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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18
Picture Mountings.

l have good stock of a large mum
ber of picture mounting boards at
from D to 20 cents per large sheet.
Passe Partout binding in AL colors
also in stock. A. Il. Noorhies.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18

impaired, when
there is a dull,
sluggish feeling,
with nervousness,
irritability a n d
sic eple ess.
Every day that
thes Sc symptoms
are neglected in
creases the liabil-
ity to physical
collapse.
DR.. Pierce S
Golden Medical
Discovery cure 6
diseases Oi the
stomach and other
organs OF diges-
| ion and nutrition.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18
Music Lessons

l will teach the theory of music and
rudiments of harmony in twelve les.
sons. Hattie Dawes,
South Methodist Parsonage.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18
To the Ladies' of Grants Pass.

Mrs. Clevenger is now prepared to
give instructions in Typography work (;
those wishing to !earrn this beautiful
art of home decoration should call o
hpr
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18
DRESS MAKING.

Dress making and plain sewing by
the day, Inquire of Mrs r. Dis
brow, 9th street, west Of brick yard.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that Local
Union No. llls Carpenters and
Joiners of America, Grants Pass,
Ore, has established thirty cents per
hour as Union schedule wages to 20
into effect on the 1st day of Jan. 1903
and be in force from that On until
again changed by said Union when
due notice will be given.
j 4. Wiedman, president
D. \. Fitzgerald, secretary
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18

TRY 1T AND YOU WILL BUY
The Medford flour. 1t is again the
best flour on the market. Ask for ii.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18

OgEl Of P.JEgD.

When the wall is out Of plumb the
builling is more or less unsafe, ard ths
HIGHER the wall is carried out OF the per
ne1dicular the greater the danger Of col
iause. It's about so with The Aca.th : u
& out Of plumb when the digestion IS
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1902-12-18
WOMEN WEEk, FIND

or' fforco's Common Sense Medical Aof.
visor an Invaluable guide fr tho presorv,.
non OF hoaffh. This great medical vvorE-
co"faining ovo~ 1000 large pages ane
moro than 700 Illustrations, Is senf FRFr or
recetpf OF stamps TO pay expense of r1,aignty
o".I' send 81 ono-cenf stamps for fhs
volume bound In cloth, or only ~ st,,,,,s
for fhe book In papor covers.
Address, Or. q. w. PIERCE Buffalo ny
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21

cannot defeat horse sense, when the
latter is resolutely appealed to by the
heirs acting jointly and unanimously.
and the heirs of Mrs. Fair seem to
have as much of the article as the
heirs of Mr.. Fair do. The chauffeur
and the French gatexeeper are left at
the post or tree, and the lawyers that
expected to be employed have no
slice coming to them from the fat
cake Lawyers in general are hurt,
because the case will show that divi-
dends to relatives are still possible if
the latter have sense enough to get
them. but such sense must be well
distributed. and every beneficiary
must have his or her share of It. This
seems to be the situation ia tie case
of the Fair millions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
JEWS IN NEW YORK.
In Manhattan Alone Every Fourth
Person Is Jewish.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The Jewish population of New York
city is estimated at 5s4,7SS. In Manhat-
tan alone every fourth man or woman is
a Jew or Jewess.
The Jewish World makes the above
estimate of the number of Jews in
Greater New York based for the first
time on a statistical foundation-the num-
Der of Jewish burials as recorded by the
board of health.
These amounted in 1901 to 1897, and as
the death-rate in the most congested
Jewish district is little over fifteen per
thousand, this implies a population of
$50, 1873 in the middle of 1901.
Since that time no less than 1925 have
arrived at New York and stayed here.
while by natural increase of births over
deaths another 70, 400 would be added up
to August l. of this year. making a grand
total of 5S47SS.
The number of Jewish marriages in
Manhattan alone In 1901 was 5O62 which
at a very high marriage rate of 10 per
thousand. would imply population of
SOC, 200, to which has to be added the
10000 Jews of Brooklyn and the Increase
by immigration and excess of births. as
before.
The high rate of marriage IS due to the
fact that so large a proportion of the
Jewish immigrants are adults-three
bachelors to every two spinsters.
A confirmation of what is regarded as
a conservative estimate, just under co.,
900, is obtained from the nationalities of
the residents of New York as declared
by the census of 1900 Taking the Jewish
percentage of those either born in Russia
or of Russian parentage as 80 per cent.
would give s96GO5 Austria at 70 per cent.
12s, 346; Germany at per cent. 66.114; Eng
land at per cent. 6279; and adding the
whole of the Roumanians then in New
York, there is reached e sum OF 607.s43
without reckoning the immigration and
increase since 1900.
The Jews of New York form 1876 per
cent of the total population, whereas half
a million reside on Manhattan Island, or
q per cent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
New State Committee

The rank and file have heretofore
had no more voice in the selection of
state committee than the Man in
the Moon, but under the primary sys-
tenn the committee will be selected by
the democratic voters, instead of the
democratic leaders-an important diff
ference. While the present commit
tee is composed of excellent material,
the primary plan of selection is the
only fair democratic way.
This selection should be made
thougnt1ully, and trustworthy men
named in every instance. County lines
need not be observed. Each voter
names four men of his choice, and all
thc geographical lines he need observe
are the bounds of his congressional
district. If the voter be so minded,
he can crossmark four names from
his own or any other county in the
congressional ulSlrlCl.
The friends of the primary system
should keep In mind the fact that di-
rect popular action still has its enc
mics, and supporters of 1t on the new
state committee would be far better
than opponents of it, The reaction
lists are by no means few or far be-
tween. They are not angels in any
respect. 1t would be wise therefore
to have an eye to future primaries
when selecting names for the new
state committee. The next commit
tee will make or unmake the primary
system. If it be friendly to 1t, an
other convention will not be held in
this state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
PROF, H. V. ARMY POINTS
WAY TO NEW INDUSTRIES

totanist the woods of North Carolina
have become.
But let us consider some possibilities
rather than aetualities; for, even as cas-
cara sagrada was brought from the OBJ
security of a domestic remedy of Call
fornia to one of the most important
drugs of the worlds materfa mediea. by
persistent advertising of our friends, the
medicine men, the American manufac-
turing pharmacists. even so are there
many southern plants used as home rem
edies which may have great medical
future SO soon as their properties. medi-
cal and therapeutical, are well under
stood. Among such plants we may men,
ton parthenium hysterophorus of New
Orleans and vicinity; sarracenia fiava,
the well-known pitcher plant; saururus
cernuus. the lizards tail OF the southern
swamps; cephalanthus occidentalis, u
constituent, by the way, Of a rather well
known proprietary medicine of the
south; serenoa serrulata, the saw pal
metto of Florida; sabbath elliott, the
quinine flower of Florida.
such are suggestions of some OF the
possibilities Of the south. Truly the har-
vest is great-large enough to keep busy
every laboratory in every school Of
pharmacy in the south; rich enough to
bring money to every druggist who turns
his attention to this phase of the scien-
tific side of our calling"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
American Pianos.

Some excellent pianos are made in
Europe, but American pianos, as a rule
have long been superior to those manu-
featured in the old country" said an
accomplished musician.
within the past ten years the Ameri-
can manufacturers have made marked
improvements and a dozen or more fac
tories now turn out instruments Of I'M
commonly fine quality America is ex-
porting pianos and this export business
will increase steadily.
John II. Grout, consul at Malta, re-
ports to the state department.: 4 have
every reason to believe that Malta will
eventually prove good buyer of Amer
lean pianos. Although the population is
but little less than 100000 a great many
pianos are used, the Maltese being ex-
perts in instrumental music. The in
struments come from England France
and Germany, the average retail price
being about SIPS. OF course, there are
many INSTRUMENTS in which higher
priced pianos are bought
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
Canal millions to Bel Allotted.

Manufacturers in general and con-
tractors in particular are becoming
very alert over the fact that the gov
eminent is about to spend S200,000,-
900, more or less, on the construction
of the Panama canal, and their agents
are in Washington today inspecting
the plans for the canal, and arranging
q scheme under which bidding will not
be too livley, and all the elect can get
a finger in the pie. They have already
told President Roosevelt that the mil
lions to be spent should be divided
among the Industries of the coun-
try"-that is to say, among them
selves, and that, too, speedily. They
sent a delegation to Oyster Bay for
that purpose.
The French law providing that all
tools and material used in building
the canal should come from France
will be disregarded-in fact, the
Spooner bill sets the French provision
aside, and the American dredgers,
contractors and manufacturers are
preparing to get all of the money, and
they propose to see that good deal
of it sticks to their own fingers. They
do not propose to have any "ruinous"
bidding. Southern lumber plants are
In the scheme, for vast amount of
lumber will be needed, especially in
the construction of temporary docks
at Colon. Granite and cement will be
used In immense quantities. The
north will grab these contracts, as will
the makers up there of electric plants,
dredges, steam shovels, drills, don
key engines, blasting material, not to
mention canned goods and other food
supplies. 1t is estimated that s15.
100000 will be expended for machin
cry alone.
The chief point is. the law of com
petition is to be set aside, and the
building confined to a few, on terms
that afford fine margins for profits
The matter has been carefully con
sidered, not only by the national asso-
citation of manufacturers, but also by
a combine of inside people who pro-
pose to get in on the ground floor.
They seem to understand the inward
ness of the republican party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
DIVIDING the Fair Millions.

The lawyers are not to get the Fair
millions, and the legatees so to speak
are to be confined to the family. An
amicable adjustment is to be made,
and no court will be asked to decide
which one of the unfortunate couple
died first. The presumption of the
civil law would be that the man, be-
ing the stronger, lived the longer, but
all presumptions are set aside by the
good sense of the relatives by blood
or marriage most deeply concerned.
The lawyers have no vested rights
IN the contest. although they have
some by custom, but custom in this
case. 1t appears. is to be shelved, and
horse sense is to have an. inning.
French lawyers and California lawyers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
PROFESSIONAL BETToRs
Throw Away Thousands, But Hate to
Pay for a Meal.

Saratoga Correspondent New York Times.
The peculiarities of the professional
betting man are forced upon general at
tention here by reason of the conspicu-
BUSINESS of these sports" They are not
so very numerous; nothing like the crowd
one sees at Sheepshead Bay or Morris
Park. I do not believe there are quite
400 all told. But what strange creatures
they are; They spend all their hours, eX-
cept when they are in bed or at the races,
standing along Broadway-main in front
of the Grand Union hotel--as publicly and
flxedly as the statues on the front of the
Town Hall of Brussels. They are never
known to sit down and they are too ner-
vous to sit still even while they emulate
the example of the lamp posts along
their favorite curbstones. When they are
not pulling their mustaehes or chewing
toothpicks, they are manipulating their
faces. The hands of st. Vitus were not
more restless than theirs.
Though they all come together, they
like the neighborhood of one another bet
ter than each others company. They
stand singly or In twos or threes-never
in knots or crowds. They ditrust each
other and themselves, being afraid they
may be led to give away" what they
think they know about the horses and
more afraid some one will stuff them
with tips that are not true.
Some are negroes some are of Irish
and some of Hebrew stock. Nearly all
are young, and yet there are old men
comfortably as possible, in business suits,
with straw hats and little or. no jewelry.
Like all Americans, they keep themselves
neat and clean. They all and always
appear to have plenty of money, and one
hundred-dollar bills are as familiar to
them as five-dollar bills are to most of us.
They will bet like millionaires on holt
day, but in all other respects they are ex-f
ceedingly close with their money. Their
idea is that bank notes were made to bet
with, and 1t is sinful to put them to any
other use One day man at the Grand
Union asked prosperous betting man
to dine with him.
"What?'' the sport exclaimed, why,
a dinner'n cost dollar and half in
there"
But I will pay for It," said the other.
mo- said the sport. ut is too ex-
travagant. 1 couldn't eat a dinner like
that II 1 knew what 1t cost
Then he went on talking about his rea-
sons for putting $500 on this horse and
more upon another.
These chaps, as a rule, are spare and
eager, often hungry-looking. They are
by no means a happy lot, am told. They
live and count upon such uncertainty,
such risks and such chances that they
are never at ease and seldom inclined for
fun. What discrepancies their natures is
the thing they come to demand as the
price OF living-continual strain and ex-
element. When bed time comes, the
stores on Broadway shut up and the street
begins to darken, they separate and seek
the smallest hotels and the boarding
houses. In all probability they count
the night hours as so much time wasted
because there is no racing then
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs.
Water for Horses.

THE public water troughs in the
streets are great boons to overheated
horses. but there are not enough of these
troughs." said a humane merchant.
Water should be provided for horses
in every other block in the business part
of the city. Nothing does me so much
good these hot summer days as to sec
poor tired beasts refreshing themselves
with cool water. 1 would gladly con-
tribute to a fund for purchasing addi-
ticnal troughs. I am sure the Humane
Society could easily raise enough money
to supply the need"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
Nervous Strain.


I'm connection with the rumor that
Charles NJ. schwab was going to give up
the presidency of the United States Steel
Corporation editorials have appeared in
several northern dailies on overtaxing
the nervous system" said a busy man.
1.-THE New York Herald had this to say;
Tt is the old story of an overstrenuous
business life and its swift and sure PEN
atty. Thousands of overactive and con-
tinuous workers In all forms Of business
are taking the same course, and yet the
lesson goes on. The form of exhaustion
is so distinctively American in its provo
cation and inducement that it is very
properly known as a national affliction.
AS in his case, the signal to stop comes
quite suddenly and unexpectedly with the
brain work, and it may mean apoplexy
and with the business man a shattered
nervous system or heart failure. The
story of the illness is one that looks
toward the latter as the most probable
affection. With large interests at stake
the nervous strain is felt alike by brain,
nerve and heart, and oftentimes even ex-
traordinary success is less easily borne
than downright failure.
I'm comparing effects 1t is work
against worry. and oftentimes both are
combined to cheat nature of her due of
food. sleep and recreation. Under the
circumstances 1t seems impossible to go
slowly and not drive life with whip and
spur. Even the rest that is SO much
needed is managed by purely business
methods, and the very fire of the effort
becomes the cheat, the snare and the
failure
The Herald is right in the main, but
some men, Perpont Morgan and Presi-
dent Roosevelt being notable examples,
get through with vast amounts of work
in the course of year and continue
well and happy. If Mr.. Schwab had
been trained to take up and deal with
great business problems in a systematic
way the strain on him as president OF
the steel trust, would not have caused
a breakdown. Mr.. Morgan works his
brain more in one month than the pres
ident of the United States Steel Corpor-
alton, whoever he might be. would be re-
quired to do in twelve months. Worry
is what kills many people, but every
man In a high place of responsibility
should discipline himself and not allow
worrying things to prey upon him."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
For Democrats Only.

The Johnstonites seem to be doing
all they can do to discredit the pri-
mary election law, which renders
mandatory the rules of the party hold
ing a primary. All sense and reason
go to say that if the rules of a party
are not to control its own primary,
1t ceases to have a primary of its own.
Such a primary would not be repre-
sentative. If populists and republicans
and no-party men are to vote in
democratic primary, then it is not
democratic primary at all, but a gen.
eral referendum.
1t is difficult to see how Governor
Johnston can consistently oppose
party primary, for in his message of
1898 he recommended the passage of
party primary bill, and when Rep
resentative Erie Pettus of Limestone
introduced the bill Governor Johnston
supported 1t, and on February 8, 1893,
he made 1t a law by afflxing his sig
nature to it. 1t is his own bill to all
intents and purposes, and it provides
that the rules of a party holding a
primary shall be the law of the pri-
mary, and the men who are trying to
col ~, ,s,,r
state primary are violating the law
that Governor Johnston made. When
a state executive committee makes
rules for state primary, they must
be obeyed, and the Johnstonites are
the last ones who can consistently
advocate a different course of action,
because Governor Johnston himself is
responsible for the existence of the
primary election law.
Read what he said in his message of
1898: 81 earnestly urge the passage of
a primary election law.
Party primaries under our form of
government are the sources of admin
istration, and if these sources are pol
luted the poison will flow down
stream, spreading corruption and dis
order" He speaks, it should be no
ticed. Of party primaries" That a
party should monopolize its own pri-
mary is too plain for argument, and
only those who have something up
their sleeves would for moment hold
to the contrary. A democratic pri-
mary is no place for a republican or
populist, and no selfrespecting popu-
list or republican will appear at a
democratic primary, and no good
democrat would desire the vote in a
primary of a political opponent. The
law is, however, sufficlent-the John
ston law-and this renders the COM
ing state primary strictly democratic
affair in which democrats only can
participate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
THE CONSTITUTION.

From the Mobile Herald
But what is Captain Johnston's real po-
sition regarding the constitution? In all
districts where majority of the voters
favor the law as amended and improved
by the flower of the states intelligence
and integrity, such circulars as the one
under notice have been sent to registered
voters. Therein Johnston is willing to
give the constitution a fair trial. etc,
etc. In other counties where there Is
feeling against the constitution supposed
to exist. they are supplied with differ
ent class of literature, following the lines
of the flaming posters and immoderateiy
worded circulars which were features
Of the campaign against ratification IN
1901. At a recent meeting in Autauga
county, ex-sheriff Thompson made an ad-
dress In which he stated that he had al
ways been staunch supporter of john
ston until he dropped across the following
poster:
PUBLIC SPEAKING
by those who favor the manhood suf-
frage OF the present constitution and
oppose the property, educational grand
daddy and poll tax suffrage of the new
constitution"
The first man to fill the date after the
poster went out was the then governor
Joseph F. Johnston, and in doing SO he
declared himself an enemy of the new
constitution The ex-sheriff believing that
freedom from negro suffrage and from
election fraud elevated the political life
of his country and that Johnston was
willing to perpetuate the iniquitous sys-
TEN which was repellant to the honesty
of white men, then and there parted COM
pany with the ex-governor.
The pronounced hostility of Captain
Johnston to all the reforms brought about
by the peoples acceptance of the consti-
tuition, especially to the suffrage clause
which give political liberty to the white
men of the state, the work of his machine
against its ratification and his frequent
declarations since, cannot be obliterated
by any tame sentence of approval such
commences his circular His approval is
only feigned, he holds the right hand out
to political honesty so that he can get
a better grip to stab 1t with the left His
circular, In combination with all the in
nuendoes and covert attacks of his limited
following in this county, will have no
more effect on the result of next Mondays
election than any of the windy claims
which Johnston has made in another
voice before other communities. He has
one constitutional face for Mobile county
and another for those counties whose in
terests are not Identical with our own.