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OGtJE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS, OREGON, DECEMBER 14. 1906. Avoid alum and alum phos phate baking powders.The label law requires that all the ingredients be named on the labels. Look out for the alum compounds. NOTE. -Safety lies in buying only Royal Baking Powder, which is a pure, cream of tartar baking powder, and the best that can be made. FREE DELIVERY IN ANCIENT TIMES HARKING BACK TO BOYHOOD'S HAPPY DAYS "Turn Backward O Tim. In your Flight and Ma.k. N. a. Child One. Again," Yes, Bir! Boyhood' happy days, of oonrse. Wo know about that. We hftTen't forgotten the joy of sleeping in an unfinished loft in Winter when oar breath froze to the bedding and we bad to thaw og out with a hot flat iron every morning. Morning, tool We got op at 4 a. m., pitch dark, 84 below zero and still going down 1 We had to get up, hus tle oot and feed and milk the lowing herd, carry the rear elevation of the family mole, wake the rooster np to crow, thaw oot the pomp, chop foor oords of wood and sbofel away the snow to make room for the ran to "ris" I Sometimes we went to school in the Winter not often. Only on the days when it was too cold and stormy to go outdoors. Then we sat on a nice, oool board aboot SO feet away from, the store and gayly blaw at oar fingers and picked icicles from oar hair. And, as we sat, ' we listened to a wooden image with a teacher's Iloense as he handed as misinforma tion and permanently orippled our in tellects. Then came the merry Springtime 1 Rise at 2 :30 a. m. More lowing herd I The herd, owing to the supply of fodder being low. Then the hired man, who had hibernated in the forest, came forth seeking whom he might make happy with bis presenoe. A n li aA hnlna In t r A r 9 am were allowed to sleep with this wooly hireling, who snored like the boom of the sid sea waves. He was a good fellow, this hired man. . He taught as to chew tobacco aud swear. These gentle pastimes procured us more The Christmas Dinner Your Dinner will be j more satisfactory if you supply your cook with Golden Gate Coffee, Teas, Spices, Extracts Baking Powder "The Satisfaction Line" Your Grocer will supply yon. J. A. Folger&Co. San Francisco violent lickings than any other joy in our whole yonng life. No memory is more loaded with joy germs than the Spring crop working. Can we ever forget the plowing? How we held the plow when we bad to reach up with a pike pole to Ret the handles, how we drove tbe old ping team, with the lines round our neck ; how, when the clevis broke the mare walked away with oar frail body dragging behind by the ears? When darkness came we stabled the pings and went forth to milk, the brindle heifer. Tbe heifer kicked us across the barn floor and an old cow obligingly kickfd us back again. Then when the milking was over, what fun to turn in and teach a fool calf to drink! This aoting as dry nurse to a bandy-legged calf was one of the most unmixed joys of all. We tied the calf abort, set the bucket in front of him, got astraddle of his neck, stuck two fingers in bis mouth and with the other band jammed bis head into the pail. And all tbe time we were empting oot abuse on calves in general and this lop-eared idiot in particular. This went on until dad came in and with loving patience horsewhipped as all about the place. Then when we bad carried in tbe wood, brought 40 gallons of water from the spring and eaten about eight pounds of solid food we went joyfullr upstairs and came down again im mediately to breakfast.. .We often dream and wake to weep for the days gone by when tne hay was ripe. We recall the old swamp that always had to be cut by band. We recall little stones that we rasped the edge of odr blades on. We recall the pret'y snakes we stepped on with oar bare feet. We remember it all with solemn gladness. Well, well t How it all comes hack to us! From the Sunday Ore g on i an. Thst'i It ! 1 1 Coogh yourself into a fit of spasms and then wonder why yon don't get well. If yoa will only try a bottle of Ballard's Horehoond Sryop yoor coogh will be a thing of the past. It is a positive care for coughs, in fluenza, Bronchitis and all Pulmonary disease. One bottle will convince yoa at yoor druggist, 23c, 60c, fl.UO at RotertnuDd's and National Drag Co. As nearly as possible 8000 gallons of freshwater are used in a large battleship daily. About two-thirds of this is takou up by the boilers, and the remainder is used for drinking, washing, cooking, etc. Justice blanks at the Courier office Fruitgrowers of Rogue River Valley find the Courier of special interest J M. CHILES The Pioneer Grocer Is occupying his new brick and is better prepared than ever to serve his patrons. New refrigerator installed in which to keep BUTTER CHEESE EGGS Not only will you find tbe sta ple goods in stock but Fancy Gro ceries and She.f Goods. We always have toes on the market the best Pot a- Indian. Hevd On. for Generations Stxya On. Who Heva Inyestlaexted. "Archaeological research reveals many important details of the do mestic eooaomy of ancient times, bat practically nothing that indicates tbe character or even the existeoce of what are today regarded as vital brandies of an adequate public ser vice" says Frank Abial Flower in Records of the Past. "Perhaps there were no inch branches in those times, and perhaps there were many of which we have no inkling, because they were organized, like an after noon recption, in such form that they could and actually, did disappear without leaving palpable traces behind. "The general delivery of private information from bousa to bouse, theoretically at pnblio expense, and aotaally under government regulation, is supposed to have been unknown to the ancients of all periods; but I can state that one of the most effective as well as one of the most interesting systems of rural free delivery every conceived was in. use for untold gener ations by the Indians on the north chore of Lake Superior, especially the Pillagers, and (I suppose prior to the demoralization wrought br the ad vent of tbe Caucasian) by the Indians of other localities. "Under he tribal law, every person who travels over the trail must ex amine the contents of each post offloe that he passes for the purpose of for warding any messages which are de liverable in tbe direction that he is pursuing. If the first person who passes the - cache or post office in which I have deposited my letters kuows'my family or whare they live, and expects to s.e them, he mast take tbe message to them. If be intends to go only a portion ol the way, he copies my message, leaves the origi nal aa he fonnd it, and deposits bis copy in tbe last post office that be passes on bis journey toward my wig wam. "If another person comes into the trail on the hither side of this copy, he mast repeat the operation described, deiverlng the copy to my family or his own oopy into tbe last cache on the road he travels in their direction. "I asked the civil chief of the Pillagers bow long bis people bad used this beautiful and effective free delivery system, and be 'replied, 'always.' "As the Pillagers claim to be the aboriginal natives of the soil where the remnant of their tribes is now located, and as the tepee of tbe pres ent hereditary chief overlooks the graves of more than 80 generations of his ancestors, the term 'always' in this case must mean, at the lowest, mny, many centuries." A Miraculous Curt. Tbe following statement bv H. M. Adams and wife, Henrietta, Pa., will interent parents and others: A miraculous enra has taken place In our home. Our child had eczema 6 tears and was pronounced incurable, when we read about Elctrio Bitters, and concluded to try it. B. fore the second bottle was all taken we noticed a change for the better, and after tak ing seven bottles he was completely cored." It's the np-to-date blood medicine aud body building tonic. Guaranteed. 60o and $1.00 at all druggists. ' 4 H U D i F H H 4 Q S II n Of Interest TO LOVERS of Good Coffe- After six months of persistant effort we have at last been successful in obtaining a blend of Mocha and Java Coffee in which we have sufficient confidence to place be fore a consuming public under our private lable, Mocha and Java 1 nd of C6&e Sold at 40c for one pound ; 75c for two ponnds ; $1 for three pounds, and $1.65 for five pounds, either whole roast or steel cut. Our 20c, 25c, 30c, 15c and 40c bulk Coffees cannot be lat Either whole roast cr steel cut. , Our Teas are the kind to tease your appetite at prices from 31b lor $1 to 75c per lb for Green, and 40c to 75c per lb for Black. Our open stock China in a beauty at living prices. Come in and look over our stock and get acquainted. Yours for Good Goods, PHONE 431 Smythe-Gamble Co. KESTERSON BLOCK 412 FRONT ST G 4 c ti i H Q H Cc Opportunities for Young M.n The boy of today has little to fear that the field is becoming over crowded in oar own country. It is just being opened. It is for 'the yoang men who are just beginning to think what a wonderful world thisis, to study well the achievements of the past and to see in-what manner they are to be Improved. Never did the world call more loudly, mdre in sistently, for young men with force, energy and purpose yoang men trained to do some one thing than today. And eveiy year that cry grows loader, more insistent. Bat the times demand men of large, liberal, ener getio minds and the man who insists on doing business in the old-faihioned homdrom way is as much behind the procession as is the man who insists on traveling with au ox team in stead of by railway. Atlanta Journal. The Courier has the largest corps of nrrennofldent of niv naoer in South E. A. WADE Dry Goods, XndcrvKar, Notions, Etc. Front Street west Palace hotel ' GRANTS PASS, OREGON, tSSSK Tn Sen oot. that Putcw yov m A GOOD POATRMK. &TOLNEQ I BUSINESS COLLCCS Irl WASH. O TENTH ITS. 11 U PORTLAND ORKOON Writs dlreot to Principal, Rwa Ox. S. P. Co. Surveyor. Retracing A Wcdd-rburn press dispatch says: The Southern Pacific survey party, which has been working in Curry county for tire past few months,, re tracing the lines of the old Cooper sorvey, the field notes of which were destroyed in the San Francisco Ere, has completed its work in the south ern prt of this county and has been called to San Francisco. The understanding is that the party will start and work south nf Enn-ka to the city, as all of the sorvey s for ! til G Oregon have been completed. From members of the party returning through this place it is learned thht they expect to go over tbe lines in the Spring and set the grade Ktukes. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Qnln ine Tablets. Druggists refund money If it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. W hit's worth doing is worth doing well. If you wish to be enrfd of Rheumatism uhh fittllard's Snow Liniment and you wll be "well enred." A positive cure for Sprains, Neuralgia, Bruises, Contracted Mufclefl and all the il: that flenh is heir to. A. ti.M. Will iams, Navasota, Texas., wrifrs: "I have used Snow Liniment for si rained i ankle and it gava the test of satifact-' ion. I always keep it in the house " For tale hy National L'rug Co. , and j Rotermuud. ' I The Old Reliable ALBANY NURSERIES INC. Offer to the planters this'i season a full line of general nursery stock including all best new varieties. A large stock of winter apples suitable for commercial print ing, well grown, carefully dug and packed, and delivered at your nearest railroad station,! freight prepaid. If you want one, or one thousand trees, ours is the place to buy them. Catalogue free on applica tion. Albany Nurseries, Inc. Albany, Ore. An Imitation Stove Will Give Imitation Heat Avoid the cheaply constructed, putty jointed stove as you would counterfeit money, because it is just as worthless and in many cases even more so. For not only does it radiate heat badly, but it wastes its original cost many times in fuel. The majority of manufacturers, attracted by the phenomenal success of Cole's Original Hot Blast Coal Stoves, anil Air-Tight Wood Stoves, have imitated and copied them ever since they were put on the market. But in looks only have they been able to reproduce these wonderful heaters. For the features which make these stoves so economical in fuel, so effective in heating, and so durable in construction, are all pat tnied and protected. 1 he joints of the ordinary stove are plastered with stove putty in an endeavor to make thein air-tight. When the putty dries up and falls out, cold air is sucked in through the cracks and the valuable gases from soft coal, hard coal, wood or lighter fuel, which 6hould be burned, go up the chimney, along with most of the heat. GEO. II. PAKKEK, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic (Agent for Rogue Kiver Valley 'Phone 407, Grants Pass, Ore. rail t afiiipa Cole's Original Air-Tight Wood Stoves Show Colo's Origin. I Ak Tigkt Wood Siovo, No. 716 ptttoro. I I Fr t Via rnnvonlnnrA t9 tVi nntilitt 1 has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales oyer One md aHaIfMksi g , Z'L w.eTm bottles. Does tnis record 01 mem appeal 10 you r no vure, no ray. o , land. Ti e Heal state Mao, Grants Enclosed whh svtry bottle Is Ten Cetrfc padmse of Grovt't Rark Root Uvw Pills. i Pas. For Wood and Lighter Fuel and Cole's Original Hot Blast Coal Stoves for Soft Coal, Hard Coal, Lignite or Wood are made without stove putty. They remain air-tight during the entire life of the stove, and are sold under a positive guarantee The big expense of heating your home is in the fuel and not the first cost of your 6tove. Don't let yourself be persuaded to buy anything but Cole's Original Air-Tight Wood Stoves for Wood and Lighter Fuel, or Cole's Original Hot Blast Coal Stove for Hard Coal, Soft Coal, Lignite and Wood. SOLD bv Hair-Riildlo Hardware Co. - GEO. It PAUKER, Agpnt