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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
FASTIDl0US AUTHORS.
Campbell Took a Twelve Mile Tramp
10 Change . Comma.

II Is surprising how puuctilious some
authors have h"rn with respect even TO
th- smallest 3,i-G uf their manu-
script, Di,hrn> wu, perfect terror
and would make euuugh fuss over an
error Of punrttWtun 10 drive n poor
comp uuI ~ his wits
TennysOn lnp WIS most particular
that not a r"niuH should be- omitted
or misplaced while his reyisiOns were
never finished Perhaps the greatest
terror of the compositnr WIS Thomas
Carlyle for ne would cover every
square inch VI vacant space. both In
the margin and between the lines. with
minute additions and emendations. and
not once. bui u dozen times
Victor Hugo was equally difficult TO
please and satisfy or one ~ his "a
nous works he made the printers sup
ply no fewer than eleven successive re-
vised proofs. and the last half dozen
were furnished In order TO make quite
sure that the commas were in their
right places
But perhaps Thomas Campbell. the
famous poet who wrote such stirring
masterpieces rs "HOhenlinden," "The
Battle Of the Baltic" and "Ye Mariners
OF England. takes the cake 10 this re-
spect He was fastidious to a degree.
which fact probably accounts for the
small quantity and perfect quality Of
his literary output II Is said that he
once walked six miles to his printers
and six miles back IN order to have a
comma changed into a semicolon.
But an equally careful and fastidious
literary workman owed great i'm
proyement in the opening line OF his
most famous poem to printer This
was Thomas Gray. whose "Elegy
Written In a Country Churchyard" Is
probably the best known poem in the
English language It's first line reads.
THE curfew tolls the knell Of parting
day" but when Gray sent It to the
press his manuscript read. The cur
few tolls the knell " parting day"
The thoughtful composltor did not un
derstnnd the word tolls" us nm In
transltive verb 81 dropped tir. comma
thinking the poet had put II In by mis-
take. and when Gray read the line his
sensitive ear at once caught its new,
sustained melody, and he adopted the
compositors correction
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
SERvIA AS A NATION.
II Originated In the FIRST Halt Of the
Seventh Century.


The birth Of Srrvla ~ u uatiun. set.
tied in or near Ms present home. may
be- dated In the irSl nalt OF the Spy-
enth century About 6UU A D.. when
the Avaric empire Of desolatiOn was
established on the Danube, two tribes.
the CrOats and the Serbs retiring be-
fore the ravages Of the Tartar horse
men, settled in the countries now
known as Croatia, Bosnia and Servia.
They were Slavs, but the Croats per-
haps had, like the Slavs Of Moesia in
after years, adopted the name of a
Tartar tribe Both, heeing from the
Avars, were naturally hostile to them.
and II is possible that they settled in
the empire with the consent or even at
the invitation Of the Emperor Hera-
clius |. Al any rate. they appear to
have been considered ms yasSals Of the
empire. Theil hrSt settlements lay
rather westward of the country now
called Servia, the brave. the present
western boundary. being the dividing
line between Bulgar and Serb In the
eighth century. Here the Serbs dwelt
more or less uneventfully for three
centuries. They generally formed
loose confederacy under chiefs called
zupans. They were commonly. In
loose fashion loyal to the eastern EN-.
pire mainly through fear OF their dan
gerous neighbOrS the Bulgarians,
About $40 they united under a chief
named vlastlmiz to repel the latter
The country rose to great heights
under Stephen Dushan, the czar OF the
Serbs. but after his death Murad |.
conquered the country, and it was not
until 1915 that the Serbs partially
threw of the Turkish yoke.-Ex.
change
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
EDITOR WHO LlBELED
KING CAN ENTER L. =.

NEW YORK, Feb 10 Edward
+, hylius, the British editor who
served a jail sentence for llbeling
King George, was permitted to en-
ter the United States today by Unit
ed States Judge Noyes. lmmigra-
tion officials who sought to bar
Mylius from the country, alleged
that his offense was a criminal one
while attorneys for the editor argued
that It was Of political nature.
Judge Noyes however, held that
Mylius' offense did not involve NOR
al turpitude and that the editor,
therefore. could not be classed as an
undesirable citizen.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
PRECIOUS MUGS.
The crucibles Used In the New York
ASSAY Office.

Nssay UHlee.
In the goverpment assay office on
Wall street. New York. there is cor
ner that looks very much ike mug
rack in country barber shop where
every customer has his individual mug
highly decorated IN gilt letters.
On this rack ARE perhaps fifty cruc'
hleS for melting down gold The cru
cibleS are decorated with crude mi
ualS and numerals and are the proper
ty of the biggest gold mining corpora
tiouS in North aud South America.
The reason for the tpdividu,i ,,p,,s
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
HISTORIC ROMAN CHURCH
~ NEAR COLLAPSE

ROME, Feb. 19- With It's sub
soil waterlogged and It's walls crack
ed In every direction, the celebrated
Basilica Of Santa Maria in Trasteyero,
near here, is near collapse today.
Further use of the church has been
forbidden.
The ancient pile is said to have
been started by Pope Calixtus, the
First. in 400 A. D., on the Identical
spot where a mysterious spring. Of
oil appeared at the time Of the birth
OF Christ.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
BULLOCK WANTS PARDON.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Presi-
dent Taft is today considering an ap-
plication for pardon made by j. l..
Bullock, convicted at Tacoma recent
ly on q charge Of defrauding the
government In connection with con.
tracts for supplying coal to army
posts in Alaska.
Bullock is also endeayoring 10 in
terest Oregon and Washington SEN
ators In his behalf.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
Finishing the Avalanche.

Along The side of an pine railroad
an ingenio;~ device has been put into
use to pre, ent ayalaA.hes from falling
upon the track. A wall has been built
which lntercepts the sliding snow and
forces IL to precipitate itself In leap,
whereby ii clears the roadbed and
hurls itself into a canal upon the other
side
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
WORK IN HARMONY

AKRON, o.. Feb. 19.-For the
first time in their history, the l. w.
w and American Federation Of La
Dor are working hand in hand here
today In their endeayor to organize
the rubber workers on strike.
A decision was reached last night
that neither side should attempt to
influence the strikers against the
other.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
Lord Raeon's Dream.

Lord Bacon. the wisest Of mankind,
vas suTerStitiuus and had firm faith
n "Signs and tokens" When in Paris
he dreamed that he saw the family
home ia England covered with black
mortar. aud he insisted thar il was d
sign Of death. In due time he received
the announcement NJ the death Of his
father who had passed away the night
II the dream
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21

In 1906 the Servians rose against
Turkish rule. and 5000 OF them were
massacred by the OsmanH The dead
were beheaded, and as a warning to
others the Turks built the heads into
fhe walls OF tower. face outward.
Today small portion OF wall re
mains with % skull here and there
grim reminder of what Servia suffered
uudcr Ottoman oppression
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
Destiny Of the Stuarts,

The figures "SS" play a weird part in
the rise and fall of the Stuarts. James
III. was killed In fight near Bannock.
burn in 1883 Mary Stuart was behead
ed in 1888, James II. of England was
dethroned in 1858, Charles Edward
died in 17SS and James Stuart, the "Old
Pretender," was born in 1858, the very
year that his father abdicated.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21

terry practice at Fort Stevens, was
run over by a caisson and crippled for
life. has today been granted $1,000
in cash and an annual pension of
$500 under the terms of a house bill
passed by the senate.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
Islands OF Leisure.

Between the Island Of Madagascar
and the coast Of India there are 10000
Islands, only 600 of which are inhabit.
ed In most of these islands a man
can live and support his family in lux.
ury without working more than TWEEN
ty-tive days in the year, or at all, as ma
ture provides the food, and no clothes
are required
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
WAR CLOUD DISSIPATES

PARIS, Feb. 19-lt is believed
here today that the threatened con
lict between Bulgaria and Roumania
over rectihcation Of their frontiers,
has been ayerted, both having agreed
to the principle Of mediation by the
powers.
Through joint action by the powers
It is believed that Italy and Russia
will be appointed as medators of
the dispute.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21

llydwphohiu used IN be called ST
Huberts disease, In memory of mo-
blcmau ot AQuIWne. who. at one time
a famous huutrr rcnounred the world
aud lived Us a hermit in the forest of
ArdenucS, In memory ot his career he
became the patron saint OF the chase
and dogs, and his shrine was noted for
many cures, especially OF people who
had been bitten boy mad dogs
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
"SQUEALING" WITNESS
MAY LOSE TONGUE.

NEW NoRKfFeb. 10 Loss Of hts
tongue probably will hefau Luigi
Taucredl. state witness In the police
graft INVESTIGATION, Il he does urth
or 'sQuealiug' according to admls-
slous Tancredl has made to District
Attorney Whitman today
raucredl declared that two un-
known men waited upon him showing
him a newspaper account of how the
ear OF one lntormer against the po-
lice was cut on. threatened to relieve
him OF his tongue.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
Mentality.

A proclamation of neutrality. the
frst IN our national existence, was
made by Washington April -, 1893,
citing the fact that state Of war ex-
listed between Austria Prussia, Sar-
dinla, Great Britain and the United
Netherlands Of the one part and
France on the other and warning citi-
zens 20 avoid all acts In breach Of
neutrality.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
A Puzzler.

"I've new car that's beauty" said
Green. Runs so smoothly you can't
feel It. Perfectly noiseless, no odors
and, as for speed, 1t whizzes-you can't
see 1t go byr
MY wordr replied Green's friend.
Cant feel 1t. can't hear 1t, can't smell
II, can't see 1t. | say how do you know
you have a car at allY-London Tele-
graph
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21

No ma,ter how deep uud muddy ,
cole be- 10 IL bc known taat eels ar, to
be caught there the people will get
into the mud and search for them. So
no matter where lou we-c born or how
lowly your station u life may be-. 10
you are men OF character. scholarship
and ability, Nou will De sought after
Ninomiya SouWAu.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
MAY NAME RECEIVER
FOR PROSPEROUS co.

TRENTON N, j, Feb. 19.-De-
spite the fact that 1t is making
money the Union Bag Paper COM
pany a $3IOOO,OOO corporation
here. may 30 into the hand Of re-
ceiyers, following charges of mis-
management.
Il is stated that the assets, al
though constantly expanding, are
being wasted by the board OF direc-
tors
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
APPRECIATION.

Loveneverseemsso clearandeasy
as when the heart is beating faster
at the sight Of some generous, self
nskingdeed. Wefeel, nodoubt, then
what's the highest prze the soul can
WIN; we almost believe in our own
power to attain it-George Eliot.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21

PORTLAND, Feb. 2O.-Deputv
County Clerk Hennessy was puzzled
when woman Mo called to regis.
ter stated that she was 21 years OLD
and later said she had lived in the
state for 2S years.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
A Biased Opinion.

Jim-Heres a Frenchman who says
man has six times as much lung power
as he needs.
Joe "a married manl-Then I'll bel
woman has twenty times too much
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21

Rich Man tio c.erS-l started In at
the lowest runs of the ladder Nv
urSi wife got only 50 week alimouy
Now look at me-. Paying $500 to nv
last and | haven't stopped climbing
yet-ruck.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-21
MILITIAMAN
PENSIONED BY STATE.

SALEM, Feb. Raleigh C. Will
son, a miitiaman, who, during bat
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22

operating trains over this range of pie
turesque scenery but deep winter
SHOWS.
1t is building into Spokane and pre-
pairing to erect there palatial termi
nal station. 1t has plans for widely
extending its local lines in Western
Washington and electrifying many OF
these lines At the City of Butte, the
center of the smelling, copper and zine
mining, it is building up its local sys
TEN and Joining with the people of that
important center in all that pertains to
Butte's betterment. At Great Falls, in
the same state, it is likewise giving
much attention to local Improvements.
Here is water power that in time will
be valuable to the future electrifying
of the lines and the Milwaukee is
keeping pace with the local improve
ments by joining in all new enter
prises that make for the advancement
of local conditions. The same is true
of other places along the whole route.
In Western Washington it has been
busy from the day the last rail was
laid on the main line. 1t bought the
Tacoma Eastern, 81 miles, and leading
to the main entrance to the wonderful
Mt. Rainier National Park; it pur.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22

chased the Bellingham Bay & British
Columbia, As miles in length through
the fertile Nooksaek Valley to the Ca
madam boundary on the north; in con
struction it has built from Cedar Falls
to Enumclaw, Beverley to lianford,
Warden to Marcellus, Tiffis to Neppel,
Cedar Falls to Everett. Tacoma to ABB
erdeen and Hoquiam, grand total of
242 miles; it has established ear
barges on. Puget Sound between Seattle
and Bellingham, Seattle and Ballard,
Seattle and Port Blakely, Seattle and
Eagle l1arbor; 1t has built important
terminal facilities at Tacoma, Seattle
and other ports.
Still aggressively marching onward,
current reports indicate that it will
build line through the very heart of
the Olympic peninsula, the richest tim
Der district of the Northwest. 1t al
ready skirts the southern end of that
body of land, but the completion of the
new lines will be the factor in develop
ing the northern and central portion.
This one plan alone will mean every
thing to this rich country and add to
the commercial Importance Of the cities
of the Sound.
Continued on page two)
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22

Sound are vitality interested as from
one or the other of them this volume of
trade passes directly over its wharves
into the deep-water shipping. What
will be the ultimate result and how
greatly each Puget Sound port will be
aided can be readily judged.
What the road is doing for all the
ports it reaches on Puget Sound is too
well known to need more than brief
resume. In this locality it has plans
for greatly widening its scope. Here
are the headquarters of the Western or
Puget Sound lines; here in this state
already are radiating numberless feed
ers and all through freights passing
into the ships at the gateway to the
Pacific pay tribute to the several ports;
help to build them up and increase
their population and commercial impor
lance.
1t is the newest line to the Puget
Sound country, but already the work
has been well started on the S 100000
tunnel in the Cascades. 1t will reduce
the grade to maximum of one per
cent and save nine miles over the sum
NIT. More important still, it will elm
mate most of the snow troubles that
have caused such delay and expense in
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22
Stirring Story of Achievement i'm New Steel Trail
History of Milwaukee
One of Much Progress
Tale of How Great Railroad Pushed into the Far West Is
Intereshng-Its Aims and Purposes in the
Developing of New Territory

the California lines at Kansas City,
Omaha or Sioux City, that gridirons the
states Of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota
and the Dakotas and lastly, through
the completion of it's Puget Sound sys
TEN, has built up through line from
Chicago and that whole territory to the
greatest harbors of the Pacific, those
of Puget Sound. To reach this section
the line traverses a country rich in
vast industrial opportunity, but merely
at the beginning of its development.
The building of the line to various
ports of Puget Sound was but the first
step in the giant plans of this railroad.
No sooner had the sound of the driving
of the last spike died away in the
echoes of the pine-clad hills of the
Sound when steps were taken to build
up the local territory-branch out into
new fields and today, this, the newest
of all the trapscontinental lines, has,
even at this early date, completed more
local feeders than have other and older
lines existing in the Pacific North
west.
The Milwaukee is aggressive as well
as progressive. No sooner had the line
been thrown open for traffic than its
management looked far beyond the
breakers of the broad Pacific. To the
far north lay Alaska, the world 5 treas
ure house. 1t had been known for
years, but the Milwaukee rediscovered
it and sent its agents into the far in
terror, opening offices and getting ac
quainted with the miners, the sealers,
the salmon fishermen and the people
generally A few weeks after the line
was opened it transported. the first
train of high grade copper ore from
Alaska to the Atlantic seaboard and
this was followed by shipments by car
loads of those remarkable blue foxes to
the fox breeding farms of Nova Scotia
They looked to the Orient and long
before the road was completed had
plans for direct line of ships. 1t was
the newest road, but it is to date the
only transcontinental American line
that has adopted through export rate
from the Far East and intermediate
points to ports of Japan and China. 1t
opened an Oriental agency and placed
at the head capable young man to
properly manage that department. What
is the result of all these moves? Pass
ing through this splendid inland harbor
of Puget Sound the gateway to the
whole Pacific, are vast cargoes of
freight gathered along the line of the
railway and destined for distant Pa
cific ports of this and foreign coun
tries. This trade is but yet in its in
fancy, although the beginning has been
noticeably successful and indicates
what a great tonnage will be built up
in the future. All the ports of Puget
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22
Postage-Shy
Notes Bother
Postal Official Tells Public What
Stamps to Use on Letters
to Go Over Seas

So much inconvenience is caused to
postoffice officials and the patrons Of
the postal service by the large number
of letters mailed to foreign countries
without sufficient postage, that Second
Assistant Postmaster General Joseph
Stewart has sent out letter of in
struction in regard to the amount of
postage necessary on letters that are
to travel to foreign parts" The let
ter follows: The department is in
formed that many letters mailed in the
United States, addressed for delivery
in foreign countries, which are subject
to our postal union passage rates, are
prepaid only two cents, the senders of
such letters being under the impress
sion, it is presumed, that our twocent
domestic postage rate is applicable to
said letters. The only foreign destina
tions to which our twocent letter rate
applies are Canada, Cuba, Mexico, the
Republic of Panama, Newfoundland,
the Canal Zone, Germany (by direct
steamers only, England, Scotland,
Wales and Ireland and the City of
Shanghai, China. To all other places
the rate is five cents for the first ounce
or fraction of an ounce and three cents
for each additional ounce or fraction
of an ounce, which must be fully pre-
paid or the letters become liable on
delivery to charge equal to double
the amount of the deficient postage.
For instance, singlerate letter pre-
pa only two cents would be short
paid three cents, and, consequently,
subject on delivery to an additional
postage charge of six cents.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22
(By Edmund Ellsworth sumner.)

(By Edmund ELLSWORTH SuWneI.)
y YERE'S to the Greater Milwau-
- kee! was the terse sentiment
j i expressed in toast offered
by the president Of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
at recent banquet given in Chicago to
the officials Of that system. 1t was
brief and to the point. No words
could have been uttered to more aptly
illustrate the keynote of the addresses
of the evening, the history, growth and
development of the big system com
bined with the bright outlook and i'm
portant plans for the future. And the
official who offered the toast, A. j.
Earling, the man who has little to say
but who does things, concisely stated
the case and echoed the thought now
prevalent in the mind of the public
that the Milwaukee is among the lead
ers in the list of important transporta-
ton companies and first among West
ern railroads with far-reaching plans
for future expansion to meet the re-
quirements sure to come, incidental to
the industrial development and the gen
eral prosperity of the country at the
present time.
And so it comes that the same senti
ment can here be made the motif of a
story of achievement, new chapter in
the stirring history of american trans
portation, recital that not only deals
with the future up-building of the Pa
cific Northwest, but one that links the
East and the West; that brings to-
gether the Occident and the Orient
This is not in any sense a historical
review of the Milwaukee, but in passing
it might be interesting to note that in
the early sixties the road was incor
porated in Wisconsin to build local
line connecting several of the then i'm
pOrtant towns in the Badger State. Lo
cal development was the watchword
and ever since the closest attention has
been given to local branches that
brought the products and people of the
outlying farms, mining towns and set
Elements nearer to the main line. AS a
local company it took it's name from
the places it aimed to reach and so
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul have
been perpetuated for all time in a
10,000-mile system that reaches Ho
quiam, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, the
Canadian boundary and hundred
other points; that penetrates the iron
ore region of Duluth, the copper dis
tricts of Calumet, that connects with
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22

y YERE'S to the Greater Milwau
- kee! was the terse sentiment
i i expressed in toast Offered
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-02-22
Men Who Aid
City's Papers
Metropolitan Publications Trust
Correspondents in Rural
Districts

TT WAS Joe Mccullough, the famous
| managing editor of a great East
i ern daily, who said: "a good edi-