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Voi. 2.—No. 90.
N E W SPA PE R ,
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S h a r k , a n d t h e D e a d W h a le .
Lora Whitworth, who held various
posts of honor in English diplomatic
circles, was a kindly, gracious geutle-
tnan ns w ell as a wit and a man of the
world. He had indeed almost r easured
swords with Napoleon at the Tuileriea
when that despot railed at England for
not having evaouated Egypt and Malta,
accused her o f having violated treaties
and ended by flourishing a cane danger
ously near the face of the English em
bassador.
Lord Whitworth pat his hand on the
hilt of his sword.
“ What would you have done if the
emperor had struck you?*’ he was after
ward asked.
\
“ I would have felled him to the
ground," was the quiet answer.
Perhaps the best story told of him is
one snowing how his quick w it disposed
of a rival. When he was at the Russian
court. Fox sent there as a sort of em
bassador of his own a man named Adair,
the son of a surgeon.
One day the empress, speaking in
French, said to Lord Whitworth:
“ Is he a very important man, this
M. Adair?”
“ Not so very, madame, ” replied Lord
Whitworth, “ although his father was a
grand saigneur, ” a remark which, read
ers of French w ill reooguize as rii-very
good pun, for the word ns used by Lord
Whitworth means “ blood letter, ” while
by its eound it also meant a great lord.
— Youth’s Companion.
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T h e ir W e d d ln * T r i* .
The presence of any large quantity
A summer visitor in a New England
of easily obtainable food is always suffi- m ill town made friends with one or two
cient to secure the undivided attention of the French Canadians who were em
of the shark tribe. When “ cutting in” ployed as operatives in the mills.
whuies nt sea. I have often been amazed
One of these was an elderly widower
at the incredible numbers of these crea whose two youngest ohildren the visitor
tures that gather in a • short space of had taken to drive with him several
time, attracted by some mysterious times.
meaus from heaven only knows what
A ny one of the Gentle
“ I make a marriage nex’ week,
remote distances. It has often oocurred ma’m selle,” said the father as she de
to us, when whaling in the neighbor- posited the ohildren at their home late
men friends she presents
' hood of New Zealand, to get a sperm one afternoon. “ You see us all go past
whale alongside without a sign of a your house on the wedding trip. ”
w ith a box of Ku rtz 's fa-
shark below or a bird above. Within
______
___
___ woman.
“ Indeed!*’
said ____
the young
an hour from the time of our securing j •'Shall you go in the oonoh?”
mons Cigars, M eerlhaum
Che vast mass of flesh to the ship the ' “ No, we go in hired buggy. My w ife
whole area within at least an acre has the go, and I with her, to the bury
or B ria r Pipes.
There is
been alive with a seething multitude of ground, same as our people most al
no te llin g —g ifts o f th is
sharks, while from every quarter oame ways, ” said the man, with evident sur
drifting silently an incalculable host of prise at the Indy’s ignorance. “ Three
k in d a lw a y s a p p ea l to the
sea birds, converting the blue surface buggy more behind us, and we all carry
of the sea into the semblanoe of a plain two, throe bouquet to put oil my first
h e a rts o f a ll m en who love
of new fallen snow.
w ife’s grave. Yes’m, it is a pretty wed
The harpooners and officers from their ding trip to the bury ground, and re
a good sm oke.
lofty position on thp outting stage slew spectful. "
soores upon scores by simply dropping i Three or four days later the summer
their keen edged blubber spades upon visitor was filled with mixed emotions
the soft crowns of the struggling fish, is lie saw the four buggies, laden with
the only place where a shark is vulner the wedding party cWid in gay attire,
K u rtz, Proprietor.
—
able to instant death. The weapon - puss the house and turn into the little
sinks into the creature’s brain, be gives cemetery. Some minutes later the bug
a convulsive writhe or two, releases his gies
____ again
__ went by, that time at
hold and slowly sinks, followed in his cheerful trot, and she was favored with
descent by a knot of his immediate au elaborate bow from the bridegroom,
neighbors, all anxious to provide him whose face wore a happy and virtuous
with prompt sepulture within their sm ile.— Youth’s Companion.
own yearning m aws.—National Re
view.
L n n r y a n d B itr a v n u n a r e ,
T h e P o e t i c a l O ld L a d y .
In general the destruction of wealth
T h e F oot G r e a t e s t P o e t s .
old lady in a small country town
You Want Choice Groceries, give me a call
I will fill bus An kept
Who are the four greatest poets of the is a social as well os an iudividual loss.
for the last 20 years and still
your order and deliver it. Town or Country. I also carry keeps her aocouuts in doggerel verse. world? The question was one, we gather The wealth that is used up iti riotous
Flour, Feed, Fruit, Vegetables, Window Shades and Bed For example (and the specimens given from Sir Edward Ham ilton’s mono living is diverted from better uses. Ex
travagance is uoc necessarily luxury.
Springs.
are actual extracts from her books), if graph, which used to exercise Mr. Glad The mere transfer of wealth from one
stone.
About
the
first
three
places
in
Mrs. Jones has half a pound of tea on
deed he believed that there could be no hand to another does uot involve de
“ tiok’* it is entered thus:
reasonable
question. They must be as struction. Consumption means using
Mrs. Jones doth owe to ine
signed
to
Homer,
Dante and Shakes up. When a uatiou spends *200,000 fur
For half a pound of Souchong tea Is. 4d.
a great picture, the wealth is not de
Or if Mr. Smith buys a pound of sug peare. But about the fourth place Mr.
stroyed; it is simply transferred. When
!
Gladstone
found
geat
difficulty.
He
ar, two pounds of rice and a Dutch
that there were four com the jubilee pluuger ran through *2,600, -
GROCER,
Gold Hill, Oregon cheese the entry w ill be under Sm ith’s considered
petitors— ASschyIns, Virg’il, Milton and 000 in 12 calendar months, the wealth
name:
I
Goethe.
We wonder how many of our of the world was diminished only by
A pound of m oist sugar
readers would at a first guess select Mr. the amount of It he and those who
And two of best rice.
With four pounds of Dutch cheese,
1 Gladstone's final eboioe? It was Goethe. sponged on him put down their throats
Which I hope will be nice—Is. llS d .
Who, in recent days, have been the and otherwise wantonly destroyed. In
And so on all through the book. In greatest masters of English? This was so far us it was simply transferred to
Now don’t think I mean the “ boot” that require force. I some cases the verses express doubt as another question which Mr. Gladstone others to whom he paid e x tr a v a ^ it
to the customer's intention or ability to was fond of considering. He decided in prices, it was not destroyed.
am no “scrapper” except to high prices and interior goods. pay
for the goods ordered. Thus:
To give high prices for articles which
I favor of two as greater than all others—
The BOOT I refer to is of th i Gum variety, just what you
Lizzie Barber for ber father
Cardinal Newman and Mr. Ruskin. It are rare is not necessarily luxury, for
need for wet weather. 1 have a large stock to select from,
Had some flour tod ay;
! is interesting to recall the faot that Mr. the price and tbe rare edition or the old
Borne apples, too, and toilet soap,
and my prices cannot be lieat, much less equaled quality
Morley, in a lecture, answered the same master both remain. It is true that ex
But 1 don’t believe he’ll pay 2s. M.
considered. Although you might find a “cheaper hoot”
[This booking work w ill drive me mad
I question. According to him, the great travagance may mean the transfer of
When I think of folk like they.]
w hich would be dearer in ihe end.
masters of English in our generation wealth to thoso who w ill not use it
The lines in brackets are very sugges have been three—Carlyle, Macaulay well, bnt it does not usually mean this.
tive if not exactly grammatical.— and Mr. Ruskiu. The last named alone It generally involves a transfer to the
IF YOU DON’T CARE TO BE BOOTED
Chambers’ Journal.
appears, it w ill be seen, in both lists.— hands of those who w ill use it more
w isely.—Journal of Ethics.
London News.
MEDFORD CIGAR FACTORY,
IF
J
AN
GOLD HILL, OREGON, JANUARY 21, 18!
She May
Marry
Geo.
NOT
K . L-. V I N C E N T ,
THE
I W ILL BOOT YOU!
You certainly will need a rain coat or rubbers.
me a call. I can fit you out.
If so give
My stock of General Merchandise is constantly being
replenished. My line of Groceries is the Largest and
Most Complete in the city. Every train brings me new
goods, consequently they are always fresh.
Give me a call whether you buy or not,
A. R. MERRITT,
THE CASH STORE.
C u t t in g
I
t
Qo|d H ill, Oregon
C at« a n d M o n k e y « .
All animals, even the wildest, nan be
subjected in some way to the dominion
of man and be domesticated to some ex
tent Here, for instance, are two very
curious facts about oats. Many persons,
including some of our greatest natural
ists, believe that our English domestic
cat is descended from the Egyptian do
mestic cat. Yet all records go to prove
that the cats of Egypt lived in droves,
were cared for in droves, were fed in
droves and worshiped in droves, with
the result that Egyptian cats never got
domesticated or became half as in telli
gent as ours.
The like truth is suggested from In
dia, where monkeys are worshiped.
These are allowed to become nuisances.
They are fed and they have any amount
of liberty, and what is the oonsequence?
They never lose their innate savagery.
The method of caring for them has been
wrong. All the devotion and care ex
pended on them are practically wasted,
and if we treated onr cats in the same
fashion as the Indians do these monkeys
they would become just as wild and un-
domesticatod.—Cassell’s Magazine.
Congressman Dingley of Maine
died at Washington hist Friday,
January 13, of pneumonia. He
was Gfi years of age.
Jos. H. Choate, an eminent law
yer; of New York has been appoint
ed embassador of Great Britain by
President McKinley.
Not far from the final resting
place of Mr. Gladstone in West
minister ahltey is the tomb of Gen
A P r in c e m n R a ilw a y G u ard .
eral John Burgoyne, who was de Prince Chilkow, the Russian minister
feated by Gates at the battle of for railways, commenced his career by
a tonr of the world in order to
Stillwater and who surrendered to making
take note of all the latest inventions
the Americans at Saratoga in 1777. Hnd to study the working of railroads
in a practical manner He first
There are no “ professional jurors” abroad
of all worked as au ordinary mechanic
About our Knives, Scissors, Razors, in Mexico. Nine of a man’s peers in the locomotive works at Liverpool,
etc., are in order. They are keen try him, and a majority is a ver after which be became a railway guard
afterward station master at an Eng
goods and call for sharp talk.
dict. If the nine are unanimous, and
lish town Returning to Russia, he
Our cutlery department contains ! there is no anpeal. To serve on a ) again worked as a mechanic and after
a particularly fine assortment of' jury one must have a diploma in ward as a station master After passing
high class articles. The cutting law, medicine or some other profes-1 several years on the Transcaspian rail
way he was made director of the Var-
parts are made of the finest steel sion, or an income of $100 a month snvie railway, then inspector general of
and will retain their keeness for or he must be a member of a fam railways and finally m inister.—Paris
Signal
years.
ily whose head has an income of
The prices are less than such •12,000 a year.
high grade articles should sell for.
A d v a n tn K r « o f M a r r ie d L if e .
BOYDEN ft NICHOLSON.
The Hardware Men, Medford, Ore
Wood taken on subscription at
the N ews office.
"Married life is the thing."
SK k HUHVHLS.
“ Why, for instance?"
The curse of overworked w om ankind,
“ Well, yon can have tbe oomforts of
are quickly and surely cured by K arl's
Clover Root Tea, the great Itlood purifier borne then. "
"Are you keeping house?’’
and tisane builder. Money refunded if
"No. but w e’ve got a peach of a
not satisfactory. Price 25 cts and 60 cts.
boarding bouse."—Chicago Chronicle.
Gold Hill Drug Co.
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Life's Chamuea,
W hile in the drawing room coach on
his way home from Philadelphia not
long ago a New Yorker found himself
face to face with a woman whom he had
not seen for some time.
“ Why, Mrs. Blank,” cried tbe New
Yorker, ” how” —
At the woman’s reproachful glance
he stopped. “ Not Mrs. Blank,’* sheoor-
reoted. "I got my divorce from Mr
Blank lorae time ago. I’m now Mrs.
Dash. Let me present my husband, Mr.
Dash,’’ whereupon a man got up and
bowed.
“ Yon— you don’t mean it I” gasped
tbe New Yorker. “ I hadn’t heard. Yon
and Mr. Dash haven't been married
very long, have yon?”
“ Oh, no, indeed, ” said the woman,
“ about 45 miuntes, I think, ” consult
ing her wuteb. “ We're on our wedding
trip now .”
The New Yorker gasped again. Then,
"Bless you, my children," he cried nnd
fled to the sm oko* cur.—New York
Sun.
An O ffse t,
"This is Mr. Pueer, is it not?"
“ Yes, sir."
"You have aeu ted a house fronting on
Mulberry square, I believer”
“ I have.’’
“ Well, my name is Ferguson. I have
rented the house next to yours, nod by
a queer mistake the man I sent to oleuu
it up so I could move into it went to
the wrong place and cleaned up yours
His bill, which 1 settled, is quite mod
erate—ouly *1.50— and I thought that
If the work proved satisfactory ou in
spection perhaps you would not object
to assuming the payment of ♦ >at
amount. '*
“ Not a t ull, sir, but I shall charge
you *1.60 for one day’s occupancy oi
my bouse. Thnt, I think, makes ns even,
sir."—Chicago Tribune.
HtrRiiKP Miktnkf*.
North Hide Mother—I told yon a lit
tie while ago, Jerry, who our first par
euts were Let me see if you reincm
ber Wno was the flret man?
Precocious hoy— Adam.
N oith Side Mother—That’s right
Who was the first woman?
Precocious
B oy—»Evil.
T h e M ls s l n * P s w n .
One Saturday afternoon two friends of
the noble game of obess sat piuyiug
together in a cafe. ¡Suddenly one of
them started up in a passion nnd ex
claimed, "Y ouhave picketed oueof my
pawns. ’’
A glanoe at tbe board and men suf
ficed to show that a pawn was really
missing. The exci^nuent over the lost
pawn became so intense that a lively a l
tercation ensued, in which everybody
in tbo room took part.
tjuiot was at last restored, and the
player who had lost his pawn resumed
his seut and began »« drink bis coffee,
which was covered with thick cream,
when he all at once got something into
bis throat wbioh nearly choked him.
He succeeded, however, in extiiouting
the intrusive article, which turned out
to be the missing pawn.
The chess player, intent on tbe game,
had thrown it into his oup in place of a
lump of sugar.— Pearson’s Weekly.
W h e n Ih e T im e C am e.
Maud—Oh, Ethel, and what did you
say to him when he proposed to you!
Did you say what you said you were go
ing to the other day? That was a noble
speech, just suited to crush the boldest
man And did he slink away like a
whipped dog?
Ethel— Well, not exactly You see,
I didn't say just that. 1—1—w ell—ei
—er—well, you see, I said “ yes." —
London Fun.
Alnwick castle, according to tho ob
servations of a learned antiquary, owes
its origin to the Komuus
it is one of
the largest Gothic buildings in Britain,
containing about five acres of ground
within its outer walls, flanked with 1(1
towers ano turrets.
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colds, too, as it aids expectoration,
relieves the lungs and p ie v e n tsa n v
tendency tow ard pneum onia. For
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