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The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01

Tie Chicitain will deem it iavcr
u lis readers having relatives or
t~ienis visiting in the city would
send us notice of same to this Of
fee. Likewise when anyone is leav-
ing tie city for few days, or a
personal is desired 1t will be a
service that the editor will appreciate
md the information is always of in
,@rest to friends at home and abroad.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01
Placards for Sale.

Placards are for sale at The Chief
tain office, at the rate OF ten cents
cacii, which read as follows:
Boarding
No Credit
House For Rent.
No Splitting on Floor.
Dressmaking.
FURNISHED Rooms.
No Minors Allowed
No Tresrassing or Hunting.
Barn For Rent.
No Smoking.
House For Sale.
Extracts from the laws required to
lie posted by boarding house keepers
il they would protect themselves
against dishonest atrons.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01
Baseball

The baseball game between Granada
and Holly on Wednesday resulted in a
game for the home team, the score
being . to IL.
The base ball game played Sunday
at the beet ranch between the Amity
and Horse creek mines resulted in
victory for Horse creek. Score, "a to
81. Time, three hours and 10 min
utes.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01

Your next shoe should be Douglas
at White Bros.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01

w. W. Reynolds went south Wed
ncsday for i weeks business trip.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01

\ good line of parasols at Buffers.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01

Wanted 4 girl for gene al house
work. Apply Chieftain.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01

Bdiler carries Il good assortment of
chilGren'S dresses ut Pc 10 $l.jO.
The Holly chieftain., 1906-06-01

j. Il Pratt left last nigh, for the
east expecting to he gone for some
lime,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
Didn't Stop to Figure

A CURIOUS bet that partakes of the nature
n of practical joke went to the courts in
the town of Dole, France, in 1884. A citizen of
the district offered to pay one of his country
men twenty-four francs in advance if he would
agree to furnish him with a number of grains
of millet in proportion to the number of chill
dren born in the town within a year. One
grain of millet was to be given for the first,
two for the second, four for the third eight
for the fourth and so on, doubling the number
for each child.
Accepting the apparently generous offer,
the unlucky Frenchman attempted to carry
out the provisions; but sixty-six children
were born within the specified time. He was
astounded at the enormous quantities of grain
required to fulfil the contract, and appealed
to the courts for annulment of the wager, on
the ground that it was founded on an impos-
sible condition.
The judges granted his appeal; but ordered
him to return the twenty-four francs he had
received and to pay twenty-four in addition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
Elements Were Against Him.

THERE were few frenzied fnanciers in Eng
land at the beginning of the eighteenth cen
tury, if the banker Bulliot, of whom the follow
ing story is told, can be taken as an example.
a particularly wet and stormy day.
Trusting implicitly in the old superstition,
which says that if it rains on Saint Swithin' S
Day it will rain for forty days thereafter,
Builiot opened pool for everyone who was
willing to bet against him. The affair attained
so much notoriety that the wager was reduced
to writing.
"If dating from Saint Swithin's Day."
reads the memorandum, it rains more or
little during forty days successfully, Buliot will
be considered to have gained: but if it ceases
to rain for only one day during that time,
Bulliot has lost"
For two weeks it continued to shower every
day. and so confident did the banker become
that he accepted as stakes not only money
and even clothes. When his cash gave out
he offered notes and bills of exchange. An
other week passed, and Bulliot's star was still
in the ascendant.
But when the twenty-second day sank into
the west bright and cloudless, the unfortunate
banker was ruined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
Hard on a Drowning Man

xIIEUXTEMPS, the famous violinist, used
v to tell the following story:
When crossing London bridge one day. he
was suddenly brushed aside by wretched
characterization who climbed the parapet and
plunged out into the river. The foot passen-
gers crowded around Immediately to watch
the unfortunate man as he rose to the surface,
and in a trce some one shouted, "1'll bet he
drowns!'
1.-TWO to one he'll swim ashore!" was the
answer. The rest of the pedestrians joined
in the betting
Meantime Vieuxtemps rushed down to the
river bank, secured a waterman and rowed out
to the rescue. Just as the boatman was about
to reach forth to grasp the poor fellow, who by
having lost his desire for death, the specta-
tors above cried out: Leave him alone.
There's bet on it "
The oarsman drew back into the boat, and
the unfortunate wretch sank before their eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
No Help for the Dying

THE extreme callousness of the old English
gamblers, or gentlemen, as they were then
called, is illustrated by the following ac-
count which Horace Walpole, the celebrated
letter writer, gives of curious occurrence at
Whites coffee house in London.
In one of his epistles to Sir Horace Mann,
under date of September I, 1850, he says:
"They have put into the papers good story,
made at Whites. A man dropped down dead
at the door, and was carried in. The club inn
mediately made bets whether he was dead or
not; and when they were going to bleed him,
the wagerers for his death interposed and said
it would affect the fairness of the bet, and
they stopped their efforts"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
Records of Wagers

PETTING is neither so general nor so promis-
y cuous as it was one hundred and fifty years
ago, when books for recording wagers were
always kept on the tables in the much fire.
uuented coffee houses of London. Some Of
these books are still to be found among col
1ections of antiques and they make interesting
reading All manner of queer bets are entered
there on marriages, births, and deaths. on
the duration of ministry. on the length of
the lives of prominent personages, on the pos
sibility of earth iuakes, and even on hangings.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
Words of Praise

For the several ingredients OF which DE-.
Pierce's medicines are composed, as gives
Dy leaders in all the several schools Ok
medicine, should have far more weight
than any amount of non professional sesr
timonials. DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton has THE BADGE OF HONESTY on every
bottle-wrapper, in full list of all lis in-
gradients printed in plain English.
II You are an invalid woman and suffer
from frequent headache, backache, gnaw-
Ing distress in stomach, periodical palms,
disagreeable, catarrhal, pelvic drain,
dragging-doW distress in lower abdomen
or pelvis, perhaps dark spots or speeks
dancing before the eyes. faint spells and
kindred symptoms caused by female weak
ness, or other arrangement of the feminine
organs, you can not do better than taks
DR., Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
The hospital, surgeons knife and opera
ting table may be avoided by the timely
use of TFavorite Prescription" in such
cases. Thereby the obnoxious examin-
ations and local treatments of the family
physician can be avoided and thorough
course of successful treatment carried cut
in the privacy of the home. TFayorits
Prescription is com posed of the very best
native medicinal roots known to medical
science for the cure of woman's peculiar
ailments, contains no alcohol and no
harmful or habit-forming drugs.
Do not expect toe much from rFagorite.
Prescription; it will not perform mira
cles it will not Dissolve or cure tunnors-
No medicine will. 1t will do as much to-
establish vigorous health in most weak
nesses and ailments peculiarly incident to
women as any medicine can. It must be
given fair chance by perseverance, in it's
use for reasonable length of time.
You can't aford to accept a secret nos
trum as a SD destitute for this remedy q
known composition.
Sick women are invited to consult Dr.
Pierce, by letter, free. All correspond
ence is guarded as sacredly secret and
womanly condolences are protected by
professional privacy. Address DR.. E Y
Pierce, Buffalo. N Y.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the besk
laxative and regulator of the bowels
They invigorate stomach, liver and
bowels. One laxative; two or three n
tathartie. Easy TO take IS candy.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01

This is a good trick, as it seems like a
quite remarka BILE thing to be able to do
when really nothing could be simpler;
that is. when you know how. There
are several ways Of doing It.
Ask a girl to think OF some num-
Der. and then tell her to double it. Tell
her to multiply the sum by FIVE and
then to tell you the product, and you
will tell her the number thought of in
the beginning This product will Of
course be so much larger than the num-
Der started with that she will not hest
tate to tell you her result. II you take
of the last figure of the product,
which will always be cipher. you will
have the number thought OF In the
beginning.
For instance, suppose she started
with the number II. Doubling it
would give "a, and multiplying it by
five would give 10. Striking off the
cipher you will have Il, the number
thought of in the beginning.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
BlfndfOld Ga macs.

When a number Of children are play
ing together one of them may be sent
from the room, and one previously
blindfolded guesses which playmate
has gone. For hearing magic music
10 excellent, the child listening for the
increased volume Of music to tell him
when he is approaching the hidden OBJ
ject Or blindfolded child may guess
which of his playmates Is singing or
speaking to him. or, having listened
to series of different sounds-for ex-
ample. the ringing of bell, the tap
ping OF stick, the striking of note
on the piano. the clapping of hands-he
removes the bandage from bis eyes
and himself repeats the sounds in the
order In which they occurred.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
Dives and Lazarus.

Some of the wideawakers may be
surprised when told that the name
Dives is not mentioned in the Bible. and
yet they have heard the story of Dives
and Lazarus time and again, perhaps.
Even the preachers give the name Dives
to the certain rich man of the story
The truth about it is that In the Vnl-
gate or Latin Bible the word dives is
used where the name Of the man might
have been given, but dives is a Latin
adjective meaning rich and not q
proper noun at ALL 1t is not strange, as
the poor man Is called Lazarus. that
the rich man should be designated by
personal name, but there is no war
rant in the original text for doing so.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
DEN MARK.
Copenhagen.

The forty third annual report of the
deaconess work in Copenhagen gives
some interesting facts. The institu-
ton has in all 10 deaconesses and
force of good women has been labor
ing during the past year in fifteen hos
pitfalls, eight poorhouses. sixteen or
phanages. two domestic schools. fifty
one congregations have had from one
to five laboring in their midst for Il
longer OF shorter time. A collection
taken Up in all the churches of Der
mark on the thirteenth Sunday after
Trinity for the deaconess work
amounted TO about 5000. The re-
ceipts during the year from all
sources amounted to nearly $4,000.
The young peoples societies are
having a large following in Denmark,
As it appears. At Odense a conver.
zion of young people was recently held
ut which 100 branch societies We're
represented and these represented
over 10000 members. The officers af
this general organiza ton are such
mon as Olaf Nielsen school inspector
at Norre ABBY. president; Rev. Ring.
of Taps, vice president: A. J. Getiager,
Stenballe, secretary, and P. s. Peter
sen. Odense. treasurer. The secretary
is the author OF several works. In
the old couHtry. where common ueo-
pie have in years gone by not had
much 30 say, these popular movements
find more hearty response.
MARION s. NOREIIUs.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
Wasting Time.
They were dining off fowl in res

They were dining off fowl in a res
taurant.
"You see," he explained, as he
showed her the wishbone, ''you take
hold there and I'll take hold here.
Then we must both make wish and
pull and when it breaks the one who
has the bigger part of it will have his
or her wish gratifed."
'sBut don't know what to wish for, !"
she protested.
sob, you can think of something
he added.
''No, I can't" she replied. 81 can't
think of anything want very mnch.'
'sWen, I'll wish for you,' he ex-
claimed.
"Will you really?" she asked.
eyes"
"Wen, then, there's no use fooling
with the old wishbone," she interrupt
ed with a glad smile. ''You can have
me-"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01

The locust is about three inches long.
with large head and projecting oval
eyes. It's food consists OF leaves and
green stalks OF plants, and when To-
Gusts alight on any vegetation that
they fancy they consume it entirely
The terrible ravages OF locusts are
owing to the vast numbers in which
they appear, filing the air and dark
ening the sky SO that objects cast no
shadow and advancing with sound
like the rushing Of chariots. Locusts
are found in almost all parts of the
world except the coolest regions aud
are equally destructive wherever they
appear.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
KEEPING Tab
ON THE WORLD
Concluded from page 2

stner. Two women who were riding
with him were injured.
One Of the worst storms that has oc-
cured on the great lakes in years
caused numerous wrecks last week
and the drowning of eighteen persons
through the laundering of the steam
ers Resoiute and Panama. Several
other vessels were wrecked.
The North German Lloyd liner Main
was rammed by the four masted
schooner May V. Neville In the lower
New York bay. the Main being inbound
from Bremen, with full complement of
passengers and freight. The stem of
the schooner punctured the side Of the
liner in three different places.
Death of Georgia cayvan.
Georgia Cayvan. the once noted ac-
tress. died in sanitarium at Flushing.
n. Y, where she had been suffering
from paresis and blindness for six
Tears.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
Rats That Eat Crocodire..

Seeing that crocodile lays upward
Of twenty eggs, it seems wonderful
that in regions like the upper Nile
these big and savage reptiles do not
increase to such an extent as to be-
come masters of the whole country
around the river Fortunately a sort
of swamp rat has found that crocodile
eggs are good to eat, so digs them up
from the mound in which the parent
had buried them to hatch and deyours
them by the dozen.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
The Telegram Game,

The head Of each paper must bear
ten letters selected at random by the
letters. Within d given time. usually
FIVE Or ten minutes. each must write a
telegram Of ten words whose initial
letters shall be those at the head Of the
paper. For example, given the letters
7, T, P. A. w. l. n, r, d, $, one tele-
gram might read:
take two pellets aconite; wire i'm
mediately no relief. DR. Snow"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
Busting a Broncho.

In 1901 I went to Montana, the land
of gold and silver mines, and large
cattle ranches. I wanted to be cow
boy, so stopped at the Cut Bank
ranch and hired out to round up horses,
| I was to hit the circle. Generally they
put tenderfoot on night herd, but as
they were short of men at that time, I
was put at this work. was asked if
I could ride; and as had rode horses
before, I informed them that could
stick to horse like mucilage.
Now, when man tells the foreman
that he is good rider, he takes it for
granted that you are twister or a
buster AS I had no outfit, he bought
| me bride, saddle, rope and blankets,
and charged them to me. We left
town that day in a spring wagon for
the Milk River Valley. We got to
camp about nine O'Clock that night,
! SO, fortunately, none of the boys saw
, me until the next morning.
Well, we tumbled out at four, had
fapjacks, beans, beefsteak and pota-
toes for breakfast. One of the men
asked the foreman where he found it
meaning me.
"Oh'' said he, 81 found the little
maverick straying loose down town."
"What's he going to do?' asked an
other.
sTwist," said the foreman.
Now. / didn't know what "twist'
meant at that time; if had, would
have declined with thanks. Well,
there were remarks made by the diff
ferent cowboys that BODIED misfortune
for me. Say, but them lads had
good time at my expense. After
breakfast l was taken out to the herd
to pick out my horse for the days
ride. Some outfits give you string
of ten or twelve horses, but these were
punched with the roundup. was
given a horse that one of the night
crew had ridden al night, and told to
cut out my horse.
Well, I picked out little spotted,
ringtailed cayuse and run him out and
tried to rope him. had never thrown
a rope, but I knew how to hold it.
Well, [ got that blamed rope every
where but near that pony's neck.
Finally one of the boys roped him for
me. Most outfits have a twister to
break the green horses. Of course
didn't know about this, or | would not
have attempted to ride the horse they
picked out.
I saddled him, and as [ did so he
stood like an old COW, never moved an
ey clash. Say, but he was dandy.
no more than got on when he went
straight up into the air, and [ thought
he was never coming down. But he
did, and I soon imagined that | was
aboard a cyclone. He threw me off,
walked on my shirt bosom, took a
sample out of my knee, and branded
me on the jaw. [ skated around on
the back of my neck, parted with most
of my complexion and nearly all of my
clothes.
The cowboys all appeared to be sick,
they looked like it. They
were laying on the ground holding
their sides. Some of then looked like
they had swallowed quirt, or some
thing that was choking them. Well,
they came to enough to pull the cayuse
off of me. Then the buster rode him. |
He rode him easy enough, anyway
that's the way it looked to me. So
that's the way busted broncho.-
1306-Prison Mirror. !
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
The Best Way.

If | make a face at Billy,
He will make face at me;
That makes two ugly faces,
And quarrel, don't you see?
And then | double up my fist
And hit him, and he'll pay
Me back by giving me kick,
Unless [ run away.
But if | smile at Billy,
IT'S sure to make him laugh;
You'd say, ii you could see him,
Twas jollier by half
Than kicks aud ugly faces.
| tell you all the while,
It's pleasanter for any boy
(Or girl to laugh and smile.
The Religious Herald.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
COnundrumR.

Why had person better lose his arm
than a leg? Because losing his leg be
loses something Ito boot
What did Adam first plant in the
garden of Eden? His foot.
Why is stick Of candy like a race
horse? Because the more you lick it
the faster it goes. y.
Why is peach stone like a regi
ment? Because it has a kernel.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
Time More Precious Than Money.

Tine HOre PRECIOUS Than Money.
Thirteen men once agreed to meet at
q fixed place and at a certain hour. At
the appointed hour they all appeared
except one. He was five minutes late
When he arrived one of the others
said, You have caused US to lose an
hour"
Looking at his watch. the man who
was late said, NO; only Eve minutes y
The other replied: There are twelve
Of us waiting on you. and twelve times
Ave minutes make sixty minutes. So
we have lost an hour"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
Blame
No One But YOURSELF
If You Don't Get
Well When Sick.
All we can do is give advice.

All we can do is give advice
Of course that's easy.
But our advice is really worth q little
more to you than most peoples, for We
offer to give you the first bottle Of ear
medicine free, if it fails to help you
We could not afford to do this unless
our medicine was good. Such an offer,
on the wrong kind of medicine, weulG
put merchant prince in the poor house
DR. Miles Nervine, however, as years
Of experience have proved, is a nedt-
cine that cures the sick.
Those whom 1T cannot beneft-lesE
than one in ten thousand-we prefer ta
refund their money.
All we ask of you is to try DIR. Miles
Restorative Neryine for your complaint
II you suffer from sleeplessness. nervous
exhaustion, dizziness, headache, mus
cular twitchings. melancholy, loss OF
memory, weak stomach, poor blood
bilious troubles, epilepsy, St Vita1s'
Dance, etc, we will guarantee to benett
you or refund your money.
You are the doctor.
MY son Bert, when in his 18th year.
go serious that we were compelled to-
take him out Of school. After several
physicians had failed to relieve hifn, We
gave DR.. Miles Neryine a trial Ten
months treatment with Nervine and
Liver Pills restored our boy to perfect
health MR.. JOHN S. WILSON,
Deputy Co. Clerk, Dallas Co, Mo.
TpTr Write US and we win EhaEa
AsGI you Free Trial Package OF
Or. Miles AntI-Pain Pills, the New,
Scientific Remedy for Pain. Also Symp-
tom Blank for our Specialist to diagnose
your case and tell you what is wrong
and how to right it, Absolutely Free
Address: DR.. MILES MEDICAL CO,
LABORATORIES. ELkHART, MI
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
MORE OR LESS PUNGEN T
Reasonable Request.

"Pa, Uncle James has given me his
steamer trunk"
stWen what of it,"
"Now pa, don't be peevish, couldn't
you give me trip to Europe to sort OF
round out Uncle James present3"-
Huston Chronicle.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01

The beginning of eternity.
The end of time and space.
The beginning of every end
And the end OF every place.
(AnsWer-The letter e.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-12-01
NORWAY.
Christians

OHBJbLGHlAs
twenty-five years ago missionary
society was organized among the uni
The newspaper., 1906-03-02
PEcULIARITIES OF CRAFTS

The North Fork Times of last
summer says that b. c. Martin
and a party of friends went to
the Grand mesa lakes on August
20, and returned home on Sep
tember 4, having enjoyed a very
pleasant camping trip. b. L.
Martin by the way, is one of the
most enthusiastic road overseers
that Delta county is afflicted
with and is also a son-in-law of
Ross Wilmot, and in 1905 has a
record of working 306A days on
the roads of the county, or at
least charged that many days to
the county.
But to get back to the time he
went on his camping trip to the
mesa lakes. The Laborer editor
went over to the court house and
took squint at the road over
seer's bills and found that MIR.
Martin had sworn that he had
worked for the county on Au-
gust 30, 80, 81, September l, 2.
and A, and had charged for the
time at the rate of 81 per day.
Mr.. Martin made the mistake
of itemizing his days labor in
stead of just saying that he did so
many days work on the roads
and letting it go at that. Bet he
don't get caught with the goods
in like manner again soon.
The official organ will please
rise and tell the dear people
how the Hotchkiss road over
seer could be at the mesa lakes
and still work on the roads at
Hotchkiss. The official organ
can do it, and don't you think it
can't.-Delta Laborer.