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A SllICiDAL POLICY.
FRYE’S MAG iL MACHINE.
Carelessness in Packing Fruit
will Injure the Fruit Mar
ket of Southern Oregon.
“Carelessness in packing is apt to
ruin the Southern Oregon apple mar
ket. A good many boxes were short of
weight last jear.and should this prac
tice be continued it will result in
killing the goose which lays the gold
en egg.”
The speaker was W. V. Lipp
incott, agent of the Southern Pacific,
who spoke as he did in answering sev
eral questions directed to him.
“Last year,” continued the agent,
“we had the buyers to come among us
and pay cash for our products. The
fruit raisers who have helped to work
up a market or who have dealt with
commission and middle men know
what that means. And it will come
to that unless care is taken in properly
packing the fruit. It pays to deal
honestly with the consumer. The
short|weight last year on the part of
some of the fruit men was duetocare-
lessness and a desire to sell their pro
duct as soon as possible and, take
advantage of the good prices. South
ern Oregon, outside of Hood river, is
the only place in which such apples
can be grown, and the demand will
always be good, no matter if the whole
valley is planted in apples. But care
in packing, as most of the experienc
ed fruit men know, is one of the
essential things to the continued suc
cess of the industry. This fact can
not be stamped too strongly upon the
minds of those who are engaged or
about to engage in fruit raising.
•‘When a product arrives to the
consumer in bad shape or is short of
weight it gives the producing section
a black eye, and the buyer looks around
for a more promising field where he
can get a product which will satisfy
consumers. It is a mistake to suppose
the app’es will sell upon their reputa
tion alone. To get a market is not
the main thing by any means. After
it is secured the next thing is to keep
it, and the only way to dothat is to
observe the «ame care in always pre
paring the fruit. The newspapers of
the valley cannot say too much in
warning fruit meu to be careful in
this respect.”
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The ten locomotives recently sent to France
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past fifty years, and that is Hostetter's Stom
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liver and bowel complaints. Many people
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the bott e.
A WOMAN IN BLACK
FLITTED THROUGH THE TOWN
SATURDAY AND GAVE THE
RUSH ACT TO SOME.
A young woman, dressed in a black
tailor made suit,with a blue silk waist
ornamented with white figures,and a
Boman nose and dark hair, gave the
“rush act” to a couple of Medford
teachers last Saturday for S20 each.
She purported to represent the
Sprague Wholesale Book Co., succes
sors to J. H. Mooreof Chicago. For
the consideration of the mooey she
claim
be will furnish an outfit to
the parlies Ly which the latter can
travel and establish local agencies.
This suiye young lady, in a brisk,
businesslike manner,explained that she
did not want the teachers to canvass
for the books; it was their business to
travel over the country and establish
agencies. They were to appoint six
local agents in Medford before start
ing, and receive for their services $50
per month each. In fact, they were
to travel over the country at the ex
pense of the company and hav^ a good
time. The work of establishing agen
cies was merely incidental. After a
couple of the young ladies handed
over the required amount they got
“cold feet;” In other words, wished to
withdraw and askeJ for a return of
their money. The agent explained
that she would have to send to Chi
cago before she cou’d give back the
cash, and then, like the Arab, she
folded rer tent and fi tted away. It
is said several of the Ashland
teachers boug lit. stock, and one teacher
•n Medfi rd cairns sue has traveled
for the company and it is all right
However tlial may he, It nip.i is a
big stock of fait h in hu man ri >1 ute to
hand over $2t‘ pieces with no rm re se
curity than is-aid to have buen offer
ed by the mj'tirloiis ady in black.
Tlie young woman »■»< wil. dressed
and sp ke in a fluent manner, which
showed she was possessed of good
breeding and education.
It Dazzle* the World.
If it doesn’t worl
A CASE OF HYPOCRISY
Exhibition of Flunkyism To
ward European Royalty.'
PEOPLES AND RULERS OF EUROPE
The Difference Between Admiration
For Royalty and Affection For the
Subjects of Royalty—It Is Our Pol
icy to Denounce as “Paupers*’ the
People of Germany and Engliiul.
Discussing the recent visit of Trlnce
Henry and the elaborate receptions ten
dered him by Americans, Louis F. Post
says in his paper, The Public:
These demonstrations are In keeping
with our dispatch of special envoys to
the crowning of King Edward. Both
are conventional expressions of impe
rialistic sentiments—sentiments that
are fitly, even if accidentally, symbol
ized by the extinguishing at this time
of the light in the torch of that magnifi
cent statue in New York barbor,"Liber-
ty Enlightening the World.” The pre
tense that they are tokens of affection
for the people whose crowned rulers
we thus honor is unfounded. There is
a world of difference between admira
tion for royalty and affection for the
subjects of royalty, anil this difference
could have no more striking exemplifi
cation than may be found in the recent
history of our own country.
Were the people of the South African
Republic anil tlie Orange Free State
any less objects of our affection than
are tlie people of Great Britain or Ger
many? Clearly not. If we were in
love with foreign peoples, there is no
reason why we should not have loved
the Boers too. But when their accred
ited representatives came to this coun
try the president limited bis attentions
to an informal chat on the back porch,
and they were welcomed by the people
only at spontaneous and unofficial re
ceptions. Why didn’t we express our
love for the Boers by officially honor
ing their envoys?
Or. If this Indicates only Indifference
to weak peoples rather than preference
for royalty, let our laws speak for us.
Ry immigration statutes we head off
poor Germans and poor Englishmen
from coming to our shores, and along
the Canadian liorder we try to prevent
British subjects, honest workingmen,
from crossing the line to earn their liv
ing. That is one of the indications of
our love for the people with whose he
reditary rulers we hobnob on pretense
that, as they represent their subjects,
we are thereby honoring the subjects.
A more precise illustration of this
hypocrisy may be obtained by compar
ing our present attentions to British
and German royalty with the reasons
that have liven urged within the decade
in support of our "protection” policy.
Tlie same newspapers and imliticians,
even tlie identical political party, that
apologize for our participation in the
amenities of royalty, urging that in this
way we signalize otir affection not for
royalty, but for the people who are its
subjects, were then appealing to Amer
lean voters to declare commercial war
against the very people with whose
royal rulers they would now have ns
"mix.” - Tlie English and German peo
ple were then denounced as "paupers,”
whose products must be kept out of
this country, while nil arguments for
free trade ns a token and guarantee of
international friendship were scouted
as sentimental. And when in conse
quence of tlie policy of American pro
tection so secured a British or a Ger
man industry broke- down, the event
was linlled on this slil«1 by these haters
of foreigiu rs as If It hail been a victory
in battle There has been no change
of sentiment among them since. Tlielr
enmity toward the British and tlie
German people, which is expressed In
our t-estiiitive tariff laws anil was
brutally de •lureil by Republican speak
ers ami pipvis In the political cam
pnigim that produced those laws, still
exists in I lie Miime quarters. The dell
cute nttentioii* tliey would now have
tlds country pay to tlie British .and the
I termini crowns are no evidence of n
el ange of lit art toward the British and
tin- «irrinan peopl.s. It Is simply an
v hib,t;i>:i of thinifyisiu toward Eu
rope:, h injnlty.
No c iscoverv in medic ne his ever
created une-quartcr of the excitement
that has Le n laosed by Dr. King s
New Discovery for Consumption. It’s
sever«st te-ts nave been on hope-ess
victims of c insumption, pneumonia
hemorrhage, pleurisy and bronchitis,
thousands of whom it has r-stored to
perfect h-altli. For cough*, colds,
aathma, hay fever, hoaisme-s and
Hr,
From Thia (ona—ii.
whooping cough It is the qulcke t,«ur-
Willi i io- !l publican leaders in con
est cure in the world. It is sold by gress opiMisi I to nny tlnkeriug with the
City Drug Store, who guarantee sat sm-red Dlnglry law. ft is pretty certain
isfaction or refund mo iey.
Large
bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles rliat nothing suLslaotlnl In the way ci
free.
tariff reform can be accomplished a
tills session.
first, try again.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
They Are Multiplying and Indicate a
Comln* Democratic Revival.
The signs are multiplying all around
the political horizon thut indicate a
coming Democratic revival, says the
Atlanta Constitution. We use that hist
word advisedly. We mean a renewal
of Democratic faith, confidence and
union of effort to convert a great ma
jorlty of the people to sound principles
and just government.
The gouging and crowding by some
of the brethren In congress are signifi
cant. They scent the coming victory
and are already eager to get front
places in the procession. They are
anxious to be where they can holler
first, "I told you so!” Thej- are fur
nishing signs of promise rather than
of serious discords. That there is n
sanity' In their seeming confusion is
evidenced by their refusal to forecast
issues and assume to predicate a na
tional platform for the party iu ad
vance of the convention of 11)04.
The Republican party's predicament
is not ajiappy one. They have a pres
ident on their hands. They have never
before had one who was so determined
to spell his title with capital letters,
lie is himself the x in their political
equation—the unknown quantity whose
value as a party keeper and leader Is
jet to be worked out They are not ill
beautiful agreement upon pending and
urgent policies. Thej- have inherited
the reciprocity proposition, which their
leaders wish to strangle, and have had
thrust upon them a Cuban question
which they hope to avoid. The Philip
pine policj' is a pro edged sword
which thej’ are compelled to handle
with the greatest care, and there are
other matters, such as tlie isthmian
canal, tlie surplus, the war taxes and
lhe ship subsidy bill, that are power-
fully perplexing to them.
The Democrats, however, have everj
reason to be hopeful. They have no
more to do at present than'to watch
everj- move by their opponents, hang
on their flanks, expose their errors,
tluir invasions of the constitution,
their evasions of the fundamental prin
ciples of free government, their extrav
agances with the people's money and
tlielr subservience to capital and to
corporations, trusts and mono|M*lies
Then, dropping out of the programme
all dead Issues and past differences
they can come together on principles
that no Democrat can gainsay, that the
common faith of the country can ac
cept without serious argument and that
a majority of patriotic Americans wil)
support.
Careless packing of fruit is a
suicidal policy. It not only hurts
the individual shipper, but re
verts with the force of a boome
rang upon the whole comunitv.
If the practice iseontinued it will
drive buyers away; and then the
fruit men will be at the mercy of
the middle men. Most fruit
growers in Oregon know what
that means. The orehardists of
the valley have made themselves
independent by their own enter
prise, and cannot afford to sac
rifice that independence through
the carelessness of a few people
in not properly packing their
fruit. In some parts of Oregon
the fruit-raisers give all of their
profits to the middle-men. They
are little more than slaves toiling
for their masters. Many of their
farms are mortgaged. They
can hardly call their souls their
own. Their product is hawked
about from one commission mer
chant to another,until in despair
they sell it for whatever they can
get; and, worse still, even when
the demand is good, and they
figure on getting a living price,
the deft manipulations of the
middlemen exact full tribute from
the luckless producers. The fruit
is reported as having arrived at
the market in bad shape, or some
other of the many excuses used
by thecommission men in keeping
their slaves’ noses to the grind
stone. In contrast to such a
picture the true independence of
the farmers of the Rogue River
Valiev is a birthright of priceless
value.
Like a Drowning Man.
“Five years ago a disease the doc
tors called dyspepsia too« such hold
of me that 1 could scarcely go,” writes
Geo. 8. Marsh, well-known attorney
of N icons, Tex. 1 ‘I to >k quantities
jof pepsin and other medicines; hut
nothing helped me. As a drowning
man grabs at a straw I grabbed at Ku
do!. I felt an improvement at once,
and after a few bottles am sound and
well.” Kodol is the only preparation
which exactly reproduces the natural
digestive juices, and consequently Is
the only one which digests any good
food and cures any form of stomach
trouble. City Drug Store, .Jackson
ville, and Dr. J. Hinkle,Central Point.
Fruit men say the present
weather is the fine growing sort
for fruit and crops of all kinds.
They report there is little
danger of frost from this time
on, and that the trees are heavily
laden. That means another
prosjterous year. It means en
couragement to those who have
lately bought orchards, and are
depending on this year’s crop to
pay something on the invest
ment. A total crop failure is an
unknown quantity in the Rogue
River Valley; and even a partial
failure is so rare as to make the
HOPE FOR TARIFF REFORM. farmers think they are “playing
ColliNlonn In the Protection Camp in hard luck” when it so hap
Are Galan For Sound Principle«.
pens.
The Chicago Chronicle sees tin* dawn
ing of a brighter day for our tariff bur
dened country. It comments upon the
Babcock amendment as follows:
"Such a bill would not have paused
the house. But the house came almost
to tlie point of confronting the ques
tion. This vote Is an admonition to tlie
tariff protected trust syndicates aril to
the taritiites In congress. The yiorld
moves-it Is In rapid motion. Tlie
progress of freedom in trade and In
dustry ntny lie checked and de nyisl.
Trust combinations may for tlie pres
ent defeat the popular will. But tlielr
day will come.
"Mr. Payne, the chairman of tlie
ways anil means committee, i'hr?aten
ed tlie friends of free traue In trust
steel and iron that the tariff on I imber
might also lie removed. He Is told to
go ahead and remove it if it Is so ini
quitous ns the steel and iron tariff.
Perhaps this quarrel may tie compro
mised.
"Future similar quarrefB may be
compromised. But every real quarrel
on tlie subject Is a sign of progress.
Tlie fight goes on. and each day victory
is nearer. Tlie little collision in the
committee is n prelude to more energet
ic collisions on broader fields of action.
"With everj- meeting of the opposing
forces truth and sound principles of
government will gain. False principles
of government will lose In every con
flict. in the l>-te event we see the bo
ginning of the end.”
Many keen observers do not agree
with The Chronicle that the Babcock
bill would not pass If it could lie
brought liefore the bouse. Some of the
lending Republicans say It would go
through If put to n vote. The fact that
the majority party has found it neces
nary to adopt ihe gag rule to prevent
such nil amendment going before the
house Indicates Hint the leaders are by
no means sure Unit the bill would be
voted down. The day of awakening
cannot be far off.
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Marriage is ver* largely nn accident,
tn few cases do men or women set up a
standard of manly or womanly excellence
and clioo.se by it. In most cases people
become engaged as the result of pro
pinquity rather than because of any deep
rooted preference.
And so it often
happens that the
wife enters upon
the obligations of
maternity just as
thoughtlessly as
she entered on the
marriage relation,
because no one
lias warned her
of the dangers she
faces.
Thousands of
women
become
invalids for lack
of knowledge of
themselves. It is
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•After my ftrst child was born," write* Mrs
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last winter I waa *o mil with pain down in hack
I could hardly move without great ■uffrrln*.
My Irtialiand got me a bottle of Dr. Pierce-» Fa
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medicine three months. I seem to be entirely
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