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ROGi E RIVER COURIEk TS PASS, OREGON, JANUARY 10. 18. PROFESSIONAL CiRDS M C- FINDLEY, M. D. Practloe limited to EYE EAR, NOSE nd THROAT. Clashes fitted and furnished. Oflloa hour 9 to 12; 2 to 6; ana om ap. peiutment. Telephone 261 and 17. Oiasts Pass, Obioob gg LOUGHRIDGE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND BUKUEON Ret. Phone 714 Cits' or country oaHs attended night or da liWti and H, TulT'f building. Ullioe mono CRAMWt Pass . Obboom, A Raal Lady Bountiful. While Christmas fe.tivlties good rhaar are barely pt. land apon the verse of and and wa a new year, VALUE OF GOOD ROADS MISSUORI r LAI 1 with ii irit aod oooraga o meet th how They increase Home Trade probabilities and powomiies m wis . . WMth c.ason fotar. and whlie we are anticipating- ln tne Baa Weaker beaSOn. to make oor coming 8W5 full day th Breate-t in the I.L.ory of Oregon's ADVICE FROM A NEW DRUMMER stauhood, let us not forget to pans and pay our rupec'i to the 40 great est a d nobWt lady iu oor midit. It Ii priiapt needles to say that she is a hgh born prinness of the realm, wlopaihen about h-r court, high and low. rich and poor alike. From ev-ry land and clime, la she enter ' tained gr'&t scholar! and titles, both diplomatic and scimtiflc a d thrown open her doors to (he poor and needy, whom she bus ffd, clnthed and with cheerio 1 asiirnre, started them on Orsdusle Aniencan Kthool of Oitteopathy, the roa to incc,,a Many storm ' has she braved while tlie winds wrre J)R. C A. CAMPBELL ObTKOPATIlIO PHYSICIAN hirki ville, Mo. Chronic lHwanei and DineaneMof Women and Cliildran a w:iaUy CONhUl.TATlON KKhK Booms 1. 2, 8, Kinl National Hank Mcltf. I Plionen : OMce 771, Ken. Ciiusrs Pass Osseins f. JJt D. NORTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practloo ln all State ami Federal Courts. OBioe la Opora House Kuilding. ObAnts Fahb, Orboom C. HOUGH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, prantloee ln all Htateand Federal Courts Uffloe over ilalr Riddle Hardware Co. Obamts Pahs, - Oasoow howling and teari g aronnd the ruonntttiu peaks and crags, piling tip htiw drifts io the huh canyons and then descending with a mighty ruh to the foothills below, btre many a noble, flr or sugar pine sDccnmhed to Its invisible power and went craihing to mother earth. While the steady downpour of the rain swelled every mountain draw and valley, their waters rushing downward, mingling together, making ceek and mighty rivers, that go rushing over rocks aod through fallen timber, npids after r pids, now with a mighty leap through space, they shoot downward, hundreds of teet to the unprotected nicks in the canons below. Onward, QLIVER & BROWN, LAWYER. Office over Dixous Store Grants Pass, Okkgon. 0. S. BLANCHARD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Practice in all State and Federal courts. Banking and Trust Company' Building. Obamts Pass, - Osieox. II. B. HENDRICKS COCN BULLOUS-AT-LAW Olvll and criminal matters attended to io all the oourts. Real estate and Insurance. Oflloe, 6th street, opposite Poetoffloe. yiLLlAM P WRIGHT, 0. H. DEPUTY SURVEYOR M1NINU ENHINKEIt AND DKAUUHT8M AN 8th Ht., north ol Josephine Hotel. Giants Pass, Obkuon. H Telle the Local Merchant Why Business Is Dull During the Winter and Spring Farmers' Wives Buy Through the Mall. j The new drummer entered the office of the Grand Central hotel with a scowl on bis face and several smother-1 ed Imprecations Just inside his lips. lie ' bad the appearance of a man who j wanted to use extremely hot language, ; but the sight of the Methodist church i Just across the way and the Baptist j church down the street restrained blm. : In other words, he was swearing mad. ' lie was really an old drummer, though new to this particular town, j This was the first time be had "made" the place. The drummer bad come In I overland from the county scat, twenty I miles away. In a spring wagon hired I from the livery stable. Ills two sample trunks were In the back part of the , wagon. They were splashed with mud. There was mud even on the seat cush ion, and the drummer's clothes were j yellow with mud. The driver's ap- I pare! was simply caked with it, but be j did not appear to mind a little thing i like that He was used to It The horses also were caked with mud, and the wheels of the vehicle carried sev eral pounds each of the yejjow sticki ness. ' "Well, I never!" ejaculated the drum till onward they go, growled larger mer as he wiped the mud from bis very minute, jumping, whirling, ; fingers before taking up the pen to reg bounding, roaring ontil they become Ister bis name. "This la the worst I a boiling, seething msss of foam io struck. Why don't you folks their mad rash to the sea. No storm, i rou,nu UB m" " . , ' r""u"i no flood, no sweltering best or chok ing dust has ever stated her errands of msrey. For many years has she at yols tldtt, visited the mansions, cottages, cabins and shacks of our ooooty. There has been no chimneys too small, no hearth to poor but her foot prints of love were found in the ashes. She has distributed fruit from hsr orchards aod vineyards and filled larders from her garden and ranch. There are nuts in her grove for the ohlldren, flih in her ponds and game I in her park for the niinred. She owns tboosaads of acres of land, comprising I meadows, fields of grain, orchards, j panares, parks, forests and rugged mountains. She has pockets of gold ! aud veios of mineral which she gives J to the finder. She looks with favor You've got plenty of material right at ! band. There's rock enough along the roadside to make the finest roads In the lend If you would only put It where it will do the most good." "Oh, we don't worry," said the hotel clerk, marking room No. 23 opposite the new guest's name. "We've put up with muddy roads from the beginning and got along fairly well, and I reckon we can continue to navigate." "Navigation thafa the row, all right" said the drummer. "You ought to hire boats Instead of wagons In this section. Why, some of the places we came through today would float a skiff." The local newspaper editor waa standing by the desk. He smiled grimly. "I've been preaching good roads to the people of this neighborhood for years," he said, "but tH y don't seem to take to the Idea. They are pretty Mrs. H. L. Eeed held services at the Missouri Flat school bouse last Sun day. Geo W. Meek made a business visit to Grants Pass one day but week. Miss Beasts A. Doney, who was a 1 resident of Missouri Flat, hot now of Provolt, is to be married to a man j from Gazelle, Cat, We wish them a happy married life. j Sheriff Roaiell was out from Grants Pass Sunday vititing relatives. Mrs. K. J. Kobli wis the gtje0f Mrs. W. B. York SonHay. Joe York and John Meek are trap ping this winter. We wish them good saccess. Vernon Bailey is home from Gold Hill, viaitn g friends and relative! during the holidays. 1 Mr. Berry of Missoori Flat paid! Grants Pass a visit Tuesday. j We have been having some pretty stormy weather of late. j Mr. F. M. Miller will soon be ready to go to mining in his placer mine. L1LAX ilNGLEJ AND JESTS. Inspiration, tome time, methlnks. aome simple Utua thins- Will make me write the noblest Mat of earth. The crudest chryaallda of thought glva birth To butterflies of speech that wing- and wins About my fancy till at laat they brlng Rare Inspirations of the hlgheat worth Where once of thought had been a sorry dearth. From auch atrange sources do our classics aprlng. One day, while mualng posefully beside My I. k, I ran my ringers through my hair And then, before me. on my paper spied A single silvered strand, froat touched and fair. "Age draweth near; I must make haste!" I cried And wrote this aplendld sonnet then and there. Nixon Waterman In Puck. i upon euterprlse and extends a glad food people, too, but they've formed hand to the home builder. Many the habit of putting up with mud In years ao she donned a drsss of gr.eo 0iuld7 e"gon n1 O011'1 klck much- vslvet. whloh fade, not by the Leaf; "t'"! T ntPnt. , . drive through the mud when necessary oi sauiuier or too rains or winter. Charles Costain Wood Working Shop. rVest of flour mill, near R. R. track InrntiiK. rVroll Work, Hlair Work, Hand HewiiiM aUtnet Work, Wood I'ulleva, haw PtliiiKsnd summing, Kepairing all kinds. Prior right. The Popular Barber Shop Get your tousorlal work done at IR.V rOUl'IUN' On Sixth Sttcct Three chain llalh Room in cotmootUm N. K. McGlttiW, PIONEER TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture and Piano Moving GRANTS PASS, OREGON. E. A. WADE Dry Hoods, Underwear, Notions, Ktc. Ftotit Sticet west of Talaoe hotel GRANTS PASS. OREGON, She bares her head to Sol's scorching rays io summer and sleeps beneath the oool evergreeaa at 'night, where fair Luna often looks on and smiles, and when wlntur oomes with its three mouths of rain, she begins her daily ablutions, her laundry work, wsahlug. Ironing aud nieuding are all dona up for a year ahead while at the same time she scatters words of hope aud comfort to her childreu aud wheo the mists have been chased away by the advaiioe of spring, she comes forth smiling radiantly, looking younger aud more beautiful thaa ever. The seaxoti of 1U0H will find her alitnrlind in her iiiiaaioas more busily than ever. There will lie more people or stay at home till the roads dried out and they think they ought to be content to do the same." "Huh!" the drummer gsjtnted. "How's business here In the winter and spring T' "Mighty poor," replied the dry goods merchaut "mighty Mor, for a fact People out In the country don't seem to do any trading except In summer." "When the roHds nre good," contin ued the drummer. "I thought as much that Is, they don't do much trading with you here In town. But country people are always buyluir something somewhere when times nro ns good as they are now. That you may put down aa a fact. Where do they buy from?" "Well, certaluly not from me," said the merchaut. "Of course not, because the wome.ii Where They Want. "It's strange they never find any eggs sealed up ln those Egyptian mummy tombs." "No, it Isn't. All their eggs went Into cold storage. I'm almost positive I bad one of them for breakfast this morning." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Now In His Glory. Hla life waa full of big mlatakea. Somehow he could not atop R. He made mlatakea to beat the band, Bo I'ncle Sam tonk pity and Made him weather prophet. Detroit Tribune. One or the Other. She How do you like your part ln the new play? He Not for a cent. I die in the first act She Well, I suppose It bad to be you or the audience. Judge. The Killing Psce. There once waa a fair Chrlatmns shopper Who spent all her cast), aa waa proper. Ttien her atem parent apoke. "I am glad ahe la broke, For only bankruptcy could atop 'er." Waahlngton Star. Wasted Time. Grandma Have you wasted any tlmo today, Margaret? Margarut Yes, indeed. I played brldgu all the afternoon with ouly oue puck of cards. New York Life. to care for, more homes to builti, more ! enn't get Into town. It's the women r GRANTS PASS Commercial Club Will furnish information of Josephine county ftee of chatge. Correspondence solicited. L. 11. Hall Piesideut 4 H. L. Andbkws Secretary I u flu x of capititl and enterprise, more mines to he opened op, innre orchards aud vineyards to plant, more experi ment to make more of every thing ami this fair lady will be the lea ling predominant spirit through all. Linton to the cadence of her voice as she bids welcome to the i home senker, wal.'h the glow of pride iu her face aa idie shows him the work of her sous and the product of j her climate aud soil. How gladly sbs hastens to welcome the tourist and skips lightly along to show him the turelous beauties of nature that : adorn her eitatea, caves of mammoth aU, lofty peaks, deep canyons, innu merable cam-ade. runtiing river, I placid iK)la aud and-will the Hit evsr run out? Oh, fair 1h.1t "f oor land, Thoo'art greater tlmn any erowuad tiaeeu, ' more lovely and emblematical to ns thu the OoddetH of liberty that utauda in fastis Garden. Meu "of our county fall IU line, ri;ht about, face! Un cover your bmd: Attsntiou! Now a'lite vour Josephine. KHEN. He Etoaped. "1 have a friend who ts writing an Indian vcrslou of The Star Spangled Banuer ' " "1 s'poee It liesttw, 'Oge, ran Vte seeT" lntilrvd the ch.-erful Mlot. dodglnc luiineilhiti ly Into a couvvuWut doorway. Kansas ity Jonrisl. rTj it. ti 'tti Bfi.i m iintt'-t pM It u not ivruiit!, table of tiici to h t ttu .'!.!' most eijul ! I h'.s ow n who do most of the buying. You kuow that. The farmers' wives come to town only once a month or so iludug the winter, owing to your miserable roads. They do buy things, though, and I can give you a little tip. They buy them by mall. They road these larire snd luscious cntnloKties sent o them by the big city mall order firm, and they order through tin catalogue. Pld It ever occur to you that If )-oo had decent road you would get a much largor whiter trade from tho country? No? Well, think It over. I have Just been reading some flgtirt. The stste of Iowa, for histiiure. ha 2.230,000 population. j tm, lOO.-tSO miles -at public roads whnt they oatl roads but only 1J0 miles are of nine adsm and passable every month In the year. What do you think of that' Theu take Missouri. Tlut state, ac cruing to theae figures, hs tnoro than .OOO.ooo people, with po.oon mlhs ot public mads. It has only about l thou sand miles of well built hU-hways Illinois Is still worse eff for g.vvl roads iloat of the ststes line up Just about the same. What can you expect?" "It's a new Idea," aald the merchant meekly, "and I'm going to think It over and talk It over with some of the other town people. We've been think ing our editor here Is a good roads crank, bnt I'm Inclined to the opinion now thst he hss more common sense than the rest of us." lU'KK JOYCR. Advice. Don't while away your time, my son. In wooing fortune's amlle, For when you win It, ten to one, It Isn't worth your while. Philadelphia rreas. A Depleted Treaaury. Wife Haven't you any change about you? Husbaud No, my dear. This morn ing the president of my bank borrowed my last quarter. New York Life. Curious. A dollar' a hard to understand. Its methoda often cauao dtamay. It's no good when It'a loafing and When working often fadea away. Houaton Poat. Universal Fad. Gunner I wouder what will be the first communication we receive from Mars? Guycr Oh, a souvenir postal, of course! Chicago News. Tha New Verb. The butchera have a aaylng that ! hasten to repeat. They ainak about their customers Aa "people that we meat:" Upplncott a. Rapid. Knlcker Has Jones got quick as sets? Bocker Very. They are so quick they always fall before he csn sell them. New York Sun. Quarts blanks at the Conner office, Qwtek dative Tfce Weekly OrsgfaaasaV Scotland Yard. The headquarters of the Ixmdon metropolitan police force Is called Scotland Yard ou account of the fact thst a pslace was built there for the ktnifs of Scotland, to t nsed by them when visiting Knglaud. It Is said to hare beeu originally c!v'" IJIng Edgar to Kcu i- i)i of - i i- : vbe i Be came to London to p j u ; jo. 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