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No more to be built like it. Let us plan you a real
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J. A. McINTOSH,. Architect,
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W. W. EIFERT
THE PROORliSSIVB TAltoR
THE WILY COMEDIAN. !
Hit Mix up With Contract, a Legal '
Fee and an Opinion. I
There was h ft-rtiiJu eum.V oin-ra
cumeillan who ni.-ulc no I'm! uf money
ami who monuil tuiyttiiiiR Ilk ohtiii-
I tntlous rwkh'ssuesa In the HiK-mling of
i II. was almost iiiorliM un tin' sub
j JecL Id fact, uud tlifre were tliose wlio
; said that ho went to ereniui; Instead
; of morning wrvlce so that lie might
have the use of the money he dropped
into the hux a little lonpr. This Ik by
way of explaining the jrrlef which
once befell him In Cleveland.
Homebody had played an etiKupeuieut
at a certain theater and had received
a frigid reception, which stage people
call a frost. The comedian wasn't ro
lng to run any risks. He wouldn't
play at the theater unless n certain
amount of money was promised him.
The unuiaper of the theater offered a
very large percentage of the reeelptBi
but. oh. dear. no. the wily comedian
wasn't going; to be caught by U"h
ehaff as that. He insisted upon a lump
sum regardless of receipts. The sum
was guaranteed, the contract signed.
The comedian came to town and. stroll
ing ns If by change Into the box office,
asked how tbe house was selling.
"Oh." said the ticket seller, "we sold
every w ar in the house ten days ago!"
The comedian's Mood boiled.
"AVould." said ho to himself, 'oh.
would that T had accepted the percent
au'e! It would have been double what
I pet nm.'
It was too late, however, to rely on'
Pimple woitldlnff to i-hange matters, so
be fought ihe foremost attorney of the
town, showed him the contract and ex
presve.i m hi desire to break It oud
nbide by the i-ustoniary percentage
plan. Before ihe attorney would con
sent to express an opinion the ques
tion of fee cntiie up. and the comedian
handed htm The man nt law
theu took the paper and examined It. '
"My dear .., said he, "that con
tract can't possibly be broken. I drew
It up myself.- -
It Is not told what the temperature
of Cleveland according to the govern
ment report wax that day. hut in the
neighborhood of that comedian things
fairly sizzled. Washington Star.
THE DEATH PENALTY.
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Just received, a large shipment of IVainonds,
Watches, Clacks, Novelties, Jewelry, etc. Come in
and examine our stock aud see for yourself. Get
our prices before you buy elsewhere.
OLD GOLD BOUGHT UNREDEEMED PLEDGES CHEAP.
COAL AS FUEL.
P. C. Hansen.
Tom Moff.il
We Biake any kind and style of windows. We carry ,
glass of any size on hand.
Medford Sash & Door Co.
Before You Invest
IN
City Property
Orchards
Unimproved Lands
or
Mining Property
VISIT THRIVING ASHLAND
It Was In Uce as Far Back as the
Time of King Solomon.
The first mention of coal in the an
nals of mankind occurs tn the Bible.
Proverbs xxvl, 21, ns follows: "As
coals are to burning coals and wood to
Are, so Is a contentious man to kindle
strife." This wns written ulmtit 10H1
B. C, at the time King Solomon came
Into power. I 'art of his dominion was
Syria, and ancient coal mines are
worked In that country today. There
nre several other references to coal In
the ltible. all of a later date. Tools
find cinders have been found near the
Koiimii wall. Indicating that the Brit
ons were familiar with the use of coal
prior to the komnu invasion In 54 B. C.
The flrsl actual record of a coal
transaction in the receipt for twelve
cart londs of coal written by the good
abbot bf Peterborough, A. K S.VJ.
Years before the Christian era coal
was In common use In China. Anthra
cite coal Is powdered, udsed with wet
clay njid rolled into balls. These are
dried la (he sun, and the poor use this
fuel In little hand furnaces precisely
as they did centuries ago. Marco Polo
speaks of 'seeing In 127."i "a kind of
black stone In Cathay that Is used to
burn heller than wood." Marco Polo's
country men refused to believe the
traveler's tale. 1
The earliest historic mention of coal ,
In the Cubed States Is by the Krenii
Jesuit missionary father Hennepin,
who In his journal In KtTII speaks of
truces of co.il uppcnrtiig on the banks
of the ' Inois-river and makes the site
of a "cole mine" on the James river,
near Kh-hmond. the first mine opened
for the market. In 17tt anthracite
was discovered in the Wyoming valley
aud a sample of the coal sent to Thoip
as and William Penn In London. Car
rlngton Phelps In Metropolitan Magazine.
Horrore Incidental to Old Time Exe
cution by Drowning.
Execution h drowning was abol
ished in Prune by Henri Quatre. only
to be revived by one of his successors.
It was finally uholishcd as a Btatutory
uiethid of execution by the earliest de
cree of the gnat revolutionaries.
As late as the eighteenth century
distil Ly drowning was decreed to a
felon lr Edinburgh, and Id the middle
ages It was a common enough mode
of doing a convicted criminal to death.
That execution of this nature was con:
sldercd ns humane us any other, so far
as the victim was concerned. Is shown
by the fact that It was not unknown
among the early Jews, who varied the
punishment of stoning adulteresses by
drowning them. Among the Egyptians
It was common. The Human lex cor
nella sanctioned the method by placing
It ou the statute records, Tacitus tells
ns that the tiermans copied the irac
Mce from the Romans. The Teuton
termed It th "last baptism," and he
did not allow his powers of Imagina
tion to sleep when he set about de
vising r.ddlllonal varieties which
should add to the excitement attend
In;: upon the doomed person's depar
ture from life. The convict wan sewed
up. Monte CrUlo fashion, in n bag, and
with hbn were Inclosed a vicious dog.
a hungry cat, a violent rooster, a ven
omous viper, nil very much alive nnd
presunis'bly kicking.
For what re-ison It Is hard to see,
but death by drowning was by ninny
peoples -oe.sdered 'referable for crim
inal wo'.mou. In the case of very de
based or very mean offenders tm
Ib'tnans had u more or less pleasant
fashion of drowning the doomed ones
In marshes, firvt Incasing them lu
elaborate crates.
per refined cruelty In killing off their
femnleVrtininalR the earlier Albanians
were certainly the most Inventive in
the matter of Ingenuity. It Is com- tL
loi.niv Lmivii of einirso. that even the 'n
modern Albanian has less respect for
womaukiad than any other known male
lu the human catalogue, not even ex
(bnMiitr the Chinese. The approved
method of doing a criminal or even n
displeasing woman to death prevalent
nmong them up to rather less than a
eenlnry ago was to chain her In a tank ,
Into which the water was allowed to1
How gradually. As the water reached
her breast, It was allowed to recede.
. sometimes back to her ankles. whotC
1 the refilling of the lank began nnow.j
i Tf the wo-n in had children the torture
was varied 1 y the drowning or inutHa- j
lion of them before her eyes. To vari
ous parts of her bly was attached
such food as attracts rats, of whMi
; a number would be let loose. New
, York World. 1
The Medford Pharmacy
The Store with the Yellow Front
How Germany Dealt With the Waster.
Ccrmauy has a law that provides
that If It can he proved that a man Is
earning a siilhVIent wage to suport
those dependent on him, but that he Is
dissipating that wage by vicious hab
its, he can he declared n minor, and he
Is then trtiitcil as a child. His em
plover Is told that the wage must be
paid not to the man. but to a cuardian
appoint. fl by the majrHtrate of the
district in which, he lives, w ho uses It
fr.r the support of the wife and chil
dren. In England a hum who could
not get his wage might n-fu-e to work.
In (Jermnny the police would see that
he did his work.--Progress.
AND CONSULT
JAMES M. POTTER
Mills-McCall Building
Her Opportunity.
Tho in:in li:itr hull Just jiiiiioun-e!
hiT 'HuPiiHMit.
"Hut ynu :il;jyw snkl ih:it meu wfr'
hurrM Ttitun'S,' hhM lii-r friend..
"So thfv iir-," repH'! the tirido to
lie, ":uid Ii'T""'! my ifppurtunlty to pun
ish one of thorn."
- Thr all airreil t tint It wnn rtal no
ble of hiT - I'htliulHphla Lt-dcvr.
1 Fog filters In London.
".Ml London piililli- Inilldlncs nrn
now I'ici ied ,vllli fir IIIHth." said an
nrrhlto't. "Tliey itri' efscnllnl. Lon
don's yellow I'l'own fiiis. . inude of the
smoke of n million Hoft io:il fires,
mnells of KUllihur. Iri'lliiles eyci nnd
thtvill nnd i-.'iiwes lieiidni lie. It iieni' l
Inites houses. Witklnc on n winter '
niomluir. you entft see nevoss your
licdrniini for II. So now nil pulille
Imlldlnps inter It. Tho nir Is drnwii In'
one orlnre only. :ind funs hurl It
itL-nlnst eurtnlns of eoiton si Ire-hoi'
: thick. It Is foreert tliroii -h l!i e our-
Inlns. It eonies nil on tl thrr side
! for ilhlrli'iillun llir"U;-li l'ie vnrlous
1 rooms :i fulrly elenu. iure. iriinspiirent
nlr. 1 En t the white lil'ei- ruriiilns: liv
ery 1il y they si I IiiiukoiI. It
lakes only un hour to (irn.v lliein. nnd
ly ni'.diifiill they nre ns Mnelt ns ik."
Scottish Impartiality.
Color serennl if lilirlihind eompnny
ln whl.-h were one or two Knirllsln
enlllnit the roll:
"Aniriis Mncknyl" No reply. (I.i'md
er.) "Aiikus Mio kiiy:" Still mi reply.
(Sotlo vis-e.i "I kru ye're there. Ver '
nye nl yer Jooly, ih-ent inon. hut ye're
j on'i-r in. dest to spenk before sae inony
! folk. I see ye line." iMnrks hi in down
! In ihe roll.)
"John Jones!"
Siineiiky vol.-e replies. "'Kre."
Seri:eiiiittni. nye, ye're here or sny
ye're here, l.llt ye're sle n mu.-kle leenr
I eiinnil liellove n word thllt cornea ool
o' yer iiii.nl h. sue I'll Jlsl murk ye doon
ns alieiil "'London .Answers.
Much Like Demosthenei.
"Woni.-iii." he snld. "really oiichi to!
be n lietier ..rator IImiii innn."
"A'li.v so?" she asked! j
"Uecause." he replied, "to a certain
extent nt least she 'follows the nietll- j
ods of that famed orator Demos-;
thenes." ' j
"lu what way?" she Inquired, still j
busy with the llulshliiK tollchea of her 1
toilet. '
"You remember." he answered, "that;
Iieuiosihenes used to practice talking. '
with Ills uiolllh full of pebblen."
She hastily took the pins out of her
mouth aud Informed iltil that he was
a mean old thlui: anyway. New York
: Times.
IF IT'S IN THE ELECTRICAL LINE
"IT'S HERE."
S.v waste no more timo call on
us. We hnve (be most eompleto lina
of eleolrienl sundries nnd equipments
in electric lamps, liell buttons, houH
'lihoiios in short, it would bo easier
lo mention what we haven't. As to
jineis '.hoy nre always beyond com
petition. ROGUE RIVER ELECTRICAL
CONSTRUCTION CO.
W- AIM: NOT I IN T H F TRUST
This melius that you get the highest grade of trees
;tt tho lowest possible cost.
Insure your trees by buying them here. All varie
ties of ornamental and fruit trees constantly on hand
HOG UK im'ER VALLEY NUJiSERIES
C. P. Cook' Proprietor
WANTED
Timber and Coal Lands
Apply to-
B. H. Harris & Co.
MIrDFORD, OREGON
Ofilce in Jacksoa County Bank Upstairs
Summer Rates East
During the Season of 1909
via the
Southern Pacific Go.
From
MEDFORD
To OMAHA and Return $69.90
To KANSAS CITY anil Return $69.90
To ST. LOUIS and Return $77.10
To CHICAGO and Return $-4.40
mid to other principal eities in Ihe Kust, Middle WuM uoo -nouiii,
Correspondingly low fares. ,
On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3; A:i;;i:ft 1 1 12.
To DENVER and Return $G4.90
On Sale May 17, July I, Augus t 1 1.
(ioiiig transit limit 10 Any lj"Ui diilu of s:iiu, lii.nl return limit
October 31st. -
These tickets present s.a(n .illr.iclivo leiiiurc- n ibu way of
stopover privileges, and choice ol ionic-; iheieliy pi.nlilu. piismni
gois to make side trips lu many intciesline. points en loiiiu. ,
Ko'jtin on the return trip throi-eh (.unioiuia n.a.i l-e had at u
slight iidvanee over Ihe rates quoled.
Full partictiliirH, slccpinir ear ruserMili'.us anil lichetn wi'l be lUir
nished by any Southern l'neifie loal nttent, or
WM. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
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There Is no tyrnnt like enstom rhu
do freedom where tti edlcti are not
resisted. Boree.
I The Eternal Marathon.
; "Mull." ilechired the old fashioned
! preacher, "Is a worm."
! "And." said a man who hnd been
j marrl.sl three limes and who was oc
1 cupylris a small space In a rear pew
"woman Is the enrly bird." t'hleac.
! Kecord-IIerald.
J. K. ENYAI.'T, Tresitlent
JOHN S. OliTH, Cashier.
J. A. PEltl! V, Vice-President. ,
W. IH. .JACKSON, Ass't Cnshier.
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THE MEDFORD NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL $50,000
SURPLUS $10,000
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