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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-12-27

MY girls father Is an undertaken.
He has Invented an automobile
hearse. Folks are Just dying 10 ride
In "-Exchange
The native women of Ecuador are
so used TO strong heat and light that
they even do their spinning out Of
doors In the blazing sun.
Monkey - What makes that giraffe
hold his head so high,
0wi-He's bsldheaded and doesn't
want anybody to find II out
Tho first settlement In the state OF
New Jersey was by the Dutch. at Bcr-
zen. in 1917. Newark received It's first
charter in 17i3
An Irishman was asked II his horse
was timld mot at ALL" snid he. "he
frequently spends the night by him.
self In a dark stable"
The French carpenter going to work
protects his street suit by a work.
mans blue blouse. but he does not
wear overalls.
81 will pay your debts today. but It
IA positively for the last time"
"Oh, dear uncle, then wait Mt least
until tomorrow. Fllegende Blatter.
A cables length ls one-tenth OF a
nautical mile (6,0sO feeo. The longest
mile Ia the Norwegian. which IN with.
IN fraction OF seven times ours
Norway Is more properly Norea,
meaning North Isle" II ls common
ly called by the natives the North
Kingdom"
Friend what's the matter. old boyl
You look disappointed Algy-f thought
had appendicitis. but the doctor said
II was only indigestion.
Tehcher-Now, Harold. can you tell
me wha. wisdom is1
Small Hnrold- Yes ma'am. IT'S In
formation Of the brain.
Cook -Dlnks suffers from hay fever
doesn't be3 Hook-I should say he
does. lie can't even pass grass
widow without sneezlng
"NsgE Ia very fond OF entertaining.
isn't her
yes Ills wife has 10 be pleasant
when there's company Exchange.
Dos tn. razor bur. ssT' fnquirSd
the barber anXiously.
"Can't say" replied the victim test
ny. "bnt my face "-Harpers.
Manager We must put a good deal
of realism ln this wood scene. Can
you get some one 20 growi 10 as 10 70.
sembIe bear1
Aaslsta1t-I think 80. There are elk
or seven actors who haven't received
their wagos for ten weeks. T'il call
Ne-uD
I'm ready" shouted The speaker.
90 meet calmly any emergency that /
may arlss" A. that moment the plat
form collapsed and the speaker ezhib- F.
tied great perturbation
How about that onef' they asked .
him later
.That one dld not arise"
'What &C. fae trouble NaggIei You
look worrirI.
'The trouble ls alth the twins. mum
one NJ them s rry1' because he swal
lowed bio rst..e. an' he other 81 howl.
lu' out ~ sympathy. an' betwirt ihe
two of Heu 3 can't tell which one
swalIOReI Doc rattle"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-12-27

Miss J.-Your bedroom must be q
very healthy place, dear.
Miss P.-what makes you think so?
Because I notice that when you are
downstairs sometimes you are pale
but II yo1 go up into your bedroom
for q short time you come down Wit
q beautiful color"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-12-27

that sometimes terminates fatally, is
the stopTagf # liver and bowel fonc-
ti00s. 10 quickly end this condition
without disagreeable sensations, Dr.
KIBg's Sew Life Pills should always
b. your remedy Guaranteed abso-
lgteiy sat .factcry iu every case Or
money back a. all drug stores. zDc.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-12-27
First National Bank
Of Southern OREGON
GRzNTs PISS. OREGON
Some of the Services that q
Bank Renders the Public
DEPOSITS

The simplest and safest way of
keeping your money is by deposit
ing 1t in a Reliable Bank. This
Bank receives Deposits Subject to
Check. or on Demand Certificates
ol Deposit or on Time Certificates
OF Deposits, On Time Deposits we
pay 4 per cent interest.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-12-27
LOANS
OF FFICERS

l.. B. HALL. President
J. G. CAMPBELL, Vice. President
VI. l.. GrLKEY. Cashier
X. X. HAc@TT. Asst. Cashier
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
Thr RthhlR
nf $nftrHH
By DIR. MADISON c. PETERS,
New York.

ill., inch by inch and by STEP you have rolled steep
whose crest is the mansion of
We hear and read of intellectual giants industrial
every field OF action but take time anay their lives and
works. we will find that they not giants all ordinary ndi-
duas like ourselves that they trained
mated their wills that they avad themselves of possible
Of time they could and put good while others standing
idly BY letting the golden of time slip through their fingers
realizing that lost they forever art device
could them.
What costs little usually worth little
great lives and will find the amount of toll that lies
immense and that laurel in their placed by
downright honest hard work at the Of body brain
Some think that will drudge with.
out pleasure in the world at aso it would the did
train himself to have aptitude and love for
d and then the dudgey itself becomes kind Of pleasure
the all be divided classes drudpes
the iders and the workerse dudge the workers
the drones or idlers are left behind in the
Dudgery the The German
scrpon key "f as it is of the
iron key To be bright and shining be successful and consequently
happy must keep ourselves polished with the oil of
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
Transformation In Lumber Industry

Transformation In Lumber Industry.
A few American citizens are still
living who were alive In the days when
the Indiana and Ohio pioneers were
cutting great clear-grained black wal
nut. white oak and hickory logs. piling
them and burning them to ashes in
order to be rid of them. Farmhouses
are still standing in the Ohio valley
whose tenoned frames are Of black
walnut, and whose roof boards are OF
wide, clear lumber such as is now
sought for to be made into kings table
tops. Black walnut lumber in Ameri.
can commerce is to-day little more
than memory, says Milton O. Nelson
in the American Review of Reviews;
white oak in the finer finishing grades
is worth half the price Of mahogany,
and the American vehicle industry is
in distress for the lack Of hickory.
Even in sawmill cities of the present
day the lath from the walls Of wrecked
houses is carefully cleaned and bun.
died for resale, while half-decayed pine
logs are sawed into merchantable lum.
Der. Thus in the span of one life the
American lumber industry has passed
from surfeit to hunger. Such another
span promises to carry us from hunger
to starvation.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
British Veterans Meet.

London.-"The remnant of that des.
perate host" as Kipling described the
veterans of the Indian mutiny, gath
cred on Monday in Albert hall to the
number of more than 700 to commem-
crate the golden jubilee of the strug-
gle which ended in the Indian empire
being saved to Great Britain.
On the pension roll in the war Of
fees are the names of 1900 survivors
Of the mutiny, to each of whom an in
vitatlOn was sent for the reunion, but
old age prevented many from attend
ing. Those who could travel, includ.
ing officers and men, came from every
corner Of the United Kingdom, and
with breasts covered with medals
they made brave showing as they
drew up outside the hall to be re-
viewed by Lord Roberts.
The youngest among the veterans
was siXty-five years of age, he having
been drummer boy during the fight
ing, and even today he looked to be a
youngster as compared with his COM
panions, bowed with the weight of
years. The review was brief as the
infirmities of the veterans prevented
them from standing long in line, so,
headed by the field marshal, they
marched to Albert hall, the galleries
Of which were filled with cheering
crowds, and sat down to banquet.
Lord Roberts, who presided, read a
telegram from the King, who ex-
pressed the appreciation of the whole
empire for the services rendered by
the army Of which the veterans were
members.
Lord Curzon, chancellor of Oxford
university, gave the toast, "The Sur
vivors Of the Indian Mutiny," and
Lewis Waller, an actor, recited verses
and poetry written by Rudyard Kip.
ling, of which the following is one:
To-day across our fathers graves
The astonished years reveal
The remnant of that desperate host
Which cleaned out East with Steel"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
Thf Dualtty
nf tl1r mtnh
By GEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH.

whose othe self dominated his personality at intervals The pos
bies of weaving absorbing and intricate plot by thus playing with
subconscous self which at times the surface oeraed
the true self early appreciated by noves and
beginning to wonder there is not psychological condition which
these fanciful sketches based
The duality Of the mind and personality matter for intense
speculation Even the sanest Of at times peculiar mental
exaaon which induces to wonder if there not after ALL another
side character struggling for being and expression
It should not be assumed that this oher SELF always evil
the contrary is oftenmes the best part with possibilities
achievement and good that dwarfs all Of feeble efforts The
scientific acceptance of this duality that Of good and evil opposed
other If lives NOBLE charitable and ovable existence
believed that this other dormant self evil possessing potential
for wrong that not easily measured.
As repuve stevenson fancu sketch have seemed to
nevertheless preached in words Of fire Our other
f is always with carry around with either dormant
awakened activity and day destruction Whsh
not responsible for its triumph mstter for ethics and
y decids and each individual have i
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
American Wheat to Odessa.

A big shipment of wheat from New
York to Odessa, Russia, is an impor.
tant indicator as showing how the cur.
rent Of trade Is sweeping in an unusual
direction and one that promises to
bring benefit to this country. Ordinar
lily Odessa itself is a wheat-shipping
point. being one Of the ports to which
the Russian grain fields are contribu.
tory, and Europe has been accus.
toned to depend on that region for a
large portion Of Its food supplies. This
year the Russian crop has not been
sufhcient to meet home demands, and
the export trade has fallen off accord
ingly. The people OF that country are
buying instead Of selling foodstuffs.
and as Europe is always confronting a
shortage, the situation compels reli-
ance upon the new world, in which the
United States is the chief wheat pro.
ducer. Hence, remarks the Troy On.
~ Times, the increasing shipments
abroad, the effect of which in the ag-
gregate must be to strengthen materi.
ally our credit and to increase the
favorable balance of trade.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
MISSISSIPPI
RIVER JETT|ES
4 REMARKABLE ENGINEERING
FEAT WILL OPEN DEEP
HARBoR.
WORK IS NEARLY DONE
six MILLION DOLLARS EXPENDED
IN COMPLETING THE
UNDERTAKING.

New Orleans.-One of the greatest
channel making undertakings in the
history of American river improve
ment will be brought nearly to com.
pletion this week when the jetties at
the mouth of the southwest pass OF
the Mississippi river are finished.
These jetties, after some dredging
between them is completed, will give
the South one of the deepest harbors
in the world by opening to the access
Of the largest steamships afloat the
100 and 20O-foot depths of the lower
Mississippi river.
The harbor thus made accessible has
navigable water connection with at
least dozen states bordering the Mis-.
sissippi and it's tributaries, the Ohio
Missouri, Arkansas and Red rivers.
About $G.0OO,0OO is being spent on
this improvement by the United States
government, which has the work in
charge. The new jetties were begun
four years ago. They are on a larger
scale and more substantial than the
famous je.ties at the Mississippi's
south pass, an outlet which for over
thirty years has been the rivers COM
mercial entrance. They are nearly
parallel walls, one about three and the
other about four miles long, lying over
half mile apart and built in the shoal
water at the juncture of the pass with
the Gulf of Mexico.
Their purpose is to confine and thus
accelerate the rivers current across a
mud bar about three miles broad, SO
as to produce channel at least 1000
feet wide with minimum depth of
thirty five feet. The swift current
which they have produced, aided by
dredging even before their completion,
has caused tremendous scour apd
has already made fifty to eighty-ffve
feet Of water in some places where
at the beginning Of the work the depth
was but little over a mans head. To
make the uniform contract depth,
there is still in several spots about ten
feet of mud to be removed. 1t is ex-
pected that the high water due within
few weeks will sweep the remaining
mud deposits out to sea by the begin
ming Of next summer
Probably few walls ever have been
constructed under greater difficulties
than were these jetties. They are
made of willow, scantling, stone and
concrete. Although in some places
they are not six feet deep and al.
though their greatest depth is barely
fifteen feet, they have cost $2,7O0,OO0
Every material entering into their con-
struction has been brought from dis
tances Of 100 to 500 miles. The jet
ties have no foundation but rely for
stability upon their broad bases, being
from 1O0 to $50 feet wide at the bot
tom.
In contrast to this great width of
base, the concrete Gaping which
forms the top of the jetties and which
is the work receiving its finishing
touches this week, is but few feet
wide.
The Gaping is sea wall four and
half feet high and is the only por-
ton Of the jetties not submerged. The
wall weighs between two and three
tons per linear foot The submerged
structure supporting this mass of con-
crete is made almost entirely Of will
low poles and brush
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
Undraped Babies.


In Philadelphia. more than half .
century ago. a few casts from the an.
tQue created something very like a
public scandal: and when, at an earlier
period Greenough's Chanting Cherubs.
the first group by an American sculp-
tor. was exhibited, storm OF condem.
nation enveloped the undraped fig.
ures: nude babies were familiar In
American homes. but their appearance
in public shocked the moral sense OF
the whole community. This. remarks
Hamilton Mabia in Atlantic Monthly.
was iu New York, where. still earlier,
gentlemen who lived by piracy had
been influential members Of society.
The symbolism Of Powers Greek
Slave and the passionate sympathy
with the Greek struggle for freedom
diverted attention from the nudity OF
the figure to the pathos 1t expressed;
but 1t was thought necessary. In the In
terests of public morals, that the fair
captive should be examined by com.
mittee OF experts. Accordingly group
of clergymen In Cincinnati sat as a
jury and. after critical examination
Of the figure, issued kind of license
for purposes of public exhibition. The
humor Of submitting the statue to the
inspection Of a committee Of clergy.
men does not seem to have occurred
to any save few Americans who had
been corrupted by familiarity with
foreign galleries; nor does anyone ap-
pear to have realized that the real i'm.
morality was not in the timid slave,
but In the public opinion which hailed
her eff1gy as the greatest work Of art
in the history of the world!
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27

These only aentuate pointed that
obvate such temporary provisions for relief
logical and intelligent plan must be thought out
When confidence shaken it
tend hoard gold and currency Such conditions substantially
known abroad where the central banking system employed
This central bank should be owned jointly
and the national banks The
the controller OF the should be represented its
treasury funds should deposited with the central bank and the
men bank should have to issue notes in certain proportion s
gold reserve or capital AS it likely that the sole right of such note
issue would be opposed by national banks and radical
government bank would probably not present.
tentative plan has been admirably developed by Paul NJ Warbu
banker in New York This provides for
to transactions with the clearing houses of the various cities The
deposit funds with clearing houses and national banks against
States bonds and other approved security well commercial
bankers bills with proper The plan has the advantage of
providing additional and the rate of interest be
board and the banks would have been able redco their paper
to obtain bank notes to relieve the strain Clearing house
caes issued different ceners times like the well
nigh impossible to for transfers Of from the
other
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27

The automobile may have its uses.
The Touring club Of France, composed
OF bicyclists and automobiles, has ta-
ken up the work Of reforestry and got
1t under way on broad and sound
basis. The theory was that the de.
struction OF forests lessened the pleas
urs Of travel. Auxiliary societies have
been started everywhere, and by their
efforts tree culture is now taught In
the public schools. Prizes are given
both to teachers and to pupils for good
work in this line. The club has also
secured the passage of several laws
Tor the preservation of forests. This
Is better than running over pedss.
TRANS, at least
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
Cost Of Separators.

Hand cream separators may be pro-
cured in sizes varying in capaeuy
from 15O pounds of milk Us gallons
an hour to 1900 pounds Q44 gallons
an hour. The prices varying 'I"A'
about $40. for the smaller size ~
about SITS TO. the larger size, depeH''
ing upon the particular make OH.
A farmer who milks ten cows w
tanning from them, say, 800 pounds ..
milk day, or $50 pounds at t'' II
milking, should be able to separa.t, ,ro
in fifteen minutes. This Will req"m
a separator of GOO pounds capaciI
hour, which would cost about siVg,
The average separator OF sIahn%ith n.ith
or reliable make should last We
Gcod care, for twelve or fifteen !s"''
with very few repairs.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
New Chinese Press Law.

Peking.-The throne has issued or.
ders to the ministry of the interior and
the ministry OF justice to frame new
press law for China to replace the OK
listing regulations. This action is due
to the great growth Of public meetings
In the empire, the use of proclamations
and the egitation for rights to recov.
cry" due to newspaper publicity.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27

King Edward now is eligible for
membership in the hotel clerks union,
with his hne big $75O,OOO diamond.
He could paralyze the drummer and
the blase traveller simply by extending
his front few inches and not saying
Q word.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27

Fictionists have been
utilizing the Elusive
"other self" of man for
years in the profitable
exploitation of their
wares, but few of us took
them seriously. 1t was
pleasant reading to fol-
low the strange adven-
lures of some character
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
Nothing great has

Nothing great has
ever been accomplished
in the world without
hard work, and what
people in their simplici-
ty call genius is merely
the knack of putting
ones shoulder to the
wheel of life and never
takinp If therafrom I'm.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27

New Jersey has gay bridegroom
Of 81. Cupid is, after all, the real level.
Or. though 1t takes some people quite
. while to realize that there is nothing
half SO sweet in life as loves young
dream.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-27
Grlttral Battktt1g 6yHtf1t1
thr Arrn nf America
By ISAAC N. SELICMAN.
Noted New York Banker.

HERE truth in the statement of Lord Rohschd when he
characterized this country financially uncvized in it,
banking methods
The spectacle presented to-day by currency to the
civilized banking community of the world simply shameful
Emergency clearing house certificates have been issued
in nearly all large ces cashiers checks and scrps
circulated to take the place of currency and all devices
posed the community to take the place Of currency which
has been boarded
New-York tribune., 1907-12-19
ONE CENT CAR FARE.
II. O. CroSier Thinks Telephone
Calls Should Cost the Same.

Alfred O. Crozier, the Delaware delegate to the
National Civic Federation. who appointed TO
draw up resolutions OF thanks to retiring President
August Belmont, together with Isaac n. Seilgnai1'
after he had tilted with both of them at Monda!
and Tuesdays meetings. is anxious to bring ABOUT
an organized effort to do away with margin safes
and call loans at eXorbitant rates OF interest MI
Crozer said last evening that only by THESE means
did he think that Danicky conditions couIu pe Sc
curely guarded against.
Mr.. Belnont's reply TO my question must oe m
teresting IL cUnsoling. to the people hefe saiA
Mr.. Crozier. But the desperate conditoh he 80
plainly revealed is the result, and not the cause
of the things about which Mr. Belmont so fervent-
ly complained.
THE entire difficulty is largely due TO miscon-
ception of the conlpany's legal rights. When Tor
purposes of taxation the courts decloed Il'it d
public franchise a contract ana also property
they opened the Pandora box and all puhhc ser
vice evils street railways gas, electric telephone
e-c escaped These can be put back and the peo-
,e relieved from intolerable conditions only when
the courts reverse that decision WouIo nave
asked Mr. Belmont, with all due respect lot MS
nersonal opinions, whether the people would nave
loct their confidence in public utilities investments
if there had been no overcapitalization from the
,,ie1rnoint of investment? Whether there would be
any question as the ability OF the railroads 10
give the best service If II We're only necessary "
nav dividends on the cost TO the company WITH
reasonable payment TO the promoters OF the ei-
terprise?
..Tut as long as the decision of til" courts stands
as il does now with the franchise regarded as
contract the holder will invoke the constitution
To enforce its obligations. however questionable
its provisions the methods used TO OBTAIN It
IL IL is property it be appraised by the owner
at will and capitalized for any amount, and suca
rates for service will yield reasonable return
on such capitalization may be charged The pub
lie must submit buy back the franchise that II
has given away. and a the ruinous price oe-
nanded.''
Mr. Crozier when asked what rates would be
charged. in his opinion. for service such as New
Workers get to-day from the streetc=r lines with
capitalization questions eliminated, said that one
cent might possibly cover the cost of such fare.
and that one cent should cover the cost of tele-
phone call