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Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-07

FOR SALE
Several sO-acre tracts, partly in al
falfa. A few 40s and some 160-acre
tracts, close to school on main canal.
pending on improvements and soil.
S0-acre tract close to Ell Centre
for $4,000. All soft soil.
16O acres for $95 per acre, good To-
cation, 2h miles from town; some in
alfalfa fully water stocked. This
is cash deal, as man must have
money.
Also 16O acres "a mile from town;
good, soft soil. on main canal, 2
houses, fully water stocked. Only
s115 per acre. $4,000 will handle this
Also one Of the best 1905, we'll i'm
proved, half in alfalfa, good build
ings, fruit of all kinds, all soft soil
on main canal, for $125 per acre.
FARMERS EXCHANGE,
F. M. Barto,
Lotus Building, West of Depot
FOk SALE
so acres all in alfalfa, fenced Tin s
nslds, partly hog tight; good Groom
house, windmill and tank, Az miles
east and y east,of Holtville. A good
buy at s125 per acre. $4,000 cash will
Also 55 acres near same town for
$1,000, half cash.
Also 40 acres, fully water stocked,
good new 6-room house, plenty shade
and fruit sbrubbery, 21a miles from
will handle same. Ali in alfalfa. On
main avenue.
Also 40 acres 1 mile from Ell Cen
tro in alfalfa. Buildings and shade.
Only $210. On main avenue and good
canal.
FARMERS EXCHANGE,
LOTUS Building, West of Depot.
FOR SAFE -
Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-07

FOR SALE-s0 acres fully stocked
with hogs and will sell ranch as it
stands with hogs at Sis per acre.
Soft soil. Absolutely the best bar
gain in the valley. HARRISON LAND
Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-07

FOR SALE-2 houses and lots in best
residence district on Brighton ave.
Will sell cheap, with only small cash
Payment. Lots 1 and 2, block 81.
ARTHUR SHEPARD.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-07

FOR SALE-320 acres good soft land,
on main canal; $50 alfalfa, balance
did bargain. LIENS AGENCY, suite
O7-1OS-109, over First National Bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-07

FOR SALE-100 acres OF fine land, well
improved, adjoining townsite, 5000
per acre. LIENS AGENCY. suite
107-10S-109, over First National Bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-07

FOR SALE-S3O0 cash will handle 25
acres, alfalfa and corn. Price $3.50
per acre. LIENS AGENCY, suit 107
1nS-109, over First National Bank.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
Bv FRANCES L. GARSIDE

-AS a wife the right to go to
II church all by herself and save
- herself and let her husband go
to the bad place?
This question weighed heavily on
the mind of Mrs. Lysander John APP
pleton without answer until one Gay
she had vision, and in that vision
she saw her husband in the bad place.
actually looking. without his wife to
watch him, as If he were having
good time.
This and the belief that converted
man is more patient with poor meals
than an unregenerated soul also
caused her to decide to save him.
He must go to church. she told him.
and she began to pray for him aud
IDLY at home and to picture him as
her heavy cross when on her knees
in prayer meeting. She commanded.
she nagged, she threatened, using
every art of persistence that is known
to lovely womanhood
Lysander John doesn't like to go to
clared in the boldness of his sin,
likes to be put in position where
he can't talk back" But he knew he
must eventually yield, and after he
had resisted her nagging till he had
grown so tired that the funeral pro-
cessions he saw on the streets began
to look like excursion trains he
agreed to go, reserving to himself the
decision that he would make the one
concession do for all time.
Had his wife been less concerned
over his soul when the day arrived
and more intent on him she might
have noted the wicked look in his
eye, but she was so elated over her
triumph that she saw nothing.
When he was seated in his pew he
opened the prayer book and made all
the responses with voice and stiff
knees in a manner that was faultless.
Then the collection basket was
passed
Lysander John fumbled in his vest
pocket. Il hope he prepared himself
with dime" thought his wife.
There was moments delay and then.
reverently and slowly. he put his hand
in the basket and dropped a $40 bill.
Mrs. Appleton gasped. Her fingers
twitched convulsively, and into her
eyes there came a fierce hungry look.
With almost superhuman control she
held her hands in her lap and sat
rigid during the remainder of the
service.
When church was over and they
had reached the door her hand
closed over his arm in a manner that
left its mark You big FOOL she
hissed in his ear, ito throw money
away like that. I'll never let you go
to church again.
Lysander John winked at lamp
post and made no reply.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
:: Little Bobbie S Pa ::
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK

telling Ma how Refreshing It is to
put in day in the open air. cla9l
bakes is very invigorating. Pa sed.
three cheers for the CLAIMS & three for
the man wich baked them.
You seem to have had good time,
sed Ma. She was looking at Pa kind
of hard.
Chorus. Sublime. sed Pa, & why
shud It not be a Glorus & sublime
time wen we was brothers all. linked
together by the glcrus fraternity of
wich we are fraternal members of.
Hooray, sed Pa, three cheers for the
members of the fraternal fraternity.
Pa sed. We rite our brothers faults
on the sands, Pa sed, & rite thare
virtues on the tablets of love & mem
ory, as Hubbard onst sed. Yip,
Please doant maik so much noise.
sed Ma. | will newer let you go to a
other clam bake If you cum hoam &
have all the nabors rapping on the
steem pipes. Please be still.
One of my loving brothers wud
newer talk to me that way. sed Pa.
Loving brothers is always fraternal
and fraternity is always loving Pa
sed What noabel thing to rite our
brothers faults on the sands. Pa sed.
You brothers may rite each Others
faults there, sed Ma, but I bet yure
wifes doant, & / will bet st. Peter
doant, eether. Now go TO bed & have
a fraternal sleep, sed Ma, & maybe
after you have had sum fraternal
brekfust you Will be abel to go to
business.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
Woman Sells Teeth
To Obtain Fortune

Neighbors of Mrs. Annie Maria Pearce
of Ludlow, Shropshire, who shot her.
self after having posed as the lega-
tee of fortune of $4,000, appear to
have been completely deceived, one
woman having sold her pigs in order
to lend the proceeds to the supposed
heiress Another woman lent her. it
is said. 500 on a promise to repay
$500. A third woman had all her
teeth extracted on the understanding,
it is stated. that Mrs. Pearce would
pay for new set. A large crowd at
tended the funeral.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
ASK HIM TO CALL
o
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX.
A few years ago ! met young
man and kept company with him
until about five months ago. /
would like to have him for a
friend again. not only because I
like him, but also because / want
to help him, and have had great
deal of influence over him. While
he was keeping company with
me he quit the use of tobacco.
but now he is using it to the
fullest extremes. / can see that
his health is failing from ii
every day and | want to help him
out OF the habit Will you please
tell me howl can gain his friend
ship without showing him that
/ am too anxious? f. j. Fl.
Get him to call some evening an,
tell him frankly that you are inter
ested in his heIath and well being a.
one good friend is to another. ant
urge him to give up the tobacco habit
Then If he refuses dismiss 1t ant
him from your mind. He is a maj
grown, but is weak sort of creatur,
if he can't take care of himself.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06

IA went to a clam bake wich was
Fgaiv by the lodge wich he bee
longs to, & Ma & me went to a
show last mite, beekaus we knew 1t
wud be quite lait wen Pa got hoam.
He bet Ma a new hat aggenst sum
cigars that he wud be hoam from the
clam bake befoar we got hoam from
the show, but Ma knew she wud win
the bet. Ma is a good bettor. too,
she found out witch was the longest
show in town & we went to that. She
sed to me that she chose the longest
show so as TO give Pa all the chanst
in the wurld to win his bet, but she
knew he wud loose it any way
The naim of the show that we went
to see was Ashes of the Past. 1t was
a awful sad play. 1t toald about a
man wich had got rich from robbing
his partner & how his partner died Of
broken heart & how few yeers
later he fell in luv with a butiful
gurl & the gurl dident let him know
she was the partners daughter. She
lured him along until he had got so
crazy about her that he wud lay down
his life for her & she toald him she
wud marry him if he wud fly with her
& leeve his wife, & when he was all
reddy & had promised to go she oap-
ened the door e. thare was his wife
lissening to every word & then the
wife quit him g. the gurl mocked him
& that was the Ashes of the Past.
1t maiks me feel awful sad Bobbie,
sed Ma, L don't like to think of mar
ried man beeing so deceeving / do
hoap yure father was reely at the
waiting for US. Let US go now, sed
Ma
That wuddent be fair, sed me to
Ma, beekaus you bet that you wud
stay for the whole show befoar you
went hoam. So Ma stayed, but I
doant think she liked the show much.
thare was too much in it about mar
ried men beeing careless.
AT last the show was oaver & Ma &,
me got in taxi & went hoam. Yure
father is hoam, am sure, Ma KEEP
saying. He wuddent stay out lait
like this to any clam bake.
But wen we got hoam Pa wasent
thare, & he dident cum In for two
hours after we was hoam. Wen he
CAIN he was feeling CRATE, he KEEP
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
GLADSTONE'S EARLY WIT

Gladstone. when a boy. was visit
ing in the country, and the farmer
was showing him around. Coming to
a field that contained a large black
bull, the farmer said:
There's a fine, strong bull there,
Master William, and it's only years
old"
How do you~tell its age?"
why, by its horns said the
farmer.
by its horns?" Young Gladstone
looked thoughtful moment, then his
face cleared. "Ah. l see. Two horns
two years"
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06

slander around our neighborhood,
and, naturally, 1T reached my
friends mothers ears in due time.
She, believing 1t, told her son
about it. and he asked me in
very nice way if this was the case.
OF course, | told him no, ex-
planning everything. and he be-
lieves in me. | believe he is con-
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
Advice to the
{ .ovelorn
GET A STAMP BOOK
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX

GET A STAMP BOOK
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
l received a letter from girl
friend of mine with the stamp
put on with the face toward the.
top of the letter. | have heard
from friends that the way the
stamp is fixed on means some
thing.
Almost any book store has for sale
a book that will enlighten you or
the stamp language
However, it is better to remember
that the position of the stamp is usu-
ally accidental and means nothing. A
better way to find out girls heart
is to ask her.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
CLING TO HIM
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: :

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am IS years old. and have
known young man OF 81 the last
six years. l have kept company
with him over year. His mother
is very much opposed to me. fer
thing that happened some years
ago, when 1 was but child. 1t
seems she can not forget this.
| have been subject ~ lot of
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
An Art Exhibit at D. Samuels'

E for Gueday) display of masterpieces
and copies of the old created with needle instead of
the brush collection purchased by member of firm
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06

tinually being abused at home for
going with me- A READER.
You love each other; he believes in
you, and / am sure that. no matter
what the past holds, you are a good
girl. Don't let this chance for hap
piness slip from you. and when it
comes treat his mother so we'll she
will forget she ever disliked you.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
THAT'S so. ISN'T IT?

Just think, darling!1 she said.
You proposed but "a hours ago.
Yes be replied, 'and it seems as
though 1t were but yesterday
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06

XI announce for Guesday) display of masterpieces
w and of the old created with the needle instead of
a the brush collection purchased by member of firm
when abroad few months and only just arvedcompnSg
of the most superb linen that have been exhibited this
city In fact number of the and most wonderful
that today anywhere the world Every should
these marvellous reproductions.
addition these gem specimen pieces that of costly this
exhibition affords magnificent buying the balance
Of the offering cloths scar that mod
price, considering their unusual character
bella copied from painting by that from the Madrid
Also The Amschct which copied from wall called The Ansche1a
exhibited the Berlin Museum but originally the Sutan Palace
Conannope Also La Iee dIeame (he evening before Jena
perfect reproduction the famous painting The Soupr Fin copied
the original the Louvre. wonderful specimen. The
French Revolution the four abaux this dramatic Cleo
and The Scdabc marvellous reproduction Then the Comtshp
Of Beauharnan' in four tableaux.
While the above probably the wonderful of the
bhon there others the purchase almost equally
estng and the time inspection will be well repaid
CTuesday).
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TIE LACE HOUSE THE LACE HOUSE
Stockton and OFarreI
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-06
ASK HER
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Through an Introduction few
months ago / met a young ladv
with whom have become
strangely fascinated. In q GER
tain sense she has shown that she
has taken some interest in me.
How can | know whether she
really does care for me?
A. A. r.
Such knowledge as that must be
gained first hand. But don't be pre-
mature. II you want her to love YOU
pay her the attention that win win
her love before you seek an avowal
And make your own avowal first!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
The Treaty of Ten Tsin
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

tons of the possibilities of the
future. Beyond a doubt it be-
hooves the white man the world
over to prepare for those possi-
biIities, if we may not say proba-
bilities.
The yellow men number at
least 5OO.OOO,OOO. From the jap
anese we learn what 5O,0OO,00O of
yellow men are able to do; and
from that we are in a position to
guess with a fair degree of ac-
curacy what 5OO,OOO.OOO of yellow
men can do if fully prepared,
With thousands of miles of Pa
ci1c seacoast, does it not be-
hcove the United States to look
well to the ways and means of its
supremacy on the great Western
waters?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

TINE Treaty of Tien-- tsin,
concluded 50 years ago, will
probably loom large in the
history of the time to come, very
much larger than it does to-day.
It was about the year 1917 (the
year of the great Reformation
that China began to be vaguely
known to Europeans. The Jesuits
appeared among the Celestials
about 1925. and in 1890 the Eng
lish figure among the Foreign
Devils" The Englishman is moth
ing if not commercial, and,
thinking that he saw a good thing
in opium, began quarrel with
the Chinaman over that drug that
lasted for years; of which. so far
as the honor of England is con-
cerned, the least said the better
In 1857 took place the war be-
tween England and China, which
eQQeQ WITH the lOtdl ueSJI uCl4Oll
of the Chinese fleet by Commo-
dores Elliot and Seymour, and the
perpetual establishment Of John
Bull in the island of Hongkong
The Treaty of Tientsin, which
clinched the war of 1857, created
a new departure on the part of
the quaint and ancient people of
the Flowery Kingdom. Among its
provisions were: The establish
ment of ambassadorships at both
courts, a larger freedom of trade,
the liberation of the Christian re-
ligion. revision of the tariff. and
the guarantee that the term bar
barian" should no longer be ap-
piled TO Europeans.
With this Treaty of Tien-tsin
begins Modern China. But a lit
tie more than half a century has
elapsed-an insignificant period
in the evolution of a great ma
items life-and yet we already
have some pretty strong intima-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03

tatng bad matches by frankly
opposing them.
Therefore. instead of forbidding
sam the house, invite him in.
Have him around early and often,
ana sive Mamie an overdose OF
his society, and before you know
il they will have quarreled And
this nice hot weather, when
nerves and temper are on edge.
is a psycholosical moment in
which to try the experiment.
Nnety-nine in the shade is not
propitious for growing sentiment.
And ! should casually remark TO
Mamie that. of course. if she was
SO fond of sam and found her
highest happiness i'm his company
that there was no use in wasting
any money on any other pleasure
for her such "a going of for a
summer trip. for instance.
Don't abuse sam. Don't dis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
=: How to Deal With Girls Love Fancies ::
To Oppose Cd Call 4ag Fatal as Experience Has Sown Says D@OyDx

course upon his weakness or his
faults. Make fun of them Point
out his little eccenuricities of
manner or speech, and if you can
enlist the assistance Of some
friend in this. all the better. \
young girl can stand anything but
ridicule
She will defy you and marry a
drunkayd, or a gambler, or man
with a hectic past, but she will
quail before the knowledge that
people laugh at a man FOR eating
peas with his knife, or using bad
grammar or being a rube.
Another effective way Of break
ing off an undesirable match is to
send the girl away on a trip, or
to make a good long visit Pro-
pinquity is responsible for more
marriages than anything else. At
the love time of life a girl is sure
to imagine that she cherishes a
deathless passion for any good
looking man who happens to be in
sight, but set her away from him
and his spell is broken.
Cured Girl S Infatuation,
She sees other men. She gets
new standard of comparison.
with the almost invariablc result
that in six months she wouldn't
look at the man that she thought
she was so crazy to marry. It's a
case of counter irritation, and it
works out as well in love as it
does in medicine.
Still another way to deal with
the situation is 10 quit theorizing
and preaching about it, and give
the girl a living picture of the
way the marriage she proposes to
make would work out in real life.
l once knew a wise father who
followed this course.
His daughter, d dainty cult
waited girl, who had been reared
amidst the most refined surround
mss. thought she was in love
with a handsome young man who
was himself coarse and vulgar.
and came from d family far be-
low the girls in social status.
After every argument had been
used in vain 10 prevail upon the
girl not TO make a match that
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
Pertinent Paragraphs

Fishermen caught a monster
man-eating shark off the Georgia
coast. A pleasing change from
the sea serpent.
The Western clerk who eat.
slXty-one eggs at meal is to-
geographically blessed. He couldn't
do it in Atlanta.
St, Louis man advertises that
ne knows his wife to be "a re-
spectacle. well-meaning woman i"
He probably is meaning
himself
Almost $50,0OO,OOO worth of
precious stones have been import
ed in year. We may kick at
the price of steak. but we must
have our diamonds.
Fashion Notes: From Wash
tngton-"Modif1ed trousers" will
be worn by women. From New
York-Men's bathing suits ia
vored by women. About all we
have left is a safety razor.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
By GARRETT P. sERVIss.

We should rather ascribe the
incident to the personality of the
soldier. whose hand was arrested
by the expostulation of his own
better nature. Viewed from that
point, it becomes significant of
the growth of moral sentiment,
which, in the end will Danish war
altogether. Perhaps that merciful
Confederate at Gettysburg was, in
a sense, faithless to his cause
Who can say that, if the shot had
been fired, the result of the strug
gle might not have been different?
The fall of a leader has lost many
a battle. Very likely if that act
of mercy had been witnessed by
the commander of the Alabama
regiment he would have cut the
conscientious soldier down with
his sword as a recreant from
duty
Yet the man who spared the
generals life afterward declared
that he was glad that he could not
press the trigger, and every gen
erous mind approves his act and
his sentiment.
In former days, when most bat
ties were fought hand to hand and
foot to foot, the Juror CERTA-
MINIS fury of the fight) had no
such interruptions. Moral senti-
ment counted for little on the bat
tleheld. There was no time for it
to assert itself. even if it existed
then as widely as it exists to-day.
The dreadful scenes of slaughter
that attended Caesars campaigns
in Gaul. and the sacks of cities in
the Thirty Years War. would be
impossible now among civilized
people.
Education Will Bring Peace.
When a modern soldier, secure
in his position, sights along his
gun at an enemy, his mind is in
a state for reflection upon the ma
ture and consequences of his in
tended act Of slaughter, and the
mere fact that he can strike at a
distance and unseen may restrain
him, as it did in this case, from
striking at all He balances his
public duty against his personal
conscience, and unless the former
Overwhelmingly appeals to him,
the latter may prevail. If he can
see a chance for mercy he viii
exercise it.
All this shows plainly the direC-
ton which the advocates of uni
versal peace Cand we are all such
advocates, though we may differ
in our ideas about methods)
should take in order to bring
about the result they aim at 1t is
the direction of EDUCATION. A
gun in the hands of a conscien-
tious soldier is a moral force for
peace, and so is powerful bat
tie fleet in the hands of a great,
civilized nation
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-03
BY DOROTHY DIX.

a FATHER who has a pref
\ IT, bright 1S-year-cld
daughter for whom he has
made many sacrifices To give adj
vantases, is much distressed be
cause she imagines herself in love
with a callow youth of the same
age, and he wants to know if
there is any way in which he
can keep her from wregking her
life by marrying this boy
Surely Here are a few simple
home remedies for breaking up
undesirable matches, that are
guaranteed to work. if applied
with tact and discretion.
First. drop all opposition to the
sutton Quit abusing him Just
remember that romance thrives
on difficulties, and that when YOU
put young man in the position
of poor. prosecuted martyr, YOU
simply crown him with a halo
in the girls sight Also YOU
make her his champion. and TO
back up her arguments in his
favor she shuts her eyes to all Of
his faults. and not only magnifieS
his virtues but invents new ones
for him.
Every novel represents the
heroine as defying her parents.
and her friends. and the general
public, and being true TO "a no
BILE. but misunderstood, young
man, and as having her Judgment
justified by his turning out to
be a duke in disguise, or getting
elected President Of the United
States
Cupid At His Worst,
When YOU oppose a silly youns
girl in a love affair. and read the
riot act TO her you give her a
chance to visualize herself in that
poetic role, and it makes her do
her clothes up in a bundle and
sneak out of the house. and eIope
with the man that YOU have APP
piled every opprobrious epithet
to of which YOU could think. II is
a matter of common knowledge
that people never marry the nice,
suitable individuals their fami-
lies have picked out for them and