THE PAST. C J T T L L »h a ll th e »oul » ro u n d It c a ll AJ T h » shadow » w h ich It «»th ero d bar« A n d pa in ted on th » e te rn a l w a ll T h a past s h a ll raapp aar. E A R T H L Y J0 Y 8. How fadlug are the Joys w« dote upon. Like apparttloua seen nud COB«! I But those which unmeet talcs their flight Are the most exquisite and strong. Like angels' visits, short and bright Mortality'« too weak to bear them long. —John Norris. T H I N K r a th a note» o f holy s o n * On M ilto n 's tu u a fu l a a r h a v e d ie d ! T h in k ya th a t R a p h a e l's a n s e l th ro n g H a s v an ished fro n t his side? i~V* 1 * ' not W e liv e o u r life a tta in Or w a r m ly touched o r co ld ly d im T h e Pictures o f th e past rem a in . * * 1 ' a w o rk s h a ll fo llo w him. - W h ittie r THOSE E V EN IN G 8ELLS. Those eve n in g bells* Those e ven ing bells! H o w m a n y a t a la th e ir m usic tells O f y o u th an d homo and th a t »west tim e W h en last 1 heard th e ir soothing c h ltn al Those jo yo us hours a re passed aw ay. A nd m a n y a h e a rt th a t th e n w as gay W ith in th a to m b now d a r k ly dw ells A n d h ears no m ore those eve n .n g hells. i d so 't w il l ba w h e n 1 a m gone— a t tu n e fu l peal w ill s till rin g on tile o th e r bards s h a ll w a lk ttiese dells d s ing y o u r praises, sw eet eve n ­ in g bella. —T h o m a s M oore. L THE CHARIOT. E C A U S E 1 could not »too fo r D e a th H e k in d ly stopped fo r me. T h e c a rria g e held b u t Just ourselves A n d im m o r ta lity . V V E s lo w ly drove. H e k n e w no haste A n d I had p u t a w a y M y la b o r an d m y leisure, too. F o r his c iv ility . YYE passed th e school w h ere children ’ ' played. T h e ir lessons s carcely d o n a h e passed th e Helds o f g ro w in g g r a in ' w e passed th e s e ttin g sun. Bliss in possession w ill not last; Remembered joys are never past: At once the fountain, stream and sea. They were,‘ they are. they yet ahall be. —Montgomery. Glory, ambition, armies, fleets, throues. crowns- playthings of grown chlldreu.—Victor Hugo. T H IN G S NEED FU L. One of the illusions is that (he present hour Is not the critical, decisive hour. W rite It on your heart that the best day is every day in the year.—Emerson. There are two things needed these days. First. for rich ineu to flud out how poor men live; aud. second, for poor men to find out how rich men work.— Edward Atkinson. Courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones, and then when you have accomplished your dally task, go to sleep In peace. God Is awake.—Victor Huge. \V b passed b e fo re a house th a t seemed A s w e llin g o f th e gro u n d T h e ro o f w as scarcely visible. T h e cornice b u t a m ound C J IX C E then t i s cM tturles. but each Feels s h o rte r th a n the d a y I Hrst surm ised th e horses' heads W e re to w a rd e te rn ity . GAINS FOR A LL OUR LOSSES. r p i I E R E a re g a in s fo r a ll o u r losses: A T h e re a re balm s fo r a ll o u r pain. B u t w h en y o u th , th e d re am , d e p a rts I t ta ke s som eth ing fro m ou r hearts. A n d It n e v e r comes a gain. g e r and a r e b e tte r YV\ U a n re d e s r tro m n anhood » s te rn e r reign. S till w e fe el t h a t so m eth in g sw eet F o llo w e d y o u th w ith fly in g feet A n d w ill n e v e r com e a gain. C O M E T H I N O b e a u tifu l has v a n is h e d A n d w e sigh fo r It In vain. W e behold It e v e ry w h e re. O n th e e a rth a n d in th e a ir B u t i t n e v e r comes again THO UG HTS CN W OMEN. The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philoso­ pher or a fool.—Balzac. In a country whose Institu­ tions are based upon popular suffrage every man should tie • politician, and every man owes a portion of his time, energy • nd talents to the service of A- state. I do not Mean that every man should run for office. That Is a poor business at beat -poor when you succeed. Inexpressi­ bly |ioor when you fall What I mean Is that every cltlxeu should help so far as he cau to salve the problems for the bet torment o f government, the Im ­ provement of society and the perpetuity of the republic It Is the duty of every cltlxeu to attend both the primaries and general election to the end that good and capable men may be selected. The only way Io re­ form politics Is to be active be­ fore and nt the elections.— Champ Clark. Pert Personals. AND DAUGHTERS. Vtcomteaa« D A sy who Is with her husband In thia country, he represent­ ing the military of France at Wash­ ington. Is a student of aviation. Lady Victoria Beckville-West, daugh ter of Lord Backvllle and cousin of Sir Suckvllle-West, former itrlitsh ambassador at Washington, hns tin Ished a course In Parts In taming and training wild beasts. Mile Blanche Azoulay, the flrst wo­ man to be admitted to practice law In Algiers, has just taken the oath In th e court of appeals. She Is a native of ibe country and received her educa lion chiefly In the schools at home Dr. Mary Eddy, the only woman ever given a license to practice medicine In the Turkish empire, has arrived In this country to obtain medical supplies ami funds with which to Increase the scope of her work among the consumptives of Turkey. Mrs Taft's epigrams are the Joy of Washington society Her latest epb J gram was on the subject of lamuty. “She Is beautiful, but not at all nc- compllshed." a lady told M rs T aft or a western matron. "My dear,*’ .Mrs T aft answered, "there Is no accom pllshment more difficult than to be I beautiful." Mr. Carnegie skip» the rope for exer else, the skipping of letters when he spells having proved Insufficient for his needs —Chicago News Harry Payne Whitney, we are told, lost $250,000 on the English tu rf this ------------- season. Now we know why he Is so i Once we talki-d of pennants In this popular among English horsemen.— town — Pittsburg Sun Milwaukee Sentinel. Fort Worth, preparing to »tart a James J HUI. who Is seventy-three, says a business than should retire municipal abattoir, la evblenlly not when he gets old. but 'Joe Cannon at afraid to take the bull by the borus.- seventy-six believes that ns long as 1 Boston Herald Lady Cook, who wants to reform a statesman sits up with the boys he Chicago, will begin by building four doesn't get o ld.-Louisville Courier churches. Evidently the mngnitude of Journal. the task has properly Impressed her.— ' Louisville Courier Journal T H E T E N T S OF BOHEM IA. E w ho a re w e a ry . There are said to be 12.000 -nior ' W e w h o a ra lost. ally Insane" persons In New York i at tuis time. This does not include G a th e r a t ntght. those who are uot "Insaue." but are A n d we aiw as boat» Just naturally mean - .Montgomery Ad On a blac k w a v e toat vertiser Town Topics. W A nd h ave no lig h t. W ith cleverness, thirty years and a little beauty a woman makes fewer conquests, but more durable ones.—Dupuy. O p ity in g moon, W e h ave sh u t you out W it h a te n t o f words. B u t I w o uld w e w ere A « a g h o s tly ro u t O r as shadow y herd»! W e only demand that a wo­ man should be womanly, which is not being exclusive.—Leigh Hunt W e h a v e tu rn e d fro m th e » t a n A n d th e w a n d e rin g cloud» A n d th e color o f n ig h t. A n d wo c h a tte r an d d rin k I n th e d a rk th a t shrouds T h e w a n d e rin g li g h t Women are apt to see chiefly the defects of a man of talent and the merits of a fool.—Anon. DAMES DUTIES OF VOTERS. Blobba— Scribbler's poetry strikes tn» as being rather clumsy Blobba—Clumsy ? Why. It positively trips over Its own feet.-Philadelphia Record. O h, th e open fields. W h e re th e colo r o f n ig h t M oves ov e r d a r k tree» A n d th e flood o f th e m oon T o th e eye» give» sigh t. T o th e soul gives peace I —S haem ae O’SheeL C A L IF O R N IA is fam ous the, w o rld over For its splendid hontelrien, its varied attraction«, its fine beached, hot springs and pleasure resorts—All these ca n be reached with euse by the Cfl / I OGDEN&SHASTA] s u n s e t \ ‘5* ' ROUTES " R o a d o f « Tho usan d W o n d t n " R o u tt o f S h asta L im ite d Excursion T ickth Costing $55.00 Portland toJLos Angeles and Return aale daily, good six months wit'i stop-cvere going or returning. Corresponding low fares from other Oregon points. 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C A IN E GOLD HILL, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON THE MINING METROPOLIS OF SOUTHERN ORFC.ON SEWERS • •• CEMENT WALKS fZ OLD H IL L has a natural site for a city, built as it is on ••• FILTERED WATER ■H E foUowlng Is * Het of m ining proper tian in the region contiguous to Xid the banks of Rogue river, at the gateway to the won­ •*»’ derful valley of the same name- The setting for a city is Hill, classified s , to their respective d istricts: x X-------------------- x--------- c ____ xx vxxx.xx..> wx xuxkuxax Kanes C ree k: Keren DC, zxxacw, m enornnau, ., A lice, M endenhall, here—picturesque and inspiring—and if the law of natural ._ - development works as it should, the setting will some day, 7 7 ? * Braden’ Cent™ „ , . . l x L „ x _ „ x g _ _ J t . x ^ x v , , “ '«J P'»«-r And many oth er,; alao the H u gh e. and that not far distant, be filled by a city such as southern and and H H ouseholder ouseholder lim lim e e quarries. quarries. Oregon may not boast at present. The town takes its Gails Creek: B ill Nye, recently purchased name from Gold Hill mountain, so called because nearly by a pow erful French syndicate, operating half a million dollars was taken from a ledge at a point m ines in all parts o f the world; five »»amp, near its summit in the early fifties. No town in southern will soon be in operation. Gold Standard, Oak, R attlesnake, Knbli, Tin Pan, Burns Oregon has a greater list of actual, get-at-able natural A Red D uffield, II. D. Jones, Last Chance, and resources awaiting development immediately contiguous Big Foot. to its corporate limits. lo o t s Creek: Champlin Dredging Co., r._ The rushing current of Rogue river—teeming with gamy and u s steelhead—offers compara- V salmon, » , trout xxvruv an ito u r d u ---UJ.1UIS at a t a a com pare- tively slight cost per developed horsepower a» abundance of power for any and all industrial development, xlnd speaking of hunting—the neighboring hills are the happy bunting ground» of southern Oregon* No hunter returns without plenty of venison, and generally he brings in the legal limit. Cougar, bear, panther and coyotes may be had by those who care to hunt them, and several trappers in the vicinity make good money each winter on the finer furs. xxxxxxyxx t❖ I 1 f T 2 Ï ••• ELECTRIC LIGHTS G O nDiJULL is the center of a rich mineral district. «lav S » Ä . T zx c .v n u V t.r°ck' , bl?ck and p potter'» n i o „ o . r h ± ’ 2 • * - * * , .c vw DOCK and O tter’l , ? ------------ — ~ U U l u c u u u i m e i l t , aC C O l'tlin i? 8ha,e» hm©—the purest on the continent, accordim to government crovermnpnf geological im n ln r r io n i reports—all _n are here , t0 and . all f Undeveloped. The rich surface gold deposits both nlnnne a n d illliir t/ b n v o *’ ‘ h p la c e r and ouartz, have been worked For f » i - f J ^ e a ™ .„ d h a v 'e K t o v Th? 1, Payi”it b“ d»°™ l7- ' There is no deep mining. This^will come later, and when it does it is freelv predicted that Gold Hill will become one of the greatest camps the west has ever seen- ” f u c k fnountain, of high-grade cement rock lies ju st south h st n o i t h - w i a n\0Unt1ain hiSh-i?™fc hematite iron Black Channel placer, Lance Bros. placer, j st north both undeveloped. A bituminous coal belt Dixie Queen, Bertha, H orseshoe, H waiter. Hummingbird, and many others. many square miles in extent lies seven miles north of the Sardine Creek: L ittle Giant, tO W n ---- Undeveloped This io In O xr „ . G iant, Black Hawk H aw k, . n d districts d 7 . t e d ' comnrisimr ™ ’ L l " «nmo . * * *> » » Y * » < V ,an<1 Grey Eagle, Lucky n a n group, corporal a,’ & Meadows Y.al,ey 0aprMon- »•« aroup, Hinckie, smith placer, for fruit and irenernl f l m ' .80me of thfe finest land i X " ’’”'7 ”'7 " ’ Bn<1 many oth‘”’ i t,,‘" eleven-foot vein of 18Out.h ern Oregon. An : To " '7 ± , , . „ , th» it, the Meadow, and sample, “of co^I takTn A m we7ls in w h , £ £ 1,ttn' o » rfle id (iro n ), F ie m in g -w ard (iro n ), to ™ I f hi£h Gold " H ill H ■ ill ledge, Oo,a m M ountain: ■*-*— Gold ■ ■ •■ ■ —— Cop- - per Queen, W hitney, Fisher, Dikeman and Capital is invited to investigate the Gold Hill district many others, tbtp h nh?efi)r°ArL aft'Cr invc8ti^ating other districts, whether Backwell H ill«: Maybelle, Nellie W righ t, the object, of the investigation is mines, timber cement Lowden, Yellow Jacket, Lone Pine, Fran k S haffer and ninny other*. lime, brick and tile clay, timber, coal, potver or a S o n W illow Springs: .Murray, Nick Jerry, for a sanitarium or tourists’ hotel—Gold Hill has them aH ' an’l i qZlUy" Pr°VCn by “aly,i’ ,,,d tcst8 The choicest fruit land in southern Oregon surrounds Gold Hill, the numerous creek valleys, with their deep, fertile, mineral-mixed soil and absolute immunity from H en rh h erg er, Houston and many others. Add to all its other advantages as to location and frost providing almost ideal conditions for the horticul­ tural ist. For further information address resources an all-the-year climate that can’t be beaten on , ie I acihc coast, and an idea is gamed gained ot of the the justice justice of of REX xvjhjk H. n . LAMPMAN jjAJYir’jnAJN the clnim \ ttmt ««id “ ‘ï m j u “" l lue« _xu. v® . .ju stic e or Several extensive timber belts can be most easily Secretarv Business Men’s \ssn develnnwcJ+Yr « d» ■ » best Pro«Peots for future Gold Hill, Oregon v a ily K Î t h e r ô yô ^ i n ' WOTld-{am<" “ K » « put into the m arket with mills located at Gold Hill. ’