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Olmsted Entered a» neeond class matter at the postofflee at Clayton, Marion county, Oregon, under the Bet o f Congress o f March 3, 1879. All communication* should be addressed to THE STAYTON M a i l . S U B S C R I P T I O N S , $1 .">i > p e r y e r n r i n a d v a n c e A d v e r t ia it ig K n t e a u n M p p llc a tin n C a r d s o f T h a n k s # .60 O b it u a k ie s - $1.00 up. P o sitively n il fmpers stojifx-il on exp ira tio n o f su bscription What are you dointf about swatting the Hies? Every fly you ■wat now is going to save a lot of swatting in the warmer days. Get busy! The American Bell Telephone company paid dividends on the P’n t years business of nearly $'M.(X)J,030. And yet some people a-.* that talk is cheap. A newspaper heading states that a S10 gold piece is hard to keep in San Francisco. It is hard to understand why they should discriminate against the rest of the world. Philadelphia refused to allow Dr. Friedmann to demonstrate his serum in its hospitals unless he took the stat * medical exam ination. But what else could you expect of Philadelphia. President Wilson has appointed Franklin D. Roosevelt as assistance secretary o f the navy. It see ns impossible to keep the R i isevelt family from getting in thro lgii ope party or the other. I r “ J-> ’ ’ ijo >1 s t y ) h * it still in politics. Let’s see— didn’ t the people o f Danville, Hi., and thereabouts, decide that “ Joe” was due for the political scrap heap? We believe that the p e o p le have the final word as to these things nowa lays. GET YOUR MONEY W e have an exceptionally fine cluh- bu g o*fcr to make M hì I readers for a ahi irt time, The Kimball Dairy Farmer Poultry Culture ROSSMORE’S BANSHEE. THE ART OF POISONING. ■ •«rin g tha D rlid a ad Salted D«ad ta Saoced Sell For Burial. Finding m yself not long ago at Bag dad (old Itoine o f Hlndhiid tha Bailor), I de<Tiled to u n fur m yself Juat wlmt Eden look* like today, note* a writer In the Cbrtatlan llerald, and to get uc- ■lualntid with the people who uow In- habit the old traditional bomestend o f Adulii and Kve. 1 wauled to aee Baby- Imi, too, and the excavated palace o f King Nebuchadnezzar where the handwriting appeared on the wall—and I wanted to get u picture o f the tower of ilNbel, which atlll lifts It* battered head above the Hat, empty plnln of M c ho pot a uiln. Ho I crossed the odd pontoon bridge that HpaiiH the yellow T igris at Bag dad. »lipped through the mnaHlve west gate, prfased the Rijp[io»ed tomb o f Zo- I m - i II ii and mingled with the pilgrim horde ou the great Hliia caravan trail that HtretchcH down from Turkestan and Persia, crosses Chaldea and en ters the golden domed mosques at Her- beta and N’ edjef. Millions have pass- ed this way In the centuries, bringing with them the salted and dried bodies o f their dead for btirlnl In the sacred soil outside the walla o f their holy Hhla cities T w o hundred thousand Uiuminllli-d human Iswlles hnvo pasacd through Bagdad In a single year, borne by these Hhia devotee«. f o r miles along this strange highway our “ MMbannh.” drawn by four gal loping mules, passed these weird death caravans, silent and mysterloua. The Issllcs o f departed relntfvea were car ried In oblong bundles, lashed to the hacks o f |mck animals Veiled women rode In queer, cagelike boxes, slung one on each side o f a mule or a camel. The men, clad In tbe round, hard caps a.id padded clothes pecnllar to Per sians, mar> bed Is-hlnd. prodding any lugging donkey or camel. Its Tsrnfying Wail Heralded the Death of Hie Father. In “Tilings I < an T e ll" Igird R osie iniee relates tti.it he himself was born SubtU Method* U*«d by tho Nativo# of Central Africa. The Central African native is a mas ter In tbe art o f |*>l»<*iilng and always on tho watch for It. H e w ill never take a drink o f water or beer or eat o f a dish, even when offered by a ix-necfnl acquaintance, until the host baa eaten or drunk some o f It to pledge Its hannlesHdi-iM. He Is always la fear o f treachery, and with good rea son, for art aHsassIn Is cheaply hired. Vegetable poison* may be made by al most uuy one. and tbe method» o f ad ministering them are cunning beyond description. One o f tbe cleverest ways, often m- sorted to when a man gets Into bis bend an Idea that a uelgbbor la Injur ing him by witchery. Is to kill tbe on- suspecting victim by means o f poison ed stakes ami at the same time avoid suspicion, wblcb would Inevitably lead to a similar vengeance. Procuring little sharpened sticks, tbe murderer hollows tbelr points and In sert» poison (usually made by boiling dow-n tbe Juice o f certain shrub« or creepers) Into tbe entitles The»# be sc retly plants upright, hut leaning a little along the path tvhicb leads from the doomed negro's hut to bis gardeo. Sooner or Inter tb<* Jutended victim «ligh tly lacerate» tils bare foot by hit ting one o f these »harp stakes. He take* no noth-o of tho «cratch, f o f ho Is used to such trifling injuries, but la a few moments his foot and leg begin to swell, and an hour or so later be expires In agony. The bark aud roots o f several trees and shrubs yield virulent poisons when pr qs-rly brewed, one o f which has tbe peculiar effect o f at once paralyzing the organs of speech. Tbe gall o f tbe crocodile wlien dried In the sun and pulverized 1» also very deadly. The most fatal poison, however, la that prepared from an ugly, whitish tree culled ujungu in German East Africa. It grows In only a few localities, and few natives w ill venture to cot It down, for a mere prick with a splinter will cause terrible and sometimes fa tal Inflammation. Tho negroes say that neither moths nor snakes w ill go near It and that birds never rest In Us branches. To make this poison tbe wood Is burnt and Its ashes are mixed with water and then boiled down to a thick paste. The natives w ill travel hun ' dreds o f miles to procure this paste, with which hunters anoint tbelr ar rows and spears and the ballets of their guns, dipping them after the smearing In hot beeswax to form a protective covering agalxat lees of power as well as against accident— Harper's Weekly. VIGOR AT SEVENTY. collected on percentage anywhere. Just 11.00 .50 .60 The Stayton Mail 1.60 A ll Four fo r only 1.80 In addition to the above we will send the W oman’« World for only $2.00 for the five papers. Stayton Mail. a* effective live hundred mile* away as at home. No charges to you unless wc collect. Give us n trial. References and terms furnished. W c can g e t your money for you. A merican M e r c a n til e a g e n c y , 417 Selling ItuiMiug, Portland, Ore. Keep Miles your Laxative dean . .K.let». with Dr» In imi. in in HOB The Heaviest American Brain. Dr. Edward A. Spltzka, tho brain s|M’clallst, credits the lute Edward II. Knight with having the heaviest Am er ican brain ou record. Mr. Knight was well known In Washington nnd was a patent attorney o f note. At the time o f his death Ills brain weighed 1,814 grams General Benjamin f . Butler had a brain which weighed 1,758 grams, the next heaviest recorded, ac cording to Dr Spltzkn The heaviest brain on record anywhere In the world Is given a* that o f the Kusslun poet and novelist. Turgenev, which tlp|>ed the scales at 2,012 grams. Sand Cur* For Fatigue. One o f the most efficacious cures for fatigue from overwork consists tn walking barefoot in suud. The nerve* o f the sole and heel are slightly Irri tated by coming in contact with the grains nnd accelerate the clrculuUon o f the blood In all parts o f the body. The offer! produced Is highly Invigor- .King Besides this, the mouotouy of an ample extent o f yellow saml exer- rises a sopoi-lllc effect on the brain ! which induces *h*cp.—Exchange. The Sponsor. "Say, you told me Bnllelgh wns mar ried and had n large family, and I Ibid him to he a continued bachelor.” " l i e Is. In a manner of speaking, but lie is wedded lo his art. and he has a large fam ily o f unpaid hills. Why. man. I stood for most o f them.” —New York Times Mod«rn Cleverness. "There goes one o f our cleverest men." "W h y clever?" "W ell, he’s done all his stealing le gally " Detroit Free Press. Silk Producing Insects. There are more thnn 200 species of s|!k producing tnsei-t», though very few of tin- e are of any practical value to muiikiud. Ula fa lb a r was Uie third I in run llossiuore, who married , Miss Josephine l.loyd o f l-'nrrlurory. County Tipperary, and whose death was duly heralded by the banshee: "Robert llossiuore wns ou terms of great friendship with Sir Jonah and Luily Burrlugtuu, and oin e when they met ut u Dublin drawing room Ross- more is-rsuudeil I lie Barringtons to (Oii.e over the lied day to Mount Ken nedy, where he wus then living As the Invited guests pro|s»s,.,| to rise eur- 1 ly they retired to lied III good time and slept soundly until 2 o'clock In the morning, when Sir Jonah was awaken ed by a wild mid plnlntlve cry. lie lost no time In rousing Ids wife, aud the w ans) couple got up and opened the window, which looked over the grass plot iM-peutli. " It wus n moonlight night, and the ' objects around the house were easily discernible, but there was nothing to be seen In the direction whence the ' rerle sound proceeded. Now thorough 1 ly frightened. Lady Barrington called her mil Id. who straightway would not Helen or look and tied In terror to the servants' quarters Tbe uncanny uolse continued for » 1 ,out half an hour, when 1 It suddenly rcaned. All at once a weird cry o f 'ItoHSmore, It os* more. Ilos* more!’ was heard, and then all was stUI. "Th e Barringtons looker! at each oth er In dismay and wore utterly bewll dered a* to what the cry could mean Tbev decided, however, not to men tion tbe Incident at Mount Kennedy ; and returned to bod In the bo(ie o f re suming their broken slumbers. They were not left long undisturbed, for at 7 o’clock they were awakened by a loud knocking at the bedroom door, and Hlr Jonah's servant, Lawler, en tered the room, bis face white with terror. "W hat's the matter—what's the mat ter?' asked Hlr Jonah. 'Is any one dead?' ’Oh. sir,’ answered the man, 'Lord Itossinore’a footman has Just gone by In great baste, and he told me thut my lord, after coming from the castle, had gone to bed In perfect health, but that about half past 2 this morning his own man. hearing a noise In Ills master’s room, went to him and found him In the agonies o f death, and before he could alarm the servants hi* lordship was dead.’ " Great W ork« Performed by Man Evan Beyond That Ripo Ago. Who talks of fifty yeurs ns the cut initialing point In man's career? W ere all the great work performed by men even liey-oml seventy erased from his tory the human race would be bereft of souio very proud achievements. Jefferson founded a university by bis own activity after hd had pnssed three score years and ten. John (Julucy Ad- ams. ulthough he bad been president of the United States and five times a foreign minister, wrought a » a con gressman by far his greatest deeds a fter be was sixty Uve. U i* robust fnther ant In a constitutional conven- ’ tlou when be wns almost a nonage narian. franklin did vullant service In helping to frame tbe constitution o f the ( ’ lilted Stales after be bad turn ed a serene and contented eighty. Seventy saw Gladstone so vigorous that he wits still good fo r the greatest battle o f Ills political life and a pre mlershlp. Germany's first emperor, tbe vener able W illiam , saw W aterloo as a sol dier, but Ufty-Uve years Inter was Ui reeling untiles at Sedan and welding an empire after tbe full of Paris. John Bigelow at fourscore wns mental ly ns virile us n Imy, and his powers ns an author wore not dimmed. f rede rick fra le y was an active busi ness man. president o f a bank and tbe national Uiurd o f trade since tbe Span ish American war. and yet he was prominent enough In 1H-4-J to serve ou u committee that welcomed to Phila delphia Daniel Webster. Science Is making lives longer thnn they were In the days o f our grand- j fathers nnd also far more comfortable. The same agency that prolongs bodily vigor will surely lengthen the age of man's most virile mental labor.—Phila delphia l.edger Claims, accounts, notes, lulls or rents O ffer No. 1. The Fruit-Grower A Farm er MUMMY TRAINS OF BAGDAD. LOST IN THE LAST LAP. Hs Queered Things Just as the W in ning Post Was In Sight. There lived In Detroit a man who wns the champion letter w riter to the newspapers nnd to the heads o f all pnbllc enterprise*. One of his fads wns to write every day to President, Ledyard o f tbe Michigan Central rail road and tell Ledyard wherein he was fulling in tbe conduct o f his road There was a letter for Ledyard every morning They annoyed him, and he sent for Ills general counsel one day and said: "Russell, I'm getting tired of these letters. I will give you $3,000 more a year If you will tlnd that man and stop him for tw elve months." Three thousand dollars more a year appealed to Russell, and he went out lo find the letter writer H e found him and made q business proposition. "Now . see here." he said, “ I want you to stop writing letters to Mr. Ledyard. I f you will quit for a year I w ill give you $1,500.” The letter writer consented gladly. Things went along swimmingly for eleven months. Ledyard was happy, and Russell was happy. Then there wns a wreck on the road. The letter writer could not resist tbe opportunity, and he wrote to Ledyard nnd told him whnt he thought about the road and Its president and Its management Ledyard sent the letter to Russell with this Indorsement: “ This Is where you lose $3,000.” And It was.—Satur day Evening Post Scattering Disease. Dr. Leonard Hill of London bold* that It Is an “ offense against society for any one with a cold to cough, sneeze or even talk without covering his mouth with his handkerchief. Colds kill tens o f thousands every year," the doctor adds, "and yet we persist In tak ing no special precautions to escape them. W e go to great trouble to pre vent the spread o f diphtheria or scarlet fever or smallpox, blit the person with a cold, who Is scattering deadly mi crobes everywhere, we treat as perfect ly harmless. I thoroughly agree that during the sneezing, coughing stage tbe person with a cold should be Isolated, so that the germs he Is constantly scat tering may uot be breathed In by his neighbors " —New York Tribune. which we are selling at 15c each. In lots of 200 or more they go at 14 cents The AUMSVILLE MERCANTILE CO. Aumsville Oregon PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY BUYING YOUR BY Bread, Cakes, Pies, and Doughnuts o f the BON TON Bakery and Restaurant IN STAYTON HOTEL ANNEX W . A. W E D D L E Architect & Designer Business Blocks and Bungalows. PHONE 3 it STAYTO N . . OREGON h X beaucham p . m . d . Physician and Surgeon STAYTO N. - OREGON C. H. BREWER, M. D. P H Y S IC IA N A N D SURGEON S t a y t o n , O r eg o n ^ Dr. Frederick Andersen Veterinarian of Infelicity " —Contemporary Review. Unconventional. "But, Marin, why should we make a trip abroad when we’ ve seen so few o f the places of Interest in onr own coun try? Let us visit those fir s t" “ Oh, John, you do suy such drend- fulty crude nnd unconventional things!" —Chicago Tribune. Squaring Himself. Rhe— Surely. Mr Curtis, you cannot be serious. I have heard that you have told your friends that yon wouldn't cinrry the best woman tn the world, l i e When I said that l had no Idea that yon would listen to a proposal from me He who Is feared by many fears many,—German Proverb. Good Oak Posts A Pat Dog Csmetary. P H Y S IC IA N a n d SURGEON Dead dogs fure better than many men In one towu in England, where PHONE 15S4 there la un exclusive cemetery fo r rich women's pets Expensive dogs must SUBLIM ITY, OREGON have showy graves, aud tbe owner o f a toy spaniel, blue blooded Pomeranian or u French poodle doesn't think any 6. F. KORINEK, V. S , B. V. Sc. thing of pnj lug $100 fo r a burial plot In the first stop on the w ay to the canine Yalhalln Pink headstones are i Treats all domestic animals, also applies the Tuberculin teat. stuck up over the last resting place o f the aristocratic doggies, and the epi Telephone 8x7 taphs are as appreciative as if they Office mt Staytoa Stables were on tombstones over tbe graves o f the best French chefs.—New York STAYTON . . . . OREGOf i Press. Tw o Reasons For Not Reporting. General Nelson A. Miles, during ac Quaint English Surnames. tive service, one day received a tele There are still the quaint surnames gram from h subordinate who was on redolent o f the soil or the early expe a furlough, but wns expected back riences in the hill country o f the Cots- that day. The dispatch rend: wolds. A correspondent tells me that “ Sorry, but canuot report today, as there are four men working on one ex|iected. owing to unavoidable cir farm on tbe Cotswold hills named re cumstances.” spectively Pill, Fonracre, Pothecary The tone o f the message did not please the geQernl, nnd he wired back: and Greengrnss—men clearly who have gained their surnames from some kind “ Report at once, or give rensons." ■ o f Idiosyncrasy or fact, men who may Back came the answer from a hos 1 some day send the surname o f PUI pital: “ Train off. can’t ride; legs off, can’t into fame.—Ixmilon Telegraph. walk." Not Becoming. 1 j “ I didn't think Mrs. De Browne look Disraeli’s Marriage Doctrine. Disraeli's doctrine o f marriage was ed very attractive at tbe opera last ! admirably simple: “ A ll ray friends who ■light," said Dubhlelgh “ So? W hy, usually she Is radiant married for love and beauty either beat their wives or live npnrt from What did she have on?*' asked Win- them. I may commit many follies In ; kletop. “ A large sized grouch," said Dubb- life, tint I never Intend to marry for 'love.' which I am sure is n gunrnntee leigh.—Harper's Weekly. In Alcohol. "H ow old Is Bobby Van Lnsh?” “ Bobby's shout thirty-five." "Deuced well preserved, Bobby la. He doesn't look a day over flfty l"— Puck. We now have on hand j His Absentmlndnesa. Professor (after dinner, looking at his empty plate In a rage)—There, we've bad spinach and egg again! You know perfectly well. Amelia, that I can't eat It I—FI legend« Blatter. ------- - - - - Toll. feel, think, hope. Yon will be lure to dream enough before you die without arranging for I t —J. Sterling. Wilbur N. Pintler, D.M.D. DENTIST Office over Deidrich’s Store Phone 2152 Stavton, Or« S. H. HELTZEL ATTORNEY-AT-LAW NOT AR Y; PUBLIC Abstract* and Probate Work a Specialty Office Over Deulrich's Hardware Store. i ---------------- ------------- J. --------- — M . R I N G U Undertaker and Embalmer Third and Marion- StreetR STAYTO N . OREGON