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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-29
Farms Show Increase,

Washington. - Because of many
statements during the Canadian reci-
procity debate Is of special in
terested the Census Bureaus an
nouncement Of the latest general
farm statistics OF the United States
showing that farms more than doubled
in value during the last ten years, hav-
Ing increased $15.252. .7sS. 900 or 11s per
cent Is Of great interest. In 1900 they
we're valued at $13.O51. .033 900 and re-
turns Of the thirteenth census SHOW
tnsy are now worth $2s,3S4, ,s21 ,oO0
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-29
The Shepherd of the Black Sheep

a more intense form Of the smile In
extreme cases the eyes are moistened
by the effusion from the lachrymal
glands"
There you have a scientific deflni-
ton. But 1t Is clear that mankind
would hardly take the trouble to go
through that experience. II that II all
that laughter consisted of. They
would not regard a Dickens or a
Mark Twain as q benefactcr merely
because q perusal Of their writings
produced that. No: even ths philoso-
piers know that laughter 10 a. nething
better than that-something internal
that there II such . thing as silent
laughter. Hobbies calls laughter -
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crease OF pension for the widow of soldier
There pa pers forwarded to him which bore
on the case. and these he turned the
committee on pensions after his bill had been
introduced.
The widow did not get her money and II was
not long before the whole house knew why. The
member who had espoused the widows
had been in congress for years, and the joke at
mis- expense too good to keep. and after
another of his colleagues walked up to his desk
and congra uated him the wisdom shown in
the plea which was in written form, he had
turned in to the committee win the widows
1t is perhaps needless to say that the mem
Der had never read the plea. 1t set forth the
fact that while the amount OF pension increase
the widow of the soldier hero asked for
large. It must be understood that she came Of
good family. moved in the best social circles, and
was in need OF large sum OF money to keep up
appearances
Upon occasion senators and representatives per
NIT their constituents to do their talking for
them in congress Petitions come in foods at
times with the object of securing legislation by
external pressure. In the Smoot case. and in
the pure food and army canteen matters the pleas
Of the people came in by the tens Of thousands.
The members OF both houses present these let
ters call attention their import and then allow
the petition do the II they are potent
enough.
Senator Latimer of South Carolina once intro
duced a good roads bill calling for the e1pendi-
ture of government millions for the improvement
Of the highways. fhe automobilists all over the
country began sending letters of approval. They
pressed their friends into the writing service but
that they did not always pass upon the persuasive
merits OF the friends productions is shown fair
y well by letter the good roads subject
received by Senator Cuom- 1t read like this
Dear Mr.. Cuom: Please for this id
bill. and you will oblge a fool friend of mine
who automobile. Yours less
sincerely, -"
1t WAS a Chicago man who wrote this appeal.
There others like unto it. The good roads
bill still sleeps.
In the older days the school readers contained
the story of I'll Try Sir Miller" Probably
everybody knows who I'm Try Sir Miller" was
Certainly everybody ought to know. Gen. James
Miller then captain. the hero OF Lundy's
Lane. He said he would try do the thing
necessary for the thrashng of the enemy and he
did it. and I'll Try Sir" took the place Of his
Christian name James.
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Professor Sir Charles Bell In the
Strand Calls II 4 Convulsive Ac-
tion Of the Diaphragm.

Laughter. says Professor Sir
Charles Bell in the London Strand. 'is
q convulsive action OF the diaphragm
In this state the person draws full
breath and throws 1t out in interrupt
ed. short and audible cachinnations.
This convulsion Of the diaphragm IL
the principal part Of the physical man
Hesitation Of laughter: but there are
several accessories. especially the
sharp vocal utterance arising from the
violent tension Of the larynx and the
expression Of the features. this being
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The Reason.

"How effusively sweet that Mrs.
Blondey is TO you. Jonesey." said
Witherell. whats up. Any tender
little romance there?"
NO, indeed; why. that woman
hates me- said Jonesey.
She doesn't show it," said With
erell-
NO, but she knows l know how old
she is-we were both born on the
same day." said Jonesey. "and she's
afraid I'll tell somebody"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-29
HoMEsEEKERs ExcUR SION
RATES TO TEXAS AND NEW
MEXICO POINTS DUR
ING 1911.

On the first and third Tuesdays OF
each month during the entire year
The Colorado and Southern Rail-
way will sell round trip homeseekers'
excursion tickets to great many
points in New Mexico and Texas at
greatly reduced rates. Final limit
25 days allowing liberal stop-over
privileges. For detailed Information,
rates, ETC.. call on your nearest Colo
RADIO and Southern agent or address T.
E. Fisher, General Passenger Agent,
Denver. Colo.
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Never Said II.

"I hear you have been saying you
would take a great delight in attend
ing my funeral"
Il have never said anything OF the
kind"
Il think l should prefer to believe
the man who told me-"
Very well; believe him. If you
like: but | never said it. l should not
think of permitting myself to be seen
at your funeral"
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Shirt Sleeves Are Barred.

Newburg.-No longer will shirtwaist
and shirtleeve men be seen At
West Point. The order now in effect
Is that any working man entering the
reservation from Highland Falls or
other places without the customary
coat on, is to be warned by the guard,
and il second offence is committed,
he viii be arrested for violations OF
post regulations.
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Well to Be Prepared.

Smitherson went home one evening
after bad day at the gambling table.
Wife, he said, have you anything
to eat?"
Yes; lots of things"
We'll. cook up everything in the
house-everything.'
Gracious, Are you so hungry"
No" answered Smitherson with
finality. I'm going to sell the stove"
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His Invention.

His Invention.
Or. Arthur William White of Yale
delights in telling of his experience
with an inventor of the unletter-
genius type who came to the professor
with a model Of perpetual motion
machine.
HIN; looks plausible" observed Dr.
White. but it won't work. What are
you going to about gravity?"
"Grayity!" said the visitor scorn-
fully. Tell wit gravity; we'n use
plenty O. grease"
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State Granoe to Meet.

Denver.-The Colorado State Grange
will hold field day and picnic a.
City Park, July 27. There will be ad.
dresses by Gov. Shafroth, Acting May.
or Robertson and oliver Wilson, lec-
turer of the National Grange. There
will be all kinds of field sports and
music.
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Sour Cream.

"In our country. where can one real
" find the cream OF society,"" asked
Hiss Blase.
In Reno. of coures, where society
goes through the separator" replied
the cynic acridly.
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Of Sir Frank lockwood something that
would make a stuffed bird rejoice!
And those who listened to the splen-
dor Of merriment which he could i'm
part by that laugh realize the intense
value Of that emotional exercise"
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AIibi,

Father (having caught his son in
q lie)-Haven't l always told you to
tell the truth?
Son-Yes. father: but you also told
me never to become the slave Of =
habit.
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Do you ever think Of the irrevocable
nature Of speech? You may dnd,
years after your light word was
spoken spoken. that 1t made . whole
life unhappy. Or ruined the peace os
Q household.-9topford Brooks.
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II All Depends.

Sunday School Teacher-What is
the chief end of man?
Willie-I asked pa that, and he said
II the man was writer. twas his
head, but if he ran errands, twas has
feet
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The peaeemaker.

Fond Mother-And has mamma's~
angel been a peacemaker today!
Mammals Angel-Yes. ma; Tommy
TUT was a-lickin' Willie Whimpers
an when / told him to stop he
wouldn't a. | jumped in an licked the
stuffin' cut o. both OF 'em.
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Was Getting Old.

Cholly-While I was calling on your
daughter last evening. Mr.. Butts, your
dog growled at me.
Old Butts-Did he bite you?
Cholly-Oh. no-only growled.
Old Butts-Ill have to get rid OF
him and get another.
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Turn About Fair Play.

Attorney General Wickersham was
describing an unfair law.
THE people under this law" he
said, "are very much in the position
Of young Washington attache.
"As the attache was breakfastins
the other morning, his servant said to
him:
"'You are out of whisky. sir. Shall!
l get bottle?'
"Yes, l think you might, Jamcs.'
the master replied. It's your turn"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-29
Reduced ROuna.Tr1p
81 uMMER TOURIST FARES
to the
PACIFIC COAST

TIE Denver 4 Rio Grande Railroad
The Scenic Line OF the World"
sSO irOn all maan Hne points in Cole
% 1%ndS to Pacific Coast Destinations.
81 1icKets on sale daily to September
II, 1911,
Standard and Tourist Pullman
Sslseplng cars are operated daily
through to San Francisco and Los
Angeles without change,
through electric-lighted train con-
Tourist Sleeping Cars il operated daily
Denver to San Francisco via Salt Lake
CITY and THE WESTERN PACIFIC
For Information regarding train SER
vice, reservations. etc. call on local Rio
Grande Agent or address
Agent. Denver, Colorado.
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]. Reinhardt. MD.
400 Central S. B. Blk. Denver. Colo.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-29

picturesqueness and abil
fly In congress knows no sec
tions. Northerners. southern
ers, fasteners and westerners
have their strengths and their
weaknesses. their likes and their
dislikes, their physical manner
isms and their mental tdiosyn-
crasies Just like all other human
beings.
There have been men in con
gress who year in and year out
The Appeal., 1911-01-14

before the Portuguese revolution tore
the scepter from his hands, are no
longer in evidence. The youthful
exile has lost 20 pounds at least
since the upset of Lisbon. He wan
ders about his uncle's estates as dis
consolately as any hungry exile of
less rank in the foreign quarter of
Soho.
That the ex-king will receive an in.
come of 100000 yearly from his es.
tates in Portugal now seems improb.
able. 1t is even likely the estates
will not be turned over to him at all
but will be confiscated in partial set
tlement of the debts of his family to
the Portuguese people. These debts
are many times the value of Manuels
estates.
When Manuel was exiled it was re.
ported he, was only too glad to lay
down his kingship and wanted to live
a life free from the worry and dan,
gers his title brought,
The Appeal., 1911-01-14
MADE H|M WEALTHY
Fleet on Upper Missouri Operated
by Captain Baker.
Runs Six Boats and Several Barges
Hauling Coal, Merchandise and
Farm Products-Worth a
Million.

Bismarck, N. DIT is commonly be-
Iieved in Bismarck that Capt.. Isaac
P. Baker is'worth a million dollars.
At any rate, he is said to be one of
the richest men in North Dakota.
And how do you suppose Captain Ba-
ker made that much money-for he
made it all since he came to Bis
marck? He made the beginning of it
running steamboats, on the Missouri
river, and he has been making money
with them ever since.
1T isn't generally known below
Sioux City that the only regular navi-
cation on the Missouri at present is
west of Bismarck That is true, how
ever, and Captain Bakers fleet is the
carrier of commerce that frequently
runs as high as thirty thousand tons
in a season. .... .r--.z
In fact, Captain Baker has serious
ly been considering the operation of
boats through to Fort Benton. Years
ago boats ran regularly to Fort Ben
ton. When the railroads went through
Montana the business ceased, be-
cause the country was so sparsely set
tied along the Missouri that there was
nothing for the boats to transport.
Now the valley is being settled up and
there is demand for transportation.
Captain Baker started in years ago
with one small boat. Now, through
the packet company, of which he is
the owner, he operates fleet of six
boats and several barges. All ex.
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cept one of these boats are propelled
by gasoline engines. The newest OF
the fleet is the Expansion, built at
Bismarck last spring and said to be
the lightest draft boat ever put upon
the Missouri river. 1t is 124 feet 7
inches long, Fl feet inches beam
and draws ten inches of water light.
On a draft of three feet it carries $50
tons, and loaded to it's capacity it will
carry three hundred tons. The Ex-
pansion is propelled by a 6O-horsepow-
er gasoline engine and travels four
and one-half miles an hour against
the current. Captain Bakers other
boats are the F'rayne, the Deapolis,
the Washburn. the O. X. and the Bis
marck.
West of Bismarck the railroads
touch the Missouri Valley in only a
few places, and the farmers, instead
of hauling their grain inland to the
railroads, haul it to the river for ship
ment by boat. At each of the land
lngs Captain Baker has a small ele-
suIOA, "AOAO CA0 SIdlu is stored u0tll
shipment. Then, when a boat comes
along,' the grain is loaded in bulk and
carried down to Bismarck, where It is
unloaded by movable hoist into the
elevator at the top of the bank and
from that into the cars. The boats
now run up the Missouri river as far
as the mouth of the Milk river in
Montana and up the Yellowstone to
Glendive, Mont. On the up trips the
boats carry all kinds of merchandise.
coal, lumber, machinery and other
supplies to the farmers and the mer-
chants. Downstream, before the grain
movement begins, they carry live.
stock, wool, hides, hay and other farm
products.
Out of the last appropriation for the
Missouri river, $S2,500 was set aside
for work at Bismarck and other
points up to Fort Benton, one item of
which is $4,000 to clear rocks from
the channel so that boats may get to
Fort Benten without danger.
The Appeal., 1911-01-14

placed on exhibition. Many sea cap
tains viewed it, and were unanimously
Of the opinion that they had never
seen such barnacles this side of Lab
rador.
These sea parasites are more than
an inch in thickness and have prob
ably been accumulating on the bottle
many years. That the "toggle' may
have drifted from the icy waters Of
Labrador to the little granite island
of the Maine coast is not considered
at all impossible How many years it
has been engaged in its voyage is an
interesting problem scarcely likely to
be solved
Joseph M. Porter, a stonecutter, who
carried the. bottle to Rockland, was Of
fered fancy figure for it by several
tourists, but will send it to his brother,
John Newton Porter of New York.
The Appeal., 1911-01-14
STRANGE i! A 4 'l|::. MESSENGER 81 ! E a OF SEA
Bottle Encased in BarnacIes Recently
Washed Ashore on the Coast
Of Maine.

Rockland, Me.-A strange messenger
of the seas was washed ashore at
Hurricane island, recently, where it
fell into the possession of fisherman
named Gustaf Nelson.
Mr.. Nelson thought he had wan
dered on freak fish, but examination
showed that his discovery was a bot
tie, so thoroughly covered with large
barnacles that only the neck was
visible. The bottle was Of the kind
used by lobster fishermen as toggles
for lobster-pot buoys, but the barnacles
were of a size and character unlike
any others he had ever seen in these
waters.
Instead of throwing his strange find
back into the ocean Mr.. Nelson car
ried it to the village store, where 1t
occasioned so much comment that it
was sent across to Rockland and
The Appeal., 1911-01-14

teen years old, whose mate died re.
Gently without issue at the age of
twenty-four. - ,.......~
AS late as 1877 what is now known
to have been the last nesting place
Of these wild birds was found In the
state of Michigan, where their nests
thickly covered the trees over an
area % miles long and four miles
wide. Residents Of New York declare
that in 1850 they flocked over Manhat.
tan Island in such numbers that they
obscured the sun and that ships load
ed in bulk with the bodies of these
birds lay at the wharves selling them
at a cent apiece. Audubon is quoted
as observing a roosting place of wild
pigeons in Kentucky early in the last
century that extended 40 miles and
was three miles in width On its
edges men with guns, nets, clubs and
torches slaughtered the roostins
birds, each often bagging 500 in one.
day. r.
Declaring that practically all the
gulls and terms in America today have
survived solely through the work OF
protection and restoration at their
reservations, leaders Of the National
Association Of Audubon societies are
now appealing to the people Of this
country to support the work of pre-.
serving dying species of native birds
which they have already begun. The
Upland Plover, Cabot's Tern and the
Least Tern, they assert, can now be
saved to the nation by quick emergen-
cy measures for which specia. funds
are to be raised.
The Appeal., 1911-01-14

rulers of the house of Hapsburg from the eleventh
century down to Francis Joseph himself Inside the
embassy the fads of the ambassador and his wife
are apparent, those of the ambassador being auto
graphs and signed photographs of the great &C.
tors in the theater of events those of the baron
ess exotic plants, birds from the forests of dis.
tant countries, and dogs"
IL mas been said that length Of service in
Washington rules the matter of precedence
among the diplomats. 1t should be known. how
ever tnst ambassadors rank ministers, and so
IL may be that the minister who has been here
Tor ten Years must of necessity give way in the
soclai and official professions to the ambassador
who has just arrived. Senior Don JOAQUIN Ber-
nardo Calvo Is the minister from the little coun..
Try CT Costa R1ca. He ranks the representatives
OF such nations as Sweden Portugal Greece, Den
mark. the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Spain and
Norway Senor Calvo has been in America as
the representative Of his country for eleven years.
&Ihe minister from the little Central American
republic has many things to recommend him to
tne interest OF the people of the capital. 1t has
Deen said here many times that the family of
Senior Calvo could make a fortune on the yaude.
Vllle stage as musicians, for each one of the
Twelve children plays musical instrument and is
possessed OF a good singing voice.
The ambassador of Great Britain to the Unit
ed States is the Right Hon. James Bryce. who is
known ought to be known to all Americans as
the author of The American Commonwealth"
his length of service puts Mr. Bryce fourth in
the precedence list. He is ranked by the repre-
sentatives OF Austria Hungary, France and Rus
sia The British ambassador takes the keenest
interest in social. political and governmental con-
dltlons In America, and his wife is no less keenly
Interested Mr.. Bryce is sympathetic with Ameri.
can institutions.
All OF the foreign diplomats in Washington
are democratic; at least while they are in the cap
ital city James Bryce is notceably democratic; he
rides in street car nine times where he rides
in carriage once
For i've years Baron Rosen, master of the i'm.
perial court, has been the ambassador extraordi-
nary and plenipotentiary of Russia to the United
States. 1t is worth while to see Baron Rosen in
his regalia Of state at one of the great White
House receptions The Russians run to fnrs
and the fur trimmings OF the ambassadorial cloak
are both picturesque and priceless. While the
baron has been ambassador only four years. he
is no stranger to this country. Nearly thirty
The Appeal., 1911-01-14
Lone | PIGEON LEFT
One Ohio Bird Survives Breed of
Several Billions.
Ending Her Days In the Cincinnati
Geological Garden Is All That Re-
'mains of Species Once
Numerous.

Cincinnati, O.-One solitary passen-
ger pigeon, ending her life at the
Geological garden in Cincinnati. is to-
day all that remains of an American
species that early in the last century
swarmed over the continent in flocks
numbering billions. With the death
Of this sole survivor Of bird tribe,
whose nesting places often covered
hundreds of square miles, there will
soon disappear the last race of the
wild pigeons that have been slaugh-
tered by the million by men who fed
their hogs upon the carcasses they
could not carry away. Though it is
too late to save this species, special
efforts are now being made by the
Audubon workers to bring about the
restoration of other birds of economic
value that must otherwise share tho
same fate.
For many months systematic search
has been made throughout the con-
tinent by officials of the Audubon as
sociation for relics of the once prolific
passenger pigeon. Members Of the or
gan1zat1on headed by Prof. G. F.
Hedge of Clark university have made
standing offer Of $1,000 to- anyone
discovering a nest Of this Species;
but, though thousands have been try
Ing eagerly for the prize, not one
single claimant has appeared. In
response to recent inquiry by T. Gil
bert Pearson, secretary Of the Ma
tional Association of Audubon So
cieties, the authorities of the Cincin-
natl Zoo have just furnished the last
chapter in the tragic tale of these
butchered birds. The Last Of the
Passenger Pigeons" is female, eigh.
The Appeal., 1911-01-14

has within It's I'M
its considerable foreign terri
tory. The residences of the min
listers to the United States from
other countries are considered
in a sense as alien ground, and
therefore home sanctuary for
those who dwell therein.
The foreign, official colony in
Washington forms a study of
life interest which is never
wearying to the native inhabi-
tants of the capital. "The for
eigners are so different" is the
WAY that the natives MT il This