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The Delta independent., 1909-06-11
BORROWED EDITORIALS.

Count Zeppelin has again broken the
worlds record with gas bag. or all of
it except that of the gas bag of Walter
Wellman's polar balloon.
Bachelor of Journalism has jus t
been graduated at the Missouri State
University. Those of US long married
to it wish him early nuptials.
Now they are trying to prove that
"Bwana Tumbo" means great stom-
ach." No matter what it means of
greatness so that it means something
great.
The Presbyterian Assembly at Den
yer has resolved against smoking either
by clergy or laity. Millions Of us made
similar resolves on the first day of this
year and now
The Rev. DR.. Long of Massachusetts
is inspecting the stories of the African
hunt with microscope. But some of
the game reported killed would seem to
call for telescope.
The frequency of cyclones in Okla
homa does not square with the theory
of cyclonic conditions growing out Of
forest denudation. Foliage in Okla
homa now is greater than it was
twenty years ago, but cyclones are
more numerous. The problem is one
of air currents, and il we ever solve
it we will in all probability be able to
do nothing more than issue warning
The Delta independent., 1909-06-11
Notice Of Special
Meeting Of Stockholders.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN That
special meeting of all of the Stock
holders of The Garnet Ditch and Reser-
voir Company is hereby called to meet
IN the Court Room, at the County Court
House, in the City of Delta, County of
Delta and State of Colorado, Saturday
the 10Th day of June. A. d. 1903. at
two O'Clock, P. NJ, for the purpose Of
authorizing the President and Secretary
of the Garnet Ditch and Reservoir
Company, for and on its behalf, to con-
vey by Deed with full covenants of
warranty, to the United States of
America, or to the Uncompahgre VAL
ley Water Users Association, should
the Secretary of the Interior of the
United States so prefer. for conside-
ration of not less than Twenty Thous-
and $50. .000) Dollars payable in credit
certificates of the Uncompshgre Valley
Water Users Association redeemable
in payment for water rights in said as
sociation, The Garnet Ditch and the
Bonnie Ditch with priorities and de-
crees Nos. q and u, from the Uncom-
pahgre River. the three-fourths (9) in
terest in and to the Cimarron Feeder
of the Garnet Ditch, with its decreed
priority Of right to use Of water from
the West Branch of the Cimarron Riv-
er, together with all laterals, fumes,
rating fumes, measuring and division
boxes, rights of way, water rights,
headgates, privileges, fixtures and ap-
purtsnances thereunto belonging, or in
any wise appertaining.
Each Stakeholder is requested to be
present in person, or to see that his
shares are represented by proxy.
Dated at Delta. Colorado, May 11th,
1903. L. W. SwEITzER,
President.
Attest: W. M. HASTINGS,
(sEAL) Secretary
The Delta independent., 1909-06-11
For Sale.

Fifteen head of horses and mules.
Seven sets of double harness.
Five, ga wagons two-wide tires.
One heavy spring wagon, 3 seats and
top; will carry ton and q half.
One heavy spring wagon, two seats,
will carry ton.
All the above nearly new.
Call late in afternoon or early in
morning. DR.. o. P. MCCARTNEY,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
TYPHOID VACCINE
TESTS IN THE ARMY
Officers Believe It Will Yet Be
Success
NOT REGARDED AS CURE
But They Believe 1t Can Be Made
To Head Off the Disease-Men
Submit Voluntarily to
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
Washington medical officers of the
United States army believe that the new
anti-typhoid vaccine now being tested at
the various army posts will prove to be
successful. More than a thousand men,
both officers and privates, many of them
in close contact with typhoid patients,
have been vaccinated, and not one of
these has contracted the disease. OF
those vaccinated only per cent were in
capacitated for duty, and none was ex-
cused for longer than As hours
The reports SO far received are prelim-
mary in character, but they have created
an impression favorable to the method
among army medical men. The vaccine is
an invention of the British army, where
it has been used with success. Its use
in the army here is the result of a recon-
mendation by distinguished group of
medical scientists brought together in
1908 as an army board.
Discussing the introduction of the vac
cine in the army Lieutenant Colonel
Kean. chief assistant surgeon-general,
who is thoroughly familiar with the work
thus far, said:
1.-THE work began with the army hos
pital corps. They are more exposed to
typhoid, perhaps, because they are called
upon to nurse men afflicted with the dis
ease in the hospitals and posts. This vac
cination is not compulsory, but purely
voluntary, but its value has been recog-
nized officially and each surgeon advises
tt,n ttr,I Ii
to be vaccinated."
do you find any objection among the
hospital corps as to being vaccinated?'
Lieutenant-C Colonel Kean was asked. mot
at ALL" he replied.
At the new Walter Reed Army General
hospital, near Washington, only one man
among $50 of the hospital corps stationed
there declined to be vaccinated. Most of
the army officers who are assistants to
the surgeon general in this office. as well
as their wives and children, already have
been vaccinated against typhoid fever
with this vaccine.
THE vaccine is manufactured at the
army medical museum laboratory, from
cultures of the typhoid bacillus that are
sterilzed, or killed by heat. Immediately
before the Injection of the vaccine is
made into the human system. 1t is in
jected with q hypodermic syringe, not
scratched on the arm, as in the case with
the smallpox vaccine. The injection is
made into the arm. 1T makes no sore,
but causes a temporary swelling. This
disappears after "a hours and no scar Is
left Those who are vaccinated with this
new vaccine are trifie I'll few hours
after the injection. We give two vacci-
nations at intervals Of from ten days to
two weeks apart.
This vaccine is designed to prevent the
taking Of typhoid, and not as curative.
It would not do to give 1t in typhoid
cases. as that might be dangerous; but as
a preventive it is perfectly harmless and
successful"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
FINDS A SLEEPY GRASS.
Dscoverer Believes 1t viii Furnish a
Valuable New Narcotic.

While making trip through the south
western part of New Mexico Herbert w.
Wolcott, Of Alamogordo, New Mexico,
found a grass from which he believes a
narcotic may be extracted which will take
the place of those now known to medical
science
1.-THE grass is known as sleepy gyass'
to the natives of New Mexico near the
Apache reservation" said Mr.. Wolcott.
Cattle and horses will eat it the first
time they see It, 1t makes them fall to
the ground in their tracks and lie In a
state of coma for two days. When they
wake up they have no i'll effects from the
opiate But they will never eat 1t again;
in fact, they will run away If 1t is offered
to them.
This sleepy grass is not to be con-
fused with the loco weed. The grass is a
real grass not unlike the Kentucky blue
grass in appearance. The loco weed is
a plant and bears a flower Horses and
cattle become loco fends and are WORTH
less after tasting the deadly stuff"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03

body likes to be painted. The sight Of
ones face, ones figure. ones clothes In
a picture evol<es nothing but pleasurab BILE
emotions If we'll done. but to see one $
self carved out of marble produces such
an overpowering sense of death that
many sensitive persons put off immortal
ization at the hands of a sculptor until
they are really dead
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03

that reason it is difficult to persuade
many persons worth modelling to sit for
a sculptor. Frequently l am asked why
n ost of my work is modelled after dead
and gone subjects. The answer is that
living people refuse to give me COM
mission. The art of the sculptor differs
there from that of the painter. Every
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03

Male stenographer wanted by
real estate and insurance firm.
Must be quick and able to as
sist in office. Answer BIZ, care
Age Herald
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
Dread of Marble Portraits.

. From the New York I1mes.
zone popularity of human nature that
am reminded of daily" said sculptor,
sis the Discrimination of the average man
to look upon himself reproduced in mar
BILE. The sight strikes him with positive
dread. 1t makes him feel as If he were
looking on his own lifeless body. For
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
Hat That Can Be Taken to Pieces.

From the London Chronicle.
A leading Partisan milliner has just in
vented hat which may be adapted for
various occasions at will.
It can be taken to pieces. When its re-
movable brim is packed away under the
brow it becomes close fitting toque suit
able for motoring. railway travelling or for
walks in rough weather. II It's owner
frds herself unexpectedly called upon TO
appear In evening dress. she has simply
to read1ust her crown and she Is ready
for any function, demanding the greatest
elegance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
caheen's
The New Store DILL
.Joon BE Complete.
Caheen' s

l0NLY a few short days. and our new store
" will be thrown open for inspection. 1t has
been, Our aim to give to the Birmingham people
one of the most modern up-to-date store in the
south. We think that we have been crowned
with success. The almost magical growth of
thir great enterprise is sufficient evidence of the
stores popularity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03

ural Ha9 NO sediment, % lts neither sticky nor
greasy-it's - pure and clear ~ water.
Don't experIment-use what THOUSANDS of Others
haze found safe and satisfactory Sample and comb
absolutely free. Begure to mention original color
Siis 81. Isss. iss. Fun rise bottle g. For 10 By
ALL STORES
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-03
Great Sale of Suits at $500

matchss collection tailored,
started with the determination place before Birmingham the best
had well succeeded
These beautiful suits the long with peaed skirts The suits
at the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
LESSON IN GOOD MANNERS.

Short Stories.-A we'll known law.
yer is telling good story about him.
self and his efforts to correct the
manners of his Office boy. One morn.
ing not long ago the young autocrot
blew into the Office, and, tossing his
cap at hook, exclaimed
Say, Mr.. Blank, there's ball game
down at the park today, and I'm go.
ing
Now, the attorney is not hard
hearted man, and was willing the boy
should go, but thought he would teach
him little lesson in good manners.
Jimmie" he said, "that isn't the
way to ask a favor. Now, you come
over here and sit down, and I'll show
you how to do it,"
The boy took the office chair and
his employers picked up his cap and
stepped outside. He then opened the
door softly, and holding the cap in his
hand, said quietly to the small boy in
the big chair.
Please, sir, there is ball game at
the park today; If you can spare me
l would like to get away for the aft
ernoon.''
In flash the boy responded.
why, certainly, Jimmie; and here
is 30 cents to pay your way in"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17

A committee Of the Chicago board
Of education which has been making
an investigation of the cost of school
books in Chicago as compared to the
cost of the same books in other cities,
has discovered that Chicago children
have been paying higher prices for
sixty-two different text books than
other cities and states. Inquiries
We're sent to every city with a popu-
lation of more than $4,000 together
with request for sample copies Of
the books in question. The compar-
sion showed that the books were iden-
tically the same. AS to the cost, it
was found that many cities were get
ting books for half the price Chicago
paid for them, and in other instances
for considerably less than half. 1t is
more than probable that Chicago will
refuse to hold the sack much longer,
now that a full f1edged investigation is
on.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
HERE Is A HAPPY MAN.

| There Is man in Massachusetts
by the name Of Henry J. Turner who
has had, we suspect, more solid en-.
| joyment in his long life than any man
| In the world. This is, of course, a
very strong statement, but when we
remark that in the last forty years
Mr.. Turner has, with hook and line,
caught eleven miles of fish the gentle
reader will surely agree to the asser-
ton
BY eleven miles we mean that when
these fish, nearly all pickerel and the
largest not weighing over five pounds,
and the average weight not reaching
pound, are laid down head to tail,
the line would extend eleven miles
away. He averaged four fish day
for forty years, counting in sick days,
winter days, storm days, Sundays
in fact, for every day in forty years
he caught four fish.
While it is easy to calculate the
pounds, distance, number and all the
statistics of this forty years fishing,
1t is impossible to estimate the Joy
that has come into this mans life.
Why, he has had more real down
right, upright fun than all the presi-
dents, cabinet officers, congressman,
millionaires, euchre players, automo-
bilists, vaudeville goers all put to-
gether. Just think of those medita-
tions and exhilarations attending up
on the 175,000 bites he had and the
$4,000 fish he drew out Of the water.
That mans JOY has been greater than
the mans who found bonanza, built
a palace to live in and drinks cham
payne instead of water.-Ohio State
Journal
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
eETA HOME For YOURSELF,

Spring is the time when it Is natural
to want home. 1t is the season when
everyone takes an interest in beautify-
ing the place where they live. Even
II the house in which we live is a
rented one, and we do not own the
yard, still we feel that we must clean
up around our house, and put out a
Few plants or flowers, in order to make
1t little more attractive.
The United States is nation of
homes, and there is now more than
ever abroad in the land a general de.
sire for home. 1t is probable that
more people in America today are
making an effort to own home of
their own than ever before. This is a
very commendable desire. 1t means
we'll for the communities, and for the
country at large.
The American home is the funda-
mental strength Of this government,
and the American fire side is the
fundamental point of the American
home. 1t is better to raise your family
in your own home, than in a rented
home: Most certainly this is not al
ways possible, but it is desirable.
The American home is one of the
grandest of institutions. 1t is the
school where the American boy and
girl are taught the patriotism and the
love of the country. There begins the
formation of the youngsters ideas of
society and government. and this
teaching begins earlier than he has
any recollection of. He grows into it.
The way he is governed himself, the
way he sees the other members of the
family governed, and the attitude of
the elders to each other, and toward
their visitors, all enter into giving the
young mind a start in the study of
things, and the ideas he forms at
home always take precedent in his
ideas of what is right and wrong above
all others. At times he may wander
away from his home teachings, but
they are never forgotten. Their in
fuence may be temporarily erased but
they are called back to mind by little
incidents almost daily.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
HE WAS NO HAYsEED.

Tit-Bits.-Many years ago when
Londoners had not the excursion IA
cilities for getting into the country
that they enjoy now, Charley, cock
ney friend, was staying at farm-
house and soon made himself at home.
Charley with his pipe, was wandering
around, closely examining the top,
ends and sides of a certain trim, well
made object fenced around In a pad
dock. He stared at it a little while,
then shook his head obviously.
What are you looking for,
Charley?"
where's the doors and windows,
uncle?'
Doors and windows? Why, that's
haystack.'
No fear, uncle; you don't humbug
me. Hay doesn't grow in Jumps like
that"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17


country Is SO little attention paid ia
the girls dowry and so much to the
glrl herself as in America? Is the
marriage de CONVEYANCE" an institu-
tlon with us, as in France? Have we
class which must, and does, look
TO paying alliances to repair the waste
OF estates, as in England? The an
swers to these questions suggest an
inevitable conclusion.
The Inter Ocean expresses the hope
that Professor Ferraro was led to
become our champion by, a realiza-
ton OF the truth Of the case rather
than by his oft exhibited tendency to
oppose current conceptions But,
whatever the impulsion was, says the
Inter Ocean, he is unquestionably
going in the right direction.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
Boost a BIT.

Here! you disconnected knocker,
Growlin' bout imagined ills;
Chloroform yer dismal talker;
Take course oliver pills.
Stop yer durn ki-o-tee howlin'
Chaw some sand an git some grit;
Don't sit in the dumps a-growlin',
Jump the roost
An boost
A bit!
Fall in while the bands aplayin',
Ketch the step an march along
Stead O. pessimistic brayin',
Jine the halleluyah song!
Drop your hammer-do some rootin'--
Grab a horn, you cuss, and split
Every echo with yer tootin'-
jump the roost &
An boost
IA bit!
Anon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17

A New York woman was disarmed
while she was attempting to carry out
a threat to murder her husband. In
binding the woman over for trial the
judge said:
Ihls promiscuous shooting of hus-
.pands must stop. There is too much
OF reliance placed upon the unwritten
law. 1t won't go in this court.
The husband should be protected
just as any game. Fish, birds and
deer are all given certain season CT
the year in which to mind their own
business without being shot at and
peppered with bullets.
I now declare the season on hus-
bands closed
;, This is a new way of putting it, but
1t seems to fill the bill.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17

The Burlington Hawk-Eye is advo-
eating the adoption of the commission
plan of government in Burlington.
Speakers from Des Moines and Cedar
Rapids recently appeared before a Bur-
lington organization and explained the
commission plan. Since then the SEN
timent for change to the new style
Of government has been growing and
the Hawk-Eye is calling upon the may
or, the commercial exchange or some
group of public spirited citizens to
take the initiative in starting the COM
mission ball to rolling.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
a EoRElaNER,s vIEw.

Professor FerrarO, the Italian hlStOr-
ian, who lately closed lecture course
in America, is contributing a series OF
articles to the Paris Figaro in which
he is setting out to shatter the popu-
lar conception of what Americans are.
The Chicago Inter Ocean, referring
editorially to Ferraro's views Of Amer
lea and American life says:
What need to say that the first err
ror he undertakes to combat Is the bs-
lief that this is materialistic nation
that all people work for or think
about or judge by in this country is
money? That is the error that most
Europeans, aware Of their own con-
tempt for material advantages, cling TO
with peculiar complacency.
This misconception does not spring
wholly from a sort of unconscious an
tagonism, from a willingness to hear
the unfriendly side too readily, from q
feeling that justice demands that our
too great material advantages be hand
icapped by a certain moral delin-
quency. 1t springs-and we are here
expressing our own and not Professor
Ferraro's idea-from the European in
ability to realize the idea of work. for
the works sake. @
The British merchant or manufac-
turer looks forward to retirement and
perhaps, a peerage for his son. The
French capitalist dreams of an age
freed from all but social obligations.
In other advanced European countries
similar ideas prevail. 1t is natural
that these men, and the people famil.
lar with their view. Of work as neces-
sity and retirement as a glad release,
should be able to imagine no reason
for work except to get more money.
The American can. He finds suffi-
Gent reason in the fact that work is
usually second nature, that 1t affords
him more pleasure than idleness-
that there is, after all, a quiet sort of
social compulsion eternally asking the
Carlylesque question of What are you
doing in Gods fair earth and task
garden, where whosoever Is not work
Ing is either begging or stealing?"
In other words, he works largely for
the works sake more than for the
money, when he has gotten enough
money to place himself and his family
In the position he desires. And the
estimate he has Of money in itself is
fairly illustrated by the ease with
can man of a given condition makes
money more rapidly than his Euro
pean brother, he also spends it with a
liberality to which the European be-
lief that all Americans are wasteful
millionaires bears ample evidence.
The average European writer, hear
ing of little here to compare with the
art treasures, the art atmosphere of
Europe, assumes that we must per-
force be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. if material
ism were the antithesis Of estheticisul.
He does not understand that the real
comparative degree Of materialism in
two countries is to be found by
study of the social ideals and observ-
ances in vogue among a section of
zach nation sufficiently large to be
representative.
We need go no further than the
single institution of marriage to find
what peoples are romantic and what
naterialistic. In what European
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
PERFECTLY FAMILIAR PRINCIPLE

Chicago Tribune.-Rivers was ex-
planning the operation Of the new
noiseless gun, as he understood 1t.
Its like this" he said, there's Il
corrugated compartment called the
'silencer,' and the pull of the gases in
trying to escape not only prevents all
noise but eliminates the recoil and the
gun doesn't kick"
There's nothing strange in that, 2
said Brooks. IF 1 had pull
wouldn't kick either"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17
INFLUENCE OF NATIONAL AN
THEM.

London Evening Standard After
the siege of the Pekln legation dozen
Russian soldiers bent on foot and out
rage raided the house in which one
of my band boys lived with his moth
er and sister" Sir Robert Hart said
at a dinner at the Authors club. THE
boy snatched his violin and played the
Russian national anthem and the loot
ers stood to attention. Then they left
the house without molesting any one"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17

The farmers in the vicinity of Stur.
geon, Mo-, have organized Brother
hood of Road Draggers." and assumed
the obligation of keeping a certain
stretch of road in good condition for
one year. A number Of those who at
tended the meeting, as an object les
son in the utility of the road drag, at
tached drags to their wagons and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17

smoothed the highways on their way
10 town, and on the return trip. One
man brought butter and eggs to mar
ket in an automobile with road drag
attached and demonstrated that he
could do his part in the program with
out extra. effort and while engaged In
his other work. The Sturgeon plan
might be tried in this community with.
out very much expense or trouble.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-17

The Chicago man who agreed to
drop his appeal from court sentence
and serve his time in the penitentiary
If his father, who was also under SEN
tence, should be given his liberty,
will have a pretty strong case to pre-
sent to the pardon board.