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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
COFFEE CONGESTION
Causes a Variety of Ais.

A happy old lady in Wisconsin,.
says:
During the time l was a coffee
drinker | was subject to sick head
aches, sometimes lasting or 3 days,
totally uniting me for anything.
To this affliction was added, some
years ago, trouble with my heart
that was very painful, accompanied
by a smotheIing sensation and faint
ness.
Dyspepsia. also, came to make life
harder to bear. took all sorts Of pat
ent medicines but none of them helped
me for any length of time
The doctors frequently told me
that coffee was not good for me; but
without coffee | felt as if l had no
breakfast. finally decided about
years ago to abandon the use of cot
fee entirely. and as had read a great
deal about Postum l concluded to try
that for a breakfast beverage.
Il liked the taste of it and was par
ticularly pleased to notice that it did
not come up as coffee used to. The
bad spells with my heart grew less
and less frequent, and finally ceased
altogether, and have not had an at
tack of sick headache for more than q.
year. My digestion is good, too, and
| am thankful that | am once more a
healthy woman. | know my wonder
full restoration to health came from
quitting coffee and using Postum.
Name given by the Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's reason and 1t is this
Coffee has a direct action on the liver
with some people, and causes partial
congestion of that organ preventing
the natural outlet of the secretions.
Then may follow biliousness, sallow
skin, headaches, constipation and final
ly change of the blood corpuscles
and nervous prostration.
Read the little book, THE Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's Rea-
SON"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and fall of human
interest.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
Bird JekyIl and HYDE.
WISE, ALL RIGHT.

The catbird is our northern mock
Ing bird. When love attunes it's voice.
it can MARBLE as sweetly as the night
ingale. You must catch it in one of
its melting moods if you would know
the charm of it's liquid notes. 1t is
not at all beautiful-no more is the
hooking bird - only q gray-brown,
perky, restless thing. of lesser size
than the robin, with the soul of song
In it.
The wonder of the catbird lies, of
course, in this, its dual nature At one
time it hops about screeching com
plants against the circumambent air;
at another there throbs out from it's
delicate throat the essence of divine
melody. Philadelphia Press.
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ish for possession of the famous Nine.
Vespucci.
This particular novelist shows a
fondness, uncommon in American liter
ature, for dwelling on the political ad-
venturess--a type that has not been SO
common in the history of political
leaders I'm this country as 1t has been
In the lives of statesmen and rulers of
Europe. Such a woman was the prin-
cipal character in his second novel,
and to the limited few who keep alive
In their memories the story of Nine.
Vespucci's career in America 1t was
perfectly plain that she was the proto-
type of the novelist's heroine. And
now, in his third book, as If in revela-
ton of how strong a grip this fascinat-
ing woman's career and personality
have on him, the novelist tells the lit
tie known tale of how she once was
the stake in a game of cards between
two men, one of whom was not as ex-
allied parsonage as the novelist
leads his readers to believe.
The incident that makes one of the
characters in this last historical novel
tell the story of the game of cards
played for Nine. Vespucci's favor is a
proposal that this parsonage, state
senator of Missouri in the sos of the
last century. makes to captain ir
the United States army that they too
shall play game of poker for the TEN.
porary possession of the heroine of
this tale, whom the senator believes
to be the same kind of a woman" as
Nine. Vespucci was. The captain does
not understand the full meaning of the
senator's proposal, and to this the man
| from Missouri replies.
The Precedent.
Come, now. You, as an army man
ought to know something of the his.
tory of poker in these United States.
Listen. my friend. Do you recall a
certain game played by man higher
In authority-younger than he is to.
day--a game played upon a snow
| bound train in the north country? Do
you remember what the stakes were
then? Do you recall that the man
later became president of the United
States? Come There is fine prece
dent for our little enterprise. He PLAYED
then much as you do now. There was
against him then, as there is now
against you, man who admired not
| so much just one woman in all the
world, as, let US say, one particular wo
man then and there present. Perhaps
you remember his name-Mr. Parish
later ennobled by the German govern.
ment and long known as land baron
In New York Come, Think of #,
| Picture that snowbound train. that
great citizen, and Parish, playing and
playing until at last it came to the
| question of a woman--not so beautiful
as this one here, but In her own way
shrewd, the same sort of woman
might say-my sterious, beautiful, and
no, don't protest and I'll not describe
| You remember very well her name. II
was pleasant property not so long age
for everybody. They played for the
love, not for the hand, of that woman
Parish won her. Do you remember
now?
| why deny yourself the luxury OF
remembering such game as that? II
was mans game, and well worth the
| playing. Your former head of the
! army, at least, lost; and he paid The
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22

kASA1 There is the fond of display who into the
tauran with party of friends He enters with the air of
nothing less than proprietor addresses the waiter condendngy by
what may may happen be his Christian looks
with inflated and "We WELL Pm here dttm for somebody
tonotce-me" expression
The if he the for the just at this
uncture He bows just angle and respectful
greeting followed by remarks the following order
Is everything all right? The waiter attending properly
trust? Hows the seak Pm glad there any difficulty about
thing not perfectly suited Mr. SoandSo will esteem
favor if you will send for me-"
Another who while particular friend the
ager still is well known him. This with the
has before Slowly the manager passes the table his mobile
face blank but ready break into pleased recognition at moments
notice His pracced without the faces
of the two the table, and he continues his walk his face still blank
for he has that the for other does not be
recognized.
The ubane and carefully goomd who treads his allotted aes
the department also diplomat His the amut
With the employees his terse and
busness extreme yet if he wse modified by Kindness for
be unpopular and knows this better than the floor
walker.
With of the he obsequiou noncomma
city hepul--it all depends on whom he is dealing with
The loan shark diplomat Meeting him in his office for the first
wonders how the world anybody could have been unknd
applied the word SHARK to him. The impression gets
kindly gentleman greatly wrongd He tells you that he has been
He
eve greatly magned We assaulted by those who have not
played with We have entered bargains with people who
intention of keeping their with When insist
then they raise their Shark Shakp taking into considea
they they doing that they of
mind and understanding when they walked into office the first
time and begged us to aid them"
with sad You only to borrow $40, but
reliable appearing individual and really need Be
show him that you believe him. and bor
fifty
are dinloats
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22

Hogan-Phwat makes We swally alR
your dinner in two minutes, Grogan?
Are yez attn on bet?
Grogan-It's for the good av me
dyspepsy, Moike. Sure the docther
tould me to rist an hour after atm.
and how else am Oh goin' to git the
hour of rist in onless Oh ate loike the
divil?"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
A Ruddinn Star

THE teacher informs me that Mary
Anderson Wombat has considerable
dramatic talent"
That's what. Why, that girl can't
recite the multiplication table without
making the most elegant gestures"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22

1t is somewhat Of an exaggeration to
say that women's gowns are becoming
more and more immodest AS a matter of
fact | think that most of the fashions of
today are but modified copies of an older
period. Almost all of the present styles
are named after styles in vogue during the
reign of Louis XIV.
That we are not exaggerating them
to the degree that the women of that period
did shows that women are gradually grow
ing more sensible
The style of the figure has changed,
for one thing The tiny waist is no lnngnr
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
Madame Vespucci

RESIDENTS of the United
States have been accused
of many offenses, but a
prominent novelist, whose
fame rests on three sto-
ries based on important
incidents in American his
tory has broken the rec
ord. In his latest novel
he has Martin Van Buren,
90 tnnhln with Eanrun Par
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
Fashion
of Dress
Follows
Natural
Law
By CAROLINE FIELDING

essential and the low nec which
longer at all
We seemingly be becoming mmodst Just
from the which have previously reality the
fashion of dress just following the natural law evolution which it
has since the history of dress began.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
Lodging
House
Baths
Go
Begging
By Nj. STEINER
Chicago

ments opposed within mankind Cleanliness
cleanliness thing needed bac
tagonc to mankind and thereby encourage the
to fight and do something worth while.
Those
skim clothing be kept free from real
cleanliness will lower lower ~
Progressive civilization will enforce modern thorough cleanliness
kind which goodness than the tramp does
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22

Superintendent Rogers of the Chicago
municipal lodging house says the baths 90
begging, that tramps avoid water and he
cannot explain the reason. He declares
that men will wait until the beds are full
rather than be forced under shower.
For those who know it would be easy
to show the cause of trampdoms aversion
TO cleanliness. Mankind is the product
of environment" and ''Life is a struggle. .
These proverbs explain the whole story.
4 struggle is going on all the time with
''micro-organisms' Giving dirD, which is
to human life and aehinun-
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
Onnosite Methods.

why has Miss Written such far
away look?"
because she poses as a near
genius"
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in your daily paper represents stroke of diplomacy
Otherwise the could not have been procured The
story that appears in cold, black print is story with
in story, and oftentimes the story of how the story
procured is of much interest than the article
in the paper.
The newspaper man is detective, brother, father,
friend anything everything because he is dplo-
mat in the most subtle meaning of the word
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-04-22
Business
Diplomat
MANAGER Must
Carefully Study
Human Nature
BY p. EVAN JONES

HE manager of every upodae cafe is diplomat He has
to be- Otherwise he could not fill the position satisfactorily.
He has to know people and how to deal with all classes ncud
ing his walters He must forget the face of anyone to
whom he has spoken but because he does not forget he
not hinknor does hehat all those whom he remembers
to have him speak Here is where his diplomacy
mostly into play
There is the fond of display who into the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06

have once come into bearing, the posi-
BILE profits are plain.
Another fruit project in Washington is
the OkanOgan, which will redeem 10000
acres of high-grade fruit lands. This rs
completed.
Going south We come to the Umatilla
irrigation works on the edge of Washing
ton, in northern Oregon. Here an earth
en- embankment half mile long and
1tD feet high will hold back the floods.
The soil is porous and many of the
canals have been lined with cement on
that account. Several towns have grown
up in this region, of which Hermiston
has thousand or more population.
Still farther south is the klamath prof.
ect. on the boundary of Oregon and Cali
fornia, which will reclaim 10000 acres
OF this about 10000 acres are already
under water, and about 40 per cent of the
work has been completed. \ storage
dam has been built which makes Clear
lake reservoir. and there are other
storage projects which will ultimately ir-
rigate this vast tract of land
The Orland project in northern Califor-
mia is also progressing. About - per
East Park dam there Will store water
for about 1900 acres. The dam is 139
feet high, and it has reservoir capacity
of 5000 acre feet This lies about ninety
miles north of Sacramento on the South
ern Pacific railroad. The greater part of
ii will be opened this year
Some of the biggest schemes which the
government now has under way lie in the
heart of the Rockies, or, rather, on the
great western plateau. In Utah We have
the Strawberry valley project, which will
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Goals to Newcastle.

capt. SMITH of the Olympic was
~ questioned in New York about the
coal consumption of the worlds biggest
liner on her first voyage. But Capt
Smith shook his head and said:
That is a coal story / am not privi-
legged To speak about. I'll tell You an
other coal story, though, if you'd care to
hear it?''
I'D be delighted" said the reporter.
well" said Capt. Smith. ITS a story
about poor sailor. He was taken down
with fever on a brigantine, and, though
the mate and captain dosed him well.
he died. They buried him at sea.
They buried him with the usual i'm
pressive sea rites He was sewed in a
sail round which a flag was draped. and.
10 make him sink. the sail was weighted
with d number of big Jumps of coal
"A landlubber of a passenger particle
pated in the services. He watched the
well weighted corpse slip into the water.
Ii disappeared at once, and the landlub-
Der shook his head and said:
well, I've seen many a man go be-
low, but this is the first one I've seea
taking his own coal down with him."
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SALT RIVER. PROJECT. ARAcE4; INDIANS AIDED
II. THE GOVERNr1ENT WORK.

has irrigated farms there for over forty
years. Apache Indians here aided in the
government work.
The dam will hold back million and a
quarter acre feet OF water. and it will
make 2f0GnO acres a very Garden of Eden.
The country there Is so hot that a vast
deal of water will be needed to keep the
lands moist. AS much as four feet can be
used to advantage, that II the water
used in a year should stay on the land
it would cover it to the height of ones
chest.
In the Yuma project. which is still
farther south, at the junction of the ella
and Colorado rivers, the climate Is still
hotter and the land can drink up 5la feet
OF water per annum, SO much that, if
left. it would drown out all the girls I'M
der five feet six who will soon be living
upon it.
The Roosevelt dam is made of sand
stone and cement. 1t is as high as any
office building of twenty-one stories and
its length at the top is equal to two city
blocks. 1t is. in fact over 100 feet
long. 1t is 10 feet thick at the bottom,
and over third of million barrels of
cement were used in its construction
This was made by the government at
works created for the purpose. resulting
in saving of $500, 900 on that item alone
This dam will furnish electric power,
which Will be used for pumping water
from underground in the Salt River val
ley, adding something like a thousand
more farms to the cultivated area
These dams and the others connected
with them now being made by the recla
nation service will add enormously to
our national fruit and bread basket The
lands reclaimed are naturally the richest
of the world. They are made up of the
earth washings of the mountains, whose
fertiliZing materials have not been carried
l,Nrf he vol, c~n iC Hr.t
that OF a hotbed. In most places it sur
passes that of the Nile valley. and alto
gether there is SO much of it that 1t will
add more than seven Egypts to Uncle
Sans farms. All the land now cultivat-
ed in Egypt is a little more than six mil
lion acres. When our reclamation prof.
ects are completed they will reclaim
forty-fve or fifty million acres. and if the
land should support proportionately as
many people as does the valley Of the
Nile they will feed something like sew
enty-seven millions.
This means results which are far in the
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the lands are now being paid for and
every cent of this money will eventually
come back into the Treasury.
Going westward into Oregon and Wash
ington. we reach the fruit lands where the
chances are even greater than in the ir-
rigated sections farther east. Here are
the Yakima projects in a region where
full bearing apple orchards produce crops
worth from $500 to 81 800 per acre. and
where peaches do quite well. Yakima
county is shipping hundreds of thousands
of boxes of apples each year, and millions
of young trees are now growing. Alfalfa
hay brings there 81 a ton in the stack,
and in one year the valley where this
project is situated sold its hay crop for
$2,OG0,0 900. This is a country of towns.
newspapers and up-tO-date people. There
are many private irrigation works under
way, and the products of the valley are
so well known that they command a
ready market. 1t is land of banks,
schools and churches, and one where the
social conditions are already established.
The government estimates that by proper
storage sufficient water can be saved to
irrigate 100000 acres. and a large area is
now under water. Dams have been put
up canals dug, and the farmers are till
ing the soil The cost of the land on the
ten-year installment plan is So per acre.
and the maintenance charge is % cents
per acre per annum. This seems rather
high for one who does not understand the
conditions, but when it is remembered
that orchards are worth from $500 to sew
eral thousand dollars per acre, when they
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Dead Sure.
~ REPRESENTATIVE SWAG

u REPRESENTATIVE SWAGER SHEER
N LEY of Kentucky was talking In
Washington about his amendment TO
strengthen the pure food and drugs BILL
I'VE must make our laws against i'm
pure food and drugs impregnable, he
said, ''or a national state of i'll health
will be ours as certainly as-as GER
tainly AS"
He tesitated, then resumed.
1T reminds me of d story, story
about d Louisville maid servant who said
one day to her mistress:
'''Migut | have next Friday week
off. ma am?'
you'll get your usual Thursday the
important
my fiance is to be buried ma'am,
next Friday a week, and l want to go
to the funeral
Your fiance? Buried? Why, l didn't
know you had a fiance. let alone that he
was dead
"'He amt dead, ma am said the maid
softly
1.-The mistress smiled and looked re-
lieved.
"'Not dead? Then, of course she
said, you can't be sure he is going to
die, no matter how i'll he may be. None
of US know when we are going to die
Death is the one uncertain thing And
yet you would predict positively the date
of this mans death and burial. It's alb
surd of you
Excuse me. ma'am.' said the maid
In low voice. 1t amt absurd. Jim's
gosn' 70 be hung.'"
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Anecdotes Concerning Well Known People
An Example.

CLIFFORD B. HARMON was talking
~ ar the Aero Club in New York about
successful aviators.
The successful aviator" he said. sis
resourceful If things are lacking, he
supplies them. He is like Gobsa Code.
''Gobsa Code. before he struck oil, went
one day to the races and lost all on the
favorite. 1t was a hot day, and Gobsa,
though very thirsty, hadn't so much as
the price of a glass of soda water. Never
theless he stepped boldly into paatial
saloon
In the saloon he struck up Il CONVERSE
ton with prosperous-lookingm man.
- You're hale, sound, lusty man. said
Gobsa. It's good for sore eyes in these
degenerate days to see a man like you.
What's your age"
- 'Fifty-four,' said the fat man, with
pleased smile. What's yours
Thanks said Gobsa gratefully.
Thanks. Mines large beer
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schools in her early years and then study
ing under special teachers. She delights
in the leisurely life of the university town.
such as New Haven offers, and she often
says that it is the ideal existence. if one
has the time. But since her marriage. now
more than eighteen years ago, she has be-
come imbued with the rushing life of
Gotham. and she is a true New Yorker
in her love of hustle and of transitory
conditions
Accustomed to the discussion Of politics
and the public questions of the day in her
fathers home, Mrs. Stimson brought a
thorough knowledge Of these important
themes to the New York home after her
marriage. She has been valuable aid
to her husbands political ambition.
The conservatism Of her New England
training has always kept Mrs. Stimson
as much out of the limelight as possible,
and she has never identified herself &C
lively with any of the feminine move
ments now making such stir in the
world.
The advent of cabinet hostess unaf-
fectedly fond Of social life is accepted as
a blessing in Washington. Generally New
York women, Injured to the rather sharp
line drawn between classes, dread the
melting pot process to which they are
subjected in the capital One woman
from New York who long presided over
a cabinet home never could overcome the
dislike she felt when strangers penetrated
her home unbidden.
But Mrs StimSon seems to welcome this
experience as one of the genuine elements
of enjoyment She is prepared TO find all
the duties and obligations exaggerated
and the joys and compensations mini
mixed. Such hopeful outlook cannot
help but make her one of the valuable
assets in the social success of Mrs. Taft's
regime.
In appearance Mrs. Stimson is most dis
tinguished. She is tall and erect and has
soft white hair, prematurely white for
she is far removed from the years which
mean gray hairs. Her complexion is
fresh and wholesome as a girls, a thing
she attributes to her continual life in the
open.
Things must be very grave when 1 do
not take my daily canter or at least a
long walk. That is my recompcnse for
any fatigue which the routine may
bring" said Mrs. Stimson. They tell
me that horseback riding has gone out
of fashion in Washington, and that
every one here uses an auto think
however, that ! shall find many com
rades when I start out Oh my trips
Horseback riding will be fashionable as
long as horses continue to exist, and
there seems no hint OF their extermina-
ton just yet
The stimsons have a string of the
finest horses about the country estate