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Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1911-12-20
BABIES AND BRIDGE

The recent Illinois Congress OF
Mothers has been discussing the rela
ton Of child neglect to the popularity
OF bridge whist and kindred games
IL seems that in Chicago a number OF
the more well-to.do mothers neplec,
their children for the sake of the
game. Chicago mothers are called
upon to take their Job little more
seriously and see to their youngsters.
even If IL should spoil a game or two.
We don't know much about Chi.
cago mothers, but we do know n little
about the sort of people who live in
Prescott, and in our opinion, the Pres.
colt children are pretty well looked
out for by their immediate maternal
ancestors. Some mothers do play
bridge occasionally, and some fathers
also play poker for that matter.
The poiHt made by the Illinois con.
gress is well taken, however, in many
eases. Mothers in general may well
take their work seriously and so may
fathers for that matter. We have an
idea that the coming generation needs
fathering just as much as 1t needs n
little mothering. Mother love Is n
beautiful thing and pitiful is the
little one from which It may be with
held, but there are some sterncr
things needed just as much in the
growing Of character, and II Is up TO
the man Of the family to supply some
of these things.
We are overworking this mother
business, anyhow. Every temperance
ngitator, campaign orator, and wan.
dering evangelist takes shot at the
mothers. Even the schools have spent
much energy in organizing mothers,
clubs, and as for poetry and art and
song and, sentiment, where would we
be without the mothers to fall back
on when we get into corner. and
must start title sentiment TO get
out
What We need is fathers con. |
gress that will seriously take up the
problems Of child raising from the
standpoint of the man who ia busy
eight or twelve or fifteen hours n
day hustling something for the kids
TO wear. Unless he can do something
for the children other than merely
hustle he will be failure as n
father and if he can't give them any.
hing but food and clothes, they are
going to miss something out Of their
ives that they sadly need.
It's up to the man who takes upon
himself the job Of raising n family
o do something more for his children
han act as chief purchasing agent
nd banker of the family commissary
department.. The kids need mascu.
Inc note in their Juvenile environ.
,ent and IL they don't get it they
re going to be deficient in aiscip.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1911-12-20
BURGLAR
PICK SUNDAY
FOR WORK |
From Tuesdays Daily,


Burglars entered the o. A. lid
jcwlry store and the Sam wals
clothes cleaning house on supae
morning at about $3.50 O'Clock, tail
from the former about 800 worth
wares, and two suits of clothes
pair Of pants from the latta.
The Hesla burglary was one Of \
boldest that has ever taken place
this city, the thieves effecting an
trance through the top pane Of gls
In the east show window by IN
cutting the pane away at the bOtts
with some instrument, and then brsa
ing the glass wide enough to en1
through. The crash was heard by !
H. Jones, who was sleeping in
rear, but he mistook the sound
coming from the alley side, and we
In that direction to investigate
In the short time he was in IN
part OF the building, the robbers msa
cleanup of everything left In u
window, which fortunately ineluds
but few silver watches and nj
ceilaneous assortment Of other gs'
and silverware Of nominal valusI
Had not Mr.. Jones turned on
electric lights after being sudden
aroused, II is the belief that the f0'
bers would have invaded the man
salesroom, where hundreds Of doll"
worth Of jewIry was lying in seven
show cases, and which could m'
been secured with little effort.
The location Of the Hesla store %
ing in the business center Of the aV
together with tho electric lights
The plaza Illuminating the ue
showed that the burglars were
acking in grit or boldness.
In the Wallace transaction, the u"
$ nominal, the thieves taking away
'lothing that was not very valus"
mt overlooking, however, ss'a'
nits hanging on the rack at the
rance that were well made OF h'
abrics. No arrests have been ms''
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1911-12-20

Mining location notices for sale
the Journal.Ninsr eAles.
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1911-12-20

Journal Miner High sisss Job woss
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
TRY FERRO-CEMENT ROADS
Experiments With This Substance in
France Have Been Highly
Successful,

"Ferro-cement" roads are being ex.
perimented with in France The sub.
stance Is made of cement mixed with
straw. To make a slab or block OF
ferro-cement, mass of iron-straw is
placed In the mold, and there is poured
over 1t cement sufficiently fluid to
penetrate into all the interstices of the
iron and completely cover it, When
the whole has set, the core of iron
thus intimately incorporated gives to
the block a great resistance to break
age and to traction, at the same time
furnishing elasticity to compression
which enables it to stand superficial
shocks. A brick of ferro-cement 1 3-5
inches thick has supported during
crushing tests, a pressure of about 65
tons to the square inch. In breakage
tests, the resistance was quadruple
that of ordinary cement Resistance
to wear was no less remarkable.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
GOOD ROADS IN NORTHWEST
Washington State Alive to the Inn
portance of Having Service.
able Highways.

The northwest is alive to the value
of good roads. In recent issue of
the Seattle (Wash.) Intelligencer the
statement is made that before the
summer is over Seattle and Tacoma
will be connected by first-class ma
cadamized highway. In King county,
OF which Seattle is the seat, there
will be $4,000 available, including
state aid, for road Improvement this
year. Much of this will be spent on
a trunk line destined to connect Seat
tie and Everett. From Everett to
Tacoma an improved road is a mat
ter Of the near future. This road
work is part of a general plan to build
trunk line from the northern to the
southern boundary of Washington,
which in turn will become part of a
highway from the Great Lakes to the
ocean, through the northern tier of
state, and this will conlect with an.
other trunk line from British Columbia
down the coast to MeXico-a dream
OF that wide-awake country that is
certain to be realized in the next few
years.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
ELECTRIC MULES FOR PANAMA
Railroad to Be Built Along Panama
for Drawing Ships From Ocean
to Ocean.

The first shipment of steel has been
made from New York for building q
unique electric railway along the Pan
anna canal for drawing great ships
from ocean to ocean. The enormous
volume of shipping across the isthmus
will be drawn on the ancient towpath
system, so that 1t will be unnecessary
for steamers to proceed under their
own steam. In place of the mules, on
this curious towpath, powerful electric
locomotives will draw the largest
ships smoothly and swiftly across the
continent. A steamer of, say 10000
tons, which the canal will readily
accommodate, is obviously & very
heavy burden, and the electric loco
motives will be geared to the tracks
by a middle rail in the form of a
rack. The canal commission has ad.
vertised for 100000 pounds Of steel
ties, slots and covers and 1900 900
pounds of steel channels. This rack
railway will be built by the commits
sion, and will be in working order In
less than two years, in time for the
opening of the canal.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
A Porch Party Entertainment.

Every girl loves pretty blouse,
and l want to tell you of six good
chums who meet once in two weeks
and bring their needlework, which by
common consent Is to be lingerie
blouse all to be made by hand. Each
one is pledged to watch for new ideas.
Light refreshments are served, ana
occasionally the hostess has some
amusement not to last over 20 min
utes or half an hour. At a recent
meeting they had this Romance OF a
Shirtwaist" Years ago l put 1T IN
the department, but it will be new
now to many, and I hope will answer
the request for contests suitable for
porch parties and afternoon affairs
lust for girls"
Romance of Shirtwaist-Her
lover has persuaded her to be his, and
they were about to slip into the matr1-
monial -. One day he reproached
her for her coldness to him, and she
replied, Il cannot wear my heart on
my always" and while her gol-
den head rested on his manly -- he
forgave her, and presented her with
pretty - for her dainty -. Life
is not always what it -, for after
he became golfer her was on the
- most of the time, and she began
to fear that she could never win him
- to his former devotion. Indeed,
she often felt she would like to -
him, but she decided to --- him In
stead, so she put on a bold -- and
told him she would break the -.
He began to and haw, and IN
vited her to go to a - concert.
Then she knew that she could --
him Although there is much red -
about such matter, one is apt to get
the cold instead of two loving
arms about ones -. They went tc
the concert and came to the conclu
sion that their promises were still
-. Each had been on the -, but
now they are married and are -
for life, while the - plays on.
Key-Yoke, sleeve, bosom, belt
waist, seems (seams), links, back
cuff. collar, treat. to, hem, band, but
lunnole, tape, shoulder, neck, binding
wrong side, bound, band.
Iced drinks, sherbets and other fro
zen things are much in favor, served
with a variety of small cakes, wafer:
and crackers, or biscuit as we are be
ginning 20 cali them, same as they d.
in England.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
SiIver-Eyed Beefsteak,

Tho London cop calls his half-pen-
ny herring his silved-eyed beefsteak.
and there are hundreds cooking every
minute in London town where one is
eaten here. Any time of the year a
big part Of this city would profit by
eating fish for spell instead of beef.
With no open air exercise beef is a
heap harder than fish for the body to
get rid of, because there is good deal
more water In fish than in beef or
pork. Fish are fat or lean. Eel, sal
mon, herring are more than five per
cent. grease. Halibut and mackerel
are two to five per cent. fat; cod.
whiting. paddock, even loss than two
DER cent.-NeW York PresA
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
BABY'S HAIR ALL CAME OUT

when my first baby was Elk
months old he broke out on his head
with little bumps. They would dry
up and leave a scale. Then it would
break out again and it spread all over
his head. All the hair came out and
his head was scaly all over. Then his
face broke out all over in red bumps
and it kept spreading until it was on
his hands and arms. I bought several
boxes Of ointment, gave him blood
medicine, and had two doctors to treat
him, but he got worse all the time. He
had it about six months when friend
told me about Cuticura. I sent and
got bottle Of Cuticura Resolvent, a
cake of Cuticura Soap and a box OF
Cuticura Ointment. In three days
after using them he began to improve.
He began to take long maps and to
stop scratching his head. After taking
two bottles of Resolvent, two boxes OF
Ointment and three cakes of Soap no
was sound and we'll. and never had
any breaking out of any kind. His
hair came out in little curls all over
his head. don't think anything else
would have cured him except Cuticura.
II have bought Cuticura Ointment
and Soap several times since to use
for cuts and sores and have never
known them to fail to cure what put
them on. think Cuticura is a great
remedy and would advise any one to
use it. Cuticura Soap Is the best that
have ever used for toilet purposes"
(Signed) Mrs. F. E. Harmon, r. F. d.
:. Atoka. Tenn, Sept. 10. 1910.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

per year over and above what 1t
would cost to perform the same service
over roads that are uniformly good.
One of the great world questions Is
that Of good roads, and the sooner the
people wake up to the fact the faster
and surer will our progress b toward
higher and better things.
There is widespread clamor for
parcel post and strong influences are
at work to get the federal government
committed to it. The indications are
that 1t will be tried out on a moderate
scale. Whether the parcel post will
prove blessing or otherwise is an
open question, and one we will not at
this time discuss. We may say, how.
ever, that any attempt at the parcel
post that contemplates extending the
service to the rural mail routes will
prove disappointment. The condi-
tions of the public roads are such that
for weeks at a time it would be physi-
cally impossible to make delivery. The
carriers are taxed now to the limit.
If he starts out with fifty pounds over
bad roads it is a heavier burden than
five times the weight over a good road.
Given the parcel post in full swing
and without doubt the weight the car.
rler must handle will be many times
what it is now. Any one familiar with
conditions will say that without good
permanent highways the delivery of
packages over rural routes will be a
physical impossibility The first thing
to strive for is good roads; let the
parcel post come later.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

than 1t does over good ones; how with
good roads the farmer can market his
produce at any time he desires to do
SO and take advantage of market con-
ditions and get the most for what he
has to sell.
Bad roads are a serious handicap
to social conditions, and sometimes for
weeks at time jewellers in the farm
home are marooned by stretches of
impossible roads. They cannot get
out to see anybody and nobody can
get to see them. The town that is
five miles away might as we'll be twice
that. We know that man is sociable
thing-it is part of his nature-he can
only grow and develop by meeting his
fellow men-touching elbows-and by
social and business intercourse.
We know that bad roads have been
responsible in very large degree for
driving the young people from the
farms to the cities. The census for
the last thirty years has shown an
ever increasing drift of the best brains
and blood of the farm to the city. This
is true notwithstanding that there is
no better business in the world than
farming, if it is done along up-to-date,
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

we'll as muscle. In such a school the
boy and girl would be able to get
high school education and live at home
upon the farm.
The school would be the social as
we'll as the educational center of the
township-the rallying point where the
citizens could go and hold meetings;
it would develop the social life, would
be strong and helpful, and the young
people would find in the central school
and the associations that go with it,
and the school spirit that would be
developed, a satisfying condition that
would make life upon the farm at
tractive instead of otherwise.
Another handicap to progress and a
menace to our whole country, that is
very larely traceable to bad roads,
is the fact that so many thousands of
farms are passing from the hands of
owner into the hands of tenants. The
weaving of the children from farm
carries the patents away when ad-
vancing years makes it necessary for
them to lay the burdens down. We
are building up peasantry lit sounds
hard to call 1t that which promises
trouble In the future and raises the
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
A Progressive Needle Party.

This affair was the amusement Of
fered by hostess at linen shower
given for a recent bride: There were
twelve guests and four tables. At each
table there was a bowl containing fifty
needles of all sizes, and thread; the
game was to see which couple could
thread the most needles in three min
utes, the contest beginning and end
ing with the tap of a bell. The two
having the largest score progressed
to the next table, each player having
dainty pincushion in which pins
were stuck to mark the progressions.
These pins had coloTed heads. A
daintily equipped sewing bag was the
head prize and little work basket OF
odd design was the second; embroid-
cry scissors in a case made an ac-
ceptable consolation prize. Every
one had the jolliest kind Of time
and it was most easy party to pre-
pare.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
A Unique Bingham Apron shower.

A girl who had lived in her home
town all of her life and consequently
had many friends, was the recipient
of this acceptable and enjoyable
shower The girls (six in number)
we're aNked to bring a Bingham APPROX
They consulted, so there would be no
two alike Of the material each girl
made a necktie which was placed IN
an envelope. The aprons We're all
finished except the hens, which fur
nished needle work for an hour. Ak
six o'clock man for each girl ar
peared, the envelopes We're passet,
and the men found their supper pert
ners by matching the neckt!es Esss*h
the aprons, each girl putting on one
and the boys wearing the tie that
matched At the close of the repaSE
the aprons were all tied about the lit
tie bride-elect 1t was a merry time
and twice as nice because the poor,
| neglected bridegroom and Nshers were
Included in the fun.
MADAME MERR1.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

up an cduca ton under town conditions
they are getting the town microbe
along with the education. They form
friendships and become part Of the so
cial life of the school; they are not
willing to 60 back upon the farm with
it's dreariness and isolation. No one
ought to blame them for this, in fact
they are to be commended in many
instances. The country lass and youth
must have the social life that natures
demand. This sociological fact must
be reckoned with.
The National Educational commits
sion, made up of eminent educators,
thoroughly familiar with our condi-
lions, has been studying this subject
for long time, and it says that the
solution is only to be found in the
J consolidated township school, where
instead of eight or ten isolated school
houses, placed at intervals at the cross
roads throughout the township-bleak
dreary and uninviting-there should
be one central graded school at the
most convenient central point, and pro
visions made to take the children to
and from the school. Good roads are
necessary if this is to be done. The
school ought to have at least five acres
of ground to serve as miniature ex
pertinent station for the study of agri
culture, the cultivation of which will
increase interest in agriculture and
show that farming requires brains as
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
A Musical Entertainments.

After tbs meeting of musical club
the hostess had this little diversion:
Some played the melody of the follow
ing songs, the titles being unan-
nounced:
"Star-Spangled Banner" Marching
Through Georgia." Columbia, the
Gem Of the Ocean, Battle Hymn of
the Republic" Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp" Hail Columbia" Home,
Sweet Home" Yankee Doodle"
when Johnnie Comes Marching
Home Again. "Auld Lang Syne,"
"America."
The guests wrote down the names
opposite the numbers, the pianist say
ing as she played, mo. 1, No. g." etc.
After each piece the hostess held up
an object which illustrated a term
used in music, for instance: Thine"
was a small clock; measure" yard
stick; key" a door key; flats two
flatirons; "lines," a pair RI nursery
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
|IEM1N@lnES 0z<{m,
T.. Ia SIN OH .N

Lace, combined with net, Is much
used.
Everywhere we see bit of black
satin.
Feathers are slowly coming back
to the coiffure.
Natural" linens are in greater de-
mand than cOlors.
Still yelled are the various parts
of miladys costume.
Many little evening frocks are
trimmed with cords of precious stones
or beads to initiate them. Coral on
black and white striped mousseline Is
stunning.
Patent leather belts in black, blue
red or white are to be stylish finish
for linen frocks.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

around the neck, down one side of
the tunic anG on the sleeves and belt
with embroidery or braiding, as may
be preferred.
The pretty dress on the little girl
in the middle of the group is of pale
blue and white striped cotton wolfe.
The skirt is plated all round; the
blouse is also plated and ornamented
with black satin buttons and loops.
The collar and cuffs are OF white
lawn trimmed with pale blue feather
stitching and edged with lace The
little c1avat is of black satin. the ends
finished with balls of the same, and
the belt Is Of patent leather.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

progressive lines. It renders surer
and larger return than anything else
in the worlds work, yet the fact re-
mains that the boy is not satisfied
with farm life. With good roads, SO
he could get out whenever he desired
to with his best buggy and girl, or
perhaps an automobile, country life
would take on an entirely different
aspect.
The handicap of the bad road is GER
tainly heavy one and is farreaching.
Education has suffered greatly by rea-
son of it. The country schools are
little, if any, better than they were
forty years ago. 1t is an open question
whether they are as good. The wages
paid the teachers are small. The
number of pupils is very limited
sometimes three or four-often not
over a dozen or fifteen. There is no
school spirit; there is no anything
but dreariness and drudgery with little
progress toward education. When the
boy and girl get old enough to realize
this condition and the parents see it,
there is nothing to do but send Johnny
or Lizzie to the nearby town or city,
where the schools are better and
where there Is an opportunity getting
the rudiments Of an education, and
while Johnny and Lizzie are picking
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

question whether we are not establish
ing here in the central west the con-
ditions that have been the curse of
Ireland for three hundred years. The
result of this condition is that the soil
is losing it's fertility; the farm is be-
coming foul; noxious weeds are grow
ing; the landlord squeezes the tenant
for all the rent that is in sight and
the tenant takes it out of the farm; he
cannot afford for the short lease of
one or two years to buy fertilizers;
he must simply rob the soil for all
he can get and turn it over to his sue
cessor in worse condition than he
found it. He cannot go into stock
farming on short land tenures, SO he
must be what is known as grain
farmer, and this takes the life out of
tea soil. The greatest economic men,
ace of the world today, bar nothing,
is the depletion of soil fertility, and
this will go on as tenantry increases.
Thus we see few of the very many
drawbacks that are directly and in
directly due to bad roads, and we may
add to the list, as stated by the de-
partment of agriculture, that the cost
of moving farm products to the market
and getting supplies back to the farm
over bad highways causes an extra
expense of at least $3.50 per person
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13
BAD ROADS BURDEN
ONWARD MARCH OF PROGRESS is
RETARDED BY MISERABLE
HIGHWAYS,
BIG HANDICAP TO PEOPLE
Costs Much More to Haul Produce
Over Bad Roads Than It Does Over
Good Roads-Effect Of Good Roads
on Social Life.
BY HOWARD H. GROSS,

When one makes study of this
great subject and sees in how many
ways the march of progress is re-
tarded by miserable highways the
country over, and realizes what a
burden this handicap places upon the
people, it is surprising that the whole
population does not rise as one man
and demand that the highway condi-
tons shall be improved to the standard
required for the twentieth century.
Road advocates have shown for
years and years how much more it
costs to haul produce over bad roads
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-07-13

lines; "sharps," a carving set; "tie,"
gentleman's tie; bars" small
clothes-bars; staff" a cane; "a whole
note" dollar; "a half note," half
dollar; "a quarter note" silver quar-
ter.
The ice cream was in shape Of
were in small pianos, violins, man
dolins, etc.