PURELY PERSONAL!
Capt. 0. T. C. Nash was at Rosoburg
tills weak.
Mr. and Mrs. Fort Hubbard wore at
Aliland Tuesday.
Mr. E. H. BinnB and children are
, over.ttt MoAlllBter sprlugs.
Mrs. C. W. Palm wont up to the
Cbuuaauqua grounds yesterday.
.Mrs. J. A,. Norman returned to her
home at Grants Pass Tuesday evening.
Merchant John Van Dyko is rustica
ting on the ranch, over near Roxy Ann.
Mr. and Mre. A. W. Willo, of Trail,
were in the oity this week upon busi
ness. Wesley Dial and family were up on
Wagner creek a few days this week en
joying an outing.
Olney Webster returned last week
from a ten days' visit to his old home
in Umatilla County.
A. Hover left Wednesday for
Americas, Kansas, for a visit with her
mother, who Is in quite poor health.
J esse Morgan left for Klamath County
Tuesday morning -with a load of nia
cMnery for the Mitchell, Lewis &
Staver Co.
Mrs. H. U. Lumsden .and children,
lbs. E. H. Lumsden and W. S. Charles
Ml family are all camped at Chautau
qua this week.
W. J. CoWln was down from Prospect
thiB week making proof on his home
stead. His witnesses were C. W. Skeel
and Nelson Nye.
J. Tressler left Monday for Lakevlew,
where he expeote to find employment.
He tells us that haying wages in that
Anuntrv are i2 D6r dav.
Brownsboro's postmaster, Mrs. J. K.
Bell, and Mrs. 3. D. Culberlaon, also of
Brownsboro, were pleasant callers at
The Mail office Tuesday.
Justin Wlgle arrived in Medford thiB
week from Portland, where he has
been living for several months. He
-will return to Portland next Monday.
Jaieses Ida Redden and Sadie Amann
left Medford Tuesday morning for
Fresno, Calif., where they will visit
relatives and friends for a few weeks.
Mrs. E. Weston came up from Etna,
Calif., last week and will henceforth
make Medford her homo, her huBband
having engaged in photography here.
Mrs. Wm. McCurdy and children, of
Parker," Oregon, are in Medford upon a
Visit to A. M. Woodford and family.
Mrs. McCurdy is a sister of Mrs. Wood
lord. Mrs. H. L. Mumford, who .has been
visiting for a few weeks with her par
ents, Capt. and Mrs. Wm. Carroll, left
Wednesday evening for ber home in
Portland.
Mrs. Minerva Porter, of BarriBburg,
was in Medford last week upon a visit
. to her niece, Mrs. - J. H. Butler, and
family. The lady was en route home
irom Ban Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hoover left this
week by team for Douglas County,
where Mr. H. will canvass the county
fori the sale of the Frank Galloway
Waste-Proof feed boxes.
Mrs.' D. T; Lawton and daughters,
Myrtle, and Grace,' and son, Master
Xeonr left Tuesday evening for New
port ''.Oregon," .where they will enjoy
sea breezes and surf baths for a couple
of months.
S. Bradbury left Monday for Klam
ath County, where he hopes to be able
to buy a carload of horses for shipment
to Galesburg, 111. He will buy" draft
horses only and they must weigh from
3400 to 1600 pounds.
MiBB Anna Wait returned laBt Friday
Irom JJoe Angeles, Calif., at which
place she has been living with her sis
ter, Mrs. Terwilleger, since last Sep
temberduring which time Bhe has
been taking musio lessons.
W. H. Moore, of Rose Hill,' Iowa,
arrived , in Medford this week. Mr.
Moore will visit for a few weeks with
his daughter, Mrs. W, L. Orr, and
lamily, and while here will make proof
n a timber claim up in the Butte
reek country.
R. H. Whitehead and Dee Roberts
went over to McAllister springs this
-week to sort o' blaze a trail, as it were,
aad select a camping ground for others
f their kinfolks who will be there be
fore another week of warm weather
shall have been and gone.
Mrs. J. W. Curry returned Saturday
from a three weeks' visit over at S. A.
arlton's pleasant farm home. The
lady's many friends will "be pleased to
learn that the visit to. the conntry
greatly benefitted her health which
las been anything but good for several
jBenthe.
A. Learned, the Jacksonville candy
aaan, was in Medford Monday upon
business. Mr. Learned is doing a
splendid business in the manufacture of
choice candies and his reputation as a
most excellent confectioner is becom
:Iug widespread. He enjoys a splendid
trade from other towns than Jackson
ville. J. O. England, of Harris, Mo., and
H. C. Kentner, of Trenton, Mo., who
huve been in Medford for a few weeks
upon a visit to Merchant F. K. Deuel
And family, left Saturday for Albany
ior a visit with W. B. Stevens and fam
ily. Mr. Kentner Is a cousin ot Mr.
Deuel and Mrs. Stevens. The vlalilng
gontlomen are very favorably impressed
with our valley and speak very en
couragingly of our business outlook.
G. W. Notes ti no and family, J. A.
Lyon and family and Volney WobBtor
left thiB wook for a couple of weeks'
camping out In the Dead ludiau country.
Morohant K. K. Deuel left last night
for Albauy, Oregon, whore he goes for
a tew days' visit with his partner, W.
B. Stevens, aud family. Messrs. Douol
& Stevens now have throo stores run
ning iirOregon, they having recently
put In a now one at Lebanou. The
others are at Medford and Albany.
Unole Thomas West ieft Tuesday
morning tor the Hurley springs, on
Anderson creek. This is Mr. West's
third season at this place and you
couldn't ooax or drive him any plaoe
else he's Infatuated with the locality
f-aud according to his tell almost any
body would be similarly afllioted who
had been there.
Frank Ward left Monday for Sau
Francisco, where he will visit, his
brother, after whloh he will .return to
his home and business at Rookford,
111. Mr.'Ward Is an uncle ot Merchant
H. G. Wortman. While here he made
many drives over our valley and is very
favorably Impressed and may invest
some money here. .
Mrs. E. D. Elwood and children and
her brother, Oral Burnett, are up at
Ranch de Elwood, on Elk oreek. Mr.
Elwood has his plaoe very nicely ar
ranged tor a summer home and the
main guy of that household will be en
joying its pleasures inside of a few
weeks the ' notion has commenced
bothering him now.
Mrs. Henry Bailey and ohildren, of
Phoenix, were in Medford Monday.
Mrs. Bailey's little girl has been hav
ing a Berlous time during the past year
or two with a diseased knee joint, whloh
has been a heavy bill of expense to the
parents, and there are now grave fears
that the disease, which had seemingly
been oured, is coming back again.
Will Olwell oame down from Daven
port, Wash., Sunday evening for a visit
to home folks and upon business with
Messrs. A. A. Davis and W. I. Vawter,
gentlemen tor whom he is conducting
a flouring mill and warehouse at Daven
port. Mr. Olwell has held this responsi
ble position for a number of years with
great credit to himself and profit to
his employers.
THAT MAN A
DREAMER
Nay, his soul has
That nuvn a dreumerT
Wl'lEH
Whloh lift him from the realm of common
ihihK.
To whore ho ole fives the limpid Uiir ntr
Anil poised on strong atul ilrelusa pinions
III 1-IV
Swti'im lime and apace with lilerclnK. eagle
Klitni'c,
Cutting Uimuirh clouds ot earth-bound
clremnstuiice.
What carva this man for earthly gaoda or
gold?
IUfor.' i-ls ryes eternal year unfold,
Ho Mtt-a thu moitvt'a deeply masked In man,
And that which llnka him unto omt great
IllHIl,
Which he. xhort-alghtod fool, with baud-
itgeU cvn,
llcura of with dim, Incredulous surprise.
He Aff-N In lenMea made of human toara
Tlis clcur reliecttona of uncounted years.
The rays of hope which through audi
I'l-hma pass
For htm make picture In magic glass
Prop!;nlc picture, heautlful. sublime,
Ktcht-d thus on crystal by the touch of
lime. -
He sees the forms of mighty things to be,
Thu time when all meu shall be wise and
free,
The day when little envies, little hates,
Pall from thera as they pasa tho golden
gutes:
And stretching out through spaces veiled
The struKglea of the preaeut and the past.
That man a dreamerT No, hie clear sight
A milium truths hid from the reatlesa fleas
Who t:i-ope upon the sln-atalned oruat of
earth
And mock at mlghtleat men of loftier birth.
They are dreamera who half know, half
aee
What God reveals to thinkers such as ho.
Us Is God'a prleat and prophet, let him be!
KIXIAK JONEB.
FT:
j AN ACCIDENTAL
I By Edgar Temple Field, jfe
WnjJAV t. BBTAlff.
The Democratic National convention
was held at Kansas oity hut week.
William Jennings Bryan reoeived rhe
nomination for president and Adlai E.
Stevenson was nominated for vice-president.
The convention adopted a plat
form with silver a prominent feature
SAMOAH BELLE'S GOWR&
Tfcr Gw ob Tn aa Am aaaoat
dr few Vac wtea
tther4.
Party gowns for Samoan girls grow
on the tropical trees and almost ready
ior wear, says tne Indianapolis Mews.
When a native beauty of Samoa decides
to go to a special entertainement she
enters the forest to look for her gala
attire. The native kiki, or kilt. Is the
only addition to her ordinary costume
that the faamoan girl provides for spe
cial parties. The material for the kiki
rrows on the tree. It consists of a rib
bon of bark a few inches wide that Is
stripped from the tree easily. While
damp the bark, which is very thin, is
crinkled so as to form wavy outlines.
and the ribbons are colored all sorts
of bright hues. The Samoan girl then
plaits a waistband from the same kind
of bark and hangs the ribbons on it.
uandmade flowers of the same material
re often added also.
When the kiki Is completed the dusky
belle puts it on over her scanty lava!
ava, or waist cloth, and goes to the
dance or other entertainment. The
girls thus make their own party
dresses,-and some of them show great
taste and skill in fashioning the old
garments, although the captious might
allege that they might, without being
overdressed, have Samoa on.
rT HE suggestion that brought it all
I about cunie from me, 1 belisve.
Suggestions of any sort usually came
frotu me rather thau tlnrgcry, for 1
have iu my veins the ml venturous blood
of stanch New Kngluml ancestry, who
had but-uetl witches ami fought Indians
and iuter pursued a relentless trallic in
wooden miluiegs with the same high
couruge and fine disregard of conse-
ueuces.
While Margery is of Dutch descent
anil inclined to be cautious, if not a bit
pig-headed, as 1 often told her.
Hut no one could help loving her, in
spite of her little Dutch obstinacy
leust of all myself, for of nil the provok
ing little women that were ever created
for the express purpose of churniiiig
aud tormenting their fellow men
Margery was the most tleliciously deur,
and 1 loved her so well I could forgive
her anything. That is. uuythiug but
the way she treated Jack lteaslcy.
The dunce she led that poor fellow
wus something to move even a beurded
Turk to pity. For a whole year she had
kept him dangling after her ns ubjectly
as n dancing doll at the end of a string,
ami yet, as far as we could see, he hail
made no progress whatever in her atfec
tions. We had been talking things over,
Jack, -N'ed and 1, in Margery's absence
(I never dared mention Jack to
Margery, for fear of Rtill further ex
citing that famouB ohstinucy of hers),
and even Xed, the moBt hopeful of mor
tals, hud to admit Jack's chances
looked blue. Xed, be it known, wns the
daring youth who had undertaken to
guide my New Kuglund enterprise ami
other virtues (too numerous to men
tion) through life's pilgrimage.
He end Jack weru partners in a law
oflice, and occupied the tint on the top
floor, where they indulged in certain
mysterious rites they called light
housekeeping, while Margery and 1
taught music and Delsarte and prac
ticed the modest virtueB of hospitality
in the flat below.
Nothing, therefore, could have been
more fit, suitable and otherwise to be
desired than to have Margery and Jack
full in love with each other, even as Ned
and I hud done. Juck wus willing
enough, poor boy', but Margery balked,
it was too provoking.
As I said before, we three had been
talking' it over the day before while
Margery was absent teaching the luck
less children of a rich soap manufactur
er to pluy Wagner on the piano, and all
agreed that the situation looked hope
less.
Juck had been in the depths of de
spair because the tenor of the ehoir for
which Margery played an organ had
called three- times that week, and,
though I didn't believe she cared a pin
for the tenor, 1 had never known'
naughty Murgery to appear more wil
fully regardless of Juuk's feelings.
We hud parted, therefore, gloomily
enough, after a fruitless conference,
and i hud relieved my mind by being
especially cross to Margery all day,
though J' must own she didn't seem to
mind much.
it was an awful day, raining cats and
dogs, and in the afternoon I got tired
of being cross all to myself, and pro
posed that we should shampoo our hair
steamer rug. We were urined with a
novel apiece, but soon got to talking,
girl fushloii, unil were deep In it dis
cussion ot Aiuus J udil, when there clime
a loud knock at the door.
"tiritit Scott I" I exclaimed, In n stage
whisper, the rosy ndvttutugcs of my
plan suddenly fading In the void light
of reality.
"There, 1 luld you so!" orletl Margery,
ungenerously, sitting up abruptly sn
that her huir fell about her lu u great,
shining, coppery shower.
"Sh shut up!" 1 whispered, rt'iichlng
out with an agitated stockinged too fur
the bedroom slipper 1 hud carelessly
kicked olT a moment before.
Aguln thu knock came, this time more
Imperative.
"What In heaven's name shall we
do'.'" gasped Margery.
"Keep still, you chump!" 1 said, sutto
voce, too nervous to pick my words.
Then the door handle turned and we
heard Ned's voice saying: "There's
nubndy home. Let's come in and wait
for them."
"All right," was the reply, In Jack's
bass tones, "Maybe it's not the proper
thing, but we might as well risk ll,"iind
we heard the door close as our visitors
entered aud took possession of our
apartment,
It was too ridiculous. I'd have had
to laugh if our lives kail been at stake,
and iu spite of the Imminent danger of
discovery in this mortifying plight 1
stulfed all of a sofa pillow thut would
go Into my mouth ami (.hook till my
sides ached.
It was the expression on Margery's I
face thut recalled me to myself at last, j
i uauciug to glance up rrotn be hi ml a
corner of the cushion 1 wns trying to
swallow, 1 caught her listening with
strained attention to suinethlug thut
was being said on the other side of the
M-reen, with every lilt of color uune out
of her face anil n look iu ber eves I'd '
never seen there before.
"Yes," Jack was saying, "if they 1
don't hurry I'll have to go without say- i
ing good-by. My train leavea ut seven,
aud I've lots to do." I
Ned lighted his pipe before he re
plied. Deur .Ned, I hrllew he would
smoke ill Heaven if I'eter didn't take the
precaution to svurch him 1m: fore he let
him iu.
"I guess It'll surprise them soino," he
remarked at last. "Especially when
they hear you're never coming back."
I nuged Murgery violently ut this, but
she didn't look at me the minx and
then Jack went on dolefully:
"Oh, they won't care very much, I'm
afruid."
"Of course they will," protested Ned,
pulling away. "And 1 will anyway.
Must you go, old lxy '."
"Well, It's this way, Ned. As long as
1 hoped that Margery might, cure for
mu 1 wouldn't give in to uiy uncle'
proposition that I should inurry his
w ard, Miss WiNon, and become his heir,
but now thai I'm satisfied 1 huve no
chance with the girl I love, I might ut
well marry the other one and please the
old man. 1 suppose. I'll lie miserable
anyway." Ami Jin k heaved such a sigh
that the big paH. screen waved nliout
till it threatened to come down about
our heads.
I gave a liorrilled look at Margery, hut
her hair had fallen over her face, mid 1
could only see one tittle hand clinched
lierceiy as if she had u puin somewhere,
I reached dumbly uteruiiil tried to take
the little hand, but she shook ine olf,
and so 1 fell to listening again.
"Well, it's not so had as it might be,"
Ned was satiiiL', encouraink'ly. "J
hear Miss Wilson is a benuty."
"She is," said Jack, with enthusinsin.
"Ami then think of the money, my
1k.v. Most nny fellow woulil envy you.''
"I suppose so," said Jack, drenrilv.
"Hut I must go. 'lime's up. Will you
say good-by to the girls lor me, Ned'.'
Tell Muriferv
Here Jack choked tint! 1 wus so busy
catching a large, warm tear thut was
basing townid the end of uiy nose that
forgot to look at Margery, when to
my amaement a little j.urc in a gray
baih robe, with a cloud of coiinerv hail
lying after il, bounded light over me.
and as the screen toppled over With a
crash I heard Margery's voice cry : '
Oh, no, Jnck, you mustn't go. I I
love you, Jack."
I had a confused vision of Jack seiz
ing the little figure In his arms, and
then I started to run I don't look so
pretty with my hair wet a- Margery
does. But somehow when I go! to the
door I met Ned, and as 1 looked up
wrathfully something I bu in his eye
made me stop short.
Ned Uucker, I exclaimed, "you
knew we were there all the time."
"Well." he said, not n whit ashamed,
if you will leave the ventilating shaft
open
You wretch," 1 cried, and then some
thing else struck me. "And the uncle,"
I gusped, ."and the beautiful Miss Wil
son "
"Are nbout as real," huid Mister Ned,
as civil service reform." Chlcatro
Herald.
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The Red-Headed Photographer
m
Smoke the
La Floy de Alfonso,
his
his
Oae Woaean'a Wieetnm.
He had proposed to the idol of
heart, but things failed to come
way.
"Do you know." he said, as her waa
and dry It on the parlor radiator, the i leaving her presence forever, "that rou
A new CiRiir, long antl tilim, with Havana
tiller, Mr. KttrU'Bown inuke. It is a gratifying
nnioko, and is proving a very popular 6c cigar.
Have You Ever Tried
KURTZ'S BOUQUET,
The pcimlur lOo cigar? It is hand inntle, with
clear lliiviina filler. $
l.r. iinu liKtrtt or Kky Went and ltiroaTKi) Cloons. 9
and food your
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Stop at the PH1PPS BARN,
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JST'One horse to hay, 25c per day,
' JP. H. GBAY, Prop
IT IS UNFAIR
To send out of town for artlelei that t?o b procured It borne.
THE MERCHANT
rxpflcia kit hf pfipl or ft town 10 trmie with film. And ibl l qutui
proper nod right, hrcauc 11 1 m ItUr bualnemi proponltton.
IT 18 JUST AS FAIR
for mill mr n lo eiprt mnrrtmnt and nil builder to buy their Dr
Amtt, Mwutdlafi, Flooring, Hiulk, and all Mill I'roducu at bom.,
GRAY 6 BRADBURY'S PLAINING MILL
la a home least! Inline. Wbj not palrunlie It I
only one in the flat large enough for
the purpose. Of course, Margery ob
jected. Visitors might come, she said,
and then who would let them in? I
12 Non-Irritating
Cathartic
Easy to toko, easy to operate-
Hood's Pills
are wringing my heart from my bo-
sotn?"
"Possibly," she anawered.ooldly, "but
it's either thai m niimr van nwA l
scouted the idea of visitors on such a ! the bosoms from yeur shirts in after
day, unless, I observed, with sarcasm, 'yeara."
sue was expecting the tenor again. Beeing the cam waa hopeless, Oie
She didn't notice this stab, so I pro- 'party of the first part lit a cigarette
ceeded to say that as the radiator was and wandered hence into the hither
in the corner we sould pull our big
Japanese screen up in front of it, and,
secure in our hiding plane, let our en
tire visiting acquaintance, including
messenger boys and duns, knock at the
door till they got tired and then depart,
blissfully unaware of our proximity.
Accordingly it wasn't long before we
were snugly ensconced on a pile of sofa
pillows on the parlor floor, wrapped in
onr bath robes and with our wet locks
streaming out behind us across the radi
ator, over which we had stretahed a
Chicago Evening. News.
True to Ilia Principles.
The exhausted traveler, fainting and
half dead from thirst, and all unused to
the climate of the tropics, lay gasping.
They brought him a cocoanut.
"We will crack this," they said. "Th
contents will revive you."
"WLnt Is inside of it?" he asked.
"Milk."
"I won't touch UI" he said, hoarsely.
"I'm a vegetarian I" Chicago Tribune.
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MKDPORI), July 7, 1000.
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and it wns with difficulty that could drive my team. On my
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Springs and told hi in of my trouble. Ho took a 20 cent
bottlo of bis " Snap Shot " Liniment and rubbed on about one
half of it and from that timo to the present the wrist haa boon
ttM It cures immediately not next wot'k.
D. T. LAWTON.
Subscribtd and sworn to before me this 7th day of July A. D.,
1800, at Medford, Oregon. It. T. Uwtok, Notary Pnbllo.
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