F1UDAY, FEBRUARY 21, i9
AUK LIGHT
WEEKLY Kt -tK PJVEB COCRlIJl
HILLOCK WANTS I'ARUOX.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-President
Taft is today ronHidurlng an ap
plication for1 pardon made by J. L.
Bullock, ronvii ted at Taconia reient
ly on a rharKe of defrauding the
govern merit In connection with con
tract! for Kiijilyinn coal to army
IOHt! in Alaska.
Bullock U also endeavoring to in
teret Oregon and Wanhinion m-ii-atori
In his behalf.
FASTIDIOUS AUTHORS.
IIISTOKM BOMAN ( III IU II
is kak rou,.i'M:.
KO.MK, Feb. 13. With Ita aub
aoll waierIoKK'il and Its walla crack
ed in every direction, thu celebrated
llaHlli'a of Santa Maria in Traatevero,
near here, is near collapae today.
Further line of the church has been
forbidden.
The ancient pile la said to have
been started by Pope Callxtus, the
Flint, In 499 A. I)., on the Identical
spot where a mysterious spring of
oil appeared at the time of the birth
of t'brlHt.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
WOUK IV HAKMON V.
AKUON, ., Feb. 19. For the
first (line In their hlntory, the I. W.
V. rind American Federation of La
bor are working hand in hand here
today in tlielr endeavor to organize
the mlilx'r workerH on atrlke.
A decision was reached laat night
thai neither aide nhoulil attempt to
1 u 'I tic ii ct1 the strikers against tlie
ot her.
Ill l,(.ltl AV-IKM MAMAV
WAR LOI K ItlSSII'ATIvS.
I'AUIS, Feb. 19. It Is believed
hero today that t ho threatened con
flict between Miliaria and Itouruiinlii
over rei tlllcatlon of their frontiers,
him been averted, both having agreed
to tho principle of mediation by the
powers.
Through Joint action by the powers
It is believed that Italy and Russia
will be appointed as mediators of
the dispute.
F.IUTOIt WHO LIIIKLI H
king can i:mi:h I. s.
NKW YOKK, Feb. 19. Kdward
F. My Hum. tho British editor who
nerved a Jail sentence for libeling
King George, was permitted to en
ter the I'nlted States today by Unit
ed States Judge Ntiyes. Immigra
tion officials who nought to bar
Mylius from the country, alleged
that IiIh offense was a criminal one,
while attorneys for the editor argued
that it was of a political nature.
Judge NoycH, however, held that
MvIIuh' offense did not Involve mor
al turpitude, and that the editor,
therefore, could not be classed as an
undesirable, citizen.
M iv mi: iti: i:i i:u
FOR I'UOSIT.IUH S O.
Tit FN TON. N. .1. Feb. 19. He
spite the fact that It Is making
money, the I'lilon Hag Paper com
pany, a f ;17.iiiiii,imio corporation
h re, may go Into (h,. ant of re
ceivers, following charges oT mis
management It Is stated that the assets, al
though constantly expanding, aro
being wasted by the board of direc
tors "N(,U t:I.ING" NITMSS
M v l.usi; iiii;i i:.
NKW nKKl-Yli. 1 ! Loss of lilt
tongue probablr will befall l.iilci
T.tncinll, ;i state witness in the police
draft Investigation. f lu. ,.ies furth
er "siuea'iing," according to mlmis-sloii-
'Lmcicdl has made to I'lstrlct
Attorney Whitman today.
lam i ..1 1 declared that two tin
known men waited upon him showing
him a newspaper account of how the
ear of one Informer against the po
ll' e was tin off, threatened to relieve
him of bl-. tungiic.
"Mlt , t iiV W
m: omi: gi i isr.
NKW NOCK Feb l'.t Kid"
! iu , ccin ii'lii i This is the wav
the nchtor of 'tic "lork strew
punch" wi'.l bave his name iuseite.l
In the city directoi hereafter
Thursday night the puhillst -hobo-deimtv
sheriff adventurer will make
his Initial appearance as a saver of
souls lie will talk on a health top
ic fro'n one of the public forums of
tho Civic Center, and will endeavor
to form n connect Ion between the
eaMh'v and divine In uplift woik in
which the Center Is engaged.
Campbell ook a Twelve Mile Tramp
to Change Comma.
j It Is o..rj n.-iiu how punctilious aorue
j lli'hurs hae In , n uilh res.ect even to
i ..i i.i.-M .;. : i: their tumui
! erlpt. Iti' !.oi: c ii perfect terror
, and would ;i ike Hiiiiii.'ti fuss over an
I error of puneiu.-tlnii to ilrlve n piMir
j "Culllp" out i.f los wit
I Tennyson im w.i niit particular
j that not a ' miih.im uliuiiM omlttcl
j or misplaced uliile III revisions were
! never finished Perhaps the grenteM
terror f tin- -iiiiiMsiiur wna Tliouias
Curlyle for lie won l cover every
Hiil.-ire Inch of vm-iinf space, both In
I the liiirt'ln ami between the lines, wltb
minute additions mid emendations, and
nut once, but a (Inen tunes
Victor IIu'.m was equally difficult to
dense mid s-ttlfy Of one of his fa
mous work" In- made the printers sup
ply no fewer than eleven successive re
Tlsed proofs, and the last half dozen
were furnished In order to make quite
sure thst the commas were In their
right places
But perhaps Thomas Campbell, the
famous poet w ho wrote such tlrrinu
masterpieces m "Hohenllnden." "The
Battle of the Ilaltlc" nnd "Ye Mariners
of England." takes the cake Id this re
spect He was fastidious to a degree,
which fact probably accounts for the
small ipiantlty nnd perfect quality of
his literary output It Is said that ho
once walked six miles to his printers
and six miles back in order to have a
comma chiingetf Into a semicolon.
But an equally en refill and fastidious
literary workman ovveel a great im
provement jn the oiKnlng line of his
most famous poem to a printer This
was Thom.iB Gray, whose "Elegy
Written In a Country Churchyard" Is
probably the best known poem In the
English Innguiiire. Its first line rends.
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting
day," but when Gray sent It to the
press his manuscript rend. "'The cur
few tolls, the knell of parting day "
The tliosii lilful oki r nsitor did not tin
doratniid the word "tnlN" us nn in
transitive verb, so dropped toe comma,
thinking the poet bad put it In by mis
take, and wlieu Gray rend ttie line tils
sensitive ear at once caught Its new,
sustained melody, nnd be adopted the
compositor's correction.
A Puzzler.
"I've a new car that's n beauty," said
Green. ''Buns so smoothly you can't
feel It. Perfectly noiseless, no odors
and, as for speed. It whizzes you cau't
ace It go by!"
"My word."' replied Green's friend.
"Can't feel It. cau't hear It. can't smell
It, can't see It. I say, how do you know
you have a car at all?" London Telegraph.
Destiny of the Stuarts.
The figures "S8" play a weird part In
the rise and fall of the Stuarts. James
III. was killed Id flight near Bannock
burn in 1 IHH. Mary Stuart was behead
ed In IMS. James II. of England was
dethroned in 1088, Charles Edwnrd
died In 17SS nnd James Stuart, the "Old
Pretender," was tiorn In lflSS, the very
year that his father abdicated.
Islands of Leisure.
Between the Island of Madagascar
and the coast of India there are Ul.OiHl
Islands, only tN of which are Inhabit
ed. In most of tjiese Islands a man
can live and support his family In lux
ury without working more than twenty-live
days In the year, or at all, as na
ture provides the food, and no clothes
are required.
A Biated Opinion.
Jim-Here's a Freuebmao who saya
man has six times as much lung power
as he needs.
Joe (a married rnani Then ITI bet
woman has twenty times too much.
C'latveland Plain )ealer.
Lord Bacon's Dream.
Lord Bacon, the w iet of mankind,
nas siii erMltioiis und had firm faitb
n "slims and tokens." When In Paris
He dreamed ilu-u lie saw the family
home in England covered with black
nortar. and lie Inshted that it was a
sig'i of it. ith. In due time lie received
tht iinnoiiiieeiiieiir of the death of Ids
father, who liml .ed away the nlzht
f the dream
finishing the Avalanche.
Along the side i f an A pme railroad
si) lngoiiio;n device has been put into
ise to p-eteut uvula if Ties from falling
upon the track. A wall has been built
which Intercepts the sliding snow and
forces it to precipitate Itself in a leap,
whereby It clears the roadbed and
burls Itself into a canal upon the other
side.
APPRECIATION.
Love never seems so clear and easy
as when the heart ii heating fas'er
at the sight of some generous, self
risking dre j. We feel, nodoubt, then
what is the highest prize the soul can
win; we almost believe in our own
power to attain it. Geor;e E!iot.
SERVIA AS A NATION.
It Originated In tne First Halt of the
Seventh Century.
The blrtli nl N-ivin a. u nation, set
tled lu or near its present lioine, may
he dated lu the llr.-l Halt of tlie sev
enth century. About imo A. I)., when
the Avarlc empire of desolation was
established on the liauiibe, two tribes,
the Croats and the Serbs, retiring be
fore the ravages oi the Tartar horse
men, settled In the countries now
known as Croatia, Kiosnln and Servia.
They were Slavs, but the Croats per
haps bad, like the Slavs of Moesla In
after years, adopted the name of a
Tartar tribe Itoth, lleelng from the
Avars, were naturally hostile to them,
and It Is possible that they settled In
the empire with the consent or even at
the Invitation of tlie Emperor llera
Clius I. At any rate, they appear to
have been considered us vassals of the
empire. Tlieli lirst settlements lay
rather west ward of ttie country now
called Servia. I lie lrave, the present
western boundary, being the dividing
line between Hulgar and Serb in the
eighth century. Here the Serbs dwelt
more or less uneventfully for three
centuries. They generally formed a
loose confederacy under chiefs called
lupans. They were commouly, in a
loose fashion, loyal to the eastern em
pire mainly through fear of their dan
gerous neighbors, the Bulgarians.
About 810 they united under a chief
named Vlastlmlz to repel the latter.
The country rose to great belghts
under Stephen Dushan, the czar of the
Serbs, but after his death Murad I.
conquered the country, and It was not
until 1815 that the Serbs partially
threw off the Turkish yoke. Exchange
Neutrality.
A proclamation of neutrality, the
first In our national existence, was
made by Washington April 'JL'. IT'.Kt.
citing the fact that a state of war ex
Isted between Austria. Prussia. Sar
dinia. Great Itrltaln and the I'nlted
Netherlands of the one part and
' France on tlie other and warning citl
i fens o avoid all acts In breach of!
neutrality.
Tower of Skulls. j
In 1 S it ; the Servians rose against
Turkish rule, and o.ooo of them were !
massacred by the Osinanll. The dead
were beheaded, and as a warning bi
I others the Turks built the heads into
be walls of a tower, face outward.
; Tod. iv a miimII portion of a wall re
mains with a skull here and there,
tf'b'i i'i minder of what Servia sulleied
under IMtolli..,, ,.,ltl c.m,.,i.
Hydrophobia. i
11) ilii. phobia n-e.l to be called St
Hubert's disease, in memory of a no
blein.ui of iiiitane, who, at one time
a famous hunter, ieinmiice.1 the w orM i
and Ihed is a hermit in the forest ef I
Ardennes, In memory of his cireer he
became the patron saint of the cba r i
and dogs, and Ills shrine w as noted for
many cures especially of people w ho i
had lven bitten by load dogs j
if T'.i-.-e C ten in ne n1J(j
.No lua.tcr h,.w ,, ,,,., Uuulw
O-'le be. if it be know u t4i:lt , ,.jH t0 j
be 1,-HKht there, the p,.,.pi,. m ,,(
Into the mud and xearcti for them. So,
no matter wlici-e ,.o wc-e born or how i
lowly jeiir st.ipot, in
may be, If
you are men of chir icte-. schoiarstsip
andabiMtv. v.m will t(. son-ht after-
Mnoluiv a Veil iku
PRECIOUS MUGS.
The Crucibles Used In the New York
Assay Office.
In the L'ovei ''oeiit assuv otlice on
Wall street. New York, there is ii cor
tier that loos very much like a mug
rack lu a eountrv barber shop, where
every customer tins his individual mug
highly decorated in gilt letters.
On this rack are perhaps ijfty cruc'
hies for melting down gold The cm
clbles are decorated wllh crude ml
tials and numerals am) are tlie proper
ty of the biggest gold milling corpora
tions In North and South America,
The reason for the individual mugs
Is that the clav orerucihles takes op
a considerable ipiantlty nt gold in the
process ,it smelting which otherwise
Would lie lost b the ciisto r bringing
the gold to the government to le re
lined After two or three smelting
the clay Is saturated and takes up no
more gold When It Is finally sue
ccodod by a new crucible It Is returned
to the customer to ts- broken up for
Its Hidden gold
Mugs that are used for melting down
random l,.t of gold are carefully pre
served by the government refiners and
sold I'lnic Sam pockets the proceeds,
is In these random lots there Is no
wav ol computing to fiat amount
each of poricips tuent customers j
,11:,.v 1 untied It is ,,uly the smelt !
Ing cmc-rii t Ii.i t sells the government j
enough gold at one time to monopolize '
:i single "ie ting that obtains the right j
h' a mug on tti,. r.l(h Nl.w york I
Tribune
The Curiout Elephant. J
"Hie f.i.-t that the eh-ph.f feet are
padded rende-s , ,,,,,, ,,,,,.1,. ln j
M' le of Jo, g re-It w, .!:t." .-, naturV-st '
t'Hs us ,,m, ;K cii-,ier.!i:ia:- i.-iu '
'' ' t it., oitip.itib e v it.-,
llK -',Mt l"i "'T iMimb Animals, '
Clonbing.
Li' h Mm c.erk' I started in nt
i.ie lowest rung ,.f tt,,. .o.er. Mv
tirs! wife got only a week aillliotir
Now looi, ;lt l',,?,u. tl) Ul"v
last, and I l..t-eu't topH-d cUmbiii!:
yet. -Puck.
TREES 1 nets
It is now time to get busy Planting Trees.
WHL.N VOL l'.TKOl.K
EDEN VALLEY NURSERIES
to
You are dealing with the leadinS nursery of Southern Orelon.
Vou have the best stock of gooo in ma - j-
choose.
You are dealing with a nurseryman, not a tree agent.
You get reliable stock and reliable advice.
You get nursery goods that have been properly handled
You will be Pleased with the goods, the price will be right.
IIT MOliK HO YOl WANT?
Call and ee my stock. You are always welcome hethe; J01'
or not. ..Delivery yards ONE BLOCK EAST OF NEW CON
CRETE BRIDGE OX MAIN ST.
N. S. BENNETT
IMIOXK CHOI
Medford, Ore.
TWKXTV.THKKK VKAIW A KKSIDKXT F THE IMMJl'K 1MVEK VALLEY.
IN.H i:i l MIMTIAM AN
I'ENSIOXKH I'.Y STATE
tery practice at Fort Stevens, was
run over by a caisson and crippled for
life, has today been granted $1,000
In cash and an annual pension of
$300 under the terms of a house bill
S.U.EM, Feb. lib -Raleigh C. Wil
son, a militiaman, who. during bat-passed by the senate
PORTLAND, Feb. 20. Deputy
County Clerk Hennessy was puzzle
when a woman io called to regis,
ter Btated that she was 21 years old
and later said she had lived In the
state for 28 yearB.
feg ValoTBarpin Clobsi
A Year's Reading Matter for the Whole Family !
H Fop tho Poultry Rai.rr T0 H
V Vfflqfffk tlttq anrl $xmri.0 p Your S
lOU ' . . m ,;ii.;'iijAliUii is :n uw&i kAvliA 'ma mus ?. i'.'-'j'; ; :?ffM Chtncp I
Save r ?i$:wwW-ttt "'an-'vm 0:J of H
One ::0f !' jry Three J
iHalf SMilffiffi ' cluk
mffi
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I i urder XM ' WWmy
: Today X , Each Magazine Qti''
1 i Xs the Bot of Ita Class Vij!
I f, TlieChiraito Vekly Inter OcMn nd Farmer in
( , ji.. ,1 nrw.i. -iprr tl;:.t Jn-,-, you lh- !r,t ,tn.-S a,t 1,-attin-, Irom Ihe
J .V.n.liv- .in, I Duly Im.-r Drc-jn. A w.rl,l ulc newt irrvicr mirkrt
i t. frpoo. ric. nMkrs Urn piper -c..n,l . none. Every n,ut c.muim
! . I'V "me "l.-a eli-rivnnn. m,l a l..rv hv a ili,lin).r,l.ej CI
- ' . i.jiiy 5'ipscnpiinn nnee T
Do It
Now!
The Family Mauazme trai!.,;,i, clean, whnl. wne fi.-iion Kories
ofmo.c Oun "Tl n i,vnH,Ti-,t an.i .nappy r,hlri,il e minienl on c-ir-rent
ryemv A firkin 4 4. mamine ir tV ha,-he.-ept-r. rrv
Pu(.,heJ r-..iit!ily. K.-H'iljr yciilv vilsciiptia noce 0 JC
Thi" fruit Grower and Farmer. V
m.',nnetnl h . lulpevt ii, re i.len i.npnue
r ImuI, nn mi.', r ulu-rer 'lev have a
o-eharj. or Hint a K-w tiee. in the v.-J. Iti
the l:rje.l Imit p-iprr in the I'niteJ StatcianJ
contains more helplul matter tor people who
l'1'"' fni'l tor protil or pie .mire than all other.
Put toOe'S.-r P,,Klil,...l ....1.1.. U
put tooe'her I'uhli.riea mont
lai yearly tubtcritnion price
O '
.'n cei.t.rui roultry Journal. A suh
.HPin.n to t:, m urine :l vear', corse o(
,,n""",' e"uliry culture Irom the fnremrwt
ii 0 a" hral"--n- of poultry raii.ni thai
wi I .are you money and teach you how ,o e
the cult, that in.ure plra.ure an,l prom ,he
ania.eumr the expert. Puhli.heJ momh- Cf
l. rejular yearly .ub.cnptioQ price . OUC
!ucce??f? u "ome " PPer hat " ill hHp to make every farm
3,' ,ve' .; r7 it what they want, not theorie. hut
i h evih?T,r.'hu,ed byL m." and ho ''know." It deal.
C, w ?,,v 4 ' ""'! Ihe Houaekeeper, Farmer, Gnrdrner, Kn.it
w.cr. m n hym"'aL;VeS,OC,k and Foultry KP- Polished Cftf
ln.eamonth. Re.ular yearly aubscription price
Hlcriheri,' "l" i" name imf'ie.-a maeajine that help,
r "l. n,,r t . I , homc a,,r"tive and helpful. Good erlito-
"me: ra, rfrt?.,.. .h- soc
"mumi year v .un.erintinn nnrr
Kimball a Dairy Farmer. A m:in
line that appeal, to the bi breeder of cu.tic
an,) the Jeneral farmer who wanta to increaw
the production of hit cowi. Edited by pr:ic
Ileal men who breed ood dairy cattle, hot.,
horse, and poultry and tive their reader ihe
benefit of their work and eiperience. Piih-
Ii.hrH tufiA - .u U.....I i
' ' .ri-juiar) early .ub.cnptioa price OUU "''.'' imonili, Kcjular yearly t(1
TITrtPr n . 1 iub$cnpiioa price vV
HREE BIG VAT.flF RAIrjWiVT rtnnr
Iher of hese comhlnjlons mean, a 3Vmg0 VLUOCI
s u"' lu lneir resP"v fields at a price within reach of ail
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