MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1908.
Make Selections Early
WE carry a full line of table cutlery, carvers,
shears, percolators, chafing dishes, pocket
knives, razors, crumb trays, child's sets.
We carry the most complete line of Sporting
Goods, Guns, Ammunition in Southern Oregon.
Demonstration of the Famous Fireless Cooker daily
Medford Hardware Go.
Successor to H. E. BOYDEN.
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Visitor Says This City
Leads Others in Pros
perityTo Sell Pianos
D. W. Thomas, superintendent of
agencies for the Eilcrs Piano House of
America, in an interview today says:
"All of our out-of-town stores in the
California, Oregon and Washington ter
ritory are under my supervision, which
necessitates my visiting all important
points in these" states from time to
time; but Medford has impressed me
as being the most wide-awake and ener
getic town of any that I visit. For
instance, I have been unable to find
any kind of a vacant building to rent
for the purpose of housing $15,000 worth
of pianos my firm has shipped in. I
do not know of any other town where
every building is occupied by substan
tial business concerns. While this con
dition in Medford is to my mind evi
dence of its great prosperity, neverthe
less it has put me in a great dilemma
as to how to handle our big stock of
pianos. However, I received from our
general office word instructing me to
nt prices to a point that will reduce
this immense stock at once. In some
instances I have reduced prices $254.
This, coupled with the fact that every
one is prosperous in this section, I ex-;
peet to sell at least 75 instruments in
a very short time."
SPENDING $20,000,000 IN
IMFBOVINO BRAZIL HARBOK
RIO DE JANEIRO, Braril, Dec. 21.
Colossal harbor woTks are planned i
Bio; to the two miles of docks now
under construction 10 more miles are
to be added. The additions will con
sist of three piera At a distance of over
1000 feet from each other, and they will
be built at right angles to the shore.
The original two dorks have no piers
or lips. but simply a curved front.
The additional works will cost $20,-000.000.
ONLY ONE OUT OF EACH
HUNDRED DO WORK WELL
CHICAGO, Dec. 21. The Rev. Frank
Crane, formerly of this city, now of
Worcester, Mass., told students at the
Chicago university that the rank and
file of every profession, students, toach
ers, mothers, preachers yes, indeed,
he concludes preachers, actors, all come
under his ban. For ho says only a
meager 5 per cent ever do the work re
quired of them. And with the students
the percentage sinks in an appalling
manner to a bare and lonely 1 per
cent.
'Only one out of every 100 students
really does his work " were Mr. Crane's
relentless words, but before his startled
hearers had fairly begun to writhe he
salvod their feelings by declaring that
out of every 70 teachers only one knows
how to teach right.
"The great work of the world is left
to the hands of incompotents. And this
unfitness extends to all walks of life.
"Nineteen out of every 20 mothers
are unfit to rear their children.
" Nineteen out of every 20 preachers
foil to deliver their message.
"Only one out of every 20 actors
really gives you what you pay your
for."
And the moral of it all was this:
"Be the exceptional man or woman.
To be one of the mediocre crowd is to
GERMANS LAUNCH THEIR
FOURTH GREAT BATTLESHIP
BERLIN, Dec. 21. The fourth of
Germany's "Dread naught" type of bat
tleships was launched today at Kiel and
christened the Posen. The Posen's ton
nage will be 17,960 and her speed 19
knots. It is expected to have her ready
for service early in 1910.
Princess Radolin, wife of the Germ a a
ambassador to France, christened the
vessel. Germany baa the keels laid fox
three other vessels of similar type.
For Bale.
At a bargain,, upright parler organ;
in perfect condition; will make suitable
Christmas present. For particulars ad
dress "U," Tribune office. 242
BRUCE WILL BE TAKEN
BACK TO CHICAGO TONIGHT
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 21. William
T. Bruce, accused of deserting his wife
find four children in Chicago and coming
to Seattle, accompanied by another worn
an. will be taken back tonight by a
Chicngo officer.
be a failure. If you are one of the 90
cithor quit college right now or become
the hundredth man."
STATIONS MEAN
GAIN TO FARMERS
Portland will be tho meeting place
in July, 1909, of one oT the greatest
assemblies of American educators and
scientific men ever held in this state.
The occasion will be the meeting of the
Association of American Experiment
Stations and Agricultural Colloges, the
convention of the Association of State
University Presidents and the conven
tion of farmers' institutes. The presi
dents of all land grant colloges, the di
rectors of all experiment stations in
the United States, Canada and Moxico,
representatives of the department of
agriculture the presidents of all the
state universities, besides many other
men of note In the scientific world, will
bo prosent, says the Oregonian. Pres
ident W. J. Kerr of the Oregon agri
cultural college has secured for eastern
Oregon the establishment and mainte
nance of two new oxporimont stations
in eastern Oregon, one irrigation dem
onstration farm and experiment station
to be located at Hermiston, Umatilla
county, and the other stations to be lo
cated In one of the dry land counties.
Pr. Kerr says that theso stations will
affect over 1,UU0,U0U uonw of laud.
From these stations tho farmers will
realize net profits amounting to many
hundred thousnnd dollars annually over
their present profits. (
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The Swine or the Flower?
Oh mH I saw a huge and loathsome sty,
Wherein a drove of wallowing swine were barred,
Whose banquet shocked the nostril and the eye;
" Then spoke a voice, "Behold the source of LARDI" ,
, I fled, and saw a field that seemed at first
One glistening mass of roses pure and white, '
With dewy buds 'mid dark green foliage nursed;
And as I lingered o'er the lovely sight,
. The summer breeze that cooled that Southern scene,
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