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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-06-21
TO FIGURE
IN VALLEYS PROSPERITY

The loganberry as producer OF
revenue is just now attracting much
attention In the state Of Oregon, and
the fact that no part of the state can
produce the luscious fruit in better
perfection or greater quantity than
the Rogue river valley has occasioned
an agitation here to have larger
acreage OF the berries planted. A
branch of the industry that would ap-
peal especially to this Vicinity Is the
drying of the fruit as In that form II
has ready market, with no hazard
OF shipment, and with transportation
reduced to a minimum.
In the Willamette valley hundreds
of acres Of the berries are being
planted out, and the returns from
them is quoted in figures that run in
to the hundreds. Geo. II. Parker, the
local nurseryman, has been investl-
eating the culture Of the berry and
supplies the Courier with the follow
ing letter which he has received from
a Salem wholesale house regarding
the outlook for the berry In its evap-
Grated form
1t is true that we have been in
terested in the growing Of loganber-
ries for eyaporating purposes, and
while there may not be many dried
during the next few years we believe
the time Is coming when this will be
an industry Of considerable import
ance Just now the supply available
for the Gamers Is not sufficient to
meet their demands II Is only with
In the last few years that the Gamers
have learned the art Of preparing
them properly in tin. The demand
also on the part OF the consumer has
been growing very rapidly during the
past three or four years so that there
is now a specific demand for logan
berries in many forms
I'VE can see a great future for this
product dried especially in localities
where there may be land well suited
to It's production which is located
back too remote from rail facilities
or from canneries. and where they
can be easily dried and thus hauled
out in condensed form We would
be willing to give a contract covering
a term OF FIVE or seven years on a
goodly acreage OF loganberries, the
same 10 be eyaporated and delivered
to us as soon as cured every season.
The tonnage produced per acre on
land which is we'll located and well
adapted to the culture OF loganber-
ries Is enormous and will pay hand
somely.
Irrigation would be a very desir-
able feature in the way Of assuring
regular crops. We are growing
number OF acres ourselves and have
no doubt at all as to the net results
per acre, the same to be used for
drying purposes"
Mr.. Parker states that there are
at the present time about twenty
acres Of the berries in bearing In the
Grants Pass district, and that that
amount is considered enough TO JUS
tlfy the establishment OF a custom
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-06-21

unable to locate any OF the articles
enumerated although hat pin,
valued at little more than a dollar,
the property OF Mrs. Bristol, was
found, and this the suspected party
acknowledged taking, but strenuous
ly, denied all knowledge Of the moro
valuable articles.
No arrests followed and there Ia no
evidence to indicate how the diamond
and the nuggets disappeared, or the
direction they took when they depart
ed from under the bed,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-06-21

When your child has whoopinI
cough be careful to keep the cough
loose and expectoratlon easy by Civ
Ing Chamberlaih's Cough Remedy 40
may be required. This remedy will
also liquify the tough mucus AMI
make II easier to expectorate. II las
been used successfully In many erc..s
denies and is safe and sure. For
sale by all tealers
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-06-21

There 10 more Catarrh in this sec
tlon OF the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be In
durable. FOR great many years
doctors pronounced II a local dis
ease and prescribed local remedies,
and by constantly falling to cure with
local treatment, pronounced II Incur
able. Science has proven catarrh to
be constitutional disease and there
fore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufac-
tured by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure
on the market II Is taken internally
In doses from 10 drops to tea
spoonful. II acts directly on the blood
and mucus surfaces OF the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for
any case II fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
Address r. J. Cheney & Co. To-
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipatlon
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-06-21

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13

ed were OF concrete. paid for by the
land owners and maintained by the
tenants. In this case the posts,
lamps, and so on, were bought and
installed by private electrical con-
tractor. who for charge Of three
cents per week for each foot of front
age. cares for the lamp and furnishes
current, bought from the lighting
company. The posts and lights are
then owned by the landlord. and a
special form OF lease is used by which
the lessee agrees to maintain the
light. This insures that the tenant
will always pay this cost. Where
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
Fight Fire Win Fire.

One neighborhood association,
which installed fifty posts. was or
sanized and kept together hy one
merchant who say The nearby trade
attracted to a lighted street four or
five blocks away. He determined 10
fight fire with fire. Accordingly he
went to the merchants and property
owners on the street, and placed his
solution OF the problem before them,
asking for agreements to meet the
cost OF lighting. The Big men were
asked 90 pay the cost of more than
one post, the smaller men the cost OF
enc post, and in some cases half that
amount The cost for each post was
six dollars month
But in every case the subscriber
understood that he had no guarantee
that posi- would be placed in front
OF his store 1t might be in front o,
vacant lot next door. or of a store
whose proprietor paid nothing. The
street was TO be lighted to attrac,
the shopper the rest depended
upon the ingenuity and business abil
fly OF the merchant. AS result the
fifty lamps were installed, twenty
five on each block The increase ii
business was immediate vacant
stores we're rented, and several new
buildings erected.
Tht value OF property IN SONS
cases rose as much as fifty per cent
and as leases expired, rentals wer,
increased But the business mer
found that better business more thar
covered this added expense. occa
sionaIly one has dropped his Ugh
payment, but this has seldom caused
trouble. Another has always taker
up the burden in order that there
might be no break in the line Of light
On another street, the posts install
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13

ton Of new street lamps, They also
agreed TO meet the cost OF the main
tenance Of the system, the money for
both purposes being raised through
assessing each merchant on the basis
OF street frontage. Installation cost
two hundred and TWO firms on Church
and Chapel streets $500 for each foot
OF frontage: maintenance viii cost
$3.50 per foot, the total being about
$1,000 for installation and $4,000 a
year for maintenance.
The night the lights were turned
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
in the Small city.

In The small city the white way is
also designed 10 keep the trade at
home-to prevent the shopping trip
to the large city nearby. Last fall,
for example, the business men OF New
Haven. Connecticut, decided to sub
scribe for the purchase and installa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13

lots are vacant. the association meets
the cost OF lighting. The new system
of illumination was installed year
ago aud merchants agree that bust
ness has increased twenty to thirty
five per cent in the past year
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
Followed Like Moths.

The remedy for this condition was
not discovered, until the elevation OF
the railroad tracks made sharp di-
vision between upper and lower State
street. To overcome this handicap,
the business men OF the lower district
Installed high candle-power arc lamps
on both sides of the street. As re-
suit The crowds. like so many moths.
followed the lights and their promise
OF cheerfulness, and the sidewalk on
the vest side-as brilliantly lighted
as that across the waE-soon attract
ed its share of traffic. For rather
than go to the unlighted portion
across the railroad, the crowd simply
crossed the street. TO walk up one
side and down the other. And the
storeseepers had only TO keep theil
windows trimmed attractiveiy and tc
offer bargains to tempt the passerby
Their business doomed.
In the district above the tracks. the
merchants on the cheaper side of the
street soon drew q lesson from the
experience of their neighbors They
promptly .sgot together and installed
the new lamps which had kept lower
State street on the shopping map and
as promptly reaped advantage By
drawing their share OF the traffic In
self-defense, the retailers on the dol
lar side" then combined TO set w
similar lamps that they might hold
The passing throngs and avoid the
threatened loss of trade. When all
State street was flooded with light
the business men Of other streets toos
up the movement until the better par
of the retail district was ablaze. and
here, as in nearly every other city. i
was found profitable to illuminate ths
retail streets whether the stores were
kept open evenings or not. Buyers
! following the lure OF the lights, "go'
acquainted with shops they hac
never seen before.
Indeed II was only after the com
me-cisl value Of adequate and attrae
tive lighting schemes had been i'm
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13

Just row While Kaokuk is ag;tatiug
the installation Of q Great White
Way lighting system the following
article from Don Cameron Shater in
the magazine System" viii be OF in
teTest as showing the commercial
benefits Of such Illumination The
article came to the attention OF Mr.
G. A. Hassan who forwarded It 10
The Gate City for reproduction:
For nearly q generation the most
famous street in America has appro-
prsated unto itself the title Great
White Way From all over the world.
a crowd has fiocked there 10 watch
the myriad nghts-to wonder, and 70
buy. And as more business houses
have pushed In along its flanks, de
manding share of the sver-increas-
ing trade, Broadway has stretched its
blazing path northward. But the
glare o, light has not merely follow
| ed the development OF business-it
has created business. Il is . cause,
not result The crowd-tha custom
ers-folicw the line OF Illumination.
| Among the score OF cities which
have protited by the success OF Broad
way. one of the first Was Schenectady
For almost a hundred years State
street had been the one shoroughfare,
with only the east side OF the street
really valuable for business purposes
1t was the favorite with everybody
on Fridays and Saturdays the crowd
filled the sidewalk from curb 10 store
front It was the dollar side: tbs
other. the '.fifty-cent" side, seemed
deserted by comparison. But the diff
ference was even greater than thes'
figures would indicate. a more exac
ratio perhaps would have been tina
of dollar and a dime. Rents were
of course, about three times as higl
on the busy side OF the street AM
property was valued accordingly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
The Light Cure For Dull Trade
How Backward Retail districts Have Attracted Buyers
By Illuminating Their Streets

by Don Cameron shafer in -syssem--I
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13

Continued on page So
The evening world., 1912-02-12
Letters from the People

one trip that the sea 10 not all It's
cracked up 20 he by Capt, Marryat ct
al, Avoid sailing ships. II you do like
the life. th,i officers OF the ship IN Witch
YOU sail viii gladly tell you how they
reached their high s~tation-then heliev,
about half Of It. How long It takes to
work w depends upon ability and luck
! ave known seamen. GOOD nAvtgators
who had been at ss,a thirty years. from
boyhood up, who at the age OF forty to
forty-hvo were second mates OF tramp
steamers. and We're earning SIS 10 81
n month. ! knew a man who had foi
fifteen years heen captain OF n ma
boat. lie made a mistake. lie had to
tuink quickly There we're ninety-ninc
things he ought not to do and Just one
thing he ought 10 do. He guessed
wrong. The Admiralty Court. sitting IN
crimson plush chairs, could plainly see
that there was bun one correct thing for
him TO have done, just one thing, and
that is Just what each OF them would
have done. lie lost his certificate. and
] saw MIN last cooking FOR a gang OF
s~levedorss on the RIO de Ia Plata.
8ay6oo4s ConA> ma
The evening world., 1912-02-12

loe one, and. er-pty the other, you know: uhtch Keeps him Just as
busEy occupied.
The senO0rdpher UhO marries her employer may not be suspicious but
she Is apt to be eaceedtn0Iy fostidious about her successor.
Keep neat" " you can. tr bride, but Keep sueet" at any cost; the
curl in your hair Uont hold him " the curl Of your Hps repeb him.
So long as marriage licenses continue to be given oeooy a. promts
cuousIy as trading stamps. they aU b held at the some ud1e
The serpent oas just the substitute for tho Hsterinlao IN tho Garden
OF Eden; he probably told Adam and Evs all the thtn0s they didn't know
about each other.
When a man makes loe o q woman drtsticdIy nocddays, she 70 apt
to be so astonished and delighted at the novelty that II never occurs to her
to .pOnder hOW and rhcre he acquired his skill.
The evening world., 1912-02-12
ON LISTENING.

~ NE REASON why so many people fail 10 be agreeable in
convcsssion 10 TINT al the while ono is talking TO them
thoy ore thinking far more Of what they wish to gay noxt
than Of paying attention 10 what "a being said.
It u q true to-day as it WA when q clover Frenchman sad 1t
twe hundred md ftty years ago. 1t was doubtless true Of discus
sons on the Ark.
How often, in arguing with q friend, YOU eco by his restless ey"
s,d moving lis and fdgcting hands that he is only impatient for
you 10 md 70 that no may begin. How often his Arst word shows
10 ~ not esneht . tsnh Of what you ssd.
The most famous Of English takers once had a sharp word fer
nGA an opponent:
"Do me- the honor TO listen 10 me, Sirrrh, Or lot US drop The
DISCUSSION. II / am merely to soiloqui,s do not need you At all
The evening world., 1912-02-12
FOR THE DAY.

roURscoRE AND SEVEN YEARS cco " fathers brosoM
forth upon h1 continent O ter nntion concerted IN no
ery and dedicated 10 the Proposition that all men are
0ssssd equal NWp " e ave enjoyed IN o great ctI pm,. test
~ Vhsfher that walton, 0, any nation 80 conceived and o dcdt
Assd oas long endure.
w ee net On q great battlefield Of that War. We have
O0S - asdhote q portion Of that aed al o hnoI resting ptoos
~ tAess WAo hsrs oaoe thNr Nves that that nation might ns.
\ Y sssoosfAr Nfnno and proper tina. ue should DO thb.
DWk ~ . evpW ssnse. " co~not dedicate, VOC oo~Not con
ss~vsA xs oe~~os AaIow fs ground. The brace men. NVtno
~ IssA vAo struggled mere hove consecroted Il far above our
eev~ 70 sdd o. 70 dstroct The Word piI little note nor long
sVnS~be Vhas Voc coy herc, but u can never forget 1hos Mev
~ NM. II u 70, W. the bptno. rathe, to be dedicated Mere 10
~ saNstshed york UhAch tev toho fought here haze A~s for
- sebN advanced.
ne rather for y to BE- Nero dsdtcoted to the greet task re-
0oesA~0 before W; that from these honored dead zoe take In
WssssI dsvono~ to that cause for Which they 0aue the Lost t~H
~ssvvs Of devotion; that zee here htohp resolve that hese
lsoa sAaH Not have died IN votn; that thts nation under God
sAsu Ao,e a neo birth Of freedom. and that government Of the
esopJs, BY the people and for the people shall not perish from
~ sytA-LAncolns Gettysburg speech. Nov. 10. 1858
Eneliah prose hiss nothing finer than these words. The wor
be- seen no nob!er man than he who spoke them. To-day s a GOO
I'M ,evorsnty to r,-read them and learn them by heart.
The evening world., 1912-02-12
The Days Good Stories

pet rabbi. he wanted 70 show M. But no-hs
dug . Mask from ths woodpiis, saytns. You had
. pretty cold ride and this might hslp come. Bot
don't tell pa Then We had sappss. EvsUtA1ns
ueaantiy. But I wanted 70 sprins . tohA - I
pretended - have Q drsadfu cough 4 &1nat
after ] w. showu to my room there vs . tAid
knock on my door and . soprano voice without
sah: I notice 700 we're coughing this wsalas.
marked poison. Get Il and uss Il Y 700 cough.
But please ay nothing to the nst a. the saally
eboH 4. Coed nisht.' I dtdn't - anyN19 =
anybody. But I had . good time In that AGaaA"
The evening world., 1912-02-12
DIAMONDS AND DIVERSIONS.

FORE jewels than ever came into tho country last month
IN $4,000 worth more than in January, 1911. Our demand
AVA for psah nsckdacss Il said to b enormous.
Yet Ire Chief Of the Division Of Production and Distribution
Of the Dspsrtmsnt Of Agriculture tells Ne we mustn't squander
uisksls on trolley ddss or 90 TO moving picture shows, because we
can't afford II, and that w waste too much time and money on vaca-
tions and pabls amusement anyway.
whsrs, thsn, are W going to wear our pearl neckacesF
The evening world., 1912-02-12
The Presidents Pastor Too.

= Ev. ULYSSES @. 3. PIERCE. Ch.p.ain Of
n the United 6Atss Senate and President
Tsfts pastor Il Q Wellington UnttariAn
church, told . group Of senaton . few days 40
Of Q letter hs had received ths previous morning
from Q stfons Methodist friend Of his. Ths lsttAs
read:
Dear Doctor: Yesterday morning while .. the
way to services in my own church ! was o~vsrtsken
BY the heavy rain We had. A ! did not have an
umbrella with me. and was near your church. !
went In. and for the first time listened to one Of
your sermons on the tsusts a the Unitarian faith.
Next Sunday ] am going 70 earn a UMBRELLA
SATURDAY Eyenins Post.
The evening world., 1912-02-12
True Hospitality.

A DRUMMER out In Kansas thus rasto IN
~ The Boston Transcript . sonswhst ~
variable sxpsrisncs at the houss Of . Gus
toner who hsd invited him to supper: "Whsn !
arrived wss introduced 10 his wife and son.
before W vent TO the dining room my host took
me aside and said Perhaps you'd like . little
,omething-but dom, mention this TO my wife I
promiaed and be dug up = bottle. Then we we?t
downstairs and I got to chatting with the son. .
Sov Of about ~sixtesn. He winked at me aud l
The evening world., 1912-02-12
Single Blessedness.

n HAUDE ADAMS wa one DAY AiseusAn9 ~
lNI her id negro NANNY" tAs sppse1a11no
AvA marriage Of . friend.
when 10 you swins TO n nan1sl ~
Msudisi" asked the nanny. who took . lssp
interest In her talented young mistress.
II don't know nanny" answered the staR. 81
don't think I'll ever get married."
We'll" sighed nanny. IN an attempt = b
philosophical. they do say ole maids 10 the hap
pies Kind after they auits strusslin'. "-Psoala
Magazine.
The evening world., 1912-02-12
N THE CANDLE.

ELEPHANTS are getting scarce because billiard players are
increasing. A single British billiard ball firm uses LAO
- elephant tusks every year.
We are used to being warned that IL We 20 oh reading news
upcrs there will be no more trees, and that fast travel and steel
a1scrapsrs are taking Ill the coal out Of tho earth. Seals have to
b protected, and fish, birds and animals generally need moro and
nknc human help in the struggle to carry on their species,
Man takes heavier and heavier toll from the earth for the COM
forts and amusement OF his brief walk upon it. Though he tries By
rule. against waste and by planting anew to protect the sources Of
supply, al hs really gvs back In the end for Whist he has used is
hnsdi.
How long vn the price b snough'
-0HE fih pedder whose recitation Of Hamlets sonoquy thirty
years ago 81 pleased his uncle that the latter has just left
him $780, 900, ought to Re glad he stuck to the safe side OF
the famous question.
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A Friend to
America.

struggle against Great Britain. Congress paid on the Last o this debt to Beau
marchaiss heIs in 1857
During the French Revolution hts sale Of q quantity Of guns to Holland IL
&c his Punishment ron France. His wealth a conh&atd by the French GO,
eminent. N 1899 III dNd, shorn Of frtune and half forgotten by hi dozens
women WHO hd once found him Irresistible
The evening world., 1912-02-12
Historic
Heartbreakers
No. IX.-BEAUMARCHALS
By Albert Payson Terhune.
ospyAsht. 1917. b, n Pr. Pusnahns O.. cns Nm Y~h wsAU.

Opy1ht 1l2 By IL P0 Fub19nno % Ce N~ vi Ws"V
No. K.-BEAUMAR
- won much OF his wealth by marrying SUCCESSFULLY. two I'M
widows. He won much OF his fame by attracting the fancy q t~o
princes.es. He became involved in a series Of troublesome us
haps through trusting . woman too implicitly. Hs name Ws
Pierre Augus,tn Caron. He called himself "Beaumarchais' and. lat9 In
life. bought a patent Of nobility that gave him the legal right to bic Assn
name. He a a poet. a statesman. . playwright. . matchmaker. . oNL
clan. an inventor. a courtie'. . nnancier; and achieved suecsss o y OF
these caninss
Beaumarchaia began life a. a apprentice to h father. wAe wN .
Paris matchmaker. He neglected this trade to study music. Morsev~: he
was forever falling in love. and spsmG more time IN writing sonU - his
swssthsarts than in making watchsA Nevertheless. hs mastered bic pr0ss-
sion 20 we'll that he val appointed omhd waeehmakse at the French Court
When he ~ only twentythres he married tbe widow of q rich old govern.
m~s sne.a In ,s. than . :: =, '' aa; II. :. a. counsel, ., 20. o'. .,n.n.. h." ?,
.s.4n from tim. "a tine for Year.. :. . Weapon In nj; enemies , hands =. ,u.
several snS~ovem.nt. OF tn. harp. and acquired much success a. . mus'a.n
ns. n y.s to- s. s.asn s.s.: Oh; KIM KIM soss, x ~ 1 Ts '; OF p ,as s..s': ::s- r.
most ohrOniSer. n tn day; i.n deep in love with ae
-S sS"s.:... ." open ,sv n.r ns,9.' ,s Ss" , ssss," dc. ,,,. "a, so' ,s an.,o. md
- began pAns up a fortune. Here 20 thu influence Of the
r. SaeS .r.n IN OF V %s.r,u m ssr4s snS; hs ar m he e,p mne I'D ~. %s' na 10 h s'o o.u' =
!os noush in a: career o. Irritation and we,lih,setans to run over into sesA
ci.vto who had broken an ensaxsmen' to marry ncaonal cha''s sister
She NIX. hi. other wife. dhea suddenly within a few months. And once m"
.aer.a N. Du.: had hi. successful rival ,lssany thrown an.o , prison - o. L 81,
s~as n sn IN his navOr a Judge Goezmann. seaumarchais promptly o&d
so~.s condition th., IT should s% ss rsturnsd Il Il i nr husband should dsSa. III.
pay back more. hal a part o., M mOney to Beaumarrhals III. latter Droush,
. uuus .s. .n.sL ns and u; !. .. :.r T.,V ., ss .~sss,.,s trials e''''' that brought to all
Bsumardh. proceeded to draw down m himself 4. hatred Of .ho oen,
Seville and :"TS. Marriage Of Figaro" doth since turned into pea". which
At royalty. A s.w y..rs earlier 50 es.onaba a n attack would a landed
s~umsrah.. in the s.'s He But ID. ar st. scsS Ss..S Of IL. tn FL s, S Rev mssn'
sy his ~sr~ to hasten til. Revolution. advent.
. . ::::: :. !: !: :; j.; t.: :: go: i: !: :: ::; !: :: : :: !: !: 4: e :: !: =: =: !: 4: !: !; =: .; !:
.russs: :s.in.. Great Britain Congress paid on tn at of tins debt to Beau
During the French revolution hts. sale o . quantity o, run. to Holland led
to MS banshment rom France His wealth va oonhsnsd by the yrench GOV.
women who hsd onesf ound him Irresistible