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The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29
Loco investigation.

The investigation into effects of the
loco weed on cattle and horses by the
Department of Agriculture and the
State Experiment Station has thus far
been without results, says the Denver
Record-Stockman. The post mortem
performed last week by DR.. Glover of
the experiment station and DR.. Lamb,
state veterinarian. and Dr. March, in
charge of the government experiment
at Hugo, developed nothing startling.
Speaking of the investigations at Hugo
the Record-Stockman quotes the
Range as follows:
while it is true that little is be-
ing accomplished at the loco expert
ment station here at present, we can
see no reason for encouragement in
the mere fact that the stock are not
taking readily to the eating of the
loco weed at this season of the year,
when green grass is SO abundant. 1t
is a well known fact among local
stockmen that during the months of
June, July and August, when green
grass is the most abundant, they have
the least trouble over their stock eat
ing loco and that stock not used to
eating the weed are not apt to touch
it during these months. 1t is in the
fall of the year, when the grass Is
cured and the loco remains green,
that stock acquire taste for the weed
and a continued feeding on the weed
throughout the fall and winter is what
causes the disastrous effect. The ex-
pertinent was not commenced here I'M
til after green grass had started, SO
there is yet no just reason for criti-
cism at this time. The experiment is
to be continued for at least year,
at the end of which time successful
results will, no doubt, have been ac-
complished. In the meantime out
siders should not be too hasty in their
criticisms, but should wait until the
experiment has run its full course"
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29
Colorado Starch.

The shipment from Greeley of the
first carload Of Colorado starch ever
sent out of the state was a notable
event in more ways than one.
1t was the initial shipment in what
may in course of time become a large
east-bound traffic. 1t demonstrated
that 1t is practicable to use as raw ma
terial the product of an established
Colorado industry, thus giving new EN-.
ployment to labor and opening up new
markets. 1t showed also that the po-
tato growers of the Greeley district
will not be wholly dependent upon the
sale of their product in more or less
remote markets. The starch factory
supplies a market at their doors for
part of their crop, more especially for
the otherwise unstable part.
II is stated that the shipment con-
sisted OF 10000 pounds of starch, and
was the product OF 100000 pounds OF
potatoes. This is equivalent to saying
that the potatoes yielded twenty per
cent. in starch, which seems to be
about the yield OF Indian corn. From
this the conclusion seems justified that
potato starch from Greeley can com
pete with corn starch made in other
parts Of the country so far at least,
as the western market is concerned.
Whether 1t will pay to ship 1t all the
way to the cotton factories of New
England may be an open question; but
in any event there is big market for
1t, and 1t is possible that the industry
will grow In few years to large pro-
portions.
No better illustration could be given
of the practicability Of developing new
industries in this state based on the
product of other industries already es-
tablished.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29

Any 100 heads may be picked from
the acre entered for competition. One
mark will be awarded for every seed
on the 100 heads. and twenty-five
marks for every gram Tin weight
which those seeds weigh For exam
pie: The best 100 heads of wheat re-
ceived from the competitors In 1906.
provided it contained 6,703 kernels Of
grain. would make 6.703 marks, and
provided it weighed 266 grams. would
make $3.50 marks-total number OF
marks, 1888.
The 100 heads of wheat received
from the competitor who obtained the
tenth prize in 1906. provided it con-
tanned 1853 kernels OF grain, would
make 1853 marks. and provided It
weighed 1873 grams would make $3.50
marks-total number of marks. 7.409.
III. For the main competition:
The main competition will continue
for three years and to the competitors
who have complied with the rules and
regulations herein specified, and have
obtained the largest number OF marks
at the end of the three years, prizes
will be awarded for each as follows:
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29
sA'Ar
"can you read lt'' he whispered.

LATTE, while picking his way along
the deck, lighted lantern swinging
from his hand, came upon a cloaked
female figure sitting well astern upon
q coil OF rope, and his foot struck
sharply against small object, send
ing 1t swiftly toward her.
Holding his lantern lower to see
what this might be, the rays struck
across the white hand and wrist OF
Rose de Cazeneau as she reached for
ward and picked up an exquisite
ivory fan, whose jeweled sticks
caught the light glimmeringly.
sob, 1t is Madame Rejects pet fan
-one Monsieur Laussat gave her in
place of one he broke, when she
danced with him at the governor S
ball"
Her voice sank lower. and a flutter-
ing, like that made by the wings Of a
startled wild bird. sounded in it.
Lafitte's hand had stolen over one
of hers, and now held it close.
why are you here. little Rose. and
not asleep, like the others, as you
ought to be? You must be very
tired"
81 was; but could not sleep. and
came up here for some air."
She stopped abruptly, and he felt
the SILVER that ran through her shout
der when it touched his own.
The suppression made his voice
tremulous as he asked, forcing a
laugh, and taking the fan from her
hand, DO you understand the Ian
guage OF the FAM"
Somewhat" she answered, wonder
ing at his apparent change Of mood.
'Lazalie has told me of it."
"Ah," said. LATTE, with touch Of
what might have been either play
fulness CT sarcasm, then you have
had an excellent teacher. Yet doubt
II she ever evolved for you a SEN
tence ! should like you to read"
What is it?-let me try" she re-
piled, her thoughts-as he intended
they should be-diverted.
IT wonder II there are enough
sticks in this small bauble." he con-
tinued, not seeming to have heard
her; and bending his face closer. he
counted them.
zone, two. three. four-yes, here
are the eight, and five to spare. for
al the fan is such tiny one"
Then, having placed 1t in her hand,
he added, speaking more softly,
There are the eight sticks. little
Rose. Can you read what they say to
vou from me?"
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29
CHAPTER xxx.


LATTE, while waiting for Baptistint
to return with implements for making
a grave. left Shapiro to look after the
prisoner, and drew Barbe aside In or
der to question here more closely.
Ho vas, after hearing what she had
20 fey, convinced that she was not
mistaken in her statement. although
there were no papers-nothing in the
way OF further Standardization
upon the dead man.
Barbe acquiesced readily in Lafitte's
decision that Rose de Cazeneau
should never be told the truth.
Great was the disgust OF Shapiro
and the two men who returned with
Baptistine when they found that it
was Lafitte's wish to bury the Eng
lishman. as well as Zeney. Even Bap-
tistine's black brows went up in sur
prised disapproval which he wisely
refrained from putting into words.
The dead were soon laid in the
hastily prepared graves; the earth
was shoveled over them. and some
pieces OF fallen trees placed above. to
guard against any disturbance from
denizens of the woods.
In the sunsetbathed clearing, Bap-
tistine stood near LATTE as the latter
gave Shapiro some parting orders.
He was to take the English sailor to
the neighborhood OF La Tetes des
Faux, and let him find his way from
that point to his comrades.
1t was comparatively early when La
fitte's party, weary from the excite
ment of the day and the fatigue of
their long march through the woods,
betook themselves gratefully to such
accommodations as Baptistine's small
craft afforded for rest and sleep.
The night had closed in darkly as
the boat slipped away beneath the
starlight, made DINNER by the wall
ing forest lining either bank of the
sayou.
1t was some time after this that
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29
Odd Newspaper Names.

The names of American newspapers
are study in nomenclature. In Ar
kansas are the Buzz Saw and the
Back Log; California, the Condor. the
Wasp and the Tomahawk; Colorado
the Rather, and Yesterday and To.
day; Iowa. the Postal Card, the Unit
the Nucleus and the Firebrand; Ken.
lucky, the Salt River Tiger, the Push
the Boomer; Missouri. the Missing
Link and the Cyclone; Nevada, the
Rustler. Oklahoma rejoices in the
Dinner Bell and the Plain People.
South Dakota has Plain Talker. In
West Virginia is the irresponsible,
Missouri has the Crank and the En-,
tering Wedge Wyoming roads Bill
Balon's Budget.
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29

Consider the porous plaster my
son." remarked the philosopher Don't
get discouraged. Everybody turns his
back on It. yet II hangs on and event
ually achieves success by close appiica-
ton"
The Elbert County tribune., 1905-06-29

her lashes droop to touch the flushed
cheeks
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20

massacred in order to protect their
monetary speculations, forests, lands,
mines and railroad grants. 100
It is false that defenders not Of the
country but of forcibly annexed lands
go to death eagerly and die in the ecstasy
of patriotism.
In the first lines of battle are placed
not Russians but peoples prosecuted by
the Russians-Poles, Jews, Finlanders.
Our brother Poles constituted 40 per
cent. Of the first Manchurian army.
Amid the groans and prayers Of the
dying, our Polish tongue was heard on
all the bloody battlefelds. 1t filled the
darkened earth with curses for the per-
petrator of this devastation.
Opposed to the War.
It is false that voluntary contribu-
lions are given by the Poles. These
voluntary contributions" are deducted
from the salaries of officials without
their consent or obtained from citizens
by threats. They knew the money
would disappear into the pockets of Ct
fetal thieves who fattened on the haId
earnings Of the Russian people. To-day
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20

says they do not call to the front
fathers Of families. That is only writ
ten for you of Europe and America
They take widowers with large families
Of small children. One of these men,
called to the service, hung his three
small children and reported the fact to
the military authorities. There was no
one with whom to leave them.
Another, called to the ranks on the
day of the death of his wife, who left
him a two-year-old baby and new
born infant. took an ak and killed the
children and placed them in the coffin
with their mother. Another man when
called to the army killed his wife, his
children and himself.
Groans Of Agony.
We see it all at close range. We hear
the means Of agony, we see the misery
and oppression of the people, and We are
told that the war is going to last long,
very long.
How many graves, then, does the
car demand? The cars government
asserts that he has enough wretched
victims to exhaust the accumulation Of
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20
TOLD OF BALDHEADED MEN
They Want More Hair Cuts Than
Men with Hair, Says
Barber.

The secretive, taciturn barber was
finally induced to talk, says the Provi-
dence Journal. He remarked: 1--WE no.
ticed one popularity about my CUSTOM
ers that l could never quite explain.
The less hair a man has the more at
tention he pays to it.
There's a real estate agent who
comes in here nearly every week for a
hair cut, and if shaved him clean from
the back of his collar to- his forehead
you'd never know that Id touched him.
He's got short, light colored fringe.
that plays around under the rim of his
hat, like the soft, fluffy fringe you see
on those shawls the women wear over
their shoulders, but you'd think to hear
him that he could braid it and do it up
in coils. Wants me to be particular and
trim it close on the neck and around the
ears. l hlmor him, Of course. l take
a handful of somebody elses hair and
sprinkle it on the cloth put on him and
then snip the air gently for ten or Is
minutes and make a great ado when !
whisk him OF.
And when he leaves the char and
says he mustn't let it grow so lo,.E again
l say 1t was pretty long. I Aope the
Lord will forgive me. Nine ont of every
ten Of the bald heads are that way, but
men who've got plenty of hair will keep
away from here until they look like the
edges of an old-fashioned hayIoft. It's
curinns and as T said | never cOuld &c.
count for it,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20
AWKWARD DINING IN JAPAN
The First Meal Partaken OF by an
American There Is Sure to
Be Trying.

If it's your first Japanese dinner you're
having dreadfully hard time. In the
first place, writes Bertha Runkle, in
"Child Life in China and Japan you
must sit on the floor, for they don't have
any chairs in Japan. You kneel down.
and then you turn your toes intill one
laps over the other, and then you sit
back between your heels. At first you
are quite proud to find how we'll you co
it, and you don't think it's so very un-
comfortable But pretty soon you &c:
cremped, and your legs ache as if you
had toothache in them. You don't say
anything. because you think that if the
japanese can sit this way all day long,
you ought to be able to stand it few
minutes. Finally both you feet go to sleep
and then you can't bear it moment Ion
GER and you have to get up and stamp
round the room to drive the prickles out
of your feet, and all the dancing girls
giggle at you. This isn't your only trou-
BILE, either. All you have to eat with is a
pair '6f chopsticks, and you're in terror
lest you spill something on the dainty
white mating floor. Now the floor of a
Japanese house isn't just the floor; it's
the chairs and sofas and tables and beds
as we'll. At home it would be mortify-
ing enough to go out to dinner and spill
something on the floor; but in Japan,
where people sit and sleep on the floor,
it seems even worse. So you are unhappy
till your little nesan (who is the waitress,
and almost as prettily dressed as the
dancing girls, but not quite) comes
laughing to your aid, and shows you how
to hold your chop-sticks. After that you
manage nicely the rice and the omelet,
but the fish and the chicken you cant
contrive to shred apart without drop
ping your chop-sticks all the time. So.
between dances, the maiko-littie girls
about IL years old-kneel down beside
you and help you. They can't keep from
giggling at your awkwardness; but you
don't mlnd-you just giggle, too; and
everybody giggles and has a lovely
time.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20
Thigh HONOR FOR ........
An ILLINOIS IMAM
CONGRESSMAN WARNER PLACED
AT HEAD OF PENSION DE-
PARTMENT.
Bristow Quits Postal Service to Ac-
cept Commission to Make 1nvesti-
CATION Of Trade Conditions and
Freight Rates.

washington, Jan. 14.-The president
Friday appointed Vespasian Warner to
be commissioner of pensions. Mr.. War
ner is now a member Of congress from
Illinois. Mr.. Warner is from the Nine
teenth district of Illinois and was re-
elected last November for the fifth
term and was strongly Endorsed by the
state delegation and by prominent mem
bers of the G. A. r. and other organiza-
tons OF ex-soldiers. 80
New Position for Bristow.
Washington, Jan. 14.-Joseph L. Bris-
tow, fourth assistant postmaster gen.
eral, on Friday rendered to the presi-
dent his resignation as an officer of the
postal service to take effect on the goth
instant. BY an executive order issued
ate in the afternoon President Roose-
welt designated Mr.. Bristow as special
commissioner to make an investigation
into the present trade conditions and
freight rates between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts and between the west
coast of South America and the east
coast of the United States, and Europe,
to determine the best policy of manag-
ing the Panama railroad. The an
nouncement came at the conclusion OF
an extended conference between the
president, Secretary Taft. Mr.. Bristow
and Senator Long, of Kansas. After
the conference at the white house, Sen
ator Long said that the transfer of Mr..
Bristow from the post Office department
to work in connection with the proposed
isthmian canal had been under consid-
Grafton for a long time. Mr.. Bristow
has had interviews with the president
and Secretary Taft regarding the mat
ter, but his final determination was not
reached until Friday. His decision 70
accept the special commissionershir
was fastened, it is understood, by the
transfer Thursday of the division of
post Office inspectors from the bureau Of
| the fourth assistant postmaster geher-
al to the direct control Of the rostmas-
! ter general himself. Mr.. Bristow re-
garded the issuance of the order of
transfer of the division as reflection
upon him. That the order as to the
inspectors division was not issued
with the idea of huEiliating Mr.. Bris-
tow is evidenced by the presidents &C.
ton on Friday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20
WILL QUIT OFFICE.
Premier Combes and His Colleagues
in the French Cabinet De-
.. eide. to Resign.

Paris, Jan. 16.-The ministry Of NJ.
Combes, after emerging successfully
from its bitter midnight struggle in the
chamber of deputies, has decided to
abandon the field while some portion OF
it's prestige still remains, and has zig
uified its intention of resigning. Off,
cial announcement Of the designations
has not yet been made, but M. Combes
has definitely stated the intention OF
himself and his colleagues, and the ter
mination of the ministry after tempes-
tuous career Of three years only await7
the formal submission of the letters OF
retirement These have not yet been
forwarded to President LOubet because
of the death of the }atter's mother, which
occurred. Sunday.
The effect of the change upon the gov
ernment's policies is not considered to
be great. The new ministry will have
the same majority as that supporting
Premier Combes, and so there cannot be
a radical change. This majority has re-
peatedly upheld M. Combes' project tend
ing toward separation of church and
state. 1t is expected. therefore. that the
programme relating to. separation will
be carried out, although M. Combes' re-
tirement probably will exercise mod
Grating tendency.
The issue which proved most decisive
in fastening the designations of the min
listers was a popular outcry against Sc
cret reports on the lives of army officers.
The change will undoubtedly insure the
abandonment of the last vestige of this
system. The enactment of an income
tax and other important measures will
not be materially affected.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20
Would Give Taft More Power.

Washington, Jan. 14.-2resident
Roosevelt, in a brief message transmit
ting to congress the first annual report
of the Panama canal commission, to-
gether with letter from Secretary Taft
relating to Panama affairs, recommends
that he be given greater discretion. as
he is charged with the responsibility
of constructing the canal. The board of
canal commissioners, he says, should be
reduced to five or preferably three men,
bers, whose duties, powers and salaries
should be assumed by the president.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20

New York.-On q dark, stormy
night in October Stanislaus Ma Turowski
left his humble home in southern Po-
land and swan the Vistula river near
Sandomiera, on the border between
Russia and Austria. In this manner he
escaped military service in the Russian
army in Manchuria, and started on his
long journey to America.
Concealed in tightly sealed rubber
case Mazurowski carried with him a
letter. to the American @people from q
Polish woman of noble birth. His cap
ture with that letter in his possession
would have meant death not only to
himself as deserter, but death also to
the fair woman for whom he was act
ing as messenger. knowing this, every
possible precaution was taken that he
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20

its yitals you now see only defeats
on land and sea; we look upon mis-
cry that brushes millions.
1t is not enough that our brothers are
perishing by thousands in a foreign
land, paying with their blood for the
perfdy of that government which tore
from them their freedom and their
fatherland. Our people are brought to
the last stage of misery. Tens OF thou
sands without work-fathers who can
not feed their children-walk the streets
Of Warsaw and Lodz.
Yet there is not enough misfortune
Mobilization is announced. Another
40, 900 victims are drafted from Poland
the land of graves and crosses.
Savage Despair.
You cannot imagine the savage de-
spair which overpowers the masses torn
from the plow, from the hearth, from
wife and children. If we are going to
perish, let us perish in our own country!
Let US die by the hands Of those who
are our enemies!" is the cry of the re-
serves. THE very stones cry out when
they take US. They clamor to the peo-
pie of Warsaw. We are not going to de-
fend Russia. Our country is here!"
You do not know that women throw
themselves under the wheels OF the
trains that carry their relations to the
far east; that cases OF sudden death
and madness occur every day; that IN
Pultusk, Czanstochowa and LODI, SOL
diers fred into the people and killed
many. In Gostynin, when the order was
given to decimate the resisting reserves,
the colonel, Dzwonkowski, Pole, shot
himself in front of his regiment.
In Kutnow the women, maddene6
with despair, threw themselves upon the
Russian officers, then knelt upon the
tracks, raising their hands and calling
the vengeance of Heaven upon the czar
The Russian government lies when II
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20
POLISH PEASANTS. FORCED TO FIGHT
US. FOR A HATED RULER.
SOLDIERS KILL THEIR FAMILIES
Rather Than Leave Them to Fate Worse
Than Death. Fathers and Lovers Murder
Their Loved Ones Before Leaving for the
Front-Stirrins Appeal of a Polish Woman
to All American Mothers.

people. It is untrue that the govern
ment of the car is Russia. That gov
eminent never receives the sanction and
mandate Of the people. The government
acts, Russia is silent. 1t is false that
Russia is Russia. Russia Is Poland, Fin
land, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia.
Russians are Tartars, Kurds, Yakuts
and other peoples harnessed under the
yoke of despotism.
It is false that necessity compels Rus
STA to- the war. The'moralnecessity was
to evacuate Manchuria at time set by
herself. tits false that the interests of
Russia required a further occupation.
Not the interest of the people is here
at stake, but the interest of handful
of titled and untitled parasites, who
send the people to massacre and to be
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-20

the Russian papers report that q hero
who received decoration for courage
on the battlefield had not even a shirt
on which to pin the symbol. It is false
that the injured rise from their beds
and rush into the lines; eager to fight
again. The injured have no beds: the
moneys appropriated for the purposes are
stolen.
We knew all this long before you did,
You saw only the immense empire
which haughtily spread over two hem
ispheres; we saw the vermin gnawing