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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
Death to Dandelion.

A late issue of the Denver Post
gives the following recipe for killing
the yellow pest:
The doom of the yellow-headed
dandelion is sealed. AT last science
has conquered the pesky, smiling,
nodding, presumptuous harbinger Of
spring, and it is now up to the house,
holder as to whether the weed or
blue grass shall hold sway.
The formula of the weapon that
means death and destruction to the
yellow flower is quite simple and in
expensive. Here it it:
Dissolve two pounds of sulphate Of
iron ina gallon of water, and add
about two and one-half onces OF sui
phuric acid. Place the liquid in All
ordinary sprinkling can and get busy.
This potion will serve to send an or
dinary sized lawn to witherland.
Should Sir Dandelion have posses
sion of large tract of land and it is
desired to kill the encroacher head,
body and roots, use the admixture In
the following proportions:
Add a hundred-pound sack of sui
phate of iron to a 52-gallon barrel Of
water, mix thoroughly, and add ten
pounds of sulphuric acid. Use a reg
ular spraying machine, and the dan
delion is n dead one.
Sulphuric acid being a deadly poi
son, considerable care should be ex-
ercised not only in it's use, but in its
handling before it is used.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
Subscribe for The Herald.
Piceance Pointers.

MClark was a Piceance visitor
this week.
George Letchmere is reported on
the sick list.
The deer are moving up. They
wintered we'll.
Two horse buyers are on the creek
looking for range stock.
Mrs M B Clark is expected in to
spend the summer on Piceance.
AL Redden, the boss log carpenter,
made q hurried visit to Rifle this
week.
w H Violet and family have de-
parted for their new home at Grand
Junction.
A B Critchlow was circulating
amongst his old friends on Piceance
this week.
w H Caywood and family visited
Mr. and Mrs Dudley and Mrs Collins
during the week.
Piceance wants a new school dis
trict, and it looks as If we will have
one on May 8, 1907.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs Chas Duck
EFT, on Tuesday last, a fine boy.
Mother and son doing well.
The grain crop is now all In, and 1t
is large one, too. If the yield turns
out right, Well all be wearing dia-
monds next fall.
James Mikkelson and James Balm
brich and wife made business trip
to Rifle this week, the first named
going mainly to receive treatment
for rheumatism.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
Timely Publications.

The ever-wide awake Denver 4
Rio Grande railroad has just issued
two timely publications. The first,
Fertile Lands Of Colorado" is de-
voted to the states great agricultural
horticultural and grazing resources,
and we note that White River valley
comes in for justly favorable mem
tion.
The other booklet, with Nature
in Colorado" is descriptive Of our
scenic beauties and wonders. It Is a
work of art.
Both publications. can be had by
writing to the d. & R. g. passenger
department, Equitable building, Den
yer, Colo. ~
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
jamestown Exposition Opening.

NORFOLK, Va, April 21.-As a re-
suit of the energetic efforts Of off,
cials and workmen, the Jamestown
ter-centennial exposition will b
odened Friday of this week. Many
structures for domestic and foreign
commercial exhibits and achieve
ments In Industrial arts are incom-
plete.
The gathering of foreign and
United States fleets representing the
most formidable types of naval fight
ing machines of nearly every power
of the world will be a prominent fea-
ture. President Roosevelt in the
leading role, with diplomatic, mill
tary and naval representatives of
great and small foreign nations, will
attend the opening program.
The grounds and buildins at the
exposition are about 80 per cent. fin
ished. Several of the most import
ant buildings are built solidly of
brick, cement and iron, and these are
intended to remain permanently as
nucleus OF great park.
The exposition will be almost all
that is implied in the expression, "a
worlds fair" but will not stop there.
No other exposition has attempted to
show the world the life of the colon
lists, the hardships of the pioneers,
and the achievements these people
attained from raw material.
Twenty-Five states will trace their
histories from their earliest days,
their state buildings grouped along
the historic shore of Hampton Roads
commanding fan excellent view of
the navies.
The seal of government sponsorship
will be set upon the exposition by
the coming of the president, ambas-
sadors and ministers of foreign gov
ernments, the governors and repre-
3entatives of states and territories
and delegations representing import
ant civic bodies.
On the first day will be fired the
salute to the Union by the assembled
Warsh1ps, ana the salute to the pres
ident by the United States artillery
stationed on the grounds as he steps
on the government pier from off the
Mayflower. The fact that the expo
sition is so near Washington has re-
suited in an unusually large number
of acceptances by diplomatic repre-
sentatives.
Arrangements have been made for
the protection of visitors. Both the
exposition authorities and the police
department at Norfolk have arranged
with detective agency to assist in
the police work. Detectives are be-
ing called in from all over the coun-
try to join in the service.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
Hitting the Octopus. I"

A Chicago despatch of last Satur-
day says:
The Standard Oil company Of Ind
lana, which has been on trial for the
last six weeks before Judge E. NJ.
Lands, in the United States district
court, on a charge of having received
rebates from the Chicago & Alton
railroad, on shipments of oil from
Whiting, Ind, to East st. Louis, ILL.,,
was found guilty on l l,483 counts out
of the original l, ,9O3 in the indictment.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

H. w. Walter, J. H. Hunt and G.
b. Kendall registered at the Meeker
hotel Thursday. These gentlemen
are interested in the Requena Oil
company, work on which was sus-
pended about year ago. Now since
the Union people have met with a
mishap which will put them out Of
the running for Il while, 1t is likely
the Requena will resume work at no
distant date. We hope so, as we
have as much faith In the Rangely
field as ever and like to see some
one pounding on the drill"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
Change in Firm.

w. g. Beavers has purchased the
interest of ]. L. Beavers in the black
smithing business formerly conduc-
ted by J. L. Beavers & Son, and will
hereafter conduct the business at the
old stand. All persons owing the
firm are requested to call and settle
at once, so that the business may be
SQUARED up. w. g. BEAVERS.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
A NEW TRACT Or FARMING
AND PRUIT LAND

In Utah With irrisatisa verks cuaRasesA
}use placsd - sajs At opsataG pgioa. Wasae
In a6andance sad purehass eafriss pRpss.
= uAl hgAte q Il. We Win ca5liva1s fue tive
a years and taRA ever lands With crop gfow-
Ing, or NJ Wfn cootinus to cultivat6 NJ half
tha crop, e yua can DO that and nalls Il
yoar h1iia. Wrtts Sor fall dsscfgttoa Il this
u nt9e.:inS PfCpssisssa; Gee w afsnts
] o. Piosss fssss BsiidisS. 81. Pssi, Eina.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

Mrs. Barnett, who has been visit
ing her mother, Mrs. Keel, brother
and sister, Frank Keel and Mrs.
Sprod, departed for her home at
Granville, N. OAK, last Monday.
Many friends as well as relatives,
here, regret that the visit wasn't
of longer duration.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

We are told that Roosevelt is
standing pat, but an important ques-
tion with referance to the Irish vote
is whether Pat will stand for Roose-
Welt
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

The inventor of the lightning rod
died the other day, and just when
the demand for his wares is becoming
brisk among politicians.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

The Spencer Seedless Apple doesn't
blossom; hence is frost proof. which
makes it a good apple to try in this
valley. George Fravert of Rifle is
agent
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

CARPET PAPER, 4c per yard, at
Holloway's.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
Money to Loan.

Unlimited money to loan on farm
security. Low interest. For partic-
ulars apply to F. E. Sheridan. (tD
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

Judge Parker rises out Of the storm
of the Roosevelt Hartman dissen-
sion, decorated with the garments of
q true prophet.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

FOR SALE--Light steel-axe wagon
and harness; saddle horse; saddle
and bride. w P Bennett, second
corner below mill, Meeker.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

The unkindest cut Of all is from
the New York Sun, which defines
Wall street as "a celebrated gam
bling hsll'. ~
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

The Chicago News suggest Taft and
Fairbanks as harmony ticket. A
sort of ''streak o. lean and streak O.
fat proposition.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27
Draft Horses for Sale.

Simp Harp has a fine lot Of draft
horses for sale, at his Meeker barn.
Call and see them.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

Good, clean papers, to put under
your carpets, for sale at Herald Of
fee; 25c per 100.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-04-27

BKOMO-FEBRIN will cure your
cold while you sleep. At Strehlke
Bros City Drug store.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
HIGHLAND cRoFTERs.
How They Lived In the Middle of tho
Last Century.

last Century.
In the middle Of the last century
the crofters In the west highlands
seldom saw money and never needed
it. They erected for themselves huts
mostly built of turf, aoored with clay
and rooted with heather. They kept
a few cattle. goats and sheep, which
grazed at will on the open hillside
and provided them with milk and
wool. They lived truly simple life,
and their needs were few. They grew
oats for their own food and potatoes,
which formed their other chief article
Of diet. Tea was an unknown lux
ury. 1t was by no means uncommon
to find persons who had never tasted
1t. Wheaton bread had never been
seen in those parts. Their clothes
were made from the fleeces Of their
own sheep, spun and woven by the
good wives during the long winter
nights and dyed from the simple dyes
made from the lichens which grew on
17the stems ~ trees or on the b6Wlders
" rock in the neighborhood. The
whisky they drank came from secret
stills on the hillside and had never
paid excise. The nearest parish
church was often many miles away.
No school was there for the children.
Very few Of them, indeed, could read
or w1dte. Still fewer had ever heard
a word Of English spoken. Their spir-
itual needs, however, We're not neg
lected, for they received constant Wis
its from the men," as they,%were call
ed, who had constituted Themselves the
spiritual guides Of their peighborhood.
-Blackwood's Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
lowa's Soil Fertility. A Warning.

Iowa's soil fertility is almost ex-
hausted according to statement
Just issued by Prof. p. G. Holden Of
the department of Agronomy at the
state Agricultural college in Ames,
and unless heroic efforts are made
within a few years Iowa will be but
a stretch Of barren waste ground.
"a ton of the average soil of Iowa
says Prot. Holden in his report
contains but four pounds of actual
fertility. of plant food. The re-
mainder is simply waste material
and cannot be used by plants as
food.
When this fertility is once ex-
hausted," he warns remember it is
gone forever and will not return to
our soil except as it is purchased in
one form or another, mostly as a
high priced commercial fertilizer.
1T is either commercial fertilizers
for Iowa in the future or else there
must be more clover, more stock
better care of manure and a more
systematic rotation of crops. There
is no escape from these facts.
Which shall it be?"
This warning cry from such a
man as Prof. Holden will bring
Iowa farmers to their feet. He has
gained their confidence and respect.
One year throughout the state he
preached on the selection Of seed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
THE STAR MIRA.
A SUN of Great si.e That IL stru
Cling For Existepce.

A SUN of Great Sise That IL strug.
Cling For Existence.
For the greater part Of the time the
variable Mira, which has been known
to astronomers for 800 years, is alto
gether unnoticeable and indeed invis-
ible, except with telescopes. It once
disappeared entirely for a period of
four years, but afterward attained ex-
traordinary splendor, only to fade
again to invlsibillty. 1t is a sun Of
great size, brighter than our sun when
it shines at its brightest, but some
trouble. some solar disease, seems to
be sapping its vitality, and it resem-
bles patient almost at the last gasp.
Once in about 331+ days-but the pc
riod is irregular-it has sudden ac-
cession Of energy and flares up for a
little while with several hundredfold
brilllancy only to sink back into a
dull red point that nearly escapes the
ken of the telescope. One interesting
explanation that has been suggested
is that the surface of Mira periodical
ly bursts into n vast fame Of burning
hydrogen, SO great and powerful that
it is visible across millions Of millions
of miles Of space. 1t is star for the
Imagination OF Dante, yet there is
reason to believe that the time is
coming when every star in the sky,
not excepting the sun, will have to
confront similar struggle for exist
ence, just as every mortal being must
some time see death.4Garrett p. Ser
viss in New York American.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
Better Than Sight. :

The story of Edith M. Griffin, a
blind girl who recently graduated
from Chicago high school, seems
almost intended by providence as a
rebuke to the average youthful citi-
zen of the country. The young man
and woman who find their daily
tasks attended with insuperable diff
ficulties, who fret and are unhappy,
who feel personally aggrieved at the
parsimony of nature, ought to- learn
something new and very profitable
concerning life, in the contempla-
ton of Miss Grifin's history.
Since her second birthday Miss
Griffin has lived in complete dark
ness, knowing nothing Of the lights
and beauties cf earth except for her
familiarity with the certain brand Of
sunshine she made within herself
and diffused eager and joyously.
Handicapped with what to most
youths would seem a fatal aflliction,
Miss Griffin not only graduated at
the head of her class, but entered in.
to the sphere of womanhood with at
tainments far in advance of her
years. No one knows what the
struggle must have been in the be-
ginning or the discouragements
which must have eaten at the blind
girls heart as she stroye to keep her
place with her companions. She
might have doubted but she never
gave up. Miss Griffin is q Ger.
man and a French scholar, possess
sing some knowledge of the Greek
and Latin tongues, is an expert
stenographer and an accomplished
pianist. And all she has acquired
in less than twenty years, helping
her mother with the house in
addition to her other activities.
Despite her blindness, Miss Grit.
fin is the most fortunate of beings
She has the faculty of assembling
sorrow, realizing that for whatever
trouble may come a compensation
may always be found. Understand.
ing that she must encounter the
world at pitiful disadvantage
she has been willing to work the
harder, cutting down the discour
aging lead which the normal have
naturally over the afflicted in the
life race. And in working she for
got to feel sorry for herself.
The power of feeling happy grew
and developed through constan
training until eventually her norma
and habitual condition was that ol
contentment and satisfaction. Aftel
all, man is the master of his owl
moods if he does not fall their slave
The best happiness of all is tha
which is found within ourselves
and which is immune from externa
circumstances, however. bitter
perpetual sunshine of heart. Th,
lspirit of kindliness and gentlenes
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
Old Time Flogxing..

An act Of the time Of Queen Eliza
beth ordained that Migrants were to be
stripped from the middle upward and
whipped till the body is bloody" Four
pence each was the recognized charge
made by the "whipman" for every
male and female vagrant who passed
through his hands, but on special occa.
sions this sum was exceeded. Says the
constable's account of Great Staughton,
Huntingdonshlre: MAY, 1691.-Paid in
charges taking up distracted woman,
watching her and whipping her next
day, shiliings pence" After whip
ping people according to the statute
the authorities sometimes gave them a
letter recommending constables and
others ITO be as charitable as the law
permits"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11

Any tariff levied above these le-
gitimate needs of government is
justifiable only for a purpose of the
highest patriotism, if at all, and the
building of infant industries has
been made the excuse for tariff
higher than the needs Of govern-
ment. If this excuse ever was ius-
tifable it no longer serves as an ex-
cuse because all the infant indus
tries in whose behalf the tariff has
been levied have grown under the
forced feed until they have been fat
enough for the butcher for years.
You can still identify them as hogs
because ithey have that nature,
but they are misshapen and ugly
and impudent. These hogs belong
to someone else. You do not own
them. You been and are yet feed
ing them. Would you feed the
hogs Of your next door neighbor?
No doubt he would like to have you
feed his hogs with your corn, but
you would not think of doing it..
However, you have fed and are now
feeding the trust hogs and they
keep you at it by lying to you and
appealing to your patriotism. They
make you believe that these trust
hogs are still little pigs and need a
nursing bottle. They make you be-
lieve that their mother is dead and
that they are little squealing or
phans and would starve if you did
not come to their rescue. These tar.
ilf liars are the mast successful liars
on earth. For one hundred years
they made the people of this coun-
try believe that the tariff was not a
tax and that if it was the foreigner
paid it anyhow. This lie has been
poked down the throats OF voters for
so many years that they take it reg
ularly as standing prescription
and have come to the conclusion
that they do not need to understand
lit, because the republican doctor
prescribes it and that is sufficient.
Bleeding used to be the practice Of
the doctors and the patients stood
for bleeding for a thousand years.
The republican doctors have the
same idea about the people. They
are bleeding them with a high tar
iff now as long as they will stand for
this bleeding there will be no relief.
l-Democrat Chronicle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
What He Wanted.

'How will you have your hair cut.
slrT' said the laxative barber to the
victim In the chair,
''Minus conversational prolixity," re-
Piled the patient. H4is'H
"How's that. sirf''
'With abbreviated or totally elimt-
mated narrations. . SO -,
'Whaty' cH77-
''Without effervescent verbosity. Let
even diminutive colloquy be conspicu-
GUS by its absence" !" $50
The barber scratched his head
thoughtfully a second and then went
over to the proprietor Of the shop and
whispered. II don't know whether that
man In my chair il mad or a foreigner.
but I can't find out what he wants.
The victim had to explain that he
wanted the job done in silence.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
THE BOOMERANG.
one OF the Most Peculiar weapons Of
War Ever Invented.

One OF the Most Peculiar Weapons Of
War Ever Invented.
The boomerang is an instrument used
both In war and In the chase by the
aborigtnes of Australia. 1t is usually
about two feet in length, made of hard
wood bent into curve resembling an
obtuse angle. fiat on one side and
rounded on the other. The method of
using this curious weapon is, very pc
culiar. The thrower takes it in, one
hand, holding the bent side downward,
and hurls 1t forward as IL to hit some
object twenty or twenty-five yards in
advance. Instead Of continuing to go
directly forward in accordance with
the Newtonian law it slowly ascends
In the air, whirling round and round,
describing beautiful and geometrlcal
curved line till it reaches considera-
BILE height, when 1t begins to retro
grada finally sweeping over, the head
of the protector, striking the object for
which it was intended, which Is al
ways in the rear.
An English officer has this to say of
the singular weapon: ~The boomerang
Is one of the most curious weapons of
war ever invented, at least by n bar.
barous people, nor is 1t easy to compre-
bend by what law of projectiles it is
made to take the singular directions
that 1t frequently does. l have seen
native throw one so as to make it go
forty or fifty yards horizontally and
not more than four feet from the
ground. It would then suddenly dart
into the air to the height of fifty or
sixty yards, describe very consider
able curve and finally fall at his feet.
In all cases, no matter how thrown,
the boomerang keeps turning with
great rapidity, like as If on pivot,
making loud, whizzing noise all the
WHILE"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11

Over in Illinois the legislature
has passed a bill requiring the state
treasurer to turn over to the state all
the money received as interest on
public funds thus adding one hun
dred thousand dollars per year to
the states revenue. Thus has the
vicious fee system received another
body blow. Government is gradu-
ally but none the less surely getting
down to a business basis. It is one
Of the encouraging signs of the
times. 1t has been one of the pc
culiar conditions of our government
tai system that we have in some in
stances, paid our governors and 9TH
er administrative officials salaries
barely more than nominal, while for
some other positions, more or less
clerical, we have opened the treas
ury vaults Of cities, counties and
states and told the incumbents OF
those positions to help themselves.
We have even made law enforce,
ment depend on appetite Of the law
enforcing powers for cold cash. In
stead of hiring men to enforce laws
and paying them stipulated sum
for doing their duty we have placed
a cash premium on regard for Office
with the premium greater as the re-
gard is greater. Conditions may
be such that it is unwise or practic-
ally impossible to now wipe out the
fee system but it can be eventually
done away with, and many of it's
glaring inconsistencies can be cor
rected at once. And it is real pleas
ure to note that many of them are
being corrected.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11

1t will probably be news to most
people to hear that rudlmentary traces
Of third eye exist among all verte-
brates. including man. In the human
race the third eye forms part Of the
pineal gland. small mass about the
size Of a pea in almost the very center
of the brain. Possibly, therefore,
there was more actual truth in the
well known expression "the minds
eye" than It's originator dreamed Of.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11

A street preacher in n west of Scot
land town complained to a passing po-
liceman about being annoyed by part
of the audience and asked him to re-
move the obnoxious ones. "Weel, We
see" replied the cautious officer, sit
would be hard job for me tae spot
them, but I'll tell ye what I'd dae If l
were. you" "What would you DOR
eagerly inquired the preacher. ""Just
ga round WI the hat!