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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15
PARCELS POST.

To several foreign countries Parcels Post serv-
ice was given lower rates March /, a weight limit
of II pounds being granted at - cents a pound.
With Japan and Sweden the rate takes effect this
month, while France, Hongkong and Denmark
will acquire the new rate soon. The value of
parcels allowed is also raised from a limit of
$50 to a limit of $50. Home rates, however, con-
tinue at 16 cents a pound up to 4 pounds only.
1t is an unjust situation that enables anyone
to mail a parcel of II pounds at IL cents a pound
to a friend or business acquaintance in Austria
liza, Japan or Germany, while to the friend or
business acquaintance in an adjoining town one
can only mail four pounds at 16 cents a pound.
That condition exists only because of adverse in
fuences now passing away. Tom Platt has lost
his seat in Congress and is liable to lose his place
as president of an express company that is one
of the three mentioned by John Wanamaker while
Postmaster-General as "the three obstacles in the
way of the establishment of a Parcels Post"
Platt was their spokesman in Congress.
The present Congress can do no more patriotic
work than to wipe away this discrimination. 1t
will do even better work, however, If it formulates
a law along the lines of the Rural Parcels Post
proposed by Meyer that
carries the extension of privilege to greater linn
its in favor of local rural routes. 1t is time for
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15
ELECTRIC AGE is HERE.

In the northwest part of the state the Belling-
ham Bay & British Columbia railway will be
converted into an electric line during the pres
ent month. In the southeast, the southwest and
the northeast parts of the state, electric lines are
under construction, while those in the central
part of the state are being extended until they
will radiate in every direction with their freight
and passenger service.
The most significant application of electricity to
traction purpose, however, will be the operation
of electric locomotives on the mountain sections
of our great transcontinental lines of railway
that will begin during May. This will mark an
important step in the progress of the Pacific
Northwest, and is the forerunner of the dawn
ing era in the industrial progress of this grand
section of our great country by which the falling
waters of our myriad mountain streams shall be
harnessed and trained to minister to the manifold
wants of a happy and prosperous people. New
applications of light, heat and power, generated
by the mountain brooks, are bound to come,
while the traction lines will be gradually trans
formed to operate by electricity at an enormous
economy of fuel and increase of comfort.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15
ANOTHER "LAsT SPIKE" DRIVEN.

Newspaper dispatches announce that the last
spike has been driven that connects the %construc-
ton work from the East with that from the West,
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Rail-
way and that there now exists an unbroken line
of double steel bands forming a new link between
Chicago and Seattle. The spike was driven with
out ceremony at a point in Montana near Missou-
la, only a few miles distant from where a golden
last spike was driven in the tracks of the
Northern Pacific railroad-the first to link the
East with the Pacific Northwest-a quarter of a
century ago.
This "last spike" was no different from the
thousands of other spikes which the sledges of
Greek, Italian, Irish, American and other gangs
of laborers have been steadily driving for many
months all along the line. 1t means much, how
ever, to the Pacific Northwest. 1t means the en-
trance of a new factor into the transportation
field. 1t means the entrance into this territory
of a new and powerful force-backed by millions
in capital. 1t means competition, more trains,
more activity, more shipping, more goods handled,
more money and an era of increased prosperity.
Already the Pacific Northwest is pulsating with
the thrill of increased activity within it's borders.
Aside from the activity of track construction, the
building of the 1000, 900 bridge across the Co
lumbia River, the boring of tunnels through the
mountains, and the construction of terminal ia
c~ilities at the Sound cities, there is the larger
activity connected with the influx of a multitude
of homeseekers. These are penetrating every
nook and corner of the Pacific Northwest, and
every community is vibrant with the building
of new homes and the establishment of new indus
tries.
"They are coming from every state in the Mis-
isissippi River Valley and from the East, and
they are as a rule prosperous farmers, trades
men and artisans seeking homes in Washington.
The state is growing by leaps and bounds. West
ern Washington is getting a good percentage of
the homeseekers, but a great majority of the
immigrants, who are of the very best class of
people, are seeking new homes in the irrigated
districts of Eastern Washington. There is not
a parallel to the great tide of settlers now pour
ing into the Columbia River Valley by the train
load"
This word picture is a faithful reflection of
the condition as it extends beyond the borders of
the state throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Everywhere the homeseekers are seeking vantage
points from which to gain a livelihood by means
of industries connected with or resting upon the
facilities afforded by it's arid farming, irrigated
tracts, rich valleys or logged-off lands.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15
OPPORTUNITY.

They do me wrong who say L come no more
When once 1 knock and fail to find you in;
For every day I stan doutside your door,
And bid you wake and rise to fight and win.
Wall not for precious chances passed away,
Weep not for golden ages on the wane;
Each night I burn the records of the day,
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Laugh like a boy at s%plendors that have sped,
To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with it's dead,
But never bind a moment yet to come.
Though deep in mire, wiring not your hands and weel
| lend my arm to all who say Il can"
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep
But he might rise and be again a man.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15
= editorial =

Subscribers and advertisers should note the
change of location of The Ranch office to
Fourteenth and Main, Seattle. Can be reached
by cars on Jackson Street, Yesler Way and
Old Renton lines. Phones: Sunset, East Al;
Independent sos. Subscribers who have been
calling at The Ranch office for their papers,
will be able to get them by calling at section
G, basement of Central Bldg, Third Ave.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15
FOR BETTER FAIRS.

The legislature exhibited a very. liberal spirit
in it's treatment of the leading fairs throughout
the state. Aside from the law permitting coun-
ty commissioners to eXpend one-half mill per dol
lar for the encouragement of local fairs, it ap-
propriated $4,000 for the benefit of the State
Fair in order to encourage farmers and livestock
men to build up in their business and to attract
attention from outside visitors.
1t also provided $1,000 to establish a South
western Washington Fair in Lewis County. This
will be expended for the erection of buildings,
fences, stables, grand stands, race track and i'm
proving the grounds, provided the people of Lew
is County furnish a site. A suitable site between
Chehalis and Centralia can be secured for about
$1,000, and citizens of Centralia and Chehalis
have already made a liberal start toward subscrib-
ing for it's purchase. The fair must be held this
fall in order to secure the grant.
These funds were given in the belief that the
rivalry which fairs engender will encourage grow
ers of fruits and agricultural products, as well as
livestock men, to improve their output and will
result in a vast gain to the state. 1t is now up to
the various communities to make good.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15

A local daily paper mourns because the Japan
csc of the West Coast cities send $40, 000, 900 an
nually to their homeland for use and investment.
Well, what of it? They are not permitted to be-
come citizens here nor to own real estate. What
should they do with their earnings? 1t is money
they have got by honest industry. 1t is their own.
Is it any worse for them to send it to Japan than
for others to send many times that amount to
other lands? There are many parasites that
never produce a dollar, but merely absorb the
wealth produced by the labor of others, who spend
vast sums among the nations of Europe, while the
Japanese have produced wealth that remains here.
If it is not desirable to have them send their
savings abroad they should be excluded or adj
mitted to citizenship.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15

Brays, Douglas Co., Wash, March 80, 1909.
Editor The Ranch:
Please change the address of my paper from
Brays to Lakeside, Chelan Co., Wash, and oblige.
I like The Ranch very much and think it is the
best paper printed for the money that is suited for
this section Of the country. D. A..
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15

members of Congress to begin to serve their con-
stituents and they can no longer hide their light
under Joe Cannon's bushel.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15

Editor The Ranch:
Please find enclosed fifty cents for one years sub
s%cription to The Ranch. CHAS. OHNSON
Route 2, Box rs, Auburn, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-04-15

Acting Governor Hay is to be commended for
vetoing the bill passed by the Legislature that
made persons who sign written pledges ineligible
to hold office. That class of legislation belongs
to the same category that includes the bill requir-
ing voters to disclose their party affiliations when
they desire to vote in primary elections, and then
limits them to the use of ballots for that party
only. It is meant only to put party above princi-
pies and gives strength to the demand for the ini-
tiative and referendum as a remedy for ring rule.
If a man desires another's vote that other has a
right to know whether that man Will represent his
interests as he understands them or no.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
Rely on Cuticura Remedies.

Millions of the worlds best people use
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment,
assisted, when necessary, by Cuticura
for eczemas, irritations and infamma-
tions, for cleansing the scalp of crusts,
scales and dandruff, and the stopping
Of falling hair, for baby rashes, itchings
and chafings, and many sanative, anti
septic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women as we'll as for all
the purposes Of the toilet, bath and
nursery. Guaranteed absolutely pure.
Cuticura Soap (25cD Ointment t5oc) Resolvens
(5OcJ ard Chocolate Coated Pills (25c), are sold
through" the world Potter Drug 4 Chem. Corp.
Sole Prn's. 1877 Columbus Ave, Boston.
nS- Mailed Free. CUtcurA Book on Skin Dis asAa
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

No matter how long you have s1t-
fered, Foley's Kidney Remedy will
help you. Mrs. S. L. Bowen, OF West
Virginia, writes: i was a sufferer
from kidney disease, SO that a. times
could not get out of bed, and when
did l could not stand strai ght
took Foley's Kidney Remedy. 9~s
dollar bottle and part O. the secS@a
cured me entirely" 1t vii cure YOU
For sale Ey Atlanta Pis-macy.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

Mrs. Clarence Mcdonald is visiting
in ReidsN lille
81
Mrs. Z w Fleming. Of Jackson
vile. and her little daughter are
with Mrs. George p. Smith.
Mrs. NJ II. Ballard and children
will spend today on st. Simon with
friends.
MISS Florida Livingston has re-
turned to Brookman after pleasan,
visit 10 friends in the city.
-
Miss Marietta Sentell has returned
to her home in Jesup after a visit to
friends in the city and on St. Simon.
-
Miss Sallie Wylly, of Darien, is
the guest Of Mrs. c. S. Wylly for
few days before going to Macon to
visit friends.
~ --s
Mrs II. p. Maxey and her children
and Mrs. c. D. Parker left yesterday
for Marietta % spend a month at that
place. ii TIg
Mrs, r. D. Aiken and her children
will leave for Marietta as soon as
little Fanne AiAen Is fully recovered
from her fitness
-
Mr.. and Mr. "A Murphy af Wa
cross, passed through the iy yes
tefiay enraute to St sinner where
they will pend several days
b
Mrs. Joe Lee Of Way6ross, ara
Mrs. Nesl ee, of Bruaswio', Me
visiting their sister, Mrs Wlllie In
gram, Efingh2m County News.
Rev ]. b. Phillips. wife and three
children, Of Waycross, arrived at ST.
Simon yesterday where they will
spend a week or Ten days.
81
Mrs. r. Z. Priesenick and her chill
dren viii come down shortly from
Atlanta to spend few weeks in the
city.
The regular meeting of Oak Grove
Circle viii be held In Eagles hall
Wednesday, August II, at 5 p. m. All
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

Phone Pepsi-coIa b1stling company
for Glenn Springs Mineral Water,
natures remedial Offering for man
kind. Pepsi Rottlns Works, agents
For diseases of the liver, kidneys
and stomach, there is no better usla-
eral water in the worlc than Glenn
nprinss Mineral Water. Pepsi Cola
9ottling Co., agents.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

THE HOTEL CUMBERLAND HAS
GRANTED A RATE OF $500 PER
WEEK FOR BRUNSWICK PEOPLE.
NO CHARGE FOR CAR FARE.
CHEAP BOAT RATES. ADDRESS
D. A. kILl-8R, MANAGER, CUM
RERLANU ISLAND. G1.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

Cuticura Soap a box of Cuticura Oint-
ment and bottle Of Cuticura Resolvent,
and before we had used half the Resolv-
ont | could see a change in him. In
about two months he was entirely well.
When people see him now they ask,
What did you get to cure your baby?'
and al We can say is. 1t was the Cuti-
cUra Remedies. So in us Cuticura will
always have firm and warm friends.
George F. Lambert, 139 West Centre
ST., Mahanoy City, Pa, September &c
and November 4, 1907"
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10
&c n EXCLUSION RATES
---VIA-
AT. ANTlC COAST LINE
aEUNsWlck, georgia

atUNsWicK, GEORGIA.
SIS 02-NEW YORK AND RETURN
a aN RAJ On sale every Thnrs
tv a3 Monday heeinring jane
l7th until Angus 30th. incl4s,vt
m geca Original start-
M nor lafer than September
5th 1909.
- WASHINGTON. D. c., AND
r@ u, all rail. On sale daily unit!
Sc mber S0th, 1909. Fina. INIT
Octoher 91st. 1906
20 get the best service, see that your
tickets read via
TIE ATLANl &c COAST LINE.
w. J. Mangham, {. NJ. NORTH.
Ticket Agent, Div Pass. Agt,.
Brunswick. Ca Savannah, ia
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

Have you these symptoms: do your
eyes open wide, does your mouth wa
ter, does your head swim? Why, you
have got Nunnally's candy on your
mind and the only relief is buy box
and take IT homo. Fearrington Drug
company.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

the incalcuiable benefit
that the Cuticura Soap,
Ointment and Resolvent
did my little boy. He
had an awful rash all
over his body and the,
doctor said it was eczema.
1t was terrible and used
to water awfully. Any
place the water went it
would form another sore
and it would become
crusted. A score or more
physicians failed utterly
and dismally in their
efforts to remove the
trouble. Then / was told
to use the Cuticura Rene
dies, ! got a cake Of
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

THE HOTEL CUMBERLAND. FIN
EST SURF ON THE SOUTH AT
LANTIC. WRITE L. A. MILLER.
MANAGED E0R RATES
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

You. are invited TO call on Nanney
& Co., opposite the oalethorpe, when
wanting anything in the drug line.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

For pure drugs and prompt serv-
ice, phone AZ, Fearrinston's drug
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

Drugs can be secured any hour
/ day or night at Nannoy & Co, OPP
posite the Ogltthorp~.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10
:s.!-. SOCIETY Personal

members ale -Ireed to be present, es-
peclally those who have not yet been
obfsated
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

Glenn Springs Mineral Wa.ee is
highly endorsed by the physicians
and scientists. Pepsi-Cols Rottling
Works, agents.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

u love my dinner, but oh you hot
lunch at Bill Waite's, 1912 Bay street.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10
The Crime Of IdIeness,

Mlsmees means trouble for any
80. Ia tie same With lazy liver.
n causes constipation. headscAs,
yonneice. sallow complexion. pimplea
ana hlotches, loss Of appetite. nausea,
but Dr.. Kings New Life Pills sooa
Danish liver troubles and build up
your health. 25c at Roses Drug Stsrs.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10
AWFUL RASH ALL
OVER BOYS BODY
Weeping Eczema Kept Spreading
on Little Sufferer Score Of
Treatments Prove Dismal Failures
Grateful Father Tells of
CURE ACHIEVED BY
CUTICURA REMEDIES

1T gives ne great pleasure to express
my deep gratitude in appreciation Of
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-10

Your troubles soon viii fee away.
The clouds wiz pass, a br' ehter day
WIN faith and hope renew
The dismal, d7wnward way viii Use
And lead yoI trough LIES paradise
Where for smiles crom sunlt
skies;
So look beyop / with hopeful eyes.
But
Don't
Get
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-05-04
Bridled Brides.

Western brides have an easier time
than their Abyssinian sisters. On the
occasion of her marriage an Abys.
sinian bride has to change her skin.
From ebony she has to become cafe
au lait. To accomplish this the ex'
pectant bride is shut up In a room for
three months. She is covered with
wooden stuff. with the exception OF her
head: then they burn certain green
and fragrant branches The fumes
which they produce destroy the origi'
nal skin. and in its place comes the
new skin. soft and clear as babys.
The elders of the family feed tie
young woman with nutrlti'e lorce'
meat balls. Cape Colony Argus
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-05-04
Washing Rugs and Carpets.

A preparation for washing rugs and
carpets is made of four ounces of good
white soap dissolved in four ounces of
boiling water; when cool add five ounces
of ammonia, two and half ounces of
alcohol, two and half ounces of glycer-
inc and two ounces of ether or chloro-
form. Bottle and cork tightly.
To clean carpet, add teaspoonful OF
the preparation to pail of tepid water
and wiring the soap from this. The
same preparation will also clean mems
clothes.
Two tablespoonfuls to a pint of water
will remove the most obstinate stains.
Mating should be washed with strong
salt and water to strengthen the fibers.
If white or cream colored mating
has become faded, wash with strong
soda water and, while this will turn it a
deeper shade of creamy yellow, it will be
all one color instead of variegated.
Mating should always be swept the
way of the weave, not across 1t.
If some of the figures in the pattern
have become dingy, they can be bright
ened by rubbing dye into the mating
with an old toothbrush, following the
lines of the figure, which can be strength.
ened with pencil before applying the
dive
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-05-04
Never Do This,

Never begin journey until breakfast
has been eaten.
Never take warm drinks and then i'm
mediately 90 out into the cold.
Keep the back, especially between the
shoulder blades, we'll covered; also the
chest we'll protected.
In sleeping in cold room, establish
the habit of breathing through the nose,
and never with the mouth open.
Never 90 to bed with cold or damp
feet.
Never omit regular bathing, for unless
the skin is in active condition the cold
will close the pores and favor congestion
or other diseases.
After exercise of any kind, never ride
in an open carriage or near the window
of train for moment; it is dangerous
to health, and even to life.
When hoarse, speak as little as posi-.
BILE until the hOarseness is recovered
from, else the voice may be permanently
lost or difficulties of the throat be pro-
duced.
When going from a warm atmosphere
into cooler one, keep the mouth closed
so that the air may be warmed by its
passage through the nose ere it reaches
the lungs.
Never stand still in cold weather,
and especially after having taken slight
degree of exercise.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-05-04
Maxims for the Married.

Never both be angry at once.
Never taunt with past mistake.
Never allow request to be repeated.
Never meet without loving welcome.
Never forget the happy hours of early
love.
Never talk at one another, either alone
or in company.
Neglect the whole world besides rather
than one another.
Never let the sun 90 down upon anger
or grievances.
Never speak loudly to one another
unless the house is on fire.
Let each one strive to yield oftenest to
the wishes of the other.
Never make remark at the expense
of each other; it is meanness.
Never sigh over what might have been
but make the most of what is.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-05-04
MoN1AGNAIs INDIANS.
They Are Hunters IN the Strietess
Sense of the Word.

They Are Hunters In the strietess
Sense Of the Word.
During nine months Of the year
fall. winter and spring-the Monta'
pnais Indians Of Canada spend their
lives in the bush" hunting and trap
ping for pelts and meats. Then ID
June they rendezvous at the particular
Hudson Bay company post where they
belong trade of their hunt and settle
down for rest and recreation until the
middle Of August, when they are on
aruin for the winter They have abso
Iutely nothing to do with the cultiva'
ton of the soil. being hunters I'D the
strictest sense of the word. The In
dams who hunt about Lake Mistassini
form subtribe by themselves, haV'
Ing the same name as the lake, anp
their summer rendezvous Is ut the
Hudson Bay company post on the
lake. Those who hunt south OF Mis-
tassini on the shores and tributaries
of the Ashuapmonchouan river bear
the name of that stream. Those on
the Nekonba river bear its name, and
those who hunt nearer Lake st. John
are known by the Indian name OF that
lake. Pikonagami All Of these bands
rendezvous on the west shore OF Lake
st. John, at Pointe Bleue, where the
government has set aside a reserve
and attempted to COLOMBO the hunters
and teach them to become farmers.
East of Lake st. John is the Chlcouti
inf band, now much reduced. and
southeast of them the Tadousac band.
both of which are to be found distrlp-
uted over The French Canadian dis
tricts Of the same names. There are
several other bands farther down to-
ward the gulf of st. Lawrence.-South'
ern Workman.