If You Want to Reach the Jackson County People tlio 111 oh t of thnui tliu llUNi of tllOllli X You've Got to Use the I Paper that Reaches .. . tlm moat of thorn lliu bunt uf Iboui THE MAIL cikwitio9oo I YDL, I, HOIVILLE UIHRBLE J. O. WHIPP, Fropr. Does General Contracting in all Lines. GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS. o rssa3ssssssssssi CKMBTBRY WORK A SPECIALTY JaokBonvillo, - - Oregon. FBOFEBBIONAL OABDB. , KIRCHGKSHNISK, 1'IIYHK'IAN AND HUIIOI'.ON, . , , ModforU, Oregon OlDoo-Moilloy IliiUdlim, Uavtinth Hlnml. Ilea douoa Ou Couuty road. , J, M, KKEN1S, D. D. S. OPKItATIVK DKNTIHTIIY A 81'UCIALTY. Toelk extracted without pain. Omco In Ailklii-Uuuol block, Medium, Oro. yt 8. JONKS, I'llYHHilAN AND HUKUKON. Mcdlord, Oregon, UTOnUo-OiKiin lllook. COLVIO A RKAMICS, W. M.Colvli A. K. Ilcamca LAWYKIIH. Orlh lllook. Jackaonvlllo.OroKon. Will praellco In ll tho oourta ot llio alnto. Careful oounaol alv eu in all matUira. J, 8. HOWARD, . HUKVKVOIt AND CIVIL K.NOINKKlt. U, H. Deputy Mineral Hurvnyor lor tlio Bluto of UrrKou, roRlunlec .dUroaa; Mouford. OrrKon. W, II. PARKER, attornky at law. tlimlln lllook. Mcdlotd. Ore, HAMMOND & VAWTER, Auiilln 8. Hammond. Vn. I. Vowtor. ATTOHNltYU AT LAW Ulbco-1.0. O. V. bulldlnf , Mctlfbid, Ol J.B. WAIT, PHYSICIAN AND HUUOKON. Office 111 ChlMera' Mock, Mcdfurd, Ol 15, B. PICKUL, PHYSICIAN AND 8IM10H.UN, Ofllrc hour 10 to Ut a. ni. mid 2 to 4 p. in ttuml.ve l'ilji 1. Mcdford. Or Office: Ilnnkln Block. Chas. Perdue . . . ical dm and I... Bicycles ripuired on short notico nt living prices.... Shop in J. A. Whitman's wiireroouiH..., Wilson HunsaKe Blacksmiths , ' Are to bo found nt tho Bfick SIlOp Shooing horses, plain or fancy. AVo.will miiiiufucturo wagons or buggies to ordor. Onll.nndsooour new curt wIicoIb ' itlroiuly llrod, Wo guni'imtoo , our work, ' Wood : Shop ; In: Connection. To llnro Oonallpntlon Forovor. 1 Tnlio Cnscniota Cnml v Cnilinrllc, lOo or SKo. It C. 0. 0. (all to ouro, uruKUlau rotund mono v. .That rtiiio Wnrfc'can 1)o nurwrt with Dr. Miles' NliUVJil l'LABTlilt. Only iisc. FRANKIW. WAIT ... STONE YARD Oonoi'iil conlraoLlng In all linos of stono work. Cemetery Work a Specialty All kinds ot miM'blo nnd gt'Antlo monumonta ordorcd dlroot (rom tho qunry... Vitrd on O Blroot (lommorlolnl llotol lllook JutMbrft I I I ABSENT-MINDED HISTORIAN. I'uablo iu Call H' Own Bun'a Name, Hal I'unutllloua am to Tlmr. A "ironnl frh-iul" of 1'rof. Tlivo dure Mniiinixr-n, the Ucrmnii lilaloriun mill HeU'iitlHl, who cuk-lirutud hla irlglitk'tQi lilrllnliiy on Novi-mli'r30 luat, In writing of I i in In tliK London Tclo griiih, tnya Hint, until (fiilte liilcly he up nt live o'clock to work on 0 :up of cold colTri! put n-iuly for lilin uvpr nielli. In IiIh pcrhonul ri'(Ulri!iii'iil hu In the moHt uiodi-Ht of men, mid by no mi una it lioiiaivtyrunt; at he ci.ini' down to brnilifiiat with lliu wlfv nuil live iluiiglilcm ntlll nt liumc, and lie llhi'M rvrrylmdy to lie tlhi-ro. One youiifr Indy who alnylng In t lie liniian tvna not lufri'tiieiitly not "up to lluii'." 'I'll 1m negli'i-t did not mrupe lil nollof. "It U a pily you onn't nerve your ynir In the nriny," lie reinurkrd; "you would lenrn the difference between eight and luilf-piiKl!" lie enn be very ciiltlng In III remnrka aonietlmea, but Ihey lire nlwnya tempered tothenhorn l.i inli. tliough I ho full-grown ahrep uviiKt weiililicr the atorm ua beat he can. The IlcrllnerH, who dearly love their little Jokcfi, tell ninny a Htnry of hi ab-riil-niliidcdueaa, and he han even been eri'illii-d with not recognizing hi onvn little aon, mid with having anked him Ida mime prrpnratory to reiUeBting him lo not In make qullo ao much uolae in n public t rumour in which he wna going to town from hla home InChnr liitlciiliurg'. nnd It la authentic that he pul Ida llrst Imliv lulo Die wnate paper Intaket one duy, n nil covered it up 1m caime It cried, lie la, all the amnc, most devoted to children, nnd linn plenty of npportunliy for Indulging thla tnatc.ai he lina atill l:! living children, and o younger generation i riaiuir. SOFT SNAP OF A CAT. Hat a Inrk I'nlr ImpeadlDai mm aCoa arqnrnee o( Too I.axurluu Fare. 1 A drug more on upper Ilroiidwny hna i en I thin Ik mi epicure.' In fact, the .-nt Ik prolmlily nunc fnatldioim in her jiHtcM tlinii moht of the ciiHtoincrH who itop toiidiuii'c her gloaay cout and niu ilcal purr, n a ahe ntrolla iimnng (he ath Hpougea and perfumery hot lien, cportK ihu New Vork Sun. It cume ulHiut In thin way: The chef if a well-known reatuuriint a few blockn IlKtant Iiiih lung been In tho habit of .Iropplug in nl the drug ntnru on hix way home from work early in the morn ing, lie became nttuched to the cut, and hooii began to bring her tldbita from the rcHtuuriittt. Ah bin attach ment for the cat Increnacd, he became pnrticiihir to bring only choice blta for hie pet, (Srousc, woodcock und i imil constitute n large purl of the cut' fare at present. The night clerk noon began to notico that the cat ref lined to touch Hucli ordlnury food an turkey, beef or mutton. The. (location now nriacK whether the cut will be able to l n!i her Hiinp. The Ic'lculc T.i c on v.Mch flii' now live. ''.11. i icinli-icii hi'r c.it It rly i!.'c!.".. Ii I, protection ngiiliiKt uiiKuml mice, und it, Ik durkly hinted that some dny nho limy be turned nut tohhlfl 'or herself, iih n pcimlty for her Inxtu inw tustcs. I.onir lalnntt'N I)lti!"e1. A eorreKHndent of the i'pvingfleld Uepiibliciiu, who hn lm a "doing" Long Island, wild toneiti.i n of Quogue; "Pretty llvi'li" people, you Long Island cm." "Ve.i, yes." "Don't catch you nipping much, 1 gucsa." "No, no." "Pretty good place to live In." "Yes, yes." "And not such bad folks to live among.'' "No, no." "There you have II," the correspondent comments. "'Yes, yen;' 'No, no.'. That is the Long Islander's inevitable. nutvtver not plain 'yes,' but. a rapid 'yes, yes.' It Is the touchstone by which you can tell a genuine Long Islander wherever hois. All tho Long Islanders sny It. double fathers, mothers, sisters, cousins and mints," . , HUlniniL'il Milk OlinmiinRne. Skimmed milk is now turuedl into chanipngiio by nil elevtrie process, and tlio beverage is clear, bendy, nnd de licious in flavor, though uoimleohollc. 11 n I In n j- WuircM. ..Aincricnu railways pay In every dc pnrlmcnt nioro than doublo the wn(jes paid bv 1"!iMii"li -..'i.?n. - . WORKS MEDFOKD, OREGON MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY BUCKLE ON TO A GOOD THING J. 0. TAYLOR'S .. .. HarncHH and Baddies are going cheap this spring. Tho good quality of my goods has won for them a reputation unrivaled ...... MEDFORD, OREQON .- 2 .- --2- I -1-1- BEAR THAT 8AVES LIFE. Walka Into Towa L'arrrlaa Loal Child la IU Monih. Itcsidcnts ot Apnlttchin, N. Y., had a bad Bcuro recently, report the New York I'rciui, when a four-year-old child started out ulone to look (or trailing arbutuu. It was hulf an hour before ho was ininsed, and then all trace of tho littlo one was lost. Her distracted father and his neighbors joined Iu the carch. While passing through a ravine they were startled to sec an uncouth object bumbling toward them some distuueo up tho road, carrying a bundle in its mouth, doner inspection proved to the terrified searchers that tho object was a bear and tho bundle a child. It is many years since a bear was seen in this section, but the men, though un armed, prepared to give battle, one of their number going back for help. Hut tho bear trotted toward them as though totally unconcerned, and when a few yard away carefully laid down the child itwoscarrylngby its dress. ' When the men approached and took tip the little one the bear did not show fight, and a closer investigation proved lie had a ring iu his nose. Later it was found tho bear belonged to an Italian who was camping iu a near-by barn, limiting a tour of the country. He had purchased the animal when a cub and reared him in a New York tenement, where ho was allowed to play with the children, nnd it waa there he had learned the triek ot carrying the little ones. WAGES IN LUMBER CAMPS. Rxperleaced Woodamra Oo to Work Without tlpnlMlna- Taalr Par. "What wage are you receiving this winter?" wna asked of a well-known woodsman the other day, reports the Menominee (Mich.) Enterprise. "I don't know," was tho reply. Evi dently seeing a look of surprise, he con tinued: "You see, when wo come up into tlio woods wo never ask what our wages nro going to bo. Wo simply get our job, pack our turkey and start for camp. In the spring, if wo do our work satisfactory, we get Uo highest pay that's going. A good man always gets fulr wages, and the companies Invari ably treat him right when he gets down In the spring in the matter of pay. No, I never ask when I hiro out what my wages will be. There is one very good reason for this. In the fall the towns are always full of men hunting for jobs In the woods and naturally the wages offered to those who ask ure not very large. Along toward tha 1st of Janu ary these fellows get weeded out. Some of them nro dissatisfied with their work nnd quit, which leaves a scarcity of men, nnd wages go up again. Now, if I should ask what my wages were going to bo when I hired out in tho fall I certain ly could not expect more thnn hnd been promised me. Experienced woodsmen understand this, and never ask, and when they settle up in the spring they get good pny." HIS LARGE NOSE. lluw the Hoys In the Ctnna Tormented llllil Atlnut It. There wns a certain exciseman in Shrewsbury who wns very trim andl ncnt In his nttirc, but he hnd a bottle noso of mora than usunl size, says "I.ifo and Letters of Dr. Samuel But ler." As ho passed through tho school lnno the boys used to call him "Nosey," nnd this mado him so angry that he complained to Dr. Jlutler, who sympa thised, and sent for the head boy, to' whom ho gnvc strict injunctions that tho boys should not sny "Nosey" any more. Next dny, however, the exciseman re appeared even moro angry than be fore. It seems that, notnbovhad said n -tr- RATES FROri... $1 to $a HER DAY V Wledford, Tho Nash is ono of tho most popular hotoU In SoutUorn . Oregon, nnd no pivlns nro spared for tho comfort nnd aeoommodntion of guests. Kvorythlng about tho houso . jrSTICTLY FIRST-CLASS .t. Free Sample Room n 'ort commekcial mew . THE HOTEL BAR la U09t urnuus oi winos, JfMl OREGON, FRIDAY, HAY 6, 1898. Many Rood thinuu can Lo buckled on to at Repalrine promptly dne . a-I-r. "Nosey," but that as soon as be was seen coming tlio boys ranged them selves In two lines, through which he must pass, and all fixed their eyes in tently upon his nose. Again Dr. Jlutler summoned the head boy and spoke more sharply.. "You have no business," said ha, "to annoy a man who is pass ing through the school on his lawful occupation. Don't you look at him." But again the exciseman returned to Dr. Butler, furious with indignation, for this time, as soon as he was seen, every boy bad covered his face with his hand until he had gone by. TIRED OF HIGH LIVING. Itcaaon a Hoc Cure for III Collection of Hollies and Can.. A member of the police force came across a boy the other day, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, who was wheeling home a load ot oyster cans and bottles, and, curious to know what use tho lud could put them to, he made a direct inquiry: ' "Going to throw them over into our back yard," replied the boy. "I took two loads home yesterday." "But what do you use them for?" "It's a trick of tho family," grinned tho lad. "Ifow trick?" "I'd just as lief tell." continued the boy, ns he spit on his hands to resume hold on the barrow. "We are going to have some rcloshuns come in from the country. We may not have much to eat, but if they see these cans and bottles and boxes they'll think we've had isters, champagne, figs and mita till we've got tired of 'em and are living on bread and tatera for a healthy change." The officer scratched his ear like a man who had received a new idea. A CURIOUS BET. Uott ih Old Woman Dashed a Reel Yoath'a Ilopr. Two of the younger members ot a well-known club, both ot whom are so fond of betting that they are willing to wagor money upon almost anything, became involved in an argument over tho popularity of mustaches a few days ugo, says tho Philadelphia Bccord. One contended that the wearing of tho hir sute adornment was ou the wane; the other said that more mustaches are worn now than ever before. The up shot of the matter was that the first of fered to bet that seven persons without mustaches (including women, for the sake of making tho test more interest ing) would pass the club windows be foro three, with mustaches should go by. Tho wager was promptly accept ed, a referee was selected and the three stationed themselves at the point of Tnntagc to take observations. The first four to pass were young women and the nnti-mustacho man grew jubilant. His jaw fell, however, when tho next two pedestrians, with luxurious growths upon their lips, hove in sight. Then fol lowed two more women, and the watch ers waited expectantly. The ninth pnsscr-by waa a young man who was raising a mustache, yet in its infancy. A warm argument followed ns to the disposition of this case, but the referee settled the matter by crediting one-half lo each side, ranking the score 6'a to 2ys. An old woman was approaching in the distance, and tho man who hnd 2 points began to loso hope, but when shenrrived opposite the reviewing stand it wns seen that she had more hair on her lip than her male predecessor. Tlio referee decided against the fellow who had proposed the bet. Suit MoillKuln. of r,-.... III Hie island of San Domingo there i romnrkahlcsal, mo,mti,n?nrIv W ....... cMimnteuito contain 90,000 OOlon, and so cleartlmt medium-sized iri.it. can be read through n bloeknfool I. L. HAniLTON lo... PROPRIETOR .:. Oregon always supplied Vf 1th tho vory u liquors anu cigars .... i Your i i I I NO, 18, J.' BEEK & CO.', DEALERS IN Wl 1 j -i iai uwurc, irun anu DlwZi9 Stoves, TimuaPe, Guns, Ammunition. Paints. Oils ' Friday Bui Lucky Day. "I've qnlt her," said Gritlyas h molted a good night cigar with bis ohnio. ''ItlsaU off. HeapirojrJtwlU be yjjer the rmemory of a dreajpybat the novelists call a passing romance, "Bat I thought you wete. engaged?; "So' we; were. I bad'seVen wannen. counters with tho old gentlejbaa before t gained.- bis consent . Bhewearsipy ring, and I'm paying for it on the in stallment plan." ' '' "What a gone wrong, then?". "It's her snperstition. She's bright and cultured, bnt she's the most super stitions girl that ever came within my experience. I wonldn't believe it, yon know; oouldn't at first I proposed to her on Friday. A fellow in love is Iooky to know the year, to say nothing of the day of tbo week. Nothing must do but we break off so as to escape the bad luck. We happened to make this shift on the 18th, and I'll be blowed if we didn't have to break oft again in order to kill down the hoodoo. Yes, sir, en gaged three times and never bad a quar rel. It breaks the record. "We never started any place yet that she didn't forget something. Do yon know that girl wonld always go to the end of a blook before she would turn baok? Did it every pop; all superstiti tion. I raked up my whole pile to take her to the musical event of the season. Passing into the theater she stubbed her toe. That settled it She mnst get right borne to avoid a catastrophe. Bad to hire a coupe and the driver carries my watob yet. "I looked my record np and got word to her that I was born on Friday, in the dark of the moon, and with an unlucky star in tho ascendant. She promptly called the engagement off, and that's what I was after." Detroit Free Press. Bladoo Cruelty. The correspondent who sends the fol lowing to the Calcutta Asian states that bis information came to him on unim peachable antbority. During a royal bnnt in one of the Rajpoot states an ex- cepionally fine tiger was caught net ted, no doubt and lured into a cage. His captors then proceeded to noose his feet and draw them through holes bored in the floor of the cage, and a black smith was direoted to draw bis claws. The tiger's legs having been secured by ropes, the royal sportsmen had a sliding door in the cage opened, and when the captive put bis bead out they shut the door down on bis neck while the black smith, with mallet and chisel, broko off his teeth. Preparations were concluded by muzzling the poor brute with strong wire in some inhuman fashion. The tiger was then released, to be baited by dogs, and, despite bis maimed condi tion, he killed several before tbo "sportsmen" wearied of the game and shot him. If this story is true, and the informa tion is said to have come from on eye witness and there is nothing impossi ble in the crippling part of the business one would dearly like to take each ot those Rajpoot royalties in turn and read him a lesson with a cutting whip. London Sketch. The Long Journey. Li a certain township not many miles from Cleveland tho good man of a local household was laid away iu the little churchyard on tho hill. After tho fu neral tho relatives, both near aud dis tant, roturned to tho family home, and tho officiating pastor oamo with thorn. Thoro thoy enjoyed n good dinner and afterward gathered in tho best room for sooial converse. Naturally their talk turned upon the serious ovont of tho day, and presently the good pastor, drawing a deop sigh, soloniuly remarked: "Woll, our departed brother has gone a long journey. " Thero was a brief silence, and thou a cousin of tho deceased, a fussy littlo wo man with an intense desiro to bear a share in tho conversation, suddenly re marked iu a tone of profound wisdom: ' ".Well, yon know, brothor, thot they all sny thot travel is suoh an eddloator 1" Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' !PrescriT)tion.s Main Street, Carefully 8. fidvertlsemenf .. .. I Inserted In a flrst-olass new nanor In tha mnnfc fttintt of roaohing a given seotlon .., LTke Medford Mall It Ihn loadlnc famtli, nnn. "I ll ..." VT"f """- I Circulation 1900 and Glass. MEDFORD, OREGON. D'Anaojulo'. Art. The Italian correspondent ofLiteraV ' tore, in uiscussiDg oignor a Annumuo,! liuaea to tie fact a u is laof IttsTrtta of "hfoputrtjafldmorbjl tenauMity" , pe' ogmpe FTeaV man Tcne from Ois, siftiuiaxq.V, to acknowledge his power a U ( Well. suDDoae he does' 'ooiaBel I taowlodgmentWbat ot Itf The to Literature goes on to asl -wh artists "seem by preference to fln near putrefactions and morbtdltli there not cause to conclude that 'tk something rotten?',". But apparenti2aj la nfrnM rn nnowAV ttiA nnaaUnn flXflw and to add that rottenness in art should? debar it from further dionssion., 3j A We are well aware that, this kin.dof proposition always wakes a shrill felrji of protest jn certain quarters. To deny; tho right of "art" to do anything i pleases is, wo are. told, to write .one self down not only a Philistine burt gibbering idiot Nevertheless, the great shining foot remains -that a man liks D'Annunzio never got anything like a' permanent foothold upon Parnassus, and all this talk about his "art" might'Just as well cease. It will never make htm' a classic. Those talkers who think .it will, and hence go on talking, must bo curious individnals. Like Charles Lamb, we would like to see their bumps. But we are not snre that even this trivial attention would not bcnoro than they are worth. New York Trib- A Noted Authoma Workshop. -- "Mrs. Florence Horse Klngaley's study is at the top of her Staten Island home. Under the eaves and from the windows she can look out far over into another stato and see the' great ocean,", writes Laura II. F. Lake of "The Au thor of ' Titus, a Comrade of the Cross, " ' in The Ladies' Borne JournaL "About ber are the pictures painted by herself, as well as by her artist parents. Books of reference those in Greek and Latin, as well as in English books that are; simply a delight, not merely tools and pretty bits of bric-a-brao tbat colleot themselves in the room of a refined wo man, surround ber everywhere. But tho door of this room is never closed against any member of the family, and the busy worker is never too busy nor too tired to listen to some childish story of woe or happiness from any one of ber five chil dren. "With her, while ber work with her pen means much, still ber duty as a wife and mother and a clergyman's wife, comes first. Two afternoons in the week are devoted to teaohing poor girls . how to sew. Much time must necessari ly be given to her home and the little people in it, and yet tho finds time for social duties and is always a charming, intelligent companion to her husband. With a smile she tells how, when in doubt as to Greek and Latin, she goes to him for help." No Caui. xbr Eamlty. "That's very nice," said the speota- 1 tor. "I am glad to see those two politi cians go out of the room arm in arm, ; chatting pleasantly." ' ."There is nothing verj extraordinary about that" "But from what I havo read I sop posed that they were antagonists audi rivals." . ' "Oh, yes, they are antagonists and. rivals 1 But that is no exanso for their hating each other. They don't belong to tho same party." Washington Star. . " : Different. "Maria, you look simply ridiculous I with that tremendous ostrich feather in your hat as elderly a woman as you. are." ' ' -'"I know it, John. I borrowed it from the big hot you woar when you go out marching with tho Kosplendont Knights of the Anoiont nnd Honorable Ordor ot Fuzzy Guzzies. ' ' Chicago Tribuno. . . Hearty Enjoyment. . "Are your ohildren fond of reading?" "I should say so: Thero isn't n book in the house that hns a back on it." . Chicago Record. THE MORTAR D$UG STOE, G. H.HASKINS, Frop'r. H ANVTHINa IN THC Lint fl, - Puro Diuga, Patent Medicines, Books, Stationery, , , ijLisrTS and oms, Tobaccoes.Oliraxs, Perfumery, Toilet Artlcloa and juvcryinitiir tani is carriea in a arHt- 01O8S 11KUU DIUKIl : Compounded. Medford Oregon. - 2: