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The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

large "tangIeIegged" 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 fin the process as soon he would get a firm grip on the grass hopper he would look for a 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 do If stone stick were at hand all of those articles moved from his vicinity. and then he was fed another big grasshopper with great knotted legs
 Now 1t must be remembered that the pres ent writer is not vouching for this toad story; he Is simply setting 1t down as 1t has been told by an observer, and If 1t Is a nature fake" the blame must go elsewhere. The toad. finding he could not swallow the big grasshop- per, looked about as usual for a stone and. finding none, he attempted to the ground us a pusher. He unable to get the right angle to secure sufficient force, and so as last and perfectly effective means. he stood his head and without the least difficulty forced his food down his throat.
 This toad unquestionably a wonder One day. We are told, he happened to find an angleworm of great length. He took hold of one end and succeeded fin swallowing about inch and half of the worm. which then realizing it's danger apparently. wound the rest of its body boalike around the neck of the toad. This gave the worm leverage enough to enable it to tug away at that part which the toad already had swallowed. The result was that although by a 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. It is said that he sat up like squirrel took one mighty swallow, and then before the worm could get in It's withdrawing work. he pressed his fore. feet against his throat and held the swallowed part of the breakfast fin place; then. so 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 mgrations 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
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11
SfrauU Hats and Autos

You might scarcely think said MT. Mao Blink that there was anything in common be tween straw hats and automobiles, but by thai way of thinking you'd be surely forgettIna their cost Of upkeep. in which respect they are strikingly alike
 They say 1t costs more to keep an 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 I bought n straw b,, Tor which paid $2. I know place where vou can get very good straw hat for that money and 1T It hadn't raned all summer I shoula nave been on the straw hat account under m additional expense.
 but It always does rain more or less Just as 1t has done this summer. and as ia very "eh known II drop of rain gets on a straw nat 1t Is all up Raindrops on A straw hat VI" accumulate dust. and then you have to nave 'ne nat cleaned, and that costs money. in Soiie places 70 cents; in some l5
 ma by reference to my books tbo, I nave paid out this summer in straw hat ac. count TOT upkeep only s230 which is good ~ uoal Hn'ie the automobile man has been spehding ms money for gasoline and tbings | nave been blowing mine for hat cleaniny ana It mas cost me more to keep that, hat oo,na than IL cost me originally.
 But fin this find some suah. .,.. ih 'his respect at least I find mysa,Y on tho eaino iootihg With the man who at the hao,,- mug ol the season bought instead oy stra,. hat an automobile" VI s'fa"
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

tHlcniiOH SD to uO they have Qauuuratpd table reigns of terror.
 Years ago. fin the little Puritan settlement of Windham. Conn. out of which sprang as many notable American families, perhaps. 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 cd, and they were all summoned sinners and sinless, to answer at the bar of judgment Ira dition says that the migration which brought this fear upon the people was ono 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 1t happened that there lived in Wind. ham two colonial coonels, big men and digni- ned, by names Dyer and Elderkin. It may do no harm at this late day to say that both these military titled gentlemen were moro fond of good living. the story goes, than was per haps exactly consistent with the strctest Pur ftan thoughts Some of the elders of the place. it is said looked a bit askance at some of the views of Colones Dyer and Elderkin. There were slaves in that day in Connecticut and Windham held its share.
 One peaceful night in May the Wndham Families retired at their usual hour. not long after candle light" At midnight they were wrapped in the profoundest slumber. but no sleep however sound could withstand the roar that broke upon that peaceful hamlet In the watches of the night. There were blended the noises of million throats It was guttural. harsh and horrible, and 1t came out of the jetty blackness of midnight The people of windham jumped from their beds panic srick- 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 on the contrary increased with every moment, and then. to the added horror of all the noise found shape sn words which one quickeared. imaginative woman interpreted into this. all but two of the people accepting the interpretation read fly Judgment day; Judgment day; Colonel Dyer and Elderkn too. and catch nigger too"
 II is perhaps needless to say that the only two people among the white inhabitants of
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

crushed the creatures and so greased the raili that progress was impossible for some time The passengers said that they could have stood the situation more philosophically If the blockaders had been frogs for then the ques tion of the food supply would have beer settled for lot of hungry people Frogs leg, make good eating,
 It Is not generally known, perhaps, to tn. layman that toads, like frogs lay their egg. In the water. Countless millions of eggs will be deposited in some morass. They hatch out the young get big enough, and migrate in g body to the dry land. sometimes going Ions distances as an entity. These il is said. are the marching armies of toads which astonish people and accounts of which are spread broadcast over the earth
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11
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Windham who did not thoroughly accept the In depreciation were Coonels Dyer and Ederkin. In n few minutes the light of the torches showed an immense conCourse of toads frogs, whichever they were, bearing down the main street of the town. croaklng and "gucking" like a myriad of night demons It suddenly struck the people that If Judgment day was at hand, notwithstanding the fact that Coionels Dyer and Eiderkin seemed to have been singled out by the visitors. the day of accounting according to the Bible was an all embracing affair. and thereat all the Windham people started trembling violently.
 There living today a good many persons who direct descendants of the Colonel Elder kin whom the batrachians called to judgment that night In Chicago until recently there lived a Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Norris direct descend ant of Colonel Elderkin. Mrs. Norris lad heard the story of the invasion of the village a of times from the lips of her grandmother, who as a child taken time after time to see the place from which the night dsturbers came. To the days of their deaths Colones Dyer and Elderkn were called Frog Dyer and Frog Elderkin, and If local Connecticut authorities are to be believed there has not been seen from that day to this either toad or frog in the meadow and pond from which started that midnight migration
 To get away for a 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 so far from the sea shore" I have been told that these gus are sacredly protected by the law and the people of the western state and have also been told that the early settlers, the AIormons believed that the Lord has sent tho birds to his chosen people
 It is wonder that it was believed the gus 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 1t that the
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11
NOT CUT OUT FOR SOLDIER
Widow Healy lnduIees In Some Plain Speaking to Her Devoted but
 Timid Lover.

The courting of the Widow Healy by Terence Corcoran was a tedious affair to every one In Magraw place, most of all to the widow herself, who tried various expedients to assist her timid admirer.
 I'm thinking l might go for 8 sojer." Terence announced one night, when his fancy had been stirred by a newspaper account of military pageant. Pm not so old but could do fl. was wanst in a school regs ment.n
 You go for soler,' cried the Widow Iealy In mingled scorn and alarm. "A man that calls on lone widow for two years apd more. wld. out pluck enough to spake his lnina' hasn't the makings of drummer poY in him.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

trlmor caused by rupture. wrote as to you for advice and you told me 'ues mi to get discouraged but to take Lydis li. F. Pinkham's Vegetable Componns1 l did take it and soon the lump in M nv side broke and passed away."-Mrs R. R. HUEY, 7l3 Mineral Ave, Galena Kans.
 Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com, pound, made from roots and herhs has proved to be the most successful remedy for curing the worst forms oi female ills, including displacement inflammation, fibroid tumors, irrem,'. larities, periodic pains, backaehe, bear. s ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiras. ton, and nervous prostration. 1t cost but a trifie to try it, and the resull has been worth millions to mann suffering women.
 If you want special advice write fOrit tOMrs. PiDkham, Lynn, Mass, It is free and always helpful.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11
A Question.

Vera (eight years oldl-What does transatlantic mean, mother?
 Mother-Across the Atlantic, course; but you musn't bother me
 Vera-Does trans always mean across? fl Mother-I suppose 1t does. Now' Il you don't stop bothering me with you. questions shall send you flgnt !" bed.
 Vera (after few minutes siien.s, Then does transparent mean crO'' parent?-Ideas,
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

o@S \ IUtltn not sleep. It ksass ken. growing larger ,gp; aas by fall it was as as large as a hens eor' % l could not % 'ss, to bed without a a hot T water bottle applied isi to that side. had one { of the best doc. . tors in Kansas and and he told my husband rld thatI would have to be operated on as if yTnQ Sop,nfb,.,r ,r
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

4lenesli may come tO the people CT tEC tfited States by the study of the habits of a partlcu. lar animal, that animal is studied forthwith and studied carefully.
 In folk lore history and in the history of To- calitles 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 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. It 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 Yisitants.
 1T there was such army of the batra. chians as it i9 said there was 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, i to repeat Pharaohs 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 a
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11
DOCTOR
 ADVISED OPERATION
CuredbyLydiaE pinIsbsm,s Vegetable Compound

Galena, Kans. -"A wear o.
 March l fell, and g few days Sso ,fas, asl there was soreness in my right s;sr s;Se In 2 short time bunch came and siue. s: bothered me so much at niTbt0 T anu lt
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

ICLE SAarS scientists hayo 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 it's good work. There is no department fin nature which is overlooked by the scientists Of Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson's department. If It Is be lieved by the experts that any
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

When a young man admires sn' . hair she thinks he Is hittihs i.' bunch of 1t 10 wear in his loehe'.
The Nevada County picayune., 1910-10-11

being as Is his frog cousin. He never could "a -wooing go" like his green-coated brother, despite the fact that Shakespeare proclaims that his toadship has a jew el 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 6 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 To- custs which was moving steadily forward in an op posite direction and in Gen eral Sherman's words. For aging liberally upon the country"
 Even though the toads are so harmless and help ful. they perhaps will never get anyone to love them. If must be admitted that m, pearances are against them. The Iowa people who some years ago were visited by the toads had no reason 10 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
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
AFTERMATH
Of ACCIDENT
KILLING So
[By Associated Press. ]

Staunton. ILL.,, Oct. with the
inquest over the bodies of the vic
Tins of the Illinois Traction wreck
at Car1inville. H.. under the direC-
ton of Coroner Doris Karnes of Ma
coupin county. and the preliminary
investigation made by the railroad
and warehouse commissioners here
today, the responsibility for the dis
aster. which snuffed out 36 lives and
injured 81 others at Dickerson curve,
2 u miles north of this city, yester-
day afternoon. may be fixed.
John l.. Hermann, the motorman
of the north-bound car, admits that
he alone is responsible for the wreck.
according to II. E. Chubbic. the vice
president and general manager of the
Illinois Traction system.
The Dickerson curve. the scene OF
the disaster, is on the bend of a ra-
vine and Just at cut where the
track winds sharply to the right
Both trains were going at a speed es-
timated at nearly 40 miles per hour
So short was the warning that
there was no opportunity to reduce
the speed of the cars before the To-
cal train telescoped the limited.
The impact. drove both cars down
the track nearly a hundred feet and
lett them mass of wreckage, be-
meath which the dead and injured
passengers were pinioned.
In the north-bound car not one es-
capped anintured, and few in the other
car.
Both motormen jumped as the
crash impended.
Included among the passengers
who met death were three of the
most prominent officials of the trac-
ton system.
General Superintendent Handsley
today declared that the responsibility
for the wreck laN with Motorman
Hermann and Conductor Leonhard.
They received orders to meet the
second section of No. \73 at Wallis
siding. They failed to obey orders"
said the superintendent.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
NOTABLE COMPANY 4
o. CATHOLICS OF
HIGHEST Ram
by Associated Press. ]

New York Oct. 5.-Three cardf-
nals-the most notable company of
prelates of exalted rank ever assem-
bled in this country-with host OF
lesser church dignitaries participated
in the ceremonies of the conservation
of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic ca
thedral here today. No less than 60
bishops, from all parts of the United
States and Canada, were included
among the prelates attending.
The Most Rev. John NJ. Farley,
archbishop of New York, was the con-
secrator of st. Patricks in the cere-
monies which marked the freeing Of
the cathedral from debt.
The occasion was further honored
by the presence and participation in
the rites of Cardinal Logue, primate
of all Ireland.
The sermon of the day was
preached by Archbishop John G..
Glennon of st. Louis. the youngest
prelate of his rank in the world.
Pontifical high mass was celebrat-
ed at IL O'Clock by Cardinal Gibbons.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
Or. WORST HEAD DRY
FARMING CONGRESS
lBy Associated Press. ]

Spokane, Wash, Oct. 5.-Dr. J. H.
Worst. president Of the North Dako-
ia Agricultural College, is to lead the
International Dry-Farming Congress
for the coming year. The nominal
ing committee announced today its
selection of DR.. Worst for president
of the congress, and 1t is expected
that the choice of the committee will
be ratified without contest. Nine
members of the committee are report
ed to have voted for DR.. Worst. and
eight for Governor ]. H. Brady of
Idaho.
The outcome is considered vic
tory for the so-cal'ed AGRICULTURAL
college element, which favors empha-
sizing the agricultural rather than
the political problems at the sessions
of the congress.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
BANKERS DISCUSS
TRUST CORPORATIONS
lBy Associated Press. ]

Los Angeles. Cal, Oct. 5.-The
section of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association met In bust
ness session today. and took up the
consideration of this important part
of modern banking.
In the absence of President H. P.
Mcintosh, Vice President Oliver C..
Fuller called the meeting to order
and read the address of the president.
The report of the executive COM
mittee was read by Lawrence L. Gil
lespie, the chairman.
The secretaries of state bankers as
sociations also held their meeting in
this city today.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
ROYAL PALACE BOMBARDED.
tBy Associated Press. ]

Paris, Oct 5-An official communication issued today 1t
confirmed by information which but
revolution has broken Lisbon that the bombarmen of the city
has commenced and that Tuesday night Manuel still the
royal palace resisting the revoluionists
stated the Brazilian legation today that King
had taken refuge the Brazilian battleshp Sac Paulo
The Temps King has embarked
lish warship.
Portugal has been isolated yesterday and crcuo
clare that the country the troes of violent revolution ALI of
the Portuguese the reported deserted
the monarchy lot with the revolutionist
The Portuguese warshps sheed the royal palace while the land
forces after desperate fighting the streets dragged down the royal
standard and raised the banner of the republic.
King Manuel is said to be prisoner in the palace.
Although revolution that peaceful unaccompanied with vi
oen expected believed that the immediate the
outbreak the the capital of Professor
bada republican deputy chief of the Liberal League by lieutenant
Of the So Intense the feeling against the throne that this
ciden comparatively trivial ITSELF sufficient to start the out
break.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
CONTINUE SEARCH
FOR THE DYNAM|TERs
(By Associated Press. ]

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 5.-Detect-
i've William ]. Burns and two assist
ants from the San Francisco police
department arrived here today to
take up the search for Che Times dy-
Mantle conspirators. RSirns went i'm
nediately into a conference with the
mayor and the committee which is
Investigating the disaster. 1t Is said
that he has brought Information that
has stirred the entire local depart
ment to its utmost efforts.
The 18th body was found in the
ruins of the Times building today. 1t
was that of Grant Moore. the COM
posing-room maohinist.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
SUSPECTED MEMBEROF
DyNAMITERS FOUND
IBy Associated Press. ]

San Francisco, Oct. SIN a report
submitted, to Captain Of Detectives
Wall today by Police Sergeant Ste
phen Bunner. who has been detailed
on the Los Angeles dynamiting case;
Bunner declared his belief that he
had identified a member of the trio
of dynamite purchasers who gave the
name of William Morris.
Bunner reported that the man who
answered the description of William
Morris was a miner of Forest Hill in
Placer county.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
Former Merchant Rancher and Retired Cap
italist Victim Of Sudden Attack of Hearts
Trouble Today at His Home in This
City Shortly After Noon
Was Community Builder

AT LIS this afternoon Edwin NJ Socomb
valley the heaviest contributors
Grand Junction and the vicinity seized with
failure his home sos Chpeta and died almost
mediately
The taking away of Mr. Socomb sudden a lightning
flash and when the the
pail of spread the entire community and
the death the well known citizen with hush though
within the house of grief itself.
Slocomb had been about during the
hale and hearty He the
few minutes and then sat chatting for quite while had
his the office Milne brothers
that his laugh did have the ring
otherwise notice taken than his usual
diton.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05

Lisbon Oct 5A o'clock this morning the which had
faithful the who had assembled the Palace
Dom Pedro, made with the revouon
their barracks
The multitude the streets appauded the deseion Long
live republica.'
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05

Robert A. Orr. the well known or
chardist. is spending the week a
Salt Lake City, officiating as judge o
the horticultural exhibit at the Utal
State fair.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
OF PORTUGAL
ON RUINS Of MONARCHY.
Revolution Sudden and CompIete---King Is a
Fugitive on Board Ship at Sea
tBy Associated Press. ]

London Oct s22 pmThe foreign office has just received
from the British minister Lisbon declaring republic
has been proclaimed in Portugal
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-10-05
~-!l ~: .' s'...'!

Italy 5Th Portuguese legation here while receipt
that the faithful the royal
o'clock this morning had succeeded in repuing the
publcans
legation practically that Lisbon
0pporto the hands of the revoutcns but adds that
should be concluded that the entire realm has fallen
An official statement -
mo definite has been received Monday when the first
outbreaks the commenced between the royasts
and the revoluionsts. -'' 49,
Brazilian minister here learns by England that
Brazilian battehp Sac Pauo