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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Personal.

Vigorous denunciation of President
Zelaya was made by Senator Rayner.
President Zelaya is pictured as rul.
ing Nicaragua with an iron hand.
Nlng Leopold of Belgium is believed
to be near death.
President Taft made a speech be.
fore a bowery audience in e York.
Jack Holland is likely to become
owner of the Wichita ball team, NOV
ing it to St. Joseph.
James J. Hill discussed the supply
and demand and urged more scientific
farming in a speech at Omaha.
DR.. Frederick Cooks personal law
yer, Henry Wellington Wack, has
severed relations with his client.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
New Bishop to FARGO.

Rome, Dec. 14.-Approving the re-
commentator of the consistorial con
gresgation as presented by Secretary
Cardinal De Lai, Pope Plus X, today
appointed Rev. ames O'Reiley, now
rector of ST. Anthony of Padua, Min
neapolis, Mimi, to the bishopric of
Fargo, N. d., diocese. Rev. NJ. f. Fall
,on of Proncincial Oblates of Buffalo
was appointed to the b%ishopric of O
Ion, Canada.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits UnconsciousIy Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces.
sary to break a lifelong habit would,
If it could be transformed, lift a weight
Of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de-
gree of heroism to break the chains of
a pernicious habit than to lead a for
Torn hope in a bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
Prom my earliest childhood I was a
lover of coffee. Before l was out of my
fering terribly at times with my stOm.
ach.
Il was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
l could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age of sc l was in
very poor health, indeed. My sister
| told ME l was in danger of becoming
a coffee drunkard.
But never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast, although it kept
me constantly i'll, until I tried Postum.
I learned to make it properly according
to directions, and we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing for coffee.
II am no longer troubled with dys.
pepsia. do not have spells of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when I drank coffee"
Look i'll pkgs. for the little book, 1.-THE
Road to Wellville." There's a Reason
Ever read he above letter. A new
one from time to time. They
; nre genuine, true, md full Of humaa
lntere0t.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Washington.

AS Christmas falls on Saturday this
year it is likely that the two houses
of congress will adjourn the middle of
that week until Monday, January 3.
So far Speaker Cannon has not given
the matter any consideration so far as
the house is concerned, but the indi-
cations are the adjournment will be
about Wednesday or Thursday OF
Christmas week.
The power site monopoly was the
object of attack in a bill offered in
the house by Representative Mann,
chairman of the committee on inter-
state and foreign mmerce
Representative Hinshaw Of Nebras,
ka took up with the state department
and will later lay before the presi-
lent the petitions of the railroad en-
ployes' organization all over the west
in the case of J. A. Cook, a railroad
trainman, who is in Jail in Mexico.
Decided business improvement is
shown throughout the country in the
receipts at the fifty largest postoftices
during the month of November. Every
office reported an increase varying
from 6.8 per cent at Brooklyn to 34.S
per cent at Seattle.
%"Expedition and Dispatch is the
watchword passed along in the mat
ter of appropriations at this session
and already several of the bills which
will carry millions of dollas for the
will carry millions of dollars for the
way.
Congressman Kennedy of Iowa in
troduced a bill providing for an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the erection
of a public building at Fort Madison,
Iowa.
The government faces important
problems relating to channels and
terminals in proposed waterways i'm.
provement.
AS a promise of activity in the in
terest of legislation, senators in one
day introduced more than $50 bills
and resolutions, covering a great
variety OF subjects.
Both houses OF congress will ad'
journ over the holidays.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Second Homestead Bill.

Washington. Dec. 16.-Representa
tive Gronna today introduced a bill
authorizing second homestead en-
tries. Those who have lost, forfeited
or abandoned a former homestead
except through fraud, are ehtltled 10
take another under the provisions of
this bill.
Hanna and GrOnna To-Day Jolheu III
recommending the reappolltlnehl Oh
Postmaster Wyand at Goodrlch.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
General.

Leslie NJ. Shaw declared there is no
doubt in the minds Of those who have
studied the proposed central bank
that such an institution would be
owned, or at least controlled, by the
Standard Oil company.
BY putting the Standard Oil COM
pany on the eve don't ~patrOnize" list
Secretary Dickinson Of the war de.
partment has embarrassed the navy
department.
The interstate m commits.
sion ordered a reduction in charges
of the Omaha & Council Bluffs rail-
road.
Francis J. Heney confirmed the re-
port that he has filed suit in New
York against William H. Croker OF
San Francisco for $25O,00O for alleged
libel.
George Crocker's gift to Columbia
university to be used for the investiga-
ton of cancer of which he died in
New York, will amount to at least
81, 500, 900, according to the will.
The American Ice company of New
York was found guilty of creating a
monopoly.
Congress will be asked to grant a
new national charter to the proposed
pan-American bank.
A change in the date of the inaugu
ration of the President of the United
States from March 4 to the last Thurs
day in April is strongly urged in the
annual report of the commissioners of
the District of Columbia presented to
congress.
Alvin K. Hiskins of Alton, ILL.,, was
notified by the United States govern
ment that it had purchased his patent
range finder and distance appraiser
Cor 100000
George r. Callot of Nebraska has
been nominated for governor Of Porto
Rico by President Taft. The salary
is $500 a year.
1t is likely that the president will
send a special message to congress
on the Nicaraguan situation.
The presidents message, as pre-,
sented to congress, was pleasing to re.
Uublicans.
The Norfolk & Southern railway
property was bid in by the reorganiza'
ton committee for So, SOC, 900.
There We're 8,S7S,277 running bales
of cotton ginned from the growth OF
1909 to December l as compared with
zoos, 661 for 1908.
Congress is to be assai.Cd by re
form organizations within a day or sc
after it cOnvenes.
According to an official dispatch
from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, several
small villages in that vicinity have
been destroyed by an earthquake.
The president will exert all his in
1uence looking to changes in the in
+erstate commerce act.
General James Clarkson, the sur
veyor of the port of New York, viii
continue in the Office until April Is
next, when the term for which he wa:
appointed expires.
Mr.. Edward Hartman has taken VI
the active management of the Harrl
man estate and will hereafter observe
regular Office hours on three or fOu
days of each week with her work.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Missinu Car Ferry Found.

Port BurWell, Ont, Dec. lathe
Canadian Pacific Railroad Co.'S car
Gerry Ashtabula is stranded near here.
Her fires are out n she is rapidly
filing with water and in extreme Ian
ger of sinking suddenly. Her crew
IRE still aboard and are flying signals
# distress. A life saving crew from
Port Stanley are enroute by special
train.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Precocious.

The little girl was acting naughtily
before company. Her mother warned
her sharply.
IF you do that again, III smack
you," she said.
"No you won't" replied the pert
daughter. "Ill sit down on myself and
then you can't"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Hurt in Canadian Wreck.

Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 1.-THE Ca
nadian Northern express train was
wrecked 100 miles East of here last
light. The cars turned turtle. No one
was killed but forty We're injured.
The majority were American settlers
IN their way to old homes for Christ
mas
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Warriner Trial Delayed.

Cincinnati, Dec. 16.-Charles l.: War.
riner. charged with the embezzlement
of s643. 900 while treasure OF the Big
Fou Raiload Co., did not go to trial
today. The delay was owing to the
absence of one OF his attorneys.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
WINNIPEG Official Arrested.

Winnipeg. Dec. 14.-JOhn A. Forbes
If the city tax collectors office was
arrested last night OF eight infOrma-
ions charging him with theft Of
money paid in for taxes for which he
oad given regular receipts. The
Mount involved is $1,000.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
Method in Their Madness.

why do so many otherwise clever
women write silly letters to men?"
"They're probably making a collec.
ton of the answers they get"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24

If the women are to be credited,
every married woman finally dies Of
a broken heart, and every old bach
elor has had his heart buried in a
grave for years.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24
ACCOUNTING ITCHING.
Eczema for a Year-Got No Relief
Even at Skin Hospital-ln Despair
Until Cuticura Cured Him.

II was troubled with a severe itch.
ing and dry, scrufy skin on my ankles,
feet, arms and scalp. Scratching made
it worse. Thousands of small red PIN.
pies formed and these caused intense
itching. I was advised to go.to the
hospital for diseases of the skin. did
So, the chief surgeon saying: II never
saw such a bad case Of eczema" But I
got little or no relief. Then I tried many
so-called remedies, but I became sc
bad that I almost gave up in despair.
After suffering agonies for twelve
months, 1 was relieved of the almost
unbearable itching after two or three
applications of Cuticura Ointment. I
continued it's use, combined with Cuti.
cura Soap and Pills, and I was CON-.
pletely cured. Henry Searle, Little
Rock, Ark, Oct. s and 10, 1907"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props. Boston
Stated in Cold Figures.
1t costs on an average about $3.50
to cure an incipient consumptive or
to care for an advanced case of tuber-
culosis until death. If he is left in des-
titute circumstances without proper
attention he will surely infect with
his disease at least two other persons,
and possibly more. Considering that
the average life is worth to society
in dollars and cents about $1,000, the
net loss which would accrue to a COM
munity by not treating it's poor con
sumptives in proper institutions would
be, for each case, including those who
are unnecessarily infected, at the very
lowest figure, $4,25O. On this basis, If
the poor consumptives in the United
States who are now sick were segre-
gated from their families, and either
kept in institutions until they died, or
else cured Of their disease, the saw
ing to the country would be the enor'
nous sum of ST. ,000, 0OO.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-12-24

1t is said that a cat has nine lives,
but a cat isn't in it with an old COW
when it comes to kicking the bucket.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06

showing in the decade than wheat in regard to incr
but the gain in each of these cereals has been
lively slight
But there may be some relief near at hand which =,
Hill overlooks. All the European producing countr
raise more wheat TO the than do and on no
lands. The high prices will offer powerful inda
ment to wheat growers to adopt some of the mar
DDS of their counterparts the water The waa
full practices grain growing lands are dscs
liable to our farmers, well Improbable and ~.
campaign of education which the high prices has se
on foot ought to bring results which will tell in ~
crop yield of the future. In aggregate wheat m
ducton the United States has still lead over evo
other country but 1t is not long formerly Rnsi
France, Italy, Argentina, Austria Hungary GERMANY
Spain and Canada large wheat growers bu oni
Russia, Argentina and Canada and or two others ~
those countries are exporters Of wheat When tho d..
approaches that longer supply our bom
needs the duty wheat will be removed and it NAV b
removed long before that time. Probably the low nr
of dozen years ago for wheat will not return ay.
for the United States.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06
The Facts in Race Suicide.

The birth rate in the United States
in the days Of it's Anglo-Saxon youth
was one Of the highest in the world
The best Of authority traces the be-
ginning of it's decline to the first ap-
pearance about 1850 of immigration
OH a large scale. Our great philoso-
pher, Benjamin Franklin, estimated
six children to a normal American
family in his day. The average at
the present time is slightly above two.
For 1900 it is calculated that there
are only about three-fourths as many
children to potential mothers'in Amer
lea as there were forty years ago.
Were the old rate of the middle Of
the century sustained, there would be
$1,000 more births yearly in the State
Of Massachusetts than now occur. In
the course of century the proportion
of our entire population, consisting Of
children under the age Of 10, has fallen
from one-third to One-quarter. This,
for the whole United States, is equiv
alent to the loss Of about 100000
children. So alarming has this phe-
nomenon Of the falling birth rate be-
come in the Australian colonies that,
in New South Wales, special govern
mental commission has unanimously
reported upon the subject. 1t is esti-
mated that there has been a decline
of about one-third in the fruitfulness
Of the people in fifteen years. New
Zealand even complains Of the lack Of
children to fill her schools. The facts
concerning the stagnation, nay even
the retrogression Of the population Of
France, are too well known to need
descriptiOn.-Atlantic Monthly.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06
TO TRAP AUTO SPEEDERS.

In its crusade against automobile
speeders, and "joy riders" in particu-
lar, the National Highways Protective
Society has resorted to new 1nven-
ton, which Is as terrible to malefac-
tors of the road as the Bertillon sys-
tenn and the telegraph are to ordinary
criminals. The invention is being
tried out at the present time-or rath-
er, its first fruits are being preserved
In secrecy, so that sudden and over
whelming exhibition Of its scope may
be given in the near future. With
out warning some fine day number
of scorchers, who have seen no speed
traps nor been molested by watch
carrying cops, will be hailed to court
and confronted with the irrefutable
evidence of their lawbreaking. 1t
will make no difference whether the
offense was committed in q lonely
road in the outskirts or in a crowded
street There will be no chance to
dispute the testimony on the ground
of human error on the part of the
accuser, for the accuser will be some
thing mechanically and mathematical
ly infallible. The defendant will not
be able to get the benefit of the doubt,
for there will be no doubt within a
fraction of foot and fifteenth of a
second.
Perhaps it is cruelty to inform
speeders of the sword of Damocles
hanging over them. It Is certain they
cannot profit even by a detailed de-
scription of the ingenious machine
which will be their undoing. They
may hope to escape only by mending
their ways. The deadly invention
used by agents of the National High
ways Protective Society consists Of a
double lens camera, fitted with a split
second chronometer. The lenses are
OF equal focal length, one placed above
the other. The transparent face Of
the chronometer is between. The oper-
ator does not alarm his prey by ex-
posing the camera for front or side
view picture. He waits until the
whizzing machine has passed. present
ing its back and the vulnerable and
important number board. Then he
presses the bulb, which opens the shut
ter Of the upper lens and starts the
chronometer going, with q second
hand covering Is divisions of a circle.
Almost Immediately the operator
presses the bulb again, and this time
the shutter of the lower lens onens.
and the chronometer is simultaneously
halted. It takes no expert to make
these two snaps at the back of a
speeding car. Whether the time be-
tween the two exposures is a small
fraction of second or a full second ia
immaterial
When the plate is developed It
shows large image on the space ex-
posed by the upper lens, when the car
was close by. and a smaller image
on the space exposed by the lower
lens, while the second hand OF the
chronometer Is pictured az 1t started
on the dial and as It stopped. The
difference In size between the two
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06
The Common Need.

Unless one has travelled the arid re-
gions, one has no idea how good water
really Is, declares DR.. William 7. Horn
aday in Camp Fires on Desert and
Lava" He explains further that he
does not mean Apollinaris, but Just
plain old-fashioned we'll, or water
hole" or desert tank" water, as the
case may be. This appreciation OF
water made the party sympathetic
in regard to the fate Of certain wild
fowl which appeared at the tank
near which a nights camp had been es'
tablished.
Just at sunset, when our little lone
some world was settling down for the
night, some one excitedly announced
discovery. :.
There are two ducks in the tank
Some one else quickly caught up .
loaded shotgun and hurried along 1nS
side of the embankment to the upper
end of the water.
Secretly, hoped that those DUCKS
would take alarm and fly away IN tlnie'
To shoot those little lonesome Dlrus
that had flown on weary wing oVei
a good hundred miles of waterless us'
ert, clear down from the ella hi''''
seemed to me like a sin against na
ture. Those two individual ou'A,
seemed entitled to our hospitality an1
protection. ,r.
The god Vishnu elected to prese', ',
them. When we heard the repoi.
the gun our spirits sank; out Nn ~.
the hunter quickly returned WIN -. :"
terse announcement, Il missed them
some one said:
I'm glad of it," and to our '''
prise he answered, $50 am l!
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06

there who would do the same for me.
Wherever Napoleon went he brought
strife; wherever l go strife follows" He
ceased looking through me, and gazed at
me. "You have your quiet beach, your
snug house, your summer with the fair
lady of this afternoon; do you still wish
me to stay?
'The Ship is any ones property" I
said, land the shore is free. If you want
more, you have only to ask for it at my
cottage"
What would the lady say?" he contin-
ued.
1.-THE lady has nothing whatever to say
in the matter" 1 returned. annoyed at
his continual reference to Miss Graham
Il am free to choose for myself"
Duponceau smiled. 'Mr. Selden, you
are young man of spirit. but you are
ignorant, very ignorant. 1t ali depends
on the lady. You would not weigh me in
the balance for moment if she willed
otherwise. No one is free; there is al
ways some other power. Even the Corsi-
can could not withstand his star" The
smile faded, vanished; Duponcean's eyes
were stern and fixed.
L nave Deeu CdlicU pirate, rODDcT,
a modern Juggernaut, but it was only be-
cause had my vision, and could see far
Their than others could
He was leagues away, his thoughts
fighting. I watched him until his mind
came back.
"Now," he said, eve will fight it out
l take you at your word-the Ship is
mine, the shore any ones property
Suddenly he rose and stood peering up
the beach. "Some one is coming" he
said, and l saw that his hands felt for
the pistols on the table.
l looked, and saw Charles swinging a
lantern. ut is only my servant" l an.
swered.
"Can he be trusted?"
Implicitly"
Tell him who l am"
We waited until Charles came on
board. He showed no surprise at seeing
the two of us.
81 came for the dinner things, Mr.. Fee
lix," he stated, looking at me and ignor-
ing Duponceau.
Charles | said, ''this is Monsieur
Duponceau, who has lately come to stay
in this Ship. You are not to mention his
presence here to any one, but will do
whatever he asks. You need not take the
things away; they way be of use to him
in the cabin. Monsieur Duponceau, you
may rely on Charles as on yourself"
Charles bowed to the man in black,
fine figure, gazing steadily at my man.
could not help noting the picture that
he made, his hand still on the pistols, his
soft black hat low upon his forehead, his
cloak flung across his shoulder.
Charles turned to go. HAS there been
any message for me?" l asked as an af-
terthought.
mo, Mr.. Felix" Charles hesitated;
''but l found a man providing about the
back road after supper, and, though I'd
never seen him before, l couldn't learn
his business. He looked like sly one,
SIR"
1 turned to Duponceau; he was smil-
ing.
You see, Mr.. Seldom, how quickly my
words find proof. Where l come strife
follows"
Ito be continued.)
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06
Hen Laid Out at Last

Essex County's gallinaceous ,.n
der. the Cedar Grove hen that ,s
two eggs a day, is dead, Ne" ND nd.
Herald's Montclair IN. j. corresp0D :,
ent says. The hen was memO .arm
the poultry colony on the ADAMS -. and
on Ridge road. between Montclalr a.. snt
Great Notch, and it is probable ,D i
her death will inspire testimona, #
regret from the Cedar Grove Do"l AID
trade. as her wonderful QUALITIES
much to advertise the town. ION
After the chicken began layine ths
eggs day, more than a year aso, rris
number of commuters on tno tbir.
from Cedar Grove increased from No hon
ty-two to sixtyThg fame OF lns ce.
drew chicken-raising commu'e'o hide
dar Grove with the power o. s.ist
stone. for where one such fowl st th.,
ed It was reasonable to believe me
others might be inspired to lol'0 Nv ees
example of laying more than o
q day. ,sed the
It is not known what cau crovs
death Of the phenomenal Ceua =. cor
hen, but it is thought that -. -. hsr
tinued high price Of eggs, des .s. m.r
efforts to create q surplus IN =. TIT
ket, caused disappoint"eA
broke her heart.
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images corresponds to a mathemati-

images corresponds to a mathemati-
cally accurate distance in feet between
the first and second positions Of the
automobile. A table has been worked
out on this basis, both experimentally
and with the aid of trigonometry. If,
for example, the second image is one
third as large as the first, the automo-
bile must have been so feet further
from the lens. Suppose the ascer-
tanned distance to be So rs feet, while
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06

"Where be you going in such q
hurry, pa?" asked the tall woman in
the red sunbonnet as her husband
dashed by with a powerful pair of
farm horses.
"Going to pull an automobile party
out Of the mud, sis,' laughed the old
farmer. They've got the C. D. O.
signal flying from their machine"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06

the chronometer registers a. full Sec
ond OF time. the speed of the automo-
bile Is proved to be 40 miles an hour.
A magistrate or jury can study pic
lures and negatives and be convinced
Of the accuracy Of the method. The
number Of the car is there to clinch
the case.-New York Tribune.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06
Tactical Skill.

He (thoughtlessly)- This bread isn't
like the kind
She (angrily)-Well, your mother
made it, all the same.
He (deprecatingly)-I was going to
say, my dear, like the kind we had the
last time you made it.-Baltimore
American.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-06
An Outburst.

Burglar Sorry. madam, but want
your money.
Spinster (furiously)-You are Just
like all the men; It's only my money
you want!-Modern Society.