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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13

ct don't want to. If you want to go
out and commune with Nature don't
see why you shouldn't. What time
will you return 2"
mot till SUNRISE any how. Think
you'll be afraid to stay alone2"
mot at all. You had better take
your revolver along. All is peace and
love out in the country, but pistol is
good thing sometimes"
81 want no weapons. Nature had
nothing to do with the making of
deadly weapons. I'll take along half
dozen cigars, and while you are swell
tering here and being kept awake by
whoops, screams and yells I'll be
whispering with nature under the
stars"
An hour later Mr.. Bowser started.
He took a suburban street car and
rode four miles beyond the brick and
mortar, and after walking along a
country highway for 40 rods he found
a tree and sat down to begin the bust
ness of communing. 1t was a moon
light night, and the feeling was one
men. He had brought along pencil
and paper, and as he sat with his
back to the tree he wrote:
"This is something like it. / am
beyond the rush and roar and wick
edness of the city, and the change
is wonderful. Just now 1 wouldn't
strike a man if he called me a liar.
1.-THE crfckets are singing their
CHEEKY songs They seem to realize
what I am out here for, and they
welcome me. 1 don't know whether
a cricket has a soul or not, but
feel in consonance with them.
Have just heard a tree-toad. First
I've heard in 20 years, and the sounds
carry me back to other days. The
song of the tree-toad is an innocent
one. 1 believe it would melt the heart
of convict and make better man
of him. I will write a letter to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13

did you come to write your book?' is
a leading question. The answer is
that in the fullness of time it wrote
itself. 1 seldom meet anybody who is
willing to believe this statement, but
l can only go on repeating it, since it is
the truth. 1 had no plan when 1 be
gan. One day I found myself think
ing of the time 1 went to school in
Polotzk, and wrote about that. An
other day I kept seeing the little girls
used to play with, and l put them in.
Then it was the market place that
haunted me, or the Dvina gurgled in
my ears all night, or there came into
my mind a tale the women used to
tell while picking feathers of win
ter evening. 1 put these things down
just as they came, and so grew the
book. When it came to putting these
fragments together, L found that they
fitted wonderfully well, considering
their haphazard origin. little re-
arrangement of the loose sheets, an
ing phrase there, and the story fell
into chapters that named themselves. !"
An evidence of what people are read
ing this summer is found in the new
editions of books which the Macmillan
company have been forced to print
within the last few weeks. OF Kath-
leen Norris Mother there have been
three editions in two weeks; of Jane
Adams "a New Conscience and an
Ancient ENH lHere HdNe dIso pFeh
three editions in two weeks, while the
third edition of William Hawley
Smiths "AlI the Children of All the
People, and a second of W. A. Nc
Keever's Farm Boys and Girls are
just from the press. From this 1t
would seem that serious works as well
as fiction find favor in the vacation
months.
Harper & Brothers announce that
they are putting to press this week for
reprintings 1.-The Valor of Ignorance"
by General Homer Lea; Princess Idle
ways by Mrs. w. ]. Hays; 1.-THE Ser
want in the House. by Charles Ram
Kennedy; '"Trilby" by George Du
Maurier; wild Life Under the Equa-
tor by Paul Du Chaillu; "Riders of
the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, and
"Jinrikisha Days in Japan" by E. r.
Skidmore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13
the corner of Laurel and Stevens

at the corner of Laurel and Stevens
avenues.
W. CIough is erecting a $S,1OO dwell
ing at S24 Quincy street. 1t will be
completed by October 1.
E. T. Greider is building a $1,4OO
dwelling at 11O7 Buchanan street,
which will be completed by the first Of
September.
cream factory which was recently dam
aged by fire. 1t is located at 500 West
Fourth street. The repairs will cost
5000
J.. G. Jamison is putting on an adj
dition to his dwelling at 524 Madison
street which will cost $4,000.
c. B. Scott will build attractive cot
tages on Harrison and Quincy streets
on the North side. He will make i'm
provements on various properties
The city has completed the work of
grading for concrete sidewalks in Col
lege Lawn addition. The pouring of
concrete will be pushed next week.
Recent Realty Sales.
John w. Barber has purchased from
the Elder estate through A. A. Rod
gers q Co., the property at $40 Mon
roe street consisting of a II room resi-
dence and a room dwelling and
three lots The consideration was
$4,000.
Sales of Shawnee Agency: An
room dwelling and two lots to c. w.
Templeton, consideration, $500; a
8 room cottage at 1923 East Crane
street to Miss c. M. Crabb $2,250; / II
| lots, No. 70 and north half of 70 on
German avenue, to G.. G. Hanson,
$3.50; a room dwelling at 626 Fill
more street, $4,000; a room dwell
ing at 40 Scotland avenue to A. j.
Bolinger, $1,000; four room cottage
at 1175 Lane street to w. I. Jamison,
| $500; two tracts in Garfield Place on
| the North side, to N. B. Shaw, $500;
| two tracts in Garfield Place to E. L.
F'oote, $1,450; a five room cottage and
| two lots, corner of State street and
| German avenue, $1,S25.
The Clearinghouse Realty Co. report
these sales: An room modern dwell
| ing at S11 Garfield avenue to Mrs.
Alice Lieurance (nearly completely
consideration $4,100; a five room
modern cottage at 807 Garfield ave-
nue. to Charles Sturn, $2,700; a room
modern dwelling at 1907 Arch street
to Charles McCleery, $500; a five
room dwelling at 70s Brooks avenue
| to c. w. Rohde, $4,000.
i Sales of the Wingett Land Co.; a 6
room dwelling at 124S Polk street
from Matt Harmon to Frances Taylor,
consideration s2,350; a 5 room bunga-
low at 36S Oakland avenue from Chas.
| Yandeventer to A. Lamb, S1,S00.
The city has paid o. E. walker
/ $500, and David Bowie $500 for
land which will serve as a paddock
| for the buffalo of Gage park.
Charles Sturtevant has bought two
lots on Throop street from S. Stolz-
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13

| D. c. McClafferty, one story stone
and brick business building, 122
Kansas avenue. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5000
Jennie Grant, two story dwelling, 219
Bert Long, one story dwelling, on
West Sixth avenue. ], 400
J. S. Warner, one story business
building, 823 Quincy street.......... 1900
]. S. Warner, repair shop, S19S25
Quincy street. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LOCO
j. S. Warner, cement block garage,
S19 Quincy street. 500
]. S. Warner, garage, 1913 Quincy
street -.-------- $3.50 $500 - oVv
c. B. Carson, two story dwelling,
Stephens street and Laurel ave.. 1900
H. Clough, two story dwelling, 324
Quincy street. 300
E. T. Greider, 1107 Buchanan street,
one story dwelling OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. LOO
E. B. Cowgirl, two story dwelling,
121 College avenue $500
Henry Scott, repairs to ice cream
factory, S07-11 West Fourth St. geo
J.. c. Jameson. two story dwelling
524 Madison street. 1000
G. w. Berger, two story dwelling,
Ills Van Buren, street.............. 1900
Three small items. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50
1OIal -fOVs doS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13

queent passage Of the urine; the forehead
stitches and pains in the back; the grow
ing muscle weakness; spots before the
swoolen eye1ids or ankles; leg cramps:
unnatural short breath; sleepIessness and
the dependency?
/ have a recipe for these troubles that
you can depend on, and IL you want to
write and get a copy it. Many a doc.
tor would charge you $3.50 just for writing
this prescription. but have it and viii
be glad to send it to you entirely free
Just drop me a line like this: Dr. A. r.
Robirson Ks44. Luck Building Detroit
Mich and will send it by return mali
in plain envelope. As you will see when
YOU get it this recipe contains only pure
harmless remedies. but it has great heal
ing and pain-eonquering power.
It will quickly show its power once you
use 1t so 1 think you had better see what
1t is without delay. I will send you q
copy free-you can use 1t and cure your
SELF at homo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13

The author of "Scuffles,'' a new fall
book published by The Alice Harri-
man Co., New York, is the assistant
librarian of the Virginia Historical So
ciety of Richmond, Va, Mrs. Sally
Nelson Robins. She was herself born
in tester bed in an old mansion in
Gloucester county, Virginia, just
stones throw from the spot where
Pocahontas rescued John Smith. She
is a descendant of Thomas Nelson,
King Carter, Speaker Robinson, John
Catlett, Dudley Digges and other not
able statesmen and colOniStS and for
years has been an officer of the Vir-
ginia Historical society and conduct
ed the genealogical department of the
Richmond Times Dispatch. She is in
tensely Virginian in taste and ideas
and the old aristocracy of Virginia
Otis beginning, rise, influence, fall,
after the Civil war and its courage
and confidence since) has been the
motif of her writing. Some years ago
she had in the Atlantic Monthly, 1.-The
Lady and the Parson," being the sec
ond love affair of Gov. Spotswood's
widow. She has written short articles
for Harper's Young People, Ladies'
Home Journal, Boston Transcript,
Frank Leslie's Magazine, ETC., and
each time it is old Virginia. She
loves to create the atmosphere of her
birth and environment The planta-
ton life and its influence is generally
knows more about the mansions of
Virginia, their romances, traditions,
tragedies and ghosts than any other
woman. She is an expert genealogist
and knows Virginia families by heart.
"Scuffles'' is her first novel. The
book is admirably illustrated by Har-
riotte Montague, a well known south
ern artist of distinction.
Edgar S. Werner & Co. of New
York are publishing a collection of
readings from Topeka authors, COM
piled by Miss Ceora Lanham, a To-
peka reader. The list includes orig
inal representations, monoIogues,
stories and poems used by Miss Lam
ham in her platform work; also
poems by Mrs. Margaret Hill McCar-
ter, Mrs. Nellie Ensign and Rob NJ.
Campbell.
Three editions of 1.-THE Promised
Land by Mary Antin have been called
for in less than three months, making
total of over 1900 copies. The
author finds herself embarrassed by
the prominence into which her book
has brought her. eff I were to answer
all the questions that have been adj
dressed to me since the publication of
The Promised Land" she says, IT
should fill volume twice as thick IS
the one which provoked them. How
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13
Building Permits.

Bu1ItIlng PERMITS.
Following is list of building permits
issued in the past two weeks:
Mrs. F. z. Stephens, two story
dwelling 470-4701k College avenue. s 2,Oo0
w. A. DyaL new front at 127 Kan
SaS avenue gu
B. B. Gilluce, IL story dwelling, lot
No 567 Kansas avenue. ............. 1900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-13

governor tomorrow and suggest that
tree-toads be introduced into state
prisons"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16

AN IMPORTANT NEW INDUSTRY.
Here are some berry figures which
will be OF interest to the people OF
Josephine county. The members of
the Commercial club should be in
terested in this matter and do, every
thing possible to insure the pros
perity of this branch of business. The
following is the article referred to-:
"Loganberry culture, new indus
try, is growing to large proportions
in this state. At Brooks alone a.
600 crates were shipped to a Port
land cannery, netting the growers
S31, 900. A total of 81 cars of logan
berries was shipped from Brooks this
year. The acreage given to this fruit
is constantly on the increase. One
man will set 200 acres in Polk coun-
ty during the fall and plans to in
stall canning, drying and bottling
machinery"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16
AN EPIDEMIC OF KNOCKERS.

The knocker is admitted to be a
5dd citizen for any community in
which he may locate As a rule he is
a ne'r-do-well-a dangerous charac-
ter. His trade is to injure everybody
who is in any way dependent on the
prosperity Of the city or county I'm
fortunately there is no law, as yet,
on the statute books to punish him,
but the next legislature will be called
upon to deal with this class. This fell
low is worse than a pestilence and
just now Grants Pass is suffering
from an epidemic OF these undesir-
ables. Their only object and aim in
life seems to be to injure the country
and their neighbors. They do not un-
derstand that they iniure themselves
and friends, If they have any, and
carry their animosity to the extent
Of driving would-be investors from
the country OF late this very thing
has happened in a number Of cases.
People In search Of a home have no
use for a community that will harbor
a knocker and the result invariably
is they go to places less infested with
this class.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16
HOME COMING DAY.

Grants Pass Is OF sufficient size
and Importance as a community that
II should begin TO lay the foundation
for fixed days for annual observance,
like the rose carnival, grange fair
and the like. In connection with the
last named event, the Courier would
suggest that we name and enroll a
new day to celebrate, and that should
be a Home Coming Day" This is
by no means a new idea, nor do we
give It as such, except its application
to this city. Home coming day as
celebrated In other states Is an oc-
caslon set apart for the return home
OF those who make summer tours,
camping outings and other trips It
III an OtNdhloH dlhu lul 'iolN W
those who live elsewhere and desire
to visit their relatives or friends In
Josephine county.
The plan Is to name day which
will come during the Grange Fair
this year and the district fair next
year. II we lnaugurate home coming
day this year, It may not be an event
OF great Importance during 1912, but
will be by 1918. when by that time It
will have taken form and shape and
become an event widely advertised,
which consequently, will make Of It
an event OF importance TO most peo-
pie in the county, as well as 20 those
who may select day for visiting
their relatives and friends here The
fair will be an event which will as
ist greatly In entertaining all who
may choose to come
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16
IMPORTANT RAILROAD NEWS.

The most important news publish
ed by the Courier in many months
appears in the article on our first
page relating 10 the railroad from
the coast up Rogue river to Grants
Pass. We have long known certain
facts in regard to this proposed line
but have not until the present had
sufficient information to justify max
Ing public the outlines Of this rail-
road situation. Practical men have
long known that the water grade af-
forded by Rogue river was in part
the practical key to the situation. To
build a railroad II must be recog-
nized that tonnage is required and in
this instance enough Is offered in the
shape OF coal and timber, as we'll as
incoming and outgoing agricultural
and mineral products to insure busi-
ness for the proposed line.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16
.wnY NOT MORE HoGs2o

There is Dertainiy something
wrong with a greater portion Of the
state in regard to the failure OF our
farmers to supply the markets with
pork. our soil will produce the feed
while the climate is all that could be
desired by those who raise hogs, and
yet the supply is far short of the de
maud. The Courier has urged the
farmers OF Josephine county to enter
the business and while some have
taken the advice many have not done
50. OF course II must he understood
that feed for swine can not be pro-
duced without irrigation, Alfalfa or
clover are among Che hog producing
foods and these can be erown In
abundance 100 ,his county vhyo CON
ditions are favorable
Under ,he heading. why Not
Moro Hogs" the SUNDAY Oregon.au
gives some facts and 0gares which
are worthy OF the attention Of every
farmer who has irrigated lame rh,
article mentioned is as follows
Recently attention was called 20
the fact that new census bulletin
showed that ON May 10. 1900 There
were gSi406 boss m Oregon aul
only e'75'1 ON May lt lelo Thus
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16
DELAYED PENSION CHECKS
REPORTED Due SATURDAY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Two
hundred thousand war veterans
whose pensions are held up owing TO
a controversy in congress over the
abolishment of pension agencies, Will
probably receive their delayed checks
on Saturday, according to announce
ment here today.
The senate is said to have yielded
to the house in the pension agency
dispute. The house viii accept the
pension bill today and the president
will sign it tomorrow. The checks
are all ready for mailing at the PEN
sion office agencies and as soon as
the president affxes his signature TO
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16

seem large, but We can assure the
reader from personal knowledge that
Mr. Kinney is right, and what is
more, the good work promises to
continue Indefinitely
Truly the days Of speculation in
land around Grants Pass are gone
and it is to be hoped, forever. The
misfortunes OF a country that gets
into the bands Of the speculator are
many. Men buy and sell farms as
business and no one thinks of max
ing improvements, but the day Of
reckoning comes. A few years ago
spectators fairly had possession Of
this county, but another class are in
evidence today The homebuilder
with money to improve his property
and surround himself with the com
forts OF life, Is to be found in every
portion of the county. He is an ad-
yocate OF good roads, good schools
and up-to-date improvements of ey-
cry kind, and we find him always will
ing to do bis share toward paying for
them. In every way this modern
farmer is an up-to-date citizen. He
talks intelligently regarding the best
breed Of stock, knows all about
creameries and cheese factories, is an
expert in growing alfalfa and swine
breeding, and thoroughly under
stands the farm from a money-mak-
Ing point of view. His example in
courages his neighbors and gives CON
fidence to the business man.
Grants Pass people generally, as
well as the best citizens of the entire
county, rejoice that the new order of
things has come to pass, and we only
wait a more complete development
OF irrigation to attract large num-
Der Of these desirable homebuilders,
but all this will come to us ir due
time, for there is an active demand
for good farms under irrigation by
men who have the money to develope
the land. Our soil and our climate
justiies the belief that the future has
great promise in store for Josephine
county.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16
GIRL RETURNS HOME AFTER
MYSTERIOUS ABsFycp

NEW YORK, Aug. l4.-Aftar
weeks mysterious absence. Fdn.
Gray of Brooklyn, who left bs,
aunt's home here in an automobila
with a strange man, returned TODAY
in a hysterical and exhausted condi.
tion.
The girl reached home in semi.
conscious state, and continuaIlv
rayed about roadhouse where sba
claimed to have been held prisoner
From all appearances she had been
drugged.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16
COMMERCIAL CLUB
DISCUSSES KNOCKERS

The ears of the Grants Pass knock
er must have burned Monday evening
during the progress of the meeting
of the Commercial club, for he was
sure talked about. The subject was
first brought up when A. n. Parsons
quoted a gentleman who has recent
ly returned from an extensive trip
throughout the east, who said that
he heard only good words of the
Rogue River valley away from home,
but that he found the knocker still
doing business here at home. A. f.
Voorhes wanted strenuous methods
adopted for dealing with the knocker
/ He was sorry there was no open sea-
/ son on the breed when they could be
/ legally dispatched, but proposed that
Iall knockers who were caught red
handed in plying their trade be re-
ported to the Commercial club, and
a committee appointed to wait upon
the offender Mr.. Voorhies called at
tention to the fact that nowhere
could a better fruit country be found,
yet if a stranger asked about fruit
some knocker with a penchant for
mining would discourage the fruit in
dustry and say this was only min
ing country; if the stranger asked
for mines, the fellow with the ham
imer would waste no time in telling
him that this was a fruit growing
region and the mines were elswhere.
The tone Of the club was not good
for the knocker President Hobart
delivered an apostrophe upon the
kind, and it was evident that the next
time the knockers hammer is heard,
there will be something to talk about
in town.
The secretary read a communica-
tion from Supt Campbell of the
southern Pacific regarding the use of
part OF the old depot building for
display room Mr. Campbell said
that the company proposed the re-
moyal of the old building to point
rther north, and back from the pres
ent location, when it would not be so
available for the purpose of an ex-
hibit room, and proposed that the
club erect small exhibit room near
er the passenger depot, where people
on the trains could view it.
In his report, secretary Quinlan
laid special stress on the need for
finding a proper outlet for the pro-
duce of the Rogue valley. He stated
that conditions could not be expected
to materially improve locally until
the producer can market the pro-
duct of his toll, and that the fact that
farmers Of tributary valleys were
forced to seek elsewhere for markets
was a detriment to this locality He
uttered a truism that was endorsed
by the members present when he said
1T is pretty good plan to take care
Of the country first, for then the city
will take care Of itself"
c. L. Mangm. who was sent to the
Yreka congress with the Commercial
club mining exhibit, made a verbal
report of the work at the congress.
\ vote of thanks was rendered him
by the club for the very efficient way
in which he handled the exhibit.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-16

the new bill authorizing their I7sa.
ance they will be on their wav 10 ~
old soldiers.