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Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-10-25
TAXI
The California and Oregon
Coast Railroad Company
TIME CARD
effective Nov. 10. 1918.

Trains will run Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday
Leave Grants Pass .-........l p. NJ
Arrive Waters Creek,.......2 P. NJ.
Leave Waters Creek $50 P, NJ
Arrive Grants Pass .............4 p. N.
For Information regarding freight
and passepger rates call at the oItlce
OF the company, L1udhnrg holding.
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Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-10-25

Reading room is open from 9 to
4 p. nj. daily except Sundays and
holidays. The public is cordially in
vited to attend the services and to
visit the reading room.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-10-25
sTRAYED

ESTRAY- There came 10 my place a
l~-year-old roam bull. crop OF right
ear. owner call nj once and pay
damages. l. IIostetleH Murphy,
Oregon. 90
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HEMsTlTcHlNG, Picoting. satisfac-
tIon guaranteed. Write TO us for
suggestions for Christmas gifts.
The Vanity Shop. Medford. Ore
gon. l45
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st. Anne's Catholic Church
Sunday masses at 1880 and $50
O'Clock.
Rev. J. G. Wien, c, s, ". pastor.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-10-25

First Church OF Christ Scientist
Christian Science services are held
every Sunday in the w. o. w. hall,
at II a. m. Wednesday evening
meeting at s o'clock. The subject
for Sunday is, Doctrine of Atone
mao.,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
EFFICIENT ABOVE ALL THINGS
Human Ingenuity Has Never Con-
structed Machine Of Greater Per-
lection Than the Shears.

Recurring to the very high efficiency
of shears although. the use of the
word spair" is correct when one re-
members that each blade is an old
English sscear," or cutter-the invenr
tor must have been practical me-
chanic. He was, probably. one of the
earliest of inventors, because among
the pictures on the walls of the. mes
taba, or tomb, of III, at ancient Mem
phis, shears are pictured for clipping
wool from sheep and goats. The de-
ceased III must have been a person
of much Importance in the Fifth dy-
nasty (2500 B. C.), although he mod
estly described himself as Keeper of
the Pyramids.n
Therefore shears were in familiar
use $500 years ago and their. general
form has not been improved upon.
This is due to the true engineering
principle behind the shears.
The invention would appear to have
sprung feli-fedged into the world, like
Minerva from the brain of Jupiter.
Imagination is required to picture the
admiration with which the first user
of pair of shears contemplated the
perfection of the service rendered Al
though he probably did not recognize
the fact, the efficiency of the shears is
80 9-10 per cent perfection.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Famous Elect Street.

modern writer has called Fleet
street the Street of Adventure" and
the name is a good one, writes A. A.
Methley, in "a Child's Guide to Lon
dom for here all the news of the
world is gathered together, and the
strip of sky overhead is crisscrossed
with the telegraph and telephone wires
that bring tidings Of warfare ;.
victories, revolutions, and marvellous
inventions and discoveries.
The road certainly deserves it's pic
turesque title, but, in medieval times
when, as Froissart says, the Londoners
We're the perilousest people in the
world, and the most outrageousest, the
name would have been even more APP
propriate. Then the adventures them
selves actually took place here; and
again and again in history we find
wild stories of tumults . fought
out on the rough cobblestones of old
"F'lete Strete.'
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Dickens love of Humanity.

Dickens love for humanity, his de-
sire to right wrong and relieve suffer-
ing, were some of the reasons given
by Sheriff Lyell, talented member Of
the Scottish bar speaking before the
Glasgow Dickens society, for the admi-
ration that writer had won. "The Bar
risters of Dickens was the speakers
subject. He referred to Mr.. Voles,
Eugene Raeburn, Tommy Traddles,
Sidney Carton, Sergeant Buzbuz and
other characters well known to Dick
ems readers.
"One must leave behind the spirit
of criticism and give oneself up to a
whole-hearted enjoyment in reading
Dickens" he said. "There might, at
times, be exaggeration or forced SEN.
timent, but there is also genius. I
don't know why he made Tommy Trad
dies lawyer, unless it was to show
that we barristers are not all as black
as we are painted Dickens was at
his best in depicting deep and genuine
pathos, free from sentimentalism."
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
PROVIDENCE NOT TO BLAME
Causes of 'Mankind's Good or Bad For.
tune Traced by Philosopher to
Human Qualities.

/ have always been of the opinion,
that the complaints against providence
have been ill-grounded, and that the
good or bad qualities of men are the
causes of their good or bad fortune
more than what is generally imagined.
There are no doubt instances to the
contrary, and pretty numerous ones,
too /; but few in comparison to the in
stances we have of a right distribution
of prosperity and adversely; nor, in-
deed could it be otherwise from the
common course of human affairs. To
be endowed with benevolent DISPOSE
ton and to love Others will almost in
fallibly procure love and esteem, which
is the chief circumstance in life and
facilitates every enterprise and un-
dertaking besides the satisfaction that
Immediately results from it. The case
is much the same with the other vir-
tues. Prosperity is naturally, though.
not necessarily, attached to virtue and
merit and adversely, in like manner
to vice and folly.-David Hume.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
vooDoo WORSHIP in HAITI
Strange Beliefs Which Christianity
and Civilization Have Been Un-
able to Stamp Out.

VOOdOOism, or vOOdoO, that strange
worship that, comes down from the ma
tive customs Of West Africa, is still
practiced to a great extent in Haiti,
where they believe that the body has
two spirits-a good one that returns to
Africa. and a duppy, who remains in
the vicinity of the dead. These dup
pies" are considered to be very. dam
gerous and in order to drive them
away from the house where death
has occurred. all standing water il
thrown out, and food and rum provid-
ed to propitiate the "duppy" and per-
suade it to accompany the good spirit
on its journey.
''Duppies" are supposed to have
solid bodies instead of ghostly ones,
and so the doors and windows, and
even cracks in the house are stuffed
up to keep them out.
V0odooism. unfortunately, goes much
farther than this belief and the use
of all kinds of charms, the worship
of certain sacred green snake, and
the melting and infiaming of the ne
groes to emotional heights by strange
ceremonies continues in Haiti even
now. At the close of a voodoo meet
ing when the audience is excited to
wild hysteria a dance called the "loilo-
fchf' is performed which ends in
wild orgy, an exchange states. In all
these wild ceremonies and dances, a
drum is the instrument used, it's rhyth-
mic throbbing tending to excite those
who hear it. Indeed, from time inn
memorial drums have been used for
this purpose, the nerves of even the
most civilized and self-contained per-
sons responding almost Immediately
to steady drumming.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Some Watchl

While the latest thing in watches is
the thin, round or octagon gold time
piece. Capt. Martin Van Buren Bates,
who died at his home in Seville, Ohio,
wore watch that weighed four
pounds. 1t was set with diamonds and
a delicate set of chimes sounded the
hours as the watch rested in his vest
pocket. 1t was a gift from Queen Vic
tpria.
1t may be explained that the man
who wore the four-pound watch was a
famous giant. He stood Z feet inches
and weighed $50 pounds. He, was born
in eastern Kentucky, and served as a
soldier in the command of Gen. John
Morgan, the confederate cavalry lead
err. He later toured the world with a
circus with his first wife, Annie Swan,
who was s feet tall.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Evening.

Thus my wife and have begun life
together. ] think that most of our eve
nings will be spent in the room dedi-
Gated to kind word for life universal
No matter how closely the warning
forces of existence, within or without.
have pressed upon us elsewhere, when
we enter there we enter peace. We
shall be walled in from all darkness Of
whatsoever meaning; our better selves
will be the sole guests of those lumin-
Gus hours. And surely no greater good
fortune can befall any household than
to escape an ignoble evening. To attain
noble one is like lying calmly down
to sleep on a mountain top towards
which our feet have struggled upward
amid enemies all day long. james
Lane Allen. I
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Chinese Music

Chinese music has always been be-
yond the grasp of the occidental
mind, appearing to have neither rhyme
nor reason to it. AS a matter of fact,
Chinese musician must be very
skilled, indeed, in his profession to-
hold a position in an oriental orches-
ira. Chinese music is not written The
words of some of the favorite songs
have been preserved, but the music has
been handed down from father to son
for generations that go far back before.
the day Of the troubadours. When
music is played it is played according
10 the memory of the musician and his
ideas of Interpretation. A musician va
ries the performance as his best judg-
ment dictntes and the strings. reeds
or brass may break in at AIRY time.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Classifying the Apartment.


The apartment, in spite of wide
physical differences, belongs to the
same family as the lead razor and the
wooden nutmeg 1t is built to get rid
of and the persons who acquire one
usually find that it isn't what they
thought it was. In the popular mind,
the apartment belongs to the great
family of homes, and can easily be
made into true home by the addition
of rubber plant and an enlarged
photograph of the Colosseum. This is
as much of fallacy as to think that
a bluejay can be made into bluebird
by giving him a bluebird house to nest
in. The blueiay belongs to the crow
family; and while his plumage may
please the esthetic senses for a time,
his raucous screams and his bullying
pugnacity will inevitably offend every
one The wise man, in acquiring an
apartment, views it as a branch of the
wooden nutmeg family and determines
to pass it on to someone else with all
possible speed. Judge.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
ABOVE ROUND OF ROUTINE
Men Who Do Things Are Not Those
Who Have Their Nose Constantly
s on Grindstone.

A certain vice president of great
railroad once remarked that he would
much rather have in his employ train
dispatcher who had cigar in his
mouth and his feet cooked up on
the desk than one who kept his nose
too closely to the grindstone. AS he
had come up through the ranks the
vice presidents opinion was seasoned
with accurate knowledge and expert
ence. His theory was that the dis
patcher with his feet cooked up had
his road in better shape than the grind
stone exponent, and could figure out
the moves on the transportation chess
board better
An official of probably the largest
corporation in the world was reported
to the head of the corporation by a
large stakeholder as continually loaf
ing and looking out of his office win
low. The president assured the stock
holder that the man was not loafing
but thinking, and that his plans had
saved in one year more than his salary
for twenty.
You can go through the office of the
National City bank Of New York, the
largest bank in America, and find men
sitting at glass-topped desks on which
there is not a scrap of paper. Yet the
daily business of this bank would keep
a dozen country banks busy to ca
pacity.
You can pick at random one hundred
of the highest executives of the coun-
try and find more than 80 per cent sit
ting at desks absolutely bare.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
COUGH RELEASES BONE
1t Had Been in Mans Throat for
q Year

A. K. Williams, sixty-three years
old, a miller of Evansville, Frederick
county, Maryland, a few days ago dur
ing Il violent spasm Of coughing dis
lodged piece of beef bone, three
quarters inch long, one-quarter inch
wide and one-eighth inch thick, that
he had swallowed year ago, and
which had given him much trouble.
After swallowing the bone he lost
weight steadily, falling from $50 to
$40 pounds. He frequently was
seized With violent paroxysnas of
coughing.
X-ray photographs were taken, but
no bone could be found in his throat.
He was then treated for tuberculosis
He is rapidly improving.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
austria,s Day of Defeat.

At the battle of Magenta in 1859 dur
ing the Italian war, the French and
Sardinians defeated the Austrians at a
loss to the latter of 5000 in killed and
1000 in prisoners, while the allies
only lost 1000. For this victory the
French marshal, MacMahon, was
created duke of Magenta by the En-.
peror Louis Napoleon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Sells Old Postcards.

Mrs. Edwin Curd, widow of for
mer tobacco company official at Fulton,
Mo-, has found it a profitable bit of
work to sell back to the government
some postcards she happened to find
in her husbands effects. The cards
were of the issue of 1885, and the gov
eminent paid her $SS.60 to redeem
them.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Daily Thouaht.

It is not work that kills man; it is
worry. Work is healthy you could
hardly put more upon a man than he
can bear. Worry is rust upon the
blade. 1t is not the revolution that
destroys machinery; it is the fric.
tion.--Beecher
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Sharks piled Up Like cordwood.

Seven thousand sharks, split in
half, dried and piled up like cordwood,
filed the hold of the Gryme, which ar
rived at San Diego, Cal, from Guada-
lonpe Island and Ensenada, Lower
California. The cargo will be used for
fertilizer and for soaps and ctsmet-
les.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
CARD OF THANKS

To all our friends, who so kindly
assisted US during the sickness,
death and burial Of our father, we
are deeply grateful.
w. P. ANDREWS
JOHN ANDREWS
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

LOCAL AND Personal.
DIR. Graf and family visited rela-
tues here Sunday.
Nick Martes and family Of Stuart
spent Sunday here with relatives. +
Lonna Houston went to Atlantic
today on a business visit.
Will Kommes, wife and son visit
ed Sunday in Wiota at her parental
home.
DIR. and Mrs. Jacobsen are en-
joying visit from his mother of
Lake View and his sister, Mrs.
Marie Hutchinson Of Manila, Iowa,
who arrived here Friday.
Misses Christina and Lena Kur-
tenback of Atlantic spent Sunday
evening in Extra with their sister,
Mrs. Will, Kommes and family.
Miss Opal Cannon arrived here
Monday from Des Moines and will
remain here for an indefinite length
of time and visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Griffin Of
near Bayard visited here yesterday
with friends at the Kirk Knox
home.
Mrs. Frank Lewis of Maclean,
Nebraska and Mrs. John Cannon
of Brayton spent yesterday. with
relatives at the Frank Basham
home and also attended the Glass
play.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murdoch are leav-
ing today for their new home in
Newton. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Meu-
ers and his father, Anthony Meuers
expect to leave about Sunday for
Newton also. We wish all prosper
ity and happiness in the future.
Miss Ella Ballou narrowly escap-
ed a serious injury yesterday, when
she fell from a hammock at the Geo
Hunt home yesterday. Her back
was slightly injured and she was
stunned from the fall, but after al
few hours was able to return to her
home. She is much better today
| rand able to be around again.
Latest report from Bert Bartlett
is thathe is in q very serious con-
dition, He was thought to be re-
covering nicely, but suffered q re-
lapse yesterday. His hosts of
friends wish him a speedyrecovery.
Miss Gertrude Basham came
home from Stuart, Saturday, to Wis
it her parents and also to attend
the Graduation Exercises Of the
Glass Of 1919, of which her sister,
,Erma is a member. She will return
to Stuart the latter part of this
week, where she is staying at the
DR.. Graf home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bishop re-
turned Saturday from visit in St.
Charles with his parents. They
We're accompanied from Des Moines
by her brother, John Mayer, who
received his honorable discharge at
Camp Dodge last week. Mr. May
er has just returned, after spending
eighteen months in France, and is
very glad to return to the u. S.
He was with the 40Sth Telegraph
Battalion. We join in welcoming
him back.
! Mrs, R. A. Lantz entertained a
bout fifteen ladies last Tuesday
afternoon, as farewell to Mrs. Eg-
bert who left for her home in Wy
oming this morning. A splendid
time was reported by all present.
One feature of the afternoon en-
tertainment was letters written by
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Griffin Of
near Bayard visited here yesterday
with friends at the Kirk Knox
home.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
Lonna Houston went to Atlantic
today on business visit,

Will Kommes, wife and son visit
ed Sunday in Wiota at her parental
home.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
LOCAL AND Personal.
DIR. Graf and family visited rela-
tues here Sunday.

Nick Martes and family Of Stuart
spent Sunday here with relatives.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Miss Opal Cannon arrived here
Monday from Des Moines and will
remain here for an indefinite length
of time and visit relatives.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29
shipbulIding Facilities Now Put
U. S. in Lead.
MERCHANT MARINE TO STAY

Hurley Is Convinced America Can
outstrip All Other Nations in Re-
placing Lost Tonnage United
States Will Require Fleet of $780,
600 Tons to Carry Commerce EST.
mated for 1920.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Mrs. Frank Lewis of Maclean,
Nebraska and Mrs. John Cannon
of Brayton spent yesterday. with
relatives at the Frank Basham
home and also attended the Class
play.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

! Mrs. r. A. Lantz entertained a.
bout fifteen ladies last Tuesday
afternoon, as farewell to Mrs. Egg
bert who left for her home in Wy
oming this morning A splendid
time was reported by all present.
One feature of the afternoon en-
tertainment was letters written by
each lady TO be read by the recip-
lent during the trip. Games were
played and standby refreshments
We're served during the afternoon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

DIR. and Mrs. Jacobsen are en-
joying a visit from his mother of
Lake View and his sister, Mrs.
Marie Hutchinson Of Manila, Iowa,
who arrived here Friday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Murdoch are leav-
ing today for their new home in
Newton Mr. and Mrs. Joe Meu-
ers and his father, Anthony Meuers
expect to leave about Sunday for
Newton also. We wish all prosper
ity and happiness in the future.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Misses Christina and Lena Kur-
tenback Of Atlantic spent Sunday
evening in Extra with their sister,
Mrs. Will, Kommes and family.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Miss Ella Ballou narrowly escap-
ed serious injury yesterday, when
she fell from hammock at the Geo
Hunt home yesterday. Her back
was slightly injured and she was
stunned from the fall, but after a
few hours was able to return to her
home. She is much better today
sand able to be around again.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Miss Gertrude Basham came
home from Stuart, Saturday, to Wis
it her parents and also to attend
the Graduation Exercises Of the
Glass of 1919, of which her sister,
,Erma is member She will return
to Stuart the latter part of this
week, where she is staying at the
DIR. Graf home.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

Latest report from Bert Bartlett
is that he is in a very serious con-
dition, He was thought to be re-
covering nicely, but suffered re-
lapse yesterday. His hosts Of
friends wish him a speedyrecoyery.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

the decreases. Losses of fifteen Ger
man and requisitioned ships amount
ing to 112,24S gross tons are not in
Guided
To-day we are potentially the great
est maritime power of the earth, for
the reason that we possess the great,
est shipbuilding instrumentalities'
All Try to Come Back
Mr.. Hurley stated that Great Brit
ain suffered net loss in the war of
3443,000 gross tons, amounting to IS
per cent of her entire tonnage. Other
nations which suffered heavy losses
include Norway, which lost LIS. 335
gross tons; France, 907,1GS gross tons );
Italy, S52,1 gross tons; Greece, &c.,
$40 gross tons; Denmark, 239,922 gross
tons, and Sweden, POI ,733 Every ef-
fort is being made by each of these
nations, Mr.. Hurley asserted, to regain
its former maritime standing.
"The study of the shipping board
experts revealed teeming ambition
among other powers to achieve high
er maritime standing" said the re-
port. I'm almost every country the
desire exists not only to replace war
losses but to add new totals to be
used in the work of reconstruction and
III developing new foreign trade. Even
Switzerland has not escaped this de-
sire ITO acquire merchant marine.
Ships will be acquired asl soon as ca.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-26
A. KELLY 80 YEARS OLD.
Is Hale and Hearty and Enjoying
Life. Receives Greetings From
His Son, A. M.

Friday last, March 7th, A Kelly
celebrated his etghtieth birthday
Not a great many of his friends
knew that dad" was about to pass
another mile stone, and no one
without previous knowledge would
believe he had attained the ripe old
age Of eighty. The day had many
pleasant features, but Mr.. Kelly
priced most highly greetings sent
him from his son, A. M. On the
side of the card intended for writ
ing, Alb. had penned his greetings,
thus:
II take this opportunity to greet
you on your eightieth birthday, and
hope you may live two score more
years and round out a century. Re-
greet I cannot be with you for the
day at least. Greet sisters. Am feel
ing fine.
Your son, A. M. KELLY.
On the opposite side of the card
was this inscription: