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P3HF0UH. arEDFOttD MATTJ TRTBTItfR MTCmrOTCT), ORKOOK, THURSDAY, T)KH',;MHKK 11, Win. Medford Mail tribune AN INnr.PltNDKNT NBWHPAl'Krt IrUIIHMi:i RVKUT AVTRIINOON UXrCI'T HUNDAY 11T TUB MUUKOItD IMUNTINO CO. Tin Democratic Time. Tlia Mutton! Mall. Tha Medford Tribune, Tha Bouth srn OrcRonlnn. The ABhlntid Trlhunn Offlea Mall Tribune llulldlnir. IS..-: North Kir itroet; Ulrnhone 76. Official Paper of tho City of Mr-dford. Official Paper of Jaokaon Countr. QKOUOI3 PUTNAM, Editor and Manager nntnre-1 as accond-class matter nt Bedford. OroKon, under tho act of March 8, 1879. BUBSCKITTION RATES. On rear, by mail ..... 5.00 Ono month, by mall... .. - .53 Per month, delivered by carrier In Medford, Jackaonvlllo and Cen- tral Point . ... -J Saturday only, by mall, per yer 1.00 Weekly, per year. -- ''' Captain Dcano o the "Sleepy Scv cnlli" strikod the tfiiw oC Colonel Tengwnld's oratory nt tlio meeting of tlio company Tuesday night, liy forcing nn adjournment just ns lie nnd his nides were pettinp ready to ilcnd npnint liis reduction to the rnnk'.-t from tho sergenntey. Colonel Tcnpwnld hnnded Captain Dcnno n letter nskinp for a court of inquirv nnd lind his epistle hnnded hack with the ndvicc to present it to Adjutant General Pinner. Clarence II. Uoyd was named to fill the place Tenp vrnld wns ousted from. The larpest drill attendance in six months was prccnt, including the militia's best sinkers, who came to plead the cnuo of Colonel Tcnpwnld. They vrero nil silenced by adjourn ment. Colonel Tcngwnld said he was go ing to write Adjutant General Flnzer today demanding n court of inquiry into tho charges ncnin-t him. One wing of the company threatens to head a mutiny unless nn entire new batch of officers from captain down arc selected. Chicago Through auction, half car WincMipo, extra fancy, $1.84; fancy, .f..0; few Ganos, extra fancy, .$1.43. Philadelphia Sold bv J. 1 Wil son, account Hose, Ilros., Wenntchee, Wash., Stavton Wjnesnps, cxtrn fancy 04s, $VJ3; 72SS, .f2.20; 00s, $2.15; IKK $2.13; IMs-KISs $2.20; fancy OLs-SSs $2.10; OGs 100s, $2.05; 1K1s-123s, $2.10. Chicago Sold by tho Central PYuit Auction company, account S. T. Fish & Co., Lnkcide, W'ubh. (Che lan county), 72s, Xo. 1 G. Golden, $1.0.; 124s, No. 2, $1.:Ij to $1.50; nvcrnge, $1.38; 57s, No. 1 Home Beauty, 51.23 to $2.20; average $1.51; '77s, No. 2, $1.20 to $l.f..V. av erage $1.42; 74s, No. 1, N. V. Pip pins, $1.15 to $1.83; average $138; 45s, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.05; average $1.31; 42s, No. 2 Jonathans, $1.70 to $1.80; average $1.72; 50s No. 1 King Davis, $1.10 to $1.35; average $1.32. New York There were S35 half boxes Pj. Hue itu pear offered todav, from storage; 00 of theo were sold nt $1.00, tho balnucu being uitli drnwn. They wero from Canfield Switch, Cnl., receiver G. II. Ander bon, G-. If. Andcron brand. New York Arrivals of apples on Rarclny street dock today wero 21 cars, iuurhct active, tnoii"ii no change in prions. Fancy Greenings nro helling up to $3. However, few arriving of this elites. Moat of the slock drawing from $1 to $1.50; No. 2s from $"2.75 to $3.25. Ihildvvins nro in good demund and nro belling irom $1 to $1.50 por barrel. Pears Arrivals light. Market stronger; Ivielcis from $3,25 lo $3.50. Uoslon 87 boxes Spitzenbcrg ap ples, extra fancy, $2; standard, $1.75 (43 I.ononI; 218 boes extra fniiuv Slnynion Wiuesaps $1.75 to $2; inorage, $1.77; 74 boxes extra fancy Hlncl: Twigs, $1.00; car hhip )id by tho Weuati'heo Valley Fruit Grow em' association. DODGE PURCHASES HOME ON GENEVA AVENUE W. P. Dodso has purchased tho now eight room 'residence Juirt erect ed by 0. A. Knight at No. 1!) Geneva avonuo and after a trip to their for mer homo in Akron, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. DoUro will tako up their resi dence there. Tho houso Is ouo of tho finest In tho city, Is furuaco heated, finished In hard wood, with every modoru convenience, nnd while, no an nouncement of tho prtco was mado it Is bollovod to be in tho neighborhood of ?io.ooo, . CAPTAIN SPIKES COLONEL'S GUNS THE THAW FARCE AT tho present rate or progress, Harry K. Thaw will probably die tin old man before tho courts rentier a final decision as to whether or not he shall go back to JMattcnwan that, is, if his money holds out. Xo ease now before the public so clearly demonstrates the absurdities of the law and what a farce courts some times arc when confronted by a simple question of, justice. JjYoiu court to court, each with its ceremonial hocus poeus, the Thaw ease has been dragged. It is now in the federal court, and it is announced that it will be at least three years before a decision can be rendered. And then it will have to be gone all over again on some technicality. The ease is reminiscent of Dickens' celebrated satire on the law, darndyce vs. darndyec, and like the latter, will be brought to a halt only when the principals run out of motley. As long as the Thaw millions last, attor neys of both sides will co-operate to keep the ease in court. Thaw's case proves that it is sometimes a laborious and expensive proposition for a rich man to get justice and that wealth, like poverty, can be a handicap' in the courts. .1 lad Thaw been a poor nobody he would have been freed at once or ruthlessly clapped back in the asylum. The probabilities are that long ago he would have' been released from Matteawan as cured, to save the state need less expense. Thaw killed a notorious and wealthy white-slaver Tor having been the ruin of his wife. In the west he would have been acquitted on the ho was adjudged insane, leans pa'ssed and he escaped. If still insane, he should be returned. If not, he should be freed. It is a simple matter to determine. Hut it is the one thing the lawyers on both sides do not want set tled it would end their graft. So we see the bandage kept on the eyes of justice for attorneys to get the gold from the balance scales and the law made a wean farce. PUGS AND OUR esteemed contemporary, the Sun, after three years' effort, has at last found what it considers a reputable indorsement for prize fighting. It quotes the master of modern mysticism, Maurice Maeterlinck, in the following dispatch: , PARIS Maurice Maeterlinck, tho Rclglnn nuthor, concluded an Inter view yesterday on the subject of uoxlnc bv ilonnlnir the clove ami clvlnir hU caller a lively three rounds. , Maeterlinck ridiculed the Idea thnt boxing was degrading, saying: "It Is the dlsclnlo of violence. It Is violence civilized by conventions that aro almost courteous. Tho boxer never Is rowdy. On tho contrary, his knowledgo gives him self-confidence. Combative Instincts are an Integra! part of our natures; the man who lacks them locks mental energy. Maeterlinck spoke of boxing, not of prize ring, "Box ing, like all other sport, is clean as long as it is amateur, but, like all other sport, is degraded by professionalism. It ceases to be a sport when it beconiestainted with com mercialism, and becomes a business. The prize ring is doomed because it is crooked, and seemingly hopelessly so. "When the professional pugilist is finally barred, boxing may come again into its own sis a manly art, beneficial to the participants as strenuous physical exercise. Maeterlinck referred to the amateur when he said the boxer was never a rowdy, for the pugilist frequentlv is. And it develops no man's self-confidence to watch a prize fight. It merely appeals to surviving primeval instincts of the brute latent in all men hence is an appeal to the lower passions, and therefore degrading. The Menace Py P. J. O'Gara Until quite recently It was thought thero wero no rats In this valley. It is not known how long this destruc tive animal has been here, but It is qulto certain that at least two species, namely, tho black rat and tho brown rat, have qulto a wldo distribution throughout tho valley been received where Reports have theso species havo been killed or trapped In many parts of tho valley. Tho presence of rats In any district Is of more than passing Interest, and whllo It is al most Impossible to completely eradi cate them, it is always woll to keep their numbers reduced to tho lowest possible limit. IcMriiitliL'iH-i of the Rat In tho past interest in tho rat has been from tho economic and financial standpoint rather than that ho is a carrier of some of tho gravest human diseases. From tho economic point of viow, it is estimated that tho rat causes an annual loss of perhaps of $50,000,000 In tho United States. Thero seems to bo nothing that he win not destroy; ho will not only do- stroy all sorts of food products and ! fabrics, but ho will oven eat through lead pipes. Plres havo often been started by ruts gnawing through lead pipes leading to gas motors. In stances of asphyxiation by gas from openings In pipes mado by rats havo been recorded. Many fires aro alsd started by rats gnawing matches. Pires by spontaneous Ignition of oily or fatty rags and wastes carried un der floors by rats havo boon recorded In numerous instances. Theso ani mals nlso do much damage by gnaw ing tho Insulation or tho coverings off telephone and olectrlc wires. Rats seem to bo able to gnaw through any common material, except stono, hard brick, cemont, glass and Iron; neither wood nor mortar will keep them out of any placo they wish to enter. Thoy will oat almost anything and aro par ticularly fond of leather. Doalora In harness and leathor goods suffer great losses; on ship board thoy have been known to eat the shoes belong- unwritten law. In the east BOXERS of the Rat J Ing to tho crow, leaving them without footwear. Famines Caused by Ruts Tho cost of feeding a rat on grain will vary from 00c to $2.00 n jear according to Dr. D. K. I.antz, biologist U. S. department of agriculture. On tho farm tho actual amount of grain eaten and destroyed by a slnglo rat will cause a loss of over 50c a year. In tho cities tho loss among hotel, storo and produce men Is estimated nt $. 00 per year for overy rat. In passing, it may bo said that rats havo become so numerous in parts of In dia as to bo directly responsible for severo famines. 1C16. rats caused n two year's famlno In tho normudas; in tho southern Mecca n nnd Mnh ratta districts of India, rats ato a largo part of tho scant crops of 1878-1879 and woro regards as, In a great measure, resonslblo for tho sovero famlno which followed. In 1CI0, tho Dutch abandoned tho Isle of Pranco because of tho great ahund- nnco of rats. Rats l)cMrtie(iw) to Atilnml ,fu s stated above, thero seoniH to bo no,1,,nK t,,at "'" rat will not attempt io uuairoy or cot. uarl Uagenliock. tho noted animal trulnor, states that ho onco had to kill threo joiing African elephants because rats had gnawed their feet Inflicting Incurable wounds. RatH often gnaw tho hoofs of horses until they bleed. Thoy kill young lambs and pigs; chickens and other fowl aro also killed and eaten. Thoy havo been known to gnaw holes In tho bodies of very fat swjno caus ing death, (To bo continued.) lodlno Is a crude alkallno matter, produced by tho combustion of sea weed. John A. Perl UNDERTAKER Lady Assistant 28 H. IIAKTIJ'TT Plioia-M M, -17 and t7-JlJ Ainbuluiico KerWco Deputy Cnroiicr What Is Soluble Sulphur? Fruitgrowers nro generally Inter ested In any now spray which will lessen tho amount of labor and ex pense, and which will, at tho same time, bo as effective ns tho older and thorodghly demonstrated sprn.s, This offlre has received udincrous let tors, as well as calls, from fruit grow ers who linvo rccoled advertising matter from tho Chin. II. Lilly Co. regarding what Is termed "Soluble Sulphur Compound." This so-called soluble sulphur is designed to take the place of the lime, sulphur which Is used ns n dormant spray In this district during the spring just before the buds have opened, It Is by no means a new compound, as wo have historical evi dence of Us being used In n small way in tho early fifties. Tlfe U. S Ilurcau of Hutomology, n good ninnv ears ngo, Hindu experiments with this compound to determine Its rela tive value as compared with llmo sulphur. It Is claimed thnt the spray has been patented In tho United States, and thnt letters patent have been granted by the V. S. patent of flre. I have seen these letters nu.l will say that, while u patent has been granted, It Is more the process of inanufnctnro than the nrtlcle Itself that has been patented. Tho com pound which tho manufacturers call soluble sulphur has been known for n long time nnd Is nothing more or less than a mixture of approximate! equal parts by weight of sulphur and sodium carbonate, this mixture beliK caused to unite chemically at a cer tain temperature. No water Is used as in the case of making tho lime sulphur, but tho sulphur and sodium carbnontc are fused by heat. This fused mass Is then ground up nud put upon the market as "Soluble Sul phur Compound." The compound Is known technically as "sudlum-poly-sulphide" nnd If properly mndo con sists largely of sodium, tctrnsulphlde and sodium pentnsulphldc, these com pounds being tho active part of tho spray. In breaking down, tlue com pounds liberate freo sulphur In Just Man.Monkey and Their Parasites The Investigations Into ninny dis eases which have been carried on In recent jcars havo emphasized some unusunl relationships among animal species, in blood studies, for In stance, tho samc.rjsuUs. jiro. obtained In some cases In monkeys ns In man. A recent wlter remarks that embry ology, pnleontoloy.and comparative anatomy may havv tauht tho same cuornl facts, but It conies as some what of a shock to many to realize that man's kinship to the monkey goes so far as a "blood relationship." Pew persons nro as yet nwuro of tho fact that this relationship of man by no means applies to all of the mon key tribe, but only to that group In cluding such cxamplos as tho chim panzee, oang, gorilla and gibbon, and not to tho moro common monkeys. This distinction Is of unusual scien tific Interest. V. I. Kellogg, entomologist of I.o land Stanford University, has fur nished a new and somewhat startling kind of evidence-of the relationship of man to tho anthropoid 'group of apes In distinction from others of the monkey trlbo. It is based on tho contention that tho presence of pa ru shes of tho higher animals, Including birds nnd mnmmals. Is governed mom by thu relationships of tho anlmnls than by geographic ran go or any oth er environmental condition. If this Is correct tho kinds of parasites found on Individual animals will Indicate In somo mensuro their relationship. According to Kellogg tho parasites of birds and mnmmals aro of two groups, namely, tho biting Ike, feed ing on tho feathers and hnlr, and tl sucking lice, feeding on blood, Cer tain mites may perhaps also bo as signed to this category, but tho fleas cannot bo, for they hop on and off tholr host, and all their Immature life Is uou-parasltie and wholly apart from their future linsts. Tho lilting lice, of which nearly two thousand species are now known, occur chiefly on birds, whllo tho sucking II to, of which less than a hundred aro known so far, are confined to mnmmnls. No Cofee As a chaser of fatigue and depression, nothing known to science is at once so effective and harmless as a cup of good coffee. flood coffee. Good coffee. Moneyback a o f f o c needs to bo extra good. M o n e y b a o k , means Schilling's Best. In nrnmn-tlght cans, over fresh; cleanly granulated. the same vnyn tho calcium telia sulphide and calcium pclttiiHutphldo of the old llmo-sulphur compound do. It will he readily seen that the reac tions are exactly tho same. Tho ono great difference between the sodium pobsulphlde (soluble sulphur) and the calcium pol sul phide (Itmc-sutphur) Is that tho for mor Is much moie caustic, and must be used with greater rare Those who have carefully studied the action of lime-sulphur on trees Know that It has a retarding effect mum blossom ing and. In general, the opening of all the buds on tho tree Trees spraod with llmo-sulphur will bloom some what later than those left unsiiacd Ah It has been the practice to spray us late us possible Just before tho buds open, there is ulwnss some slight Injury dun to the causticity of the lime-sulphur. The amount of lujuiy, however, Is nevor great enough to warrant one not to spray. Since tho soluble sulphur (sodium polysul phldo) Is much more caustic than lime-sulphur (calcium pobsulphlde) care must be exercised In spravlng too late In the season. If It were put on ns late as the llmo-sulphur. the caustic effect would bo more niil Iceablo than In the case of llmo-sulphur. As spra)H act differently un der different climatic conditions. It l nlwas wi'll to make some careful tests before advising the general use of any now spray. While good re sults have been secured In many sec tions, nrcordliig to reports from re liable sources, 1 would not advise our fruit growers to bo too hast) In iialn It to the exclusion of the time-sulphur until It has been fully tested In this district. Thorough tests will bo made the coming season by this office. The great causticity of the spray If used as late as we are accustomed to use the llmo-sulphur might result In some dnuiagu, tsprclully In bearing or chards. Young orchards, not jet In bearing, would not be so readily In jured. P. .1. O'CAItA. I'ntholoKlst In Chumc. biting lire havo been found on man or on any anthropoid ape SurkliiK lice occur on man, Representative tlkcwlito havo been found on the an thropoid gibbous and rhnmpau'ees Tho other tailed monkeys which, In contrast with the muu-IIko apes, are shown by tho "blond relationship" tests to be unrolntod to man, harbor parasltus of nu entirely distinct kind Tho roKomblauro of man to his sim ian cousins crops out In this most un expected fashion. How theso remarkable nffltiltos of host nud pnraslto are preserved Is not easy to ovplaln. Tho Califor nia entomologist responsible for the farts recited states that he has ofleu become, In tho course of collection, tho temporary host or various bird and mammnl-liift;tluK biting lice, but theko parasites nil xcoiucd as nuxloiii to escnpo as ho was to havo them. Anil they did oscape; or If they did not, they did In n few hours. There Is Indeed, sn)H the Journal of tin American Medical association, nu ex traordinarily exact fining of paraslKi to host lu tho case of biting and suck ing lire, it Is hard to umlorstnml of Just what details this fitting consists, but It would seem to Indicate a cer "tain relationship between anlmnls similarly Infested. MRS. H. L. LEACH Expert Corsotioro .2(i North Uarllcll. Phono 0M M. Don't be deceived You Want Quality and Sat- isfaction as Woll as Prices. Our stock is strictly up-to-date and always fresh. We make a specialty of prompt service and square dealing to all. Lot Us Show You. BROWNLEE & LINDLEY t I Phone 927-L. 327 E. Main GUS' tho Tailor MA KIM SUITS TO IT.' AND PIT TO WKAR KLEIN for KLOTHES At Medford Tallorn ART STORE Reduced prices on pli tares nnd picture framing Century Edition of MUSIC 5c a Copy while it lasts All kinds of post cards at 'big re ductions. It. I,. IlKWINT, I'ltOP. I'lintio No. 11(17-1 ill) V. (itapo St. Phone 682 for Milk, Cream, Butter, Buttermilk llt'TTKIf. 70 I'Kli Our Own Delivery Rogue River Creamery E.D.Weston Official Photographer of th Medford Commercial Clul Amateur FiniMiing Post Cards Panoramic Woik Flash lights Portraits Interior ami exterioi view Negatives made anv tinn i ml any place by appom merit !. M. II MIMO.V, .Maunger. 'iOHT, Main Phone 147 NEAREST TO EVERYTHING rAnncu Hot located and mint pnjniUr hotel In the City ritruhtini; Ire water in every riiinu, EiprcUl attention to ladles travelling alone. I'.ucllert, ie.ionalily priced Klill. Meet ymr friemli at lite Manx. I'.uruian I'liti lUtta tl.SO up, Manau'ntmt, Chcitcr W. Ktlltjf Knuwai Raises the Dough Better ALL GROCERS iwttPlLhmcvAT A V OT. i---'0 rr Theatre Thursday Night Only "LOVE LUTE OF ROMANY" (lipsy hilV. Ks.siiiiiiv Wcs ' tern in two reels. "SALE OF A HEART" Vitagraph comedy, featur ing Maurice Costello. COOOANUT INDUSTRY Luliin Educational "GETTING THE BEST OF DAD" Comedy . 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