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TIIE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORlOaOX, TUESDAY, NOVKMTiER 2, 1909. FORTY CANDIDATES FOR HIGHER MASONIC HONORS SrOKANK. WASH., Nov. 'J. For ty candidates will receive degrees from Ihe fourth to the thirty-second, inclusive, nt the convocation of the Scottish Rite Masons of the Spokane jurisdiction in this city the week of November 12. Sovereign Grand Commander James P. Kiehnrdson, 3Hd degree, mid Sovereign Grand Inspec tor General Enie.st Bert rand Hussey. 33d decree, will be in attendanee, others assisting being V. S. McCren and F. E. Miehoels of Spokane, who received the 33d degree at Washing ton,' D. C., lately, and Rev. Dr. Wil liam J. Hindley, pastor of Pilgrim Congregational church and chaplain to the Spokane chamber of commerce, and Richard B. Harris, also of this city, who were elected Knight Com manders of the Court of Honor. The Spokane chapter, which ; has 375 members,' is arranging a series of receptions and banquets iu connec tion with the ceremonials, at which it .is expected. there will be 500 visi tors from various parts of the Unit ed States and Canada. WILL HAVE TO AGAIN SELL KLAMATH BONDS KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Xov. 2. Despite the fact that the taxpay ers of the city of Klamath Falls vot ed a $45,000 bond for the construc tion of a sewerage system, the city will be without sewers until next " year. " As has been previously stat ed, the council accepted the bid of Kean & Co. of Chicago. Investiga tion disclosed that the firm was not sufficiently responsible. The bonds were then passed up to Morris & Co. of Portland, the 'second highest bid ders. Morris & Co. trimmed their or iginal bid about $600. The council has practically concluded to readver tise the bonds. Mayor F. T. Sander son is heartily in favor of this movp. It is believed that the bonds cn be sold to better advantage than if cither of the bids mentioned had been accepted. Klamath Falls is rapidly increasing in population and in its assessed valuation. TEA SUCCESSFULLY GROWN NOTHING DOING IN FREE AT MYRTLE POINT, COOS CO. srttuti Lint in arimAnt SPOUANK, Wash., Kov. 2. Mem bers of the Industrial Workers of the World will not be permitted to make demonstrations on the streets iu Spokane on November 22, which, no cording to circulars issued by that organization to locals throughout the northwest, has beau designated us Free Speech day." Thero is a city ordinance, prohib iting all except religious orgau'ma tions from street speaking, and Mayor Nelson S. Pratt declares this will be enforced if ho has to call upon the war department to furnish troops from Fort George Wright, three miles west of Spokane, where Lioutenaut Colonol Abererombie, commandant, has eight companies of - colored sol diers, recently returned from the Philippines. Mayor Pratt will instruct Chief of Police Sullivan to issue orders to the police department to arrest all vio lators of the city ordinance, and up on conviction the prisoners will be sent to the rock pile. The order has gone forth to the effect that if the prisoners do not work they shall not eat. The prisoners will also bo given two baths daily during their terms of sentence. MARS1IF1ELD, Or., Nov. 2. That tea can bo successfully grown in Coos county has been clearly dem onstrated by J. O. Stemmler of Myr tie Point. 'On his ranch near Dora he has a good crop of tea and has brought in'a supply of leaves, which he does each year, to supply his fam ily table. The tea is bf the regular Japan variety. He secured the plants from Wash ington some years ago, and has made a perfect success in growing the cr ti. He is convinced that the valley smir. try a little back from the ocean in Coos county is adapted to tea cul ture, and that there will be a good yield if care is taken in protecting the plants the first year they are in the ground. Mr. Stemmler also is growing wai nuts. He has trees 7 'years old, and this year has produced some of as fine walnuts as will be found any where in the state. BOGUS PICTURES. POULTRY PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS TO FARMERS TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. ' 2. Statis tics prepared 'by the United Slates board of agriculture show thai the earnings of poultry in the United States in one year were greater than the value of either the cotton crop, wheat crop or swine output. The latest report of the depart ment showed that the value of the egg output for a single year amount ed to more than $290,000,000 Twelve years ago the farmers of Kansas be gan to pay more attention to their poultry, and this state has become the greatest poultry state in the Union. The product of the hen is rapidly paying off the mortgages on many farms, and the business has reached a point where the laying ca pacity and profit of hens is a para mount question. . Counterfeit Antiques Openly Manu factured In Italy. Speaking of the manufacture of counterfeit pntmlnga In Italy, a writer In the National lievlew says that some times genuine old pictures are really discovered In peasants' houses, bn' rarely In good condition. The peasants have a disastrous trick of nibbing pictures with onions to clean them. By so doing they take oft not only the vnrnlsh. but the precious pntlnn nnd certain colors. In many cases lea vine only 'be mere gold back ground (supposing 'he picture U of that date) nnd the more depply Incised lines. These w recks are eagerly boucht for n trifle by art Wlers. who employ skilled experts to restore or rather to remake them on the basis of the origi nal outlines. Pictures of the early period with gold backgrounds and quaint drafts manship are regularly manufactured, especially at Siena, where the panels can be seen openly drying before the shop doors. Their foundation Is a pan el properly worm eaten and chemically aged, painted on the gesso ground that was the basis for all pictures of that epoch and to which they owe their lu minous qualities. Such pictures are often made up out of a number of really old but ruined pictures and are an Ingenious puzzle that require dexterity, taste and knowl edge to construct. I SCHEDULED TO DIE AT 30, LIVES TO 97 ON PIE ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2. In Belleville lives Benjamin . West, ' aged 97, straight as an arrow and spry as a young man, who attributes his long evity to pie. Despite the fact that pie, in a double sense, is about the shortest thing there is, it will mate you live longer if you stick to it as a steady diet, Mr. West says. Any kind of pie will do, from Washington pie to lemon meringue. All are equally stimulating and help ful, says this wonderful old man. FOURTEEN NEW BABIES CAME DAY AFTER CIRCUS DANVILLE, Va., Nov. 2. In the same suburb of Danville, in the same neighborhood and on the same day two sets of triplets, three pairs of twins and two regular babies, a to tal of 14 children, horn to seven fam ilies, is the unprecedented record f Schoolfield. The stork came m the wake of the circus that visited the city the day before, and he left some thing of a circus behind him. . NOTICE. The Rogue River Society of Na tive Pennsylvanians meets Saturday, November 13, at 11 a. m. in the Pres byterinn church, Medford. A basket dinner at 12 o'clock noon. Each one is requested to bring a basket of good things and to help in having .1 good time. Come yourself and bringr all the Pennsylvanians with you. A good program and music. J. E. Watt, president; W. F, Shields, secretary. - No Time For Little Boys. An Edinburgh gentleman died the oth er day, and a small boy, open eyed and silent watched while the coffin was placed In the hearse. "Have you said your prayers, Wil lie?" said bis mother, after tucking him Into bed that night. "No. inamma," said Willie. "Well, say them now." "I'm not going to say any prayers tonight," replied Willie, with the air of one who bad fully made up- his mind. "But yon must" "No. not tonight," Willie persisted. "Why not?" asked the mother Id as tonishment "Ifs no nse," said Willie. 'They will be so busy In heaven tonight un packing Mr. Jones that they will have no time to listen to the prayers of lit tle boyR." Edinburgh Dispatch. THE ELEPHANT IN BATTLE. Moit Docile Yet Courageous and Faith ful of Animals. Of the docility of I he elephant there is no need to multiply examples. It Is said that Iu ludln native women some times when called away Intrust their babies to the care of "the banded one." confident that they will be safe and tenderly bandied. But of all elephant stories surely the finest Is that which tells bow the standard bearing elephnnt of the pelsh wa won a great victory for its Mali rntta lord. At the moment when the elephant had been told to halt Its ma bout was killed. The shock of battle closed around It. nnd the Mahratta forces were borne back, but still the elephant stood, and the standard which It carried still Bew. so that the Pelsh wa's soldiers could not believe that they were Indeed being overcome and. rallying. In their turn drove the enemy backward till the tide swept past the rooted elephant and left It towering colossal among the slain. The tight was over and won. nnd then they would hnvp had the eleplinut move from the battlefield, hut It waited still for the dead man's voice. For three days and nights I remain ed where It h:id been told to remain, and neither bribe nor threat would move It till they sent to the village on the Ncrbndda, a hundred miles a1 way. and fetched the mahout's little son. n round eyed, lisping child, nnd then at last the hero of. that victorious day. remembering how Its master had often In brief nl,sinrp delegnted authority to the cbilil. confessed lis allegiance and with the shattered battlp harness clnnglng nt each stalely stride swung slowly nlon! the road behind theoy. London Times. . TO CARRY 14-INCH GUNS SHIPS MUST BE HEAVIER The Cynics. Cynics was the name applied to a school pf philosophers founded by An-tlsthenes.- a pupil of Socrates. The main tenet of the extreme cynics was that civilization Is a curse, and true happiness can be .obtained only by gratifying the most primary physical appetites which mar hap In common wttb brutes. The genera! attitude of the cynics as distinguished from that of the stoics, who regarded everything In the external world with indiffer ence. wn one of contempt. They were not an Important philosophical school numerically, but attracted attention largely by their eccentricities and Inso lence Qn account of their contempt for refinemtnt their name came subse quently to he applied to any one who takes a mean view of human life. New Tort American. Didn't Care For Him. Little Eleanor's mother was an American, while her father was a Ger man. One day after Eleanor bad been sub jected to rather severe disciplinary measures at the hands of her father she called her mother into another room, closed the door significantly and said, "Mother, I don't want to meddle In your business, but I wish you'd send. that husband of yours back to Germany." ladles' Home Journal. A Little Crowded. A backwoodsman went to New York city for the llrst time, says the Satur day EvenkiK Post, tie Rtopped at a Broadway hotel which was pretty well downtown. Next morning his nephew, who lives In New York, came to take him out and show him the sights. They walked down '"roadway until they got to Canal street. The' backwoodsman stopped and contemplated the great congestion of traffic there, hundreds of trucks going every way. . "Son." be snld to his nephew, "you have a nice city here, but It 'pears to me that your folks Is a bull passel be hind. In their hniilln'." HC0D RIVER APPLES NEARLY ALL GONE WASHINGTON, Nov. "J. Should the government decide to change frum 12-inch to I l-inch guns for the main batteries of our fleet, Ihe iuuo-' vution with affect only Ihe ships lol bo hereafter designed. Even thuj ntiiditv Delaware, now inulere'oinL? her' unofficial trials, is not si mug enough to accommodate the huge I'ourteens. The first gnu of this bore is rap idly bearing completion. It will be given its tryout at I ho Indian Head proving grounds next spring. The now gun will weigh 72 tons, only 7 tons heavior than tho l'i-inch. Tho velooity of a shell fired from tho 14 iuuh will be slightly less than that of tho 12. Hut the 14-ineh'nrnior-piore-ing shell will weigh 1400 pounds, whereas tho 12-inch weighs 870 pounds, and it will have a capacity for penetration of nearly two inches greater thickness of ordinary steel armor. It will require a 400-pound propelling charge, and the new shell will carry double the bursting charge of tho 12-inch. POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE OF GRANTS PASS ARE MARRIED We ore Growerwnuy direct from u NO AGENTS Oar Trci aro urown trie. 7 WITHOUT IRRIGATION Write for fre catalog. Lnrwo atnrk of varUti(!aal taMoftir commercial orcbard Choice Fruit, Nut snd Ornamental Tret, Grape, Vines, 6mall Fruit Plants and Shrubbery THB DaLLKS NUIIHKUIKB Main Office, 122$ Grand Ave, Port! aad,Ore. GRANTS PASS. Or., Nov. 2. Miss Kiln Savage and Hoy Harper, two of Grants Puss' popular young peo ple, were married at the homo of the bride's parents of Kast A street yes terday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Only the family and a few of tho mint iutimato friends were present. Both the contracting parties have been ac tive iu Methodist church circles nnd have ii wide circle of friends. They left on the evening train for Portland, where the groom is interested iu the restaurant business. Hamilton Dies. GRANTS PASS, Or.. Nov. 2. A. II. Hamilton, formerly of West Yir- ini.a died last week and a short servieo was held nt the undertaking parlors yesterday afternoon. lie hud been a resident of Grunts Pass for the past two years. He was a mem ber of the Woodmen of llie.World and had just taken two degrees in the Masonic ordor. Tho widow will envc on the evening train with the body for Xiitnpn, Idaho, where the inter ment will lake place. HOOD UIVUH, Or., Nov. 'J. Willi (mo or two exceptions, nothing re niniiix iu place of Ilia liandHoino Hood River apple show, which delighted hundreds of visitors during the pm tew days.- hnrly this morning tipple packers and shipper were at work repacking and nailing up tin) boxes for shipment. The carload which the Applegrow- ers' Union will send lo Chicago was rapidly gotten together, mid will be started for ils dostiuutinti in the liuxt day or two. Several of the small ex hihils will bo taken to Portland for display thero. Others bavo been bought at a hih figure by Kaslcrn visitors, nnd will bn sent lo New York, .Minneiipolis, Philadelphia and oilier cities I'oi' their own use, - The fnir was u linmiciiil success, and Ihe proposition In erect ii per manent fruit fair building received HiiliHtiiulial assistance during ils progresii. It is tho intention lo raise enough money by Miihscriptinii to pur chase a suitable slto in the ceuler of tho city nnd to have Ihe building ready for tho fair next year. A plan of building that has boon suggested is one pavilion shaped ho as, to allow of nil the exhibits being placed on thu sides, leaving the cen ter open for the accommodation of spectators. Every Day Something New for the next two months 1 will show tho i'iiicst, stock of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Sterling Silver Toilet Sets, Sterling 'Silver Novelties, Cit (JI.ish. Sil verware find Clocks I have ever sh wu. P. S.--lienieniber, I carry tho three ).vn articles made Cforham Sterling Silver, IlawKes & i.ibby's Rich Cut Glass. MaifnJ. Reddy THE JEWELER Near P. O. ESTERBROOK ORCHARD TRACTS 5 10 20 Acres Adjoining Hillcrest orchard and con tain unexceled deep, rich soil. Rea sonable prices and generous terms. OREGON ORCHARDS SYNDICATE SELLING AGENTS ROGUE RIVER VALLEY P. C. Hansen. . ' Tom Moffat We make any kind and style of windows. We carry glass of any size on hand. Medford Sash & Door Co. Won Him. Blobbs Henpeckke thinks you are the finest fellow In the world. How did you manage to make such an Im pression? Slobbs Oh, I pretended to be surprised when he told me be was a married man, Philadelphia Record. Paul de Anna . FIRST-CLASS GERMAN WATCHMAKER, JEWEL ER AND ENGRAVER. ALL WORK GUARANTEED, IN ; CONNECTION WITH MED- , FORD LOAN OFFICE, COR.. CENTRAL AVE. AND SEV ENTH ST., MEDFORD. Just Arrived From Holland Full arid Complete line of bulbs. Best Line of , . Lawn Grass in the city ; Ornamentals and small fruits 50,000 No. I Grape Moots while they . last at $25 per thousand. Peaches and Apricots js.J . ..y -V'.'. wv Newtowns, Spltzenberg, Jonathans, Wlnesap ' Apples, Bartlctts, Winter Nells and Cornice Pears, You will do well do get our prices, before buying ROGUE RIVER NURSERY 0. P. COOK, Proprietor MEDFORD, OR. PHONE 583. OFFICE IN ROGUE RIVER VALLEY DEPOT 1
