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The Springfield herald., 1909-02-12
FOR SALE-One well drill.
Machine is in good shape. Call
and see me at Konantz.
w. j. GILLESPIE.
COW ESTRAY.

Dehorned; Solid red color; Me
dium size; Whole ears; Branded
Z6 in two places, right rump and
side.
Strayed away, about a week be-
fore Christmas, Mt calyeing time.
Calved about Christmas. Any
information of the COW will be
thankfully received. Address
S. M. Konkel, Villas, Colorado.
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Some Facts Concerning
Baca County.
AS BIG AS r STATE

,ACA COUNTY situated the southeastern
- being 81 miles long from east
miles south containing o.
$500 square miles altitude 800 feet
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CROPS

Wheat barley, mlet milo maize kafr In
dian raised and milo
extensively produced
nuay More wheat especially the drought resisting sorts
being each successive This will before
be atprodung Live stock of all kndscat.
sheep hogs products the
The quality of the Colorado the small
is said o be unsurpassed.
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GLIMATE

SLIMHTE
exceptionally hahu beneftting especially those
appreciate climate and the abund
cool nights which follow th
himself
The location enough from the Rocky Mountains to
rigorous foothills far 10 be in the cyclone
belt, mild; seldom sultry
usually through
with little other grazing the
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IL a. m. and 1880 p. M, Feb
21st.
SroNINGToN
7:30 p. M, Feb. 18th,
Il a. H., Feb. 28th.
7;3O p. M, Feb. 18th.
BosToN
3 p. M, Feb. 14th.
3p. M, Feb. 2Sth,
SmART's
3 p. m. Feb. Dist.
Lamport
Il a. M, Feb. 14th.
WAS
7;;8O p. M, Feb. 28th.
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Schools and Churches

county excellent system grade schools
The Mehodss the only oganzaton
county but it decidedly helpful to all who will permit of its nu
Taxes.
low business the county condr
along economical lines.
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Speaking of Peter Brodine, a
former well known citizen of
Monmouth, Colo. the local paper
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WATER
Population

The population Of the county is above LOCO an
people are progressive peaceabe, Industrious a
neither saloon nor a pauper in the countv
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Including six serial stories; humorous
stories; stories of adventure. charac-
ter, heroism.
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Preaching Dates

SpRNcTIElD
IL a. m. and 7:3O p. M, Feb.
DIST
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On current events, recent discoveries
in the world OF science and nature, i'm
portant matters in politics and govern
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Taxes.

The taxes are low
along economical lines.
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FRUITS

Those tried have been very
full County the Fair the Second Best
and Largest Collection o Fruit 'front.' District
MATER
pure abundant depth less
places. Windmill irrigation extensively practei but
field open development
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
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The enormous constellation of the Great Bear, of which the Great Dipper Is part, is now almost exactly overhead, while near this one may trace out Bootes, the Driver, the delicate little northern crown, and the large, but less striking group Hercules, with it's wonderful star cluster at c, Fig 1. To the early Arablans the region of the sky bordered by the stars marked D was known as the Celes- tial Pasture, the giant stars near being the sheep within the pasture.
 The possessor of a telescope of moder- ate power will find in the constellation Hercules some of the most beautiful double stars of the sky. Perhaps the most striking system is that formed by the two suns at F, which are six seconds apart, and one of which Is an orange color, while the other is greenish. The star of H is also @ double, the colors being greenish and blue, and the star at K Is a remarkable system of three suns revolving around one another, but which appears to be merely a double star sys- tenn in small telescope. It is toward the point M of this region that our sun Is ceaselessly rushing through space with a speed of Il miles second, carrying the earth and all the other planets with 1t. At the end of each "A hours we are near ly a million miles further on in our path than we were at the beginning, yet so in conceivably great are the distances which separate the stars, of which our sun Is one that it is only by the most delicate
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The Poor Minister.

The next day, says a minister's wife, writing in Success Magazine. Deacon Holmes came to see him and told him bluntly that 1t was impossible to give him a larger salary. The pew rents did not warrant it. Besides, the other ministers in town had no more, and 1t would not be fair to the other churches to raise one mans pay because then all might ask for the same advance.
 And why not?" my husband demanded, his indignation rising. Why not? Have they not wives and children, too, and d struggle to get on? Why not give us all enough to live on in comfort?"
 But the deason said 1t was not advisa- ble, and he was sure, with a little more care. we could manage; most of the farm Iers spent far less than We on their living, and few of the church members had more.
 How about MT. Newton?'' asked John. and Deacon Brown, and Mrs. Jackson All of them are comparatively well-to-do, and keep servants, and take trips to town; why should they deny their minister the decencies of life?"
 Deacon Holmes was shocked. "A min ister," he said. should not expect to live as other men do. His work Is easy; and, besides, 1t is his duty to set an example and to practice self-denial"
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Public Office by Auction.

From the Newark Evening News.
 It has remained for East Stroudsburg Pa. to set the pace in municipal reform. This community of less than 5000 popula- ton is known within only limited area. It goes the even tenor of It's way and lives at peace with all the world. Very little of exciting episodes comes from that quarter, but occasionally it has a new conviction and the courage to make 1t known. This town does not spend much time debating new idea, but tries it to see how it works. Like many larger places East Stroudsburg has not been quite pleased with the way it's public business has been transacted. Certain of fees had been filled by appointment of council, but a novel scheme has been de- Vised and trial made this year. The of flces were put up at auction with the best bidders getting the jobs
 Bids were invited by the council for the offices of water superintendent, secretary of borough affairs and borough solicitor. The places were given to the men who agreed to accept the least salary, the council reservlng the right to pass upon the qualifications of bidders. To E. M. Walters who agreed to perform the duties for s45 a month, the office of water su- perintendent was allotted. Ira La Bar obtained the offices of borough secretary and solicitor, to receive S125 as the first and $25 for the other office.
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the horizon at which the sun disappeared, and nearly in line with the Pole Star and the brilliant Capella, at O. If the Pole star is not visible, 1t may be found by continuing a line through the Sickle and the Twins; the two Twin stars will be nearly midway between the Sickle and the planet.
 There is great pleasure in detecting this silyery white little world for the first time. So much Is said about the diff iculty of observing 1t that the reader when he has found it will probably be surprised to discover how easily seen It really is Through small telescope 1t will appear as a half moon, while Venus, on the contrary, is now nearly round, After reaching the point E, Mercury will move swiftly backward toward the sun, passing Venus on June [, at which time the two planets will be two degrees apart.
 HalIey's Comet.
 This most celebrated comet is still being systematically searched for by astrono- mers who expose delicate photographic plates to the region Of the sky in which it is known that 1t will first make its ap- pearance. but up to this date 1t has not been detected. Figure is copy of a representation of the comet on tapestry, made by the wife of William the Con-
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Round the World Afoot.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 I was returning next morning from an easy view of the picturesque bridges and the ancient Colosseum of Verona across the Piazza when I fell upon bowling mob at the massive gateway of the city hall. Joining the throng I soon gained an inner courtyard, to find what seemed to be half the population of Verona quarrel ling, pushing and scratching in a struggle to reach the gate of large wicket that shut off one end of the square Behind it, just visible above the Intervening sea of heads, appeared the top of some strange instrument and the caps of a squad of police officers. l inquired the cause of the squabble of an excited neighbor. He glowered at me and howled something in reply, the only intelligible word of which was "pane" (bread). I turned to my movement to shove me aside and crowd into my place, vociferating at the same time. "Panew I tried to oust the usurper. He jabbed me viciousy in the ribs with his elbows and again roared, "Pane!' In fact, everywhere above the howl and blare of the multitude, amid the believing of a thousand voices, one word rang out clear and sharp-"Panei panel panel" Plainly there was something doing in the "panes line. Sad experiences of the day before and the anticipation of the long miles of highway before me had aroused my interest in that commodity. l dved into the human whirlpool and set out to battle my way to the vortex.
 Almost before I had time to study the intricate workings of the system the press of humanity behind sent me spin ming through the gate. Two pounds I shouted. as l swept by the scales en route for the book. Just in front of me a gaunt creature paused and gave his res idence as Florence. "No bread for youp roared every officer within hearing-po- licemen, sergeants and clerks-in a rous- ing chorus. "Only bread for .Veronesei Get out of herer' and impeled by two official boots the stranger stood not on the order of his going. That F'lorentine was a godsend to me In my innocence I had opened my mouth to shout, "Amer- icanow to his self-complacency behind the volume and had that fateful word once escaped me I should have gone paneless through the long hours of long day.
 "Residenza?" shouted the registrar, as I entered his field of vision.
 Verona, signore."
 "Professione?"
 "Calzolajo, signore."
 Street and number?"
 I remembered the name. of one street and tackled on number haphazard.
 "Bene, Va! An official hand pushed me unceremoniously toward the teller. I dropped ten sold gathered up my bread and departed by the farther wicket gate down flagstone alley.
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Ten Dollars Fine.

Will Payne in Success Magazine.
 A~corner, as a matter of fact, is always a hold-up. It aims to catch the trade at a strateglcal disadvantage and make 1t pay a ransom. The principle that the corr nsr must not be too greedy-or too enthu- slastic in preserving the precious wheat by cracking up the price-has often been recognized. The law itself recognizes the rather larcenous nature of corners. For a good many years the criminal code of H. linois has contained highly humorous provision that whoever corners the mar ket for grain, or attempts to do so, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than 5000, or confined in the county jail not exceeding one year. or both.'
 Nobody, however, attempted to have MT. Hutchinson or Messrs. Armour and Kershaw fined $10 for cornering wheat. Perhaps the severity of the punishment daunted them, That humorous clause still remains in the Illinois code, although probably, few people are aware of it.
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measures that any alterations in their di- rections can be detected even after we have continued our journey for years.
 The Planets.
 Though there are three planets which are now evening Stars, there is only one of these which during the month is at all conspicuous. This Is the magnificent Jul piter, which shines out near the center of the constellation Leo. just above the star at R. Fig. 1. This planet requires F years 60 complete the circuit of the heavens fin its slow. eastward journey among the stars. For many weeks it has been moving westward. but on May l. at z D. m., 1t becomes stationary and then begins to move eastward again. Though it's motion is so slow the observer can readily detect it by noticing the position of the planet in reference to the star at on a few different evenings.
 The planet Venus. which passed to the east of the sun on April 2S, is as yet moving upward in the evening sky so slowly that even by the end of the month 1t sets only about 40 minutes after sun set On the first of the month the suns position among the stars is at A, Fig. 2, and that of Venus is at c; on May S1 the sun will have reached B and the planet will still be close to tho sun at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
Reading in Proportion.

Tomorrow you may have something to eat" promised the doctor to the patient, who was now convalescing and correspondingly hungry.
 The patient realized that there would be a restraint to his appetite yet he hoped for modest. steaming meal.
 Here is your dinner" said the nurse next day, as she gave the patient 0 spoonful of tapioca pudding, 'and the doctor emphasizes that everything else you do must be in the same proportion"
 Two hours later the nurse heard frantic call from the bed chamber
 Nurse" brsathed the man, heavily, "I want to do some reading; bring me a postage stamp
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uuerer at the time of tine Norman in- vasion in 1066. Ever since its capture. more than aOO0 years ago, the comet has pursued u closed path about the sun, drawing near to the earth at the interval of every 75 years. It has always been q bright and striking object, sometimes stretching nearly half way across the sky and sometimes being bright enough to be seen in full daylight. It is very probable that on its present reappearance it will exceed in brilliance any of the comets which have been seen since the great comet of the year 1881, and 1t will conse-' ouently attract the attention of every ob- server.
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As summer approaches the brilliant win ter stars rapidly withdraw from the even- ing sky. Already the two brightest groups of all Taurus and Orion, have disappeared. and during this month the great Leo begins his downward course across the western heavens. The mid summer star Spiea, the beautiful bluish sun which marks the spike of wheat held in the hand of the Virgin, has nearly reached the meridian, while in the south- east the claws of the Scorpion are well above the ground. and soon this figure, the most striking of all the summer groups, will have risen entirely from the horizon.
 The entire winter branch of the Milky
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Squandering Ability.

orison Swett Marden in Success Maga-
 zine.
 Doing the lower when the higher is possible constitutes one of the greatest tragedies of human life
 The sauandering of money seems a wicked thing when we think of the good that might be done with it; but what about the wicked waste of ability, the de- liberate throwing away of 50, 75 perhaps 90 per cent of ones success possibility just because he never trained himself to use it. to grasp it with such vigor and power that he can fling his life into his career with it's maximum effectiveness?
 Most people take hold of life with the tips of their fingers. They never get nold of the life proposition with that grip and tenacity of purpose and vigor of deter imitation which does things worth while. They just hang on the outskirts of things, playing upon the surface of their pos abilities without ever getting down into the marrow of their being, where efficien- cy and power dwell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-03
A New Lanuuaqe.

From SUCCESS Maga2ine
 One day while George Ade was travelling in the Orient, he came upon fellow pas senger in heated discussion with an old Arab. The lady, a school teacher from Indiana, complained to MT. Ade that after studying Arabic for years in preparation for this trip, she could not understand a word that the natives said.
 Never mind.'' said Ade, consollngly. Can't you see that he hasn't tooth in his head? He's talking gum Arabic
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The Muck-Raker.

''Muck-ralter,' Gays writer In Success Magazine appears to have become in some quarters term of abuse. i never heard that the householder who took the deac rat out of his wsll even though he mad to do some hammering and knocking anu tearing down to get at 1t, was considered any nastier person than the one who left 1t in there because the smell offended his ia stidious nose. The smell would seem to me a good reason for extracting the rat before decomposition had gone too
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off the $1S3 and besides would take no ac- tion in insisting on criminal proceedings. At first they swore they never would ac- cede to the proposition, but they did and paid into Stewards hands the full amount demanded It was only necessary to add that Bill was fair about it; he divided with his client and gave the defendants immunity
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 Way lies along the ground in the west, Figure The motion of the sun and Venus during May and the position of Mercury on May 20. and in the east the summer branch is just appearing, so that now for few weeks both branches can be seen at one time. On a clear night this pathway of stars may be seen to extend around the entire heavens from the southeast through the north to the southwest.
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D. After this date. however, they will begin to separate much more rapidly and the planet will soon become a beautiful and conspicuous feature of the evening sky.
 For a few evenings before and after
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Ills Work Cut Out.

Trom the Yonkers Statesman. Bacon-Dont know what he's going to do with that boy of his.
 Egbert-Why?
 Bacon-He's so slow.
 Egbert-Perhaps he'll mako . chess player of him.
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 THE HEAVENS IN MAY

 PROFESSOR University Pennsylvania Searching for Hays Viewing Swiftly
 Planet Mercury
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UNION STATION
ONIOIV Q IT H ION Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Birmingham Mineral Railroad.

Arrive from Depart to- Brunswick ..12 20 pm Brunswick .. 40 pm
 Trains marked thus Q run daily except Sunday.
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swiftly moving little planet Mercury. At this date the planet will have reached it's greatest distance east of the sun; it
 will then be at the point E, Fig. 2, and
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COTTON MERCHANTS.

Hanover Square, New York. MEMBERS-New York Cotton Ex- change, New York Coffee Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, Associate Members Liverpool Cotton Association.
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Illustration Aided Book.

His illustrations added not little to the interest of the book published on the Ru- wenzori, and were one of the chief at fractions of the account given by Douglas Freshfield of his explorations round Kun chinjinga. Cav. Filippo de Filippi also was a companion of the duke on his polar exploration, and, though he could not accompany him to Ruwenzori, wrote the admirable history of that expedition, which has since been published.
 Signor Botta goes as assistant photog- rapher to Sella; he, too, was a mem- Der of the earlier expeditions to Alaska and Ruwenzori, and has had moreover some mountaineering experience in the Caucasus and the Himalayas.
 Besides Sella and Botta, four of the seven guides have had Himalayan ex- perience. Joseph Petigax, who accom- panied the Duke on his former expedi- tions, was for some time with pr. Bulloch Workman in his expedition in 1903 In Baltistan Alexis and Henri Brocherel were with the expedition of Messrs. Long staff, Mumm and Brace to the Nanda Devi group In 1907, and G. Savoie was with the two Swedish mountaineers who established Himalayan record of climb ing Kabru, 24,000 feet in Sikkim.
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will not set until an hour after sunset. It may be seen shining out in the twilight glow almost exactly above the point of
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President Taft indorses Ben nett's lecture on Panama. Hear it at Jefferson Monday night.
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ABRUzz'S QUEST
 IS GOODWIN AUSTEN Expects to Scale Mountain 20,-
 250 Feet High PARTY IS WELL EQUIPPED Tho Duke Is at or Near Bombay, Which Is the Starting Point of
 the Expedition Into HimaIayas.

Rome, May 2.-The Duke of the Abruz- z Is either at or near Bombay. which city is to be the starting point of his expedition to the Himalayas.
 A considerable and unnecessary amount of mystery has been thrown around the plans of the ducal explorer, who has been romantically supposed to be seeking relief from his love misadventures by braving the dangers of the Indian glaciers, but the following details can be considered authentic:
 The party which accompanies the Duke of the Abruzzi consists of the Marchese Negretto, Cav. Vittorio Sella, Cav. Flip DO de Filippi. Signor Botta and seven guides from Courmayeur The Marchese Negrotto Is the dukes flag lieutenant in the Italian navy. Cav Sella accom- panied the duke on his former expeditions at Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, and to Ruwenzori; his skill as photographer Is we'll known.