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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

impish a flame as ever he did, in
the marshes or woodland.
Follow me, follow me, follow me
seemed to come quivering upon
the air in tinkling tones.
Michael needed no second in
vitation, but slipped on his warm
bathrobe and slippers and fol-
lowed Will out of the window
and over the treetops to the
moorland beyond. He seemed to
float along with great ease and
found the experience altogether
delightful. Will did not speak
again, until whiff he opened the
door of hillock or mound and
they found themselves i'll -. :.
Continue this story, relating the fur
ther experiences of Michael and of his
sister Norah, who had also listened to
the tales OF the Will O. the Wisp. The
adventures of this pair of children led
on by the misty, mischieyouS green
flame should offer big opportunity for
some splendid stories.
One prize, a handsome book, will be
given for the best story, or the winner
may choose the alternate prize instead.
Write from $50 to 200 words on one
side of the paper, leaving margin at
the top and side of each page. Address
the letters neatly to Aunt Laurie, Los
Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, Cal, and
be sure that it reaches this office not
later than Thursday, February "a, for
publication March 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
A NOVEL PLAY
HOUSE, HOME MADE

T WO little girls begged their mother
to make them "sure-enough
Il. two story playhouse that might
stand in the corner of her sewing room.
The indulgent mother, after racking
her brain for a plan, suddenly con-
ceived the following one: In the barn
she found an old empty piano box.
This she had swept and washed very
clean. The sides, which were to serve
as walls and ceiling to the playhouse,
were papered with some bits of bright
paper left from the front hall of the
home. The side of the box, which was
to serve as floor, was carpeted. Then
the box was carried into mammals
sewing room and placed in one corner
near to a window, the one open SIDE
fronting the middle of the room. Across
the open side was half-drawn cur
tain, and inside the box was furnished
to represent a play parlor. A little
table, two chairs, toy piano ana
dolls sofa were there, leaving plenty of
room for the two little housekeepers.
on the top of the box a bedroom was
arranged. A rug covered the top OF
the box, which was the bedroom floor.
In one corner-against the wall-stood
a toy bed, beside it little dresser.
Two chairs and j washstand completed
the bedroom furnishing. The second
floor was reached by stepping on
stool. then on a chair and from the
chair to the bedroom floor.
The ingenious mother who planned
this playhouse found it served two pur-
poses admirably. First, 1t gave real :
joy to her little daughters. VINO spent
MANY hours daily in it; and, second, it
afforded a place where they might keep
their playthings together and in order.
Before having the playhouse their toys
and dolls had been scattered about in
one room and another, never being
kept in any one place.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
THE WINDMILL COUNTRY
RN Miriam s. Clark
BY Miriam

There is a country. so they say,
Where windmills grow, like trees;
where arms instead of branches, reach
To meet the coming breeze;
And all the little children there,
With clumping wooden shoes
May seek their friendly shade to play
AS often as they choose.
How strange 'twould be when winter
comes,
And all the other trees
Are shedding leaves Of brown and req
TO gather as we please,
To see the windmills drop their arms
And all across the land
The little girls and boys come out
TO find them on the sand.
youths Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
Willy NilIy, Silly Friend

willy Nilly sleeps and wakes,
Then another nap he takes
Willy Nilly rubs his nose,
sits him down and counts his toes!
willy Nnly wants to do
Wash his face and black his shoe;
But Willy Nilly never starts
sits and gobbles apple tarts!
willy Nilly goes to school,
saws hen learn each blessed rule.
but Willy Nilly. waits all day
Looking for an easy way.
Willy Nilly, silly friend
In disaster you depend;
Willy, you will lily end.
Unless your nilly ways you mend!
-Philadelphia Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

MY uedr boys ana girls:
m HE subject this week, an 'Inci-
dent in Our School," will sug-
geSt all the letters that any boy
or girl can write. A great many will
undoubtedly write of some joke or some
funny incident, and no doubt many of
these will be descriptive of some joke
upon the teacher.
NOW there are great many amusing
incidents where the joke actually is
on the teacher, and where she can see
1T as well as you or I could. I hope,
however, that while you are writing
these letters to me you will all try to
see whether or not you might have re-
lieved your teacher of some of the
trouble and unhappiness of some of the
days.
Probably each one of you boys and
girls would say that the teacher gov
erned your room. In this you, would
be entirely wrong. Each one of you
govern it, No teacher can make you
quiet, orderly or studious unless you
ers with a masterful personality are
able to inspire in you the desire to be
all that you should be as pupils. But
if you are not subject to the influence
of such woman, then you can each do
a good deal toward making your room
one of the best ones in your school. I
want my boys and girls of Herald Jun
iordom to have the best times, enjoy
themselves most keenly, and yet be most
responsible when the need comes. The
only way to do that is to play with all
your might when the proper occasion
arises, and to work eagerly, and to the
best possible purpose when it is the
time for work.
MANY of you will realize that the par
ticular incident you are going to tell
about would not have happened if you
had been observing all this good ad-
vice which Aunt Laurie is giving you.
Tell the story just the same and show
If you want toZwhere you might
have helped matters in some way if
you We're directly concerned in the in
cident.
OF course there are a great many in
cidents which may have occurred at
your school which you could not have
prevented or helped and which were so
pleasant that no one would want to
prevent them.f
I must say one word about the COM
pleted limericks So many of the boys
and girls send in limericks which
rhyme well enough SO far as the last
words go, but in which the meter is
entirely wrong. Count the accents in
one of the first lines of the limericks,
and then write your sentence SO that
there are the same lumber of accented
syl1ables and that they fall in the same
place. Frequently the limerick which
has the best rhyme and the most rea-
sonable Or amusing idea is phrased in
such clumsy and numerical manner
that it is impossible to award to it
the prize.
Interest in the organization of de-
partment for eighth grade and high
school pupils is growing. Let me have
more letters. Write quite frankly,
whether or not you favor such a de-
partment, and sign your name, school
grade and address,
Affectionately yours,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
UNFINISHED STORIES
BY HELEN MARIE FERGUSON
Los Angeles High school ade 49, s:is Emmett street

ade As; ss4e Emmett Street
Lucille, you'll buy the castle on
the hill, won't your"
We'll see,' he laughed.
The next week Lucille was
called i'll the house by her father,
who showed her a contract and
the key to the castle, and said
with twinkle in his eye, Now
for the exploration trip"
Continue this story, telling what ex-
periences Lucille had when exploring
her new possession. Describe the gen.
eral appearance of the castle inside
and outside and tell what strange and
unusual conditions prevailed within
the walls of the CASTLE
One prize, a handsome book, will be
given for the best story, or the winner
may choose the alternate prize instead.
Write from $50 to 200 words on one
side of the paper, leaving margin at
the top and side of each page. Address
the letters neatly to Aunt Laurie, Los
Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, Cal, and
be sure that it reaches this office not
later than Thursday, March 3. for
publication March 13.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

Ut WAS a favorite pastimc OF
the little brother and sister to
listen to tales of bogies, elfs
and fairies by the light of the
fire, and they counted it a very
happy evening when old Barney
consented to delight their ears
with such. This particular even
ing he told them of "Will O the
Wisp," that mischievous elf, who
in the form of a green flame
dances before weary wanderers
on black nights and lures them
into distress and danger across
the bogs.
an il we ever meet wi
the little pest, avoid him Is ye
would the plague, my boy, as ye
would the plague!' SO saying
the old man, grown gray and
feeble in the service of the chill
dren's family, knocked the ashes
FROM his faithful pipe and arose
to depart,
Follow, follow, follow me
Would you know my mystery
Michael and Norah had lis
tened with bated breath and
wide-opencd eyes to this recital,
and they sat still, gazing into:the
flickering flames, thinking of the
wonders they had Just heard.
"It seems awful to think that
such beautiful thing as a green
fame could be SO wicked!" sighed
Norah. do you think he is alF
ways so, Michael?"
Il don't Know, Norah. The
folks about her all call him wick
ed Will, but / am not sure he is
always SO. I wish knew more
about him?"
Michael was still puzzling
over this when their mamma
tucked them snngly into bed, and
he had not been lying there very
long, when suddenly right before
him danced Will himself, gleam-
ing with as bright as green, as
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

a better home, with more, healthful
surroundings, pure air, clean food
untouched by alien hands in dark
places, and be happy?" asks Charles
Dillon in the issue of Harper's Weeklys
for November 20 The ans"er was
supplied by years cultivation OF
"trial acre" in western Missouri, and
the net income for the year amounted
to $1,10685. 1t was Aot more than an
average year for crops, either. How
it was done is amply shown in this
interesting article.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
THE PAPER SOLDIER

The little Paper Soldier
Rides his horse
It's made of paper, too.
Of course.
They're held together
With home made glue
And a tiny little strip of
Cardboard, too.
when the glue won't stick,
Why, of course,
He sometimes tumbles
Off his brave horse.
But a brayer little soldier
Ne'er before
Was ever known to
Go 10 war! E
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
THE BOUNTY OF ONE ACRE

"Can a man with job and family
produce enough from one acre to sup
ply the needs if his own table and
add materially to his income? Can he,
still holding his job and using an
hour in the morning and two hours
in the evening earn enough to pay for
the, acre, feed the familys without
wearing his fingers to the bone; have
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
The HERALD JUNIOR
FLORENCE BosARD LAWRENCE, Editor

The Herald Junior is published by The Her
AID company for tho children of the SOUTH
west. 1t is devoted to their interests and
Will publish principally their writings.
All children OF public school age are welcome
as contributors. The editor wishes to encour-
age correspondence and suggestions from tho
teachers.
The editor will be in her office for visitors
Monday afternoon from 2 until o'clock and
Saturday from. 10 in the morning until
o'clock in the afternoon. Special appoint
ments may be made by telephone.
All prize winners living in Los Angeles
must call for their prizes within two weeks
after the award OF same. Winners OF prizes
for three honorable mentions must present
copies OF the stories, letters or limericks as
published and claim their prizes.
Prize winners living out of town will receive
their prizes by mail without request except
Tor honorable mention, in which case copies
Of the stories, letters or limericks must be
submitted and the prize claimed.
BY a special arrangement with the circuIa-
tior department Aunt Laurie Is enabled to
make the following announcement: Whenever
prize or book or OF dollar is awarded
to a Junior, that prize will be exchanged IL
desired for subscription to The Herald as fol-
lows: dollar prize may be exchanged
fof six months subscription, while book
VIII he exchanged for a three lnonths' SUBJ
scription.
This is entirely optional with each boy and
girl, and no effort wha tever will be made TO
persuade any to take the alternate prize.
II Is offered merely because of some laments
which have from boys and girls whose
parents do not and will not take the paper,
and this arrangement would enable the boys or
girl to have the paper for themselves
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

T UClLLE was little girl Il
/ years old who lived with
her parents near large, old
castle. This castle had once been
the home of lord who had long
since gone away.
That castle is such a large
and beautiful one," Lucille would
say, "it seems just the kind to
have an enchanted princess in it.
| almost fancy that | can see her
looking out of the windows at
me sometimes. Wouldn't | just
love to explore the whole place
and see everything!"
One day Lucille's father re-
ceived a cablegram from the
West Indian islands stating that
his great-uncle there had died and
had left him his fortune.
"And now, papa" exclaimed
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
. SPECIAL DRAWING CONTEST

Bows and girls high school those who have already
prize the Herald Junior drawing contests are invited to
submit pictures for the front of this magazine
Short poems suitable quotation joke be taken theme
There will be regular competition but for each
accepted handsome art book book OF travel
will be awarded to the artist.
with jet black ink upon SMOOTH heavy
white 2 inches wide and than inches
deep They may be submitted any time and prizes will be
issued upon publication
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

UCILLE was girl II Lucille you'll buy
! wears old who lived with the hill, won't your?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
HELPING TO GOVERN

My dear boys and girls:
m HE subject this week, an 'Tnci-
dent in Our School," will sug-
-
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
he oggery
Good Fortune

Mrs. Antonio Garcia, whose
 husband was killed" somewhat over g year ago by the explosion of a ag-wheel at the power house of the Yuma Electric and Water CompanT was recently granted by that eompany a pension of $I0 a saonth 1esz a>zp sriod of ten years. Mrs. Gilrcia has also been fortunate to dispose of a homestead, of, I60 acres in the valley at $50 an acre. As Mrs. Garcia is the mother of nine young children, these benisons of fortune are welcome indeed.
 They were secured largely through the kindly efforts of John Gandolfo, who exerted his influence for the benefit of Mrs.
 Garcia and her orphaned family.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
At Just Half Price

Subscriptions will be accepted for a limited time to the St.Louis Weekly Globe Democrat, issued twice every week. Send one dollar promptly and you will get this great Semi Weekly two full years. Or send one dollar with another name and the paper will be mailed one year to you and also one year to the other sub scriber. Two large papers ev- cry week. Eight or more pages each Tuesday and Friday. All the news of all the earth in con- tinuous and connected form. truthful. Reliable, progressive, up to date. You will find the Globe Democrat invaluable dur: ing the coming year. Don't miss the biggest newspaper bargain ever offered. Send your order today or write for free sample copy to the Globe Printing Co.,. :, St. Louis, Mo.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
]. 5. FLAG NOW FLOATS
 OVER lO3,992,757 PEOPLE
Compilation of Figures From Various States ane
 Territories Shows 22.5 Per Cent Gain

It will be several weeks before the official figures are made pub lie by the census bureau, but there is no doubt that the fore going figures are very close to the mark. They are based on the percentage of gain shown by the population statistics of eight cen states and territories which have been compiled officially by the census bureau experts.
 It is believed that the per. centage of gain for all the states and territories will be approxi- mately 22.5 over the census of ten years ago.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Some History Of
 Arizona Gold

Naturally, the first gold min- ing of Arizona was the washing of placer beds. The placers at Gila Citv, "A miles east of Yuma, were worked as early as 1858. The noted western scout, Pauline Weaver, found placer beds in 1862 near La Paz, Yuma county, on the Colorado river, now a deserted city with long streets of ruined adobe houses, where once lived several thousand peo pie and where more than one million dollars in gold dust was handled within the space of two years. Then Weaver headed a party of exploration into tee Indian ridden center of Arizona, marching almost straig Int for what is now known as Rich Hlil, above Wickenburg, where the richest placer gold deposit of the Southwest was accidentally discovered on the very top of a cupped mountain. To this day there arc washings around Rich Hill and along the valley of the Hassayampa, with it's tributaries. Nearly all the creek beds around Prescott yielded gold in the early days and still are being made to produce by means of modern dredging equipment.
 Placer ground of value is be- ing worked along the Colorado in northwestern Mohave county. The placer beds of Greaterville, in eastern Pima county, have supported many generations of Mexicans, while placer beds near Dos Cabezas, in Cochise county, are still being worked. Cement placer beds at Quifotos, in Pima county, and near Quartzsite, in northern Yuma county, may be proftably worked by means of the new Quinner dry washing machine, which has proved sue cessful under similar conditions in Sonora.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Bond Mining Claims

Amos Adams, 0 well-known Yuma county prospector, last week made a deal for some min- ing claims in the Castle Dome district, half mile from the Alvarado strike, Yuma and Los Angeles capitalists taking a bond on them for S125, ,OOO. The first payment was made and the bal ance is to be completed at inter- vals. It is a promising looking property and assays are said to run high. Yuma men interested in the deal, through grubstakes and other claims, are O. C. and Aarry Johnson, Sheriff Living ston, Under Sheriff Riley an9 Spittler 6 Huffman.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01

Washington, Nov. 25. - The United States has passed the one hundred million mark in population. Including the Phil ippine Islands and Porto Rico and not including Guam and part of the islands of the Samoan group, the American flag floats over a population of l03, 992, 757. Exclusive of the Philippine Is- lands, Porto Rico, Guam and Samoa, but including Alaska and Hawaii, the population ol the United States is 93, All, 648. Ten years ago the population of the same territory was 76, 303, 3S7.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Reduce Your Acreage

A great percentage of crop failures is due to starvation of the soil. It is much better to handle a few acres we'll fertllized and succeed than it is to take a large acreage and endeavOr to cultivate the entire acreage, us- ing about as much fertilizer per hundred acres as would be suit able for ten acres. On rich soil most any sort of a crop can be grown successfully. There is little danger of over fertilization and it is much easier to cultivate and harvest the crop from a feT acres than from a large acreage about half titled. If you find it difficult to make your large acre. age pay, why not sell off about half of your farm, put the pro ceeds into fertilizers and make the remainder rich? You can then grow more and better crops on the remainder with less ex- pense and worry than you could ever hope to do on the larger acreage.-Southern Fruit Grow CT.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
BIds Received

Last Friday Engineer J. A. Ockerson. in charge of the gov ernment work to be done on the Colorado river below Yuma in Mexico, received bids from vGri. ous Yuma and Los Angeles par ties for the excavation to be done. No award has been made and Engineer Ockerson is now in Los Angeles on business per, taining to the matter.
 The bids were opened and are said to range from 19 to g cents per cubic yard. The govern ment may possibly reject all of them.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Happy Homes

A woman may do her level best to make happy home for husband and children, but if she is treated as slave and only given her board and clothing in payment for her services as mother, wife, cook, laundress, nurse girl, chambermaid and seamstress. is it any wonder that little or no happiness exists in that home? If mother spells her son by pampering and wait ing on him all the years of his childhood and boyhood, and making him think that a man should always be waited on by the woman of his household, is it strange that he expects wife to do the same, and that in all likelihood she either wears out in few years of such service, or else becomes bitter and disheart- ened? There are very many rea- sons why @ home may not be found a happy one. Happiness in the home depends fully as much on the husband as it does upon the wife. We are often told that in every true and ideal marriage both husband and wife must learn to bear and forbear. In every home where happiness exists there must be perfect trust, confidence and love be- tween the husband and wife. There are two kinds of sunshine in the world, and both quite ne cessary-the one which is caused by the suns shining outdoors, and the other by It's shining in our hearts. Happy homes abound in the heart sunshine, and Wheth- CT it shines without or not, there is naught but brightness within doors. It is the loving deeds, the cheery, helpful words, and the kindly thoughtfulness that each member of the family shows toward the others that makes an ideal happy home-a perfect heaven on earth.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Saves an Iowa Mans Life

The very grave seemed to yawn be- fore Robert Madsen of West Curling ton, Iowa, when, after seven weeks in the hospital, four of the best physi- clans seemed to give him up. Then was shown the marvellous curative powers of Electric Bitters. For, after eight months of frightful suffering liver trouble and yellow jaundice, get ting no help from other remedies or doctors, five bottles of this matchless medicine completely cured him. Its positively guaranteed for stomach, liver or kidney troubles and never dis appoints. Only soc at all druggists.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Deatness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portions of the ear. There is only one way to cure deaf ness and that is by constitutional rem edieS. Deafness is caused by an irl- famed condition of the mucuous fn- ing of the Estachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflmation can be taken out and this tube restored to it's normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition Of the mucuOuS surfaces.
 We will give one hundred dollars for any case of Deafness caused by ca tarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
 F. J. CHENEY & Co.,, Toledo, C.
 Sold by druggists, 75c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for constt- nation.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Arizona Oranges
 the First in Market

Thanksgiving day the first shipment of Oranges was sent from Yuma and Phoenix to the New York market. On Monday the first car load was started by fast freight for New York, where the highest prices ever known for the local product were ex- pected. It is believed that the best of the fruit will bring S10 a box. The fruit is sweet and we'll favored and fairly we'll colored.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
Will Promote Beauty

Women desiring beauty get wonder full hel pfrom Bucklein's Arnica Salvo. It banishes pimples, skin eruptions, sores and boils. It makes the skin soft and velvety. It glorifies the face. Cures sore eyes, cold sores, cracked lips, chapped hands. Best for burns, scalds, fever sores, cuts, bruises and piles. 25c at all druggists.
The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-01
The Toggery Clock

The Toggery, with it's usual enterprise, has placed Western Union clock on the outside at the entrance to that up to date store, so that those who pass or enter can always tell the correct time. An innovation in Yuma, and quite a convenience.