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Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
THE FORD PUsHMoeILE

The Ford is mine auto. | shall not
want (another). 1t maketh me to lie
down beneath 1t. II soureth my soul
1t leadeth me In the paths of ridicule
for its name sake. Yea, though / ride
through the valleys. ! am towed up
the hills. | fear much evil for thy
rod and thy staff discourage me.
annoint thy rod and tires with patch
es. My radiator runneth over. l re-
paireth blowouts in the presence OF
mine enemies. Surely II this thing
followeth me all the days of my life
| will dwell In the bug-house forever.
Moral: Equip your Ford with one OF
the new cuckoo clocks. When you
reach the speed limit of twenty miles
an hour the bird will come out and
sing Nearer My God to Thee
Fairplay Flume.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
RICH UNCLE SAM

Now Uruguay is borrowing $40 ,000,-
900 in this country, Switzerland is
borrowing SIS 900 900, and Italy is ar
ranging for big credit loan. These
follow liberal loans to Great Britain,
France, Russia and Canada, and 9TH
er nations are standing in line clam
oring for money and credit. We can
take care Of them, too, without any
inconvenience Since December /, our
excess of exports over imports has
amounted to about $500 900 900, of
which not mere than 5000, 900 900, at
the most, Is needed to cancel our
own foreign obligations. The re-
manning $500. .OOO,O 900 will so a long
way in the form of foreign loans
and purchases of American securities
now held abroad.-Wallace Press
Times.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
LET COLORADO SECURE THE
SWITZERLAND TRAVELLER

An idea of the large amount of
money derived from tourists travel
ling in Switzerland can be gained by
the following telegram from Geneva
under date of April 10. 1t states that
from August /, to the end of Decem-
ber the hotels in the Bernese Ober-
land alone have deficit of $4,000, 900
owing to the loss of American and
English patrons. The loss this year
for this same section will be great
ly increased on account of the con-
tinuation of war. Hence if this trav-
el can be diverted to the Rocky
Mountain section this year It will be-
come a permanent source of tourist
attraction and the vast sums that
are taken from this country across
the ocean will be kept ,here and this
amount will be augmented by the
money that comes here through En-
glish tourists. With tie movement
to make travel attractive, through
our mountains as it has been made
in the little Cantons of Switzerland
there is no fcrecasting the wealth
that it will bring to state and coun-
try.-Idalo Springs Siftings-News.
=
Our county commissioners inform
us that they stand ready to complete
the automobile road to tie Clear
Creek county line IS soon as that
county's commissioners shcw will
ingress to complete the road in
that county and join with the Gilpip
county read. The road from Denver
up Guy hill is now being built to Cen
trail City. and with the road complet-
ed from here to Idaho Springs, would
form one of tie best days journeys
Ter tourists to pass through the most
romantic mountain portion of the
state. Let the commissioners of both
counties get busy and secure this
travel the coming season.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
LAND FIGHTING NOT CLEAN
Sailors Objected to Work They Did
Not Enjoy That Was Necessary
Part of Warfare Ashore.

The American troops who occupied
Vera Cruz last year were the second
body of our soldiers to enter the city
within a century. When it was be-
sieged in the Mexican war, Capt. Rob-
ert E. Lee, afterward the commander
in chief of the Confederate army, was
ordered to throw up breastworks to
defend battery manned by the jack
les of a man-of-war. Lee putsthe tars
into the trenches. and soon had the
dirt flying, but the sailors did not la
Dor cheerfully. They resented having
to shovel dirt, and their captain re-
monstrated openly with Lee.
my men," he said, do not want
mud banks to hide behind; just let
them get out and at the enemy"
But Lee would not listen, and the
tars sweated away at the shoveling.
Presently the Mezicans opened fire
at the very point thus protected. and
the sailors were glad to seek the shell
ter of the despised dirt The ships
captain felt that he owed Lee an apol-
ogy and made a handsome one.
"Well, Captain Lee" he stammered,
81 reckon you were right suppose
the dirt did save some of my boys from
being killed or wounded, but you know
we sailors have no use for dirt banks
on shipboard. All We want is a clear
deck and an open sea. The fact is,
captain. don't like this land fighting,
anyway. 1t isn't clean. youths
Companion.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
Rome's Colossal Fish Pond.

The duke of Sermoneta who is acting
as president of the committee formed
in Rome to promote the independence
of Poland, ranks among the greatest
landowners in Italy, Fogliano, his es-
tate near the Pontine marshes. extend
ing to $4,000 acres, mainly under
grass, for the duke owns vast herds of
cattle. The most productive portion
Of the estate, however. is a lake sew
eral miles long and about mile in
breadth, which. from the time OF the
Roman empire downward. has sup
piled fish for the market in Rome
Whenever there is a food by rain on
the hills the lake overflows through
a narrow channel into the sea- The
sea fish find their way through into
the lake. and remain to fatten in the
fresh water, and then are captured on
their return by an ingenious labyrinth
constructed Of reeds into which they
swim. They are Of the best kind
chiefly gray mullet.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
RECREATION IS THE NEED
Many Of the Men Of Today Have For
gotten How to Play; Others
Never Knew.

Commenting on the statement made
recently by New York Y. M. C. A.
physical culture director that Of the
men he examined many exhibit at
forty the symptoms of senile break
down proper to seventy, the New York
press, says, editorially:
The directors advice to these men,
ito go somewhere and play" is good
But it would have been better II they
had received It and had acted upon II
20 years ago.
Play looks SO easy that most people
assume it comes naturally. 1t doesn't
1t is a lamentable fact that many per
sons have forgotten how to play. II
is still sadder that others never
knew.
Inertia isn't play. Play is initiative.
1t means setting out deliberately to do
something. 1t means doing 1t witt
zest. At its best 1t should be competi.
tive, for then, to the average man, the
zest comes naturally.
Now, it is not easy for a man OF
forty, say, to walk into store and
buy set of golf clubs, and then go
out on link and make show of
himself with them. 1t takes courage
for man of forty to climb aboard n
life-size horse and take his chance OF
sticking there.
No. The time to do these things is
In youth. 1t is then that habits Of
wholesome, outdoor living should be
formed, which will endure so long as
haleness is granted one 1t is then
that the habit of play should be
formed, which may change in its man
ifestations as life wears on. and adapt
itself to the limitations of advancing
years, yet which will never wear itself
out, but rather increase as the require
ment of the responsibilities of life
gives greater opportunity for its en-
5oyment.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
Stoned jail: In Jailed.

In an effort to extricate her son
Chester from jail by force, Mrs. Alice
Rollins Of Tappan. Rockland county
New York. was locked up herself and
sentenced to 80 days Imprisonment
in that village.
When the jailer refused to liberate
her son. Mrs. Rollins gathered rocks
and other ammunition and opened fire
She gave a correct imitation Of the
bombardment OF Dixmude and re.
duced the glass in the jail windows to
fragments before she was arrested
The son was committed to the house
of refuge for burglary.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
ANNOUNCEMENT

Having been urable to get reas-
enable offer for the remainder of cur
stock, we lave decided to continue
selling until II is disposed of. Up to
the first of May you will find us at
cur old stand, after which time we
expect to move into the room former
ly occupied by the Adams Express
Co. While the stock is pretty well
broken, we still have some excellent
bargains, and II will pay you to call
on rs before purchasing elsewhere
The Central Shoe & Clothing Co.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
FRANCIS JOSEPH VERY sPRY
Aged Emperor Of Austria Equal to
the Situation, Extreme Though II
Must Be Admitted.

Francis Molnar, war correspondent
In the Carpathians of Az Est; gives an
Interview with an officer of high rank
who had had an audience of Emperor
Francis Joseph few days previously
In Vienna. The officer said:
Il spent half an hour In the working
room Of his majesty, and found him
to be much more lively and agile than
at any time during the last years
when saw him. During the audi
ence the emperor walked up and down
the room. He was always noted for
his excellent memory, but what saw
In regard to this now was really mar.
velous. His majesty knows the name
of the commander of every regiment
and even now is well informed as to
changes taking place in commanders
Of brigades and regiments.
He Is informed every day as to the
work being done by all the war ma
terial factories. On the table in his
study lies an immense map with small
flags indicating the position of the
fighting forces.
Cordial relations exist between his
majesty and the heir apparent. The
emperor speaks highly of the young
king speaks very highly of the young
heir and is extremely proud and fond
of him.
His medical advisers do not willing
ly consent to his drives out, though he
asks them daily to allow him to visit
the wounded soldiers in the hospitals.
The few visits he has paid to the hos
pitals have been small victories over
the DOCTORS"
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22

The financial report of the city
clerk and treasurer, published last
week, shows the net debt of Cen
trail to be $75.l67.13. as against $71,-
671.00 year ago. Collections from
all sources for the year ending March
31st. 1915, were s19,OS1.53 and the
year previous. $17,O66.33. TIE expen.
ses for all purposes for the year end
ing March 3lst. 1915, were $50. 900. .65
and for the previous year $50, ,O3S 26.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
Porto Rico SUGAR Industry.

The important part played by the
sugar industry in the material welfare
OF Porto Rico is shown by the figures
Of exports. Out of total valuation OF
exports amounting to s43,000,000 dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 30
1914, sugar alone constituted over $20,.
100000 This was the lowest sum real
ICED for sugar exports in five years
Under normal conditions sugar con
stitutes two-thirds the total value OF
all exports.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
Division Of Coal Consumption.

or the 51O,00O.OO0 tons of coal con.
sumed in America in 1914. 15s.00O,000
tons were used to generate Industrial
power. 1s4,OO0.o0O were consumed in
our homes and offices for cooking and
heating; 97,000,000 were burned in the
boilers of locomotives and steamboats,,
while the remaining 100000 tons
we're consumed in our coke and gas
plants.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
Old Tree Dead.

One of the oldest trees in America
at Ravenna Park, Seattle, Wash, is
dead. 1t is fir tree 1870 feet tall
with a diameter of 20 feet and cir
cumference of IS feet. 1t is supposed
to be eighteen hundred or two thou
sand years old
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
Hopeful Mission.

II even one of those 300 commercial
travellers who have gone to South
America succeeds in making South
American see a United States joke
their toll will not have been in vain.
Cleveland Leader.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22

At last we have heard of one pa
per In the state. that is willing to
publish the first edition of Speaker
Phil. Stewart's estimation of him
self and fellow colleagues, in the
weakest legislature that the people
of Colorado ever elected. We, of
the state who have watched tteir ev-
cry move for the past three months,
are perfectly conversant with their
manner of death without Speaker
Stewards EXPLANATION.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22

The strike Of 125,0O0 Chicago car
penters and wage earners that have
gene cut on a strike. rave agreed to
arbitate their grievance. This is
as It should be. The. country is now
entering a great season of prosper
ity and cannot afford to have pros
perity tied up by strikes.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22

The Vaudeville Comedian-l don't
think I'll be able to go on tonight.
Stage Manager-What's the trou-
BILE?
The Vaudeville Comedian (holding
his head)-I don't know; l feel so
funny.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22

For Sale-Dorestic sewing ma
chine In good condition.
h. r. DEMETER.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18
Methodist Church News

We expect to meet in the auditor
ium again next Sunday and we invite
all the members of the church, the
Sunday school pupils and their par
ents to meet with us for the morning
service.
If there are any who desire to unite
with US on probation by letter or by
confession of faith we will receive
such at the morning service.
The Advocate money and the money
for Benevolences is now due. Miss
Minnie Cook will take the money for
the Advocate and Mrs. Fred Boyer
is treasurer of the Benevolences.
Our Fourth Quarterly Conference
will be held Saturday evening, Sep
TENDER a, with District Superintend-
ent presiding. We expect annual re-
ports from Sunday School Superin-
tendent, trustees, president of Ladies'
Aid Society, president of Foreign
Missionary Society, president of Ep-
worth League and Junior League,
church treasurer and Benevolent
treasurer.
We will hold our Fourth Quarterly
meeting Sunday morning, September
), and that will close the services in
the church until after conference.
Next Thursday evening after pray
er meeting we will meet to elect lay
delegate to the annual conference, al
so an alternate.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18
A Bedding Mans
Experience
Results Tell The Tale

Can you doubt evidence OF this
Belding citizen?
You can verify Bedding endorse
ment.
Read this.
William Houeh, retired pensioner
GIG Alderman ST., Belding. says: II
had kidney trouble ever since / came
from the army. / think / got the
complaint in 1868 at Vicksburg and
kept getting worse all the time. The
kidney secretions passed too frequent
ly and were painful. I suffered from
lumbago and rheumatic pains My
limbs were SO stiff that L had to have
help in getting around. One day
was told to take Doan's Kidney Pills.
The first box helped me and / kept on
using them until | was cured -
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy--get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Hough had. Foster Milburn Co,
Props, Buffalo, y. Y.-adv.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18
POU L T r Y
CONSULTING DEPARTMENT
BREEDING UTILITY BIRDS
By w. S. Abbott)

by w. -. ADDOlJJ
The first step in successful breed
ing is a clear idea of what results you
wish to attain. Any improvement
which you desire to fix in your strain
of fowls can be secured by careful
selection of parents followed by an
appropriate method of maintenance.
You would not expect by seed selec-
ton to make any marvellous changes
in the nature of your crops in one sea-
son; but you have the right to believe
that if you use proper judgment in
saving and testing seed, plant it un
der proper conditions and provide the
necessary plant-food, each successive
crop will be trifie better than its
predecessor. That is exactly what
you have reason to expect in poultry,
a steady improvement in health and
productiveness due to your control
ing conditions by selection of the
best parents and conditions for breed
ing. Even by giving the best of con-
ditions, incubating eggs carefully and
rearing young stock sensibly, you
have no more right to expect to turn
mongrel hens into 250-egg layers IN
one or two generations than you have
to expec. TO breed scrub stock and
raise thoroughbreds.
All Of natures upward changes are
gradual, though she may revert to
the primitive stage with alarming
celebrity whenever you are lax in as
sisting her. She preserves and per-
petuates those traits best suited to
the environment of the animal pos
sessing them. Scrub cattle will for
age and keep alive on chaparral, but
a thoroughbred COW will die within a
month under like conditions, If,
therefore, you treat your flock as if
they were scrubs, nature will kill off
the more valuable birds and leave you
the fowls best suited to your methods.
On the other hand, if you give your
flock good care, the general average
of your birds will be constantly bet
tered
That heredity in fowls is not con-
fined to color, shape, or productive
ness was proven by flock had some
six years ago. | obtained enough
White Minorca eggs to fill an incuba-
tor, from a neighbor whose birds ran
in the brush like wild things, being
more wild than the cartridges on my
own ranch where no game was ever
killed. AS these eggs Matched, the
chicks huddled to the back of the egg
chamber and hid, instead of crowding
to the glass and dropping to the nur-
sery. When handled, those newly
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18

keep the solution from burning, there
fore add the lime stated.
August is just as good month as
any in the working months for you to
decide whether or not your orchard
needs thinning out. Plant life needs
air; plant life needs room; the fairer
you are with them the greater the joy
of giving TO you in return. When you
see an orchard with every tree loaded
to the ground with fruit, you see be-
hind it a fair minded man who direct
ed his business of giving room and
air arid life and care to his young
trees"
Come with me for an auto ride
through rows and rows and acres and
acres of one and two-year olds-we
are at the peach nurseries-follow
the road and you see one million and
a half peach trees. If you would get
a full grasp of the largeness of llgen-
fritz Sons nurseries, recall that they
have 100000 cherry trees two years
old, 100000 pears, then there are 19O,-
900 plum, 10000 ounce, 100000 ap-
Pile, and 10000 of the smaller varie-
ties of fruits, including apricots, etc.
There must be some pertinent rea-
son why a concern living in reality at
the will and pleasure of nature
should increase year by year, to go
onward, gaining more friends, and
more acreage, and that one is just as
simple as the laws of life, dealing
fair. Behind the 10000 acres of nur-
series are four human beings, each a
practical nurseryman, who goes to
work early in the morning, and by the
sweat of his labor receives his reward.
Wilbur F. Ilgenfritz is the president
because he is at the head of the con-
Germ, otherwise his brother Thomas,
who is. treasurer, or Theodore, who is
manager, or Frank L., who is the
president, might just as well be
the president. Each one does his
quarter of actual work, and all work
along the same line of thought. The
concern has been in existence since
1847. 1t is stronger today than ever,
and is ready to supply big demand
for fruit trees and nursery stock. 1t
has agents all over the fruit belt, and
in other parts as well. You will do
we'll to write to these people for in
teresting literature. The address is
/. E. ngenfritz Sons Co., Monroe,
Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18
THE BELDING BANNER-AfAGAl.INES SECTION

Matched chicks acted as a baby quail
will. They inherited the wildness of
their ancestors which had never been
on familiar terms with human kind.
If they had been able TO escape, they
would have done so with the same
instinct which makes the newly
Matched wild thing hide. 1t took
weeks to teach those chicks that no
one would harm them and they never
did fly to alight on my shoulders as
other brooded birds do.
Now il is just as possible to tran
smit desirable traits, so If you are not
satisfied with the number of eggs pro-
duced by your average hens, the size
Of the eggs, or the size of the fowls,
the remedy is in your hands; careful
selection in breeding stock. To ac-
hieve success with any product it is
necessary to make constant effort and
study methods by which improvement
can be made. This is especially true
of the average farm poultryman. The
egg farmer does not need fancy birds,
but he does need birds bred for util-
ity qualities.
The hue and cry against inbreeding
is bugaboo. Brother and sister of
strong vitality will rear healthier
chicks than unrelated birds lacking
in energy. The principles of repro
duction do not vary a great deal from
plants to humanity. In the union of
male and female elements, two germs
each having a natural rate of vibra-
ton of its life-force-uilite and by
strange mathematical law, each germ
passes on to the offspring exactly half
those vibrations, while half becomes
latent. No matter what the organic
kingdom, if both parents are of the
same racial qualities and in normal
health, the young will have exactly
the same vibrative harmony in it's
life essence. If very unlike parents
unite the young have vibration un-
like either and, like most new types,
less able to survive. This is why
half-breeds of the human race are
more susceptible to disease than
either line of parent stock.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18
F A r M A N d
O r CHI A r d


soft wood in winter. One must be
fair to trees, as he is fair to man.
Thus spoke a practical orchardist, c..
j. Kirby, active superintendent of the
sixteen hundred acres of the nurser-
les of /. E. Ilgenfritz Sons, Monroe,
Mich.
"A young orchard, like the old
fruiting orchard, should be seeded
down TO a cover crop in August. One
should see that the young trees have
room to grow and room to live. He
should prepare them for the time
when the snow and hail and frost is
upon us. By beginning his work in
August he saves tree life in January.
/ say this because August is the pick
ing month; August is the month of
getting some returns for work of four,
five and six years, and one is so likely
to forget the young for the old then.
Look out for young trees, they make
old orchards some day.
Watch your orchards for fungus
As soon as you see this curl leaf con-
dition, begin to spray with lime-sul-
phur solution, one in so, and add to
this two pounds of powdered sulphur
and two pounds of lime and one
pound of arsenate Of lead. One should
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18

To Ionia and Detroit, 1926 a. m,
4:32 d. m.
To Greenville and Saginaw, $500 a.
m, 2:34 p. m, and 'e:35 D. m.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-18
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon. p.
t. Colgrove, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Association.

scribe the same or larger amounts
for building on this route between
certain towns or in specific counties;
all construction would be made under
plans Of the State Highway Depart
ment.
1--WE might have some paid workers
to put this enterprise through; the
plan would be for procuring all of
the full length subscriptions obtain
able and also get the farmers and
little town folks to subscribe for short
distances and eventually the full
course should have an equal subscrip-
ton per mile.
IF the right organization is ar
ranged for, we can build Wolverine
Highway so good that it would be
pointed to with pride by all Michigan
and touring inclined people every
where within reach of the thorough
fare
This road would connect the two
largest cities of our state with the
capitol midway between and would
link Lake Michigan at it's eastern
shore with Lake Erie at our metropo-
lis; this would be the most useful and
desirable business road in the state
and would afford unusual pleasure to
tourists; travel to and from the West
and Northwest could economically
boat across Lake Michigan which
would be an added pleasure to tour
ing; Lake Erie may likewise be boat
ed across.
This highway passes through
many prosperous villages aside from
the several cities that would be inter-
ested and it is a project that l think
might be carried through with great
pleasure and much satisfaction to the
organizers"