C E N T R A L P O IN T HER ALD . TH U R SD AY. SEPTEM BER 24. 1908.
Observatln C a rs.
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A Bloodless Execution l
On and after November 15, 1907, the
observation cars between Portland and
Oakland California, on trains Nos. 15
and 16 will be carried through instead
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o f being cut out. as heretofore, at Rose-
Two friends were illaousslng the pos-
burg.
sibllity of killing a perfectly well man
Southbound, under this new arrange- j without doing him the slightest bodily
ment, passengers holding proper trans- harm, without frightening him to death
portation and Pullman accommodations or by tempting him to dissipation. One
may occupy these cars on the night claimed that death could not be brought
leaving Portland until reaching Eugene atiout except by soinu overt act to pro-
at 12:32 a. m.
du<'* bodily Injury.
F red P ar k er , Agt. S. P.fCo.,
CT ' » kll,e<1" th* 0,her
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I contended, "simply by going through
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A Story of Black!«.
MEDFORDDOMESTIC
LAUNDRY.
Professor Bluckie of Edinburgh, a
martinet in the class room, was one day
1 hearing a class with the individuals
. jf which he was not acquainted. l ’res-
I *utly a student rose to read a para-
Glen Fdbrick. Prop.
[ graph, his book held In bis right hand.
! “ Sir," cried the professor In his auto-
j -ratio way, “ hold your book In your All kinds Laundry work solicited
left hand!”
Leave package at Stone’s
The student was about to speak, but
j the professor stopped him with a
barber shop or see T. J.
peremptory command:
“ No words, sir; your left hand, X
Kelso who will call for
I say!”
and deliver family work.
1 Then the student held up his’ left
arm. which ended at the wrist.
I “ Sir,” said he, “ I hae nae left hand.” Work guaranteed. Prices right.
Before the professor could speak
there came a perfect storm of hisses
from the class, and when he did speak
the hisses drowned what he said.
Then he left his pluee and wout down
to the student w hose feelings he had
unintentionally hurt, threw his arm
around hint and drew him close.
“ My boy," said tbe professor, speak
ing softly, yet being beard by every
one In the room, “ you’ll forgive me
Guarantees to fit glasses so they will never
that I was overwrought. I did not
need to be changed.
know! I did not know!”
Office
in
Grand
Theatre big., Medford, Ore.
Then be turned to the students, and,
with a look aud a tone that came
straight from the heart, be said:
J “ Aud let uie say to all of you that I
, am glad to bo sliowu that I am teach
ing u class of gentlemen!”
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When you buy Flour always
ask for a sack of the peerless
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| “Made in Central Point.”
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“ Not at all. He shall know before
hand that he is not to suffer the slight
“ I took two of Chamberlain’s Stom-1 est bodily harm.“
ach and Liver Tablets last night, and I
To illustrate the last speaker told the
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feel fifty per cent better than I have following true story:
a
Patronize Home Industries
5
Lang Ting Fung of San Francisco,
for weeks,” says J. J. Firestone, of
£
and Help Build Up Your
Allegan, Mich. “ They are certainly a washee-washee man, called Charlie
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Own Town.
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fine article for biliousness.” For sale Fung by his “ Mellean” acquaintance«,
was accused of revealing the secrets of
bp Mary A. Mee. Samples free.
the Tl Whang society, of which he was
a member. Summoned before the so
ciety to answer to the charge, he was
N o w C lu b b in g Oiler-
assigned counsel and duly tried. Though
ably defended, he was convicted of
For a limited time we offer the Cen
a
h ho h h i a
having revealed certain methods of the
tral Point Herald and the Thrice-a-Week San Francisco Chinese underground
World (N ew York) each one year for railroad for smuggling Chinamen Into
J2.15. This means 208 papers at a cost the United States. The punishment
was death, and the sentence was to
o f only a cent apice
Central Point is going to improve be curried out Immediately In the pres
Limitations of Practice,
more during the present year than in ence of the assembled members of tbe
In an Iowa town un action for eject
society.
Have you tasted it?
Did you use it last
,ny year in its past history. You will
“ Call tbe executioner,” said the pre ment was tried “ by tbe court without
Summer? I f you did you will be a cus
need the Herald to keep posted on siding officer in solemn tones that re a jury,” the suit having been brought
what is doing at home
tomer this Summer, for everybody says it
verberated through the silent ball us If by a religious society to recover pos
session of a cemetery. The defendant,
A presidential election is coming on some one hml struck a gong.
A big Chinaman entered from anoth a physician iu active practice, bad
this year and you will need the Thrice-
bought the ground for tbe use of the
a-Week World to keep you posted on er room, carrying one of those large
society, but when afterward ho sev
national affairs, especially regarding sharp double edged swords with which ered Ills connection with the organiza
culprits' heads are stricken off In Chi
the political situation in New York.
na. Over Ills face be wore a wooden tion It was discovered that he hail tak
Better subscribe today
inask representing distorted features. en the title 111 his own name and evi
Soda Fountain, Confectioneries, Cigars, Etc.
The culprit was led Into the middle of dently Intended to hold on to It. After A L L W ORK G U A R A N T E E D .
tbe room and forced on to bis knees. duly weighing the evidence the conrt
A t the Old Stand,
Best Treatment for a Burn.
Leave orders and packages
Another Chinaman, also on his knees ordered Judgment for the plaintiff,
Second and Pine Sts.
I f for no other reason, Chamberlain’s before him. caught him by bis pigtail stating briefly the reasons for the de
at Williams Hotel.
Central Point, Ore.
cision,
whereupon
defendant's
coun
and
drew
his
head
down
so
that
the
Salve should be kept in every house
hold on account of its great value in neck was laid bare to the ax. Then sel desired to be more fully enlight
the treatment o f burns. It allays the the smock was pulled over ills shoul ened in the premises.
“ Certainly," said bis honor. "In ad
ders.
The executioner, taking the
pain almost instantly, and unless the handle of his sword in both bands, dition to what I
e already said,
injury is a severe one, heals the parts threw himself Into position, raised the there are but two other reasons. One
without leaving a scar. This salve is weapon, swung It high over his head is that the church seems to need n
also unequaled for chapped hands, sore and brought It down. When within cemetery, and the other Is that the
nipples and diseases of the skin. Price, more than a hair’s breadth from the doctor lias failed to show that his prac
25 cents. For sale by Mary A. Mee. neck It suddenly stopped. From that tice Is sufficiently large to necessitate
point It was slowly and carefully low his maintaining his own burying
ered till the edge rested ou the cul ground.”
Summer Excursion Rates to Newport. prit's neck. Then he held it that It
Art Comes High.
To afford an opportunity to the peo might not cut the skin.
Now, in China, whether from the
“ A New York lady," said a Parisian,
ple of this locality to visit the coast
great power o f these societies, from In “ once ventured to remonstrate with
during the Summer months, the South
cheap for
effective law, or what not, the eul- Paquln because be bad charged her
ern Pacific Company will sell round trip j pr[t-s |lea,i would have been separated *700 for a ball dress.
excursion tickets from Central Point to j from the
But
America dif-
Horseshoer.
cash at
“ 'The material,’ she said, ‘could be
Newport. and Yaquima Bay points for f,.rent condition! exist. There are not bought for *100, and surely the work
*10.00 for the round trip daily from ! only Judges and Juries who do not would be well paid with *50 more.’
I f you want a start in the best strains
June 1st to October 15th. These tickets respect the decrees o f Chinese secret
“ '.Vladame,' said I'uquin, with his
of these famous breeds, buy now.
W H E N IN T O W N C A L L A T
are good for return passage for six societies, but Jobu Chinaman lias no grandest air, ‘go to your American
Call on or address I ke W il l ia m s ,
months from date o f sale; Tickets pull with them. A headless murder painter, Sargent, In his little Titc
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Central Point, Oregon.
good only for continuous passage each would not only lend to tile punishment street studio and sa.v to him: “ Hero
of those instrumental lit it, but would Is a yard of canvas, value 50 cents, and
way, except in cases o f serious illness
be prejudicial to tbe continued efforts
o f ticketholderor member of his family, o f thousands o f the copper colored here are colors, value *1. Paint me a
picture with these colors on this can
when stop-overs or extension of limit brethren in America who are wnshlng
vas, and I will pay you *1.75." What ASHLAND
COM M ERCIAL C O LLE G E
may be arranged.
For further in hard night and day for a living.
will the painter say? lie will say,
The executioner after holding the “ Madame, those are no terms for
formation, address or call on
Ashland. Oregon.
Which is "the best” in Oregon. Try it and if you don’t
sword upon the culprit's neck for a an artist” I say more.
F red P arker ,
W m . M c M urray ,
I say. If
say it ¡3 ‘‘the'best” Jack will treat. We also handle the
few
moments
removed
It
and.
resting
you think my terms too high, pay me
Agent,
G. P. &. T. A.,
Celebrated
Central Point, Ore.
Portland, Ore. Its point on the floor beside him, turn nothng and keep tho robe. Art does
ed
to
the
Judges
and
said:
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not descend to tho littleness of hag
Business and Shorthand Training,
“ Tbe traitor Is dead."
gling.’ ’’
thorough and practical.
The executed man arose to his feet
Six months’ scholarship - - $45.00.
and
looked
about
him.
No
one
Inter
A Traveling M an’ s Experience.
Th« Best W »y to Starve.
I f one feels bound to undertake star- Nine months’ scholarship - - 60.00.
“ I must tell you my experience on fered with him, fo f he was dead. No
one saw him, for he was dead. lie j vatlon for a period. It Is best, a trained
an East bound O. R. & N. R. R. train
N O T E TH E S P E C IA L
said something to a man near him. physician tells us, to make the process
from Pendleton to La Grande, Ore.,” The man undo no reply. Why should
AH students who secure a nine months’ scholar- !
not quite complete by eating a little
writes Sam A. Garber, a well known he reply to a dead man? The mem at the usual intervals of fasting abso ship and enter September 7th will be entitled to
he combined course to July 1, 1900,
traveling man. ” 1 was in the smoking bers o f the society were arising from lutely for a comparatively long time
Including books and stationery, $83.50. This I
department with some other traveling their scats and leaving the hall. The j This makes freak treatment quite
rives you an extra month.
men when one o f them went out into decapitated man called to one who harmless. Physiologists find that as
the coach and came back and said, had been his bosom friend, but with the body Is starved fat and sugar dls
Investigate and fo m r .
“ There is'a woman sick unto death in out avail. I>entb separates tbe quick j appear first, aud then the minor or
the car.” I at once got up and went and the dead, be they friends or ene ! gaits are drawn upon to sup|K»rt the
F IN E S A M P LE ROOM
mles.
I brain and heart, continuing until no
EUROPEAN PLAN
out, found her very ill with cramp colic;
Address P. RITNF.R, Pres.
Charlie Fung followed the others out more material can be spared. Exhaus
her hands and arms were drawn up *>!
T t a iT t o m w ¡ T ^ t e i tion Is then very near.
you could not straighten them, and t proclaiming to Chinatown that he had
with a deathlike look on her face. Two j been executed that evening. A police
Did as He Was Told.
or three ladies were working with Iter : man. seeing the notice, to hint unintel
A well known Brooklyn clergyman
and giving her whiskey. I went to my liglble, with Chinamen standing about In a talk to his Sunday school urged
suitcase and got my bottle o f Cham If. wondered what the yellow devils the children to speak to him whenever
The Home of Commercial and Mining Men
berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea were up to now. Could he have read they met. The next day a dirty fared
It
he
would
doubtless
have
carried
a
urchin
accosted
him
In
the
street
with.
Remedy (I never travel without it),
dreadful story to police headquarters “ How do, doc?”
ran to the water tank, put a double
The dead man wandered about like a
The clergyman stopped and cordial
dose of the medicine in the glass, pour
H otel
N b « i C o ., P r o p r i e t o r «
ghost from the spirit world. No one ly Inquired, “ And who arc you, sir?”
ed some water into it and stirred it saw him; no one spoke to him; no one | “ I ’m one of your little Iambs,” re-
Medford. Oregon
with a pencil; then I had quite a time gave him a smile or a frown.
! plied the boy affably. “ Fine day!”
Drop me a Postal and I’ll Call
Dining-room Unsurpassed.
Refurnished Throughout.
to get the ladies to let me give it to
I f he had had money, ho might have | And, tilting Ills hat to the back of his
All W ork Fully G uaranteed
her, but I succeeded. 1 could at once returned to China, bat would he have head, he swaggered off, leaving tho
see the effect and I worked with her, fared any better there? Would not an worthy divine speechless with amaze
rubbing her hands, and in twenty agent of the society he bad betrayed ment.
minutes I gave her another dose. By follow him and do really the work that
Gazelle Hunting.
had beeu done figuratively. No; Char
this tim* we were almost into Le
Gazelles In Nubia are hunted by a
lie was dead, and nothing could bring
Grande, where 1 was to leave the train.
powerful breed of hounds In build
him to life.
I gave the bottle to the husband to be
I f Charlie was not really dead, he so mew list heavier than a greyhound.
used in case another dose should be was really dying—that Is, he was get In spite of being far swifter than the
needed, but by the time the train ran ting Into a condition where death hound the gazelle falls a victim from
into La Grande she was all right, and would be preferable to life. The post the nervoua liablt o f constantly stop
I received the thanks of every passen ers announcing his execution remain- ping to look back to see If It Is pur
ger in the car.” For sale by Mary A. j ed on the walls, and. go where he sued. It also expends Its strength by
I would In Chinatown, he saw them. taking great bounds In an almost vor
Mee.
I They were the only mention of himself tical direction, thereby not only losing
, that he encountered, in all other re time, but exhanstlng Itself, so that It
There is no need of anyone suffer
spects he had passed Into oblivion. He is overtaken without difficulty.
ing long with this disease, for to
Methodist Church Services.
waa thirsty, but no one would give him
effect a quick cure it is on'/ neces
A Lot or Block in Central
sary
to take a few doaes of
A
Gams
of
Chanes.
—— —
| fl drink, n e was hungry, but no one
Point, bought before the next
“
I
suppose,”
said
the
stranger
with
Preaching services every Sunday at would give him bread or meat
advance in prices, will insure
11 a m and every other Sunday even-
A t last Cbarl-e could endure the in tbe gates, “ the ltd is on all games
ing at 7:30
strain no longer. He wandered off Into o f chance In this town.”
you some “ easy money.”
Sunday School every Sunday mom- the “ Melican" district and procured a j "Don't you believe It, stranger,” re-
ing at 10:00
revolver. It was supposed be atole It. I Joined the native. "The marriage 11-
Epworth League at 6:45 every Sun- oolng back among those who had been I cense office la still wide open.” —Ex-
day evening
tils fellow Chinamen, be sat down un- i change.
In fact, in most cases one dose is
junior Epworth League at 3 p. m. der one of tbe posters notifying thsm
sufficient. It never fails and can be
Wisdom From a Babe.
every Sunasjr
Thursdav *■“ * he had been executed, put the re
relied upon in the most severe and
“ What would you do, my boy,” asked
yJ r, t 7 S!
y T
y volvsr to his head and effected In resll-
dangerous esses. It is equally val
eventng » 1 1 .
,y ,he „petition that they had effected a professional vocalist proudly, “If yon
uable for children and is the means
of saving the lives of many children
could sing like me?”
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each year.
"H ave some singing lessons!'’ replied
Not only la It possible to kill ■ person
fo r a Sprained Ankle.
In the world's history no medicine
without doiag any bodily harm, but tbe lad.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
has ever met with greater success.
A sprained ankle may be cured in death so Inflicted may be made more
about one-third the time usually re- cruel than any physical torture that
The honor we receive from thoee
PRICE 25c. LARGE SIZE 50c.
quired. by a p p l y i n g Chamberlain's has eTsr been ‘nvented
who stand In fear of us Is not true
HKI.EN IXOT.EHART
honor—Montaigne.
Liniment freeley, and giving it absolute j
I S“ ld by Mary A. Mie.
rest. For sale by Mary A. Mee.
Good for Biliousness.
I E. J. BONNER
EYE SPECIALIST
Doctor of Opthalmology
In Central Point Monday
of Each Week.
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Central Point, Oregon.
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Diarrhoea Remedy
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Herald Offce,
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