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MEnrorai matt, trtbuxk mbptobd. onEnos. sATimPAr. jbpaby 1021 I If T i J 2 j t : t I C ! 1 j s i ! n I t j t i I I I I I AKWrTFaLo YOU believe in CihoHt Of course not. Uut your preat, Krcat, !l 1 LI Kreat Brandfnt!ier did. For ancestors so sufficiently remote jlj J f.. uu TfihnnA uuilrilnr. lfi-17-lt forth Fir treet. Phone 76. A consolidation of the Democratic ?lmea. Ttas Medford Mall, the Medrord rlbune. The Southern Oregonlan, The Aahland Tribune. The Medford 8unday Bun 1 furnlahed ubaorlbers dealrlng a aevenday dauy newspaper. ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor. BTJ11PTER S. SMITH, Manager. UBiOBIFTION TEBMSI BY MAIly IN ADVANCE: bally, with Sunday Sun, year....-7.50 Dally, with Sunday Kun. month .7a Dally, without Sunday Sun, year. 6.6U Dally, without Sunday Sun, month .bj Weekly Mall Tribune, one year 2 00 Sunday Sun, ono year.. . ... . BT CARRIKR In Medford, Aahland, Jacksonville. Central Point Phoenix. , Dally, with Sunday Sun. month..- .75 Dally without Sunday Sun. month .5 Dally without Sunday Sun, year.. 7.60 Dally, with Sunday Sun. one year 60 All terma by carrier caah In advance. Official paper of the City of Medford. Official paper of Jackaon County. Entered a econd-claa matter at Medford, Oregon, under the act of March I, 187. Bworn dally average ol'cu'atlon for ,h. .nrilnir Aniil. 120 "z MEMBERS OF" TFIlv ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Aaioclated Press is """"ii ntltled to the use r rliblleRUon or .11 rilinnrhnn credited to It, Or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special Ispatches herein are also reserved. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Thn lower houso of tlio leidHlaturo is showing no Bisns of ever cliunslns. Tho upper house will soon uuve every body on their's. "Another Auto Stolo by Youths In Jnll" (Hdllno Eugene. Guard). Sounds plausible. The chief trouble with tho tintl-Jap liullnlinlnn In Hint lllO AlllllnlltV (lOUUl' .Helta mit too far. Eradication of the spondulics from tho controversy would end It. In the camimlKii of the civic organ! ntlnnn tn ilnvelnn "tho beauties of OreEon." tho first move will bo to pro hibit bowlcKced Kills from wearing short Bltlrts. DO YOU believe in Ghosts? Of course not. Hut your Treat, fjreat, L-reat L-rancIfutlier did. Fur ancestors so sufficiently remote always lived in lordly manors, and every manor bad a ghost room, (jhost rooms did not no out until bath rooms came in. Now it looks us thoiifrh ghost rooms might come back again. At my rate there is a great revival ot interest in spirits, unu an pnu- mmimena related thereto, as exhibited by the fact that ouija board factories, are about the only concerns which have not been reduced to iiulf time. And now comes Julius Magniissen- the Bernard Shaw of Denmark, who has written of a spirit experience, which lias startletl all Europe. Mr. ila'-missen never believed in the occult, never bothered with mov ing tables, and ringing tambourines, but devoted himself to literature of a rather cynical and materialistic nature. Hut one dav a friend persuaded him to try an experiment. The esult of that experiment has been portrayed in a book called "God's Smile," which isn t as humorous as it souiuls. Briefly Mr. Magnussen encountered the spirit of his father, and has since been unable to write anything but what his departed pro genitor has dictated. " What lias happened to me." he erics, "here I am, an ordinary citizen, full of wit, full ot mockery, lull ot disgust at all humbug, and now my hand insists upon writing these religious ideas and lyrical phrases." lie says he intensely dislikes to put the maudlin parts down, but he bus to. "From now on" declares the spirit, "you can do only wliat 1 tell you to do; from now on you must obey me." Miigiiussen says be resisted. Whereupon he felt his shoulders push cd back and his penholder was moved so strongly that it broke. lie fiinlr imnthor and it wrote this immediately: "There you see. I broke the penholder in your baud merely "to show you my strength I am a powerful spirit. I could smash your desk into dust." Rather terrifying isn't it? And not niee:of father. Hut from such a source, the tale is interesting. Of course, there will be those to dis miss jMagnusson as another neurotic, who needs more exercise and less artistic temperament. And there will be others who will be intensely interested m this exceptional experience as they are in all experiences of the supernatu ral and spooky kind. Hut the accumulation of such "records," from Sir Oliver Lodge to Conan Doyle, can't be readily dismissed, except by those who call everything humbug which they have not themselves experienced. If all this is delusion and self-hvpnosis, then it is time some scientist diagnosed the ailment. Until the phenomnieiia is rationally explained there is some excuse for former sceptics like Magnussen to maintain with Hamlet, "there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philisophy." MAN THE CROWBARS! , (Yreka Journal) Don't forgot that February 12, Saturday night, will be tho time to do your bit toward building tho now swimming lank for the town and havo a mighty flno time while doing. Itoss Nollon Post Is taking tho trouble of collecting tbo funds and attending to tho building of this tank, which is to bo on a cost minus busts everything Is to bo donated that can bo piled loose. The Portland pollco department Is now forced to explain how "Tho ,8hadow" they caught with a brass hand Is not "Tho Shadow." Another antoist bus demonstrated to fno satisfaction of tho Southern I'n olflc. that tho cowcatcher should bo left on tho locomotives. ru RipplingRfoijiwQ 4 Walt Mason, Jin (ML Rinna nrn underway to nut time fuses on tho first hundred orators nt tho Lincoln Day banquet next biuur-day. A cuto trick of oil sharps Is to cat a handful ot mud brought up by tho drill to dutermlno It there Is uny signs of gronso. It any of tho mud Btrlcks to the craw. It Is a cortaliity Unit the lubrication Is nil, and the good work must go on. Your corr. was served n portion of mud from Col. Mundy's gusher Frl. It wuh palatable, but not cooked iiulto enough. THE WET HOME. A LONESOME CORPORATION (Chico Enterprise) Tho Diamond Match company r did not profiteer. Labor, capital, government, and the public have profiteered, however. "; Tho excessivo rains this winter, Is tho answer to tho prayers for same filed in l!)14-15-10-171S-li. by the pub lic In general, and farmers in particular. "How many people road (he lSlble on Sunday?" asks the Pacific Christian Advocate. About as many as those who read the scandal section of the rrisco Examiner. AN IOOLATOR RENIGS (Boston Post) "Woodrow Wilson's utterance goes home In clear, strong sen fences, lie Is a master of state ment, lie Is real all through, from top to bottom there Isn't a sham In liiiu. No nuin in our time shows . so high a level of thought. Ills logic Is perfect. HiH fine type ot culture shows originality, a know- . IcdKo of men and a passion for facts" (Woodrow Wilson, by Wil liam Hayard Hale. 1!M:'). "Vagueness and reiteration are tho secrets or his verbal power. All his life be has hid bis head in phrases. He learns nothing thru -the" years. He Is the merest pur veyor of platitude, never pretend ing to un original theory, nor ad vancing" a novel principle." (Woodrow Wilson's Style, by Wil liam Bayard Hale. l!-'0). The ouagga. tho striped wild horse pf South Africa, is virtually extinct I STAND upon the shore and peop at erealurcs that, infest, the deep, all sorts of things with fins and scales, from shrimps and lobsters up to whales. (Of course, you'll say, with scornful grins these haven't cither -scales or fins; smart nlecks always gather near to show where little breaks appear). As I was saying on the shore I stand and hear the breakers roar and wonder how the things that roam forever in that briny home can stand such moisture all their lives, and not get mad and beat their wives. No magazines or books are there, no glowing hearth, no easy chair; there's nothing for a fish to do but. souk itself the long years through, and dodge the bigger fish (hat strive to catch and swallow it alive. There's no place for a fish to go, no lecture ball or movie show. I have a sympathy profound for all the fish that scoot around, and ply their fins ami wag their tails, the sharks, the devilfish, the whales. I would invite them from the deep, and give them beds in which to sleep, and places where they might get dry, and noggins of denatured rye, but they can't understand the tongue in which the invitation's sprung. And, maybe, as they see me stand in solemn grandeur on the land, they wonder why I don't wade in, and like them wield the trenchant fin. COMMUNICATIONS Carroll Denies Stories l'o the editor: Heierring to different statements which have appeared tn your paper In tho pnst fifteen days relatlvo to my activities In the valley, tho following are false and should be corrected : "Carroll refused to return without extradition papers." This is absolute ly fake as t was willing at all times to return as soon as requested. Car roll while posing In this city and Ash mini as the prospective purchaser lor $.10,(100 of the Johnson Jewelry store at Ashland made the acquaintance of school teacher, employed in the rural districts, anil according to the police told wonderful tales of his wealth and Importance In the business world. His father ho said was the leading diamond merchant of Antwerp. Holland. The school ma'am fell for his line . While testing out the ltuick automobile Carroll took the teacher oa an auto ride, one day. and running out of funds for refreshments, stopped at tbo Austin hotel In Ashland and presented a cheek for $T0. The clerk told Carroll he would have to have some one Identify him, and he called the school teacher from the new llulek and told the clerk Hits 'young lady will identify me.' The young lady sntd Yes. 1 know Mr. Carroll, he Is all right, he Is going to buy Mr. John son's jewelry store.' Whereupon she wrote her inline on the back of the check In blissful confidence." First. I never at any time posed ns a prospective purchaser of any Jewelry store; Second, 1 have never repre sented myself as a son of a diamond merchant In Antwerp, Holland, or any other city. Third, 1 never presented any check In the Austin hotel In Ash land for $00 or any sum requesting endorsement by aforementioned school make good any such check. In fact, 1 havo never been in the Hotel Austin, with (he school ma'am. Keeling that an Injustice has been done me by the publication In local papers of statements that were untrue pertaining to my case, 1 wish to say that should any further untrue state- incuts appear In any paper, I will feel justified In publishing all the true facts pertaining to my caso. (Signed) A. II. CAKUOI.L, Care County Jail, Jacksonville, Ore. Note: The facts disputed wore given n reporter of this paper by police officials. The racoou of South America fre quents the sea shores and eats crabs. She has tricky eyes You'll know her by her tricky eyei and her dmgerous mile tho woman that tha oolice arc look in for. Earn a biR reward it you teo her. Catch this woman! She's tutside the law- DetfiU tomorrow T. G. HEINE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Surgery DOWN GOES THE tw jr"- TRADE MARK PRICE J Z. 1 How Can You Afford to do Without It f. o. b. Medford ( 1 j We have a few in stock, none on the road PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW ates Auto Co, Comer Sixth and Pacific Highway of Kyrs. Kara. Nose and Throat. All diseases of these nrintn ln-nli-,1. tihuwes fitted. 31l-3l5 1.lt- tenclier nud ' never was required to city V.Ms., fur. Main & (.traps sus, S encourages ifr Our bank stands for aiding and developing OUR OWN home town and community. When you put your money in our bank you help yourself in mnr than one wav. You increase home property values, in crease tho population of our own town and give employment j to our own people. Bank your money with the bank" that sticks up for your hometown. That's OUR Bank. We invite YOUR Banking Business. Jackson County Bank " Established 1S83 Member Federal Reserve Oregon Prune Week February 14th to 19th Everybody in the Northwest should eat OREGON PRUNES During Prune Week. This is your oppor tunity to buy average orchard run of Ore gon Italian Prunes, 1920 crop, at follow ing wholesale prices. Take advantage of this offer: By freight prepaid, 100 lbs, or over, lb. 10c By parcel post, prepaid, 25, 50 or 75 lbs , or over, per pound 11c Packed only in 25 and 50-lb. boxes QUALITY GUARANTEED Orders mtiiled up to Feb. 19 will be accepted. Send remittance with order to Oregon Prune Campaign Commjttee 732 Morgan Building Portland, Oregon UKKKKKN'C'RS I'. S. N'ntlonnl lliink, lNirtlancI, Ore. Ijul,l & Husli, Hanker, Salem, On: I". S. National Itnnk, Snleni, Ore. Greater Medford Club PHILANTHROPIC DANCE AND PROGRAM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 At the Natatorium Admission 50c Eac& Dances 10c SYJIFATHETIO SEB.VICB Rendered In a Quiet Dignified manner at THE PERL FUNERAL HOME Your loved one Is taken Into the Home where there la eome one with them. Our Residence Is on the Second Floor. We are Licensed Embalmers and are prepared to make shipment to any part of the United States or Foreign Countries. We IU take complete charge of any Service and make all arrangement!. Lady Assistant. Thono 47. Corner of SUth and Oakdale. One block west of Postofflc-
