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TELEPHONE, MAIN 45:.
DALY: 37 rail, for advaecc payment
only, s .:. a pic-nth; 4 months for
Ot.dS. w.ts Lot paid in .iilvaisee tho
price to 50 centipcr month, straight.
Issued every ncrnlng except Monday.
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isiued Svt:y Saturday. Terms: In Ad
vance, tii.yta Year, Sx.oo Six Months.
WHY XOI?
Why wonldu't it be a good idea for
same of our local capitalists to organise
030 or rnoto companies, for tho ex
'ploitation of the reeonrces of this eec
tlon, .instead of Mai'lag for ontside
capital to tako the initiative? There
are" several enterprise! which cauld wall
be taangurated here, and if Marthfield
capital would make the first move tho
result woald be tho location ol new
manufacturing plant; in Marahflofd.
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WHY WE KICK
The Mail has been asked what it ex
pected to accomplith br the editorali
appearing in Its columns Friday and
'Saturday morning.1). Our expectations
aie not to high that they will be dis
appointed; but it is a relief sometimes,
even for an editor, to expreis bis feel
iocs.
Before a disease can be cured it 'must
be diagnosed. The Mail has diagnoeed
Marshfield'a complaint in a tkotcby
manner, only touching the high placet.
It is up to the citix?hs to carry the in
vestigation further and apply adequate
remedies, or to let the town become the
permanent victim of chronic dry rot.
This place has just about reached the
parting of the ways, It must choose be
tween waking up and going ahead, keep
ing abreast of tho times and holding
the lead over all competitors which its
natural advantages have given; or it
can sink in .bo slough of sloth and
pecelmiem and play second fiddle to
other localities which have the vim and
energy to improvo their opportunillei
and to make opportunity to improve.
It must be one or the other. Which
shnll it be?
Tho Mail's flht against knocking
-has.betn sneered at by all the would.
b; Smnr.t Alecka in Marsbfield, and all
the encouragement that has come to
f ho paper Us effort to cultivate a higher
plrit could be more than covered by a
prade dollar; but, all the same, Marsh
fleldisonr town, and it, la a sort of
psrsonal satisfaction to kick when such
ft ienselH policy, of jelf-dstrucion is
persisted in. If we accomplish nothing
tlse, jva will at least relieve our feelings.
THE RENT QUESTION
A .close observer of condition In
Marabfleld has made tbla argument to
the Mail in defense of somo of tho mer
chants who liavo been putting up a poor
ace when doing a yery prosperous bnl
nest:
He gayjj that aomaof the landlords in
the basinets part of town are inclined to
follow very, closely tho principle of
charging "all the traffic will bear," in
rattU, and any acknowledgement on tho
Jrt of a rwjfcwr that he is making money
k tnwtod M an invitation (0 raise the
rtat.
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'iin'-eiihiHortofla'stoharywork among
Uielin.UofJB7'Vujh n policy Is short--
lighted, for it hat a depressing effect on
butlnoM and re'eta directly on tho
proporly owners, tlomsolvoj.
ThU la not pn argument for "cheap
rents;" rents are always hujh In llvo
town nnd nie more ?nily paid than 'the.
clrnn tents ol n dead town. At tho
same time, owners of business properly
fhculd he careful not to kill tho goose
which lays tho Qoklou esc
As a mattnr of fact tho property hold
era s.r mcrj Interested in tho growth of
tbotpwa than their renters are, for the
latter can pull up stakes and moto,
while tho real estate must stay. Fur-
the, ovorv hundred added to tho popula
tion of MarsbGeld adds to tho valuo of
business property without effort on the
part of the owners, while it may not
necessarily add to tho proQtaof thoso
engaged in active business.
A liberal, rather a niggardly, policy
on the part of lojal capitalists io as
necessary as a boosting, rather than a
knocking policy on tho part of other
people
It ie up to all of us to pot our think
fog caps on and teo what each can do
for tho np-butld.ng of the town. If this
part of the .oninsula is to remain tho
budness center It must be through the
efforts of t'lo.pejple here.
THE NORMAL SCHOOL AGAIN ,
The people of the county are appar
ently unanimous in their desire for tho
location of aNormal School in the coun
ty, although most of the people of
northern Cnrry think Port Orford is tho
proper location for such a school. Of
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course thero is no certainty that such a
school can bo eeenrod. The last legisla
ture acted rather penurious in that re
spect, but tho next may prove more lib
eral, and there is nothing liku trying
any way; and thire ie nothing wrong in
Port Orford competing with Euchre
Creek for the position of a such school,
though it would seem like trying to rob
Eacbre Creek of her thunder. One
man offers to give five acres of lend and
a beautiful location in tho outekirte of
Port Orford, and no doubt by a little ef
fort cmplo funds conld beraljed by sub
scription to erect a large and commod
ious building. Port Orford Tribune
It is bard to understand why the
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newspapers qr the people o uurry
should waste time crying for the moon.
While a normal echool at Port Orford-
or on Euchre Creek-would undoubtedly
boa nice tbiogjpr Curry county, tho
same may be said of any locality in the
state, and there would bo no possible
bopo of inducing.the legislature to np
propiate money for school in such a
remote and sparsely tettled locality.
It is understood that this talk of a
normal tcbool In Carry is a littfe poltt.
cal boncomb of a would-be candidate
Tho wonder is that any one- should tako
it Eeriogely, as some seem to be doing.
It will be remembered that tho pro
posed normal school at Yaquina, which
bd much (0 recommend it, was recent
ly turned down by veto, although sup
ported by the best men of .tho House
ami Eenate, and though, the House
passed It over the Governor's bead, It
failed in the Senate.
Kar anything within the bounba of
reason, Curry could depend on Coos for
any possible encouragement and assist
ance, but what is tho use of talking
noniense?
' Oblivion. '
1 "Tho world won't forget him in a
UuvP;" u '
, 'Wo;ltwU doubtleas ;tnko plontyof
tks to'dg 8m job tlttrouftijr,M--Fuck.
JAPSGETII-THEIE
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"TH'INGS Thl'f- ATTfiC7L:."
Mrs, RrowifPottoi was sued recently
ii KukIuihI for 1111 tl)cftl Infi'ln'im-nt
cf conyrhxut In rcclttuir "HIiiwutlm'H
Wodainir." A
) The New Nixon thenter, Plttsbtirsfli
tho nenroiit nppruuelt to llu unuul
Opera Hoysc, I'urK yet attempted. It
scnts tl,HW.
John Cntljr. 1ms left Mnry Manner
In's company, In which ho was play
inj: the leadlup iniilo character In "Ju
lth.'' The play has been vluivvd.
. ltcportit rrout llei'lln Indicate that
Unuptimuufs "Rose ltcmd" Is the
greatest swcceHS pIiico "Ktilirninun
Ilenschcl," which It eotucwliat ivsem-
blcs.
Ilcury Savage has aljmetl con
tracts with Oliver llcrfom and Henry
Waller to complete for his use n Kitlrlc-
nl musical fantasy with the rather odd
title "McAdnm niul live."
Drlna Do Wolfe, who won wen last
season with Henry Miller In "The Tain
In of Helen," Is to bloswun forth as n
Icndlui; woman In Aufttwtns Tliomaa'
"The 1'UB ami the ParMh."
A liussestlon Is maile by E. S. Wll-
lnnl that In the London theaters the
followlne announcement shall Ue nromi
licntly posted: "Elderly ladfes who fear
to take cold are requested uot to re
move their hats."
CURRENT COMMENT.
The heiress of the future will bo
known perhaps o a raro and radium
maiden. Chicago Tribune. '
The Russlnn bear Is n conciliatory
sort of nn animal. When he demands
nlnoty-seret.'lVblnvs in a liuuilrctl he Is
almost always willing to compromise
on nlnoty-flvo or-ulnoty-slx. Iudlanap
oils Journal. "
Missionaries proixv;e to break nn the
habit of ullnwhiK women to bo yoked
with the dxen in Ilarbary states. Their
eoudltlon would not be improved by
yokluc them to some of the men of the
Bnrbary states. Washington Post.
Tlio inevitable result of. tho. passace
of a national pure food law. will bo .to
harmonize tho state puro food laws nnd
their administration and put an end to
tho present rldlcirtous and scandalous
eoudltlon. Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
The commlttco on naval affairs has
decided not to recommend Captain
Hobson's bill ' for the Investment of
S3,000,000,000 in new ships. Tho com
mlttce hns tluurcil thnt It would 1m?
cheaper to buy any country that might
waut to light us. Washington Post.
GLEANINGS.
From 1&10 to 1830 but l,n.T0,000 im
migrants eutered our coun.try.
The rocks at NlaRorn falls aro being
washed nwny nt the rate of almost
three feet per year.
Moro than $0,000 worth of pure gold
Iwb been taken from tho sands of the
Swift river in Oxford county, Me., dur
ing tho lost llvo or elx years.
The con! from tho Glamorganshire
field in South Wnles Is regarded os au
pcrior to all other steam coal by the
navies of tho world. Its rival from
the United States Is tho Pocahontas
coal from West Virginia. ,
A. fire which broko out in tho con!
sheds at Gorbarn, N. II., last August
1 and has been burning ever since has
dono large damage. It Is estimated
that between 10,000 and 12,000 tons of
coal have been consumed.
THE WRITERS.
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' Benor Jose Amaldo Mnrquez, a dis
tinguished Pcruvlun writer, is dead.
Dr., Moncuro Conwny haB written his
memoirs and will publish them before
long.
Professor James A. Harris, editor of
the Virginia edition of Poc, Is writing a
biography of George Washington.
Miss Mario Corellt's I partiality for
private theatricals was formerly mani
fested in tho representation of elderly
comic characters, which she preferred
to any others.
John Hach McMaatcr, professor of
American history at the University of
Pennsylvania, is reading the proofs for
tho sixth volumo of his '.'History of the
People of tho United States."
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TRAIN AND TRACK.
Tho number pf men employed on the
railways of the United Kingdom, in
cluding boys, is B23.082.
Prussian railw'uy cars havo only
about threo-tenths tho carrying capac
ity of thouo used in tho United States.
The number of trains nrrlvlug dally
in Chicago is 1,138. They uro upon
twenty-threo railways, currying nn
average of 100,000 passengers. Of these
tralus 333 arc, for through traOla and
60-1 for suburban business,
A Yunkom Gallant.
Sho Why, my heart was in my
boots.
Uo-rOh,' come, noyl j Your honrt Isn't
ns small a' a that YoukerjiRutesuJun.
ON TWO
Naval Battle off Chemulpo. Five Russian
Warships Already Put Out
of Business
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Special to tho Mail by telephone.
There was a battle off Chmujpo harbor
this morning. Two Russian cruisers sunk and
disabled. Thd crews escaped and went aboard
a French vessel in the harbor. The Japanese
were not injured, this makes five Russian
war vessels already out of business.
Russia made a formal declaration of war
this morning.
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GREATEST COPPER BELT
Country Between Umpqua,
Rogue Rivers
and
''Tlio biggest copper bolt in the
United States, bar nono, lies bctneon
the Uroppua and lloguo rivors In South
ern Oregon, and tho district Is so rich In
gold that I defy any man to fall In find
ing a paying placer properly who, will
stick a pick into any ono of tho gulches
between those streams."
This is tho statement mado by L. K.
Kiug, of Cripple Creek, Colo., ono of
the foremost mining experts in tho
country, to an Oregonian representative
at tho Portland Hotel.
"I came out hero for tin purpose of
exporting the Itatubow, and met with
au agrceabla surprise. It is tho only
property I ever examined which was
within tO por cent as good as represent
od. Thoitainbow is far and away lio
yotd what I hrd been told, and what I
nave seen in that conntry down thoro
convinces mo that this statu lias the
greatest mineral possibilities of any jn
the Union. If io mineial which is in
eight in Southern Oregon wa in Colora
do there would be a stampede tomorrow
which would equal that at Orlpplo
Creek at the beginning of tho 'Ms.
Yon pcoplo of this town and stato aro
sound asleep as far as your mineral
wealth ie.copcerned. You've gone cra
zy over timber land and lumbering nnd
ard letting the groatest opportunity In
t;rabrlUs nod IleUffloaa Berrlcva.
Umbrellas have always bcon lntl
malely associated with religious scrv
ices in Catholic churches. They were
introduced in the church aervlco's of the
Byrantlno church, aro.borno over tlio
host in procession and form part of tlio
pontifical regalia as well as that of a
cardinal. It la quite likely that tho car
dinal's bat u derived rrom tno urn
brclla.
In Italian heraldry a vermilion urn
brella in a Held argent signifies domlu
Jon. The nnrlelan manuscripts have
at least ono drawing of an Anglo-Saxon
gentleman whoso servant shades him
With a sort of nmbr,clla having a curved
handlo and evidently not monnt to
closo.
Electriottr Amontc .lie Jiipuneae.
Tlio Japaucso uudemtood electricity
au an attractive fo'rce.'of which they
wcro very secret. The Greeks and lto
mans also know something of tho mug
net ns nn attractivo forco known to
modern scienco as an electrical attrac
tion, something like tho loailstono of
tho Chinese. They aro supposed to be
ignoraut of its popularity, though in
their secret records there aro mentions
of sacred forces which nono but God
knew and must not be tuuiucrcd vyltul
urtuMt ...
RUSSIAN
WAR VESSELS
this country today slip away from jou
Within flvo years tho peoplo of Portland
will atatid on the street corners and
tell strangers how they might have become-
millionaires If thoy had had their
wits about them. Inside of live ycara
onteldcrs will go into Boothorn Oregon
and make fiO-dny fortunes. The peoplo
of Portland are grabbing nt two-bit
pieces and letting 20 gold pieces slip
through their flngarr.
"Most of tho prospecting which has
been dono in tho Hojuo rtver country
has been misdirected. Men go in there
and punch holes all' over tho country,
and after thoy got down 10 or 12 feet,
abandon thorn,
"I went all over jt and didn't find a
hole over two feet deep that n thorough
minlug man would leave.
"I never saw such carelois methods In
my life, and I ncvor saw bottor prospects
anywhere than thoro arodown thoro.
Uutsido capltul is beginning to look this
way, and my ndrico to tho peoplo of this
state is to walo up and get into tho
field boloro It is too bto, Senator Clark
the coppor king, is going to beglu oper
ations on a big tcaio down thoro as soon
as spring opens, His son Charles, is on
his way horo now, and will be in
Portland Inside of a wook. Clark has 11
claims now, and wjjl get all ho can.
Tako my word for it, things aro going to
pop from now on.
"The Rainbow Is only an illustration
of what can be done down there, what
is waiting and cryintr for development,
nnd, as I ild befdro,'tho people of
Oregon should got in and take their
share, before it is too lato,"
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GRAFT.
"Graft" in Washington is
called
tn-1-l-o-a-g-e. New York World.
Graft, like appendicitis, is simply a
new name for a very old complaint.
Tho world has always been aflllcted
with graftcra. KuuHaiTclty Jouroa.
Boston authorities announce that
"graft" has ceased to be blung. Slang
is usually supposed to pounced moro or
less of a humorous significance, and
graft has becomo very serious indeed.
Washington Star.
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A IloNton Hiroll.
She Pino looklui; ovorcout you havo
111, Mr. Draper.
IIo--ThiU's what I thought Hut
there's 0110 thing about it that bothers
jnu terribly. I can't make up my iiiluU,
whether It looks hotter with tho, pocket
llups out or in. Boston Transcript,
Hot In Ileraelf,
"Has tho prima donna any tulcutV"
"Quito a lot."
''But I thought you said aha could
noithor slug nor act,"
"She can't, Tho talout is in tho com
pany sho carries with hor." Cincinnati
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T
ORE
A Ilt.M Jlul.liii. :
Within my tlmu in Tuxiw (mul'ium
not Hiii'h an old man either) two ulitgtN
conches contaliilptr about twenty-three
passenger were stopped and all tho
valuables of tlio passengers litlion hy
one man, Tho robber umdo them nil
otiiiul in 11 row and "hand over." Tho
roulo was only traveled by 01m conch,
but on account of tho largo number of
piissungers nu additional coach was put
on that day. Tho robber stopped tho
llrst coach and iiuulo tho paHNiVugers
;ut out. Whon tho pnusungum in tlio''
first coach weru lined up the second
vouch iiuulo ittt appenrnnco. Ho innilo
them got out nnd then told them ho
didn't expect two coaches. That was
nerve. A Jew Insisted on lotnliilni;
enough of his motley to got his dinner,
Tlio robber took all and thon guvo htm
back no cents, nnd the Juw got Into au
argument with him as to tho amount
being niilllcleut to got a meal. That
was cheelc. Tho robber wont off with
all tho money of tho twenty-throo pas
sengers, and yet thero wore many
bravo men In that caravan, but discre
tion was tlio better part of valor. Tho
robber had two pistols out and ready.
A shot from 0110 of tho twunty-thrco
would llavo caused tho robbor to ajioot,
nnd sovernl would havo been killed.
Thnt's tho onlv way they looked at It,
f Forest and Stream.
I'nlae Ht.
The rata of the pulse In males at dif
ferent nges Is as follows: At birth, 13(1
beats per minute; at 5 years, 83 boats
per inlnuto: between 10-1Q years, 78
heats pqr mlnutcj between 15-SO years,
C0.5 beats per inlnuto; between "023
years, 00.7 beats per minute; between"
irO-30 years, 71 Itcnta per inlnuto; be
tween, 30-50 yearn, 70 beats per in In
ute.
In fentnles tho rnto is from 1 to 4.5
beats faster per minute.
Slow wulklng raises tlio pulso from
10 to 20 buits, while rapid running
may raise it to 110. This rise may
lust from half an hour to nn hour.
Kiitlng raise tho pulse from 8 to 20
beat.; without wine, 13.1;wlth wine,
17.5. In tiio morning the pulno is 10
bents higher than nt night. When tho
barometer rtacs C Inches the pulso in
crcawi Ml pcd inlnuto. If tho pulso
1)0 0U.0 while lying down It will bo'70
..i sitting nnd 78.0 when standing.
Ancient Trllir In l'niiiiinn.
In 1'annnm reside tlio Tnluiuiincans,
n trllxs of Indians ruled by n king who
have not changed their habits hIiico tho
days of Columbus. Tho Talaninncnn's
hut, which Is n masterpiece In tho art
of thatching, Is a hugo affair nnd shel
ters his cutlru family and nil his world
y posscttilutiH, including the domestic
animals. As ho Is a past master In tho
art of domesticating tho wild deer, thq
peccary, tho tnplr iiud oven tho tiger
cat, numbers of thesu unlmalB nro pres
ent In ovory vitiligo. His bed consists
of the trunk of n certain species of
pnlni cut Into strips nnd supported,
threo or four feet from tho ground on a
frame. A few earthen imjIh complotd
tlio furnishings of his hourc.
1 Ilalino'a Impionnlllr.
Of Halio it la atatiHl thnt whonovcr
ho was hard at work ho went to roos
"llko tho fowls," ns ho himself put It,
nt 7 In tho (-veiling. Ho was called at 1
in tho morning and wroto till 8; then
took another hour and a half of sleep;
then after a light meal went to work
again until -1 In tho afternoon; then ho
took a bath, saw a fow friends, took
perhaps a short walk and immediately,
after dinner went off to bed.
"I shall bo compelled," ho wroto, "td
lead this nigger's life for a fow months!
without stopping lu order not to Iw
flwnmped'by thoso terrlblo bills that
are due." And yot ho was alwaya bardj
up for money,
Can-; 'qr piieerfnlnvas,
Cranky Husband (nt a reception) t
wish you wcro as lively as thnt'woman'
oyer thero.
Wife Humphj Ifo wonder sho'a jolly I
Bhc'a n rlph yii)ow-i'hiladolphia lb
gcr. ','
I'rovlUoni Jllnd, "
no I think I'll go and spenlc to your
father at oueo. Ho can't do moro than
kick mo out.
She It senimt a nltv to risk It. dean
lu that good suit. Life.
Htmllra In (,'nrlion,
Tho bits of crystal kIciuiiIw; brlht
On Jeweled hnnils can never win
The jiruliio wlilch on n front y night
Wo Hive the coal down In tho bin.
Buffalo 13xprss, (
I'okor llnlprd Illm.
Hewitt Thoro Js no royal road to
wealth.
Jmvott Oh, I don't know. I got my
start with 11 royal iliuili, Now York
Times.
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Tlio Smart Mnn. s
"Do really Huiuht man," said Uncle
Ebon, "Is do ono dtjt ban sense enough
to 'know dat he's liable to bo fooled da
same as anybody cluo." .Washington
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