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Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-07-21
DESERT LAND, FINAL PROOF NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

United States Land Office, Los Angeles, Cal, July 10th, 1906.
 Notice is hereby given that Louis IL. Cooper, of Redlands, Cal, has filed notice of intention to make proof on his desert-land claim No. 1907, for the SIP, Sec. ?, I l6 5, R l5 E, s. B. Mr before Register and Receiver, at Los Angeles, Cal, on Wednesday, the 22nd day of August, 1906.
 He names the following witnesses to prove the complete irrigation and recla- nation of said land:
 Frank s. Best, of Holtyille, Cal; A. E. Frost, of Redlands, Cal; D. W. Wickersham, of Los Angeles, Cal; w. F. Holt, of Redlands, Cal.
 FRANK c. PRESCOTT. j2l-al8 Register.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-07-21
When You Take a Bath.

When drying off after a bath stand in the bathtub in water up to the an' kles. When rubbed with coarse towels until the body is all aglow, step out and wipe the feet. This prevents that uncomfortable chilly feeling experienc- ed if one steps immediately out of a bathtub full of water on to the bath mat.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-07-21
NorIcE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, Land Office at Los Angeles, Cal, July llth, 1906. Notice is hereby given that the fol. lowing-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in sup port of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the United States Commissioner at his office in San Diego, Cal, on August 28th, 1906, viz
 JOSEPH H. HARPER
 Homestead entry No. l0,474, for the NV l-4, Sec. 2s, T l6 $, R l3 E, S.B. M. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous resid ,nce upon and cultivation of said land, viz;
 Lols Whitney, of San Diego, Cal. Eli NJ. Sheldon, of Fl Cajon, Cal. Andrew J. Elliott, of Silsbee, Cal. ; Walter Elliott, of Silsbee, Cal.
 FRANK c. PRESCOTT, i2l-al8 Register
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-07-21
Love.

We never can say why we love. but only that we love. The heart is ready enough at felgning excuses for all that 1t does or imagines of wrong, but ask 1t to give a reason for any of it's beau tiful and divine motives, and 1t can only look upward and be dumb-Low- ell.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-07-21

There are many diversities of vice, but it is one never failing effect of 1t to live dlspleased and discontented.-Sen- eca.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-07-21
What Denaturcd Alcohol Means to
 the People

Qe0aIuTeQ dlCOUOl idW, WtltS' HtA SC ''i to effect on January 1 1907 will in all probability mean much to every retail grocer at least to every retail grocer who sells kerosene oil For the law referred to Is intended to. and doubtless will. greatly foster the sale of denatured alcohol. which takes the place Of kero- sene and gasoline to very large de- gree. As a matter of fact this new federal law creates vast new bust ness. which it is reasonable to expect will be largely In the hands of grocers, since they are distributors of the prod ucts which dsnatured alcohol is de- suned to supplant. As is freely ad- mitted by the government, the law was passed to administer a blow to the Standard oil Go.
 Without waiting for the law to go into effect an immense interest has sprung up throughout the country dur ing the past week and scores of new industries have been projected. Con- gressmen who took part in the legisla- ton are receiving showers of letters of inquiry. Experiments to determine how the new cheap fuel can be used are being made in factories and labor atories in many cities.
 Automobile manufacturers are trying 1t In their machines. Makers of in- ternal combustion engines are seeking for quick ways to convert present types of gasoline engines Into alcohol users. Lamp makers are devising new burn CTS Oil and gasoline stove manufac- turers are making new patterns for al cohol use. Owners of naptha launches especially are interested, for the new fuel promises to obvlate the constant danger of explosions in their craft.
 The farmers. especially, are con- cerned. for an extensive use of alcohol means new market for the corn and other agricultural products from which alcohol can be made.
 Alcohol Is used in the manufacture of large number of articles of every day consumption. Chemists have made 1t so important an ingredient In innumerable ways that the exceedingly high price on account of the tax has materially increased the cost of goods. Hats, photographic materials, aniline dyes, powder, cabinet work, rattan goods and hundred other things which cost more because of the alcohol tax. :
 An internal revenue tax of $207 on alcohol forced up home prices and tariff tax of $4 per gallon barred out foreign lmportations The supply, therefore. was kept down to lowest llm- its and nobody profited except the Gov ernment International Revenue De- partment. Even that did not gain much, because the untaxed chemical spirit called wood alcohol was devised to supply the manufacturing want. In fact, there was no good reason for the duty in this phase of the case save that drlnkable alcohol Is taxed.
 But recently there loomed up the possibility of so adapting alcohol as to break the monopoly of Standard Oil in lighting, heating and in explosive en- zines. The tax Is the only thing that makes alcohol expensive. Otherwise 1t is as cheap and easy to produce as kerosene and in many respects proves twice as efficient. One bushel of corn yields 2 l-2 gallons of alcohol, and the cost of dstiling is very small. It de- bends on the price of corn.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
Women WAGE Farmers.

Two young Boston women, students
at the University of Chicago, have set
before themselves the difficult task of
investigating the problems presented
by the gainful employment of women
n the United States. So far as the
results of their inquiry have been
made available in the pages of the
Journal of Political Economy, they
are confined to an analysis of the facts
to be deduced from the census re-
ports; but some of these results are
so interesting that the student of So
cial economies will await the compile
tion of the study with impatience,
Feminine competition with men is
a subject on which it has been the
fashion to dogmatize freely, but the
actual material on which to base ex-
act conclusions is surprisingly scan
ty, and any labor which furnishes the
needed data is labor well applied. 1t
has been often said, for instance, that
women's invasion of fields of indus.
trial activity hitherto restricted to the
male worker has increased the keen
ness of the competition for liveli-
hood, and whatever progress has been
made by women in enlarging the mum.
Der of gainful occupations open to
them has been at the expense of and
in the face of the opposition of the
men. Nevertheless, it has not been
demonstrated that women's work has
essentially altered in amount or in
tensity. and there is reason to believe
that even the changes in the charac-
ter of that work have not been so
great as is commonly believed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
Hard Pest to Fight.

The treatment for root. maggots is
very difficult, owing to their manner
of working upon the plants. The
treatment which is recommended is
not entirely satisfactory at times. The
method of dealing with this pest,
which has seemed most satisfactory
up to the present time, has been to
watch the different stages of the in
sect and when the first maggots APP
pear to be working in the plants it is
the practice to open a furrow away
from the plants and sprinkle into this
furrow quantity of tobacco dust,
afterwards recovering the furrow
Another method is to apply at this
time carbolic acid emulsion made in
the proportion of one pint crude car
bolie acid, one pound soap and one
gallon water. This should be diluted
in 30 parts water and applied near
the plants along the row. Either of
these treatments will in general be
somewhat satisfactory. We are at
present planning to take up the onion
maggot problem during the coming
season and hope we may be able to
get more conclusive results.-H. E.
Hodgkiss, Assistant Entomologist New
YORK Experiment Station.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
HOW TO USE A CHAIR.
Very Few Women Seat Themselves
Gracefully-A Few Pertinent
Points Thereon.

The little woman looks odd in high
chair. With her feet dangling and her
back ill-htting, she has a misfit look
which is as uncomfortable to the behold.
er as 1t is to herself. She looks and feels
and is out of place.
In order to appear to the best possible
advantage it is essential that my lady
should be seated upon chair that Is
neither too high nor too low. In her
own house she easily can arrange it so
she has a chair just suited to her. 1t
follows that every drawing room should
be furnished with chairs of diversified
heights. When this is the case guests
Of all statures will be able to find chairs
that are exactly suited to them.
The subject is of much greater conse-
quence than the average matron or So
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19

and a pasture of this grass, if taken
care of, will last for many years. The
grass starts to grow very early in
the spring and flowers in the northern
United States in June. 1t likes a
limestone soil, and on a soil rich in
lime it establishes itself by forming a
very compact sod.
This grass is better adapted to pas
ture than to hay meadow, for the rea-
son that it does not work well into the
rotations 1t takes three or four years
for it to form a compact sod When a
pasture has been once taken by blue
grass, the farmer has something that
will stay by him through cold and
heat, flood and drouth. In Kentucky
the farmers pride themselves on the
luxuriance of their blue grass pas
lures, some of which are more than
30 years old. 1t flowers but once in
the season, but after being grazed or
cut it quickly sends up a new vigor-
GUS growth.
The grass does well in rather dry
soils, but will adapt itself to almost
any soil, even to the wet meadows.
In Kentucky and other states in which
the winters are mild it is used, says
the Farmers Review, for winter pas
lures and it is not infrequent that
herds are kept on it the year around.
1t does particularly well where trees
are scattered about to give it a partial
shade during the hot days of summer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
TILE DRAINS AND ALFALFA.
Testimony of One Farmer Shows That
Roots Do Not Fill Up the
Drains.

A neighbor planned to sow % acres
OF alfalfa this spring, but some one
told him that the roots would stop nm
tile, and render them worthless 7 can
not grow it, unless on tile-drained
land, says an Ohio farmer in WRITING
to the Ohio Farmer. In a field of ~
falfa five years old on my farm. where
there is as much as so rods per aero
the tile are still at work. In Some 90
these tile, however, does the water
now continuously. In two or three
days after very wet spell, the water
VIII, in the main, If not altogether
cease flowing. Several times I have
examined carefully, to see if anv roots
could be found in the tile, but was
unable to find any. The roots grou,
down to the tile, and then pass ON
around. 0n
4 am told that where the water fows
constantly through the tile. there ,s
sometimes trouble from the alfaIfo
roots entering the tile. have eiabt
acres OF alfalfa sown last August thar
mas near 400 rods of tile under ~
From the prospects the alfalfa bo,ar
out to me, am perfectly willing 40
take the risk. In fact, | put down 1o1
rods last spring, that might feaI Coz
IN sowing the alfalfa. have no exs
pectation mat will ever need to take
up the tile to clean the roots ont ~
them. ou' Vi
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19

After an agitation that finally WON
TO its support all but the owners and
breeders Of coach horses and those
that slavishly follow fashion the New
York legislature has passed by very
large majority bill to prohibit the
docking of horses tails and the i'm
portation into the state Of horses thus
mutilated. The New York Evening
Mail says: There is no question of
the merit and need of such a law
The docking Of a horses tail is
senseless abasement of Gods noblest
four-footed creature. 1t is a repulsive
as well as cruel outrage upon an
animal which repays brutality with
gentleness and good service. A fire.
quent argument against an anti-dock
ing bill has been the assumption that
it would only serve to penallze breed
ers in this state, since purchasers
would buy their horses outside the
state and bring them in. The bill
passed by the assembly the other day
torDids the Importation OF locked
horses. So far as the Constitutional
ty of such provision goes, it need
only be said that If the state may
prohibit the importation of harmless
oleomargarine and of lawfully killed
game birds, 1t must certainly possess
the power to shut out MANNED beasts.
Another argument against the law
has been that spirited horse may be.
come impossible to control If he is
able to throw his tail over the reins-
In answer to this claim it is only
necessary to say that spirited horses
should only be driven by competent
drivers, and that a good driver does
not allow the reins to get out of his
control"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
THE FARM.

Good seed is essential to good crops
and is cheap at any price.
Flowing too wet ground glazes over
the clods and keeps in the water.
Don't pillow the soil deep when j. is
wet. 1t VIII result in lasting injury.
The COW that is spring poor" now
won't be worth much the coming sum
mer
Keep plenty of vegetable matter in
the soil by use of clover, cowpeas or
manure
Don't blame your neighbor bocpuse
his cattle get in your field. Keep your
fences repaired.
We have as yet hardly begun TO
study our grasses, of which many
Kinds grow wild in the United States
Give the boys five square rods OF Jand
lor a garden. Let them plant anything
they like, Tut insist that they KEEP
down the weeds.
NO barn dressing should be used in
growing potatoes. 1t has tendency
10 produce rot. Use barn dressing in
seeding to grass after the potato crop
E. Rogers, Cumberland county. Me
A top dressing of nitrate of soda is
applied early in the spring by that
very successful hay grower of Connec-
ucut' George M. Clark. II gives grass
a vigorous start.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
THE COURTEOUS PERSON.
Even Reproof Need Not Be Given
Rudely-About Various Points
of Etiquette.

There is never an excuse for rude
ness; a perfectly well-bred person is
never rude. If occasion demands, and
reproof must be given, it need not be
given rudely; rather with dignity
that makes it all the more effective.
To be curious about other people's
affairs is to be rude; to intrude when
one is not quite sure that converse
ton is private, is to be rude; to make
direct personal illusions is rude; to
turn remarks into a personal applica.
ton is rude. In short, anything THAI
in any way seems in the least calcu.
lated to make others uncomfortable is
absolute rudeness, for which there is
no excuse.
A very rude thing is to interrupt
with contradiction or correction.
either of pronunciation or of state
ment; in the first the person may be
purposely misstating with some ute
rior object, with which one has no
concern. If this Is not the case. it
is better to take the opportunity to
call attention in an aside, rather than
before others.
To correct is to confuse: If il is
in the matter of pronunciation, re-
member that different localities have
differeLs RECOMMENDATIONS of the same
word, and yours might sound quite as
bad. even worse, in such localities.
Some very well-informed people
have peculiar ways of pronouncing
simple words; the close 'u of the
Virginian is an example. This can
by no means be considered Incorrect:
it is habit and the custom; therefore.
1t is rude to notice it in a fault-fnding
or corrective spirit.
Also, in the matter of pronouncing
words that are little out of the or.
binary; it is never so much the accent
on the right syllable that is to be
noted as that the word itself is cor
rectly applied Many learn from read.
ing, and yet may not have opportuni.
ties of hearing such words pronounced
as they should be. 1t is not the place
of the listener to correct, unless r.
quested, and then only in the polirS
spiSit.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19

dunn 2lO yards long. Then there's
baseball.
People have short memories. Who
remembers Henry Chadwick, the
father of the game? Who remembers
John Montgomery Ward? AS base,
ballist, that is? He was once the lido
of New York, college graduate, Law
student, husband of a popular actress
famed short-stop. For time New
York bowed low before Amos Russie
New idols rise. The fan" who car
last like Pop" Arson in Chicago is
rare. Baseball is game fer young
men. You draw big money a few
years, then just as you bagln to fee
that you know the game, along abou,
q years OF age, people be- in to cal
you veteran" and the manager IRE
leases" you to minor team or poor
er club in smaller city. The famoM
players over 80 years of age who hold
their own without a shadow of doub,
are mighty few To compare unik,
things, John L. Sullivan was wonder
he was champ" for IL years before h
went down and out. But he became ar
ex-"champ" at 33 That's cd, in the
ring or on the diamond. Fit simmons
is young man. comparatively, but in
the ring he's marvel of survival, no4
a champion. The most successful base.
ballists are the fellows that get plenty
of fame and succeed in starting sport
ing goods stores before they lose head
way in the diamond. Baseball man
ayers have hard-hearted way of de-
handing results and the public is
tickle. Besides, business is business.
Suppose there should be long coal
mining strike and bad crop and a few
other tribes. Where would the base
ball cash boxes be at the end Of the
season?
OWEN IANGDON
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19

hotel of his own under his own name,
name worth money.
An old-timer; yes. When he was
running the Grand Union hotel in Sar-
tago-capacity somewhere about 1900
The would meet the bus at the door
and greet every guest by name, that is
II he had but once seen the guest be-
fore. In the city he made the same
trait Invaluable. OF late years, as the
number of impressions on his mental
photography increased beyond all rea
son, he sometimes missed a name. A
genuine regard for the comfort of his
people went with his marvellous mem
DRY. Nowadays the proprietor of great
hotel scarcely sees his guests. Usually
he is quite a different person from the
manager, anyhow. Boldt at the Wal
dorf-Astoria, Hahn, Muschenheim, are
of the new type, They look after the
kitchen more than the front office, and
they are rather financiers than hosts.
oscar" is known to ten times as many
steward or head waiter bad substi
tute in some ways. He gets a big sal
airy and a percentage on the business.
He is a diplomat, a tactician, an ex-
pert of cooking and service. Louis
Sherry was once a head waiter or stew
ard, and so won favor in that place
that his rich patrons practically set
him up In business. But there is a
difference. The head waiter type, as
representing the hotel to the average
outsider, has at times the subtle air
of the turnkey. He is obsequious or
naughty as the case demands. The
old-time landlord was not much of an
expert on French cookery, and he did
not greatly study grace in ushering
people about. He was a free and equal
American citizen, too simple to DOW
low before wealth and too human to
snub any decent guest. 1t was the ho-
tel clerk, not the proprietor, who put
on airs. Now the clerk is an-humbled
and brought low; made the keeper and
the slave of all manner of electrical
contrivances, naughty only to the bell
boys.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
VALUE OF A GOOD GARDEN
A Word of Advice as to DevotinR
Small Patch on Farm to Rails
ing Vegetables.

Many people fail to realize the great
value of thrifty, well kept garden.
Even an inferior one is much better
than none. Vegetables are indispensa-
BILE to a family, so far as health Is
concerned to say nothing of the money
saved by not having to buy to much
flour and so many groceries.
1t would seem that every man
should manage to obtain piece of
ground and see that 1t became well
fortified and enriched and then put
under a thorough state of cultivation
before trying to plant the seeds. 1t
only costs a little to buy enough seeds
for quite good sized garden.
Radishes and early onions may be-
made to grow in such way as to
keep the table well supplied nearly
the whole season, and, when taken
fresh and crisp from the garden, they
have proved to be fine aid to diges-
ton. Radishes soon grow too strong
and pithy, and are not fit to use on
the table. To be good they must be
planted in rich and well prepared soil.
My way of having a continual sup
ply, explains a correspondent of the
Orange Judd Faumer, is to get two
packages of radish seed, one of the
small turnip-shaped kind, the other
of the long kind, that are not quite so
early, both of the red variety. l then
plant one third of each package. This
amount is for a small family, but
where there is large family 1t will be
necessary to plant more.
When the early, little round rad
ishes are about gone, plant again
about a third from each paper. By
the time the third planting has been
neariy used other vegetables have
come on and are taking their places.
The ground, however, should be
cleared by removing all the waste
ones. l have found that hogs relish
these leftover radishes very much.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19

ciety belle has considered it-that is, IL
she has considered it at all. But once
awakened to its Importance she will de-
vote to it some time and attention that
she will find to be by no means misspent.
The resourceful woman can do much
toward acquiring the desired accom-
plishment. So far the comprehensive
correspondence school genius has not
added the study to his curriculum, but
in most large cities there are exclusive
finishing schools where they give you
lessons in sitting down. They divide
the lessons into four parts: First, en-
tering the room; second, the greeting;
third, the selection of a chair; and,
fourth, the being seated,
In the fourth class there are many
things to be grasped The first is that
you must not lean forward, when you
sit down. 1t looks awkward. Don't sit
with the body inclined forward. 1t gives
one look as though one were about 10
start
Don't sit with one foot doubled in
under your chair; and, of course, don't
"a SH Jun AOOt' laSS yOui lOSI III IIOuI
OF you, not extended too far, and don't
spread them too far apart Let them
rest easily upon the carpet.
When you sit down, don't loll; don't
lean way back; don't cross your feet,
and don't look too uncomfortable. Rest
comfortably, but don't be too comfort
able. Moderation in this matter is as
important as moderation in anything
else.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-06-19
Planting Corn in warm soil

In the growing of corn I Ana ~.
the matter of seed is of very praa. a.,
portance, writes a Kendall comfy nm !,
correspondent of the Farmers Review
l sometimes buy seed to get a change
ana then sow my own for few
years prefer to buy any time after
January l. as after that time seed can
not wen be changed. If it is good seed
at mat time 1t will stay good. and e.
paa there Is no way of improving II 7
test several times and make a thorono,
lest IN winter. The sandy loan Is
ready 70 plant several days earlier
tnan the clay loan prepare INV
ground thoroughly, and when the soil
mas become warm plant about one
and one-half inches deep.