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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-12-02
A CLEVER RusE.
The Proposal Seemed Innocent, but Il
Yielded Results,

Some years ago a wealthy mer-
chant in Paris who did an extensive
business with Japan was informed
that prominent firm in Yokohama
had failed, but the name of the firm
he could not learn, though he was
most anxious to ascertain whether
it was the one with which he did
most business in that city.
He could have learned the truth
by cabling, but instead he went to
the man, we'll known banker, who
had received the news, and request
ed him to reveal the name of the
firm to him.
"That's very delicate thing to
do replied the banker, "for the
news is not official, and if l gave
you the name | might incur some
responsibility"
The merchant argued, but in
vain, and finally he made a propo-
sition. 81 will give you," he said,
ga list of ten firms in Yokohama,
and l will ask You to look through
it and then to tell me without men,
tioning any name whether or not
shc name of the firm which has
failed appears in it. Surely you
will do that for mc?"
eyes" said the banker, "for if
do not mention any name 1 cannot
be held responsible in any way"
The list was made. The banker
looked through it and as he hand.
cd it back to the merchant said
'The name of the firm which has
failed is there"
''rhcn I've lost heavily" replied
the merchant, 'sfor that is the firm
with which l did business" show.
ing him a name on the list.
"But how do you know that is
the firm which has failed?" asket
the banker in surprise.
Every easily" replied the mer
chant. "Of the ton names on tho
list only one is genuine-that of thu
firm with which did business. AL
the others are fictitious.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-12-02
The Exploit That Counted.

Two Staten Island youngsters
came home sopping wet.
1--WE jumped in after lady,
they said.
Then one of the pair showed his
mother 4 five dollar bill that the
woman had given him.
"Shc gimme that" said he. "bc-
cause saved her pocketbook''
"And didn't she give you any
thing?' said their mother to the
other boy. 81 thought you helped. %
81 did," said he, "but l didn't
save anything but the lady," New
York Press.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-12-02
How Sc. Bird. oueneh Their Thirst.

The means by which sea birds
qucnch their thirst when far out at
sea is described by an old skipper,
who tells how he has seen birds at
sea. far from any land that could
furnish them water, lowering
around and under storm cloud,
gathering like ducks on a hot day
at pond and drinking in the drops
Of rain as they fell. They will
smell rain squall hundred miles
distant or even farther off and scud
for it with almost inconceivable
swiftness.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-12-02
The Foam on Soda Water,

Foam is natural product, being
caused by the escape Of air or gas
from viscid liquid. In the case
of soda water it is the escape or the
carbon;c acil gas from the sweet
ened beverage that causes tie at
tractlve sparkling appearance, but
the swcctcncd N&ior alone would
give rise TO but a smal! quantity Of
foam, as the gas would too easily os-
cape. In order to prevent this some
mucilaeinous substance is usually
added to tic strap, which renders
the mass more viscous. 50 prevent
ing the gas from escaping and pro-
ducing the attractive head Of foam
SO familiar 70 all.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-12-02
A CURIOUS REPUBLIC.
Oddities Of tho State Of the Valleys Of
the Andorra,

Oddities Of the State Of the Valley. Of
the Andorra.
Wedged in like a debatable land
between France and Spain lies
quaint little state which calls itself
the "Republic of the Valleys of An
dora" and dates its foundation
from the year 7s2, when Charlie
magne gave its people charter of
independence as a reward for the
aid they had given him in his strug-
gle to drive out the Saraccns from
Barcelona and SEQ d'Urgcl. This
charter, one of their most precious
possessions, is still preserved in
curious iron armory with six locks
which stands in the house of par
lament at Andorra lie Villa, the
metropolis Of this miniature state.
From time to time during the
changcful history of Europe Charlie
magne's charter has been confirmed
by various monarchs. Even Napo-
loen, ruthless destroyer though he
was, spared this miniature republic
as "une curiosite publique." 1t GER
tainly is a public curiosity, patri-
archal and primitive to an almost
incredible degrce-a wonderful liv-
ing, breathing bit Of the antique
world, lying intact on the face Of
modern Europe. Andorra has no
written history, no written laws.
Everything is done according to ira
ditions handed down from genera
tion to generation, and the form Of
government and the manners and
customs Of the people are essential
]y the same today as they were
1900 years ago.
The fact Of the republics isolat-
ed position contributes as much as
anything to this curious state of af-
fairs. The Andorrans are almost
as conservative as the Chinese.
They mistrust foreigners and for
eign inventions and have a rooted
objection to such things as photo
graphic cameras, railways, telegraph
wires, telephones and other mo-
IDENTITIES, which, to their minds,
SAVIOR only of Sodom and Gomorrah
and that wicked world whose faroff
echoes occasionally reach their cars
and shock their scnsibilities. Ma
ture has provided them with i'm
prcgnable Notifications in the shape
of Pyrcncan masses that shut them
in completely and securely on every
hand, and they have no mind to al
low their peaceful harmony to be
disturbed. Let other nations quar-
rel and fight with each other if
they choose. Andorra has no am
billions.
She never has had any. The con-
fines of the country today arc just
exactly the same as they were in HE
year 7S9, neither more nor less.
She is very tenacious of her indie
ncndence, Of her antique traditions.
of her manners and customs, but
she is content to remain what she
has ever been, miniature state in
the midst Of modern Europe, man
aging her own little affairs as she
chooses and leaving her ncighbors
to do the same with theirs. 70 get
into or out Of Andorra on any side
you must cross an elevated noun
tain pass, and there is not a single
highway leading into the country
either from France or Spain. Tie
principal entrance from the French
side is the pass Of Soldrn, nearly
5000 feet above sea level. This is
the only one practicable for horses.
! The others arc mere mule tracks or
footpathS. and all of them arc
blocked during the snowy scasoll.--
Wide World Magazine.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-02-01

facturers, both American and foreign,
aud the results have just been pub
lished in Bulletin 121 of the Bureau
of Animal Industry. The striking
feature of the results is the great
variation in the strength Of these
antitoxins. 1t should be noted that
the antitoxin for use on human beings
is required by law to be of a certain
known strength, so that the physician
using it knows exactly what he is do
ing. But the veterinary who uses a
preparation Of unknown strength
often fails to save the animal treated.
The tests showed that the veterinary
tetanus antitoxins vary extravagantly
in their unit of strength, and some
are comparatively weak In antitoxic
potency" The results indicate the
need of for strict Government super
vision OF such preparations for the
benefit Of the veterinarian and the live
stock interests of the country.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-02-01
G.. V.GARRISON
ROBERT MAIN
Fl. a. SlMONDS.
Committee :
Testing Antitoxins.

In recent years the use of tuburcul-
in, serums, antitoxins, etc., has be-
come a feature in the treatment of
diseases both of men and domestic
animals. AS large number of such
preparations have appeared on the
market, some being of uncertain
strength, and others worthless, Con-
gress wisely authorized the Depart
ment of Agriculture to buy samples
i'll the market and test the various
preparations recommended for veteri-
nary use, and publish the results.
Among the antitoxins on the market
for veterinary use is that prepared for
use against tetanus, the disease com
monty spoken of as '1ockjaw. The
animals most commonly attacked are
horses and mules. The fact that many
unsatisfactory results have followed
the use of such antitoxins has led the
Department to test the preparations
put on the market by several manu-
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-02-01
Farmers Not Cause of High
Prices.

Washington d. T.. Jan. 3.-We
have already discovered that the farm
er is not getting the exorbitant profits
out of the beef he raises" said Sec
rotary Wilson in discussing the high
prices of food supplies today. 81 have
no doubt, 'he continued, "that the
same conditions prevail in most other
lines of farm products.
"The department of agriculture has
agents in every state and every county
and they have been ordered to report
on the cost of production and the
returns on sales on food products.
AS fast as We receive these figures we
will compare them with the prices the
same products bring in the cities
where they are consumed. We will
make the facts public.
ave intend to bring out the truth
irrespective of whom it hurts, or whom
it benefits. l am convinced that the
public is compelled to pay more for
nearly everything it eats than it
should.
''There is however. ample excuse
for some of tie increases in the cost
of living. Farming area is Tot keep.
ing pace with demands for foodstufts.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-02-01
Strong Resolutions.

The King County Pomona Grange
in session at Bothell last week passed
some strong resolutions. These show
how the farmers feel on the great
questions of the day. Oranges
throughout the nation are passing
similar resolutions.
To the King Co., Pomona Grange =
Your committee on resolutions beg
leave to submit the following report.
First-We thoroughly believe that
the time has arrived when our Nation
al Government should establish and
maintain a Parcels Post and Postal
Savings Bank, that while these
measures would be of immense bene-
fit to the rural communities, they will
also be of great value to the whole
American People. In this connection
also we wish to record ourselves as
unalterably opposed to the establish
ment of Central Bank, as menace
to the financial interests of country.
We request that subordinate
Oranges and individual members of
the same shall take such action upon
the foregoing vital question as shall
acuuaint our Senators and members
of Congress with the sincerity and
earnestnesS of our convictions.
Second. We favor the continuance
of the present law governing the sale
of oleomargarine.
Third. We believe that the princi-
pie of the National Conservation of
our o1ests and other Natural re-
sourses as outlined by Pres. Roosevelt
to be sound, statesmanlIke and worthy
of adoption and we deplore the at
tempt made by some to mystlfy the
situation or to throw dust in the eyes
of the American people. We believe
in the ability an integrity of the
recently deposed head of the Forestry
service, and view with regret the
party or personal eXigency that
prompted his removal from office.
Fourth-We urge upon school direc-
tors an our school authorities general
ly the lack in present courses of study
CT adequate instruction in the Manual
phases of education and IN the eIe-
ments Of agriculture.
We believe that the rural schools
and Union Schools should have deiin-
tie instruction upon these branches
and we hereby petition our state
Board of Education to provide for
such causes in the revised courses of
study which they will soon adopt or
the various schools of the state.
Fifth-We believe heartily in the
policy of the percentage system of
state aid to our educational and
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-02-01

charitable state institutions. We are
convinced that the present haphazard
method is extravagant in practice and
vicious in tendency. We would urge
that suitable commission be APP
pointed to investigate the needs of
these several institutions and that a
law be enacted upon the recommends
ton of this commissioner which shall
apportion to these institutions the in
come from school revenues for their
maintenance during the next ten years.
Sixth-We voice our convictions to
the need of improved highways though
rural communities. We are not
speaking of good roads IN the abstract
but of far better roads in the concrete.
In such sparsely settled districts as
we have in this county the farmers
have obstacles enough to meet without
bong obliged to make and maintain
their own roads. Theu, too, we all
know the loss in development and
consequent loss in wealth we sustain
every year through lack of roadways.
Seventh-We express our desire to
see a state Grange paper published or
at least an ably edited Grange depart
ment in some one of our Farm papers
and hereby declare our willingness to
support such publication it undertake
en- by our state Grange officers and
conducted for the benefit of the
Oranges.
Resolved we commit the II oral and
financial support of the Pomona to the
Woman's suffrage movement. Adopt
ed.
c.. GARRISON
Committee: ROBERT MAIN
Fl a SlMONDS
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17
BECHTEL & BYNON
347 State Street.

Fred Blum, a dishwasher, aged
about 55, blew out his brains in la
coma today because he did not have
money enough ~ is expenses.
The house To-Day passed the New
Mexico and Arizona separate state
hood bill.
Representative Hitchcock, of Me-
braska, flied a sensational afidavit
with the house committee on expen-
ditures today alleging that Secre-
tary of the Interior Ballinger and
others were guilty OF the improper
use of public money to defray travel
ing expenses of a nephew of the
secretary.
The will OF the late d. G. Miles,
the philanthropist, was flled for pro-
bate in New York, 1t is valued at
$50. 100000.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17

Bing, heatllen Chinee, is peculiarly
unpleasant about having a finger
stuck in his eye when he is asleep
and his dear friend Chung Sing lies
on a slab in an undertaking shop to-
day because he foolishly INDUCED in
that past-time.
Sing Bing was reposing upon a
bunk in a Chinese lodging house ear
ly today when Chung Sing entered
after a night spent in Oriental di-
version. He was feeling playful
and could not resist the gentle
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17
THREE KILLED
ELEVEN HURT
IN COLLISION
Southern Pacific Passenger
Train and Freight Come
Together.
[uNIrnp rRpgs LnAsnp w1Rn.l

Salt Lake, Jan. 17.--Three per-
son swere killed and at least II Sc
riously injured when a Southern Pa
eific passenger train collided with a
freight train at Demey siding, west
of the Lucine cutoff, at 3 o'clock this
morning.
The dead are:
Freight Engineer James Reardon
Brakeman r. A. Kroll
Student Fireman James.
The severely injured are:
Engineer A. S. Hurley; both legs
broken, condition critical.
Fireman Brydenbecker; leg brok-
en-
Fireman Hartwell; head and legs
badly injured.
John W. Mayor, mail clerk.
James B. Cardwell, mail clerS.
Guy r.. Prentiss, mail clerk.
Eugene Ransom, mail clerk.
Louis E. Jackson, mail clerk.
Carl w. Belts. mail clerk.
Claude e. SaXey, mail clerk.
Edward r. Hart. mail clerk
1t was reported also that several
passengers were severely hurt.
A relief train was dispatched from
ogden to the scene of the wreck 1t
carried physicians. nurses and hos
pital supplies.
The wrecked train was passenger
No. 6. 1t was westbound.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17
WEATHER
CONDITIONS
FAVORABLE
Second Week of Aviation Opens
With Ideal Conditions for
Record Flights.
[Unlted Press Leased wIre.l

Aviation Field, Los Angeles, Cal,
Jan. 1.-THE second week of avia-
tion began this afternoon, with the
sun shining and the air balmy---.G =
ditions considered ideal for record
breaking fights by the aviators.
When Glenn Curtiss, carrying Lieu
tenant Paul Beck, of the United States
army signal corps, as passenger,
shot around the field in his biplane
for preliminary spin, 10000 people
were seated in the grand stand and
hundreds more could be seen walk
ing toward the field from Dominguez
station. Curtiss took Beck for two
short flights.
Glenn II. Curtis, who, with Paul
han and Hamilton, has been offered
$4,000 by San Diego to fly from Los
Angeles to San Diego, and an addi-
tional 500 to land on top of the
Grant Hotel in the course Of con-
struction there, announced that he
probably would make known his de-
cision today as to whether he would
attempt the 1aS-mile flight.
Whether Hamilton and Padlhan
will attempt the flight is coniectlral
Both were non-committal
Much interest is being taken in the
announcement that Paulhan would
make an attempt to wrest tn Niche
lin cup from Latham some tine to-
day The cup is offered for the ayia-
tor who establishes a words record
for endurance and distance.
1t came into Latham's possession
when he few 144 miles in four hours
six minutes and thirty-fye seconds.
at Chalons, France.
Paulham stated that he would tra"-
el 200 miles in his Farmar biplaLe
before he descended.
AS a result OF Courtlaad Bishops
suggestions. surveyors bsglL today
to resuryey the course. SO tina, Il will
be possible to measure exactly the dis.
tance travelled by Paulhan whsa he
makes HIS attempt TO ice the .lIche
nounced that he would make try for
the cuD.
Should Crrer succeed ,hAg would
win, in adli.ion, prize OF $4,000, Of
fered fort he aviator who breaes the
worlds re ,o.l for sustained flight
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17
Stop Paying Rent

$3.50 down will handle a
good Groom house, 2storieS,
in good order and has a barn
and, shade trees, good we'll, on
a corner lot, and taken all in all
is a real bargain,
The monthly payments are
but $40 and most any man rent
ing a house pays that much,
You have to pay rent rain or
shine, unless you have your
own place, If you make a start
on this one you can figure that
you are getting a house for just
$3.50,
Make up your mind to do It
now, We will show you the
place, and he p you get started
on the road to owning your own
home,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17

amusement of gouging his sleeping
friends left eye.
Sing Bing, for reasons he does not
care to reveal always sleeps with a
revolper under his pillow and is al
ways ready for an attach. Without
stopping to see who was behind the
finger, he fired several times and
Chung Sing fell dead.
A representative OF the Capital
Journal called upon Sheriff Mimic to
learn whether he had secured any
information with regard to the mur-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17
A Good Willamette
Valley Farm

One of the best farms in the
Willamette valley is a place of
205 acres which we are Offer
ing at $50 per acre, and wei!
worth 1925, There are good
buildings and fencesi 105
acres in cultivation, 40 acres OF
beaver dam land, 30 Of fine
timber, 40 acres in orChardi
soil the best in the state, al
most all level and we'll drained.
This place is admirably adapted
to fruit grain, potatoes, clover
and garden truck, Located on
a good country road three miles
from two good towns and II
miles from Salem, Convenient
to rail and electric lines, This
is one of the best all around
farms n the valley, Reasonable
terms can be had,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17
DIR. STONES
Drug Store

The only cash drug store In Oregon:
owes no one, and no one owes
1t; carries large stock; its shelves.
counters and show cases are loaded
with drugs, medicines, notions, toilet
articles, wines and liquors OF all
kinds for medicinal purposes. Dr.
Stone Is regular graduate in medi-
cine and has had many years OF ex-
Derienee In the practice. consulta-
tions are free. Preser'ptsAs are
free. and only regular prize, &c med
icinc. DR., Stone can Gund at his
drug store, Salem, Or. ON ia the
morning until 8 az night.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17

Three workmen lost their lives
in the Gunnison mine, Montrose,
Colo. from the effects OF nitro
fumes.
Brice Wallace, who shot and SER
iously wounded a girl of the town
in San Francisco yesterday, Is dead
with two bullets in his head, from
pistol in his own hands. While
nothing was found on his person by
which he could be identified. IL Is
thought he was resident of a Pa
cihc Coast city.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17
Too Much Face.

You feel as If you had one face
too many when you have neuralgia.
Don't you? Save the face, you may
need It.; but get rid of the Neural
gia by appling Ballard's Snow Lini-
ment. Finest thing in the world
for rheumatism, neuralgia, burns,
cuts, scalds, lame back and all
pains. Sold by all dealers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17

Rostein & Gneenbaum of Salem
are running a large store at Cottage
Grove.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-17

der, but up until a late hour this
afternoon he mad received no ad-
vices concerning it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

russell Sherman led his class at the
normal school. He was hardwork-
ing student, spending all his surplus
time in odd jobs by which he could
pay his way while obtaining an edu-
cation. He roomed alone. having no
intimate associates and taking no part
in the athletic games of his fellow stu
dents. u like Sherman" said Tom
Blake, one of the students, but he's
almost too delicately organized for Il
boy and has all the sensitiveness Of a
girl. l caught him crying one day
when some one said something to him
TO hurt his feelings. Think of a fell
low fifteen years old crying"
One day Blake while walking across
the campus saw Sherman shrinking
away from Jim Potter. n bigger boy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Cause and Effect.

An article in Advertising and Sell
ing says: "If the general advertiser
can find one particular line of business
preponderantly successful in widely
different localities, under widely diff
ferent conditions, making greater
sales to the greatest percentage of
population, at the greatest total profit,
and still continuing TO grow, he has
secured a line of business which is
practically ideal in guiding him with
its experience. If, having found this
ideal line of business, he finds that in
all the different localities in which it
it situated, under varying conditions,
1t has reached the attention of the
surrounding population by one partic-
ular method, it is a logical and natural
deduction that this effect is the result
Of an ideal cause"
The ideal line of business answering
this description is that of the depart
ment stores; the ideal cause of their
success is newspaper advertising,
which is their almost exclusive means
Of communicating with the people.
The general advertiser will find the
path blazed by the department stores
worth following.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Uneven Judges.

Instead OF dovetailing, harmon
ious administration of laws covering
the union as a union, and protecting
or Furnishing the citizen as a unit,
there is bound to be a great, heter-
ogeneous mass of conflicting rulings,
with no connecting relation, and ap-
parently with no sympathy of pur-
pose. Each state has made its own
laws; often each section of a state
And the result has been to present to
the world a spectacle much like the
proverbial crazy-Quilt.
Warden McClaughrey of the Unit
ed States peuitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kan, told writer in the
June Tooay, during a recent visit to
his institution, of two men who we're
sentenced to the Illinois state pGni-
Tertiary at Joliet, for horse stealing.
One of the couple from the northern
part of the state was given SEN
tence of three years. The other,
from the southern part of the state,
was given sentence of IL years.
His crime was exactly the same as
that of the first prisoner, no greater,
no less. The only difference was