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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Cement and Filters.

IL the proportion of six to one Is
used how many barrels of Portland
cement will be required for 800 cubic
yards of wall?
With concrete mixed six parts gray-
ell to one part cement 1t would take.
337h barrels of cement when no
stone filters are used. But IL filters
are used 1t would take, cement 270
bbls.. gravel 240 yds., stone filters 60
yds. You can estimate the amount
OF material required by the follow
ing. A barrel of cement contains four
cubic feet. When mixed six to one
this would build "a cubic feet of wall.
When small stone filters are used
figure on one-fifth of the whole wall
Tor stone. Should large filters be used
In size, say from one cubic yard down
to a cubic foot, figure two-fifths of the
whole. Thus for 300 cubic yards of
wall built with gravel and cement,
cement 3372 bbls., gravel, 800 yards.
with small stone filters, cement 270
bbls.. stone GO yards. gravel, 24O; with
large stone filters, cement 202a bbls..
stone 40 yards, gravel $50 yards.
Care must be taken to thoroughly bed
all filters and keep the large filters at
least six inches apart.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Cement.

A very good and easily made rub
Der cement is the following: Digest
some finely-shredded caoutchouc lin.
dia rubber) with about four times its
volume of naphtha or carbon
bisulphide for several days in
well covered vessel. Another
good cement may be made
by softening and dissolving shell.
lac in ten times its weight of water
ammonia. A transparent mass is thus
obtained, which, after keeping three
or four weeks becomes liquid, and
may be used without requiring heat.
When applied 1t will be found to soft
en- the rubber, but when the ammonia
is evaporated 1t forms a kind of hard
coat, and causes 1t to become imper-
vious both to gases and to liquids.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Look for Pleasant THINGS.

There are women, and men, too, for
that matter, who are constantly on
the lookout for unpleasant things and
who after while form habit of al
ways looking at the wrong side. Such
trait should be nipped in the bud
as soon as 1t threatens to gain head
way, for It not only leads to endless
unhappiness on the part of the perpe-
traitor, but makes life miserable for
those In their immediate vicinity.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

Please remember we never say or
binary coffee hurts everyone.
Some people use 1t regularly and
seem strong enough to Withstand its
attacks, but there is misery and dis
ease In store for the man or woman
who persists in its use when nature
protests. by heart weakness, stomach
and bowel troubles, kidney disease,
weak eyes or general nervous prostra-
ton. The remedy is obvious. The
drug caffeine. contained In all ordinary
coffee, must be discontinued absolute
ly or the disease will continue in spite
Of any medicine and will grow worse.
1t Is easy to leave off the old-fash-
Toned coffee by adopting Postum Food
Coffee, for in 1t one finds a pleasing
hot breakfast or dinner beverage that
has the deep seal brown color, chang
ing to a rich golden brown when good
cream is added. When boiled long
enough us minutesl the flavor is not
that of rank Rio coffee but very like
the milder. smooth and high-grade
Java, but entirely lacking the drug
effect of ordinary coffee.
Anyone suffering from disorders sci
up by coffee drinking (and there is an
extensive Variety can absolutely de-
pend upon some measure of relief by
quitting coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee.
IL the disease has not become too
strongly rooted, one can with good rea.
son expect it to disappear entirely in
reasonable time after the active
cause of the trouble is removed and
the cellular tissue has time to natural
ly rebuild with the elements furnished
by Postum and good food.
It's only just plain old common
sense.
Now, with the exact facts before the
reader, he or she can decide the wise
course. looking to health and the
power to do things.
II you have any doubt as to the
cause of any ache or all you may have,
remember the far-reaching telegrams
of hurt nervous system travel from
heel to head, and 1t may be well worth
your while to make the experiment of
leaving OFF coffee entirely for ten days
and using Postum in its place.
You will probably gather some good
solid facts, worth more than gold
mine, for health can make gold and
sickness lose it. Besides there's all
the fun, for it's like q continuous in
ternal frolic to be perfectly well.
There's reason for
/ POSTUM
n..,-xn r~~.., ~ 80 n.., -, 49,.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
The Coffee Debate.

The published statements of a num-
Der of coffee importers and roasters
indicate 'waspy" feeling towards us
for daring to say that coffee is harm
full to percentage of the people.
A frank public discussion of the sub
ject is quite agreeable to us and can
certainly do no harm; on the contrary
when all the facts on both sides OF any
question are spread before the people
they can thereupon decide and act in
diligently.
Give the people plain facts and they
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81
moment what terrible menace to
nation of civilized people. when one
kind of beverage cripples the energies
and health Of one-third the people who
use It.
We make the assertion advisedly
and suggest that the reader secure his
own proof by personal inquiry among
coffee users.
Ask your coffee drinking friends IL
they keep free from any sort Of aches
and ails. You will be startled at the
percentage and will very naturally
seek to place the cause of disorder ON
something aside from coffee, whether
food, inherited tendencies Or some
thing else.
Go deeper In your search for facts.
II your friend admits occasional neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, heart weakness,
stomach or bowel trouble, kidney com
plant, weak eyes or approaching nerv-
ous prostration induce him or her to
make the experiment of leaving on
coffee for 10 days and using Postum
Food Coffee. and observe the result.
II win startle you and give your friend
something to think of. OF course. IL
the person 10 one Of the weak ones
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

SScuhu FI0oF.
80 pieces 2 In. K 4 In. K 20 It. studs
body ioists.
800 pieces in. 4 4 in. IL IT.
3,40O feet dressed sheathing.
1000 feet clapboards.
1000 feet roof boards.
$500 feet inch flooring.
15 M. shingles. -
1880 laths. -;
10 rolls sheatbing paper.
In addition there would be the in
side fittings and material for 16 win
dows and % doors.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Jefferson's Cheerful Philosophy.

We spoke Of happiness. writes
Francis Wilson, In Scribner. Joy"
said, twas the God of our house
hold. No one was permitted to hang
crepe on the door of our feelinss."
That's the proper way" he made
answer. Happiness is the religion
Of our family. To begin with, we
take all the comic papers. No one
is permitted to read aloud, and he is
begged not to read. even to himself,
about the mangled corpse of the
father and the roasted bodies of the
babies-subjects with which the
daily papers disgustingly teem."
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

curing bad weather
brought on a heavy
cold. aching of the
limbs and pain in the
back and kidneys,
Severe congestion OF
the kidneys followed,
Besides the terrific
aching there were
whirling headaches.
and I became exceed.
fnRly waak Nv a,o
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

forth on stormy seas to-day in such
clumsy contrivance; but 1000
years back this same contrivance was
the proud queen of the waters, the
easy conqueror on a mighty main,
and the lesson she reads us. of past
power and present progress alone is
worth the northern trip. even though
the tomb chamber which buried the
viking king was pillaged of its hero
and its treasures. in remoter GEN.
turtles.
The Mighty Ibsen.
Two mighty monuments. an ancient
and a modern. has Christiania, and
at daily noontiec, the trio lowered in
the salon of the Grand Hotel, for but
glimpse of that Goliath of modern
times, whose weighty sledge hammer
nailed to the walls of "The Doll's
House" verdict which startled mod.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

tor could not help me. and turned
to Doan's Kidney Pills. with the re.
suit that the kidney congestion dis.
appeared and. with it, all the other
symptoms. What is more, the cure
has lasted for eight years"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents box,
FosterMilhnrr Co. Rnnfalo. N. Y.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Pot-Hunters' Work in AustraII,

Pot-Hunters' Work In Australia.
A fearful destruction of animal and
bird life has been going on in Aus
tralia during recent years. From a
number Of places come reports Of the
ruthless manner in which the black
swans are being exterminated. They
are said to be shot down in dozens
by pot-hunters, who frequently leave
the birds MANNED and wounded.
Western Australia was originally
know mas the Swan River Settle
ment." All the early issues of stamps
in that colony had graceful black
swan floating in their centerpiece.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
"siIver Grays."

Silver grays" in politics was a
term applied to the wings of New
York who supported the administra-
ton OF President Fillmore, and re-
garded the slavery question settled by
the compromise of 1850. A conyen.
ton OF the administration was held at
Syracuse Sept. ~, 1850, to secure a
vindication of the Presidents policy.
etc. The convention resulted in an
emphatic majority against the admin
istratton; whereupon the chairman.
Mr.. Granger, and several other ad.
ministration men, left the convention:
as they were elderly men, they, with
their following, were Immediately
dubbed silver grays."
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

sumatra Vegetables and Animals.
Sumatra has greater variety nj
animal and vegetable life than anv
other region in the world.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Ready with Helping Hands.

The sun does not always shine in
stageland, nor does it anywhere; but
the jewellers in that land are always
ready to lend each other their UNI
brellas when it rains.-Mr A. vane
Tempest.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
A COLD BROUGHT IT ON.

Severe Congestion Of the Kidneys
Soon Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills. \
Richard M. Pearce, q prominent
business man of 2S1 So Orange st.,
Newark, N. j., says: Working nights
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

open INTO the nail!
In the plan here given, the main
oody of the house is "a feet by so feet,
and two stories high. Both stories
have 10 foot ceilings. The kitchen is
16 feet by Is feet and IL feet high,
the ceiling 8 feet inches. There is
2 cistern under the kitchen and an
entrance to cellar. Over the kitchen
there is bath and a tank could be
built In the roof to receive water from
the roof of main building, the over
flow emptying into the cistern.
The house would cost all complete
about $1.450. There will be required
for the foundation yards stone, SO
barrels cement and 33 yards gravel.
The lumber bill would be as fol-
lows:
80 pieces, 2 In. 10 in II #. main.
s6 pieces. in. 10 in. IS It. kitchen
joists.
LIZ pieces 2 in. in. K IL #. stills.
% pieces 2 in. x in. IA IT. ceiling
joists.
SO pieces Of 2 in. in. Is #. rafters.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

It will require 10 barrels of Portland
cement, 16 barrels gravel and yards
stone filters mixed eight parts gravel
to one part cement.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Good IN Lizzie 1n,nos

Good IN Lizzie Tn,nas.
II Is sometimes good to be content
with doing little; the great and snlen.
did occasions in which a man can
benefit his country are few; the hum.
Die duties by which her benefit NAV
be advanced are of daily occurrence.
Sidney Smith.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
Material REQUIRED.

How much Portland cement and
sand will it take for wall of cellar
10 It. x10 #. to be 10 It. high and one
foot thick?
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

Prize Goes to Foreigner.
Prizes for the best patriotic songa
tor the use Of school children were
offered In Brussels. and the first prize
was won by a Frenchman.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

Perfectly Formed Man.
A man, to be perfectly proportional
should weigh twenty-eight pounds for
every foot of his height.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

USE THE FAMOUS
Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2.oz package
cents The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13


that wager.
Free inspection of our factories and
methods is made by thousands of peo-
pie each month and the coffee import
ers themselves are cordially invited.
Both Postum and Grape Nuts are abso-
lutely pure and made exactly as stated.
The formula of Postum and the an
alysis made by one of the foremost
chemists of Boston has been printed
on every package for many years and
is absolutely accurate.
Now as to the food value of Postum.
It contains the parts of the wheat ber-
ry which carry the elemental salts,
such as lime, iron, potash. silica, ETC.,
etc., used by the life forces to rebuild
the cellular tissue, and this is particu-
larly true of the phosphate of potash,
also found in Graps-Nuts, which COM
bines in the human body with albu-
men and this combination, together
with water, rebuilds the worn-out gray
matter in the delicate nerve centers all
over the body and throughout the
brain and solar plexus.
Ordinary coffee stimulates in an un.
natural way. but with many people II
slowly and surely destroys and does
not rebuild this gray substance SC
vitality important to the well being OF
every human being.
These are etersal facts. proven. well
authenticated and known to every
properly educated physician, chemist
and food expert.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

Everybody get ready for Spring
Conference.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13
CHEAP AND Roowy HOUSE.
Designed So That all Complete, Cost
Mould Re $3.50. 4N

Will you give plan for an mex
pensive dwelling house. the main
part to be about "a feet by % feet.
with an addition of suitable size. The
main part is to be two stories high
with square pitch of roof. | desire a
medium sized kitchen. fair sized din
ing room as well as large bedroom
down stairs. Would like to have
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

II you go to Conference be sure and
use the Salt Lake Route.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

and says 81 can't quit" you will have
discovered one of the slaves of tine cof
fee importer. Treat such kindly, for
they seem absolutely powerless to stop
the gradual but sure destruction of
body and health.
Nature has way of destroying
part OF the people to make room for
the stronger. II is the old law of "the
survival of the fittest" at work, and
the victims are many.
We repeat the assertion that coffee
does harm many people. not all, but
an army large enough to appal the in
vestigator and searcher for facts.
The next prevarication OF the coGee
importers and roasters is their state
ment that Postum Food Coffee is made
OF roasted peas, beans or corn, and
mixed with low grade Of coffee and
that 1t contains no nourishment.
We have previously offered to wager
$100,000.00 with them that their state
ments are absolutely false.
They have not accepted our wager
and they will not.
We will gladly make a present of
$25.O00.00 to any roaster or importer of
old-fashioned coffee who will accept
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;nree bedrooms upstairs. each one to
open into the hall?
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will take care of themselves.

We demand facts in this coffee dis
cussion and propose to see that the
facts are brought clearly before the
people.
A number of coffee importers and
roasters have joined movement to
boom coffee and stop the use of Pos
tum Food Coffee and in their newspa-
per statements undertake to deceive
by false assertions.
Their first is that coffee Is not harm
full.
We assert that one in every three
coffae users has some form of incini.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-13

10 j VIM
Postum Cereal Co.. Lsd.S Bastls cresx. MssA.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-26

" viii Dear eltner the sinai letof y" or ID" "
would DO worth about u.ns.
". II. B, New YORK. i have a gold dollar struck
eih's head with. plumed coronet.. cannot Qnd
tae mint mark, though. Can you inform me what
II there IL no mint letter. Your coin was struck
al the Philadelphia mint, being the commoneat
Of the issucs Of the year, and It Is worth only $3.50.
! CANNOT iieil where il was ninied. Please describe
the Dahlonega coin Of this denomination, Also
lectors.
II IL evident your dollar was coined at the PhiiA.
delphin mint. and % II 10 not held at q high premium.
The Dahlonega dollar dlrers from this only In the
addition Of the small mint letter a. IL Ia exactly
the anne In all other respects. No other gold
dellsrs gers coined .s this yea. 60 sGS CO :hs o:ss:
m,nts. The rare Dahlonesa dollar Is worth 500
and up,
s.stes that al isot dollar Is worth $50, have four
dollars Of the 1904 coinage. and l will thank YOU very
much u .you will refer me to one who IL buying dol
The statement 70 which you refer IL quite cor.
rect. Proof dollars Of 1904 are worth Is so and prob
ably more. Such coins are especially struck al
the mint for collectors from brightly polished
pianchets and are becoming very scarce. Thess
coins however. mus, no, be- confused With the
dollars struck for general circulation, which Ste
not sought by collectors and are worth but their
face value.
;$ Siais .' II fsa' with lie Liberty head Os as SS:
IL 10 probable that your dollar 10 worth from
si.so TO %, unless IL hsars one Of the rare mint
letters, Ao- or 3D. the coin With the letter "c-
n numbered among the rarest Of ooips Of ths do.
nonainasioa. vhis shs other 10 hcid ~ quito Q largo
prsmlum. % only ass were Originally COINED.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-26
PAY HIGH FOR THE RIGHT LIGHT,
Rents In Maiden LANE Affected by the Needs
OF Diamond Merchants.

u hpiUSuV4Mi HhCtCARssso'
Diamond cutting L. probably the only
manufacturing industry In this town that
can, AFFORD a location In the heart Of The
financial district.
The workmanship here b said 10 DO
superior to that Of the Amsterdam and
Antwerp factories In the mathematical 40
curacy with which the facets Of large stones
are cut. New York, consequently, sends
cut stones to Europe, besides supplying the
United States.
The bulk OF the New York diamond trade,
including a considerable amount Of the
cutting, "a done In Maiden lane, between
Broadway and Nassau street, a single block.
Most OF the dealers occupy Offices In modern
To show their gems they need q clear,
steady light, which In the case Of natural
light IL afforded only by 0 porthern, ex:
posture. Hence offices on the owe side OF
Maiden lane cost 70 to % per cent. more
than offices on the upper side. u,
The diferenoe Ia rent you'd be stu
buildings that fdos the south. Artificial
light may also be uRed !.
One house shows gems In q. room draped
with black velvet and lighted BY electricity.
Its natural light was ruined by the erection
OF O yellow brick building on the opposite
side OF the street. the reflection from which
gives an inferior color to the pufest stones.
Maiden lana rents are higher sven than
Broadway rents, reaching el.7S . square
foot per annum for ofecos just above tho
ground floor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-26
BUGs OF UNTOLD AGES AGO.
Fossils From Colorado Exactly Like IN
sects OF To-day.

scots OF To-day.
In all the world the greatest depository
OF fossil insects ID at Florissant, Col. DR..
W. NJ. Wheeler Of the American Museum Of
Natural History spent his vacation there
mems to the museum.
The layman commonly I kinks that fossil
insects are found only In amber, which
afforded a protecting medium for the pres
ervation Of their delicate bodies. There
are two or three places In the world. bow
ever, where peculiar conditions have pre-
served fossil insects In stone.
One Of them IL Rada poi. In BohemiaI
another Oeningen. In Bavaria. But by far
the richest depository is at Floriesant,
thi rty miles west OF Colorado Springs.
Samuel Scudder partially explored tho
region In 1890, since when 10 One touched
It till DR.. Wheeler went tners this summer
q. was accompanied by Prof. and Mrs.
Cooks r.ll Of the University Of Colorado.
The place they explored was on old lake
bottom I en- miles long. Some hundreds OF
tho usands Of years ago a tranquil, shallow
lake lay there, steaming In a bed Of dense
yeseta!ion. for the climate was then Ike
canoes smoked and spit and their sshes
sifted down into this lake.
The ashes caught and held the insects,
and later discharges bedded the FOSSILS
In rock. This rock now protrudss all over
the old lake bed, masses Of shale which
can be split into sheets with ease. In be-
tween the leaves Of shale are found the
fossil insects and they show that the insect
tribe has been the most changeless Of all
types.
Bees, beetles, spiders. flies and ants which
,t--l l.e-~. ,oI ~ oorHh INV III
be instantly recognized and even their
family told. Many ants are found, all Of
which must have fallen into the lake In che
marriage flight, since the ant IL . land
insect and the workers are wingless.
Many specimens are 50 well preserved
that they show over the hairs on the insect's
body. The lake Il full Of fossiliSed seqhois
alec and fossil leaves and oones.