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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

most sanguine architect of the richer fortune yet
to be will fall short Of the ideal that controls his
imagination. But the very fact that the day stirs
these noble impulses and floods the prospective
days with the glow of hope is in itself an assur-
ance that the year shall be rich in the gifts and
the good will of the gods.
Another year! another year!
The increasing rush of time sweeps on!
Whelm'd in its surges disappear
Mans hopes and Transformer gonel
oh, no! forbear that idle tale!
The hour demands another strain
Demands high thoughts that cannot quail,
And strength conquer and retain.
IT'S midnght-from the dark blue sky
The stars, which look down earti
Have seen thousand centuries fly,
And given to countless changes birth.
Shine on! shine on With you I tread
The march of ages, orbs of light!
A last eclipse DER you may spread
To me, to me- there night!
The sentiment that phrases itself in the quite
depressing words:
The world is very evil,
The times wearing late,
is hardly in tune with the modern spirit when
life is thought of corporate business and this
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

upon you! Shamey! Remember
grandma is not so young as she once
was and the penitential efficiency of
a bunion is greatly enhanced by the
showing forward of the foot as accom-
plished by the French heel. Command
the old lady to do a cake-walk once
an hour around the dining room table
If you will, but let her do 1t in COM
Portable shoes. Another item in favor
of trying this resolution is the fact
that you have probably never asked.
grandma to wear any kind of shoes
she didn't like, so it should be that
much easier to keep to your resolu-
ton not to do so.
For young mani resolve from
this day never again to smoke pipe
in church. This sample is highly
recommended. The practice against
which you issue the edict of Danish
ment is reprehensible In the highest
degree. Smoking, while of course 1t
might be solaee to you during the
sermon, could not but annoy your
neighbors and fellow worshipers. The
men envy you, leading to countless
domestic difficulties for them The
preacher is unable to see whether all
the deacons are awake or not by the
haze from your pipe. Moreover, just
as distinguished statesman once of
ficially declared that the odor of
cigarettes annoyed him there are
those to whom the smell of pipe is
nuisance and the offertory collector
might be one of these. Besides, you
would probably be thrown out or ar
rested or something
For men who ride much in street
cares "henceforth / will not mind the
feathers" This is one requiring con-
siderable care-but IL strictly adhered
to will be found of great assistance in
your daily life, When depending from
a strap and resting your toes on some
neighbours a long stiff quill suddenly
| jabs you In the nose giving to that fea-
| ture the rich red that which another
class of resolvists have already ac-
! quired, do not release your temper.
Smile and pretend you like it. Oft
times you can make yourself believe
| 1t, after due practice, of course. But
the principal advantage to be cited in
this resolutions favor is that you
might just as we'll" So long as the
fashion remains the same you will
have your daily communion with the
tail feathers of an ostrich or of a
rooster and If you resolve not to mind,
how much more placid the temper!
For any one who does not raise
chickens-"I hereby resolve and de-
termine not to eat any more strictly
fresh eggs for several weeks to
come This is in some respects the
prize resolution. It's advantages are
many, but all the others are over
Swallowed by this one-you can't get
any to eat.
In spite of all the teacher may do
the pupil will not learn unless he
himself studies. You cannot make
successful use of these sample resolu.
tions without effort on your part. But
you should find one among them
which can be kept with the minimum
of struggle If you have no choice OIL
you are skeptical as TO your ability
try the last one.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

horn on the lake front shatter the at
mosphere to atoms. let the similar
gladstone noises be let loose upon the
vibrant ozone even in the uttermost
corners of our beautiful city. For the
good resolution is marching forward.
Only a few days more and we Will
bask in its splendid presence.
Like the village drum major 1t
comes proudly prancing toward us
through the week. Get a seat early
and avoid the crowd If you would be-
hold IL in it's glory. Keep your eyes
glued to the splendid spectacle. keep
your ears open for the lofty sounds.
for it will not be long in passing
It's safe to say that If all the high
resolves that go into effect on New
Years day had half the endurance OF
a Marathon runner the millennium
would come SO fast that we'd have to
enact new speed laws to keep 1t from
melting the asphalt.
If good resolutions were salt mac
kerei what a universal thirst would
spread abroad,
human e4pel tcuCS oSOhS " ihuA
cate that progress In any line Is nee
essarily gradual Take the flying ma
chine. for instance At present the
scientists engaged In the development
OF this interesting device are in po-
sition to assert that many of their
problems are already solved. They
can get up into the air without the
aid of dynamite and they can come
down again with practically no effort
OF course there are other difficulties
to be overcome such as the tendency
on the part Of the machine to select
its own time and place for coming
Town. But these problems are minol
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

we live in and the day when the Romans inter-
changed their social visits and their good wishes
and both gave and received their strenae, and be-
tween the then and the now the identity of feel
ing emotion and sentiment concerning this day
Is readily discovered.
So many sentiments crowd themselves into New
Years day and all mostly children in the
way in which the day appears to them and In
the simple feelings and emotions by which 1t is
observed. The greeting: "A Happy New Year!'
pushes up through the hard strata of the year. and
the simple emotions, which make the whole world
kim bring friend to friend and melt life to-
gether into richer affection, and good will be-
comes the keynote Of life this day. Grudges are
dropped, resentments dissolved, and the average
man with the average endowment of affection for
his fellows finds it almost impossible to vitalize
any of his hatreds through the emotion-aden mo-
ments OF New Years day. The personal life has
many things to say to itself; it is at once clos
ing of accounts and the opening of a new career.
Old things pass away and all things seem to be-
come new. The things that might have been and
have not become are forgotten in the new hopes
| and aspirations and ambitions which spring up in
the heart on the first day of the year
OF course nobody will ever be what the hopes
and faith of the day project for the individual life
The most ardent believer in the better day. the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31
Startling FIuures,

The lives of all the $780, 900
residents of the United States are
worth $3.50. 900, 100000.
Unnecessary deaths every year
cost in capitalized earnings. $1,000.
100000.
Workmen's illness annually costs
In wages $500. 900.
Care of the sick and dead every
year costs $460.OOO,000.
tuberculosis taxes the nation
$1,000, 100000, annually.
Typhoid fever costs $3.50 COG Oti0.
Malaria costs &200,000.Con
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31
Faults of
Our
Technical
Training
Schools
By JAMES 7. SMITH

February The corps instructors drawn mainly from
graduates higher polytechnic shooargy from the Mas
sacuets ntute-and these familiar
could hardly expect improve upon With these
ated some experts shops
school not eeemosynary institute. .st.
institutions should have liberal
treasury boarding hotel
not depend the supplies by its friends
TO such institutions should be regard
ed as investments to be returned ~ =. - o. On
many fold the commonwealth, and GAG2~S V1r.
expenditures. Il
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

Citing as fact that many of the fore
men of our New England mills and facto-
ries are of European training, it is asked,
'FWhat is wrong with American technical
training, and what are it's most serious de-
fects?" The condition is mainly due to
the fact that until the Lowell textile school
was established and developed there was no
provision here for complete, scientific tech
nical training for the superintendencies
of our mills.
An act authorizing the incorporation of
the trustees of the Lowell textile school
was secured and the school opened to pu-
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

with new interest. For he had learned that among
all his girls there was who wasn't wonder, but
who had staying power.
That girl is now his private secretary, handling
the most important correspondence Miss Quicksilver
is still copying form letters in the outer office at So
week and likely to stay at that figure She wonders
why at times and speaks bitterly of "pu," but she
will recognize herself if she reads this, and no.
body is likely to tell her
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

Ut all battling things in the world thefts
committed in household where no out
slider could have entered take the lead.
have often been summoned in such
cases and they present big difficulties.
First and foremost, the one who has
had his property purloined is loath to sus-
pect that his own son or brother or other
near relative might have taken it, and usu-
ally the loser is ready to fight the detective
who insinuates such solution.
! have more than once had the unpleas-
ant duty of proving to such people that
those near to them by blood ties were in
- - IT,. =, H.. .Ll1 N. -.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

Not the most credulous and believing prophet
generation ago could have forecast the world we
know and perfectly at home with to-day Bull
wer Lytton in his short book, The Coming Race,
endeavored to tell the story and achievement OF
mankind in the day that shortly to be, but his
seeming impossible world has been more than re-
allied in our own day The half has not been told.
The great note of the day is the large grasp human
life possesses its career and destiny. the
growing confidence that this old yet ever renewing
world is solving it's own problems and, under the
guiding of that Providence which Popes well-known
lines so beautifully EXPRESS
All nature is but art, unknown to thee
All chance direction, which thou canst not
All discord harmony. not understood
All partial evil, universal good,
is working for the day of perfectly ordered and
perfectly adjusted civilization. The greater power
man is accommodating and employing over his own
bodily life his mastery of the secrets of life which
have been hid from the foundation of the world the
realization that man himself is his own providence
in vastly larger degree than hitherto he has
dreamed of and that the greater things the great
est of all Teachers foreod ages ago that he should
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

Instead of sending little tots of six
years to school, as is the custom all over
this country, it were far better to never let
them darken the door of place of learn
ing until the age of eight.
The child at six is entirely too young
to undertake the systematic curriculum
of the public schools, it matters not how
short the hours of attendance.
! have been studying this matter for
years and have come to what l deem the
sure conclusion that if the beginning of
scholastic life is delayed until the boy or
oirl hos roaobod o;rh4 ,.oau ~ III.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31
Little Tots
Sent ito
School
Too Soon

By DR.. LEONARD B. INLAND

When they tender age there il hound 70
physical harm DONE is there enough gain to warrant
other
bright boy VINO does not begin school until he eight
10 will be fully the mental of the comrade who made his
start at while in point of health the schooling deferred
should be far in the lead
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31
Business
Qualities
Girls
that Lack Staying
Power
BY G. WELLESLEY BRABBIT

d ! ! !: :: :: !:
cots of girls have brilliant quite-they know good DEAL
and they work well up certain point but they lack
L - & staying power
E0MH They can't stand by proposition and see through
E the finish They work well when things smoothly but they
A@AgW fairweater arising parayzes
AS4%H their energies
H5A In the office there girls who started work
the week The first enthusiastically referred to
by her employer ga find" She eager-eyed, buoyan
quick approval with flame
below it,
The cckcck of the machines seemed to slmuan to her.
How novel and inspiring all wass great business
More absorbing than When others around to tell her
what do and watch her she through her work with zest and ability
But day the boss stad away there to approve and
commend her. and the work simply didn't DONE Neglected tasks
piled upas they way doing Then along crowded rush
week when whole asked overtime But Miss Quick
silver had other and could not think Of breaking them
The other girl who took and finished 1t that night
had barely noticed her before
that She did her work quietly and with eervcence OF
ban but with certain bulldog pstency When her work was
finally and the the hands he looking at her
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

were exchanged, presents were
given and received, and feasting
throughout the empire was the or
der of the day. The early Chris
tians at first set themselves against
the usages of the day as observed
by the Romans until the fixing of
Christmas day on the 25th of De-
cember, and New Years day came
to be observed as the octave of the
Nativity and also as the Festival
of the Circumcision.
The observance and spirit of the
day have not changed very greatly
in the onrush Of the centuries. We
might go back across the long
stratch of YEARS hetWaan the daY
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

be endowed with competence to do
these he is doing in this very
day with a miraculous confidence
and mighty faith. He has discov-
cred that his own commission ov pr
life, over the happiness and health
and the fruitage of the life that
now is, as we'll as of that which Is
to come, is vastly larger commits.
sion than the world hitherto has
dreamed of. He is finding out that
Providence is partnership and
that no man may be a sleeping
partner in the business OF living
without the penalty of losing the
very thing that life is-a world of
potencies converted into achieve
ment.
This is the note, surely, as civil.
lization faces the year 1910-the
note Of competency, the sense of
added powers to life, the feeling
that the greater things are coming
on the earth, and that man is us.
ing the key to unlock the treasure.
house of his own life with a sure.
ness and a wisdom that give prom.
Use of a vastly better, richer, juster
universe than he has yet known.
Another note of our time is the
fact that life mirrors itself in such
a wonderful way and the things
and forces that make for the bet.
ter day to be are known and read
of all men. We live In the open,
and no man may become champion
OF any cause and keep the world in
ignorance of the character of the
cause and the nature of his cham.
pionship. No man to-day may hide
his light under a bushel. It is a
tell-tale world, and, more than any
past time, the world to-day has
juster sense of values and knows
both the things that are saving 1t
and the things also that threaten
and endanger 1t. Public service
was never so responsible as 1t is
to-day. because civilization never
had the almost miraculous power
OF analyzing and testing the value
of public service as In this present
year. Public life is an open book.
and the most impossible of all i'm.
possible things to-day is that any
national or international movement
should be misunderstood or misin-
terpreted by the worlds best mind.
And what is true of public move
ments is true of public men. No
public man can deceive bis constit-
uents to-day. for his constituents
are the world. And the strong man
today is the man who frankly rec.
ognizes this.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31
LOath
to Think
Them
- -
Thieves

By CAPT. THOMAS R. BRACKEN
Chicago Detective

deed cupts whose brothernw robbed him
convinced until the thief made confess his
Such than would imagine the
pride party depoed usually operates prevent noore
prosecution in the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

TRIKE up the band, here
comes the good resolution.
Let the whistles blow
their heads off, let the bells
ring out, let the fog
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31
.RSE n~.
.A&s0 M

IW YEARS DAY has
ever occupied a pecu-
liar relation to the
three hundred and six
ty-five days on which
are etched the dcings
and history of a whole
calendar year. The Ro-
mans observed the day
as a public holiday, and
on this day all litiga-
ton and strife were
suspended, social visits
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-31

modern spirit takes account of it's own enlarged and
enlarging kingdom.
The Press., 1909-11-03
ACKNOWLEDGE IT.

Stafford Springs Has to Bow to the
 Inevitable-Scores of Endorsements
 Prove It.
 After reading the public statement of this fellow sufferer given below, you must come 10 this conclusion: A remedy which cured years ago, which has kept the kid neys in good health since, can be relied upon to perform he same work in other cases Read this:
 George F. Morrison. 391 Pleasant St. |, Williman ic. Conn, says: first te5ti- fled as to the merits of Doan's Kidney Pills in 1899 and although ten years have since passed. I hold just as high an opi ion of them as ever. l suffered a great deal from pains in the small of my back and lameness across my loins. The trouble was so bad at times that could not move muscle. Nhen suffer ing from a severe attack, l heard of Doan's Kidney Pills, and procuring box, began their use. Before I had finished the contents of one box. the pain in my back and the lameness across my lOins had disappeared. l have been free from kidney complaint since then, and conse- ouently gladly recommend Doan's Kid ney Pills , .....
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster -Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. ho ho nonn-I1OQn'9- and take no other. .... -
The Press., 1909-11-03
A VALUABLE WEED.
The TsasoI That Is Used to Raise the
 Nap on Cloth.

The Tsasol That Is Used to Raise the
 Nap on Cloth.
 Our readers who never saw a teasel tspelled also teazel and teazle and even tasseD can imagine fir cone or ''swamp cattail." set all over with ltt- tie stiff hooks. It is the bur tor tas- sel or flower head or thistle top) or the plant dipsacus, and so identified IS 1t with cloth dressing that this use Of it gave it it's botanical name. Dipsacus fullonum, or fuller's teasel.
 However familiar to people who live in lands where the teasel is extensive ly grown the fact may be that the prickly heads of that plant are univer- sally used to raise the nap on cloth, a multitude of persons in his country probably never heard of 1t and will he kstonished to learn in what enormous quantities the plant is raised.
 Tn France alone several thousand acres of land are exclusively devoted to the cultivation of the teasel. French manufacturers use many thousand dol lars worth of the prickly heads and export thousands of tons of them, val ued at perhaps millions of dollars Hundreds of tons are produced in Aus tria. England, Belgium, Poland, and the Crimea.
 The prickles of the teasel have small knob at the end, and this, mount ed on an elastic stem and set with great precision on the central spindle affords little brush, such, it is said as the utmost mechanical skill haS never been able to rival, at all events at the same price.-New York Herald.
The Press., 1909-11-03
nroNsoM.

A new sidewalk Is being built on the north side of Park avenue.
 Frank Bliss has moved into his residence in the south part of the town.
 Mrs. Jane E Stevens, who has heen visiting her daughter. Mrs. Frederick Wright, at State line has returned to her home in Southwick.
 The brick paving in front of the trolly express station on Main street is completed, and adds greatly to the appearance of the street and property.
 F.o. Bardwell has resigned his position in the stables of c. o. Flynt MT. Bardwell is widely known in racing circles as the trainer and driver of Asa Wilkes and other fast horses.
 Henry Davis has been awarded an other slice of the Davis estate, amounting to about SIS 900 MT. Davis will be in a position after awhile to buy pork at the present prices.
 ] Mrs. Henry W. Ohapin died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rufus F. Oushman, early Thursday morning, after many months of critical illness Funeral services will be held at her daughter's home on Saturday morning at II o'clock. followed by brief ser vices at the grave in Worcester, Mass , where the burial will take place upon the arrival of the train reaching that city at 212 o'clock, Rev. G. A. An dreWs of MonsoR officiating. Mrs. Chapin spent large portion of her life in Worcester. and the interests of that city were dear to her heart. Since the death of her husband, in 1889, she has made her home with her daughter in Monson. Her de. votion in ministering to this home ii only one of the evidences of hel beautiful way of living for others. She was a woman of rare character, and her cheerful nature was an in spiration to all who knew her. Al though her life during the latter year. in Monson has been spent quietly yet she has filled large place among the people who were priviliged tC come in contact with her, and hel going from the community is a great loss, for the influence of such spiri cannot be measured by words. Mrs Chapin is survived by a brother living in Kansas, a sister in California. thc daughter in Monson and three grand | children.
The Press., 1909-11-03
A LOST MINE.
The Tragic Legend That Is Associated
 With Bald Mountain.

The Tragic Legend That Is Associated
 With Bald Mountain.
 The legend of lost mine has given to Bald mountain. in Placer county, Colo, fascinating interest for pros pectors. Tradition is that early in the fifties of the last century three men disappeared from an immigrant party going over the old Gap trail. Search for them was without avail, and they were finally reported dead by the searchers.
 Where or how they wintered no one knows, but the following spring. rag ged. shoeIess and demoralized, they filed into Michigan Bluff. Their blan- kets were converted into sacks, and with them they brought gold dust to the amount of $1O.OOO or $15,OOO.
 Spending but a single night within the confines of civilization and giving no information as to the location of their large claim, they were followed on their return trip, and few weeks later their murdered bodies were found in one of the dreary canyons that scar the face of the desolate peak.
 Since then many man has sought this lost mine, but apparently its iIn- munity Is as certain as that of the treasure of Captain Kidd.-Philadel- phia North American.
The Press., 1909-11-03
Pensive Buffers.

The fashion of building houses with the entrance doors practically on a level with the street gives the observ. ing stroller on Fifth avenue some hu- morous glimpses of buffers on duty. In the house of one of the most fash ionabIe families in town the butler can be seen standing behind the bronze grill and glass doors staring disconso- lately out at the passing throng for most of the afternoon, while across the street from this house the same kind of an entranceway often dis closes a glimpse of functionary of the same class seated in a poetical at. titude by circular marble table. his head supported by his hand. Outside of a hospital they are probably the saddest looking men in New York New York Press.