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ROGUB RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, JANUARY 4, 1907. IN A ROC ( FOUNDATION - He builds on rock who landlords. How ia it with cwner? If the former, it wi ' nrchase a home. It does can help you wonderfully (ear. If interested come I yneficial propositions before 1 JOSEPH .THE REAL ESTATE MA .saaajj' Vf. C. T. U. COLUMN All matter (or this column la snntlid ' th Josephine County Woman's Clrij m TimMnnca Union. Y. and L. 11 1 ancbes. bins his borne and pays no rent to 4oi, are you a rent payer or a house pay you to try to save a little and skajong when you once start, and net a home of your own free and and let me put some mutually )U. MOSS, Office 516 E St.. ! SO WERBY'S COURTING Eappy New Year ! Our leader bat pointed oat the to nisation patb of the New Y ipbasizing suooetse that shAli ntinue to inoceed during 1907 Li -eitioR that we tarn the fail 1S06 into positive vlotones Demi a books of the New. Year ar rn oloied over. How may thi met Conscientious squaring of I dividual conduct by a few old pf i e of oondaot will transmute to Zwn into ihining tuncett. ThW iiclplea are so well known we nM t to hint at them : ntever thy band fludeth to dfc- all thing be done I thy neighbor aa .i is the accepted time little leaven If Jsoever a man sowetb rvkmao that needetb not for each of tbe wren day, V . for 62 weeka will bring tfu r IVeader's greeting and oar editoru : lng "A Happy New Year" U all I T. O. M. t 1 meeting of Grant Pan VT. O. f. printed in Year book for Janoarj will be held January 11, iwr. aoa annonnoed later. Mesdame Mo viand, Ella Howard, M . N. Lough Ige and Jennie Cheshire ham arge of tbe program. All are to (ed to attend this meeting. j WHITE RIBBON BEOROIT8. Mother National, at some of at loft oall tbe w". 0.' T. U., It a wonder 11 gatherer. She goea about all thi M with hand! outstretched, gather in grown op members for tli al unions, gathering in honorary smbera, (the the grown-up father, itles and brothers), gathering U a older girlt for tbe Y unioni thering in tbe boyt and . girls fdi e Loyal Temperance Legiont and thering in all the little people frodal "les and high obairt and their Cher's armt for our White Ribboji . - t a. . -rm.. Kr.AAHHl CnnAwtnL : ' mt who looke after this last most I . ,. . -.jiful and gentle gathering of all ITrt. Helen L. Bollock, of Elmira.,j T. Have yon read her report he re the National Convention? Tbere I 5173 names of little children upon r cradle roll. Of this work Mrs. illock says: "Few mothers will tun to allow the name of the little e,who hat come to gladden the me, to be placed on the roll of White Ribbon Recruits. One of most tncoessf ul mothers meetings ported ia in Washington D. 0., Hile the mothers are in the parlors Bussing obild culture and child tome young ladies are earing for sir children in another part of the tiding." From tbe White Ribbon Kjruita will come thousands of our ry beat Loyal Temperance Legion L These children will never have unlearn any wrong things about ioiicating drinkt, tobacco, pro .IJy and other things that hart life so sadly, because these will always belonged in the white bbejn army. We can think of no art beautiful work during the New r than to set about lengthening roll of these precious Recruit. QL M. THE SOURCES OF SUPPLPY. Z f (By James K. Shields.) Tie liquor dealers are generally de - Unsr on the almighty dollar and Sg drink for political and legisla . 4 control. They have lately, ivever, found that this is not KJBgh. So they begin to get at the" urces of supply. The "sources of topply n do not ean tbe money barrel nor the beer keg Tbe whiskey gang goes further than that to tbe educational centers of oar nation to oar pablio schools and into oar homes. Tbe liquor dealers were caught napping when Mary A. Hunt started her campaign for tbe introduction of temperance phynologies and hygienes into oar pablio school systems. They are not napping now. Onr educational work and our pro cess of enlightenment have been a tremendous success in this country. Tbe schools and tbe obnrob have been onr sources of supply. The liqnor shysters are now ut terly ont of patienoe with the ohorch and will not be quieted. They still bope to get after oar schools. It it well known that a systematio effort it made to get rid of the temperance books now used in our schools accord ing to statutory provisions, "and to do this, though every, law of man and God be violated. Bnt tbe whisky gang is used to breaking the law and will not hesitate to do it at this point Shall the people of tb state and nation allow the liquor . demons to steal the school system and diotate the kind of temperanoe instruction that shall be given to the growing genera-' tioaT The hope of this country 1 in th pablio schools. If these schools be given over to the enemy, onr hope is gone and wo might as, well yield to the inevitable dissolution that . moat follow. ' This shall not; be. The federated obnrob will see to it that the sacred threshold of the school- bouse be not polluted by ram. -' ' A JUDGE'S WORDS. "I bave defended 41 men and women for murder in my life and 19 out of 30 of the crimes were canted by whiskey; I have defended many other criminal cases and 19 out of 30 of them were caused by liquor. Wbit key it the most demoralizing thing in the world. Men do not usually drink it to get into a condition to rob and kill, but when they get it in them they are ready for any tort of deviltry that comes to band." Col. I. W. Boulware in Fulton (Mo.) Gazette. "Home, if it ia to be the shrine we love to call it, demands not only a a priest as pure, to keep its taored altar bright. " HATTIE I. C. CALVERT, Press Supt., Grants Past W. O. T.U. Poster:, placard, dodgers, all sixes mil kind, printed at the Courier office. a- Everyone should subscribe for his horn paper, in order to got all the local hews, but to keep la touch with the world's iaHy events should also road The Evening Telegram, Portland, Oregon, The leading evening newspaper of the Pacific Coast, which has com pleto Associated Press reports and special leased-wire service, with correspondents in important news centers and in all th cities and principal towns of the Northwest. Portland and suburbs are covered fcy a bright staff of reporters, and editorial, dramatic, society and tuectol writers. Saturday's edi tion consist of 26 to 28 pages, and has oolored comic pages, as well as a department for children, colored fashion page, an interesting serial story and other attractive features In addition to all the news of the lay. Babscrictlen Rates: One month, 10 cents; three months, 11.36; six aonths, 2.50; twelve months, 15. Sample copies mailed free. There had been a lull in the conversation around the stove. It had kitted for nearly ten minutes, during which Wuh Hancock hud industriously sliced nearly all Uie bark from a four-foot stove length of hickory. Mart Parsons ones or twice "allowed that it was erbout time he was er hookin' up fer home, but the stove was glowing red through its inch thickness of iron, and he knew that the wind was against him on the HacketviUe road. The storekeeper was un wrapping a erateful of lamp chimneys and rang. i g (hem on the shelf when t. e creak of tvugun wheels on the crusted tnow was heard outsiae and Old Man Sowerby en tered the -tore. Old Man" Sowerby waa long and lean. with a long, serious face, a brush of white nair and twinkling eye. Hancock greeted him almost with effusion, brightening per ceptibly as Mr. Sowerby drew off his clumsy yellow leather gloves, with the red wool wriet attachments, kicked off bit arctics and poshed hi fur eap lightly to the back of his head. Have a aeesar on sn. Uncle Jake." k aid, cordially, the old geatlemaa fumbled id hi pock and draw out a eon- cob pip. "I gueea yoa can stand one. Rule bate to have 'era smoked around the store, but he dassent say so. You set him an he 11 tell you they smell good. Give us three with the red collars on, Rufe. If anythin' happens 1 11 tell the coroner you bain t to blame." "I'm seasoned," remarked "Old Man" Sowerby, biting off the end of a cigar and striking a match. "I tol' yoa now com I got seasoned, didn't I?" You started to." said Haaeock. "but Mis' Sowerby headed you off. I never seen you shet up so meek. You said that was in reirunce to your hekm her pap. "Old Man" Sowerby chuckled. "8o it was," he said. "Ill tell you about it. seein' she hain't around now. It was when I was parkin' her. Her pa had the reputation of being one of the toughest old nuts in the deestrirk. An' Sarah wus the only gal he bad. Mis' Walker died when she wus jest a little runt, so Jsff, the old man, allowed he d keep her home indefinite. Some of the young bucks kind of objected, but Jeff had a mighty effectual way of diacouragin em. Lafe Blevina allowed 'at he'd make Sarah a visit one night, an' come back with his face all raveled out. Jim Allen, him that kep the grocery at HacketviUe, undertook th same thing, with the same result" "Mighty good lookin' woman now. Unci Jake," said Wash, politely. "She hain't a young a she was. est' neither am I," said Sowerby. "I wus a tol 'able husky boy then and I hadn't seen th man I waa a'ekeered ter tackle. 6o on even in' I spruced up in my beet elo'es as' put some scented Ue oa my hair an' bopped in my single-footer an' lit out for th Walker residence. . "Seemed like I was as luck, for Sarah wus in aa' Jeff wus out. I wasn't nachally bashful, an' I mad th moat of my tun. I don't know how late it vis when we walked down to th gat together, but it was tol 'able late. Tu Bret thing we knew we heaid a hone eomin' down the road an' my horse began to whinny. Sarah started for th house, but she hadn't got there an' I hadn't got my horse aatied before old Jeff come ridin' up. " 'Who' is this!' he say. i " 'It's me,' 1 say, handhV tb kick'ry clubs I cut on the way down kind o' keer tees. 'I thought I'd com down aa' see how yon Was. Some of the boys said you waa sick aa' I allowed st'd be neighborly : to call.' " 'Why, howdy, Jake!' ae says, just' tickled a he could be eaened like. 1 bad to go down to Beder' to see them hog of bis an' 1 couldn't get away. Tie up your boss again an' come in. It ain't so late but what you can stay awhile longer.' "I wus a leetle sort o' suspicious, but I follered him into the house an' he got out some 48-hour-oid com whisky an' a couple o' pipe an' a twist o' terbacker aa long's your arm.. I bad to take a sociable smoke with him. I reckon he knew I'd never smoked before. I took half a doaen whiffs an' my head began to swell. -It got bigger an' bigger aa big aa a bucket aa big aa a barrel as big aa a barn an' everything else grew in proportion. I could see old Jeff loomin' through the smoke with a smile a yard wide, an' his voice sounded far away like. Then I broke out into a cold sweat an' my hair began to bristle an my innarda to crawl an' I drooled like a two-months-old baby. Finally I couldn't stand it no longer, an' I got up an' said I b'lieved I'd mosey along hime. "1 hoped the old rip would have give me a ehance outside, but he never let on he aeen there wus anythin' wrong an' stood at the door with a light. Before I got half way to the gate Jeff commences to whoop an' luff an' holler, an' then blamed if he didn't loose his dog on me. At first I con cluded I wanted to die, an' bein' eaten raw waa aa good a death as any, but I changed my mind aa I kicked against my hick'ry clubs, an' aa the dog come up I hit him a belt. Then I crawled on old Roany an' rode off until I got out o' sight o' the house. Then I got down an held close communion with nature for a spell. "I met ol' Jeff four days after in town an' I walked up to him an' I says, says I: 'Jeff Walker, you're an infernal, no-acoount oncry old limb an' I can whip you ' "That all he wanted. We tome to gether tight there, an' I want to say-he wua about ull I care to handle. When 1 did get him down he Held on like a bull pup. Final ly 1 pushed him off an' pounded him until he hollered ' 'Nuff !' 1 reckon it waa a week after that I met him at a houK'unnnin' at Perry Spencer's. Snrah wus along, but she seemed to be tryin' to keep away from me. Finerly I got her cornered an' I ast her what wus the matter an' what she wus mad about. " 'What did you lick pa for?' she says. " Bei-aue it wus strictly aese'ry,' I says. 'If I've got to lick your pap seven days hi the week, hand rupnin', to see you I m o in to do it. "She sorter looked tickled an' then all of a nuddcnt she looked skeered. I didn't know why until ol' Jeff teched me on the arm. " 'You won't need to, Jake,' he says. 'I've had all I want, an' if you want to come an to the house any time come ap. I'll learn you to smoke.' " , "He learned you, did he?" aaked Hancock. Old Man Sowerby looked attentively at the cigar that he bad smoked half-way through, and tried to roll up the wrapper where it had come loose. "I thought he did," he naid, at laat, aa he threw the cigar into tbe wood box, "but I'll be g il durned if I can smoke this. Chicago Daily News, the question of where you will do your banking! And we feel sure yout final judgment will be in favor of placing your money in the Grants Pais Bankin j A Trust Company's Bank where you will always re ceive courteous treatment; where your affairs will be handled in the most thoroughly business-like man ner, aud where you can have im plicit confidence in the trustworthi ness of the institution. Fruitgrowers of Rogue River Valley find the Courier of special interest I want yout bargains in Timber and Timber Lands Can use'a few homestead and tim ber relinquishments. ; .. . P. O. Boa:. 366, Roseburg, Oregon, j Justice blanks at the Courier office. Weigh Carefully What's the Use! You Wouldn't Read It Anyway. Smythe-Gamble Co., 412 Front St. Phone 431 For the New Year we offer the cboioest in meat, poul try, sausages, baoon, lard, eto. Our "past . performances" give war rant for tbe prospect of fair dealing on our part for many a year to come. Whether yoa are or are not on our list of patrons we will be glad to see yon bere any busy day in 1907 long after that we bope. City Meat Market. Telephbrie 144. ' ' J.H.AHLF. - Prop. LARGEST RE Ever Brought to C OR stock, pF, ;; , DS 1 1 ( Southern Oregon' .I4VA Hit MASTBR'S VOICC" Machines on the Installment Plan Photo and Music Sotre Courier Building Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One and a Half RfSI bottles. Does thw record of wen, ippcal ?o you? No Cure, No Pay. 5C9k "5 of Oov! Back Root, Uvr PUlv