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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY7, 3911.
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TWO EVENTS IN ONE WEEK.
KDKOHD tlicutor-gocra and music lovers will enjoy two events tltlfe
week seldom vouchsafed to residents oC u city of this size
OIkii NelliersOle and the Russian Symphony Orchestra.
Miss Nethcrsole will be seen in a double bill "Bister Heat rice" a mir
acle play by Maurice Mnetcrlinok and "The Enigma" by Paul Herien, Miss
Offlco Mnll Trlbiino Hulltllns, 25-27-29 Ncthersolo ranks among the world's greatest artists and is the only eele-
North Kir street; phone, Main 3021 L , j (,lnj(,11 .i,.ns ,, visit Mriilftiril llii.x season.
The Hussiaii .Symphony Orchestra plays Wednesday evening at Med
ford, but in no other city between San Francisco and Portland. Its visit
here is largely an c.xpeiiment, and should the enttertainment be well
patronized, other first class musical attractions will make Medford, which
will be classed with the larger cities as possessing culture and refine
incut sufficient to appreciate high class music.
The program, which includes Russian melodies, is one that has won
the highest commendation from musicians and critics from New York
to San Francisco und praise is universally showered upon the performers.
OEOItUi: PUTNAM, Kdltor and Manager
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Kntarcd as Focond-clans mattor a
Medford, Oregon, under tho act of
March 3, 1870.
Official Paper of tho City of Medford
Official Paper of Jackson County
HTrnncrtiPTioir RATES.
Ono year, by mall E,92
Ono month by mall .: 60
Per month, ileiiveroa ny carrier in
Mnilfnrit .lurk nnn vllln and Cen
tral Point .60
Kimday only, by mall, per year.... 2.0()
Weekly, nor year 1.G0
nwonN ciRCULATiorr,
Dally iiverngo for six months ending
December 31, 13IV, 2721.
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Leaicd Wire United Titwn
Slipatchea.
Tho Mnll Trlbuno is on sale at thn
Ferry Nowh Htand, Hun Krancl&co.
Portland Ilotol News Htand, Portland,
nnwmnn Nowb Co.. Portland, Oro.
W. O. Whitney, Bentlle, Wash.
MEDPORD, OHSQON.
Motropolls of Houlhcrn Oregon find
Northern California, und tho Tautest
growing city In Oregon.
Population U. R. census 1010; 8840;
cstimnted, 191110,000,
Klvo hundred tliqintond dollar Ornvlty
Water System eoniplotcd, giving tlncni
supply puro mountain water nnd six
teen miles of street bolng paved and
contracted for nt a cost exceeding $1,
v 000,000, making a total of twenty inllen
ot pavement.
I'oHtofflco receipts for year endlnis
March 31, ,191, show Ihcrcaso of 41 per
cent, riank deposits a gain of 22 per
cont.
Unnnor frutt city In Oregon Itoguo
Jllvcr Hpltzonberg apples won Bweep
staUcs prlzo nnd tltlo of
"Applo Xlna; of tho World.'
nt tho National Apple Hhow, Spokane,
1900, nnd n car of Nowtowns won
rint Frlzo In 1D10
nt Canadlnn International Apple Show,
Vnnpftuvftr. II. C
Iloguo Illver pears brought highest
prices In nil markets or tho world dur
ing' tho past six years.
Wrltd Commercial club, Inclosing 0
cents for postage for thn finest commu
nity pamphlet over written.
THE STREAK OF YELLOW AND THE RED BADGE
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THE PESSIMIST.
Nothing lo h I'"' work,
Nothing to cat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep onu from going undo.
Nothing to tireatiio but air,
Quick iih a flash 't Is gone;
Nowhere to fall hut off,
Nowhero to stand but on.
Nothing to comb Hut hair,
Nowhere to sleep hut In lied,
Nothing to weep hut tears,
Nothing to bury but dead.
Nothing to slug Mil songs,
All, well, alas! ulackl
Nowhero to go hut out,
Nowhero lo c'oiuu but hack.
Nothing to see hut sights, ' '
Nothing to iui'tigh but Ihlrst, .
Nothing to have but what wu'vo got;
Thus thro' life wo nru cursed.
Nothing to strike but a gait;
Kverylhlng moves that goes.
Nothing at all but common sense
Can over withstand tliTso woes.
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COMMUNICATION.
To the l'Mllnr: Although tho people
urn now demanding heller results from
highway work the construction of some
roads through our county does not seem
to havo altered much from tho old way
which was something after this fash
Ion: First If there was any pretence Of
elevating the roadbed, the whole width'
of the right of way would he ploughed
lip and the top soil, the easiest plowed
nnd handed, and the most poious and
poorest material for roadbed would he
removed toward the center which when
elevated 12 to 80 Inches was deemed
high enough, sometimes giaxel would
headded a costly material only to sink
and ho lost In a sea of mud the next
Winter. The Idea of all this seemed to
ho Unit when the main track became Im
passable, a parallel trail equally as
good could he started anywhere on tho
right of way. Of course side drains
could not he allowed as they would pre
vent the Unci; from winding fiom side
to side of the right of way. I would
submit that U6 to 28 feet base Is wide
enough for ordinary country iouiIh; Unit
the loatllmd he Hot less than three feet
higher than the side drains; add gravel
If you eau get it nu that. The drains
should be as close to ,1110 road bed us
possible use a ling toad drag on It In the
winter at the right lime to keep the
Wheel ruts filled and the surface firm
so that the water enii run off the riwil.
Instead of souklug Into II ss It does nt
present In most eases for the one gteat
necessary condition for good toads Is a
dry roadbed. As to stone, I would In
terdict everything bigger than iv hen's
IKK on or within a foot of the surface
1 think It Importantlii tlieluteresis of
good toads that the ring or spill log
fiuid drag should have a thorough try
out on our roads In the coining winter.
The cost of the operation Is light nnd
n most tuNlauoes gives very good re
nulls .1. II. I.VD1A1U).
Table Hook. Mwy 3. 1911.
Queer Mnlndy In Iowa.
MAKON CITY, Iowa. May 6. A pe
culiar niHlady has appeared here. About
a weU ugo Kmest Iti'iiillng died. The
ilny he whs hurled his younger brother,
Iwrl, wus taken slo ktind In twenty-four
Injurs lis was doml. The attending phy
NKilan diagnosed Hie trouble us pin.
limine poisoning Kurl hud hurdly hn
hurled when the 3 year old daughter of
Mrs Ileum took slrk and died. The
school bomd as n precautionary inmts
lire has closed the sehool. l)r Iloyd of
Iowa Slate I'ulvetslty Is making n
thorough exuiniiiutiou. lie announcus
ife believes the deaths were due to ncutn
Intestinal trouble canned by the use of
Impure witter.
V "Pink Cnndy" K11U Child.
t MAJlHHAUroWN. Iowa. .May (i
While playing about thr house unmind
ful of any danger. Nnrinsu, ngtsl 18
ironths. son of A P Johnson of this olty
found u small box filled with "pretty
itnl( candy " The Imbe denned out the
box, eating eight of the little pellets,
which proved u he common onthurtlo
pills, ono of li it-li ium hii adult done.
The hubu tiled In cohmiImIoxs u few hours
Hftor eutlllg the IHtle pills
preacher Bomb Plot Victim.
MATTOON, HI.. Mm 0 An attempt
lias been inado to ilesttoy hv a dwiumltu
K)inl) tho home of the lu-v II II Fisher.
a I'rcBbvterlun mlnlstrr In N oga. It
wik Hi" M'contl alt'"ipl wMhtn a year '
Tho mllllHter has been u h.id. r .u Hie
fight for law enforcement i
Hitffkliia for JltMilth. j
UK yellow streak never rihanded thfc red bnd?o of courage. It
never flea ns an einhlem of native nobility. It never waved among
the white plumes of chivalrV. Worn secretly, yet it hns ncvei
failed lo flutter upon emergency and proclaim the true nature of its
wearer to the wondering world.
Nothing worth while is accomplished without courage. It
gi cutest gift of the godsi Jt makes all things probable ahd all
is the
things
possible-
Turning the
Into an hour
"Jumping o'er time,
accomplishment of many years
glass"
And ngniii the inspiration of life long labor. Courage is (ho vital
r-park that kindles into life drcnms'nnd fantasies and conjures into real
ization aspiration and ambition. It knows not faint heart nor i'altoriiig
failure; and eVer of good cheer, faces tho future undismuyed.
But tho streak of yellow, concealed badgo of tho craven ,and the
coward reaches few goals except by accident or stealth. By perfidy, by
muchiav6lism; by sheer clinltt'e, once in a while tho streak of yellow flut
ters in tho seats of the mighty, but the exception unusually proves this
viilu.
The man worth while is tho ntaii who can "stand tho gaff," who i&
not conquered by failure' nor undone by success; who calmly picks his
way through miry swamps or undismayed walks tlio dizzy height, "who
dares to do all that may becomes a man." ,
We meet them both, every day, tho red badge and tho yellow streak
mid sometimes it seems that there are most of the latter, for "many
ilrcam not to find, neither descrvo, hud yet are steeped in i'nvor." Just as
faith in human nature weavers, along conies a tnodest wearer of thu red
badgo to restore it and wo marvel that u "harp of a thousand strings
ehoitld keep in tune so long.''
CITIES GROWING AHEAD OF COUNTY
CCOHDING to the census ot 1010, Oregon gained 2002.1!) people
in the past decade, an increase of over (15 per cent. Less than 00,000
of this new population have gone to the country, while nearly 'J00,
000 have gono to the cities, tlueu fifths of them to Portland. Three per
sons have settled in cities to e.wry one that has gono to the country.
Commenting updji this popular movement toward the city, iManngcr
C. C. Chapman of the l'oitlnud Commercial Club states: "Wo are fac
ing the gravest problem of the generation, for if wo can get more peo
ple on tho noil many of our other troubles will settle themselves. How
to get the landless man on the mauless laud is the great work to which
the Oregon Development league and thu Portland Commercial club have
set themselves. Tho figures show thut there is dire iieod of it. The
man who can devise a way lo ofsot tho lure of tho white lights' of the
city and get men to set their feel on the ground instead of trending asphalt
.ill their lives, deserves well of his country."
This movement is in accordance with the times. Kegrcttablo though
it he, the lendeiioy of modern civilization is toward tho city and away
from the country and it has been tho tendency for u century. The
life, thu hustle, the struggle, tho glamor of the city, tho great prizes it
offers make it a mccca to ambitious and pleasure loving youth, who
are lined hy its while lights even as the moth is attracted lo the caudle
-and often to a similar fate.
One patent reason for tho superior attraction of the city over the
country is set forth by the Oregonian as follews:
"The growth of towns without a corresponding development of rural
life is a sort of hypertrophy. It extorts admiration only from those who
do not know that it is a disease. As a rule the country districts of
Oregon are more populous than they were ten years ago, but not much
more. Tho lamentable decrease in Wheeler, (Jrant and Union Counties is
'aid to be accounted for hy the merger of small holdings into huge wheat
farms. For this process nature and indifferent cultivation are partly to
blame. Wheat can be raised moicheaply under the prevalent waste
ful method on the largo scale than on little farms.
"The vast unoccupied tracts in the Willamette Valley stretch out
in unproductive solitude about the same as tli'ey did ten years ago. There
has been some increase of population in this attractive region, hut not
much continued with what (hero should have been. But hero at any rate
there has been some division of Iho original claims, though not nearly so
much as there ought. Tlu Willamette Valley would support several mil
lions of people in comfort, there is n great deal of laud held out of the
market altogether. The owners will not mill at any reasonable price bo
cause they feel sure of obtaining two or three times as much tea years
from now as anybody will offer today.
"Again we must remember that there is scarcely ten miles of really
Sood road outside the fiubiiibaa districts In the Willamette Valley. A
man who settles five miles from a depot might as well be a hundred
miles away during tho winter months, so far as getting to market is con
cerned. His home is a solitude without neighbors, church or, frequent
ly, oven a school. This kii'd of an existence does not nttrnet the mod
ern mini, lie prefers to settle near a town where he can earn more and
live belter and at the same time, have some advantages for his family.
"(live the country good roads the year around, give it u pnreols post,
let our missionary societies forget China and Boriohoola film a little
while and send some good preachers out into the rural districts of Ore
gon, and put real agricultural instruction into the schools. People forsake
tho country because life is more desirable in town; that is all there is to
it- Make Iho country equally desirable and the tide will turn."
The real reason for the growth of Portland at the e.Hnso of the
rot of Oregon, is the supremely wolfish and narrow policy the metro
polis pursues toward the balance of the state, which is ably set forth
hy the Kugeno Guard h follow :
"If Mr. Chapman could induce the people of Portland --those who
own the property and eontiol the, capital there to take a broader view
of the development of the state than they have heretofore possessed
this problem of over-population in the metropolis might lie easily solved.
PoiiIhuiI oiipitulhU have never invested a dollar in the state outside of
their oily, have apparently caictl little whether the territory from which
they draw their trade grew or not. The Williamette Valley, and all
WoMorn Orejtou, hus ..imply been milked dry all tho time by Portland
jobbers and the Soullmru Pacific railroad working together. Not a
factory can oxint in Oregon ouUido of Portland because of discrimina
tion in freight rule, slid Poillnud fights every attempt of the smaller
cities of the state to yot jtiMioo in this ropect, and therefore iojg'
industry of ituy inaituitude i centered in the one big city of Oregon.
"All the money sent into the stale by big insurance oonccrns or
other Ihiico investor lo losn mi real cMitt is inonosiliaed in Portland :
no industry, no matter how promising, ever received a dollar of financial
hacking from Port Und. uul luculod iu that city, hut smooth solh-i-toi
wniio to Kuj"iu und finer WiMoru Oregon towns and load up lorul
capituluU with itoek i Pmtiiuid ooiicontk; no local railroad move
ment, denignell to break thu Southern Pacific monopoly, either from
Kugeue, ltiisebnrg. (IriniU Prs or Medford. eer received the slujhu'ot
n-ft-latict' l" i'n in lb,' inpiiiih-t ,ii Poiil mil. Mr ('h.ipnuut i right in nu
tl.int', Pmii.iiid, vvlnili i- tin' iil ii'iil t'liv in OriTi-n, will -i.u In l.i.i
in fate with a ciiii prnliliin li i .nmi.1 Lii at lb,- invent nu
without mure tlcu'lopmcat m the tunti from which it draws jU twuU
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MERCERIZED, PLAIN AND FANCY EFFECTS
SEE THE NEW-
"FRENCH FLANNELS"
In White, Light Gray and Fancies All With Soft Collars
NECKWEAR Entirely New Effects
You are Invited to Examine tHe New Ideas Now on Display
at This Store.
ALWAYS IN EARNEST
THE TOGGERY
-of course
NOW OPEN
GOLD HILL HOTEL
Newly Furnished
Meals Excellent
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Every Article New
Stop and See
OREGON
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GALE, Proprietor
Si'tiitlo went far ahead of Its territory and is now oxporioneint,' a slump
iu business and growth that it will require years to recover from, -Portland
may heed tho warning or not. However, if our big eity would be
willing to sec Salem, Albany, Kugeue, Uo.-eburg, Medford and other am
bitious towns grow into cities, with highly developed territory surround
ing them and industries to employ tho pooplo and innko a market for
the products of the" soil, then tho future of the metropolis would be one
of stoutly and permanent growth with little fear of a depression such
as thu sound eity is going through.
I lie interior towns ol the state need new railroads and better trans
pollution rates and facilities. Portland could help to 'secure the-e it
nho would. Also they noOd capital to develop resources and start in
dustries, and Portland might supply .some of this as well. Mr. Chap
man may plead with pooplo to go into the country, but as long ns the
country is lacking railroads and many other things so necessary to its
dexelopment his pleas and warnings aliko will fall upon douf ears; nnd
Portland will continue to grow nt the expenso of tho rest of tho stale
iiutil tho inevitable reactiioa comes."
niitHo. AlthoiiRli tho tivatnirnt nnd Indians) ofton uro reluctant to accent
tfliiHMVH are fiiriilnliuil without cost, thei service.
Indium' Eye Are Falling,
DAUL.1KC1TOX, Oklu., Mny C United
StHteB Clovernmeiit In UulldliiK hiiiiiU
hospital and einiilovluK ocnllstH and op
ticians to nave tho onco eiiKleoyed Auirrl
mn Indian from lillndnefH. it Im jiom
kIIiIo that In time the Indian will ! a
tepen and their linhlts of IIvIiib tend
couutantfy toward eye troubled. Few
lmllatiH now have wound eyes.
Dr Daniel V. White, eye speclaltat of
tne liuitan Horvice, and Moveral nnsl.st
antn. are In Oklahoma at work antonc
the trlbed. An eye hospital haH JtiHt heen
spt'ftaelod race Tho smoko of their Htahllshed at thin hk ucy with u trained
ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE
Bible Lecture
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by
JAS. V.COLE, V.D.M.
of tho Lntornational Bi
ble Studonts' Associa
tion at tho
Angle Opera House
Monday, May 8fh
at 8 p. m.
Tho Subject of This Lec
ture will bo
"WHY IS DEATH
AND WHEN WILL IT
END?"
Non-Sectarian.
No collection.
SPECIAL
6 Room Bungalow, Modern
Just being finished. Lot r0x ISO to alley. Six blocks
from Washington school; cement foundation; Mas
tered, and tinted. $2600 was tho price asked last
week, but I can deliver the goods this week for $2100.
C. A. Mc ARTHUR
Home 279 - - P. O. Block
Everything
Electrical
U you are in the market for anything "electrical"
we invito you to call tit this store and examine our
line.
We etui give you perfect work; show you anything
in fixtures and make as low prices as any dealer in
anv citv.
Flynn Bros.
132 WEST MAIN STREET
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