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Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
weight and chest girth, is much la

weight and chest girth, is much la
ter than formerly supposed" writes
DR.. Woods Hutchinson in an article in
the July Hampton's Magazine In
stead Of reaching, as was at one time
confidently stated, our full height at
is, our full strength at % and our
full chest girth at 20, as matter of
fact we continue to increase slowly,
lit is true, in all these respects until
S5, 3s and even 40 years Of age.
by living healthful, active, happy
life and keeping up all our interests,
we can grow and develop and adjust
ourselves and feel that we are grow
ing until we are one day suddenly
dead, without ever realizing in any
distressing or painful way that we are
growing old at all.
Already old age has gone quite out
Of fashion The civilized, educated
man or woman of 70 is younger than
the savage of 40 or the peasant of so.
What with steady spread of regular
vocations and country or suburban
homes and walking clubs and golf and
gardens and automobiling, fishing and
hunting trips and travel of all sorts,
those who would have been eonsid-
cred old once are now only 20 or rs
years young.
Not only is there no definite period
in adult or later life when these So
called senile changes begin, but there
is no period at which they become ac-
celebrated or start to prograss at a
more rapid rate than before. In fact
the extraordinary paradox exists, that
what we term old age is the time of
life in which we are growing old least
rapidly. The only thing that makes
il appear otherwise is that we have
been steadily growing old all our lives
long and the thousand imperceptible
accumulations have mounted to pitch
which we can recognize"
1t was wise doetor who gave the
wife sleeping powders when her bus
hand was tr, li'ei with insomnia.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Just to add to the many proofs
that there is nothing in a name we
cite the fact that several families
living in Paradise, Kansas, have sold
out and will seek new homes and
that man living at Hope, in the same
state, made an attempt to commit sui
eide last week.
We fail to understand why the pa
pers are making such fuss over s,r-
ator Lea, who gave quart of his
blood to save his wife's life. and are
calling him hero. Many man gives
his wife So quite frequently, say two
or three times a year, and anyone
knows that that is more real heroism
than to give up little blood.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Three days after the Blade was in
possession of the Ripple confession the
two papers of Durango began to quar-
rel as to who got hold of the facts
first.-Bayfield Blade.
This is just about as we supposed,
the information was given to outside
papers but refused the home sheets.
The Blade is no doubt a powerful lit
tie sheet but we doubt very much
THAT it's influence is greater than that
of both the Durango dailies combined,
There's day coming.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
people testify that Doan's Kidney Pills
p. o. Box $50 Tel. Black 124

people testify that Doan's Kidney Pills
cure permanently.
Home endorsement should prove un-
doubtedly the merit of this remedy.
Years ago your friends and neighbors
testified to the relief they had derived
from the use of Doan's Kidney Pills.
They now confirm their testimonials.
They say time has completed the test.
NJ. I. Prince of Pagosa Springs,
Colo, says: For two or three years
my kidneys did not their work prop
erly and at times the pains in my
back became almost unbearable.
had other marked symptoms of kid
ney complaint, the principal one be-
ing profuse passages of the kidney
secretions. The contents of four box
es of Doan's Kidney Pills cured me
and at that time I publicly endorsed
them. You may continue to use my
statement, as my cure has been per.
manent."
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-an
take no other.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
HOW TO SWAT FLIES.

In the greater part OF the large vol
ume of material that has been PRINT
ell during the past two or three years
concerning the necessity of swatting
the fly, attention has been directed in
the main to pointing out danger of the
food. People have been drummed to
distraction almost with the Slogans
Swat the Fly" or Get rid of the
fly" etc, and not much information
has been given as to how this can be
accomplished, except in the general
advice that all houses should be
screened and that premises should be
kept free from filth Of all kinds, the
breeding places of the flies.
DR.. Leland o. Howard, who has the
reputation of being the greatest
American authority on the fly, has re-
Gently published beck entitled, "The
House Fly-Disease Carrier" in which
he handles all phases Of the fly ques-
tion. Excerpts from it are being sent
all over the country by the American
Civic association, which is active in
the anti-fly campaign. Among them
are many valuable suggestions on how
to battle with the fly, some of which
follow:
From western Australia comes d
remedy that is said to effectually de
stroy the flies. It consists of a mix
ture of a half teaspoonful of black
pepper, teaspoonful of brown sugar
end teaspoonful of cream. If this
mixture is placed in a room where
flies are troublesome it is said that
they will soon disappear.
In the japanese hospitals they take
a whole potato and stick it full of
tcothpicks A fly paste is placed on
Tho toothpicks, and the potatoes are
then hung over the patients bed on a
cord. The flies all gather on the po-
tato. When it is full they throw the
potato away and make new trap.
A ten per cent solution of ordinary
formaldehyde in a shallow dish of
water sweetened with sugar will at
tract and kill many flies. A teaspoon
ful of formalin in a teacup full of wa
Ter is about the proper proportions.
As this formalin solution is non
poisonous 70 man, it may be used
readily even about food. Where it is
Used there should be no other liquid
Tor flies to drink
The burning of pyrethrum powder,
which can be obtained at any drug
store, is said to be most effective in
killing the flies in room. Dropping
twenty drops or so of carbolic acid on
a rot shovel will produce vapor that
will also put flies out of business in
short order.
With such simple and inexpensive
agencies as these it ought to be easy
for any one to swat the tlies that have
gained some headway on them.-State
Journal
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
FUNERAL OF
CHESTER WILLIAM

CHESTER WILLIAMS
The funeral Of Chester Williams
took place at the Hermosa school
house Sunday afternoon at o'clock
and to show the esteem in which the
young man was held practically the
entire Animas valley turned out to
pay respect, the school house being
crowded with many on the outside
Saturday and Sunday morning loving
hands had decorated the church with
flcvers and the caslet was a mass
of floral offerings, roses of every col
OF predominating. The sermon was
preached by Rev Mr.. Gunby, pastor of
the NJ. f. church South. Mr.. Gunby's
remarks were unusually good and the
people listened with wrapt attention.
A choir of six voices of Animas valley
singers sang several fayorite selec-
ticns. At the close of the services all
present were given an opportunity to
take a last earthly look at the de-
parted. Then the pail bearers convey
ed the remains to the adjoining ceme-
terry followed by over 200 people of
the valley.
Deceased was 30 years of age, hav
ing lived twenty-one years in the Ami
mas valley where ne gained the re-
spect and good will Of all who knew
him. Theaged mother and father who
are at Portland, are with their young
est daughter, Miss Pearl wero unable
to make the long journey, but two
brothers, Charles and Herbert, and
two sisters, Mrs. L. d. Billings and
Mrs. Porter Putnam, were present, be-
ing residents of the valley, and from
expressions the bereaved can rest as
sured that they have the sympathy of
the valley from one end to the other
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
Wins Fight tor Life.

1t was long and bloody battle for
life that was waged by James B. Mer-
shon of Newark, N. j., of which he
writes; Il had lost much blood from
lung hemorrhages, and was very weak
and run down. For eight months /
was unable to work. Death seemed
close on my heels, when began, three
weeks ago, to use DR.. Kings New
Discovery. But it has helped me
greatly 1t is doing all that you claim
For weak, sore lungs, obstinate
coughs, stubborn colds, hoarseness, la
grippe, asthma, hay fever, or any
throat or lung trouble it's supreme.
SOC and s1.O0. Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by all druggists.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

If we were to be bitten by an explor-
ing bug we wouldn't risk our life hunt
ing for the north pole. We'd put in
our time trying to discover some kind
of hat that woman wouldn't wear
even when told it was An the Style,
or in hunting for politician who had
once resigned good paying job. The
pole proposition is easy in comparison
with either of these.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The queen has snubbed so many
American women in London this sea-
son that the New York women are
making up purse to pay the travel
ing expenses of the most expert snub-
Der in the city who is to cross over
and give the queen a public frost. This
may lead to war, for wars have been
caused by less provocation.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Life is sort Of game of checkers.
Your foes are always ready to jump
you and you get hemmed in until there
are only certain ways you can move.
Last week George moved up into the
king row and the people crowned him
and he can now travel any way he
likes while us common checkermen
can only move forward where the
board of life is open.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Queen Mary must have a pair of
pretty bum legs for she denounces
short skirts severely but wears an ex-
tremely low-necked gown. However,
it possibly may be not so much lack
OF limb as the possession of an ex-
traordinarily pretty bust which causes
the discrimination.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

AS long as common sense is so
scarce and opinions are so plentiful
it is no wonder that very few opinions
are worth anything.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

There is good deal of talk about
the fact of our not knowing one an
other well enough being the cause of
trouble but the real facts are that
most of the trouble in the world is
caused because we know one another
too darned well.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
anything like what he now saw since
the day he was weaned.

We dislike both the party who calls
us up on the phone during business
hours to tell us some frivolous matter
and the one who, after having called
us, talks as though he was afraid we
might hear what he is saying.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

We have always been told that pho
tographs do not lie but we never
yet saw photo showing the beau
ties of summer resort that showed
even hint of the hordes of mosqui-
toes that are found there.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

King George gets a million dollars
a year as salary and it is said that
any Of the pretty Ladies in Waiting
are anxious to sit on his lap at any
time the queen isn't looking. II we
can secure a job as king The Herald
will be for sale.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The fact that many of the wealthy
men of today laid the foundation for
their wealth while working as clerks
on So salary may possibly be ac-
counted for by the fact that they did
not have cash registers in those days,
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

When man gets so careless about
his person that taking bath is equiv
alent to donning a disguise it's time
for the committee on public health to
take charge.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The man behind the gun is the one
who is probably entitled to all honor
but it is the man who stands in front
of the gun who deserves our sym
pathy. Men, sometimes, are forced
by principle to take the latter position
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

When you read about the condition
found to exist in the hull of the Maine
you won't wonder that it sank. You
would sink too if your entire aft was
blown away
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

An optimist will cheerfully take the
one chance in the hundred of winning
while a pessimist is scared to death
if there is one chance in hrndred of
loving.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

If you make blunder and are real
ly sorry for it it is probably all right
to ask forgiveness but the best way
to show your contrition is to be care
full and never repeat the blunder.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

A friend this week sent us copy
of the Hannibal Daily Courier and
it surely brings back the scenes Of
our youth We were a carrier for that
paper in 1878.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

When we were just Il boy an uncle
gave us Waterbury watch and now,
since we are old, hard days work
leaves us in almost as exhausted con-
dition as the winding Of thai watch
used to leave us.--Sim Jones.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Our idea of lack of news is to
be forced to have to write something
about the Lorimer case IN order to
have a front-page article.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The man who will do you small
favor and then forget it is worth a
dozen of the kind who win do you
big favor and then throw it up to you
eleven times day for the balance of
his life.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

You can often form a pretty reliable
estimate of the mothers good sense
and judgment by noting at what age
her daughter begins to talk boy and
wear false hair.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Fashions change in games as we'll
as clothing and baseball is now so
popular that the pitching of horse
shoes is engaged in only by very old
men and in only small towns at that,
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

While we dislike to appear fnieky
yet we must confess that the man
who enters the office for the purpose
Of paying up, or subscribing, is far
more welcome guest than the man
who comes in tc give US free advice
on how u paper should be run.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Beware of these pussy footed fell
lows, a cat when it is going after a
mouse always assumes the very ex-
preston that get-rich-quick fellow
wears when approaching victim.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Some people believe that aviation is
of recent origin but the facts are that
Elijah pulled off an aviation stunt
away back in the early days of his
tory, and he went so high that he
never came back.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

If you are clever enough to fool
people into the idea that you are clev-
er, and keep them fooled, you are
really clever enough to earn the repu-
tation by legitimate methods.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

We have decided that if we were a
woman and couldn't vote we'd be a
suffragette but if the law gave us a
right to vote. and tried to make us
do it, we'd be an insurgent.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Even milkmaids are losing their
rights, for a Washington Dairyman's
association recently resolved that no
mixers should be employed who wore
whiskers or chowed tobacco.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The individual idea works so well
10 the matter of drinking cups that
we believe that individual pants, which
are to be worn by the husband only,
would be good idea in some fami-
lies.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

When family of girls take vaca-
tion visit then mother gets a real rest
for it is great deal easier for mother
to do the work alone than to get the
girls to help.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Time is the most valuable thing in
the world but unless you nave some
thing besides time to spend you are
not a welcome visitor in any business
house.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

There is too much of the throw
out the lifeline" talk. If man is
set on going to the dogs let him go
as quickly as possible and make room
for another and better man.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

We are so kindly in our decisions
regarding our own actions that we
often think we should receive SYM
pathy when the truth is we should
have a good beating.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

We are not naturally Of mean dis
position but we do occasionally find a
lot of pleasure in making would-be
dead beat pay us what he justly owes.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Nothing makes lazy man so mad
as to be twitted Of the fact that he is
lazy. An Industrious man always
likes to be called lazy and takes it as
Joke.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

When you are feeling blue go out
and hunt up another pessimist and
talk about how hard the times are.
This will make you both happy.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Have you ever noticed hat the most
impolite people you know are the ones
who are always boast,n.s about how
well they have been raised
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Some times, after big row has
been pulled off, all parties are left
wondering what in the thunder it was
ali about.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Just as a drowning man will grasp
at straw so will old fashioned peo-
pie, in time of drought, anxiously
consult the almanac to learn when the
moon changes.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
OLD AGE OUT OF FASHION.

Careful studies and measurements
have shown that our time of actual
maturity and arrest of growth in
physical characters, such as height,
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

There are only ten commandments
but there are seven hundred and nine
ty-nine ways of breaking each one of
them
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

An old fashioned man was asked by
his daughter how he liked her new
low-necked gown. He told her that,
excepting for his wife, he hadn't seen
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

twenty-five cent package OF CalocidP
is usually sufficient to put tho worst
feet in tine condition Caloclde is no
longer confined to only the doctors
use Any druggist has it in stock or
will quickly get it from his whole
sale house This win prove n wei
come item to persons who have been
vainly trying to cure their foot
troubles with ineffective tablets ana
foot powders
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Most men sit down to the table with
the family just to be sociable, what
they really live on is tobacco and Ii
quid refreshment.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Almost every man believes that he
has ideas that would enable him to
make millions if he only had few
thousand dollars to start with
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

There are two things man should
do to his shirt even in the very warm
est weather, keep the tail tucked in
and the collar buttoned.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

If you could notice just what your
weight registers, on the other fellows
scales, it might sometimes reduce
swelling of the Uranium.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

An enthusiast is a man who can
feel perfectly sure he is right when
he knows he is wrong.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

would it take an experienced officer
TO pull gang?
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

There is one nice thing about work
ing under a boss, you always have
some one to lay the blame on.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The very best extsmporancous
speakers are said to be the leaf and
dumb for they always speak off hand
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

Our idea of an honest man is one
who works just as steadily when hired
by the day as when working by the
job.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

that few men are as Perfectly Good as
the attorney for the defense makes it
appear.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The merchant who allows his clerks
to run the business and the parent
who allows a kid to run the house are
both in fair way to lose out.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

The devil is said to be less black
than he is painted and it is also true
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29
THIS is CERTAIN.

The Proof That Durango Readers
Cannot Deny.
What could furnish stronger evil
dence of the efficiency of any remedy
than the test of time? Thousands of
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

II It cakes four sheriffs five days
70 estch . one-legged man how long
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

in the loss of loved one in the prime
of life.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

cure is permanent " All
pain and Inflammation is
drawn Out Instantly and
the buuinn soon Is reduced
to normal size Corms and
calluuscs can he peeled
right on and viii stay on
Sore tender feet and
smelly. sweaty feet need
hut "A few freaatmpnts A
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-29

"Dissolve two tablespoonfus Of Gallo
eide compound in ii basin Of hot water;
soak the feet IN This for full fifteen
minutes, gently massaging the sore
parts tLess tInc viii not give desired
results) Repeat this each night until
Pocahontas star herald., 1911-05-26
The Newspaper

The character of a newspaper,
what it should and should not be, is
discussed editorially by the Dallas
Georgia. New Era, which says:
"Of all the men, the newspaper
men who are to select from the
worlds doings and the community's
dolngs that with which the public
IS to be made familiar, needs TO be
painstaking and judicious, and to
lay aside his dislike and clear him
self of all malice.
elf the newspaper which you take
il to decide what Information con-
cernlng the doings, good and bad.
in the world and community, you
and your family are to be made
familiar with, have you not also a
duty, as to the kind of a newspaper
you take whether it be one that
parades and patronizes vice and
crime, and sneers at goodness and
decency, or the one that does the
reverse of this? Does it make
difference whether you admit, daily
or weekly, to your household, a
paper winch has regard for truth
fulness and fairness, or one which
prevaricates and ISLANDERS at any
time to suit its purpose?
"To the newspapers are commit
ted great responsibilities, and of it
there must be corresponding de.
mand. TIE responsibility Ought
to be excused under the power and
guidance of noble principles.
"But the paper and those who
make it have not the only responsi-
bility. They who select the paper
which they take and will patronize
have responsibility for their Sc
lection. He who supports paper
in any way is responsible in meas
ure for the characte. of that paper.
"Every community is responsible
for the kind of papers which it en-
courages and supports and especial
ly is there a responsibility to the
character of the paper admitted to
the home-a responsibility for ad-
hitting it.
"There is no place, as some has
has said where a man should more
carefully and firmly exercise his
moral and Christian principle than
than in the selection of his paper?"
Pocahontas star herald., 1911-05-26
TO DOUBLE SUNDAY
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

To double the Sunday school at,
tendance In Arkansas by September
25, 1912, the Arkansas Sunday
School Association proposes the
following;
l. . All churches without Sunday
schools are urged to organize. -
2. Lay leaders IN the stronger
churches are asked to assist the
weaker in organizing and maintain
ing Sunday schools.
3. Schools are urged to main
tain organized classes to enlist adults
and teacher training classes to pre-
pare for more efficient teaching.
4. County Sunday school officers
are asked to organize the townships
into Associations to meet monthly
to discuss Sunday school plans and
methods.
5. On Monday, September 25,
1911, statewide Sunday school
census is to be taken by committees
from the Sunday schools. Every
Sunday school is asked to hold a
rally on the Sunday previous. The
census visitation is to be followed
by systematic personal effort to
win all out of Sunday school to
membership in it.
6. Some Sunday school light
houses are to be erected by the en-
listment, of six communities in an
effort to win every person to enroll.
ment in Sunday school; twenty five,
to enroll three fourths; fifty, one
half;-all to seek to maintain an
average of IS per cent of the enroll
ment not counting the Cradle Roll
and Home Departments. The unit
of territory for such efforts may be
a municipality, school district, or
township.
I. Articles on these movements
are to be furnished weekly to one
or more papers in every county of
the state.
s. The Arkansas Sunday School
Herald, Little Rock, will give illus
trations and explanations monthly
setting fourth in detail information
for carrying out these movements.
Caution is urged against overdue
emphasis on quantity or numbers
iii Sunday school, and undue en-
phasis on quality. Efforts merely
for numbers, as in most contests, is
Pocahontas star herald., 1911-05-26

ottener harmful than helpful.
Church members should be sought
first, then others.
Yours In the work,
s. G. PARISH.
Conway, Ark.