. OUR COUNTY Correspondents J JuckHonvllln NttwH, T. J. Kenntiy went to Portland Sunday livening on ImihIhohs, MIhh liuiru GIIhoii Ih now a real dont of Hiionitiionto, California, Attorney V. II. I'arkor, of Mod' ford, wiih lioro TuoBtliiy on legal hUHinuHH, Win. bybuo Htartvd a largo drova of fat hogH to Happy Camp, Calif,, HiIh wuuk. Owen and Curie Kougim and Owen Moonuy aro In tlio Hullo oruuk country limiting. A hod wiih born to Mr. and MrH. MiliiH V. Canlrall, of Uniunlmvn proelnol, on Onlolior '28. A inarriago IIooiiho was intjuocl Outolior 81 to Iliinry N. HoHHcr and Minn Margarot May Stanley. Marriod In Jacksonville, Out. 20, 1SUK, by Itov. J. L. Htralford, K. A, Van Slyko and Miss Lora Kay. Mrs. P. J. Dnnnoii loft for Port land Friday evening afUir a ploaH ant ton days' vinil wltb relatives and frienda. PoHtnniHtor J. F. Millor and ICmil Britt have returned from their vihU to California. Tboy woro well pleased with thuir trip. Dr. J. N. North, who has boon praotloing dontialry in Jacksonville for eovoral months, left for Lako view Tuonday to lovalo. Mr. and Mrs Julius Holiniidt, who have boon visiting relatives here for several weeks, left for Canon, Nevada, during the wook. J. D. Kay and Henry Ireland, who have been ranging in the for oiU for aevural month, havo re turned to Jacksonville for tho win ter. Mrs. Galloway and Mrs. I). P. TbeisH and daughter, of Medford, attended the tea given by Mrs. Lovo and Miss llanley last Thurs day. Mrs. 0. J. l'arnswnrlh, who httB boon visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Lungell, for a fortnight, loft Tuesday fur Eugeno and Salem to visit relatives. Itobt. Kahlcr, of Seattle, who has been in Jacksonville and vicinity for several montlis past for the benefit of his health, left for home a few days since, do will undergo another operation in a short time. The usual llalloweou pranks were played about town Monduy evening. No damago wag done but several gates wore removed from the hinges and ecu tU red broadcast through tho town. Mrs. K. Kubli ia offering a roward of f 150 for tho conviction of the culprit who placed uor buggy on the top of 0. Uiedo's saloon and Hontterod tho ploughs far and near. Last Thursday Mrs. Goo. Lovo and Miss Alice Hpnley entertained a largo number of their friends at a tea given in honor of Mrs. P. J. ttannon, of Portland, and Mrs. Goo. J. Farnsworth, of Los Angolos, Calif. The parlors and dining room woro most tastefully decorated with Li'France roses, chrysanthemums, yellow ribbons and fonts. It was two o'clock whon the (list guost ar rived and n Iter seven o'clock when tho last hud departed. Tho nocasiou was a delightful ono and systemat ically carried out. . Central Point items. Dr. Brnden, of Gold Hill, spout Tuesday in town. Mrs. Dr. Hinklo and Miss Mary Arc You m Easily Tired? Just remember that all your strength must oome from your food. Did you evor think of thatP Perhaps your muaolos need more strength, or your nerves or perhaps) your stomooh Is woak and cannot dlgoat what you eat. If you need more strength then take SCOTT'S EMULSION of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo phosphltoB. The oil la tho moat easily ohangod of all foods Into strength l and tho hypophos- pnitos are mu uobe tonlos for the norvos. SCOTT'S EMUL SION is tho easiost and qulokost oure for weak throats, for ooughs of every kind, and for all oases of de. bllity, woak nervoe, and loss of flesh. joe. and li.oo; ill itmiilitl. SCOTT & UOWNI1, Ch.mliO, Nw York, MM MIMMHHMMi Meo made Medford a business visit last Saturday. J. 8. March and family have be come oltizoiiH of our town. Miss Ida Pankey mado friends at ICuglo Point a visit last Sunday. Mrs. Henry Kdmonson, o'f Med ford, spent a few days here tho first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Minniek made Jackuonvlllo a business visit tho first of the week. Misses Itosa I'leldor and Minerva Pickens aro employed at Olwoll Uros.' fruit packing house. VV. I.Doran. left Tuesday for Keswick, Calif., where ho will work in the Iron Mountain initio. The ladies of the M. K. Church will give a web social on Nov. 4th. The proceeds will bo used to finish the church. All aro cordially in vited. John Peterson and family ar rived hero from Nehraska Monday and intend spending tho winter on the coast. Mrs. Peterson is a sifter of Mrs. P. Olsson. lCldor Davis, pastor of tho Baptist Church, was given a surprise dona tion party on Monday evening of this week. The boys began the good work and all the town people joined in. One family is sure of plenty of good things for tho coin ing winter, for everything tho mar ket afforded was givon in great quantities. The ladios of tho W. It. C. gave Mrs. Dr. Hinklo a surprise party last Vodnosday evening. They brought their baskets well lillo.i and spread one of tho best of sup porn, of which about thirty of tho W. It. C. and G. A. R. members partook. After lunch gamos were p'ayed and all onjoyed tbomsolves liugoly until a la to hour. Table It oca items. Again aro we convinced of the fact that our system of working roads is decidedly faulty. For some oanso or other there has been hut littlo work dono in this section for sevoral yours, tho work being put off from timo to time to suit this or that man. Last spring thore was nothing done; now our supervisor comes up with a list, incomplete leaving out some permanent resi dents and having names of men who never did live in this district. Aeain tho list shows somo men to be owing three yours' road work, while others aro not marked delin quent at all. We got very little bene lit from tho proporty tax and by put ting off work till now wo will lose several polls owing to people mov ing away. In the five years that we havo lived here there has not boon a timo that raoro than three teams could bo hod at onco, conse quently shovolors are idle a good portion of tho time. Last week we saw four men shoveling and only ono team hauling. Sometimes three or four mon como without a tool to work with and unless suppliod by a near neighbor, have to pick rocks by hand to put in tho timo. Such business will never improve our roads nor build up tho country. Who is at fault, officials or farmers? J. C. P. Sterling Items. Mr. and Mrs. Tlios. Dows mado a trip to Medford Inst Thursday. Mr. Thrasher, of Jacksonville, is engaged in hauling timber for Hay Cook's tunnel. Mrs. Itosooe Cantral, who haB been vory ill with fever, is slightly iniprovod at Hub writing. Ed. Saltmarsh bad tho misfor tune to got his hand mashed by a rock wliilo working in the mines. Miss Daisy McGreitor returned borne last Sunday from Wra Mault by's, where she has been for some time. Misses Lotitia Gilsori, Ona Will trout and Daisy McGroitor wero Sleasant visitors at Mrs. J. V. i.eizur's last Wednesday. Thore was a sooiol dance given in Sailor's guloh lanl week by the young people of this vicinity. A very enjoyable time was reported. David Jones camo near meeting with a serious aooidont in the tun nel of Ray Cook's mine last Satur day. A largo ohunk of dirt ovor heud became loose from blasting and tell on him, pinning him to the ground. Help being near ho was soon extricated, however, and was ouly slightly bruised. Btatk ok Ohio. City oh-Tui.icno, iBa Lucas County. j88, Fhank .1. ciiknry lunkoH oiilli llint lio In tho son lor partner of tho llrm of b J. chknky&Co., dolntf luiHlnt'ttrt to thy Clly ol Toll-do, Comity una Slum Hftmumlil. ntul thai Hold llrm wilt pity tho 811 in ol ONIO IIUNDKI4U DOLIMIW tor onoll nml ovory oiihu of Cataimih Hint aiiunot ho ourud by tho uso ot Hama Oataiikii cuitn. Kiiank ,1, chunky. Hwni-n to u.'furn mo mid mihtKirlhvd tu my pri'HftiMO, till oth tiny of Ucoombor, A, I). IHHit. , . . A, W. UI.RAHON. j skai. f Notury i'ubtlo. Hull's Catarrh Cure Is tuktm Intornnlly, and nctH dtrootly on tho hlood unci mucotiR mtrfnoos of tho flyntom. Suwl fo loHttmontnlN. f roo. l- J. Ciikney & Co., Tolotlo, O, Hold by DrimulntR, 7&o. Hull's Family Pills oro tlio bunt. In Tiik MAH.'s wood yard thoro is still room fin' a few more tiers ot uood atovo wood. Subscribers, now or old, wishing to Hx thoinsulvoB on our books ior any loiigtli of time eau do so by bringing In wood. Lake Creek Items. IIY ItlHIIII.KItKH'H PltlKNI). Fred Peck mado a trip to the valley last week, Arthur JMwards took a load of vegetables to Medford last Thurs day. Tho now bridge across Lake creek is completed and 'is just what we need. Wrn. Daley and Win. NuBsbaum took some fine beef cattle to Med ford Friday. Mrs. Win. Nussbaum and son, William, made a business trip to liuglo Point Thursday. Mr, and Mrs. F. Peil and Mr. and Mr. Frank Parlow woro trad ing in Medford the first of the weok. Miss Lois ICiJIer, who has been staying with Mrs, H. M. Crowell, of Medford, for some timo, returned homo Monday. Miss Lizzie Nussbaum returned to Medford tho first of tho week after a several days' visit at her homo near Lako Creek. AIDS WOMEN TO SWIM. A Haw Invention la a I'neumallo Cur art Which I'revruta lla Wear er from Sinking- Timid women can now Ijo taught swimming in a wry caay m miner. An caatern professor has invented a pneu matic cornet for lieglmiera to wear, wlilcli, lie auya, greatly facilitate.) the untutored in iic-qulrlng t tic different ttrokca. This comet Ibi-iii on Hit-bh me tre ne nil llnei as all corsets and inude doulile, io that the air apace between tho two thickncMiet may be blown up and servo not only to present a neut nppenniiK-e to the figure lint it Inn tu buoy It up n ih give confidence 1o file timid. A lack uf confidence la respon sible for the elowncMi with wlilcli tlilk acrompliklmesi Is learned by women, and tills comet ulioulil prove a boon to women who delight in utpiutic kporla but havo no hardihood for them. The very knowledge that they cniinot sink leuvea their brain clear enough to think of the proper strnkea for linnd and feet, nml m noon ns they find they can move tliroiiKh the water from one place to n not her anil become nevus turned to these iiinvcmeiita the Vorst-t may be cllneiinUd. It la much more hapely than the biff rubber rintr mid cork life prenervei-K. and. in fact, does not allow at nil, u it cuiiforma to tlie ahspv of the wearer. The cornet lint been een on M'vrrnl women bulhera at t lie eiiFtern resort thia senaon, nnd it bicla fair to become very popular. WORLDS OLDESTENGINE, It Wai CcmatracteA In Rniclnnd In 1TTT nnd Una Ileen In Service I'htll Itt-ernllr. The oldest engine in the worid is in tho poaaeaxion of the llirminghiim cnnnl navigations, this eiiKine linving been constructed by Boulton & Watt In tho year 1777, Bay London Kniri necrinfr. The order is entered in the firm's booki in that yenr as a single acting lien in engine, with chains at cuch end of a wood beam, and having the steam cylinder 3'1 inches in diam eter, with a stroke of eight feet, and rrccted at the canal company'i pump ing station at liolfe street, Smeth wick. During the present year (1S9K) this remarkable old engine, which hns been regularly nt work from the time of its erection to the current year, a period of, say, ISO years, was removed to tho canal company's station at Dckcr Hill, Tipton, there to be re erected and preserved as a relic of what can be done by good manage ment when dealing with mnohinery of undoubted quality. H is worthy of note that the IMrtntnghnm canal navi gations favored Itoulton fc Walt in 1777 with the order for this engine, and in 1898, or 120 years afterward, the com pnny hai intrusted the sumo Arm, Jamea Watt & Co., Soho, Smethwick, with tho manufacture of two of their modern tripla-cxpanaion vertical en gines, to bo erected at the Walsall pumping station, having 240 horse power and a pumping capacity of 12, 713,600 gallons per day. . BLIND PEOPLE IN SPAIN. The Nambc-r la Very l.nrffe nnd There la Ko Effort to Re duce It. The largo proportion of blind people in Spnln has attracted attention since tho beginning of the present century. Tho subject is again brought up by an article .by Privy Councilor II irschberg In tho Gcrmnn Medical Weekly giving tho results of his rcecnt observation in Spuin, where ho attended tho hy gienic, congress. He snys -the nt roots of Madrid swnrm with blind begjrnrs; the further south ho went the more blind ho met. The proportion in Spain us givon in the census of 18(10 Is 11 to 111,000, against eight to nine in Ger many, France and England: but that figure is considered undoubtedly false tlV eotltlneiltnt nnthnt-lttna M.ien i-n- cont figures give 14.8. The chief causes of blindness in Spain nro inflamma tion or tne eyes of infants, granula tion and smallpox, Tho widespread fatalistic, attitude of tho sick, tho lack of governmental oversight and tho Small attention nnld tn rltnnnaa nf Mta eye operate to increase the number of tho blind in Spain. Thero is not a single public eye hospital in Spain, ac cording to Dr. Illrschbergi only wards In general hospitals and private Insti tutions. Instruction in diseases of tho eye is neglected in the medical schools, though there is hope that the nowmcd icnl faculty in Itareelonn, wlilcli has been organized within two years, may wo;!( tin Improvement in ophthalmol ogy in Spain, GROWXii O kLhX. IH INDIA. Tk Pinal la llrarrd Kaclnslralr to' tha Saad nnd Hoi for Finer. Cnnaul-Oeneral Patterson, at Cal cutta, in a report to the department of state, notci a curious fact about flax growing, reports the St. fOiils (ilobe Democrat. He writes! "In answer to an Inquiry from n Chicago firm relative to tho quantity of flax produced nni exported from India, I would say that flax is grown In India exclusively for the seed. In no part of the country is tho lllier produced. ICxperlinents have been mada for many years with the an mo result, viz., thai it Is no proof that a plant can be made to yield a fiber because it can be grown In s country. Flax, hemp and china grata arc admirable aumples of this fact. The possible area of fiber production of any of these in India Is extremely narrow, lie nip yields fiber In linssiu uud other countries and cannot b-.-made to produce the narcotic. In In dla tho very reverse ia the ease, except in a small portion of the Himalayas where It yields admirable fiber and no narcotic to tpeak of. While large arear of flax arc cultivated in almost every part of India and Iturmuh, it la grown only for the seed, of which large quan tities are exported, and not for fiber, and there is no flax exported from In dia." FIRST ELEPHANT IN AMERICA. How sloava Sinlth'a Eceenfrln Notion Nail n Fortune for An other Man, It Is not generally known that a former citizen of Owensboro brought across the ocean tho first elephant that was ever in America, says the Owensboro (Ky.) Inquirer. The name of tho gentk-mun was Moses Smith, who at one time owned a vast body of land from the mouth of Panther creek up tho river, embracing nearly all the present farms in the neighborhood of Sorgho. Mr. Smith was at Paris with his brother and bad "more money than he knew what to -lo with." He told his brother that he intended taking some thing to American that the people bad never seen. "You had better buy an clephant,"said the jocular brother and that, was whnt Moses did. He picked out tho biggest nnimul he could find nnd paid an enormous price for it. He brought it to New York, where it was 0 nine days' wonder, but the owner soon found that he hnd somethinp worse than the proverbial white ele phant on his hnnils. He tried to sell it, but could find no buyer nnd nt last undertook to give it away, in which h? wns equally unsuccessful. . Finally ht found a man who agreed to pay him $100 for it nnd this Individual put it or exhibition. He was so successful that he went into the show businc. and made a fortune out of Mr. Smith's fol ly. Col. Frunk MeKernnn.of Adrian ville, is a grandson of Mr. Smith, who lived to a great pgc at his homo in this countv. BOOTBLACK SUPPLIES. A CosnpnrntlTtlr Neir Bnalneaa That Hna ot Lnte Grown Ip to Pill Modern Waati. A business that has sprung up in New Yorlt in recent years is that of bootblack supplies. It owes its origin to the growth of the city, the multipli cation of bootblack stands, and the in troduction and extensive use of colored sihoes. There are now a unmber of con cerns, small but complete establish ments, devoted to this business, that supply everything a bootblack requires, and his requirements are greater than they formerly were, says the Xew York Sun. At one place thera are kept on hand 05 varieties of shoe blacking or polish for shoes of all kinds and colors, includ ing blackings and polishes in boxes nnd bottles, nnd1 imported blackings as well as domestic, and waterproof .blacking nnd oil. There nre sold here cans for oil and for water; blacking pans, the small round pans made to hold a larger quantity of blacking than would be contained in a blacking box; brushes of nil kinds, including daubers, dust brushes, and blacking brushes, whisk brooms and shoestrings of various kinds and colors. Some of these establishments send out supply wagons, which regularly make the rounds of their customers at bootblacking stands all over the city and supply their wants, whatever they may be, on the spot. BEADS OF GREAT BRITONS. Gladstone Hnd n Larger Cranio Thnn Benconafleld, Bright or Rnaaell. Mr. Gladstone's head was, it is well known, of exceptional size. The story he told at Lord Itipon's onco about the man who could not get a hat large enoujih till nt last the hatter called in desperation for nuiAberdeen lint niny well enough hate been Ins own ex perience, says thu London Daily News. The compliment to Aberdeen wns, no doubt, relished in the granite City. Dr. Collins once gave to tho world the re sult of a special study In huts, in the course of which it was mentioned that Mr. Qladstone's number in hats was 7, The hatters' number Is arrived at by taking tho mean of the length nnd breadth. Thus a hat 7'3x0ya is a No. 7 hut, which is the average English size. Lord Bcnconsfteld's hat wus this size, John Bright's 7, Lord John Rus sell's 7, all smaller than Mr. Glad stone's. But the Gladstone lint wai exceeded in size by that of Dr. Chal. mors' 7, and Joseph Hume's wns em phntically abnormal 84. Dr. Collim had 126 lints mensured at a meeting o Convocation of London university, ant found that between 40 and 41 per cent were above the British average, No. 7 between 25 nnd 20 per cent, were Jub the average size, nnd 34 per cent, weri under the average. TBflEV AGSE Hi EuM ill Gnu Expert Specialists Five Physicians and Surgeons, all Graduates from the best Medical Colleges la the World. Incorporated under the laws of California for 2M,000. Established twenty tx years. A part of the staff of the English and German Expert bpeculUt and Dr. Meyers & Co. will make their regular monthly visit to MEDFORD WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 1 THEY WILL BE AT THE NEW HOTEL NASH The ulafl of the English and German Expert H pedal Is u Is composed ot five regularly grada ated doctors, each a physician who lian had many yeara experience In curing all manner of chronic dlHeatiet. During the past quarter of a century the success of this moat worthy Institu tion has been phenomenal. Diseases whlih have bo tiled the skill of other physicians and stub bornly refuned to yield to ordinary medicines, methods and appliances, are quickly subdued and matuercd by the English and German Kipert Specialists. 1 bey have the largest and bet equipped medical Institution in America. The Kngllith and German Expert Specialists are not only competent and reliable, but responsible, being backed by ample capital andabl managed. Home Cures. While it is preferable In many instances to see a patient, the English and Ger man Kxpcrt Specialists have cured thouriandH of persona whom they have never seen. If yon cannot see the doctors, write the home office for question list and free advice in regara to your Call on the Doctors when they come. All ailing people should see the English and German Expert Specialists. A friendly talk, which costs abbolutely nothing, is bound to result in great deal of good, whether treatment Is taken or not. CONSULTATION FREE The English and German Expert Specialists A Staff of the Most Eminent Physicians and Surgeons In the World. 73I Market St., San Francisco and 2I8 S. Broadway, Los Angeles Tho Cnrbouado, Wash., coal mines shipped 35.00J tons during September, beuiiiiK all previous records. Roslyn hns held the record with 30,000 tons. The Carbonndo mines, owned by tlio Southern Pacific railroad company, are running full timo and employ 690 men, averaging $3.29 u day wajjes. f During June, Juiy, Annus', and Sep tember, 1893, therewere shipped from Washington 8 2S oirs of lumber. The increase in lumber shipments from Washington has been more pronounced this year than that of shingles. The first nine mouths of 1S98 show 133.424, 000 feet, as against 92,464,000 feet in the corresponding months in 1897. D. K. B.iown, general passenger agent of the Pacific Kailwav and Steam ship company, Hongkong, says the oriental trade of the liiit five years should more than double in the next five yuars. owing to increased trans portation labilities. The fish Industries of the state ol Washington amounted last year to $4,000,000. The superior court has decided that Xlpa RMlfin fnnimf Ka laltnn to Tln- .... .... Mrs. Dunning. She will be tried .In California. Private James N. Meadors, of the Eighth California regiment of volun teers,;the slayer of Corporal Jonas Ury, was acquitted at Oakland by a jury ol the charge of murder, and discharged from custody. W. R. Melville, who was supposed to havo been drowned near Sausalito about five years ago,nnd who was sub sequently found to be a defaulter from tho Bank of California and a fugitive from justice, has had his sentence com muted by Governor Btuld. The com mutation took effect Monday. The new building of the medical de partment of the University of Califor nia, was formally opened at San Fran cisco Saturday. Charles Anderson "wai killed a few days ago near Gurneville,Cal.,by being struck on the head by a log that was is to be signalized in a fitting manner, rolling down a hill. . The jubilee will begin on Noventber Pardo Lucoro, alias El Vacquere, .30 wllen tn?r,; wi" be a procession of whose age, as shown by the records of .Imperial and royal personages from the Mission Los Angeles and Snledad, j the Hofburg to St. Stephen's cathedral, was 125 years, diod in the County Hos-iwhere a eT''nml Te Deuin will be sung, pital at Salinas, Cal., of old ago. De-1 The following day there will be a court ceased enme from SonorR, Muxico, after , dinner, a dinner for all the generals the Yaqul rebellion, in 1825, and settled , ot the Austro-Hungnrian army and a near where San IHogo now is. gala performance at the imperial A coroner's jury decided that G. 0. 0Iera'An ArtlAelal Sea Breeae Richards, editor of the Press-Democrat, ri , ,. . of Santa Rosa, who shot himself Satur- hl?Z!Xu I n?who!,plto1 day, did not commit suicide, but shot I KM,1 , .aflin1;'86 r,0m " ' lf .i,i, ., .. tn which patients suftenng from lunar himself accidontxl.v. . dUenaes can breathe air artiflclally The bodies ot ..tis Emma Smith of lmnrecrnAterl with nit o T t . , , , . oitu j rnucigco, an i uor niece, iurs. Vincent Ryan, were found floating in the bay near Vallc jo. How the ladios came to their death is unknown. , Edwin 8.Gridy has been appointed gauger In the Sacramento internal rev enue district. c.ra Good-Itjr lo Nevrsrale Prtaon. It has been decided by the authori ties of London that historic Newgate prison and the Old Hailey sessions house shall be pulled dov.-n to mnko room for" a spacious new sessions house. Newgate has been a prison for over 500 years, the original buildintrs, after being1 several times repaired, giving way to another structure in 1770. Before it was entirely completed it was pillaged and burned on June 6 and 7, 1730, by the no-popery rioters, and after that a sum of $150,000 was devoted to repairing and completing' the fabric, which is considered by ex perls to be admirable in design and character. The outer walls are nearly four feet thick. On the opening of Whitecross street prison in 1815 Neiv gate ceased to be used for debtors, and since 1SS2 it has only been util ized for those awaiting trial during sessions and for prisoners condemned to death. X, Y. Sun. . j China la Crowded. The crowding of China by other na tions continues. A recent attack by a Chinese mob upon the Japanese con- t . . . ... J 1 suiate at bnasm lias given Japan a pro text for securing concessions on the Peiho, together with a guarantee that no part of the province of Fukien, which lies on the mainland opposite Formosa, shall ever be ceded to a for eign power. France has demanded from China a money indemnity and certain railway concessions in the province of Kwangsi, as compenw.lion for the murder of a French priest ; and Russia, without waiting for any special pretext, is reported to be instating on a lease of Kin-Chnu, the city near Port Arthur which the Russian commander not long ago attempted to occupy, claimingitns n part of the Port Arthur concession. Great Britain has secured an important extension of the boun daries of HonKong. Jnbllee ot Anatrla'a Emperor. On December 2 next the Austrian emneror will have eomnleted the flf- tleth t ear of his reicn nnd the event i ra - Old Poll? In Connaotlcut. Connecticut claims a parrot 118 years old. It has been for 100 yeara ia one family, having descended from fa ther to Bon through two or three generations,