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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1897)
THEHEDFORD MAIL PublUhod Every Friday Moraine. A. 5. BLITON. MAN WAS BONN TO HUSTLE. He l of few days: but quite plenty. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR, PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES. (or tho term will bo Entered In the Poatofhoe At Modford, Oregon ah Beoond ClAaa Mall HAtter. . Mkdkohd, Friday, Nor. 2u, I SOT. THIS PAPER If vertUIng Agency. M And Morchtnls Ex change, Ben Franoiwo, California, where ooa tracla for advertising oan be made for It. Our Clubbing List. The Mail and Weekly S. P. Call $2 25 " " " Examiner 2 85 " " " Chronicle 2 35 " ' ". " Oregonian 2 00 " " Cosmopolitan 2 10 " " Weekly Oinoln- Datl Enquirer. . - 1 75 There is a tribe in Central Af rica among whom speakers iu pub lic debates are required to stand on one lee while speaking, and to speak only as long as they can so stand. Why not try it on congress? A woman with X-ray eyes is re ported to have been discovered iu Washington. She would be a boon for novelists, who could say that with one glance she not only trans fixed the villain, but rendered him bald. L his recent report Geu. Miles says the American Indians are "making rapid progress toward per manent settlement and semi civili zation."; That "semi" is a little hard on both the Indians and per manent settlers. Examination! bald next week. Tho seventh grade la readlnii Nan son's Travels In Greenland. Karle and Floyd Johnson entered the second grade lust Monday. .. The llttlo pontile of tho north nrl mary are beginning tho study ot uiusto. Great Britain is now said to desire to see Canada on the best of terms with the United States. Some of these days, late predictions to the contrary notwithstanding, the chances are the terms will be too good to suit England. Some people in San Francisco want Durrant's sentence commuted on the general ground that capital punishment should be abolished Perhaps so, but it would be better, most people will think, to begin the reform with the next man. ,A New York physician adver tises to "restore outstanding ears to their natural position." Gentlemen who have a few ears still outstand ing will do well to bear this adver - User in mind. If the doctor could fix up outstanding debts he could get a steady job almost any place. For a good, clean job of its kind, the affray which occurred in Louis iana the other day between four fighting' men two on a side should be commended. All four are very dead, thanks to their mu tual good marksmanship, and there is no trouble left for anybody but J,be coroner. A late letter from Cuba tells how between 15000 and 20,000 "paci ficos," whom Weyler had concen trated in half a dozen villages., died , of starvation and attendant; diseases, , only twenty-eight vaprwomen and -children now teaniDf, alive. . No wonder "The; ''Butcher'' believed himself j,ie to settle the Cuban questio if given time and left to himself. Several o( tho pupils who have boeu absent on account ot sickness, returned tats week. Birds, Illustrated with oolorx-d iilutes, form tho basis fur the afternoon talks In the fourth grade. Tho storms have been tho cause ol several absences during tho week tu tho south primary. Tho members of tho tenth grade bad a very interesting program last Wednesday afternoon. The pupils of tho fifth grade bave been very much Interested In tho India rubber tree of South America. Thanksgiving exorcises wore glvoa in nearly all tho grados of tho public school Wednesday hi tor noon. There was no school on Thursday and Friday. Editor Bllton, ot The Mail, heard of the uubllo school "potato social" and sent In a whole sack full of excel lent tubers that would grace tho table of a king. Tho soholurs ot tho public school are expecting a large patronngo from the friends of the school, in tholr ottort to secure an organ.. It Is a worthy object and is much needed In the school. Two of the Central Point football boys were In Medford Tuesday with their ball suits on. Tboy looked much like the auuient knights who stulTod their olothes as the king grew fat. Subscribe to the publ to school organ fund. While we are being thankful for many blessings and are putting our gifts together to help the needy, lot us retnemoor our children ol tne public school. If we each do something the aggregate will be considerable. On lost Friday afternoon the gradual Ing class received some valuable Infor mation not found In the text-books, By invitation Attorney W. H. Parkor delivered a leoture an the subject of "The Common Law and Its Origin." Among other valuable thoughts given the class were these: That law Is di vided between God and man; that the law jinder which we are govornod tho girneral laws of our country Is termed "positive law." That positive law (human law) derives its force and authority from natural and dlylne laws. The need which man feels to live in society is one of the primitive laws of nature, whence Bow our duties and our rights; and the existence of society depends upon the condition that the rights of all shall be respeeted. On this law are based the assistance and good offices which men owe to each other. In short he reviewed the sub ject in detail, bringing it up, step by step, from its origin to the time of the adoption of statute law In England In 1813. He has promised to talk to the class again, on the subject of "Crimes ana xneir r unisnments." A LITTLE OP BVERVTHINO. of Gen. Greely believes that near the north pole there is a consider able body of land covered with ice from half a mile to several miles in thickness. Dr. Nansen believes that the vicinity of the pole is occu pied by a deep sea covered with ice not above 15 feet thick. Nobody has as yet reached the pole, unless it is Andree, and he, poor fellow, remains to be heard from; and con sequently the opinion of one scien tific gentleman in the arctic line is of no greater value than that of any of his competitors in the same branch of business. ; r , J. Ebsy, a Gorman, 60 years or age. committed suicide at Los Angeles by taking strychnine became he believed he was afflicted with " an incurable disease. : -! . Mrs. Rolloy, nn invalid from paral ysis, was burned to death in her home at For tuna, ,Cal. . While lying on a , sofa near a stove, her clothes took fire. "The 6 per cent bonds" of 'the San Frauclsco and San Joaquin Valley' ralt . road, f which Claus fipreckles i presi dent, are quoted in Mork at 10lJ(R102. beat 94,000,000 bave been told and another lot of 1200,000 is shortly to b Every Farmer His Own Spreckels. If what A. B. Clark, a Lincoln County. Oregon, farmer, says regarding the Home manufacture of beet sugar be true there is no good reason why every farmer in Southern Oregon could not be a little sugar king all by himself at least to the extent that bis own household goes. Here fs Mr. Clark's story as printed in the Toledo Leader: it may be ol Interest to the larmers of Lincoln County to know that a Michi gan farmer has demonstrated that sugar can be manufactured from beets with out any expensive machinery. He sim ply grated tbe beets, pressed out tne juice with a cider press and boiled It as you would boll tbe sap of the sugar maple. During the process of boiling, be says the syrup bad tbe flavor ol the beet, but when sugared off it had the pearance and muob the same flavor maple sugar. From seventy pounds of beets he got six pounds of sugar. It has been supposed heretofore that sugar couldn't be profitably made from beets without extensive machinery, but this experiment opens a broad field for ex periment and invention. It seems more than probable that the progressive far mer of the coast where the sugar beet grpws in perfection, will soon manu- aifiA nnt. nnlu thn Riicrnr for his fam ily use, but a large amount ot raw sugar to sell to the refiners. Instead of haul ing tons and tons of the beets to the distant factory, he will manufacture the sugar at home, feeding the waste to his stock, enriching his land and add ing largely to his profits. This is a matter worm investigating.- Among the Churches. PRESBYTERIAN CHUKCH. Next Sunday evening in place of regu lar services the Ladies' Missionary So ciety will occupy the time with ad dresses and readings upon foreign mis sions. Wednesday evening prayer meeting at 7 o clock; Christian En deavor at 6 o'clock, Sunday evening; services at 7. Music by tbe choir. A. S. FOSTER, Pastor. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Sunday school at 10 a. m.; Junior En deavor. 3 p.m.; Y. P. S. C. E. conse cration, 6:30; preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning sermon "uiving Diligence." Evening subject, "The Belief of Great Men." Good music at all services under tbe lead of Miss Mabel Jones. The people welcome. Strangers In the city especially inyitod to come and worship with us. The roll-call service at the Christian Church last Sunday was a most delight ful one. The clerk callen 100 resident members, and 52 non-residents. .Tbero were many responses. . Market, Report. - The iollowlng are tbe prices paid by our, merchants this week for farm pro duce. Tnis ust win De cnangea eocn week as the prices cbansre: Wheat 65 Oats 50 Flour i ....... . ..$2.20 por 100 lbs jjarioy....,............i.za - -- Mill Feed....... -...1.00 " " Potatoes .....50o " " Eggs........ ,...25 per doz Butter',. . , ,22 por lb Beans, dry 021 " lb Bacon .. 081 " lb Ham 11 " lb Shoulder 08 "lb Lard,......,..i ,.071 "lb Henry Sherry, the groat lumber uoaior ot Wisconsin, bus tailed for a million. It's a distinction to ouio to owe that amount ot money Mrs. Margaret Boughan died Springfield, Mass., last week at the remarkable age of 124 years. Most people are satisfied to live fifty years leas than that. Wo do uot iiiiuginu the last years of Mrs. Boughau were very hilarious ones. A bloody tragedy occurred Texas because of an editor's failure to return a manUBoript submitted to him for publication. As a rule it is the returning of such things whioh causes the disappointed young authors to feel like doing murder. The question of whothor dogs Bluill or shall not wear muzzles said to have exorcised a decided in fluonce 011 the late eleotion in Eng land. If it had boon a matter of political speakers wearing or not wearing tho ornaments, oue might understand it. The Spanish government denies that General Weyler is to he tip minted governor of the Philinnines, If it is really desirod to give him another position, why not seud him as an otlioiul missionary to the Tiburon Island cannibals, in tho Gulf of California? The authorities of Lisbon. Portti gal, lately completed, 'at a cost of 250,000, a very fine stone wharf, jutting out into the ltiver Tiigtis, Monday morning it quietly sank out of sight in tbe mud. However it may be useful now as a founda tion for a wooden one. Montana miners captured a de linquent mining company president the other day and held him prisoner until their wages were paid. A swifter procedure than that of tho courts and far more certaiu. That president hereafter will conduct his business at long range. A San Jose high school girl ab sented herself for a dav lately, and on her next appearance presented an excuse explaining that she had remained away to be married. San Jose has a warm climate, in the summer, but they do refreshingly cool things down there sometimes. A German doctor has started a theory that moBt drunkards can be cured by a very simple and pleas ant course of treatment namely, by eating apples at every meal. Ap ples, if eaten in large quantities, pos sess properties which entirely do away with the craving that all con firmed drunkards have for drink. ' Bicycles bave scored a victory in the courts.. The supreme court of Iowa has rendered a decision that bicyclists are not compelled to carry a bell and exhibit a light at night. Yet the decision is modified by the finding that the bioycliBt not being supplied with a bell and light, who injures a person, is guilty of con tributory negligence. Vassar college is an institution for tbe training of girls, not only in educational branches, but in prac tical details of home life, house keeping, cooking, etc. Confidence in tbe thoroughness of its educa tional facilities is somewhat im paired by the news that sixty of the girls are dangerously ill through eating improperly cooked meats. Wm. Carr, a ohild murderer, who tied stones to his three-year-old daughter and drowned her in tbe Missouri river, has been sentenced to be hanged on December 17th. His only excuse for the unnatural murder was that he had tco many children and wanted to get rid of some of them. His wife is to be tried for complicity in the murder. Of course no one will blame at torneys for doing all they can for a client, even though that client be a Durrant. ' But when they coolly propose to put off hanging a man for one murder for that is what this new proposition amouuts to in order to try him on another charge, it would seem that they came pretty near reaching the limit of "cheek." An eastern preacher has left the pulpit for the race track. About a dozen years ago the pastor of a church on Washington street, Kan sas City, would spend a goodly por tion of six days of the week buck ing the frisky wheat market, - On the holy Sabbath day he would ser monize strongly on the follies of the world, with an occasional side swipe at gambling; A woman has been ' granted a partial divorce in Baltimore and $6 a week alimony, with the proviso that the wedding presents shall be divided equally between hor and her husband, subject to the ratifica tion of the court, except that each shall retain those manifestly in tended by the donors for the one or the other. They were married about four years ago. . ' The efforts' which Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is making to introduce good American butter in England has brought out the fact that tho host butter, made in the United States la made in the states Vtl it Oil it) 4V 0 it SUITS FK SALE - And lioro is tho kind of values you rocuivo. Wo don't euro whore you look you cannot bottor this offer ..' $8.00 Will buy an absolutoly pure wool suit that humi'L tho slightest suspicion ot cotton, suotiay or snort stock in it. beautifully flnishod, solid cassiniero, guaranteed to I'liey aro givo Exlraordinary Wear .. .. I DON'f You think it wort h your wliilo to investigate) nn offer containing valuo of such mag nitude? ; We are not making a bid your trade for a day, but jy for by 1 1 tu values wo it ever after.. .. .. Deuel & Stevens MEDFORD, OREGON give ro tin n fl of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. This is accounted for by tho fact that these states have received a higher education in butter making. The Rood deacon in Brewer, Me., who received an invitation to attend "bloomor" sociai, was naturally greatly shocked until he learned that the "bloomor" was only a night blooming cerous. The deacon ac cepted the invitation, and in the course of the evening entertained tbe hoxtess by telling her bow nar rowly she escaped the disappoint ment of not having him for a guest. J. H. Bunch, a local official of the Northern Pacific railway, has just returned to Taeoma, Wash., from an extended visit in the east and in an interview Bays: "Every passenger agent I talked with said they had hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of prospective Klondikers booked. One genera) passenger agent told me that so great would be the westward travel next year that it is a serious prob lem how they will handle such crowds. One passengor agent who bad charge of much of the Chris tian Endeavor work said that they moved about ,25,000 Christian En deavorers, but the very least he could figure on in his own district for, the first three months in 18il8 was 100,000. Special trains by tbe hundred will have to cross tbe con tinent to accommodate-such a large number, and the work of transport ing them will put t work every idle man, east and west, who wants to work. When I was in New York, four sailing ships were advertised to leave in one week, bound for St. Michaels. Each one of these ships contained a complete expedition, and stowed away in the holds of these ships were all kinds of ma chinery, as well as river boats built in sections." CASH , l'All) KOH , The Greatest Discovery Yet. W. M. Heplno, editor Tlskllwa, III., "Chief," says: "We won't keep house without Dr. King's Now Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, ex perimented with many otnors, Dut never got tho truo remedy until we used Dr. King's Now Discovery. No other remedy oan take its place in our borne, as In It wo havo a certain and sure euro for coughs, colds, whooping cough, etc." It Is Idle to experiment with other remedies, evon If they are urged on you as just as (rood as Dr, King's Now Discovery. They are not as (rood, because this remedy has a record of cures and besides Is guaran teed. It nover fulls to satisfy. Trial bottles free at Chas. Strang'sdrug store, 'Notice of Co-Partnership. We, the undersigned, have this day formed a partnership, to do a gonoral blacksmith business undor the II rm name of Wilson & Hunsnker. , J. R. Wilsov. TH08. HUNBAKKIt. Medforfl, Pro., Nov. 17, 1807. For Rent The Commer'clal Hotel. The furniture Is for Hiile choap. 'Parties wishing to engage In the hotol buslnosscnn floouro a bargain by calling on J. vV. Mnrks borry or Dr. J. W. Odgcrs.- Tiif. MAiican handle all tho good wood which our farmer friends have a mind to bring in in payment for sub scription, wo Can not take wood on our clubbing propositions. Wood Is lognl tondur at this oflico In paymontfor subscription. Legal blanks at Tuk Mail oflloc. To Core Constipation Forevor, Take Coaonreti Cindy Cathartic, loo or Slio, II O. O. O. fall to euro, druggists refund monojr. Eggs, .. .. and .. .. Chickens DAVIS & GIL KEY, CotlM Kitract Baking Prantor JOHrtflAfPVP JSeaivse Yott r SHOVlD tfVt Btfff v ' ' ..... at our expense If you're not pleased Your Grocers 14 , at, , , , , , it, it, it it it 3 in.il u-ui nn lUill Hjcj Inn Inn luul What We Have MOT Got U' I t ..!.. l! !.. l.t f .. v i.m.u ui,ii,ii nam, iju inu nine, uu iiiiii-pricu sale, no sacrifice solo, nor any other humbug snlo. Wo JJ imvu no t io guns lor no iv pants lor m.'JM. tj) Neither have we any jockeying or bantering, any ft incite, dotiges. uecoption or sham of any kind, nor any of tho modern iwpular sohomos for working off trashy f goons on unsuspecting customers, schemes that sonsi- XI hie people perfectly understand, and soino of whioh JJ would almost make a statue laugh. If you want good goods at low prices and fair and honest prices, tf men we oan please you, and after trading with us K once you will come again.... 2' W. H. Meeker & Co., ClothiDff aoi General Dry Goofls MEDFORD, OREGON Wanted, a Wife To urge her husband to call at our store and see our fine aBHortmont of Cutlory, which wo havo just recoived. We now hove tho best line of Tnblo and I'eckot Cutlory, Carving Hots, Silvorwaro, Hhoars. etc., over shown in , Medford... Don't dolay, but conio at once nnd got first ohoico, as IhoBo goods will not romain in our caro long.... BOYDEN & NICHOLSON, THE HARDWARE JWEjSl... SOME PEOPLE Don't rjulto understand how It, Is that many furmors' horses with new. :. I am HARNESS, thisall lilting out so ' ' ;' Well, tho socrot Is oanily puiissodovory horse owner wonts ' a llrst-olass artlolo In harness, saddle, etc, and that Is just v"uj "y Bburo. xvopaiPinif promptly aono,, J. Q. TAYLOR, Medford, Oregon ... Legal blanks of all kinds for sale at Tub Mail office. m m m m m m m m m m m J2S