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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
Montpelier, Idaho, Feb. s, 1914
AT the Shrine Of extravaganza.

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In all the discussions and
speculation about higher liv
ing cost and the slowing up Of
business at the present time,
it is only once in a while that
we hear the matter of thrift
or the lack of it, mentioned in
that connection, and yet it is
one of the most important fac
tors in the situation.
There is nothing local about
the conditions which now ex-
list. They are worldwide, and
the chief cause is lack of
plain, old fashioned thrift.
1t is simply the habit of ex-
travagance, of wastefulness,
of heedlessness, that has been
growing fast among all class
es of people and all govern
ments. Before capital can be
created wealth must be saved.
However great the production
of wealth, if it is not saved it
cannot be applied to the re-
productive process to the
creation of new wealth. But
even if when saved and thus
applied, it is devoted to re-
producing wealth in new,
economically useless and ex-
travagant forms, it is bur-
den rather than q benefit to
the lives Of the plain people
whose necessities of food,
clothing and shelter must b,
supplied out of the sum total.
The American people are
spending in forms Of Injury,
pleasure and display that are
new in this generation, large
amounts that in an earlier
day would have been saved
and invested. Families, in
cities and the country, that
formerly wonld have lived
economically, saved money
and banked or loaned it or
themselves invested it, now,
for example, have automo-
biles costing from a few hun
dred to several thousand dol
lars, and requiring from a few
hundred to several thousand
annually for their upkeep.
Instead of buying mortgages
they sign mortgages. In
stead Of depositing money in
the bank they are trying to
borrow it for extravagant
purposes.
OF course every American
is not SO foolish. There are
still some who have not bowed
the knee to this Baal of Ex-
travagance, but the genuinely
thrifty man is too often a
lonesome individual in these
times.-Boise Statesman.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
BIushIno Not oat.

Thus groans a mature ana dignified
exchange: "Blushing is fast becoming
a lost art" That depends. For exam.
pie. II we were to blush for every dem
agogue We soon would be a walking
case of scarlet fever. AS it is, we
compromise by blushing part OF the
time and let the fathers turn over In
their graves the balance OF the time.
But If our esteemed pessimist infers
that the crimson signal of confusion
or innocence or timidity is burning low
In woman, he errs. It's all in the
viewpoint. The blush, the badge of
refinement, is still current among the
rich and poor-and the world is grow
ing better all the while.-Exchange.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
RECOGNIZED ADVANTAGES.

You will find that Chamberlain
Cough Remedy has recognized advan-
tages over most medicines in use fol
coughts and colds. It dose not supp
ress cough but loosens and relieves
it. 1t aids expectoration and opens the
secretios, which enables the system &c
throw of a cold. 1t counteracts any
tendency of cold to result in pnen.
monia. It contains no opium or Other
narcotic, and may be given to child
as confidently as to an adult. For sale
by all dealers.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
stone druid Relic

A large buried stone, concealed for
over thirty years near Anwick church,
sleaford. England, in order to be out
of the way Of the plough, was de.
scribed. the other day, to the Lincoln.
shire Naturalists' Union as Druid
relic. The upper part Of the stone
had been fiattened and an irregular
shaped basin formed to catch snow or
rain used for ritual purposes.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
First Methodist Church.

Services will be held at the Method
list church next Sunday at the usual
hours
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Preaching service IL a. m.
Evening service $50.
Midweek service, Wed. 7:8O p. IN.
A cordial invitation is extended to
strangers and those not attached to
any church, to attend.
CHAs. f. WHEELER, Pastor.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
A cryIno shane.

Punktown Postmaster-The advance
agent NV tibet Uncle Tom" company
told me they wouldn't have tew take
the road at all. but could show in Moo
York the year round, but for one
thing.
Farmer Ruby-What's that?
Postmaster-Why. the Gerry socl-
ETY. won't let Little Eva act down
there.-Puck.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
"THE BEST LAXATIVE I
KNOW OF"

Il have sold Chamberlaind's Tablets
for several years. Pepole who have used
them will take nothing else. can
recommend them TO my customers as
the best laxative and cure for consti-
patton that know Of writes Frank
strouse, :Fruitland, Iowa. For sale by
all dealers.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06

The anti-saloon league in
the east proposes to have laws
passed requiring all beverages
containing more than two per
cent of alcohol TO carry a liable
of skull and crossbones with
appropriate warning of the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
Corrugated.

InQuisitive Friend-Don't you findt
that your wife is very subject to
moods?
hnpeck-No; she has only onei
mood. the imperative, and I'm the one
that's subject to thati-Judge.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
Teachers, Examination.

Examination for State, State Life
and County certificates will be given
at the Court House, Paris, Feb. 30,
q and 2s, 1914.
ALFRED A. HART,
County Superintendent.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
Cutters Cutters.

We have a few Lull Carriage
spring cutters, which we will close
out at bargains. If you want a dam
dy outfit cheap, now is the time to
buy.-C. w. Il NJ. Co.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
Good Reason for n

A gentleman who was raising bees
ana was the owner OF several hives
was telling some children they must
not bother them at all, One little girl
said, Brother picked up one this
morning, but he let right go again"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06
St. Andrews Episcopal Church.

f. M. Johnson, Jr., Lay Missionary.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Morning prayer at II o. clock. Sub
iect, Lights of Life"
Evening prayer at 1880. Subject,
1.-TWO Views of Life"
All are cordially invited to attend.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-02-06

49, Pathe's Weekly at the Montpelier
Theatre every Friday night.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28
Daddy; Bedtime
@. How the Crow
OtOTy Los. IT.! HI. Beautiful
White Feathers.
He Scared L-okI
Away.

"Y - IDDTEs, you know how black the feathers Of the crow are now.
A Would you like to hear about them when they were a beautiful
q whittier"
There was a merry twinkle in daddys eye 10 Jack and Evelyn
settled for the evening story which the children knew meant a mythical tale
"Oh, daddy, weren't they always blackT cried Evelyn.
my, nor laughed daddy. "They used to be the purest white you evA
say They turned black because Loh, the god Of envy disguised himself Is
a white crow and then did heaps of things that he should OF have done"
"LOh sounds like a japanese nam Is it a Japanese story, daddyP
mo- deare; it's a ancient Teutonic legend. In this legend Balder the god
Il mfrth and merinent vas not immortal so the other gods prayed to Thor
the greatest god of ALL to make Balder immortal.
Thor said this prayer should be answered If every animal and plant would
swear lot to injure Balder. Mamma, Balders Wife like the good wife she was,
went right around to all the plants N animals 10 ask them to take a oath
never % injure her husband.
But you see sly little Lokl, the god Of envy, didn't want the god Of mhth
and merriment to be immortal He didn't want anything 70 fine IS that to
happen. So he disguised himself as a beautiful white crow and few Just q
fast as he could after Balders wife, Mamma.
when he got down to earth he settled o. a little blue flower. hoping to
over it 81 Mamma would overlook IL.
"But the little flower cried pEndveIy, Forget m e not forget ne ntr and
scared Loh away, and the flower has been called forgetmenot ever since.
"Then Loki few up into N oak and sat on a mstetoe vine and preened
his lovely feathers. Mamma anne along and overlooked the mHtetoe, but car
rd or the oath of the oak tree.
Zone day when the gods and goddesses were shooting a blind god shot
Balder right through the heart.
you see. the malicious little Lod tipped a n arrow with the misttoe,
which had not taken the vow, and the arrow pierced poor Balders heart
"But what do you think happened to Loh, who wa masQuerading q a
lovely white crown"
1--WE know, W re known shouted the Riddles, jumping down from daddy's
knees and caperng about the floor with bare pink feet THAT crows white
feathers turned an inky black, didn't they? Come up and tuck us in now,
daddy"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28

was being driven to a country burial,
and that hence, If 1 wished to smoke,
L ought to do 1t surreptitiously.
Presently we swung into Main street
| did not ask the name of the street,
but l am reasonably certain that Is It.
There was a policeman on the corner.
Also a building bearing the sign "Old
National bank" = = = Old What
a pleasant, mellow ring the word has!
How fine, and philosophical, and pros
per, and hospitable it sounds.
Boulevard Lights Used.
The principal street of Battle Greek
may be without amazing architectural
beauty, but 1t is at least we'll lighted,
On either curb is a row of boulevard
lights" the posts set fifty feet apart.
They are good looking posts, too, of
simple, graceful design, each sur
mounted by a cluster of five white
globes. This admirable system of light
ing Is in very general use throughout
all parts OF the country excepting the
east. 1t is used in all the Michigan
cities I visited. I have been told that
It was first Installed in MINNEAPOLIS,
but wherever it originated, 1t is one OF
a long list of things the east may learn
from the west.
After driving about for a time we
drew up. Looking out, I came to The
conclusion that we had returned again
to the railway station.
1t was a station, but not the same
one.
This is the Grand Trunk DEPOT"
satd the driver, opening the carriage
door.
Il don't believe we'll bother to gel
out" l said.
But the driver wanted us to.
You ought to look at it," he in
sisted. ITS a very pretty station"
So we got out and looked at it. and
were glad we did, for the driver was
quite right.
I had but one reason for visitins
kalamazoo: the name has always
fascinated me with its geological sug-
gestlon and even more with its rich
rhythmic measure. Indian names con
taining ks" are almost always strik
Ing: Kenosha, Kewanee, Kokomo. Keo-
kuk. kankakee. OF these, the las
two having the most ks" are most
effective. Next comes Kokomo with
two ks. But Kalamazoo. though
1t has but one *" seems to me tc
take first place among them all
phonetically because of the finely as
sorted sound contained in it's four slla-
hes. There is a kick in its *" q
ring in It's IT,, a buzz in its a." and
a glorious boot in it's two final "O's."
| wish here to protest against the
abbreviated title frequently bestowed
upon the town by newspapers in De-
troit and other n~eighboring cities. They
call it "Ka'zoo."
Kalamazoo is also sometimes known
Familiarity as Celery Town"-the
growing Of this vegetable being a large
local industry, Also, I was informed
more paper is made there than in any
other city in the world. I do not know
If that Is true. I only know that If
there Is not more something in Kala-
mazoo than there is in n other city,
the place Is unique in my experience.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28
Some Towns in Michigan That
Advertised Themselves Into Fame

Julian Street in Golfers: On the
railroad journey between Detroit and
Battle Creek we passed two towns
which have attained a fame entirely
dlsproportionate to their size: Ann
Arbor, with about $4,000 inhabitants,
celebrated as a seat of learning; and
Ypsllant1, with about 5000, celebrated,
so to speak as a seat of underwear.
One expects an important college
town to be we'll known, but a manu-
featuring town with but 5000 inhabi-
tants must have done something in
particular to have acquired national
reputation. In the case Of Yysilanti
1t has been done by the advertising Of
underwear.
Then there is Battle Creek. Think
OF the amount of advertising that town
has had. AS Miss Daisy Buck, the lady
who runs the newsstand in the Battle
Creek railroad station, said to US: IT'S
III best advertised little old town of
its size in the whole United States"
And now it is about to get some more.
We were total strangers. We knew
nothing of the place save that we had
heard that it vas full of health cranks
and factories where breakfast foods,
coffee substitutes, and kindred edibles
and drtnkables were made. How to see
the town and what to see we did not
know We hesitated in the depot wait
ing room. Then fortune guided our
footsteps to the station newsstand
and its genial and ~vivacious hostess.
Yes, hostess is the word; Miss Buck is
anything but a mere girl behind the
counter. She is a reception committee,
an information bureau, a guide, philos-
opher, and friend. Her kindly inter-
est in the wayfarer seems to watt
forth from the precincts of the news
stand and permeate the station. All
the boys know Miss Daisy Buck.
After purchasing some stamps and
postcards as a means of getting into
conversation with her, we asked about
the town.
How many people are there here?'
I ventured.
"Thirty-1ve,' replied Miss Buck.
"Thirty-f1ve?" 1 repeated, aston
ished.
Though Miss Buck was momentarily
engaged in selling chewing gun (to
some one else), she found time to give
me a mildly plying look.
Thousand" she added.
Past the Portals Into Main Street.
The World almanac gives Battle
Creek but $4,000 population. That,
however, is no reproach to Miss Buck;
1t is, upo the contrary, a reproach to
the cold hearted statisticians who
compiled that book. And had they
met Miss Buck I think they would
have been more liberal.
What is the best way for us to
see the town." 1 asked the lady.
She indicated a man who was sit
ting on a station bench near by, say
ing:
He's a driver. He'll take you. He
likes to ride around"
His vehicle was a typical town hack
a mud-colored chariot, having C
springs, sunken cushions and a strong
smell Of the stable. Riding in 1t,
could not rid myself of the idea that
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28
BEAT HUERTA TO IT.
Craig TolIiVer Adopted the Dictaters
Election Methods Years Aao.

Louisville Courier-Journal: General
Huerta's "election"-or elections as
the term may now be used in the
plural form-will recall to Kentuck-
ians the election of the late lamented
Craig Tolliver as police judge in More
head.
Mr.. Tolliver's chief activity was
murder. He lacked certain facilities,
the value of which is we'll known to
"feudists," so called. so he decided to
be content no longer with the preroga-
tives of local political boss ship. He
would become an off1ceholder. The Of
fee Of police judge struck him as being
desirable. To sit as arbiter in a court
Of first instance before which murder
ers would be, from time to time, ar
%raigned, seemed the place for the man.
Mr.. Tolliver announced himself, in
formally, as the" candidate-not "a
candidate-for the Office he sought.
Nobody cared to o the path, or the
temper Of Mr.. Tolliver. His life work
had contributed more epitaphs to the
county annals than that of n citizen
Of Rowan county, living or dead.
Mr.. Tolliver did not arm himself
with arguments about his record. That
was an open book. Nobody Of voting
age lacked familiarity with its GRIM
son chapter. He armed himself, in
stead, with a repeating rife and the
customary auxiliary shooting irons Of
a vel dressed gentleman Of the period
and the locality. The campaign was
silent and uneventful. Cartridges slept
snugly in the cylinders of the Tolliver
hip cannon. Others reposed in the
magazine Of his rifle. Those who were,
upon moral, personal o political
ground, opposed to the candidacy Of
Mr.. Tolliver absented themselves from
the county for the establishment Of
u~nassailable alibi or talked Of ships
and shoes and sealing wax and cab
bages and kings rather than of local
politics.
When election day finally rolled
around fifteen or so of Mr.. Tolliver's
bodyguard voted for him. Other quail
flied voters neglected the privilege Of
the franchise with the unanimity that
characterized the sentiment of the Toll
liver retainers as expressed at the
polls. The outlaw was elected police
Judge without opposition"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28
TUESDAY, JULY %, 1914.
BIG VIII A DEMAND.

AS the harvest time draws nearer the
Indications that there will be a great
world demand for wheat, and conse-
quentIy a good price for North Dako-
ia farmers in spite Of the big crop,
continue to grow brighter. 1t now ap-
pears thai North Dakota will harvest
the greatest wheat crop in it's history
and will get a very good price for 1T.
Under the caption. Our Wheat Crop
and the World, The Minneapolis Trlb-
une says:
TT is becoming more certain that
the United States may be called upon
to contribute to the needs of the wheat
eating world as 1t has not been called
upon in a generation. There are two
very sound reasons for this important
position which we nave taken in the
international wheat market; in the first
place we have a most liberal aggregate
production and in the second every
other surplus country in the world is
reporting a deficient harvest.
THE development Of this situation
which, apparently. is going to bring
about a most strained supply and de-
mand condition dates back to last fall
when the crop failure in Argentine de-
Iprtved the importing countries of an
important supply source n which
was made more acute by the shortage
in India. AS these countries, with
|Austra4ia, are contributors that fill the
gap between the harvests in the more
important wheat areas of the northern
hemisphere the shortages, while in
convenient, were not looked upon as
tserious.
TT was expected hat with the har-
Vesting of the native crops in the m
porting countries the shortage would
be corrected. But with the unsatisfac-
tory progress Of the crops in eastern
Europe a leading surplus area, and the
late disturbing reports from the spring
wheat belts in the United States and
Canada, a very close adjustment be-
tween supplies and the requirements
of the world is indicated.
Europe has, evidently. been keenly
AllNO W LILO IllC AdoJ I"O VI
three months. With the knowledge that
the United States alone had a liberal
winter wheat harvest and that it was
so much above a normal yield that it
demanded the broadcast distribution,
they have been buyers on q liberal
scale. In fact their purchases were so
large a month ago that the domesticc
grain trade believed they had antici-
,pated more than their actual wants,
but there has been no indication Of a
cessation in their actcivity and at
EVERY opportune moment they have
come into the domestic market and
taken wheat.
1T may be said that the develop
tInents abroad instead Of suggesting
THAT the situation was exaggerated
have been tending in the direction Of
tgreater a~cuteness. The impairment in
lour own northwest and the sharp re-
kduction in Canada's prospects have
kmerely added to the abnormal condi-
Etions.
1.-THE United States. even with a re-
kduced spring wheat yield. such as Is
knoW indicated, will have a liberal ex-
Rportable surplus. The question of its
redistribution, however, WHICH has beer
sbothering the grain trade a great deal,
fseems to have been solved by the
tgreater requirements of the interna-
ktIonalv market"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28
NEW TEMPER WANTED,

=, "Tbelieve that the Judgment and
desire of the whole country cry
out for a new temper in affairs.
The time has come when discrim-
nations against particular classes
Of men should be absolutely laid
aside and discarded as unworthy
Of the counselS of a great people,
The effort for genuine social justice.
for peace. the peace which Is
founded in common understand
ings, andf or prosperity, the pros
perity Of cooperation and mutual
confidence, should be a unit with
out partisan prejudice or class
antagonfsm. 1t is only of such Just
and noble elements that the well
fare Of a great country can be
composed. We have breathed al
ready too long the air Of suspicion
and distrust. The progress of re-
form is not retarded by generosity
and fairness"
These words, which President Will
Jon took occasion to embody in his let
ter to Thomas D. Jones asserting tc
the withdrawal Of his name as an ap-
pointee to the federal reserve board
are worthy Of being set forth c%onspicu-
ously as pointing the way to the pro
gress of reform" on a safe and steady
line. Nothing could be more hostile &C
the fundamental principles of demo
rae than fostering class distinctions
There Is no rational ground fol
antagonism between capital and labor
or for prejudice against corporations
or railroads, or banks, or any of the
great agencies of production and the
interchange of products. The welfare
and prosperity Of all depend upon the
cooperation Of these forces and upon
mutual trust and confidence"
There has been a tendency in the
past for those having the direction Of
these agencies to use them unfairly
with too much regard for their owr
personal gain and too little for the
general well being in which they arr
sharers. This has begotten a good dea
of the partisan prejudice" and elias:
sntagonism.'' The contest against /
has new been carried go far ant
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28
French Remedy for
Stomach Troubles

The leading doctors of France have
for years used a prescription of vege-
table oils for chronic stomach trouble
and constipation that acts like a charm.
One dose will convince you. Severe
cases OF years, standing are often great
ly benefited within "a hours. So many
people are getting surprising results
that we feel all persons suffering from
constipation, lower bowel, liver and
stomach troubles should try Mayr's
Wonderful Stomach Remedy. 1t is now
sold here by
Fout and Porterfield and druggists
everywhere.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28
CHOIR D SAFE.
Neither They Nor the Choir Leaders
Violate RaItimore's Sunday Law.

Violate Baltlrnores SUNDAY Law.
Living Church: Does playing an or
gan and leading a choir in church vio-
late the Sunday Jaw.
Baltimore has been a~gitating the
question and a conscientious alderman
has introduced in the city council an
ordinance to legalize such industry
happily oblivious Of the fact that city
ordinances do not go far in modifying
state laws.
The city solicitor, however. holds that
organists and choirmasters, though
working for pay, are not violating the
law. From the time when David
wrote his beautiful psalm for the tenn
pie service and commanded to praise
the Lord upon an instrument OF ten
strings and upon the p~saltery, upon
the harp with a solemn sound all
through the ages and down to this
present day." he says, singing and
playing on instruments have been con-
sidered a part Of divine worship.
Choirs may therefore proceed witt
their Sunday worship without fear Of
the policeman-at least in Baltimore.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-28

created "the air Of suspicion and dis
trust which the nation is still breath
ing. 1t is a good sign that the presi-
dent discerns he coming of a new
temper in affairs" 1t is an evidence
of political sagacity to recognize this.
1t indicates a turn in the tide which
has been running too strongly in one
direction.