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An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. the penknife habit . LAMP OF i ilE FUTURE. It ▲filióte Over Half the Pe opio in The Vacuum Tuba Will Supplant the World. the IucaudoBeant Bulb. •f th® Curr«aL Onsdialf the world ta afflicted with the penknife habit, and on that account the poor world presents a moat muti lated, scarred and butchered aspect. Watch the penknife fiend at work. He bus just spied a fresh new bench in the park. Everything fresh and new is his ow n especial prey. Redraws back and rivets his eyes upon it, startled at first by the sudden discovery cd another viotim. Then he pounces upon it, ’ike the hawk upon the mild gray field mouse, and whipping out his many- bladed knife, h<* begins to carefully, maliciously engrave his name, the date of his birth, his present addiesa, his past occu|>ation, and various other im- |>or*ant details all over that virgin park bench. Criminal' He has no other occupa tion. He was bom to the knife, tor the. knife. It is useleas for him to try to be otherwise. He is a ribald, irre sponsible nuisance, a mean, petty, re lentless destroyer of every smooth sur face that crosses his path. Whole walls have been, covered by him with fanciful groupings of the alphabet. Beautifully carved «taircKses and porches have been the subjects of his attacks. Young trees have been killed by his incessant digging into the Iwirk with his pearl-lm nd led wearon. He invades marble halls and scratches his name on beautiful Italian mar ble; be penetrates into graveyard« and perpetuates his memory alongside that of the numberless dead. He never venture's abroad without his 'El [INCORPORATED] l>enknife. Whole hours are «¡»nt by orà him basking in the sun, leaning against some soft pine pillar, carving it down to suit his fancy, ami gathering a little forest of chips about his feet. La**ge i public buildings suit his purpose b# st. The city hall has always been » joy i, I: to his soul. Especially about the main entrances, where he is permitted to — MANUFACTURERS OF------ loiter, he has cut and engraved until the massive walls and doors look I ke ancient Egyptian tablets, a mass of illegible heir«»glyphic«. He compla*ns because the old post office, once a rich field for his zeal, is now ciosed forever against bis industrious fingers. But the various railway stations still afford him a hunting ground. Th* North western and the Union depots, with their large and crowded waiting rooms, are jarticularly favorable to the culti vation of the pra» tice. Ilo Au 1 the man with tlie penknife habit ---- ALSO----- is never caught. Apparently he works in the dead of night when all the world e > LIDGE WORK BOLTS RODS IRON SHUTTERS. CELLS is napping, for he is seldom discovered in broad daylight. He workr as the WINDOW GUARDS. DOORS. AND ant works, persistently, laboriously, doing just a little each day. But the sum total ia enormous. The damage which he does to valuable prop rly reaches the tbousanda. It is bard to fling away the senti- inent that once surrounded the lover« rJ)RRESPONDENUE SOLICITED ESTIMATES FURNISHED twain, the yielding sapling and the . / - ______________________________________ ________ _ keen-edged knife. When He."nian and Dorothea rise before our mental vision it is always umler the noble oak tree, standing together, and carving thoir names deep into the heart of the forest giant, to be an everlasting evi.fence of their everlasting love. Rosalind and sold Orlando in the forest of Arden carved true lovers’ sign« and ill-shaped hearts the quality considered. here there and everywhere to lead their footet< ps together. Coining down to fact and the end of the century, it is - ALL KINDS OF still the |>octical practice of all theaenti- mental and romantic. But there is no romance about the thoroughbred penknifer. He w*anta glory, and he sjwres no pains to obtein it. lie works with the detailed interest ond impressible jtfrsistency that proves the existence of <*ne great predominat OMtf ing idea. Psychologists say that the penknife Every a’tide sold warranted as represented. Farm Produce taken habit is allied to that universal human exchafee J. M CHILES. desire called notoriety. It is an off spring cf the love for tame. Sometimes X e— by a* ideut the penknifer discover« hinuH. If abroad w it bout hi« trir ty lance in tbr hot pursuit for publicity, and he resorts to the pencil. Then he in scribes his name on painted v alls, on lion »f a fanoua Franc« pbyafc-laii. will quickl pictures and in borrowed book« tn go thunder ng down the ages, an ever lasting eyesore to posterity. Some time h’s weapon take« the form of n rublier utan p. Armed with that, he go**« abroad and stal*« at every i vailable object within hi« reach. — Chicago Timcs-Hei*aid. Sold Only <ii ili< WOLFF & ZWICKER -RON WORKS Oregon ■ ortla nd nd All Kinds of Machinery for Mining Purposes. N Cast-Iron Structure Work, r ¥ ---------------- J Groceries! First-class goods kept in stock and lowest prices, iy. it at Staple and Fancy Groceries ! HARDWARE, TINWARE, TABLEWARE MANHOOD RESTOREO Gold and Silver Baft. Latest Forms! 3 of •V pu’.ar Hotel is the Great Headquarters for isient Fatuilirs and Steady Guests. Commer it* motive« ciuse r it »ti imurc« re*t and quiet from the noi>« of loco- ¡stance one block from the depot) is not enough to the Day, Week or Month J. 0. BOOTH, PROPRIETOR FOR PURE FRESH DRUGS —Go to the CITY DRUG STORE m« * J. E. PETERSON, Proprietor. 0. «V A « ‘ ■ ■ 625 th .WEEK- GRANT S PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1897 TWELFTH YEAR ------- —------------- »NS !. e<| bv Mr» C M. Stone, a registered Phi of twrntv-three year»' exj«nence, and Patrons can rely upon oeing served with accuracy and promptness. The most n-markable gold bug« in the world arc found in Central America. They belong to the genus Plusiotis, and one might easily imagine a sj>ecim«*n tn lx4 tlx* work of some clever artificer in metal. The h/wl and wing cases are brilliantly polished, with a Butter aa of gold it/ndf. To "ight and touch they have all the seeming of metal, and it is hard to realize that the treat ure is a mere anirnaJ. Oddly enough there is an other species of Plusiotis from the same region, which has the ap|>earaiu-e of be ing wrought in solid silver, freshly burnished. These gold and silver l>eet- les have a market value. They are worth from $25 to $50 each. One of the most l>eautiful bugs in the world is a small beetle known to science as the “blue Hoplia” Its back is an exquisite irides cent sky-blue, and the under part of its body is of a bright silver hue. The notion that it contains silver Is widely entertained, and attempts have fre quently been marie to extract silver from it.—N. Y. IxMger. M mvi I k r of a Family. The Portuguese »ay that ..o man can be s gocxl husband who d»> s rot • at > grxxl Lrca f;.at, which leads th« Wa-.er- bury American to *ay that this a mean way of t..rowing upon the wit all the re*fxusibility for the huaband’-« gvxxlneM. for without a guo»l wife tber* win be no g«xjd breakfast for htfn to eat. That may be right in theory, but it is w rong n [»rartice. We know a man who has cooked breakfast the greater part of the time for the post 15 yean for his family. A^d we violate r.o con fidence when we way it is agood break- fas». too. He is a man who love» gcxxl living, and h* krx)«*« bow to prepare 4 rural with the beat of «'»men. Yet be is a workingman who puts in from ten to fifteen hours a day of hard work. the kind of w<xk that la exhaust* mg I wcfni hU««- The “light of the future,”according to many electric prophets, will be of still another sort—instead of the concen trated intensity of the incandescent carbon, the diffused glow of vacuum tubes, or heatless flame. Deissler, of Bonn, who devised the first mercury air pump, obtained from fluorescent glass tubes, in which by his air pump hr had rarefied the air or bad vaporised aolu- tions, on passing through them an elec tric spark, a faint light of lovely color, varying with the kind of vapor now- known is “Geissler tube” effects. Crookes, of London, made tubes of a high vacuum—less than one millionth of atmospheric atmosphere—and ob tained in these “Crookes tubes” such remarkable phosphoreacen« effects as led him to believe that he had diacov- ered a “fourth state of matter.” more rarefied than gas. Tesla, an inventor of daring imaginative genius, a gradu ate from Edison’s workshop, went a step further by obtaining from current of extremely high frequency or quick oscillation and alio of extremely high tension, an intense electro-magnetic field—that is, by “electrifying” sur faces or terminals from this current, so that in the space between there was intense electric “stress”—he was able, by merely placing an exhaiiated lamp bulb witbin this field, to produce a glow' inside the bulb without use of conducting wires, and even to show luminous discharges from his own per son at the finger-tips, like the “St. El mo’« Are” observed at the mast head of vessels during electric storms. These experiments led him to the develop ment of his mechanical oscillator—a small piston vibrating with extreme rapidity within a stroke of an Inch, which actuates at high frequency an electro-magnetic generator — and his electric oscillator, not yet in commer cial application, but from which great results are hoped. Pupin, at Columbia university, has produced similar lu minous effect«, using his harmonic sys tem of condensers, by help of which he expects !o render ocean telephony prac ticable. Maofarlane Moore, w hile work lug upon an incandescent lamp in which the light, as in the gas burner, may be turned low. with proportionate saving of current, found t‘.:.t the osci! luting device which he had ’nvented for the purpose, a thin strip of steel mak ing and breaking contact within a vacuum bulb when actuated by low- tension current, produced a I’ke effect in vacuum tulies, and he has been able to light a room w ith a pervading glow so that reading is possible in any part of it. Edison, by coating th? inner sur face of a glass I nib with fluorescent material, has developed a still stronger light, with a consumption of current less than one-third that of the incan descent lump. Tesla, th«* pioneer in th’« field, is ex pecting, in turn, to make h glow l ght of a brilliancy correspondu g rather with the arc than with the incandes cent lamp, and the present year is thus w itnessing a race between ‘he greatest among American inventors as to which «hall first reach the goal. Anv of these systems may. it is probable, in their ’ Tactical development, be adapted as house devices, obtaining their actuat ing current from the present distribu ting and generating systems, and mak ing elect: Hty at last a rival with gn* in cliciinnw as well a« in comfort and convenience.—R. R. Bowker, in Har per’s Magazine. Th:« Age. The twentieth century j romisea to b< full of intxnsting rovelti«*». VVe car. look on the canva« <vnd ace a whole r< gi- me::* go through a drill,or t>?* t.,»•«««lor «ind bu’l Iu deadly <*onf ’.cL We < an iniur l’adercwski at the piano nnd Calve behind the footlight« in “Cnj ■'.e»».*’ \\ it2i the microphone we tan listen to the patter of n flv’« f*rf r-n th»* w r,«!ov par.e, ax.d the téléphone reproduce the voice of n »¡»rarer who is n thousand mil«-« away. Th?»e. however, arc only Me j p’ r. - f’tonca to higher thing«, and tliough t *y are marvel« there ore still greater thing« Ib'ngK to come wh.< h v n ukc h’cvi ment* inente »mall small vn»! ; 1. «•.ch aeh » s gt ifl- nnt. M •. Tesla tells us. th:c: ff’» the Herald, that it may be possible *0 see the face as well «« hear the vo’ce of the er who i» a thousand mil*» away. There are difficulties in th* *path, but the scientific inuigination predict« «ii< -usA, nnd Tr«la declare« t hnt he han hope Det roll Free Pre». Cban|t«v* In English. The English language of to-day is quite different in ninny respects from the English spoken only ICO >curs ago; on the otlx*r hand, the Dutch spoken by the I ’oom of South Africa do«-- not differ greatly from the same lungmige spoken 200 years «go. the Ikx-rs during that time Im'ing had very little Inter course with the mother comi try, nnd mo their tair guwge remains almost fixed. Many languages are devoid of errtain soun'ta quite familiar to us. The Chi nese. for instance, has no sound equiva lent to our “r.” For America, a Ch.no ma n say« “Yamdika.“ The Society islander« could not pronounce either “e” or “k,” and the nearest approach they could make tn the rifare of the celebrated navigator. Cook, who vis.ted their shores, wm “Tut.“ -- Boston Budget. I»r<r au«f * naali liookl Near the city of Mandalay, Burrnah, 1* to b» fournl the largest lxx>k in the world, the famous kuth Daw. In con sist« of 7L9 part», in the shape cf white marble plates. F>wh plate is protected by a temple <»f bricks. This enorhxm« volume I m written in Pal. and contain« 275,250 stanzas. The«* stanzas form the religi* i.s code of the Buddhists. The Kuth I>aw ia not an ancient produc tion. Buddhistic piety prompted its preparation in this century. It was mad* by command of Miodomin, one of the last kings of Burma!». Io mark 'd contrast with the Kutb Daw is a Kon- vrraation lexicon j utlirh-d in Perl n, which ia the smA«h *t took in the wo. Tl*e volume 1« b. than half a « u’ inch in bulk, although it cont.. ..s :. . "O words. A mlcmw opr sprr’.-lly j pared for the purpose »« nrre>»ar^ enable the reader ♦ rieruse this rnolg ut a lxx»k. PEACOCK FARMING. Aateteg Fhauanu 1« a New MUMeaairaa. Fad wltu Raising peecocka and pheasant« is 1 new busiiw*» in thia country. To sup ply their want» a number of millioi - a ires are importing birdaand egir* fi un» England. George Vanderbilt is among the num ber. He has already a lot of peacor’s of the breed curiously called “jujx. 11 n< d” •—perhaps because their feathe»-« have a metallic, lacqueMike glittering. Thei are often wrongly spoken of na the Ja^tanese or J a [Mtn peacock. Theodore Ilaveineyer haa lecently *niported a lot « f pheasant eggs of the choicest breed. He »ent them to h*« model farm. Mah wah, N. J., and then invited a comp» in of bantam hen« to hatch out the young birds. reacoeka, although not a commo»» sight in this country, are occaA’onaJIv H*en; pheasanta are even more rare— but, na already said, a demand l»n* arisen for them nnd a lucrative lui.-i- mcm shmikl be carried on in dealing with both the eggs and the birds. In Suffolk. England, there is a phene- nnt mews upon one estate where mo’*e than. 100,000 eggs are sold annually. To visit Warwick castle is to *« a * p ’»- «ocks in all their glory; indc«d, the place is famous for these bird», o* which tihe handsomest are white. Having te’come [M»>\'*ee.-«'<l of a pn’r o* peafowls, they require very little nine «gement, but must lx* carefully fed If kept in confinement they pick »• a pretty substantia) living theii'wcl'»•- it must Ive »< en to thn.t they haw ¡-lent. of w ater nnd gm in, and occa. •‘mally freah vegetables. In winter they riu>t lion sheltered teune. In summer they avail themaeivew of the slirltercd trees nnd in some aecluded nook th»» neat made. The hen should 1* lef» to her ow n meditation* and not inter fered with while nhe ia on the nest hutching the <ggs. A ¡»eafow l allowed to make her ow n newt in tli<‘ hedge always bring« oil* a stronger nnd better brood than one ♦ hnt. has a nest in a house. When hatched the young brood ehould rot be »emoved until the next day. feeding not ted ng required. Tin? first f-»«»»l shoul<l lx’ <ggw and milk, equal jnh t«, beaten together and heated until it gets into a «oft mnsv. This te rdvrn with n little millet or wlieaL When une add» sufficiently to one*» stock to -<«•11 egga xs well ns birds, one’s lmn » ;tcK*ount »hould assume healthy pro- ¡Mirtionek Bringing up pheasant« by hand i*= an extensive Industry in England, and ‘here i« no reason why it ahouhl not ♦ hirivc here. The <*ggx are collected from bird« kept» in a mews, and arc placed under domestic liens, (’are on the |M»rt of the keeper must l>e ex ercised after t.te* brood is old enough to wander about, leM. falling victims to heredity, they wander off and take 11 a wild life. Indeed, they can only be kept from w an<ter’ng in r\« ry direction by being plentifully suppli*»l m th food, which must b<* eoattcred in place« v here It »s desired tlx-y should stay.— Boston Globe. THE STREETS OF PEKING. They Are Alwityo Fall of Tilings to Inter est aui ! Amuie. The town of Peking ia always m<»‘ animuted. At certain hour» of the diy • he street« are crowded with f«.ot pu* •e.ngexN, ridii.g on hors« La« k, and car riages, as thoee of lA>n<lon or of Paris. There is plenty to interest and a:nu«f the apectator—Tartar cart« and ( hi- neae chai»«*; blue or green «•»•«laii- < hair«, the color« varying accordh g to (he rank and importance of the ownvi ‘ grooina of the palace in yellow livery; and courier» of the emperor in y< llov an«l black uniforms. On cither siiie oI • he carriageway, under theltcr* or i i the o. t:r, are nniftician«, jiig^««*is. seoond-luind bookseller«, old cl* tin s . tei., furniture broker«, cold l«*i> and harm -1 rikeiw, l»arlx*r«, cooke, celler* of fruit :• d tea merchants in a word, every v -. t « y of dealer, resultd g in an infinite variety of bright Mid pictur- < sq Hcenc«. Or a wedding proceoeion inarch« « • town the street with ita band, it« lan tern v, it« j eraMota, the attendant mr»- :»nt« in g ila cowtumea, and the bride '•arried Iwmenth a n*d canopy. Or p»’r- lm; n fu:.«ial proc «*«« km of apparently m«!h' « length, w ith It« fluteplaywi san«’ gong-b« ntcrw, it* Ince nee bln ner«. it* nn«»« tx chanting litnniea. It« mourner* making gi »maces and howlli^g. Ik hind ••orne the relation« and friends of tic' • h-ceawd, clad in w hite hair-cloth, ajul .»st of all. I orne <»n the Hliouklrra of IF». 20 or I rd HSMiatantw, the huge bier iteelf. h ndc'l with gihlrd «culptur* and hung w ith leautiful embroidered blur silk hxi'ging«. The f.l’’» ’n hhextrecte ta yrt another •1 ment n of the picturesque. Nod<wcryp- iion coul 1 poesjbly give an Idea of it ■ >n*t tvo f-rt deep—or lak«*M of n.»»«!, and nt every turn l»rup« of i<fuwr, o’.«••• w hich ¡n"7» <1 Iz’rgnr*. ar«* fl/*' ' ir g wd h men ’V d P.rggr»»ar * .1 •• :n r t c-v ng rhnme of Peking. No <1«-*<*iipt'or. «otil I give an idea of their 1: ..***ry »nd •* retchrhw sa . Even In the v«*viir<t inter, the jaxx wretrheu have, mo t nf ’ hem, not a slire.1 < f AUC - alxMit their abolii l.ur cumb U> the cobi with dtvda. Gaiutt ar<< vermin and vorea, • Ley «» d 1 th< the town. l...irow ¡og th»- . p«w«rrfb-by v. i*h their pit«*ou» < T and e «»f tlv fighting with «log» for a •vftiMr of the atreet; or f r 1- wntrs te- grth« r th*y crouch outaidr n hi ■ ng purchaz* r r.way by thr •» rn . « pr» enee, fili Ih#* ov. ner gefe ouf « f ps‘ » <•<• and flinga Ut<-m » few co r a hi *'Jf-d-- fer^w». When night con». * th< v eel »hrlter under a bridge, l/cn'iifh thè gate« of tlw tow n, or some tumble-down house Albuny Argus. It is estimated by .Mr Mulhall in a re cent arti !«• In the (ontemporary Re view that th*- shipping of all nation* is of the approximate value of f l,110,isK),- 000, white the 110,000 liieoniotivr» M work rcpF' M-nt a value off(XF j .000 The railway»» give «-inployment to 2.- 394,O'At people, while «hipping c»npl«»ys only 7o5 00O. The life of a hs«»motive in fifteen year«. It will run 270.000 mile», carry »500,000 tons, or 1,000,000 passengers, and earn SBOO.yOO. Itn first cost is «1‘ijn» and its general average is 300 honw-p»>wer. The sverag«* life of s ship sad its esming • a pa Ity. <>>m- pared with its cost, is not given, and nputrd. but it is pt-rhaps is yet Bpprucudi that of »A likely to equal .uay fairly rank ike Jocomo!’v*.;. v’ ss tlw rn«e»t pot«* •teHinetit of civ- >jr man. dilation ever «te. HT. CONSULTING THS CLOCK. Familiar Fa< Thnt Are Seldom Over looked by New Yorker«. One of the popular habits of the peo ple of this city is to consult the clock almost on every occasion when an op portunity is presented. It mutters lit tle whether any sfK'cinl need requires that consultation or not, the «dock will thus be consulted. Especially is this the case if a particular clock has the reputation of being agood t:mekceper. So well is this known by many store keepers that they will place clocks in their stores so situated ns to be easily seen by persons who may be passing along the adjacent sidewalk. If the clock bos a good reputation and the pedestrian is fortunate enough to carry a watch, a couqtariaon is almost sure to be made. Many times a clock with a good repu tation | laced in the back jxart of a store ' becomes a protection thereof, especially at night, if near it is located a light strong enough to illuminate its face and show the time. A policeman told a Mai! and ExpreiM reporter the other day that a good clock, thus situated, is better than a private watchman for a jewelry store, ns every belattxl panser** by is likely to look through the stoic to see what time it is, and would be al most certain tc notice anything un- v ual in the appearance of the place. It therefore b<s»omes Indirectly a silent watchman guarding the premise», against the depredations of burglars, ami makes the pedeatrlana, aa it were, assistant« in the work. Church ckaks have always had a large numlM'r of patrons in the work of consultât'on, and nothing seems to be so aunoying as to find sueh n clock in active. When an event of this character occurs, especially if the church is lo cated on or near a busy thoroughfare, the fact of the clock being stopped, or that some defect appears to exist, is often made the subject of a notice 'n the daily pa]M»ra. Especially was this the cast* when the steeple of old St. Paul’s was recently undergoing reno vation, and it was a joy to many on noticing that the newly gilded bunds of the clock were again traveling along their accustomed circuit, and the deep- toned bell was ready toatrikc the hour once more.—N. Y. Ma.il and E.xpreas. SUN AS A HAIR DYE. Sailor» Have Light l.«»cki» unci Luxuriaul Ono». The latest, use to which the »un has Iwen put i« to make it dye human hair, and on the head of the pretty bathing girl at that, say» the New York Journal Thi« faniiion lM*gan hud summer. A faaliionablc physician re«*«'inmen<led bright sunshine and aea osone a» the best means of making the hair light colored, healthy and strong. The young person for whom this prescrip tion was given found it very efficacious. The end of the reaort aeaaon has by no meaiiN caused a subsidence of th«* fad. Never before were there in New York so many young women whose goldeu hair hangs down their back» once every day that is. every «un • hwy day. A queer fact, too, is that (he idea, simple a» it. ia, fwiuh tx» have .’ k result of producing the desired ef fect. It la certainly a much more hunihss way of bleaching the hair than that which requires th«* use of «‘hemlcnla. "It »eerns to l>r a very intelligent don,” said a physician, when <|Uis- ttoned regarding it. “All »ailor» will it 11 you bow rapidly the hair grows when on board ship in the tropica. I bait had some oppoi t unity to obwrv« the color, or rather th«* awingc color, of Muilors* hair. I have found that their dark-haired ».hlprnntes by two or thei»’ fair-haired shipmates by two or hue to one. I «Up|»o«e tin* nun ha» »oinething of a blench.ug power, un w» H as forcing the growth of ih<* hn.r, by causing un increased e rc.d ition of its ’sap.* In this respect it Stands to r»*»»**on that each individual hn.r must be somewhat like a plant in .ts nature. ’tow la.ann*.. ;•* 1. » 1 c I igures iu tor JUmlera »' .tuu r's Art. Instantaneous j holography bus made it easy to-day for u»en with little knowl- dge of scamansbijv to place shijM» and boats under sail in a picture, but in irly days, »ays Temple Bar, the power of doing ro correctly was limited to a few men like Stanfield nnd Capt. Beechy, 1. \ The difficulty of obtaining anything like a reliable description of a sea fight, even from those* who had taken part in it, waa, according» to Star*field, very great, and he told us how, w hen plan ning hi» picture of “The Battle of Tra falgar,” he applied to ('apt. Hardy for advice as to the position of tlu* Victory, Hartly’s answer l»eing that, owing to the smoke, it was impossible during the height of the actiou to ace beyond the ships alougside, adding: “1 am about t he worst man you could come to, for some time before that which your picture represents the Victory’s tiller ropes had been shot aw ay, and I was be low iu the steerage attending to them a ml the helm, and down there we knew so little of w hat waa going on that we continued to load and fin* one of her stern guns until ordered from the deck to stop liecause we were firing into one of our own ships.” Like Loutherbourg, Stanfield had been at sea as a young man, while both owed much of their facility and power of composing a. subject to their early training in the scene loft. But 1 think Loutherbourg greatly surpassed Stan field as a draughtsman and in knowl edge of naval arehitectore. KISSING OF HANDS Tie Favorlii Bom Bimfj. For all diMas«* caused by d*ran(«aaat of th» Liver, Kidneys, and Stomach. Keep it always In the heusa aid yo« will save time and Doctor's Bills, aad have at hand an active, harmless and pw factly safe purgative, alterative and tonic If you fael dull, debilitated, have fra,uaat haadache, mouth tastes badly, paor appr tlte and tongue coated, you are suffaring horn torpid liver or biliousness, and SIM MONS L iver R egulator will cure y*«- If you have eaten anything hard tn digtst, or feel heavy after meals or alaa^ I ms at night, a dose of SIMMONS LlVM REGULATOR will relieve you and bring pleasant sleep. If at any time you feel your syetea needs cleansing and regulating witbeat violent purging, take SIMMONS LFVg* R egulator . e 3. II. Zellin M Co., PhilaOeiphW TABOOED. Iljrgleule 11« aitou* I.ead to Alinudoiiuivut of an Auatriau Custom. It hax hitherto, says the New Or lea uh Professional Cards. ROBERT O. SMITH, Picayune, been the custom of the chil- dren attending the public ochools in ATTORNEY AT-LAW. G rant * F ach . O hkuon . Austria and Hungary to kixx the hands <.f the teacher on arrival and departure. Practices in all State and Federai Coarta This has now I mtii forbidden by an Ornes in B ank B vildino . order from the imperial board of edu cation, which biutea its action on the WILLARD CRAWFORD. fact that sanitary investigation hn.s shown that kissing ia unhealthful and ATTO R N EY- AT-L A W- should not be- practiced, except when Practice» in all Federal, Stat« and Su absolutely necessary. This brings up preme Courts. a very nice point of law to establish when kissing is absolutely necessary. Orrtca at R ihidknck Titian S t . N obtb . Notary Public. If the public school teachers of Aus tria and Hungary are old and ugly it is likely that th«* scholars will acquiesce HENRY L. BENSON, in the new ruling without a murmur. If, on the other hand, the Nchoolmurms are pretty young women, like most of GRANTS TASS, OR. the New Orleans teacher«, Then the big l>oys in Austrian schools may keep up O ffice —Over the Bank. ProctioM In sil Courts of the State. the good old custom of kissing the teacher, and plead that it was a case when kissing was alvsolub ly necessary. Science is going too far, anyway, when ARTHUR P. HARTH, it finds microbes in kisses and tries to establish a quarantine against them. Kissing goes by favor, and not by law. ovkk thk B ank W hen the kisser is in love and the kissee is pretty, it is always a case of abso Oregon Grant ’ s l ’ aas, lute nect'saity, not amenable to Austrian or any other kind of lawn. Attorney-at-Law. Doctor in Dental Surgery Ornea One-Handed People- H uh it ever occurred to you that 999,999 people out of <i million go ♦ hr«»ugh life with the uh * of only one hand? It i« an odd thought, but there im «olid truth at the back of it. If you art right-handed, your left hand hit» no other use than an a very humble •’iixlliary to your right hund; if you arc left-handed, it iw a million to one • hat your light hand iw but a poor w< ukling. You may live to he seventy- i»nd-five. yecra old and not meet n min <»r woman who can un ■ Loth hand« ■ jually wi ll. It 1« i.erlou 1} f uu 1 »»> a well-known Scotch f-rientird that ill children «hould be train, d f o,.i th( ir earliest year» to u. e their hdt is much as their right Landa. They diould be taught to write and to hold 11.» ir knives with their I1 ft hurls us well iih to I at and to bowl at cricket left-handed. In every otle-r way the .eft bund should be gi\» n the miir.- .‘bihev i ns the right. ( rowds of right- handed people w ho have been afflicted QUEER MUNICH HOTEL. v. ¡th that distreMlng malady known ns •writer’s crump” have taught them- Run by Dukti Theodor«» of Bo »aria «m a ri an I’ernliariy If »a t/w.i. ■ B cm to write w ith their left Landa. A thousand yeai * ago Iteu <li< tine Why can’t we «ill learn to do this?— moiiU ■’ overed a small eu I j hur Golden Days. spring on a mountain neui '.tunich. X Kay« Proved 111 m Neolty. • hey built n hospitul their dint was A Hamburg young man has just hiul s <1 by their order until years ago, n sanity proved by the Roentgen ray«, v hen it was bought by I' ng Maxi e di ciared ten ymrs ago that he had milian, of Bavaria, who fill’ ! it with bullet in hi« head, which he had fired I oor »>’. folk, «ay** the !z>nd<>»» Mail. to It. in trying to (vimniit suicide. He When the king d rd hi» grnn«l«on, implained of a pain, and, an he at- D< • Theodore, found that he had not icked hi« kt cjM rs and the doctors »*v enough to k» ep up his charity. >uld find no t:noe of a wound, wiih After long nnd anxious con/mltatlon i ked up as a dangerous lunatic. The with his brother« the honest, kindly nt gen mys have now shown the I 1 ¡ix-r erect«*«! new buikLng« anil :act place of the bullet. Banner of «»[-»Tied the hoUM* < v«*ry year for thr«*«* i" on ths ns a hotel. It was ¡mtronized by many of the royal an«l noble families of Europe, though it is free to every A fivnl breath la romer who will conduct himself re one «rf fhe greatest • ffilvtitma that a ma« - •« cfably nnd pay for hia aocornmoda r»r wowiLD ran have t ions. An aAlctioa not Duke Th»,fxlore provide« thr f<NM only to thtm«vlve«, fro:.j his own form, which hr ov»*rs«*«*s. bst to those with wh*»a fhvy com« tn whde hia brother, Prince Ludwig.net« «•■taat A fhal ns host of th»4 hotel. All giirnts nrr re brettl hi • dreadful quested to L ave on th«* Inst day of Vi- dlaeompt of ilNc- ; it f. Thr house Is thru fll!«*d with tion, «f Äther of tlte 4efn«aaWiH«Mi of af- ore«, of [X)or teachers, artist* and au frrtlrm. ft wrznld »mhablf b« mer« *• If thors, invalid soldiers and (»oorly pai<l pccplt or.ly rvalired jtssrf what bad breath clergymen, whom the royal brotiirra meana tad breath la «we of tk« •japtorna haf formally invited to honor them of wtipatio« A<«« of tht other eyWip- with a visit. Th«* money me«!«* during t«»ma arv aorrr rtomarh. teft of appetite, and bfiloo« headaeba, dl«rl«e>a htart- the summer in «tevnted to their enter-1 airk bur« and d:atr**i afirr eatl«< Thaaa thhi tainment. Th«* duk«- and prince remain wi**a« l«dlrvatt«n Dxy lead tn 4 in the house, lavishing kindn«-s« and and woraelhint» Thet afi atart wtipation and e«n«rtlpafion I courtesy upon their gu«*stM. b«<auae ft COM bv cured — q«iefe1ya«d permanently by A young farmer who had great con Piereera Pleasant Peltebi. T ceit. little discretion and scarcely fact rwmedy for thia molt vrmmon e Th- ▼ ff /e t« «atnre Just the Httla any education prcivnUsi himself at a troubles h*dp that she «e*da They are very mild In Prrsbyteria** ¿->afcrt:aoe Sn<l said he tku*ir avtfor.. nd act without tgy violence wished to be «irdsined as a preacher. whatever In thia, they are dlüer»*ut from “! ain’t had any great learnin’,” he many yrepara*■♦».*• L '**4 for a almftar p'tr- pot* .toniftimes the temedy Is «torse tnsn uni, frankly, “but I re«tkon I’m called th« di ■'•irr, tr P1ere»'| rlugjsftt Pellets to preach. I’ve liad a vision three srs mfid but *b y ?’« irfhflftay etfictenk nights runnin’; that’s why I’m here." They in th? ws-W which they arv hitenAea “ What was your vision?" Inquired one to do, wfhon’ itra-gtef ih* «yslwni in ant They not nwly give Iminsdtat« reflet of the elders ” Well,” said the young way ffv« lb«»« I Mf I b man, “I dreamt I soe a big. round ring matrwrt Y< *an atop takinf them by in the «ky, and in the middle of it was • u 1 by and thert !• danf*r that yen two great letters—P. C. I knew that wifi b*< owe a »’a /*• tn t’. jdr r«e Th« drn<- wh« tries ts «11 you something else meant Presbyterian conference, and r’Just •• «OO I, either tier* not know what here I am/* There wa« an uncomforts h* ta tnlaiRtf about, or hs makes more ble pause, which won broken by an mon*y m th« other thine If you care elder who knew the young man and mor« ter hi« pr<*»«pe*ity than yon do ter your ewn h alth, take the other thing If was well acquainted with the poverty vol value vour health insist on having Dr. of his family and the neglected condi Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets A free *aniple, tion of th? farm in wbicb his father had of from 4 t® 7 dneea will be a«nt to any taken such pride “I haven’t any gift address A copy of pr Pierce's celebrated tc*A at reading visions " said the old man, book, "The Common Rease Medical gravely, “but I d like to put it to my oaae Adv l«er p itteeety Knatrated, will be fuang frien«! whether h«* d««MB*l think •mt /«er on receipt of twenty-oris (ti) It « pcaBibla those two letters may have evnts in owe cent «tarnpa to covet eost »txxxj for ‘Plant aorn?* ’’ Fortunately •f msfllnf rm/y Addr««» W orld ’ s D isfrnsasy M rd - thia version was ac< epted by the appli- kai A ssociation , N u . (A a M«aa »v««k tan I. Boflalo, M. Y. 7 EAST and SOUTH ----- VIA THE ----- Stianta Koute — of the — Southern Pacific Company. ExuroHR Train« Ix'ave Portland D b II t Sou til. _____ 1 döOp.M. Lv. Portland Ar. 1 11 00v M LV. Grant» Pass lv . 11 :15 a M. at . Han Fran’co lv . 1 Above trains stop at East Porti aid. Oregon Citv. Woodburn, Salem, Ttirnar, Marion, Jefferson, Albany, Cottage inV, Cott w_ Oroya ___ Tangent, She Ids, Halsey, Harri«- burg, Junction City, Eugoao, Creswell, ¡train, and all station« troni Roseburg to Ashland inclusive. Roteburg Mall Dally S UU.M. I i.v. Portland 12 2ft r M ! lv . Albany Ö -.2U F. M. , Ar. KoNSburg at . I 4 W)r. LV. 1 1 IS».«. LV. I a ana.«. Salem P»s»eng«r Dally. 4 00 F. M 0 15 F. M V*— lv . at . Portland Salem Ar. I 10:15 a . ■. LT. 1 ft on a. «, DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE* Pullman Buffet Sleeper« — an<l — S econd C lass S leeping C ars Attached to all thiough trains West Side Divisioa betwee« I'ortlud ud Corvallis. MAIL TRAI« DAILY (KXCSPT SVRDAY. 7 30 a m lv . Portland 12.15 p. M. 1 Ar. < orvalli» Ar. | 4:20 p . m . lv . | 1 S5 P. M AL Albany and Corvallis connect with train» of Or. Centrai A Hamern Ry. tirar., tbai « i.AiLT iBXCKrr bi ’B dàt .) < »Sr «. 1 lt . I’< rtland ar. | ft 28 a.a. 7 2ftr «. 1 ar. M. Minn villa lt . I 5«la. M. rilHOl GH TICKET« To all iM»ints in the Eastern States, Cana da ami Europe ran l»e obtained at lowest rates, from J. S. l’UHDOM, Agent, Granta Bas« K.P, ROG KM, K KOEIILKR, Aset. P F. A B. A<1 Manager. Portend, Or. COURIER OFFICE I forsalbby V/