The progress-advertiser. (Lexington, Miss.) 1902-1903, 1903-12-31
cAScARA BARK
Has Become So Valuable as to Be
Worth More Than Gold Ore,

| fIdS oCCOUC oO Valuable al 10 DC
Worth More Than Gold Ore.
The sudden advance to IA cents and
| better for cascara bark, which few
years ago sold at III cents and that
last year was 2& and cents, has
made transactions very lively and in
teresting in Corvallis, which Is some
thing of a center for the product.
Local dealers will ship this season ten
car loads or more of the bark. 1t goes
in car load lots to Hamburg. Ger.
many, to London, to the East and San
Francisco. The present scramble for
| it Is intense, and 1t has brought buy.
ers into the field from all parts.
Early in the season Salem drug
! gist contracted for six tons at 4 cents,
and turned over check to bind the
bargain That was at the rate of $50
a ton, and he can close out now at any
time at the rate of $3.50 or more per
ton, realizing $1,000 from an invest
ment of only $3.50
A man on Big Elk. west of Corval.
| lis, sold the bark the other day from
his own ranch and with the proceeds
bought his neighbor's ranch. Charles
Overlander, In the same vicinity, with
his partner, contracted to slash the
brush thereon for the chittim bark on
the Dalaba ranch. In Toledo the 9TH
er day they sold eight tons of bark
for little less than $4,000, which is
accounted more than the ranch is
worth-and thes bark sold Is only
portion of what they will get from the
place
Two small boys appeared in Elk
City the other day with few sacks of
chittim bark in the bottom of their
boat. They rowed back up the river
with $63 in their pockets, the proceeds
of the sale of their little jag of chit
tim. The cash looked almost as big
as the pile of chittim and suggests
that the fashionable may yet wear
chittim rather than diamonds for jew
elry.
Less fortunate than either of the
above was the case of a man who
bought a ranch on Nestucca. He was
an amateur in the business. with d.
version and experiment as his mo-
tive. He stocked it with 230 goats,
purchased at high price, and with
visions of future prosperity sat down
to wait for his profits One day the
news came to him that all his goats
were dead. When other brush and
pasture gave out they ate chittim
bark in overdoses and died from the
effects.
Various stories are afoat as to the
occasion for the sudden and enormous
jump in prices of cascara. One is
that chittim brokers have sold short,
and are now forced to bid up to get
the supply they have agreed to fur
nish. Another is that the native sup
ply is fast nearing exhaustion. In
either event the popularity of the bark
for medicinal purposes Is fast grow
ing. Once 1t was merely an ingredi-
ent of patent nostrums. Now in tine
lures, tablets and other forms it has
a place on the shelves of every up-to-
date pharmacy, and all physicians use
it extensively in prescriptions. Prop
erly applied it is said to be a positive
cure for chronic constipation-Port-
land Oregonian.
Why His Marriage Was Failure.
He regarded his children as a nuis-
ance.
He did all his counting before mar
riage.
He never talked over his affairs
with his wife.
He never had time to go anywhere
with hsi wife.
He doled out money to His wife as if
to beggar.
He looked down upon his wife as an
inferior being.
He never took time to get acquaint-
ed with his family.
He thought of his wife only for
what she could bring to him.
He never dreamed that there were
two sides to. marriage.
He had one set of manners for
home and another for society
He paid no attention to his personal
appearance after marriage.
He married an ideal, and was disap-
pointed to find it had flaws.
He thought his wife should spend
all her time doing housework.
He treated his wife as he would not
have dared to treat another woman.
He never made concessions to his
wife's judgment, even in unimportant
matters,
He thought the marriage vow had
made him his wife's master, instead
of her partner
He took all the little attentions Law
ished on him by his wife as his by
divine right" and not as favors.
He always carried his business trou-
bles home with him, instead of lock.
ing them in his store or office when
he closed-Orison SWEET Marden, in
October Success.