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EM-TEES
TUB 1KIH'T.NTE
Soon will the debutantes
Scurry from cover;
Each blooming mal'lon wants
One liandsoine lover.
Not that a score or two
Would cause objections
- Yes, she'll accept from you
, Fancy confections1
When the fair debutante.
nashful and coy,
Frowns at nor maiden aunt,
Bmlles at a boy,
Kicks up her heels a nit,
.Tightens her sash,
Vou may he sure of It
She'!! mailo a mash!
With the fall secson come
Thrown leaves on trees.
Cool nlRhts and winds and some
Dobutante teas!
Fond, foolUh mothers, why
Don't you just say:
"Won't someone marry my
: Daughter today!"
-
' People who swallow a doctor's ad
vice have to cough up money.
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MlKlity Useful
The following conversation botwoen
two Binall colored boys was overheard
at the Washington navy yard:
"What foh city wont Uom big guns?
I thought vii wouldn I hub no mob
wah?"
"Woll. we has to hah dem to sane
m buck!"
IVtwimlNtic
Registrar You want a marrlnge
license, eh? That'll cost you one dol
lar. Youth nut I'vo only got 5(1 centB.
Registrar Than vou'ro lucicy.
e e
Vary fr n Woman
"Only a woman could nl away
villi It."
"What '
"Woarlng furs and a Btrnw hut at
thu same tl iiu '
' V
Front PrjrlnK 1'nn to Tire
"Who was that tough-looking chep
1 saw you with today, llliks?"
"Ho careful, Parker! That was my
twin brother."
"Hy jovo, old chnp, forglvo me! I
otisht to havo known."
see
An Awful Wiimo
".lames, denr," said a careful moth
er to her 7-year old liiHurgcnt, "your
Vnclo l'Jdwnrd will bo here for dinner
today. Ho sure to waHh your face
and h ii ml a beforo coming to tlio
table."
"Yes, mother," neKltntlngly, "but
but suppose ho doesn't conic?"
e e e
Slill 1'iiltlifiil
They had parted long years ago.
Now In the rifi'iiening shadows of the
twilight, thuy had met again.
"Hero Is the old sllle, Mury" he
k salct.
"Aye, an' here be our Initials that
you curved, Randy," sho replied.
friifl ensuing silence was broken
only by I In huv,iug of an aeroplane
overhead. Ilonoy-laden memories
thrilled through the twilight and
flushed their glowing cheeks.
"Ah, Mary," exclaimed Handy
"ye'ro Just as beautiful as yo ever
wore, an- I ha uever forgotten ye,
my bnnnlo Iohs."
"And ye, Sandy," she cried, while
her blue eyes moistened, "ure jist as
big a leear as ever, an' 1 believe ye
Just (lie same."
Dora And so you quarreled?
IjuIIIo Yes, and I returned all bis
presents, and what do you think he
did?
Horn - Soiiiclblng horrid. I'm sure
J'UlIln He sent mo halt a doien
. boxos of face powder, with a note, ex
plaining that he thought he had tak
en as much as that homo on bis coat
since be first met me.
.BR.
THE GREAT FLAX CONSPIRACY
WL have the words of Governor Y lthVcoinbe to prove
that the world is a vast conspiracy against his
$f)0,000 flax fizzle at the state penitentiary. Numerous and
divers are the toul plotters.
Flint, the .Portland Journal
fraud when it called attention
flax operations.
Then Secretary Olcott was
cause he filed a letter with
unbusinesslike, methods employed, and a campaign-was
launched to defeat him for renomination.
Then Secretary Kay was added to the list of plotters
when he insisted upon the removal of the superintendent
of flax operations for inefficiency.
Prison "Warden Minto was later denounced as having
joined the conspiracy, along
board or control, who was accused of juggling figures, and
various prison employes, who were accused of hampering
operations.
.Now Senator I. N. Day, republican boss of the legisla
ture, is branded a conspirator because as a member of the
emergency board be refused
priation tor continuing the experiment.
Ben Selling, speaker of the house, and S. B. Cobb, chair
man of the ways and means committee, are also conspir
ators, for as members of the
Senator Day and relused lurther financial aid, censuring
the board for "wanton extravagance and unbusinesslike
methods" in the conduct of the flax experiment, of which
the governor had sole charge.
Something must be done to quell the conspiracy, and the
Portland Journal has found a solution as follows:
Happily, the mllltla la back from the Mexican border and the gover
nor Is commander In chief of our armed forces. Mounted on Loretta, he
should place himself at the head of tbe troops and quell this scoundrelly
interference with the orderly administration of state affairs,
COCKTAIL CHERRIES THE ISSUE
TpIIE Oregon republican state committee, with an origin
ality and ingenuity worthy of a better cause, has at
last found a campaign issue.
Beware, O you Oregon horticulturist! As a result of
the Underwood tariff we are about to be swamped with
pickled cherries from pauper Italy. Keep a sharp look
out when you go to the market lest the pickled Italian)
cherry be imposed upon you.
Import records indicate that there must have been as
many as two or three barrels of the Italian product im
ported to the United States since the adoption of the Un
derwood schedule.
Since the ban has been put on the maraschino cherry
(pickled in alcohol) it is difficult to determine just what
brand of pickle the committee has been indulging in. Let
us suggest that at all meetings where the pickled cherry
is the chief issue that the same be opened with that good
old song, "Heinz is pickled again."
Maine urogressives voted
candidates in Maine, because
were progressives and opposed to republican candidates
two years ago. juaine is one ot tlie lew states where the
progressives have captured the (1. 0. P. machinery.
The victory of Johnson in California, who was ignored
by Judge Hughes, and of Poiutlexter in Washington, also
persona 11011 grata to the G. 0. P. machine, -shows that the
progressives are still in the majority, though their party
has been made the goat.
- "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." When the repub
lican niaioritv falls below 1:Y0()0 OK 111 1 ROQ if mnmio n
'I ' " ' "
democratic victory. It was the
Great Linen Making Industry
Established in U. S. Since War
(The Kuropean war brought a
shortage in the United Stales of
many munul'iictuiert which hitherto
hail been imported. Americans: im
nieiliutelv set to wink to remedy the
luck with striking hucccsk. This is
the first of a series of articles show
ing that "America can." Kilitiir.)
(Ilv rUKDKIUCK M. KKKItY.)
WASHINGTON", I). ('., Sept. .12.
Heejinse the noses of American farm
ers lire mure sensitive than those of
li'u-siiin ami Irish peasants, the Unit
ed Slates has had no linen industry.
lint American commercial genius,
out of respect to sensitive olfactory
organs, lias solved the problem in an
other way ami there is going to be
an American linen industry.
Linen is made from flax, which the
botanists cull an "inner hark" filler
plant. llcluTcu the outer skin on the
stem and the woody inner pith is
found the commcrciully useful flux
fiber.
He fore this is ready for the mill the
plants must not onlv he harvested,
the seed removed and the straw dried,
but a process known ns "retting,"
which is a polite way of saving "rot
ting," must lake place.
In Kuiope the flax fnruies rets his
plants by putting bundles of flnx
straw on end in pools dug to the cor
rect depth, iiuil keeping them covered
with water from seven to ten days. In
Ireland, where this method is much
used the stench from these retting
IMiiils covers the country for miles
around.
When the process is complete, the
men must wade wnist deep in these
fetid pools ami lift out the slimy mass
of si l a w.
Anierii-an farmers won't do this
kind of work. So flux in the I'liited
States is raiseil almost whollv for
flaxseed, or linseed oil.
MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTJNE,
was declared a talsiher ana
to inefficiency in conducting
accused as a conspirator be
the board protesting against
with Secretary Goodin of the
to sanction an illegal appro
emergency board they upheld
strone-lv for the rnnnliliejin
all the leading candidates
-ai-ua) V a 1 IV tl HO 11
smallest on record this year.
Hut now American genius has de
cided to overcome the difficulty bv
devising methods of rotting the stalks
by chemical processes.
This has been tried many times in
Kurope, but without success. Now,
however, at least two companies iu the
I'liited States have perfected a chem
ical process which works. The
Northern Klux Kibcr Co., of flrcal
Kails, Mont., is one, and the United
Mates I, men Co. of licloit, Wis., uu
other.
Thesu companies arc making eon
tracts with farmers to grow fiber-
bearing flux at a guaranteed income
to the fanner of an Here.
The Kuropeun war has greatly cur
tuilcd tbe available supply of flnx
fiber from abroud. The United States
in normal years imports between
10,(100 and r,IHul tons of this ma
terial, valued at between $:i,l0D,U(H
mid if 1,0011,000.
The United Stales department of
agriculture estimates that riO.OIIII
acres of farm land would he neces
sary for raising the 10,000 tons of
ran nax a year at present used in
this country.
In addition, to supply enough flax
to manufacture in the United States,
our present import of linen from
abroad would require about -loft.OOO
neres more devoted to fiber raising.
The United Stales is tbe world's
largest user of linen goods, mid ex
cept for insignificant amounts of
crush toweling the entire supply lias
been imported from abroad.
The import i of linen goods in MIS
totalled !fl t.7l.'.,0i:i in value. The
normal imports run up to $28,000,00(1.
A new -f.'S.OOO.OOO American iudus
ti v, therefore, is one result which may
come from the Kuropean war. It is
another proof that "America can
I w hen it has to.
MEDFORD, OKECJOX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
Pioneer Goes
To the Kditor:
Your correspondent's better-half
and Mrs. Noah Smith of Central l'oint
were motored on the 22d of August to
the Klamath Indian reservation by
Louis l'ankcy, our sou-in-!uw, for. a
two weeks' visit. When we came to
the Proscct bridge, on Kogue river,
it brought to our memory some hap
penings in old pioneer days.
I was road supervisor in Antioeh
listrict forty-odd years ago, was or
dered to repair the old military
road to the narrow gorge in Kogue
river, above where I'rospcct is now
located. Here we had to build a
bridge over Rogue river. We had
been in camp for ome time. Our old
friend, Chancy Nye, was camped at
Red Blanket for the health of his
young family, fleing lonesome, he
moved Ilia camp near ours. Ho was
there only a short tunc till his dog
treed u young bear, which' he killed
and tendered to Gideon Kent, our
boss cook, who accepted it with many
thanks.
He then informed us he was going
to make a splendid potpic out of thut
cub bear, with the approval of all the
boys. Seeing the little cub's feet ly
ing in camp looking like little negro
feet, the potpie did not appeal to our
stomach as a very appetizing dish.
However, it was ready for the test.
The first few bits went down rather
slow. Soon the bits began to in
crease in size to such an extern, tney
could not bo swallowed. At this
crisis it was suggested the pw lie
lnycd over for supper, but for the re
spect we had for our cook that r
wax never referred to again in public.
About this time we had the sleep
ers adjusted across the river, und
the puncheons all bued for laying the
floor. Very early in the morning one
of Jackson County's prominent farm
ers drove up, was very anxious to
NKW LONDON, Conn., Sept. lit.
The nuvul yacht Mayflower, with
President Wilson aboard, steumccl out
of the harbor at 6 o'clock this morn
ing. The Mayflower will take the
president to Sandy Hook, where nn
uutomobile will be waiting to take
him to the summer white house at
Long- Branch, N. J. lie is expected
to arrive at Long Branch about 5
o'clock this afternoon. The president
decided to leave New London Inst
night after physicians attending his
sister, Jim. Anne F. Howe, whose
critical illness brought the president
here, hud advised him that from now
on Mrs. Howe would be constantly
under the influence of opiates and
would he unable to recognize him,
and that she might livo for several
days.
Up to the present Mr. Wilson has
paid practically no attention to his,
campaign for re-election, but unless
he is summoned by the doctors here
within the next few duys, he will hold
several political conferences later
this week.
Vance MeCormiek, ehuirman of the
democratic national committee, and
Homer K. Cummings, vice-chairman,
are very anxious to consult him about
plans for the campaign. '
FADES IN BERLIN
11KKL1X, Sept. 13. The weeks
which have passed since the appoint
ment of Kicld Marshal Von llinden
burg us ell lot of tho general staff
havo been marked by almost complete
cessation of the discussion in regard
to the resumption of submarine war
fare on tho old or a more vigorous
basis. Non-partisan newspaper ob
servers who arc in touch with leading
statesmen and politicians express the
opinion that for the present at least
there will ariso no question of a
cbango In submarine policy.
Should he be assured that no re
viva? ot the underwater campaign Is
contemplated Ambassador Gerard
may take advantage of the opportun
ity tor a trip to tbe United States as
ho feels the need of a vacation.
Bell-ans
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it 2ocat all druggists.
JOHN A. PERL
UNDERTAKES
I-lr Assistant
BS 8. BARTLETT
Phone M. 41b nd 47-J-3
Automobile Hearse Service.
Ambulance Serrtc. Coroner.
PRESIDENT SAILS
FORSUMMERHQME
Sightseeing
cross over. The boys being very ac
commodating, lnycd the puncheons
temporarily so he could cross over,
when something happened out of the
ordinary for old pioneer days the
driver lacked the courtesy of thanking
the boys for their kindness. It would
have made your heart ache to see the
sad regret depicted in the faces of
those boys. If they had known as
much before he crossed as they did
afterwurd that farmer would have
kept camp till the last nail hud been
driven.
Your correspondent nnd Milton A.
Huston and Commodore Perry Foster,
as we called Iiim those days, are the
only ones left of the crew, so far us
I know.
We called on. our young friend,
James Grieves. He looked the very
personificution of good living, which
we called his attention to. Ho re
marked he was an expansionist. The
wuy he has expanded the lust few
years wo readily agreed with him.
Like meeting an old friend,
it is, when you light up an
OWL. For old friends never
change, and well neither
does the OWL.
It's mellow at heart, ihe
OWL is, and the smoke it
gives you is unusually satis
fying. It's a repeater, too!
Gives the same kind of a
smoke every time.
And as for flavor! Well,'
here's something unusual in
a five -cent cigar a flavor
of ripe, time-cured tobacco
leaf. Mighty good leaf, too!
i
That's why you can come back to
the OWL every day with the same
confidence. It's a good seven-days-a-week
smoke.
M. A. GUNST CS,
BARGAIN
STUDEBAKER
DEMONSTRATOR
Driven 700 Miles
$800.
C. E. GATES
1,
Jim is doing a flourishing hotel bus
iness lit present.
We visited till the places of impor
tance iu the Indian reservation. In
dians were friendly nnd very polite.
W'c felt toward them very much like
General Washington, did to the dar
key who took off liU hat and made
a ver- polite bow. The old general
returned tlie compliment. Some by
standers asked him why he doffed his
hat to a negro. He replied, "I don't
allow any negro to outdo me in pol
iteness." So we did not allow any
Indian to be lu'ire olitc thuu we were.
I hope we left a good impression with
the first families of Oregon.
We returned homo oil the -lib of
September by way of Crater lake. No
one can look down in that lake with
out impressions that will never fade.
Your Kagle Point corrcswindent as
tounded us when be rclutcd the ex
perience of two Medford explorers a
few weeks ago motoring within l!iO
yards of the summit of Mount Pitt,
or Mount McLoughlin. That was the
greatest feat ever performed by mor
tal men with a Ford ear, or ever will
be, perhaps. B. F. WADK.
The Million
Dollar Cigar
CO., INCORPORATED
Krumbles has
a flavor never
known before
In the thou
sands of years
that people
have been
eating whole
wheat.
10c pl
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MEDFORDS28
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Store.
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DEVLIN'S ZOUAVE REGIMENT
IN PRKl'AREDNESS MAMillVES!
ONLY ONE IN AMERICA
Weighs 169 Lbs.
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Citj-, will deliver an Address
AT
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FRIDAY EVENING
Sept. 15 :
At 8 o'clock p. m. .
i t
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