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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
The Right Of Children.

All children nowadays have right
to good teeth, and If in after life they
fail to possess them they may natu-
rally feel aggrieved with heglectful
parents.
Dentistry has so far advanced that
with ordinary care the teeth stay
sound.
Insist upon perfect cleanliness Of
the teeth from babyhood, even at the
cost of walls and groans from the
youngsters and unremitting watch
fulness on the part of mothers AMI
nurses.
Take children to the dentist at
least four times year, and it will
save both teeth and big bills later.
II teeth are to be Strengthened have
1t done before the boys and girls get
to the sensitive age when they object
to being disfigured by plates and other
appliances.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

me nightly, for have what is com.
monty known az q Sweet tooth"
So when we got back to camp, after
getting half dozen humping bass,
and after Joe.Dad had carefully locat.
ed the direction the bee went, the
plans and specifications for raidine
the bee-tree were deliberately dis.
cussed. a@.e .Assse ':s-te-r
We've got plenty o. rope" said the
"pusher,' knocking the ashes out OF
his short-stemmed pipe, ..and two good
axes. We may have to build a
'smudge,' and agin mebby we won't
have to-
What do you want with rope" was
my query, 'are you going to lasso the
bees one at a timer" II
'Well," was Joe-Dad's remark, II
reckon ropes mighty prominent ar.
ticle in gittin' after bees. If it hadn't
a-been fur fifty foot O. rope or SO !
wouldn't be a-settin' here talkin' about
raidin' a bee tree"
"You must have been an interested
party in some bee scrape, Joe," was
my answer.
eur awhile, fur awhile" was the
"pusher's" response. Eyes, I reckon
1 was about the most pizenously inter.
ested Teller in chunk O. rope that
ever happened into the timber
"Why, that sounds like q story, Joe, -
said /, tell me about IT,
"Well," begun Joe-Dad, it was this
away. was young, an wuz green
as to bees. I wuz the best climber
next to a squirrel that ever Skinned
up saplin'. I'd lived In the woods,
an yit wuz SO busy huntin' an fish
In that I'd never been huntin' for
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
Marriage Failures.

The real reason why so many mar.
riages are unsuccessful is that so few
husbands marry the right wives and
vice versa. They marry from propin.
guilty, for money, for position, for
some evanescent emotion which they
mistake for ia grande passion" for
anything, in fact, but for love in its
real sense.-The Gentlewoman.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
Damage Done by Rats.

"The western farmer is waking up
to realization of the. fact that he
is, as the agricultural department told
him some time ago, losing not less
than $l00,000,000 a year from rats, !"
says j. H. Van Burden, Milwaukee
grain merchant. 1T costs about so
cents year to feed a rat. We know
this because we have boxed them up
and fed them as much grain as they
would eat for year. 1t is conserva-
tive estimate to place our rat popula.
ton at 100000, 900. About one.third
of them live in the large cities, where
they do not get so much grain"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

gets up to the spot In q few minutes.
Then j unties the ak an begins chop
pin on the dead limb. hadn't got
her half of when the weight O. the
saplin weakens the limb an 1t tears
on an falls, takin' with it the heft O.
the honey, but leavin' about seven
bushels O. bees at the butt o. the limb
an along on one side o. the limb
where 1t had fetched loose from. Well,
that looked all right, but in about
three seconds the bees appinted q
committee to investigate. Something
like twelve or fifteen thousand bees
wuz on this committee, an the first
thing they did to me wuz to list sting
me once for good luck. The rope hol-
iers ], an then shet my mouth an
eyes fer fear the bees'd start in on
me there. They cert'ny did sting me
awful. I thought I'd fall off'n the
limb. I wuz skeered to try to slide
down the sycamore, cuz I'd a dropped
forty feet an broke my neck certain.
The saplin' O. course had gone with
the dead limb, an thar 1 wuz forty
feet up in the crotch, an gittin' stung
at the rate O six hundred singers 4
second"
well, Bob, he jist nacherly gifts
the rope united from the saplin' as
soon as he kin, an quoils her up an
sends it across the limb SOS l ketch
it the first sling. But by that time
I'm one big bunch O. pizen from them
stings, an partickler' my head and
neck. Pears like they mostly settled
on my back an the back O. my neck,
an when I got the rope. they sort O.
shifted an commenced to sting my
hands,
well, sir, didn't lose any time
gittin' hitch to TIC limb with that
rope an when slid d:wn her l cert'ny
perty near set fire to x went down
so tarnation quick"
Talk about PAIN! Why was jist
the painfullest Teller in fhe woods.
Bob grabbed me the minute lit, an
he had big COB O honey in his
hands. He rubbed that honey into the
stings, an I want to say right here
| SuoI III CWO uOuIS Wu6 I'LL fISQI,
though / wuz some sore. But the
honey took the p!zen out, an after a
couple o days wouldn't 4 knowed
I'd a-been stung at all. But lawz-a
me, I'll never furgit settin' up thar
hundred feet from the ground, Ell
say forty feet, an gettin' peppered by
them bees"
can SO you see eff it halM't a-been
fer the rope we had along, I'd a had
to Jump an break my neck err stuck
thar tell them bees had jist nacherly
stung me plumb offn the Emb"
-"After I'd got shet a little O. the
pain, by Bob rubbin' in the honey, hi
SEE to me, What do you think of {
rope in raidin' a bee tree?'"
"And what did you say to that, Joe
Dad?" was my inquiry.
II seq the next time secs after ,
bee tree, lowed I'd pack ladder
If they wuzn't no objections"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
How tne Governor EeIt.

Gov. Hughes recently addressed the
West End Woman's Republican club
Of New York and remarked in the
course of his talk: my happiness on
this occasion may be compared with
the: young lady on her first visit to
Venice. / believe she wrote her init
mate friend as follows. I am here
on the Grand Canal, drinking it all in
She added: LIES never seemed so
full before" $50
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
Trx1f6 and
Quality

appeal to the Well Informed in every
walkof life and ais essential q permanent
success and crcditable standing. .Accor-
ingy, it is not claimed that Syrup Of Figs
and Elixir Of SIENNA is the. only remedyS1of
known value, but one Of many reasons
why il 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.
II 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., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

We Pay Top Price for Cream.
Gosh every Day Write 4 for p!p prices ; sn,
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

Sudden Changes Of The Weather
often cause Bronchial and Lung trou.
bles. Browns Broncfaalz ,Ercches" al.
lay throat irritation and coughs.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
Motherhood.

The new movement for the teaching
of motherhood is one which appeals
alike to the humanitarian, to the biol
ogist, the physician and the patriot
Lady's Realm.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

ONLY ONE .BROMO QUININE"
Tat is LAXATIVE BROM0 QUfNINH. Look ID
Tho signature ot u. W. GROVE. Used tho Moi
W.T. 70 cure . V0l0 IN U00 Uoy. 16C.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

Goethe: There is nothing NOR
frightful than. ignorance In action.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

Digestive Difficulties? Headache? Sal
low complexion? The remedy is Garfield
Tea; the Herb Laxative. Write for sam
pies. Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

In der baddle Of life be Of stout
heart. but afoid fatty decheneration
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

= We Want Your Cream.
Write to-day for tags and prices. Nortl
Star Creamery Co.. Minneapolis, Minn.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

:. liza young man sits half the time on
. a hot stove and the other half on a
cake Of ice it's just like being in love.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
Mass
SPITE,

Proud Mother-Everybod says the
baby looks like me.
Her Brother-The spiteful things
don't say that to your face, do they?
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

Love your neighbor, but don't pu
down the fence.-German. 9.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

4 An average yield Of ginger in ia,
maica is about 1000 pounds an acre.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

Spot Cash for Your Cream. .
Top market prices always. MILTON
DAIRY CO.. st. Paul.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06
: ! : . -. : . :
DIFFERENT EFFECT.

Mrs. Goodsole- boy, It makes
me sick at heart to see you smoking.
Kid-Dat's funny. It seems to ketch
me right In the stummick.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-03-06

It is her winning ways that often
enable a woman to get the better Of ia
man in the matrimonaial5 game. 9s
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19

Thomas c. Hanna. for knowledge of which the ST.
entifiC world Is indebted DR. Boris S1Cils Follow
ing fall from his carriage. Hanna, Connection
clergyman lost all CONSCIOUSNESS OF his identify had
memory for the of his life prior the acc
dent, recognized none of his friends could not read
or write, nor so much as walk or talk-waS in fact
like child new born On the other hand as oOn
as the rud11nentS of education We're acquired by hin
once more. ne showed himself the pOSseSSOr OF
vigorous independent self reliant perS0naItv lack
ing all knowledge of the original personality, bu-
still able to adapt himself readily 20 his environ
nent and make headway in the world. Ultimately
through methods that are distinctivey modem,
fusng the secondary self with it. to restore the clergy
to his former sphere of usefulness. norma.
entire man
This, of course, IS an extreme example, paraleed
only by the case of Mary Reynolds an account Of
which will be found in any good textbook on ab-
normal psychology. The usual procedure IS for the
secondary personality to retain OF the charac
teristics of the original se1f-as the ability 70 read
write, etC,-and give itself name In this way
AnSel Bourne, Rhode Island itinerant preacher,
became metamcrphosed into y Brown. and
without any recollection of his former career or r
tlonships, drifted to Pennsylvania and began an
entirely new existence as a ShODketper IN a small
country town Similarly with Dr. r. Osgood
Mason's patient Alma T. in whom The secondary
personality assumed the odd name of Twoey.
spoke, as DIR. Mason phraSed it. " IN a peculiar chlG
like and Indianlike dialect and announced ina
her mission to cure the broken down phySlca
organism of the original self which renamed conf
pletely IN allegiance long as ~TwOey was
evidence. Here. as IS apparent we have case Amos
identical with that of Lurancy Nennum; the SOC
difference being that Twoey who by the way
is credited with having exercised seemingly Supr.
normal pOwers-d1d not pose as a -eturned viSitah
from the world of spirits
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
Public Controversy Aroused

NEEDLESS to say, the people of Watseka and the
I surrounding country had watched with breath
less interest the progress of this curious affair but
not until three months after the possession y
had ended that the public at large obtained any
knowledge of it. The first ntimation, outside of
unnoticed reports in local newspapers, through
the medium of two articles contributed by DR.
Stevens to the August and 10, 1873, issues of
The Relgio-P Philosophical Journal" one of the
leading spirituast organs of the United States
Traversng the case in the fullest detail, and en-
phasizng the fact that up to the moment of writing
the principal actor had had return of the ills
from which she had previously suffered, DR.. Stevens
gave as his unqualified conviction that the spirit
of Mary Rolf had actually revisited earth in the
person of Lurancy Vennum and had been the instru-
ment of her
This view naturally commended itself to spiritual
lists; but by the unbelievng 1t vigorously com
bated not few insinuating or openly alleging that
Dr. Stevens narrative a work of fiction The
veracity of the Roffs also attacked. Can the
truthfulneSs of the narrative skeptica inquirer
wrote Rolf be substantiated outside of Yourself
and those Immediately Interested Can it be shown
that there colluson between the parties"
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
Spiritualism Not Necessary

VET. as was said at the outset it may now be
affirmed that another Interpretation is possible
and one far satisfactory than the spirituaistc
tins too without impeaching in anyway the truth
1ulneSS OF the testimony given by DIR. Stcvens the
Rots, and the numerous other witnesses. To begin
apart from the supernatural implications forced
INTO 1t by the appearance OF the so called spirit
control it is clear that the affair bears a striking
resemblance to the instances of secondary or
multiple personality, which recent research has
discovered IN such numbers, which are due to per
fecty natural, if often obscure causes In these
as the result of an illness, blow a shock or some
other unusual stimulus, there is a partial or COM
piete efacement OF the original personality of the
victim and its replacement by a new personality
sometimes OF radically different characteristics from
the normal self
n sufficient example is the case of the Rev
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19

Frank Rolf would be taken seriously Ill during the
night; and when about two o'clock IN the morning,
he actually stricken with what vaguely SAID to
have been something like spasm and congestlve
chill she directed Rolf to hurry next door, where
he would find DR.. Stevens.
But protested Rolf, DR.. Stevens is IN another
part of the city tonight.
No she said calmly, he has come back, and
YOU will find him where | say.
Quite incredulous, Rolf gave his neighbOr's door
to the doctor, who, unknown to the Rofs, was
spending the night there With his aid, it IS per-
haps worth adding, brother Frank was soon relieved
of the ''spas1n and cOngestive chill
In this way, continually surprising but constantly
deghtng the happy ROffs, Lurancy Nennum re-
manned with them for more than three months
protesting complete ignorance of her identity and
enacting with the greatest fidelity the role of the
spirit that supposed to have taken possession
of her. Early in May, however, she called Mrs
Rolf side and informed her in voice broken
by Sobs that LuranCy coming back, and that
they would soon have to take another farewell of
their Mary
This said change became apparent in her She
glared wildly around and in agltated tone de
rnanded Where am Il l never here before
l want to go homei'
Mrs. Rolf, heartbroken. explained that she had
been under the control of Mary'S spirit " for the
purpose Of curing her body" and told her that
her parents would be sent for But within five
minutes she had again lost all knowledge of her
true identity, and seemingly Mary Rolf once
more overloyed that she had been permitted
return
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
The Return of Lurancy

FOR days she continued in this state with only
occasional lapses into her original self then
the morning of May she announced that the
time for definite leavetakng had at last arrived
and with evident grief about among the neigh
bors bidding them good by. 1t was arranged that
Sister Nervie" should take her to Roffs office, and
that Rolf should thence escort her home. En- route
there sharp nterchanges of personality, with
the spirit control dominant; but when the Office
reached it became evident that she had fully
come into her own again. The night before she had
wept bitterly at the thought of leaving her father
Now she addressed him calmly as Mr. Rolf" called
herself Lurancy, and said that her wish to
see her parents possible
Nor as the Vennums were quickly to discover
did she return torment and alarm them by the
weird actions of the preceding months. On the
trary, they found her healthy and normal in mind
and body, completely cured, a result, the Roffs
emphaticaly declared of the Intervention of the
spirit of their beloved daughter
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
Lurancy'S Case Similar

THUS tar, then. depending on the argunent H'1
analogy, the presumption IS strong that Luranty
case belongs to the same CategOry As the cases JUS
mentioned In the one, as IN the others. we nav
loss of the original self, develOpncrt Of a new SA
and the enactment by the latter OF roe eON
spicuouSly alien from that played by the foris-
The one difficulty IN the way of un-eServed ac'5P.
ance of this view is the character OF the Secondal
personality that replaced Lurancy or1ginaI pe.
sOnality Here the positive claim made ula'
the secondary personality was II reality I1e -
sonalty of girl long dead. and by way OF pr
vivid knowledge of the life circumstances, ana CO
duct of that girl was offered But this point Col
siderable light IS shed by the discovery that IN i
instances OF secondary personality N Whlch no sb
natural pretenSionS advanced there 5 a nO'Aot
sharpening of the faculties. knowledge being ~
tanned telepathically clairvoyanrly and oy ~, =.
further discovery that it IS quite possible 70 CiS
eXperlmentally secondary selves assuming the 'I'-
aCterIStiCS of real persons that have died -,
In this the creative force is nothing more o - :.
than the suggestion There Is on record ndeeu - -
instance of mediunShip III which the medium,
amateur investigator of the phenomena OF SPH'-
ism. clearly recognized that his various npeirs ~
tlonS were suggested TO him by the spectators. -
man, Charles FL Tout, a Vancouver Schooiil1s.s,s -
records that after attending few SeanceS WIN go
friends he felt strong impulse turn medium - y
self and assume a foreign personality. liei.Is ie,-
the impulse. he discovered much 10 his aIllaze'''
that, without losing complete control OF nS Srt
Sc1ousneSS, he could develop secondary sen - ~
would impose on the behOlders diScailN
spirit. On one occasion he thus acted IN a - -
conscious way the part of dead woman tle ~ a..
of friend present. and the inpersonation Wa m
cepted as a genuine case of spirit cont'oL
another, having given several successful 'ihPStr
tons. he suddenly felt weak and Ill. and aliiio' IT,
the floor b
At this point he stated OF the sitters II III
the remark, which / remember 70 have oVe'N'"
Corarasf 7Gsv -
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
Hodsson Begins the Investigation

OUCH the situation at the time of Richard
~ Hodgsons advent. Primarily, will be renem-
bered by all who have followed the work of the
Society for Psychical Research, DR.. Hodgson had
to this country to investigate the trance
medunship" of Mrs. LeOnora Piper But. his
attention having been called to the Vennum mystery
he visited Watseka in April, 1890, and instituted
rigorous examination Of the surviving wit
nesses. DR.. Stevens dead and Lurancy herself
had married and moved with her husband to Kansas;
but DR.. Hodgson was able to interview Mr. and Mrs
Rolf, Mrs Alter and half a dozen neghbors that had
personal knowledge OF the possession. All
swered his questions freely and fully reiteratng the
facts given in DIR. Stevens narrative and adding
some interesting information hitherto not made
public. In the main this bore the question of
identity ard tended to vindicate the reincarnation
theory. 1t also developed that while Lurancy had
grown to be strong healthy woman, she had had
occasional returns of Mary's spirit in the years
Immediately following the chief visitation but
that these had ceased with her marriage to man
who, Rolf regretfully observed had never made
himself acquainted with spiritualiSrn and therefore
furnished poor conditions for further development
in that direction
Approaching the fact that Rolf and his family
would furnish the best possible conditions for such
development and that he must be his guard
against unconscious exaggeratIon and misstate-
ment, DR.. HOdgSon nevertheless deemed the evil
dence presented to him too strong to be explained
away naturalistc grounds Contributing to
- The Rel1g1o-Philosop Journal an account
of his inquiry and of the additional data it had
brought to light, he described the case as unique
among the records of supernormal occurrences
and frankly admitted that he could not find anv
satisfactory Interpretation of it except the spiritual
iStiC.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-19

And another asked him. Is it fact, a story
made up to see how cunning tale one can tell:
Waxing indignant, Rolf wrote a long letter to
The Religio- Philosophical Journal, " denouncing
the mputaton of fraud, giving the names of a num-
Der of men that would vOuch for his integrity, and
concluding with the statement L am now sixty
years old; have resided in IroquOis County thirty
years; and would not sacrifice what reputation
L may have by being party to the publication OF
such narrative. if it not perfectly true
Following this there appeared in the same pub
lication several letters from well known Illinois
professional men, warmly indOrsng Roffs CharaC-
ter, and announcement to the effect that the
editor Colonel !. c. Bundy, himself of undOubted
honesty has entire confidence in the truthfulness
of the narrative, and believes from his knowledge
of the witnesses that the account is unlmpeaChabe
in every particular" AS for DR. Stevens, Colonel
Bundy declared that he had been personally
quainted with the physician for years and had i I'M
plcit confidence in HIS veracity After all this.
accusations of perjury and deception obviously
futile and, adequate nOnspirtuastic interpreta-
ton being forthcoming. there increasing ten
dency to accept the view advanced by those who
had participated in the affair.
The Holly chieftain., 1908-05-08
GENERAL NEWS.

The Connecticut Democratic conven-
tion refused to instruct its delegates
for Bryan.
The North Carolina Republican con-
vention instructed its delegates at
large for Taft.
The West Virginia Republican con-
vention voted to instruct the state dele.
cation to the Chicago convention for
TAFT.
The political campaign recently de-
cided upon by the American Fedora
ton Of Labor will be directed from
Chicago.
The overturning Of lantern by a
horses kick in the Gallagher livery
stable at PEBBLES, Ohio. caused fire
loss Of $4,000.
At Nag Head, N. c., April Both, the
Wright brothers aeroplane covered a
!two-mile stretch and apparently could
have proceeded indefinitely.
The boycotters Of Japanese mer.
chants at Hong Kong are persistent in
their efforts and are creating a wide
spread sympathy with startling effect.
The imperial government Of Ger.
many must borrow $3.50, 0,000, 900 during
the next five years according to the
admission of Secretary Of the Treasury
Sydow.