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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-06
AWFUL BURNING ITCH CURED
IN A DAY

"In the middle of the night Of March
30th l woke up with a burning Itch in
my two hands and felt as If could
pull them apart. In the morning the
itching had gone to my chest and dur
ing that day 1t spread all over my
body. I was red and raw from the top
of my head to the soles of my feet and
! was in continual agony from the
itching. I could neither lie down nor
sit up. happened to see about Cuti-
cura Remedies and l thought would
give them a trial. took a good bath
with the Cuticura Soap and used the
Cuticura Ointment. I put 1t on from
my head down to my feet and then
went to bed. On the first of April
felt like n new man. The itching was
almost gone. continued with the
Cuticura Soap and Cuitcura Ointment
and during that day the itching COM
pletely left me. Frank Gridley, 325
East 43rd Street. New York City. Apr.
27. 1909" Cuticura Remedies are sold
throughout the world: Potter Drug &
Chem. Corp. Sole Props. Boston. Mass.
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ARMY's NEW TELESCOPE.

After years Of patient experimenting Dana Dud-
ley of Wakefield Mass. has just had the satsfac-
by the department of the United States The
invention is simple in its construction. yet 1t is
said. may revolutionize modern warfare. 1t con-
sists of rejecting lenses arranged at angles in
a tube that persons or objects above or below and
on all sides may be viewed rom place Of conceal
ment. The device rs constructed for use in war
fare is arranged So that even disappearing guns
or guns used in trenches and fired from any point
invisible from the exterior the operator may ascer
tain the location Of the enemy. target or other OBJ
jective point without exposing himself.-Phadel-
nhia Record.
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IL q bed. The pole should be jointed and that II
the concession to civilization. because you
might have to camp where you could not get the
right pole and because you cannot well carry q
fulllength tent pole in bag. And all your outfit
should be carried In a bag bundle. without a
single box or hard package bigger than your fry
ingpan and kettle. Tho Indians would not have
dragged their teepee poles around with them had
they been able to get fresh ones at every camp.
Tent pins you can get In metal: but while they
compact they are too heavy for carriage. SO
these you must cut afresh.
In size your peaked top tent need be only
about seven feet square to accommodate two or
three persons. The fly will make a storeroom.
necessary. These canvases will make into
packs to hold loose articles. in case your canvas
pack bags get overcrowded. or course you can
camp without any tent at all. II you like. The
writer and a friend spent a night in the Vel
lowstone park in winter. when the thermometer
was 26 degrees below zero and we had no tent.
only a strip of light canvas. We dug a hole In
six feet Of snow and kept fire going all night.
That sort Of thing is cold work. though a tent
would not have helped US much. The trapper.
who sometimes covers hundred miles on his
line of traps has Ieantos or log novels with open
fronts SO that he can keep a fire going In case
he has not a cabin tent with a stove. Even
a good log fire does not offer complete comfort
in case Of rain. Rainy weather is far worse than
cold weather and snow In camp and against rain
you must have some sort Of roof Bark and
boughs sound WELL but are hard to get into
practical roofing shape.
Your bed ought to be good. for II you do not
sleep comfortably You cannot enjoy yourself or
do your work good bough bed is difficult and
slow to make. although most writer's pirate about
II learnedly. Again. hay or straw may be impos-
sible to secure. What then? An air mattress?
Certainly not for any oldtmer A good pair Of
real wool blankets. weighing in the neighborhood
of II or ~ pounds. heavy cotton comforter and
a long strip OF wide canvas to roll It all up In
tight and snug and dry. and you have cow
punchers bed. the best outdoor bed ever yet in
vented and good for any weather.
Observe especially that this canvas which
folds in over your folded bedclothes. keeps out
the dust and the rain. Your bed should be clean
and IL must be dry. Roll 1t tight and compact
and tie II snugly when you move camp.
Your camp site should never in fly time be
too near the water Get up on the bluff where
the wind will strike you and you will be much
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-06
Bonaparte's Resolve.

Napoleon entered the clubhouse
with a frown a foot deep on his fore
head. and a temper not fit for publica-
tion.
Mile tonnerres!" he calculated. IF
I ever play golf with Baron Munchau-
sen again may l end my days ON the
island of St. Helena"
Whats the matter with Munich.
Bony?" asked Caesar, looking up from
his asbestos copy of the Congressional
Record.
You get nothing but bad lies all
over the links" retorted the emperor.
-Lippincott's.
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Gentlemen Two.

Two street cleaning department
men were having an alteration as
they were driving their cars side by
side along upper broadway the other
afternoon. One was red-faced and
bulbous-nosed. the typical "rummy."
The other was an adder-headed negro.
Both looked utterly disreputable.
Get out O my way" yelled the red
faced man. Don't cher know enough
to get outer der way when you see n
gentleman"
I'm more OF a gem'man than you.
you big rum" retorted the negro.
"Youall drives a garbage cart. an I
only picks up ashes. York
Press.
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campers hundreds and thousands Of women who
do not like bugs and smoky fires and other incon-
mentary form. And because the women have
gone in for camp life in considerable numbers
and have. of course. taken the children to the
camp environment It has come about that the
average permanent camp. unlike the makeshift
affairs. is occupied for weeks or more likely
months at a time-and. where circumstances per-
init. continuously from June to October.
The very term permanent camp implies some
thing much more costly and pretentious than the
tent tepee of the oldtime camper. but while
this is usually the case It is not necessarily So
There are canvas abodes which rank as perma
nent camps. but they usually take the form OF
tent houses" rather than the hastily pitched
tent Of the nomad tent house. 1t may be ex
planned. has the canvas roof and walls stretched
an inexpensive wooden framework which gives
q stability that is welcome when high winds pre-
vail. Likewise does the tent house have floor
in the form of a wooden platform suhciently eie
waited from the ground to dodge dampness ana
most likely It has facilities for leading through
the canvas roof a stovepipe which constitutes the
tangible evidence Of cooking equipment OF sup
posedly more dependable character than the open
campfire In the less expensive grades OF tne
permanent camp, too. are bark houses that can
be constructed quickly and at a very low cost yet
will remain weather tight for months with no
attention.
Ascending the scale Of expenditures. we come
to the cabins. the shngle houses and the stone
lodges that have become SO popular as rusu'
homes where the camp" Is designed as farniy
abode for months at a time. And from these
camps. which may cost only a few hundred dol
lars apiece at most few thousand. we ad-
to those marves Of the modern camping
world-the log cabins OF our mutimiliionaiies.
wherein may be found all the luxuries from tiled
baths to electric lights. These present-day We
hicles Of the rich for "roughng it, in approved
fashion are really entitled to rank as marvels OF
Yankee achievement. Some OF them such as
the camps" OF Alfred Vanderbilt and J. Pierpont
Morgan. are buried deep in the heart OF the Adj
rondack wilderness-mies from the nearest rail-
road station crossroads store. and yet mousse
parties OF from 20 to 80 guests are entertained
at these retreats with all the perfection OF detail
to menus and service that could reasonably be
Axpected in Newport villa.
For a temporary camp a single'poie tent WIN
Hy is the most popular. 1t has many aa'ah'
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6Or HurIER5 M CAMP

wealthy foIK VINO nave long beeh 9ccus-
toned to the acme Of luxury in their daily life
are now most enthusiastic about "roughing It" for
an interval every year. Perhaps the secret OF
the conversion Of these lovers OF their own COM
fort to the camping fad is found in the fact that
every attribute of luxurious life is now found IN
only slightly modified form in the unconventional
life of the realm OF woods and waters.
There could be greater mistake on the
part of the uninitiated than to suppose that
camping out" in this twentieth century neces
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-06
A Witty Bishop.

"The late Bishop Foss." said Phil
adelphia physician. 'once visited me
for some trifiing ailment.
"'Do you. sir said TO him. In the
course Of my examination. talk in
your sleep?'
NO. SIR he answered. I talk In
other peoples. Aren't you aware that
I am a divine?"
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His Last,

Poets Wife-My husband read this
poem at n public celebration before
thousands of people. Alas! 1t was tho
last poem he ever wrote.
Publisher see. Did they lynch him
or shoot him?-Leslie's Weekly.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-06

tages. chief of which
are lightness and the
fact that 1t is easily set
up. II should have a
floor cloth Of good can
vas, to be tied in at
the corners.
The bed Of browse
or straw can be made
under this floor cloth.
SO that the whole tent
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camping in the winter time you may find 1t better
to suspend your boiling kettles over the flame by
means Of long sticks thrust into the ground or
at the other end. Such a stick Is called by
the Canadian Indians chiplok-Quorgan. In other
places It is known as a crow" After your camp
is done you must be careful to throw this stick
down and not leave 1t standing. else you will have
bad luck.
In the eastern section Of the country the Adj.
rondacks and to a lesser extent the Catskill noun
tains constitute the supreme paradise Of the camp
ers, although there is much camping along the st
Lawrence river. In the lake district Of New Hamp-
shire and in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the
middle states the shores OF the Great Lakes AFFORD
one farfung camp ground and one Of the most
popular camping meccas in the entire world II
embraced in the beautiful lake regions Of Michi-
gan. Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the smaller
sheets of water seem enable closer acqualnt-
ance with nature In her most al!uring form. Colo
RADIO has become a great camp ground for summer
tourists Of late years and the Pacific coast there
Is no end of camping. All sorts of settings are
available for the west coast campers-woodland.
seashore and mountains. not forgetting that pictur
esque tent city" which rises every summer the
alluring Coronado beach. near San Diego. Cal.
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IN A FIX.

THAT clerk OF mine is going to ask me for my
daughter. lie amt earning enough to marry on.
"Well?"
But II ! bring up that objection he'll strike me
for a salary raise "-LouisviIle CourerJournal
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His Finish.

He struck n fast gait when he first
went into politics"
And now"
Now he Is on the fence"
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SUflly means tne ratneT pTlIultiSc "a
istence we have always been wont to
associate with the nomadic expedi-
tions of hunters and fishermen. That
form Of life in the open Is still in
vogue among a steadily growing num-
ber OF devotees and they are. one
and all. ready to declare that It Is tho
only form Of camping worth while.
All the same these sportsmen-camp-
ers who dwell for the most part in
temporary habitations of canvas.
brush or bark. are hopelessly in the
minority these days in comparison
with the new-fangled campers who
dwell in what are known as ''perma-
nent camps"
These permanent camps are in
many instances set down in surround
ings Just as rustic and rugged rs
could be found for the temporary shell
tiers. but they are designed for longer
continuous occupancy. 1t is the per-
manent camp which has been respon-
sible for enrolling in the category of
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An lmprovemeI

How did you enjoy your vaca-
tom"
Fine, II made n new man OF me-"
Il congratulate your wife"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-06

Delicately formed and gently reared, women
will find. in all the seasons of their lives, as
maidens. wives or mothers, that the one simple,
wholesome remedy which acts gently and
pleasantly and naturally. and which may be
used with truly beneficial effects, under any
conditions. when the system needs a laxative.
is-Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA. It is
we'll known to be simple combination of the
laxative and carminative principles of plants
with pleasant aromatic liquids, which are
agreeable and refreshing to the taste and
acceptable to the system when its gentle
cleansing is desired.
Only those who buy the genuine Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA can hope to get its
beneficial effects, and as guarantee of the
excellence of the remedy. the full name of the
California Fig Syrup Co.'s printed
on the front of every package, and without it
any preparation offered as Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA is fraudulent and should be
declined. To those who know the quality of
this excellent laxative. the offer of any substi-
tute. when Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna
is called for. is always resented by transfer
of patronage to some first-class drug establish
ment, where they do not recommend. nor sell
false brands, nor imitation remedies. The genu-
inc article may be bought of all reliable drug
gsts everywhere; one size only. Regular
price SO cents per bottle. Get a bottle today
to have in the house when needed. !:
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CR/ze m me
HDRy0H0l(H mn DERrES5

pretty much all Of the United States
you will not require one. You do not
need lot OF fancy camp dishes. but
require at least one fryingpan. better
two. a sheet-iron coffee pot. rive'ed.
and some sort Of cooking oven-a
Dutch oven OF cast iron. II your trans
portation admits It. Above all. you
should remember that your campfire
is not your cooking fire and that you
do not cook on the flames but on the
Goals. You bake with hot ashes
rather than with Goals. because much
camp cooking Is burned when hur-
ried. or course In snowshoeing and
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more free from mo-
squitoes. NJ a n y
campers try to get
into the shade OF
the trees and some
times make a mis-
take in doing so.
On the building
and conduct Of your
fire depends your
comfort in camp.
Never use a camp
stove II 1t can be
avoided. In much
Of coastwise Alaska,
where the fuel Is
often largely COM
posed of crooked
porous alders. you
may need n Yukon
camp stove. In
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Constipation causes many serious diseases. Il
Is thoroughly cured by doctor licrcrs Plea
Pellets. One u laxative, three for cathaTtic.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-06

Always keep imagination under con-
troll.
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Turlock Irrigation District

The LAND Of SUNSHINE and OPPOR-
TUNITIES. Healthful Climate. Al land:
ABUNDANT WATER at low rate:
Peaches Apricots, Figs, Olives. Sweet
Potatoes. Alfalfa and Dairying pay bet
ter than $1,000 per acre yearly. wrtto
for illustrated booklet
DEPT. 3, IURlocx BOARD OF Trade. Issssek. csl
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} FORM OF American
summer vacation life
has shown greater ex-
pansion and develop
ment during recent
years than camping.
The appeal Of this meth.
cd of getting back to
nature seems to be we'll
nigh universal. 1t as
suredly has no geo.
graphical limits and It
Is not restricted to any
class Of society. In
as 1t may seem. many
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
BOOK DEALS WITH
OPEN AIR SCHOOLS
First Was Established for Chill
dren in Germany

At Charlottenburg In Germany there
was started in 1904 an "open-air-recov-
cry school" for the purpose of curing
children physically below normal, and
at the same time providing an educa
ton for them that they might not fall
behind their healthier companions. The
school was held almost wholly out of
doors, and the treatment consisted in
IAN outdoor life, plenty of good food,
strict cleanliness, suitable clothing and
school work modified in kind and re-
duced in quantity" So successful did
the experiment prove that now many
other schools modelled after this parent
school in Charlottenburg have been
started not only in Germany, but also
in England and the United States. In
this country open-air schools now eX
list in Providence, Boston, New York,
Chicago, Hartford and Rochester, and
in all cases the records show most
satisfactory results. The outdoor
schools in America are designed espe
cially for curing children with tuber-
culosis, while the ones abroad have a
wider scope, receiving children who
are anaemic or suffering from slight
pulmonary, heart or scrofulous trou-
bles. From to > per cent of the en-
tire membership of the average city
school are in need of such treatment" +"
says DR.. Leonard p. Ayres, Phi. D.,
who has just written a very interesting
discussion of open-air schools in a
book bearing this title and published
by Doubleday. Page & Co. 1t was Dr.
Ayres who organized the first open-air
school under the American flag.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
WANTS A SENTIMENTAL
BLONDE WITH MILLION
BreSIau. Doctor of Laws Writes
to New York for a
Bride

NEW YORK, July 30.-If there is
blonde, healthy, Christian, slender, me-
dium weight young woman Of % years
and 100000 marks in New York who
wants husband, she can have him.
Let her go right down to Patrick j.
Scully, city clerk ant city Cupid, at
the city hall, and he will show her
the following letter:
II would thank you and kindly ask
If you are in a position to select for
me a nice young lady to marry, with
the following qualifications:
christian; healthy; sentimental; not
over 2S years old; possibly blonde;
not very large (medium weight; slen-
der; wealth not under 100000 marks.
II guarantee that it will be a hap
by marriage. 1 am as follows:
Doctor of law, referee of important
cases, "a years old, very sentimental,
lovable, Protestant, dark blonde,
healthy and intelligent.
Kindly let me know whether there
are any charges for this service.
Kindly send the picture to me should
you not be able to procure for me
desirable party BY all means use dis
cretion. Hoping that you will let me
know at once of your selection,
would request you to send the letter
to Breslau, Postlegerkarte 1. Yours
very respectfully,
"Dr. jur Rich Raash-Sternberg."
Inclosed in the letter was a picture
post card of a fairly heavily built
young man with an ample mustache.
The letter was addressed to "Mr.
Boole, manager of marriages, New
York u. S. Amerika" But the post
men knew the real Cupid and they
handed the note to Mr.. SCully. He
will be at his office from 10 to each
day to receive applications.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
TIED-IN GARMENT
HOBBIES FAT ONE
PortIy Dame on Fifth Avenue
Fights NeW-Fangled Skirt
to a Finish

NEW YORK, July 30.-Lady Hobble
came into peril yesterday noon in
Fifth avenue and would have been
grievously wrecked had not she been
saved from a tied-in skirt by a gallant
knight. Wherefore there is some evil
dence that chivalry is not dead.
Automobiles course up and down the
avenue and at Forty-second street
they are checked every two or three
minutes by the traffic police, who
make channel through which pedes-
trians may cross from one curb to the
other and then the tide of vehicles
closes again at a signal.
woman inclined to be portly was
proceeding under the reefed skirts in
the temporarily open space when the
shrill whistle meaning to close up the
lane was heard.
She started to run, but her gait was
so shortened by the tightness of the
skirt in gaskets below her knees that
she made scarcely any progress and
finally tripped and fell.
Ever been in a sack race? Ever rise
and then tumble all over yourself and
then look around helplessly and wait
for the umpire to call "Time!'? Well,
a hobble skirt is just like a sack, only
worse.
heel in the lower cornice of the skirt
and there was a sound of devastation.
She squirmed and kicked, and the
more she tried to get up the more she
sat down. Once in a while her gray
suedes like mice in panic, peeped out
and then ran in again.
And suppose she had been able to
get on her feet? She was mathemat-
ically foredoomed, for one who is in a
hobble skirt can only step so far. All
of which makes no difference at all, for
she could not rise from the esplanade.
So it was when a well known young
civil engineer of this city recognized
with practiced eye that even if she
had a flying start she could not nego-
tiate the other side in a skirt four feet
in circumference with only eight inches
radius. All of which he determined
by multiplying the radius of gray
suede by the cosine of cObweb stock
ings A great red taXicab was coming
at full tilt. If the hobbled lady rolled
back she would be overwhelmed; if
she tumbled forward she would be
struck in just twenty-five of her steps
from the western curb.
All this was calculated more rapidly
than can be told. The engineer sprang
forward, seized the woman about the
waist and carried her to the opposite
sidewalk as she kicked fatuously from
the periphery of the bound in skirt as
if trying to mark time. Her Partisan
tophamper waved backward and for
ward on her shapely head. The long
strides of the athlete had gained the
day. She was placed, still distressed
but grateful, in place of safety, and
she thanked her rescuer and said she
never, never would, wear a hobble
again.
"All these things" she said, "are in
vented by men modistes anyway, and
I am resolved after this to submit no
more to the trammels of our SEX"
1T would be a good thing" sug-
gested the hero deferentially, "to have
those angle irons down near the foot
Of the column pried off. Seems to me
that the stress is too great"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
FOUR BALALAIHAS ARE At
LARGE IN UNITED STATES
Only Ones in Captivity Imported
from Russia to Be Played
in Orchestra

NEW YORK, July 3O.--Did you ever
hear balalaika?
If you didn't, you probably never
will, for the only four balalaika play
ers in captivity have escaped from
their trainer and are lost.
These four were a desirable part of
a Russian court orchestra that has
been touring the country, their last
engagement being in ST. Joseph, Mo.
1t was a case of "show me" at their
last performance, and the twidders
did SO we'll that their manager really
believes that they were kidnapped fer
some rival show.
When Alfred Feltman-all Coney ISL
and visitors know Feltman-was in
Russia last winter he heard the or
chestra of seventeen pieces play weird
stuff. The ba-la-la-ika quarter was
strong feature. He at once engaged
the musicians for his Coney Island re-
sort for this season. Then he "farmed
them OUT to another manager until
the season at the shore should open.
Hurry calls were sent for the orches-
ira last week to st. Joseph, and all
started. None could speak English
There was no trace of where the ba-
lalika players disappeared. Really
there is such an instrument as lala-
baikus-it's something like a mando-
lin, banjo and guitar rolled into one,
and then some more. The vanished
musicians took their kilalabaluses
with them.
So Mr. Feltman is advertising for
them and their alikakabings. Besides
wishing to give the natives treat by
hearing the alabalas played in a series
of four, he has up bond of $500 each
for the four men with the federal au-
thorities for their return to Russia.
That's $4,000 lost if he doesn't corral
them to send them back next fall. The
Russian consul has been notified.