Home Made Have your cake, muffins, and tea bis cuit home-made. They will be fresher, cleaner, more tasty and wholesome ... Royal Baking Powder helps the house wife to produce at home, quickly and eco . nomically, fine and tasty cake, the raised hot-biscuit, puddings, the frosted layer cake, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and muffins, with which the ready-made food found at the bake-shop or grocery does not compare. Royal is the greatest of bake-day helps. 1 ROYAL BAKINO POWDER CO., NEW YORK. $ OUR COUNTY li' . ,1 Eagle Point Eaglets. BY A. C. HOWLETT. M. S. Wood is repairing bis jhouse mid flxng up generally. J. W. Grover litis been putting out a new young orcbnrd on his, place. Win. Knighton and wife took a trip to Medford on business and while thero visited some of their old-time friends in that sootion of tho country. Mr. Jackson, who bought the tract of land of J. W. Grover, has hands working clearing oil' the timber and brush, mukiug Humes and getting ready for n fine garden this summer. Quite a number of our young folks went to Gold Hill last Friday, to at tend a dance given by tho Indies of that place. They report having had a very pleasant time whilo there. . Thomas Coy made a business trip to Grants Pass last week. Hois think ing of moving there uuless the now JUodford and Crater Lake iiailroad company opens up something of in terest here. - James Einger has been taking or ders here for wall paper and several of tho houses in this section are to be repapcred, some repainted and some remodelled. We are getting ready for the rush that is coming to Eagle Point this season. There has been a large acreage of alfalfa sown in this part of the coun try this season, and the present put look is that wo will want all tho hay that can be raised, as people are con stantly coming in looking for homes and each famliiy will have to be sup plied from the products of tho soil. iliss Hattio Cingcade,(who has been attending the commercial school at Ashlaud, and Miss Laura Ayers, who is attending the Normal, came home 1 ist JSaturday. The former will re main and Miss Laura returned Mon day, to resume her studies. Dr. Hargrave, of Modford, G. W. Canning, of Ashland, Theodore and Jessie Glass, of Sams Valley, . wore here last week, axaminiug applicants for admission into the assoinbly of Woodmen of' America. They report good success. Mr. C. said that it would take about three weeks before he would get his returns, so that he. could perfect the organization. Messrs. L. ;K. Huntington, B. A. Slocum and j. Hoaley, of Emporium, Pa., are hore this writing, (Tuesday) on their way to tho Rouudtop mill, which they purchased of A. J. Daloy If your blood Is thin and im pure, you are miserable all the time. It is pure, rich blood that invigorates, strengthens, refreshes. You certainly know Sarsaparilla the medicine that brings good health to the home, the only medicine tested and tried for 60years. Adoctor'smedicine. "t owp my life, irltiiotlt dntiM. to Avcr'i PirapanlU. It U the mult wonderful nill ctn in thr wrll U-r nrTounii. My core ft permaii- ut, rtmi 1 fM.nnt thank ymi crouch. MIW. Ielia MuWell, Newark, S. 3, C. AVER CO.. for Poor Health Laxative doses of Ayer's Pills each night greatly aid the Sarsaparilla Aier's and son. Thoy oauio Monday night and the heavy rain thnt night caused them to remain here until the road dried up some. They are planning to mil the mill and open up a lumber yard here, koopiug nil kinds of lum ber, so as to supply the domaud something greatly needed hero.. Thero is no little stir hero now over tue prospect of a railroad in the near future. Strange to say some of our lending business men' lmve bppn ! throwing cold water on the movo all ' of the time, and now that there j seems to bo a good prospect for a rail ! road, they seem ' to feel as though their tiuiOxhnd eomo. and they are on tho verge of ruin. This may be, and probably will bo, other business houses open up hero, but that will make more business for those of us who are hero. So let it come. Pleasant ami Harmless Don't drug tlie stomach to cure ft cough. One Minute Couirh Cure cuts the mucus, draws the itifl:muUion om ot the throat, - luiins and brounhial in bed, heal.-., soothes anil euiva. A quick cure for Croup and Whooping Cough. One MiDUte Cough Cure re lieve a couch In one minute because if acts lirtit on the mucus membrane right where the cough troubles in the throat or deep-aeuted on the lungs. Sold by Ctans. Strang Rogue River News. Mrs. Morrison is ou the sick list. Mrs. Bellows is slowly improving after her illness. Jasper Haima made a trip to the valley Satruday. Keal GagejuiadG a business trip Jo the valleySiast week. The Jfarmera of our vicinity wel come the refreshing showers. Mrs. W. TV Houston was the guest of Mrs. D. F. Burch Monday. Miss Florence Houstonjwent to Cen tral Point last week, to stay' a few weeks. Perry Foster visited his daughters, Mesdames Henry French and Arthur Morrison. Hattie Head and Carl Beebe, of Aguto, spent Saturday night the guests of Mr and Mrs. D F. Burch. Death .Rate In New York and Chicago During November and December, IflOH, one fifth of the deaths in New York nnd Chicago were from pneu monia, Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops the cough but heals and streng thens the lungs and prevents pneu monia, so do not take chances on a cold wearing away when Foley's Honey and Tar will cure yon quickly and prevent pHi-ious results. Sold by the Medford Phurniiicy. Washington's Giant Spruce. N. C. Christensen,of Scattlo,Vash., has seen a large spruce tree in Callam county, which he avers is tho most enormous one in tho state of Wash ington. Tho tree is thirty feet in diameter and it is 100 feet to the first limb. The attention of Commissioner Johnson is to be called to the giant si'ptico, and lie will bo urged to have it exhibited at tho Lewis and Clark i Exposition. ! It Is planned to have a log cut from : the tree 1000 feet long and placed on j exhibition at the fair. It will be ut terly impossible for the railroads to j handle the log, and it is necessary 'that it be towed via Puget Sound, 1 the Pacific ocean and the Columbia 'and Willamette rivers, i ' A log was sent to the Chicago Expo sition in 1893 by the stato of Wash ! ington, but In comparison with this ono discovered by Mr. Christensou, It I was a mere pigmy. An old timber cruiser who ha? tramped Washington forests for over twenty years, on see ing the great spruce tree, stated that I it was the largest in the state and ! that it could be compared favorably with the sequoia of California. Kodcl .Dyspepsia Cure Digests what vou eat. No Good in the Kicker. Prom Richmond Mlasourlan, Kickers always attruot attention one class of them sells high ou the market. The highest-priced, four legged kicker is a hybrid creature, irritablo and somewhat uustfriptural. The chrouio kloker Is an amusing two-legged "animal," not so danger ous, however. A kicker uover'builds up. Ho is great on tearing down, Tho world's happiness has been pro moted more by compliments than by ourses, so, good reader, when you feels like kicking, just retire to the back yard and kick yourself a few times rather than join the knockers' chorus. Cured Consumption. Mrs. B. W. Evans, Charwatrr. Kan., writes: "My husband lay Hick for three months. The doctors Bald he bad puick consumption. We procured a butlie of Ballard'd Horehouud Syrup and it cured him. That wim six vear ago nnu since then we have RlwaVf kept a bolile In the house. We cannot do without it. Fur coughs and colds it has no equal. 5Uc. and fl.UO. Sold by Chan. Strang. To Eat Oregon Hay. The British steamer Ivydone will arrive ut Portland on or about April 1st to load a cargo of forage for Tsing tau, China, to be supplied by Henry Mott, of that city. The cargo will consist of oat and baled hny, and is presumably for the Russian army. For au Impaired Appetite. Less of aupetito always result e from faulty digestion. All that is needed it a fewdocies nf Chamberlain's Stomach and avqv Tablets. Thoy will invigo ate the alomach, strengthen tho diges tion and give you an uppntito like a wolf. Those Tabl ts also act as a gen tle laxative. For sale by Chat, btaaug. Had a Reason. A Willametto river steamboat cap tain ran down a row boat containing three men. Life boats were lowered and while the crew were pulling to ward the struggling men n fellow on the bank cried out: "Save the red .bended man ! Whatover you do, savo the red-headed man, favo him sure." All three men, however, wore, saved, and when thoy hud been safely landed the captain turned to tho excited in dividual, and said in a tono of mingled wondor uud doubt: "Why did you want to save tho red-headed man in preference to the others?" "Be cause," was the frank reply, "he owes me a dollar and a half. " The Bl-81 Cough Syrup. S. L. Apple, ex-Prnbate Judge. Oaawa Co., Kansas, writes: "This is to say that I nave ueu Ballard's Hore- hounu by tup .or jvars, and tuut i do not hsltalu to recommend it a tht best coimh yrup I have ever used," 25c 50c and $1.09. sold by Chas. Strang. Women Demand Smoot's Expulsion Washington, March 18. The Nation al Mothers' congress have adopted res olutions strongly denouncing Mormon ism, and demanding the expulsion of Reed Smoot from tbn -If you want hair or hair goods go to L. L. Ronnie at tho Bazaar. 10-tf. HE above picture of the man nnd lish is tho trade mark of Scott's Emulsion, and is the svunnrm for strength and purity. It is sold in almost all the civilized coun tries of the globe. If the cod fish became extinct it would be a world-wide calam ity, because the oil that comes from its liver surpasses all other fats in nourishing and life-giving properties, thirty years ago the proprietors of Scott's Emul sion found a way of preparing cod liver oil pothnt everyone can tuke it and get the full value of the oil without the objectionable taste. Scott's Emulsion is the best thing in the world for weak, backward children, thin, delicate people, and nil conditions of wasting and lost strength. Srad for free aampla. SCOTT is BOWNE, CHEMIST3 PKAMEr mm, KRW TOOK etc arid .. All drvggttt. DR. FENNER'S KIDNEY and Backache All dlseaBQS of Kidneys, CURE Uiaaaer, urinary urgnnB. Also Rheumatism, Back acue.HeartDisease.aravel, Dropsy, Female Troubles. Don't become discouraged. There Is a cure for you. It lu'cesMiiy wi-lto Dr. ton nor. llo Iius itpi)it a lffu tluio curing Just, such eusesaayuuni. All cousultatloua Free. A gravel loaned In my uladdur. Arte islng tt ftiw buttles of Dr. l'yimr' Kidno; iiid Huekaeho Cure f passed a pmvel half iv larjro as it, marble. Tho mudlcluo pruvtmiut further formations. I was cur til. W.T. OAKES, Orrlx.Va." Prupplsts. 50c.. ?1. Ask for Cook Hook Free. CT VITIIQ'nAWPC Buro Cure. Circular. Dl gi-vnuu uniiui. -Fouunr, Fri'dimia.N V Why They Win. The following written by a Jnpauere o Ulcer and published in "Suoeosa" gives ono an iiiou of tho reason of tho supromucy of the followors of iho Mi kado over those of tho Czur: "We wore to perform a famous feat in cruwiiiiK on nil fours for many meters. Our ambition was not exuet- ly to attract attention of tho Kussians and receive their applause from their miiek-flrers. All eortu of (irearms seemed to help tho work of their sourohlightB. We iuado alow pro gress, always on all foui'tt. Wo reach ed the second netting of barbed wiro, and Hits we hacked away without very much trouble. In front of us was the final fence. Wo had had a happy run of luck so far. Wo did uot wish to spoil it by a touch of carelessness or too much daring. Cautiously, therefore, wo' wont on our stomaclie to mako the distance between the second and tho llrst bat bed wiro en tangleinents. All this distance was a surprise to us; It was eovereu wuu many things evincive of tho skill and thoiigh'fiilness of tho Russian engi neers. It was about 100 motors in length. The ground was sloping. It was lllled with pitiaiis ami" mines innumerable. ' For a second those mines made us forget the first line of wire fence toward which wo were making our way. First of all, wo had to dispose of tho mines. Wo hnd rea sou to susp?ot that they were electric mines, mid, in fact, tho Russian engi neers, with all their thoughttulnes.s, did not always tnko tho trboulo to burv the conductors. Wo discovered and cut as many iw four conductors. wnict were jtit aoout tno si.o or my thumb. They were wrapped in n rub ber coating, and within the rubber coating wo found over twenty-four small wires. X carried no scissor. about mo. These electric wires wore n neat surprise to us. Tho seven usage to which it md been put had dulled the edge of my ax ahnost an. blunt as tho edge o niv pal m. li 1 could uot cut tho rubber-wrapped j wires ou soft earth. Tuno wns press inn Wo were in dancer of being dis covered before wo could got at tho llrst line ot barbeu-wiro tenco, which was tho last goal of our efforts; more over, wo were somewhat impatient, j So all of us fell upon those electric : wires and with our teeth wo bit them off. I fear we may have been some what excited. We did some damage to our teeth by this work. When n man tolls you that ho did not Know when his teeth were being broken, you would not believe him. That man might bo telling tho truth, under some circumstances, however. A Destructive Fire. To draw the fire out of a burn, or herd a cut without leaving n scar, use De Witt' Witch HuKel Stilve. A speoilk lor piles. Get tjie genuine. J. Tj Tucker, editor of the Harminizer, Oentre. Ala,, writes: 'l have Ubtd DeWltt'a Witch Hazel Salve In my family for Piles, cut.? and bump, ll it- the best salvo on the market, Lvtry family should keop it on hund." Sold oy uiiae. hlrang. Won Karli Time. About thirty yearn ago a remnrknble bot wns mr.de between Captain SI., a racing celebrity, nd another officer who was noted for his activity. Cap tain M. bet 150 that his fellow odlcer would not hop up a certain flight of stairs "two nt a time." The offer was taken; but, as there were forly-one steps In the flight, be found after tak ing twenty hops that he was left only one step to negotiate nnd hnd lost Ho accused Captain M. of sharp prnctlce, but tho latter replied: "Well, I'll wuger you another 50 I do it." The officer, thinking to got buck his money, again accepted. -Captain M. then flopped up forty steps In twenty hops nnd, hopping back one, finished by going up the Inst two steps nnd won. London Stnntlord. Ancestry, Napoleon never pointed to his ances try as the source of his unparalleled ambition and achievements, but said, "I nm my own ancestry." A patrician once said to Cicero, "You are n plebe ian." "I am," said Cicero. "The no bility of my fumlly begins with me; Uiat of yours ends with you." Better be tho foundation of a new pyramid than the apex of an old one. Better make your family proud of you than be foolishly proud of your fnmlly, with nothing In you to enable them to re turn the compliment. Veteran of Crimean War Dead, flan Mateo, March 18. William Phil lips, votoran of the Crimea war 1b dead CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of w ! ?t to W (fl it) ? (tt !tt (tt (tt (tt (tt (tt (tt (tt Come in and see the New Deer Disc Plow. It is the best made. We have just receiv ed a carload oi plows and harrows, and now have a complete stock. Plows of all kind. Special bar gains in gang plows. Hubbard Bros. Mitchell, Lewis SStaver Co Medford, Oregon VEHICLES - AND OF ALL KINDS AND STYLES Barb and 5mooth Wire, Planet Jr. Goods Sanders Disc Plows Acme Pulverizing Harrows 14 I D. T. UAWTON, Mgr. j : Grand Price Columbia Cylinder Records DISC RECORDS $5 to $10 per doc Disc Machines. $15. $20, ta Cylinder ilKachrnes $5. $io, $15 and $20 Sold on easy pay ments to respon sible . parties . . . COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO. 125 Geary St., San Franc.flco, Calif. Grand Prize L ' " into 3 : Quiet and Durable Does Not Shake The Simplest Sewing Hachine Made Cannot Start in the Wrong Direction Beit to All Kinds ol Sewing. Will eow tho HfhtoBt rooiIb without puckering them, nnd on huavy work m ikea a Heamthat ts olautio, strong and durable. General Office for Pacific Coast 231 Sutter Street San Francisco B. S. Griffin, Agent, Medford Oregon 'tt (t Set -1 Etc., Etc. Paris I90o Medford, Oregon Fit any make of Talking machine NEW PROCESS Black Super-hardened Beautiful Quality of Tone Much Mo.e Durable Thun Any Olher Cylinder. 25 CENTS EACH Paris i9o The Only That do not tail in any puint 3 Times the Value Of any Oilier One-third Faster One-third Easier Kotury motion ami bull bfmrintf. Tho lijthttiHt run ninn Much I no in tho world, Kupld. Havoc about one duv In throH. Ffwinp Unit much factor ihun vibrating machines.