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The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
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with paralysis agilans, and unable to
write anything but 2igzags.
You take his pencil and write rapid
ly and correctly in the same Condi-
tions. Your secret can be told in 4
few words: First, close your eyes; as
long as you strive to follow the pencil
in the mirror. your efforts to write are
vain. Second write in printed capitals
and make no attempt to write any
thing but the pseudo Armenian sign
and few other sentences which par
ticipatc Of the same characteristic.
What is that characteristic? 1t is not
hard to find. Find it,
The peculiar inversion of objects
viewed in a mirror is of course the
cause of the difficulty felt in readiuE
or writing. The writer is left free to
write from left to right, but finds that
while he is so doing the mirror upsets
his letters There is an entirely dis.
tinct kind of inversion which can be
best observed with the help Of mir
ror The most suitable time for the
making of the following experiment ia
after a meal the menu of which in
cluded sOft-boiled eggs. Take an egg
she'll and trim it with scissors so as
to reduce it to a half shell, In the
hollow bottom roughly draw with your
pencil a cross with pointed ends. Bore
hole, about the size of pea, in the
center of the cross. Place yourself so
as to face a window, the light falling
upon your face, not upon the mirror
which you hold in one hand. Close one
eye Place the shell between the other
eye and the mirror, at a distance OF
two or three inches from either, the
concayity facing the mirror. Through
the hole in the shell look at the mir
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
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REFINlsH YOUR OWN SILVER.
Directions for Doing Plating Without
a Battery.

Dissolve eight silver quarters
(moncyl or silver of equivalent
amount in two ounces of nitric acid
tstrong), and to this add four ounces
Of common salt dissolved in as little
water as possible. A heavy precipitate
Is silver chloride. Decant the liquid,
add more salt solution to see if all the
silver has been taken ont. Wash the
silver chloride precipitate with wa
ter and then dissolve it in a solution
composed of two ounces potassium cy-
anido and three ounces sodium hypo'
6ulphate in six ounces Of water. Filter
She solution, if necessary, and make up
20 two quarts with pure rain water
Nou may, by the aid of this mixture,
plate all sorts of things as watch
chains. rings, medals, watches, orna-
mCnts, steel, iron and German silver
articles as spoons, spcctaclcs, etc.
Hang the article to be plated, says
Popular Mechanics. in the solu-
tion suspended by strip Of lead or i'm
merse the articles and boil them for
10 to 20 minutes, according to the
thickness of the plating desired. The
articles to be plated must be free from
grease, fat and dirt and by this
method take durable and handsome
silver mating
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
PLEASURES OF FARM LIFE.


Oldfashioncd life on the farm ia
fast disappearing. Things have quick
eued some and science has wrought
changes for the better Drudgery has
been obliterated through improved
machinery and there is no reason why
the farmer Of to-day should not lead q
life Of comparative gentle ease. In
stead of following the plow he rides
the plow. The sowing Of the crops
and all this cultivation is done by ma
chinery 1t Is no uncommon thing &c
find the farm house equipped with all
modern cOnycnienccs known to the
city folks, gas or electric lights, hot
and cold water and every sanitary In
noyation. The telephone and the
rural delivery bring the farm close to
the town, and no longer need the
average farmer be behind the times as
to passing events. He has sufficient
leisure at his home fireside to acquire
greater fund of information from the
daily papers and other good literature
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The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
HOME NEWSPAPERS.
They Bring Many Benefits to the
Town and to Their Patrons.

If the average merchant would calm
ly study over the matter Of benefits
that can be brought around by the
home paper, the editor would receive
Il more liberal advertising patronage
The countrytown paper fills Il pc.
cuhar field There is no substitute
for it, It Is the purvcyor of local
news, the criterion OF the degree OF
prosperity of the town. Week after
week the editor talks to a thousand
or more people Of the community lie
Is the molder Of public opinion, and
his paper Is not alone his own mouth.
piece, but the meEaphone Of III"
whole surrounding country. People
read daily papers that are published
In the large cities for the large amount
of current general news; the local
paper is read for the little duiags IN
the local field Rarely does the sub.
scriptiou list represent dollars enough
I to pay running expenses. The paper
must have advertising to be a success.
Let it be announced single time that
there will hp an auction sale of John
Jones live stock. agricultural imple.
mcntS and other wares, and see how
many will be at the auction. This
proves its value as an advertising me-
| dium. Note the most successful
storekeepcr in any town, and you will
| find he is the most liberal patron OF
| the home paper.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
WINTER WHEAT CROP
He REALIZED $3s PER ACRE. HIS
OATS s37 PER ACRE IN SOUTH
ERN ALBERTA, WESTERN
CANADA.
Coaldale. Alta, Can, Nov. 10, 1907,

Coaldale Alta, Can, Nov. 10, 1907.
Sir: | beg to say that this year We
had 349 acres of grain, consisting of
1877 acres Of spring wheat and l52
acres Of oats. The average yield of
wheat was 3S bushels per acre and
oats Is bushels. We were offered
S100 per bushcl for wheat and 80
cents for oats making the acre val
ues for the two crops $500 and 5000
respectively.
We also had 80 tons Of hay worth
$1,000 per ton, and 500 bushels Of po
tatoes, worth 60 cents per bushel, the
latter off 9ia acres of ground.
Our best Yields this year were lO1
cres of wheat, making IL bushels per
acre at ST. 90 per bushel, would be-
$i1.00 per acre; II acres OF oats yield
ing % bushels per acre were sold for
so cents per bushc!, Proceeds, $500
per acre.
might add that 80 acres Of our oats
were "stubhled in
During the spring Of 1906, we hired
about 800 acres broken by steam We
put in and harvested 80 acres Of grain
last year, did the remainder of our
breaking, worked up the ground and
Seeded this years entire crop, put in
seven acres of alfalfa and five acres
OF garden potatoes, trees, ETC. all
with one four.horse team During har
vest we hired other teams, but, aside
from this, and part Of the breaking
the one team did the work Of raising
practically 10000 bushels Of grain,
worth $4,000
Yours truly,
w. II. PAWSON, JR.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
A NEW ANAESrHETlC.
Stovaine Is Its Name and It Produces
Temporary Paralysis.

Mr.. f. ". MGlyin, United States con
sui at Nottingham, sends to the bu
rcau Of manufactures at Washington
some particulars concerning the new
anacsthetic, stoyaine. 1t appears that
1t produces paralysis Of the body be.
low the point Of injection and removes
all sensation from the limbs, SO that
It has been found possible to ampu'
tate a mans leg while the patient re
tanned consciousness and could, had
he been allowed to do 50, have even
witnessed the operation. The patient
could feel no pain, and after the opera.
tion and when sensation returned eX.
perienCcd nothing hut the sense OF
bruising, which is one of the scquels
of grave operations. The curious name
of the anaesthetic, 'stoyaine," is due
to its discoyerer, NJ. Fourneau. VI.
Foulneau was anxious to perpetuate
his own name in connection with it.,
but as the anaesthetic was of the ma.
ture Of cocaine and no compound re.
scmbling that could be contriyed out
of 'Fourneau," he translated the name
into its English equivalent of stove
and added the necessary termination.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
Power Of Advertisinu.

In the progress of the mail-Ordcr
system IL given a wonderful illustra.
tion of the power of advertising. 1t
is the means that all who have sue
cccdeH have employed. It is an old
saying that the hair Of the dog is
ways for the merchants to combat the
competition Of these concerns which
catch trade by advertising is to ad.
vertise rightly. People who buy from
mail order houses would hardly pay
the same prices for the goods II eX-
posed on the counters of the home
store If the big houses sold goods at
the low prices which they claim. their
profits would not run up into the mil
lions yearly. The rural delivery can
be made TO serve the local dealer
as well as the far-off catalogue house.
The merchant should not be afraid to
do little advertising; yes, good lot
Of advertising, for II il is done rightly
Il will bring a greater percentage OF
profit than money invested in any
other way in business. Perhaps there
are 400 OF 500 farmers in the terri.
tory of a certain town. For a few dol.
lars the home printer will print suiIi'
clent circulars to reach them all. II
will cost one cent each to mail them
Place an advertisement in your home
paper. Merchants in different lines
in the same town can get up 2. Joint
circular. and thus save some on print
ing and postage. This plan can bC
nicely carried out If merchants al
! pull together
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
Voice Energy.

pr. Marage recently presented be
fore the Academy of Medicine at Paris
the results Of an investigation of the
amount of work performed by orators
and singers. 1t appears from his ex'
periments that a bass voice. in order
TO produce the same impression upon
the ears of hearers in a hall, requires
the performance Of from II TO IS
times more work than is required for a
baNtone or tenor voice. The bass
voice is always at disadvantage with
regard to the amount Of work II de-
mands. Thus Dr. Marage finds that
whereas men are always more "a
tigued than women and children by
an equal effort of the voice, men with
bass voices suffer the most fatigue.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
An Extraordinary Inversion.

mirror and the farther the eye from
the shell the more readily comes the
Illusion.
The hole in the shell acts as a
diaphragm, and its position, at some
distance from the eye. favors the To-
callzation of the luminous pencils in
the crystalline lens. Those which are
emitted by the marginal parts of the
egg are refIacted exclusively by the
marginal parts Of the crystalline lens.
They are more bent and give smaller
images than the pencils which are
sent by the center Of the she'll The
decreasing scale Of reproduction from
the center of the shell to its periphery
Offsets the influence of distance on the
appearance Of images of points situ-
ated on the anterior or posterior parts
Of the shell.--Scientific American.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
EXPERIMENTS wrr1 MIRROR.
interesting Phenomena Explained BY
Gustav Michaud.

Ask your friend whether he can de-.
cipher the following sign, which you
pretend to have read over the SHOP Of
an Armenian shoemaker.
He will probably tell you that he is
not convcrsant with Oriental Ian.
guages. Tell him that the sign is
written in good English and, while he
smiles incredulously, lay frameless
mirror pcrpendicularly on the mysten-
Gus script. right across the quotation
marks. The result is shown.
Ask your friend to write anything
he chooses, with the condition that he
shall see his hand and read the script
in the mirror only. With the help of
a few books arrange the mirror and
the paper as shown herewith.
The writer sets at work. but will not
probably 30 farther than the first let
ter. His hand seems to be struck
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
Stand bv Your Homo place.

Stick mp for home industry. II there
is a good food product, n household ne.
cessity, boots or shoes, clothing OF
any kind. anything along the line Of
manufacture made in your city or
town. sell It, use it; it means keeping
money at home, and helping along the
employment of home labor Make a
resolution to stand by home trade.
home industry and home protection,
and thus build up your town and ena.
Bile its manufacturers to BET out o
better product.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
A Case Of Temporary lIIiteracy.

ror as if this were some distant OBJ.
jcct. While you are so doing, the con.
cave Shell will suddenly assume a
strongly convex appearance. You
may then examine it directly in all its
parts; no amount of auto.suggestion
will allow you to get rid Of the illu
sion. To destroy it, it becomes neces
sary either to open both eyes or to
withdraw the shell away from the
mirror. The nearer the shell to the
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05

signed principally for use in bath
rooms, lavatories, etc, and is shown
in position on the wall Immediately
over The bathtub. When not in use il
can be folded against the wall so as to
occupy very little space. The wash
basin is OF the ordinary type, being
supported upon brackets, which ara
piyoted on the wall. a hose is at
tached TO the spigot for supplying wa.
ter 70 the basin.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
May
See the
Human
Soul
By REV. W. A. BARTLETT, D. D.,
Chicago.

raw light be shown that wonderful life which dwcs with
ushe soul? Sometimes is almost in sight it looks at us
out of the eyes love forth lu-
mines flesh till transforms the councnanco that simply
of earth and human angel Who expected
solid flesh and bone vanish shadowy ghons under the inHu-
the Nay: What magic docs it? 1t is trick of the scght-
oflhand man. It : Of Gods exhibitions Of power
the day when look that Undyng Breath Of
God the soul animal passions and appte who lives
for the flesh shall not the soul dark malignant FORM losing
lav likeness it had God and casting its orcbong
shadow from which children shrink they know not why
believe that vet see the soul the pure in heart As
behold there will appear the spiritual body beautiful than any
woman ever born into the whose face perhaps dm
seem reveals ocs heavenly beauty unmagnel by poets
1t the embryo spirit of light The unborn image of Christ HIM
self growing every fufmen When this time with
startling revelations the world will be convinced that whatsoever
man sowetl that shall he also reap"
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
Acorns Brinu 81 a Bushel.

a Tennessee farmer has been ship.
ping acorns north for some time, re-
ceiving as high as 81 a bushel for
them. The acOrns are used for plant
ing.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
WINTER WHEAT 25 TO 30 BUSH.
ELS TO THE ACRE IN SOUTH.
ERN ALBERTA.
Yours truly,
W. II. PAWSON, JR.

Warner Alta, Canada, Ian. ., 1905
Dear Sir; This is the first year of
farming in this settlement Mr.. A. l..
Warner raised twenty-five hundred
and fifteen bushels Of fine winter
wheat on one hundred acres Of break.
ing and Tcnny brothers had sixty
acres that went thirty bushels per
acre The winter wheat that is in
this year looks fl ne.
Spring wheat here went thirty bush.
els per acre, oats fifty to eighty, bar,
ley fifty, and fax ten to fifteen on
sod
The settlers here are all we'll
pleased with the country The stock
have not required any feed except
the grass up TO this date and are all
fat. Yours truly,
+. S. LEFFlNGWELL.
Information as to how to reach
these districts, rates, etc, can he
secured from any agent of the Canadi,
an government whose advertisement
appears elsewhere. .--Ed)
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
Sunday School Lessons for the World.

\ power greater than that of kings
seems to have been welded by the
little group of thoughtful men who
gathered at the Fcnway residence Of
W. y. HartshOrn to select the les
sons for the Sunday schools Of the
world, says the Boston Herald Every
year they gather to make this choice,
and when a decision has been reached
the lessons are handed out to the
printers and by them literally scat
tered over the planet The word thus
goes forth not in one but in scores
of languages, Europe and Africa, east
and west, north and south, get these
helps TO religious study in the ycrnac'
ular There is a supply for Hawaii,
Japan and the islands of the sea. For
India alone 40 dialects have to be pro
vided for. Some 5OO,00O0OO Sunday
school leaflets are thus distributed
every year
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
TrzGf6 and
Quality

appeal to the Wcll-Tnformed in every
walk OF life and are essential to permanent
success and crcditablc standing. Accor.
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir Of SIENNA is the only remedy oi
known value, but one OF many reason:
why it is the best of personal and family
Iaxativc5 is the fact that it cleanses,
swcetcns and relieves the internal organs
on which It acts without any debiIitatina
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection.
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co, olly, and for sale by oil leading drug
gists.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
In and Out Of New York Harbor.

Outside of the steerage, there were
2,957.32S passeI gers carried in and out
of New York harbor last year on
steamers.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
lrducino varirtv in Exnrcss,on


"Maude has such a mobile counte-
nance
"Yes, the auto kind Of mobile face"
baltimore American.
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05

There may be time not far hence when
mortal eyes will be able actually to see a hui
man soul while in the body. In view Of the
marvcs Of discovery in every field Of invcs-
tigation, the present day attitude needs to be
one Of expectancy rather than Of doubt We
have lifted the veil WHICH hid from our
fathers eyes things which they never
dreamed Of. but which We now consider
commonplace.
Is it beyond the possibility that as a
further proof Of the truth of Gods word we
may some day be admitted into dark room,
and there. with the searching power of yet
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
FOLDING WASHSTAND.
When Not in Use Folds Up Against
the Wall.

Among recent devices patented Is a
folding washstand, shown in the illus.
tratiun below. The device was de-,
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05
imnortant 10 Mothers,
SnnhistrY.

Dear, | only play poker for fun"
But you bet, don't you?'
"Well. there wouldn't be any fun
without (. little betting. Louisville
Courier-JOurnal
The Taney County republican., 1908-03-05

1t is possible to smile and smile and
be q hypocrite still.
Albuquerque citizen., 1908-04-21

and placed between the white race
and the yellow race. We do not de-
sire conquest. We have not sought
distant lands. Yet by a strange dcs-
tiny. Americas feet have been placed
in the Sandwich Islands. the Aleutian
Islands in Alaska, in Panama. in Sa-
moa. in Guam and the Philippines. so
that this great nation. the Or mighty
nation of peace, now spreads out over
the whole ocean.
Pearl harbor will ultimately be-
come the greatest naval base in the
world. II is so situated. and enjoys
such combination of physical condi-
tions that this becomes inevitable if
present plans do not miscarry. Then
America, standing upon the Hawaiian
islands, with navy controlling the
Pacific ocean, can keep the peace
there long enough for the white race
and the yellow race to get together
and work out a system upon whicn
they can live in permanent peace"
Albuquerque citizen., 1908-04-21
One of the
Essentials

Of the happy homes Of to-day Is vast
fund of information as to the best methods
OF promoting health and happiness and
right living and knowledge Of the worlds
best products.
Products OF actual excellence and
reasonable claims truthfully presented
and which have attained to worldwide
acceptance through the approval Of the
Well Informed of the World; not oi ndi-
viduals only, but Of the many who have
the happy faculty Of selecting and obtain
ing the best the world affords.
One of the products Of that class, of
known component parts, an Ethical
remedy, approved by physicians and com
mended by the Well-Inlormcd Of the
World as a valuable and wholesome family
laxative is the well-known Syrup Of Fig
and Elixir of SIENNA To get its beneficial
effects always buy the genuine, manu-
factured by the California Fig Syrup Co.,
only, and for sale by all leading druggist.
Albuquerque citizen., 1908-04-21
GOOD RAINS VISIT
ESTANCIA VALLEY
Ground is in Good Condition for
Planting and Crop Prospect is
Excellent.

Willard, y. NJ. April 81. Especially
Manager +. p. Davies, of the Hub
City base ball team has accepted the
challenge of the Belen team and the
game will take place on the 26th Of
the month.
l.. ID. Elicit an old timer, in Will
lard and H. NJ. Afford of Texas have
formed partnership and will con-
duct meat market in building
across the street from the willard
Mercantile company's store.
clyde Eckert, j. $. Stark, H. NJ.
Afford and Clyde McCarley are re-
cent additions to the town and bust
ness world of willard.
For the past two weeks fine rains
have visited this community and ad-
joining parts Of the county. The
precipitation has been considerably
over two inches and the rains have
put the ground in fine condition for
spring planting. The farmers feel
assured of a good crop the coming
season. Much of the land was al
ready plowed conserving nearly all
Of the rainfall.
The Importance of willard as a
junction point was shown last week
by the fact that of the total number
| of physicians who took the territor-
tal examination at Santa Fe last
week ten Of them We're lying over at
willard on Tuesday waiting for
| trains. The town Of Willard is en-
joying visits from many New Mexi,
| cans and tourists who would never
| know Of the eXcellencies Of the toUr
ana this part of the county excep
for their enforced delay.
| Many teams are busy hauling um
Der from the f. Romero mills i'm tn,
mountains 10 the new lumber ward
The yard Is one Of the most complet,
in the valley \. II. Rucker is the lo
cal manager
Albuquerque citizen., 1908-04-21
WOMAN CANDIDATE
IN ROOSEVELT COUNTY
Mrs. Culbcrtson Seeks Office OF
School Superintendent on Demo-
cratic Ticket.

Taiban. y. NJ, April 81 (SpcciaD-
one Of the handicaps of the new
towns and communities of New Mex
leo where most of the population is
located on homesteads is that but lit
tie money can be raised by taxation
for public improvement.
But the necessities of our town life
here have been supplied through the
liberality of our citizens. A good
school house has been built and now
the Commercial club has sent out
committee to solicit subscriptions to
build a town Jail. G. l. Speights and
T.. +. Davies have canvassed the
citizenship and the money is on hand
to attend to the matter.
Linas Chism has sold his tonsorial
parlors to Dellas Mallory, who has
recently moved here from Kemmen-
day, ILL.,
Taiban prosperity is shown by the
fact that with but a new community
| the Eastern railway of New Mexico
il having a monthly freight receipt
of $4,000.
Rev. VILLAS Smith has been re-
commissioned by the Board of Home
Missions of the Presbyterian church
as the supply of the Presbyterian
| pulpit at this place.
fabian has instituted system of
| street lights. but what she is needing
| now is a legal light. There is no
lawyer here to divide the statutes for
those who want to enjoy the expen-
sive luxury Of going to law. \ num-
Der OF people have bottled their
wrath until they can enjoy the privi-
| lege Of a town lawyer. Disciples of
! blackstone had better be getting in
| on the ground floor.
Roosevelt county has a woman as
! pirant for the Office of county SUI
| perintendent Of schools. Mrs. s. f.
, Culbertson has announced herself as
/ "A candidate subject to the action OF
! the Democratic primaries.