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The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10

THE Russian army is endeavoring to
reach the north pole again. The Japs
are pressing them closely. rs
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10

THE story is told Of an old bachelor
who bought pair Of socks and found
attached to one a paper with these
words: II am young lady of 20 and
would like to correspond with bache-
lor With view to matrimony." The
name and address were given. The
bachelor wrote in few days and got
this repert: Mamma was married 20
years ago. Evidently the merchant of
whom you bought those socks did not
advertise, or he would have sold them
long ago. My mother handed me your
letter. and said that possibly might
suit am eighteen. ."-Ex.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10

MANY PERSONS have more jaw than
backbone. borrower ctr,ngc L ,n1;' sccr,,
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10

ATTORNEY WALDRoN is justly criti-
cised for his statement in his argument
in the Peabody contest that the cottcst
should be decided on political grounds,
that the legislature was not sitting as
a judicial body, that the moral side of
the question ough. not be considered.
The only right way that the contest can
be decided in Peabody's favor is by
weighing the evidence. If this is done
Republicans need have no doubts about
the decision being for Peabody.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
tr,~c ,nx delivery on nj, routes ,

All msils c!sse.l 1--WE minutes before lcaving
tt,s-. sILAs T.. sr scxMANS, 4. ~
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
WANTED

MEN AND WOMEN in this
county and adjoining territories,
to represent and advertise an al ]
established house of solid financial
standing. SALARY 10 men $2l
weekly. to women $12 to SIS
weekly with Expenses advanced
each Monday by check direct't'rom
headquarters. Horse and buggy
furnished when necessary; position
permanent. Address. Blew Bros.
Il Co.. Dept. !, ,Monon Bldg i,
Chicago. III. '.s.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
! TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, Henry C. Hamilton and
Mamie z. Hamilton his wife did by
their Deed of Trust, dated the 9th day
of October A. D. 1888, and recorded in
book 81 page 407 of the records of Baca
County formerly Las Animas County,,
Colorado, convey to George w. Toms,
Trustee, the following described Real
Estate, situated in the County of Baca,
formerly Las Animas County, and
State of Colorado to-wit:
The North West Quarter of Section
Thirty-One (31) in Township Twenty
Nine (29) South and in Range Forty
Six (46) West of Sixth (6th) Prin-
cipal Meridian, Containing 160 Acres,
more or less, to secure payment of the
sum of Four Hundred Fifty Dollars, Sc
cured, to be paid by one certain rote of
even date with said Trust Deed, and
payable to the order of William F.
Leonard in five years from October 1st,
1888, with interest thereon at the rate
of Seven pei. cent. per annum, from
October 1st, 1888, payable Semi-annual-
ly until the maturity of said note.
And Whereas, 1t is Provided in and
by said Deed of Trust, that in case of
default in the payment of the principal
note, or any part thereof, when the
same should become due, then on ap-
plication of the legal holder of said note
the said Trustee shall advertise and sell
said premises.
And Whereas, the principal note due
and payable on the First day of October
A. D. 1898, is now due and wholly un-
paid.
And Whereas, said deed of trust also
provides, that in case of the death,
inability or refusal to act of the said
party of the second part (meaning
George w. Toms) at any time when
action under the foregoing powers and
trusts may be required, then the legal
holder or holders of said note shall have
the option of substituting any other
person in his stead by writing duly ac-
knowledged, and the acts and doings of
said party so substituted shall be as eff
fectual and binding as if done by said
party of the second part. And such
person SO substituted shall have power
to prosecute suit in equity to fore
close this deed of trust or to make sale
as hereinbeforc provided.
And Whereas, the said George w.
Toms is deceased and the undersigned
w. NJ. Stewart has been appointed and
substituted as trustee, by the legal
holder of said note, by writing duly ac
knowledged.
Now, Therefore, At the request of
the legal holder of said note l will, as
Trustee as aforesaid, on Saturday the
Eighth (8th) day of April, A. d. 1905,
between the hours of 8 o'clock, A. NJ.
and O'Clock. P. M, of that day, at the
front door of the Court house, in the
Town of Springfield County of Baca ard
State of Colorado sell TO the highest
bidder, for cash, the abovc-dcscribed
premises, and all right and equity, in
cluding homestead of the said Henry c.
Hamilton and Mamie z. Hamilton.
Dated, at Springfield, Colorado. Febru-
ary the 27tn, A. d. 1905.
W. NJ. STEWART. Trustee.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
HERE'S a problem that comes from

HERE'S problem that comes from
Joplin, according to the Kansas City
Star. "a man wanted a ticket to
Olathe, and only had So bill. 1t re-
quired 50 to get the ticket. He took
the 81 bill to the pawn shop, pawned it
for $1.50. On his way back to the de-
pot he met friend to whom he sold
the pawn ticket for $1.5O. That gave
him So. Now who's out that dollar?
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
County Omcers.
Mail : Time Card

SPRINGfIEf.D-f.A
--- pAfLY(eNcept Sundhy). ..
(Routc No 85sS3)
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10

A DEADLOCK in the legislature
Wednesday will probably result in the
Peabody contest not being decided at
all. % anti-Peabody Republicans
desire to seat tide lieutenant governor,
Jesse F. Mcdonald as governor. AZ
men are for Peabody and 80 for Adams.
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
STENOGRAPHERS WANTED.

The work is light, short
hours and the salary double
what is paid in other lines of
business. Bright educated
persons qualified in 6 to II
weeks; shorthand, typewrit-
ing, spelling, grammar, busi-
ness correspondence, Office
work. Bookkeeping, business
arithmetic. penmanship, COM
mercial law, etc. Adyer-
tising. Scholarship, time I'M
limited, $4,000 BY mail, $40.
Position secured.
Pernin Business College,
$50 18th St., Denver
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
Florida Sleeper
Frisco System

On November 10Th, and daily
thereafter. until the summer seas
on of 1905. the Frisco System, in
connection with the Southern
Railway. will operate through
Pullnan SIeepers between Kansas
City, Mo. and jacksonville, Fla.
These Sleeping Cars will be placed
in service as part OF the equip
ment of the popular. "Southeast
ern Limited" scheduled to leave
Kansas City G:3O L. NJ \ mod,
ernly equipped train, electric
lighted cafe observation car, etc
the route OF which carries the
traveller through the populous
cities of the Southeast.
Berth reservations may be made
thro"sh representatives. of Frisco
System or connecting lines.
PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT,
SAINT LOUIS
The Springfield herald., 1905-03-10
GleaniHgs and Comment.

The Brooks $40 acres homestead bill
was killed iu the senate public lands
committee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

started from the earth by magic. at the open end of the pond, not sixty yeards from our pal cahtd rahadolCY yards from our place of ambush, stood two huge males.
 When or how they got there no one could tell. Probably they had come by a circuItous way through the valley or it might be that they had crept straight down through the grass. They had certainly eluded our observation
 Being anxious to watch the move ments of the animals. and to ascertain whether they belonged to the herd playing under the mimosas. I refrained from firing and determined to see what would follow next. Both baboons sprang toward the water and. leaning down. they drank till they were satis- fled. Then. having gravely stretched they solemnly stalked away on all fours In the direction of the herd, There was little doubt. there fore, that they belonged to the herd. and had been sent forward to recon noitre. for as soon as they got back the entire herd put itself in motion toward the pond
 There were mothers taking care of their little ones: there were half-grown animals. the boys and girls of the com pany, At first only one baboOn at a time came to the waters edge. and having taken it's draught. retired to the rest; but when about ten had thus vsntured separately they began to come in small groups, leaving the others r0l- ling and jumping on the sand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

Norton of the Department of AgricuI- tuTe at Washington this morning an- nouncing that his grounds have again been selected as the Government pota- to trial grounds for the coming year.
 During last season Rev. Mir. Law renee conducted experiments success fully there and has been highly com plimented by the department for his work. He had under cultivation in 1904 about 500 varieties of potatoes. one of the largest collections ever gathered In a single Held in this cOun- try. He carefully conducted the work of planting, caring for and harvesting the crop.
 It Is planned to have about 500 vari- cites of potatoes on the field this sea- son, which will be the largest collec- tion of varieties in a single field In the world. There are some of the choicest potatoes known to be grown there. one, the Fl Dorado, being quoted at $2.25O per pound. This sum seems fabulous. but nevertheless 1t is claimed to be the value of the seed now.
 In order to get an opportunity to grow this variety Rev. Mr. Lawrence has to sign a written guarantee that not a single eye, or even a slip of the plant will be allowed to leave his premises.
 In flower experimental work Rev. MT. Lawrence will make comparative studies. and has under consideration the cultivation of seeds from Cali fornia, Germany. France and Italy, to see if the foreign or domestic seeds will show the best results. It is ad- mitted that California grown seeds have made rapid strides recently. and the tests are to determine their com parative worth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

that he retired to Naples and touched off Vesuvius, just so he could look at 1t. But Vesuvius about 2.000 years ago got to burning way down in its bow els. and the fire got beyond control, and I suppose now the fire Is away down in the center of the earth, and you know when you get down in the earth below the crust on which we live and raise potatoes, everything is melted, like iron in a foundry, and vesuvius Is the splgot through which the fluid comes to the surface. You see. don't you?
 Just imagine that this earth is a barrel of beer. which you can under stand better than anything else, and it is being shaken up by being hauled around on wagons and cars, and Is straining to get out, then a bartender drives a spigot into the Dung, turns the thumb piece, and the pent-up beer comes out foaming and squirting. and there you are
 Instead of beer, vesuvius is loaded with lava. that runs like molasses, and when it is cold it is indigestible as cold buckwheat cake, and you can make 1t up into jewellery. that looks like maple sugar and smells like a tire in a garbage crematory. Besides the lava there are stones as big as a house that are thrown up by the sea- sickness of the earth, as it heaves and pants. and then the ashes that come out of the crater at times would mako you think that what they need there Is to have a chimney sweep go down and brush out the flues.
 To get an idea of what a nuisance the ashes from the crater are to the cities on the plain below, you remem- Der the time you were out in your back yard splitting boxes for kindling wood, and my chum and threw 8 pail of ashes over the fence, and ac- cidentally 1t went allover you, about four inches thick, That time you got mad and threw cucumbers at us, when we ran down the alley. Keep that in your mind and you can understand the destruction of Pompeii. when Ve- suvius, thousands of years ago, coughed up hot ashes, and covered the town forty feet deep with hot stun, and killed every living thing. and pe- trified and preserved the whole busi- ness, and made a prairie on top of a town. and everybody eventually forgot that there had ever been a town there. for about 2,OOO years. If my chum and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05
tEx-GOvernor of wisconsin, F,

Naples. Italy.-Dear Old Partner in Crime: We'll sir, we have. struck a place that reminds us or nome anu your old grocery store. The gay % we the poorer districts, where they throw all the slops and refuse into the streeIs' and where nobody ever seems 10 clean up anything and burn it. The odor was something that you cannot de- scribe without a demonstration ana after we had turned pale and started to go away. dad said the smell remind ed him of something at home and finally he remembered your old grocery in the sauerkraut season, early in the morn ing. before you had aired out the place. Your ears must have burned when we were talking about you.
 If you want to get an idea of Ma ples. at its worst, go down into your cellar and round up all the codfsh, on- ions, kraut, hmherger cheese kerosene, rotten potatoes. and everything that is dead. put ft alr in a bushel basket, and just before the health officers come to pull your place get down on your knees and put your head down In the basket and let some one sit on your head all the forenoon, and you will have just such half day as dad and I had in the poor quarter of Naples, and it will not cost you half as much as 1t did us, unless, after you have enjoyed yourself in your cellar with your head in the. basket, you decide to have run of sickness and hire a doctor who will charge. you the price of trip to Europe.
 Well. sir, Naples is a dandy. in its clean part. The bay of Naples Is dead ringer for Milwaukee bay, in shape and beauty, but Milwaukee lacks Vesuvius and Ponpeii, for suburbs, and she lacks the customary highway" men to hold you up. Every man, wo- man and child we met makes a living out of the tourists, and nobody that have seen works at any other busi- ness
 We woke up the first morning and dad looked out the window and saw Vesuvfus belching forth flame, and lava, and stone fences, and wanted to turn in a fire alarm. but I told him that that fire had been raging ever since the Christian era, and was not one of these incendiary barn burnings, hut he opened the window and yelled fire. and the porters and chamber maids came running to our room, with buckets of water. and wanted to know where the fire was. Dad pointed out
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

The mild and immediate effect of Swamp Root, the great kidney and bladder remedy, is soon realized. It stands the highest for it's wonderful cures of the most distressing cases Swamp-Root will set your whole sys- tenn right, and the best proof of this Is a trial.
 5s Cottage St, .Melrose. Mass. Dear Sir: Jan. i1th, 1904.
 Ever since was in the Army. I had more or less kidney trouble, and with in the past year 1t became so severe and complicated that I suffered every thing and was much alarmed--my strength and power was fast leaving me saw an advertisement of Swamp Root and wrote asking for advice I began the use of the medicine and noted decided improvement after talk ing Swamp Root only a short time.
 continued its use and am thankful to say that AE au1 entirely cured and strong. In order to be very sure aboigf this, I had a doctor examine some of my water today and he pronounced it all right and in splendid condition.
 know that your Swamp-Root Ia purely vegetable and does not contain any harmful drugs. Thanking you for my complete recovery and recofnmend- ing Swamp-Root to all sufferers I am ["
 Very truly yours,
 I. c. RICHARDSON.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

sunpose I never ought to have pIaved such a thing on dad, but told him that anybody who saw thing
 first when it came out of the ashes could grab it and keep it, and just as I toId him q workman threw out a shovel full of ashes, just as you would throw out dirt digging for angle worms, and there was a little silver urn with a lot of coins in 1t, and you could not hold dad. He grabbed for fl. the won kman grabbed for 1t, and tbev went down together in the ashes. and the man rolled dad over and he WAS A sight, but the workman got the silver urn, and dad wanted to fight. Finally a man with a uniform on came along and was going to arrest dad, but tbev finally comp Onised by the VI an ofgering to sell the silver urn and the a Id coins to dad for a hundred dol- iArs. if he would promise not to open it up until he got out of Italy, and dad paid the money and wrapped the urn m in a Chicago paper and we took o,,r 0ocl< and went back to Naples on gallop.
 the hotel before opening up his prize. hut he held out until we got to our room, when he unwrapped the urn | to count his ancient gold coins. Well. vou'd a-died to see dads face when he opened that can. It was an old toe nsto can that had been wrought out with a hammer so it looked like ham, mered silver, and when he emptied the gold coins out on the table there was a lot of brass tags that looked like dog license tags, and baggage checks. and brass buttons. had to throw wa ter on dad to bring him to, and then he swore he would kill the dago that sold him the treasure from the ruins of Pompeii. It was a great blow to lad and he has bought a dirk knife to kill the dago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05
AND I THRREW A PAIL OF ASHES
 OVER THE FINCH.

When I told dad about what they were finding at the ruins of Pompeii. and how you were liable to find gold. and diamonds. and petrified women, he wanted to go and dig in the ashes. as he said it would be more exciting than raking over the dumping grounds in Chicago for tin cans and Jumps of coal. and so we hired a hack and went to the buried town, but dad insisted on carrying an umbrella, so if Vesuvius beIched any more ashes he could pro- tect himself. Gee, but from what have seen at that old ruin 8 man would need an umbrella made of cor rugated iron to keep from being buried.
 Well, when we got to Pompeii dad was for going right where they were digging, but got him to look over the streets and houses that had been un- covered first, and he was paralyzed to think that a town could be covered with ashes all these thousands of years. and then be uncovered and find a town that would compare, in many respects. with cities of the present day. with residences complete with scu1p- ture, paintings and cut marble that would skin Chicago to a finish.
 We went through residences that looked as rich as the Vanderbilt houses in New York. baths that you could take a plunge and a swim in. if they had the water, paintings that would take a premium at any horse show to- day. pavements that would shame the pavements of London and Paris. and petrifed women that you couldn't tell from a low-necked party in Washing ton, except that the ashes had eaten the clothes of. I guess most of the people in PompeiI got away when the ashes began to rain down, for they must have seen that 1t wasn't going to be a light shower. but a deluge, cause they never have found many corpses. They must have run to Naples, and may be they are running yet and you may see some of them at your gro- eery, and if you do see anybody cow cred with ashes, looking for a job, give them some crackers asfa cheese, and charge it to dad, for they must be hungry by this time.
 Say, do you know that some of those refugees from Pompeii went off In such a hurry that they left bread baking in the ovens, and meat cooking in the pots? It seems the most wonderful thing to me of anything I ever saw. We went all through the streets and houses, and saw bathrooms that beat anything in San Francisco, and when we went into building occupied by the officers in charge of the excava- tions, and dad saw a telephone and an electric light, he thought those things had been dug up. too, and he claimed that the men who were re- ceivlng millions of dollars in royalties on telephones and electric lights were frauds who were infringing on Pom peii patents 2,O00 years old, and he wouldn't believe me when told him that telephones and electric lights were not dug up; he said then he wouldn't believe anything was dug up, but that the whole thing was a put-up job to rob tourists. But when we got to Q locality where the dagoes were digging the ashes away from a house. and were uncoverlng a parlor. where rich things were being discovered, he saw that it was all right.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

had not run out of ashes we would have buried you so deep in your back yard that you would have been petri- fled with your hatchet. and when they excavated the premises a thousand years later they would have found your remains and put you in a museum.
 Well, a couple of hundred years ago a peasant was sinking a well down in the ashes, and he struck petrified bamoom. with a bartender standing be- hind the bar in the act of serving some whiskey 2.000 years old and the peasant located claim there, and the authorities took possession of the prairie and have been digging the town out ever since, looking for more of that 2,O00-year-old whiskey.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05
THE CAUTION OF BABooNs.

In Spite of Their Great Strength They
 Are True Conservatives. Youths Companion.
 One of the farm boys drew our att tention to what seemed little more than a couple of dark specks on tine slope of the hills to the right; but we coula soon see that they were moving, and when they came within half a mile of us we could distinctly recognize them as a heard of baboons
 The boy said he was quite sure they were on their way to the water, but to our surprise they did not make an advance. A quarter of an hour elapsed half anhour, still no sign of their ap- proach. All at once. as if they had
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

We'll, they calmed dad, and then I had to go to work and post dad up on the geography he had forgotten, and finally he remembered seeing a picture of a volcano or burning mountain in his geography fifty years ago, but he told me he had never belived there was !. volcano in the world, but that he al- ways thought they put those pictures in geographies to make them sell How can a man attain the prominence and position in the business world that dad has. and not know any more than he does. is what beats me.
 Of course you know, having kept a grocery, since the war. and having mad opportunities to study history, by the pictures on the soap boxes and insur- ance calendars, that Nero, the Roman tyrant, after Rome was burned, while he fiddled for a dance fin a barn, got so accustomed to fire and birthstone
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

of the window towards Vesuvius and said: Some hired girl has been start ing a fire with kerosene. in that shanty on the knoll out there, and the whole ranch will burn If you don't turn out the fire department, you gosh blasted lazy devils. Get a move on. and help carry out the furniture"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

when we come down from the crater we go to Pompeit and kill the dago In his tracks. Dad may cause vesuvius to belch again with hot ashes. and cover, the ruins of Pompeii, but if he can't turn on the ashes. the knife Will do the business Yours.
 @ @ HENNERY
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05
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s.n thn fellow
 Your other organs dneeaa
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

The profits of the packing houses are less than those of any other buEi- ness This is not mere 8uesswoRk. A Chicago packer says SO himseif.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-05

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