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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-30
NOTICE TO SALOON MEN.

In view of the report that certain
saloon keepers Of Jospehine county
are violating the laws governing the
sale OF intoxicating liquors, notice is
hereby given that while the County
Judge and Commissioner are dis.
posed to comply with all legal require
ments, those to whom license to sell
liquor may be granted will be ex.
pe6ted to do the same.
The law plainly forbids the selling
of liquor to minors and habitual
drunkards at any time, and to any
person On Sunday. 1t further pro.
vides that violation or these pro.
visions shall work a forfeiture of H.
cense.
STEPHEN JEWELL, County Judge
Nj A. WERTZ, Commissioner
j. I. LOGAN, Commissioner.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-30
The Old Reliable
ALBANY
NURSERIES INC,

Offer to the planters this
season a full line of general
nursery stock including all
the best new varieties. A
large stock of winter apples
suitable for commercial plant
ing, well grown, carefully dug
and packed, and delivered at
your nearest railroad station,
freight prepaid.
If you want one, cor one
thousand trees. ours is the
place to buy them.
Catalogue free on applica-
ton.
Albany Nurseries, Inc.
Albany, Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-30
His Ma ster's Voice

The Photo and Music House has
been appointed selling agent for
josephine county for the Victor Talk
ing Machine and full stock of ma
chimes and records will be in stock
early next week. Come in and hear
His Masters Voice"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-30
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.

Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protrud-
ing Piles. Druggists are authorized
to refund money if PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure in to IA days.
6Q oapto
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-11-30

Has Stood the Test 20 Years.
The old. original GROVES Taste.
less Chill Tonic. You know what you
are taking. 1t is iron and quinine in
tastless form. No cure, no pay. 800.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

Montana miners have inaugurated a
movement looking to the erection of
home for aged and incapacitated
miners of their state.
A new international labor organiza-
ton, composed of railroad building
mechanics, and to be known as the
Brotherhood of Railroad Building Me-
chanics, was launched in Boston.
During the first three months of the
present year there were $50 strikes in
the German empire. Last year there
were 2,4O6 strikes, only 52S of which
were complete success for the
strikers.
President Roosevelt has extended
the eight-hour law to apply to all pub
lie work under the supervision OF any
department of the government. This
order affects more particularly work on
river and harbor improvements.
The United Cloth Hat and Cap Max
ers of America have placed per cap
ita tax of ten cents per year for sup,
port of the tuberculosis sanitariun,
conducted by the organization at Den
yer for the benefit of it's members.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

The woman of moderate means will
do we'll to insist upon simplicity in
her furnishings, particularly if her
house is very small or if she must ac-
commodate herself to a few rooms.
Let all that she buys be the best Of it's
kind, even if very simple, and let her
avoid much carved wood work, par
ticularly if she must do her own dust
ing.
This Is one of the greatest charms
about the so-called mission" furni-
ture. 1t presents a good appearance
and does not require much painful and
intricate brushing and chamoising.
1t is much better to have room
fairly bare of furniture for while
than to crowd it with a lot of odd
pieces which do not suit it, and re-
quire much care at housecleaning
times.
The woman who learns that coziness
does not necessarily mean crowded
look has made great stride In In
terror decorating.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
GOOD METHOD FOR SKIRTS.
Simple and Effective Way of Arrang,
ing the Tucks.

There is simple way to save fu-
ture trouble in finishing the bottom of
skirts for young people from tots to
half grown girls. 1t is better than
letting out tucks in the usual way
when the plain spaces usually come in
the wrong place.
With this plan, which may be used
whether there are Or are not other
tucks, the tuck is laid directly over
the hem, making practically two hens,
which, after being pressed, have the
appearance of one.
AS in all things, there is a simple
and easy way to accomplish it, the
way in this case being to turn the
lower edge of the goods back and
forth in three folds. First, turn under
the tiny raw edge on the bottom of
the skirt and then turn under the hem
two and a half inches deep, which
makes the first fold. Double this back
on the right side the same distance,
creasing the second fold. The three
layers of the cloth are then turned
back under again, which creases it the
third time. This forms tuck directly
over the hem. When ready to stitch
turn the tuck up and stitch twice, put
ting one row of machining under and
one over the middle crease.
When ready to let the dress down,
rip out the top stitching and the hem
is ready and undisturbed.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
The Busy Little Bee.

The commercial statistics bearing
upon the subject eloquently answer
the question: How doth the little
busy bee improve each shining hour?"
She improves them, early and late.
in garnering the sweets of buds and
flowers, and the sum total of her gar
nering, it is evident, forms no mean
item in the worlds affairs. Germany
leads with 100000 hives and 10000
tons of honey last year. Spain is a
good second with 100000 hives and
10000 tons of honey. Austria-Hun-
gary comes close thereafter with L.
$4,000 hives and $4,000 tons of un-
adulterated sweetness. France sup
plies 10000 tons, and Russian bees
are credited with 900 tons. The last
prompts the thought that if only po-
litical hornets were honey gatherers,
etc, etc. Despite the lapse of cen
turtles the historic honey of Mount
Hymettus,' celebrated in Grecian
lore, is still on the market of to-day
and from 10000 bee hives Greece pro-
duced last year 400 tons of honey.
Statistics bearing upon the industry
of our own bees have not yet been
published, says the Troy Times, but
1t is gratifying to obtain the advance
information that the bee industry is
growing here and we have as good
"pasturage" for these personificationI
of industry as any country known.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
Remarkable Modesty.


A general who does not want pro.
motion now, and begs that it be given
to some one else-this is the phenom-
enon actually to be found in the army.
The man is Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell,
chief of staff. He was selected for his
present position some months ago
much to his regret, he publicly de-
clares as he had some work he pre-
ferred to do at the Fort Leavenworth
school,; and, anyway, he would have
liked it better if this important place
had been given to him later in his
career. Now, by reason of numerous
changes, he is senior brigadier gen.
eral, and would therefore be the Off
Ger to be promoted to the rank Of
major general this week on the re-
tirement of Lieut.. Gen. Corbin. AS
soon as Gen. Bell heard that he was
likely to be promoted, he went direct
to Secretary Taft and asked as a per-
sonal favor that he be overslaughted
by at least two other officers-Gens.
Jesse M. Lee and Theodore j. Wint,
both men of much longer service than
himself. Naturally, the secretary
could not resist so unselfish an ap-
peal, and Gen. Lee, who retires for
age next January, will be promoted
this week to the major generalcy he
would not otherwise have obtained.
The army has every reason to be
proud of Gen. Bells fine record, re-
marks the New York Post, but it will
like him all the more for this readi'
ness to step aside for others.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
NEW FANCY IN EMBROIDERY.
6iedermeier Has Many Qualities to
Recommend 1t.

One of the latest fancies in en-
broidery is known as the Biedermeier.
This is in a way a return to the old
style simple embroidery that was in
vogue before the idea of many tones
OF color. While different tones are
used, only one tone appears in a sin
gle figure. The embroidery is on
linen, for table covers, scarfs, pillows
and other useful articles
The designs are stamped, and with
each piece comes the quantity and Sc
lection of threads and colors to use.
One of the designs, for instance, is
for a pillow cover. In the center is a
wreath, and below this at either side
an orange tree or similar conventional
figure. The wreath is of green leaves
and roses. There are roses of three
or four different shades of pink, but
only one shade is used in a rose. The
one shade of yellow is all that ap.
pears in the oranges.
In the center of one wreath is a
miniature portrait, the bonnet of one
color, the dress of another, the drapery
of third. In the center of another
wreath is portrait in silhouette Gin
profile and all black. 1t would be
quite easy to make this silhouette por-
trait that of the giver Or the recipient
and thus give an added value to the
pillow.
The trend of the day is to make
fancywork less difficult than formerly
and to that end are many parts of en-
broidery that come ready to apply to
the foundation of Whatever is 11sed
This more simple embroidery will be
eagerly sought, not only for the ease
with which it may be accomplished,
but because it is particularly suitable
for room having mission furniture,
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

The bulk OF bells used lii the coun-
tries of the world are made in the
United States, and of these about
three-quarters come from East Hamp
ton, Conn. The industry there is near
ly 100 years old, having. been estab
lished in 1903 by William Barton.
The first general woman organizer
of the American Federation of Labor
is Miss Gertrude Barnum, daughter of
Judge Barnum, of Chicago. She has
recently been appointed to organize
all branches OF industries employing
women.
Claims paid for the month of July
by the Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America amounted to $21,-
514.33. The claim list is growing fast,
and plans are to be considered for
raising additional funds necessary to
care for it.
Meat Cutters and Butcher Work
mems union will hereafter place one
dollar from each initiation fee paid the
union in the sick benefit fund. The
union now pays five dollars week,
this being in addition to a like amount
paid by the international.
The Clyde boiler makers have de-
cided to strike if a five per cent. ad-
vance in wages is not conceded them.
They had arranged to strike Septem-
Der Is, but this was suspended in or
der to permit of conference between
the employers and workmen. The
former have refused to submit the
question at issue to arbitration or to
consider any compromise. Ten thou
sand men are involved.
Gov. Guild, of Massachusetts, pre-
sented Dennis ID. Driscoll, secretary
treasurer of the state branch of the
American Federation of Labor, with
the pen with which the former signed
the child labor bill.
The first prosecutions in the District
of Columbia for violation of the ma
tional eight-hour law on government
work was begun at Washington, ID. c.,
when United States Attorney Baker
filed in the police court three informa-
tions against the Penn Bridge COM
pany, corporation of Pennsylvania
and two against the District Construc-
ton company of the District of Colum-
| bia.
Another railroad employees brother
hood, the switchmen, has determined
upon a joint move against the rail
roads of the country for higher wages
and shorter working day. Twenty
! two thousand men are represented in
the switchmen's request. The roads
approached lie in the territory from
Buffalo to the Pacific coast. In Chi
cago the demands We're made through
a central committee, headed by Daniel
c. Smith, of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific road. The following notice
was served upon the manager OF
every railroad in Chicago:
Attorney General Ellis, of Ohio, rem
dered an opinion for the state railroad
commission holding valid the law Civ
ing train crews eight hours rest after
they have worked Is consecutive
hours. The supreme court has de
clared part of the law invalid.
What has been accomplished by the
agitation for the restriction of child
labor is shown in the fact that Ia
states have laws prohibiting child la
Dor under IA years of age, 12 states
do not allow the employment of chill
dren at night labor, while in nearly
twice this number of states the child
is emancipated up to 10 or IL years.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
Not What He Was Used To

Ever since John D. Rockefelle. be.
came an honorary member of the
American Press Humorists' associa-
tion stories more or less apocryphal
have been afloat regarding him. It is
beginning to be suspected that some
of them have been invented by his
fellow humorists. One of the latest
refers to an occasion last summer
when he entertained lot of slum
children at his stock farm near Cleve-
land. Mr.. Rockefeller gave each of
them, among other things, some milk
to drink, part of it at least being the
product of $4,000 prize cow How
do you like it," he asked when they
had finished. Gee, it's fine!" re-
sponded one little fellow, who added
after thoughtful pause: II wisht
our milkman KEEP cow"
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
The Thoupht of Yosemite.

The god of things as they should be
meant that his worshipers-who
lives are spent in the pursuit of lost
chord, a missing harmony between
themselves and things not themselves
should contemplate Yosemite from
the standpoint of it's meadows, says
Arthur Cotton, in The Reader. Its
spirit is defined human, sufficient,
sheltered from high, desolate and
Sierran ambitions. The thought OF
the Canyon of the Colorado is COM
pact of color and immensity; that of
Yosemite is not Of size, but OF pro-
portion and charm-white water Gid
ing in the shadow, still water rejecting
blue; of groves and many colored flow
ers in level fields; and the right rela-
ton of all these to the smooth gray
domes, and those framing walls, whose
height is not for terror, but to make
the pines that feather their keen
edges look delicate as ferns.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
SO good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The PinlShams had no money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
herbs were stepped on the stove,
gradually filing gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
| it, for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits OF the medi-
cine, now called Lydia e. Pinkham's.
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties OF
the medicine were, to a great extent,
self advertising, for whoever used it
recommended it to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam
| lily had saved enough money to COM
mence newspaper advertising and from
| that time the growth and success of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
| day Lydia e Pinkham and her Vege.
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu-
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done it
| herself.
During her long and eventful expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful topre-
serve record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
! woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
careful study. and the details, includ-
| ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
| to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, are
available to sick women the world
over, and represent a vast collabora-
| ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia e. Pinlxham worked her
| daughter in law, the present Mrs.
Pinllham. She was carefully instructed
| LII I'LL uCT 1ISl1 u WON hAOW1CdSOs cIAO
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when it's origina-
| tor passed away. For nearly twenty
five years she has continued it, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia e. PinlSham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
now the mother of large family, took
it up With women assistants, some as
capable as herself, the present Mrs.
Pinlsham continues this greatwork, and
probably from the office of no other
person have SO many women been adj
vised how to regain health. Sick wo-
men, this advice is ''Yours for Health"
freely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs the one
great medicine for women's ailments,
and the fitting monument to the noble
| woman whose name it bears.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
Simple Fumiaatina Method.

To fumigate, or disinfect, room,
place an ordinary house shovel over
the fire until it becomes thoroughly
heated (not red hot); move to the
center of the room with it and pour on
it an ounce OF No. 4 or No. 5 carbolic
acid.
The shovel should be so placed that
none of the fluid can run off it onto the
floor.
The carbolic acid will be given off
in vapor which will be strong
enough to disinfect room, and If gen
uine carbolic is used, which is not a
mineral corrosive acid, the vapor will
in no way injure pictures, metals or
fabrics.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

and investigating mind, an earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all, possessed of wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham,
builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and q
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. By tradition and ex-
perience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. PinlSham took a great interest
in the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature SO
bountifully provides in the harvest
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds; so, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex-
pressly designed to cure the various
ills and weaknesses of the body, and
it was her pleasure to search these out,
ana prepare simple ana eHecClVc neUl'
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a rare combina-
ton of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu-
liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pink.
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it. became quite popular among
them.
All this so far was done freely, with.
out money and without price, as a
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. Its length and severity were toe
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinlkham family, as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, so when the Centen
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world
The three sons and the daughter
with their mother, combined forces &c
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

No higher tribute can be paid to
a foreigner by a Japanese than his
belief in his power to keep silence;
that power is one of the most tre-
mendous sources of the nation
strength, says the Worlds Work. Much
marvel has been ELECTED by the in
violate safety during the war OF
strategic secrets, the common pos
session of thousands of people at
once. There were a few traitors here
and there in the beginning of the
war; there were none when it was
ended. They were discovered and
convicted by their comrades, and
swift and terrible was the execution
Of justice upon them. Only in the
service to which they belonged were
these painful incidents known; they
were described when the war was
over.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

The captain of the British warship
MontaGu, which was run on the rocks
and lost last May, has been sentenced
to be reprimanded and dismissed
from the ship" Inasmuch as the
ship is now at tho bottom of the sea,
the latter portion of the sentence is no
doubt calculated to strike terror iD
the service.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

Starch, like everything else, is be-
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery-Defance Starch-all in
furious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other brands.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
Turquoise Is Popular.

Ladies who have put away in their
Jewel caskets the pretty blue turquoise
sets that were once so fashionable
should take them out at once, as the
turquoise is to be one of the fashion
able stones of the fall. With black
lace costumes they are especially ef-
fective and have been much seen in
the east this summer.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
WHO SHE WAS
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had Its Birth and How the 'Panic of '73'' Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February 9th, 1919, com
ing from a good old Quaker family
For some years she taught school, and
became known as a woman of an alert
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
A Table Novelty,

A delightful table novelty is little
silver attachment to fasten flowers to
a finger bowl. 1t consists of tiny
rim of silver fitting over portion of
the edge OF the bowl, with loops to
catch in fixed position a few violets
or flower buds. The effect is very
pretty.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
CHASTITY Foreior Pun,

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. the
noted American clubwoman, has been
received abroad by royalty, and some
Of the foreign papers have the te-
merity to declare that she has a
proverbial right to look at king.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12
NO REST NIGHT OR DAY.
With Irritating Skin Humor-Hair
Began TO Fall Out-WonderfuI Re-
suit from Cuticura Remedies.

"About the latter part of July my
whole body began to itch. I did not
take much notice of it at first, but it
began to get worse all the time, and
then began to get uneasy and tried
all kinds of baths and other remedies
that were recommended for skin hum
ors; but / became worse all the time.
My hair began to fall out and my
scalp itched all the time. Especially
at night, just as soon as I would get
in bed and get warm, my whole body
would begin to itch and my finger
nails would keep it irritated, and it
was not long before I could not rest
night or day. A friend asked me
to try the Cuticura Remedies, and I
did, and the first application helped
me wonderfully. For about four
weeks I would take hot bath every
night and then apply the Cuticura
Ointment to my whole body; and
kept getting better, and by the time
I used four boxes of Cuticura I was
entirely cured and my hair stopped
falling out. D. E. Blankenship, 319
N. Del ST., Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 27.
1905"
Origin of EngIand's National Debt.
England's national debt originated
in the reign of William III, whose
Arst loan was obtained in 1894.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

Oklahoma figures it out that it
would take a freight train 263 miles
long to haul it's wheat crop this year.
More work for the car famine.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

If man would know himself thor
oughly he hasn't much time to waste
in trying to find out things about his
neighbor.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

Defiance Starch-Never sticks to the
iron-no blotches-no blisters, makes
ironing easy and does not injure the
goods.
The wageworker., 1906-10-12

Somehow it doesn't sound just right
when q spinster asks for a match.