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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-28
CHILDREN LOVE
SYRUP OF FIGS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little 'insides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative, handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach and that teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
of California Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
On each bottle. Adv.
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FULLY NoURISHED
Grape-Nuts Perfectly Balanced Food.

No chemists analysis of Grape-Nuts
can begin to show the real value of
the food-the practical value as shown
by personal experience.
1t is a food that is perfectly bal
anced, supplies the needed elements
for both brain and body in all stages
of life from the infant, through the
strenuous times of active middle life.
and is a comfort and support in old
age.
For two years / have used Grape
Nuts with milk and little cream, for
breakfast. l am comfortably hungry
for my dinner at noon.
81 use little meat, plenty of vege-
tables and fruit, in season, for the
noon meal, and II tired at tea time.
take Grape-Nuts alone and feel per-
fectly nourished
Nerve and brain power and mem-s
ory are much improved since using
Grape-Nuts. am over sixty and weigh
155 lbs. My son and husband seeing
how l had improved are now using
Grape-Nuts.
My son, who is travelling man,
eats nothing for breakfast but Grape
Nuts and a glass of milk. An aunt,
over 20, seems fully lourished on
Grape-Nuts and cream" There's
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to
Wellville." in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. a new
nre genuine. true, and full of human
inter--t-
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Anesthetized Rejection Slip.

Elizabeth Jordan said that with all
the manuscripts the late Margaret e.
Sangster had occasion to return, not
one ever casried heartache with it.
She saw everyone who wanted to see
her, receiving all callers. She was
greatly interested in young writer's.
And when they had no writing gift,
tactfully she would set them going on
in some other direction. Perhaps some
woman who had brought her poor lit
tie efforts to Mrs. Sangster could bake
sweetmeats, though she couldn't
write. Then would Mrs. Sangster
work around among the club women
she knew until she got sufficient or
ders for sweetmeats to give that wo-
man employmsat-Chris Herald
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SYNOPSIS.

Fran arrives at Hamilton Gregory's
home In Littleburg. but finds him absent
conducting the choir at camp meeting.
She repairs thither in search of him.
laughs during the service and Is asked to
leave. Abbott Ashton. superintendent OF
schools. escorts Fran from the tent He
tells her Gregory. is wealthy man.
pillar OF the church. Ashton becomes
greatly interested In Fran and while tax
ing leave OF her. holds her hand and Is
seen by Sapphira Clinton, sister OF Rob
ert Clinton. chairman of the school board
Fran tells Gregory she wants nome
with him. Grace Noir. Gregory's private
secretary. takes violent dislike to Fran
Fran hints at a twenty-year-old secret.
and Gregory in agitation asks Grace to
leave the room. Fran relates the story
of how Gregory married a young girl AZ
Springfield while attending college and
then deserted her. Fran is the child OF
that marriage. Gregory had married his
present wife three years before the death
of Fran's mother. Fran takes liking to
Mrs. Gregory. Gregory explains that
who is dead. Fran agrees to the story.
Mrs. Gergory insists on her making her
home with them and takes her to her
arms. The breach between Fran ana
Grace widens. It is decided that Fran
must go to school. Grace shows persis-
tent interest in Gregory's story of his
dead friend and hints that Fran may be
Clinton and leave Gregory's service. much
to the latter's dlsmay. Fran declares that
the secretary must go. Grace begins nag
ging tactics in an effort to drive Fran
from the Gregory home. but Mrs: Greg
ory remains stanch in her friendship.
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ing's good thing. and, oh, how it's
needed. . . Except at school-you
mustn't do anything human here. you
must be an oyster at school"
"Aw-right," said Jakey, with glim-
coming to life. as II sap were trickling
from winter-congealment.
Bob Clinton, too, felt the fresh
breeze or early spring in his face. He
removed his spectacles.
"The first thing / knew" Fran said
resuming her private conversation
with Jakey, II had mother. but no ia
ther-not that he was dead, oh, bless
you, he was alive enough-but before
my birth he deserted mother. Uncle
turned us out of the house. Did we
starve, that deserted mother and her
little baby? l don't look starved. do I?
Pshaw! II a woman without a cent to
her name. and ten pounds in her arms
can make good. what about d big
strong boy like you with a mother to
smile every time he hits the mark
Tell these gentlemen you're sorry for
punching that boy"
"Sorr'," muttered Jakey shame
facedly.
81 am glad to hear it," Abbott ex-
claimed heartily. you can take your
cap to go. Jakey."
"Lemme stay" Jakey pleaded. not
budging an inch.
Fran lifted her face above the
tousled head to look at Abbott; she
sucked in her cheeks and made a
triumphant oval of her mouth. Then
she seemed to forget the young rams
presence.
But when mother died. real trouble
began. 1t was always hard work. while
she lived, but hard work isn't trouble,
Well, sir, when l read about how good
Mr.. Hamilton Gregory is. and how
much he gives away-to folks he new
er sees-here l came. But ! don't
seem to belong to anybody, Jakey, I'm
outside of everything. But you have
home and mother, Jakey. and a
place in the world. so I say 'Hurrah!'
because you belong to somebody, and,
best of all. you're not a girl, but q boy
to strike out straight from the shoul-
der"
Jakey was dissolved; tears burst
their confines.
One may shout oneself hoarse at the
delivery of speech which. If served
upon printed page. would never prompt
the reader to cast his hat TO the cell
ing. No mere print under bold head
lines did Abbott read, but rather the
changing lights and shadows in great
black eyes. 1t was marvellous how
Fran could project past experiences
upon the screen of the listeners per-
ception. At her. when mother died"
Abbott saw the girl weeping beside
the death-bed. When she sighed, Il
don't belong to anybody" the school
director felt like crying; Then be.
long to mel"
Fran now completed her work. She
rose from the immovable Jakey and
came over to Abbott Ashton, with
meekly folded hands.
He found the magic of the moon
light-hour returning. She had mel
lowed - glowed softened-woman-
ized-Abbott could not find the word
for 1T. She quivered with an exquisite
ness not to be defned-a something
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hours. You may have heard a great
lawyer in action in a crowded courc-
room. What was the secret of his
power? II was that he would not let
the jury's attention or the witness
tongue wander from the relevant
facts. He kept insistently to the
straight line that is the shortest dis.
tance from point to point. He curt
ly dismissed all that was super
fiuous, immaterial and calculated to
blur the salient outlines of the mat
ter in controversy.
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in hair, or flesh, or glory of eye, or
softness of lips, altogether lacking In
his physical being. but eagerly desired
Professor Ashton" she spoke seri
ously, 81 have been horrid. | might
have known that school is merely
place where young people crawl into
books to worm themselves from lid to
lid, swallowing all that comes in the
way. But I'd never been to school. and
| imagined it a place where child
was helped to develop itself. thought
teachers were trying to show the pu-
pills the best way to be what they were
going to be. I've been disappointed.
but that's not your fault; you are just
system. If boy is to be black
smith after he's grown, and II girl
in the same class is to be music
teacher, or a milliner, both must learn
about abe and def. So I'm going
away for good. because, of course,
couldn't afford to waste my time in
this house,
But, Fran" Abbott exclaimed i'm
pulsively, don't you see that you are
holding up ignorance as virtue? Can
you afford to despise knowledge in this
civilized age? You should want to
know facts just because-well, just be-
cause they are facts"
But don't seem to. at ALL" Fran
responded mildly. mo. I'm not ma
king fun of education when find fault
with your school, any more than I
show irreverence to my mothers God
when question what some people call
religion It's the connection to life
that makes facts of any value to me;
and it's only in Its connection to life
that I'd give pin for all the religion
on earth"
II don't understand" Abbott faltered
She unfolded her hands and held
them up in a quaint little gesture of
aspiration. NO. because it isn't in
book. l feel lost-so out in space. l
only ask for a place in the universe
to belong TO somebody -"
But" said Abbott. you already be-
long to somebody, since Mr.. Gregory
has taken you into his home and he Is
one of the best men that ever"
"Oh. let's go home" cried Fran i'm
patiently. Lets all of us skip out of
this chalky old basement-smelly place.
and breathe the pure air of life"
She darted toward the door. then
looked back. Sadness had vanished
from her face. to give place to sud
den glow The late afternoon sun
shone full upon her. and she held her
lashes apart. quite unblinded By its
intensity. She seemed suddenly H.
lumined not only from without. but
from within.
Abbott seized his hat. Robert Clin-
ton had already snatched up his. Jakey
squeezed his cap in an agitated hand.
All four hurried out into the hall as IL
moved by the same spring.
unluekily, as they passed the hall
window, Fran looked out. Her eyes
were caught by n group seated on the
veranda of the Clinton boarding house
There were Miss Sapphira Clinton.
Miss Grace Noir. and several mothers.
slipping afternoon tea. In an instant.
Fran had grasped the plot. That cloud
of witnesses was banked against the
green weather-boarding. to behold her
ignominy.
MIR. Clinton" said Fran. all sweet
ness. all allurement. Il am going to
ask of you a first favor. left my hat
up in Miss Bulls room and"
'I will get it," said Abbott promptly
(To RE- cONTINUED)
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Greatly Desired Lady.

1t would appear from bits of the So
cial gossip of her day that Miss Bur-
dett-Coutts' nearest approach to an
occupation was refusing offers of
marriage. 1t is stated that the name
Of the Prince of Advent w"1
connected with hers7
fused the duke of Wellir..
score of lesser gentlemen.
For years the great heiress was the
most glittering matrimonial prize in
England, and when at last she con-
sented to change her condition by
marrying an American, London club
wit struck a responsive chord by OBJ
serving, 81 don't blame Ashmead Bart
lett for proposing to the baroness
I've done it myself. / regard it as a
duty every Englishman owes to his
family. y."-'Intimate Memoirs of Napo-
lean ILL.,"
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asked. In the hoarse undertone OF a
fellow-conspirator.
NO" Abbott was eager to prove
his innocence. 81 haven't seen a sign
OF her. but I'm looking every minute
glad you're here"
Condolences were impracticable. be-
cause of tousled-headed. ink-stained
pupil who gloomed in a corner.
why, hello. there. Jakey!" cried
Clinton. disconnected; he had hoped
that Fran's subjugation might take
place without witnesses. What are
you doing here. heyf"
"waitin' to be whipped" was the de-
FAINT rejoinder"
Tell the professor you're sorry for
what you've done. so you can run
slong." said the chairman of the board
oorsusSively
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connection with life-something in it
mixed up with love and friendship and
justice and mercy. Wasn't / silly! I
even believed-just fancy!-that you
might really teach me something about
religion. But, no! it's all books. moth
ing but books"
Fran" Abbott reasoned. 'if we put
you in a<room where you can under
stand the things we try to teach. II
we make you thorough"
'T don't want to be thorough she
explained, 81 want to be happy. l
guess all that schools were meant to
do is to teach folks what's in books,
and how to stand in a straight line.
The children in Glass A. or Glass B
have their minds sheared and pruned
TO look alike: but I don't want my
brain after anybody's pattern"
You'll regret this, Miss" declared
Clinton, in threatening tone. You
sit down Do you want the name of
being expelled"
81 don't care very much about the
names of things" said Fran coolly;
there are lots of respectable names
that hide wickedness." Her tone
changed: But yonder's another Wild
animal for you to train; did you come
to see him beaten?" She darted to the
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-28

Stubborn Colds and irritated Bronchial
tholated Cough Drops-5c at Druggists.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-28

Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress. All grocers. Adv.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-28

"A soft answer doesn't turn away
the young man who is in love.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-28

The man who is handy around the
house usually isn't much good any
where else.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-28

Keep on asking a woman to marry
you. and your bluff will be called some
time.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-06-12
DA1PY NOTHs
|HE5s

A silo will pay for itself in one year
Be sure that the calves are started
right.
A farmer owning six cows should
have silo.
Be sure that the temperature of the
milk is right.
1t is not possible to grow too much
forage on dairy farm.
A comfortable stable reduces the
cost of maintenance and increases the
flow Of milk.
Feed regularly, not too much at
time. and young calves at least four
times day.
Nothing can be marketed on the
farm so successfully or so economi
cally as butter.
The dairyman who does not keep ii
individual record of his COWS is not
an up-to-date dairyman.
II the NOW is nearly empty and the
feed low in the bin, don't cut down
the rations of the cows.
The dairy farm that is stocked to its
full capacity without being overstock-
ed is pretty safe investment.
When an animal forms a habit,
either good or bad, that habit is a
part Of its life as long as it lives.
Draining the butter well before salt
ing Is one Of the little things that
makes for a better quality Of product.
Experiments have proven the aver
age milk COW requires about an ounce
nf aoIf ~
have more.
Success does not lie in the number
Of cows the dairyman keeps, but in
the kind he keeps and the way he
keeps them.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-06-12
LESS WORK FOR HOUSEWIFE
Introduction Of Modern Engine
Thresher Takes Many Burdens
From Shoulders Of Women.

The work Of the farm housewife
has been greatly lessened by the use
Of engine threshers. Formerly when
farmers went about from one farm to
another, helping each other to thresh
the grain, the farm-wife was COM
PEELED to cook for gangs Of men, often
for days at q time, and with seldom
sufficient help, her lot was indeed a
hard one. Now, the owner Of an en-
gine thresher rides about the country
during the summer days making his
threshing contracts. In the fall he or
ganizes his force and starts on his
rounds-he provides all the men nee
essary, takes along q tent, employs a
cook and relieves the farmer and his
family of all work in connection with
threshing. A counting machine regis
ters the number of bushels turned
out, and when his work is ended he
receives the farmers check for his
services, hooks up his teams to the
traction engines and goes on to the
next field.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-06-12

tained commun,tv want Some Of these wants
will best be supplied with the cooperation OF pr
vate enterprise Satisfaction OF others necessarily
will be deferred until methods to meet them can
be evolved or additional sources obtained But
it should become the citys business to have them
supplied either by public effort or private effort
under terms and conditions that will adequately
protect the public interest.
Granting these things, then-and they have
been pretty we'll established as fact by the work
of the bureau-t would seem that even If city
government along constructive lines were difficult
to get 1t would be worth making fight for. But
in this country are In the position OF standing
starving in the midst of plenty for lack OF the
enterprise to reach out and take what we need
Countless cities all over the country. even ham,
pered as they are by want of codifed and acces
sible traditions and precedents, have contributed
out of their dearly-bought experience improved
and tested methods of conducting city. These
methods in practice In these several
cities Many more would come in their turn II
sufficient interest were aroused, but even without
waiting we have an embarrassment of riches
lit TO our hand.
And yet, in all the United States, there is not
governmental bureau OF Information. not one
available source Of finding out these things under
either state or federal government. When man
goes into office and is idealistic enough and en-
thusiastic enough to want to fill his Office we'll
and with benefit to him and 1t. he must write to
the bureau Of municipal research here, private
agency. and ask what he may do. We here
for that purpose, 1t is true and working
with might and main to prepare ourselves for his
questions; but the fact remains that he should
be instructed under the authority Of the govern
ment of which he is part, and not by an indie
pendent and unofficial bureau
Now you will begin to see why we are SO anx
ious that President Wilson will agree to our sug
gestions about Washington
There, in city already under federal control
where local politics do not exist, and where ma
tional politics not subject to yearly or b
yearly upheavals-there Is the finest kind of an
opportunity for putting theory to the test OF
practice.
There is the whole machinery of federal gov
ernment to conduct research for which We
would have to pay millions of dollars. and for
which they would not have to pay cent, and to
conduct 1t under men trained to observe and to
coordinate significant and important facts"
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-06-12

needed cooperation among cities all striving to-
ward the same end has not been undertaken long
ago. Perhaps it Is because heretofore the rank
and file have not realized how much power for
good does lie in city government and how pos
slble 1t 1s by sane and rational use of this
power to rid the world of countless burdens
I'VE have evolved. 1t seems to me- a very prac-
ticable and sensible plan. YoI will find in the
report which we have sent to President Wilson.
that We ask first for survey of the city looking
to precise knowledge of just what it needs and,
second, for the presidents influence to be put
upon the three commissioners of the District of
Columbia to have put into practice there all the
valuable things discovered In all the American
cities.
by this means We hope to produce scheme
OF government for Washington which will not only
meet its own needs, but WILL by its adoption else.
where. work similar benefit.
The Importance of the preliminary survey
must not be overlooked. We do not want to go
down to Washington and construct an ideal city
out of some mans head. We want to find by
the most scrupuous and exhaustive search, what
1t is that Washington stands most in need Of
and we propose to supply her lacks by OF
the information we have collected in other cities
That Is to say. we do not want to do it our.
selves. Mr. Bruere and myself have ambition
to get the job, nor the supervision of it.
We want merely that President Wilson will find
us reasonable enough-and promising enough-to
set out along the lines have suggested and
that when the need arises for expert service in
the execution of the plan, he will be able to get
the best brains of the country to assist him
viii the project have outlined affect the
physical aspect of cities? That is rather diff
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-06-12
TOOLS FOR A GARDEN
Implements Are Demanded for
Proper Cultivation.
0Sd-F ashlomsd Hoe and Rake Will Not
8uppiy All the Needs Of the Upto-
Date Gardeasr-eome Good
Ones Aro illustrated.
CBy c. 8. NILLER.)

By c. g. NILLER)
The growing OF vegetables and fruit
has become 20 important that i'm
proved tools are now demanded for
proper cultivation. In order to get
the very best results cultivation must
be carried to the limit and the old
fashioned hoe and rake will not sup
ply all the needs of tho up-to-date
gardener.
Those shown in the accompanying
picture are all extremely useful. and
a. they cost but tribe nobody who
expects to do the best work In q gar
den can afford to be without them.
No. / is the hoe. and II remarkable
for the great number Of uses to which
It can be put in both field and garden.
No. : IL especially useful for cover
ing seeds and for heavy wedding.
No. 8 10 q combined hoe and rake
and enables the operator to do either
hoeing or raking without laying aside
one tool and taking up the other.
No. I 10 . hand weeder to scratch
weeds out Of flower beds and pots.
No. II one of the most useful tools
that can be used. 1t ID extremely
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-06-12

well-developed switches; their full,
roundabout udders, straight backs,
and the fine proportions of their gen.
eral conformation. The Jersey COW
looks the high-bred lady Of the cattle
race. Well-developed male animals
should weight from 140O pounds to 1900
pounds, and females, from $50 to 1906
pounds. Above all else, Jerseys at
tract notice by the dairy" type OF
their bodily conformation. by theii
large and wellformed udders, and
prominent milk-yeins. In color they
are OF various shades Of soft fawn
from red to silvery, with more or less
white. broken color being unobjection
able except from the standpoint of In
dividual taste.