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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-03
Brute.

Il shall never speak to you again"
declared Mrs. Jawback, reduced to
tears at the end of the argument.
Just like a woman" scoffed Mr..
Jalyback, brutally. IF you can't get
ynkIr way in an other way, you resort
Is bribery"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-03
4'v'No oN VSa@
Prof. Alien Of Aurora
Making 6o-6ay TesS

Aur@a Ill-Iiving on a dN%
peanuts and lemonade, Prof Thomsx
.. Allen. president of the Aurora col
iese, has passed through several
weeks q the 60-day test which he is
making TO prove that the board OF
health OF this place was wrong in an
honhcing that case of poisoning was
oue TO eating peanuts. Prof. Allen
is a great believer in raw peanuts as
1000, and since October IS he has
eaten nothing else.
one week after starting on his
strange diet, Prof. Allen was almost
forced to give up. He became weak
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-03
A Yenetahle Freak.

A freak in vegetable growth has
been added to the collection in the
museum of the geological division of
the Pennsylvania state department Of
agriculture. This freak was a radish
which grew in the garden of Martin
Herzog, Tyrone cigarmaker, and was
sent to Harrisburg by Representative
Thompson of Blair county. The radish
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-03
Innocent Childhood.

Little William-My father has
charge of over 20 men.
Little Jimmy-Hub, that's nothing,
My father has charge over your ia
theri
Little William-Well, my father
makes more money than your father
He doesn't own the shop.-Bohemtan.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-03
Quicker Action.

Here's an article which says that
family jars eventually kNl love-"
Family jugs kiK it sooner thar
that. Houston Post. ~.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-03
Statistics of Writers.

Statistics of Writers.
And the writer's craft is now be-
come a very large craft. In numbers
it ranks perhaps second or third
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-01-25

best farming section in New Mex
leo, a country as good as Oklaho-
ma and Kansas. ANYTHING can be
raised there without irrigation, in
fact, every product OF the temper
ate climate has been successfully
raised. Wheat as an experiment
has proven very successful and a
hundred bales of cotton were pro-
duced last year and is being gin
ned at our gin. The staple is
somewhat short, but old farmers
OF the west believe the experiment
gives promise OF a very profitable
and successful crop in cotton, and
both cotton and wheat will be
planted on a commercial scale this
spring and next fall, and a con-
siderable crop Of wheat was plant
ed last fall. Broom corn has been
our most successful crop. Large
quantities were protitably raised,
and the product is being manutac-
tured at home. Old farmers who
know the west, who have broken
the prairies OF Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas have no doubt Of the
future of our agricultural resour-
ces, and we have a very substantial
class Of citizens who have come to
stake all they have upon the prom
Use Of our farms.
"Tucumcari has now two up-to-
date weekly newspapers, which far
and wide carry the tidings of a
goodly land. Mr.. Wharton has
continued to enlarge and improve
the News as the progress Of our
people demanded and the paper is
a credit to the city. Editor Whar-
ton says that the best is none too
| good for Tucumcari, and like all
true Quay county citizens, never
misses a chance to say a good
word for our city and county.
Thousands of dollars worth of
building will be done all over the
county and at Tucumcari this year
and thousands of acres of virgin
soil will be broken to yield forth
it's abundance"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-01-25

O.. w. Elliott and brother of
San on, were Tucumcari visitors
Saturday. They have a splendid
farm out there and are farming for
money. They have up seventy-hve
head Of hogs fattening for the
spring market and are feeding
them on native corn. They have
Just finished a barn two stories
high and fifty feet square and are
going to plant several hundred
acres this year. That sounds
well for a new country, but that is
the way we do things in Quay
county.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-01-25

The honor Of producing the first
bale OF cotton in Quay county be-
longs to Ben G. Hancock, a farm
er who lives eight miles east Of
town. He hauled it out from the
gin and exhibited it on the street
here last Saturday and several
hundred people took in the sight.
Many Of them never saw a bale OF
cotton before and none of them in
northeast New Mexico. The streets
will be crowded with wagons OF
cotton here next year through the
entire season is the prophecy oil
the News.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-01-25
is THE
COMING METROPOLIS.
Harry MeElroy, Lawyey, Does
Some Good Boosting for His
Town--Likes Sante Fe.


coming city OF eastern New Mexico,
and that within the next three
years our population will reach
eight thousand people"
The above statement was made
by Harry McElroy, a young law
yer of Tucumcari, Quay county,
while a visitor at the Office of the
New Mexican last week. The
brief interview with Mr.. McElroy
is given in part as follows;
II am delighted with Santa Fe,
and very greatly interested in the
historic old city. | was surprised
at the dignity OF some OF your
buildings. | have been treated
royalty here, and the capital city
has won me for its friend.
"A Quay county mar never gets
away from home without saying a
good word for Tucumcari and
Quay. county. We have made a
wonderful development in the past
year, and | have all the confidence
in the world in our future. | have
spent nearly all my life in the west
and have seen cities spring up on
our prairies as if by magic. Five
years ago Quay county was as a
desert-to-day the prairie is dotted
far and wide for miles with the
homes of happy and prosperous
husbandmen who are rapidly con-
verting the prairie into a garden
spot. Our farmers are with us to
stay. They are building fences,
barns, erecting wind mills and the
claim shanties are giving way to
comfortable and substantial homes.
Hundreds OF immigrants are
arriving monthly and taking up
land, not only in our immediate
vicinity, but all along the FL Paso
& Southwestern Railroad from the
Texas line down as far as Vaughn.
Tucumcari has doubled its popu.
lation in the past year and thous.
ands of dollars worth Of building
has been done.
During the recent financial
furry our banks have been solid as
a rock, and have at no time discon.
tinued the payment Of cash to theil
depositors, even to full amount o
the deposits if desired, and as {
result, SO great was the confidence
of our people in our banks, the
reduction Of deposits was very
slight.
Our railroad payroll nov
amounts to nearly $4,000. Gu
new shops are in operation, an,
Tucumcari has been made a regu
lar division point of the FL Paso
Southwestern and Rock Islam
railroads. Within the next tw
years we believe we will have tn
Choctaw into Tucumcari.
Our future rests upon tw
things, our railroads and our farms
The future railroad development
speculative-the future of on
farms is certain. We have tn
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

nous French physician, DR.. Martinez.
who writes of promiscuous baby-kiss-
ing in his Archives de Medicine des
Enfants"
To kiss woman may be to show
evidence of soul or soulfulness. sug-
gests the doctor, but to indulge in
promiscuous kissing in babylon is to
provide the evil gods who reign in
Tartarus with an easy method of in
ficting baleful ills upon the sons of
men. For, says the heartless medico
the little round-eyed mite is nothing
less than a sink of contagion And
whenever you kiss one you are liable
TO fall victim to one or all in the
Following interesting catalogue of ills
to which our ignoble flesh is heir:
Scarlet fever, measles. whooping-cough,
tuberculosis, smallpox, nursemaids' lip.
7scrofula, nasal catarrh gaIIoping
-chorea, quinsy, maxillary tetanus bac-
ferlal nose, humps, nettlerash, collie,
panada poison, papillary tongue and
tonsilitis
As everybody knows, the doctor
says, disease causes most havoc among
the very young and the very old. 1t
is not well, therefore, he suggests.
that the extremely aged should be al
lowed to fondle or kiss babies, and as
much for their own sake as for that
of the little ones, for each NAV COM
municate to the other the germs that
put the human animal beyond further
interest in mundane affairs. The
theory is carried even further in re-
gard to the choice of ones associates.
1t is wenknown that people in ex-
treme old age derive an increase of
vitality and considerable rejuvenation
from association with those who are
in the bud of youth. The law of com
pensation nevertheless exerts it's in
evitable influence, and what the aged
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05
DON'T KISS The BABIES
Oscillation Dangerous to the Very
Young and the Very Old, Says
Famous French Physician.

gain the youthful lose. Statisticians
point out that length of life is greatest
among schoolmasters, or those whose
life-work is carried on among young
people The same sou1less statisticians
hold that the reason why that fair
creature of rare bloom and extra
domiciliary heart-burnings, known as
the old mans darling" is common
enough phenomenon in human society,
must be attributed, not so much to
profound love on the part of the ad-
mlrer, as to the keen interest he may
feel of prolonging his own life-span.
As if to back up the learned Dr.
Martinez, Lady Violet Greville gives
to the world a woman's ideas, ON kiss
ing, writing as follows in the London
Graphic:
There is an idea abroad that kiss
ing is injurious. Mothers are urged
not to kiss their babies, lovers not to
kiss each other, and parents to refrain
from embracing their children. A
great deal of kissing might be very
properly dispensed with The formal
peck at the parental cheek morning
and evening, the ELUSIVE embrace of
female friends ready to destroy each
Oe1CA CAdl dClST Will Jealousy ana
spite, the foreign habit of bearded
men clasped in each others arms, the
false kisses of the wheedling wife, or
the specious smack on the cheek of
the husband who is arranging a soil
tary holiday, all these might be sup
pressed; kissing, too, is an art and
not all its votaries have studied the
rules.
Some kisses are horrible. There is
the slobbery kiss, the Indifferent kiss,
which wounds ones armour propre to
the quick, the salacious kiss, the hur-
ried kiss, usually administered be-
tween couples at railway station, the
brutal kiss, the clumsy kiss. But for
lovers, for mothers, what can replace
the kiss? The reverent, inspired, pas
sionate, tender kiss, the expression of
all that is noble and best in human
nature? The kiss of forgiveness, the
kiss of pity, the kiss of charity, which
elevates and restores self-respect who
would part with these? The kiss is,
perhaps, the most perfect expression
of love, but it should be kept for the
intimate, the ecstatic, the supreme
moments of life, and never, never,
given in public
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

der conditions favorable to the oper-
alton of the affinity which causes them
to unite in new chemical compound
which when condensed is water. We
separate these elements by subjecting
their compound, water, to conditions
which overcome or neutralize this af-
finity.
when we can burn hydrogen for
power, when the industrial world
awakes to the fact that prodigious ex-
penditures for coal and liquid fuel are
entirely unnecessary and that there
is right within our grasp an unlimited
supply of fuel substance available
practically without cost-for it is
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will be a revolu-
ton in the Industrial world. When
the century-old theories of the indie
structibility of matter and the con-
servation of energy. and matter have
once become really understood by
men, we will witness the utter col
lapse and extinction of one of the old
est and most gigantic of human indus
tries. the mining of coal.
Means Increased Speed.
"And further he continued, speed
would receive a new impulse. We
could have 50-mile boat and a three
day Lusitania- To-day the fastest
ship of the seas carries 5000 tons of
coal in her bunkers and $4,000 tons of
machinery necessary to drive her. By
the installation of my propulsion de-
vices and new motive power the Lusi-
tania would be so lightened that she
could, by changing her construction
somewhat, make the trip of 2,72O
| miles to Liverpool in three days or
less. She would have more cargo
room and be free from the terrific vi
bration that now characterizes all
high-speed ships, for the new system
does not involve extensive machinery.
1t consists of process partly chem
ical and partly mechanical. The en-
tire propelling mechanism now used
would be eliminated. as the pressure
OF expanding aqueous vapor would be
applied directly to projecting water
astern-s
As applied to warships the inven-
tor believes that his new propulsiye
power will be of far-reaching impor-
lance and give the American battle
ships adopting the fuel and apparatus
he has devised immense advantage
over the warships of other navfes, as
the mechanism of the Warren scheme
is 80 simple and comparatively small
that it VIII not be easy for a torpedo
or shell from the. enemy to reach it,
That hydrogen may be manufac.
tured from water by more or less com
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

the ancient Druids slaughtered buIzs
on the top of Mount Dol and batheG
their PROSTATE worshipers ia their
blood, can afford to rest on it's historic
laurels.
Mount Dol is a curious eminence,
rising abruptly from the fiat country
surrounding the little town, and al
though tradition has long claimed that
the Druids used to offer sacrifices
thereon, it was only a few years ago
that the veritable taurobilic temple
was discovered There were two 9TH
er slabs, each of them containing 27
funnel holes arranged in three rows
and beneath each altar was a small
chamber, in which the candidate for
baptism used to crouch, while the
blood of the slaughtered OK rafned
down through the tunnels upon him
1t was such a baptism that was suf-
fered by Julian the Apostate, in his
desire to wash of his Christianity AS
time passed on this Druid temple was
used by the Romans for the worship
of Diana and later still it became
Christian church. Numberless prehis-
toric implements have been found on
Mount Dol, and if you have the good
fortune to be accompanied on your
VISIT by a Breton you will be shown
In the rock a footprint of the Arch
angel Michel and deep scratch pro
duced by the devils claws.
The foundation of Dol was contem-
porary with the beginning of a mon
astery built by st. Samson in 54S. The
town became prosperous, and in the
ninth century was chosen for the coro-
nation of Nominee, king of Brittany,
who did much to establish the indie
pendence of his native land He was
q great lover of freedom, and deter
mined that not only his country, but
his church, should be saved from
French domination Accordingly he
summoned a council, at which he
charged the French bishops with
simony, forced them to admit their
guilt and lay down their croziers- He
then announced his decision to remain
no longer under the jurisdiction of
Tours, and he ended by creating seven
sees in Brittany, making Dol archiepis-
copa1, with control over the others.
Such unheard of behavior was strongly
opposed by France and the popes, but
for 300 years little Dol remained
metropolitan see-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05
Old TOWN OF DOL
BLOODY SCENES THERE IN 1898
WILDLY DESCRIBED BY HUGO.
Place in Brittany Whose History Dates
from Days of Druids-Discovery
of TauroboIic Temple
Traces Left by ST. Michael.

London--Dol is one of the oldest
towns in Brittany, and is certainly one
OF the most interesting in the depart
ment of lille ct Vilaine. 1t is quaint
and small like it's name and we can
hardly realize that it was once an
achiepiscOpal see and the mise en-
scene of all sorts of historic happen
ings. The cathedral is the chief sight
of the place, and though we may not
agree with the local guide book that
the building is a perfect marvel, we
must admit that it is really fine, while
the picturesque houses of the Grande
Rue, the ancient fountain, the boule-
wards that surround the town just as
the moat surrounded it In the days Of
long ago, the pretty, peaceful country
on every side, all combine to make
Dol extremely attractive and put us in
the mood to enjoy its long and varied
story. Dol has survived experiences
both strange and tragic, and it is diff
cult to realize that its quiet streets,
rarely disturbed by anything more
alarming than the escapades of un-
ruly pigs and geese and calves on
market day, and the shrill cries of ex-
cited peasants, were the scene of
frightful slaughter, when, in 1913, the
'Chouans" defeated the revolutionary
army commanded by Kleber, Marceau
and Westermann. The combat is Wv
idly described in Victor Hugo's
uartre-Vingt-Treize" and a large
canvas depicting the enrolment of
these redoubtable volunteers can be
seen in the Hotel de Vile
Since the revolution, Dol may be
said to have given itself up to slum-
brous "reminiscences, for nothing hap
pens there now, but after all, place
where things began to happen when
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05
HE'S SANTA CLAUS OF BRAZIL.
New EngIander Carries Yearly a Car.
go Of Gifts to Rio Janeiro

Capt James w. Ba1ano of the good
ship Margaret Thomas has for the last
II years been official Santa Claus, by
reclamation, to Rio Janeiro. Only a
few days ago he left Boston with his
yearly consignment of Christmas gifts
and dainties to gladden. the hearts of
large portion of the populace of the
thriving Brazilian city, says the Bos-
ton Post
At this season every year, while his
four-masted vessel lies at her dock
at Mystic wharf, he is busily engaged
in making purchases to take to his
friends and his friends friends in far
off Rio.
Capt. Balano is the master of the
only vessel sailing between Boston
and Rio de Janeiro, therefore his
proud title of the American Santa
Claus is in no danger of being usurped
He is 81 years of age and has fol-
lowed the sea since he was nine. He
is native of Thomaston, Me-, and
made his first trip from the nearby
town of Port Clyde. Since 1874 he has
held the title of master and was at
Application of His Invention to Ocean
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

tam conditions and IT'S recombfnae1on
through combustion with the oxygen
with which 1T was originally associ-
ated in the form of water
While Mr. Warren would not dis
cuss in detail his methods by which
nature is thus to be tapped and her
exhaustless sources of fuel made adapt.
able to the airship, the automobile and
other power plants, it is known that
the process is chemical and econom-
1cal and by its adoption fuel will be
provided In condensed and portable
form within the reach of all.
Thus the world will have made the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

OF nlgnly raref1ed aqueous vapor
which is Immediately condensible into
water at ordinary temperatures. and
we can Immediately recover it in form
adapted to our needs
In Heating Value.
The heating value of hydrogen in
combination with oxygen is $4,000
heat units per pound The heating
value of the best coal is about a.
900 heat units per pound. Heat units
mean power units, and it is heat units
we want when we buy fuel A process
for the manufacture of hydrogen on q
basis that will yield us more heat
units for a dollar than a dollar will
buy in the form of coal must obvious
ly put an end to the use of coal for
fuel. for hydrogen is a perfect fuel.
1t leaves no ash. makes no smoke or
poisonous gas and, being derived from
water and being made as required, it
requires no transportation or hand
ling
But what is the secret of the pro-
duction of this new motive power. -
Capt Warren was asked
The secret of the production of
hydrogen for fuel lies in the success
full manipulation of that mysterious
force in nature called chemical afin-
ity of elements-in other words, the
isolation of the hydrogen under Ger
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

ing-or even the prodigious cost of
merely shOveling it it into the fur
mace, this latter item in the case of
the Lusitania amounting to nearly as
much as the cost of the coal delivered
aboard ship. All this is eliminated
when we manufacture our fuel as we
go along. drawing our own supply of
raw material without cost from the
boundless ocean of water and air in
which nature has stored ready to hand
lim1tless supplies of fuel energy in
the form of hydrogen and oxygen, to
be had for the taking and costing
nothing but the Harvesting to yield
us in measureless abundance that me-
chanical power so essential to human
advancement
Suppose carbonic acid, the product
OF carbon and oxygen in combustion.
were readily condensible into LIQUID
form at atmospheric pressure and
temperature, would we not then be
found endeavoring to effect its imme-
date decomposition into its elements
in order that we might again avail
ourselves of the energy liberated by
their union? But the natural cycle of
carbon carries it through the complex
evolution of plant Vie before it is
finally returned to a concentrated con-
dltion- In carbonic acid it retains it's
gaseous form at all ordinary tempera-
lures and pressures and so is difficult
to deal with
Not SO with hydrogen. When
burned with oxygen it takes the form
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05
70 CURE a COUGH
or break : Colo b e tsours

Mix two ounces of G1ycerine and .
half ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine COM
pound pure with half pint of Straight
Whisky. Shake well and take a tea
spoonful every four hours
The genuine Virgin Oil of Pine COM
pound pure is prepared only by The
Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, Ohio,
and is put up only in half-ounce Walls,
each vial securely sealed in round
wooden case to insure its freshness
and purity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05
MIX FOR RHEUMATISM

The following is a never failing rem
edy for rheumatism, and if followed
up it will effect complese cure of
the very worst cases: Mix one-half
pint of good whiskey with one ounce
of Toris Compound and add one ounce
Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound. Take
in tablespoonful doses before each
meal and at bedtime" The ingre-
dents can be procured at any drug
store and easily mixed at home.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

p1ex and expensive processes is. or
course, well known" said Capt War
rem but my process is the first by
which it may be produced economical
ly and utilized in an engine or n
motor.
Economy in Its Use.
TN the process of burning coal and
generating steam power in an engine
an efficiency of from five to ten per
cent Is the best that is realized with
the most highly developed modern
equipment, and this is not taking into
account the manufacturing cost of the
mining, cleaning and transport
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-05

that time in command of the Mabel
Jordan, named for the daughter of Will
bur Jordan, president of the American
Loan and Trust Company of State
street.
From Boston to Rio de Janeiro the
Margaret Thomas covers 1000 miles
arriving there as a rule about 40 days
from the time that Boston light is
passed The cargo carried by the
Thomas is mostly composed of APP
pies, which are sold at the substan-
tial price of $26 to $50. barrel upon
reaching their destination
The shopping business is to me a
most pleasant diversion and a source
of much pleasure after long, tire
some cruise" says the captain Il
have everything for the ladies as well
as for the men and children / think
that the only thing that / an not TAX
ing back with me is sheath gown"