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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-04
PRESIDENT WILL INSPECT THE
FAMOUS GOVERNMENT IR-
RiGArioN PROJECT.
PATHFINDER DAM SOLID
PUMPING FROM UNpERFLoW IN
KANSAS IS NOVEL BUT
sUCcESsFUL.


tunnel, but the twelve-mile canal
which will connect its west portal
with the Uncompahgre river will be
completed and ready for the President
when he comes formally to open the
system September 2Sth," said l. W.
Mcconnell. supervising engineer OF
the United States Reclamation Ser.
vice. upon his arrival from Montrose
the other day.
I'VE will be able to show flow OF
about 400 second feet of water
through tunnel and canal on opening
day." said he. land it will be some
time before the full capacity Of 1900
second feet will be turned into the
tunnel. About all that remains to be
done now is to get the men out and
start the water"
Mcconnell spends about five-sixths
of his time visiting the half dozen big
projects under his care In Colorado.
Kansas. Wyoming, Nebraska ana
South Dakota. although his residence
il in this city. Regarding the posi-
bility Of q break in the big Pathfind-
or dam in Wyoming. about which con.
siderable was printed in the papers
two months ago, he said:
"The Pathfinder dam IL about as
likely to break as James Peak is to
topple over. The dam IL 200 miles
from the lands which it is designed to
irrigate, the former being in central
Wyoming and the latter on either side
Of the Wyoming-Nebraska line. This
has been an extraordinary year for
rainfall. and in June the North Platte
ran 1.250.000 acre feet Of water, or the
average run for the entire year pre-
vious. The auxiliary discharge tun.
nels from the dam, which ultimately
will be used for power purposes. have
mendous volume Of water, and are
amply able to care for any quantity
that may come down the river. We
feel sure of that since the June ex.
perience.
I'VE are now planning to build the
Pathfinder dixie. which will fill q low
sag on the south side Of the dam. The
existence OF the sag is what caused
the talk in June, when the exception
- 4u0htity Va otCi 0ONCioPC0. WIN
that taken care Of there will not even
be room for talk.
Probably our most interesting. and
certainly our most novel. project. IL
that at Garden City. Kan, where irri.
CATION by pumping from the under
flow and from the Arkansas river is
being carried on successfully. The
Arkansas has carried q very large
amount Of water this year. and most
of our pumping has been from the
river direct, although the underflow
also has been utilized.
"Of course the eyes of the world
are on the Gunnison tunnel Of the un.
compahgre project. and you may say
that the engineering work will be
complete and everything in readiness
to receive the President and his dis.
tinguished party when they arrive at
Montrose for the purpose Of opening
the tunnel September 23rd."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-04
IT WORKS
The laborer Eats Food That WouI6
Wreck an once Man.

Men who are actively engaged at
hard work can sometimes eat food
that would wreck q man who is more
closely confined.
This is illustrated in the following
story:
p Il was for 12 years clerk in a store
working actively and drank coffee all
the time without much trouble until
after l entered the telegraph service.
There got very little exercise and
drinking strong coffee. my nerves
were unsteady and my stomach got
weak and was soon q very sick man.
I quit meat and tobacco and in fact
stopped eating everything which
thought might affect me except coffee,
but still my condition grew worse. and
I was all but a wreck.
Il finally quit coffee and COM
menced to use Postum a few years
ago. and am speaking the truth
when say, my condition commenced
to improve Immediately and today
am well and can eat anything / want
without any bad effects, all due to
shifting from coffee to Postum.
Il told my wife today believed I
could digest brick II had a cup Of
postum to go with 1t.
I'VE make it according to directions
boiling 1t full 20 minutes and use good
rich cream and It il certainly deli
cious.''
Look In pkgs. for copy Of the f.
nous little book. 'The Road to Well
ville."
There's . Reason"
Ever reaA the abeva lefteep a DeW,
oDe apDeaFo fEoa t1Ro - tine. They'
are geaoaDos tKoas on4 TN oe eo0oD
interest.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-04
oisslIns 10 Exempt.

Now the chewing gum trust has re-
organized to get firmer grip on the
Jaws Of our girls. but. thank heaven.
NO concern has proved strong enough
SO far to control the country's rippline
giggles.-Houston Post
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-04
SYNOPSIS.

The story opens with a scene at a box
party Miss Henrietta Winstanley, sis
ter of Bishop Winstaney overheard
Banker Ankony propose to Barbara Hefn-
ingray whose brother Dan was in his
employ. Dan was one of the towns pop
ular young men.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-09-04
ONE ON JOHNNY.

He was q balmy-headed Johnny,
with little cash. She was both pretty
and pert. He said: DO you know.
Dolly, am something Of mimic? ]
can take almost anybody OF"
She said: Then take yourself on.
old boy. I'm expecting some one to
take me to supper"
The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-26


The Red cloud schools vii, open on
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The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-26
Biz Auction Sale.

Second hand goods of all kind. One
good wheat drill. Don't forget the
date Saturday, Sept. It'll, 1909 on the
street
The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-26
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monday from Fairbury whore she at
tended teacher : institute all last week
MIS- E'nn McCaIIum ana daughter
MISS Jessie N'IalI''m expect to leave
ior iIh'oIh next Wo'k where 'h'y VIII
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Who resides north east Of Guide Rock
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p Turner has been VISITING her sister
Mrs. l. c. Cone. She returned Mon.
day to her home in Texas. She used
to teach school in Webster county.
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was held at the family home Tuesday
afternoon at o.3o o,cIook Uo woe !.
member of the Modern Woodman lodp,
of Crida Pool,
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: daughters MIS- A. Noliers and Mrs
{ w. +. Crowell. He will also attend
the state fair At Lincoln.
MISS Crahord gave line recital
The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-26

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The ladies of 'ae Christian church
viii serve zee cr,m and cake in the
Court House yard Friday night
Everybody welcome.
600 bu of Sprayed Apple, for sale.
mil,, south west Of Ned cloud on the
Dan Noyr,, larm Picked apples Toe,
w'ulrall~ 25c or . bu. Tor 81
Ivan Moan, fine ,i.,Ir wear and a half
old son of MIR and Mrs. Walter Means
died Tues lay ard was buried Wcdncs-
day ia the Red Cloud cemetery.
piupsaly,. r,rhnlil,d. sooihc, pain.
In any emergency bruises. cuts. sores.
buri,s scratches e,c piu,snlyr. car.
boliaed. is best. Sold 10y Henry Cook
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04
What is Death?

In the February McClures Bur-
ton J. Hendrick describes the ex-
periments in transplantinG animal
organs conducted at the Rockefeller
institute by Dr. Alexis Carrel. DR..
Carrel preserves animal tissues in
cold storage for many weeks.
TO the unscientific citizen it is
something of a surprise to learn
that large parts of the body are
alive and useful after the phenome-
non popularity known as death has
taken place. Few of us suspect, for
example, that our kidneys and
hearts after we have died ourselves,
can in most cases be resusCitated,
and that if by some surgical mir
acle they could be transplanted into
another body, they would quickly
resume their functions. This, how
ever is a well demonstrated medi-
cal fact. The human heart has
been removed from the body more
than thirty hours after death and
made to beat again. DR.. Carrel
himself has taken the heart from
one dog and inserted it in the neck
of another, connecting the aorta
with the carotid artery of the new
heart, and the vena cava with its
jugular vein. In a few moments
the live dog had two hearts rhyth-
mically beating, one recording a
pulse of SO and the other 100.
Science has yet framed no pre-
else definition of death. The human
body teens and quivers with life,
only a small part of which becomes
a part of individual consciousness.
The healthy man hardly realizes
the numerous and complex activi-
ties of which only occasionally in
| fiuence our daily life. Bodily tissue
everywhere is constantly breaking
down and constantly building up;
and yet it is only in the last few
years that even science has begun
to understand the beautiful chem
ical reactions involved in the pro.
cess"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04
Gentle Speech.

Gentle speech is the speech of a
gentleman or lady. Many years
ago we were out West and stopped
at what was claimed to be the fin
est hotel west of Chicago. We were
particularly impressed with the
handsome figure and courtly bear
ing of the manager. The first even
ing we spent in the house we were
shocked at a sudden outburst of
fury on the part of Chesterfield, and
the language we heard was calcu-
lated to empty the hostelry of every
decent man and woman in it. The
moment his wrath was reused the
gentleman vanished, and in his
place stood the foul-tongued cow
boy. They say you have only to
scratch the most cultured Russian
and you find the Tartar. No gen.
tleman or lady can be gentleman OF
lady all the time. There are mo-
ments when the most polished of us
unbend and give loose rein to oul
uncomfortable indignation. But the
witnesses are confined to a very
narrow circle Of intimate acquaint
ances, or to the walls of our room
A gentleman or lady is habitualll
guarded in language and careful o.
the limitations prescribed gooC
breeding. 1t takes a great dea
more to make gentleman or lady
in Europe fling the proprieties tt
the winds than it does to produces
the same effect upon people in THU
country. The reason is that they
have had manners longer than we
and their manners have become
second nature with them. OuI
manners are thing of yesterday
they have had manners a thousand
years.
We are led to these reflections by
the most unmannerly language O
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04
Uncle Sam and Japan.

AS ironical commentary. upon the
eXtravagant naval expenditures in
anticipation of war with Japan the
government of the Mikado announ-
ces from Toxic that because of the
need of economy it has reduced its
naval appropriations for the coming
year to the amount of 100000.
The war minister says he makes
this announcement to relieve the
world concerning the warlike de-
signs of Japan. But could there be
anything more shameful than the
artifice of the majority in congress
in making fear of war with Japan
a pretext for waSteful and useless
naval expenditures?-Qui Her
aid.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04
X. of c.

The Knights of Columbus lodge
in this city is not hoary with age,
but it is getting to the front just
the same and now has one of the
prettiest and possibly the best furn-
ished lodge room in the city.
They leased the Boulware hall
and fitted it up to suit the X. of c.
and then to cap the climax had T.
F. Jansen to make them two great
chairs of heavy oak, spring seats
and upholstered in black leather.
They look like they might have
been made by the Jesuit Priests Of
Old Mexico three centuries ago.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04
Gives Census Of Catholics.

Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 26. There
are 14,235,451 Roman Catholics in
the United States, according to the
advanced sheets of the 1909 Wilt
zuiz Official Catholic Directory, pub
lshed in this city. The statistics
are furnished by the archbishops
and bishops OF the United States
after the taking Of 4 census in all
dioceseS. Added to the 14,235,451,
the number of Roman Catholics in
the PHILIPPINES, Paceo and Hawaiian
Islands brings the grand total of
Catholics under the United States
flag to 22,474440, as compared with
12,053,000 Catholic subjects under
the British flag. The Catholic popu-
lation of some of the leading do
ceses in the United States follow:
Chicago 100000, St. Louis $4,000,
San Francisco $4,000.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04
Musical.

A young lady who possessed a
small amount of furniture including
a piano decided to move to the
country. So she advertised for
room and board with a family
unsteady inclined" One answer
received seemed to fill the bill COM
pletely:
"Deare Miss:
We think we kin suite you with
room and bord if you prefer to be
where there is musick. | play the
fiddle, my old woman plays ths'
origin, my dotter julie the akordie n
my other dotter the bango, my son
Hen the gittar, my son Jim the foot
and koronet, and my son Glen the
bas drum, whites allufus sings Cos
pei hims in which we would be glad
to have you jine both voice and
pianny if you play it. We play by
ear. When we all get started there
is real musick in the air. Let us
know if you be coming."-Ex.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

There is an editorial writer on
the Kansas City Star, who for de-
ception and down right political
lying, has old Ananias himself
skinned a block, and then some.
When speaking of the state Demo
cracy and the odd Guard" the Star
editor can cram more dirty false
hoods in a square inch than old
nick" himself. A paid political
liar on an independent or mugwump
sheet is theI limit. - Huntsville Her
aid.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04
Lawless Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City Times: What's
the use of a legislature?
What's the use of laws?
What's the use of officers if they
fail in doing their duty?
Oklahoma has laws, more laws
on the statute books than any other
state in the union.
And Oklahoma has just about as
much lawlessness as any state in
the union.
Oklahoma has a prohibition law,
but
Any man who wants drink can
get it.
Oklahoma has an anti-gambling
law, but
Any man who wants to gamble
can get game.
Oklahoma has an anti cigaret
law, but
Any fiend can get the "makin'S."
Oklahoma has a pure food law,
but
Can you show US label in the
state?
Oklahoma has a nine foot sheet
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

Very often you find a merchant
who thinks he advertises because
he has spent a little money in hand
bills and with men who travel for
advertising snaps. Usually this is
a waste of money. Every adver-
tiser who use his local papers juaic-
iously and continuously will ten
you that it is the best money he
invests. What is the use of paying
rent, clerk hire, ETC., unless you let
the people know what you have to
sell,-Mexico Ledger.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

The last issue of the Monroe City
Democrat did not have a single
home advertisement in it. Here is
what the editor said: The Monroe
City Democrat is this week the kind
of paper that please the Mail Order
people. No home advertisements
Rails County Times.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

A curious inquirer wants to know
what are the sister states and
the Fairfax Forum answers: We
should judge that they are: Miss
Ouri, the Misses Sippi. Allie Bama.
Ida Ho, Mary Land, Callie Fornia.
Della Ware, Louisa ARna and Min
ME Sofa.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

Roy Wood and Charlie Stone
were holding a little social chat on
the street corner the other day
when along came lady dressed in
one of those directorie gowns.
Wood turned to Stone and Stone
tnrned to Wood and then both turn
ed to rubber. Say, but that beats.
the most gorgeous transformation
since the days of Lots wife.-Car-
stairs (Alberta) Journal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

The New London Odd Fellows
are going to build a new Odd Eel
lows hall. That is what the Mon
roe boys should do.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

unmannerly replies to their high
placed vilifier. The Presidents last
two messages to Congress are a
scandal to American culture. They
are couched in the language of the
back streets and breathe a spirit of
incontinent petulance that would be
disgraceful in a fishmonger. We
are so shocked at these messages
that we are sometimes tempted to
think that it was not personal ex-
perience alone that induced
President-elect Taft to turn down
his glass forever.
But inexcusable as we hold the
Presidents conduct, we have more
charity for him than we have for
the newspapers that have attacked
him. No people in the world are
more capable of assuming a virtue
that they have not than the men
who conduct the newspapers. They
strive to impersonalize their jOurn-
ais as much as possible, thinking
that in that way they add value
and permanence to their literary
property. They for that reason
merge their identity in their papers,
and can assume any character they
want. Of course they all try to be
witty and learned and honest, but
above all, gentlemanly. They had
not the provication os Mr.. Roose-
welt, and are not entitled to as
much eXtenuation. But they have
shown themselves more common
clay than the White House Their
sites. They have descended to
more pettish arguments and more
unmanly repartee than he is guilty
of. There were serious lapseS from
dignity on both sides; but while Mr.. .
Roosevelt was a vituperdtive, he
was at the same time a truthful /
scold, while the newspapers that /
attacked him were mendacious as
well as ill-bred calumniatorS. 1t |
appeared to us that that the office
boy wrote the Presidents message;
and that the pressmen wrote the
newspaper articles. There was no
art or skill or dignity on either side. !
The conduct of the President and
his journalistic critics should be
a wholesome warning to the whole
American people. We are all gen.
tlemen and ladies up to a certain
point, when we all become cowboys.
We should put more weight on
our steam gauge and raise the
safety point up several degrees.
Gentle speech is the exception, not
the rule in American society. We.
cultivate irony and repartee, and
seek to shine at the expense of our
interlocutor. We love to inflict pain
provided we thereby raise ourselves
in the estimation of on-lookers We
love above all things to be Consid-
cred smart" This is true of
American women more than of
American men. The average lady
with us carries an amount of steam
always very near the exploding
point. Say an unpleasant thing to
a lady in Europe and she bushes,
and grows embarrassed; say the
same thing to an American lady
and she will be pulling out her hair
for week if she fails to send back
as good as she gets. This is the re-
suit of our incomplete civilization.
1t does not show that Europeans
are any better than we, but only
that they know better how to APP
pear so. And what right have we
tp 90 beyond appearances? West
ern Waterman.
The Masons at Hannibal are pre-
narind To hllild q nn,,r four ctnr,r
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

w. B. Hays and Edward Crom-
ford transacted business in the
Bluff City Thursday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

The Masons at Hannibal are pre-
pairing to build a new four story
temple.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1909-02-04

Carson and Charles Calvert were
in the capitol of Marion Thursday.