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Coming Attractions.

The following attractions have been
booked for the Duncan for the near
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A young woman VINO ~ the name
Of Mrs. AN. Vaughn was found IN
the alley behind the synagogue BY
Offlcer .Kefy EMS morning In . state
OF in~toxica{ion. She was taken to
jail. 4.
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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-22

veloped a theory that starvation was
necessary to get rid of the old body
and before new one could take its
place.
He began the great experiment. OF
course, we knew he was just starving
himself to death. We tried in every
way to persuade him to eat. But he
was man of infiex;ble will. He kept
getting weaker, thinner and thinner,
until everybody saw that he could not
live much longer, out still he would
not eat.
He recognized his mistake few
days before the end. He felt he was
going. He said then that he would
take nourishment, but he had been Q
vegetarian all his life, and we could
not get him to take any broth or meat
We called in DR.. e. P. Greene, but II
was too late.
"He passed away cheerfully, saying:
I've made the great experiment, and
I guess l have failed. But l am moi
sorry. 1t is all for the best"
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whose smoke dipped and waved and
caught him in its fold. In brief, he
got into saddle and journeyed to the
Hill of Dreams.
The Hill of Dreams dominated the
wide and level landscape over which
It had looked out through hundreds
of slow, unnoted years. From 1t once
rose the signal smokes Of the red men,
and here 1t was that many sentinel
had stood In times long before white
face was ever seen upon the Plains.
Here on the Hill of Dreams, whence
the eye might sweep to the fringed
sand hills on the south, east to the
river many miles away, and north and
west almost to the swell of the cold
steppes that lead up to the Rocky
Range, the red men had sometimes
come to lay their leaders when their
day of hunting and of war was over.
Thus the place came to have extra
ordinary and mysterious qualities
ascribed to 1t, on which account, in
times gone by, men who were rest
less, troubled, disturbed. dissatisfied.
came thither to fast and pray.
Hither they bore the great dead. It
was upon the Hill of Dreams that his
people buried White Calf, the last
great leader of the Plains tribes, who
| fell in the combat with the not less
savage giant who came with the white
men to hunt in the country near the
Hill of Dreams. Since that time the
power of the Plains tribes had waned,
and they had scattered and passed
away. The swarming white men
Visigoths, Vandals-had found out
this spot for centuries held mysteri-
ously dear to the first peoples of that
country. They tore open the graves,
scattered the chiIdlike emblems. pick
ed to pieces the little packages of
furs and claws, jibing at the "medi.
cine" which in its time had meant SO
much to the man who had left ii
there.
Toward the Hill of Dreams Frank
lin journeyed, because 1t had been
written. AS he Travelled over the long
miles he scarcely noted the fields, the
fences, the fiocks and herds now cling
ing along the path of the iron rails
He crossed the trails of the departed
buffalo and of the vanishing cattle
but his mind looked only forward, and
he saw these records of the past but
dimIy. There, on the Hill Of Dreams
he knew, there was answer for him
II he sufficiently besought; that an
swer not yet learned in all the vary
ing days. 1t seemed sure to him tina
he should have a sign.
4, Franklin looked out over a deserted
! and solitary land as he rode up to tn,
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a@SA-=..zs
THE MARKER FOR ORCHARD.

WheE you have your ground, say IL
acres more or less, ready, establish
base lines, writes Michigan orchard
Isl. to the Rural New Yorker. Theh
draw this wheel from one tree point
to one on opposite side of field back
and forth, until marked one way
Then mark the field the other way,
and at the point where the wheel
marks cross is the place for tree
The hole is to be dug there, and the
tree is to be set on line each way
with the mark Not stake need be
set except to go by in marking. One
man can work ground for 1000 trees
in eight hours, and the trees will be
in perfect line each way. Any man
who can follow the line of two stakes
can do the marking. A variation OF
a mans body from side to side does
not affect the wheel or 10 feet back,
and the wheel mark is so unlike any
other mark that there is no danger
of losing the line. In setting 1,40C
peach trees l saved at least $40 by
this method, beside having every tree
exactly in line.
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CHAPTER XVII.
The Hill of Dreams.

Franklin found himself swept along
with tide of affairs other than his
own choosing. his grasp on the pos
sibilities of the earliest days of this
new civilization had been so full and
shrewd that he needed now but to let
others build the house whose founda-
ton he had laid.
Yet ever a chill struck his soul as
he thought of the lost battle at the
Halfway House. There was now grass
grown upon the dusty trail that once
led up to the low-eaved house. The
green and gray of Nature were shroud-
ing busily the two lonely graves of
those who had fought the frontier
and been vanquished in that night
of terror, when the old West claimed
It's own. The Halfway House of old
was but memory And Mary Ellen,
the stately visitant of his sleeping or
his waking dreams, no longer might
be seen in person at the Halfway
House. Recreant, defeated, but still
refusing aid, she had gone back to
her land of flowers. 1t was Frank
Inns one comfort that she had never
known into whose hands had passed
at prize far beyond their actual
| worth-the lands of the Halfway
House, which had SO rapidly built up
For hnr a competency, which had
cleared her of poverty, only to re
enforce her in her pride.
Under all the fantastic grimness
| all the mysticism, all the discredited
and riotous vagaries of his insubor
dinate soul, Franklin possessed a saw
ing common sense; yet it was mere
freakishness which led him to accep
a vagrant impulse as the controlling
motive at the crucial moment of hi!
life.
To very few men Edward Frank
lin has admitted that he once dream
ed Of hill topped by q little fire
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-22
Terrapin Alive in Ashes.

San Francisco.-One of the strangest
incidents following the great fire was
the finding of live terrapin in the
ruins of a building at the corner of
Powell and Washington streets. Miss
Charlotte Estes and Miss Lille Plow-
man went to the ruins of the Normal
school, where Miss Estes was a stu.
dent, and while investigating condi.
tons, noticed something move in the
ashes in the basement. Miss Estes
climbed down and removed the ashes
and debris and found the terrapfn. 1t
was so active that when placed on
the ground near water it ran into the
bay and swan away. This animal
had undoubtedly passed through the
fire and lived for ten days In the
ashes of the basement in which 1t was
found.
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HE FIRED HIS REMAINING SHOT.
shooter the hunter entered the den
and had killed five of the pups when
the mother, hearing their cries, en-
tered the den.
It was too small for Blonde to stand
upright, so with only one cartridge in
his gun he was compelled to meet the
attack of the enraged mother on his
hands and knees and in darkness that
prevented his reloading his six-shoot-
er. The old wolf hesitated as she en-
tered the den, but the smell the
blood of her dead offspring and the
yelps of the pup still alive, emboldened
her to rush at the hapless rancher and
fix her teeth in his arm.
Just as she took hold of him he fired
his remaining shot into her skull and
fortunately killed her instantly, but
her teeth remained fixed in the ranch
er's arm, while the great body blocked
the way out of the little cavern.
After frantic efforts, using the barrel
of his six-shooter as lever, Blonde
succeeded in loosening the jaws of the
wolf and made his way into the open.
His horse, terrified by the approach
of the old wolf or the commotion in
the cave, had fled, compelling the
wounded man to walk several miles to
him home With his wounded arm,
causing intense pain and his nerves
shaken by the experience he had
passed through. Prompt medical
treatment was given him and the
wounds cauterized, and no infection by
blood poison is now feared.
The killing of six wolves with siz
pistol shots is feat never before
duplicated In this section.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-22
FIGHTING CANKER WORMS.
Interesting Experiment by Prof.
Slingerland at Cornell
University.

The class taking advanced work in
economic entomology at Cornell, N. Y,
made an interesting experiment,
writes Prof. Slingerland in the Cornell
Countryman.
For several years a group Of large
elm trees about mile from the uni
,yersitv campus have been nearly de-
foliated by hordes of spring canker-
worm caterpillars. These little meas
uring-worms hatch in May from eggs
laid on the bark by moths that emerge
in March and April from pupae in the
soil beneath the trees
The male moths have well-developed
wings and fly readily, but the females
are wingless and are thus obliged to
crawl up the trees and deposit their
eggs on the bark of the branches, The
ascent is always made at night. Vari.
Gus devices, such as sticky bands, and
wire. tin or stiff paper barriers, have
been used on the trunks of trees to
prevent the ascent of the wingless fe-
male moths.
Recently fy-paper manufacturer
has made a tree-tanglefoot mixture,
and with a liberal sample furnished
by the firm, several of the infested
elm trees were treated. One tree was
more than two feet in diameter and
the bark was very rough. It took sew.
eral pounds of the tanglefoot to make
ia complete band six or eight inches
wide around the trunk, several feet
from the ground. The application was
made on March Is, just before the
moths began running up the trees.
Great masses of the wingless fe-
male moths were found March 81 on
the lower edge of the sticky band, and
thousands of flying males were caught
all over the band. A few females
were able to get over the band where
dead males had formed narrow bridges
across the tanglefoot. Several pints
or many thousands of the females
were caught and killed by the band
'on this one large tree. AS each fe
male may lay 200 or more eggs, the
tree was relieved from feeding hun
dreds of thousands of canker-worms
in May. The experiment was thus 8
striking success and has furnished 9
valuable object lesson"
Yes, and it should furnish a usefu
object lesson to the farmer. The
spring spring canker-worm often at
tacks other trees besides elms-appl,
trees, for instance. If the tanglefoo
preparation is not readily obtainable
other sticky substances may be used
Tar, printers ink, thick molasses
bird-lime, or bands of fiy-paper, ar,
all more or less useful for the pur
pose.
If fiy-paper is used, remember tina
1t should be at least five inches wide
and must fit close to the bark. Oh
rough-bark trees. the bark must eithe
be scraped smooth where the band
to go, or all depressions must be fillet
with clay or putty, SO as to make
smooth surface on which to fasten tn
sticky band.
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wetted by the wasted water. Later,
in the crude light of the tiny fame
which he had kindled, this lump Of
earth assumed, to his exalted fancy,
the grim features of an Indian chief
tain, wide-jawed, betufted, with low
brow, great mouth. and lock of life's
price hanging down the neck. All the
fearlessness, the mournfulness, the
mysticism Of the Indian face was
there. Franklin always said that he
had worked at this unconsciously
kneading the lump between his fin-
gers, and giving 1t no thought other
than that it felt cooling to his hand
and restful to his mind. Yet here,
born ultimately of the travail of a
higher mind, was a man from another
time, in whose gaze sat the prescience
of a coming day. The past and the
future thus were bridged, as may be
done only by Art, the enduring, the
uncalendared, the imperishable.
.
Edward Franklin, light-hearted
man, rode homeward happily. The
past lay correlated, and for the future
there were no longer any wonderings.
His dream, devoutly sought, had Civ.
en- peace.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
At the Gateway.

In certain old Southern city there
generations, and will no doubt endure
for many more, lofty mansion whose
architecture dates back to distant
day. Wide and spacious, with lofty
stories, with deep wings and many
narrow windows, 1t rests far back
among the ancient oaks, stately
memorial of day when gentlemen
demanded privacy and could afford
it. From the iron pillars of the great
gateway the white front of the house
may barely be seen through avenues
made by the trunks of the primeyal
grove. The tall white columns, reach
ing from gallery floor to roof without
pause for the second lofty floor, give
dignity to this old-time abode, which
COMFORTS well with the untrimmed
patriarchal oaks. Under these trees
there lies, even to-day, a deep blue
grass turf which never from the time
of Boone till now, has known the
touch of ploughshare or the tool of
any cultivation.
It was the boast of this old family
that 1t could afford to own a portion
Of the earth and own 1t as 1t came
from the hand of Nature. Uncaught
by the whirl of things, undisturbed
ESSENTIALLY even by the tide of the
civil war, this branch of an old South
ern family had lived on In station un
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-22
JAPs GIVEN TO ATHLETICS.
From Early Infancy They are Train.
ed to Develop Their Muscles.

From Early INFANCY Incy are lFaiF
ed to Develop Their Muscles.
Considering their size the Japanese
are undoubtedly the strongest people
in the world. Time and again these
little brown men have demonstrated
their ability to endure fatigues that
would break down the most sinewy
Europeans. In any Japanese town
one cannot walk far without being
confronted by athletics in one form or
another. In the streets you can rare.
ly escape the painted and gaudily
dressed tots who turn baby hand.
springs, execute somersaults and do
other infantile stunts in wheeling
effort to secure the "hairy foreigners"
wealth. A Japanese matsuri were not
the fair 1t purports without the be-
spangled tight-rope performance, the
bamboo ladder climbing youngsters,
the wrestlers, tumblers, spearsmen or
fencers.
So deeply rooted Is the native love
for the strenuous life that the ma
tional sports of other lands have been
tried in Japan. The mikado, with
many of the imperial family, attends
the annual spring races in Yokohama,
but nothing in the line of imported
sports so appeals to the Japanese as
cycling and baseball. Cycling clubs
are scattered all over the empires
thousands of American bicycles spin
across the island and the foreigners
experience difficulty in keeping even
few of the records and trophies out
of native hands.
The Toxic baseball team is an effls
cient organization and 1t frequently
drubs the teams from other ports and
cities. At the Yokohama cricke3
grounds excellent and sharply coz,
tested games may be witnessed occap
sionally between the Toxic native
team and the Yokohama foreign Or
| ganization.
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@I BECAME CONSCIOUS THAT 1.-THE
REAL I-HAD LEFT THE MORTAL
BODY"
Impelled by some unknown and unseen
power. left the hosse and soon felt
myself rising in the air. After awhile
we stopped. It was a place something
like this world of ours, only much
more beautiful. But there was no sun
there.
".We moved on and finally reached
the most beautiful spot that eyes have
ever seen. There were flowers and long
yistas of beautiful trees. heard music
and sweet voices. 1t seemed as II all
the grand music had ever heard was
Joined into one. Away in the distance
saw a great crowd. And there
saw Lizzie
From that time my brother became
more morbid than ever on the subject
He was sure that the vision was real
and that he had been taken to an
other life. Finally, from his vision, he
became convinced that a person can
live forever in this world, provided
only he can renew his body. and thai
it was possible to leave it temporarily
and wander to the next world. He de-
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-22
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER
WITH SAVAGE BRUTES
Hunter Enters Wolves Den and Stays
Six Beasts with Six
Bullets.

Embar, Wyo.-C. E. Blonde, of this
place, is under doctors care for
wounds which he received in an en-
counter which is unique in the annals
of the daring exploits of the hunters
of the Big Horn country.
Blonde is a ranchman who has suf-
fered severely from the ravages Of
wolves among his cattle, and a few
weeks ago he set about Systematically
to clear his ranges of the wolves. Re-
Gently he discovered den on rocky
hillside in which were six half-grown
wolves. Armed only with his six
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-22
Iowa Baby Is a Chameleon.

Des Moines, IA baby who
changes color three times every "a
hours is a curiosity in Des Moines.
The strange child is Ell Rami. the IA.
months-old son of Count Natho, who
married an American girl in Quincy,
ILL.,, three years ago. When the little
fellow awakens at sunrise he is a
pretty, pink. fair-complexioned boy;
at noon he changes color, and within
an hour he is of the dark ginger color
of his princely ancestor. At night he
becomes an alabaster white. The mix.
ture of blood is said to be accountable
for the strange phenomenon.
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DIES IN ATTEMPT
TO PROVE THEORY
COLORADO MAN sTARvES AS
RESULT OF STRANGE VISION.
HOPE IS IMMORTAL LIFE.
Convinced That Mortal Being Can Ex-
list Forever on This Earth, He Tries
to Find advertisements
After 6O-Day Fast.

Denver, Colin B. vain attempt to |
win immortal life ON earth by meth
cd revealed to him in a vision and
from a morbid study of the philos-
ophy OF the life hereafter, Charles La
Mountain, of Arvada, died of starva-
ton after a self-imposed fast OF 80
days.
The story is most wonderful one
of the striving of human soul to
reach immortality and knowledge of
the after life; cropping around, study
ing, thinking, in vain effort to ar
rive at solution.
He died in an effort to prove that
upon the human frame new body
could be built repeatedly, after the
old one had been wasted away by
starvation. More than two months
ago he began the process of starva
ton, and such was his iron will that
for two months he kept alive, never
tasting food, but finally nature got the
better of him. When he started he
weighed $50 pounds, and was a giant
in strength and ruggedness. He
weighed lis pounds the day before his
end.
According to Mrs. M. L. Martin, the
sister, LaMountain was born 81 years
age. At the age OF IL he enlisted and
served throughout the civil war. At
the end of the civil war he went to
Mexico, serving under Diaz and the
patriots against the invasion of the
French and Macmillan, who were
there trying to establish an empire.
He never returned east, but came to
Colorado and became a railroad en-
gineer. He served as engineer until
| the boiler of his engine exploded, near
Leadville, in the early days of the
has been engaged in various enter
| prises, mining, sheep raising and in
| venting. He retired several years ago
with money enough to keep himself
sister, and crippled brother, whom
he has been supporting all his life.
In his everyday behavior he was al
ways normal, clear to the end, ant
there seemed no trace of insanity.
His peculiar interest in the unknown
problems of life and his striving afte
Immortality began at the death OF
niece and her two children many year
ago, upon whom his affections wer
conferred. He had been an infidel, no
believing in any religion and in tn
answers they give i'll regard to the fu
ture life.
HE began the study of everythin
that promised to throw light on tn
mystery" said his brother. "He rea
everything, strange books on mesmel
ism, psychology, science, weird phi
osophies of the Hindus, Egyptians, an
of all the people on earth you ca
think OF. 1t became passion wit
him.
Some years ago he came to us
the morning with the remark: 1T
all right. Don't worry about Lizzi
. She Is better off than we are The
he told us story of remarkable visiol
"'I was lying on the bed in m
room,' he said, when suddenly I b.
came conscious that 1.-The real I-ha
left the mortal body. turned and ga
my body lying on the bed. | was
spirit, or something know not wha