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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1898)
THE MEDFORD MAIL Publlsbod Evorv Friday Morning. A. 5. BLITON. VAN W8 BORN TO HUSTLE. Ho lii of low dnya; but quite a plenty. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR. Snored In tho PontoBioo at Mvillord, Oroitou as SocondClasa Mall Mattir. Mbdford, Friday, Sept. , 1898. THIS PAPER KMeM ertlalng Agoncy, 64 and Morvhaula E change, Sau Kranelsoo, Calllorola. wlioro con Inula (or advertising oan bo made for it. Our Clubbing List. TUB Mail and Weekly S. P. Call 2 25 " " " Examiner 2 85 " " " Chronicle 2 35 .1. i Oregouian 2 00 " " Cosmopolitan ... 2 10 " Weekly Cincin nati Enquirer, - 1 "5 Tun New York man who put a cat in a hag and lot a cnhle car run over it is not a Spaniard, but he would probably have no trouble in taking out citizenship papers if he went over to Spain and tried it. That the tide of emigration is having its flood westward is evi dent when it is given out that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company has sold more land this year than during any two previous years. None of thi? particular influx has, of course, reached Southern Oregon, hut it goes to show the tendency of a western movement and it is more than probable that this sectiou either has or will profit by a tida which is assuredly surging toward the setting sun. Pity it is that Southern Oregon did not have a counterpart of the Northern Pacific traversing its broad and fertile acres from east to west. It is a sad story that comes from Spearfish, S. D , to the effect that the late Mrs. De Ledeboer died of a broken heart, produced by grief over her son going to the front with the Dakota troops. The Dakota contingent was sent to Manila to support Dewey, and Mrs. Ledeboer feared that her boy would never re turn. : None hut the mothers can ever know how their heart strings were pulled when their boys shouldered muskets and marched away under old giory to meet such fate as might be decreed to them. But the boys will come home one of these days, and then how proud the mothers will be of them. There has been no partisan poli tics in the conduct of the war with Spain, and for that the people must thank President McKinley. It was evident, scon after the outbreak of. hostilities, that there would be no discrimination as between demo crats and republicans in appoint ments made by the president. Two of the first four major generals ap pointed were Fitzliugh Lee and Joseph Wheeler, both democrats, and not once since then have the democrats had an opportunity to protest against unfairness to their party. Democrats and sans of demo crats have been given commissions in the army, and, furthermore, they have been afforded opportunity to distinguish themselves on the field of battle. This: is only another ex hibition of Mr. Mt-Kinley's fairness .and his desire to be the president -of all the people, and it cannot be doubted that good feeling has been promoted in all sections of the country by this failure to inject partisan politics into the war. That onay have been tlie president's ob ject in adopting such a policy, but nevertheless he is to be congratu lated for pursuing the course he did. r "Sam Jones, the evangelist, in the "course of a recent talk in Shawnee, Okla., commented upon the local administration as follows: "Should Shawnee drop in the midst of h the devil would not call au election for the purpose of changing the ad ministration of the present officials." And it can be presumed that this same Sum Jones used this same stereotyped expression in every town in which ho preached aud the audience cheered hira at Shaw nee and at every other place, yet while all this cheering vail going on there were undoubtedly some who had a more delicate sense of humor and these looked shame faced and pitied the fool, oven though he be au evangelist, who would thus attempt to belittle the people with whom they daily asso ciated and the locality in which they resided by asserting that it was a lit place for the reign of Satan's imps and that thuy were being governed by imps of Satan 011 earth. Fortunately for church people and for the world's people all evangelists are not of the Sam Jones stamp. The evangelist who bus for his object the salvation of souls ought always to receive a warm welcomo wherever he goes regardless of creed, but the evangel ist who, for notoriety sake, slan ders the people we live among and the town in which we earn a living for our families has no right to ex pect better usage than would be ao- corded him in the realms he so flippantly speaks of. Our Eagle Point corrospmdent ibis week has an item bearing upon the matter of closing the road north and east of Medford which has so long been used by many farmers of the valley in coming to Medford to trade. While it is true that the particular piece of road in question is not a public thoroughfare it is evident that it, or one equally as convenient, should be made an opeu highway and our merchant will serve themselves and their farmer friends very profitably in seeing to it that the road is located. Mr. Maule has a perfect right to pro hibit travel across his land and uo person ought to have a word of censure for him in announcing that he intends to close this long-time-traveled road. Tiie land traversed is private property. The question for us to settle is: Can we afford to lose the amount of trade which will be shut off from us, particularly i during the winter months? Surely we cannot. The proposition then j before us is how can we best ad just this road matter to suit the ! n.ttti..iiianrA n( 'ill tVinCA lirmu9 We are inclined to believe that Mr. Maule will not be unreasonable, but should he be unduly exacting it is quite probable that another route equally as good could be se cured over other land in that lo cality. A meeting of the merchants of Medfoid should be called at once and a committee appointed to devise means for opening a road for these people. Read Mr. Howletl's Eagle Point item and then let us get in and do something. Admikai. Dewey's figure in the war just closed towers above every other in the army or navy. It is not alone as a fighting commander that Dewey has earned his high distinction. For more than three months after destroying the fleet at Manila he faced a most diflii-ult problem in diplomacy. From first to last he commanded the situation with the prudence of the statesman as well as the firmness and readi ness of the military genius. He made no mistake. The jealousies excited in some of the nations of Europe by the entrance of the United States into a new field were ably met by this leader, whose gifts have been revealed to his country men. When foreign meddlers cross ed the proper limits he repelled them with just enough of decision. At the end he compelled the city to surrender upon his terms, and it is legitimately the prize of his opera tions. As for his great naval battle, it will be famous as long as time endures. It was splendidly intrepid and yet a carefully organized at tack, combining at once the pro foundest calculation and the most brilliantly aggressive courage. Ad miral Dewey's work is tco complete and conspicuous to cause envy. He stands unquestionably first on the roll of our heroes in the war with Spain. Closely following him in the minds and hearts of the Ameri can people is Commodore Schley, but in rank of naval file Commander Sampson outranks him. Sampson should be, and ever will be, in the eyes of the common people, a pil ferer ol honors which belonged to others. ' The Racket can't bo beat on lace j curtains, curtain nets and table linens. 1 Don't Hide Your Light Under a Bushel ! if PUBLIC SCHOOL ITEftS 4 llv tbo Principal, IVm-hern ami lUill 4 ' ol tno MnllorU l'uulio School. Hubert Spencer will tx a member of the high school this your. The Medlord sohoole will glvo thor ough Instruction In penmanship, book keeping, shorthand und typewriting. Do you wish to lit for tonohors' ex amination, either county or ataley Como and eee what wo can do for you. Wo can use three or (our teaohoisitU day Saturday, September .1. Do uot forget the teachers' tacutlng at :i o'clock p. in. The pi-tnolptil and Mips I'oarl Hall wish to meet ull who expect to become members of the class ol TO at -t o'clock p. m , Saturday, September 3. If you wish any Information about the schools. If you wish ui uiitui', or take advanced work, seo thu priuuipul on Saturday, September 3, at Uio subool building. Do not full to bo present the Ursula) and help organize the suhools; you will miss something If you aro not present. It Is jul as necessary for you to bo present as your loachor. The United Stair civil service has lucratlvo positions wailing for thu bright bojs ami girl of our town. Have you "the Brit, pt-rsevui-nnce and bard work In you to win one of tht-my There are position waiting that pity from JltOO to (.'lOOo per yur, If you lire filled lor thorn. There is a demand lur expert typewriter and shorthand reporters, but the room Is all ut thu top. It Is our puriHHHi to take up the work just a we tiiul It and go on. If oui fuili-d in your I .is I years work, and have studied through the vacation, we will give you an examination on Satur day to determine, your Illness to lid vance. SCHOOL GOVKKSMBST. While the problem of school govern ment is one of the most Important in tho whole range of school life, it has received but Utile attention, compara tively, ut tho hands ot educators. If our system of odticallon has failed U roach I Li highest ideals in the past, our methods of school control have been at least as much to blame at our methods of instruction. Teachers h-ivo been so much ub?orbed in their offorts to develop tbe Intellectual life Ihilt thuy have too often neglected the culti vation of tho motive powers. The brain has been taught to do its work well, but the will, the supreme endow ment of mankind, has been left to work out its own salvation or destruction without direction or training. Our free school system wus organized expressly to lit the" youth of our land to discharge intelligently the duties ot citizenship. It was believed by our forefathers, and, with reason, that a free government could not be main tained in Its integrity without the fro j school which wus accordingly organ ized and fostered with the expectation that it would become the cornet stone of the great structure of American civilization. We live in tho midst of democratic institutions under a representative government, yot our schools, which are intended to fit the youth of our t.. r...tol..a lnalll.n.,,1 I.. tl,A various functions of such institutions and government, are essentially un democratic, and are controlled by a power which is non-representative und, In fo ,n at least, autocratic. The citizens of a political community have a voice through their representa tives In the formation and execution of the laws by which they are governed, but the citizens of tbe school commun ity, (or a school is a distinct community by Itself, with the Interests and latent possibilities, if not all the functions of the larger community outside, are sub ject to a control which is tho very antithesis of a democratic government, And yet men wonder that tho rising generation is so poorly fitted to take up and discharge the duties and re sponsibilities of citizenship. I School governments are moderating in rigidity and severity, and are glvl.ig I more freedom of action and a wider ! rang- for the development of individual i tendencies-, tho slave-driver's whip has i been abolished, yet the system is still ; uu'.oorutie. This state of things canr.ot continue. Our civilization has reached a point whore it demands something better. Tho attention of tho educational world is gradually but surely being attracted to this problem, and many j attempts are being made to solve It. I Tho most promising of thejo oxpori I ments, the nno that has given tho most i sutisfajtory results, Is that of "Student . Control," or self-government for and ! hv the pupil. We believe thut this Is the only practical solution of tho problem. (CONTINCKD NEXT.WEKK.) food's Beit to take after dinner i Pills prevent distress, aid inges tion, cure constipation. Purely venstablei do not xrlpa or cau pain. Sold by all drumrlitii. 3il esnta, Prepared only by C. I. Hood A Co., Lowell, Mast, Tbat iMma JBarh can be cured wltft Or. Klim' NEBVIS pCaSTEB. Ouljf 2Sc I DON'T ! War prions are (lhting hard to got recognition iron mo, but 1 htivo hold my position and Htill mark goods witti the sumo old llg ures. Perhaps I'll htivo to sur rondor to tho murkot's ndvtinoo, but I'll fight every raise and con tinue to sell staple and fnney gro ceries at tho lowest prices consis tent with good quality. Q. L. DAVIS. Echoes Prom the Street. K. Shipley, Sams Valley: "You can snv that 1 will show some saiuplu sugar boots ut thu fall' this lull." It. H. Halley:-"What Is It? Why. that's a horse, aud a good one, too 1 triidcd thirty good chickens for that fellow, but in reality the horse didn't cost mo anything. You printers wore swiping my chickens and If l hadn't traded thorn for this hursu J would havo beon thirty uhickens Hhy, Delbert Terrlll: "Say, how about thut roud whluh .Mr. Maule Is going to clone up? Is it not possible to gut a county road through that locality, either tin Mr. Maulo's land or some other newr by? It will work u hnriUhlp ou a great many people If the road Is dosed. Wo just naturally can't got to Medford over any other road In thu winter unless wo go around by Jack sonville." I, A. Mcrrlman: "I am In receipt of a letter from I'rof.Shaw relative to my augur bevia. Uo requires me to com merce sending hi in samples tomorrow and ooutinuu sending every sovon days until the bouts are fully matured, lie uska inu to measure off one-fourth of nil acre of beets ami reserve It for obtain ing results of yield and cost of liarvust ing. .My wife Is feeling better since her return from Met 'allister. We will move to .Medford the last of this week." A. Slovor: "Talk of letters from home and those sort of things, I want to tell you Hint I received one from a brother this week thut fitted in very nicely and right when I hud u place for It. The letter contained 100 and was from a brother of mine, who Is now down In Texas. I was shy a boot that amount In fixing tip a Utile deal I havo under way and in rcsuoute to a U lo- t' in in the fXM came on Or.t train. That's a brother that's ju.t naturally ull right and onu a follow will hen long while in forguttlng," 1). S. Youngs: "We have traveled .1000 miles since wo loft Medford and I want you to say for me Unit vo have not, in ail our travel, seen a town the size of Medford that has ihe life which Is bore displayed. 1 limine that Krd Uarneburg und Duve Miliur have been giving you some fish stori.s. Mere is mine: Voin tho time I arrived in Men docino Ruunlv, California, which was in May, until I reached Medford I caught 12X4 trout, varying In Iciiglli from four to twenty-four Inches and aside from these I caught any amount of ocean fish." J. A. Whitman:"! was at Crants I'n-iS Monday and bougrtl three car loads of U.n-tiett p.-ars. How do I like the business? Oh, lino. It gave mo a hard turn at first to get onto the ways of Southern Cull lorn ia fruit packing particularly the packing of grapes and oranges. This, was entirely new to me but I have the ways nil right now. My company's fruit business uovcrs almost the entire year. When we are through with shipment) from these purls tho buyc-s will all be put into thu orungo sections and wiil operate there until Iheorop is harvested and shipped. In California nearly all tho fruit is pnekrd by Japanese nnd Chinese labor and their work is superior to much that has been done by our Rogue river packers, although this year I bel'.evu there is a noticeable' improvement. The California packers do their work more uniform and tho boxes are rounded up better. Oregon fruit ought to, if properly packed, bring us good a price in the market as that grown in Cali fornia." LITTLE OLINTS IN LITTLE TYPE. A Sandusky man has Invented a process of rmtmlminfr rtoKs. Throwing his In genuity to tbe bow wows as it wore, Those soldier boys who traded their buttons for bouquets tun ileponileil on snfety pins nre said to have put In n rciulHlllnn for a new supply of buttons on tlicffruunil thai tho olhors woro lost In honornhlo eutfuecinent. "Satan must have had a tough lime learning to rldo his wheel," milil IlenrhaES. "Hero In Milton's I'urnillso Lost I reritl of him 'whcollnu IhrouRh countless v-yf h'V utid llicn -From morn till uowy ovo hu Toll, from dewy ovo till morn,' " A commentary on tho present crnzi) or mllltnry trapping's for the purpos" of femi nine adornment nmy 1m found in Hie reply of n younir soldier nt. (JhlcloumiUKii, u-hone HlHler wanted to mnke up u box for Ihe tio.vK lit llln front and ii-hed him what fhe should send, "flour Msler." ho wrolo, "Hend mo siifely pins, I've Just mot llftc en now Klrls," Outline for a war story: American and Spmiiard In deadly oonfllii: American eelliiiK the best of It (of course): iilioul In run nls snlcUorsnco through fipnuliird'rt liver pu,l: Hpanian maidenly shouts trhimphaiillv: "Ma, hu! I am saved! Tho protocol hu been this Initnnt signed! Tho war Is over!" "That's so." lays Amerionn. "Tlinnk lleuvon !" Adds, with a plcnsed smtle: "Here's just one moro for luck!" Pokes Hpanlnrd throutfh midriff; oarefillly wipes uory blade ami joins heartily in hurruhiiiK lor the peaco. Farm for Sale, 100 nores four miles from Medford, seven-room house lathed and plastered above and below, barn, sheds mid out buildings, well watered, spring creek miming through place, M) acres In cultivation, nearly nil fenced, plenty of timber and quarry stone. All for $1600, $00(1 in hand, buhincuon time If desired. 100 may bo paid In other frond prop erly. Inquire of K. T. !iw;luii, Med ford, Oregon. Notice. Mail contract to lot, from Klamath Palls to Fl. K'amnth. D'oi in'orinatinn call on or address W. A. f ' ildors, Vl. Klamath, Klamath County, Oregon,. Mitchell, Lewis DHALI'.RS IN JVIaehinefy Wo mi it)' In aiiH'k a complete lino of the Culehrntuil M lleliell Wuguns, botli high and low wheels. Ilnt'li und Hpilnii U uiiona. In Carriages wo luivo tho lleiiuy mid Durum Hurl, ulso Carts of illlforenl stylus, liiirnti.ia, belli heavy and Hunt, double ami slnl, llarb and smooth who, Halt lies, t'ldur Mills, Mynr'a Tumps of nil stylus, Plows, liar runs, Hoi'dera, .Co,, ko, Hoiut for catiiloifim of what yuu waul. Hiitlalaellun ifiiarnntoeil, D. T. LAWTON, Mgr. Medford Branch Cascade Priie Baking Powder GLASSWARE Given with every can of I'owder As A Prize There are also Capital I'rU.cs, consisting of a China Spoon Holder, Cream Pitcher and Sugar Bowl Kvury purchaser gets n chain)..' for a capi tal prize In connection with thu regular prizes of glassware. n WARNER & THE GROCERS Trie YdjlKEE Trading store, SHONE & SCHERML-RHORN, Propr's Carry everything that s rieeoiid-Iland and IjiIs of A' Holes that nre First-Hand. We will buy, trndeor sell anything on earth. Wo havo Horses. Wagons, Ilaruosa, Stoves, Hardware, Kurul lure, -An jibing Kvoi) thing Sell to us, Trade with us or West Side. a; ii ran uouu) ai JJ- F. L. CRANFIU'S vl i'V. Wo still liuve it fuw V' tit Kll,1.' fi, nloun ottr Clearance Sale (yj cents per pair. m 3333333? Tito Kinosl Stock ol BSMW"" 0, ijy s. ALSO NHW STOCK u3 nedford, Oregon. S. tt(ttF-!f. JVlACKEYc. ill ia m 1r444 444444 m h The lMiotoKnipliors, are now nmltliiK ftunurtor nhoion. Homo thliiK Uiutyoii Hhnuld not, full to nee, Work hlrlolly Unit vIiihh in all roHpucth !JVIACKEY$ BROS, j 44444444444 & Slaver Co., and ..Vehicles t c4 PIN I WORTMAN Medford, Oregon buy from us. Medford, Oregon. it ikt VL Hl.ANI.KTS OUTINO Kl.A NNKI.S Fl.A NN K I , I'.'I'T KS DltKHH (i'imiDH UnPKUW HA II ANH IIoHIKKY pnii'H ml of Mr I'rice F. L. CRANFILL Atiitlu A Plyinalo HuilOlng Medford, Oregon 0m , CLOTHING ICver brought to Medford was roceiv- RoHentliitl tlii.s week. Gent's Furnishing Goods Rosenthal. PAUL PERRAILT IHedrord's Leading Tailor Will make no mislits, hu fc lit you with a suit I lliat will please you, your wifo or best girl. Mining location blanks for sulo ut th iB ofHou. For Dropaf, Dr. Hum' Mew Uwrt bur.