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e SATURDAY M AKCtl 2S BMW. POST (.HECK SYSTEM. To the lonj stat.ding questicn, what shall be done with the jack rabbit? Echo, answers that he shall be canned, says The D tiles Chronicle. The aim is to convert him from a pest into a table deli cacy. Instead of being permitted to roam at large, free to devour what the farmer most desires io have preserved, the litt'e denizens of the sage brush country will be slaughtered for commercial pur poses and may possibly find their way in cans to the larders of the chief nations of the world. It is certainly a worthy object, this cf converting a supposedly worthless animal into a useful food product. While at present there is no crying demand for canned jackrabbit, there is no telling how insistent that demand might become when once a tasU for it has hveil cuhi. We are pleased to note the in terest anti enthusiasm which being manifested in the bill recently be fore Congress providing for a post check currency. The post check system provides paper money printed in such a way that it may be used as check for its face value, says the Salem Sentinel. There are hundreds of things a person wants to send money for, perhaps to the store at tiie county seat, Under the poet cheek plan he would take his money, write vatel. The rabbit of the sage the name of the store keeper on the brush country is sai l to he gamy. blank lines printer! on the face- and experience has shown that a altaeh and cancel a two cent post viand to become popular, fashion age stamp, anil the transfer of1 able and much in demand has money to the storekeeper is coni- , °nlv to be gamy, . With this new plete. He has drawn a check delicacy once approved by epicures against the government fur the I an^ cxPertB *n gastronomy, there amount of the bill thus changed is a possiblily that it may grow in into a cheek, and as a check it can general favor so that no menu it a go through the mails without the ti-st class dining establishment danger attached to the sending of will be complete or satisfactory un- a loose bill. His money has been less the Oregon jackrabbit is in- r, but with _ a __ few ______ strokes of ciuded in the highly prized edibles. money, _______ the pen it. is turned into a check. | If the American people can once be Its life is discontinued in one way i educated to eat canned jackrabbit, and a new life starts. If he makes ! there is no telling what change a blunder in writing, he puts on a may me wrought in the condition two-cent stamp, cancels it. goes to j of the people who live in the jack With rabbits to the postoflice and gets a new one rabbit country. be had for the taking, (a fjrtunej in its place, ard this process may | would seem to await eve.y man be repeated until the addre-s is correctly written. The govt ru who cares to chase it into a corral. inent secures a two-cent fee on the letter, it secures two cents on each i Here’s to the man who does bill made into a check, where if things, who tries and makes mis the farmer made the journey at his takes. who tries and succeeds own loss, it would be also that Better a try anil a failure than nev much loss of revenue to the goveri • er a try at all. About nine out ofi ment. ten of the attempts of the man who' The advantages and economies does things are failures or only of doing business by mail are being partial successes, yet he is the realized more and more, and stronger for them all and his world this branch of business is increas is better. In business, in politic?, ing with the rapidity which its im in society, in morals, the man who portance demands. How much does things is the main spring. simpler and more popular could Conservatism, i nd itlerence, laziness, this purchasing by mail be made inaction, are the clogs which delay should the post cheek and the par progress. cels poet system be adopted. It Tne man who is a'ert, with busy provides a perfectly safe and eco mind and restless energy, drives nomical plan of sending money unwilling circumstances or adverse through the mail at a minimum conditions to panic and all thing? cost aud without inconvenience. equal they are as often good as bad. As experience ripens they are goed One of the interesting incidents most frequent and he is blesse 1 in of la«t Congress was a memorial due proportion. Get a move on ! from the Colorado legislature for Develop a hustle! Think a few an appropriation of $20.u00,000 for times wnen things do seem to slag- constructing a highway across the riate. Push, branch out. do things. American continent. A grand Mistakescarry their own morals, high-wav from ocean to ocean, con success stimulates anil widens the structed by the people, would be a horizon of every day conception. long step forwa> d in the direction The world cries all hail to the man of a national system of good roads who does things; it even forgives such as most of the European his mistakes if it understands and approves his motives. This is countries have todav. gospel in small affairs as well as great. The one leads inevitably to the other, Whoop, it up, brethren, meaning also sister«, heaven is Is well expanded. He uses his lungs to finally to the hustler.—Exchange. tilt MJGLUrs CSEST their fullest capacity. People in ordin ary do not use much over half their lung power. The unused lung Mir’ace be comes inert, and offers a prepare' 'round for the attack of the germs of consump tion. There is no need to warn people of the danger of consumption, but warning is con stantly needed not to neglect the first symptoms of dis eased lungs. I Dr. Pierce’s Gold en Medical Discov ery cures obrtinate coughs, bronchitis, bleeding lungs, and other condi tions which, if negle< ted or un skilfully treated, find a fatal termi nation in consump tion. It is entire ly free* from opi ates and narcotics. "About three year? ago I was taken v* ith a bad c< ueh. vomiting and spitting l.b-cd.” writes Mr i). J. R<.b- inson of Spring ( .ar- den. W. Va. I tried many remedies; noth ing aeemed to help me ini i _ commenced using I)r. Fierce’s Golden radical Iiisrovery. After using ten bottles and four vialsof nis ‘ Pleasant Pellets.’ I commenced 1<> improve. My case seemed to be almost a hopeless oue. D<x:tors pronounced it ulcer of the lungs. I was sick nearly two years- part of the time 1>edfast. Was given up to die by all. ] thought it would be impossible for me to live over night at one time. I haven’t spit anv blood n<-w for more than twelve months, nnd vorked an the farm al! last summer. It was Dr. J ierce's medicines that cured me.” Accept no substitute for** Golden Med- kill Discovery.” There is nothing "just its good ” for diseases of the stomach. The ” Medical Adviser," in paper cov er.-,. is sent free on receipt of 21 one rv r.t sumps to pay for mailing only. Addrtas Tlr. R. V. Fierce, Buffalo, N. Y. On April 1st the president ex pects to start on his western tour and he will put in two months in making the trip twice across the the coutim nt. Il Ims been many years since a president visited this state. President Harrison was here in 1901. The piople, regard less of party affiliations, will join ¡n welcoming a president to the state Admiral Clark will be with the president’s party. As captain he to ik the Oregon around the Horn during the Spanish war, a performance that filled the heart of every American with pride. ESTRAY. Lost one two-year old cow w i t h calf. Brand, on ribs OO, and 7 on one hip and 72 on the other. I will pay $5 reward for her recovery. i Fred Mosier. Izee, Oregon. THE POWER OF MUSIC. llow « Olri rr I «Hinn Sh» Iti nn Orgnn tu n land) Who Had IJttle I for It, Tn one of the local music stores the other day several salesmen were relat ing experience» connect«'.! with the eraft, when one of the party, who hud Iveen a dealer in organs in a -«null way in a western state, where he hud acted ns agent for a big concern in supply ing- the local trade, grew retniui.-eent, relates the Washington Star. “1 remember mi incident connected with the sale of those cottage organ» that has somewhat the flavor < f the David llnrum boss trade." said he. ".My rival in the organ husineis in the western t”i«n wax one of the slickest salesmen that ever cajoled the elucive currency from a folded fist. The fel low his name was Bishop sold or gans to nearly every family in three counties. We got our instruments for about $2S net, and the regular selling price was $G(). “Bishop had a light wagon eon- structed especially tor carry ing a cot- tage organ, and he would |ond in one of the instruments mid, together w ith his nssistnnt. who was n fine musician, would start for the country. “One tiny he drove to a farm owned nnd managed by a wealthy old Irish lady whit couldn't tell a music -core from n baseball tally sheet. A« Hi«bup nnd his assistant drove up to the house with organ in the wagon the old l:>dv came out before the door, and with her arms akimbo struck a Del-arte.-m pose suggestive of the haughty deci sion. and said: " 'Take tlmt thing out of me ynrd! Move on will yez. I won't have 11(1 music l»oxes around me. Don't VP dare to take it out nv the wagin, or i’ll break it open wid mi ax." “‘Oh, I didn't intend to take the organ out. Mrs. Murphy.'said Bishop. ‘I only wanted to water m) house«.* “It was a warm day anil, after watering the anima!.«, the two began conversing pleasantly with Mrs. Mur phy until her aggresslvene-s relaxed. Bishop declared it was too warm to take to the road for a while nnd that thev would have tn rest. He present ly induced the old lady to let them put the organ under n shade tree out of the sun. The two cor--»irntor« against the pence <f the hotiselo l.l strolled aimlessly about ti e ynrd. nnd nfter .awhile the voting felln-v o'-meil tin the organ and begin nlnying livrlv airs with the Irish s 1 icliIng out n 11 over them. He wn* an • x-cellent performer and be coaxed all the Irish out of that instrn-s-ent there wn« in It. nnd pr« *- ently Mrs. Murphy peeled < ut nt th” door. The n«s!«t-nt pln'ed through his list of airs nnd started on seme of the old songs dear to every native < f old Erin, using the stops and pedals with great effect. “ ‘And ’»liwrit do vez nek fer a thirr like thot?' the old lady presently asked Bishop. “ ‘We ii«nnllv get $75 for that organ.' he replied indifferently, nnd went on sauntering about Pv ’ -d. “The music continued, and after a few minutes Mrs. Murphy asked: ‘Would ye sell it anv chenper fer cn«h ?' "‘No.’ s.ivs Bishop, ‘that’s the low est cash price.' “Mrs. Murphy walked hack to the house. Finn'lv the young man closed the organ with a snap and backed nn the wagon preparatory to reloading. Mr-. Mart hv enn-e out with unmistak able interest visible in lier counte- nance. Rhe looked the organ over a moment and then said: “‘Now. Mr. Bishop, couldn't ye throw ’ Off five dollars if I’d give ye cash money ,.o< ?' “ 'No.' said he. ‘this organ is the one I am using for a sample, and it's one of the best. I don't care to sell it anyway, but I have son-” down nt the store.' and he went on reloading. “The old lady's Irish blood was nn. She couldn't let an instrument that could express the sentiments of those old melodies ho sweetly escape her. so she said: ‘I don't want any other one. Just be aisy now and wait a minute,* and she dodged into the house, where the family bank, con sisting of an old stocking, was opened, and she counted out $75 for the lucky salesman. “The organ was placed in the narlor. the assistant taught the old lady a chord, and as they drove away they could hear her hammering on the o rga n with excruciating re-ults. Down the ron<1 for half a mile they could hear ‘turn, tiim-fttm. turn, turn- turn.' ns she endeavored to tret her money's worth. The only titre it nf- forced her satisfaction, however, was when some visitor who could plnv dropped in. and then the music of old Erin could be heard from the roadway I for hour».” Wild Flower» »** Weed«. It ha» lieen stated that the only dif fcrcnce. between a weed and a wild flower is that it is a weed when it com.: up where the cultivator docs not want it. A wildflower, then, becomes a weed I when growing in cultivated ground. One would hardly suppose that the , Canr.n of our gardens, a beautiful wild 1 flower of Florkln. is often a great [» st to the Florida horticulturist, and it classed there ns among the worst weeds. It. appears persistently in low i-round, known to cultivators as Iir.n;- mock soil; its root stocks grow so deep in the ground that th” plow docs l;o‘ ♦ urn (him out,rothat they grow up a iwid ns ever in newly plowed ground Th” roots have, to lx- dug out with : spade, in order to p clear of them.— Golden Days. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY California hu» 112,000 acres of prune t rec». Oil fuel 1» used exelimhcly in the III melting furnaces of the new I'hilutlel- phiu mint. The tetnper.iture in these furnaces cun be raised to 1,000 de grees. It is »aid that the flint which forms the substratum of London is nothing but petrilii'd sponges. An exiiininu tion i f the fossil sponge or flint shows its structure. The stick insect of Borneo, the larg est in eel known, is sometimes 13 inch es long. It is wingless, but some spe cies of stick insects have beautiful colored wings that fold like fans. Several factories have been built in Germany for the manufacture «>r “forest wool" out of pine needles, It is used for milking underclothes anil for stuffing iiHtttresses and furniture. line of the most important Indus tries attaching to the cheap power now produced by Niagara is the elec trical tearing apart of the molecule of common suit resulting in the forma tion of caustic .«»la and bleuching powder. A portable street light of great il luminating power is the device of the Westminster county council for les sening accident» from London fog» A cylindrical tank IS inches in diam eter mid two feet high is charged with 25 gallons of petroleum, mid com pressed air force» vapor from the oil into u standpipe provided with a burner. On igniting the torch tlare» up IS inches to two feet, with u power of 1.000 caudles. Leroy Beaulieu, a well-known econ omist of Faris, lias declared that the leisure class of num will have to work for their living in 105!. He made this interesting statement in a lecture on the conversion of the French three and one-linlf per cent, debt into three per cent, bonds, lie snitl Hint the rate of interest is constantly decreasing, anti predicted that in the next 25 years capital will be gind to get two per cent., and that 50 year» hence such tirst-eluss securities ns government bonds ami railwny securities will Iwnr one per cent, interest, “which." said the lecturer, “will compel all except the very large capitalists to work fora living, and the leisure of the class of people now cnlled well off will be abol ished.” The Kind You lluvc Always Bought, nml which him been in use for over .‘IO years, lias horno tlio slgnntnre of nnd has I mmiu iiiim I» under his per sonal sti|M<rvl»l«>u xlnco Its Inftuicy, Allow no oiio todccelvc you in this. All Coiintert'clts, Imitations in««’. •• Ju«t-iis-goo<l” are hut Fx|>«>rim<*iits that trill«« with nnd endunger the I kw III i o C lnthiits and Children—Experience ngniiist Experiment. What is CASTORIA Cu.sforiii is n harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Par©« |f«u*i<‘, Props nml Sootliing Sjrups. It is Pleasant, it contiilns ncit!»«•»• Opium, IMorpliliu» nor otlmr Nurcotic Niibstaiicc. Its ng«» is its guarantee. It dcstroj « W«»rum mid nllnys IVvciisliiicss. It cures lllarrlima untl Wind Colie. Il r«‘li«‘ves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation nnd Flatulency, it assimilates th«« Food, regulates th«» Stoninch and Howels, giving healthy nn«l nuturui sleep. Th«« Children’s Panac««u—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE I CASTORIA always The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. ▼« r aCNttVW eOMMM», VV MUSSA» MW »OS« OfTV. inEBMiaasaSSKHBmBMBBHHi PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Pugilistic.- Nell "Did Mi»« llilly- ums net ii» if »t wax a severe blow when -he diiin't get the pritu-iBelle “Yes; she took the count." Phila delphia Record. “What's the matter with Jinison?” “Doctor say» it'» a complication. Played ping-pong, g'df. lucycted unit got n motor ear, and the four kinds of faces were too much for him."—Lon don Answers. Eczymark "A lady told my fortune yesterday, and she said I would meet with ti financial reverse." Sceptick "And did you?” Kezytni.-k "Sure! She charged me $2."—Ohio State Jour nal. "Troubled with dysp^psin, are you? Did you ever tr* any «ifany medicine?" asked the druggist. “Oh. yes; but it wasn't that that gave it to in«. I had it long before I took any of your stuff." —Yonkers Statesman. "l!y the way,” reminded the curious intpiirer, "wluit's it rynonytnou» ex pression for ‘talking simp ’’ " “Well," replied Jonkley, "there'» ‘tonsorial emporium.' and haircutting parlor.'” — Philadelphia Press. Hntigin' On. Lariat Luke—"Whnt I era me of that hanger-on from th' cast?" Horrible Hank "lli-'s still hangin’ on«” Lariat Luke "Down nt the Red Eye saloon?” Hon ible llnnk -—"Naw; bangin' on tew a cottonwood tree nt th' edge of town." Ohio State J*>urnal. The Point of Difference. “You don’t mean to cite your government ax an example of a republic.” "Well,” an swered the South American dictator, “there's only one little difference be tween our republic uml your». Instead of elections we have revolutions.”— Washington Star. Two Sinners. “It is very wrong to tell a falst’lmod,” said hi» mother to little Jimmie, who had caught him in one. “Then we’re both offul »inner», ain't wc, maw?” queried Jimmie. “Both! What do you meun?" “Wlty, you told Missus Smith yesterday that you hoped slic'd cull ngnin, all' nfter she wuz gone you said you wished »he'd never come again.”- Ohio State Journal. Phenomena of Prlle Eruption. While the fiery tornado, passing toward the south and west, widened the sweep of its destructive power in order to extend its devastations further, another remarkable phenom enon carne tc stop it in its course, i wo strong atmospheric currents, laden with rain, moving, one from the southeast, the other from the north, fell of a sudden upon the sides of the fiery spout, and, encirc ling it, along a distinctly marked line, cooled it to such a point that I have seen persons who, finding Giem»el«e» precisely upon thi» line of .leinnreation, were »truck on one side by fiery missile», while on the other, nnd only « few fret a Way. nothing wiih falling but the rnin of mud. cinder», mid »ton.» which <le- scende.l on the countryside every- where.—Century. , To Cure a Cold in One Day in Two Day». on every box. 25c. Harney Valley Brewery L. XVOLDEN’BERG, SR., Proprietor. The services of a brewer of )«>ng y«‘ar» ex|erience has been se cured ami the product of this Brewery is of the best grade ir. ’b" ’ Inland Empire. Place a trial order ami you will not be disap pointed. BURNS, _ — — _ _ _ _ OREGON The Windsor The bar is supplied with none but the very best brands of Wines, Liquors and Carlxmated drinks, and the Choicest Cigars. Your patronage solicited. Courteous treatment t«> all. Corner north of postoffice. Bar LEE CALDWELL Proprietor. IF YOU ARE A FARMER Buy a postal card ami send to The New York Tribune Farmer, New York City, for a free specimen copy. The Tribune Farmer is a National Illustra ted Agricultural Weekly for farmers nml their families, and stands nt the head of the Agricultural press. The price is il (X) per year, hut if you like it von can secure it with vour own favorite locnl newspaper, The ITEMS, nt, a bargain. Both papers $1 50. Send money nnd order to The ITEMS. The Southern Oregon State Normal School opens Wednesday, September 10th. Full faculty ; improved building; exhaustive course of study ; each department filled by a specialist. Latin and economics added for the benefit of those preparing to teach in High Schools, but are optional. -f200 in cash prizes for excel lence in oratory and athletics. Expenses light; social conditions ideal. Send for catalogue. B. F. MULKEY, President, CLI Fl' 0li!) 1’lit )M AS, Secretary