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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY, 8KITKM1IEJI 1J, 1010. DAILY B0OTJ1 BITER COURIER PACnt THBXX. CIVILIAN MEN-OF-WAR'S MEN I'tiulii li Alum li all I'li'iu AimM'ii1ijii. Tli 'J.iku i tH-riiltn who have embarked mi the t Ivllluii triiliilnu cruise of the of preparedness are busy every minute of Hie day. . Here nre volunteer tara sailor Mints mill n uroup of youths i?n lulittr Ui" Inlirc about irtina HE WHO WROTE IT The Man Who Penned the Dec laration of Independence. WORK OF TIMOTHY MATLACK. Ht Wat Clerk In lh Continental Conyroa Whan That Immortal Docu ment Vae Adopted and Waa Alto the Flneat Writer In the Country. Wiio wrote the I let lit rut lull of Inde pendence? Thoiuaa Jefferson, of course; every one known that. Hut who held the pen anil formed the letter on tho grent piece of parchment tlmt the memlHnt nf tho I'ontluentnl congress slKucd? It U one of tho lur'Ht otlli'tnl lH'ni In existence one skin of porch Uient nearly three feet lung nnd mora (lulu two feet wide. The writing I nenrly twice the normal hIio nnd la unusually, handsome nnd rlenr. Tlio secretary who was ordered to promtilKate tho work waa (.'hurled ThoiiiiM.ii. a man of hlKh character, who hnd beeu the rlnelal of n school at Now t'RNtle. He)., nud nn active pa triot. The (lntt eiuigrexn 'ho him an secretary In 1714. nnd ho held the of llco until the ('ontlneiital congress panned out of existence on March -'. 17N. iMirlnu nil those lift ecu yenrs It wiiM only on rare occasions tlmt any other hniid than his wrote In the Jour mil. One of the clerk In Thomson's olth'e In 1 77." nnd 1770 wan Timothy Matlack, who died at lIotimshurg, I'd.. In 18.1). w heu he waa nlucty-ulno years of nge. To carry out tho order of tho con gress that the liclaratlnu he pro claimed. Thomson ms-iled mure thau a score of cop leu, for he hnd to vend It to every one of the stales nnd to the army. No, to mivo time, he did not attempt to luivo nny copies written off with the pen. hut Kent the original draft, which thn congress hnd passed, to the olllcliil printer, John iHiulap The following morning the printed copies were In Thomson's hands. They were printed on one Hide of the paper on InrKo sheet eighteen Indies limit and fourteen mid u half ln lu" wide In the form Known ih broadsides. It aviim from one of those copies tlmt I'liHinlelplilii ilrst heiird the lvcln ra tion rend, nnd It win one of them tlmt lieeiime the ulllcliil copy, for Thomson had not copied the Iieclnrntlon even Into the Jotnniil of the coiikvcsn he font ho mice It to the printer; but when he wrote tho Journal for July 4 he left n hlank npiicm for the 1 Vein ration, and tho next day. with two wufeM of red wax, he fastened In the printed broad Mlde. 1 have nhIiI that nomctimcii an entry wna mado In the Journal of the con greNH by another hand t tin n Thomson'M. Tho flrot of those oectiNlonn wan on Juno 12, 1775. when Timothy Mutlnck recorded n nsolullon to net iiHldo a day for fiiHtlng und prayer to avert tbo dcNolntlng cnlamltloN that xeemed to bo Impending. Matlack had been appoint ed a clerk In Thomson'! ofllco on May IS, and five day Inter, on May 20, he wroto out the most Important docu ment tlmt the onngrcAa had Issued up to that timethe commission to (leorgo Washington to be commander In chief of the American army, Tho Identifica tion of the penmntiNhlp of tho cotnmla Ion with that of the entry In the Journal and of both with nn autograph letter of Matlack' that la among the pnpora of the Continental congress la certain. rrobably there wan not at thnt time man In the country who waa Mat lack's equal as a penman. Fortun atoly, Matlack waa still a clerk In Thomson's ofllco when the Declara tion of Independence waa ordered to be engrossed for final signature, and tho task of copying It w-ns assigned to him. Ho copied from the printed broadside, That Is clearly shown by tho heading of the broadside, "In Con gress, July 4, 1770." which Is repro duced In the written Deehirnllon In th aerie form of lettering. A few years nifo some of the olllelaH lu the library of ciiiigresN. who knew that Matlack win the best Is-iitonn em ployed by Thomson, inndo n compact son of tienerul Washington's commit sloii, which win known to have been written by him. with the lieclaii.tlon The llrst H-cnllar letter lu the com mission Is the iiipltnl "N" In New Hampshire, mid we fun) Its counter part lu "Nature's" In the second lln of the lusty of the Pecliiiiit'oii. The graceful flourish nt the top of the "T" In the word "To" In the 'mmtsson s repented In the Mfoud of the wtete-e Ix-ifliiiiluK "Thnt" In the Iicrlirntloii In the wonl "offer" In the commission then- Is a uinrkcd ' till nlty In the double "f." The llrst "f" Is mmlo like the old fashioned loin: "s " It appears In the word "etTert" In the lecl.iralloti. theu In "MllTer" Nnd "siKTcriible." That Is the most noteworthy peculiarity In Matlnek's w rlllni;. The capital "P" In the commission nnd In the hM line of the Iieclnrntlon, the capltnl "It" In the commission ami In the word itrltliY' III the liinrnllon. the whole word "Congress" lu both document thufi.' nnd other details estnblWhcd I cyoud u doubt (hat ttie writer r the grcnt lbs' In nit Ion was Timothy Mnihick. In 124 when .bdiii t'ulncy Adam was secretary of tate, n skilled en graver, VVII'.l.im J. Spun., i-ntile n cop pc rp hi l e facsimile of the I cr:trntlon That Is the only one that has ever been nuyle. It was tllstrlbuted by order ot congress nnd I famllhir to lis nil. - It b a perfis't ri'produrtlon In every panic nlar of the oilnlnnl d cumeiit und Is a flue specimen o? the pngravpr'a art. Cnlllnrd Ihmi In Vnuih' C ompanlrn GIFTS FROM SPACE Wonderful Meteorites That Drop to Us Out of the Sky. ONCE REGARDED AS SACRED. In the Early Daye They Were Ob jects of Reverence and Worahlp, ae la the Fimom Stone at Mecca To dayTheir Fiery Flight to Earth. I u considering the wonders of the unlferso have you ever realized how coiiHplcuous amoiiii them are the me teorites, those wonderful messages dropped from the sky for us to wonder nt and study? They are tho only ma terial objects which come, to tho earth from tho vust outer world. Among the collections shown In tho National museum nt Washington la a remarkably tine exhibit of meteorites. It Includes complete meteorites rang lug In slo from the merest pebbles to great bowlder like masses and casta re producing ghiut forms like thnt of Itn cuhlrlto, which has been pstlmnted to weigh twenty-flvo tons and still rests where It fell In Mexico. Tho Nntlonnl museum has Issued a handbook nnd descriptive cntuloguo of the meteorlto collections In the mu seum, written by Dr. George P. Mer rill, head curator of geology, from which tho following la nn abstract: Although meteorites presumably have fallen since tluio Immemorial, skep ticism was fpjt at first by both the : popular and ailontlflc minds regarding I the possibilities of atonea falling from ! apaco. In the few early recorded cases where meteoritra seen to fall wore re covered they wre regarded aa objects of reverence and worship. A atone which fell In anclout rbrygln, In Asia Minor, about 200 ycara before Christ waa worshiped aa Cybele, the mother of the gods, Another, which datei hack to the seventh century, la still preserved at Mecca, where It la bnllt Into tho norther st corner of the Ra'a. I hi and roverud aa ono of the holiest of relics. The g relit Cnsns Qrandes Iron, weighing about 3,000 pounds, now In tho nntlonnl collection at Washington, wui found lu an undent Moxlcau ruin swathed lu mummy clothes In a man nor to Indlcnto that It was held In more than ordinary veneration by the prehistoric inhabitants. The earliest known uudonhtcd me tcoiites still preserved art those of Elbogen, Hohemla and Enslshelm, Up NEVER IDLE Untied Ntatea navy lu the Interest learning the rope. as It were, tying per Alsace. The first mentioned is Iron, the second a stone. The Iron was found somewhere alsiut the year 1-100 of our era. The Kiislshelin stone, seen to fnll on Nov. 1(1, H!2, about the time Columbus mnde bis discoveries, was accompanied with a loud crash like thunder. Portions of this stone are to be seen In tho National museum ex hibit. The fall of n meteorite Is usually ae- pompnnlcd by noises variously describ ed ss resembling the fire of musketry, cannonading or even thunder. If the fall takes pluce during the periods of durkuess It is also accompanied by a flash of light and followed by a lumi nous rocket-like trull. These phenome na are due to tho rapid passage of the objects through the nlr and a conse quent rise In temperature, sufficient to produce fusion of the outer surface and even ignition, thus giving rise to the thin, dark, glassllke crust which Is found to cover all stony meteorites. Tho time of passage through the at mosphere Is, however, too short to per mit the beat to penetrate to great depths, and nearly all meteorites are quite cool, or scarcely warm, on reach ing the surface of the ground. It Is to the sudden rise In temperature and pressure of the atmosphere that the breaking up of a meteorite and Its reaching the ground as a ahower ot fragmeuts rather thau a single Individ ual are duo. We bnve little to guide us In estimat ing the speed at which a meteorite reaches the earth and Its consequent power of ienetratlon. The velocities as given by various observers vary be tween two and forty-five miles a sec ond. The greatest recorded depth of penetration of a meteoric stone Is that of Knyahlnya. Hungary, where a 000 pound stone penetrnted to a depth of eleven feet. On the other hand, still heavier masses have been found under such conditions as to lead one to Infer that tber scarcely burled themselves. All statements relative to the temper ature of meteorites Immediately after reaching the ground must be accepted guardedly, owing to their extremely contradictory chnrneter. Some stones which fell In Styrla In 18.10 nre stated to have remained In a sfnte of Incan descence for over five seconds and for a quarter of nn hour were ton hot to lie handled tin the other hand, the Phurnisnlii stone Is snld to have been Intensely cold when picked up Immedl ntely after falling. The largest known meteoric mnss Is hat brought by Commander Peary from Cape York. Greenlnnd. It weigh ed 7X000 pounds The next largest lies In the plain nenr Bacttblrlto, In Mexico, and has been estimated to weigh some flO.000 pounds, while the third Is that of Willamette. Ore., weighing 81.107 pounds. Theso are all Iron meteorites. The lnrgest known Indlrldunl aerolite of meteoric stone Is that of Knyahlnya, nungnry. weighing some M0 pounds, now In the Vienna Nntlonnl museum. Pr, Merrill says thnt nil known me teorltes were produced by tho action of bent nnd have yielded no traces of animal or vegetnblp life, although parts of their peculiar structures were at one time mistaken for orgnnlp remnlns Early Morning Talks, "lie Is always doing something that i-nuKca a lot of talk." v ; "Why, I never heurd any of It" "lie is the only ono who hears It He Is always staying out at night later than his wife wUhcs him to." Hous ton Post Wonderful Tree Roots. The Jand. a tree which grows pro fusely In the Indfau Punjab, a very dry region. Is chiefly remarkable for Its wry long tap root which waa eighty-four feet In one remarkable specimen nud which desceuded vertl cnlly sixty-four feet Into the earth "I'll try" has not tho genuine metal ring "I will" puts money Into the nv envelope Why the Quail Quailed. What mado tho quail quail 1 For fear the woodpecker would peck her. Exchnngc. MILITARY MARCHING. The Pace Varies With the Quality and Hie it the Command. The "Army Drill Book" tells that trained and hardened Infantry can cover from twenty to twenty-five miles a any when In small bodies. As the size of the command Increases the dis tance covered becomes less, as the rate Is lowered am tlmo Is needed to get all the units Into and out of camp. With a regiment or less of average troops-regulnrs-marcblng over aver age roads the rate should I from two and three-quarters to three miles ao hour. Large bodies will travel from two to two and a half miles an hour, while a division cannot be expected to accomplish more than twelvo and one- half miles a day. Of course all these figures will vary with different conditions of roads and weather. Untrained troops could not approach them until hardened. Though they mlgl t do betvr for a day or two, they coul I i "t I c;i up (ue steady pace of the se i't i i ll Menhirs for a long dis tance. Marching with full equipment Is bard physical work and. like every other form of labor, requires a proper period Of training. The seusoned force will keep up a steady pnee with ten minute baits every hour, a fifteen minute stop being made nt the pud of the first half or three-quarters of an hour. Green troops are apt to straggle bndly.-Out !g. An Anecdote of Handel. On one occasion Handel was caught In a shower of rain nud was obliged to seek shelter in a blacksmith's forge. Either Handel was In a silent mood or else the blacksmith showed no conver sational symptoms, for In a little while the latter l-c'un hammering away at his anvil, accompanying his work with a song. Handel was listening all the tlmo to the strokes of the hammering on the anvil, which, by producing two harmonic sounds, according in time and tune with the tune the man sang, formed a bass accompaniment Handel, on reaching home, remembered the air and the hammer accompaniment He wrote down both, and so we owe to a shower of rain the composition known as "The Harmonious Blacksmith." Withering. Enoch Eastman, an old time Iowa law-yer, on one occasion appeared be fore a young Judge and to enforce a point be desired to make brought with him and attempted to rend Blackstone to the court. whereupon the young Judge, after moving uneasily about In bis sent for av.blle. snld, "Mr. East man, I've read Blackstone." "Oh, bev ye!" respondpd Enoch, looking at the judge over the top ot his spectacles with sn air of surprise. -Case and Cmmcut Consoling. "What did you say jour age was?" he remarked, between dances. "Well. I didn't say," smartly return ed the girl, "but I've Just reached twenty-one." "Is that ao?" he returned consoling ly. "What detained you?"-Excbange. ' Black Opals. The gem most sought arter Is the Australian black opal, which Is found nowhere pise in the world. It appears In limited quantities In the matrix of Ironstone and sandstone In the Light King Itldae district of New South Wales. Cainty. Ulohim-Whnt ii dainty little hand kerchief she curries. It looks like a eobwpb. Slobs-Yes, n thing like thnt Isn't t be snee-cd at. riillndelphhi Itecor.l. Facial Adornment. First Maid Does your mistress wcai much Jewelry? Second Mnld-No: she has only rings under her eyes - Huston Transcript. tame, but Good. Cunis.i Why didn't yon come Inst week ns you promised? Fnuglp 1 spi ilned my ankle. Cumso A lame excuse "See the losephine County Caves" For the accommodation of vis itors to Uils most wondrous and beautiful piece of nature's underground work, CAVE CAMP has been established on Williams Creek, 27 miles from Grants Paas at the Junction of tho auto road and government trail, ten miles from the Caves. The camp Is equipped with floored tents, clean beds and bedding, mattresses and springs, Rates 92.29 per day! special rates by the week. Saddle horses furnished on I short notice. Telephone ser vice. Fishing, Recreation, Cool Refreshing For transportation Inquire Grants Pass Garage FRANK M. SOUTH, Mgr. Classified ANGEL CAKES Phone orders to No. 10-J. 787tf FOR SALE Apple chunk wood, S3 tier, cat to 16-Inch lengths, from 20 year orchard cot this sprins. Beet wood on market. Phode E. H. Richard. 853 WINONA BERKBHIRES If yon ! want the most pork per lb. of feed, ! get a Winona Berkshire for your next herd boar. Spring pigs aver aged 100 lbs. each at four months, j P. R. Steel, Winona Ranch, Rural Route No. 1. 830tf i - 14-ROOM house, partly furnished, lot 75x100, on Sixth atreet, for sale real cheap. For particulars Inquire B. A. Williams, 323 O street 87S FOR SALE Team of horses, two cows (one fresh for $65), one I three-burner oil stove, almost new, perfect condition, for $8. Geo. Morris, Route No. 1. Phone 602-F-12. 848 WINTER BANANA apples for sale at Miinrop a rancn, zsc per box. i Phone 609-F-22. 849 FOR SALI3 Spring wagon. Cheap for cash. Apply at Foundry. 848 TO EXCHANGE j VANCOUVER, B. C, PROPERTY to I trade for Rogue River valley prop i erty lot, 98x199 13, 11-room bouse, strictly modern, full base j ment, three-room bouse on rear of lot. Also property In New West minster, B. C, to exchange for Rogue river property. Bungalow court, six units. In Los Angeles', also 100 acres of land In southern California, to trade for Rogue river property. What have you? Plenty of money to loan on good real estate security. See Isaac Best. 850 WANTED WANTED Man to work on farm who can al3o do blacksmithing. Write Box 24, Merlin, Oregon. 850 FARM LAND WANTED Will pay $100 to party whoso Information leads me to buy relinquishment or improved homestead land in this part of the state. Would consider timber and logged-off land partly cleared, some improvements, cabin. etc. Am looking for a bargain, and pay cash. Write me fully In first letter. Address No. 1636, care Courier. ' 3t I'l HLIC STENOGRAPHER , PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Miss ! Hobbs, 306 South 6th Street. Phone I 257-R. 844tf I DRESSMAKING DRESSMAKER, Just from Portland, can give best references, would take day engagements. Call at 814 North Fifth street. ' 847 .IMAXUlUi E. ii. CROl'CH, Assayer, chemist metallurgist. Roma 201-203 Pad dock Untitling. Grants Pass. VETERINARY SURGEON DK. It. J. BESTUL. Veterinarian. Ottkc In Winetrout Implement Uldg. Phone 113-J. Residence Phono 305-R. TIME CARD The California and Oregon Coast Railroad Company (The Oregon Caves Route) Effective Monday, May 1, 1916. v Train 1 lv. Grants Pass 7:00 a.m. Arrives Waters Creek......8:00 a.m. Train 4 lv. Waters Creek....6:00 p.m. Arrives Grants Pass 6:00 p.m. . Dally except Sunday. All trains leave Grants Pasa from the corner ot G and Eighth streets, opposite the Southern Pacific depot. For all information regarding freight and passenger service call at the office of the company, Publio Ser vice building, or phone 1S1 for same. I Train will stop on flag at any I point between' Grants Pass and (Wa""- Creek. Passcss;: ervloe 'every da In the week. A Deadly Weapon. . There la a horrible weapon favored by, certain of the bill tribes In the Gbuuts of western Asia, wntch con sts of four sharp, curved blades hid den under the tinners and securely held In place by Huns passing over two of them. With such a contrivance Shi vajl, the Mni'uihn hero is credited with having disemboweled his Mo bil mmediin overlord when tuaklnii a pretense of rctidcrlmt him his numble submission TJie vatiimks ("tigers oinw", as they are culled, nre distinctly more brutal than their western prototype, tho "knuckle duster" - Wide World Miigaxliie Advertising PHYSlCIAJJg L. O. CLEMZNT, II. D. Practice limited to diseases of ths ays, sax. noas and throat Glasses fltUd. Office hours 9-12, 2-6, or oa ap pointment. Offlc phone, 12; resi dence phone I6-J. t S. LOUGHRIDGE, M. D., Physiclaa and surgeon. City or country calls attended day or night Reeldeaos phone 369; office phons 113. Sixth and H. Tuffi Bldg. J. P. Trnax, M. D., PhysloUa as surgeon. Phones: Office SIS; resi dence 324. Calls answered at all hours. Country calls attended to. Londbnrg Bldg. DR. ED. BTWATR Specialist oa diseases of eye ear, nose and throat; glasaea flttd. Office hoars: 9 to 12 a. m., 2 to 6 p. m. Phones: Residence 224-J; office 257-J, Schmidt Bldg, Grants Pass, Ore. A. A. WITHAIT, M. D., Physldaa aad Surgeon. Office: Hall Bldg, cors er Sixth and I streets. Phones: Office 116; residence 282-J, Hour 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. DR. H. WARREN NICE, Osteopathia Physician. Chronic and nervous diseases specialty. Rooms 1 and 2, Lundburg Bldg., opposite post office; phone 149-R. Residence: Colonial hotel; phone 167-J. DENTISTS E. C. MACY, D. M. D. First-class dentistry. 109 H South Sixth street, Grants Pass Ore. BERT R. ELLIOTT, D. M. D. Mod ern dental work. Maud B. Brad ford, dental assistant Rooms 4 and 5, Golden Rule Bldg. Grant Pass, Ore. Phone 265-J. ATTORNEYS H. D. NORTON. AttorneT-at-Law Practice in all State and Federal Courts.' First National Bank Bldg. COLVIO t WILLIAMS Attorney- at Law, Grant Pass Banking Co. Bldg, Grants Pass. Ore. E. S. VAN DYKE, Attorney. Practice In all courts. First National Bank Bldg. EDWARD H. RICHARD, Attorney-at-Law. Office Masonic Temple, Grants Pass, Ore. V. T. MILLER. Attorney-at-Law. County attorney for Josephine County. Office: Schallhorn Bldg. O. S. BLANCH ARD, Attorney-at-Law. Grants Pass Banking Co. Bldg. Phone 270. Grants Pass, Ore. V. A. CLEMENTS Attorney-at-Law, Practice in state and federal courts. Rooms 2 and 8, over Golden Rule store.' MUSICAL INSTRUCTION VIOLIN INSTRUCTION Franco- Belgian school of violin playing. E. R. Lawrence 215 I street DRAYAGE AND TRANSFER COMMERCIAL TRANSFER CO. All kinds of drayage and transfer work carefully and promptly done. Phone 182-R. Stand at freight depot. A. Shade, Propr. F. G. ISHAM, drayage and transfer. Safes, pianos and furniture moved, packed, shipped and stored. Phone Clark & Holman, No. 50. Resi dence phone 124-R. THE WORLD MOVES; so do we. Bunch Bros. Transfer Co. Phone 15-R. LODGES GRANTS PASS Lodge No. 84 A. F. A. M. Stated Communica tions 1st and 3d Tuesdays. Visiting brethren cordially invited. A. K. Cass, W. M. Ed. G. Harris, aecretary. GOLDEN RULE LODGE, NO. 78, 1. O. t-r v. meets every wea "tf nesdsy evening In I. O. O, w" F. hall, corner 6th and H. Sts. Visiting Odd Fellows cordially Invited to he present. Emll Gebers, N. O.; Clyde Martin, Secretary. ... ''decorators and painters PAPBRHANGINO. graining, paint ing. For the best work at lowest prices phone 295-J. C. G. Plant. South Park atreet MISCELLANEOUS , CRYSTAL SPRINGS water .put op In 5-gallon glass Jars and delivered at your door, fresh, pure, sanitary. Telephone 293-R and water wagon will call. TAXI STAND at the Mocha Cafe. Any where In town 10c. Phone 181-R. Residence phone 242-L, tt