seductive juice to
make a man dizzy after spending some
hours in the pa'ch. Quantities of bees
can be seen lying about in the cup
shaped Howers. A recent visit to the
farm w:v; very interesting, l'ees wcr.-1
to be seer, in every stage from part iat .
ir.loxSeation to de:.tli itself, the beau-
tiful cups holding the dead bodies of ;
j many. I
The n'.rnbcrhjg jf the heavenly bid-
les, v:
:'.:c r!i
::! tin
K!tiru
ri'l, satellite or star of
.'. ''..'.s b(en coimii'.'nced
.)!'...rv-.itory by Miss
;r fi s.-tcii'-c anil as-
;,-r. in view of the pub- j
rr.atkmal catalogue
v i t-'u was funned at ;
1 .mgrvss in IS'7. and :
' -' ,'."r::;)'i liavo 1m'c:i ;
t;!-.iv c-'intain a do.tn 1
,::ir:. tVt. !;v --r a c -!.-s;iai desert; but i
.. -.i-.-s : (.:!.- -.Ic l. even to tiie num- !
ber i'f .':-. Th.- average isniuber is!
vw .ars i'.-r : -mingraph. Altogettier
t!.: c.-.:r - "i: -pvcted to contain
abur.T ; ' 'rs. A census of tlie
hfaw:'.- "H-.t-ies tr.s long b-'n ne'ded.
Xo-.v i. :v:Tian coaiis forward and will
omnt a". of ". !i? f.tirrs. She will be some
time at it. but when the work is dono
it will be fiuidu'd.
nioftphoma4'Ut Uuimonclft.
An eipert in .j;enis has laudy called
iUcrtUftx to a p(perty in the diamond
vrfskU 4as not Jsit'.ierto been fully ap-
i irfwiiavrf. l:inrt. Ttiivle menliois a
,Vjaluu0. .jiat 'ocnme phosplu)i-eseut
j.,,,, vv The
h:at of the. hautL, ab-
sj-i.e ikrhx on brinpr held near a can-rJl-K.,
ocfi -mitted ilipht on beinjr br'skly
rl!'pl. tiieivrctions by Mr. Kunz.
Z'tst- pon ex;HTt.-ec'!ifirm Boyle's t?ate-jt-:it
rJiat dinntouds become phosptor--wr!.
in the kirk after expose:? to
tn.r.':pTn. -or elctr:c liht by bein-;
J ruMr-a cn wooii. cloth or me'tnl. This
!-rm arty is an diujioriant one. as t
vi'd -h5p the n!i-e:rt to distinguish
H'twrai the true -"ininotd nnd otic:
aH iaoriw, cs .T-e!!.as ireitatiors. usm
j e ch'-ch is -sail; to exhibit this pke j
TtienwD.
THLE NEW r.KK'K
Livery StaMe
l A. Kli'NSE, Fron'r
H!ct-9Tet, - Medford, Oreson
, .
are rwd drivers and my
ritfrsar new awi first class. Horses
boni-tied at reonable rales
FRAXK W. WAIT
Monument. Coping and
IPi-
igpiie m siopi Woife...
Medford Bottling Works
There" been a little change In ownership, you see. but
none io the quantity or quality of the goods we carry
they are the best in the market. Imported and domestic
ciaN&. confectionery and all kinds of 'summer drinks
always on baud. Remember the number ,
IF YOU WANT A
Don't fail to call and see those which I have in
stock, and get prices. A NEW LINE of East
ern stoves just received. Cook stoves from ?6
up. Old stoves taken in exchange for new ones.
JACK IP,
!Perscriptions
Main Street
Carefullv
THE LARGEST LENS.
The
Splendid Achievement of an Amer
ican Manufnctnrcr.
The Clarks have accomplished what,
has lonff been regarded as an impossi
ble thinp, and one which no European
manufacturer of lenses could be induced
to attempt. This is the making of a per-
fect lens of more than three feet across
i the face. Xo one but this American
j manufacturer ever thought of exceed
t ing the twenty-six-inch lenses which,
j are in use at several observatories on
j both continents, one at the naval ob
servatory at Washington, throug-h:
which Mr. Hall discovered the long
sousrht satellites of Mars and many
double stars. The highest power was
supposed to be reached when the Lick
telescope in California was put up with
a thirty-six-inch lens. The difficulties to
be met in the production of a perfectly
clear len:, of reat size are so many that
the European observers who have
wanted anything above the twenty-six-inch
lens have had to take the reflecting-
Udescoyj?. v.i.ich iias a concave mir-
r,)r. it ronnirrc. of eonrse 'a much
itriscr reflecting telescope to get the
h.irne amount of light and the same
magnitude of object.
The makine of this fortv-one
and a
"..r.!f-i:ich lens, says tiic New York Com
mercial Adverti.-if r, is reparded as the
'ro'.vninp work of Mr. Alvan Clark's
life. It is probable no larger lens will
ever be made. L'nder exihtinp condi
tions a larper telescope than the
Yerkes the telescope of the Chicago
university objrfrvatory for which the
lens is made would be of no preat
value. To increase the
nnwer is at the same tune
mapnifyinp
to increase
the obstrue
! -struct ions to clear vision. When
the object is mapnined the atmospheric
1 r.tion is increa-sed to such a depree
distinctness is virtually sacrificed
wjien the object glass is larper than
f.;rty-one and a half-inches. It is
dnubtful if the Yerkes will be any
more useful than the Lick. Some day
it may be possible to remove the ob
stacles to clearness in the case of a
powerful lens, thouph the only reason
for suppestinp it is that Prof. TyndaU
was able to construct a glass by which
the blue of the atmosphere was dissi
pated in looking through a deep space.
If the Yerkes glass answers expecta
tions it will enable an experienced ob
server to catch occasional glimpses of
the Mars canals, which, thouph drawn
firmly on the Vatican maps, are -vague
and wavering and almost imaginary
through any glass. They can be seen
at all only by the trained observer.
The great telescope will be most useful
in the study of double- stars, which is
now a matter of special interest to
many observers.
. Not Merely n Ornament.
The prince of Wa les is said to bave
an extraordiuarv and accurate knowl
edge of the signs, colors and membership
of all orders of merit. It is a matter iD
j which he permits-no trifling, too. At a
: recent state balk a beautiful young
- girl wore a glittering jeweled decora
i tion on her breast. She danced oppo-
I site the prince. nen tfte quaaruie .
i was over, he said, gently: '"That is a.
' prettv ornament- May I aok to whom-.
it belongs?" "To Lord Blank,'' said,
the frightened girl: "he is my fiance..
He allows me to wear it." "Can you.
unfasten it easily?" "Yes, your high
uess." "Then may I ask yon to-take it
o-T. and to tell Lord Blank that it
means socieUiing more than a bit of
gold and a few diamonds to be worta
merely as an ornament, even by a
charming woman?1
Rustic Work
I have work in nearly every cemetery ia the county.
Cpeeial attention given to buildiup trimmiug for
specimens see Lindley buiidtnp. Kstimates furnished J
on all work in my line. Yard on G street, Med.'ord. ?
PARKER & HIGQINS, ProprV,
COOK STOVE
THE SECOND HAND MAW
MEDFORD, OREGON
THE MORTAR
DfUG STOHE,
0. H.HASKISS, Prop'r.
Station.0'"8' Patent Medicio.
PAINTS and OILS,
Tobocooes. Clears, Perfumery, Toilet Articles an
":" Compounded.
Medford Oregon.