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The La Jara chronicle., 1907-07-12

We have a good stock of tents;
all sizes.-The B. L. Van Vechten
Hardware Co.
G. L. Shakespeare and George
S. Lovett were in Alamosa, Mon
day, taking in the sights of that
city.
Miss Edna White went out to
spend several days with her:friend,
Miss Stella Newcomb, Monday of
this week.
Allister Gillispie is here from
Denver on a Wait to his mother.
He is an apprentice under his
father in the stone mason business.
On Wednesday, July Oath, the
Rev. Mr.. Harrison, of Alamosa,
will hold services at the Episcopal
church at this place, at 8 O'Clock,
p. m. Come.
Delmar Smith and Ross Liston,
two of the best groomed and best
looking lads in the Henry district,
were here calling upon La Jara'a
young ladies, the Fourth.
Manning Norland, who has been
spending couple of weeks with
his mother, Mrs. Martha Anderson
and the rest of the home folk, de-
parted for his home in Chicago,
Sunday night.
Miss Mollie Dorsey, of York,
Penn, arrived here for a several
weeks visit with her friend, Miss
Bertha Eskridge. The young
lady is a sister to the Miss Dorsey
who, at one time, taught school in
in the Newcomb district.
Agnes Dodd arrived here from
Walsenburg, recently, and will re-
main indefinitely in La Jara
Shortly after her arrival here, she
had the misfortune to lose hel
i pocketbook containing all the
money she possessed.
The proprietor of the Medane
ranch, near Del Norte, have pur.
chased gasoline plow engine and
will receive the same in few
days. 1t is claimed that these en-.
gines last much longer than the
heavy steam plow and they run
lighter and plow deeper. This
plow will be the first in the valley
and it will be watched with much
interest. The cost of the plow is
$2,5OO.
The La Jara chronicle., 1907-07-12
The best paints and oils. Ellis

The best paints and oils. Ellis
has them.
A large crowd of La Jara people
attended the play at Sanford on
Wednesday night.
Walter Seyfer always has the
crowd. Why? Because he sells
the best goods and gives everyone
a square deal.
George T. Ripley, of the Eli
Lilo company, was making a bus
mess call upon DR.. Schenck and
H. O. Ellis. this week.
We have some Elwood chicken
fence in the car we just got in.
Better get what you need at once.
B. L. Van Vechten Hardware
Co.
The Conejos river is going down
rapidly, and the fishermen are
happy. There is no finer trout
fishing in the world than in the
Conejos river affords.
The meeting Of the taxpayers
of school district No. 20, which
was held this week, resulted in the
voting of sufficient bonds to pay
off the floating debt, repair the
school building and insure good
school for the next term.
VIM. Forbes drove over to Ala.
mosa, Saturday, to meet Mr.. John
Clarke who arrived from Leadville
on that day to join his wife who
has been the guest of the Forbes
family for some weeks. Mr.. Clarke
came for a weeks enjoyment il
this prosperous valley of ours.
A bashful La Jara girl went in
to the drug store, the other day
to purchase a bath sponge, bu
when the proprietor stepped W
suddenly to inquire as to hel
wants she got SO ratified that sbs
told him she wanted a spongt
bath. The proprietor fell dead.
l. J. Richardson was business
transient in Manassa, Tuesday o1
this week. He says that in all the
years of his life he has never seer
the crops look any better than they
are at the present time. 1.-The
prospects for an excellent crop
this year, are good" said Mr.
Richardson, land it indicates d
better trade this fall than the val.
ley has ever witnessed"
The La Jara chronicle., 1907-07-12
! |EvENTS OF THE WEEK

We keep the best machine oil.
The B. l.. VanVechten Hard
ware Co.
S E. and d. E. Newcomb re-
turned from couple of weeks So
journ at Glenwood Springs, We'd
nesday morning.
Mrs. Eliza johnson terminated
a pleasant visit with her mother at
Sanford. and left for her home in
Alamosa, Sunday night.
A. L. Gilmer and family have
returned home from camping
trip up on the Conejos where they
have been for the past two weeks.
A Knight Templar pin was
found, Sunday, between La Jara
and Aiamosa. Finder can have
the same by paying for this ad.
and proving property.
Account of races at Overland
Park, June 18th to July 18th, the
b. g. r. G. will make a rate of one
fare for the round trip to Denver
and return Tickets on sale June
IA, 2lst, 2Sth, July 5th and 18th.
The many La Jara friends of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Lyons are
grieved to learn that Mr.. Lyons is
sinking fast and that his death is
expected daily. Miss Hellebush,
Mrs. Lyons sister, arrived recent
ly from Kentucky and is with her
in Englewood.
The casualties of the Fourth
of July, in the United States, this
year, was almost 800 in excess
to that of last year. 1t would
seem that the increased death rate
and the long list of injured
-ssusss.s -esplssises, would be
the means of establishing a law
prohibiting their manufacture.
DIR. Schenck and II. o. Ellis
went up in the doctors auto, Sun
day, to visit the Gilmer camp
on the Conejos. They brought
back trout like those you dream
about-big juicy fellows. The
gentlemen state that there is ex-
cellent trout fishing on the Cone
los and that the roads were never
in better condition.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30
THE NEW INSURANCE AGENT.
He Comes in With the New Law-Paul
Morton on His Opportunity.

The new insurance law of the State
Of New York has opened up a promis-
ing field for both men and women
with brains and energy in the sale of
life insurance. The law now provides
standard forms of policies, each of
which practically bears the hall mark
of the State of New York, and this new
sale of life insurance on correct
basis.
The prohibition against rebating and
extravagant allowances to agents has
driven out of the business the old
type of insurance agent, who in many
cases virtually bought business, with
large rebates, instead of selling it..
His place is being taken by profess
sors, lawyers, school teachers of both
sexes, and others, who find that being
a life insurance agent under the new
system offers greater reward than
their previous vocations. The law has
reduced commissions but all of the
commission now goes to the agent.
Life insurance is something that
everyone needs and under the pres
ent system its sale is being conducted
with becoming dignity and propriety.
Paul Morton, president of the Equita-
BILE Life Assurance Society, has taken
the lead in building up an agency or
ganization that is in keeping with the
demands of public sentiment, and the
standard he has set for his company.
He says: 1--WE want new agents, both
men and women, but none except en-
ergetic, able and truthful people need
apply. For such there is a splendid
opportunity
Mr.. Morton's policy of injecting new
and vigorous blood into the agency
force of the Society is meeting with
success in all parts of the country.
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HARD INDEED TO ANALYZE.
Japanese a Bundle CT Contradictions,
Says Writer.

He is a bundle of contradictions,
and measured by American standards
he is a bedlamite. straight from Top
sv-Turvy land. He may be Chester
field and cheerful liar one minute,
and a Red Indian the neXt-a syco-
phant and a welcher to-day, and a
Napoleon tomorrow. Anyway, like
Kansas dust, he is bound to be
good deal in the public eye, and he
will bear watching. We westerners
have been taught to regard the little
Jap as an amusing and precocious
child given to obstructing sidewalk
traffic with his polite contests in koT-
towing. to suspending from the
branches of the cherry tree his dainty
poems addressed to his friends, and
70 dawdling for hours over the cere
monial. tea; and when we see him
under the tent flap. bowling and laugh
ing and playing checkers, he seems
a velvet paved kitten in khaki: and
vet you and I have seen him in battle
d -smping, raging tiger, greedy of
Slav bayonets, and afterward drag
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"Toffee" as Made in ENGLAND.

1t may be possible that there are
some persons who grow old so thor
oughIy that they actually forget that
they ever were children, but I can't
help wondering if any man or woman
ever lived to such an age as to be-
come impervious to the delights OF
"toffee," or the butter scotch that has
made Doncaster a household word to
every civilized nation under the sun.
OF course, you have eaten ito the
joy of your soul and to the detriment
of your teeth-and, if you will promise
not to repeat it, | will give you the
secret recipe for this candy, for it is
made nowhere as in England: Take
three pounds of coffee" or coz sugar,
butter to the amount of pound and a
quarter with half a teaspoonful of
cream of tarter First dissolve the
sugar in just as much cold water as
may be required for that purpose,
then mix all the ingredients together,
and boil them, without stirring the
mixture until it will snap when drop
ped into cold water. At this moment
remove it from the fire; add eight or
ten drops of lemon extract, according
to it's strength, and pour the mixture
into well-greased pans to be cut into
squares as it cools. From Odds and
Ends of Culinary Geography, by Miles
Bradford in The Bohemian for jan
uary.
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Ghosts of Dead Lakes.

In the great basin between the
Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas lie
the ghosts of many dead lakes. Riv-
ers still flow down to the dry edge Of
these one-time great reservoirs and
are licked up by evaporation and the
chinook winds. OF all the lakes that
once lay there, only Great Salt Lake,
Lake Tahoe and Bear Lake are left.
The Southern Pacific rolls for 165
miles across the bed of what was once
Lake Lahontan, and the passengers
gazing idly from the windows may see
the terraces and wrinkles in the crust
of the fossil lake which nature robbed
and defrauded of it's crystal treasures
ages ago.-Exchange
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BABY lTCHED TERRIBLY.
Face and Neck Covered with InfIamed
Skin-Doctors No Avail-Cured
by Cuticura Remedies.

"My baby's face and neck were COW
cred with itching skin similar to ecze-
ma, and she suffered terribly for over
a year. l took her to a number of doc
tors, and also to different colleges, to
no avail. Then Cuticura Remedies
were recommended to me by Miss G..
l did not use it at first, as I had tried
so many other remedies without any
favorable results. At last tried Cuti-
cura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and
Cuticura Resolvent Pills, and to my
surprise noticed an improvement.
After using three boxes of the Cuti-
cura Ointment, together with the Soap
and Pills, I am pleased to say she is
altogether a different child and the
picture of health. Mrs. A. C. Brestlin,
III N. Lincoln ST., Chicago, ILL.,, Oct.
20 and &c. 1906"
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"Whlskers.1

"Whiskers" was a word formerly
used to designate the hair on the up
per lip. Scott more than once speaks
Of "whiskers on the upper lip" and so
does Defoe in Robinson Crusoe."
johnson defined a "whisker" as the
hair growing on the upper lip or cheek
unshaven; a mustachio." 1t seems to
have taken it's name from fancied
resemblance to a small brush, TO
"whisk" properly meaning to sweep,
and "whisker" having been par
ticular kind of feather brush--also, IN
the slang of former time, switch
or rod. In the seventeenth century
"whisker" stgnifed among other
things a brazen lie. "whopper."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30
Not So Lonn.

There was SO much ceremony con-
nected with church cornerstone lay
ing in New York city few weeks ago
that the moving picture machine man
felt warranted to take couple OF
miles of photographs.
These pictures proved to be very
good and large crowds were delight
ed with the exact reproduction of the
dedicatory exercises.
Il like the moving pictures better
than 1 did the original service" con-
fessed a prominent member of the
congregation.
you do" gasped a devout elder.
"Tm surely panied to hear you say SO.
Why should you prefer the pictures ?''
Because the picture man." an
swered the prominent member, pleas
antly, "cut out all the sermons"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30
EZNKLDON-A DAM, LCAHO.

A summation of the work OF the
reclamation service to January /,
1907. shows that It has dug 1857 miles
of canals, or nearly the distance from
Washington to Omaha. Some of the
canals carry whole rivers, like the
Truckee river, in Nevada, and the
North Platte, in Wyoming. The tun-
nels excavated are AZ in number, and
have an aggregate length of 91a
miles. The service has erected "a
large structures, including two great
dams in Nevada and the Minidoka
dam in Idaho, 80 feet high and $50
feet long. 1t has completed go head
works, fumes, etc. 1t has built 376
miles of wagon road in mountainous
country and into heretofore inaccessia
BILE regions 1t has erected and in OPP.
GRAFTON 727 miles of telephones. It's
own cement mill has manufactured
10000 barrels of cement, and the puT-
chased amount is $4,000 barrels. It's
own sawmills have cut 100000 feet,
board measure, of lumber, and $780,
900 feet have been purchased. The
surveying parties Of the service have
completed topographic surveys COW
ering 10,970 square miles, an area
greater than the combined areas of
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The
transit lines had a length of $4,000
linear miles, while the level lines run
amount to 24,21S miles, or nearly suf-
ficient to go around the earth.
The diamond drillings for dam sites
and canals amount to 47,515 feet, or
more than nine miles. To-day the
service owns and has at work 1,154
horses and mules 1t operatives nine
locomotives, 223 cars, and % miles
of railroad, 80 stationary engines and
81 steam engines. 1t has constructed
and is operating five electric light
plants. This work has been carried
on with the following force: CLASH
fed service, $50, including Washing
ton office; laborers employed directly
by the government, $500; laborers
employed by contractors, 6,100, or a
total of 10000. The expenditures now
total about 81 ,000,0 per month. The
excavations of earth and rock amount
to 100000 cubic yards, or about one
fourth the estimated yardage of the
Panama canal AS a result of the op-
erations of the reclamation service,
eight new towns have been estab-
lished, 100 miles of branch railroads
have been constructed, and 10000
people have taken up their residence
in the desert.-C. J. Blanchard, Sta
tistician, U. S. Reclamation Service
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GRANTED Money! No New Thinq.

"'Nay, nay, nay! said the arch
Bishop, waving white, jeweled hand
as the chief began to divulge some or
his larger plans. Tell me not of thy
wicked schemes! Thy methods l must
condemn utterly, but If thou bringest
me the money, well, can at least see
to it that it be not used for bad pur-
poses. And speaking of money we
need for the walls of the apse a hun
dred bags of gold. Dost think thou
couldst manage it?'
cay said the Gentle Robber, and
that night he despoiled nine men,
killing three that resisted longest, for
he was a great lover Of holy church,
and a devout believer, nor could she
ask of him any service that he would
not perform THE Gentle Robbers"
I'm McClure's.
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SAHARA GROWING DRYER.
French Observer Says the Gases Are
Shrinking and Will Disappear.

G. z. Gautier, French explorer, is
authority for the statement that the
Sahara is continuously becoming drier
to such an extent that the GASES are
perceptibly drying up and will disap-
pear altogether in relatively short
time. He quotes historic records and
physical signs to show that springs
were at one time more plentiful than
now, and that the extent of the
patches where vegetation f1ourishes
were much greater even so to 100
years ago.
AS the climate of the region has I'M
dergone no change in perhaps thou
sands of years, he believes that the
disappearance of the water must be
due to purely mechanical causes. He
considers that it is due to the con-
tinual advance of the great sand
masses to the north, thus forming an
impenetrable barrier against the wa
tershed Of the Atlas mountains.-N. Y.
Sun
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30
PALE, WEAK PEOPLE
MADE STRONG AND ENERGETIC
BY DR.. WILLIAMS PINK PILLS.
General Breakdown Caused by Def
cient Blood Quickly Corrected by
This Tonic Remedy.

General Breakdown Caused by Defi-
cient Blood Quickly Corrected by
This Tonic Remedy.
A feeling of general weakness, poor
appetite, loss Of breath after the slight
est exercise and broken sleep are some
OF the symptoms of general debility.
You may think that they have no relation
to each other and that you will worry
along, hoping all the time to feel better
soon. This is mistake, for every one
OF the symptoms is caused by bad blood,
which must be made pure and new
before health will be restored again. A
tonic treatment is necessary and for this
purpose there is no better remedy than
DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
MIR. j. q. Havey, of 50 Willow st. +,
Chelsea, Mass, says: 81 was sick for a
number of years from general debility
and Indigestion. / was never free from
stomach trouble and my nerves were so
shattered that the least excitement un-
fitted me for any serious work. My
sleep was restless on account of terrible
pains in the small of my back. These
pains would sometimes last for month
or two. Mysight grew weak, there SEEM
ing to be blur constantly before my
eyes. / couldn't concentrate my mind
on my work, and the attempt to do so
completely exhausted me.
81 was finally forced to give up q
position I had held for twenty eight
years. After trying several medicines
without help, read of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills and gave them trial. They
made me feel so much better and so
much stronger that started in business
for myself here in Chelsea. I have
never had a return of my former sick
ness and cheerfully recommend DIR. Will
Hams Pink Pills as an excellent nerve
and blood tonic"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills have long
been recognized as an excellent tonic
remedy in cases of Indigestion and gen.
eral debility, where the stomach and
other organs of the body are weakened
and disordered simply through lack of
proper nourishment. They have also
been especially successful in curing
an8mia, rheumatism, after effects of the
grip and fevers.
A pamphlet on Diseases of the
Blood" and copy of our diet book will
be sent free on request to anyone inter-
ested.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or sent, postpaid, on receipt
of price, so cents per box, six boxes for
$3.50, by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30

cling himself to the field hospital, shot
to rags, unwhimpering, mere bull
hide wrapped round will. We never
know character until we have seen
it put to the test under stress least
of all the combination of Sphinx and
Janus known as the Japanese. So
studied, the embattled brown boy
strikes me as a strange compound of
Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter the Her
nit, and Sitting Bull-child, fanatic
and emotionless' savage all in one.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30
One Hundred Years AGO.

Gen. Zebulon Pike was discovering
the peak that bears his name. "The
reason why l know I'm the first white
man that ever saw it," he said, lis
that it hasn't got any patent medicine
signs on It," Regretting that he
couldn't spare the time to stop and dis
cover the gold that lay hidden all
around him, he took parting look at
the snowy summit of the peak and re-
sumed his toilsome march.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30
Raven as Mariners Compass.

Perhaps the Danes selected the
raven for their standard out of feel
ings of gratitude, for before the in
vention of the mariners compass they
must have found him extremely use
full. The only method of determining
whether land was near was to let
loose a raven. If the bird saw land he
sailed away forever; if he did not he
returned to the ship.-London Chron-
icle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30

To be on good terms with human ma
ture Be Well! Garfield Tea purifes the
blood, eradicates disease, regulates the di-
gestive organs and brings Good Health!
Manufactured by Garfield Tea Co., Brook
lyn, n. Y. Sold by druggists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30
Her Answer.

Nov, children" said the kindergar-
ten teacher, II have explained to you
how many trees give us food, in the
way of fruit, and in other ways. You
remember that 1 said man taps the
maple trees to get maple sirup.
Where does the tapioca come from,
them" Il guess" said Olive, after
a pause, that you tap the oaks, don't
u?"-Judge.
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All Misfortune.

Pop" said Farmer Korntop's little
boy, what does it mean when you
say 'misfortunes never cone singly?' !"
"Wal," replied Farmer Korntop,
"thet's just about the truth. First
comes wet spell that'll Spite the to-
matoes an then comes dry spell that
spiles everything else."
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STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, :.

STATE OF ONO. CITY OF TOLEDO, 90
LUCAS equity.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is senior
partner of the firm of F. j. CHENEY & Co., doing
business in the City of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum Of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each ana every
case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use Of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence,
this 9th day of December, A. d. 1886.
-, A. w. GLEASON,
sB1I NOTARY PUBLIC.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces or the
system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, q
Sold by all Druggists, 75c
Take Hall Family Pills for constipation.
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II Demands.

"Do you believe in the survival of
the fittest?" We'll" answered SEN
ator Sorghum, II suppose l am like
most people in that respect. My opin-
ion depends a good deal on how fit I
happen to be feeling myself"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30

To improve the general health, take
the blood, eradicates rheumatism and
many chronic ailments and keeps the
health good. Garfield Tea is made of
herbs; it is guaranteed under the Pure
Food and Drugs Law. Garfield Tea Co.,
BROOKLYN N Y
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A Din AT Her.

80! dear" sigher Miss Mudd, Il
do wish 1 knew of an effective way
to preserve my complexion
IF you keep the box in cool place
It will be all right, won't it?"
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Thousands tell of
ur e S made by
Doan's Kidney Pills.
John G. Coleman, a
prominent merchant
of Swainsboro, Ca,
says: For several
years my kidneys
were affected, and
my back ached day
and night. / was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-30

languid, nervous and lame in the
morning. Doan's Kidney Pills helped
me right away, and the great relief
that followed has been permanent"
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y.
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
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A BRIGHT Man.

Eyes, he is very bright always
says the right thing at the right time,
I SUPPOSED" Better than that; he al.
ways keeps still at the right time"
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FITS, st. Vitus Dance and all Nervous
Diseases permanently cured by DR.. Klne's
Great Nerve Restorer. Send for Free 81. OO
trial bottle and treatise. DR.. R. FL. Kline,
Id. 93l Arch St.. Philadelphia, Pa.