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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-03-26

Are you a careful buyer? Good
articles sold at lowest prices at
Deans.
Improve your yard, SOW grass
seed, get It growing, keep it cut nice
and smooth with a lawn mower You
can get at bargain at Grants Pass
Hardware Co. 3-26-2t
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-03-26

Mrs, David Scott arrived from
Goldtield, New, on Friday OF last
week on a protracted visit to her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, r, u. McKon,
OF this city. II is to be hoped that
Mrs, Scott and her husband will
later become residents OF Grants
Pass
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1909-03-26

Did you see them Tuesday? MY
flock OF Thoroughbred Barred Rocks
Is headed by a son of one of these
hens. Eggs $3.50. John Summers
3-26-1t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
MA. srooNEY,s ADDnEss.

The Advertiser publishes In full to-
day the address of Mr.. C. p. J. Mooney.
managing editor of The Memphis
commercial-Appeal.t to the members OF
the Alabama Press Association at
Dothan. And printing It in full we
commend It as one of the most timely
and one Of the most thoughtful pub
lie utterances delivered in Alabama
in recent years.
The address is not for editors alone.
1t should be read by all classes of
citizens Of the state-to all men It
should appeal. 1t Is not published for
the benefit of the editor, but for the
benefit of all readers who should de-
rive advantage from study Of 1t.
II is far from being the ordinary,
trite address. 1t enters new fields,
turns over new thought and advances
new duties and responsibilities. The
address Is one that arouses and in
spires new thoughts and one that
should appeal to all thoughtful citi-
gems of the State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27

we will have TO build something else.
TO take the place OF what we now
have wat are the plans OF the lat
ter day crusaders. what are they GO
ing to do when the fee system has
been abolished. from top to bsttom7
Some years ago a. similar agitation
directed at solicitors resulted in q
change under which the solicitors were
put on liberal salary paid direct from
the State Treasury. The Advertiser lie
convinced that this has proved bad
business for the state, in that. the
State pays out more salaries to solici.
tors than 1t receives back in solicit
tors fees. We can not say with posi-
tiveness that this IL true. but 10 all
the figures are obtained and Efforts
to that end are now being made. 1t
will In all probability be demonstrate ted
that the State is losing money IN the
change.
When the thousands Of justices of
The peace In Alabaa.a and when the
thousands OF constabss In Alabama
are put on salaries. t needs no spirit
% prophecy to pred.,s that the state
Treasury will be hard hit.
The Advertiser with the light before
II, continues to favor strict regulation.
r''erm and reduction rather than
abolition. with new sa;sri.s and new
tsxes to meet new drains M the treas
Dry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
THE GOVERNMENT MAIL
BY Frederic J. Hsskin.

tcuiar attention. The request was
that when Congressman Rfxey geta
up his bill to improve Lower Machodoo
Creek, let her go through. Uncle joe,
let her go through" Uncle joe en-
dorsed on the back of the letter. "Ke-
spectfully referred to Hon. John b.,
Rixry for his Information. But Lower
Machodoc Creek failed to get the APP
preparation, so Uncle Joe" has never
''let her go through.
Perhaps there never was change
in administration In which there was
such a remarkable change in the vol
ume and tenor of the White House cor
respondence as there was when Taft
succeeded Roosevelt There never was
a President who maintained the large
personal correspondence that was kept
up by Mr.. Roosevelt. Interested in
every subject under the sun. with
friends in every walk of life and in
every quarter of the globe. the min
ute he assumed the. reins Of governs
ment. the White House stan saw thae
there were going to be strenuous
years ahead He wrote almost twice
as many personal letters as Mckinley
or any other predecessor. The same
condition obtained with his official
mail. Under the Taft regime, condi-
tions have come back about to what
they, were during the Mckinley and
Cleveland administrations. MIR. Tart
sees but comparatively few of the let.
tiers received at the White House. A
system OF rules has been framed for
the guidance of the executive clerical
stan. Those letters which can best
be answered by the departments are
sent there even before Mr. Carpenter,
secretary TO the President. sees them.
Others go to Mr.. Carpenter and out
OF these he selects the comparatively
few which need to be brought to the
attention of the President himself. If
Mr. Taft gave HIS entire correspondence
personal attention he would be busy
every hour of the twenty-four and
would still be unable to read all his
letters.
When ex-Secretary Shaw came to the
Treasury Department, he had that no.
ton common to country Bankers that
he must give his attention to every lit
tile detail of the Treasury work. SO
vast is the amount to be done there
that one man could not look after the
thousandth part of, the details. much
less do 1t all and the important things
besides. But Mr.. Shaw was up by the
break of day, and in his office by the
time Washington was at breakfast.
There he wrote and wrote. He also IN
sisted that he should Sign everything
that went out, SO far as 1t was possible.
But he soon had as fine case OF
writer's cramp as was ever the lot Of
man, and thereafter he found tina
treasury wheels would not stop re-
volving just because his writing hand
was out of commission.
The Postofice Department 10 the
greatest producer of Government mail,
the Agricultural Department next, then
the Treasury Department. The Treas
ury Department alone receives from
1000 to 5000 letters day. One word
saved In every letter mailed by the
Government would lay off enough stem
ographers to man the office of COM
pany doing business of million
dollars a year.
(Couyright, 1909, by Frederic j.
Haskin)
Tomorrow--scientinc Library Work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
Letters to The Editor
COMPLAINT OF POOR CAR
SERVICE TO THE CAPITOL

TO the Editor:
y very rare to see a large cor
when there is no apparent reason for
The public, ] have always found.
vii stand for some inconyeniences
wnen there IL more good derived there
&c. 'n gos ~oaS hsy. tG o tine pa
months ago when the Montgomery
street Railway Company shook up
lneir car schedule. And Ii was Jolt.
too II was the one great shake up
s s ! have never been able to UNDER
In the first place. there is the re-
blocks below the Capitol front Of every
car line except the Washington Park
or jackson Street line. No longer the
oak Park car. no longer the Belt Line
Lawrence. The scores Of men. Often
hundreds, who daily visit the Capitol,
nave to ride--if ride at all on a car
line that 10 more conspicuous for Its
negro passengers than for its speed or
promptness about reporting.
MARX you. Just before this change
tne company had just completed It's
s s,g ]oo 1921, OF tearing up the old tracks
Capitol officials and thousands Of OUT
Vt-town visitors were just beginning
70 shout their peans of Joy when--to
the surprise Of everyone except the
anagement-the cars are taken off
The Oak Park car is switched at
Dexter and Lawrence to make a detour
81 ABOUT q mile in an opposite direc-
around by the lakewood Cemetery. over
the old Belt Line tracks, and thus Is
made to do the service of two lines
without regard to the convenience of
Park line proper. Nor does it make
happy impression on the tourists who
visit Montgomery by the scores. to ask
ior a car to the Capitol and be told
n Sns, me sr only line for him is the chief
Nor Is that all Can some more ex-
perienced passenger tell me what is
there so dear I'M a transfer over the
senger bound for my home at the head
OF Dexter Avenue. find myself return
ing to the city from Oak Park or be-
yond, and ask for a transfer to the
intersects on Washington Avenue, the
precious little slip IL refused me. am
told that either ! must get off the car
ana walk four blocks to my home or
take that occidental detour around by
the cemetery, do the figure 8 on the
old Belt line. swerve into Dexter down.
town. and walk four blocks to my
destination. What is the difference no
held at Washington Avenue though 1t
intersects and does not parallel the
Oak Park line.
But 1t is not the only instance. II
you find yourself coming downtown on
a Highland Avenue car. destined for
your home on Adams Avenue east of
Hull Street, you feel that you are
entitled to q transfer at the intersec-
ton with Hull to the Cleverdale car
running North. But no, you are told to
run on to town. lose fifteen or twenty
minutes. catch a Cloverdale car outgo-
ing, ride twice the distance and land
exactly where you sought to place
yourself in the first instance. Yet
does Highland Avenue car parallel
Cloverdale? 1t does not. but runs
perpendicular to 1t. It looks neither
economical nor right. Yet the trans
fer is a costly document to the street
railway and bought deadly.
Citizen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
COTTON pRoDucTIoN IN ALABAMA.

The census bulletin No. 100 gives
the cotton production of the UnFoc
States for 1908 and the four preceding
years. 1t gives the total of 500 pound
bales for isos-os as is,5s7.sos the ,arg-
est ever grown except the crop Of 1904
which was 13.s7s.ss4 and that of 1906
which was 1885. 4os. The crop for
Alabama is given as follows for 1903
os. 1.s45.7is: for lso7-os. 1.I12.sss; for
1so6-o7, 1921, 1873; for 1so5-os. 1.22s, 200;
for is04~o5. 1.451.S62 1t will be seen
that Aiabama's largest crop was in
1so4-o5 and the next was that of
10000.
In going over the production by
counties It appears that Montgomery
heads the column with 1895 bales
for 10000. Dallas comes next with
ALTO bales. 1t will no doubt surprise
the general reader to learn tiat the
third county In Alabama In point of
cotton production is Pike which is
credited with s5.sss bales for crop of
10000. Pike is not what Is known
as the Black Belt or Canebrake re-
gion. where the land is most suitable
for cotton raising. The difference IN
results per acre is due to the mode
of cultivation. most OF the Pike coun-
ty lands being worked by white men,
while the rich black and grey lands
are left to negroes. With the same
attention to details in Montgomery
county that is given to crops In Pike
county our yield would be double whaG
1t is. Marengo. another rich land
county is fourth in production with
1868. The county of smallest cotton
production is Mobile with $50 bales
and the next is Baldwin with 1917.
Nine counties in the State produce
over $4,000 bales each. The Earliest
north of these counties is Chambers.
Twenty-four produce over 10000 bales
each and the remainder under that
number. Twelve counties produce less
than 10000 and one OF these is Jeff.r-
son with 7,176 bales to its credit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27

tact cease, and that we lay hold b,
the tendrils 81 love. For what IL we
did grasp handsf Death would break
up our union. but IL we grasp hearts
we are one foreveri
IT Is expedient for you that &C
away.".our Lord did not speak of Him
self at all. He intended to convey a
blessing. but Il must come through the
medium Of trial. 1t was great trial
to those poor unbittered men to lose
the visible presence on Christ; they
could not understand nor acqufesce In
IL He did not say, II am weary and
need to get away No! He leaves be-
cause 1t IL best for them. AS the
mother withdraws her hands that the
child may learn to walk alone; as the
father sends away the son to school
that he may learn self-reiiance AMI
obedience. SO Il was expedient that
our Lord should leave the infant church
that 1t might learn more completely the
lesson OF faith.
Life is not ali sunshine We gain
strength by disciplined; we grow by
strife. The great storm rocks us into
rugged power. and by the power of
endurance we attain the grace of gen.
tleness. Great sorrows make tender
hearts We are softened and refresh
ed by the dew of tears. When we are
weak. then we are strong You cae
never be fullgrown men till you have
learned your lesson in the gloomy
school Of thousand ldisappointments.
II go away" 1t is part of plan. /
go away. I am not sent. I am not
surprised away am moving accord
ing to a well-ordered and wise plan.
There are no unexpected thoughts In
the mind of God. The changes that are
SO strange and startling to us are but
links in a chain fashioned by God Him
self. Lay hold of this. and you escape
the atheism of chance, and moreover
come into the peaceful region of loving
trust. There is nothing fragmentary
and detached and isolated in Gods
movement or plan. Where we see con-
fusion He sees the whole, and Is work
ing 1t all out to its perfect and glow
ing end.
Though the saviour has gone away
He has made a path into Heaven for
us. He will not suffer US to rest short
of His throne. We have His own word:
Where / am, there shall We be also"
Could we but see things as they are
we should see the whole church all
over the world moving in one grand
procession towards the gate of the New
Jerusalem; a band of freemen. an army
of conquerors, their banners dipped In
light, following the blood red cross,
which gives them the right of way into
their Fathers house. Lord open our
eyes that we may see.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
HE SAT BY THE WATERS OF
BABYLON AND LAMENTED

Gadsden Times-News.
Governor Conner will never stand
sponsor to a law Sabolishlng the fee
system. 1t would knock too many Of
the Governors friends out OF their
gravy.-Gadsden Times-News
That observation Is unworthy Of
The Times-News' gifted editorial par
agraphist. We cannot believe that he
regards Conner as such a man. 1t is
so common for Alabama dailies to
rasp Conner. or to remain passive while
the other fellow is dsnouncing him
above paragraph must have been in
dicted from force of habit. Governor
Conner no doubt faVors any good plan
to abolish the fee grabbing barnacle
and will sign such G,ill as quickly as
passed. But that Is not all of the i'm
Strengthening the prohibition laws, re-
anacting wholesome statutes chat be-
came invalid through clerical error or
omission. Fee jobbery is an excres-
cence and must stop, but II certainly
appears to man up a tree that there
Is a concerted move on the part of the
antt-Comer newspapers to magnify that
sin at the expense OF more widespread
evils. You can't have done with Co
mer by Misrepresentation Riv-
sr News.
We are free to confess that we have
contracted the apti-Comer nabit and
are tinged with the belief that nothing
good can come out of Nazareth. We
look with Suspicious eyes upon every
new move the Governor makes and are
continually seeking for the Africa y
in the woodpile. But It was not al
ways thus. Time was when we sat in
the bleachers and rooted merrily for
the Governor to score. We stood at
the race track aid whooped again
when his number went up. We want
ed a reform" Governor, and by ali
the gods of Rome at once, we got one.
Then we sat down by the waters Of
Babylon and did the correct thing Tor
that locality. We reminded ourselves
of the frogs that prayed for a king,
compared ourselves with the batra-
chtans and declared them the winner.
The present Governor has not lived ur
TO our hopes. He has INDUCED in an
orgy of attempted reform. He has
spent like water the money of the
State in making laws not wanted, that
engendered expensive litigation and in
the end were declared null. He start
ed a system of State high schools and
sold them out TO the highest bidder
He crippled railroad development IN
the State at a time when we could
least afford II. He did a thousand
things and most OF them were gratuit-
Gus and nwanted. He rode into Office
on a great popular wave. but before
his term OF office was half expired he
was the most unpopular Governor Ala
bama has had since the war. We make
no assertion that the Governors mo-
tives are vicious. But ignorance. mar
rowness. prejudice and spite are nearly
as bad and equally as dangerous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27

For a great many years whtskey has
been popularity considered a specific
antidote for snake bite. But now
comes the medicine men and say that
Numerous experiments supplemented
by careful chemical observation have
shown conclusively that whiskey IL
positively harmful in place OF being
beneficial in case of snake bite.-Line-
willie Headlight.
1t was certainly kind, thoughtful
and phiIanthropic in the medical men.
now when the favorite remedy for
snake bites is under ban and can't
be had in many places. to tell us that
the old remedy is no good. That re-
lieves some folks of the dread they
entertained that they might be bitten
and no remedy to be had.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
THE FEE SYSTEM AGAIN.

! The Advertiser, in another column,
ION this page, reprints an editorial
from The Age Herald misstating the
position OF The Advertiser on the pro-
posed wholesale abolition of the sys-
TEN OF paying officials by fees. If The
Age-Herald had published The Adver-
Users editorial which It criticises
there would be no occasion for The
Advertiser to say anything now.
| The Advertiser nowhere said that
the fee system was sacred because 1t
was old. The Advertiser did comment
on the fact that the system had been
in operation since Alabama was a State
and 1t has been in operation under the
nose of The Age-Herald since The Age
| Herald was paper but only recently
was it's full horror and responsiveness
realized by The ge-Herald and the
others who are making the noise. The
Age Herald now takes for it's own, in
spite of its criticism, part of the
argument Of The Advertiser-that
much of the evil. probably the great
est part of the evil, comes from the
collection OF fees by the smaller off,
Gals To correct this manifest evil
The Advertiser strongly favors strict
regulation and reduction If necessary
of fees and supervision OF acts of
subordinate fee gatherers by higher
officials,
In the past the principal argument
directed against the fee system was
based on the fact that a few officials
were growing rich through its opera
lions. The Advertiser declared and
still declares that this condition was
confined to jefferson county and that
the claim that ohicials all over Ala
bama were piling up tens OF thousands
Of dollars annually was erroneous.
Outside of Jefferson county we do not
believe there is an official in the State
making $4,000 a year when all his
expenses are paid. In many counties
the officials are men who could make
more money in private life and who
are. therefore, serving at some loss.
The Advertiser in it's first editorial
said:
The entire agitation appears to be
directed towards those who receive the
large amounts in fees. AS a matter OF
fact we believe that the greater harm
and distress comes from the more nu-
merous class of fee paid officials who
receive small returns and who are
theoretically working to Increase the
amount Of these returns.
The Age Herald endorses this part
Of The Advertisers editorial and
adopts the argument for its own use.
The Advertiser convinced that there is
an evil in the not infrequent extor
ton Of fees by small oficials would
correct it by rigid regulation. under
rigid supervision. The Age-Herald
would abolish the whole business by
one stroke.
Justices of the peace and constables
would have to be paid somehow. Is
The Age Herald advocating salary
for every Justice OF the peace and
every constable in Alabama? And in
making constables and justices of the
peace salaried officers what would be
fair salary for each one? Should
the constable and Justices Of the peace
have their salaries paid by the county
or by the State?
! 1t is easy enough 10 tear down, but
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
SUNDAY, JUNE n, 1899.

The city of Atchison has town
ordinance that seems to us to be some
what confusing. 1t requires that all
persons must keep on the right hand
side OF the street when driving ana
turn to the left when meeting another
vehicle. To begin with. II all dryers
keep on the right hand side how can
two of them meet? Then, IL two are
coming towards each other and each
turns to the left will they not butt
into each other2 We think that ordi-
nance needs a diagram. or a key, or
something.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
Blessing. in Unexpected Ways.

NOGlSCkGo Inc NJ
1T is expedient for you that 1 go
away."-John xvi. Z.
We cannot see that it does not
look SO to US. We should have said !:
Jesus Christ must remain upon the
earth until the very last soul is saved
instead of that He distinctly says: "I
Nest 60 now; I must go first 1t is
expedient for you that go away"
And so God is constantly upsetting
all our plans In all the daily process
of our life. 1t would appear that He
will not have our calculations. We
cannot be sure of any two days at a
time. We say: Tomorrow shall be as
today and more abundant and the
third day we shall 60 into yonder city,
But God says. II will break your days
in two. and when you expect prosperity
you shall find grave"
We would say: God will never take
away the head of the house until the
children are all grown, and out in the
world" And yet God says: No. the
head of the family must go first" He
says this also. 1T is expedient for
you that your father goes first" But
the heart cannot always see 1t so.
What God wants is character. and
that He will form in US at all hazards.
So props must be removed. RESPONSE
bilities met and duties performed, in
death.
1t was a great thing to have the
visible Christ; but 1t is far greater
thing to have the spiritual Christ This
is a dif1cult point in human educa-
ton. to rise from the letter to the
spirit, from the material to the unseen.
This is the difference in scholarship
one man is learned in the letter another
in the spirit. the one is a reader. the
other a genius.
Just in proportion. as we get this
spiritual power. are we rich forever.
You love your friend, but never his
friendship Death may break up the
assembly. but the fellowship remains.
Death may hush communications of
the lips, II cannot silence the more elo-
quent interchange OF the heart. Those
whom we truly love we cannot lose
they are always with us-not always
audible. but always present.
Fix your mind on this point the
realizing power of love. My child
gone many years to the heavenly home
is yet with me. And those others,
dearly loved. though absent, are ever
present with me. My friend has gone
away from me. over the seas and be-
yond the mountains, but have him
still in my heart. His thoughts, his
views of life, his behavior under given
circumstances. his noble impotence
his answering loyalty to truth and
honor, his ready sympathy his utter
scorn of all that is low and mean. his
deep humility, his cheerful generosity
never leave me. They mold my life
and they will save me from many
temptations. He is ever with me. be-
cause of the realizing power Of love
1t is expedient for us that fieshly con-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
This Is My Goth Birthday
Bishop CranstOn

Bishop Earl Cranston, Of the Method
list Episcopal Church, was born in
Athens, o., June 81. 1870, and was ed
as a soldier in the civil war. first IN
the 9rd and 60th Ohio Infantry regi-
ments and the 2nd West virginia Cav
airy regiment, rising from a private to
he entered the ministry of the Meth.
odIst Episcopal Church as a member
of the Ohio Conference in 1857. serving
in that and other conferences until
1884, when ne was elected one Of the
publishing agents of the church. In
1895 he was elected a Bishop and has
since spent several years in Episcopal
visitation OF the missions and churches
in China. Japan, Korea and other coun-
tries Later Bishop Cranston served
as a member of the Commission on
Federation with the Methodist Church.
South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27

Andrew Carnegie declares that "oar
peaceful nation can lead the world to
peace" Well. we have not yet gotten
much of reputation as a peaceful
nation. II history Is correct. More
than that. we are not aware that the
world Is showing any disposition to be
led In that direction. not to any great
extent If we are to lead in sucn a
work we must show capacity and WILL
ingness to do ii.