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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
Do Animals Reasop7

A correspondent in Harper's Week
ly asks whether animals reason, and
recites this instance OF reasoning. in
telligence or instinct. or whatever It
may be called on the part of "Old
Cream the family horse.
"Old Creams" daily routine. being
the saddle-horse, was to carry my
father throughout the plantation. The
service usually began In March and
continued until the "cotton-picking"
season ended during November. Leav.
ing the white house" our residence.
about s a. m. father would not re-
turn for dinner before noon: thereup-
ON ne would dismount and command
the animal 20 ego TO the barni" Forth.
with he proceeded TO the gate through
which entry was made TO his stall
When closed. the gate was held i'm
that position by a peg" possibly six
inches long that rested I'm hole Dor
ed in post that abutted the face or
the gate "Old Cream. with much
skill pulled the peg from the hole.
noscd' the gate open. and proceeded
TO- his stall with the dignity of tho
lord of the manor Instinct did you
say2
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

We have eet then in our schoolhouse;
and we have play eet in our school
effery day"
We'll, we'll, welll" cried Addison.
But now" our visitor continued,
"Benoit he com back. and he say this
seraphine, eet ees not for US Eea ees
stole by some bad peoples So we
bring eet back
Il am the schoolteacher at Garth
by" she explained again. MY name
ees Marie Ladoucier. And these boys
are my pupeels. This one ees Marc
Cassandierre and this Cyri!e Joig-
neaux. We have en- 20 bring the may
lodayon back to YOU"
There was no MISLEADING the honesty
and good intentions of this young
French schoolmistress and her two
pupils. We made them welcome, and
entertained them for the night. In
fact, they remained three days.
We found Mademoiselle Ladoucier a
very amiable, well-educated young
woman, high-minded, and worthy to
be teacher The two French boys
could not speak English, but had a
good time, nevertheless. ''All the
scholars in the district came to call on
chem.
We set up the melodeon, and held a
musical julibee over it's return. De
spite its peregrinations, it seemed to
be uninjured Mademoiselle Ladoucier
played very well; and she sang several
French school songs.
She informed us that the young lum-
bermen who carried the melodeon to
Canada had been afraid, when they
learned that it was stolen, that we
might have them put under arrest if
they came to Maine with it, They all
desired her to take it back to us, be-
cause she could speak English, and
make us understand the circumstances.
During the three days of their visit,
Mademoiselle Ladoucier came to know
all the young people OF the place-and
thereby hangs a little romance, which,
however, need not be entered on here.
So, after all the dreadful suspicious
which had filled our minds, the melo-
deon came back, safe and sound In
truth, the world is never half so bad
as some persons think it. Despite our
dark suspicious, the young people in
Number 9-all but one-were quite in
nocent of any wrong-doing; and these
youthful Canadians had taken great
pains to restore our property as soon
as they learned of our loss.-Youth's
Companion.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
WHOLE NO. 1852.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.


Every doctrine must prove itself by
doing
Conscience is a good cure for undue
conceit
He is lifted in blessing who lifts an
others burden.
The fortune of all is founded on
faith in one another.
Only a fool takes experience for a
road instead of a guide.
Few things choke sympathy quicker
than cherished sorrows.
The surest way to impoverlsh the
heart is to set It ON riches.
Many a good intent sticks fast in
honeyed words OF resolution.
He who adopts no high standards is
the only one who never fails
All the treasure houses Of truth open
to the master key of sincerity.
Only those who are not afraid OF
being poor really become rich.
People who have sympathy for hui
mainly are not signing for heaven.
This world only becomes beautiful
as we tackle its unpleasant problems.
The Lord not only loves cheerful
giver; he loves a giver of good cheer.
1t is possible to he a connoisseur of
sermons and still be far from saint.
The people who expect great things
of us are the ones who are help us to
great things.
The hypocrite's great business is to
find some appearance of virtue to GOV,
er every vice.
The ten commandments give little
trouble to people who do not want to
get around them.
The only people who insist on class
barriers are those who are too small
to see over them
Life's riches are in the fine dust of
daily hndnesses rather than In tho
great nuggets Of public charity.
Better to die with empty hands and
still facing heavenward than to die
with both hands filled with earth and
your back toward God.-From Sen
tence Sermons" in the Chicago Trib-
une.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

On her first night at the seaside
lodgings the visitor found It, Tncredi-
BILE it seemed. for The londlady had
appeared "a neat cieanly cautious
body But ass the lady visitor knew
little OF her landlldy and nothing of
her predecessor iu the apartment. She
decided TO mention the matter at
breakfast OF found something in my
bedroom she began. and the landlady
interrupted. "Then you must have
brought IT. with you" 'I am quite
sure I didn't" said the visitor. "for r
counted an minc before 7 left home
But 80 you insist that this sovereign
is mine. of course London Daily
Chronicle
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
ULTIMATE FATE OF FISH.
They Never Die Natural Death,
Says an ObserVant Fisherman.

Says an ObserVant Fisherman.
Fish never dies a natural DEATH"
said an old fisherman who has OBJ
served as he fished- IF they did bod
les of dead fish would be floating on
the surface of the water about all the
while, because such bodies If unmo-
Tested would have TO float.
L mean, of course, fish in nature
never die natural death, not fish in
captivity. And perhaps 1t should not
be called natural death that nsh in
captivity die. Their environment in
duces mortality that fish in their ma
tive habitat would escape, and these
causes might be properly classed as
among the accidents that carry the
captive fish off.
IF fish in their native element
were never molested 7 believe they
would never die. If they had sufficient
food. which would be impossible If
they no longer pTeyed on one another.
there would be no reason for their dy-
ing. It was to prevent such uninter-
rupted tenure of life that all fish
were made fercely predatory, if not
remoselessly cannibalistic, as many
kinds are.
"a fish's life is a constantly siren
uous one and one entirely selfish. A
fish lives only to eat and to avoid be-
ing eaten NEW York Sun.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
SPORT IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Hawking Then One Of the Most Popu
lar Forms Of Huntinq.

Hawking Then One Of the Most Popu-
lar Forms Of Hunting.
Have you ever noticed a hawk soar
ing and floating high up against the
sky? Have you seen him busy appar-
emily in embroldering wonderful pat
tern OF loops and curves, putting In a
wing-beat here and long float there,
and then, suddenly, without a mo-
ments warning, seem fairly to drop to
the ground, pause moment, and then
rise slowly and fly to some nearby
tree?
The splendid flight was made with
a purpose. He was looking out for his
prey and when he saw with his keen
eyes some field-mouse scampering
across field, or tiny bird covering
in a bush, or picking up a meal
among the grass. he fell from the sky,
seized the little creature, and took 1t
off in his talons to eat it at leisure in
some convenient tree.
This method of pursuing his prey
was taken advantage of in the Middle
Ages and later times to provide for
man one of his most popular forms OF
hunting. The birds were chosen with
greatest care. each kind was trained
to hunt for his own particular sort OF
prey, and great parties of lords and
ladies, followed by many attendants,
rode out into the fields and marshes
to Fly" their birds, as they called 1t,
and watch them strike their quar-
ries." 49, From N Hudson Moores
with Hawk and Hound" in St. Nicho-
les
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
Good Use For IT,

Two lrishmen were passing bg
jewelry store. in the window of which
were displayed "a lot of loose dia-
monds rIbics emoralds. and other
precious stones.
"Ah. Pat said Barney. "they be
foine stones How would YOU like
your pick?'
"Och. bee jaber8,' replied Pat. I'd
rayther hoy mo shovel July lip
Dincotts
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
Pleklnn on Him.

A first grade boy brought perfect
spelling papers home for several
weeks. and then suddenly began to
miss five and six out OF ten.
HOw's This. son? asked his father.
Teachers fault replied he boy.
How is g. The teachers fault?"
"She moved the little boy that sat
aext to me "--Lippincofts.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
j. T. Waldo & Cor.
LIVERY AND FEED STABLE
cRANTsVILLE, W. VA.

Keeps constantly en- handf RalaA
hay, Chop. etO., az reasonable fntaa.
Gan supply you with . horse, single
horse buggy, two-horae buggy ~ sap,
reg, With OF WITHOUT eRivsk ter eho91
~ long UP, - eAegS eStfse go -
gsaeonshiS Bgiaea
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

The most varied diocese in the world
Will be that Of the newly-created Epls-
cooal see of Fh witch will include
ths whols Of Polynesia
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

A summer attraction in Colebrook.
N, H., is the ice cave" in Dixville
notch. This cave is formed by a fis-
sure in the ledge of the mountain
that fills with snow in winter, and is
protected from the suns rays at all
seasons.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

Quite recently" avs an English
journal, 1.-The heat of the sun has been
reproduced in an electric furnace and
Sir James Dewar has obtained the coal
of interstellar space"
Ergin is a liquid fuel which has
found much application in Germany.
It is obtained from tar by a secret
process and is reported to have a heat
ing power of 1880 British thermal
units per pound.
Irrigation has probably been prac-
uced more extensively in Australia
than anywhere else on the globe. In
New South Wales alone more than o.
100000 acres have been reclaimed by
In 1894 some scientific stu
dents of the effective solar
radiation computed sthat the SUM-
surface is twice as hot as
the carbons of the electric arc. But
the researches of MN. Millochan and
Ferry seem to justify the conclusion
that its emission of heat is fully twice
as great as that required to fuse iron.
The crescent-shaped sand dunes
which move in thousands across the
desert of Aslay, near La Joya, Peru,
have been investigated by Astronomer
S. l. Bailey, who found the points of
crescent to be 100 feet apart, while
the convex side measured ATT feet and
the greatest width was more than 100
feet. The estimated weight was 5000
tons, yet it was carried 125 feet a
year by the prevailing south winds.
At Dusseldorf has been discovered
a means of using peat fibre. 1t is stat
ed that fibre has been produced cap
able of being spun which is absorb
ent and which can be bleached and
dyed The vegetable fibres were first
isolated and treated with acids and
alkalis. the result being a peat wood
consisting of nearly pure cellulose.
This turf wool is soft, elastic and
capable Of being spun in the same way
as sleeps wool.
1t is reported that a French scien-
fist has devised an apparatus capable
Of indicating as low as the one-hun-
dred thousandth part OF the COZ pres
ent in the air in a closed room. The
Indicator is based on the fact that COZ
will liberate iodine from a chemical
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

Observation in the New York sa-
looms shows that drivers of trucks,
vans and ice wagons are the largest
consumers of spirituous liquors of all
classes of persons in the city.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
ENVY.

Oh Teiest birds;
stars OF night
Nv O
That's
in The AtanicA Monthly
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

a curious bit of real estate is owned
by Mrs Margaret T. Graham of Mid
dletown, r. l. 1t consists Of a small
rock located just off her estate in the
ocean, and a special act of legislature
was necessary to give her the rights
of ownership.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Italians to the number of 10000
emigrated last year to South American
ports, as against $4,000 who came to
the United States.
1t is estimated that people in Chi
cago spend 100000 year in keeping
their shoes polished OF this amount
profits are said to be 100000
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

A monster kite is waiting in Maya
saki, japan, for the next hurricane. It
is of the following dimensions: Fifty
seven feet from top to bottom and $50
feet I'm circumference. with 81 guide
lines. It took 1000 sheets Of tough pa
per to cover It and its frames are all
unsplit bamboo.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

An electrical generator in a smelt-
ing plant at West Jordan. Utah. is
said to have been In constant opera
ton, "a hours a day. for nearly four
years and a half With q single inter
ruption which was due to q broken
pulley. for which the generator was I'm
no way responsible.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

Ergin is a liquid fuel which has
found much application in Germany.
It is obtained from tar by a secret
process and is reported to have a heat
ing power of 1880 British thermal
units per pound.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

Quite recently" avs an English
journal. "the heat Of the sun has been
reproduced in an electric furnace and
Sir James Dewar has obtained the coal
of interstellar space"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

During the restoration of West
Thurrock church, in Essex, England,
Ii was found that the walls had once
been repaired with stone collins which
had been broken up for the purpose.
and a complete coffin more than one
thousand years old was beneath the
floor.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

Two nine-pound shot were dug up
by workmen in Waterville. Me-, re-
Gently. 1t is though that they were
fired from British warships, or from
the American batteries across the har-
Dor during the occupancy of the town
by the English forces.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-12-10

Irrigation has probably been prac-
ticed more extensively in Australia
than anywhere else on the globe. In
New South Wales alone more than D.
100000 acres have been reclaimed by
the development of the ground water.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-10
Bad Stomach Makes
 Bad Blood.

You can not make sweet butter in a| foul, unclean churn. The stomach servesI ns ehurn in which to agitate, work upl and dislntegrate our food as 1t is being foul the result will be torpid, sluggish liver and bad, impure blood.
 The ingredients of Dr. Pierce's Goldenl Medical Discovery are just such as best serve to correct and cure all such de- arrangements. It Is made up without c. drop of alcohol in it's composition; chem ically pure, triple-refncd glycerine being alcohol. Now this glycerine Is of itself a valuable medicine, Instead of a deleteri- ous agent like alcohol, especially in the cure of weak stomach, dyspepsia and tho various forms of indigestion. Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., 0 Bennett Medical College, Chicago, says of 1t:
 UIn dyspepsia 1t serves an excellent pur- pose It is one of the best manufact- ured products of the present time in its especially If there Is ulceration or catarrhal gastritis (catarrhal inflammation of stomachl, 1t is most efficient preparation. Glycerine and excessive gastric acidlty. It is useful in chronic intestinal dyspepsia especially the Batulent variety, and in certain forms of chronic constipation. stimulating the secre- tory and excretory functions of the intestinal
 When combined, in just the right propor-, tons, With Golden Seal root, Stone root, Black Cherrybark, Queens root, Blood- root and Mandrake root, or the extracts of these, as in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, there can be no doubt of it's great efficacy in the cure of all stomach, liver and intestinal disorders and derange- meIits These several ingredients have the strongest endorsement in all such cases of such eminent medical leaders as Prof. R. Barthoiow. M b, of Jefferson Med teal College, Chicago; Prof Hobart A. Hare. Nj. D.. of Medical Department, University of Pa; Prof Laurence Johnson. M. D.. Medical Department. University cf New York; Prof. Edwin M. Hale. NJ. D., Hahnemann Medical College. Chicago; Prof. John M. Scudder. M D. and Prof John King M. D.. Authors of the American Dispensetory. and scores of others among the leadips medical men of our land.
 Who can doubt the curative virtues of 6 medicine the ingredients of which have such a professional endorsement?
 Constipation cured by Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets One or two a dose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-10

color and general submerged possiblli- ties. all ripe for the harvest
 Barrett looked on and said nothing, merely advised, and commented upon special request. He did not approve and he did not believe in the aim of the settlement. As builder of future air castles his designs against Help House was not peaceable But he said nothing.
 Its awfuliy tumble down." Betty had confessed after the first looking over the house had. But you can do wonders with burlap and Flemish oak and few odd copper jugs and things dropped around. Florence Brixton told me when she fixed up her den on Little Jones street she only used cheese cloth and burlap and oat meal boxes for the whole thing. Let's have Bar rett come and look at it and see what can be done"
 "Everything can be done" Barrett had said, in his enthusiastic assured way. Tt Is just the place. One can accomplish more in small concen- trated work like this than working through the broader lines. It wins the confidence of the people quicker"
 Before they had lived week on MacDougal street. even Edith was willing to acknowledge that the things they neeQeQ HlOSL was the COHIlueHCo of the people. And the only way to gain 1t seemed to be utter and abso- iute inaction-
 ''Oh. mo-" Mrs. Lannigan, the scrub woman had told the girls, airily, the first Sunday she came to clean. "As long as yez don't start in doing things there's nobody going to take the least notice of yez moving in here. any more than if it was Central Park West Iris the same manners here as any, where on the small island. Just mind your own business and don't start any thing and no one will touch you.
 "But the trouble is we want to do things said Betty, ruefully. as soon as sKe had gone, There will be at least four of us who will live right here as resident workers, Edith. Mrs. Lester. the trained nurse, and Dr. Lit tIeton."
 "Grace Littleton?" Barrett had ask ed
 "Yes and that will be all except the two servants. that Is all to start wfrh It really is enough. Edith and ] will take care of the classes and Grace and Mrs. Lester will keep an eye on tho other end"
 "The applied science of localized philanthropy" suggested Barrett. T hope it work all right I haven't the slightest doubt of Your good inten- tions. It's the place you're going to live in that bothers me. suppose YOU know you will be practically alone down here in one of the most doubtful spots in town"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-10
-:- OUR DAHL Y SHORT STORY


Didn't you get Barretts letter In Paris?" she asked. Don't you know about Tonio?''
 T haven't had a line from Barrett since Naples" began Miss Chalmers. but Betty had fled and she was alone.
 She laughed to herself and leaned her head back on the chair. Now that the trip was over. she felf the re- taxation Of over excitement. She had not wished to so away from her work. but after the long, hot midsummer days when she had stuck to her post at the settlement. caring for the sick, Greeting summer trips for tho chii- dren. bearing the whole load of man agement on her shoulders. the change was imperative and even Barrett had urged it and had promised to take her place in her absence. Take her place. Barrett as head worker in a settle ment. Tom Barrett, man of means and leisure and general good fellow in the world uptown and out at I4archmont She wondered why he had offered why he had entered into the settlement work at all, just after the concerf and lecture Betty had leased him to attend last summer. It wasn't settlement work she knew that held the charm, And then she thought of Betty and sighed. It was good to be home again. at little Help House.
 That was what the little two-story red brick house hadSbeen named in the neighborhood in the beginning of things. Betty had been the direct cause of them taking it. There were four women all told. each with good intentions and independent means and a longing to get at the masses and teach them everything from hygienic bathing to. stephen Phillips Betty rather inclined towards music and fairly tales as means of reform.
 She found the house tucked away down on MacDougal street, just soGth of Bleecker. It was in the heart of Little Italy, Barrett said 1t was in the heart of Little Dixie and Little Ire- land and Little He'll too. and he was about right. as the nightly happenings proved.
 To the Chalmers girls with their idle fortune and high ideals the little red settlement house was a citadel and the surrounding lheighborhood merely un- garnered fields of international local
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-10

of trains carrying perishable goods, and therefore does not threaten tne well being of our banana importation business nor the shipment Of early vegetables, but can do immense dam age In other lines of railroad activity. Coming at a time when the whole country is distressed because of short age of cars 1t would seem te be al- most criminal to accentuate that dis tress by lesseninE the facilities of transportation. Montgomery, for ex- ample, has not more than ten days supply of coal. due to the fact that there are not cars enough and the trains cannot be moved with sufficient rapidity to meet the demands of con- suners of fuel. At this critical mo- ment it Is gravely proposed by one of the solons to stop one-seventh of the train movements lessening by that amount the ability of the Railroads to make delivery of an absolutely requis- ite material!
 The poor railroad corporations have surely fallen upon grievous times. They are expected. nay, ordered. to do more than they have the physical abil- ity to do, and in the next breath are told 10 stop doing a portion of what are commanded not to charge for their service but a nartain amnnnL no mat