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OREGON CITY COURIER,- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER U 1903,- A A. JU. JL. Beginning this Minute The futute can be your own. Results are never in doubt when you attend our school. We educate you for praclical business and insist in getting you a posi tion when competent. All our graauates are employed. There are not enough to satisfy the demand. Splendid equipment. Up-to-date methods. Sit right down today and write for catalogue. BeMe-Walter Business College PORTLAND, OREGON. 8-BeleivIng that the Smith Premier is the most popular typewriter on the Pacific Coast we have purchased 25 machines for our new school. Immediate 1 Relief t and there is not a case of piles in existence that cannot be quickly and permanently cured bv Perrin's Pile Specific. You take it that's all. New price One Dollar a Dottie ai vour drngKis-. If Jne hasn't it Hi . Perrin Medical JO., Helena, Mont. is rs " j mm ------w New Plumbing and Tin Shop A. MIHLSTIN JOBBING AND REPAIRING a peci?'ty Opposite Oaufleld Block OREGON CITY I The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been, iu use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per- t sonal supervision since its infancy. ? 7. 'tUCAM'. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All- Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of luiants and Children Experience against Experiment. hat is CASTORIA Oastoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare' yoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms tmd allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep The CtJldren's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE, CASTORIA ALWAYS Sears the Signature of . The Early Catbird. At 4 o'clock the catbirds have It all to themselves, and they will not only sing their hearts out Into the trees and the sky, but they will give us imita tions and will sing over again all the sounds and melodies they have heard. My nearest neighbor, who builds In the '.Tartarian honeysuckle, comes near to me with evident comprehension of my admiration arid undertakes to tell me that he is not like other birds, but understands human folk. He jumps about the limbs near to me and with whistle calls back and forth, I envying his musical ability and he possibly wondering somewhat about my books and my balconies. I should be very lonely In the country without the cat bird. He Only has the power of com panionship with us. Independent Tie Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THC CCNTAUR COMMNV, VT MUHMV TMECT. NCW VOBH CITV. 1 ipMMUWiHWWIW HDJM'W I IIJWIJIHJI.UW) HUtl lltiJ,iBiUJ(iWI'WWllll.ll.'ltfj We Want Your Trade at Harris Grocery And are going to make special induce ments to close buyers. Sash and Small Profits is Our Motto. NORTHERN PACIFIC 3 NORTHERN PACIFIC OVERLAN TRAINS DAILY 2 Daily Through Trains to the B:iutiful Twirl Cities 2 MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL 1 -OVERLAND fTRAIN DAILY-1 VIA THE northern Pacific--Burlington ouk TO Denver, Lincoln, Neb.; Omaha. Neb.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Kansas City; St. Louis, and all Points East and Southeast. W Only Direct Line to the Famous Yellostone . national Part Your Baggage Can be Checked Through to Destination. Union Depot Connections The only Reliable Pioneer Dining Car Line TRY THE "North Coast Limited" ELECTRIC LIGHTS ELECTRIC FANS THE, CRACK TRAIN OF THE NORTHWEST A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant General Passenger f Agent, 255 Morrison St, Cor. Third, Portland, Ore. Playing: on Her Vanity. Mr. Potts (to his wife) My dear, the air is chilly. Fermez la fenetre. The Visitor (sotto voice) Why do you ask your wife In French to shut the window? Mr. Potts (ditto) Because you are here. If I asked her In English she wouldn't do it. as she won't take in structions from me before visitors. But if I say it in French she gets up and does it at once, so as to let you see that she understands the language. London Pick-AIe-Up. What Is Life? In the last analysis nobody knows, but if e do know that it is under strict law . Abuse that law even slightly, pain re sults. Irregular living means derange ment of the organs, resulting in Consti pation, Headache or Liver trouble. Dr. King's New Life Pills quickly re-adjusta this. It is gentle, vet thorough. Only 25 cents at G. Harding's drugstore. The Train tor Comfort s the famous North Western Limited ' Every night in the year between Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago via The short line between these three great cities. Before starting on a trip no matter where write for Interesting Information about com fortable traveling T. W.TEASDALE,' General i Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn. MliLSION Scott's Emulsion is the means of life and of the en joyment of life of thousands of men, women and children. To the men Scott's Emul sion gives the nesn and strength so necessary for the cure of consumption and the repairing of body losses from any wasting disease. tor women Scott s Emul sion does this and more. It is a most sustaining food and tonic for the special trials that women have to bear. To children Scott's Emul sion gives food and strength for growth of flesh and bone and blood. For pale girls, for thin and sickly boys Scott's Emulsion is a great help. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 60c. and$1.00; all druggists. PAPERING THE PINS. An Ingrenloun Operation That I Per formed by Machinery. The first pins mtido iu this country were very crude indeed, merely a bit of wire twisted into a knot for a head nt pin1 end and sharpened to a point at the other. Their successors of today undergo a surprising variety of opera tions before they are considered fit for use. In comparison with the size of the object manufactured the operations seem bewilderingly numerous, but If there be one process more remarkable than another it is "papering the pins " The papers, having been passed through an ingenious machine which, at regular intervals, according to the size of the pin, pinches up a fold and pricks a hole in it. are ready to receive the pins. For this purpose there is another ma chine, worked by two children. One feeds the pins, the other the papers. The first part of the machine is a box about twelve inches long, six broad and four deep. The bottom Is composed of small square steel bars, sufficiently far apart to let the shank of the pin fall through, but not the head. These bars are just as thick as the space between papered pins. The lower part of the bottom of the box is made to detach it self as soon as the row of pins Is com plete. Ilow after row, at regular in tervals, is received and passed down a corresponding set of grooves until It reaches the ready pricked paper. By the nicest possible adjustment these pins come exactly to their places and are pressed Into them. By this method two little girls can in one day put up many thousands of papers. Kansas City Star. The (Overland Limited is the most famous of trans continental trains via Omaha. Between Omaha and Chicago it runs via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Double daily service Port land to Chicago via this route. All meals served in dining cars. H. S. ROWE, General Manager. 134 Third Street, Portland DID M WW mW w mum t l . . ? a KID 1 r5 GRAND THE SCENIC LINE1 Through Salt Lake City, Leadville, Pueblo, Colorado Spring8 Denver, and the Famois Rocky Mountain Scenery and by Daylight to all points east. 3 hi tt&im Mlj between. Ogi?o eoi tkum Modern equipment, through Pullman and Tourist Sleeping Cars and Superb Dining Car Service Stopooers JJIhwed For rate, folders and other W. C. MCBRIDE, Information address 421 Third Street, Portland, Ore THE GRANGE ' Conducted fcy J, V. DARRO V, Pre Corrtxpondrnt line York Utatt Oravgc THE GRANGE IN THE SOUTH The Problem of Improving the Con dition of the Southern Farmer. With the exception of South Caro lina, my own state of West Virginia 'la is far south as any state that has con tinued to hold its place in the national grange. I know something of what it has cost to hold my state in line and am acquainted with the influences and cause? that produced dormancy south of Mason and Dixon's line and the Ohio river. It would profit little to re late those causes. Grange history re cites that the conception of the Order originated in the mind of Brother 0. H. Kelley while on a visit to the south ern states soon after the great civil war and because he saw the need of a fraternal organization that would bind the southern planters together and help build up their shattered for tunes. Those southern planters need ed the grange then, and they need it now even more than then. I have nev er lost faith that the grange would again become strong among the south ern farmers, and I am firmly of the opinion that if the proper effort were made many, if not all, of the southern states could be brought into the grange sisterhood of states. Ilow to do it is the problem, and it does not seem to me to be impossible of solution. The work must be done by southern men who are able and willing to be sacrificed for a great humanitarian principle men above reproach, capa ble of being leaders of the southern farmers in every effort to develop southern institutions and without per sonal political ambition. Such men ex ist in every state, and the problem of reorganizing the grange in the south' will solve itself if such men are quietly found and induced to interest them selves In the grange cause. How this is to be done and who is to do it I leave for some one else to determine. Every true Tatron in the country would gladly welcome our southern farmers into the grange brotherhood. T. C. ATKESON, Master West Virginia State Grange. EFFECTIVE GRANGE WORK. The Granite Lecturer Fllla an Im portant Poaltion. Grange work is a part of farm and school work. It means buying together and selling together, meeting together and talking together. It means to de velop the brain as well as the muscular powers of man. It means much more, but this is Illustration enough to prove its right to a share of your time. The lecturer who directs the mental improvement of the members of their grange should aim to instruct and up lift as well as entertain. We are look ing to the common school as the place where the future men and women will receive the education necessary for them to perpetuate this republic. We are looking to the grange as the farm ers' high school where the great class of agriculturists shall receive that prac tical training which is fitting them to ably fill any position of trust or honor. It moans much to assume the position of teacher, but does it mean less to as sume the position of lecturer of a sub ordinate grange? Mrs. F..D. Saunders, Lecturer Michigan State Grange. Co-operate In Da-Tina. That many more dollars might be saved grangers by co-operation In buy ing their farm supplies than they do save seems cjulte evident, The fact is ce-opcintioii Is too much a theory, too little a practice. But here Is a concrete Instance f h en In the words of a West Virginia l'alron: "I have just unloaded 14,500 pounds of barbed wire and some nails. My book shows this wire went to thirty five farmers at a saving of 80 cents on the hundred iKiuiuis, or .fll,". "Our orders this firing have reached nearly $7()() for wire, nulls, plows, sug ar and building material, at a saving of from 2.1 to til) per cent. The mer chants are asking the question, Ilow does it come the grange can pet these articles delivered here for less than we can buy at? "We are bunching our orders and get ting the middleman's profits. We are proud of our Order and very enthusias tic over our success." An Old Ball. Enfield (Conn.) grange has recently dedicated the town ball to its use. This ball Is 128 years old, the building hav ing been finished in 1775 and largely paid for In produce. Town meeting have been beld regularly In this build ing for 128 years. From 1775 to 1845 it was used for church services. Mrs. B. B. Lord, lecturer or New York state grange, is one of the most energetic and successful state grange lecturers In the cdtmtry, a good pint form speaker and a resourceful leader in her line of work. American Grange Bulletin. Past Master Levi Booth of the Colo rado state grange is the earliest living graduate of the University of Wiscon sin, being a member of the first class, that of 1854. State Master Westgate of Kansas is a graduate of Dartmouth. The lecturer of the national grange, Governor Bachelder of New Hamp shire, and the president of Cornell uni versity are booked for addresses Grange day, Aug. 18, at Thousand Is land Park, N. Y. There were ninety Tatrons of Hus bandry in the Connecticut leguilatuit its past session.