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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22

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ANOTHER RECORD FOR GRANTS
PASS.
The average citizen pays little at
tention to the details Of government
He knows that taxes mount to figure:
that work a hardship upon the mar
who pays for government and he 1.
apt to condemn all branches Of gov
ernment as eItravagant and inefi'
Client. But there Is q professor NJ
at Corvallis who has been digging
into the realms Of dry figures. and
be has evolved the fact that Grants
Pass has about as little to complain
OF in the matter Of municipal expense
Is any town in the state. According
to the figures Of Prof. Gilbert, the
metropolis OF the Rogue spends upon
its municipality the lowest per capita
amount Of any city in Oregon. the
figure being $21.0s. The average for
all the cities and towns Of Oregon is
SAT, and Pendleton has the max
imum expenditure. s65.7s. The aver
age for the country as q whole is
$27.2e. The Corvallis Gazette-Times
has the following interesting figures
based upon Prof. Gilbert's report:
I'm respect to revenue collected
for state purposes. Oregon stands
Aigh as compared with the general
sverage. The per capita revenues Of
the state are ss.os as compared with
$3.50 for the country as q whole.
Washington collects for state pur-
poses 1894. and California $7.41.
The Pacific coast states have high
per capita expenditures as compared
with the eastern and southern states.
The census report also distinguishes
sources Of state revenue. Until a
rather recent period the chief reli-
ance has been placed on the general
property tax. More recently many
states have developed Independent
sources and reduced the per capita
levy on property valuations. The
amount derived from property taxes
for state purposes ranges from IS
cents in Pennsylvania to s6.25 in
Nevada. Oregon stands midway be-
tween the extremes with a per capita
levy on property OF s3.36. Oregon
stands low in the list OF states that
have developed special business taxes
as sources OF commonwealth. Wash
ington derives about one-quarter OF
state revenues from special business
taxes, and in Delaware the percentage
runs as high as "A. Oregon gets
from similar sources rs per cent Of
the total and the general property
tax supplies 72 per cent Of the rev.
enue needs OF the states. Govern
mental costs in Oregon are high as
compared with the general average,
but low as compared with Washing
ton and California. The state gov
ernment costs the citizen OF Oregon
but little more than half as much as
the citizen of California is compelled
to pay.
The aggregate expenditures OF the
states are insignificant as compared
with the expenditure OF local govern
ments. The average Oregon county
spends s10.S3 per head and the aver
age municipality s4700. Only about
one-twelfth OF the governmental costs
borne by a resident of a city are
chargeable to the state government.
Our per capita county expenditures
are slightly higher than in Washing
ton but only one-half as much as in
California. The average Oregon
county spends s2.52 per head on edu-
cation, as against sale In Washing
ton counties, and sS.O7 in California.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22
Salary.

Soldiers once received salt as part Of
their pay. When the salt was com.
muted for cash the latter was called
"salarium." salt money. or salary"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22

Mrs. Ricbleigb tscornfully,-I wish
you had more brains. Ferdinand. In.
stead of so much money Ferdinand
funmOvedI-I did once. dear. but II took
all of them 10 get money.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22
Ftirtstion.

What really constitutes iir;ntiou;'
asked the Young man of the woman of
the world.
"Atiention without intention" re-
pliel the experienced nne.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22

The golden rule measures business
better than the woodeD yardsilck
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22

The figure for Oregon does not ap-
parently include the special levies
by districts. which are nearly twice
the general levy for the same pur-
pose"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22
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OREGON WEATHER

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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22

Job printing OF every description
at the Courier ofice.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22

Location notices. Courier once.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-06-22

Mining blanks at the Courier once,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Canada's Great Advance

From "Canada's Two Years of War and
 Their Meaning" by P. T. McGrath, in
 the American Review of Reviews.
 Two years of war have seen Canada effecting achievements on behalf of the British empire which not even the most farseeing contemplated when the present world struggle began in August, 1914 She has raised an army now within meas urable distance of 500,000 men, She has increased her grain acreage so as to gain the third place among the wheat produc- ing countries of the world, exceeded only by the United States and Russia. Finan- cially she has transformed her situation entirely, becoming a. creditor instead of debtor nation and raising a domestic loan for the first time in her history, as an earnest of her whole-hearted spirit. ly and gained a position not easily de- an entirely new pursuit, that of munition- making, which daily grows in magnitude and importance.
 Economically all these factors have contributed to create a flood of prosper ity similar to that enjoyed by the United States and the effect of which is to stim- ulate every class and element throughout the dominian to ever-increa sing efforts in behalf of the cause to which she has dedicated herself. believing, as she does that not only victory, but safety rests with big battalions and adequate pre- paredness. All these developments have been of the greatest benefit to the mother country, but surpa ssing them even has been the moral advantage accruing to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
CHINESE CABINET NOT ID CONTINUE
Predictions Are General That Present Government
 of President Will Fall

Picking, May 1O.-(Corresponoence of
 the Associated Press )--Tuan Chi-jui's new cabinet represents practically all
 political parties in China, as well as geographical divisions. But 1t does not seem to appeal very strongly to any Of
 the political parties, and predictions are general that the new cabinet will not
 last for many months.
 Tang Shao-yi. the new minister of for
 egn affairs, and several of the other
 members of the cabinet will not be able
 to come to Picking for sometime. Polit- icaI conditions here are still very much unsettled, and probably will be for many months. It is not anticipated that the recovering on August 1 of the PariIa-
 ment which Yuan Shi-kai disbanded, will immediately bring about a solution of | the political difficulties.
 l Representative of the various promi-
 nent political leaders of the south who
 dare not come to Peking at rn1s time 1 hace gathered in the capital, and others are coming daily. Scores of members
 of the old Parliament are already in 1 Peking engaging in political controversy.
 About 200 other members of the old | Parliament are gatherAl at Snangnai, | where they are meeting informally and l keeping in touch with the situation in the 1 capital.
 | Hsu Shih-ying, the new minister of the l interior was a judge under the Tsing l dynasty and rose to the rank of minis 1 ter of justice in the early days of the i republic He was forced to resign this position, and later became governor of ] F'ukien province, a post which he held | until the outbreak of hostilities in the
 present revolution.
 l Chang Kuo-kan, the new minister of | commerce and agriculture, was member 1 of the state council under Yuan Shi-kai. and was intimately connected with the
 monarchical movement.
 Sung Hung-yi the new minister of edu- cation, has been a prominent politician
 most of his life. He took strong posi- 1 tion in opposition to Yuan Shi-kais
 monarchical movement, and did able work for the republican cause at | Shanghai.
 | Chang Yao-tseng, who becomes minister | of justice in the new cabinet, Is a grad
 uate of a Japanese university and a mem Der of the Parliament which Yuan Shi-
 kai disbanded. He formerly taught in the
 government university at Picking. When the monarchical movement was started 1 last year, he left the capital and joined the revolutionists in Yunnan province.
 Admiral Chen Pih-kuan, who becomes
 minister of the navy, was educated in a l British naval school, and has served in 1 the Chinese navy most of his life. He
 was a captain commanding the cruiser | Haichi when the revolution broke out in 1 1911 For sometime he served as naval
 adviser to the late President Yuan Shi- | kai.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Russia's Military Genius

Charles Johnston, in the North American
 Review.
 General Brusiloff was one of the few men in Russia firmly convinced that the war must come, and come soon. In 1911. he was corps commander at Lublin, and while there laid enormous stress on aero plane scouting, so that it was no uncom- mon thing to see half-a-dozen airmen soaring above the town Then his high attainments led to his transfer to War saw as the danger center, but, after few months service with the high command there, he was transferred, at his own request, to Vinnitza, close to the northea stern end of Galicia. The reason for this request was that he felt con- vinced that war was coming, and he foresaw that, just at this point, Russia could make the quickest, most effective thrust at the Teutonic forces. The war came, and within few days, General Brusiloff and General Ruzsy were across the frontier and while the equally rapid advance of General Samsonoff and Gen. eral Rennenkampf, in the north met with disaster, Ruzsky and Brusiloff gained striking successes, carrying their armies forward to the passes of the Carpathians. General Brusiloff is one of the few generals of the allies who, for full year, was continuously on enemy soil He never lost a battle, and, when the dire failure of ammunition forced the retirement of the Russian armies and brought about the loss of Warsaw, it is on record that not for an hour did Brusiloff lose his serenity and faith. But he Is determined now to win back every foot of land then lost-and more-and the spirit of the man is ex- pressed in his recently reported words, as he sent the correspondents to the rear. You will learn of the Russian advance from the Austrian bulletins"
 General Brusiloff is a master of mili- tary science who has learned all that can be learned from his allies and his en- emies He has taken part. many times, in the grand maneuvers on the plains of France, where stern battle now rages; he has stood beside the German Elm peror and watched the spectacular de- velopment of immense cavalry charges. And, before the war, he practiced cease lessly the handling of the largest bodies of troops, in those great Russian maneu- vers into which he put much of the rigor of war. It was noted. in these contests among the Russian fields and forests, that General Brusiloff always seemed to know what his opponent had in mind to do and took the needed measures to turn his flank-an art he has not lost in real war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

The s. c. White Orpington was the second variety of this famous English all-purpose fowl to be originated. The late William Cook, who originated and exploited all varieties of the Orpingtons, began on the s. c. White variety about 1880. They were a combination of s. c. White Leghorn, Hamburg and White Dorking blood, and after much effort and selection they were finally introduced to the public about 1889. They had large sales in all countries, and were intro- duced into the United States after the Blacks. and Bluffs. All the Orpingtons were slow to take with the American fanciers until MT. Cook himself came to the New York show with several birds on a featuring campaign. Many bought and the craze for Orpingtons soon spread.
 His successive visits and his esta ablish- ment of a farm in New Jersey added to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

the rapidly spreading interest in the va riety. The s. c. Whites were probably advertised and exploited more than all the other varieties combined and they soon became leaders.
 The Single Comb White Orpington is large fowl. They have large combs white bills. legs, feet and skin. and of course. white plumage The latter was the most difficult feature, since the males almost all showed a little brassiness. The White Orpington has a reputation for being a splendid layer. They lay tinted eggs. and like the American gen eral purpose fowls, will become broody sit, hatch and rear chicks. The chicks develop rapidly, making splendid table poultry from broler size on up to ma turity. At the latter time they weigh from sA to 10 pounds for the males and !7 to pounds for the females.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
His Horse a Church-Goe

Wirsted (Conn.) Correspondence to New
 York Herald.
 That Dolly, a mare, 25 years old, owned by Deacon Riley M. Olmstead, of Nepau- ghas, has had good bringing up' Is evidenced by the fact that on hearing the bells of the Congregational church in that village ring every Sunday morning she jumps out of the pasture and starts for church.
 Dolly has taken Deacon and Mrs. Olm- sted to church hundreds of times while the bells tolled, which. in a measure, accounts for her church-going habits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Words

From Judge.
 Words are used for various purposes: To evade issues, to put people to sleep, to break up homes, to prevent literature and to conceal ideas. Nothing exceeds like words
 Words are used in speeches, debates and stories Massed in serried groups in newspapers and textbooks, they prevent people from learning anything. Last words are most effective and are em- ployed exclusively by women and promi- nent citizens who are dying
 Words are nothing in themselves but only in their relationship to other words. It is the system of putting them to- gether that counts. Most words are like unorganized militia. In war the mor- tality among them is fearful. They never win battles. When words are found in regular army style, however disciplined and experienced, they are likely to be invincible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
OUNCE OF PREVENTION

Many fowls on small premises, either penned or at liberty, are endangered. A large range, allowing fowls to supply themselves naturally in their rowing, acts as preventive In any event, it be- hooves the poultry keeper. whether the poultry yard be up-to-date or merely ad- junctive to the farm, to dispose safely of all dead fowls small or large. This ap- plies to all decomposing matter. A dead baby chick can start the ball a-rolling. Burning is better than burying. Sanita- ton and the health of the fowls demand this care If precaution be strictly ob- served, lmberneck, at least, will not vex the poultry keepers soul.
 The production of fancy table eggs and their sale to a private trade in sealed cartons is one of the most profitable branches of the poultry industry. In next weeks article Prof. Frank c. Hare de- scribes this important subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
Tn Shakespeare's Home Town

From the New York Globe.
 James T. Fields, one of the notable publishers and also a man of letters, relates that when he went to Stratford he met a native of that country. He told the native that he had come to see the home of Shakespeare.
 That's all right" said the man of Warwickshire, but for my part, I don't believe Shakespeare would be heard of now if he hadn't wrote them plays"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

feather eating habit of which we some times hear Poultry raisers read in every case of limberneck among their flocks the admonition to supply plentifully anil nal food in some form, such as curd, sour milk, beef scrap, etc. In the days of small flocks, fowls secured sufficient for themselves; the modern habit of con centration of large numbers within small
 limits imposes the necessity of catering scrupulously to the fundamental needs of poultry Neglect will certainly claim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

Great Britain in the struggle through the whole-hearted support which Canada, Australia, and the other self-governng dominions are according her. and which, there is reaso to believe, will result in a encouragement of the relations of the motherland and the oversea possessions of the British empire after the war is over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
"VIVIETTE"

By William J. Locke. Illustrated. The
 John Lane Co.,, publishers, New York.
 "Viviette," by William J. Locke, is a story as light and as airy as thistledown and delciously entertaining for summer reading. It is amusing. as we'll as clev- erly written, as all MT Lockes stories are.
 love with the attractive, flashing Miss Viviette Hastings, who knows her power and uses it accordinelv. All the while the reader has scented Miss Hastings choice of the brothers and when the eli max comes and we are led to believe that the couple lived happily ever after ward" the reader cannot help believing that spoilt. luXurv-loving, clever Vvi- ette soon found life in Vancouver decid- edlv una ttra ctive and her dull. simne minded uneducated husband an unmiti- gated bore. All of which could scarcely have been made more pleasant by the conviction which must have been hers, that should weak-willed, jealous, pas sionate Dick. who had already proved entirely without any power of self-com- mand, learn her state of mind she would go in actual danger of her life. Alto. gether, it would seem that Austin and Katherine had decidedly the best of it. al- though Viviette did scorn them for being civilized people," and able to reason.
 The characters are well drawn and the contrast between the two brothers cleverly brought out. Dicks sense of inferioritv which ranked and rankled for years within his soul, his constantly in- creasing feeling of grievance and hu- miliation-all of them made keener again and yet again by one trival oc- currence after another-his jealous and growing rage. Austin's careless generos-
 
 Kindness to dear old Dick" whom he sincerely loves, the jokes and raillery which were meant so well and taken so ill., the culture of the one and Ignorance of the other-these things are illustrated with skill and deftness. The slight sketch of ulatitudinous Mrs Ware. who permitted her adoration of one son and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20

Geologists are trying to estimate the ages of the oceans by comparing the amount of sodium they contain with the amount they receive annually by wash ings from the continents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
THE BELFRY"

By May Sinclair. The Macmillan com pany, publishers, New York.
 Not since The Divine Fire" has May Sinclair written anything so perfectly charming, So entirely original, and so scintillatingly brilliant as "The Belfry. There is not dull moment in the story, from the very first line to the last, and the character painting that the author has done is worthy of the highest praise. In this brilliant and swiftly moving
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
THE uNsPEAKABLE pERK." |"


 By Samuel Hopkins Adams. Illustrated. Houghton Miffin company, publishers Boston.
 Samuel Hopkins Adams had added an other success to his long line of suc- cesses in the literary world, by his latest story entitled, The Unspeakable Peyk" The scene of this lively narrative is laid in the neighborhood of the Caribbean sea, where the daughter of rich Ameri- can cruising on his yacht meets under certain extraordinary circumstances "The Unspeakable Perk,' a quaint character who, passing under the name of Perkins and disguised behind disfiguring goggles is supposed to be engaged in entomolog- ical pursuits. "Perk" immediately falls in love with the engaging heroine, and she, without at first quite realizing it, gradually falls in love in turn with the character behind the unattractive dis guise. After an absorbing series of ad- ventures and misunderstanding involv- ing an active little local revolution, 'Perk turns out to be quite other than he first appeared, and behind the goggles he has been all the time an American of the finest type.
 esting adventure and rapidly moving &C., tion and in addition a vivdness and charm of character drawing and continu- ous play of humor very uncommon in stories of this type It combines, in short, the charm and humor of Little Miss Crouch with something of the plot interest of The Clarion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-20
ADMINISTRATIONS OF WORK

| Occasionally there is great havoc from disease on duck farms. It is usually
 limberneck, to which they are especially
 prone Ducks confined in large numbers
 on limited space crave the animal 1000 demanded by their nature. If their ration lacks this important feature of their
 diet, they will supply it at the first op- | portunity. Voracity and tendency to | scavengering prove their undoing. Unless , every dead duck is found before its body
 becomes a temptation to the survivors,
 the disease is rampant
 | A successful turkey raiser oS some years ago used to relate an experience bearing on this subject. Her turkeys, | over 100 in number and about two and one-half months old, came home one day at night fall, staggering and choking. | That night many died. Others followed | in the next succeeding days. Being dis agreeable duty, she performed post mortem to discover the mysterious ail- ment that had robbed her of her sea- sons work. Tn the turkey crops she found numbers of long, ugly black bee
 ties. Pursuing her investigation further, she walked to the lower field, the goal of their daily routing. Here on the edge of a marsh lay the poorly-buried car cass of a calf swarming with black , beetles The farmhand's carelessness had played havoc with her flock, and she had learned valuable, put dearly bought, lesson.
 A raiser of guneas opened the door of their house one dry, hot August morn ing. No eager, fluttering, hungry
 young creatures welcomed her. Thirty of
 the 1C0 with one of the fostermothers lay
 prostrate on the floor or roosts. head
 dangling, neck limp, wings spread She
 knew the trouble. An investigation be-
 gan. In the extreme end of the orchard.
 a dead goose buried in the dusty soil
 week before had been disinterred by
 stray dogs. In their craving for the car
 nivorous, the guinease had feasted and
 paid the penalty of their appetites.
 CASTOR OIL AND TURPENTINE
 Sometimes fowls recover. Nine-tenths
 die. Only one of the guineas survived, reaching a stunted maturity. There is little satisfaction in treating fowls suffer- ing with lmberneck. The object is to flush the digestive tract to rid it of any poisonous matter yet unassimilated If the fowl Is not in total collapse, the best practical treatment, out of a number of things tried, seems to be dose of one- half teaspoonful castor oil, followed with
 few drops of turpentine on dampened meal These doses must be given forcibly as the throat muscles seem partially paralyzed The most effectual treat
 ment Is the age. with a safe disposal of the body. The first transgression of fowls eating tainted flesh is usually die instinct that causes hens to eat eggs l am inclined to think that later it becomes
 an obession with them. much as the