C ourier
G rants
An Independent Paper Devoted to the Interests of Josephine County and Southern Oregon.
GRAVES PASS. JOSEPHINE (OUNTY. OREtiON. FRIDAY
ll.I.r. IHH»< TOK\
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Issued every Friday morning.
IN
A GALLOP.
UiMt U ihr lUlr at Which Hill Br««ly
in llaMlvtiing tu the roor-Huti»r.
H. K. HANNA.
to-ne^nd Counsellor at Law
( niing down from Northern Michi­
gan. one morning, the train wa8 crow d-
•d with lumbermen going to a new
■H.iip. The men were all stout, healthy
Terms of Subscription:
'«».»king fellows, (piite rough in their ap-
II. KELLEY.
I pearance and talk, with long hair aud
Une copy one year, in advance..............
0ne ropy six inoiiths, in advance.............
Attoruy
and
Counsellor
at
Law
About daylight they
unshaven faces
One copy liircc months, in advance.........
began to cat their breakfast from all
Office in Court House.
A
clvb rates :
««»rts of fond they had with them, and
J ackcnviixk .
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Six cai'i'-'
J' in. in a-! . .s-, .
...» Û0
the united strength of the mixed odors
suddenly lii crated from cheese, onions,
T. B. KEN I’.
Terms of Advertising
• dti-h, dried herring and so on was
LMAL
Attorney at Law.
nearly strong enough to stop the train.
On« square, first insertion........................... t' <iu
\boiit seven o’clock the breakfast sta­
W'practice in all the courts of th« state.
Each additional insertici............................ |
tion was reached, and one of the lum­
»FFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE.
LOCAL.
bermen went into the hotel along with
l.«< al N«‘i< es. | h r line............................ lacnts J aisonville .
the other passengers, and did his ut­
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Regular advcrtibcinents inserted upon lib
most in th«* limited time at Ins com­
erul terms.
mand to bankrupt the keeper of the es-
(’. LEMBERT. M. !>..
Job Printing
'ablishment.
When th«* train xxas again in motion
t all d«M<Tiption8 done on short notice. Lira I
tlanks. Circulars. Business Cards. Bi!lh. d>
a savage looking fellow’, with a jaw
A-tterhcais. Poster«, etc., gotten up in g>o«i j » alls responded to at all aours. day or night. strong enough to grind glass, who was
st .vie at living prices.
rti< « opposite clover's hotel, Jacksons ille. devouring great strips «»f codfish and
»«ton.
10-tf
wiping his mo ilh on his coat slcev«
aft«*r every bit«*, peered out from the
wilderness of hair that surrounded his
W. H. FLANAGAN. M. I)..
b ack eyes, upon the man across th«*
wav. who was picking his teeth with a
Good Turnouts ou Short Notice.
jack-knife, anti said:
“How i* this. Bill? You hain't been
Hr*t of Care Kiven to Mtork Left in
G rant ' s P ash , O regon .
squ:•ndvrin' your substance on a store
our <'barge.
Office at resilience, corner Main ami Th.
breakfast, hev ye?”
itreets. Calls attended any hour lay or nig
“Well, I reckon I jest hev, Pet«*,”
CARDWELL A BERRY,
said Bill, with a look of importance that
J acksonville .
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could not be expressed in print.
W. F. KUKMFIt. M. 1>.
“What do they tax a feller for warn;
but grub in these partsnow. Bill?” con­
tinued Pete, as he tore offastrip of co«l-
tish big enough to make a meal for a
G rants I’ ash .
OREGON.
CATON & GARRETT, Prop’«,
small family.
“A half a dollar's what they lifted m<
K«*epa the liest brand« of
Ln. Pole.”
Call« r< «pencil d to at «'1 hour«, day or nigh
“Did von say a half dollar. Bill?”
WINES. LIQUORS AND CIGARS.
“Thai’s what I said, Pete.”
OREGON.
S. U. MITCHEL!
J acksonville .
! “Do you mean to tell me that you hod
to pay a half a dollar jest for eaten’,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Bill?”
BREWERY!
BREWERY!
G rant ’ s P ass , O regon
“T'hat’s what I'm a sayin’, Pete.
\\ ILLI 4M HEELEY. Pr«p’r.
That's jest what I bed to do.”
Wiil p-actic« iti all Siale ami Federal Courts.
••All that mon<*y throwed away jest
Manufactures the
Office n xt floor to Comme» < ial Hotel.
for a little grub!
Didn't you have any
lest Beer in Southern Oregon bitters. Bill?’’
“Not a smell. Pete.”
< IR EGON.
JACKSONVILLE.
“Nor no segar?”
Atbrnty and Counsellor at Law
“No, Pete.'7
“Didn’t you make no bargain for tb<
G rant ' s P ass . O regon .
trash beforehand. Bill?”
“(>f course I di«l.”
A. (’HALE, Proprietor.
Will practice in all th« Courts of the State.
“It wasn't a gouge game they com«*
Ops constantly on hand the best quality of on you, then?”
“No. I knowed wh it 1 was a-doin’
CHARLES UHAN’SLOR,
Wines. Liquors and Cigars.
afoir I butt« r« d a biscuit.
“And you know» d you'd hev to fork
\o in i'v
I * «i 1» I i <*» SPLENDID BILLIARD TABLE over a half dollar jest for eatin’, di«l
I you Bill?”
In connection.
G rant ’ s P ahs . O regon ,
“Why, certainly, Pete.”
O
regon
.
fK HON VILLE,
“Well, my goodness, Bill! What on
this arth ao you mean? A half a dol­
onice in II. B. Miller & Co.'s store.
4 K IC II X X I I.I.E IHHK TOR V.
lar jest for eatin'! Jest foreatin’, mind
ye: no s«*gar nor no bitters! All throwed
away in one lump, and nothin' to show
VOLNEY COLV1G.
for it ten minutes afterwards! Bill
<
Oi of the Best Hotels in South ■ 1 Brady do you know’ xxhat you're a-
doin ?’’
em Oregon.
“I'm a «loin' well enough, Pete.”
And Justice of th« Peace
“No you hain't. Bill. You'r«* a gal­
GQ
BEDS!
GOOD
TABLE!
I.K. 4L BLANK» OK ALI. K I \ IH.
lopin' toward the poor-house jest as
And the best of accommodations.
tight as you kin jump, and if hoiiu * of
L«*gal instruments of all kinds promptly
»nectcd with this hotel is a
your friend« don’t int<*rL*r«* ami git a
executed.
gardeen appintvd for you, goodness
Office S. E. Harkness' drug store.
FST-CLASS LIVERY STABLE only knows what’ll become of you. A
half a dollar jest for v«*atiii', and that.
IRS. ELLEN RYDER. Proprietress.
K iyvillk ,
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a turnin' to water; I'm act'lh ’frai«i
they be. Look at that codfish, will
WILLIAM
NAUCKE.
I Formerly Presley's Ferry)
you?” I holding it up by the tail. “I
keeps -
only paid a quarter for it a week ago.
Six Mlles west of Grant’s Pass on main
an<l itTl stand me anothei tr week or so
road leading to
yit jest like nothin’, and yit you'll
WILDER VILLE,
throw way four bit all at on«* w’hark
KERBY VILLE and
For good oargams in the line of
for a few bites in a tavern as unconcern­
URErU ENT CITY.
ed as though money growed on trees.
Ami everything in the way of
Bill, you’re a darned sight bigger fool’n
FSRRIACK AT HALF RATES
1 ever took you to be, ami that's a
lillilBU*
Nll|>|>li<»W.
i>. W. KEITH. Proprietor.
saying heaps.”- Lige lì row n, in C7 h -
cago Ledger.
Th wishing bargains should call on
WILLIAM NAUCKE.
J B. SCHAEFER,
K erry ville . O regon .
CURIOUS NAMES.
•tttev in Orth building.
J a * sRoMiiXK.
...
O regon .
J H STINE, - - • Editor and Publish«
Pilate ol the University oí Leipsic. Germany.
f
ONION LIVERY AND FEED STABLES.
Physician and Surgeon,
Physician and n “"eon, i CRITERION
SALOON.
unny Side Billiard Saloon,
UNION HOTEL.
KEITH'S
FERRY.
D, Goods and Groceries.
IL'^s Biols and Shoes sr General Groceries
Hous« •n'1 Sign Painter.
• RAISER. PAPER HAM.ER E tc .
X .
I ><• I ciiui I <»i
A Clrrroniin'« < I» *t CoiicernhiC K«*m»rk-
al»lr (iiveii Name*.
DEALER IN
DR1GOODS AND GROCERIES
Kn«l keep« constantly on hand
in kinds ol w ri in nu lui Pruiptlv D n
Hatt Caps, Boots and Shoes
— AND —
<- I 1 E
Geral Mining Supplies.
< )REGON.
• RANT • PlHS.
I
Thons 'i i ig g«HMÍ liargains must not fail to
« all at the
NEW TIN SHOP.
O. II
P.
O. Building,
C erbyx ille . O regon .
Proprietor,
Si \ Il R.
*
Morbillo
K-byville Mills.
DEA I.ER IN
I’. H M I. ER.
:
»•roprlrtor.
:
Stoves, Tin-Ware, Pumps,
Pipes, Etc., Etc.
Floor. Ciked Wheat and Corn Meal
Can iRipplied at reasonable prices.
SHEAR FOR cASH.
Prices Moderate.
«RANT’S PASS.
OHMIOS’.
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K erry 'Ut.
RKIARD P. GEORGE
leept the fin **t
A
WHISIT. 3RANDIES.
WINLS
Aii«ialI «Uber liquors.
tlHE ELDORADO SALOON,
HE , Lso KEECH THE
BEST8R4ND8 OF CICARS,
lull hmrted «ru! Domestic.
WENNINGS 4 CO.,
Don its.. tcall tithe KERBYVILLE SALOON
R r h a < u P. G eorg », Proprietor.
Krrti »Ille. < iregon.
t. -Ming >
I
MrtA. h ’
rietv -tore at
for»VlStto'
"IT»'»''-
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DltPAtn
GRANT' FAS*
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inis. Liquors .and Cigars.
s
fil.T mí H1HÍ Drill; Pit H; M Silt Hi*
a««
*i
in fir • -etMi
.«rvavR
* TO O®*
a.agtss it Portland. Oreg us
Deafer I »I oibwwdai hie Medicines for
Ply*’«
find Families. Professional
f,ceratura teyaicia* « Suppile«. Family
M-ri in»
and Books, Druggist*’
Snndr ne«
*-« ÌMÌ vary Goods.
Our
tedt.ne Ca«^ with «iirertinn«.
conta nini
*IV» »pmedies, ought te lie
in e».ry tus old f«.r emergency.
er'S A mn IA» Remedies for ali
I won»» » aiteAMk Send for o«ir Family
’ Hon»
fek assistant, < nt/oning
fui n - • '• ILimem» at) ic treatment and
|W h »- 1st d Msdteiro - ' ases ami Books.
• ws a
•*'»tisfartion
a ;>.
I
. .rr«<r
ArTI"
A. SEMLER.
ftrtliBl B ohm ; .tùie Pharmacy,
n T>-
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te*C
>R FAVI. J
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Ci
A SKMLER.
Portland. Or.
“What a name that young man ha«.”
said a clergxman yest«*rday to a AV//* n -
gatherer, as the person indicated Irf
his presence.
“What is it P”
“E P. Baxter, h«* writes it. Nothing
remarkabl«* about that, but what amount
of hard thought i* con<*'*ah d in th«»u«* in­
itials. Th«* man w a« Ixu n on Januarx
3. 1863, and his parents named him
Emancipation Proclamation Baxter in
honor of the occa«i«»n.”
“That’s pretty bad.”
“Y«*«. but ther«* ar«* some parent« with
cranky ideas on the «iibject of naming
children
On«* tx>x I • •hri*t«*n«*<l P«*r««
verane«* Jones, I endeavored to <li-
«uadi the father, but h«* said th«* mother
was call«*«! patience, and he «aw no r**a
son whx thi* boy should not I m * call«*d
Pcr-«*\«■ram-«*. L' c : iii -' th«* twoalwax-
went together
Within a few paces of
the grave of Bi njamin and Deborah
Franklin, in th»* ohl cemetery at Fifth
an«l Arch str«*ets. there is a h<*a«l*loiiv
le aring the in-cnptioi» •’«.»< re«I to th*
memory of S L I Lloxd If th«* owner
of that name were living now hisfri«*n«l-
would probably « all him •(’elnloi«!
I
ha«l a color»*«! man name«! Al«*xander
•ioing «oni«* work around her«* one«*.
I
ii.seil to hear the other workmen call
him ‘Trib* and Hole, ami it -tri « k me
one day to ask him what hi- naim* wa«
T'ribulati«>n Wholesome Alexam!»*r.
• ah.’ he replied.
“B max have b« • n -«»no* relative of
hi* who came to nu- with twins to have
baptized ’’
“What name will you call them?” 1
a«k»*d.
“‘Cherubim’ and Seraphim,’ replied
th»* mother.
Whv?” I a*ko«l, in astonishnietit.
“B •cause,'1 she replied, “de pra'i
book says ‘de cherubim and «eraphiin
continually do cry.’ am! de«e yer«*
chil'en do notin’ else."
T he 5>»/ s-gatherer edged toward th«*
door. and. when he had g«>t in the Lib­
by. shouted “chestnut,*
ami wk p|»ed
down stair«. PhiLultIphia Nrwu.
Perhap--3* -•«.rtl ; / an ’«
*/ • f
a f< funeral «■ ever win p**nn»-d app'-sr»
in i a London society journalT d» *«*rip-
n of the grave ffi a recently «!••< *■
The grave was fined with
reel »in tile«, and ‘•presented a most
V.
r ere*«
arming appearance.
A
THE
MYSTERY.
\PRII. IB. 1886.
MACHINE.
ADDING
’*riv.»nee of
a
- Kreprr
Twelve Yearn' XV«»rk.
Tlir Star, et thr Hr.« M«r, « rlr.tr- H li»*
Became of Her Cr«w.
A FLY IN WINTER.
After
C G. Spalding, who keeps 1 mm »ks (or
A writer reviews a my.*tciy of th. -«• 1.
ay A Johnson, has perfected a nia-
which, as he says, furnisheM a theme
‘iin*' that is designed to aid brother
suited to the analy tical genius of FNx
and worthy of it. it is the story of Uic I H>l.-k<‘t‘pers or accountants in running
brig Mary (\ le.*tc a* told in the archix<•* up h»ijg lines of figures, lie has been
of the State Department.
Thirteen at xvork on the. invention since 1873, and
years ago -he sailed from N< w York had the thing patented something lik«
for (b noa with a cargo of alcohol in a year ago. The machine is em*asrd
barrels. Her captain, B. S. Briggs a in a wooden box about eight inche*
man bearing the highest reputation for square ami three luch<*s deep, and, lift­
t<>
seamanship and correct in *.ss, ami who ing the cover, th«* interior is
was a part owner had with him h .■ hold an en .meled white surface.
w ift and a young child, and a crew of which an* two dials, and xvhieh siiow.*
ten men, some at least of whom were tin* brass keyltoard in the lower Iwtt
known as peaceable and !ir*t-cla>* hand corner.
I he larger dial of W<
sailors. T'hc vv*srl was picked up at txvo is on the left of tin* ma«*hine. and is
sea Dceembi-r 4, 1S72, with no one Gil divided into one hundred sections. The
b<«ani
S;ie was sailing with two at>- rim of the smaller dial is likvwi*«v cut
propriate sails set, as if pursuing her into twenty sections. T'hc hand which
Voyage. The
----- weather
------------ was
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calm and moves the smaller is called the hun­
tin* *ea smooth; and not only was the dreds, about tin* first dial is called tin*
vessel entirely sound and seaxvorthv. unit pointer
A litth* linger play on
but sin* had
not ev«*n expvrienct d the brass ke » board makes the object of
rough weather, for a vial of medicine the dials ami the reason of the pointers'
stood upright oil a table in tin* names qiiickiy understood.
cabin.
T he cargo was wel! stored and
I’hv nine keys on the board an* num­
in good condition. There was no evi­ bered from 1 to 9 and an* plaivd
dence of a struggle on board. 'Flu* in regular on.’cr, but also in two row*.
brig's paper-, (>hroiiotn«'t«>r ami boat 2. I. 6 and 8 b«*ing above and die mid
were gon«*, hut every thing else was in numbers I m *1 oxc Th. k«*y is a brassu|>-
shipshap«* order, even to the sailors' right, and as the linger draws on it. a
chests.
fhe last r«*cord in the log ha«l spring allows ic to slip back toward the
b«*«*n ma«!«* November 2.’>, but th«* judi- lower end of the box. T'hc pulling of
cinl otlicers who investigated th«* ease each key on tin* board sends tin* unit
held it almost impossibh* that the brig pointer along on its journey around the
could hav«* sail«*d from her position No­ dial as many point* a* then lUv nn'ihs
vember •<» to the point al which she in the nu!nlx*r of the key. Pull the 9
was pick«*«! up upon the same tack with key and the dial *vt at 0 goes to 9. Pull
no <»m* at the whc«*l, ami they inferre«l the same key again ami the unit pointer
that the abamloirniciit must hav«* taken moves to 18. Pud the 1. 2 and 3 keys
place some «lay s after th«* last entry was now ami tin* pointer goes (*onseeu!iveiv
made in th«* log.
\tmiral Shufeldt, w ith a hop, skip ami jump to 21. When
who inx«*stigat<‘<l the mystery at th«* re­ the flnit pointer, ke«*ping up its agile
quest of th«* Consul at Gibraltar, r«*j«*ct- athletics has reached its starting point
ed th«* idea of a mutiny from th«* ab­ again, there is a quick litth* motion on
sence of any signs of violence, ami con­ the right hand dial. The pointer then
cluded that the v« ss« l xxas abandoned has “dotted and gone one. ’ The ma­
in a moment of panic. But nothing chine's internal clockwork is more uc-
was ever heard of the ship’s company, curatc than a human head can hope to
and no cl«*xv to the* affair has ev«*r b«*«*n I m *. Il isn ttrotibled with malaria, nor
found. Th«* failur«* of the log to bear is it ever larger in
tin* morning
any record for th«* last few da vs th«* than it was tne night before.
All
< I < w was probably on boar«I only the accountant has to do is to run his
bight« ns th«* my stery. A.
Commer- eye up and down tin* columns, pulling
cial.
each respective key a> lie
he reaches
readies tin*
the
A day is suf-
corresponding figure,
THE GREAT WALL.
licient in which to learn th«* k«*X -I toa ni.
ami the motion of tin* hainl <|ui« kly be­
« liiuii h <* *«‘»'ii from On«* of tlie T ovv « m rof
comes almost inx«iluntary. Tin*
The exiwrt
«*xp«*rt
This Xnrivut I'ortitlcMlion.
can run th«* figures in his h«*ad and on
Of tin* ancient Great Wall, only a low
the key-boar«! sinnilt:.n<*oiisly. thus
rampart remains, with square tow'er:.
“proving” his xvork bv on«* trip up or
«liminishing towarils flu* top. Th«**«* doxvn th«* column.
< nrrving is per-
towers ar«* g« nerally placed on the fornn*<l by setting th«* pointer at tin*
Io set tin* unit
summits of the mountain across which numb«*r to b«* carried.
th«* wall w’ihds. I ascended on«* <»f pointer all that is m*« «*-*ary is to hohl
them, th«* b«*tt«*r to contemplate the* doxvn key 1 ami turn th«* nointer for-
view, but hud no one with whom to war«l to a number <>m* less than th«* on«*
share al! tin* admiration that I L it at carriv«l. On releasing key 1 tin* p«»int«*r
this moim-nt. It is quite impossibh* to is on the «1« sired number. T he liun-
di« d pointer « an I m * moved in either di-
d«*s<*rib«* all that th«* eye to«»k in
inoinitaiiis, valh*ys, gorges, grass cov­ r«*ction. The hand easily <>p«*iat« s th«1
ered slopes, pastures, farms. lak«*s. nim k« ys thus: No*. I. 2 ami 3 with
with th«* s«*c«»n<l.
T iu* prvsvii«'«* of man is to !>«• L it; not th«* first linger, I and
of tin* l«x*al vill:ig«*s of tow n lift», but the (> and 7 With tin* thud, 8 and 9 with th«*
Th«' iiwintur cliiiiiiH f'T tlie
li <• of a great State. To tin* east a su- foil I t II.
p« rb val.«*y dotted oxer with ( hili m * imichin«* unerring a« « ura« y ami surpris­
v.llagrs, surrounded with bushes and ing rapidity. IL* says an expert can
tr«*«*s; farther oil’, on several levels, add 240 figures a minute with it. —
chains of mountans, the tops
of Springfield (Max#.) /«*< publican.
which were on a level with mv
eyes. Toth«* west th«* ground undulates
KNIFE HANDLES.
gnulnally towards the plain, beyoml
which ar<* nior<* mountains. Ou the A < « iitrnl Vim ri« hii XV «»«««I I *«■«! Chlrfly
for rocket < ut l«*ry.
south, magnificent pasture-land, inter-
s«*ctvd by tin* Great nail with its ruiii«*«l
“Did you ever wonder what knifo
towers, On our right the (»rent Wall, handles are made of?
asked a dealer
crackl'd and destroyed by centuries, and
IM lie
in
fancy
woods
of
a
reporter,
cox cred with plants: on our left, a m I ojm *
towards the plain, laid out in artificial handl'd out a *hap« lc** block from his
terraces with fields of millet, oats, po­ store of spoils from many trophical for­
tatoes ami hemp. As to the ('hinese, ests.
“Outside of bom* and tortoise
they are to be seen everywhere, with shell ami p«*arl, so-called, which every­
long plaits and bare-headed, attired in a one rceogniz«**, th«* majority of knife­
whit«* shirt and blue trouser**.
The
women are scantily clothed, ami tfu* handles art* made out of a close, fine­
children, whose heads are decked with grained w < mm I, about the name and pe«l
tlowcr*. an* naked or m arly mo . What igree of w hich 9.9951 out of every 10,(MM)
strikes one most is th«* sudden transition persons an* ignorant. It is known in
from the barrenot desert of yesterday to th«* tra«h* as coco I mi ! i wood, and it
the fertile and populous country of to­ (*<»m«*s in large «piantiti« s. millions of
day.
It seems like a never ending pound* a v« ar, from Panama.
“It i* of *p«-ei:il vain«* for kniL han­
village of *111:111 houses, covered with
texture;
verdure, garden* ami flowers, th«* wh«»le dles, bocatise of it«
flaws,
extremely tidy and pleasant Io the eye.
frr«*«lom
from
knot*
This, then, is that swarming human ami
consequent
ion
to
di»:
kinds
ant-hill, China Chicago Interior
split.
Many
I p«»l sb
of vxihm I r«*qmr«* varni*hiii<!
s before
ing and filling up of er«
VALUABLE SOCIETIES.
they attain the I m aiit v for which they
At by
very < «monunity *h«>ul«l llavr M
are famous. < >f course that *«»rt of
II i*t«»rl« -<•»•ii« <*»«»«• Ir<y.
thing can’t be done in theca*«* of knif«*-
The president of th«* N«*w Englaml handles, and something rnu-t b«* 11-' «1
Historic G» ii«*nlogii*:il Society, in h - an
which doesn’t require fixing up. <'oco-
miai addr« *<«, di*<*lar«*<l it “a -acr« d dutx
bola is rarely u*« d for cabinet making,
to pi«**«*rve and hand dow n to futur«* I m «a 1 ise, I ¿ci ng a gummy w « mm !. il doc*n t
The *ann* qmiliti«*« that
g«*rn rations not only th«* lim«ag<* an I glue well.
hi v.ry of our families, but to record make il of 11*' ni th* inaniifai tun* of
th« n «ni«*- and virtues of tho*<* m«*n ami knife hamllf * r« nd« r it valuable for th«»
worm n who havit b< « n b« n« fa< tor* of making of wind iii*triiine;il-. like th«
hunk« not in
11* in « «-hunk-,
our rae«*.
IL -aid it w a* th»* «I» -ign < f ibiti*. It co n< ** to iim
ke otter
other wo < m | m .
the *<M Ì«*ty over which h«* pr«* id« «I to strips and plank*, lik«*
per|M*tuat«* th«* events of th«* lives of Sometimes these piec s will weigh five
those w ho have bi uctit« d their race on and six hundred poumls, but generally
a larg«* or a small *<*al«*, mid “to em­ tiiiich !<••* than that. It c< mts 2 1-2 « i litA
balm their virtm * in emh aring word-, a poiiml now, but befon * freight « went
up
so that their trial«, imlu-trv. |N*rs«*v»*r- down arid the isthmus was
anc«* ami *m*«*« -- may str«*ngth«*ii th»* thoroughly it used to co-t doiibl«* that
price. A. I. Tritnmr.
characters and < h« < r and «*m*oiir «g
th«»-«* who com«* aft« i triem.” A -«»« h tx
with such an aim :•.* that of thi* organ,
zation should I m * c«lal>li*h<*«l in «*x«*ry
iMirtion of the country wh» r«* g» '»graph­
ical lin«** ami commercial <*nt«*rpri*«*s in
«'orninoli t«*ml to d«*v«*lop |M*<*uliar lo« al
int«*r« -t in th«* men and w«»m«*n who
haw prox«*d of ♦—p«*< ial worth. Cur-
renl.
L it, of gun fame, h o»
r<H*«*«« for manufactur-
In-t« :«d <»f grinding
I and «alt¡wiretog« th<*i
■tat«*, sulphur is put in
d
ate of cartHiii.
This is
ton or c«*llul«»*M* fibre,
mpnlpable |»owd»*r
A
I of salt|M*tm is a«, led
Th«*n it is ex a|s>riiti d
I *rx«tall zation. Altno-t
h r is thus obtained.
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tnjiidge Ihuirh
3t4 h«* il kick like a st<*«T, I
in.” “Never mind; you can
i*w him for the General lo-moi
liar de lie t tn iirfuddun Kag1*.
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POETRY.
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your favorii**
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you know
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IN
MEDICINE.
Br-
< vrele«* rhy«l«*tani» Who Mak« Gr«v«
r«»r* in Tlieir Preacriptiona.
Nature is full of the milk of huinai
kindness. This may seem a strange ns
srrtiuD, but it is true, ami its correct
nets can be demonstrated with mathe­
matical precision by any one wh«»
care« to undertake the Job free of ñá­
pense. 1, ala«! am not that man.
1 am prepared to assert, however,
that th»* laws of Nature, lik«* human
laxvs, have their exceptions. Behold,
then, the sad fate of tn«* fly in winter
( ’ut off from all that made life one de
lirious dream of joy in the sweet sum
mer-tiino long ago, he wanders a lorn
and blighted bring on the face of th
earth.
S •* hhu on th«» dinner-table one tl\
all by himself
IL* looks on every aide
of him with his hundred eye.«, an«( sees
no other of his species. IL* is alone
n hi« age. No sweet-faced Sunday
Xivl fly pe-ps at him from behind the
sugar-bowl, <*r blushes when «h«* turns
tin* corner <>f thu butter-dish ami acci­
dentally meet« him fa«»« to face, with a
orl of how-ramc-x <»n-t here expression
ii lu*r larg«*, thoughtful «ves.
No sister grve4** him w?»cn ho goes
honu' at night, and ask* him whethei*
In* has bi 'light her any New* Orb an«
mol t* « from d«»w*n town. No brother
meets him in the hallway and says*.
••W« II. (TiaiTcv, <li«l you g«> long of
mince-pie to-dny ?”
No mother stands ready to comfort
him and sooth«* his sold after hi« «h’Jly
snuggle for brcail and butter and sugar
and coil * and nt'lk ami things.
No
father c•>iu<** forward to pat him on th«»
back ami say:
“Go on. mx son. as you have begun,
and you will bcconio an eminent mem­
ber of th society—pci hap« greater than
■ji horse-fly.”
No creditors but then I suppose
that, as flies are supported at th** ex­
pense of the community, they have no
creditors.
This is a sad stale of existence—this
stat«* «»f the fly in winter. But Nature
is full «>f compensations.
Woman’s
work is never done; neither is a fly’s.
IL* gets up ju*t a« « al ly ami g«)e« to
bed just as Lite in thr winter as he «Iocs
in the slimmer. Ami he is infinitely
mor«* industrious, lie has to lly around
and scramble to keep warm.
(>. the wihl. unspcakabl«* joy of a fly
wh«» finds a man's nose in the tender
dawn of a winter morning! The only
no«c iu tin* room and the only fl\ !
Dors th«* fly r’««»» t » the occasion?
IL* docs. And lie risas to the nose,
too.
He •its up hi it and walks around it,
and III«*« away and conu s back to it.
ami otlu'i wisr expressi's his joy.
Man’s soul may xveary ot the fly, but
th«* ll\ n< \ > t tire«, in the summer the
fly soiiu I ini * - gets disgusted with tlu*
man's antic- ami g«»i*sawuy. Then the
man gets a «mall rest until another fly
comes along.
Bill in winter th«« man wakes up and
s«*cslh<* lly. 1! • makes a «lab at tne in­
sect, ami it shoots madly away into
space for about, six inches ami then
careers back ami « lings once more to
the mail's nose. T’hc man sees that
there is but one fly. IL* watches that
fly. His eyes bri’onie fascinated by its
niovcim ills. When it wings its way «»If
into space, the man strains his eye*
aft«n it: ami when it com«*« back hih I
sits on his nose, he looks cross-ev«*d at it.
After a time h«* g«*ts up mill st' alth-
ih procures a towel with a wet **m!
Murderous thoughts course through
hi« brain.
II«* looks for th«* fly.
Fhe fly is «»n the gas-gloln*.
Tlu* mail li«** ilown ami pretends to
b«* asleep. Then th«' lly e<»ines and sits
on his nose. The man hauls «»11’ ami
smites. IL* knocks his fal««* teeth «lown
his throat ami ■plnlt«*rs water into both
his eye*. Win ii h«* «li ic* them, he ««*«*s
th«* fly sitting on th»* I m *«I post smooth­
ing his «pit-curls with his spare l«*gs.
I he man ri««1« «lowly. IL* strains
«•very iiiusel«* in hi« back trying to get
up so -loxvlx a« not to frighi«*n th«* lly.
IL <lraw in ar to I Im mot ioni'
But I
()nc«* mor»? lie smite*
t<»W«*l t'»IK*h «•« (II., b »«l-|)OSt tl
whizz ■ I off and pitched on t
wife’s nose.
Then the in m smiles a horrid Minile
inil rolla te< k Into ted* And the next
m » hi nt th - man feels th« lly trying to
crawl into his ear.
D' -p'ration s»*ia«*s him
IL* jumps
up ami di- -«<•« lihnsclf
IL* go«*» out
and tii.s Io buy soim* fl\ paper. It is
u*'1« «« The storekeepers hi ugh at him
•Why. sir,' tln*y say: “we have no
fix pap a this time of year.”
I lien lie tries to buy a fly-trap; hilt
Ibex are all packed away until next
Muiinn«*r.
IL* goes home, Dr pair is rising in
his soul, when suddenly a brilliant
IL*
ont and
idea strikes him
tdih"i's
ri, ag«*d »»»n
borrows a ii«*ighbor
s son,
IL takes th«* I»
to hi« room and shows
him tin* fly. lie pi "ini- * th«* boy half-
.i-dollar lí h«* e.'itchi s the insect.
I In* boy enters upon tin* task with
»■ni Im-i’i«ni of youth IL* climb«
all I
ox •• the furniture re<*kl' *sly, miiashes
a li f s dolbir uiii'i oi uid a fmir hiiiuli ed-
day < l'>ci<, and finally kicks over the
carpet on fire. After
lamp ami »
is over, the boy a|>-
th«* colilla
pears with
“I’ve '*a
out a light
lutili
“(Jive hi
T h«* boy
'Fhe mar
But th«*
The rcai
piar«
lfl«l
goin
t li ui
man
"Thut was a hard run of it," re­
marked a down-town clerk to a re­
porter for the Sun, who dropped in
I a
drugstore late the other night. “ People
F
talk about mistakes of pharmacists, but
not one mistake is made iu a drug store
t twenty by d.M-tor» who write preserip-
ttuus. I have just had a case which
might have paused a death if 1 hail not
<Uscoverod an «..yr bv a physician in
time to prevent iu *v*.o hours ago a
man oanie tn here with a >t«aeription
He was in a hurry for it. b.^>>v.,, i;lr
pel son fol whom it was iu.ciid>.<i wm
siillbring greatly”, and «.mie La«4?» hsd
to bo done. T'hc physieiati who r.tt.’nA
cd tin* ease wrote out :i presi'*ritw
T'ho iuedicin«*f
le intrude•! to g»' c
were to relieve me suffering, but iu
compounding the prescription I found
that lie hinl included enough of a power­
ful drug to have killod twenty persons
in the doses he intended to give. It
was not a case where I could make mi
alteration, as «h uggists frequently have
to «Io. 1 could not make up the pre­
scription, because I knew it w«»ul«l
«•ausc death. The only thing tobedone
was to hunt up the duebvp. I had to
hunt him up myself, because he would
h ive been very angry if 1 ha«l sent tlm
man after him, ami we would ImvJ font
h's custom. I took a cab and drove *o
h»« house.
TTiei«' I found he had
n>"VO(| away, amt 1 had to go a mile
fai l her bcf»»r.»
farther
heLvre ! I found him.
him« it was an
h>»ur and a Indi before I got back and
tilled the proscription.”
“Do such thing« frequently ooeiir?”
“They happen every day. Ir most
eases they are detected by th* druggist
b< iore harm results. A pliarntev ,|
must know the nature of a dni«j. for
what purpost* it is used and the amount
given in ordinary «loses. This is •spe­
cially true of poisons or potent r<M.m*■
«lies. B\ this means if « i rer« are nnt«V*
we can detect them. The in«*re acci-^
dental addition of a small nnglt* Io the
sign used lor a 'dram will make it an
‘ounce’ and mullipli*« the «plant ily
.eighty times. T hat little mark i« «»asily
made and it fr«*«pient!y is. Justyueler«
day a perseription came to me from a
physician who wanted to give a patient
a medicine so potent that three «Irons
would have killeti him. In order to
prevent ov«*r«losos the medicine was to
Iu* mixed with four ounces of sonic
harmless litpiid, which is known to the
trad«* as tin* ‘vehicle;’that is. the harm­
less drug use«l to dilute the potent
reiih tly
tn this prescription the phy­
sician had simply r«*vcrse<l the two
drugs, giving four ounces of the poison­
ous inedicin.i and a few drops of the
•vehicle.’ (H com s«* that was a mistake
on its face, and I simply reversed the
quantities.”
“Do these errors arise from the care­
lessness of the physician?”
“I can’t say it is carelessness, but
something is wrong. I can see that
some errors arise from the fact that
members of a family talk to a physician
when he is writing the prescription,
and In* inadvertently writes th»* wrong
medicine.
If, how«*v«*r, physicians
would carefully r,*ad th«*irprescriptions
before sending them out there would he
less trouble, but more than half the
doctors writ«, out (In* prescription, tear
il off tin* tab and give it to the patient
or his friemls without looking at it
again. If physicians would r«*a«l their
preset iption« «'»me vt*rv common «'rrois
)'»»iil«l b<* avoid«*«!. For «*xainple. il not
infr« pi»*ntl) happens that inorphiiu* i«
written for qiiiniu«*. I’iivsicinn« iugoo«l
standing i* Chicago have written on
prescriptions «•: ’ling for six-grain mor­
»< i\v anybody would
phine capsules
know that w'
ilo. ,thr thing that
Such
prescript ionsi
was
wanted,
get
lllto
a
dill'?
would
never
store if tin* dootori were only More
careful in their work, or if they would
read their prescriptions b«*L»re s«*nd*ng.
th«*m out. But th« gi«*at«*st trunk« is
ill illegible writing. Doctors as ur'ilej
are careless writers. Their pnwirip-’
lions are ditll«*nlf to r«*ad
Manx a lime
I have liecn conipelleil Io go to a doc­
tor’s ofii«*«* and g»*t him to decipher a
|)i*«*«cripti<>n, and every druggist has
iad the sam.' experience. Now, if tiiV»«*
is anything that should be written in
a clear, bold hand it to a proscription.
T hink how much d«*p«*n<ls upon it« cor­
rect composition by the druggist. U
h<* should make a mistake no cx«*uae
would be mad'* for him
Bcoies of doe-
tors never think of this. They write
pi'*«<*1 iption* in bad penmanship an*1
I In* druggist has to trust to luck.
It «••«•ms to in • that good penmanship
should bt* in.ld«* '»i'* of til»* I* «plisil's of
a physician’s right to practic»*. M«*«li-
cal colleges should have a penmanship
department and require its stmlents to
take a full course b«*L»re graduating
lu that wax m inx mistak«*« of ph\«i-
cinii« now attributed to 'Imggwt« imglil
be avoided.
CAirtsy«? ‘bwt
I n *
to
th
IS tl
R Hl
Ont
A'
MISTAKES
The Pleating and k<liU rath»c Aulica ol
the Solitary li «act.
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APPROPRIATE
NO. 3
nW
Ml. bill
to roll
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L’
MONSTER
Two
CANALS.
koierprl««*« «»I A*|nnis1»l«»<
tudr «««I I nip>«r tanrt*.
Ifithl*
Th«* propose«! German canal w hich is
to connect the Noi (h S»*a and th«* B »I lie,
seems to hav»* direct»*d attention in
Franc«* to vai ions achi'mes for conn«*ct-
ing b) raqal the great M«*diterrane»n
"'.•I"” Mar«eill<*s with the mouth of
thus completing inland
the |{h<uie,
”
will. Lyons, Paris,
«*<» iiimiinication
Roimn xml Havre. In 1881 the (L*n-
oral (’• mneil of tin Department of ttm
Bouch :*s du llhonc adopted a resolution
expressing approval «>f a scheme for a
canal which wn> to be carried through
a tunnel eight
«*ig'.. kilometres long. T'hc
plan was, however,
how
«liown to b«* st-
tended with many pract l<*al liillh’u!lies.
A proposal is now made » by Dr. I jouis
( '» hi 1» t, deputy nmxor of Lyons, to
cart v th«' <*an vl from th«* port of Mar­
seilles along thr shor«* of the M« diter-
r:im*an to th«* iiioiitli of the Rhone. It
is ass«*rt«*d that th«* w hob* expen** vTdl
not exceed 5 o ,< nn ). o «) o fianes, and that
th»* m*w waterway will very materially
diminish th«* expense «»f sending g.md«
by inland navigation from the Mc«|it**r-
ramoin to tn** English ohnnnel.
.V. K.
/W.
A hint to th< at rival manager*: M
(Tara “Are you familiar with Danti
Mr
“Divine (.' hiim 1
r va i
Frat her I f— “ N
(Tara
T he fact to. M
«*ofiiv«ly busine
returns to Un
The woni»r the
legitimate drama the botter it will b
for Ih« prafetrton. ’ •ffarptr'j