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oakina Economy.

By the use of perfect baking powder
The housewife can derive as much econ
omy as from any other article used In
baking and cooking. In selecting a bak-
ercised to purchase one that retains its
original strength and always remains the
same. thus making the food sweet and
wholesome and producing sufficient leay-
ening gas to make the baking light.
Very little Of this leaveninR gas Is pro-
duced by the cheap baking powders. max
Ing II necessary to use double the guam
suits.
You cannot experiment every time you
make 2 cake or biscuits. or test the
strength of your baking powder to hnd
out how much of It you should use; yet
M Nth most MOI baking powder. you should do
iessiy they are never uniform. the quality
chased.
Calumet Baking Powder is made of
chemically pure ingredients of tested
strength. Experienced chemists put It up.
remain always the same. Sealed in air
tight cans Calumet Baking Powder doe!
not alter in strength and Is not affected
by atmospheric changes.
In using Calumet you are pound to nave
uniform bread. cake or biscuits. as Celu-
or adulterating ingredients SO commonly
used to increase the weight. Further, It
produces pure. wholesome food and is q
baking powder of rare merit; therefore is
recommended by leading, .physicians and
chemists 1t complies with all the pure
The goods are moderate in price. and any
lady purchasing Calumet from her gro.
GER II not satisfied with It can return 1t
and have her money refunded.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

how to take the proper precautions.
there is little or no danger. Anar-
chists, as a matter of fact, do not use
dynamite in bomb-throwing. and nei-
ther do burglars use 1t in Cracking"
safes. What they use Is nitroglyver-
inc. There is an erroneous and.
widespread impression that dyna-
mite cartridge will explode If dropped
on the ground or thrown against the
body of a person. The efforts Of the
government and the leading railroads
to perfect plans and methods for
draining the vast area OF swamp now
covering millions Of acres Of rich,
verdant soil have directed the atten-
ton of the general public toward the
importance of increasing the culti-
waited area of the country.
The importance OF any farm, coun-
ty, state or nation, varies almost di-
rectly in proportion to the extent of
it's cultivated area. Many southern
states can be doubled in productive
area by proper drainage of swamps
and clearing of cut-over lands. The
area of swamp and cut-over lands in
this country is greatly in excess of
the total cultivated area. Hence any
means of bringing these lands into
cultivable shape is of the highest i'm
portance.
If often happens that swamps and
marshy lands are caused by hard-pan
underneath. There is no outlet by
which the water can run off and as
it cannot sink into the earth 1t stands
there. rendering the land useless and
breeding disease. BY using dynamite
these conditions can be removed.
The hardpan is usually only few
feet below the surface of the marsh
top soil. With an extension auger a
hole is bored to the bottom of the
hardpan. Into this hole several dyna-
mite cartridges are lowered and
"tamped." The top cartridge is
primed with blasting cap.
In ditching with dynamite the first
thing done is the locating of the pro-
posed ditch. Then the width and
depth are decided on. Holes are
punched at intervals Of about two
feet along the course Of the center Of
the ditch. In each Of these holes a
cartridge is dropped and "tamped"
in with some mud. A row of ten cart
ridges is made $50 or 200 feet long
and only the center cartridge is
primed with fuse and blasting cap.
This method of blasting, where only
the center cartridge is primed, is
only used In damp and compact soil.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
Drink a Handicap.

During these days of competition
no man or woman should be handi-
capped by the drink curse. 1t is true
that many able men drink liquors. but
1t is frequently the case for men of
ability to lose their good positions
because they become unreliable
through drink. They are branded as
fools and they ought to have known
better, but nothing was ever done to
warn them of the hangers of drink
ing alcoholic beverages until 1t was
too late to do any good.
The fact that alcoholism in its var
ious stages is a disease. and. like
pneumonia, consumption and typhoid
fever, requires a special treatment, has
not been recognized until recent
years.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
Iellil5elal1il5 q
e @RaN
HARD LIFE IN THE KLoNDIKE
Conditions There Furnish Powerful
Argument for Temperance-Whls-
ky 10 Deadly Connection.

Placer mining in the Rondike 10
fraught with many difficulties" says
a wealthy miner who has just re-
turned from that region. Frost never
goes out of the ground. Mining can
only be done with any headway In the
short summer. when the sun shines "a
hours out of the "a. During the
seven months of winter darkness
reigns. for it is night 81 hours out OF
the "a. The wonderful aurora bore
alis, however. lightens the gloom OF
the long. dark winter. One OF the
great drawbacks to working In the
summer is the bloodthirsty mosquito.
I will bet my entire gold claim
against a clay brickbat with any
mathematician in the world that
there are 1000 mosquitoes in every
cubic foot of air in the Klondike dur
ing the summer. Their bills are as
sharp as needles and pierce fall
overcoat with ease. We could do no
work except when we placed mosquito
netting over our hats and tied II
around our waists. and wore gloves
on our hands. The country In and
around the Klondike is teeming with
gold. Gold can be found everywhere,
but 1t must be remembered that god
cannot be found in paying quantities
everywhere.
mo spot in the world can give SO
forceful an object lesson favoring tee
totalism as the graveyard at Dawson
City. One year ago there were but
two or three graves there. Just be-
fore leaving there / counted 635
graves, and the mound in nearly every
instance marks the last resting place
of a drunkard. Most of the whisky
sold in Dawson City is a deadly con-
coction made of alcohol. tobacco and
red pepper. This stun ruins the
stomach of the drinker. then indiges-
tion and nervous troubles begin and
he dies suddenly. But one should
leave even good whisky alone In that
climate II he wants to keep his health.
I also observed that the delicate-look-
ing and thin-faced Americans stand
the exposure in that Arctic region bet
ter than the big-muscled Swedes and
Irishmen. The Americans. as rule.
drink less whisky than the other ma
tionalities there. and hence their good
health is another argument against
intemperance.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
HAD 1T TIMED TO A NIcETY|
But Limit to Existence Of Impeounlous
Grandee Was Not Set by
God Of Love.

Representative Henry of Texas,
continuing his campaign against in
tsrnational marriages, said at a din
ner in Washington:
"Od Gobsa Golde's daughter, Lotta
0olde. the heiress. was courted very
strenuously last month at Monte
Carlo by Spanish grandee.
Wherever she went-walking on
the terrace. lunching at Ciro's. play
ing in the Casino-the grandee. i'm
maculate in his Poole clothes, was. at
her elbow.
"The man said to her one evening.
between the acts of Dejanire, in the
beautiful Sale GARNER:
Mees Golde-Lotta-wizo you I
cannot exist but one fortnight more!'"
"'You can only exist another fort
night. Don Guzman? But tell me-
cried the beautiful girl-'tell me how
you can specify a definite time like
thatT
"sHelas. Mees Golde.' said the Span
lard. 1T is not I. 1t is my creditors.
who do ze specifying"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
FEW FACTS REGARDING DRINK
Some Striking Details Concerning Pub
lie Houses In Rural Districts OF
Russia and Some Figures.

The temperance organ OF the Church
OF England Temperance society In
Great Britain. publishes some strik'
ing details regarding drink and pub
lie houses in the rural districts OF
Russia and quotes some figures and
facts concerning the government mo-
nopoly of the liquor traffic. An ex-
tract reads as follows:
Vodka in Russia is universal
drink; it is drunk in the palace OF
the czar and in the poorest cottage.
As It is possible to obtain In the
government spirit shops a small bot
tie of vodka for less than penny.
the poorest beggar is now able to In
dulge In the national beverage.
"All attempts to save the people
from drunkenness. and thereby raise
them. both morally and economically.
have hitherto been of no avail. Be-
fore the government took over the
sale of spirits there were villages In
Russia where 1t was impossible to buy
vodka, and where the peasants were.
comparatively speaking. well to do
But now the government is inundating
the smallest and most distant villages
with a flood of spirits. In some OF
these villages the women have been
reused to fury-not through their love
of alcohol. but owing to their hatred
of It. In order to save their families
from destruction. they have in some
districts assembled and stormed the
kassonkf (the government spirit
shops), the offenders being afterwards
verv eeyerely punished
"The government makes an enor-
nous profit from the sale of spirits.
Last year the sale amounted to ESQ.,
100000"
oficial statistics from Russia show
that In 1908 there were 27.402 "sa-
looms" where vodka was sold. 2,677
vodka breweries. 511 private distil-
leries, 26 reserve stores, and one fis-
cal spirit distillery. divided into 43
sections. The consumption of vodka
for the year was 232.s13.3s2 gallons.
The first all-Russian meeting against
habitual drinking was held at st. Pet
ersburg, December 81. 1909. to Janu-
ary 6, 1910.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
Putty-Head Hard 10 Penetrate.

Napoleon Bonaparte once said the
hardest task his artillery ever essayed
was the reduction of a mud fort in
Egypt. 1t absorbed shot and shell as
the desert absorbs rain. That's why
a putty-headed man discourages you.
II you hit him in the side Of the head
with sledge hammer you only make
dent in his skull. Then II you hit
him on the other side. the second
dent drives the first one out. He is
capable of receiving and retaining
but one dent at time. and that on
the outside. The only thing you can
do to give him new Impressions is to
lay his head out in the sun for a hun
dred years. when it will harden like
granite. which can be easily pune
tured.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

At last the American farmer has
found new way Of raising better
crops. He has put dynamite to an
agricultural use. With dynamite he
can blast stumps and boulders from
his land, he can drain marsh land and
make it usable, and he can improve
the earth SO by shaking it up and max
ing 1t porous that trees, grain and
vegetables grow with phenomenal ra-
pidity.
This new agricultural science has
been used extensively for only two or
three years. At first the farmer was
dubious and afraid of dynamite. He
considered it a dangerous explosive,
used only by anarchists and safe
breakers. But the more progressive
members of the agricultural frater-
nifty tried the "new-fangled scheme"
and found it good. Crops were doubled
to the acre, trees planted in dyna-
mited ground spread their roots
through the loosened earth, drank in
the moisture and nourishment and
thrived wonderfully.
Experiments were made with corn
and other vegetables planted at the
same time in fields side by side, one
of which had been dynamited, the
other only plowed. The product in the
dynamited ground soon outstripped
the other.
Last year 25O,OOO American farm
ers used dynamite. This year the ex-
perts tell us 100000 farmers will use
1t. knowledge is growing. Conse-
quently new profession has sprung
up-that of the professional blaster.
Many farmers want their fields dyna-
mited, but don't care to handle the ex-
plosive themselves. They would rath-
er employ an experienced man, skilled
in the use of dynamite, to do the work
for them, even II 1t does cost a little
more.
The professional blaster is a man
used to handling dynamite, who knows
how to explode it in the way that
it will do the most good and no harm.
He frequently goes about the country,
advertising his coming beforehand In
rural newspapers. Often the branches
out, becomes a contractor and has
several crews of experienced blasters
under him. There are a great many
more young men learning agricultural
blasting in this country today than
there are learning to build aeroplanes.
Dynamite, while a dangerous explo-
sive, Is not half as dangerous as most
persons think it. Handled by a skilled
person, who is used to 1t and knows
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
When Your Ewes Need Care

Fine-Acts Quickly. Try II for Red, Weak,
Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Illus
compounded By our Ooulists-not .Patent Med
lcine"-but used In successful Physcians' Prac-
lic and sold BY Druggists at 2Sc and 800 per Bottle
Murine Eye salve In Assptic Tubes, 2Sc and eoc.
Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
II You Are a 1rife Sensitive

About the size of your shoes, you can
wear size smaller by shaking Aliens Foot
Ease, the antiseptic powder, into them.
Just the thing for Dancing Parties and for
breaking in New Shoes. Sample Free.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
The Reason.

"You mark all your compositions
forte" said the friend.
"Yes," replied the composer. "They
wouldn't have any vogue among peo-
pie who live in flats II had them
played softly"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
His Rualness to Know.

Wife-Look. bought this fur coat
today. They tell me we are going to
have very cold weather soon.
Husband-Who told you SO?
Wife-The furrier.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

The Paxton Toilet Co. Of Boston.
Mass. will send a large trial box OF
Paxtine Antiseptic. a delightful cleans
ing and germicidal toilet preparation,
to any woman, free, upon request
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
Idle Fund.

That man has vast fund of in
formation"
YES" replied Senator Sorghpm;
but he can't put a dollar mark in
front Of 1t and use 1t for a campaign
fund.-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
An Objection.

"He gave you some sound advice"
"That's what he did. I would have
liked 1t better without 30 much
sound"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

There is nothing heavenly about war.
Dyspepsia. The world is outgrowing Il
first, and Garfield Tea will conquer Dyspepsi
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
Gallant Blind Man.

"Ah, you're pretty lady"
What's that? thought you were
blind
In a sense only. / never see the
ugly women."-Journal Amusant
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
SURE Does.

THE pen is mightier than the
sword
But the typewriter puts It all over
the pen"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress. All grocers.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

Your druggist wlll refund money Il PAZO ONT
MBNT falls to cure any case OF Itching, Blind,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

Mrs. wfnslow's Soothing Syrup for Childrel
teething. softens the gums. reduces inhsmma
ton, Aiiayn pain, cures wind collie, 25c q bottle
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

Malice is more easily disarmed by
Indifference than by conflict or retalia-
tion.-Mrs. Sigourney.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

Some of the charity that begins
home Isn't up to the standard.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

The commanding intellect should
have the command and be king
Schiller.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

What ought not to be done. do no
even think of doing.-Epictetus.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

A pretty girl never approves of me
who firt with other girls.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

ONLY ONE "BRONIO QUININE."
the signnture OF T. W GROVE. Used the World
over TO Cure . Cold in Ono Day. &c
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

"Pfnk Eye" Il Epidemic in the Spring.
Try Murine Eye Remedy for Reliable Relief
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

An old topper is satisfied II he can
keep his head above water.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

For Constipation, Biliousness, Liver and
Kidney Troubles, take Garfield Tea.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05
Knew His Weakness.

Benham-I like to linger over
bath.
Mrs. Benham-Yes, an internal one
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

An optimist is a man who knows
that his troubles might be worse.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that 1t
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-05

Color more goods brighter md faster colors tha
dye my garment without rtpping apart. Wi
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-10
TOWN OF CULPEPER
DESTROYED BY FIRE

Richmond. Va. Aug. "a disas.
trous fire started last night in Culpep-
err, a town of about three thousand
population, and latest reports ray that
the fire is still raging an6 the entire
town threatened. At O'Clock this
morning all wires to Culpeper are
down and information hard to get.
Late reports say the blaze Is eatins
through the business section, and that
the loss has already run high into tie
thousands.
The latest message from Culpeper
came from the railroad operator at
noon, who said that the fire was driv-
ing him from his key. He stated that
the flames were then under control
but practically the entire business sec
ton OF the town was wiped out.
Among the places destroyed are the
wholesale grocery of Smith, Booker &
Miller and the Gibson mill and ware
house. The fire started from gaso-
line explosion.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-10
A BIG BANK CUSTOMER

The American farmer has nearly
$4,000, 100000 invested in his bust
ness.
He produces s25,OOO,OO0 Of new
wealth every day.
He uses hundreds of millions Of dol
lars OF bank credit every crop season.
But by reason of our Anticipated
banking system, the farmer bears the
burden OF dear money. He pays moro
for credit than the farmer OF any oti,'
er great commercial nation.
The lowest money rates in this coun
try are paid by spectators in the fl
nancial centers; the highest rates are
PAID by the farmer.
The higher rate for agricultural
capital, the higher cost of production
the higher the prices of agricultural
products and the higher the cost OF
living. .
The farmer and the buyer of the
farmers products will both gain by a
reform of our banking system.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-10
Authorities Abandon Theory That
Miss Snodgrass. Met With
Foul Play.

Catskill, N. Y, Aug. 3.-Green coun-
.@ty authorities have closed the inyesti-
cation into the death of MISS noreas
Ijams Snodgrass, the Mount Vernon
nurse found drowned in Dubois Creek
last Sunday, being convinced that the
case is one of suicide.
DR.. ]. F. Rooney, the autopsy physi-
clan, has reported that death resulted
from drowning. The condition of the
stomach showed that she had not eat
EN- for ten hours before death, and a
report from the manufacturers of the
watch carried by Miss Snodgrass said
it would not have run more than half
an hour after being in the water.
This established the fact that she
was drowned about 4.30 o'clock, and
bears out the theory that Miss Snod-
grass reached here on board the Clare
mont the morning after her disappear
ance, walked up the creek, and then
threw herself in.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-10
THE PENSION BILL
AGAIN CHECKED

Washington, ID. c., Aug. 6.--An at
tempt by Democratic leaders in the
Senate to end the deadlock over the
$15O,000 900 pension appropriation bill
failed yesterday when they lost their
fight to abolish the seventeen pension
district pension agencies now scatter.
ed through the United States. Both
houses voted to stand by their res
pective positions, and the bill went
back to conference.
The House had tried to legislate
these agencies out of >existence, but
the Senate amended the bill to pre-
serve them. Mr.. McCumber. of the
Senate conferees, reported to the Sen
ate yesterday that 1t had been found
impossible to break the deadlock witt
the Honse. He added Bitter arraign
ment of the House leaders who hat
placed the blame upon the Senate fol
the holding up of pension appropria
tions.
Democratic forces, led by Senators
Oyerman and Bryan, took up the de
Tense OF the House, and declared the
Senate should not try to save the out
lying pension agencies.
Senator Overman quoted former of
ficials of the pension bureau to prove
that they were not needed to aid In
distributing the pension funds. He de
clared the persistency OF the Senate
Republicans Cd this point was holding
up the pensions of veterans.
The Republicans rallied to the de
Tense Of the pension agencies. and by
vote of 33 to "a defeated motion
made by Senator Overman, to recede
from it's position. The Senate ther
voted to insist upon It's attitude.
When the measure reached the
House later, that body reaffimred It'll
determination to cut out the seventeen
pension agencies, but consented to 8
slight change, which would permit the
agencies to continue in operation unit
December 81, and would provide $225,
600 for the expense OF moving theil
equipment to Washington.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-10
BIG COAL SALE

Sale of 10000 acres of valuable coal
lands in Harrison and Doddrige coun
ties, West Virginis, has just been con.
summated. The HARRISON oddrigc
Coal & Coke company has purchased
the same from Josiah v. Thompson. d
Uniontown, Pa. The consideration
was one dollar and other things. The
total amount Of the purchase price
must have been many thousands OF
dollars. The purchasing company Il
composed of G. A. Worthington, r. q
Masten. Chester It. Williams, Allen
T. C. Gordon. and Alexander Block
all of Pittsburg.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-10

The City OF Martinsburg has been
asked to send a representative to the
International Congress on Hygiene
and Demography, which win meet in
Washington, September 23 to 2s. So
far no representative has been APP
pointed and the president of the Con.
gress President Taft has again urg-
ed that some action be taken along
that line. Mayor Harrison has the
power to make the appointment, and
ii is expected he will do so ere long.
This convention will prove one OF
vital interest. IL meets only every
five. years, and will probably not meet
again in this country for the next thir
ty years. 1t is expected that FIVE thou
sand people from all parts of the globe
will be in attendance. Included in
these will be experts on the subject
of health.