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The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-11-19
Pubic Sale

] will sell It ny ranch, II miles south
of Julssbsfg On Wsdnssdsy. DeoenuD
9. bsgianiaG at 400 e'esoek 4 m. the
following described property:
10 Aaad of hpesss, consisting of one
by tsan. weight 200 pounds, one
gray horss. s yeass Old. weight ll5O
pounds: one bay horse. years old
weight lle0 pounds: one bay mare, 7
ysars old. weight leoO pounds; one bay
mare, 10 year, Old. weight 1000 pounds:
one gray mare. . years old, weight
1900 pounds; one black colt, 2 years
Old. weight 1000 pounds. One gray
driving team. 10 years old.
choice miIeh cows. giving milk.
3 will be fresh January LIST. next.
2 wagons. buggy. I Stearn gang
plow, l walking pIow. disc. harrow,
Deere lister. Mccormick binder, l
Mccormick mower. ! Van Brunt press
drill. All Of this machinery practically
new.
Four sets of wagon harness, all prac-
tieally new; one set buggy harness;
one set single buggy harness, nearly
new.
1000 bushels esr corn, Is tons of hay,
all household goods.
Terms of sale: all sums of 5000 and
under cash. all sums over 5000, ten
months time will be given, purcha
giving note with approved security
bearing interest at 10 per cent from
date. 8 per cent discount for cash on
sums over 5000
Free lunch at noon.
Mrs. L. SPELTZ,
C. F. Clayton, Owner.
Clerk. G. N. Hit,
Auctioneer.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-11-19

SsdGvick County vas organized into
4 HiRh School District at the general
election, November I. 1909. by the
following vote:
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-11-19

All kinds of Sweater Coats for boys
and men. Prices $l.OO and up. Peter
Ben's Store.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-11-19

Eye, Ear, Nose and Thssat. DR.. K.
c. Sapero. the Denver specialist, will
again be in Julesburg two days-Mon-
day and Tuesday, November . and 50.
At the Brown hotel. Consultation
and examination for glasses free. Call
earlv
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-11-19

resident B. D. Parker, Jr., Of the sens Store.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

| America was created. Benjamin Frank
lin, who had been appointed postmaster
of Philadelphia in 1877, was given the
Office in 1853. He visited all the i'm
portant postofiices. Though his reforms
made the office bring in a clear rev.
enue, he was removed by the king in
1774 but shortly after was appointed
to the same office by the Continental
Congress. The first postmaster of the
United States of America was Samuel
Osgood. When he took charge of the
department the country had seventy
five postoffices.
The charge for the delivery of letters
was based on distances covered and
varied from 6 cents for thirty miles to
% cents for $50 miles Until 1863 dis
lance was the basis of cost In that
year a uniform rate of postage ignor-
ing the distance was fixed at 3 cents.
Oct. ], 1888, this was reduced to .
cents. During the early days of Alas
kan development, every letter delivered
in Nome cost the government 81.
Though the use of adhesive postage
stamps was authorized in 1S47, prepay
ment by stamps was not made compuls-
DRY until 1856 uniform free deliv-
cry system was not instituted until
1863, though the penny post existed in
a number Of cities in 1862, the carriers
remunerating themselves by the collec-
ton of a voluntary fee of from / to 2
cents for each piece of mail delivered.
A convention held in Paris in 1873
made various Improvements in the reg
ulations and provided for a postal CON
gress to consider revision of all pend
ing rules at least every five years The
International Postal Union thus effect
ed works constantly for the simpifi-
cation and Identification of postal sys-
TENS The rate fixed by the first CON
vention. of ) cents for each half unit
of weight for ordinary letters still pre-
walls, save that recently special conven-
tions reducing IL to . cents have been
arranged between this country and
England and this country and Germany.
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NJ. LacrolX, q member of the French
Academy of Sciences, read a paper be-
fore that learned society on the manu-
facture of sapphires. He has discoy-
cred practically the composition of the
precious stone, and has succeeded in
obtaining some specimens which almost
resemble the real stone. 1t can not be
said that NJ. Lacroix has yet discov-
cred the exact process, for those which
he has obtained would not impose upon
a skilled lapidary who subjected them
to n severe test.
The climbing perch (Anabas Sean
dens) of which six examples have re-
Gently been received at the London
Geological Gardens, is an interesting
case of a fish which is able to spend a
considerable time out of its native ele-
ment. The climbing perch is able to
make some progress on land by the
movement of its pectoral and ventral
fins. 1t is even able to climb trees, and
has been found in palm tree several
feet from the ground. 1t is difficult to
get it to display these pecularitles in
confinement.
The little black people of Africa. so
dramatically described by Stanley, are
not the only pygmies produced by that
wonderful continent. In Liberia and
Sierra Leone are found pygmy hippo
potamus, some specimens of which have
recently been sent to England. These
animals are described as being more
like pigs in their habits than like their
gigantic relatives. 4 good mud-hole is
quite sufficient for them. They seem to
prefer solitude in their native haunts,
going about singly and when two are
seen in company they almost Invariably
consist of a mother and her calf
President Schurman of Cornell Uni
versity calls attention to the need of
the development of type of engineer
specially skilled in everything relating
TO hydraulics. Water, he remarks. is
destined from now on to play a great
part in the economic development of the
United States 1t is hereafter to be
used on Il vast scale for power and for
irrigation as well as for navigation.
The maximum benefit TO be got from
the use of water will be sought in the
East from navigation and power, and
. In the West from irrigation and power.
one of the unexplained phenomena
Of what Prof T. G. Bonney calls the
! worlds ice mantle" is the alternate
| advance and retreat of the glaciers. At
| present says Prof. Bonney, only in
scandinavia, ana perhaps at Mount ST.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
The
Exec optional
EqzGfpryaer11

of the California Fig Syrup CO and the
scientific attainments of it's chemists have
rendered possible the production of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA, in all of its
excellence, by obtaining the pure medic
inal principles of plants known to act most
benedcially and combining them most
skillfully in the right proportions, with
It's wholesome and refreshing Syrup of
California Figs.
As there is only one genuine Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA and as the gem
uine is manufactured by an original
method known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, it is always necessary to buy the
genuine to get its beneficial effects.
A knowledge of the above facts enables
one to decline limitations or to return them
if, upon viewing the package, the full name
Of the California Fig 5yrupCo is not found
printed on the front thereof
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Here's sort of queer thing" said
nearsighted man. II am very near
sighted. Strong glasses are indispensa-
BILE to me for ordinary, general seeing
In my goings about. but when | sit
down to read l take off my glasses
and bring the print up to within the
natural focus of the eye. 1t seems to
me that reading with the natural eye
can read with n more intimate and a
clearer understanding
$50 much for my reading without
spectacles, and now here is the thing
that is queer TO me- Ii when | am
reading thus with my glasses off,
somebody comes along to speak to me,
why, then, to get clear understand
ing of that question l must have on
my spectacles.
so l say, or l would say if this hap
pened at home where l know the peo-
pie, Wait a minute till / get on my
spectacles,' and l would put them on
and then say, Now go ahead, and real
ly, with my spectacles on, with my
power of seeing ut it's best, with the
sharpest definition of things in general
to the eye. l get the clearest apprehen-
sion Of things said to me.
$50 in reading l do best with my
glasses of, but in understanding things
said to me, In listening, l do best with
my glasses On. There is one moditica-
ton to this-where there is no light, as
in a dark room, where l can't see. l
can understand equally well with or
without glasses, New York Sun.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
MUNICIPAL LACE MAKING.

In order to relieve the poverty Of its
pcasantry the government of Austria has
gone into the lace business on a large
scale. As far back as 1850 it took steps
TO encourage lace making in the rural
districts. and now it has a system of
instruction covering the whole country.
with offices for the sale of the laces in
Vienna. London, Paris and New York.
The country has been divided into cir
cults. with headquarters in the chief
town of each circuit, and from this CEN
ter teachers. who are also business
agents, go through every village of the
circuit These teachers instruct the
women and older girls, supply the ma
terials and designs and buy and pay for
the lace. And along with the instruction
in lace making goes hygiene and other
teaching, which is said to have had a
ants. When the regular teacher moves
on to the next village an exceptionally
bright pupil is left in charge to direct
the work and assist the less gifted work
ers. Supplementary to this system of
travelling schools is a lace making course
in the parochial schools, where the chill
dren begin in their tender years to learn
the beautiful art of lace making. The
distribution of the work of the peasant
lace makers is in the hands of the I'm
Serial Royal Austrian Lace industries.
Through its foreign offices this organiza-
ton keeps a careful eye on the trend
of fashion. and thus the directors of the
lace schools are kept constantly in touch
with the market.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

This first governmental issue of
stamped envelopes, stamped letter pa
per and adhesive labels or stamps in
England was in 1910. Three years be-
fore, in 1887, stamped wrappers under
the name ST "go-frees" had been used
experime'itally and had been recon-
mended to the chancellor of She ex-
chequer for adoption by the govern
ment In Dundee, a printer named
James Chalmers printed stamps from
ordinary type, washing their backs with
gum. He showed them to his neigh
bors, but made no public mention of
them until November. 1887, nine months
after Sir Rowland Hill had drawn the
attention of the commissioners of the
postotfice to the possibilities of using
such adhesive stamps when people
bought unstamped envelopes to the
postoffice
The postal system derives its very
name from the posts placed along Ro-
man roads to mark points where couri-
ers took dispatches. But the modern
postal system with its prepaid postage,
with its system of levying postal trib-
ute on the basis Of weight and not dis
lance, its letter boxes, it's delivery of
parcels and newspapers and money or
ders, dates from Sir Rowland Hill
The earliest official notice of postal
service in the American colonies is
found in the records Of the general
court Of Massachusetts in 1639 The
house of Richard Fairbanks in Boston
was under the ruling of the court desig-
mated as the place for all letters
brought from across the seas or to be
sent thther. He was allowed penny
for every letter which he received or
sent. In Virginia, every planter was
required to provide a messenger to car
ny letters as they arrived at his plan
tation to the next one. He forfeited
hogshead of tobacco should he fail
to do so. In 1872, the government of
New York established a monthly post
between New York and Boston. In 1862
the office of postmaster general for
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
Making a Seanort.

At business mems meeting in At
lanta there was under discussion an ar
rangement with the railroads that al
lowed merchandise 70 be shipped to and
from that inland city on a through bill
of lading. There was much joyous de
clamation and one orator explained ~
enthusiastic periods that Atlanta wa,
now the equivalent of seaport town
and able to cope with all rivals Upon
this a Savannahiau, whose native city
is the real seaport of Georgia. arose
and said with some acerhity: IF Won
Atlantans were to lay n pipe line to
the sea and then suck as hard rs You
blow, yon'd he real seaport in no time
at az "-Ee,lmAn.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

given me, and l am recommending it
to all my friends. Mrs. w. S. FORD.
1898 Lansdowne St., Baltimore, Md.
The most successful remedy In this
country for the cure of all forms of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It has
stood the test of years and to-day is
more widely and successfully used than
any other female remedy. It has cured
thousands of women who have been
troubled with displacements, inflam-
nation, liberation, fibroid tumors. ir-
regularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing-down feeling, flatulency,
indigestion, and nervous prostration,
after all other means had failed.
IF you are suffering from any of these
ailments, don't give up hope until you
have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound trial.
If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for its She has guided
thousands to health, free of
charge.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
Money Made i'm Live Stock I'm Gem
trail Cnpada

Money Made i'm Live Stock I'm Gem
tral Canada.
w. j. Henderson, visiting Seattle
writes to the Canadian Government
agent at Spokane, Wash, and says:
have neighbors living there, and
raising wheat, barley and oats for the
past twenty years, and are now getting
from the same land 90 to 80 bushels
of wheat per acre, 40 to 60 bushels of
oats.
1t was the first week of May when
l got my tent pitched, but the farmers
all around had finished putting in their
crops, so l only got fifteen acres broke
and seeded. They advised me. as it
was late, not to put in much wheat, SO
| put in five acres wheat and ten acres
oats, one-half acre potatoes and -yegeta-
bles. All kinds of vegetables grow
well up there-sweet corn, tomatoes,
onions, carrots, peas, beans, cabbage.
My wheat yielded about 20 bushels per
acre, for which 1 got &c cents, others
got so cents; oats threshed 30 bushels
per acre, for which l got So cents per
bushel. You see 1 was three weeks
late getting them in; still l was salts
fed
From my observation, there is more
money made in stock, such as cattle,
horses and sheep, as prices are high for
such, and it costs nothing to raise
them, as horses live the year around
out on the grass. In fact, farmers turn
their work horses out for the winter
and they come in fresh and fat in the
spring. Cattle live out seven or eight
months. They NOW the prairie grass
and stack it for winter and give oat
straw. My neighbors sold steers at
$40 each, and any kind of horse that
can pillow, from $3.50 up. l raised sixty
chickens and five pigs, as pork, chick
ems, butter and eggs pay well and al
ways good market for anything a
man raises, SO l have every reason to
be thankful, besides at the end of three
years | get my patent for homestead.
| heard of no homestead selling for less
than $1,000, So where under the sun
could an old man or young man do
better?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
IN AGONY wITH EczEmA.

whole Body n Mass of Raw. Bleed
ing, TortuEtnR Humor-Hair Ala
Fen Out--Hoped Death WcnId End
Fearful suHering-In Despair
Cured by Cuticura.
words cannot describe the terrible
eczema / suffered with. 1t broke out
on my head and kept spreading until
It covered by whole body l was al
most q solid mass of sores from head
to foot. l looked more like a piece Of
raw beef than a human being. The
pain and agony l endured seemed more
than l could bear. Blood and pus
oozed from the great sore on my scalp,
from under my finger nails, and near
" all over my body My ears were so
would break off Every hair in my
head fell out / could not sit down,
for my clothes would stick to the raw
and bleeding flesh, making me cry out
from the pain. My family doctor did
all he could, but | got worse and
worse My condition was awful
did not think / could live, and wanted
death to come and end my frightful
sufferings.
'In this condition my mother-in-law
begged me to try the Cuticura Rem
edies l said would, but had no hope
Of recovery. But oh, what blessed re-
lief / experienced after applying Cuti-
cura Ointment 1t cooled the bleeding
and itching flesh and brought me the
hrst real sleep had had In weeks. 1t
was as grateful as ice to burning
tongue. I would battle with warm
water and Cuticura Soap, then apply
the Ointment freely. l also took Cuti-
cura Resolvent for the blood. In a
short time the sores stopped running,
the flesh began to heal, and knew I
was to get well again. Then the hair
on my head began to grow, and In
short time / was completely cured.
wish I could tell everybody who has
eczema to use Cuticura Mrs. VIM.
Hunt, 1875 Thomas ST., Newark, n. j.,
Sept 28 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. Of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

There Is more Catarrh In this section OF
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last. few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced IL a local disease
ana prescribed local remedies and by con
sJantly falling to cure with local treatment,
pronounced II tncurable. Science has proven
catarrh 10 be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
italis Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F. J.
Cheney Co, Toledo. Ohio. is the only con
Sututionai cure on the market 1t Is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops TO a tea
spoonful. II acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case II falls to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address f. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. T5c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Elias. are the glaciers beginning to adj
vance in notable numbers. In the Alps
a general retreat of the glaciers began
about 1861. At first it was rapid, but
the rate afterward slackened. Toward
the end Of the nineteenth century a gla-
cier here and there slightly retraced its
steps but the majority are still either
slowly shrinking or stationary.
The remarkable fact that the earliest
known ancestor or primitive type, of
the modern whale bore heavy armor on
its back, in the form of strong, bony
plates has recently been set forth by
the German paleontologist, DR.. Abel.
The plates occasionally found associ-
ated with the remains of the primeval
form of whale have generally been re-
garded as having belonged to gigantic
turtles, but the German Investigations
show that they were part of the skele-
ton itself. They resemble In their char
acter the impenetrable bony shells Of
the huge glyptodonts that formerly in
habited South America. The suggestion
Is made that at the time when they
carried armor whales were amnhfhious
creatures, living on the coasts and
needing special protection from break
ers and from sharks.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

$o~ 1aA<'1-7@s@Na ME- the earliest years
~ the postage stamps of
this country have varied
- in design. Their use was
hEJI7z4SF1B sanctioned by an act of
! eSsEM.GJE Congress March 3, 1S4T.
A tentative issue had
been issued at the postofice of New
York and in st. Louis two years before,
in 1915, and in Rhode Island in 1916.
The first stamps issued were for and
10 cents and bore the portraits of
Franklin and Washington. At various
times complete series varying in
price from 1 to 90 cents was issued.
The portraits used on the stamps were
those of Franklin, 1 cent; Jackson,
2-cent; Washington, Scent Lincoln,
6-cent Jefferson, 10-cent Clay, 12-cent;
Webster, 15-cent; Scott, 24-cent Ham
iton, 30-cent; Perry, 90-cent, and Stan
ton, 7-cent. Most of these portraits
were drawn from marbles, but Stanton
was reproduced from a photograph.
Rowland Hin Of England was found
er OF the modern postal system. Eng
land, accepting his scheme of postal
reform, was the first country to intro
duce the system of delivering prepaid
letters carrying postage stamps. A story
has 1t that Sir Rowland was staying
at an inn in northern England. While
there he saw the pOstman deliver to
his hosts daughter a letter which she
returned unopened, as she had not a
shilling to pay for its delivery. Moved
to compassion by the lingering fondness
with which she turned the letter over
In her hands, carefully studying every
mark on its exterior, Sir Rowland ten
dered a shilling to the postman, who
left the letter. Then the innkeepers
daughter, embarrassed by his kindness,
explained that it was unnecessary. She
and her brother, unable to pay postage,
had arranged a code of communication.
While she handled the letter she had
learned what he wished her to know.
Whether this story be true or not,
Sir Rowland Hill. who was only Mr.
Hill at the time as he was knighted
later, early realized the inadequacy of
the postal system Of England and ar
IDENTIFY advocated his system, under
which postage should be prepaid
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Professor Munyon has just issued a
most beautiful, useful and complete al
manac. 1t contains not only all the sci
entific information concerning the moons
phases, in all the ATTITUDES, but has Illus
trated articles on how to reao character
by phrenology, palmistry and birth
month. 1t also tells all about card read
Ing, birth stones and their meaning. and
gives the Interpretation of dreams. 1t
teaches beauty culture, manicuring gives
weights and measures and antidotes for
poison. In fact, it is a Magazine Al
manac, that not only gives valuebe in
formation, but will afford much anuse-
ment for every member of the family,
especially for parties and evening enter
tainments. Farmers and people in the
rural districts will find this Almanac al.
most invaluable.
1t will be sent to ar-one absolutely
free on application to the Munyon Rem
edy Company, Philadelphia. Pa.
When New York city's CatsIiill aque-
duct is completed the city will have wa
ter enough for a population of 1000
600. without any cause of anxiety.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
Cheap Board.

New Curate-Can any of you tell me
how much it costs to board an automo-
bile here?
Old Resident-About thirty dollars.
| think.
Young NJ. D.-But 1t only costs TWEEN
ty-five to board horse.
Miss Stenographer-And 1t only costs
five cents to board a trolley.-Success
Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
whiskcv for Lame Bnck.

To one-half pint good whskey, add
one ounce syrup sarsapariIla and one
ounce of Toris compound, which can be
procured of any druggist, Take in tea
spoonful doses before each meal and
before retiring. This recipe is said to
be the best known to medical science.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
Steiner Measures Necessary.

Really" said Nervey, Il want you
to be my wife. Come, now, don't say
No"
Mr.. Nervey," replied the heiress. Il
wouldn't think of saying no to you"
"Ah!'
ut wouldn't have any effect on you,
so | think the best thing 1 can do is
to yell for the police. The Catholic
Standard and Times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
DlSfcnnDer.

In all its forms, among all ages of
horses, as we'll as dogs, cured and all
others in same stable prevented from
having the disease with Spohn's Distens-
per Cure. Every bottle guaranteed. Over
100000 bottles sold last year. 80 cents
and $10O a bottle. All druggists, or send
to manufacturers, Spohn Medical Co.,
Goshen. Ind