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The Prescott daily news., 1910-07-23
Her "FooIest" Friend

When Mrs. Lysander John Appleton is in trouble she sends for her foolest friend. And after she has told of her troubles and sighted holes in her straight-front corset, and soaked three or four handkerchiefs, the foolest friend makes number of fool sug- gestions, not one of which is practical or of any use, after which Mrs. Apple ton, having sighed and wept to the limit, cheers up. You are so help full she says to the foolest friend, and then looks around in her cupboard to give the foolest friend something to eat.-Atchison Globe.
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CHAPTER X.-Continued.

He found Eunice in the old parlor, now confined to the house, and only ventured out on very fine days. The girl was bending over him, arranging his pillows, as Stennis was announced. With little cry of astonishment she strengthened up at the sight of him, and after slight hand-clasp stood idly by while Wilf-once more, it seemed, the kindly, simple Wifi of old-sat down by the side of the sick man and strove to cheer him up.
 But something told Eunice it was not for this or for a merely friendly call that he had come.
 "Eunice,' he said at length rising and standing before her, T have brought you some wonderful news. There has been dreadful mistake, and for these three years past I have been occupying the place that is right fully yours"
 The girl stared at him with af- frighted, wide-open eyes.
 Don't be alarmed" said Wilfrid reassuringly. Its nothing to be afraid of. I only learned the truth an hour ago. and I wanted to be the first to tell you. It seems that you are the daughter of my Uncle Andrew we are first cousins, you see-whom he believed to be dead, and all his money belongs by right to you. It is what he would have wished-if he had known that he had a daughter he would never have thought of me, you know. So from this mo- ment l retire in your favor. The law yers will tell you all about it, and I shall instruct them to turn everything over to you. I believe that's all I came to say, Eunice. Good-by."
 He took her hand in farewell, which she yielded to him mechanically, and before she could detain him by look or word he was gone. She took one step in his direction, her arms out stretched in a gesture of great yearn- ing, uttered one heart-cry, Wifi" and then fell to the floor in a dead faint-something she never did in her He before, nor has since
 Then followed for few days a per feet whirl of excitement, for Mir. Car boy appeared upon the scene and verified in detail all that Wilfrid had sketched in outline. And when it came to considering the narrative dovetailed together so astutely by Roger Hews, old John Trevecca was able to add many little corroborative details which had lain dormant in his memory for years.
 So Eunice Trevecca found herself in all probability the richest sin,le woman in America. Her first thought was to give her stepfather the best of care and attendance, under which his health speedily mended, being of a constitution naturally hale and hearty.
 At first Eunice insisted that Wilfrid should share and share alike. Find ing this impracticable, she offered to settle certain definite sum upon him. But not a dollar would he accept, say ing that if she would forgive him the large sums he had disbursed during ulo idioc iShuiC ho "oulu De content.
 All these attempted negotiations were conducted by the lawyers; not once did the cousins meet, not a line passed between them
 II treated her too shabbily when 1 was well off" said Wilfrid to himself. '1 can't and won't go hanging and whining about for a chance bone now that our positions are reversed"
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A Difficult Feat.

The office boy was giving valuable hints to the newcomer, and ended with, An don't you have nothin' to do wid Ma'oney."
 "Wot's de matter wid him?" was the natural query
 Hes coward, dat's wot," was the emphatic reply He sneaked up on me yisterday and kicked me in the stomach when me back was turned"
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Respect.

Hiram" said Mrs. Corntossel, "it takes you twice as long to drive the pigs as it used to-
 T know 1t. You wouldn't expect me to speak harsh words to lot O crit. ters that's worth $1l apiece. would you?"
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CQeN9GHZ 6Y Ld

On her part Eunice was hurt and offended that her generous and kindly meant offers had been so steadily re- jected.
 Tt looks as if he wanted to put me in the wrong" she reflected, yet a second thought told her that such was not Wilfrid's way.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-07-23
Aluminium Paper.

Aluminium paper. cheaper sub stitute for tinfoil. is made by press ing the powdered metal into thin coating of resin on parchment-like ps per.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-07-23
How He Did If.

How have you managed to live so long without getting wrinkle in your face?"
 Well, I don't think I--"
 "Oh, that's 1t, eh? I suppose ona has to be born with the ability tc keep from thinking. g."-Chicago Record Herald
The Elbert County tribune., 1910-10-07
AsN by EDWARD [Do CLARK

Windham who did not thoroughly accept the In
depreciation were Colonels Dyer and Elderkin- In
few minutes the light of the torches showed an
immense concourse of toads or frogs. whichever
they were. bearing down the main street of the
town. croaking and "gluckng'' like myriad Of
night demons. II suddenly struck the people that
II Judgment day at hand. notwithstanding
the fact that Colonels Dyer and Elderkin seemed
to have been singled out by the visitors the day
of accounting according to the Bible all
embracing affair. and thereat all the windham
people started trembling violently.
There are living today a good many persons
who are direct descendants of the Colonel Elder
kin whom the batrachians called to judgment that
night In Chicago until recently there lived
Mrs Charlotte Perkins Norris. direct descend
ant of Colonel Ederkin. Mrs. Norris had heard
the story of the invasion of the village score of
times from the lips of her grandmother. who as
child was taken time after time to see the place
from which the night disturbers came. To the
days of their deaths Colones Dyer and Elderkin
called Frog Dyer and Frog Elderkin and
II local Connecticut authorities to be believed,
there has not been from that day to this
either a toad frog in the meadow and pond
from which started that midnight migration.
To get away. for & moment, from frogs and
toads. and in order to lead back to them again.
let 1t be said that out in Utah the gull is a care
fully protected bird. Olive Thorne Miller speaks
of them as great, beautiful. snowy creatures who
look strangely out of place far from the sea
shore" have been told that these gulls are
sacredy protected by the law and the people Of
the western state. and have also been told that
the early settlers the Mormons believed that the
Lord has sent the birds to his chosen people
1t is no wonder that 1t believed the gulls
were specially sent. Clouds of grasshoppers had
destroyed the crops In that early day in many
of the western territories They attacked Utah
by the million millions. Then it that the
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large "tanglelegged" grasshoppers. Master
toad took kindly to this species of food but
owing to to the nature of the insects legs and
their extreme length he found difficulty in
swallowing. In order to aid In the process. as
soon he would get firm grip on the grass
hopper he would look for stick stone by
means of pushing against which he could force
his prey down his throat Now in order to see
what the toad would dc II stone stick
were at hand, all OF those articles re-
moved from his vicinity and then he fed
another big grasshopper with great knotted
legs
Now it must be remembered that the pres
ent writer is not vouching for this toad story;
he is simply setting 1t down it has been
told by an observer, and IL II Is nature
fake" the blame must go elsewhere. The toad
finding he could not swallow the big grasshop-
per. looked about usual for a stone and.
finding none. he attempted to use the ground
as pusher. He unable to get the right
angle to secure sufficient force, and so as a
last and perfectly effective means, he stood
his head and without the least difficulty forced
his food down his throat
This toad unquestonably was a wonder.
One day. we told. he happened to find
angleworm of great length He took hold OF
one end and succeeded in swallowing about
an inch and half of the worm, which then
realizing Its danger apparently. wound the rest
OF its body boa-like around the neck of the
toad. This gave the leverage enough
to enable it to tug away at that part which the
toad already had swallowed. The result
that although by mighty effort the toad
could swallow about half inch. the worm.
when the relaxation came. succeeded in with
drawing three-quarters of an inch. The toad
saw his breakfast slipping away from him, but
his infinite wit came to his rescue. 1t is said
that he sat up like squirrel took mighty
swallow. and then before the worm could get
in Its withdrawing work. he pressed his fore
feet against his throat and held the swallowed
part of the breakfast in place; then the
story goes, by series of quick successive
swallowing and throat squeezing, the toad soon
had the worm in the dark interior where he
was needed for breakfast.
Toad migrations are not extraordinarily un-
common events. They have taken place in
many parts of the country. and once the toads
In travelling succeeded in stalling railroad
train on the Canadian Pacific line. The story
Of this runs to the effect that the wheels
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crushed the creatures and creased the rails
that progress was impossible for some time.
The passengers said that they could have
stood the situation more philosophically II the
blockaders had been frogs. for then the ques-
tion of the food supply would have been
settled for lot of hungry people. Frogs legs
make good eating
1t is not generally known. perhaps to the
layman that toads, like frogs, lay their eggs
in the water. Countless millions of eggs will
be deposited in some morass. They hatch out,
the young get big enough. and migrate in a
body to the dry land. sometimes going long
distances as an entity. These. 1t is said, are
the marching armies of toads which astonish
people and accounts of which are spread
broadcast over the earth.
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Strau Hats and Autos

"You might scarcely think" said Mr.. Mac
Blink, that there was anything in common be-
tween straw hats and automobiles. but by that
way of thinking you'd be surely forgetting
their cost of upkeep in which respect they are
strikingly alike.
They say 1t costs more to keep automo-
bile than 1t does to buy one; precisely the
same is true of the straw hat. You take my
own experience for an illustration.
EARLY In the season bought straw hat
for which paid So. / know place where you
can get very good straw hat for that money
and If 1t hadn't rained all summer I should
have been on the straw hat account under no
additional expense.
But 1t always does rain more or less,
Just 1t has done this summer and as is very
well known II a drop of rain gets on a straw
hat it is all up. Raindrops a straw hat
will accumulate dust. and then you have to
have the hat cleaned and that costs money; In
some places rs cents; in some Is.
Il find by reference to my books that I
have paid out this summer In straw hat ac-
count for upkeep only $3.50. which is good
deal. While the automobile man has been
spending his money for gasoline and things
/ have been blowing mine for hat cleaning, and
1t has cost me more to keep that hat going
than 1t cost me originally.
But in this find some slight satisfaction
In this respect at least find myself on the
same footing with the man who at the begin
ming of the season bought instead of a straw
hat automobile"
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guils appeared-birds never before seen in that
locality within the memory Of man. They came
In tremendous focks and devoured without
stopping the hosts of the enemy, and they
completely saved the crops from destruction
Now the guls follow the plains like chickens.
and in Utah at least, 1t is said that no one
has any desire to raise his hand against them.
What the gull to Salt Lake region the
toad was to one section of northwest Texas
county, some time ago. There but COM
paratively small area of the county under cul-
tivation, but the growing things were threat
ened with destruction by horde of Rocky
Mountain locusts; then there appeared to the
astonished gaze of the resident Texans
army of toads. before which in numbers the
great army of Xerxes was but as a score.
These dsmal-looking, warty-backed Hop-o-m my
thumbs came along on business bent They
said nothing and they ate grasshoppers. They
cleaned up utterly one entire flight of the
lures. And they quietly sat under the cab
bage leaves and beet tops to wait for more.
They didn't come The toads had saved the
crops. and 1t may be judged that if one wants
to be certain to get in quarrel he can get 1T
II he will go that section OF Texas and ma
lign toad.
Should anyone be inclined to doubt the In
sect-eating capabilities OF common everyday
American toad. let him listen to the evidence
OF an experimenter, who is at once a scientist
and clergyman, the one fact establishing his
accuracy and the other his veracity. This
theologue-naturalist the record shows
found toad In his garden and proceeded to
make a pet of 1t. He went to call on master
toad one morning about ten o'clock and with
out knowing how many insects already had
fallen before the toad's darting tongue, pro-
ceeded to feed him on plant pests. The toad
ate readily and greedily twenty-three large
squash bugs which were offered him. and then
looked up inquiringly for more.
The squash bug larder was depleted so the
n1< ~
or these hairy. repulsive creatures the toad
ate ninety-four. SO the story record goes, and
then he shut down to hop heavily of to a
shady corner to take that rest which It is
said aids animal digestion.
Now this same experimenter tells tales of
toads which might appear a bit overdrawn
were not the gentlemans cloth what 1t is He
took In his experiments with one toad some
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intenuon SO TO do. they have inauguratea yeri-
table reigns of terror
Years ago. in the little Puritan sa++,o,r.
OF Windham, Conn. out of which sprang as
many notable American families perbaps as
have come from any other colonial hamlet a
migration of toads led the people to believe
that the tocsin of the last day had been sound
ed. and they were all summoned, sinners and
sfnless, to answer at the bar of judgment Ira
dition says that the migration which brought
this fear upon the people was one of the frogs
Scientists OF today lean rather to the toad
theory, but 1t made little difference to the
frightened populace which species of batra
chian brother 1t was that brought horror into
their midst
Now it happened that there lived in Wind
ham two colonial coonels. big men and digni-
fed, by names Dyer and Elderkin 1t may do
harm at this late day to say that both these
military titled gentlemen were more fond of
good living, the story goes, than was per-
haps exactly consistent with the strictest Pur-
itan thoughts Some of the elders of the place.
1t is said, looked a bit askance at some of the
views of Colonels Dyer and Elderkin. There
were slaves in that day in Connecticut and
Windham held its share.
One peaceful night in May the windnam
families retired at their usual hour, not long
after candle light" At midnight they we're
wrapped in the profoundest slumber, but no
sleep however sound could Withstand the roar
that broke upon tnat peaceiul namlet IN the
watches of the night. There were blended the
noises of a million throats. 1t cultural,
harsh and horrible, and 1t came out of the
lefty blackness of midnight. The people of
Windham jumped from their beds panic strick
en- threw on what clothes they could, and
rushed outdoors. many bearing pine torches
which ate little light holes in the inky black
ness.
The slaves were prostrated with fear and
clung to the knees of their masters. The noise
ceased not for an instant. but the contrary
Increased with every moment. and then, to
the added horror of all. the noise found shape
tn words which quick-eared imaginative
woman interpreted into this. all but two of
the people accepting the Interpretation read
lily: Judgment day: Judgment day; Colonel
Dyer and Elderkin too. and catch a niger too"
1t is perhaps needless to say that the only
two people among the white inhabitants Of
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
New York Money.

New York-Money on call firm 2h
q3 per cent; ruling rate ~; closing
big IN; offered at 2M.
Time loans firm; 60 days. per
cent. and 80 days, 4@4A per cent:
six months. 4z@4ss.
Prime mercantile paper. 5h to 6
per cent.
Sterling exchange easy with actual
business in bankers bills at 4S3.4O@
483.60 for 60 days bills and at 48G.5o
for demand. Commercial bills, 1890
4831z.
Mexican dollars, 45c.
Government bonds steady. railroad
bonds firm.
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Metals.

New York. = Copper - Standard.
firm. Spot. September. October and
November, $12.10@12.20; December.
$12.12k @12.25. Lake Copper. $3.50
@12.75; electrolytic. $12.37hg12.625z.
casting. $12.12h
Tin-Weak. Spot and September.
s34.25@34.60.
Lead-Steady at s437h@450. New
York. and $4.2o@4.271z. East st.
Louis.
spelter-steady at s5.5O05.GO. New
York and $5.37H @5.42h. East St
Louis.
Iron-Locally iron was quiet and
barely steady. No. 1 foundry. North
ern. s15.75@16.25: No. 2. s1550@
1000; No. Southern and No. l South
ern soft, s15.75@16.25.
Bar Silyer-54c.
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Denent may come to the people of the United
States by the study of the habits of a particu-
lar animal that animal is studied forthwith
and studied carefully
In folk lore history and in the history of To-
cahties which hardly can be classed as folk
lore. the frog and the toad frequently have
been confused; sometimes stories have been
told of frog visitations and it has turned out
that the invading army composed of toads.
The reverse of the statement also has been
found to be true on several occasions.
Some years ago an army of track-hopping
tramp toads took possession of the gravel road
bed OF the Sioux City and Pacific railway, and
In unbroken column miles In length, as the
local story had 1t, the toads marched past the
town OF Blencoe, Iowa 1t is stated that there
were so many millions in this mighty army
that nothing like an accurate estimate of the
toads could be made The ground was. said
to be brown with the color of its visitants.
II there was such army of the batra-
chfans as 1t is said there 1t would be no
wonder If the residents of the infested district
might have feared that the toads would divert
their course from the railroad into the towns,
to repeat Pharaoh's plague of the frogs when
the rivers brought forth frogs abundantly
which went up into the houses, and into the
bed chambers, and even upon the beds, and
upon the people. and even into the ovens and
into the kneadng troughs."
Now the toad Is not nearly so handsome
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Hay.

Upland, per ton, s15.00@l6.00: sec
ond bottom. $500 a 400; timothy.
s15.00@16.00: alfalfa. s13.00@14.00:
straw. s4.00@5.00; South Park wire
grass, $17.O0@1s00. San Luis Valley
wire grass, $15.00@1G.00.
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Kansas City Produce.

Kansas City.-Butter Creamery.
Csc; firsts. Csc; seconds. 2sc; packing
stock, 22c.
Eggs-Extras. 2ec; firsts. 24c; sec
onds. tic.
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Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis.-W Wheat = September.
s1.o7; December, $1.o7h; May.
s111%. Cash. No hard. s1.09%.
No. l Northern. s1.09; No. 2 North
ern. s1.041aG1.07; No. 8 s1.02h01.05-
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Sheep.
Grain.
q Y TATIo N s

Wheat. choice milling, per 100 lbs,
s1.37. Rye. Colorado. bulk. per 100
lbs. $1.10. Nebraska oats. sacked,
s1.35; corn in sacks. s1,20; corn chop.
sacked. s1.21; bran. Colorado. per 100
lbs, $l.0O.
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NCLE SANS scientists have had
more than one good word to say
for the toad. Several govern
ment publications have been is
sued. am told. telling about the
toad and its good work. There
is no department In nature which
is overlooked by the scientists of
Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson's department II 1t is be-
lieved by the experts that any
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Live Poultry.
Butter.

IhBih 80
Creameries. ex. East. lib. 81 @32
Creameries, ex. Colo, lb. 81 @32
Creameries. End grade. lb. .2S @29
Process and renovated. ..27 Q28
Packing stock .... 21Z
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bOh5 90 10 Ills rug COuSiu.
He never could "a-wooing
go" like his green-coated
brother, despite the fact
that Shakespeare proclaims
that his toadship has a jew
ell in his head. Ugly and
venomous, the bard of
Avon writes the toad down.
and ugly and venomous to
the peoples mind in many
places he is to this day, al
though in reality he ranks
with the birds as one of
humanity's best friends. AS
a matter of fact, it is likely
that the brown-skinned ar
my which moved without
banners in military array
some years ago was on the
march to meet the great
army of Rocky Mountain 10.
Gusts which was moving
steadily forward in an on.
posite direction and in Gen
eral Sherman's words. For
aging literally upon the
, country"
Even though the toads
are SO harmless and help
full, they perhaps will never
get anyone to love them. 1t
must be admitted that an.
pearances are against them
The Iowa people who some
years ago were visited by
the toads had no reason to
arrogate to themselves any
particular distinction on ac-
count of the visitation, for
in scores of instances the
animals have appeared in
immense bodies, and In
some cases, without any
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Eggs.

Eggs. Denver candled, case 7.S0
Eggs, case count, case -. 7.10
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-09-08
ABOUT STATE AFFAIRS

Any particular pleasure derived by
the campaigners for. the state Repub.
lican ticket quoting prominent Dem
ocrat. recently a candidate, lead
ing Democratic editor and such 9TH
ers as may trip by the imagination
post OF the Justification department,
maintained by the public utilities tax
dogers and such other lawbreakers
as want special concessions, ought
not be refused For. in plain language
the satisfaction and pleasure 70 be
given Republicans this fall will all
happen prior 10 the November cleo
ton.
The defeat of the concocted ticket
for such was planned in room here
in Guthrie with prominent public ntil
ity howlers ready TO place the stamp
OF approval or disapproyal is going
to be so overwhelming il viii almost be
brutal The Cruce slogan OF prosper
ity and sunshine moves with tremen
dous fOrce-it appeals TO the progress
siye empire makers here In Oklahoma
and the slander-mil tactics of the
Republicans excite only dersion and
disgust. Their stories are circulated
back East by real estate agents fol
other points--in fact the Republican
state organization for three long years
has largely been one Of value only
10 those agents for emigrants away
from Oklahoma. II seems the whole
people who are progressive have BY
intuition decided 10 hand the croaking
negationists rebuke they will take
plenty OF time to remember. Marx
This prediction. no man now engaged
In the slander campaign of the Re
Apublicans will ever win on any state
Ticket in Oklahoma-our folks wan
men of action. not mere men who
strive TO profit by false and useless
tales OF others.