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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
AN UNCON0UERED PEAK.
Lizard Head on Mount Wilson Has De-
fled the Climbers.

The mountains and peaks of the san
Juan I'm northwestern Colorado pre-
sent different appearance from any
OF the northern Rockies.
They are grandcr, more PERCEPTIONS,
with sharper piunaclcs and more Jag
gcd I'm outline In height Mounts Mass
I've, Elbcrt and Blanca slightly ont
rank those of the San Juan, but no
where else can bc found whole groups
of mountains rearing their heads TO
and above tlOOO feet.
Mount Wilson-1i.25O fcet-thc dom
inant peak. is one of the most massive
I'm the entire Rocky mountain range
Just east of this mountain is the re
markablc traChytc obclisk called LIZ
ard head. The vivid imagination Of
an early pioneer who had been seeing
things" is said to be responsible for
the name.
The summit Is H. lG0 feet above the
sea. From n pondcrous base the pin
nacle rises 900 feet. with diameter at
the foot Of only about sixty feet, grad
ually taperlng To- less than half that at
the top.
Lizard head has deGcd all attempts
OF mountain climbers 10 reach Its sum.
nit The foot of the pinnacle Is easily
accomplished hut thus FAR the steep
sides OF the 800 foot shaft have proved
insurmountablc. No doubt the time
will come when the vcnturcsomc
mountain climber will find way, but
many IA failure is the record of the
past.
Trains circle this mountain for miles
on the way from Telluride TO Rico.-
New York Post
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
THE SMALLEST SCREWS.
To the Naked Eye They Look Like
Specks OF Dust.

The smallest screws I'm the world are
those made in watch factories. They
are cut from steel wire by machine.
but rs the chips fall from the knife II
looks as IL the operator was simply
cutting up the wire for his own iii
version one thing is certain-no
screws can bc seen. and yet a screw
is made 10y every third operation.
The fourth jewel wheel screw is
next To invisible. To the naked eye re
sembling Spcck of dust. With a
glass, however, ii can be made out
quite distinctly. II has 2GO threads to
an inch. These little screws are four
cter. and the heads are double I'm size
II has been estimated that an ordinary
thlmble would hold 100000 of them.
About 100000 OF them are manu-
facnrcd I'm the course Of a month.
hut no attempt is ever made TO count
thcm. I'm determining the number lu1
0f them are placed on a very delicate
balance and the numher of the whole
quantity calculated from the weight
of these Nll the smrll parts Of The
watch are counted In this way prob
ably 5O ont OF the l2O
When they have been cut the screws
are hardened and put into frames.
about loo % the frame. heads up. This
is done very rapidly, but entirely 10y
the sense OF touch instead of 10y sight.
so that blind NAN with q little eN
pcricucc could PERFORM the task
The nest step IN the proccSs Is to
polish the heads iu uu automatic ma
chine. 10000 at timc The plate on
which this Is dome Is covered with oil
and grinding compound. AMI on this
the machine moves them very rapidly
by n reversing motion until they are
In perfect condition. Chicago Record
Heraf
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
A NEST HARD TO FIND.
Remarkable and Artistic Home Of the
Humming Bird

The home Of the hummlug bird is
one Of the most remarkable and artistic
rcatious of all bird architecture. 1t Is
tiny, delicate cup, made Of the soft
est plant down, saddcd upon some
rather slender branch so deftly that IL
seems Il part thereof. The saliva of
the birds is used 10 compact and secure
the material and likewise To coat the
exterior with the gray green ichens
SO generally found upon trees. This
makes it so asSimilate with the sur
roundings that ii is very difficult oh.
icCt 10 discover And thereby hangs n
tale. a gentleman had told me that
If | would call upon him he would
show me an occupied nest Of hum
ming bird i'm his orchard When |
came. he was out of town, but |
thought wonld see If ! could not find
the nest myself. So | made inspection
from tree 10 tree, ana presently the fe-
male hummer began 10 fly about me
anNiously We played a game of hot
and cold until It became evident that
the nest must be i'm n certain low apple
tree which had many dead, lichen Gov
cred branches. Some of these came
down nearly TO the ground, and for
quite awhile stood by the tree, run
ming my eyes along each branch in or
der, trying 10 make out the nest while
the female kept dartinE frantically AT
my head II must have been nearly
quarter Of an hour before | discovered
that | was standing almost touching
the nest with my hands, having been
looking right over 1t all the time. II
contained two fresh eggs. this being I'm
the early part of June. The branch
upon which II was built was complete.
ly overgrown with liChens, and the
nest. being covered with them, too, was
wonderfully disguised, though there
were no leaves 10 hide it-From "Ex-
periences with Hummlng Birds" 10y
III. X. Job, I'm Outing Magazine.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
HOME CT THT c0LL.
Methods Of the lngeniou- fhurineian
Toymsker>

Methods Of the lngeniou- (huringian
Toymsker>
DolHnaking did not become conspic.
nous as an industry in the Thuringian
mountains until the mid he of thn nine
tccnth century, when Il citizen Of Son
ncberg brought from London doll
which was regarded as a grcat curiOSi-
~. 1t had come originally from China,
and its head. legs ana arms were NOV
able. This furnished nm inspiration to
the ingenious Thuringian tOymakcrS,
who promptly improved upon il. -
TO that time they had made dolls only
of wood and leather. but soon they
evolved the wax hcad-at first crude
article. the wax being applied with a
brush. but later brought To high per
fcction, thanks, ii is said, To an acci-
dental discovery. \ man engaged in
making the heads dropped thimble
into his pot of tluid wax and on taking
It out found it covered with Il smooth
and beautiful coat of the substance.
He was not slow To seize the idea, the
result being the adoption of the dip
being put on with CamelS hair pen
ell. Latc> on the movable eyes and
closing lids, to fCign sleep, were added,
and the fleece of the Angora goat was
substituted for human hair I'm the max
ing Of wigs, holding its color and curl
much better. the doll rs it is known
today thus assuming its final and
highly artistic form.
Dressing the dolls after they are
made has bccome an industry in which
numbers of women and girls are en-
ployed For the small, inexpensive
dolls little chcmiscs, finished with a
runle of lace around the neck and
arms, are made 10y hundreds and re-
Quire no skilled labor for their con-
struction.-Rene Bache in Circle.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
Modern PLAYS and PLAYERS.

We no longer demand that a man or
woman play a part We insist that the
art iit the man or woman. This con.
dition no doubt is largely the fault ~
managers, who instead of requiring
impcrsonaton pick performers for
their likeness to the characters 10 bc
assumed. "llavc YOU Il rathcrT one
can imagine thcm mquiring OF a can.
didate yes" Chen YOU won't do.
This mans father died twenty years
before the beginning of the play
Argonaut.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
BURIED IN CEMENT.
The Story OF an Arab Boy Who Re-
nounced Mohammedanism

nOunCcu IHOndfnneudnlSUls
According to history, there was born
about the year 1920 an Arab boy
named Geronimo. He was captured in
infancy by the Span~i garrison Mt
Uran. and when about eight years old
he escaped from his captOrs and went
back to his family. living rs Moham
medan until the age of twenty-five.
lie then volItarily returned to Ornn
and resumed the Christian life which
he had adopted previously when In
the hands Of the Spanish authorities.
A few years later he went on n coast
Ing raid with party Of Spaniards,
but the raiders were themselves cap
tured by Moorish corsair and
brought To- Algicrs. Here the attempt
was made To convert him TO Moham-
mechanism. hut he pcrsistcntly refused
TO embrace that faith. so that he was
tried and condemned TO die. Ills hands
were tied behind his back, and he was
cast alive, face downward, into block
Of concrete then being prepared for
the Fort des Vingt Quatre Heures,
then building. Careful note was taken
Of the spot by lIaido, II Spanish Bene-
dictine missionary TO Algicrs, who
prayed the time might come when the
Lord would pave the way for his ex-
humation and Christian burial. In
1853 the French found 1t necessary TO
destroy the fort. and the data left by
Haido were found TO be correct, for the
designated block of concrete on being
cut open disclosed the bones of Geron-
imo and the cavity left 10y his body.
The bones were removed Dec. 81, 1853,
and given Christian burial, and they
now rest In massive stone sarcopha-
gus I'm the cathedral A plaster cast
was made of the cavity and afterward
raphed.-Cement Age.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
Mortar IoRSers.

There IL no hod carrying I'm Japan.
The native builders have method OF
transporting mortar which makes It
seem more like play than worli-to the
onlookcr The mortar is mixed In n
this up into balls of about six pounds
weight. which he tosscs tO n man who
stands on a ladder midway between
the roof and the ground. This man
dcftly catches the ball and tosscs II up
10 man who stands on the roof
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03

the structure from going adrirt The
flood finally swept horse and bridge
down stream. Later the bridge was
discovered lodged against the bank
with the horse sitting quietly on the
former.
A bystander who had listened intent
ly to this tale remarked quietly:
81 see suthn' similyar oncct"
Tndccd? What was IT." asked the
story teller.
aye see" was the reply, carter the
hOss | see was took down stream no.
buddy ever 'spcctcd to see him alive
ag'in. But he was pow'ful sort o
brute, an bout n hour aftcrward we
see him a-comin' mp stream a-puIlin'
the blame old bridge artcr himw-Al
bany Journal.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
THE WORD "QUACK."
lts Origin Traced Back to tho Sixteenth
Century.


The original aud acquired meanings
! Of many an old word have been clear
rd up I'm the law courts. When "quack"
had its turn, Sir Edward Clarke, who
was probably quoting Il dictionary. de
cncd the word as IA bonStful pretend
cr To ancdicnI skill" "QuaCk" is un-
Ioubtcdly derived by suggestion from
the quacklng of duck. The quack
doctor has always substituted vOlu-
blllty for knowledge. "Quackcr" and
"quaCking cheat were sixteenth cen
FURY words. "Quack' I'm It's present
sense tx certainly as old as 1896. when
| u was included in the earliest Of our
Hlang dictionaries The original word
wus "quacksalvcr," Il travelling cmpiric
who quackcd about his salves, and
according 10 Henley and Farmer, the
dramatist WyChcrly first shortened this
word 10 "quaCk."
The full term, qunck doctor. Is found
! nt least as early ms l71O. when these
words were used as n title 10 the Earl
Of ROChCStCr's mOuntcbank speech on
Tower hill This witty and pro0igate
nObleman Chc is always called witty
nud prohigatcD took II into his head 10
] disappear from his friends and appear
20 the mob on Tower hill rs Il Quack
doctor The speech he made on that
occasion has been preserved. and It
shows that quack oratory has gained
nothing since.
II IS not all printable I'm these polite
pages, but the following passage will
show its character:
The cures | have done are rs I'm.
credible rs innumcrable. Icurcd Prcstcr
Johns gOdmothcr of q stupcudous dolor
I'm her os sacrum. which had like tc
cost the good lady the pcrdition of her
| buckle bone. cur'd the Empress of
Boolmapo OF cramp she got I'm her
| tongue hy eating pork and buttcr'd
| parsnips. | Cur'd an alderman of
Grand Cairo of scarlet, burning. rag
Ing fever. Of which he dy'd. | Cur'd
the Emperor Of Morocco. who lay Scv-
on years sick of the plague. Cur'd
him I'm forty-twO minutes so that he
| dancd the scrabrand. hiphap and som.
court For my pains he presented me
with G,OOO Hungarian ducats and
! Turkish cymctcr. Nerbum sat sapicuti.
No cure, no money"
| doubt very much whether Sir Ed
ward Clarke was right I'm saying that
the word "Qua'k" was revived by
Carlyle after Il had died out So use
ful a word is not likely TO have been
dropped, though in Carlyle's vocabu-
larry OF denunCiution IL certainly took
on new importance. lt was from a
court Of law, 10y the way that Carlyle
obtained the word gig" which. with
ferocious glcc. he never ceased 10 use
as a symbol OF SNUG responsibility.
The trial Of Thurtcll at Hertford as
sizes for the murder Of Mr.. Wcarc pro
luCcd the follow ing dialogue.
What sort Of person was Mr.
| WcareY"
"IIe was always most respectable
person"
What do YOU mean 10y respeCtahlc?"
"IIc kept n gig"
Carlylc'S sardouiC humor seized on
this. and ever after when he was
storming at responsibilities and unreal.
ltiCs gigs" were not far from his
mind. lie even applied the word gig
manity" To those classes of society
which held the gig ideal John
O'Iondon I'm London Taller
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
Women and the Theater.

The first aim of the modern play.
wright Is 10 please the women in the
audience The second thought is for
the female characters I'm the play. II
n play finds favor with the women II
is bound to be success The men
will go If only because she Is there or
TO act rs her cscort-Thcatcr Maga.
zinc
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
When on Tour.

Papa-Ah. my boy. the old days were
the best Then we did our courtlng.
walking I'm the country lanes. gathering
buttercups and daisies
Son-Why. pop We go courtIug IN
The country lanes just the same today.
only Instead VI walking we go iu autos
and instead OF gathering daisies we
gather momentum.-Town and Coun.
try.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
lmnossible Combination.

"The time the place and the girl!
How seldom we find them together
BAH The combination that We sell
dom Hud together Is the man. the
shower and the umbrella Louisville
Courier-lourual
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
Re ortticd.

"Did she marry her husband to re
form him?'
81 guess SO She reformed him. all
right"
"Why, he drinks like q fish"
81 know it. but he didn't use to he
fore she married him. Houston Post
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03

Rings Little Liver Pills wake I'd lazy
livers. clean the system and clear the
skin, Try them for biliousnsss and sick
headache Price 2se.-Sold BY I. r.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
A 4 go Warning.

1T Is lmprudent TO leave loaded
guns within your sons reach Ike
this"
"Oh. he doesn't even know they are
guns: he was using them for stills the
other day."-lRle Jsia
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
Nnt ~. SAY

Bcggs What do you say TO your wife
when you come home late at nightl
Jaggs Foolish man! what makes you
think get n chance TO tslki
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03

when man wears long chin whisk.
ers Il may hc because his wife In
sists upon buying his neckties.- Phil
afo'phin Record
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
Two Horse Tales.

An Albanian who had been I'm an
eastern state while freshets were I'm
full swing told the following about n
horse which had been attached 10 n
foothridge crossing brook TO keen.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03

Bees Laxative Cough Syrup for coughs.
colds, Group and whooping cough grows
In favor daily with. young and 9ld.
dren, II Is prompt relief 10 Group. IL is
gently laxative, driving the poison and
phiegm from the system. IL r. simple
nteed--soid By T. r. GRADY, 1915
Westminster street
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03
sv Riol,t OF Birth.

Hunter Are you an American citi-
zen. Fat? rat-Faith. an ! am that!
was born IN Donegal. but twas on
the Fourth ~ July IIarper's Weekly
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-03

let every bird sing i's owl note =
Danish rroverb.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-30
PRESCRIBED cUTicURA
After Other Treatment FaiIed-Raw
Eczema on Baby's Face Had
Lasted Three Months-At Last
Doctor Found Cure.

Our baby boy broke out with &C.
zema on his face when one month old.
One place on the side Of his face the
size of nickel was raw like beefsteak
for three months, and he would cry
out when bathed the parts that were
sore and broken out. l gave him
three months treatment from a good
doctor, but at the end Of that time the
child was no better. Then my doctor
recommended Cuticura. After using
a cake of Cuticura Soap. third Of a
box of Cuticura Ointment, and half a
bottle Of Cuticura Resolvent he was
well and his face was as smooth as any
baby's. He is now two years and a
half old and no eczema has reappeared.
Mrs. NJ. L. Harris. Alton. Kan, May
IA and June IL, 1907"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-30
and
Quality

appeal to the Well-Infomed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and crcditable standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir Of SIENNA is the only remedy of
known value, but one Of many reasons
why it is the best Of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
swcetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any facilitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as tits free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
eists.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Cholera is still raging at Manila.
Boris Loutsky. Russian motor ex-
pert, who lives in Berlin. announces
that he has made an arrangement with
Wilbur Wright. the American aeroplan-
list. to construct a seventy-fiye-horse-
power motor for use on the Wright ac-
roplane. This motor. it is said. will
double the speed of the Wright ma
chine.
After an all day race Tuesday three
highwaymen accused of holding up B.
y. Devinsky, night telegraph opera
tor at Grainfield. Kansas. were cap
tured by a posse of $50 farmers. The
three men followed Devinsky when he
left the depot Monday morning, robbed
him and left him gagged and bound
to a telegraph pole. After repeated eff
forts. Devinsky freed himself and gave
the alarm. In tie chase the farmers
pressed automobiles and horses into
use.
Cholera has invaded the winter pal
ace of the Car at St. Petersburg and
other palaces of the Russian imperial
family.
A. Russell Peabody. one of the at
torneys of Harry X. Thaw, died sud
denly Wednesday al Babylon, l.. l.. OF
pneumonia.
1t is reported from German South
west Africa that the native leader. ST.
mon Copper. again is on the warpath.
and the white inhabitants of the east
ern division of the protectorate are in
danger.
Because of strike Of quarrymen.
which started recently. all manufac-
turing departments of the Atlantic
Portland Cement Company, at Hannibal.
Mo. ceased operations Saturday night
The shutdown is caused by a lack of
material and affects $500 men.
At Lemans. France. Monday. Wilbur
Wright made a continuous flight in his
aeroplane of nearly sixty-one miles, be-
ing in the air for one hour and thirty
one minutes. The performance was
witnessed by 10000 enthusiastic spec
.ators.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-09-30
CALL FOR FULL
MINE REPORTS
STATE COMMISSIONER WANTS
STATEMENT OF ALL COLO
RADIO MINING PROPERTIES
REQUIRED BY STATUTE
STANDING OF DISTRICTS iNFLu-
ENcEo BY THE REPORTS,
WHICH ARE KEPT ON FILE

Denver-T. j. Dalzell. state com.
missioner of mines, knowing the i'm
portance of having a complete record
showing the condition of all mines in
the state that are being worked, has
sent out blanks to every mine oper-
ator in Colorado, with the request that
the recipient obey the statutes and
make a report on the essential points
necessary to a condensed record OF
each property. The general assembly
of 1899 made law that such reports
be made out each year and sent 20 the
bureau of mines, but Commissioner
Dalzell states that only about one in
every ten blanks sent out is filled in
and returned.
Hundreds of letters are received by
the bureau of mines from all over the
world. asking for information on the
condition of certain properties. 1t is
the intention of the commissioner to
compile and index all reports sent in,
and subsequently to keep them in
book form. where they will be aces
s.Jle to the public.
The Importance of such a record
De Stdttu "
mines of Colorado have a worldwide
reputation, which must be maintained.
and nothing can do that more effect
ually than simply the publishing of
the actual conditions existing in the
mines of the state at the present
time. In discussing the matter. Com
missioner Dalzell said:
IF the parties interested in the sew
eral districts of the state could be
made to realize that on the reports
received from their districts, to n
great degree depends the favorable or
unfavorable reports as to the number
of men employed in their districts,
the number of mines being worked.
and so on, they would doubtless be
more interested in seeing that the
blanks were properly filled out. and
promptly returned to this office.
For the purpose of securing as IA
vorable a showing from each district
as possible. each person should make
it his individual work to see that every
mine owner and manager sends to the
bureau of mines for blanks. and have
them neatly and correctly filled out.
showing the name of the mine or
Inning company together with the
names of officers, owners of the
property and managers of same"