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ROGUE RIVER COUkIER. GRANTS PASS, OREGuN DECEMlii R 6 1907. You S hoti Id A Diamond Ring, Brooch or Pin for your lady friend, -for a present, at Letcher's Jewelery Store. Largest Stock of Diamonds and Jewelry to be found anywhere in Southern Oregon. He makes a specialty of furnishing his many patrons with a fine line of WEDDING PRESENTS In Sterling Silver and Silver Plate Hull's detachable handle Umber alla's are the finest thing in this line and they are sure to please. Xmas is Coming THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION on apace and you should begin to make your plans. Come and select those nice presents early. Santa Claus has made arrangements to fill his orders at this store and he knows a thing or two. He realizes that Letcher has the goods and that Ins assortment is very complete and that there is nothing nicer for Xmas present-than handsome piece Jewlery Come and see for your-lf and be convinced, All we ask is that you give us a chance to show you the stock, the articles will s-11 themselves. T5he Grants Pass Jeweller Judge Jewell Enters Quite Fully Into This Topic In & n Inter esting M&nner. HI R Editor Courier: While 10 mnch is heiug aaid on the saloon question, pro and con, and some of onr people fail to DDderstand why the signature of the connty judge is found on every salooo license in the county onUids of the county seat, permit me to offer a few words of information through the columns of your paper. It matters not what I or any other person msy think about the laloon, we must recognize it as a legal in stitution, and entitled to the same protection that is accorded to other creatures of law. The people of Ore- goo in their sovereign capacity have made the saloon and have given it a legal standing. The county judge if bound to sign the saloon license of every -applicant who complies with the law. fie hss no option in the matter. V Now if the saloon is a bad thing, there is just one way to get rid of it. The same power that made the law can repeal It. But just as long as the law remains in force, it is the duty of every loyal citizen to respect it. Not only should we respect the law in a general way, but every detail of its requirements should be strictly carried out. Obedience to law is one of the evideooes of good citizenship. Saloons should close on Sunday, not that Sunday is any better than any other day, but simply because the law requires it. There is just as much harm in getting drunk on the Jewish Sabbath as there is in getting drunk on ths Roman Sabbath. I take issue with those learned gentlemen who claim that the saloons have no legal rights. In discussing the subject of rights, we should dis tinguish between natural rights and legal rights. A thing may b legally right and naturally wrong, or as some would aiy, ' morally wrong. , We democrats hold that man b as a right to do as he pleases, ' provided be does not please to Interfere with the rights of some other man. Nature has given every human being the right to enjoy the fullness of manhood and woman hood, and baa denied the right of any human being to in any way prevent it. We should discuss ths saloon question just as we would discuss the tariff, money, or any other rolitiosl question. Onr American government is founded on the doctrine that all legal rights should harmonize with natural rights. And if the legal rights of the tariff lords, the banking syndicates, and the whiskey dealers are out of harmony with our natural ights, then the way is clear to every citizen who loves his country better than he loves party or tome selfi-b in terest. To determine this, however, brings into requisition our best thought andj most unselfish patriot ism. The true American is alwsr ready to settle any question at the tribunal of justice. If the saloon is a public necessity it should remain aud he protect- d; but if it is a public evil, the sooner we get rid of it the better it will te for all. But whatever we do, let ns he honorable and manly slxut it. I believe that a majority of whiskey dealers are willinti to do what is riant, and to retain or aholitth the saloon as the interest of the eutir" peoplo may require. This is the way the question is being settled in the southern states. Southern - democrats with that patriotism, intelligence, and moral refinement for which they have always been noted, have 'eiched the conclu sion that saloons are more of an evil than a blessing. Aud acting on this conclusion, they have practically made the saloon a thing cf the rat. The temperance people of the South have gained this great virtorT with out waking enemies. In a dignified gentlemanly way, they invited the saloon men to a friendly discussiou of the questions involved, with the usual results that reason prevailed. The southern people have solved this great question, and they are going to solve all other (treat national qnestiorj. The time is oouiibK when the hitf!) sens' of honor and justice with which every true Southern soul is Imbued will be appreciated the world over. STEPHEN JEWELL. TAILINGS FOR ROADS Value of Refuse From Mines In 1 Missouri. GOOD SURFACING MATERIAL When Rolled Solid as Possible ths Roads Are Compact and Smooth. Littls Dust Dry Quickly Immedi ately After Rain. Jasper county. Mo., has over 300 miles of Improved roads, representing an expenditure of $200,000 during the past ten years, snys Doss Rrlttaln In the Good Itoads Mngnzlne. Of this road eleven miles were built In 1900 at a cost of $33,500. During the same year $7,1)00 was spent In repairing the highways already graded aud graveled, thus making the orlglnul cost of the road $2,000 and the cost of mainte nance about $70 per mile. The system under which the roads of Jasper county are constructed and repaired Is operated under the super vision of three rond commissioners ap pointed by the county court for each district nnder provisions of a law pass ed In 181)5. Under these provisions Jasper county was divided luto sli road districts, each working Inde pendently of the others. In August cf. each year each district makes Its an nual report to the county court. For the construction and mainte nance of roads the commissioners are provided with funds from three sources viz, road tax (poll tax out side of the cities), dramshop license in city and In country and donations. Since 180(1, when active work began nnder the law passed the previous year, up to the present the Income from various sources In the Joplln dis trict amounts to the following: City dramshop license tM.mi.09 County dramshop license 166.116.00 Poll tax 46.066.SI Donations, etc 7.S3.08 Bales of machinery 1,710-41 Total rro.Stt.II The term "douatlons" refer to mon eys received for work done outside of the county and "sales of machinery" to machinery sold after new bad taken Its place. . The moneys received were expended as follows: Labors tltl.4M.10 Repairing- 44.4M.1t General 4,770.11 T1Unt culverts, etc 16.Ms.ri Tools Uasosi A Healthy Clav E.t.r. "The old day eating negro of the south is seldom fouud now," said Montgomery man. "1 remember my old black mammy as she would bunt for rich brown clay and eat many pieces of It She said It helped her stomach aud kept ber from Illness. She would eat the clay every day and would wind up by eating a large piece of charcoal Just before going to bed. She was never sick a minute In her whole life. She lived to be ninety-two years old and died from an Injury re ceived Id a runaway. She told me many times that good clay would keep the system In tine shape and that char coal was must healthy. It acted Ilk a charm In her case" Nishvllle Tear nesHoean You May Not Need It Now Here is a simple homemale mix ture as given by an eminent anthority on Kidney diea"es, who makes the statement in Mew York daily newt paper, that it will relieve almost any case of Kidney trouble, if tak 'U be fore the stage of Briglit's disease. He states that such symptoms as lame hack, pain i the side, frequent desire to urinate, especially at night; pain ful and discolored nriuatioo, are readily overcome. Here is the recipe, try it : Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, onecuuoe; Compound Syrap Sarssparilla, three ounces. Tske a teaspoouful after each meal and at bedtime. A well known druggist here in town is authority that these in gredients are all harm lens and easily mixed at home by shaking well in a bottle. This mixture has a peculiar healing and soothing effect upon the entire Kidney and Urinary structure, and often overcomes the worst forms of Rheumatism in Just a little while. This -mixture is said to remove all blood disorders and cure the Rhtuinia tistn by forcing ihs kidneys to filter aud strain lroui , ths blood - and sys tem all urio acid and foal, decom posed waste matter, which oauss these afflictions. Try it if you aren't well. Save the prescription. TEA New York is too far from Japan; San Fran cisco is nearer. Your trortr returns your anntr II tou daa't Ilka Shilling s Beit: we (? hiai. Total .......,.tm.so.a This leaves available a balance of $4,672. With these disbursements were built 100 miles of Improved road. The material used constats of stones, gravel and .tailings from the . various lead and zinc mines located throughout almost the entire county. The tall- STOP THE STRENUOUS LIFE Weakens th Tissues not Lessens Organic Vitality. Ths stress and strain of the streun ous life in both . nit and eoontr tags consist or flnely crusnea very tends towards stomach troubles. Five bard flint ejected from the concentrat- people tfoffer today where one did 10 log mills while milling the ores. After years ago with ' sick headache, dlzz.1- entering these mills the ores are crash-i " flatulence, distress after eating, ed flnely with crushers and a number P1 be,0, "', bloating, of set. of cornlsh rolls, screened and 1 ""I??' 1.. "" ... , . , - many oter symptoms of indigestion, the gangne. or rock, separated from A,j ,, wlih t, the ore by water. The process, cslled ' troubles, and that means at least two Jigging, thus cleans the ore, which la out of three In O rants Pas and other saved and marketed, while the tailings towns, shoald uss Mi-o-na stomach go to form big dumps. I labels- Nothing else is as safe, yet These tailing piles accumulate so rsp- recetive; nothing slue can be so Idly at the mines that even the mills In 1 thoroughly re led -jpon to relieve all some cast are almost buried, and j ,rb ? iT"m jn.d l"tl"D. " ."'i. " in NU, m UIPID UlKITfllilO 1 BDU more thnu ordinary methods are some times necessary for their riddance, hence the fact that tailings are sup plied free to all who wuut them, the only exix-nse being for hauling. For tunately there Is no better material than these and for bull Inir very materially to reduce tho after the food is eaten, but a true tonic, ttimulant and strengthener for the muscular walls of the ttomnch, in creasing the flow of digestive fluids and putting the stomach iuto such a condition that it does the work Na- tailings for surfacing roads lu "If'.". "f ,it ,,, ... Hast, and such -use la scrv- I - '? "b ? " ;" . . ,. , . ,, i tits action that Dt-marav, with cura- every Ml ri.tit tin vi,m hi, saIIb a irnaranta dumpa, which would otherwise become ;tu rern( the money unless the re- Badly Mixed I'p Abraham Brown, of Winterton, N. Y., had a very remarkable eiper i nre; he says: "I.(to-s get hadlv uiix'-d np over me; one Mid heart i!i'nw; two called it kidney trouble; the fourth blood poison, anil the tifih stomach and liver trouble; but none of them helped me, fo my wife ad-vin-d trying Electric Hitters, which nre restoring in to perfect health. (in-bottle did me more good than all the five d'-ctnrs prescribed." Guarau-tt--d f i r bh: d poison, weakness and ail stoma h, liver and kidney om !iuts, by all ilrnngipts, Vie. a great burden In the construction of the roads of Jasper county the surface is brought to grade laid put by engineers, and ex cavation Is (bine In the usual way with plows, scrapers at'd road graders. The surface is then leveled with harrows and rolled. Heavy stones are placed at the bottom of the road and this layer covered with from eight to ten Inches of gravel or of tailing. This Is rolled as solid us possible, and the road, twen ty feet wide. Is complete. Constructed under these specifications, the road re quires about 2,000 yards of tailings to the mile. Roads constructed in this way form serviceable highways for either heavy ten tiling or for light vehicles, like automobiles and bicycles. There Is but little dnxt, and, with the exception of brief periods when the tailings are j very wet, as during a heavy rain, the i roads are compact aud smooth. When very wet the gravel Is somewhat loose compared with Its normal condition, but not to such an extent as materially to interfere with Its utility nor nearly so much us materials commonly used for ordinary country roads. Immedi ately after the rain the roads dry quickly and are packed almost as bard as pavement, forming a smooth, bard road. Consequently some of the l-t and most picturesque stretches of high way to be found In Missouri are in Jas per county, which fact Is due largely to this abundant and near supply of 1 road material found In no other part ef the state. M-rbaps not in many parts of the United States; alto to the de maud on the part of mine operators for automobiles for business aud for pleasure. i "Why do you call your boat the Heal ' How Is sTie anything like a benT" T.ec.u-ie Uv lujs to." Baltimore 1 American. ANOTHER DOLLAR Will appear if you move the One In Sight We assure you full value for Each Dollar exchanged for up to date stock. Well selected, Carefully cared for Fancy Groceries. TheQualityShop is the place to buy Hinh Grade Coffee's and Fine Tea's Mrs. J. G. Gamble 412 Front Street. S. V. MOODY WOOD YARD Cor. H & 3d sts. Phone 434 1 Load Blocks $3,00 Htove Wood '. 1 Tier Manzanita. ..... .$3.00 ITier Oak. ......... ..$3.od" 1 Tier Firi ...... !. ,...2M 1 Tier Pine.. ....$2.25 Chunk Wood ITier Oak... ....$2.7 ITier Fir'., $2. 2? ITier Pine.. $2,00 1 Load Sawdust .50 1 Load Kindling; .. . i; . . .7S i , :i LL . . i : 1 h . t.' First Rational Bank Of Southern Oreoon GRANTS PASS, OREGON inert y does all I hat is claimed for it. Making Good. There Is no way of making Irutting friend Itko "Making tiood-," and Doctor ; 1'ierrr' ineilli-liii-s well eiemulify this, I ami their IrKTxK after more tban two I liei iides of iMiiiularltv, am numbered by I llie liiindreilx of lliuimniiil. They have "mmlH it'xoi" and they have not made I druukariK A teHxl, honext, sqnare-denl nitnllrlne of I known rotnHixltloii In Dr. Clcrte'a Uolilen ' Medical Diwovery. It still enjoys an Irn- I mui.uii u'tiili. miHil i,f t,M , ,td r u p u . tion th lit have rome Into prominence In the earlier period of Its popularity have "gone b the board " and are never mors heard of. There must be some reaoon for this long-time popularity and that I to be found In Its mipcrior merits. When onre given a fnir trial for weak stomach, or for liver ami IiI'kkI a(Tct!ou, li supe rior curative i!,illiiex are noon niaulfet; hence It has survived and grow n In po ular favor, while neon of lc meritorious article h.'tvn xuddeulv Hashed Into favor for a brief period and then been at toon forgotten. For a torpid liver with its attendant indigestion. dypeiiKln, headache., per haps dizme. foul breath, naty coated tongue, wlih bitter taste, loss of appetite, with distress after eating, iiervuuneH and debility, nothing I ho good a Dr. 1'iercn's (olden Medical Discovery. Jl's an honest. uare-deal medicine with all It Ingredients printed on little-wrsper no secret, no hocus-pocu humbug, therefore nVM't luitit a tulittttutr that the dealer may possibly make a little big ger profit. mW on your right to have wh it you call for. Don't buy Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescript Hon expecting It to prove a "cure-all." 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