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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
you CAN CURE THAT BACKACHE

Pain along the back, dizziness,
headache and general langorr. Get
a package Of Mother Gray's Aroma
tic-Leaf. the pleasant root and herb
cure for all kidney, bladder and
urinary troubles. When you feel all
run down, tired, weak and without
energy use this remarkable combin-
alton of natures herbs and roots. AS
tonic laxitiye it has no equal. Moth
er Gray's Aromatic-Leaf is sold by
druggists or sent by mail for so cts.
Sample sent free. Address. The
Mother Gray Co., Leroy, n. Y.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
TEN BILLS PASS HOUSE.

SALEM, Feb. 12.-The house to-
day passed ten bills. The most
important were two relating to state
banks. One Of these was for the pur
pose OF enabling state banks 10 ac
cept postal savings deposits, tn,
same as national banks, and the 9th
er limits deposits In state banks tC
ten times the capital and surplus.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
RURAL ROUTE NO. 3 Is
TO BE EXTENDED

A telegram received by the Cour-
ier from Washington City Saturday
was to the effect that Representative
Hawley had seen the postmaster
general personally and had received
his promise that the desired exten-
sion Of rural route No. 3 out OF
Grants Pass would be ordered.
This extension of the route will
serve some eighteen families living
on the road that turns off to the left
above the Jones creek bridge, and
will lengthen the route to full "a
miles. It is now % 1-2 miles long.
The order will be effective March 1st.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
"Our Personal Guarantee
TO all Skin Sufferers

We have been in business in this town
for some time and We are looking TO
build up trade by always advising our
patrons right.
So when We tell you that we have
found the eczema remedy and that we
stand back CT it with the manufacturer !
iron clad guarantee. backed by ourselves
you can depend upon IL that We give our
advice not in order 10 sell a few bottles
OF medicine to skin sufferers. hut be-
cause We know how IL will help our
business If we help our patrons
We keep in stock and sell. all the well
known skin remedies. But We will say
this: If you are suffering from any
kind of skin trouble eczema, psoriasis.
rash or letter, we want you TO try a full
size bottle of ID. ID. d. Prescription.
And. II 1t does not do the work. this
Clemens sells drug
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14

Wnat you use during tno triai.
We could not 80 strongly endorse
Rexall "93" Hair Tonic and continue
TO sell IL TO the same people II II did
not do all we claim. Should IL not
prove entirely satisfactory our GUS
toners would lose faith In us, We
would lose their patronage, and our
business would suffer,
II your hair Is falling out or you
suffer any scalp trouble. we believe
ReIall "93" Hair Tonic will do moro
to eradicate the dandruf, give health
TO the scalp, stimulate new hair
growth and prevent premature bald
ness than any other human agency.
We want you TO make us prove
this. We ask you TO risk no money
whatever. BUY bottle OF Rexall
"93" Hair Tonic, use il according TO
directions for thirty days. then II
Fou are not entirely satisfied, come
and tell us and we will promptly hand
back the money you paid us for IL.
We won't ask you 10 sign any
thing, nor even 20 bring tho bottle
back. We won't obligate you in
any way. We will take your mere
word. Could anything be more fart
Could we do anything moro to prove
our belief in Rexall "93" Hair Tonic,
and our honesty of purpose in recon-
mending IL TO your I
Rexall "93" Hair Tonic Is ~ pleas
ant to use as spring water and has
but faint, pleasing odor. II comes
In two sizes OF bottles, SOC and Si.00.
You can buy Rexall "93" Hair Tom
In this community only at our store:
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14

bottle will cost you nothing. You alone
TO judge.
teW drops Of this simple wash applied
10 the skin, takes away the itch. in
stantly. And the cures all seem 10 be
permanent.
ID. D. ID. Prescription made by the
ID. ID. ID. Laboratories of Chicago. is
composed of thymol, glycerine, oil OF
cOOling ingredients. And If you are
just crazy with itch. you will feel
sOothed and cooled. the itch absolutely
washed away the moment you applied
this ID. d. ID.
We have made fast friends of more
than one family by recommending this
remedy to a skin sufferer here and
there and we want you to try IL now
on our positive no-pay guarantee
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14

The National Drug Store reports
tnat A SINGLE DOSE of simple buck
thorn bark, glycerine, etc. as com
pounded in Adler-i-ka, the German
appendicitis remedy, stops constipa-
tion or gas on the stomach INSTANT
ly. Many Grants Pass people are be-
ing helped.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
BIG SURPRISE TO MANY
IN GRANTS PASS

Local people are surprised at the
quick results received from simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc, as
mixed in Adler-i-ka, the German ap-
pendicitis remedy. The National
Drug Store states that this simple
remedy antisepticizes the digestive
system and draws of the impurities
so thoroughly that a single dose re-
lieves sour stomach, gas on the stom-
ach and constipation Instantly.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
CRISIS FEARED IN ADRIANOPLE.

PARIS, Feb. 12.-Followln Bull
garia's edict that no foreigners be
allowed to leave Adrianople, the
government has demanded today that
the French residents OF that city be
authorized to seek safety elsewhere
at once A crisis Is feared
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14

PRINCETON, N. j., Feb IA
Prof Thomas J. Preston Of Wells
College, with his bride formerly Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, left here today
for Florida.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14

ou ouE pOSllNS no-pdy guarantee
listers know about land and business
anyway? After listening a while
said, Look here, my friend, have
been a minister for more than %
years, and have never. met the class
you describe, not one that would fit
your idea OF a minister" The man
opened his mouth, but for a moment
no sound came; then his companions
slapped him on the knee and gave
him a great laugh. He then found
tongue to apologize; he had no idea
that | was minister, etc., etc. l
told him no apology was necessary;
| was glad to get his point of view
l then proceeded to give him some
light on Grants Pass and the Rogue
River valley. He found tongue again
to say, You can't tell me anything
about Grants Pass, for l lived there
two years. told him had the ad-
vantage of him by about IA years;
and inasmuch as he did not know
there was valley below Grants
Pass, and could not name a promi-
nent business man in the place, l
concluded his acquaintance had prob
ably begun and ended with the at
tempt to get a drink while the train
was stopping there.
relate this incident to show the
attitude of the typical land boomer
of southern California toward Ore
gon.
We passed the Salton sea in the
night, but morning found us passing
through arid Arizona. Near me was
man from Tombstone, who was
counting, the stations till he should
|
reach home. For him Arizona was
the finest place on earth. looked
out over the desert and sand, sage
brush and cactus and felt thankful
we did not all want to live in the
same place.
That night we reached FL Paso
Texas, and after good nights sleep
| made up my mind to run over to
Juarez, in old Mexico, and see what
was going on The street cars run
across the bridge, pass through the
town of Juarez, make loop and re-
turn to Ell Paso by another way
There were several Americans on the
car, but when they reached the town
the most of them thought 1t looked
too tough to make it safe to &C
about the streets The fact that the
rebels were threatening Juarez AGAR
may have added something to theil
natural feeling of insecurity. | go
out and went all over the town
finally coming to the public market
where | was alone in the midst O.
old Mexico. | sat down at one o
the tables, closed the eyes of m!
stomach, and ordered hot chocolate
and tortillas. The last tortilla | att
was about As years ago, and it wa
the last food l had and nothing mor'
in sight. Somehow it tasted bette
than those l ate in Juarez.
Returning from the market
came to a street where the only oc
cupation was open air gambling. !
sport came to conduct me down tn
broadway, but l knew that there wa
the place where I would get hustled
so | pulled out for the car, and bacl
to the protection of Uncle Sam.
In my next | will tell you abou
some of the points Of interest in thi
, region. My work here promises t
be intensely interesting, and ther
are many places Of interest that
could you produce half-tones Of then
F. would interest your readers.
= The weather is cold, but the su
E shines brightly and the air is a tonic
ROBERT MCLEAN.
Albuquerque, n. NJ, Feb. 4, 1919
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14
M. CLEME EMS
The Iexa4 Ssoo
Oregon

There is Rerall Store in nearly svsry town
and city In tho United Statcs, Canada and
Great Britain. There Is different ReIall
Remedy for nearly every ordinary human III.
each especially designed for tho particular III
for which IL 10 recommended.
The Rsxau Stores are Amsriea's Greatest
Dg-ta Stores
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14

w. T. Coburn Of Glendale spent
Monday in the city.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-02-14

Clemens sells drugs,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06

following month, and no abrupt end
ings, that We hardly noticed the
passage of the hours. Winter melt
ed into spring, spring fingered a
while with her birds and flowers,
then warmed into summer. Sum-
mer fruits ripended and dropped
into autumn's lap, and autumn,
amid shower OF falling leaves,
moved on toward winter again. The
old year ends promptly at the mid
night hour and goes out in solemn
darkness and again the circle is
complete. If the old year had its
hours of bitter sorrow, il had ITS
times of holy Joy. Many of the dear
old friends live only in the memory,
but We have hosts CT new ones. The
true hearted meet the new year with
hope and prayer that in its day
they may rise on stepping stones
of their dead selves to better things.
The housewife and mother are
among the many who desire to at
tain greater excellence. With her it
may mean a desire to be self-forget-
full and to observe to the letter the
principles in the motto, Keep
sweet" or it may be an effort to
give up her mind to work that is un-
pleasant and disliked. Or it may
mean stronger effort to Gystema-
tie her work; to do it better with
less labor or perform it in an order
ly fashion. where before she has
done it in a slipshod or desultory
way.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
A TINE WHEN MONEY CAN BE
SAVED.

The time of year has come when
there are bargains in the stores on
every hand. Merchants simply have
to turn their stock into cash. If
they didn't they would have no room
to show goods, and they would have
to borrow money at high rates OF
interest Consequently they will sell
at low rates.
This is particularly true in many
lines this year, on account of the
mild winter. 1t takes cold weather
to sell winter goods. A great many
people get along on their old clothes
as long as the weather is mild.
And there are other reasons for
selling cheap than those named
above. On any kind OF goods where
styles change, and that includes
about everything nowadays, a mer-
chant would rathe- take a low price
today than carry them to next sea-
son and find that on account of some
whim in fashion they are outlawed.
The columns of this newspaper are
a directory of bargains. The mer-
chants who have offerings to make
that you cant afford to ignore are
telling the public through these ad-
vertisements about the sacrifices
they are making. Time spent in
studying their offerings will pay for
itself hundred fold in making your
selections.
The habit of reading the newspa-
per advertisements is so universal
that few people need TO be urged to
note what the merchants are saying
about their stocks. Here and there
rs a merchant who has not realized
how hopeless a process it is to clean
out an old stock without the help of
the newspaper.
Nothing comes nowadays unless
you get out and 90 after it. The
public is listening, but it expects the
merchant to take the initiative. A
dealer who does not advertise is
looked at as not having enterprise
enough to protect the interest of the
public, and to give them goods at
bottom values.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
A RIDICULOUS RULE.

The present ruling as 10 the dis
tinction between an amateur and a
professional in athletics is about as
ridiculous and unjust as is possible
10 imagine and leads to all sorts Of
subterfuge. That a boy who is a
good ball player should not be per
mitted TO openly play ball with. a
team during vacation for pay to help
him through college is not only IN
just, but it is ridiculous and tends
10 dishonesty. The same condition
exists in many small cities and
towns which would like TO maintain
and amateur or semi-professional
ball team. Many a good player, who
has to earn his living, must pay a
substitute to do bis work while he
is playing ball. and if he is not per-
mitted to accept pay for his services
he must be shut out Of the nine.
Even more absurd is the rule
which bars any player who plays in
a game with a paid player II has
and should be the custom to permit
a local team to engage a battery or
other players from outside. or to
pay a battery, and to bar the home
boys from amateur athletics because
of this is absurd.
The same is equally true of col
lege teams. The school regulations
as 20 studies and proficiency therein
should be maintained, but there
should be no bar 10 a college paying
one of its students for services on
its team. II is this rule that keeps
many good young ball players out of
college. They know that they can
play in teams outside colleges and
make money in addition to a salary
for other work, so they go into other
when if permitted to play
with outside teams without barring
them from college athletics they
would work their way through COL
lege.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL TELE-
PHONE.

According to a yarn in much favor
with our elders in their youth, buff
faloes rubbed their hides against the
poles of the first transcontinental
telegraph line so diligently that they
soon felled them mile on mile.
Then, so the story ran, poles wound
around with barbed wire were erect
ed. The buffalo nuisance became
worse than ever. The animals
camped along the telegraph line and
scratched and scratched in an &c
stasy of delight until barbed wire
and pole and all were clean form
away.
The yarn reflected a general skep-
ticism as to the lines practicability.
1t was bound to fail, people thought
Telegraph to San Francisco-how
foolish! They could think of thou
sand reasons why the thing would
not succeed.
Skepticism about anything with
which electricity has to do has gone
out of fashion. There are no Doubt
ing Thomases now. That is why
the announcement that a transconti-
mental telephone line would be in
working order within a year has
been taken as a matter Of course.
You can. if you are there and can
stand the tariff, talk by telephone
from New York to Denver. 1t seems
only step from this point of view,
from Denver to San Francisco. So
you refuse to be surprised. Your
mind has lost the power of question
ing thing of this sort. Probably
the only way an exclamation of
amazement could be wrung out of
folk nowadays by inventors would
be to set those buffalos rapturously
scratching their hides against the
wire-wound poles again.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
PULLING DOWN THE FLAG.

The democrats and a few Others
who are urging the surrender of the
Philippines would do well TO cast
their memories back TO the days Of
Grover Cleveland. They might
learn something of the temper Of
the American people. II will be re-
memAered that Hawaii had been an
nexed to the United States and
Grover Cleveland, when he became
president, attempted to pull down
the Stars and Stripes. The result
was an uprising OF the American
people, without regard for party,
which caused a sudden reversal Of
the orders. II would be so again.
The Philippines are an integral part
OF the United States and will always
remain such.
Local self-government should and
will be given them as fast as they
are able 10 successfully use it, but
TO turn them loose as a prey to the
Vaccinations of the foreign powers
would be the height of the ridicu-
lous. 1t would simply be to invite
their absorption by one of the pow
ers, or their becoming a bone of con-
tenticn which would cause their
devastation. Certainly the expert
ence in Cuba has proven the unwis-
dom of trying to control the policies
of a people without authority, and
with the Philippines it would be
even worse. Either Uncle Sam must
retain absolute dominion over the
islands or he must absolutely with
draw all pretense of even influence
over them. He can find no safe half
way course, and :he writer does not
believe the American people will
stand for the surrender of the Phil
ippines to be prey to the preda-
tory powers OF the eastern continent.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
ON TEACHING CHARITY.

A New Jersey Judge, speaking to
members of the Y. NJ. c. A. in Jer-
6ey City, said he would like to have
the power to entence every man in
the United States 10 one day in the
penitentiary and one day in the re-
formatory in order to teach men to
be more lenient and charitable in
Judging those who are put behind
the bars.
This might be well for the ends
sought If it did not defeat other
ends. The stigma of the Jail is
quite as valuable in preventing law
breaking as many other devices OF
mankind. Put every man in Jail as
part of his training and in time
the stigma of never having been in
Jail might excite men to wrongdo-
ing. We're afraid leniency and
charity must be taught by means
less destructive to a point of view
which has proved useful. It would
seem we'd have 20 admit that the
school. the church and the gentle
ness of mothers are failing to teach
tolerance and kindness if resort
must be taken to universal prison
conscript system. Even a New Jer-
sey judge, if he stopped to think
about IL would hpsitate IN admit
that much.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
Dog Treatment VS.. Man Treatment.

One of the convict contributors to
Good Words" the journal of the
federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
wrote this truism:
"If you cannot reform a man by
treating him like man, it is pretty
certain that you cannot reform him
by treating him like a dog"
Now whether letting prisoners
carry on conversations with one an
other, form debating societies, or
ganize ball teams, plant gardens and
do work in field or on roads will
lead to the so-called "pampering" of
convicts doesn't matter. That is
still merely theory, or a guess, or
an opinion. The fact of the case is
that treating men like dogs is a
system that has failed. 1t hasn't
restored to them usefulness as citi-
zens. 1t has, on the other hand,
broken them in body and mind, de-
graded them, rendered them bestial,
made them feel that in truth they
were perpetually without the pale.
The system is survival of the Dark
Ages and even its properties of ball
and chain, its apparatus of torturing
punishment and its shameful uni
forms are but survivals of days when
the principal usefulness of prisoners
was as material upon which to prac.
tice cruelties.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
GOING TO EXTREMES.

Why is it that reformers when
they get started or hobby ride it
TO death? One of that kind of re-
formers has introduced bill against
gun toting in California. The pro-
posed legislation makes it a felony
TO carry concealed weapon, a billy
or other weapon Of any sort. The
carrying of razor or dirk concealed
is also made a felony.
The very severity of the law will
render it's enforcement impractical.
Another absurd feature of the bill
makes the carrying of any firearm
in a public place by an alien a fell
ony. Just why foreigner who set
ties in California should not be per-
mitted to go hunting for five years,
or until he has secured his natural
ization papers, is hard to see.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06

a Hampshire clergyman referred to
by Sylvanus Urban.
Though he possessed a liberal in
come, he affected the dress of the
lowest indulgence. At the age of SO
he married a country girl of 13.
He desired in his will that he might
be buried in an old chest which he
had for some time kept by him for
that purpose, and that the bearers
should each of them have pair of
tan leather gloves and new pair of
shoes, which were given according
ly."
One more instance may be taken
from this interesting book:
"One September afternoon in 1874
a hearse was seen standing at about
4 o'clock at the entrance of the
salons of the Cafe Richie, Rue lie Pei
etier. On inquiry it was found that
a frequenter of this famous estab-
lishment had inserted in his will
clause to this effect:
II desire that on the day of my
burial l may be carried round by the
Rue lie Peletier to visit once more
the table where have spent so
many of the pleasantest hours of
my life"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-06
Haltered and Tied,

An Illinois editor was recently
married. He has lived through the
agonies OF a genuine wedding and
has even told the truth about il in
his paper. He has likewise done the
world a favor by expressing his
views of travelling double and of
looking out at the world through
two pairs of eyes. Here's the story
of it, right fresh from his pen:
This life seems like a fairy
dream. I've been haltered and tied.
No more soup and hash. In the Ian
guage of the immortal, I'm feeling
bully. | expect to feel different
when l get to buying coal and other
things. She Chats my wife) says
she'll be glad when we get home, l
eat too much here, but | asked her if
she remembered the old saying, We
must live to eat Must close as we
want to attend the play, Two Hearts
That Beat as One tonight.
''In regard to the next edition:
Dump Mrs. Hill, slide the Panama
canal on the dead galley, kill Dea-
con Jones and put Sally Freckles to
press on the last run. Bucklin's
arnical salve twice and put those
two linotype locals, Wanted,
housekeeper,' and Wanted, a house
to rent in the hell box. Have the
office towel washed. You'll find it
standing back of the ink keg. Am
sending this as a night message be-
cause it's cheaper and things are
quieter. Give our regards to all and
buy up all the rice in the town and
burn it. Yours,
SHY AND MRS. SHY"
Congratulations, old top.