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T- Letter Writing. r>o QuLici'.v uilvis.'il "nil who would r«‘H<l our noble la ligua ge in its niiivo beauty. nicy In Its pitra aailngy, delicate yet sinewy in its coin|H>silion, to steal the mail lenta and breuk oja-n the let ters in female hand writ ins!” After rehdrnj this it waif not it sur prise to find that credit is given for the Invention of letter writing to a woman —a woman of royalty the Persian princess, Aloasa. According Io out- of the old writers, this Invention was a marvelous "easement" to the absent lover and anxious friend. Southey said, "A letter is like a fresh billet of wood upon the tire, which, if it be not needed for immediate warmth, Is always agreeable for its exhilarating effect." In her "Sonnets From the Portu guese” Mrs. Browning says: RUNNING THE GANTLET Bl WARREN M:LLER « Strange Proof of Heredity. S’> fill as Itis work is conuepned we rpiiH iii I ht a rax-ally p<»et iminutl Iticli- ard Savage for one solitary line—that iu which he speaks of the “tenth trans mitter of a foolish fa< e.’ It cat<hily convoys the notiou of heredity and sug gests the sort of wonderful family like ness of which one has just been told to the Koya I Society of Medicine. Tlie Hist Earl of Shrewsbury, who died in 1453. was Lorn with a physlca’ peen'iarity-1he little linger and the finger adjoining cn ea< h hand had only one joint, the first two bones being iiniicd. The same abnormality affected all the toes except tlie big ones. To day in a direct masculine des« endant if the first (‘ill the same extraordinary formation persists It wnt transmitted to him by his father ami to his fat he* from his grandfather and has come down unchanged through nearly oOJ years, passing through fourteen g c.ier- titions.—Loudon Standard. KING’S SECRET By DONALD Cl 1AMBERLIN S' ------------------- ----- ---- Si --------------------------------------------------- :« "Mr. Humphrey." said the president “Wluit ere you doing, Jcim?” asked of tin' bankj-M lio Imd sent for me Io x soldier of I in comrade in barracks in come to his private u.!i •<• v.c have I’aris. "J inn commemorating the scene wc $30 000 to go to M. today, mill 1 l|:ive n mind to send it by you. World you witnessed today.” He was having tattooci on Ills right • are to undertake I lie delivery?" arm in India ink n picture of u guillo I didn't like the Job, for we were In tine with a figure lying on it. the fur west, where desperadoes "What are you doing now?" asked abounded, nml if one of them suspect tlie other again. “1 am beginning to Lave tattooed un ed I hud so large an amount with me der the picture of the guillotine tlie My letters! All dead papers, mute and i murder would not stand hi bis way to I possess it. But if I wished promotion words ‘Death to kings and tyrants.'” white. These men had been stationed with And yet they seem alive and quivering I In the bank It would never do for me Against my tremulous hands wh’eh loose their corps about the scaffold on which l to flinch at such un offer, which was Louis XVI. had tluit day been behead the string And let them drop down on my knees to ! really un order So 1 accepted the ed. He who tattooed Ids arm was night. . charge. I young and fin enthusiastic revolution- —T.os Angeles Times. I left the bank with tidily $1.000 11st. So devoted was he to the cause l bills in a large p<> ketl ook in the breast ' of the people of France against their Hurled Into Sunshins. i pocket of my coat. Of course from the “I was bi Petrograd Just after the ■ start I had my eye oil everybody In king that lie did not suppose lie would ever be a royalist. As to his being revolution, during the first appraisal of ■ sight, wondering If sonic o io of them the new ussets," writes Isaac F. Mar- I was not intending to rob me. One per- a king, that of course was absurd. He was but a Fren li peasant mid a ser cossotv in Everybody s. "Like prison ’ son arrested my uttciiilon from the pe- geant in the ranks of the army. ers long Immured in the dark ami sud cullarity of his appearance. He was But that was an age when the people denly hurled into the sunshine, the |ieo- ! standing on the bank steps when I of France rose to the surface. The ple blinked tn the strange light of their kings anil nobles passed away, and the unfamiliar emancipation. The one time went out. looking carelessly up the commoners took their places. A great bailiwick of the czars was a study In street. He worq green spectacles, n commander arose, and with film he scarlet—animate like an American city very shabby suit and a high plug li.it pulled up many others. Among them during a national convention. Its great ' The most remarkable feature of bis was the soldier who bad tattooed his thoroughfare—the Nevskl Prospekt — apparel was a waistcoat with stripes once the street of sacrifice, was now I resembling (¡lose of n zebra. He was urm. Sergeant Jean Bernadotte under Napoleon became a marshal of France the highway of happiness. Never was evidently down on his luck and Imd mid married a relative of tlie emperor. there such glad reunion. It was like I picked up Ills clothes piecemeal, where During the early part of the nine the meeting of lost tribes ufter much i lie could find them east off from their wandering in the wilderness. Exiles original owners. He paid no attention teenth century Bonapal te was conquer ing kingdoms. He did not make re streamed In from Siberia under the to me. Indeed. I had no evidence that publics of them. lie hail been a re general amnesty; Jews came fortli from ho was aware of my existence. publican and had made lip his mind <lolng to my room, I took a suit case their long restraint, for creed lines were down; delegations of troops flock full of clothes and on emerging noticed that the government France most need ed was n monarchy, with himself at ed from the front. Equality was the the man with the zebra waistcoat on the opposite side of the street looking Its head. The people he conquered lib password that loosed every tongue.” In at a shop window. Ills ba k was placed under the control of kings, and I to me, and I kept my eye on him till I these kings were usually members of A Siberian Wonder. Ills own family. Even if Napoleon did I The scientists have for years been Imd turned a corner. In tills way I pot conquer a kingdom his influence perplexed over the wonderful frozen I made sure he Imd not seen me come was so great that he could control its well at Yakutsk, Kllierla. As long ago out of the house nor during my going government. as 1828 It was announced that the away from It. ........ ceding to the sta The throne of Sweden became va ground was frozen to an abnormal tion. I boarded the train, and ns it cant, mid Napoleon nominated—whom? rolled out the cur door opened, mid depth at the place referred to. In tile i The man who had stood guard over summer of 1820 a Russian merchant who should step In but the man with ; Ids king when lie was executed mid set a gang of men to the task of ascer the zebra waistcoat. hud tattooed a picture of the deed on lie gave me a glance ns ho took his taining the depth of the frozen stra bls right arm with tlie words under it, tum. They gave up I lie Jolt after dig sent, and I knew lie had spotted me "Death to kings m.d tyrants.” glng some thirty feet in solidly frozen i for a victim. But why this fantastic Here was a king with his own con ground. The Russian Academy of Sci I attire? Then It all rushed upon me demnation indelibly stamped on his ences took Hie matter in hand ami be suddenly. It was to attract my atten person. There was no eliminating It. tween 1838 and 1844 dug to a depth of Hon from some confederate who was The king was doomed to wear the now 382 feet and then abandoned the shaft keeping me hi sight and who doubt hated picture of the death of tils sov because the eartli was still frozen as less had Informed him of my proceed ereign till Ids own death should de hard as a rock. Natural cold could ing. They could only have received never penetrate to such a depth, and the Information of my bearing the stroy It. The supreme object of the king of the phenomena is still unexplained. money from some one in the bank who had let ft out for gain or unintention Sweden's life was to guard his secret. No valet was called upon to hand him ally. Tortoise Shell. his clothing when he dressed In the My heart sank wltldn me. But we The finest of tortoise shell is said to be that which comes from the Indian are all natural gamblers, and 1 at once morning or to take it from him when archipelago, although much of tluit laid out a game for my money and my lie disrobed at night. The office of obtained on the Florida coast is of the life. I picked up my suit case, which I master of the robes was a sinecure. very beat quality, says the Scientific had deposited on the floor, and held It Had it not been for that which clung American. There are three rows of on mv lap. Thon I went to the water like a serpent to Ills arm he might plates on the back of the animal called cooler for a drink, currying the suit have at tlme.i forgotten that he was a "blade*” by the fishermen. In the case with me. Next I changed m.v ' French peasant of whom another com central row are five plates and in each seat, never for a moment letting the moner monarch hud made a king. But of the others four plates, the latter suit case out of my hand. Finally I I the accursed spot would not out. In containing the best material. Besides opened It. pretending to make sure as I I the morning when lie performed his those, there are twenty-live small I did so that no eye was upon mo, and, ablutions there It was bared to Ills plates arolind the edges of the shell, thrusting my hand In between the g'uze. At night when lie disrobed It known as "feet" or “noses.” The big clothing, gave evidence by my expres stared at him as with tlie malicious ejl's of u serpent. gest turtle dis-H not furnish more than sion that what I sought was there. In those days when a person was 111 sixteen pmimls of shell. Formerly the Meanwhile nn ugly looking man In a undershell was discarded ns worthless, woolen shirt and sombrero went and the doctors drew blood from Idm. This but now It Is much estis-misl for its sat down by the man with the zebra was done by lancing the right arm. delicacy of coloring. waistcoat, and the latter gave him There Is a story that tile king of some piece of Information which I Sweden fell ill, and the doctors sug Looee Clothes Are the Beet. was sure referred to the money being gested that lie bare Ids right arm to To keep the body healthy clothes til the suit case. Not feeling that my be bled The king refused. The doc should not be tight, declares the Na effort to throw till' men off the scent tors told Ills majesty that it he did tlolml Safety t'mincll, quoted In the would avail for when they robbed me. not permit Jlietn to bleed 1dm they Scientific American. In cold weather not tinding the money where they ex would not be responsible as to wluit we should wear lightweight clothes pected It. they would force me to pro might happen to him. The king would while In the house. I'pon going out of duce It I concluded to get off the train not yield.4mt bared his left arm. He d<s>rs put on heavy outer clothing. at the first atop. I did so and saw the was told that It would not be profes l>o not wear a tight hat. It cuts off two men standing on the platform as sional to bleed him on his left arm. the blood from the skill of the head and well. As the train moved on 1 stepped Nevertheless, since the king would uot ninki** you bald. A soft hat Is the best. aboard, and my followers re entered at yield, lie was Ideil from his left arm. I>o not cripple your feet with tight the other end of the car. The king recovered, but lie was des shoes. Shot's that lit cost no more. I looked alamt me to see if there lined to die in his bed. When his lust was any one on whom I could rely for Illness came upon Idm and he believed New Experience. help. There were not half a dozen Ills end was approaching ho sent for "You seem very patient with shop persons, and they would all be fright Dr. Gorgensen. his principal physician, pers. young num: don't mind showing ened out of their wits the moment tlie and charged Idm In ease he died to the goods." attack was made. I saw my enemies see that Ills right arm was exposed to “I used to canvass from door to consulting earnestly and felt sure the no one except himself. He alone was disir," explained the new clerk. "It's blow was about to fall. The train was to possess the sei ret under a pledge a novelty to me to Ibid people even running through a sparsely settled tluit he would not reveal It. The phy willing to look at the stuff." Louis country. While looking out of the win sician made the pledge, promising that ville Courier-Journal dow I saw n abort distance ahead a he would personally superintend the num standing In n Held holding three laying out of the body. The king did horses. Suddenly tile man with the not exact a promise that the doctor The Division. zebra waistcoat sprang up, seized the nould not examine the arm alxiut lledd—Ro they are divorced at last? bell cord mid pulled it vigorously. It which so much curiosity had been ex Greene- Yes; at last. “What sort of a division did the happened that at Hie same time the cited by the king's refusing to be bled conductor came Into the car for tick from It. Gorgensen might consider it Judge make?" "Oil, she got the custody of the car, ets. The brakes were put on, mid the his duty to make the secret public. and he's allowed to look after the mort train slowed up. The conductor, see Having been confided with It and ing no reason for stopping, angrily knowing tluit It did not affect tho gage."—8t. Louis I'ost 1 Hspiitch. gave a signal to proceed. atiite, tie would likely refrain from di Like a whirlwind the two men dash vulging It. Austria's Black and Yellow. When the king was known to tie The Austrian black ami yellow were ed past me mid ns they did so seized the colors of (lie Holy Homan Empire my stilt case Carrying It with them, dead Dr. (iorceusen sent every one They were adopted, so the story goes, they Jumped off the train Just ns It out of the room and, having locked the by Frederick Barbarossa, whose fancy was moving on with accelerated s|«‘ed. doors, lifted the aliH've that covered was captured at a ceremony In May- 1 saw them run for the horses. All 1 the dead sovereign's right arm. There nice by the black uml gold thsirlng of mountisl, mid ns they dashed away was the guillotine, the body stropped the man with the «ebrn waistcoat held to it and the words "Death to kings the hall. the suit case aloft triumphantly and and tyrants." waved his plug hat. Many years had elapsed since that That Made a Difference. 1 explained the matter to no one. picture whs made and those wonls A cart man < hunted with overloading Ids horse was asked how heavy a load keeping my secret till I bad delivered , written. Great had lieen the rise of hr had on his truck. "About n ton," be the money and returned, when 1 told the man who had st«' d looking on as the president of the bank. The lnei- i one of the guan! attending the execu replied, "but It was all light stuff dent leil to the discovery that our por tion of the king. But the doctor knew Boston Transcript. ter was In league with n gang of road what the world knew- that the dead agents. The president gave me my king had been a French peasant, a sol Sure of It. "I ha’-e looked over this girl Will is choice of a big reward for saving the dier in the ranks, and rmuor had It money or the position of assistant that lie had la'en present as one of so crazy about, and I tell you she won't cashier, which he created for mo. I tlie guard at the behendlng of the answer.” chose the latter, soon became cashier king of Fram e. Gorgviiaeii divined the "Oh. yes, she will. If anylxMly s«i and am now president of the bunk. rest. ber"- Baltimore American. I often wish to have seen the expres Strange It is that this peasant king sion on the robbers' faces when they Glory, ambition » arui'es, fleets opened the suit case and found no was tlie only person whom Napoleon created a sove-eigu whose descendant thrones, cfustH plaj things of grown money. now sits on a throne rblldrvn—Victor Hugo 1 ifl—. I ! t Defining a Wife. The pretty schoolteai lier had asked her class f< r the best original detihi- tlon of "wife,” mid Hie buy in the cor her promptly responded. A rib." She looked at him reproachfully and nodded to tlie boy with dreamy eyes, who seemed anxious to say something. "Mun's guiding star mid guardian an gel," he said hi response to the ncd. "A helpmeet." put in a little flaxen haired girl. "One who soothes man in adversity." suggested a demure little girl. “One who makes a man hustle." was the next suggestion. "And keeps him from making a fool of himself," put in another girl. "Some one for a man to find fault with when tilings go wrong." said a sorrowful little maiden. "Stop tiierc," said the schoolteacher "That's Hie best definition.” — I’itts burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. worse luck . , Fatigued I’hilip—I>'d Hie In ly t'row boilin' water on yoa.se? Wandering Walter- Wiesc'n dat. I h'1; wcrse'ndut. It was soapsuds! A man should lie llpiight. not hare to be kept straight. Martis Aurelius Mother. Most of al! the other beautiful things in life come by twos ni:d threes, L>y dozens and hundreds—plenty of roses, •stars, sunsets, rainbows, bi others and sisters, aunts an ! cousins, but only one mother in all the wide world.—Kate Douglas Wiggin. Strong Ore Way. Wife—My husband is not well. Pin afraid lie’ll give out. Wile's Mother- Well. he may give out lie certainly never gives in. The highest libirty is harmony with the highest laws tilths ♦+4”>+++'F+*+4'+4'*>:-<-FF-?4'++++ •t ” I In UNITY There Is STRENGTH $ J. Ì Street, Medford, Orie< n. l'a.ed and first publi.-hed Xugu t 2”, 1917. J ohn A . P erl , A 'mi iis* n‘or of thact ta'e if Francis Marlon Bail'y,Decease« . ■■ ■■■■ -OJ,--------- 4 vou are Sunim ns. IN THE CIRCUIT CTURT OF THE STATE OF O'lir.l i V N IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF JACKSON. in need of Good Printing Sibyl M. Bird, Plaintiff. vs. Della D. Walker, Julius Syffort, Harvey W. Craig, Francis Craig, Evelyn Syffort, Jaffrev E. Brees, Leroy Craig, Mihnie J. Craig, Ed mund J. Craig, Letta M. Craig, Arthur R. Craig, Defendants. To Della D. Walker, Julius Syffort. Harvey W, Craig, Francis Craig. Eve lyn Syffort, Jaffrey E. Brees, Leioy Craig. Minnie J. Craig. Edmund J. Craig, Letta M. Craig, Arthur R. Craig — Defendants: You and each of you are hereby commanded to appear within six weeks after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: six weeks after the 4th day of August 1917, and defend the above entitled cause in the above entitle I court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff filed herein and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to the demands of the complaint: For a decree of this Court declaring you and each of you to be enjoined from asserting any right, title, interest or claim of any kind or character in or to the following des cribed premises or any portion thereof, to-wit: a strin of land commencing 1 72 1 chains south of the northeast corner ■ of Conation Land Claim No. 75 in sec tion 26 in township No. 37 S. of Range No. 2 W. Willamette Meridian; thence east. 23.27 chains; thence south 43 links; thence west 23.27 chains; 'thence north 43 links to the place of (beginning; aud for a further decree of this Court quieting title to said lands and premis es in this plaintiff, an t for such other and furiher relief as to the Court may i seem just and equitable. Service of this summons is made by publication thereof in the Jacksonville Post, pursuant to an order of the Hon. F. M. Calkins, Judge of the above en We have on hand for sale the following titled Court, made and entered July 3'1, 1917. blanks viz: B. F. M ulkey , Lease, Attorney for Plaintiff. Mortgages, Bill of Sale, ------ ----------------- Agreements. W arrantv Deeds, Notice of Final Settlement Quit Claim Deeds, IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE STATE OF Chattel Mortgage, OREGON. FOR JACKSON COUNTY. Acknowledgements, Real Estate ontract, In the matter of the Estate of Location Notice—Placer, Jeremiah Nunan, deceased. Location Notice—Quartz, Notice is hereby given that Charles Satisfaction of Mortgage, Nunan, administrator of the above-en Real Estate Arants Contract, titled estate, as such, has filed his Anal POST Jacksonville, Ore Where you get best work at low prices LECAL BLANKS account and report in the above-entitled courtand matterand Tuesday, Septem ber 4, 1917 at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M. at the courtroom of above-entitled court at the court house at Jackson ville, Jackson County, State of Oiegon, has been appointed as the time and place for hearing of objections thereto and for the settlement thereof. C harles N unan , Administrator. At reasonable prices. We intend adding other blanks a3 fast a3 possible untii the line is complete. Blanks of special form printed to order at short notice JACKSONVILLE P0S1. BUSINESS CARDS GUS Notice cf Final Settlem.nl IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THF. STATE OF OREGON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF JACKSON. everybody in this town. SPENDS HIS MONEY in town the TOWN WILL BOOM. You are free to admit that if THE TOWN BOOMS you will GET YOUR SHARE of the prosperity. This is YOUR town. Your interests are here. Trade at Home + , + 4-<++•H'+'i"!'++++'S'+•!•+❖ <•+4'++++-I- Legal Advertisements. ------ ♦ jl'»- Notice to Creditors In the County Court of the State i f Oregon, In and for Jackson County. In the Matter of the Estate of Francis Marion Bailey, deceased. The undersign ?d having baen appoin ted by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Jackson County, admin istrator of the estate of Francis Mar ion Bailey, deceased, and having quali fied. notice is hereby given to the cred itors of, and all persons having claims against said deceased, to present them, verified as required by law, within six month« after the first publication of this notice, to the undersigned at Med ford, Oregon, or his attorney Newtcn W. Borden at his offie at 232 East Main NEWBURY Attorney-at-Law Will Practise in All Courts in the State OREGON MEDFORD, In the matter of the Estate of Ruth Keizur, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 1». W. BAGSHAW Clarence A. Keizur, the administrator c.f thg estate of Ruth Keizur, deceas Attorney at Law ed, has presented to and filed in said Court his final report and petition for NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER distribution to the parties entitled Office with Jacksonville Post. thereto the residue of the said estate an J that Monday the 10th day of Sep JACKSONVILLE. - OREGON tember, A. D. 1917, at 10:00 in the forenoon of said day at the Court room of sai l Court in said County has been II. K. HANNA fixed as the time and place for the hearing of said final report and petition when and where any person interested Lawyer in said estate may appear and file his i exceptions in writing to said petition Office in Bank of Jacksonville Building ' and contest the same. Dated this 10:h day of Aufist, A. I JACKSONVILLE. OREGON D., 1917. C larence A. K eizur , Administrator of Estate ot Ruth Keizur THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE Notice of Einal Account ' In the matter of the estate of D. Thomas Kunkel, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned administrator of the estate of D. Thomas Kunkel, deceased, has filed in the aoove entitled court, his final account of the administration of said estate and that Monday, the third dav of September, 1917, at the hour of 10 o’clock, A. M. at the court room of Slid court in Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon, has been fixed as the time and place for the hearing of said Final Account and for the settiercenc of said estate. All persons having ob jections to said account or sn.v part thereof, are required to m ike or file the sr me in said Court, on or before the time aforesaid, set for the settle- tnent of said estate. Dated and first published August 4, 1917. J. R. NEIL, Administrator. - ■ ■' ¿rS GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES Change in Southern Pacific Time Table Effective Nov. 13, 1916. NORTH BOUND TRAINS. 11 Portland Passenger..........8:20 A.M 16 Oregon Express.. 12 Shasta Limited ..6:20 P.M. 2:18 AM .. SOUTH BOUND TRAINS. 15 California Express ......... 10:50 P.M 13 San Francisco Express.. .9:05 A.M 11 Shasta Limited.................. 3:20 A.M Ashland Passenger 4:35 P.M.