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The Greeley tribune., 1904-12-08
Advertising Rates.
HAVE TWO BASKETS.

This is not a beet sugar edition
of The Tribune, although it sc hap
pened that two different articles on
this industry appear in this num-
Der, one OF national scope, as it is
from the report of the secretary OF
agriculture, and the other on purely
local conditions of the business.
There is, however, a pretty good
lesson to the people of this beet grow
ing district in the two stories. OF
course, there is some logic in the old
story about putting all your eggs i'll
one basket and watching that basket
closely but conditions in Weld
county today are demonstrating the
falacy of this story in practice. The
potato i'll this case represents
the one basket of eggs. For
many years the farmers of the Poudre
valley have been watching their
basket of eggs. This fall, in spite
OF watching, something has smashed
that basket of eggs. a good per
cent of the farmers did have two
baskets, one containing potatoes and
the other, sugar beets. This fall the
basket containing beets was the only
one so far that has Matched out any
thing. OF course, there may yet be
chance to realize something from
the enormous potato crop, but it is
absolutely certain that the price will
not go up enough to equal in profit
that of the sugar crop. There has
been good profit in sugar beets,
there has been no profit at all in the
potato crop.
The lesson then to be drawn from
this is not that the poato crop is the
best crop in the valley, and it is not
that the beet crop is the best, but
that something like an equal acre
age of each would be the best crop
for the farmer to raise. Take
period of ten years, or perhaps, even
five years: also suppose there were
three farmers, each with forty acres
for the two crops. One plants pota-
toes exclusively: the second plants
sugar beets, exclusively, and the
third plants an equal amount of
each, There is no doubt that the
man who varies his crop would be
the winner by good deal at the end
of the ten years.
There is much of gamble about
the potato crop. One year may be
exceptionally good. The potato
grower will have his pockets filled
with money, that he can, and no
doubt will spend, for Improvements
and pleasure. The next season. is a
bad one, and he is in the hardest
kind of shape financially. That is
The Greeley tribune., 1904-12-08
Have You Ever Visited Florida,

Here is what visitor has to say Of
Ormond: Waving palms, pungent
pines. groves OF glossy -leaved orange ond
lemon trees, their branches bending un-
der the weight Of the goldeu globes of
fIuit, tropical drives and walks, the
Halifax river with it's launches and
boats, inviting to fishing parties on the
side, and the great ocean on the other,
all combine to make Ormond one of the
drawing cards on the east coast OF
Florida Low rates to Florida points,
New Orleans, Galveston and San An
tonic wsll be given and attractive litera.
ture sent on application. 7. +. Fisher,
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Denver, Colorado.
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Bring the School Children

To the Oasis hotel Dec 16 and II,
where DIR. Sapero, the we'll known
eye, ear, nose and throat specialist
of Denver, will examine their eyes
and yours free. Come early.
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-z-.s Double Stamps.
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OWNING ROD
IS NOT A FAKE
REMARKABLE POWERS DUE TO
sUBCONsCIoUs ACTIVITY.
Mysterious Art of the Water Finder as
Practiced by Gentle Folk and Others
in Eng1and-Powers Possessed by MIR.
Leicester Gataker, a Famous Dowser
-Psychical Research Investigations.
n p "a Weekly.

Those who regard water finding by
means of the divining rod as the practice
of foolish superstition will be shocked
to hear that in recent times it has been
employed by cabinet ministers such as
the Marquis Of Londonderry, by belted
Judges and sheriffs, by railway. compa-
MES such as the Midland, by urban dis
trict councils, and by landowners with
out number.
The water finders rod is merely a
forked twig, usually cut from a hazel, a
whitehorn, or an apple tree, below, the
bifurcation, and is generally a foot long
and about the thickness of a pencil. Its
twigs are held at the extreme ends be-
tween the fingers and thumb Of each
hand by the water fn GER dows SER as
walks over the land where it is desired
to find spring, until, on coming to the
spot where water is, the twig begins to
move and it's fork to bend downward.
1t frequently happens that on reach
ing this site the rod. which has pre-
viously remained passive in the dow.
ser''s hands, twists itself round with
ment that water will be found beneath
has seldom been falsi6ed. The expert
ment has been tried Of. blindfolding the
water finder and leading him by a diff
ferent route to the spot he has already
indicated, only to show that the rod re
peated it's movements on his regainins
it. A second. dowser;.kept in ignorance
of the spot or Of the land over which
his predecessor had gone, will almost in
variably name the same site as a place
where water will be found.
! Water finding is q special gift, re
quiring special physical and psychica
qualifications, but is not limited to any
class Of society, to the educated or tn,
ignorant, to age or youth, to men @
women. J. D.. Enys, +. G.. S.
became an excellent dowser, while 1
woman of title in The Midlands also be
came an expert at finding water b,
this means.
But tho a special gift, experienc
has shown that it can be transmitted
that is, when the rod is held by per
son who has not this power, but who's
wrists are graspedsbH 81 dowser, it vii
point to a spot where water may b
found. No matter how diverse i
rank or intellect or constitution waite
finders may be, they ALTO a, greater o
less degree betray, the Fsame symptom
in exercising the gift; an electri
! shock seems communicated to then
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which waterSwill be reached and the
quantity per hour the springs will give.
The chairman stated that Mr.. Gata
ker named number Of springs in one
field, and the total of water there was
more than ample for the town. The
auditor said that what he had to set
tie was whether the employment Of a
waterfnder was legal or not. In the
only case bearing on the matter that
had come before the courts the judges
had held that ''the pretense of power,
whether moral, physical or shpernat-
ural, with intent to obtain money, was
sufficient to constitute an offense with
in the meaning Of the law; and as
Mr.. Gataker claimed to exercise some
such power, his employment was clearly
illegal, and the amount of his fee would
be disallowed. 20
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Koltzerman' Chicago Store.
Imported Antiques, rare and beautiful.
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they turn pale, tremble or have convul-
sive movements, similar to those that
disturb the nervous system Of medium
who obtains psychic manifestations.
Sir Lauder Brunton, in writing on
" Truths and Delusions' in the I'M
versal Review, says: when we near
that man is able to discover water at
the ground on which he stands we are
at first apt to- scout the idea as riol-
culous, while if we were told that
caravan was crossing the desert, and
that all at once the thirsty camels
started off quickly, and at a distance
of mile or more water was found, we
would look upon the occurrence as
natural. -
Regarding the divining rod as a sub:
ject for investigation, the council OF
the Society for Psychlcal :Researen:
fessor Of experimental physics in the
Royal college of science for Ireland,
to inquire into it. With "great re-
luctance, and even repugnance," as ne
states, he yielded to their wishes and
began his examination, "hoping, how
ever. in my ignorance that a few
weeks work would enable me to rele-
gate it into the limbo large s an st 1roa9,
since called the paradise OF FOOLS =
report OF his loHR anu po''Ao10 70
Contributed by Professor Barrett in a
PAPER called 7.The So-called Divining
Rod or Virgula Divina.' The outcome
4 Of his personal investigations, OF rella-
BILE evidence and scientific knowledge,
may be summed up in his own words ):
VThe movement Of the rod is not due
to trickery, nor any conscious Volun'
tary effort, but is a more or less v1o'
lent automatic action that occurs I'M
der certain conditions in certain lndl'
viduals.'
Having said so much, science still
leaves us in Ignorance regarding a hui
man faculty which is the INHERITANCE
of some individuals, and is undoubted
ly the same power that, thru common
piece of wood called the :planchette
writes coherent and sometimes impor
: tant messages outside the range Of
} their conscious intelligence; and IS the
:. same force that has been found to raI
:, out communications on tables.
, It is interesting, but not surprising
, ! to learn that the exercise Of the dow
, ser's gift-which has been of immense
: service, and that has been employed by
3 those who frame and administer ou1
those who receive money for it's exer
! else are presumably as liable to fin
/ and punishment as any Gypsy fortune
teller. That, at least, is what may b.
2 gathered from the decision of W.: A
r Gasson, the local government audito
;, for Bedfordshire, who in May, 1879
a refused to allow the fee of a water
: finder employed by the urban distric
council Of Ampthill.
4 The waterfinder employed was Leices
9 ter Gataker, one of the most famou
!; dowsers in England, whose power
e men, by factory owners and paris
L councils. He is remarkable for bein
e able. at times to dispense with the roc
n instead of which he uses his out
r stretched hands, which seem to receiv
r a slight electric shock when he gain
8 a spot where water or minerals ma
!, reetly. as. evidence shows. the depth
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-09
DOG DRIVES OFF BURGLARS
Priests House Was About to Be Raided
by Two Men.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS.-Burglars broke into
Shute's store al Altoona last night and carried
y Two mel last night at the same place entered
the residence of Rev Father Van Chan and de-
alone She turned bulldog loose and locked her
self in aroom The intruders retreated before the
dog. z -.
Tuesday night W. Volkman, an Altoona meat
market man. while driving home from the coun-
of all the small change he had. Officers are on
/ the track of the robbers. r 7-@.
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EGAN, 8. DC. c. washburn post G. A. R.,
elected the following officers Commander, A.
J. Cakes; IS. v. C., W: W. Bailey; J. v: c..
T. II. Van Degrift; adjutant, James Wilson
Q. NJ, w. H. Loucks; chaplain, Joseph Manson;
surgeon. Charles Platts; o. D.. H. Holdredge;
%. G.. William Houck. --.-- .
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New York Herald.

New York Herald. .
The English language is spoken today
by 135: 100000 Of people. Three hun
dred years ago, in the time of Queen
about 100000 people, nearly all Of
whom lived in the British Isles. It was
about this time that England began her
colonization, to which the great spread
of the tongue is mainly attributed. The
principal languages which enter into
spoken by the greatest number of people
out such languages as Chinese
or Hindustani-are, in order, French,
Spanish, Russian and German. French
is practically stationary as regards the
number OF it's adherents and is distinct
universal language Of diplomacy and
commerce; in both respects it had to
give away to English. Spanish, like
English, is now largely spoken on the
American continent, and, like it also,
owes it's wide distribution to the colon
those who see in it a formidable rival
to the English, and if Portuguese, which
is practically a branch Of Spanish, is
included then the twin languages dis
pose of D territory even greater than
the English, and with greater room for
ton Of not less than 70,O0O0oo.
Strange as it may seem, Spaniards
and Portuguese have never been able
to make any Roadway in colder lati-
tudes. In South America, while nearly
the whole of that continent is occupied
by the descendants of the Spanish and
Portuguese, the temperate regions to.
ward the south have never been proper.
ly colonized by them. Patagonia and
northern Chile, which possess an almost
English climate, have little attraction
for the natives Of southern Europe. Both
Germans and Russians are increasing
rapidly in point Of numbers, tho the
latter language has had but little infu
ence on western civilization. This may
themselves, who are perhaps the best
lirguists in the world and are Otter
more at home in French, German Of
} English than in the language Of theil
own country. This is particularly true
of the upper classes.
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SPRING VALLEY, WIS.-Gordon Mitchell,
aged 21. member of the United States navy,
also student of medicine at the naval hospital
at Norwalk, Va, died at that place last week.
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ELROY, WIS.-The ladies of the Congrega
tional church closed two days fair by present
ing white MINSTREL entertainment to.
crowded house, netting $3.50.
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Ultimate Spread of English.

But the apathy of the Beers and
their inaptitude for business is also
contributing cause. The men Of bust
ness are invariably Europeans, while
the Beers content themselves with
farming, which easily accounts for the
ascendency of English in the towns.
Besides the above there are various
stance, Liberia, the Hawaiian islands,
Samoa and some Of the other petty
states Of the Pacific, where English is
rapidly driving out the native dialect.
Even in Japan the English language
has been recognized as semi official
one selected for intercourse among
strangers.
One very good reason for the rapid
spread of the English language is the
simplicity Of it's grammar, which is less
complicated than that of any other
western nation. It's poverty Of infec-
tions, as distinguished from the Ger
man, for instance, is a great point in
it's favor; thus it is much easier for a
Englishman or American to learn Ger
man. On the, other hand, the extraor.
binary inconsistencies of the English
language in it's spelling are a decided
drawback. There is little doubt that
if English were written on phonetic
principles, as Spanish or German, this
would be great boon to the Anglo
Saxons themselves, who spend years OF
unnecessary toll learning to read and
write their own language.
OF the English-speaking branches
which belong to the parent tree, Eng
land, America, altho the oldest, has di
verged least. It is surprising what &
number of American words have beer
introduced into England, many Of
which are now considered indigenou:
to the soil. A large portion of the slang
which is spoken by the middle class il
England has it's origin in America also
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-09
THE SPREAD OF
THE LANGUAGE
ENGLISH SPOKEN TODAY BY 1885,.
100000 PEOPLE.

French, It's Principal Rival, Is Station
cry or on the Decline-The Spanish
Language Largely Used--Necessity Of
More Consistent Spelling for the
English Language to Fit It for Uni
Versal Use. -. l..
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Holtzerman's Chicago Store Co.
Nurnberg Observation-Disclosures Marcipau
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BLACK RIVER FALLS, SwIs.-frhe remains Of
Mrs G. NJ. Hull will arrive tonight from " ash
ington, D. c., where she died of pneumonia
She was a former resident of this city.-Aiill-
ston, twelve miles east of here, has completed
the finest church in this section outside the
cities. It will be dedicated the first of the
year, +,.f-
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All Foreigners Absorbed.

Tho the English in their colonies and
offshoots have absorbed millions of
aliens, there is no record of any body
of English speakers becoming absorbed
there are millions Of Germans who have
become merged with the English in a
single generation. Even the names are
LOST. Thus Schmidt becomes Smith,
Muller Miller and the children in many
cases do not understand the father s
language.
In Florida, California, Texas and 9th
er states, French and Spanish speaking
settlements have become Anglicized. 1t
is otherwise in Canada. There the
French speaking population is increasing
faster than the English. Not that the
rather that it crowds it out.
In other parts of the world besides
Canada the French language has shown
considerable vitality and powers of re-
sistance, but nowhere is it absorbed so
| rapidly as other European languages
by the 4;Anglo-Saxon. In Egypt y the
French language was all powerful in
| OF twelve years ago, but here it also
has lost ground before the English,
owing to the occupation of the country
| by the British and to the increase Of
| British influence in the administration
| of the Suez canal.
In other parts Of the world the spread
of English is scarcely less remarkable
The republics of the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State only twenty years
ago were almost entirely Dutch. in their
speech, but English is now dominant
in both countries, Boer Dutch being
relegated to- the country districts, where
it is retreating year by year before the
advance of it's powerful rival, and this
in spite of the determined resistance
of the Beers themselves. This is owing
to the rush of Adventures and settlers
consequent on the discovery of gold
and diamonds.
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Two Stamps for One.
Double Stamps Saturday at the
Nickel Plate. IL!
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-09-22
LOST IN THE. WOODS.



Every woodman-yes, every Indian
gets lost ut some ttme-that is. loses
his bearings and has difficulty in get
ting to camp. AS matter Of fact, the
wild birds and beasts will sometimes
get lost, although they are wonderfully
equipped for finding their way home.
The worst thing person lost in the
woods can do is to get frightened. The
truly dangerous enemy is not the cold
or the hunger so much as the fear 1t
is fear that robs the wanderer Of his
Judgment and of his limb power; it is
fear that turns the passing experience
into final tragedy. Only keep cool.
and all will be we'll.
\ man OF little experience usually
sets out at run when lie is lost. He
wishes to travel twice as fast as usual,
and OF course that merely wears him
out and sends him farther astray. Ii he
sits down calmly he will not only spare
himself, but will help his friends to
find him. and this he can do by shout
ing at intervals and, above all. by get
ting OH as high and open place as
possible and there making two smoke
fires. the recognized signal, 81 am lost"
Ernest Thompson Seton in Country
Life In America.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-09-22
ECLIPSE FORECASTS.
The First One Was Made by Thalcs
to the EgYntiunA.

to the Egyptians.
The eclipse Of May 2S. $50 Il. G.
Total in the east of Asia MINOR, is
the first that can be fixed With GER
tainty. The prediction of it by Thales
to the Ionians brought him lasting
fame and excited among the Hellenes
the love of science. Its occurrence dur
ing great battle ended a five years
war between the Modes and the Lyd-
fans and led to q permanent peace.
The Chinese boast of Il series of
eclipses recorded in their annals eX.
tending over 3,S5S years. But these are
of very doubtful character. The Egyp-
tians said they had accurately OBJ
served 373 eclipses Of the sun and $50
of the moon before the time of Alex
ander the Great, who died 1913 B. G.
An eclipse observed at Nineveh, June
Is, 763 B. c., is recorded on an AS
syrian tablet now in the British mu-
scum. A lunar eclipse, occurring at
$40 p. M, March 10, 721 B. c., was OBJ
served. according to Ptolemy, with
much accuracy at Babylon. Each cen
trail eclipse visible in our time is one
Of an unbroken series, extending from
the earliest historic times to the pres
ent and recurring ut regular intervals.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-09-22
Route OF the nobolinlk.

The amount of travelling done by
some of our birds is astonishing. DR..
Cooke says that the common night
hawk spends the simmer in Alaska
and the winter in Patagonia. The bobo-
link, which is the reedbird Of the mid
die states and the ricebird of the south,
winters on the waving pampas Of
southern Brazil. 1t covers 100 miles
from Cuba to the South American coast
in single flight, following track not
popular with other birds. which might
be called the bobolink enthusiastically
Evening Post
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-09-22
Saturday, Sept. II.

A son and heir to the throne has
been born to the king and queen Of
Italy.
A British correspondent says that
every Japanese soldier in Manchuria
carries a fish line in his knapsack.
At Jesse, Kan, Howell Logan was
killed by his brother-in-law, Eli Smith.
The two had a dispute over the divis-
ion of land.
A delegation of French workingmen,
sent at the governments expense, has
sailed for New York on the steamer
La Bretagne on its way to st. Louis.
Napoleon Shipley, a former post.
master at Washington, d. c., and for
years one of the most successful and
largest oil spectators of the country,
is dead at the Pittsburg city poor
farm, aged eighty-five years.
The warehouse of the Fayette Man.
ufacturing company at Chester, Pa,
was entirely destroyed by fire of un-
known origin. There were about Co.
900 bags of magnesite in the building
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-09-22
The Arnenians.

The Armenians are one of the most
ancient races in the world Their coun
try is mentioned by Nencphor and EZe-
kiel and in the cuneifowH inscriptions
of Babylon and .Assyria. Al! the ma
tons that surrounded them have pass
ed away, but they remain. though their
country has been harried With fire and
sword for centuries. The speaker as.
cribed the permancncc Of the .Arme.
MAN race to the virtue Of their women
and the exceptional purity and stabili-
ty Of their family life. Even in their
heather days polygamy was unknown
to them. They have been a Christian
nation for more than 1900 years and
have undergone perpetual persecution
for their faith from the surrounding
oriental peoples.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-09-22
THE FIRST ENVELOPES.
They Were Used In q Private Penny
Post In Paris.

They Were Used In Private Penny
Post In Paris.
The first mention of envelopes occurs
in 1853, when NJ. de Valayer set up,
under royal patronage, a private penny
post in Paris, and boxes were placed
at street corners for the reception Of
letters wrapped in post paid envelopes.
The earliest uses of the word in Eng
lish were by Bishop Burnet in liza
and Dean Swift in 1926. That the
"little bags called envelopes" as Row
land Hill described them. were nothing
but revival and were in use as q
covering for postal purposes long be-
fore 1910, when his postal reform was
established, is evident from the follow
ing: Under date July 81, 1927, Secretary
Conway gives an account of his "open-
ing letter in the presence Of the king,
which contained a blank sheet" Lamb
mentions them in 1926. and in Harry