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The Madison journal., 1914-02-14
MOTHER! LOOK At
CHILD'S TONGUE
If cross. feveriSh. COnstipated,
give "CaIifornIa Syrup
of Figs"

A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels. which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish: stomach
sour.
Look at the tongue. mother! II coat.
ed. or your child is listless. cross, fev-
erish, breath bad. restless. doesn't eat
heartily, full of cold or has sore throat
or any other children's ailment. give
teaspoorful of California Syrup Of
Figs" then don't worry. because it Is
perfectly harmless, and in few hours
all this constipation poison. sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
well, playful child again. A thor
ough inside cleansing" is oftimes all
that is necessary. 1t should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
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
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Madison journal., 1914-02-14
There's Many a Way.

G. Roy Hill, secretary of the Auto
mobile club of Minneapolis. has in
vented this:
A motorist was telling of a trip
through the Red River valley. The
party. he said, came to a stream, but
the bridge had been washed away dur
ing a cloudburst.
After we got on the other side we
found ourselves on the finest kind Of a
road" he pursued.
YES" he was asked, but how did
YOU get your car across that stream?"
"Oh, we just sat down and thought
it over"
The Madison journal., 1914-02-14
On tho Go.

On tho Go.
My husband isn't home two nights
q month"
You should get the minister to see
him"
He IL the minister. Always baing
called away 70 see people"
The Madison journal., 1914-02-14
How He Did IL.

How do you always keep the or
fee clock right?" the foreman was
asked.
II set 1t In the morning by the time
the boss arrives and set 1t again at
noon and night by the time the help
quits"
The Madison journal., 1914-02-14
Sood Business Reason.

WY, asked the observer of
y me itinerant musician. why
pay an accordion? Nobody
=, e accordion any more"
s'snor, have da reason. De
.no no hka da accord pay me
~ mon to stoppa ma noise."-
The Madison journal., 1914-02-14
Dangerous Ground

dangerous Ground.
aea that a sick man always
- 0ve with his pretty nurse Is
oid man. That's how I met
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
rba llohta Of London.

George R. Sims. the London Journal
ist. was telling an American about his
melodrama, THE Lights Of London, I"
which. produced 30 years ago, in some
parts Of the world is actually running
yet
About 80 years ago." said Mr.. Sims,
I'VE young Londoners were mad over
long-distance walking. l. for my part.
used to take . train after my days
work to a station 10 or Is or even 20
miles from town, and spend the night
walking back. hoped, you see. to
harden myself into q long-distance
champion.
well, on one of these nocturnal
walks on the Great North road fell in
with two young countrymen on the
way to London to seek their fortune.
We struck Highgate on toward dawn.
and there below US lay the lights o.
London. twinkling and beckoning and
promising. Those myriad lights i'm
pressed me, and when I got home,
tired as was. wrote my ballad of
The Lights o. London q ballad of a
young couple who came to London to
seek their fortune In youth. and whom
London defeats.
$50 my long walk on the Old North
road ended. you see. in long run"
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
RADIuM CURE

John Brown, of Golden, Colorado,
an employee of the Golden Indust-
rial school, aged 65 years, has been
cured of cancer of the tongue by
tube Of radium bromide, loaned for
the purpose by the Golden School
of Mines. The treatment was appli-
ed by DR.. j. p. Kelly, one of the old
est residents of the state. The tube
containing the radium was applied
under the patients tongue. in direct
contact with the inflammation. Radium
bromide has only about one-third the
energy Of radium salts and several
applications were required. Accord
ing to DIR. Kelly, the professional
service for treatment amounted to
only six dollars, and the bromides
energy was good for hundred years.
Three other cancer patients from
Denver have started for John Hop
kins hospital, Baltimore, where the
radium salts can be applied, as these
cases have reached the stage where
greater radioactive energy must be
applied. They are DR.. T.. F. Lake,
1874 Clarkson St, Denver, pioneer
physician of the state. George w.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
Haa and ThA

At tea given at the Ruhl in Nice to
the ofncers Of the Mediterranean feet,
e. Royal Tyler. the well-known au.
thor. said. nodding toward sign. 1.-THE
Dansant." which might be translated
Tango Tea"
"A French maid. when refused tea
the other afternoon exclaimed:
"'But monsieur is not like his fellow
countrymen. then!'
mot like them? How so?' said 1.
why said the maid, I picked up
one of your American novels the 9th.
er day, q Howells novel. and, though I
can't read English, saw that there
was nothing but "tea," tea" tea"
ON every page. Now. people who talk
SO much about tea must be inordinate-
ly fond Of 1t. nest ce pas, monsieur ?
She thought, you see. that our ar
ticle the had the same meaning as
the In French"
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22

Mrs. E. McCarty, of Denver, is
visiting the Niccum family.
Mrs. Frank Mears, formerly a resi-
dent, was visiting friends this week.
Willie Boellert returned on Monday
evening from a visit to Denver.
Clifford Roberts and James Robins
left Wednesday morning for Denver
to take in the stock show.
Max Cohen and Arthur Goldstaff
after attending to important business
matters at the county seat, left for
Denver this morning. The rarefied
mountain air agreed with them this
time, but it may not always be thus
ly.
G. E. Fritz left Monday morning
for Denver to attend meeting of
the State Tax Commission.
The Sunday school will convene
next Sunday at 10 o'clock, preaching
and sacrament of the Lords Supper
at IL a. m. All Christians are urged
to be present to commune. All are
invited to these services.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
IN RUSSELL GULCH

Mike Reidl, VIM. Leverton, Hugh
Williams, Ed. Young and Dave Wood
are counting in Central City this
week as members of the petit jury.
S. T. Harris returned Sunday night
from his trip to Kansas City, Mo.
Whisper it, but there is a mine
in Russell Gulch that contains an
inch streak of pitchblende ore.
R. j. Hughes was visitor at the
district court Monday.
Joe Ress is in attendance at the
district court this week.
The tram road has been shoveled
out and the Richardson mine is now
in full blast. -
They say that Dave Wood carries
a chunk of S5 per cent pitchblende in
his pocket.
Ike Young is visiting the stock
show this week. Ike intends to
bring up some beef that the people
will not have to chew.
Robert Davis was taken to the hos
pital in Denver Wednesday.
Why don't our honorable board Of
county commissioners have the road
between here and Nevada shoveled
out SO that we can get mail more
readily?
Tom Hughes and company shovel
ed the road from here to the Jack
son mine at the head of ellison gulct
and moved the hoisting plant to the
81 in Russell gulch.
Bob Trebilcock returned from Den
yer Sunday.
Bert Friggins went to Denver Sat
urday.
Nick and Tom Ellis walked to Col
den last week and returned Sunday
Ed. Morrison left for Pittsburg, Pa
Wednesday morning.
Miss Minnie Turner is visiting in
Denver.
Mrs. v. Zancanella fell on the ice
and broke her leg.
Mrs. H. Williams is nursing bad
ly sprained ankle.
There will be the regular religious
services at this place Sunday, Jan
25th. Sunday school, 10 a. m. Ep
worth League, 6:15 p. m. Preaching
at p. m. Mrs. John Hughes and
Mrs. Matt Edwards will sing, also
Mr.. Tom Bellwood will render a sac
red vocal solo. Everybody is invited
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
Wireless Musical Performer.

I am anxious to get into communica.
tion with musical wireless telegraph
operator who played America" on his
key without an error from start to
finish at about sundown Sunday.
l was tinkering with my sons anna.
teur wireless outfit about that time,
listening to the dot and dash babble of
the Sound steamship operators, when.
without a warning. came the strains
Of my Country. 'Tis OF Thee" in ef.
feet similar to q violin and with al
most the same continuation between
notes. 1t seemed as II the operator
could manipulate his key 30 delicately
that his song had no Interruptions or
dashes In the rendering.
Whoever he is who sounded this
new note In wireless telegraphy must
not hide his light under a bushel. He
should come out in the open and tell
a very ignorant young world what new
miracles are knocking at the door,
Louis W. Greeman, in New York Sun.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
Festival Of st. sabaa.

The first order of Christian Anchor
ties established in Palestine was
founded by st. Sabas, whose festival
Is celebrated on Dec s, the anniver-
sary Of his death in the year sag. This
renowned patriarch Of the monks OF
Palestine came of a wealthy family,
but dispute among relatives about
the settlement Of an estate so dis
gusted him that he forsook the world
and entered q monastery. At the age
Of eighteen he went to Jerusalem. but
later sought seclusion in the wilder
ness. He made his home in q cave ON
the top Of . mountain. The fame of
his holiness spread abroad. and many
came to him. desiring to serve God
under his direction. He finally found
ed q new monastery Of men who de-
sired ITO devote themselves TO the
praise and service OF God without in
terruption." and gained hundreds Of
adherents. Some Of the oldest Chris
tian monasteries In the world, scat
tered in remote places over the des-
erts Of Asia and Africa. were founded
BY monks who had received inspira-
tion from st. Sabas. In the latter psrt
Of his long life st. Sabas was the yu.
perior general Of all the Anchorites
Of Palestine.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22

Mayer, t73 West Maple ST., Denver.
a contractor, and Frank P. Gelvin,
of 524 West Eleventh avenue, Den
yer, an employee of the Denver q
Rio Grande railroad. DR.. Lakes can
Ger developed last August and since
then he has resorted to all cures
known to\ science, except radium,
with no beneficial results. These
cases will be watched with interest,
as two of them are in the most ad-
vanced stages.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
Activities Of Women.


In the Colorado state penitentiary
there are only 81 women as compared
to S03 men.
No woman under forty years of age
is allowed to drive her own motor car
In Paris. ~--
Nine. Pallier recently made q flight
Of 174 miles in an aeroplane. which IL
q new record for women.
Miss Annie J. Cannon. the most dis
tinguished astronomer in the world. Is
cataloging 100000 new stars.
Paris women are wearing half wells.
which is regarded as q reversion to
the Turkish habit.
Over 1900 women weavers in Pat.
erson. N. j.. mills have decided to
ask for shorter working hours and II
they do not receive what they want
they will 60 ON a strike.
So that she will be able to learn
the methods of just how the schools
are run, Mrs. Lola Morgan. recently
elected q school director in Norwood.
Ohio, will attend school every day
with her children.
The school children Of Lane county.
Oregon, will be taught road building.
and Miss Goldie Van Biber. who will
direct the work. will have charge Of
700 square miles Of country through
which roads will be built.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
Expression 10 Old ono

The expression "the devil to pay
and no pitch hot" is Of nautical origin,
according to Brewers Dictionary OF
Phase and Fable,y which says: "The
devil is seam between the cardboard.
strake and the keel. and the pay IL to
cover 1t with pitch. In former times,
when vessels were often careened for
repairs, 1t was difficult to calk and pay
this seam before the tide turned.
Hence the locution. the ship is car.
eened. the devil Is exposed. but there
is no hot pitch ready. and the tide
will turn before the work can be done
(French payer. from paix, polk. pitch)
Here's the very devil to pay is used
in quite another sense. meaning !:
Here's q pretty kettle Of fish, I'm
in . pretty mess. etc."-A T. G.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
HAWK NEWS|NEvADAv|LLE notes.

Clifton Semmens left for Cripple
Creek last Thursday.
Hugh Victor and family left last
Thursday for South Dakota.
John Kramer left for Golden Thurs
day morning.
John Hutcheons, VIM. Bolitho and
Emmett Tuck have been serving the
county this week as Jurors.
They say Frank Sparks is watch
ing on the Topeka. Watching for
what?
John Chapel heard three coyotes
in his yard Friday night. He rails
ed the window and took three shots
at them with the result that they
grabbed pair of Johns choice game
cocks and trotted off, unharmed.
The Hard Time social given by
the Cheerful Workers, last Friday,
Jan. 10Th, was carried off in good or
der. A good crowd from Central City
was present and reported having a
good time. The Cheerful Workers
and the Epworth League of this place
wish to thank them for their patron
age. During the evening, many games
were played and a word contest was
given, which came out tie by Miss
Elizabeth Rule and Miss Mary Wat
ters. Both names were put in hat.
The first name out was that of Miss
Rule, who won the prize. Other priz-
es were won by Mrs. H. Armfield, M.
Slater and Sam Hambly. If you
want to know what good time is,
come and join our league.
The Sunday School will meet here
next Sunday at 2:2O p. m. preaching
by the pastor at $3.50 p. m. Mr.. Will
Ferganchich will render a violin solo
at this service. The Epworth League
will conevne at p. m. The public
, is invited to all services.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
CALLED FOR MUCH PATIENCE
Making Of Arrow Heads Brought Into
Requisitlon All the Art and
Skill Of the Indian.

Not all Indians can make arrow
heads. This art was the special func-
tion Of the older A4ld more skillful
men. Ishi seems to have been close
ly associated with the usual customs.
he preserves many Of the more high
ly developed arts and crafts.
In the manufacture of arrow heads,
flint and obsidian were used by the
Yanas.
Obsidian is volcanic glass, occur
ring in parts Of California In the
shape OF dark opaque bowlders Of
small size. When splintered either
by stone mallets or by another rock
1t appears as brownish or dark gray
glass, uneven in color.
Ishi breaks these powders by hit
ting them with another rock. Having
obtained fragments varying from Q to
4 inches long to III inches wide. and
about quarter Of an inch thick. he
is prepared to flake his haka or heads.
The first flakes are large and free
ly made. calculating to give by wide
transverse lines of cleavage, and to
establish the fundamental outlines Of
the point. Later these flakes are
smaller and more like finishing touch
es. The tool he now uses is not horn
but iron or soft steel.
Smaller tools are made Of wire nails
driven into wooden handles inches
long. These are filed to fiat round
ed point, something like q blunt
screwdriver.
In working the obsidian this edge
is held vertical to the stone and the
shaft of the taking tool in the plane
Of the left palm. Apparently the soft
metal permits the glass to make q
small dent in 1t which engages the
two and allows pressure being ap-
piled to the edge to be faxed.
As Ishi develops the form of his
arrowhead to q graceful acute angle.
he changes to . finer taking tool. and
resting the stone on his protected
thumb. he then makes the little inden-
tations near the base, which permit
the sinew to hold the head Of the Ar
row. Never once during this process
does he hit or beat the obsidian. No
rough force 10 required, just patient.
arttul dexterity and strength Of 6n-
gerA A,
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22

Were you ever in the blue grass re-
gion upon Sunday when the preach
er was to come home with ma and pa
to dinner. On the day before. it would
get out to the negro quarters somehow
that the preacher man" was coming.
and then the feathers would fly.
The jam and jelly shelves would be
rifled and finally the dinner came on
the table. There would be about half
q bushel Of friend chicken from which
the necks. backbones and wings had
been eliminated. done to rich brown
color; f1anked with mashed potatoes
on one side (old blue Meshannock) a.
white as the driven snow and as light
and pleasing as the laugh of q child:
beaten biscuits; jams, preserves and
that old-fashioned apple butter: corn
dodger about the size of your clench-
ed fist with husk like the shell of q
cocoanut. and 30 ON ad infinitum.
We children all had to wait for the
second table. but the old colored man.
my never let US suffer and l imagine
sometimes we we're better served than
the grownup people. Then the pie,
the "punkin" pie. Never served In
less than q quarter and always with q
spring-cooled glass Of cream as .
chaser"
Do you know how to eat "punkin"
pie! Some Of the degenerate scions
Of long-forgotten race OF barbarians
clip It OF with fork and l actually
saw fork the other day IN your city
which had one Of the tines widened
and sharpened 80 that 1t looked to me
like a kind of shovel, and they use
these instruments to eat q 'punkin"
pie with.
But no well-bred citizen would desc
crate "punkin" pie by treating 1t in
this manner. The well-bred citizen
takes his piece Of pie in his hand and
bites out crescents of rich amber
hued deliciousness from the pie. while
the crust around the pie and the sides
of the pie and the bottom Of the pie
are Drowned fakes of ecstacy. Half
the enjoyment Of eating "punkin"
pie is in smearing some of 1t over
your face. A pie having tho kind of
crust that wouldn't stand alone and
which would allow its contents to run
all over your fingers and gum them up
would be hastened to the pigpen.-I
Kanbas City Star.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
BIBLE NAMES PASSING.
PURITANIcAL NOMENCLATURE
NO LONGER AFFECTED.
Even In Conservative New England a
Marked DimInution 10 Noted
Clas9 Lists Of Yale Bear Elo-
quent Testimony to Fact

A certain set of Christian names
taken from the Scriptures has been
in use 30 long that we do not think of
them as Bible names. Among them
are Adam. Noses, Samuel, David. Dan
iel. Solomon, Abraham. Isaac and ia
cob. Others taken from the saints.
like Peter, Paul, John, Stephen and
Matthew. originally given to children
because they were born on the saints
day. are still SO common that we
think Of them as English names.
These names antedate the use Of
surnames, as may be inferred from
the fact that nearly all of them have
given rise to patronymics, like Jacob
son, Peterson and Stevenson. In the
18th century missionaries sent out
by the authorities used to baptize
whole villages at once, and to save
time invested all the men with the
name of John or some other saint.
and the women usually Mary or Mar
tina.
To distinguish the Johns some addi-
tional name like Short or Strong or
White or Black was given him by
the neighbors, and so Christian names
and surnames were united.
After the Reformation 1t became
theA' fashion among the Puritans to
give children the names of characters
like the Old Testament, and odd ones
like Melchisidek or Braxillai were pre-
ferred. Among these were Abel. L.e-
vi, Jesse, Amos, Asa, Isaiah. Ephraim.
Gideon, Malachi. Job. Abner. Hosea.
Ezekiel. Jeremiah. Zachariah. Asher.
Eli. and hundreds Of others.
For some reason the use OF these
names has largely ceased. We can
understand why Ebenezer has been
dropped. though once one Of the Pu-
ritan Bible names have q strong man
ly ring, and have been borne by able
men. That they are going out Of use
is very evident from comparing the
early class lists Of Yale with later
ones.
twenty-five classes in the early
18th century. numbering 375 gradu-
ates, show 119 with Puritan given
names. This is about 30 per cent.
Ten classes in the goth century, num-
bering 3037. show but rs given names
Of this class. or less than l per cent.
Ebenezer and Barzillai have complete
ly disappeared. Nor is Peletiah or
Zadok to be found.
We can only hope that the descend
ants Of these ancient worthless have
inherited some Of their sterling quail
ties. though they do not perpetuate
the nAme.-Hartford Times.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
MEMBER COLORADO EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
MURDER WILL OUT

This truism must have forced it.
self upon the minds of the thinking
people of the community, when the
findings of the grand jury In the
Black Hawk murder case was made
public, together with the long delay
ed confession Of RoselIa Williams, a
victim of the most vile and inhu-
name treatment ever known to be
inflicted upon defenseiess and
motherless girl, in the history Of the
state.
Sympathetic neishbors had offered
to be mother to the girl in her
troube,but the mortal fear Of the vii
Iainous brute who had her under sub
lection, compelled her to decline the
kind aid. To compare the fiend In
human form who committed the dia-
boIicaI outrages, as stated in the
girls confession, to a "brute", Is a
libel on the brute creation. In the
animal kingdom, the parent will ever
fight in protecting its offspring, even
to the extent Of sacrificing its life.
The truth Of the existence Of an
AsIIseeing power which hovers over
and protects the defenceIess and sect
to It that the guilty are punished,
10 most wildly portrayed in this in
stance. That murder will out, 10 with
out a question Of doubt. Somewhere
the guilty always leave a mark be.
hind, whereby the crime may be trac
ed to its source. In this instance,
the murdered babes wrapped in their
and hidden away in .he dark recess
Of an unused qarret; to the mind OF
the guilty one who placed them
there, they were safe from the pry.
ing eyes Of the law.
A wondrous chain Of circumstances
aided in exposing the hideous crimes
to the light Of day. Capitalists from
far off California came to Black
Hawk and purchased the house,
wherein lay the victims. The change
Of ownership compelled the vacatins
Of the premises and the finder Of
the bodies, recently returning from
the frozen gold fields Of Aiaska,was
destined to become the occupant.
The chilly blasts Of last September,
caused him to seek material to fill
the crevices In the wall and thus he
stumbled on the secret hiding place
that held the mystery. Who can
truthfulIy say, that the guiding hand
Of Providence was not in all Of this
How awful is that hour, when consci-
ence stings
The hoary wretch, who on his
death-bed hears,
Deep in his soul, the laundering
voice that rings,
In one dark, damning moment,
crimes Of years,
And, screaming like vulture in his
ears,
Tells, one by one, his thoughts of
deeds Of shame;
How wild the fury of his soul
careers!
His swart eye flashes with the in
tensest flame,
And like the torture's rack the
wrestling of his frame.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22

The Colorado Progressive, Vol. 1
No. i, has reached our desk. 1t is
well edited, in magazine form, and
its initial number treats upon ma
tional and state questions in a fair
and reasonable manner. 1t gives
credit to those entitled to it without
regard to party and If the G. o. P
does not swallow it up, or financial
ly bust it, it will be leading fac
tor in the state in shaping future
legislation.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22
CASH BUSINESS AT DRUG STORE

In future our business has to be
run on a strictly cash basis. Kindly
bring or send money for each pur-
chase. Those that have bills stand
ing will be expected to settle as soon
as possible as we need the money
to carry on the business. We will
greatly appreciate your efforts at this
time. Many thanks for past favors.
hoping and wishing a prosperous fu-
ture for all. Sincerely yours,
Ii. P. DAVIES G. CO.
The Pharmacy.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22

The following people from Rollins
vile are registered at the Central
City hotel. Most of them are jury
men or witnesses in the German cop
per plate theft:
J. w. Rooms, deputy sheriff, Hen
ry Josephine, Chas, G. johnson, AL
bert Johnson. Chas. Hawn and son
DR.. Longnecker, w. r. Moore, ]. L.
Jordan, Henry LeFevre, VIM. Grant
Ray Clark. Edward Stevens, H. Baer
Ed. Barrett.
Gilpin observer., 1914-01-22

The following were arrivals at the
Central City hotel this week: w. A.
Blood, c. A. Esty, L. B. Evans, w.
B. Sole, Ed. Thiede, B. b. McCurdy,
G. B. Rector, w. ]. Held, s. w. Ev-
ermon, w. G. Hewett, P. C. Emmer-
son, ]. G. Baird, L. R. McGrath, E.
F. Hansen, ]. M. Anderson. George
Cevlinar, w. H. MCGOWAN, and L. S.
Post.