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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-01

A BARGAIN will sell for $4,000
cash section "a. T. 81 s., r. Z W..
100 acres. Clear title. Mrs. r.
o. Herring, 1922 w. Monroe St..
Phoenix, Arizona. S27
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-01
TO RENT

10 RENT
MODERN FIvE-ROOM HOUSE for
rent at 727 North Fifth street.
Sleeping porch, bath. hot and cold
water and gas. electric lighted.
5000 feet fenced for poultry. and
woodshed large enough for COW.
Key at 421 Evelyn. 7s5tf
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-01

o. s. BLANCHARD. Attorney-at-Law.
Grants Pass Banking Co. Bldg.
Phone 270. Grants Pass. Ore.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-08-01

NOW COMES IN. r.. c.. Little wiz
ard labor saver. Washes clothes in
ten minutes without rubbing.
Makes clothes white without blue
ing. Removes ink and fruit stains.
Contains no wax. naptha. lime. lye
or potash. Absolutely harmless to
hands or clothes. Five washings
for 15c. Now on sale at Peoples
Meat Market, 406 South Sixth
street. S14
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Christianity's Appeal.

Christianity's appeal is to the indi-
vidual. 1t seeks to rescue the perish
ing as Independent units, each of
whom has the absolute right to think
and choose and act for himself. Christ
came to save you, the individual.
Jesus loves the masses, and he was
moved with compassion when he saw
tho multitudes, but he did not sweep
the multitude into the kingdom as you
might drive a flock of sheep into an
Enclosure. His appeal was to each in
diyidual heart and life-to Peter, to
James, to John, to Matthew-and he
said, Follow me.'-Journal and Mes
senger.
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CHURCH HAS WORK FOR ALL
Conscientious and Interested Members
Can Do Wonders in the Service
of God.

Report comes from a church in low,
of how it's men and women broke into
church work, melted by Mr.. lines ar
ticle in the Ladies' Home Journal.
The Methodist pastor at Milo, at the
close of the Sabbath morning service,
asked every man who wanted some
thing to do to meet him after the
benediction. Almost every man re-
NAMED, and the pastor was ready with
a Job" for each one. That afternoon
automobiles were out making house
toulouse calls, inviting men to church.
and that Sabbath evening the church
was packed with men. The women
caught the fever and met and made
the same request of the pastor, and
be was ready for them, too. They
were sent out during the week to
make social and church calls, with the
result that every member of the church
has been brought into active fellow
ship and service. There is no patent
IN this plan, and every pastor and
congregation Ear put it into operation,
and it will yield immediate results ev-
erywhere. AS Colonel Conwell shows
in his lecture on Acres of Diamonds"
that bushels of these stones are lying
around us in every place, so in every
church and community there is re-
ligious and church work to be done
that will give everyone employment.
The Presbyterian Banner.
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GOOD REPORT
Doctor Proved Value of Postum.

Physicians know that good food and
drink, properly selected, are of the ut
most importance, not only for the re-
lief of disease but to maintain health
even when one is we'll.
A doctor writes, 81 count it a pleas
ure to say a good word for Postum
with which l have been enabled to re-
lieve so many sufferers, and which /
count, with it's valued companion
Grape-Nuts, n of the daily blessings.
Coffee was banished from my own
table some time ago and Postum used
regularly in its place" Coffee is in
furious to many persons, because it
contains the subtle, poisonous drug,
~caffeine.)
6" frequently find it necessary to in
struct patients when they take Pos.
tum for the first time to be quite sure
that it is properly made according to
directions, then it has a clear, seal.
brown color and a rich, snappy taste,
as well as health giving qualities.
The above letter, received over ten
years. ago, is fully confirmed by a re-
cent letter from the doctor, in which
he says:
1T is a pleasure to render a good
report covering a product of which !
am so enthusiastic a friend.
Il am using in my home your Pos.
tum Cereal in both it's forms. And.
what Is more, I am having it Used in
the families of several patients in
which there are children, and all unite
in endorsing the fine qualities of your
admirable product"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum CereaI-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and $50
pkgs.
Instant Postum-a soluble powder
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage Instantly. zoe
and SOC tins.
Both forms are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by GrocerA
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
LEARNED A LESSON
Man Thought He Was Generous
but Converted Heather Showed
Him Real Sacrifice.

"Our minister is always talking to
us about sacrifice. l am getting tired
of it. He expects us to give, give, give
all the time. He seems to think the
church is the greatest institution in
the world"
with you that we can't always be CIV
ing to the church. There are other
things that we must think of. l am
afraid our minister is visionary rather
than practical"
The first speaker was a wealthy bust
ness man and the second was a sue
cessful lawyer. Both men had very
large incomes; they lived not only in
comfort but in luxury, and denied
themselves nothing that they felt it de-
sirable to have. They were church
members and gave generously" but
neither of them really knew the al
ing of the word sacrifice"
Promised to Observe.
A few months after this converse
ton the two men joined a party that
was going round the world. Before
they started their visionary" minister
earnestly asked them to observe and
to remember any unusual and interest
ing things that they might see in the
missionary countries through which
the party was to travel. Then men
promised-carelessly, perhaps-to do
SO.
In Korea, one day, they saw in a
field by the side of the road a boy pull
ing a rude pillow, while an old man
held the pillow handles and directed it.
The lawyer was amused and took a
snapshot of the scene.
That's a curious picture! 1 sup
pose they are very poor" he said to
the missionary who was interpreter
and guide to the party.
YES" was the quiet reply. THAT is
the family of Chi Noui. When the
church was being built they were ca
ger to give something to it, but they
had no money; SO they sold their only
OK and gave the money to the church.
This spring they are pulling the plow
themselves"
No Thought of Sacrifice.
The lawyer and the business man
by his side were silent for some mo-
mentS. Then the business man said,
THAT must have been a real sacrifice"
"TLey did not call it that" said the
missionary. "They thought it was for
tunate they had an OK to SELL"
The lawyer and the business man
had not much to say. But when they
reached home the lawyer took that pic
ture to his minister and told him the
story.
Il want to double my pledge to the
church." he said. "And give me some
plow work to do, please. l have never
known what sacrifice for the church
meant. A converted heather taught
me. I am ashamed to say l have never
yet given anything to my church that
cost me anything"
How much does the average modern
church member ever sacrifice for his
religion? How many that call them
selves Christians ever sold the OK and
then harnessed themselves to the
plow?-Youth's Companion.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Get the Habit of
Drinking Hot Water
Before Breakfast
Says we can't look or feel riaht
with the system full
of p~oisons.

Millions Of folks battle internally
now instead of loading their system
with drugs. What's an inside BATH"
you say. Well. it is guaranteed to per-
form miracles if you could believe
these hot water enthusiasts.
There are vast numbers of men and
ONE who, Immediately upon arising
in the morning, drink a glass of real
hot water with a teaspoonful of lime
stone phosphate in it. This is a very
excellent health measure. 1t is in
tended to flush the stomach, liver, kid
neys and the thirty feet of intestines
of the previous days waste, sour bile
and indigestible material left over in
the body which, if not eliminated every
day, become food for the millions of
bacteria which infest the bowels, the
quick result is poisons and toxins
which are then absorbed into the
blood causing headache, bilious at.
tacks, foul breath, bad taste, colds,
stomach trouble, kidney misery, sleep
l%essness, impure blood and all sorts
of ailments.
People who feel good one day and
badly the next, but who simply can
not get feeling right are urged to OBJ
tain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from any druggist or store
keeper. This will cost very little but
is sufficient to make anyone a real
crank on the subject of internal SAM.
tation.
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, so limestone phosphate
and hot water act on the stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowels. 1t is vast.
ly more important to battle on the in
side than on the outside, because the
skin pores do not absorb impurities in.
to the blood, while the bowel pores do.
ADV,
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Peculiar Fertilizer 4, Tasmania.

Tasmania is a great farming and
fruit country and there is a good local
market for all the spent oil shale
from the distilling retorts. The rock
from which the oil has been taken
sells at So per ton for agricultural
uses. The assays do not disclose any
rich fertilizing matter in the spent
shale, yet when it is pulverized and
distributed over farming lands and
garden soils it produces such wonder
full results as to make the demand for
it greater than the supply. 1t appears
to act on the soil mechanically by
aerating it and possibly, by condensing
moisture from the atmosphere and
transferring it to the crops. 1t is ex-
pected that the prices obtainable for
the spent shale will eventually cover
mining and retorting costs.-Dr. Ar
hui Selwyn-Brown, in The Engineer
ing Magazine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21

COMMANDER OF THE MOEWE

Commander Count Nikolaus zu
Dohna-Schlodien of the famous Ger
man sea raider Moewe won the hearts
of all his countrymen and the admira-
ton of the world through his exploits
with the little Sea Gull, whose roman
tic career ended, temporarily. at least,
on March 4 last, when she arrived
safely in the German seaport of VIII
helmshaven after what the German
admiralty called "a successful cruise
of several months"
On her way out the Moewe eluded
the legion of British cruisers and pa
troll boats and slipped through the
English channel, where she sowed
mines, one of which caused the, de-
struction of the British predread-
naught Edward VII. Then she made
her way to the mid-Atlantic and there
established a "raiding zone all her
own" capturing or sinking fifteen
allied vessels, all British with the ex-
ception of one French and one Bel
she had on board 1919 prisoners
g ($250,000) in gold bars, taken from
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
WHEN DOREMUS WAS AN EDITOR

Representative Frank E. Doremus,
chairman of the Democratic congress
sional committee, used to run a little
weekly newspaper in Michigan. His
speciality was writing about the tariff.
He was seventeen years of age and
had once written an essay on the tar
if for a high school literary society.
He therefore agreed to be the local
authority on tariff matters. When his
paper had been going for about a
week, Doremus burst forth in a col
umn editorial. 1t was about the tariff.
The next day the probate judge of the
county came in, threw a copy of the
paper on the counter, and ordered his
subscription stopped.
And 1 was the happiest man in
town. says Doremus, for l had
found another person besides myself
who took me seriously"
One day a husky tramp printer,
working on Doremus' paper, got drunk
and came to the office in an ugly mood.
oCof ont re bora ~ 0rdo,o5 no-a-
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NARROWED IN THE ANTARCTIC

Lieut.. Sir Ernest H. S%hackleton,
head of the British Antarctic expedi-
ton, will be compelled to remain IN
other year near the south end of the.
earth, according to word brought to
New Zealand by the Aurora, one of
his vessels, which was driven back
by storms.
The adventure of Lieutenant
Shackleton had a three-fold purpose
to navigate the Antarctic on a me-
ridian; to secure for the British flag
the honor of being the first national
emblem thus to be taken from sea to
sea across this South pole realm, and
to conduct scientific work relating,
among other phases, to meteorology,
geography, geology and geodetic sur
vey.
The expedition left England in
two sections about six weeks after
the European war began, but it was
not until early in January, 1915, after
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE.

Il attended the theater last night"
said the dry goods clerk, land the
play was simply out of sight"
What was the nature of it," asked
the little blonde st~enographer.
1T was a m~elodrama," answered the
yardstick manipulation. 1.-THE last
scene was quite realistic; just as three
burglars crawl in at the kitchen win
dow, the clock strikes 1, and"
Pardon me-" interrupted the ath-
letic boarder, but which one did the
clock striker"
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Why He Returned.

Back home again, Ell. doctor?
What was the trouble, too healthy for
you out there"
Exactly. There was only one case
of sickness in town the whole time l
was there?"
And / suppose some other doctor
had that?"
No, l had it. 1t was homesick-
ness"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Retort Courteous.

WHAT exclaimed the spinster
who was beginning to carry weight
for age, do you mean to tell me your
baby is ten months old and can't walk
yet! Why, l could go it alone at the
age of six months"
yes" rejoined the young mother,
Indignantly, "and l notice you have
been going it alone ever since"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
She Was Busy.

I want to thank you" said the long
winded orator to the nice old lady
who had stayed throughout his entire
lecture. You seemed to appreciate
my efforts to enlighten this commu
nifty
That's all right" she replied. Most
of your audience slipped away, but l
had brought my knitting along and
wasn't wasting the time"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
KERN'S CALF CASE

When Senator John w. Kern was
a young lawyer at Kokomo, Ind, he
represented one side of a case in
which the whole controversy hinged
on the identity and ownership of a
certain calf.
The chief witness on the side
against Kern was a colored man. He
contended that the calf belonged to
his friend, Mr.. Jones. When Kern ex-
amined him the conversation ran
something like this:
How do you know this was Mr..
Jones' calf?"
well, sab, l had seen it around
his place so much that | jes' natu'lly
got acquainted with it. I seen it there
with the cow-its maw-and l no
ticed it ~p'ticu'ly because it had funny
marks on it. When you see a calf
ev'ry day you simply become familyah
with it,"
What kind of a looking calf was
it?"
1T was a red calf, sab, with white
And it belonged to Mr.. Jones?"
"Yessah."
Now, suppose that all the testim
this case was a white calf with red e
say about that?"
Wei. san, / reckon Id say it bell
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Imperfect Everywhere.

Horse Dealer-Well, sir, of course
you must take the 'oss or leave i'm.
There e is, with all is himperfections
hon is cad, as the poet says.
Prospective Customer-Ah, your
friend, the poet, can't have looked at
his legs.-London Punch.
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Score One for America.

Travers-When a man dies in Hin.
dustan his widow is cremated.
Homer-That's where the American
widow gets the best Of it.
Travers-How's that?
Homer-lnstead of being cremated
she is re-mated-if she is rich and
pretty.
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Johnny Knew the Sex.

Father-Where is your mother,
Johnny?
Johnny-She's out in the back yard
doing a whiting stunt.
Father-Are you sure she's whit
Ting?
Johnny-Of course l am; she's try
ing to sharpen a pencil.
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Getting at the Facts.

Attorney-Are you a single man?
Witness-No, sir.
Attorney-Is your wife living?
Witness-I've never been married.
Attorney-But you just said you
were not single.
Witness-True, I'm n of a pair @:
twins, see?
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Miqht Have Been UsefuI.

Mrs. Flatbush-This paper says a
mar that weighs $50 pounds contains
enough grease to make rs candles and
a pound of soap.
Mr.. F1atbush-There, dear; that's
the sort of man you ought to have
married.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Not Realistic.

Does that novel you have just fin
ished turn out all right?" asked his
wife.
NO" answered her husband. THE
hero marries the heroine, but it ends
before they get divorced"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21

ge. out"
The man did not move.
If you don't go u I'll throw o out" declared Doremus. though the
man as twice. as big is he. you've got a minute to get III and thirty sec
onds Of your time is already up"
For sol srange" reason the la got u and moved out
What if he hadn't gomez" Doremus as asked.
Well" he answered. L suppose l would simply have had to give him
a extension of time"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
A Friend Indeed.

"Your former mistress speaks very
highly of you, Norah."
"She ought to think a lot of me.
ma'am."
How did you win her gratitude?'
"If it hadn't been for what I said in
court, ma'am, she never would have
got her DIVORCE"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Rather Hopeless.

Doctor" asked the anxious young
man, SIS there anything that will pre-
vent me from becoming totally bald at
forty?'
why, yes. A fatal automobile ac-
cident might do it,
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Just So.

What have you there"
"An automobile catalogue"
why do you read so many automo-
bile catalogues? You haven't the price
of a car"
We'll. you gotta keep posted ON
automobile matters in order to under
stand the jokes"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Always Ready to obIioe.

Gruf Policeman Ito tipsy old party
who is singing in the car)-You must
either stop that noise or accompany
me.
Tipsy Old Party-Accompany you?
Why, certainly. Just hum a tune first;
we can then go ahead together.-Ne.
braska Awgwan.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Extremes Meet,

"The brightest man in my class at
college is now motorman on a street
car"
And how about the stupidest man?
He's president Of the road, l pre-
sume?"
mo, he's the conductor"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Shocked the Parson,

Minister-Mr. Hardcase, l saw you
son in a saloon yesterday.
Hardcase-Did you? 1 hope the
young scamp had the p%oliteness to
ask you to have something.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Out of the Set.

I'm afraid Vanessa has married
herself clean out of our set"
why SOP"
1.-The fellow is neither a dancer nor
q bridge player"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Two Souls, One Thought.

do you believe that the Thoughts
of a husband and wife become iden.
tical?" asked Rounder.
Il do" answered Jaggsby. For ex.
ample, my wife is waiting up for me
now and she knows just what she Is
going to say to me-and so do l."
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21

AS 1 know more of men / expect less
of them and am ready to call a man
a good man on easier terms than for.
merly.-Samuel Johnson.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Activities in the Home.

Mrs. Flatbush-I see by this paper
that a New Jersey woman has used
the same rolling pin for forty years.
Mr.. F1atbush-Good gracious! On
one husband?
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what do you suppose is the great
attraction about these aero meets?"
"The attraction of g~ravitation."
Reversal of Custom.

Loquacious girls no more we note,
There's no excuse for baking,
Since women merely want to vote
And let men do the talking.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
That's So.

81 think I'll go to the allegorical
bali representing Care"
Il s'pose you'll dress with care?" :
Decidedly not. You know Care has
a raveled Sleeve"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Leap Year Note.

Drummer-Does your stenogrsphe,
belong to the union?
Merchant-Not at present; but she
is to be married next month.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21

tons, that the party headed by Sir Ernest himself, set off on a 1700mne
voyage from South Georgia, a II uninhabhed island in the South Atlantic
ocean about 500 miles due east Of Cape Horn, for Ross sea IN the other side
of the South pole.
Sir Ernest sailed in the Endurance, a threemaster, with auxiliary
engines which ave Ter a ten-knot speed. This vessel, of 800 tons, was built
with wooden walls" two feet thick of almost solid oak. Oak and plant
pitch pine were the only woods employed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
The Worlds RESPONSIVENESS.

Oh, some are in the motor ar,
A gay and careless load:
And some must haul the rock and tar
To %renovate the road.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21

Men and women waste a lot of valu-
able time feeling sorry for each other.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21

Some men don't know enough to
stop boring after they strike oil.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
Its Kind.

Was that conversation you had
with your deaf and dumb friend manu-.
f~actured?"
No. really, dear, it was hand
made"
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21

Il beg you pardon for stepping on
your foot"
IF l were a centipede and had q
corn on every toe of every foot, I'd
find blamed fools enough to stand or
them ALL"
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
Women Oppose Administration.

Kansas, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado
will be "stumped" by Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch for Charles Evans Hughes and Repub-
lican candidates for Congress.
81 would like to vote for the Democrats, but
l can't" says Mrs. Blatch. "The Democratic
party has been tried and found wanting. SUI
frage first is the cry of the hour"
Mrs. Blatch AYERS that she is making a real
Democrat at Vassar and established the first
Democratic club there.
There is no ADLER more consistent advocate
of universal suffrage than Mrs. Blatch, and her
detection from the Democratic party is signif-
cant. She possesses a picture of Samuel Tiden
which that foremost of Democrats personally
sent her, and which she has described as her
certificate of Democracy
Not only will Mrs. Blatch speak for Hughes;
she will vote for him. She has established a
voting residence in Kansas and, following a
aight-before-electon series of addresses in Chi
cagoE will hasten to Topeka to cast her ballot
The Woman's Party of which Mrs Batch
is leading member, is standing behind the can
didacy of Mr.. Hughes and the effect of its at
titude in the Western States, where women vote,
The efforts being exerted by the Democrats to
swing the into line, through the forma-
ton of organizations of various sorts in all parts
of the country indicates that Mr. Wilson's CAM
paign managers are cognizant of this peril to
their hopes.
1t may be we'll for the Republican party lead
ers to strive to keep these women in the party
permanently.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
ASKS AID FOR SOLDIERS.
T. Swami Harding Makes Public
Pathetic Appeals.

Editor The Washington Herald
Very recently I received three letters
one from Belgium, one from France
and one from Holland. In each case
the letter was from a Belgian soldier
and each Belgian soldier needs what
ever assistance your kind readers
would care to give him-periodicals,
tobacco. kindly letters or money. I
commend them to your readers as
three authentic cases which I have
investigated and know are worthy of
help from those who sympathize with
the allied cause and with ravished
Belgium.
Mr. B. Adolphe. on trattement Hopi-
tai Gre No. p. Plouguernevel. Cotes
du Nord, France, writes in part:
Il take the liberty Of writing you
from a French hospital in which I am
being treated, and to which God in His
kindness saw fit to send me. I have
lost my FIVE brothers in the war and
have myself a limb traversed by a ball
which has induced heart trouble also.
I lived in Brussels before the war.
have since also lost my wife and find
myself without family or friends. Sad
to say l neither know where. my I
year-old daughter or my mother are
today, nor have heard from them
since I quit thsn the hrst moment