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The Washington bee., 1909-03-06

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La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04
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La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04

prices on earth, but everybody knows
this. too, and az we remarked here
| tofore previously. 1t is not necessary
to advertise. II is fact that is so
wen known that to advertise It would
be rs foolish as to advertise the fact
that the sun will rise tomorrow morn
mg or that Byron Ward, the back
alley policeman. is on the water wag-
ON once more again yet.
Mayor Willis was over from New
dale Thursday, making the journey
In rowboat through the mud. He
bought few copies OF the reminis-
cent edition and remarked that the
only fault he could find with 1t was
that 1t did not have the pictures of
all the prominent men. He could
not nnd his picture anywhere. He
impaired the Information that there
would be some class to paper that
was ornamented with his picture. and
couldn't understand why We over.
looked such good bet.
-
Clarence l. Boomer. an old.timer of
La Junta, writes and requests .
change In his street address at Wich.
ita. Kan. Clarence has moved again
evidently, but as he says that every
thing Is on the move In Wichita, 1t
may be that he Is just trying to keep
up with the procession. He says:
wichita is sure going some. never
saw the like anywhere. and I've been
almost everywhere from China to
Cuba. There are new houses every
where, and not vacant house In
the city. 1t is hard to get a house
on short notice that is tit to live in.
The whole town is bunch OF boost
ers and prosperity reigns supreme.
Here's a pointer for some OF our To-
cal Knockers. II you want prosper
ity to reign supreme in La Junta
get In the game and boost-or else
move on and get out OF the way.
La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04
n he MAN ON THE FARM
can rlghtfuiiy be numbered
among the eountry's most
careful tnvaaHora- The Col.

can rlohtfuiiy Be numbered
among the eountry's most
careful Investors. The Col
orado fruit farmer, especially, 10 sell
dom snsnarsd by fake schemes. He
10 satisfied 10 place his earnings
whore they earn = consistent rate
|of Interest and are absolutely safe.
For this reason, an Interest ac-
count In this bank has, for nearly
|siehtsen years, been the choice Of
colorado farmers and ranehmsn.
lt's. oankIne.by-MaII department 10
= D,arssst and most modern In the
|W6st No matter where you live.
Rev ean aepesit WITH thIs bank. and
reUe funds will earn Four per cent
)Ntsrsst.
oMd today for 0eekist "L." which
oxplalns our system.
THE
lDf0saatiOa0I Trust
0SAapaHy.-60Rk
|sThe oldese and Largest In Colorado
D. H MOFFAT, President
oGNvGA
AssgTs oveR FIVE MILLIONS
La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04

Geo. d. Phillips. ex.editor Of the
great family Journal. row 4 resident
Of Oklahoma City. Okla. had .
poetioal Inspiration after reading the
remin seen edition and sends uS an
effusion entitled when the Frost Is
on the House Top"-with apologies
TO Riley-as follows:
o, love 70 sit and ponder Of the
homely times Of yore
When a fireplace checred the cabin
and a AtchstrinK Kraccd the door;
o, It's thsa's the time = fcller Is =
feelln q bis best
When he sun has early settled In
cloudy shiverinE west.
An II sets my heart a-ciickin' like
the rattlh' Of . plate.
When The frost IL on the house-top
and he bog 10 on ne crate.
There stsa1s . rustic table dccked
with Inca white ~ snow,
And snvory meats and pastries like
our mothers used TO know:
o. It's thea's the time q fcller is =
feeiin' at his best
A. he ealns that hungry fcclIn' that
he has bsseath his vest.
O. Il sets ~ heart a.clIckin' like
the rattiiA' q Q plate
when the fFost b on the house.top
and the log 10 on the crate.
see consly housewife at the fire.
place With her tong.
And childres. . dozen. full Of shout
and song;
o. It's thsn's the time = fcller Ia \
fceiin q bic best.
While tho North wind sways thu
branches Ger many an empty nest
An II sets ~ heart a-ciickin' like
the rAtt,1a' q . plate
when the nesl y On he housstop
and the ~ b q he gratA
La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04

Down at Holly they are going to
make an effort to become a potato
country 4 Greeley man has been
employee to put In an experiment sta
ton there next spring. He will have
200 sacks OF choice seed, consisting
OF eight different varieties. and will
plant them In different soils and give
them different Irrigation and cultiya-
ton, In order to find the hest meth
DDS of growing potatoes. Now why
not have an experiment station near
La Junta next year? or why not
get busy right away and accept 4.
n. Berry proposition to grow any
thing thai grows next year and make
displays At the various fairs. The
western slope is expending thousands
of dollars right now In advertising
their country. their climate. their soil
and 'heir crops. AS a result they
are selling land for as many thous-
and dollars per acre as We are hun.
dred dollars per acre.and the only ad-
vantage they have over US is the
fact that they spend thousands where
We spend cents In letting the world
know what they have and what their
country Is capable OF producing. Ther
isn't thing grown on the western
slope, not excepting fruit. that cannot
be just ~ successfully produced in
the Arkansas Valley. providing the
same amount OF effort and energy
Is put forth to secure the desired re-
suits. Over In Grand Junction they
dismiss the schools. and the business
men close up their stores and all go
out In The orchards to help save the
fruit crop. Was there ever such an
exhibition Of get together" spirit
In La Junta or Otero county, Isn't
II about time to get together7
La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04

A pretty young schooimarm who
teaches fifst.grsds CHASE In . district
school not Tar away Il telling .
funny story on herself that happened
. few days ago. She had some vis-
itoss on the afternoon In question.
and thought she would show them
what . bright class she had. Call.
lag on . bright Itttis fellow at the
rear Of the room. she said 70 him:
"Johnnis. " I gave you two cents and
your father gave you three cents. how
Duch would you have?"
Seven" promptly replied Johnnie,
The teacher blnshed painfully. but
tbought that she would try sgAin
"Yoa caa't have un1srstoo1 me. John
nis. Nov listsa. asd I wul rspsai
tAs question. II I gAvs you two csats
40 yose iAsAss ssvs yos tArss. heu
nseA weuA ~ hAvsf"
La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04

II gives us . great degree OF pain
to turn down paid In advance advcr
tising. but that's what we had 10 Dc
this week. We received . paid Ia
advance contract 10 print an advcr
tisement for . mat order concern
from Chicago this week. II read
thusly: I'VE want representatives q
sell groceries direct 10 families. fAr
mcrs. ranchmsn. ETC.: steady work:
eood pay: goods first.class: mel
weight; meet composition on price;
give customsrs five days examina.
ton: refund money II not satisfsc.
ETC." The conditions under which
which this nail order c,rcsrn sells
goods are sll that any one could ash
Tor. Our local grocery men are such
extensive sdveftisers. however. and
We are 70 nuch n love With the
whole buach that ws had to turn
the order down. We would feel like
being . traitor 70 the town 4 ws &C.
copied the Advertising. and Il wns
probably out Of consideration for ouI
own fesainss. more than anything else,
that We returned the money and the
Advertising order. from whence Y
came. With the pertinent notation In
scribsd across the face Of the latter
mot Wanted" q courss our iocal
grocery nsa carry good goods. and
4 % runorsl. ssll q ePod prices
OF course everybody knows this and
thssseoes 4 = ~ nscsssasy % -
vsstiss. 0eos q tAso tsll - thss
will ls0meaas aay naa ee1ss hess<
La Junta tribune., 1909-12-04

You may believe II or not. but
when Z man keeps his name con
stantly before the people through the
medium Of the local paper he draws
trade to himself. Readers Of the
paper become familiar with his name
and naturally think Of him and his
business when they come to town tc
trade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16

hanging I'm their stockings. Flerre DaDo'.O' - ' ~
are / small. indeed, believe that lie petit Jesus. OF .le
na+it Noeln-"the little Jesus" or the little Christmas !
have brought the gifts. But the average French onlu
IL as sophisticated as young America, anu eii q -
be a very little boy indeed, to peneVe ~ 10 pee C,oS = a.
No French or italian child ever hears OF santa Claus I'LL
be comes 10 America; by which 1t may De gathereo tnat
that good saint was strictly German, ana When ne en-
grated. came to America like all the rest OF tne Ger
mans. m,4A ~.
n Growth of the tvpical American Christmas, with fs
universal Christmas greens and presentgtvlng, IS a curl
Gus phenomenon, 1t has no roots N American nlstory'
The original settlers Of New England never opserveu y.
The Dutch Of New Amsterdam scarcely noticed II, put
made New Years the great. joyous, popular festival
Within the memory Of old people still living Christmas
nassed uobserved in New York, while all holiday mer
rymaking conferred in New Years day. MODERN America
has hmilt I'M a Christmas festival of its own, and has
rejected definitely the religious feast In favor OF the so
cial and domestic one. In one way, however, the Amerf
can christmas ia more religious than any and all the Lat
in church feasts put together. One who has lived through
q years changing round of saints days in Italy, in all OF
which no work is done and the people take holiday, VIII
observe that the thought of the people never goes out tc
those in need. The Astounding giving Of an American
Christmas; the uneasy, uncomfortable feeling that every
child, at least, must have, If possible, a good dinner and
a present on Christmas day, Is quite unknown in the Lat
in countries.
The feeling that poor old buns and hoboes, even the
criminals in their prisons, the paupers In their aims.
houses, the beggars, the unworthy-al ought to have
something good to eat on that day, and a little Christ
mas cheer In some forn-is part OF the American Christ
mas.
The races that come to the melting pot Of America
keep their home Christmas for only a few years after
they arrive. Then they drift off into a more or less
Americanized Christmas.
For a few years after they come, also, they try to
eat their traditional dishes at Christmas time. The Hun
garian h~ousemother makes the Christmas cakes which q
long line of ancestral cooks made before her across seas
They are round balls of dough, covered with honey and
poppy seed, and then baked. The Bohenians and Poles
also make poppy seed cakes, each in a different style.
The Sicilian housewife, too, has q traditional Christmas
ooLo r. Is a rim If dough with "a hntn in the middle
the italian ~doughnut, In fact-whicb is fried, ~sprinkled
with sugar and eaten hot.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16
COUNTRY CLEARLY AT FAULT
Provisions for Taking Care of Unfor-
tunate tuberculosis Victims Are
All Too Meager.

The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis states that there are in the United
States at least 100000 consumptives
who are so poor that they cannot pay
for proper medical treatment in tuber-
cluosis sanitoria and hospitals. Some
of them can pay small amounts a
week for their maintenance, but the
great majority of them cannot pay any
thing. For this large class of pa
tients the entire country has provided
only 10000 beds for the free treatment
of tuberculosis. In Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Mon
tana, Nevada, North Dokota, Okla
homa, Oregon, Philippine islands,
South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West
Virginia and Wyoming there is no
place where the consumptive without
means can be treated but in the jails
or the insane asylums Of these states,
and in most he will get no treat
ment there. Sixteen other states pro-
vide less than so beds each for poor
consumptives. In only two states,
Massachusetts and New York, have
beds for needy tuberculosis patients
been provided, so that at least one
in ten may find a place for treatment.
In many of the other states not one
in fifty of the destitute consumptiVes
can find a bed in a hospital o. n
torium.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16

uay tlme ne spent In the fields armed only with an opera
sass with which he studied the winter birds, always
WIN an eye %sharpened to the possibility Of finding some
species tnat was rare.
president Taft loves nature, too, in a way, but he is
not much of a tramper excepting where the walk leads
over the golf links on. which he spends his holiday after.
Moons Christmas included, for in Washington because of
the comparative mildness of the climate, the game Of
golf is possible nearly every day in the year.
There are several hundred officers of the army and ma.
Wy stationed in Washington, most of them being detailed
Tor office work in the departments for a term of four
years. The naval officers perhaps enjoy their holiday.
making in the capital more than do their brothers of
the army, for the sailors have been compelled to spend
many Christmases at sea away from their wives and
families, while here they may gather their families about
them and not break any sea regulations $50 doing. The
army officer, whether he goes to the Philippines or to
some distant frontier post, ordinarily takes his family
with him and SO Christmas day does not to him neces-
sarly bring with it the sense of loneliness and homesick-
ness that it brings to the man at sea.
In the biological survey, which is a bureau Of the de-
partment of agriculture. there are many scientists at
work. Most of these men have spent a large part Of
their lives in the wilds studying birds and mammals, and
shells, plants and fishes, to say nothing of reptiles. The
Office life is irksome to these scientists. They belong to
the free air, the barren plains, and the pine forests. So
it is that on every holidy that brings with it a release
from office cares, they take to the open fields. About the
hills in many places about Washington on Christmas day
there are to be seen the little camp fires of the scientists
who are cooking their midday Christmas dinners under
the open sky.
Some time ago all the bird students in the United
States were asked, If they could, to make a trip afeld on
Christmas day and to make a list of the birds that they
found. Thousands of bird lovers followed the suggestion
and are still following il. Each one Of the students turns
in a report to a central headq larters giving the names Of
the birds that on Christmas day fell under his observa-
tion. AS a result of this practice the Washington sci
entists have many valuable notes concerning "out of sea
son" birds. For instance, the report came to Washington
on a Christmas or two ago, that on the holiday four
mocking birds were seen and positively identified In the
fields near Boston, Mass. Other birds were reported
from other northern localities, birds that in the ordinary
course Of things ought to have been far south of the Ma
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16
AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
THE BEST OF ALL

An occasional Jersey commuter, familiar with the re-
ligious section of Barclay street, is commonly the only
sort of American in New York who knows a presepio by
sight. Yet the presepio is the sign of the Latin Christ
mas, as the fir tree is of the northern. The manger or
the Barclay street windows shows only the inside Of the
stable, with the figures and the cattle done in Italian ter
ra Gotta. But the real presepio in Its native land may
show the whole countryside as well, and II the pilgrims
vending their way to the Manager are good Sicilian peas
ants, bearing good Siciian wine and cheese on their
donkeys, they are only the more interesting.
st. Francis, born in the quaint little town OF Assist
among the brown Umbrian hills, in 1882. invented the
presepio to make the Christmas story plain to the simple,
illiterate common people. During the 800 years since II
has remained a ~favorite devotion In Latin Europe. The
Italian and Spanish call 1t the presepio, the manger; the
French the creche, the cradle; and the Hungarians and
Belgians, Betleim, or Bethlehem.
Only a few years since not a carpenter could be hired
in Rome or Naples for weeks before Christmas. They
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16

a study of them in order that their merits and dement's
may be determined. In some cases this means long and
continued study and 1t is not at all an unusual thing to
find a committee chairman giving over the joys of the
home life on Christmas day to consult ~precedents and to
formulate arguments to be used for or against some pro-
posed legislation, and to find him doing this in the Sc
clusion of a stuffy office room on Christmas day.
A good many Washington people, especially those who
came here from the south, go over into Virginia to hunt
on Christmas day. In parts Of the Old Dominion fox
hunting is still the order of the winter day, and If the
fox is not in evidence there are always rabbits and quail,
while on the lower Potomac and in the marshes along
Chesapeake bay in open winters, the ducks and the geese
are fairly abundant. The outdoor life appeals strongly
to the southerner, and in many cases the northerners
who have come to the Potomac country. have formed the
hunting habit and join the Christmas day outing parties
of their southern cousins.
Christmas is the great holiday Of Washington. From
high to low the people make the most of it. There is good
cheer everywhere evident and charity is not forgotten.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits UnconsclousIy Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces.
sary to break a lifelong habit would,
II 1t 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 d for.
lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town.
From my earliest childhood / was a
lover Of coffee. Before / was out of my
teens / was a miserable dyspeptic, suf.
fering terribly at times with my stom.
ach.
II was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble ana vet
A could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. AT the age or So I was Ia
very poor health, indeed. MY sister
told me ! was in danger of becoming
a coffee drunkard.
But / never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast, although it kept
me constantly Ill, until tried Postum.
learned to make 1t properly according
to directions, and now We can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing for coffee.
4 am no longer troubled with dys-
pepsia, do not have spells Of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when drank Coffee
Look in pkgs. for the little book, ''The
Road to MELVILLE. There's a Reason.
Ever read the above letter. A new
n appears from time to time. They
J are genuine, trues and full OF human
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16

ship was closed and their head call
ing the would-be neophyte before the
assembled audience, showed him with
out a word an urn so filled with water
that not a single drop could be added
The neophyte. reading the message
bowed silently, started TO withdraw
but hesitated and returned. Picking d
petal from q flower. he dropped 1t on
the brimming bowl SO d~exterousIy
that 1t ioated without dislodging the
slightest particle Of the liquid. The
membership Of the academy Of silence
became 101.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16

their axes in the direction Of the lines
of force; in other words, the growth
Of an individual takes place. In fact,
the similarity in aspect and behavior
between certain liquid crystals and
bacteria Is remarkable, and scarcely
can be accidental.
Prof. Lehman suggests that In
life the directional force Is that mys-
terious essence 50 much discussed,
and SO little understood. the soul" In
support Of this fsbold hypothesis" he
puts forward many arguments and
marshaIs an array Of facts. 1t is de.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16

utilization Is the agency made use Of
by living growth. A glass of jelly, or
any other noncrystalline substance,
doesn't grow. On cooling it passes
gradually from the melted to the solid
condition, and forms about a large
number o. nudei, Just as happens In
the condensation Of vapor.
Capitalization Is quite different.
The growth is rapid, and the nudei are
comparatively few. Prof. Lehman
noticed that liquid crystals. when I'M
der the influence OF q magnetic fluid.
coalesce and range themselves with
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-16

The South American people make much of Christmas.
It is the great feast day in all L~atin-American countries
and the ambassadors and attaches and their families do
not forget the customs of their native lands simply be-
cause for a few seasons they have been transplanted to
new scenes. The "open house" is the order of the day in
nearly every official residence in Washington after the
family has had its own intimate celebration of the holt
day. Large families are the rule rather than the excep-
1ion among the ambassadors and ministers from the
southern European and from the Central and South Amer
lean countries. The children have a gala time of it at
home and then the visiting begins, The presents that